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- -- -A -* -- - -v -r ;- - - RI WEEKLY EDITION WI SC. DECEMBER 15, 1898.EST184SHED-18 _HEN THE -REGIMENT COMES BACK. t ~he Uiforms were blue, all the swords and rifles new, When the Regiment went marching down the street All the men were hale and strong as they proudly moved along Through the cheers that drowned the - music of their feet. Oh th mu-ic of their feet keeping time to drums that beat, Oh the glitter and the splendor of the sight: As with swords and rifles new, and in uni forms of blue, The Rugiment went marching to the fight. When the Regiment came back all the guns and swords were black, And the uniforms had faded into gray, And the faces of the men who marched through that street again Seemed like faces of the dead who lose their war. Tor the dead who lose their way cannot look more gaunt or gray Oh the sorrow and the anguish of the e sight. Oh the weary laxging feet out of step with drnms that beat, Wher, the Regiment came marching from the fight. -Kla Wheeler Wilcox. in Harper's Weekly. 4Q9Q#M49*999@9@999 99 You smile at her name, fnding it absurd, perhaps? Do not, however, be in too great a hurry to turn it into xidicule, for she who bore it was a brave woman, and worthy of all re .spect. You must know that Mine. Jambe Mother Jamtbe, the soldieris called her -was for many years cantiniere in a regime.nt of the line, and in this capac ity she was a sort of -good angel to the troops. Officers and soldiers alike 2ll resp -r. e married, when about thirty -. years of age, the quartermaster-gen eral of the reginent. His time was nearly up, but he remained with the colors in order to help his wife to keep the canteen. -The little house was a prosperous one, for Xre. Jambe had more than o:.o string to her bow, and well under stood how to employ her spare time Frofitably. She had learned the art (or scieuce, perhaps, it should be called) of hair-dressing, and on the ceasion of any fete was in great re -a aest with the o'icers' wives. The thri-ty woman was thus able to lay by - very considerab!e sum of money, which by no means lessened her pop ularity in the regiment.. Aftei a year of ma: ried life a son was born, and Mmne. Jambe and her hus band agreed that as soon as he shou.d attain tne proper age, he, too, should be a soldier. At the age of sixteen he passed into the ranks,and being smart and intelligent,-he seemed to have a right'lture beforb. him. ithsiuisbanda d father4iadsud i t'was a terrible shock poor Mme. Jambe, and she woald ad have survived it were it not ortie thonght of her son, and the hpe that he would be a comfort to her in her declining years. Sorrow aged her more than her rough life had done, and she left the service and set tIed in a little cottage left her by her parengs in the village of Clusy, near P'oiarliers. A year later war ibroke out, and this -was another sorrow for her to bear. :Sewas a patriot, was Mmne. Jamibe, but she was a mother also. - - During that terrible winter of 1870 '7], uthe hardly slept for three consecu tive hours in the t wenty-four. Always on the alert fo: news,she chafed sorely at the snow, which almost eut off her little'vi.iage fromi the outer world,and made communication a matter of great cdi jealtv. She passed whole weeks in ignor ance of the progress of the war, of iher son's whereabouts, and then, little by little, she heard Gi the defeats,and at last le'. ned that her son,a sergeant now, hlt been attachel t~o the army of the east, wvhichi was then being formed uader the command of General Bourbaki. - romn this time and in all weathers 'Ae might be seen each day trudginug the wea-y, saow-covered miles which - nsa betwern Cliasy and Pontarliers, or else climbing to Fort de Jonx, over looking the swiss frontier. She sought news, but news,nunhappily, was scarce and contradict ory. Sud lenly, toward the end of Jan nary, the rumor spread that tne army of the east was approaching, having failed to relieve Belfort. For nearly a week Mine. Jambe kept a striet wateh day a-Ilnight, scanning eagerly the road by wh ch she hoped to see the French arrive. They were signalled at last, but the Germnis were signalled, too, from the opposi:e direction, and it seemed evi dent that the armnies would enc. unter one another in the immediate neigh bor hocod. .Au 1 now I will let Mmne. Jamnbe tak up the storys, for what followed I ha i fromn her own lijps a few months atrthe events described took place: "One morning at dawn I heard a noise at the door of the cottage, and then the sound of breaking glass. I rose hastily and ran down to the en trance. I gave a cry, my boy was tbere, and behind him stood three of his comn ades, but in what a state ! tiaggard, hollowv-cheeked, their uni forms in rags, their boots almost in pie.es, blue and shivering with cold! "'Mother, you must hide us," he sai-1. 'The general has entrusted me with a message to the commandant of the fort, but' the Prussians have seen us and are in pursuit. They must not find u1.' "'diive me your order,' I cried, 'I will take it while you hide here; no one will suspect a woman--' "I had no time to funish, we heard a dischair~e of musketry and a neigh bor r-shiel in e'-ying: '-''he Prussians! The Prussians "I pushed my son and his friends into a storeroom,at the farther end of which, under some hay, was the door leading into the cellar where I kept my little stock of wine and cider. "The Prussians entered in through the open door; I saw others in the road. There must have been about one hundred of them altogether. A young officer was in command. "He came up to me and said, bru tally '"'Is it you who are Mme. Jambe?' "'Yes, I am she,' I answered him. "'Your son has just entered this house.' "'Mv son! He is far away from here, always supposing that Le is still alive.' "'He is here; I am sure of it. Come, now, where is he?' " 'You must seek him, then.' "He made a sign, and I was sur rounded and prevented from moving my position. The soldiers ransacked the house, I asked myself meanwhile who could be the coward who had be trayed my son. "At last the brutes found him-him and his friends, and I saw them dragged out covered with the hay in which they had attempted to coLceal themselves. And my son! Ho- brave and handsome he lcoked with his flashing eyes. Yes! he was my own flesh and blood, and I felt proud of him. They were rigorously searched for the message they were supposed to bear, but as it was a verbal one they could dnd nothing. "The officer stami ed about the room, mad with rage. Glancing at the prisoneis, he said: . " 'is your son aton gst them?' "'He is not; and if he were I would not confess it.' "He drew his sword on me, and then we were all dragged out into the roadway, the oflicer shout ng: "'Where is the wan who gave us the information?' " 'One of his companions has just killed him,' a Prussian se geant re plied,pointiug to a corpse which I had not seen, hidden as it was behind a bush. ".'he traitor was a franc-tireur,who, to save his own life, ha.t given up my son to the enemy. His punishwent had not been long delay,;d: " 'The murderer will be shot!' cried the olicer; then, looking fiercely at a group of villagers who were cowering under his men's bayonets, he con tinued: " 'Some one among you knows the man Jamibe; point him out to me, or I will order my men to fire on you.' "Ah! they were brave, my neigh bors, they made no reply. " 'Then we will soon find out.' He gave an order in a low' voice. His men pinned me with my back against a wall, and placed riies-in the hands of my son audis comrpades. "Int'he olicer said: "'On the word of command you will fire and kill that woman. If you disobey it will be your turn next.' "A cry of ho:ror ran through the crowd, followed by a dead silence. I -well, I offered my soul to the bon Dieu, telling myself that I must try to show how a French womnan could die if need be, and I waited, watching my son. "Bait he did not seem to see me. Fis eyes were turned to his comrades. They seemed to be making signs to one another. " 'Present!' and they obeyed,cover ing me with their rides. "'Fire!' They turned suddenly to the right about. An explosion folowed, and four Prussians, the oficer among the numb'er, fell. And abose the roar of the discharge I heard may boy's voice clearly: "'Fire! Yes, but on you, you coward!' "A 3eneral volley on the part of the Prussians fjlowed, and I jell with a bullet ii my shoulder. Before I lost consciousness, however, I saw that my son was still unhurt. "I learned afterward that, just at this moment, the cannon of the Fort de Jous began to play. The comn mandant had caught the reflection of. the sunlight from the Prussian's hel mets, and, concluding-none too soon -that something untoward was tak ing place, had sent a few shells into the crowd and rapidly dispersed the eeny." Mmne. Jambie died a few years after the e' ents, which I have related as nearly as I cani in her own words,took place. Her story was recalled to my mind the other clay on hearing that the son of this brave woman had just bee 2 promoted to the command of his regimet.-Pearson's Weekly. The P'orto Rlico Mlarketman. The marketmnan in Porto Rico is the small landholder. No Porto Rican posesing any considerable amount of imeney would invest it in agricul tural prodlucts other than sugar cane, tobacco or coffee. Owing to this bean-s. corn, etc., which coul I be raised in quantities large enough to supply the whole country and leave a surplus for expo t, are imported from Spain and from this country. He also devotes himself to several small industries. such as the making of charcoal, ham mocks, whips, ea' thienware, canes and esecilly strawv hats, some of them of tine quality. The mar et places in Porto Rico are owned by the municipality. They are generally in the large squares, the centre of the market being without a roof and divided into small spaces, in which canvas tents are erected daily by the merchants. These spaces are rented,or, rather, a tax is collected on them, each day, from the country people who use themi, and who, in many towns, are u.t 1)ermitted to sell their wares in any other i'lace. The houses sur' rou'ding the ma kel place are rented by the year and th y are u:,uall-y oc cu;iel by grocers, butchers, etc. - ENGLAND WOULD WIN., France No Match for Her, Accordist tc Naval Authorities. The naval authorities of the United States do not expect war between Eng land and France, but if it does c:m( it is their opinion that the result would be similar to that between the tUnited States and Spain. While France ha the larger army, the fighting will be done at sea, where England is 'supe rior not only to France but to any other nation. She has twice as many battleships of the first-claw as France, three times as many of the secoud class and five times as many of the third class. Great Britain has 21 first-class ar mored cruisers, while France has only 4; she has 22 first-class protected cruisers, while France has 5, and 48 second-class protected cruisers, while France has 18. Great Britaim has 11 second-class cruisers and France has 6. She has 31 third-class pro tected cruisers and France has 17. 0; the third-class, partly protected, Greal Britain has 23 and France none. 0 the sloop class she has 18 and Franc( 15. France, however, has 1. third. class cruisers, with no corresponding rating in the British service. In the line of coast defense, non-seagoinv ironclads, Great Britain has 11 and France 12. Of the heavily armored gunboats Great Briain has 49 and France 12. Great Britain has 33 torpedo gun boats and France 15. She has 95 tor pedo-boat destroyers, while Franc( has 8. She has 61 torpedo boats ol class 1; France has 50. Of class:2 she has 30 and Ira-ice 169; of fhe third-class she has 1o4 and France 4A A general sutnaization shows the following: Great Britain has 88 liae vessels, 153 cruisers, 60 coast-defense and 313 torpedo craft. 3 rance ha 60 line, 74 cruisers, 24 coast-delease and 288 torpedo craft. Great Britain's armored cruisers are the finest adoat. They were no bet. ter than the New York was whet she was launche l six years ago, but have been greatly improved since,botl in their number and effectiveness. The most formi.lable battleships. in the ,world also belong to Great Britain, although they are not much superior to the Iowa, the .llinois, the Kear sarge, the Oregon and others of oui navy. The most powerful ship in the English navy is a battleship 100 feel in length, 75 feet beam, 26 feet inches draught, 18 knots speed, coal capacity for 2203 tons and displace. ment of 14.6(0 tons. Its armameni cpnsists of four twelve-inch wire wound guns, twelve six-inch, sixteer tour-i ich and a number of machine and rapid-fire guns. The most power ful ships in the French naxy are the St. Lonis and Charlemagne, each hav ing aisplaceinent of 11,260 tons and a speed of seve iteen knots. Thein arma nent is not up to several of the battleships of our navy. The Curionq Sea-Sqnirt. The sea-squirt has such a curiqus organization and passes through sc strange a series of cbanges in its de velopmIent that it and its allies have long been regarded witl. more that usual interest by naturalists. Fo: the sea-squirt is a living example os degeneracy of struetural degradatioz so complete that until recently it was universally zupposed to he a mollusk. Its shape is roughly cylindrical, its color a dingy gray, and it lives attached byvits base to a rock on the seashore. At its free end there is a hole, corn ruonly surrounded by eight small lobes, and a little less than half way dowi the side of the body is another open ing, with six encircling ltobes. ThE upper aperture is the mouth, and 11 leads to the dige tive tube, whiel: consists of a spacious pharynx im mediately following the mouth, a guil let, a stomach and an intestine. Corn pletely surrounding the digestive tube, except along one line, where thE pharynx is fused with the body wall, is a chamber called the atrium. ThE atrium opens to the exterior at the lower of the two external apertures, which is hence called the atrial open ing. If the Aseidian be carefully watched under natural conditions, current of water will be seen to con tinually enter the month and leave by the atrial opening. If it be touched the creature will suddenly send out streamnof water from each opening, and its common name is derived fron this habit of squirting when irritated. -A. E. Stenhouse, in Knowledge. TorpedoBoats Are Dangerous Things. We have learne l that the torpedo boat service hasc been the most dan gerous afloat. More men have losi their lives on torpedoboats than on all the other naval ships put together. We know that this service tries the men, in nerves and muscles, mcre than any other, while youni officeri have had the responsibility of inde pendent comm ands. So this service as done more than all others to im prove the personnel of the navy. And it is not unlikely tha' the most hellp ful T'art of the experience of the bat teship crews was that had when the: faced the black mouth of Santiag< harbor watching for an enemy thai had not the nerve to come.-John R. Spears, in Scribner's. An Ancient Barg'e. 3fontagrie, in the Oyrne, rejioices ii the possession of a female bargee, o: bateliere, who is one hundred and tw( years old. This ancient person has spent nearly all her life on the water. She is in full possession of her facul ties, is able to take a hand at the heln,and, as physiologists would say, her organism has still the power oJ rearing snbstacnce wasted in func tional actiuity. The old waterwomari has two sons in the same business a' herself. Cne is seventy-two and the other seventy-sis. - London Tele -h birthday. his cradle and his little .his dolls behind the door. a rocking hbrse ood top, of course, ma's baby any more. his curls, they are only fit m in a heap upon the floor; 'years old today, to hear them say ma's baby any more. in his trousers,like his older he should have had them * ~e, t h laced to the top, where they stop; a's baby any more. H ,is parents sigh, and has - ered why ';when he has such bliss In their darling boy, air pride and joy, Th t be their baby anv more. -Georgina E. Billinge. IPappy. Prince _ Was a puppy, iiter was nearing his -The baby and the dog ther. Before they had cataracts appeared on t and grew gradually, U eft in-total darkness, 'Pr came his constant coin pa he learned to walk the dogq at and watched over hinm ing him out of harm's waT Na~ sago the boy was sent to to be operated upon by of eminence, but his eyes iot -be restort d. Then lie w with diphtheria and died; since Prince has been gloo lenetic, and cataracts have on his eyes. Unless som be done for his sight he w -blind, just as his little mas w York Tribune. '-Adopted Mother. Ne7a - owned a ben that wouh Grandma put her on the n -many times, but she alwa So k the eight nice eggs, up and put them in a b n-she put the basket near p p eggs warm. Neli ket many times e had turned into -One day she heard IeeP d raising the co-verk do you rand anokuer hen that was very good and ery fond of baby hiiiknens. She tried to help the other mothers care for their chickens, bat they flew 't her and jecked her. She evenutried to coax some of them to follow her when the broods were large, but that didn't suit the mother hens either. Sandan th'uept tMd han wothe Gaeahaled aother hen ttiea chickens. the haid'to help ther ter scrthsc for e.We the chickens a tlhenle adt her dodpeokedhe ras byShe, avntid te droppe some orne tfollo the al he thebodswr Thre old thn didn't uto "thckcother hics her wyo alig h Gboadm thhowutogt th con, anud meake adspend matone.t ile chicke thato have' some cohcent tscratch for Qe. Whnteciks weehthe Lshte bror.thekn Bl et and Dora h erewno the -grass b~y hean then groppd, that con fo te alto 'eat The aod tean "cuck cguck, wihs he a wa y cofer takng fa sthe -hwe them ow toe ea the onan ,-alyn sigtee the atonondee *rwry ongoul sde hof aprodr happyi she was toa he someu cickens theLitleierones nentBett and Dora woktte tolodo itriningho hiaed inhat iadb -abin--a qoi ue-ooing abin, builtve tl belowedn thern s hation Ail- rou~ndi n the in er ya tnies g r 'iacdsen ndteol owng l th Idem oi to crall andettyn ulle the bcitoe cled. toph -,isevhiprer.h iso id aing fes."adtati a wnt tol int me a' bofoer "Oirhe, and you raon' was torip, por- mamman inhupn shem i so viery tuicare fsin. kns" x "Ohne dear!dar"ceDr. "I iki srte Bety oulled hrakino bed. u "oph. udr,". shee howerd funn isft i s o edtkin feca eds." a "Iee matt'in" amma' bed."ety cherfmaml a, "let' plyhe ars socised jol Ito wae qite anrtrainingbd pay for ahew miudes and ten ora be.n ga "to iscomplain agmainedDoa "It'seroing, wensr;we canty, cheefuly "wet' ana we are ckspe. It was oquchteanento etty.n pa fo afew utel manda sai Dora.e galingt coutai ofagain. aninoh sItsoing romt eter wit annotm sehe e." ".Aen w~bela in w ae! ucse cped. sisted Betty, howdunsnieatr. iws too muc aren folrightty.ett icanet do.."udl u -lsering out ofbdhan in togethe sitting roo to return itabiu .Tust listen to the banging of the rain drops." "But we are not ducks any more," said Dora. "No " answered Betty, "we are toads under a toadstool, I guess." "IE think you are my brave little pioneers," said their father, coming in to take care of them.-Christian0 Observer. * Cleopatra'B Fish!na Party. E. H. House contributes to the'St, Nicholas a series of papers on "Bright Sides of History." This is made up of bright and entertaining episodcs in history, giv en in a story abant modern boys and girls, showing that the an cients we.*e just as fond of fun and frolic as their latte-day descendants. House relates the fo.lowing story: "When Antony first went to Alex andria as a mighty general. Cleopatra thought it necessary to keep the con quering hero in good humor by offer ing him all sorts of diversions and pastimes, which he tried to repay as well as he could. One day he gave orders for a great fishing expedition, very much to Cleopatra's delight, as fi4hing was one of the sports she ex cellen in. Antony was either unlucky or anskdlful oin this occasion, for he brought up nothing, while the Egyp tian queen never dropied her line without catching a prize worthy of an expert. He was so disgusted at his failure that he tried to muke matters look better by playing a trick on his companion. He secretly sent some divers down into the water to fasten fish upon his hook, and then pulled them in with t fine show of triumph, calling everybody to ober, e bow sue cessful he was. Unfortunately for him, Cleopatra had observed mote than he wished. She ke..t qmiet,how ever, and pretended she had never seen so skilful a fisherman in her life. She said so much in Antony's praise, and held him up as snch a master of the sport, tbt when she invited him to go out again the next (lay, he tried to excuse !.imself, fearing that he cer tainly wo;.ld be deteete-l. But she insisted, and he was obliged to take the risk, or confess that he was not so clevr as he seemed." "He might have tried the samn i gam onde more," interposed Harry, who conside ed that the tale was for his especial benefit, and told p'articu larly V him. "That is what he meant to do," continued TTnele Claxton, "but Cleo patra was to > bright for him. She had a diver oi her own ol board, and sent him into the sea with a big salt d fish, like those which are now sold in the market. This was hung upon Antony's hook, and'as soon as he felt the weight, he began to dance aboat, crying t'iat hl- had a bite before any liody el se, and hauling in his line as proudly as if he hld won a battle. You can imagine his dismay when the dead fishsplit open and salted,bobbed out of the water, and all his followers shouted with laughter." "Good for Cleopatra!'. exclaimed Harry. "I'd like to try that joke my self, the first time I get a chance." "How did Antony like it?" adked Percy Ca; ey, the oldest of the b~oys and his uncle's unme~zake. "He didu't like it at all. He was red hot with anger. But Cleopatra, who was always quick-witted, con trived to pacify him with compliments and flattery, saying that his strength was in capturing provinces, kingdoms and cities, and that after winning all the pglories of war he ought. not to grudge a poor African queen her humble exploits with the hook and liue. Then he forga; e her as he al ways did, 110 matter..what trick she "Is that story tine, uncle?" in quired Harry's sister Louise, "As true as most histo: y of the kind, my dear. Ancient wri ers be ieved it. There is no reumon why it shoald not hate taken place." Civ:1zing~ the Dor. The don.es icat .d dogs preserve their iatebuig.-nt propen1si ;e oalyy car ful breeding and sel. l ion. Grs thlemJ, a 1(t those a' leies fade awa~y. If freed from~ man' control and .sssa ciation. thle dogs will iui ed amiy oceed to Lot nd a n w race of their own and degeniez te 1aiy to the old Iritnal stock from wh.c :they we e i-1 remote age s deri ed. The best ila. e to study the u lo 1 e -ticat.ed dogs, to compare them wvith the sixty or wore artificial varieties recognized on the ench, is in their most nat;: a]lihabit.at toda--in the circuim, olar wo ld. It is c:aimedl by a.-ieuJre tha'Jt if alli of on: cdogs-the grayhonud, muuastiff, siauic, terrier and coilie-were tur-ned adri.t in a e untry where they would lhe ei -tirel exeuni t from nil the rest- aitts and associations of mia, all typical identity would gradr aly be lost, and they would assi xuilate one to :ao. be: in f'orm anid color. The slim. rounte tails would becomue thic.: and basy the ea-s wv uld grow short, e-ec t ad pointed, the bodies would beromei formly tawny, gray or brindled. A~ composite'feral tribe of dogs woul I result that is best represented t:>day in North America by thne ino-ngr-ei in dian dog. Climate would have sco ae thing to do in mnon!ding~ the et I.rs and characteristics of the untened brutes. For instane, th-e luWie color of the Arectic 1elt 's whit.:n consequently of a gi eat p oiort cu the wild and semi-w ild doas of t'e circumpolar region are white.whl the North American Indian en~s are of a tawny or grayish coLt .o No American Review. Cnndor "What is your opinical ofth 1 I lar songs of the present tin.?" a I the young woman. ''Oh," replied Willie \:2stin-on "I guess I'm like mo. t peoi-le on i point. I enjoy 'em, but I oa i to own up to the fact in thea e of my miusical friends."-Wash:-ai itar. GETTING OUT AN EXTRA. A READY-WITTED GIRL SCORES A BEAT ON NEWSPAPER RIVALS. Exciting Scene in a Printing OMce When News of Dewey's Victory Arrived - Margaret Clyde, the Proofreader, r-ose to the Emergency and blade a record. Isabel Gordon Curtis contributes a story to St. Nicholas called "Margaret Clyde's Extra," telling how a young girl who read proof on a morning pa per scored a heat on the rival jonr nals. The girl was left alone in the editorial rooms when the night's work was over. Margaret read column after column of the news from Cuba, Key West and Washington.It seemed to her as if she had read it all before, aud she put away the paper while she ate her meager luncheon. Then she tidied up the desk and laid her head on her arms. She was growing drowsy. She wondered if she could take a short nap. Her train would not leave ior an hour and a half yet. It ras grow ing lonely in the deserted composing room. She woke up suddenly, thoroughly dazed for a moment. She imagined she heard a noise. The presses were still rumbling downstairs, and the gray (lawn was stealing hazily into corners of the composing room. It was 5 by the large cloel. The noise came again. Somebody was beating and shaking theoutside door. Margaret was frightened, and for a moment she turned to run to the press room. The noise grew louder. It was an im atieat, deternine.I pounding, ihrst of hands, then feet. She flew to the door. ihrough the glas; she saw the dim fignre of a boy in a blue messen ger uniform. He thrust a yellow ea velope into her hand, cried excitedly, "Yews from.Manila!" turne i to monut his wheel, theirdisappeared down the dia street. Margaret felt stunned. She knew something ought to be done, but what? It was so far to Phillips'home; Mr. Schell lived in a suburb three miles from the ofice, and there was nobody in the pressroom who could set tyke. She wished the boy had not left so quickly. Margaret hurried to the proofread er's desk, where an electric light glowed. She to! e the yellow envelope open and read the fifty or.sixty words on the thin sheet of paper. "All well at Manila! Not an Am erican lost !" She fe!t as if Dewey had sent her the message direct. and an excited "Ohl" echoed through the empty room. Margaretglanced at the clock. It was fivehiutes past five.. Time wgs:precious; and she felt--slie must o something. A few days ago she had worked on an extra. Sone important news had come in when Phillips and she were alone. She had helped him to set the story in large type and stood by while he filled it in the upper part of the front page. There were a few exciting minutes and Margaret had worked breathless ly. Phillips had said some kind words afterwards about her efficiency, and it made her happy for all day long. She flew to the case where. the large black letters were kept that had adorned the first pages of the "Gaz ette" recently. She was working as if life depended upon her movements. She learned to set type with wonder ful deftness during two years' work, and in ten minutes she was standing over the words that later that mo: ing sent a wave of relief and thaik fulness through America. She hur-I red down to the press room. The regular edition was nearly ready. The men were running off the last thou-I sand, and the nimble folder stood be side gathering the papers into bundles. Pomeroy, the foreman of the press room, looked up in mild surprise when Margaret dashed in. "Well, what are you doing here?" "Come," she cried excitedly, "come upstairs with me at once!" "The place isn't on fire, is it?" he asked, half seriously. "No! it's the news from Dewey," she answered, hurriedly. "Here, Thompson," he shouted to a man at the other machine, "I1 must go upstairs a moment--you take my place." He followed Margaret up the steep stairs to the table where a gleam of light fell on a half form of large type, headed by block lette:s. He read the type alnost at a glance : DEWEY IS ALL RIGHT. Revenue-Ctter "McCalloch" at Hong-Kong. 300 Spanish Killed and 400 Wounded. Not an American Killed, but 6 Slightly Wounided. Sintlre Spanish Fleet Destrcyed. Nrw YoRE, May 7.-The "- . in an extra edition just published, p~rints the following special despatch from Hong-.isong: "I have just ar rived here on the United States rev enue cutter McCullogh with report of American triumph at Manila. The entire Spanish I!eet of eleven vessels was destroyed. 'Ehree hundred Span ish were killed and four hundred wounded. Our loss was none killed, but six were slightly wounded. Not one of the American ships was in jured." lHe grew wildly excited and a shout rang through the deserted building. There was not a man in the "Gaz ette" odice more patriotic or bet ter posted on the war sitnation thau th-e foreman of the press roomn. He had sent his youth in the navy daring the civil war, and his shont of tri umh was heard downstairs above the: din of the rumbling press. " who set this ?"' he- askeduy.&== be looked curiously at Margaret "I did." . "All alone?" ~ "Yes." "When did the dispatch come?" "Fifteen minutes ago," she said. with a glance at the clock. "Well, you're a brick, and a gid at that!" he cried. "But we've got to rash this out," and, hurrying to. Li-e Lube, he shouted, "Hey, Bil don's let that stereotyl er go!" Margaret helped him while he di vided the first page of the mornig raper and filled in the uppe- part with Dewey's memorable message. She followed him down stai s and listened to the cheers from the grimy men by the presses when he told the news. In less than ten minates iWe econd edition wa., being thrownf.on the news press and eagerly gathered ap by the men, who realized whiat gial news this would bring to Bire -poin# "Three cheers for Dewey!" cried Thompson excitedly. The presses rumbled on, and, mingled with their din, rose hearty x-plause for the hero of the Pacific. Poxnerov turned and laid his blackened hand on Margaret's fair head. "And now, boys," he said, "three heers for Ma garet Clyie. It isn't every girl of sixteen that could have Icne this sort of job in fifteen min tes. She didn't lose her bead for Dne second, and I have an ides we'il beat the Times on this story." RHEUMATISM M'KES LIARS. rhe Last Remedly Tried Is the one to, Win th- Praise. "Pheumatism makes more liars thau any ot:er disease." said a by sician io a NNashingtn Slar rep.te-, "tiiongh the people most affected by it are uaconsciously aftected, as far as their lying -is concerned. Ordinarily an attack of rheumaitiism, coming and goiueg, lasts abont three weeks. The seond week is genera'ly the woist as far 'sTaiais..concerned. The first week the suferd.--votes to his or her, own cures. They b- ing to quiet-the attack and the conseq t pam, the second week is taken up -ih . trying various remedies snggested bydrisnds and acqnaintan- es. As the thi w enters, the suferer in the meLntime having about made up his or he' min to let the disease have its .owr waf having given up the hope of trying to I cure it, the patient is ready to try a many things and remedies as come' along. and generally does so, it mat ters not how nnsensical theyare One says wear a pe ter r4zm-_g second finger of thi iA to drink great gu nt another to Iconsumo lemono .4d L estn your-pol n o"o By the end of the third week -the. rheumatism has passed away, aud praises are sung to every ear ii favor of the last remedy tried. The entire credit is given the last thing tried and while it may not - have done an more good than if Jhe patient carr'ed a brick in his overcoat or dress poz ket, if that was the particular thing last done it will be for all ti no he- aided as a cure certain and ialae. Here is where rheumatism makes liars of people. It is rare that a sufferer from rheumatism is -ever told to consult a physician. That sea:ss to be the last thing thought of ia cases of rheumatism, though .ieariy the first thing in nearly a'l other attacks of disease. Curiously enorigh, in nearly all the springs, me-liecaYi baths, and other sure cures the pa tient is told that twenty-one tehs or twenty-one days of drinking ti:e water is necessary. Here comes in the three weeks again, and I suppose it is necessary. It is at best a troule some complaint, and .it~ rarely yields until it has run its course, to) return on the slightest provocation." Characeritics Bnyealed by t"a Rande. "A large hand is al ways better than a small one," writes Blanche W. Fischer in the Ladies Home Jlo:rnal on "Easy Reading of the HandL.1" "Tt indicates a person of some unuud powers. The possessor will be a good worker, princially as to det s s: he will be careful not to make many prom1 ises, but will keep the few he makes to the letter, even at aioss to himself, he will be easily offended, vx ry qjuick to imagine slights, and not :ea ly to for ive either real or imagined of fences. The possessor of a small hand will attempt almnost anythin, rarely, however, finishing anything he undertakes; is easily sa islied botth with himself and the world a gener-al; is fond of gayety an I exciteenet, makes and loses friends with the sa.no easiness; is impressionable and in flammable to a high degree; is reni gious, but not deeply so; wilt miake promises and break them without compunction, and will be uca~ble to bind himself to details." The Little snudan Warrio,. Standing by Westminster brid.,e I. watched the first detachment of re turning grenadier guards f o'n the Soudan march past from the sta ior to their barracks. They got, as ex pected, a boisterous and ]herty e eption from a crowd two miles log but what struck me most forcibly was the extreme youth and undonh'.ed ex haustion of a good many of these war riors. Hard by me, as the s.'ldiers filed past, stood a brewer's ca t,drawn by those huge horses so well known to London visitors, and drireu, by a burly six-foot-four drayma, thame - guardsmen. in breadth. This gigantic critic watched, puzzled, for a while. Then, leaning over to his mate, he excaimed: "Why, they're only boys." The drayman would have been still more awestruck had he scen the towering warriors of- the Khalifa, whoma these boys so lately laid low. London Correspondence, in New Yo -. Tie.