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TRI-WEEKLYs EDITION WINNSBORO, S.C., JULY 9,1898. ESTABLSHED1844 /1101 CORAL BEADS. F Some twenty years ago or more His ship was lost at sea, Alone and lonely for his sake, . Yet stili.a maid is she; Her eye is dim, her brow is seamod, Her cheek a withered rose, The glossy ripples ol her hair Are touched with gleaming snows. But still she clings to girlish things With unforgotten grace, And frills about her faded throat A bit of yellow lace, But little dreams her cherished string Of crimson beads afe made - Of coral from the sunken reef Whereon his bones were laid. Minna Irving, in Criterion. KEEPING STEP* 0 BY ST- CA~M CrUs. 230000000006000000000 0 away; it's no use, Mab," said Prisey Cart wright to her sister. "The thing has been settled ages ago, so far as I am concerned. Hush up, now! hush up!" ~',"Ages ago!" Mab echoed, re fusing to "hush up"-"I believe it must be ages ago. Well, if you per sist in this unreasonable course." "I don't persist any more than you. Look at how you did with, Tom Van duien." "That was a long time ago. I didn't do it for an example, eit! sr. -And you said at the time you wouldn't do as much for me. Then you went V did the very same thing, after all." "Don't care," Prisey said, doggedly. "I will not _marry off and leave you for any man under the canopy of heaven." ."Then, my dear, since'we cannot get our suitors to keep step, so to speak, we might as well make ar rangements for a quiet and dignified old maidbood. Let's buy a parrot or mething, Prisey. e front door bell rang-while the women were discassing their -mutual affairs in their owu room " on the second floor. Just as Mab's brilliant suggestion for the purchase of a parrot had thrown both the sisters into a fit of laughter, the servant girl of the boarding house appeared at their door' with a square envelope ad dressed to Mab. "The boy says he's to wait for an answer." "Here, Prisey," said Mab as soon as she had glanced at the signature, "this must be for you. It's addressed to me-yes-no-wait a minate." Then she read to herself: * My Dear Miss Wi.b-Do you intend going out this evening. .If not, will you see me at 8.30? I have something to s:'y to you of the greatest importance-to myself, at least. JULiUs CLEMIENT. "Here, Prisey, read this." And IMab handed the letter to her sister. "What do you think he means?" -Then she added, speaking gently, to avoid being heard by the servant girl, who was waiting at the door, "Do yon * think he's got us mixed up ?" As Prisey read the note her blue eyes widenied in amazement, but she only said, "You're keeping Jane wait ing, Mab." * Mab turned~ suddenly to the door, "Tell the boy 'Yes,'" she said. "That's all the answver there is." The door having closed behind the servant, there was a silence of some moments between the two sisters. They seemed to take the incident in contrasting ways. The brunette Mab - stared, as a child might stare at an elder sister--Pnsey 'v ..s her elder by a, *year-who has met with a calamity and perplexes by her coolness under it. Prisey went on with her occupa tion, which happened to be pulling feathers from an old hat to rearrange Sthem en a new one. These two orphan girls had beeni alone together in the world for so longj tha each expected to understand every inmost feeling of the other by intuition. "Don't you care?" MIab said at last. "I?" said Pse, okigup fromn her feathers for one muoenu. "What for? Why shouldn't he?" "Was i right, Prisey?" "Perfectly right, child." At the appointed hear Mr. Clement * rang the bell and asked for Miss Mabel Cartwright. "Uid vonu say 'Miss Mabel?~" Jane asked. "Yes, Miss Mabel." Jane really felt uncertain as to - whether Mr. Clements mel nory haid not played him a til -k. "So von have somiething of the greatest importance to say to me?" Mab asked h;im when she had taken a vecry strait chair opposite her visitor. "Er-yes, Miss Mab. I hope you won't hurry me though. Did I say, 'the greatest importance,' in that note I sent you? Oh, well--" " 'To you,' I think you said. But * I don't want to hurry you. It's very sloppy out of doors, isn't it?" "Oh, now don't make fun of me: "How?" Mab asked innocently 'TBecause I asked if it was sloppy? "I might as well come to the point, said Clement. "Look here, Miss Mab, of course you know wa'hat hap pened last night-at the Jernay'sto me. I mean." Mab only fixed her dark eyes on him and when he hesitated, said, s'Go on." 'Well, I want to know if-if yo, think-that is,'I have your sympathy. Julius Clement had a fine niustach, which curled with boldnebs and grace and which he always stroked' an pulled when he was in doubt or ii deep thought. On this occasion h was in both, and he acted accord ingly. "Do you need a great deal of syin pathy?" Mab asked him. "I don't know whether I ought t say I do," Clement answered. H had already worn out his first embai rassment and was beginning to warr to his subject. "Perhaps I ought t consider myself fortunate, rather." "Oh, may I ask-?" "Of course you may. I suppos you knbw what answer I got?" "Well, no." "Just so." He laughed nervously "But then I found out something think." "What did you find out?" "If your sister said 'No,' is was be cause-it wasn't because-it was be cause-because she wants always t be with you. just as you are? There Am I right?" MIab had a way of tightening he lips which Prisey called "shutting u: herself all to herself." She wen through this process now. "We were talking of buying a par -rot," she said very seriously after little pause. 'A parrot? What fo:?" "For our amusement a'od consola tion." I Clement laughed at this idea s heartily that Mab began to wonder. "Tell me, seriously," Clement said "isn't it something to know that some body cares for you-even if-?" "Mr. Vanduren to see Miss Mabe Cartwright," Jane interrupted, open ing the door at this point in the inter view. "Mr. Vanduren"' Mab exclaimed not concealing hcr surprise. "Oh, I-eh-I intended to tel you," said Clement. "He arrived ii town to-day, you know. You hadn' heard?" There was sotme embarrassment ir the meeting between this young artis and the girl who, in the language o common report, had "given him th4 mitten" nearly two years before Vandaren had taken himself off t< Mexico and Central America, alleginj an irresistible longing to sketch na ture in those parts. "You quite surprised us," said Mab as she shook hands with the beardei last arrival-"and very pleasantly, When did you get back? Prisey will be so glad to see you again. Let me go-up-and'tel .bef you are here." Without perplexity it would be im possible to describe Vanduren's man ner of receiving this suggestion. There was more than mere embarrass ment, there was annoyance. Some thing seemed to have gone wrong, Mab saw this much, but was not cleal as to what was wrong. Clement smile a very proper, conventional smile an stroked his mustache. Vandurer mumbled something which Mab fel1 perfectly at liberty to take for assent. Accordingly, Mab left the room ani the two men stood faze to face. "You seem amused, Clement.," sail Vandoren, breaking the silence. "Well, why shouldn't I?" Clemeni answered. "What dLid I tell you to day? Of course, you didn't tell me you would be here so soon-very firsi evening, you know. "I didn't think it recessary to ad vise you of all my lovements be' forehand,"- said Vanduren, coldly, while he stoodl before the mantlepiece ritically examining an applique drap. "That's right, Vandaren-quite ight. Now, before they come down, et mec tell you something." Van dzuren turned quicily and faced the ther man. "We have no time tc ose," Clement went on hurriedly. "You may n'o know it, b~ut you are my~ god out of the machine'-that's a assic allusion, you know. l'll explain t another time. See here, I knew~ edl enough you'd be here to-night. That was why I told you I was coming. Now you want mc to get out, don't ou:i?" For answer Vaniluren only stared. "Yes, you do. Miss Prisey won't ome down." - "How do you know that?" "Never mind. No time now for argument. I only want to make a straight-forward business proposition to you. If I get out of this will you promise to propose to Miss Mab this very night? Yes or no?" "Well, I'll be shot!" Vandiuren ex elaimed in an undertone. ''Yes, I know,"' said Clement. "It oes seem a queer and quaint idea, but there'll be time for explanation later. Yes or no?" A rustle of skirts could be heard on the stairs. "Yes," said Tanduren, making hi5 dcision hurriedly, as one who leapm in the dark. "Good for you-for us~ hoth, Cl(1em' nt whisp~erc to han, as the skirte ame nearer the door of the sitting. room. "And tell her' to take a day oi tw o to think it over-not to hrry." "'I'mi so orry, M: . Va" uren," sid ab, opening the door. "Pr'isey has a headache. You are going to be hert 5ome ti'ie, are youI not. i'n the ciy That's right. She told m.e to say she bopes you'll come again soon. Sh< as very glad to hiear of your return.' The rest, for ten or fifteen minutes, was small talk about traveling and art. Mexico and volc'nuoes. Then Clement, in conformity with his prcomise, "go out of that." Next afternoon the two girls were together in their ioom. Prisey wa turning over a letter that had come t< 1er thirough the mail. "I think you mnight let me see it,' said Mab. "I let you see mine yes teday. At fast, after sonme hesitation, Prisey wi~Lonit .1peaking, handed her sistei th le1tter, wich red: L "You must not think me overbold if I re fuse to take your 'No' for an answer ani come back again within forty-eight hour! of my defeat at the Jernay's. .oinethin; leads me to the conviction that this is a specially favorabie chance for me to 'tr again.' Will you reconsider your decision er is there really no hope for me? In the latter case, mercifully end m . suspense by an early answer. "JULIUs CLEMENT." "I wonder what he means by 'some thing, Prisey remarked as Mab handet y her back the letter. Mab was shutting herself up to her . self to think. "I tell you what, Prisey. That mai y is no fool." Mab paused a while fo: farther meditation. "Yes," she wen on, "it will take a pretty sagacious wo e man to manage Mr. Clement. He see into things, does Mr. Clement. Cami here last night to ask for my sympathy eh? Forgot to mention that Tom Van i duren was in town. My dear Priss that man knew very well that Tom wa: coming here last night. It was a plo . to force Tom Vandaren's hand. If - thought Tom was half as clever "But as it is," Prisey interrupted putting an arm about her younge sister's neck. "As it is? What?" "Why, Prisey, Ithink they're keep ing step at last, don't you?" t "Then we needa't advertise--for parrot," said Prisey. And the two sisters wrote two littl< notes that evening. Mab's note was t Vanduren, and it said: "Come an< get your final answer to-morrow at o'clock p. m." Prisey's was longer But the effect of the two communica tions was much. The two sisters and their two suitor kept steps admir'ably a few weeks late: to the tune of the Wedding March. St. Louis Star. Once Considered Insane. Some interesting stories about th enlistments of recruits to the Ninti have been going the rounds. One o the assistant surgeons of the Nintl gave a young man a rigid physical ex amination, under orders, as the young man was not thought to be desirable recruit. After the applicant's weight anm height had been ascertained, and the color of his hair and eyes noted, the dialogue between the surgeon and prospective recruit went on as fol lows: "Were you ever rejected for life in surance?" "No:" "Have you ever given up an occu pation on account of your health, oz habits?" "Are yoi ubject to dizziness?" chest, cold ii the head, shortness of breath, severe headache?" "No." "Have you had fits?" "No." "Nor stiff joints?" ''No." "Sunstroke?" "No."3 "Have you ever been considerc insane?" "Yes, sir." "What's that you say?" asked the surgeon, scratching out the "No' that he had written in anticipation of a negative answer. "Well, I guess it's all right," re plied the recruit. "My mother saidl that I was insane to-night when I told her that I was going to enlist, As I had got tired of saying 'No']I just thought I'd mention it. " Wilkesbarre Leader. WISE WORDS. In faith lies victory. Secrecy is sin's, coat of mail. Honor dresses in home-spun. Pride is the national pickpocket. The man above suspicion lives above the stars. Man never makes truth-he only discovers it. Fame's race-track runs across the rights of men. Society's glow-worms always shine with a sickly light. A big heart and a big poeketbook~ seldom travel far together. Wearing finery unpaid for, is re spectability going jailward. Too much goodness is as monoto nous as too much wickedness. The man who confesses his ignor ance is on the road to wisdom. Do your best to-day and you will be able to do better to-morrow. About the best water-proof for all kinids of wecather is a clear conscience. The moral training of the little cild is the future hope of the nation. If you doJn't pay its you go somel day you may have to go without pay To marry for money may turn outl to be like going to the hornet for honey. It is a great accomplishment to knowv how to makie the best of life as it comes. Tihe answer of Commodore Stock ton to the Mexican Gov-ernor of Cali fornia, when we took possession of 'that coutry, is worth recalling: "1.f you marich upon the town (Los An geles), threatened the Governor, "yu will tind it the grave of your "Te the Governor," said Stockton, "to hav'e the bells ready to toll at eight o'clock in the morning. I shall be there at that time." Commodore Tatnall's "blood is thicker than water" won great recog niition iu England in 1859. Seeing the British Admiral. Sir James Hope, in a tight place under the fire of Chinese forts, Tatnall gallantly came to his rescue. In so doing he was guilty of a breach of neutrality, bul his answer, "Blood is thicker than -water," had thie effect of condoning Ihis offense. CHILDREN'S COLUMN, A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. Something that Will Interest the Ju venile Members of Every Househoid -Quaint Actions and Bright Sayini of Many Cute and Cunning Children Grandpa's Way. Somehow, of all the day we children used to dread t When night wold come, and mother' say. "Now, children, go to bed;" Till grandpa came to visit us. He was : - soldier, and you see 1 He's just as good and pleasant as ever h can be. - The very first night he asked mother wio a smile. 3 If the children ever march'td to bed t good old soldier.style. [ Then he commenced to count, "One, V one, two." I tell you, it was fin And you don't know how quickly w fell into line. Since then, all day we kind of look ah For night to come, when we like'sold can march away to bed. And grandpa says, If we've a task, find it just the same It's so much easier to do if it has a pl ant name. -Orange Judd Farmer.' Oldest Doll in America. The most interesting-doll In country .is to be seen at Rea Mass., and is the property ofMrs. 0. Brown. She was brought fro Canton, China, to Salem, Mass., 1 years ago, by Capt. Gamaliel Hodk as a prevent to his little daughter. has passed down from generation' generation remarkably well prese and does not show her age at all. every entertainment when old-fasliC ed things are brought out, she appedn L and could tell some startling expe ences, no doubt. She was of quite,n ture age when Washington becam President of the United Colonies, am was nearing 100 years of age when . war of 1812 broke out. We do nc mow Dow she was dressed at first',bu# now she wears a Louis XIV. costu Bootblack Honor. A few weeks ago a gentleman, godna through .a crowded part of the city:Q Glasgow, Scotland, noticed a palefade little bootblack waiting for hie Touched by the delicate look .oih child he thought he would give-hi blacking of his boots to do. A', ly, he gave the little fellow thesgi -The boy it once crept lamely't the gen 9ndaas -he iffl~ in* , 1 otb'Iteke ' - was/ttln diately af the 'gentleman's feet an6 ready to begin. "What's this for?" said' the gentle man to the intruder somewhat angrily "It's a' richt," said the nevmomer brightly. "Jamie's.jist a wee while ooi o' the hospital, and the rest o' us take turn aboot o' brushin' for him." Jamie smiled pleasantly by way of assuring the gentleman that his com: I'ade's story was true. The gentleman was so grAti-fied by this act of brotherly kindnessPJat he gave Jamie's. friend a w~hole shillh'tg foi his work, telling him to give sixpenet to JTamie and keep the other sixpence tc himself. "Na, na, sir," quickly replied this lit tie hero, giving the shilling to Jami and hurrying from the spot, "na, na sir: nane o' us ever take ony 0' Jamie's sil ler."-Christian Record. Boys Build a Locomotive. Edwin H. Warren and Ernest C. Warren are two Montvale (Mass.) boys, aged respectively 17 and 15 They are students at the Woburn High School, from which they will sMA~i LLb BUTELTAB3LE. proabl begraduated two years hence. Unlike most boys of 'their years, they care little for base-ball 'and less for the mad scrimmages of the foot ball field. Their home is on rising ground near the railway station, a~nd their newest toy is a locomotive which they. with the aid of their father, Mr. Herbert .A. Warren, constructed and placedi in operation on a 120-foot track. The locomotive weighs about a ton and a half, and were such engines animals that developed like cows this one might very aptly be called a yearling. It is an out-and-Out locomotive from headlight to cab. The wheels on the boz!e truck once did duty as pulleys in a mill. They are twenty-two inches' in diameter. The drivers once were pul leys. but they are larger, measuring thirty inches. There is no connecting rod. but in its stead a belt is compelled to impart power to the drivers from the force induced by the twin cylinders under the fore part of the boiler. The boiler is three f'eet long and two feet bore. It was originally intended for In heating apparatus, and the three feet of the fire-hox makes the iron part of the locomotive about six feet in length. Out of the Mouths of Babies. "Now, Harry." asked the teacher of the juvenile class, "what is the meal we eat in the morning called?" "Oat mieal," was the little fellow's prompt re ply. Eddie's mother was seated on a bench in the park onte day and the little fro* aow, who was playing ne-ar' by. found a -'Mhorehe Picking It n. iie carried it to his -mother. exclaiming: "Oh. mam ma; look at the horse's track I founu.' Tommy, the 5-year-old son of a candi date for a local office, was told that his father had got the nomination, and running into the house, he exclaimed: "Oh, mamagt.! Mr. Jones spys papa's got the nomination. Is that worse than the measles?" Willie, aged 5, who had just been punished by his mother for bad con Sduet, said: "Mamina, you've got the baddest memory I ever saw." "Why, V what makes you think I have a bad memory, Willie?" she asked. "Be caxise," was the reply, "you remember J1 the bad things I do." Annie was a very polite little miss of 6-years and when one of her little play mates told her that she had been con fined to the house for two days with th toothache, Anbie said: "I'm just fa~wfu1ly sorry, for you must have en a great deal of pain, didn't you, 'If Was Nellie's first day at school and At before dismissing the pupils for ,y the teacher called the roll and b ittle boy and girl in attendance tly answered "present." When s name was called among the e said: "Please, ma'am, I didn't e had to bring presents, but I'll one to-morrow." GLISH INTRODUCTIONS. mne of the Customs Prevailing in ' 'a Society There. that English people object to it of over-introducing in society. nk it vulgar, even when guests mbled to 'dine together. "Of Z said- a London man-of-the q me, quite recently, "you are made to know the lady ou have been desired to iake dinner." (Tihs constant phrase. own . to dinner," comes, of from the fact of all London g rooms being on the floor above the dining-room.) "The lady on er side? Why on earth should uction to her be requisite? You ge conversation with her. of hile the dinner progresses; my 'most agreeable moments een spent in quietly finding out e is and letting her quietly find o Iam." "But would it not be ble.for both," I ventured, ty of your hostess had pre e-you acquainted?-if you .presented to the other eentor here: scowled, 'then ,adonnhe," his reply o-dpresented' does ...we ne..ers very oad form." ,'t was my turn to smile. "You think it American?" I ask ed, .jemurely. "Well, yes, if you won't be offended," he said; "we do think it a -a transatlantic importation. I know Syou'll forgive me if I say to you that it was lugged over here by certain Ameri can girls, who have chosen to use It with a great airiness and empresse ment. They speak of having Lord This and Mr. That 'presented' to them. Of course, we English laugh in our sleeves at all this. Why not? We can't help it. One is 'presented' here to royalty alone. The word -is never emp~loyed in any other sense. When it is so employ ed we think the impulse is shockingly bad taste. You are 'presentedl' to the Queen, the Princess of Wales; you are 'presented' at the drawing-rooms in Buckingham Palace and all that sort of thing. I can't tell you what amuse ment it causes us to hear chits of Amer ican girls prattling about the person ages who have he~en 'presented' to them. The plain 01(1 English word 'in troduce' is what wve always use."-Lon don correspondence in Collier's Weekly. Strange Moncy in the Mountains. "The strangest money I ever saw," said a drummer for a Main street nouse the other evening, "was in the muounta:n districts of Kentucky and West Vir ginia. Last summer I was making my semi-annual tour through thIs district and I stopped one day at a little grocery and saloon, not to sell goods, but to i.ret a drink of the 'mounteain (dew.' While I was pouring out my drink a big. hi5y~ mountainer entered the p~hiceC and en:ll ed for a drink. As he finished gulping it down he reached into a big. imlkv pocket and drew forth what look'ed to be a coon skin. He laid the skin on ; he counter, the barkeeper took the skin. and, opening a drawer, hauled out ai rabbit skin, which I suppose was tile change. The mountaine.er pickedl up the rabbit skin anid started to the fr-ont part of the store. wvhich was the grio cery. He t'here bought a twist of to bacco and tendered the rabbit skin in payment. He received a big twist of long green, and I was surprised to see the storekeeper reach in another dra w er and tender him a squirrel skin.' The mountaineer tucked the squirrel skin .ht his pocket, walked out, unhitched his horse. and rode away. "I became interested and engaged the proprietor in converiation. Hie told me that sometimes he would go months without seeing any real money and that the mountaineers used the skins in all kinds of trades. such as buying horses, etc. He said that four times a year a hide buyer from Lexington or Cincinnati visited the country anid bought up all the skins, which were generally concentrated in the few stores in the vicinity."-Louisville Dis patch. __________ Cus-aion Horseshoes. A cushion horseshoe just placed on the market has flanges formed in a pad to surround the shoe, with air chambers extending around the pad in position to bear against the shoe and support the horse's weight. It is said that gold Is so malleable that it can be beaten as thin as the benm in a railway sandwich. A woman can sharpen a pencil abou. Ias quick as a man can thread a needile PR-E.VtylENT YANKEE GUNNERY. The Tac ics at Manila No New Thing in the History of the Navy. The Old Skipper unburdened his patriotic soul the other day on the subject of Yankee genius and valor in naval warfare. He had an audience of youngsters who felt dimly that they were the scions of a great nauti cal race, and when he got through with his palaver they were quite sure of it. "In the war of 1812," the Old Skip per said, "we proved even to the sat isfaction of the British Admiralty that in a duel of warships noise, smoke, smash, and splinters were* inferior to skillful maneuvering and quick,strong, and accurate firing-otherwise, gun nerv. Nelson's tactics, to close in with your antagonist and pound hi, went up in the smoke of the Guer riere, the Macedonian, and the Java captures, and is now nothing but a tiadition. The superidrity of Ameri can ships, guns, and seamen in those days staggered the European naval world. Those victories of ours made the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar appear what they really were-brutally stapid. "When our frigate Constitution met the brave Guerriere and the Java in single combat, it was a struggle of keen intelligence against brute force and arrogant ignorance. The Guer riere was then the crack frigate of the British navy, and the first one in thirty years to strike her flag in a naval duel between single ships. The great disparity of the loss in killed and wounded-five times as many on the Guerriere as on the Constitution astounded the naval world. Onr sea fights set all Europe thinking, just as our fights in this war may do. It was many years, however, before the Eng lish acknowledged that the real cause of their defeats in the war of 1812 was the superiority of the gunnery on the Aneriean ships. It was their ex cusc at the time of the war, and many years after, that the British tars had been simply overpowered by the Amer ic-i ships and the weight of their guns. The true explanation was that we were marksmen. "At the siege of Yorktown, in our Re% olutionary'war, the deadlyaccuracy of Washington's artillery fire aston ished the European-artillerists. 'Your progress 4n artillery is wonderful,' said the gallant Lafayette to Major Shaw. General Knox personally sn perintended the serving of -the guns. He was bred in the -woods of Maine, and was a born art erist.- Youpfire betterthaitheFie - >on mU w"d oido'aA-;Lafayee 3as MorsliW, "In,-all cases exceptone Amenan gunnery' in the war of 1812 was supe rior to the British. N That. exception was in the-case of the British frigafe Shannon, which wtnped and cap tured the American frigate Chesapeake. It was an illustration of stealing an opponent's trumps and playing them: back ait him. The Shannon's guns were fitted with American sighti and her crew were exercised after the American fashion. The commander of the Shannon paid particular atten tion to gunnery; in fact, he was the only officer in the British navy who did at that time. The brave Lawrence who, as Decatur said afterward, 'had no more dodge in him than the main mast,' dashed recklessly against the deadly fire of the Shannon. After receiving the Shannon's first broad side the Chesapeake wvas out of it. "As late as 1830 the American gun sighit was considered the best device known to naval artillerisi. It was in trodluced into naval gunnery by the Yankees in 1771. I have no doubt that in any future war that we may have on tihe sea, Yankee ingenuity and in telligence will achieve the success that has always attended them. "-New Yo.rk Sun. AN OLD-TIME NAVA L H ERO. Midshipmnan Richard Somers' Daring and Self-Sacrifice Before Tripoli. It is unfortunate that the name "Somers" cannot be attached to some active war vessel of the United States navy. The boat bearing that name, recently bought at Schichan, Ger many, will re naiu idle in k'almouth harbor until the war ceases. It is unfortunate, because the name Somers comes from a man who is associated with as remarkable an act of daring as that of any one who ever fought on the seas for Old Glory. Names such as his deserve to be per petuated. Examples like that given by Richard Somers are worth more than battleships or inexhaustible revenues. The first time Somers is heard of is, the time he fought a series of duels. Dueling was then the vogue. At a dinner Stephin Decatur, Jr., whose name is also memorable, called him a fool. He was an intimate of Decatur's. Five other guests told Some3rs it was a reflection on Somers' courage not to fight Decatur. Somers iesponded by callengiug the five of them, and Decatur acted as his second. He fought three, when they all apologized. Somers was a midshipman on the frigate United States when the war with Tripoli broke out. He was made master co'mnaudant of the twelve-gun schooner Nautilus. He chased some vessels close to a Tripoli tanm battery, which did not dare fire for- fear of hitting one of its own vessels. He chased them within a hndred yards of the battery, and as he turned to go back, his quarr-y safe Iin the harbor. destruction seemed imminent. But an American shell exploded in the battery, and he got away. It was on the night of September 4 that Somers gave up his life for the flag whose honor he had sworn to pro tet. He took charge of a small boat :iiled with 103 barrels of gunpowder and shells which had been turned in to a floatng mine. It wna knnwn that could the vessel be taken into the harbor and exploded enormous damage c:uld be done. Somers under took to do it. Somers had sworn never to be taken alive. The affair before Tripoli was not a peaceful blockade, but war. An uncle of Longfellow, Henry Wadsworti, ten sailors, and a midshipman, Joseph Israel, who had been refused per mission to go, but who hid in the vessel, made up the party. The fleet waited the result. The little boat, named the Intrepid, sailed towards the batteries. The batteries opened up on it. The American fleet waited anxiously for two hours and then the night suddenly changed into a glare of fire. The Intrepid had blown it self up, accomplishing its mission. Richard Somers sleeps in an un marked grave somewhere in Tripoli. The Mobammedans would allow no signs of identification. He gave his life and gave it at great cost, for the effect of the esplosion shattered the enemy's largest boat filled with sol diers, - -and wrecked two others. Richard Somers was a type of the midshipman of the first part of the century.. His deed has never been. excelled-in daring by any- single ex ploit. A Sociable Young Elephant. Three elephants trapped in the Gur whal forest were sent for education tp the forest bungalow at Myapore,where I was stopping; two were full-grown, the third was half-grown. The latter did not evince any particular attach ment for either of the others, and' was probably the progeny of neither. The full-grown elephants were fet tered and chained to trees,the umbrage of which they preferred to. the sun shine. In front of each sat a mahout talking to them nearly all day, occa sionally throwing them bits of sugar I cane. The- animals, however, sulked and were fretful, sometimes making demonstrations of charging their ma houts, for which they were scolded and just pricked on their trunks with the point of a spear. By persistence in this treatment and luxurious living--bread,,coarse sugar and rum, in addition to 'their usual vegetable diet-they were soon domes ticated. The young one, who grubbed Fith the .others, was quite., able to take care of himself, and yag not under restraint, but free to. go where 2he I would-the forest he came .from was, but twelve 'miles awsy. Heinadehin self acquainte-d with the erterio;of the bungw, t itis Jrecinct the Reiple, an l .e e##o lines had fallemplasantCe t once ettlingdo coax.me tog6an et'some e had not the politeness, t6 trampe thanks -wanted more1 -Perhaps everybody knows that twice the girth of an elephant's footis ifa lie -A t o - - tiheshoulder.--Thie Spectator.' Lawn Golf the Very Latest. The newest game is lawn golf, and it has already "taken" with those that own country houses. -Dozens of. sets of it are now being purchased, and it will be a distinct feature of fashion able life this summer. It is an exceedingly pretty game, and as a lawn pastime will stand some what in the way of croquet, which the past year or so has shown signs of . revival. Lawn golf is really more in the line of a practice game than it is a game of itself. It has no rules of its own, anld only differs from golf pure and simple in that its implements are different. A small size of golf balls and a small\ size of golf sticks are employed. A. course is laid out on the lawns, little fences that come in the sets being used as obstructions. In place of the holes of an ordinary golf course there are saucers of tin that have holes in their centres. These are turned up side down in the lawn, in any desired position. It is a difficult matter, as might be imagined, to drive a ball into these. A good shot is a much harder affair in this practice game, for the little ball, even when driven seemingly correctly, will slide over the hole, will slide to one side, and go contrary generally. Any man or woman that can play lawn golf well, people say, has a golf fture before him or her, and possi bilities of championship.-New York He:ald. A Musical Mouse. Cats have been trained to skip over the keys of a piano and -produce the semblance of a popular tune; dogs, like Captain H. B. Turner's Plinlim mon V, -have 'sung weird accompani nents to dirges and misereres. But in Brooklyn there is a mouse that sings almost as well as a Hartz canary just over from Germany. One night a few weeks ago 'while a worthy citizen of Brooklyn was read ing in his dining room, his attention as arrested isy. a chirruping in the kitchen. At first he thought a spar row had fallen down the chimney. Then he heard the noise repeated, and as the range of notes was considerably greater than that of a sparrow he con einde:1 it must be a canary or some other song bird. He started to inves tigate and heard the scratching of a mose interspersed with the trills. Finally, ut.on lifting upe corner of the oilcloth near a loose board,:he saw the gleaming eyes of a mouse. After several attempts the mouse was caught in a soap box,covered with a strip of wire netting. It soon got accustomed to its new abode and occa-. - sionally piped out its little tune. It is still a captive.-- New York World. In Safe Quarters. Hammond-The men who are found in the very smoke of the battle are not always the bravest. Beans--No; think how well a man an really remain hidden there.