interrupted by some huge sea -which would sweep him off to leeward, whereupon he would coolly swim back and resume bis seat and profanity simultaneously. , During the squall the whales had disap peared, and when we finally reached the ehip it was blowing so hard that we had to double reef our topsails and finally heave to. The gale increacd in violence until.it blew a perfect hurricane, and for four days and nights we were at the mercy of the ele ments. The Triton was built of solid material and was originally intended for the Arctic wnal I ing rround. Although ugly to look at and a dull sailor, she was an excellent sea boat The seas were the largest I ever saw in my long experience, but we rode out the gale .with trifling damage. After cruising un- successfully for whales for some time, we laid our course again for FavaL where we fere to ship men and fresh provisions. ' On September 20 we met the bark At lantic ot New Bedford and "gammed" her. " "-! cannot give my readers the origin of this woru, but it means to visit each other, ex change readme matter, swap jackknives, ing, dance, and tell improbable stones of our adventures. The Captain takes a boat's crew and goes on board the other vessel, while the mate of that ship takes a crew of his men and the same boat and goes to the first-named craft Then the two ships jog alone near each other, sometimes for two or three davs, until the Captains get tired of each other, or feel that they have no more time to spare. The crew of the Atlantic had seen whales the dav before, and when we parted it was in the hope that we might soon "strike oil." Our first mate, who was full of supersti tious notions, made us grease the "try pots," a' the huge boilers are called where the oil is boiled out, in hopes that it would bring us luck. "Whether there was any virtue in this performance or not, certain it is that the next Sunday we killed three small whales which made. 46 barrels. As we were short-handed the Captain's boat did not lower andl am unable to give the detail', whichiiowever, were dull and un eventful. - ' At last on November 20, we sighted Faval, and beat up between the islands, in tending to ship our oil home. The Captain's boat was lowered and I took my place with the rest, and pulled him to the rude stone pier, which is the only means of landing. Ve were not allowed to get out, but told 'to return to the ship at once, leaving Captain Keys on shore. Four days we laid "off and on" rather than anchor, and in the mean time we shipped several natives and one "beach-comber," or runaway sailor, an Irishman, and a native of New Jersey, and without anv exception the most nnblusninc, monumental liar with whom I have ever been associated. But more of him anon. CHAPTER IH. I TAKE A SWTJL About this time I discovered the real length of the voyage, and in addition to this I received letters from home which gave me a severe fit of homesickness, sol Compelled to Learn Tattooing. determined to run away at the first oppor tunity. I soon found that the steward was similarly disposed, and one dark night as the vessel was within what we considered about a mile of the rocks, we quietly dropped over the bow and swam for the 'beach. The steward had tied an oilskin bag about his neck and filled it with our little trinkets with which we hoped to bribe someone to hide us. I may as well confers that the bag was one of the" legs of my oil skin breeches. Everything promised success, but some ibow the shore seemed to retreat as fast as we advanced, and, as my companion found himself unable to untie the knot with which he had fastened his precious bag to his neck, he became exhausted and began to shout lustilv for help. I was determined to escape, so I struck out vigorously and soon left him far behind. I swam until I became thoroughly chilled and ray limbs moved painfully, for it was November, and the water was chilly, even in that latitude. Pinally I divested myself, piece br piece, of my clothing. Then I began to despair, and "strange ringing noises sounded in my ears and all my past life seemed to pass before me like a panorama. I indistinctly heard some one snouting, and then I lost consciousness. "When I opened mv eyes next I was lying in the bottom ot a boat, the seas breaking over me often, half frozen, half drowned and hardly able to realize what had hap pened. I found the ship's crew had heard the steward's cry and lowered a boat, picked him up, found out who was his companion, and started after me. A stray moonbeam struggled out from behind the clouds, and the keen-eyed boat steerer had caught a glimpse of my head as I sank insensible be neath the waves and had plunged into the water and caught me by the hair. "When we reached the ship the mate gave us dry clothes, as our own were already ap propriated by our shipmates, although I afterward recovered most of mine. Next dav the Captain came on board, and we were placed in irons. The steward was Jput in the empty potato locter, while the jCaptain turned to me and shouted: I "You long ghost, take your bed and get wown into the blubber tub under the main hatch." And I did. I staved there till we were out to sea again. I was supposed to be liv ing on hard tack and water, but as the steer age boy climbed over the casks and kept me supplied with fruit I had no fault to find and considered I got off easily. About this time there was an awful row ever the food every day in the forecastle, and one of the crew named Henry and my self took advantage of it to play a practical joke on the cook, who was a green Portu guese we had shipped at Fayal in place of a deserter. There was a big, clumsy Dutchman among the crew, and we told him the best way'to fix the cook was to wait until the following morning, when all went in line to the little square window in the cook's house, where each man presented his pan and re ceived liis "whack," or allowance, of hard tack, soaked in salt water, mixed with a lit tle grease and warmed up, which goes by the euphonious title of "lob scouse." ft was arranged that when Hans presented his pan and received his allowance he should throw the contents in the cook's face. "By dunder, I does it." said Hani, lou'ly. Later in the day the idea possessed me that the joke misfit be improved upon, so I quietly informed the cook of Hans' friendly intentions, and the next morning the finale came. Hans arrived in his turn at the window, received his "scouse," and attempted to ornament the cook's head with the same, when to his surprise the cook rushed out of the galley with a huge club and dealt him such a blow over the head that he fell on deck, whereupon the cook would certainly Tttv have killed him had not some of us dis armed him. This cured me of practical jokes for a long time to come. After leaving Faval we headed for Cape de Verd Islands, and on December 3 we were in the trade winds. An immense school of blackfish was sighted, and wo killed 13. It was tame work for the old hands, bnt we greenhorns enjoyed it im mensely. The oil is used to burn in the ship's lamps. It is a dirty oil, with a vile stench, but good enough lor a whaler to have. One would naturally suppose we could burn the best of sperm oil, but on the same principle that a shoemaker wears rag ged shoes, so a whaler burns the poorest oil. Havine reached the port of Brava in the Cape de Verdes, we shipped a new boat steerer, two sailors, and a boy. "We also took on board potatoes, oranges, bananas, melons and other fruit also two pigs. On December 21 we raised a large school of sperm whales and gave chase, but our un lucky star seemed to be in the ascendancy, Just the Han We Want. for our boat steerer missed his whale, the second mate fastened to a fine large bull, but a loose whale became entangled in the line and parted it, and the third mate's harpoon tore out, and he also came back empty handed. The first mate killed our only prize. For the next two days w e were busy cutting in our whale and trying out I have read many descriptions of this opera tion in print, but never one that seemed to have been written by a whaleman, so I will endeavor to give the reader some idea of the way in which it is done. When the whale is brought alongside the ship a strong chain is passed about the "small," which is the part of the animal be tween its body and the fan-like tail, or "flukes." This chain is carried in through the hawse pipes (where the anchor chains run out when in port), and is fastened se curely on deck. The head of the whale is then cut off, and before it is entirely severed a chain is fastened to it, so it will not sink when free from the carcass. "When sep arated it is allowed to sink out of the way until the body is disposed of. The body is then stripped of its blubber in the same "way one would peel an apple, bythe use of two tackles and huze hooks. A strip some four feet wide is started and one of the hooks in serted: then the crew heave steadily on the windlass and slowly roll the body over, while the officers stand on a temporary plat form, rigged out from the ship's side, and cut the strip clear from the whale with long handled spades ground keen as a razor. When all the blubber is on board the car cass is examined tor ambercris by running a spade through the intestines in every direc tion. Ambergris, as many doubtless know, is the results of indigestion in a whale, and is a hard substance which forms internally, ultimately causing death to his "whale ship." Its presence is readily detected by the means mentioned. If nothing of the kind is found, the body is allowed to drift oft, while myriads of sharks and birds of various kinds speedily devour it The head of a sperm whale is one-third the entire length of his body, and often yields fully as muph oil as the rest of the whale. It is cut into two wedge-shaped pieces along a line running from just above the mouth back to the top of the head. The upper piece where the two spout holes are located contains a sack or "case" filled with pure spermaceti, which is simply bailed out with a bucket I have seen 15 barrels taken from one case. The case is then abandoned as useless. The remaining half of the head is called the "junk," and is composed of alternate lajer: of rich, oilv fat, and a tough, worthless membrane which is called "white horse." These liners are carefully separated, the latter thrown over board and the former put into the try pots. When the oil is all boiled out of the blub ber the pieces are skinned off and used for fuel. The. oil is allowed to stand on deck a day or two to cook and then stowed below. During this operation ot "trying" each watch has six hours on deck and the next six to sleep, night and day, until the oil is disposed of, and as every person on board is paid only his share of the net proceeds of the voyage, all hands work with a will. For the benefit of the curious I will say that the Captain's "lay" or share is usually from 10 to 15 that "is, he gets one barrel out of every 10 or 15 the ship brings or sends home. From this the lay is grad uated to the boat steerers, who get the seventy-fifth lay. And then comes an awful gap. The sailor gets one barrel in 175 and the green hands the two hundredth layl A few figures will show how rich one of the latter gets when, after a four-year's voyage, the chip comes home with perhaps 2,000 barrels of oil. He usually starts in with a debt of at least $150 for board and outfit, and when to this is added the clothes, shoes hats, tobacco, &c, which he has from the "slop chett" during the voyage, is it any wonder he is almost invariably in debt to the owner when he returns, and glad to get trusted right over again at the same exorbi tant prices? If I lelt any anxiety as to the bill of fare on December 25 it was speedily dissipated. No one would ever have known it was Christmas Day, and we took our "lobscouse" and "swankey" as usual. Perhaps our daily dinners may be a warn ing to some would-be sailor, so I will ap pend a list of them : Monday Pea soup. Tuesday Bean soup. Wednesday e fcoup. Tliursdav DnlT." Friday 1'ea soup. fcatnrd ly United rice. Sunday "Duff." Sailors don't call things by their right names, but I could never see whv pea soup was always "doc's body," and boiled rice "strike me blind." Our breakfast and supper were alwavr the same. Salt beef one day and salt pork the next, and even here the old tar perverts salt beet into "horse." Every sailor has seen some old "shell back" sitting on his chest with a big beef bone in his hand, repeating: Old horse, old horse. What Drought you her From Sacarap To Portland Piert You're killed by kicks And sole abuse. And salted down For sailors' use. After our whale was.safely stowed below a long period of inaction followed. We shaped our course lor the Cape of Good Hope, for we were destined for New Zea land, where we would make our head quarters. It was while making this trip I had my first serious trouble with a shipmate, and my propensity tor fun was the direct caue. One of the Portuguese we had shipped at Brava was a large, powerful man, with a name as long as a topsail yard, which the mate very summarily curtailed to Enos. He had been on a short cruise on a whaler be fore, and spoke only a few words of English. The new clothes with which he was fur nished were too 'precious to wear, so he patched his old rags' till Joseph's coat would have been unnoticed on.com parison. One pair of breeches in particular was the delight of the whole crew. It was literally covered with little patches about an inch square. One day as 'he started to ascend the forecastle stairs I remarked to one of the men sitting near me: "Enos breeches look just like a checker board." He must have either misunderstood me, or else hit knowledge of the language didn't extend to checker-boards, for he un derstood me to say that I would find a chance to "chuok 'em overboard;" so down he came with fire in-his eye, and in a minute there was the livliest'kind ot a fight in progress. Science is of no avail in a forecastle, with the floor all saturated with grease and the chests leaving only a passage way. Anything is fair kick, bite or scratch and 'too often a knife finally and seriously enters into such affairs. On this occasion we were pulled apart by the rest, and the mistake was explained, bdt we never became very friendly, and both car ried some ugly bruises for some time. One of the "gees" was a bright young chap, and when he came on board at Brava the mate asked his name, as is customary, to enter it in the tablets of his memory for use when the youth's services were re quired. The little chap responded glibly: "Juan Ignacia de Francisca." The expression on the mate's face was a study for a painter. He let out a string of his choicest oaths, and, pointing to the tore castle, finallvripped out: "Go to the devil your name is John Smith!" And John Smith it was from that day. A few days after my troublo with Enos a large school of porpoises came under our bows and the second' mate struck one with a harpoon. We had an agreeable change from salt meat, for while porpoise steaks would hardly equal a tenderloin, they tasted very delicious to poor Jack. The brains were fried in meal for the cabin, and are really a delicacy. I secured the lining of the porpoise's stomach, and with the aid of our carpenter and an old cheese box manu factured a rude but serviceable banjo, which beguiled many a weary hour in the dog watch. There were four of us Americans who made a very fair quartet, and often when "gamtriing" another vessel we were sent for to come to the cabin and entertain the skippers with our music Our reper toire was very extensive, if not choice, and we always received unbounded applause, and, to offset the satisfaction it gave us, we were often treated by some of the crew in a manner which showed us how jealous they felt of our popularity. By this time we were all well up in our duties on shipboard, and all our watch could take a "trick" at the wheel in fine wcatber. I was gaining in health and strength. In fact, I was in splendid condi tion, and must have weighed 200 pounds, at least Our duties were light. We had "watch and watch" always, and the only break in the monotony was to hoist up a cask of water once a week to fill the "scut tle butt," and once a mouth the "slop chest" was opened and the goods displayed to tempt us. Brogans which on shore would be dear at 0 cents were $2 50. Thin cotton shirts, S2. Flannel shirts, 3 SO and poor tobacco Si per pound. Each man was allowed to draw one pound per month, and those who had no use for it took it just the same and traded it with the others for clothes, knives, etc. Being an inveter ate consumer myself, I was obliged to develop a talent for tattooing, and many a sailor to-day carries rhe iudeiible results of my labor in various portions of his anatomy. I had a monopoly and I worked it for all it was work. My fee was one pound of to bacco, paid in advance, and I reaped quite an harvest Later in the voyage, when no one cared to be butchered further, I set up in marine painting, and with some old water colors' and unbounded confidence I embellished the inside covers of the chests with terrinc battles with wha!es,boats shoot ing into the air.etc., while the sea was always blood red in the foreground. I was in the first flush of success at tattoo ing when we had our first exciting adven ture with the sperm whales, which will serve for another chapter. lb Be Continued Kext Sunday.' A FISH THAT LIVES IN MUD. When the Water Gets Low It Bolls Itself In a Ball and Walts. Pearson's Weekly. There is- no more remarkable creature than the mud fish, which inhabits certain of the rivers of Western Africa, and, as its name implies, lurks at the muddy bottoms of thee rivers. At first sight there is nothing especially striking about this ani mal; it looks very much like an ordinary fish except for its curious, long, slender fins. A visitor who knew nothing about the creature would probably go away with the impression th'at he bad seen nothing out of the common. When the fishes arrive at a zoo each one is encased in a ball of dried mud, lined with mucus from its body, and perforated with a small aperture to admit ot breathing. The "cocoon," as it is some times called, on account of its analogy to the earthen case fabricated by many cater pillars in which to undergo their metamor phoses, on being placed in warmish water is dissolved and the fish liberated. The habit which the mudfish has of mak ing an earthen chamber of the mud at the bottom of the river, is a most wonderful provision of nature for the exigencies of the climate. The rivers which the fish inhabit are liable to periodical droughts. When such a drought is imminent, the fish retires to deep water and excavates a pit, in which it lies, covering itself over with a thick layer of mud. It can suffer with impunity the complete drying up of the river. But the most interestingfact about the creatnre is, that during the time of its voluntary im prisonment, it breathes air directly through an aperture left in the cocoon, by means of lungs, like a land animal. When the rains dissolve the mud and liberates the fish, it breathes by means of gills, just like any other fish. HOW THE NATIONS LA.UC3H. The Joke as Received by the Mongol, the Arab, the Christian and Mohammedan. All the world laughs, though the nations have different ways of showing mirth. The Chinese laugh as hearty or as expressive as the European or American. It is oftener a titter than a genuine outburst of merri ment There is little character or force in it. As for the Arabian laugh, we hear little of its hilarious ring through the ages of mirth in the Old World. The Arab is gen erally a stolid fellow, who must either see good reason for a laugh-, or be surprised into it In Persia a man who laughs is con sidered effeminate, but free license is given to female merriment One reads of the "grave Turk" and the "sober Egyptian," but it is not recorded that they have never moments of mirth, when the fez bobs ot the veil shakes under the pressure of some particularly' "good thing." In Mahomet himself, - Christian writers have noted cordiality and jocose ness, and they any there is a good ringing laugh in the prophet with all his seriousness. An American traveler in Europe remarks the Italian laugh as lancuid but musical, the German as deliberate, the French as spasmodic and uncertain, the upper class Englishes guarded and not always genuine, the lower class EnslUh as explosive the Scotch of all classes as hearty, and the Irish as rollicking. THE BIEDS OF OHIO. A Talaab'e Collection at the Mnsenm of the Ohio State TJnlveiilty. One of the most- interesting portions of the geological report ot Ohio is that on the birds ot the State by J. M. Wheaton, M. D. In the preparation of his report Dr. Whedton collected more than two-thirds of the species enumerated, and carefully cured their skins for preservation. The collec tion included about 1,000 specimens.' It has been the good tor une ot the Ohio State University to obtain possession of this valuable collection by recent pufchase, and it now forms an interesting feature of the museum of natural hiBtory. Educating Farmers Fro. The free scholarships of the Ohio State University, which have heretofore been good for the short course in agriculture only, will hereafter bo accepted, also, fort the'preparatory and freshman years or the full course in agriculture. WHAT UPS ARE FOR. New York's "Society Women Think One Use Is to Faff Cigarettes. THE W. C.T.U. WILL MAKE A FIGHT Bad Iffect of the Trample Set hy the Duchess ot Marlborough. FAIR OXES OP WASHINGTON B110KE jlTimiK TOB TBI PISPATCn.l N her recent visit to New York the Duchess of Marlborough (who sailed for Europe lastweek) said to have given a great im petus to cigarette moking among the ladies of the tipper society cir cles. The Duch ess Is well known ai a devotee of the weed. In fact, her fondness for tobacco has led her into "being the first American lady to pos sess a smoking jacket The Duchess took less pains than formerly to conceal her liking for the cigarette. She explained this by saving: , "Why, so many New York ladles smoke now that I no longer appear singular in that respect; but there was a time when so ciety ladies expressed surprise and even re sentment on learning that I smoked. The increase in the number of those ladies who smoke has been very marked during my last absence abroad. I should not be sur prised if smoking became the rule and not the exception.among the society ladies." The Duchess' open advocacy of feminine smoking has precipitated a lively discus sion in the ranks of the Four Hundred as to whether a lady can smoke and still be a lady. A Recognized Society Fad. 'Ihe Marquise Clara Lanza, one of the most beautiful wonrtn and talent -d littera teurs in New York's exclusive circle, said: "I do not smoke, simnly because I do not care to. I do not think any less ota woman because she smokes, unless it is done for mere bravado; then I think the offense dis gusting. A tew years ago it was not the custom for American women to smoke. To day it is a recognized fad in society, and a woman is not considered any less a lady be cause she indulges. Tne politeness of this generation was the vulgarity of the last "Ot course, cigarette smoking is on the increase in society. Everywhere you go nowadays you meet comparatively young girls who wear delicately chased silver or gold pouches at their belts. As they greet their lady acquaintances, down go their dainty fingers and a cigarette is extracted from its little case. 'Now, do try one of these they are somthiug new, and, of course, I always do try one, to be polite. I smoke only when courtesy demands it, just as I laugh at a joke I had often heard be fore. In Washington nearly every society woman smokes cigarettes. My lather. Dr. William A. Hammond, is extremely con servative, and, I have no doubt, would ob ject to my smoking in a crowded parlor, but I scarcely think he would object to my smoking at home with him when he smokes his cigars. Mrs. Frederick Neilson, Fred die Gebhardt's sister, smokes cigars, I am told, and I see no harm in it and would do the same, regardless of criticism, if I thought I would enjoy it" The Mannish V oman Is the Smoker. Mrs. Frank Leslie-Wilde has visited every part of the world, and is well ac quainted with all sorts and conditions of men and women. She was glad of nn op portunity to voice her disapproval of cigar ette smoking among ladies. "I know many eminently refined ladies who do smoke," she said, "and I do not believe that a few whin's should debar a woman from the society ot ladies, but I am sure the men do not respect the woman who smokes as much as they do her stronger sister who resists the temptation. The woman who smokes is usually of the man nish type. She wears stiff collars and a large open shirt front "No man would think of offering his mother or sister a cigarette, although I am not sure that many women have not smoked their first cigarette to keep their husbands company, and I think in the quiet ot the home they rather like the little sacrifice made by 'the women they adore to keep them from the clubs, which have so rapidly become the bane of many homes. In so ciety I have olten noticed gentlemen offer ladies cigarettes, and watched the ill-concealed smile of contempt that overspread their leatures as the nauseous weed was ac cepted. "I admit frankly that I have smoked more than one cigarette, and therefore Know what I am talking about when I denounce smok ing among women as' a disgusting habit The first time I ever smoked was at the Vic toria Hotel. I was entertaining the wile of the Governo General of Cuba, and she in sisted on me trying a cigarette. I admit that I was curious and yielded without a struggle. I took afe wpuffs, and soon ray head began to reel and ache, and I had to open a window for air. An Amcricnn gentleman who came in took my cigarette from my fingers and took a puffi 'Opium!' he ex claimed and threw it away. Mrs. Wilde Couldn't If She Would. "I ha7e smoked once or twice since then,, bnt the only impression left was a bitter, disagreeable taste in my mouth. I hardly think smoking unhealthy. My objection to tobacco is based on tne fact that it is pecu liarly a man's vice and should be shunned by all refined women, as it discolors the teeth and gives a bold, dou't-care air to the smoker. Women who have small, delicate hands are most addicted to the habit. Noth ing shows oil the beauty of a woman's hand so well as the graceful manipulation ot a lighted cigarette. "In Spain and the tropical countries the young women are uot allowed to smoke. Such a thing would be considered the height ot impropriety, and is unheard ot. Even younir married women disdain the use of tobacco, save in a few cases where it is done sub rosa. But, as a rule, no woman smokes until she has passed the age of 40, which is as it should be." Fiances Wlllard Hits Hard. Frances E. Willard said: "I was aston ished when I learned that the upper circles are honeycombed with the vice ot smoking, and am" told that M it be not speedily checked bv some concerted action by omen. cigarette smodkiug will be as common as it now is among men. It is my emphatic opinion that a lady cannot smoke and be a lady. It is bad enough that men smoke, and I am confident the time will come when no gentleman will do that which is so harmful to him. to his posterity and to the society in which he lives. "The great barrier against the deteriora tion ol humanity by this nicotine abomina tion has been the cleanliness and purity rf women lrom the accursed habit; but it they are to follow suit, then we may say goodby to progress for au indefinite period. It is, however, my confident beliet that women as a class will never flower them selves to the acceptance of any such stand ard. Within CO years smoking will be as little practiced by well-conditioned mpn as the use of snuff is jiow." Mrs. Henry Ward BeecKer said: "I do not think any lady should smoke. I' think it must be confined to the most fashionable set, for in the society in which-I move I know ot no 'lady who uses tobacco, and I certainly would not associate with one who did. It is a 'disgraceful habit, and I would be ashamed of any of my sex who indulged in it When they do, however, I do not think it is so much the result ot idleness as ot the beaux.' Tbey no doubt suggest it -.to 'the ladies by asking them if they have ever smoked a cigarette and then insisting 'on 'ljfcjajjr-v is fifc-N ' w j ux their trying just one for amusement, and the habit soon grows." Lillian Bn'sell Afraid of Them. Lillian Russell said: "I know that cigar ette smoke is injurious to the throat, but oc casionally at dinner, to be polite, I join my gnests, but I alwavs have my own mild cig arettes, and rarely smoke more than at third of one of them. Sometimes ,1 am caught out without them, and am overper suaded to try one of my hostess' extra mild, and I comply. My table is often surround ed by well-known actresses, and sometimes I have guests well-known in fashionable sets, and as a rule they invariably like one or two cigarettes alter dinner, And it is truly delicious to take one or two pun's with your coffee. But then, where one de pends on one's voice for a living one must be careful, so while I like to see others smoke, if they enjoy it, I rarely indulge, and never smoke a whole cigarette at a time." Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby, who headed the American delegation to the recent Inter national Peace Congress at Rome, and who is a brilliant member of Sorosis, said: "Looking at smoking from strictly a physical standpoint, does it hot detract from a lady's chief requisite, purity, in that it pollutes her breath? What would be come ot the swe,pt-adoredcreature who has touched the fancy of all the poets who have ever sung? Could we imagine Longfellow writing that most beautiful tribute to 'Evaneeline,' 'When she- had parsed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music,' if she had carried with her the odor of tobacco; whether it be pipe, cigar or cigar ette, it is tobacco. May be the real reason why it shocks one to see a woman smoke is that we cannot think of our own mother dome that However much any womjra may justify her own smoking, I am sure in her own soul she is glad her mother never smoked. If cigarette smoking has really become a fad in the best circles of Ameri can society, it-is indeed a fearful calamity, for our women are of too nervous a temper ament to be able to stand the effect of tobacco. The first effect would be to trans form the lady into a bold woman, robbing her of that veil of romance that surrounds our sex, and would eventually throw down the bars to everything else. A Continental N oman Shocked Her. "At the farewell banquet at Naples to the President of the Peace Congress I was sur prised when the men began to smoke in the ladies' presence; but I was painfully shocked when one of the ladies, a Conti nental woman, smoked with them. The English and Americans present were equally disgusted. Politeness can never be urged as an excuse. No woman would take snuS simply out of politeness. Politeness aims not to injure the self-respect of others, but it ceases to be politeness when it injures our own self-respect" Mrs. F. Lord, President of the New York Women's Christian Temperance Union, said: "I was absolutely dumfounded when I first learned that cigarette smoking was becoming a fad among the fashionable women of New York. But I do not be lieve, however, that it is any more harmful to a woman than to a man. The time is coming when the world will demand equal purity from both sexes. Our Union will take it up at once. I find with the men we rescue that, after they learn what a curse liquor has been to them, they become quite willing to give up tobacco also With the women it may be different They never confess their failings openly as men do, but hide all the faults they can, and unwillingly acknowledge only those in which they are caught red-handed. We have found it necessary to add a narcotic branch to our Union, to which many women belong, and we will most gladly add a tobacco branch. I cannot imagine a lady using tobacco, and hope none ot my friends do so. Mrs. Dr. Paul Lozier, the motherly Pres ident of Sorosis, was horrified to think that any of her sexMiould be accused of smoking. "If any of the ladies of my acquaintance smote," she said, "I am unaware of the fact It is almost impossible to say what constitutes a lady, but I do not think a lady would care to smoke, especially cigarettes, which are far more baneiul than tobacco in any other form. From a mere phjsioiogical standpoint cigarette smoking is extremely injurious to young men. If, in all the glory ot her fully developed womanhood, one of the weaker sex is no stronger than a young man, to say nothing ot her delicately wrought organization, then cigarette smok ing can work her nothing but harm. Keeping Tobacco Oat of Prisons. "I am a member of the Christian Purity Society. We now have a bill before Con gress to prohibit the distribution of tobacco to the young criminals in prison, and it there are any female prisoners I hope the bill will be amended to cover their cases. Sorosis w ill probably not take up for dis cussion the question of the women who smoke. I know that no member of our society is a smoker, nor would one of our number tolerate it in a female friend. Our object is to educate woman to a point where she will always be able to discriminate be tween risht and wrontr, and when that is accomplished, tfcere will be no danger of her smoking cigarette. "Everyone knows how injurious it is to the health of an infant to have its father smoke in the room in which it is asleep. How much more injurious if the mother is an habitual smoker and transmits the poison of the nicotine to her offspring. Al cohol and medicines are transmitted to in fants in this manner, and children have died of convdlsions after being nursed by an nngry mother. Tobacco affects the nerves, and you can imagine the kind of pale, puny man the child ot a woman who is an habit ual smoker would grow up to be. If this vice is taking hold of our American women it should be stamped out vigorously and at once." ' Mrs. M. Louise Thomas held up her hands in astonishment at the idea of any number ot her sex indulging in cigarettes. "What do I think ot ladies who smoke?" she ex claimed in surprise. "I never knew one." Mrs. Cynthia Leonard is the mother of Lillian Kussell. She ran for Mayor of New York four years ago. She said. "Smoking is injurious to men, but not so much so as to women, for men are often out in the fresh air and their lungs have a chance. A woman who smokes habitually transmits to her male offspring a nervous desire to smoke and drink. Lillian Ttmsell's lore for Music. "My own life is an illustration of this. Before my daughter, Hattie, was born, I 1'ad a picture of a beautiful woman hung in my room where I could always see it. To this day that engraving is a good likeness of my eldest daughter. Lillian I wished to be a singer, so before her birth I visited Patti and secured a position in a church choir. I was always Binging, ahd to-day you see the result I think the habit o'f smoking, if it became general among women, would prove disastrous to coming generations. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life, nor would I, althongh I know of many estimable ladies in high society who do. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's remarks on ladies who smoke were characteristic of the author of "Poems of Passion." "I have but one thinglo say," she said, "and that is this: As soon as a lady iearns what her lips are made for she will not care to smoke. Smoking cigarettes is a disgust ing and dangerous habit I have known many manly young men whose brains have been sadly affected bv this unhealthy habit I do not care to think what the effect would be on my own sex. At school some of my girl comrades thought it would be a naughty thing to smoke, so, ot course, they did so; but alter tliey left school they soon learned what lips are made for, and stopped smok ing. I ne er smoke myself, and know personally but one woman who does. She is a Russian, and I must say that it does not seem to affect her iq the least, as she is strong and healthy; but then she is not an excitable American woman. I hardly think a true lady would care to smoke. I don't believe there is any real danger of cigarette smoking becoming a haDit in New York society, for American women are the most sensible in the world, and above all others they know what use their lips were made lor." W. E. H. Sranro time Is here. The buss will soon begin to crawl. Kill them all before they multiply. Engine wiU do it instantly. 23 cent: CATCHING A TRAIN; -i Phase of Human Nature That Hakes a Man Bisk His Life.That W?.y. TIHPTATION OF k KEWSPAPEE. Wrath of a Woman Who Chased Her Car When It Hasn't Eeadj to Go. WOES OF THE FLOWER GARDEX MAKER rWEITTIX TOE THI DISPATCH.! " I have saw," the man on the wood-box began, in his usual and painfully precise manner ot expression, "I have saw " "You mean." interposed the proofreader, who was on vacation, which is, indeed, his normal condition, "yon mean, 'I have seen.'" "I have saw," repeated the man on the wood-box, with forced and unnecessary calmness, "I have saw men on this train risk their lives for the sake of a newspaper for which they paid 5 cents, who couldn't be induced to venture getting their feet wet to help a human creature out of the river. Only at the last junction, where the Doy who was selling papers on the platform couldn't be bribed to come aboard because, being a railroader, he knew how dangerous it was to jump lrom a moving train, I seen men" with a determined look at the proof reader, who merely sighed and nervously reached for his pencil'pocket "I seen men, passengers, who couldn't tell a drawbar from a spring hanger, jump oil this train, get a paper, wait for their change, yell, run after the train, catch it, and climb onto the car all in a bunch. Nothing saved their lives but blind luck." The Bralcman's View or It "Exactly," baid the brakeman, carefully putting his flags case and torpedoes where they would unseat the man on the wood-box should they happen to go off, "it makes me cry to see a passenger get on a moving train. Not that I am afraid he will get killed; that rarely happens to the passenger, but it The Man on the Woodbox. makes me ache all over to see the inartistic way in which he goes to work. He rnns to meet the train, if he can, rather than chase after it; always selects the forward platform ot a car, jumps at it like a Dutchman mount ing a horse, both feet at once, and swarms aboard someway, spreading himselt all over the platform, clinging with hands and feet on every loose thing he can reach; if he has a chance to catch hold of a lantern or a hand rail, he will take the lantern every tiinejthe loose end of a coil of bell cord is hii favorite hold; he groans and grunts all the time; but somehow he finally manages to get on, and usually winds up crawling Into the car on his hands and knees, a mass of contusions and scratches and abrasions from chin to toe nails. "As soon as he gets breath enough to talk with he threatens to report the conductor, bring suit against the company, and hare the brakeman discharged because he didn't jump off and get his hat, which he always loses in the scuffle. Now there " he ex claimed, stooping down to look ont of the window, "there is the way to shoot yourself on a train I" A Specimen in Hs'EIement And we all looked out for to see how. A long train of "empties" was swinging by; it was running out on a long siding one of these nine-mile sidings and had picked up the liveliest kind of a gait A blue-bloused brakeman stood on the station platform, carelessly shouting some rough-jesting fare well to the station agent; his eyes picked out about the hardest car in the rocking col umn; he let it come . roaring up to him and go by. chased after it with a half dozen fly ing steps, with the nervous spring of a cat he threw himself at the ladder on the side, and was waving a graceful stenographic sig nal, such as railroaders only can make, from the top ot that car before we caught our re spective breaths, which had gone up that ladder with him. "He'll get killed some day, just the s.ame." the reporter surmised. "Yes," the brakeman admitted, "he will; he expects to be, quite likely, but not by Reeling Off the Appendix. jumping. Some of these days he will. get slapped in the face by the dangling ropes of a bridge guard; he will get mad and yank off or tie up half a dozen of them so as to clear his tr.ick. Then, the next dark night he comes thuuMering along there, he will hear the engine squeal for brakes, he will climb up on top ot a cotton car,. and knock hi3 brains out against that very bridge. Then all the newspapers will gb for the company oh account of its callous and cold blooded indifference to the lives of its em ployes. How tht Passenger Gets Killed. "But you can't kill a passenger that way. A passenger stands in the middle ot the down track at noon, on a remarkably light day, looks at the expri-ss shrieking down upon him, hears everybody within the miles ot the station yelling at him to look ont, opens his raoutn as wide as his bat and collar will let it come, and stands still, per fectly still while ho gets run over. Then he lives long enough to collect au accident policy and make an ante-mortem statement to be used in the suit of his heirs against the company, and dies declaring it wasn't his fa It, that he couldn't see the train tor the court bouse and couldn't hear the whistle for the dining" room gong." "Which he couldn't," hoarsely muttered the passenger who killed the gong majorat Allianceand then he smellcd his hands and went to the tank at the other end ot the car and washed them, and came back rubbing them and muttering to himself, and every body shuddered. They say that he is haunted by the phantom ot the murdered gongster, which stands at his side beating a spectral gong with a ghostly mallet It isn't the noise of the gong that disturbs the guilty passenger; that" would be a relief. It is the awful spectacle of a gong, beaten with terrific violence, emitting nothing but dead silence, that ii driving nim mad. It fflfflHRl would take a man with strong nerves to stand such a haunt as that Not K Anybody's Looklnc- "Do women ever try to climb on moving trains?" asked the census marshal, "-Not often," the conductor replied. "I have known but two instances, and in bath the pursuing women were abnormally ex cited." "Battled," the man on the wood box obligingly explained to the proofreader. "One of them," continued the conductor, "who wanted my train, ran in the wrong direction and caught the train for Washing ton. It was express,. and she was wrath fnlly and ignominiously evicted by the con, ductor, who was ten minutes behind bis time, against theindignant protests ot the woman, who insisted that she hod gone, to New York on tnat very train, many a time, when Mr. Berripecken was conductor, and that the present conductor could let her off at New York just as well as not. if be ,LJ g;i ) I Titled the Ground. wasn't just too disobliging. Part of this she told to the conductor while he was elbowing her to the door, part to the brake man who lifted her off the. lower step, part she shrieked after Uy departing train, and the appendix, which occupied the rest of the afternoon, she rehearsed to myself, the brakeman, and the passengers in her vicinity. A Woman Who Got Excited. "In the other case a woman ran after my train at a dining station. She heard the bell, and looking out saw a train mov ing. She judged correctly; it was her tram. She made a dash tor the door, broke through the interfering line of station men and bystanders, jumped on all the steps of the car at once, alighting simultaneously on her chin, elbows and feet, lost her hat, shopping bag, shawl strap and some of her back hair, shrieked and held on, got in side the car, and was triumphantly carried down the siding about 300 yards, where the slee-er was coupled on, and brought back to the station in time to finish her dinner, which she did not do. Her ride had de stroyed her appetite. "She sent word to the dining room man that she would go to jail before she would pay for a dinner which she wa.s not per mitted to eat in peace, and the dining room man sent back word that she did not owe him a ceirt He said to me, which I did not repeat to her, that she could brard with him a week, any time she pleased, for the enter tainment which she had given his guests. 'We changed all the plates,' he said, in a thoughtful parenthesis, while he made fig ures on the back of a letter, 'whils the guests were at the windows, looking at the race, and served the desert, and when thev came back to the table some ot them looked a little snrprised, but decided that it must be all right, and went away filled and con tented, paying 75 cents "for a nutritious, well-cooked and promptlyservedtwo-course dinner; consomme and rice pudding." Moral. Beloved, the people who lose their din ners ch&singafter trains that are not going, or are going in the wrong direction, do not ail show railway tickets at the gate. It has not been a month since, to quote our friend on the wood box "We have saw" one or two men chasing Presidental trains, which when they caught, they discovered were not going to Washington via Minneapolis or Chicago, but were merely running local to Lonelyville via Firstballot Siding. Many a man, my son, within the range of yonr own tender young memory, has chased a train through" devious side tracks and tangle yards, and catching it, has congratulated himself that he was sate on the short-line to Midasapolis, only to hear the grim con ductor say, "Sing Sing! Change suitsl Last stop; all out for Sing Sing!" Many aman jumps on a train without asking (Questions, intending to take a little run out to Shearem ville, where he has heard a prime lot ot lambswere at pasture, and has been put off at Shorntown, and walked thoughtfully home, with the biting winds of the raw and gusty evening time, whistling keenly over the place where his wool had been when the market opened. Ob, my son, child of my pride, and my hope, be dead sure you know where you are going before you start Bead your ticket clear through before you try to get aboard. Ask the gateman and then have a word with the usher, and don't try to get any where ahead of your train. Don't depend too much upon your own geography. Evry train that runs east doesn't start out in the direction ot the sunrise, not by 50 points, maybe. And if you don't know where you want to go, stay home, that's better than getting lost A ealnst the Tide, With hopeful heart I tilled the ground I sowed the seed in fnnltless rows. And waked next morning to the sound r ' Look outl See bow it snows!" I planted then sweet Mignonetto Its faint perfume would fflad the air. All niaht with many a enrye and, fret, Ihe dogs came down and rastied three. With bitter heart, in taunting vein. The strong-breathed onion then I sowed, At uioi n' came down the pouring rain. And washed my onions down the road. Still with brave soul I laughed at Tate, "I will not yield me yet; not I!" And broadcast bowed, with heart elate. The plantain, that can never die. But I was whipawed, just the same; With Fate no longer I dispute. Forthwith a horde of rabbles camo And ate my plantain, leaTand root KOBtHT J. BUttDETTZ. AS" ABXISI'S MODEL OH H0ESS. Secret of the Accuracy of the Equestrian Statue or Peter the Great Pearson's "WeeKly.t Respecting the colossal statue of Peter the Great at St Petersburg, it is related that, as soon as the artist had formed his conception of the design, he communicated it to the Empress Catharine, at the same time pointing out the impossibility of naturally representing so striking a position of man and animal without having before his eyes a horse and rider in the attitude she had devised. General Melissino, an officer having the reputation of being the most expert, as well as the boldest, rider of the day, to whom the difficulties ot the artist were made known, offered to ride daily one ot Count Alexis OrlofTs best Arabians to the summit ol a steep artificial mound formed -for the purpose, accustoming ih'e'horse to gallop up to it, and to halt suddenly, with its forelegs raised, pawing the air over the brink of a precipice. Tins dangerous experiment was carried into effect by the General for some days, in the presence of several spectators and of the artist, who sketched the various move ments and parts of the group from day to day, and was thus enabled to produce, per haps, the finest, certainly the most correct, statue of the kind in E arope. An Itm In Boiler Ec-inomy. A writer on the subject of boiler economy alludes to the porosity of ordinary bricks and mortar, add for all exposed flue wall or boiler seatings advises a facing of 'glazed bricks, in neat cement mortar, to reduce to a minimum the entrance ot cold air to the flues which undoubtedly takes place through the millions of pore3 iu a rough brick walk For this purpose the tarring of the external face of rough brick-work flue walls Is also recommended. Glazed bricks, of coarse, I are better, and are very easily kept clean. TOBACCO ALL RIGHT. Smokers Can Console ThemselTes 'With a Boman Doctor's Report. HO CHOLERA HOB P5EUM0HIA. , The Throat Can Be Hardened So as to Fre vent Troublesome Ailments. SOME NEW APPLICATIONS OF SCIEXCS fWatTTEf TOB THE DISPATCH.1 Notwithstanding the almost universal growth of the tabacco habit, there are soma who still regard it as one of the most vicious and injurious of indulgences. There is no doubt that it is but too olten carried to ex cess, and the use of tobacco by children of tender years may work irrevocable mischief. However, the weed may be abused, its effects when judiciously used have been proved by overwhelming scientific testi mony to add materially to the welfare of the human race. The London Ltncet has given the results of some experiments to test the influence of tobacco in the prevention of disease trans mission by bacilli. It is found that smoking is highly beneficial in preventing the decay of teeth. Women suffer more from dental caries than men, and few women smoke. Some of the earliest experiments in this field were made by an American dentist in 1884. The micro-germs ot dental caries when passed through the smoke of tobacco were rendered innocuous. JTouryears later, a physician in Naples lined a small balloon with a layer of gelatine containing cholera bacilli. When the smoke of from one to cigars the number of cigars required de pending on their strength in nicotine was drawn through this balloon, the gelatine was completely sterilized. These and other experiments have now been repeated by Dr. V. Tassinari in Borne, and the result is to establish the fact that the smoke of tobacco either entirely de stroy., or retards the development of the bacillus ot cholera, of anthrax, and of pneu monia. The bacillns of Asiatic cholera and that of pneumonia was in every case com pletely destroyed, no matter what sort of tobacco was used. The bacillus of anthrax showed stronger ppwers of resistance, and that of typhoid was hardly affected by tha smoke. The only question now remaining to be proved is whether the sterilizing of microDes can be effected in thn human being with the same certainty as in nutritive gelatine. Rsrages of Animal Fests. The ravages of the pocket gopher in lows have increased to such an extent as to seri ously affect farmers' profits. These con cealed pests not only feed on surrounding vegetation, but, what is really worse, choks it nut by the innumerable mounds of earth heaped up by them everywhere. A field is olten as effectually turned up as it would have been by the rooting of swine. Be sides this, the loss by accidents to machinery and animal', occasioned bv striking against the gopher hills or by sinking into their holes or rnns, is very considerable. So im portant has this question become that con certed action has been taken toward the extermination of the pests. A liberal bounty is offered by tha State for their capture, and trapping has become a lucrative employment In Poweshiek county $14,000 was piid for tha capture of 140,000 pockets in 11 months in 1890, anil the number trapped ia 1891 was over 200,000. It i, however, doubtful weather this prolific little rodent can ever be got rid of unless the steps for itt extermination take a wider and mora thotough scope. It may be stated for tha benefit of those who have never seen a pocket gopher that it is about the same color as, and perhaps a shade larger than, the domestic rar. It is devoid of external ears, it has small bead-like eyes.-a shortfall and powerfnl fore legs, armed with strong claws for digging. Jod one of its most dis tinguishing characteristics is its extensible cheek pouches or pockets. The presence of the gopher is made known bv its mounds of earth, about the size of large ant-bills, for it is but rarely seen. The mongoose would, in all probability, put an end to the gopher, bnt the remedy would be infinitely worse than the disease. How to trenzthen the Throat Sir Morell Mackenzie, who was a special ist in throat troubles, always insisted that a great many of the ailments that were brought under his notice could have been escaped but for injudicious coddling of the throat. The throat must not be wrapped np too much; the great thing is to try to harden it By care and persistence tha neck can be made as waterproof as the face. Many people who are not in the secret are amazed that the patriarchal Gladstone can stand for hours with head uncovered in tha open air while a strong breeze is blowing. The ability o do this with impunity was gaine 1 by sitting habitually at a window through which a draught was created, so that the head became acenstomed to all variations of temperature and all degrees of air motion. In the same way the throat can become habituated to varying condi tions. It should be kept free "from wrap pings. Women shonld dispense with their great feather boas and Medici collars, and men should cast aside their 'tiffing mufflers. It is an excellent practice to wear turn down collar, and gargling with cold salt and water in the morning has sovereign virtue, as well as bathing the throat first with very hot water, and then with very cold The throat thus gets the effect of a sudden shock, and is braced up and perma nently, strengthened. Sore Sl;nj ot Death. The public is often startled by the Inter ment of living persons supposed to be dead. One of the simplest and best tests is tha holding of the hand of the supposed corpse in front of a candle flame. A sure evidence of life is a tinge ot red at the side of tha fingers. Dr. Martinot now asserts that an nnlailing test may be made by holding a candle to the skin of the hand or foot until a blister is formed, which will always soon occur. The presence of any fluid in the blister is a certain evidence of lite; bat if, on the contra-r, the blister contains only steam, it may be taken for granted that .Ufa is extinct Dr. Martinot shows that these, phenomena are simply the result oj natural laws, and that the proof is as conclusive as the test is simple. Bronrz kills roaches, bedbugs, etc, in. stantly. 25 cents at all dealers. A,. ..,.,.. ..a. ..., ,......, to nw Aruiuc CURE " mwiiihw BACK There Is no known remedy that equals WOOD'S PENETRATING " improvement on or n flCTCt? dinaiy porous plas runul tr ters. it is a revolution in plasters. Wood's is the only plaster havingpower to dilate the porta and penetrate to the seat of pain. sold sy DRUGGirrs EVERYWHERE . N.Y. Depot, 91 William St, wifely tiKiUif uia ' SOLD BY DRUGGETS I 1 " . EVERYWHERE "S"lSS - ' N.Y. Depot, 91 William St. r ' ' ni ? f ' r'T'T'T' f v ? r' ' y'T" . i A. 'A I 'i4esi ya-
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