Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 June 1891 — Page 6

OBr Hf#, oor life I* liko namrsr raft Afloat upon tb« hungry sea Hereon it but a little space, And all men eager for a place, Do tbrturt each other in the sea And eadb man, eager for a place. Does thrust,his brother in them* 1

And so our life is wan with fears, a«^ And so the sea is salt with tears. Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep!

Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I

Our life, our life is like a carious play, When each man hideth from himself. "Let us be open as the day," One mask does to the other say, When he would deeper hide "Let os be open as the day," That he may better hide hftrmrtf.

And so the world goes round «nH round. Until our life with rest is crowned. Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep I Ah, well is thee, thou art asleep!

DICKIE'S ENTRAPMENT.

Of course you know Dickie Spooner. No you don't! But I say you do ii you are anybody yourself and know what's what and who's who, as you can't help doing if you read the newspapers. Well, then, you know Dickie Spooner, though perhaps not by thai name, for, though he

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heaviest of Philadelphia's heaviest swells -and cuts a prominent figure at all the grandest assemblies aq£ most exclusive parties, he is, after alJ. vary modest little chap at heart, and I would not dare to call hi# real name right out loud in meeting for fear he would never recover from the shock, But you will know who I mean, so it's ail right, and if you are afflicted with chronic obtuseness and can't guess just drop me a line, Inclosing a stamp, and I'll tell you in the strictest confidence.""

Dickies blood being of the real cerulean tint, he could not bo anythjpg but an honorable gentleman but he had his faults, and one of these is that a a bumper of champagne presented by a small white hand is simply irresistible to him. Now Penelope Hunt knew this and availed herself very cleverly of Dickie's weakness. She had been trailing him for years, but for all he playod about the traps she set he never quite thrust his head in, and at last Penelope and her mamma, as mighty A Nimrocl as there is before the Lord, decided upon" a suberb coup d'etat, which was to force the gay and thoughtless Spooner Into the spider's little parlor, whether ho liked It or not They had him up to dinner one night, when no other guests were there to prove a bulwark, and between them piled him pretty steadily withafumm's oxtra dry. The polite Dickie protested feebly, but his "Ah, really, really now, you are very land Indeed, but I think I will take no more," was heeded about as much, or as little rather, as the renowned fly's buzzing was by the very pressing spider. "Just one more with me, Mr. Spooner," the fair Penelope would cry, and silly Dlekle would drink tho one more glass, and the one more, till ho was very, very mellow and an '"i easy prey for his Dolllah.

She took him Into a pretty little 1 room, all perfume, flowers, and easy chairs, and with tho light judiciously ^subduod to hido the powder and tho— other business on her face wrought I,, on the fellow's feelings by talking the usual stuff about her lonely misunder4s", Htood life, her yearnings for lovo and ^sympathy in tho midst of the world's *!ho'low gnyety, nnd so on ad nauseam,

I iMoklo, unusually soft-hearted wine was still In his veins—was weep, and to save himself proposed! Penelope turned "#hy, and faltered a yea just audible* iv but still audible, and overwhelmed at fl her own boldness ran to the door and called her mamma, who came and gave ^jher blessing. "r''c Dickie, nearly sobered by his folly, got away soon as possible and went homo to sleep his headache off When he awoke the memory of hi* capture swept over him like a wave, and he wink prostrated in utter misery, till llandal Devemux came to look him up, whoa the wretched spooner poured forth his tale of woe and madnoss to hi* frkmd. "Well, Dickie, I alw 1 you were a fool," said Devereux candidly. «but you have reached heights I never dreamed of you sealing.

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However, cheer up! Behold, a Dororcux. to the roseue! It is ft scrape too horrible to leave you in another day, for the hunt has tracked you with a determined cruelty that arouses Indention In tho most callous hoart, and mlno for you, my gentle lad, Is putty. I must'balk her of her pray but how. but howP To work, my mighty brain, and in the cause oi friendship strain OTOII thy prodigious strength and tell me how.

Dickie groaned desperately. "Look heix\ Dovereux! Of course I know Hunt has meant to marry mo for some time, and that she has boon rather unscrupulous in carrying but point: but she's a woman and I'm h&njM W I'm going to do anything dishonorable In the matter. No. not if I do have to marry hurf "Pshaw, my dear boy, who wants you to write her a noto saying youVe ohangod your mind and really oanH come to tawl Give mo a moment and PU ahow you a better and quite as effectual plan. 1 know as well as you that "Brutus is aa honorable man.*4

Damon strode onoe or twice up and down tho pretty bedroom, while Pythias wateh«*i htm anxiously, when spriv- ing at Spooner Devereux tow his tu**sing gown from his shoulders, hustled him into bed, and piling tit* covers on him laid a wet handkerchief on hb brow. "What on earth?" gasped Dickie. "Hush, hush, my poor chap, you are very 111, Lie stilt and don.t tel a soul disturb you. I'll instruct your man about tt while I go tor a doctor.* Devo:vux was off ere the confused pa* tient could protest and returned in few miuule* uha young Dr. lancet, to whom, a jolly good fellow and aa intimate friend of Spooner. Derevaux oon* fided the history of the case. Th4 doctor looked grav«, of Dickie's pul««v and pronounced him suffering from brain fever, and, after leaving instruction* tbai not a human being was to re© him. departed to pay as manydftls as he oould befqytf midnight

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»a wmcn •r.'-'r. the stctt man'# f,. distinctly that they h.*i aat !i'j manner had been strange and flighty.1 'Oh, I say, Dereveux!'5 protested Dickie, -I feel as if this was not honor

"Hush, you're raving, I tell you, old hoy. Look here—to be serious, though, were you, or were you not, yourself when Penelope Hunt snared you?" "I wasn't, Of course, but ••Well, then, you weren't, and that's precisely the plea on which we are going to save you, you idiot and Isn't it according to your own account.

Dickie sui sided, and Devereux, with a prcterndturally grieved countenance, set out to follow Dr. Lancet's example, called also on the fair Penelope, who, accompanied by her mother, entered, looking exceedingly conscious, but their smiling countenances changed comically as the story of Dickie's delirium came out. "The doctors— he's had six—all say that he must have been crazy—stark crazy—tot days. When did vou see him last? Didn't you notice his peculiar actions? Everybody says they are not surprised to hear his flightiness has turned into brain fever, for they could see it coming on." "How did they act, DevereuxP Do you think they believed it?" queried Dickie anxiously when his benefactor returned to him. ''Course they didn't you can't catch woaales asleep, old chap but it doesn't matter what they believe. They cant say they don't, and people in our class don't have breach of promise cases.

For the next week or so they made poor Dickie's life a burden they sweated him down, they massaged him, they starved him, they physicked him, they wouldn't let him smoke, they wouldn't let him have a drop of wine. In short, they reduced him from a plump, well-oondkioned figure to a Slip of human flesh, but when he igns of encned by a 'Do you want to get married?" And then there were other complications. Flowers, fruit, and dainty dishes poured In upon him, for, being rich and plenty able to buy them for himself, there were plenty to save him tho expense. Now, if he'd been some poor, starving wretch! But, pshaw! that's a different matter altogether.

remonstrated or even showed BI rebellion he was promptly quencl

When Dickie was once more convalescent he vent to call on the Hunts, and, though they were loo, and sleet, and snow, he rattled on glibly and smilingly of this bail and that dinner, gave his views on religion, politics, and science, and took his leave with as graoeful and racy a bow as you ever saw. You believe you know who Penelope Hunt was, do youP All right, but don't vou mention Dickie Spoonei to her.—Philadelphia Times.

SHERMAN'S HUNGRY SOLDIERS.

How They Snatched Up a Pinner at Which He Had Just Sat Down.

POWER OP SEA BREAKERS*

Some IntercwttiiK Facts About the Fore* o! Dafttktng Wave*. From experiments made at Bell Rook and Skerryrola light-houses on the coast of Gotland it was found that while tho forco of the breakers on tho tide ot tho Gorman ocean may be taken at about a ton and a half to every square foot of exposed surface the Atlantic side throws breakers with double that foroe, or threo tons to the Kjuaro fool thus a surface of only two squaw yards sustains a Mow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to fifty, four tons, tn March of last year a heavy gala blow lor three days and night* at Skerryvola, washing out blocks of limestone and granite of throe attd five kms^ weight a« easily as if they had been empty egg shells in some cases tli rowing thorn entirely over tho breakwater at Plymouth. Over 300 Ions of anoh Moeks were washed 300 feet tip the inclined beach alter being thrown over the broakurator and acattered about in various directions. On* block of limestone. eatimated to be ijftxxsn tons weight was moved over 160 teet from a place in the sari, where it had been firmly grounded since 1697, It having first been rolled in 3%ht by the awful gale of the Windy Christmas* ot that year. This is quite a high tea record for 1890, showing that th« gaieof March 3rd was the worst knowa on the SootUah ooast for 193 years.

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Mr. J. C. Jamison, of Pittsb tells an interesting story of Sherman march to the sen. For eighteen days the men had been on quarter rations, and on this particular morning they took up their weary march without any breakfast. Along about noon they came to a pretty plantation, presided over by a cultured and wealthy adherent of the lost cause. His mansion was palatial and everything the eye behold betokened plenty.

Visions of a square meal arose befqpe the tired boys in blue, and those in the van quickened their pace and soon were on a dead run for the house. Mr. Jamison was something of asprintef in those days, and was the first to roach the house. He dashed through tho kitchen and headlong into the dining room, but no sooner had he passed the door than he stopped, transfixed with horror. Before him sat Gen. Sherman and some of his staff officers, the guests of the house. Before them was a steaming dinner.

Anticipating Instant arrest* Mr. Jamison tried to retreat, but the hungry hosts blooked tho way. They shoved him forward, and a brawny hand reached over his shoulder and seized a savory spring chicken. Thai was as a signal, and tn an instant tl\« groaning table was stripped of everything edible. "General!" shouted the enraged exponent of southern chivalry, "do you stand silently by and see me thus plundered?" "Ye®," quietly responded Gen. Sherman. "The hoys are hungry. They havo been on quarter rations for eighteen days, and wo are living off the country. I guess they need the dinner worse than we do."—Pittsburg Dispatch.

Bl Death a Great l*oas to. U&e American Stage. There is no one whose death would haw been felt more distinctly as a loss to the American theater than that of Lawrence Barrett. This is not because he was a very great actor, though he was a very good one. He bad no such artistic preeminence as belongs to the great actor with whom he had been associated and yet Mr. Booth's retirement would less affect the contemporary stage. For Mr. Booth's creative period has already passed and at the most we can expect no more from him than the repetition of a gradually decreasing number of familiar characterizations. Mr. Barrett, on the other hand, was a man of restless energy and unSagginjj enterprise, who brought to the higher plane of dramatic endeavor in this country a vital, energising force that was peculiar to himself.

The story of his life is in itself a lessson of high ambition worthily pursued. Starting in poverty and obscurity, with no advantages either in physical gifts or in early education, he persistently pursued one steadfast course of labor, study and selfdiscipline till he made himself the master of his profession and the peer of any of bis scholar actors of his day. The energy that burned in his frail physique imposed limitations on his art. He was always a careful, thoughtful, conscientious actor and whatever he did displayed the serious earnestness of a man who believed the dignity of his calling and whose artistic aims were always high and -,oble.

It was this that made his work as a

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manager so important. To him the drama was something far apart from the "show busineu" with which it has become so generally identified, and from his earliest experience in New Orleans ana San Francisco to his last work as director of Mr. Booth's performances, he set always before him a high ideal which he strove earnestly to fulfill If he did hot always reach his ideal, no one knew it better than he. He was one of the last of the actormanagers in America, and there is no actor now above the horizon who in this field seems likely to take his place.

An actor from his boyhood, and passing most of his life in the theater, Mr. Barrett none the less found time to cultivate the humanities and to make himself respected as a man. Tbe professional conscience that was bis most precibus endowment was a part of a serious, dignified character. Pure in life and gentle in all his personal relations, he honored the profession adorned anu set an example to youngei actors that con be pointed to the more confidently from the fact that his laborious life at length was crowned with success and that he died in harness as the good soldier should, honored and lamented the great public he had served. ''k&u**§.3

A SATRAP OF ENGLAND!

Ihe Recent Visit of the Sultan ol Jobore to England, The sultan of Johore, or the "Tumongong," as his subjects call him, has been lionized recently in England and other European countries. Johore, -which is un der British protection, is a smalt independent state of the Malay Peninsula lying to

V" ts» SOTTAS or JOH'JSB. tlie east of Singapore. The object of the sultan's visit is to secure the succession of his son to the throne, fie Is a mohauimedan, has about one hundred and fifteen thousand subjects. Ma'ays and Chinese, and lives on most amicable terms with the English of Singapore and other Europeans. Be has shown much hospStaUty to distinguish edtrnvelers from Engiand, including the late duke of Sutherland and Lady fereseey, who were courteously entertained by him at the palace of Johore.

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pointuent aid seven were punctual and the eighth, being three minutes too late, began apologizing for keeping the oth«n waiting, the reply from one of them was: "I am sorry. Mend, that thee should have wasted thine own three minutos, but thee had no right to waste tweatytgteatoreof oar time, which was sot nine own,"

Of Washington it te said that wh» his secretary, oa seine important occasion, was late and exposal himself by saying hk watch was too stow: the reply was: "Ton will have to set another watch or I another aeeretaiy."

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