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HOW THE ABKANSAS BAN THBO?GH TWO FEDERAL FLEETS. To the Editor of the News and Courier : ID your issue of August 24 ?.Veteran" gives a list of Sooth Caro lina naval officers during the "war between the States " in your issue of August 26 Bishop Stevens calls attention te the oraissien of the name of Lieut Henry K Stevens from the list, and gives a short sketch of the services pf Lieut. Stevens and an ac count of his death. Bishop? Stevens states that Lieut Stevens was in command of the Ar? kansas when she passed the United States fleet on he way to Vicksburg. In Volume 1. page 370, of ' The Military .: Operations of Gfen. Beau re gard,'* by Alfred Roman, lhere is a description of th? fight put up by ' the Arkansas July 15,1862. in which it appears that Capt. Isaac N. Brown commanded the Arkansas, and that Lieut. Stevens was executive officer. Other South Carolinians were in the fight, and I send herewith the ac count of the battle given in Roman's work. Robert R. Hemphiil. Abbeville, August 29. AN UNPARALLELED FEAT ''The feats she performed under ber dauntless commander. Capt. Isaac N. Brown, who, upon Gen Beauregard's demand for an able officer, was judi? ciously selected by tbe Hon. Mr. Mal? lory, Secretary of the Navy, are de- v serving of enthusiastic praise ; the more so since Commodore Lynch, after " icspeo?ioa, said of her, she is 'very inferior to the Merrimac IQ every par? t?cula ; the iron with which she is cov? ered is worn and indifferent, taken from a railroad track, and is poorly secured to the Tessel ; boiler iroo on stern and counter ; ber smokestack of sheet iron ' "Nevertheless, on the morning of i the 15th of Joly, 1862, that Confede? rate ironclad, the Arkansas, mounting tea guos with a orew of two hundred men, descended the Yazco River to attack, not ooe or two Federal gun? boats ; but the fleets of Admirals' Far? ragut and Davis, then ne&r Vicksburg. "She was met at sunrise in Old River ten miles from the Federal anchorage by the Uoited States iron? clad Carondelet, the gunboat Tyler and the ram Monarch The Carondelet' alone was superior io guns, armor aod speed to the Arkansas. Capt. Brown promptly assailed this advance s qa ad roc, and, after an boor of close combat, / disabled and silenced the ironclad and drove the other two vessels to the shel- ' ter of the See ts in the main river * "Losing no time with the disabled Car? ondelet, the Confederate irooolah pro- - ceeded down stream and attacked the combined fleet of more tbro tweoty meo of-war. ''She pushed through their double line of heavy ships, rame, mortar boats and six irooclads, eaeh one of which last, like her late antagonist in Old Riv? er, was of greater force tbao herself She received the fire of three buodrd ? goos, which at bali cab e's length the lone Confederate ship returned with de structive effect from bow, stern aod Doth broadside batteries. "For more than an hour tbe combat of ooe to thirty lasted until the Arkan? sas, cutting her way through the ene? my's Hoe of massive ships, destroying some aod disabling others, passed, chat? tered, but uococqoered, oo ber way to Vicksburg, virtually raising the siege of that hitherto closely blockaded city "This combat, iu ito odds aod result without a parallel io nava! warefare, was attended with great lose to the Confede? rates io killed and wounded ''The ocmmander cf the Arkaosas, exposed on the shield deck, was three times wounded; once by a minie ball, roaching bim over tbe left temple; theo by a contusion on the bead, and slight woooc". in the baud and shoulder; thee, s.:uek from the deck insensible, he was fer the moment supposed to be killel, but he regained consciousness aod. dauntless as ever, resumed bis place and command till the end of the battle "Among the wounded was Lieut. G. W. Gift, who, with Grimball. of South Carolina, the Second Lieut, ably . commanded the bow guns. Lieut. Stevens, the executive officer, dis charged with hooor, both io preparation for and during the action.every duty of hie responsible positons. Barbot, Charles Reid, Wharton and Dabeny Scales, lieoteoaots, who, like their com? mander, were recently from the United States navy, were alike distinguished for the bravery and precision with they served their guns. "Cap'.s. Harris and McDonald, of a Missouri regiment, with sixty of their men, roiunteered for the naval service, and though they went on board only forty-eight hours before the battle, and were entirely unused to exercise < f great guns, formed an effective portion of tbe Arkansas's crew. It is but a just tribute to the brave men who fig ured in this engagement to add tbat they did so knowing the odds against them and with the resolution, inspired by a short address of their commander as the fight was about to begio. to suc? ceed in their work or perish. Tbe conflict here so briefly sketched took place in close proximity to the Federal army encamped on the west bank of the rivor, bot not in view of tbe city of Vicksburg The solitary j Coofrddrate ship was thus within bear- ! teg, but not within reach of aid from | ber friends ." The Czar's Peace Proposal. London, Auguft 31.-The Daily Graphic ?ays that Lord Salisbury, io 188^, communicated to Emperor Wil? liam a memor?ndum showing the tre? mendous cost of armed Europe Em? peror William was so impressed that he privately intimated bis intention to summon a d sarmament Congress Tbe semi official German press veo tilated the idea, with the result that so much animosity was revealed on tbe part of France that tbe Kaiser aban? doned tbe projeot. The St Petersburg correspondent of tbe Times says : "Count Muravioff, the Russian foreign minister, declares tbat thc idea originated entirely with Emper? or Nicholas. Skepticism prevails io di? plomatic circles as to practical results from a conference, aod it is admitted oo all sides that the circular came as tbe greatest surprise." The Paris correspondent, of tbe Times still insists tbat M. Faure aod tbe French ministers knew nothing before? hand, and that tbe Czar's proposal bas plunged the entire official world into terrible embarrasment and almost into stupefaction. "Everybody." says M. De Blowitz, "is asking with dismay wbat it meaos. It is v. sad awakening for France, and her papers are making ao immenoe ef? fort ro restrain their expression io the face of what is regarded as Russian per? fidy " ? ? ?i Rebellion in China. Hong Kong, August 30.-The Kwang Si rebellion, which has been quiescent for some time, shows signs bf serions recrudescence/ The reb? els are in great force fifty miles north? west of Canton, and are preparing to attack the city. Tan, the viceroy of Lang Kwang, has protested against the surrender of Kwacg Chow to the French, and when the foreign office insisted open the surrender Tan tele? graphed his resignation to Pekin and handed his seals of office to the gov? ernor of Kwang Tung. The viceroy of Canton, having failed to dispatch the troops to suppress the rebellion in Hai Nan and protect the American missionaries, the United States con? sul at Canton has made strong repre? sentations tc the acting viceroy re? iterating his demand for the prompt suppression of the general disturb ance. The uprisings appear to have been fomented by the Triad and White Liiy societies, which have combined for the purpose The assistant secretary of war has made the discovery tbat an order issued by the department authorising tbe sur? geon-general and the surgeons io charge pf the various ?amps to provide necc-a ries aod delicacies for the sick and wounded soldiers to the amooot of 60 Qdot? per day for each mao io addition to the regular allowance, had not been promulgated, and that at Fort My r, within four miles of Washington, five hundred sick aod wounded soldiers were suffering wretchedly becouse no provis ions bad beeo made to supply them such nourishment a nd delicacies as their enfeebled condition required. The ad? jutant general of the United States is chargea with negligence in promulga? ting this order which would have fur nisbed so much relief to our thousands of suffering soldiers and perhaps have saved tbe lives of a number of them. The outspoken charge of incompetency made by ex-Secretary of State Sherman against the see'etaty of War bas ioteu sined the already excited feeling thar prevails against tbat department on account of tbe revelations of the last few days as to the condition of our sol? diers. Secretary Sbermao is as weil known as any public mao io Washing? ton, and is credited with always speak? ing with great deliberation and oircutL spectiou. Thefore, a positive change ot incompetence against Seoretatry Alger comes from bim witb gaeat force at this time -Spartanburg Herald. The members of the Cuban juuta have lately called upon the President to urge the release of the Cuban pat riots languishing in prisons at Santi ago where they were committed by the Spanish government for treason. Their visit has served to call atten? tion of the general public to the fact that these political prisoners have not yet been released although Santiago bas been in possession of the United States authorities for six weeks. The public are considerably puzzled over the matter and no one has yet ventured a plausible explanation of the conduct of President McKinley in continuing the punishment ol these offenders against the sovereignty of Spain io Cuba The members of the junta con tend that the continued incarceration of these men has a tendency to make the Cubans feel that the United State does not come to them as a friend and that it is a great mistake on the part of our government to per? mit itself to be at fault in matters that furnish ratiooai grounds for dis trust on the part of the Cubans, and insist that finding excuses for our government in this matter has sorely taxed the ingenuity of their leaders in Cuba, who have labored with great diligence to counteract the efforts of the Spaniards to impress upon the Cubans that the United States did not come to them as a friend A stnbbora cough or tickling io tbe throat yields to Coe Minute Cougb Cure. Harmless ia effect, touches tbe rigb; spot, reliable acp j ist wbat is wanted. I; acts at once.-Hugb soo-Ltgon Co. ROSARY BEADS. They Were In Use Amone the Hin?cC? Before the Era of Buddha. The prevailing idea in regard to a rosary is that it belongs solely to follow? ers of the Catholic religion. But take away the cross that is hanging to the beads and we find that one must turn to the dim, mysterious east for th? origin of the rosary, for it is among the tem? ples of India, China and Japan that the first sign of the practice is to be found. Ancient pictures of the Hindoo gods de? pict them with chaplets of beads in 'their hands, and it is believed that this method of keeping count of their many prayers was in use among the Hindoos before the era of Buddha, or at least B. C. 500. The use cf the rosary seems especial? ly suited to an eastern clime and to the repose of an oriental mind. The Bud? dhists are fond of using very smooth beads of glass, polished jade or coral, and it has been thought that the smooth, cool beads gliding through their fingers as they murmur the holy name for thou? sands of times help them - to arrive at that state of holy abstraction from earthly things -which is so much prized among the followers of Buddha. The favorite Japanese rosaries are made of polished wood, crystal, onyx and chased silver, and the Japanese Buddhists repeat in endless devotion "Narnu Amida Butzu" ("Save us, Buddha"), while their Chinese brothers have the blessed name "U-Mi-to-fu" forever on their lips. A rosary of very great size was recently brought from a temple in Kioto, Japan. The largest bead is about six inches in diameter, and the rosary entire is about 24 feet long. The huge beads are of dark brown pol? ished wood. They are hollow and have each a figure of a god inside the little shrine, which can be seen through a lattice of brass work.-Cincinnati En? quirer. FALSIFIED HER AGE. A Court Trial That Disclosed a Queer Phase of Russian Society. Even in Russia, it seems, despotism does not go the length of forcing a woman to tell her age or of punishing her for stating it inaccurately. A cer? tain Princess Eugalytcheff was recently tried at Moscow and sentenced to life? long internment in the province of Olo netz for embezzling ,140,000 rubles. After the proceeding in court had come ' to an end and after the nobl6 lady had retired to the country for her somewhat prolonged rest from urban gayeties and temptations a too careful official discov? ered that among the papers in the case was the princess' certificate of baptism, and that she had changed the date of it from 1847 to 1867. Instantly this grave crime was brought to the notice of the authorities, and the convicted embezzler was summoned to meet the charge of falsifying an official document Then a curious fact was disclosed, and a sur? prising amount of light was thrown on Russian society. The Prince Eugalytcheff, who was cited as a witness by the prosecutor, 6aid that whether his bride was 20 years older or younger than her certified age j was a matter of absolute indifference to ! him. All he could say was that he re? ceived the sum of 3,000 rubles for giv? ing the lady his name, that immediate? ly after the marriage ceremony he pro? cured for her a separate passport, and that since then he has known nothing more of his wife or her private affairs. The jury gallantly declined to convict the accused princess on the "trivial charge about a woman's age," and she was sent back to her provincial exile. Princes evidently come cheap in Russia, and this is perhaps th? most in? teresting bit of news in the whole story. -New York Times. A Disastrous Ending:. Two Detroit merchants were sittiug on adjacent stools and taking a 15 cent lunch, when one asked the other if he consulted his wife in his business affairs. "Can't do it," was the response. "I've tried it a dozen times a month for years, but it always winds up just about as it did yesterday. I asked her if she thought she could discuss a little matter of business calmly and dispas? sionately. ??he said she could, but had never known me to be able to do so. I complimented her sarcastically on her 'angelic' temper, and she at once ac? cused me of being angry. I told her that I was regarded among men as hav? ing a very equable disposition and that my employees called me Old Suavity. She called attention to the fact that her pet dog, that weighs about a pound, was called Danger. Then I told her straight from the shoulder that I de? clined to be made angry by her taunts and odious comparisons, but served pointed notice that I was going to have the respect due the head of the house. She laughed cheerily and declared that I was entirely too touchy. " "But what about the business confer? ence?" "Oh, I slammed the door and left" -Detroit Free Press. Ice Broke the Spell. There is a curious little tale about Captain Bagot, M. P. for South West? moreland, which cannot fail to interest those superstitiously inclined. It is said that, some generations ago, a witch cursed Levens Hall, the seat of Captain Bagot, and said that there would be no direct male heir to the estate as leng as the Kent-the river which runs through the grounds-flowed. Such has indeed been the case, until in 1895, when, owiug to the severe frost, the Kent was, for a time, entirely frozen up, and a few months afterward Mrs. Bagot presented her husband with a little boy.-London Graphic. How a Bas J ful Man Got a Wife. Blusher is the most bashful mau I ever knew. " "How on earth then did he come to get married?' ' "He was too bashful to refuse." Boston Traveler. Wisdom to-day meaos comfort to morrow To prove it bay a "White"' ar.d cse it. ? RACHRAY ISLAND. . Och, vi? at was it got me at all that time To promise I'd marry a Rachray man ? i An now he'll not listen to r??on or rhyme, He strivin to hurry me all that he can. "Come on, an ye be to come on," say? he; "Ye're bound for tie island, to lite wi' me." See Rachray island beyant in the bay! The dear knows what they be doin out there But fishin an fishtin an tearin away, An who's to hindher, an what do they care? The goodness can tell what'd happen to me Vhen Rachray Td have me, anee, anee! I might have took Pether from over the hill, A dacent poacher, the kind, poor boy ; Could I keep the ould places about me still I'd never set foot out o' sweet Ballyvoy. My sorra on Rachray, the could sea caves. An black neck divers an weary ould waves! I'll never win back now, whatever may fall. Oh, give me good luck, for you'll see me no more! Sure an island man is the mischief an all An me that never was married before! Oh, think o' my fate when ye dance ata fair! In Rachray there's no Christianity there! -Moira O'Neill in London Spectator. HER HONEYMOON. Celia is strong minded. You would not think so to look at her. She is -what I call a fluffy girl. She has a sweet face, with large blue eyes and a match? less dimple in her left cheek. But Celia is strong minded. I sometimes even think mamma is a little afraid of her. She has certainly managed us both ail her life. Celia has a perfect talent for managing people. When she told us she was engaged to be married to Sir Ver? non Branstone, mamma said, "But, Celia, darling, you hardly know him." "You never know any man unless you are actually married to him," an? swered Celia who is possessed of an ex? traordinary amount of worldly wisdom. Then I put in my word. "I don't like him, Celia," I said decidedly. "And you haven't got to marry him, " replied Celia, in her most putting down manner, "so you needn't trouble about that." Mamma cried a little and finally gave her consent, which was, after all, only a matter of form, as Celia has money of her own and is over 21. v7e sat chatting over her fire the night before the marriage. "Supposing he is unkind to you, Celia," I said. "Oh, Celia, darling, whatever would you do if he were unkind to you?" "Do?" answered Celia, with an air of great astonishment. "I should leave him, of course, and come back to you and mamma. " I gasped. " You couldn't leave a man you were married to, " I said. "Couldn't I?" she replied calmly. "You'd see, Dot." "I'm afraid he is rather selfish, Celia," I said presently. "All men are selfish, " replied the wise Celia, "if they are encouraged. I shan't encourage Vernon." I Then we went to bed. I awoke the next morning feeling de? pressed. I hated parting wi th my favor? ite sister, and I did not care about my future brother-in-law. I must own he seemed devoted to Celia, but he looked so rough and big beside her I was dread? fully afraid he might bully her. Bu^ the wedding went off very well, in spite of my misgivings. My sister looked de? liciously pretty in her white satin gown, and I thought Vernon looked proud and happy. A friend of his had lent them a house in Scotland for their honeymoon, and Vernon was to have some spring fishing. I saw them off at the station. This was, I kuow, a dreadfully uucou ventioual thiug to do. but it was just like Celia, and she insisted on it. She said it would prevent people from know? ing they were newly married, which was absurd, as her hat was covered with rice. Just before the train was due to start Vernon looked at his watch and said to me: "Well, goodby, Dot. I must be getting in now." I shook hand with him, and Celia, leaning forward, moved The Ladies' Pictorial from the seat op? posite. He saw the movement "Don't bother to move anything, Celia, " he said genially. "I am going smoking." I stared increduously at him ; then I glanced at Celia to see how she would take it. To my surprise, she only smiled and said: "All right. Go and tell Denise toc?me to mea minute. I want to speak to her. ' ' He went off in a hurry for her maid, who came up just as the train was start? ing. "Here, jump in, Denise. I want to speak to you, " cried Celia. "I can pay the extra on your ticket at the other end." Denise was buudled in, and the train started without my having time to ex? change another word with my sister. I stood waving my baud uutil it was nearly out of sight, although Celia did not look once out of the window ; then I turned away, feeling disconsolate. I felt furiously angry with Vernon. How hateful of him to go smoking and leave Celia to travel by herself just when sne must have been dying to talk over the wedding and everything ! How lonely she would be on that long, dull journey ! They were goiug to stop at York for the night, but she would have nearly five hours alone with her maid. Poor Celia ! I had warned her he was selfish, but it is no use warning people who are in love-they are always so pe? culiar. I felt a little disappointed in my sister, to tell the truth, tor I never thought she would have surrendered so easily. She hadn't even looked cross, but had smiled at Vernon. How dreadfully soon marriage changes some people! I found mamma still rather watery about the eyes. Sin asked mo a great many questions and was most indignant at Vernon's selfish? ness. "Fancy slighting my darling girl like that!" she said angrily. "And fancy her taking it so calmly, " I added. "I wish she had never left us." sob? bed mamma. "I know he will bull;" her. I never heard of a man doing such a thing in my life. My poor, neglected child!" We could talk and think of nothing else, and Kat down to dinner feeling lonely ana miserable. Ar about half past 9, as I was feel lug imite worn out with excitement and fatigue. I thought ! I woolf] go to bcd. I kissed mamma and I begged her not to worry about Celia. I "I wonder what she is doing?" she j said tearfully. "I do hope they will not j quarrel, Dot. " I said I was sure they wouldn't, as Celia had never quarreled with anybody in her life. I was just going np stairs when I heard the front door bell ring violently. "I can't see any one, Dot," mamma called out to me. "I am too tired and upset tonight. " "We're out, James," I said to the footman, and added reassuringly to mamma, "It will only be what Celia calls a posthumous wedding present." I waited a moment to see. Suddenly I heard a peremptory voice saying: "Here, James, take in this box. Denise io coming on with the others in a four wheeler. Where is Miss Dot?" I simply flew across the hall. "Oh, Celia, darling Celia, whatever is the matter?" I cr ^d excitedly. Celia sro; 'd to kiss mamma, who had r;. .to the hall at the sound of her voice, then she slipped her arm through mine. "Come along into the dining room, dears, " she said, "and I'll tell you all about it, but do order me some dinner first; I am dreadfully hun? gry. " She spoke quite brightly, but her face was pale, and I don't think her tears were far off. Then she told ns what she had done. As soon as I left her she arranged with Denise to get out at Peterborough and catch the next ex? press back to town. Vernon had luckily never seen her. Poor mamma looked rather dazed, as though she hardly un? derstood what had happened. "It serves him right, Celia," I said angrily, "but whatever will he do? Won't he be fearfully angry?" I felt nervous, but Celia only shrugged her shoulders. "Likely he will," she replied coolly, "but after all what can he do excepting swear? Yon see, I have begun asl mean to go on, Dot, and I must await devel? opments. I expect he will soon fetch me back, " she added cheerfully, "and try io hush it up. No man likes being made a fool of, but it was really more than I could stand." She yawned and raised her pretty arms above her head. "And now let's go to bed, Dot. I'm so awfully tired. It's useless to sit here and speculate as to what he will do. I am all right in fhe meantime, as I have brought my trousseau back with me." ******* The next morning Celia received a frantic telegram from Vernon, and in the afternoon he arrived. Mr* ma and I thought it kinder not to see h*m. Celia had a long interview with him in the dining room, after which she ran up to us, and, giving us each a hasty kiss, whispered she would tell us all about it tomorrow. Then they drove off together, and Denise followed with the luggage. I believe they staid at a hotel for the night and caught the express to Scot? land the next day. We did not see Celia again for several weeks, and when she wrote all she told us was that Vernon was a "dear." Thty seem happy now, and I sometimes think I never saw a man kinder or more attentive to his wife. Celia seems devotedly fond uf him. Of course I always knew she was strong minded, but I must say I have often wondered how she managed Ver? non.-Westminster Budget. Indians as Runners. General Crook is; quoted by Edward S. Ellis as having seen an Apache lope for 1,500 feet up the side of a mountain without showing the first sign of fa? tigue, there being no perceptible in? crease of respiration. Captain H. L. Scott of the Seventh cavalry has related some astonishing feats performed by the Chiracahua Apaches forming Troop L of his regiment. He tells how nine of these Indians, after a hard day's work, by way of recreation, pursued a coyote for two hours, captured the nimble brute and brought it into camp; -how. on another occasion, the scouts gave chase to a deer, ran it down some nine miles from camp and fetched it in alive. Hence I see no good reason for doubt? ing the word of an old timer I met in the Rocky mountains, who told me that, in the days before the Atlantic and Pa? cific railroad was built, the Pirna In? dians of Arizona would recover settlers1 stray- horses along the overland trail by walking them down in the course of two or three days. After this one may begin to believe that "Lying Jim" Beckwourth, whose remarkable adven tures early in this century are preserved in book form, was a much maligned man, and that he spoke no more than the truth when he said he had known instances of Indian runners accomplish? ing upward of 110 miles in one day. Lippincott's. Reconciled to Earth. "What did you say thos^ are?" in? quired the man with the old fashioned derby hat who had paused to patronize the curbstone astronomer. "Those are the moons of Jupiter, " re? plied the proprietor of the telescope. "Let me see. Jupiter-that's one of the planets. " "Assuredly." "Well, there's a great deal to com? plain of (?n this earth, but it might be worse. With all the drawbacks. I'm glad I live here instead of on Jupiter." "Of course. You have no assurance that the conditions there would be adapted to your kind of lite." "lt isn't thar. I'm one of the sort of people who eaa hunk down anywhere and be. comfortable with apiece of hard tack and a cup of coffee. There's only one thing rhat gives me the blues, and that's seeing the new moon ever my left shoulder, lt's bad enough on this earth having to be on the lookout tor one moon every four weeks, hut if I lived ou a planet where there were four of them I never would know where I stood. It all goes to show that no mat? ter how had things are they might be worse "-Detroit Free Press. All She Required. Agent-Has your piano an automatic attachment, madam? Woman-No, it ain't, but it's got a sheriff's attachment, an I reckon that'll do for the present. -New York Truth. "I MIND THE DAY."" I mind the day Td wish I was a say grill fiyin far, For then I'd flj and Hud you ir: the west, And I'd wish I was a little rose as sweet as roses are, For then you'd maybe wear it on your breast, Ach ray ! You'd maybe take and wear it cn your breast. I'd wish I could be livin near, to love you day and night, To let no throuble touch you or annoy. Td wish I could Le dvin here, to rise a spirit light. So them above 'od let me bring you joy, Mavro**''I If them above 'ud let r ? win you joy. And now I wish no wishes, nor ever fal la tear, Nor take a thought beyont the way I'm led. I mind the day that's overbye and bless the day that's here. There be to come a day when we'll be dead, Achray! A longer, lighter day when w<%ll be dead. -Moira O'Neill in Blackwoods Magazine. BILINGUAL TELEPHONES. A Story at the Expense of a Milwaukee Millionaire Brewer. J. G. Nolen, who is an old timer in the electrical construction business, tells a story on "Val" Blatz, the millionaire brewer of Milwaukee. "Our company had had some corre? spondence with Mr. Blatz regarding the putting in of a telephone plant in his big brewery establishment, and I was sent up to try to close a deal. "I took a couple of phones with me in order to make a practical demonstra? tion should one he required, and I went with the intention of making a sale. "I got to talking with Mr. Blatz and showed him-the advantage of putting in our intercommunicative system through? out his establishment He listened at? tentively, and finally said: " 'Yes, that is all so; very true. But, ' and he spoke with the conviction of one who was putting a poser, ' but.. my men down in the malthouse and tho warehouses and cold storage are all Dutchmen. 14 'I, myself, though a German and a graduate of Leipsic and Heidelberg, can speak English, but what would your telephones be to my Dutch workmen, ?who cannot speak English at all?' "Well, I saw how the land lay. Old Val could not get it through his head that the telephone would transmit any? thing but the language of America. I was bound to make the deal, as I said before. So I remarked to Mr. Blatz: " 41 can put on some German receiv? ers if you so desire. I have some with me.' "I connected up the phones, made a show of changing the receivers, and in half an hour Mr. Blatz was talking to one of his Dutchmen down in the malt house. He was delighted. " 'You may put them in,'he said, 'and I shall want one German one in the malthouse, one German one in each warehouse, English ones in my office and the business office and a German one in the cold storage house. ' "We closed the deal and Mr. Blatz was glad to pay $2 extra for each Ger? man enunciator we put in. When the phones were shipped from the factory, I had them labeled German and English respectively, and the big brewer was perfectly satisfied. "It was five yea~s before I saw Blatz again, " concluded Mr. Nolen. "He rec? ognized me at once and said with a hearty German laugh: 'You are the ac? commodating gentleman who put in the German and English telephones for me. Well, you are a good one. ' ' '-Milwau? kee Telephone. A Negro Taming; White. A curiosity rarely witnessed in this country was seen at: the office of the pension examiners in this city today. It was a negro man turning white. The man's name is ^aiu Smith. He is 67 years old and came here today from Georgetown to stand an examination for a pension, he having served in the Union army. More than tbree-fourths of the man's entire body is white, the skin fairer by far than that of the or? dinary white man. The dark skin re? maining on the body is only in small spots. Smith says that his skin began turning white in 1867, and the dark skin has been disappearing from the body ever since. The physicians who examined him today think that should the old man live a few years longer he will be entirely white save perhaps the face. A peculiar feature of the case is that the face has not been turning white along with the rest of the body, the white only showing at a few places be? neath the hair on the forehead, and not on the face at all.-Lexington (Ky.) Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer. To Examine the Eye. If anything gets into your eye, don't rub it. Good advice, but a little diffi? cult to follow, for one instinctively rubs the eye under these circumstances. Nevertheless, don't do sa Get some one to turn the upper eyelid gently over a thin penholder, so that he may see the ball of the eye thoroughly. If lime gets into the eye and if you see the substance at once, wash ont the eye with vinegar to two parts of water. If, however, you don't see the particle immediately, sim? ply put sweet oil or olive oil into the eye and send for the doctor.-New York Ledger. Dead and Dyed. "I noticed that Miss Sere's curls are of two colors-brown and gray." "You remember that her father isa safe manufacturer?" "What has that to do with it?" "Her curls are combination locks." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Many of the vegetables in daily use on our dinner tables were known to very remote times, lt is known, for in? stance, that asparagus was grown 200 years B. C., while lettuce was culti? vated so far back as 550 B. C. The statement is made that during the 97 years since the establishment of the state university of Georgia there have been only five deaths among the students. Wisdom to-day means comfort to-morrow. To prove it] tay a White and use it.