na A se ah Ss AR eR Fi I AS ATS SN a it | eam down here. He bad a bath yes terday. a regular swim, with plenty “Berpeant, do this, that snd the other’ ‘Wily? You don’t hea ws up there; this is headquarters,” sald | “the olher sergeant. “Headguarters indeed! You can get passed gp there to go into thetown and get A bath, You don’t have to toatl around in an atmospiore of coal dusc all the time. And they have a barrel { of ice water in the camp.’ “What! Tee water! You don't mean ity ~ “Yys, | do!” grumbled Bob, “The majors orderly told me so when he of witer, We have to tramp a quar ‘and fot much of that! | tried bathing in otis of these ditehes. Stood ina wash basin to keep from sinking in the rand. Tt wasn't a success. and I've got (lean things in my knapsack. 100. By George, we always get the toughest detail of the whole Jot!” “Oh, quit your growling” “I's all very well for you. Yours | not i duty sergeant, and don’t go on guard.” “Na: but I have to stay hers, and It's all {lay. Then there are the reports and requisitions; and every time ons : 4 | of you fellows wants to grumble you comm to me. Yesterday you wantad to know why I did not give you coffes «{ after dinger!” | commissary hasn't issued any, either. Sergeant Bob “f didn't! 1 just asked you If you the time. Say, we got fired on three different times ut the bridge last {another halfhowr, “can't you got one night” : “Any one hurt?” “Mo.” “13d you shoot any one®™ “Don't know. Wa fired back, dnt 1 guess we didn't hit anything. |peer of Company HI, night before last. shot a : man who tried to ran the line. at sened | jenst, that is what Speer reported In the morning; But 1 notice that Com- : pany H's eating fresh mutton, and the Why ean’t one of our fellows shoot one of Speer's men? lazy beggars” “3h,” said the other sergeant, “I'm | demi broke, and my credit is not good | at the store over there. They dont know me, and” "hey do know you!" chuckled Vicesp still As I started to say, I | | Baye no money, and I'm tired of the | food myself. 1 want to buy some | _ | crmrkers. Now if you have any cash, | ported yellow soap, while I go and | use my influence with one of the hos | pital corps to get a couple of big tow- as * | and will get a box of crackers, 11 tell | | you where you ean get a bath, wash your clothes, and feel like a man and a padd | brother onos more” “Bergeant, the crack ra Are yours! Where is that corner of paradise’ . Hold on! Don't be fn such a hurry. | sergeant to give you & bar of that im- “Your influence! You've got about | 'Sg've 1: but we want to do this { thinz m style, We'll take our blan- i 1 kets for togas, and do the Roman sen- | ator while our duds are drying And | mr Influence ts all right, hecanse the | big towels are banging behind the hos i pital tent, and the follows are at the gurgeon’s tent, hearing a lecture on | bames. Skip slong after that soap, now” | "Where Is this place you're talking aliout?” 4 *Rohert, you pain me! Can't you | ‘take it on trust? There is a wal fos” | “¥en at home. And [wish hada had reached the ley, three days before. tipples were burning: had heen overturned and pot a train was running 1 of one of the great rail. y. All this was the ho found opportuni: trike of coul birrel of water from it now.” 1 "Don't interrupt my elnquence. | There is a well & deep well, with | elear, cold water, on a hiliside near & uboulder of the hill (a 8 fence pear , ‘of bushes, the advance guard of the 1 rarest. An old well with a rotting i ghed above B rough stone curb, was | Jesneit two rifles, with bayonets, belts and cirtridge-hoxes hung on the ram. roils. Bob: "but if that fat lieutenant of the il | guard caught us outside of the lines, | # | we'd get into trouble” || This is worth it, isn't it? As some one said once, you cannot take away | | the dinners we havo eaten, and not | ' | even the fat——7" : 4 Baastl Something sang through | the air like a bee, and struck the tree | 1 nsined Jog house. By that well Is & ‘quarter section of 2 hogshead, oncs ‘msed for watering cattle, now convert: | ‘ell by my genius into 2 bath-tab. A ‘filg elra epreads its pmbragecus arma over soft grass, wheres" wpugt will do! I'm going for the goap Gn a sun” snd Sergeant Bob gtruggied into his blouse and de jarted. An hour later two hlanket- draped loys lay on the graxs under the sim. "Phi camp was out of sight hebind a HE various gAarmonis were drying. Mocks of sunlight struggled through Whe leaves overhead, ind mate a gold {and green patchwork of the grass. A Charren cornfield, with fast year's tals: cut close to the ground, gtretehed away up the hill to a fringe pear fhe tree, Against the well-shod | “Now this is luxury,” sald Sergeant Barat! Another singing through ¢ air, and two white streaks arose | “No. I'm not, but I'm very uncom fortable.” : “What's the matter?” "Why, look at me!” sald the other gergeant. “Here 1 am, 1#ing in a pud- | dle of fee-warer” “Why don't you get nut of {t, then?” ! “Gat out of M7 These oid wells | boards won't stop a hall, and | have to stay fiat on the ground behind this curb, I don’t want to get shot. This {8 where you tipped over that bucket of water, I wish I had that villain!” A shot from the thicket answeore} him as he shook his fist beyond the PRL 3 Sy Jeaned against the tree EO ‘ region where it Is produced increan:d then he stopped laughing and won | Rae ams A : 1 ow bl the ey markaman | IF 1582 only 3800 fons was exported, would keep them there, and if their corner of the well absence from camp would be noticed CAL DOOD Mess. | ter of a mile to get drinking water. while the man in the thicket turned | kis attention to the clothes on the fone anl shot holes in them, while | the owners howled at him from thelr OVaT. Well, T guess I can stand 8 as long as he can,” commented Bobs SYag You're not exposed to the wintry blasta as 1 am'” complained the othor sergeant “rintey hilaatse! sun's burning patches on me til 1 look like a tiled floor” “Well. you aren't iving in a amall lake of wellowater that (8 ‘way below | gers. Part of me is frozen; when 1 crash towel is small slothing, and I'm | A ) : dirtier than when I came up here, expected us to live on canned beef all Wouldn't 1 like to get a crack at that fellow!” : “gay begun Sergeant Bob alter of the rifles? The Hitie snap of his gun can’t be heard at camp but if | you could fire one of ours, the bang would bring the guard ap io a Burrs “1 ean't reach them from here Evory time I stick my hanl out that reprobate shoots at me. Wait 3 niin. ute! Is your rifie joaded T° “Np: but the box is hanging on it: with the belt, and there's 20 rounds ia BR” The other sergeant looked sand and found a stick Then he reached over and poked the stick through 8 erack in the boards, sawing {1 back | and forth until he got it against ons of the rifles. The gun came rattling to the ground, ani he pulled it behind | the curb. This brought out more shots from the man In the bushes. “Js that my rifle? asked Bol. pany, too!” “#Well, yowll get your shoulder ; | Kloked off. You've got no clothes for ing.” of this towel. Of course you fol | jows who shat both eyes when you fire You go up an parsuade the commissary and Bold the butt two inches from your shoulder get kicked, and nO wonder.” ! _eghut both eyes? Who got the : | sharpshooter’'s bar, I'd ike to kaow? | | Bat go abkead! Blaze away into the | BiH! Nolse is all we want.” : 4 t went ifle, and & crack : Sng . veut the lle, a 8s sae with other substances, but they all a dozen times the sergeant shot, as tant aa he could load and fire, wrhat will do, I reckon” he sald, | { pyibbing his shoulder. they'll thisk there 18 a battle” and the two chisckied as they waite] for reenforce : ments and relief. 3 “Hi, there, you men! What are you | doing here?” [It was the fat Heuten- : ant, coming from behind the oid log | hisase, “ist Back Deutenant!” both boys | eried. “You'll get shat!” Page's a villain six feet tall ap in the bushes there with a Winchester! | fie’s Kept us here an hour,” explained | - Hergeant Bob. “wiley” and the leutenant dodged heliind the log hut. From back of him the grinning faces of half dosen of the jpuard looked out “We'll get your man for you. Wa reconncitered, saw from where the shots came, and I sent a squad up over the hill. They'll come down on hla Crear. But what I want to know is what you two are doiog outiide of the nes?” seaiing a bath, sir” sreking a bath, eh? Well. I might | overlock you coming out for sich oa commendable purpose, especially since you've been penned up already; but Cyom’ve made me run up this hill In the sun. and you ought to He cord - mar tialed Hello! The other squal has FOUr man.’ There was a commotion in the hirah. es: then the corporal and the rest of the squad appeared, The corporal held Im Bis hand a dingy litte Flobert i rife. Two of the men lsd a small, | ghoek-headed, dirty faced boy. The lisutevant shouted with laagh- ter. Theres your sixtuoter and his | Winchester! Kept you here an hour! | Oh, my!” ant the rest of the guard | snlekered audibly. Sergeant Bob and | the other sergeant looked at each | other and sald nothing *What does he say. corporal?” “Says he did it for fun, sir, and that ‘he did not shoot to hit” “tie did it for fun, eh? Well just bring along his rifle and keep it: box his ears and send him home. As for you two, get into your clothes and come to eamp af once. When you get | there report at guard feadquarters— that is, if you don't forget ft and the leutenant smiled as he departed. “Guess we'll forget it. won't we Bob? asked the other sas coant. ADC they did—Youlh's Companion. A AAA kien with a clear conscience ikewlse the fellow whe onsclence at all Why. man, the : his rifle don't Kick. No rifle doos | AT rt It right, and FTI make a | Sommcts. This { S0PP er, would hard 4 ' A WORLD-WIDE HUNT | MADE BY THE NATIONS, Sr A SB | Indispensable for Deep wen Cables and the Soupty is Limingt—¥ viene and Gor the construction of aubmuarine cables is the increasing aparcity of gulls i percha, anl conssqpentiy 18 increas me cout, for gattapercha is an intis percha exported from tha restricted from 1800 to 45.000 tons Even ns inte wo that tho actunl inereass in the niu years was $1,200 tons. fn demand, owing 1o the enormous - pxtenwion of cable laving in the B08 go mtimately allied are electric cable | ex hasion and gutta-percha production that id the oar or any given period | of vears it is quite possible io mens “ure the one hy the other, Bat som- paratively gpeaking cable nying in all parts of the world has 50 aututripped gutta-percha | production tha: there has bosn a very decided incronse in the cost of gutta-percha in the market. Between 158% and 1888 It {nereaned | by one-third sald George Clapperton, trafic man marine cables and 1 have heard the | compurative searcity of gutta-percha dlgonsed as a serious element in the | cable laying of lae future. But the promising view of the case ls that roaily there is not a vast deal of deep ‘gon cable laying in the wort! which remains ta bel done. “The just link in the “gecond line from England to South Africa has | just heen completed and the German :eable to this country has Lean ald. I Phe two grant Hines in contempaition L are the American cable to Hawall and the Philippizes, and the British line from British Columbia-—ahowt 16.000 miles. Then there {5 another line In . consideration from somewhers on the | eastern const of South Africa to Aus | trait. abont 1500 miles more in North- ern Europe, making a total of from 29 000 to 25.000 miles. When these are completed the world will be pretty well immeshed with cables and It | wonld be comparatively Hmited for a | time at least thereafter. : | emiow. of vourse, the construction of {will require a vast deal of gutia percha. Yet I imagine the cable man- ufacturers kpow where they are going [ to get it, for 1 un jorgtand that they "are alrendy prepared to bid on the fy be the c¢nse unless they had the | gutta-percha in sight, | gtance known that will take the place | of gutta-percha Af a shield for the conpEr wire case af and electric cable . Bearch has heen made and in till being made for something that will 40 As | wall but it has hot yet thorn SUCEORE- {ful Experiments have been madd failed. So the desD sea calla pean | practically to be dependent upon | guita-perchi Raa the properly nol only of not de terlovating hy submersion in #ed | wearer but of actually improving the longer it 8 submerged. Gatiapercha that haw been at the boliom af the wen for venrs (4 better than when 11 { was first laid down it retains its ro | markable plasticity and remand still . #8 perfect in regard to ita insulating qualities” Covering the popper core of an ilo tric calle with gutta-percha in ane of the mast difenit and delicate proces ees bn cable manufacture. The slight: eat imperfection in the covering of a pore the fraction af a hairs breadth in size menns sooner or later a broken communication involving an expen sive voyage of the repair ship. The gatta percha, which must be of the finest quality. 1a laid on over the wire to a thicknes of about the diam. ster of the wire self Over this is ald a contiag of 8 paler and cheaper i ra NAR A AHH SLES Ee ur | quality of gutta-percha, and then come | the steel wires to givetensile strength. Giver the whole 8 wrapped jute cord eonted with tar. “Puere ia on board every cable re pair ship” sail another man conuset ed with the Commercial Cable Con pany, “une person who, although he is a mechanic having an important part of the candle aplicing to perform, is in ahaut the position of a first cabin pas. sepger. He 18 called the gentleman af the ship’ Until the time comes fer him to got in his fine work ha does ac labir whatever, because it ig wily wolutely necessary that he shall keep Hig hands soft and with all their dell cacy of touch animpaired wri is the man who lays on the ghitin percha covering over the parts of the cable after they are spliced. jt i% the most delicate and careful work imaginable. He has to go Over the gutta-percha again and again, emaothing it down with hia fingers and examining it minutely as he works to see it there 18 tho slightest imperfection or the most hairiike porosity. This has to he done with every coating af it 1s put on until the requisite thickness of gutta-percha is reached. “A man whose hands were in the teast hardened or calloused with rough labor gever cond do it, so ths ‘weptieman of the cable repair ship many the Countring Mostls Futurosiedes ; 3 is girdled round and round about with Eugiand's Cable System About Complete A serious clement in projects for | pensable cable insniaior. Belwaen | 0 eer with the recent completion of | in we truly sce and Know Gaureelvas ~~ ; Pavenant, 1864 and 1550 the amount of gutta fut this increase in production bY | Fuvery movement, it seamed brought | po means Repl pace w ith the incte a shot from the bushes. Once in a : “pe production of gutta-percha ager of the Commercial Cable Com. turn over the other part freezes, and a | PaY, in a vital factor in making sub. "Mine, and the best one in the cory the 16.000 miles in the Pacific alone “Phere {x absolutely no other subs “ve jg a perfect insulator and it also has nothing to do between cable splie- § tng times save eat and sleep and keep his hands manicured until they the as white and delicate as a fine lady's to £0 | been a growing anxiety over the i | creasing scarcity of gutta-percha 1 | the reason thit the French do not con- Lond by a good deal whim thie world Cyne cables pow in operation or eons | templation. A great deal of ink has teen epllled In France of fnte years | to point out the fact that all these cabloa are Pagiish lines touching for Ea : : : 3 terion iM YD sien Enine ITER. the mest part on English sell alone. | : u i Loi WH Spine Emerson. | Culaniily i the perfeet gisss where | the second line from England to Haith C Africa. the earth is girdled with cables | the Faglish fax flies. : advantage thie would give Grear Brits ain in a war waged with one of the nesr England in naval strength. That being the cass aul gutta Commercial concerns ae well ak gov ernments themselves have in tho past fow years been giving very close at- tention to he gutta-percha privhlem. Tropical forests have been ransacked to it that a table-covering product may he had fron it and there are various the original tree in regions whores beyond the oxperimental stage the Malay archipelago and the Mal aces peninsula, Whare there ig an sven temperature of an average of from 89 to 87 degrees Pahrenhait and alight wvarintion of these conditions den changes of tempurature wven if those chatiges are not extreme, it iangulshes and dies The Philippines tonch clngsly upon the guttapercha belt, yet the [ted doen not gow there indigenously, and it ia at least very prolematical whether it can be cultivated there It low and the changes too ay ddene New York Son. : MAN MILLINER A SUCCESS, His Tufluerive in sulting Women Coston Cpern Admitted “Yau certainiy,” sald the mitiiner, “if 1 ever open a regular piillinery shop with 4 stock on hand 1 shall bave Then she laughed. : “Yeu | mean it, she wenl on “1 have had experience enough to Know that man I» in the right place in such a position. Why, If you have 3 man de signer in the place and 8 worian who ia buying 8 hat is sot quite sure whether it In becoming or nol, it the man designer comes in, looks at it, the mutter at once. One gar] from a ag women, | would never Dave a shop without a man in {1 somewhere, men male clever millinere. | Have men come fo me Ww study millinery and learn the business, exartly ax a woman does. They put tn their apigas, begin at the Begioning and go through the work from first to last A man will handle the needle Just as well se on girl ana somelimis hutter, soally better. In making hut frames, be more accurate and do better WOK than the women. That ia bora in them, It is a certain accuracy and mechanioal ability ; “aaw. | have a nephew who is going through college, taking reguiar course, hut every Saturday he comes to me to study millinery, and hy the time he has finished colloge he will he ready to go Into business 43 a design er. He will go into some large hase or 1 may take him in with me “You yee a boy Hie that 8 an artist, ness, and #1 would be a shame to koop wimg out of it. You conld not make him a designer if it was nit in hipu a talent, just as copying is a talent srs aml they do pot wish to see Son much of anything. They will see a hat ores, got an idea from it, and go home and make a hat. It may he on the came lites, possibly, but it will be dil ferent. That 3 whers a designer and a copyist differ Dhsigners cannot carry out an idea twice in the same way. But copyists must be exact They will look at a hat over and over again, and they can maky a hat ike the one they have seen and they can’t make anything els “Men in the millinery business are often more sucessful financially than women They have more apportinis ties than women in some ways. A man can take a few hats and travel arcu, go to different hotels and stay a few days, sell out his stock, and then go on to another place. As I sail, they will | da beter because they are men The women at the hotels will go and seq their hats and buy geoner than they would a woman's stock | A womad frequently has to become kiown Before she can do business, but a man is ail right from the first. and if he cat really make hats, what hi says ‘goes’ und He will sell what he makes.—New which touch land nowhere save yihare | i who has never been in danger — Soveral French writers have recent: | : Ly viewasd with alarm the tremendoas | percha is msde has become an ahjsct | of vety great international interest, for the tres or for one so nearly akin | gitempts at creating plantations of | heretofare it has pol grown, Tae for. | oat ransscking has resulted In failure and the plantations have pot yet got The area In which the gutia porehn | tree thrives is extremely limited It: ts confined exclusively to a portion of | the soil is favorable the tras ETOWE | with great vigor. But with only a; and particularly where there are sud will pot grow in Cochin China, lke wise near the gutta-percha belt, bee: cause the average temparaturs is too a man for one of my saleswomen.” and says it is all right, that will settle man will go further than the words of | “When they have the talent. too, i notice that in many things they are for instances, they are almost sure ter Ha has a natural tient for the busi. Ambition ts not a vice of litte | ple Monfalumne, me gider that cable laying will be at an! ‘Every man is & volume if you know i how tw read him Channing. Taste 18 so to speak, the microscope of the Iadgmont —~Rouseoan. They that stand high have many blasts ro dhalie them ~~Shakespe re He hedt liphining rod for your pro Nh mill can answer for his courage Roc hefoucanid. Tha less a man thinke or kKeows abot hls virtues tha hetier wo ike H | himo—merson. few nations that are approxigintely | | invent It as the hest means of getting : To : Lrplehi—Mirabean, ; percha being indispensable to subma- | ring cables, the tree which yields the) bend, Shale Banll precious milky gam from which gutta: oftim burns yoursell mors than Rim. H Bandsty did net exist we ought toy The five you kindle for your enemy ~Chinete proverb. | The passionate are like men stand fing on thelr heals: they ses sll things | the wrong way. Plato. . | Spenking much is 8 sign of vanity. | He thiit Is lavish in words i a alggard in Jerd Bir Walter Haleigh "he seorld is full of thoughts, and (yon wl find them strewed everys | where ih Your path-—Elibu Burritt. i i READING NOVELS AS WORK. five Hundred Manuscripts a Year Abont its Average for One Maw ‘Plea hundred povels a year 18 a rec ard for one man’s reading, but that i about the number that ane of (he regu- | la)” ropdiers of a large publishing housa {in this city manages lo examine atl | nuaily. This examination is 50 npir- | ficial review, either but one that givea | a thorough knowledge of the plot, stile and general characterisiiogofthe | MB., for the readers opinion of each | MB. Ix written out and filed away for { raterance. One of the sider Some here Chas nearly $0 bound volumes of | rdmders’ opinions. with about 400 | opinions in each. volume Per- hivs 40 out of the 00 are about books that have been published. | Of the other 360 some few may have | boven brought out by other pubiishing i hisuson, Lot most of them were ree | tiirned to the authors, never 1) appear again ie : A good reader will lodk over at least fine MSS. in a day that besins af 3.39 | mpd exds at 3 o'clock, and sometimes, when there ix a rash of work will get through twice that number This “lookliag over” of course. x not the careful reviewing referred to shove, Many manuscripts never get beyond the “looking over” stage Most of the publishing houses do not kp MBS taore than two weeks before giving a if posible. The MSS form a valuable charg: and have to be looked out for carefully, as in case of loss tha pub- {isher is sometimes lable, particniar- ly if the receipt of the MS. haz been scknowledgel At least four or five out off every hundred MSR which are declined by a publisher by the author, 'Fhey are carefully put away, and after jt certain number of years, il no one aimn them ars destroved : Chee in a while an author en doses & | Ava.dallar bill with tha obiest of pro= nitiating the reader, for thers geome 1O he a widespread supposition among & sortain inks of authors that the remd- ars are ail broken-down and unsnCeeEs- ful lterary men who dislike to 36e any ane succend when they have fatled, If he does not sebd an enclosures, the guthir is apt to satid 8 long fetter ext piaining that the story tg “hinnded on fact’ or the exprieness of the write arn grandfather, or that he has a args nutnber of friends and relatives who will yay and assure ita large sale, and that his friend. the literary editor of the lpeal journal, will give IX a mag. nifiednt review, or that the author's eriends have ail pronouncid RX infin- itely better than most of the novels published. {t is only infinite experience which esn teach a man (9 know ae pulitic taste, and it takes a great many gquall- tieg besides literary preception. KR recider has to he not only a eritie, but atno something of a prophet The fore cast of the westber bureau are not mura carefully pripared or mora like Iv tn be wrong van are the opinions Sof these men who Ty 8 foarte] what Taka a penple whoogre natal design. copy. I is impossisle far them to) Dpslpners are born. not smile iL is) beak the pubic will tke ew York Post. AAAI RE Ona on the Jeweler “tril you please examine this dia mand,” sald a man who had stepped into a jewelers su. "and tell me whit rou think of #7 12 it is a good stone I think 1 =i1 uy i The feweler took the gem, which wad unset. asd iooked at sritically fr a moment. Thus, in confidential tines. he said: “fall to tell ron the truth, that isn't a very good ston, 1s haan't mach fen: it 1g badly cut and thers is some thing here very maeh like a flaw” Then he held the diamond under & microscope and examined it carefully, | finally observing, “ng, It tsn't exactly a flaw, but I shouldn't call it & perfect gtone. Now, if vou want something ronily fine, I have here—— ce “Exense me” the other man inter- ranted; “I don't think I'll buy a dine mond today. This is a diamond that sue of your assistants let me take on ‘Saturday ou approval. | deposited $40 on it. Please let me have my money and we will declare the deal off." —Tit- Bits, AAAs ESS ie es To display a crest on stationery and plate in England costs each family a {ax of a guinea a year. About 0.000 of peuple pay it | decistin 50 them, and returniog them .
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