Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 19 April 1889 — Page 2

THE FIRST QVARRU TEXT : SMOKING. The LWt oi smoking is vulgar, you know, Only fit for those poople whose instinct AM low Insisted his wife as she sat by his side, To which opposition lie calmly replied : "You'd surelv called Milton a high-minded man; 3Not so, my dear wife? His life didn't pan Oat m failure, yon know ; well now I insist IX all smokers are Jow, he's dawn on your list. Carlyle, yon 11 admit, wasageninp, nicht wahr? (Excuse me a jif while I light my cigar.) He smoked like a chimney, Clarissa, my dear. While Lamb smoked each month aore than I smoked last vear. Old Newton at church with his conscience quite clear Fumed with tobacco the pews in the rear. Your Dickens smoked, too, while Thackeray's clothes Were soaked with tobacco fames thro' to his hose In short, dear Clarissa, my list would contain The name of each genius from Raleigh to Twain. Then smiling, she answered with logic elate, You promise to swear off until you are great?

DEAF AND DUMB.

The Thrilling Experience of

a Military Spy.

BY PKKCY H. MORRIS. Sherman did not leave Chattanooga for Atlanta "without knowing all about the route and its obstructions. His spies and scouts passed over almost every mile of the distance, and made full and accurate reports. I was one of the last sent out and the last to return, and I had a close shaye of it. Information was required which obliged me to enter the Confederate, camps and see with my own eyes, and as two or three of our Bpies had been captured and hung, and the Confederates were on the qui vive to prevent others from penetrating their lines, I needed something more than a disguise. After canvassing the matter for a while, I adopted the suggestion of a regimental surgeon to play the role of a "dummy I was to be deaf and dumb, and carry pencil and paper, and do my talking that way. He coached me for two or three days before the start, and when I was ready to go I

naa mastered tne situation, xne surgeon had been assistant superintendent in a deaf and dumb asylum for several years, and he was peculiarly fitted to teach me my steps. You may reply that any one can aplay deaf and dumb and deceive people. Yes, any one can, up to a certain point. I was to go beyond that point. If it was discovered that I was not what I claimed to be my life would pay the forfeit. I was provided with a bundle of stationery, some tobacco, a lot of religious tracts, articles of cheap goods, and a few specialties, and I left the Federal outposts one dark and rainy evening in good spirits. Obstructing Sherman's advance was the mountain barrier called Bocky Face Ridge. The main gap, through which the railroad and highway ran and still run, is called Buzzard's Boost Gap. Our scouts and spies had reported this gap so strongly fortified that Sherman felt he could not force it. Further South is Snake Creek Gap. One of my objects was to ascertain how this gap was defended. I was well within the Confederate lines before midnight, and at about that hour I found shelter in a barn, and slept until two hours after daylight. When I turned out no one was in sight, and I had walked fully two . miles along the highway before I met anyone. Then I encountered a party of about thirty cavalrymen going to the front. I was in citizen's clothes and a pack on my back, and, of course, expected to be stopped. The troops was commanded by a Lieutenant, and as he came up he ordered a halt and queried of me: "Who are you, and where are you going?" Here was the first test. The men had .gathered around me, and every one had his eye upon me. It was a compliment to me that one of the men called out before I had made a sign : "Dog gone him, he's a dummy 1 He's got a face like a washboard!" I wrote on my tablet: "What do you want?9 and the Lieutenant wrote in reply : Who are you, and where are you going? I crave1 mv name as Georcre Smith.

w- tm and stated-that-f was a Confederate

pedtfler. I opened my, bundle, presented him with some tobacco, and several of the men made purchases. The officer asked for my pass, and I told him that it was taken from me three davs before by some Yankee raiders who

had captured me and turned me loose ;

again.

"Well, they'll overhaul him back

there, anyhow," he said to his sergeant, and, waving his hand to me, he gave me the order to ride on. I was in for it now, and must push ahead. I could see an encampment down the road, and any attempt to flank it would create suspicion. It was well that I went ahead, for one of the cavalrymen followed me clear back to tbe sentinel on the outskirts of the camp. He walked his horse directlv behind me, and so close

that the animal's nose almost touched j my back, bat he did not catch me off mv I

gTwa. w nen me sentinel stopped me I handed him my name and occupation, and in a few minutes I was in the presence of the officer of the guard. While he asked for my pass, he did not seem suspicious. I was escorted to the quarters of the officer of the day, and here came a test, made so carelessly that if I had not had all my wits about me I should have been lost. As we reached the quarters the escort said : 44 Here is ft deiif and dumb man, who has no pass. Capt. Harsher ordered him here from the f,uard tent." "All right," replied the officer, who w;is not even looking at us; and then, as the escort started off he half turned to me and said : "Stand aside for a few minutes and I will attend to your case." "His tone was so careless and his order so natural that I caught my muscles moving to obey. Had I picked up a foot I should have given myself away. Afi I did not move, he presently turned tome, seemed surprised that I was there, and began to inquire about me. I gave him the details, and while we were passing the tablet back and forth a captain came up. Tbe officer of the day said to him: uWe have captured a dummy. Mighty queer that he should take to

peddling among the soldiers, but tbey are a queer lot. He says he had a pus1 from Polk, but that the Yanks gobbled itwhea they captured him the oilier day. Do you see that blood spot on his left cuff?" I was looking the officer full in the face as he spoke. I felt that he would try some trick, but he did it so neatly that he almost caught me. I winked, bu$ I did not drop my eye s. "You must have taken him for an impostor," laughed the Captain. "We can't be too cautious, was the reply, and he took the tablet and wrote that I might circulate about camp uatil guard mount and then report to the new officer of the day. I got some breakfast, sold out about half my goods, and when I reported d asked that I might pass on no objection

was made. I found troops everywhere now, and being so far within the lines no one questioned my right to be there. I underwent but one more lest before reaching the gap, and that I was prepared for. The soldiers accepted me

for what I claimed to be, and while ny condition excited the sympathies of some, others were incline to ridicule and joke. While I knelt in a group a joker held a pistol close to my ear and fired it off. I heard the click of the hammer and was therefore prepared for the rereport. I found the gap covered by a weak body, with no defences to speak of, and I got through them without trouble, though my goods were now fill gone, and I had to claim that I was on my way to Dalton after a new stock. I was arrested after entering the gap, und the arrest came about through a corporal in a battery of artillery, who at first contended that he recognized me as a deserter named William Bidges. It appeared that I closely resembled Ridges in build and look, but as soor . as the corporal had a close look at me lie acknowledged his mistake. This oc curred just before dark, and the Captain of the battery, who was in command, sent me to Gen. Wayne, in command of some Georgia State troops. I was not suspected of being a Federal spy, but having been arrested on a charge, f.nd

being found without a pass, its was quite proper to make a further investigation. There were several officers in i;he General's tent when I was taken in and reported on, and the facts in my case had no sooner been announced than one of them, who was surgeon in Hood's command, held a whispered consultation with the General, and I suspected

a plot to test me. My suspicion were soon proved correct. The escort hivA retired and left me standing in front of the entrance, inside, of course, but just where I was in the way of any one coming or going. The whispered consultation lasted about five minutes, and then the General casually remark el to me ; "Take a seat and I will hear you." The surgeon wa looking, me full :in the face, and had I made the slightest move he must have detected it. Sit down!" commanded the General in a louder voice. "I was looking at his sword hanging on the tent-pole, and I did not turn my eyes until he wheeled around in his chair and beckoned to me to approach. I handed him my tablet and pencil and hef inquired why I had not a pass and where I wanted to go. I expburcd about the pass as before, and told him I wanted to go to Dalton or Rome and secure more goods. The General would have been quite satisfied in five m inutes, but the surgeon was a keen reader of human nature, and he was convinced that I was in disguise. I heard him whisper his suspicions to others, and their lack of belief made Mm all t he more determined to expose me. I bad no fear of any of the rest, but I realized that it would take all my nerve and tack to hold out against the surgeon. Some of the tests he at once put me to may seem trifles to the reader until he can put himself in the position I occupied. He rose up suddenly, crossed over ix me, and slapping me on the shoulder he exclaimed : Tet me see your tongue!" "I had my teeth hard shut or my jaws would have opened at the command. "Straighten up!" was the next command. I was humped over, and the words went through me like a bullet. I did not move, however. "Take your foot off the sash!" shouted the surgeon, but I looked from him w the General and showed my wonder. "Come, now, but your beaten!" laughed one of the officers, and as 1 lie others had some remark to make the surgeon was nettled. He looked at ate fixedly for a long half minute, and tl.cn he said to his comrades : ul won't give in yet, General. Please hold onto him until we are certain of him one wav or the other." 0h, certainly; but I think you have made a mistake this time. A" deaf and dumb person always has an expression not to be counterfeited. He has told a pretty straight story." "That is true; but I want to study him a little morQ. He claims to have lost his pass. I want to a?k him for more details. What was the date? He turred and pat hi question to

mo, and had I not been looking ahead I for something of the kind, my mouth j

would have got away with me. His failure provoked another laugh, ami I wrote od the tablet : 14 What does the officer say ? Does he believe I am a deserter?" "He says you are deceiving; us." "I have it hard enough now, without being looked upon with ridicule and suspicion," I wrote, and the General nodded his head to me and said to the surgeon : "I won't kaep him longer than noon to-morrow. The poor cuss has a hurd roe to hoe, and I don't want to discourage him." The guard was called, and I was removed to the guard house, which was a log structure and quite comfortable. It held a prisoner, aud I had no doubt that he had been placed theie for a p arpose. As soon as the door was shut ashind me, he came forward and took :cy hand and said : "Ah! and they have got you, too! Both of us must die together 1 I signs to him that I wua a deaf xnute, but he replied: "Come, no nonsense with me. I know you, and lyou will soon kfcow me. I nave seen you at Sherman's headquarters a dozen times. I am Jock Ross a

Union spy, I was arrested here a weefc ago, tried by court martial, found guilty and to-morrow 1 am to be hung." He trapped himself right on the start. As I had never been at Sherman's head quarters but once, I knew the name ol every spy employed by that army, and there was no such person as Jack Ross. He worked every way he could think ol to trap me, but after a couple of hours he gave it up as a bad job. I did nol go to sleep that night, suspecting the

surgeon would play me some trick. About midnight he came softly in with a couple of soldiers, and at a signal the men screamed in my ears, I did nol move. Then a musket was dischargee? over my body, and the surgeon called out: " You careless devil ! you havt wounded him!" I did not think so, and I did not "awake" un-til they pulled at me. Next morning the pretended spy was taken out, and I was threatened and buldozed for an hour. After breakfast, as I sat with my back to the door, it was softly opened, and I heard the click ! click ! oi the hammer of a revolver. It made my flesh creep, but I did not turn. At noon I was returned to the General's tent. He was all alone, and he wrote on the tablet that I was free to go, and that he would give me a pass. As he said this he handed me a paper, but ten seconds later quietly remarked: "See if I signed my name to it. This was not the last test. He conducted me to the door of the tent, waved me past the sentinel, and observed : "Turn to the left to avoid the ditch. I turned to the right, bought some provisions of a soldier, and after making a dinner set out to the south. I do not think I was followed or further suspected. I thoroughly investigated the defences of the gap, located the nearest largb bodies of Confederates, and returned to the Union lines with no other damage than a flesh wound received in the very last mile of travel from a bushwhacker.

What Different People Eat That "one man's meat is another man's poison" is a trite proverb, but while we marvel at the strange dishes that are eaten by savages, we forget that civilized and well-to-do people often regard as delicacies the thing? which neighboring peoples, equally civilized and well-to-do, think not fit to eat. Most Americans are shocked at

the idea of eating frogs, but they eat hot bread and biscuits and heavy pastries, which a Frenchman would no touch. Both French and English eat two varieties of snails, which are said to add a very agreeable flavor to soups. A favorite Italian dish is roasted hedge hog. The animals is killed in the woods, skinned at once, and then allowed to hang for a few hours, and, after being trussed with his own quills, roasted be fore a quick fire. Another very strange Italian dish, found, however, only in e few northern Italian towns, is the cooked snake. Snakes are said by those who have eaten them to be not aft rich as eels, and more delicate iu flavor. Many Americans regard bear meat a a! delicacy, but none consider the cat good to eat, though the cat is in many respects a more desirable animal than the bear. In Upper Carniola, a province of Austria, not only cats, but dogs, are regarded as a great delicacy. The peasants there are said to steal cats and dogs to cook, when they cannot buy them. And cats and dogs are not more abhorred by us as articles of diet than is the pig by Jews, Turks, and Hindoos. One very deplorable, though not un palatable, dish is a favorite in Northern Italy. The peasants catch and kill little birds of almost any kind, roas them on a spit before a sharp fire, lay them in a pickle for a day or two, and serve them cold. In Southern Russia a prized delicacy is grapes pickled in vinegar. Bluejays and crows are used in some parts of Europe to make soups, and arc said to be excellent by those who like them cooked in this way. The owX however, is not known to be considered a delicacy in any part of the civilized world. A favorite dish in Italy, much eater on holidays, is eggs poached in oil with

garlic, and covered with chee3e grated j and a favorite dish in Berlin is potatoes and pears stewed in broth made with salt pork. Youth's Companion. The Jackdaw's B ashless. The jackdaw is a compact and livelj bird; he aptly proves the truth of the proverb, ''birds of a feather flock together," for he flies about with the rooks and feeds with them. He is a pleasing bird to look at as he steps nimbly about; the gray cowl on the back of his head aud hii keen, knowing gray eye distinguishing him at once from his large! companion;. His note is different and tells that he is with them, even when flying at a distance; it is a sharp chattering "Jack ! Jack !" Where sheep are pastured suits him best as a hunting ground; he pays them great attention and perforins a useful office for them. I have seen rooks do the same service occasionally, but the jackdaw makes it his business to look after the comfort and welfare of the flock. It is most amusing to see the busy, methodical way in which he sets to work to rid an animal of its insect tormentors. All over its back and sides he hops and clings, the sheep standing quiet all the time and knowing perfectly tvell that what the bird is doing is for its benefit. The animal only stirs when the other sheep have moved on, and then it and the jackdaw go together. The bird finishes off the top part of his woolly courser with the head. First one ear is examined and then the other; even the eyelids are investigated. That being done, he devotes himself to the legs and under parts. Having finished this seif-imposed task of sanitary inspection, he flies off to rind and comfort another suffering member of the flock. A Good Store to Draw From. "What are you doing now?" "I work on a newspaper; I'm a space writer." "Where do you get your subjects? Why, out of my head, mostly. "Oh, yes; I see. You write on spac I believe you said." Yanke Blade.

1 Hon to Froloiu Life.

How to prolong human life is a question of personal interest to every man, and the duty of attempting to do so is one that particularly rests with the medical profession. When an individual has attained to full development and sound health say at 40 the expectancy of life may be twenty-live or thirty years; for the individual there are great risks, but with the aggregate of mankind such questions may be calculated with business-like accuracy. There are two great factors which concern the prolongation of a human life the inheritance and the conditions which make up a life of history of the individual. The inheritance of longevity from one or both parents is a powerful factor, and one that carries great weight with life insurance offices. This is a more important factor than an infaacy free of weokness, provided that the infantile ailments be dependent upon temporary conditions of defective nutrition, or conditions incident to the stages of development only. There is no doubt as to the importance of the habits of life affecting longevity ; temperance in right things, in activity and in restraint, in regularity

in morning rising and in work as well as in resting and sleeping; uniform industry is as conducive to health as is regularity in diet. From the period of infancy upward a sound and well-knit brain has' much to do with the performance oi a healthy constitution. The relation of diet to longevity has often been discissed; Ave can only say here that the diet should be adapted, in quality and in kind, to the work of the individual ; while such articles as alcohol, tobacco, and tea, if used at all, should be employed in moderation by those who "wish for a staple constitution and prolonged life. Passing over such important considerations as being familiar to most members of the profession, we come to the great question of the causes of weo.r in life the outcome of the frictions of life which all must meet with more or less. The various factors at work, especially in a town life, make impressions on the brain which leads to fatigue and premature wear. The strong-brained individual may not be hurt thereby; the weaker man is exhausted by such impression from without, and. a second generation under such influences is likely to suffer through loss of tone and vitalitv, in cell structures rather than actual stature or measurement. City life necessarily produces a rapid and unceasing series of impressions, and calls for constant exertion. The laws of sanitation and cerebral hygiene should,

then, be carefully studied. It is desirable to have what quietness is possible during brain work, and the necessity for proper ventilation as & moans of maintaining mental energy is well known. It might lessen brail wear in many offices if electric lighting were substituted for gas illumination. Good digestion is essential to continued work with good lasting power. Late rising gmd a still more hurried luncheon and rush back to work, followed, st the conclusion of the day, by a heavy meal when the man is wearied, often tends to exhaustion as much as unavoidable pressure of business. British Medical Journal. - . Temperature of Food and Drinks. A medical journal gives the results of Prof. Uffelman's researches in the field, and adopts the following rules : 1. That in general, a temperature of food and drink which approaches that of the blood is most healthful. For nurslings such temperature is essential. 2. For quenching the thirst the best temperature is from 50 degrees F. to 68 degrees F. The favorite American temperature is, as is well known, 32 degrees F., and an issue is raise I at once between Prof. Uffelman and the American nation. 3. The ingestion of very hot or very cold food or drink in health has a damaging effect, whieh the hot or cold substance is taken. Hence the gulping down of icewater or hot coffee, etc., means eventually, according to the light we are quoting, a mere ventral damnation. If a person takes a drink for the purpose of warming himself, as in cold weather, he can accomplish this by having the drink at a temperature of 116 degrees to 120 degrees F.

4. The use of very hot and cold substances, following or alternating, is injurious to the teeth. But the taking of cold water lessens the injurious action of extremely hot substances upon the stomach. 5. Ingestion of cold food and drinks lessens the bodily temperature, whether it be normal or febrile. 6. Cold fluids lessen the hyperirritability of the stomach. Cold ingesta raise the tonus of the stomach, increase peristalsis, and promote movement of the bowels. Cold food and drinks increase the tendency to cough, according to Uffelman, by causing reflexly a congestion of the

bronchial vessels. Hence, persons with bronchial disease ought not to indulge in cold drinks. It is, however, a common custom to give persons who suffer from pulmonary hemorrhage ice to swallow; and, according to the view stated, this would be an injurious practice. Hot food and drinks stimulate the stomach more than cold, but after repeated use they lessen the tonus of the digestive tract, and cause congestion and dyspepsia. This condition has been observed after the (so-called) hot-water cure. Hot drinks tend to lessen bronchial irritation, and hence the success in some cases of the hot-water treatment of consumption. An Electric Pleasure Beat. The London Times thus describes what is said to be the largest electric pleasure boat in the world, recently launched on the Thame?. Th: s is the Viscountess Bury, which is mahogany built, and will carry between seventy and eighty passengers. She is sixtyfive feet in length, with a be&m of ten feet, a mean draught of twenty-two inches, and a displacement of twelve tons. The launch is worked by twin propellers which obtain their impetus from two Immisch motors, each of seven and on-half-horse power, and driven by 200 accumulators placed underneath the floor of the boat. The whole deck space, from stem to stern9 is thus left

free lor passengers. There is a cabi amidships, whrich occupies that psrtion of the boat usv.ally appropriated to the furnace and th9 boiler in a steam launch. The accumulators are of sufficie at capacity to store power for a full day's run at the liighest speed allowed under the Thames conservancy by-laws, which is ten miles an hour. This speed was reached on the trial run, but :l higher speed can be attained for special purposes, it required, by joining up the cells of the battery in series, instead of parallel as now joined up. The accumulators can be recharged during the night

i after a. day's work, and the boat thus

made ready for the next day's run. This recharging is to be effected at any one of a series of charging stations which are in a course of construction at various points along the river, the intention being to construct a number of launches of this type for pleasure purposes. There is ample space on the deck for moving about and the direction of the electrics gear, ;is well as the steering, can be performed by one person. Things a Man May Do with His Hat. "A woman's role is to seem utterly oblivious of her bonnet after the parting look into the mirror establishes the pleasing fact that it is settled safely and becomingly. The man who iorgets what ho has upon his head is a boor oi incorrigibly absent minded. The right manipulation of his hat is lil e spelling it must be learned early and thoroughly or it comes hard and is always a skittish possession." So says Marion Harland while commenting in Once a Week on the etiquette and moralities of mens hats, and adds among further remarks the following: A nod is not a bow. To nod to a womau is opera disrespect The mother who carves the two sen

tences and the import thereof upon the mind oi: her boy builds so much better than she knows as to merit the g ra titude of her ex. The bob or duck of the covered head which salutes a comrade of his own gender is barely pardonable,

even in America, Students iu foreign universities would be sent to ooventry were they to practice it on meeting in corridor or thoroughfare. Equally general i the older lands, where extended courtesies rank higher than with us, is the o is torn, of doffing the hat on passing a lady stranger or acquaintance on staircase or in the halls of hotel or othe: publio building. In witnessing the effect of the neglect of the gracious little ceremony in the country that furnishes the best husbands i-i the world, it is impossible to restrain the regretful sigh. As we descend the social scale the lower we go the more scanty is the observance of the etiquette and moralities of the hat, until we are forced to consider the important adjunct to the outdoor toilet as an almost infallible barometer of breeding. Bespect of the rules regulating it, management in refined circles is the last sign of be tier days and better manners with which tiie decayed, gentleman parts. When lis hand forgets the way to the hat brim he is very near to the foot of the hill What a slangy lad once called in my hearing "the hat trick; is likewise that which the self-made man of plebeian extraction is slowest to learn. I have seen millionaires forget to remove their hats in superb drawing-rooms. "Men can do no end of pretty things with their hats, sighed a belle to me. "The tactics of that useful article (masculine) aire a. science one oi the fine arts. Yet twothirds of them don't half appreciate their privileges in that line, or suspect their possibilities. Those Extraordinary Americans. Nothing is ordinary in America. The ordinary American himself is extraordinarily ordinary. He takes liberties with his fellow creatures a.nd with the English grammar. He murders your ears and the mother tongue of Shakspeare. He chews, hawks, and spits; but he has a certain good humored brag and liveliness which invite further fc-cquaint-ance. His fingers, cravat, and shirt front sparkle with diamonds.

In conversation he attacks all subjects imaginable with complete assurance. He talks tall and through the nose. He does not vaise his voice much.

He buzzes rather than speaks; tt a cer- j

tain distance you think you hear the droning of bagpipes. This man, whom you began by taking for some igr.orant babbler, presently gives to his conversation a turn that astonishes you. He speaks to you of France in a way which shows you thai he is con versant with all that is going on there. The sayings and doings oi Gen. "Boulanger are familiar to him. He knows the names of the chief members of the French Ministry. He is interested in M. Pasteur's researches; he has read a review and an account of M. Ernest Kenan's last book and oi M. Yictorien Sardous latest play. Ho has judicious remarks to make upon literature. He knows his Shakspeare, as not one Fron ;hman of his class Knows Corneille, Racine. Moliere, or Victor Hugo. You discover that he U well read, this man who says I come for "I came," "you was, you didn't ought, I don't know as I1 do, etc. He can gi.re you information about his country, as useful as it is exact. This same American talks theology. He discusses the Bible. He road the writings of Col. Ingersoll, refuting that gentleman's ideas or accepting his conclusions. In a word, you thought you were in the company of an ignorant bore of a bagman, and you have had one or to hours' talk wi;h an intelligent and interesting man, "Jonathan and Hu Continent." Max O'lleil.

How He Felt. When an elephant goes mad, he makes things lively. A company of Englishmen were out on a tiger-shooting expedition, and all at once were startled by a shout from one of their servants : "Hun, run, Sahibs! the tusker has gone mad. He has broken loose." Most of the company got out of thu least't way, bet one fellow was still in the tent. Over the river we could see the brute iu a frenzy of rage, ki teelincr on a shape

less heap of cloth, furniture, poles, and ropes, and digging hin tusks with savage fury into the hangings and canvas. We had little doubt that poor Mao lay crushed to death, smothered beneath the weight of the ponderous animal, or mangled out of all likmuss to humanity by the terrible tusks that we could see flashing in the moonlight. It seemed an age, this agony of suspence. Everything showed as clear as if in had been diy. We saw t he elephant tossing the strong canvas canopy about as a dog would worry a door-mat. Thrust after thrust was made into the fol is of the cloth. Raising, his huge fruni the brute would scream in the frenzy ci his wrath, and at the last, after what seemed an age, but in reality was only a few minutes, he staggered to hi feet and rushed into the jungle. Just then a smothered groan struck like a peal of joy-bells on our ears, and a muffled voice was heard from beneath the folds of the shamiaha: "Look, alie, you fellows', and get me out of thi or I shall be smothered! In trying to elude the first rush of the elephant his foot had caught in one of the tent roaps, the whole felling canopy had then come bodily upon him, hurliig the camp table and a few oane chairs over him. Under these he had lain, able to breathe, but not darir.g to stir. His escape seemed miraculous. The cloth had several time been pressed so close over his face as to nearly stifle him. The brute in one of its savage, purposeless thrusts, had pierced the ground between his arms and his ribs, pinning his Afghan choga, or dressiinggown deep into the earthj and he said he felt himself sinking into unconsciousness, when the brute happily got up and hushed off. "How did. you feel? I asked. aWeli, I can hardly tell you,w It must have grazed your ribs? "It did. After that I seemed to nunt quite unconcerned. All sorts of funny ideas came trooping across my biain. I could not for the life of me help feel ing cautiously about me for my pipe, which had dropped somewhere near when I tripped on the ropes. I seemed, too, to Have a quick review of all the actions I had ever done, and was just dropping off into a dreamy unconsciousness, after pulling a desperate race Igaiust Oxford with my old crew, when four voices roused me to sensation once more.

Whbn Pundita Kamabiii, ;he no well-known Hindoo woman, landed in

England she had just $2.50 in her purse, j

She stayed in London three years studying English arid teaching Sanscrit. It 1886 she came to the United States, owincr $2,000 for. her own and her child's

board. She lectured 113 times, and

made $3,320, thus paying her debts. She is now in Japan lecturing. At Tokio, the largest hail in the city has not been large enough to hold the crowds that thronged to her. In Japan sha speaks through an interpre ter.

Where Rich Men are Bled. The average of wealth in China is not high and the rich men of the cou itry are interested in keeping the amoanU of their property a secret. The officials are so corrupt that they can so easily squeeze money out of there rich subject that the wealthy man is sure t be preyed upon by them, and if China had a Jay Gould the officials, from the Emperor to the mandarins, would be continually poking their fingers into his money-chests. Much of Li Hung Chang's fortune of $12,000,000 is said to have been acquired by bribes and squeezes, and the story is told at Shanghai of how one of his underlines attempted to send him $100,000 not long ago in wine-bottles, or rather winebaskets, for much of the wine of China is carried in water-tight baskets. This supposed wine had to go through the hands of a very rigid native customa offi cer, w ho, suspectin g something, opened the baskets and discovered the gold in tbe wine. "Ah," said he, "that wine is too ine for the viceroy. It is only fit for tbe Emperor. n He thereupon confiscated it and made a present of the amount to the government at Peking. I don't think he mentioned Li Hung Chang's name, and ia asmuch as the matter was a bribe Li Hung Chang dared not object. Frank O. Carpenter. The Bill Was Passed. When the newly-married couple visits Washington they always want to see Congress in session, and nine times out of ten they come away with a very joor impression of that august body. "Field days" are very rare, and the proceedings are apt to assume the nature of a prosy debate or a reading of bills and referring the same. State Legislatures

are likewise disappointing, and it is not ofter that the assembly is enlivened as in the following instance: A. L. Pridemore, not many yeirs ago a member of the Hous of JLiepresentatives from the Ninth Virginia District, was, before he came to Washington, p member of the Virjrinia Senate. One day he introduced a bill for the relief of the sureties of H. G. Wax, who was a collector of taxes in Scott Comity. He made a brief explanation of the till, and when he sat down, Edgar Allen, who represented the Farm ville District, rose and said : " wish to ax It Mr. Wax Has l)ocn too lax In collect infc tho tax? U suoh lire the facte I aiu willing to rolax A ad remit the tax Which the law enacts W e should oxacu Oi hia sureties. " It is needless to add that the 31 passed by a unanimous vote. Golden Days. A Praying Base-Bailer She I understand that you are one of the praying base-ball players, tuid that you are studying J'or the ministry. In fact, I am told you have judt been or dained. He It in true. ' " Are you going to tike charge of a parish at once? " Well, I don't knew, I have received a call to a mission church at $500 a year; also an offer from tie Bostons to sign lor $10,000 a year, and I hare l?en wondering whether I hadn't better devote a few years more to base-ball praying before accepting a regular pulpit.' New Yotk Weekly.