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sterny group, an let em ave easy time or II tomorrow in the boats Both of em he added gener
 'Spoke like Briton Larkins," said old fisher
 What want is fair play and no favor" said MT; Larkns tits to be genuine sporting affair No bad blow, anything of that kind After the little affair all what go it welcome to one drink at my eA-
 Tits time my back, said U Bullock, @ , looking up the road which led the cliffs T told him to go just far the ground and back.
 ''Old Peter Morgan's gone down to the place, too, think, piped small lad in huge boots Il saw i'm Iol-
 The landlord of the Three Fishers started uneasiy: blessed Ii have the thing stopped He'll NC he won't" said the old fisherman who had spok before. Me an Peter was boys together an hes Peter got religious there was nothing liked better than to fight, take part in one elther ana IT. my opinion he'd like to this one, only he don't like to
 well he won't" said Larkins, grimly; .it may be as but we're not going to take any risks .. - event, animated, but still the two gadators failed to put in appearance. kins referring the ardent Gubbs You ave man too willing Hell go and knock hissef & up o,,.r the son sRa and 90y hang p s @ wth along the road. The other following his gaze saw three men advancing lovingly arn-n;arm toward @ them
 z though said the old sherman sGs m tRsorgg PResGipg old Peter that's they've done He's been talking at em and getting at em and now there won't be no ngn sP aVe there You don't think me and my Bullock going sav three weeks ber mo @ go the old man. Look how loving they are All three of em as close to- gether sweethearts"
 MT. Peter Morgan in the center and appeared be half embracing his companions
 why. they can hardly walk said Bullock, they've beer
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s c.rbbs and talked to him; Then Iounu ouL %nat @ knew before that all you men iry1fs 70 G trdIIca these pure souls to knock edcH olie ~ A04 money rkns choking helpessy. looked sterny Y, at MT ,ror9an and pointed insinuatlng niger 9I 1ipot vsage. + +o make such a brutal bseiIss for money' continued MT NI0rga put m si ssy tneIlselNe Cubbs said It VIII pc the easiest said as oW d ever earned and Tarbut said It was nm 90 soi to earn After little talK ts hiu Ss,hba SS T ere it Tarbut smack in the eye.
 cove faint in connrnation
 nTton +Iev both started to peel continued MT of didn't you em?n inGmred @ stne tne H3 guarq; , # was better em to ngnt ike mat snan to make brutal exhibition of ce sbGckinp ssnd I'm glad and thankful there was Ropog ~ to see e such brute d beasts Eo 9f be crowd
 erhera in that sweet secluded spot said MT Horgfn' so;pn tis head hese stripped 10 tne %ddst I Knocked one another for about fifteen bs, nose then Cubbs up with fearful blow ana l ra rbIt on my was blow as ever sed 9 I9o h,t sl he was sIfferng and Peter Morgans always gQt M Ia feh sufferer Second round he was more nder If ing his chance, cencned anu Ieil "A'i' ~
 a disgusting spectacle r,,11ocL and
 MT Larkins bent savagely over to MT 6unQcA " "lisRs[eG ESben iii time m was caled-' said MT Morgan
 "Who called it?' inquired a voice. with the aooe " W "T did said MT Morgan, "there was nobody edsei both of en walked each other bit sparrng at te ioolne for oneninps I think third round was LIe longest Both of em kept getting 1 t !6I oe aghf in in the wtnd-anQ tl9l ol lowed up on his jaw and knocked him down aealn IL wa"
 siMust Ra' been said a dejected voice.
 After that there was twelve more rounRos 2 # and sometimes Gubbs Both very deternlneo and d fought fair It W T9s good fo1s od hf6e fh fns6ed thought he wouldn't get up to t1me
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making that the period of the play, but by degrees evolved the idea of an of ficial telegraph office in Richmond dur ing the siege, and then the other incl dents began to group themselves around this episode
 There is, then, no historic basis for this theme!' he was asked.
 None at all," quickly responded the author. During the New York run and even yet I have note on the pro- gramme explicitly disclaiming any at tempt to be historically accurate in the play. It is pure fiction, and I don't know that even the faintest resem- blance to this telegraph office existed in Richmond. I gained some knowledge of the manner of doing things from an eX-Confederate official, and also learned that they had a few breech- loading rifles late in the war, which en- abled me to introduce the scene where the colored man bites off the bullets In order to save the life of the spy hero"
 ''Is that incident absolutely neces- sary?"
 No; the act could be ended in an- other way, but the scene is effective, and then you see it enables me to make out a better case for Dumont, or Cap tain Thorne, as the spy calls himself in Richmond. He refuses under the circumstances to profit by the fact that the bullees have been extracted, and tells the officer in command that his guns have been tempered with
 (Which exhibition of manliness prob ably wins the admiration and sympa- thy of the other characters on the stage and also of the audience interjected the reporter.
 Exactly so And that reminds me that I have been a little surprised by the view most people take of army spies To my mind there is nothing disreputable about this duty. It is a recognized branch of army service, ex ceedingly dangerous, but not neces- have been erected to spies!" exclaimed Mir Gillette with enthusiasm.
 "But how about the social side of the matter?"
 Well, in Secret Service the spy hero relinquishes his commission and refuses to act when 1t is made to ap- pear that he has taken a dishonorable advantage of his social opportunities That sets him right in that particular. '
 How did Secret Service come to be written at last after so many years of mental incubation?" MT. Gillette was asked
 Tt just happened all at once and without any reconciliation" replied the actor. we were preparing Too Much Johnson for production, and had put 1t aside for a little rest. You know there can be too much rehearsal. Dur ing the interval, I roughly sketched the l first act of Secret Service and, meet ing Mr. Frohman, who was on the eve of going to Europe, told him that I thought had a good idea for a war play He took the manuscript and presently handed it back, saying in his impetuous manner, Why, that is splen didl Write me the next act as quickly as possible I did so, and then he called for the third act to be rushed. So rushed right through the first
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Woolerton House, Cheshire, where $15,0 worth were taken. This occurred on March Is, 1893, and on August 1 of the same year there took place at The Hatch, near Maidenhead, the extraor- dinary and mysterious robbery which deprived the Countess of Wilton of a number of priceless heirlooms and family relics.
 Most people can recall the c1rcum- stances surrounding the theft, by a trick, of Mrs. Langtrys jewels. A man presented at her bankers a forged order for their delivery, walked away with the box and was never seen or heard of again.
 But. after all is said and done, all modern jewel robberies sink into utter lns1gnificance when compared with the theft of the world-famous Tavernier diamond. It was valued, at moderate estimate, at s10,000, 900, and was stolen from the Garde Meuble, Paris, in 1792. What became of it is a mystery. But it is generally believed to have been cut into two or three pieces, each being afterward sold as a separate diamond.
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! was being made up, the gas was sud- denly turned ofe at the meter and the whole place plunged in ,rkness. At first it was thought to be an accident. But, on lights being brought, it was seen that the two registered mail bags, containing cut and uncut stones to the total value of $200,000 had disappeared.
 The robbery was skilfully planned and cleverly executed, and all subse- quent efforts to recover the diamonds or apprehend the thieves proved fruit less. The last great robbery associated with the Garden" took place on Sep tember 13, 1894, when Herr Spyzer, an Antwerp diamond merchant, was de- coyed into | gus office, attacked by three men, chloroformed and robbed of gems valued a $100,000
 Early in February, 1877, occurred the great jewel robbery at Battle Abbey, Sussex, when gems to the value of be- tween ,O00 and $50,OOO, the property of the Duchess of Cleveland, were car ried away. In this case the coup was effected while his Grace and the Duchess were in the drawing room en- tertaining a few friends, and the Serv- ants were in the kitchen at supper. The articles stolen were chiefly pres ents; one of them, a magnificent neck lace of diamonds, rubies and emeraIds, being gift of the Queen to the Duchess, who vas a bridesmaid at her Majesty's wedding. Curiously enough, one case of jewelry, containing gems Of far greater value than any of those taken away, was overlooked by the robbers in their hurry
 On the 18th of November of the same year a peculiarly heartless robbery was perpetrated at Halstead Place, near Sevenoaks. The newly married Earl and Countess of Aberdeen had gone there on u cir Honeymoon, taking with them the whole of their beautiful bridal presents. The published descrip- tons of the costliness of these had evidently attracted the thieves, for hardly had the young couple reached tnelr destination ere the bulk of the offerings, valued at about s25,O0O, were annexed by burglars, who forced an entfGnce while the Earl and Countess were at dinner.
 Reference has already been made to the Hatton Garden Postoffice robbery, which took place on November 16, 1881. the biggest jewel robbery of this cen tury was effected at Brynkinalt. the seat of Lord Hill Trevor, near Chirk, North Wales. The coup was brought off while the family were at church, and the total value of the property car ried away exceeded $300.000 In this case two servants were arrested, but they were discharged almost immedi- ately, and the mystery remains un- elucidated to this day.
 Another valuable haul was that made at Leigh Court. near Bristol, the seat or Sir Philip Miles, on December 1S, 1892. In this case the family were at dinner. The jewels, worth s15O,000. were safe at o'clock. An hour later they had vanished. Yet another din ner-hour robbery" was that effected at the expense of Baron Schroeder of
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FAMOUS JEWEL
 ROBBERIES NV ENGLAND

TNHERE is a remarkable, if some
 what morbid, fascination attach
 ing to gigantic jewel robberies-
 like that, for instance, recently perpetrated at the expense of the Dow ager Duchess of Sutherland That a man should coolly walk into a railway carriage and in less than one minute annex fortune, such as not one person in ten thousand attains after a lifetime of toll, is sufficiently startling. But the thing becomes amazing when one re- fleets upon the time, patience, thor oughness and resourcefulness expended upon the successful carrying out of these colossal criminal coups.
 Take, for example, the theft of the Countess of Dudley's jewels at Pad dington Station in December, 1874. This case was almost on all fours with the Duchess of Sutherland's, and although the thieves were never captured it was proved conclusively that the robbery had been planned six months pre- viously, and that during that entire period the Duchess had been shadowed, night and day, by one or other of the confederates engaged in it. The value of the gems was at first stated to be
 
 duced by about one-half
 On January 15, 1871, all London was talking of remarkable outrage and robbery perpetrated on the previous day. A MT. Parkes, employed by the great jewelry firm of London & Ryder, proceeded, by appointment, to a house in Upper Berkeley street with about $30,00O worth of gems in a bag. Di- rectly he entered he was set upon by two persons, a man and a woman, who seized. bound and chloroformed him and decamped with the valuables. Luckily the victim recovered his senses an hour or two later and hue and cry were at once raised.
 Both culpritS were eventually ar rested and the man received a sentence of eight years penal servitude. The woman, his wife, was acquitted, mainly owing to the eloquence of Montagu about S4000 worth of the stolen property was ever recovered. A somewhat simi- lar robbery, it will be remembered, was planned last year at a hotel in Brighton. Luckily 1t was unsuccessful.
 Hatton Garden, as may well be imag- ined, has been the seat of several no- torious diamond robberies. One of the earliest and biggest occurred on March 25, 1876, when MessrS. Williams & Son, manufacturing jewellers, lost gems to the value of $125,00 The thieves ob- tained entrance to the premises at dusk on a Saturday evening, opened the safes with duplicate keys and carried away all the most costly articles, things of lesser value being left untouched.
 Many people will doubtless be able to recall the daring robbery per petrated at Hatton Garden Postofflce, on November 16, 1881. Shortly after dusk, and while what was then known as the Continental Diamond Mail"
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draft of the play, and thus. after so long a period of mental preparation, it was put on paper at last in a great hurry"
 "Very much" 1t was suggested, 'as Sardou is said to work-pigeonholing data and suggestions appropriate to some theme, and then, after seven or eight years, boiling this matter together into one of his startling plays"
 "I had never read anything about his method of work, but am glad to know that I have unconSciouSly followed such a model in this particular. Sardou is a great master of situation and se- cures wonderful effects. The difficulty is to keep an audience interested through suspense, and then the audi
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HOW GILLETTE WROTE
 SECRET SERVICE" /"

:: N ECRET sERvICE," William Gil- lette's latest success in the war dramas, will open at the Bald N T win Theater tomorrow night. - It has been very successful in New York and London. and contains ;. several very striking situations. In .Spea king of the way he came to write the play MT. Gillette said:
 ... well, do you know, the idea that was the germ of the play is not in it at . TaIi,'' he said. Tt is my habit in con ~:structing a drama to fix my main situ- :ation in mind and work from 1t back
 ward. and forward. In Held by the Enemy it was the dead body of a Con- federate spy on stretcher in a church. In Secret Service it was the telegraph scene.
 : AS we do it now, the Confederate secret service agent-Arrelsford, as l call hin-suspects the Union secret :. service man. who is the hero of the :. play, of his motive of sending false ]. dispatch. He therefore comes to the telegraph office and makes his plans to trap the Union man and cOnceals him. self before the latter enters.
 My original idea of Secret Service was this same scene, but l conceived ;. it quite differently at the time. It struck me one day, as various things passed through my mind that I would
 have this fellow Dumont, the. Union secret service man, trying to send a bogus dispatch. He has got every one cut of the room except Arrelsford Ar Ielsford knows that Dumont is a Union inan, but conceals his Knowledge. Du- mont does not know that he is sus- spected. He invites the Confederate to have drink of Whisky-the way two men. will, you know-chatting and friendly. Dumont tries to drug Arrels- lords whisky and thinks he has suc- ceeded Arrelsford. the better to en- trap Dumont pretends that he has swallowed the drug and that he is gradually losing his senses.
 ''I thought it would be an effective and artistic thing for Arrelsford to make Dumont believe that he is drugged. the audience the truth that he was only pretending. Arrelsford was to stagger about. the other fellow watching him, and at last fall outside the window. Then Dumont was to send out his false message, or part of it, and be interrupted by pis- fol shot as he is now. l thought that his astonishment when he found that ArreIsford had fooled him would be a good point
 By degrees" continued MT. Gillette, s'the present treatment of the scene was developed with all the incidents connected herewith, scarcely one of which resembles my original idea. It often happens this way in the develop 1nent of plays The central incident is ultimately made use of in manner en- tirelv different from the original con- ception. I had the idea in mind for ten years before I put pen to paper on 1t.
 For time I thought of adapting this scene of the captured dispatch of- flee to the Revolutionary War ana
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.E Hathsaa n said Mr. Gubbs with emphasis Ba'heo'
 Trainng" replied Mr. Larkins briefly hurry I2h,,+ up bat aent sad 6seye 9nS ed Weggkening
 Mr Gubbs u s signed % and %thdrew his head and A ex tte stro gioomy dressed hmse and joined his train
 said small pSbeadp ,sd en1snr shd uR ESs oo R of led avehso ehs max e deTn m to fhS
 Ss s 61ef se1d the by % he he hs
 eEhs sass Dq ah How do you feei7'' inquired Larkins anxouslz, as FsSbss Fss him ssiS dSTP tPe other shlverng
 better when you've had your run said him @ sSG ruDbsg sm5s M Rs your Coat See so Sa hnd 1d to g2 T%nng wa5h goa 5 o seam an eegbes as or
 Lust trot continued the other f9r & about @ 4a5 @ minutes G and aI trot lar baci s mag again f
 S;a25 F s:s strong strong enough to choke s hnd a Mrd a & ef Tefy e og 9 back eshnsac esan m FsRarSH Ran so the i S 6sne gut sn F 59sng sat said da the g abo Ut @ 5o0n ge5 n you 6 h to hG Know keep
 semandsa Mr qS66s fSa said Lar kins with cunning well why & shouldn't Tarbnt zf 6ad sn fs ssa @F sed d3advf an 7au bs f6@ a f saa as PaH51 pothg @ have e % Nn he nd m pa the o8es on and be careful what eat, mind, else you undo all it is possible for to expectorate sarcastcay
 only two cups with your continued 7 sna h. smiled fainty he and accompanied his friend back Mrs: Gubbs that her husband training for her explicit instructions to his diet and departed unable persuade Gubbs share in his feelings, that Tarbus trainer was satisfied %itn less G vigorous rising, had his ideas what constituted cold both parties were well pleased
 The business-like nature of these proceedings was keenly appreciated by the inhabitants of the fishing again they rough and tumble affairs; and ever before any proper excitement c9qd pe Wiaeq P, betting varied from day day.
 Each man had his knot of supporters and enthusiasm of retiring disposition had to take his matutipal tub of the ladies baked by continuing to affair as a race, though Mrs Gubbs who got up one bordering upon stupefaction.
 An uneasy feeling was caused by the anxiety of the meeting No information afforded him. and as he had indignantly denied intention of giving the alarm the gent emen interested much exercised the
 The battle fixed for Saturday evening the two site which MT Larkns insisted had been made purposey hid it and the ground itself so soft and spongy that Iarns precsed that Tarbut performers expressed themselves satisfied though regardlessness in the of thanks for the for conversation for the trainers all the way
 The boats got in early Friday afternoon with who were feeling their arms and pttinr % % n 6aops evening Larkins oiciousy sent his man off for short sharp walk after on going to the quay found that Bullock had given his same instruc-
 Don't worrying of mi said I.arkins
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sities of the country to assist in the education and civilization of the Cuban patriots is a practical one, alike credit able to the head and heart of the old soldier, and likely to receive consider able hospitality among the higher in- stitutions of the country. AS has been stated, Boston University has fallen into line, the trustees stating that they would be pleased to take such action as would give them an opportunity to express friendly interest in the Gu ban people. At the regular fall meet ing of the trustees of Williams College, held Friday, the same question came before them, and it was voted to take care of and educate two young Cubans of General Wheeler's appointment if the conditions should be satisfactory to the committee on scholarships. It Is not entirely a new thing for CubanS to be educated in the United States. For some time Cubans of the educated class
 have enjoyed a more thorough equip ment than the so-called educated Span
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YaLE'S BAD DEBT AGENCY.

Collegians are furious because they say, an attempt is being made to sully the fair name of their Alma Mater.
 It is well known that a college man spends considerable money. A Yale man as a rule spends more rather than less.
 Yale men, even those who have large allowances, are prone to spend their incomes before the month is half over
 Then it is either borrow from friends or resort to the money-lenders.
 It is easy enough for Yale students to borrow money or to get goods on credit.
 Sometimes, often, it is said. it is not so easy for tradesmen and lenders to collect their due.
 To fill a long-felt want a Yale Bad Debt Collecting Agency has been estab- lished. This is to the disgust of the collegians, and, moreover, to their hor- TOT, it is to be managed exclusively by Yale men.
 Here is the scheme: To collect ac- tradesmen and ordinarily placed in a lawyers hands; to collect of Yale men and to be collected by Yale men.
 The collectors are poor students who hope by personal appeals to the debt ors to persuade them to settle their bills They are to receive a commis- sion on all they collect, and hope in this way to earn enough to pay their own way through college.
 This catchpenny plan has created a hubbub among the rich young spend thrifts of the college, and they are go- ing about breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the Yale collect ors who shall dare dun them.
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The Disrepuabe Fighters Came Into Sight In Tow of the Peacemaker
Copyright, 1898. by ". W. Jacobs.

z HE harbor was crowded with fishing boats and / Nfresh arrivals coming in every few minutes Until the reached they came scudding :. along with every appearance or haste put then their mainsails came tunbling down to the deck,
 and the boats with sufficient left on them moved easily over the still water and felt their way to erman were appraising the catch with wisdom beyond their years
 going so cheapy that it was enough to make them bite tails annoyance. Small flat fish, which slid away from their pile carefully looked after and coaxed back with the of seaboot, but whiting slid away unnoced until they vanished from mortal ken in the pockets of predatory urchns.
 ara In the h small mar market short Ted-faced man any with to heaP Gsing faEorite 6riar in lieu of hammer to pressed crude English Opinions dstasteful to an auc- % @ ] & % % the % % S tona R g Hathar h hgap the a6ns snf 8 & 9l gs 0f % n qn99 5R % that & sym Ban9a hbi him. and he voiced his wrath impetuously
 I'd know that mans luck anywhere"
 with severe glance at the hapess Gubbs, moved away
 RsFs y5s a s s e Bq eqp t GgbRs g Thing inquired t I've never seen q some Q, them things afore% turning upon him, and what you do don't do you
 ,Id be ashamed to bring home such queer looking
 They maynt be up to much. there's none on 'em gould care to change faces with you expect retorted Ra sy much @ Gsed one in bs sad whose ps "A skates handsome to you" said Gubbs following
 He jumped back suddenly the fist of the sensitive W1red wildly with his hands in the air in the effort to retain his balance heavily The CT three anxious syrnpathzers helped the fallen man to which in their opinion adapted offer resist Stand pp' said Gubbs, sternly, himself
 I'm a-standin' up said Tarbr,t breatbing hard
 and The two eo6atas ] approached each other steaithy at 9h+ eaeh other over these convenient barriers. can't hurt each other here A'i eA'i'eo F0'ce' they
 dozen kindly hands helped them there and finding c