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IE BTSTEBOS 6Dli joooooaoo An Exciting Story of tho War of 1812. BY JOHN XL MUSICH cnAPTEi: xxv. MAKING BBOAD-SWOKDS. Almighty and tremendous volley shoot " ? flown I lie air. <> VI UHUJO uaiicu from every direction, and the racks of the advancing Britons wilted away. Cries and groans rose on the air, and the avails of anguish which went up were enough to have made the stoutest heart tremble. Again the sharp command came, aftei the Americans had had time to drop their rifles aud Beize their muskets and pistole. A second volley, equal to the Bret, burst on the air. The front ranks sank down, and those unharmed began to retreat, rushing upon, and trampling down their companions. The Americans, whose blood was up, gave utterance to yells that 6mote upon the ears of the affrighted Britons like a death-knoll. They wheeled about and fed for life. A panic seized them and it was not Until they were far beyond tbeir fortifications, and bo completely exhausted that they sank to the earth that the; ceased to run. The Americans gathered up the wounded enemies and carried them to the boats. They were put into one of the boats and \ the other filled alBO, and both pulled intc port. The took in thirteen wounded, and several dead Britons in the dark woou where they had fallen. The Americans of course could not tell tow many of the enemy had fallen, as gome had sank down among the forest trees, and had only been found by theii cries_aud groans. ""Well, Captain Alton, you have done 8 good night's work," 6aid Mr. Burnett wht-r he heard what had been accomplished. "It certainly was a night of thorough work." "There is more to do; the night is nol half spent," said Griffith. "No. "Are the smith's at work?" "Busy as nailers." "Let us go to the 6hop." The blacksmith shop was partially l?. hind a hill, or bit of head-land, so it coulc not possibly be seen from the man of war. In order to make assurance doubly sure, they had put up screens that entirely protected it from view from the shore. The forges were almost at a white heht Four or five additional furnaces had beet put up, and these were glowing with heat. Amateur blacksmiths, of whom there were several,were doing the blowing and striking. . The entire work was under the control and management of Jack Hatchet, whose face was streaming with perspiration, and Shone with heat almost equal to his furnace. As he pounded the red hot iron tintil streams of sparks were emitted fron it, he seemed a modern Vulcan. < * * * -1-^1 1 VmL I All arooua in neaps bqu puce lay uivmen scythes, bars of iron and steel, from which the men were heating and pounding the broadswords. Jack Hatchet saw our hero, and dropping the hammer he held in his hand hastened to his side. "Hey! Griff, ye got back, hev ye? Tei here agin?" "I am, Jack, a fact for which I am trnlj thankful, Jack," Capt. Alton answered. "Didn't ye hev a little scrimmage: Thort I heerd guns bangin' away down ? thar in the woods." "Yes, we had a little Sght with the ene 1 mv." "Anybody hurt?" cSome of them, but none of ub." "So y? licked 'em?" "Yob." "Great goshens, don't I wish I'd beer in that ar leetle scrimmage!'' "How are you getting along, Jack?" "Very weli," the blacksmitn answered, gazing about on the busy scene. "We're tcrnin' out broadswords as fast as they kin be made by any one." "Do you think you can have them all reaay uy io-uiujtww mgui.: "Oh, yes," his eyes gleaming with earnest enthusiasm. * "Why, don't ye see how easy it's done?" Stooping, old Jack took from a heap of cast-away irons at his feet a 6cythe blade. He plunged it into the forge, which was glowing with heat. Capt. Alton watched him with no little Interest. Every moment the ring of hammers and flying 6parks filled the shops. A youth stood at each bellows handle, pnmping away. Old Jack seized a pair of tongs, and tanding by the forge took hoid of the scythe blade, polled it this way and that, pushed it further into the glowing heat, and finally jerked it out, a livid flume. He threw it upon an anvil, and seizing a hammer soon made the sparks fly like chaff from a threshing floor. It was only a few minutes until that bit of broken scythe-blade began to take new shape. From being a simple, innocent instrument of agriculture, it rapidly grew lo be an instrument of war. "It's easy done when a feller once gits the hang o' it," said Jack, as he flung down the new-made cutlass among a pile of others. "The boys about hero are gittin* the hang o' the thing now purty well, ye kin better believe." The ring of hammers .went on. The Gcene was a brisk and animating one. For a moment Griffith felt enthused with the thought that they would eoon be ready to board the man-of-war. "U ye see tn.s."" 8aia oia jacs, seizing an iron bar. "Now jist watch how quick I kin make a cutlass out o' this." Be pluDged it end first into the glowing forge, and the stout youth who had his hand on the bellows handlebefjan to work the powerful instrument. The roaring flame curled about the iron. It was glowing hot when Jack Hatchet with his tongs jerked it from the forge to the anvil. Three or four hammers began hammering it and old Jack held it, deftly turning it about as blow after blow fell upon it; and gradually the bar of iron took shape and a broadsword grew out of it. "It's quickly done," 6aid Jack, tossing it away. "The carpenter has only to put the handles on 'em, and they're ready to be mound." "They are busy at thai now," said the deserter of the Xenophon to our hero. Would you like to go into that <fepartinent and see the carpenters at work? "I would." They went out to the carpenter's 6hop, vhere were a score of men and boys at work under the carpenter. The handles were somewhat rude, 'tis ^ true, yet they were (-tout, serviceable blades. "Henry, do yon tbink they will all be ready by to-morrow night?" Captain Alton asked the carpenter. "Yes; I believe we will have enough ready, anyway." "Oan you complete y?nr workto-nieht?" "No, But we can wor& all day tomorrow. You 6ee, there is no fire or smoke in this to tell the man-o'-war what we are doing." "That is bo." We 11 work day u night till it a done. They're grindin' 'em out there in the next shed." Griffith, still accompanied by the deeerter of the Xenopbon, hastened out to the next shed. Here fifteen or twenty ffTindfltr>nf"> of varir.no ?7o? tbtk Win'turned byfleepy-ered bcryi, while hancTa which had held the scytne-blade upon the rolling tone now held the blade of war. It waa quite gratifying to the Tounp commander to Me the Keep of brigh: blades graving krget ? < -K Kg?V- rVw""; I - . s There were cutlasses of every size and almost of every make in that henp. Taken as a whole, they were formidablelooking weapons of warfare. Mr. Burnett examined them with a critical eye, and pronounced them excellent. "They are rude swords," he said to out hero. "They are rough workmnnship, and will be used by rough hands, and do rough work." At this moment Captain Alton saw"Mrs. Hatchet passing the door, nnd hailing her, asked how Captain Gatrell was. j "He's very porely, Griff, I tell ye, he'6 very porely." "DoeB the doctor think there is any hopes of his recovery?" "No. Griff, not one bit. "Why, I tell ye, tie's just a sinkm* all tne time, no* T;e can't last much longer ef he don't git hotter." "Does the doctor think he will live many days?" "Don't know," answered Mrs. Hatchet. "He's jest liable to go at any time." "I hope I may be able to call and see him." "Do come. Griff, right Boon. Ef ye don't come right soon ye'll never see him ulive agin'." "Is he conscion6?" "Not much o' the time. Sometimes he wakes np and talks right bright fur a bit, an' then he all of a Budding loses his reason, an' goes off to wanderin' agin'. He woke up 'bout two hours ago an' asked fur Ola." "Has he learned of her abduction?" "No." "That is well. See to it, Mrs. Hatchet, that no one tells him. He must have nothing to worry or excite him." "That's jist what the Doctor says. He Bays he's goin' to hev infirmation o' the brain bad. Pieces o' that ar 6hell w'us.1 busted, it seems, went into his bra:n." "I want to see him during one of his lucid intervals, for there is much that I want to talk with him about." "I wish you could, Griff, fur thar's I erkmo+'hin' nirfiil nri Viir minrl. Ef V? COtlld bear him sometimes when the pain is in his head, ravin* the way he raves, ye'd find yer hair a'most rasin' off yer head." "What does he rave about mostly?" " Ships an'~6tormB. He talks o' black nights an' angry 6eas, and says the waves are rollin' mountains high. He seems to be on a sir.kin' ship, what never sinks, an' hears sich pealB o' thunder, and sees sich flashes o* lightnin', that it sets the ocean ablaze. Then he talks o' a great explosion, a sbip bust6 up, an' is a wreck upon the rocks. He goes to it and finds bodies thar. Oh, Griff, it does a most raise my hair on my head to hear him talk. I jest seem to be thar myself an' see it all." "Does he see any living people?" "Dun know. It's then he begins to talk of Ola. He says 6he's his child yet, an' they 6ha'n't take her away from him." "Does he ever call her any other person's child than his own?" " Sometimes he hints at it. He jest sayf Al 11 1 1 , VI max wiey tun uci a vuuu v> w r^. a, <.>u> Bbe ain't. She's his own child, and he won't have it said that she's any one else's child." She hurried away to the Gattrell mansion to her patient, and Capt. Alton s'ood with his head bowed, gazing at the dark ground. Though it lacked several hours until daylight, the village of M&noa was all awake and alive. People were hurrying hither and thither in every direction, and the ring of hammers, rasping of saws nnd general clatter of the mechanics' tools, would have made one think it was midday. "Capt. Alton," said (he deserter of the Xenophon, "I have heard a great deal about this wounded sea captain. Is bis name not tiatrell?" "Yes." "What is his given name?" "John Gatrell." "In what business has he been on the sea?" "Merchant business, I think." "Was he ever in the American navy?" "Perhaps ho was during the Revolutionary war. I think he was on board a privateer. He has been a sailor all hiB life."* "I wonder if it is my old shipmate, John Gatrell, who sailed with me aboard the Stormy Petrel. Do you know whether he was ever on a whaling voyago?" "I do not know. I never hoard him mention it." j "If it was he, it was many years ngo, when we were but boys. And now what is this of what ha raves?" "He rescued a child from a wreck, and that seems to bear upon his mind." "What was the name of the vessel wrecked?" "I do not know." "Did he never tell you?" "Xo, he knows not. The name wae destroyed. The vessel wns so broken up that tbey could not tell what the name was." "I am sorry he does not know." There was something so strange, fo pa ttietic in tne voice, tone, ana manner 01 the deserter of the Yenophon that Cnptain Alton paused and gazed at the speaker in amazement. "Do you know anything of this," be asked. "No." Still Griffith Alton was not satisfied. Surely there was something in the man. ner of the deserter which was strange and unaccountable. Captain Alton knew that, whatever it was, it was a matter too delicate to be mentioned. At last Mr. Burnett turned to our hero and said: "Let us go in and watch them manufacture broadswords." They turned about and went to the blacksmith shop. "It is very 6trange." thought Captain Alton. "There is something back of this. Mr. Burnett knows 6omethinc of the wounded sailor which he has not reveale:!. AVhat is it that he knows?" They entered the blacksmith Bhop. All around them were roaring forces. The ring of hammers upon anvils, and the flash of sparks in every direction at that late hour of the night gave the place the appearance of the infernal regions. "Wall, Griff, we're a-turnin' 'em out purty fast," said Jack Hatchet, who waB hammering a bar of steel into a broadsword. "We'll hev 'em all done afore davlight." It was with infinite satisfaction that Captain Alton watched the pile of iron bars, scythes and reaping-hooks decreasing, while the pil-j of brosdswords increased. CHA1TEK XXVI. THE HOARDING TARTY. Jack was correct in his prophecy. Before the sun rose the impromptu smiths under old Jack had turned out the requisite number of cutlasses. The forges, which all nipht long had been kept at a white heat, were allowed to cool off, and the village became quiet and the sun rose over tho l'ort, which appeared to have taken a sound night's sleep. "Now away with you to bed," said Mr. Burnett to the blacksmiths. "You have worked faithfully all night long, and you need rest. You will be called upon to do some more hard work before the morrow's sun rises. Those who have slept soundly all night will work to-day." The work of the carpenters in handling incfrnmnntQ ttoq nnf until Lie vr noon, and then they retired to 6leeu. | The grinders were changed and all day long every grindstone in the town was rolling, polishing off tho bright blades and sharpening the formidable instruments. "They will be dimmed before many hours," the deserter of the Xenophon remarked. There was a melancholy ca- i dence in the tone of his voice, as he said this, which touched Capt. Alton. Griffith, although he was accustomed to war scenes, shuddered with unaccountable feeling as he heard the remark, and realizing in whit way th# polished blades would be d.mmed. ... * 1*. "Now, Capl. Alton, we have seen the smiths and the carpenters all 6nugly auartered for the day, and as we are likely to have rough weather before mnnv hours, suppose you turn in yourself, ana see if you cannot catch a moment's 6leep." Capt. Alton was almost worn ont, it ii truo. Constitutions of iron cnn not stand everything, and the days and nights oi unremitting toil and anxiety had almost subdued even his dauntless spirit. Hi cast a grateful look at the deserter of thf Xenophon and said: "I must not 6leep now." "Why not? You need rest." "Not until the man of war has been boarded aud captured, and Ola Gatrell rescued. My greatest fear now is that the Xenophon will weigh anchor and set (tail for England, carryine Ola with heL." ?? %/% /tnn.mr f mi o hftprtta moto. ing,"Biiid the deserter. "The truth is I thiuk you so completely whipped those fellows and drove them out from the beach that they will not dare return 600n. They imagine that we have quite an army between the land forces and tho Bea, and the Xenophon -will hardly set sail until she is assured there is no hope for her land troo. s. She has no fear of being attacked, for the Xenophon can to-day almost defy the whole American navy." "Your argument is good, Mr. Burnett, unless the troops should succeed in coming to the beach and getting aboard." "They will hardly attempt that in the daj^lightJl. . . "No: ir the Americans have left Baltimore they are in pursuit of the army of General Ross, and will not think of coming thiB way. But, Captain, go now, retire to your bed, and try to sleep." "Mr. Burnett, do you not need rest yourself?" "I Bhall lie down somewhere and snatch A few moments' sleep. My shipmate, Henry Dawes, turned in early last night, and slept at the rate of nine knots an hour until daylight. He is fresh this morning ana reaay to lase iue wutcu. Come, let us tarn in and sleep." Capt. Alton went to his quarters and threw himself on a cot, leaving orders to his sentry to be called at the first demonstration made by the enemy. His eyes were bo heavy that despite himself he could not keep them open. The day was very warm; the flies buzzing about the door lit on the nose of the sentry who spitefully Btruck them off, and continued his beat up and down before the tent d<jor. Griffith slept the deep, heavy sleep oi exhaustion. There came no dreams to him?all was blank. He was aroused at last. Some one was shaking him by the shoulder. Whoever it was seemed in no special hurry, and allowed him to take his time to awake. He awoke, rubbed his eyes, and then, as the pa6t and present came vividly tc his mind, be started up to a sitting position. "What is it?" be asked. "The sun has set," the voioe of the de erter of the Xenophon answered. "What, can it be possible?" be asked, starting to hie feet and gazing about him in astonishment. "It is." "I thought I had not slept a minute." "You have slept four or five hours." "Then we have not a moment to lose. Have vou been resting?" "Yes." "Is everything ready?" "About." "How are the men?" "Some are a little nervous and anxious, but in the main they are calm and determined. I think we can rely upon them." "And the boats?" "They will be pushed out as soon as it i? dark." "Have you given any attention to the cutlasses?" "Yes, they are rude instruments, bul will do. Any of them in the hand of a strong man would cleave a skull. 1 think we will be equal to the emergency, should we effect a surprise." "But what do you think of the night?" "It promises well for our enterprise. A fog is rising, and if we can make it to | the ship unobserved, we will etfect a oomplete Burprise. But we must bear in mind that we have veterans to deal with. Those men have repelled boarders be. fore, and we will have to fight when we get aboard the ship." "I think our citizens understand th( condition wo are in. We will have to fight, which means death or victory to us. The man who leaps upon that deck must conquer or die." They found the men moving nervouslj and cautiously about from place to place speaking in whispers, and some of their hardly daring to speak at all. Theii hearts seemed to almost stand still, anc they realized that the great crisis would Eoon come. "Have you heard from Captain Gatrail?" Griffith asked of Mr. Burnett "Yes; the woman who is his nurse wai here not lonR since, and says he rests e little easier, but that the end is drawing nigh." The fog rose upon the face of the waters, and by the time night had fairly se' in it was so dense that one could scarcely Bee any distance into it. "Shipmate," said Henrv Dawes to Mr Burnett, "there's goin' to be some dunge o'gittin' lost from each other." 1 have jest been thinking of that, I said Burnett,"and I believe we will be able ^ .1,. i.U ? n iu ri'iiicuj iuu j-uch/voa. "How are we goin'to'find the 6hip in this dense fog?" "Wo will arraugethat." As soon as it was fairly dark Capt. Alton mustered the boarding party inside the works and delivered a 6hort address to them, in which he urged upon them the necessity of courage and determination. Ho suggested that each man take two pistols, if there were enough to go around, and a cutlass. They might take guns also, out they wouia aouiitless nna tnem cumbersome to use in climliag up the vessel's side, though some of them might strap them on their backs. The first thing to be done was to get the boats launched, and as it was now dark enough to accomplish this uaseen, he thought it would be well enough to begin at once dragging thom uround to the bay. About two hundred strong men set to work at once, and the boats were dragged down the creek out into the bar. Tn mi Iiour all were launched. Tbe men were mustered upon the beach and standing in close columns, awaiting orders. "Well, Griff, what ye want ter do now?" asked one of the villagers. "Wait until midnight." "What fur?" "Onr armistice expires at midnight, and theu we can uttac-k them." "Gawl darn an armistuB!" growled Simon. " Whenever there are red-coats nheal I want to sail eout an'make mincemeat eout'n 'em. l>ut all remained on the bc-ach like so many silent statues until the time expired, anu then silently the boarding party filed into the boats; and with all the boats connected by ropes, so one could not be lost from the others, they pulled out of the harbor toward the manof-war. [to bk coirraruKD.] Statistics given in St. I'eterabnr^ papers show that the Jews nre increasing with great rapidity in Russia. While tbe birth rate among Russians is i 21 per cent, that among the Jews is 50 per cent. An Italiau statistician save tbe Hebrew population of Europe doubles itself in thirty years, the Russian in about ninety years, and that oJ Europe generally in 150 jears. The city of Havana has over two hundred cigar manufactories. Everj factory pays a tax of f y??* ftvr rvw person jfc amp]oja. ^ WALKING FISH. w ni CURIOUS STORIES TOLD ABOUT tj THEM. A is What They Have Done on Dry Land n< ?Members of the Finny Tribe Abandon Their Natu- ov ral Home. al as Whether it is any more remarkable for ^ a fish to leave its native element and wander around on dry land than for a ce bird like the ouzel to enter the water, fly through it and walk along the bottom tj( in search of food I leave my readers to determine; but it is true that cer- ^ tain fishes do leave the water in search of er food on the land and many others go ashore for various reasons. A, wi?" ^ 1 (I fifx\-irn Y' p THE CLIMBING PERCH. ei ~ g| Some years ago I spent the summer at the little fishing village of Ogunquit, Me. Near the ocean was a lake into y wnicn, at nign water, me ciear wuier 01 ^ the ocean flowed, while at the ebb it ran v into the ocean again; so at high tide the ^ lake was a large body of water and at low j tide a very insignificant sheet from which bunches of rushes protruded. ^ The lake I soon discovered was famous for its eels, the muddy bottom be ing fairly alive with them. One evening Ij it happened I was on the beach as the ^ water wa3 leaving the lake and waded ^ out into the little inlet to cross it, when I fouud that it was black with eels of all sizes. The moment they saw me scores t( left the water and dashed away over the ^ stones in every direction, making for the jj ocean, presenting a very extraordinary spectacle. They seemed as much at home on the dry land as in the water, and made remarkable progress over the stones. That eels leave the water and roam about on the flats is well-known. Near any eel pond their tails can be seen, wind ing in and out and away to the ocean, perhaps near at hand, all of which shows ^ AWAn 4- in/liTTiWnn] oro liUn uuaitut JUUUiUUUi UOUOO (UV.? Thus a shad or a perch would soon die, and could not make a single move for its protection, being utterly helples3 on land. So, too, a robin or sparrow would soon drownln the water, while the duck is apparently in its native element, which shows us that various animals are adapted for different suiroundingi. ti When Americans first visited Aus- a tralia they found that the natives had a many and very singular stories regard- b ing the animals of the great continent, o One was that a certain large fish, tho c ceratodus, came to the surface at night ?i and wandered about on the shore, utter- b ing a noise like that of a bull; in fact, a tl bellowing sound. Naturally such a fish b story was discredited and laid to the If ? ?? h .X-^" jt PISII HIBERNATING IN A DRY FURROW. ftl superstitions of the natives, but finally 01 one night a party of surveyors, who were .T out, heard a singular sound and killed , an animal which was moving through the grass, and which was found to be this native fish,that was wiggling its way " overland for some purpose. The noise w was caused by the expulsion cf air from w the air bladder of the fish. e: A party of English officers were upon 01 one occasion encamped in a certain por- C( tion of India, when their attention was w attracted by a rustling sound in the sc grass and leaves. Investigation showed is it to be caused by myriads of little s* fishes that were heaued in one 'lirection C? and moving slowly on. There were ~ hundreds of them moving by using their side and small fins as feet; now upright, now falling uown, squirming, bending, rolling over, regaining their finny feet and again pressing on. These fishes were the famous climbing perch, ab .ut which so much has been said and written, and they were passing over the country to avoid a drought. When the stream in which they have ? been spending the season dries up they sc scale the banks, and, directed by some sc marvelous instiuct, crawl to another. di The climbing perch was first noticed tt by a naturalist over a century ago, one 01 having been caught high up a palm true, h' where it had gone, it is said, to obtaiu th the moisture that might be lound in the crevices of the leaves. This story was doubted by many, but a perch was found *js in the tree by M. Daldori, so the circum- . stance may be placed among the strange P1 facts of natural history. The most remarkable dry-land fish is the one known as the Periophthalmus. The little creature is about four or five inches long, with a big head, prominent eves, and side or pectoral fins that are c< more like legs than anything else. This goby, for this is the family to which it . belongs, is a marine fish, and actually goes ashore to obtain some of its food. If we were ou the watch at low tide, say in Mauritius, where it is common, wo should see as thu rocks become bare, various broad heads popping up here and ' there, then a big tadpole-like creature jumping from one to another or edging its way up the side. Their object is to ^ eaten smp.ii crustaceans. oomu jcarsuyu ^ a friend of the writer, un ardent naturalist, was very much interested in these little fishes, and combined sport and col- w lecting in a novel manner. He caught pi his Periophthalmi with a Ehotgun, pick- gh ing them off as they hopped along the ta muddy flat as though they were snipe. m ? ' ' ? - ~i - ' >',vv * . . In New Zealand the goBies of several iccies have this habit of leaving the ater and scrambling along shore, and e called "running fishes" by the naves on account of this singular feature, t TVhainpoa a fish called the suDghong often seen out of water,while the Cbi:se have what they call the pakkop, or bite frog, that can live for some time it of its native clement. These people so speak of the flower-fish, or hawaya, leaving the water. On our own shores we have a goby iat has a somewhat similar habit. It is lown as the Gobius soporator. Re:ntly an expedition of naturalists in exico and Texas found some of the lit9 fishes and confincd them in a pail. Iicy remained in it for a short time; ien, to the astonishment of the observ8, several were seen clambering over in side of the Dail and ouietly dropping )wn upon the ground, when they proseded to wiggle their way to the water, )t far distant. They used their pectoral id anal fins as legs in this case and sucseded in making very good progress. Then replaced in the bucket they soon imbled out again, and could only be ept in it by placing a plank over the >p of their prison. In countries where there is a dccidcd et and dry season, fishos are often obged to migrate or hibernato. In tho itter case, when thoy find they are unt)le to reach the water they burrow into le soil, remaining in this condition for lontbs, or until tho rain comes. This abit has been made the occasion of jme remarkable surprises. Thus, a arty of hunters were camping upon the dge of a little depression that wa9 abDlutely barren. A rainstorm came up uddenly and soon the depression became lake. In an hour the croak of frogs qs .deafening and an examination of tie surface showed that the place was fell stocked with fish. The moment he moisture leached below the surfaco be fish had revived and made their way p through the mud. One of the curaors of the British Museum some veara rrn rennirpd a ilrr and well nftcked ob *vvw" w / & ? ect that appeared to be a bull of mud. ihe instructions were to place this in n ish of slightly warm water, which was one. Slowly the ball dissolved, and aa t finally fell apart a long eel-like fish oiled out, gave several gasps and began 0 splash about. The ball of mud had een the hibernating nest of the fish, and ad been sent this long distance safely in 1 tightly packed box. GOBIES CRAWLING OUT OF A PAIL. Travelers in South America are someimes regaled with wonderful stories bout the overland trips of certain fishes, nd in many instances the accounts have een substantiated, especially in the cases f the Doras aDd Callichthys?catfishes ommon in the tropical South Americau tream6. These fishes exist in vast numers in the streams and pools, and like beir East Indian allies they start in a ody overland, presenting a most singuir appearance, especially to those who ave never seen a fish out of water by uwu vuiinuu. Another catfish, known as the Tangsa, 1 South American waters, is often seen a partly submerged logs, apparently aving the habits of a frog or lizard. In Inglartd the familiar little fish known as be blcsny has a curious habit of baskig in tiie open air at times. This was oticed by a naturalist named Ross, who ept several of the fishes in an aquarium, le had great difficulty in making them tay in the water. At certain times durig the day they would make desperate id often successful attempts to get out. inally, upon the advice of a friend, he laced a stone in the tank so that part of was exposed, and out upon it climbed le blennies. They seemed to require air, id from choice spent part of the time it of the water. Singularly enough, this as during the ebb tide, the period when ley would naturally be left high and rv in the pools along shore. My readers will wonder how all le finny wanderers can breathe out of ater. All fishes breathe by taking in ater, which is supplied with air, and spelling it at the gills, their blood-red gans taking up the oxygen during the mtact; but when a fish is out of the ater it would seem necessary to have - * i al: ik: >me ouier means 01 uraiunug, ?uu ims the case. They do not carry water or ore it, as some have supposed, but the tvities which are found in the head of LUNG Frsn TRAVELING OVER LAND. ime are for the reception of air, and reliable lungs, so that the fishes breathe irectly at this time. Thus the Periphlalums in the water breathes by its gills, at of the water by what represents ings, so that it 13 more truly amphibious ian a frog. Fishes arc often carried a long distance ith :t water, and in China the heartless h venders carry through the streets a h which they call a living lish, and cut eces from it, the fish living until it is sll carved up.?San Francisco Chronicle. l:That's the Way I Shoot.'' An officer in attendance at a shooting ompetition noticed two men firing with nything but prscision. Approaching lem he exclaimed angrily: "You fel>ws don't know how to shoot; lend me le rifle and let me show you.'' Bang! nd the target was missed. A broad grin verspread the features of the two priatcs, but the ofiicer was equal to the xasion. Turning to the first, with a own upon his countenance, he relarked: "That's the way you shoot, r!" A second attempt, and a similar suit. Turning to the other he con nued: "And that's the way you shoot, r." A third shot, and an inner wa! iked. With pardonable pride the orthy officer returned the rifle, triumjantly adding. "And that's the way I loot." The men ever sii.ce have en termed a very high opinion of him as t orksmaa. Bnssia's Futnre Cznr. The eldest eon of the Emperor of Russia is called during the lifetime of his father the Czarowitz, which means simply "son of the Czar." The young man who at present holds the title, the Grand Duke Nicholas Alexand^ovitch? the latter name meaning "son of Alex j ander," is now in his twenty-third year, j He has the tall figure and powerful I physique which have characterized all the Romanoffs since that family mounted the throne of Russia, but, as yet, little is known of his personal qualities. Like all European Princes, he has received a THE CZAROWITZ. military training, ana an ms paoxographs were taken in uniform. That from which the accompanying cut was made was taken two years ago, when tho future Czar of all the Russians was more boyish in appearance than at present. On the day of his birth he was gazetted Colonel of the Imperial Guard, and it is said that he shows evidence of military capacity. If this should turn out to be true, it will be a reversal of the family traditions. The Romanoffs have always shown bravery in the field, but Peter the Great was the last of the family who gave proof of ability to command an army in face of the enemy. The present Czar in the lifetime of his father held a high command in the last Russo-Turkish war and showed no disposition to shirk either danger or privation, but as a general he was a complete failure. The Czarowitz is a nephew of the Princess of Wales and of King George of Greece. His mcther, the Czarina, is a daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and was married in 1866, four years after the Prince of Wales had wedded her sister. Her name up to her marriage was Mary Sophia Prederica Dagmar, but she was always spoken of in public as the Princess Dagmar. Now she is called Mary Dagmar Feodorovna. TUe young neir to me rwussmu turuue has seen some stormy times in his short life. As a child he was almost a witness of the terrible dynamite explosion which ended the life of his grandfather and placed his father on the throne, ind more than once he was near when attempts were made on the life of the present Czar, which, if successful, would have made himself the autocrat, for a time at least, of 80,000,000 of subjects. ? Chicaqo Post. Was It an ImproYcment! I'll raise a beard; With the beard, it'll make me look more manly." ?Life. M. Marey has succeeded in photo- ' graphing the movements of an animal under water, taking proofs at the rate of fifty in a second, with exposures from 1-2000 to 1-3000 of a second. A set of twelve photographs gives all the phases of the undulations which the medusa impresses upon its umbrella of a locomotor apparatus. Another series exhibits a squid leaping out of the water. A ray has been taken in profile while waving the edges of its flat body; and the curious mode of progression of a comatula has been taken. A compilation of statistics on the growth of the Southern States from 1880 ^ i r>r*n ; 10 lOi'VS, SHOWS iili ILIC'ICUSC ui pujjuiom/u of 19.9 per cent.; of actual wealth, 62.5 ' per cent., and of capital invested in manufacturing, 20.7 per cent. Among the odd occupations that London (England) women are engaged in are inspection of refugees, visiting board schools, spying for private corporations, piano tuning, choir training, typesetting and serving on school boards. The physicians of Vienna, Austria, are greatly interested in the announcemeat of a cure for cancer made recently by Professor Mosetig, of that city. The cure is applied in the same way as Kochine, and is said to render the formation of cancer cells impossible. At Straubing, fn .Bavaria, some Celtio tombj have been opened and found to contain most interesting bronze ornaments and iron weapons belonging to the people of Rh:otia before the Roman oon.juest. The long sought-for Roman cemetery has also been discovered ?through the unearthing of a Roman tomb containing cinerary urns?flanking the old military road from Serviodu* rum (Straubing) to Abusina, both situated on the Danube. iVlonE cabin passengers arrived hi New York in 181*0 on the ocean steamers than ever before in the history 01 that port. The steamers made a total of 914 trips, bringing 99,18'J cabin and 371,593 steerage passengers. British steamers made 361 of the trips and landed 54,1)71 cabin and 119,079 steerago passengers. During the total 914 trips there were 49 births, 63 deaths and 11 suicides. Ths true "French plum?large, jet black, soft and juicy?comes from the horea of the Garonne and its affluent the Lot, and is the fruit of the tree known as the prunier d'ente, or grafted plum. The center of the district is Clairiao, a quaint little old-fashioned town built on a steep hillside overlooking the Lot : I temperance! 1 THE TEMPEBANCE SOLDIER. ? Lift up your banner, boys, S Gird on your sword, ' ^ : 'Tis good to be a soldier , I In the fray. J To be a foe to wrong, fl And battle for the right A With all our strength and might, j| Day by day. fl If we go into camp, boys 1 (Soldiers often do), . 1 Or turning in the city 1 For a time, Wo1!! natroi* /IrinV Hfrtn J Ot brandy, wine or gin, ] Because it leads to sin j And to crime. / MI March, march ahead, boys, : Never be afraid; 1 Show your temperance colors In the strife. i $ And when you first set out Determine on this plan, To be a temperance man . a All your life. ?Mrs.M. A. bidder,in Temperance Banner, \ A GREAT SINGER'S TESTIMONY. Madame Patti, in making up a recipe for 'How to become a great singer," throws in 1 this wholesome ingredient: "Alcoholic stimulants of any kind tend to irritate the throaty and chould be entirely abstained 4 from. Even light wines are no exception to this rule. Most people are familiar 'with the hoarse voice of the hard drinker, and it 1 is often said of such an individual that he i has burned his throat with drink. Even a moderate use of alcohol may, therefore, tend., to make the voice husky." V THE CURE OF DRUNKARDS. Professor Pierre Francois Spaink, an eminent pathologist and microscopist of Baarn, Holland, has been awarded the prize for the ~ best essay on the care of drunkards and the cure of drunkenness, offered by the Inebriate/ Home at Fort Hamilton, New York. The competitors hare had a year in which to prepare their papers. The Dutch professor mad? many delicate microscopic experiments with rabbits as subjects. The result will overjoy pathologists who have held that drunks ones is a disease. Professor Spaink finds that alcoholism is a disease that has Its origin in the habitual use of alcohol or other strong drink. It is a diseasepectrllar to itself and calling for peculiar treatment. TOTAL ABSTINENCE ANU LONG LETS. ' The report of the Register-General of Eng-, li( land, for 1885, contains the results of an official inquiry concerning the death rate ofj all males between- twenty-five and sixty-five, years of age. The report pieces the average , death rate of all males at 1000. The invest!-' gation was made by occupations, and while th3 general average death rate was 1000LJ clergymen were but 556; farmers, 631: btre brewers were 1861; saloon keepers, beer deal-! ' era, etc., 1521: hotel servants, bartenders;' \ etc., were 2305. The report says with much significance: "The mortality of men who are. directly concerned in the liquor trade is ap-j palling." Abstinence from oleoholic bever-i r means increased chances for prolonged 't THE ADVANTAGES OP TOTAL ABSTINENCE. For the last fifty years the great question that has occupied the mlnd9 of Christian men, has been the liquor question. This it N '::t to be my subject this evening, not forgetting friends, however, that it has been a subject that has bean thought upon and talked'npon by the most prominent men of the day, oat seemingly without avail,' such a strong hold has it upon tho nation. Nevertheless, the fight still goes on, and I bope some day'thafc we shall see temperance triumphant. There is not a drunkard in the world who will not say, and say with a sigh, "I wish I never knew what drink was I" Now the great question is, what is the best thing to do, under the present circumstances. If we go back a number of years and look over the record of the penal institutions of this country or England, we shall find that according to the statistics no less than eighty-nine per cent, of the crimes that have been committed can be traced to strong drink. Now, gentlemen, I don't think the majority oft people really understand this shocking state' of tnings. Let me give you an example. There are, in round numbers, 700 men in this i ? j:__ institution. now, uccuruiu^ w Clausula, u. temperance ruled the way, there would only be ceventy-se ven men here! Is this not truly, a condition of things that every man and | woman should think deeply upon? Why do > men drink? I have heard that asked, but I 1 never knew an habitual drinker who could give a sensible answer. A sister, mother, or perhaps a wife, will ask, "John, why do you drink so, and make snch a fool of yourselff* The answer will be/our times out of five, "I don't know;"'and another will be, "Oh, because all the other.fellows drink, and they would think it queer if I didn't," or "driven to it by tronble of some description." The last answer, and that only, is wnat you may call an excuse, and that is nothing but weakness, and the man who tries to drown his sorrows and trouble in drink, might easily have been saved if he hid a friend to say a word of encouragement to him. I am afraid we ? don't all of us know the value of an encouraging word. It is sorpriv ;-y ing how it will help a man when he is going down hill. I remember a young man who, when about to leave here, was asked by a friend, who, I am glad to say, is a member of this society, if he was going to drink when hegotout. '"I guess so, said he; "I flon't think I could resist it." "Well," said his friend, "do you like it?" After thinking a moment, ha said, "No." Then he asked it he needed it physically, and if he was not better In health while here without it? He then 6aid, "Frank, I never thought of that before* I am going out to-morrow or next day, and I say now that I shall not touch a drop," and as far as I know he has kept his promise. So you see, gentlemen, that a little argument and a few words of reason are not always lost. So it seems to me the great thing is, "to get at" the young men and tell them the curse that liquor has brought upoc men, and get them to seek the company of temperate men, and spend their leisure" hours musioally, or in the company of ladies; and I am sure if they do they will be better entertained than in a bar-room.?P. H. Connors. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The fifth district of Illinois has eleven new W. C. T. Unions, the harvesting of a paid organizer. Now North Carolina comes to t'je fore with one of the beat scientific temperance laws yet passed. A irr n rr TT_;? A ?T . V. 1* UlilUU UCCU i.V>i UiCU lU Egypt at Cairo, with a mombarshipof seven American missionaries. The Scottish Union of British Women's Temperance Association has forty-four societies and a membership of about 7000. The beer crop of Illinois thrives under the high license reign. Internal revenua reSorts showing an annual increase of 183,000 arrels. The Loyal Temperance L?gion of North Attleboro, Mass., nas a membership of 403. Thirty-eight of thisnumber have been present at every meeting during the past year. It isa significant fact the Y. W. C. T. Unions everywhere are occupied with physical culture. The girls are not netting up muscle for nothing. Let all whom it may concern take notice. Ohio W. C. T. U. this year has six hundred local unions, including ono hundred new ones, and ten thousand paying members. The convention which met recently was on? of the best ever held. Even the parrots have caught the temperance fever. A polly in Atlanta, Ga., heard the crowds of children drill? 1 in singing for the Atlanta national convention, and since then it sits aloft and sings: "Saloons, saloons, saloons must go!" The Sanitary Board of Vienna, Austria, has declared against the establishment of 1 ? ?- - on.I in fot'Af r\ P oil asyiUllia IIJKIU laira, au 4 *v* ? drunkards being, as public dangers, sentenced to periods of hard labor. The order of Rechabites, a large temperance society of England, rejoices in the returns given at its late annual conference, showing an increase of 10,010 members during the year 1893. This is all the more encouraging as it is a banefit club, as well as a total abstinence society. j Discriminate carefully between the man whs is willing to take an offioe when the people want him to take it, and the man who is after it whethei the people want his services or not. , J