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??????????????? ??? ? . - - lewis m. grist, proprietor. | An Jwltpentlfnf xthmihj jftapaper: J"*or the promotion of (Iff flolitiral, j$otiat, ^jriiultaral and Commercial Jnterests of (he ?outh. , |terms?$2.00 a year in advance. VOL. 35. YOEKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1889. NO. 21. ANOTHER Xf* f:\ ?.! FROM THE DIARY OF MY JULIAN H Author ot "The Great Ba cau Penu -II . ! [Copyright by 0. M. Dunham, and puhlis American Press Association Mr>ti? C'ai (it .. fr^j CHAPTER VI-CoxtinvKj6. Such was the train of events that brought a young gentleman who might have made a good and respectable figure in the world to the office of Inspector Byrnes at police headauarters. The inspector listened to the story? contemplat it... amA ln'a AAnnoana A rOO m. tM|5 *UV |^i UU11CI flUlU >1U> avvuo&!0 \UVUM?ily in the meanwhile; and after it was told he sat for a while ubsently making lines on t)\e blotting pad in front of him with the'point of a paper knife Finally he looked up and briefly re- i quested that-every one should withdraw j except Mrs. Tunstall and Percy Nolen. I When the three were alone together he regarded Mrs. Tunstall pensively and said: "How long "have you known the prisoner?" "Oil, a year or more." "Has your husband approved of the acquaintance?" "How do you mean, sir?" inquired the lady, with a blush. "You know what I mean, I think." "1 don't think my husband lias ever liked Mr. Nolen," she replied, uneasily. "Considered him rather detrimental, 1 suppose?" , ".^Vell, 1 suppose so." "Were the prisoner und your husband at any time intimately known to each other?" "They knew each other scarcely at all." "AmJ yet your husband considered him detrimental? There ought to have been some reason for that! Are you prepared to state to me, Mrs. Tunstall, in Percy Nolen's presence, that your husband's ill opinion of him was in no way connected with what ho knew or suspected of Percy Nolen's relations with you?" The question was put so sternly and gravely that Mrs. Tunstall was unable to maintain the composure of her countenance. She stammered and hesitated, and looked first one way and then another. Was it possible that the inspector, in some incomprehensible manner, had become acquainted with the truth? "He?I?never asked him the reason of his opinion," she faltered at length. "There are many ways of getting rid j of a man when he ceases: to be conven- j ient and becomes objectionable," con- i tinued the inspector. "Are you ready to stand before me and take your oath that you honestly and truly believe this man guilty of stealing your pocket book? Remember, Mrs. Tunstall, your answer may be the means of condemning an in- | nocent man to irrevocaDio ruin: But she had gone too far to withdraw; j selfishness and cowardice alike forbade , it. Yet it wa9 not without an inward struggle that left her pale and trembling that she said desperately, "Yes, I be- 1 lieve he stole it!" and then, "The evidence shows it?it is not I!" "That is for neither you nor mo to determine, Mrs. Tunstall," returned the Inspector, rising. "I will not detain you any lqnger now; you will be informed when your sworn testimony will be required hereafter." And Sirs. Tunstall went out. The inspector resumed his seat, and addressed himself to the prisoner. "I was willing," he said, "for the sake of your family and friends, to give you every chance to which you were entitled, j You had every advantage of trainiug I and education; but you have lived a fool- ! ish and useless life, and this is the result of it. You were in need of money?inimmediate and pressing need of it; you had tried every way you knew to get it; you found thoso bank notes in jour hand this morning, and you were unable to resist i the temptation to take them. From a | gentleman you became?what you are nowl" "Inspector Byrnes," said Percy, firmly but apathetically, "I didnotcommit that crime. I have lived a bad and useless lifo, and no doubt I deserve to suffer for it; but 1 honestly believe that no temptation would liave induced me to do such a tiling as that. I am obliged to you for suggesting to Mrs.Tunstall that sho would reconsider her accusation; but it will be no satisfaction to mo to escape in any . such way. If I cannot prove my innocence, I may as well bo in jail as anywhere else." "Innocent men are very seldom convicted," said tho inspector impassively. "The facts are against you. No one but you is known to have been near the muff after Mrs. Tunstall laid it down. You admit having had it in your hands; the pocket book was found in your pocket. It is true that the bank notes were not i found; but tho presence of a confederate would account for that It is for you to judge whether or not your plea should be guilty." "I am innocent, and that's the end of it," said Percy. "I don't expect to prove it. The evidence is all the other way. Somebody must have taken the purse out of the muff and put it in my pocket: j as for the notes, I know nothing. You ; say I may have had a confederate. If j he was near enough to take tho notes from me, ho was near enough to rob tho j muff: and if ho could do that, it would J remain to lx' proved that he was my con- j federate, or that I knew anything about , him. But all that would be in my favor ! is guess work, and ail that's against me ! is fact; so it's a bad look out!" "Undoubtedly it is." assented the in- I pector quietly. "There was only one minute when a thief could have taken the money and left the purse in your IKicket; and that was when you Were talking to Mrs. Tunstall and her back was turned towards the muff. If any j one luul been near enough to put the j puree in your pocket, you could hardly ; expect a jury to believe that you would i not Imvo noticed him." Percy maintained a gloomy sileuoo for ' a moment; then liis expression suddenly lightened and ho exclaimed, "Now that j I think of it, 6ome one did touch mo on j the arm, and when I turned round he ! asked mo if his cano was standing I against the counter. Perhaps ho was ; the mant" "Can you describe him?" asked tho in- : specter indifferently. Percy shook his head. "Ho had a dark mustache, I believe; ho might have been madgr 80, but I hardly looked at him, I doubt if I should know him again." mi.~ ir, ervn/?fn? V*io mnofnokft I aiO[icvbvi *113 miiau^uu "That will hardly do," said he. "You have no defense at all. The best advice I can give you is to make a clean breast of it. Such a defense as that is worse than nothing." t "Probably you are right; but 3 am innocent, and I will neve* say the contrary," replied the prisoner with a sigh. "So far as 3 am concerned, I don't caro much what becomes of me. I owe money 3 can't pay, and?there are other things. 3 am sorry for my mother and sister; but 3 never was muoh good to them; and Judgo Keteile will look after them, I hope," "Ja Judge Keteile a friend of yours?" "He was my father's partner, and is } the executor of his wilL" "Do you wish to send for him? There will be the question of bail to consider, as well as other matters." "I suppose that will be the best thing I can do; I thank you for suggesting it. inspector." "Don't trouble yourself to thank me until you find out whether there is oc :s CRIME! INSPECTOR BYRNES. AVVTI IOKiN K, lik Robbery/* "Ail AineriAan/* Rte. bed, through special arrangement by the ssel 1 A* Co., New York ami London.] casiou for it," returned the chief detective coldly. He touched a bell, made a sign to the officer who entered, and Percy was led out. "That boy never took that money," he said to himself, when lie was alone. "Such fellows as he don't steal, least of all from the woman they're in love with. As for her!"?the inspector's face grew very stern, and he brought his hand down heavily on the table. "She is sacrificing him to pull wool over her husband's T?ItVmv Mrtlon'u oun-froefmn ia fhn ?ce, ? ? true one, or else she invented the story to get rid of him. It's n bad lookoutr but let's see if we can't straighten it out!" CHAPTER VII. VAL MARTEC. 1 HILE these unI toward events were occurring at the jewelry shop and the police office, an affair of a different nature was being transacted at the house of Mrs. A couple of ' weeks had passed since Valentine Martin had called _ on Mrs. Nolen +- and her daughI ter, so that his appearance there that | day had something of the charm of novj elty. Mrs. Nolen, however, was too much upset by her interview with Percy to bo able to extend the visitor a welcome, and that duty therefore devolved upon Pauline. The latter, it may be observed, had not been informed of her brother's pecuniary troubles, and only knew that 1 her mother was for some reason greatly distressed. She came down stairs and found Valentine in the library. Judge Ketelle had pronounced Pauline a beautiful girl; and beauty was her most noticeable external quality; but it was not her chief claim to distinction among those who knew her. She was finely organized and trained in mind as well as body, and possessed a charm separate from any physical attraction. It was not that she was a learned young woman; she never embarrassed any one by revealing the presence of more information than might reasonably be supposed to belong to her; but there was in her expression a spirit and understanding that promised whatever was delightful in mental scenery and tone. Her temperament was calm and equable because it was deep and healthy; it could not be aroused save for adequate cause, but when aroused it would clothe itself in power. This wide and vigorous nature would go on ripening and enriching itself long after ordinary people dry up and dwindle away. Pauline could not be measured or assigned her definite and fixed place in human nature. Her sympathies were broad, and what she might do or be depended rather upon the demands made upon her than upon any limitations in herself. The young Englishman, after the first conventional things were said, did not appear to bo in a loquacious mood. He replied in monosyllables to Pauline's observations. but his eyes kept returning to fix themselves upon her with an expression of somber thoughtfulness. "Are you getting tired of America?" she asked him at length. "1 have enjoyed some of it, very much," lie replied. "I wish I had known, years ago, what I should find when I came here." "Would you have come sooner?" "It isn't that; but I should have left undone some things that I have done in the past. A fellow is generally a fool in the beginning. He gets sense after a while, but the things the fool did remain?worse luck!" "If they did not. you would never grow wise." "What is the use of wisdom, if it only makes a man curse himself for having been not wise?" "What do you expect wisdom to bring you? "It ought to bring fortune and happiness, but it doesn't." "No, wise people don't seem to be happy or fortunate. But they are wise: they should expect to pay for that." "Very true, Miss Nolen; wo can't eat our cake and have it, too. But I might have l>een content to have eaten my cake, if only it hadn't turned out to bo made of bran and shavings. How would you like to hear my strange, eventful.history? It lias never been published." "I would like to hear the real life of a man?what he thought and felt. But that is the part the stories leave out." "Well, the whole truth is a vulgar and sordid affair: a good deal of it is. And there's a reason for it, too. For it is chielly tho analysis of a lie." "That is not the truth's fault." "Oh, of course not; the children of light always havo tho best of the argument! Tliero has been plenty of muck in my career, but plenty of variety and adventure, too. Younger sons have that advantage, at least, over the elders." "According to our American way of thinking, it is no advantage to inherit a great estate. It can only tempt a man to be like his ancestors. I would choose to be a younger son myself." "If it were a matter of choice, perhaps those most concerned might more often agree with you. But, if you are "born a younger son, your preferences are not consulted; and it is not in human nature to enjoy having even a good thing crammed down your throat. However, I will say for my governor?ho was Sir Henniker Martin, of Derwent Hall, near Kiswick, Cumberland?that he did very fairly by me, as a whole. To begin with, ho laid the foundation of my future discontent by giving mo what is called a liberal education?the Eton and Oxford business, you know. I distinguished myself in both places." "Not for scholarship?" "Since you will have it, no; but for running up debts. The trouble with me was, I was too good a fellow. I was the most popular fellow in Eton, at the time I left it; I had documentary evidence of that." "Documentary?" "Yes. When a boy leaves Eton, the fellows who liked him each give him a book?something swell, you know, bound in calf, and all that, such as ho will be sure not to spoil by reading it too much. Well, 1 got a hundred and eighty of those 'leaving books,' as they call 'em." "A popular library!" "Yes, and all gone now, like the popularity. It was tho samo way at Oxford, only bigger bills and less innocence. But tho governor paid up like a man, and then got mo a clerkship in the foreign office. If he had made mo chief secretary of foreign affairs, I might have buckled down to business; but tho clerkship only made bad worse. Easy hours, light work. Of courso I went out into society, head over ears. No end of friends?lots of popularity! You never saw such a clever, good looking, good humored chap as I was. I had no time to wasto in my office; my chiefs began to growl; at last father called mo up, told mo I was no good and that ho was tired paying for it; gave mo two thousand jtounds and an outfit and packed mo off to New Zealand. It was to bo sink or swim, us luck might have it, but no moro Jil'o preservers from the old gentleman!" "Were you popular there, too?" "It's every man for himself there. I went to Napier?Hawke's Bay?the best sheep farming country in tho colony. There I ran across a chap I had known at Eton, Cartwright Brown his name was; he had a station (that's what they J call a ranch out there), Matapiro, 011 the banks of the Ngararoro river. Well, ' Cartwright initiated me into tho mysteries of sheep farming, docking, tailing,' and all tho rest of it. Very different from Mayfair and Piccadilly, I can tell you!" "Was there no society out there?" "Very entertaining society in Napier, - XI and plenty or it. un, yes, mere uru women everywhere," said Valentine; and he was silent for a time, and seemed to lose himself in revery. "There was a neighbor of Brown's, Hector Pope, between us and Napier; I invested my money in his ranch, and got to spending a good deal of my time there and at the club in town. I didn't scrimp myself much; I kept a couple of race horses and played unlimited loo at tho club; my sheep and my other investments had to take care of themselves. You can imagine what the end would be, without my telling you." "Mr. Martin," said Pauline, "youhave left out something! You would not have gone on in that way if you had not had some experience that influenced you." Ho raised his head and looked at her; after a moment sho added, "I don't mean that you should tell it You lost your money, you were saying?" "All but fifty pounds, and a heap of clothes. I packed the clothes in my trunks, forty of the fifty pounds I handed to Brown to employ as events might require; and I was just on tho point of shipping for Australia when a Maori outbreak in the Taupo district was reported. I came to tho conclusion that I was probably born to bo shot; so I en- i tcred the service as full private in tho I Armed Constabulary. You have heard of tho Irish Constabulary. This was something of the same sort. "I enjoyed that campaign more than anything in New Zealand. Tho Maoris are splendid chaps for a fight. You have your Indian wars hero; but you should see those fellows! Well, one day wo had to attack a hill which the Maoris were posted, it was about tho shape of a beehive, and covered with trees; it was called Niho o to Kiore,* which means Rat's Tooth. That tooth gnawed a big hole in, our regiment. The Maoris had posted themselves in the trees?up in the branches?and had made a sort of glacis round the trunks; it was capital cover; they could see our fellows coming, and pot them at their lelSure; but our fire was wasted on the trees. If wo got too near, they would slip down from one tree and rim to another. Our men kept dropping, but there was no sign that we were producing any effect on them at all By and by the men came to tho nAwrtlncI.M. tl>nt f?m n'flo tnn nvnnn. WXIVAL&OXVS1A VUUV VliV aiau "V*w vw v?|/vu 6ive, and they began to fall back. Of course the Maoris followed us?pretty fast, too. I hated the idea of getting shot in the back; I had a few rounds of cartridges left, and I kept drawing up and popping at 'em. Brown was near me at that time. It was bad going under foot?rocks, bushes, gullies; all of a sudden I felt something hot just beneath my collar bone?a bullet through the left lung, I remember feeling pleased that I hadn't been hit in the back after all; then I stumbled over a root and went down. Brown saw me?he was a lieutenant?ho hailed three of our men, and they lifted me and carried me. I was pretty heavy and very bloody, and I had fainted, and the men thought I was dead and began to grumble,for the Maoris were closing up. They wanted to drop me, but Brown pulled out his revolver and vowed he'd shoot the first man who let go. As that was a certainty, whereas there was a chance of dodging the Maoris, they held on, and brought. me off. I got well and was promoted to a lieutenancy?what for I never discovered. Before I could be about again the war was over. I went back to Napier, and there I heard that Miss Dorrien Taylor, my mother's sister, was dead, and had left me eight thousand pounds. I ' ' 1 * ^ J ?11. J r A 1 11 cook a pare oc ic ana eauoa ior .a.spmwtui and came up to New York." "Did you leave the rest of your legacy with Mr. Brown?" "Yes; and you were quito right. It was on the voyage out from London. There was a woman on board. When we reached Napier I married her secretly. Brown was the only man who over knew' it. It was not a wise affair, Miss Nolen. She is living; she will outlive me. I knew I should liavo to tell you, and I've done it!" TO BR CONTINUKD >'KXT WEEK. [This .story wax commenced in .Vo. 10. Back numbers trill he famished on application, ] How Jnpaneso Rooms Arc Lighted. Light is admitted into Japanese rooms, not by glass windows, but by a kind of wooden gratings, over which a white paper is pasted on the outside. This paper diffuses the sunlight about the room \cry pleasantly, but it is not proof against rain; in rainy weather, therefore, the shutters have to bo put up which aro used to close the veranda and house in the night time, and which are the only doors in a Japanese liouso that it is thought necessary to furnish with a bolt. As the putting up and taking down of theso shutters is a matter demanding some time, it is usual to have a small door made in mem, which is called "the earthquake door," to provide means of quiclc cscapo in caso of emergency.?Cassell's Family Magazine. A Minister's Home Thrust. The Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford as good as told his immense congregation at St. George's one Sunday morning that many of them came there because it was fashionable. He had been talking of gain as apparently the prevailing motive of metropolitan life, and he said that many people made even the choice of tho church which they attended subject to their ambition for some form or other of gain. The home thrust was made so delicately that it rather made itself, and no one seemed offended, but an amused smile passed around the congregation.? New York Sun. Addicted to Tuklng Cold. "Qucerly enough, although men ridicule the paper shoes and other insullicient weather guards in the dress of women, they are more addicted to taking cold than we are," said an observing woman who had just returned from church. "And after they have a full blown cold on their hands they go about in cars, theatres and parlors advertising it by insufferable barkings and throat disturbances. What would they tliiidc of us if we did that way?"'?New York Press "Every Day Talk." l'ald for the I.ast Nrgro. Col. Zeb Ward, of Little Hock. Ark., thinks that lie was the last man to pay for a negro slave in this country. A negro woman who had been in his possession for several years, while a suit regarding her ownership was pending, nf-* tenvard brought suit against him for services, and gained a verdict. When Col. Ward liyide out a check he worded it: "To pay for the last negro that will ever be paid for in this country.'"-?New York Sun. Arts of Former Ages. Some arts of former ages have been lost, as that of engraving on crystal stones and granite, practiced by theEthiopians, Egpytians, etc., and the art of painting 011 glass, practiced in the monkish ages. Different directions, loo, have been given to the arts, though each is iH.'i fect iu its way. Chinese art. Japanese art, Hindoo art, are each different from European, which follows the Greek standard in sculpture and the Italian in painting.?Boston Budget. The Great War Syndicate. By FRANK R. STOCKTON. Author of "Rudder Grunge," "Anion Kilbrlght," "The Beo Man of Orn," "The Christmas Wreck," "The Ludy or the Tiger," "The Late Mrs. Null," "The : Hundredth Man," "Tho Casting Away 1 of Mrs. l/ceks and Mrs. Alcshlno," "The Dusautcs," etc. [Copyrighted hy 1'. F. Collier, of Collier's Once 1 a Week, and published by special arrangement j with him through the American Press Association. All rights reserved.) : Tlio rcpeller, accompanied by the mail j steamer and all the crabs, now moved to , about two miles to the leeward of tlio Craglevin, and lay to. The motor bomb 1 was then placed in one of the great guns, 1 while the scientific corps attended to the necessary calculations of distance, etc. ! The director now turned to the British j captain, who had been observing every- ! thing with the greatest interest, and, with a smile, asked him if he would like to commit harikati? As this remark was somewhat enigmatical, the director went on to say that if it would be any gratification to the captain to destroy his vessel with his own hands, instead of allowing tliis to be done by an enemy, lie was at liberty to do so. This offer was immediately accepted, for if his ship wero really to lie destroyed, the captain felt that he would ! like to do it himself. ! THE BRITISH ^CAPTAIN DESTROYINO HIS j OWN SHIP. When the calculations had been made ! and the indicator set, the captain was j shown the button ho must press, and j stood waiting for the 6ignal. He looked j over the sea at tlio Craglevin, wliich had I settled a little at the stern, and was roll- j ing heavily, but she was still a magnifi | cent battle ship, with the red cross of England floating over her. lie could I not help the thought that if this motor myspery should amount to nothing, there J was no reason why the Craglevin should J not bo towed into port, and bo made again tho grand war ship that she had been. Now tho director gave tho signal, and the captain, with his eyes fixed upon his j ship, touched the button. A quick shock ; ran through the rcpcller, and a black gray cloud, half a mile high; occupied the place of tho British ship. Tho cloud rapidly settled dowu, covering the water with a glittering scum which spread far and wide, and which had been the Craglevin. The British captain stood for a moment motionless, and then he picked up a rammer and ran it juto the muzzle of tho cannon which had been discharged. Tho great gun was empty. Tho instantaneous motor bomb was not there. Now he was convinced that tho syndicate had not mined tho fortresses which they had destroyed. In twenty minutes the two British officers were on board the transport, which then steamed rapidly westward. Tho crabs again took the repeller in tow, and the syndicate's fleet continued its eastward course, passing through tho wido expanse of glittering scum which had spread itself upon tho sea. They were not two-thirds of their way across tho Atlantic when tno transport reached St. Johns, and the cablo told the world that the Craglovin had been annihilated. This news was received with amazement, and even consternation. It came from an officer in tho Royal navy, and how could it be doubted that a great man-of-war had been destroyed in a moment by one shot from the syndicate's vessel! And yet, even now, there were persons who did doubt, and who asserted that the crabs might have placed a great torpedo under tho Craglevin; that a wire attached to this torpedo ran out from tho repeller, and that the British captain had merely fired the torpedo. But hour by hour, as fuller news came across tho ocean, the number of these doubters became smaller and smaller. In tho midst of the great public excitement which now existed on both sides of the Atlantic?in the midst of all tho conflicting opinions, fears and hopes?tho dominant sentiment seemed to be, in America as well as in Europe, one of curiosity. Wero these six crabs and ono repeller bound for tho British Isles? And if so, what did they intend to do when they got there? It was now generally admitted that one of the syndicate's crabs could disable a man-of-war; that ono of tho syndicate's repcllcrs could withstand the heaviest artillery fire, and that ono of tho syndicate's motor bombs could destroy a vessel or a fort. But theso tilings had been proved in isolated combats, where tho new methods of attack and defense had had almost undisturbed opportunity for exhibiting their efficiency. But what could a repeller and half a dozen crabs do against tho combined force of tho Royal navy, a navy which had in tho last few years regained its supremacy among the nations, and which had mado Great Britain once moro tho first maritime power in tho world? Tho crabs might disablo somo men-ofwar, the repeller might make her calculations and disehargo her bomb at a ship or a fort, but what would the main body of tho navy be doing meanwhile? Overwhelming, crushing and sinking to the bottom crabs, ronoller. motor cams and everything that belonged to them. In England thcro was a feeling of strong resentment that such a little fleet should be allowed to sail with such intent into British waters. This resentment extended itself not only to the impudent syndicate, but toward tho government, and the opposition party gained daily in strength. The opposition papers had been loud and reckless in their denunciations of tho slowness and inadequacy of the naval preparations, and loaded the government with tho cntiro responsibility, not only of tho damago which had already been done to the forts, tho ships, and tho prcstigo of Great Britain, but also for tho threatened danger of a sudden descent of tho syndicate's fleet upon some unprotected point upun the coast. This fleet should never have been allowed to approach within a thousand miles of England. It should have been sunk in mid-ocean, if its sinking had involved tho loss of a dozen menof-war. In America a very strong feeling of dissatisfaction showed itself. From the lirst tho syndicate contract had not been popular, but the quick, effective and business like action of that body of men, and tho marked success up to this timo of their inventions and their operations, had caused a great reaction in their favor. They had, so far, successfully defended the American coast, and when they had j increased the number of their vessels, they would have been relied upon to continue that defense. Even if a British an na< la had set out to cross tho Atlantic, its movements must have been slow and cumbrous, and the swift and sudden strokes with which the syndicate waged war could Iiave been given by night and by day over thousands of miles of ocean. Whether or not these strokes would have ln?en quick enough or hard enough to turn back an armada might be a question, but there could be no question of the suicidal policy of sending seven ships and two cannon to conquer England. It seemed as if the success of the syndicato had so puffed up its members with prido and confidence in their powers that they had come to beliovo that thoy had only to show themselves to conquer, whatever might be the conditions of the contest. The destruction of the syndicate's fleet would now be a heavy blow to the United States. It would produce an utter want of confidence in the councils and judgments of the syndicate, which could not bo counteracted by tho strongest faith in the efficiency of their engines of war, and it was feared that it might become necessary, even at this critical juncture, to annul the contract with the syndicate, and to depend upon the American navy for the defense of the American coast. Even among the men on board the syndicate's fleet there were signs of doubt and apprehensions of evil. It had all been very well so la? but fighting one eliip at -j time was a very different thing fro. u steaming iato the midst of a hundred silips. On board the repeller there was now an additional reason for fears and misgivings. The unlucky character of the vessel when it had been the Tallapoosa was known, and not a few of the men imagined that it must now be time for some new disaster to this ill starred craft, and if her evil genius had desired fresh disaster for her, it was certainly sending her into a good place to look for it. But the syndicate neither doubted nor hesitated, nor paid any attention to the doubts and condemnations which they heard from every quarter. Four days after the news of the destruction of the Craglevin had been telegraphed from Canada to London, tho syndicate's fleet entered the English channel. Owing to tho power and speed of the crabs, Repeller No. 11 had made a passage of the Atlantic which in her old naval career would have been considered miraculous. (Jraft of various kind3 were now passed, but none of tliem carried fhe British flag. In the expectation of the arrival of the enemy, British merchantmen and fishing vessels had been advised to keep in the background until tho British navy had concluded its business with the vessels of tho American syndicate. As has been said before, tho British admiralty had adopted a new method of defense for the rudders and screw propellers of naval vessels against the attacks of submerged craft. The work of constructing the new appliances had been pushed forward as fast as possible, but so far only one of these had been finished and attached to a man-of-war. The Llangaron was a recently built ironclad of the same size and class as the Adamant; and to her had been attached the new stern defense. This was an immense steel cylinder, entirely closed, and rounded at tho ends. It was about ten feet in diameter, and strongly braced inside. It was suspended by chains from two davits which projected over the stern of tho vessel. When sailing this cylinder was hoisted up to the davits, but when the ship was prepared for action it was lowered until it lay, nearly submerged, abaft of the rudder. In this position its ends projected about fifteen feet on either side of the propeller blades. It was believed that this cylinder would effectually prevent a crab from getting near enough to Che prcf>eller or the rudder to do nnv damaco. It could not be torn away as the stern jacket had been, for the rounded and smooth sides and ends of the massive cylinder would offer no hold to the forceps of the crabs; and, approaching from any quarter, it would bo impossible for these forceps to reach rudder or screw. The syndicate's little fleet arrived in British waters late in the day; and early the next morning it appeared about twenty miles to the south of the Isle of Wight, and headed to the northeast as if it wero making for Portsmouth. The course of these vessels greatly surprised the English government and naval authorities. It was expected that an attack would probably be made upon some comparatively unprotected spot 011 the British seaboard, and therefore on the west coast of Ireland and in St. George's channel preparations of the most formidable character had been made to defend British ports against Repeller No. 11 and her attendant crabs. Particularly was this the case in Bristol channel, where a largo number of ironclads wero stationed, and which was to have been the destination of the Llangaron if the syndicate's vessels had delayed their coming long enough to allow her to get around there. That this little fleet should have sailed straight for England's great naval stronghold was something that the British admiralty could not understand. The fact was not appreciated that it was tho object of the syndicate to measure its strength with the greatest strength of tho enemy. Anything less than this would not avail its purpose. Notwithstanding that so many vessels had been sent to different parts of the coast, thero was still in Portsmouth harbor a large number of war vessels of various classes, all in commission and ready for action. Tho greater part of Mmen lm/1 vnnni'rnrl Ar/lni'C tf\ PVlllQP t.hflt day in tlio channel. Consequently it was still early in the morning when around the eastern end of the Isle of Wight there appeared a British fleet composed of fifteen of the finest ironclads, with several gunboats and cruisers, and a number of torpedo boats. It was a uoblo sight, for besides the war ship3 there was another fleet hanging upon tho outskirts of the first, and composed of craft, large and small, and from both sides of tho channel, filled with those who wore anxious to witness from afar tho sea fight which was to take place under such novel conditions. Many of these observers wero reporters and special correspondents for groat newspapers. On some of tho vessels which came up from tho French coast wero men with marine glasses of extraordinary power, whoso business it was to 6cnd an early and accurate report of tho affair to the office of tho war syndicate j in New York. ' As soon as tho British sliips came in sight, tho four crabs cast off from Repel- ! lcr No. 11. Then with tho other two they prepared for action, moving considerably in advance of tho repellcr, which now steamed forward very slowly. Tho wind was strong from tho northwest, and tho sea high, tho shining tops of the crabs frequently disappearing under the waves. Tho British fleet camo steadily on, headed by tho great Llangaron. This vessel was very much in advance of tho others, for knowing that when slio was really in action and tho great cylinder which formed her stern guard was lowered into the water her speed would bo much retarded, she had put on all steam, and Being the swiftest war ship of her class, she had distanced all her consorts. It was highly important that slio should begin tho fight and engage tho attention J of as many crabs as possible while cer- j tain of the other ships attacked tho re- | peller with their rams. Although it was now generally behoved that motor bombs from a repcller might destroy a man-of-war, it was also considered probable that tho accurate calculations wliich j appeared to be necessary to precision of ; aim couhl not be made when tlio object j of the aim was in rapid motion. But whether or not ono or moro motor | bombs did striko tho mark, or whether j or not ono or more vessels were blown into fine particles, there wero a dozen ironclads in that fleet, each of wlioso commanders and officers wero determined to run into that reDeller and crush her, if so be they held' together long enough to reach her. The commanders of tho torpedo boats had ordere to direct their swift messen| gersof destruction first against tho crabs, for these vessels were far in advance of the repeller, and coming on with a' rapidity which showed that they were determined upon mischief. If a torpedo, shot from a torpedo boat, and speeding swiftly by its own powers beneath the waves, should strike the submerged hull of a crab, there would be one crab tho j less in tho English channel. As has been said, tho Llangaron came I rushing on, distancing everything, even ' the torpedo boats. If, before she was obliged to lower her cylinder, she could get near enough to the almost stationary repeller to take part in tho attack on her, she would then be content to slacken 3peed and let tho crabs nibble awhile at her stern. two or tno rarest construuieu uuu largest crabs, <3 and R, headed at full speed to meet the Llangaron, who, as she came on, opened the ball by sending a "rattler" in the shape of a 300-pound shot into the ribs of the repeller, then at least four miles distant, and immedately after began firing her dynamite guns, which were of limited range, at the roofs of the advancing crabs. There were some on board the repeller who, at the moment the great shot struck her, with a ringing and clangor of steel springs, such as never was heard before, wished that in her former state of existence she had been some other vessel than the Tallapoosa. But every spring sprang back to its place as the great mass of iron glanced off into the sea. The dynamite bombs flew over the tops of the crabs, whose rapid motions and slightly exposed surfaces gave little chance for accurate aim, and in a short time they were too close to tho Llangaron for this class of gun to be used upon them. As tho crabs came nearer, the Llangaron lowered tho great steel cylinder which hung across her stern, until it lay almost entirely under water, and abaft of her rudder and propeller blades. She now moved slowly tlirough tho water, and her men greeted the advancing crabs with yells of defiance, and a Bhower of shot from machine guns. The character of the new defense which had been fitted to the Llangaron was known to the syndicate, and the directors of the two new crabs understood the heavy piece of work which lay before them. But their plans of ac tion had been well considered, and they J made straight for the stern of the British ship. It was, of course, impossible to endeavor to grasp that great cylinder with its rounded ends; their forceps would slip from any portion of its smooth surface on which they should endeavor tp lay hold, and no such attempt was made. Keeping near the cylinder, one at each end of it, the two moved slowly after the Iiangaron, apparently discouraged. In a short time, however, it was perceived by those on board the ship, that a change had taken place in the appearance of the crabs: tho visible portion of their backs was growing larger and larger; they were rising in the water. Their mailed roofs became visiblo from end to end, and tho crowd of observers looking down from the ship were amazed to see what large vessels they were. Higher and higher tho crabs arose, their powerful air pumps working at their greatest capacity, until their ponderous pincers became visiblo above tho water. Then into the minds of tho officers of the Llangaron flashed tho true object of this uprising, which to tho crew had seemed an intention on the part of the sea devils to clamber on board; - ' - "i If tho cylinder were left in its present position tho crab might seize tho chains by which it was suspended, while if it were raised it would cease to be a defense. Notwithstanding this latter contingency, the order was quickly given to raise the cylinder, but beforo tho hoisting engine had been set in motion Crab Q thrust forward her forceps over the top Tof the cylinder and held it down. Another thrust, and the iron jaws had crasned one of the two ponderous chains by which the cylinder was suspended. The other end of the cylinder began to rise, but at this moment Crab It, apparently by a single effort, lifted herself a foot higher ouA of the sea; her pincers flashed forward, and the other chain was graspedThe two crabs were now placed in the most extraordinary position. The overhang of their roofs prevented an attack on their hulls by the Llangaron, but their unmailed hulls were so greatly exposed that a few shot from another sliip could easily have destroyed them. But as any ship firing at them would bo very likely to hit tho Llangaron, their directors felt safe on this point. Throe of tho foremost ironclads, less than two miles away, were heading directly for them, and their rams might bo used with but little danger to tho Llangaron, but, on tho other hand, three swift crabs were heading directly for these ironclads. It was impossible for Crabs Q and R to operato in the usual way. Their massive forceps, lying flat against the top of tho cylinder, could not bo twisted. The enormous chains they held could not bo severed by tho greatest pressure, and if both crabs backed at onco they would probably do no inoro than tow tho Llangaron stern foremost. There was, moreover, no time to waste in experiments, for other rams would be coming on, and there were not crabs enough to attend to them all. No time was wasted. Q signaled to It and It back again, and instantly the two nrol,o nonli still rrnsnina" a chain of the ? O 1 r> cylinder, began to sink. On board the Llangaron an order was shouted to let out tho cylinder chains, but sis these chains had only been made Jong enough to allow tho top of the cylinder to hang at, or a littlo below, tho surface of the water, a foot or two of length was all that could be gamed. | The davits from which tho cylinder [ hung were thick and strong, and the I iron windlasses to which the chains were J attached were largo and ponderous, but j tlieso wero not strong enough to withstand the weiglit of two crabs with steel armored roofs, enormous engines and iron hull. In less than a minute one davit snapped like a pipe stem under the tremendous strain, and immediately afterward tho windlass to which the chain was attached was torn from its bolts and went crashing overboard, tearing away a portion of tho stern rail in Its descent. | Crab Q instantly released tho chain it had held, and in a moment tho great ! cylinder hung almost perpendicularly from 0110 chain. But only for a moI ment. Tho nippers of Crab R still firmly held the chain, and tho tremendous leverage exerted by the falling of one end of tho' cylinder wrenched it from the rigidly held end of its cliain; and in a flash, tho enormous stern guard of the Llangcron sunk, end foremost, to tho bottom of the clmnnel. In ten minutes afterward tho Llangaron, rudderless, and with tho blades of lier propellers sliivered and crushed, was slowly turning her starboard to the wind t and tho sea and "beginning to roll like a ' Jog of 8,000 tons. | Besides the Llangaron three ironclads | were now drifti ug broadside to the sea. But thero was no timo to succor disabled i vessels, for tho r est of tho fleet was coui| iug on and thero was great work for the ! crabs. j Against tlieso enemies, swift of motion and sudden in action, tho torpedo boats ! found it almost impossible to operate, for tlio British ships and tho crabs wero so rapidly Hearing each other that a torpedo j sent out against an enemy was more than i likely to run against tho hull of a friend. Each crab sped at the top of its speed for a Bhip, not only to attack, but also to protect itself. 1 Once ouly did . thu crubs give the tor pedo boats a chance. A mile or two north of the scene of action a hirge cruiser was making her way rapidly toward the repellcr, which was still lying, almost motionless, four miles to tho westward. As it was highly probable that this vessel carried dynamite guns, Crab Q, which was tho fastest of her class, was signaled to go after her. Sho had scarcely begun her course across the open space of sea beforo a torpedo boat was in pursuit. Fast as was the latter, tho crab was faster, and quite as easily managed. She was in a position of great danger, and her only safety lay in keeping herself on a line between the torpedo boat and tho gunboat, and to shorten as quickly as possiblo the distanco between herself and that vessel. CAEKDAPF BEFORE THE BOMBARDMENT. If the torpedo boat shot^o one side in order to get the crab out of line, the crab, its back sometimes hidden by the tossing waves, sped also to the same side. When the torpedo boat could aim a gun at the crab and not at the gunboat, a deadly torpedo flew into the 6ea, but a tossing sea and a shifting target were unfavorable to tho gunner's aim. It was not long, however, before tho crab had run the chase which might so readily have been fatal to it, and was so near the gunboat that no more torpedoes could bo fired at it. Of course tho officers and crew of tho gunboat had watched with most anxious interest tho chase of the crab. The vessel was one which had been fitted out for service with dynamito guns, of which sho carried some of very long range for this class of artillery, and she had been ordered to get astern of the repeller and to do her best to put a few dynamito bombs on board of her. The dynamito gunboat, therefore, had kept ahead at full speed, determined to carry out her instructions if she should be allowed to do so, but her speed was not as great as that of a crab, and when tho torpedo boat had given up the chase, and the dreaded crab was drawing swiftly near, the captain thought it time for bravery to give place to prudence. With the largo amount of explosive material of the most tremendous and terrific character which he had on board, it would be the insanity of courage for him to allow his comparatively small vessel to be racked, shaken and partially shivered by the powerful jaws of the oncoming foe. As he could neither fly nor fight, lie hauled down his flag in token of surrender, tho first instance of the kind which had occurred in this war. When the director of Crab Q. through his lookout glass, beheld this action on tho part of the gunboat, lie was a little perplexed as to what ho should next do. To accept tho surrender of the British vessel and to assume control of her, it was necessary to communicate with her. The communications of the crabs were made entirely by black smoke signals, and these tho captain of the gunboat could not understand. The heavy hatches in the mailed roof, which could be put in use when the crab was cruising, could not bo opened when she was at lier fighting depth and in a tossing sea. A means was soon devised of communicating with the gunboat. A speaking tube was run up through one of the air pipes of the crab, which pijie was then elevated Gonio distance above the surface. Through this the director hailed the other vessel, and as the air pipe was near the stern of the crab; and therefore at a distance from the only visible portion of the turtle back roof, his voice seemed to come out of the depths of the ocean. The surrender was accepted, and the captain of the gunboat was ordered to stop his engines and prepare to be towed. When this order had been g'von the crab moved round to tliobow of the gunboat, and grasping the cutwater with its forceps, reversed its engines and l>egan to back rapidly toward the British fieet, taking with it the captured vessel as a protection against torpedoes while in transit. The crab slowed up not far from one of the foremost of the British ships, and coming round to the quarter of the gunboat, the astonished captain of that vessel was informed, through the speaking tube, that if he would give his parole to ?" r\f fliiu fiirJit hn wnillll he AWViJ/ WWW V* V*??u . . . w f - allowed to proceed to his anchorage in Portsmouth harbor. The parole was given, and the dynamite gunboat, after reporting to the Hag ship, steamed away to Portsmouth. The situation now became 0110 which was unparalleled in the history of naval warfare. On the side of the British seven war ships were disabled and drifting slowly to the southeast. For half an hour no advance had been made by the British licet, for whenever one of the large vessels had steamed ahead, such vessel had become tho victim of a crab, and the vice admiral commanding tho fleet had signaled not to advanco until further orders. The crabs wero also lying to, each to the windward of g.nd not far from one of the British ships. They had ceased to mako any attacks, and were resting quietly under protection of the enemy. This, with the fact that the repeller still lay four miles away without any apparent intention of taking part in the battle, gave the situation its peculiar character. The British vice admiral did not intend to remain in this quiescent condition. It was, of course, useless to order forth his ironclads, simply to see them disabled and set adrift. There was another arm of the service which evidently could be used with better effect upon this peculiar foe than could tho great battle ships. But before doing anything else, ho must provide for tho safety of those of his vessels which had been rendered helpless by the crabs, :uid some 01 wnicn were now drifting dangerously near to each other. Dispatches had been sent to Portsmouth for tugs, for it would not do to wait until theso arrived, and a suflicient number of ironclads were detailed to tow their injured consorts into port. When this order had been given, the vice admiral immediately prepared to renew the fight, and this time his elforts were to bo directed entirely against tho repeller. It would bo useless to devote any further attention to tho crabs, especially in their present positions. But if tho chief vessel of the syndicate's licet, with its spring armor, and its terrible earthquake bombs, could be destroyed, it was quite possible that those sea parasites, the crabs, could also be disposed of. Every torpedo boat was now ordered to tho front, and in a long line, almost abreast of each other, these swift vessels ?tho light infantry of the sea?advanced upon tho solitary and distant foe. If one torpedo could but reach her hull, tho vice admiral, in spite of seven disabled ironclads and a captured gunboat, might yet gaze proudly at his floating flag, even if his own ship should l>e drifting broadside to the sea. [TO 111-: roNTINllKI?*NKXT WKKK.] [T/ti.i .story iru.s enmmcncr.tl in No. b>. Unck numberx will he /uriii.sheil on nyytieiilion.] One of the examination papers of a young miss in a city school contained the question: "Which zone produces the highest type of man?" In unmistakable characters the answer road: "The temperance zone." fttiscfltatwims Jkadimj. Fur tlic Yorkvllle Enquirer. REMINISCENCES OF WESTERN YORK. Just below the mouth of King's creek, on Broad river, the McDaniels j had a fishery in ante-bellum times, j whero the people, for miles around, went in th6 spring of the year to get ' shad. The seine used was long enough to reach across the river. A bateau, with a crew on board, took j one staff of the seine and made the i circuit, while the other staff was kept close to the York bank of the river and brought down slowly with the current for a few hundred yards to the place they "drew out" or "fished the seine." Sometimes a draught would gather "a multitude of fishes," and sometimes a "water haul" was * made. Both were reasonably looked for by the fishermen. Frequently herring or "small fry" were caught. These were dumped alivo in a tub of salt water, where they were pickled. With somo people this was a favorite mess. Hundreds, and it might not be extravagant to say thousands, of shad, red-horse and mullet of the largest size in our up-country waters, were caught at this fishery, annually. Many people below, above and beyond Yorkville, as well as from the town itself, camfe there to witness and take part in this sport, which to the owners was quite remunerative. The Mannings, Martins and others, who made and sold whisky, had a good time, too, as almost every fishing party then, as well as now, liked to have "something to drink," and frequently a good supply was taken home for "summer use." I don't remember ever having heard of a man in those times going to a doggery or still house to get liquor purposely for his wife. The generation who passed away in the current of war had the manhood, generally, to stand up and claim the right to do their own drinking, regardless of what their fellow-men thought or said about it, while now on file in our drugstores there are baskets full of prescriptions for poor, unsuspecting women. A drunken sot of a so-called husband goes reeling home under the influence of liquor to procure which he used his wife's name in order to compromise his self respect with his leprous morals. Generations have changed with time. We merely call these matters to notice that justice may be done those whose infirmities we have already noticed, and who have passed to their final rewards. They had their virtues as well as vices. The former we remember; the latter we try toJorget. Whether this is a general depravity of human nature or a disrespect for laws based upon a regenerated constitution, we leave the reader to judge for himself. General Joe Hooker, when placed at the head of the Federal army, said, just before the battle of Chancellorsville, that he commanded the finest army upon the planet. We want the readers of these reininiscenses to remember that the kind of men whose foibles are more conspicuously represented here than their virtues, belonged mainly to that class of men who were the instruments in the hands of the immortal Lee with which he dealt his adversary crushing blows on many battle fields where the valor of American soldiers (on both sides) has become a part of our nation's history. We ask our elder readers to go back with us over the field of recollection and with generous hearts, whose pulsations are humane, consign the faults of our fellow men to forgetfulness and inscribe only their virtues upon the tablets of our country's history, that our younger readers too may say of them : "They need not history's pages ; The poet's praise they scorn ; Through all succeeding ages Their deeds will them adorn. Their country's call they heeded ; From far and near they come, Their lives and fortunes deeded To this, their Southern home. Their graves are widely scattered ; Their homes with sorrow riven ; Their colors worn and tattered, They rest, wo hope, in Heaven." J. L. s. THE RUSSIAN POLICE. From George Kennau's article in the Century we quote the following: There is probably no cbuntry in the world where the public power occupies a wider field, plays a more important part, or touches the private personal life of the citizen at more points than it does in Kussia. In a country like England or the United States, where people are the governing power, the function of the police are simple and clearly defined, and are limited, for the most part, to the prevention or the detection of crime, and the maintenance of order in public places. In llussia, however, where the people are not the governing power, nui noici 10 mai power the relation of an infant ward to a guardian, the police occupy a very different and much more important position. The theory upon which the government proceeds is, that the citizen not only is incapable of taking part in the management of the affairs of his country, his province, or his district, but is irfcompetent to manage even the affairs of his own household ; and that, from the time when lie leaves his cradle and begins the struggle of life down to the time when his weary gray head is finally laid under the sod, he must be guided, directed, instructed, restrained, repressed, regulated, fenced in, fenced out, braced up, kept down, and made to do generally what somebody else thinks best for him. The natural outcome of this paternal theory of government is the concentration of all administrative authority in the hands of a few officials, and an enormous extension of the police power. , Matters that in other countries are left to the discretion of the individual citizens, or to the judgment of a small group of citizens, are regulated in Russia by the minister of the interior through the imperial police. If you are a Russian, and wish to felablish a newspaper, you must ask the permission of the minister of the interior. If you wish to open a Sunday-school, or any other sort of school, whether in a neglected slum of St. Petersburg or in a native village in Karnschatka, you must ask the permission of the minister of the public instruction. If you wish to give a concert, or to get up a tableau for the benefit of an orphan asylum, you must ask permission of the nearest representative of the Minister of the Interior, then submit your programme of exercises to a censor for approval or revision, and finally hand over the proceeds of the entertainment to the police, to be embezzled or given to the orphan asylum, a,s it may happen. If you wish to sell newspapers on the street, you must get permission-, be registered in the books of the police, and wear a numbered brass plate as big 1 1_ i c as a saucer arounu your hock, u you wish to open a drug store, a printing-office, a photograph gallery, or a bookstore, you must get permission. If you are a photographer, and desire to change the location of your business, you must get permission. If you are a student, and go to a public library to consult Lyell's "Principles of Geology," or Spencer's "Social Statistics,"you will find that ycu cannot eveu look at such dangerous and incendiary yolumes without special permission. If you are a physician you must get permission before you can practice, and then, if you do not wish to respond to calls in the night, you must have permission to refuse to go; futhermore, if you wish to prescribe what is known in Russia as "powerful acting" medicines, you must have special permission, or the druggist will i I not daro to your prescriptions, If you are a peasant, and wish to build a bath-house on your premises, you must get permission. If you wish to thresh out your grain in the evening by candle-light, you must get permission or bribe the police. If you wish to go more than fifteen miles away from your home, you must get permission. If you are a foreign traveler, you must get permission to come into the Empire, permission to go out of it, permission to stay in it longer than six months, and must notify the police every time you change your board| ing-place. In short, you cannot live, move, or have your being in I T-? ? T7< 1 ... ! i I 1 mo ivussiun empire wimuui. permission. "QUICK AS THOUGHT." ' Some of our readers have no doubt frequently made use of the expression, "quick as thought," but nave any of them ever stopped to consider how quick thought is ? A writer in the Nineteenth Century has made some interesting calculations regarding the comparative length of time it takes to call to mind various everyday facts. It takes about two-fifths of a second to call to mind the country in which a well-known town is situated, or the language in which a certain author wrote. We can think of the name of the next month in half the time we need to think of the name of the last month. It takes on an average one-third of a second to add numbers consisting of one digit, and half a second to multiply them. Such experiments give us considerableinsight into the mind. Those used to reckoning can add two to three in less time than others; those familiar with literature can remember more quickly than others that Shakspeare wrote "Hamlet." It take longer to mention a month when a season has been given, than to say to what month a season belongs. The time taken up in choosing a motion, the "will time," can be measured as well as the time taken up in perceiving. If I do not know which of two colored lights is to be presented, and must lift my right hand if it be red, and my left if it bo blue, I need about one-thirteenth of a second to initiate tne correct motion. I have also been able to register the sound waves made in the air by speaking, and thus have determined that, in order to call up the name belonging to a printed word, I need about-ninth of a second ; to a letter, one-sixth of a second ; to a picture, one-quarter of a second, and to color, one-third of/i second. A letter can be seen more quickly than a word, but we are so used to reading aloud that the process has become quite automatic, and a word can be read with greater ease and in less time than it can be named. The same experiments made On other persons give times differing but little from my own. Mental processes, however, take place more slowly in children, in the aged, and in-the uneducated. Cuuious Things in a Cottoni Bale.?At the WampanoagMill the other day, says a Fall River letter in the Providence Journal, the workmen in the picker-room stopped a package of matches just as the bundle was disappearing into the picker. It had come out of a cotton bale the men had just opened. Had they gone into the machine there would have been a lively blaze. Speaking of this incident, a man who has tended a picker for several years said that 11? at.2 ?1.:o oaham Hltt WllUgS WHICH UUIUD uuvw a V.UV1UU bale and evidently grow on bushes would astonish one. One day he heard something grind inside the picker, and, stopping the machine, found a silver spoon. Lizards and small snakes were common. A set of false teeth, small coins, knives, tobacco, and occasionally articles of more value, have been found. These things undoubtedly get inside the bales accidentally, but there are other things which evidently get inside in accordance with a fixed purpose, and, by strange coincidences, they are found to weigh more than cotton, and not to be wonth as much per pound on the market. Sand, scrap iron and dirt are often found wrapped inside a cotton bale for ballast. How to Read a Jury.?Officials in criminal courts who take the trouble to make a study of jurors can usually tell just what sort of a ver*,!"t " ...Sll mim au annn aa itfl U1UI iV JUIJ' mil glt? ug uvuu >.W - ? members return after deliberating upon a case. There is always something in their faces which indicates to the experienced eye whether the verdict is guilty or not guilty. "This man is going to be acquitted, sure," said an old court officer in general sessions, as a jury came in with a verdict in an important case a few days ago. "You see, about every man in the box turned his face to the defendant as soon as he took his seat. That's always a sure sign. I never knew it to fail. When the verdict is for conviction the jurors invariably keep their eyes on the judge^r the ceiling. Members of a convicting jury often seem to find it difficult to look upon the prisoner, even when the clerk instructs them to do so. I suppose the explanation of it is that with most people it is a hard matter to infiict pain even on a guilty man." S& A New Brunswick doctor was accosted a few days ago by agettizen who informed him that hismmpnter had two teeth which he wished.,to have extracted. As the doctotijipl not have any instruments with mm*', he was asked to bring them the nexfi?-; time he went on his rounds, which he did. Going into the house, he requested the citizen to stand by his horse while he was extracting the teeth. When he had completed the operation, he wentoutand was asked what his charge would be, and replied fifty cents, which is half the regular charge. The citizen, who, it is presumed, had never had much dental work done, turned pale, but quickly recovering himself, put in a counterclaim of twenty-five cents for holding the horse, and had it admitted. ttay* Jefferson always discountenanced the celebration of his birth-day by his fellow-citizens, saying in a letter to his attorney-general, Levi Lincoln: "With respect to the day on which they wish to fix their anniversary, they may be told that, disapproving, myself, of transferring the honors and veneration to the great birthday of our republic to any individual, or of dividing them with individuals, 1 have declined having my own birthday to be known, and have engaged my own family not to communicate it. This has been the uniform answer to every application of the kind." It is said that, accordingly, Jefferson's birthday was never publicly known till after his death. von?n stvat.twj.?In reDlv to the many charges that the negro's besetting sin is stealing, Francis C. Long, a colored man, says in the African Methodist lteview: "Iu these modern days, after centuries of practice, the 'nigger' steals a chicken, the white man steals a horse; the 'nigger' steals a ham, the white man steals a hog; the 'nigger' steals a dollar, the white man a bank; the 'nigger' steals a cross-tie, the white man a railroad; the 'nigger' steals a constable's office, the white man steals the Presidency of the United States." By the admission of the new States the government is obliged to purchase eight thousand national liags with forty-two stareapiece. The United States Bunting company, of which Gen. Butler is owner, will, it is said, bo $20,000 richer by the trans1 action.