Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 May 1890 — Page 7

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WOMAN AND HOME t-7—t.l I I f*

TH£ PRETTY GIRL, HANDSOME WOMAN AND BEAUTIFUL MATRON.

iarnc of i&bks 'and Author*—A Baby'* Memory A Glance at Mr*. Thurber. Beantlfai IVomen In EngUnd—Aboat

Boiling Food*—}Qu and Mr*. ,v'j

The notion still held by certain shallow women that rhaturity is ugliness fa one of the most incomprehensible pieces of nonsense of the time. Here la a fair muddler In -one of our contemporaries complimenting Mme. Albani on having overcome her mar tronliness and on the renewed girlishneas of her appearance. From this I should Judge that women who live on public exhibition fear nothing so much as development. If they can only stay all their lives in a lisping and glutinous sweetness and not grow, they are satisfied. To get on in •appearance, or in character, or In strength As a calamity. In this extraordinary view /•of things a green coddling in better than a ripe pippin. Women who exhibit themselves have

only

one standard of merit—

•and that is youth. Poor creatures, they do not know tbat the pretty lrl ought to become the handsome "woman, and never reaches her full splendor until she is a matron. They cannot •comprehend the fact that fixed beauty has no existence except In death, and even then -only when the embalraer has put in his w* work. The law of beauty in life is the law •of development and attainment, and the beauty of a matron and the beauty of a miss differ from each other as one star differs from another in glory—and, curiously -enough, the older the star the more beautiful it becomes.

Women who think of nothing but how they shall stay young are women of characterless minds. All things considered, the greatest woman Is she who can grow •old gloriously, and defy time with something better than enamel. But your woman who is professionally on exhibition has got to bring to the market what the public most desires. And it is a patent fact that the mob would rather look at the pastryness of youth than at the perfection of personality. It is this popular instinct that makes exhibiting women starve themselves, enamel themselves, prison themselves, restrict their functions, suppress their minds and crucify their bodies.—Now York Truth.

Gumc of Hook* and Authors.

Two of the children were sent out of the room to choose the title of book. When this was decided upon they planned how they should in pantomime act it so that the rest of us might guess it.

Ned and Mabel were chosen, and after a few minutes' absenco Mabel came into the room, walked slowly to the fireplace, and was about to seat herself in an easy chair, when Ned called her, and back sho went Into the hall.

Of course "Called Back," by Hugh Conway, was guessed ut once, and the successful guessers had an opportunity to try their skill. They soon appeared with a •clock, the hands of which pointed to five minutes before 12. After gaping and rubbing their eyes and making us understand how weary they were, one of them produced •an old coat and the other a torn jacket and both began to sow diligently. 'Never Too Late to Mend,' Charles Heade," shouted Ned, and then, choosing one of the little girls, thoy left us. Presently they came running in so carelessly that thoy bumped against a sofa and sank down, nibbing their elbows and wailing in A most pitiful manner.

This time wo were not BO quick, but after a few minutes' thinking some one was fortunate enough to guess 'Much Ado About Nothing,' Shakespeare."

Before bedtime came wo had tried "Put Yoursolf in His Place," Charles Iteade "Oliver Twist," Dickens "Threo Feathers," Black "Our Mutual Friend," Dickons "Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne "The Spy," Cooper "'Hie Caged Lion," Miss Yonge, and "What Will He Do with It?" Lytton.—1Christian Union.

A Memory.

A aurious instance of dormant memory In infancy took place in our family. My mother went on a visit to my grandfather, "who lived in London. Sho took with her a .little brother of mine, who was eleven months old, ami his nurse, who waited on her as her maid. One day this unrso brought the baby boy into my mother's room and put him on the floor, which was carpeted -all over. There he crept alwuit and amused himself according to his lights. When my mother was dressed a certain ring that she generally won- wju»#.ot to be found. Great «earch was made, but it was never produced, and the visit over, thoy all weut nway, and it was almost forgotten.

Exactly a year after thoy again went to visit the "grand father. This baby was now a year and eleven months old. The same nurse took hiui into the same room, and my mother saw him, after looking about him, delilvorntely walk up to a certain corner, turn a bit of the carpet back, and produce the ring. He never gave any account of the matter, nor did ho, so far fk«t I know, remember it afterward.

It seems most likely that ho found the ring on the floor and hid It, as in a safe place, under a corner of the Brussels car pet, where it was not nailed. He probably forgot nil about it until he Raw the placij again, aud ho was far too infantile at the time it was missed to understand what the talk that went on was about, or to know •what- the search, which perhaps he did toot notice, was for,—Jean Ingelow in. Longman's, «, t-

Iteauttful Women In England. A good many years ago Lady de Orny was labeled a beautiful woman by an ee«tatic essayist, Sho stands considerably over six feet, can shoot, run. fence, spar, jump, ride and do a lot of other things which arv mainly for men. She married two titles in ber time and Is labeled dutiful. Nothing «ver takes this adjective away from her. I have seen her at cricket matches, theatres and other public places, and, like most strangers, I was not sufficiently Impressed to glance at her a second time, until I learned who she was.

Perhaps the Duchess of Leinster's fame «s a besoty outclasses Lady de Gtwy^s. The Duchem of

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blaster is tall, stately, rather

bony of feature and spare of form. I have wen her sitting In a box at the opera for hours at a time with literally hundreds of people staring at her in absolute absorption through their glasses. Yet she ceased to be beautiful ywu* ago, despite the society paper*. She reigns by reason of her old reputation.—Brooklyn Kaglc-

A fltauM at Mm. Thatheir.

Bat it Is neither the concert nor the reception, bat Mn. Thurber beneU, who is most infctre*Un£, Not Mi*. Thurber nftting tantalislogiy back in the box at her concert, nor the cam* woman later* la her blade velvet gown, receiving the eoopte of hundred guest*. But it is in her own room*,

TERfl!E S^tJTE

j.jmcwhere near the Sborehom's top story,' tl»t Mrs-Thurbcr talis slmply.intho low-, est of distinct voices, add where she inter-* ests and fascinates you, whether yon will or no. She is In the plainest of cloth gowns, Mid with nothing about to indicate a longer stay than one of twenty-four hours, unless It isa little writing deek-near the window, strewn with the facilities for writing a note or two.

Apparently she is indifferent to surroundings, as she certainly is indifferent of all "setting'? or''background,'' and yet a pass-1 Ing glance would not give her a place among pretty or "beautiful women. Mrs. Thurber is neither pretty hor beautiful. But she is attractive. Her voice and eyes bold you, and her magnetic sympathy completes the spell. But it is not these fascinating qualities which

constitute

Mrs.

Thurber's real power. It is her honesty md earnest purpose, together with a simplicity which is impressive. You go to see a woman called "music mad." After ten minutes' talk you come

away

wishing most

devoutly that the world contained more women just as natural, and that such "madness" were more prevalent.:—Washington Cor. Springfield Republican.

City and County Etiquette.

In a city, no young lady goes out in the evening with a young gentleman without a chaperon (some lady older than either, who accompanies them), be it to the theatre, ball or elsewhere while in the country, it is not considered improper for a young gentleman to call for a young lady and take her to a party or any entertainment in a carriage or to walk with her to the place alone. Or, if a gentleman meets a young lady of his acquaintance, and finds she has no escort, to ask permission to attend her to her home and it is proper, if the party be eligible, to accept his escort, and, on reaching home, to thank him for his kindness, bid him good night at the door, particularly if the hour is late. If it is not late, and the family of the young lady are still in the parlor, it is proper to invite the young gentleman in, that he may pay his respects to her family.

In very formal society, a lady does not ask to take a gentleman's hat but in the country, where it is less so, and servants are not always in the hall, or in attendance upon callers, there is no impropriety in a young lady asking a gentleman to allow hor to take his hat and relieve him from tho inconvenience of holding it.—Home Magazine.

MIBS or Mrs.?

All women out of their teens are entitled to be styled "Mistress." "Miss" is merely a diminutive, and is properly confined to young girls, just as "Master" is commonly confined to school boys. In the days of Pope, "Mrs." was the common appellation of unmarried ladies. Sir Walter Scott, too, speaks of Joanna (unmarried) as Mrs. Joanna Bailiie. There are nowadays plenty of spinsters—and young spinsters, too—who Insist on being addressed as "Mrs. and at one or two places in Sussex, curiously enough, the married lady is "Miss" and tho unmarried lady receives tho title of "Mrs." The same custom is found in many parts of Ireland. The form "Mrs." was at one timo applied indifferently to persons at all ages.

Among servants generally, the cook whether married or single, expects to be called "Mrs." So do housekeepers, though unmarried. In point of fact, Mrs. or Mistress is a title of respect that the plain "Miss" is devoid of. Why actresses, who are married women should seek to disguise that fact by allowing the misleading prefix of "Miss" to bo attached to their names is a mystery that admits of no intelligible explanation.—The Lady.

Girls in London Shops.

In some firms tho girls, when not serving, are permitted to adjourn to a comforfcablo sitting and reading room, or are allowed to sit behind the counters, and, with respect to food, dainties are, often provided in the form of fish, fowl or pastry, which the less favored "follows" fail to obtain. The average time for meals are half an hour, and twenty minutes for dinner and tea respectively, except throughout the hottest weather, when the tea time is extended to thirty minutes, in consideration of tho longer hours consequent on light evenings. Supper is usually provided immediately after closing time, and then a much coveted span of freedom is (jnjoyed till 11 o'clock sharp, or 12 o'clock one night a week, for tho convenience of playgoers.

As any "fellow" who contemplates storting a business for himself usually chooses a wife from among tho "girls" of the house, it will be seen that a real "trade unionism" exists among the community, in a peculiar sense, and tho so called "rag trade" is thus perpetuated by duly qualified assistants.— Pall Mall Gazette.

About Boiling Food.

There is in boiling and frying foods a very simple problem in physics, which most people ignore, viz., that of latent heat. When apiece of meat, a vegetable, or other artkle of food, which is at the ordinary temperature, 60 degs. to T5 degs. F., is placed in boiling water or fat, tho tcmjierature of the solution is lowered proportionately to the mass and temperature of the article introduced and it is not until the mass has absorbed more heat from the lire that the solution again comes to the boil.

If care Ls taken, either by introducing the food in small quantities at a time into tho boilin.: solution, so that very little lowering of tho temperature takes place, or by a preliminary heating of the food before adding it to the solution, and in every case allowing the solution to boil before Introducing any fmh material, the soddonness of Improperly boiled or fried foods will be avoided.—-Science.

A Chorister's Costume.

The female chorister In New York's swellest Episcopal church wears a loose fitting robe of fine white muslin, patterned somewhat after the new style ulster, and reaching just below the knoe,, The back, which is partially fitted to the figure. Is shirred, while a narrow rolling c&ii&r shows In front a shaped portion of the black dress over which the robe is worn. The sleeves are wide and flowing, not unlike those of a surplice, but perhaps mors after die pattern of the "angel sleeve." The simple and tasteful cashmere cap has been retained, as it was found impossible to Improve upon it in shape'and style. Some covering for the head was necessary, and anything more modest and seemly it would he difficult to find.—Boston Record.

American t«dlM Sot Origlnat American ladies, graceful and tasteful a* they are, can scarcely put forth a claim, out of their own country, to be considered as leaders of fashion. They only follow, very intelligently and very enthusiastically, the fashions set by London, Paris and Vienna—that is feo say. they resort to the best known drew and mantle makers of the three great European capitals just

KL In tha way of.bomw* building give a deckled preference to Parisian and from the g*y city they aiso

few give

iraw their supplies of lace, of lingerie, of •gloves, and of boots and shoes and it wul generally be found that American ladies of jaahion contentedly patronize the most expensive purveyors of costumes

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nor accessories. To be excellent custom-, ers of first rate milliners and dressmakers, however, is a very different thing from introducing a new mode, or giving a fresh lease of life.to an old one.—London Stand-

A Modern Instance.

I know one girl in this city wha went for weeks without a warm dinner to buy herself the smart ulster in which she looked BO trim and neat, although, her underwear was of thin calico and her stockings were of thin cotton. She should not have done BO, you will say. Well, until the nature of woman is completely changed, until the elements of girlhood which cry out for admiration and love and happiness are altogether altered, there is

not

a girl in the

natural order of things who won't deprive herself of something to eat, who won't do without chewing gum, who won't walk miles to save car fare, so that she may have the money thus saved—and sometimes how pitifully saved—to buy something that will make her look beautiful in the eyes of the one she loves best.—Cor. Toronto Mail. 1 "r*

Virtu© of Apple Sftuc6«

Probably not one in a thousand of the many persons who eat apple sauce with roast goose or roast pork have any idea why such a condiment should be used in these particular cases. Yet the custom is based, if not on exact science, certainly on a knowledge of the properties of the apple, as well as upon observation. The malic aeid of the apple tends to neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much, and it also serves to eliminate from the body noxious matters which, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or lead to jaundice or skin eruptions.

Apple sauce aids the digestion, which, the case of the rich meats with which it is usually associated, would be sluggish.— Pittsburg Dispatch.

Wfcen Girls Are Engaged.

You have a little band around the third finger of your left hand in which is set a turquois, and when it was put there ybu remembered that, the Hindoo. said: "He who hath a turquois hath a friend." Now, that's what you have in the man you love best, and whose wife you are going to become—a friend. He is your sweetheart, your lover, it is true, but because to you his heart seems best worth having, his love th6 richest gift you can possess, you will not vulgarize, as many girls do, the tie that binds you. It is true you go with him alone to hear some wonderful music, or look at some fine pictures, but I hope it is not true that when you are at a party or in your own home you two pair oil and make yourselves the objects for silly chatter and idiotic jesting.—Ladies' Home Journal

American Men Good Enough for Her.

I have never 6ecn a foreign man who, in my most romantic or susceptible days, could havo done more than amuse me. I cannot imagine loving any man but an American. A foreigner does very well to pick up a lady's fan or kill time for her, like a pet parrot, by repeating his little stereotyped, compliments, but the thorough, true, sensible American girl gives her heart to an American lover. Those who give them to foreigners usually live to regret it. A foreign husband is an expensive luxury, you know, for an American lady.—Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Rapid Musical Progress.

Mr. De Rich—I must buy a $500 harp for my daughter, must I? She's got a regular music store on hand now first, a piano, then a pipe organ, then a banjo, then a violin, then a guitar, then a zither, next a mandolin, and dear knows what else and now sho wants a harp. Has she mastered a single one of the instruments already purchased?

Mrs. Do Rich—Of course not. How could she? Sho no sooner gets anew instrument tuned up and ready to start when away it goes out of fashion.—New York Weekly.

Ada Understood.

I am tho father of a 5-year-old girl who says her share of funny and pathetic things. Her mother is English. I am a nativo. One day I was telling her mother that I understood the motive for a certain act because tho child possessed traits similar to my own, and so I knew the reason for it. When I ended my discourse Ada said: "Yes, papa, you're American and I'm American, and so wo understand each other. "—Baby hood.

Learning to Walk.

According to an enthusiast on physical culture New York is filled with girla who walk badly. To get rid of the "plug, plug" of the heels the pupils are taken to the top of Murray Hill and made to toe down. They retrace in the stage and make tie descent again and again. Price, $30 a term of twenty lessons.—New York World.

There are perhaps thirty caterers within a mile of Union square, New York city, who make a business of supplying private dining tab.os. For the regular customer agns oven is provided and left in tho family kitchen. The meal goes to tho house in a caterer's basket, and is popped out of the basket into the oven. Therefore there is no danger of cold dinners.

In India the Nizam's government has decided to appoint two women as legal commissioners, for the purpose of taking the evidence of the inmates of zenanas, who cannot, according to Hindoo notions of propriety, come into court or give their evidence in public. The two ladies are to receive a han.home salary.

The women teachers of Germauiy, besides a great pension association, have had an insurance society of their own for the last six years. For a monthly fee of twentyfive cents a member can in case of sickness draw $3.50 a week for thirteen weeks, and for the same period again after an interval of six weeks. ..

Miss Frances Willard carer so little for style that she never has more than one dress at a time, and does not get anew one until the old one is worn out. She is happily Indifferent to the seasons, and her velvet bonnet often gets sunburned and her straw hat snowed on.

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Eight hundred salesgirls in Berlin belong to a union which has had remarkable success. For ten cents a mouth they receive medical care, medicine, and help in getting work. The organization was started by a women's clubin that

Denver, Colo., has an incorporated stock company of women who have undertaken the development of a summer resort at XXana park, forty mike from that^ity. It designed especially tor the comfort at women, children and families^

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Account of Interesting Performances at the Puraps.^

LOG BOOK OF PRENTICE MTJLFORD

A Small Mutiny —Might Work Xljht "Watches—Carrying Studding Sails—Beautiful to Look at. Diabolical to Handl®. .^Scrubbing Decks.

[Copyrighted, 18S9, by the Author.]

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NE. night the pumps ok down five minutes before 12 o'clock, Our watch as at work on them. The carpenter was called as usual, and after

and

fishing in the

well for the broken valves, they were put in order again.' It was then nearly la. in. Meanwhile all the able seamen in our watch had at eight bells walked below. The watch newly come on deck refused to pump the ship clear, alleging it was the business of the others. The watch below were bidden to come on deck and perform their neglected duty. They refused. This was mutiny. The four mates got their pistols, entered the forecastle and stormed, ordered and threatened. It was of no avail. The fifteen able seamen who refused constituted the main strength and effectiveness of that watch. They were threatened with being put in irons. They preferred irons to pumping out of their turn. They were put in irons, fifteen stout men, by four mates, who then returned and reported proceedings to the captain. The men remained shackled until the next morning. It was then discovered that it was impossible to work tho ship without their aid. Of course they couldn't handle the vessel in irons.

The Wizard rated over 8,000 tons, and many a frigate of her size would have been deemed poorly off with less than one hundred men for handling the ship alone. We rarely secured the lower sails properly in heavy weather, from the mere lack of physical strength to handle them. So Capt. S—— pored sadly at his breakfast through his gold bowed spectacles, and when the meal was over issued orders for the release of the fifteen- men in irons. In this little affair the boys and ordinary seamen belonging to the mutinous watch took no part. They were strictly neutral and waited to see which side would win. I felt rather unpleasant and alarmed. Though not a full fledged mutiny and a conversion of a peaceful merchantman into a pirate, it did look at one time as if the initiatory steps to such end were being taken.

One of the great aims of existence at sea is that of "keeping the decks clean. The scrubbing, swishing and swashing is performed by each watch on alternate mornings, and commence^ at daylight. It was the one ordeal which I regarded with horror and contempt. You are called up at 4 in the morning, when the sleep of a growing youth is soundest. The maniacal wretch of the other watch, who does the calling, does it with the glee and screech of a fiend. He will not stop his "All h-a-a-nds!" until he hears some responsive ec}io from the sleepers. He is noisy and joyous because it is so near tho timo he can turn in. And these four hours of sleep at sea are such luxuries as may rarely be realized on shore. But the mate's watch is calling us, screeching, howling, thumping on the forecastle door, and making himself extremely pleasant.

We are called and on deck, and stumbling about, maybe with one bpot half on, and more asleep than awake and more dead than alive. We are in the warm, enervating latitude of the tropics, w^th every sinew relaxed from the steaming heat. Perhaps there is alight wind aft We are carrying studding sails. Studding sails are beautiful to look at from a distance. But when once you have sailed in a ship carrying them from the royals down and know something of tho labor of rigging them out all on one side, fore, main and afaaten masts, and then, if the breeze alters a couple of points, taking tho starboard sails all down and rigging out the larboard, or perhaps on both sides—and this on a Sunday afternoon, when there are no job# and you're been expecting plenty of leisure to eat your duff and molasses or if you have ever helped carry those heavy yards about the deck when the ship was rolling violently In a heavy ground swell, and every time she brought op, sails, blocks and everything movable was bringing up also with a series of pistol like reports or If yon have ever laid out on a royal yard toying to pass a heavy rope through the "jewel block," at the extreme end thereof, while the mast and yard were oscillating to and fro with you through the air in a rapidly recurring series cHf gigantic arcs caused by the l&sy swell, In the trough of which yonr ship Is roStng^-and at the end oi each roll you find yourself holding on for dear life, lest at the termination of each peculation you be ehot like an arrow into the sea from your ifiaeeon perch—why In all theae caees the beauty and pictaraequenesa of a ship under mil* will be tempered by somo •obs realities.

It 5J80 or 6 o'clock. The mornfag

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light has come. The cry of "Turn tol" is heard. That iS "turn to" toVwash down decks, an operation which will tax the already exhausted resources of an empty stomach until -breakfast time at S o'clock. The mates have their fragrant "cabin coffee" and biscuit served them on the brass capstan aft we can smell its aroma, but nothing warm can get into our stomachs for over two long hours of work. The basic idea in this regular washing down decks at sea seems to be that of keeping men busy for the sake of keeping them busy. The top of every deck plank must be scrubbed with a care and scrutiny befitting the labors of a diamond polisher on his gems, while the under side may be dripping with foulness, as it sometimes is. I had the post of honor in scrubbing the quarter deck. That was the drawing of water in a canvas bucket from the mizzen chains to wash over that deck. 'The remaining five boys would push wearily about with their brooms, hand brushes, squabs and squilgees, superintended by our extraordinary fourth mate (always to me an object of interest, from the fact of the secret carefully hoarded in my breast that I had pulled him into the New York dock), who, with a microscopic eye, inspected each crack and seam after the boys' labors, in search of atomic particles of dirt, and called them back with all the dignity of command, and a small amount of commanding personality behind it, whenever he deemed he had discovered any. When this labor was finished I was generally so exhausted as to have no appetite for breakfast. But a sailor's stomach is not presumed to be at all sensitive under any oonditions. Arid above all, a "boy" —a boy belonging to a squad of boys who about once a day were encouraged and enthused to exertion an$ maritime ambition by the assurance conveyed them by one of the mates .that they weren't "worth their salt" what business had a boy's stomach to put on airs at sea? Most landsmen, if called up at 4 o'clock on a muggy morning and worked like mules for a couple of hours on a digestive vaouum, would probably at the breakfast hour feel more the need of food than the appetite to partake of it.

Though I followed the sea nearly two years, I am no sailor. The net result of my maritime experience is'a capacity for tying a bow line or a square knot and a positive knowledge and conviction concerning which end of tho ship goes first. I also know enough not to throw hot ashes to windward.

But on a yard I could never do much else but hold on. The foolhardy men about me would lio out fiat on their stomachs amid tho darkness and storm, and expose themselves to the risk of pitching headlong into the sea in the most reckless manner while trying to "spill the wind" out of a t'gallant sail. But I never emulated them. I never lived up to the maritime maxim of "one hand for yourself and tho other for the owners." I kept both hands for myself, and that kept me from going overboard. What would the owners have cared had I gone overboard? Nothing. Such an occurrence twenty-five odd years ago would, weeks afterward, have been reported in the marine news this way: "Common sailor, very common sailor, fell from t'gallant yard off Cape Horn and lost."

The owner would have secretly rejoiced, as he bought his Christmas toys for his children, that the t'gallant yard had not gone with the sailor. No on a yard in a storm I believed and lived up to the maxim: "Hold fast to that which is good." The yard was good. Yet I was ambitious when a boy before tho mast on the clipper which brought me to California. I was quick to get into the rigging when there was anything to do aloft. But once in the rigging I was of little utility.

The first time I went up at night to loose one of tho royals, I thought I should never stop climbing. Tho deck soon vanished in tho darkness of a vory black tropical night, the mastheads were likewise lost in a Cimmerian obscurity—whatever that is. At last I found the yard. I wasn't quite sure whether it was the right one or not. 1 didn't know exactly what to do, I knew I had to untie something somewhere. But where? Meantime the savage Scotch second mate was bellowing, as it then seemed, a mile below me. I knew the bellow was for me. I had to do something, and I commenced doing. I did know, or rather guessed, enough to cast off the lee and weather gaskets, or lines which bind the sail when furled to the yard, and then I made them up into a most slovenly knot. But the bunt gasket (the line binding the middle and most bulky portion of the sail) bothered me. I couldn't untie it. I picked away at it desperately, tore my nails and skinning my knuckles.

The bellowing from below continued as fiercely as ever, which, though not intelligible as to words, was certainly exhorting me, and me only, to vigilance. Then the watch got tired waiting for me. Thinking the sail loosed, they began hoisting. They hoisted the yard to its proper place and me with it. I clung on and went up higher. That, by the way, always comes of holding fart to that whioli is good. Then a man's head came bobbing up out of the darkness. It was that of a good natnred Nantucket boy, whose name of course was Coffin. He asked me the trouble. I went, into a lengthy explanation about the unmanageable knot. "Oh, the knotf said he. "Cut itr and he cut it I would never have cut it. In my then and even present nautical ignorance I should have expected the mast or yard to have fallen from cutting anything aloft. Only a few days previous I had seen the captain on the quarter deck jumping up and down in his tracks with rage because a common seaman had, by miictitlfo, cat a mizzen brace, and the second mate, as usual, had jumped up and down on the seaman when he reached the deck. I feared to set a similar jumping process In operation. Coming on deck after my lengthy and blundering sojourn loosing a royal, I expected to be mauled to a palp for my stupidity. But both watch and ndlowibg mate had gone below and I heard no more of it.

A few days after toy unsuccessful a»oeoaton, the Wizard one morning shot through a bank of fog and Son Francisco lay before us.

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HOLERA HOGS.

Cash paid for dead Hogs at my factory on tho lalaud southwest of the city also Tallow, Bones aod Grease of all kind. Dead animals removed freo of charge. Ofllce No. 13 H. Second, 'i'elephono No. 78 and 84.

HARRISON SMITH.

J.NUGENT. M.J. BROPHY,

]S^UGENT & CO., PLUMBING and GAS FITTING

A 4 dealer in

Qas Fixtures, Globes and Bnglneer'a Supplies. AOS Ohio 8treet. Terre Haute,

OPAL. COAL.

We have opened acoal office at950 Main, atthe former Kuhn elevator office and keep all kinds of

BLOCK & BITUMINOUS COAL

We solicit a share of the public patronage.

JOS. LEE—WM. DOltSEY

Ne Plus Ultra

Dyeing and Renovating Ladies* and Gentlemen's Wear in all desirable shades of any fabric at short notice and moderate prices at

a F. REINER'S

STEAM DYE WORKS 058 Main Street.

Established 1881. Incorporated 16S8»

QLIFT & WILLIAMS CO,,

Successors to Cllft, Williams A Co. J. H. WUAIAJM, President. J. M. Vhirr, Bec'y and Treat. jtAjrtrTAOTUKKBS or

Sash, Doors, Blinds, etc.

AJTP MUMEB8 nr

LUMBER, LATB, SHINGLES OLASS, PAINTS, OILS '1A3STD

BUILDERS' HARDWARE. Mulberry street, «orner frtb.

R. GAGG,

DKALtin

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES

Picture Frames, Moaidlng» Picture Frames to Order.

MeKeen's Block* Main sL 0th and 7ttu

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