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A Storyl'of tlie Late War. . i /••i did yousay?" asked the S ,<©omm ander-in-chie£, ,' * 1 ' " V t«i i i n n " "Nineteen. "And the man?" ^^^Commander-in-chief puffed /kiTp,^t. Sunderland cuisine too thai <agar at thoughtful intervals. The War Was by twenty-two years a thing "of the jpest, but as head of a great commercial enterprise a military title still duug to Jlim from out of his war experience, and he did not dislike it, for some of bis war memories appeared to be his anoet cherished mental treasures. So lie debated with his cigar over the two young people whose sentimental rash- Bess had brought them into public tiotice, and as he debated he was look­ ing backward over the diverse pano­ rama of two decades of life, through the rifted smoke clouds of a great re­ bellion at a little drama that seemed Almost a dream, but which to him was, perhaps, the beat-remembered inci­ dent of all the five year's fight. And when he told it, half musingly, the listeners did not wonder. The ways of Fate are very diverse, and it some­ times happens to the least imaginative in the maddening crowd that a face which is looked into only for a moment is never forgotten in all the lengths of the years that follow. Perhaps it was *o with the Commander-in-chief. Per- baps not. In any event, nobody dared it ask. "In the fail of 1863," he began, "1 . "Was stationed with a detachment at Paint Book, Ala. We were drawing on the enemy for supplies--foraging, in fact Our crackers and liard-tack we got from Stevenson, but for fodder for our horses and anything to add sumptu- •ousness to the appearance of the frying pan we had to depend 05 the country. For some weekB I had sent out the . wagon train to the east, the south­ east, and down the valley of the Paint Hock Creek. Tha only direction left lor investigation was at the west, Where, at a distance of twenty-one fciles, was Huntsviile, then the capital «f Northern Alabama, which, up to the time of the war, had been a wealthy, Aristocratic and fashionable city. Weil, •one pleasant morning I sent the wagons •Across the creek and followed them "lKth a guard of twenty men. It was reported from time to time thfet the -Country ahead of us was full of rebel guerrillas, but we saw no signs of them, i^nd for two months had no trouble 'whatever with any foe. "After crossing the creek the wagons •00k a road which wound along thd foot of a spur at the Blue Ridge Mount­ ains, which rose green, heavily wooded, ,-*ad picturesque at our backs. We passed several small clearings and .plantations, whose log houses were filled with hot-blooded and hot-temp­ ered Southern women, whose evident desire to flay us with their finger-nails rather interfered with that sweet spirit •of hospitality for which the South is "ffcmous. At a distance of seven miles I halted the detachment at a cool but wnister-looking place in the road, Jcnown to all the country round as "The Gap.' "The Gap* was the entrance to a pass through one of the outlying mounti jun spurs. It was a deep hollow, keavily woodod. The dense growth of (towering pines and tirs grew close to •the roadside. The woody spaces wera so tilled with undergrowth and blocked •by fallen trees that as you peered into 'the dark recesses of the forest on, either side a hostile army might have* been sheltered there without yon beingj «ble to perceive a button. I remember the looks of the placa, because the first *$ime I saw it it made me rather un- •easy, and the last time but one that. "Ww it I came near staying there for ^Bood, as did, in fact, some other poor fellows who were not so fortunate. "Well, after a rest, we kept on, andj a* few miles further we came on a plun- %ti<>n of 750 acres, with a large and •^Comfortable looking residence near the •oadside. The wagons had reached was a well-to-do planter, though too old to take arms. He was a doctor by profession and a Methodist preacher by choice. His family circle was, in its refinement and the beauty of the girls, something charming, particularly to a horse soldier who for some years had known only the roughness of the camp. The eldest daughter was married, her husband being a captain in the rebel army. The other two were our fair petitioners, and with them I enjoyed a nattering degree of popularity from the start" The Commander-in-chief stopped and gazed with a smile into the Ala­ bama of twenty years ago. "Well," he said, picking up the thread of the story, "I need only say that their fate was in my hands, that all is fair in love and war, ami from that day forth I simply owned the place, cornfields, niggers, guitars, and Methodist preachers, all included. And, gentlemen--" and ho dwelt with some particular and meaning em­ phasis upon the "and;" "she, Ellen, was 19 and I was 23. "During the next two months all our •aging somehow was in their direc­ tion. It seemed, perhaps, to the horees that everything available in the food line had migrated to the district back of the Sunderland plantation, which had to be passed in order to b'glit on anything at all. There was something must have appeared very tempting to my men, for I did nofc> willingly, I believe, miss a mead. Ellen and I, in fact, were constantly together. The old folks made no objection. The blue eyes of the golden-haired sister beamed, the sweetest kind of approval, the days were long, and the twilights of the dim old fir woods perfect, and--I believe I mentioned the fact, gentlemen," said the Commander-in-chief, with a sigh, "that she was 19 and I was 23. "I might remark parenthetically, that there is nothing in life quite so fascinating as to be isolated in the wil­ derness in company with a beautiful woman. Several books have been written with that one idea to carry them, and, like Charles Reade's 'Foul Play,' they have always caught the public's eye. There was no senti­ mental talk between us. The crack of the guerrilla rifle, the distant boom of battle, the war smoke in the air, and the period when no one knew what a day might bring forth were very ill adapted for sincere love-making, anc^ that anything in the shape of man could have made love to Ellen Sunder­ land insinoerely it would take a pretty bitter cynic to believe. But we were together none the less; together when the tree shadows crept slowly across the hot, still, brown fields as the sun sank lower and lower toward the mountains' summits; together in the stillness and loneliness of the moss- grown aisles of the woods; in the noon­ tide heat; together when the big round harvest moon hung still and shimmer­ ing like a great shield of gold balanced against the black velvet wall of the autumn night universe. What we said and what we did and what we thought, it matters not. It would be to you very much like a chestnut, perhaps" to dwell upon it. "Every woman knows who has ever "been 19; every man re­ members who knew what it was to be 23. "Well, one day, when I had entered the house, I had a surprise. I Lad heard rumors of there being a wounded rebel officer in hiding at the Sunder- larids. I had paid no attention to them, - however, believing them to be without foundation. But on this day, entering the house as usual without knocking, I opened the door of the reception room * or j>arlor, the first door on the right- hand sidfe of the hall, which ran through the house. There was a large; fire-place in this reom on the side op-, posite the door. As I stepped in I saw j an easy chair, high-backed, in front ofj this fire. I was instantly oonscious in seine way--for I certainly saw nothing of him--that a man, and a stranger,' was sitting in that chair. I did not at-: tempt to see any more. I stepped out,! closed the door, "and quietly took a' ghair in the sitting-room opposite. In a moment or two the eldest daughter came in hurriedly, pale and agitated. 'Mr. !'she gasped, 'Did you go into the other room ?' •' > " 'I did,' said L , " 'Did you see anybody?* u 'I did not,' I answered very quietly. She looked me squarely in the eye. I looked squarely back. She bowed, and, apparently relieved, passed out. ' "She had hardly gone before Addie came in. She was confused at seeing me in the sitting-room* " 'Oh, Mr.-r--,' she s*id, and then stopped in perplexity. " 4 What is it?' I asked. " 'I was going to ask--I--that is--. Did you go into the other room ?' " *1 did,'said L " 'Did you see anybody V * 'I did not.' "And then, with the same question on her lips,Ellen came in, ignorant of what had occurred with the others. She was very grave, almost sad. She asked there had been a hostile sharpshooter or a rebel troop anywhere about, would have been an easy prey. I had five men with me, but they had gone farther up the road and I did not wait for them. I rode thoughtfully along during most of the way for four miles. Finaliy I approached 'The Gap,' the place of which I spoke, the darkest and most seoluded section of the whole distance. "As I entered it I heard some one oall- ing behind me. In a little while I rec­ ognized Josh, my negro cook, who had been visiting some plantation. He wfcs afraid, I suppose, and wanted protec­ tion, though he made some other ex­ cuse for calling me. I reined up in the shade of a big fir by a white fallen trunk in 'The Oap'and waited for him; waited perhaps five minutes. I sat twisting the tassels of the scarf and thinking of Ellen; I was an easy mark as I sat there, a dead shot for any man in hiding who had ever looked along a gun-barrel. Then, with Josh a short distance behind, I journeyed onward. I stopped at a plantation some miles farther down and waited for my men. They did not oome. I went back to camp, got a ttachment and went out to look for them. We found them all in 'The Gap.' They lay in the road in the shadow of the big fir, by the white trunk riddled with bullets from a guer­ rilla ambush, and had been shot dead from their saddles not ten minutes after I passed the spot." There was a silence for some minntes as the listeners gathered his meaning. Finally one suggested: "You probably kept that scarf." "Well, rather. It saved my life to A certainty. I never saw her again, for our orders took us away that day. But--" The Commander-in-chief, by alow and deliberate puffs, relighted his extin­ guished cigar. there long before us! They were being j 'J1® siiuo question in a low, an ap- tapidly filled from a row of well stored | Pea"uK lone. I did not like even a •corn-cribs at the back of the house.. 11 subterfuge with her. When she asked " Shad just gotten off my horse near the * had penetrated the mysterious door when two girls came ' toward me,' apartment I asked, shaking my head: *nd if I were not telling this utory, gentlemen, I would honestly declare that they were the two prettiest girls I ever saw in my life. "They were both tall and slender. "And why? Is there anything in this house to conceal?' "The eldest sister, who had returned, shook her h ad in denial. It was no wonder. - He was her husband, I sup- 'with graceful and womanly figures! ' P086- I looked at Ellen and Addie. They were dressed in dark-blue calico, ! They looked awaiy. They never looked and had no artilicial aids to their fresh j M least to me. For they young beauty. Their fa es were iutt-1- W(ml(1 not tell a lie and they trusted resolution, M -ligent and full of resolution!", yet marked by that shyness which belongs, . to girls who are well born and bred in •comparative seclosioir. The eller, Ellen, was dark-eyed and daik-haired! Addie was 17, two years vounjrer than her sister, and a yellow-haired •and blue-eyed blonde. The ppparit on they presented astonished us. I think •all the men took oti' their hats instinct­ ively. I know 1 did. And as my a real Mexic.11 >sombrero, g£gnatchod the long Meiiuan spurs that, *«|ingled on my heels, I was rather fond i *pbf keeping it on my head, I 0 wa» Hl-n who spoke, the other staying a little behind. 'Sir,' she said, a troubled voice, 'vou look like a'< ^gentleman. One of "your men has' " taken our guitar. It is all that we have left, and it is a gr at cousoiatian. Will you not be good enough to have it re- - fturued?' v he guitar was returned to her "forthwith as quickly as the man could Sfe V isibe found who had it. She was profuse in her thanks, and the light in the ^younger sister's eves at tho salvation of ' the instrument indicated how highly it Ml ,^a8 valued. The corn and supplies "S- V, "wey dld n°t appear to griove over par- yticularly, as I prevented *ny destrue- ll!*tion of the cribs or any unnecessary r* damage to the property. Consequently 'I was very hospitably received in the house. The family consisted of an old •gentleman named Sunderland, his •m and^Wreednughteri Sunderland #1; me. "Well, I heard no more of the stranger, and things ran on as before for a week or two. Then there came rep eated rumors of the guerrillas in the neighborhood, and we be-an to take extra precautions. I continued to call daily at tke Sunderlands. and one after­ noon as I was going away, Ellen seemed i particularly ill at ease. " She was nerv- liaV! ous, hesitating, and altogether unlike !tl j herself. I said good-bv to her at the porch, and went out to niy horse. As I was about to mount she came out of the house toward me bearing a long, rich, crimson silk scarf, with fine tas­ sels of white silk at either end. held it out to me, saying: " 'Will you wear this--for me?' •I cannot rob you,' I said. Outside The Elephant as a Logger. In Ceylon no railroads stretch from the wooded districts of the interior to the se'u coast. and the timber cut on the mountains haS to be dragged wearily over the miles of rough country inter­ vening between the place of its growth and the sea. From the time the tree is felled and divested of its limbs until it is formed into rafts along the shore all the mechanical labor is performed by the elephant, says a writer in the Boston Courier. A drove of these animals, varying in number from five to ten, ore conducted into the woods by two or three natives and set to work. They know what is required of them, and at once pair off (generally working in couples) to begin their day's labor. Seizing a huge log with their trunks, they roll it upon their tusks, and, hold­ ing it firmly in place by coiling their trunk about it, they lift it bodily from the ground and plaoe it upon the roll­ ers which are to aid in its transportation to the beach. In oases where the clear­ ing will not admit of their walking abreast with their burden they will slide along, carefully avoiding all trees and stumps, until they place the log on its bed as squarely as could the most skillful engineer; then returning at a leisurely gait they pick up another log and transport that in the same method­ ical manner, until the land-raft has as­ sumed the required proportion. When the ground tier has been com­ pleted and they commence to build up. the ingenuity of the animal is most wonderfully displayed in lifting and de­ positing the heavy timbers in their place. One will lay his end down, and, passing over to his companion, they will together carry that end as far across the foundation as they can reaoh, and drop it Then both will return to the first end, handling that in like man­ ner, until by successively treating each end they work the log into place. The several squads pass and repass one another without jostling or in any way interfering with the work; and all this is done without a word from the drivers, who spend most of their time Bleeping peacefully beneath the grate­ ful shade of some neighboring palm. When the pile is completed the over­ seers lash it together with heavy chains and place rough harness, consisting of breast-band and traces, upon the larger animals of the drove, and at­ tach them to the structure, prepara­ tory to dragging it to the shore. This part of the business the elephants seem strongly to resent, for the moment the harneses are produced the bulls set up a dreadful trumpeting, flourish their trunks in the air, and as­ sume a most ferocious mien, but a few prods from the goad soon reduce them to subjection and they start for the beach without further delay. The smaller animals pick up the rollers that are left behind, carry them ahead and lay them in place, the work being con­ ducted on the same principle upon which buildings are moved in our own country. On reaching the water's edge the elephant displays signs of the great­ est pleasure, being invariably allowed an opportunity to take a bath, which .is heartily enjoyed by them. This completes one day's work. The next morning Bees them placing the timber in the water and building a floating raft, which later is towed off by the ship's crew awaiting the cargo. A Hunter's Danger. The largest bear any of us ever saw was a oinnamon that come within one of killing one of my men, a good hunter and a first-class guide--Charles Hnff. (I may refer to the big cinnamon, too, as an instance of the danger that some­ times attends trapping the bear.) He hod set his traps near Sunlight, in tho spring, and was enable to visit them for a week. When he got to the bait, trap and log were gone. After taking up the trail, he found the remnants of his log chewed to match-wood; the bear, evi­ dently a large one, had gone off with the trap. He followed his trail as long as he had light, but found nothing, and had to return to camp. Next day, very foolishly, he took the trail again alone, beginning where he left off. After a long march lie came to the steep side of a hill. The bear had evidently gone up there; on the soft, snow-sodden ground the trail was plain. Just as he was beginnig to ascend there was a rush and a roar, and the bear was on him. He had no time to put his repeater to his shoulder, but letting it fall between of the guitar I believe it was the only l'iB ,lands h.e tb,® thing of any value that she had left in ' ^car was WI- a -w and the world. " 'Please wear it,' she said. And while I hesitated she - deftly put it around my neck, and before I sus­ pected had put her arms around, too, and had kissed me squarely on the lips. As I looked at her, quite 'staggered, in an altogether happy state of surprise, the tears sprang to her eyes, she turned away and went hastily into the house. "I rode down the road slowly. Her conduct was so strange, the- memory of that kiss, the first and last she ever gave me, was so tenacious that it drove everything else out of my mind. My rein fell Upon toy horse's neck, and if by a great chance the udaimed bullet took him between the eyes. He had evidently tried the hillside and, worried by the trap, had come back on his trail and lain behind a great heap of dirt, into which he had partly burrowed, waiting for his enemy. Among the debrjs of spring-tide--fallen stones and uprooted trees--a bear could easily lie hidden, if he was mad and wanted to conceal himself, till the enemy was within a few feet# It was a terrible close shave--Scribner. WHY is America the only land , ashamed ofeconpmj -Qeifrge Francia > %raiik w All ODD MAN III TENNESSEE A Man Who Can Outrun » Hon* In a Loof Race--Flailing; with Hi« Hands. Wesley Welch is an athletic prodigy, says tho Nashville Amtrican. He has gone barefooted every summer of his life. His first shoes he paid for with quails that he trapped. He never took medicine; was never sick. His speed and endurance on foot are wonderful. A noted fox chase i-i recalled in which he caught the fox after a run of four hours, when all but two of twenty-five hounds had held out in the run of from fifteen to twenty miles. He refers to Mr. Goodwin and Maj. Jones, of Memphis, who saw him catch>' the fox. About twenty-five men on horseback started in the chase. He is confident that he can excel in speed and endur­ ance both hound and horse in a long race. He has made a mile in 1:58, and ten miles in eighty minutes. . His longest and best walk was from At­ lanta to Chattanooga in a day and night, 140 miles. He had two cora- Eanions on the start, but left them bo-ind. On a hard journey of this kind he wants no food but sweetened coffee, and he will refrain from eating the day or BO beforehand. He says we all eat too much. He prefers wild game and then mutton and beef to hog meat, and regards chicken as the worst of meats. As a fisherman he is a noted expert. He "won't monkey with a hook." In an emergency he will take a sledge­ hammer and pound on the rocks under "which they hide in clear streams and tho fish will soon float from under and on the surface dead. He illustrated for Dr. Safford some time ago the power of dynamite. He went to a very deep hole in the Turnbull, disturbed the water so as to have the fish go down to the deep part, and threw in the dynamite tied to a rock, and says it not only killed everything, but split the base rock in twain. The water i^ feo clear that the rent rock may be seen easily. His usual method is to dive after fish, feeling for them undercooks. The greatest fight of his life occurred on such an occasion. He had dived and was pressing a fine cat, which got in 3 hole or crevice in the rocks, when by a turn of his hand he found he was fast­ ened. The idea of losing his life so foolishly mortified him, .and he made a despeiate pull, leaving part of the flesh in the crevice. He determined to pull loose, even if ho should have to pull the arm off if possible. He did anj other perilous thing in exploring the Murrell Cave. Dr. Vance and Frank' Scaff, of Memphis, went in with him; they all went to where the oil would not burn in their lamps, and then he went out, got a torch, and went farther in, he thinks farther than anybody else ever went. He arrived at a lake and could go no further. Murrell's name is in the cave. He had an interesting experiment with fish in winter. He managed to drive a fine lot under ice to the end of a slough. He cut a trench in the ice, dropped a plank in, and then caught them with his hand, throwing them on the ice. They froze rapidly, some of them adhering to the ice. On taking them home he said he did not like to clean them frozen, and a friend who was present suggested that he put them in the spring and let them thaw. He did put them in the spring, and he was amazed to see them go to swimming. t? ' I A California Bear Story. "Liar by the clock" is a new slang phrase that is becoming quite popular. It is not exactly a pretty phrase, but in most cases it is forcible. If a man at­ tempts to spin a yarn that has its im­ possibilities or improbabilities, and a listener fails to believe it, he is liable to exclaim. "You're a liar by the clock." One-half of the phrase is ancient enough and has caused many a drop of blood to be spiled, but the latter half of it is new. As to the origin of the "clock" portion of it, Billy Wolf, the comedian, says: , "If I am not mistaken, the saying originated in San Francisco. There was quite a number of well-known bus­ iness, theatrical, and newspaper men 1 chatting away in the club rooms. They were trying to outdo each other on yarns, when an old, but jolly, bald- headed fellow--I don't remember his name--got up for his turn. He was leaning by the mantle-piece at the time, and commenced with some of his early days in California. " 'In those days,' said he, 'there wasn't any finery in these partB like now, but we had to live on what we could procure with the aid of our gun. Qnite a number of us were out hunting for supper one evening, when a family of bears came into view. There must have been 100 of them. At the sight everybody cut and run but me. I stood my ground alone like a man. I had a brave reoord, and it was neces­ sary for me to keep it up. Well, on came the bears, and away went my comrades. The hairy family came straight toward me, but I didn't flinch a bit. I knew my old muzzle loader would do no good in that crowd, so I coolly threw it away, folded my arms complacently, and looked the-bears square in the eyes. I had always be­ lieved the human eye was the strongest weapon man could have in close quar­ ters, so I determined to try it. As I aaid, I didn't budge. When within a foot of me the foremost bear halted and seemed paralyzed at my cool re­ ception. The others saw him stop, and followed his example. I didn't move a muscle. Then they all fell on all- fours before me, as when they started for me they came on their hind feet. " 'My eyes were so powerful that every one of the fearful huggers glanced suspiciously at me, and turned one at a time and ran into the woods, leaving me.' "At that instant the dock gong on the mantle rang solemnly, and the nar­ rator paused a moment. When he was about to resume some one in the crowd cried: 'O, that's too thin, yon know; you're a liar bv the clock.' "This cut tfie story short, and the old 'forty-niner* set 'em up ali round. The next day the story got on the streets, and the phrase* became com­ mon. Sinoe then it has spread all over the States."--St Louis Sunday Say­ ings. Prejudice to the Stage. * ' Some girls there are with intellectual proclivities so strong as to constitute a vocation, the fulfillment of which it would be cruelty to deny them. Of these the artist girl and tho writing girls and the singing girls, have already won tho day. Where the inclination and the talent are so powerful as to force thg gates of prejudice, the result is certain. There will be one worker more in the field, with what commer­ cial success remains to be seon. The one profession, however, which still is barred, is the stage. However strong the passion, and however profound the dramatic power of a girl, the ordinary mother puts a veto on "the boards, and would rather see her daughter in her grave than on the stage. Some­ thing has been done of late yearn, to lessen this prejudice--to remove tnw prohibition--by the social status and moral character of certain actresses. It is felt now that the women who play "Juliet" and "Lady Macbeth," "Lady Teazle" and "Gay Spanker" are not persons whose society no good man seeks and no honest woman entertains. There are actresses by the soore whose private lives are unspotted as the coata of so many snow-white ermines; and, pace Mrs. Grundy, more will join the band before the end of all things. Butt the prejudice is very stiff and stout ond we will hove to go through a few years jnore before we have battered down the old palisadin-g to let in the free frank maids of Diaa's train--those who have no desire to be of any other, but who have the histrionio faculty as their sisters have the artistic, the literary, or haply the philanthropic or the scientific. All things come ih time--if not always to those who know how to wait For many a Mrs. Siddona or a Patti, a Guilla Grisi or a Mme. Vestris has faded away in obscurity and within the four walls of a meager home who, had she been suffered to appear before the footlights, would have oharmed the world and made her own fortune. How He Learned to Smoke. "I don't mind tellin' ye how I lamed to smoke, though seein' you've got the hang of it now 'twon't lam ye nothing" said an old sailor. "You see, I shipped! first off in the Two Jennies, a neat bark in the Manilla trade onten Boston., Old Capt. Strong was a powerful maq for discipline, and When he oatched one of us youngters nappin' he'd lambast ua sartin. Ever been to sea? ' In course not. I know'd it, but thought I'd be perlite and ask ye, so you wouldn't think I tuk you for a greeny. I reckon if ye had you'd know that tli$ wind watoh was just what kerfltunixed the boys* every time. ' Keep awake ? It's simply j impossible. I'd tumble up oh decki fast enough when the watch was called,.' and 'ud take ray plaoe on lookout asi chipper aa a Water street canary, but1 in about fifteen minutes, bein' I wasn't seasick no more, the rollin' of the Twoi Jennies was just like rock me to sleep, mother, in a cradle, with the crealcin' of the blocks to make me think of the way my Aunt Mariar used to sing me to sleep when I was a kid. I know'd the old man 'ud catch me if I slept three winks, and that he'd lam me with the flying jib downhaul, but goto sleep' I must. . "Fust off I tried walkin' like I seen old sailors, but 'twan't no use; then I'd bite my tongue and chew rope yarn.; N o g o . T h e n I g o t a p i n o f f e n o n e o f ' the sailors, and when I'd find mvsolf noddin' too far I'd jab it into my' leg. I wa'n't but 15 years old and that 'ere couldn't last, but what to do I didn't know. In course this all what I'm tellin' you didn't happen all to wunst; it jest kep comin' on harder 'n harder every night what I had to turn out at eight bells. At last the old man catched me. I was standin' up square in the middle of the t'gallant fo'c'sl the last I knew, and the next thing I was all in a heap whar I'd been standin' and the old man a stingin' me with the end o' tho flyin' jib downhaul. I didn't go to sleep no more that watch, but the next time I had lookout I was jest as bad ofl as ever. Then I thought about water. I says I'll fix it, and I a'most did. I just got abucket and histed in a bucket­ ful of brine. Then I plunged my head into that, and, believe it or not, I went fast to sleep with my face under water. It felt that cool and good that I jest went right off In course I was drowndin' hand over fist, but the sec­ ond mate come along and hauls me out and fotches me to. Then he says: 'Sonny, I'll tell you what you do, and you won't go to sleep no more. Jest sneak down for'd and borrow a pipe and terbacker from one o' the men what's asleep and can't help theirselves,' which I did it to wunst. "Yah, the way the first whiff sarved me.turns my stummick when I thinks of it now. I hadn't never pmoked be­ fore, thongh I'd been livin' in a fo'c'sl where yoird thought there wasn't no air 1'mt smoke. Well, that 'ere sick­ ness cured me of wantin' to sleep for about half an hour. When I began to feel easy in my stummick the sleep came back and I pinted for the fo'c'sl lamp and lit the pipe, so's to make more sickness come, and so I got throngh the watch, and a lot of other watches. It was pretty tough, but boys has got to take things tuff when they goes to sea. I was a year and nineteen days gettin' back to Boston from Manilla, and by that time I larn'd to like the pipe and keep awake on watch, too. I reckon I've larn'd more'n forty boys to smoke that way sinoe then." A Falthftil Servant. The following story oomes to the "Listener" from a Maine city, and it strikes him that, for onoe, he may break, in its behalf, the old rule never to oali a story a good one before it is told: One evening, not long ago, there was arrested a gentleman of position and of cheery habits* The policeman said he had found the old gentleman on the street very drunk. The complaint was entered against him, but as he seemed to be able to get about, he was released on his recognizance and sent home in a hack, which he paid for with great alacrity. When his oase came up in court the only witnesses sum­ moned to prove his condition were the policeman and the old family servant of the accused, a faithful and devoted re- tainer. The polioeman hod given his testi­ mony, which was unqualifiedly to the fact of the old gentleman's intoxication. Then the old servant was called to the stand. There was a mingled expres­ sion of indignation and determination on his countenanoe. He testified flatly, to the surprise of the court-room, thai the old man was sober when he came home. The Prosecuting Attorney pro­ ceeded to to question. „"You say that Mr. r---- was sober when he came home?" "Yes, sir." "Did he go to bed alone?" "No, sir." "Did you put him to bed." "Yes, sir." "And he was perfectlyeeber?" "Yes,, sir." "What did he say when you put hip •to bed?" "He said 'Oood 1 ighk'" "Anything else?" "He said as how 1 W«s to oall him early." ' * "Anything else?" • "Yes, sir." " What was it? Tell us exaotly what he said, every word," "He said as how I was to wake and call him early, for he was to be Queen of .the May." The oourt room roared. And in spite of the old servant's very positive testi­ mony the accused was convicted and fined.--Boston Transcript. • V 1 5V ' The Living Inhabitants ef Caverns. The living inhabitants of caverns, those which make these regions of con­ tinuous darkness their abiding-places, are numerous and of the greatest inter­ est to the naturalist. Of the several hundred species known to students, by far the greater part belong to the group of articulated animals, insects, and crustaceans, these being the forms which, of all animals, are the most varied in structure and best suited for the odd chances of life which the caverns afford. As the reader well knows, the groat problem now before scienoe is to determine how far the shapes of living creatures are deter­ mined by the circumstances of the world about them, and how far this deters mination has been brought about through a process of selection in a 1 natural way, of those varieties which have some accidental special fitness for the conditions in whiohv they live. Cavern-animals afford us a capital 1 it of evidence toward the solution of this problem. The prevailing clcse affinity of their forms with those which live in the upper world of sunshine and chang­ ing seasons shows, beyond a quest on, that they are all derived from similar forms which once dwelt in the ordinary conditions of animal life. What, tben, are the effects arising from this com­ plete change m the circumstances of these underground creatures? The facts are perplexing in their Variety, and by no means well worked out, but the following points seem to be well established, viz.: There is a mani­ fest tendency of all gavly-colored forms to lose their hues in the caverns, and to become of an even color. This may be explained by the simple absence of sunshine, and on it no conclusions can. be based. The changes of structural parts are of more importance; these, aS might be expected, relate mainly to the organs of sense. The eyes show an evident tendency in all the groups to, fade away. In the characteristic cavern-fishes they have entirely disap­ peared, the whole structuro which serves for vision being no longer pro­ duced. In tho cray-fishes we may ob­ serve a certain gradation. Some species which abound in caverns are provided with eyes; others have them present, but so imperfect that they cannot serve as visnal organs; yet others want them altogether. One species of psfeudo- scorpion, as shown by Prof. Hagan, has in the outer world four eyes, while in the caves it has been found with two eyes, and others in an entirely eyeless condition. Some cavern-beetles havo the males with eyes, while the females are quite without them. As a whole, the cavern-forms exhibit a singular tendency of the visual organs, not only to lose their functions, but also to dis­ appear as body-parts. At the same time there is an equal, or even more general, development of the antennse and other organs of touch; these parts become considerably lengthened, and apparently of greater sensitiveness, a change which is of manifest advantage to the individual.--N. S. Shaler, in Scribner's Magazine. , ANNUAL silver UWOxV.|86,P(K), Qneer Antipathies. It seems absolutely incredible that Peter the Great* the father of the Rus­ sian navy, should shudder at the sight of water, whether running or still, yet so it was, especially when alone. His palace gurdens, beautiful as they were, ne never entered, because the river Mosera flowed through them. His coachman had orders to avoid all roads which led past streams, and if com­ pelled to cross a brook or bridge, tho great Emperor would sit with closed windows, in a cold perspiration. An­ other monarch, Jame3 L, the English Solomon, as he liked to be called, had many antipathies, chiefly tobacco, ling, and pork. He never overcame his in­ ability to look with composure at a drawn sword; and it is said that on one occasion, when giving the accolade, the King turned his face aside, nearly woundiiig the new-made knight. Henry III., of Franoe, had so great a dislike to cats that he fainted at the sight of ona We suppose that in this case the cat had to waive its proverbial preroga­ tive and could not look at a king. This ' will seem as absurd as extraordinary to lady lovers of that much-petted animal, but what are we to say of the Countess of Lamballe, of unhappy history, to whom a violet was a thing or horror? • Even this is not without its precedent, for it is on record that Vincent, the painter, was seized with vertigo and |swooned at the smell of roses, Scaliger states that one of his relations was made 'ill at the sight of a lily, and he himself would turn pale at the sight of water- cresses and could never drink milk. Charles K&gsley, naturalist as he 'was to the core, had a great horror of spiders; and iu "Glaucus," after saying that every one seems to have his antip- hatic animal, continues: "I know one (himself) bred from childhood to zoology by land and sea, and bold in asserting 'and honest in feeling that all without exception is beautiful, who yet cannot, after handling and petting and examin­ ing, all the day long, every uncouth and venomous beast, avoid a paroxysm of horror at the sight of the common house- spider." Dreaming of His Father's Death. Not long ago a young son of Capt. Cutten,the master of the ship Muskoka, dreamed of a terrible storm at sea. In his dream he saw the sky hidden by dense black masses of clouds through which darted gleaming shafts of light­ ning. The waters of the deep were tossed to and fro by the tempest, their foam-covered crests rising almost to the heavens. In the midst of the awful soene was his father's ship, gallantly struggling with the rtorm, and great Beas washing over her from stem to stern. Whiie he £azed in his dream one sea more furious than the rest swept across the vessel and carried in its embrace the form of his father. He watched him nntil he saw him dis­ appear beneath the surges, and then in an agony of fright he screamed and awoke. Everything seemed so terribly realistic that the youth woke his mother and told her of his terrible vision. She fears that it will only prove too true. The Muskoka is missing and given up as lost--St John (K. B.) Globe. House-Keeping Intelligence. > 1 Mrs. Molloy Bigman, a newly mar­ ried lady, does not know anything about house-keeping, but she is anxious to have her hnsband believe that there is nothing in the house-keeping line that she does not know. He happened to be in the room when the cook came and said: "Will you please gib me out de coffee ? De water is been a-bilin' dis Iks' hall-hour." "Let the water boil, Matilda." re­ plied Mrs. Bigman, calmly; "the longer it bails the stronger it will be."-- Harper's Mag mine. •• IN the great majority of things, habit Is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt ;. in religious charaoia* it-ia,a grand felocity.'--John Foster. r< > ? < AND POINT. TKEB& is very little serf tkthinir IA Bussia. A MAN always feels put out when he is taken in. Hoy is the surfV light supported? THE latest out--the boy who ia "kept after school. • NEVER recline in the laps of agear- female personagea--Carl Pretzel PROBABLY Lot was the only man who would have been justified in pin^W his wife. THE favorite hymn of the pious electrician -- "I'm going home to dynamo!" - WHEN a young man detects the first ovidence of hair on his upper lip he feels elevated, wbeir in-reality iftHa a sort of coming down. THE King of Spain, although but little more than 1 year old, is a general officer in the Spanish army. Of course he is in the infantry service. He been in arms all his life. LET no man boast that he is frra fmm color-blindness until after he has been Sent to the dry goods store to match his wife's black silk and has come Ottt of the ordeal satisfactorily. OITT boarder (to farmer)--This milk seems pretty poor. Farmer --The pastur' here ain't what it ought to be. City boarder--And yet I saW lots of mitk-weed in the fields this morning. FARMER HAYSEED--I got a letter from Johnny to-dav. He's a-gittin' along flue, and says he's into cube root Mrs. Hayseed--Thar 1 I told jppu that thar boy would make a hog of hiaself! --Newman Independent » * [ / '• IT is claimed that tea was brought to Europe by the Dutch in 1610. This is unquestionably true, but nevertheless, .it stands no show with the Dutch now. One glass of beer with hydrophobia, on top, and a salt-covered pretzel, Will give more satisfaction, than 4 whole chest of tea.--Peck's Sun. SOME writer of verses says sneejr- ingly that Gen. Lytle was drunk when he wrote: "I am dying, Egypt, dying." Lincoln asked to knpw what brand of whisky Grant drank. He wanted to send some of it to his other generals. Lytle whisky might benefit some of our poets.--Texas Siftings. "OH, yea, my boy's getting along fast rate," Baid a father in answer to an inquiry regarding his son. "Yes, sir, fust rate, an' we're all mighty hope up with tho idea that he's goin' to be a humorist We jest know he is, for I tell you what's a fack, he giggles all the time, and he couldn't spell cat to save his life. He's jest nachully cut out fur a humorist"-- Arkansaw Trav­ eler. "GEQRQE, wasn^t that queer about that woman having a man arrested for • putting his arm. around her?" she re­ marked^ during1 a lapse in ' the con­ versation. "I don't know," replied George. "Seems to me she might have been a little milder." Then there was another pause. At length she inter­ rupted it "deorge," she said, softly. "Well?" "Papa says the policemen on t&is beat are too worthless for any­ thing. If I was to soream ever so hard I don't believe any of them would hear jit." Goorge pondered a little, and ; soon the conversation was nothing but ' a continuous lapse. -- Washington Critic. "YES," said a portly man, with ft patronizing wave, of his hand, as be stood on the railroad station platform, "I am now interested in Dukota myself --just bought a farm for my son, you know. I consider that there are phe­ nomenal chances for a young man in this Territory. By the way. what is the most remarkable instance you know of a young man doing well finan­ cially in Dakota?" "BillHostetter did pretty well," said the. small man on a ooil of barbed wire. "Ah, tell me about him," said the capitalist, as he rubbed his hands. "I'll warrant my •son will do as w«(ll--how much did Mr. 'Hostetter make?" "Sixty thousand dollars/' . "Ah--um--snug little sum. Farming, I suppose?" "Oh, no, Bill ^didn't farm it He got eleeted Treas-. urer of the county and took the funds ,and went to Canada. "--Dakota Jiell. | CiH îetry and Prudery.. A coquet seeks to fascinate for thp tsake of fascinating. Like a miser, sne (mistakes the means of the end, and feeds •on one sided passion and admiration, "until one morning she wakes up and finds her beauty gone, and l^erself the most disappointed and unamiable of old maids. Or, again, she might be compared to a bank clerk who refused bis s'alary because he was satisfied iwith the tinkling of the money which he heard all day long. The flirt, on Ithe other hand, displays her accom­ plishments,her wit, and personal charms lor the sake of enlarging her facilities _ of courtship, the possibilities of ra­ tional choice. - Flirtation, from the feminine point of view, may be defined as the art of fascinating a man and leaving him in . doubt as to whether he is loved or not. With refined men of the period flirting, j, e., fascinating and leaving in doubt, is quite as effective in kindling adorar tion to ecstasy as crude coyness was with the coarse-fibred men of the past. Flirtation, indeed, is muoh more tan­ talizing than coyness, and therefore • . complete modern substitute for it To sum up the matter in' one sen­ tence: The coy prude says no, even when she means yes ; the cold coquette says yes and always means no; the modem and refinod flirt says neither yes nor no, but looks and smiles a sweet, "Perhaps--if vou can win my love."--Finclcs Book on "Lave and Beauty." The Squat and Swarthy Italians. One who has watched them and studied their ways says that the Italian laborers on the railroads in this ooun- try live principally on rye bread, maca­ roni, and pork. They earn $1.20 per day, and as they never lose any time they get from $30 to $36 per month. From this the board bill is deducted. Their expenses for the month generally run between $5 and $6. Some live on less, but when a man spends $7 or $8 per month he is considered a'B living very extravagantly. They oonle from the northern part of Italy, from the region near the Alpsi Very (few of them come from any part of Italy south of Rome, for in that part of the country there is a great deal of tilling of soil, a great many vineyards, and a great deal of work. The poorer classes of Italians are to be found in the northern part of Italy, where work is • scarce and where tho men are always ready to come to this country. This is pretty set-ore competition with Ameri­ can workingmen, especially when the latter own property, pay taxes, and , give their children an education. -r-Bqs- Jon Traveler. ... • • 1 ' ii 1 I . « i * " ' 'T '•**»• • ' A MICHIGAN paper tells *.aftaen 'fee is "making a gaudy chump of himself."