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here, but Geoffrey felt that it would be too
much in earnest if spoken, to he resisted
the temptation.
"What, Miss Granger," he said, "should
& man say to a lady who but last night
saved his life, at the risk indeed, almost
at the cost of her own?"
"It was nothing," she answered, color
ing: "I clung to you, that was all, more
by instinct than from any motive. I think
I had a vague idea that yon might float and
support me."
''Miss Granger, the occasion ii too seri
ous for polite fibs. I know how you saved
my life. I do not know how to thank you
for it."
"Then don't thank me at all, Mr. Bing
ham. Why should you thank me? I only
did what I was bound to do. I would far
rather die than desert a companion in dis
tress of any tort; we all must die, bntit
would be dreadful to die ashamed. You
know what they say, that if you save a per
son from drowning you will do them an in
i'ury afterward. That's how they pnt it
lere; in some parts the saying is the other
way about, but I am not likely ever 10 do
you an injury, so it does not make me un
happy. It was an awful experience; you
were senseless, so you cannot know how
strange it felt lyine upon the slippery rock,
and seeing those great white wares rush
upon us through the gloom, with nothing
hut the night above and the sea around,
and death between the two. I have been
lonely for many years, but I do not think
that I ever quite understood what loneliness
really meant before. You see," she added,
by way of an afterthought. "I thought that
you were dead, and there is not much com
pany in a corpse."
"Well," he said, "one thine is, it would
have been lonelier if we had gone."
"Do you think so?" she answered, look
ing at him inquiringly. "I don't quite see
how you make that out. If you believe in
what we hare been taught, as I think you
do, wherever it was yon found yourself there
would be plenty of company, and if, like
me, you do not beliere in anything, why,
then, yon would have sleet, and sleep asks
for nothing."
"Did you think of nothing when you lay
upon the rock waiting to be drowned, Miss
Granger?"
"Nothingl" she answered; "only weak
people find revelation in the extremes of
fear. If revelation comes at all, surely it
must be born in the heart and not in "the
senses. I believed in nothing and dreaded
nothing, except the agony of death. Why
should I be afraid? Supposing that I am
mistaken, and there is nothing beyond, is
it my fault that I cannot believe? What
have I done that I should be afraid? I
have never harmed anybody that I know of,
and if I could believe I would. I wish I
had died," she went on, passionately; "it
would all be over now. I am tired of the
world, tired of work and of helplessness, and
all the little worries which wer one out I
am not wanted here, I have nothing to live
for and I wish that I had died!"
"Some day yon will think differently,
Miss Granger. There are many things that
a womanlike yonrself can live for at the
least, there is your work "
She laughed drearily. "My work! If
you only knew what it is like you would
not talk" to me about it, Every "day I roll
my stone up the hill, and every night it
seems to roll down again. But yon have
never taugnt in a village school. Mow cin
you know? I work all day, and in the
evening perhaps you have to mend the
table cloths, or what do vou think? write
my father's sermons. It sounds enrious,
does it not, that I should write sermons?
But I do. I wrote the one he is going to
preach next Sunday. It makes very little
difference to him what it is so long as he
can read it, and, of course, I never sav any
thing which cau o fiend anybody, and I do
not think that they listen much. Very few
people go to church in Brungelly."
"Don't you ever get any time to yourself,
then?"
"Oh, yes, sometimes I do, and then T go
out in my canoe, or read, and am almost
happy. "After all, Mr. Bingham, it is very
wrong and ungrateful of me to speak like
this. Phavemore advantages than ninc
ttathsof the world, and I ought to make
the best of them. I don't know why I have
been speaking as I have, and to yon, whom
I never saw till yesterday. I never did it
before to any living soul, I assure yon. It
is jnst like the story of the man who came
here last year with the divining rod. There
is a cottage down on the cliff it belongs to
3Ir. Davies, who li es in the Castle. Well,
they have no drinking water near, and the
new tenant made a great luss about it. So
Mr. Davies got men. and they d g and dug
and spent no end of monev, but could not
come to water. At last the tenant fetched
an old man from some parish a long way
oft who said that he could find water with
a divining rod. He was a curious old man
with a crutch, and he came with his rod,
and hobbled about till at last the rod
twitched just at the tenant's back door at
least the diviner said it did. At any rate,
they dug there, and in ten minutes struck
a spring of water, which bubbled up so
strongly that it rushed into the house and
flooded'it And what do you think? After
all, the water was brackish. You are the
man with the divining rod, Mr. Binebam,
and you hare made me talk a great deal too
much, and, after all, you see it is not nice
talk. You must think me a very disagree
able and wicked young woman and I dare
say I am. But somehow it is a relief to
open one's mind. I do hope, Mr. Bingham,
that you will see in short, that you will
not misunderstand me."
"Miss Granger," he answered, "there is
between us that which will always entitle
us to mutual respect and confidence the
link of life and death. Had it not been for
you I should not sit here to listen to vour
confidence to-day. You may tell me that a
mere natural impulse prompted you to do
what you did. I know better. It "was your
will that triumphed over your natural" im
pulse toward self-preservation. Well, I
will say no more about, except this: If
ever a man was bound to woman by ties of
gratitude and respect, I am bound to you.
You need not fear that I shall take advan
tage of or misinterpret yonr confidence."
Here he rose and stood before her, his dark,
handsome face bowed iu proud hninilitjr.
"Miss Granger, 1 look upon it as an honor
done to me by one whom henceforth I must
reverence among all women. The life you
gave back to me, and the intelligence wh'ich
directs me, is in duty bound to "you, and I
shall not forget the debt."
She listened to his words, spoken in that
deep and earnest voice which afterwards
became so familiar to Her Majesty's Judges
and to Parliament, listened with a new
sense of pleasure rising in her heart. She
was this man's eqnsl; what he could dare,
she could dare; where be could climb, she
could follow aye, and if need be, show the
path and she felt that he acknowledged it.
In his sight she was something more than a
handsome girl to be admired and deferred
to for her beauty's sake. He had placed her
on another level one, perhaps, that few
women would have wished to occupy. But
Beatrice was thankful to him. It was the
first taste of supremacy that she had ever
known.
It is something to stirthe proud heart of
luch a woman as Beatrice, in that moment
when for the first time she. feels herself a
ronqueror, victorious, not through the vul
jar advantage of her sex, not by the sub
mission of man's coarser sense, but rather
y the overbalencing weight of mind.
"Do you know," she said, suddenly look
ing up, "yon make me very proud," and
she stretched out her hand to him.
He took it, and, bending, touched it with
his lips. There was no possibility of mis
interpreting the action, and though she
colored a little for, till then, no man had
even kissed the tip of her finger she did not
misinterpret it. It was an act of homage
and that was all.
And so they sealed the compact of their
perfect friendship forever and a day.
Then came a moment's silence. It was
Geoffrey who broke it.
v "Miss Granger," he said, "will you allow
ae to preach youalecture.a very shortone?"
"Go on," she said.
"Very well. Do not blame me if you
don't like it, and do not set me down as a
prig, though I am going to tell you your
own faults as I read them in your own
words. You are proud and ambitious, and
the cramped lines in which you are forced to
lire seem to strangle you. You have
suffered, and have not learned the lesson of
suffering humility. You have set yourself
up against Fate, and Fate sweeps you
along like spray upon the gale, yet yon go
unwilling. In your impatience you have
flown to learning for refuge, and it has" com
pleted your overthrow, for it has induced
you to reject as non-existent all that you
cannot understand. Because your finite
mind cannot search infinity, because no an
swer has come to all your prayers, because
you see misery and cannot read its purpose,
because you suffer and have not found rest,
you have said that there is naught but
chance, and become an atheist, as many
have done before yon. Is it not true?"
"Go on," she answered, bowing her head
to her breast, so that the long rippling hair
almost hid her face.
"It seems a little odd," he said with a
short laugh, "that I, with all my imperfec
tions heaped upon me, should presume to
preach to you but you will know best how
near or bow far I am from the truth. So I
want to say this. I have lived for 35
vears, and seen a good deal and tried to
learn from it, and I know this. In the long
run, unless we of our own act put away
the opportunity, the world gives us our
due, which generally is not much. So
much foV things temporal. If you are fit
to rule, in time you will rnle; if you do not,
then be content and acknowledge your
own incapacity. And as for things spirit
ual, I am sure of this though of course one
does not like to talk much of these matters
if you only seek for them long enough in
some shape you will find them, though the
shape may not be that which is generally
Elizabeth Entered Silently.
recognized bv any particular religion. But
to bnild a wall deliberately between oneself
and the unseen, and then complain that the
way is barred, is simply qhildish."
"And what if one's wall is built, Mr.
Bineham?"
"Most of us have done something in that
line at different times," he answered, "and
found a way round it."
"And if it stretches from horizon to hori
zon, and is higher than the clouds, what
then?"
"Then you must find wings and fly over
it"
"And where can any earthly woman find
those spiritual wings?" she asked, and then
sank her head still deeper on her breast to
cover her confusion. For she remembered
that she had beard of wanderers in the
dnsky groves of human passion, yes, even
Msenad wanderers, who had suddenly come
face to face with their own soul; and that
the cruel paths of earthly love may yet lead
the feet which tread them to the ivory gates
of heaven.
And remembering these beautiful myths,
though she had no experience of love, and
knew little of its ways, Beatrice grew sud
denly silent. Nor did Geoffrey give her an
answer, though he need scarcely hare feared
to do so.
For were thev not discussing a purely ab
stract question?
CHAPTER X.
, LADY HONOEIA MAKE3 ARRANGEMENTS.
In another moment somebody entered the
room; it was Elizabeth. She had returned
from her tithe-collectine expedition with
the tithe. The door of the silting room was
still ajar, and Geoffrey had his back toward
it So it happened that nobody heard
Elizabeth's rather cat-like step, and for some
seconds she stood in tbe room trithout being
perceived. She stood quite still, taking in tbe
whole scene at a glance. She noticed that
her sister held her head down, so that her
hair shadowed her, and guessed that she
did so for some reason probably because
she did not wish her face to be seen. Or was
it to show off her lovely hair? She noticed
also the half shy, half amused, and alto
gether interested expression upon Geoffrey's
countenance she could see that in the little
gilt-edged looking-glass which hung over
the fireplace nor did she overlook the gen
era', air of embarrassment that pervaded
them both.
When she entered the room.Elizabeth had
been thinking of Owen Davies, and of what
might have happened had she never seen the
tide of life flow back into her sister's veins.
She bad dreamed of it all night and had
thought of it all day; even in the excite
ment of extracting the back tithe from a re
calcitrant and rather coarse-minded Welsh
farmer, with strong views on the subject of
tithe, it had not been entirely forgotten.
The farmer waB a tenant of Owen Davies,
and when he1 called her a "parson in petti
coats, and wns," and went on, in delicate
reference to her powers of extracting cash
to liken her to a two-legged corkscrew, onjy
screwier," she, perhaps, not unnaturally,
reflected that if ever pace Beatrice
certain things should come about, she would
remember that farmer. For Elizabeth had
a very long memory, as some people had
learned to their cost, and generally, sooner
or later, she paid her debts in full, not
forgetting the overdue interest.
And now, as she stood in tbe room unseen
and noted these matters, something occurred
to her in connection with this dominating
idea which, like ideas in general, had many
side issues. At any rate a look of quick
intelligence shone for a moment in ber light
eyes, like a sickly sunbeam on a faint De
cember mist; then she moved forward, and
when she was close behind Geoffrey, spoke
suddenly.
"What are you both thinking about?"
she said in her clear thin voice; "you seem
to have exhausted your conversation."
Geoffrey made an exclamation and fairly
jumped Irom his chair, a feat which in his
bruised condition really hurt him very
much. Beatrice, too, started violently; she
recovered herself almost instantly, however.
"How quietly you move, Elizabeth," she
said.
"Not more quietly than you sit, Beatrice.
I have been wondering when anybody was
going to say anything, or if you were both
asleep."
For her part Beatrice speculated how long
her sister had txeu in the room. Their con
versation had been innocent enough, but it
was not one that she would wish Elizabeth
to have overheard. And, somehow, Eliza
beth had a knack of overhearing things.
"You see. Miss Granger," said Geoflrey
coming to the rescue, "both our brains are
still rather waterlogged, and that does not
tend to a flow of ideas."
"Quite so," said Elizabeth. "My dear
Beatrice, why don't you tie up your hair?
You look like a crazy Jane. Not but what
you hsve very nice hair," she added, crit
ically. "Do you admire good hair, Mr.
Bing'ham?"
"Of course I do," he answeted gallantly,
"but it is not common."
Only Beatrice bit her lip with vexation.
"I had almost forgotten about my hair," she
said; "I must apologize for appearing in
such a state. I would have done it up after
dinner only I was too stiff, and while I was
waiting for Betty I went to sleepj'
"I think there is a bit of ribbon in that
drawer. I saw you put there yesterday,"
answered the precise Elizabeth. "Yes.here
it is. If you like,and Mr. Bingbamjwiil ex
cuse it, I can tie it back for you," and with
out waiting for an answer she eame behind
her, and, gathering up the dense masses of
her sister's locks, tied them round in such a
fashion that they could not fall forward,
though tbey still rolled down her back.
Just then Mr. Granger came hack from
THE
his visit to the farm. He was in high
humor. The pig had even surpassed her
former efforts, and increased in a surprising
manner, to tbe number'of 15 indeed. Eliza
beth thereupon produced the two pounds
odd shillings which she had "corkscrewed"
out of the recalcitrant dissenting farmer, and
the sight added to his satisfaction.
"Would you believe it, Mr. Bingham,"
he said, "in this miserably paid parish I
have nearly 100 owing tome, 100 in tithe.
There's old Jones, who lives out toward the
Bell Bock, he owes three years' tithe 34
Us ii. He can pay and he won't pay
says he's a Baptist, and ain't going to pay
no parson's dues though, for the matter of
that, he's nothing but an old beer tub of a
heathen."
"Why don't vou proceed against him,
then, Mr. Grang'er?"
"Proceed, I have proceeded. I've got
judgment, and I mean to issue execution in
a few days. I won't stand it any longer,"
he went on, working himself up and shak
ing his head, as he spoke till his thin, white
hair fell about his eyes. "I'll have the law
of him and the others too. You're a lawyer
and you can help me. I tell you there's a
spirit abroad which just comes to this no
man isn't to pay his lawful debts, except, of
course, tbe parson and the 'Squire. They
must pay or go to the court. But there's
law left, and I'll have it, before they play
the Irish game on us here." And he
brought down his fist with a bang upon the
table.
Geoflrey listened with some amusement.
So this was the weak old man's sore point
money. He was clearly very strong about
that as strong as Lady Honoria, indeed,
but with more excuse. Elizabeth also lis
tened with evident approval, but Beatrice
looked pained.
"Don't get angry, father," she said:
"perhaps he will pay after all. It is bad to
take the law If you can manage any other
way it breeds so much ill blood."
"Nonsense, Beatrice," said her sister
sharply. "Father is quite right. There's
only one way to deal with them, and that's
to seize their goods. I believe you are a
socialist about property, as vou are about
everything else. You want to pull every
thing down, irom the Queen to the laws of
marriage, all for the good of humanity, and
I tell you your ideas will be" your ruin.
Defy custom and it will crush you. You
are running your head against a brick wall,
and one dav you will find which is the
harder."
Beatrice flushed, bnt answered her sister's
attack, which was all the sharper because it
had a certain spice of truth in it
"I never expressed any such views, Eliza
beth, so I don't see why you should attribute
them to me. I only saia that legal proceed
ings breed bad blood in a parish; and that is
true."
"I did not say you expressed them,"
went on the vigorous Elizabeth; "you look
them they ooze out of your words like
w?ter from a peat bog. Everybody knows
you are a radical and a freethinker and every
thing else that's bad and mad, and con
trary to that state of life in which it has
pleased God to call you. The end of it will
be that you will lose the niistresship of the
school and I think it is rery hard on father
and me that you should bring disgrace on
us with your strange wars and immoral
views, and now you can make what you like
of it."
"I wish all radicals were like Miss Bea
trice," said Geoffrey, who was feeling ex
ceedingly uncomfortable, with a feeble at
tempt at polite iocositv. Bnt nobodr seemed
to hear him. Elizabeth, who was now fairly
in a rage, a faint flush upon her pale
cheeks, her light eyes all ashine, and her
thin fingers clasped, stood fronting her
beautiful sister and breathing spite at every
pore. It was easy for Geoffrey, who was
watching her, to see that it was not her sis
ter's views she was attacking; it was her
sister. It was that soft, strong loveliness
and the glory of that face; it was the deep,
gentle mind, erring from its very greatness;
and the bright intellect, which lit it like a
lamp; it was the learning and the power
that, give it play, would set a world a-flame
as easily as it did the heart of the slow-witted
hermit squh-e, whom Elizabeth coveted
.these were the things that Elizabeth
hated and bitterly assailed. . '
To be continued next Sunday?
WEEDS OF SARG0SSA SEA.
They Grow at One End, Decaying at the
Other.
Youth's Companion.!
In the midst of the North Atlantic there
is a large patch of floating seaweed, which
has kept its place for centuries, with only
slight driitings up and down according to the
changing winds and currents. It was crossed
by Columbus on his first voyage, and its
position and extent have been known ever
since, xt occupies an immense eddy between
the equatorial current on the south, and the
Gulf Stream on the north. The name is
from tbe variety of seaweed which forms the
"sea," Sargassum bacciferum, the berry
bearing sargasso.
Much diversity of opinion exists as
to tbe origin of this floating mass.
Hnmboldt believed it to be de
tached from rocks at a considerable
depth in the latitudes where it floats; others
suppose it to come Irom the shores of the
northern seas, having been detached from the
rocks by the violence of the winds. Some
again imagine that it comes from the rocky
shores of the Gulfs of Mexico and Florida,
while manv believe that it has never had
any other than its present place of abode.
No one has ever seen it attached to the
rocks, nor have roots ever been discovered
belonging to it The lower end of the stem
always has a whitish, decayed appearance,
just like a piece of tangle which has been
some time cast on shore, while the extremi
ties of the branches are universally of a very
fresh and healthy appearance.
Such being the case, we can scarcely help
believing ;that these remarkable plants have
existed since the time of their first creation
to the present period as we now find them,
floating always in this revolving Gulf Stream
and undergoing a perpetual change from
decay at one extremity, and growth at the
other.
Ther e is nothing unreasonable in this
opinion, as seaweeds are not like land
plants, which derive nourishment from the
spot to which they are attached.
THE BUI AND THE H0E8ESH0E.
A Slorr Bhowlnc How Lszy People Take
the Most Pains.
A little boy was walking with his father
one day. As they trudged along the father
saw an old horseshoe lying in the road, and
bade the boy pick it up and take it along.
The lad looked at the shoe carelessly, and
replied that it was not worth carrying,
whereupon the father said nothing more,
but quietly picked it up himself. He pretty
soon sold the old iron for a penny at a road
side smithy, and invested the coin in cher
ries. The day was hot, and presently the man
noticed that his son was beginning to, cast
longing eves upon the box of cherries, but
did not offer any to his son. He made pre
tense of eating them, and dropped one to
tbe ground as if by accident
The boy piefced it up quicklv and ate it
with relish. A little further on another
dropped, and this too the lad lost no time in
securing. So, one by one, all the cherries
were dropped and picked up.
"Well," remarked the father, when the
last one had been eaten, "it did not pay to
Eick up that horseshoe perhaps; but if yon
ad stopped once for that, you wouldn't
have needed to bend 20 times for the
cherries."
X0 HOD CARRIERS IN JAPAN.
Ther Stake the Mortar Into Balls and Toss
Them.
"I saw the other day," writes a Yoko
hama correspondent of the Detroit -free
JPres$, "three men repairing the roof of a
one-story building by resetting the heavy
black tiles in mortar. The mortar was
already mixed in a pile in the street One
man was making this up into balls of about
six pounds weight which he tossed up into
the right hand of a man who stood on a lad
der about midway between the- ground and
the roof, and he in turn tossed it up into tbe
hand of the man who stood oh the roof."
PITTSBURG - DtSPATCJS.
BOUTS IN THET DARK.
i
Wrestling the Best Defense Against
Cowardly Assailants.
EOEBEE AND CARKEEK SHOW HOW.
The Yarious Holds Shown bj Means of a
Flash-Light and Camera,
MATSADA'S BATTLE WITH EUPFIANS
fWBITTEN FOB TITS PISPATCH.1
"For self-defense against an assailant who
makes his attack in the dark, there is noth
ing to compare with wrestling."
The speaker was a brawny professor of the
most exact'of athletic sciences.
"But suppose the assailant uses a pistol
or a knife ?" I suggested.
"I would seize him in such a way as to
pinion both hands until he dropped the
weapon. I should try to throw him at once.
If unarmed, a simple lock would settle the
business; if not, and if he happened to be
unusually ugly, I would give him the
'strangler's hold, which would end him in
a twinkling. There would be very little
fight left in him after being half choked,
you may believe. That is the advantage of
wrestling in the dark. It is the highest
grade of self-defense. The best evidence of
27ie Strangler's Bold.
this is that the leading pugilists all learn
wrestling nowadays."
I had a novel ocular demonstration of the
fact that wrestlers can work as scientifically
in the dark as in the glare of tbe footlights
yesterday afternoon. With the instantane
ous camera and magnesium. light as umpire
and referee, Ernest Boeber, the Gnecc
Boman champion of New York State, and
Jack Carkeek, the champion catch-as-catch-can
wrestler, stood stripped to the waist in
a darkened parlor on Wes Twenty-fifth
street Boeber is a Hanoverian, 25
years old and limbed like a Hercules.
He weighs 184 pounds, while Carkeek, who
is a native of Michigan, 29 years of age and
somewhat taller than Boeber, weighs 181
pounds. Both men wore dark trunks.
Boeber began wrestling at 15 and has suc
cessively encountered Sebastian Miller, the
"Strong" Man of Munich;" Sorokichi, the
"Jap;" "Strangler" Evan Lewis, Greek
George and a score brothers. Carkeek. who
has been 14 years a professional, has com
peted in over 100 matches -here and in En
gland. ,
WHAT THE FLASHES DISCLOSED.
Sufficient light was admitted to permit of
poising the camera, after which the room
was again obscured in darkness, and tbe
men went to work to illustrate the intricate
and dangerous holds, including those that
are forbidden by the rules and claimed as
"foul." At the sicrnal the flash-light re
vealed Boeber fast in the deadly "strangler's
The Double Helton Lock.
hold," with Carkeek's rifht arm over his
neck and his left arm under his throat, the
knuckles of both hands being pressed re
lentlessly on Boeber's diaphragm, while the
latter vainly strained and struggled to es
cape from the choking embrace.
A second flash disclosed a variation of the
same forbidden hold. Carkeek was on his
knees with Boeber's right arm hugging his
neck and his letf encircling the Michigan
man's throat iu a vise-like grasp. This is
tbe hold which Evan Lewis introduced and
which made him feared byall who met him.
Most referees declare it foul, but some are
latitudinarian enough to allow wrestlers to
use almost any tactics they please, although
they are distinctly barred by the rules.
"This hold," panted Boeber, as the men
paused for breath, "is simply choking a
man to death. When I wrestled with
Lewis he tried it on me twice. I broke
away the first time, but couldn't wrigelo
out the second trip. We were wrestling
catch-as-catch-can. All the professionals
Bide Holl From the Bridge.
have got the hold now, but they rarely try
to use It
THE DOUBLE NELSON.
Again the men set to work in the dark
ness. A third flash showed Boeber in the
throes of the "double-Nelson" lock a neck
breaking, crushing holdfrom which there
is no escape, unless the victim's strength is
greatlv superior to that ol his opponent.
The "double-Nelson" is used in both
Grteco-Boman and catch-as-catch-can wrest
ling. Carkeek stood immediately behind
the Hanoverian with his arms under Boe
ber's armpits around the back of his neck
and clasped behind the Iatter's head, which
was forced forward on his breast Boeber's
arms were apparently powerless in their ter
rible hold.
In this hold, which is barred in England
and Canada, but allowed here, although
many judges consider it arr unfair one, as
liable to inflict serious injury, the fingers
must not be interlocked. Clasping the
fingers is barred "foul" at all times,, for the
double reason that snch a clasp cannot be
parted and that it enables the owner of the
StfKDAY, EEBRTTABY
stronger wrist io bend hack and even break
the fingers of his rival. The moment such
a clasp is observed it is the duty of the ref
eree to award the match to the other man on
the "foul."
DANOEB OF NECK-BBEAKIKG.-
The next rift in the darkness showed a re
markable sight Boeber was. standing on
his head, bracing himself on his hands,
both feet straight in the air and describing
a curve outward to the floor. Carkeek, on
his knees, had Boeber's right arm and neck
partly in a "single-Nelson" lock, from
which the latter was breaking awav. The
only way to escape from the "single-Nelson"
effectively is by bendingdown low, jumping
on yonr head and turning a somersault to
the floor. This is called "the spin," and
37ie Spin,
should not be attempted by any man who
has not the strongest kind of a neck. Other
wise the chances are even that he will be
picked up with a broken neck.
One of the most dangerous of ail holds,
"the back heave," was next illustrated by
the athletes in tbe dark. Carkeek had
grasped Boeber bv the right arm and shoul
der, and with the'aid of the "reverse heave"
a combination movement of arm and hip
to elevate an opponent, had hoisted him on
his back. When tbe camera caught the
pair Carkeek was straining to throw Boeber
over his head, but in vain, for the Hanover
ian had secured a hold on Carkeek's left leg
with his rieht foot that effectually stopped
the Iatter's tactics. A "back heave" at the
hands of a strong wrestler would place his
rival hors de combat iu a twinkling and
might disable him.
THE CHOKING PEOCESS.
"The most effective hold," said Champion
Carkeek. "is the neck lock. In Graco-
'Boroan wrestling you are not allowed to
catch the legs or to clasD bands so as to ureas
fingers. In making the 'bridge' that is,
The Sack Heave.
arching the back and resting on bands,
elbows, head and feet, so as to avoid a fall
the man on top is allowed to press his fore
arm against the under man's neck, but he
must not press his fingers." 1
"Would not the forearm pressure choke a
man as quick as the knuckles?"
"Yes; but there's nothing to prevent tbe
under man from rolling over. Tbe 'side
roll' is one of tbe ways of escaping from the
bridge. Sebastian Miller is the greatest
roller I know,
"American wrestlers are cleverer than the
English now," Carkeek continued, as he
rubbed down his big arms. "The greatest
wrestlers to-day are George Stedman, who is
the champion of Cumberland and Westmore
land style better known as the 'back-hold'
style and Tom Bragg, tbe Cornishman.
Now we have Lewis, Greek George, Miller
and myself, and we have all beaten them at
their own game."
ONE OF THE JAP'S FEATS.
"Now," said my chaperon, as we came
away, "you have had au illustration of what
can be done by skilled wrestlers in a friendly
bout in the dark. In an encounter in dead
earnest with an assailant tbey would not be
so. gentle. I have known a single wrestler
to floor five men in as many seconds simply
by using ordinary tactics and they were
tough characters, too. Depend upon it
they would hare stood even a poorer chance
in the darkness than in daylight, for while
his science never deserts him, they would
have fought at random. The man who
used up the five ruffians was Matsada Sor
akichi, the little Jap."
G. H. SANDISON.
PRICES IN JAPAN.
A Married Couple Cnn Bestn 'Housekeeping
for 53 SO There.
An idea of prices iu Japan is furnished in
the following sent to the Detroit ' .Free Press
by a correspondent at Yokohama: A pair of
sandals made of straw cost i cents. Three
men with two jinrikisha drag two persons
and baggage four miles up a steep mountain
road for 34 cents. A servant girl for one
month's service gets 125 yen, equal to 98
cents. She is furnished also bath money
and hair-dressing money, about 20 cents. A
new tooth brush, six fori cent Four boxes
of matches for of a cent Cloth cotton
with a pretty figure enough for a girl's
kimono or dress, 60 yen. equal to 45 cents.
Day's board for a jinrikisha man and tbe
laboring class, lodging and two meals, 1
cents.
The outlay for commencing housekeeping
for furniture, bedding, mats, cooking uten
sils, table service, such asneededbyayoung
couple of tbe laboring class, costs 'S3 86.
The pay per day for laborers and artisans is
about as follows: Blacksmith, 22 to 37 cents;
painters, 18 to 28 cents; caolies, IB to 22
cents; gardeners, 18 to 37 cents; carpenters,
30 to 45 cents. The rent of a neat house,
with pretty gardens, containing one room
of eight mats, one of four mats, one of two
mats, and three rooms of six mats each, be
sides kitchen, 750 yen, equals -$5 62 per
month.
It Puzzled Her.
"How do yon manage to find your way
across the ocean?" said a lady to s tea cap
tain. "Why, by the compass. The needle
always points to the north." "Yes, I know.
But what if yon wish to go south?",
1890.
OYER THE ISTHMUS;
The Railway That Connects the At
lantic and Pacific Oceans.
DAGGERS THAT BESET TEAYELEES.
The Industrious Jigger, Wicked Flea and
the Agile Tarantula.
iIOEGAN'3 SACK OF ANCIENT PANAMA
lCOMlESrOMDINCB or Till DISFATCB. J
Panama, TJ. S. Colombia, January 4.
This Isthmian railway is a far greater in
stitution than the world at large Is aware
of. Its managers have discreetly chosen to
keep their affairs to themselves, as other
Wise Men of the East have been known to
do in various kinds of remunerative busi
ness; and should you ask one of them about
it, you would doubtless somehow receive the
impression that it had been a losing invest
ment The facts in the case are that ever since
its completion (in 1855) this railroad ha3
been one of the most profitable in the world.
For nearly 20 years the local fare between
Aspmwall and Panama was $25 each person
for a ride of 47 miles, or more than 50 cents
per milel During those days the traffic was
much heavier than now, and each month
thousands were carried over the line
every thousand passengers yielding
to the company precisely $25,000.
At that time the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company was carrying steerage people, as
they now carry first-class passengers all the
way around from New York to San Fran
cisco, a distance of 5,500 miles, including
passage across the Isthmus by this same
road, and the best of board and lodging
during 32 days, for only ?80; while for four
hours suffocation in a crowded second-class
car, with no food or other comfort, one was
required to pay $251
With tbe completion of the Pacific rail
roads across the United States, it was deemed
advisable to come down a little and the fare
across the Isthmus was reduced to $10 per
ticket The difference, however, is largely
offset by a charge of 6 cents per pound for
"extra baggage" (only 100 pounds being
allowed gratis) which generally doubles the
price of tbe ticket A lady of my acquaint
ance lately crossed with three trunks of or
dinary size and a small box of curios and
her bill for extra baggage was $45, American
gold, for a distance of 47 miles.
BETTEB THAN NO KOAD.
But the old price trebled would have
seemed cheap in the days of '47-'49, to the
thousands who flocked across this highway
to California, when men were crazed with
the gold fever. Then the trip occupied a
week at tbe best, there being no road what
ever; first a tedious journey up the Chagres
river in native bongors, and thence by horse
or mule through slimy swamps and tangled
thickets, where the trail was' soon well
marked by graves and bleaching bones.
As there was no accommodation for travel
ers along tbe route, tbey were compelled to
sleep in the open air; while the price of a
horse or mule and enough feed to keep soul
and body together during tbe learlul pas
sage almost equaled the sum that the most'
sanguine lunatio might reasonably expect to
reap in the gold regions, if he lived to get
there. And so many perished by the way
side, from camping nights near the deadly
river, that the "Isthmus fever" became
known to the world as a distinct malady and
one almost incurable. But the road was
built under discouragements that would
have ruined most men and therefore the un
daunted few who carried it to successful
completion are fairly entitled to a rich re
ward. At present it transports an annual
average of 340,000 tons of merchandise and
6,000 passengers from ocean to ocean.
A -WAGON EOAD POSSIBLE.
Along its course there are 25 villages and
stations, each possessing some featnre of in
terest peculiar to itself. A few months ago
Senor Bicardo Bemero, an intrepid ex
plorer of Panama, determined to seek out,
amid the tangled growths of centuries, one
of the ancient trans-Atlantic roads which
the early Spaniards are known to have
made. Starting from a point on the eastern
coast called David, he succeeded in crossing
the Isthmus in nine days, cutting a path as
he went for his cattle to pass. He contem
plates making another attempt soon, with a
larger body of men, mules, horses and cattle,
to improve and widen the same trail. Being
assisted by several men of means and promi
nence it is not improbable that a wagon
road across the Isthmus may one day dis
pute the railway's exclusive right of trans
portation. Passengers on the trains are crowded in,
ofUn three in a car seat all jabbering in
every known language. Despite the exces
sive heat every head that can find room for
itself is thrust out of a window, in vocifer
ous admiration of the beautiful scenery on
every side. The abortive ship-canal follows
us most of the way. Orchids are every
where, in infinite variety of shape and color.
It is said that at least 24 species
of the palm family may be found here
more than are collected together anywhere
else in the world.
IMPOBTANCE OF THE PALM.
The palm tree plays an important part in
this section. Domestic utensils and weapons
of war, pins, needles, cloth and thread,
boats, houses, roofs andfurmture are made
from it, and in many instances It answers
also for food and drink. Children are born
under its shadow, cradled in its leaves,
reared on its fruit and sap, clothed-in its
woven fibers and finally co to the last sleep
in a coffin made of its bark.
The railway villages are all populated
with blacks and tbey are usually only half
clothed. Nearly every village has its little
"store," containing small stocks of irrocer
ies, liquors, tobacco, soap, candles and the
cheapest drygoods, bnt apparently with no
patrons. Every now and then we saw a
negro policeman perambulating his beat,
barefooted and in short white trousers,
armed with rifle, sword and brace of pistols.
At every station men and women scam
pered through the train, offering
cakes, like brick bats, to the
hungry passengers, drinks of various
kinds, tall, cone-like cups made of cocoauut
fiber, paper fans with advertisements printed
on them, evidently intended for gratuitous
distribution, but which readily sold in this
sweltering heat at from 25 to 60 cents each
anything to turn an honest penny.
Parrots of various species make the forest
ring with their unmusical cries. We saw
humming birds of gorgeous hues, scarcely
bigger than bees, and great toucans whose
ugly beaks seem especially designed for the
gobbling of tropical fruits. Tapirs abound
in the marshes, and we are told that their
flesh, which greatly resembles pork, is rel
ished by tbe natives as well as coon in Ken
tucky. There is also the wild hog, or pec
cary, which is hunted for food. Boa con
strictors and other big snakes are not un
common, but are not nearly so much to be
dreaded as the tiny asps and vipers, some
not longer than yonr finger, and the exact
color of the dead leaves or bits of moss under
which they hide.
LIKE BOASTED BABY MONKEY.
There are lizards without nnmber, some
whose bite is deadly Jrom slimy reptiles to
scaly six-foot-long iguanas, whose flesh is
considered the greatest possible delicacy,
next to the juicy white breast of a roasted
baby monkey. By the way, the eggs of the
iguana may be found for sale in the mar
kets of Spanish-America and command a
hieh price.
Of course there are scorpions, centipedes,
tarantulas et al, for which we are warned
to keep a sharp lookout, even in the cars;
but they are not a circumstance compared
to "the wicked flea," with which every
grain of sand and particle of dust is loaded.
They are too tiny to he looked out for, but
every one of us is a living and speckled
monument to "their persistent industry.
Even smaller than the flea, and more enter
prising in pursuit of business, is the jigger,
whose native name is chigoe. So tiny is
tbe pestiferous little wretch that .'he cos
crowd In between the seams of your gar
ments, or between the sole and upper of
your shoe. He entertains an especial fond
ness or the humah foot, and will invariably
confine himself to 'that part of your anatomy
if you give him a chance.
So slight is his sting, that you scarcely
feel it; yet all tbe same he gets in his work,
depositing an Infinitesimal eeg beneath a
toenail, or somewhere under the cutis.
Presently a slight itching ensues, and in a
day or two a membraneous sac is formed,
which must at once be pierced deep with a
needle, and afterward thoroughly washed
with tobacco juice. If the sac is allowed to
remain, a huge ulcer forms, and the victim
is likely to lose his toes; Tor tbe infant jig
ger that issued from the first egg is a most
astonishing propagator, capable of raising
several interesting families and becoming a
hale and hearty grandmother in a fortnight's
time.
SIB HENEY HOBQAN'S CABEEB.
Most celebrated of the mountains of the
Isthmus, from which Balboa caught his
first glimpse of the Pacific is the Cerro de
Ins Bbcaneros, or Hill ot the Buccaneers,
from wbose top the pirate, Morgan, had his
first view of ancient Panama, and at wbose
base he encamped tbe night before his at
tack upon that city just 221 years ago. As
that old-time buccaneer played so important
a part on the Isthmus at one time nearly
depopulating it, having destroyed tbe
proudest city in all the Spanish colonies,
whose fall gave rise to the Panama of to
dayperhaps it may be well to recount a
few of his exploits. For a partial compila
tion thereof we are mainly indebted to Mr.
Thomas W. Knox and his inimitable "Boy
Travelers."
In those days piracy was fashionable, and
it wjs not long after "the treasure galleons
began to traverse the "Spanish Main" be
fore piratical crafts were in hot pursuit.
Many of them brought their families to the
New World or married Indian women; and
while these remained on shore, hunting
wild game and raising crops for the sus
tenance of their fellows at sea, the more
adventurous sailed in search of plunder,
returning occasionally to the colony to de
liver their share of spoils to the settlers on
land, from whom provisions were obtained
for another voyage. Sometimes prisoners
were brought to the colonies and kept as
slaves, some of tbem scions of the proudest
houses of old Castile; but as a rule they
were released on payment of a heavy ran
som, or put to death if no ransom was forth
coming. A BECOBD OF ATROCITIES.
Morgan had earned an excellent reputa
tion as a buccaneer, the stories of whose
atrocities would fill a volume. He had cap
tured several cities and murdered many
people, often under circumstances of unpar
alleled cruelty, all his prisoners whom he
could not Bell into slavery, men, women,
children and priests, being slaughtered
without mercy. He was a Welshman of
low birth and most of his followers were
outlaws from that country and others of tbe
British Isles. At one time he had 2,000
men under his command, and a fleet of 37
ships; but as his piracies were directed
against the Spaniards, with whom
the English were at war, Albion looted
upon him with a kindly eye. Therefore,
when he organized theexoedition that ended
with the destruction of the proud old city of
Panama, the Governor of Jamaica ordered
an, English vessel of 36 guns to go along
and help him, and conferred authority on
Morgan to act in English interest.
Before proceeding to Panama the fleet of
legalized pirates captured Maracaibo, Saint
Catharine's and several other places, com
mitting innumerable atrocities and murder
ing many people. After capturing the city
of Chagres at the mouth of the river of the
same name, Morgan rebuilt its fort, garri
soned it with 500 men, left 150 more to take
careot the ships and with only 1,200 men
started across the Isthmus. They ascended
the Cbagres river as far as possible, and they
marched through the forest, cutting a path
before them. Ther nearlv starved to death
during the terrible journey, but, apparently
bv direct aid of the Evil One, they lived
through it somehow, and upon the summit
of the "Hill of the.Bnccaneers" looked down
upon the richest city of New Spain.
THE SACK OF PANAMA.
An army of 3,000 Spaniards came out to
the defense of Panama, but within three
hours after the firing of the first shot the
handful of half-starved pirates were in full
possession. They plundered the churches
and convents and tbe houses or the wealthy
and tortured many of the priests and citi
zens to make them disclose more hidden
treasures. The wise Panamaians, in antici
pation of such an emergency, had previously
loaded a ship with the gold and silver and
jewels of the churches and convents, the
King's plate and precious stones and private
valuables of every kind, which set off for
Spain the moment the tide of battle turned
in favor of the invaders. Apprehend
ing something of this kiud, Morgan
had sent out a ship on purpose to intercept
any departing vessels; but her officers
and crew, eager to do theirsbare in plunder
ing the captured city disobeyed orders; and
thus the richest treasures were lost In a
fury of rage at finding themselves thus
thwarted of the objects of all their toil and
creed, the disappointed robbers ont-did
themselves in deeds of barbarity and at last
reduced the once splendid city to ashei.
They carried away 600 prisoners and 175
beasts laded with plunder and left behind
a wide swath ot rapine and desolation.
These distinguished services were promptly
recognized by the British Government and
the murderer, Morgan, was at once knighted
by King Charles II. The war with Spain
being over, his occupation as a buccaneer
was gone; and so he was given an important
commission and to the end of his days
figured as Sir Henry Morgan.
Fannie B. Wabd.
HAELNG FISH PASTE.
A Cnrioun Process and a Strange Food Prod-
net of Japan.
"I sawjone day," says a Yokohama corre
spondent of the Detroit Free Press, "in a
small shop here, three boys vigorously beat
ing something in a large wooden mortar.
One of the pestles bad its upper end inserted
in a hole in the ceiling, tbe other two only
followed the base of the first one as it moved
around the surface of the mortar. It was the
first time I ever saw three pestles going in
one mortar at once.
Interested in the process, I found they
were beating the flesh of a small fish, termed
janago in Japanese, together with that of
some species oi snare, xnis paste, maae up
into rolls about 8 inches long by 3 inches in
diameter, has a small piece of sugi wood
fastened ou one side. It is then baked and
sold as kamaboko. It is highly esteemed
and brings about 9 cents a pound. A bet
ter variety is made of shark flesh only.
Another variety of fish paste, called
hampen, is made in similar manner, except
the form, this being square and thin, 6
inches by I inch. These forms of fish food
are cooked in various ways and served with
soy or other sauces, and are often partially
baked as breakfast hashed meat is with us
at home.
PILE DRIVING IN JAPAH.
The Men Slake Play oi It and Sloe Continu
ously. In making the foundation for a house in
Japan, according to a Yokohama corre
spondent of tbe Detroit Free Press, a heavy
upright piece of timber eight inches or so in
diameter, with a stone foot, is used to heat
down the earth to more solid condition.
The manner of using this pile-driver, or
rather earth-settler, is curious and novel.
A framework is erected about ten feet above
the ground, supporting planks parallel to
the foundation and wide enough apart to
allow the driver to project up between
them.
On the elevated platform stand about 15
men, each holding a rop ;, one end of which
is attached near the base of tbe driver, and
at intervals of about 20 seconds, at a given
Bignal or shoot, they Ml lift together and let
it fall by its own gravity. Meanwhile cer
tain of the men keep up a continuous song,
tbe rising and falling of the driver being
like bass note of the drum. Tbe whole
thing seems more like play than, work.
THE SOCIAL PKOBLEff
Mr. Bellamy's Ideas Are Attracting a
Great Deal of Attention.
THE EQUIVALENT OP AKAECHISM.
Salyini Took His Famou Death let From
a Scene in a Hospital
ST0EIE3 OP THE LATE EUFTJ3 CHOATE
CCOBBZSFOXBEXCX 07 TBS SlSTATCHl
BOSTON, January 31. The Nationalist
movement, so-called, has of late been re
ceiving a good deal of attention here, which
is justfied, it is to bs supposed, by the fact
that it seems to have gathered in so many
discontented men and women, who are mora
or less consciously inclined to accept the
proposition "whatever is, is wrong," and
who seize upon any scheme which is offered
with the promise of bringing about a dif
ferent state of things. In the current At
lantic Monthly not only has General Francis
A. Walker, who to the country at large is
generally known in connection with his work
in the Census Bureau, taken up the restate
ment of old dreams which now goes by
the name of "Mr. Bellamy's theory," and
with all seriousness shown how ntterly fal
lacious is the whole scheme from the point
of view of practical common sense; but in
an inimitable bit of satire Dr. Holmes, too,
ha3 a fling at the impossible and tedious
perfections of Mr. Bellamy's social paradise
in a picture of a state in Saturn where
equal'ty in all things prevailed to such a
degree that to have a pocket would have
been looked upon as conclusive proof of an
intent to steal, since except for tbe purpose
of secreting ill gotten gains no one could
have use for such a thing.
On Sunday last Mr. Edward Atkinson
took up the ball in an address before the
Free Beligious Association upon "The In
terdependence of Man," in which he very
justly classed the Nationalists with the An
archists as far as the logical outcome of
their position goes. Both inflame the poor
against the rich; both are totally at vari
ance with existing conditions and encour
age discontent; both teach that the individ
ual is nothing, the State all; and
both are in their intentions thor
oughly dangerous to the State a3 it
at present exists. Of course it is to be
allowed that in the case of the Nationalists!
tbe intention is less consciously destructive!
than in that of the Anarchists, bnt this,
after all, only lets tbe former out on the
moral count at the expense of tbe intellec
tual. The Nationalists pretend to be de
lighted with the attention they are receiv
ing, but the novelty is already wearing off,
and there will not be much more notice
taken of them until they are able to prove
by some decided movement that they really
possess power and stability.
STOBIES OF BUFUS CHOATE.
There are in circulation among the law
yers here a good many stories of the late
Bufus Choate which are said not to have
been in print On one occasion in court,
when Mr.Choate had no particular case.and
was manifestly talking with a single intent
to conceal that fact, Chief Jnstice Shaw, be
fore whom he was pleading, at length lost
patience with the flow of words, and inter
rupted. "Mr. Choate," he demanded, "do yon
not mean so and so?"
"Yes, your Honor."
"Then why don't you say so?"
"1 should, Your Honor, "replied Choate,
with his inimitable manner, "if I had Yonr
Honor's power of expression."
On another occasion the Chief Justice was
for some reason still more annoyed at some
thing Mr. Choate did or said, and adminis
tered a snnb which was delivered with an
emphasis which the irritation of the moment
made rather more emphatic than was wholly
warrantable. Mr. Choate sat down im
mediately, murmuring sotto voce:
"His Honor is a pertect gentleman, but
he knows no law," a comment to which
Judge Shaw'3 singular eminence as a lawyer
lent point.
SAtVTNl'S DEATH SCENE.
Now that Salvia! has published his fare
well to America it seems to come home to
those who are lond of him that we have
really lost him. We know so well that we
sball never see bis like, and that we are now
embarked upon that elderly course of say
ing to a younger generation that they were
born too late, since tbey have missed him;
that we would fain disbelieve still that this
is indeed his last tour in America. When
be was in Boston, earlier in the season, a
friend, a physician, said to him that he
could not in the least comprehend how an.
actor could understand the physical aspects
of death so well as it was shown in the
powerful death scene in "La Morte Civile""
that Salvini did.
"I studied that death in the hospital,"
the actor answered. "I happened to see an
old man die there. He was au old priest
wbose niece had left him to make a runa
way marriage with a man of whom he dis
approved. The grief which he felt broke him
down, and when they found at the hospital
where he was, that he could not live, they
sent for the young couple to come and beg
his forgiveness before he died. I was there
when they came. The old man caught sieht
of them, raised himself up in bed, ancL Jbr
an instant all his fire and force seemed to
come back; then it went out like the flicker
of a candle. That was here I learned the
death in VLa Morte Civile.' "
THE GBEAT ACTOB'S FINANCES.
Salvini has of late years been ambitious
first for his art, which he loves in a way
which seems almost to belong to a brgone
age, so single and intense is it, and after
that for bis family. He has saved for the
sake of leaving them independent, and it is
Erobable that his efforts in this direction
ave been successful. He is, while iu this
country, beset with all sorts of beggars,
whom lie is too good-natured to deny; and
one of the droll incidents of his last visit to
Boston was the call of an impudent youth,
who insisted upon his buying tickets to a.
drygoods clerks' ball. In the evening of
that day I saw him play "Samson," and the
absurdity of his, having two tickets to the
drygoods clerks' ball came over me just as
he was about to enter for the first time, so
that I expected the play to he spoiled for me,
Fortunately he carries one awav in spite of
incongruous thoughts. Abxo Bates.
STOVES E0E THE POCKET.
A Japanese Article That' Qnlto a Ziuxary
In Cold Weather.
Washington Star. '
"Why, how warm your hand isl""ex
claimed young Noodles, upon clasping
hands with his friend Timpkins on F street
one day during the recent cold snap.
Timpkins grinned.
"You haven't your gloves on, either; and
yet, while my gloved hands are like icicles,
yours are as warm as toast Do you carry
around stoves in your overcoat pockets?"
"That is precisely what I do." replied!
Timpkins, laughing. "Your random guess
struck the fact squarely. I carry a stove la
each Bide pocket of my top coat Here la
onfiortbem."
With this Timpkins drew forth and ex
hibited to view a enrious little tin box about
6 inches long by 4 in width and 1 inch la
thickness. It was slightly curved in shape
and appeared to be covered with some stuff"
like glazed calico. When the top was slid
off the inside was seen to be made of tin per
forated with a great many holes. It con
tained nothing but a round stick of some
queer looking substance, which was burning
at tbe end with a bright redness, but with
out any flame or a particle of smoke.
"What do you call it?" demanded
Noodles wonderingly.
"It is a Japanese stove a device that has
been used in Japan very commonly for
centuries. You see, it is simply a tin box
with holes in it, covered on the outside with
this calico stuff to help retain the heat It
Is really quite hot, you observe, and it -will
remain so for five hours with the burning of
single fire stick. They are so small and. sa
flat that they don't even make one'i pocket
bulge.". r. -