A ————
Quenching a Blaze In a Hurry on
Board a War Vessel.
PRANK OF A TRICKY MASCOT.
There Were Lively Times on Deck
When the Big Monkey Got Himself
Mixed Up With Hot Pitch and Gun
Cotton and Took a Trip Aloft.
We were making passage from Nor-
folk. Va. to Lisbon, Portugal, in the
United States steamship Alliance. It
was shortly after 4 o'clock. I had just
gone to my room for a pipeful of to-
bacco when the sailmaker came to my
door with a scared face. “Got any wa-
ter in your room, Mr. Du Bois?" he
said.
“Yes; here's a paiiful.”
“For God's sake give it to me quick!
The e=ail room's afire, but don't say
anything! [I'll have it out in a min-
ute!”
I handed him the pail of water, but
was not going to take any chances of
a fire on a man-of-war with fifteen
tons of powder not six feet away, so
I ran to the ship's bell and rang the
fire alarm as furiously as I could. In
less time than it takes you to read this ;
hand grenades were being thrown and
water was pouring into the now sti-
fling mass of burning canvas. Men
jumped In among the great bundles of
furled sails and passed them out, and
when one could not endure the smoke
any longer another took his place. At
last the danger was over, and I began
to look around and take stock of the
affair,
T had often wondered what I would
do in case of a fire on the ship. 1
would save my watch, A watch is
never used at sea, so it hung from a
hook over my desk. I would be sure
to take along my best girl's picture,
and there were a few other little be-
longings which must not be parted
with. Well, when the thing was over,
what had [| gathered together? Not
my watch, not my best girl's picture,
not anything that I had thought I
would. but I had filled my pockets
with extract of beef and nothing else.
Dumb instinct, not a thought of any-
thing but of something good to eat in
dire extremity.
How did the fire start? The sail-
maker, whese duty it is to keep the
sails in good order, is privileged to go
to the sail room at any time, but he is
supposed to always carry a peculiar
lantern, consisting of a common candle
set In a globe of horn. sufficiently
opaque to give enough light for his
needs there. The candle does away
with any danger from oll that might
be spilled and catch fire, and the globe,
being of horn instead of glass, pre-
cludes a possibility of breakage. This
time the sailmaker, desiring a little
more light, had taken out the candle.
It had dropped from his fingers away
down into the bight of a fumed sail,
and the cloth had caught fire. There
was a terrible mess of burned and
smoky salls in there, and they were
all hauled up on deck and spread out
in the sun to dry and to find out just
what the damage was. In the bottom
‘of the room on the floor one of the
men found the stump of candle and
put It In his pocket. The sailmaker
was a favorite on board, and the offi-
cers never found out how the fire
started. They thought they knew.
The captain “broke” the sailmaker—
that is, reduced him to the decks. But
he couldn't prove anything. So after
-a week orso he restored him to his old
rank.
We came near having another fire
‘once, and, while it might have been
‘very serious, it was really funny.
+ We had several hundred pounds of
gun cotton on board, and. fearing that
it might bave gathered dampness, the
gunner's gang got up the cases from
the magazine, pulled it all out and
spread it on the warm decks far aft in
the sun te dry. Away forward the
boatswain’s mate and his gang were
busy with tar pots and ropes putting
some of thelr stuff in order.
We had on board a mascot in the
shape of a monkey, one of the largest
I have ever seen. He would stand
quite three feet high, and he was the
very Old Nick for mischief. He was a
great nuisance, that monkey, and must
always be doing what he saw any of
the men doing.
Well, Mr. Monkey saw the men with
the warm tar, and nothing would do
but he must have a hand in the job
literally, so hie ran forward and dipped
his hands into the pot and in a minute
was all besmeared with the sticky
stuff; then he bolted aft as fast as he
could scamper and rolled in the gun
cotton, got himself well covered with
it and ran aloft into the rigging. Sail
ors have a saying, “The devil to pay
and no pitch hot,” but the pitch was
hot this time, and the condition was
actually appalling. Some of the men
ran after him, but it was impossible to
catch him. He was too shrewd for
that. The gunner's gang gathered up
that gun cotton as men never did so
fast in their lives before and put ft
back into the cans, for had that fool
monkey dropped from aloft into it he
would have blown the ship to king-
dom come. They got it out of the way
without disaster, but for several hours
that creature sat up there picking gun
cotton from himself and throwing it
overboard. As 1 sald, the episode
would have been comicai had it not
been fraught with so much danger. It
might have been “another sea mys.
tery.” but it was not.—Stanley Du Bois
in Los Angeles Times.
He bears misery best who hides it
most. —Shakespeare.
Book learning, strictly speaking—that
is, learning solely from books—leads
one into many a hole. In “The Balkan
Trall” Frederick Moore tells the “tory
of an Italian official of the Ottoman
bank who had taught himself English
and was enraptured at the chance to
practice it on English people.
It was with much pride that he ad-
dressed us at supper, but we did not
recognize the language he spoke and
expressed In French our unfortunate
ignorance of foreign tongues.
“That is your own tongue,” said the
Italian, but even of this statement we
understood not a word,
He drew a pencil from his pocket
and on the back of a letter wrote:
“I am speaking English.”
We were astounded.
“Perhaps | do not pronounce cor-
rectly,” he wrote next. “I have learned
the noble language from books.”
The hilarious Englishman in our
party gave the unhappy Italian his
first real lesson at once. He took the |,
pencil and wrote:
“Always pronounce English as it is
not spelt. Spell as it is not pro-|
nounced.” i
The Bite of a Rattler. !
The Cherokee Indians’ cure for the
bite of a rattlesnake is at once so com-
mon sense and scientific as to merit a
widespread acceptance. Its common
sense lies in the fact that the victim
has or ought to have the necessary
implement always at hand, there need
not be an instant’s delay, and that it is
the scientific plan goes without saying
because it carries away the poison at
once. The Indian at once, when bit-
ten, drawing his knife, pinched up the
part bitten and cut it out, then, seek-
ing the nearest stream, not often very
far away, plunged the leg in the run-
ning water and kept it there until al!
bleeding had ceased and, as my in-
formant, an old man, told me, seldom
suffered any ill effects,
Usually, as we know, no physician
can be reached or reliable remedy had
until the case is too far gone for any
effort to avall, but with a knife and, it |
not a running stream, water enough to
keep the wound well washed and the
blood flowing I believe there would
be fewer deaths following rattlesnake
bites.—Forest and Stream.
How to Settle Bills.
There is a young Harlem matron
whose mental equilibrium is upset the
first of each month by the prospect of
letting her husband see the size of the
bills that come in for food, drink and
for her own personal adornment. Her
four-year-old daughter offered her a
valuable suggestion the other day as
to the simplest means of settling bills.
The small child, seeing her mother
examining with a clouded brow a bit
of paper, inquired: :
“Is it a nice letter, mamma?"
“No; it's a nasty big bill, dearie.”
The child's bright eyes closed as it
she were searching her innermost soul
for some word of comfort. Suddenly
she flashed a glad look at her mother,
and her voice had all the brilliancy of
one voicing an inspiration:
“Mamma, jes’ tear it up. Then you
don't have to pay it." —New York Press.
The Retort Aqueous.
Even in the midst of horror there is
occasionally a rift of humor. It is
said that at the time of the Johnstown
flood a grocer to whom one of the citi-
zens owed for an overlong time a good
sized bill for provisions while floating
along on the top of the waters in a
raft made of two window blinds and a
skylight caught sight of his delinquent
debtor whirling around in one of the
pools of the eddying current clinging
to a large hogshead.
“Ah, there you are!” cried the grocer,
businesslike to the last. “Been look-
ing for you for several days. When
are you going to pay that bill?”
“Can't say just now, Sands, old
man,” returned the unhappy debtor.
“I'm having all I can do to keep my
head above water these times.”—Har-
per's Weekly.
An Anecdote of Renan.
Renan while traveling alighted at
Naples. One morning a servant of the
hotel came to him and said that as she
had heard the preacher at the cathe-
dral make use of his name many times
she would be thankful if he would
chicose for her a number in the lotiery
about to be drawn. “If you are a
saint,” said she, “the number is sure
to be a good one; if you are a devil, i.
will be still better.” Renan smiled and
chose a number, but he never knew 1*
the servant was lucky.
Tangible Asset.
“I believe I'll promote a transporta-
tion company."
“Land or water?”
“The latter, 1 think. For the former
‘I'd need rails and right of way, but in
a water proposition I'll have an ocean
to start with."—Exchange.
For Future Reference.
“That lawyer is very tricky,” said
Mr, Cumrox. “I wouldn't think of
meeting him socially.”
“Neither would I,” answered Mr.
Dustin Stax, “but you might give me
lis office address.”—Washington Star.
A Correction.
“Your hair wants cutting badly, sir,”
said a barber insinuatingly to a cus.
tomer.
“No, it doesn’t,” replied the man in
the chair. “It wants cutting nicely.
You cut it badly last time.”
Almost Personal.
Celestine — And has Mr. Pryor's
church such a small congregation?
Hilda-—-Yes, indeed Every time he
says “dearly beloved” you feel as if
you had received a proposal.—Bohe
mian,
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ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR.
Then the Tide Turned, and One Great
Misfortune Followed Another Till
He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu-
rope by the Treaty of Berlin.
The “Terrible Turk,” who may be
taken as typifying the empire of the
sultans, holds one record at least
which he is not likely to be deprived
of. He has won and ost more terri-
tory thao any other nation.
There was a time when the sultan
was the bugbear of the world. Even
little children in Engiand shook in
their shoes when they heard his name
mentioned, and those people who lived
anywhere near him dared not call their
lives their own,
But at last the tide turned. The
Turk began to lose, and one great mis-
fortune followed another.
Spain was the first big bit of the
Turkish empire to break free. The
Moors, who were subject and paid
tribute to the sultan, were driven from |
province after province until at length |
they were cooped up in the solitary |
kingdom of Granada. |
The last Moorish king to reign in |
Spain was Boabdil-el-Chaco, or Boab- |
dil the Unlucky. In 1482 Ferdinand |
and Isabella, the king and queen of
Aragon and Castile, declared war on
him, and in 1492 he had to surrender
everything.
Hungary, which now forms half of
the dual monarchy of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, was a province of the
sultan for 150 years. Then it was torn
from him by the sword.
After this came the turn of the
czars. The Russians, whom he once
despised, have been the Turk's worst
enemies. They have either robbed him
themselves or encouraged others to rob
him.
Peter the Great set the example, but
was not, on the whole, very successful
in his wars against the Moslems. At
one time the Turks could have cap-
tured and massacred Peter and his ar-
my, but were frustrated by the slave
girl, Catherine, whom Peter had mar-
ried.
Catherine the Great tore the Crimea
from the unhappy Turk, together with
thousands of square miles of territory
along the shores of the Caspian.
In 1821 the Greeks, who had been
slaves of the sultans for many centus
ries, rose in rebellion and drove the
Turks out of the country. But then
the Greek leaders began to quarrel
among themselves, and civil war fol-
lowed. The Turk took the opportunity
to seize the country once more.
But the massacres and other horrors
which followed aroused Europe. In
1827 the Turkish fleet was destroyed
at Navarino. The combined fleets of
Britain, France and Russia took part
in the operation.
In 1828 Greece was acknowledged as |
a free and independent kingdom, with
a king of its own.
For nearly a century Egypt, which
the Turk conquered in 641, has been
part of the sultan’s empire in little
more than name, and since 1882, when
the English occupied Pharaoh's coun-
try after Arabi Pasha’s rebellion, the
Turk has had practically nothing to do
with Egypt.
The Moorish corsairs who had their
lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac-
knowledged the sultan as thelr suze-
rain, but were defiantly independent as
regarded all the rest of the world.
Their swift sailing dhows preyed on
the commerce of all Europe, and from
start to finish they seized many thou-
sands of white captives, many of
whom they ransomed, while others
they doomed to slavery.
When asked to keep his piratical
subjects in order the sultan declared
himself helpless to do anything. The
freebooters went on doing as they
liked for a long time. Then France
became weary of patience and forcibly
took possession of the city in 1830. |
Since then she has annexed 307.980
square miles of Algerian territory once
subject to the sultan.
Then came the Turk's worst time.
Russia made war on him, and the Bal- |
kan states, which had been held as!
provinces by Turkey for hundreds of |
years, revolted, flew to arms and did |
everything they could on the side of ;
Pusgia. Had the czar been left to him.
a
self the Turkish empire would have
been practically destroyed. The other
great powers, however, were afraid to
see Russia too powerful. They insist
ed on summoning the congress of Ber-
lin.
By the terms of the treaty of Berlin
the Turk was almost swept ont of Eu-
rope. Bosnia and Herzegovina were
handed over to Austria to keep In or-
der. Roumania, Servia and Montene-
gro were declared absolutely Independ-
ent of him. Bulgaria was created into
a principality. nominally under the
sultan’s suzerainty, but in reality free.
And then Austria annexed Bosnia and
Herzegovina. —Pearsen’s Weekly.
The True Bohemian.
“A true bohemian is an man who hor-
rows a doliar and then invites you to
lunch with it.”
“Wrong again. A true bohemian is
a man who invites himself to lunch
with you and then borrows a dollar.”
—Kansas City Star.
I think there Is success In nll honest
endeavor and that there is some vie
tory gained iv every gallant fraggle
that ie made “harles Diane
How many pecp’e lve on the reputn
tion of the reputation they might have
made.—Holmes,
The Subaltern’s Retort.
When Sir ian Hamilton was in South
Africa acting as chief of staff to Lord
Kitchener he had occasion to visit rath-
er a large depot of which a young of-
ficer was in command. Going through
certain papers, General Hamilton found
that these were not quite in order and
at last said rather wearily to the of-
ficer: “You know this sort of thing
will not do at all. What do you sup-
pose your brains were given you for?”
“I am sure I do not know, general,”
was the cheerful reply. “Since I came
here I have worked sixteen hours a
day and more. I have acted as mule
teamster, porter, van guard, supply
clerk, station master, orderly, room
clerk, typist and a dozen other things.
I think if I had not bee. endowed
with brains I might have managed to
take on two or three more jobs as well,
but as it is I must admit I am some-
what handicapped.”
Sir Ian Hamilton was forced to
laugh, and shortly after the young
officer found himself attached to the
Senate personal staff.—London Tit.
Psychic Phenomena. ‘
The Chinese believe that the p'o is
“equivalent to the supraliminal self,
the visible personality interpenetrating
and indissolubly attached to the body,
the hun being the subliminal or invisi-
ble self, also interpenetrating the body,
but not indissolubly attached to it.”
For instance, “the hun of a girl elop-
ed with a lover, leaving the physical
body informed by the p‘c only, and
there she lay in bed, a semiconscious
invalid, for several years, until the re
turn of a runaway pair, who had been
duly married and were bringing home
a couple of children. While the aston-
ished parents were wondering what to
make of it all, the girl in the bed got
up and went out to meet herself. The
two fell into each other's arms, and
there and then, in the presence of spec-
tators, they coalesced and became one
~—one ordinary woman, dressed, how-
ever, in two complete suits of clothes.”
~Theosophical Review,
Weighing Touch,
A remarkable instrument is that used
for the purpose of measuring the sense
of touch. This device consists of a
series of little disks, each three milli
meters in diameter, suspended by fine,
delicate thread from wooden handles,
the last being stuck into holes round
a block. The lightest disk is taken
out and brought into contact with the
skin of the subject, he having his eyes
closed. If nothing is felt a heavier
disk is employed, and so on until the
pressure becomes noticeable. The
disks weigh from one to twenty milli
grams, and with their aid it has been
proved that the sense of touch in the
average person is conveyed by two mil
ligrams on the forehead, temple and
back of the forearm, five for the nose
and the chin and fifteen for the inner
surface of the fingers.—New York Trib
une.
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—_— OF —
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