f AGUAS CALIENTES.
THE CELEBRATED MEXICAN
WATERING PLACE.
Pen Pictures of Life and Business in
the Old Aztec Town—Expensive
Hats and Pantaloons.
lam at Aguas Calientes, the famous
Hot Springs of Mexico, writes Frank
Carpenter in the Courier-Journal. It is
Altogether different from an American
health or summer resort, aud it might be
bodily transplanted to the soil of West
ern India and not seem out of place.
Aguas Calientes contains about 40,000
people, and nine-tenths of the houses
are one-story. They all have flat roofs,
and the water is drained off through
pipes of clay, which jut out about a foot
from the edge of the walls. These walls
are very thick. They are built of stone
or sun-dried brick, and are stuccoed
where they face the street, and this
plastering-liko stucco has been painted
delicate blues, or pinks, or yellows,
making the whole town one mass of
rainbow colors, which, strange to say,
does not look out ot place uuder this
bright Mexican sun. None of these
houses have gardens in front of them.
They are built close up to the cobble
stone sidewulks, so that, in going
through the town, you seem to be pass
ing between walls of gaily-colored bill
boards, ready for the posters, each of
which has a hole in its centre for a door.
The poorer houses have doors very
roughly made, aud iu the galloping
mule street-car that takes you from the
depot to the centre of the town, you
see few houses with windows, and many
of these doors are filled with queer
looking dark-faced people. The men in
their red and gaily colored blankets look
picturesque, and the women, with their
dark, mahogany faces, their long black
hair streaming down their backs, freshly
wet from their last bath in the hot
waters, are, in some cases, very pretty,
and in others as ugly as the Witch of En
dor after au attack of the smallpox.
As you leave the station you pass the
public bath-bouses, low Spanish build
ings, where you tan get for from twenty
to thirty cents a bath of any kind you
want, and go on up a long, "dusty thor
oughfare, under wide-spreading green
trees, into the business part of the city.
The business of this city of 40,000 peo
ple is a fair sample of that of the inte
rior Mexican town. It is big only in the
prices asked for the articles sold. Mex
ico it) not a great business country. The
most of the firms are run on small capital,
and there arc hundreds of stores which
have not more than S2OO worth of stock.
Many of these hero have even less, and
the storekeeper, in the majority of in
stances, has a little cave of a store, with
out any windows, opening out on the
street, and he stands behind a counter
which runs right across the store in
front of the door, and offers his goods
for sale for three times what ho expects
to get. In the case of the smaller busi
nesses tho trader is generally a Mexican,
and there are more peddlers in one city
in this country than you will find in ten
cities of the same size of the United
States.
I have jnst come from the market.
Imagine a long tier of stalls, around two
hollow squares, which cover the area of
a city block. These stalls are occupied
by the butchers, and bakers and the
candlestick makers, who have the big
gest stocks, and the squares are filled
with the big-hatted men in white cotton
clothes, and by red-skirted women in
white waists and red skirts, who sit un
der whito umbrellas as big as the top of
a small camping tent, with little piles of
vegetables and fruit around them. I
asked as to prices and found that thiugs
were sold in piles and not by measures.
60 many little potatoes made up a pile,
and I was asked two cents for four pota
toes, each of which was as big as a
buckeye. A pile of four eggs costs here
three cents, and a little pile of tomatoes
and peppers was among the things sold.
Peppers, both green and red, were sold
everywhere, and I saw that some of the
bigger market men had great bins of
them. They form a part of every Mexi
can dish and are eaten in great quanti
ties. Tho average Mexican, however,
eats very little in comparison with us.
Ills market bills are not half as heavy as
thoso of his American brother, and a
sewing basket would contain the daily
supply for a large family. The cheapest
thing sold seems to be fruit, which
grows in the shape of oranges, bananas
and lemons, very abundantly about here,
and I got splendid oranges for a ceut
apiece.
About this market the Mexican ped
dlers had collected themselves by the
dozens, Ilere was a woman with two
freat jars of what looked like very thiu
uttermilk before her. Bho was selling
it in glasses which held from a half-pint
to a pint, to tho passers by, at one and
two cents a glass. I asked what it was,
and was told that it was pulque, the
Mexicau beer, which comes from a species
of cactus, and which is drank by the
barrel every day throughout Mexico. At
the corner beside her, before a caso
which looked like a book-cuse, stood a
shoe-peddler. His stock was made up
of shut ped-toed gaiters, aud by actual
count he had only twenty pairs to sell.
A little further on a yellow-faced woman
in her bare feet sac, with ten pairs of
baby shoes beddo her. This made up
tho whole establishment, and around the
corner 1 found a very pretty Aztec
maiden sitting on a stool and rolling
black tobacco into cigarettes. The paper
she used was thicker thun the newspaper
in which this letter will be printed, and
she doubled tho paper over the cigarettes
at both ends to make it stay together.
Near the market I found a few very
fair stores, but they would be small
affairs in a town of 40,000 in New York
or Ohio, and a Western city of 10,000
could show many finer. The counters
ran across the whole front of the store,
and only the biggest of them had show
windows. The dry goods stores con
tained chiefly French goods, and the
merchants were in most eases French or
German, though I found some of them
Mexicans. I stopped in front of n hat
Btore which had a most gorgeous display
in its windows and priced some som
breros. They "ranged from a dollar up to
Beveuty-five dollurs apiece, and I am told
that some of these Mexican dudes wear
hats that cost more than one hundred
dollars. Some of the hats were trimmed
with gold and silver cord, and I looked
at a fifty-dollar one which weighed about
ten pounds and which measured eighteen
inches from one side of the brim to the
other. It had a crown a foot high, and
there was a cord of gold rope as big as
my wrist around it. Many of the ha's
had gold and silver letters upon them,
and I saw many worn which have tho
monograms of their owners cut out of
silver and sewed to the sides. They are
of many colors—a delicate cream, a drab
and a black being very common, and
they are beautifully made and are said
to be just the thing for this hot sun and
high winds. The same firm sold ladies'
hats. Most of these came from Paris.
They were very high-priced and not at
all pretty. Near by I stopped at a Mex
ican clothing store and looked at some
Mexican pantaloons. I here, again,
found that the dude of our sister
Republic has to pay for his
style. Many of the pantaloons
were made of buckskin, and the nicest
paii, which were lined with solid silver
buttons down the sides, cost as high as
fifty and seventy-five dollars, and coats
are likewise high. It is not hard for a
Mexican country gentleman to spend
from three to four hundred dollars on
his clothes, and when you take into con
sideration that he has to sport a saddle,
spurs and revolver of like gorgeous
character, you sec that if one of these
big farmers has a crowd of grown-up
boys his clothing bills amount to some
thing. This, however, is the case with
only the rich. The poor here are so poor
that they don't know how poor they are,
and their clothes cost practically noth
ing. A pair of these cast-oti buckskin
pantaloons will last a long time, aud the
ordinary cotton suits worn by the poor,
though high considering their character,
cost but little. A blanket costs from a
dollar or two up, and the leather sandals
which are worn almost universally by
the Indians, are nothing more than two
pieces of sole leather as big as your band
tied to the top aud bottom of the foot
with leather strings. These cost twenty
live cents apiece, and Inst a long time.
The dressof the poorer women is even
cheaper than that of the men, and Mex
ico's nine millions of peasants will have
to make more money and have greater
needs before the land can become n
great cousumer of the goods of any
nation. Their houses are hovels of mud,
and their diet is simpler than their
clothes, consisting of little more than
corn-cakes aud red peppers.
The National Dead.
It costs the United States about sixty
cents a mouth to take care of a dead sol
dier who losthis life in the service. The
sundry civil bill passed by Congress at
its last session appropriated SIOO,OOO for
expenses for the natioual cemeteries dur
ing the fiscal year. In addition to this
there was the sum of $76,000 set aside
for the salaries of superintendents of
these burying grounds, and there were
also sonic odds and ends, amounting to
several thousand dollars, for supplying
headstones where they were lacking, and
so forth.
The government takes charge of all
these cemeteries, which are uuder the
direct control of the quartermaster-gen
eral of the army. There are eighty-two
of them in all, including an aggregate of
327,000 burials. The smallest of the
burying grounds is at Ball's Bluff, where
twenty-live Federal warriors ure in
terred, only one of them identified. The
next smallest is the old battle ground on
Seventh street, this city. It would be
much cheaper to remove the bodies rest
ing at both these places to other loca
tions, but sentiment accords to them a
claim to remain where they fell in brave
fight. So, although only forty-three arc
buried at the battle-ground, a superin
tendent is maintained there in charge at
a salary of S6O a mouth and with a house
free for his occupancy. The superin
tendents, as decreed by law, are all dis
abled veterans, none others being eli
gible for the positions, and their pay is,
according to the size of the cemeteries
they have charge of, S6O, $65, S7O and
$75 a month. Thus they are divided
into four classes.
The biggest of the eighty-two national
cemeteries are at Andersonville, Ga.,with
13,702 dead; Arlington, Va., with 10,-
350; Chalmette, La., with 12,020; Chat
tanooga, Tenn.,with 13,023; Fredericks
burg, Va., with 15,273; Jefferson Par
racks, Mo., with 11,047; Antietam, Md.,
with 12,139; Marietta, La., with 13,-
982; Nashville, Tenn., with 10,537;
Salisbury, N. C. f with 12,132, and Vicks
burg, Miss., with 10,020. Of the 327,-
179 interred, 178,225 arc known and
unidentified. About 9,300 of the entire
number are confederates.—[Detroit Free
Pre ss.
Alligator Products.
Besides the hides of the alligator, of
which fifty thousand or sixty thousand
are annually utilized in the United States,
there are other commercial products
obtained. The teeth, which are round,
white and conical, and as long as two
joints of an average linger, are mounted
with gold or silver, and used for jewelry,
trinkets, and for teething babies to play
with. They are also carved into a
variety of forms, such as whistles, but
tons and cane handles. This industry is
carried ou principally in Florida. Among
tho Chinese druggists, as stated in tho
Journal of the Sjciety of Arts, London,
there is a great demand for alligators'
teeth, which ure said to bo powdered,
and administered as a remedy. As much
as a dollar apiece is paid by them for fine
teeth. All the teeth of the alligator are
of the class of conical tusks, with no
cutting or grinding apparatus; au<l hence
the animal is forced to feed chiefly on
carrion, which is ready prepared for his
digestion. Other commercial products
of the alliga'or are the oil and musk
pods. The tail of an alligator of twelve
feet in length, on boiliug, furnishes
from fifty to seventy pints of excellent
oil, which in Brazil is used for
lighting and in medicine. The oil has
been recommended for the cure of quite
a variety of diseases. It has a high
reputation among the swampers as a
remedy for rheumatism, being given
both inwardly and outwardly. The
crocodiles and alligators possess four
musk glands—two situated in the groin,
and two in the throat, a little in advance
of the fore legs. Sir Samuel Baker says
they are much prized by the Arab
women, who wear them Btrung like
beads upon a necklace.—[Boston Culti
vator.
Five Arab Maxim 3.
Here are five Arab maxims, which
have underlying them a bedrock of
truth:
Never tell all you know, for he who
tells everything he knows often tells
more than he knows.
Never attempt all you can do, for he
who attempts everything he can do often
attempts more than he can do.
Never believe all you may hear, for he
who believes all that he hears often be
lieves more than he hears.
Never lay out all you can afford, for
lie who lays out everything he can afford
often laysout more than he can afford.
Never decide upon all you may see, for
he who decides upon all that he sees
often decides 011 more than he sees.
The Ancestor of the Horse.
In the eocene period we find the snakes
and serpents appearing for the first
time, though at the beginning they were
not poisonous, depending for the cap
ture of their prey upon their constricting
powers, as does the boa of modern times.
During the same period the ancestor of
tho horse appeared in tho shape of a
small quadruped, to which the name of
'orohippus' has been given. It was not
larger than a fox and had four toes on
each foot, each toe being terminated by
a small hoof. There was, undoubtedly,
an older equino form than this, which
had five toes on each foot, but the oro
hippus is the earliest type thus far dis
covered. Later on tho horse became
three-toed, and finally it attained its
present condition in this respect, the
other toes growing less and less in u/.e
until in the animal of to-day, whichlit
erally walks upon its middle toe-nail,
the two toes referred to are only present
in the shape of little splints of bone bo
ueatli the skin.—[Washington Star.
A HAPPY FAMILY.
A Sight to Be Seen in London That
la Unprecedented.
It was the late P. T. Barnum who
originated the novelty in animal shows
known as the Happy Family, but like
many others which have since been ex
hibited, Barnum's Ilappy Family was
not a very startling mixture of animals,
consisting, as it did, only of cats, dogs,
monkeys, rabbits, aud a goat.
At the Crystal Palace in London, how
ever, there is at present on exhibition a
happy family of animals which has at
tracted great attention among natural
ists and the gcucral public. There are
lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, bears
and boarhounds, which most persons
will acknowledge make a surprising
combination. The man who has accom
plished the hitherto considered impossi
ble feat of trainiug camivora to live,
play, and sleep together in perfect har
mony is Herr Carl Ilagcnbeck, the
largest dealer in wild animals iu tho
world, and whoso place of business in
Hamburg is one of the sights of the city.
All the animals in his happy family
are young, the oldest in the group being
tho Thibet bear, which is a little over
2 years old, aud they were all trained by
kindness, clubs or red-hot irons not
being used in their education.
Under the direction of the trainer and
his assistants, the animals perform a
variety of striking feats. Lions and
tigers walk on revolving globes and ride
tricyles, while a couple of lions play at
see-saw, the Thibet bear acting as a
plank balancer. This bear is practically
the clown of the company. Then a lion,
covered with a crimson cloak, is seen
reposing in a chariot drawn by harnessed
tigers, while two boarhounds act as foot
men.
When the entertainment proper is over
the real fun commences. The wild
beasts left to themselves are literally as
playful as kittens, aud gambol one with
the other in the most quaint and amus
ing way. The animals have been in
close training since September last, and
have never previously been shown to tho
public. A few losses have occurred
among the young ones through teething
and other complaints, but no difficulty
whatever has beou found in maintain
ing the most perfect peace. The trainer,
who has been devoted in bis attention
to tho animals, has been bitten three
times, but not by a wild beast, one dog
being tho offender on every occasion.
Indeed, the boarhounds are said to have
been more difficult to keep in order than
all the other members of this remarkable
company.—[New York Sun.
An Emperor's Special Train.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has just inspected the handsome special
train built for his exclusive use at a cost
of $34,000. The train consists of eight
cars, five of which have eight wheels
each and three have six. The service
car will como immediately after the en
gine and has a compartment for the bag
gage and the dynamos which will pro
duce the electric light used throughout
the train. The second car will convey
the emperor's scrvauts. The third car is
devoted entirely to the use and conven
ience of his imperial majesty. It is fit
ted with handsome plate glass windows,
bears tho insignia of tho eagle and
crown, but has no other external adorn
ments. The car contains a special room
for the aid-do-camp in waiting, a sitting
and bed-room for the emperor, a toilet
room and bath and n small room for the
use of his majesty's jager or per
sonal henchman. The emperor's
apartments are beautifully paneled. On
the ceiling is a handsome picture painted
on wood by an artist of Prague. The
next car, intended for his majesty's suite,
contains a number of bed-rooms and
one sitting-room. The fifth car contains
a dining-room capable of accommodat
ing sixteen guests, a smoking-room aud
several compartments Toquired for tho
service of the train. Tho kitchen cur
has a large range, tank for water, a
store-room and several china closets.
The seventh car is reserved for those oc
casions of ceremony when the emperor
is attended by a larger suite than usual,
and tho eighth is for the servants and
additioual baggage, llis majesty ex
pressed himself as much pleased with
the train, which is a present to him from
the administration of all tho Austrian
railways. This maguificeut railway
equipage was designed and built at
Prague. Hitherto the emperor has had
no special train belonging to him exclu
sively, but each railway on which he
travels has put together au imperial train
as best they could.—[Chicago Herald.
"No animal that walks on four legs is
as big a fool as a sheep," says a sheep
raiser. "We have to watch them every
minute and if vigilance is relaxed for an
instant the entire flock is likely to prac
tically commit suicide. In handling
most animals somo degree of intelligence
can bo relied on to aid the owner in sav
ing their lives, but sheep soem to set de
liberately to work to kill themselves. If
caught in a storm on the plains they will
drift before the wind and die of cold ami
exposure rather than move 100 yards
to windward to obtain shelter in their
corral. To drive sheep against the wind
is absolutely impossible. 1 once lost over
1,000 head because 1 eould not drive
them to a corral not 200 feet away. In
the corral they are still more foolish. If
a storm comes up they all movo 'down
wind' until stopped by the fence. Then
begins the proceeding so much dreaded
by sheepmen, known as 'piling.' The
sheep will climb over each other's backs
until they urc heaped up ten feet high.
Of course, all thoso at the bottom are
smothered. Not one has sense enough
to seek shelter under the lee of the fence,
as a horse or dog would do. Again, if
a sheep gets into a quicksand its fato
teaches nothing to those that come im
mediately after, but the whole flock will
follow its leader to destruction. No
more exaspcratiugly stupid hruto than
a sheep walks."
A Samavian Bride.
She wore a long black robo, which
covered her from head to foot, with a
thick, green, figured veil, completely
hiding her face. Her hands were
wrapped in some soft white stulT, as a
sort of substitute for gloves, perhaps.
Bright yellow slippers wero the only
other part of her visible costume.—[Good
Housekeeping.
KITES OF THE FAR EAST.
At Once the Envy and Despair of
Civilized Western Youth.
One might wander about the National
Museum for half a vear without taking
notice of a collection of extraordinary
Chinese kites, which are suspended over
head in the middle of the west wing.
Nevertheless, they are well worth look
ing at, exhibiting as they do a versatile
ingenuity of device in flying apparatus
undreamed of by Europeans or Ameri
cans. The small boy of the United
States, born an inveutor because he is <•
Yankee, thinks he is performing a feat if j
he succeeds in causing to soar a simple
pentagon of sticks of paper, of most
primitive shape, with a tail of rags. Such
a contrivance, in comparison with the
scientific kites of China and Japan, is
the merest crudity, unworthy of a civili
zation that vaunts itself superior to a
hoary and effete east. Can the youth of
this continent afford to coufess a me
chanical inferiority to Chinese and
Japauesc of equal ago? Assuredly not.
And yet it must be admitted that the
adolescent intelligence of those races
would regard the kites one sees in this !
country with an utter and superior con
tempt.
The Caucasian kite bears the same re
lation to the Chinese flyer as is borne by
the flint hatchet to the modern ax. It
represents the acknowledgment of a
primary principle improved upon by
thought. In the collection spoken of
aro kites in the shape of frogs, lizards,
cranes, owls, gigantic flies and enormous
locusts. Speaking of locusts, one is re
minded of a certain novel, translated
from the English into French, in one
chapter of which there was mention of
the hero's tying his horse to a locust tree
in front of the heroine's door when
about to make her a visit. Unfortu
nately, the translator thought that the
word u locust M referred to the insect of
that name and explained the matter in
an off-hand foot note, which said that in
the United States locusts frequently
grew to such gigantic size that they
were stuffed and utilized at the curb
stone for fastening horses to. However,
that has nothing to do with kites.
Among those described at the museum
aro humau figures of all sorts, as well as
many queer animals of paper and sticks,
besides tho oues already mentioned; but
by far the most extraordinary of all is a
kite thirty feet or more long, in the
shape of a snakc-l'kc dragon. No one
but a Chinaman or a Japauesc would
suppose that such a thing could be flown
and yet it is known that they float them
with astonishing effectiveness. Such a
kite does uot resemble any plaything of
the sort known in this part of the world.
It is composed of a number of pastc
boAtd disks, each a foot in diameter, fas
tened together with spaces between by a
cord running the length of the dragon,
with a ferocious-looking paper head.
The string held by the manipulator of
this extraordinary toy is attached at
three or more points in its length, so
that it may be controlled in the air.
While afloat tho long tail has an un
dulating and serpentine motion, thus
producing a very realistic effect.
Kite flying has been reduced to a sci
cnco in China, where inauy thousands
of people will gather upon a hill on a
holiday for the purpose of enjoying the
sport. Many of the kites are cut loose
and let go, because it is imagined that
they float away with misfortuues that
arc threatening. The Japanese are not
less superior to Europeans iu the art of
top spinning than in that of flying kites.
Their skill in this latter sport is at once
the envy and despair of civilized west
ern youth.—[Washington Star.
Bananas as Food and Medicine.
Dr. John Dougall, of St. Muugo's
College, Glasgow, has a letter in a re
cent issue of the Glasgow Herald on tho
banana. Ho quotes from Stanley's 4, 1n
Darkest Africa," showing that 'Tor in
fants, persons of delicate digestion, dys
peptics. and those Buffering from tempo
rary derangements of tho stomach, the
flour, properly prepared, would be of
universal demand." During Stanley's
two attacks of gastritis a slight gruel of
this flour, mixed with milk,\vas the only
material that could be digested. It is
odd, also, as pointed out in Stanley's
book, that in most banana lauds—Cuba,
Brazil, West Indies—the valuable prop
erties of the banana as an easily digested
and nourishing food have been much
overlooked. Dr. Dougall has made some
experiments in making banana Hour. He
concludes that it should bo made from
the ripe fruit at its place of production, j
In trying to make it from bananas pur
chased iu Glasgow, he obtained on dry
ing tho pulp a tough sweet mass like
toastod tigs, au appearance probably due
to the conversion of starch into sugar.
Bananas contain only about fifty per
cent, of pulp, and of this about seventy
five ncr cent, is water. They would
yielu, therefore, only oue-eigbth part of
flour.
Twins All Round.
Mr. E. F. Wilcox of Bridgeport, Ct., is
the possessor of a pair of twin chickens
hatched several days ago. Three weeks
ago Mr. Wilcox set a large speckled
Cochin on eleven eggs. All of these
oggs appeared to be about the same size,
and he did not know at the time that
one of these eggs contained two yolks.
Consequently, when the chicken began
to hatch and two of them issued from
one shell he was greatly surprised. The
parent hen had unusually good luck in
hatching her eggs, and now watches
tenderly over twelve chicks. One of the
twins is a jet black and the other a white.
Cases of like character rarely happen, as
the old hen usually shoves aside udouble
yolked egg. Mr. Wilcox says that his
experience in raising twius has been
varied. Several years ago twin babies
were born to him. His vegetables also
seem to have caught the fever, ami cab
bages und other things come up in the
tho same style. While clamming recent
ly ho also caught a two-headed clam.—
[Chicago Post.
Quaint Riddles.
These curious riddles, which all have
one answer and are familiar to the peo
ple of various parts of France, are quoted
iu tho Kevue ties Traditions Populnires.
What goes from Paris to Lyons with
out moving or taking a step?
What goes to Paris without once paus
ing?
I am very long; if I rose up straight I
could touch the sky; if I had arms and
legs I could catch the thief; if I had eyes
and mouth I could tell every thing.
White, very white, it encircles the
earth.
If I was not crooked I could not
exist.
Tho queen's carpet, always spread
never folded. *
What look \ very long in tk. sunshine
and has no shadow?
What arrives first at the market and
first reaches home?
Answer, the road.
HE HAD BEEN TO PENSACOLA.
Uov a Drummer Turned tli Cough on •
"It is difficult for a Northerner to ap
preciate the terror that a rumor of yel
low,fever creates among the residents
of the South," said a commercial trav
eler recently.
"The last time I was South," he con
tinued, "there were a few supposed
cases ef the disease in Pensacola. FJa.
It was several years ago. Iu order to
protect their citizeus from a visitation
of the plague the cities of New Orleans
and Mobile established a severe quaran
tine against people coming from Pensa
cola.
"I was leaving New Orleans with sev
eral commercial men, among whom was
a great, big, jolly practical joker, a
typical commercial traveler, who repre
sented a Troy shirt and collar manufac
turer. He was well cn toward middle
life.
"As the Louisville and Nashville
train drew nearer to Mobile and had
passed the only available connect
ing point with Pensacola it was boarded
by a quarantine officer.
"He was a thoroughbred Southerner,
% man whom you would instinctively
call 'Colonel' whether you knew ho
bore this customary Southern title or
not.
M He went through the cars question
ing each passenger upon where he had
come from, and particularly if he had
been anywhere near Pensacola. Finally
ho reached the Trojan traveler.
44 'Have you been to Pensacola?' he
8 aid.
"The Trojan halted a moment and
then said. 'Yes, Colonel. I won't lie
about it. I have been to Pensacola.'
His companions looked at him in
amazement, tho Colonel jumped about
a foot in the air, while the other pas
sengers in the car started precipitative
ly for the doors.
" 'Do you know there is a quarantine
agaiust that place?' contiuued the
Southerner.
" 'Yes,' replied the other.
" 'Well you cau't stop off at Mobile,'
" 'But I must. I have business
there.'
" 'lt makes no difference about your
business,' continued the Colonel, posi
tively. 'The Mobile Board of Health
has passed resolutions quarantining
against Pensacola, and you'll have to
continue on this train.'
"I'l won't do auy such thing,'said
the drummer. 'l'm going to get off at
Mobile. I've got an engagement with
Johnnie Strauss, and I wouldn't miss
seeing him for a good deal. He expects
me.'
" 'l'll tell you what it is, my man,'
answered the quarantine officer, 'there's
a party of gentlemen on the railroad
platform at Mobilo armed with shot
guns that will look after you if you get
off.'
" 'But, Colonel,' said the drummer,
seeing that the joke had gone far
enough, 'it can't be as bad as that. It's
some little time since I've been to Pen
sacola.'
" 'How long is it?' queried the
Colonel, who had neglected to ask that
all-important question.
" 'Well,' replied the other, 'I can't
exactly recollect the day and month.
Perhaps you can assist me. I was in
the Union Navy during the war. We
had a little affair at Pensacola and an
other one right out in Mobile Bay. Do
you recollect the date of the Pensacola
event? If you do, that was the first,
last and only time 1 was ever at Pensa
cola. It's about twenty years ago now,
I think.'
"A great shout went up from every
one in the car. The Colonel laughed as
loudly as the rest.
" '1 tell you what it is, boys, he said,
'the drinks are on me. I want you all
to join me at the Battle House bar as
soon as ever we reach Mobile.'
"Then turniug to tho Trojan he add
ed, 'l'll refresh your memory a little
about those affairs at Pensacola aud Mo
bile Bay. I was there myself.' " — New
York tier all.
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Wo offer One Hundred Dollars reward for i
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