The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, May 17, 1899, Page 7, Image 7

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'HE TOILER'S RECOMPENSE. i. i,, hour ago the world waa cold And beaven eoe ru ed far away, all the gloom that tay toort ooalc hold Appeared to bo centered t?tere. And I wondered if ever another day With u cheerful aky and fair, yr. nlil dawn for me, or would bring for tn? Such joys an the joys that had fled -/thu way beyond had a thing for me * Worth the ooat of toiling ahead. II. 4J> hour ado the world waa cold. And heaven eooined far away, g0l thu cloud* that were leaden are finget with r?old, Ami wy heart ht light aguin; For uno with a helpful word to say wfeppod "ut from the rai>kn of men, >.\ ?ha han<i for nie and a tunile for mo, \wl prai** for tho work, I've done, AJ.I1 out there many a milo for me * goal that ?hall be won. -S. E. Kiscr in Cleveland Leader. ? P # 1HE MYSTERIOUS COCKSWAIN. ? ! ? ?c?oe5o?o?o^o?oejo?o?o?oao? The big battleship was rolling ma jestically to and fro several miles of! the t oast when tbe fiery son appeared above the horizon and bathed in golden cms the stunted palms and deserted ghores of Coba; The bluejackets had bett turned to earlier than usual, and the work of the morning watch WSB already completed. On the forecastle tb? idlers and marines were performing their morning ablations, while the jackies who had been waehing down d?. ts and cleaning ship were gathered in picturesque groups forward of the ? bjj- turrets, excitedly discussing the news which hod been brought forward hv sonie of tho wardroom boys. ..Thu first luff has been ordered to j get ont a steam launch and a cutter j snfl send somo. one into the harbor's j month to cut u cable. It will be a dan ?erong job, for the boats will havo to eropple for the cable right in range of the Spanish batteries.'' * Here, at last, was an end to tho mo notony of blockading service and a chance to do something. For weeks the bir ship had been steaming idly back gnu* forth without once firing a shot or evcu chasing a blockade runner. It was m?t strange that the news the ward t, .;n hoys were telling created a furore rf nr. ci tentent among the jackies on the forecastle) and the early appearance of \Q,; young officers on the deck showed ( that "steerage" had also been informed if the intended expedition. Among others who heard the story on the forecastle was Cockswain Welch, A h'j. with his trousers rolled up to his bets and his muscular arms bared to the shoulder, had just come in from the ?bini cutter, his especial pet and pride, ?Lere, with bucket and swab, he had leen removing some of the traces of cinders and soot deposited by the big DDuels overhead. Welch was not a popular man among lis untes. He had but recently joined be ship, and, to the disgust of many D old shellback, he bad hardly been dlleted to tha after guard when he was ated a cockswain-vice Murphy, dis ated for drunkenness-and now had barge of the best cutter on board. Jany strange stories were being whis ked about among Welch's inates con aning the new cockswain. He was oo yoong to have been an apprentice* nd there were some who said he was tow serving his first enlistment and lad obtained bis re ting because of a with some of the youngsters in the ?erage. Others averred that Welch ?an not the cockswain's real name and lat he had a story to tell which would take a fine sensation for any of the ewspaper correspondents hovering bout the squadron on the swift little iwboats could any one guess what it ras. Bnt Welch, by his quiet atten OD to duty, his reticence and gentle lanly manners, had hitherto remained mystery, which bothered the curious aes among the jackies not a little. Ktbal, he seemed to be a good seaman mmr'~ tc have tho Cuuu?trace of his supe Hjere, who, if they knew his secret, had Apt it well to themselvea ? "Pass the word for Welch, the cock Hrainof the third cutter I" piped the Hwtswain'e mate "Lay after to the Marter deck!" j || The message was taken up and re galed by the boatswain's mates in tho Sfferent parts of the ship, and the Bckswain, rolling down his duck trou Bp and setting his watch cap squarely ;9> the top of his head, hurried off in ?spense to tha call Bl Reaching the quarter deck, Welch ??tl at attention, forward of the steer He hatch, until his soldierly figure HfDght the eye of the first lieutenant, 3fro was pacing nervously up and down W weather side. ?"Welch 1" thc executive officer spoke 1?tfply an(i stopped suddenly in his iHpried walk. iMThe cockswain sprang forward, and, fypging his bare heels together in the Ii pasture of "attention," saluted perior. '/ e're going to try and cut tbr.i oday and shall send in the third with the launch, to do the work, require a copi. head to handle Itter under fire, and there are chances that she may not come. nnscathed. This work munt be and everything will depend on i y the boats are bandied. Lien d? Koven will have charge of ^edition, and*Mr. Karl will go cutter. Only volunteers will be and I have sent for yon to give chance tc go."' >ank you, sir," said Welch, with s of self possession, though his flushed. ?n may go forward and quietly nt eight men for your boat. Take ol u nt eera and good, cool headed When yon have selected your report to Mr. Karl?. That will, ch saluted and hurried forward t as his legs would carry him. was a chance he had been waiting, ig. praying for. Th'e dangers of tho ition did not occur to him, and if lad he would have worried little them. He now had an ppportuni discinguish himself and perhaps w>me people that--well? he would hink of this jnat now, but Cock I Welch did think of these things he saniA. ??*V*h^ -ere -o tbowgLi gl t?em the moro anxious he waa to on the perilous expedition. WjKht men for tba cotter w?reqnick .?ected. Ra might have had twenty ?; jy* sa ruggy had ho hewn ordered to . TMBMaHsaaWlTliiwiirilWlilWlfasaiiiiiii nlinV ni take them, bat the chosen ones were ali strong, able men, who could be relied on to do their duty under the moat try ing circumstances. Getting his clothes bag from the bag room, as the other men were doing, Welch dressed in a clean working snit, with bis big black kerchief correctly knotted ubctnt his throat, and hurried down to report to Mr. Karl. In the steerage the naval cadets and junior officers were just finishing an early breakfast, und the Japanese serv ants were hurrying back aud forth with tempting dishes and steaming pots of coffee. The cockswain's knock at the door bronght the steerage steward, und to him Welch repeated his message. His words were heard by the youngsters at tho table, and one of them sang ont in clear, boyish tones: "Come in, Welch." The cockswain, hat in hand, entered the room and fonnd himself facing Naval Cadet Kori, who was making short work of a regulation navy break fast of bacon and eggs. "L was ordered to report to you, sir." said Welch. < "All right, cockswain; come in here. I want to see you a minute," and Karl, jumping up from the table, pnehed open the door of his stateroom and motioned to Welch to enter the little room where the tumbled bunks and general untidy appearance showed that Karl's Japanese boy had not yet put this apartment in condition for inspection. Such an unusual proceeding on the part of their messmate as tc invite a sailor into his stateroom made the eyes of the other yonng gentlemen at the table protrude from their sockets. "Karl alwoye was a genius in eccen tricity, but this move beats mo," re marked one of tho cadets. There was but one chair in the state room, and in this Karl ueated the sea man as soon as the heavy drapery at the door had fallen behind them. i:See here, Andrew"-Karl was visi bly excited, and his voice trembled a little as he spoke-"you're going with me today into a veritable bell trap, and before we go I want to tell you some ' thing. Until after you had told the commandant of cadets at the academy that you wove guilty cf 'gonging' nt that 'skinny' exam. I never knew that you cared anything for my sister. I acted like a coward about that affair, and I nm willing to acknowledge it. I permitted you to take the whole blame because I waa too cowardly to let on that I was the guilty person. I asked yon to help me at that examination, and yon did it. When old Crook saw on the floor tbafr piece of paper with the skinny problem on it, which you bad tried to pass to me, I should have owned up at once that the problem was intended fer me and not for you. Well, I didn't own up to it, as I should have done." Karl's face was now flushed, and he was raising his voice a little. "You were dismissed and never lisped a word to anybody in the academy abont my treachery. "Yotrtook my punishment. You were disgraced and yonr life was rained. You could have ruined me had yon been less of a mon. No.no"-Welch had now jumped to his feet and was trying to say something-"I say you could have mined me, but you took my disgrace and for my sake became a homeless wanderer. After yon were dis missed from the academy I learned that Nellie loved you. Yes ; she wrote me that she loved you, and, see, here is th? letter." ; Karl drew ?rom a pigeonhole in hit desk a dainty envelope and passed it tc Welch, who sat with his hand shading his eyes, as if dazed. "Then I began to see how selfishly 1 had behaved," Karl went on. "Whet you came on board this ship, an enlist ed man, I knew you at once in spite ol yonr mustache and yonr changed ap pearance. but Bill and the other fellow! didn't recognize you. I have done wbai I conld for you here, but it hasn't beer much tha*t I could do. I knew yot would want to go on this cable cnttimj trip, and I asked the first luff to sene you with ?MO ?? iu? cotter. . "I have kept my secret, but in th ii I letter, which I have just written, ] have told the fellows all about you ant how you took my punishment like i hero-yes, that's the word, a hero, foi you are a hero, Andrew, and I'm a con founded rascal. If I don't get bael from this trip we are going, on today the boya will find this letter in in: desk. I have written home, too." am Karl's face became pale again, and hi nervously shuffled the papers in hi desk. "Nellie will know about it too I have told ber all in this Tetter. " The naval cadet and the seam*] faced each -other in silence a moment then they separated, each to pre?ar for the hazardous venture in whicl they wero to participate. When Welch walked out tbrongh th steerage country to the forecastle tightly clasping in his hand the daint; envelope Karl had given him, bis fae was paler than usual. At ll o'clock the battleship ami th rest of the squadron moved in tower the harbor and opened fire on the Span ish batteries, several miles distant While the big guns roared and th shells were flying toward the beach sending the Spanish gunners ecurryin like frightened rate into their holes, th steam launch .with the cutter in toi shoved off from the battleship. The location of the cable was knows and when the cutter was a milo froi .bore the grappling irons were thro* overboard* and the work was begun : earnest. Tbs cutter, cast adrift fro the launch, worked in toward the shot while the launch moved out into ti harbor and was out of range when tl Spaniards opened fire.. Soon the water about the cutter fal ly sizzled with the rain cf rapid fi projectiles, but the Yankee tars, wi their faces bard set-and their eyes fix on the two m?n handling tue grappiii lines, pulled doggedly away nt the cm Karl and Cockswain Welch kept t boat moving steadily in toward t beach,' nenror nnd nearer the batterie <The poor marksmanship of the Spa lards caused the. cutter's crew to smi ' grimly, and one irrepressible Ir! shin i in the bow muttered something und his breath that caused a laugh arno: the oarsmen. "Silence in the boat!" command Karl. "Cockswain We** ' Crash, crash 1 and a shriek of ra frcT? vua stroke oarsman. The flyi: splinters wounded tbreo or four of t men; and the boat officer was dot with a scarlet stream staining his wai service blouse just bejow tho hzart well directed shot from a ranid fire sr uii tue oeacn aaa sniasneu u iu?c through the gunwale, and at the saine time a ball from a Mauser rifle hud brought down Karl. The naval cadet was moaning with pain and bleeding terribly from his wound. One of the men pulling at stroke was dead, and his thwart mate badly wounded. Fortunately the boat was not severely damaged. After a mo ment of confusion the calm voice of Cockswain Welch brought the cutter back on its course, and the grappling for the cable went on. On the battleship the accident to the cutter was witnessed and the firing was redoubled, but the rain of lead and steel from the shore continued, and the cutter's crew no longer laughed as they tngged at their oars. The men at the grappling lines were leaning over the side of the boaf, and, encouraged by the coolness cf the eockawuin, whose lace betrayed not the slightest anxiety or fear, their work went steadily on. 41 We've got itl" shouted both the seamen in almost one voice as the iron books dragging along tho bottom caught the big cable. Welch waved the wigwag flag for the launch, which quickly headed toward the cutter and came gallantly down to them at full speed, amid a veritable hell of shot and shell. All hands on the grappling line, and the big cable woe hauled up over the aide of the boat, and just as Lieutenant De Koven came alongside with the launch, Welch brought the ax down upon tho slimy cable and, after two or three strokes, severed it, the two ends sinking to the bottom, one of them moored by a water breaker attached to the grappling line. By this time several other men were down in the bottom of the cutter, while the sides and floor gratings were splash ed with .blood. Quickly taking the cut ter in tow, the launch bended out to ward the fleet and out of runge. Cockswain Welch and tho cutter's crew were the heroes of the hour. Down in the sick bay several badly wounded sailors and Cadet Karl were being ten derly cared for by the medical men of the ship, while two dead bodies were prepared for the sacred service of the morrow. When Karl was invalided home on the dispatch boat, Cockswain Welch took him out to her on the third cutter. As tho boat was speeding along Welch bent over the young officer and said : "Here is the letter you left tobe read by the officers in the steerage. I got it from yonr desk, and you see the seal hasn't been broken. And, if you will, sir," continued Welch, as he drew from his blouse another envelope, addressed in a characteristic hand, "I wish you would give this letter to your sister for me." "God bless you, Welch," murmured Karl, "you are a hero if ever there was one. Your letter shall be delivered if I reach home alive. " The officers on the dispatch' boat marveled much as they helped Karl over the side to see him stop at the gangway and warmly shake the tall cockswain's band, while the tears rolled down the cadet's pale cheeks. A few weeks later Cockswain Welch received an official document contain ing his discharge from the navy and inclosed in another envelope, undressed to "B. D. Welch, U. S. 8. M.," was a commission of acting ensign, United States navy, eigned by Secretary Long, and addressed to Mr. Andrew S. Car ter. But a letter in a lady's handwrit ing received by B. D. Welch was far moro interesting to its recipient than either ox those.-H. M. Biglow in Short Stories. Ts? Ideal Father. Writing of the ideal father and ideal home training in The Ladies' Home Journal, Frances Evans refers to the home life of a well known writer "who considers no affair of greater impor tance than the direction of his four boys' minds. His boys run in age from 10 to 17, but even the little lad of 10 is ad mitted to the family talks, which are teaching these boys to think for them* ???vtm. Instead or telling the children to 'keep quiet' at the dining table, both parents, with wise kindness, promote and direct the natural talkativeness of youth into fruitful channels "The father brings home the news of the day, and each boy ia encouraged to express himself on these current topics when they dine at night, provided he is willing to think about what he is say ing, not deliver some careless, ignorant opinion, then obstinately stick to it. Argument is encouraged, and frequent ly started by the father. Each boy may give free rein to his opinion as long as be keeps his temper and argues his best. No slovenly habits of thought or ex pression are permitted in this family. The topic in hand may be anything from football to the latest scientific dis covery." . The Tr?ala of Handshakers. One might suppose from the calm and placid exterior of most great per sons that public life is a private snap. But it isn't. Take, for instance, offi cials who are called upon to hold public receptions. It looks easy, of course, to pump handle a fow thousand persons at the rate of 12 a minute, but just try lt once. When yon have, yon will feel inclined to wood sawing as a light di version and as a relaxation take to car rying coal from the cellar up. Reduced to its simplest expression, handshaking is the hardest manual la bor on record. The wife of a prominent American was speaking of this feature of public life a short time ago and in illustration held out ber hands. "You see my left hand." said she. ..Well, it is no different from any other band. It is not too large, nor too broad, and, if I may say it myself, not ill Formed. Now look at my right hand. Yon notice the difference. Do you see how mn oh larger it is-how it is broad and pudgy? Well, all that came from handshaking. Nowadays! have to have my gloves made to order, the right hand two sises larger than the left/* The same woman said, too, that ber ri^ht arm frequently became numb and powerless after receptions where she waa called to shake bands with a thou sand or more persons.-Washington better. _ - Oh, doctor, I have se'at for you, sertainly ; still, I must confess I have not the slightest faith in modern med ical science. Doctor-Oh! that doesn't aiatter in the least. You see a male' has no faith in the veterinary surgeon; md yet ho cures him all the "ame. TWILIGHT'S LENGTH. HOW IT VARIES AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES. When It I? at Ita Shurteat All Over ?he Globe, It ?.antu For Thirty Min ntea at Honolulu und Vor Eighteen Dari at the Polea. Thc belief that there id little or uo twilight within the great tropical belt encircling oar plauet is a very wide spread one. History, however, warns ns that beliefs need not necessarily ac cord with facts. It might indeed almost be enid that they usually do not. The 'coiling and moiling millions, the humble units that, taken in the bulk, constitute what is culled a "great pow er," huve neither tbe time nor the in clination to overhaul their opinions. They are not assailed by doubts as to whether the intellectual coffee which they have at odd moments imbibed may not have been mostly chicory. Such a state of mind unquestionably makes more happiness, and although such happiness may bear rather too much resemblance to that of, say, tho cow it is none the less real for all that. Twilight is at its shortest at the equator and increases with the latitude -at the equinoxes-at about the same Tate as that at which the meridians de crease their distance from one another. The increase is, therefore, very slow in low latitudes and very rapid near the polea Practical or civil twilight is tho timo which elapses between the moment of the sun's setting and the moment when he is seven degrees of a great circle be low the horizon. At the equator this time cannot, of course, be lees than 28 minutes. At the edges of the tropi zone it is about 31 minutes. A person with good eyesight will, should he care to make the experiment, find that when at sea and on or near tho equator he is able to read average type on deck for at least 28 minutes after tho sun has set without the aid of artificial light and when there is no moonlight. This is tho common sense experiment of which the duration is considerably longer than tbs practical, and even at the equator something like 70 minutes will elapse before night holds undis puted sway. This is the length of the true, the astronomical twilight. It is at or near the equinoxes that the phenomenon under consideration is ut its shortest all over tho globe. At those periods it lasts at Honolulu 30 minutes; at Saq Francisco, 35; at London, 45; at St. Petersburg, 57 ; at the Arctic and Antarctic circles, 72, and at the poles, 18 days. When, then, we say that the poles have B?X months' light and six months' darkness, it is little mere than a fa?on de parler. The north pole bas no less than 222 days of practical daylight each year, the south pole 215 days, and the equator 107 days. Nansen, when in high north ern latitudes, waa able to read The Verdensgang many days before the longed for sunrise following the long winter night. The great length of the twilight in polar regions is a boon in deed to explorera The popular imagina tion usually attaches itself to the great cold they have to endure, but the real enemy is the long darkness, which is trying to the enthusiasm of even a Nansen, Peary or a Jackson. There is practically no difference in the length of the twilight at the equa tor at the equinoxes and solstices. Even at Honolulu it will not vary by more than a couple of minutea Bufc in the higher latitudes the varying dmation is very marked. In latitude 59}? de grees, for instance, it lasts 50 minutes at the equinoxes, but in the sommer solstice it lasts from sunset till sunrise that is to say, from 0:10 o'clock till 2:50, or five hours and 40 minutes. North or south of 83 degrees practical twilight lasts all "night" at the equi nox e. The sun is, it .B true, only 12 hours above the horizon, but as he can sot gu more than 7 degrees below it there is continual daylight for the 24 hours. In such cities as Stockholm, and St. Petersbnrg there are close on to 14< hours of daylight at those seasons- when day and night are said to-be equal, and at the equator itself the day all the year round is made ci 18 hours' daylight and ll hours' darkness. It must not be forgotten that in those latitudes where the sun remains for months below the horizon there is during that period a good deal of daylight, so that along the eightieth parallel north (a little north of which the Jackson-Harmsworth ex pedition spent three consecutive years in the Franz Josef islands), although the sun does not rise between Oct: 10 and Feb. 22, there is a period of three weeks following the final sunset and another of the same length preceding the first sunrise of the year, on each day of which good type can be read for a few minutes up to some hours with out artificial light.-San Francisco Call Som o Cu ri ona Clubs. New York has a new feature in ciaba It is the "Dyspeptic club," and the test of eligibility for membership is a doctor's certificate that the applicant ia suffering from a weak stomach. The object of the club is to promote "cheerfulness" among dyspeptics-a much needed quality-and, further, to famish to the members tbe latest re sults of science in treating indigestion. Iii Vienna there is a * -Red Haired club" and to prevent fraudulent admis sions every candidate ii obliged to souse bis head thoroughly in hot water and soda before the committee. In the same city there is a "Lazy club," no mem ber of which does anything for a living. The Parisian head cooks of eminence in their profession have formed an as sociation known as the "Culinary acad emy." The members of this institution number 80 and meet once a month, when' they discuss at length various mattern concerning their art, compare notes, invent new dishes and touch up old on ea -- The State of Texas is about 75, 000 square miles larger than thc area of Spain. CASTOR IA nor infants and Children. Ide Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the >^r ^//IfW& j?, " Slgnaturo of t^^g^^*i%^ ? DEAD CZAR'S F?'Cl. THE STORY OF THE ARTIST WHO PAINTED OUT THE GASHES. A Deathbed Confession Thnt llecsll ed a Brntal Trnxnly of Itumlnn Court Intrl?oe-.The Assnsnlnntloa ol the Emperor l'nul I. At Zverevo, a little town in the "gov ernment" or provinco of Voronoj, in tho Don country, Russia, there died not so very long ugo Osen Ivanovitch Schtchctka, agn\y haired teacher, who. when ho felt death approaching, called for a priest, though ho had previously never professed religion. His father, he said, had been n citizen of sst. Pe tersburg up to the end of March, 1801, Ho died in Zverevo in 1*00, making a deathbed confession to his son. This was Ivan Shtchotka's deathbed confession, according to his son. Osen Ivanovitch: "In 1801 I was ono of the most prom ising pupils of the St. Petersburg Acad emy of Sciences, a government institu tion which was under strict military rule. I was not particularly noted for my work with tho brush, but, despite my youth, had already gained some reputation ns a portrait painter. "During the night of March 22 or the morning of March 28 I wns awakened by Cossacks, who ordered mo to dress, take my brush and palette and follow them. After a rapid drive of a few miles we halted before a palatial build ing, into tho cellar of which I was hustled through an opening. We passed through a labyrinth of recesses and up several flights of back stairs. At last tho handkerchief bandage was removed from my eyes, and ? found myself in a stately room half filled by solemn look ing men in rich dress. Tho floor was covered with rags that seemed to have been thrown down without regard to decorativo effect. "A tall mau. in whom I recognized Plato Zuboff, approached me and said, pointing to n divan covered with a black cloth, over what seemed to be a giunt figure in an attitude of reposo. " 'Aro you skillful enough to restore tho face of n dead man who suffered vio lence, cuts and strangulation, so us to regain its natural appearance V Your art must last three days, for the body is to be exhibited in the cathedral. You must not spare tho red; it will bo given out that tho person died of apoplexy. ' "Remembering the threat of the Cos sacks, I did not hesitate to answer in the affirmative. 'Very well,' said Zu boff; 'yon will go to work at once.' And, in a low voice, he added: "That your conscience may not prick" yon un derstand that the late czar was not a Romanoff. He was only the natural son of Catherine II and Soltikof. ' "With that he removed the black cloth, and I saw the body of the Em peror Pani I, dressed in fall general's panoply. Ho was gloved and spurred. His neck was swollen and bis face a muss of bruises. "I can well realize the report after ward spread-viz, that he sold his lifo dearly. The emperor had been sleeping in the antechamber of his wife's bed room on a hard lounge, as was his wont to do, when the conspirators came upon him. The guards in and around the palace., and particularly in the corridor leading to the czar's private apart ments, were all in the conspirators* pay, with the exception o? a hussar whom Zubcff cut down with his saber before he entered Paul's chamber. The emperor, I wns told, offered at first no resistance. On his bended knees he begged and implored that his life be Bpared, promising ' to sign any instru ment of abdication they might choose to submit. More, he would himself pro claim his son (afterward Alexander 1) czar. "But the murderers advanced fierce ly, and Paul attempted to escape by way of tho window. Prevented and bleeding from a cut hand, he defended himself with' a chair, killing ono cf the assassina But now the rest assailed him with their sabers. A heavy blow in the temple floored him, and again he supplicated'for his life with outstretch ed< hands. "Then Zuboff tore off his sash, wound' it twice around1 the emperor's neck, and, taking hold by one hand, commanded another officer to help him strangle the unhappy monarch. "In the struggle preceding the final act Paul's face had been hacked and .cut, and'it required four hours' work on- my part to get it into presentable shape. When I declared my work fin ished, a handsome young man was ushered in with great ceremony-the new emperor, Alexander. I heard him say in French : " 'It is welL' The widowed empress, too, passed through the room, but could evidently not bring herself to look upon her husband's face. Poor woman, she' had tried to come to Paul's assistance, but had been prevented by a threat of instant death. "After that two soldiers took me, and between them I was marched out into the corridor and down the stairs. When we reached tho cellar, I was ordered to wait, and a person whose features I could not mako out approached me. " 'Would you like to become an im perial drawing master, with a salary of 2,000 rubles per year for life?' he asked. I was so astonished that I hard ly knew what to say in reply. " 'Decide quickly I'spoke tho stran ger again. I assured him that I was at bis orders. "On March 28, at 7 a. m., I was speeding toward the Don country," concluded the deathbed confession. "I have kept faith with the government and the government has kept faith with me. "-Chicago Inter Ocean. Reckless Expenditure. Dilver-When I took this place, it wasn't fit for a dog to live in. I have spent nearly $1,000 on it. Sanson-Don't you think it would have been cheaper had you killed the dog?-Boston Transcript - The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born, near Hodgenville, Ky., has been sold to David Grear, of New York, and may be converted into a park. I have been a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea ever sinco the w?r nnA h^ve used all kinds of mediciucs for it. At last I found ooc remedy that has been a success as a cure, and that is Chaai berlain'a Golio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kenaedy.-P E. GIUSIIAM, Gaars Mills. La. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. TOO MUCH EXERCISE. Tito Kflect It >!?>. Have ott ?lt?. Heart mid Health. .If we accept tho broad fact that ex ercise is good and that its effect is to increaso muscular strength and bodily development, we have to ask. '?Why does still inrther exercise cease to be good, and what do w?> mean by overex ercise?" First, we must draw a broad distinction between the effect of con stantly maintained exertion which is required in certain trades ami the al ternating contraction and relaxation of all the muscles of tbe body, which is the characteristic of games and athletics of all kinds. That constantly maintained effort or monotonous repetition of tho j same movement tends to exhaustion rather than nutrition goes without say ing. But. taking ordinary BO called healthy exercise,. by what ' is its limit set? The limit appears tobe set by three factors: (1) The capacity of the digestive organs to keep up the quality of the blood; (2) tho capacity of the excretory organs to get rid of the waste products winch result from muscular action, and (8) the power of the heart to drive a constant stream of blood through every corner of the organism. Interference with digestion is a by no means uncommon effect of excessive ex ercise, and so far as training is con cerned it is one of tbe most destructive. The blood cannot flow in full stream to every part at once. As Dr. Lunder Brunton says. "Every one knows that while moderate exercise tends to produce appetite, a long and exhausting exer tion tends to destroy tho appetite and even to produce actual sickness, as one finds in mountain climbing." People differ greatly in thia respect, but in some-great, ponderous men as they may iceni-the digestion is HO easily upset by muscular exercise that, although they may bu giants for a mo mentary exertion, anything like sus tained effort disturbs digestion and cuts at tho very root of their nutrition. In many cases, however, tho limit to exer cise lies in diminished excretion. Un less the excretory organs aro thoroughly efficient tho tissues become crowded with products which cannot be got rid of, thu senses become dimmed, and ef fort becomes a mero automatism, in consequence of a self poisoning by the products of muscular waste. So fur we have dealt with what may be fitly termed tho automatic checks to overexercise. Interference with diges tion so lowers nutrition, while accumu lation of wasto products HO poisons the system, that in either caso further exer tion becomes impossible-the very will to muke it passes away. But it is differ ent in regard to the heart. The heurt, although strained, may yet be driven on to its own destruction. Every mus cular effort not only demands from tho heart an increased flow of blood, but also drives an increased quantity to ward it. So long as the heart can pass this forward all is well, but when it fails not merely is the circulation of the blood rendered imperfect, but serious damage is done to the heart itself. If, when tho heart was overdriven, it mere ly struck, the enfeebled circulation would soon put a stop to further effort. The willing heart, however, tnking at each beat a wider sweep and driving into the vessels a larger quantity of blood, so meets the call that the athlete can struggle on, perhaps to win his race. But the strained heart suffers, the stretched muscle does not quite come back, the dilated cavity does not quite close at each contraction, and permanent mischief is set up. Thus it is that exerciso driven to the limit im posed by the heurt is overexercise in the most serious sense of the word. If it is the heart that stops it, the chances are that it has already gone too far.-Hos pital. Contented ItllcneaN. The peasantry of the island of Corfu are reputed tobe the idlest of all tho in habitant** of the Ionian islands. They Cultivate uo gardens, and im port tho garlic nnd onions which form a large portion of their diet. Mr. Glad stone, talking about his visit to Greece, gave his testimony to confirm the is landers' reputation. He said he hud never seen such com plete and contented idleness ns at Corfu, where he once came across three men leisurely driving two turkeys along the road. It wus euae without dignity. - "Money,"said the philosopher, "may often do more harm than good. 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