PAEITINGLEWITH t-PHYLLIS.
Phyllis, Phyllis,.'we must part; -
’ Fora while you will notsae me;
Yet I shall not break my heart—
Parting will from sorrow‘free me.
When before your eyes I go
I must do my best to please you:
But the more my feellngs glow
Something seems the more to freeze you.
When I wander far away
I can keep all sorrow under.
Let us cease this folly, pray—
Wo are better far asunder.
-—New York Tribune.
A BOYISH . MUTINY.
“ ‘Strike the bell eight! Stand by! Fire
the gun! \Valk away with the whips! Boll
_ drum.’
“This was the awful order I once heard
given when I was a boy on an American 5
man—of—war. It sent three souls into eter-
nity. A person who has never witnessed an
execution at sea. cannot conceive a fraction
of the solemnity which surrounds it. The 1
death penalty has been invoked but very
few times within the history of the United
States navy. It is one of those rare events
that are too liable to be shrouded in mys-
tery and covered with injustice, which
malice or nervousness mistakes for disci-
pline. The tragic scene I witnessed in
West India waters might readily be called
the harshest of names without an infrac-
tion of the truth. But it was done in the
name of discipline, and while it did not
receive the sanction of the government, a
board of naval officers acquitted the cap- :
tain of crime; but the shadow of that exe-
cution hung over his after life, and he .
lived in retirement from the moment he
touched American shores till he died.
“It is forty-eight years ago next Decem-
ber since I witnessed this tragedy on the
ocean,” continued the old sailor, who was
spinning this yarn about an experience at
sea. “You see,” he ran on, “we were sail-
ing from Liberia to the‘United States, and
were keeping a sharp lookout for slave
traders.
these days, but one that in those early days
was regarded as fit for educating young
men in the practical details of navigation.
I think there were a little more than a
hundred boys aboard on this voyage, and
for some months we had e‘njoyed a pleas-
,“vt time, without anything startling to re—
fihgé themonotony of a sailor’s life. Our
capiaiin was 1191; a popular man, and the
crew-often found fault with his orders, but
no one ever dreamed that serious trouble
was brewing, until one afternoon, late in
November, when we were standing head ,
in toward St. Thomas, in the Bermudas,
about three days’ sail away.
“Dog watch on shipboard is from 4 to 8
o’clock, and I was on the afternoon of
Nov... 9" It was about 6 o’clock in the
n‘.
evening, and we were standing at our posts
Noun/“am: GAZETTE WADBES'PAI
SAVED BYA BANKor
condemned is swung 06. Even the cabin
boy and the cook are not exempt from, this
painfnl'duty. This is exacted that no'vone
shall-be able to chide another! with having
not a 'pa-rty. In this case the rule was en:'
forced to the letter, because this was an
. execution of greater moment than any that
: had ever taken place in the American navy,
or has ever taken place up to this date.
The officers were dressed in full uniform
' if for inspection. - , ~
- “The ropes adjusted, the captain stood
back and in a loud voice gave the comA
mand.
“ ‘Strikc the bell eight! Stand by! Fire
‘ae gun! ‘Walk away with the whips! Roll
drums!’
I “As the stroke-of eight bells rung out
open the tropical air there was one surge
= of the whips, and three bodies dangled from
i the yardarm, three men were strangled to
, death. A neck is never broken by such a
: method. I shall never forget the scene at
i this moment. The crew were speechless
! with horror. The uncertainty of the past
; forty-eight hours had been almost unbear-
' able, and strong men had grown week from
, the tension upon mind and nerves. The
. awful spell was broken as we were pi ed
down to dinner and started forward. he
captain at this moment caught something
of the spirit of the crew, and, calling them
back, eased the strain somewhat by mak-
ing a speech justifying the execution, and
urging us to look upon the results of con-
spiracy and take warning by it. He then
called for three cheers for the vindication
of the flag, which were given without
heart, and then the crew walked forward
solemnly to their dinner and to discuss the
execution as much as they dared.
“The bodies of the three men were al-
lowed to dangle in the air while all on
I shipboard ate and discussed the sad events
! of the day. The scene in the ofilcers’ cabin
‘ was especially striking. For around the
' table sat those who had condemned the
three men to death, and at their head the
officer who had ordered the execution.
The details of the alleged mutiny was free-
: ly talked over, so one of the officers told
Ours was a sort of trading ship ;
for midshipmen, not like those we have in E
as though the ship was ready for action. It .
might be clearer if I should say that we '
were at regular drill, which took place ev-
ery night at 6. I was stationed at one of
the guns back of the mainmast. Nothing
unusual had occurred to even suggest to
us that there was anything wrong. All at
once came the order Il’ .531 the captain:
” ‘All hands leave the quarter deck.’
“It was the general rule on shipboard
that the gunners stood at their posts even
after the crew were ordered forward. So
every man at the gun stood. fast. In a. sec-
ond came the peremptory order: ~
“ ‘All hands forward of the mainmast.’
“As Imoved off Inoticed that all the =
oflicers of the vessel save one were congre-
gated about the captain in the after part
of the vessel. The absent midshipman re-
mained at his post at the forecastle. A
moment later another middy was sent by
the captain to tell this boy that he desired
to speak with him. The two lads, neither
of them 20 years of age, walked aft to-
gether. The officers of the ship opened in
two ranks to receive them, and immediate-
ly the commandant ordered the midship-
man from the forecastle to be disarmed
and put in irons. None of the ship’s crew
knew of the occurrence until later, when
two of its number were arrested and
double ironed. N 0 one on the vessel knew
the cause of this act save the officers. For
a night and day almost the silence of death
hung over the man-of-war as it stood
steadily on its course. The crew spoke to
one another under their breath, and the
ofilcers walked the deck doubly armed.
The. terrible authority of a naval officer at-
E
sea was to be invoked, and the 120 souls on -
board, mostly boys, fresh from the naval
school, were to be awed by the scenes which
were to follow these arrests.
“It was the second day after those men
were arrested before the suggestions of
mutiny were quietly slipped among the
me afterward. But it always seemed
strange that a. boy 18 years of ago, good
hearted and full of mischief, should have
scared the ofiicers of a vessel carrying 120
souls, most of whom he would have had to
throw overboard had he undertaken the
task of capturing the ship and turning it
into a piratical craft. Looking at it today,
it was a most barbarous stretch of author-
ity, that would be severely punished now.
We had hardly finished eating and
talking before a squall struck us and we
were quickly orderedon dock to shorten
sail and prepare for the storm. The - bod-
ies were still swinging to and fro from the
yardarm; but when the ship had been put
to rights the captain ordered them cut
down, undressed and prepared for burial.
I have seen many a man dropped into the
sea, but on the night of the let of Decem-
ber, 1&2, I took part in thamost solemn
burial service that was ever witnessed.
Why the captain waited until after night
tocommit these bodies to ‘ the deep Ido
not know; but the preparations for the
sad event took nearly all afternoon and
evening, and perhaps this was the reason
“A burial at sea is a very solemn aflair,
and as the crew of our». man-of-warwaa
called aft to take part fithe ceremonies
there was a sort of dread superstition in
the mind of every one. The night was
dark, and the storm which had kept us
busy in the afternoon had left quite a
heavy sea, and thevessel tossed and pitched
. as she cut her black' figure through the
bounding billows, looking as though she
was a funeral car carrying the dead over
the sea. N 0 one spoke above his breath
save the captain, who read the burial servA
ice. The ofiicers and crew responded now
and then with a sort of low mutter, which
sounded like mufiied voices in the distance. '
. No one on board was quite satisfied with
the proceedings, for sailors are supersti-
tious, and the storm following‘so closely
upon the strangling of these three men,
and the curious cast of the water and the
somber darkness of the night when it
should have been moonlight and beautiful
—-all had its pox-tent to every tar aboard
that ship.
“The ceremonies took place by the light
of battle lanterns, which heightened the
dismal aspect of the sea. They were held
close to the captain, whose stern face never
relaxed as he went through with his last
sad duty to those who had sufiered the
death penalty. The flickering light from
those lanterns would occasionally shoot
out in yellow streaks, and rest for a second
upon the solemn faces of the crew, and
then shift here and there as‘if in search of
- some new victim to receive the last offices
crew and middies on board. No one bad .
ever heard of it as a well defined plot; but .
the suspicious of the officers had been
aroused, and death was to be the penalty.
‘5 shall never forget the day the drumhead
:ourt martial was called in the cabin to de«
l
of the dead. As ‘I said, the captain read
the service, and all of us responded until
he came to the words:
“ ‘We commit this body to the deep.’
“Then all three were dropped into the
ocean. There was a splash and a sudden
taken partin‘a death to which all ‘Wera .
for the occasion, andt‘he crew were clad as .
cide the fate of these men. It didn’t take 5
long. When the sentence of guilty wa.
rendered, to gratify the caprice of a vain
officer, the men were notified that they had
ten minutes to live. There was no cere-
mony about the announcement, and it was
as brutally communicated as possible. The
young boy, 18 years of age, who was charged
with being ambitions to capture the craft,
raise the mutiny and turn it into a pirate
ship and command it himself, never weak-
ened, although his two companions asked
for time to prepare for death. ' The lad
asked to be released from chains long
enough to write to his mother, but the cap-
tain refused, and then the boy dictated to
the commander a letter to her, which the
commander never delivered.
“The scene on board during the ten min-
utes in which these three men were pre-
paring for death made a picture upon my
mind that can never be eflaced. While the
elder of the two was inclined to weaken.
the boy was a hero, and only asked for the
privilege of sending word to his mother
that he had died like a man, and then
asked permission to give the word to fire
the gun which was to end his earthly ex-
istence. _ .,
“The first day of December, 18i2,_was, a
beautiful one. ‘ The tropical sun, especial-
ly in .the afternoon, was toinpered by a
bracing breeze, and the ocean was as calm,
as a mill pond the first half of the day.
Not a sail was in sight, and the black lines
of our ship out swiftLv through the sea. It
was late in. the afternoon when we were
summoned aft to become .oxecutioners.
No time was lost in ceremonial, prepara-
tions. The boy objected to the manner of
death, and begged to be shot rather than
hung, but the captain re lied: 2 '
“ ‘No. sir. You must 'e from the yard-
, - ‘ , .
"The lad and ' one man were placed on
the rightiside, and the third on the left of
the. ship. The rapes were quicklfldiusted
[calledwhips in naval nomenclature):’aiid.
in heads were summoned to the dread
“It is the rule on shipboard that in an
execution every living soul on board shall
have boll of the whips (ropes) when the
I gulp of the waves, as if hungry. and the
s tragedy was ended. There was little sleep
2 on board that night. Men lay awake in
their hammocks marveling upon what had
occurred, and conjuring up all sorts of fan-
cies as to what it foretold. for good or evil.
Occasionally one shipmate would slip over
to another and speak with him in whis-
pers. Two men on watch that night de-
clared the next morning that they could
see the bodies floating in the waves,
although each one was sewed up separate-
ly in a hammock, with three twenty-four
pound shot at his feet. Two nights later
one man avowed that he saw the middy
executed and thrown into the sea walking
over the forecastle.
and nights until our ship reached New
York. Then the sailors breathed easier;
but I have never met one of them to this
day, and all of them are old men now, who
has forgotten an incident Of that arrest
and execution. I never sailed on that yes.
sel again, but took French leave of the
navy very soon after our arrival at the
,Brooklyn navy yard. This tragic event
. had nothing whatever to do with my go-
, ing, but I had' seen enough of the sea, and.
, never recall my experience thereon, one of,
'which I am relating to‘ you, without a
shudder.” '
The old salt who graphically told this-
:tragedy of the sea iswrinkled and gray.
With him was an old shipmate who had
been his companion on that fateful voyage
so many. years ago. Every now and then
' he would add 's‘ome‘fresh" point to the nar-
rative that the speaker had forgotten, and
by the two a wonderfully complete story is
told. The midshipman that was hanged
-with the two sailors wasI’hilip Spencer,
son of J ohn‘ C. Spencer, then " sécnetary of
.war in Tyler’s cabinet. The event can.
kenztcto trial. first before am,
,- which q,the civil court‘s dismissedgf‘or-the
.. want of jurisdiction. "How-strongeitfia
main the affairs ot..‘o;9iiy7dévi.lit.e-'W.bb
' thl‘iughtful'lreview‘of thaéfiéfififirfibpflpfifil
{murder on the ‘ :of Cfipt._hfa¢k§fizt0o
‘ the é‘dmmaudanto the meam‘mvot-
- wan—Boston Herald. /
§ and then upon the, charge. of .mpgrderf
i
l
So it went on for days .
{ vulsed the nation, and brought Ca t. Mac- .
- South: it
; after all these yea‘rsto find .mefiifimfiéeh 3
E Witnessedithat tragodyn'earlyficfty years -
game-one which ' Gail Hamilton, in a ,
How A VGR'E'ENHORN: ofEARi-z'o' HIS
HOMESTEAD?" {LN " 5110mm -
IIis Disastrous Experience Told b)" {1145
Survivor—A Committee. of “Crackers"
Made an Important Call on the set-
tier—His Check Book w't'h'e heats. '
i “I hadbeen a clerk in acity store ever
since. I was old enough to $570195.an I was
green. There is no doubt "about that in my .
mind now, though I spurned the thought
then. I had sold the stony little farm, on
the bleak Vermont hillside which had
come to me after my father had worried
himself into the grave trying to et rich on
it, and had landed in Florida fu l of guide
book opinions of the ‘land of the cypress.’
“I took up a homestead on the long, nar-
row strip of land that divides the Atlantic
ocean from the Indian river. I did not go
to see it before ‘entering’ for it at the land
ofiice, because I knew that was unneces—
sary. =
“I reached the spot by sailboat from Titus-
ville, at the head of the river, and was "de-
lighted to find that I had neighbors not far
away, to the north and also to the South.
They were ‘crackers.’
native Floridians whom he does not like.
They had orange groves, to be sure, but
they did not seem to be growing rich on
their crops. This I attributed to their
shiftless method of agriculture.
of clearing their land of the big pine trees
that cumbered it they merely girdled the
trees and left them standing, dead and
bore, a constant menace to passers by and to
the young orange trees which were planted
among their roots, as well as an eyesore on
the landscape.
CLEARING UP.
“I determined to cut my trees down in
the good old New England fashion, clear
the land thoroughly and raise vegetables
between the rows of orange trees till they
were old enough to bear a golden harvest.
First I set to work on the underbrush, and
then came my first experience with ‘pai—
motto roots.
“Well, by the time I had two acres of ,
palmetto roots pulled out and a wilder
nose of big trees down on top of them my
back was almost broken, my ready money
all gone and no prospect of a crop in sight.
I had come down in the early fall and now
it was about Christmas. The season had
been a pretty dry one, and the logs looked
so full of sap that I tho ht they would
burn, though too green to urn fast. So I, '-
set them on fire
“That was the most disastrous fire I ever
lit. I forgot that the sap of these trees was
mostly resin. The way the flame crept,
along through that mass of underbrush
and leaped up every resinous pine tree it
metwasterriflc. Ifmghtit as long as!
could move a limb and then dropped, ex-
hausted and despairing, and watched it
roar of! through the woods like an evil
spirit that I had raised and was powerless
to controL It was sundown when I gave
up the fight and I could do nothing more
that night.
“The exhaustion made me sleep far into
thepext day, and I was awakened a little
after. noon by loud knocks on my door.
Opening it, I was confronted b flvo'or six
big, rough men, all armed wi shotguns
and with an ominous look on their faces.
They strode into my cabin and shut the
door behind them. . . . .
“ ‘Stranger,’ said the spokesman grainy,
‘you have" started aflre here in your darned
Yankee ignorance of ' farmin’,.and all the
‘goodye’vedoneistoburnthorawsnnand
the bark off a lot of green trees,and now
you've got a lot of black logs on yer hands
that are a darned sight manner to handle
than ever. But yer derned fire has spread
: into the groves of yer neighbors, where the
dead trees were still a-standin’, and they
have been burned to the ground, asany-
body but a natural born fool might ’n’
knowed they would, and our trees
is ruined with them. Such vermint as you
isn’t fit to live in this country. Soy yer
prayers, mister, for we’re going to plant
you before we go book.’
‘ CLEARING OUT.
“I was terribly frightened, for I could
see they were in dead earnest. My teeth
began to chatter, but a bright thought
struck me. I had deposited some money
in a bank at Jacksonville on my way down, 5
and had a check book with some blank l
checks left in it, though the money had all
been drawn out long ago.
“ ‘Geutlemen,’ I said, ‘I am clearing this
place for a northern syndicate, who are
going to make extensive plantations here,
and I can pay you on the spot for your
losses, caused by my ignorance of Florida
forests, and I assure you that such a thing
will not happen again.’ With this I wliip-"
ped out my check book, took up spend]
and prepared to write with as much show
of confidence as I could muster under the
circumstances. '
“I had been pretty free with the five or
six hundred dollars I had brought down
with me, and so the story of the northern,
syndicate seemed to them to be likely
enough. The word syndicate anyway
seems to have an awe inspiring power
down there. The idea. that a syndicate
might be penniless seems preposterous.
But it was the bank checks that over-
whelmed them. Checks on a real national
bank were something they had heard of,~
but never handled before.
“You may be sure they swindled me aw-
fully in making up the estimates of their
losses, but I was not disposed to be penuri-
ous, merely making enough 'Object‘ion us:
allay possible suspicion. So I drewacheck
for each man, big enough to buy his farm
five times over, and- they went away laugh-
ing to themselves at my gullibility.
. “As soon as they were out of sight I '
packed into my boat all my outfit,-set every,
_ stitch of sail and reached the nearest town
' by, the next night, sold my outfit for enough
to buy a ticket north, and did not breathe
freely till I felt myself well beyond the
‘ reach of those simple- ‘crackors,’ whose,
groves ,I had lignorantl‘y ruined, and in;
. whose hands Ilknew‘ my life would not be
Worth an hour’s purchase when they dis-2
covered how Iliad escaped their just in-
. dignstion.”—.New. York Tribune.
‘ . sarcastic. - - ‘
The furore for the introduction of'chil-
dren into the concert room. not only in
small towns butmgreat cities such,“
- London and New York, malls an “infant,
phenomenon" Who ‘was brought into a
drawing room several. years: ago. to. exhibit:
hersprpflcisscyaponfihe puma- ~-
' . Sim toot h 869* .
utmost; complacency and self peasessiion-
",Tlié applause, which was intended "to put:
‘ a stOp to her performance; she 1:001:19! 93".;
.909 rage' ,ment to so 00’ and Sh“ 3“” ~ ‘
035M thoend other-“piece,” which has ‘ 1
. increthan an hour. ' ‘ ‘4 ' .
‘ “I Was a gooddeal more-interested at 151165
beginning than at the conclusion,”_ re:
imarked oneweary listener. . 1 ,_ ._ ,
j 'f‘WhiWh'e was asked. “ . ._ ' " 7
“Because the child was so. mucli"young'--
er.”—Y'outh’s Companion. ' ' " ' . ‘*‘
That is the name ,
which one niftivc Floridian applies to other '
.« sad; pliiiedlwith his; ,
‘ iMWMFl” __ . °W‘Pflmv.
".
ice POL! ” GE TACTICS.
0531”~ , F's . . _. .
Am or 13 Wool Cutthroat. .
‘Therewasa moons of amusi-
1 ' _" Wilminincoln park when
I‘ came past yesterday,” said a business
man who lives on the North'Side the other
night. “Them were at first about twenty
excited'women, and I went over- to where
.tbey.vare..huddled. about the first steps.
Lchattering, peering and questioning an
E elderly; and disheveled female, who was-
very nearly in hysterics from fright and
excitement. ‘ . ., ., : ' . ..
“ ‘Oh, why don’t be come?’ she exclaim—
ed. and the other women echoed, ‘Why?’
“I pushed my way to the center of the
excited, babbling and steadily increasing
crowdand found I was theonly man there.
" ‘Oh, here’s a man,’ saidthe disheveled
woman 'You’ll protect me, won’t you, sir?
The policeman, it seems, will never come,
and he‘s up underthe bed, hiding. I lmow
he’s a murderer, for he looks terribly fero-
cious, and I think he has a pistol.’
. “At this juncture, and before I could as—
sure the lady of my intentions of protecting
her, the policeman did come. He was a
big. loose jointed policeman and he was out
of wind. He was also scared almost into a
nervous collapse. - '
“ ‘Who’s been murdered here.“
quimd, ‘and who did it?’ .
“ ‘He didn’t yet, but I know he’s going
to. It’s a man under the bed in my room.
I just saw him as I reached down to pick
up a pin. Oh, he’s awful, and I think he
he in-
In ste ad. has a knife! Please go and arrest him.
It’s that room there—the one with the bay
window.’ ‘ ~
“ ‘A knife, is it? Faith I’ll send for help
than. Just wait a second; I’ll be back in a
minute.’ '
“He went to the corner, and wasn’t back
for five minutes. When he did come he
was more frightened than ever. His knees
shook and his big faoewas gray. ‘I’vosent
for the wagon,’ he exclaimed. ‘When it
comes we’ll have the blackguanl out in a
minute.’
"The diSheveled woman, thoroughly
hysterical by this time, insisted that the
officer goforthwith and remove the burglar
or murderer, which naturally, under the
circumstances, be absolutely refused to do.
Ioouldnotcontmvertthe logicof hisdis-
oration, but I wasn’t half as frightened as
be was at that. .
, “ ‘It’s the sergeant will be wantin’ alook
{at theloikes of this thafe of the wurruid,’
explained the n of the majesty of
theisw, ‘an' I’ lwaittill the wagon dobe
comin’.’
“And he did wait. Meanwhile thecrowd
grew , Several men came up. but
,nonoof them cared to risk the assassin‘b
, knife, and they all wanted to
know why the policeman (11an go in at
once and drag-the marauder from his Most-
?esque place of concealment. But that
.mrthy was not to be persuaded He was
scared, and scared, but he made a
boldfront, and even threatened to run in
ions sarcastic fellow who insinuated that it
was founnot discipline, that keptthe boy in
blue out of the room of supposed terrors.
1fillresentlythewagoncame dangingup
full of, ofllpers, headed by the sergeant, and
omoer Casey reported thodisbeveledwom-
anbtaloofwoawith somostartl embel-
lishmentsof hisown invention. he see-
geant, didn’t wait, but, placing a guard
over doorsand windows, accompanied by
iCussyin the, rear and another ofllcer,
dashed up the ' and in at the door.
Thobed sat in a k corner. The ser-
fnntdmrhismrm and reached it.
' folldiscreetly toms-cums (1 Casey.
“ ‘Come out,’ thundered the sergeant,
"or I’ll. filo.’
, -"'I’hemwasno movement. Thesergeant
ilooked again, reached under, tugged at
something. pulled again, and out 'came a
toilet canvas about the size of a man. He
swore a minute, then arose.
; “"Officer Casey,’ he said.
way“, my .
" ’Yaur star, revolver and club. Finne-
gan, talus his boat. Casey, get into the
"wngon; and,madam,if you get us on a
gfako like this again look out; it’s thirty
7 i
“The wagon clanged awayagain and the
crowd dispersed, when the disheveled
,woman went into the house, locked the
'doom, and pulled down the blinds.”—
ChicogoMaii.
Women as Journalists.
A New York editor speaks thus encour-
agingly to women: In a great many news-
paper offices there is a prejudice against
,' women. . Why. this is'so ‘I'do not know. I
have employed them for a. number of years,
and have always found them to be pains-
taking, accurate and reliable. In many
feasts I have found that women do certain
kinds of newspaper work more satisfacto-
‘fllythnnmencan, andviceversa.
One of the best Washington correspond-
ents I over knowwas a woman. She was
keenly alive to all the exigencies of daily
newspaperwork, was quick of wit, a Splen‘
did news gatherer, and during the Garfield
_ campaign and the subsequent complica
tions that arose from his _ death was an
invaluable aid to me.
i
A Large Japanese Encyclopedia.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal has suc-
ceeded in procuring from Thibet, through
the agency of a native emissary, a copy of
the “Tangyur,” a monster encyclopedia of
Thibotan Buddhism, comprising 225 vol-
umes, each volume 2 feet long by 6 inches
'thick. No less a sum than 3,000 rupees has
been given for the work to a Buddhist
‘monastery in Thibet, and the amount'has
been in great part provided by the govern-
'm‘e’nt'of India out or the usual grant to the
Oriental translation fund. A copy of the
fwork is in the secretary of state’s library
at the India. office-London Tit-Bits.
Another New Explosive.
j ‘A French scientist is said to have discov-
‘femda now explosive. It is a condensed
liquefied gas, 800 drops of which are con-
Eflnedin a small steel chamber under the
irifio: barrel The pulling or the trigger re- .
ileum one drop, which v instantly
Eupon contoctWith 'thefzsir : and; drives the .
Ibulletzsvith'extraordiniary'velocity. There
ilS no noise or smoke accOmpanying the dis-
lounge; and altogether the? new "discovery
promise to make a . revolution in modern
. Emethodaf—New York Telegram.
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EP‘TEMBER 10. la 90.
" LIFE‘ZoN Aggivflsa FARM.
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more Is nigger lm.$alsing rigging: my
foi‘Max-ket. ’
. Ithasnotbeen Imauy years/since water .. -
farm" figs-assailed to 'the‘ possibilitiesorf'
“agriculture” in Indiana. It beganas a
diversion. ' It has -- become a business.
Enoughtime has now elapsedto demon-
stratethat water farming maybe made
practicable and profitable—at least as prof-
itabl'e‘hs‘so‘mé' other rural” occupation, and
more enticing than the ordinary life of an
agriculturist. As much money can be
made off an acre of wateras off an acre. of
land, including well" located fish and frog
ponds on the one hand and ordinary'farm-
ing on the other.
One of the pioneers of water farming in
Indiana is Mr. Joseph Moulds, of Milton
Seven years ago he bought'a small piece of
lowland lying between the White Water
canal and White Water river. He deter-
mined to flood the low land, and to add to
his possessions the adjoining highland for
park purposes. His place now includes
fourteen acres of water and twenty-one of
land. His business is largely with the
wafer and only incidentally with the dry
land. His first purpose was to establish a
carp pond, from which the fish market
might be supplied. This was accomplished
in two years with comparative ease. Now
he has practically an unlimited quantity
of this variety of fish. However, the pub-
lic taste also calls for bass, and Manlove
determined to add this variety to his sup-
ply. His lake is now stocked with a vast
supply of black bass. They have grown
finely, and bass fishing will be “put on the
market.” Bass promise so much better
than carp that “Farmer" Manlove uses his
young carp as food for his bass.
Still another “department” has been add-
ed to the “farm”-—frogs. Four acres of
shallow water, well grown in flags, were
set apart as a breeding place for frogs.
They breed and grow rapidly. Four thou-
sand tadpolm were put into this breeding
pen. Many of them are now of a market-
able size, and are b 83.50 and“ $3 a
dozen. In catching t 'm for market a
lightat nightis used. They stare at the
light, and can be caught and handled with
ease in tbs glare. In catching large quan-
tities of carp the lake is drained oil In
winter the marketable fish are kept in
small ponds.
. It is interesting to observe the water
farm at his work. He can use a horse
for side purposes, but he needs neither,
plow, planter nor . Suppose he has
gone out to feed. . e haswithhimmid
dlings or other grain. Hegoestothebreed—
ingpond, sounds agonsorblows a whistle
and thousandsof frogs come hopping from
their shelter. They eat the food ravenous
ly, and become so fame that the farmer
handles them a a woman does her pet
chickens. The same food is just tho thing
:for young and old carp. “Fish and fm
:take to grain and groin produc "
‘Mr. Manlove, “like a boy does to apple
dumpling. Part of the season it is not
necessarytofeedmystockatnll. The
‘water gram seeds maketho-finest food for
fish, audatcertaintimesoftheyearl
rarelyp afish for the table that I
do not find him filled with grass seed.”—
‘Indianapolis News.
Pal-ring in the House.
There is absolutely noprotection thrown
about the matter of arrangingpairs in the
.house. The only rule upon the subject
says that after the first call of the day all
pairs shall be announced by the clerk. The
' . is focmcmbou making the pairs
to band the announcement of them to the
clerk, 'who see. they are printed in The
Record. No questions are asked,and the
members fix up “the pairs- to suit them-
selves. Thus, when a.- member. is absent
landisnot- paired, he can telegraph to a
colleague and find sumo member on the
other side in the same situation, when it is
» that‘The‘ Record shall state that
these two absent members were paired.
One member who motto Europe with
out taking the precautionto get a pair was
usedtoprotoct half a down members in
onoday. Itwas also found that he was
paired with a memberwhonevor knowthc
other'man m absent from Washington.
—Philadelphia Pres.
The Power of the Baby.
No people on the globe love their chil-
dren so much as the Chinese and J spouses,
and nowhere do children so much respect
their parents.
The Coreans lau h and chat with their
children, and the gurmese motherpets her
baby and sings it lullabys.
The Turks spend hours in playing with
their children, and the most savage of the
Indians spend time in making toys for
their babies.
There is no country in the. world which
the equalling infant does not rule, and on
the shores of every ocean and the center of
m land the baby is king—Washington
r.
, Cray Inventors.
Side by side with the greatest inventions
of the ageare classed the. craziest oflsprings
of the human brain. Today some mighty
Edison patents an idea which lights the
world and to-morrow some lunatic ofiers a
plan by which all humanity can lift them-
selves to heaven by their boot straps. In
looking through the patent ofilce you an
surprised at the wisdom and the foolish-
ness of man’s intellect. The one is as great
as the other, and from the foolish point of
view it would seem that when an idea of a
patent creeps . into an inventor’s houst
common sense flies out of his window.--
.Frank G. Carpenter’s Letter.
To Make Wheat Bread.
. Whole :whcat bread, thatis so much
recommended now for children and dys
peptics, is made with one quart of lake
warm water, a little salt, one-half cup
'of yeast, one-half .cup :of sugar, two
. 1argo..9poonfuls’ of .molasses, one large
spoonful of shortening, . eight and. a hall
cups of flour. Do-not. knead it. Stir i!
with a spoon to moderately stifl batter and
slot it stand over might; - In the morning
lput itin would it misc, :then bake. This
quantity will make two good sized loaves
:This recipe is vouched forjby a mother whc
never. lets her children: eat any other. kind
of Mandi-Exchange. - «
' » . can cumin-grog nose mood.
; -A'_city physician says": “A‘personwho i:
Esub‘ject to‘bleedin ' from the" noseshould
,keep‘nome gum in; pocket, and when in
feelsah'stm' , o‘n commence'chW'A
jlug vigorously. , Nine times out of-ten‘_th¢
Eincnmd activityof thew musclesyvill
gain: the bleeding. _ fihe'is not able,“
iadOpt-the preventive '3; him try ifiqs a
trained‘y- and lie-will generally find it a sue
cess.”+—A1hany‘ Express. - __ .
ii . 1:30 Use :6:- niswbfiamory.
Parson Blufléfie‘moinb'er, you must give
' '53:: account bruit? your "fictions and deed.
awhen yang?) the‘ other world. .- .
' ' boy—I’m“ slid you. mention,
ied‘iti, I amstudying anew system. of-‘im‘
épr'o ' the memory: I ‘guelis I’ll drop it
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* Picturing
'rd'Watts. I happened
ing in Rochester’s main street, and was
allowed by the courteous housekeeper to
' take a" hasty look'around: ‘ The inspection
was: necessarily hasty, as the six poor trav-
elershad'jusfit come in and were en
upon the hearty meal which Walts’ will
providesfo’i- them; via... a pound of bread,
half apound-’ of meat and half a pint'of
stout. I was shown the ' wash house, in
which certain preliminariesto the banquet
are transacted, and the delightfully clean
little white washed chambers in which the
weary travelers rest their limbs. These
are up in a little gallery and are about 300
years old—Cor. Pall Mall Gazette.
, A Safe Investment.
Is one which is guaranteed to bring you
satisfactory results, or in case of failure a
return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from our advertised
druggist a bottle of Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery for Consumption. It is guaranteed
to bring relief in every case, when used
for any affection of throat, lungs or chest.
such as consumption, inflammation of
lungs, bronchitis, asthma, whooping
cough, croup, clc., etc. It is pleasant
and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe. and
can always be depended upon. Trial
bottles free at H. R. Hale’s drug store.
influence of the Seashore on Leaves.
M. Pierre Lesage shows by conclusive
evidence in a recent thesis that a marine
habitat leads to the thickening of the
leaves. The palissadc cells are more nu-
merous and larger than in the leaves of the
same plants grown inland. Apparently
the sea salt is the cause of this alteration,
as plants cultivated in artificially salted
soil yield thicker leaves. The observations
of M. Lasagc bear on some ninety species
of plants. which are found in their natural
state near the sea as well as inland—New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Hold It To The Light.
The man who tells you confidentially
just what will cure your cold is prescrib-
ing Kemp’s Balsam this year. In the
preparation of this remarkable medicine
for cpughs and colds no expense is spared
to combine only the best and purest in-
gredients. Hold a bottie of Kemp’s Bal-
sam to the light and look through it;
notice the bright, clear look ; then compare
with other remedies. Price 50c. and $1.
Two mama: vegan...
George and John Waldron, of Wolfboro,
N. 11., are twins 63 years of ago. Their great-
g'randfatbcr was one of the famous .Boston
tea party, their grandfather served in the
Revolutionary war, their father command-
ed a company in the war of 1812., while they
themselves were among the first to enlist
in thowar of the rebellion. They look so»
much alike that no one who does not know
them intimately can tell them apart. They
are G.A. R. manand marchedintbepro-
union in Boston—New York Tribune.
“xv—“(E EELOTHEQ
for mu u mu. m.
to 1810 _
:flflgllmll by u I!!! Family Physician.
Thiflk Of "i w‘filfiith‘lh'fiemm 33
mm otter Gumbo“ have used and bieued it.
Every Traveler should have a bottle in his satchel.
From Rheumatism.
Ever Sufie rer mu, mm...
Nervous eadschemlphtheflafloughgbatarrhmmn.
us, Cholera-Norms, Diarrhoea, Lamenes,
Scrum inBody or Limbs Stiff Joints or Strains,
will find in this old Anodyne relief and speedy cure.
Ever Mother 3%“ 3:4an WM;
y house for Group, Colds,
Colic Outs, Bru Cram
:0 Thros Tonsilltis hes. s
an?!6 Pains ble to éccur in an family withogt
notice. Dela smnycostalifo. Re ieves [Summer
in hints like . Price, 35cts.(post-psid; 6 bot-
‘z. Express 1.8.Johuon& 0.13me
To Inventors.»
GEO. ll. BYINGTUN
OFFICE:
Cor. truisiana Ave. and lth 8!.
A Washington, ll. (3..
c lves his PersonalAttention to Procvring
Patents for Inventions
n the U. 3. Pain: 91:. 3119.11 Faralgn
Countries.
An exoerlence of nearly ten years in the Paien
omce has given him a perfect familiarity with
every classification of invention and the pal ticuiar
EXAMINERS AND BUREAUS, to which each
and every invention is referred. He has a con.-
plete familiarity with the Rules of Practice
the Records Models, 810., &c., «to, and
every detail of the office, and GIVES HIS PER-
SONAL ATTENTION to the interests of his
Clients. Being on the ground, and Visiting the
Patent Office daily, he can serve Inventors
securing their Letters Patent far more advanta
aeously than Solicitors who do not reside in
Washington.
' A Searches and Rejected
Applications
A Specialty. To all those whose applications
havebeen rejected, he will make an examination
and report on the same gratuitously. Prelimin-
ar examination of the Patent Office Records;
or to an application for a patent, Wm b made
‘ . oravery small charge, and advice or informa-
tion in regard to parents will be given in run
detail in acii'cular Which‘ will be mailed free (f
to every applicant. He has specia'
flfifiiemso for . , ,
Patenis in [Foreign
Countries.
He refers to any officer of the Patent Office, at a
o the many Connecticut Inventors for whom he
a cone business and taken out Lmnss PATH!
g A Riel-{ASA‘NT HOME
N aconfvemantlocalit is onered to persons
who would like to v sit Washington, D. 0.
one tinieiduring-the winter or sprlna. Room
, dboardJiI-flo-perday. .
Mus. 'J. E. BARBOUR,
1008 I Street. N. W.
Norwalk Chronicler