HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-06-22, Page 34a.11-tfleletelbaraaea.4e.+1-aleas-e-•-e44-14-e-teee-beee-O-e-terate el India. eleven years, he Just returned In
time to be scut te Spann where he
, r.e.at •.ea .a...- es..
G tinguiblied hinmelf la adieu, losing an
arm, and 'winning the muth vovetea. Vic -
tome Cross (for special bravery) Mena
. • other decoretious. He Wan the lion ef
•the hour ,and peereeees vied with one
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tainments by the presence al tua ham.
.some soldier whose breast glittered with
'meda1s. pinned on by his Sovereign.
Among the ladies he met at this time
IMO an heiress of dietinction, young,
beautiful, and with suitors all round,
whom she disdained because tam had fall-
en in love with the gallant captain.
While in India several years before, (Jap -
tai n C---- had heard of his wife's death,
and it seems extraordinary that lie did
net verify the news before entertaining
any idea of a second marriage. He did
not do so, however, and he married the
heiress in spite of the opoeitien of ',aer
family, who, being Roman Catholic, ob-
jected to her marrying out of the fold.
He was a Protestnat, They were mar-
ried nearly a year, and lige went merrily
with thenm. when a whisper came which
startled military and. aristocratic circles,
Capt. C—'s wife had appeared; slie had
been "In retreat" in a convent, and, on
coming out had heard a her husband's
brilliant achievements aed of his merri-
age. His arrest, followed, and. he was
relentlessly prosecutec1 by his second
wife's brother. His failure to verify his
wife's supposed. death went against him
at the trial, and, he was emended.
His brother officers never could. under -
steed how, so houorable a man could
make such a mistake, and they always
believed him innocentbut British law
was obdurate, although great influence
was brought to bear that he might be
spared transportation. Iiis second wife
stood by him and believed hi him,and
continued to vrite the meet impassioned
love letters (which my father, in his of-
ficial capacity, was obliged. to read) for
three years, when they suddenly ceased
and no answer was received to repeated
letters from Capt. 0—, who imagined
that either she had died, or in a weak
moment, had. listened to the persuasions
of her brother and entered a convent.
Ten years later, Capt. 0—'s picture
was in the London illustrated News as
the inventor of a gen, wheel was well-
known then as the Maxim is to -day. -
N, Y. Evening Post.
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Victorlee„
Nelaates- nein% so far as fighting .goee,
b chiefly eaeoelatea with the tairee great
leittles of ebe ite, Oopenbagen, anti Tra-
falgeri Perliepe feerth alionel he
ed, for for it woe at Om en.ttlt of St,. Vili-
matt that li,o really bat tee foundation of
his lame es 3 Se tverrior. To. be ;etre, be
;wee not in correaand et St, 'Vincent, time
ottetinctien belonging to Sir John Jeri*, '
hut .4 wee entirely by hie meeterly racer
cienvre-the outcome of a flush of melee-
etion applied to the circuinstenees. ef the
eversieet-tbat bee by was eared, end a
glorieue vieeory woo for the Britten
fleet.
eituatioe *born at teetinteal
can expleinee'l be a word or :two, ,ler.
vLs bad cut awayeine ol„,' the Spenieli
Adonleala ships from the main body of.
Ids fleet, To this enata body :terve.% thee
proceeded to give tile attention, and be.
eignailed to els fleet to tack in ;meows-
eson. Nelson„ in the •Oeptain, was. ia tee
rear of the tisb line, with twelve
hlps belreent of him. Ile had been keep -
int his 'eye on th.e Spauith Admiral, and
preacintly be perceived •that the Span -
lard's plan WAS to join his separated
sibipe by wearing round under tae eterns
of the rearward of the British line, Here.;
erne a critleal sithetioee instant adieu .
was imperative; there was no time to
signal to Jervis away ahead and await
his reply. Should, lie -ignore the Clone
neencleren.Oldeas' order to tack? 1ie
decided -that he would. Aeordiegly he
pht. the Oaptsin :Omit, and, bore up -e.
mega's ship againet U. flet! -in the track
of gto oncoming Spanish flagship, a huge
deer-doeker, with her sister giant.
The onslaught on the poor Oeptain was
tremenrione, She had only seventy-four
.guns, while of the five ehlps of the ere
eany that attacked her one hod 130 guns
and two had Jig lams. The Captain was
quickly reduced to a, wreak, but, the bad.
done er work. She bed etayedthe rush
of the Spanish van, and when the fight,
with, ile ttimult, mimed off, NeLson, by
way of postscript to the story, boarded
and carried the San Nieholas and the SOU
Josef, each of 11 guns. The 'hero had
ootimitted the splendid fault of disobey-
ing orders, but with what magnificent Me
suite! No wonder that Jervis embraced
him whan he went on boardthe flagship
tio .report.
Battle of the Nile.
•
At the next great fight, the battle of
the Nile, Nelson was Ins own Command-
er-inealdef. Tao diebolicel activities of
Bonaparte bad led him to conceive en
eastern expedition -Medi would. menace
Britain'a trade with the Indies. lie fit-
ted out a great Armada, wbick sailed
from Toulon under the command of Ad-
miral Brueys, Nelson WOO chosen to deal
.it this mighty force. But the enemy
bad got dear out to sea, and be had no
Mee of their actual destination. Still,
fee would find thean; about that he was
determined.
'He set wail from Gibraltar, and steered
ler Ooralca. From there he took his
ships ifrst to Naples, and then to Mesina.
At 'Messina he learned Hutt the French
had captured. Malta. Pere was a hint.
Bonaparte mast be on the way to Egypt.
Crowding all sail, away ho went, and ac-
tually reached Alexandria before his
foes. Nobody at Alexandria knew any -
tieing about the French fleet, so Nelson
oiet out. once ,inore on the search. lie
doubled back on his course, and scoured
the seas between Crete, Sicily and the
hdorea until -official information once
more sent him eastwards.
.At last he found the French, anchored
calmly in hteshallow waters of Abon-
kir Bay, at the mouth of the Nile. A
day or two more given to fruitless
search would, have meant collapse. lie
had already made himself ill with the
fret and the excitement. He could ndt
eat, he couldnot sleep. The intensity
of his eagerness was awful. He had
weighed every possible chance in this
sea -chase but the chance that he might
over -run his prey. As one says, "the
lever of the chase, the passion to over-
take his foe, which burned like whita
flame in his blood, clouded his judgment,
and well-nigh broke his heo.rt." How-
ever, it was all over now. He had found
the foe. Dinner was ordered, and Nel-
son, brooking no delay, at 5.30 p.m. ran
Up the signal to attack the enemy's eon-
tre. "Before this time to-mgorrow," he
exclaimed', "I shal have gained a Peer-
age or Westminster Abbey."
Masterly Strategy.
In. the "Maid of Sker" Mr. Blackmore
makes one of his characters say: "I shall
never forget how beautiful those ships
looked, and bow peaceful. A French ship
always site, on the water with at ole -
gent quickness like a French woman at
the looking glass. And though we
brought the waving breeze in with us
very quickly, there was hardly swell en-
ough in the bay to make them play
their hawsers. Many fine things have
'I sen, but it was Worth any man's while
to live to the age of three score years
and eight, With it Bound mind in a sound
, body, .and oyes than almost as good as
ever, if there were nothing for it more
to see what I saw at this moment. Six
and twenty ships of the line, thirteen
bearing the tricolor, and circling, clear-
ed for action. The other thirteen, with
the Red Cross flying, the Cross of St.
George on the gunnel of white, and toss-
ing the blue water from their sterns
under pressure of ohms. Onward rush-
ed our British ships, as If every one of
them was alive, and driven out of all
patience by the wicked escapes of the
enemy. And now at last we had got
them tight, and mean we did to keep
them."
Yes, Nelson had "got them tight."
There is no. room to give full details of
thesi3 great sea fights-' . one can only
hellcat° the manor of Nelson's direet-
ing there. Here„ again, We have it piece
of masterly strategy. Nelson found his
enemy ling anchored in a long drawn
Brie, head to wind. Between them and
the shore the water as shallow, Nei -
•.4\ mon had meant to pass them on the out-
er side dawn aefar as the seventh ship.
But once niore the inspiration of the
montent came to his aid. It flashed on
him that where the French ships could
"swing" his own ships could anchor. He
therefore decided to pass between the
French and the Rhore, and attack them
On their landward broadsidee. Thug his
leading Alps crowd the head of the
and 'engaged the Frenchtnea to lar-
board; the later British ehipe anchored
on the outside of the Bente ehips, whielt
Wete thins &trilled by an 'overWhelthing
ease fire. Thirteen British ships, that be
were emicentrated on seven Vetch ships,
poet lit the fight. "Ily attacking the en.
AIM French tail practically taking no
Tanand centre," says Nelson ie
an Oft -quoted seretettee, "the Ivied blew -
frig ,directly along their line, 1 was ente-
bled to throw What force 1 pleased On it
, SOW ships." The plan., he The Eitehett
109.71, Was the perfection of simplicity
Intelligibility.
The Patti of the Orient.
!'
" The Prefielt from the first had 'imply
' fid chance Ifi tt fear hour, Of all the
apiendid fleet Which had aloWit Sri ga1.
lent an array in tho Ilayof Aboakite
Only line-etf, -hattle an& teeo
iisigetele effooted their eletpe, end thetie
only for the time. Well might the Bri.
Usti Adniiral issue the following notifi-
cation to his ceptitinai 'Almighty God,
heeling blessea hie leljesty's arms with
victory, the eadinirel intends returning
publie thanksgiving for the MOO at two
o'clock to -Un' (August 3rd), and. he re-
commende everyship doing the same as
goon ae convenient," The outstanding
tragedy of the encouuter was the blow-
ing up of the Freneli Admiral's fligship,
the Orient. Most of her crew perished,
among them the ten -year-old son of
Conintotlore Casa. Bianca, who, as the
story gee& refused to leave the deck be-
cause he had not received his gather's
permission The aieident is the theme
of vIre. Ileums' well .known lines, be-
ginning --
"The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whew() all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's .wreele
Slione round him o'er the dead,"
One of Nelson's captains got hold of
some of the wreeked timber of the Orient
end bad a coffin nude from it, which be
prceented to Nelson. In that same cof-
fin Nelson Iles in the crypt of St, Paul's
Cathedral, The grim retie used to stand
in his cabin, "There is no saying how
soon 1 may need it," he used to observe.
Copenhagen.
The battle of Copenhagen, which was
the next great BON fight, need not detain
us leek, The British Government were
anxious to try negotiations with the
Dane-% it the last liniment. Nelson had
no patience with this method of sett-
ling differences. "I hate your pen -ad'
Ing, men," he said. "A fleet of British
ships -of -war aro tbe best negotiators
in the world. They always speak to be
understood, and generally gain their
point."
Nelson's plan rte Copenhagen was prac-
tically that of the Nile, modified by lo-
cal conditiorts, and was only spoiled be-
cause the leading British ships went
ashore. He was at first greatly agitated
by the latter circumstance, but when Hie
guns began to belch out their deadly
lead his spirits revived and he was soon
peeing the deck, eager and animated,.
moving the stump of his arm -as he
generally did when excited. Ile seemed
to be getting the worst of it, and Parker
who was in the offing, ran up the signal
to leave off action. Nelson's attention
was directed to the signal. "Leave off
action," he exclaimed, with a shrug of
his shoulders. "Now, damn me if I do.
You know I havi only one eye, and
nechly observed, "I really do -not see the.
signal.",So the fight went on. Presently
the day was won -another glorious vie -
tory for the British tars, and all be-
cause Nelson la'd them on. And what • a
composite ebaracter he was. The smoke
of the guns had hardly cleared away
when he was in his cabin writing verses
to Lady Hamilton, telling her how her
portrait had inspired him in the fight.
Fortunately the details . of Trafalgar
are generally familiar. And„ after all, it
is the death scene on board the Victory
that interests us most now. That pathe-
tic, "Kiss me, Hardy, kiss me," makes
the scene ever memorable for there was
a womanish strain in this hero who
never saw fear." "Don't throw me over-
board, Hardy," he pleaded, as if there
was any likelihood of that. And then,
With the memorable words, "Thank Goa
I have done my duty." Horatio Nelson
yielded up his spirit and passed into the
land of shadows. Only in the fight with
Death had he been worsted. -Weekly
Welcome.
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ON A CONVICT
SHIP.
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Our voyage was long and tedious, and
the first break was caused by the death
eta, tailor'who died of brain fever. Poor
felow, he had brooded over his misfor-
tune and refused food from the time he
left Portsmouth. His ravings were hid-
eous, and his death was a happy release.
He had been convicted of the paltry of-
fence of stealing a small sum of money
from his aunt, a miserly old woman,
whose only visitor he was. He always
maintained his innocence to the last, and
the officials on board thought that as he
differed so much from the others (who
owned to their offences- and who bore
their lot with -tolerable equanimity) that
he was innocent. Up to the time of his
arrest he had always been a devoted
husband and father, and an exemplary
man. His burial at sea was a pathetic
incident. No mourners, the quarter-
master and captain standing while the
body, wrapped in canvas, was slid into
the sea.
The health of that large consignment
of human beings was a matter of great
responsibility to the ship surgeon, Dr
Bell, for having no vegetables, an epi-
demic of scurvy broke out, which the
physician sought to avert by liberal dos-
es of lime water administered to unwill-
ing partakers. On ono occasion the snr-
geon reported a case of insnbordination.
Captain D—, one of the prisoners, had
refused to touch the lime water, as it
had been mixed in the bath -tub, the
only available vessel of sufficiently gi-
gantic proportions. Insubordination was
punished for forty-eight hours in the
guard room, but my father passed the
matter over, with the exclamation, "Poor
devil I I don't wonder!'
A storm arose when we were off the
coast of Tasmania'and the men besought
of their keepers to set them free, its
they were chained ht their bunks by the
leg. Above the roaring of the Wind we
mild hear the shouts of the men; "Let
us free. we shall drown like tater"
only sole it watch," cried one. Thus
their delinquencies wore published all
night for the benefie of those on board,
until dawn, when the storm abated. Mili-
tary discipline was inexorable, and had
the !drip gone down that, night they
would have gene down, too, In their
bunks, for the danger of unloosing melt
a mob was too greae A fortnight later,
When the ship dropped 'lecher in Port
Jackson, the first sight that greeted us
was fourteen men hanging by the neck
front temporary scaffolds. They had
been hanged that limning outside tne
jail, as was the mitten in England those
doeanstice was speedy. These num
were highwaymen; it WP...Z the custom to
awe the spectators end.to hang several
of them together in public. On landing
in Sydney uow, *with its beautiful eily
and gayly dressed and happy erowils, it
is difficult to think that melt :scenes
Vero Meted there less than seventy
years ago, and to know the workings
of the imperial mind Welt could make
"et dumpieg ground." of so fair a vet.
One of the most remarkable prieonere
on board our ship was Capt. C He
had been eonvicted of bigamy tted sent.
ended to transportation and five years'
penal servitude. The circumstances of -
Itis titan Were as follower he hie youth
ItO had made ah unhappy alliance, and
before be departed for India, whither he
was ordeeed on Active serviee, he had
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A LUCKY GIRL
Saved from Deadly Decline by
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"When I think of my former condi-
tion of health," says Miss Winnifred
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S., "I consider myselfa lucky girl that
I am well and strong to -day, and I owe
my present good health entirely to Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills. I suffered almost
all that one can endure from weakness
and nervousness. I was as pale as a
sheet, and wasted away. The least noise
would startle me, and I was troubled
with fainting spells, when I would. sud-
denly lose conecieusness and drop to the
floor. At other times my heart would
palpitate violently and cause a smother-
ing sensation. Night and day any
nerves were in a terrible condition, and
I seemed to be con Whinny growing
worse. No medicine that I took help-
ed me in the least until I began taking
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after I had
taken half a doxen boxes, I felt so much
better that I stopped taking them and
went on a visit to Boston. 1 ltdmade
a mistake, however, in stopping the pills,
too soon, and I began to go back to my
former condition. I then ealled on it
well known Bodon doethr, and after
explaining my case, told him how Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills had helped me be-
fore. He told me to continue their use,
saying I could take nothing better, and
I got another supply and soon begun
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had no sickness since."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can do just
as much for every weakanervous, pale -
faced young woman, who is slipping
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that is what every growing girl and wo-
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It is because these pills actually make
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People" is printed on the wrapper ar-
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cents it box, or six boxes for $2.50, by
writing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
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Mirrors Cover His 'Walls.
A rich man has the walls of his house
covered with mirrors instead -of pietures.
In every room he can see himself in pro-
file, from the rear, from the left, from
the right -in twenty different 'ways. lIe
clitims thet these mirrors promote grace.
He asserts he has these mirrors on his
children's account.
Mirrors, according to this man's view,
do not promote vanity. They promote
self-stvely, and, in consequence, self-im-
provement.
If a young girl is round shouldered
she is hardly aware of her defect in the
ordinary course of life, but if elle lived
in a house lined with mirrors she would
see all the time the ugly, slovenly curve
of her back, and, mortified, and grieved,
she would at once set to work with suit-
able exercises to become straight.
All sorts of ugly habits -ugly ways of
sitting, of standinga, , of smiling, of gestur-
ing - i
are pictured n true and unflat-
tering way by mirrors. The average
man or woman, perceiving them uglines-
S0.8, would set to work to remove them.
The trouble is, accotding to the tiob
man, that the average person does not
perceive his several uglineses and no one
Is frank enough to point them out to
him.
This innovator, opposing hotly the
contention thet mirrors foster vanity,
looks at himself nt hom nearly en the
time, and continumilly urge e Men-
dren to look at themselves, to daily
themselves and to strive daily to im-
prove in grace.
It s Your It' You
Don't Drink
wn Fault the Best
Ceylon Tea once used Is :now forsaken, be.,
cause It's the purest the world produces.
Sold oily in Sealed lead packets. By all emeers.
Highest Award, St, Louis, wen
I ANDREW LANG ON
MAGIC. I
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Moses, we know, was learned in alt the
magic of Egypt, and, indeed, was con-
fessedly a, greater profieient than the
Egyptians themselvea when challenged.
It is curious that, despite our know-
ledge of the old Egyptian world, we
know so little of the wizardry, while
that. little is so futile, or "footle." In-
centatione written ot papyrus make
the staple of it; all sorte of beings with
outlandish names are conjured to pre-
clude effects, which certainly do not
follow if you read the incantation's now,
Of old Egyptians arts in glamor or the
production of hallucinations we know
next to nothing, and the Egyptian con-
jurers of to -day have not the rather in-
explicable tricks exhibited by a few In-
dian and Malay jugglera
An eminent Freud Egyptologist, Lu-
febure, publishes in La Revue Afrieaine
(No. 257) an essay on "The Ink Mirror
in Arab Magic." On the whole it can
not be said to contain much of novelty,
though it is abundantly erudite. The
Arida ef old, like beak Welton, be- if the °leer was high enough. In fact, fliction, but Jones shut his teeth tight
lieved in what is called "telepathy," Le- they are ready to take anything any- • and stood it as best he could. He seem-
fubure proves, The lamina Omar led a; where where a fair return in cargo or I ed even to pick up a bit.
presentment that one of his generals was money is offered for the service render- The truth is that the hope which had
in a tight place and in a vision advised • ed and the dangers run, drawn its bow across the thrilled strings
him to occupy a eertein kopje. The gen-1 As an example of the wanderings of of his eager heart was the hope that in
eral may have had the rather obvious , one of the tramp ships in it little over the dear home -land Private Jones would
idea, and a spirit of oriental compliment ' a year, mention may be made of the log see Mary Farrell.
may have attributed it to an inspired of the steamer MassaPequa, which was He thought of her soft voice and the
tion from the remote commander in chief. recently. in the harbor. She is a British calm -bearing touch of her dear lips -if
The poet El Bohteri said that he had ship so far as build, flag and registry go. only these could be bis to know once
passed of the night in regretting the but she is practically owned by New more, just once, why then he could die
absence of a friend, and that the friend Yorkers, and represents the investment o ; happy. It wouldn't matter so much -at
sent IC vision himself, which is it poetic! American capital. This a record of her I least, not to him,
way of describing a dream. recent sailing: Froin New York to the How Mary would feel about it he
To get such visions at will the Arabs! west coast of South America, via the never paused to think. The fever had
Straits of Magellan, back to New York him most of the time, you know, and
make a boy look hard at a spot of ink ;
ever the same route. From New York i fevers and calm thinking are not close
placed on the palm of his hand and sur-'
rounded by lines, numerals and names ebbe cleared for the far cast, going to bed -fellows.
anina and Japan by way of the Cape of Tho big ininute hand of the big clock
of saint or angels, Incense of a partieu- 1
Good Hope, in order to avoid the Russian . in the hospital dragged slowly around
lar kind is burned, invocations are ut-;
ittthe Red Sea, From Tokio, she ; its Roman dial many weary times before
tered, but all these solemnities are mere I vessels
went to Manila from Manila to Cebu, Private Jones parted company with de-
mise en "scene and except so far 48 they . q'
impress the bioy with a sense of solemn from Ceba to meg,. thence returning !theme and pain. Perhaps this battle
to the United States via the Suez Canal, against odds might have been sooner
occasion, and help to concentrate, his kit- , bringing 14 -
02 bales of hemp to Boston won had youth fought alon,.
tenish mind on his task, they have no
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When they tuttetered Private donee, himy to loin the Influent, now ell of
Y., out of the service he was covered tame hat cheered him. And, there 'WM
• with glory and sears. Otherwise he host • one who erica, proudly.
• little to show for his experiences as a Lawler dragged his etory from leiett bY"
Soldier- Inches. The volunteer thought binned(
He had blistered at Durban, his teeth fa -used -
tile Veldt, and whee he and bis fellows
had chattered iu the rain which swamped thrlitoxtsaiheern lwiebgioatelpooled iptnihnth tilhott:taoi
with a ringing cheer drove the enemy nil4g4rIeecaltpbriellise,,,ritutieuilooTifebriit thaws ono
away from the bloeltheuse a bullet whose
-billet was "Jones, I. T.," bite lomat its wiTIlhebne &bettor 074eioyoion!oJeshnr,o"rorie of
destmation, and the young volunteer lay
man arched, hours und itilees sk astonishment
Y Per p
before the stretcher -hearers. found bine
they do not count. De Laborde tried "Who, I'd like to kitow," queried him
the experiment on a boy next day "with where he mt. crustily'. "iihrut of thorn thought it worth
muck seeeeee, and all the emotion wlech I When they did pick Min up most of time to -write or inquire." .
tbio IP of ,s0 grange a Power could a;'(' 1 Private Jones' life had oozea througli a „Ile still thoughe himself a numb, M-
elte.' Ile made experiments as conolu- I hole in his right breast, and it seemed used Patriot -
dee ou board Alp and. at Cairo anti Ab ; bossily worth
There an nianY formulae I /mined of 4 to the big tent width ierv- '
while to carry what re- The statioemaster loelted up quielclye
a lig,lit breaking over hie stolid face.
more elaborate than that of De Laborde,
exandria.
ed Re a field hospital. , "Oh. I'd forgot," ee said, "Maybe rat
but the one thing.e.teeutial is the gazing t Dui. out of a eense of duty they bore ' don't know yotere dead."
point, the blot at ink in the centre of
the paint or of the square of paper, and
even that, though useful, is not, aloe -
lately eseential. .:, 3 Andrew Lang,
TRAMP STEAMERS' VOYAGES, 1 they found him- water"-ana after me V'
— ' that he feinted quietly and gently, and "Her."
The statiourfiaster jerked an indieatory
thumb across bis shoulder, over hillwards
way.
"Tell me about it," cried John, ha -
of the world le carried, pot in the great vete 'Tortes, but the whole pharmacopeia patiently.
holds no remedy for gunshot wounds And he told all too alowly for the im-
liners, but in the host oi so-called tramp
l quite equal to youth and when it comes petuous young voluncter-of how news
steamers that are ready to take cargo to
; to doctors the 'best in all the profession had come of Jolues ;oiling before col-
or from any port in the world, says the i is Doctor Hope, eneo, of how it bad been vetified by
Boston Herald. They are willing to carry 1 These two pulled Jones around. After official lists, of how/the elev. Gibsembed
coal actress the western ocean in raid. ' some burning 'weeks they bundled him preached. a morning sermon upon patriot -
1 roughly aboard an overcrowded trans- ism with john as the theme. Of how
winter clueing the fuel shortage ocea- I port, on which he got precious little that Mary Farrell had fallen in the clutch of
him In, perfunctorily, for at each new "Dead," '
step the stretcher men suspected they "Yes, buried."
were lugging "a aced ant." AB tor "I may be dead," said John, who wee
Jones, his pleasure had not been con - laughing uow, for the sighted land, "but
suited. He had said just .azie word when. Pm blessed If I'm buridd. Who buried
These Craft Carry Bulk of Ocean Trade lay quite etili and white.
Now the leak in Private' Jones' side
aria Encircle the Globe.
bad moistened much soil with rich blood,
The hulk of the .ocenebborne commerce and had very nearly done for poor
Pri-
eioned by the strike of our anthracite
; was fit for an invalid to eat, and put brain fever and woke with a mind a lit -
mines. They would take oil in the Far , him ashore et Southampton. tle astray. She was not violent, the sta-
East, cotton to Iturope, provisions or I Only the constitution of a draught tionmaster said, nor mad, but only daft,
coal to the blecked port of Vladivostock, horse could have survived this double in. as he called it, upon one subjecte--john's
death and his promotion.
"They let her alone," said Lawler,'and
up in that big place among the treee she
does pretty much as she likes end surely
hurts no one. That's where you're buried.
Let's see. Toelay you are a general"
The volunteer looked his amazement
"It's this way," the etationmaster went
on, enjoying his unusual loquacity, "she
made a little memorial rnound for you,
sort o'grave like, you know, up therm
in the wood, and she keeps flowers and
wraiths and things on it.'
"Well," cried John, whose eyes were
moistened, "what has that to do with me
being a general?"
"Oh, well, she painted some head-
boards, 'Sacred to the memory of' -you
know, who fell at Colons°, mad each day
she puts up a new one. Sunday reads
'Private John Jones,' Tuesday it says
'Sergeant.' This it; Saturthey. Chanches
are she's up there now, settee up a
board which gays 'General John Jones,'
taenadr;waterin' your grave with her
Even so it was.
John halted long with his fingers on
th gate of the churchysird.
Within the familiar enclosure sat upon
the ground amid the autumn leaves the
Mary he loved dearly, her hands within
her lap, steadily looking at the mound
of earth, at whose head shone a white
heed -board, amid whose profuse lettering
he could clearly rend only ono line, this -
"General John Jones L Y."
A twig cracked beneath his feet as he
stepped within, She turned about and
looked deep into his pale face.
Then, with a swift sob she rose like a
startled deer and met his waiting arms.
The promotion of 1?rivate Jones had
come. -Illustrated Bits.
I Hope becatne a deserter early in the
effect in enabling him to see vision.s ; anTahN: ewv al:1°,11,1.14n, occupied practically 1 action, for Mary did not come. When
13 niasonNtlis for the Massapequa left I in his sane moment Pi- t J ' 1
in the blot of ink. The blot itself is
s r e ones lea -
superfluous. I am acquainted with a lady Now York 'on Wiarch 21 of last year her i inegleet his heart grew bitter
wine in place of crystal gazing in it glass bound to the west coast of South Am- within s bosom and rosy life lOoked
ball or Jug of wetter, encrely looi<s. hard
end close at the astrological noneense erica, lied arrived in Boston on Thurs.
y,, Her next rip is o e He obeyed his nurse shllenly, and
connected with these natural depressions: da April 20 H -t t " t the gray as "hes'
good- I once his feeble hands tore off the batt -
and elevations. Site emerely fixes her ; west ofSouth Amric
ooiyiiitowlouegita,d
will
be
dages cif hiswound. After that they
gaze on the palm till it vanishes from' fore she reaches her home port, Bristol, watched. hinieloseiy. wbieh was quite
her conscious view and pictures take its I England, if sbe ever returns there. No ; foolish, for wl len one doesn't care to live
place. I had only one chance of an ex- l important repairs have been made on her it is well to let him die.. The bees and
the ants and the humble savage people
understand these things much better
than we do.
However, one sunshiny day, be elating -
ed his mind, end .deternuned to get well
for spite. HO 'would grow strong; the
would arise and walk. The faithless
fair one he would hunt and he would
flaunt his unconcern in her elmgrined
face. There were other girls --and be was
a Nero, was be not?
• There mane a morning in September
when Jones, I. Y., was bade to go and
• return no more. In addition to a
"Heaven bless you" they gave him an
honorable discharge, his fare to the dis-
tant village, which had been his haute,
and. eerteen few and stingy sovereigns
which didn't aggregate a penny a drop
for the blood he had shed.
Ile was pale and not too strong, so
that a stout stick stood him in high
stead, but the brilliant sky and the glor-
ious salted air wooed him, and he said
good-bye to his cot and his comrades, his
doctor and his .nnrses, without a pang,
albeit one of •the latter dropped an un-
seen tear behind a furtive apron after
you,ng. Private Jones had pressed her
band. an parting.
So Jones went home. At any mete he
called it home. It was where he had
lived us a boy and young man, where he
had gone to school and learned his trade,
where his only kindred slept well in the
little graveyard beyond the chesenut
grove ni the lap of the 1111.
n
• pement with this lady, previously a , engines in three years, in fact, no re -
stranger, and the pieture represented , pairs other than what has been done by
I me sitting in it kind of coachhouse talc- her own 011.Mo-room force which of
ing off the waterproof waders, in which itself is a tribute to the excellence of
I had been fishing. For a year I could the work of British yards (she was built
' not remember to have taken off my wa- ie Sunderland) in engining such ships.
• dere in any such place as that deserbed. Some of these ocean carriers have
splendid records of continuous runs. We
were told recently of a vesel that was
steamed, for forty-four days without
once stopping her engine even momentar-
ily, a rather remarkable endurance test.
At a 10 -knot rate, or say, 250 miles per
day, she would have covered. without
day, she would have covered 11,000 miles
without turning the steam off from the
engine.
i but quite lately a memory of doing so on
; the banks of the Kennet in the May
I fly season came back to me.
1 That was not a etriking experhnent,
; but it. illustrates the kind of picture
1 ' which seine people can get by staring
at anything you please, so long as it is
the kind of point of gaze to which they
aro accustomed.
_ The old anagician,s and the Arabs do
not seem to know what is essential and
whet is not in their 'complicated ceremon-
ials. They cheese eerttun tettamis of the
moon or aspeets of the stars; they pre -
'ler very young gazers (and the young
are Apt either to see or to say they see
1 things); they think highly of women
about to be /withers as gazers; and of
1 negroes; they insist on burning incense
as eagerly as some of the clergy of
'Bishop Creighton did; and aro as keen
. as they on vestments of magical symbol-
( ism. But all this is frippery. Some peo-
'plc can see curious pictures when they
'fix their eyes on a glass bell, a spot of
ink, or what they please. Most people
cannot, do so, and therefore do not be-
lieve thee others can.
An Australian black fellow, a wirree-
nun, Or magician, told a friend of mine
the story of his magical initiation and
education. The eldere caught Mtn while
Ito was a young boy, the favorite subject
of the Egyptian enchanters. A myster-
ious figure gave him ft gutrberali, or nue-
gic stone, "about the size and something
the shape of a small lemon, looking like
4 smoothed lump of semi -transparent
crystal. In such stones the wi-wirrde-
nun, or cleverest wizards, see visions of
the past, of what is happening in the
prosenb at a eietanee, and of the future."
I have it photograph of such a stone, pol-
ished and egg-shaped, like ene with
which I have seen the most futile of pro-
fessional mediums make ineffieient ef.
forts to see visions, He said the caw
"confusions," and was apparently too
honest for his trade.
De Laborde began his study of Egyp-
thin ink mirrors in 187 with Lord Prud-
hoe, aare first boy evlio was tried uttered
a loud yen, and said that he saw some-
thing too frightfie for description. The
next boy wasa jolly little fellow who
event gayly to work, and saw what he
Was ex.peeted to see, n geeeuelad sultan Dackanbei
With a black beard, riding it white horse. It htte cured more eases of Leneor-
That boy probably "had been there be- rlicea than tiny other remedy the world
fore," but he seemed very candid and lias Oyez known. It is almost infallible
much interested. The tiegielan was an en such case. It a14so1ves and expels
Algerian Arab. He invited Do Laborde Tumors from the Uterus in an early
eM Lord. Prudhoe to mention the people stage of development. That •
whom they wished to ,see, an illegitimate ee.
&sear:nu-down Feelfrago
method of proceeding. Tlie question
ought to lm asked (mentally, of eourse, causing pain, vveiglat and headache, is
Shakespeare wets called for, but Baeon instantly relieved and permanently
did not appear. 'Pie boy saw the eon- mired by its use. 'ander all eireure-
volitional Shakespeare of the effigy and stances it ads in hartnony with the
portrait. Many other pereons probably female system. It corrects
unknown to the boy appeared Jo the mir-
ror, and though, there was it good deal of Seppeessed or Painful tithstreuetion,
"irregubtrity," 'the successes always left 'Weakness of the Stemach,Indigeetion,
on us a profound impression." At last Bloathag, Flooding, Nervous Prostra-
the boy seemed ititoeneated tied convills- time, Headache, General Debility. Also
ed, so the experiments coded. "lie grade, -
nass,
illefIzzinessi, Paisoi
ually recovered, was gay, delighted with
what be Iota seen, and pleteeed to tell hie Extreme Laseitude, "don't -care" Alla
experiences." "want -to -bo -11t -alone" feeling, excite
The Arab sold "the 'secret" (that is ability, ireitabiliter nervoutness, sleep -
the formula written on the boy's hand) lesenese, flatnleney, melancholy or the
for 30 piasters to De Laborite, A. couple "blues," arta baelraehe. These are
of squeree, one within the other; it round sure ladle:atone of Female Wealtnesis,
blot 4A ink in the centre, nna some num- some derangement of the Uterus. For
mule, amounting to 13 in whatever line Afftbaoy Oomplaint.1
yott add them up, are all the 30 pittetere• - . 4
ea. tend Backache of tzlh_r kea, the Vegeta-,
worth. The reader iney have them wi
out extra &large: blo Compound is niumendel,
4 0 2 Ton tin *Ate tiro, Pinklutin about
5 7 3reurse1f in ettletest confitlente.
• 8 1 6 tatoli tannin MD. 06.0 Lynn, Into.
The inetintations rite net given, bet
.
The Engagement Broken Off.
(Princeton, Mo., post.)
A. young lady not far away from this town
recently bad a citiarrel with hor beau and
returned to him an the letters and little
gifts she had received from him during their
courtship. He, not to be outdone, sent her
a half dozen boxes of fare powder, and with
ttiem a mote explaining that he had probably
carried thee much away on his coat collar.
Lydia E5 infrizamPs
Vegetatie Compound
is a positive cure for all those painful
ailments of women. It will entirely
cure the worst forms of Female Com-
plaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflam-
mation and Ulceration. Falling and
Displacements of the Womb and con-
sequent Spinal Weakness, and is
peen laxly adapted to the Change of
Zafe. Every time it will cure
froogeslarefiy,
There Mary lived, too. He drew a
long breath, as he thought of Mary,
Queer, wasn't it? Not Mary alone, but
all his old friends had failed even to
write to Vint while he lay so long in hos-
pital. No one had cared.
Not even Williford, the farmer, for
whom he had worked. ever since the could
bridle a horse.
Not even Pete Kellar, the friend of
les bosom, the only fellow in all Glen -
haven who participated in the secret
that pretty Mary Ferrell had. promised
to wed sturdy John Jones, when the lat-
ter tame home frone the war.
Well, he would soon know what it all
meant. Then he could determine what
to do. If Mary had married or was
"keeping. eongemy" with someohe else,
never should she see the wound she had
left upon his heart.
He woulel be the gayest of tiee gay -
the moist carefree daredevil who ever
came home from smelling gunpowder and
elating of lead.
.As the village hero he might even do
better than Mary. There were other
fish it the sere Well, no, tot. quite like
ataxy. To his Inner eenscloustiess ite
would hardly admit this elandor, what-
ever proud tossing of the head he might
Wear epee: his sleeve.
There NV149 only one Mary, alter all.
lie could whip the fellow wtho would
venture to hold a different view.
Wen. the crawling train which carried
Private Jones over the het part of bis
journey did not stop .at the elleitheven
etation, except upon menial, or to int off
passengere.
Therefore, when the puffing loeoinotiee
stopped .0.11 this shining morning the sta.
tiononaeter came to his door in turiosity,
shading ais eyes with Ills hand.
When he ee.ev Private :Penes, L Y,,
feebly &mend the stepe ana set his feet
teward hint the station -master tutneal;
Then lie teliontea, and With a bound.
melted the homeeenning soldier and
eeietel kith hie hands.
"Why, 'Ian *lotto," eried he, exultant-
ly, "where Imee you been; coming here
Iika nitwit to oet people aright?"
"Whereel yon s'pese. been,: Mr.
Lawler, Rehire?'
John Jones was natutally piqued. Ire
;
The Importance of Being Somebody.
Society was created by simpletons
that satraps might live in It; and to
live to really live, although at first
blush it may seem a very general occu-
pation, is, on the contrary, curiously
rare. Few there are that live. The
existence of the bulk of humanity is
• comparable to that of ants. 1,1 is rutst
as anonymous, quite as obscure. To
escape from the horrors of that obscur-
• ity, to climb, however transiently, into
view, to be obvious, to have a name,
though it be a bad one, men have gone
to the scaffolds occasionally to the altar
and. thence back again to the obscurity
front which they came. Yet that, per-
haps is better than nothing. lt may be
drea:dful to have your name In the pa-
pers; it is still more dreadful not to. To
see it there is really aomethinge but to
see yourself caricatured is euecess. Only
celebrities are lampooned.
Conceit is net appreciated. at its true
value, excqt -by the French, who have
such a pretty name for it. They call
it -amour propre, which, to them, is one
of the cardinal virtues, and. should be to
you. For it admonishes you. to think
well of yourself. lf you omit to who in
the world will do it for you? lf you do
not look as though you owned the earth
who tan do it in your steadr Assert
yourself. That is the way to get on.
If one plan fail ,try another -try a
dozen others.. Through them all ,a,ssurne
a superiority, though you have it not.
Insist on being somebody.
Otherwise your name will appear in
the papers but once -but once 1 -and the
world. :will learn of your existence only
through hearing that yea are dead.
What as worse ,it will not care, even
then. Thiel: of the martyr who dith
tovered that modesty is its own he -
ward. His name is lost, tis identity
forgotten. He was too retiring by half,
in addition to bein,g nehody. Of all
obituaries that is the limit.
Insist, th.en, on being somebody. It
is not only important, it is eo.sy. You
can fool everybody but yourself.--eledgar
Salbus, in July Smart Set.
Toughness of the Pie.
Mrs. Rorer, the cooking teacher, in.
variably prefers 'her class lessons with a
. story, says the New York Times, even
If it is sometimes against herself. "X
bad a pupil once," she said to her New
York class, "who came to me in tears.
She had not long beeh married mad her
husband. lad taken her from behind a
eashieres desk. Before the wedding she
came to me for a few cooking leseons.
Afterward for a 'while her hubby was
coutent with everything,. but prett,y soon
he began to nese the thiage that mother
used to make. Nothing suited him. One
tiotaiyerosiviet.made bini at chithen pie,her first
"What's the nattter with the pie?" be
exclaimed after the first mouthful.
"'I ant not aware that anything is
the matter with it," she retorted with
spirit, weary of his grudibling.
'What le hi ite" he 'continued.
"' It beefsteak pie, and I made It
ou,t,lofebol,r,e.illel.Oarerri:m8 IC:fel:114%V this lest.
Hier tee binding.'"
411..10,46...g...4164.101MAINN•
At the Front boot.
(ehneeelphia Ledger.)
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When . ha we'll gito im
away. The whole population from
rta
over somethite.
the hill had eorrie down to tee his tom. Woall Willi6-bitt's h TAM)* long *anti
110.• Genteel yer hand it oat her* fist es
pony when it went through from Ir- vAilf