AT EVENTIDE.
The tired breezes are tucked to rest
In the cloud-beds far away,
breast :
Of the gleaming, dreaming bay:
The shore line swims in a hazy heat,
Asleep in the sea and sky,
And the muffled beat where
breakers meet
Is a soft, sweet lullaby,
Of glittering sunset glows,
The roofs of brown in the
town
Are bathed in a blush of rose;
The radiant ripples shine and shift
In shimmering shreds of gold,
The seaweeds lift and drowse
drift,
And the jellies fill and fold.
The great sun sinks,
heaps
His cloak on the silent sea,
sleeps,
And the wavelets wake in glee;
Across the bay like a silver star
There twinkles the harbor light,
And faint and far from the outer bar
The sea-birds call “Good night.”
—Joe Lincoln, in L. A. W. Bulletin,
The Saraband’s Skipper
The last half-hour of the steamship
Saraband had come. All day she had
lain in the pitiless bay, crouching un
der fierce blast of the northeast
the
now all on board knew that she
but a short time to live.
She had had her day. Built to
one hundred and twenty passeng
she had once been one of the popular
boats going through the newly opened
canal and her long, flus!
deck the many
gay when her passe
had under the awnings
laugh, flirt and talk after dinner. But
larger and faster boats had come and
her glory had departed, so that after
§
to the east,
0
had been of
gathering
scene
ngenr
assembled to
many vicissitudes here she lay, her
passenger accommodations taken out
and the space filled with grain from
the Black Sea ports, sinking.
Her decks were slanting at an angle
of forty-five degrees, for the wheat
had shifted, and she lay nearly on her
beam ends; every movable thing had
long been washed away, and one
structure which should have been Im
movable--the engine hatch-had also
been smashed in
hat v as the immediate reason why
she was going to founder: the engine
room plates were awash and the fires
for the
last two hours she had only been Kept
in the stokehole were out. and
head to sea by means of a sea anchor
made of the derricks and spars. A
portion of every sea that came on
board found its way through the
makeshift contrivance of spars and
tarpaulins nailed over the gaping
chasm in her deck that marked the
former position of the engine-hateh.
and each found her a little lower in
the water.
In the shelter of the bridge-deck
the only structure which had been
strong enough to resist the remorseless
violence of the seas--clusterea het
some hands,
and gz y firemen:
apathetic,
save for a few, dead white
spending their
ing with
tions of
their luck in coming
skipper, for not makir
Crew
| 3%
th
hard faced sallors
the
form quier,
almost careless: the others
fea
Hrs
ti
last moments in «
wi foolish, pe
meaningless
words, the
in her, and the
iz use of the two
re
the same ship,
remaining boats which hung frown
their davits at the lee side of the
bridge deck, and which, from their el
evatads position. had not gone when |
the other boats had been Swept away,
On the bridge stood the skipper and
the mate, elderly men |
straining their despairing eves into tI
wall of mist and
lessly ru
bearded with,
spray which relent
shed down npon them. in the
faint hope that some passing vessel
might appear through the gloom of |
the gale,
At length the skipper turned and
scrambled down the sloping bridge to |
where the mate crouched on the lee
rail. “We shall have to try the boats, |
Mr. Smith; she'll not last much long
er!” he shouted, the wind picking up
each word as he uttered 4t and swesp
ing them away to leeward. as if jeal
ous of the mate hearing them.
“It's a very poor chance" said the
mate; “but I suppose it's our only one,
How long do You give her?” : §
“Half an hour at the outside. Are |
the boats all ready 7"
“They've been ready since morning." |
Said the mate; “but con we got them |
in the water unsmashed. and
the tiremen rush them 7°
“I don’t think 0." replied the skip
per; “there's time enough
enough for all to get away”
But his face took a grimmer look as
he led the way down the bridge to ti
charthouse, the mate following him.
Inside they could bear edch other with
greater ease, and the skipper. while
taking his revolver from a drawer.
gave the mate his final instructions.
“We'll lower the forward lifeboat
first, as she's the biggest: you will
take charge of her, got your crew
aboard, and have every one in his
place before we start to lower, so that
you can shove off as soon as she
touches the water. If those patents
act you ought to be all right.” (The
bonts were fitted with a patent contri.
vance, by which the tackles holding
them are automatically released the
moment the boat is water-borne. so
that there is no unhooking of blocks
to Le done while the boat jx getting
dashed to pieces against the ship's
sido) :
“I shall be all right” said the mate.
“but what abont you? Who's going
fe lower the falls of the after boat?
won't
ie
You can’t manage it from the boat Iit-
self, with #ll the crowd you will have
on board.”
“I'll lower her from the deck,” sald
the skipper. “If they have a long
painter made fast to the ship they can
easily pull up again under the counter,
and I'll make a jump for it”
“Mind you don't jump short; you'd
have a poor chance with those boots
and, oilskins on,” sald the mate,
“Oh, I'll manage,” replied the skip-
per, “(Call the men up.”
The men came up in a body, and
the skipper came out on deck, revol-
rer in hand.
“The ship's sinking,” he sald, “and
I have decided to take to the boats.
There's plenty of time and room for
all to get away in safety, if you obey
my orders. You will remain standing
where you are till I eall your names,
then the man whose name is called
whl take his place in the boat. Any
i
{ man that starts for the boat before 1
tell him, I shoot; understand all?’
[ There was a low murmur from the |
| men, and the skipper continned,
i
i “Mr, Smith will take charge of the
| boat.”
i
{ The mate, with a look at the skipper,
{ climbed Into the boat as she hung in |
| the The skipper then called
| the names of the crew he proposed to |
in her, sending first the sailors,
| 80 that the mate might place each in |
{ his proper station in the boat, before
{ the firemen, ete, who would be of no
use in the critical manoeuvres of get
ting her away from the ship's side,
davits
| send
| ing between this plateau and the
boundary of Brazil, which has re.
sources of great wealth. 1 have met
at night he steals forth In search of
something to eat. Something to eat
In the birds’ nests by the young gap-
lings, or, If there ix not enough of it
to appease his ravenous appetite and
the mother of a brood Is absent, he
will help himself to a nestling. But
woe betide that crab detected by a
bird mother in the act of robbing her
nest, Her sharp bill soon beats
through the marauder's brittle shell
and his flesh Is distributed among those
very gaplings he had fondly hoped to
feast upon. When the plume hunters
make thelr annual _ predatory ineur-
slons into the regions of breeding here
ons and the parent birds are driven
from the nests, the blue crab comes
forth In swarms and makes the
slaughter complete by devouring all
the young.—~New York Sun.
Unexplored Bolivia.
The richest paris of Bolivia have
provinces here which are practically
There are some sections
edges of the Sahara. There is a strip
and about five hundred miles long, ly-
to Paraguay, and the Argentine. They
tell me of vast plains upon which cat
crowded her up. Jut these same fire: | te feed in herds of thovsaafs, They
men did not understand his reason, | van be bought for from $2 to $3 a
and thought he was showing undue head, for there is no weanx of getting
preference to his own men, and. a them to the markets. At present
heavier sea than sual striking the | Senor Ballivian tells me there Is 4 S¥1N-
steamer, there was a cry of “She's g0 | dicats formed in London to connect
ing down, and he's sending the sailors
first” and a rush for the boat, of navigation of some of the Amazon
Stand back!’ egied the skipper. branches Ly means of a railway
“Crack! and the leading fireman | hich will run along the boundary be-
spread out his hands and pitched on | tween Brazil and Bolivia, but on Bra
his face, rolling in a Hmp bundle | zilian soil I'he road will be on the
down on the lee rail, The rest of the line of a concession granted to Colonel
men stopped. They might as well be Church sone years ago, and its pur
drowned as shot, they thought, and | pose will be to carry these cheap cat.
they huddled together, looking with | tls to the rubber camps of the Ama
horritied glances at thelr dead com zon. There are several other impor.
rade. The skipper paused, lowered | tans vrojects to build allroads In Bo
his revolver, and then called the next | livia, Goo is to construct a line from
name; they had learned thelr lesson, fa Paz to the Desuaguadero river
and went quietly to the boat, whi I'his line would be kixty-five miles
got safely away, and drifted out of long, and Senor Ballivian says it will
sight in the midst of the gale, | probably be begun this summer. An
The other boat was filled without other scheme is to extend the Cen
any mishap, and the skipper, the only | tral North Argentine rallway to Sucre.
man left on the deck, lowered her: she This road is now near the Bolivian
also got clear away and drifted out to | border. and it would pass through a
the full length of her painter, The ch cattle-grazing., agricultural and
skipper walked aft to walt for them mining territory, and would furnish
to haul up again, He had to pass the an outlet to the Atlantic for Bolivian
body of the dead man, and he did not nroduots There are several other
look at it. The boat was hauling up | plans for rallroads from the Argentine
on the painter, and was getting close: | inte Bolivia, and the day will prob.
the skipper got on the rail ready to {| ably come when all of eastern Bolivia
jump. At that moment a fireman, the will he opened] to settlement Frank
brother of the man he had shot, reach
v. Larpenter in Atlanta Constitution,
ed over the boat's bow, and, with a ——
ery of “Blast you, stop and drown | The American Sailor.
ith Bill" eut the nainter
Ee ar Se a the ship and Jacky who used 30 be mare sanoe
the boat began to widen iustantls fuan gunner, I8 now more gunn thas
and In spite of the fraoptie efforts of sailor Just u PrODOstion ak he has
the sailors at the oars, the deeply la. | "2% to be a part of the great engin
den boat was swept away and blotteq | 20 WHICH Le Lives, 80 he has conus
iow Prprsre + wi .t : . more amd more into the control of
down from the mils and made his Abd a8 the iin - sl on
way back to the bridge deck. He had | ©" a Fae rand Ha} purpose Hn al
just ten minutes to live. Ten minutes | SP 8 10 wh things with her projec
to "H for ti next world, after Jan become a Speciahst in
forty years at sean work out of her. He does
, : : aces—-at the guns amd at
He climbed up bridge again, | 4, engines Correctly pointed guns
ind sat on the windscreen to | 400 of no use unless the platform on
think. His wife and children, who | wpion they rest is put in proper rela
would look after them now? His | yon 10 the thing to be hit, and kept
| wages were $80 per month: on that he there! equally it {s useless to get fhe
had had but small chance to save, | ship into proper place unless the guns
Well, he supposed the Shipmasters' |
for her,
but she would have to give up her lit
tle Forest Gate, and drop
from the position of a captain's wife |
ia
la
in
or
=
house
at
children would be got into an orphan
age: if pot, well, it meant starvation { oty of that ruck of marine refuse
or the workhouse, He thought of his | which drifts around the great mari
: Ri f 5 : Hi i ii
own life, of his hard, ill-used bovhood. | fime ports and ships in any eraft
of his manhood spent In unremitting
toll in all parts of the world: of the
various ships he had commanded, In
each of which he had been expected
to use less coal, less paint, fewer pro
visions
1
il
0
i
| ¥
in
and to go with smaller crews |
than the He thought of th Be
blackguards he had had to command
a8 crews, amd the trouble he had had |
in fast
| No man or boy ean now pass a United
with them, and the old sailor prover) | States naval recruiting officer unless
| rose to his lips: “To live hard, work {| he is clean, healthy, honest, young.
har fe hiner - or avy st’ % 1 ss: ¥
hard. die hard. and go to Davy Jones * | strong and Intelligent: nor can he
locker after all, would be too hard”
Well, he'd not had much fun out of
life, and now he was going to find out |
what it all meant, Anyway, he had
always done his best for his ship.
Hig eye fell on the dead body of the
fireman. That too! If the man should
rich grazing lands with the head
Ie
re correctly pointed.” Men who can
0 either of these things must have
atural capacities and be susceptible
education, and only men of this
Accordingly the “beach-comber.”™ Ar
other vard
i%
no longer slings his hammock
u Uncle Sam's berth-deck, as he used
» do to the shame of the service
cars gone by,
in
Nor ean the tramp,
or the jail-bird. nor even the incorri-
ible black sheep of the family thus
of Con.
relatives
to the relief
and long-suffering
| indict him at the bar of the last Judy.
t ment he would answer thers, as he
{ would have answered to an earthly
court: “In my jndgment it was neces.
| sary for the safety of the men in my
{ charge.” A sudden quiver warned
| bimi she was nearly gone. and he rose
to his feet for one last look to wind.
ward. As he looked into the blinding
spray. he saw a large wave come out
| of the mist, and knew it would swamp
her. He gripped the rafl with both
hands, and his lips moved In a half
forgotten prayer. “Our Father. which
art” and the wave swept on. But
the Saraband had gone. The skipper
had gone to meet his fireman where
“there shall be no more sea.” Temple
Bar.
A AS SSS
The Trusting Crab.
What do you think of a erab which
trusts to the birds to feed him? Sounds
like a fairy tale, doesn’t itY But it is
a fact, for all that. This son oF Can-
cer, which is large and cuaite Llue in
color, lives among the heron rol eries
in the lower part of Florida, where he
tligs n house in the sand under Jdeift
logs or large stones. It i% pot often
that he veutures abroad by day, bu:
(Hiants of Patagonia.
The tribes to the east of the Cor
dilleras, in southern Patagonia, belong
to Araucanian stock, and are a supe
rior race. The Tehueciches—as they
call themselves—of southern and east.
ern Patagonia. are the people whose
unusual stature gave rize to the fables
of the early days to the effect that
the natives of this region were giants
averaging nine or ten feet in height.
It 1s a fact that they are the tallest
human beings in the worl, the men
averaging but slightly less than six
feel, while individuals of four to six
imches above that mark are not nn.
common. They are in reality by no
means savages, but somewhat elviie
ized barbarians. They are almost un.
acquainted with the use of firearms.
notwithstanding some contact with
the wiiltes, but they have plenty of
horses and dogs,
Unsurpassed Hunters, they caphirs
the guanaco and the rhea, or South
American ostrich, and from the skins
of these and other animals ther make
clothes and coverings for thelr tents,
They make beautiful “capes,” or man-
ties, of furs and feathers, which are
highly prized by Buropeans nnd find
4 ready market.—Bostou Tranrerivt
“ SHANG HY ” PIERCE'S STAMPEDE.
lodians and a Thunder Storm Crushed the
Cattle Until They Lost Their Horns.
“Tne savorite story with all cattle.
4 man witnesses one he never for gols
it
“I have heard many tales of the
kind, but never a better one than that
told by A. H. Pierce, known all over
the range country as ‘Shang Hy
Plerce,
tel in Kausas City,
remember Jt
As near as [ can
was as follows:
‘Several yours ago I started from
the range of Texas with 2,000 cattle
which 1
It was the regular routine work to
gather them from the ranges in Tex-
as and start the drive. Of course, we
expected that we would get to Kansas
in due time and without trouble, I
had driven innumerable herds over the
trail and very seldom had any trouble,
I did not auticipate trouble on
trip. as when I started out I had with
me the best lot of cow punchers that
ever left Texas,
‘It was a beautiful sight
he when we
over Kansas (ty. Through thick
gue
horses could red hand
men,” said W, ® Anderson of Chi | ence for six or seven centuries, and at
cago, "ix one of a stampede. When | present its value is about $210 a year,
started out, driving 2.000 long -horned | A correspondent of the New York
stenrs, The men were all in good | Sun has just finished up a journey
spirits, planning to daub red paint all among the non-combatants of Penn
erty to be distributed among the poor
of the parish, and among all whe care
to apply for a dole of bread and cheese
on Kaster day.
This benefaction has been In exist
Formerly the doles consisted of bread
and cheese and ale, but the latter pro-
duced so much hilarity In the village
| that it was abolished, and the charity
is now Hmited to the two first men.
tioned nutritive articles, The bread is
{ made up in the form of cakes, bearing
SERGEANT WALKER'S FEAT
Sat Down ona Spanish Shell at Sastiage
and Found it Het,
Bergeant ‘Arthur Brown of the Ninth
Massachusetts wrote thus from the
trenches before Santiago during the
slege:
“We arrived at the battlefield at
about noon and were lined up in posi
tion behind a hill BE FOROTYes
and to protect the food and ammund
tion. Bullets were whistling over our
heads in a perfect storm: but we were
to act
rude representation of the Twin | becoming quite used to that sort of
{| Maids of Biddinden, which are gen. | thing, and, being tired ont, we lny
i
i
|
|
i A
i
1
{
erally preserved as curiosities Ly ihe
| recipients. ‘They sre baked very hard,
and are admirably adapted to zive
| work breaking the
!
| dentists by
i
| molars of those who attempt to pene
i
to
| trate their mysteries. ‘The poor of the
| parish, distinguished from
| sitous strangers, are supplied with or-
| dinary quartern and
as neces.
loaves Cheese
PENNSYLVANIA NON-COMBATANTS.
| Sects That Do Not Believe in War, but Are
Patriotic Nevertheless.
sylvania,
Dunkers
Mey
Amish,
inciude Quakers,
Menugonites, Anabap
down on the ground and tried to keep
cool. While were lying there a»
shell dropped at the feet of Sergeant
Walker, not three feet from him. Fort
unately it did not explode; if it had
the whole company would have been
Wie
wiped out,
“It gave some of the boys such a
fright that they started to run. but
Bergeant Walker called them back and
assured that danger was
passed and that he was going to use
it for a seat. He walked over to it
and planked himself down, but he had
00 more than when he
nmped about five feet in the alr and
grabbing himself by the seat of the
trousers, yelled:
“It's hot!
them the
touched it
“We stayed there all the afternoon
» Rp fu OF 2 a aR? #1
we Seen tists, Morzviaus, and a few other in-|a.4q of + shooting stopped, and
Lerchiof if the ¥ : t 3 4 Sp *f Lng t f repent aried & k
kKerchiefs « the Sowhoys 15 ey dem ndent ots of PL Ign A we all ay n to sleep and dream
¢ + gh 5 ot 4 ef yg this | A +} iv : at t - yp Cary
dashed up and down, gathering the | for the genuine stock of Quakers. ve ¥ lof fresh bread. lobster salad an :
herd together and swearing In a loud | few young, able-bodied nu were Seell. f thinos We wet suddenly aw:
aod good-natured manner In many sectio hie Qual Heeling he o rifie shot
“Thon Wa warn abot foi 1 Micha ” ’ 4 oe ' ¢ !
When wie Wels out about four days | hous 11 ed A pile Points | in an instant
Fe met a smal 4 { ndians 0 ¥ i f i "i
we met a sm ill band of Indians, wh feet "i 1] i feet and armed
bothered us until we drove them awas ir twice a th a 1 v elderly | nant Inte } on
We go into quite a fight over the mat people come from around to
ter. We discovered them early in the | wy ship i § x ho i nthe
morning and by afternoon wy RO 51 i at Wy id y ZO y Wat
all abont the ins and were buss wen if mnt : They
taking care of our stock. W knew | of se denne va i are op
Hat 1 heavy storm was cor or p yd I 0 blood i it § ir
wanted to g 01 i prett % tensely lova 1 { i
i 1 before dark. so we 114d 1 y, and 8 olt n |
y . ii
d WM easily in ca »f MIG ub g 1 ;
| i
Wwenther { Ji k = god i
Lhnt nigh ere wa i i i gave i ) ution baasé & 4 thay ha *
oy n 1 ad wt
in the erd and we n i get a | and ted ¥ other | N of r men were
large numb ff the i hotg % } p fre hit
the herd er Wis saved i ! {
wile was caused by the 1 t Mennon \ n
I . : Desert Ships.
whom wl be ! g ‘ ng od te vor har
1 16) vols very siowle
By the flashes of lg g wn SAW ers are dy ny oR i
thet Film ng iw i Me ers A A A .
3 : - ‘ to to 4G ya
HANDS In an opposite dire on 10 3! Wi
i n pos 41 } : tempted
taken by the herd tar s , If x rr
Lid i ‘BER
I'he stampede start wrtiy after farn 2 + 1
: : ‘ ¥ 3 ng 0
miduight and I do not believe | w I 2 selon y a different
' forgs y at I went : igh 1 ft go } & I : tall more gles
for Mvigi Fhe Indians sat red 8 fe w : $ y fs w
. 2 ! a
unan t flank o i thd wo rest i " } s
them, until the w i i good 7 d. in the matter of
1 if "irs ft a wink Ww mut 13s § y 3
i 1 i N
nd mounted and aft rd r. b ghhred does e cab
trying to stop tl stamped and § LH irge 8
them together 1 2 8 Very «
"‘Bhortly after e Kiam je ut ed to Ww on
the storm began and the bright flas their we a .
of lig 1g i ¢ § rovd 2 i I have s¢ Wg
“4 nder added ved yf i iv 1 reminded 1 ina f:
eattl Ab risa ’ ut = 1y. of Newmarks The
and a ler of ¢ hoof f ! i od in fd
Sttle 1 could hea Y men ling i ios ' e air Ir { 1 "yy to
ng of 0 yal i DAO 1% if they w
Tr % eo vol i i short stan
4 ie gels IRIADS tog er until they re
4 af fis od : i ght 1 161 $ WW = J
AAT AEa this Ww down to their habitual
od to streak yward 1% 51 yf an fa yi oe race ith jong
! i |
of the rushi ind in a short eerfully do so. A bag of I 1 e als en i cal
time had them going is a rele, mil r bacon we i of veallel race, : it re of tl
ling f potatoes hy { first motorcar promenade between
With thie RLOT Coa kad od by load nd ny i London and Brighton I't amels
and we « ' OVOTrY movement, Af IS Are to the % were certainly not so broken down and
aq orev Pony &% B SVs iar
ter we once got the herd going a hese 1 ants do pot§ bedraggied, but they came at in
circle it was easy to keep them 1 h we musi or draw the} vais of several hon and ane » a
er, and our efforts were directed {o Y Aa w ig to do hey Hence Was Decessary oo watch them
§ 3 eins ¥ £ aidic Fa roa wn weed gos
ward making the elircle so small that Ring care of soldiers’ fam. |] aivive,
3 y " 3 * loft hind —— - —————
the stampede would be “toned, Ax hes wh nd
it grew smaller nothing but a moving ——— An lnsolent Bey.
bunch of great horns could be seen Ancient Signalling. I am reminded of the little boy who
above the herd. And they Kept milling » fabulous honor of being the frst applied for a job at a squire’s house,
and milling and milling.’ nventor of the art of signalling is be] where he could carn five shillings a
“Here the story teller st ped stowed by certain classical writers up| week by making himself generally
take a chaw of tobacco and one of the on the ingenions Palamedes, save al useful. saves a writer in London An
interested listeners interruptea to | writer in Cornhil Magazine This | gwers
know what happened next hero may have introduced improve Squire-Can you clean silver?
“Well continued Pierce. “t ey Kept ments in detail, but it is certain that Boy—-Yes sir
milling and milling, and when they | long before the time of the Trojan war “Can you cook and light fires and
stopped I found that in their milling | the Egyptians and the Assyrians, if eing and dust old china and make
they had ground all their horns off, | not the Chinese and other nations of boda 7
and 1 drove the herd into Kansas and | remote antiquity. of wiom monumen “Oh. ves gir"
#old them for muleys.'” tal records alone remain to us, had “Can you clean bicycles and repair
——— developed regular methods of signal punctured tires and tune pianos?”
ling by fire, small flags. ot “UertXinly, sir.’
The Effect of Wind on Lakes. i as J ? d LB Ag . Ls 1 tainly, Bir
A ‘ : ihe great wall built by the Chinese “Tan you mend electric bells and do
ttontio as been of wi to the very | a = x . . .
; d x oh off i called ad he vers | ages ago, and 1.500 miles long. 8) plumbing and gas fitting, feach mod
fmarganie off of The Witk » YAri- | wees rs va paan . . Cis t
a In 1 bod : fd on varl-{ studded with towers. Between these| orn and ancient languages, geography
Oils § MH 0 8 Tr Bk | f a # . fad on By 24 #5 % a "
ns inland les of water It is not | signals were interchanged when troops | and the use of globes?"
unusual for the residents in towns on had to be collected in order to resist
the shores of lakes to be greatly ine |
convenienced, provided a heavy wind
blowing on shore continues for any
length of time.
level has been altered for upwards of |
eight feet. Sometimes the water is |
$
In the Baltic Sea the |
i
most dry. In one instance a depres.
Lake
Erie has been known to alter its level
one side,
that peo
where in
The Legacy of Bread.
Crowds of people from all parts of
attack at any point threatened by the | ¢
Tartars or “outer barbarians.” 55 Ma.
Jor Boucheraeder and others it has
“1 ean. and also do anything else
hat is required.”
“Then I think you will do.”
Rav-Thank you. sir. By the way. is
been considered that the huge tower of
Babel was erected for similar as well
as for a number of different purposes,
That Ts to say, for the signalling not
necessarily of any particular words or
sentences, but of expected events, im.
your house built on a clay soil?
Squire—Well, it happens that it is
But what has that to do with you?
“Well, 1 thought you would like me
to Sil up my spare time by making
bricks.”
perial decrees, military orders and He was not engaged for his in
other matters Intended to be under | (lence. :
stood through conventional signals, a ————
whether of lights, flags, semaphores or
other devices, by all the motley host
of nationalities and languages of
which the Chaldean empire was com.
posed. —8an Francisco Chronicle.
She Enjoyed an Earthquake.
An old lady from Oxford. Mich. who
with her husband had spent the winter
in California. was asked by one of her
neighbors if she had heard an earth.
quake while in California.
“Yes, I heard one,” she answered,
“and rather enjoyed it, for it was the
first thing that happened since John
and I have been married that he did
not think [ was to blame for.”-—8an
Francisco Argonaut.
One of Cuba's names, bestowad tip-
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Mer. Gladetone’s Name.
A correspondent of the Loadon
Chronicle writes to point out that none
of Mr. Gladstone's biographers appear
to have deait with the etymology of
his name, which must be assigoel to
the category of placenames. Its orig.
inal spelling. which seems to have
been “Gladstane,” or “Gledstane”
was probably the name of some bor.
der lairdship or farm, so-called from
the rock or enirn used by the “glad” —
which is lowland Scotch for kite or
hawk-as a favorite perch. Tis exact
equivalent iz to be found In the Ger
man “Falkenstein,”™
used as a place-name and patronymic.
the ‘former, of course, being of prior
usage. This is the pure Germanized
form of the Scottish “Gledstane” or
“Gladstone.” International analogue
jn. Detect Sump dre Yory aterngt.