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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1899-2-16, Page 6ve and arl.446m '44* A STORY OF SLAYEellY DAYS, nenteneninehenereareeeeeareeenhaeohn. . . . , fly MAY J. (101-A1ES. ,4„;.,,,:,,h+14,,,,Zet.C.,%•"*".:,11-4,14.4)13 R. , tow 119vr enly the day before be left fee.•lhooklancl, news had chime froin Tom, eayiug• he wee as well as pould be expeeted, considering hie fare, but the boy captured with him would sure- ly die if not soon restored. to purer air aod better care than those tobacco prisons afforded. "Oh -.it will kill hIrs. Shores if they should bring him back to hex death" and the het tears gushed from Annie's eyes as she heard in fano, the muffled drum beating its funeral marches to the grave of another Rockland volun- teer. The tears once started could not be repressed, and Mrs. Carleton and Jim- mie finished their supper alone, for Annie excused herself, and hastening to her room, poured out her grief in tears and prayers for the poor sick e ore observed, and leoame aware that boy, Pilii lng n his dreary prison home, he was not alone with his mother, as while mingled. with her tears was a he at first supposed. It was a delicate note of thanksgiving that to her had little figure, not as petite as his sis- been given the comfort of knowing tee's hut quite as graceeul, with its that the death pillow of her darling eloping shoulders and rounded \vest, was smoothed with friendly hands and almost too smelt to suit the theorems that no harsh, disoordant sounds of oh a Water Cure, but looking vastly Prisoo riot or discipline had disturbed. well to Jimmie, whose first thought his peaceful dying. ' was that he oould span it with his Meantime Jimmie had returned to hands, Around the well shaped head his sister, whose first.question was for the heavy bands of pale brown hair Annie. What did he think of her? were coiled, forming a large square Wasn't she sweet, and hadn't she the knot which, falling low upon the neck, prettiest blue eyes he ever saw?" gave to the figure a more girlish ape"I hardly saw them, for she is evid- rharance than Jimmie had expeoled to ently coy of her glancesat a Rebel," toad in his sister's protegee, the Widow nramie answered, half playfully, half Grahame. He knew it was Annie, by bitterly, for Annie's manner of quiet the mourning robe fitting so closely reserve had piqued him more than he around the slender throat, and for an cared to confess.. Instant he wished she was not there, as "She's bashful," Rose replied; "and he Preferred being alone with hts moth- then, Jimmie, you can't expeot her to er. But one glance at the sweet face • forgive you as readily as your own turned toward him as Mrs. Carleton sister, for you know she never saw repeated his name, dispelled all such You till to -night, and she's a true desires, and with a strange sensation, patriot; but, say, did you ever see so which he attributed to pleasant disap- much of an angel?" . pointment, he took the soft, white hand' "Rather too pale to suit my taste. . oh nine extended toward him. It I like high color better," and Jimmie was a very small, a very pretty hand, Pinched Rose's glowing cheek until she axed trembled perceptibly as it lay in scream.ed for him to stop. Jimmies broader, warmer one, while "It's all going wrong," Rose began en . e pale cheek there was a deep, Poutaxtgly. "You don't like Annie a elate- bloom, which Mrs. Carleton her- -bit, and she's so good, too. You can't hell had never observed before. hbegin to guess how good. And there's "1 have heard of Mrs Graham from nothing blue about her, either. Why, my goner," Jimmie said, boning ta her shes a -heap more cheerful than I could with his usual gallantry, while Annie be if Will were dead, as George is. eried to staramer out some reply, mak- rd die, too—I know I should • but An - ng a miserable failure, and. leaving on nut's e real Christian, and that does Jimmie's mind the impression that she make a difference. It seems to be all was prejudiced. against him, and. so through her, and .she lives it every would not welcome him home. nainute. I honestly believe I'm better A. dozen times in the course or the than before she came. She has ahtual-, supper Jimmie assured himself that he ly persuaded me not to get up big ' did not care what was the opinion dinners on Sunday, as I used to do, held of him by such as Annie Graham, but to let all the servants go to church, • while he as often changed his mind and every night she goes for half an and knew that he did care, wondering hour into the kitchen and teaches old what it was about her face that puzzle black Phillis how Lo read the Bible. ed him go much. She looked a little She's so truthful, too. Why, she said like Tonnes wife, Mary, he thought, that she presumed that litele Pequot girl is, as Mary had looked just before her would not have liked you any way departure for Charleston, when she after eha .beard that: Dick Lee was not bade him good- bye, whispering to your name." him timidly of a world where she hop- "The Pequot girl!? How came Mrs. ed to meet again the friends she loved Graham to hear of her ?" Jimmie ask - so well., And as, whenever he thought ed, his face flushing crimson. - of Mary, he felt: that her angel pres- "Oh, I happened to ask mother some- ence was around him still, he now felt thing about her one day, right before that another angel spirit looked out Annie, and so, of course explained a at . ini froin the soft eyes of blue raise little. It would not have been polite ed to his so seldom, and when raised if I hadn't," Rose replied, adding, as S withdrawn so quickly. What did she she saw her brother's evident chagrin, a think of him? He would have, given "you need. not mind one bit, for Annie t something to have known, but he was never tells anything." far from suspecting the truth or ; It was not the fearing she would tell 0 g guessing what Annie felt, as she saw which affected Jimmie unpleasantly; upon his face the lines of dissipation, it was the feeling that he would rath- and thought of the debasing scenes er Annie Graham should not know of through which he must have passed all his delinquenoies, and so despise since the days of auld land syne, when, him accordingly. How unfortunate it with the little Pequot. of New London, WAS that she was there, and yet he be sat upon the rooks and watched the would not have sent her away if he tide come in, telling her how, on the could, though he did wish she were not morrow night, his own fanciful little so well posted with regard to his af- boat, named for her, should bear them fairs, both past and present. What across the placid waters of the bay to made ROSe tell her of the Pequot, and where the green hill lay sleeping in, why had the Pequot haunted him ever the summer moonlight. The Pequot's since he came into that house? Some - reply had been that the morrow was, thing had. brought her to his mind, the Sabbath, and not even the plea- , and as the servarit just then came in, sure of a sail with him could tempt bringing her mietress's supper, he left her to steal God's time, and appropri- , his seat by Rose, and walking to the ate it to such a purpose. He had call-, window looked out upon the starry sky, ed her a little. Puritan then, asking',wondering within him.self where she where she learned so strict a .ereed,l was now, the eittle girl who had sat and adding, "but, 1 half believe you're with him upon the rocks, and told him right, and if I'd known you sooner I, it was wicked to break God's fourth shoulcl have been a better boy ;" then command. The scene -which Annie kissing her blushing cheek, he had led: saw at the supper table was present her from the rocks over whic,h the with him now, remembered, tor the waves were breaking now, and that ! first time, since the battle at Bull Run, a was ths last the g ver saw o • Then, as he lay waiting for the foe, gi him. There was no sail upon the bay, l he had. M fancy, heard again a sweet, Si no more watching for the ebb and flow' girlish voice bidding him keap holy of the evening tide, no walks onthe the Sabbath day, and the tear which long piazza, or strolls upon the beach, dropped upon his gun was prompted nothing but news one night that the • by the thought of all he had passed handsome, saucy -eyed boy was gone to, through since the happy school -boy his home in Boston, leaving no roes- days when the Pequot preached to him sage or word of explanation for her, her gentle sermons. the little Pequot, vihose ste,p was slow- tn the hall there was a rapid foot- er Apr a few days, and whose headache step, and Rose called out : was not feigned, as the harsh aunt " Annie, Annie, eome here. Why, said it was, when she refused to join where are you going to -night. ?" she the revellers in the parlor, and dance continaed in much surpirse, as Annie with the grey-haired man, four times looked in, hooded and shawled as for her age, who sought her for his part- some expedition. ner. They had not met since then till Going to see Mrs. Sirams. It isnot , now; and Annie struggled hard to far, you know," was A.nnie's answer, keep back the tears as she remembered and the door cosed after her in time all that had come to her since that to prevent her hearing Rose's reply. summer at New London—remembered "It's dark as pitch, and slippery, too -the childish 'fancy which died out so Jimmie, do please see her to the gate, fast, and the later love which crown- but don't go in, for the widow is aw- eh her early girlhood, finding its full fill against Rebels!" fruition at. the marhiage altar, and U'he next moment Jimmie was half twilling itself so, closely around the way down the stairs, railing to Annie, fibree of her heart, that when it was who held the door -knob in her band. torn away, it left. them sore and bleed- "Mr. Graham, allow me to be your ing with pain at every pore escort—Rose, is not willing you should Surely, with this sad experience, An- go out alone." nie, young and beautiful though she "Thank yon, I am not at all afraid, .was, could feel for Jimmie Carleton and prefer going alone, as itirs. Sininte naught Satre the deference she would might, not care to meet a stranger," have felt for any stranger who came Annie replied, with an air of so rauoh is her as the brother ef her patroness-, quiet dignity, that jimmie knew there And still she was conscious of a deep- was no alternative for him gave to er interest in him than if he had been return in his sister's chamber, which a perfect stranger, and his presence he did, feeliog far more eresthallen awoke within her an uncomfortable than he had supposed it possible for feeling, making her Wish more and him to feel, pet: because a. widow had nebre that elle was away where she refused his eseort. • woleld hot be obliged to come in daily It was wholly owing to the taiti of contact with him. Under these eir- Rebeldom clinging to him he knew cumelitnees it is not stralige the con- for he. was not iteoustomed to havizig het:section flagged, until for Roses sake his attentione thus slighted by the Ia. Annie felt compelled to make an ef- diee to whom they were offered, an.' torte Suddenly remembering feriae all Unconsetously the manner of re Simms, she asked if anything was a er servo which Annie assumed toware eard at hhashingtot of the Rich- hien wes nienishing him for his sit the war and the Federal Arinh, he a tibia eh least, built a gulf betvvee mono ehehneese quite as molt as anything which ire' "'Ye,"liMmie replied ; and eager to yet octurred, reekhi ing m feel keeolt show hie own. willingelese to talk of1 that by his traitorous eel he had, rot The gas was lighted in the dining - room, and the heavy damask curt:nue were dropped before the long Freud] Windows. A oheerful eoat fire was blazing on the marble hearth, while the table, with its snowy linen, its china, gilver and put -glees, presented a most Inviting appearahoe, making Jimmie feel more at holete thart he had through all the loog years oe his voluntary exile from the pareutal roof. "Tide is nice," he said, with a plea - ant feeling of salisfaotion not null:ting- led, with a certain degree of self-re- nroech, which whispered that after What had passed lee was hardly worthy to be the recipient of so much lux- ury. Thoughts like these were about shap- ing themselves into words, when he °aught sight of a, figure he had not T1114 EXETER himself and thnee Witoe0 goed opinion was worth the hoving. "Why haven't you goner Ron, ask- ed, as he eerie* into the roora. "She wouldn't let you? I don't believe you asked her just as you shoteld. Dear, deer, it' e ail going wrong between you two, and if Tone dent a.ot any better when, he conies hottee„ what. shall Ida?" Send, Mee, Graham away," trembled an Jimmie's lips, belt lenoveing frone whet he had seen that ate far e.s Rose was concerned, Annie's tenure at the Mather marteloo was strooger than Ms own, he wiselh kept silent, and sitting down by the open grate, he went off tato a fit of abstraotion, mingled with sad regrets for the past and occasieual thoughts of the little white-faced now essaying to comfort the dew Simms who had extorted from, her the ineelligence brought by Jimmie of /aer boy, and who, with her hands cov- ering her face, was weeping bitterly, and sobbing amid her tears, " My poor, poor boy. It's the same to me now as? he was dead. I'll never see him any more. Oh, Isaac, my (Og- ling !" CHAPTER XVIII. How close and dirty, and terrible it was on that third floor of the dingy tobacco house, where Isaac, as a pri- vate, was etrst confined, and as, the summer days glided by, and the Au- gust sail came pouring into the great, disorderly room, how the young boy panted and pined for a breath of sweet, pure air, SlIeh as swept over the far - eft Eastern hills, aud how full of wist- ful yearning were the glances he oast toward the grated, windows, seeking. Lo catch glimpses of the busy world without, in which he (timid not mingle. Not very near those windows did he dare approach, for more than ono had already paid the penalty of such trans- gression, and in his dreams Isaac saw yet the white death agony which stole over the fuel of the Fire Zouave shot by the inhuman guard while looking from the window. No wonder that the homesick boy grew sadder, wearier each day amid such horrors as these, praying, some- times that he might die, even though he must be buried far from the quiet Rockland churchyard, where the cy- press and the willow were growing so green and fair, and where a mother could sometimes come and weep over her soldier boy's grave. It would mat- ter little where be slept, he thought, or what indignities were heaped upon his lifeless form, for his soul could not be touched; that would be safe with Him, whom. Isaac, in his captivity, had found to be indeed the Friend which sticketh closer than a brother. The Saviour, honored since early childhood, did. not desert the captive, and this it was which made him strong to bear, through the long summer days, dur- ing which there came to hien no tidings of his home, and. his eye was greeted with no sight of a familiar face, for Captain Carleton was yet an inmate of the hospital. Neither did any friend- ly message come to tell he was re- membered by the man whose fortunes he had voluntarily shared, when he might, perhaps, have escaped, , for though lora thought often, of the gen- erous lad, and sent to hina many a word of comfort through mistake or negligence, only one bried message had ever reached its destination, and so' forsaken by every human aid, poor Isaao looked to Heaven for help, find- ing there a peace which kept his heart from breaking. But as the summer days glided into eptember, and the heat grew more nd more intense, until at last Sep ember, too, was gone, and. the Vir- inia woods were blazing in the light f the October sun, and still there was no token of relief, oh! who, save those who have felt it, can tell of the Mus- ness, the dreary despair, which crept nto the captive's soul, driving out all ope, and making life as it existed n those walls a burden, which -would e gladly shaken off. How Isaac paled nd drooped as the weary hours stole n; how he loathed the sickening food; nd how at night he shuddered with orror, and shrank away from the ver - in -covered floor, his ouly pillow un - ss he substituted the coat, now scarce - less filthy than its surroundings! s Tom wrote to the New Hampshihe omen, Mrs. Simms, would •scarcely aye recognized her son in the hag- ard, ernahiatecl boy, who, on one Oc- her afternoon, sat crouching in his rner, grasping the little Testament ven by the Rockland ladies, and re-' ating its precious truths to the poor, ck, worn-out youth, whose head lay his lap, and whose eyes, blistered it h home dek tears were fastened with kind of hungry -wistfulness upon the rlish face above him, the face of Isaac mms, pointing the dyiog soldier to the only source of life. It was thus Tom Carleton found him, Tom, just released from the hospital, and trans- ferred to the first floor of that dark prison, With 'Tocra it had fared better, for Yankee -like in his precautions, he had gone into the battle with a gua.ntity of gold fastened securely around hie person, and gold has a mighty power to unlock the hardest; heart. As a com- missioned officer, and a man of wealth and rank, many privi/eges were ac- corded to him which were denied the common soldiers, and his first act af- ter entering the tobaeco lames was to seek out his late corapamion and ask after his welfare. He didn't know him at first though ,directed to that locality as the one where the " Preacher " would probably be found. He could not think he had ever seen either of these famished, miserable looking creatures, but touched by the impressive scene, hrsetlasetoroedadi., moment 'listening, while "I am the way, the truth, end the life. No man cometh to the Father buhl;h1;)eys,mbe' tl-t how shalt 1 go (;(":) Where is He ?" the sick boy asked, and bending lower, Isahe answered; TIMES TREY RAD TO BE KILLED, DESPATCIUNQ Or WOUNDED DER- VISHES FOR A GOOD REASON, When peeling Vetth tfuetvOltzed People a htsele hataileation Can he Disocesen Withhineretsliee de Net Fear Moen— leave kilned the Surgeons who Dressed 'mete A very bitter Controversy is now rag- ing in England ond on the contintilit. of Europe, in connection with the ques- tion as to whether or not' the wouncied Dervishee were bayonetted, clubbed and shot after the recent battles a Al- bers and Omdurman. The oharges that such treatment was meted out to the Dervish wounded as they lay' on the field were first made by Professor Bennett, correspondent for the Lon- doo Westminster Gazette, and more or less substantiated by other correspon- dents. The indictment against Lord Kitch- ener and his officers, as made by Mr, Bennett, was a very serious one, and has brought out innumerable protests from every almoner from those who have haetened to defend the -Slider, on on the ground at absolute necessity of the killing of the wounded Dervishes. Th e accompanying illustration aptly piclures and conditions which, accord- . ina to those who have been in the Sou- dan, and who know the nature of the "Fuzzy-Warey," have to be taken in- to consideration whed the question of barbarity is teeing considered. The Dervish is a treacherous crea- ture. He is absolutely without fear, and fights so long as he can wield a spear or pull a trigger. When he can't stand up and fight, he lies down and feigns death. When an enemy comes along he sticks a spear into his back, or plugs a bullet in his fear tinmOg the countrymen of the in-. divihuele thee eXecuted, Ordinary death heel no hoarier either for the Aelatie or her the Afeleao dervish, but la India the hlOwing to piecee Of the body enearie Soratithing More Wart death. It means the loss a life here- after, and of any future existence in another world. That is thhY Lord Stratimairn re sorted to such apparently barbarie neeens of executing the mutineer lead - It was a rorm o deatli that was only cruel in the terror whiele it splred. h'or as far as phygleal suf- fering was concerned, it was infinitely more. !Nick end painless than hanging or shooting would, have been. Lord Stratluialen, whom I knew well during the closing years of hip life, was the most humane and kind-heaeted of men, end if I refer to this particular inci- dent of his career, whittle brought down ouch a etorxe of undeserved, obloquy upoo hie head, it is in order to show that ix dealing with Orientals, it is impossible to restrict oneself to the customary rules and ideas that govern life in civilized countries. ORIENTALS DO NOT FEAR DEATH. As Americans will discover in time in the Philippine, istaods, it is news- sary to adopt methods of repression and of punishment which, while they may not commend themselves to the stay- at-homes, will at any rate serve as a restraint to the races for whose benefit' they are devised. As stated above, death, although the most terrible of all penalties in eivilized countries, in- spire no dread whatsoever in the Ori- ent. But loss of caste does, and in In- dia, for instance, the knowledge that a criine would be punished by smearing the face of the perpetrator with the blood 6f a pig or..of some other uziclean alaitnal; would be far more likely to act as a deterrent from crime than the fear of deathe or imprisonment,- e. The killing of the dervish wounded and also of the cruel native, women who acted as camp followers to the dervish army, are like the blowing iof the Sepoys from the guns, and the smearing of an Indian's face with pig's blood, are the disagreeable necessities of dealing with Asiatics and African races, and under the circumstances it is a pity that; Lord Kitchener should have gone out of his way to deny the charges of Prof. Bennett. For this - _ o . WHY SOME WOUNDED DER VISHES WERE KILLED. : face_ Little wonder under such, con - I bsingnulnaertleyd afbdIre hGiesn disregarderal ha s unf 01! piatoz bean ditions that it has been found desirable • i lio opinion and for his absolute retie - to quietly make sure that Fuzzy is Witty, neither of which qualities he can really dead by planting a spear in him, be said to mainfest in repudiating the before lae.rises up and surreptitiously : statements in Prof. Bennett's, review 1 article. Every one who has been in does the same to you. Egypt since 1883, and who has mingled As beaming upon the present oontro- 1 with the officers who have taken part ! i versy it is intereIsting to recall the , in the innumerable engagements with fact that a similar outcry was aroused ' i fromounder air dlips,, hot only of killing the dervishes since then, has heard publication in one. of the leading Eng-, in 1884 and 1885 through the indiscreet ouis.so:flinzsedeasgerati;nsvitellish—e 1 the most grnievi)o lish newspaper's by a Mts.' Scott Steve'', laws of. Ainb . chivaley-hthat. are, quite in ke,eping with those put into, print enson pf a, Ie,tter addressed toehei by . reasons which Xen '''• 'ct 1 • h , deie ,abso utely nee i by 'Prof. Bennett,' but; likewise. the' her husband, LieuehCol. Seett Steven - stern treatenent of .the son, then second' in .command Of the , cessary 's ' 'towhee, an ', dervihrh-veolloded end. ehomen famous highland reginient • ' ' - DANGEROUS- DERVISHES. • ., . . . i It -wag. not in a spirit cif retaliation the "Black Watch,"', . This regiznen I the women, and the.wemideh.hvere took part in several Of thteengagements pnt to death, although' the •appalling that were fought, against: the deevielies ' (hatatrocitiee to which the English and in the vicinity of Suakien, on. the Red Egyptian holid.ers who fell into the Sea coast, in the early part of 1885, hands of the dervishes ware more -than and in describing one of these battles o th passionate sen Lieut. -Col. Stevenson related with much n timent of this character, but 1 ufficient to call f r sen - gusto to his wife in the letter address- 5.• . -- -. • i hed how Solely with the .view of self-proteclion. ad to her, and which she publ s , . , t was For, as has often been stated. of Tate as other officers and men of his re- in print, a wounded dervish is..guite as giment, had armed theniselves with a t as a , dervish spears and had proceeded to knife wit out hesitaticen the arabinanee ngerou whole race, and will the battle -field fax the purpose of put- i e eo dier who offers to latalati and' the surgeon who tends his ting the wounded dervishes out of their snare wit hien that most. precious of misery, or, ra,ther, beyond the power .3 • es. ?h. lin i of doing injury. all possessions in desert campaigning, fest relish with which Col. Scott Stev- ing of ;the maimed foe as the main- ' , 0 It was not so much, the actual kill- , • they have on a h oc ion ' their men intoaebatticashith abcontshiiit . namely, the water bottle while as t dervishwomen and 'camp followers enson described how he and others had run their spears in and out of the bad- thinflicting • name ess her - sole' object of (.)1e111 t e ies of the 'prostrate wounded that aims- 'eche lanc, swords or rifles. upon ose struck down by dervish ed an outburst of indignation analog - I observe that Prof. Bennett's elta,r ee ous to that which is now raging throughout ..the 'United Kingdom. have been .denied by all the torrecipogne BARJ3A1IIC METHODS NECItSSARY. dente who accompanied toed Kitihen- The incident of Col. Stevenson and ..er's army. This is only natural. They the Dervishes is Veils recalled by .Ex- 'know by sad .experience thet in the Attache, writing in the New York event of their publishing any state - Tribune: , ments that are offeneive to the mill - There are certain necessities in .• eon- tae'Y authorities, the preformanee of their dutiee will be, rend.ered intoIer- neeeion evith 'War ogaihst baribarous if not aetually inapossible, on the potions whic,h it is =pipeline to eith- able,next occasion that they are nailed hp- eyes,er to explain Or .0treii to excuse in the at . on .fo acoonapany "any Britieh force. in- ot those eivilians, who • stay home and who have never been beyond to the field. . 'Naturally their lips, the 'boundary lines of civilization. They therefore, are sealed as fah as any -.will be readily appreciated, however + thing calo,uleted ' to offend '' the, min - in Africa, Ethel Asia, ehe, by none ,mare riotism, as vvell. as an eye to future by thoee who have lived and traveled 'they authortties is concerned, id()ta- t Ilan' ley the 'United. States regulars who favdhs • at, the heads of cominahding have had experienee, of Indian warfare Generale, • is largely responsible 'fag in the West. . . their indorsement pf. Lord. Kitchener's. At the, time of the Indian ,pautioy a,‘ denial,. ' Prof., Bennett, not belog tle controversy similar to thet now 'rag-. Phofeesionah journalist Or compelled to ng heerie hit living its a war corresoond,ent i about the clervish wounded (heated , the English and foreign hite no much motive for rem -taping sil-. wits press by the cietion. of Oen. Lord' &Math- ente This is to be, regretted, and it death by nairti in causing a numbet _of .:: the Wolltd.,:eertainly hatte been, more pat- Seopy mutineers to be put; to d riotie eh his part th say nothing about being biewn hroni the tritizzle of the these hOteleenant nOceesitiee in heal- ing with. savages, necessities' thne are were i he heeh who had town a leading known to the initiated, but eviiieli it is gone. '.11e anutineers Dias treated. pert in the appalling elutes:totes of the Preferable to keeP dark. If 1: litharalh EirrOpeatt 'women and children at (lawn- Juaed to theme in thie letter it ie oot pare, and the objent at y the Britigh in a epirit of condemnation but solely aleneral was to inspire a wholesotne ar. exPlahalien, • 11 a a le ly A to co gi pe si on "He's here. He's standing Hose by you. Ha hears all I' say, lee knows you want him, and he .witi" not east you off, for he has said he wouldn't. ()illy believe., and take hire et, his word, t ha t's . . There wee an evident lifting op Of both souls to God. and Tom felt I hat even In thet horrid place, there were eogele dweilhjg, He knew now that one was 'leach; and the great teers. tolled down hie eheeke as he saw the iherful change wrought in little more hen two short months, " Taman," he said, softly, "Iseate rh, but don't you koew me e" . To' lee Continued, son QUI ER SOUIETIEM inatiltutnna" or ;Revolt Forieteelon That ilave Exteaceedlnare Objects. Many soaieties with the most gut- landish objeots have from time to time been foundedasays the London Daily lOEaU. Re oaA lady 01! mnrdeeoalani,s,faenviivhvi:ealssty:leoe:re4:,leac:gnet proviocial tpwn quite reeentier feended seleet Sooiety for Providing the laiTorikaitnugi-xeLl,a,esels1:t'witthhe espilaspra, ex: 011 work turned out by this societY are moral there can be no question that they are cheap must be conceded, for they are given away; but that they are literature may be open to grave doubt. The realty .extraordinary feature of this society appears in the ;Met that not only is the literature given away, but the articles of the society provide "that all profits aceruing from the sale of the society's ,panaphlets are to be dad noe eoet;:atdi oat o:ootrohvie: nt hge apnrcol L me oat ii onnt e no -f Thus one thing heeds to another, or would lead if the hinoral literature" sold. As it is, it is merely distributed to small tradeemen, who ;wrap "ea'porths of tea" and sugar in the pages her the moral elevation of their enstorciers. Every week th fresh bud.= get of the "literature" fromethe pen of the society's founder is distributed free aniong. tha thadespeople round about. Another society hasheen formed by three or four ladies fee the purpose of providing boys over the age of thir- teen with boxing gloves. The object sounds bellicose, but really it was naosr pacific, the society being impress- ed evith the belief that ithstreet boys were given more futilities for fight- ing with their fists, the use of knives an'cl granite stones would eventually be numbered among the dead arts. There- fore, to encourage FIGHTING WIT.E1 EtSTS, and at the same time to minimise the facial damage which results from bare fisticuffs, the society suggested the dis- tribution of. the safest and most inno- cent of boxing gloves. Numerous meetings of the society were held, but: it never got beyond suggestions, and so grand boxing contests at street cor- ners are still things of the untamed future. The courage of some people is really stupendous! Fancy a sweet little society of eight mortal beings having for ite object "conapuleory arbitration in international disputes.- Yet, such a socieley was actually founded, and with no intention of being funhy, eith- er. The society had a fund, too, amounting to something like a hun- dred and fifty pounds. What this fund was fax cannot be decided, but it was probably intended for buying off claims made by one na- tion against another. It was unfortunate that the society became extinct before the outbreak of war between America and Spain. It would have been interesting to watch whether the society would have bought Cuba from Spain and would have pre- sented it to America, thus preventing the war. If you take an acorn and pass through it a thread by which it can be balanced in water, the %corn will shoot in time, and a little oak tree will. grow out or the .acorn—in more time. 'Well, a charitably inclined lady, the widow of aeclergyman, recently set on foot a -movement to supply medicine bottles and acorns to dwellers in the slums of London,. that they might have in their abodes the refreshing and ele- vating influence af oak trees growing out, of the necks of bottles. There were many favorable points about the scheme. The members of the society would be interested in col- lecting acorns and suitable bottles; the poor receevers of these miniature+, forests would,„ be edifieele hy the pro- gress of theft- acorns,h'and, until the acorns begin oshoot, they evouldhea.ve along and excelleitt lesson in pati- . A hundred :hothled aectirOs, Were dish tributed • in •Ehe F,iet ertd by elhe. societyee etcorkeee,` but, for, lack of rea- sonable euppoth and. CO -Operation thet scheme died down, when, like One of its own acorns, it was just beginning to show some results. • WHAT WAR DOES. Is iIIe 10 the Blunders of Great Ships That Go Doi'vit 11110 1110 SC0• War may be "hell," but there are various enterprises which depend en- tirely upon it foe existence, After the manufacturers of war 1naterials the shipbuilders are most happy over in- ternational contentions. In these • days of commercial enterprise, when every great nation has its trading fleet, as well as its fighting ship, the risks run owing to the necessity of ob- taining supplies abroacl are enormeus. The scourang of the seas by the hostile fleets, the sinking and capture of ships, so diminish the number of vessels on the seas that no indastry outside of that, which provides` war material is so active. The dookyards in time of war are kept in a state of ineessant aelevity, and every shipbuilding yard in the land is in full work, seeking to Perform, the almost irapossible task'of keeping pace with the -Wear; and tear of war dine among ths sea -going craft. Of course, there is extra wear and tear with soldiers' clothing in an active ,campaign, and this leods extra activity to the clothing industriee. But, all thinge considered, shipbuilding un- doubtedly is the indlistry mesh, bene- fited' bh 0 War. Even when the war is over a long time elapses befote the shipbuilding trade assinnes its inertial level of actihity, AlLROAD COOK/NG, Traveler, in dinixig ear, feet express .--Waiter, those eggs are too Haft, Waiter—S'pelited to heal dat, salt. 'Crtivelee—They were taken out ef the hot water tied soon, Weiler—Well, sal, Pttt 'Om back an' lei, 'ene boil atiother eith. A FEMALE BOOK AGENT. Nobody wants to be a feraele book agerit. It; is a professioo which abounds in manifold trials ahd tribulations, and almost any weman woold defitlitelY pre.. fer to marry a man with an Mooing ' .oe ten, or tWenty thottsand per yeart . . Pr)Binntt: necessity knOwn,, nO 'law). and and See life from a different eland,. when a woutanis hoineleee" out petanie less and .destitute of capital in the way, of 'special acoomolishinents or good looks, there are few avenues of earning • a livelihood open for .her. If you read the poptelar novels of the day, Ton are, led to believe that, fate, Peoyidenote and eligible yew:kg men are at chief - ler employed in thebusieeof rescu- ing impecunious young women front penury, and placing them' Upon the golden pinnacle of socoess ; btet if you , .ns,h, are a ,close student of life as,it exists around you, you are 'forced to the con- clugion that the average novelist draws on his ilimagination heavity,, so as to have his stories " mane out well." • Sewing, the • nureery girt business,. olerking and 'housework are the' chief. Means of making a living which offer themselves to' women. None -of these are any too agreeable, though they may be better than absolute starvation. Se the' evennan who must make her oticn living thirike she Will tenveies,foi some- thing. Hook agents, somebody tells her, always make good wages. So 'she Start! . out with a •book. • It is a hook; the pia prtetors ..assure'her, that should be lit every 'family,., and .everybody 'will be dying to' buy it as ineeie as .she offers --- it. Her hopes are high when she' first Sets :forth. She feels that her fortune, is assured. The world looks' fine - and friendly, and she trudges ,on briskly and. tries to forget how heavy that volume, that specimen volume, Is grow- ing, and how awfully long is the dis- tance from one house to. another. To be a' success, a' book agent should be endowed with tact, patience, good temper, perseverance, a good' address, a flu.ent tongue, and a pair of feei which show no tendency toward corns. Her skirt must be short' enough not to " drabble," and she miest.: ,have easy shoes and plenty of backbone—both mentally and physically. She must have ne fear of dogs, dark- ness, highway cows, tramps or rebuffs. She msut be able to climb a fence to escape stray bulls and predatory pigs, if need be. She must ascertain what kind of people she will be likely to en- counter before she corarnences on her " territory." She must acquaint her- self with the- name of the lady in the next house every time, so that she can ask for Mrs, Jones, just as if she were a caller- instead of a. peddler. Mrs: Jones will then think that It is one of her club' women, or one of the ladies who are getting up the next sopper and sociable at the church, come to talk over the best way to frost the cake, or cut • the cold ham, so that it Will make the. hest show on the plat- - ter, with the least outlay of neeane and material. • And she will glance in the glass to make euro • that her frizzes. are all right, and She will come down with a smile on .her face, and it is then that the cunning book Agent must aim to make her best impression. And she wilt proceed to 'do it, something after this way. "Ala good morning. Is this Wm, jories ? Really 1 had expected to see a much older woman. Very much old- er.' My clear madam, I wilhoccupy only a moment of Your time, but I am told that. you have a great interest in art and, indeed, r shoutcl not have needed to ha.ve,been told so, if 1 had once seen the inside of your *charming home. It peaks for itself. Do you not think :hat One can judge of an individuai by the appearance of the home in 'which' he dwells? 1 have here a work on rt, and ceramic., in which I hope to nterest you. So many of your neigh - ors are taking it, that' I feel ' sure ou wile like to examine it It is of- ered only by subscription and is reao- y a. very choice thing, 'er• know nough that a ,lady he your station most Constantly annoyed by'eallS Of 'this ind, but I knoweyo.u.win like to look tii; vsept,0"taeOnti :.yleoVrah trieametlyshiper has got • 'Tones has ',leen 'Won over ,. y her manna'', anclevithenslie'' globes' ver the list .of subschiberee and 'sees hat' that pdieu.s Mrs. Itebinson across he way has put her, namedown for copy in gilt cloth, at $e.50, .she once 'decides that she will take a opy in Turkey morocco at $5. tf rebuffed, the female book agent ust not lose her temper. She' must . ay 'good afternoon just • 'es ,svveetty hen she goeshut of the house as she aid it when she caine. in. She must e just as polite to the woma.n ,/ho re- uses to subscribe as she is. to, the dy who gives her a. generous order, nee it is eminently necessary that e should keep up her reputation in e viainity. For everybody tells ev- ybocly else about the book agents and amps who come to their houses. It TiavIliaeni:tbItokgaiszalgneqt:blie rte'es• wsliti°iIn°17s‘ ea.e'te:aicherastl' athrl: ys. She wilt vrea.rY and. footsore - le will meet People who are ' rude, d underbred, and snobbish: Sheeeh counter docked doors and hear ,gig - fug and whiepering behind there. She 11 often • be told that the lady of e house is not at herae, when she ows well enough that she is, at the ef the etetrshieetening to note the ettit of. the deihnoinication which idget .or Margaret is, making, .. The female hook agent ,has a herd RA to travel, lent • when she, gets' tin der her Airoublea :all. ianish 'tot the' • nle, n with' a glad hea,it she tounts e shekels that are to folio* in ns hoe re hke, to her her. tell thh4m-hsotmoreys ien she f: elle it well, and we wish other, peoplie—Kate Thorn. a 1 11 a a 01 31 b si sh th Br tr is se da SI an gi en wi ik kn to re Br ti th co wl he of AN IDEAL Mike, said Plodding Pete, tint You ever hear abollt teanneinigratioa Yee, Btu. I don't teke any elook in Ite 'apose it's too good to be tine, Teat I his to t'iuk about it, rie.4' itaagitio aNivig:f;t8160t tni :mt;oxii ttrif 618, stes:110., oir lure' pd 4ai yboovuo`v: turutd into a brewery, /UM O' pir)6