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Samples to be seen and orders received at the GAZETTE ()ii‘li‘JUii 0U read this advertisement. yours and others had read it. how much If 11. 1...: been good it might have done. send in your adv. "and we will do the’ rest. 'Ratesl on application. _ the big THE Waltzes :«A-MAiD. She 'was a maidof notions strange Concerning man. Ker fancies took a goodly range. . As woman‘s can. . She said she loved an eye of gray-— My own are blue. I would I could in any way Have changed their hue. The sort of hair that pleased her best . Was brown, she said. Which caused me oft supreme unrest-~— My own is red! Her taste in “nose" was aquiline; Oh, cruel rub! In-vulgar parlance one like mine Is termed a snubl She liked a stately man and tall— Alasl my fate Has blessed me with a stature email, Not five feet eight. E She doted on a figure slim: 1. Without a doubt, I could not satisfy that whim—- For I am stout. 1 And, knowing this, how could I dare (A boor like me) 1 To ask that maid her life to share-— ' p My wife to be ? I And yet I did! egregious ass. I must confess; I popped the question—and, alas i She answered, "Yes." gr ——Sydney Bulletin. “BILLY” MACINTYRE. William MacIntyre was a nice little boy; at least he looked a nice little boy when you first saw him, and he wasn’t such a bad boy when you got to know him thoroughly: the drawback to him was that he took a lot of knowing juSl at the intermediary stage. So, when I first made his acquaint- ance at the age of ten in his happy home in the Australian bush, I must say I regarded him as the kind 01 “Tommy” that dies young to slow music. The intermediary knowledge of him only: began y'to ‘dawn on me when, on an occasion on which he was helping themilk boy to persuade a re- fractory cow to puther head in the pail, Ifwja's an unobserved and unsus- pected Witness to what wasvthen up- permost in his mind and in his lan- guage. " Up to that hour indeed, though I had seen many men and cities, I had never :1. a . understood what s-Wearing meant. Then I heard it as a classic in which perfect fluency was united to a careful choice of expression, which, under the great- est provocation, never repeated itself. When I next met’him after the stock— yard incident he had grown a good deal, and had reached the mature ag e of twelve. I then happened to be trav- eling in the same steamer with him. His [mother kept her cabin a good deal, but Billy made up for it by being all over the ship. Some of us, and I was one, barred him altogether, but there was a. contingent who were amused at the precocity of the child, and in spite of the protests of the senior passengers would have him in the smoking room to enjoy the edifying spectacle of see- ing him smoke a cigarette and drink a sherry cobbler through a straw. It was just as he was engaged in such a delaissement so suitable for his years that our Bishop (we had a Bishop on board) unbent so far as for the first time to look into the smoking room. What the Bishop said does not mat- ter much; the words were probably well chosen, and the reproof was cer- tainly severe and deserved. What Billy replied at the end of the lecture amused us by its audacity, in spite of our feeling how entirely the Bishop was in the right. I can’t set it down in full, and if I dared I could not give the Hardly looking up from his straw, he invited his lordship to “go to h————.” And yet a third time I had to do with Billy Billy the unrepentant, Billy the unfathomable; and this time he was a man of thirteen. Tall for his age, as becomes a col- onial, he regarded himself as ready and fitted at any time to undertake a man‘s work. A man of few words, he would answer an inquiry with laconic simplicity—without reverence certain- ly, but with sufficient civility, as of one equal to another. If I am asked how his education had been so neglected-— being, as he was, the son (though not the only one) of educated parents—I should have to go into details quite foreign to my short story. Billy was the outcome of such education—or want of it—as his parents had bestow- ed on him. Born and bred fifty miles from the nearest possible sch001, and ‘ utterly neglected if judged by an Eng- lish standard, (let'us admit it at once,) the habits of a ’possum, or the make and shape of a stock-whip handle, had caused him much more anxiety than had ever the rule of three or the mul- tiplication table. Thus for some time -2 had been doing a man’s work, nor was he ever happier than when at a “muster" his “swag” was rolled up and stowed with those of the other men on the heavily—laden pack—horse. I knew about these things, for I was a neighbol. I can’t say I was attracted by the child—~1ather the reverse, but I regarded it always as much more of his parents' fault than of his own that he was “born blind,” nor had we ever had any passage of arms such as pass- ed between him and the Bishop; for, however much my tongue longed and my fingers itched to administer a re- proof, I always felt Billy was too“ old for it, and, besides, at that time I was not often brought into contact with him. This much,has been necessary as explanatory of the incident that fol- lows. _ l was on my way to the coast, and the morning's run of twenty-five miles ‘ had considerably exhausted my too~fat horses. It was a hot, dusty day, and twenty-mile plain lay under the tropical sun in all the sweltering heat of midday in midsummer. ' Both l» and my horses knew‘ we should find in the timbered countly we rrrn nvnsrsc‘ era 2‘an E :..;' 1‘ ,_ :11 .. were about. to enter [a well belonging to old MacIntyre, where unlimited wa- ter and well-earned rest awaited us. And now the first trees of the foresl country began to give us their scanty. intermitten, but welcome, shade. Slow- ly up the opposing sand ridge the weary 1101 see dragged the light buck- board, the tires shining like silver as they emerged from the tawny sand. We were just within hearing of the well though the hut prevented one from see- ing it, when Billy’s not easily to be forgotten voice was borne along the still air in accents which would have made the Bishop's hair stand upright. and me, I must confess, perhaps only to smile, had they not contained, quite apart from the words employed, a tone which caused my heart to stand still. ' That Billy was once more swearing. it required no Webster to predicate, bul I was in a pitch of such anguish as i hope I may never again know. Sure that there was something gravely wrong, I lashed the surprised horses In a moment I was in sight of the well and there was poor Billy lying jammed under a coupling of the iron bar 01 thehorse power, of which theconnect- ing pin had half—severed his thigh. Tc leap from the buggy, to rush to his side, to remove him with all the care I could into the hut, were things 1 must have done mechanically, for l scarcely remember the action. But the sight of what had happened when 1 locked at the injury was to a layman’s eye so awful that at the first look 1 should have fainted but for the reas- suring and composed voice of the child. He began ,to explain—more than that, the uppermost thought in his mind was to excuse himself from any stigma that he had been clumsy or inefiicient. He had come to the well, but the ,Chinaman whose duty it was to keep the tank full was gone and the tank empty; he had taken his own horse—” “Billy, old man," I interposed, “don't tell me about this; let us see what I can do, for you." I proceeded with such simple surgical treatment as I knew and as the re- sources of the place permitted. These were indeed simple. A needle and cot- ton belonging to the absent Chinaman were brought to light, and with them I sewed up the awful wound. Billy suggested kerosene as an antiseptic, which, being the only medicament that there seemed to be in the hut, I applied it and bound the poor little leg in such cotton band-ages as my own torn shirt would make. All ths time the little hero was boil- ing over with the explanation that it was not his fault. He seemed to re- gard his leg as the leg'of some one else, to be prescribed for and treated to whatever there was that was likely to do it good. I would spare you any needlessly terrible description, but the blunt pin of the coupling rod had miss— ed, as I learned afterward, the main artery by no more than a. hair’s breadth. Returning now to the cause of the accident, Billy explained that he had put the horse he was riding into the horse power; that, being unused to the work, it had given him a great deal of trouble; that at the moment when he had finally got him started, as he was running behind, the pin of the coupling caught, his trousers, and, dragging him below the rod, had on each revolution cut into his leg, while the horse had only just stopped of his own accord as I came up. With the (3001 of the evening and with poor Billy stretched on the tray of my buggy, I began my slow journey to his home. What the motion must have meant to him I could only gather from my imagination and that e tight- ly compressed lips, which uttered no sound d1:ring all those weary fourteen miles: each jolt seemed to vibrate through my nerves in the anxiety for the boy. The rest is soon’ told, and what the end was is worth telling. Whatever I thought of Billy before, whatever—if he lived—416 might grow up to be af- terward. he became from the moment of our meeting at the well—my child. I gave up the business I had in hand, and staid to take my share of nurSing him in his home. Fever, and then fever and delirium, followed quickly on one another, and then symptoms worse than either, and I felt Si: re Billy-7 5 days were numbered. It was Christmas Eve, and I had just lain down on my mattresson thefloor‘,‘ while the hot night air, disturbed only by the noise of the bull—frog in the sWamp‘, failed to relieve the sick cham— ber of the latent heat which. its walls were even then giving out. Presently a. great silence fell on everything; the frog ceased to croak, and the night in- ,sects to “cheep”; the restless tossings gbeating = calmly and not. die thisv'timc. ~- «Black and of the little sufferer had ceased, and even his breathing could not be heard . from where I was reclining. But as I rose and noiselessly approached his bed, wondering whether the end had come, his voice “rang ‘out loud and clear. To my fancy, in the stillness that was reigning around, it seemed something else than human, and. awoke in me such feelings as the impassioned minor chords of a great funeral march when some young, loved, and honored soldier is being taken to his resting place. Without preface it commenced: “Our Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, T‘hy kingdom come, Thy will be done-—" Here he hesitated; then be repeated: “Thy will be‘ione, Thy—Thy—Thy-There, God,:'7' that must do!” And the great silence seemed even more intense than before he spoke. ‘ ’ ‘ My hand sought his heart, which Was ' evenly; a soft moisture had taken the place on his .skin of the fire that had been'burning ‘ibefore. He wassleeping peacefully ' .111 the Place where these things are or der- ed, it was decreed that Billy s: ':'1 ’1‘." ,fear that kept them awake—not by. a 1.211 i l - money outer my italics? ~;. SAILORS cou'LoN’T' s’LEE'Pl They Were \t’atchlng for Spaniards and Waiting for Revenge" . .- “It was a constant round of drills and picking duty on our ship at Dry To1tugas after the Maine “as bloun up," said a naval officer. ”We were seventy miles at sea, with no source of news, and we didn’t know when, a Spanish fleet would heave in sight... We all worked harder than evsr, chiefly to keep our minds occupied. My division included what I considered the crack gun crew of the ship, and the --way those boys handled the rapid-fire guns was something delightful. 4 “After a. week or two of this unusual drill, which developed a proficiency tru- ly amazing, I noticed that my petgun cr'ew became listless and a trifle slow in their work. They seemed to lack heart. Sharp words and rcprima’nds only served to stir them up temporar- ily. I was at a. loss to account for" this change, and set out “to discover the rea- son. I called up an old gunner‘s mate and asked him what he thought was the cause. “‘Don’t know, sir. The boys is all. right, sir—only I guess they don’t sleep very well, sir.’ “More puzzled than ever, I resolved to keep my eyes open. Jackie is a queer bird at times. The next night I'was officer of the deck and had the mid- watch. Along about two bells I thought I heard voices forward, and went to investigate. There was that whole blessed gun crew stowed away as com- fortably as possible on the deck, look- ing out to sea. Some were lying down, with'their eyes glued on the water. others had their elbows on the guard rails with their chins on their arms looking out over the waves. “I went aft and sent for one of my men, and asked him why he wasn't be,- low in his hammock where he be- longed. “‘Well, sir, we ain’t a-goin’ to get caught asleep down below in our ham- mocks like those Maine boys, sir. We owe the Spanish something for that and something for ourselves. We are- all tryin' to be the first to sight arSpan- iard, sir, so we're watchin’—that's all, sir.’ “Here was the explanation of my gun crew’s listless performance. They were working as hard as men. could work and getting little or no sleep. It wasn't long shot. It was- simply the desire .to be the first to sight 8. Spanih shlpiand the hope of getting the firt shot at her. The suspense of inaction was iwhat worried the boys."——Electrical Review. THE JOLLY AMEER. Abdurrahman is One oftho Most-Original of Living /Rulers. The most interesting ruler in the world at present is, probably, Abdur— rahman of Afghanistan. ' ’ A fine old-crusted autocrat is Abdur- rahman, capable of waking up his doc- tor to ask if it would hurthim to eat a peppermint lozenge, and also shut< ting up a thief in an iron cage to starve to death. Once a beggar in Kabul asked aims of the Khan. - “Did you ever work for‘a living? asked the ruler. “Never, 0 Khan," the man replied; “I am a beggar." “Then,” said Abdurrahaman, “we can get along without you,” and forth- with directed that the beggar should be hanged. He is, however, susceptible to flattery, and can sometimes be ca—‘ joled. A man whom he had sentenced to have his ears cut off for some indiscre- tion happened to be a friend of his chief secretary, who averted the mutil- ation by offering to perform the task himself, provided it might be‘ done in the Ameer’s presence. To this he assented, whereupon the secretary explained that he had never executed this form of punishment be- fore, and would His Highness show him how much was to be removed. The Ameer passed his hands over both ears of the trembling wretch, whereupon the secretary reminded him of a passage in the Koran saying that anything touched by the representative of the Almighty became sacred. So» the ears were saved. _ Afghanistan is anything'but back- ward, as Asiatic .countr’ié's‘go. There" is a. modern factory in Kabul run 7 by steam and employing 3.500 workmen, which turns out daily 10,000 Martini- Henry cartridges and 10,000 Snider car- tridges, finished and complete; twenty Martini-Henry and tWenty Snider rifles: 50,000 coins, two field guns, varying from 3-pounders to 12- pounders; t“ elve Maxims, eighteen Gardner's, with car- riages and full equipment, per annum, as Well as a large number of swords “ears. and mechanical contrivances. The'Ameer takes gieat pride in the] factory and makes his khans and all! his visitors go and see it. One day Umra 10.511,an came from a dis— tance, called on Sir Salters Pyne and said: “How do you make guns?” “It is quite easy," replied Pync. “You make a hole first, and than wrap some iron around it." ”Ah,” né said, sorrowfully. "there is lots-of air for the hole in my country; onlyno one there knows how to wrap the ‘iron around it.”——r.‘.ew York iVnrld. Something Hostel s in Rum. “What are you going to give no for Lent?" asked the landlord, who and come for the month’ 3 rent “I am going to give up this he: '59 [or .one more com'or.able 1cplicu l .=. ; tenant.——’—Pittsburg Chronicle ‘. 1 .a- graph ‘ “Do you believe’ihat 111; -1 - 9 ya, 1 best policy, Rodden?" - . ‘fg. “Most assuredly. 'l m»: c-i ..-.c, - the corner below, r. leased with aistudent. ‘ “1'?Yo'u.ma 2b ' TYPES OF ,. ‘81:: 'l ships, Cruisers. 111.111.111.11 and Tan ~ :1. d . no: It Destroyers Described. A torpedo boatlis used to destroy war vessels, particularly battleships, and torpedo- boat destroyers are made to destroy the torpedo boats; as :their name signifiesp , Torpedo- boats are small vessels fitted with powerful en- gines that drive them through the water atahigh rate of speed. They are lightly constructed, and carry, small c.1 ms in addition to their torpe- does. The torpedo-boat destroyers are larger than the torpedo boats, and in their construction, as in the smaller boats, everything is sacrificed so that their powerful engines will be able to send them through the water at a‘ great rate of speed for a short distance. Their armament is sufficiently power- ful to disable or destroy the torpedo boats when they come up with them. Torpedo-boat destroyers carry no tor- pedocs and they depend entirely on their speed andtheir guns. Battleships are fightng ships, they . are classified according to their arma< ment. A battleship is used for bom< barding forts, and for doing heavy fighting 1v.ork A gunboat is a. small battleship, and after a. battleship has partly demolished a fort the gunboats, on account of their light draught, run in close to finish the work or protect the other vessels of the fleet while~ marines are being landed. Cruisers are commerce destroyers, or, in other words, legalized pirates. They do not carry as heavy guns as battleships do, and they haVe speed enough to over; take the trade ships of the enemy. Torpedo boats attack big ships us- ‘ uaily at night. When these destruc- tive boats are being speeded they bury themselves in the water, and almost all that can be seen of them is a Streak of foam. They,.are painted a color that is not distinguishable on the water, and the most perfect range-finders will not distinguish them sufficiently for the guns of big ships to be trained on them. They approach a warship head- on, thus presenting as small a. mark as possible, and take a zlz-zag course. When within striking distance, which is; about 600 yards, they launch their torpedoes and get away. In the day- time they steam along under protec~ tion (if a battleship, keeping the battle- ship between'them and the enemy, and when a favorable opportunity arrives dart out and make their attack. They are so lightly constructed that if the boat they attack can hit them, the tor- pedo boats are ruined. At night time the big vessels keep their searchlights . at work to discover the torpedo boats, and thus to protect themselves. BEVENGE OF A SNAKE AND ITS MATE They Laid in “'11“; for the Man \Vho Had Struck One of Them. A gerlitleman riding along a. planta- tion path, followed by a negro on a. mule struck a large cottonm-ou-t‘h with his whip lash as it glided across the road. As soon as under cover and out of reach of the whip the snake raised its head above the bushes, standing al- most uprig‘nt on its tail and glaring at him with flashing eyes, at the same time hissing fiercely and exposing its fangs. . “Yo’ ort'n ter ’a. done dat, Maws Joe!” exclaimed the negro. “Why not, Pomp.“ “Case dat snec' ii lay fuh yo' show, an’ sometime ernother’ll hit you’ back.” “Pshaw, Pomp! I don’t take any stock in such nonsense. More likely he'll take care to keep out of reach of my whip. I wish, though, I had. killed the beast!” .1, “Def would 'a‘ bin er sight Wussei‘, Maws Joe, ’case de mate would jes' foller tel hit cotch't yo’; an’ when er :ottonmouf’s mate hits, yo' goes dead powrful quick " “All nonsens, Pomp! There isn’t any mate, or if there is, it doesn’t know more than other dumb creatures. A man may be hit ,of course, but not more often by the mate of a, snake he has killed than by some other that lust happens in striking distance.” “Leastways, Maws Joe,” urged Pomp, "yo’d betcr not happen e'rlong dis paf any more dis year, ’ceptin’ on bass- back!" This good advice fell on headless followed .the path' on foot, probably without any thought of what had oc- curred the day-before and when pass- ing the spot where he had lashed the snake the day before he wasstruck 1.1 the same instant by two cotton- mouths one from‘ each side of the oath. He managed to get home but lied soon after. . The negroes in that neighborhood; and many white people, too, are firm believers in the cettonmout-h‘s mate 1nd its vicious intelligence—Galveston News. I Slightly Absent Minded \ Professor W., a. well-known Edin- burgh profes'sor, is accustomed to take a daily walk'with another old profes- sor, when they discuss matters quite beyond the comprehension 'of ordinary mortals. One day when the walking was ex-_ cecdingly bad, Professor W. was on his way to the corner at which he and his friend always met, when he encount- ered a young student whose face he recognized dimly, having seen it every day for several weeks in the class- room. .He accordingly hailed his pupil. who was wading through themud to ,et across the street. “Have you seen Professor 8.?" he ; asked. “Yes, sir ” replied the student, paus- mg respectfully, in the midst of a mud- puddle, to remove his cap. “He is at waiting for you.’ >“Good; 'very good”? responded the professm, looking over his spectacles with his-class-room air, when well ,n,‘ . p. The next afternoon Mawa Joe- to “1:01am; you, . ,
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