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THE ^I^IY-WASHY MAN. life i am \ii]| n f 0 p tl j , nv ri . ( . 01( ] fore lhe ‘‘hurch and show down with any Vnnn i Iho •ago of O’d Horso •i^ oneo ' Crook Talks u tl it? rruwi 1. I mu ilS iriHJit a .M* ■ l o«Ii . t ns „ n y 0 f, vou> hut when I jTit Rofod i mi( , k iiowfuvct rult'Siof ti llnrpy He- Tlie Trontile " 1 ^ (iriflln—tie AV:»» I'tvep> lti 1 UK In liulon. But X**»ep Ftiuml the Home llnse. • c in a lew woiijld d ‘lust uul last" I have covered a heap of ground and saw many sights down here in the valley of dry' hones. J’.nt 1 have yet got to sec a wishy-washy man that didn't land himself be tween tile de vil ami the deep blue sea. and die with his feathers ruuied up the wrong way. It pays to be straight goods and the same thing all the way through. Any man that ain't plum willin to step out and take sides and piek his ling and then, stand to the guns liil the cows conic home, and the eliickens lly up to rcost. ami the evonin stars sing together, is probable to spend his days in vanity and vexation and ■wind up with a great fret. I will cuss a to myself. Is it agin the he church for a man to engage cuss words whe’ nothin else uu '7 a "o the ease just ice?” P iy. to he certainly, of course,” s the elder, “it is dead agin the rules lor a member to use cuss words under any surroundin calamity." ''Well, that air.t my understandin of the situation,” says Drury, “1 have been hearin of eussin Methodists all the days of my life, and* my notion is that most any of them will cuss a little ml git cm good Too M«ny for Himself. About the most unhappiest and changeful man that, ever get his wash in done down in the old Panther Creek set tlement was old man Drury Griflln, which used to run a water mill a little ways below the confluence of that his toric stream. Drury was a niiddlin good farmer and the most bnlliest sort of a mill man, and so fur as 1 know he always got along mighty well in regards to business ami the Ueetin things of this vain world. Hut somehow he never could get along smooth and easy with the church. Touchiu the church and in re ligion Drury was jest simply too many i for himself. He always was a church man to some extent, but he didn’t have the stiekin and stay in qualities. (Conse quentially he was forever fiounderin and Hoppin around from the fire into the fryin pan and back again. He started out when he was a right young man by takin stock with the Old School Baptists, down at Coal Springs church, llenceforwards everything wore along smooth and easy for six months or maybe a little better, but late along in the summer or early in the fall of the year they belt the regular three days’ meetin at Coal Springs, with din ner on the grounds and feet wash in. on Sunday. Bight then and there Drury Crithn got his bristles up and kicked out of the traces. He took up a spot notion to the extent that he didn’t be lieve in people washin their feet in pub lic, and in cold water to boot, and iie wouldn't have nothin to do with the side show. He didn’t make out like he was smarter than the preacher and he couldn't quote any Scripture to main tain the kick. He didn't know for cer tain why. and he didn't give a oontinen- tial red. But he jest simply didn’t be lieve in it and never would believe in it if he lived nine hundred and ninety- nine years on the earth. Whereas, the church come together and sent a committee to call on Brother Gritlin and talk a few seatterin grains of sense into his head if such a thing could possibly be did. But that was all pluperfect vanity. The more they talked the higher Drury kicked till finally at last the committee had to give him up as a bad egg and a gone geslin. He still stuck to it that he was a natur al-born, genuine Old School Baptist, and as good a member of the church as arry man on the committee, but he was dead square agin the feet washin busi ness and jest simply wouldn’t take any in hisn. The committee worked and worried and fumbled and fooled along with him for two days on a stretch and then reported back the general results to the church. After some short talks and seatterin remarks from various and sundry members they took Drury Griffin by the nape of his neck and the seat of his breeches, as it were, and turned him out of the church and put up the bars behind him. when you stir 'em i kot, 1 don't feel like I am anything but jest another eussin Methodist.” “You have got that down all wrong.” tlie elder went, on, “and you will have to read up on the rules in orderment to walk upright and keep yourself in the fold. Ain’t you ready now to say you got wrong, and you are sorry for it, and won't, do so no more?” “.Not as anybody knows of, breth ren,” says Drury. “Seems to me like if a man jtst can’t worry along without eussin a little, around the edges that is a ease in pint between him and the good Lord. 1 have foumt out that, my main- cat. weak pint is for eussin, but yet I feel like I am as good a Methodist as any man in ihs crowd', and a hundred ecanmon men couldn't throw me over board. from the Old Ship. Methodist, Methodist is my name, and Methodist will 1 die.” But, nevertheless, notwithstandin henceforth thereof, as Drury went on from bud to worse with his weak pint for eussin the dhurch come together and throwed him overboard and the Old Ship sailed proud and steady on her wav. Pickens on sight. But right then if Asey hud started out to shoot every man that talked like he mought be for i Stribbiia and then, voted for the other ; man ou election da\ lie. would be busy with that large and. bloody job even iti- i to this good day and hour. Well, in the run of years, old' man ! Asey got so all-Jired mad' with the ! democrats till he lit out and went over j to the whigs—which it come to pass that the uiiigs didn't to say need him I any worse than the democrats. .Now Asey Stribblin was a man like this. It I he didn't see what he wanted lie would ! ask for it, and. then if the gang he was ; gal lupin with didn’t give it to him he I wouldn't gallop no-more, if the party j played his way lie would play, and if j they didn’t he was ready right then ; immediately, to throw his hand to the ! pack and quit the game. lie soon quit the whigs because they wouldn’t give i him anything in sight, and then pn*s- ; eutly he turned, out to be a wild and woolly know nothin. He stuck to the know nothins till they went to pieces, J but somehow he never could get tjie seat ! of his breeches greased exactly right so ! heeouldslideintoa fat office, lie kicked i and he cussed, and he funit'd and he fussed all the. days of his life, and i finally come to the puss where he : wouldn’t vote for any livin man on ; any ticket. Ones! upon a time he got | so furious and felonious mad til! he | swore he wouldn’t vote for the Saviour i of this lost and mint world if He was runniti for president on the prohibi tion ticket. And Asey Stribblin was yet on the I sunny side of sixty when he died. But . at the same time lie died for the good I of his country. RUFUS SANDERS. ARP TALKS OF CRIME PALMISTRY MADE EASY. “Another CnsHin VetJimllM.” By this time Drury Griffin was mad with the human race in general, but old Coal Springs church im partielar. The more he talked about it the madder he got, till the next news we got he was foamin at the mouth and eussin like a stage coach driver. Along in the big protracted media times the next summer, by gracious, all of a suddeut like Drury Grif fin bloomed out in full as a Methodist and got his name on the church books over at Dark Log. You must recollect he was mad with Old School Baptists and wanted to get as far away from them as he possibly could jest for spite —which it didn't take him long to run slap out to the other end of the rope. It was a powerful long jump, but Drury made it with one leap. Now then, it want many months be fore they had Drury up over at Bark Log charged with the general and fre quent use of United States language, which was overcotnin to the settlement and unbecomin to a member of the Methodist church. To put it pat and; plain, Drury had got worse and worse and cussed and cussed till he scorched the native air. and old Bark Logchurch had spit in her hands and rolled up her ilceves for business. When they bruug Drury up for trial Klder New ton took the case in hand and put in some straight questions. “Brother Griffin,” saya he, “it haa ?ome to the ears of the church that you have been eussin and earryin on «candlous both in private and in pub lic. and we want to hear from you. Have you got anything to suy as to why the church should not visit on you the usual chastisement meted out to a weak and wayward member?" “I will own up to cuudn a little, often tnd oo. around the edgea." Bays Drury, “but as to my general moral walks in From I’ll low to Post. For a long time after that Drury Griffin stuck to it and maintained that he was a better Methodist than “arry durn one” of the men which turned him out of the church. He got madder ami madder with the men which were hold- j in the helm of the Old Ship, till by and j by he give it out that be wa» goiu to build up the true Methodist church. ! One day he wen't out in the old field ! andi knocked up a pine pole pen, which . he called the True Church. He put in ' the benches and built a pulpit and bought a Gig Bible. Then he fell in with I’urson Ze'b Newton—which in ; the main time Zeb had been turned , out of the church for rklin a squeaiin j chestnut sorrel horse on the circuit— \ and Zeb was anonymously elected to be tihe preacher of the True Church. But it seems as if the True Church didn’t ; draw as fast and furious as Drury aud j Zeb lowed it would Zeb was the : preacher and Drury was the church, lin'd when it come to pass that they ! couldn't turn the created world wrong ; side out and upside dc.vn, they belt ; a few eussin matches together, amt i then adjourned the meetin and quit. But in the run of time Drury Griffin jined in with first one uhurch and then ! another till finally at last he didn’t | have nowheres to gv>. lie put. his mem- I bership in with the Presbyterians and | wont along smooth for awhile, but pres- j ently he got mad “because they sot ; down to sing and riz up to pray.” He lowed that wan’t in line with his no tions of religion, so he took out and quit. The next thing everybody kr.owed Drury was jined in with the Lpiseopul church, but he didn’t stick there six months. 1 bait told the folks*all along that if Drury Griffin ever got any religion that would keep he would have to take it in the very light est foam, and i lowed maybe he had now found the proper place at last. But he soon took up Die notion that dancin was as bad us eussin. And be sides that, 'ie said they didn't do any thing in the church but read prayers aud sing songs, and kneel down and get up, and then get up and kneel down. So Drury he “riz and fell with ’em” as long us he could stand it, and then dropped out into the cold world onest more. To tell the Bible truth, all the churches and any church was too good for Drury Griffin. lie had been bo rued on the other side of every question, and the mainest trouble with Drury Griffin was the all-around eussedness of Drury Griffin. And when his time come he died out of the church, and out of sorts, and- out of humor with the whole created human race. Slime Thin if In Politic's. Now old man Asey Btribblin was about as bad off in polities as Drury (iriffin was with regards to his religion. Old man Asey didn’t have no trouble touchin the church, but when it come to politics he was on the other side every time the convention come to or der. He started out in life as a scream- in democrat and stood on that puncheon for many years. But as time went on he took a fool notion to run for office, lie went in for high constable first, but most of the votes went to the other man aud the distance Hag fluttered down in Asey’s face. He next made the race for county coroner, and onest more luck run from him like n shot and let in the other mum come under the wire first. Then presently Asey Stribblin got sick and sore. He made out like some body had cheated him outen what was his by rights. At the same* time the onlyest trouble with Asey was that he didn’t get vote* enough to put him in the office. What is so now was so then and always will be so. The mainest thing is the votes. Asey thought every blessed roan that smiled at him and talked kind and pleasant to him was a Stribblin man. and then when the votes didn’t pan out like he had set the Ag gers damn he let the sap run up and talked like a silver-tongued idiot. He beard that old man Tommy Pickens voted for the other man after talkin like he mought be for Stribblin. and from that be threatened to shoot Gives Ccmparotivo Sia'j'stlcs on Lawlessness North and South. Amnslnar Is Shown—There Are 500 |»#-r Uefit. More Felonli** Cor.i- in it ted hy Wtiltcf In New York Than in Ceorjrln. I have just received the third volume of “Compendium of t be Census of 1 Plight years have passed since the peo- i pie made their returns, and the time is i nearing when they will be called on j again. It takes a long time and costs | millions of money, but it is a big thing and diffuses knowledge among {he pro- j pie. It is better that the money be ’ spent that way, for there are no private schemes nor corporation swindles in it j and it gives cmplMvinent to thousands • of needy people, i he census is the only j mode of getting at the. true condition ! of the nation’s affairs, and a enmpara- j five view of the wealth, resources, edii- j cation aud morality of the people of the different states. I have been very much interested in these comparisons, and feel prouder than ever before of my state and sec tion. For more than half a century the partisan and sectional literature of it tvffh their arms. In nuiSLers they are as tlvi hundred to one of t h curistoe- ! mey. They all deserve to have 'lonu * —homes of their own, unincumfyifed. A home means more tlian« shelter. It means roses and vines and shade trees and fruit. Ask the poor renter who is j bumped about frotirphiee to place every j year. Ask his wife and daughters what 1 they think of home. The census puts down 09.S90 white families in Georgia 1 who have hemes, and says that- SMi per ' rent, of these are prdd for ami have no • incumbrance. Virginia 1;as 97 percent, paid for; Mississippi and South Caro lina 9.'! per cent. each. Massachusetts has IT.I.ooo families , owning homes, but percent, of then: are mortgaged. New York has 490,’';;.i homes, and 11 percent, are mortgaged: and the compiler says more than 9 » p r j cent, of all the home incumbrance of ! the United States is in the north At- i h’.ntie and north central division.-— i only -D/f, per cent, is on the homes of t’.o i south Atlantic states. The niortga^re- : on Mnssnehusi is homes amount, to ; $102,948,190. Just think of it—rumiirtte i over it—over one hundred millions of Gm CATCHES A THIEF. M bo Smith Had No Fear and Did Hor Work Woll. i WStli Du* Aid o; n Friend Slie DrnaRed the Fellow Unek to the House Hr Had liolilird and Held Him I'riaouer. l.nrkln Krnd Her Hiiml and Then Told a Friend Uie Trick. “O, Mr. Larkin, read my palm, won’t you?” Larkin, that arch impostor nnd bluff er, took her hand confidently and scowled. After a moment of intense scrutiny he asked if she was sure she’d be willing to have him tell what he saw. She defied him to do his worst. In the half hour since he had met her he had formed some general notions as to what sort of a person she was. On these as a basis he began, touching vaguely but confidently on the eharae- teristies of her life, her fortune, her t..stes, and, most of all. her heart. She was inclined to treat the performance as a joke. “Perhaps I’d better stop,” Larkiu said, deepening bis scowl. “Is your vocabulary becoming ex hausted, Mr. Larkin?” “No; but there are things here that you might prefer not to have mentioned before company.” She laughed a little nervously, and told him to go on. After a little pause, be said slowly; "You are leading a double life. To those about you you show only one side of your nature. Your iunermost thoughts and your true self are as dif- fernt from those you reveal to your friends as night is from day.” She started to draw her hand away; then, cither from curiosity or bravado, checked herself. “Half of your life is made up of n great regret that lurks in your heart and will not be lived down, in time, perhaps—” She blushed and sprang away. "1 didn’t think you’d be so mean,” she said. “I warned you; do not blame me," Larkin answered, with a show of fa tigue after the terrific concentration just endured. She made an excuse to leave the room. “That’s such an easy thing that it seems a shame to do it," Larkin laughed after she was goue. “The average girl is sentimental, and the veteran of a se ries of those complications respect fully referred to us love affairs. Tell her that she is ‘leading a double life,’ and she regards herself us a heroine; speak of ‘a great regret,’ and her mind turns to her most recent affair. Just put your statements in romantic lan guage, nnd she’ll believe you, unless she’s too nearly level-headed. That kind don’t cure to have their palms read, anyway.” "How often do you find a girl who doesn’t believe in palmistry, Mr. Lar kin?" some one inquired. But Larkiu had become suddenly busy in extract ing a carnation from a bowl, and did not hear.—Chicago Times-llerald. A I.ittle Knowledge. The following answers iu-** given in reply to questions asked a certain New Hampshire school a-t the bcgimiing of the term. These questions were asked to determine the standing of the pu pils, with a view to grading the school: 1. A sentence are words used to limit or modify the meaning of a noun or pronoun. 2. I is used u.s the meaning of your self; we is for more than ore.; you an other person; us for a lot of them. 3. An adverb is a word used to grati fy or mollify the meaning of an adjec tive, etc. 4. A interjection is a word that ex- pres'ses a prize or a notion. 5. A verb is a word used to assist or assault some person or thing. 0. The boy fell into the pord is a preposition. 7. The trade winds come from the north and are caused by the gulf stream; they ore of great use, because ships can sail on them. 8. The vice president is the chief magistrate of New Hampshire. 9. The sun causes day aud night; when the sun turns on its axis it thus caures the seasons. 10. The flags and stripes on the flag mean how the brave men fought to save their country.—Chicago Chronicle. An Old Gem Reset. “Wodsleigh is something of a fisher man. isn’t he?" “Pefbaps he is. perhaps he is; but in business matters I always found him perfectly Reliable.”—Chicago Journal. <Vl;t. against the common people of one little state having ubont double the w hite population i f Georgia. Car they over pay it? New York is but little better, having $243,000,000. Tin fact, the the north has overshadowed and lni-1 wao:e north is eovered.a.sw;th a blanket in dialed us with unfair, untrue and ; t>.V debt, and the millionaires are the slanderous statements. By these un- i owrers of it. Debt! What a hard, tm- christiun methods of their press andi feeling word it is. My old partner was pulpits their own good people have ! been poisoned against us, and immi- i gration influenced in the northern i i wont to say it has a harder alliterative ' following, viz: debt. duns, death, dam- j ration and the devil. Is it any wonder i hannels. Personally, I do net com-J that stieh exponentsasDebsardGeorge plain of this, for I esteem it a blessing ' and Coxey rise up and. plead for the peo that neither northern fanatics nor for eign paupers have to any alarming ex tent infested our fair lands. The nnt- p!e—the common people—the toilers who have ro homes at all? Is it any wonder that strikes are made and the ural increase of our own people will soon people carry blood in their eyes, and enough occupy the south and secure to ; desperation in their hearts? Put yottr- tis a homogeneous citizenship that will wlf in them place, if you can. and then continue to be the most moral and the | y r,, t will fee’ as they feel, most patriotic of any this side of the j But. while we sympathize with them. Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man 1 nud pity them, let us be grateful that had the cheek to publish a letter about ; we live in this southern land.end are in our lawlessness, and said it was amaz- the peaceful enjoyment of so many ing impudence of Georgia or the south ' r:<‘h b’essings. May the good Lord pre- to invite northern people to settle here, i ^erve us from their crimes and their Well, we don’t invite him nor any of | debts! is my prayer.—Bill Arp, in.At- Yonkcrs has had many a burglary this summer. The police have tried to catch the thief; so have uiosl of the other male citizens, but all in vain. It remained for a young woman to land the man who the police think has ter rorized the Hudson titer section for mouths. She is Miss Klttie Smith, says the New York World, a winsome girl of 22, who lives with her parents in a pretty cottage at No. 91 Ravine avenue, over looking the river. She is black-haired and brown-eyed. lien face is well tanned by the summer sun, for she is an athlete and pulls an oar that few of the young men in Yonkers can hops to beat. Yonkers folks these summer days leave their doors and windows open to <atoh the breeze from the river. The Smith cottage was not closed at all cm Mor.day. Miss Smith had been de veloping some photographs she had taken and was waiting for one of her friends, who was to help finish them. It was almost supper time and she was reading in the parlor. A shadow passed down the side of the house. “Here he comes,” said Miss Smith to her younger sister. But no one came upstairs. Sti!'. Miss Smith sat reading, when suddenlj* the shadow passed across her eyes again, ^he looked tip quickly. She saw a strange man going out the gate. “The silver! The silver!” she gasped, and het sister looked up. Her book dropped to the floor and she tan quickly to the dining-room. Ime saw it ail at a ala nee—the house his kind. • An unknown friend writes me from Nebraska and says: “Call off your dogs. Let the Yankees alone and blow your horn for Germans. I have lived for 13 years right here where both abound find I will lake the Ger mans or the Swedes or the Swiss every time. The lan.ta Constitution. GREAT SAVING. An \niiiNinK; Picture of the Great Art ist. Turner. Among the many stories told of the penurious little barber, the father of Yankees have hated you j the famous artist. Turner, there is one for generations. They are born hating you, anti raised up in schools and churches to hate you. They can’t help it. But these foreigners have no such prejudices. They don’t like your ne groes, but have got not king against you. They tire a fair-minded, industrious people, and I have found them honest nnd kind a ml good neighbors whom you can depend on in time of trouble.” But to the census. Look to these fig ures on crime and criminals in some of the stairs north and south in 1890: Maszaohu.setts, convicted criminals in prison 3,227 Nev. York, convicted criminals in prison 11,468 Ohi >. .•onvicted criminals In prison— l.linols, eonvicied criminals in prison .3.;w0 Total Now deduct tie m-Kroes.. 22.r.C) . .... 1,7'Jit Leaving whites 21,755 Now let us t.ike four southern states: Georgia, whites 242 South Carolina, whites Mississippi Virginia ....123 ....11!' ...>2 Total fWI Now, the total white population of the four northern states is 13,477.000, and the total white population of the four southern states is 3,000,400, being about one-fifth. The negro has been eliminated in both statements, and as the population of the four northern states is five times that of ours, w e will multiply our con victed white prisoners by five, which would give us 4,330, against 21.745. I said in a recent letter that there were 30 per cent, more of felonies in New Y ork or Massachusetts than in Georgia. I was mistaken. There are five times as many, which is 500 per cent., and this is the ratio according to white popula tion. I tcfll you, my brethren, this cen sus compendium proves tin alarming condition of things up north, and it is high time our southern churches were organizing boards of missions and send ing missionaries up there. We send them to Mexico and China and Brazil and to the Indies in the west, why not to Massachusetts nnd New York ami Ohio, w here crime and immorality prevail to it greater extent than iu any civilized country? That is just what Mr. Stetson said—the statistician of Massachu setts. Bis language as published was: “There is no country upon earth where crime is so flagrant and so frequent as in Massachusetts.” Her population is double our white population, and yet she has 15 times as many white crim inals iu her prisons—and what is worse than all, my brethren, 748 of them arc women. .last ponder over it, and, like the prophet, exclaim: “How are the mighty fallen!” Only one white woman in the jails or chaingungs of Georgia, and 748 in the Puritan state of New Kngland. What shall we do about it? What can we do? But this is not nil that the census tells. In addition to this vast army of prisoners Massachu setts has 700 juvenile prisoners, while New York has 3,070 and Ohio 1,530. Then there are over 8,000 paupers in the four states, besides the thousands that are in private benevolent institutions. How in the world do those states up north support such a vast army of criminals, pnuiiers, tramps and non-producers? No wonder they want protection and pensions; no wonder they plunder the public treasury. They are obliged to do it. Ninety per cent, of oil the money that goes into it comes out into their pockets in some way or other, nnd still they are not happy; they want the other ten. But what is the relative condition of the common people of the sections? How about homes and mortgagee and debts? Tt is the common people who constitute a state or a nation. They support it with their labor and defend which presents an amusing picture of ! the old gentleman. He had charge of j Turner gallery iu Queen Anne street, London, where he caused many a : vistor to stare at him with amazement. | by his funny habit of jumping up and , down on his toes. Soon after Turner moved toTwieken- kum a friend met the old barber, walk ing along Queen Anne street, looking most disconsolate. The cost of riding up every day to open the gallery weighed upon him so that he could not get the thought of it out of his mind. A week later the same friend met the old man again,and instantly discovered that he was in high spirits. “Why, look here,” said the elder Turner, joyfully, “I have found a way at last of coming up cheap from Twick enham. I found out where the market gardeners bated their horses, and I made friends with one of ’em, and now. for the price of something to wet his whistle, he brings me up every day in his cart on top of the vegetables!” The peculiar amusement which the painter derived from the sight of his father, enthroned on a heap of vegeta bles, can well be imagined. There was warm affection between the two men, in spite of occasional differences of opinion, and when the father died >a 1830, Turner mourned his loss deeply, and was so depressed in spirit that he was unable to paint for two or three J months. The old man was buried in j Covent Garden church, and 1 Turner i erected a monument there to the mem- | oryof both father and mother.—Y’outh’s i Companion. GUN BOAT FOR NAVAL MILITIA. had been robbed! Up the street the stranger was walking as rapidly os he could without attracting attention. “He’s the thief!” said Miss Smith, and without a thought for her own safety she darted after him. She had the fore- tbought to remove her eyeglasses, fear- i::g they might be broken in. the prob- Actlnfr Secretary Rooaevelt Expects tu Give Our Citizen Sallum a limit. Acting Secretary Roosevelt is consid ering the advisability of assigning a naval vessel to the exclusive use of the naval militia of the country. He con siders the naval reserves a most valu able adjunct to the regular naval estab lishment, and that better means should be provided fur their instruction in the arts of naval warfare, llis recent in spection of the militia convinced him of the necessity for a radical change in the present methods of drills andex- erciscs in order to render the men more efficient in thedutiesthat woulddevolve- upon them iu the event of war. He has outlined a plan whereby a vessel of the gunboat class will be assigned to work with the reserves, spending the winter mouths with the southern bodies and the summer with the northern, thus giving all organizations ample chance to secure the benefits of training on modern vessels of war. As the duties of the militia in war time will be in harbor work and on auxiliary cruisers, such as the swift liners in the Atlantic trade, it is urged that a vessel curry ing the same armament that ships of this class would have should be select ed. This will not be difficult, owing to the number of ships now available of the type desired. The vessel for this duty is to be of light draught in order that she may ascend the shallow rivers on the southern coast and can be read ily handled in narrow waterways. — Washington Correspondence, Military Juzettc, Chicago. Good a«d Mntllolrat Kcanom. Mr. Harlemite, seeing a little boy whom he knew crossing the street, he taid to the youth: “What’s the reason you carry such a little can? Your growler used to be Iwice as big." “That’s because the barkeeper won't !et us have any more beer on credit. We has to pay cosh now. so we only takes a pint.”-X. Y. World. able struggle. Unconscious of pursuit, the man hur ried on. but suddenly he fe!ta hand on hi* coat collar and a sharp tug from be hind. “Stop!” It \'as only a slip of a girl who had si ized him. It was her voice that called j a halt. The man tried to breakaway, ; but two little hands seized his wrists and held them like a vise. He was j helpless. Miss Smith had caught him. i “Help! help!” she screamed, beekon- ; irg to half a dozen workmen who were j engaged on a new house up Ravine i avenue. Not one of them stirred. ( "Help!" she screamed again. Thia ! time a young friend of the girl. Mis* Bayne, ran to her aid. The two girls seized the man. now fighting for lib erty. and between them dragged him j back to the Smith house. “Please let me go, lady,” he begged, when he found tight was useless. ‘Tve got a wife and children in New York." “No,” cried Miss Smith..“yon*ve com mitted a crime and you’ve got to pay, the penalty.” The two girls procured a stout cord and securely bound the thief hand and foot. Then they wentthrongh his pock ets and found all the solid silverware that he had stolen from the Smith din ing-room. Just then the friend Miss Smith ex pected arrived. He ran for the nearest telephone, while Miss Smith and Miss Payne dragged the thief into the back yard and held him. Two policemen| came soon and made short work of thej young women’s prisoner. The thief gave hi* name as Morris; Abrams, of No. 84 Fast Broadway, New Y'ork. He is a middle-aged man of! medium height with a scowling face. Miss Smith gave her testimony mod estly but straightforwardly. Her eyes snapped os she told of the man’s strug- 1 g!es to get away and of her contempt for the men who wouldn’t come to her; aid. • “How did I feel ?” said she to a report-; or afterwards. “Why, I never thought) of the danger. I knew the man was a, thief nnd I thought of nothing else but) catching him. It never occurred to me; that he might be stronger than I and might kill me. But I’ve lost my faith in men. I wonde-if they’re nil the same?" Miss Smith is an earnest worker in the First Methodist church. She is also seen often in the boats of the Palisade Rowing club. Hot Water oa Tap. Near Boise City, Idaho, 400 feet low the earth’s surface, there is a sub terranean lake of hot water of 170 de grees temperature. It has pressure enough to ascend to the top floor of most of the houses, and will be pi to them for heating purposes. J iped