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THE FARMER'S WIFE.
The farmer came in from the field one day,
ujg languished step and his weary way,
Hi, bended brow aud%inewy hand,
a;; showing Ins wort for the good of .he >and,
For he sows.
And he hoes.
And he mows.
All for the good of the land.
o_ tbe kitchen tire stood his patient wife,
l 2ht of his home and joy of his life,
ty . . face all aglow and busy hand,*
I*-, aring the meal for her husband 9 band,
For she must boil.
And she must broil.
Anti she must toil.
All for tlie sake of the home.
> .linn bright when the fanner goes out,
_ i „ . -wi-et songs, lambs fri-k about,
i . srook babbles softly in the glen,
V he works bravely for the good of men.
For he sows.
And he hoes.
And he mows,
Al> for the good of the land.
i. c r- It the wife -tens about within
l' ' [l w-h, and tl.. uulk to skim.
- out, and the 11 es buzz about—
rh< rt skiptstout;
There are pies to make.
There is bread to bake.
And steps to take,
AH lor the sake of the home.
yy.. - the I it is o’er and the even mg has epene,
•merest- n- hr- fed an the milking is done,
■ ■ ’’ irer,
: j'.r ‘law of the 1 ind his thoughts arc
free, . .
Though he sows,
And 1 e hoes.
And he mows.
He rrr-ts from the w-*rk of the land.
it : t e faithful wife, from sun to sup,
i’ , [t .r im up that's-.ever dona;
1i p* i- no rest: there is no pay.
• , .... . • !i| good-**e must werk away;
fur to mend the froek.
And to knit the sock.
And the cradle to ro< k.
All lor the gis-*d of the borne.
‘ .r. autumn is here w th chilling blast,
1; i farmer gathers his crop at last,
hums are full, his fields are bare,
* r the good of the land he ne’er hath care.
While it blows,
And it snows.
Till the winter goes,
He rests Iron the work of the land.
But the Willing wife- till life's closing day,
l- the children's and the husband’s stay,
From day to <!ay sbi has done ker best,
Cntil death alone can give her rest.
For after the test
Comes the rest.
With the blest.
In the lartner’s heavenly home.
HYPNOTIC’ FI'RORE IN FRANCE.
An Incident of the Itemarkable Dura
tion of Mesmeric Influence that Oc
curred In New Orleans.
Besides the excitement about the
cholera, says the New Orleans Times
l>, Paris just nev is considerably
agitated on the subject of what is called
hypnotism, a principle of psychological
influence, by means of which the motive
ft rev of b inanity are subjected to‘.he
■itr- lof an individur.l will. Long since
the subtle power of mesmerism has Leen
ienerally conceded, and it has passed
:. e.nd the ’>ale of controversy that mind
nniy be subordinated to mind. Mesmer
ists have t<K frequently exhibited the
! . of their influence on minds less
stfagthan their own to admit of doubt
of genuineness. Bat in hypnotism a step
further i- taken, and, according to the
Paris papers, the mesmeric influence is
c mlinued over a long period of time, and
eveu after the la|>se of six weeks the irre
- onsi 'ie subject er.n be forced to commit
any act bis mesmeric superior may
desire. The subje* t during this time can
!"• so bro uht intosympathy with the will
; the medium that his acts mav be fully
governed.
If thi-: ■ true, it will open a problem
which will present much difficulty to the
law-maker. For, should a subject commit
an assault or, in fact, any crime, induced
ihtret* y the will of the medium, under
our re .agnized rulings it would be diffi
cult t" convict tte medium, who would be
the sole responsible party.
This theory i- called by its discoverer
hypnotism, a t rm heretofore used for
s mnambulism, but how far it can be
daii. las a novelty remains to lie seen.
i’ll' xi riun illation thus far has not
1 • ns uicient for i- dentists to fully reeog
!’./.■ tie s uuduess of the claims made for
this new physical force, but the press of
France is do oting much space to its dis
cussion.
But it was r.ot to discuss this question
that attoir n n is called to this new ism of
Frau • Vf t blush it appears almost
frii 'I sto suppose that we have any
thing ’■ b ar from the full elucidation of
hypnotism, vet that there may be more in
it than is uudt rstood now many psycholo
gists admit.
A case happened here some years ago
that in many features seems to be allied
to this new doctrine, and, as itatthe time
produced elite a stir in the circles iu
which it was known, it is given for what
it is worth.
In isfe there appeared in our city a
man of polished exterior, agreeable ad
dress and great fluency, by the name of
I’n t. llale, who delivered a very inter
chip- series of lectures at Odd Fellows’
and Old Armory Halls on the subject of
tlectnebiolocy. During these lectures he
would illustrate his subject by a curious
i \hibition of his mesmeric powers.
Well knows citizens were amenable to his
influence, and laughed, danced, sung and
went through all the ludicrous scenes
of a courtship before the audience with
an earnestness that was surprising.
There could be no possible confederacy,
anil each evening his lecture room was
crowded with the best people. On one
particular evening the students of the
Boys’ High School, then presided over by
Prof. Itobt. McNair, were invited to at
tend. and some twenty were present.
After the preliminary lecture Prof.
Halo requested that the students should
ascend the platform, and when all were
there seated he commenced his usual
manipulations. Of the twenty there were
twelve who were almost immediately
under the Professor’s influence, the rest
not feeling his power in the slightest.
With these twelve he began his illustra
tions. It is ]>erhaps needless to say that
these twelve young gentlemen belonged
to the first families of the city, and each
of theta would have been the first to
rv nt any imputati- c of conspiracy with
the Professor.
Th twelve were first told to favor the
audience with a song, and, though but
one or two ever sung even in a parlor,
they all started an old ballad. The
Professor then announced he would make
a minstrel troupe of them. In a moment
they commenced with imaginary banjos,
tambourines, liones, etc., to go through
all the motions of playing, at the conclu
sion "f which there was a running fire of
tin usual minstrel conuudiums and
k- s. A jig followed by two young gen
tlemen who had never danced a step.
After several other diversions of like
t .ara.-t r. the Professor announced that
he would attempt to do something more,
the was not sure of a success. He
W ' >ulj treat those present to a sketch of
lining life, and, if possible, retain his
influence over one or two of the gentle
rc n for a day or two, in order to give a
- quel to the evening’s entertainment.
! ;e voting men on the stage began at
onee to take ofl' their coats and, some with
un- ' ll pickaxes, others with imaginary
all commenced to dig, throwing
up what they thought was dirt. There
was an alarm of Indians and a fierce
i-I ’, all going through the motions of
*' soling and firing. The Indians retreated,
whin digging was resumed. For some
n-U'Uti - this went on, when two of the !
. l .‘ n ~ exclaimed: **We’ve_found
All gathered around, aqd? with
u- earn- -tness. what to them seemed a
>ld was lifted to the sur- j
- -1 two successful young men j
J' '• '-ib i, and said they would start
‘Ci , as their lump was worth
, *' 1 ■ the Professor sat on the ,
* ! r " ;/■ -eats, on a level with the
nUmniv. l*i.‘ two young men took their .
j‘,‘. as a wagon and, going across the !
ur r‘ <1 the driver to hurry on, mak
-1 - in tnt* time comments as to the char- j
u. t- r <>f th* localities through which they
imagined they were passing.
At ; i>t they thought they had reached
- cw Orleans, and, bearing their lump
‘ wt rii them, they said they would de
'r s d it at Jacob Barker’sbank. which
j' !1 w-" kept at the corner of Gravier
lli '‘ vamp streets, whore now is the
msurancv office of Mr. John R. Fell,
i ,% !i - w'l-nt through all the motions of
' - the lump of gold on the counter,
u'ersod with the clerk about its sate
'‘•eping. and said they would return to
•tni' 11 weighed and sell it.
~ :ro * lL 'hout all this little drama the
■■i' i*. of the two young men betrayed only
iiie natural emotions. Theifi delight was
hL lU !|™ ed - an l their anxiety to have their
‘•ou kept safely was perfect and beyond
lowers of acting.
'' hen the entertainment reached this
. -nt the Professor announced that on
„ • niing Saturday morning (he had
1 ‘* a . v as not interfering with l
T u ' 1 duties) at 9 o’clock, he would en-
V a r 1 v the power of his will to compel i
-‘’ o young gentlemen to visit Jacob j
Barker’s bank and request Up.: return of
their lump of gold.
He also charged the friends of these
voung gentlemen not to Apeak to them on
the subject of their proposed visit to the
bank. When the audience broke up the
two successful miners were asked what
they remembered of the evening’s inci
dents, and they said they had some indis
tinct recollection of the shooting of guns
and a large plain.
The next Saturday morning there was
quite a gathering of students at Jacob
Barker’s bank, waiting to seethe possible
denouement of tbe mesmeric entertain
ment of the Thursdav evening before. A
little after 9 o’clock Prof. Hale appeared
and stated that he was doing his oest to
influence the young gentlemen to come,
with what success he could not yet tell.
At, 10 o’clock one of the young men
came down Camp street, walking briskly,
and at the same time the other was seen
approaching from St. Charles street, os
Gravier.
When they met they shook hands with
unwonted cordiality, and crossed the
street toward the bank.
Passing through a group of their fellow
students, with all of whom they were
familiar, they gave no sign of recognition,
but proceeded to the paying teller and
asked for “that dump of gold left here last
night.” The teller, who had not been let
into the secret, protested that he knew
nothing of it, when the young men became
much excited. It begvn to look as if some
thing serious was to follow. Prof. Hale,
by an upward movement of his hands on
the backs of the young men, brought them
to their senses. There was a laugh all
round, and the crowd broke up, rstonished
and much befogged as to the possibilities
of electro-biology, as Prof. Hale called it.
The young men could not inderstand
why they had cor down down, and were
surprised to ler.rn of the whole story,
har.lly crediting it.
This may be said to bear instance of
wka‘. h now ca'led hypnotism in France,
tie continuance of mc-sir.
after tae sepa: ation of tte medium and
yjbject.
The young men were "Fanniel Tennei,
'nephew of T*r. Graham, who was a weF
kr.ov n physician here was nwr
dersl by the Indians years afterward in
Texas;, and Willie dark, who fell gal
lantly figkt ng during the war.
CONGRESSIONAL SUICIDES.
Eiampiw Which Congressman Culbert
son Tried to Follow.
Congressman Culbertson, of Kentucky,
who attempted to commit suicide a week
ago. and whose act bas been the subject
of so m .ch commar.t, says a Washington
special to the New York World, is on the
high read to recovery. He will soon be in
Kentucky looking after his iron manufac
turing interests, which are quit# large.
Mr. C ulbertson’s rash act recalls many
interesting incidents among men who
havr preceded him in House or Senate.
One of the most prominent was the suicide
of Eon. Preston King, who for many years
represented the State of New Y ork in the
Senate of the United States. He was a
large man in figure and heart—a sort of
Dzvid Davis, in person at least—aud like
mest men of large weight was tender
hearted and sympathetic. He was
appointed by President Johnson Collector
of the port ht New York after his retire
ment from the Senate. The duties of that
office and the annoyances of its adminis
tration, particularly the appeals for ikisi
tion, I>ore upon his mind, and one dar he
was missing. Efforts to find him were
after a week successful, when his body
was found floating in the river, attached
to which was a go-pound bag of shot. The
tender-hearted Collector, driven to des
peration, had sought death in this man
ner. The suicide of so prominent a man
in such a strange manner created quite a
sensation at that time, and it is well re
membered by old New Y orkers in govern
ment service here yet.
Another easeof note was that of Thomas
Jefferson Rusk, of Texas, who was a
member of the Senate in 1835, and who
committed suicide just after his retire
ment from that body by shooting. Wheth
er the story of Senator Rusk’s suicide is
as accurate as that of Senator King is un
certain, and it can only be given as gath
ered here but not as a matter of historical
record. Senator Rusk was very promi
nent in Texas, which State he represented
in the Senate. He had been Secretary of
War in tbe Republic of Texas when it
was a Republic, aud had held other prom
inent positions there. In the early
history of Texas many of its citi
zens were, the story goes, men
who had found it convenient to leave
their former residences on account of inci
dents which law and good society did not
tolerate. The story that this was the
cause of Mr. Rusk's removal from South
Carolina to Texas has never been verified,
but there was such a story. It is alleged
that his death was the result of having
this sort of charge thrown against him in
the Senate during a debate, ilis suicide
was by shooting, and occurred at his
home in Texas soon after leaving the
Senate.
A Kentuckian whose illustrious exam
ple Mr. Culbertson tried to follow was
Congressman Ilise, who represented that
State in the Thirty-ninth Congress and
had been elected to the Fortieth. He had
also been Uuited States Minister to Gau
temaula, and had likewise taken a promi
nent part in the negotiating party between
the United States and Great Britain im
mediately preceding the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty. His suicide was supposed to have
been the result of monomania caused by
overwork.
Still another Kentucky suicide was that
of James L. Johnson, who was in the
Thirty-first Congress. lie killed himself
at Owensboro, Ky., during a lit of de
spondency caused"by illness.
The case of a man more prominent than
any of those already mentioned was that
of Lincoln’s most prominent Cabinet offi
cer, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
He is printed in history as having died
suddenly. Old residents of Washington,
however, who were here at the time of bis
death, and who were in position to know
by reason of their intimacy with meu
prominent in public life, say that Mr.
Stanton died from an incision in the throat
made by bis own hand in a fit ol insanity
caused by overwork and the mental strain
of this the most responsible position in the
greatest war this country has ever seen.
Whether Mr. John Ewing, who repre
sented Indiana in the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fifth Congresses, committed sui
cide is not stated in history, but bis death
was at least a curious one. He was found
sitting in his chair at Vincennes dead,
and the following couplet, freshly writ
ten, lay beside him:
“Here lies a man who loves his friends,
Ilia God, his country anu Vincennes.''
Felix McConnell, of Mississippi, was
one of the most brilliant orators in the
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con
gresses, but Felix had a weakness for
i liquor, so the story goes, and after a long
spree cut his throat in the St. Charles Ho
i tel in this city and died.
| John D. Ashmore, of South Carolina.
was in the Thirty-sixth Congress and was
I also in the Confederate army. He blew
! out his brains in 1871 at Sardis, Miss.
Williamson R. W. Cobb, of Alabama,
! was an M. C. from ’57 to ’6l, when he
withdrew on the secession of Alabama,
! and became a member of the Confederate
Congress. Ilia death occurred from a
pistol shot, the weapon being held in his
, own hand, though that it was intentional
! suicide is not certain. The supposition
was that the discharge of the pistol was
' accidental.
There have been rumors of late that the
Hon. Hiester Clynier, of Pennsylvania,
who, a few weeks since, was reported as
having fallen a victim to apoplexy, was
really a victim of suicide. This’, how-
I ever,’has not been fully confirmed.
James 11. Laue, of Lawreneeburg, lud.,
’ a son of Amos Lane, who represented
that district in Congress, was a Senator
from Kansas from 1861 to 1866. He shot
himself at his home soon after his retire
ment from the Senate.
Sobeisk Ross, who was in the Forty
third and Fourty-fourth Congresses, from
Pennsylvania, committed suicide shortly
after his retirement from Congress by
shooting in his barn at his home in Penn
sylvania. Loss ol health and consequent
despondency were alleged as the cause.
John White, of Kentucky, who was in
the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty
si xth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth
Congresses and was Speaker of the House
in the Twenty-seventh, and an uncle of
John D. White, member of the present
Congress, committed suicide at Richmond,
Ky., by cutting his throat.
Jesse B. Thomas, who was in the Tenth
i Congress from “Indiana Territory,” who
was later a Senator from Illinois, com
mitted suicide in 1850 by cutting his
throat with a razor because of mental ab
erration.
Alfred P. Stone, who was in the Twenty
eighth Congress from the Columbus, 0.,
district, was afterwards appointed Col
lector of Internal Revenue, and having
engaged in some contraband cotton spec- J
ulation and become a defaulter, commit
ted suicide upon the discovery of this fact !
by taking poison. He died on the graves '
of his two children at the cemetery near 1
Columbus in 1865, •
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1884.
LIEUT. GREELY’S BOYHOOD.
Hl* Mother'* Reminiscences —Incidents
Foreshadowing His Character as a
Man.
S'eicburvporl LetUr in Bolton Journal.
A bright, cheerful-appearing lady, with
an interesting and somewhat peculiar
manner, ready at conversation, quick at
answer and full of reminiscent anecdote
—this was Mrs. Greely, the mother of
Lieut. A. W. Greely, the now famous
Arctic explorer. No man w’ould imagine
that she had sons whose years counted
over the torties, for her features still re
tain the vivacity of a middle-aged
it atron.
The moment tho name of Lieut, Greely
was mentioned she greeted the writer
warmly, and it was plainly evident from
the first that if a mother ever existed
proud of her 6on that mother
was Mrs, Greely. She could talk
of him tmceasingly; his pictures
and his children’s' pictures, and
his' wife’s picture—in fact, everything
that related to “her boy,” was brought
out and described with the utmost readi- ■
ness. She wished to show the room where
Adolphus was born, so cp one flight of
6tairs, in the medium-sized, old-fashioned,
browr. wooden house, at the junction of
Prospect and Parsons streets, she led the
way to the corner room, the birthroom of
Lieut. Greely. The walls held portraits
of the Lieutenant, laken at various
stages in his life, one as a youthful sol
dier, with mustache only upon the face
and no beard to conceal the thin, narrow
cheeks; another with mustache and whis
kers covering the bullet wound in bts
cheek, and still another with the full En
glish beard, parted in the middle, which
was worn just before sailing. Everything
in the room was cheerful and inviting,
though not expensive or showy.
“31 rs. Greely, 7 ’ said the visitor, after
the first greetings were over, “how is it
about that anecdote of your son’s turning
the grindstone steadily two hours for his
uncle and never giving up, although the
w T ork was tremendous, because he had
declared he would accomplish the dead?”
Mrs. Greely laughed,a laugh indicative
of the pride and pleasure she felt at hear
ing the anecdote. “Well,” she replied,
“I can't say about that particular story.
But I guess it’s true enough, it’s just like
him. He used to go up to Bartlett to
..visit his uncle. He was a smart boy,
Adolphus was. One time 1 know he was
up there and was attending the school
with his cousin—he was only 10 years
old then and a little boy, very slig'ht of
his age—when one of the school commit
tee came to examine the scholars. When
he came to my boy he was astonished at
the way his questions were answered.
He kept asking them and Adolphus kept
answering, until finally the committee
man exclaimed, “Well, what is vour
name and where did you come from ? You
can’t belong around here?’ And then,
after Adolphus had told him, he declared:
‘You are the smartest boy of your age In
the State of New Hampshire,’ shook
hands with the little fellow and said he
hoped to meet him c,gain.”
j“Your son was graduated from the
Newbury port High School very young,
was he not, 3lrs. Greely?” asked a gen
tleman who was present at the inter
view.
“Yes, he was. Why, after Lie had grad
uated he went up ii: New Hampshire
again, and they laughed at him for saving
he had graduated—a pale, little thing
like him. But he taught up there at
Jackson one winter, and the best men of
the town have since told me that their
boys learned more that winter than they
had ever learned before. O, he was a
dreadful smart boy.”
“I think his mother had something to
do with making him smart, didn’t she?”
Again Mrs. Greely laughed, as she re
plied “I guess I did train him up. He
never undertook to prove truant from
school but once, and, then when he told
me he was going off with the boys 1 said
to him: ‘Adolphus, you must go'to school
it I have to whip you every step of the
way.’ And he went.”
Her hearers had to smile at this evi
dence of determination and strict adher
ence to duty which characterizes 3lrs.
Greely in the same way that it now does
her son. Indeed, the mother must have
had much to do in giving him the inher
itance of pluck and faithfulness which he
has so often exhibited.
“When he was at school,” continued
the proud mother, rejoicing, as every
mother does, at an opportunity to describe
the characteristics cf her bov, “he al
ways hail his head in a hook. ’ Why, his
friends, whenever they saw him coming
to their house, would fly around and hide
every book and paper they could find, for
they knew if he got hold of them they
wouldn't hear a word from him the whole
time. One day, when he was 10 years
eld, he came home and said: ‘3l otlicr, I
can tell you the salariee of every officer,
from the President down to a soldier.’
And sure enough, he could. He had a
great memory.”
“Ills pluck anil grit is w hat every one
speaks of,” was the comment made by
the visitor.
“Yes, he is plucky. And he always
carries out his work in spite of every
thing. Now, when the Proteus was lost,
Gen. Hazen wrote me a note saying that
all was right, and he told John, my other
son, that Adolphus wouldn’t start from
the station to come south. But I knew
he woukl; he was always after his busi
ness.”
“That’s true,” added Mr. John A.
Greely, who was present, “you can de
pend on every word Adolphus uttered. 1
told Gen. Hazen that Adolphus said he
was coming down from the station that
fall, and having said so, he would come.
Adolphus did carry out his part of the
plan, relying on the government to carry
out theirs.”
“I want tc tell you another story about
Adolphus,’’ here interrupted the mother,
another tribute of praise coming to her
memory. “I want to tell you an incident
of his thoughtfulness and regard for rep
utation. One time ho was visiting my
sister, who lives in Portsmouth, N. H.
Her husband keeps wine for sale in the
store under the house, and officers fro*
the navy yard used to come over often.
\\ hen some of them came and found that
Lieut. Greely was up stairs they wanted
to be introduced. But Adolphus refused
to go down stairs, although he was asked
three times. Now, I was angry, for of
course those officers were much ahead of
him in rank; so when he got home I just
asked him what he meant by refusing to
go down. ‘Mother,’ said he, ‘I am young
and I want to rise if I can. Now, ten
years from to-day, when the chance
comes, some man might say, “No. Lieut.
Greely won't do; I met him in a liquor
saloon.” That wouldn’t, do, mother.’
You see, he thought of all that, but I
didn’t. Adolphus never went into that
saloon, and when my sister came to our
house and tried to coax him to get her
some liquor for medicine he said he
couldn’t and wouldn’t.”
••Your son went to the war very soon
after he graduated, I hear, Mrs. Greely.”
“Yes, he was determined, to go, even if
he never came back. Said he would be
ashamed not to go when all other bovs
were going. His father and grandfather
were both soldiers in the war of
1812, and his father was also Captain of
the Washington Lignt Infantry. Adol
phus was wounded three times. His
worst wound was received at Antietam,
when a bullet went into his mouth, cut
out four teeth and then came out of the
cheek. He went to the army hospital—
and just see his pluck. Nobody would
attend to him there, so he traveled thirty
miles to Harrisburg, Pa., walking part of
the way, to the city hospital there. He
left that hospital before ho was entirely 1
well. Then he was wounded in the shin
and in the side. At Fredericksburg Gen.
Burnside ordered Adolphus’ regiment
over to the city, and there the soldiers
couldn’t go out in the streets without
getting tired at from attic windows.
When Adolphus came home on a fur
lough, he had seven bullet holes in his
coat. While there he had command of
his company, although only an Orderly
Sergeant; all the other officers had been
killed.”
‘•I suppose you kept that coat?” que
ried the writer.
“Yes, indeed. Then here’s something 1
want to show you. It was the last thing
Adolphus wrote at my request before he
went away,” and Mrs. Greely brought
out a little note book, in which* was writ
ten, over some printed slips about the
Greely exploration, the following regis
ter:
Adolphus W. Greely and Henrietta
Nesmith, married by Mr. Camp, at San
Diego, Cal., June 20, 1878.
Antoniette Greely, born at Washington,
D. C., June 2, 1879.
Adola Greely, born at Washington,
April 20, 1881.
“Adola Greely, you see,” continued
Mrs. Greely, “was named after him.”
It Is Terrible
To have a wife or husband with a bad
breath. This may be avoided by using
Sozodont. It is agreeable to the taste,
fragrant and healthful. It confers com
fort on its users, and prevents the afflic
tion of unpleasant breath.
FAMOUS PENSIONERS.
Land Warrant* of Logan, Grant, Lincoln,
Sherman, Fierce, Lee and Jeff. Davis—
Blaine’s Great-Grandmother’s Pen
sion.
The Pension Office is full of curiosities,
and numerous facts of history are hidden
away in its of moldy files, writes
“Carp” to the Cleveland Leader.
One of the most curious relics now is
the file relating to the pension granted to
Blaine’s great-grandmother, the wife of
Col. Ephraim Blaine, of Revolutionary
fame. It is kept in a cheap blue-paper
wrapper, and it gives Mrs. Sarah E.
Blaine a pension of S6OO a year from
March 4, 1848. Among the records con
nected with it is an affidavit signed by
Juliana Watts, certifying that she wit
nessed the marriage of Col. Ephraim and
Sarah E. Blaine on Sept. 21, 1797, “and
that they continued to cohabit as man
and wile "until the death of the aforesaid
Col. Ephraim Blaine.” Another paper
is a letter signed by Robert J. YValker,
introducing Mrs. Blaine’s lawyer, Dr.
Chambers, and a certificate, signed by
Sarah E. Blaine in a trembling hand,
stating that she is the widow of Col.
Blaine, who dieand on
she had remained a widow ever since the
death of her husband, and that she had
never before applied for a pension. The
letter is sworn to before John Gibson,
Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania. Another letter gives a
transcript of the several resolutions of
the Continental Congress, directing Col.
Ephraim Blaine, as Commissary General,
to purchase shoes and blankets for the
Revolutionary soldiers, and giving him
two sums of $2,000 each and one of $5,000
to pay for the same. The transcript from
volume 2 states that Ephraim Blaine,
Esq., was appointed Commissary General
Aug. 1, 1777, and that at about the same
time $15,000 was advanced to him; and
from volume 3 several extracts
are given showing that Ephraim
Blaine w-as a leading figure in the
days ef the Revolution, and closing
with a resolution that a copy of his letter
in 1780 as to the state of the army be sent
to the several States.
Another document interesting this year
is Gen. Logan’s land warrant. I find that
John A. Logan got 100 acres of land for
his services in the Mexican war. The
papers were drawn up while Logan was
a county clerk at Murphysboro, 111., and
they are signed by Logan as such. Ac
companying them is a certificate of his
honorable discharge at the close of the
Mexican war. It is dated Oct. 16, 1848,
and shows that he was Second Lieutenant
of Company II of the First Regiment of
Illinois Foot Volunteers, and that he was
enrolled on May 29, 1847. In this certifi
cate the date for his age and date of birth
is not filled out, and l notice also in the
Congressional Record that Logan does
not cite the date of his birth. He is gen
erally thought to be 58 years old, and cer
tain encyclopedias put him down as being
born in 1826. To-day. on finding that his
birth was not given in this certificate, I
asked for the muster rolls of his company,
and here 1 find tint be was 24 years old
when he enlisted 1847, and consequently
must be at the present time 61, and the
year of bis birth must have been 1823
instead of 1826.
It will be news to many that Abraham
Lincoln, Frank Fierce, Gen. Grant, Wm.
T. Sherman and Jefi'. Davis have received
anything from the government in tbe way
of pensions ? but their papers are all here,
filed away in the division allotted to the
Mexican war. They are done up in brown
paper covers, and filed away with about
a hundred thousand others, lining the
walls of an immense office ball. They are
curious papers, too; and. in view of the
history of the times since their applica
tion, they read with interest now. Grant’s
pension is a land warrant of ICO acres,
given to him in 1851 for his services as
Second Lieutenant and Regimental Quar
termaster in the Mexican war. Ills letter
making the application is characteristic
of the man. It is dated at Detroit, Mich.,
Nov. 6, 1850, is abominably written in
Grant’s own hand, and put m the fewest
words possible, being signed U. S. Grant,
First Eieutenant and R. Q. M. Fourth
Infantry.
Capt. Wm. T. Sherman’s claim comes
from St. Louis, dated about the same
time. It asks for two quarter sections of
land —one tor his Florida services and the
other for his record in Mexico. The claim
is presented by Tom Ewing / Jr., his
brother-in-law. Abe Lincoln’s claim was
presented in 1855 for his services in the
Black Hawk war, which, it cites, he en
tered for an indefinite period and served
for 40 days. It is in Lincoln’s handwrit
ing, aud was granted in 1855.
At this same time Robert E. Lee, then
employed at the United States Military
Academy at West Point, sent papers here,
for xvhich he received 160 acres of land
for his services as Colonel in the Mexican
war.
Here are, too, the papers of Gen. Scott,
asking for bounty land for his services in
the war of 1812. They are signed by Scott,
and were granted to Lim while he was
General of the army here. Shortly after
this come the papers by which Jeft’. Davis
and Frank Pierce were allowed their land
claims for services in the Mexican w r ar.
L. Waldo was the Commissioner -of Pen
sions at this time, while Jell'. Davis w-as
Secretary of War and Frank Pierce
President. Pierce’s application is made
out in Waldo’s handwriting, as is also
that of Jeff. Wax is, and they both abound
in praise of these two officers. Both are
indorsed by Waldo as special cases, and
a note inplosed with each that they be
left with him to bo sent to the pensioners,
and not to be mailed in the ordinary way.
There are now on the pension rolls 82
widows of Revolutionary soldiers, and 48
of these come from the Southern States.
Nine are from Tennessee, 8 from Georgia,
11 from Virginia, 4 from West Virginia,
and 12 from North Carolina. There is
only 1 Revolutionary widow from Missis
sippi, 1 in Massachusetts, 3 in South
Carolina, 4in Ohio and New Y’ork, 5 in
Maine and New Hampshire, 7 in Vermont
and 8 m Pennsylvania.
Among the pensioners are the wives of
three Presideuts—Mrs. Polk, w T ho is liv
ing in Tennessee; Mrs. John Tyler, who
is living at Richmond, Va., and Mrs.
James A. Garfield. Each of these re
ceives $5,000 a year, according to a spe
cial act of Congress. Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln got front 1870 to 1882 a pension of
$4,000. In 1882 it was increased to $5,000,
which it continued until her death. The
daughter of another President—Zachary
Taylor—also receives a pension at this
time. It amounts to SSO a month, and is
given lor the services of Gen. Taylor in
the Mexican war.
The widows of Gens. Isaac Stevens, E.
D. Baker, Whipple, Sumner, Robert An
derson (the hero of Fort Sumter), James
B. McPherson, A. B. Dyer, George H.
Custer (the Indian fighter), R. G. Ram
sey, Buford, Blenkner, Daniel McCook,
John A. Rawlins, Frafik P. Blair, George
H. Thomas, Surg. Gen. Woods and Rear
Admiral John Rogers receive from S3O to
sso* a month. The widow, of Admiral
Farragut gets $2,000 a year by a special
act, and Gen. Phil. Kearney’s widow did
get S3O a month, but she has since mar
ried, and this sum now goes to her chil
dren.
A curious claim now pending before the
office of the war of 1812 is one presented
by the widow of Anthony Coslo, alias
Anthony Castle. It asks for an in
crease of pension, and cites that
Anthony Castle, who died in 1870
at Ann Harbor, Mich., joined the
British forces in Canada; that he
deserted in 1814, crossed on the ice to the
American side of the river and entered
the United States service. After serving
here six months, he was retaken by the
British at a point six miles below Niagara
Falls, court-martialed and sentenced to
death. His sentence was, however, com
muted to 800 lashes, from the result of
which he never recovered, and *for which
a pension was granted him. This pension
his widow asks to have increased.
Gou. West Reconsiders.
Meridian (Miss.) Mercury.
Gen. West has reconsidered and deter
mined to recall and reverse a wise conclu
sion he had come to not to accept the
Greenback and Labor party nomination
for Vice President with Gen. Butler. The
first conclusion was the wisest. But
Gen. West’s action will have little effect
on the destiny of the nation one way or
another. He has signally failed to im
press himself upon the age he lives in.
Asa legislator he tried to be a religious
fanatic, ami to have God put in the con
stitution. God is everywhere in Missis
sippi but in the constitution.
Envy Wounded Writhes in Pain, and
Dies Amid Her Worshipers.
Although rude and violent attacks,
based upon envy, jealousy, and greed,
have frequently been made upon the well
earned reputation for integrity and fair
dealing in the management of the Louisi
ana State Lottery, they have all proved
fruitless and recoiled upon the authors.
The next (the 171st) Grand Monthly Draw
ing will take place on Tuesday, Aug. 12,
when over $265,000 will be scattered broad
cast. For information apply to M. A.
Dauphin, New Orleans, La.—
BLEACHED BLONDES IN FASHION
A Talk With a New York Dealer in
Hair—Some Happy Fat Men.
It is no uncommon thing, says a Coney
Island special to the Baltimore American,
to see scattered about the corridors and
porches of the Oriental Hotel after dinner
immensely large men, with diamond studs
and heavy gold chains dangling from their
vests. Most of these individuals come
from New York city and are considered
wealthy. They spend the season here, oc
casionally running up to the city to see
how their affairs are getting on and to
draw a little money. They live on the
best of everything, both at home and
abroad; and what is most remark
able, they never suffer with indiges
tion or dyspepsia. 1 felt curious enough
to ask a party of them, quietly smoking
together to-day, the reason. “It is be
cause we take plenty of time to eat,” one
began, “as we never leave the table Inside
of an hour, and by thoroughly chewing our
food the digestive organs are allowed to
perform their filiations. Another thing,
we always drink some light wine during :
our dinner meal, which acts as an assist- j
ant to the internal arrangements. After !
dinner we take a short walk, and before 1
breakfast a long drive, so you see we get
plenty of exercise and fresh air.”
“Are the ladies as fortunate?” I asked. ]
“No; as a rule they suffer from indiges- i
tion, because of the way in which they |
brace themselves up. So long as they
persist in wearing tightly laced corsets,
just, so long will they have to use smelling
salts, camphor, etc. Several New Y’ork
ladies of mature growth' recently tried to
start a reform in female dressing, but it
soon tell through, and doubtless will never
be revived again.”
Any one strolling along the beach about
noon," when the fair ones are on dress pa
rade, must notice the number of ladies of
dark complexion wearing blonde hair of
the very lightest shades. This anomaly
is not the work of nature, as may be sup
posed by some, but on a small black vial
labelled “Bleaching Liquid,” to be had of
any druggist or hair dresser. One of the
largest xvholesale dealers in bleaching
preparations in this country is stopping
here, and a talk with him to-day revealed
many interesting points on the subject of
bleaching.
“Tbe price of the stuff,” said he, “ is $1
a bottle, and it requires three or four ap
plications daily for a week or so to do its
work. All bleaching preparations are
perfectly harmless, so much so that it
can be drank with the utmost safety. The
only instruction that need be given to the
person using it is the manner of applica
tion. For instance, a very dark brunette
must use at least three vials, or, say, a
pint of the liquid, while a person of me
dium complexion requires much less. In
warm, sunny weather the change is more
complete and satisfactory. The applica
tion is made after eaoh meal, and then
allowed to dry in the sun, or near a hot
stove if it happens to be bad weather.
The change is made in degrees, and can
readily be distinguished as it progresses.
The application proves futile in very few
cases.”
“When did the craze begin ?”|
“Only a year or so ago. It was started
by ladies in the upper circle, and then fol
lowed by store and factory girls.”
“What is the cost of the operation?”
“Not more than $5, if performed by the
lady bleaching. If, however, she goes to
an aristocratic hair artist, the expenses
will foot up SSO or $75, and the bleach will
not be any better than that done by her
self, provided, of course, she follows in
structions.”
“In your experience, do you think
bleaching beautifies the ladies?”
“That is the most remarkable thing
about the whole affair. Nine out of every
ten ladies w T ho have purchased the liquid
of me came into my store very fair-look
ing brunettes, and when I saw them after
the bleaching some of them looked posi
tively ugly. Indeed, one of the younger
ladies told me she knew she had tampered
with whatever beauty she possessed, but
she did not care so long as she was in the
fashion.”
“Do they ever try to bleach the eye
brows and lashes?”
“\"es; but they never succeed.”
“How long does the bleaching last?”
“BleachetT hair never resumes its
natural color—at least not in very many
years, but as fast as the hair grows the
liquid must be kept applied, otherwise a
part of the hair will bo light and that
about the roots dark, just the same as
with a man who dyes his moustache.”
“Is bleaching confined exclusix r ely to
females?”
“Not a bit of it. Many of our young
swells keep a few bottles of the liquid
among their toilet articles. It is, of
course, much easier for a man to keep his
hair in the proper condition than a
woman, for the reason that he is not
bothered with switches, bangs, frizzes,
etc.”
“How are the different shades ob
tained?”
“They are regulated by the strength of
tbe liquid.”
“Do any of the ladies ever tire of the
trouble and expense of keeping up the
operation of bleaching?”
“Frequently; and they go at once to a
hair-dresser aud have their hair cropped
snort, wearing a wig of about the same
shade while their own hair is growing
out again.”
“Is there any preparation to darken
light hair?”
“Nothing except a dye, and that very
few ladies will touch, because of its
poisonous qualities.”
“Where do you get the hair you sell?”
“From the interior towns of Germany
principally, where regular buyers travel
for London and Parisian dealers. Atter
it goes through a cleaning process, much
of it is shipped to this country. I met one
of these buyers on a visit to "this country
a short time ago, and became much in
terested iu some of his experiences. lie
said young girls with beautiful suits of
silken hair anxiously await the buyers
each year or two to sell them their hair.
The nrices paid are from $0 to $lO a pound.
A full suit of fine hair weighs about 8 or
10 ounces, and the seller generally takes
in exchange about $4 or $5 worth of calico
or muslin. A considerable quantity of
hair is also received from young ladies
entering the Catholic convents of this
country. There is a house in New York
that has a contract with one of the lead
ing convents of that city to purchase the
hair of postulants.
HIS FIRST KLEFAANT.
A Reminiscence of the Prince of Wales
in Ceylon.
A correspondent lately returned from
Ceylon, writing to the Fall Mall Gazette
about the I’rinco of Wales’ elephant,
drawn by Mr. Stuart Cumberland, which
is minus a tail, says: “It is not improb
able that the mind of the Prince of Wales
frequently reverts to the elephant he first
shot in the jungles of Ceylon, and few
who accompanied him are ever likely to
forget the shout of delight with which he
beheld the huge animal begin to stagger,
to say nothing of the amusing alacrity
displayed in docking the poor brute of his
tail. No boy ever carried home his first
bee with greater glee than the Prince car
ried this tail. In vain Lord Charles
Bere9lord offered to relieve his royal
Prince positively refused’ to
it till he reached the carriage
tlic conveyance awaited him.
placing the trophy in the bottom
of the carriage His Royal Highness as
sumed the reins; but the horses, fidgety
by long waiting, disloyally declined to
answer the whip, and, as a matter of fact,
.jibbed our future king and all his para
phernalia into the ditch, from the depths
of which a voice was soon heard to ex
claim, ‘Charlie! Charlie!’—not ‘wha
wadna follow thee!’ hut—‘for God’s sake
take cars of my tail I’ ” ■
SNAKES FOR BARROOMS.
A Singular Industry Created by Fancy
Barroom Ornamentation.
A young man living in Birmingham,
says a New Haven special, has developed
anew industry and is making more than
a few dollars by it. He is somewhat of a
naturalist, and supplies barrooms and
museums with snakes, dead or alive. He
goes on his snake hunts at this season of
the year, tramping through the fields
with a box, a bottle of cioroform and a
sponge. When he finds one it takes but
a few minutes to master the reptile, which
is then placed in the box. On reaching
home, according to the state in which
they are wanted, he seals them up in jars
and bottles filled with alcohol, or places
them in cages and then sends them to his
customers. The demand is principally
for young ones, five or six inches long,
but occasionally a large blacksnake is
wanted. Last week he had a circus in
capturing a blacksnake five and a half
feet in length; but he was finally success
ful, and received ?25 for this fellow. For
rattlesnakes he obtains from $1 50 to $5.
They are quite fashionable for exhibition
in fancy barrooms, and he claims to have
had orders from Philadelphia for them to
a considerable extent.
j INDIANS OF ANCIENT BLOOD.
Interestinc Models of the Town* and
Houses of the Pueblos and Moquis—
Their Peculiarities.
Since the Bureau of Ethnology, under
the direction of Major Powell, began its
investigations into the characteristics
and mode of life of the aboriginal tribes
of North America, says a Washington
letter, some very interesting data con
cerning the Indians have been collected
and published in the annual reports of
the bureau, which are the most eagerly
sought after and highly prized of the gov
ernmental publications. The facts which
have been collected concerning the pueblo
and cliff-dwelling Indians of the South
west have been of particular value to the
student of antiquity and the ethnologist.
Col. Stephenson’ who has for several
years devoted his time to a systematic re
search into the mode of construction of
the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona,
started for the scene of his labors again
last night. He will continue the work of
last summer and will make a general eth
nological collection illustrative of the
customs and condition of the arts among
the present pueblo Indians. One of the
more interesting features will be a collec
tion of pottery, of which these people
make a great variety, skillfully decorated
and of elaborate aud tasteful designs.
Much ol this material will be sent by the
bureau to the New Orleans Exposition.
The National Musuem, iu which the
offices and workshops of the bureau are
situated, is being rapidly fitted up for the
purpose for which it was designed, but
there are still odd corners fenced off trom
the public gaze. In one of these divisions
p number of workmen are engaged under
the supervision of Mr. Victor Mindeleff
constructing a series of 'models of seven
pueblos of the province of Tusayan.
These towns are Te-wa, Se-chom-a-vi,
YVol-pi, Ma-shong-ni-vi, She-pan-el-e-vi,
Shi-mo-pa-vi, and O-rai-be, which were
visited by the Spaniards about the year
1540, and are still inhabited by descend
ants of the Indians whom Coronado then
saw. These models are being made from
the most accurate measurements and
plans, supplemented by sketches and
photographs of every detail which
were secured during the field season of
1883. The models are all being made to a
uniform scale sufficiently large to show
distinctly all the minor" features of the
architecture and construction, that have
been followed from time immemorial by
those interested and secluded groups of
men. They represent very faithfully the
character of the masonry in color and
texture. Many experiments were tried
before a substance could be found that
would properly represent the originals in
this respect, and at last a species of pa
pier mache, the basis of which is the
macerated greenbacks from the Treasury
Department, was hit upon. The seven
towns which it is the purpose of Mr.
Mendeleff to portray are built upon
the mesa or table lands of the moun
tains of Arizona, all upon the same plan.
Walls of stone cemented with mud sup
port beams upon which boughs and dried
grass are placed and covered with a
cement formed with mud. The houses
are generally rectangular in shape, and
are built to a height of four or live stories,
in the form of terraces, one upon the
other. Originally there were no means of
ingress or egress upon the ground floor,
admission being gained through doors in
the second story, reached by a ladder,
which was drawn up; in time of danger.
Recently, hotvever, since the advent of
the white man among them, some doors
have been cut in the lower stories. The
seven models described are nearly com
pleted and will be sent to the New Orleans
Exposition.
A series ol models of the ruins of the
cliff dwellings and the remnants of other
prehistoric architecture is being prepared
from the data secured during last season’s
field operations. The cliff ruins referred
to occur principally in Canon di Chelly,
in northeastern Arizona. These canons
have been formed in a soft stratified sand
stone, in the present instance to a depth
of nearly 1,000 feet. In the bottom of the
chasm a small stream known as the Rio
de Chelly is found. Overlooking this
stream, and perched upon the hard
ened ledges that have been left by
the erosion of the sandstone,
are seen numerous cliff ruins, varying
from a single room to clusters that would
easily accommodate several families.
| These are usually found grouped around
a central ruin or small pueblo, which is
built upon the flat of the canon bottom.
One of the models in course of prepara
tion illustrates one of the ruins of this
latter class, with its cliff dwelling over
looking it. YFherever the action of the
weather has formed a recess or alcove in
the vertical rock face these ancient build
ers have selected a site for the curious in
accessible structures. The architecture
of the prehistoric races, as well as the
pottery found among the relics, surpasses
in design and construction the work of
the modern Pueblo Indians.
All of the models will be sent to New
Orleans, and when the Exposition closes
there they will be returned to the National
Museum. They will undoubtedly attract
a great deal of attention, as they are the
only ones of the kind ever exhibited. One
model was made last year and is one of
the chief objects oi interest in the museum
to-day.
The seven towns mentioned above are
inhabited by the Moquis Indians. They
number about 2,000 souls, and are depen
dent upon agriculture and sheep raising
for their existence. The government
makes no provision for the Pueblo Indians
in the regular appropriation bills.
MILLIONS OF MONEY.
Sunken Treasure Ships Which May he
Made to Yield an Enormous Fortuue
to Their Discoverer.
A well-known Philadelphia citizen, J.
J. Boyle, says the Record, has juslTre
turned from Vigo, Spain, where he has
discovered, after a thorough and exhaus
tive exploration of the inner harbor of that
town, a fleet of sunken Spanish galleons,
supposed to contain not less than $20,000,-
000 in bullion, which he expects to rescue
from a watery depository. These galleons
are a portion of a fleet of treasury ships
sunk in the harbor in the early part of the
eighteenth century during a conflict be
tween the English and Hollandish war
ships and a French and Spanish fleet.
Mr. Boyle left Philadelphia several
months ago with a view to recovering
these sunken treasures, his enterprise
having been directed in that channel by
information imparted to him in a confi
dential manner. He not only located the
vessels but found many pieces of silver of
ancient coinage and other curiosities,
among which were some com that had been
washed almost as thin as a piece of paper
and thrown up on the rocks to a distance
of forty-five feet by the heavy surf which
was constantly breaking over the wrecks.
Mr. Boyle, as soon as he had located the
wrecks, secured the services of several
divers at Liverpool and work was begun
immediately upon the vessels, which had
rested undisturbed for nearly two hun
dred years. The galleons were huge
round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with
bulwarks three or four feet thick, ard
built up at the stem and stern like castles.
Two more sunken vessels were also dis
covered and examined north of the islands
of Bayona and Esteles, in Vigo Bay.
Mr. Boyle himself went down in a
diver’s suit to the treasure galleons sunk
in the inner harbor and found the vessels
covered with mutl to the depth of four or
five feet. The woodwork of the sunken
fleet he discovered to be in a sound condi
tion. The number of the sunken galleons
is not known, but the silver which is said
to be in the lower hold of the vessels is
supposed to be not less than $20,000,000.
Permission to recover this money has
been obtained from the Spanish Govern
ment, and work will be commenced im
mediately.
The Bull Disliked Dudes.
Baltimore A merican .
The Theodore Weems took a party to
Fair Haven yesterday. Shortly after they
landed and were promenading on the hill
side a dandy-looking masher, who was too
tired to climb, allowed himself to be
helped up by a very pretty girl, who had
a handsome sun umbrella, fringed with
lace and lined with red. All of a sudden
a young Durham bull, which was being
led with a rope by a farmer, made a plunge
for the couple. The farmer tried to hold
him, but he could not. The sweet girl
screamed and the dude shouted. The bull
rushed at the girl and then at the dude.
The farmer could not tell what frightened
the bull, as he was dragged along" at the
end of the rope. First he saw the girl and
her red lined parasol,and then the dude and
bis slim legs. It must have been the legs,
for the bull dashed from the farmer and
ran the dude up a cherry tree, where he
kept him until a crowd ot deck hands got
him on board.
Nicholas Pfohl, ot Syracuse, N. Y., ad
vertised for a housekeeper the other day, and
married the woman who answered the adver
tisement after an hour’s acquaintance. Two
week3 later his wife ran away and now he
thinks he will spell his name with a double
“o”—Pfoohl. —Lotcell Courier.
SPOTTERS OF VARIOUS GRADES.
Mysterions Men who are Seen Standing
Around for No Apparent Purpose.
There are many men in New York, says
{ the Sun, whose business is to be “spot
ters.” They range all the way from high
priced detectives down to the employes of
the street car and stage companies, and
the miscreants who earn a precarious liv
ing by seeking or manufacturing informa
tion lor divorce cases. Spotters are easi
ly recognizable. They are known to very
many people outside of those by whom
they are employed. This is particularly
the case with the men who keep a close
watch upon the stage drivers. There are
half a dozen of them scattered along
Broadway, Fifth avenue and Fulton
street, and they seem to pass their lives
in laziness. It is their duty to count the
persons on the roofs of the stages and to
keep some sort of a tally of the passen
gers inside. They are" usually rough
looking men, who wear clothes that have
been faded by the sun and the dust of the
streets, and they are seldom seen talking
to any one. Every stage driver in New
York’knows a spotter as far as he can see
him. The proprietors of one of the stage•
lines often take a light buggy or road
wagon and drive down Broadway at night
after business hours. They never were
known, however, to catch a driver in any
wrongdoing, for the drivers have a code
of signals, and the approach of the “boss”
in a light wagon is sigualed for blocks
ahead. The meu who drive the New Y’ork
stages are grizzled and experienced.
They know the town from one end to the
other, and are seldom caught napping.
They are the most expert drivers on Broad
wax’.
There was a spotter on Fifth avenue a
year are so ago who became very popular
with the children and the nursemaids on
his particular block. He was a jolly, red
faced, burly man, perhaps 50 years of age,
who looked like a retired sea captain.
He had a cheery w’ord for every driver as
he passed. He told the children stories,
spoke sweetly to the nurses, and event
ually married a cook in one of the Fifth
avenue houses.
The detectives who are occasionally
seen lounging about make no such ac
quaintances. When they_have to watch a
house they will stand on‘the nearest cor
ner and keep it in view for eight or ten
hours at a stretch. No one who has not
tried it can imagine the tediousuess of
such a vigil. It is a matter of business,
however, xvith the detectives, and they be
come accustomed to it. Their presence in
a residence neighborhood gradually at
tracts attention, and they soon become
conspicious. A Central Office detective
told the writer once that it amused him
very much to observe how quickly people
noticed the presence of a stranger, even
in such a city of strangers as New York
is to-day. He was then watching a house
on Madison avenue between Thirty-third
and Thirty-second streets. He stationed
himself on the southeast corner of Thirty
third street and Madison avenue, on which
there is a large house. He was xvaiting
lor the brother of a servant girl to visit
her at a house further down the block. The
brother was wanted and they hoped to
catch him there. When the detective
first took his stand on the corner it was
about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. He stood
there unnoticed until dinner time, when a
maid across the street came to the dinning
room windows to close the blinds. She
saw him, and a few moments later came
back with her mistress, and they both
looked over at him somewhat suspicious
ly. A few moments later a girl in a house
on the opposite corner tripped up the
street to mail a letter, and stared wfith
pronounced suspicion at the man, who
had then been for three hours on one cor
ner. The detective strol led across street,
and, looking back at th' house he hod
just left, saw the head of the chamber
maid projecting from the tip story of the
house. She had evidently been watching
him for some time. As the night advanced
he found it necessary to keep nearer the
house that he was watching; but ho found
that all around the block tbe servantgirls
were watching him. When he resumed
his watch the next day the same interest
was shown in him, and tvhen the police
man on post passed along at 8 o’clock
that night he xx as stopped by a lady, in a
house near the corner, who asked who the
suspicious-looking man was who had been
hanging aroung for two days. The de
tective remained in tbe vicinity for five
days before he caught hi3 man.
The spotters of tho railroad lines board
every car, note the number of passengers
in a "small book, and make their returns
at night. Their work is much livelier
than that of the men who pursue long
vigils on Broadway for various purposes.
One ol these men was asked a few
days since whether he didn’t find it very
monotonous standing in one place so long.
“Well, no,” he said, cheerfully, “it
ain’t as bad as it seems. When you first
start into the business it seems like hard
work, aud you find standing still a good
deal more tiresome than actual labor. It
catches you in the small of the back.
Just try to stand up three or four hours
some time when y >u have nothing partic
ular to do with your hands and arms, and
you will find at the end of a day that you
feel as completely fagged out as though
you had walked 25 miles. Y’our should
ers feel heavy; the back of your neck feels
as though it had an iron bar laid across
it, and you can’t for the life of you stand
easily upon your legs. But you get more
and more accustomed to it, until you can
rest just as w r ell standing up as sitting
down. I can stand on my feet ten hours
and never feel it if 1 have a good, thick
pair of boots and a dry place to stand. If
you stand in the wet, though, you get
rheumatism. As for amusement,"there is
nothing on earth so amusing as Broad
way. Y’ou can stand still and the whole
show will pass you, and it won’t cost you
a cent. A spotter’s life isn’t all pie, but
it ain’t so bad as it might be.”
IN THE DEPTHS.
Thirty-Two Pounders and Anchors that
Lie at the Bottom of Gibraltar Bay.
Tidings have lately reached us, says
the London Telegraph, that a diver en
gaged in submarine operations off the
coast opposite to Gibraltar has discov
ered from 80 to 100 guns, which seem to
be 21 and 32-pounders, and also two large
anchors, lying at the bottom of that his
torical bay. They are supposed to have
belonged to some large line-of-battle ship
which sank in the old war, possibly after
the battle of Trafalgar. It is to be hoped
that the apparatus necessary for lifting
from the ocean bed what may possibly be
testimonies of the prowess of Nelson or
Colling wood will not be grudged by the
British Admiralty of to-day. A mere
glance at these old-tashioned guns will suf
fice to establish whether they are of Eng
lish or, as seems more probable, of French
or Spanish manufacture. We can scarce
ly expect that they constituted part of
the armament carried by that mighty
armada which set forth from Cadiz, and
from every other Spanish harbor of
of the first class, to convert Queen Bess
and her heretical subjects from the error
of their ways. At the instance, probably,
of the inhabitants of Plymouth, where
Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher refused to
put to sea until they had finished their
game of bowls, although the Duke of
Medina Sidonia was reported, at the head
of 130 vessels, to be bearing down upon
the Devonshire coast, we shall be cele
brating in four years from the present
time the three hundredth anniversary of
the greatest and most important sea vic
tory ever won by Englishmen upon the
element which from that time to this we
have called our own, and upon which
since the death of Nelson our supremacy
has been undisputed. The petty squadron
of 30 ships of tne line with* which Eliza
beth opposed the overwhelming force of
her Spanish antagonists was no match in
guns and weight of metal for the tower
ing vessels, disposed in the form of a holf
moon and stretching seven miles in
length, which the hardy sailors, immor
talized by Charles Kingsley, set forth
from Plymouth to encounter. Of that
great and seemingly irresistible array no
more than 53 ships were spared to make
their way back to Spain, which, indeed,
they reached in a wretched condition. It
is by no means impossible that a vessel
which took part in the Spanish armada
may have sunk in 1588 off the Rock of
Gibraltar, but the guns which she carried
could not have been 24 or 32-pounders.
We must turn to more recent wars to
account for the discovery just made in
those troubled waters, which have so
often echoed to the thunders of the mod
ern mistress of the waves. We have,
indeed, a long list of naval battles from
which to make our choice. The history
of Gibraltar itself, from the day when in
1701 the famous rock was torn from the
grasp of Spain by Sir George Rooke, sup
plies abundant material for explaining
the hidden treasures which an accident
has just discovered. Such were the capa
bilities for resistance offered by the im
pregnable fortress in 1704 that Sir George
Rooke lost*no fewer than 280 men in car
carrying the defenses, which were man
ned by a Spanish garrison not exceeding
150 soldiers in strength.
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