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- STBLSHD 84 TRM WNEKLY EDITIOY _WINNSBORQ%,0C. MARCH 18, 1899.ESALHD184 A SAILOR ONCE AGAIN, For rather more than thirty years .Otar Uucle's been ashare, And Stars and Strip-S have absent been Wh-re often seen b1efore. But soon our ships. just as of old, W;: every sea explore. Our Uuefe Sam's A sailor once again! The Yellow Sea, the.Red, the Black, The China and thA:White. Shall often see-the VJag that flew O'er Santiago's flght; And all the nations of the e4rth Shall learn-and learn aright That Uncle sa's A sailor once agaiu! And though be's been so long ashore He's q1i te at home at sea ; And unite as quick to trade as fight He'll surely proveto be. "Let eargo follow. cruisors close All around the worll." say we, "Now Uncl Sam's A sailor onee agaih !" -T. C. K.. in New York Sun. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. * Miss Barbara Peckham had just sat down to her evening cup of tea. The Peckham Seminary !fdr Young Ladies had been unusua!ly trying to the teuper and sirits of its p'roprie tress that day,and Vis Barbara stood in serious need of lier cup of tea. She was tall and *'ue and usually wore rich,lnst e ess back si,k dresses, i and heavy go'd eyeglasses: her private sanctum was comfortably, not to Fay luxuriously furnished, with curtains of claret-colored cloth,101 lep red car pet, and an aviary in the bay window, whose featuered iahabitants were mostly red-for Miss Peckham be lieves in correspond2uee of colors. "Now," said Miss Peckham to her-i self, "for half an hour's peace ! Vain hope I for -carcely ha 1 the ac complished preceptress poured out her first cup of tea, and butte:-e.her I first muffin, than a stormy knock came to the do.r, and a tall, blooming girl burst into the room. "Magdalen Moore !"cried Miss Peck-J ham, in snrprise. ... . - . - "I won't stand it any lon',er !" said I Ma-dalda Moore, her cheeks growing e-l!t, her eyes a6ame wilh dusky fircs. "i'll go ho.ue tomortow !" "Miss Moore, I aM &arprised I". tnunciated Miss Peckham, wiling the tips of her fingers on her dunble damu ask napkin, and taking off her eye. glasses. __ " Charlott Coirenay I" cried -Xagdalen, throwing >aokJ1her. masses purple-back 1ba, Vi4h a qui te mott I - - said Aherselfff all,I ossessdegirl of -eigl ii Mis-s: eckm's graOiVatin S lass, and one of the "show scho,.a-s' of the establishient.. "And when Magdalea Moore tries on thos -high -'and lofty airs .i hers .. -heMid -lie72 #If mistaken in the N''t T~~'oung ladies, I am astonished at yu,"said Miss Peckhani, taking ref- I e m tha feeble couventionalities whieh are of so little avail in..actu~al w'ordy warfare. , '' 'Rnd,'' went on Cha4tie Courteady, breathlessly, "her fatiier was a con Mt-a convict in Siig Sing yiou! uncle saw the man there in a gray ''hon suit, making barrel hoops. And ny uncle says it's a pretty thing for is the daughters of gentlemen, to be crowded in here with--the--child of a convict l No, not even if ..Miss Jessa , who is wor th a mniil:on of dollars, l.tas choseg to adopt her out of the work hoase !" 'It was not a workh'euse," defiantly gasped Magrialen, on wvhose cheeks -' the crimson and white had alternately fluttered. "It was an asylam !" -"WVhere's the diff renee?" sarcasti .. ally de aande 1 Miss Courttenav'. - e 'ou are a beggar's brat all the *. ,same loke" h Magdalen lokdat Misxs Peckham -for protection, but Miss Peckhama was as limp as a rag. The -seret was,out which Miss . essup hadl so veteetly en oined her to conceal. The sha-p ' young eyes of her five ' a.zd twenty young ladies had priea out . ber mystery at last. Magdalen flashed around upon Charlo.tte. "ion are most noble su-1i generous," said she, bitterly, "to ;aaut me.wi h what is no faalt of mise-to humble -me be:ore all those girls. But, as e. tra:v as I live, Charlotte Cotu'tenay, I will be reveuged upou you for this r.ight's work !" And she went out of the room, cold -and paie as a statue, except where "' two scarlet spots glowed .upon either chieek. Magdalen Moore left the "Peckham Seminary" the next :norning before the big bell rant for prayers, anud Charlotte Conrtenay ba)' t:iamphed. II. "Newcomers, elh?"said Miss Antonia' -Jessup, looking at the Visiors' Rleg istry through a pair of double gl~asses; for .Iiss Jessup was going 'a sixtv, and her sight was not what it had b>een. "And Americans, too, regi'stered at the Botel Pol'.nia. "L.et me see," said her adopted daughter, lookiug ovec her shoulder. - "Oh, yes, General Couiteuay and daighter, fromi New York; Mr. and Mrs. iPaizeli,Sydney Egerton, Colonel Ward. Well, I hope they'll-be agree For i& in" was very dull that season, Sa"i Mirada en Jessup, as she was uni --s Jove !" eiaelated General Cort':enay-a tall, gray whiskered ome,wi:h a deep bass voice, and a cozplexion painfa;ily sgzestive of old creatnre as that adoptec danghter of Miss Tony Jessup's in my life !" "She is verybeautiful,"unwillingly owned Charl,tte, who had matured into a fresh-faced, rather common place person. "Qui:e the queen of society here," said Mrs. Dale:l. "Miss Jessup has pro uised me cards to their Tu-sday evening receptions, and Miss Mag dalen says she will secure us tickets to the Princess De-la Foria's ball." "We were at s.hool togetber, at the Peckham Seminary," said Char otte, a litle-gniltily. "I use.1 to quarrel dreadfully with her; but she s3ems to have forgotten all that, and to be dis posed to be as gracious as possible." Charlotte Courtenay had never seen a lovely, sleek le.pardess crouching for its spring, with al! its claws sheathed in velvet, or she would have co:nprehended what thii "gracious ness'' of M's3 Jessup's adopted daughter mea it. "You are engaged to him, then?" said Magda!en. "How delightful 1" "We a e to be married in the spring," said Charlotte, simpering and blushing. "Don't you think him quite handsome?" "h, veiy !" said Alagdalen, with a smile which, to an acute physioguo Ini4, would have expressed consider ably niore than sweet acquiescence. "It's so foi turate we ba% e met Yon hear !" prattled on Charlotte. "Syd ney is quite charmed with you and dear )i-s Jessup." "I houe we shall be able to make your stay a little pleasanter," said demnre 4.Laglalen. ,Aud hadotte was delighted at the fortuitui, chain of ci: cumstances which had thi ownl the t o parties of tourists t< ge!her in I ome under the majestic shadow of St. Peter's. . ut one exenin,g, at the Princess Del'a Fo ia's, she (ame unexiee'edly on Mr. Sydney i gerton, on his knees to Yagdaleu Je sup, in a secluded coi.ner, mhe'e the loonlight sifted dowa through gold freigh ed orange boughs and pin. ihicketsof olandei s. -he reco led in angry dismay-al most incredulity. '!Sydnev !" she exclaimed. Iagdale.'s dark eyes glitterrd trinmphaut defiance at her; a mocking swile scintillated around Magdaleu's full, scarlet lil s. "on have interrupted our little Lte-a-tete," she lightly said: "Mr. Fgerton has just laid his heart at my feet. He says he was mistaken in be ie%ing he could love you." ."Sydiiey," -%ai'ed - out poor Charlotte, "is this true?" 1t is true." answvered - nas esp NowivsIscovere how '6 1-we b'tie that. bound me to you. Here and now I ask for my re ease." .Charlotte - courte-iay grew deadly ale. . lhe graspeA at a carved marble lo fdr spport. ie at.seeAe a ' said Magdalen, u ing,uly. ".out if Miss Courtepay lud loi soi'Xnopbotunely interrupted as,I would;have given-you my s.nswer -No !" ,"Maglale-r! Magdalenu! Oh, for ~iae s(t l e"p.eged Egerton, in "'.oN' ' Eqcilessly -repeated the iri. M'I never loved you; I merely hred you on fer my own amusement ! Do yo~u thiak I could ,ever marry on. like. von?" Th're withering contempt in her voice cut like a knife, as she turned and swelt scornf.nily away. But at the enrance of thle 'court she paused at Ll,arlotte (on'rtenay's side. "Take nif -vinaigrette," said she, stopia; over, "ina', Ie~:er weep. What is a mair's love worth?. Do yon renember that night at the Seminary? 1)o you remember how cruel yo.i wee'? Ah ! you never th, ught the time might coma whe-n L tojo, could be e- u 1. DJo you remleLbher how I vowed , en grance? We , ,his night's wo k wipes away that vow -I am ro ie:iged !" t.harlotte beard no more. The cleander boughs swvam before her v*i sio-the white ba.rs of the moonlight were all blotted out. And when she recovere(l. a little group of tue Prin cs< Della ForiaM seriving-womuen wee rubbing her hands with camnphor, ad fanning her. Sydney Egerton left Rome the next mooning, and never saw (hailotte Courtenay's face again. And old Miss Jesup took her adopted (laughter away to the battis of Baden, as royally beautiful as ever, for N:agdale)n was well content with her season in Bowe. "Tfhings generally coatrive to balance thems,inse in this world," said the beautiful -brunette, "if only oe is content to wait lo,g enough." And Chatrlotte Cou rte'iay ha1 paid dea- for the arrogance and insole-nce of that one hour 6f her girihood. Saturday Night. Spider ,.Web Factory. Some ten~ yeais ago a French mis s 'ary started the s-,stemattia rearing ofiv kinds of spiders for their weh, an tha coard of Trade Jounanl states that a sl%ei'r web fistory is now in) suc cessfu peration alf Cliais-Mendon, nar Paris, 'uXre ropes are made of sider web intade.i for balloans for the French mil ita3 aeronantic section. The spide:s a t- arruaged in groups of twelve above a ree!, 'son which the threads are wound. It isky no means easy workfothspdr,orhe are not re!csd ntilte have they nished iror :M to 40 yards of thread each. The web is washed and thna freed of the on:er reddish and stickv cover. ight oi'~ 'ashied threci~s a,e then taken together, and of this rat ier stroug yariu cords are woven, whc are straert and muck lighter than corde of sia of the same thich net UHILDREWSCOUN Culuey Pigs. Gainey pigs Is awful cute, With their little trimbley snoot Sniffin' at the passly that We Iring 'em to nioble at. Looks like they're so clean an' white, An' so dainty an' polite, They could eat like you an' me Wben they's company! Tiltin' down the clover tops TiN they s ill, an' over drops The sweet mortin' dew-don't you Think they ni.ht have napkins, too? Era aiiney pig was bi. As a short.-a,.*-ertain pi:, N6n he. wouldn't ac' so Une When he comes to dine. Nen he'd chomp his jaws an' eat Things out in the dirty stleet. Dirt an' alL! An' nen lay down In mmd holes an' wailer roan'! So the guin-y pi:' is best 'Cause tlhey're nice an' tidiest They eat 'most like you an' me When they's company' -James Whitcomb Riley. Not Afraid of Man. One of the most pleaFant feafures of the drive through the Yellowstone National park is the apparent intimjaeV between man and the animal and bird life in the park. Thanks to the wise and string .nt r. gulations, no shouting is allowed wi hiu its bonndaries. "The result," says an Eig'ish tourist, "is positively charming. Hundreds of little chipmunks wita their gamly striped bachs, sc.twpered impudently about or peered at the pa-sing coach from the roadside, Tue squirrel did not bolt for the iiearcst tree, bat nodded a welcome. All bird life treated us likewise. Even the lordy eagle hovered ' near, and ihe wild turkey stalked une,n ernedly through the rank grass. We perceved a d.e and fawn grazing by tha road. Not until we were within a few feet did they seek the shelter of the woods -yet n,t to fly. They simply mo,ed asid'. Here at least manki-d wai re garded as a friend -one who conld be trusle 1. The only animal who ran away was a, brown bear. He turned tail at the 'sight of a coaching party, yet it was quite a common thing for bears to approach close to the hotels at evening to feed on the refnsa thrown ont. It was a a fter-dinner relaxation for the guests to watch thtm fetding. They munched and disputed the eloicest morsels, for the. most part indifferent to the company. Only -%hen we beca.me inquisitive and ap proached too ne e i they retire; -and~ r -these animll -erfectly free iad I linfettered p iri moiements. It C may reat ir'y fi-'e, but it is i r "--Troy Times. The World Upside Down. * Mr..E. . House useT to live in Japan, and in a chapter of his "Biight e Sides of History," in St. Nicholas, he a mentions some of the peculiar cas- i toms of that.island at the antipodes. "Were you upside down, uncle, a Avhen you lived there?" demaudd . Diok. "I was like everybody else in i that region, Dick. When I stoca up I my feet were toward the earth's cenr o and you might call my por ition upside i down, if you compared it with -the a way in which we are -standing here. But tbat was only my bodily attitude. 1 I did not follow all the Eastern ideas t that were contrar y to my experience. s If I went riding I did not'b..autify my i steed by putting on his tail and ears a bags of bright-colored brocade, such i as are hanging in yonder corner; nor i did I mont from the right side of the* ho'rse, which was formet ly consider ed the prop:!r way in Japan. The ordi- j nary lantern and unmbr.llas of thati country are made of paper, like those t jou see in this roo ni; but I p)referredc glaiss,for the one and silk for the other 't -ith&ugh I can't tell exactly'why. 1 .When I rowed my boat on the river, 'I pulled t- e oars, instead of pushing them, with a pecu iar twist, as the Ja"snese do. if I happened to sneeze *I did not feel bound to tap myself on she shoulder immiedia ely after, whleh is the invariable rule among them. In ce ebrating.tlie Fourth of July I set oil'my rockets and Roman candles at night, though in that country day liglt is considered more saitable for fireworks-as it also is for theatrical i~ per-tormiances. In building me a house the workmen began with the foundation, not with the roof." As we emerged into the first clearingi a fox was not more than fi' e or six feet before us, feeding in the grass, says Bradford Torrey in the Atlantic. He:- eyes were on her work, the wind was in our favor, andl notwithstanding~ two of un were almost wholly exposed, we stood there on the edge of the forest for the better part of half an hour, glasses up, passing comments upon her behavior. Evide::ty shte was lunching upon insects-grass. hoppers or c: iekets, I suppose-and so taken up was she with this agreeable employment that she walked 1 directly toward us and passed within1 ten yards of our poMition, stopping every few steps for a fresh capture. The sunlight, whic-h r hone squarely1 in her face, seemed to atleet her fun pleasautly; at all events she blinked a1 good deal. Her manner of stepping about, her mno;ions in catching heri piey -driving her nose deep into the1 g:ass and pulshing~ it home-and in: shiort her wholie behavior were more c-atlike than doglike,or so we thought. Pl!ai:nly she had no ideat of abbreviat ing her repast, nor did she betray the slightest gr'ain of suspiciousness or war]nes, nev.er once casti'g au ivy. abont in scareli of possible -!amilvs. At of (-: --. -sh-e applroiached the sa:-' ohdi, wo. sh )' ruCtoaed and La* ; u e o 's hafeld. We wi:: hve . lyedthespy upon her saime thUig over aga, and bhsed by, Ly wden she paued fo a litte. Qute sight behinda tuft of bushes, we fol. lowed, carelOss of 'thesesult, and, as it seemed, iot intoiSer. wind. She s arted on thiistant, ran gracefally up a little ingine, 'still in the grass land, turned for the fArst time to look at us, and disappeared in the forest. A pretty creatUre she snre.y was, and from all we saw of hr she might have been accounted ;fAey.useful farm hand; but perhap, as farmers some times say of unprDfitaule cattl.e, she would soon have "eaea her head*off" u the poultry - yar. She Ias not fo.rless - like a woodchuck that once walked up to me and. smelled of my boot, as I stood @ ' athe road near the Crawford ho bun.. simply oil her guard; and ding her in such a mood was siN iiC'Of good luck. Some day, pels, kll ch a weasel asleep. Some ZeroN "You may not believe me. sir, butV those wolf degs will live for two weeks on an Indian mcccasin.f There wai a stringf6trange, howl in;r, wolf-like dogs oal"in' the narrow str.et in front of us ap ihe dog dealet spoke. He had handeid these-4ogs ever since the Klondke excitement broke ont, sendilig em from the little Canadian town to the Pacific coast, wheLce they were shipped up into Alaska. The dogs, or 'hnA.ies," had just ome down .i om Hudson's bay. It was teir first glimpse of civiization ud they" didn't like it. Neither did tiey like the weather for though it was late in the autnin and to one romx a warmer cliaie t-old enough fo: rinter clothing, to thes6 dogs it was isufferablv hut and they were pant ng.and lolling. If we are to take Ith word of those who br,ed those do athe far north hey are descende i wolves, at Wit on o'te side he fatnify line. [heir wLnderfnl . 'df eudurance, heir ability to live' g n short ra ious, their absoln:e umity from ar-be ow-zero cold em very aInable for the region. he. e were about Q pAiin the lot :o be shi1 ped, and ey.yregOged in alue $140 each, I think I never befor su1 est:ess 'creatures a eduskies, he word huskie is E b or aption of Eskimo. -were riven tandem dow- they rere staked out o to wait-the tri V1L -er nx him in vration trio char iter. The . enough > ake a ii ngit-hut -aiting for gra ill *, to nything human t 1Q O ei ious in.ury. Bu I ezb rute that faces t ' cks They will ki h avage fe. ocit: atr 5 a if frenzie' the il! sheep, ca ve . TPJJ Ven destroy horses au ca tie, so vage and bloodthirsty -'s their.dis osition and so promint nt in their eins the cruel strain of th wolf. An la Hudson's bay region ignide who ad had much to do with hu~skies told e of an anthenticated instaince where pack of three dogs set upon and illed several cows before the owner, hoe had brought them down to the inge of civilization, could get them tether. The typical huskie is red and gray ixed, though now and then there ,ill be one almost b ack. Some uskies are as red as a fox, and all of iem have the sharp, pointed ears a wild animal. Their ears are rianglar, the'upper po nts, when the og is aroused, standing out sha.ply. he tails are very lonr, sweeping the oud in some. cases, and closely esemble the tail of a fox. When the huiskie is in repose it Loes't look very fierce, but when mping in midair, howling with all e bowl of a wild pair. of lungs and howing its yellow fangs, the creature ~ives you a iivid picture of wolfish eroity. The dogs are v-ery strong, ud a tandem of thr.e will haul a re arkably heavy load. It would be possible to keep them very long in place even as cool as the oue whe-e saw them on their way to the g la egions. Eve~n in a climate where the ernry but onc.r in the sammer rose o 85 d'egrees they will not live very og. They have been bred and rea ed u a regxon of almost eternal ice and ;now, and they wilt in a temi e ate :limate. When they are being driven ver long journeys they will lie down the ice or bart ow into the snow to eep. They will not acc.pt the sheller )f a tent, refusing even in the coldest reather to sleep inside it. The hu-kies live on very short ia ions, fish being a favorite article of iet. On the north shore of Lake superior the fisherme-i sometimes use ese dogs to haul them in and ont on heir fishing expeditions on th,e ice, ~eepig the dogs in a cotl, d. rk rcoomt lring the entire sumuse;'r nd tXeding hem the gills of the fish canlgit i~ the ake for siiment .couth. in s;its o1 he greatest preeautions, however, it s dihinlt to keep the:u in snower, houghi after a generation or so they ~ecoe used to th: warmer climna:e. 3ut the geuuine wolflsh hus kze just rm the head of Jamnc hay. or nrh yard. thrives on colid and wvite in varth. - Chicago Reacord. One-legr~ed irra Schevie of Cantn, )hio, luie just uude:mmi a se ond uutationi of his shor-ne- .e, in ~hIago, in order that um cork leg. he ttches to it may better tit hi. so hat he can earn a highi salary rep CAT. WITFIELWIS WAU ROMANCE OF A JAP LAD WHO BE CAME IMPORTANT IN THE ORIENT. The WhtalinZ Skipper Vescued the Boy Castaway Fro. I.mpending Death on a 3'ock in the 1acific...rought Him 1one and Educaled 111m, Marcellus P. Whitfield, of Fair. haven, Mass., received a handsomely engraved invitatiou to be present at th3 recent reception given on board the new Japanese cruiser Kasagi built by the Cramps at Philadelphia. The invitation was from the oflicers of the etuiser, and includeil Mr. Whitfield's whole family. Not knowing any one upon the Easagi, the invitation was a mystery until the next day, when an explanation came in the form of a let ter from Keizaburo Nakahama, Chief Paymaster of the ship. The writer stated that he was the third son of 11faujiro Nakabama, of Tokio, Japan, who had been iken care of and eda cated by Mr. Whitiield's father, master of the ship John Howland, in 1811. "Under this circumstance," he says, ". have been commissioned to find your address by my father, as I have been s.ent in oflicial service, and to re port all about the Captain's family." .It seems that Captain William ff. Whitfield, master of ship John How land, of Fairhaven, while cruising in the Japan Sea in 1810 or 1811 sight ad a bare rock in the midst of the sea and found sive nearly starvel Japanese sailors clinging to it for dear life. They had been-there something like seventy days, and all the food they had been able to get was such birds as they could knock down with clubs and stones. The Captain rescued them and carried them to Honoulan. The youngest of them, a boy about fifteen years old, begged to be allowed to re main aboard the ship, and the Captain fnally consented. He was a bright boy, learned, the language rapidly an I soon became quite a favorite on board. By the time the ship reached Fair haven Captain Whitfield was consid erably attalf d to the boy, and deter mined to gi. ea such an education asthe town. 'ded. And in that decision daitAi. i.hitfield conferred a far greater benefiction on, Japan and the whole -of civilization.r fhan he imagined. The boy -was Nakahamla Manjiro, though he had received~the American nickname ;"John MAun," *i,,"John ungero.' He was P into the tow'a L -ools, where he s an apt the Xapkeelads. iWa periodof about six before he left the town h'e h u . a nat- alized American citizin. There was always some prejudice against him, for he was looked upon as a col ored lad, and the color line was sharp ly drawn in those days. When he sought to attend church with Captain Whitfield, for instance, he was ref used permission till he went to the Unitar ian, and there he was taken in with. something liko equality, though not till a committee had been appointed to look into the question of his color and standing. In 1846 or 1817 he made a voyage whaling in the oark Franklin, and be came somewhat of a navigator. Then camne the gold fe-er in Califo:nia, and the young Ji.rjAmerican sailed for San Francisco. But he remained in the mines only a few months. Be ing so far on his way to the land of his birth led him to long for one more look at the old life, and once more to visit his parents. But the law of yapan at that time placed a death penalty on any native who had left his country and returned after vis'ting foreigna lands. Still he determined to brave the consequences and boldly set sail, stopping at Honolulu, where he was joined by four of his country men, two of them of the same par&y with him when rescucd by Captaia Whitfield. Nakahama's accomplishments causert him to be made a Samnari, or wvearer or two swords. He translated Bow ditch's "Navigator," logaritthin's and all, into his iative language, and was of immediate service to his country :as an interpreter in treaty making. He developed the navy, and was the first native Japanese to navigate a ship ont of sight of land in accordance with the laws of navigation. He was stead ily advanced by royal order, and dur ing the Franco-Prussian war was one of the seven commissioners sent by the Mikado to observe war move ments in Europe. He at this time bore the rank of Post Captain in the navy, an ollice high in the Admirality. At the close of these hostilities, in 1870, Nakahama took the opportuoity to visit America, and he lost no time in calling on his old friends in New Bedford and Fairhaven. H-e was warmly received, and one can imnagiuo3 the feeling: of Captain Whittield as he grasped the hand of the Jahpauese statesmau whom he had saved, a r sailor boy, from a surei~ deaith in the Pacific. ing has been heardv fr: u himslf,:n imia m.e J. A Paris reotr ud -e a"u b' in~ one t horo-h vne twnt isef nt mobiles fot-to.doc MRS. LAMSON'S FIRMNESS. ]His IntervIpw with the CooleHad a Result His Wife Anticipated. To see ourselves as others see us would undoubtedly be instructive, but much might be gained, also, if we could now and then hear ourselves as others hear us. "My dear," said Mr. Lamson, in a somewhat irritated tone, "I wish yol would speak to Nartha about the way she slams the doors. It is exceedingly anacying to fEel as if a hurricane had ushered guests into my study; and her passage from the diuiug-room to the kitchen is uunecessarily noisy." "I've spoken to her a great many times about it," sail Mrs. Lamson, meekly. "But not with sufficient firmness, my dear," said her husband. "Now I will speak to Martha on the subject myself, Just as I did about the papers on my study-table. I have had no trouble since that time." Mrs. Lamson smiled, but said noth ing. Later in the morning, as she sat in her room sewing, she hlard her husband's voice addressing Martha in the hall below. ":1artha," he said, deprecatingly, "did-did it ever occur to you how easily doors slam if one isn't very careful, and what a disagreeable noise they make?" "Sure, and I should say it did, sorr,' loudly assented Martha. "And the way tiey slip out of a body's hands is awful; that's what it is, s4rr! Portieres is the things to have, Mr. Lamson, and sa% e all throuble; and a patent slow spriag on the outside door, sorr. I'm only a cuke, but I has my nerves, and it jars 'em awful when you and .Mirs. Lamson are pass ing in. and out. thongh I've niver I spoke a wurrd about it before, sorr, for I know my place." "Well, well, Martha, I'll see what can be done," said Mr. Lamson, mildly, "i'Tl see what can be done." "Tiank, you, sorr," said Martha. "D' you mind how much betther off you are since you kept your papers in that drawer, sorr, sa.ne as I made bold to ax you to, 'stead of that clutter always on yoar table, sorr?" "fes, yes; it had slipped my mind that it was your idea, Martha," said I r. lIamson, and the consultation abruptly closed. "My dear," said the minister, later in the day, "I have been thinking how pleasant it wonld be to have soft hangings at some of tIe as for the front ddor those selfclosi-g 4eesMb~O 4 id ly obviated n Again Mrs. Lamson imiled, but the reason for her smile she did not state. A Sinxulai Phenomenon. For some time past people who have had occasion to make the closest ob servations of the flow of the San An tonio river have found that during high winds the flow in the river has decreased, and in an even, warm teim perature the flow has been steady. It has been adyanced by some that possibly through caves or other chan nels atmospheric influences are brought to play on the supply of water which comes to the surface and forms the stream in the bed of the river. There has just come to light an in teresting eff ct of the atmospheric con ditions on the flow of an artesian w,11I. Near the head of the river is a w,11 on the property in charge of Mr. Louis Layer, formse1ry ditch commnis sioner of San Antonio. This well was shot by Pat O'Hara, the city electri car, and was made to yield a head of 2 1-2 feet of water. Mr. Layer ani Mr. O'Hara, who have been watching the flow of this well, have made this interest,ing discovery: TIhat when a stronz,cold, north wind is blowiig the flow of water materially diminishes, but on warm, windless uays it flows in reglar steady amount. "I1 have made a study of wells," said Mr. O'Hara, "but I have never seen anything like this before. The well hai its e ource in the basin which fur. uishes all the San Antonio wells with water, but, having a slightly highe" al titude,it has not as large a head oif water as the wells in the lower i oction of the city. The queer part, however, is the effect of the climatic conditions on the flow of wate-. There is in that a nut fo scientists to crack. I woild like to hear some scientific explanation of this phenomenon.- San Antonio (Teas) Express. H,.s Her Mroney Laundered. "The demand for new bills for shop ping is 03 the increase among women," said a local bank teller, "and is getting to be a uisance. A great many wom en won't handle any currency that is not absolutely fresh aid crisp, and in Ithe north all the banks thait make a specialty of catering to womien's cus tom, keep a supply coi:stantly on hand Ifor that particular purpose. Some 'times the hills are hard to get,especial ly those of certain denominatins. and g)ld is unpopular on aceount of the dager of confusing the S2.50 coin with a bright penny. "It is not gene:ally known,but hills Ican be washed and ironed as easily as a pocket bandkerchief. A wealthy woman of my acquaintance has all her moer laund2red before she uses it. She t~urns the notes over to her maid, who washes them thoroughly in hot water with ordinary soap suds and spreads them out on a table to d:y Then she dampens them slightly and presses them with a medium hot smoothing iron. If the bill is not frayed this process will make it as bright and crisp as when~ it first left the treasury. It is astoni"hing how dirty money gets. -If one cool<t see the water in wbien a dozen commtonly cir culated bills were washed it would give them a rermauent aversion to the trade of teller.-New Orleaus Times nmorat PEARLS OF THOUHT. Irepose is the mother of activit. Education costs less than ignoranc. A burden which one chooses is not felt. Greatness has no time to admire itself. To owe graditude is as painful to a coarse nature as to receive it is to a fine one. True nobility is shown by gentle consideration and courtesy to all, and brings its own reward in the extra fineness of perception its practie be stows. Every one can do something excel' leutly well, and to find out what it is, and to apply the energies to it, is to attain the veiy highest possibilities. This should be well impressed on the young mind. A smooth pane transfers white light6 but broken pieces of glass refract to us all the colors of the rainbow. So a faulty life may teach us in the broken. fragments of character what a perfect life could not. He is not rich that hath mueb, but he that hath enough; nor he indigent that bath little, bat he that craves more. For we are not rich or poor, happy orunhappy, honorable or mean, so incha according to the proportion of that which we possess as of that which we desire. KILLED BY THIER FRIENDS, Spanish shells Aimed at the Menli Fell on Morro Castle. Lieutenant Hobson tells in The Cen tui:v why it was that the Spanish odi cars at Morro Ca tie believed the col lier Merrimac to be an armored man of war: It was not long before the governor of the Morro came, making'me a most .cordial visit. He was followed by the colonel commanding the artillery. This officer, after kind salatations referred to the heavy fire wehad with stood so long and to the gallantry of I our fire in return. When I informed him that we bad no'guns on board be was utterly incredulous and seemed to conclude tifat I was deceiving hi.,< -- for he replied: "BatI know you W141 have fired, for-I was strue the foot, though I wa . up above." I rep havebeen fag or an-armo - way throug a at our fire puzze<fme aThe Charette.came in he toMa m wounded men were being operated om in the room just above the men's and that the blood was rnntug down the wall,-and had run down the clues of his hammock, so that he had to change its position. When I had a chance to speak to him and to the others afterward, they said that both a Spanish sergeant and a Spanish pri vate had told them that the'blood came from the men we had wounded -that we had killed fdurtien:Ai wounded thirty-seven! In a visit to" the Morro after the surrender I was very much puzzled to find fresh gashes and imprints of vari ous sizes in the rear walls as though it had been attacked from the inshore side, while we had attacked only from the sea. Every indication seemed to point to the conclusion that the Spani ards firing at the Merrimtac had struck their own men ar:ross the channeL This ~was the more to be expected from the horizontal fire. Morro. though elevated, was in the line of ire from the Reina Mercedes, whose projectiles, exploding on the &lerri mae, doubtless showered the banks and the rear of Morro beyond. N~o wonder, then, that they took us for an armored man-of-war. I Stole a Sentinel. ICaptain Henry Verplanck used to sail the sloop Van Rensselaer from Albany to New York and back, as ofteu as wind and tide would allow. On one occasion a number of captains -ere boasting of their exploits, when Ca,tain Verplanck made a wager that Ihe~would steal the sentinel at West Point. When off West Point he or dered his gig to be lowered and a bar rel of flour placed in her. He sculled for the shore, and was promnptly chal lenged by the sentinel. The captain told h-m he had a barrel of flour for one of the officers of the garrison,and, wanted to land.it. The soldier con Isented, and the captain proceeded to make frunitless attempts to get it out of the boat, and at last succeeded in inancing the sentinel to help him. The soldier laid down his musket and mumed into the boat Tie capjtain, who was a powerful man, at once shoved off his boat and owed for the sloop. He had succeed e in capturing his sentinel, and the fllow was taken aboard the sloop. Feaing to return to West Point b.e, became one of the crew.-New Y0re ress. The Same John Bull. Over En gland during the past few weeks a great wave of patriotism has spread. We have awakened to our national responsibilities, and every cheer that has gone up for Lord itchcner has- been an expression o'f this fact. The beneficial effect of this sirdar "boom", has been very great It has strengthened the hands of the government in their political dealings .-late. It has given the nation the tonic it required. Above all, it has shown to the world that the stolid lhopeeping John BuIl of today is ist the same yohn Bull^ who bred Nelscn and Wel ington, who splashed the map of the world with red, and is ust as ready now as he was in days goe by to maintain his plain rights -even at the cost of wit-~ eae