Ligonier Banner., Volume 33, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 January 1899 — Page 7
»_'»,»- 5 . S TENYAERNEDY, 7 S Y V“»D Y 8 = P | AN N\ VB L o s/ 5 > w L 3 4‘ oR B | S > \&\:' = By~ & : . FH.Costoue. " {Copyright, 1896, by D. Appleton & Co. : All rights reserved.) . , SYNOPSIS. o : * Chapter I.—Master Ardick, just reached his majority and thrown upon his own regources, after stating his case to one Houthwick, a shipmaster, is shipped as second mate on the Industry, bound for Havana. ‘Mr. Tym, the supercargo, descries a sail. : % Lo CHAPTER 11. OF THE BRUSH WITH THE BLACK . = BEIP. I plunged off to the forecastle, seiz: ing a handspike as I went. .Thundering on the hatch, and then opening it, T roared down:
“All hands ahoy! Look alive!” In an instant there was a bouncing out .of bunks and hammocks, and a rush up the hatch. The fellows popped out in quick succession, and in a flash the entire crew wasranged on deck. e “To the braces!” shouted the captain through the trumpet. *“All ready to slack and haul! Some of you forward to tend spritsail!” o . These orders, taken up by the mate, as the yelling of the wind drowned in part even the bellowing of the trum-! pet, were rapidly obeyed, and the crew scrambled to their stations and stood ready. , : .
" “Down helm!” was shouted back to “the two fellows at the tiller, The ship’s head began to fall off, and as it did so ~the orders to handle the braces followed. In a mere matter of moments, so fast did the men work—urged omn, indeed, by the knowledge that there was- some unusual stress, though as yet they understood imperfectly the cause—in that few.moments the last order was carried out, and the ship’s head now pointed due north. I had kept an eye on the stranger’s movements while we were fetching the Industry upon the new course, and was not greatly surprised, on casting Imy ‘eye that way, to see the broad bows suddenly fall away from the wind, and the lony black side begin t 6 show. At the same moment her yards““fiew round, and thus she, too, was pointed north. “There could be but one explanation _of this last action—the stranger meant ito overhaul us. I was now burning to get: spcech with the cdptain or Sel_linger, that I might resolve sométhing more certain out of this stirring business; but for the present they were ‘busied with other matters, so that I did not like to seek them. The readiest ‘answer to be come at was that she was ‘Dutch, and was making a flying cruise ‘of it in-the channel. If so, she should ‘be both faster and stronger than she jooked, for it would be a bold thing, “indeed, for a mere wagon of a merchant rigger, without broadside guns and having no near friendly port for refuge, thus to seek prizes in our narrow seas. While I was turning these matters over in my mind taking care to keep an eye out aft the while, to be in readiness for sudden orders, “the companion opened and the supercargo ‘again appeared. The mate was standing near by,land Mr. Tym at once went 'over to him, and, by hisexpression and some words| which the wind took-to ‘me, desired ¥o know what had happened.; This was thesvery thing I would have, for now, without pushing myself into their counsels, I could slip a little nearer, and be made acquaint‘ed with the whole matter. }
“Ay, a Dutchman, fast enough,” the supercargo was saying. “A daring fellow, foo, and not to be lightly shaken off, I fancy. Willit do toset a kit more sail 2’ : : L
- “It would not be profitable,” the mate arswered. “She is domg what she can with this strength of wind. By the breaking of the clouds j’onder, it will presently quiet 4 bit, and then we 'will see what can be done.” You observe that we hold our own with fhe fellow at present, and carry as much as he dees.” -
“Yes,” said the supercargo, “I per‘c?ivé that.” . s “We will make a race with him for the coast,” pursued the mate, “and it will go hard with us if we do not give him a shrewd brush.” v : - “How far might it be? Surely twenty miles @ e
. “Call it a bit more. Say five-and-twenty. He could make that by nightfall.” 2 1
“Tru=,”:said Mr. Tym, with a satisfied nod, “and if he should overhaul us on this course we could try a bowline.” » o 2
He strode off to where the glass hung (the captain had brought up another, which he was using from the poep), and when he fetched it to the rail he climbed upon a coil of line and brought it to bear. :
The supercargo used the glass for some time, but finally put it by and » went up to have a talk with the.captain. Of course I could not hear what they said, but it was easy to guess that it must be about the present strait. In a few moments the captain came to . the verge of ‘the ’f)oop and called the mate. Master Sellinger hurried up the Jadder and the three men talked together earnestly. The mate fhen came down again, and immediately the cap: tain walked to the color halyards and .with bis own hands ran up the flag. As it blew out at the mizzen truck the - crew, who, as well as myself, were watching anxiously and curiously the ~doings aft, broke into a cheer. All eyes ~were now on the stranger, for this was a clear demand that he should declare his intentions. It was the most stirring moment thus far since the chase—- ~ or race, if you please—had begun. The long black mass rose on the next crest and siid foaming ‘down tke valley, and " again soared and fell. How we watched her! Lift, lift, she rose, uptilted her -~ great house of a stern and plunged, with the shock of the parted seas, dewn -the declivity, and all swiftly and might31y rode to the top again, and still not a handkerchief’s breadth of bunting! Five, and at last ten minutes, and the same monotorious upride and tilt and fall. The captain stood with straddled ~ legs, silently using his telescnpe, and - the rndte was in the mizzen shrouds scauning the foe under the pent house of his hand. The :upercargo leaned ~over the poop tail, holding on hat and wig, and the rest of us lined the weather bulwark, in the waist. Of a sudden -.‘m captain ltwm;ad his glass and shut b v Rl RAR L BeR s
it up. The supercargo turned, catching the action, and they came together and exchanged a few words. ! “The thing is fetched to a head,” said a sailor at my elbow, with an excited pull at his waistband. : - He had scarce spoken when Houthwick left Mr. Tym dnd stepped briskly to the head of thé poop ladder. =~ . “Master Sellinger, set the mainsail and reef it. Take out one reef in the foresail.” .
The mate was off his perch to the deck in an instant, and at his word the, men flew to their stations. The wind| had less weightnow than formerly and’ blew steadier, but for all that I apprehended that we were taking considerable hazard to thus swell our canvas. Yet very quickly the thing was done, and under the added pressure the ship drove her nose into the smother, and made a strong lurching stagt-of it on‘ward. While I was stepping back from the foot of-the. main shrouds, and in the act of directing one of the.men to coil up a loose length of halyard, some one behind me gave a shout, and I turned to see that the dark ship was likewise whitening with added sail. |
On we raced, and it must have been that the greater part of an hour went Dby, 8o far the Dutchman and we were rarely well matched, he driving along at the same point off our beam, as though he might be our shadow. But a change was at hand. All in a moment, as it seemed, his long bulk-be-gan to narrow, the small slant of his sails that we could see expanded, and at once his pot-round bows rode, leaping and sinking, into view.- ‘He had changed his plan,. and would fly straight at us. :s : In an instant the trumpet of Capt. Houthwick began to bellow: .
“Man braces! Down helm! Slack lee braces! Haul in on the weather! Afthere, some of you, and let out a reef in the lateen!” |
It was clear what the skipper would be at. The cruiser, perceiving that he eould not outsail us and cut us off, meant to close' in and try to disable us with his guns. To prevent this we must turn tail: and make a straight-away run of it. The question then to be settled was whether he could get near enocugh to wing us, by cutting up our spars and rigging. I thought this all out at a blinlk, as the Scotch say, for just at the moment I'had to use my fingers rather than my brdins. Wken I came in from the boltsprit, having gone there on some matter concerning
, e L Tl D e e ey A ,4/ | o DT I - 6}\ / > fil ¢ A év‘ AM% .l\ o~ § &8 v 2 N\ ( d ! U N i I~ s Y . > y : // \\- ! N ! \. “ . \' -‘7/ .. - AR W T#e captain rounded down in a loose heap. the drawing of the sdil/ I found that the Dutchman was fair astern of us, only the slant of his sails catching the light, and the rest of him standing up round and black. I think something like two hours now passed, only one thing, but that an important one, ‘happening, which was that the Dutch= man slowly gained upon us. At last Houthwick said something to which tlie cthers appeared to assent, and the mate hurried off the poop. He espied me, as 1 stood by the main shrouds, and becK¥oned me to him. When I canie up he said low and in a strained, quick tone: :
- “The captain thinks we had best try a gun. I must serveit. Do you stand ready to help work the ship. Call the carpenter, and put him imr charge of the magazine. The main hatch will have to be opened till they can get up the first supply of ammunition, after which batten it down again: The rest can come up the companion. Tell Spyglow that he can feteh out the arms chest and take the pikes from the beckets and pile them up. No harm to have things at hand.. Stay! You may likewise get out the medicine chest, and set it in;the open space ’tween decks. That must serve as a cockpit, if any are hurt. Let the cook, who is something of a sawbones, go thither. The cabin boy can assist him. That will do for now, and look-alive.”
I said: “Aye, aye!” in a seeming hearty voice (though, to own the truth, my heart was beginning to beat fast, and I felt a bit weak in the knees), and hurried away. In a few minutes all the orders were carried out, and the mate was free to try his experiment. When I returned to the deck the: Zangport had been unhooked, and the gun’s canvas jacket taken off. As I turned to see whether the mate was rcady—l mean ready to have the ship luffed, so that he could secure his aim —II heard a low, dull boom, and, as I whirled again, a ball of smoke blew out from the bows of our pursuer and %wreathed off to leeward. : “He’s firing at the moon,” said the mate contemptuously, and how I saw that “the excitement had struck the color from the man’s cheeks, save for a little patch of red which showed under the sea-burn, and that his nerves were strung high and firm.
“At the gun!” called the eaptain from the poop. “Are you ready, Master Sellinger?” Ty “All ready, sir!” “Then to the braces, men! TLuff!” he roared back to the two fellows at the -helm. g
‘The ship came handsomely into the wind, and asshe dipped to the bottom of a hollow the mate gave a swift glance along his gun and applied the linstock.
He had loaded while I was below, and I knew not what the charge was, but it must have contdined a scat-ter-load, for I saw a tremendous dimple all over the water, just outside of the Dutchman’s forefoot.
“A good beginning!” shouted the captain, “Have at him again!” We got upon our course once more, and meantime the gun was reloaded. “Ha! he’s showing his teeth at last]”’ cried the mate, pausing with his fuse, which be was blowing up in his hand. - He pointed toward the enemy, and lo! two ports in the bows had opened, and in each was the round target spot which ma.ked the muzzle of a gun.
“He has discovered that something besides swivels will be needed,” said Mr. Tym, who had come, without our perceiving him, among us. “Nay, but he is about to give us the compliment of his whole broadside.” ba e
A tremendous, crashing roar, and a sky full of smoke followed. I thinkl stooped, but I am not sure, and the next that! comes clear before me is that a great splinter from somewhere overhead struck the deck near me and gave a queer sort of elastic spring, and went overboard. I confess I jumped back, and'as I did so I ground my heel upon something soft, and had to make another 'spring to prevent falling. By this time I had backed nearly to the quarter-deck, and, the smoke hdaving now almost blown away, I leaned against the break of the deck and looked around. The spot where I had stumbled first arrested my eye, and there, rolled np almost in a ball, lay the body of old Dingsby. His belt had burst with the strain, of his doubling . over, or perhaps was cut by the glancing fragment of shot, and it was slip ping off him, almost giving him an air of unbuckling it from the front, his back being toward me. The mate and the Frenchman were standing up stiff and bold near the gun, and nc one else had been hurt, that I couid perceive. : =~ i :
The captain’s figure broke through the passing clond of smoke, c¢oming from the helm or some part aft, and pausing at tlie edge of the pocp. “On deck, there, how fares it?” he inquired, peering down. Then perceiving the body of the old man-o~war’s gnan, he answered his own question—#So they have slain poor Dingsby! Carry him a bit aside, some of you, and bestow him in a seemly sort. We jvill do better anon. What say you, Master Sellinger, have you a sharp word back?” :
“Aye, aye, sir!” growled the mate. “Luft her, end 1 will give her a shrewd answer enough.” - } : “Tjuff it is, then” - ' Again we came into the wind, and again the mate sighted and applied his linstock. The smoke drifted astern, and I eagerly jumped into the shrouds and stared through the first clear opening. What was my delight when I saw the great bulk of the Dutchman sa;wfng wildly into the wind, beating up a yeast of foam, and all a wreck forward, where his fore topmast and fore topgallant mast hung in a dreadful mess from the foremast head.
Presently the order ¢éame to handle the ship and fill away upon our old course, N
We had got everything to drawing, and I bad climbed upon the weather bulwarks, my mind very content, and casting looks of exultation at the floundering Dutchman, when,: with very startling syddenness, a spit of fire darted along his rcumbered foredeck, and a terrible whistling ball rushed close above my head. T distinctly felt the wind of it, and was off my perch, half tumbling, indeed, to the deck, in an instant. :
As T steadied myself on.my legs I heard a‘laugh above me, and on looking up saw Capt. Houthwick starrding at the top of the poop ladder. He shook his shaggy head at me mightily amused, as it'seemed, at the way I rolled off the bulwark, and as I looked up he said something in a kind of chuckling voice, and turned away. I had his tall, broad figure for an instant in my eye, and then came the boom of another gun from the Dutchman, and before I could move or scarce think the captain took a long, sinking step backward, whirled, raced to the edge of the poop, and rounded down in a locse heap, one arm hanging over the verge. :
CHAPTER 111
OF THE COURSE OF EVENTS TILL WE - WERE FINALLY SOUTH BOUND.
"~ Some one behind me shouted, and there was a rusl! of the men and cries, and in the midst of it T saw the little supercargo dart fromy some place aft and raise the captain’s head. I leaped to the poop ladder and flung myself up. and then I turned to the poor captain, with whom it had fared, indeed, after the worst. His lower face, save for the chaps, to which some beard hung, had been shot away, and he was a dead man, evenr before I had stopped to speak to the sailor. :
“This is sorrowful 'business,” said the supercargo, rising with a sigh, and covering the shattered faee with his pocket handkerchief. “He was a‘brave man and true.”
I sumwmoned three seamen, and with \ great tenderness we brought down | Capt. Houthwick’s body, which we laid for the fime on the quarter-deck, covering it with a tarpaulin. When these things were attended to the mate dis--patched us again forward, and for a ,‘ little we gave our sole attention to the handling and better speeding of the ship. The Dutchman’s crippled foremast continued to fret him, but he would not give over, and so for a long time we bothkeptourcourse,thoughthe Industry all the while made a small but steady gain. It must have been half an hour after this that Master Sellinger called me, and upon my responding said that he must now retire to the cabin for a little, the further disposition of the voyage standing to be settled, and that meanwhile I was to command the ship. With that, and upon my ascending ‘to the quarter-deck, he made a sign to Mr. Tym and they both went below. . - : 4 . ~ After a little Mr. Tym and the mate returned f»;to the deck, their countenances, though sober, cleared, as I thought, as it might be they had set tled their business to their minds. ' = . [To BE CONTINUED.]
: > A Little Cherub. ~ Little Boy—Mamma, may 1 give what’s in my savings bank to that beggar man? e Mamma—You dear, sweet little cherub! Do you want to give away all of that money your uncle gave you? There was over a dollar. - “I spent some of it, mamma.” “Did you? How much is there left?” “There’s a twenty-five ‘cent piece left, but th’ candy man said it was bad.”—N. Y. Weekly. - i Interchangenble. “Where in thunder are.all my collars?” e A i “Why, I'tn wearing one and sister has another; Birdie took another and the rest are at the laundry.” 4 “But I'll swear there was a clean one in the drawer this noon.” ¢ “Yes; Bridget borrowed that."— N. Y. Evening World. -
NOW AND HEREAFTER.
Prosperity Is Present, Naturally, But Inflated Varmes Will Result ' and Panic Follow.
Unquestionably the people of the United States were more prosperous on the whole during the year which has just glosed than they were in 1897 or 1 any year since 1892. The bank'clearings were greater than in any previous year, indicating a greater aggregate of transactions. The foreign demand for cur products of agriculture,-extraordi-nary as it was in 1897, was not less, though prices were somewhat lower, in 189 S. The cotton crop of the year was the largest ever produced and growers were fairly prosperous, though they received less per pound for their product than in previous years. The exports of manufactured articles were of greater value than:iever before, and. for the first time in the history of the . country exceeded the value.of like imports. Business failures were fewer and the liabilities of the failed concerns were less than for a number of years. In short, there were abundant evidences of recovery from depression and a return of geheral prosperify. Partisans of a certain variety lay it all to the republican party—to tti Tingley law, which: was a republica measure; to the triumph of an alleged gold standard candidate in 1896, who hes done not a thiné‘ toinsure the maintenance of that standard, and even to the war with Spain, for which President McKinley has not yet claimed all the credit and which has been a gonsider‘able tax upon the eéarnings of the peopie. i g : Such /is the politician’s view. The business view, as expressed by Bragdstreet’s and other commercial agencies, is that the country has been prosperous nict because of but in spite of the war; not because of anything that party politicians have done, but because of favoring conditions upon which party policles and schemes have had no influence: !-——abundant crops and .extraordinary foreign demand for our surplus and ' the natural processes of recuperation after a period of depression. t' And the business view is the right ' ene. The time had come for recovery from the prostrating effects of the col- . lapse of 1893, and recovery began, It 'lbegan, indeed, in 1897, h'aying been i hastened by an unusual shortage in the . production of foodstufts abroad. It was | continued in 1898-with further acceleral tion from thé same source. -
How,little the politicians have had to do with. it we may gather from the parallelism between the periods of 159398 and 1873-78. In 1873 there was a panic az disastrous. as that of 1893}, It was fcllowed by depression and distress so great that many despaired of recovery and came to believe that the country l2d passed beyond the stage of rapid d¢evelopment and would have to settle dewn to the slow pace of the older countries. But in 1877 signs of recovery appeared, and in 1878, when congress seit out a commission to find out why times <ere so hard, the discovery was made ‘tat times were not hard, but that the prople were doing very well indeed. In like mianner we heard despairing fties in 1895 and 1896,.-and many seemed lally to have given way to the conviction thgt the country could never more be prosperous. . But recovery began, as abave etated, in 1897 and ¢ontinued until now, just as in 1877 and-1878, when ttere was no war and no shifting of party control. ‘ : If the parallel holds for the futare as it has done so far the new year will be happier than the old. The 2ountry will grow miore prosperous until 1902; then a pause, ending in semipanic in 14904; from that on a fluctuating but generally improving condition leading up to intlated values, and anothet panic about 1913. But let us hope that some economic discoverer will arise to save us from another catastrophe at that time..~—~Chicago Chronicle.
HOW ABGUT THIS?
Under Republican Rule Pensions Are Inherited Throagh Many Generations, ; E
. The latest pension report shows a very small number less than 1,000,000 pensioners on the rolls, or considerably more than the entirc number of men who entered the union ser\;jce during the war. This is-indeed a very remarkable condition of affairs. Itseems to indicate that not only have none of the veterans died during the 33 years that have elapsed since the close of the war, but that by the exercise of some miraculous power each survivingeveterdn has contrived to double himself and become a twin. But the veterans themselves are not the ones who have performed this astonishing miracle. The pension agents are the miraele workers. Starting with one solitary and deserving veteran they have branched out collaterally and collectively "until they have embraced all “his sisters and his cousins'and his aunts,” even unto the third generation; and thus do we find many bold warriors drawing pensions who merely inherited the smell of powder through a remote ‘ancestor. As Senator Vest remarks, this thing ought to be stopped. Let every veteran have a pension, and make it large enough to keep him comfortable the rest of his honored days; but it is time to sit down ‘on the business of’ inheriting pensions. If that continues we will soon become a nation of pensioners, and then who will pay the pensions? : : ,
Taxes and Glory.
Suppose that our custems revenues should reach Mr. Dingley’s original but now wholly abandohed cstimate of $200,000,000 a &-ear? Sup&gse that our internal revenue receipts Should reach Mr. Dingley’s-original but now wholly abavdoned estimate for the irew and old laws together of $300,000,000? That would be $500,000,000 a year. Secretary Gage’s estimates for 1900, based upon the conjectures of such rosy expansionistd as Secretary Alger, call for an expenditure of $593,000,000. Here is a deficit of nearly $100,000,000 a year on calculations that do not take into account canai 'b:uildii;g, improvements and other extraordinary yet inevitable expenditures in ourcoloniesand dependencies. As the highest probable estimate of our receipts from the operations of existing revenue laws, on Mr. Dingley's present estimates, is $400,000,000, the smallest possible ‘estimate of our deficit is $200,000,000 a year. And this for the very first year of empire—when only the smaller bills fal Idue. That means taxes, more and more taxes.—N, Y. World, : -
- IMPERIALISM FOLLOWS. A Natural and Certain R t of the Policy of Expansion Aatated by Republicans. L 4 The San Franecisco Chfonicle grandiloquently remarks that there will be no imperialism to combat, but that if the democratic party proposes to fight expansion it will not only have to contend with the republican party, but with the patriotic and far-sighted voters in its own ranks, and wth the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, principie as well. Fiddlesticks. An. acre of such “words, words, words,” is not worth a rush. Jeffersonian and Jacksonian principles never contemplated the acquisition of vassal states, and that is what so distinguished a republican as Senator Hoar says we will get if we take the Philippines. The association of the name of Thomas Jefferson with expansion is in connection with th€ Louisiana purchase. That was pot a case of imperialism. We took in a large piece of territory with a primitive populatior ineapable of advancement. We prcceeded to exterminate it. Or, rather, it has almost disappeared in front of the march of ‘civilization. We got a lot of territory from Mexico, with some undesirabie people who have not counted :n the ~general development. The qlder portion of the country has furnished the thriving population for the new. With the Philippine islands we.get a pcpulation - that will not be so easily disposed of. It will have to be preserved and governed by military rule. Just now there seems to be nothing in sight but holding the archipelago as a vassal state. ;
It is too soon to boast of what thef republican or any other party is going to do about expansion or imperialism. The mind of President McKirnley is not necessarily made up.. The ratification of the treaty with Spain would not make it necessary for the United States .to annex the Philippines. The way would still be open for the establishment of an indepefdent government, such as is contemplated for Cuba. This country has jumped at several conclusions during the last nine or ten months, but it will be well to study the prime conclusions awhile. The policy of possible oriental acquisition was one of very sudden development. The thinking period will come before we get through with the entire action. Some of those who are now crying out for radical expansior, and denouncing as pessimists and traitors those who hesitate, may see the time when they will acknowledge that they only thought they wanted a wideningof the borders. On the -other hand, those who advise the governmeont to ‘proceed cautigusly, and mnot without ‘the closest examination of the conditions, Mmay turn out in the end to be the best expansionists of all. The notion that we must grab -something merely to show for Dewey’s victory is ‘an idle one.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
AUTOCRAT ALGER.
The Republican Magnate Ha*lls Eye on All the “Good Thing¥” | in Sight. |
If any investor, syndicate or trust wants a franchise in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines, the proper person +o approach is Secretary Alger, of the v-ar department. An order has been issued by Alger which makes.thé case clear and which reads as follows:
“Until otherwise ordered no grants or concessions of public or corporate rights or franchises for the construction of pub-, lic or quasi-public works. such as railroads, tramways, telegraph and telephone lines, etc., shall be made by any municipal or other local governmental authority in Cuba, Forto Rico or the Philippines, except upon the approval of the major general commanding the military forces of the United States in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines, who shall, before approving any such grant or concession, be specially authorized by the secretary of war.”’ It is evident from this that the lumber dealer of Michigan, the multi-million~ aire who bought his way into the cabinet and who bungled go badly the business of his department that a whitewushing committee had to be appointed in his interests, ha. resolved ,that no “soft snaps” in “the colonies” shall escape him. What is congress going to do about it? There concessions are worth rn.any millions of dollars. Is the secretary of war to be allowed the sole end autocratic control in these matters? As a matter of record it may be stated that in the United States francLises on the public domain can only be granted by securing the assent of the house, the senate and the pre§i'dent. But, so far as our new possessions are concerned, Alger is king. His werd i_s law. He can favor his friends and refuse to favor those who have no especial “pull.” Whatis congress going to'do-about it?—Chicago Democrat.
PRESS COMMENTS.
——Since using the McKinley brand o soft soap, the south will have no other.—Albany Argus. ——The people must. abolish the trusts or the trusts will reduce the masses to bankruptey and slavery.— ITouston '(Tex.) Post. ——The new secretary of the interior was not born in Ohio, but as he did not have the choosing of his birthplace the people of that state may forgive him, with the caution that it must not occur again.—Denver Post. ——*lf H. H. Hanna,” says Mark Hanna, “expects any currency legislation, or any extra session, he had better hang up his fiddle.” Apropos whereof, the Waterbury American observes that as Mark geperally suggests to Duty and Destiny what they had better whisper in the president’s ear, H. H., the curreney reformer, should get his pointer in time.—Albany Argus. ——Republican capitalists themselves are beginning to see that if we are to derive the greatest possible good from our enlargement of territory we must be in a position to both buy and sell; that we cannot continue to exclude other people's goods and sell our own in foreign markets. The free traders have had a long wait. but their time is coming.—Rochester Herald. ——Every job, every extravagange that the hangers-on at Washington can devise/is flaunting itself in the name of expansion. A petty, but insjgnificant, instance of this spirit is afforded by the act of the house last week increasing the police force of the capitol building from 49 1o 67. In vain did disseunting members call attention to the notorious fact that these police have only nominal duties and only nominally attend to them. The job went thmu‘gh the ‘house like lightning.—Beston Globe. o S
= .:‘- : ;;’.‘ : " ) i U { g 8N S) ,U "H“ M) - 3 t& " g R "'."f 2% 34 e -p. 3 " - L p 14 PAs A duuq WIS NP AV I ; s .‘_, 7, / - DREAMS. I Greamt lgsi night that my garden grew Such flowers as never were seen; The grass it was red, the roses were blue, .. And the pansies’ wee faces were green. And a toadstool table all finely set, - For the fairies to come and dine, And all the flower-cups were brimming full Of beautiful dewdrop wine. } But when I told nurse of my wonderful dream, : IR She said, with a shake of her head: “I told you mince-pies were a very bad thing i | ~ For little folk going to bed.” —Little Fol Ks. . b g A g BOLD STEEPLE CLIMBER. He Stood on the Cross of.an Orahgc (N. J.) Steeple, 152 Feet Above" | the Ground. . A daring steeple climber named Yoerk has been at work regilding the cross on the steeple of Seton Hallkcollegt at South Orange, N: J. The cross iz 152 feet above the ground, says the New York World. Yoerk usually wears a stout leather belt about his waist. A strap fastened to this passes about the steeple and to the other side. As he sat working the other day on@ of the crowd of students below on the campus shouted to him, daring him to stand up without the strap which secured him to the cross. Yoerk instantly accepted the challenge.” The horizontal piece of the cross, which. is ‘Greek in form, is four feet in length and only a few inches wide. Yoerk
: 8 | 8 . » | ' | ey o | fiwé ‘ o ' Y g ' j A : |« (W A f . . // Do (g ' _ /“'// A “ ~ S T o ON TOP OF THE CROSS. loosened the -safety belt and began slowly to raise himself to the erosspiece. ' The danger of the performance was. greatly increased by theswind, which was blowing from the north. Yoerk not only had to balance himself, but-to leanr against the wind to counteract its pressure. When the crowd below saw what Yoetk was attempting they began to shout at him to go no further, and then, thinking their cries might confuse him, they kept perfectly quiet. The climbér placed a foot on either side of the upright, then straightened himself up, and a moment later let go of the upright of the cross and stood with his hands at his sides, a bold figure silhouetied against the-sky. The crowd was beginning to breathe more freely, when Yoerk moved again, this time with the greatest caution. ' He first grasped the upright of the cross and siowly raised one foot to the top of the upright, then the other, and slowly rose to an upright position, with the skill of a circus performer. : Lo The top of the upright is only a few inches square, scarcely large enmough for his feet. Yoerk made sure of his balance, and then, raising his arms frem his sides, stood for a moment on one foot, the other held out over the awful space below him. He remained in this position for what seemeda minute and then quickly lowered himself to the crosspiece, and, picking up-his brush, went.to work again as though nothing had happened. €]
TOPERS AMONG ANIMALS:
Elephants, Monkeys, Ducks, Parrots and Even the Hard-Working Bee Like Stimulants.
It is a curious fact that there are topers innumerable in the animal kingdom. Bipeds and quadrupeds alike are fond of alcoholic drinks, and although some display aversion when first tasting liquor they soon .acquire a craving for it. e ,
.CHickens and ducks, after having ‘once tasted brandy, become absolute slaves to the drink. They refuse toeat, grow thin and exhibit symptoms of dejection when unable to obitain their favorite tipple. » 5 Monkeys and apes are passionately fond of spirituous liquors. Of these, Buffon’s wine-bibbing chimpanzee was a shining exampie, and Brehm, the German zoologist,.owned several mandrills that drank wine regularly and did not disdain brandy. - Herbivorous animals frequently becomeé intoxicated, innocently engugh, through eating decayed fruit. In. orchards oxen and cows after eating overripe apples have been seen to display all the symptoms 'of drunkenness. They stagger,. their eyes lose expression and they grow sleepy. Sl It seems that animals are susceptibleto alecohclism in proportion to the development' of their intelligence. KEle‘phants are fond of wine and rum, and rats gnaw the staves of wine casks to .get at the contents. Cats, however, rarely exhibit a fondness for intoxicants. 3 . Sk
Among. birds the parrot takes first place as an habitual toper. Insects have many opportunities to become intoxicated, and it is the most active that most frequently avail themselves of the chance. There is an aromatie, intoxicating fluid in lin‘dem'-bvlos'soms‘ for which bees show an especial fondness.
. Carrying Out Instructions,
Maiden Aunt—Why didn’t you tell me you were invited to Ethel's birthday party? : i Little Gracie—Well, mamma told me some time ago never to mention birthqays before you!—Puck, ;
STORIES OF ANIMALS.
lllustrating tFe Devotion, Sense and v - Humor of the Elephant and : _.the Heorse.
From the huge elephant to the tiny ant the entire animal kingdom offers stories and facts which should enlist the ‘sympathies and engage the interests of the human being, who has, in quaint;-old-fashioned speech, “domision over them.” . - " In the whole animal creation there is not to be found a creature more inteliigent, more easily managed or more likely to become the friend of man than the elephant. The -natives of India, recognizing this, treat him with veneration. and_respect, but, on ‘the other ‘hand, the ferocious brutishness of the Afriean negroes, incited by the criminal cupidity of Arab and European ivery merchants, transforms into a savage beast an animal bestsuited by nature to be man’s assoeiate. <
The question of the day in Belgium is .the protection of African elephants in the Congo Free- State, for at the present rate of merciless slaughter the race will become totally extinet in less than ten years. !
A Hindoo hunter was once known to have become so fond of an elephant which he had- caught and tamed that rather than have his tusks sawed off for the sake of theivory he allowed himself to live in penury. R % . A famous general once said: “The most piteous thing after a battle is the sight of wounded horses. The men are cared for, but the poor horses are left to die in agony.” v _ The horse enters into the spirit of a’ battle like a human being. He shows no fear of -death and no sign ef panic in all the wild tumult of the battle’s Gin. A horse in one of the batteries in the Murfreesboro fight had his skull split by a piece of shell so that gne side was completely loosened. The driver turned him loose, but he walked up to the'side of the gun and watched the firing, following the shots with his gaze as if to mote their effect on the emvemy. When he saw the team he had worked with being driven back for ammunition he ram to his old place and galloped back with the rest, and when an officer pushed him aside to have aaotker horse put in he gazed at the newcomer with a most sorrowful expres--sion in his.eyes. Then, seeming to realize that the glory of battle was no more for him, he walked slowly away, lay down and died. The officer who owned him declared that it was not the wound but a broken heart {that killed him.
Some. timie ago a fireman’s horse was sold to a .second-hand furniture man, and one day as”he was coming down the street with a load the sigmal gong rang in the engine house he just happened to be passing. The old horse had been going at the pace of a nag, but there was a change now, and the driver. picked bimself up from the ground only to see his steed disappear:irg around the corner at breakueck speed, with bureau drawers and chairs filying and littering the sireet. Tke animal shot like, a meteor ahead of the flying fire brigade, selected a hydrant and backed what was left of the wagon up against it. The driver came panting up to the spot, and as the horse eyed him its face broke into a positive grin—which goes to prove that the equine species are pot without a sense of humor.—N. Y. Tribune. -~ .
MENDING BROKEN LEGS.
How to Perform a Simple Surgicai Operation on a Pet Canary : or a Chicken.
Young chickens and other birds frequently break the bones of thor legs, ard if‘properly at'ended- to, these ruptures can be'easily cured with very littie. trouble. As soon’ as the troul'e is no ticed the fractured leg must b= carefu - Iy cleaned and washed with warie water, and then wrapped with a bit of antiseptic cotton. Splints are tien prepared for the fractured limb, preferably of split elderwood, the pith of which s taken out: These splints are fastened
‘/' 2 ‘ 2z ) s}‘ B s Y ,_/,3;\:\,‘ Ny = 4 T A .1/?" 7 PN 7y NS stV .. [ G t f?% TRI Y | ek )= : ; 5 " 'fi,. — (e - CUREETE 78, —~ v, ST £ Voo MENDING A BIRD’'S BROKEN LEG. to the.cotton with a drop of glg\e. and held tightly in place by being woun i} with linen thread. The bandage ant ‘dressing are left undisturbed fur fro:m three.to four weeks; then the feg is scaked in tepid water until the Lavdage comes off easily. The fracture wiil havs completely healed. up by thai time. Cenaries and other pet birds eaun be similarly treated in case of a fracture of a leg, only the elder splints are substi; tuted by -pieces of cardboard, and tho bandage is left but two wezhs on th= little winged. patients. ~ 1 ; An Excepiiorn to the Raie. ' An-Ohio messenger boy has piroven that the boys in his business are n.t siow. A baker left his.wagon standing in front of a residence, and tue hor:e ran away. -The baker’s four-year-old girl was out in the wagon and seream-d with fright. The messenger boy wus riding on his bicycle and pursued ‘tl.e runaway without hesitation. He wes - an expert rider, but he had a ruce of nearly a mile before he" caught uj. ‘Then he managed to seize the tail roarde cf the wagon and climb in. In ansther minute he had hold of the reins. and scon brought the animals to a stand- - still. Then he drove back, recovercd his wheel and rode away to delivzl his . meßige. ;- s . Two Viéwi of It. 7 Wflffie Strutt was playing with th” Timbs boys. His mother callec him - “Willie, don’t you know thase arz bad boys for you toph%wi.th?‘“ s ~“Yes, mother,” said Willie, *1 know that, but then lam a good boy fui w':jnflf ercis @.’« SR