Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1893 — Page 10

10 THE INDIANA' STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST U, ibtf, TWElAE JfAGL,

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m A Novel: By Dr. CHAPTER XVII. J Koronken rtnby. ' TJpon re-entering the room with an fcir of reserved dignity, if not actual 'coolness. Sparkle resolved to make the wife of Carl Brandon welcome, and in no way hold her responsible for the ) crimes of her husbnnd. Upon seeing no one present but her patient and the diminutive bit of humanity tht lay pound asleep unconscious of Its ill-fated existence, and the misery its presence In this world would bring to others, it teemed a little idealism of all that was . Jnnocent. good and pure, which truly It !was, and yet its very existence was an j"outgrowth from all that was dishonorable, false and vicious. ' As the purest white lily springs from jlhe slimy mud at the bottom of the stagnant pool, so this little being had .come into the world like a ray of sunshine from the darkest depths of parjcntal depravity. Its only appeal to hufTnanity was for mercy and patience, and Lthese its mother had denied. "Where would It find them if not in mother? f Lookin steadily, first at Carl Brantfion then at the baby, then at the vaifant. lonesome room. Sparkle Brooke fctood speechless and motionless for ccme moments. Finally gaining possession of herself again, for she was . truly bewildered, she ventured to speak. "And so, Mr. Brandon," she kindly aid "your wife has come, and a beautiful woman indeed she i3, with whom any honorable man ought to be happy end remain at home in peace, rather fthan use all the wiles known to the 'dishonest and cunning of our kind, to Accomplish the ruin and bring misery lipon Innocent, simple-minded girls who kue so unfortunate as to really want to fetter the condition of the depraved." These cutting and forcible words were Jnore than Carl Brandon expected, or Avas prepared to mtet. from the childlike creature that had aone so much for fclin. The sting of a wrong sharpens resentment and gives the tongue an edge It otherwise never finds. To be accused pf what we are really guilty of gives conscience a force that humiliates the most stubborn heart. Carl was in a meditative rruxxl for some seconds before he could sum up courage to answer the kind, little accuser, and though S-t a late hour in life to commence, he resolved to try the use of truth, mostly Irom the fact that nothing else would llo half so well. Looking at the face of the girl, now marked with both pity and fcecrn. said: "Sparkle, I have no wife." The jailor of her face deepened into carlet. With disdain, she replied: "Oh. its just another creature you have murdered, and yet unkindly permitted to live, and who has cast out upon the world a pour, little waif to fleep on thorns, to make a little bf-d for itself out of the thistles of a mother's shame, and sip the gali of a father's curses." "Xo, dear girl. I have nut murdered her; jhe has murdered me." "And rertlly aiv you so vile that even a betrayed girl forsakes you?" ".Not that either, Sparkle. I nm just FO simple that a cunning. d"signinq, vicious v.-omin black-mailed rne out of my money and leave me with this helpless, little charge. This may seem very strantre to you. a country girl, but it is no uncommon thing in the great cities. where a man who has wealth, is always a target for thieves and harlots. But Sparkle, what is distressing me most is, what shall I do with this poor little thing. You see he is so little, so young and so helpless, is but a month old." Nature has kindly planted in the breast of womankind a d-ep, motherly feeling that she may fold infantile helplessness to her breast and give it peaceful slumbers. Sparkle had more of this than falls to the lot of most women. As the absolute helpless condition and perfect surrender of the baby throws itself so strongly upon the sympathy and pity of the n-holler. silencing every criticism, disarming every attack, it always gains a victory and find3 a. corner In some kind heart. This the baby was doing in its peaceful, unennFcious slumber. Its father. In Ms crippled condition, almost as helpless as the Infant, occupied a similar position. t;oJng near the bed, lxking sympathetically and pleadingly at the baby, talking to herself in a low voice, Sparkle caid: "Poor, little, helpless thing! And so I am to be your mother! I am to be sponsor for your proper rearing. This Is a duty I cannot shirk. Surely not. You little, weak angel. You are so pretty; jou are not responsible for the sins of your parents. As I abhor the barbarous Idea that we are all sinners because our mythical parents, Adam and Eve, are said to have transgressed, so my conscience will not let me believe you should be blamed or held in disrepute because you were born to unnatural parents, under a cloud. For me to refuse to help you and take care of you, would make me as wicked as they, with a less excuse for being so. After ail." continued the girl, talking In a meditative tone, "humanity is only a Fea always agitated by storms. No one knows what little shrimp will be thrown upon the shore next. Just this morning, when walking In the garden, I found a nest of young robins that the wind had blown down, and the rain had drenched and almost drowned. I replaced the nest as best I could. Now I find a. little lark here, blown out of the nest by another storm, and I truly say, nature loves nothing, nature is a storm Jhat is continuously destroying her children." The goodness of the girl's heart, and her logical way of looking at the situation, was a great comfort to Carl Brandon. Though he had learned to expect nothing but goodness from Sparkle Urooke, he had hardly prepared for this. It found a most responsive chord In his beart, as her words had often found before, and he began to look at her as scarcely human, she seemed so much more than human. To be bo ready to Jay aside the remembrance of all his deceit, all of his cunning, all in him that should not be. and undertake a most arduous task In the name of duty, was more than he expected. Had Carl Brandon been able, at that moment, he would have Jumped from the bed and clasped her in his arms and blessed her, but he contented himself by saying: "Sparkle, you are not like other people. You have a heart so much better and kinder than I have ever met In this woTld, that I shall henceforth call you divine." The girl paid no attention whatever to these endearing words, but watched the baby attentively, as Its great, dark eyes slowly opened to the light, and tfazed about It in that bewonderment that looks at everything and sees nothing; beholds all. and never understands. A waking baby Is a little dawn between two rights. All the past Is blank and blackness; all the future Is blackness and blank. His white, soft, velvety skin, tinged with red on his pretty cheeks, his scarJet lip, set lie fore a background of black, curly hair, eye shaded with long, black lajhe and black brows, gave him an honest iatm to b- called a beautiful baby. Sparkle watched those opening eye, saw him yawn and rub them with his fists. He gaped and his chin trembled, then a smile played over his face, then came a coo, a baby-rail for something to eat. The girl took him In her arms, leaning him gently over her shoulder, his black hair and red cheeks

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GET. J. A. Houser. making a fine contrast with her golden curls and pale face. She patted him and kissed him. said a thousand pretty little things to him, promised him everything, just like a girl would do, and soon took him all to her heart, and transsubstantlated herself into the domain of maternity. She crossed that vast gulf of laughter and tears that He. between the virgin and the mother. She left the sunshine and the temptation, the flowers and the nightshades, on the one side, to take up her abode among the cares, continuous anxiety, intense, but never realized hope. Heaviness of heart, innumerable regrets, weariness that makes the soul sick, and ail else that Is far across the gulf where mothers dwell, but all of which find their balance, their more than balance. In the deep, unmeasurable love that bei:l3 0er the cradle. Sitting down, laying baby gently upon her lap, looked at him a moment, as tears gathered to her kini, blue eyes, she felt truly the baby was an object of pity. Touching his dimpled cheek, she said: "Baby, a cruel she-wolf Is your mother; she flung you from her fangs and you fell down in a scorpion's nest. You start out In the world marked with the disgrace of illegitimacy. Your existence has been used to extort a few vulgar dollars to sustain indecency awhile in Its revels. It shall be my earliest duty and my latest care, to so perfectly bury you in the oblivion of years that are to come, that neither the she-wolf that dropped you here, nor the great 'vilenosed world, that, like some grunting swine. Is always trying to snout i:p something among the wreck of hunin crafts, that will make some poor, little heart ache, will even dream where you are, or under what canopy of love you slumber. You shall be a lost flower in the wilderness of a woman's love. Your life shall be a little song that floats away into an eternity of echoes. As coming spring melts the snow and dissolves every track of the hunted deer, so the summer of my love shall remove every trace and trail of your little identity. No sleuth-hound shall ever trace you to your little dell on the leaside if my heart." Pausing a moment, and kissing the cooing lips for the first time, Sparkle Brooke continued: "Yes. baby, yuu are mine. I am your little mother, and henceforth I will live with you and you with me." All this Carl Brandon had heard w Ith feelings that denied him utterance. No words could convey an adequate idea of. his emotions. Before this hour he had never known ho.v mii';h it was possible for him to love :nr h an unsol:ish creature as Sparkle Br-ok.?. Before this hour her beauty and her brightness h id always captivated him; now her goodness and her kind:ies were so ridiant he only understood her as a spirit of idealism that had been refined and purified through all gradations and every form of life, finally rising above all the dross of selfishness end reaching a "Nervana" of its own, rpotless as a ray of celestial light condensed into th? divine love of a mother. While Carl Brandon was musing, in the bewilderment of admiration and enchantment. Sparkle was careful!;,' inspecting the baby. His clothing was of the finest materials, the most costly laces and nicest ilnen. While thus inspecting him. she nsh?l up a little cold chain that was buried in the lat folds of his neck, and found hanging to it a locket in which her Miick anxi?t discovered a portrait of the father and mother. With almost lietraye.il anc-r. the girl broke the chain, saying: "No baby, they have dis-.jrad ou enough; you have no father and mother, you are just a little cll?nioii of smiles and tears that breathe and cry. You shall not wear this. You shall hae but (lie picture, and that shall ie of niyseli"; it will soon be photographed on your baby heart." Carl still kept won It ring what strange freak would surprise him next, but as the girl wrs mister now, she was not capable of saying a thing that Carl would not have said "amen" to. She had demonstrated what good women hav In all ages of the world that a Ionian can only ron vi-t by pitlenee and love. When Sparkle's mother entered the room to announce ihe evening nt-al. after the eventful day had vorn away, and saw her little daughter nursing the taby which she did not know was in the house before that moment, she toulJ but exclaim: "Why, where did that bahy come from?" Sparkle said, "It's ny toby; I'm its mother," which '-ailed forth a good, hearty laugh from the kind woman, which Carl tried to imitate, but something in his manner did not permit of such merriment. "But," said the mother, "whose baby is it? I did not know any of our neighbors had babies. "Dear mother, you watch the town pretty closely, but you don't know ail that happens," replied Sparkle. By this time th woman's eyes were well fixed on the child, and her first exclamation was: "It's awfully pretty, anyhow, whoever it is." and thinking no more about it for the time being, supposing that some neighbor woman had left it th.-re by Sparkle's request, so she might fondle and kiss it, as :he did every baby, she brought Mr. Brandon his supper. He desiring to cat alone, she and her daughter, leaving the baby on the bed, withdrew to partalte of their meal. CIIAI-TER XVIII. The Fortune-Teller's Departure. Day after day the fortune-teller lay on her bed bitten by the flies, fleas and vermin that, were by no means abs.-ni in the mountaineer's cabin. The reople never got weary of hearing her strange story and listening to her pagan philosophy, with which her thoughts seemed to abound. Though principally pagan, her talks alike were tinctured with bcth Christian and Mohammedan ideas. As one set of truisms has served all creeds, and claimed by all they have become the common property of all mankind. The reveltalon, "Thou shalt not steal," is simply a proclamation of the rights of property that antedates individual possessions. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has its existence in the human heart before Egypt had a pyramid, Rome a temple or Palestine a shrine. It Is one of the necessities of human society. Credulity is the first trait observed In the child and the last seen in the old man. It Is the mögt direct avenue to confidence and control. Where there Is mystery there is always awe and fear. The crippled woman reached their confidence through the credulity that excited their awe and fear and had perfect control of, the scores who came and went, coming with curlosty, departing with wonder. Young women invariably cosulted about their marriage, and married women often about divorce. Occasionally she was asked to settle the paternity of a child, and so with fortune-telling, moral essays, settling of disputes, or dlspellng the charms of witches, the woman put. In the summer while the bones were knitting, getting ready for her Journey to Cedar I Jell. "When the limb had regained Its former health and crookedness, and she got ready to take up her line of march toward the unknown town, all the hill people round about had collected on Sunday morning to see her depart. Surveying the crowd gave good evidence of the fact that people becom like the country In which they live Of all elements of progress commerce is at once the greatest. It continually mixes up society from all quarters, each comes and jroes. Imbibes new ideas and leaves new -thoughts behind, nations like fam

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ilies come In contact with others, lose some of their prejudice and lay aside some of their vanity. The crusades, by throwing the Christian and Turk together, in the end measurably benefited them and finally convinced them that what they called their religion and faith was but a selfish superstition, prompting them to murder till brooks ran red with blood. After murdering until they were tired they went to making love and getting married, to continue the quarrel, perhaps, on a smaller scale. The people fenced In by the hills In this wild country where the woman had staid so long, nursing a broken limb, constituted a little world unto themselves, and like all people who live a secluded life, degenerated into ignorance and superstition, twins that are born in darkness. The seclusion of the monk Is the cause of his narrow-minded bigotry. The recluse of the cloister may enter as a sweet girl: to remain. Is to become a benighted old maid. When the hour for her departure came the pale, dejected woman mounted a stump near the cabin where she had staid so long and received fo much rude kindness. Unpolished humanity may be rough gentleness. Her emotion betrayed that, though deformed, though ugly almost beyond endurance, her frail bosom contained a woman's heart. Looking at her now silent auditors she waved her hand for them to come near, and extending her hand, taking the hand of each in turn stretched toward her and kissing it. Again surveying the people gathered about her she said: . "My friends, before 1 take my departure from the presence of your kind eyes and from beneath the hospitable roof that has sheltered me all these weeks, I must needs thank you, though I know no words by which I can convey to you the deep thankfulness of a helpless heart. I was sick and wounded and you cared for me. You are the first faithful and devoted friends whom I have ever found that could look into my heart without wounding my feelings by making fun of my unfortunate appearance. The culture which you have not has made the greater part of the world proud and unkind. Your human religion has pitied my human frailty. While these rugged hills have walled you in, they have walled out the selfish tide that flows from the great strife that goes on In the cities and over the plains. Though fame has not crossed the greenrobed barriers, neither has ambitior, crime to burn out all the love and joy of quiet life. Genius has not lighted her lamp in your quiet cabin, nor has pride stabbed through your plain attire to your plainer heart. You have cured for me and loved me. because your hearts have not been poisoned by the fangs of greed that strike from a million mouths beyond this little vern.il world thai, you possess. Your religion is all love, becar.se no minister among you has a dream of that glittering bribe received by those who make religion a business for the profits they find in it, and whose fashionable church would close were there not financial gains, as quickly as the b:tnk when its interest ceases to come. "While the world has not touched you much, it has not hurt you any. Could I take you in my frail arms and carry you beyond these hills and drop you down among the hiss and sting that I have seen, that I have felt. I would not. I found you as children, and so I leave you here with your hopes and loves to bend over your cradles and lead your littl or.es quietly through the shaded dells and bright mornina-s. the twilight and the hush of the starlight, and when they fall asleep to lay them to rest and await the dividing clouds to make an opening through which you may meet them. After all. you are happier than you could be where ambition and hate lie beyond these lolls. Now I ro hence on mv journey. It is for you to live in quiet and poace, it is for me to pass out into anxiety and fear. I have a mission. I go from the dead to bear tidings to the living. T carry with me a treasure of human love and human sympathy and faith in humanity I never would have found had I not stumbled down Into th"se hills. Though I see you ho more, while yet I am permitted to hobble about with my deformed body. I shall return many times, and oft in spirit, over the crags, across these dells, and look into your kind faces and be wit h you a train." and so saying, she ouietly withdraw as mysteriously as she came.

rn iTi:n xtx. C'nr! infers. On the diy of ih- arrival of the baby, and aftr Spirit had finished her shipper with her 'nober, she returned to the room to finl '?arl Brandon f.uffenrr toth physically an! mentallv. Hir broken limn was giving him troub-e. which the doctor was sent for to relieve: his mind was giving more trouHe. however, from the even:s of the day. While waiting for the physician, he frankly told Sparkle the whole ftory, part of whioh he hid related, an' uion finishing, before awaiting her answer, he said: "I 1-now I have no right to expect any further favors from you and your mother. I know I 'im very burdensome to you, and this second b irden is ni)re than you are lik'ly to assume, and I have, therefore, coneHidd. If the doctor will permit me to do so, to take i his unfortunate :ittl3 being and go away with it." This news was a shod- to the girl, and for a moment overthrew her usual self-possession. Th--:gn she had lalived very plainly to Carl Brandon, and had called him many cruel names, accustd him of much that was bad, and all her allegations were true, but not in a harsh way, it was rather in addressing the baby that she dli 'orej this rebuke. Sparkle havin. fully set her heart upon the little 3tran..;er. and taken iossession of him entirely, now to think of losing him so soon was the last tnlng she would give her consent to. Then Carl Brandon, with all of his wickedness, was the only man she had eer loved, and he was trjing to do better. She felt that hr criticism was dri:ng him back to his former paths. Finally, raising her declining head, her blue eyes swimming in tearj, as Carl had often seen .them before, every look and every expression was translated by him as a Plea, to retain possession of the baby. The first she could ray. was: "What on earth an a cripple do with a poor little midget like this? Your clumsy h in Is can't dress it; you can't wash its little f.ioe; vou do not evtn know how to put .1 pin into its clothes." "But I will get tonie one to take care of It. Sparkle." "No you won't."' replied the girl. "I know more about this baby, and I love it more than anybody you will ever find. It is my baby, and I am going to keep it." So saying, she gently gathered up the little creature without awakening it, holding It in her arms, and kissing it many times with a tenderness that was touching, repeating "It would be cruel and wicked for a man like you to take this h'ttle, innocent thing aw ay from me," and boldly walked out of the room to her own apartment, where she tenderly laid It on her own bed and went back in the presence of Carl Brandon with an air of defiant victory. Informing him. "Baby has mo . and is now living with me. It's mother," and, with the slightest laugh, "If any big man comes after it he will have two legs broken Instead of one." Th crippled man was delighted with the girl's defiance. Extending his hand for hers, which was reluctantly given, he kissed her fingers, saying "Sparkle, you are ever so good and kind, but you do not know what a burden you assume. I will go anyhow. If you will keep the baby." "You go? How on earth can you get away? You poor, miserable fellow; you are all broken to pieces morally even worse than physically, and I have Just heard you say that you have nothing to go on. that through some affairs 1 do not understand, you have lost all your wealth." Tor a moment the man was too much agitated to speck. Not that this was

news to him. but he hoped to keep It from Sparkle Brooke, at least until he had gotten away. When composure had partly returned, he replied: "Yes, that is true. Sparkle; I am a bankrupt, and for that reason, in part, I wanted to leave. Since I can pay you for nothing for all your trouble and expense why should I remain? If I were not crippled I could likely regain some of my property, but the legal parasites are a soulless lot; Judgments are easily obtained against the weak, absent and afflicted. Courts generally turn an ear to the popular clamor. I am powerless now." "I am sorry for your loss, Mr. Brandon, yet, while I am sorry I am sr glad. By being helpless and afflicted you are now placed on an equal footing with thousands of our race. You now, perhaps, can learn to feel. You can see the helpless condition of a lone girl. You can now take another view of the world. I am truly glad you are a bankrupt; it will do you good. It will make a man of you: it will give you a stout heart, something you seem to have been living without, born without. Moral reformation has never been known to come

through the avenue of wealth and ease. The need of it is only felt when everything else upon which we have relied is swept away. Poverty will not always soften the heart; It requires suffering as well. The good Buddha left a palace and a princess to make hi3 heart tender and to reach the Nervana through seven long years of begging and destitution, clad in the yellow garments of a pauper The patient Nazartne, with a lowly heart, sought a lowly life, and whispered in the ear of misery and filled the world with light. These two greatest beings the world has ever had, or. perhaps, ever will have, through all the coming and going of ages, were only great, because wise and meek. The greatest religious bodies, the Buddhists and Christians, huilt upon the teachings of these unselfish leaders. Their followers are hero worshipers, with the two hi'.nan deities as the heroes. As they became Immortal and divine by being r.iiselfish and wise, ou may become likewise good and patient by passing through the door that now opens before you. Through suffering and poverty rise to the sublime realization of a pure, unselfish life. If you are. ready to commence this Journey, if you are ready to begin this life-work, I am ready to hölp you. Out of your poverty you can grow rich: out of your misery you can find Ineffable Joy. The gold. wh'"h you have fortunately lost, you could not have taken to the other world with you. anyhow. You could not even ke-p it while here. As our virtues are all that we can carry across the star-lit valb-y tht sinks between these hills, where hateful men and deceitful women practice trvM cunning arts for gain and lust, and that lair Nervana which Buddha saw, the Taradise the Callilean found." Carl Brandon had been struggling for a better life, but the old. e il man that had lived within him would break out and take violent possession. !Ti3 financial and physical conditions became his weakness; now his weakness became his strength. He was brn Into the world again, helpless, crippled, destitute. Whatever moral p.nd intellectual growth he could make would be under entirely different conditions than those which he had made. He realized all this, and felt sincerely sorry that he had not been kilfed on the niirht of the runaway, Instead of being crippled. As he could not go away, nothing to go on, no person would help him, even the villagers were delighted to henr that he was bankrupt ard crlrt'led, thoueh he ad done many kind acts for them, and had helped the poor and suffering very often, he was hated by all because he was proud. To Sparkle Brooke's little speech, or exhortation, Carl Brandon could make no reply. For the firt time for twenty vears he felt the presence of tears in is eyes which ws a pentle invitation for Sparkle to withdraw anil leave him with his griff and meditation. As she arose to follow that suggestion, she 'ould not leave his presence without tenderly stroking his hair back, and whispering to be brave, she would take "are of him. As watched her, walking away from him he was almost tempted to lauen at such a promise from such a creature. What could she lo more than to wash his face and give the baby some catnip tea. CIIVPTER XX. übe Fnifn, Days hid pone into weeks and no tidings had come back, except the merest hearsay from John Brooke. It was rumoredj thnt he was in a battle soon after reaching the front, but whether he was kil'ed or came out unhurt no one in Cedar Dell could learn. The rumor came first that he was wounded, and finally that he v.-as killed. The wife and child, not hearing from him, crave credence to this belief; it at least was a logical conclusion, but as several others had left the same- vPlage and none had reported, the question was. were they all killed or were they all careless? Finally, while this was being turned over and over in their minds, while sadness was in all the town, uneasiness and anxiety alternately taking the place of grief and hope, while human feelings were playing hide-and-seek between cloud and sunshine, weary days A-ere wearing on. Sparkle Brooke was nursing and caring for baby, feeding him. dressing him. taking him out in a baby wagon. Though this wagon was old and half worn out, and had never been used dnce she was an infant, it served quite well. Duriag the day she was seldom seen beyond the gate, and when she left it was only to go to the store for a spool of thread, some needles or a household necessity. Of evenings, after dark, she was occasionally seen carrying a bundle to the house of one of the wealthier families of the village, sometimes taking another bundle back to her own home. Sometimes one of the ladles of the house would visit the home of Joti1- Brooke, all of which gave room for no little amount of gossip. vh could it mean? What was Sparkle doing with bundles? Finally a meddlesome committee, self-constituted, and consisting of two sharp-nosed, old crones, who, like some hateful birds, never could be happy nor content without poking their bills Into the cages of quiet, innocent people, resolved to find out what was going on at John Brooke's, or, as they now said, at the "Widow Brooke's." The nex: step was. of course, to call. This many did, but not as thvse persons, to find their way into Sparkle Brooke's bedchamber. Being admitted into the front room, where Carl Brandon, when not hobbling about on his crutches, was sitting, he told them to be seated and he would call Mrs. Brooke. "Oh, no," said one of the cunning shefoxes, "we are well acquainted; we wilf go out into another room and hunt them up; they know us." Yes, they knew them, and for that reason they were never Invited to the Brooke hme. Walking boldly into Sparkle's room the Impudent Intruders were almost horrified. There was a little blonde girl taking measurements of a half-clad neighbor woman preparatory to cutting and making a . dress. Half-made garments were hanging on the wall In the room and one or two, finished, were hanging on convenient nails. Now they knew it all. The brave girl had turned dressmaker to support a baby and a crippled man. She made them feel quite welcome and quite ashamed by her kindness and gentleness. From that day all Cedar Dell knew Sparkle Brooke as the dressmaker with the baby. (Continued Next Week.) Ages of Aulmnls. The age of a squirrel rarely exceeds eight years; that of the rabbit seven; sheep will live ten years; dogs hav: been known to exceed twenty; cats and foxes rarely go beyond fifteen, while pigs, deer, the bear and the cow have often lived beyond twenty years. The horse has been known to exceed thirty; the lion seventy; the camel, the eagle, the raven and the tortoise have been known to pass five score. - -

GOT ENOUGH OF THE SEA.

A DAMMl SAILOR'S EXPERIENCES IX TUE SOITH ATLANTIC. Gnnght by a Ginnt Ponlp Hound to a Munt for Three Days Without Food or Water On a Desert Island .ow He Wants a. Job on a. Farm. The brig Electra of New London. Conn., returned yesterday from a two years' cruise for whal ; in the South Atlantic, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She has on board a Danish sailor who, in the past two years, has met with a series of adventures that he says has crushed out of him all the ambition that he ever had to gain a livelihood on the sea. He landed here and at once began looking for a situation as a farmhand, declaring that in the future the land would be good er.oi.gh for him. The story of adventure told by the man is an exciting one. and a scar on his right cheek, that draws his face out of shape fearfully, testifies to a struggle he had with a monster poulp, cr devil fish, two years ago. The poulp in the waters of the South Atlantic grows to enormous proportions. Its body Is of a globular form and is covered with a thick, dark-colored leathery skin. It has long, muscular arms and a short, sharp crooked beak, like the beak of a parrot. This fish is a vicious creature and does not hesitate to attack any living thing that comes Us way. The Dane was a member of the crew of the whaling ship Tristram, that was cruising in the vicinity of Gough's island. One day a whale was sighted and chase was made for him. A harpoon was fixed In the flesh of the animal, which "sounded," dragging the line after him with terrific speed. In running out, the rope somenow caught the Dane around the waist, and in the twinkling of an eye he was overboard and being dragged toward the bottom of the sea with fearful speed. The sailors carry a knife in their belt, ami the man struggled to get hold of his for the purpose of cutting the rope. The whale was going down with such speed that the pressure of the water against the sailor's body made it impossible for him to raise his hand even as far as his belt. He was getting very weak, and had about abandoned all hope of ever seeing daylight again, when the whale slackened his sned, and drawing his knife the half dead sailor cut the rope. He shot upward and caught sight of the circle of light over his head that indicated the stot where he would rise to the surface, when the water about him suddenly seemed fiiled with squirming reptiles, and that instant he felt the slimy arms of a devil fish encircling him. Had it not been that the line was still fastened to his wrist, the man would probably have b.--en carried to the bottom by the ferocious fish. As it was, the men in the boat rapidly drew him up and when he came to the surface he was slashing at the snaky arms that were tightening around him. The fish was an unusually large one and had no intention of giving up its prey. When the sailor got so that he could breathe he regained his strength and cut and Ftabbed the pulpy mass, but the arms continued to tighten around him and he found that he was in danger of being crushed to death. The sailors in the boat were chopping at the hideous fifh with hatchets and jabbing It with harpoons. The Dane's arm finally fell Into the prrasp of the fish anrt he became absolutely helpless. All that he could do was to call to his fellows that the lish was surely crushing the life out .of him. The poulp gradually worked pround so that it could strike the sailor In the face, and then dug its beak Into his cheek repeatedly, tearlnsr the flesh into shreds. After a fearful struggle the fish was so completely hacked to pieces that it could d" no further damage, and the sailor, unconscious from pain and the loss of blood, was drawn into the hont, where the tentacles of the fish were torn away from him In small pieces. It was two months before the Dane was ah!? to get around the vessel, and he will carry the horrible disfigurement he received to his grave. Three months after this experience the Tristram foundered during a storm off the Nightingale Island and sunk on a shoal. The Dane and two other sailors fled for safety to the rigtring of the ship, and as she sank and the water rose about h.-r mast the jnn went up. When they reached the highest yardarm the essel struck the bottom, and the three men were perched on the frail support with the storm raging over them and the wild sea around them. Seme time during the night one of the men became exhausted and fell into the water. The other men were unable to give him any assistance, for to release their hold on the mast for an instant meant death to them. The storm subsided the next morning and the sea went down The heat of the sun became almost unlearable and the men soon begin to suffer from thirst and then hunger. The waves ran about two feet under the yard where they stood, and to render their situation more horrible a number of shai ks gathered about them, splitting the water with their fins and thrusting their noses above the water as if relishing the feast they were waiting for. . In the afternoon the Dane's companion lost his head and sprang into the sea. and the Dane saw him crunched in the Jaws of the sharks that fought over his body. The sight terrorized the Dane, and, determining not to afford food for these fish, he bound himself with his belt and portions of his shirt, that he tore Into shreds and twisted Into a rope, to the mast. Suffering the tortures of death a thousand times a minute, the Dane stood on his perch, watching the horizon for a vessel. He lived out the day and the night following. When the sun rose the next morning the heat rendered him unconscious. That afternoon the whaling hark Witch of New Bedford took him off the mast a raving maniac, and it was necessary to keep the Dane closely confined for several days. Careful treatment and food finally brought the man out of the delirium, and he was able after a few weeks to resume labor, and he became a member of the crew of the Witch. Ill luck had got to running in the direction of the Dane and he seemed In a fair way o"f succumbing to it. Six months after he was rescued from the mast he had another thrilling experience. A heavy storm cume up and the Dane was sent aloft to assist in furling a sail.' He was at the extremity of a yard when the vessel suddenly lurched and he lost his hold. He fell Into the water, but, being a good swimmer, he managed to kep afloat t-nd the next wave that came across the deck of the vessel, carrying the sailor with it and lodging him under the lee rail with a force that broke one of hks legs and knocked his senses completely out of him. Once more this Ill-starred man was spared and In a few, weeks he was able to hobble around the deck on .a crutch, and In due time resumed labor. A short time after that the Witch started for home. The storm must have tried her severely for she sprung a leak nnd, In spite of all the men could do at the pumps, the water gained on them, and they finally were compelled to take to the boats and abandon the vessel. They floated about five days. They suffered from the heat, but they had plenty of water and1 provisions to keep them alive. There were three boats of them. On the morning of the sixth day they espied a small Island a few leagn-vs away and made for it. The surf was running high on the shore of the island, but the Sailors thought they could land safely and they made the attempt, with the result that the entire number, with the exception of

the Dane, was drowned. He got hold of an oar. and after a hard struggle be managed to reach dry land. The Island was a small affair with a few trees on It. Fortunately for the sailor he discovered a spring of water among the rocI:s along the shore. Three months he managed to live there with nothing tö eat but some sweet berries that he found growing on bushes in the interior of the island. One day while gathering these berries he was bitten on the hand by a spider and his arm swelled to double lis natural size. He felt sure that this time he was going to die. and for that purpose he lay down under a tree. But he didn't realize his expectations. He suffered fearful pain

i for several hours, then the pain receded j and In a few hours he had fully recov ered irom tne enects or the bite or the spider. The man's slim diet gradually told on him. and he finally became so weak that he could hardly drag himself around among the bushes to pick them. In this condition the crew of the Electra found him upon going to the Island for water. Ey the t'me the vessel reached this port the rr in's health was restored, but he wasted no time in getting ashore. He says his relatives are all on the other side of the Atlantic, but" he will make no attempt to visit them until he can get to them some other way than by boat. THAT TIME BETWEEN DRINK?. Senator Vance Gives a Vernlon of the History of the Famous Expression. In the olden times of our statehood, before the steam engine bullied the earth, when whiskey with sugar was S cents a glass, and all backs were turned as that glass was filled, and when a white man was considered as good as a negro if he behaved himself, the governor of North Carolina took It into his head one day to pay a long-promised visit to his neighbor, the governor of South Carolina. So he put a clean shirt and a pair of socks in his saddle bag, mounted his horse, and rode away through the pine - forests toward the south. Diligently following his nose in this direction he came in due time to the home of his brother governor, where he was received with all the honors of genuine southern hospitality. When asked how he felt, his characteristic reply was: "Thank you, governor. I am tired, sleepy, hungry and sober." The latter cordially assured him that he could remedy all these. Next day dinner was served at 12 o'clock, as the horn blew for the hands to come In. After It was over the two governors retired to the shade of the long back porch, where corncob pipes with long twists of home-grown tobacco awaited them. There in the long, soft afternoon, reclining on easy bottom rockers, they lolled and smoked and talked the hours away. Betwixt the twain, on the floor, sat a brimming pitcher of apple toddy, the mellow, roasted fruit flo-iting on the surface of the divine tipple. From time to time this aided and enlivened the conversation. They talked of the comparative excellences and advantages of their respective states, of the price of cotton, of horse racing and runaway negroes; as thy talktd they smoked, and as they talked they orank. They t-pecti-lated on the coming glories of the country, they pledged eternal friend-hip to each other personally, and vowed to preserve all neighborly courtesies between the two Carolina states forever, amen! Now and then they would doze in their easy chairs, under the mellow influences of their happy surroundings, and on waking up indignantly deny that they had been asleep and take another drink to prove their wakefulness. And thus things went on. Now It happened that the governor or South Carolina had a wife as all good governors should have, on the principle of the old maxim that he who aspires to govern should first learn to obey and her name was Betsy Jane. She well knew the failing of her governor, and she easily guessed that the visiting governor was tarred with the same stick. Quietly watching proceedings, she at length concluded that these two old cocks were about as full as they could well hold without slopping over, and it was time to stop. Watching her opportunity durng a rather protracted doze, she slipped away the pitcher, still half full, and inserted in its place a piggin of cool spring water with a cl?ar, yellow gourd hanging on the handle. Though sound asleep, the governor of North Carolina felt that something was wrong. Every nrve.in him cried out against the presence of a hostile element, and he awoke. His perturbed soul had not deceived him. The pitcher of toddy was gone. He Immediately awakened his host, who courteously inquired: "What is the matter?" "f)on't you see what is the matter?" said the guest, looking" indignantly at the piggin and the gourd. "Indeed, I see nothing wrong," said the now distressed host. "Please tell me what is the matter, my dear governor." "The devil you say! Nothing wrong, indeed! I go to sleep with a pitcher of toddy before me, I awake and find a piggin of spring water and the governor of South Carolina tells me in his own house that he sees nothing wrong in that! Well, well! All I have to say. sir." said the governor of North Carolina, rising with a very great but rather unsteady dignity, "is that It is a damned long time between drinks." "Oh." said the governor of South Carolina, as the situation flashed on him, "I see; that's Betsy Jane. She means stop, and we're done for the day. I am sorry I can't bring that pitcher back. I humbly beg your pardon, governor, but maybe there's a Betsy Jane at your house, and maybe you know how It Is yourself." The offended dignity of the governor of North Carolina slowly dissolved into a genial smile of intelligent comprehension, and. solemnly winking one eye, he fell either upon the neck of his host or upon the porch floor, tradition does not say which exclaiming, "You bet. old boy; you bet." And that's how It came about! Throughout all that southern land tradition has wickedly repeated and kept alive the saying of the governor of North Carolina as a convenient mode of jogging the memory or stimulating the flagging hospitality of a host, but has failed to embalm in human memory the righteous prudence and wifely virtue of Betsy Jane, the spouse of the governor of South Carolina For near on to 100 years the saying has been a faithful one. and worthy of all acceptation in our country; that is to say, it has been faithfully repeated all that time, and anything offered in response thereto has been universally accepted, either straight or with sugar. ZEBULON B. VANCE. How to Kit a Watermelon. The suggestions of an eminent citizen of Georgia for the selection and eating of a watermelon f.re given in his own words: It should be carefully chosen. In response to an eager thump there should follow a dead and meaty sound. The melon should not weigh less than twenty-five .pounds. After It is pulled It should be split from end to end with a short-bladed pocket-knife, so that in tearing it open the glowing and Juicy heart, bursting loose frcm its confinement, shall find a lodgment on one side only. At this point the knife is to be thrown away. For a moment the eyes should be allowed to feast itself on the vision thus brought to view; then the heart should be scooped out with the hand, and the nectarious meat thrust upon the hot and thirsty palate. There ought to be something savage in the enjoyment of a watermelon; it ought to be crushed and swallowed with avidity. N. Y. Sun. Getting Even. Artist "Miss Brownie-Brown-Brown. . who Is to marry a prince, won't let us have her photograph for publication." Editor "She won't, eh? Tell the foreman to use one of those cuts labeled, j 'Before Taking.' " ?. Y. Weekly. I Suit the people, because they are tired ot bitter doses, with the pain and griping that usually follow. Carter's Little 1 Liver nils. One pill a dose.

R3) MINUTE REMEDY. On'y require minute, sot hoar, to relir pls od care scale diaeu. 'S READY RELIEF. The Cheapest and Best Medicine For Family Use in the World. la from on to twenty m'Du'.e, oeTr fail to rcliev Piv with one ihtroa:i ppl rs.ion. o mailer how Ylo rot or ictulimt n th pom, the humt:c, B dridde ., Infirm, r.ppiel N err aus, neural 'O ur prostrated w.th d may u 1er, ttA.DWa.V3 KLA.DY Kh.L;tF 9orda iBilanleae. Inflammation of the Kldneya, Inflam uixtlon of the lllaildrr, Inflammation of the Ho v ein. Contention of the Lur.K, Sore Throat, DIJHcult Brenthing, Palpitation of the Ueart, Hynterica, Croup, Diphtheria, Catarrh, Influenra, Headache, Toothache, eurnlgia. Ilheuiun t im. Cold Chi IIa, Aue Cbiila, Clillhlalue. Krönt ltlles, DraUe, erroune, Sleepleaanean, Coaghs. Col da, Sprtiiiia, l'aiu In the Cheat, Hack or Lliubt, are imlanlly relieved. In Ita Varloui Forma. FEVER AND AC eurd for 51 rent. Ther !a not a remedial ag at id th world '.hat wi l cure Fever and - gue and ther Maiarioua. biliou. äoariet and o.rier lesers taded by K 'Al"i fILLoj quickly a R lUW.tVa riKAbY KELIiiK. BOWEL COMPLAINTS. It will In a e-r momenta when 'akea according to d rect oc, core v ratuvs. ?vasrn sour Morach, Herti)urD, sie HeJa:he, l'.arrhf. Tentery, l hoiara Mori us, Col.c, W':nd n the Bowe and ail internal pains. CHOLERA. The PE'TlV R LIEF ;a a'rno.t a ?eo: 9e in thia terrible epidemic; if used in t.me wai ave nearly every cae. Trave er hou d a way carry a Ott e of ad way' r-.nadr el.e .tn tiie o. A lew drop, n water mil prevent ckne-n or painn Tora change o water. I is belter than f reocn brandy or hitlers as a rliiuulant. Miners and lumbermen shouid a. wys be provided with it. OTJTIOKJ". All remedial a ents ccpanie of destroy ni life by a overdose phoal 1 b-. .vod?l. Morhiiie. op:u:u, atryohn n. aro.ca. hyoc amu and oiher powerrui renied es do, aT certa.n t.me. in very sma doses, relieve tbe patient dur n their ait. on in :be y:em. But prha;-s th eeond dos, i repeated. :ny apRravate an-1 increae tue surTerinr and another ioa caused' ah here s n necessity for u--in(r these uncertain agents hn a pst ve remecy ike alway's Keady rile: wi.. s.op tbe mot eierutiatinj pain quicker, w;: hont entailing the leai-t d.rScu.ty in either imant or adult. THE TRUE RELIT. HittwrsiKADY :ELI Fisthaonly remedial agent in vogue that w.ll instantly atop aio. FIFTY C BENTS PER BO I TLB. SOLD BY LRU ZCl TS. Be im to Get "Ra toy's." SsrsapariHian Resolvent. The Great Blood Purifier. Pure blood makas sound flesh, strong bone and a clear Hin. if you wou U have you.- fleaa Orm. your bone Bound, w.uout cari.s. aud your cjmpiexion lair. ue UiJWAl'S BAKjAf-AUlLUAN nasOU V-NT. We extract from Tr. P.adway' "Treatise on DUeaaa and it Cure," a .o.lows: LIST OF D1SEA?ES CURED BT DR. RADWAY'S SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT. Chron'c skin diseases, caries of the boae. humors la the uload, kcro.u. uadiei. fever, sores, chronic or o.d ulccis, aall rheum ri.-aci, wh le aw-Uiun;. aca.d heai, caaaen. gla.idu r vr l ins, nodes, wa.tinj ana decay o the bojy. pimp e and b otches, tumors, uy-pep-ia. kidney and b. adder disea es. chronic iLeumatsm un l tout, consumption icravcl ana calCUiUS dcpo .i 8, and var.el.es o the auove coupiainte, to wh ch sometime are g veo bicc.Üo name. In cases wher thts sj-ftera ta been saiivat-sd. and mercury has accumulated and Decoae deposited in. the bones, jo nis. e:c, caub.nic t ice ot toe bones, r.ckeU, piuai curvatures, conioriio.is, white awe.ln,8N var.coe ve n. oic, the :r:aparii;a wui resolva away those cepos to ai.d exterminate tbe virus of Vfl d.scase iroia itie yslein. A Great Conatltntlonal Remedy. Skin Lh teases. 1 omor-t, I'lcer and Sore of all kinda. part.cuia-ly ihrouio L)Uea a of tne skin, srs cur 1 wilii ureal certa nty by a course of aaway'e Sar.ai.arili.aa. We mean obi.mat os that uava res sled all otbsr treatment. SCROFULA, Whether transmitted :rom psrenta. or aeqnired. ta w.lu.n the cural.ve range o. the oar.apar.i.-au Ilalt po'sesse the same wouder'ul power incurinj the wort lorma ot strumous and erupt. ve discuar.es, a phi.lo.d uicers, sores o tu eyjs, tar, nose, mouth, turoat, g.auus, exterm.natintt the v.rua of thesa chronic orm O" dita irom the blood, bones, jo nis, and in everv prt of the human bo-iy wbera there eaiata aiaeased depos v. ulceration, tumors, hard lumpa or croiu.oua inUammal oa. this real and power. ul remedy w 11 exterminate rapidly and permanently. . , . cne bottle contains more of the active princple or med.c.nea than any other preparat on. taken in tea. apoomul doe, while others requ. re Ave or aix Unva a much. E D0LLAB pER boitle. SOD Bf DRUCC13TS. ! The Great LiTer an! Stcmacli Reniefly Purely vegetable, ml'.d and re'.'able. Cause perfect digestion, complete absortio: and hea .h'ul regularity, t or tha cure o all disorders o: the SlomacU, Liver. Bowel, Kidney, Madder, Ntrvou Diaaaeoe. Loss of Appetite. Sick Headache. Indigestion. Dizzy Feelings. Biliousness. Constipation. Dyspepsia. Observe tba folio wim ympto'a reu't1nf frrn diseases o th digest. ve organv Constipation. ward pile, ul.nesa o blood .a the h-..d, acidity of the sto.iiaca nausea, heartburn, di.gust o. ood, fullness or weight of the stomach, sour eruct.tion, int. inj or Ou termg of tbe heart, choking or eufforat of enaatioc when -n a iyiog posture dimness of v loa. dot. or wer before th sight, lever and dull pa la th head, deficiency o peisp rat on, yet owim o the kin and ey., pain la the side, che-t, limb and ud- ' den fluhe o heat bum n; in the flesh. A lew d.iaes of .lDW Y'S r 1 1 l.l will fr. th. sy9 tern o all the above-named diMordera. 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