Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1903 — Page 27

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SUNDAY. MAT? 10, 1903, I i 7

PAI?T THREE.

The Clerk at

BY

BEATRICE HERON-MAXWELL1

What name did you say?" The clerk la the little wooden box that served as counting-house to New End Factory, istooped down to the pigeon-hole through which he had been passing wages to thi "hands" and looked Inquiringly for a faca to match the voice that had Just spoken to him. A pair of beautiful, weary eyes met his, and brightened with a faint touch of Interest as their owner realized that Instead of the usual elderly, dry-as-dust paymaster a young man was presiding over the dispensement of the weekly salaries. "Revere Halllday.". she repeated more clearly, while a tinge of pink Invaded pale cheeky, and an Instant later a sovereign and rome shillings were on the circular fill, and she had taken them and passed on. The yard was emptying rapidly now, for the employes In the accountants office, of which she was one, were paid last, after all the workmen had taken their money and dispersed, so that only another girl or two short-hand typists like herself, and about thirty men-clerks remained still on the b!therslde of the main gate; and as Revere walked towards It one of these hurried after her, and lifting his cap remarked; "New chap In the box. How's that?" nodding: towards the little shed wedged into an angle' or the wall that was sponsor for the name, of "Pay Corner." Revare's face clouded. "I really don't know," she said, and qulck:ned her steps. Evidently this darkbrowrd, thin-lipped man both annoyed and Alarmed her. But Jonas Marne was not easily rebuffed. "Lopks above his work," he continued, Tieeplng pace with her. "A gentleman by the cut of his clothes and the look of him. I wonder what the governors have put him In for," -"It is really of no Interest to me." said Revere. "I cannot see how It matters to any of ua who pays, so long as we are paid. You must excuse me, Mr. Marne. I want to get home early, and this Is my way.' She 'turned abruptly down a side street and left Marne staring In discomfiture after her. He was at the head of his batch of foremen, and but for a black cross standing againit his name from time to time in the conduct sheet he would have been by now In on of the most responsible positions of the factory. . But his violent and overbearing nature led to many quarrels, and if there was a row ih the London road Marne was sure to be in- it and to take more than his share of thö fighting. So that though his employers and his mates in the factory alike feared him, as men of strong natures are feared, no one made friends with him or had a good word to say behind his back. . And since the day when an unguarded look -and speech from him had shown Revere that she was the object of his admiration and possibly of some deeper feeling, she had shunned and hated him, and would walk a mile out of hor way to reach New End rather than risk his companionship. She did not slacken her. steps until she was cure that he had not follewed her, and then 3he stopped to rest by a bit of fencedin waste ground, beyond which was the street of shabby houses where she lodged. Her thoughts followed her eyes to the 'smoky haze of real London; for here. In this by-way, it seemed to be neither town nor suburb, and she murmured: "I shall have to go. Every day he makes some excuse to waylay me. I am frighteiisd of him, and I don't know why." Sne was still pondering over the ex- - tr&ordinary Influence Jonas Marne had begun to exercise over her, when with a start she became aware that the footsteps of. -someone crossing the road had stopped close to her. "Without looking round she turned 'to hurry on, when a pleasant voice said: "I beg your pardon, am I right for Factory road?" The relief she felt flushed Into her face as she answered: "Yes; it Is the street fixing you." The clerk lifted his hat, and, recognizing the voice and face that had attracted him before, wondered what her expression meant. "I am afraid I startled you," he said, apologetically, "but I am new here and have not learnt my way about yet. All the streets seem exactly like each other. It's a monotonous place." "It is a monotonous life," Revere answered; "six days of factory and one of rest. week in and week out." She recognized him also, and wondered, as hö had about her, at the incongruity of his appearance with his position. Unconsciously, they were already criticising each other closely. Meeting him in the street by chance one woull have said that he was a man who, if he , did any work at all, worked for the . sake of having a profession and not to earn a living. The intellectual, well-bred face, and the tall,' well-clothed figure suggested the Hfe of what the factory hands called a "STvell." Yet he wasHhe new pay-clerk in s.; blacking factory on the outskirts of civilization! "You must be very tired of it," he said, taking in the listlessness of her attitude and the droop at the corner of her mouth. Th'Sy had both stopped, and she was again leaning over the fence and looking towards St. Paul's, the dome of which glow?d in the sunset. "But," he went on, "you could easily find something better, no doubt. Miss Halllday. Perhaps you have outside interests that keep you here?" She smiled a little. "I might go further and fare worse. They pay pne well and punctually at the factory. No, J have no Interests of any kind. I have been alone in the world for about a yeai ever since my sister died. We came here because it was the first work that turned up for me. I got it through an advertise ment as soon as I had finished my short hand course." "And you live by yourself?" , Tn Factory road." she answered". "It is the best placo about here for quiet lodg Ings." "So I was told. My number Is 26." "Yes? I fancy there is a nice landlady therii. I hope you will be comfortable." It suddenly occurred to her that though his ofScial position demanded a civil an swti to a civil question. It did not necessl täte the confidence she was involuntarljy Destowing on mm. 11. T I kl. 1 A I tm..l m night" And walked on. Sh? was looking after him when he turned and came back. "Xay I ask you something?" he said. "I am a stranger in the land and want to be sure of my bearings. Is it usual for com plaints about the wages to be made throjgh the pay clerk?" . "It is against the rules. All complaints must be addressed by letter to the heads of the firm." "I thought so. Do you know anything of a foreman called Jonas Marne V T2m color that flooded her face faded so

Pay Corner

quickly and left her so strangely pale that he apologized again. . "I beg you to forgive me," he said. "I am afraid I have touched on a subject that 13 unpleasant to you." "It is not that." she said, hurriedly. "Mr. Marne Is nothing to me not even a friend. Until lately I had never spoken to him. Indeed, I have no wish to speak to him now, for he he 'frightens me. He is a dangerous man, I am told, and I I have an instinctive dislike for him.: She was quite unaware of the appeal that her stammering agitation made to him, or that he was registering a mental resolve to frustrate any designs of Mr. Jonas Marne towards her. "I was not prepossessed in his favor," he said, quietly, "and I shall report him for breaking the rules." She looked more troubled. "I would not do that," she urged. "He boasts that he has never owed any man a grudge without paying it in full. Be careful of him, please. He will know that you reported him when he gets a reprimand." "He will know more than that presently. Miss Halllday, since chance has Introduced us and we are fellow-workers, may I venture to count myself as an acquaintance of youra a friend, I hope, later. May I tell you my name?" "I should like to know it," she answered, simply. "I am Godfrey Brennan. May I call and see you to-morrow?" She hesitated. "My little sitting-room is very humble," she said, "ad my landlady is very severe. I think it would bo better not." "I am very lonely here," he pleaded. "Might we not even go for a walk together?" She shook her head, laughing. "It is very kind of you, but " Some people were coming down the street towards them. Revere looked at her watch. "But I must be going home now," she concluded, "or Mrs. Dale will believe I am' out to tea. Good-bye, Mr. Brenann." "Good-bye." They shook hands this time, and she crossed the road so that they walked apart until ho reached No. 26, and went In. And Jonas Marne, loitering in the street a little further on, waiting for an opportunity of speaking to Revere again, looked suspiciously at both, and, muttering some thing to himself, turned on hl3 heel and went away. Had he known that Godfrey Brennan was watching him through the Venetian blinds the antipathy that he already felt for the new clerk would have deepened. As it was, although Marne failed in his attempts to see Revere for a whole week, he did not definitely connect this fact with Brennan until one evening after wörk hours he met them walking .together by the little canal that belonged' to the factory. The sudden flash of keen and jealous sus picion, followed by an evil look of rage at Godfrey, told Revere that this chance encounter would mean mischief if Marne's reputation for paying off scores was a reliable one. She had drifted so easily and gradually Into friendship with Godfrey, and it had begun to seem so natural that they should meet at the end of each day's work and saunter homewards together, that she had almost forgotten her apprehension about Marne until this meeting. "Mr. Brennan," she said quickly, when Jonas was out of hearing, "have you had any more difficulty with Mr. Marne? Did you report him?" "I did. He will learn the result next pay day." "He is not going to be dismissed?" She clasped her hands In alarm. "I thought," answered Brennan, gravely, "that he was not a friend of yours that you disliked him. In fact. Why should his dismissal distress you?" "Because he will revenge himself on you; ho will believe It to be your doing. Did you see how he looked at you Just now?" "He is an insolent fellow. Don't let us waste our time talking about him." She laid her hand persuasively on his arm. "Don't make light of it," she said, earn estly; "from the moment that he is dls charged you will be in danger. Will you promise to be careful, to give him no chance of attacking you?" Godfrey took the pleading hand in his, "Does it matter to you?" he asked. She drew away from him, and was silent until he repeated his question. "I should be sorry" she said, "if any friend of mine " She broke off in surprise, for they be lieved themselves alone on the canal path. and, at this moment, a man whom neither of them had perceived brushed past them so clumsily that he Jerked the stick out of Godfrey's hand. "Sorry!" he said, briefly, picking up the stick and handing it to Godfrey. "With a lift of his hat, he walked on, crossed one of the small bridges, and disappeared among the buildings on the other side. "Where did he spring from?" said Godfrey. "Rather queer hla coming upon us like that. There was something familiar about him to me, too. Where can I have seen him before?" Revere looked troubled. "He reminded me of someone, but I do not really know him. He must have been in the shed we have Just passed." The incident, slight as it was, had broken the thread of their conversation, and they did not revert to It. A vague disquiet had taken possession of

THERE ARE OTHERS. Mrs. Wise (reading) I see by this that the Emperor of Japan has ten men to carry his umbrella. ' Mr. Wise That's nothing. I guess twenty men have carried mine.

Godfrey, and his mind was occupied with a trivial query to which he could not find the answer. "Where had he seen the stranger of the canal walk before? Again

and again, during the twenty-four hours that followed, he found himself pondering on this lapse of memory, unimportant as it seemed; and the question of Jonas Marne's dismissal did not once -occur to him until the moment for it arrived. It was a custom of which no one knew the origin that when a factory man was discharged, he separated from the rest, and, instead of going out by the main exit, passed through a turnstile at the side, called in irony "Amen Gate." There was a suppressed murmur amongst the crowd in the yard when Jonas Marne, with his week's wages and discharge paper in his hand, broke away from the stream and made for the turnstile, and looks of in quiry and dismay were exchanged by many of the men. "He'll raise Cain for that," remarked one of them, and a significant silence followed. Nevertheless, there was no result either that night or during the next week, and people began to believe that Marne had resigned his post willingly and left the neighborhood to better himself. But Revere, with a sinking at her heart that no reasoning could quell, waited, hour after hour, for something that she felt was coming; and deliberately, avoided Godfrey, lest Marne should meet them together. But for this, she would have learnt two facts that remained unknown to her till afterward; first, that Godfrey was being shadowed." and next, that this shadow was not Jonas Marne. On Saturday, at noon, after the surveyor had gone through the factory, an order was suddenly circulated that everyone should assemble at 2, Instead of at 4, at pay corner, whera their wages would be given to them and freedom to leave olt work. A gratuitous holiday was such a rare event that it was received with amazement, and there were many surmises as to its possible cause. Revere, wondering and still troubled, decided to ask Mr. Brennan the reason for it when she took her salary, and as she stood at the little pigeon hole she said softly; "What does It mean, Mr. Brennan?" There was no answer except that the money was impatiently pushed a little nearer to her, and as she took it she saw dimly through the ground-glass window that the ray clerk had stepped back, with the evident intention of making no reply. Bewildered and hurt, her first Impulse was to hurry homeward, but the sense of impending danger to hlra was so insistent that she put away her pride, and, returning to the yard, skirted round to a path at the back of the shed, down which he must pass on his way to the head accountant's office, which it was hl3 duty to close before leaving. , The clang of the main gate had already assured her that the factory was empty, and she waited, patiently at first and later with growing alarm, for Godfrey to come. At last she could bear it no longer. It was against the rules to be In the factory yard' after working hours, but she decided to risk being seen by the caretaker, and, running quickly across to the pay shed, she tapped at the door. There was no sound in reply and she turned the handle. The door yielded to her touch and opened. Across the floor, lying on his face, where he must have fallen when some one from behind struck at him, lay the pay clerk, his head battered beyond all recognition. In his outstretched hands he still clutched two canvas bags, and from the open mouth of one some sovereigns had rolled and scattered themselves around him. A wave of overwhelming horror swept over Revere, and, with a passonate cry of his name, she recoiled and sank fainting on the floor. . A moment later, one who was running in hot haste and heard the desperate call "Godfrey! Godfrey!" reached the shed, and lifting her, carried her outside and held her in his arms while her senses were slowly coming back to her. As memory revived with them, she shuddered and closed her eyes, the deadly falntness sweeping over her again. "Revere," whispered a tender voice, while lips brushed her cheek softly, "you called me and I am here. Be brave, darling, for my sake. I must go and see to that poor fellow." And, opening her eyes, she understood that a miracle had happened, for it was Godfrey Who held her to his heart. The extraordinary circumstances of the New End Factory murder were a ninedays wonder. It appeared that the large sum paid out in weekly wages had attracted the attention of a noted area-cracksman, known as "Toff Jim;" and his plans for obtaining it were so cleverly made that they would have succeeded but for one small item he had not taken into account the dismissal of Jonas' Marne. The' fact that the new pay clerk, Godfrey Brennan, bore a strong resemblance to "Toff Jim" seemed, to that gentleman, a personal favor on the part of 'Providence that should not be wasted; and, having studied his "double" until every detail of clothing and general arJpearance was cor rectly reproduced, he had only two difficulties to overcome obtaining posession of the bags of money, and getting the pay clerk out of the way. Skeleton keys, of Ingenious make, smoothed the first obstacle, and a tele gram, purporting to come from the head of the firm, to Brennan, imperatively sum moning him to the city at 2 o'clock, re moved the other. Another telegram to the surveyor arranged the substitution of an earlier hour for pay ing the wages, and "Toff Jim," looking, td a casual observer, exactly like Godfrey

Brennan, reached Pay Corner unhindered with his booty and the pay sheet, on which each name and the sum due to it appeared.

The base coin which he handed through he pigeon hole had been so carefully pre pared that it roused no suspicion, and probably the only hint of possible discovery was Revere's question: "What does It all mean, Mr. Brennan?" The Instant that the main gate closed "Tcff Jim" was prepared to make his es cape to the canal path, where a confederate awaited him, and it was as he stopped to pick up the two bags that Jonas Marne, hidden all the time at the back of the shed, opened the door and dealt the first fatal blow, followed up by others that were Intended for disfigurement. "I meant to do for him and spoil his looks, too," he said, savagely, when he was caught and confessed himself guilty. "Who was he, to-come and steal the only girl I ever wanted? I swore that if I couldn't have her he shouldn't. He put a spoke in his own wheel as well as mine when he got me dismissed." But the mitigation of his sentence to penal servitude for life because he had murdered the wrong man doubled his punishment in reality, and his insensate rage at -the blunder he had made and the thought that God frey and Revere would be happy during the long years while he was working out his sentence proved too much for him, and killed him in the first week of it, ( It was, strangely enough, at the very hour of his death that they signed and sealed their bond of happiness. "I have a confession to make to you," Brennan said, as they walked homo together in the dusk. "To-morrow is my last day as pay clerk." "You are going to leave New End?" she asked in dismay. "No. I am going up a step that la all. There is a tradition in the factory that every member of the firm must have served his apprenticeship by doing subordinate work In it before ho can be a partner. His qualifications are money to invest and business capacity, which must be demonstrated in a practical .way. So I agreed to take the post of pay clerk for a while and to live the life of a man who holds it in the ordinary way. My time Is up to-morrow, when I- serve at Pay Corner for the last time; and one of my concluding duties will be to ask Miss Revere Halllday for her resignation. The firm no longer requires her services." She looked at him, startled and tremu lous, but his eyes reassured her. " "We have another post to offer her," he said, putting his arms round her. "We want her to be the Junior partner's .wife." OUT OF THE ORDINARY. In Ireland there are 211,000 widows, as compared with SS.OOO widowers. A Venezuelan railway from Caracas to Valencia, has eighty-six tunnels in liftyflve miles. The idea of curing rheumatism in horses by the means of brine baths is receiving the support of veterinary surgeons. Pennsylvania has a larger number of per sons of negro descent in its population than any other of the Northern States. Australia and New Zealand have 90.500,000 sheep, which is Just one and a half times as many as the whole of Vac united states possesses. The last census gave the value of poultry raised in the United States during the year 1899 as $136,891,877; of eggs produced in the same year, 144,2S6,15S. ; The number of employes in the New York municipal service has reached 45,299, of whom 12.000 are teachers and 10,000 members of the police and fire departments. The internal commerce of the United States last year has been estimated by the government statistician, at 520,000.000,000. Fifty years ago it was only $2,000,000,000. Should present Indications hold good It is said that the wheat crop of 1903 in this country may break all records. It is esti mated that Kansas alone will harvest 100,000,000 bushels, Oklahoma 40,000,000 and Ne braska 60.000,000. The use of bicycles by the Chinese Is in creasing notably, and the possibilities of the market are limited only by the abilities of the Chinaman to purchase. On account of their manner of dress they generally prefer wheels designed for ladies.. An unexploded four-inch rifle shell, sup posed to be a civil war relic, was drawn up through the suction pump of a dredger off the coast of Florida the other day. It will be presented to the Jacksonville Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The Russian minister of war has Just dis covered that only one man In a thousand in the Russian army possesses a handkerchief. He has invited tenders for 500,000 handkerchiefs, which will be decorated with Rus sian flags and other patriotic devices. Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, has been telling an audience that crime in the United States has Increased enormously since ISjO. In that year there was one criminal in every 3,442 of population. In 1S90, forty years later. the proportion had increased to one in every 715. The people of the "United States now consume eight times as much sugar per capita as they did in the first quarter of the last century, four times as much as the average per capita during the decade ending with 1830, and twice as much as they did in any year prior to 1S70. A strange punishment is endured by Armenian maidens when they have attained their seventeenth year and are not engaged to be married. They are forced to fast three days; then for twenty-four hours their food is salt fish, and they are not permitted to quench their thirst. The census of 1901 rpveals the sad fact that more than half the total population of Ireland belongs to the nonproductive class. They are actually more numerous than the professional, commercial, Industrial, agricultural and domestic classes together. This fact is the root of Ireland's poverty. There is an "Old Maids' Insurance Company" in Denmark. Each member pays a definite yearly sum to Insure her against the dangers of celibacy. In the event of her marriage before attaining to her fortieth birthday she is pledged by the statutes to forfeit her claim to the pension, which begins to be due at the age of forty. The Gaeilc version of Knox's Liturgy, which was sold in London for 600, belonged to the Duke of Argyll. It was printed in Edinburgh by Robert Leprevik. April. 1367, duodecimo, and appears to be the copy referred to by Lowndes as being "in the possession of the Duke of Argyll." It wants the signature, but is otherwise perfect. The largest pair of shoes ever manufactured for actual wear have Just been for warded to their destination by a firm of shoemakers at Rockland, Mass.. The size is labeled "17." and they are nearly sixteen inches long. Four common shoe boxes were required for packing them two for each shoe. The buyer is Harvey Murray, a negro, working in a sawmill at Tirrell, Ark. The Eskimos possessed the most remark able place of worship in the world. It was a sealskin church. Forty sealskins were stretched over a light framework, and in this tent, IS feet by 12 foot, services were held every Sunday. But the ehurch came to an untimely end. One hard winter the Eskl mos does, beinjr half famished, dined on the sealskins, and only the frame was left. The Eskimos have now erected a dog-proof tab ernacle. During the past five years the average consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United Kingdom was 33 gallons per head or the population; in trance, 32; In Germany, 30; in America, 11. and in Canada. 7. The consumption In the United Kingdom last year was 36 gallons, while the money spent would clear off the national debt in sixteen years, besides allowing a pension of 5 shill ings per week to every person over sixty years of age. It is seldom that anything but mulberry leaves are employed to feod silkworms In France. Very rarely the worms hatch be fore the mulberry leaves are out. and on such occasions they are fed young ros leaves for a few days. About 99,000 acres of land in France are planted In mulberries; 40.810 pounds of leaves are necessary to produce 2.2 pounds of cocoons. The production of fresh cocoons, from one ounce of eggs in France varies from 43 to 147 pounds. Renntlful Austrian Officers. Lillian Bell, in Booklovers' Magazine. At Ischl we saw more of the high Vlen nese society than we could have seen at any other time or place, for it was all con centrated there because of the presence of the Emperor Franz Josef. e were there when he was, but we dldn t know It. In fact, royalty soon became no novelty. It was no uncommon sight to see a scarlet carpet enrolled from our train to some tiny station, and as plain a woman as you ever

saw, with feet which could have trod com

fortably over cabbage fields, descend and walk the length of it. attended by such masterpieces of masculine beauty -in the shape of attending officers that you, for a moment, thought with scorn of your bank clerk at home. I am free to state that if I were In an art class and the question were put, "Mention the most beautiful object in nature," I should be obliged to say "An Austrian officer." HISTORIC MEN 0 WAR. . Famous American Shins to Supply Names for New Vessels. Kansas City Star. Mr. Moody, the secretary of the navy, will probably adopt a recommendation of Real Admiral Bowles vthat the two training ships and the training brig authorized by the last Congress be called re spectively the Hornet, the Peacock and the Boxer. The three names were made famous in the war of 1S12, the Peacock hav ing been a British sloop of war that was sunk in the fight by the Hornet, com manded by Capt. James Lawrence. The suggestion was part of a general plan advocated by Admiral Bowles and other naval officers that the historic 'names of the ships in the second war with Great Britain be revived and preserved in the calendar of the new naval force. There is much to commend the plan. though it would seem that It should be extended to include those vessels which won distinction in the war of the Revolution. The efficiency of the navy, even more than of the land forces, is secured by the exaltation of glorious traditions. The most admirable esprit de corps among- a ship's men is that Inspired by love and pride in the vessel. It is prob able that the same crew on the Oregon could do more effective fighting than on another battleship having no acquired greatness to emulate or maintain. It is also a belief in the navy that the traditionary spirit would be protected in ships bearing the names of foreign prizes. It would be peculiarly appropriate to name one of the new training ships "Peacock," because Captain Lawrence, who sunk her off the coast of South America on Feb. 24, 1813, was the same heroic officer who was mortally wounded on June 1 of that year when the Chesapeake was captured- by the Shannon. The practice vessel for the midshipmen of the navy now is called the Chesapeake, and though that has caused some dissatisfaction in the navy for seem ing to violate the theory already referred to, yet it commemorates the dying words of Lawrence, "Don't give up" the ship." That injunction became the -watchword of the "Jackles" for the remainder of the war. as "Remember the Maine" served in the recent fight with Spain. Al xnis lime wnen ine upummuig v. navv has placed the United States again among the sea powers of the world, it is Interesting to recall a few or tne snips ana the incidents that have given glory and prestige to the American navy in the past. Nearly every school boy if asked to tell of famous American sea fights and fighters could give these instances: The victory of John Paul Jones in the Bon Homme Richard over the Serapis, Sept. 23, 1779, in the revolutionary war; Decatur's burning of the Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli, in 1S04; the Constitution ("Old Ironsldes's") capture of the Guerriere, when Captain Hull commanded, on Aug. 19, 1J1-', ana tne defeat of the Java by the same great ship on Dec 29, 1812, when Commander Bainbridge won the victory; Decatur s nruiiant success in the frigate United States against the Macedonian and the victorious fight of the Wasp, in the same month. October, 1812, when Capt. Jacob Jones took the Frolic; Perry a victory on Lake trie on Sept. 10. 1S13. which gave occasion for his famous message, "We have met the enemy and they aro ours;" Macdonough's destruction of the English fleet in Lake Champlaln in September, 1S14, when his fleet, the Sara toga, the Eagle, the Ticonderoga, tne mDie and ten little row galleys turned back the British invasion from Canada and practically ended the war all these, except the first, of the war of 1812; the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac which marked the beginning of modern naval warfareon March 8, 1S62; Farragut and his great ship Hartford at New Orleans, Vicksburg and Mobile bay, and the sinking of the Alabama by the Kearsarge under Capt. Wlnslow oft the harbor of the -French city of Cherbourg on June 19, 1S64. Of course there could be told the tremendous achievements of the war with Spain, but the vessels which gained distinction then are still in commission. Of the old historic names that have been Riven in the list of most famous exploits the Kearsarge is the only one that has been revivea ior a nrst-ciass ship. But there are many other names that ought not to be left wholly to the chronicles of a former time or reserved only to inferior vessels. Before the close of 1775 Congress had authorized the formation of the first American war fleet. It comprised thirteen, vessels. They were named Washington, Raleigh, Hancock, Randolph, Warren, Virginia, Trumbull, Effingham, Congress, Providence, Boston, Delaware and Montgomery. "Almost every one of them," says the Rev. Edward Everett Hale in his "Naval History of the Revolution." contained in thoV'Narratlve and Critical History of America," "before the war was over had been captured or burned to avoid capture. But the names of the little fleet will always be of interest to Americans, and some of those names have always been preserved on the calendar of the navy." That record seems to be a mournful one; but that the exploits of the patriots on the sea in those and other vessels were worthy of commemoration is shown in Dr. Hale's statement that 342 British sail were captured or destroyed in the eight years of warfare. Even a cursory and incomplete mention of famous American battleships could not be concluded without reference to three boats other than the Bon Homme Richard and the Alliance which are associated with the name of John Paul Jones. They were the Alfred, ithe Providence and the Ranger. Lieut. G". F. Emmons, later Admiral Emmons, In his statistical history of the navy stated that the colonial flag was raised for the first time on the sea by Jones in the Alfred In 1775. That statement is the generally accepted one, though Dr. Hale makes the claim for the Ranger, which was not floated until, 1777. . . The Animals. I think I could turn and lire with the animals, they are bo placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and Ions. They do not sweat and whine about" their condition. They do not lie awake In the dark and reep for their in3. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one Is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman.

STOPPED FOR MEALS. . She Our next door neighbors have a new organ. He How many stops has It? I She About two a day.

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LewistGn, COS. IX SrniXGTI3IE. &. 'IE1 P. UZZLER. 636 ANAGRAM. My Ma, she b'leves In IT and rights. An' talks about 'em days and nights. An rites about 'em too. Ma's talented, and 'tends the club. Rut she Just hates to cook and scrub, Like lgnernt. persons do. "When Pa comes in to dinner late. An finds Ma ruin' on her slate, Babe squallin on the floor. An victuals burnt, he shakes Ms head. An' wishes she want so talented, - An' done her housework more. "Talk 'bout yer rites," pays Ta, "I snura! Now where is IT if not 'round hum? Jest tell me If you ken, (My! but Ma's talented!) "Ah, yes! This makes IT very plain." she says, An' then MA SHOWS 'EH PEN. SPICA. ' G3T. CHARADE. White blossoms on the pear trees. And pink on the peaches; "When ONE robes the pear trees White blooms on the pear trees ' Like TWOS whelm the fair trees. Where sweet TOTAL, reaches White blooms on the pear trees, And pink on the peaches. Below in the river A TOTAL is rushing: The boats ONE and quiver Below in the rirer; And fishermen shiver. Who TWO in from Flushing, Below In the river A TOTAL is rushing. -M. C. S. HOJIOXYSIXS. (Fill the blanks with the sound of the names of living creatures.) The teacher brought her mother and her mother's sister to visit the school. The was a little woman, with black and a waist. She had a ring on her finger. The children themselves very well, and the mark correctly, all In a straight for they that otherwise they be kept in after school. Even the two little boys in the corner, who usually kept up a sort of warfare among themselves, were quiet for once, showing they could good when they tried, though when school was out they would from it as fast as their legs could carry them. The room was plain and , but clean, and all Joined in the singing exercise, mi, fa, etc. DOROTHEA. B39. TRANSPOSITION. A ballroom grand In Bohemia land Is lighted bright as day; A noble tall leads there the ball , With a princess young and gay. The music starts, fast beat their hearts As to its notes they sway. Then hand in hand in the PRIMAL grand They graceful glide away. The dance is o'er, the ballroom floor No longer feels their tread. Thd banquet, hall has claimed them all. The wine they quoff runs red. For lovers bold, like knights of old. Still toast their ladles fair; And a hundred Hps from the FINAL sips The health of the fairest there. JESS A. MINE. INDIANA FORESTS. Hon. Will Cnmbnck Telle What They Once Were and What They May De. John P. Brown, In Arboriculture. Away back in the 50's, during a heated political campaign in which the Whigs and Democrats battled for control of the national government, the editor of Arboriculture, then a boy of fifteen, hard the first political stump speech of his life, and today the memories of that day are fresh in his memory. The Hon. Will Cumback waa the speaker during his candidacy for Congress. Governor Cumback, is well qualified to compare the dense forests of that early day with the few remaining trees of this time. His words of advice are golden, and we hope they may be heeded by the farmers of Indiana. My Dear Brown It has been my good fortune to have traveled in nearly all the States and Territories of this country. I have been a close observer of the conditions in every place I have visited, and have concluded, ail things considered, that Indiana, my native State, is the best of them all. In admiring the beauty of the scenery in our State we have also the satisfying consciousness of the great fertility of the soil and her other inexhaustible natural resources. I wrote an article some two years ago which went the rounds of the press on Thi Woodlands of Indiana," and I propose herein to repeat substantially what I then said, and if you think proper to do so you may publish this letter for the consideration and action of your readers of Arboriculture. . The greater part of this State was once a dense forest. There was only a small portion of prairie land. There is still on the border of almost each farm which was originally In the woods a skirt of timber, which adds a charm to the scenery that the monotonous prairie land does not possess. Our public"1 highways and our railroads often pass through and alongside of thee woods, and are seen by the traveling public as they go through this great central State. It Is a matter of regret that our farmers, like those of other timber States, give little -or no attention to their woodlands. They pay their taxes year by year on this part of their land, and because of their neglect get nothing out of it. As a consequence the briars and bushes grow up unmolested In

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510. THRMIXAL ADDITION. PRIME bIo?oms of the mountain, or for est glade and dell, I cannot kt you cfl remain in the homes you grace so Vfell. I I rob the rocky ijenches of the noddlns columbines, i And its gold ami! scarlet chalices with feathery fern iitwlne: These fair nraleasj blushing with wealth, of rosy bloom, Shall from their iwaying censers shake perfume through my room. I steal the purple cfowfoot nodding In glad assent. Revealing long-spurred violets beneath its leafy tent. This bishop's cap pilfer from Its bed of starry moss; j Its slender raceme J hall for me its TOTAL mitres toss. I Here 'neath a cluntp of birches giving ma Riad surprise. A pair of lady's slippers greet my blossomhunting a yes. So NEXT I make confession and scruple not to tell j t Hoe I plunder valtj and mountain and the cool and mossr dell. A. L. S. 311. IXL GAIIDCN. t i George likes historical and legendary plants. He has th flower that ppranpr up where Apollo kllltkl his follower with A quoit (1). and the jine that grew from the youth who died from, admiration of his own beauty. (2.) There lire the flower of Yorlc (3) and Lancaster (), of IJourbon (3), Ilonaparte (6 and ilohejizoliern (7.) Here is the llower with which girls tell their fortunes) (S), and that by wljich fortunes were made and lost during a sjrange mania In Holland (9.) In a small po'id rioats the illy whose fruit brings forgetlulness of care (10), and on the bank is thr plant used by St. Patrick to help his fiearers understand the trinity (11.) From: the vegetable garden had crept in the pjant a Welshman weara on St. David's daj (12), and near by was a fine specimen of; that which once saved the Scottish army j'rora surprise (13.) "Ifa handsome, but 1 clin't have it here," saidGeorge, and frrappihg It boldly he uprooted the savage beaut'. "Nemo mo lmpune lacessitl" he muttered at least I hope it was nothing wofse than that as he wrapped hhi hand in his handkerchief, which he would h&vo been wiser to do before the attack. M. C 8. H ? r 42D EjCA PITATIOX Hero was a Grecian rrlestess; That the classic ale at least is, Serving well, as icas her duty; Venus, Queen of?Love and Reauty; TWO, a youth of: "famed Abydos;" We are quoting, don't deride us. TWO and Hero ret one summer; Hero loved the bjravc newcomer; TWO, of course, .returned the passion In the ancient Grecian fashion. Hero's duties intsrvening. Parents, too, wit$ rare o'erwecnlng, He, to see his lonely lady. Swam through T'ater deep and shady; She to guide his strokes that shifted. Held a lighted torch uplifted, . Rut, to shorten .long story," TWO, In yocthfuH pride tnd glory. Met his death while swimming over. Hero, frantic, called her lover, "ONE! ONE!" Useless was her crying! She, too, sought Ithe water, dying. Faithful still, in -life's last hour Hero named their favorite flower. I -J TRANZA. ANSWERS. 519. A turn In stacks. 630. Flower, lowr. - , 521. Cap-rice. ; 521 Alabama, Transvaal, Hamadan, Ca naan, Cassadaga, Saranac, Atlanta, Sa vannah, Mattawafina, , Caracas, Panama Bahama, Havana,! Canada, Walla Walla, Eanta Barbara, Arkansas. t - 623. Words-wort. 624. Andrew Carhegie, the Iron-master. E23. Din, bin, tin! gin. fin, dun. bun, tun, fun.- i 526. Swain, wain the timber, and htten logs and broken) - um us ana iauen trees, wnen ail taken to gether, make a ve,T unsightly appearance The decayed ots and limbs could be burned, the underjfrowth and stunted Urn bcr removed, and the lower and under hanging limbs of the standing trees cut off, and the sunlight be letj in to remove the dampness and thus brighten and make cheerful the gloom and drejtd solitude of the forest. A green carpet of tbluegrass could tsJte the place of the dead cead decaying leaves. The cattle in the shade icould grow fat and flourish on the rich grkssea of the woods, an3 the farmer be dourJy repaid for all the costa of the improvement of the woodlands. Thie unsightly and unwnolesome part of his possessions would beojme a beautiful park, and impress the beholdtr that the man who held the deed and was (he resident on the premises was not a lary slovin, but an enterprising and Industrious citizen, with an eye to the beautiful ae well as the useful. And then, again not only all this wou!4 be accomplished bit the laboring man who had done the worl, in the woods and beautified the same wc'ald bless the owner who gave him the charhe to earn wages for the support of his wift and children. It is bv$ true charity to glvh the laboring man worlx and good wages rakher than breaking down his self-respect b giving tolm money he does not earn. If all the timbej-lands of our State, especially those ont our public highways, were thus made beautiful parks as they easily could be, I now nothing that would so convince the. thousands and millions of people of other S ates passing year after year through our State of the good taste and thrift of our people. It would be a standing and effective Invitation to the best Eeople of other States to come and make ndlana their hony. It would add greatly to-the value as vjell de to the beauty of our land. It is sjch an easy and profitable thing to do. liiere Is a sanitary as well as an esthetic ai d financial demand for this improvements It is in every sense practical farming. Let the farmers institute and the pre?s agitate the question. The movement onJe started in rwU earnest would soon go t a flnlh. Those wh refuse to participate would be under tna ban of his neighbor and would self out to some who would. ! It required the strength and courage of two generations td conquer the forests and remove the stumps, and put in the tile drains and erect tail the buildings of the farm and procure all the Improved machinery for succelsful farming. All tht has been accomplished. The rails tlat with sturdy blow! were made out of tha oaks and the poplitrs fifty years ago, fro a which the old worfn fence with its ugliness inclosed the fields,! are passing out of sight. The beautiful gren hedg-e or the graceful wire inclosure hae taken the place and surround the field now free from stumps and bushes and hw&mpi. The generation before us we maj- have had the time or the money to clejfr out the woods. There is but little excus now. Indiana has bcem han three quarters of a is are generally paid for ; well improved. It Is a State for more century. The fan and are otherwi.

better for a farme- to improve to the blähest degree the Ianil he has than to be constantly Investing pis surplus in the land adjoining. The qi'allty of what he possesses will give a moie desirable reputation as a farmer than thj quantity. Then let the wood? be beautifljl and made useful, and our State -will attract the attention and the commendation of all who have a lust appreciation of wiat is meant by civilized life- i Costly Lajtse of Memory. Washington Letteilln Philadelphia Press. Senator Jo niar.tburn. of Kentucky, got one of the youngel members of the House Into trouble. The botanical garden i presided over by a Kxrtchroan named Smith, who is a great almirer of Kobert Burns, lie has the roost Rotable Lturntlana In the country. The younyr congrtssman wanted to get some flowers fom the botanical garden and asked Benatof lilackburn how to approach Mr. Hmtth. j lie was advised to memorize some of BoMjy Durns's poems, call ca Mr. Smith, praisej the Burnsl&na and get off the poetry. i He did it. After spending half an hour with the Scotchman and quoting some of the poetry the yojmg congressman leaned back in his chair,! and. r&zlng r&ptttrously at a picture of Burns on the wall, said: "Ah, Burns, Jimmy Burns." The Scotchman sbranf to his feet, his fees flushed with enge, aal thumped the tabls wllh his fisL ' " 'Jimmy' Burns! Indeed!" he cried. 'Tea might at well s4y Cholty XUpoteon C7 BlLby Washlcrtil Out of xajr tlzZVlie didn't gtt thij Cowers. .