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The Kindness Of Goddard Goodenouofi. j By JOHN J. A'BEOKET. [CopyrlKht. 1$?s. by the Author.] Tliu girl had fainted. Tho Lexington ?vonno cable onr was at Twenty-third street and Broadway when tbisocourrcd. There wan nothing extraordinary in tho moro fact. The. morning papors repen t ed that tbroo <>r four pollcotnon bad Biiceiiinhod tho day before. Tiiis was a young girl of slight physique and ex ceeding delicacy of constitution, if her color told the truth. Sho was also pe culiarly attractive, though that has nothing to do With her fainting. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon of tho sixth day of this merciless persecu tion of tho Situ. New York city had gasped under it, writhed under it, fainted under it, died under it, for in 8'ores of cases tho vital llamo was quenched by tho insutl'erahlo heat. Even on tho shady side of Broadway and in relatively cool Bpots whero at times blessed littlo puffs of wind came as fleeting but wolcome visitants tho tliormometrio tube inhumanly register ed 90 degrees. In tho "better done" portions of tho city it ranged at record breaking heights. Small wonder that this slender t.irl should faint. She had boou showing symptoms of distress all tho way up town, but had fought hard to hold out until shoreach ed her dostinnl ion. A young man next to her in tho car had regarded her close ly now and then over tho corner of his paper. When sho collapsed, he support ed lior until the car was stopped. Then tho policeman at tho crossing, who, in obedience to nature's first law of self preservation, had unbuttoned his coat despito tho fact that bo thereby reveal ed a wilted calico shirt and a rotund but uuwilted stomach, came forward, and tho suffering girl was taken into u chemist's shop hard by. It was a haven of refreshment after tho burning outer air, for it was shady and cool. A thin, shiny black cat sprawled with abandon on tho mosaic floor in tho effort to exposo as much of her frame as possible to itscool contact. There wero no electric fans in tho shop, but two counters wero entirely devoted to soda and mineral water fountains, and tho quantity of cracked ico in uso at them had a salutary iullueneo on tho temperature. They put tho poor girl in a chair at tho farthest and hence coolest end of the shop, and two clerks began devot ing themselves to her relief. Towels wet with ice water wero applied to her head and wrists. The policeman had sunk ou one knee by her side and looked tho pioture of municipal benevolence. But the scrap of paper and lead peucil in his hands showed he was waiting for a ohauoe to get the girl's name and ad dress in case of a fatal re iilt. An ambulnuco had been summoned from tho Now York hospital. But when it arrived tho girl refused to go in it, with a faint but decided gesture of re pugnance. Sho was neatly dressed in Bomo light summer fabrio and looked moro than respectable. Tho young mau had remained close at hand, a sympathetic looker on rather than assistant in tho charitable endeav or to bring tho girl round, possibly be causo others seemed to know perfectly what to do, while he, like many anor' - er, had only a willing heart and igno rant bands in an emergency. The girl in raising her heavy eyelids may have recoguizod tho young mau as her neighboi on tho car. lie had a win ning, kindly expression. At last tho girl moved to rise, saying in her weak voico that she felt woll enough to go. In getting to her foot her hand went forth, and unthinkingly sho grasped tho young fellow's arm. Ho crooked it firmly that sho might feel its stout sup port, and they walked slowly to tho door. A hnuKoin had drawn up in front of tho shop with a viow to tho likely need of its services. "Do you mind coming with mo in that cab to my home?" tho girl said to tho young man in a low voice, but wist fully, diffidently. "I am afraid to go alone, and n policeman in tliu cab would lork too bad. I am sorry to troublo you bo much, but I fear I may faint Again, and I feol that I can trust you, that you aro a gentleman." Tho young man, who was not with o\it a leaven of good Sainaritanism, at onco assented, and after gently helping her into tho cab climbed in himself. When be asked tho girl where ho should toll tho driver to g(, she answered in a woak voico: "Tell him to drive up to Central park and take a turn in tliero first. Tho air may help me, and then I will give my homo address." During tho drivo up town tho girl said little. Her head leaned wearily against the side of tho cab, and her eyes remained closed. But soon after they had outerod tho park and tho air circled about them moro freely sho Bat np. Thou Bho began to speak to her com panion in u firmer voico und with great earnestness. There was a singularly eoft, moving quality in her voico, and it was exquisitely modulated. Delicato, earnest, oddly fascinating, sho uffeoted tho young follow pathetically. "I know something of human na turo," sho Saldi "und I feel that you nro a kind, honorable, self confldont man. You have pity for tho suffering. At all events I urn going to tell you something and am going to ask you something, but yon must promiso mo never to betray wiiat I shall say, whether you grant my request or not. That you can do without hesitation. Will you?" "Certainly," replied tho young mau sympathetically. "I should respect any confidence you reposed in mo without a given promise, and if I can holp you I shall be glad to do bo." Tho girl heaved a long sigh of relief, and her oyes slowly closed again as if tho offort of making her communication* was ovorpoweriug her nt tho start. Then, with a quick compression ot nef Ups, she began: "Ic wan not tho heat which made me Atint, at loast not that ulono. It was tho mental strain I havo boon going through for tho past ten hours. I have done a great wrong to my husband. You need not aek my motive in this. Yon may guess it. It was a mad thing to do, and unless it is repaired this very night my happiness for lifo is mined. Bo is an exooutor with two othors for the estate of a very wealthy wonin?. ?.-utrs? is to bo ft meeting ?t ins rooms tomorrow of the (M entors ami the hen s of the estate in regard to the disposition of certain things of vast importance Necessary documents relating to this transaction wore taken out of the sate deposit vaults yesterday by my 1)118 band and tlio other two executors, and my husbaud took them to bis rooms Ho is n lawyer, und bo bad to study out tWO ok- three points with these docu ment.' close at band to refer to. "In my frenzy over bis treatment of mo I took these doouutotlts away this morning ufter he bad left bis rooms to go down town. I knew that then loss would ruin bim. 1 left a noto for him '?ft teas not the heat which vmdc mc fuint," she said, that I lind been called out of towi oy a telegram from my sister. Why 1 should have douo this when I meant never to return to him 1 do not kUOW, hut it was a providence, for it gives me a chance to rectify my fatal mistilko if you will assist mo. 1 have discovered that my belief was wholly wrong and that I have done a terrible" ? the girl put her hand to her eyes and seemed overcome at tlio thought for a moment ?"n terrible injustice to ono of the finest men that ever lived." It was naturally a very trying confes sion for a devoted wife to make, and that she should feel the greatest relue tanco to it was to be ox poo ted. Her nar rative was full of pauses, hesitations and difficulty. But when she would master this repugnance she went on quiokly, und her speech was not only fluent, but full of fooling. The young man respectfully waited in silence till sho should recover her control, though considerably affected by her emotion. "I know him bettor than any one liv ing," sho resumed. "If bo wero to lind out what I have done, even if I return ed with the box of documents, showed tlio hatefully specious grounds for my suspicions, confessed my fault and plead for forgiveness, lie would drive mo from him und .never look at or speak to ino again. Ho is one of those stem, unyield ing men who cannot forgive an injus tice?too good to forgive a fault. "Hero is whero you can ho of greater assistance to me than I ever dreamed a mortal could. If lean got that box back to the very place from which I took it boforo ho returns tonight, ho will nev er know that it has been touehed. To morrow I come back after this visit, ap parently to my sister, and all will go on us before. Ho has no idea that I ever entertained a doubt of him. 1 daro not tako it back myself for fear, in some way, ho should discover what I have , done. If his distrust wi re aroused in tho slightest degreo, he would get the whole thing out of nie despite myself. And this worry and prostration from tho hi nt would make me afraid to at tempt it, lost I should he overcome again. I am not strong, and this strain has quite unnerved nie. Von must seo With what effort I am letting you know tho situation. "After ruin bad fallen on him 1 meant to declare myself, his wronged wife, as its author. Oh, it was a hide ous wrong 1 You must despise meal* most as much ns I despise myself. Tho only excuso is that it was the mad act of a woman who loved her husband to distraction and felt that sho bad been cruelly wronged by him; hut, as I Kay, you can make this dreadful state of tilings right OllCO more. Yon can pre vent my life from being ono of constant misery. Will you do this? Heaven has thrown you in my way as if for this very purpose I assure you solemnly it involves no peril for you. Will you save mo?" Sho spoke the words with intense feeling, turning her ! rilliant, greenish eyes on him with tho look of a bunted fawn. The young man felt the grasp of thoir -agnetio intensity. "If x can do anything to relievo you, I certainly will," be replied a little nervously, "but y m must BOO that I cannot promise absolutely till I know what you wish mo to do." "Simply this," returned tho young woman quiokly, but in low, excited tones. "Tako hack that box for me. Listen! Ho will not return boforo 10 this evening. Wo live on the top floor of ? Last-street. My husband's Dame is Wheeler?William Wheeler. Thero is no ono olso in tho houso at present. Tho caretaker comes in tlio morning and leaves at 7 in tlio ovoning, When the private watchman comos on duty. It is only tho fear that somebody might hoo mo witli tho box and it would reach bis ears that keeps mo from going. I will give you my latch key. ?0 thero at H, open the door with it nnd go at once to his rooms. In his bedroom is a tall, upright folding bed. Tako tho box?" ou will havo to get on a chair to do it- -and put it on tho shelf mado by tho oot o! the bed when it is turned up, about two foot from tho right hand side and with the lock turned to tho wall. That is exactly whero it was taken from, nnd it was placed in that way. If you know how kot.n nil observer my husband is, you would understand why I am so particu lar about those petty details. It will not tako you ten minutes to do it. Then bring mo back the key. Thero is no danger. Tosecuro you perfectly against ovon tho remote possibility of it I will givo you a letter saying I asked you to undortako an important OOmmission for mo to my husband, but if you can go at tho timo I say it is tlio unlikoliost thing in tho world that thero will bo any need of it. "Oh, I know what a favor I am ask ing of a porfect stranger," exolaimed the young wife with great fooling. "But I am working for my lifo's hap piiiess, and you nro securing it for mo if you have tlio noblo gonoroaity to aid mo in nils way. itv.-tu roiUSU, 'ymi who | could pity a strange woman who was only KUtTci'ing trom sunstroke, to whom can 1 look for bolp? 1 du not want to appeal to anything hut your heart) hut 1 swear to you that if you rofuso 1 will kill tnysolf sooner than fnco the C0US0 quoucoof my own rcokloss uot< < >h. will you not do this, for the lovo of heaven, for a helpless, distraotcd womanV" Sho bent her eyes imploringly upon him?grave, clear eyes, strange, compel ling, fascinating eyes. Il was the ab surdity of the thing which the young man hud most in his mind. Hut tho woman's precautions would secure him if worst came to worst. It seemed cruel not to render the assistance to a frail, sweet woman, nervous to the brink of prostration over tho impending loss of her life's happiness. The final threat of self destruction, moreover, had such a ring of determined purpose that it de cided him to accept this strange com mission at any cost. "I will do it," lie said, with a do liberation that argued hotter for the ac complishment of the task than a prompt er, more outhusiastic assent. "Thou if you will tell the cabman to drive to No. ? Lexington avenue I can tell you anything else on tho way," she said, with a deep sigh of relief. "I can not repay you for your kindness, but (Jod may." Un their way to tho number indicated she asked tho young man to call at tho Lexington avenue house at a quarter of 8 that evening and she would havo tho latchkoy, tho letter and the box ready for him. It was tho residence, sho ox plaii 0 I, Of ouo of her most intimate wo man friends. Bcforo thoy arrived at tho house, which proved to ho one of tho respectable, noncommittal brick ones abounding in that section of Lexington avenue, sho slipped a >'."> bill into bis hand to pay the cabman with when ho had set him down wheio he wished to go. She also begged him to give this ad dress to the cabman before they arrived at the house ami to bid him drive on at once as boon as she got out, since her friend knew all id' her men acquaint ances and might make curious inquiries if she saw her drive up with a stranger. Of course her coming back in a hansom would excite no comment?all of which was very reasonable and most becom ingly circumspect, so that he readily did it. When tho "cabby" bad taken him to his club, ho paid him for his part of the drive. He dined at his cl t, fortifying him self for his mission of the evening by a bottlo of champagne. At the appointed time ho presented himself at tho Lex ington avenue house. The lady an swered the hell herself, did not iuvito him in, but gave him at once the latch key, tho letter and tho box of il< cu mouts. She told him she. would open the door for him OU bis return and begged him to hurry back as soon as ho badrestorod tho box tons place. A rub ber tired cab stood at the door, which sho had provided to facilitate hiscour.se. Tho box was of black morocco, about, I t inches long by 5 inches wide. Th j young fellow felt no special interest in it outside of its importance to a wom an's lifelong pence. The cabman drove his horse at a walk, and when urged to go faster said bis horse bad gone, liono and he didn't like to tax him too nil ch. He had been paid by the lady, who ivi doutly shrank from placing herself un der any money obligation to her friend ly assistant, as a lady naturally would. When ho got to the house, the young man told the cabman lie could go, rut the fellow said the lady had paid him for tho return trip, saying 'he gent was in a hurry and wouldn't Want to look around foi another hansom. "The l east has been rested up and I can take ye.* back at a better gait, Kir," ho said cheerfully, with a grin. Goodenough first rang tho hell, no was willing to help the lady as far as ho could without certainly compromis ing himself, but he did not intend to run unnecessary risks. If any ouo uuno, ho would ask if Mr. Wheeler was at homo, and if ho was not would then ask to go to his room and writo a noto for him. After a time, as no ono ro spondod, ho pretended to discover his koy with somu surprise and boldly lot himself in. Ho found tho rooms without any diffi culty from the directions Mrs. Whoulor had given to him, and they exactly an swered her description of them. Ho got a chair and placed the box carefully on tho top of the folding bed just as sho had asked him to. Ho nearly dropped it while doing this, owing ton pardonable nervousness. Greatly relieved, ho went back to tho other houso. The "tabby" was as good as his word and (.rove back rapidly, tho horse showing no disposition to he "da/.y" on any one of his legs. The la dy opened the door at once, received buck her key and unused letter and wrung Iiis hand'; with warm feeling. "I cannot thank you enough. This must bo a lifo secret between us. Hut if you will give me your card I shall be glad to make your acquaintance after I Kot back to my husband. I beg yon to accept this small token Of u woman fl gratitudo toward a generous man. " Tho young man had given her his card, "Mr. Uoddard Ooodonongh," With his club address in the corner. As sho said those last words sho drew an opal soarfpin from her corsage. It was a stono that seemed to hum like a coal, and it was surrounded with tiny but brilliant diamonds. In vain (loodenough sought to escape such a costly present. Bhe forced it upon him, and he took his loavo, followed by her ardent thunks and low voiced bh . sing. Somehow, after it was nil over, God dord Goodenough had more timo to re flect on tho strange proceeding. Tho quality of one's thought upon a deed is so different according to wbioh sido of it tho thinker is on. Ho began t') feel an odd restiveness not unlike solicitude. Ho could not rest easy at his club do spito tho aid of tWO or three drinks ab sorbed with a view to greater coinpo suro. Ho determined to go round hy Mr. Wheeler'fl rooms a little after 10 to see if thoro wero any evidences of his hav ing returned. But as his restlessness beenmo more pronounced ho decided to first go up to tho Lei Ington avenue house and rcconnoiter there, this with no definite aim in his mind. When ho had got within a abort dis tance of tho house, on tho othi r sido of tho street, he was surprised to soo a ooupo in front of it, with a steamer trunk on tho box. As ho halted in the shadow, wondering what thia meant, tho door opened, und n tall, Spare man with a olpso trimmed*black.beard cum? * down tlio Kd ps Utfu" opcu'OQ trie CtJUpO door. Ii?; thou saw .Mrs. Whoolor coiuo down tlio stops, tlio two outorod tho ' carriage, and it rolled swiftly down tho I avcuuo. Ooodouough was thoroughly aroused uow. Of COUl'80 it could have bcou the lady's brother or some nialo relative, but the man's nppctU'UUCO had not bei n as convincing an iudorsoiucut of char acter as the lady's. With a sudden reso'vo the worried young man crossed over, mounted the Btops and tugged at the boll. The house was perfectly dark, lie got uo answer to his ring, nor to the others which he gave. Leaving the house, still in ue perturbed in his feelings, be encoun tered the policeman whoso beat it was and inquired if liiin who lived in the house. "Tlio cook across the way," said the policeman, "says it's a foreigner ami his wife. They've only bei n there about n month. Tho house was unronted when they took it. He's a t ill, black teller, but his wile ain't a bad looker. Sho's delicatelike, hut she's got a pair of eyes in her head. She can use 'em, you bet!" The policeman swung bis locust and grinned us if the lady bad vouchsafed him a glance or two. "13hick eves, I KUpposoV" ventured Qoodcilough as a feeler. "Duck nothing!" retorted thoofllcor. "Green?green like a eat s, ami they've got a grip to'em, too, like a cat's claws. Friends of yours?" "Mo," roplied Goodeuough hastily. "I probably mistook tho number of the house. I never heard of this couple. Good night, officer!" 1 le turned and walked away, lb- was pretty well rattled now, und bis eon fldonco in Mrs. Whoolor was thoroughly shaken, lie had recognized her beyond the possibility of a doubt. He bad been accessory to he knew not what, lie went round by Wheeler's rooms. There was a light in the windows on the top floor. He must have come home about the lime she bad said. This loi ked a little hi tter, hut Goodeiiough was still troubled enough to act on a plan he had thought out on bis way, one rather creditable to so quiet and cOIIVOUtioiial a young man. Ho rang the boll with a sense that he was gotting pretty well mixed up in other people's atl'airs. After time enough to admit of someone coming from the lop Poor the door was Hung open. A tall, handsome young man of about BO, modishly but quietly dressed, stood regarding Goodeuough with a clear, penetrating gaze, lie bad to Goodeuough a foreign American look. "Is Mr. Wheeler in?" asked Good enough briskly. "Yes, I am ho," replied tho other tersely. This was encouraging. Air. Wheeler had materialized all right. Goodouough proceeded on tho lines ho had mapped out. "I am from I ic-," ho said with some assurance, mentioning one of the ?STufn?--? nig '1'reo. Jay, Me., claims ono of tho biggest trees in the state. It stands on the hank of tho Androscoggin, on the lawn of the lato Hud ley Boan. The circumfor enco four foot from tho ground is <J?1 foot, diameter 7 feet. About six foot from the ground there are seven brunches radiut ing from its trunk which are from 18 inches to 24 inches in diameter. Tho brunches spread over a spaco of ground 270 feet in ctrcumterenco, or 00 foot in diameter. Where tho brunches leavo tlio trunk of tho tree, about seven foot from tho ground, there bus boon erected a band stand, wbioh seats I2T> persons. A cooler place on hot days cannot lie found. A Iloston gentleman was riding by recont ly, and tho tree attracted bis attention. Ho examined and meusured it and was astonished nt its dimensions. Ho wont away With the remark that if tho tree was on his lawn $10,000 wouldn't buy it. It was sot out 43 years ago by La fayette Boau on the day of bis departure for California, whence ho never return ed.?Boston Record. Orlicln of Camp Mooting*. P, J, M.'a inquiry, "When, whero And by whom was t.io first camp moot ing hold?" lias 'icon referred to our friend, Dr. .1. M. ?uckioy, who has kindly supplied tho following note: "('amp meetings arose in thiswise: Latein 1709, or early in 1800, .lohn and William MngCO, brothers, tho first a Methodist local preacher, tho second a Presbyterian minister, started from their settlements in Tennessee to make a preaching tour into Kentucky Such interest attended their work mat'at tin uoxt meeting many families encamped in tho woods. Tho co-operation of those brothers was so pleuKing an oxamplo ot fraternity that tho earliest camp meet ing included membors of every donomi nation."?Outlook. ?Tho Cubans bavo a domosth utensil not unfnmiliur 10 old Charles toniuns, called a "water monkey," that Is to lio found in houses, liotols anil ollicoH. Tho experienced Cuban drinks witbouf touching it to bis lips. Hi holds It two or throo inches from his mo itb, into which a tiny stream of water po.irs. Gradually and slowly bo lifts tho monkey away from him un til it is almost at arm's length, the water continuing to How from the monkoy down his throat. Whon his. thirst has boon satisflod ho returns the monkoy toward his mouth, then sud denly tips It up, shutting off tho stream. HOW SOLD1E11S A Hi; CAltKI) I < m Volunteers Win Ho Treated Like Boldiers In tlx' Itvgular Army. Uichmoiid rimes. Since war between the United States and Spain is no longer a probability, butan actual fuct, the manner in which the United States will take care of the men who are ready to risk their lives for the country's welfare has become u matter of general interest. What the pay of the men in tlio regular army shall be, bow they are to be sustained and what other emoluments they are to receive, has all been laid down in tho military regulations that have been issued from time to time. The i?.'j.uoO volunteers from tho various Stales of tho Union, for which the President bus called, will of course be treated in like manner and will he sub jected to the same regulations. The Ollloial Army Ltegister for the year IM)7, published by order of the secretary of war, in compliance with existing laws, gives the pay of the of dcers of the regular army in active si rvlce, which will also apply to the oUlcers of the volunteers, as follows : Lieutenant general. $11.000 per year, or +'Hti 17 per month : major general, $7,000 per y ear, or $i>2? per month : brigadier genoral, $5,500 per year, or $458 33 per month. To the pay of these to roe t llicers 10 per cent, is added after live years' service, 20 per cent after ten years' service, anil 10 per cent, after twenty years' service. ItEG IM KNTAL OKFICtiltS. The regimental ofliuers receive tho following i ay : Colonel, $;j,.>oo per year, or$2UI <>7 ner month ; alter live years' servic -, $320 83; after ten years service, $.'(.70 ; alter 15 years' service, $'170 ?which is the maximum amount allowed by law. Lieutenant colonel, $3,000 per year, or per month $2.7(1: alter livo years' srrvu e. $275 ; after ten years'service, $300 : after 1"> years' service, $325 : af tor 20 years' service, $333:{.{. winch is the maximum amount allowed by law. Major, $2 500 per year, or per in nth, $208.33; alter live years' servic-, $2211 17 : after ten years' sorv'co, $250 : alter 15 years' service. $270 811; after 20 years' service, $281 67. Captain, mount'd, $2,0u0 per your, or per month. $H)t;i'>7 ; alter live years' service, $183.33 ; after ten years' sor vice, $20o; after lf> years' service. $210.07; after 20 years' service. $233 33, Captain, not mounted, $1,800 per year, or per month, $100; alter livo year's service, $105; alter ten years' service, $180; after lf> years'service, $105 : after 2d years' service, $210. Regimental adjutant and regimental quartermaster recelvea tho same pay as a captain, not mounted. first lieutenant, mounted, $1,000 per year or per month, $133.33; after five years' service, $140.07 : after ten years' service, $100 ; after 11 (teen years'ser vice. $173 33; after twenty years' ser vice, $180 117. First lieutenant, not mounted. $1,500 per year, or per month, $125; after live years' service, $137.50 : alter ten years' service, $150 : after (ifteen* years'sor vice, $105.60 : after twenty years' ser vioe, $170. Second lieutenant, mounted, receives the same pay as first lieutenant, not mounted. Second lieutenant, not mounted, $1,400 per year, or per month, $110.07 : after live years' service, $128.33; after ten years' service, $140; after fifteen years' service. $1.71 07 : after twenty years' service, $103 Hit. Chaplain receives the same pay as a fu st lieutenant, not mounted, or a sec Ond lieutenant mounted. RANK AM) SKKVP K. The rank and service receive tlio following pay per month for the first and second years of their enlistment : Company, private, artillery, cavalry, and infantry; private (second class) engineers and ordnance : musicians, engineers, artillery and infantry, trumpeter, cavalry, $13. Wagoner?Artillery, cavalry, infan try, $11. Artificer- Artillery and Infantry ; corporal, artillery, cavalry and infan try : blacksmith and farrier, cavalry : naddlor, cavalry, $10. Sergeant?Artillery, cavalry, infan try $18. Private [first class) ? Kngineers and ordnance, $17. Corporal ? Lnginocr and ordnance, $20. l-'irst sergeant?Artillery, cavalry, infantry, $20. Sergeant?Kngineers, ordnance and signal corps, $?'! I. Sergeants (first class)? Signal corps, $45. Regiment?Chief trumpeter, caval ry ; principal musician, artillery and infantry : saddle sergeant, cavalry, $22. Chief musician?Artillery, cavalry and infantry,$00. Sergeant major and quartermaster sergeant- Engineers, $;tii. Hospital corps?Hospital steward, $45; acting hospital steward, $2.7; private, $18. Veterinary surgeon, (senior.) $100; veterinaty surgeon, (junior,) $7f>; uos pital matron, $10. Military headquarters?-Clerk, Class I, $1,000 por year; olerk. Class 2. $1.100 per year; clork, Class 3, $1.200 per year; messenger, $00 per month. I'ne enlisted men are paid olT month ly by tho paymasters, whilo tho of ficers draw monthly on presenting their pay accounts to tlio nearest pay master, HOW TI1KY AUK PITTED OUT. The enlisted men are furnished by ??ho government with clothing, equip ments, mod leal attention and supplies. The officers aro furnished with quar ters in garrisons or towns and in the Hold with tents ; but they supply their iwn iquipments, uniforms and food, though tho latter may bo purchased from tho commissary department at cost price. Tlie mounted officers, such as those of the cavalry, light artillery, field of (leers, staIf oilieers, including the regi mental Btaff Officers, are furnished for age for two or more horses, according to rank ; but they must actually pos sess tuid horses, which aro private property, and not furnished by the government. ?A leading Denver lawyer has just boon debarred from practicing in tho federal courts for applying gross epi thets to ono of the judges in a brief. Ho expresses surpriuo over tho fact that his language has been resonted, as ho only referred to tho judge incident ally as u "calltniccd, cool, judical liar; tho tool of corporations." ?Not ovon during tho lato war were such precautions taken against tboon tranco of a hostile Hoot into tho Port of Now York as thero aio now. The harhoi lights wero not then extin guished as in this war, whilo submarine ?nine - wh'eh havo bocn laid rendorthe harbor exceedingly dangerous for navigation. Tho mines in Oedney Channel aro said to bo only 150 foot apart. Owing to theso mines tho Sandy j Hook pilots havo witndrawn all their boats with tho oxcoptlon of tho new steam pilot boat, Now York. SCENE UP THE FIRST BATTLE A STRANGE HOI Till UN CITY. Facts About lho History and Com incrce of Manila?ltot h Orloutal umi Spanish in Charaotnr. New York Tribuns. Cavito Is a (ortilled seaport I wn on tho island of Luzon, on wblob Manila, tho capital of I be Philippine Islands, is situated. Cavito is in tho Bay of Manila, and about ton miles south* west of tin: city of Manila. Tho town of Cavito has a population of over live thousand and tho population of the port is less than bix hundred souls. There is an arsenal at Cavito, which is tho capital jf tho province of the same name. The residence of the governor is situated there, and the place is tho chief naval depot of the Spanish possessions in that part of the world. Manila, tho capital city of the island of Luzon and of all tho Philippine Is lands, Is also situated on Munlla Bay at the mouth of tho river 'asig. The city forms tho se? mcnt of a circle be tween tho river und the sou, and its su burbs extend over numerous islets, formed by tho river und its branches. Tho river Pasig is prolonged into the hay by two piers. At the end of on of them is a small fort, and a light house is situated at the end of the other pier. Vessels of smalI tonnage san go jp us far as the bridge which crosses ?he river. The town stands on the south side, has u dilapidated look, but is said to bo strongly fortified. On the north side is the liinondo suburb, which is the risideno. of the foreign merchants and the great centre of trade. It Is more populous than the city itsi If. Manila has both a Spuni-h ami un ?Oriental appearance. There are long lines of heavily mounted batteries. dark-lookingo- urohes,strange looking towers and massive bouses of s did masonry. These mingle with light little bouses, cottages, in groves of tropical trees, raised from the gro .nd hy posts, in order to permit tho free passage of the waters in the rainy sea son. Tiie streets uro straight, mostly un paved, and almost Impassible during tho rainy sea-on. In the city the houses are two stories high, and each bus its central court yard. There reside the heads of the state, the church and tho army, unu all those who claim to belong to the aristocracy. Tho bridge across tin- river leads from the city proper into the liinondo suburb, where u street called the K* ctlta. runs to the right and to the left. It is lined with Innumerable shops, stores and stalls, and Is usually crowded with people of various races. Beyond the F-caita is a colony of Chinese, Indians and half castes, who lo business as goldsmiths ami jewelors, painters and cnamcllcrs, oil and soap merchants, confectioners and keepers of gambling houses und cook shops. The other suburbs have each a special character. For instance, San PerandO Is the seat of the great cigar manufac tories, and Santo Mesa is the centre of the cordago manufactory. At the Ab caicerfa suburb tho Chinese sampans discharge tbeii cargoes; the lishermen and weavers inhabit the suburb of Tondo, ami its markets supply the mar kets with fruit for its embroiderers. Pasco is where the artisans and art st? live, und h.iali h-seekers dock to Santa Ana anil San Pedro Macatl. The principal buildings in Manila are the Cathedral, the palace of the governor, the palace of the archbishop, the town ball, a beautiful building: ten churches, belonging to the dill'er ent religious.orders : sevcrnl monaster ies, a number of convents, tin; arsenal, three colleges for young men, two colleges for young women, thosuprcuio court building, tho prison, the civil hospital, the university, tho marine school, the commercial school, the theatre, a large building : tho custom house and the barracks. There uro several large squares in Manila, the largest of which is the Prado, in whieb is Bituated the bronze statue of Charles 1 V. Manila's municipality dates from the year 1071, when the city was founded hy Logpaspi. It is a splendid natural tn.de centre, and ranks with Calcutta and Batavaia. Being the chief port in the Philippine Islands, all their pro ductions How there anil its harbor is visited by a very great number of ves sel* of all sorts and si/es. Its exports consist of sugar, tobacco, Indigo, Manila hemp and cordage, gold dust, birds' nests, coffeo, sapanwood, mats, bats, hides, trepang, tortoise shell, cigars, cotton, rice, etc. Its manufactures arc chiefly cigars and cheroots, a governmen: monopoly; cordage from tho filaments of the aba ca ; beautiful fabrics, known as plnas, woven from the libres of the pineapple leaf, and aftersvard exquisitely em broidered : various other cloths made of the abaca IIlament, pure and mixed cotton fabrics, mats ami cigar cases. in 1045 Manila was nearly destroyed hy earthquakes, which have since fre quently and severely visited the place. A British 11 -et.captured Manila in ITti'J, and held it for lifteen months, when it was by treaty restored to Spain. The population of Manila, with its suburbs, is about Hit).OUO. The Pnll pplne Islands belong to the Malay Archipelago. Next to Cuba thoy are tho most valuable colonial possession of Spain. In all there are about 1,200 islands in tho Philippine group, the principal of which are Luzon, Mindanao and Palawan, with Mlndoro, Panay, Negroes, Zdm, Bobol, Leyue, Samar, and Mas bate and many Other smaller islands. Their total area is estimated at about 115 528 tquaro miles, and the total population is estimated to bo about 8,000,0u0 per sons. Tho islands uro of volcanic forma tion, and are traversed by a chain of mountains from north to south, rising in some of them to 0,000 feet. The coasts of most of tho Islands are deep ly indented hy the sea, and the larger islands ato well watered by large streams, with estuaries which form excellent harbors. Tho Philippine group is within the range of the monsoon-, and violent hurricanes and earthquakes uro of fre quent oocurronco. From May to September tho west coasts Of the Philippine islands, are deluged with rain while tho October monsoon brings rain to tho castcoastc, which are dry at other seasons. Tho high temperature and abun dance of moisturo cause luxuriant vegetation, ho that tho Islunds are capable of yielding ulmoit all kinds of colonial and Luropeun produce. Uico, millet, maize, sugat, indigo, hemp, tobacco, eolTeo and cotton uro raised, and Mio products includo sago, cocoa nuts, nananas, cinnamon, betel, many lino fruits, timbor for shipbuilding and dye woods. Buffaloes and most of tho domestic animals common in tho United States aro roarod, and tho horso, Introduced by '.he, Spaniards, runs wild among tho mountains. Tho antolopo, fox, wi'dcat and monkey aro among the wild animals found in the Philippine Islands The cayman it* to bo found in tho rivers and hikes, tortoises abound on tlio shores, fish aro very plentiful aid serpents uro numerous. Among the birds of the islands aro the parrot, a speeies of pheasant, pigeons and wuter-fowl8. The mineral products are gold, cop per, iron, lead, mercury, sulphur und COal. The exports amount to about $1(1,000,0 0 annually, and the imports, consisting mainly of cotton-, machin ery, coal, iron, umbrellas, earthen ware, hardware, woolens, aopurol. etc., amount to about $15,000,000 an nually. -M^^^ ? ? ? ^ BILL ARP MAKES ANOIHLH WAR TALK. A W?lfl) ABOU r THK l'KK.XC'II BBS. When They Ailvlse Hearers to Fight There In Trouble Ahead?An out Darkey Who is Noi GoIiijc lo War Without tin- White Folks. When Napoleon was in Kgypt and a great battle was impending, he made a speech to bis army and said: "Sol diers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from tho heights of those pyramids." Just 80 Jup tor used to sit enthroned upon the top of Ml. Olympus and overlook the doings of the children of men. These are rather lofty thoughts for a common man to con template, but some times ! wish that 1 could tako a (light to tho clouds and poise myself and let the earth roll un der mo, so that 1 could look down upon the nations and Beo what they all w< re doing. The world has been getting smaller ever since 1 was a boy. It ntts been shrinking, shrinking from year to year, for it used to take three years to go around it, but now less than three months makes the great circuit. Still we aro not content, for though the land is wired pretty well, the sea is not and a vessel may be lost or a fleet destroyed away out in mid-ocean anil we could not hear of it for a week. This little war of ours is growing bigger and spreading wider In Itsproo ablllties. Wo thought that Cuba was to be tho battle ground for our army and Ouban waters for our navy, but the Philippine Islands are thousands of miles away andtbeC naries not far from Africa. It now a war of invasion and the end is not in sight. Hut it is too late now to entreat for peace or arbitration, and so we must all fall into lino and do our share. When the preachi rs put on their war paint I reckon it is no harm for the laymen and tho sinners to light. Wo remember that in the last war the preachers, both North and South, were more belligerent than any other class. They didont do much much lighting, but thoy went along nnd encouraged tlio boys, prayed for them and nursed the sick and the wounded and showed their faith by their works, but tome of them were awfully mistaken about which sido the Lord was on. or what were 11 s great design-. "God moves in a invstorioua way, 11 is * on dors t" porforni, blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work ill vain : Qod is His own Interpreter And He will make it plain." The preachers are just human like Other people and subject to liko pas sions ami prejudice.-. | remember that just boforo Georgia seceded our Rome p ?eachcrs could hardly maintain their Christian serenity in the pulpit or out of it, and one of them, an eloquent and gifted man whom tho whole communi ty respected and reverenced, took for his text the twentieth veroo of the II chapter of Joel : ' I will remove far from you the Northern army and will drive htm Into a land barren and deso late, with bis face toward the east sea and bis binder part toward the utmost sen, and his stink shall come up and bis ill savor shall conic up, for he hath magnified t>> do groat tilings. Pear not, oh bind ! he glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do great things.*' 1 toll you be made it lit our case like a propbotl? prediction, and we could see the Yankees Hying from our valiant troops and driven to their utmost borders and scattered from tho Pacific Ocean to 1 by mouth Kock, and perishing ? to death all along the line for lack of pro visions, and nobody 1 -ft to bury them. | At the same time Henry Ward H i eher was breathing out thieatenings and slaughter from his Brooklyn pulpit and declaring that the Almighty's hand was on their side and within a few months would wreak bis vengeance upon tho slaveholder and set the bond men free. And the editors know noth ing at last. I toll you, my broathron, that pr laohors and editors are just hu man like the res', of us, and the world will never have a fair chance to get even with them until every man has a pulpit and a newspaper of Ids own. Hut tho war is on us and we must light it. Our Congressmen have said it is right and just and thev ought to know, but I was ruminating about blood and tears and agony?ab nit widows and orphans, and Rachel mourning for her children because thoy were not. That good old Georgia mother in Israel who-e. son is an otlloor on the Olympia in far < IT waters has ceased to smile. For years his U tters have been her comfort. Kor y urs the ho has supported her from his pay and is now educating ami maintaing an ornlian 1000'.', and they love him dearly. Hut it may be that too con I)lot has come and gone and he Is even now slooplnging in the deep wat.-rs, and they know it not. Who can meas ure tho glory of war with a grief like theirs, and this is only onecaso. Tho e are or will be thousands liko it if this war goes on. But we must light. In the language of Patrick Henry, "1 repeat It, sir. we must fight." Patriotism is a Cod given emotion in the human breast. True, sincere, thoughtful lovo of homo and country -not that kind which is a pre tense and which Dr. Johnson said was tho last refuge of a scoundrel. Poll tics and greed and religious fanatac isin aro often confounded with it, and woman is always the chief mourner loth in victory and dofoat when war atticts a country. Nations make war in haste and repent at leisure. The saddest ptoturo ever painted was that of a mother with a babe at ber breast hunting over a battlefield for the body of her husband. "Tho child of misery baptiz 3d in tears." Hut enough of this I'm afraid 1 am becoming: a confirmed pessimist. I w ill go out in the garden with some of tho lilth offspring and pick strawberries. These little chaps always comfort me. I don't see what we grow up for nohow, f ir tho Scrip tures; say unless ye become as one of theso litt.lo ones yo shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. What faith, wh it trust, what confidence they have in us. "Grandma" Bald a little offspring, "Didont God make every body'.-'" " Yes," said my wife. "Well, dident Jesus help Him somoV" "I reckon so," said sho. Tho boy ruminated a nilnut I and said: "Grandma, l reckon Jesus carried tho dirt, dident he " And so thoy amuso and perplex us all tho time. No wonder that parents ail love J. Whltcomb Riloy, for ho loves their children and his sweot pooms mako everybody else love them. He is their Santa Claus all tho year round. 1 hud rather go to St. Holer's gate with ins record than that of the greatest war? rior that ever lived. But these nogroos interest me. They are sorely perplexed, but they have some good ideas. Mose says he nevor Could light until he's mud und ain't mad yit: nobody hain't dun not bin1 to him. Dr. Calhoun told Squire that Mr. Mc Kinley bad called lor 100,000 nogroes to go and take the Canary islands. " Well, sir," said Squire, " 1 is not agwine ondor no slob a cull. It is not a spectablo call, sir: l is wlllln' to do sum lightin', sir, but do white folks must go long wid me?where doy go, sit". I will lo whar dey light, 1 will tight, but Mr. Klnloy oan tshovo mo off on an Island wld nobody but niggers. 1 been living wld my white folks all my life, and dopendin' on 'em sir, and I'm not wlllln1 to quit?'em, sir ? no sir? 1 am not gwina under no sieh call us dat; it's not spectablo." And Squire meant it. But we are all waiting now waiting for same big thing to happen Old Georgia will do her part, and the South will furnish generals In whom the nation has contldonco. And now here is a letter from Mr. J, C. Prossloy, of Abbeville, S. U., who says he is coming to the veterans' re union In July, and wants to meet hi* comrades of old TlgC Anderson's brig ade and espi dally of tho Seventh Georgia regiment. Ho wants to know what became of old Major Mlnton, who fought with the lilghth Georgia, though his son was in tho Sovent'n. Why, he is dead, of course, for he was near seventy when he j ?med the Bightu as an amateur, and he fought all day at the lii>t battle of Manassus and re ceived a slight wound in the bead, and that night he went to 'Jr. Miller und I said: "Doctor, I have fought enough: j give ma a discharge, and let mo go 1 home " The doctor gave it, and lie came home and rested on his laurols, and not long afterwards "requiescat in pace." And here i- another letter about the war. W. I. Ballard, of Septus, S.O.. wishes t ) know if any veteran can tell him what- became of his only brother, s. M. Ballard, who was wounded at Nashville, and captured and taken to Camp On use in b'obrurary, 1805. He belonged to the Twenty-ninth North Carolina rot*imnn*. itn.i. Am*. niK WIDOWS ?.l Vi.ii. It ANS. I lie Kceords Shore that Federal Pensioners \vc Quite Attl'ttOltVO to Voiiiii; Women. Philadelphia Press. It isia-y to be liberal with other people's money. Congress seems to lind it so. even when the revenue is low ami the possibility of war Immi nent. The pen.-ion- appropriations have grown yar hy year, until they now exceed $111,000 OOuannually. Tho legislation of tie- present congress will a id to rather than lesson the au thorized pension claims upon the gov ernment. Some little attempt was made to check in some degree tho growing pension roll. No one pro posed to interfere with til : tOldiors, 1) it a few couragi ous spirits thought some economy might be practiced with the v. idows. It was proposed that the widows of soldb rs whoso marriage takes place aft r this date shall not, on the death of their husbands, be eligible to a pension from the govern ment. This would seem to he an en tirely reasonable and just proposition, yet the house, committee on invalid pensions reported against it. In tho opinion of a majority of the committee a woman who marries an old soldier and nurses and cares for j him during the remainder of his days ought to be. pensioned. If tho nursing I of oli! soldiers is a just ground for a pension the law should secure the pen sion to the old soldier's nurse, not his widow, ltd.ics not follow that because a young woman chooses to marry a battle-scarred or diseased soldier that she intends to nurse him and make oasv and agreeable his declining years. If a pension is due to such a woman on the old soldier's death the presump* is strong that the pi nsion is the in ducement to the marriage, if she has I tho cure of the old soldier she has a motive for hastening his march to the j tomb. It is on record that mercenary ! women of little character seek mar i riagCS with tottering veterans, and then, instead of nursing tl e n, a tandon thom and await their death, when they i promptly turn up with a marriage cortillcalo and a claim for a soldier's widow's pension. Such marriages are avalnst good morals und a irro.-s scandal and abuse. They are prejudicial to the old soldier rather than helpful to bun, as they place a premium on his death and re ward the unworthy by a pension to which they havn no meritorious claim. Thero are 080 01!) names on tin- pen sion list, bat of tboso only 753 126 re present survivors of the eivil and o:hor wars. Tho remaining 234,402 in I eludes the widows, minor on i to run and j some miscollano ius claimants, but it is mainly widows. Tho veterans of I the war are il..? n: off, but the pension ; roll is being constantly reinforced by their widows. Ail honor to ti..; war widows and those who married tho soldiers, but the marriage of young women to broken-down and aged soldiers, that t hey may get on the pon slon roll, ought to he discouraged. It is really a fraud on the government, and is carried to such an extent that, as the, committee reports, " few oid soldiers escape, leaving the widow." Thorn are seven widows of tho war of the Involution still drawing pen sions from the, government. That war closed 115 years ago, and i sol lier who may liavu boon only a lad of 15, when that war ended, would have celebrated bis nintloth birthday forty years ago had hi' llvod BO long. Tili' in ?a-jy marbles press on the last surviving -ohliersof the it ivolutlon for probably half a century, yet his pension continues alive and his widow still pursues it. By the same token we will be. paying pensions to the widows of the war of the K-hellion hi the year 1080, unless a cheek is put on this business of marrying January and May For tho sake of insuring the lutter u soldier's widow's pension. ? A bishop wu^ traveling in a min ing country, and encountered an old Irshman turning a windlass which . hauled no ore out of a shaft. It was l his work to do this all day long. His I hut was oil. and the sun poured down I on his unprotected head. "Don't you 1 know the sun will injure your bruin if 1 you expose it in that mannor?" said : the good man. Tne Irishman wiped I the sweat off his foiebead and looked I at the olorgaman. 'i>.> 'ye think I'd I ho doln' this all day if i hud any brains.'" be said and then gavo tho handle another turn. ?The commander of the Olympia, the flag ship of the Asiatic squadron, Is Cant. Chas. V. Grldloy, who entered the Naval Academy from Michigan. Graduating in ho was at tho hattlo of Mobile Bay on the Oneida. Ho became a captain in lk,J7.