THE MATE'S REWARD. The crimson light = the rising sun fell upon the face of Mary Burl- ville, the captain's pretiy daughter, as she came up frow the cabin of the merchant ship Cameron, becalmed off the const of Peru. The girl bad just completed her morning toilet, and there was one youthful sailor aboard who fancied be had nvever seen a lovelier object than this young woman of seyenteen, The sailor alluded to was Thomas Rollins, a fine-looking intelligent seaman of twenty, who now stood at the wheel. For ao ipstant Mary had glanced toward bim, and blushed as she bade him good-wornirg, then she walked to the rail and fixed her gaze upon an old whaleship which was in plain sight, not a league off the quarter, Rolling had politely responded to her salutation, then a sad look had fallen on his manly face. In brief, the young man loved the captain's daughter, but be could have enter tained no hope of ever making her his wife, even had he known that his affection was returned. The girl and he were born in the same village, where, for awhile, they had been playmates in childhood. Then they were separated by the captain's moviog to a distant seaport town. A few years later the failure of his father in business had induced the boy to undertake a sea voyage. He continued to pursue the calling of a sailor, and finally meeting Cap- tain Burlville, he had shipped aboard his vessel. Burlville, however, had at once discouraged any renewal of the old friendship between his daughter and Rollins. I have nothing against you, of course, he said to the latter, but as you and she are now man and woman, it is better that you should keep apart, as you would never be more to each other than mere acquaintances. When he also gave his instructions to Mary on the same subject she pout- ed and wept, for she bad always liked Rollins asa little boy, and she bad not failed to notice that he was going to be a stardy, handsome young fel low, with frank, pleasant manners that pleased her. I think you very unreasonable, papa, she sobbed. It is because he is a foremost hand that you object to him. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, be said. I would not have you fall ia love and marry any ope less than a mate to provide for you better than a poor foremost band. Why not make Rolling a mate, then! said Mary, looking up shyly through ber tears. Well, well, he may become an of- ficer in time; but he has his way to work up. True, he is very clever as it is, and as he bas s xoowledge of navagation, he would, perhapsi make a good mate, Why don't you promote him, if that is the case? In the first place because there is no vacancy here. Then again, I don’t believe in lifting a young fellow up to a position all st ouce. Let him gradually work his way to it as I have done. The best I can do is to recommend him to some ship owner. But you own this ship. You could make him a mate of years, she said, She coaxed him and pleaded with him so earnestly, that at last he said he would think about it. If Rollins should prove himself more prompt and true in performing his duties than the other sailors, he, the captain, might tsxe him for his mate in the course of time, Now, as the girl looked over the rail, on this bright morning, she thought of her father's promise. It was & pleasant thought in ber, and her blooming cheeks were dimpled with smiles, while her dark eyes shone like stars, All at once, between the craft aboard of which shestood and the whaler, she noticed a number of forked jets or spouts shooting up from the sea, There she blows ! cried her father, who had just emerged from the cabin. The whaler will soon have her boats down. Upon my werd I should like to go near those oil-hunters and see the sport. ‘ Even as he spoke four boats were dropped alongside the stranger, aad | spouts. ing the Dingey. mort so the fom, sald the skip] Rollins, who had iy Pid 4b : § ia BARE gi per, and I shall. Lower the Dingey, he said. I want three good men to go with me. He selected the the three that were to go, among them Rollins, who had just been relieved at the wheel. The boat was soon lowered, with the sxip- per at the tiller; and the oarsmen in their places. Give away! cried the captain, The boat made good p ogress to- ward the whales, which were now heading seawards. The sailors from the other ship were pulling with might and main after the huge fish, whose dark humps were occasionally lifted ahove the surface, as they mov- ed along on their way. At last one of the sharp pointed boats of the whaler was within th. darting distance of a great monster which had lagged a little behind the rest of she school. A tall dark man, in a guernsay and blue trousers, rose in the bow of his boat, harpoon in hand. For an instant the weapon was poised, to be hurled the next in- stant with unperring aim. It was buried to the socket in the whale, whose flukes were seen whisking to and fro through the white sheets of spray that hid the boat. They are fast, remarked Captain Barlville, who, with men-—the latter now resting on their oars, about sixty fathoms from their ship— was an interested spectator of the scene, his had whale, “Poor fish” she said with a shudder, as she placed both little hand: over From her father's craft Mary also seen the man strike the her eyes. All at once she heard wild shouts, Looking in the direction of the noise, she perceived that the fast boat, drag- ged by the whale, which had sounded going down,) was leading straight toward the Dingey in which were her parent and the three oarsmen. The whaleboat, its crew cheering and yell ing like madmen, seemed to cleave the water with the swiftness of an ar~ row, and it was soon not more than forty fathoms from the skipper and his companions. “Oh paps, you will be run into !” screamed Mary in alarm. The cap tain looked toward her, smiled, shook his head, and in a minute he had the Dingey pulled out of the way of the coming boat. Scarcely was this done, however, when there was a cry of terror from the young girl, who now beheld the water parted by the huge body of the whale, as the monster shot up, with the iron protruding from its bumps and the line attached t » the weapon whisking in many bights and culls around it. The creatare was close U the Dingey, besting the sea with flukes and churning the foam with Lis jaw, Pull ahead ! showed Barlville, aware of his danger. He directed the small craft away from the wiale, his oarsmen pulling vigorously. But before he was six isthoms from the animal the latier suddenly made straight for the little boat, his jaws wide open, his sharp, saw-like faogs viciously revealed. Take care there! came warningly from the whalemen, still more than a hundred yards distant. Burlville did his best to escape the fariated pursuer but the leviathan gained rapidly upon him, and now, to avoid the great jaw, which was about to close upon the fragile stern of the little vessel, he sheered to one side. In an instant the enormous flukes, almost alongside of which the movement of the skipper had brought him, were raised high in air and whirled directly over the Dingey, over which it appeared they were about to descend with a force which would have crushed the light planks to fragments. Seeing these fearful weapons of the mighty fish fanning the air above their heads two of the oarsmen at once sprang into the sen, leaving Rollins aod the captain still in the boat, My father—oh, poor papa! eried Mary, who now, very pale, leaned far over the rail of the ship, her gaze riveted upon her parent. The latter was in a peculiarly peril. ous situation. A bight of the line, whisking from the whale, had caught about his walst, and, baving uo knife with him, he was unable to clear him- self from the rope, which bad tighten. od about his body, holding him down Ke cuit HE h FE follow the example of his two ship- mates when they jumped overboard, had controlled himself, when he per- ceived the situation of his captain. With a quick motion of his or he had caused the boat to shoot ahead, thus barely getting out of reach of those ponderous flukes as they de- scended. Now he quickly drew the sheath-knife he wore in bis belt, and, springing to the skipper's side, he with one blow severed the line that bad caught about the waist of the imperilled man and which by this time pulled him half way over the guonel’ There was a roaring, gurgling sound, a hissiog mass of foam and spray, then crunching, soappiog noise, as the boat was crushed in the jaw of the whale, Rollins and the captain had rolled over into the sea on that side of the Dingey opposite to the deadly fangs. For several moments they were hid- den in the sheets of flying spray from the gaze of Mary Barville, who had witnessed with joy and pride the gal- lant conduct of the young man whom she already secretly loved. Again she feared that after all they might be lost—be killed by the monster whose flukes were still the ocean. Soon these fears were at rest, beating The great fish went down under the foaming waters, and there were her father and Rollin’s now striking out for the whaler's boat, which was close at hand. The swimmers were picked up 8 minute later, to find the twu who had previously jumped from the Dingey already taken in. Barlville did not reprimand them, for he knew that had he not been caught by the line which at that time held him fast to the boats he too would have sprung overbosrd. He was of course very earnest in his praise of Rollins tor rescuing bim from a terrible fate. So grateful was ithe skipper that when he arrived aboard and had embraced his daogh- ter, be told bis preserver tht he in future take up his quarters in the cabin, where he would employ bim as his clerk, and that Mary aod he might hereafter be as friendly with each other as they pleased. When at last the ship arrived home, the captain said to his daughter : “I promised you I would promote Rollins: Well, I suppose you would like to have me make him my first mate? Yes, papa, said Mary blushing, as she laid ber soft cheek against his arm, “and—and—as he proposed it, I would like to bave him for my mate too.” As the captain had lately conclud- ed vot 10 ehiect 10 any such proposi- tion, he resdily gave his consent. COLD. -_— ARCTIC A person who has pever been in the ;olar reg ion can probably have po les of what cold really is; bat by resding the terrible experiences of arctic travelers in that icy region some notion can be formed of the ex- treme ¢. Id that prevails there. When we have the temperatcre down to zero out of doors we thiok it bitterly cold, and if our houses were not so warm a8 at least, sixty degrees above zero, we should begin to talk of freezing to death. Think, then, of living where the thermometer goes down to thirty. five degrees below zero in the house in spite of the stove. Of course in such a case, fur garments are piled on until a man looks like a great bundle of skins, Dr. Moss, of the Eoglish polar expedition of 1875 and 187€, among other odd things, tells the ef- fect of cold on a wax candle which he burned there. The temperature was thirty-five degrees below zero and the doctor must bave been consid. erably discouraged when, upon look- ing at his candle, he discovered that the flame had all it could do to keep it warm. It was so cold that the flame could not melt all the wax of the candle, but was forced to cat its way down the candle, lenviog a sort of skeleton of the eandle standing. There was heat enough, however, io melt oddly shaped holes in the thin walls of wax, and the result was a beautiful lace-like cylinder of white with a tongue of yellow flame burn~ ing inside it and sending out into the darkness many streaks ot light. This is not only a corious effect of extreme between two thwarts, as the flukes cold, but it shows how difficult it with & crash strack the sea, just wis. aot bo to fudsaihing Jie waruth # gE GOLD FOUND IN HIS GRAVE, The accidental opening of a sol- dier's grave at Atlaota, Ga., disclos- ed what is rarely ever hidden in the tomb-—money. The grave was on the side of a hill, near the East Ten- newsee railroad shops, aad was about four or five feet deep. The soldier was probably hastily buried there duriog the war, Workmen have been engaged in making an excave- tion at this place for several days and more than once have discovered bones that greatly resembled those of a ho- man body. They dug a hole twelve feet deep and four feet square and iv- to it lonered a small can filled with gunpowder, to which a fuse was at. tached for the purpose of loosening the earth. Over the can they firmly packed some clap and the fuse was then lighted. In a few seconds there was a muffled explosion and for sev- eral yards around the earth was brok” en up as if it had been thoroughly plowed, In one spot, within a few the hole, a feet of solid piece of the earth bad been lifted up and turned over, leaving an excavation eight feet square and five feet deep. One of the workmen peered into the cavity, and, hastily returning to his compan. the plan of the syndicate which re ¢ otly took $10,000 000 of the sccur- ies of the Bul timore apd Ohio Kail road Company. General Buperintendent Bates, of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, endeavored to dispose of the rights of the company to a syndi. caie, but he failed, and Jay Gould will sail at a very early day for Eu- rope considerable haste was required to have the negotiations consummat ed. . A Ubpited Press dispatch from Bal- timore last evening said: Vice Presi dent Spencer, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, said to-day: The statement that the Baltimore aod Ohio Railroad Compavy will don so valuable an asset 8s the Balti’ more and Ohio Telegraph is ridica- lous. You may s et this down as a fact, however: The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph must earn more money with less operating expenses. THE BIRD'S FUNERAL. aban” Visiting friends in Waterville, Me. who are remarkable for their love of God's speechless creatures, I listened with tireless interest to their accounts of their pets. Being made much of seemed to develop wonderfully the na- ions, exclaimed: That's a grave and there's a skeleton in it. The men look- ed into the tomb and saw a human skeleton with all in their proper piace. but at a touch they fell apart. A closer inspection was made and several brass buttons with the let- the bones ters U. 8. on them; and the visor to a cap, were found in the grave. There was no sige of burial garments or of decayed wood to show that soldier had been buried in a coffin, I believe this is money, exclaimed one of the workmen as he brushed the earthstaios from something round in his band. He held a twenty dollar gold piece. I bave found one jast like it, ex- citedly exclaimed another laborer, and he set to work to make his gold shine. Here's a small piece—five dollars, exclaimed a third workman. The search became general and ope more twenty dollsr gold piece two tens and another five, making io all $90, were found in the soldier's grave. Ove of the laborers who bad not been fortunate enough to pick up one of the ccins said: “you wouldn't catch me tasing money home what came out of a grave. I just tell you that skeleton will haant you fellows what's got that gold, sure as yoo're born.” This caused some uneasiness among the holders of the money, but they didn't give it up. The body was that of a Union soldier, as the letters on the brass buttons clearly indicated, and he was probably among the killed in one of the battles fought around Atlanta. L’ke many others who wet a similar fate he was baried with- out a winding sheet or shroud and with little ceremony. He was proba. bly buried in the clothes in which he was shot down, and his money was left in his pockets and covered up in the grave. After more than tween. ty years no trace of the garments could de found, but the gold was still there, and, of all the contents of the tomb it was the only thing that re. mained for which men care or find use to day.— New York World. i fs TELEGRAPH LINE SOLD. The Philadelphia Record of Wed. nesday was authoritatively stated in this city yesterday that the negotia- tions between the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Balti more and Ohio Telegraph Company, by which the former is to obtain eon- trol of the latter, bad been practic ally settled, and would be formally made koowo at the next sonual meeting of the stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com. pany. At that time Mr, Garrett will aonounce the sale of the telegraphic privileges and tender his resigoation as President of the company. First Vice President Bpencer will be clect- ed as his successor, and it is declared that there will be radical changes made in the excoutive officersof the company. A geatleman who has been promi- the dead | tural intelligence of the beasts and | birds these kind friends took under | their protection; but the story which pleased me most of any they told was the following: — “Mother stood there by her cookiog window, looking out on the garden. In the corner, among the apple trees, she saw a most unusal gathering of small | wild birds, all intenton some absorbing buisness, | | “Dy, enildren, go out and try to see what those birds are doing,’ she ssid: ‘My bands are in the dough, so I can- not. Be very quiet and careful not to scare them, but creep as near to them as you csv. I never saw such a sight as this before,’ “We obeyed, and were able to draw near enough to rare visitanis to see cleary what they were doing. In fact, they took not the least notice of our ap- proach. The trees seemed full of them. Under the tree nearestto where we stood was a little mound of freshly. plucked leaves. We saw the birds take off each a leaf, and flying down, lay it upon this mouad, then fly upward, singing. Thus it was constantly the downward rush, bearing the leaf, the upward flight with singing. We were delighted and astonished at the lovely spectacle, and stood motionless, with almost awe; for we suspected what was the secret of all this. “When quite a large heap of leaves flock of birds soared into the sky and aod flew away. When they had quite vanished, we returned to raise, care fully and reverently, the leaves. It was 80. A little wild bird lay dead Tenderly we replaced the covering and hurried into the house to tell mother what we had seen. “How that wood bird came tLere or who told its fate to ils fellows, we did vot know; but we tell you just what we saw aod heard. Do we ever see any dead wild birds lying about? Perhaps they are all buried under the leaves, and sung over by their winged fellows” A———— Ba ——— Surri.~—Wet enough for you ? Joxgs.—Let me see. Last winler you asked if it was cold enough ? Yes Later on you wanted to know if it was hot enough ? Believe I did. Now your anxiety centres about the desirability or the present decree of dampness ? Well, yes I did inquire. Well, Smith, how does it feel to be as big a fool as you are 7 ea —————— In the Gulf of Mexico there are commuaides of jelly fish so organized that they seem to constitute one ani mal. The whole has been given the pame of Portuguese man of war, Tho communi y consists of a beauti- fally crested air enc, ouly a few inches in length, floating ov the water, from which stream are a number of long ap, pendages, The different parta are so many different kinds of members of this animal community, all fillieg dif ferent functions. Some catch and eat food, others produce buds, and others are the locomotive or swimming members, having teutacles in some atid ’ had been made, suddenly the whole | Hunrscrox, October 8.—Saxton Bedford county, was the scene of a thrilling event yesterday which oear- ly culmiosted in the loss of seven jives. Just before noon Albert Mar. tin, a Hungarian employed at Robert Hare Powel Boos & C's furnace, entered into a tonnel under the far nace for the purpose of zleaning out the flue, Obstuciions in the flue had prevented the gus from properly escap- ing which completely filled the base of the {lve and the tunnel which led to it. Martin, who apprehended no danger, reached his destination without detecting the presence of gas, snd while engaged in this work was overcome by the fumes: Bix of his fel- low labrorers whow he had left above were unaware of thelr companions situation until nearly a half hour had elapsed, when they went to investigate the cause of Martin's delay in coming out. With difficulty they succeeded in reaching his prostrate body owing to the intensity of the gas in the flue, ard in their efforts to carry their unfor. ,| tunate comrade to the surface, they, too, became asphyxiated by the gas and were prostrated at the bottom of | the flue before they could reach the opening to the tunnel, How long they remained in thut position is not de- fioately known, but a considerable time afterwards, their absence being discovered, a search was made, and they were finally rescued with much difficulty. Albert Martin, who first entered was foud to be dead, and his six brave companions were so greatly overcome by the gas that they were finally rescuitated only afier a most ardous and laborious treatment. All of the workmeu are Hungarians — a A— WiLmisaron, Del., September 30. The Farmer's bank at Newcastle, was entered at an early hour this morning by masked robbers. Their movements awoke the cashier, who seized his pis- | tol and fired, wounding one of the in- | truders. His companions picked up | the fallen man and quickly carried him {out through the front door, making | their escape. The bank floor is mark- ed with blood where he fell. The robbers got no booty and left behind | them a kit of burglars tools a wheel. | barrow, and a ladder. They are sup- | posed to have come and gune by way of a boat in the river near by. The burglars immediately on entering the building overpowered, bound sod gagged Wm. J. Black. United States consul at Nuremburg, who was home on a leave of absence and stopping with the cashier, Richard G. Cooper came on the sceue he was confronted by one of the burglars with leveled re- volver and the mandate “Don’t say a word.” “I won't, replied Cooper’, in- stantly leveling rod firing his own pis- tol and wounding the robber who re- tarned the shot without harming Coop er. Blood marks lead to the suspiscion that the wounded robber fell into the river and was drowned in attempting to escape. Wasaixarox, D. C, September 30. | =The amount of bonds offered to the | treasury departmant today was less | than on any day since the daily pur- chase began. This fact is regarded | at the department as indicating that, | the government has partially secured | all the floating bonds that can be ob- | tained at the rates fixed by the de- | partments circalar and that the strin- | gency of the money market has been sufficiently relieved for the present. A SBrem Wixpes.—Stiggine was passing & watchmakers establishment, and looking into the window he noticed a pretty girl at the counter, Ha! he soliloguised, I'll go in and take a look at her under some preiext or other. He entered, and was waited oa by the young lady's father. What can I do for you ? I want to get a key for my watch, he stammered feasting bis cyes on the young lady. Let me sce your watch, ad the watchmaker, Asif in a dream be took ont Lis watch, The watchmaker «xamined it, sad said with surprise : Why your watch is & stemwinder_ Stiggins don't remember how be gob oul, but be does remember that the young lady smiled audibly at his discomfiture. “eA good parlor suit may be purchas. ed cheap upon Application at Corman's Novelty store, Miss Corman will short ly remove to Califarnia, and must dis-
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