Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 December 1895 — Page 3

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SAVIN' MOTHER." l The f;ri i r sat in his easy chair, Uetweeti t lit lire aal the IainpligM's ,,).....,. i. . i , Iii f::.e was ruddy and full and fair. His :i;:vt Miirtli boys i:i the chimney nook Com.ed the lli:ci f a picture book. His wifV, the pride of his home and 1.'- u t. Ucki i the hisr-nit n:i'l i.ia !e the tart, Laid tn'!o and st" fi.l the tea, Deify, swiitly, sihtd'y. Tir.i :.ad weary, and v ik and f;:int. She lore her trials without complaint, Eike n.nny another household saint CoKtent, all s--!::!; Miss above. Iu t!.r patient ministry of love. At !. t. between the clouds of smoke That wreathed Lis lips the husband spoke: 'There's taxes to raise, an' int'rest to iay, And i f there should eome a rainy day, Tvou!,l be mighty h in ly, I'm bound to say. T' have sumption' nut by. Tor folks must die. An there's funeral hüls, and gravestuns to buy Enough to swamp a man. purty nigh. liesldes. there's I-Mward and lick nnd Joe To be provided for w!ie:i we go. . f I was you, tell you what I'd du: I'd le as savin' of wo .1' ever I could; Extra tire don't du any good; I'd be savin of sou and savin of ile. And rim up sonn randies one in a while; I'd be rather sparin' of coffee an tea, I'or sugar is high, A r.il all to buy. And cider is g.,d n.tüg'i for me. I'd be kind ' earei';;! a!out my clo'es. And ! k sharp leer ih; mmey goes. Extra trimmin 'S the bane of w on; a. "I'd si!I oii the bes" of the cheese and l.oliey. And eggs is as gr.l, nigh about, 's the i.'Miiey. Ar.d a to the carpet you wanted new, I g . vs we ran ;;ke th: oKI one du; And as for the wa-dw-r an' sewing nia(I;ire Them smooth fni:i I agents, so pesky mean. Yoii'i bctier g. t ri-l of 'cm slick and clean. Wha they k; o,v b-v.t v.oimui's work? Du th-v calkil.ite v.. men was born to shirk?" D:.k and Edward little Juo Bat :n the ruriuT in a :.w. TLy t:,w the patient mother go On ts"less irramls to and fro; They saw that her form was bout and tain. II' temples gray, kor cheeks sunk in; They .v;;w the quivi r of lip and chin; And then, with a warmth he could not sue ther, Our .--poke th" youngest, frailest brother: "Vo'i talk of savin' wood and ile At:' tea an' sngnr, all the while. But yvi never talk of .savin mother!" f'rei'it LljF.

THE QUICKSAND CAVE UP ITS PPtEY. S:.rt'er had I icon a Texas ranger ami could hohl Iiis own extremely well in that rough frontier couutry. He had carried off a pretty Spanish wife from the t'hlhunhua region years before and bn.-.tght her to tl:e rocky California coat. and had purchased a settler's claif) and an aid adobe house built half a c. ntury ago. II?ie he farnnd. raised cattle on the unus.-d government lands and kept a sort of rude hotel, for several mountain trails j iined from the country seat, twenty miles south to the northern settleineiits in the iine:ies. lie had live daughters, too, tin? youngest, Theresa, known as Tessa, a girl of 17. That nducd to tin? attraction, and almost every night the dark-eyed, half-Spa nisii girl sang and daneed, and old Stoner managed to hear all the news that was afloat, and somehow most of the loose coin of the region ultimately found its way iato Iiis pockets. He was a t'eep oko, that same Ephriani Stoner, quiff, sly and patient, secret in his methods and deadly in his blow. JS toner's wife and four cider daughters were uneducated and in complete subjection to his will, but Tessa had more brains and energy than all the others put together ami quite as much beauty, so that the old Texan ranger took a certain 'pride in her, and had even allowed har to attend a district school for two years. This midnight, when, asI have said, the story begins, a person of a prying disposition might have discovered some Interesting performances in progress around the Stoner abode. On the north side of the house, quite in the shadow, Tessa was leaning from her window conversing in low tones with a blonde, fair-haired and sturdy young man on horseback. Tom, you do not know my father, lie is not the careless, warm-hearted man you suppose. I must admire: his ability, but that is all. I warn you, Tom, there was never a more dangerous man. He may be where he hears every word you say, but if he is he will not Epeal: to you or to me about It. but if knew that you cared for me he would be your enemy. He has other plans for me. He wants me to marry for money." Tom Warren had once been the Bchool teacher in the mountain district, miles away, where Tessa had been one of ids pupils. Thrown upon bis own resources from his childhood, be had developed a strong, earnest character, and was already so popular In the country that he had just been elected sheriff, although the youngest man on the ticket. While Tessa and her lover were talking a scene of a far different nature was being enacted on the south side of the old abode, which overlooked a deep ravine and a camp of five or six Dii'ii in the Held below. For several years these men had spent their summer-; there, ostensibly fishing, hunting and exploring the country with their dogs and guns. Everyone knew thein and most persons liked them. Tessa did uoL Stoner, tltongh it was midnight, sat la the moonlight on an old rawhide

chatr outside the door, smoking hs pipe and meditating a tough, sinewy, grizzled night owl of a man. A man came out of the bush and spoke deferentially: "Capt'n, good eveninT' "You're late." "Dick was shot." wvnr

'Must as the driver throwe.l on the j box. Shot by a passeuge: iu the neck ! and shoulder." "lie mustn't stay here to get us Into trouble. Take a boat ami carry him to the point and leave him in the cave there." "Yes. capt'n." "How much was aboard;"' "About z'JfJO for the Josephine miners." "Send it over the cliff before morning and I'll divide it up soon, but you be extra careful. The new sheriff id a smart one." "All right, capt'n," and the man went back to camp. A moment later, just as Stoner was going back to the house, there was the slow thud of horse's hoofs, and Tom Warren, the young sheriff, rode down the trail around the corner of the old adobe building into the main country road that lay to the west. He had at last yielded to Tessa's entreaties to "go, go this minute, Tom." "Where in the devil did you com? from, sheriff? Anything up in this part of the country?" "Oh, no, not a particle. I've been visiting my old school in the mountains and took the short trail home, down Cayueos." "Won't you put up and stay with us all night?" "No, Mr. Stoner, I must go down to Keriral to see frieuds there. It's only an hour's ride." "That settles it." thought Stoner. 'Tlentv of stout fellows to use as sher iff's deputies there, lie has probably stumbled on traces and is going for help." lie sat and smoked and slipped his hand back under Iiis coat. "Easy to shoot the fellow," he said to himself. "Well, good-by, Stoner," said Warren, suddenly. "I suppose the beach road is as good as ever?" "'Perfectly safe, only when you cross Toro creek keep on the sand bar. It's as hard as iron. I crossed there today." "Thank you, adios!" The cliffs were from fifty to "00 feet high and full of waveworn caves. Warren drew rein on the beach, and for fully ten minutes watched the ocean sway and rise. His thoughts thrilled with dreams of Tessa. He would take her away from her narrow and hurtful surroundings. He would lift her into happier and hotter circumstances, lie would force Stoner s consent, marry her and make her happy. He rode rapidly south, and in half an hour the mouth of the Toro appeared in the midst of sand dunes, breakers rolling In and the steady river llowing out. Here was the long sand bar, ten feet wide, and stretching across, hardly an inch higher than the watery surface. Warren was beginning to have some suspicious of Stoner, but not such as to lead him to doubt the simple directions lie had received. The sand bar looked safe, but within a few days the sea. as Stoner knew, had swept it migtiiy, iorn on: :he long, compacted bar. and placed Insreid a quivering mass of quicksand, so treacherous that not even a light-footed rabbit could cross without being swallowed up and dragged bodily down. Warren rode swiftly forward. He had crossed sand bars hundreds of times. Some horses would have been wiser, but tin? animal he rode had been bred in the valley. The approach to the bar was hard for a few yards as lie galloped on. Suddenly in one heart breaking, breathless descent, noiseless, but unutterably dreadful. Tom Warren's horse went down, down, ami the soft, slimy s.r.nl came up to his mane. He shrirked out that ghastly cry of appeal and agony that a desperate, dying horse will sometimes utter. Tom knew the peril. He had thrown his feet from the stirrups and drawn them up at the first downward throb, but the sand began to grasp him also, lie threw himself Hat on his breast and tore himself loose from the poor animal, over whose back the mingled sand and water was running, as it rolled from side to side In ineffectual struggles to escape. Toni spread himself out over as much surface as possible, but slowly, resistlessiy the mighty force drew him downward. The hard beach was only ten feet distant, but practically the chasm was impassable. lie felt the horse sink out of sight. The sand gripped his own knees and arms, his thighs and shoulders. Two inches more and the end by suffocation was inevitable. Up to this time he had not shouted. Only his horse's wild death screams had told of the tragedy. What was the use? Who would be passing along that lonely road? Then he thought of Tessa and of life. He raised his voice in a clear, strong shout for help, again and again repeated. Far off along the deep ravine came a cry in response and a horse's hurrying feet, and hope awoke in his heart. The margin of life was five minutes now not longer. Faster, faster, oh, fearless rider! "Tom, where are you?" Off,.,.,. rr.'!l lljltt't ..ktlv t'W. .l... ' nrit'i 11H i vomc iwo IM ,11. But the mountain girl knew the langer. Creeping downstairs for a drink of water she had heard her father's words t Warren, had thrown a shawl about her shoulders and run to the pasture. Then she caught her pet horse, sprang upon his unsaddled back, seized a riata as she passed the stable, ami galloped at the utmost speed down the ravine, hoping against hope, for many minutes had necessarily elapsd since Warren started. She sprang to the ground and tossed

the rawhide rope to the one arm he- hnT above the sand. She folded her shawl and put it over her horse's shoulders and tied the riata around like a collar. Then she led him slowly away from the qulckstands. and Warren thought his arms vould break, but slowly, reluctantly, pa in ful 1 . the sand gave uj its pivy. "Your father told me to take this road. Tessa," said the young shoniT. "Yes. I know that, and I heard one of the men tell him to-day that the bar was swept or.i. There was a long silence between them. "Tessa, go with me to St. Louis," said Warivn. "and let us be married." And Tessa went. (hl Stoner heard of the news a few days later. Within an hour he had "retired from business." The camp was broken up, the hunters disappeared, mysterious lights Hashed at intervals all night from the points of the cliffs, and the next day old Stoner himself disappeared, leaving his family, the ranch ami the live stock. It is said that he made the best of his way to Mexico and tinally to South America. The world is large as yet, and men who have money can ramble over a good deal of it without finding a past they wish to escape from. Itut Tessa lives in her San Luis Obispo cottage with orange trees over it and La Marque roses on the porch, and she thinks herself the happiest woman iu California. Eelford's Magazine.

HOW EGYFTIANS HATCH EGGS. They Still Cllnrr to n Method Used in the I)aH of the Pharaohs. Among the fellahs of Egypt a process of incubation is in use which lias been handed down from antiquity, perhaps from the time of Diodorus, who. forty years before the Christian era. said that the Egyptians brought eggs to maturity with their own bauds, and that the chickens hatched tints were not inferior to those hatched iu the usual way. The process is described in Nature. Ovens are built, consisting of a chamber eleven feet square and four feet high, witli a Hat roof. Above this another chamber nine feet high is built, with a vaulted roof, having a small opening in the middle to admit light, llelow a larger opening communicates with the room underneath, in cold weather both rooms are kept closed, and a lamp is K f t burning in each, entrance then being had through the lower chamber. When the oven is ready the proprietor goes to the neighboring villages and collects eggs. They aie placed on mats, strewn with bran, in the lower chamber. Fires are then lighted in troughs along the sides of the upper rooms, the eggs being in two lines immediately below. The fires are lighted twice a day, t'ne first dying out at noon a'ul the other burning from Z to S in the evening. The first batch of eggs is left for half a day in the warmest place, and then it makes way for the rest, until all have been warmed. This process is kept up for six days, when the eggs are examined -carefully in a strong light. Those that are clear are cast aside. Those that are cloudy are put back in the oven for another four dnys. They are then removed for five days to another chamber, where there are no tires, but the air is excluded. After this they are placed an inch or two apart and continually turned, this last stage taking six or seven days. The eggs are examined constantly by being held against the upper eyelid to reveal if they are warmer than the human skin. The wdiole process lasts twenty-one days, but thin-shelled eggs often hatch In eighteen. The heat required Is s; degrees Fehrenhoit. Excessive heat Is undesirable. New York Sun. A Huge. CUobc. A Parisian linn of globe-makers has just completed n gigantic globe. It was built on plans furnished by four j French geographers Yilliard, Cotard, j Tissandier and Seyrig and is said to be the most wonderful model of the earth over produced. The St. Louis Republic gives a description of this globe which we copy. It is a huge sphere, forty-two feet in diameter, and lias painted upon its surface all the details of the earth's geography. The globe weighs thirteen tons, but is so nicely balanced upon its axis that it is easily rotated by a small wheel worked by one man. Its entire surface area, which is raised and depressed so as to show mountains, valleys and other physical features, live hundred and twentytivo feet. Th next largest model of the earth is the ei gl it eon -foot globe used in the observatory at Herlin, and the largest one in America Is only eleven ami a half feet in diameter. Grateful Appreciation. Drummer I've done a big day's work to-day; have taken orders for over $.",0x10 worth of goods. liill Collector Who are the parties? Drummer All to Skinner Je Slowpay. liill Collector That means steady employment for me for ten months. Thanks; don't know what I should do if it weren't for you. Boston Transcript. Cruel Woman. He deeply loved the learned editress To whom his pretty verses he directed; Hut then she blighted all his happiness. For lMth his suit and verses she rejected! Detroit Free Press. Yosf Indeed. liixby What idiots girls are when they try to imllate the men! Marie (11a tiered) Do you think so? That proves how excellent the imitation is. Truth. A man doesn't think of the feelings of his mother when he does wrong, but ho expects the newspapers to consider her when they mention it.

THE TCMB OF A HERO.

MnmiauMit on the Grave of Gen. John C. Fremont. In the far West, a mountain, capped with everlasting snow, is an enduring monument to Jen. John C. Fremont, i and it is now proposed he shall have j one in the Eat. The Associated Pioitvers of the Territorial Days of California have start"d a movement to obtain i funds for a statue to be erected on the j jrrave of the "PathHiider." who madi I it possible to settle the States of the j Pacific coast and who preserved the j territory for tiie Fnited States. Realizing that Fremont, although par ticiiiariy endeared to i. alllornians. is a i man whom the nation revered and admired, it has been determined to give every citizen of the Fnited States an opportunity to subscribe for the fund. The Metropolitan Trust Company. No. Ö! Wall street. New York city, has been authorized by the Pioneers" Association to leceive contributions. Persons desiring to add their mite to the monument fund should send it to this company. The final interment of Fremont's remains tuok place last year. He died in the city of New York, July 1". lS'-". The body was placed temporarily in the vault of Trinity Church and was afterward removed to the receiving tomb of Rockland Cemetery on' the Hudson. The site selected for his grave overlooks Tappan Zee and the Hudson. The panorama of nature, which the great explorer loved so well, is no more beautiful on any spot on the globe. The quaint little villages of Hastings, Dobbs' Ferry. Irvington. Tarry town and Sing Sing are on the opposite shore. In the distance the waters of Long Island Sound add to the beauty of the location. '1 ho long delay between Cen. Fremont's death in lXi and his burial in 1S'.1 arose In part because it was undetermined whether to lay his body in the earth or in a mausoleum to be erected above g found, and the final determination was not reached until the fall of when Mrs. Fremont made a request to have the remains taken from the receiving tomb and laid to rest in the ground "in the open air, for suns and snows to fall upon his grave, as he so often unfiinchingly met them in his life of toilsome duty done." It was Mrs. Fremont's wish to have the final interment private and without publicity, but his old comrades-in-arms and others who loved and revered his memory felt that the name or Fremont and his remains belonged to the nation, and that they should be permitted to attend his burial. Iu deference to this feeling the final interment ami services incident thereto took place under the auspices of the Associated Pioneers. When the question of erecting a memorial was spoken of at the grave of the Pathfinder, and afterwards more fully discussed at the annual meeting of the Pioneers, the opinion obtained that very many, if not all, of the early day Californiaus would feel it to be a privilege an;1 alo a duty to co-operate with the Associated Pioneers in contributing and in raising tin? funds necessary for a monument. The opinion was also expressed that if the general public were invited to contribute to this grateful and patriotic work, a fund j sutfieient to erect a very expensive and mposlng structure, a monument worthy of toe man. would be readily contributed; but upon the suggestion that this great publicity would probably wound the feelings and the sensitiveness of Mrs. Fremont, it was deemed best to eonline the cost of the monument to j 10,01 m), and also confine the movement to the Pioneers of California, as also his military, political and personal friends. Mrs. Fremont was notified and sent the following answer: "This will assure you that the idea of a memorial by the Pioneers and Loyal Legions is entirely congenial to my feelings, and for some mi sons better than any personal memorial. The general did belong to his count 17, and did do it great and unselfish service, and while I could not ask, I can value and thank fully accept so appropriate and friendly a tribute." Upon receiving this response a number of artisls and sculptors were asked to submit designs for a monument that would express artistically and Impressively the following story: In Fremont's iirst expedition across the continent in 1841! they bad made the ascent of what is called Fremont's Peak, now in Wyoming, where, by act of Legislature, it is reserved as a State Park. Returning to their camp of deposit near a great rock l.Ooo miles beyond the Mississippi, to which the national name of "Rock Independence" has since been given, he wrote: "Here, not unmindful of the custom of early travelers and explorers in our country. I engraved on this rock of the far West a symbol of the Christian faith. 1 made on the hard granite the Impression of a large cross which I covered with a black preparation of India rubber, well calculated to resist the Intluence of wind and rain. A number of designs were received; several of them were very artistic and beautiful, but the design submitted by Mrs. Clio Ilinton Hunikerof New York, whose genius and fame as a sculptor will soon become world-wide, was unanimously preferred and accepted. The statue is to be of heroic sixe ami the feet of the figure will be on a pedestal fourteen feet high, making the lotal height of the monument twentytwo feet. Slmp'e Subtraction. A favorable example of Irish wit is the following, lorrowed from Judge. It answers very well, also, as a hit at the good-natured people who amuse themselves by patronizing the "lower classes." An. Irishman was haulius water In

barrels f?m a sma!l river to siippTy the inhabitants of the" village, widen was not provided with water work. As he halted ar the top of the bank to give a "blow" before proceeding to peddle the water, a gentleman of tho inquisitive type rode up. and after passing the time of day. asked: "How long have you been hauling water for the village, my good man?" "Tin years or more. s-r." was the simple reply. "Ah! And how many loads do you make a day?" "From tin to fifteen, aceordin to the weather, sor." "Yes. Now I have one for you. Pat." said the gentleman, laughing. "How much water have you hauled altogether?" The Irishman jerked his thumb in the direction of the river, at the same time giving his team the hint to- st;irt, and replied: "All the wather that ycz don't see there now, sor."

HAVE NO ALPHABET. Cliincse Have a LaiiKiidce Without K 1 c in c 11 1 a r y Ch u r nc t e rs. The peculiarity of the Chinese lsguage consists of the fact that they have a written and printed language and no alphabet, every word in their vocabulary having a separate character of its own. These characters are divided into six classes, the total number being about L'L'Joö. The first class, according to eminent Chinese philologists, includes "imitative symbols. These are 0is in number, and are believed to be the very first Chinese symbolic signs invented. The second class includes the "symbols indicating thought," and are 107 in number. Those characters are formed in such a way as to indicate by their form or position some idea referring to the relative circumstances pointing to them. Th third class Includes 710 characters, known as "combined ideas." This class bears some relations to our compound words and comprise characters made up of two or more symbols to form a single idea. The fourth class is listed as "inverted significations," and includes :".7l! characters, which, by some inversion, contraction or alteration of prirK are made to acquire different meanings. The fifth is the great class of "united sound svmbols," containing LM.S10 characters. The sixth class, which has no fixed number of characters, Is listed under the head of "borrowed uses." This class includes meraphoric symbols and combinations in which the meaning is induced by some fanciful imagination. But a few hundred of these have been cut in characters by the type founders, but imaginative writers have been known to use thousands that are not regularly recognized as belonging in the language, and which are not included in the sum total of 21. -"5 characters mentioned in the opening. Certain fanciful writers, so Dr. Williams says, have been known to use as high as LW.ooO such symbols. The authority referred to in the foregoing sentence, while he admits that romantic writers have been known to employ upwards of 2';0,o.0 characters in their writings, closes his article on that subject by saying: "While an enormous number of characters are occasionally employed, running in some instances far above 00.om, it may be safely said that a knowledge of 10.000 characterswill enable one to read any work published in the Chinese language and to write intelligently on a 113 subject." Itoston Transcript. A CJ nest of Ifi!ior. An English actor was a member of a company snowbound in the Sierras ' while en route from California to the East, says Judge. Before their train j was pulled out of the drifts they had ! been reduced to eating the coarse fare j of the railroad laborers, and got little . enough even of that; so that they all had a magnificent hunger on when the train reached a small station at which there was a restaurant, and the Englishman was the first to find a seat at a table. "Bring me, in a hurry," he said to the landlord, a burly Western man, "a porterhouse steak, some deviled kidneys, a brace of chops, plenty of vegetables, and two bottles of Bass bitter beer." The landlord stuck his head out of the dining room door and yelled to somebody in the rear apartment: "Say, Bill! tell the band to play 'Knie Britannia.' The Prince of Wales has come." Tho Mit of Ants. Sir John laibbock. the naturalist, who has done more to popularize the study of Insect ways and habits than all the other modem entomologists combined, has been experimenting to find out how long the common ant would live If kept out of harm's way. On Aug. S, 1SSS, an ant which had been thus kept and tenderly cared for died at the age of 15 years, which is the greatest age any species of insect has yet been known to attain. Another individual of the same species of ant (formica fifsca) lived to the advanced age of l.'l years, and the queen of another kind (lasius nlger) laid fertile eggs after she had passed the age of 1 yenrs. A Ilapny Thought. Herr X. (to a boggar in the street I'll give you r cents if you'll lend me for half an hour your board with the inscription "I am deaf and dumb." Dear Mute All right. What do you Maut it for? Herr X. I am jioiiig to the barber's over the way to get a shave. Feierabend. probably It 1h Becoming to 1 1 or. Probably the most thoughtful daughter In the world lives in Atchison. Though twenty-live years of age, she still wears her hair down ber back to keep her mother looUlng youug Atchl sou Globe.

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WITHOUT A BOTTOM. Kallroad Laborer FnableXto Fill i! JIolc in Connecticut. Along the line of the railroad Jrack. a little way out of the settlement of Towsntii Cenn.. is a seemingly bottom-' less pit, which Tow.-uitio folk fajiey may be the main gateway to the kingdorn of Pluto. Not long ago the railroad company undertook to fill in the pit. which threatens the roadbed. For several montlu 3. big gang of workmen has been trying to till up the insatiable hole with car loads of .sand and gravel, and with the result that it is apparently not a whit less hungry for sand and gravel than at the outset. Old abandoned freight ears aro used for tillers. These are sniffed full of earth and dumped into the greedy fathomless- abyss. The Ürst consignment of sand loaded cars, fifty in number, went ker-splash, into the liquid chasm which sucked them down like quicksand, but very swiftly, and the slimy waters heaved and swayed with thick, heavy waves dimpling and bubbling like a porridge, for a I0113 time thereafter. Then speedily mora cars were dumped In, and they wero no more than pebbles. Itight in tho wake of the cars the workmen dispatched r.00 ear loals of loose earth, then more cars and more gravel and sand. I'p to date over r.X) cars bavo been cast into the bottomless pit, and nobody knows exactly how many loada of earth. In carrying on the work the company used two special freight trains of thirty cars, which made live trips a day each and had dumped 7."!l car loads Into the hole i;p to the time the workmen lost count of the number of loads. As far as anyone knows all the mass of stuff that has ever been thrown into It has had no effect whatever in the way of stuffing its maw, and the company Is Inclined to think the undertaking is a hopeless one. However, it will keep on dumping 1V loads of earth daily. Said a workman, gazing dejectedly into Towamic's black, shaking, heaving viscous pit: "WleTe all this stuff, dirt and cars lias gone to, blamed if I know. The company has already spent pretty nearly ;?:u' trying to fill it, but all of us now believe It really is bottomless." Scores of neighbors vi!t To want ic each week, tr.ad gingerly about the edges .,? ih, pit and gaze with awe at the spot where the cars disappeared. New York Herald. A White Squall. "A white squall, did I ever see one? I should say I had," said an old sailor in the barge oll'nv. "We were between here and the West Indies, and 'it was as fair a day as you ever put eyes ox I was at the wheel, and we were bowling along under a pretty sailing breeze. There wasn't a cloud to be seen, unless a little white vapor far off could ! called a cloud. All of a sudden the captain came up out of his cabin. " 'Get all the light sails o:T her as quick as you can,' he shouted to the mate. C!ew up the royals and topgallant sails, and bear a hand lively, boys.' "'What's the matter with the M man now?' said the sailors, as they linked around the horizon and saw nothing but sunshine and the clear sky. "Nevertheless, all hands turned tgetting In the light sails. The captain took the wheel and sent me to assist. Of course we all thought It was a pie.-. of foolishness, but we worked with x will because the captain told us to. "Well, we had no sooner got th.i-.-o sails in than it struck. Bight out f the clear sky came an awful gale. It tore our great mainsail and other saiU to ribbons quicker than a Hash. It came 'butt end to.' as the sailors say. "How did the captain know it was coming? Why, he was in his cabin and happened to see his glass go down suddenly. That means something, and ho hustled on deck. A good captain watches his barometer as a cat watches a mouse." Out of the Way. Among the loyal Maori chiefs invited to meet the Duke of Edinburgh, when he was in New Zealand, was one of tlm original signers of the treaty of Waltaugi. in 1S40, a man who had ever since been a firm friend of the English. The author of "Seventy Years of I.if in the Victorian Era" says that after the reception an English bisho; asked the governor: "Do you know the antecedents of that old heathen, sir?" "No, my dear bishop," was the reply, "but I do know that he brought five hundred of his clansmen into the tä'ld to light for the queen. So I iuvilcd I.im to meet the queen's son." "Well." said the bishop, "when I arrived in New Zealand, that chief came to me, and said he wished to be baptized. I knew he had two wives, so f told him he must first persuade one of them to return to her family. 11 said he feared it would be difiieulf, but tint he would see what could be done. "In two months he returned. 'Now, missionary.' he exclaimed, 'you may baptize mo, for I have only one wife " 'And what have you done with our dear sister, your other w ife?' I asked. "lie smacked his Iii. '1 have oatea her!' said he." A Safe Position. WIggs Would you have the 0011 rag to attend a duel? Biggs Not unless I were one of th principals. Wiggs Why not a spectator? liigsrs I notice that the principals are the only ones who are absolutely safi on those occasions. New York World. Question of Age. Editor You say you wrote that Jok yourself? .lokis-t Yes. sir. Editor You don't really look U. young man, but you must be about rC year old. Modes.

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