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 'f i'-*; .ifJ! ^^-" •si?,:,.aii^-»C«;;^, X *4^^^?^ fi r-ST* IUTTIE'8 FiTHEE. BY CHARLOTTE M- YON6E. eHAPTER XXXIIL-(Coainn:BD.) Wonld it iMt if Gr^orio made his »p- peannoe »t th*t insteat with Alwyn in hia band Or eren, m Mr. Datam oMifideiitly Sredicted, » poUceauui mvht bring the Ik^ ome, before in*ny honra wctb paved. The chief doubt here waa that Alwyn'a defective pronunciation, which had been rather foolishly encouraged, mi((ht make it difiBsaU to naderatand his mode of a«yin^ kia own name, or even that of the atreet, if he knew it perfectly bat the year he bad' been abMnt from London had prevent- ed him from acquiring the curious ready local instinct of the true town cfaUd, and he had been ao much guarded and watched that he waa likely to be utterly at a loes when left alone and Nntde was wretched at the thought of his terror and loneliness, even while Mr. Button told her of speedy recoveries of Icsc ctiildren through kind people or the police. Tney found all the officials of the Park already aware and on the alert, and quite certain of the impoasibility of Bure'a prime dread that the boy had 'alien into the water unseen by any one and been drowned. She was even ready to look into every bush, in case be had been frightened and hidden himself and no- thing would satisfy her but to stay making these researches, when her master hid de- cided on endeavouring to find " Parker" at Ae club, and to ascertain from him particu- lars of time and place. He was found there. The dinner-hour had brought him b^k, he being a man in authority there, verj well dresed and de- ferential, declaring himself immensely dis- tressed at the occurrence, and at having accosted Gregorio and attracted bis at- teniion. It was about four o'clock, he thought, and he described the exact spot where the little boy had been sailing his vessel fastened to a string. They might have been talking twenty minutes or half an hour when Gregcrio miBsed his charge, and ain-je that time both had been doing all in their power to find him, until halt-past acN 63. when he had to return to his club, and Gregorio went to see whether the child had been taken home. By this time Mr. Egremont looked so utterly exhausted, that Mr. Dat:on availsd himself of the ho[.e that the boy might be fonud safe at home to take him bauik but alas nothing had been heard there. The poor man was in a restless, unman- ageable state of ex jitement, almost as terrify- ing to hb daughter as the diocresa that osca- aioiied it. He swallowed a tumblerful of clartt, but would not go to bed indeed Gre- gorio alone having had the personal chargs of him, latterly sleeping in his dressing room, none of the other ser^^ants knew what to do for him. Mr. Datton agreed with her that it would be better to send for his doc- tor, ai probably he ought to have a sedative, ana neither wonld take the responeibiiity of giving it while he himself declared he neith- er would nor could rest till he had his boy again. The dootor was dining out, and they had two terrible hours while Mr. Egremont paced to the windows threw himself on the Bofft denounced Gregorio or, for a change, all the system of police which had made no discovery and Ursula for letting the boy be helpless. Mr. Dutton sometimes diverted hia attention ior a few minutes, and hoped he would doze, bat the leaist sound brought him to his feet again, and the only congenial occupation was the composition of a descrip- tion of poor little Alwyn's person and dress, which set Nuttie crying so uncontrollably, that she bad to run out of the room. Dr. Brownlow came at last, and was very kind and helpful, taking the command, and jnaiating that Mr. Egremont should go to bed, and take the dose which he mixed. Broadbent, the butler, was to take Gregorio's place, but he waa a ponderous man, without much tact, and unused to the valet'a office. "1 might just as well have a rhinoceros about me," said Mr. Egremont in a fit of irritation and it ended, Nuttie hardly knew how, in Mr. Dutton's going upstairs to smooth matters. He came down after a time and said "I am not satisfied to leave him alone or to Broadbent I have hia con- sent to my sleeping in the dressing room. I am just going home to fetch my things. Let me find you gone when I come back. You will hear no more to-night. Even if he ia found, they will keep him till morning.' " It ia of no use I can't aleep." " Even if you don't, the mere restful po- sition will make you fitter for the morrow. Will you promiae me to undress and really go to bed " " Oh yea I if you say I must," aaid Nuttie drearily following an inatinct of obedience. " And remember," he said, " though I do not say it will be ao, this may be deliverance from bondage." " But what a terrible deliverance I" " Bonds are not burst without something terrible. No; don't be frightened. Remem- ber there is safekeeping for that poor little fellow, wherever he may be." «• Oh, Mr. Dutton, if I could pray for him but the turmoil seems to have driven away all such things My boy, my boy, where is he now Who has heard him say hia little pray era " ** Hia Heavenly Father has of that we may be secure. You will feel it in the quiet of your own room. Gxd -night." " And I ahall know yon are praying, bet- ter than I can," murmured Nuttie, aa ahe returned hia good- night, and crept up to bet chamber. CHAPTER XXXIV. FXTTEBS BENT. " The gods are just, and of our pleasint aint Make whips to scourge \ia."â€"King Lear.' There waa no real aleep for Uraula that ahort summer night. She aaw the early dawn, listened to the distant roll cf market- carts, and wondered whenit wonld be reaaon- able to be afoot, and ready to hear, if aught there waa to hear. At any hour after aeven, â- nxely the findera wonld have mercy and bring the welcome newa. And joat Dcfore aeven ahe fell asleep, deeply, aonndly, and never woke till paat eixht, Imt that waa jut enough to revive, the power of hope, and give the senae of a new day. Bnt there waa nothing to hear â€" ^no news. She found Mr. Button la tlie dining-room. He had had to yiiiÂ¥iiiii«t«r another dranftht to bar t^Ubm. and had kit him in » deep wUdi wonld prdtebly last for aome tito*. Baiw/#oaId go and nt in thooater TooiB«.«f^.lMrteMik- fHfe, he wonld go out t» alma fnt^ltteaoe. « Yon nmit hasn co(W iNMdMV' •» Mid. rin^ng tim ben. Hid wfatMlj iMUbg orar tiM blinds: then ezolsuning "O^ then'sMarkl Has babsnrd anything r and on* ahe darted, u pM ing ttedocr beforahe rang. "Mark I taave yon found bim t" •• Tfls," be said gravely, looking nttw^ aaoaxed as aiie daood ber bands, and aswm- ed ready to flinK heraelf on bis meek ^tb joy. '*I came becanae it will be a graafe ahock to my nnde." .,..:, "Then itiaao! Nnrse waa right, said Nattie, turning deadly pale, and standii^ aa U before a firing platoon. " TeU me, Mark, where did they find him ?*' •* At the Faringdim Station. I was sent for to identify him." " Stay," aaid Mr, Dntton, aa there was a wild horrified look in Nattie's eyes. "Do you mean little Alwyn " " Little Alwyn No, certainly not. What of him T" "Gr^orio managed to lose him in the park yesterday," put in Mr. Datton^ •* That accounts f r it, then," aaid Mark. "No, it was Gregorio himself, poor man. He waa knocked down by the engine, and killed on the spot, juat by the atation, at lumbmwMf. It aras of a IsMar in AHee'a baadwtitiqg ad- drcsaad to Oaptajn EBanon^ In tta yadit Simum pothrutamU^lbatbm. Hekadasw seeai^nererknowaofitsezistence; GtMorio liad «(me to inqnire for die leMen^ aad had anppnsaedit Mr. EjrsBKmtbad ' ' how lie liad become awate of the Wm knowledge bad from tiiat need as a means of enf oroing tlie n eed of a good understanding with the heir. Mr. Egranont waa much moved by the sight of the letter, and its date, from Dieppe, about HZ months after he liad left bis jronng wife there. He made Muk give it to him unread, handled it tenderly, stmggled to read the driicate painted writing to binisel^ bat soon deferred the attonpt, observing, "There, there,I can't standit,now!;Bat yonsee,Mark,' he added after an interval, " I was not al- together the heartless brute you thonght me. Mark, aa he told hia wife afterwarda, conld not help thinking of the old preamble to indictments, " By the temptation of the deviL ' And by and by, out of a pocket-book bear- eleven o'clock last night. Our name~wa8 ing the date of the Gjneral'a death, came a found on him, and I waa aent for early this copy of the certificate of the baptwm of Ur- There waa no doubt about it, ao auU AUoe, daughter of Alw/n Piercefield and Alice Egremont together with that ad- dress which Miss Headworth hal left at Dieppe to gratify Alice's forlorn idea of a poasible rencue, and which Gregorio had as- severated tu be non-exiatent. Doubtless he infiniceiy preferred hia maa- ter'a wanacriug bachelor life to the resump- tion of marriage ties, and thus he had con- trived to keep Mr. Egremont from meeting the Hought ona at Florence. At the aame time the uncertainty aa to Alice's fate had prevented any other marriage. Gregorio had taken care that, if Mr. Egremont had been villain enough to make auch an at- tempt, be ahotdd know that his aecret conld be brought to light. Compared with all thia wickedness, the proofs of fraud and diahoneaty were entire- ly unimportant. Gambling had evidently been a paaaion with the valet, and peculation had followed, and Mark could have traced out the full tide before the reinstatement of Mra. Egremont inner home, the gradual ebb during her reign, the diminished restraint under her daughter. The other aervanta had formerly been implicated, but, except a young groom and footman, M^rk thonght the present set quite free from the taint, and was glad to acquit Broadbent. But the last telegrams and the betting-book in the tm- happy man's pocket confirmed Parker's evid- ence that of late he had staked almoat mad- ly, and bad risked aama far beyond any means he could raise upon the horse which had failed. The bailiff at Bridgefield had, it had long been guessed, played into hia hands, but to what an extent Mark only now discovered. The result was that what he had learnt in the Park hai eo astounded him that his inattention to the child had not been wonder- ful. He had^as Parker testified â€" sought the little fellow vehemently, and had he been successful, he might yet have made some effirt, trusting to his maater'a tolera- tion but the loss and reproach bad made him an absolutely desperate man. Waa it blind flight .or self-destruction? That he had money about him, having cashed a cheque of hia master'a, favored the first idea, and no one would too curiously inquire whether Mr. Ei^emont waa aware ot the amount. (to be continued. mommgc I came on here at on«e to let my nncle know, little thinking- " " Oh, it is dreadful I" cried Nuttie, sink- ing into a chair. " Do you remember my father told him never to see his face again unless he found Alwyn " Broadbent came in at the moment with the coffeepot, and stood suspended, aa he waa told what had happened, Mark adding the detail " He was crosaing the line in front of the engine. " "Yes, sir," said the butler. "It is an awful dispensation. No doubt he knew it was all up with him. You may not be aware, sir, of the subject of his conversation in the park. Mr. Parker had just aesn a telegram of the result of the Derby, and he had heavy bets on Lady Edina. I am afraid, sir, there can be no doubt that he found a voluntary grave.' "We will not talk of that. We cannot judge,' said Mark, sh iddering. I said I would send some one from here to arrange what was to be done after the inquest.' Broadbent immediately undertook to go, if his master did not require him, and* tbia was thought advisable, as hia aervices were certainly not acceptable to Mr. Egremont. Mark had thought himself likely to be de- tained and had provided for his absence, and the awe-stricken trio were consulting to- gether over ti.e breakfast table,, eating me- chanically, from the very exhaustion of agitation, when the door opened, and Mr. Egremont in hia dressing-gown waa among them, exclaiming " You are keeping it from me." He had been been wakened by the whispers and rushes of the excited maids, had rung his bell in vain, dressed himself as oest he could after so many years of dependence, and stumbled downstairs, where, as with his daughter, in was something like a relief to know that hope was not extinguished in Alwyn's case. But Mr. Egremont was in a very trembling, broken condition, and much overcome by his valet's end after so many years of inti- mate association. Certainly, if either of the others had so parted with the man, it would have been a horror in the recollection, but he did not eeem to dwell on it and, indeed, attention waa distracted by every sound at the door, since each might bring news of the missing child. One of these tantaluing rings proved to be a policeman with poor Gregorio's keys, and a demand ior an investigation iato any papers he might have left which would show his state of mind. Mr. Egremont was very much annoyed, declaring that he would have no stranger meddle with them, and that he saw no use in such prying. What difference could it make to any living crea- ture? However, when he found there waa no help for it, he aaid he must do it himself. Nuttie offered to help, but waa aharply, atrongly refuaed. Mark alone might and should help. Then Mr. Datton volunteered to go and explain matcera to Mr. Dobbs, iro as to got freedom for Mark for at least the remainder of the day. He would call at the police officea and see what was doing in the aearch, put forward the advertisements, and obtain that the Serpentine should be dragged, for saw that only that measure would remove one great terror from these anxious hearts. '• And," he said to Mark, " with your permission, I will bring back Mra. Egremont and the children if they will do me the honor to become my guesta. She will be a comfort to Mias Egremont, and then yon will be at hand ia the evening." Mark could only be thankful, and presently addreaaed himself to the inveatigation, which his uncla insisted should be made in his own presence, though theopiate kept him for the most part dozing in an arm chair, only rous- ing up now and then by aome noiae at the front door, or putting queriea, the repliea to which ata^'tled him more and more, aa he grew more wakefnl and Mark proceeded. All, except a few unimportant billa and a betting-bouk, waa locked into a dressing-caae that had once belong- ed to Mr. Egremont, and had tricka of aecret drawers that only he conld explain. It waa full of papers, and they were a strange revelation that Mr. Egremont might well wish to withhold from hia daughter. They went very far back, and of coarse did not come out in order of chronology, nor would Mark have underatocd them but for exclamationa and commenta here and there from hia uncle. Everything aeemed to be tnere, â€" the old paaaport and certificate to Gregorio Savelli, when he left hia Savoyard home to be a waiter at a hotel a few letters in Italian, probably from bia parents, whic^ Mark could not read, but ivLich eoon ceased the counter- signed character with which he had entered General Egremont's service and then came a note or two signed A.P.E. which Mr.Egremont regarded with great annoyance though they onfy conaiated of auch phrases as I' Back on Wednesday. Find an exouae," or in French, " Envoy annoilapttiUboiur' " Que la porte soit ouverUapn8 mintiit." " Tnat waa the way," groaned Mr. Egre- mont. ' The aconndrel I he. kept all those to be able to ahow me up to the General if he choae 1 I waa a young man then, MuAc. not the atndtlaoed lad yoa'ye alwayabeen. And the General 1 A bad old dog he was, went far beyond what I ever did, but for all that he had no notion of any one going any way^ but hia own. and wanted to rein me in as tiaght as if he liad been an epitome of all th^ virtues. And Gregorio seoned n good- ,i-:*frf.g«K;-^P YOUNG FOLKS. WITH A DIAMOND COLLEGTOB- ,-;- BT 3U8AN POWER. When a child, in the deep quiet of a home on the great brilliant green prairie, I used to go out summer mornings when the ann firat ahot over the eastern rim, to^ watch the marvel of the dew. The orb of the grasay world aown with pearls that subdued its gorgeoua color to cool and perfect emerald, iay against a aky of rose and ivory, a bloom of heavenly tint- ing changed at the first direct ray of the ann. All too aoon the blaze of gold was over the alopea, the aoft color glowed, and the fielda were twinkling aa with seeid of atara. What were fairy talea, or Arabian Nights â€" what was the Valley of Diam^nda with ita heaps of glassy treasure to thia sight where myriad brilliants were aown with matchleaa arc on the deep green which beat diaplayed them t The secret of those mornings alone in the Field of Jewels ia no more to be told than the aplendora of Elfland by the mortal who baa been apirited thither. The clear dew, clearest thing in nature, trembled alternately ailver and cryatal on the clover, bnt aa one looked, vivid flamea of blue fire, red and gold, aho) out of its deptiu, here bnrned a spark of ruby, there one of emerald, the goldcin glow of a tiny ann that changed aa it hum; to a piercing dart of blue like electric fire, and where, the pure drop caught the full rays of the sun, it flashed them back in a blaze of white light â€" the gleam of the so rereign diamond, aJl colore in one. I could apend houra now, watching the wonderful play of light on the limpid, matchleaa jewela of the dew juat aa I uaed when a child of twelve, or girl in her teens. The pure color, the fine, evanescence create one of the most exquisite apectaclea in na- ture.- It ia a delight of one of our keenest instincts â€" the love of light which we share with plants and animals. The love of color and light hereditary in primitive nations leads to the love of jewels which are impri- soned light. Watobing the fielda strewn with vuiishiDg diamonds, sapphires and stars, I need to long to gather and poasess them. When I have aeen the light fall in a broad beam on a fine solitaire diamond, I haveaaid to myself "Here ia the embodied dew." U I love superb stones, it is for their likeness to the heaven-lighted drope of the morning, uid I own to a deep admiration for jewels of all kindsâ€" to look at, not to wear. The dew saved me frmn any perilous liking for diamondi^ for dazzle as they would, they were neither so clear nor so fall of fire as the drops I had seen strewnig tiie aorei of the moon. Yet I will go far out rf my way any time to see a fine stnoe, which holds nudi aeonts of fire and flood aad winld-dasigufng onder its seal of sOenoe; and so it was one after- noon when the light was beat, the owner of one of the finest coUeotions fai tim Udtad States at least, opened tiw doors of a ooriMis Japan eaUnst and showed in tfaofir rOtvt nalpittd youns fellow; iSea, aadmadetSlMB tnv% ndnr. spiad. hyacintii. ^l-^l^t!^' ha|!e aw in Usban^ ia easel tiltd to rittk^ ♦ Uadi«d. â- "':im tehfia«%|itt ed befafad beraDed ^^aasaad trip;e. ialaid lodtsb aad wen taken oat of a fir^rooC safe baHtiato the walL The keying ol sadi oost^ tofs involves ao little oare aad risk. For one Aing, the wiadows of the rooms whara the ooUeetioB is kept are of that polisfaad ^se j^aas whidi yoa oaanot look tiireogli iromthe oataide^ apreoantioB so Aat BO piyiag ^f* aeross the street can oveilook ue soene when the owaer is show- ing tiie jewels to his friends. I can only tell you at this time some of the things learned about diamonds, told with sparkle and spirit while the keen-oyed collector siftea the smooth genu through hia fiogera aa if thur touch was a pleasure. The colored stones lay ia heaps over the white vdvet mat cm which he showed them, for few of them are mounted save a Greek engraved gem or two, some quaint heavy old stone rings and Indian ornamenta whoae fancy added richness to the jewels. The atones have been gathered in stoange qns.r- ters of the world, from negro hnts in Guiana, from Panama venders, the little ahopa of Mezisan gold workera, from by-streeta in Rome and Rio Janeiro, from Javaneae meichanta, from aailora and Australian gold diggera. Aa the owner aud, the paaaion for anch things ia nothing to the fascination of collecting them. He began with a few intxpenaive specimens when a young man, and the collection has grown for nearly forty yeara, and ia proof of what can be ac- complished in gathering the :hoiceat things even witbout a large fortune. " Let me show yon the diamiond with its relative, which is often set with it and taken for it, in showy ornaments. You will not know one from the other," as the glittering atones lay flashing back the sunshine in white insufferable light. " These are dia- monds and white topazâ€" tell them apart if you can. If you wish to test them, topaz will scratch glass, and other stones except diamond, it haa the same weight in many instances, ahow^ a luatre like diamond in short they differ only in one point â€" the topaz is not phoaphoreacent. Leave a dia- mond two or three houra in the Eunlight, then place it in a dark room, and it will give light for half an hour or so. This property of diamonds is very well known. The topaz haa no anch property. If I had known when you were coming, I would have exposed a diamond for you in the forenoon. Often you might find one roasting here on the window sash where nobody would notice it. The aervanta have taken my oryatala so often for diamonds and I have offered all they wanted so freely that if they found the Kohinoor under foot they would only take it for ' one of the old gentleman's pebble atones' aa the parlor girl called a specimen worth her year'a wages. Look here one moment." A handful of colorless brilliant atones, looking alike, were laid before me. 1 could not aay they were not all diamonds. " These are five different stones which might any of them be taken for diamonds even by persona used to handiin; them. One is a white topaz, one a fine quartz crystal, and there are white sapphire, white spinel, and white chrysolite â€" very rare â€" and five true diamonds with them. Pick them out if you can." One diamond of the finest water shone conspicuous in ita keen light. Of none ot the rest could I feel certain, though I have been credited with " the senae for dia- monds." "Very well, now aee if you can tell what theae are," producing a white velvet tray which held red, blue, yeUow and brown tranxparent atones. " Rabies, I suppose, and pale emerald, aquamarine or smoked topaz." " I must tax your,, faith in me to believe that they are all diamonds. Colored dia- monda are among the rareat atones, and though they are not the moat beautiful they coat plenty of money. One came from Java, one from the Pinel mine in the Afri- can diamond fields, one from Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraea, one from Georgia m thia country. They are diamonda not rubiea or sapphirea or topaz any more than crown glass is rock crystal. Diamonds you know are crystallized carbon the other atonea I named are cryatallized alumina, the principal element of clay. When perfectly pure, theae cryatals are colorleas, and you find no lesa than eight different atonea aa white as the diamond, but trace of iron oxide in the crystal, whether diamond or alumina, gives a pink or red tinge, and you have a re I diamond or a ruby aa the case may be. A trace of borax gives red or blue sapphire. C;»rburet of hydrogen gives the emerald of deeper or lighter green accord- ing to its amount. Lime chrome givea the grecR garnet of Siberia. " Diamond cryatala are not by any meana pure, aa they are found tjiey have black apecka of carbonate in them, often they are milky, and one kind ia like the opaL xheae cloudy atonea are of email value except aa cnrioaitiea. There yon aee twenty of them, looking like quartz cryatala bedded in lime. Only one diamond out of a thouaand ia a clear brilliant of any value whatever one out of ten thouaand u fine enough to rank aa a aovereign atone, and one out of twenty thouaand ia colored, but it u worth five timea aa much aa a dear one becauee ao much rarer. Govemmenta value fine color- ed diamonda among their chief treaatirea. The Rnaaian treasury pridea itaelf on the famoua red diamond bought by the Empe- ror Paul I. for one hundred thousand ron- blea. The Green Yault^at Dreaden, full of magnificence, ahow the green diamond aathe greateat curiosity of all. The Grand Doke of Toacany haa a blue diamond with facets all over the Sultan owns two, one of them very large. The (ntwn of Portugal bears in ita centre a green diamond of 138^ carata, found in BraziL A uiperb blue diamond belonging to the throne of France, and hand- ed down from one prince to another waa loat in the Revolution and haa never been] re- covered. Jewellers say a diamond never cim be wholly lost unless some philoaopher buma it for an enerimentâ€" rthat ia, it la ao indestructible and so remarkable that itia aure finally of coming to light. " The fineata diamonda in America belong in the Aator colleoticn, aelected abroad omoog the Amsterdan diamond merchants. They are ezMptionally ie and of the high- est lustre. You oan tell when diamonds are worn by a lady, for she chooses them by their brillance and purity, not by their sise alone. The finest dianumd in the light b invisible, nothing beiug seen but a t{low of white light in its place. No other stone haa snob power of throwing back the light it re- ceives, intense aad -widta -that is, whea it- Mlf ofthe first qnalily. Some large dia- moada.of a low onler arekas briUiaat than good imitationa made from French pasta. "I know Mr. Raddn has derided «he tbe lovaef j«rabaiid_eqMiAyordianu»aa iaaayahape iarSSit'^K •oe. IhaveaeenaiZr*««*l aodselfiriiov^e'ESLl* be over a set of duin^"»« "BattheieaTSS. 1 monds apttt from pride? Ju .**%J Tney are the work^ifS;l** •5] fuMd by mtolerable hSttlT*"*! taUized by electric «SS'5 cient to rend the cnwrf*l« Wj The .reatmyaterioajnbtu'u**' 3 tranaformthe black c^rtw. .•*«*« 7 brUli.ntah.pe of nat^t^»^; ceas«« before which the imSi^ W] ter-chemiats. naed to ^tSt^il atuida awestruck. •Thlr***'» atonea,' aaya a French ul^, .*» M tencc wu before the first ^V *^ J mationa they had th^pfeO long before plant, aud »idm^"'»J they are an inheritince tott*" '*«*:4 when no foreshadowbeof h^ ""H fallen upon the globe.' ^*^»^l " We find them in old ri„. v with the aand of igneous rocks i^ ' and took ahapein'the Coffin have amce been groand dowDbS?* of mighty floods, the crushine of Z of ice. In the ravioes of the r T tains and the Himalayas in Tu! Africa AustraUa. an/"' th^tSS of the Itambe mouatab of thsR fl trict, diamonds are found, embedK glomerate and granite sand, m!"' monds and sapphires are found, Z) pears also, and I doubt not, wheifti The gold beds of Arizona and the hbk ing regions of the Rio Grande ami' mountam tops will yet prove seed^i precious stones. It ia not singular tbu diamonds have been discovered in tiiiia try, for in the rough they are no more hme-covered pebbles, and only one iil thousand of true diamonda is ungJ five-eighths of an inch across. ItiBoJjJ patient tribes of the tropics who can M a farthing a day and spend their lives |J heaps of gravel who find the diamonX] the rest of the world If yon could U yourself to pick over all the dustintheiJ or the sands on the beach by handfuki keep at it month after month andyeuif year, you might go into one of thedern California mining gulches and undertikel find diamonds ia its sands. "It is reasonable to. believe there i diamond beds in this country. The;] always found in the debris of the m«t] cient rocks, and where do you think oldest part of the globe is Not u Higl tan, or in China, or the mountaiua of I Moon, but, geologists tell us, in thi table-lands of the Rocky Mountainath.. which the deep canons of the Rio Gn and the Colorado Rivers are cut. It I believed by many that these slopes werei first to lift their heads above tbeoriR ocean they have grown hoary with wiiu ' centuries of centuries, and the riches of? hemisphere are locked within theii ik. walls. Turqaoise and topaz are foondj Arizona with beryls, garnets andopa1i,i it will not be a dozen years before someb strikes upon a bed of diamonds where I rushing Colorado has ground aw^ granite cement which holds them. " Old frontiersmen who have wand among the mountains prospecting for have strange stories of the lonesome cu among them a fabulous one of a wall of glomerate studded with diamondi I sparkle under sun and stare. I kaerj plainsman who had met a prospector i' said he had aeen this wonder, and the it( was told with such seriousness itwui dent that both believed it. Toe survey i the Colorado towards its head found a canon wall studded with i and stars of quartz crystals which prob gave rise to this legend, but I believe ' there ia fabulous wealth of precioM it locked in the rocky fastnesses of thiiG Red River. Fifty varieties of preciomi aemi-precious stones are numbered ml geologist's report of the Pacific Mn Surveys, and, as the miners fay,_ all tin"' dioations of diamonds are there." r^BMSD'OH BEOE. ^m^,,u-' a o t fi Catching a Tartar. A clam is a very determined era* when ita mind is once made np, and itus] surprising that the sea-gjU in the foUo«- story came off second best from the cmie The Boston Herald relates the incideitfi] occurring at Plymouth, the home of tuer grima _, A fiaherman, while on the rij beach last Friday, captured a large gr»y« gull in a rather pecnliar predicament, tf ly pinched upon the bird's bill was aee about the aizs of the palm of a man* J The clam weighed enough to keep tw of the gull hanging downward, »m effectuaUy prevented anyloni? fl'el^ " it waa evidently nearly exhausted m « to escape from ita strange captor. thought that the guU, seeing tneci'Jl enout protruding, endeavored » Jf^i, dainty morsel, and waa inmrn^npp. the haM aheUa of its intended vtc^yjl clam had to be cut away from the Dira The OrofteiB. Sir John, in moving the second r«J^| the bill to amend the Dominion L*d«^| aaid tnat one of the clauses '^*'^c»l powers of the loan compames tow^ ^^ j miadonera appointed by the i"»|^»Qootil omment to adminbter a sum o » ^l be advanced to Crofters M*2?th.t»^| Northwest The arrangement^, ^^i Crofter ahould get a q""' fug „eeeii«j| with a houae on it, wpaym? fa,*' advaiteea bnt not pay'^g.^.Tcartw" firat two years. Sir Bichtfd "^•£,^1.1; auffgeated ^t the Croftars «*«»^i.l ed to aettle aa close ^^'^^^JZei^ that ao far aa their aUotoe^^^ J ed the " checker-hoard sys^ ^^ aboliahed. committee. The bill was ./{ The Press Crampedvjj^^ The preaa will be allowed veiy ^rf in the^^RepubUc of ^^XFiS^i^^'fH Colombia. jndgi»gfromthed«««y j^l by ita Government. Newspg^^ hibited from publiahmg ^^^^e^A constitutional «thonti«, ug^ ^^ reU^on, upon «« "^ffiiittofPJ manatrates, and upon ^^" ^^ t»*P 1 ^Itiiey^ •^,.iS'"^i e^*!!:i oorreotion must be made of oo^ ^^^ of the ofliendfaig artid«. ' of »»2r iaa»Wmlts. ^^gygg haa browtht news to •fjAe extaraorcUnary wreck of «M San PaWo, which occurred esT Tr«rf off Turnabout Island, Im*^ Ottsits, off the China coast, fijlreportahave been received J*'" The vessel struck a sunken ••^-ir fcir early in the morning. rH •^iSS. "d the Captain 5r ^Tao veaael muat be abandoned, ^^K-«fast. and showed a tendency '^^^^ore the life bo.te were â€" tLmrtA a awarm of Chmese !*„£^e from the neighbor- J*j The queer-looking vessels -d^Tof battle, and Capt. Reed, real- 4l»«^r*,hia chargaa were m, made V^*8« ^ll the attack. The pa*^^L«r came in auch overwhelm ^SSt before any demonstration RfSde^n board the sinking vessel V5!Sr^re climbing up the ship's â€" led by a man armed with a cut- »-/, iLroe revolver. Hia ahipmates â- â€¢^ ^y armed. Capt Reed passed ^Sd eo-w among the passengers ' «^ tfter a furious fusillade the ••"^beSeooff. They rallied, how- fSZde a second and B MOBB DESPERATE ATTEMPT I J the San Pablo, which waa fast set- l^rtfe water. Some of the pirates A^mafaideck, in apite of the gallant â- ^ Vrt^enaaaengers and crew, and were ?L tSS" *« promenade deck A. defenders were busy firing and l£^Xn Capt Reed brought the into rcquiaition. The long coils i^manned by the crew, and in- Jt thTpiratea were again put to flight, SSto of boUing water from the pipes *^manyofthemoff the decks mto hltToooUea then beat a retreat, a°d, draw- ' A.irveaaela up in line, cruised half a ^raeSking vessel, with the evide:t " witing for the abandonment o J During the fight Capt. Reed jMned all the Chinese among his crew •^Clunese passengers in the forehold, fa* they would aid their countrymen m ,2!imnt to loot the vessel. As soon as STSe paaaengers. mails, and specie SSthitothe San Pablo'a small bo. ts. »UiaU bore away for the mainland ToDly a ahort dUtance from tl.e wreck rt. Re^ and hia charges saw the pirates Sjll^ruah upon the San Pablo, as they 1 done a few hours before. They OLAMBHBKD OVER THE SHIP S SIDES larapplinghooka, and were soon mas- Xne of the finest boata that ever sail- tfaa Padfio. Whether by accident or de they aoon aet fire to the ahip, and when n'leen smoke was pouring from the wreck I mat clouda. The passengers were takeij •Ins Konir, and tugs were sent to the re oTSie San Pablo, but they found only Ihalk. burned to the water's edge, ano ijnped of everything valuable. It u esHmated that ,at least a score o itea loat their lives in this stubborn fiph Capt, Reed and hia men. During thi I the women and children who were oi Niu the San Pa.blo sought the staterooms rhere they were in constant fear not onl; fsUinz into the hand ot the pirates, bu bung drowned in the water Vhich wa liaguieahip. The San Pablo was fitted up in finer syl a any steamer that ever left San Francii and was valued at 8500,000. which is od loaa, aa ahe waa uninsured; "When the S*n Pablo ran on the reef ITS Capt Reed. "I knew from the for( 1 fte ahock that ahe muat be badly hurt. 1 1 rocka tore gaping holea in the plat d port bow and water was pouring ao fast that it waa only a question ol houra when the ahip would either ca ordide off THE TREACHEROUS REEF -J go to the bottom. As she rolled fr ide to aide under the influence of the 8 .he water began to have ita effect. Fir it lUttted her cargo, and ahe laid so far do^ I hnr starboard aide that we thought si I waa going clear over. It was in tl â- genoy that the order to lower the bo; I ^ven. and the men were climbing ii iratationa, when we aigbted the squi I of Chinese iunka coming toward us fr -eland. iafaigle glance at the leaders of the t Wng fleet told na that they were and the order to lower away I waa oountermanded amd one to to fight offboardera given. Thee hnrned down to the ship's arsei k they were armed with guns and c and then they were divided i I and atationed at the pointa on d t the piratea wonld be moat apt abMtrd. While the arming of Jwasin progress the approach oi 1 fleet was swift and sure. Tl decks were fairly awarming v ..7--â€" warriors, who were brand isl IffMiiliig knives and swords and guns Ife?*" *t the topa of their voicea. I asms nearer the din waa increasec I^Jjliilluij ring of sm^-ll arms, which |22S* intended to drive us below, |9!p mdleta whizzed and screamed a.' |*^W id my crew not a man retrea 'iXasuthe pirates came down on us ^Almost before we could realiz^ i ^Mtoonded, their grappling h rd, and scores of XHS TEIXINO FIENDS nbering up tbe sides and endea t over the rails on deck. The V;Vassengers sprang at them, i pirates went back over the s â- tor than they counted, but i liBaDy of them that they soon n ' the deck in force. on of -them made for the i evidently intending to g( jttr detachment tried to .where a defending party 7-. Wd still another gang 1 t vp* to the hurricane deck. JilM making a gallant resisl ^to were against them unt Btncily Trae i and attested by the Jidsthat Potman's P^ l» « sure and painlesi -» ekdm that it is just at I «adeaToriqg to pelm o " *â-  Bine only proves th aV* Use only Pti fe|bE»«tor. Sore, safe. M- is;--:^:.:*-,'i