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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."
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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
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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.
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