I h I v- 10 when the sea beran to swell, the motions of the dismasted bull grew too much, for me. X crawled below and sat in a condition of semi stupefaction," scarcely doubting bat that every moment would te oar last, PAETH. The tenth day had arrived the tenth of inch days as I would not pass through again; no, not lor the reward of a hundred years of life and happiness! "We lay as -we had been lying a sheer hulk, entirely dismasted for ward, while of the mainmast nothing now remained but a height of some six feet aboTe the deck, a stump of splintered ends; for so mercilessly had the weather dealt with us that within a few .hours of our maintopmast oing, the mainmast, wrenched and wrung y the violence of the fall of its tophamper, broke, and the sailors cut the lanyards to let the raffle of gear and broken spar go overboard. Our decks had been swept; the only two boats we carried a jolly boat stowed in the long boat had been beaten into staves; the wheel and binnacle were gone, also the gal ley and all mother deck fittings, saving the companion way and hood. Sat the hull was sound, and when the waiter she had drained in throneh the decks had been pumped oat she took no more in. TEN DATS OP IUSEBT. It was the tenth day, as I have said, and the ninth of broiling "calm. Nothing had hove into view; no smallest tip of distant sail had broke the continuity of the brassy girdle of the tropical ocean. Happily there was plenty to eat and drink aboard. "We got a spare sail up and made an awning of it, but we were without booms for jury masts could erect nothing to enable the brig to blow along when wind should come, and all we could do was to pray lor a vessel to show herself and so keep on waiting. It was about 9 o'clock in the morning on this tenth day. Captain Larkins, whose wretchedness of mind is not to be expressed, had been talking to me about his misfortune, asking what he should do if he should be unable to bring his brig into port; all that he owned in the world was in her, and he told me that if she went to the bottom he should go too, though a vessel should be at hand ready to take us off, for death was far less dread l ul to him than the workhouse. "We were in the midst of checrlul talk of this sort when a seamansangout, "Sail ho!" and, looking, I spied right away on the star board beam a tiny square of fleecy white rising like a star above the sea line. The captain's glass was fetched and the stranger was made to be a small brigor bark, heading directly for us as might be guessed by the set of her yards and bringing a breeze of wind along with her. In fact, with the aid of the telescope, one could distinguish the dark line of the wind drawing fast ahead of her, rippling and deepening the blue dye of the ocean for miles and miles. "We watched her with speechless anxiety and expectation. A SHIP 07 DEATH. As she approached we found her to be a vessel of about 200 tons, painted white and brigantine rigged, but her yards and canvas showed 20 symptoms of confusion and distress. "She's derelict," said Captain Larkins; "no signs of life aboard; and where's she running to? "Why she'll be into us!" She was indeed heading tor us on a straight line, as thouch steered with the sole intention of cutting as down. The brig lay as helpless as a barrel, and down upon us slowly floated the stranger, making for us with the precision of an end of cotton going through the eye of a needle. By 2 o'clock she was within hailing distance, and we all set up our throats in a hurricane roar to her to shift her helm. "She's abandoned! she'll stave nsl she'll sink us!" yelled Captain Larkins. ' "There's a man on the foretopsail yard," I shouted. It was a negro who overhang the spar in an indolent posture of watching us, as it seemed. "Shift your helm!" thundered Captain Larkins. The vessel was close enough now to enable us to see that the negro languidly shook his head, while he pointed downward with a feeble gesture. I also fancied by his motions that he endeavored to hail us; but if he de livered any sentences they did not reach our ears. A minute or two later and the long jibboom of the brigantine was over our deck; her sharp stem struck the hull of the brig a little forward of amidships. The shock made as reel, and never can I forget the sickening sensation that seemed to melt oat of the plank on which we stood into one's very souL THE COLLISION. Someone roared out. "Stand by to jump aboard!" and two or three of onr seamen sprang on to the bowsprit rigging of the brigantine while she slowly swung her broadside on to us. Others of our men were about to follow, scarce knowing bnt that the brig was stove and foundering, and I stood close alongside "Wharrier, waiting for the two vessels to close, when on a sudden a loud shriek rose from the deck of thebrigaD tine. In a breath the three men sprang off her rail on to oar deck again, as though the devil himself were in pursuit of them! One shonted out something as he bounded, and while three or four ot them rushed to the foreseuttle the hatch which led to the forecastle, in which they lived a large tiger leapt sheer over the rail of the vessel along side, and, alighting upon our deck, stood, with waving tail and fiery eyes and bared teeth, staring around. There was a general shriek, and in a jiffy all the seamen forward vanished pell-mell down into the forecastle, the last of them drawing the slide over. The captain, "Wharrier and I stood aft! "To the cabin! to the cabin! quick!" shouted old Larkins, and down he plunged, followed by "Wharrier and myself, who rolled over and over each other as we scuttled down the steps. "Land o'love! "What a thing to happen!" cried Captain Larkins, pulling the com panion door to and looking at us from the head of the ladder. THE MAN EATER. It took us some minutes to recover onr breath. An encounter of this sort was a thing to expect in some wilderness of Indian jungle or African forest, bnt on the high seas! A huge creature that had leapt with the speed of light from vessel to vessel, all claws and burning eyes and teeth and work ing tail. "Heaven deliver us, there it is!" I cried, looking no at the skylight, where, sure enough, we beheld the monster glaring down upon as through the glass, which hap pily was formed of small, exceedingly thick panes, securely fixed in stout frames, and the whole protected by a strong network of brass wire. "God defend as, what teeth!" groaned "Wharrier. Cat it was no time for idly staring aghast "Vnd venting one's self in expressions of horror. There were a couple of pistols be longing to me in my cabin, and the captain owned a long musket These we carefully loaded and primed, by which time, however, the fierce beast had left the skylight, though whether it had cone forward or aft we knew sot "A volley should do its business," said Larkins. But how to take aim? The skipper crept up the steps and listened, then with the ut most caution pushed open one of the com panion doors by the breadth of his thumb and put his eye to the interstice. I saw him start he then beckoned to me with a countenance of mingled terror and anxiety, and I crawled up to his side. THE FATAL VOLLET. "See here!" he hoarsely whispered, push ing the door open by about an inch; and I instantly saw the huge creature hard by where the wheel had stood, resting in a crouching posture, with its eyes upturned, as thongh watching the negro who was in the ship alongside. "Softly for our lives, and take good aim!" said Captain Larkins. "We noiselessly pushed open the door till we could bring onr weapons to bear. I leveled both pistols and the skipper his musket. Tire!" he whispered. The three pieces flashed in a single dis charge. The creature sprang erect, then crouched as though he would lea over kurdi aadlkelleved wehad sot kart it, "&.. until, to our great joy, it fell on a sudden on its side, stretching out its legs and quivering in what was no doubt the agonies of death. Bnt our alarm would not suffer ns to quit the shelter of the companion until we had discharged five rounds into the carcass. "We then emerged and found the beast dead enough. "There may be more!" suggested "Whar rier. On this the captain hailed the negro who still overhung the yard on high, and called to know if there were more beasts of the kind aboard the brigantine. He languidly shook his head and his teeth gleamed be tween bis leathery lips, but no answer reached us. "Wharrier went forward and called the men on deck, and I and the captain, still grasping our loaded weapons, got upon the rail to take a view of the brigantine. All betwixt the rails seemed a very shambles. There were the remains of several ostriches, the skull of a negro, with portions of black flesh still attached, deers' antlers, a number of bones of brutes, pieces of torn flesh and the scene of blood! The planks were every where dyed crimson. SATE AT LAST. "We song oat to the negro to come down, bat as he was too weak to bestir himself, "Wharrier and a couple of seamen went aloft, where they had a short talk with the man. "Wharrier bawled down, "It's arle reet, capl'n; there's nowtbut the tiger, and he's eaten up everything else this man's ship mate along wi t'otbers." "With much difficulty they got the poor negro down, but it was some time before he could find tongue enough to deliver his story. He then told us that he and another negro, an old man, had formed part of the crew of an Eng'ish schooner hailing from a "West Indian port. She had sprang a leak. The crew had abandoned her, leaving the two negroes behind them. Tbey constructed a raft, got a sail upon it, and,after drifting about for three days, during which the old negro went blind, they fell in with this brigantine She was deserted, bnt under canvas, and ran so close alongside that they were able to attach the rait to her. The blind man was helped onto the deck by his comrade, but the pair of them were scarcely over the rail when the tiger came stalkine out past the galley. The negro who could see took the rigging in a breath, and he told ns that before he had gained the topsail yard his poor blind mate had been torn to pieces! THE TBAGEDT EXPLAINED. The brigantine was named the New Hope, and when alterward we overhauled her we discovered that she was from the westcoast of Africa, bound to New York, but how she happened to be where we had fallen in with her it .was hopeless to conjecture. The fore part was fitted up with enormously thick bulkheads for the storage of live beasts. The door of the receptacle that had un doubtedly imprisoned the tiger was open; the bars of the other compartments were torn down the debris showed the marks of the tiger's claws; one conld only guess what they had contained by the hideous remains which lay scattered about the decks. The general supposition was that the crew had been stricken by fever, and this seemed to be confirmed by the discovery of two dead bodies of white seamen in the forecastle. There were no signs of human remains in the cabin or on the deck, saving the half devoured head of the negro. What had become of the rest of the crew could only be a matter of the ' idlest speculation. The tiger, maddened by hunger and thirst, had dashed at the wooden bars of the compart' ments which held the, bocks or African deer, the ostriches, the zebras, and I know not what else, for the mess on the deck defied our investigation; but the animals I have named had certainly formed a part of the living freight And now what remains to be told? Old Larkins' hulk lay sound and tight along side; all hands went to work, cleared the decks, got a tow-rope aboard the brig, and trimmed sail; and by sundown the New Hope with the hull of the Laughing Creole in tow was heading a straight course for Nassau, sliding through the water at four or five knots in the honr, with a tpleasant breeze gushing over the quarter and all hands hard at work making our new float ing home comfortable for the remainder of the passage, which terminated without farther disaster on Sunday morning, as I very well remember. THE END. MADE THEM US BOWS'. A Hone Thief Robs His Would-be Captors With Wonderful Ease. Kansas City BUr.l L L Somers, a sewing machine agent, living at Lee's Summit, was driving in Cass county about four miles west of Har- risonville yesterday morning, when he passed a man driving a horse and cart Somers recognized the horse and cart as property that had been described as stolen, and as a reward of $50 had been offered by the Anti-Horse Thief Association for the capture of the man or the property, Somers determined to do some capturing. He stopped at a farmer's hnnse and endeavored to borrow a gun. The farmer did not have one, but joined Somers, and the two drove on to the next farm. Here they also failed to get a gun, and driving on they met the man in the road endeavoring to sell the horse to another farmer. There being three of them, they felt bold, and the farmer with Somers spoke up and told the horse thief that he might as well surrender. At this the thief laughed loud and long. Drawing a laree, old-fashioned Colt's revolver from his pocket, he com manded Somers and the farmer with him to get out of Somers' two-horse wagon, and then made the three men lie down with faces to the grouna and about ten feet from each other. He then proceeded to search them. He found nothing in the farmer's pockets, but took a silver watch, $12 50 in money, several society badges and other small ar ticles from Somers, got into Somers' rig and drove away. Somers and the farmers then got up. The thief had left the horse and cart, but the horse ran away, and Somers and farmer No. 1, who went after it, did not catch it until it had broken the cart to pieces. Then they walked into Lee's Summit leading the stolen horse Mr. Somers had started to capture. A posse from Lee's Summit spent last night in searching for the thief, but did not find him. This morning, however, Mr. Somers' horses walked home with the wagon in good condition. It is supposed the thief turned them loose to avoid being caught and came to Kansas City on foot He is described as a man about 26 years old, C feet 7 inches high, medium build, with a light mustache, dark clothes and dark cow boy hat with leather band, and, according to Mr. Somers, "the coolest man on earth." HUBT, BUT SOT HIT. Senator Cockrell'a Most Falafol Wound Only Took On" His Whiskers. WasblnctonFoft "The severest pain I ever experienced in battle," said Senator Cockrell, who was wounded three times, 'Jwas caused by a ballet that did not hit me at alL I was riding at the head of my regiment, when it passed under my chin with a devilish whistle and a slash like a saber stroke. It stung me like a red-hot iron, and I thought it had cut my throat, but on putting up my hand it only caught a lot of whiskers that had been cut off. There was no blood and no harm. "I was shot through the arm and through both legs in the same battle, breaking the bones, but none of these clips hurt half as much as the ballet that did not hit me. In fact, while my right leg became suddenly benumbed, I did not suspect till half an hour afterwards that a bullet had gone through my left leg, too. The boys discov ered it when they were carrying me off. It had not pained me in the least I didn't know it was touched." .An Invaluable Traveling- Companion. l'o persont should travel without a box of Hamburg Figs In his satchel, for they will be found when change or food and water has brought on an attack of constipation, Indi gestion or torpidity of the liver. 25 cents. Dose one fig. At all druggists. Mack Drug Co., K. Y. r MM THE - AWAITING A GENIUS. CiYilized Australia Has Developed Ko Material Literature. CHAHCES THAT SLIPPED AWAY. A Splendid Field Bips for the Blctla of an Antipodean Writer. BALLAD P0ETEI OF THE 6HBEPBHED8 rwxrrrar fob the dispatch, i A land very nearly as large as this conn try, a land peopled with folk co-heirs with us in the grand heritage of English litera ture, vet a land barren of literature; such is Australia. It has its universities, and they are noble foundations; its presses are turning out miles of printed paper every day; yet Australia has no writers. The people have not yet awakened to the bounteous store of material which awaits the magic touch oi the man who knows how to wield the pen. Australia has been written about, it has not yet learned to write its own life; not until that awakening comes will there be an Australian literature. Hen are too busy, the practical side of life is too commonly uppermost for leisnre to scan the underlying truths of life, much less for opportunity to set those truths forth. There is always the wool clip, the gram crop, the mine, theconrse of trade to engross the attention; men grow to .look upon wool, wheat and gold as the sum.of life; the man who turns his thoughts to other matters than Bheep and waving fields is looked upon as in some sort deficient; the others sneer at" his work and let him starve. But twice has their self-satisfied Philistinism been dis turbed; twice only have they discovered too late that genias has been slaughtered among them; too late for regrets they exalt Home and Adam Lindsay Gordon to high-places in memory as the fathers of the Australian literature. 7IBST KECOGNIZED ABEOAD. Home's "Orion" and Gordon's bush bal lads had become classics in England before New Sooth "Wales and Victoria gave them a moment's thought "Why, indeed, should they? What these two wrote had not half the interest of a new treatise on the sheep dip. The Minister of Mines wrote far more interesting matter. Of the two melancholy fathers ot Australian letters Home is not distinctively antipodean. "Orion" might just as well have been written in England or America. With Adam Xiinasay uoraon it is different He is Australian in heart and soul. He writes but what he sees, the life of the bush, the' never ending plains of baked clay over which flickers the constant mirage, the gaunt stems of the gum trees, the umbrella spread of the mallees, the scream of the cockatoo, the emerald flashing of the parrot, the raucous shoot of the laugh ing jackass. Who reads Gordon without being to the manner born needs a glossary to explain the scenery in which the poems are set He needs "no notes to show him the rich hu manity of the poet The tale poor Gordon had to tell was too truthfully told to win him honor among his own. All recognized the faithful picture; the art which made it faithfnl they could not see, nor seeing ap preciate; they thought it ot no account, this home made poetry,until too late they learned that English judgment had given it fame. When Gordon s successor arises they will probably do as they did before, give him a boundary rider's billet at a pound a week and call him a fool for scribbling. THE LITEBABY VEHICLE. Pens spoil as much paper "in Australia as elsewhere. There are dailv papers and weekly papers, monthlies and reviews, bur no literature native to the soil. The month lies and the reviews are mainly political. Grave battles are therein most soberly fought, free trade marshals its forces against protection, narrow gauge fights broad gauge, all is dignity, also stupidity; there can be no literature in this. The dally papers are blankets in size, blankets in lightness; they copy point to point the English, papers, cemeteries of dullness. The only possible literary vehicle is the weekly. These are peculiar to the colonies. They are the only reading of the great mass of people outside the towns. There are al ways 32 pages in each number, sometimes 64 that depends upon the new. Such is the best literary vehicle of the colonies. Yet some write for these papers and their con tributions are poblished. One prominent type adopts such signatures us "Bushman," "Swagsman," "OldColonial," "Old Chum," and the like. They all tell long-winded stories of early days in the colonies, they have no literary ability, and invariably suc ceed in spoiling such stories as they have to tell. AN U1TWOBTHY LATJBEATE. Just one more entry suffices to balance the books of Australian literary taste. Ten years ago the colonies were smarting under the just criticism that they starved their men of genius. The criticism was known to be just because Mother England had passed it Daughter Australia was resolved to sin no more. A man of genius was to be found and fattened, that these literary com munities might never again be accused of starvation treatment Communities whieh starve their poets cannot always find men of genius ready at hand to be invited to feast Sush was the plight of Australia which had starved poor Gordon. It had no genins to be fed. In desperation it grasped a young man in the university at Sydney, a young man who wrote pretty verses on cottony themes. He was no genias, he was no poet, he was nothing bnt a young man who had a facility at rhyme and could make his verses scan. 'Suddenly he found himself famous; bis verse was sought for by ladies with albums, by editors with Poets' Comers to be filled for a 'guinea; publishers solicited his effusions to be offered as a remunerative tribute to the Australian mnse. Bread and meat were forced upon the puerile versifier; he was ordered to grow fat and restore the repntation-of his native land; he became the founder of a school; he still remains the idol of his country, an uncrowned laureate, who is blighting the literary future of his land even more fatally than the neglect of Gordon. " t FIELD FOB THE FUTUBE. When pampered mediocrity has grown old and slipped from his throne, then will come the chance of those whb are to make a true Australian literature with the scent upon it of the gum trees, with the new con ditions of life catting it clear from the En lish model with a greater separation than as ever been possible in America. The young soil is already rich in material await ing the man who shall have the wit to put it to use. There isr history, a few years in time but years crammed with events, his tory which must read like romance. The story of the discovery of New Holland reads like the disordered vatrarlesof fiction. It is no more substantial than a voyage to f find the pot of gold at the further foot or the rainbow arch, for it is the story of the search for King Solomon's mines and the gold of Ophir. While its discovery is the romance pf ad venture, its colonization is the romance of crime of every sort, and its redemption is the romance of. wealth. These are the ma terials of the history which yet remains to be written. Bomance which is not history may well be written on the lives ot the people whose home is in this new land. En glish story tellers have written of this life as something seen from the outside. Some time it will be' written by those who live this life and.can write from the inside. AIT EMBBTO LITEBATUBE. Gordon's muse was lyric, but he has not exhausted the possibilities. Epics may be written in the time to come; there Is mate rial at hand in the range of the bushrangers. Homeric heroes these robbing and killing; there is material in the brave fights of the settlers against marauding blacks and against bands of felon outlaws oft their own skin. True, these are but robbers and cut throat, jet the robber of yesterday h after PITTSBtJEG t - DISPATCH, all, the hero of to-morrow, and Morgan and Captain Moonlight are bound to become in time as heroic as the paladins. - These materials have not been entirely neglected, thongh they have not yet been given their place in literature. A mass of ballad poetry has grown up in the shearing sheds, rude verse devoid of beauty, as un trammeled as to length as Chevy Chase. Bough men, by night when wore is done, sit by the light of crackling fires or smok ing slush lamps and monotonously sing the exploits of Ned Kelly, of the plowshares, who bailed up rich runs and stock np treas ure trains. The mystery of Leichardt, who vanished in the desert; the fate of Burke and Wills, who starved on the interior plains, are favorite themes of this rough verse. Out of such materials will grow in time a distinctive literature. The changed condi tions will necessitate a change in metaphors, new comparisons must be produced under the Southern Cross, all things must be altered. What the result will be must prove of interest to all who believe in the flexibil ity ot our mother tongue. William Chubchill. LOVE OVERRULED OBJECTIONS. The Bomance Which InvolTed Two Young Mon of Brooklyn City. Brooklyn Eagle. Quite a little domestic romance has come to light in the new ward which has ended pleasantly, like all touching love stories which conclude with the statement that they lived happily ever afterward. The young woman and the young man in this little romantic tale are both well known in social circles and in the eastern end of the city, and they are being warmly congratulated by a host of friends over the happy outcome of what might have been otherwise had the parents been hard-hearted. The young man is George Smith, son of Captain Smith, who owns considerable property in this cityi and is quite well-to-do. The young woman is quite pretty, and despite the fact that she is but18 years of age, is well educated, and is in every respect a charming young woman. Her mother, Mrs. Ireland, is a well-to-do woman. The young people were greatly attached to each other, and when it was made known to the parents that marriage was thought of there were very forcible and emphatic ob jections entered upon the ground that age was lacking, and it would be quite well for the young couple to wait until years had added more wisdom to both and more capital to the young man's credit This was wise advice, bat the yoang people were head strong and would not listen to it So the parents sought to restrain their love-making by more lorcible means; but the young couple skipped away one evening and were married. They decided to keep it quiet for a time; but after awhile Mr. Smith made np his mind that he might as well claim his bride, and so he called upon her mother, showed her the marriage certificate, and. said he had made up his mind that as he was married, and as he and his wife were devotedly attached to each other the world might just as well know it, and in the world he included the parents on both sides. The news was received with amazement and unbelief by the parents on both sides, but the wedding certificate was there and recorded, and the young people were evi dently wrapped up in each other, so the pa rents relented, blessed the children, and they have now gone to housekeeping, and the world is all rosy and full of joy to them. BLEEPmO LIFE AWA7. The Somnolent Disease That Carries OCT In habitants of Africa. An interesting account descriptive of the "sleepy disease," peculiar to Africa, is given in the "Journal of an African Cruiser." Persons attacked by this singu lar malady are those who take little exercise and live principally on vegetables, particu larly cassoda and rice. Some observers ascribe it to the cassoda, which is strongly narcotic. Not improbably the climate has much influence, the disease being most prev alent in low and marshy regions. Irresistible drowsiness continually weighs' down the patient, wno can oe Kept awake only for the few minutes needful to take a little food. When this lethargy has lasted three or four months, death comes, .bnt only in the form of deeper slumber. The author of the book mentioned in the opening tells of a member of the royal family of Luakaka who was afflicted with this curious disease: "I found the aspect of Queen Manmee's beautiful granddaughter inconceivably affecting. It was strange to see her so quiet, in a sleep from which it might be supposed she would awake fall of youthful vigor, and yet to know that this was no refreshing slumber, but a spell in which she was fading forever from the eyes that loved her. This young girl was but 14 years of age. With some difficulty she was aroused and woke with a frightened cry a strange broken murmur as if she were looking dimly out in the phantasies of a dream. Her eyes were wild and glassy; rolled wildly in their sockets lor a second, then immediately sunk into the deep and heavy sleep in which we found her. Tne girl had been suffering for abont three months no, not suffering, for, except when forcibly aroused, there appears to be no uneasiness until after the end of the third month of this unnatural slumber, when the victim becomes wild and constantly rolls his or her head from side to side never opening the eyes death ensuing within a few days after these symptoms set in. THE CONDUCTOE'S LOT, It Looks Like aa Easy Job, but He Watches Lots of Thlncs. NewTork World. The average conductor in a railway car takes your ticket and punches it two or three times anywhere in the general en deavor to make queer little holes in it Not so the conductor oUa Pennsylvania Com pany's train. Every long-distance ticket issued by the Pennsylvania road has num bers stamped on it, indicating where it should be punched. Each conductor, as the traveler is handed on from one to the other, punches in a new place with a different kind of punch. Each of these punches is regis tered with the conductor's name, so that, when the ticket is finally taken up and tarned in full of queer holes, the railroad man at the end of the road can tell exactly through whose hands the traveler has passed. If the conductor punches in the wrong place or fails to punch, this is registered against him. The knowledge of this con stant check tends to make him careful to get all the tickets and to punch them properly. Altogether the conductor is a pretty busy man. After his trip is over he has two hours of solid work sorting out tickets, bal ancing those over his division and making up his cash account On the suburban roads these conductors' accounts are-fooled up every day for every train, so that the company knows every day just howmuch each train has earned the day before. Of course, all this means hard work for the conductor. .WATCH CLUBS ILLEGAL. At Iienst They Are Held to be Lotteries Ac eordlnc to New Hampshire Law. Jewelers' Weekly. A jeweler of Gralton county, N. H., re cently wrote to the Attorney General in closing the prospectus of a watch club which he was about to organize, and inquiring whether or not conducting business on the system he had adopted would be a violation of the laws. Attorney General Barnard replied as fol lows: "I have no hesitation in saying that the scheme is a lottery within the meaning ot the laws of New Hampshire. It involves substantially the tame sort of gambling as any other lottery. It appeals to the same disposition for engaging in hazard and chance with the hope of a sreat return for L small outlay," SUNDAY; AUGUST 24, TURNING FLIP-FLAPS. Champion William Haas Tells.Boys How to Become Athletes. GROUHD TUMBLING AS HIGH ART. Advice to Beginners That Say Save Broken Limbs and Kecks. EEC0ED3 THAT AREH'T EAST TO BEAT tWUlTTU JOS THX DISTATCH. There are very few general tricks in a gymnasium that I cannot do wilh more or less success. I won the horizontal bar ama teur championship of the boy turners at the New York Turnverein events in 1884, and I have a fair knowledge of ' the rings, trapeze, clubs and other apparatus. In addition to this I won the amateur "3V championship of America in tumbling at the Amen W"!$l!l'ir can Athletic Club games SWk3 in 188C and two ?" later I won the American Sack Somersault. amatenr championship in boxing in the bantam class. I do not mention these facts to tell yon who I am, but simply to bring out one fact That fact is, I owe all my success in ama teur athletics and gymnastics to my early training in tumbling, and as this article is intended to illustrate and describe tricks in tumbling, I want to impress upon my read ers at the start that the exercise of tum bling it not only beneficial for the time being, bat is one of the most valuable aids to other feats that is known. when to begin. " How yonng should a boy begin to practice tumbling? That is a question I am asked nearly every week of the month. That de pends upon the boy. If he is strong and healthy, with no weak points, the earlier the better after he is 6 years old. Not too hard practice at first, of course, but simple, light work, about half an hour a day, and always under the direction of some one who knows something about the exercise. This is the way I began. I belong to an athlete family; several of my brothers hold championships or have held them, and of course I was greatly inteMsted in nil kinds of athletic workandnaa abundant onportunities to gratify my taste. I used to go to the Fifth street gymnasium of the Excelsior Athletic Club, where my broth ers practiced. There I saw some professional tumblers ns practice. -,,,., They caught my fancy, iW"2flBSySfelJ and I imitated all their MtoSffi' tricks. I tried even the fancy ones, but at OntXorward Somersault, I made very poor work of them. LEABKED THEM COBBECTLT. But by hard work and steady practice I washable to do the simple ones, and, having learned them from masters of the art, I ac quired fewer faults than I would have done had I picked them up myself. Everybody should have some sort of a teacher. Now, as to apparatus made to help beginners turn somersaults and the like. It is very rood, but it is not essential. I had a man aid me by standing by my side and helping me around with a cut on my thighs until I had got confidence enough to do the trick alone. Tumbling exercises every muscle in a boy's body. If he begins work when he is 5 or 6 years old (I was 7) he grows np as limber as an eel. Even it he begins when he is 12 or 14 years old and I wouldn't ad vise any boy to begin later than that it makes the movements of his muscles free rand easy, and gives him grace, agility and confidence.. OTTES A BOT SFEED. My success in boxing lies in my quick ness, and my quickness came from tumbling. It makes a boy sure on his feet It gives him power over each separate set of muscles. He can save himself from falls, dodge and escape punishment where otherwise he might suffer. But enough of this. I think I have made my theory sufficiently plain for those who do not understand tumb ling, and those who do have no need of any thing that can be writ ten to make them ap preciate it more than tbey do. In learning tumbling I would ad ivise that the tricks should be learned in the following order: Hand stand, hand -spring, Bnap-up, flip-flap, back somersault and lorward somersault After these comes the fancy tricks. Start for Mack Bomer- I will now describe gault. someofthesimpletricks and tell how they should be learned. WALKING FEET UPWABD. The hand-stand is done by standing on the hands, with the heels up in the air. It is easily learned, and should at first be prac ticed by leaning the feet against the wall until the beginner can keep a balance away from any support The hand-spring should be praoticed on a mattress in learning. This trick consists in standing up, throwing up the hands and the body at the same movement and pitching forward on to the hands, throwing the legs over the head and pushing with the arms until the circle is completed and the per former stands erect on his feet again. In learning it you should advance one leg, bending the body backward slightly, ex tending the arms up. Throw yourself on to your bands with a good spring, sending the hindmost leg over quickly, and instantly following with the other. As you may rest on your hands only for an instant the arms should be kept still, the chest thrown oat and the head thrown back. THE BECOVEBT. As yon are falling backward pnsh from the fingers, throwing the head forward, and bring the legs under as far as possible. With a little practice youwill find yourself able to come up in position to do another hand spring, with the body bent ready for the spring. When this trick ends your per- iormaucs uu uiu come up straight, with the body erect and in a natural position. The snap-up, which consists in lying flat on your back on the ground and by one movement coming on to your feet, standing erect, is a sim ple trick and is very useful in the way of covering mistakes. For instance, in a rotation of tricks, such as a row of flip-flaps, windingup with a back somersault, the performer is apt to tlin. In that case ha recovers from his fall with a snap-up, and the spectator is not the wiser, This is tne way the trick is learned: Lie Sand Bland. on your back at fall length. Baise your arms above your head, with the hands open. Baise your legs over your head, throwing yourself on to your shoulders with a sbc. spring from the hands and sboulders,Jin5 with a quick movement send youfseif up, bringing the legs down under tne body. The feat will describe a semi-cjrcle. As soon as the feet have made thewrai. elrcle you are apt to lose control of 7vLntt, falling back to your original position Jq. avoid this bring the feet under theJLjfl, and as they nearly touch tne 8ronndKri , the head forward as well ai the oomrtnK v . PtW w Ml 'V 3X $&&& 1890. the waist np, at the same time drawing the feet under with a sharp, vigorous, inward kick. The snap-up can also be jdone without touching the hands 'to the ground, bnt this can only be done by an expert performer. It is executed the same as the former, only the hands are not used. The snaD is from the shoulder and is done with great force, sending the body high enough up to allow the feet to rest on the ground before the Im petus is lost and the body falls back to its original place. THE TLIP-PLAP. The flip'-flap is simply a backward hand spring. This is the best way for a beginner to learn it: He shonld stand on one end of a mattress with his back toward this pro tection, his legs slightly apart, arms straight and body bent forward. Stoop and make a backward spring, throwing the arms and head back and bending the body from the waist up backward, at the same time throw ing the legs up and over the head, pitching over on the hands. With a spring from the hands and arms he will come on to his feet again. A succession of flip-flaps ending with a backward somersault makes a striking feat I have done 24 flip-flaps in a space of eicht feet Bnt I would not advise any of my younger readers to try and accomplish this feat the first week of their practice. It is extremely difficult and very few amateurs have ever equaled it Though it is not hard to do another flip-flap after ending the first, as the impetus carries youon, still more than two are apt to be fatig uing and require more confidence in your Fllp-Jlap half way skill than you might round. think possible. THE SOMEBSATLTS. The forward somersault is executed by jumping and throwing the legs over the head in the air and alighting on the feet in the original position. It is, if anything, easier to learn than the backward, though I advise the backward to be learned fiart as a rule, but to do it in good style is a difficult task. It cannot be learned withont numer ous falls and the mattress is particularly needed in practice. Don't give it up but persevere. It is not so hard as it looks. An easy way to learn it is by making a short ran, jumping up from both feet at once, throwing the arms down and head and shoulders forward with a quick spring, let ting the legs go backward at the same time. Ton will be assisted in this trick by catch ing the legs below the knees with your hanas when you are highest in the air and drawing the knees toward your body, letting them go as yon touch the ground with your feet THE BACK SOMEESATJLT. I have already told you how I employed help to get around in 'the back somersault. Now I will tell you how the trick is done withont such aid. To execute a backward somersault,yStand with the feet apart and the arms upraised. To start, bring the arms down quickly, then raise them as high as possible, as though trying to lift yourself. At the same instant with a jump throw your legs over your head, catching your thigh. I have done 11 back somersaults in rotation. Here are some pretty fancy tricks that may be tried after the simple ones are learned: For instance, there is the round off, which is simply a hand-spring made by turning sideways on the hands and feet, like a wheel. This, together with the twisting flip-flap and forward somersault makes a very attractive feat OTHEB FANCY TBICK3. The twisting flip is a back flip with a twist The twist is made when the per former is half way around. He comes down with his face forward instead of back ward. One of the hardest of all fancy tricks is the twisting back somersault After be ginning the somersault, while the performer is in the air, he twists his body, alighting with his face toward his audience instead of his back, as would have been the case had he thrown a simple back somersault These are enough tricks to describe at one time. When you have learned them all new combinations are certain to come to you, and then you can make your own fancy tricks. But let me advise you once more to learn the simple ones first Yon must tumble before you can twist William Haas. COLOHEL PEYTON'S PATB10TIC IDEA. Hi Wants the Torktown Battlefield to Be come Public Property. Hew York Telegram. Colonel W. 0. Peyton, of Haddonfield, N. J., the venerable patriot, who has worked diligently for the success of all the national celebrations for generations past, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Hi is now imbued with the idea that the National Government should purchase the land upon which the last battle of the Bevolntion was fought at Yorktown, "Va., after which CornwaTIis laid down his arms. "It is due the people of this country," said Colonel Peyton to a Telegram reporter, "that Congress acquire title to the battle field at Yorktown, now known as Temple Farm, and the building, Moore House, which Washington, Lafayette and Bocham beau made their headquarters, and where the treaty with Cornwallis was signed. The property consists of 500 acres, and is the property of a Virginian, who finds it im possible to care for the historic ground. The National Government should purchase it, lay oat a military parade ground and sta tion caretakers there, whose duty it would be to show visitors the different points of in terest and preserve the revolutionary relicsT When the Congressional delegation visited the Yorktown monument on June 17, the one hundred and fifteenth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, I accompanied them, and they were unanimous in their opinion that the battle field should become the property of the National Government. The monument there is one ot the hand somest in the world, from the design of Sculptor J. C. A. Ward, and it would be an outrage to neglect such a spot." Colonel Peyton will probably draft a bill providing for" the purchase of the historic field. THE HEW SOUTH. All Intelllsent Classes UecoffnlZB the Ml- tnBo of the War. rnllaaelphla Times. District Attorney Graham has just re turned from an extended journey in the South. He says: "One cannot help but be struck with the universal sentiment against slavery now in the South. If it were possi ble to restore the old institution no one would want to. One soldier who served and suffered in the lost cause said: "We were blind when we entered the war. It was a war for secession, but behind that was slavery. Blinded by our interests and property rights we were unable to see that slavery was doomed, and that God was solv ing the problem of its removal in the only way that it could be done. It was an evil that had to be cut out by tbe roots. We see more clearly now, and realize that it is far better for us that slavery Isone.' "The colored people seem happy and con tented. They are making considerable prog ress, too. They have an insatiable thirst for education. Even old men and women persevere and study to read and write. Some think this not an unmixed good; education breeds discontent and other evils, but I can not help regardingit as a very great good. I; far better to have intelligent masses than igSoraE$.?ne." 'relations with tfie 1(ortl1;, he aks that the "Tbe South ifM i-day earnestly desires closer people Of the l1'.1 near wiioaerpa tl.ntiT whila Mtifi solves some of the hard wohlew thriPon her. She U wrestling LIKE 'THE PENDULUM Business Swings Regularly From One Extreme to the Other. HOW 05 TH3 PROSPERODS SIDE. A Proper Time for Bagacions Hinds to Look Intorthe Future. IS A DilPEESSlON CICLE . COMING? iwmriJJt oa imt disfatcs.1 An English writer upon political economy says that working people, capi talists and all that are connected with busi ness in any way should remember that "very prosperous trade is sure to be followed by a collapse and bad trade." These ups and downs have been shown to be almost as regular as the tides o( the sea. In England these "credit cycles," as they are called, last about ten years, according to the state ments of those who have studied tbe subject Tbey begin with depression in business, a few years of hard times,, which gradually grow better until there comes a boom when everything is prosperous and cheerful. With visions of wealth in view, filled with high hope and courage, new enterprises are begun, new schemes are projected, com panies are "formed and syndicates organized to rake in fortunes. Fabulous tales are told of peonle who have made enormous sums on very small capital. GET IN A HUBBY. Everybody is anxious to get on the high road to wealth. Everybody takes a notion to speculate in oil or gas or gold mines or silver shares or real estate even If they have to borrow the money to do it Then some thing drops in the business world. A panic may perhaps follow and then collapse. This is the general course whether the credit cycle is 10 years or 20. Then everybody wants to "unload," as they say it at the Exchange, at once. Business grows bad, the tide has turned, and instead of leading on to fortune, it draws into deeper misfortune until the bottom has been reached, and hard times and blasted hopes are left as testimony to the foolishness of man. "No person who keeps his eyes open and reads the papers can doubt for a moment that Pittsburg is experiencing an era of re markable prosperity, being lull of business, with an abundance of money to keep things moving," says one ol our business writers. This is very true, but what is needed now to avoid a collapse is for people to exercise care and caution, and not to catch the fever of speculation, nor to rush into risks and incnr liabilities that, in case of trouble, would break them up to pay. This is the time to be wise and prudent, in order to pre vent such commercial disaster or crisis that ruined bo many in years agone. EXPERIENCE OF '73. Those who were caught in the panic of '73 are not likely to forget the lesson taught by bitter experience, bnt the world is by no means lacking in fools, and a new crop of voongmen have come to the front since that Black Friday which filled so many homes with mourning, and gave so many well-to-do people a taste of pinching poverty. In old times men depended npon hard work and economy to build up their fortunes, but nowadays they think more of Incky strikes and fortunate speculations. Whether it is owing to . increased waves of heat from the sun which, as is claimed, come every 10 or 11 years and bring good harvests and make people more hopeful and confident than usual, it is certain that a large number can be counted upon to lose their heads during an "era of remarkable prosperity," and plunge into all manner of schemes for making money fast Men have the same tendencies as sheep. If one jnmps over the fence, over they all go without pausing to reason why. the boom xar OIL. All can remember when nearly every man was "stuck" on oil. The teachers, the preachers, the lawyers, the doctors, all had a few shares in oil, and some of them who did not get in out of the wet in time have tbem yet, though the companies are "busted up" long ago. Everyone was eager to grow rich by oil, and men and women speculated with all tbe money they conld scrape up or borrow. Some who were lucky made money, others lost all they had in tbe world. As a general rule, says our political economist, "it is foolish to do jnst what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing." This is exactly what was proven to their cost by many of those who invested in oil during tbe excitement, when bobble com panies were formed only to glitter for a time before they burst and sunk out of sight It begins to look now as if men, like the sheep, were all jumping over the fence in specula tion as to real estate. Everybody wants to grow rich by buying land at wholesale and selling it at retail with great profit TBEBE'S DANGEB AHEAD. This is legitimate bargain and sale, but nothing is .surer than that somebody, in business parlance, will, get left To buy a lot, build a house and secure a pleasant home is a laudable ambition. With such an object in view people are encouraged to habits of thrift and careful economy. 'To have a home of their own to beautify and adorn, to sit under tbe shadow of their own vine, to have no landlord collecting rent, is the hope of millions of people at the outset of life, and tbe goal they fain would reach. Many except for that would save nothing of what they earn. Bnt while there are always such buyers in plenty, there are others taking tbe fever of speculation, and it is these who need to be come cautious and prudent Before rushing in they should have some capital to go in on and a reasonable hope of being able to make payments as they fall due. It industrial depression should come in whatsbape would it find them? How would they meet their obligations? TaKE THIS, TOE INSTANCE. A man I heard of the other day, under the force of excitement and the eloquence of a iauu acui. paiu x,vuu lor a lot wmcu nas such disadvantages as would make it a costly elephant at half the money. Now that man did not walr: around that lot and pause to consider at each of its four corners. He did not take counsel of his senses, and quietly weigh the pros and cons In "the leis ure of his armchair in tbe evening, or put it to thelast test of steady brains sleep on it until alter tbe bargain was made. Then he found out the faults very quickly. Now tbey say men do not do such foolish things.. But they do. They are doing it new with the prospect of much swearing and gnashing of teeth hereafter. The wisest men get caught by speculation. Tbe famous Sonth Sea babble that rained so many peo ple in England at one time gives testimony that people lose all their prudence at soch times of excitement It is related of the Mississippi scheme gotten up by George Law in France, that the people were so anxions for shares that paid 120 per cent dividends that tbey crowded Law's house and blocked up the streets in front of it to secure an opportunity to buy shares. Bot the crisis came and caused widespread dis aster. OEOBOE'S EXPLANATION. Henry George asserts that these credit cycles of industrial depression with eras of prosperity arethe clear result of speculation in land. It bis theory be accepted, it fol lows that to avoid these recurring seasons of bad trade and bard times, speculation in land should be discouraged for the general good, but who thinks of that In the haste to get rich without work. George holds that when land grows high in price the direct effect is to lower wages, and that speculation in real estate deepens poverty and promotes pauperism. Aronnd this theory he in geniously builds a wall of testimony which shows that landowners In a growing com munity are those wbo get rich, and that the way to success for a wage earner is to buy landiocarefalIythat.it will Increase in value year byirear, and tfcea It will aofci much matter if his wages do get lower or hi poor taxes greater. if Mr. George imagines that ordinary men, as they exist at present, will be re strained from speculating in land for the purpose of making money by the idea that such action will lower wages and crowd the poorhouses his ideas will certainly never materialize in this day or generation. The greatest good to tbe greatest number is the theory, but that that number is to be No. 1 is the practice of self-interest THE PBESENT OUTLOOK. The prevalence of strikes all over the country showsthat there is much dissatis faction betwee'n employers'and employed. These are costly tests of strength, and are generally disastrous for both parties. The loss of wages during these strikes, if long continued, will affect business, and depres sion will follow. Instead of striking at such a time there shonld be saving to avert the ill effects of a crisis if it shonld come. No one need prophesy evil In view of the present prosperity, but experience has shown that these seasons of dullness and re duced wages do in course of time follow "remarkable eras of prosperity," and the prudent man will foresee the evil and be particularly careful as to what enterprises he goes into when hope is most crowned with richest blossoms. When things are booming is tbe time to look out for snags or hidden rocks. There seems to be little ground for alarm, but there is always plenty of need for prudence and careful considera tion. "Wisdom is a defense and money il a defense," saith Ecclesiastes the Preacher, therefore it would be well to possees both. Bessie Bbamble. btabch op the mouth. That Necessary Orzaa Is felowly TravelUsT Toward the Left Ear. Paris Edition New York Herald. It has been discovered that the human mouth has a steady motion toward the left of the lace which will, in time, bring it somewhere in the neighborhood of the left ear. Man has an invincible tendency to eat only with the teeth that are on the left side of his mouth. This wears out the left teeth more rapidly than the right teeth, and this in turn gives the upper and lower jaw an in clination toward the left It is the opinion of a learned scientific per son that in the coarse of a few millions of years the human mouth will have complete ly changed its position, and will be situated rather nearer to the left ear than to the nose. While no fault can be found trith the train of reasoning that has led the scientifio person to this conclusion, he would never theless possibly find it difficult to explain why the mouth should pause when it reaches the left ear. If the habit of chewing on the left side of the mouth can move it a fourth of the way around the head, it is evident that a continuance of the habit will in time cause the mouth to make the complete cir cuit of the bead. Fortunately we can save our descendants from having mouths at the back of their heads by resolutely eating on the right side as well as the lelt side of onr mouths, but unless we do this persistently the march of the mouth toward tbe lelt' will continue with all its painful consequences. THE FIRST EXERES3 PACKAGE. The Way the Great Companies Cams Iota Existence Years Aco. Chicago Tribune. The first express package carrier was rather consumptive-looking young man of the name of Harnden (his given name has escaped my memory) who in 1836 instituted the business in New York City by calling on bankers, brokers and merchants with a carpet-bag and soliciting the carrying of money and other valuable packages be tween that city and Boston. Like all new undertakings, it was not long before a com. petitor appeared in the person of Alvah Adams, who selected Philadelphia as his objective point, and who adopted the same tactics as Harnden. James Hoey. who is now n prominent figure in The Adams Express Company, and a re puted millionaire, was at that time a yonng Irish boy employed to sweep out a 10x15 office on'Williain street, west side, between Wall and Pine, and to deliver and call for packages whicn became too large for the carpet-bag. The business grew rapidly, the trunk took the place of the carpet-bag, succeeded by iron-bound crates strongly padlocked, which had to give way to box-cars on truck wheels, for tbe convenience of transfer from the New York and Providence line of steam boats to the Boston and Providence Bail road. Harnden continued the Eastern route and Adams the Sonthern. Later on a consolidation took place under the present title and Harnden's Express was merged into the Adams Express Company. BOUGH 703 UBS. BLAHTE, JB. Her Physician Comes Back From Europe Prepared to Kill or Cnre Her. New York World.: Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., returned to New York on Thursday, and will for the immediate future be located at the New York Hotel. Her five weeks in Saratoga have been of appreciable and visible benefit to her. She has gained in weight, and, what is of more consequence, she has gained in strength. When she reached the Springs she was hardly able to move around her room, but before she left she could, with the assistance of her crutches, easilymove along the Diazza. Dr. Ball, who has performed all the more recent operations of which she has been at once the victim and tbe beneficiary, has jnst returned from Europe and as a result'of his consultations with various specialists in Paris he desires to conduct a final operation both on her right leg and right arm. As L understand it, this operation involves cut ting the tendons in both cases, tbe breaking of tbe shon'der blade ana the breaking of the knee. When these are reset and have healed up it is hoped that she will have a measureable control over these important parts of her body. She is certainly looking very well now, and everybody hopes she will improve ai much daring the next three months as she has during the three months jnst passed. GAMING FOB A MAJPS LIFE, A Divided Jury Flay a Round of Sercn-Uo to "etllo the Question. Atlanta Constitution. Before the war a man was on trial in Lau derdale county for murder. The circum stantial evidence against the man was very strong, and when the jury retired and took a ballot the result was six for con viction and six for acquittal. It remained this way for two days and nights, neither side showing any disposition to change their minds. At last one of the jury named Sil vertooth proposed a game of seven-up be tween the opposing sides, one man to be se lected from each side, and whoever won the losing side were to stand by the result This was agreed to, and Silvertootb, who was in of favor acquitting the prisoner, and another Juror, who was strongly in favor of conviction, commenced the game. It was a hotly contested game, and each" juror had scored six points when it came Silvertooth's turn to deal. He shuffled the cards care fully and dealt forth the sufficient number to each, and then turned a jack, which made him win the game and saved the prisoner's life. Tbe six who were for conviction voted with the other six for acquittal, and the prisoner was discharged from custody. I.Gallty of Assault and Battery Upon your stomach with blue pill, podoohillln or other rasplne purgatives, positively despair of helping jour liver. Violence committed upon yonr inner man will do no good. Beat bslp, prompt and tboroueh, is to be found m tbe wholesome antl-bllloua medicine, Hostet ters Stomach Bitters, which la, morecyer, productive of happy results in malarial disease, rheumatism, dyspepsia, nervousness andklcV nsy trouble. iL L wiit !j! ihi J& g SsHKliiiiiiliiHBiiMHIiaoHoiHHEPPi.iHliiiiiiiK 1EB1sssss.sBEEmBbBBBES
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