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THE BEOOKLYK DAIITEASLE. MT YORK, STJHDAY, MARCH 18, 1900. 17 and of another of whose marriage in proper form he had satisfying, if not legal proof. HAUNTED BY AN INCOME. PASSING OF 7 I TURKEY HILL.

CALLAHAN'S PHILOSOPHY. night before last when they first met an last night they had ernuther prayin'. "There never will be no more times lack last night. I went over there to listen at 'em savin' things that wuzn't in they hearts or wouldn't er been there if they hadn't been skeered to death. Soon after the prayin' begun the rain started to.pourin' down harder than ever an' the louder an' longer they prayed fer it to quit the harder it 'ould fall.

After erwhile it gqt so they couldn't hear theyselves prayin' an' the old wimmen an' amen corner fellows an' the deekins an' all uv 'em got to shoutin' lack the worl' wuz goin' to come to a end right then. The thunder an' ligbtnin' made the horses and mules break loose frum the swingin' lines outside an' there never wuz such er time before. Them people had to stay there all night an' this mornln'they all had to walk home an' look fer they mules an' horses, an' the bes' part of It all wuz that nearly all uv 'em couldn't git home at fur little Tar water Creek wuz up so they couldn't cross. Thet's why I come down here to day. I couldn't cross Pant'er Creek to go home.

Nearly every crop in Shakerag deestrick is plum ruiut whut with the drouf an' the flood, an' I'll bet my yaller mule that they ain't a prayer meetin' at Rocky Mount fer a year. "Dat's whut comes ub fokes not b'lie'oin' in signs an' sich lak," moralized Uncle Egypt, who had listened to the tale with Interest. "Dat rain nebber wudder quit if me an Mister Wiggins habn't went down In de bottom dis mawnin' an' knockt dat mockersun off dat air alder bush." husband was in receipt at stated intervals of money from a mysterious source, of which she was certain her husband had no knowledge, but she supposed that it ceased with his death. The mystery oppressed Godfrey. Though no limitations of any kind were upon him he felt shackled.

Free to go where he listed, wherever he went at home or abroad this income, like Mary's little lamb, was sure to go. He rebelled against his treatment at being deprived of knowledge concerning himself and his forbenrs at the very time that his common sense told him that possessed of the secret he would be no better off and might be worse off. It was in this mood that he called on Miss Sarah Bruce. This young lady had promised to be his wife at a fixed time and was sentimental to a high degree, possessed of active Imagination and an enterprising mind. Up to the time of Godfrey's visit to her he had received from every one he consulted the advice to rest content with the receipt of the money.

Now he found one who held the contrary. The wings of the imagination of this young lady with a single flap transported her to foreign lands to disport in visions of estates and wealth and diadems and titles and power of which Godfrey was deprived and in which she would share if he got his rights, and so he was encouraged, notwithstanding the risks of loss involved, to get at the truth. And the promise of her devoted assistance was given. When ways and means were discussed in solemn conclave it was found that there was but one point of attack in the mystery and that point Mr. Benson, who had shut up like a clam when approached by Godfrey.

Miss Bruce, however, had profound confidence in her own powers and declared her purpose to attack and demolish Mr. Benson. Somebody was demolished, but It could. not have been Mr. Benson.

When the young lady returned from her excursion she had no further explanation to make than that Mr. Benson was an old brute. That was the only information she brought back and there were some who. doubted the authenticity of that. However, while the failure of the excursion apparently put an end to inquiries, the fact of the mystery drew the two togeth3r more closely in that they had a grievance in common and they discussed it so much that they became quite happy in their unhappiness and belief that they were greatly wronged.

Finally, they submitted" the matter to a celebrated detective, who listened to them with eyes growing wider as the statement was unfolded. "As I understand it, Mr. Shaw," said the unraveler of mystery, "if you sit and do nothing you receive $2,500 a year all your life. If you seek and obtain knowledge you are warned that the payments will cease and you have not the least assurance that anything else will come of knowledge. Bless me, if I can see why you should ask a question why you should do anything but take the money that comes without your doing anything for it." "How do I know," asifed Godfrey, putting a favorite speculation of Miss Bruce, "but there 1b a large estate back of this to which I am entitled, of which I am deprived by the acptance of this miserable $2,500 He Holds That the Meanest Men Are the Most Heligious and Proceeds to Discuss the Shortcomings of His Own Brother to Prove the Assertion True.

"The meanes' men air the mos' relldjlous;" asserted Philosopher Callahan, as he took the only unoccupied soap box in front of the Towaliga store. "Ain't none uv you never noticed that?" hp asked, looking slowly i around at the crowd of loafers. "It's a dead sure fact, an' they ain't no 'sputin' it, neither. The sanctified fellers thet go erround callin' theyselves pillars of the church air them that alius steals in the bigges' lumps. "Now, there's my brother Seth, an' ef I do say it they ain't no meaner white man than Seth Callahan.

He can pray louder'n airy other hypocrite in Rocky Mount church, an' he's the golderndest cuss in Caweto Coun ty. They ain't nary man in middle Gawgy whut Seth ain't cheated out uv all he could git hold uv. "An' ylt he's a shinin' light: a beakin torch to lead sinners out uv the dark, so Preacher Bludsoe says, an' he's gospel erround these parts. "Why, 'tain't been more'n six weeks since Seth killed two uv our Sister Sarah's fines' shotes, 'cause he 'lowed they wuz in his tater patch. Then when I raised a row erbout it he quoted five or six chapters uv the Ole Tes tyment, an' that night, when he wuz ieadin" the prayer meetin', they tell me he prayed fer his poor lost brother whut wuz wanderin" erround in a lonesome swamp uv sin.

That's relidgion, an' lemme tell you they's a pow'ful lot more jes' as big rascals an' as big hypocrites as Seth in Rocky Mount Church. They'll have a hot time when they come to settle up fer they lives down here. "But I reckin I've stopped 'em frum prayin' fer erwhile. I've shoresmashed they faith in they own prayers. You know it hadn't rained in goin' nigh onto three months over in Shake rag deestrick til two weeks ago.

It wuz the worst drouf since 1833. All the corn wuz burnt up an' the cotton wuz ruined as y'all know. Big Cotton Injun Creek wuz plum dry an' the mud cats wuz left on dry lan' cept fer a few puddles uv water. "Well, thr bangenest part uv it all wuz that jest over in Panhandle deestrick they wuz plenty uv rain, an Pant'er Creek an' Little Cotton Injun Creek wuz full uv water. Now, y'all know how the Babtists at Rocky Mount an' the Meffodists at Hickory Flat have alius said that Panhandle destrict wuz a part uv the lower rejuus, cause us people over there ain't got no church an' 'cause we depen' more on bein' good than talkin' good.

"Talkin' an' prayin' won't take nobody to hebben. That's my motto. "Well, it worrited them Rocky Mount an' Hickory Flat saints to death to think that we wuz bavin' plenty uv good seasonable rains whilst they wuz lookin' at the measly little crops scorch to cinders. Ole man Eastridge got up at Rocky Mount last regular preachln' day an' lowed thet the Bible says the rain falls on the Jest as well the unjest, an' thet if they'd jest keeper prayin' they'd get they share 'fo' long. Ole man Yellowbammer 'lowed thet the drouf wuz a visitashun uv the Lawd fer some sins thet they'd accidently done: none uv 'em 'ould own up to doin' any thin' bad.

"Well, after they'd quoted all the Bible they could remember ole Sister Stallins, she got up an' said that no matter whut they'd ask fer, the Lawd 'ould give it 'em. She moved an' seconded thet the good Meffodists an' Babtists jine in together an' have er all day prayin' for rain. Everybody shouted an' the Meffodists wuz invited to come over the very nex' day. "Fur er howlin' mob uv hypocrites them people wuz ahead uv everything when they got together. Meffodists an' Babtists whut hadn't spoke fer ten years wallowed on the floor together an' prayed fer rain.

It uz the funniest sight I ever saw in my born days. 'Fo' thet day the Meffodists had all said the Babtists would go to the devil an' the Babtists had said lots worse erbout them. But they uz all skeered to death, 'fraid they'd lose they crops, an' they prayed there that day an' had two more night meetin's after that. "But. prayin' didn't make it git cloudy an' them fo'kes wuz nigh crazy when Old Man Wiggins lost his faith an' 'lowed he'd make it rain, anyhow.

He went down to the bottom lan' an' killed a cotton moufed moccasin snake an' hung it on er alder bush. "That night the rain poured down. "Them durn fool church people thought they prayin' had done it an' when ole man Wiggins tole erbout hangin' up the snake the Rocky Mount saints had a speshul con funce an' turned him out uv the church. "Well, thet rain jest simply wouldn't stop after It got started. A big black cloud hung itself up to tho ski right over Shakerag deestrick an' wouldn't move, an' in two da 3 them fokes wuz prayin' fer the Lawd to save 'em frum ernuther flood.

The Meffodists an' Babtists had ernuther prayin' an' begged fer the rain to quit. I wuz jest ticked to death at them nasty hypocrites. It wuz SEACOAL. date. Then it, was that Godfrey connected this check with the words of his dying father: "Something will come to you every six months." The clerk, however, had no more knowledge of the source or the reason than he had six months previouslyand Godfrey signed Ihe receipt with a trembling hand, for he was possessed by a profound curiosity, and taking the check carried it into the room of his employer, laying the check before him with no little agitation.

"There," he "There! What am I to do about that?" His employer was a hard headed, practical man, with very little imagination and a great deal of method. So he took up the check, read it carefully, examined the stamp, remarked the bank and considered the signature. "Good bank; sound firm," he said. "I think I should obtain the cash on it." There is no doubt that there was an Immense amount of wisdom in this advice, but it wa3 not on the lines Godfrey desired. So he told bis employer all he knew of the matter.

Nothing in the experience of the employer could be likened to that of his clerk, and as soon as he could recover from his surprise and could dismiss from his mind considerations of the unbu.siness like character of the whole affair he laid firm hold of the practical aspect of the case and advised his to continue to accept the checks as long as they came to him and be content with so comfortable a He refused to be led into the field of speculation that Godfrey's vivid imagination invited him to, and very brusquely dismissed the thought of crime back of it as a reason why Godfrey should be slow in accepting the checks by curtly remarking that money was not usually paid to wrongdoers under such circumstances, but more iikeiy to be paid by wrongdoers for wrong done. But he added that undoubtedly Benson. Manson Benson could satisfy Godfrey's craving for knowledge if they would. Obtaining little encouragement from his employer and no guidance, Godfrey retired from bis employer's presence somewhat disturbed by the remark of his employer that cow that Godfrey had had such substantial addition to his Income he would not heed that increase of salary that had bean talked of. Impelled by his curiosity, he Eougbt Benson, Manson Benson, and having made known his business, was ushered into the presence of a portly gentleman of 60 who scrutinized him with interest, and not unkindly, before he replied to Godfrey's statement and inquiry.

"I can tell you very little about it," said the elder Mr. Benson, "and the little I can tell I will not. Benson, Manson Benson are mere attorneys in this matter. For forty years the firm has transacted this business and the instructions given in the beginning hold good at this day to deliver the amount of twelve hundred and fifty dollars on the first day of July and the first day of January in year to Godfrey Shaw, and on his death to his son first born, and to flrmlv decline to answer any questions as to its source. "I am satisfied that the person from whom the money comes to me is merely an agent of the real source of payment.

We are employed as the medium of delivery to screen that agent so that the real source may not bo. traced by the beneficiary. I suspect and perhaps accurately what that source is. having said this, let me give you a bit of advice without fee. Be content with the receipt of this sum semi annually: seek to know no more.

Resting thus content, you will receive this sum all your life, and so will your first bom son after you, and so on, until the end of time so far as I can see, unless indeed your line runs out. Now, I suspect that if curiosity gets the better of you and you begin to dig into the mystery something most alluring to a young man you can easily violate the conditions under which you receive this money, and to the observance of which under the penalty of forfeiture you were bound by the original Godfrey Shaw, and the payments will cease. As you stand now you are one man in a hundred thousand, for while you are certain of a yearly income of $2,500 you will never be able nor will any onfl else be able to swear that on receiving one payment you will receive another, and so no process of law can take it from you. "Y'ou can pay me for this advice by keeping this office informed of your changes of residence, of your marriage when you are married, and of the birth of a first born son, If such occurs to you. Good morning." Godfrey found himself bowed out of the great lawyer's presence more bewildered than ever.

He went home and consulted his mother. She was astonished to learn that her son received this money. She knew that her After gathering such proof In documentary form as he could, he set out to secure his rights, and thereby created such a commotion in the royal house as nearly disrupted the em pire. Though the original Godfrey could not summon legal proof of his mother's marriage and she was of gentle blood, still It was clear that all tho wise heads of the government ac cepted tho claims put forward by the young man as serious. After a year or two of commotion a proposition was submitted to the young man and his mother, which was that in writing he should forego all ngbis and claims he had set up, arid leave the country, never to return to it, in consideration of a sum equal to $2,500 a year, to be paid semi annually him and his heirs forever, with the delicate alternative of life imprisonment in a dungeon, in which he already was when tho proposition was submitted.

There were conditions of. forfeiture if he were to return to the country, or if he were in any way to renew his claim or to seek relationship of any degree to any one of the reigning family, or to assume to have any such relationship, or to claim to have or to say he had. lie had accepted, and after dwelling four years in a neighboring kingdom, at the request of the King's minister, he bad emigrated to America to grow up with the country. This paper said that all the documentary proof he had gathered bad been seized by the King's officers and retained. Godfrey's breath was taken away.

Regain ing self he carried the paper to Miss Brice. "Renew your claim," commanded the energetic young lady, after she had read it. But Godfrey considered it the part of wisdom to first talk with Mr. Bensnn, to whom he carried the paper. When that astute lawyer read it, he said: "Y'ou are a very foolish young man.

Your ancestors have been wiser than you. Four generations of Shaws have known these facts and have maintained silence, because they saw the futility of effort and the wisdom of quies cence. This payment has become almost an automatic act of the government of that country, imposed on it by the ruling prince of a hundred and sixty years ago. So long as you do not stir it, it will go unnoticed; stir it, and the first action will be construed into a violation of the condition and the payment shut off. This very paper of the claimant shows the absolute impossibility of maintaining his claim.

I am not sure but that you have violated the conditions in showing me this. I do not know but that it is my duty to report this to my client. If I do. the payments cease to you. I must think of it.

In the meantime I shall retain this paper for a while." Godfrey went away crushed. He and Miss Bruce arc waiting for the first of next July to see whether the payment will be made and wondering what was implied in the return of the paper by Mr. Benson. In the meantime Miss Bruce is consoling herself in the reflection that Godfrey is of royal blood, while Godfrey bears haughtily. SEACOAL.

HOW THEY GET THEIR FIEE. Madagascar Savages "Aire' the Most Ingenious in the "World. Various savages have different methods of kindling fire. In New Holland a pointed stock is twirled between the palms of the hand un till the wood on which it stands begins to smoke, and at last breaks into flame. Other savages obtain a spark by sticking one bit of wood upright in the earth, cutting a slit in it lengthwise, in which they rub another bit of wood with a protruding piece until it flames.

The most Ingenious method is, however, that followed by the inhabitants of Western Madagascar. These use a string of animal hide, by which they twirl the upright stick rapidly and hasten the fire lighting. To ua who have merely to strike a match under the mantelpiece the value of fire is little appreciated, but suppose that we were caught in the wilderness without a match, how would we go about lighting the fire to warm ourselves or cook our food? Perhaps the savage will point a way, especially as every boy of any account has a piece of twine in his pocket. Washington Post. BOOMED THE ORGAN TRADE.

Moody's death brings to mind the fact that he and his collaborator, Mr. Sankey, exerted the most beneficial influence upon the organ trade for many years. When they were at the height of their success people all wished to be able to sing their hymns at home, and an organ seemed to produce the best effect, so that their tour was always sure to be followed by substantial orders for small organs suitable for the household. Thousands were sold in consequence. Chicago News.

GIRLS REMEMBER BEST. In experiments for testing the memory powers of an equal number of hoys and girls at different ages in school and university classes, they were all read a simple story containing 324 words and 152 distinct ideas, after which they immediately proceeded to write what (hey could remember. The conclusions were that the growth of memory is more rapid in girls than in boys. Indianapolis News. At the leading savings SUGAR MEN bank of this district SAVINGS SM allj; mTse2t large accounts.

One of the officers believes that twenty years ago the habit of saving among them was more general than it is today, though it may be that they put their money into other things: assessment insurance and sick benefit societies, or into church savings institutions, for example. He says that he has found the improvident as a class, but the Germans more thrifty. "The Italians are the boys!" he adds. "It is seldom that one of them brings less than a hundred dollars at a time. They save their wages and go back to Italy." In spite of tho heat in which the men work for nine, ten and twelve hours a day, the general health appears to be good, and this despite the recklessness of the men in the hottest room.

The men in the moulding rooms, for instance, will expose themselves at open windows in the dead of winter, half nude and glistening with sweat, and they will go across the street for beer in the thinnest of dress, but they generally go back into the hent before they are chilled. Before the ventilating apparatus was put in heat prostrations were common, especially among new men. A physician who lives in tho neighborhood says he was often called upon in summer to treat as many as twenty five cases in a day, and the whole room would be converted into a temporary hospital. Tho treatment was generally prompt, ice being applied to the head, and death or permanent injury seldom ensued. There is a hospital a little way from the larsest refinery, and in case of accident the men can be removed with little, trouble or "delay.

When the omploye Is an old and trusted workman the cost of his stay in the hospital is not heavy. The number of cases sent to this institution does not amount to one tenth as many as before the improvements were made in apparatus and ventilation. The heat prostrations now do not average two a year. And as the improved machinery obviates the need of much handling of the sugar there are fewer cases also of "grocers' Itch." Sugar is bad stuff to work in. It is apt to cause an eczematous condition ot tho skin.

It is also liable to make trouble through in Godfrey Shaw's Strange Sorrow. I VHB case of Godfrey Shaw is a distress I I ful one. It will be agreed by all that when a man every sis months has a sum" of money as large as forced upon him, coming whence he knows not, but unquestionably Intended for him, with the assurance that if he will be contented to accept the sum and seek to know no more it will be continued during his life, a curiosity as to why and whereforo would be natural in anybody. Of course there are some people so lost to the' reason of things that they would be satisfied to enjoy the income of twenty five hundred a year resting content in the assurance of its continuance. There are others however, to whom the fact of possession would be embittered by the lack of complete and satisfying knowledge as to the source of such a benefacture and the reason of it.

Godfrey Shaw was one of these. A thorough son of Eve, he was consumed by au insatiable curiosity. Godfrey Shaw dropped the "junior" from his name on the twenty fifth of June, 1899 because the death of his father, bearing the Bame name, occurred on that day. A few hours before the iatter's death, rallying from a stupor that had possessed him, he summoned his son to his bedside and said: "If you have a son call him Godfrey as your fathers have done. It will make it easier.

Something will come to you every six months. Take it and ask no questions. AU the Godfreys before you have done it." Weakness prevented him from saying more and he gradually sank into sleep from which he had emerged and from which he never rallied before death. Godfrey, whose curiosity was excited, was restrained from effort by consideration for his father, though he would dearly like to have had an explanation of his father's words. But a little thought afterward convinced him that these words were merely those of delirium.

The Incident of the funeral and burial and his grief over the loss of a loved and respected parent drove them from his mind so completely, that when, sue days after, a young man presented himself as representing the famous legal firm of Benson, Hanson Benson, he did not for a moment connect the young man's mission with the last words of his father. This young man handed to Godfrey a check drawn to his order for $1,250 on the Firm Rock Bank and signed by Benson, Manson Benson. On looking at it Godfrey had said there must bo some mistake, and the check must be intended for some other person of the 6ame name, os he was not in expectancy of such sum nor knew whence such a sum could come to him. The clerk had replied that there was no mistake; that he as the Godfrey Shaw intended, and presented to Godfrey a receipt carefully written out for him to sign, which convinced Godfrey that he was the person intended. This receipt was singular: Godfrey Shaw of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, born May 11.

1S72, son of Godfrey Shaw late of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, deceased June 25, 1S99, who was a son of Godfrey Shaw, late of New York, deceased in 1S65. who was a' son of Godfrey Shaw, late of New York, deceased in 1S40. who was a son of Godfrey Shaw of Albany, deceased in 179S, hereby declare and make acknowledgment that on this first day of July, 1899, I. have received from the hands of Benson, Manson Benson their check on the Firm Rock Bank for twelve hundred and fifty dollars." There was no doubt in bis mind that he was the Godfrey intended after reading this, so he appended his signature and accepted the check, but not until he had questioned the clerk. However, the clerk knew no more than that he had been instructed to deliver the check and obtain Godfrey's signature to the receipt.

The. sum came in quite handily at the time, for there were large expenses as a consequence of the death, and to the duties of the house Godfrey addressed himself with a relief from financial worry satisfactory in it Eeir, dismissing the episode with the thought that it must come out of some transactions of his father, traces of which he would find when he came to look over his father's papers. However, when that time came he could And no trace; so he called at the office of Benson. Manson Benson, to be told that the only cue who could give hini the desired information was the principal, Mr. Benson, who a few days before had sailed for Europe for a needed rest.

So Godfrey went back to the routine of his employment and forgot all about it. But on the first of the year to be exact, on the second day of January last appeared before Godfrey the same clerk of Benson, Man son Benson with a check differing only from the previous one in its number, with the same form of receipt, differing only in its Continued Prom Page 16. Is quiet, save for occasional dull sounds that emanate from the refinery at the foot of thc street or the passage of a horse and wagou over the bowlder pavement with a disturbance like a charge of artillery. Beside the faint noises from the refinery odors of its bone dust come in at the windows, when the breeze carries them. The outlooks Trom the windows Include half a dozen houses of tho eame kind, two or three small factories, a lumber yard and a stable.

By leaning well out of the upper windows you enn enlarge the prospect so as to take in a grocery and a saloon. The bill of fare appears to content the patrons. There is a big bowl of oatmeal with blue milk every morning, and fried steaks are served for breakfast, with alternations of liver and baebn. If the boarders have been very good they have eggs two or three times in summer. Few of the men return for lunch, no that the noon meal Is light and consists principally of picked up stuff.

The refinery men who take their dinners with them, in a pail, are supplied with cold meat, bread, sometimes a pint of soup, and often a bit of pie or a littlo jam on a slice of bread. For Btipper there is a chunk of meat, corned beef or an undeslr corner of the oow most commonly, with boiled potatoes, soup, rice pudding or baker's pie, sweetened so much that It makes your heart burn to think of it, and tea and coffee boiled out of all recognition. The ministrations of Mrs. Rorer and Mrs. L.

ncke have never modified the asperities of cuisine, and to tell the truth dainties would probably be wasted on the burly fellows gather in then shirt sloeves about the oval tabio with its frayed and spotted table cloth. What they most want is enough. vieiT rn A Thia is typ! ot the Viol I I A boarding house. The tene TENEMENT. ment is not very different.

Wo will choose one in Dutchtown, and wo find it a little difficult to get into, for the good housewife suspects a schemo to inveigle her husband into some now Insurance company. "My husband, ho belongs yet by two of dem Inslnslnations and bo don't wand Rome more insurance," ehe declares; and it looks as if the poor man could hardly afford to carry nny more, for Wonderful Relation by the Sage of Sag Harbor Which Caused the Three City Visitors to Lower Their Estimate of the Abilities of Ananias and Others. "There. Sir," said the Sage of Sag Harbor, "Is Turkey Hill." The sage pulled up the horse and pointed? with his whip off over the water. The littlo waves were jostling each other in the March sun and not a sign of a hill was in sight.

"Excuse me," said John, "what?" "I said," repeated the Sage, "that there aii Turkey Hill." "I don't see it," said Dick, "there must be something wrong with my eyes." "Not at all, not at all. declared the Sage," your eyes. are all right but you haven't been here long enough to see as I do. It is true that Turkey Hill is not out there now, but it used to be and, thanks to my grandfather, the whaler's stories, it looked as plain to me, sitting here, as it did 40 years ago." "Then you remember it?" said John. "By no means," corrected the Sage, frankly, "I simply remember the memory of my grandfather's stories.

Turkey Hill, once tha prettiest little knell this side of anywhere, is now a submerged beach. Its precipitous sides are now flat and fishes are swimming to day where years ago, the sand peepers built their nests. Heigh ho. it is sad to contemplate what once was and will never be again. I will tell you the story as it was told to me by my grandfather, who learned It from Aminidab Tooker, the whaler, who learned it from Job Hapgood of Nantucket Sound, who learned it from "Never mind," said John, gently, "remember it is sad to contemplate.

Don't put yourself to unnecessary anguish on our account The Sage looked a trifle hurt. "Please don't interrupt," he said, "in the old days, when Turkey Hill was something more than a flat beach, 20 feet under water, a fort was built on its summit, which commanded the entrance of the Harbor. Guna were mounted within the works during the Revolution and again in 1812. Afterward, tho fort on Turkey Hill became a favorite retreat of the young men and maidens of the village, who liked a quiet place in which to exchange sweet nothingness. For a whilo Turkey Hill flourished, green and fair; thea came the era of its downfall.

"Y'ou must know," continued the Sage, pulling the horse to one side so as to let Deacon Hepburn pass, "that Sag Harbor was once a famous whaling port. Why, my grandfather has seen no less than SO whalers in the bay at one time. They were so numerous and the fumes of the whale oil were so thick In the air that on heavy days it was dangerous to strike a flint and steel for fear of causing a general explosion. They say it was Captain Hezekiah Humphrey, who was responsible for the fall of Turkey Hill. Leastwise, he started it.

Captain Humphrey commanded a whaler and one day, just by chance maybe, perhaps by design. I don't know which, he ordered bis. crew over to Turkey Hill to dig sand for ballast. Y'ou see, it was the practice of those old fellows, deep sea hunters, to fill their casks up with sand on the.outward trip and bring them chuck full of oil on the run home to port. When a whale was killed, they cut him up and put the oil and blubber in a cask from which they removed the sand.

So it went, you see. Eighty whalers, all acruising; couple of hundred casks, big ones, in each and only one Turkey Hill. "First the fort went; the old walls topple! over when the sand diggers undermined them. In a year, Turkey Hill looked llked a uifciiS land, flat at the top and getting lower Hko a winter thermometer. In two years, it just a mound, raising maybe 20 feet out of the water.

Folks used to come down to the shore and gaze at it, kind of sad like, thea shake their heads and go home. 'Turkey Hill's agoing fast," they'd say. "In three years. Turkey Hill was precisely like the rest of the beach, level and hard. That was the beginning of the finish.

The waves began to lap it at the sea end and the. whalers kept on doggedly digging on shore. One morning, after a big storm, little Dan Holcomb came running through the town, crying. "Turkey Hill's been washed away! Turkey Hill's been washed "It was true, too true. The high tides had carried off the last of it.

Well, sir, there never was such a time in Sag Harbor. The bell on. the Methodist Church tolled solemn like day; school was closed and there were three relapses among the sick folks of the village. But it didn't do any good to mope. Most of the folks made the best of it and them that couldn't get ever the loss moved over to New Bedford.

It pretty near killed the whaling trade. It went ail to pieces, like the one hoss shay, from then on." "Has anybody got relics of Turkey asked John, visibly affected. "Reckon not now." said the Sage, "grandfather had some but he's dead. The most of the hill is scattered up and down the bottom of the sea from Hudson's Bay to Martha's. Vineyard.

"Now, said the Sage." I'll drive you over and show you the Presbyterian Church. Get app, Mepbisto." One who has been long associated with them says that he believes that the closeness, heat and the much drinking weaken them in time, and that when they are attacked by disease they are found to have weak hearts and succumb early, but it does not appear that the itself induces disease of any sort, now that machinery has so replaced hand labor as to obviate the necessity of contact with the sugar. There are no labor unions among the men, at least as sugar workers. Four years ago there was a strike for higher wages. It did not succeed.

The men who ivent out were replaced by Poles. Poles do not organize unions because there are Joes ind assessments. Hence there are no unions. Tha drivers had a society until last summer that was organized partly, it is said, for the creation of a sick benefit fund, but they became unruly and refused to clean their wagons, for which offense their society was disrupted by the truck superintendent, so they say. Many of the men are members of the For esters and other assessment societies.

Almost invariably the children of tbesa men are pupils of our public schools or of tho large parochial schools of "Dutchtown." One of the teachers says: "When they are bright they are as bright as anybody, but when they are dull they are duller than anybody else. They are good children in the main, but they might bathe a little oftener." Recently Greeks have appeared iu the sugar district. They are florists or else candy makers. Their children are the brightest of the lot, and will skip two classes sometimes, but they want to leave as soon as they have learned to count American money, so that they can go out and make it. Last year the American people ate 2.000 000 tons of sugar.

Of this the American Sugar Refining Company, otherwise known as the trust, made 1,385,000 tons, and when to this output is added that of tho other Brook lyn refiners, it is seen that the nation has to depend on Brooklyn for more than religion and Institutes and bicycle paths. The Havemeyers Elder refineries put 000. pounds of sugar every day except Sunday. When to the Brooklyn output wo add that of Boston. Jersey City, Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco we may believe that 10,000 people owe their living to It, and considering the quality of the work, those people are fairly paid and are not discontented.

The next article in this series will contUltr "Modern Altruistic Industrial Experiment." PA'S FORTUNE TOLD, But Not by the Girl Who Wanted to Hold His Hand. They had a fair and Sosheyble in our church Thursdy nite, and me and Maw and paw Went. They was a bewtifle girl in a little tent in One corner telling forchens by Holding Y'our hand for Fifty sents and giving it to charity. "Some way I don't Deleave much in such things," paw Says. "Neither do maw told him, after she looked at the girl.

The girl was Drest like a Gipsey queen and Had kind of coaxen Jjei, so pritty soon paw got to Standing in frunt of the Tent and Jingellon his munny. "Come on, maw told him, "Let's go over where the fancy Work is." "Of corse," paw Says, "it's all rite as long as the munny Goes to Charity Enny way." "Well," maw anserd, "Y'ou can give Y'our Munny to charity just as Easy by Getting sum thing back for it. Or it you Want to pay for a Forchen sposing I have mine Told?" "Oh, they ain't Ennything in it," paw says. "Come on." "So we began looking at the Fancy Uork and Pritty soon paw was Over at the tent kind of looking around Like if he didn't Want En nybuddy to notus it. Air at wunst maw looked up to see where He was, and when Paw saw her coming be started Back Like if he Hadn thot of Ennything but the Fancy Work and kind of whisselin soft.

A little while after that maw Got to talking to the preacher and Paw stayed away, and in about a minute he Was at the Tent and tee girl with the Coaxen Eyes was Smiling Some more, only they was a Lady having her forchen told and paw had to Stand outside. I was bizzv Lissenen about the Tall dark man the Ladv was going to Get married to, and the First thing I new paw innosuntly went Over to the pop Corn booth. Maw was Coming again. Then we Got seats at the table and were Going to have supper, and About the time trar nn told us he Wasn't hungrv, so he would look Around, and see if he couldn't And a nice piece of fancy work or Sumthing for mar. After I et my ice cream I thought I would go over whare the forchen teller was, and when I gottuarea lady was Coming' out of the tent and paw Was Going in.

I read the handsome gentlemun's FewcKur?" She astThim. "Yes' paw says, "I guess I'll let you try It. I bleave you're a Little Witch, enny way." Then the girl smiled at 'par, and par Laft anr ast her how mutsh it twould be. "Fifty cents." she says, "AM' for charity, but if the kind, gentleman gives a Dollar and duzzent ast for change he gets his hand held Twice as Long." "I'll take a Dollar's Worth," paw says, "and mebby if I like it mite Help charity some more by Letting you Hold the other one a while." By the time paw Sat Down with his Back tords the Flap of the Tent and Got out his munny. After the girl put it away paw Held out his hand, and then mar reached over his Sholder and took Hold of it.

The girl was surprised and Paw looked up at mar like if He couldn't remember what he was Goin to Say, and mar Looked at his Hand and says: "I see menny Strange things here. One of them is a Nold man with a Fambly that is Getting made a Fool of By a girl that wouldn't wipe her shoes on Him even if He wore His Best close." Then we started Home. After we got Outside paw says to maw: "Y'ou know Blame well I only wanted to give sumthing to charity." "Y'es." maw told him, "and if a Kind, handsum gentleman duzzent ast for change he gets his Hand held twice as long." Paw give a Lamp post a whack With his umbrella and broke the Handle. I don't, no whether what He sed then was on Account of getting his umbrellla broke Or the Forchen telling. Chicago Times Herald.

POSSIBLY. Fuddy Y'ou never can tell anything about the weather. At the time of the flood, you know, it rained forty days and forty nights. Duddy Y'es; and I'll bet if there had been weather bureau in existence at that time it. would have prophesied fair weather or at least clearing every morning.

Boston Journal. plied at cost price. To do this the company must take out a license like any other landlord, and its bar is in a cellar. It is the quietest bar in Brooklyn, for loafing is not allowed there, and the tapster's occupation is chiefly that of filling the pails that are brought down from the hot rooms overhead by messengers. Every man has his own can.

This beer varies slightly in price, according to season, brew and quality, but a dollar will buy about thirty tickets, and each ticket is gcod for a pound of beer. A pound? Y'es, that is the way it is sold, and, considering the ability of some bar men to convert it into suds, it is the only honest way. The consumption is immense, for the heat generates a thirst that is even willing to assuage itself with water, if worst comes to worst, and water is supplied also; but unrestrained drinking is not allowed, and the worker himself soon learns to know his limit. Cases have been reported of men who have earned $35 a month drawing $16, the rest having been held out for their beer, but moderation is really necessary, in water as in beer, for heat stroke and illness are liable to ensue after an excess in either. The men usually take their dinners to the refineries with them, although for such as wish there arc boarding houses and alleged restaurants within easy reach.

In the restaurants one dines at a long table in a gloomy ground floor room or basement with no carpet on the floor and with oil cloth for a table cover. Fifteen cents is the cost of a meal in some of these places, and that provides one with meat, bread, potatoes, pip and coffee. For 5 cents one may have rolls and coffee In the morning, and for from $4 to $6 a week one may not only board, but have a room. There are lockers in the basements of the refineries for the employes, and there are iron tanks ten feet long, four wide and four deep in which they can bathe daily. Many of them enjoy their dips, and there is a good deal of spattering and ducking and skylarking after hours.

It does not appear that they use these tubs so much for cleanliness as for coolness, and hundreds do not use them at all. Oddly, it is the men in the hottest rooms who use them least. Oddly, too, it is those men who are, at least In appearance, the sturdiest of the company. THE SUGAR TRUST AND ITS EMPLOYES. year?" "Perhaps so," replied the detective.

"All the indications are that this sum has been paid since 1798. at least over a hundred years and if it be true that there is au estate it has been in other hands during all that time. I take it that you would find it difficult to prove title to it. with nothing but the records of money paid to base your claim on. For my part, I beg to be excused from entering on so foolish a quest." "The world seems combined to keep us out of our rights," remarked Miss Bruce as they left the detective.

A week and that was a week ago, a matter connected with the settlement of the deceased Shaw's modest estate led Godfrey to examine a box kept in the safety deposit vaults. In that box was a small package, carefully tied up, and on its outer wrapper was written: ''Of no value save as curiosities." A dozen times Godfrey had turned it over without being moved to open it, but now be untied the tape that bound it and saw a number of time stained and ancient papers tumble out. Under the flaring gaslight and dense atmosphere of the vaults he sat down to read them. As he sorted them he noted that most of them bore dates prior to the year Most of them were of no interest and concerning matters of which he could have no knowledge. One was a roughly drawn genealogical tree, which traced back a short distance the ancestry of the original Godfrey Shaw, who died in Albany in 1798, and in which it was shown that that Godfrey had emigrated from England In 1738 at the age of 25.

It gave Godfrey a decided shock. There was also a paper, written in a peculiarly crabbed hand, in which all the "thes" were spelled "ye," with many other eccentricities of orthography and chirography, setting forth 'the mystery of his life and which, more than 150 years later, had bothered the latest and most modern Godfrey. It seemed from this statement that at the age of 20 this original Godfrey had waked up to the fact that his father was one of the princes of the royal house of a country in Europe who was in the direct line of succession There is a lower sort of tenement near the refineries which is occupied less frequently by Germans. The Poles are gathering there, although the largest Polish colony is in Green point, a couple of miles from the largest refinery. This wretched barrack stands in the yards of other tenements, and hence has neither air nor light enough, and each building is a menace to the other, not only in case of fire, but in the event of an epidemic.

Rent is low. Y'ou can hire two rooms for $3.50 a month, but most people would prefer to sleep in the yard. There was plumbing, once, but some of it has been torn out, and water is obtainable only in the lower halls. The closets are in wooden sheds, in the yards between the front and rear tenements. An abominable odor pervades the precincts, and as you climb the damp, dark, fouled stairs, festooned with drying clothes, you find that some of it is due to slops that have been set out in the halls until such time as the residents feel ambitious enough to go down to the yard and empty them.

Three room flats in the front houses rent for $3.50 to $8. The rooms are usually swept, and sometimes are really neat, but ono who lives in such sur roundingn must perforce suffer from the uu cleanness of others. In all these poorer quar i ters the furnishings are of the simplest, and in the way of decoration there are chromos representing the Virgin and saints. When running on full time the Havemey: ers Elder relinery employ 3,000 men, asido from teamsters and coopers. Some of these men have been with the company for thirty and a few for thirty six years, and it is said that the average length of service is eight and one half years for each employe.

Ninety per cent, of the men speak German, even when they are Poles. The average wage is $13 a week; the lowest, earned by boys and girls in the packing departments. $6 a week. Labor in the departments calling for no special knowledge or skill receives an average ot $10.60 weekly. Over 1,100 men make over $10 a week and stokers reeelvo $1.35 for nine hours' work, and there are 254 mechanics carpenters, machinists and engineers whose, earnings range from $2.50 to $3.50 a day.

In the country these wages would insure a gooa living. In the city the cost of meat, milk, groceries and rent does not leave a large margin for Wall streot operations. there are Ave healthy appetites on exhibition at the kitchen table, all belonging to his offspring. These boys and girls, of apparently the same age, are warmly though coarsely dressed, and are stowing out of sight bread, coffee and an omelette that the mother, dressed in faded black, with a shawl on her head why do people in tenements have to wear shawls on their heads, especially indoors? is cooking in installments. The eggs are a little tired, or it may be that somebody in a neighboring flat has left a cover off and delicatessen Is escaping or gas.

The kitchen is rather cheery, with its outlook on a block of yards, decorated with a wash in which flannel shirts and drawers are conspicuous. The table is covered with oil cloth, the furniture and dishes are of the simplest, and a sewing machine stands in the corner. In the three little bed rooms between tho parlor and kitchen there is room for beds and no more, unless it be a chair or two. Tho only light they have is from small windows, opening into the dim hall. The parlor, which will be the best bed room as soon as the family calls for expansion, Is cheaply carpeted, has a table with a chenille cover, a china cat on tho mantel with some other inexpensive decorations, durable chairs, a couple of religious books, a photograph of the head of the family, conscious of his Sunday elothes and a trifle frightened at the camera, a colored certificate of membership in an association and glass cross on a little mat.

This man makes a week, and he pays $8 a month for his tenement ot five rooms. He does uot go to the theater, but he manages to get away once or twice. In the summer to a picnic and has been to Coney Island several times. In nearly all of the tenements in this region the lower halls are as dark as night and the stairs are narrow and sometimes winding. They are of wood, and a fire in one of them is a serious matter.

As one opens the door he is assailed by a fierce odor of fermented cabbage, pickled meat, onion soup, fish that died long, long ago, cheese that has been prowling about disreputable quarters of the city until it has lost all respect for law, and too often there is added to tho nosegay a distinct smell of sewage. By all the signs these should bo unhealthy places for human occupation. What is the reason they are not? testinal fermentation if it is eaten freely, but the men do not care much for it after they have been in the refineries for a time. At first they nibble at it, and if seen they are seldom checked by the foreman. There however, an objection if a Polack absented mindedly fills his dinner pail with it and takes it home to his family, as he has on several occasions tried to do.

As to their conduct, the men give little cause for complaint. They are usually steady men of family, and the arrests, which are commonly for drunkenness, are fewer than among the men in the foundries, factories and shops of the neighborhood. Indeed, there has been an average, in late years, of hardly more than two arrests a year, directly from the sugar houses. Drunkenness is not tolerated, and if two men are found engaged in a fight the case is not investigated; both men are discharged on the instant. There are provisions enough for drink, for the seedy, melancholy, depressing neighborhood is supplied with saloons, not a few of them in charge ot men who can hardly speak English.

They advertise beer that was not made in Milwaukee or St. Louis, and it is served in "baths" that would cause a Coney Island bartender to gasp. The free lunch is composed of pilot br.ead of uncertain age, chemical cheese and fearsome things from the delicatessen shops, made of old liver and oily fish. Kitchen chairs and stained tables are the furniture, and there are bills on the 'walls announcing balls and receptions, and chromos advertising brands of whisky and brews of beer. Little gatherings of three to a dozen frowsy, drowsy residents are to be found In these saloons at almost any hour, and in the evening they are popular.

A good deal ot their business is the "growler" trade and sugar makers are steady patrons. Beer is the staple, but uot always lager. As one proprietor explained, "Thim Poles is mixed ale min, samo's tho Irish. It's the Dutch dhrinks lager." Now, the only rea REFINERIES SELL son why these sa BCCR AT rncT Ioons have any ot a CCD HI UUOI. tho patronage of the sugar makers is that they want a change in their boer once in a while, for there is a bar in every refinery, and the beer is sup i.