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PITHY PLEA OF A CHILD.
I think the world Is really sad,
I can do nothing hut annoy;
Tor little boys are all born bad.
And I am born a little boy.
tt doesn't matter what's the game.
Whether It's Indians, trains, or ball;
I always know I am to blame,
If I amuse myself at all.
[ said one day on mother's knee:
"If you would send us right away
To foreign lands across the sea,
You wouldn't see us every day.
•We shouldn't worry any more.
In those strange lands with queer new
toys:
But here we stamp and play, and roar.
And wear your life out with our noise.
"The savages would never mind.
And you'd be glad to have us go
There, nobody would be unkind,
For you dislike your children so."
rhan mother turned, and looked quite red,
I do not think she could have heard;
ghe put me off her knee instead
Of •nswering me a single word.
She went, and did not even nod.
What had I said that could annoy T
Mothers are really very odd
If you are born a little boy.
-Spectator.
fbee-lance.
By CHAL'NCY C. HOTCHKISS
[Copyright, 1607, by D. Appleton & Co. All
rights reserved.]
CHAPTER XVII. —CONTINUED.
I had worked with feverish haste, know
ing that the outcome of this episode with
the Ajax would terminate for good or evil
in a mighty short time. Once they ran off
our track we would be comparatively safe,
though, to lessen this possibility, I sur
mised that they would themselves be
guided by the drift, only using their oars
that they might make their speed greater
than that of the schooner. By so following
they might hope to overtake us, and doubt
lex* would have done so only we were now at
the point where the rush of the Hudson
meets that of the Sound river, and the rips
and whirlpools formed by the mingling of
these waters oil and below Nutten's island
were constantly creating counter streams
and cross currents that shifted and spun
with the minutes, ever changing and never
at rest save at the brief intervals of slack
wiUer on the turning of the tides.
Beyond the gurgling and rushing of the
stream not a sound could I now hear,
though once or twice I was sure I caught
tiie thumping of oars in their tholes and
h sari voices of men. But if 1 did, they went
wide of us, for the minutes swung into half
till hour at least, and the half hour into a
whole one, yet nothing of the boats from
the Ajax did I see.
And now 1 took a deep breath and moved,
for during this time of terrible suspense we
011 deck had barely stirred. Not a sound
had come from below, nor had an attempt
to uncovtfr the windows been made, and
yet 1 knew one man had a broken nose from
a musket butt, and both must be< [tressed
for want of air. Mistress Gertrude still sat
on the cabin top, and crouched low near the
companion door, with pistol in harul, was
hei brother.
As patient as.was this girl, she was human
flesh, and a delicate bit of femininity at that.
%'lie cabin top couM not be made perma
nent quarters for her, and, though I believe
she would have collapsed from sheer exhaus
tion ere offering a word of complaint, it was
an uncalled-for sacrifice for her to remain
longer unsheltered and seated on bare, hard
planking. Up to the present comfort had
not been considered, but now that imme
diate danger was past, I turned my thoughts
to the young lady, and cast about for a re
treat to which she might retire. Save the
hold or the forecastle, no spot was avail
able, and either would be repugnant to one
of her fastidious tastes. Still, shelter she
must have; I would see to it presently, but
now I became more than curious tp know
what devilment was meant by the continued
silence of the two desperate men caged in
the cabif!.
It struck me that the quiet, coupled with
what ha*i gone before, might bear a mighty
significance, and going softly to a corner of
the tarpaulin, I quickly threw it up and
looked in. The light was out. Drawing
back out of range I called Scammefl by
name, and then Lounsbury, but received no
reply. Putting the threat of death in my
demand for an answer, I still received noth
ing in return; so clambering to the cabin
top, I laid my ear above a dead-Mght to
catch a sound of movement within, but bad
hardly taken my position when both nose
and lungs were assailed by such a mixed
stench of burned powder, lamp soot, rum
and foulness in general as to almost turn
my stomach, though it at once cleared up the
mystery.
Here, now, was my tnreat to stifle them
carried out better than I knew. Dragging
ofi the tarpaulin, I pushed away the hutch
cover, drew the bayonet from the staple,
forced back the companion slide and en
tered. The first thing I did was to stumble
over a man's body on the floor, and then
I turned and got to the deck, for the air in
tilt; cabin was more than I could at once
endure. Letting the place clear for a little,
I fetched the galley tantern and went down
once more. The cabin was yet filled with a
heavy blue mist, and the sulphurous fumes
were choking. Lounsbury lay on the floor
with his face covered with apparent
ly dead, both eyes being swollen and his
countenance blackened beyond recognition.
His companion sat on the cushioned tran
som, jammed into a corner betwixt a berth
a*d the bulkhead. He was unconscious,
und, with his tongue hanging out, was
breathing feebly. Physically he was alive,
but, through liquor and foul air, was so
dead drunk that nothing could have roOsed
him. Three empty brandy bottles lay
about, together with Scammell's saber, a
br'iken sword, pistols and tobacco pipes,
while on the table, the cotton cover of which
was burned to ashes, were the remains of a
leathern powder pouch rent by explosion.
No wonder thfty had succumbed. In
their tipsiness, or through the carelessness
of desperation, they had fired their ammuni
tion, the amount not having been sufficient
to cause more than the muffled blow and
flash 1 had heard and seen on the instant
of our being hailed by the Ajax. This, with
the smoke of the previous firing, together
with the heat and closeness of the quarters,
had created a smudge and foulness in which
none but a drunkard could ha\e l,ivi>d a
minute. They had evidently been deep in
some scheme to blow open the forward door
(which showed signs of attack) when a
spark from a pipe caused the plot to harass
the plotters Lounsbury had been the chief
sufferer, and thus was accounted for his
blackened face and his cry for air and water.
However, it tould not have lut my turn
better had I laid the train of events myself,
nor was it long before 1 had the two lying
on the deck and knew the cabin wag sweet
eu*ng and would soon be a lit retreat for
Miss King. Neither was it long before 1
discovered that Lounsbury was not as dead
as he was drunk, though hardly as far gone
in liquor as Scammell, who could have been
pitched over the rail and passed to the next
world without the slightest inconvcniance
to himself. And more's the pity 'twas not
done.
Like hags of dunnage I took them by their
collars, hauling them amidships, and then
clapped the wrists and legs of both into
irons, articles which in those days stood
somewhat ahead of the medicine chest in
importance, and frequently in use. With a
mingled feeling of pity, hatred, and disgust,
I soused the sots with a bucket of salt water,
and then left them for Nature to bring to
life. As I moved aft I caught the freshness
,of a small, early morning breeze, and felt
that ere long the protecting blanket of fog
would be rolled away. Much would I have
given for a knowledge of our exact where
abouts, but as this was impossible, nothing
remained but to prepare the schooner for
sailing as soon as we could get our bearings.
'Twas a small job to cast off the gaskets and
get loose the headsails ready for hoisting,
but another matter for Ames and myself
alone to run the heavy canvas of the main
and foresails to their mast head*. I was
fearful that the rattling blocks and rustling
of the great cloths might herald our situa
tion, but nothing came of it, and after a deal
of hauling we got something like a slack
set to the sails which for months had been
mildewing against their booms.
Gradually a lividnesa came over the fog,
and, as the light of the coming day strength
ened, it showed the mist driving across us
like wads of smoke. As the light broadened
I went to the binnacle to see how we were
heading, but found the compass gone from
it, and, on examination, discovered that all
my instruments had been confiscated saving
the telltale screwed into the cabin ceiling.
This, like the hanging lantern, was be
grimed by a white deposit from the explo
sion, but, on clearing 14 with my palm, I
found we were heading north by east, or still
going stern on toward the south.
So matters went till sunrise, the wind
growing fresher as the time sped, and at
last, white Ames and myself were putting J
the cabin into some shape anil the girl had j
gone to overhaul the pack of provisions, I j
heard her give a great cry, and rushed to !
the deck to find its meaning.
It was no alarm. She was standing by the I
fore shrouds looking at the sudden trans- j
formation which had come over the face of j
Nature. Often have I seen the sun rise,
but never did it appear in such a grandeur
of pearl and grays. The glory of its com- ;
ing was none the less for the iaek of vivid |
coloring. The fog had rolled olf as rol!s-a
curtain, and to the east and north lay piled
in towering masses ranging from thunder
ous blackness to the opalescent clearness <4
a seasheli. Through its misty caverns shot
dazzling shafts of sunshine, which wavered
and played over the face of the bank like
the tremulous shifting of the northern
lights. Astern, clear as far as one could sec,
lay the ocean blank of all sail, the snia.ll
summer waves gliuting back the strong
light from the east. To the west and over,
our larboard beam stood out the green
heights of Staten island, and under their
shelter I marked two heavy ships of the
line, while toward Sandy Hook lay two
others with sails furled and at anchor.
Gravesend bay also held one, a mammoth,
which I took to be the Cerberus, but not a
ship was alert. No more were in sight, and
I marveled that we had run the gantlet of
the fleet, thinking, naturally, that most of
tnein had gone up the bay and must have
lain close to our track. Little I knew that
the bulk of Lord Howe's flotilla had sailed
east the day before, and thus opened the
path that otherwise would in all likelihood
have been blocked. But so it was, and
later I knew we had the French to thank for
having drawn them away.
Doubtless we were marked by a hundred
eyes on board those about, but the levia
thans were powerless to harm us, their
vary size and ponderosity shackling them
against quick action. Close aboard and on
our starboard beam lay the white sand spit
cf the lower island which goes far to make
New York harbor the»haven it is, and once
past this wilderness of ljeaeh, now known as
Norton's Point, we would be on the sea.
With a shout of relief almost delirious I
sprang forward and mastheaded both jib
and staysails, while Ames jumped for the
main sheet and drew it in. It was the first
inkling I had that he was anything of a
sailor, and the knowledge was mighty wel
come. Slowly we came about until the
tchooner nosed into tire west wind, and then
he ran to the helm while I caught the
draught with the headsail to help her get
ting past the point of "irons;" then I be
layed both jib and staysail sheets.
But of what use are these details? Enough
to tell that presently we were slipping east
ward and [iast the Dry Homer, the sails
swung wing-on wing, and an air, which
turned to a calin as we fled, pushing us
from over the taffrail and toward the rising
sun.
CHAPTER XVIII.
PURSUED.
All that morning we sailed almost as
blithely as ever pleasure seekers sailed a |
summer sea. True it was that a measure of '
anxiety still hampered my spirits, but as j
compared with tvlmt we had undergone, i
we were at heart as light as the filmy mares' |
tails floating athwart the blue above. And i
even now, while tragedy might be lurking !
near, there was an element of the ridiculous j
in our appearances, too marked not to be t
noticed by each of us. The girl, with a !
natural care of herself, was the most pre- j
sentable of the three and looked to be but a j
proper youth; but 'twas Ames who gave I
color to the ship's present company, lie
had retained his wig—to make his hat fit, j
he said—ami what with his fresh face, whit# '
hair, and clothes still mud-stained from Ins j
fall into the ditch the night before, he was |
a sight to behold. As for myself, I appeared i
to be in the last stage of dilapidation. A 1
four days' growth of dark beard, my cloth- I
ing burned, rain-soaked and ragged, my j
linen a shock to the eye, my queue ribbon- j
less, and my hair streaming about my shoul- j
ciers, I made a picture fit to repel the girl. I
Two days before, her likes or dislikes would |
not have caused me a second's thought, but
now somehow my very size seemed to me ob- j
trusive, and, coupled with my outward
state, shamed me luto au avoidance of her
close observance.
But no change could 1 make in her manner
j v hen necessity brought us together, iler
j smile was as bright— ay, brighter—than the ;
dazzling sea about us, lier voice as free from
m.rvous tremulousness, arid her manner as
j self-contained as though she was trading a
j ballroom floor instead jf the grimy, slowly
j heaving deck of a fugitive schooner. Once
i she had laid her hand on mine as 1 stood at
| the wheel, and seemed to be about to speak
to me, giving a quick upward glance ot her
dark eye, though lowering her gaze as quick
ly; but as her brother hove aft just then,
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1900.
she turned away and went below to the
cabin, which by this had been given over
to her exclusive use.
I minded me that it was I to whom she
first brought an allowance of salt beef and
ship's bread, and let her brother wait.
Somehow the fact wanned me, and then
1 apostrophized myself for a faol for having
thought of it. How she regarded her ci
devant lover I had easily seen in the way
she turned her head and made a wide de
tour when necessity compelled her to pass
him where he sprawled on the deck, his re
pulsiveness as much, if not more marked
than his companion's, owing to the tarnished
richness of his once glittering uniform. The
prisoners had so far recovered as to be maud
lin, and in their restlessness had rolled into
the scuppers. The sight of them was an
evil easily remedied, and, as air and light
were no longer imperative to their well
being. I had taken them into the forecastle
and laid them each in a bunk, that they
might finish off the fumes of liquor without
o'.leuse to decent eyes.
Once onto blue water we held a council
tc determine our destination. It was safer,
I thought, to land my passengers on the
Jersey coast and by myself try to work un
der short sail to New London, where was
consigned the schooner's cargo. But neither
brother nor sister would hear of such a
move. Washington having withdrawn to
the north, there could be no telling the
state of southern Jersey, especially as it had
been overrun with bands of marauders
known as "Sandhillers," and, there being
no safe objective for the fugitives, to land
would be but beginning anew a search for
refuge. Without money (though I would
make a shift to remedy the lack of that),
without friends and with a price on their
heads, a change to the pine wilderness of the
western coast would be scarce an improve
ment over the deck of the Phantom, out
lawed though she was. Such was their argu
ment.
As for myself, nothing would have now
j tempted me to desert the vessel. By hold
| ing a course well south, clinging only to the
| loom of the Long Island coast as a guide
(for I had no sure compass), I might run
1 across a Yankee privateer or find protec
| tion in a possible French cruiser. At this
i moment I had recovered all I had Vnst and
| mere. The schooner with its cargo was in
j tact; the gold was still in the cabin; I had
been enriched by several rolls of money
| from Clinton (though I had not yet counted
I the coin, only guessing at its value by its
| drag on my pocket), while below were
Lounsbury and a prisoner of rank. More
I than these, I had the knowledge of a move
j to be made toward the relief of Newport by
; the British, and —here I was honest with
"He was unconscious."
myself as I thus compiled my gains—I had
two friends, one of whom, oath or no oath,
should come to no harm from mankind
while I had an arm to interpose.
I had suggested the Jersey shore as a mat
ter of duty. I had heard their determina
tion to abide with nie and share my for
tune, be it high or low, with something of
a feekng that put a new power into me, and,
I fancy, a new light in my ere (had they
been looking closely), not caused by the
dazzle of the sun. Our destination lay, then,
tirst for the Vineyard. There I would place
this now homeless girl in care of my mother
and sister, who were probably mourning f6r
me as lost, then to New London to deliver
prisoners and cargo to the proper authori
ties, and after that —well, I would wait and
iee.
Ay, I would wait and see. One need not
plan one's life for months ahead. Somehow
there was a brilliant spot ' n the future
which 1 eared neither to define or get be
hind—a Will-o'-the-wisp both tangible and
elusive whieh I could not analyze, being
content with glow it spread over my
mental picture. The radiance lay on the
ancient island farm. It fell on the ancient
house and livened ij£ homely interior. It
v. F.nt abroad over familiar fields, dusky
woodlands and swamim, and gave n color
to the stretches of lonely beach.. It made
life more than living, nod changed the dross
of existence into something very like gold.
' I knew I was dreaming dreams and build
! ing air castles as I stood my trick at the
I wheel and hove it over to meet the low-run
| n ; ng swell and forestall the vessel's yaw.
i but what picture equals that of the brain?
I In progressive stages I mentally doubled
j Montauk, raised Blockhouse island, sunk it,
and saw the mist of Norman's Land, and
' then swept around the great western clay
I cliffs of the Vmeyard, and was at home,
j Every detail was reijl, yet fairer than reality,
j By some queer change in me I looked less
for glory now than I had the month before.
| War was well enough if it must be; glory was
, a prize easily gotten, but there was nothing
j to equal psace. I had tamed wonderfully;
j nothing to equal the delights of home and
i domesticity. I had acquitted myself before
j my fellow-i, and for a time would rest on
j my honors. In short, I had by then gotten
, into a weak-kneed mood, the like of which
' every man knows at some moment of his
j life; harmless enough, possibly, and for the
| -rijoyment o< which he can thank God for
J withholding the knowledge of what the
next hour lias in store.
By this it was about four in the afternoon
as I figured from the height of the SUM,
j which, though clear, shone from a sky that
i had become flaked as though a fine-drawn
1 smoke had settled over it. Though the
1 wind hung still from the west, it was lighter,
; and the schooner dragged through the water
as if it was traveling uphill. Its sluggish
i ness I knew was due somewhat to the char-
I acter of its cargo, which was the deadest of
I dead weights, but more to the marine
• growth which had collected on her bottom
: during her long anchorage, and which could
| easily be seen streaming below like a long
and ragged green beard. Beyond the dull
gurgie of the cutwater and an occasional sob
in our wake, not A sound broke the intense
stillness of the afternoun. Ames was for
ward, guarding the forecastle batch, and his
sister had gone below. From the prisoners
i who had come at last to a realizing sense'
of their position) nothing had been heard
beyond a demand for water, which had been
given to them, and air, ocean, and schooner,
v.ith all on board, had quieted into what
badt? fair to become a dead calm.
We had seen a number of sail during the
day, but nothing had as yet come hull above
the horizon, even these showing south and
west mere specks of light against the pear!
of the sky line. I thanked God for the scare
given the British by the advent of the
French fleet, and knew that each cable's
length we made to the east brought us so
much nearer safety. The day was waning;
night would soon be on us, and if the wind
held, under cover of darkness we would be
secure in our flight, and possibly the mor
row's sun might rise and show nie the gor
geous reds and yellows of Gay Head bluff
with its cap of green turf, a sign that we
were in home waters.
Even as my heart warmed at the thought,
I cast my eye landward over the larboard
quarter and saw coming out of the haze
which had all but blotted out the Long
Island coast a topsail schooner bearing
southeast or directly toward the Phantom.
She was some five or six miles away, but
even at that distance I could see by her
slope that she had found a fresh slant of
wind, and that from her forward cloths to
the tip of her main boom every rag was
drawing, her progress being mightily helped
by the square sail set on her foretopmast.
There was no knowing what she was, but
the fact that any craft had gotten so close
without having been marked, gave me a
start, and I put the helm down that the
jib and staysails might draw, which would
at the same time bring the stranger over our
taffrail. A landlubber could have seen she
was no Frenchman, for the Gaul had a style
of cut, rake and carry, all his own, be
sides which they were not given to sailing
small craft in these waters. She might be
a privateer, in which case all would be well,
but if not, and I feared my own intuition,
then my air castles were doomed to ruin,
my borrowed happiness was but the swan
acng of hope, my dream that of a con
demned man.
The jibing of the foresail and my hail to
Ames brought Miss King to the deck. Her
brother joined us, and we three stood look
ing at the oncoming vessel which had ap
peared like a cloud to mar the brightness
of a perfect day. There was no need to ex
plain the menace lying beneath that bunch
of swollen canvas. By the faces of the two
I saw they realized it was a plain case of
chase, tiie only doubt being whether it
would prove for good or evil. I would have
given the gold in !">' pocket for a good glass
with which to make her out, but, as that was
impossible, it took me but a few seconds to
come to the conclusion that our only hope
;and that a slim one) was to make the chase
a stern one and give the p or I'hantoru,
with her foui bottom, all the speed possible.
Putting the wheel in charge of Ames, with
no loss of words I went forward, clambered
up the fore shrouds and managed alone to
unfurl the square sail, settling the bracing
and the sheet and tack on my return to the
deck. In the present light air the pull of the
canvas was small, but it was something, and
I knew the stranger would mark the increase
of sail ami read as plainly as print that we
wanted nothing of her.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Fine IN'oplc in 17S!>.
My lady was as reckless as my lord,
and rattled the dicebox and shuttled the
cards from dusk till morning, going
home with ruined fortunes, in her se
dan chair, when workmen were going
home from lathe and loom to break
fast. Family diamonds and jewels and
plate were staked when the guineas
were exhausted, and when these pos
sessions had gone farms and estates
were sacrificed. The amusements, too,
of wealthy people were of a coarse and
cruel description. Bat-worrying, cock
fighting and badger-baiting were fa
vorite diversions, Prize fighting was
regarded as essential to keep up the
courage of Englishmen. Even the
clergy joined in these low and brutal
pastimes and neglected their spiritual
duties, or cut short a Sunday afternoon
service sooner than miss being pres
ent at a main of cocks or seeing two
men entering the ring for the express
purpose of pommeling one another,
breaking ribs, damaging noses, knock
ing out teeth, and cracking jaws. The
devotional life of the church was dis
tinguished by all the apathy that pre*
vailed during the Georgian period; the
sacred edifices were dormitories for
the living as well as of the dead; but
the work of Whitefield and the two
brothers WesJey had helped to breathe
new life into the dry bones of the es
tablishment. —Chambers' Journal.
Snbtletlen.
Intercourse witlu Christians bad given
the savage a taste not only for rum, but
for dialect subtleties as well.
"I spare your life," he said to the cap
tive.
"Thank you," the captive replied, not
forgetting his manners.
"So you owe me your life, don't you?"
asked the savage.
"Oh, yes," said the captive.
"Well, then, if I take your life, I
won't be stealing, will I?" exclaimed
th# savage.
It was clear this benighted person
took a truly civilized delight in bun
coing his ethical sensibilities for the
benefit of his propensities.—Detroit
Journal.
Tit for Tat.
Cro<ss-Examining Counsel —Isn't your
husband a burglar?
Witness —Y-e-s.
Cross-Examining Counse I—And
didn't you know he was a burglar when
vou married him?
Wit net*- Ves; but I was getting a
little cid. *r.d 1 had to choose between
a burglar and a lawyer, s>o what else
could 1 do? —Harlem Life.
Aotronoiiileal Item.
Although quite youthful in his ap
pearance, Johnnie Chaffie, like "littlt-
Willie" in the well-known ballad, is de
cidedly precocious. When the teacher
asked the class: "Are there oilier moons
besides ours?" Johnnie jumped up, and
exclaimed:
"Yes, there's the honeymoon!"—
Tammany Times.
"Scorpion!" he hissed, a/ter the other
fellow had kicked him. "Lucky for you
I ain't a centipede," retorted the kicker.
—lof .u Topics.
HAS A RUBBER TONGUE.
New York Victim uf the Smoking
Habit M»ile Whole AKUIII liy a
Surgical Operation.
Science lias enabled a man togo
tliroughlife with an artificial nose and
Lmbs that often defy' detection, but
one of the roost novel inventions of
modern surgery is a tongue made of
rubber and resting on a pivot set be
tween the teeth. There is a man in
Kew York who can show this won
derful mechanism.
This man is George Henderson. He
s 47 years old and for many years had
GEORGE HENDERSON.
(Known to His Frierda aa tha Man with
the Rubber Tong-ue.)
been an inveterate smoker, often using
15 cigars a day. Excessive use of to
bacco caused a cancer of the tongue,
and the organ, had to be removed.
This operation was most difficult and
according to the New York Her
ald, performed in Bellevue hospital.
It was necessary to saw through the
lower jaw at the center and remove
two lower front teeth, together with
a portion of the jawbone on either
side of these teeth. When this was
done the surgeons removed two-thirds
of the anterior part of the tongue,
leaving only the base of the organ.
The severed ends of the jaw were
reunited with wire.
Henderson then left the hospital,
the surgeons giving" him little hope of
ever being able to eat solid food.
Mr. Henderson finally went to the
New York college of dentistry, where
Dr. Frederick Bradley took charge
of his case. He sawed through the jaw
again and adjusted its sides evenly,
bringing tliem in as close impact as
possible. A metal cap was placed over
all of the lower teeth and held in po
sition by a clamp on either side of the
mouth fastened under the chin. After
the patient hnd worn this for five
weeks it was removed, and it was
found that the several parts of the
jaw had reunited.
Henderson was still unable to eat
solid food, because he had no tongue
to pass it back into the oesophagus.
To overcome this difficulty the sur
geon constructed an artificial tongue.
A rim of gold was made to fit the
inner surface of the lower teeth. This
was beveled off toward the lower edge
and attached to a wire clasp which
fitted over one of the back teeth on
either side. A bar of German silver
was fastened across the mouth from
one of the back teeth to another op
posite. This was inclosed in a tube of
the same metal of sufficient size to
permit it to rotate easily on the bar.
A tongue of red vulcanized rubber
was made to fit about the tube. The
rear of the rubber tongue was bev
eled off toward the bottom and placed
under the base of the real tongue, so
that the least movement of the mus
cles pressed down on the rubber,
throwing the tongue up.
Henderson is now able to talk as
distinctly and freely a.she ever did,
and eats with ease and freedom.
VICTOR OF COLESBERG.
Gen. French the Only Ilrltlwh Officer
tn South Africa Who HUM Mot Ueen
Uefeated by the lluer«,
Maj. Gen. John D. P. French, who
commanded the British forces at Coles
berg, is the only British commander in
South Africa who has not been defeated
by the Boers. He has proved himself as
capable as his friends in England be-
GEN. JOFTN D. P. FRENCH.
(Only British Commander In Africa Who
lias Won a Battle.)
lieved hiin to be when he was placed
in command of the cavalry in South Af
rica. He has demonstrated what can
be done by a general who knows how to
direct the movements of his troops with
skill. The British success at lilands
laugte was achieved through the carry
ing out of his plans. French is a young
soldier who began his career in the
navy, but left that arm of the service
for the cavalry. He was lately in charge
of the brigade at Aldershot, where he
proved himself very efficient. His ac
tive work in the field was limited to
some service in Egypt, but what little
he had to do there was well done, ne U
47 yea'B old.
SSOO Reward
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Nrmation thtt will lead to the arrest aii
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placed iron «D>i ilnba on the track of the
Emporium & Rich Valley R. R., DMI
he east line of Franklin Hruflfj's fum,
m the eveuicK of NOT. 21ct, 1801.
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