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IlfSAN JIM'S HABBOK.1 ! Tho American Cruiser New Orleans at Porto Rico's Capita!. I I SCENES AT THE SHIP'S ARRIVAL. First American W.ir Vessel lt> Enter tho? l'ort Since the AVnr Megan Incidents That I-eil l*p to Her Visit San Juan Short of Provisions Commander Folger's Movements. San* J tan*. Porto Rico (Dv Cable). A. White flag floats over the eastern parapet #f Morro Castie an 1 the large Spanish flag |hat has so long floated there has been fcauleJ down and stored away. To all intents and purposes s in Juan is ours, although thr enemy has not officially sur- j rendered. Thus it was tliat the control of Porto Rico was pained, due in the main to tho most Successful blockade maintained by the New Orleans and tho auxiliary cruiser Yosemlte. Within the city of San Juaa want and poverty is apparent oil every hand. There p plenty of beef, but provisions are not to pe had at any price. Enthusiastic scenes were witnessed when {he United States war ship New Orleans, i a*u HARBOR OF SAN Jl (New Orleans has passed up to the city whi the first American vessel to enter the harbor of Sau Juan since the war with Spain 1 pegau. steamed into port, and anchored near the English cable steamship. i^The arrival of the New Orleans was rathor unexpected, and created considerable excitement. The vessel entered the fcarbor at slow speed, the Stars and Stripes flying from the forepeak, and sounding lines being constantly in use. Aloug the walls "of Morro Castle the Spanisu soiaier* luruit-u m sunu imws, j While great crowds of citizens swarmed on [ housetops and along the wharves, eagerly Watching the advance of the American Vessel. After the New Orleans had dropped anchor Commander Folger came ashore at once, to pay his respects to Captain General i Macias. He was met at the wharf by an : Immense crowd. Rear Admiral Schley is expected to arrive here early in September, when he will hoist his new ensiguonthe JRaw Orleans. Major General Miies has telegraphed to t*"* " Cafctttln'GTflieral Macias soliciting clemency In the case of Mayor Sanchez, who, it Is t thought here, probably will not be shot. There is a rumor that he has made his escape. Captain-General Macias has protested to General Miles against allowing persons ! hnKiahlm. tioiriTifLri^rs intfoneuto savthat I The Spaniards contempla^ vengeance on the natives. Those persons, he declares, ire seeking to prejudice the Americans ?gaiu?t the Spaniards. General Miles has asked for permission to send a hospital ship to Areeibo, and his request has been granted. MONITORS COiNC OUT OF SERVICE. ! i tackle# AVlio Manned Them Will Retire j to Civil Life. Philadelphia. (Special).?AU the old monitors of the Civil War, which were jverhauled and redtted for coast defense purposes along the Atlantic sete board, will he brought hero one by one and rest in oeace at the League Island Navy Yard un- | (il oircumstanees shall nsrain demaud their I ?ctive services. They were manned at the ! beginning ot the war "by the naval reserves . of the surrounding States, and as each monitor goes out of commission so will the volunteer jaclcles retire to civilian life. The monitor Jason has arrived at the MONITOB (The old Civil War lighting machine has be pearanoe, probal League Island Navy Yard from New York humor. She was towed into Delaware Breakwater by the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite. The naval reserves who manned the Nahant returned to New York. The monitor will be dismantled and consigned to * * -< l ner oia resting iu iu? uum channel back of the Island. A NEW AMERICAN REPU3LIC. Convention For Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua Finishes Its Work. Manaoua, Nioaragua (By Cable). The convention recently engaged In formulating a constitution for the United States of Central America, embracing Salvador. Honduras and Nicaragua, has finished its work. Commissioners were appointed to convene at Amapola, Honduras, on November 1 nest. They will make preparations for the election on December 1 of a President, Senators, Representatives and Federal Judges for terms of four years, nd for the Installation in office of those jlected on hlarch 1,1899. The Federal district includes more than 8000 square miles on the Pacific coast ?'-u Paaot, TTnmJft_ OIC& OwlUiCia ~ The sick of the Eighth Regiment, New York Yolunteers, 260 In number, from ,Chlckamauga, reached New York City ^Tuesday afternoon, and twenty-eight of them went to various hospitals. The men .look bad, but the surgeon in charge, Captain Llndheln, says that they will all recover. There was an affecting scene when the sick men were met by their friends. Da Bosc Wants Damages. Du Bosc, lately Charge de Affairs of the Spanish Legation, Washington, has sued Canada's Governor-Genera! for ?500,000 damages for exDulsion. I IDAHO FUSION TICKET. Democrats ami Silver Kepubllrnng Divide the Offtces Populists I.cft Ont. Poisn, Idaho (Special"*. The Silver republicans and Pemotratsof this State have frsed and nominated a ticket, leaving the Topu!ist? without re] resentntion. 1 eeause of their failure to harmonize with the i *W0 parties. The cotnhination ticket k liviuuiiiiru i> ?i> ivi* \ - i lows: Justice of SuT" Z preine Court. Isaac NT. Sullivan, Silver ^ ' V %)&jj^-R e p u l> li c a n: for fig Governor. Frank li ywC Steuuenberc.Demoly /71 <f$J erat; for Congress/ { /. wA num. Edwanl Wili j}'/fl son. Silver Repuldif A ean; for AttorneyI 4/1 General. S. H. Hays, governor stkcxex- Democrat: for Seebero. retary of state.Mart Patrie. Silver Republican: for Auditor. Bartlett Sinclair, Silver Republican: for Lieutenant-Governor. Joseph II. Hutchinson, Silver Republican; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Pearl French, Democrat: for Treasurer, Louis C. Rice, Democrat: for Mine Inspector, Jay A. 0;> izeb, Democrat. THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN. The British Have Their First FlKht With the Khalifa's Troop*. Cairo, Egypt (Dv Cable).?The Khalifa according to a dispatch received Tuesday from Wed-El-Obcid, has laid torpedoes in the Nile below Omdurman, and a large jta " <?v* varo - "% TTSRV ^ CASTLS :an, porto rico. ich is now practically under our control.) Dervish force is issuing from Kerreri, about eight miles north of Omdurmaa, to meet tho Anglo-Egyptian advance. The dispatch also says that a brigade of friendly Arabs,commanded by Major Stuart Wortiey, which has been pushing around Omdurmaa, the Dervish camp neat Khartoum, with the view of cutting off the retreat of the forces ot the Khalifa, had its first brush with the enemy on the east bank of the Nile and captured Ave men and a grain-la Ion boat. The Dervish scouts are now frequently sighted, and the whole Anglo-Egyptian Army has reached Umterif, thirty miles from Omdurman. The gunboat Mank was wrecked in a terrible sandstorm, while reconnoitring ten miles up the river. QI AC/ AT ruiri/AM Alir.4 Says Greatly Exaggerated Reports of Suffering Huve Been Sent Out. Chattaxoooa, Tenn. (sipeclRll. Governor Black spent Tuesday In Chickamauga Park, investigating the conditions that exist there. He made a thorough investigation. Ho sail: "The most exaggerated reports ever sent out about any oue thing have been sent out about the Chickamauga hospitals. I speak of conditions that exist to-day .anl not about what has been. I can only speak of what I have seen. I came to Chickamauga to criticise and thoroughly inspect every- 1 /*rvnna/>f (ah tf IM tha V -? X7 Vftfif kUlU^ 1U UVUUCkUVu Hiwu .w? v . troops and campS. "The sick ft the Ninth New York have fared worse than any of the New York sick. They have not been treatel right. Toe Eighth and Fourteenth are fariug wall, and the hospitals where their sick are c ?allned are splendidly equipped and all rittht. "I never in all my life saw a better equipped and better manage 1 hospital in the llold than the Sternberg. It Is all right. I believe General Boynton in his report is correct, and that the neglect of the men is largely responsible for the large sick rate." SPANIARDS REPORTED TO BE LOST. Nine Hundred Thought to Have Been Drowned on the Way to Mauila. Tacoma, Wash. (Special).?Early In the war Admiral Dewey captured the Spauish en sent out of commission after Its last ap >ly, on the stage.) gunboat Leyte as It was returning to ! Manila from one of the Philippine Islands. ' The Hong Kong Daily Preis says that in ! connection with this capture is another I incident not previously made public. It i relates to a loss of 900 Spaniards, of whom I sixteen were Catholio priests. The Leyte had been towing three vessels ; loaded with Spaniards who were fleeing for j fear of falling Into the ^insurgents' hunds , and being massacred. rnese vessejs wcr? i towed down Patnpalas River and along the j coast with the intention of taking the pas! sengers into Manila or surrendering thorn j to the Americans. A severe stonn came up and compelled I the Loyte to leave her tows and make for ; Manila to secure assistance. While enroute there she was captured. Later American | warships w<ire cent to look for the three | vessels, but they were nowhere to be found. Inquiry among the insurgents showed I that they nau not seen tae missing irnusports or" their passengers. There can be i no doubt that they foundered with all on ! board. A Big Iron Trust. A big iron trust with *200,000,003 capital was launched in Wall street New York. Three Men Drowned. Four workmen on a Canadian dredge operating in the Galloups Rapids below Ogdensburg, N. Y., while returning from shore in a punt, ran against the anchor chain and upset. Three were drowned in tue rapids. The other man dung to the punt and drifted through the rapids, landing safely on the island below Cardinal about four miles away. A Xew Spanish Governor-General. General 31os, the Spanish Governor of the Visayos Islands, has proclaimed himself Governor-General of the Spanish dominions in the Philippines. f TmnTrnTTrt Tn TTmnTn i rrmn mim 1.0 vinuiUAim Colonel Henry Confesses to a Forged Document and Commas Suicide. NOW PARIS CALLS FOR JU31ICE. Geiipr.il Boi.s leTre Designs Estcrhaiy Cashiered Colonel Henry Confronted ATith a Forged Document and Placed t'lion a Soldier'* Honor Breaks Down and Confesses?Paris In an Uproar. Takis, France (By Cable).?France's faith In the honor and integrity of the commanders of that army for which she has made so many sacrifices since 1S70 has just received a terrible shock through the startling con Tession of Colonel Henry, Chief of the Intelligence Bureau at the War Department, that he had forge ! the note alleged to have been sent from the Italian Embassy to the German Embassy, la which the name of Captain Dreyfus was mentioned, and on t'ie strength of which Dreyfus was convicted of treason, subjected to military degradation and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment on the Devil's Island. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, who was arrested on Tuesday, after he had confessed that he forged a letter which was largely instrumental in preventing a re vision or the ureyrus case, commuted suicide Wednesday by cutting his throat with n razor ho had concealed in his valise. Wiien Lieutenant Colonel Henry was summoned to the residence of tho Minister for War on Tuesday he found assembled there Colonel du PatydeClam, Count Esterhazy, General de BoisdefTre, General Ttoget and M. Cavaignac. The Minister for War bad suspected tho letter oh his desk. He took it up and said to Henry: "You did not mention tho natue of the agent who furnished this letter. My attention has been called to tho fact that on the docket there is no name." Colonel Henry beat his forehead and then said he had no memory for names, and had forgotten the name in this case, but he would know the man if he saw him. "It is a pity you have forgotten," said M. Cavaignac. dryly; "we think the letter a forgery and that you have been duped by a clever forger." Henry declared his belief in its authenticity. but in a very faint voice. "Come," said the Minister; "no agent ever gave it to you. You wrote it in pencil to disguise your handwriting tlio better. You are the forger." The Colonel's speech grew thfck, but he denied the cnarge. men u was repeaieu and he gave fresh explanations. But his tongue began to cleave to the roof of his mouth, and it was feared that he would have an apoplectic fit or stroke. "On your honor as a soldier." said M. Cavaignac, more gently, "did you, or did you not, write that letter?" "Since you appeal to my soldierly honor, it was I who wrote It," he replied. After his arrest he was permitted to visit his wife while on the way to the fortress at Mont Valerien. She thought he really had a fit. He addressed her as "My poor wife," adding "I am under arrest." The officer accompanying him was under orders not to lose sight of him for a moment, and, therefore, he could not see his wife alone. All three proceeded to his bedroom to get the necessary clothing. Henry then clasped his wife in bis arms nnd exclaimed: "My conscience Is pure and free from everything." This exclamation is much commented upon, as going to show that he may possibly have forged the letter under orders from his superiors. The fact of the suicide became known at Mont Valerien about 9 o'clock Wednesday evening. It is supposed that it was committed about 5 in the afternoon. When the officials entered his cell, Henry was found lying in a pool of blood, dead, with a terrible gash in his throat. Shortly before midnight Mme. Henry, who had been informed, went to the fortress and was admitted, the officials granting her permission to pass the night beside the body. General Lo Mouten de Boisdeffre, Chief of the General Stait of the French Army, has tendered his resignation to the Government. General de BoisdefTre, in his letter of resignation, explains that he resigns owing to his misplaced confidence in LieuteunntColonol ?enry, which led him to present as genuine what was forged evidence. M. Cavaignac, the Minister of War, in reply asked General de Boisdeffre to remain to "see justice rendered in the matter." General de Boisdeffre thanked M. Cavaignac for proofs of his esteem, but persisted in*liis resignation. He will be replaced therefore by General Renouard. When Count Esterhnzy was Informed of the arrest of Colonel Henry and of his admission, he exclaimed: "This is too terrifying!" . The Cabinet held two stormy sittings under the Presidency of M. Faure. having nnniirAiiflv fulled to nrrtve at a decision on the question of revising the Dreyfus sentence, for the customary official note was not issued. It is alleged that several Ministers, including M. Brisson, the Premier, M. Maruejouls, Minister of Commerce, and M. Trouillot, Minister of the Colonies, demanded a revision and the immediate supercession of several staff officers. M. Cavnignac, however, remained firm, opposing this course on the ground that Lieutenant-Colonel Henry's forgery had not altered the case aslaffectlng Dreyfus's guilt. The only result thus far, therefore, Is that Esterhazy is cashiered, and will retire on a small pension. Even after leaving the council Ministers continued to argue heatedly. It woold be impossible to describe the sensation that has thrilled Paris. WILHELMINA IS QUEEN. On Reaching Her Majority Iimiesa Proclamation and Assume* Power. The Hague, Holland (By Cable). Upon the attainment of her n ajorlty Wednesday Queen Wllhelmlna Helena Paulino Marin, who was born August 31, 1830, Issued a proclamation to the people of the Nether* lands, accepting the responsibility of the Netherlands Government and expressing gratitude for proofs of attachment shown to her by the people, and asking for their loyal support. Queen Wilhelmina, accompanied by her otfanHa.l rifvlnA AArvlAA In thn great church here Wednesday morning. The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, the Prince and Princess of Weld, the Diplomatio Corps, the civil and military authorities and four thousand others were present. Delaware Republicans Unite. The Union Republican Convention met at Dover, Del., and Indorsed the ticket nominated by tho regular Republican Party. The candidates are: For Congressman, John H. Hoffecker; for State Treasurer, Dr. L. H. Barr; for State Auditor, John A. Longo. Weyler Would Be a Dictator. General Weyler, In a statement to the Weyler Club, Madrid, Spain, outlining his future policy, expresses the Intention of advocating a military dictatorship in Spain and the reorganization of the army and oavy, V THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington , The Spanish Government ims applied for the release of the Spanish soldiers held ' n' t'vn in tliis country, an 1 tlie request wiI! '.'i> granted. uniers nave been issom nv in** ir liepartment that all the regular army regiments now at "\I on tank Print. L. I., which wore stationed previously east of the Mississippi lliver, shall return to those same stations. The Inter-S'ate Commerce Com mi salon In the Canadian Pacific pa?sencer rate 1 case decided that the Canadian Pacific is ] not entitled to the differential passenger , rates contended for. The alleged overcharging bv stewards on board transports is stated at the Quartermaster-General's office to be one single instance where a steward charged a soblier twentv-flve cents for a sandwich. No other comolaints of the kind have been made at the Quartermaster's department. Ernesl L. Tosca. who has been connected with the Havana Consulate for six years i and who was General Lee's Secretary for three vears, has been deslgnted to go to Unr'inn ipltli th<. Pnhnn "Wilifnrv Commls sion as one of Its secretaries. Minister Antfell. at Constantinople, Turkey. informs the State Department that a note from the Porte announces that on account of the local needs, the exportation of wheat from the province of Scutari, in Albania, European Turkey, is forbidden until further notice. President McKInley ordered the promotion of forty-one army officers who took part in the capture of Manila. Domestic. William Palmer, a vouqk man of Beverly. N. J., was accidentally shot in the stomach by a companion while punninp in j the meadows near ueveriy ana was instantly killed. Miss Bessie MeFarland, sister of Lieutenant Munroe H. MeFarland, Adjutant to the Thirteenth Infantry, and who was one of thellrst American women to enter Santiago after the surrender, died at Fort Porter, BufTalo, X. Y. Miss MeFarland went to Tuba ns a nurse, and on her way hack fell ill of typhoid fever. State Health Officer Hunt has raised the quarantine against Galveston, Texas. The city was never more healthy than at present. The quarantine was placad August 20, on account of a suspicious case of fever, at Fort Point. The torpedo boat Davis, being built at the WollT A Sewieker Iron Works, Portland, Oregon, had a preliminary trial trip of forty miles. She made about eighteen knots nnd the trial was entirely satisfactory. The required speed is 22}.( knots. Bobbers secured JGOOO from tbe Pacific Express Company in Omaha, Neb. Tho money was consigned by the First National I Bank of Omaha to the Citizens' National Bank, of St. Paul, Minn. It was placed in , the small iron safe in the dilivery wagon of the Express company and a short time af-terward was missed, "As the result of a collision between north and southbound passenger trains on the Ithaca branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Half Acre, about four miles from Auburn, N. Y. Engineer John Vaughn, of Ithaca, was killed. The engine of the southbound train was derailed and badly damaged. Former Deputy State Treasurer Hiram F. Gerrlsh, of New Hampshire, took $5000 belonging to the Stnte, which his bondsmen made good. The committee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, with Sir Thomas Llpton's challenge for the America's Cup, arrived at New York Oitv on the Britannic, accompanied bv William Fife, Jr., designer of the yacht Shamrock, which is to race Tor the trophy. The Collector of Customs at New Orleans. La., has beon authorized to permit a steamer from Havana, Cuba, to land 1609 goats at the Tort Eads Quarantine Station, in order to fumigate the vessel, William Morgan was shot twice iu the breast and stabbed in the abdomen once by James Moberly at Harrodsbatg, Ky. Morgan died shortly after. There had been an old grudge between the two men, which culminated in a personal encounter. Charles C. Derrick and Miss Fannie Bock of Rochester, N. Y., wetre drowned in Lake Ontario. Conrad Singerly committed suicide in C.reenfleld, Mass., after firing at Mrs. Joseph Hibbard.who was wounded slightly, t II. T. Higginr, of Chicago, was killed by the explosion of a vapor bathing apparatus, tn which he was trying to cure hay fever. Major J. M. Walsh, ex-Commissioner of the Yukon District, estimated this season's gold output from the Klondike at $11,005,000. The wife and child of the Rev. George Jefferes, of Philadelphia, died in Shippensburg, Fenn., from the effects of eating toadstools. While taking a walk thev found wh ^ they thought were mushrooms. They gathered a number and ate them. They were toadstools. Mr. Jefleres was very sick, but will recover. Several revolver shots were fired on Sunday morning into John McDermott's saloon. A few moments later the building was ablaze and soon burned to the ground. The charred remains of John Gorman, with two bullet holes in the skull, were found in the ruins. It is beliered that he was mur* j i >on Kw miMAna Ttrhn flrftrl uercu iu mu ?uuuu uj p ...? the building to conceal*the crime. George Griffith, of Reading, Penn., killed Hnrman Trunk, who was a boarder in Ills house, by striking him on the head with a rifle. Griffith had accused Trunk with being too friendly with his wife. They quarreled with the above result. , Two highwaymen have created a reign of terror In Omaha, Neb. They stop pedestrians, waylay street cars, and do other desperate acts. The burialo' Lieutenant William Tiffany, of the "rough riders," took plnce in Newport, R. I. An imposing escort rendered military honors. n ttrr>ntv-nifrht rears old. was killed while hunting near Tapper Lake, N. Y., in the Adirondack?. Two men who approached and fired the fatal shot probably did it accidentally. Deputy Sheriff Nathaniel Cloud and John Cadle were s'<ot and killed at Tazewell, Tenn., where Cloud was trying to make an arrest. The Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition buildings and grounds ave been offered to the Government as 'iiiarters for troops. Fifteen thousand mt a could be accommodated there. Over a tho usand persons gathered at Rokeby, Captain William Astor Chandler's country seat, near Bajrytown, N. Y? and welcomed h! n home from the war. He delivered an address. President WcElnley and his party left Somerset, T an., for Cleveland at'll o'clock Monday, lie reached Pittsburg at 2.30 p. 1 m. and stopped to inspect a hospital train and shake >ands with sick soldiers. He arrived in Cleveland at 5.40 o'clook. M. R. Todd, cashier of the Fillmore 1 ? T. if, tK? uouniy L> IQIt. .'liuuasuia, vvuiuscu iud th|ft of tl:e bank's deposits. f Korolen. Severn! warehouses and other buildings, including the great Colston Hall at Bristol, England, where the Trades Union Congress i was holding its sessions and which contained a magnificent organ, were burned. The loss is estimated at ?750,000. The monument erected to the memory of the Americans who were killed in the l battle <>f Miranda in 1806 was unveiled at JIara-ilbo, Venezuela. An imperial degree has been issued sum- ( 1 raoni th* limcnsrain oi .vi?;na iu meoi on fe 'titember 26. FIELDS OF ADVENTUEE. TWILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. With Whales?The Kxperionco ' of Captain Hose OfT Hattcras?Secret of a Missionary's Welcome?Unharmed by u Hauler?The Cadet's ltescue. Captain AntoneRose, of the whaling 1 schooner Joseph A. Manta, lias arrived ; at Provincetown, Mass., his home, having been obliged to leave his vessel on account of sickness, the result of exposure while lighting a whale. The schooner reached the Hatteras whaling grounds on April 24, and the j next day, soon after daylight, the man [ In nvAtw'a riaef nf tlia mainmoaf. ' head raised whales, and in five minutes the boats were away to the chase. The irons were soon to the hilt in a lively young twenty-fivebarrel whale. After a few moments' tussle the fish started to sound, taking the line over the bow at racehorse speed, making things smoke in the chocks. Suddenly the line kinked, and in the twinkling of an eye the remainder of the rail M as out of the tub, catching with a ; snap for an instant on the stem of the boat, just long enough to tear it out and wreck the boat. The boat steerer's knife flashed in the air. and the monster was free, taking the line j with him. All attention of the crew was turned j to the boat, which was quickly tilling, and it was quick work to save their own lives. The mast and the six oars were lashed across the gunwales to keep her from capsizing, and she slowly began to settle. Higher and higher rose the water, until it reached to tho shoulders of the men as they stood on the seats. There they stood four long hours, balancing on their precarious foothold, hanging to life by a thread, until their vessel could be worked up to them from her distant position on the horizon. When rescued some of the men were nearly dead. One poor fellow was unconscious, and it required an hour of hard work and quantities of hot coffee to bring him back to life. The next day, nothing daunted by theiv rough experience, the boats were away again in the chase, and soon had a monster as long as the vessel spoutinc his life blood. At 5 o'cloek that afternoon their prize was safely moored head amd stern alongside the little schooner, and the work of getting her out of the rough waters of the Gulf stream began. They worked steadily until 5 o'clock the next morning, but their efforts were unavailing, as a heavy gale had sprung up and was blowing with hurricane force. Barks and schooners could be seen on all sides lying hove to under bare poles. In order to save the vessel Captain Rose was obliged to cut the warps and let the eighty-barrel prize, worth fully $2000, drift away. The long exposure in the cold water and hard work aggravated an old strain, and Captain Bose began to grow sick and n-oo nViliryorl tn wnrt tlia in tn """53"" ~ ~ I ward tbo land for assistance. Sightiug a tug off Long Island, the captain took passage for land, and sent his vessel to sea again in charge of his first officer, and has spent the last five weeks in the New Bedford Hospital. t'nharinecl l?y a Serpent. The incident of St. Paul and the : viper and the stories of Ziuzendorf and Braiuerd and their serpent visitors are read by every one with the thrill of interest always felt where a human life is at stake. We can imagine the effect anon those who were evewit nesses of the fact, and saw these men escape without a wound. Near the middle of the last century David Brainerd left his mission among the Indians at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and traveled southward to the j "forks of the Delaware." He had heard of a savage tribe in the heart of the New Jersey forests, and yearned to bring them under Christian influences. With his pocket-Bible, his tentcloth and a few simple utensils for 2>reparing his food strapped in a bundle on his back, hepushed on through the wilderness till he found himself in the neighborhood of the Indian village. He was not tired, and mount i _ Itiil _ _1. _ 1 a. ... x x __x' 1- _ 1. ~ ing 111s imie suenei-ieni uu sucus, ne ; camped under the trees to rest and to fortify himself for the new undertaking that lay before him. What peril was near him from savage hands he could not know, and like his Master in "a solitary place apart," he talked with heaven until he felf refreshed and strong. When he dually reached the wigwams, he was an astonished man. His faith > and hope had made him bold, but he little expected when he faced the enemies of his race that a "whole village" wauld come out to meet him as if he had been a long-looked-for friend. Led by the chief, the Indians welcomed him as their guest, and seemed almost to reverence him as a prophet. He stayed among fhem and preached, winning the hearts and the faith of j the untutored natives,until he gathered j a church of between seventy and eighty j n L f tin ? Tn/linno l/iii lauuu xuumuo, Brainerd never knew, until they told him, the secret of his welcome. The lavages had discovered the white stranger in the woods, and a party of them had waited to steal upon him and kill him as soon as he entered his tent. Peering between the folds of the canvas, they saw him on his knees, praying. Ignorant wonder held them back, j - * * I i 1 1 and tneir wonaer mrnea to awe wueu they saw a rattlesnake crawl over the Btranger's foot and pause beside him, with its head raised as if to strike;but it only gazed at him a moment, flickered its red tongue, and glided out of the tent on the opposite side. The # ? ' ' % ???? : > Indians hurried back and reported that the white man was UDder the protection of the Great Spirit.?Youth'fl Companion. r Kcscued the Cadet. An engineer cadet, who is now an assistant engineer 011 one of the cruisers in Cuban waters, went ashore in Honolulu to weigh coal for his ship one morning about five years ago. When he returned aboard for luncheon all * "? 1 i. - lianas were ni mess, except u luaunu, moon-faced landsman, a former farm band from interior California, who had been the butt of his mates as an innocent of the rawest kind. This landsman had bolted his dinner and was leaning over the starboard rail, looking no more stupid or inert than he generally did. A big coal lighter was moored alongside the ship, and the cadet in order to get aboard ship had to climb from the steam launch that hrnnclit liim off onto the licrhter. and o - w then pull himself up on the fixed iron, gangway ladder to the gangway. There was a space of about two feet between the coal lighter and the ship. Into this space the cadet, missing his hold when he attempted to clutch the ladder, fell, feet foremost, with a splash. The crew of the steam launch heard the splash, but did not know what had caused it. It was about 100 to 1 aorainst the cadet's sav ing his life by his own efforts, for when he came up hi 3 head was due to bu mp agaiust the bottom of the lighter, and it is a hard proposition even for a good swimmer to keep his nerve under such circumstances. The cadet didn't keep his nerve, and he surely would have been a goner had it not been for the loutish landsman leaning over the starboard rail. The loutish landsman proved ie be the right man. He did not even kick off his Government brogans before he let himself fall into the space between the lighter and the ship at the exact point where the cadet had gone done. The crew of the steam launch saw this move and wondered what it meant. They * did not know the cadet was underneath the lighter. In about half a minute the moon-faced landsman came from beueath the lighter, and he had ' i -- a-* -i :A i- l :? rm. - me cauei aioag wuu lulli. alio uauot, bis nerve gone, was very wild, and clutched the landsman fiercely. The landsman freed his right arm from the grasp of the straggling cadet and gave him a jolt on the point of the jaw with his big right fist that the cadet declares he feels yet. The blow put the cadet oat of the game altogether, bat it saved his life. He would have pulled his rescuer down with him had he not been knocked silly, and this was one of the times whenjan enlisted man struck an officer without being punished for it. The landsman and the cadet wena hauled into the steam launch by She crew, and the ship's company proceeded t'j hunt up an- ^ other butt for their humor. The moon-faced landsman wasn't made to serve in that capacity any longer. Towed Six Miles l>y a Swordfigh. TV?o vftolit. niiptnlfth. N. T. Y. C., owner A. J. Wise, pat in at Sea Cliff, L. I., recently with a swordfish on board measuring thirteen feet ten inches long and weighing 625 pounds. The fish was canght thirty-five miles southeast of Block Island. He gave the party an exciting chase, towing tho yacht's gig and a small boht six miles before he could be killed. Mr. Wise and a party of friends went out on the Chetolah from Greenport on a swordfishing trip. An offer of a 810 bounty was made to the sailor first sighting a big fish. AboiK the middle of the afternoon one 9 the sailors caught a glimpse of the monster, and the yacht was quickly got ~ into a position from which the skip- ** per, J. W. Matthews, who is an experienced swordfisherman, could harpoon him from the bow of the yacht. As soon as Air. Alatthews had made his mark the party got into tlTe gig and the small boat, and a thrilling pursuit ensued, which lasted an hour und a half before the fish received its death blow. It took five stout sailors to work the tacklo which hoisted the fish to the deck of the yacht. A box was hastily put together and the fish was packed in ice in order to give the ladies of the family and their friends a chance to see it. A QuIck-Witted Swede. An Ordnance |ergennt stationed at one of the Pacific coast artillery posts went suddenly insane a few years ago. His mind bad been disturbed for some time by the hard-heartedness of a young woman who declined to marry him. On the day that his wits went completely awry he made for the magazines with the intention, as he quietly announced to a young Swedish recruit whom he met on the way, of blowing them up. The Swede's eyes stuck out at this, but he was one of the tribe of quick thinkers. "Ay tank Ay'li go alang an' halp," said he to the crazy Ordnance Sergeant, whose eyes gleamed with insanity. The Sergeant made no response, and the Swedish recruit walked after him. The Sergeant opened the door of one of the main magazines, that held many thousands of pounds of black smooth-bore powder, and started to break out a big box of it. The Swede saw that the crazy man actually intended to blow up the magazine. When he was convinced of this he picked up a shellbar, waited for the insane man to turn his back and banged him over the head with it. Then he carried the crazy Ordnance Sergeant on his back to the guardhouse. The Swedish recruit was a Corporal the ueit day. j : The Diameter of an Atlantic Fog:. The captain of an Atlantic linen after many calculations, has come to the conclusion that the general size of a fog in the Atlantic is about thirty miles in diame't?* i