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FOREST
Chicago is wrestling now with the
smoke problem, but has not vet solved
it. -
The products of the farms, mines, for
ests and fisheries of the United States
are valued at $25,000,000,000 a year.
Pennsylvanians are about to erect a
monument to Old Hambletonian, the fa
' mous founder of the race of American
trotters.
Senator Stanford believes that mag
netism can be develcped 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 on cnergetio
young ladies, 1892 will give them fifty
three Sundays in which to employ those
advantages. The year is going to be a
crucial one for bachelors, predicts the
Brooklyn Citizen.
Simon Wolf, of Washington, is prepar
ing for the publication of a list of the
Hebrew soldiers and sailors who have
done service in tho wars of the United
States, including the war of the revolu
tion. At the last annual reunion of the
Eleventh Corps, of the Army of the Poto
mac, General Stahl said that half of his
old regiment "was composed cf Israclitss
with the courage of the Maccabees."
Many of the statesmen and public men
of Chile are of pretty much the same
stock as many of our own people, de
clares the Chicago ilorald. Their im
mediate ancestors were Europeans, and
some of their publio men are born Euro
peans. The new Chilean Minister of Pub
lic Works, Don Augustin Edwards, was
born in Chile of English parents. . He is
a groat favorite with the British residents,
and a Valparaiso newspapi says:
"Those who know him best love to think
of him as an Englishman."
Science has been meditating upon tho
subject of the probable increase of the
population in the United States, and it
presents us with these startling con
clusions: . Since 17S0 the increase has
been from 1,260,000 to the neighbor,
hood, in 1890, of 65,000,000. I f this
ratio of increase is a fair basis for pre
diction we shall have at the 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 the United
State?, and when that mm of forty
reaches bis seventieth birthday (1950;
we shall have closo upon 400,000,000
population.
.
Joseph Wallace, in the Popular Scienco
News, says that our climate has cer
tainly been much modi Sod within the
past 2000 years. "There have been
fifteen c'iuiatio changes since the begin
ning of the glacial age," he writes, "each
change lasting 10,500 years, and each
change reversing the season in tho two
hemispheres, the polo which had enjoyed
continuous summer being doomed to
undergo perpetual whiter for 10,500
years and then passing to its former
state for an equal term." The present
epoch of a more genial temperature at
this Mason of the year in this northern
hemisphere began about 1500 years ago,
, and for &000 years to come, writes Mr.
Wallace, "we may reasonably expect a
gradual modification of our climate."
L. J.
To illustrate the strength of the prej
udice against 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 suggestiou brought a storm about
his ears, because of his inhumanity in
thrusting upon defenseless paupers a food
which was only fit for pigs. American
canned goods of all kinds are largely
sold in Europe, but canned corn is al
most never seen there. If a demand
for it could be created it would mean
hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly
to tho proprietors and workers of our
canneries. Agents of the Department of
Agriculture have been 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 have been received so favora
bly as to give good grounds for confi
dent expectation in this regard. Tho
use of the potato, the tomato and . the
tobacco plant, all of American origin,
has spruad through Europe and added to
the comfort and happiness of millions.
There seems to be more hope for corn
now than there wm for any of tboso
CQutiuoduie. at the beginning.
GOD BLES3 HER.
Bbe never burned with passion's 3rea,
Bhe never craved a mawkish fame;
Her nerves were never strung on wires,
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 naught could dim,
aJtboughtih. ne'er disdained life's Joys,
Bh. ne'er forgot religion's claims;
n 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 Knee
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 cam.
A group of children in her home,
Who honored e'er their father's name,
And from her guidance ne'er would roam,
Old age came ou, and children brought
Grandchildren to the sacred place
Where mother, wife and maid had taught
Grand lessons to Ills grandest race.
Theu "earth to earth, and dust to dust,"
Was said at last above the bier
W here 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!
For hearts would love and never break
1 If but such shrines were found in life. ,
Earl Marble, in Philadelphia Press.
PHILIP'S FIRST SUIT.
BY EDMUND LYONS.
HAT had become
of Mablo Stone?
That was the prob
lem that puzzled
the people of Squa-
:jf lacket, and they
r it were no nearer to a
solution in January
'i! than thev were in
jfk July, when, one op
j??V pressively hot morn
ing, Mabel s place
at tbo breakfast
table was vacant.
and Deacon Stone
learned from a servant, whs had been
kept swake by a toothache, that his
daughter had orison at four o'clock in
the morning and gone out hurriedly in
to the gray dawn. She had not returned
at nightfall, and when it was ascertained
that 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
in 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 little purer
and rather more secuioly rooted thau
any othes.
If there is such a thing as an excess
of righteousness, Squalacket knew whit
it was, and a ripple of wrong doing ap
pearing upon the otherwise unruffled
surface of its purity was like a little
flavor of onion lurking in a bowl of
salad. "Half suspected,'! it animated
the whole. So the people of the strait
laced town were perhaps unduly hasty
in grasping a forbidden fruit when they
declared, with something nearly ap
proaching unanimity, that Philip Mes
mer and Mabel Stone had eloed.
To be sure, the circumstantial evidence
was strong against the young couple.
Philip was only twenty-two, and though
all his friends said he had iu him the
making of a great lawyer, he had not yet
been called to the bar. This would not
hare mattered greatly, because his life
lay before him, and his crusty old uncle
allowed him enough money to cover his
bare expenses, with the provision thut 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. He
had already, he hoped, carried one suit
to a successful issue. It was a suit for
Mabel's hand in marriage, and the young
lady had rendered judgment in his favor.
But Deacon Stone had 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 his expecta
tions, should marry her.
Philip, however, was not easily non
suited. At a last interview with Mabel,
before be weut back to Philadelphia to
digest more law, he 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 be exercised it. Love
(especially 'ove with a profound knowl
edge of lot behind it) is rarely quite un
selfish, ry , promised to wait for him,
if necessary, until time was no longer
young, and he assured her that he would
return to Squulucket to claim her as soon
as he had mastered the contents of his
first brief, which he expected with the
uew year; for he was called to the bar
about Christmas, acd in Jauuary the case
o. Colly vs. West would be tried in the
Superior Court, and Colly, who was a
riend of his dead father, was pbdged to
ictain him as junior counsel to show tho
jury that West .'ad cut down a tree
which stood evemy on the dividing line
of the West nud Colly properties, and
laughed derisively and scurriously railed
at Colly lor saying that bis half of the
trunk should have been respected aud
left s'andiug.
"And it that uu' a good cose aud a
Sure wiuuer, darling," said Philip, en
thusiastically, as he folded Mabel in bis
arms, "1 wonder what is. Don't you?"
Tbcu he kilted her again, and said h
Iff
WXMi
wouldn't weary her with the dry details
of the law. It was very encouraging.
And thus hopefully they parted. Philip
went back to Philadelphia by a night
train, and Mabel returned to her father's
house.. But the deacon gave her a very
bad half-hour after supper. He said
Philip was nothing better than a beggar,
dependent upon his uncle's bounty; that
he was a mean fellow, and too dull to
succeed at any bar except a marble
topped one with bottles behind it, and
somebody with him before it to pay his
reckoniug. 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'1 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 made one for her.
She 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 an opportunity to
urge her to break either pledge. She
trusted her lover.and she trusted herself;
and above all, she bad 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
seventv-five 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 the 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, a
man of many ideas. He had only room
for one now, and that his wayward and
rebellious daughter had gone to Phila
delphia to join Philip. Ho hastoned
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 earnestness with which he
assured his visitor that ho was quite ig
norant of Mpbel's movements as well as
bis own distress as he heard of her flight,
wculd have convinced an unprejudiced
person that he spoke the truth. But the
deacon was a man of very fixed opinions.
He called the objectionable quality that
usually wou 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 the young man listened
to his 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 parlor the night preceding Mabel's
Sight 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:.cn she returned it would be of her
own free-will Whatever efforts he made
to find herust be advanced with the
utmost delicacy, for ho knew that any
thing like publicity would deeply offend
her. It vai with great difficulty that he
finally persuaded tho 'deacon to refrain
from taking tho police into his confi
dence; and the old man departed, finally,
vowing that if bis daughter were not
back in Squalacket bofore the end of the
week ho would obtain a warrant for
Philip's arrest, and raise such a hue-and-cry
after Mabel as would lead to her dis
covery if she were still above ground.
Other andinore important matters must
have claimed his attention, for, so far as
Philip could ascertain, he made no fur
ther attempt to find the fugitive.
And so tho dreary weeks lengthened
into months. Mabel's retreat was nearly
as muoh a mystery as ever not ai much,
for Philip received one short letter from
her, which relieved bis anr'cty. She
was in New York, and was sa.e and well.
She refused to tell him her address, but
promised to write tc him aain when
events justified surli i course say, when
the Philadelphia newspapers announced
that Colly had won his suit against West.
With, this assurance he was obliged to be
contented; and in the euily days of
December Philip was called to tho bar.
But while one man may lead a horse
to the water, twenty meu canuot make
him drink; and Philip soon fquud that
it is easier to become a barrister thau to
1 find clients. The case of Colly vs. West
went over until the next larm of the
; court. The parsimonious uncle had
stopped supplies, and if the briefless
! young lawyer had not succeeded in ob
taining a littlo literary work as book
reviewer for a newspaper, the room in
Arch street might have wanted a fire.
It was warm and coinrortable enough,
however, wheu he hurried into it out of
the biting air one evening ; aud, lighting
the lamp, .ho saw that two sealed enve
lopes lay upon the table. The oue he
opened first contained a circular from a
New York land syndicate, setting forth
the great opportunities offered to obtain
prairie homes where the wilderuess would
soon be made to blossom like a rose.
Tho address on the second envelope was
in writing that was strange to him. It
enclosed a letter from a lawyer, an
nouncing the sudden death of his uncle,
and his accession to a reasonably large
fortune.
Aud now where was Mabel I She
would not communicate with him, he
knew, until good news readied her.
She might learn of a successful issue to
the suit of Colly vs. Wes but how was
she io bear oi this wiudfull unless he
told her of it? He was a comparatively
rich man now, but he cared nothing for
his wealth if Mabel could not share it with
him, and, with u great longing in his
heart, he took her last short brave letter
from his desk aud laid it on the table,
while he drew the lamp toward him. It
was beside tho other two envelopes, but
b. knew her writiug 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 the blood rushed to his
forehead as he saw that the addresses on
both cmvetopes were precisely similar.
Not for a moment did Philip doubt that
they had both been written by Mable.
But how could such a thing have hap
pened? The young man had not wasted his
time as a law studont. Ho 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 on the prairie.. He
had little trouble in ascertaining that a
Miss Mable Stone was one ol its army of
workers who addressed envelopes, and a
young woman who was in the office gave
her address to him.
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 adress 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. Before
ten o'clock they had addressed a thou
sand envelopes, and earned seventy-five
cents between them. Then he left her,
but on the following 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 a 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 case 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. The jury gave Collj
six cents damages, but that carried thi
costs. Harper's Weekly.
The Eskimos Surely Starvlny.
Hitherto the Eskimos have depended
for fo:d 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 Pacific 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 and proceeded to wipe them
out of existence likewise. Sometimes as
many as two thousand of the valuablo
beasts would be slaughtered on a single
cake of ice, merely for their tusks. Thus
a walrus is hardly to be found to-day in
those waters where so short a time ago
the animals were so numerous that their
bellowings were heard above the roar of
the waves and tho grinding of tho floes.
Seals and sea-lions are now getting so
scarce that the natives have difficulty in
procuring enough of thoir skins to cover
boats. They used to catch and cuie great
quantities of fish in the streams, but
their supply from this source has recently
diminished owing to the establishment
of great cannaries which send millions
of cans of salmon out of the country an
nually and destroy vastly more by waste
ful methods. Improved firearms have
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 shore of Bering Sea. Where vil
lages numbering thousands were a few
years ago, the populations have been ro
duced to hundreds. Boston Transcript.
Rome Pythagorean Mysteries.
Every lover of rare and curious in
formation knows that most of the ancients
were "dead set" against beans, but no
modern unraveller of old-time mysteries
knows 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 grounds no
oue knows. He was also authority far
the old-time superstition that any sen
tence written in bean juice could be seen
plainly reproduced on the disk of the
moon! Andrew Ling says that the
ancient folk-lore of beans is a most
curious aud interesting topic, because it
seems wholly out of 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
the discovery of the baan. Heraclides,
on the authority of Orpheus, declared
that beans buried iu miuuro pilei forth
with became humaa bciugs. St. Louis
Republic.
Advertising Extraordinary.
"We have a shoemaker in our town,"
say t Quebec, (Canada) man, "whose
busi is) in selling overshoes had been
almost ruined by a hustling rubber house,
and who this winter, to get even, had a
great opening sale, at which he gave to
every purchaser of shoes a pair of rubber
overshoes, upon the soles of which was
his advertisement reversed, so that at
every step the wearers take through the
suow tbey leave bis advertisement neatly
printed in their tracks. The effect is
magical and powerful. You can scarcely
look at the suow any place in Quebec
without seeing footprints with this man's
name glaring boldly from them."
Rochester Uuiun.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Artificial marble grows in use.
Plants are grown by electricity.'
American looms are being extensively
used In England.
In Franco and Germany horses are
now vaccinated for the glanders.
It is estimated by scientists that Colo
rado's cliff dwellers existod 10,000 years
to its extensive use in electric
appliances the price ol platinum has ad
vanced fully 100 per cent.
It is proposed to unite all the islands
of Japin by a system of submarine tele
graph cables. The estimated cost is
$2,000,000.
It is asserted in some Italian and other
medical journals that protection has been
afforded by heifer vaccine against mea
sles, whooping cough and influenza.
A French physician recommends vac
cinating with steel pens, since ono could
easily afford to use a f rnsh one each time,
and thus avoid danger of infection from
the lancet.
An automatic eloctric gas extinguisher
depends on the variations in the electri
cal conductivity of selenium when ex
posed to light, and turns off the gas on
the first appearance of daylight.
It has been estimated that the motive
power furnished by the steam engines of
the world represents the strength of
1000 millions of men that is to say,
twice as many as there are workmen.
A method ol purifying 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 loss than cable or
horse car roads. The average cost of
the eltctrio roads a mile, including equip
ment and roadway, is $1(1,697, while the
horse car and cable roads, cost respec
tively 171,387 and $330,826.
A German physiologist finds that be
low the age of twenty there is no ma
terial difference 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 amonjr prisoners as
among the general population.
A curious fashion has found its way
into the manufacture of table hardware.
Tho handles of table knives are now
made of china to match the plate. There
are sets for each course. Those for poul
try have heads of the victims and littlo
fluffy chicks and ducks upon them ; those
used with the game course have tiny
flights of partridge and mlniaturo 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, otlorwiso
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 of Mexico.
Porifirio Diaz, the man who makes his
home at Chapultepec, is rather disap
pointing when one from tho North gets
the first sight of him. Whilo the palaco
is undergoing repairs at an enormous
cost he makes his home in the palace,
near the heart of the city. It is a plain
building outside, looking- much as the
other houses do, but on the inside it is
magnificently furnished. Diaz is an Az
tec Iudian of the pure blood. He is a
short man, with black bair, eyes and
mustache. He speaks but little English,
and never attempts it in the presence of
one from the States. He wears a Prince
Albert in every day life, with a stand
ing collar and broad, flat lio. He wan
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 he flew to New Orleans for
safety, onse returning to Vera Cruz iu
the guise of a coal heaver. Ho won his
greatest honors at Pueblo, when with
7000 men he defeated his opposition and
seized the President's chair. The last
election resulted iu his fHvor by 12,000
votes. There are no political parties in
Mexico. When the day of election came
Diaz had his soldiers at the polls and not
a vote out of 10,000,000 population was
cast against him, There was no other
candidate to vote for. One of the first
great acts of this man was to free the
country of the bandits. They were so
numerous aud daring that no one was
safe. They would rush into the city,
seize a prominent citizen and carry him
away to the mouutuiu for ransom with
out a finger being raised against them.
But Diaz stopped this. Ho made a
contract with the bandits that tbey
should have good pay serving the Gov
ernment and their crimes forgotten if
they would leave their life in the mount
ains. Tbey can be seen every day on
the paseo, where they stand guard. They
are mounted on fine horses, splendidly
equipped with carbines aud sabres, and
are the most courageous soldiers in the
world. Any 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. The band knows every
inch of the ground under the Mexican
sun. They are faithful to Diaz. New
York Sun.
Split the Singer's Larynx.
Professor Schuller, a celebrated Berlin
physician, recently had occasion to split
in balf the larynx of a well known singer.
After seventeen days the wound was
pronounced heuled, and curiously enough
it was found that the singer not only
bad not lost his vocal orgau, but that he
is now euabled to use it to much better
advautage than heretofore. I kuow of
several New York singers who ought to
go to Professor Schuller, of Berlin, and
get their throats cut lengthwise. New
York Recorder.
CAPTURING A SMUGGLER.
AN INCIDENT IK THR CRTTISB OT A
REVENUE MARINE VESSEL.
A Woultt-bo Spanlah Snuigarler Off
the Florida Coast Overhauled by
Uncle Sam . Blurjackcls.
Within recent years tho smuggling In
southern Florida has been reducod to a
minimum, the assiduous cruising of the
revenue-cutter having charge 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 fortunato as to mako an
excellent haul. The cutter was standing
over late one aftornoon in the vicinity of
Punta Rassa, ou the southwest const,
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. Tho McLane's
officers, howovor, smelled a very suspi
cious object in yonder vessel, and particu
larly from tbo fact that sho was on that
part of the coast. Running quickly in
towards the key, and in such a way n to
be unobserved until close at hand, tho
McLane suddenly rounded off to tho
mouth of tho entranco, and dropped a
cutter full of armed seamen under the
command of Lieutenant Uberroth. A fow
minutes only sufficed for tho cutter to
pull alongsido the Btrangcr, which
on a hasty glance at the stern was
was found to be the Spanish schooner
Ansonita. The Spaniard a deck was full
of red-capped Cubans aud Mexicans, all
armed with savago looking knives, ami
shouting and jabbering to ono another
like so many monkeys. Without any ado,
Lieutenant Uberroth and three or four
good men swung themselves up over tho
Ansonita's side, and demanded tj sec
the captain. The scowling Cubans at
this made way for a big burly fellow,
who had just ascended from the cabin,
and was demanding iu gruff brokeu
English tho cause of the visit.
"You. papers," was the quick rejoin
dcr of the boarding officer."
Thoro was at onco evident a good
deal of hesitancy, and it was apparent
that the Spaniard recognized bo was
caught. No papers could be produced,
and the boarding officer was about to
return to the McLano with this Informa
tion for his commanding officer, when a
sudden movemont among the Ansonita's
crew showed that they meaut tight. Tho
McLane's blue jackets wore equal to tho
emergency, and covering every ono on
deck, the Spanish captain was
tumbled into tho cutter at tho
point of a revolver. Once aboard tho
McLane, ho was kept there, nud orders
issued to Lioutenaut Uberroth to pick a
prize crew, nud convey the captured craft
to Key West. This meaut a run ol lzu
miles. Returning to tbo Ansonita, tho
Cubans wore quickly secured. A few,
though, were put to work on tho cap
stan bar, a blue-jacket standing by in tbo
mean whilo with a cocked rille, aud the
nnobor was run apeak, the jib hoisted, and
Inside of ten minutes the Ansonita passed
under the McLane's stern uudor jib and
mainsail, the bluejackets of the latter
ship giving a good-by cheer to their
comrades.
The Ansonita bad cleared port but au
hour when one of those 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
hare a gale of wiud on one's hands, but
to have in addition a lot of prisoners,
outnumbering the prizo crew, was an
uncomfortable thought. However, the
prisoners not needed wore secured to the
piu rail arouud the mainmast, and two
seamen on guard stood closo at hand.
A few of the prisoners wore stationed
about the decks to haul ropes, but al
ways under guard. Ilie Ansonita, on
the first appearance of the gale, was
quickly gotten uuder closo reefs, aud
with a mere handful of tho jib showing,
and the lost reef in the uminsnil, with
the foresail stowed, sho continued
throughout the night, despite the high
sea aud tho water continually corning
aboard, to log it off to tho southward.
It was a trying night, but might have
been worse with a less stanch craft. As
daylight broke the gule began rapidly to
subside, the last reef in the mainsail was
shaken out, then another, then fotuo of
tho foresail gotten ou her, until, wheu
well on iu the foreuoon, tho Ausouitu
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 tbo Uuited States .Marshal,
and ber prize crew sleeping us only tired
and exhausted men can sleep. Twelve
hours later the McLano followed into
port, her commanding officer uot having
deemed it advisable to force the cutter
against the gule which had spruug up.
As a feat iu seamanship ami a nice
pice of work iu navigation along a meau
and ticklish portion of the coast, the
affair of the Ansonita is one of which
any young otlicer cau justly feel proud.
The vessel was dually disposed of iu the
United States courts, some technicality
freeing not ouly the Ansonita, but her
cuptuiu aud crew. Harper's Weekly,
Speed of Railroad Trains.
It Is often desirable to relieve the
tedium of travel by rail by testing the
speed at which the train is running
along, and inauy persons amuse them
selves by timing this speed by coting,
watch in hand, the time ut which the
various mile posts are passed. There is
a rule, however, which gives approxi
mately correct results, which uny oue may
practice without reference to a time
keeper. The rails average about thirty
feet in length ; and tho number passed
over in twenty seconds equals, roughly,
the number of miles per hour at which
the train is traveling. Unless the trulu
is running at a very high speed, say over
sixty miles pur hour, there is no dif
ficulty in counting the number of rails
passed over, as there is a distiuct click
as the joint betweeu each pair of rails is
covered by the wheel. New York Telegram,
THE HPFY HOUSBWIF&'iSONA
MONDAY.
-The clothes I rub, and rinse out and wring,
And harbor no care or sorrow ;
Asm red while they hang in tho freshening
breese;
That 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 loave, '
My soul no trouble can borrow;
My hearty darlings they eat and live;
Bo gladly I toll for the morrow.
THURSDAY.
The needl. I ply with whirling wheel.
And banish all care and sorrow,
While viewing garments so deftly made
To cover my loved ones to-morrow.
FRIDAY.
As the grime and dust I swoop away, 1
My mind no trouble can borrow,
For dead!; disease, which lurks therein,
is rou'.d 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,
Bweet rest cometh sure on the morrow,
SUNDAY.
I go to the Blessed One who knows,
Every form of earthly sorrow;
He giveth me manna for my soul,
Blest comfort to-day and to-morrow.
''Enough for the day is the evil thereof:" ,
This promise a surcease of sorrow;
For gulJanae, and streugtb.ench day I pray,-
And joy comuth on the glad morrow,
Frances L. Fancher.ln Go ley's Lady B-jok.
nUMOU OP THE DAY.
A nice new umbrella is used up when
it is used at all. Philadelphia Press.
The thinner a thing is the inoro 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 be tho only
wowan a man has tho right to dictate to.
Boston Journal.
The eyes are the windows of the soul,
especially when we hare a pain in them,
Jewolers' Circular.
The bank-wrecker may bo bailed out ;
but tbo bank itself goes down-in Redcap
sea of distress. Puck.
You can't agreo with a bigot without
agreeing with him in thinking that you're
a fool. Eliuira Gazette.
It is well for the small man to ptactiso
until he 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 linguages bo has a kill
ing style of speech. Boston Post.
One of tho queoreut things wo over
heard was regarding a watchmaker who
slept on a pallet Jewelers' Circular.
, Both men and women have their fail
ings. With men it is the big head ; with
women, the big hat. Boston Transcript.
The suare of a drum is not duugerous.
It is tho suaro of the wily drummer that
you want to look out for. Uostoa Posty
It does not necessarily follow because
a clergyman is affected that his hearers
-will be a dec tod by his Bcrinons. Boston
Trauscript.
After much solicitation, tho Gorman
Government has decided not to send the
Wutch on the Rhino to tho World's Col
umbian Exposition. Jewelers' Circular.
Why does she wi-iggle and tquiim around
Aud look so ill at ease?
Because the minister's looking at ber
And she's tryiug not to sne ze.
New York Herald.
Llfo is made of compe9ntioij3"-By"
the timo a man is old rTiougli to realize
what a lot be does not know ho is too
old to worry over it. Indiauapolia
Journal.
Mr. Fligg "Tommy, my sod, do you
know that it gives me as much pain as it
docs you when I punish youi" Tommy
"Well, there's some satisfaction iu
tbot, anyhow." Tho Comic,
"I wish I hadn't eaten that apple,"
said Fatty, ruefullly. "V:iy, was it a
bad one?" "Well, I believe it wanr
spoiling for a fight, " and his fuco ttook
on a look of pain. St. Joseph Neirs.
He "Do you think there is ar4
truth iu tho saying, 'Distance makes '
heart grow fondorf' " She "I'm Su
of it. I like you ever a, -,uch bctt
wheu you are away." Brooklyn Eagle
Mrs. Wick wire "Just thmk of i
Mrs. Bragg's husband accompauius L
wifo whenever sho goes shopping. Isu't
ho goodl" Mr. Wickwire "H'mh:
I've got more confidence in my wifo thar
that." Iudi.iuapolis Journal.
It is a little odd about life iusnranc
It is universally admit'.. d that tho r
die young, but no company cares to ta
a risk ou the bad m m, when if the co
verse of the proverb bo truo, be ought t
live till all is blue. Boston Transcript.
Mr. Blackhills (displaying hU collec-'
tion of Indian curios) "Tlwt is a sped
men of the war paint of the Sioux. I
brought it when I camo home from my
last trip." Fair Visitor "Ah, yos, I
see; sort of a Sioux veneer." Huston
Post.
Did it ever occur to you thut Coluiut"
bus was in a very uielaueholy statu of
mind when be was ou his voyaijo to tho
New World? If uot, remember what
the old song says, "In 1 -Ilia Columbus
crossed the ocean blue.'- Boston Tran
script. Not Entirely Sure: Father "Well,
Tommy, how do you thiuk you will like
this little f.llow fur a brother?'' Tom
my (iuspecrlng the new 'ufuut somewhat
doubtfully) "Have wcgot to keepliiui,
papa, oris Le ouly a .uuipl-f" Chii
Tnbuue.
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