The superiority o! the American lo
comotive is gradually coming to be
recognized in England, and this chief
ly in connection with express train
service. It is stated on the best au
thority that an English railroad i 3 now
building an engine patterned after an
American model—another example of
the way in which this country is lead
ing tho world in point of mechanical
ingenuity.
South African trade reports during
tho last fiscal year indicate emphati
cally that the United States has large
opportunities for commercial progress
in the German, English and native
colonies of South Africa. A glance,
however, at the relative trade done by
this country and Great Britain under
conditions, too, that favor tho United
States, demonstrates that we have not
yet begun to scratch around tho mar
gin of our opportunities in the com
mercial world. Tho day cannot be
distant when we shall realize fully the
importance of these opportunities and
adapt our commercial spirit energeti
cally along tho lines of definite ac
complishment, says tho Now York
Commercial Advertiser.
Camara's fleet being useless—hardly
able tc keep itself afloat—and her
others all at the bottom of the sea,
Spain ought not to repine overmuch at
the surrender of her colonial posses
sions. She has no means of protect
ing theci, and few of communicating
with them. Even when she had ships
she could not keep them in fighting or
Bailing order. She will be much bet
tor off' when confined to the limits ol
her peninsula. If she introduces there
modern methods of industry and ad
ministration and teaches all her peo
ple to read and write, suggests the
New York Tribune, a modest but
fairly prosperous career may still lie
before her—much more satisfactory
than the one she is now forced to
abandon.
Admiral Palumbo, the new Italian
Minister of Marine, has decided to
strike off the list of the active fleet all
the ships which during the next naval
manoeuvres show a speed inferior to
that laid down by the navy regula
tions. In addition, every effort is be.
ing made to promote economy in the
construction of battleships wherever
such economy can be effected without
loss of power. For instance, instead
of pane*ling officers' cabins and saloons
with expensive woods, simpler ma
terial will he employed. The older
ironclads, like the Dandolo and tho
Duilio, will be examined and refitted
wherever necessary. Besides all this,
the German firm of Schieau has been
commissioned to build four torpedo
boat destroyers, ono of which will
have a speed of thirty and the other
of thirty-two knots.
The physiological evils of overwork
have been the subject of official inves
tigation in the Swiss schools, with tho
result that such evils appear to be so
positivo that in the case of the Canton
of Lucerne severe repressive meas
ures have come up for consideration
by those in charge of such interests.
The measures, as thus proposed by
high educational authority, seriously
limit tho work to be done by pupils
composing the six classes of the primary
schools, provide that no lessons shall
be studied at home, as is commonly
the custom by children iu this grade
and only moderate tasks to he so re
quired in the secondary schools. In
regard to intervals, ton-minute re
cesses every half-hour are called for, a
week's vacation every six or seven
weeks, and attendance at school shall
hot begin before the age of seven.
The American triumph seems com
plete, says tho Washington Star. The
valor of the army and navy is highly
praised. Tho marksmanship at sea
is the marvel of the world. The kind
ly treatment of tho Spanish prisoners
excites both admiration and gratitude,
The terms of tho peace protocol are
generous iu an unexampled degree.
>nd now there is applause from abroad
for American diplomacy! That is vio
tory, indeed. We have long been re
garded as hopelessly short on diplo
macy. We have been lectured and
condoled with on that score. Atten
tion has been directed to our crude
ness, our lack of forms and ceremon
ies, and so forth. The learned for
eigner hps observed with pain, and at!
times with displeasure, that we invar
iably fail to discuss international
questions cither with duo appreeia*
tion of their importance or with due
regard to the polite requirements of
euch negotiations. But it is conceded
now that, so far, in the business with
Spain, though pursuing the old, crude
and direot methods, the United States
has won in diplomacy as in the field of
war. The whole result is in justifica
tion of its methods of managing large
Affairs.
MODERN CRANDMOTHERS.
You "wonder where they'vo gone to, those grandmothers of yore,
With such quaint old nursery jingles, that we always cried for more,
With their spectacles and aprons, and their ruffled inuslin caps,
And their puffs of snowy hair, and their broad enticing laps?'*
Why, they've gone, dear, with tho children of those old and happy days,
When little ones were little ones, in thoughts and acts and ways;
When everything was different and simpler lives were Jed,
Those days aro gone, "tho times have changed," with that, tho whole is said.
The grandma of the "modern child" must crimp and talk and dress,
If not, L fear, tho modern cfeild might love her grandma less,
For lads and lassies of these days are critical, I ween,
With a grandma of "ye olden time" they wouldn't once be seen.
But, after all, bonoath the dress, and this we won't forget,
That grandma' 9 grandma, now as then, her love Is ours yet.
And if tho children turn to her—demand her love and care,
They'll flud that underneath it all the grandma's always there.
—F. S. A., in Boston Transcript.
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| THE VICTOR'S SPOILS. |
A Story of Army XnifA.
Q> By Gwendolen Overton.
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I I ISS TERBEXCE,
r —-—-/I J going down the
~*r ''^ —| ;./ „M, 'ine, watched the
B' r ' wa3 c°m
{rif i n S toward her.
1} 1 fil There were three
\V L ' if men with the girl,
\\ X'Sr II n nd only Lancas
\\* / H ter wns ®i' sa
V\\ ft! Terrenoe. How
\-\ A-y ever, as he was
x/ all the world to
her, Helena-like, she lacked not worlds
of company. The six men met on the
walk in front of Captain Lansing's
quarters.
Lansing was a cyuio who observed
his kind and told the result of his ob
servations. Suoh are deservedly un
popular, but command appreciative
audiences that are the envy of tho
good-hearted. It was to an audience
of the sort that he recounted the meet
ing, the same afternoon, when the
band stopped playing and the invad
ing hosts frsm the town had scattered
and left the post to its rightful owners.
"Dorothy Terrenco"—he began,
laying his sabre across his knees and
settling back to the temporary repose
which alope can fall to the lot of the
officer of the day—"Dorothy Terrence
eamo up tho walk. She had Lancaster
with her, and she was looking happy.
Miss Leeds—the banker's daughter,
you know—eame down the walk. Sho
had Kant, and Dartmoor, and Fer
guesson with her, and she was look
ing like a celestial being. They were
both dressed in white—but there was
a difference. Mrs. Lansing says it
lay in a silk foundation. Be that as
it may, there was a fearfully and
wonderfully made hat, all drifts and
mists, and sprays of white, atop of
Miss Leeds, and a fluffy-all-round
sort of parasol atop of that. Dor
othy saw Miss Leeds from
pfar, but the lattor did not soe
Dorothy. They came together in
front of my quarters—'and I with my
harp was there.' Dorothy moved to
one side. It wa3 her inßtant attitude,
and, I fear, prophetic. The woman
who steps aside cau always stay there.
But all might have gone well, and this
story might nevor have been told, if
Kant had not indulged his vulgar pro
pensity for introductions. Miss Leeds
bestowed a sweet and transitory smile
upon Miss Terreuce; but Lancaster is
not tho best-looking fellow in the Pre
sidio for nothing. If any of you hap
pen to share my good fortune of know
ing her, you will understand what—
iu the nature of things and of men—
happeued wheu she turned her eyes
upon him with a trick sho has of seem
ing to look into one's very]soul. She has
tho most beautiful voice outside of the
heavenly choir, and she brought it in
to play also. Dorothy stood it as long
n3 she could, and then she tried to get
him away. He uever even heard her.
If Miss Leeds had not gazed soul
searchingly at him, and told him that
sho must be going, but would see him
at the hop, ho doubtless would he
standing there still, with Dorothy
anxiously watching him. It will he
worth going to tho hop to seo things
happen."
Lancaster stood at tho door of the
dressing-room and watched Miss
Leeds, whilejha waited for Dorothy.
Ho saw her throw hack her gorgeous
clonk and drop it from her with tho
careless disdain of a celestial creature
discarding some temporary earthly gar
ment. That it fell on a chair nnd
crushed other less splendid wrappings
beneath it was a detail which escaped
him. He watehod her as the huddling
feminine mass made way for her at the
mirror nnd she stood unchallenged,
leisurely touching her glimmering
brown hair and pinning a great white
roso upon her shoulder.
Dorothy waited at his side for fully
five minutes before bo saw her. Then
she laughed mockingly up into his
face, and wished that her laughter
might have boen a blow.
As soon as he oould leave her he
went running and sliding across tho
floor to whore Miss Leeds stood at bay
before a besieging group. She was
backed against the wall, and a sun
burst of sabres was just above her
liead.
"Thero are only twenty dances,"
shs kept repeating, "and I never
divide."
Lancaster took two of his fellow
oflicors by tho shoulders and put them
out of his way. Miss Leeds looked
iuto his eyes and smiled as, it seemed
to him, no woman had ever smiled be
fore. She put her card into his
hand.
"The two with the crosses are the
ones I promised you," she said. And
as she had promised and he had
asked nothing, his heart heat high
with triumph.
Not that it was a case of love at
first sight. He was in love with
Dorothy. But the moH faithful of
men may pay the court she expects to
a belle, and may allow himself to be
flattered by her marked favorß.
He could honestly, then and for
several weeks afterward, give Dorothy
the comfort she sorely needed, and say
that ho did not even think Miss Leeds
beautiful. "She has style and charm,"
he passed judgment, "but notboauty.
And she is a flirt." Ho meant that
Miss Terrenoe should understand how
entirely he abhorred that.
"Did she try to flirt when you called
upon her?"
Ho had made a point of confessing
the call directly it was made, and he
thought it tactless of Dorothy to insist
upon it. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Sho does that with every mau."„
It was a truth which he fully appre
ciated, but its feeble light no longer
fell upon the path of duty when tho
time eame that the sun of Miss Leeds's
countenance shed its glow upon tho
highway of inclination. And yet she
did her best to make it clear to him.
"Now, listen to something I mean
to tell you," she said to him. She set
down her tea-cup and leaned toward
him, with lner elbows upon her knees
and her chin between her soft, pink
palms. Her eyes wero looking straight
into his, and they filled his heart with
anticipation. "Do you kuowthat this
is a risky game we are playing, nnd
that wo have been playing it for all it
is worth this last fortnight or so?"
Lancaster knit his brows.
"It is not worth while to pretend
you don't understand. We both know
exactly what I mean. But I to
bo snro wo both know that it is only a
game. lam not in earnest, and you
mustno.tbe."
He gazed at her, speechless.
"I suppose you aro thinking that
the suggestion of serious intentions
migjit come first from you," she said;
"that may bo your way of looking at
it, but it is not mine. I don't care to
let you have anything to reproaoh me
with. I have had enough of that in
the past. lam a hopeless flirt, you
know. Igo into tho tiling for the fun
there is in it, and it is only fair to
wuvu you."
Sho leaued back in her chair and
fell to watching the passers-by upon
tho street and to biting at a oubo of
sugar, meditatively.
"If you will accept matters that
way, we cau have a very good time; if
you don't, I have warned you; and the
consequences—if there are any—must
be on your own head."
Lancaster laughed rather weakly,
"I accept tho terms," he said, "It
is understood that this is only n flirta
tion."
Which ho explained to Dorothy at
much length, but which sho would
not understand and was so unreason
able about as to break her engage
ment. Lancaster was deeply aggrieved
and rather more deeply relieved. But
it made one faot plain to him; that he
was seriously in love with a girl who
frankly told him that he was no more
to her than a score had been before,
tlian scores might be thereafter. And
it was all in vain that ho tried to
change her.
"I warned yon quite fairly," she
reminded him, bending forward to
stroke the glossy neck of his blaok
mnre. It was the maro that, of old,
Dorothy had considered nlmoßt her
own property, and on whioh she had
lavished the overflow of her affection
for Lancaster. "Iwarned you," Miss
Leeds repeated, "and nobody has suf
fered but yourself, unless"—she
glanced at him with a quizzical little
sihile—"unless there was another
girl?"
"There was another girl," he an
swered.
She shrugged her shoulders toler
antly. "That was to have been ex
pected. Most problems of tho heart
are in the rulo of three."
He frowned angrily and his lips
curved in contempt. "Are you abso
lutely heartless? Have you no pity
for her?"
"Not a great deal. If you were the
sort to desert her in a fortnight for a
girl who made not tho slightest effort
to win you, and who told you that she
didn't love you, I think, upon the
whole, that she is rather well rid of
you."
Lancaster was biting his lips, and
he was very angry. "She is a better
woman than you," he said.
"That may be. But still," she
laughed, gbod naturedly, "do you
think I am had enough for vou to be
passing judgment upon me?"
"I do; for you are doing the thing
eold-bloodedly, and I—I," he said,
despondently, "have lost my head."
She smiled into his eyes. "You
dgn't want to do that. It is suoh a
handsome head. Lose your heart—
it is not worth nearly so much."
He turned in his saddle anil iaced
her. "I am likely to lose more than
that," he burst out, suddenly; "I am
likely to lose my life."
"Ohl come," she said, "you are not
contemplating falling on the point of
your sabre, or drowning yourself in
tho bay, or superinducing galloping
consumption, are you? I have had
men do a number of things for me, but
never quite that."
"I am not contemplating doing any
of those. I may be a good deal of a
fool, but not enough of a one to put
an end to myself for a woman who
cares nothing for me."
"Yet that has been done," she sug
gested.
"What I meant was—and what I
intended to tell you when I asked you
to come to-day, was that I am going
to the war."
"That was to have been expected, of
course. Is your regiment ordered?"
"Not yet, I am especially favored."
"When do you leave?"
"The day after to-morrow. And now
I am going to ask you to promise me
something."
They had reined in their horses by
the dynamite-guns, and sat looking
out over the white-capped blue sea.
"So that it is not something I CUD
not promise."
"Not that. I shall loave that until
I come back —it Ido come back. If I
do not —in short, if I am killed"—she
gave a little shudder; he saw that she
did, and repeated—"if I am killed, I
shall leave orders that my most treas
ured possessions shall be sent to you."
"Do you mean this mare?"
"I mean the mare. It will make me
as happy as it would seem I am meant
to bo, to know that if I die yon will
have her, aud will ride her, and be
kind to her. For you are fond of her,
too."
Miss Leeds knit her brows and con
sidered. "And if I should not?" Bhe
said.
"She shall not go to any one else.
I will have Dartmoor shoot her on
the day that he hears my death con
firmed."
Miss Leeds switched at the skirt of
her habit. "Is there no one else who
is fond of her, also?"
"No," ho answered.
"But that other girl you told me
of?"
Thero flashed back upon Lancas
ter's memory how Dorothy had been
wont to stand with her arms around
tho arched black neck, and her cheek
against the warm, soft nose; how the
mare had followed her tamely around
the garrison, as she would follow no
other but himself. Then Miss Leeds
turned the sun of her questioning eyes
upon him. They were serious now,
and their gentle light scattered tho
mists of memories. She only valued
the horse for tho master's sake, and
the master is no longer anything to
her. "Will you do ns I ask?"
A little, ironical smile, the smile of
an easy-going cynicism curled her
lips. "Unto the victor belong the
spoils. Yes, if anything happens to
you, I will take the horse. But you
must not be rash. I believe I prefer
your safety to it."
Two months afterward, Miss Leeds,
bending forward to stroko tho glossy
neck of the black mare that had be
longed to Lieutenant Lancaster,
turned and glanced up into the face of
the man who was riding beside her.
"Who was tho girl you bowed to
near tho gates? The one with the big,
sad eyes?"
"It was Dorothy Terrence," he told
her. "Lancaster used once to be en
gaged to her."
"No wonder, then, that she looked
at me reproaohfully." She tried to
laugh, but tho laughter broko and sho
grew white as she set tho mare into a
gallop. "There may, you know—"
sho called to him, mockingly, above
the clatter of the hoofs—"there may
lurk tho adder of remorse, among tho
victor's spoils."—Argonaut.
Puzzled Over Our Slang.
"What gives me most trouble,"
said a foreign military nttache, "is
trying to translate your American
language into English first, and then
into my own language, so as to give
my government a correct understand
ing of the spirit and character of
your soldiers. I find the phrase 'get
there,' for example, difficult. When
I saw your infantry going forward
against the opposing troops in the
forts and intrenchinents, I said to the
officer with mo that the infantry
should not attempt such a movement
without artillery. 'You're right,' he
told me, 'but the boys will get there.'
"At night, when we were all so
hungry, I ventured to inquire if a
further movement were contemplated
till your army was provisioned. Then
tho officers, who were gentlemanly,
all laughed and said tho army would
think about rations when they 'got
there.' The second day we met many
of your wounded men coming back as
we were going forward. When the
Colonel asked them about the fighting
so many times I heard them say: 'We
got there.' And afterward also I
heard those words very often. But it
is so difficult for me to explain so my
own people will understand it, what
nature of tactics is 'get there.'"—
Boston Transoript.
A New-Fnnjcletl Idea.
A prominent downtown restaurant
has put in a machine which "outs ice,"
literally and also figuratively, in thai
it saves money.
Back behind the kitchen, shafting
and the machinery necessary to ruu
an ordinary band saw have been pui
in, together with a little table. An
employe takes a big cake of ice and
saws it up into little cnbes, just as e
workman in a sawmill might mak
cubes out of a piece of timber.
Tho saw goes through the ioe with
out causiug any appreciable loss ol
material, the ice melts more slowly,
and the little cubes, when placed in a
glass of water, look neat and trim. Al
together,there is a great saving of time
and ice.—Chicago Journal.
FIELDS OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
A Charge of Sea Elone—An Exciting Epl
eorie In a Submarine Cave Oil the Coast
of California Captured and Over
turned a Boatload of Explorers.
In the long string of islands —up-
lifted mountain ranges, that extoud
along the coast of Southern Califor
nia, there is ouo named Santa Cruz
that if thoroughly known might be as
famous as Capri. It lies nearly off
Santa Barbara, its shores, abrupt
rocky cliffs, often rising directly from
the sea, presenting a bold and forbid
ding front. This shore line ill per
forated with wonderful caves, some of
which reach in to a great distance
aud have assumed the dimensions of
large halls through which the sea
washes with a reverberating roar ap
palling in its deep-toned intensity.
Many of the caves are entirely cov
ered at high tide, and at half tide con
stitute orifices from which air and
water is blown with grent violence.
The largest cave opens in a chamber
forty or fifty feet in height, the roof
aud sides of which are richly colored;
red, yellow, blue and green tints pre
dominating. This chamber leads
into a second almost as large from
which, three or four hundred feet
from the entrance of the cave, a nar
row passage has been worn away,
leading into the largest room of all, of
unknown height, from which branch
other leads below the surface, and
from which proceed horrible sounds—
the groaning and muttering of the sea
as it is forced into tho deep crevices
of the great cave.
It was in this chamber, or at its en
trance that a very singular adventure
was experienced by a party of men;
one that was almost a fatality and that
made a deep impression on the ob
servers. They were cruising around
tho island, and seeing the entrance to
the cave.they determined to go in. The
wind was blowing heavily, and with
much difficulty a boat was lowered,
the yaeht running in near the entrance
to the cave, then dropping a boatload
and keeping away. When close in to
tho opening the water was calm, being
protected by the high mountain into
whose heart the cave extended.
Pushing through the hills that
formed n slight barrier,the men rowed
into the great chamber, the roof of
which rose over them like a cathedral
dome. The first aud second chambers
wore investigated aud beforo the nar
row entrauco to tho third they halted,
startled at the marvelous sound that
came forth. The sea in entering the
passage seems to dip almost at an
angle of forty-five degrees, and conveys
the impression that a whirlpool is
formed in the room beyond.
For some moments the explorers
listened; then seeing that the water
flowed in and out without any danger
ous disturbance, they decided to make
the attempt to enter the passage; so
taking tho oars and using thorn as
paddlos they moved on. In a moment
they were in the entrance, peering in
to the gloom beyond. A few feet more
and the boat was fairly in the narrow
gateway. Tho man in the bow had
lighted a torch and was waving it
when a deafening roar came from the
inner room—barking, screaming, hiss
ing sounds that fairly raised the hair
on the heads of the adventurers;
and before they could retreat a band
of large, black auimals came pour
ing through tho passage, uttering
frightful cries. To the demoralized
party they seemed to be the object of
u determined nttack, and that there
was little doubt regarding this was
shown by the fact that the animals
came at them with their open mouths.
Some climbed into or over the boat,
and others followed until tho boat
filled and the men were thrown into
the water. For a moment the water
appeared to be filled with- struggling
men, while the boat was in possession
of several sea lions, others diving be
neath it and nil uttering wild cries,
whose reverberations were echoed un
til thero appeared to be thousands of
them.
Driven from the boat, the men swam
to the second room to a ledge, from
which they watched tho extraordinary
spectacle. Their boat almost filled
the narrow entrance and tho sea lions
were still pouring ont, over and under
it, forming a perfect stream from the
inner cave to tho bright spot which
indicated the outer air and world.
When they had all disappeared the
men, who had a narrow escape,
lowored themselves into tho water
again and swam to the boat which
they hnd managed to right.
The inner chamber was a sea lion
rookery, and must have been fairly
filled with tho animals which, when
tho boat appeared, realizing that they
were trapped, made a desperate rush
for the entrance, completely filling it
and sinking the boat in their efforts to
crawl over it.
Nearly all the largo eaves of Santa
Cruz island are inhabited by sea lions
and seals. Tho sea lions are very
largo, tho males weighing much more
than a large horse.
An Incident nt Santiago.
"The thing about tho fight that par
alyzed me," said a Lieutenant, now in
a hospital in New York City recover
ing from a wound received at San
tiago, "was that we couldn't get at
the fellows wo wore fighting against.
Why, do you know, I never saw n live
Spaniard in my two days of fighting.
The next time I get in a shindy I hope
it will be a hand-to-hand affair with
bayonets. Any fellow can do that sort
of thing if ho has red blood in his
veins; hut it's diderent to be a target
for bullets coming from the Lord
knows where. There's something
mysterious and frightful about it, and
it gets ou a man's nerve. It's a won
der to me that any fellows could stand
up to it as our men did, aud I'd have
had some sympathy for a man who
flunked.
"I'll never forget the few minutes
before I got this hole in my side. We
were going forward under a scattering
fire from the front, and all at once, off
at the right, a rapid-firing gun opened
on us. There was no smoke, so wo
couldn't locate the battery exactly,
but we could see the bullets playing
over the long grass like spray from a
hose. They didn't have the range at
first, and the shower of bullets went
swinging back and forth, clipping off
the tops of the grass and coming
nearer to us with every sweep. You
can't imagine the sensatious it gave us
to watch that death spray, driven by
some invisible, relentless force, creep
ing on and on, reaching out and feel
ing for us. There was something un
natural about it, and we watched as
thongh we were fascinated by it. I
didn't feel as though men had any
thing to do with it. It was an imper
sonal, deadly enemy that I couldn't
fight and couldn't escape. There
wasn't a living enemy within sight.
"At last with one big sweep the
shower reached us. Men all around
me dropped, aud then I felt a sting in
my side, and down I went. Some
body ripped out an oath, and I was
glad to hear it. It sounded so mag
nificently human. I believe we were
all thankful when that gun found us.
It relieved the tension—but it ended
my fighting."
"It's all very well for him to talk
about being nervous," commented a
wounded corporal in a neighboring
cot, "but he gave a mighty poor imi
tation of a nervous man down there.
A man with a record liko his can
afford to own up to having felt
creepy."
Big Simlto Attacks file],
Miss Jennie Kernaghau, of Mount
Vernon, N. Y., had a tight with a black
snake nud although the snake was
killed, the shock of the encounter
prostrated Miss Kernaghau.
Before Miss Kernaghau's house is a
fine lawn on which a croquet set is
spread. Miss Kernaghau nud some
friends were playing croquet, and she
drove her ball through a wicket under
an apple tree, at the edge of the lawn.
As she approached tho ball for another
stroke a black sunke, which was after
ward found to be nine feet long,
dropped from the bough of the tree
and fell upon her. She shrieked as the
snake coiled around her neok, but
managed to seize it aud throw it from
her.
Tho snake, nngry, again attacked
her, winding around her arm, trying
to bite her as she endeavored to shake
him off. With her free hand Miss
Kernaghau tried to disentangle herself
and hurled the snake away. Agaiu it
seized her clothing and wound itself
around her body. All this very
quickly.
Then Miss Kernnghan struck her
deadly assailant with a croquet mallet.
Her brother William ran up, and hit
ting the snake with his mallet, almost
cut off its head. Theu William climbed
the apple tree. In a hollow of it he
found fourteen young black snakos
hidden aud easily despatched them.
Heroic General!!.
At Santiago General Joe Wlieclcr
climbed a tree to look at the enemy.
General Shafter, who weighs 300
pounds, said to him: "I wish I could
do that." Yet by climbing a trea Gen
eral Shafter, May 31, 1807, won a
medal of honor. He was badly wound
ed, and to avoid being seen by a pass
ing Surgeon who he feared would
order him to tho rear ho climbed a
tree. Then ho came down, and with
hardly a leg to stand on he fought all
day, aud Congress gave him his medal.
General Nelson A. Miles, May 3,
1803, was in command of skirmishers
as Colonel of tho Sixty-first Now i'ork
Volunteers. Tliay were holding a lino
of abattis againsta liordeof the enemy.
Miles is a big mau and makes a fair
mark. Yet to encourage his men he
kept jumping on an eminence and ex
posing himself, inspiring his followers
by his voice. Ho fell, finally, badly
wounded. He wears a medal of honor.
Brigadier-General Guy V. Henry,
whom tho soldiers love, led his brigade
in au awful charge at Cold Harbor.
One horso went down under him. Ho
mounted anothor and led on. Tho
enemy's breastworks wero reached
aud General Henry spurred his horso
at the obstruction. The steed was
killed in midair, aud with its rider fell
in the enemy's line 3. The place was
carried. Henry was promoted aud
voted a modal.
Ilruve Colo red Sergeant.
Thomas Shaw, colored, Sergeant
Ninth United States Cavalry, was
in command of a detaohment of
his troop near Carizo Canon. New
Mexico, August 13, 1381. The little
baud ran onto signs which showed
unmistakably that a largo force of
hostile Apaches was in the immediate
neighborhood. Shaw turned to his
dnskv following: "You are under my
command," ho said, "do as well by
mo as you would by the Lieutenant."
Tho Apaches they attacked. In num
bers they were live to one. Under
their Sergeant's leadership the men
stood like rocks. Though their posi
tion was extremely exposed they beat
off their nssailauts gallantly. Tb
savages tried to surround the black
troopers. By an exhibition of taotical
and strategic knowledge, credit
able to any commissioned officer,
Shaw prevented this movement of tho
Apaches timo after time. Belief
came after hours of fighting and cease
less watching. Congress gave Shaw
a medal, which he wears as proudly as
he would a knot on either shoulder.
In a newly designed glove, patented
by a Michigan woman, the palm of the
baud and inside of tho thumbs and
lingers aro provided with interwoven
rings of leather or other material
which prevent the glove from wearing
out.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CarlugPor Silverware.
In making bags or cases for silver*
ware, an unbleached material should
be employed. Sulphur is generally
used in the bleaching processes, anil
it tends to blacken and tarnish silver.
Rubber in any form is another thing
that should never be kept near silver
ware. Silver is best wrapped in blue,
white or pink soft tissue paper and un
bleached cotton-flannel bags.
Home Surgery.
A bit of home surgery practised
when a splinter is driven into a child's
hand particularly deep is ft 3 extrac
tion by steam. A bottle with a suf
ficiently wide mouth is filled two
thirds with very hot water, and the
mouth £s placed under the injured
spot. The suotion draws tho flesh
down when a little pressure is used,
and the steam, in a moment or two, ex
tracts inflammation and splinter to
gether. This is very efficacious when
the offending substance has been iu for
several hours, long enough to have
started up some of its evil conse
quences.
Washing Made Easy.
Have water scalding hot in the
washer.
If the water is hard and clothes
much soiled, use one pint of washing
fluid; soap enough to make a good
lather.
Put in as many of the least-soiled
pieces as the washer will hold, aud
work well.
Put in all light ginghams, calicoes,
lawns or percales, as this mixture does
not fade them, and is also excellent for
woolens.
When nil white aud light articles
have been put through,strain the water
through a thin cloth, a flour sack be
ing most convenient.
Then use the suds for dark cloth
ing, which would show lint if not
strained.
For tho second suds, have the water
with less of the fluid aud as much
soap as necessary. A teacupful of the
former is often enough. With soft
water, much less can be used satisfac
torily.
Rinse well and hang out. This fluid
neither fadc3 nor rots the clothes, as
the ammonia brightens the colors.
It is essential to riuse well. This
does nway with boiliug, which is of
ten a task in the winter, but in the
summer one sudsing will do,with boil
ing.
Cure of Lamps,
The light of oil lamps is so much
softer and less injurious for the eyes
than flickering gas, or even electricity,
that it really should be used instead
of these iu all nurseries and children's
rooms, and tho only drawback about
lamps is that they require such oare
ful tending to keep them iu a safe and
bright condition. But given a con
scientious nurse, or a mistress who un
dertakes their management herself, all
will be well. One very necessary thing
iu lamps is that the oil reservoir lie
kept scrupulously clean inside; no oil
is so pure that it does not leave a sed
ment.and.if this sediment be allowed to
accumulate, the succeeding oil fails to
burn as brightly as it otherwise would.
Lamp reservoirs should be washed out
once a week with hot water and pearl
ash and be allowed to thoroughly drain
and dry before new oil be added. Tho
burner should also be frequently
cleaned —once a day, in fact—aud
every orifice should be thoroughly
cleaned out; tho wick should bo wiped
at tho top with a piece of soft rag to
remove tho charred edges, aud if the
wick should bo found to burn rather
cloudily, it may be nooessnry to re
move it the next morning aud soak it
for an hour or two iu vinegar and
water. It should be quite dry before
being again placed in tho buruor.
Recipes.
Laplands—Beat separately one dozen
eggs, mix into the yokes one quart of
flour, one quart of cream, one tea
spoonful of salt, the whites beaten to
a stiff froth. Put into small moulds,
well floured before being greased, and
bake in a very hot oven.
Plnin Coconnut Pudding—Pour one
and one-half pints of boiling milk over
one piut of bread crumbs aud one cup
of desiccated cocoauut mixed, and a
tiny pinch of salt, or sprinkle of nut
meg, aud three tablespoonfulsof sugar-,
bake aud serve either warm or cold.
Open Peach Pie—Lino a pan with
nice crust, put a quarter inch layer of
peach marmalade over smooth, then a
layer of fluo, sweet peaches; cut in
half after peeling. Add a dust of
flour and a cup of sugar. Bake at
first with pan over, then, ns the
peaches are hot, remove. When serv
ing add whipped cream.
Onion Pickles—Peel small onions of
uniform size and lot them lie in salted
water twenty-four hours. A teacup
of salt in a gallon of water. Rinse in
clean water two or three times, letting
them staud in the last water half an
hour; theu drain an hour and pack in
jars with spices, mace, red pepper
pods and whole cloves. Cover with
ho't vinegar and seal.
Pressed Chicken—Stow slowly two
chickens, out up small until meat drops
from bones; take out and chop tine;
lot liquor boil down to cupful; add to
it butter size of an egg, teaspoon pep
per, little allspice and a beaten egg;
stir through the meat; slice hard boiled'
eggs, lay in mold and press with your
meat. Serve very cold, garnished
with a little parsley.
Charlotte of Green Gooseberries—
Cook one quart of gooseberries with
sugar to make quite sweet and a gilt
of water; pulp through a sieve that
will exclude the seeds. Butter a
pudding mold and arrange a star with
lady fingers in the centre, and also a
lining on the side. Whip half pint
cream until thick, add to the pulp,
then add half ounce gelatine dis
solved in a little milk. Pour carefully
into the mold and set on ice.