The Brussels Post, 1889-7-12, Page 6B
BY THE INN FIRE
it wee a wild night on the southern ooasb.
The wind In Its hurricane strength laahed
the waters into billow,, that Riled them-
selves one upon another In their eagerneae to
wreak destruction upon something. They
poured over the rooks in volumes of snow•
white foam, and dashed themselves madly
against the oliffe, only to be hurled book, a
broken, seethingmasa of waters ; or they
rolled mejeatioally Into the bay, and broke
with a noire of thunder ppm tho beach of
Idemontb.
The cosiest spot to be found for miles
round the ooaab that night, was the bar of
the " Author toad Binnacle"—the only inn
which the village of \Videmouth poseeened.
It was a snug libtle bar, with warm red
certain to the windows, inviting one to
enter. Once inside, it required no little
moral courage to go out again, especially
with those portly little barrels of ale looking
ab you from behind the counter, and the
rows of bright bottles an the shelves above.
Oa this wild night, the bar was filled with
the smoke of many pipes, the murmur of
many voices, and a clinking of epoons and
glasses ; end as one's eyes became gradually
accustomed to the atmosphere, eeveral
strangely hablted forms appeared. In truth,
the best part of the mole ,population of
Widemonth was gathered there—moat of
the frehermen, and a great many of the coast.
guard. Nearly all had heavy waterproof
boots drawn on over their trouser:, and
reaohiog np to the knees ; oilskin ooato, more
or lees shabby, over their jerseys ; and sou'•
wester hate coming well down over their
tanks.
The wind swept round the "Anchor and
Binnacle" as though it would wrench it
from its foundations and carry ib bodily
away, dashing the rain furiously against
the rattling windowpanes, and moaning
and booming mournfully in the chimneys,
" How ib is blowin', to be sure," said
one tf the ooaatguard, as a heavier gust
than any whioh had preceded ib, made the
old bones tremble.
" You're light there, mate 1" answered
a fisherman. ''It's blowin' b?g•gune to-
night."
" I thort eum'at o' the kind were oomin',"
chimed in another ; " there's bin a heavy
swell rollin' in for heee two days paab, and
the galla has bin a•keepin' wonderful clone
inshore too. Them', pretty sure signs as
Pe a blowin' outside,"
'There ain't bin such a rale as this near
upon nine year, I reckon,' says a third—
"not since the time when the Glenauott went
ashore off the L'zards, and all hands was
loft."
"That was the some winter as the emi-
grant ship gob into the West Bay, and were
lost on the Chesil, weren't it?" inquired the
coaetgnard,who had previously spoken.
"Ah, that was a wreck 1 Went to pieoee
ten minutes arter she took the ground. We
managed to eave three of those aboard her
with the rooketline ; but all the rest—nigh
upon four hundred—was lout."
Just then, the door was opened, and
another man entered, or, to speak literally,
was blown into the bar, for the wind rusbed
in behind him, scattering the smoky cloud
bcf ,re it, cooling the grog, and making the
gaslight hiss and flicker. The newcomer
was evidently a fisherman. He was some-
thing besides. Ever since his boyhood, he
had been kncoking about at sea, and had
only returned to settle down in his native
village a few months later.
"Wild weather tonight, mates 1" eaid he,
es he wiped the moisture from his face,
end ebook the water from hie dripping fou'•
Wester. "I pities them as is beatin' down
Channel to -nighty
"We Was just eayin' as bow there hadn't
bin inch a gale ae this near upon nine year
since,' said one of the men,
"No ; I don't sappose there has," he
replied. "Leaetways, not on this coast, ae
I can remember. The wust gale 0e ever I
was in was cff the Scotch coast, and it was
the only time as I was near upon bein'
wrecked."
Let's have the yarn, mete," said a
coastguard.—"But before you make sail,
fill your pipe and let's have some more
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and when we recovers, we found the tow• i
rope bed gone—ay, lads, broke like a
pipeetem,.
Well, We burub lights, to let the tug know
oar whereabouts; bub when she answered,
we found we ware faeb driltin' to leeward..
Ib weren't a comfortable berth, mates, I can
tell ye, blowin' half a hurricane, with a sea
runnin' as high as the main yard and comity'
aboard every minute ; the tug gone, and
we driltin' just where the sea obooeeto take
ue.. But there was nothin' to be done.
There was hardly a stitch o' mums aloft,
so we could only hope the tug would try and
pick up agen.
Ab daybreak we looked everywhere for
her ; but she weren'b to be Been—nothin'
bub the drivin' scud aloft, and a fierce sea
Burgin' all around us. All that day, we
strained our eyes to get a eight o' some vele
eel ; bub not one did we see, We need nothin'
that day but the land, and we sighted that
away on our leo about duels. We thought
the ing must ha' sprung a leak, and gone
down in the night,
Thinkin' to bear off the land a bit, the
oap'en give orders to loose a jib and tope'l.
It were risky work up atoll) with the vessel
nigh dlppin' her yardarms ab every roll ;
and some o' the haude wouldn't venture.
Howeumevor, we gob 'em loosed at last ; bub
bleae yo, they hadn't bin sheeted home ten
minutes, when the jib were nothin' but rib.
bine and the tope'l were blown clean out o'
the bolt -ropes. Just as we was a-oomin'
down from the tops'1•yard, some ono sings
ont : "L'ght on the weather beam." At
first•, we couldn't see nothin' and didn't
believe it ; but Boon she ocme op on a big
sea, and then we made out what looked like
a star low down en the 'rieon. We didn'b
believe as how it could be the tut.. But
after burnin' lights for some time, we
seed eomothin' go np right away from
where we'd seen the light. Then we knew
it must be she ; but even then, ib seemed a
poor chance for no."
At the rate the Tuscany was driftin ", a
matter o' two hours more would ba' seen ne
on the rooks, and none would have ,soaped
to tell the yarn, Tame was still a last
chance ; and the cop'en made np hie wind to
try it ; so the order soon come to clear sway
both anchors and stand by to let go.
Another hour peeved, and still the mast,
head light o' the tag seemed as far off as
ever, Would she ever teat to us ? we thought.
The land ware lyin' close away on oar lee,
when the order Dome to let go both anchom
aid the chain flew oub o' the hawaeboles.
One parted almost direotly ; the other drag•
ged, then held for a bit, and then parted,
and we was carried on helplessly towards
shore, I never wants to go through each
another time, mates, as long as I livae.
When them anchors went, we give cur-
uelvea up for lost, Soma o' the men went
olean mad, ravin' and casein', and then
aittin' down and blubberin' like great
ohildren. Some lashed 'emeelves to the rig
gin' ; and acme, wi' eyes near Ont o' their
heads, laughed and grinned and pinted
to the stretch o' black comb we wan
mile drivin' on. It weren't more nor a
and a half away; and we begun to
tanoy we could hear the breakers above the
roar o' the gale. And we Olean forgot all
a'iout the tug ; when suddenly, down she
come close upon ne to wind'ard, out o' the
darkness, We could see the eap'en o' her
atandin' on the bridge, and hangin' on to the
rails. We seed a man for'ad on the fo'c'ale,
under the lee o' the capstan, with a coil o'
rope in his hand. But how to get that rope
were the next thing.
The fresh supply having Leen obtained,
and duly tasted and approved, and
a goodly cloud eking to the raftete, the
sailor commenced:
It's ecmewhere about five year ago, I
ehculd think, 1'd bin home some cis weeks
from Calcutta, and havin' got through all
my cash knockin' about Liverpool, I ships
as bo'een aboard a fine iron abip, about
two thousand tone, called the Tuscany
She were lyin' at the mouth o' the Mersey
in ballast, ;raitin' for fair weather, She
ware then to be towed to Glasgow, where a
cargo was waitin' for her ; and from there
the were bound for San Franofaker, The
cap en he were part•owner of 'er ; and as
he'd bin a•layin' there two or three days, he
were gettin' impatient.
It bad bin thick, dirty weather for a week
or wore, the wind yeerin' from sou• to fou'
west, and there were a meaty lump cf a sea
outri
de the bar. Howsnmever, tee I says,
the omen o' the tug ea was to take 112 round,
wan 1 seinen, palaver se tosailin'. 0' ooureo
1 didn't know then what they was to talkin'
about ; bub I beard tell arterwards se how
the pilot and the oap'en of the tug were very
strong agen goin' out. Not bub what it
weren't no biznees o' theirs, if the espt'in
ehcee to make the passage. And choose he
did ; for soon arterwardb the order oame
for'rd to heave about,
About five in the arternoon the tug
called the Gladiator came alongside,
We parsed a good stout bawler out to
ber, heaved anchor, and cleared the river.
The Tuscany was precious high out 0' the
water, and so light, theb she were just like
a cork atop o' the wevea.
There was only a moderate breeze blowin'
When we got outside; but there were a
nasty Makin' lot o' aloud away to the sou'.
west ; the enn were gone long afore his
time. When the pilot dropped aver the
side, he took all the fine weather with him,
That night, the breeze freshened, and 'fore
morpin' it were blowin' hard with a heavy
nee.
Tho tug kap' ahead well. Every now and he seed our light,
agen, she were half -buried in the greabgroen Ab he ,eased speaking, a sound was heard until the task is almost completed, when
sena as broke over her ; then she'd oome up above the roaring of the wand without, which the attain becomes too great. The huge
atopof 'em like a (Wok, with the water caused the men to put down their glt BMW rope yields and slips. The workmen aro die
orin' thorngh ber paddle -boxes, and her and alanoo inquiringly towards one another. mayed and fly wildly to escape the impend•
paddles flyln' round like mad things every One of them stepped to the door and opened ing disaster. Suddenly a voice breekee the
roll she gave, We was makia' pretty heavy it a Ilbble way, Soaroely had he done so, silence,
weather of it ourselves, though bean eo high when the Sound was repeated—the sound of "Wet the ropes," rings out olear.toned as
out o' the water, the sea didn't/break aboard a gun ab sea Instantly the nal' wan desert• a trumpet. There on a high post, standing on
much at fireb. But we was hal£•drowndod ed, the mon fighting their way down to the tiptoe, hie"eyes glittering wibh excitement,
With pray ith the o rte oomin' over In oloude, and beach in spite of the fury of the gale, and Is one of the 800 workmen, is sailor, named
she'd dip her nolo into it right up to the regardleea of tho pitiless rain that beat upon Bream di S, Remo. His appearance starbl a
d'o ile dr ek, their fame. They were goon joined by everyone, but hie words inspire.
All that day, the tug hold on, and the ggale anxioue and half•terriflod women, with their Be is obeyed. The ropes swell and bite
gof worse till Itt were blowin' nigh ae bad hair blowing behind them, and their thin bhe stone. The column aeoende again, and
ea 'tie neve. The oap'en begun to wish he'dgarments flapping in the fierce wind, in a moment more Stands eoourely on its
pedestal and the dating sailor is forgiven,
Every moment wee preoioae, and one mile
take would ha' bin enough. With a sea
runnin' liko that, it were a nasty job. Now
the tug would be down below ue, to between
two great rollin' bills ; next minute, she'd be
as far above us. Bab there weren't no time
for thinkin' muoh, so every man followed her
wi' hie eyes, and stood ready to ger that
rope, or go to Davy Jones in the attempt.
The oap'en o' the tug brought her round
under our stern, and oome up to leeward o'
ue. He then passed ahead, as near alongeide
ae he dare—might be the length o' this bar
off—and then he waited for a lulI'in the gale.
We was all gathered on the fo'c'sle and in the
fore•riggin' and chains ; and we seed the man
on the fo'c'sle o' the tug oome from under
the lee o' the capstan and eeize the weather.
raffle,
There he stood until the hull came, wbioh
it did at last—snob a lull as we could hear
the beatin' o' the paddles, and the swish o'
the seas as they tumbled one over the other.
Rennin' in a bit olosor, the oop'en o' the
tug signalled the men on the fo'c'sle to
heave. We hardly dared breathe, as the
line flew from his hand ; but a ringin' cheer
went up as 10 lodged in our fore•riggin' and
wore secured. Then the tug forged ahead
agen, while we hauled in that line, lade, as
never a line were hauled afore. We soon
had the atIut steel hawser made fast ; and
then come another wait, near ae bad as the
one afore.
The wind seemed to ba' got double
strength after the lull, and seemed as
though it were wild at our bavin' got
the line ; for it roared and shrieked
through the riggin' like a thousand
devils, It was a fight, now, between
the tide and the tug ; and for a bit we
thought it were all up with both o' us, The
tug buried herself so deep in the seas that
we thought she'd be swamped ; but she
struggled in vain. Wo never moved. The
shore were that close than we could see the
loam flyin' up the cliffs, and see the rooks
upon wbioh both o' ne seemed to be driltin'.
But at last' after what seemed to us to be
hours and hours, the ship's head turned sea-
wards. Tao Gladiator had won ; and when
daylight broke, we were welloub ab sea again;
and the eameday saw uemoored. lathe Clyde.
At the conclusion of the narration, he
took a long pull at his tankard. The others
had cab quietly lieteninp throughout, only
now and then interruptingby an exclamation
of astonishment er aeaenb. Now ono of them
asked : " How mane the tug to And you ages
mate 1 "
" Why, you see the oap'en of her knew
pretty well the net o' the currents in them
parte ; and findin' he were not far off a port,
he put in for a new towline, and when oome
arter us 0e fabt as his paddles would bring
him. He'd uear given us or, though, when
men ooutd keep their Mob, and they amid
nob mak° thernaelvea heard oven by ahoutiog
in each other's ears. There wan, however,
very little aced 0f epeoob. Emit man knew
exactly what to de, Beaoabh them, about a
quarter of a mile from shore, they oould see
a largo blaok objaot rolling about amongsb
the rooks.
Every momenb ib was covered with loam,
as Sea after eon abruck It. Soon one rogkeb
was on its way; but the raging wind sweeps
it to leeward far cub of reach. Another
followe. This time, a faint light appears
it re°pons/, and the line begins to pay out.
Suddenly It ceases, A huge sea Domes roar.
ing and tumbling shorewards, gathering
strength ab every yard, Its white crest rise
ing higher end higher. With a tremendous
crash, it pours bodily over the ill•fated
venue completely passed, from
n
and
when
assed,nothing oan be, seebub ib had p
a vast sheat of seething breakers.
The day following Croke olear and fine.
only the long sonorous roll of the waves
breaking upon tba beach, and the rapid
sailing of the fleecy Maude aoroee the sky,
betokened that there had been such a gale
overnight. But the coast around Wide•
mouth was strewn with wreckage ;and as the
tide came in, the waves cast up many lifeless
forms, Kind hearts and sympathetic, hands
tended those, washed the gait spray from the
fame, and disentangled the matted hair, In
the course of the day, a piece of bimber
name ashore, evidently the bow•plank of
some boat, and upon it they found the word
Tuscany.
BRAVE JOHN SMITH.
Heroic lemon in a Meet Factory.
About eighb o'clock on Saturday night,
as sone workmen in the Siemens depart.
ment of Messrs, Thomas Firth te Sone, Shef
field, were about to remove a red hot steel
ingot, weighing twentysix tons, from the
oasting•pib, a terrible acoident000nrred. The
one hundred tone' travelling crane had been
brought into position over the ingot, whioh
stood in the coating -pit, when as one of the
workmen (Stanley by name) was adjusting
the chain on the crane, his foot slipped, and
he fell into the pit, a distance of fifteen Met,
right down beside the column of red-hot
steel. Some idea may possibly be formed of
the awful nature of Stanley's position when
ib is known that the ioget had but a few
hone previously been a sea of bubbling
fluid in the furnace. And then a deed was
done at which one's fink Sweeps as one bhinke
of ib.
A laborer, known familiarly as "Sailor
Jack"—we call him Brave John Smith now
—realizing in a moment the awful position
of poor Stanley, who lay there, stunned by
the fall, close to the ingot, and was already
ablaze and roasting alive, seized a ladder,
and thrusting it in an adjoining pit, hurried
down, encountering an awkward fall through
the ladder soddenly turning round, Re
covering himself in an instant, Smith rushed
to the resole, and stepping into the inner
pit, that ie, the space immediately surround-
ing the bottom of the ingob (e step down of
three feet and a width from wall to ingot of
only two feob three inohee, speedily pioked
up hie mete, and succeeded in carrying him
into the next pit, whence he was able, by
the aseietence of other workmen, to get bim
up the ladder. Then John Smith lay down,
and was afterwards carried in a dazed state
to the infirmary. When ib is added that
Stanley was a heavy, robust man, and the
Bailor a man of only about nine atone in
weight, and tbab he entered the pit wibh
scarcely any clothing on, and with his shirt
sleeves rolled up, it will perhaps be pos.
Bible for readers to forst oomo idea of what
this brava man must have endured, Poor
Stanley died three days afterwards—a sadly
unrecognizable object to those wbo had
known bim beet. John Smith, who was ex•
posed to the heat for only a few seconds
lees time than Stanley, is doing fairly well,
though he is very severely burned about the
the arms and hands.
THE FIRST FORGET -ME -:TOT.
The °Leering Legend Supposed to Ilav
Given Origin to Ilierlower.
LATEST FROM EUROPE,
DriftirgToweold War -Portugal Fires the
Fi'et Shot on Brrtlsh Subjects—News
From East Afrioa,
A despatch from adages Bay reports a
aerloua state of alleles there, arfaieg from
the railway troubles. A portion of the roll.
way has been destroyed by the Portuguese.
An Eagliah engineer who tried to defend
the works was fired upon. The foreign
residents are greatly alarmed, and aro
crowding to the British Consulate for pro -
Motion. The Portuguese have planed a
British interpreter under arrest, The Eng
gliah residents demand hie release,
LISBON MOST DE BLOCKADED,
Tho "Sbenderd," commenting on the re•
solutions adopted by the ebareboldern of the
Dalagoa Bay Railway Company yesterday,
blames the shareholders for imprudence.
It urges that it will be useless to force
Portugal to fulfil her concession to the oom.
pany, and thinks that Portugal should mere
ly be compelled to return to the company
the money it has expended and to pay in-
demnity for the disturbance it has caned at
Delemust�be blockaded it It a ts that even Liabon
hat atep is neceeaary
to obtain j entice,
The "Times" is in favour of fording Por-
tugal to fulfil the concession.
The report reoeived by the Chronicle from
Durban that the Portuguese decree caneell•
ing the concession had been reminded is not
confirmed.
At a Cabinet merloil to -day ib woe decid-
ed to send additional war ships to Delagoa
Bay.
No news has been received from Stanley
einem the latter from Urari, A missionary
brings infeemrtion that the Germans intend
destroying Panzani as soon as they have
scattered some insurgents in the vicinity of
Bagamoyo, They desire to reopen trade and
wanb the British Indians back again. The
natives, however, refuse to have any dealings
with them.
Stringent efforts were accordingly made
by the Germane, who were baoked up by the
English representatives, to come to some
arrangement with the people of Pengani,
but they elected to fight and refused to se-
sooiate with the invaders in any way.
AN UNSETTLED DISTRICT,
Lindi is very unsettled, and fugitives nay
that the Arabs threaten to kill all the British
Indiana if either a German or British ship
fires a single shot. The Sultan fears deposi-
tion and that his brother Ali, who ie repot•
ed to be an intelligent man, will be put in
his plane.
It is rumored that an offer of this nature
has been made to Ali on condition that he
issues an edict giving freedom to all Slaves
in Zoozibar and thoroughly abolishes elev.
cry. But it is said that he fears to accept,
because this would probably cause a eevolu•
tion. In fact, Mr. Portal, the British agent
here, called on Ali lately, and hie visib has
given rise to much comment in native din.
oleo. There may be news of Stanley any
day now, but it is not thought that he can
arrive before three months, when he is aura
to go to Mombasea,
A Secret.
He said : " No one shall ever learn
This secret that my bearb mueb keep;
No matter how the words may burn,
No matter how my heart may leap,
No one shall know I love het so,
Ne one shall know, no one shall know 1"
Bub though hie lips were tightly sealed
The very birds hie seoreb gueeaed,
For in his eyes it was revealed,
And in his face it was confessed—
" I love her so, I love her so,
Bub none ,ball know, but none shall know 1"
Anyone who takes the trouble to refer
bank for the English name of thio now well.
known flower will find it botanioally my -
mods, English mouee•ear, from wbioh the
name myootis is derived, Ib is now eaten.
oively regarded as an emblem of fidelity,
Grey gives only one, M. Verna, tee origin-
ally a native of North Ameriaa, but several
as naturalized outoaste from gardens—among
them the true forget•me.not, in Europe,
with pale blue flowers and a yellow eye,
There are, however, now quite a number
cultivated, including the Azorean forget me•
not, with very deep blue or indigo•colored
flowers, and other shades, au white and rose,
raised by meant/ of the florist's art.
Fanny Oegood, some years ago, gave the
following anecdote of the origin of the now
well known name ; "Ib is related that a
young couple who were on the banke of the
Danube, saw one of those lovely flowers float-
ing ing on e waters, wbioh seemed ready to
carry it away. The affianced bride admired
the beauty of the flowers, sod regretted its
fatal destiny. The lover was induced to
precipitate himself into the water, where he
had no sooner seized the flower than he sank
into the flood, but making a last effort he
threw the flower upon the shore, and at the
moment of„disappearing forever he exclaim.
ed, 'Verges mir nicht; since wbioh time
this flower tae been emblematical, ani taken
the name of forgeb•me•not,”
Lay to thy heart thio token flower
With love's own teare its leaves are web.
'Twill whisper in its dying hour,
Do not forget.
WET THE ROPES.
Mow the Greet Egyptian Obelisk Was Ste.
vated In Some.
In the year 1581 the Egyptian obelisk,
weighing 1,000,000 poundo, was raieedin the
square of Sb. Peter's, Rome, Pope Sixtus V
proclaimed tbab no one should utter a word
aloud until' all danger was paaeed.
Slowly ib rises, inch by inch, foot by feob,
Imp' snug in port, Every minute we expect The mon of the coastguard wetit otraighb
from
the tug that the was shippin' too much dart' while the fishermen ran along the
water, and mush met us off. But nothin r beaoh, trying to pierce the blaokneoe of
happened till about the middle 00 the firot night. Again the gun boomed forth. It
watch thatnight, Wrhena heavy sea struck oome from the western side of the cliff,
us just for'ad o' the foremast, olearin' , There was no look of willing halide to push
everything off the deck, and rnalcin the , the rocket cart to the summit, Once there,
ship trop end ehiVer from stem to Stern; ib Was With the utmost diffioulty that the
ed towrope to pert, or to get a signal, to their station and brought out the rocket-
An Order for a Grave•
The following letter was received by an
undertaker. My waif is dad, wants to be
buried to•morrer ab wooer relook. U nose
Ware to dig the holo -by the side of tho
other two waifs, Let it bo deep.",
J ULY, 12, 1889
A FORTY -POUND SNAPPING TURTLE.1 A New Vocation.
"I don't nee why a smart and etron We -
Fisherman Thought lie End Captured
One, but Found Pt Bad Cuptnred ilgn.
"A person who has never OOme In o nteot
with one of tbo immense enappiog bnrtlee pa -
miller to the mountain lakes of northern
Pennsylvania," said a fisherman, "bas no
idea of the pugnaotty and poreietenb brute
foroo with which they will figba when corner.
ed, They grow to the groat aim of thirty
and forty pounds, and when enraged aro
about 'a terrible looking eroaturee as one can
Imagine.
"I had an 0xoitipg experience with ono
once, and I never want anything more to do
with that kind of game. 1 was fishing with
live bait for pickerel on a lake near u farm
house in the Delaware valley whore I was
stopping that summer. I was in one of the
old.faohioned flat bottomed boats they use
in that region, wbioh was anchored with a
big atone tied to the end of a long rope, a
good way from either shore. The propelling
force of the boat was a piece of board need
es a paddle. I had fished for a long time
without having any Iuek, and was pulling up
my line to try another part of the lake,
when I belt a strong tug at the line, Then
the line slackened, and as I raised it slowly
and found no reafstanoe, I supposed some
large piokerol had broken ib til at a single
lunge. While I was bemoaning my look an
immense snapping burble name to the surface
within eix inohee of the boat. His fierce
yellow eyes rested on me for a moment and
then he turned to dive. Mechanically I
made a grab for him, and naught bim by
the tail. It was all that I could do to lift
the turtle, with the aid of the paddle, into
the boat, Bub I did, and as I did so I die
oovered that my book was fast In under one
of hie fore ohouldere, whore It had aooident•
ally become fastened as I was pulling up my
line, and as the turtle had swam direotly
np, I had felb no resistance after the ffreb
tug.
"That turtle hadn't been in the boat ten
seconds before I heartily wished that be was
baok again at the bottom of the lake, for as
Boon as he saw that he was a prisoner he
,bowed fight. You would be surprised if
you were ever brought to bay by a snapping
turtle to see how eurprieiogly active he can
be in the manipulation of his olamsy.looking
body, This one rose up on all fours, shot
hie great head out ab lamb five inches from
hie shell, and advanoed on me with open
jaws. I was not acquainted with the Mottos
nor the physical structure of snapping Cur•
flee, and, having nothing to defend myself
with, having dropped the paddle in the
excitement caused by the appearance of the
turtle and the getting of is in the boat, 1
simply retreated to the bow. The turtle
followed me, and jumping over bim, I took
up a potation in the stern, My prize catch
turned and closed on me there, end I was
forced to jump again and seek the bow. I
cannot imagine an uglier looking customer
than that snapping turtle, His eyes fairly
glared as be oame towards me, his enormous,
shell supported on four wrinkled, powerful,
black lege, fully ex inohee long. As he ad
vanoed he would draw his Beed baok in the
cavernous shell and then shoot it oub to bhe
full extent of the rhinoeeroe•like nook with
a actin like the cranking of a coach whip.
"The fierce creature would nob give me a
moment's rest, but kept me danctng back
and forth in that rickety old boat until 1
made up my mind that[nnlets succor oame 1
must drop with cxhauation and fall a victim
to my trophy. I began to yell lustily for
help, and after awhile I saw the farmor's wife,
who was the only person ab home, Dome down
to the lakeside. the looked ab me for a mo•
went as if she thought I had gone crazy, and
was turning it over in her mind whether it
would be safe to oome out or nob. But my
frantic calla induced het to take the risk, she
jumped into another boat that happened to
be there and paddled out toward me. The
boab was so leaky that by the time the good
woman reached mine her'a had taken in sew
eral inohee of water and was utterly useless.
Without a moment's delay she jumped into
my boat.
"'Why, ander the canopy,' she exclaimed ;
didn't yon haul up the anchor an smash the
peaky oritter with it?'
The wind Boon found 12 and ran on
To tall it to the wondering flowers,
And bear lb to the gates of dawn,
Where loiter all the coming hours,
That they might know he loved her so,
That they might know, that they might
know
Some time all secrete meet unfold,
And soon did be a liatener seek,
To whom his story might be told
Before the laughing world shouldepeak
And tell ber (if oho did not know 1)
He loved her 00, he loved her l
Meredith Ni aholson.
Original Conundrums.
PROF,. LEWELLIN, M. A,
Extreme high ohnroh t Dome-inican.
"A hint to tourists," Wbat la the beet'
kind of bank paper to make "both ends
meet'' when one is on a tour ?
A "circular" note.
The proper place for the "Clerk of the
weather" during the late stormy and tem•
postuous weather,? The clearing (up) house.
What is the difference between a badly.
constructed balloon, trying to get floated,
and an impeoanione Ring Se dude leaving
his watch at hie "Uncle's ?" Why the one.
the wind attempts to raise, the other
attempts to "raise the wind."
What column in the newspapers should
have been read during the late stormy cold
weather ? The "summary" of course 1
What le the lightest feast on record ? The
feast of lantberne. N. B, bleier mush be taken
as the firebmentfon of a gae-tronomicot.
l.o(h)ines "from the wood." The utter-
ances of small boys when oared.
Wanted to know if the "sweeping up" of.
vagrant ours le a source of "net" profit to
the oity ? Thie is slightly dog•matioal.
The kind of position heok•mon, elm, often
take up 1 Imposition,
Who is the father of waters 7 Niagara 1
Who the mother ? Mrs. Sippi Who tho
daughter ? Why Mie-Souri 1
Tho sweetest kind of meeting between
two young people in the moonlights. A
syrup•titious one certainly,
He Took No Chances,
Sho—" Speak out, Me. Prudence, if yon
have anything to say,"
Ho—" No, thank you. Where's a phone
graph hid under the oentro table, your little
brother ie under the sofa, the hired girl is
lir/toning at the keyhole, and your mother
is looking over the traneom, The only thing
that restrains me ie my doubt as to the where.
abouto of your father."
Angry Wite (after a quarrel)—" Same to
me we've been married about a hundred
years, I can't evenremember when or
where We, first met,"
Husband—(ompha•
tioally)-- I oan. 1b was at a dinner party,
and there were thirteen at the table,"
Sere .enough, I had never thoughb of
the anchor. The appearance of the woman
seemed rather to puezle the turtle, and he
Mopped in the middle of the boat on bis
way toward me in the stern for the fortieth
or fiftieth time, and stood for a momeob tee
if undecided what to do. The farmer's wife
had seized the anchor rope and wag pulling
up the big atone, The turtle had made np
his mind before the anchor appeared, and
turned from me and made for the woman.
She bad the stone in eight, when it, slipped
from the noose that held it and sank back
to the bottom. She drew the rope from the
water, and turning quiokly, struck with it
at the turble'e head. L'ke a flash the mon.
otter caught it in his jaws, and they oloeed
on it with a /nap.
"'There,' said the farmer's wife, 'that
critter won't be no more trouble,' cause he'll
never open hie Tawe off o' that rope.'
"The woman dragged the turtle to the
bow of the boat, where she tied it short to
the poet. The paddle of her sinking boat
was secured, and we reached shore sate and
sound with the turtle a oapeive through the
stubborn grasp he kept on to the rope with
hie jaws,
"'He's the biggest one I ever see," said
the farmer'o wife, "and I've see some pooty
big ones oome cut o' that pond."
" We had no diffioulb in getting our oar,,
Live out of the boat, forha seemed satisfied
with having vented hie fury on the rope,
whioh lee stili held tightly in his jaws. My
resoner proceeded to at ono chop the
turtle's head off with an axe. The next
morning the head woe still as full of life al
ib was when it was fast to the body. The
rope. was still between his jaws, and when
any one approached the decapitated head
the epee woald turn and glare as savagely
as ever, The head was carried away with
the rope still oeonre in the jaws, and nob
until fortyeirhb hours afterward did they
relax and the head cease to give gigue of
life. The turtle weighed fortyHix pounds,
the head alone weighing almost once quarter
of the whole."
moo, or bettor still, two of them, could not
make a good livinp by upholstering," said a
worried housewife In the oity the other day,
"Here I have a lob of furniture that r as
a00nite boob days, the mearlege are worn
aril faded, but the springs and framework
are yob good and sound, If I eeod 1t out to a
regular upholsterer the cost of naw material
and his workmanship will bo more than can
afford, If I sell bhom to a seoond.hand deal-
er, that will be libblo better than giving them
away. I could remover them myself at little
cost and with good effielit I had the time
and a little more strength. Now, if I only
know where to send for a otrong, bandy wo-
man to dome to the house and make the most
of the material I have, cutting ib out under
my eye and working according to my Siren.
tions, I would send for her at once, The re.
melt would be that the work would be finish-
ed much more quiokly than if I sent the
furniture away,° would have the use of it all
the time, my material would be 000namieal•
ly cub, and 1 oould a [Pard to pay her good
wages, and yet spend lees than in any other
way."—N. Y, Tribune.
Warner and Pullman,
Mies Foureyee of Boston—Of course 1 do
nob pose before you as a oritio, but I must
confess thab I have a prononnoed penchant
for Wagner, and --
Mies Lakeview of Chicago—Wagner
Rats I Jusb listen to me while I gently mar•
mur that our own George M. Pullman knows
his business euro enough. Wagner outs no
figure with us, and this goes.
In Oklahoma,
Everything grows in Oklahoma. Mr. E.
J. Hubbard' this morning brought into the
•' Journal" office a mammoth mushroom. It
measures 31 inches in oiraumferenoe and 13
in diameter, or aboub the sits of an ordinary
pumpkin. We expect to have Nome big
Merles to tell him in this lino when our
farmers have a chancre to show what
Oklahoma Soil will do.—[Oklahoma Jour-
nal.
Nob long ago I called ab Edison's home,
expeoting to Hoe bim, ,aye a correspondent
of the Pittsburg Dispatch. He wasn't there,
and Mrs. Edison told me abe hadn't seen
him for three dayo, I Hoon found bleat ho
was ab his old Woke—working night and day
In his laboratory, having his meals sent to
him and Bleeping on the floor with hie clothes
on and a etiok of wood under hie head for a
pillow. When working he never leaves hie
laboratory, and he Haemo to think that by
keeping his olothee on he oan better preserve
the nervous tension after he has started to
work, Then he perseveres until he has ao'
compliohed his purpose. Rio time he regards
at very valuable, and this is the reason he
doeon't want to oome here until it le heoeo.
Bary, His deafneoa has not improved any,
remaining about the some.
Lots of Them.
" Yon shouldn't be so uncharitable toward
your fellow men," said a traveling man to a
friend who had been railing at human nature
in. general. " Remember tbab all men are
your brethren."
' Yes," was the reply, " I do ; and I've
got a tremendous lot of /nighty mean rela-
tions,"
Natural History.
rog (to elephant). "Row far can you
jump, you big Immix
Elephant. "I oan't jump at all, froggy
woggy."
Frog (hoisting bis ehonldere). : "You're
unlucky. When I see an enemy approach-
ing, with a few jumps I'm out of danger."
E'ephaot. "W ben I see an enemy ape
preaching I clon'bhave to jump,"
What He Was Wanted For.
Valet (ringing up the doctor at 11 30 p.m.)
—Councillor M,--aende his compliments,
and desires you to come to bim at once.
Dootor (en dsahabile)—Good greaten, 1
What ie the matter with him?
Valet—He wants a fourth hand for a rub-
ber of whist.
Some new rich gowns for afternoon or re
caption wear have brained skirts under
trained polonaises that open all down the
front.
The watchman took the other by the arm,
and as they started off—one insisting—one
objecting—the official looked back to say,
" He won't herb nobody, Mies Warriner ;
he's just a little cranky, that's all."
Hiram Hay, of Hayville, recently made a
trip to the Pacific coast. In describing hie
experiences, he said : "The only thing that
disappointed me was the way my old watch
out up. All the way out it kept gainin'
time, and all the way bank it kept loain'.
Wonderful, wasn't it?"
The wife of Count Tolstoi, the Russian
novelist, is, like the wives of many literary
men, the business member of the family
firm, Shebat/ sole charge of the sale and dis-
tribution of her husband's books, and is his
amanuensis, reviser and translator. Besides
all this she superintends the bringing up
and education of their thirteen children,
looking after domeatio matters meanwhile.
Mitre Susan B. Anthony is nearfyisevenby,
but her figure is straighter than that of many
a girl of seventeen. Her eyes are very bright
and her rather thin faoo expresses acute-
ness and kindly intelligence. She dreseea
quietly bob richly in dark alike with fine
lane for garniture and is charged with one
very feminine weaknaoe—a horror of going
out in the rain, whioh aversion,, for that
matter, many men share with her ooeergiot
self.
A recent issue of the Farmington "Rogio-
ter " of Oregon contains a letter from An-
drew Saltine, the head of the Coeur d'Alene
Indiana, apking the saloon men not to sell
Ms people liquor. He says if any of them
are found drunk in town be would like bo
have the city marshals arrest them and send
word to him, and he will go and get them
and pub them in his jail. He also talks to
bhe Country Clerk about estrays and Bays
hie people lose many horses. He olosee by
saying : "1 wanb.to be at peace with all the
whites, and would like to have bhe whites
use my people as they use one another," It
is but a few years eine Saltire rode ab the
head of the Ccenr d'Alene warriors and was
a savage chief bent on destroying the whites.
Now he rides around the country taking a
fatherly interest in hie tribe and keeping
them ebraighb. He le thrifty and well to
do, and rides into town in a comfortable
carriage behind a good pair of heroes.
The German ration may bo thankful to the
German army for other reasons than eimply
the defence of the fatherland, according to
General Lewd Wok/clay. He writes vary
recently : "I take the German army as the
highest existing typo of the military system
and organization whioh the changes effected
in armlet by the French Revolution have led
up to ; and much as f admire that army as
a soldier I admire ib still more as a citizen.
Greab as lb is for war, it ie infinitely greater
as a national eohool for the moral, mental,
and phqaiool training of the people, Design-
ed exclusively for war, it has become the
most important of peace inatitutione, In ib
all Germans are trained to strenabb, and
taught the first principles of pore:Mal clean-
lineeo and of health. There they learn to be
honest and manly, and are taught the excel.
lehce of those virtuee whioh servo to make
mon good oubjeoto and law abiding oltizens,
It le the echoed of the nation, in whioh deepp
love of fatherland is Metered and charlotte8,
Saohee, through exhibited in every 1abrio and where all orae es learn that there to holler
are now very generally of the softest ono i in obedience and nobility is self•oaorifloe.
and frequently of the same silk as the 1 Lord Woloeloy wants a' univeroal service',
Om, ' ' 1ortungtandi