gr9 "tp .jPjJP? i.JR,W4fWP!SWp 18 . THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH SUNDAY, MAT 15, 189 musical act on various instruments, bass solo, and funny man in a short sketch. Our overture was received with enthu siastic applause, and as the performance progressed we gained confidence and intro duced several new leatures. "When the curtain fell on the last act we received a perfect ovation. The floor was quickly cleared of the seats and we were soon dancing to the music of a violin and piano. "Waltzing was almost unknown, but our accordion player struck up a German waltz, and we fonnd apt pupils in several dashing English girls, who made un in agility and endurance whatever they may have Tacked in science. At length, at midnight, the piano struck up "Sir Iloer de Coverly," which is nothing more or less than our "Virginia reel," and we concluded our night's sport, receiving many assurances that the event -would never be forgotten. On the following day we handed the beneficiary 5, which represented the fruits of our concert. CHAPTER IX. ONCE 5IOKE I DESERT. The morning following ourconcertl went ashore with the second mate and three others to bring off the flag., etc., with which we had draped the stage, and to restore the tchoolhouse to its normal condition. Alter the latter duty had been satisfactorily per formed, I asked permission to go to the hotel and get my oilskin jacket, which I had left a day or two before. It was read ily granted, and I soon found myself in the barroom, where a number of hall-caste JIaoris were assembled, who had come from a distance to attend the concert, and were in no hurry to depart. I was received with great favor, and, in fact, received bo much praise and flattery that my head became very much inflated, and I began to think I had missed my vocation. One of the inen was from a lumber camp gome 40 miles awav, and was particularly friendly. Alter awhile he drew me aside and proposed that I should desert the ship and join him in the lumber camp, where I was sure to be a prime favorite, and in such glowing colors did he paint the life there that I finally yielded, and we quietly left the house "and struck out over the hills, where, he informed me, he knew a secure hiding place in which I was to remain until night, while he would return to the village to avoid suspicion. After dark he would join me and furnish me with a horse, and before morning we would be at the camp, where I could be safely hidden until the chips had departed. He left me in a little cave and returned to the village, and as soon as my absence vas noticed he coolly informed the Captain that I had probably run away. The old man was furious and immediately oflercd 20 pounds oftobacco for mv capture. Jly treacherous friend in formed several natives of my retreat, and I was soon dragged back to the ship in dis crace, while he shared without doubt in the reward oflered, and. in fact, it was no doubt all planned by him before he unfolded his Echemc to nie. I was not put in irons this time, but I knew that dire punishment awaited me when we were out of port, so I resolved to make an attempt on my own hook, and with the help of one of the crew I suc ceeded in gettinc ashore that evening. The night was dark, and when the boat went ashore I induced a friend, who was' also verv tall, to let me take his place. The officer, I strongly suspect, perceived the change in his crew, but kindly aflected not to notice me, and I was soon striking out for the woods at my best pace. I had loaded my pockets with hard bread and meat and a good supnly of tobacco, a pipe and matches, also a i-harp lance with which 2 could defend niyselt from wild boars, which are the most dangerous animals to be met in this section of the island. The ship was to sail in a lew days, and I hoped to tav goodoy to her forever, and escape an other two" years of a lite which was in every way distasteful, as well as unprofit able. Day after day I struggled manfully on hoarding my food," as best I could, until at last I deemed myself so iar inland that it would be safe to "light a fire. I knocked over young rabbits and pigs, and, as there was an abundance of fresh water oh every "isjid, I w as rich in food and drink. After ' :'- - me in a perfect circle they kept out of reach of my spear, which" 'I carried in triumph as we made our way along what seemed to be a beaten path." It was with the greatest difficulty that I walked at all, but I was determined to keep up a bold lront and soon found we had struck a well traveled road. An hour after, as we reached the top of a steep hill, what was my amazemeut to see the town I had left two weeks before not over a mile away, while the Triton was lying in the same "place, surrounded bv the usual collection of boats from shore. I had traveled in a complete circle, and had traversed many miles of au uninhabited por tion of the island where even the natives seldom ventured, and but for the direct dis pensation of a kind Providence I must have ultimately perished from want and expos ure. It seems that the Maoris, whose lame as trackers is world wide, had followed my wanderings step by step, and but for the frequent rains, which obliterated my tracks, would have overtaken me much sooner. So the reader can imagine me handcuffed and chained to a settee in the cabin by the mate, while the boat is sent ashore to notify the Captain of my capture. CHAPTER X. i A3i rnoMOTEn. "When the Captain arrived on board he took no notice of me, but immediately got the ship under way and proceeded to sea. After we were well clear of the land he came into the cabin and.stood regarding me intently for a few moments, while I stood shamefacedly awaiting my punishment. "Barker," said he, at last, "you seem de termined to leave this ship. It is useless to attempt it any more, as we never, stop at a port where there is a chance of our men es caping. Why do you wish to go?" The unexpected kindness of his tone com pletely unmanned me, and I could not answer. I was truly a pitiful sight My feet were a sickening mass of cuts and bruises, and "p g m m I Br ' & pausing onlv long enough to send its mate alter it with equal swiftness. Straight as an arrow they flew to the mark and buried themselves their length just by the hump. At the same instant the whale settled out of sight. As I threw my box line over, I shouted: "I'm fast! Stern all!" "Fast be Mowed!" yelled the Captain, using stronger language, however, than I have recorded. "What in blankety blank did you dart for?" At this instant the line began to whiz ont of the tub, and as he took a turn around the loggerhead, he shouted: "By the Lord Harry, I believe you are fast Wet line, there, wet line!" The after oarsman obeyed, pouring bnck cttuls of water into the "tub where the line is snugly coiled. With such rapidity does it fly out at such times that when it passes around the loggerhead, or post in the stern, it will set the latter on fire if not wet before it leaves the tub. As soon as the line slackened and the whale began to come up I exchanged places with the old man aud we soon pulled out to our "fish." as our whalemen persist in call ing a whale. As we came close to him I could see my two irons, not six inched apart, firmly imbedded in his blubber, and the old man saw them, too, for he turned to me and said wonderingly: "I could have sworn youdidn't fetch him. That was the longest dart I ever saw!" And never, before nor since, have I ex perienced the pride I felt as I saw I had not onlv justified the Captain's good opinion of my fitness, but had lastened to the largest whale I had ever seen. The old man made short work of the whale with his lance, and as the other boats reached us he went into his flurry, dyeing the waters with his blood and slowly grow ing weaker, while we merely kept out of narm s way until ins strength was spent ana he slowly turned his head toward the west, and with one last, hoarse moan, rolled upon his side. We towed him alongside, and after three days' hard work he was stowed down. He yielded 118 barrels of oil, and was over 75 leet in length. I have one of his teeth to day as a souvenir. AN ANGRY EMPEROR. Francis Joseph Hakes Stephanie's Book a Vent for His Wrath. HER BETROTHAL THE REAL CAUSE. The Two Great Eelljrions Now at War in Equatorial Africa. MRS. MONTAGU TO EEYITE THE BANG tWnlTTEX TOR TOE DISPATCH. The Emperor of Austria is said to be vexed with Archduchess Stephanie, the wid ow of Crown Prince lIL JIicA Food and Drink. Straight as an Aitoic. about a week I broke my pipe, and from that time my troubles seemed to thicken. It rained a dozen times every day and night and I always woke up with a shiver as the cold showers drenched me to the skin. To add to my discomfort, my "slop-chest" shoes gave out completely and my leet were Boon cut and bleeding, and I began to be alarmed lest my attempt to escape should end seriously, for my matches were all gone and I was reduced to a diet of peaches, which, however, I was glad to set. I hob bled painfully along, determined to find a settler's house, even if I was delivered to the ship airain by the authorities. But I Boon found that I was hopelessly lost The country was nothing but a succession of hills and precipices, totally without roads except near the villages, and a pair of wheels would be a curiosity, everything be in? transported on horseback. One night as I was picking my war through a thick grove of flax and tea tree, I felt the ground give way under me, and I rolled down a steep bank more than 20 feet in height and landed in a small creek nearly stunned by the fall and badly bruised. I managed to crawl out on the opposite bank, and tainted from pain and exhaustion. How long I remained in this state I can not say, but the sun was shiniue brightly when I was aroused by a vigorous thump in the side, and thinking I was attacked by some wild animal I struggled to my feet to find myself surrounded by a dozen fierce looking Maoris armed with long spears and huge cluhs. For a moment I thought I had encountered one of the savage clans of Maoris whom the English have repeatedly attempted to subdue without success, as they retire to their retreats in the forests where no European can follow. I was soon undeceived, however, for one ferocious looking chap hit me a stinging blow over the shoulders and grunted out: "Ugh! Go ship!" Then I knew they were a party sent in search of me by the Captain. They had taken care to remove my lance and knife before arousing me, and I was entirely un armed, but the blow maddened me, and, lorgetting my swollen feet, I sprang upon him, wreuched the spear from his hands, and felled him to the ground with the shaft. I fully expected to be butchered upon the spot, and resolved to sell my life dearly, irai i" my surprise mey leu back a respect snollen out of all shape. My clothes in rags, and my face and body liberally daubed with the clayey soil and torn with the sharp briers. At length I managed to stammer out that I was deceived by the owners as to the length of the voyage, that I felt I was wasting my life and was homesicc. When I "had finished, he said: "Barker, I think the hardships you have endured are punishment enough for yonr of fense. Now, see here. I have an offer to make you. You are voung, well educated, and full of pluck. Why not make the best of it lor the rest of the voyage? There is nothing to prevent your becoming master of a ship in a few years if you are so disposed. We have been unlucky taking oil, because our boat steerers can't hit a whale. I've watched your practicing with an iron, and I believe you are the man I want in the head ot my boat. Hereafter it will be vour duty to look after the gear in her. I will give you a chance to show what you can do, and it vou strike a w hale lor me, I will take yon into the steerage and give you as good a lay as any boat stecrer on board. Now, go for ward, and you needn't 'turn to' until you are able to do your work." I never knew exactly how I reached my berth in the forecastle. Hunger, exposure, and fatigue had nearly crazed me. I had braced myself to take my punishment like a .nn 1-v.ifr .tin Pnnfnln L-lnrtunco nnil linint UJilli, LUl tut; Vdfiuiu p muuu.oi uuu ufOL, what little strength and sense remained. For many hours I tossed levenshly about, while visions of Maori warriors, minstrel shows, whales, and home were mixed up in hopeless confusion. When, after a few days, I recovered my usual health and spirits, I was eagerly questioned by the crew as to what the old man had said" to me. I never repeated his words, but I resolved then and there to stand on the quarter-deck of a ship as Cap tain before I quitted a sailor's life a re solve which I faithfully kept As the old man had no boat steerer at this time, nothing was thought of the fact that I assumed charge ol the harpoons, etc., belonging to the boat, aud my secret was safe. After a few days cruise we raised a large school ot sperm whales, and, as the third mate was sick, the bow boat did not lower, and the old man took their boat steerer in his boat 1 was terribly disappointed, "but there was no help for it, so I manfully tugged away at my heavy oar, resolved to show the old man that I was trying to do mv best wherever I misht be placed. It so happened that the boats became separated, and when the whales became alarmed and "sounded" each officer pulled in the direc tion in which he thought them likely to ap pear when they arose to the surface. Fortunately for us we were the lucky ones, lor a huge whale, the largest we had seen, came up a short distance from our boat, and wc strained every nerve to reach him before he again disappeared. "Stand up, there, Manuel!" said the Cap tain softly, as we neared our prey. "Be careful, now. and take him just for'ardof the hump, where it'll hold !" As we shot alongside the whale the old man veiled: "Give it to him! Give it to him! What are you waiting for?" As I was back to the whale I don't know just how it was done, but it seems the boat steerer darted both irons wide of the mark, and the next moment the huge animal swim; his terrible" flukes high in the air and sunk out of sight The old man was speechless for a moment with rase, and could he have reached the unlucky boat steerer I think he would have thrown him overboard. When he found his voice, he screamed: "Get out of the boat's head, you . nigger!" Then, fixing his eye upon me, he said sternly: 'Ton, Barker, ran you strike a whale?" "Yes, sir," said I "if you give me as good a chance as that!" "I believe you can," said he. "Get up thcreand give that nigger your oar, and haul in your box line and set up your irons again. Thar's the whale again, close to!" As I obeyed he said, warnihgly: ".Now, Barker, don't you dare to throw them irons till I tell you la Do you hear?" "Aye, aye, sir!" I responded. Once more we gave chase to the whale, and soon approached him so closely that I felt certain my hour ol trial had come. As we rapidly shortened the distance between us, and I realized how much depended on my arm, I resolved to acquit mvself with credit at all hazards, aud, under the excite ment of the moment, I felt the "strengh of a Samson within me as I took up the heavy hickory pole, six feet In length, and bal anced it in my hand. When we had approached within about ten yards of the whale I saw him softly "cut" the water with the corner of his huge flukes. All whalemen know this is an in fallible sign that he" is about to "sound," and I w as well aware of the fact I had often thrown an iron in practice fully as iar as the distance between us and the shining black hide, and, fearful of losing my oppor tunity for promotion, I shut my teeth, gathered all my strength, and, despite a ful distance and took no notice of their companion's angry looks, simply making fierce oath of warning from- the Captain, I sins for me to go with them.. Surrounding I hurled the keen iron at the monster's side, CHAPTER XL LIFE IX THE STEERAGE. After everything was cleaned up on deck and we resumed the usual routine of ship's duties, the old man called me aft and said: "Take your traps aft to the steerage, and after this you will lower in the head of my boat always. You will get the 75th lay from this time forward." And thus I received my first promotion. My chest was soon in its new place, and my duties were much easier. I was exempt from steering and keeping lookout at night When we scrubbed decks I handled a bucket instead of a broom, and was a sort ol petty officer. My duties were to take my turn at the main masthead to look out for whales and keep the side lights trimmed and burn ing brightly at night There are two boat steerers in each watch, and thus the work is evenly divided. My success as a harpooner had evidently encouraged the captain to make another trial of raw material, and in a few days my chum was given an opportunity to distin guish himself, and killed his whale, which was small, with his irons. He was promoted likewise, and one of the old boat steerers was "broken," or reduced to the forecastle. We were in the same watch.and life seemed much easier to me for the rest of the voyage. As the season was now over for sperm whales w e gladly squared awar one morn ing for the Kanaka Islands.' We were over taken by the Alaska the same day, and s.iiled in companv with her until we reached Vao Vao, on the Friendly Islands. For several days before we saw the land a large school of skipjacks and albatrosses kept us company, disappearing at sundown, and as regularly reappeaiing each morning under our bows as we bowled along in 'the northeast trades. We caught enough to fill several barrels by dangling a line irotn the jibboom with a w'hite ray on the hook. The fish mistake it for a flyingfish and are read ily hooked, and when the fisherman pulls his.prize on the boom a man stands ready with a bag, in which it is carried on deck", where several men are kept busy splitting ana salting tneni. One old skipjack steadily refused to bite, keeping a little to one side of the tempting hook, and one day the mate darted an iron at him, just grazing his side and leaving a long white mark. After that we used to look for him each dav, and named him "Old Jack." He was always in sight, but just out of reach. At last the welcome cry of "Land ho!" from the masthead was heard, and we were soon able to see what appeared to me to be a large forest grow ing out of the water. The trees grow nearly to the water's edge, and the laud was very low, which accounts for the illusion. As we near the land four bells sounded from aft, and I went aloft to relieve my chum at the masthead. From my lofty perch I had an excellent oppor tunity to look about me, for -we were soon threading our way among a number of small islands densely covered with cocoanut trees, and surrounded in nearly every case by a coral reef over which the seas broke, leaving a long line ot white foam behind them. Inside the reef the water was smooth as a mill pond, and the snow -white beach stood out in marked contrast to the deep blue of the water, which I had never seen equaled in intensity in any other port of the world. All that day and the next we held our way, until at length we passed through a narrow passage and came to anchor in a landlocked bay within 20 yards of the tall palms, while from every quarter came the native canoes, with their curious out riggers, each anxious to be the first to board us, lor 1 may state here that no whaler had touched here for several years. As wc stayed here over a month, I was enabled to learn something of the language and customs of the people, who seldom are mentioned in print. No sooner had we swung to our cable than the canoes came within a few feet of the ship's side, and, as their outriggers are easily broker, they did not attempt to come any nearer, but from each canoe a dusky form plunged into the water, and clambered over our rails like a monkey-Fine-lookiug, brawny chaps they are. Tfeeir skin is a clean copper color, and their broad shoulders, shapely limbs and pleasant laces impress one favorably at once. Not having been informed of their cus toms, I was quite unprepared to reply when a fine-looking native rushed up to me and, seizing my hand and smiling pleasant ly, said: "You me flcm?" I was utterly at a loss what to reply, so I said "Yes," and shook his hand good naturedly. I afterward found I had sealed a compact with him which nothing could induce him to break. Their language is very simple and the al phabet contains only 14 letters, the letter ', nnf It inr. nnn nf 1. .. .1 .. ..... . w w-i"fc wilt w llicili, ilUU IUU3CIJUC111' 'W 3T6T r Itudolph,for writing a book. A cable gram from Vienna says that the august Francis Joseph doesn't object to the book, which is merely a description ot the lovely island of La cromain the Adriat ic, but to the idea of a young woman con nected with the House of Hapsburg Archduchess Stephanie, by marriage ventur ing to appear in print. This expression of lofty and enlightened feeling is not likely to hurt the sale of the book, and the poor of Vienna to whom the proceeds of the royal authoress venture are devoted can honest ly rejoice ior once that they have a wrong headed old crank for a ruler. But the truth has probably not been told about the coolness existing between the Emperor and his widowed daughter-in-law. It is more than a little volume of romantic description, illustrated by the renowned painter of marines, A. Perko, that has come between these august personages. Perhaps the fact that Archduchess Stephanie only mentions lludolph once in "Lacroma," although the island belonged to her husband, and they spent some time there together, may not have altogether pleased the Emperor, but her sins of com mission are likely to be more exasperating in that quarter than anyhttle one of omis sion such as this. The Arehduchess, being still under 30, and a woman of lively imagination and ro mantic tates, cannot reconcile herself to mourning all the rest of her life for a hus band who cared so little for her that he died f for love of somebody else. She can aflord to forfeit her allowance from the Austrian Government as Rudolph's widow, for she still has her marriage portion which her father, Hie King ol Belgium, made a com fortable sum. The man she has chosen is said to be Duke Miguel of Braganza, brother of Maria Theresa, the wife oftbe heir to the Austrian crown, Archduke Karl Ludwig. Her engagement to this gentle man is probably the real cause of the Em peror's displeasure, for, if it were the pub lication of "Lacroma," why was not the Emperor angry when she published during her husband'slife an account of a trip East called "An Oriental Journey?" or at the heir-presumptive to the crown, a3 Arch duke Franz Ferdinand is generally consid ered to be, when he published his life of Marshall Radetzky, a book that has gone through two editions? orat the Archduchess Marie Valerie, the Emperor's youngest daughter, for publishing poetry and having her plays acted? Religion Hacked by Klflss. Africa is slowly attaining civilization. In Uganda, the most powerful of the East African Equatorial States, they -have reached the point of a religious war be tween Catholics and Protestants. I n lact, they are just where Europe was about the sixteenth century. The climax of the feud was reached recently in the deposition of King Mwanga by the triumphant Protest ants, whom he had made the special objects of his persecution, although it was to them he owed his restoration to the throne in 18S9. The cause of the outbreak which has cost Mwanga his crown was the killing ot a Protestant chief by the Catholic faction with whom the King had allied himself. The Catholics and the King would all have been killed had not Captain Lugard, the representative of the British East Africa Company, interfered. It is hardly so much a triumph of Protestant over Catholic, as of Maxim rifle over Snyder rifle, for the forces of Captain Lugard were armed with the former wearon, and their arrival im pressed the Protestant natives so much that thev repressed their religious scruples and allo"wed" their Catholic brethren to live. Uganda has been the scene of much bloodshed in the last 20 years a good deal of it in the name of relig'ion. The country lies along the north and northwest sides of Lake VictoriaNvanza, and contains a popu lation of irom 3,'000,000 to 5,000,000. Since Spekc and Grant discovered the country in 1860, traders and missionaries have repeat edly established stations there, but the lat ter especially have seldom remained long alirt, that is, King Mwanga himself being responsible lor the murder of many of them, including Bishop Hannington, one of the noblest characters in Africa church history. It seems probable that the English Govern ment will find sufficient excuse in the con fusion following Mwanga's deposition to establish a more potential protectorate, especially seeing that Captain Lugard, the East Africa Company's agent, holds the balance ol power between the contending religious tactions. 7 P. If Fy rtt- ly what my acquaintance meant to say was, "You mv friend?" as they invariably sub stitute "1" lor "r." The day after we arrived we were at work on deck when the third mate had words with one of the crew and flew into a violent passion. He struck the sailor, and then took a few steps, gave a groan and fell to the deck. He was carried to the cabin door and assisted down the steps, when he gasped: "I wish I was dead!" And as if in answer to his prayer, he pitched heavilv forward on the cabin floor. When he was lifted life was extinct He had been troubled with heart disease for a long time, and suflered so much that he had manv times been heard to wish for death as preferable to the tor ments he endured. The carpenter built a rudecoffin, and the next dav he was laid to rest in a beautiful cocoanut grove, with a simple board at his head giving bis name and age. 2b Be Continued Next Sunday. Sfkiso time Is here. The hues will soon hegln to crawl. Kill them all before thev multiply, lluglne will do It instantly. 25 cents. LocHiirvAB Awsraos at Mamaux Si Son's, 509 Pcnn avenue. Tel. 197i Thsu Bsrlnged by African Chlcfu. In another corner of Africa, to the south of Uganda, British Commissioner H. H. Johnston has been engaged iu protect ing the British mis sionaries iu that re gion, and had lately succeeded, it was thought, in stopping the slave traffic be tween the Arabs of the coast and two powerful native chiels, who had been most successful in Explorer Johnston. wholesale operations in human flesh till Johnston appeared. But the interruption of this profitable traffic enraged the chiefs, and one ot them has succeeded in treacher ously trapping a part of the force of Com missioner Johnston, and is now besieging the latter in the little fort named after him at the southern end of Lake Xyassa. Johnston has with him less than a hundred Sikhs, and it is doubtful it the expedition which the British Government will surely decide if, indeed, it has not already de cided when this is read to send to his re lief can get there in time to save the de voted little band from destruction. It seems singular to read of anEnglish man taking a bodyguard of Sikhs into the heart of Africa, for a generation ago Eng land was waging a bloody war with these selfsame Indian warriors. But the Sikhs have shown themselves loyal friends and faithful servants of their conquerors, aud no foreign race has been tound so fit to bat tle with the climate and the other perils of African exploration as these hardy soldiers from the Punjab. The misfortune which has come upon their Commissioner in Kyassaland will add another embarassment to British progress in Africa, and nobody can say that it may not lead to a consider able war. An Indian Dienltarj'i Coming Visit. The Gaikwar of Baroda, or Guicowar, for this hereditary title is spelt a dozen differ ent ways, is to absent himself from his dominion in British India this summer in order to dazzle the grandees of Great Britain with his jewelry and tremendous retinue. This Gaikwar is an exception to the usual representative ot this territorial house, for he is neither an idiot, a thug, a libertine, nor a professional poisoner. Indeed, he is said to be quite a prodigy of learning, a re fined gentleman and a philanthropic ruler who prefers to spend his principal revenues for his people s comfort, building them water works and railways and other publio works. This is in remarkable contrast to his amiable predecessor who at least at- icuipieu iu Mii3uii me .Driusii jiesmenii i Baroda, and is known to have led a life the reverse of moral. Another of the Gaikwars in this century won considerable fame by showing the En glish representatives at "his court a case of suspended animation that to this day puzzles scientific men. The Gaikwar on this oc casion took the English diplomatist to a crypt in the palace and showed to him there a fakir confined in a coffin within a narrow stone cell, and apparently dead. The Gaik war said the man had been siiut up there lor three months, without food, and had re mained all that time in a trance. This story -was corroborated by many responsible witnesses, and the fakir himself, upon his recovery or awakening, said that the three months'had seemed but the dreamless sleep of anight A Boom for the Hang. The fashion of wearing a bang, or, as our cousins across the water call it, "a fringe," is likely to renew its popularity in England for a very strange reason. It seems thatMrs.Mon tagu, the Irish lady who is now in the penitentiary for tor turing her son to dcatIi,combsher hair right back from her forehead, and the Mrs. Montagu. barren coldness , of her brows has impressed the public very painfully. "I cannot help tracing a strong affinity between Mrs. Montagu's cold, bare, bold, unclothed brows, unshadowed by a curl, and her hard, cold, unfeeling heart. unsoftened and untouched by the taintest ray of natural tenderness or womanly feel ing," writes a sensitive female to an En glish paper, and upon this basis founds this plea for the revival of the bang. "I have heard that once, when some dreadful people of the name ot Manning were hanged for mnnler, black satin went out of lashion be cause Mrs. Manning wore it. Now, could notiringe come again very much into fashion simply because Mrs. Montagu does not wear it?" On such queer pivots do fashions turn. Wheelmen -U"lio Have Hidden Into Fame. Wheelmen everywhere have marveled at the rapid progress of F. J. Osmond, the British bicyclist, who has been knocking records to smither eens the last three or four seasons. The accompanying cut is a capital portrait of him. He made his first bow to the public at a Crystal Palace race meeting, and it is noteworthy that he was a victor in his initial handi- Osmond, the Bi-yclUU cap. Every one of the five seasons since then has been filled with the triumphs of Osmond's wheel. Last July on a safety he covered 23 miles, 1,260 yards, iu one hour, and other notable achievements of his are the lowering the mile record on an ordinary bicycle to 2 minutes 28 4-5 seconds and to 2 minutes 16 seconds on a safety for the same distance. At present the chief interest Americans have in Os mond is connected with his cominc contest with Zimmerman, the crack American bicyclist, who is now getting acclimated in England. The "popularity of bicycling, or rather wlieeling.l'or tricycles are still unsupplanted by the safety there in Englaud, is attested by the immense proportions of the cycle business in that country. It is estimated that 512,000,000 are now invested directly in the manufacturing of cycles there; that 20,000 hands are employed therein, and that over 1,250 bicycles are turned out every day during the busy season. Hobody has tried to estimate how many cycles of one sort or another are used in England, but the num ber must reach the millions. 'JLhe splendid roads of the old country make it a bicyclist's paradise. AN OLD MAN'S TALES. President Harrison's Falhcr-in-Law Gossips About Famous Men. JOHN SHERMAN'S WHITE HORSE. Soma New Stories of Fmerson, Edison, Morse, Lincoln and Others. THE INVENTION OP THE TELEGRAPH rconnrsroNDExci: or the DisPATcn. Washington, May 14. I saw a fall, straight, fine-looking man walk out of the "White House to-day. He had a silver headed cane in his hand and he was dressed in preacher's black. His well-brushed broadcloth coat came high up to the neck in front. His step was firm, though not springy, andjie walked with the ease of a man in his prime. He come down the steps of the Executive Mansion, passed down to the right along the half moon sidewalk of the White House grounds and there crossed the street to Lafayette Park. As he entered the park I met him and recognized Dr. Scott, the father of Mrs. President Harrison, who is now past 92, but who does not look to be more than 60, and whose mind is as clear as a bell. He shook hands with me as I saluted him and I turned and took a stroll with him through the park. During the walk he told me that he felt better to-Jay than he did a year ago and that he founC, much enjoyment in life. As we passed the statue of Jackson I asked him as to whether he had ever seen "Old Hickory," and he told me that he had met him at Pittsburg a little over 57 years ago. Meeting Jackson lit Plltsbarc. "Andrew Jackson," said Dr. Scott, "was then on his way back Irom Washington after the Presidental contest of 1824, by which John Quincy Adams was elected. At the election Jackson had the largest number of electoral votes. He got, I think, 99, and Adams received 81, while William H. Crawford, of Georgia, got-41, and Henry Clay 37. The result was such that no one of the candidates had a ma jority, and the election was thrown into the House and Clay's votes went over to Adams, and it was by this that Adams was elected. John Quincy Aaains then chose Clav for his Secretary of State, and this made a great fuss among the friends of Jackson, and some of them claimed that it was the result of a bargain, and it was, you know, this charec that brought about the duel between John Randolph and Henrv Clav. Making the Sahara Blossom. The day may come when the Sahara will cease to be a synonym for barren desolation, ior the efforts of the French to reclaim the desert already have been crowned with con siderable success. Water, of course, is the magic remedy for the desert's sterility, and artesian wells are the only means by which water can be had there. In Southern Al geria, in that part of the Sahara which en croaches upon the Department of Constan tino, the artesian well system has been car ried out on a grand scale, no less than 700 wells having been sunk alreadv, and a re gion that before had been utterly uninhab itable has suddenly blossomed into a fair pasturage with a productive soil. Even at the most southerly point yet reached, where the burning sands made file a burden even to the transitory camel, water has been procured in this wav, and at a depth of no more than 150 feet from the surtauc. At this point Et-Golca is the name of a neighboring oasis it appears that a natural reservoir or underground lake has been tapped, and immense columns ot clear sweet water pour from the w ells continu ally. At the same time the climate of this re gion has materially improved in conse quence of the stringent laws which are now enfoitcd against the despoilers of the for ests among the Atlas Mountains. The growth i of the woodlands is followed of course by an increased rainfall, and nature's unrestricted ettorts arc supplemented by the planting of trees by the French authorities. It is thought these scientific and systematic attacks upon the Sahara will destroy its blighting influence more quickly than the gigantic and perhaps quixotic plan sug gested by Lieutenant Boudaire, some time ago, for flooding the Sahara with water, conducted irom the Mediterranean through a canal. Johns-Kaufmann. All INCORRIGIBLE PAEE0I. It Acquired a Language That Was Distaste ful to its Owner, Feathered -World. An old maiden lady, who strongly ob jected to "followers," had as a companion a gray parrot with a wonderlul faculty for picking up sentences. One day the old lady had cause to severely reprimand one of her maids for a breach of the "lollower" ordinance. This so irritated the girl that, as a windup to the recital of her wron in the hearing of' her fellow servants and Polly, who happened to be with them, she exclaimed passionately, "I wish the old lady was dead." The parrot lost no time in showing of its newly-acquired knowledge when next taken into the drawing room, to. the alarm of its elderly mistress, who super stitiously thought it was a warning from another world. She at once consulted the vicar, who kindly volunteered to allow his own parrot, which could almost preach a short sermon, sing psalms, etc, to-be kept for a short time with the impiousone, in order to correct its language. To this end they were kept to getherln a small roomfor a lew. days, tfhen the lady paid them a visit in company with her spiritual adviser. To their intense horror, immediately the door was opened, the lady's parrot saluted them with the ominous phrsse, "I wish the old lady was dead!" the vicar's bird responding, with all the solemnity of an old parish clerk, "The Lord hear our prayer." "During my call upon Jackson a brother professor, who was with me, referred to this, and said to General Jackson: There are some strange doings going on down in Washington,' and Jaokson replied, 'Yes, they are producing some queer phenome non's there.' He did not use the Latin plural 'phenomena, and as I was fresh from college I noticed It. .TacKson Was JSInnt bat Pollto. "Andrew Jackson," Dr. Scott went on, "was at this time in his prime. He was tali and fine-looking and he was rather blunt, though polite in his manners. I remember an old farmer who came up to him, and, after shaking him heartily by the hand aud calling him 'Old Hickory' said, 'And now, General, I want you to come and take a drink with an old farmer, and we will have a little whiky to celebrate the occasion. General Jackson drew himself up and thanked the farmer and said, 'You must ex cuse me. I cannot drink with you, for I am one of the army of non-combatants.' " "Did you ever meet Aaron Burr, Dr. Scott?" I asked. "No, I never met him, but I knew the Morgans with whom he stopped near Pitts burg on his way West, and L have heard a great deal about him. He was a man of greafability.but General Washington never trusted him and Burr was supposed at that time to have had his first trouble with Hamilton from jealousy at the trust which Washington gave to him but which he de nied to Burr." A White Hone Elected Sherman. I heard a curious story of John Sherman's first election to Congress to-day. It was told me by the Hon. Peter Grosscup, who is now one of the brightest young lawyers in Chicago, but who a few years a;o was the Republican nominee for Congress in Sherman's Ohio district. Grosscup at this time lived at Ashland, O., a town nf 3,000 people just 15 miles irom Mansfield, where Sherman lives. Said he: "When I was nominated for Congress, I was in doubt about accepting the nomina tion and I went up to see Senator Sherman, and I told him there was no chance of me being elected. He advised me stronglv to run, and said: 'You are a young man and you can't tell what will happen. I was nominated just as vou have been and I had no more chance of being elected than you have. I hadn't much money, but I had an old white horse and a rattle-fran of a buggv and I took old Whiter and drove around all over my district Everv village I came to where I could find two or three men standingtogether, I would get out and jump upon a chair or a storebox and make a speech to them, and Idid this atevery cross road in mv district. Well, when the vote was counted. I was defeated, as I expected to be, but before the next campaign came on the Kansas-Nebraska troubles had en tirely changed the sentiment of the district, and I got the nominatiin which resulted in the election and which sent me to Congress. Public sentiment changes rapidly iu the United States, and a new issue may spring up any day which may revolutionize the thought of other people.' " A Story of Emerson. Mr. Grosscup gave me also a good story of Emerson. "I had," said he, "a college prolcssor who was a friend ot Emerson, and when I went East after my graduation be gave me letters to him. Emerson was liv ing in the country near Boston at the time, and I stopped at a little wayside station to go to his place. There was no cao at the depot, and I noted an old man with thin gray whiskers through which the wind blew, who had an old carryall, and I asked him if he could not take me up to the village and to Mr. Emerson's house. He replied that he could and asked me to get in. On the way up we talked about the weather and common-place matters, and 1 thought noth ing ot my driver, who seemed to me more like a broken-down parson or a retired school teacher than anything else. When we reached the village the old man drove the carryall up to the lront of a house and tied it, and then said: 'You want to see Mr. Emerson, do you?' 'Yes,' said L - " 'Well,' he replied, 'you had better come in, for this is where he lives, and as for vour letters vou may hand them to me, for my name is Emerson, and I suppose I am the man that you have come to sec.' I was much surprised, but I gave him the let ters and followed him into the house. He was very cordial and chatted in the most interesting manner, and this was that it seemed to him that the mouth of God Almighty was closer to the ear of Thomas Carlyle than to that of any other man in the world." E.llon' ainrrlage Cost Illm SIS. During my talk with Mr. Grosscup, I received a letter Irom Mr. Edison's labora tory, inclosing a picture of the great in ventor, and the conversation turned to him. "Edison," said he, "lost me just $45 by his second marriage." "How so?" I asked. "It happened this wav," replied the young lawyer. "Mr. Edison married a daughter of Mr. Miller, a very rich man of Akron, O. The voung lady was charm ing and accomplished and she had a number of lovers, among them a young friend of mine, who was prosecuting his suit with vigor but was rather despondent about his success. In talking with him concerning it one day, I offered to bet him a suit of clothes that he would be married to the lady inside of a year. He took the bet, but stipulated that the suit should be a business suit and not a dress suit, as he really ex pected and hoped that he would have to pay the bet and he wanted to make it as cheap as possible. "Well, it was shortly after this that Miss Miller went to Chautauqua to spend a few weeks, and there she met Thomas Elison and it was acaseof love at first sight on both sides, and the two became engaged and were afterwards married. A few davs after the wedding occurred I received a bill of 545 from the young fellow's tailor to pay for those clothes, and so the marriage cost me just that amount." One of the Inventor's Mistakes. Mr. Edison once told a friend of mine the story of the sale of one of his first patents, and he described how he had called on Jay Gould and bad presented it to him. He approached Gould with fear and he felt quite embarrassed as he described his patent, which was an improvement in tele graph instruments, and hen at last Gonld asked him what he thought it was worth his his heart jumped to his throat and he could not tell how but in some way he ut tered the words: "I thick I ought to have $100,000 for it." "I could see," said Mr. Edison, "from the expression of Mr. Gould's face that I had made one of the great mistakes of my life, and that I should have asked him a million. He said he would take it and he got the invention, but the incident taught me a lesson and I have never made such a mistake since then." Edison has made more out of the tele phone than Morse ever made out of the tel egraph. I had a long chat last night with Prof: M. B. Brady, the great photographer, who now at the age of somewhere near threescore and ten'is as bright and spry as he was when he photographed all the great men of ante-bellum davs. He told me dur ing our talk that he once had a dagucr reotrping establishment in New York in partnership with Morse and that he had no idea that Morse's invention would amount to anything. Said he: How Morse Strutted to Success. "Our gallery was in a long room in Beek- man street and New York was then a city of about the size that Washineton is now. It djd not contain over 300,000 peo- Cle, but Prof. Morse and myself did a fair usiness. Morse was experimenting at the telegraph at the same time that he was da guerreotvping, and our room was fil"ed with electrical machines and wire was coiled around it passing to the walls and stretched here and there across the room. Everyone thought that Morse was crack-brained. He was caricatured in the newspapers and the people laughed at him. He had great trou ble iu getting Congress to give him an ap propriation to build a line between Wash ington and Baltimore. He finally got 5300,000 and this line established the suc cess of the telegraph. It was sometime, however, before he made any money out of it but he succeeded at last and died worth a fortune. He was one of the pleasantest and most gentlemanly men I have known, was a man of much learning, broad in his views and refined in his manner. "It was while I had a gallery on Fulton street that- Jenny Lind came to this coun try, and I believe that I was the first to put her face into a daguerreotype. I called upon her and got her to sit to me a week alter she landed in New York and before she sang. The people were crazy over her, and the day she came to sit they blocked up the streets for a long distance on each side of the entrance, and we had to let her out through a back door to avoid the crowd. She was not a pretty woman, bnt her face was a pleasant one. It was rather square than round, was florid and of the Swedish order. Taking a Picture ot Andrew Jackson. "I took Andrew Jackson at the Hermitace shortly before he died, aud I have made a number of photographs of Abraham Lin coln. I have a chair in my gallery which came from the Senate and which was given me by President Lincoln. It was finely carved, and hepresented it to me on ac count of the discomfort which he found in accommodating himself to the chairs in my gauery. lie was very tall, you Know, ana his legs came high up in the ordinary chair. As he complained about it he said: " 'Mr. Brady. I wish yon had one of the Senate chairs in your gallery. These are just right for me, and I think youcouldtake a much better picture in them.' " 'Give me an 'order, and I will get you one,' said L He did so. I presented it and got the chair, and I have it now. "The first time I took President Lincoln was just after his election. He was coming througn New York on his way to Washing ton, and I remember that I had considerable trouble in arranging him for the camera. He was so tail, gaunt aud angular, and his neck was so long that I found great trouble in making a good-looking picture of him, and when 1 got him before the camera I asked him if I might not arrange his collar. With that I began to pull it up. " 'Ah,' said he, 'I see you want to shorten mv neck.' '" That's just it,' said I, and we both lauched. "The result of the sitting was a splendid picture. It had a wide sale, and was carried in different forms to every part of the coun try. President Lincoln used to speak to me about it afterward, and he once told me that I was the man who had introduced him to the United States." Frank G. Caepentee. JEWELS OF THE SEA. The Glorious Yellow Amber Gathered From AIonj the Shore. DIVERS GO DOWN TO SEEK FOR IT, Lonjf Tunnels Beneath the Sea-Floor From Which It Is Jlined. SAID TO BE TEiES FRUJI DEAD TKEES CwRrrncv ron tiie msr-ATcn.1 "Tears from dead trees," did once a Ger man savant call the precious fossil resin of which my lady's necklace and her liege lord's pipe tip is made. Still more poetio than this is the thought ot these transparent golden tears surviving even the .petrified trunks of the sturdy monarchs of the forests that shed them. Deep down in the "blue earth" along th shores of and beneath the treacherous break ers or the Baltic Sea. are fonnd in bits and fragments of fossilized wood the traces of vast forests that in ages long past had cov ered nearly the entire coast line ot what is now known as East Prussia. Large tracts of land have sunk there below sea level, and in time were covered with the rank sub marine growths of seaweed, and algae. Whenever a storm churns and lashes tha waves then large masses of this green tangle are torn from the bottom and often carry with them pieces of amber, the resin of fos sil pines, which being but slightly heavier than salt water will float in the network of weeds. The Tellow Jewels of the Sea. Upon bringing the floating meadows, that cover the sea after a propitious gale, ashore at given points, there depends frequently an enormous gam to the amber fisher, who has rented certain portions of the shore from the Crown. At those times the vil lages on the seaboard are ail astir with ex- W The Divers at VTorTz. CABVIHGS OF TEA BOOTS. Ineennlty of the Chinese In Constrnctln; ami Cnttlnc Dcslns In Wood. The Collector. The designs of carvings of tea roots are endless. Learned men lecturing birds, mandarins standing on dragons, boys riding cows and other ridiculous quadrupeds, danc ing beggars, men fighting each other are the commonest groups, but of the more uncom mon there are thousands. One famous artist in Foochow claims to have produced, with the aid of his apprentices, over 50,000 dillcrent designs, and, judging Irom his stock on band, his claim seems reasonable enough. The tea-root carvings are seldom very costly, running from 50 cents to S100. Nine tenths bring leas than $2 each. A handsome s-t of a dozen can be purchased lor ?20, which will decorate a drawing-room or hali better that bric-a-brac many times more ex pensive. The figures are strong, durable and is in no danger of fractnre by Bridget or Ah Sin. Outside of their aesthetic value they arc of interest in showing the wonder lul ingenuity and economy of our Chinese cousins. A Xrrj Yoanc Milkmaid. The 4-year-old daughter of Charles Brandt, a dairyman near Lebanon, Pa., milks six cows every day. She is small for her age, and it is more convenient for her to stand up than to sit while milking. Only the gentlest cows are allotted to her. She be gan the practice a couple of weeks ago of her own accord, asking permission to try her hand alter having watched the milk maids at their work. A Summertime Idyll. Teareon's Weekly. Side by side, within a hammock, On a lovely 9iimmer''iiU;ht, Sac a maiden and her lqVer, And above the muonilioae bright. "Darling." sweet and low he whispered, "Thee I love above them all; Jlav wo ro through Ufa together Undisturbed by snr.io ortalll" Vhilo thus earnostlj he pleaded. Quite believing wjikt he -aid. Back too far the young man leaned. Thump! he lanUeilon his head. Ofi.yo gods! have maids no nltyT Loud a mockliu hjijrli aid Round: Once moro turned tWo tricky hammock. And she sat upon the ground. "TIs an ill wInclyoiralI know that btralshtway he his suit renewed: And with hands clnsped tlgut together aat they on the aras bedewed. Then, the fates were more propitious. Answered she; "I Jove theo well; But" she saw the tvlngiiiK hammock "Please, don't eveji-, ever tell!" citement. Nobody thinks of rest, day or night, and everyone is on the alert, ready to fly to the edge of the waves at the first alarm from the watchers. Men defy the roaring breakers, and. standing up to "their shoulders in the seething foam, catch wisps of seaweed in long nets and fling them shoreward, where the women and children gather irom them the yellow jewels of tha sea. In this manner as much as 511,000 worth is known to have been gathered in a single night. But in spite of the most rapid work it is not always possible to bring all the cast-np amber ashore; the large pices, especially, are apt to sink. They are gath ered by means of long-handled nets, called "catchers," when a bright day and a placid sea enables the amber-fisher's sight to pene trate the limpid water. Inasmuch as it is often necessary to turn over huse rocks. this work is vcrr laborious; yet a case is known where ?600 worth of amber repaid fonr men for a summer day's drudgery. Ite cently, however, this mode has been en tirely abandoned in favor of one more in keeping with modern ingenuity and inven tions. Divine: In the Cold Water. The company now having charge of the entire industry recognized some 20 years ago the fact that the largest pieces of amber could not be easily moved by the waves on account of their weight, and that, therefore, a lucrative harvest could be gathered di rectly from the submerged portion of the amber-bearing stratum. Ac cordinglv diver3 were imported from France, but the very first attempt, though thoroughly satisfactory from a commercial point of view, demonstrated that French men were not able to stand the rigid climate of Eastern Prussia and Lithaunians were substituted for them. Naturally, the gleaning of the bottom of the sea along the coast eventually exhausted the accessible supply of the valuable resia and from 23,400 pounds in 1881 the trove dropped to 5,200 pounds in 1S83; so that diving had to be discontinued and will not be resumed until the Government permits submarine amber-diving. The rapid action of dynamite is then to take the place of divers whose movements are awk wardly hampered by the necessarily stiff and heavy rubber suit and brass helmet. At the present time amber is mined from that portion of the "blue earth" stratum which extends into terra firm. In places a drift that slants downward to a depth ot 120 feet gives access to tunnels running in every direction. Out of 2,430,000 cubic feet of "blue earth" were taken 405,000 pounds of amber, valued at nearly 5500,000, last year by mining. llow the mber In Sopnrated. Every miner has strapped to him a bag in which he collects the large pieces of the val uable commodity. The loosened dirt is car ried away in small carts which are hoisted to the surface on elevators and is then dumped into a large bin from whence it is (i MllrHllj rill KVM. HC Searching the Jfinwj. carried by a stream of water into an ar rangement of sluices. These have perfor ated iron bottoms that permit the sand and water to escape, retaining only the amber and larger pebbles, which are easily sep arated. Before a miner is permitted to leave the premises he is subjected to a rigorous search. Experience has thoroughly justiGed this regulation; otherwise, most scrupulously honest men were known to have had strangely perverted conceptions of right and wrong as regards amber. It seems to be considered as a girt of Natnre to which he who finds it is entitled. At the beginning of this century such thefts were punishable by death. "The amber pieces are sorted into nearly a hundred classes, each one representing some particular adaptation of the raw material. Flat pieces are made into smokers utensils, round pieces are tor beads and jewelry, and small fragments are made into amber var nish. In certain countries, Austria, Bul earia and Turkey for example, the amber jewelry is greatly coveted by women on ac count of the superstition that it insures the wearer good luck and a long enjoyment of the qualities that make her attractive. J. G. B. ITiArotiTAir AwaiJtos, warranted sun test, at Mamaux & Son's, 533 JPenn avenue. Than iha (M V fii ; aim. 4 S,'. - :t '. X
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