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"THREE IN A Story of BY W. CLARK CHATTER II.? Continued. ' That very 6ame day I remember?I ac mean that day on which the quarrel at h? the table happened?Mr. Wilson came P> on deok while Capt. Parfltt was paoing e% the weatherside, keeping a lookout, and cc with an air of aggression stared into di the compass, then looked aloof, also tr very aggreseively, and then sent his te eyes around the sea line, making a mo- Pi Won witn nis neau mat was ouensive m *ith its suggestion of criticism. Pres- hi ently, taking his stand abreast the mlz- d( renmast to leeward, he asked the man cc at the wheel how the ship's head was. se The fellow replied. "Let her come to three-quarters of a as point," called out Mr. Wilson. "And, al jCapt. Parfitt, you will be so good as to sc trim Ball." ot "Keep her as she goes!" roared cc Parfitt. to "You are making too much westing," de exclaimed Mr. "Wilson. m "Leave the deck, sir!" bawled Parfitt In "By what chart are you sailing, I P? hould like to know?" Bneered Mr. "VVil- ti< on. "Whv. damme, man. we aren't CC bound to Madras." wl An angry quarrel followed, a mere th affray of words, indeed, but It was hard Pi to guess at what Instant the blow would w eome, with a long and shameful m scuffle on top of it. The sailors forward cc stood staring aft, thoroughly enjoying qx the spectacle of the two men gesticu- th lating and bawling at each other. Pres- be ? of I^^IW s CP THROUGH THE HATCH CAME CAPT. w< PUNCH.? ro . ?? SO cntly, up through the hatch came Capt. sh Punch, borAe by a brace of sailors, who as struggled up the 6teep companion steps ar with purple faces, panting and blowing, ee while Punch 6at holaing on tightly and an cursing the builder of the ship for con- st< Btructing a companion way that gave a lib man no room to turn in. vit "What is it all about?" 6houted the old Ps fellow as his bearers dumped him down de upon the deck. lo< "The ship'6 being headed for Madras," on cried Mr. Wilson with a contemptuous w< laugh. cl< "He's a liar, and' he knows he's a no liar," said Parfitt. he "You're making too westerly a course wc Biiit. mo " exnlaimed CaDt. Punch, he and he ordered the man at the whoel to of shift the helm by a spoke or two. sk "D'ye suppose," cried Capt. Parfitt, Cc approaching Capt Punch close, and sa snorting his words into the old seaman's thi Jolly, round, bx-ick-red face, "that I've th< taken charge of this sugar-box to learn navigation from you?" lip "I ain't deaf?keep your distance," Ps responded Capt. Punch. "This sugar- sa box is going to get home, and I don't wi mean to let you put her ashore, betwixt liii this and the London docks, and so I tell ru 'ee. I've heard of navigators, you must ca know, whose reckoning by account has an landed them by four degrees of longi- wl tude inland?same thing may happen th; with some folks' sextants. My course hil Is your course, and you'll please to stick mi to it." sei "There's not even yet southing lis enough," said Mr. Wilson. eh "Yes. there is." cried Capt. Punch, bii you don't want to teach me navigation, I he do 'ee?" I w^ Capt. Parfitt rushed into the cabin iig and returned with a chart, which be laid open on the deck at Capt. Punch's ev feet. He then went down on his knees a ] ? > .. W? ^ ? ^ ?ri J gl ?HE THEN WENT DOWN ON HIS KNEE&" , do and indicated the course with a square W1 thumb, occasionally pounding the chart aP wjtn his fist until the deck echoed again to the blows whenever Capt. Punch * laughed or shook his head or uttered any observation that wa6 distasteful to , Capt. Parfltt. Ke I left them disputing and walked some distance forward to smoke a pipe. After , a while Capt. Parfitt left the de'-k, takin? his chart below with him, and 6ome- ?u what later Tact. Punch was borne into 11,1 the cabin by the two sailors. "When Mr. ee "Wilson found himself alone he steppel over to the wheel, and I guessed by the ^ twirl which the man at the helm gave jjj' the spokes that Mr. Wilson had shifted ev the course. ed This, indeed, proved the case. Scarce- te ly had ten minutes elapsed when Cape. Bg Punch's servant arrived on deck and called out to Mr. "Wilson: "The Capt'n's orders are that the ship q{ Is to be brought to the course which she , l.? ttC WH6 bteeriDg WliVU lie wua vjuiucu uclow. QQ "My compliments to Capt. Punch," answered .Mr. Wilson, "and tell him he has given ine charge of this vessel, and that J'm not going to learn navigation nc at my time of life from any man alive, th be his name Parfitt. or be his name al Punch, or be his name Judy, by thun- th der!" ' h? ThiB insolent speech reached the ears th Cant Pnnnh whn whs hulriw in ihft f?u cabin under the skylight, which lay wide th open. The rottr that followed was that of D a bull. It was by no means inarticu- is late, however. The sea words the old fellow employed were so much to the fix purr>oso that Mr. Wilson, coming to tho th skylight, cried down: a "It's all right, sir; it's all right, don't th excite yourself," and he then audibly th directed the man at the whed to bring fo the 6hip to the course commanded by t ej 4Capt. Punch. _ gi CHARGE." Ill The their < do ca , 1 <" * nf t.hfi trie ?^Cclt way "V steer< the tb heads : RUSSELL. hadn _ or tw Twas a6toni6hed to find Mr. Wilson to^th sting in opposition to Capt. Punch. He jjenC( id shipped as Punch's first mate, and corjjr unch was indisputably his chief; how- ghow 'er Parfitt might have stood in this jjas, j implicated buslnoss. But I speedily jnce'S? 6covered that Mr. Wilson was an ex- tjj6 8] aordinarily conceited and very bad- mii09 mpered man. Ho guessed that old tjj0 ot unoh was not going to improve in tjjat 1 salth, and so, since Punch had made an<j ] m master of the ship, ho was clearly ve88e] itermined to remain master at all north| >sts, In defiance even of Punch him- gQ thick All three men had notions of their own wa9 a > to the course to be steered. One was jonp c way9 something to the eastward or Up jrc imething to the southward of the iQOt tl hers. Capt. Punch had a tell-tale 6f th impass in his cabin and when he was the si o ill with the gout to be carried on but I !CK ne wouia eena nis bwrvaui, iu me ever c an at the wheel with instructions to be ta ff or to let her go off as it might hap- seen, in. But these alterations in the direc- vapor in pursued by the ship he was able to the v mtriye to his qwn satisfaction only fumbl ben the oarpenter happened io havfc lightn e watch, for If an order came from Thu unch when Capt. Parfitt or Mr. Wilson and t as on deck it was instantly counter- tains i anded, with the result thht when the direct iptains met in the cabin they would day lo larrel wildly for an hour at a time, passlc teatening ono another with the law, where leering at one another's experience, Bay ] ten clinching fists, indeed, and on ^as < ore than one occasion very nearly wrong iming to blows. that h his pi cHiiTERin. and 1 The frequent changing of the ship's would iurs?, together with the incessant in- the sh rference of these men, one with an- deck t her, considerably delayed our passage, was, id there were times when I would think cours< at we should never double the Cape of Wilso ood Hope at all, but that, on the con- 0ne 01 ary, the three captains would quarrel out li emselves out of all perception of the terrib iip's true reckoning 'and end either in life if itting the vessel ash.re or in sending helms boat to land on the first bit of coast Whi ey might sight to learn from the na- unabl >-es of the place where we were. Often, the a I could observe, they differed merely were nnitfi nnn another. For instance, hp^r ipt. Parfitt, on quitting the deck, precic juld leave the ship under all plain sail, "Nort yals set and tacks boarded, but Wil- Yet ti n, who kept watch and watch with the the cl ip's carpenter (acting in this respect fault, chief mate, though the moment he withir rived on deck he asserted him- this 1 If as captain), took command the el d carried out his own Ideas of sailor Bering and of carrying sail and the maste ;e, without the least regard to the To f _*ws and instructions of Punch and then ] irfitt. Wilson, I say, on relieving the cart ck after Parfltt had gone below, would There 3k up at the sails, and then round up- lence, the sea, as though studying the I wt jather, then coolly sing out orders to by th< jw up this and haul down that, taking Capt. it the least notice of Parf.tt, who, on of Too aring the men crying outat the ropes, canvai mid rush on deck and ask Wilson what angle; meant by shortening sail in the face squall a high barometer, while through the her do ylight you might hear the voice of le6S, ^ ipt. Punch roaring out to know what threac il the 6hip was carrying and what a freq at fellow, Wilson, meant by altering water e course by three-quarters of a point. In a Even about 6uch matter as side- was as ;hts the quarrels were frequent, for I pa irfitt insisted upon exhibiting lights, minut ying that he was a married man, difficu th a family of children dependent upon ship's in, and that he was not going to be steps, n down and drowned out of hand be- out m; use Punoh was a rapacious old bunks : d did not do his duty as a shipmaster; lile Punch, on the other hand, swore at there should be no side-lights ex- $ sited on board his ship; that he had V inaged to pass thirty-eight years at a without ever having been in col- ^ ion and without ever having more to ^ ow in a moment of extremity than the ^ inacle lamp; that oil was dear; that T was captain; and that the boatswain > ?-L mid no{ know what to do if the side ;hts were snown. j It will be supposed that no ship was ?~j. er more miserably uncomfortable to ' mssenger than the Biddy McDougal is to me. Fortunately, the sailors ? ire o }>nHv nf r^cnontttblA men. Thev jk their orders as tney received them, inning, indeed, when those words ?" jre contradictory, and sometimes umbling pretty loudly when they re put to unnecessary work through e captain countermanding the inductions which another had given be- pr :e leaving the deck. Indeed, ha 1 the ?w been mutinously disposed they ght have found plenty of excuses for now ? nduct that need not have stopped front ort yf actual "piracy," which, to b; 1 lin, is another word for running away Punch th a vessel. ness c We were to call at Capetown, and I conqu d made up my mind, if heaveu ever reach* rmitted us to cast anchor in Table Bay, inggo ashore and represent the state of an(l ^ e'ship to those who might be empowered ,l ^ * deal with the three captains, though reveal would sometimes think that it was Bhip i? ubtful whether there was any remedy sea; t thin the reach of the authorities to aga'ine ply, for it was certain that Punch was that fl 11 in command of the ship, and next, phere at, being in command, he had a right Happii intrust the charge of the vessel to thick, e chief mate while he was oonlined be see low by illness, so that despite the OVer t mgoon authorities, Parfitt had no the de Icial representation on board, had no Biddy iim upon the obedience of Mr. 'Wilson, the A d could achieve no end by logging "Wilsoi m np hv (hroofnniro. TnfleeH Vnrflt.t 1 "J v"' nuu A emed to have guessed as much, for, kiin a] ten as he talked ot "breaking" tha cieare1 ate, as he called Wilson, and sending along m forward, I do not think that ho frora t er attempted to do so, though repeat- tjiree ,ly and sarcastically invited to the at- gomeT mpt by Capt. Punch and Wilson him- down If Parfit It came at last to pass that on a cer- ^ie in day we were supposed to be off tho jjy ou ipe of Good Hope. We were then ex- gca] tly two months and threo weeks out cun.}j am Rangoon?that is to tav, we had ea8tw cupied eleven weeks in measuring our gj. e Indian and the Southern Oceans ^earti iwn to that part of tho sea where wo c are supposed to be. I 6ay supposed, ajg0 , >t as you may conclude because tho c]jne<] ree captains, as I call them, noa josi vessel 1 reckoning and knew no longer where medio e 6hip was, but because the weather an(j n id been so thick for no Jess a period 6j8tnn an ten daya that never once was the -\vilso in, the moon or a star to be seen, and e j osition. therefore, of the Biddy Mc- navjK ougal was wholly calculated by wlijit capt termed dead reckoning. time I)ead reckoning means briefly the jjokl { iding out of the speed of a ship femM] rough the water per hour by means of abrea contrivance culled the reel log. When ?nK]a e speed is ascertained it is entered in j jjr e log book. Allowance is then made puncj r what is called leeway, if any leeway out a) ;ist6, and the 6uin o! the speed, to- Bituat >thej witlj tho gourdes which may been steered, enables the marine! rk down upon its chart with more s accuracy tho points of latituds fjitudo at which his 6hip has arthree captains were agreed in dead reckoning. They could find use for a quarrel in the indication reel log. The allowance for leeras assented to and the courses )d were admitted, but unhappilj xee captains had been at loggerover the reckoning before the weather came on. Capt. Puncli lade the ship's situation a degree o more than Mr. Wilson found it n's longitude was several leagues e eastward of Capt. P&rfitt's. ? wheu the day arrived which, ac? lg to Parfitt's reckoning, should tho ship to the westward of Agulhe arguments and quarrels were mnt, because Wilson swore thai Clip's longitude was at least Blxtj east of that cape, while Punoh on her hand persisted in maintaining the latitude was not what Wil60E Parfitt represented and that the I's course, therefore, required more ing. ?f+iAT-e afrtnrl ATI ft HlllI hfiRW, jxioui/v&o uwvvv* w? ? ? , ?v , day, as well I remember. There light breeze off the port bow, and a >cean swell was sluggishly rolling >m thfl southward. I do not recollat the lead was hove. Evei-y mau e three skippers was cocksure ol tip's position on his own account, do not say that any one of then; >nce ordered a cast of the lead to iken. There was nothing to be The nea line was shrouded bj to within two or three miles ol essel. Occasionally there was a e of thunder in the south, but no ing. is it remained throughout the day, hroughout the day the three capdid nothing but alter one another's ions to the man at the wheel. Al] ?? "DurmU wfto I r\ r> fnttrorin n 'llg Uapt. X UilUU nao IU a uvnvi >n. He said that be knew the ship's abouts as Burely a6 though Tabla lay open before him; that Parfitt >ut by leagues and Wilson utterly ;; that both men might thank God e was too much afflicted to occupy oper post on deck in such damj llthy weather, or?and here he shake his immense gouty fist at ylight and bid his servant step or ind ascertain how the ship's heac and then on learning that the j which he had ordered Parfitt and n to steer had been changed by r the other of them, he would roai ke a bull, using many strong and le words, to take Captain Parfltt'H he interfered with his orders to the man. en I went to bed that night I was e to sleep for some time, owing to rgument which the three captains holding in their cabin. I could such expressions as "My life's as ius to me as yours is to you.' heast, d'ye say? Good angels! aey granted ye a certificate?" "II ironometers are out that's not my but if my calculations wasn't 1 a second of the right spot before alooming mist drawed up and hid iy, I'll give up, own that I'm no man, and I'll call ye both mj re." such stuff as this I lay listening; : heard some sailors come below tc old Capt. Punch away to bed, was an interval of agreeable Bland I fell asleep. els awakened by an uproar on deck, i shouts of men. the bawling ol Punch in his cabin, by a harrying tsteps and a sullen flapping ol 9. The ship lay over at a sharp I believed at first that a heavy had burst upon her and heeled wn, but she lay perfectly motionvith a singular noise of creaking ling the above-board clamor, and uent dull, thunderous thump as of striking her. i moment I realized that the ship 3hore! rtially clothed myself in a few es, rushed out, and with great !ty, so acute was the angle of the deck, reached the companion All was in darkness. I reached f hands and touched a figure, and r OUT MY HANDS AND TOUCHED A FIGURE." jrew sensible of somebody just In of me panting heavily, and from to time groaning, it was tjapt. i, in whom the agony and helplessf the gout bad been temporarily ered by wrati and terror. He ;d the deck unaid?d and fell a-roarThere was little to be Been. Here lere a man held a lantern, but the was feeble and the illumination ed mere y confused the sight. The ly over, with her broadside to th? he dark heave of swell burst it the bilge and recoiled in milk ung a dim sheen upon the atmosof the night, making the quietly lg 6aiiS glance out. It was very there was nothing of the land to n. The carpenter was sounding he side and I heard him bawl out pth; but there was no depth. The McDougal was hard and fast upon irican strand, with Parfitt and q yelling out contradictory orders Konrllnff ir\ Vita mr?r? tn nhpr uu^u vvr Uto """rf ad nobody else. ; before daylight the weather d. Dawn disclosed the high coast ?ur 6tarboard beam and ^gathered he tempestuous discourse of the captains that we had gone ashore vhere near Cape Hangllo and SanBay, proving that though Capt. t's calculations had come nearest nth, all three men had been heavt in their reckoning. rcely had the sun risen when a oat hove in sight, bound from the ard to Simon's Town. She sighted lip ashore and sent boats. I was ly glai to get aboard of her. Parlltt and five of the crow vent aboard; but old Punch deI to leave the neighborhood of the 1. He said that there was no im,te danger, that he would go ashore lake shift under canvas until asce 6hould be sent from Capetown, n remained wfth him. i 6hip was ultimately got off, and ated to England by Wilson a-id Punch in tho cabin; but by that I received ray luggage from the >f the Biddy M;Dougal, had traneI it to another vessel, and waB st of Ascension on my way tc ind. K-i az-imptliinc.hprnir. in the fancv of i'b gout-ridden shape tamping i1 breastof thq stranded vessel.whose iynjie thojigh nnproperlj i * i attributed to Parfltt'B Ignorance's mariner. 80 far as passengers are c 1 cerned, perhaps there is no great ma1 ' of a moral to be gathered from this b narrative; yet, even In these advan seafaring times ships may be foun< j sea with more than one comman< 1 though one only has any olaim to 1 title. Will any shipmaster tell me t among his passengers he does not 1 casionally meet with a nautical ma sometimes a yachtsman and 6ometi] ' a naval officer?who has the high 1 possible opinion of his own judgrc 1 and who will lose no opportunity of ( 1 ing his opinion and vexing the sou thfl legitimate sklDDer bv imnertii: 1 criticism, by offers of help and by do' right counsel. Intending passenf . will do well sometimes, perhaps, to 1 quire before embarking how many c tains are going In charge of the ship [the end. | ; Copyrighted by the Authors' Alliance. rlshta .reserved. . l ! "Sizes" of Various Things. , Pearl buttons are not numbei i actually, they are described as hay so many lin^s in their diameters. , line is l-40th of an inch, a 12-line t 1 ton has a diameter of 12-40ths of ' inoh, etc. ' In making thread, half the num , of "hanks" (each contaiaing 840 ya [ of yarn) that will make a pound is , basis of numbering. Thus 30 thr i is made from yarn of which 60 ha; i are required to weigh a pound; J thread is made from 120 yarn, etc. J The numbering of shot is arbitra A r\ rrrifVl fV?A fll 1A UUU UUD UUIUIU^ M\J V* \J ntvu VMV *+mmm . | the shot. So is the nambering of i caps. At first there were three Ei of gun caps Dumbered 9, 10 and 11 fourth size was made larger than i smaller than 11 and it was called | The number of the bore of a gnn ' pends on the number of balls fitt i its barrel that will weigh a pon ; Thus a 12-bore gun carries a ball t - weighs 112th of a pound. The nt I bering of pun wads is purely arbitr ' and indicates nothing really. A ci 1 ridge is not numbered actually, bu 1 spoken of as a 44-calibre cartridge | 22-calibre, etc. The calibre is I pressed in hundredths of an inch. . Lamp burnefs are numbered ai I trarily; A, B, D burners take ' wicks; 6, 2, 1, 5 burners (3 being largest) taue rouuu wicks'. The numbering of shoes is arbitn ' The dimensions are: The ball, 1 waist, the instep, the heel; each f , in length increases by 1-8 inch in e i of these dimensions and in width i 2-8 inch. I Hate in their numbering repree j roughly the diameter of circles eq ! to the circumferences of the headi j the wearers. Thus a No. 7 hat fi r person whose head measures : inches. s Nails aro not numbered dirf ly; a lO-penny nail is one of 6U< size that 1000 nails like it weigh pounds; 1000 8-penuy nails we eight pounds, etc. So, too, were tu \ numbered originally. 11)00 No. tacks weigh eight ounces. But i . j the size indicates the length. Ev size varies from the next by l-it> 11 . Wire is numbered arbitrarily, ! numbering indicates nothing reallj ' The number of a screw indicates gauge arbitrarily. There are lengths to a No. 0 screw, four len? to a No. 1 screw, etc., but here ag the number has no actual relatioi the size of the screw.?Trenton Am can. _ Protecting the Czar. From 1885 to the time of his de? the late Czar of Ru?s ia, Alexunder I ' never appeared outside his bedro ' and study without a fine steel sail mail, which would protect his bo back and front, from the dagjzei the assassin. Excepting bis valet f his wife nobody had seen this suit mail, as it was worn between the i derclothes and uniform, buttheCzi 1 unwillingness to go even to a cab: council without it was an open sec in all the courts of Europe. Bisma at one time wore 6uch a coat, as also Stambuloff and Crispi. The I _ -r,? ? 1 J ian rremmr, juuccu, no umc fore noted, 6ti!l wears, for protect from the assassin's bullet or knif< light shirt of mail of doable thickr over the heart. None of these m howeverj resorted to such precaut until repeated attempts at assassi tion had been made. True it is t "uneasy lies the head that wear crown." Nioholas II. of Russia has waited no each attempt on his life. E since the last arrests of Nihilist s dents at Odessa ho has worn a shir , nickel and steel, onerous as the g ment must be to a man of his infer , physique awl lethargic habits. S stranger stories of his fear and c tion have penetrated the walls of imperial palace and gained credei among the people of his capital. , though no dagger hns been laid on , pillow to unnerve him, and no wa ing of death has been put under /linnor-nlatA tr? nlacrue him. the C r?- ? i?o? ' never visits his dinner-table or'.l J without the company of a trusted teadant. It is this attendant's bi noss to examine every napkin and turn every plate on the table bef his Majesty sits down to eat, anc unmake and mak^again the whole ' before his Majesty retires for 1 night. At every door of the dini room and bed-chamber stands a C sack guard, day and night, and fi every dish that is served at the i perial table a special watcher in court kitchen must eat a mouthful fore it isserved, to prevent any cha 1 of poisoning. As from 1885 to 15 it now can be said with truth that a bird could fall to the grouud wit ten miles of the imperial palacc w out being 6een by a hundred eyes i Public Opinion. Ureal Finder or rivuirif*. At the close of 18'J5 M. Charb the distinguished French astrou on had discovered eighty-three mi planets, or more than one-fifth of total kuowo. The later studies the ring of tiuy worlds have b made by the aid of photograp , and so effective has this proven t in forty-one plates suitably exposei the Nice Observatory during a per: of about nine months, only nine fai to give traces of the object soug The thirty-two successful photogra ' showed forty-four known ini; planets and eleven ne'.v ones, the 1 i ter?as might well be supposed? i in^amonc the smalles! of the?p. bnrl I'oBtmistresB for Forty Years. ; "Aunt" Hannah Moore has been the I ! mistress of Stark, Ga., for forty years, resigned the other day because her eyes i beginning tp fctfi, Is eighty -six, ... on'! legation home tter _l Ced OUR REPRESENTATIVES i at COZY QUARTERS ABROAD Jer, the fn the Orient Uncle Sam Owns oc. Homes Occupied by the 51 iniste ,n_ ?Some Dwellings In Which mea Our Diplomats Reside. test tent jiv- *|~N each country where there is 1 I or rumor of war the positioi ien* jl r6presentative of the 6 ted States is rendered doubly ficult by State troubles. ,ap. Few of these representatives [ residences provided for them, and 3 find they have a salary adequate AU the entertaining of Powers w wnnti/lfl/l foalinrra mncf V\o nlppftfp "UUUUWU WV lavish hospitality. Thefr posi . would be an unenvied one were il for the lifelong honor attending a ia| cessful performance of diplon ^ duties. )r"' Other countries make a poinl an owning their own legation homes. Washington England owns one ol k?1 finest squares in the city. But : * s the policy of the United States no do so. The only foreign land ov nks o rbi THE AMERICAN JJ the by this country is situated in K( try. theEastlndias.Siamand Japan. I] the Orient it is imperative to own the ] size tion, as our Ministers on going t acb find it impossible to live four yea: by the houses provided by the nativei One of the prettiest houses in ent Orient is the American Legatio [ual China, where Minister Denby an* s of family live. It is a typical Chi ts a house, set well back from the sti 22 i and surrounded by trees and foli A high wall shuts out the street si ?ct- ot Pekin aDd keeps away the ol :h a tionable side of Chinese life. teD Mr. Denby speaks higbjly of C >igb and his legation home. He lies I icke his position through several Adm 8 trations, and in the legation, w! sow ia on one of the prettiest street ery Pekin, all Amerioan affairs are ti tch. acted. Here lives the Charge d'Aff its the Consul and the secretaries an r, connected with the legation. In i its of war the Minister to China suf two The Chineso think he should b rthfi troops to their aid, and so closely rain Minister Denby WAtched that a pr i to cal quarantine was maintained arc eri- his house. The United States pays a rent S3500 a year for Minister Den home, which is a large sum to paj rent in China. But the United Si jj ' does nothing small. It is willir om' spend the money for a legation, it is a matter partly of policy partly of patriotic sentiment no r 0'f own land outside America. ind The home of Bartlett Tripp in tria is upon the Schwindgasse, an. long row of legation houses. ar>8 house has been occupied many v nej. by successive Ministers from Ame ,ret and it is pointed out to Amei ygjj tourists as "home" in a strange 1 ^ In this house Minister Tripp lives tal_ hie wife and stepdaughter, Miss .1 I Wnchhrirn nnfl nf the Drettiest be- ?'?> ? ? ? t jon of the West and the belle of Vie 5 a The house is a modest one, rer i"ess l?w' an(^ S10.000 a year all< en the Minister to Austria would be i j0IJ cieut if little entertaining were d Qa_ As it is, Mr. Minister Tripp ep 2jat twice that sum. So did Colonel ,s a Grant, who was there beforo him. The late Theodore Runyon, An for eador to Germany, protested se1 ver [of Su ^ 0 0 0^*r^ ri b L,. Ded UNITED STATES CONSULATE AT SIVAS, at- KEY, ASIA MINOR. isi I to times during the laBt year against ore lack Df a permanent legation in i to many. His main plea was that bed a legation belonging to the Ui the States 4he question of house fun ng- ing would be settled. Carpets, fi Jos- ture and decorations would rei om year after year through all Adm: im- trations, and the newcomer woulc the have to spend half a Year's salary i be- the fitting up of his legation. nee >95, I ot ?' een hy, j-. but AMERICAN LEGATH 1 at ;? '0t* None of the four Ambassadors? |ei' tis in France, Bayard in England, j* in Germany or Wayne McVeag Italy?have permanent legations. aor MacVoagh for some time lived 'at* hotel, and it was in the corrid< "e* the largest hotel in liome whe] IPS first lived that he stood in dress waiting when the carriage drove t >ost. escort him to King Humbert's] Sh( ence. There were four carriages ven fronts of class, each as large ae 3 toria'e royal landau. Four white 1 ^ horses drew each carriage. The har- i ness was in scarlet and black, and the I lVE cushions of the carriagfl that was to f ? ??~ x aone ^\ \ 1'' !' Js^M ! hf ee 3B | J ' 11 ?* AMERICAN LEGATION AT VIENNA. EUC- ? latic take Mr. MacYeagh were of Bcarlet, while sixteen servants waited upon t of him, perched upon their respective In carriages, Thus the procession moved F the toward the palace, with Ambassador it is MacYeagh in the middle carriage, t to This is enough to give a hint of the rned extent of magnificence in which an INISTER'3 HOME IN PERSIA. ] 1 >rea, Ambassador mnst live abroad, for he * 1 tbe -would hardly dare for the sake of his !ega- country's name, to travel about the here city with fewer than two horses, better rs in with four. The four Ambassadora get 9. SI 7,500 a year, with the exception of the Ambassador MacVeagh, who gets $12,n of 000. But this is so inadequate, espei his cially in time of trouble, when money nese must be spent, that representatives reet, tremble lest they have that honor lage. thrust upon them. ghts Mr. Alexander, Minister to Greece, ojec- says he can live more comfortably upon his $6500 a year, with the rank hina of Minister, than he could upon S17,lield 000 as an Ambassador with the etiinis quette of the Ambassador to maintain, hich The Alexander House is a large s of structure in Athens. On holidays it ans- floats the American flag, and has the airs, appearance of ft city mansion in his d all country. Its servants are natives, and time its gardens are tilled with the flowers fers. of Greece, while around its doors hang ring the "types" of Greece, the peasants was who sell trifles, the flower girls and acti- the beggars. It is a very comfortable >und legation, and Minister Alexander, with his wife and daughter, have been sinol nt wnlA?l*T (.ii/innoofnl in Tinttlrinor it. o. Vinmfi w? ^UJOiJJ OUWVWOOiUt m * w ~v>_. iby's for Americans traveling in Greece. j f for Lewis Baker, Minister to Nicaragua, tates lives in a native house, with two stoigto ( Mt l | ^]| j j| J ^ iUffi- ] ends " ' Fred i AMEB1CAN LEGATION AT ATHENS. , ibas- riep> a ,3eep veranda and all native J reral eerVant8. He has made himself so ( much one of the Nicaraguans that his friends in Minnesota, his native State, who are "on the inside," claim that but for his office the trouble over the Nicaraguan Canal would have become as serious as the Venezuela diepute. He has a way of making the natives !%?*? oyi/} fViv/vnnrVi nil tVlO i,T fJTl I lCO];ctbUiUj, MUV?9 v... 1111 ble, his home has been as peaceful as -~ ] a summer sky. -jJ On the first day of Minister Baker's ? J arrival in Nicaragua?the mission in=r~ eluded Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador?he went out for a walk. A tub- crowd soon gathered around him, following the "Ministro Americano." This, Mr. Baker, being a modest man, i the did not relish, so he stepped into a Ger- barber shop. with In the barber's chair sat a man with jited lathered face, partly shaved. As soon jish- as the barber saw his illustrious visitor jrni- he unceremoniously ordered the nain customer under the razor to step aside inis- until the Ministro Americano had been I not served. Against this proceeding Mr. lpon Bnker protested and insisted that the . barber finish his present job, allowing 1 W99III?' ."-Milli "''.'"l ^ || i ON AT MANAGUA, NICARAGUA. 1 1 Eiis- him to wait his turn. No! The Min- ' Uhl ister'B wants must be attended to bell in fore all others, he insisted, and deMr. manded that Mr. Baker take the chair in a which the other man had submissively or of vacated with half-shaven face. re he The woes of the Minister abroad do i suit not affect Alexander McDonald, of lp to Virginia, Minister to Persia. Upon a i pres- salary of only $5000 a year, he livc6 ' with like a prince and is a bosom friend of i Vic- the Shah. He is the only foreign I fillister who talks over affairs with iM I nler as he would with a brother^^^^H Minister McDonald's house is a beauti-^^^H ul Persian mansion, furnished inside^^^H eith all the exquisite brio-a-brao he East. The servants in the housoMHH lumber 100. Minister McDonald is >achelor in frail health.?New Yorlc^^B^ Recorder. __ transplanted ?great tree.>*B I Portion of a Forest Giant at the tlooal Capital. The accompanying illustration shows 1 I he great tree General Noble (nameq'^^9 titer General Noble, late Secretary of he Interior) as it now stands in thel^Hl * TV /i u-x HH nail at wasmngton, u. v., ubiwooj* lie Agricultural Department building: ind the Smithsonian Institution, which! s shown in the distance. Among thejiMfl nnltitudinous marvels of natare, none surpass in majesty and grandeur the jreat trees of California; no sucli trees! ire found in any other part of the' world; they were first discovered in1 iHH L852 by a hunter, Mr. A. T. Boyd, ancE.^^H it once attracted general attention,] ^HR md attained the widest celebrity. The |^D genup, a species of red-wood (Sequoia' gigantea) was named in honor of Se^ ^^8 juoia (pronounced Seqaoyal), a Chero- HH kee Indian of mixed blood. Thif specimen was twenty-Bix Icet in diameterj gH it base, eighty-one feet six inches in; jircumferonce and 300 feet in height, the section being taken abont twenty j^H| feet from the ground ; although con? siderably smaller than some others, it was found to be comparatively well preserved and symmetrical. It had to je hauled by team) of sixteen mule* fH3 jach, on heavy truoks built for the' purpose, a distance of sixty miles on a! rough mountain road; price paid for IH jutting, hauling and delivering on :arn was 87500; section waa divided HH into forty-six smaller sections, some }f these pieces weighing over fou* :ona; it took eleven cars to transport it to Chicago, where it was exhibited HH it the Exposition; total cost of haul-' ng and installing at the Exposition E^H ras 810,475.87; the additional ex* sense of placing it in its present pod;ion would probably make a grand ;otal of over $12,000. The interior i CALIFORNIA "GBZAT TRF.F," EJ WASH* INGTON. HI iiameter is about thirteen feet, and j^H average thickness about twenty inches;; ^H| i circular iron staircase leads to plat-J j^H form about eighteen feet above; it lias, ijflH been roofed over and shingled with Hj round butt shingles painted zed; four HH former windows light the interior. flH The engraving was made from a photograph taken specially for the Scienlifio American. Bfl NEW HONOR FOR WOMEN. |H Mrs. Lillle ,R. Pardee Chosen Secretary of the Utah Senate. The Senate of the new State of1 k9 Utah has elected a woman to the office1 ^H| 3f its Secretary, namely, Mrs. Lillie El Pardee. Mrs. Pardee is a native ^H| }f Ohio, where she was -born in 1864,1 ind a gradaate of Buchtel College,1 BH where she received the highest honors' sver given to a graduate of ttat col* lege. Until her marriage four years flH igo she was professor of Greek and SECRET ART OF THE UTAH SENATE. Latin and instructor in the gymnasium H8 of the same college. Her maiden name 9|H was Lillie E. Moore. James D. Far* ilee, an attorney of Salt Lake City, is j^H her husband, and they hare a daughter three years old. Mrs. Pardee is a type of the younger generation of H Gentile women. She was brought into prominence during the preparations for Statehood through her gifts as an orator. She has a fine stage presence, i rich, sonorous voice of great cairy- IBjfl ing power, which has had special training. By reason of her earnest ^Hj work in the Woman's Republican League hhe was appointed Secretary of the County Committee, and was afterward nominated by the County Convention for a seat in the Senate ofj the new State. Owing to the decision, of the Utah Supremo Court against ^^9 the legal right of women to vote at the recent election, Mrs. Pardee voluntarily withdrew her name from the ticket, |H| in order not to endanger the interests Jflfl of her party in the Legislature. Next year Portugal proposes to hold i grand celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Vasco daGama's 'tart to sail around the Cape of Good HH Hope. gB