Toii'll Wot Thorc Anyhow. When lhc spring In In the flower an' there romp a nlppln' (rout, Thnm nln't no use la growlln' none nt nil! For If yon low flower or II lots o' them arc lost. There'll be million roses 'fore the full I No use In grlevln' Weather is decelvin' 1 An' the world we're lesvln' Get's thoro anyhow ! Tighten up your tether Tull yourself together i Never mind the weather You'll git there anyhow! When your pockets cease to Jlnglo an' you haven't got a cent, There ain't no use In growlln' none at all! There's lots an' lota o' dollnrs where the other dollar went, An' they'll make a million of 'em 'fore the full! No use in grlevin Money Is deeoivln'. And the world we're leavin' Gets there anyhow ! Tighten up your tether Tull yourself together i Hwlmmln' like a feather, You'll get there anyhow! Atlanta Constitution. MRS. DECK'S NEW LEAF. BT ELIZABETH CFXMINOS. Mr. Dock was troubled about a great many things. She craved the tie went fashion in sleeves, not only for herself, but for hor little girls, and wanted to have every sort of dish and ailver appliance fancy has invented to clutter the table and enrich the shop keepers. Hhe belonged to two mis Hiwtinrv aocietiea, and to the miiHical and literary cluba, and she delighted in giving dainty afternoon teaa and little dinners. Mr. Deck often said, with smiling pride, there was nothing alow about Sally, and then he would (rive an odd little aigh aa if he nncon wciotisly rogrotted his Sally's ability to lteep up with life's procession. But no ono noted that sigh, unless it was little Tommy, whose quick ears and sharp cyos noticed everything. Tommy was ao often called an awful boy, it is probable he had his faults. To sail in a mud puddle on a bobbing bit of board, he would scour the little city over, and if there was a ticklish job of tree climbing necessary to the rescue of some fellow's kite, Tommy was always the boy to undertake it. He would tuck nails in the pockets of bis Sunday clothes, and drive them in to impossible plaoes with the potato masher, if no other hammer was avail ' able, and the times he had flooded the house from the bathroom, and given himself the croup and twisted his ankles skating, could-not be counted. But Tommy never told lies. He never even told tiny fibs, when by ao doing he could have saved himself unpleas ant punishment, Tommy's eyes were big, and that sort of gray that often looked black. His hair was brown and ;as thick ou his head aa it could be without being solid, and over his nose was a thick sprinkle of freokles. The little boys all liked Tommy, and so did the cats and dogs, and so didMissBram hall.histeaohor, though he was stupid in number work. But his sisters usually spoke of him aa "a little plague," and his mamma without being aware of it, felt him to be ' a great hindrance to everything she wanted to do. If she was practising a sonata, he would break in upon the adagio by beginning to sing "Aftor the Bull" to' the best of his ability. He had no voice what ever. Or, ho would, besot by some 'demon of unrest, steal to the stairway :ud tuke the opportunity to slide down the baluster rail, and leave upon it etchings drawn by his buttons. If .she 'were studying a page of Brown ing, or trying to write an essay upon .art,' it did seem as if Tommy always chose the moment that would disturb hor most to play wild Indian with a select party of friends just under her window. So it foil out that by degrees Tommy fell more and more to the charge of Mol- liu, the nurse, and consoled himself when in trouble by visiting the Tuck ers, who lived just around the corner in a brown house. Mrs. Tucker somehow kept bread in the mouths of her brood of six by washing and what she called "days' works." At night -they gathered about her and the one lamp, and in all Shoreleigh there was not a happier group. She was busy at aomothing always, patching usually, but it was wonderful the amouut of work sho could get through with .swarmed upon by six pairs of arms, .and talkod to by six eager tongues. Tho Literary Club was goiug to 'hold its annual banquet at Mrs. Deck's, and that lady determined to make the occasion one long to be retnebered. "There may be costlier ones by and by, when Shoreleigh is a great city," .she told Mr. Deck, "but there shall not be a prettier one." "Well," assented Mr. Deok, "so it don't oost too dour. Sallr, I've noth ing to say. I do not moan in dollars, for yon are always sensible about spending them, yourself. Yon spend yourself too lavishly sometimes." Mrs. Deck only laughed at this, and went off to the florist's and spent the whole morning deciding whether she wonld have roses or chrysanthemums for decoration. "Uhryanthemum is newer, mnm,. said Mr. Higgs, rubbing his hands to-' gcther as they rustled. "An' you gits great variety. Tako this 'ere white. Looks like a big dahlia, an' this 'ere white again are like a mop o' 'air a droppin' back from a gal's face, an' this 'ere one again is piled np like a lot o' thin-sliced cabbage, an' this one again like a sunflower for its shapes, an' pink an' white or orange, or then again all lavender pink or all gold color is 'andsome. Kosos ain't what you can call old, but they ain't no ways new, though I ain't one as is too ready to force my opinion. Ladies knows what they has and what they wants." While Mrs. Peck listened to Mr. Higgs, Tommy was busy far. away sail ing a mud puddle lake with Harry Tucker, for it was Saturday, and when he went home Mollis was too busy finishing her new dress to note that his feet and legs were wet. It ached in Tommy's head the next morning when he got. np, but he did not think to tell any one about it. His mamma had been too busy think ing of her part in the coming enter tainment to ask if he had learned his Sunday school lesson. He had an old-fashioned teacher, had Tommy, and had to commit six verses to mem ory each week. For quiet he retired behind the curtains in the bow win dow and no one thought of the red ness of his face when he came out. But when at dinner he ate little of his chicken, and said he was too sleepy to wait for his pie, his father discovered that Tommy was a sick boy, and sent off for Dr. Sanders. "Is it something contagious? Will I have to give up having the banquet here?" asked Mrs. Deck, when the doctor had felt of Tommy's pulse and looked at his tongue and his breast. "The symptoms are rather obscure just now," said the doctor, who never told anything of which he did not feel very sure. "There's a good deal of scarlet fever and measles, and I'm bound to say there's small-pox over in Bagdad." Mrs. Deck threw up her hands, ex claiming, "Smallpox 1" "Yes; but I suppose he has not been over in that region. It may be simply a slight stomach trouble. Children, especially of a nervous, san guine temperament, are liable to fever for slight causes." "Have yon been over to Bagdad?" demanded Mr. Deck of Tommy. "Yes, sir," replied Tommy, unfal teringly. "I went yesterday morning with Harry Tucker. We wonted to see the thing old Uncle Lijah Blake's made. It's a man sawing wood, and goes by wind like a paper windmill. Uncle Lijah said he'd whittle me one for two nickels." "Bless my soul!" exclaimed the doctor. Then he looked at Tommy's vaccination spot. "It never took good, you know, said Tommy's mamma, "The girls' were all right, but Tommy's was con trary." Now, if any one can have the heart to hold a rose over a hot fire and see it quickly wilt and shrivel, he can have some idea of what befell Tommy Deok within the next week. He did not have the smallpox, but something nearly as bad, scarlet fever, and after that first day he knew no one. He clung, however, close ly to his mother, whom he took to be Mrs. Tucker, and he wrung her heart by imploring her not to go away. "I like you so," he would whisper, huskily. "I 'spect I'd like mamma, if I could get a chance to get acquainted with her. But she's awful busy and I guess she don't like boys as well as girls. I forget and rumple her bangs and her frills, aud I forget about the forks and the spoons. But you're so oosy to have 'round, Mrs, Tucker, aud please do tell me that story about the wil i bear of County Clare again." Unluckily, Mrs. Tucker herself was kept close at home with her boy Harry, who was sick with the dreaded small-pox, so the story of the wild bear oould not be repeated. Fleuty of other stories were, however, and dust gathered in the pretty parlors, and the spring bonnets came, and still Mrs. Deok thought of notuiug but Tommy. But at last there came a day, and what a happy day it was, when he knew her,audold Dr. Sanders announced that if he did not catch cold, and if he did not have the drop. sy, or half a doseo other complica tions, he wonld soon mend and be about again. To look at Tommy was a sorry spectacle. His hair had grown no thiu, it looked like the wiry seed vessels of wood and moss, and stuck straight up, dry and dead. His cheeks were thin, and his fingers were skinny, and for that matter the whole of his body was pecliug. He trembled when he tried to sit np, and he wanted to do a thousand things bo could not, and if he had never really been an awful boy, he be came one during the weeks of his con valescence. But it was his mothet who read to h!m, played dominoes with him, and taught him to nse his paint brushes. All things end, even nnhappy things, and after sulphur had made the whole house sweet, and white-wash and paint and scouring pnrifled Tommy's sick room, and Tommy himself was allowed to go out on sunny days, Mrs. Deck scared him and surprised his sisters and Mr. Deck by the declaration that she was going to turn over a new leaf. Tommy, with quick remembrance of the days before his illness, broke out impetuously! "O, mamma, don't! Just go on." "Well, perhaps that's what it will amount to. The parlors are the pleas antest rooms in the house, and I have taken down everything in them that can be easily soiled or broken, so we can enjoy them every evening, and I am going to stop making frills of any sort, fancy cakes, fancy frocks for girls, and all sorts of things that take A great deal of care and time, so that we can have leisure for more stories and study together." "Good," cried Tommy, "That'll be love-your-home club, Mamma Deck, won't it, your new leaf?" The In terior. The Very Best of Birds. The question of birds was nndet discussion at the table, and one board er stoutly maintained that canvass backs were better than partridges or grouse, the claims of which were up held by another. Then there were others who chimed in to defend rice birds, woodcocks, squab and various other varieties of game. In fact, almost everything that wore feathers by one or the other of the party was declared the most palat able. "Well," said the first speaker, "I'll let the decision of this matter rest with the chef." To this proposition all agreed, and Adolph, the cook, was called in and asked to give his opinion on the rela tive merit of birds. The Frenchman hesitated for a moment and glanced at the various disputants, realizing that whatever opinion he gave would make him one friend and a half dozen ene mies. "Ah, gentlemen," said he at length, "those are all very fine birds, very fine, and some are better than others, but neither is the best. The best birds, gentlemen, are eagles." "Eagles!" cried all in amazement "Yes, eaglos," replied the chef, "Gold eagles." New York Herald. The River Won't. The engineers who have been con structing the new steel railroad bridge at Alton, 111., are learning something about the ways of the Mississippi river which they did not know before, that is like a woman, in that it will have its own way. Sometime ago the United States river and harbor author ities brought an injunction against the engineers restrainingjthem from finish ing the bridge until they could make theVurrent of the river pass through the draw, which they had established near the Illinois side. For several weeks a whole fleet of dredges has been at work to pursuade the river to run that way, but it won't do it, and stubbornly persists in flowing down the Missouri shore. But for this the bridge might have been in use ere this, but it may be mouths as it in, before it is finished. New Orleans Picayune. Imprisoned In a Cellar. A cruel case of heartless brutality has just been discovered in Salzburg, Germany. A man, now SO years old, was found locked up in a cellar, where he had been for 15 years. His scanty food has been passed through a hole in the door, and be has never seen a human faoe in all that time. He is unable to speak a word. His mother and two sisters have kept him thus in confine ment, that they might enjoy his fath er's property, of which he was the legal heir. New Orleans Picayuue. How Sweetl Clarrissa So he has proposed. Did you accept him? Ethel Yes ; I took pity on him. Clarissa It shows that you have a kind heart. None of the other girls to whom he proposed took pity on him. New York Press. M'lEXTtt'IC SCRAPS. Electric tanning is increasing. Persons of weak intellect are ant to succumb to acute diseases of every kind. The tongue of the toad is attached to the front of his jaw and hangs back ward instead of forward. A photograph camera has been spe cially devised for registering the dis tance pf lightning flashes. The earth, travelling at the rate of 1000 miles a minute, passes through 6)0,000,000 miles of space in the course of a year. A Newark, (N. J.,) inventor has produced a street-car fender which en able him to stand on the track and de fy the trolley juggernaut. The eggs of the Algerian locust have been found to yield a thick oil re sembling honey in appearance. It burns well, and with alkali makes a good soap. Some idea of the heart's enormous power may be gained from a medical item which says that it forces blood through the arteries at the average rate of twelve feet per second. Electrical headlights for locomotives will likely come into general use within a few years. The Southern Pacific railroad has already equipped many of its engines with this new headlight. The hottest place in the United States, according to the 1893 meteoro logical reports, is Bagdad, Ariz., where the mercury often stands as high as 140 in the shade for a week at a time. Aeronauts cannot rise much above five miles of vertical height, on ac count of the increasing rarity of the air, but donble that height has been attained by self-registering balloons, which tell us that some ninety degrees of frost prevail up there. In a recently constructed Now York hotel electricity lights the whole build ing, runs a dozen large ventilators on the roof, polishes the silver in the kitchen, and washes and irons clothes in the laundry. Every room is con nected with the office by telephone, and every closet is so arranged that when the door is opened a light within is turned on automatically. An electric motor attachment has been applied to the Gatling gun, which promises not only to more than doublo the destructive capabilitiesof that par ticular machine, but to effect a great advance in the efficiency of all machine guns. Tho motor is detachable, is of one horse power, is very small, weighing but a trifle over fifty pounds, and is placed in the breech of tho gun, amply protected. The motor increases the present rate of firing 1,200 shots a minute, to more than 3,000 shots a minute. A Rawhide Cannon. A Syracuse man named La Tulip has inventod a cannon known as the La Tulip rawhide gun, of which great things are expected. One of the guns, made by its inventor, was tested at Onondaga volley recently. It weighs in the neighborhood of 400 pounds, while the cannon of the same caliber in use by the army weighs nearly 1,500. Its peculiarity lies in the lightness and the easy manner in which it can be transported. Across the breach it measures about fourteen inches and tapers to about six at the muzzle. ' A forged steel oone forming the bar rel runs to the full length, and is only three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Then come layer after layer of the finest rawhide, compressed until it has the strength of steeL The rawhide is put on in strips ooiled around and around and is several inches in thick ness. On top of this lie two coils of steel wire wound to iU strongest ten sion and then filed smooth. The cap placed at the breech cun be easily re moved for inspection of the rawhide filling. The testa were pronounced successful, and further trials will be had. A five-inch bore will be constructed as soon as possible, and when mounted upon a movable carriage, it will then demonstrate whether it can be used ef fectively. The five-inch cannon will be smooth bore and used to discharge dynamite cartridges, a trial of which will be made. Frederick La Tulip, the iuveutor, has been a worker of rawhide for twelve years and is con. versautwith it in evory detail. Rums (N. Y.) Seutiuel. riolldlfled Petroleum. A new kind of fuel wade from soli dified petroleum aud other materiuls is now beiug extensively manufactured iu France. It is stated that its heat- produoiug properties are very great, and that experiments to use it in ed. gine furnaces have been of a most satisfactory nature. Detroit Free KEYSTONE jjTffl CALLINGS. MAN AND BABY MURDERED. HCXOARIAlt KILL HIS MAR AUD THIS NIK rsoMM roi si.T i.rro a crowd. At Millvals, near Wllkssbarr. fa.. Michael Bochrock, a Hungarian, becsmi Involved In a quarrel with John 8handow. a neighbor, and Bbandow shot Bochrock In th left breast, fatally wounding him Hhandow then fled, firing right aid left la ths crowd which had collected. On of thi bullets struck the two year old baby ol I'hilipHendershot, In Its mother's arms killing it Instantly. Hhandow fled to his home snrl Inrked (ha doors and opened Ore from an upper window on thf crowd. County Detective Whnlen with an armed posse toon arrived and open ed Are upon ths murderer, ons shot taking effect In hit face and another In bis back The door was then battered down and ths detectives plsred hhandow under arrest. With drawn revolvers tbey conducted tbi prisoner safely to prison. The jail It closely guarded against S threatened attack. ERIE CHURCH Kj LAID WASTE. tahdaiV work t!t sis houses or worship THI KB. Erie. A gsng of vandal desecrated halt a dozen city churches. Bt. Paul and Bt. Johns Episcopal, Bt. Paul's German and Central Presbyterian were broken iatto, Jth furniture upset, ths altar service broken and ths draperies ruined. Ths last ant was to enter tbejewun aynagoga math the furniture and the holy vessels snd then build a Or In the storeroom. Tho Ar area discovered before the tempts was entirely destroyed. The vandals bavs not been captured. two srsHits or xxT. tTwtosTowK Henrv Jennlnes Imb sold ths Zearlng farm near 1-eroont station to John Yauce. for 11.400. Yaua-er was to brine the money hers and turn It over, Hs-turned up at the national bank at Fayette- county wim a iwo ousnet sacs on nit oacB. ia inie he bad the 11.400. There were a few nick el, s few dollars in dimes and fnlly I4DO in quartan ana naives. 1 e remainder was In paper money and silver dollars. The money had evidently been stored away a Ion time at It tmelled muttv and soma of the piece were very old several of ths dnllan having been made in 1843 and 1944. Yeuger walked from Leraout and carried ths money oa bis back. ABSOB oats sista HAiiscBt. Governor Pattfson Isaned a proclamation designating two Fridays In April, ths 13th and 27th, as Arbor dart, the selection of either to be left to the discre tion of ths people In the various sections of the commonwealth. Ths Uovernor calls upon all cltltent to suspend their usual activities on one or both these dsyt and give sufficient lima to ths planting of trees and shruberry. DIED WITU REa CHILD. Ha7.i.etox At Btockton John Rotinko'a house burned to its foundation. Ths family etcept a baby in its cradle, eecsped. Mrs. Kosinko pleaded with men in the crowd to rescue her child, but to go into the burn ing building meant death, ins desperate mother rushed into the tlaniei and reap peared with tbs little ons. Both were so severely burned tbey died a few minutes later. MIXIR ACCEPT A RIDUCTIOTT. Phii.ifboro At a mass meeting, attend ed by 3,000 miners, held near here, a reso lution was adopted accepting ths proposed reduction and giving notice to the operator" that tbey may look for a demand for an advance in ths near f nture. SHOT FATHER AUD IIITEB, Vihitotom. William Liggett, at West Mlddleton was examining a shotgun which he felt ture was not loaded. It was die- charged, ths losd striking young Liirgett' latner and nnuaugnter..uotu were severely wounded. THE WHITE mil HATCH AT EBIE. Erie. The superintendent of the Erie White FIshHatcberv will place the balance nf the white flth hatch in the lake this week The total product of the liatcherv thii spring is about 2C,00.),000. OOOD BIO r.ANAOES. GRErxtRt'Ro David Doles, who sued tht Turtle ( reek Valley Railroad Company for i.i.ooo damages, was given a verdict oi .uou The railroad company ran itt road through bit property. BOAsTID 0!f EURX ACE CO A 14. Philadelphia. Engineer John Harris fell face downward on tbs live co'alt he had raked from hit furnace, lis had been stricken with paralysit and slowly roatted to death. WILL CAMP AT OETTYIBCRO, IT . tiDr.nr.ii T h m n.,1 itlvialnn inr.mn ment ol the National Guard of Pennsyi- nnk will ktn A , i u n at It -nft Anntimia eight days on ths battlefield of Gettysburg, Friti Rinxick, of near Butler, surprised John Gritnn while he was trying to net away with one ot Kennick t bortet and fired at the thief. The bullet cut Griffin' note off. PUKMSYLYANlA'a PORTION. Report on Agricultural Statlatics. Wealth and Property. Tbs centui bulietint issued Jut Washing- Ion showing the agricultural ttutlalict of lh Cnited Stale and tbs wealth, real and personal, of tbs United Stales in 1800, glv the following figures as to Pennsylvania: Agricultural statistics Total number ol farm-. HI 1,557: farm acreage improved, U,. Olll UlT ........ ft 1 .'l r-l. ....-I 1.1 '!! . uuillipiUFCU, u, 4".', I Id, tl"l,ll,Mi,. 370. Land fences and buildings,02-.!.2t0,283, implements and machinery, S30,040,8o5; li.estock on baud June l.lnOO, tl01,b52.738. Kitituated value of farm products, 1SSU. H21,3;!8,3'8; bortet, 018,000; niulet and asset, 20,403; rattle, 1,700,418, swine, 1,278,020; sheep, 1,012.107; number of fleeces iiuorn, tpriiig of 1800 and fail of 1880. 1.&U.3U0; fonudt of -wool, 0,411,104. Dulry producti KSO Ualloni of milk, 1(08,000,480; pound! of butter,. "0,800,041; poundtof cheese, 430,. 900. liurley, acres. 110,050, bushels, 403.803. Buckwheat, aoret, 210,488; bushels, 3,000, 717. - Corn, acres, l.&tt.m buthelt, 44 318.270. Cats, seres, 1,310,170; bushels, 3D, 107,100. Kye, acres, 830.041; buthelt, 3. 742,10. Wheat, acres, 1,318,742; bushels, 21,003, 499. Tobacco, acres, 20,1163: qouuds, 28.030,247. The statistics of the trus valuation ot real and personal property in Pennsylvania iu 1800 are at follows: Total 0, 100.7..6.33 ); real eatats with improvements. S3.78l.177.- 2H3; live slock on farms, farm Implement! and machinery 1140,000,013; niiuea and quarrtet including product! on hand t301,- eiw.ono; gold and ailver, coin and bsllion, fUO.700,433. Machinery of mult and pro duct on hand, raw and manufactured, Had.OH.HOt. Itailroadt and equipments., Including street railwayt, 455,40,070. Tei- etiraiilii. telephones, shipping unit can all, .,Ji(,vu4. Miscellaneous, sm.oti.uou. Dig Timber Purchase. A syndicate has purchased 1,000,000,000 feel ot Northern Miuueaota puis iituuer lor v, 000,000 lu round figures. Ami General O. O. Howard retires from aetive service be will iuk his home hi Burlington, Vt., where his son, Uaptaia Guy Howard, United Htates A.-my, la now en gaged In building Fort Ethan Ail en, ta,n vavir iuei . . SOLDIERS' COLUMtf A SPY'S CLOSE CALL. Us Wat Saved From ths Scaffold by t newspaper stratagem. O ths battlefield ofAntietam Edi tor MoCinre met General Wm. J. I'ttmer. then ''aptaln and stronglynrgedhinr not to continue hit wroveraenui ass spy after Let bad creased Into Virginia, but ths gallant young soldier gave no promise- as to wnat ne would b likely to do. and the verv Bret night after fe crostsed ths 1'otonisc be wat again in Leet camp and breught . . . .RStjii pacR important is ---!i formation to Gen- sral McClellan. Again he returned and entered ths Confederate lines, and when hs did not report after a week it was assumed that ne nan oeen capturea ana wouia probably be eseouted aa a spy, Hs hat been captured, was tried and condemned at a spy and sentenced to siecutlon, but be wat saved by a clever newspaper device determined oponsftera conference la Phil adelphia between President J. Edgar Thom son of tht Penntylvsnis Hsilroad; Colonel Scott snd Mr. McClars. Thornton took specisl interest in Palmer, at be bad beta bit secretary and was much attached la bim. It wat decided that Waahtngtoa dispatches tbonld be prepared for all of tbs Philadelphia morning papers, announcing the arrival at the Capitol of Captain William J. Palmer, stating in what particular lines ot ths enemy be had operated and adding that be had brought much important information that could not be givn to tbs public at the. time. These dltpatchet appeared the next morning In ail tht rniiaaeipnia papers prominently aitpiayes and of courts; reached ths Houihern line! within tortv eisbt bours. Trie result wai that Captain Palmer's Identilv was nevet established in Richmond and bis tiscutloa wat thus tuspended. In a littls whlle,when some prisoners had been sichanged, there was a vacancy made in the list ol the ex changed men by death. Palmer's friend bad him take the place and nam of ths dead toldier and he thut escaped and re turned to the service "I'hllaaelphla Timet." A Oallant Naval Xxploit. In ths March Issue of "Blue and Grav" "Union Jack" telle tbs following store ol a gallant exploit of a boat's crew of tht "Hartford,'' under ths gunt of Fort Mor gan, Mobile bay un tne nignt oi Aiigutt itt an iMignin. blockade runner, favored by clrcumttaacee, ran through tb fleet, but wat pressed so closely by pursuing gunboats that, running too near to tbs land, her keel look tb bottom at a point close undor tbs guns ol. Morgan. Farragut was much annoyed ba the circumstance and ordered an expedition to be formed composed of two boats from tacb ship, amounting to one hundred men. who, under cover of darkness, pulled in foi the beach. At three o'clock thsy returned, reporting that they could not And the wreck. Farragut summoned his aid, Lieu tenant Watson. 'Watson, taks mr bane and a doaeii men; go in tber aud destroy that blockads runner." Watson reaulred no second b ddins: hs loved such work. The larger expedition) retired chagrined, while the crew of tbs barge, with white covers on their caps to distinguish them from the enemy, armed witu cutlasses ana revolvers, pulled at a iwinKina ttroka ttraicht for the entrance to the Confederal workt. The fort loomed na through the darktiesi, stern snd forbidding. wane a anarp looioui ior me nun oi to blocxader wat maintained. Hhe wat dis covered by a keeneyed young topman, lying in uie ueep suauow ui au angle ot me ion. Tber was no delay or nonaens about It; no appealing to the men to light manfully. There was no occasion for that with tb men of the "Hartford." The barge was beaded direct for her, the men boaidlng Just for ward of the starboard paddl box. The de moralized crew were driven in all direction many seeking safety In flight ashore, giving the alarm to the garrison. With dextrous hands the sailors strewed combustibles in various parta of ths vessel and placing a large tank of powder in tb nildtt of ths machinery, the torch wat applied. Fort Morgan had now opened a plunging firs, and as the barge pulled off shore flames bunt from all portion of llio doomed craft, revealing a company of soldier advauclng at a double quick down ths broad beuch. limine game nsa snppea torougn tnelr flniters. Tht shot from the lort mid the water boil and foam around the barge, but none atruck ber, and as the first red streak of dawn tinged tb ast, Walton reported hi nilsalou to the admiral as accomplished. Bow ths "Teoumteh" Went Down in Mobile Bay. At half oast seven th "Tecamseh" was well un with the fort.havlnx the Tennes see" on the port beam. The monitor' gun bad been loaded with steel shot and sixty pounds of powder, which at that time was th heaviest that had been atierapteil. Crav en knew that the eyes of all the fleet were upon bim. it was ui great opportunity. and hit chlvalrout natur yearned for a fair trial of ttrengtb with the formidable ram and her famout commander. The fir Iroui the fort was scarcely noticed a.i ths monitor steamed toward ber adversary, drawing ahead of the "Brooklyn" the other monitors following Craven closely. Aa they drew near the buoy. Craven, from the pilot liouie. saw it to close In liue with tbs beach that he said to bis pilot, "It it ira pooible that the admiral meant for this vessel to go inside the buoy; I cannot turn my thin. At the tame moment the"Ten nessee which up to that time bad lain to the eastward of the buoy went ahead to the westward of it, and Ciaven, either letring tb would elude bim or unable to restrain biteaKernets to commence the combat. gate the order "starboard" beading the "Tecum sell" straight for the ram. She had gon but a few yardt.with all hands awaiting th order to Are, when on or more torpedoes exploded under her. Hhe lurched from tide to tide, careened violently over, snd went down, bow first, her tcrew plainly visible in the air for s moment to sll on ths "Tennessee" who awaited her onset, let than two hundred yards off, on the other side of the fatal line. The monitor tank beneath the surface, carrying with her iron walls Craven and one hundred and twenty men, helplessly Imprisoned, Had th court of th nioultor been directed thirty feet more to the eastward, she would bave es caped the dauger. "U'uiou Jock" iu Ulus aud Gray. - Strictly Business. There was no fuss and flummery about tho wedding of a 1 ortland wo man recently. Sho had a Job wash. I UK floor at the City Hall, and one morning appeared with her pails nod mops as usual. Alone la the fore noon she surprised the jualtor by an nouncing that slit) was going out for a few minutes to get married, and In just forty-live minutes the was back, the ceremony all over, the nuptial kin duly attendeJ to, and resumed her scrubbing. She probably ap preciated tho fact that sometimes It Is easier to get husbands than em ployiuonL Lewlstoa Journal 0 Si Press. .
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