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V: STORY OF A MUTINY. jauw tt JDAPTMIN** JE*ut Down bjr Daughter JMf two "years I hafl* been mate Of th© schooner Jessie, Captain Mar­ tin, plying regularly between Sydney, New South Wales, and Hobartstown, Van Dieman's Land. We had a trim craft, easily handled, and our crew never exceeded six men. There was no second mate and the captain stood his own vw*teh. A year before I engaged with her she had been captured by con­ victs from the penal settlement, and %hen recovered, after two or three days •he had been supplied with an arsenal. f The trip which gave rise to the inci­ dents I am about to relate brought the Captain's daughter onboard for the first time, she having been away to school lor a couple of years. The schooner Was named after her, and if a vessel <x>uld feel proud of anything then the Bessie would have been puffed up over the good looks of the girl whose toame she bore. Miss Martin was a typi­ cal English girl, and just as. handsome as the best of them. She was then 19 years old, in the best of health • and spirits, and it was as good as medi- icine for a sick person to hear her sing and laugh. As our voyages were short and safe we had been able to keep the Came crew for a long time, but on this 1|' trip we were all broken up* Two of £7* the old men had been taken ill while yWe were loading, a third had mys- teriously absented himself, and on the jf^c-u-^sy we were to sail the cook walked ^ ; .ashore in a huff. There was no trouble, M't" however in filling the four vacancies, ff/ y Indeed, they were applied for as soon as vacated. The cook was a southern colored man with good recommendation, &> f while the three sailors were English- Is- speaking and of English nativity. When a crew is sent from a shipping office the master must not find fault . with their personal appearance. If they are what they claim to be, that must {-<? ®n" hump-backed. It is the same when 8p i jrthe mate engages men at the wharf. If ,1 . they satisfy him that they are sailors he it ' J?*8 not tind fault with their looks. The three sailor men I engaged for the tit, were hard-looking fellows, and I - "would not have trusted them not to rob |||';; toe, but I took them just the same. At sea they would have their stations and fe"; their orders, and the discipline of a ves- II; • <«1 discourages all exhibitions of im- ^ pudence toward officers. Our crew was ®°w composed of six sailors, captain, ;|f^ mate, and cook, and the girl Jess ^brought the number on board up to ten. I It is a run of over five hundred miles xs '•< due south from Sydney to Ho- w" bertstown, but until passing Cape ||<v, Howe we had the coast in view, and pr,, knew where shelter could be had in p case of a storm. Our crew went cheer­ io fully to work, the weather favored us, and. for three days everything went as gp. smoothly as you please. I had two of ||r » the old men and one of the new in my watch, and on the fourth night, as we £ \ • ' just held steerage-wayjduring my watch, the man at the wheel, whose name was fc IKeedham, and who had been with us Wf' ®®verai voyages, fussed around for a |jff time, and finally said: Ifv' "Mr. Loring. I'd like to speak to YOU & ; a b o u t a m a t t e r . " . . . "Verry well; what is it?" * . t|'"i4 don't like them new men, Itfei " "For what reason?" gfcv "They've got their heads together too ̂ often, sir, and fley've talked to Bill if Bnd Tom, my old mates, until they've . quite upset them." pi ^About what?" 5 s. ' "Well, sir, about pirates, and islands, %' fnd treasure, and such stuff! I didn't Ik. take to 'em, and they didn't take to me, ?<f*-.r.. so they don't trust me, but I can't ^lelP but think there's something wrong an the wind." f§? i, ̂ wasn't startled--not even worried. ||| bailors are always talking such nonsence gp/j among themselves, and aboard of every ^ craft there is always a tale-bearer who ~ ^'.a'3 40 curry favors. Need ham was ie;* distant and peculiar, as I had heard the li men say, and that was whv the trio had not taken to him. I thought the 1 matter over for some time, and then ||ft thanked the man for his information, it '^a ^ to keep his eyes open! g|; We had a light breeze all night, and ^ the next day was very mild. We got a Lw fctin breeze from noon to midnight, and t|, on the morning of the sixth dav were Then the winA died VV a^d de^' ai»d all day long we fe " ^ , suihcient to ruftie a feather. I Iff I • h^1 h™n watching the new men closely | . | since JSeedham started my susuicions ^ a could I discover to con- ^ . fr,m hls statements. They were cheer­ ful, prompt, and respectful, and I quite >> ' frS tiougllt of conspiracv. ir If Needliam had heard or seen anything further, he had not reported it. al V though invited to do so. ' al The Captain's trfek that nieht w from 8 to 12 o'clock. At 9 o'clock I was asleep m my berth, the Captain was lounging and emoking, and Jess was in after 801116 arfcicle of clothing was no wind yet, while the ni«ht wa««oft and starlight. There was a man at the wheel, but this was mere fffim s8ake' he ,naving nothing to do. All of a budden, as the Captain paced ~ quarter, .iome one in the forecastle ted "Murder I" There was a scrain- , -jto»aa4 f ™sh> Allowed by a splash, ik'ij"**•' a choking voice from the water \ mutiny, Qaptain--loA «wtP n inw Qm roiCO of Nmdhan, who had hem st*bb«daad Hong oTeriboard. ptowwii.tlM OiptdhB saw ereiy othnrmatii before the mast advaawiBg aft armed with oapstam bar and belaj' ing^pioa. The negro cook was wwh them, and the old man was not locg in realising that something worse than mntfny was on. Instead of oitolng, or arguing, or waiting for explkittations, he leaped down into the cabin and bolted the heavy doors behind him. I heard the row, and was now dressed, and so it came to pass that the Captain, Jess, and myself were together alt, and al! made prisoners at once. "It's mutiny, Mr. Loring!" shouted the Captain as I entered the main oabin. " Arm vonrself and well teach the ras­ cals a lesson not to be forgotten." He had scarcely ceased speaking when a bullet struck him on tlie right shoulder, and a shot fired at me grazed my head. One of the mutineers had fired through the open skylight. The Captain staggered to the sofa, and in a jiffy I had the lights out. Then I pulled the heavy sash down and secured it, and we were safe for the moment. It needed no explanation to satisfy me of what had happened. The crew had seized the schooner, and Needham had been murdered because he would not join iho eojispkaey, T had s rpvolver. and I started for the deck, bat the Cap­ tain stopped me. "Come back, Mr. Loring. Yon have no show! They would kill yon before you get on deck P "But we most get the schooner back !n I said. "Certainly;-but we oant do it by throwing our lives away. We are safe for the present. Help me off with my coat and attend to this wound. Jess, you take my revolver and stand in the oompanion'Way to guard the doors." I got at the wound as soon and carefully as I could, and was rejoiced to find that the bullet had struck the bone and glanced off. Indeed it fell out of the flesh as I washed away the blood. It was thus a painful but not a dangerous wound. I soon had it attended to, and the Captain thought he would not be prevented from handling a revolver. I had just got him fixed np when some one rapped at the doors, and a voice ex­ claimed : "Below, there ! I want a word with you!" "What is it?* demanded the Captain. "The schooner is ours, as you, of course, know. We don't want your lives. You can have a boat and start off as soon as you please." "But we don't propose to goP "Don't get cantankerous, old man. We've got the schooner, and we know enough to keep it. We don't want you here. If you accept our offer, all right. If you want to fight it out, then look out for yourselves!" "That's what we propose to do," re­ plied the Captain, and then all was quiet. _ i crept to the head of the companion stairs and heard the mutineers convers­ ing in low tones, and while I sought to catch what they said, a man ran aft to the wheel and the others began to make sail. The calm was broken. I knew the course they would make without seeking a sight of the cabin compass. They would head to the west, probably for King Island, and while between the south coast of Australia and the north coast of Van Dieman's Land, a stretch over two hundred miles, there would be no fear of meeting with any craft larger than a coaster. _asdo«„to -v.« came up lively, and the schooner went dancing away as lively as if all had been at peace. • "They won't fay to gCT w -rra ror* time, and perhaps not until morning," said the Captain, "and we most mat* ready." We first made a barricade at the door of the main cabin, using the sofa, table and chairs. Then we got out and loaded five muskets, placed three cutlasses handy, and in addition, each had a re­ volver. We worked in the dark, but we knew where everything was to be found. You might have looked for the girl to break down, but there was never a sign of it. Indeed, she expressed a hope that the men would not give in too soon, and peemed to desire an at­ tack. When we had done all we could we sat down and waited for the night to pass away. The schooner reeled off the miles at a lively paoo for the next four hours, and morning came without our having been disturbed. Then sail was short­ ened, the craft laid to, and, as soon as the men had had a bite to eat, tile leader summoned us with; "Below, there!" ^Well?" answered the Captf in. "We will give you another chanoe to leave. You can have a boat, oars, water, and grub,and no one shall hinder your going." "Suppose we refuse to go?" "Then your blood be upon your own head! Katlier than surrender the schooner, we'll burn her and you with her! I'll give yon half an hour to think it over." • We didn't want two minutes. We were determined not only not to leave the schooner, but to recapture her. We expected to be attacked first by the sky­ light, but this was a small affair, and did not command but a portion of the cabin. Arid, as we afterwards ascer­ tained, the only firearm among the mu­ tineers was a double-barreled pistol, which had already been discharged, and 00 . be reloaded . for want of am­ munition. They would also batter in the doors at the companion, but we hoped to hold them at the barricade. They could not come at us by the way of the hold, for that was full. W e got a bite to eat from the pantry, had a glass of wine, and by that time were hailed for our answer. The Cap­ tain replied that he would not go, and defied them to do their worst. We heard them moving slowly about, and at her own request Jess was allowed to pull away a portion of the barricade and creep up the stairs to listen, while the Captain and I stood with our guns ready to repulse any attack by the sky­ light. Jess was returning to report, when ar battering ram drove in the doors hartlly an arm's length away, and the men who had wielded the spar raised a veil at the sight of her. Not one person in ten thousand, man or wo­ man, would have done as she did. In­ stead or springing over the barricade, she leveled her revolver and shot one of the men. the leader of the mutiny, a uU the head as he stood above her. As he threw up his arms and fell she shouted to us to come up, rushed up the stairs and we heard her fire twice more i?*re We over the barricade. \Y hen we got on deck no one but Jess was to be seen erect. Two dead men and o»e wounded unto death were lv- mg on the deck, and the other three had fled to the fo'castle. rf wo minutes later they were begging for their lives, ana they urawled like curs as they oame to bound. Jess had killed two of ttw iff. men and m th* -JMipb oook, and down and the craft _ T _ Jdount a hundred. aiov«iatotf«liad been so swift andji#r aim lias SO fortunate that evorytJitag had to before her. It would have made your hair stand ap fc> listen to the confessions of those MMoals. The seizure of the sohooner had long been contemplated, and apart of the plan was to get hold of the girl. Bad we accepted the offer of the boat we would have been killed as soon as we reached the deck! The leader was an ex-oonvict named Ike Reese, and he proposed to turn the craft into a regu­ lar pirate, strengthening his crew from such small craft as he might overhaul. The negro died within an hour, and we hoye the three bodies overboard with­ out ceremony. During the forenoon we worked the schooner to the east, and about noon got a couple of hands from an English merchant­ man and put into Melbourne to report and deliver up our prisoners. One was hanged for the crime, but one died before the trial and the other es­ caped and was shot dead by the officers in pursuit. k Hunter's Valuable Prise. Something like the excitement oyer alleged discoveries of gold in Lower California is attending similar news from the Transvaal, in South Africa. The diggings there are reported to be enormously rich, and a swarm of pros­ pectors is Hocking to the field. As re­ vealing a hitherto unsuspected vein of imagination and lightsome humor on the part of the Boers, the current story of the disoovery of the gold field is in­ teresting. It was first published in the Transvaal Advertiser. A well-known resident of the Repub­ lic, it is said, while out hunting one morning saw a koodoo bull, which he tried to stalk. After he had slightly wounded the animal, and while he was riding after it down a stony declivity, his horse stumbled, he was thrown, and his rifle was broken. At this th« koodoo turned and attacked the man, knocking him down and attempting to kneel on him. By holding the animals forelegs the man kept the buck up­ right, bnt the animal's horns had evi­ dently entered the bank for some dis­ tance and its head was held down close upon the man breast. The animal seemed as anxious as the man to get the horns loose, but was evidently helpless, the horns being held fast in the ground. Held thus unable to move, man and beast remained in the broiling sun all that day. At nightfall jackals and wolves came prowling about, and even brushed against the man and sprang upon the buck. But the yellB of the man and the kicks of the buck kept them away until dawn, when they slunk away. Soon after day­ light a rifle shot was heard and a bullet slightly wounded the man in the fore­ head. By waving his handkerchief and shouting he prevented further firing, and the hunter who had at first seen onlv the buck, came up and learned the real situation; Wishing to take the animal alive, he hurried off to the near­ est farm and brought men with ropes and shovels, who bound the buck and extricated the man. But when the horns were at last freed there was found upon each a mass of metal, which, being removed, proved to be nuggets of gold weighing respectively eight and six and one-half pounds. This led to the dis- - -*"1! trold field. Anyone <* the entire accuracy of this story can make further inquiries at the onice of the Transvaal Advertiser. Each of the several divisions of the operating department of a railroad should have on its rolls two classes of men: first those who have been admit­ ted into the permanent service of the company; and second, those who for any cause are only temporarily in that service. And no man should be ad­ mitted into the permanent service until after he has served an apprenticeship ih the temporary service. In other words admission into the permanent service wpuld be in the nature of a promotion from an apprenticeship in the tempor­ ary service. The permanent service of a great rail­ road company should in many essential respects be very much like a national service, that of the army or navy, for instance, except in one particular, and a very important particular, to-wit: those in it must of necessity always be at liberty to resign from it--in other words to leave it. * • • He who had passed through his period of pro­ bation and whose name was enrolled in the permanent service would naturally feel that his interests were to a large extent identified with those of the com­ pany ; and that he on the other hand had rights and privileges which the" company was bound to respect. * * * Beyond this, he should feel that, though he may not rise to a high posi­ tion, yet as a matter of right he is en­ titled to hold the position to which he has risen just so long as he demeans himself properly and does his duty well. He should be free from fear of arbitrary dismissal. In order that he may have tliis security, a tribunal should be devised before which he would have the right to be heard in case charges of misdemeanor are advanced against him.--Charles Francis Adams, in Scribner's. ,,, Mistaken Kindness (- The father who, for a great his life has struggled with poverty, is unwilling that his children should have a similar experience. So he denies himself indulgence in even necessary things that he may save ^and make for his family. The mother, remembering how irksome household tasks were to her in her girlhood, permits her daugh­ ters to lead lives of domestic ease and indolence, thinking that in so doing she makes the best manifestation in her power of maternal love. As a natural consequence of this view on the part of parents, we see growing up all around us young men and women perfectly use­ less for all the practical purposes of life --unable to cope with misfortune. In­ tellectual or moral fibre is not inherent; it must be built up from within, and is the result of independent thought and action. The sooner a boy can be made to wait upon himself, to think for bin*. self, to act for himself, the sooner wilf the germs of true manhood begin to develop within him. It is no kindness to surround him with such attention and care that he will not be compelled to learn the lessons of self-reliance, of patient industry, of persistant hope. The real crowns of this world art crowns of labor. THERE'S one great advantage in writ­ ing love letters on a typewriter instead of using a pen. A fellow can get a much better idea of how his letters are going to look in print when the news­ papers report his trial for breach £* promise.--Terre Haute J&rproM. TH« l§'rER. ItKaaaas Man'a Solution VliMyiii fVnhtAin " » " Vw»v*»I« Dr. H. W. Pai»ons, of Wain ego, Kan., the inventor of the aerial torpedo, re­ cently contributed to a Kansas City Ear an article on the moisture prob-, la which he recommends a novel, but apparently not an impractacable, method of causing two blades of grass to grow instead of one. The writer says: In such years as the three last have been in Kansas, the farmer sees one orop after another fail for the want of moisture; he plants the fourth with a trembling hand and prays this year there may be enough rain sent to water it, but the hot winds of July and August begin to blow and his crops are withered before the blast. Now if the United States wishes to people these States of the Eastern slope of.tne Rocky Mountains with happy homes, they must make some move to aid the willing hands that are now labor­ ing to accomplish this. What is wanted is moisture. We all know that the soil is rich and that bountiful crops could be produced if we had now and then a rain at the right time. We also know that during our driest seasons we have a great abund­ ance of rainfall--sufficient to produce the very beat <>f crop#, but our treeless prairies shed water like the roof of a house, so that within ' twenty-four hours after a good rain the earth is again dry and the greater part of this water is choking the streams on its way to the Gulf of Mexioo. It has been proposed to build great lakes or reservoirs at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. This would tend to produce a climatic change, but not great; contractors would grow rich out of such a project, while a much greater change could be wrought and more good be done by distributing this money among the * farmers to construct small lakes from one-half acre to two acres in extent over tliir great area from the Gulf of Mexico to British America. There is no doubt but the lakes would be built by the farmer if ho only realized their value and had some aid from the gov­ ernment. Dams can be built across ravines at a trifling expense and trees can be planted around these dams. It is well known to those who have cultivated fish that these fish ponds, occupying worthless land, render it as valuable to them as their most choice and productive, for one or two acres stocked with fish would furnish their families with that luxury that but few farmers enjoy. If an appropriation were made by the United States, and each State also gave to this enterprise, then each man could be paid a fair price for his land and something each year to keep it in re­ pair. This money would provide for the present wants of many a poor man who is now laboring hard on the frontier for the support of a family, and it would also aid him in making himself a home, while the ponds would furnish his family with nourishment. The gov­ ernment would soon learn that this money had been well spent/ But the greatest benefit that would be derived by the commonwealth would be in the great climatic change that these lakes would produce. Every sec­ tion of land should nave one or more of these lakes, in some cases they might be large enough to hold water for irriga­ tion, but the idea is to have them for the purpose of evaporating basins. There being thousands 'of them, they would represent a vast area of water surface fringed with trees that would make a quick growth and keep these ponds from too rapid evaporation. of the iSaSiM the "simoons these bodies of water, cause rapid evaporation, and become cooler, so that they would be robbed of their terror. As they Avafted this moisture northward over a country cooled by in­ numerable lakelets, these vapors would became condensed, and fall in the form of rain. Again, the north wind will carry the remaining moisture to the South, and there water the thirsty crops of that region. Thus we see, as our winds blow almost directly North and South, that instead of this moisture being lost to this section, it would again and again be wafted back and forth over this arid region, and the country that is now looked upon as being almost uninhabitable would yield to the farmer a most productive harvest. Christening a Chinese Child* On a bed, spread with a spotless cov­ ering of white, lay the child, the tiniest, most fragile bit of a bundle of gaudy silk and olive-tinted cheeks. About his neck hung a string of gold beads, there was a band of gold about his diminutive head, gold bracelets encircled his small wrists, while two ivory rings with gold fastenings were clasped around his ankles, beneath which were beautifully embroidered shoes, which seemed to be no larger than a man's thumb. The guests walked in silence before the bed, the young heir blinking up at them with all the wisdom of Confucius in his face. When the last couple bad filed past the bed they gathered about the center of the room and Win So, the officiating priest, picked up the bundle of silk and oarried it to a place before the guests. The mother stepped forth and took the bundle in her arms, while all those present bowed low. As yet no word had been spoken by any one. Then the priest bowed alnjost to the ground three Jtimes, his face getting longer and longer until he let out a string of Chinese words, first to the father and then to the mother. This was to ask them if they both wished their heir to be named Mon Kee Sing. Both of them nodded as­ sent to this. The priest again took the child and bowing three times more, with him in his arms, pronounced his name. Mon Kee Sing thus became his name. There had been stationed in the room three Chinese mSisicians and as the last words fell fromxthe priest's mouth a sudden noise of a~, screeching, one- stringed violin and two piercing wiud instuments broke out. This lasted only a moment, however, and there was no Chinese drum, this being used espec­ ially at funerals. When the hideous music had stopped all fell to chattering like mad around the father and mother. Then followed a dinner which lasted for two hours. The whole ceremony, including the "name-feast," as it is called, required a trifle over three hours.--Nevj York Tribune. How Men Work in the Navy Yards. Walk through a navy yard and watch the men going to and coming from work. After muster in the morning they saun­ ter lazily toward their departments at a funeral pace. Half or three-quarters of an hour is spent by many of them in making their working toilet and getting ready to work. Half an hour before the dinner hour some of them stop. After dinner another half hour is wasted as in the morning. And again, half an liour before the bell rings m the after­ noon they get very tired, begin to al liii" totfcike a irantte dive of flie boll. Thus in ginning work two hours % tically killed. Nor are the' six hours devoted to nlMill'1lunieiii work. There is a great deirtortalking, gazing around, listless hammering and aimless wandering about. An able bodied man, with another as helper, may be seen struggling with, a job re­ quiring the strength of a 9-year-old school boy. It is safe to assert that there are many men in the navy yards who do not do four hours' work for their daily wages.--New York Herakt. • f A Deceptive Dude. The apparel does not always proclaim the man; in other words, appearances are often deceptive. A friend told me, recently, the following story, which aptly illustrates my point: "I was once," he said, "onboard an English man-of-war,during an extended cruise to the Mediterranean. Among the officers in command was a little fel­ low, a Second Lieutenant, I think, who was what we to-day would call a howl­ ing dude. He was extremely dandified in his dress, always carried a light cane when on deck, and wore and eye-glass with all the hauteur and grace of the typical English swell. Moreover, he was considered a martinet by the men under him, not one of whom seemed to either like or respect him, even as a su­ perior. "One day, when the weather was fine and we were running along before a fa­ vorable wind, the engines scarcely working, the cry rang out: 'Man over­ board!' Our'little dandy, as we had come to call the officer, was pacing the deck, jauntily swinging his cane and now and then issuing orders to the men, when the alarm was given. Quick as thought he rushed to the side of the vessel from whence had come the cry, and in an instant hud plunged into the water to the rescue. Boats were low­ ered as quickly as possible, and ih a short time both rescuer and rescued were back on board ship, where the gallant little Lieutenant was heartily applauded for his courage and his promptness in risking his own life to save that of a fellow creature. He took it all very coolly, however, barely ac­ knowledging the congratulations and words of praise which everybody now seemed so anxious to bestow. "It was afterwards learned that ho had often distinguished himself in like manner during his career in the navy, and had won medals enough in recog-' nition of his services to have covered his breast, had he seen fit to have made a display of them. He was a splendid swimmer and a fine all-round athlete, and was, besides, as cool and coura­ geous in times of dangerous as he ap­ peared to be when taking his afternoon promenade on the quarterdeck; but to have judged him by his dress and man­ ners, one would have pronounced him an insufferable snob, a howling little swell, possessing neither brains, mus­ cle, nor courage."---.Ed Pritchard, in Arkannaw Traveler. Canine Friendship. The following story of friendship fte* tween two dogs, from the London Spec­ tator, may be of interest: Some time ago I used often to stay with a friend in Wiltshire, whose park is separated from the house by a lake, which is about one hundred and fifty yards broad at the narrowest part. Being extremely fond of animals, I soon became intimate with two delightful dogs belonging to my hostess, a large collie called Jasper ana a rough skye-terrier, Sandie. The pair out together and, sact* kT'refele, even poached' together. One afternoon I called them, as usual, to go for a walk, and making my way to the lake I de­ termined to row across and wander about in .the deer park. Without think­ ing of my two companions I got into the boat and pushed off. Jasper at once jumped into the water and gayly fol­ lowed the boat; half-way across he and I were both startled by despairing howls, and stopping to look back we saw poor little Sandie running up and down the bank and bitterly bewailing the cruelty of his so-called friends in leaviug him behind. Hardening my heart, I sat in silence and simply watched. Jasper was clearly depressed; he swam around tho boat, and, looking up into my face, said unmistakably with his wise brown eyes; "Why don't you go to the rescue?" Seeing, however, that I showed no signs of intelligence, he made up his mind to settle the difficulty himself, so turned and swam back to forlorn little Sandie. There was a moment's pause, I suppose for explanations, and then, to my surprise and amusement, Jasper stood still, half out and half in the wa­ ter, and Sandie scrambled on his back, bis paws resting on Jasper's neck, who swam across the lake and landed .him safely in the deer park. I need not de­ scribe the evident pride of the one or the gratitude of the other. Stage Murdeiife, For out and out wickedness, com­ mend men to actors and actresses. Mr. Barry Sullivan, in the course of his dra­ matic career, is said to have committed 17,000 murders. }Mr. Irving cannot be much less deeply steeped in gore. Mr. Sullivan is said to have been killed in battle, slain in battle, slain in duel, poisoned or fatally stabbed 9,000 times; while Mr. Henry Neville has been 3,100 times ruined, and 4,300 times falsly im­ prisoned, thanks to the treachery of the actors with whom he is associated; and Mr. Charles Windham has been di­ vorced on 2,800 occasions. These are sad facts; but actors are not always en­ tirely bad. Mr. Henry Neville has nobly befriended 1,800 miserable and deserted women, and I am ashamed to say it, though I am bound to add it, has subsequently married about half of them. The most distinguished pro­ tector of injured innocence was, how­ ever, that much-lamented actor, Mr. John Clayton. He knocke ddown 1,480 scoundrels who endeavored to insult friendless ladies; he ensured the happi­ ness of 1,300 deserving couples, often at the sacrifice of his own interests; he ef­ fected 2,100 reconciliations of misunder­ stood young men with stern parents; he saved 430 persons from drowning, and 243 from being shot or assassinated; and on 640 separate occasions he under­ went a long sentence of undeserved im­ prisonment without a murmur. On the other hand Miss Genevieve Ward has been party to 1,7(50 bold-blooded mur­ ders; and Madame Sarah Bernhardt has the jdeatlis of no fewer than 22,700 persons, chiefly of high rank and great influence, upon her'consciencfe. BOARDER--Mrs. Hardcash, how long was this egg boiled? Landlady--J don't know what's the matter with that egg. You are the third boarder who has kicked about it so far this morning. A Sfebto: the; It is c most wltolo town--one might almost the entire province --should be so den away amid a litter el squalid and unsightly hovels that a careless observer might easily let it pass unaottoed. In­ deed, more than one student of Mr. Murray's red-bound Koran has left Tripoli under the impression that the "Aroh of Aurelius" exists no longer, having doubtless expected to see some­ thing like the Arc de Triomphe at Paris, or the Brandenberger Thor at Berlin, or the "Gate of Tiberius" at Ancona. But the wonder is actually there for all that. Picking your way along one of the narrow streets that lead up from the harbor, you are struck with an inde­ finable something in the aspect of a shapeless block ol masonry on your right, which impresses you sufficiently to make you halt and take another and a closer look at it. This second glance reveals to you, in the midst of the rough stones and rubble with which Turkish barbarism has filled in and blurred its nfagnificent outline, the graad sweep of a noble classic arch, which, with its massive blocks and its smooth symmet­ rical msywwTy, assorts? itself unmistaka­ bly through all the unsightly chaos around it. And there on its side, dis­ tinct in every line as when it came from the carver's hand 1,725 years ago, the car of Roman conquest, whirled along by the mythical she-wolf with which Rome's history commences, is seen rushing like a hurricane over the necks of prostrate nations. It is naturally somewhat of a shock to you to discover that the interior of this splendid monument of the classic age, erected in honor of one of the greatest rulers of ancient Rome, is now used as a store-house for casks of flour and potatoes. But all thought of this profanation is quickly lost in the con­ templation of the grand old relic itself. Seventeen centuries of storm and battle have failed to dislodge one block from its walls or to shake down one stone of its roof. When it first rose above the Mauritian palm trees Christian martyrs were being thrown to the lions in the newly-built Coliseum at Rome, and painted savages were hunting wolves over the future sight of London. Sihce that time the Roman Empire has van­ ished from the earth, and the savage "Brittani" who were Virgil's chosen type of lowest barbarism, rule twice as many lands as the proudest Caesars, while a new world of which the boldest classio navigator never dreamed, has arisen to spread its renown over the whole. But although the very sight of Aurelius's palace is now unknown and Aurelius himself is but a dim historical Ehantom, this strange old monument of is greatness still stands here like a tombstone Of Rome's departed glory, the same yesterday^ to-day, and forfever. --David Ker, in New York Times. Immense, Sir, Immense. Jacksonville and St. Augustine boast a score of hotels, each c-apable of ac­ commodating from six hundred to a thousand guests. These hotels are full from the beginning of January to the end of March. I have almost always accepted with reserve the American superlatives, fol­ lowed by the traditional "in the world;" but it may safely be said that the Ponce de Leon hotel, at St. Augustine, is not only the largest and handsomest hotel in America, but in the whole world. Standing in the prettiest part of the picturesque little town, this Moorish palace, with its walls of onyx, its vast, uiMiiMiij- ittroiniioii saloons, its.orango walks, fountains, cloisters, and towers, is a revelation, a scene from the "Ara­ bian Nights." Here the Americans congregate in search of a "good time," as they call it. The charges range from ten to twenty- five dollars a day for each person^ ex­ clusive of wines and extras. The Ameri­ can who goes to the Ponce de Leon with his wife and daughters, therefore, spends from one to two hundred dollars a day. For this sum, he and his family are fed, played to by a very ordinary band, and supplied with an immense choice of rocking chairs.' On his return to New York, he declares to his friends that he has had a "lovely time." The American never admits that he has been bored, in America specially. The smallest inci­ dents of the trip are events and adven­ tures, and he never fails to have his "good time." He is as easily pleased as a child; everything American calls out his admiration, or at least his interest. Remark to him, for instance, that to go by train to Florida- from the north one has to travel through more than six hun­ dred miles of pine forest--which makes the journey very uninteresting--and he will throw you a pitying glance, which seems to say: "Immense, sir, immense; like everything that is American."-- "Jonathan and His (Jontinenf-- Max CRell. Not Born to Be Killed. Jeremiah McCarty, the foreman of the laborers on tho equipment building at the Navy Yard, which was partly de­ stroyed by fire a year ago, is probably destined to die a natural death. It is evident that he cannot be killed by ac­ cident, for he has had more than one narrow escape, the most remarkable of these at the Torpedo Station, Newport, fifteen years ago. He was assisting in the experiments with a new explosive, and took out a torpedo to place near a buoy about two miles from the shore. The torpedo contained some seventeen pounds of explosive, and when he reached the place where it was to be put overboard he lifted it up, and as he did so some one on shore touched the electric button, and the next thing seen of Jerry was when he was about ten feet in the air enveloped in smoke. He was taken ashore seemingly in a dying condition, but, recovered after a time with the loss ofcan eye and part of his right side.--New York Tribune, ; How to Ten the Age of Cattll» The age of horned cattle is easily de­ termined approximately bv counting the rings on the horns. For the first three years the horn is smooth from the root to the tip. Every year after three it has a ring on it, and the older the ani­ mal becomes the closer together will the last rings be found. By counting the distinctly formed rings and atfyUf'g three the age in years is shown. , Fashions-in Pistols. * Gentlemen (in Chicago gun store)--I want a pistol. Dealer (politely)--Yes, sir. Hete Is a small plain, weapon, usually bought for defense against foot-pads. Here is a silver-mounted beauty, very popular for shooting sweethearts; and here, sir, is our shefdoover, full-jeweled, roll-gold plate, all the rage now-for shooting wives»--New York Weekly. .nss aril . about 1530, a||||S|hav» in France in Earl 4,000 acres, la, and an im now1 "known as Godwittii'"Baiiiis 'wasr formed. ISSS THE "Messalians" were a set profess - ing to adhere to the lotlsr of the gos- pel, abemt 310, who refased to work, 0 ^ quot ing this passage : "Labor not for Nc ' the food that perisheth." 4 NOBCK, an English coin (value 6a. ' . 8d.), first struck in the reign of Ed- }>,*;< •- i. ward III., 1343 or 1344, and said to have derived its name from the excellence ot ' , the metal of which it was oomposed. ̂ /' - ST. JAMES PALACE, London, was ' ' ̂ built by Henry VIII. on tho site of a hospital of the same name, 1530-6. It . - has been the of f ic ia l town res idence of ' -* the English Court since the fire at f [" Whitehall in 1698. v WHAT is known in English history as K the "Main Plot" was the conspiracy make Arabella Stuart sovereign of En- gland, in place of James I., in 1603, 'c Lord Cobham, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Lord Gray were condemned to death for implication in it, but reprieved; oth- • era were executed. Raleigh Was exe- cutod Oct. 29. 1018. " WHAT was known during the French Revolution as Girondists, were so J J named because composed principally of ' X f deputies from the Gironde. They were ' ^ ardent Republicans, but after the cruel- ties of August and September, 1792, ' , Ji labored in vain to restrain Rebespierre and the Mountain party, and their leaders, Brissot, Vergniand, and many ' : others, were guillotined, Oct 31, 1793. -I;#:1; NORWAY, until the seventh century, <;"s \ •. was governed by potty rulers. About * 630 Olaf Trsetefia, of the race of Odin termed Yuglings, or youths, expelled. ' . from Sweden, established a colony in;; Yermeland, the nucleus of a monarchy founded by his descendant, Hafdan ^ IIL, the Black. Norway was divided ^ • * *;1 between Denmark and Sweden in the •; „ . year 1000m, regained its • independence under Olaf II., 1012; successfully in- vaded by Canute, who became King in; 'A 1028-9. Became again independent on the latter's death in 1025. United to ^ > > Denmark and Sweden under Margaret,' , v, 1389; Sweden and Norway separated' from Denmark in 1448, but reunited with the latter two years later. Den­ mark and Norway separated from Swe- f den, 1523; Norway given to Sweden by treaty of Keil, Jan. 14, 1814; declared > i t s independence May 17, 1814; Charles t ' «» XIII. of Sweden proclaimed king by J the National Diet, Nov. 4, 1814. "Kid" Literature. "Fad" seems a trifling word to employ ' in connection with the vast subject of 'i- literature; and yet it is a recognized ijg fact that there, perhaps, never was a: * time when there was such a strong, "craze" for certain kinds of reading' " matter--and these kinds cover ample ' <• grounds. While one-half the world islj5; deeply absorbed in books of the "Rob- ^ ert Elsmere" order, the other half is en- ' - grossed with what has been termed, not inaptly, "Kid Literature." The bestr ^|| specimen of the latter is Mrs. Burnett's T 'j charming "Little Lord Fauntleroy," • v'$ that has taken young and old by storm," and that has inspired a notable number - of imitators, who have rushed into the. * field with unbounded confidence and ant|p£|| earnestness that would be highly com-J v mendable otherwise applied. Yet, more'-^ 5 curious "fads" in the current literature5^ '*. = are the strange comparisons not a few?f%" ^ of the authors draw, to say nothing of;. * ^ the incomprehensible--to the many--\. ? words they use. One author of the day, in a much-dis-* ̂ cussed book, make the dark -tresses his heroine exhale a fragrance like unto®^5ff the "odor of distant oases." While, jj; again, she is made to hearken to her lover's protest as if assisting at the soliloquy of an "engastrimutli." The same writer, in anothar talked-about story, tells of being "distraught at the intussusception of a presence." These, and similiar expressions, form diversify­ ing topics of conversation.--Table Talk. ; South African Cure for a Snake Bite. Mr. G. A. Farini, the explorer of the^ Kalahari desert, had some oxen bitten by poisonous snakes, and one of his bushmen, it is said, cured them by making incisions around the bite, and ^ - rubbing into these a powder made from I , the dried poison-sacs of other snakes. J In a few hours the inflammation caused ir . by the bite disappeared, and the oxenf,<^, were "quite well. A few days afterward , the bushman himself was bi t ten. He at^r once inoculated himself in a similar way with the powder, and having extracted ^ 5 from the wound the fangs of the snake that had bitten him, he drank a drop of poison fron the virus-sac. He imme-, diately fell into a stupor that lasted § some hours. At first the swelling of the wound increased, but it soon sub- ^ sided. Next moming he inoculated himself again. By the evening of that day the swelling had disappeared, and two days after he was as well as ever. "Evart's Private IMstillery." It was Mr. Evarts who preserved tho reputation of the Hayes regime, when Mrs. Hayes and the Ladies' Ebenezer Temperance Association of Washington , were doing all they could to destroy it. Mr. Evarts had a colored man named "Pete," whose services were invaluable on the occasion of White House dinners. He had charge of what the boys used to J oall" Evarts' private distillery, "^and when members of the diplomatic corps and ' other patrons emerged from it on their way to join Mrs. Hayes and the ladies, Pete used to dispatch them with the ~ warning: " De gemmen will please get froo wipen off dar- mouts befo' sittin' down to table." Eminent statesmen and diplomats who recall those days al­ ways smack their lips when they think of Pete and the "private distiUerj,.*~ Brooklyn Eagle. Take Care of the Pcnce. When Budge was at college, ho offended against one of the wise provis­ ions laid down for the guidance of un­ dergraduates by the powers that be, and was lined five shillings by the proo- i tor* ' " is ' Chuckling in his sleeve the gay humf ourist invested in some small change^'! and proudly laid down a pile of orie | hundred and twenty half-pence uppn 1 the table of his oppressor. i " "Thank you, Mr. Budge," replied the ? tyrant, with a smile; "but I won'f be hard upon you; I will not take all your sivings at once. You will be go»od enough to bring me one of these/coins every day for the remainder of the term/' / Budge went oat and wept bitterly.-- Ml/Inn Vi/>I- \Ti> Tin .* ' ' •='< V London lHck Me Up. "BY Jove! . heave the ahouted a s&ilor to Ua 40* AbijalL And 'Bige hovo _ -