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Chicago ii wrestling now with the
smoke problem, but has not vet solved
it. '
The products of the farms, mines, for
ests and fisheries of tho United States
are valued at $25,000,000,000 a yenr.
rennsylvaniaDs aro about to erect n
monument to Old Hnmbletonisn, the fa
mous founder of the race of American
trotters.
Scnntor Stanford believes that mag
netism can be dovclcpod in men and
horses by intelligent effort, and in breed
ing thoroughbreds on his California
stock farm he has made experiments to
that end.
The boundary controversy between
Massachusetts and New Hampshire, nftet
200 years, has been finally settled. The
early surveyors, explains the New York
Press, did not understand the variations
of the magnetic needle; hence the
quarrel.
In addition to the usual advantages
conferred by leap year uu energetic
young ladies, 1892 will give tbem fifty
three Sundays in which to employ thoso
advantages. The year is going to be a
crucial one for bachelors, predicts tho
Brooklyn Citizen.
Simon Wolf, of Washington, is prepar
ing for the publication of a list of the
Hebrew soldiers and tailors who have
done sorvice in tho wars of the United
States, including tho war of the revolu
tion. At the last annual reunion of the
Eleventh Corps of tho Army of tho Poto
mac, General Stahl said that half of his
old regiment "was composed f f Israclitss
with the courage of tho Maccabees."
Many of tho statesmen and public men
of Chile are of pretty much the samo
stock as many of our owa people, de
clares the Chicago Herald. Their im
mediate ancestors were Europeans, and
some of thoir public men aro born Euro
peans. The new Chilean Minister of Pub
lic Works, Don Augustin Edwards, was
born in Chile of English parents. lie is
a great favorite with the British residents,
and a Valparaiso uewspap'.,- says:
"Those who know him best lovo to thiuk
of him as an Englishman."
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Science has been meditating upon tho
subject of tho probable increases of tho
population in tho United States, and it
presents us with those startling con
clusions: . Since 1750 the iucreaso has
been from 1,260,000 to tho neighbor
hood, in 1890, of 65,000,000. I f this
ratio of increase is a fair basis for pre
diction we shall have ut tho time when
the ten-year-old boy of to-day shall be
forty years of age, in 1920, something
like 160,000,000 of people in tho United
States, and whoa that mm of forty
reaches his seventieth birthday (11)50)
we shall have close upon 400,000,000
population.
Joseph Wallace, in the Popular Science
News, says that our climate has cer
tainly been much modiflod within the
past 2000 years. "There have bee a
fifteen c'imatio changes since tho begin
ning of the glacial ago," he writes, "each
change lasting 10,500 years, and each
change reversing tho season in tho two
hemispheres, the pole which had enjoyed
continuous summer being doomed to
undergo perpetual winter for 10,500
years and then pasting to its former
state for an equal term." Tho present
epoch of a more genial temperature at
this season of the year in this northern
hemisphere begun about 1500 years ago,
, and for '11)00 years to come, writes Mr.
Wallace, "we may reasonably expect a
gradual modification of our climate."
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To illustrate the strength of the prej
udiie agaiust corn in Great Britain,
mention may be made of an instance iu
the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where it
was proposed by a Member of the Poor
House Board to substitute maize for
costlier food In that institution. The
mere suggestion brought a storm about
his ears, becuuso of his inhumanity in
thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food
which was only tit for pigs. American
canned goods of all kinds are largely
sold iu Europe, but canned corn is al
most never seen there. If a doinaud
for it could be created it would mean
hundreds of thousauds of dollars yearly
to tho proprietors aud workers of our
canneries. Agents of the Department of
Agriculture have beeu exhibiting the
cereal in this form also abroad with the
hope of teaching the people to like it.
Wherever corn dishes of various sorts
have been prepared and distributed by
them they huve been received so favora
bly as to give good grounds for confi
dent expectation in this regard. Tho
use of the potato, tbo tomato and the
tobacco plant, all of American origin,
has spread through Europe aud added to
the comfort aud happiness of millions.
There seems to be more hope for corn
now than there was for any of tboso
commodities at the beginning.
OOD BLESS HER.
8 he never bnrned with passion's fires,
She never craved a mawkish fame;
Her nerves were never strung on wire.
But sunshine followed where she came.
Her ways in school were circumspect,
And made her seem a trifle prim;
Her maiden manners were correct,
Her cheerful goodness uaught could dim.
(Uthouglishe ne'er disdained life's joys.
She ne'er forgot religion's claims;
fn Sunday school her girls and boys
Were all Imbued with life's grand aims.
In church she ne'er seemed sanctified,
And only fit for angel sphere;
While others talked of Him who died,
She worked In love for mortals hore.
She married poorly, in the sense
That life's groat goal is glittering gold;
But for her pains had recompense
In love of man in God's own mold.
And further on in life there came
A group of children in her home,
Who honored e'er their father's nami,
And from her guidance ne'er would roam,
Old age camoou, aud children brought
Grandchildren to the sacred placa
Whore mother, wife and maid had taught
Grand lessons to His grandest race.
Then "earth to earth, and dust to dust,"
Was said at last above the bier
Where lay the flower of earthly trust,
Whose symbol rose to heavenly sphere.
God bless the homes such women make!
God bless the world where such are rife I
For hearts would love and never break
If but such shrine, wer. found in life.
EsrlMarble.ln Philadelphia Press.
PHILIP'S FIRST SUIT.
BY EDMUND LYONS.
HAT had become
of Mablo Stonef
That was the prob
lem that puzzled
the people of Squa
lacket, and they
were no nearer to a
;j soiuuou in January
"f? than t.hev wprn in
yJuly, wheu, one op-
'((TTIh. pressiveiy not morn-
61 J1UIV3
at tho breakfast
table was vacant.
and Deacon Stone
learned from a servant, who bad been
kept swake by a toothache, that his
daughter had arisen at four o'clock in
the morning and gone out hurriedly in
to the gray damn. She had not returned
at nightfall, and when it was ascertained
thHt her aunt in New York, whom she
frequently visited, was ignorant of her
whereabouts, and that her brother, who
was trying to build up a medical prac
tice in Boston, had not seen her or
heard from her, a dark suspicion arose
iu Squalacket that she bad run away
with Philip Mesmer; for Squalacket was
a New England town, and every inhab
itant in it had grown weary of compar
ing his or her own goodness with that of
the neighbors, aud arrived at a comfort
able if somewhat monotonous conclusion
that the home virtues wei'e a littlo pnrer
and rather inoro securely rooted thau
any othvs.
If there is such a thing as an excess
of righteousness, Squalucket knew what
it was, and a ripple of wrong doing ap
pearing upon the otherwise unrutlied
surface of its purity was like a little
flavor of onion lurking in a bowl of
salad. "Half suspected," it auimated
the whole. So tho people of the strait
laced town were perhaps unduly hasty
in grasping a forbidden fruit when they
declared, with soinethiug nearly ap
proaching unauimity, that Philip Mes
mer and Mabel Stone had elocd.
To be sure, the circumstantial evidence
was strong against the young couple.
Philip was only twenty-two, and though
all his friends said he bad in him the
making of a great lawyer, he had not yet
been called to the bar. This would not
have mattered greatly, because his life
lay before him, and his crusty old uncle
allowed him enough money to cover his
bare expenses, with tho provision that it
should all be returned, with accrued in
terest and by increasing installments, as
soon as his profession began to yield him
an income. But Philip, though not yet
a barrister, was too good a lawyer not to
be ignorant of the dangers of delay. Ho
had alreaiy, he hoped, carried one suit
to a successful Usue. It was a suit for
Mabel's band iu murriuge, and the young
lady had rendered judgment in his favor.
But Deacon Stone bad reviewed this de
cision, reversed it, and thrown Philip's
case, on motion of appeal, out of court.
He said his daughter was his heiress,
and, as he was rich, no penniless young
fellow, on the strength of bis expecta
tions, should marry her.
Philip, however, was not easily non
suited. At a lust interview with Mabel,
before he went back to Philadelphia to
digest more law, be offered to release her
from her engagement to him; but Mabel
was not the sort of girl to take advan
tage of his generosity, and perhaps he
knew that before bo exercised it. Love
(especially love with a profound knowl
edge of law behind it) is rarely quite uu
selfish. She promised to wait for him,
if necessary, until time was no longer
youug, ami he assured her that ho would
return to Squalacket to claim her as soou
as he had mastered tho conteuts of bis
first brief, which he expected with the
new yecr; for he was culled to the bar
about Christmas, and in Juuuary the case
o. Colly vs. West would be tried in the
Superior Court, and Colly, who was a
riend of bis dead father, was pbdgod to
utain him us junior counsel to show tho
jury that West .ad cut down a tree
which stood evenly on the dividing line
oi the West and Colly properties, and
laughed derisively aud scurriously railed
at Colly lor saying that his half of the
trunk should have beeu respected aud
left s'anUiug.
"And if that isn' a good caso aud a
ure wiuuer, darling," said Philip, en
thusiastically, as he folded Mabel iu his
arms, "1 wonder what is. Don't you?"
Then be killed her
and said Uo
Wm
3 t,,-'-'s'9 A 7..1
wouldn't weary her with tho dry details
of the law. It was vory cncouraainsr.
And thus hopefully they parted. Philip
went back to Philadelphia by a night
train, and Mabel returned to her father's
house. But tho deacon gave her a very
bad half-hour after supper. Ho said
Philip was nothing bettor than a beggar,
dependent upon his uncle's bounty; that
be was a mean fellow, and too dull to
succeed at any bar except a marble
topped one with bottlos behind it, and
somebody with him beforo it to pay his
reckouiug. He said many other things
about her lover that Mabel, being a high
spirited girl, could not stand at all. She
went to her room when she could restrain
her tears no longer, and when she had
locked her door, and relieve'' her heart
with such tears as she had not shed since
her mother died, twelve years beforo, she
decided that she could never again have
a homo until Philip mado one for her.
Sho had promised her lover that she
would never marry any other man; but
she had also promised her father that she
would not wed without his consent.
The situation was rather conflicting, and
only one thing was quite clear to her;
that was that neither Philip nor the
deacon should have au opportunity to
urge her to break cither pledge. Shp
trusted her lover.and she trusted herself ;
and above all, she had a higher trust that
her dead mother had taught her. So
when she packed up a few articles of
clothing in a small hand-bag, counted
her savings, which amounted to about
8eventv-(ive dollars, and stole away with
the dawn unobserved by any one in the
house except the tooth-torturod servant,
she felt lonely, and perhaps a little fright
ened, but not at all the guilty conscience
stricken creature that tho deacon and
most of the pious people of Squalacket
felt assured that she must bo as soon as
her flight was discovered.
Deacon Stone was not, any time,
man of many ideas. lie had only room
for one now, and that his wayward and
rebellious daughter had gone to Plnla
delphia to join Philip. Ho hastened
there as fast as steam could carry him,
and went at once to the law student's
one dingy room in Arch Street. He
found its occupant wrestling manfully
with the Revised statutes of Pennsylva
nia, and the earncstneES with which he
assured his visitor that he was quite ig
norant of Mabel's movements as well as
his own distress as he heard of her flight,
wculd have convinced an unprejudiced
person that be spoke the truth. But the
deacon was a man of very fixed opinions
He called the objectionable quality that
usually won for him his own way "de
termination." His fellow church members
referred to it as "pig-headedness," but
that was only when there was no chance
of his hearing of the term so applied,
He now openly refused to credit Philip's
declaration. But tbo yoang man listened
to iiis rambling, vehemently told story,
and then with the same coolness and
deliberation that afterward greatly helped
him in the case of Colly vs. West, he
pretty thoroughly cross-examined him.
He learned enough about the scene in
the tarlor the night precediug Mabel's
Bight to give him a tolerably clear in
sight as to tho actual state of affairs, and
his knowledge of the proud, self-reliant
character of the girl assured him that
w.'.tn she returned it would be of her
owii free-will. Whatever efforts he made
to find herfust be advanced with the
utmost delicacy, for he knew that any
thing like publicity would deeply offend
her. It was with great difficulty that he
finally persuaded tho 'deacon to refrain
from taking tho police into his couii
deuce; and the old man departed, finally.
vowing that if his daughter wero not
back iu Squalacket before the eud of the
week he would obtain a warrant for
Philip's arrest, aud raise such a hue-and-cry
uftur Mabel as would lead to her dis
covery if she were still above ground.
Other andiuore important matters must
have claimed his attention, for, so far as
Philip could ascertain, he made no fur
ther uttempt to find the fugitive.
And so the dreary weeks lengthened
into months. Mabel's retreat was nearly
as muoh a mystery as ever not as much,
for Philip received one short letter from
her, which relieved his any'ety. She
was in New York, and was sa.e and well.
She refused to tell him her address, but
promised to write to huu aaiu when
events justified such i course say, when
the Philadelphia newspapers announced
that Colly had won his suit against West.
Wit J this assurance he was obliged to be
contented; and in the early days of
December Philip was called to the bar.
But while one man may lead a horse
to the water, twenty men cannot make
him drink; and Philip soon found that
it is easier to become a barrister than to
find clieuts. The case of Colly vs. West
wont over until the next t:irm of the
court. The parsimonious uncle had
stopped supplies, aud if the briefless
young lawyer had not succesded in ob
taining a littlo literary work as book
reviewer for a newspaper, the room in
Arch street might have wanted a tire.
It was warm and couirortablc enough,
however, wheu he hurried into it out of
the biting air one eve. ring ; and, lighting
the lamp, he saw thut two sealed enve
lopes lay upon the table. The oue be
opeued first contained a circular from a
New York laud syudicate, settiug forth
tlio great opportunities offered to obtain
prairie homes where Iho wilderness would
soou bo made to blossom like a rose.
Tho address on the second euvelopo wa
iu writing that was struugo to him. It
enclosed a letter from a lawyer, an
nouncing the sudden death of his uncle,
aud his accession to a reasonably large
fortune.
Aud uow where was Mabel She
would not communicate with him, he
knew, until good news reached her.
She might learn of a successful issue to
the suit of Colly vs. Wes, but how was
she io hear oi this wiudfull uuless he
told her of it? He was a comparatively
rich mau now, but be cared nothing for
his wealth if Mabel could uot share it with
hi iu, and, with u great lougiug iu his
heart, ho took her last short brave letter
from his desk aud laid it on the table,
while he drew tho lamp toward him. It
was beside the other two envelopes, but
lit knew her writing well, aud looked
fondly at the address as he picked up
one that bore it. Then he opened it, and
drew out the despised land circular. How
did that wretched advertisement get
there? Suddenly tho blood rushed to his
forehead as he saw that tho addresses on
both cmvelopea were precisely similar.
Not for a moment did Philip doubt that
they bad both been written by Mable.
But how could such a thing have hap
pened? 1 he young man bad not wasted bis
time as a law student. lie knew how to
weigh evidence, and in half an hour ho
was on his way to New York. He has
tened to the office of the land syndicate,
which having a pressure of business on
hand, was still open, shewing people
how to acquire homes ou the prairie. - Ho
hnd little troublo in ascertaining that a
Hiss Mable Stono was one of its army of
workers who addressed envelopes, and a
young woman who was in the office gave
her address to Iran.
He found her with a long list of names
before her, and a box cont lining a thou
sand envelopes on the table. She was
about to ad r ess the first when he entered,
and said, quietly, "Let us do it to
gether, Mabel."
In her amazement she nearly upset the
ink; but when he had told his story she
was satisfied, and allowed him to help
her. Splendidly they did it. Beforo
ten o'clock they had addressed a thou
sand envelopes, and earned seventy-five
cents between them. Then he left her,
but on the followiug day they journeyed
to Squalacket together, and Deacon
Stone, though at first inclined to turn
them both out of the house, was mollified
as soon as he heard of the altered aspect
of affairs, and was easily induced to con
sent to their marriage. A lawyer was a
useful person to have in a family, any
how, he said, and as he was thinking of
suing tho church trustees for applying
five dollars of the funds subscribed for a
new pulpit to the relief of u widow
whose husband had been killed on the
railroad track, it was well to be prepared
for emergencies.
Philip and Mabel were married when
the cose of Colly vs. West was tried in
the Superior Court. Colly's senior coun
sel was unable to attend, and the brunt
of the battle fell upon Philip. He woo
it triumphantly. Tho jury gave Coll
six cents damages, but that carried thi
costs. Harper's Weekly.
The Eskimos Surely Starving.
Hitherto the Eskimos have depended
for food upon the whale, walrus, and
seal of the coast and the fish of the
rivers. The first three animals have also
supplied them with clothing, boats, and
all other necessaries of life. Fifty years
ago the whalers, having exhausted other
waters, sought the northern Pacidc for
whales, pursuing them into Bering Sea,
and carrying the war of extermination
into the Arctic Ocean. At length the
few surviving whales have been driven
to the neighborhood of the pole, and
their species has become well-night ex
tinct on the Alaskan coast. Respond
ing to a commercial demand for ivory,
the whalers' turned their attention to
the walrus snd proceeded to wipe them
out of existence likewise. Sometimes as
mauy as two thousand of the valuablo
beasts would be slaughtered on a single
cake of ice, merely for thoir tusks. Thus
a walrus is hardly to be found to-day in
those waters where so short a time ago
tho animals were so numerous that their
bellowings were heard above the roar of
the waves and the grinding of the floes.
Seals and sen-lions aro now getting so
scarce that the natives have difficulty in
procuring enough of their skins to cover
boats. They used to catch and cute great
quantities of fish in the streams, but
their supply from this source has recently
diminished owing to the establishment
of great cannarics which send millions
of cans of salmon out of the country an
nually and destroy vastly more by waste
ful methods. Improved firearms havo
driven the wild caribou into the inac
cessible regions of the remote interior.
Thus the process of slow starvation
and depopulation has begun along the
whole Arctic coast of Alaska, and famine
is progressing southward year by year on
the s bore of Bering Sea. Where vil
lages numbering thousands were a few
years ago, the populations have been re
duced to hundreds. Boston Transcript.
Some Pythagorean Mysteries.
Every lover of rare and curious in
formation knows that most of the ancients
were "dead set" against beans, but no
modern uuravellcr of old-time mysteries
kuows why. It may be truly said that
there are but few philosophers ot the
present day that "know beans." Pythag
oras admonished his pupils to "abstain
from beans," but on what grouuds no
oue knows. He was also authority far
the old-time superstition that any sen
tence written in beau juice could be seen
plainly reproduced on tho disk of the
mooul Andrew Ling says that the
ancient folk-lore of beans is a most
curious aud interesting topic, because it
si-ems wholly out ot the question that
we should ever understand what it was
all about. Demeter was the patroness of
all fruits an 1 vegetables, but the ancients
considered it impious to attribute to her
tho discovery of the bsan. Herachdei,
on the authority of Orpheus, declared
that beaus buried iu manure piles forth
with became human beings. St. Louis
Republic.
Advertising Extraordinary.
"We have a shoemaker iu our town,"
sayi t Quebec, (Cauada) man, "whose
bus ssi in selling overshoes bad beeu
almost ruiued by a bustling rubber house,
aud who this winter, to get even, hud a
great opening sale, at which he gave to
every purchaser of shoes a pair of rubber
overshoes, upon tho soles of which was
bis advertisement reversed, so that at
every step the wearers take through the
suow they leave his advertisement neatiy
printed in their tracks. The effect is
magical aud powerful. You can scarcely
look at the snow auy place iu ljuebeo
without seeing footprints with this man's
name glaring boldly from them."
Rochester Uuiou.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial marble grows in uso.
Plants are grown by electricity.
American looms aro being extensively
used in England.
In France and Germany horses are
now vaccinated for the glanders.
It is estimated by scientists that Colo
rado's cliff dwellers existed 10,000 years
ago.
Owing to its extensive use in electric
appliances the price of platinum has ad
vanced fully 100 per cont.
It is proposed to unite all the islands
of Japin by a system of submarine tele
graph cables. The estimated cost is
$2,000,0U0.
It is asserted in some Italian and other
medical journals that protection has beeu
afforded by heifer vaccine against mea
sles, whooping cough and Influenza.
A French physician recommends vac
cinating with steel pens, since one could
easily afford to use a fresh one each time,
end thus avoid danger of infection from
the lancet.
An automatic electric gas extinguisher
depends on the variations in the electri
cal conductivity of selenium when ex
posed to light, and turns off tho gas on
the first appearance of daylight.
It has been estimated that the motive
power furnished by the steam engines of
the world represents tho strength of
1000 millions of men that is to say,
twice as many as there are workmen.
A method ot purifyiug water invented
by Dr. William Anderson, and success
fully used at Antwerp, Belgium, consists
in passing the water through a revolving
cylinder containing metallic iron in the
form of scraps or filings.
Electric roads cost less than cable or
horse car roads. The average co3t of
the electric roads a mile, including equip
ment and roadway, is $10,1397, while the
horse car and cable roads, cost respec
tively f 71, 387 and $330,326.
A German physiologist finds that be
low the age of twenty there is no ma
terial differenco between the death rate
from consumption among prisoners and
that among the ordinary population ; but
between twenty and forty the death rate
is five times as high among prisoners as
among the general population.
A curious fashion has found its way
Into the manufacture of table hardware.
Tho handles of table knives aro now
made of china to match the plate?. There
are sets for each course. Thoso for poul
try havo heads of the victims uDd littlo
fluffy chicks and ducks upon them; those
used with the game course havo tiny
flights ot partridge and miniature long
legged snipe painted on them.
Recent tests in the use of the phono
graph in the Deaf and Dumb Institute at
Indianapolis, Ind., show that it is useful in
concentrating sound upon the drum of
the ear, so that many pupils, otlerwiso
deaf, can hear it. It is thought by the
Superintendent that he can by this
means soon teach the use of their voices
to many mutes whose inability to speak
is due to the fact that they have never
heard speech.
The Preside it or Mexico.
Porifirio Diaz, the man who makes his
home ot Chapultepec, is rather disap
pointing when ono from tho North gets
the first sight of him. While the palaca
is undergoing repairs nt an enormous
cost he makes his homo in the palace,
near the heart of tho city. It is a plaiu
building outside, looking much as tho
other houses do, but on the iuside it is
magnificently furnished. Diaz is an Az
tec Indian of the pure blood. Ho is a
short man, with black hair, eyes and
mustache. He speaks but little English,
and never attempts it in the presence of
one from tho States. He wears a Prince
Albert in every day life, with a stand
ing collar and broad, flat tio. He was
born in 1850. From the time he reached
manhood he was engaged in fighting his
way to the highest position iu the re
public. Twice ho flew to New Orleans for
safety, once returning to Vera Cruz iu
tho guise of a coal heaver. Ho won his
greatest honors at Puebla, when with
74)00 men he defeated his opposition and
seized the President's chair. The last
election resulted iu his favor by 12,000
votes. There are no political parties in
Mexico. When the day of election came
Diaz had his soldiers at the polls aud not
a vote out of 10,000,000 population was
cast against him, There was uo other
candidate to vote for. Ono of the first
great acts of this mau was to free the
country of the bandits. Thoy were so
numerous aud daring that no one was
safe. They would rush into the city,
seize a prominent citizen and curry him
away to the mouutuiu for ransom with
out a finger being raised against them.
But Diaz stopped this. He made a
contract with the bandits that they
should havo good pay serving the Gov
ernment and their crimes forgotten if
they would leave their life in the mount
ains. They can be seen every day on
the paseo, where they stuud guard. They
are mounted on fine horses, splendidly
equipped with carbines aud sabres, and
are the most courageous soldiers in the
world. Auy number of thieves may raid
a bank in the City of Mexico and escape
to the mountains. Give them three days'
start and put these bloodhound soldiers
on their trail and not one will get out of
the republic. Tho band kuows every
inch of the ground uuder tho Mexican
sun. They are faithful to Diaz. New
York Suu.
Split the Singer' Larynx.
Professor Schullur, a celebrated Berlin
physician, receutly had occasion to split
in half the larynx of a well known singer.
After seventeen days the wound was
pronounced healed, and curiously enough
it was found that the singer uot only
had uot lost his vocal organ, but that be
is now euabled to use it to much better
udvautuge than heretofore. I kuow of
neverii! N.my York singers who ought to
go to Professor Schuller, of Berliu, aud
xel their throats cut lengthwise. New
York Recorder.
CAPTURING A SMUGGLER.
AN INCIDENT IN THE CRTJISB OF A
REVENUE MARINE VESSEL.
A Would-bo Spanish Smuggler OfT
tho Florida Coast Overhauled by
Uncle Sam's Illurjackrts.
Within recent years tho smuggling in
southern Florida has been reduced to a
minimum, the assiduous cruising of tho
revenue-iuttcr having chnrge of this
ground making it exceedingly hazardous,
yet occasionally a bold craft ventures in
making a run, and it was only a year ago
that the United States revenue-cutter
McLane was so fortunate as to make an
excellent haul. The cutter was Rtanding
over late one afternoon in the vicinity of
Punta Rasn, on the southwest coast,
when the spars of a vessel were observed
in the distance above an intervening key.
To one not familiar with tho southern
waters the mere sight of masts would
simply have indicated the presence of a
vessel and nothing more. The Mel.une's
officers, however, smclled a very suspi
cious object in yonder vessel, aud particu
larly from the fact that she was on that
part of tho coast. Running quickly in
towards the key, and in such a way as to
be unobserved until close at hand, tho
McLane suddenly rounded off to tho
mouth of tho entrance, and dropped a
cutter full of armed seamen under tho
commuud of Lieutenant Uberroth. A few
minutes only sufficed for the cutter to
pull alongside the stranger, which
on a hasty glance at the stern wns
was found to be the Ppamsh schooner
Ansonita. Tho Spaniard's deck was full
of red-capped Cubans aud Mexicans, all
armed with savage looking knives, and
shouting and jabbering to one another
liko so mauy monkeys. Without any ado,
Lieutenant Uberroth and three or four
good meu swung themselves up over the
Ansonita's side, and demanded tj see
the captaiif. The scowling Cubans at
this made way for a big burly fellow,
who had just ascended from the cabin,
and was demanding in gruff broken
English tho cause of the visit.
"You: papers," was tho quick rejoiu
der of tho boarding officer."
Thero was at once evident a good
deal of hesitancy, and it was apparent
that the Spaniard recognized ho was
caught. No papers could be produced,
and the boarding officer was about to
return to the McLane with this informa
tion for his commanding officer, when a
sudden movement among the Ansonita's
crew showed that they meant light. Tbo
McLane's blue jackets were equal to tho
emergency, and covering every one on
deck, the Spanish captain was
tumbled into tho cutter ut tho
point of a revolver. Oure aboard tho
McLane, ho was kept there, aud orders
issued to Lieutenant Uberroth to pick a
prize crew, and convey the captured craft
to Key West. This meant a run of 120
miles. Returning to tho Ansouita, tho
Cubans wore quickly secured. A few,
though, wero put to work ou tho cap
stan bar, a blue-jacket standing by in tho
mean while with a cocked rifle, uud the
anohor was ruu apeak, the jib hoisted, and
inside of ten minutes the Ansonita passed
under the McLane's stern under jib and
mainsail, the bluejackets of the lutter
ship giving a good-by cheer to their
comrades.
Tho Ansonita had cleared port but au
hour when one of thoso ugly Southwest
blows, so peculiar to the Gull, suddenly
sprang up. Hero was a fix, indeed, for
a young officer. It is bad enough to
have a gale of wind on one's hands, but
to have iu additiou a lot of prisoners,
outnumbering tho prize crew, was an
uncomfortable thought. However, tho
prisoners not needed were secured to the
piu rail around the mainmast, ami two
seamen on guard stood close at hand.
A few of the prisoners were stationed
about the decks to haul ropes, but al
ways under guard. 'I ho Ansonita, ou
the first appearance of tho gale, was
quickly gotteu under close reefs, and
with a mere handful of the jib showing,
and the lust reef in the mainsail, with
tho foresail stowed, she continued
throughout the night, despite tho high
sea aud tbo wutcr continually coming
aboard, to log it off to the southward.
It was a trying night, but might have
been worse with a less stanch crat't. As
daylight broke the gale began rapidly to
subside, tho last reef in the mainsail was
shaken out, then another, then fomo of
the foresail gotten ou her, until, wheu
well on iu the forenoon, thu Ausoiiitu
appeared off Key West Harbor with only
oue reef iu foresail aud mainsail. That
afternoon she was lying snugly alongside
the Government wharf, her prisoners iu
the bauds of thu United Stales -Marshal,
uud her prize crew sleeping us only tired
aud exhausted meu can sleep. Twelve
hours later the McLuno followed into
ort, her commanding officer not having
deemed it advisable to force thu cutter
agaiust the gale which had spruug up.
As a feat iu seamanship and a nice
pice of work iu nuvigatiou ulong u mean
and ticklish portion of the coust, thu
affair of thu Ansonita is one of which
any young officer can justly feel proud.
The vessel wus finally disposed of iu tho
United States courts, souio technicality
freeing not only the Ansonita, but her
captuiu uud crew. Harper's Weekly.
Speed of Railroad Triilus.
It is often desiruble to relievo tho
tedium of travel by rail by testiug thu
speed ut which the train is runuiiig
along, uud muuy persons amuse them
selves by timing this speed by toting,
watch iu baud, thu time ut which thu
various mile posts ure passed. There is
a rule, however, which gives approxi
mately correct results, which any oue may
practice without refeicuce to u time
keeper. The rails averugu about thirty
feet iu length; and the number passed
over iu tweuty secouds equals, roughly,
thu number of miles per hour at which
the truiu is traveliug. t'uless the traiu
is ruuuiug ut a very lii'li speed, say over
sixty miles per hour, tlicro is uo dif
ficulty iu counting tho number of rails
passed over, as there is u distinct click
as the joiut betweeu each pair of rails is
covered by the wheel. New York Tele-grain,
THE HAPPY HOUSEWIFE'J SONO.
MONDAY.
The clothes I rub, and rinso out and wring",
And harlmr no care or sorrow;
Assured while they hang in tho freshening
breene;
Thut duty's well done for the morrow.
TUESDAY.
The garments pure I sprinkle and fold.
With never a thought of sorrow.
And merrily sing as the iron I swing,
This task is soon done for tho morrow.
WEDNESDAY.
As the dough I knead In flaky loaves,
i
Mj soul no trouble can borrow,
My hearty darlings they ent and live;
So gladly I toil for tho morrow.
THURSDAY.
The needle I ply with whirling wheel.
And banish all care and sorrow,
While viewing garments so deftly mado
To cover my loved ones to-morrow,
FRIDAY.
As the grime and dust I swtvp away, 1
My mind no trouble can borrow,
For deadly disease, which lurks therein,
Is routed to-day, for to-morrow,
SATURDAY.
The nourishing food I mix and stir,
And joyously sing, for no sorrow
Enters my life of labor for love,
Sweet rest comoth sure on the morrow,
SUNDAY.
I go to the Blessed One who know..
Every form of earthly sorrow;
He giveth me manna for my soul,
Blest comfort to-day mid to-morrow.
'Enough for the day is the evil thereof;" ,
This promise a surcease of sorrow;
For guidance, and strength, each day I pray,-
And joy comuth on the glad morrow.
Frances L. Fanchor.in Go ley's Lady Biok.
nCMOR OF THE HAY.
A nico new umbrella is used up when
it is used at all. Philadelphia Press.
The thinner a thing is the more it is
inclined to spread itself. Oil City Bliz
zard. Fame comes only when deserved, and
then it is as inevitable as destiny. Texas
Sittings.
Tho typewriter is said to bo tho ouly
wowan a man has tho right to dictate to.
Boston Journal.
The eyes are the windows of the soul,
especially when we have a pain iu them.
Jewelers' Circular.
The bank-wrecker may bo bailed out ;
but tho bank itself goes dovu-tiv4ic deev
sea of distress. Puck.
You can't agree with a bigot without
agreeing with him in t.'.iukiug that you're
a fool. Elmiru Gazette.
It is well for the small man to piactiso
until ho knows how to apologizo grace
fully. Somervil'.e Journal.
Charity may begin at homo, but it is
wiser for subscription-seekers to call at
business man's office. Puck.
It doesn't follow that because a man if
a master of dead languages ho has a kill
ing stylo of speech. Boston Post.
One of tho queereut things wo ever
heard was regarding a watchmaker who
slept on a pallet. Jewelers' Circular.
Both men aud women have their fail
ings. With men it is the big head ; with
women, the big hat. Boston Transcript.
The snare of a drum is not daugerous.
It is thu snare of the wily drummer that
you want to look out for. llostoa Post.y
It does not necessarily follow because .
a clergyman is nllccted that bis bearers
will be affected by his sermons. Boston
Transcript.
After much solicitation, tho Gorman
Government has decided not to feud the
AVatch ou the Rhine to the World'B Col
umbian Exposition. Jewelers' Circular.
Why does she wriggle and siuiim around
And look ao ill at ease?
Because the minister's looking at her
Aud she's trying not to sneeze,
New York Herald.
Lifo is mado of compcn,siUioiisT""By
the timo a man is old enough to realize
what a lot he docs not kngw ho is too
old to worry over it. Indiuuupolis
Journal.
Mr. Fligg "Tommy, my son, do you
know that it gives me as much pain as it
does you wheu I punish youi" Tommy
"Well, there's some satisfaction iu
thut, anvhow." The Comic.
'I wish I hadn't eaten that apple,"
said Fatty, ruofullly. "Wnv, was it a
bud one?" "Well, I believe it was
spoiliug for a light, " and his faco ttook
on a look of paiu. St. Joseph Nexs.
He "Do you thiuk there is ar
truth in tho saying, 'Distance makes
heart grow fonder'!'' " She "I'm u
of it. I like you ever s i ;uch bctt
wheu you tiro away." Brooklyn Eagle
Mrs. Wick wire "Just think of i
Mrs. Bragg' husband accompauius L
wife whenever sho goes shopping. Isn't
ho good?" Mr. Wickwirc "H'mh.
I've got more confidence in my wilothar
thut." Indianapolis Journal.
It is a littlo odd about life iusuranc
It is universally admit'.. d that tho g
die young, but no company cares to ta
a risk ou the bud mau, when if thu co
verso of tho proverb be true, he ought t
live till all is blue. Boston Transcript.
Mr. Blackballs (displaying his collec-' '
tiou of Iuiiiun curios) "ThU is a speei
ineu of the war paint of the Sioux. 1
brought it wheu 1 cimo homo from my
last trip." Fair Visitor "Ah, yes, I
see; sort of h Smtix veneer." Hasten
1W,
Did it ever occur to you that Colum
bus was iu a very melancholy state of
iniud when be was on his voyage to the
New World? If uot, remember wb it
the old soug says, "In 14!) 2 Columbus
crossed the ocean blue.'' Boston Tran
script. Not Eutirely Sure: Father "Well,
Tommy, bow do you thiuk you will like
this littlo fallow lor a brother?'1 Tom
my (inspecting the new 'ulunt souicwii.it
doubtfully) "Have wegot to keep him,
papa, oris I.o only u .juipl f" Chief
Tribune.