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The scarcity of gentlemen at a neigh
boring summer resort was so apparent
that a Boston lady telegraphed to her
husband: “George, bring down a lot of
beaus for the hop this evening.” Thanks
to the telegraph operator, George ar
rived with a “pot of beans.’’—Boston
Conner.
Wanted a Parole. —A thief was ar
rested in Louisville, Ky., on the day
liefore the opening of the Exposition.
He offered SI,OOO for a parole nnlil
after the show, as he had confidently ex
pected to pick a large number of ru b
pockets and disliked to have his plans
frustrated.
Staple Food.—lt is an error to sup
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next to nothing but macaroni. Not a
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VOL. X.
THE PHANTOM SHIP.
The anchor's weighed, tho harbor past,
Vway ! away ! the ship flies fast.
Hie skipper's wife is at his side,
In fear sho scans the darkening tide.
"Fear not,” quoth he; “thou'rt safo with me,
Though the fiend himself should sail tho sea!’
And merrily ho ! the breezes blow,
Over the sea the ship doth go.
Hie sea grew black, the wind blew high;
“A ship ! A ship!” the sailors cry;
Down sank the blood-red smi in flame,
Hut nearer still the vessel came.
She had no sails, no oars, no crew
Hut nearer, nearer still sho flew.
('no lone dark man on deck they see,
They can hear him laughing mockingly.
The skipper stood with frozen stare,
His men were white with wild despair;.
The tempest shrieked, the sea wa* flame,
And nearer still the strange ship came.
Down knelt the skipper’s wife and prayed.
“God of the sailors, send us aid.”
Each stouy sailor bent his knee:
Save ns, O Lord ! we cry to Thee !"
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the spell is done 1
The phantom ship is gone, is gone 1
The winds are fair, and fair the tide;
The skipper’s wife is at his side.
He holds her hand, ho cannot speak,
V tear rolls down his jugged check,
And merrily ho ! the breezes blow.
Over the n.a the ship doth go.
Fbkdehick E. Weatijwbt.y
Our Kir.st Difficulty.
Roliert'nnd I had boon married eight
een mouths before we seriously disagreed
n any tiling. Our life during that line
had not been n season of perfect bliss us
some would lmvc it, but wo certainly
ind been happy— I ha happy I think as
my can before reaching Paradise, and
alien our baby came, it seemed ns if oni
-up was full to overflowing. I like, even
now, to dwell on the joy of thoso days
aheu 1 was first n mother, and ns for
Robert, I think there never was a proud
r or more affectionate father tlmn he.
“Well, Esther,” he would say when lie
name in at night, “wo are not rich in
houses nod lands as some are; hut we
are rich ii our daughter; she is liko wis
dom, for sire is more precious than
rubies.”
But 1 know that the fond praise of
doting parents is but emptincss to others,
-o I will not tire you by repeating all lie
.aid. It was not idle talk to mo, how
ever; no praise to my imagination was
100 great for my little one, my May
11loss mas ] called her, for sho came t
us in the merry month of May. Never,
we both agreed, was there a child s<
wonderful as onrs, and before the tilth
(ranger had been with us a month, w.
had laid many brilliant plans for hei
future.
But I am wandering from my story.
Wo wero living in Kansas, far away
from both Robert’s relations and inx
own. We hail not, therefore, axis gen
erally the case, a host of aunts, uncles
ami cousins to urge that the child should
bo named according to their fancy. S'
it come to pass that our lady was noarh
two months old before tho subject had
been debated. Rut one day, how well I
remember it, Robert said, as he tossed
her in his arms for a final good-by he
foro returning to tho store, “Esther,
don’t you think it’s .bout timo this
maiden of ours hail a name of her own ?
Wilson was askiug mo this morning
ivliat we hail decided to call her, and 1
told him I supposed we thought her
good enough without a name, for we had
never spoken about it.”
“Mr. Wilson's child was named before
lie was a week old, so I don’t wonder
that he thinks ns rather tardy,”
said I.
“Well, what shall it bo, Esther?
Rosamond or Rachel? Rridget or Jo
anna? Kate or Arabella? Or haven't
you thought of the matter yet ?”
“Onr child’s name was decided in my
own mind long ago,” I answered, and
then for some reason I cannot account
for, I hesitated, though I certainly had
no idea of what was to follow.
“Well, let us hear it. It is something
extraordinary, I suppose; nothing less
would suit our darling.”
“It is Mary,” I said.
“Mary! surely yon must be joking.
Ton can’t mean it, Esther !”
“Why not?” I asked, the blood rush
ing to my face involuntarily.
“So you have a Byronic passion for
the name of Mary. Well, I must ac
knowledge that I am entirely free from
it. But seriously, Esther, you cannot
think of calling our daughter by that
i name ?”
“But I do think of it,” I responded,
“and I cannot imagine what objection
you can have, for almost every one
agrees that there is no sweeter name.”
My husband's face grow dark.
“Any name but that, Esther; yon
might as well not name the child at all.
Hardly a family of any size in the coun
try but lias a Mary among its members.
; But I can't talk any longer now; I shall
i Itc late as it is. Look in the directory,
i and find something else that suits you,
| and tell me at tea.”
And he kissed both baby and me, and
was gone.
I can hardly tell yon what my feelings
were during the long hours of that af
i fernoon. It is true that my husband
■ and I hail differed before in matters of
raste or opinion, but it had been com
paratively easy to yield them. My
child's name, however, was a different
matter. I could not remember the time
alien I had not looked forward to call
my oldest daughter by the name of
Mary. My doll-babies, one and all, had
been called by it. It was dear to me
above every ether name—and now to
iUMMERVILLE GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1883.
give it ■ up—“ Never, I cannot, and I
shall not 1” I said firmly to myself.
At tho ten-table that evening, we dis
cussed a variety of topics, but both
avoided, as if by common consent, tlie
one subject nearest our hearts. When
the meal was over, however, and we sat
together near our littlo one’s cradle,
Robert commenced:
“Well, Esther, have you found any
name this afternoon that pleased you ?
I’ve been thinking tho matter over, and
I've oomo to tho conclusion that Laura
\nd Evelyn suit me very well—Lnura
Evelyn Spencer. How do you like it ?’’
“I like both names well enough,” I
answered coldly, "hut there is only one
name for our daughter, and that I have
told you. It ii*4ny mother’s name, ns
you know, Robert, and I have always
sdd that my first daughter should be
my mother’s namesake, but I novel
dreamed that you would fool so about it,”
[ continued, ready to cry, yet keeping
the tears hack by a great effort.
“If your mother was not living,
Esther, thcro would be some reason for
your feeling so, but as it is ’’
“If my mother was dead, I would not
care so much about it, for it then could
afford her no pleasure,” I cried.
“If it were any name but Mary, I
would consent, even though it did no,
I lease me,’’said Robert. “Como Esther,
bo reasonable; there are so many pretty
names, and Mary, besides being so com
mon, is to me tho very essenco of plain
ness.”
But my mind was made up, and 1
would not listen.
“Sho is your daughter, as well a;
mine, Robert,” I said, “and, of course-,
you will niimo her to suit yourself, bin
to me, she eiui never be any other thai.
what I have said.”
How our conversation would liavt
ended I cannot tell, but fortunately f<>>
both of us, it was interrupted by caller:
who spent the evening with us, and to
the time being our dispute and its cautk
were forgotten.
At breakfast tho next morning tli
subject was not once alluded to in evei
tho most remote way, and at noon am
in tho evening it was the same.
Another day came and went, and stil
another, and yet not a word was said.
Our table-talk was no longer the pleas
ant pastime it had once been, for w
found it difficult to sustain a eonv. rs:
lion on tonics of minor interest.
tho one subject which engrossed our
hearts and minds was tabooed.
“Behold how great a matter a little
fire kindleth 1”
As day after day passed away, and tine
week drew to a close, a heavy weight
settled on my heart. My husband ap
peared a different person to me. II
Beemed to me that a great gulf had
come between us; even baby, who before,
had been associated only with the
purest, deepest joy, seemed olinnged. I
could not take her in my arms without
thinking of what I chose to call my
trouble.
Friday morning came. It was a love-'
Iy, sunshiny day; but it seemed to ino
tho dreariest ever sun rose upon.
“Who would think Robert could be
so obstinate?” I said to myself, as I
rocked my little one to sleep.
Just before noon onr pastor called. T
was so ill at ease that it was with diffi
culty that I sustained ray part in thfs
conversation. suppose he noticed m,y
agitation, for he inquired if J were we,
as usual. For an instant I felt half in
dined to tell him all. It seemed as if i
would boa relief to open my heart t<
someone; but a feeling of pride re
strained me.
Robert seemed unusually silent at din
ner, and I fancied he was looking pah
and ill. Ho kissed tho baby, but die
not toss her in tho air and play with hci
as ho generally did; as for myself, ever;
word I spoke cost mo an effort. Whei
Robert hail gone, I took my little girlii
my arms anil rocked her to sleep, then I
threw myself in tho chair again, ani
silently brooded over my unhappiness
It seemed I > me that a good hearty crx
would be a luxury, but it was a luxury
in which I had determined I would no:
indulge.
The time passed slowly away, and I
began to wonder why baby did not
wake. I wont over to tho cradle. Ifei
face was flushed, and I thought lie,
breathing yery unnatural. “What it
our darling should be ill?” I cried, niu
then with a chill at my heart, “ What il
God should take from us the cause ol
our dispute?”
At that thought a groat revulsion of
feeling came over me, I knelt down by
my baby’s crailla and wept unrestrain
edly.
“After all," I thought, “is it not nat
ural that Robert should not care to hove
his child givon so common a name as
Mary ? And what right liavo Ito deej-te
without consulting him what her nenii
should be? Oh, if he would oniy
come I”
I took baby in my arms and went to
tlie window to look for him. Then I re
membered his paleface at dinner.
“If anything should happen I should
never forgive myself,” I said.
At last I heard his footsteps on the
stairs; I laid baby down and just rusher
to meet him.
“Oh, Robert 1” I cried, as I threw m
arms around his neck, “name her Lam a
or anything you please, but do let n
loveeich other again.”
He kissed me in silence, and tin ;
went into the parlor. In an instant he
came out, bringing with him my father's
wedding gift—a large family Diblo.
He opened it, and turning to the
Family Record, pointed to a line undei
the hea lof Births, It was this: Man
Evelyn Spencer, born May 19, 1855.
‘1 wrote it this noon,” he said.
I cannot tell wliat happened next, for
[ really do not know; but 1 have bail
seven children siuco then, and they
have all boon named without the least
particle of trouble between their father
and mother, and in closing this lit tie ac
count of our first real difficulty, I thank
Ood that I am enabled to declare it was
not only our first, but our last,
i iisvv no ami lal, though i-vor so great,
Sor scorn l a wretch ftir Ids lowly estate;
lint what I abhor, anil esteem as a curse,
Is poorness of spirit, not poorness of purse.
Pauper Emigration.
"(lath,” in tlio Cincinnati Enquirer,
gives tho following interview with one of
tlie Imigration Commissioners in New
York city. “This matter of pauper em
igration from Europe to tho United
States is becoming a serious thing. In
tlie aggregate it entails a great deal of
expense on tho American people,
through their location; and, besides, it
admits unknown and sinister vagabonds,
thieves and people who spread disease.
In Europe the United States is regarded
as a short-sighted nation for being so
indifferent aliout the basis of its citizen
ship being tainted by these degrading
elements."
“Arc tlioso people sent over as a mat
ter of economy merely.”
“That is all. Yon see it costs perhaps
280 francs a year, or S4G, to support a
criminal in Switzerland, while it only
costs 100 francs, or $32, to sent, tho same
man by rail to tho port of Havre and
thence to America. There is a clear
saving, therefore, of one-half or more to
get the fellow off to America and have
him out of the way.”
“Who ships him ?”
“It is done by nil emigration agent
having relations with ono of tho steam
ship lines; that is to say, not a steamship
agent exactly, but a man who has n com
mission for selling a ticket. They make
about seventeen francs, or $3.50 foi
every fellow they ship to tho United
States hi this way, and tho agent works
in with tho communal officers. The
Swiss Republic intends no such in
justice.
"Do wo not also get first-class emigra
tion from Switzerland ?”
“Yes, of course; and a largo majority
of the Bwiss emigrants arc among the
heat of all our acquisitions from Europe.
They are intelligent, industrious, frugal,
law-abiding and trained in tho duties
anil responsibilities of republican citizen
ship. Of such emigrants this country
cannot have too many. They aro mak
ing the waste places of tho south anil
west ‘blossom like tho rose.’ There are
more citizens of Bwiss birth and paront
ago in tho United Btales than in all other
foreign oountries combined, and the re
lations between tho Federal government
at Washington and Berne, are, as you
know, closo and cordial.”
All Together.
A pretty girl leaning on the arm of n
good-looking young man walked intooni
of the summer theatres tho other even
ing anil took seats near tho stage. In
front of them was a portly gentleman anil
iis wife.
Suddenly tho gentleman turned around
md, looking at the girl, exclaimed :
“What, you, Minnie 1 Ah ! Mr. Moore,
[ believe.”
“Yes, doctor,” said tho young man,
nervously, “I thought your noice would
like to boo tlie play.”
“ Very kind of you,” replied tho doc
tor.
“Dear me,” said Minnie now, with a
blush, “I wish we had seats all together,
uncle.”
The doctor thought for a moment and
then a bright thonght found expression
in his face. “I want to talk to yon,
Minnie, and Mr. Moore wants to sco my
wife about those pictures wo wero talk
ing about tho other night. Now, Mr.
Moore, you and I change seats.
“Oh, yos,” said tho elderly lady.
“Oh, ain’t it tixi much trouble for
you, uncle ?” queried the pretty girl.
“Not the slightest, my dear girl,” and
the doctor got up.
It is slrango, but tho girl pronounced
tho play shocking when the curtain
went down, and the young man declared
it a bore, and yet tho doctor and his
wife liked it immensely.
One THIRD OF THE POPULATION l f
of the Union is contained within the
boundaries of five States, which form a
compact section of country between
tho Atlantic Ocean anil tho Mississippi
River. Now York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois have over 17,000,000
inhabitants, according to tho census of
• 881, and if Missouri is added to the
chain—making 20,000,000 inhabitants
—the six largest States in the Union arc
to form one unbroken band. In variety of
resources and business interests, as well
ns in strength of population, they are of
themselves an empire.
Teacher— “ What do you learn by the
translation of the prophet Elisha ?’
Dull boy—“ That he saved his funeral
expenses.” Teacher (severely)
“James 1” Dull boy—“ That’s wot my
pa says; he’s an undertaker, he is, and
I guess he knows. Pa ’lows ho wouhln t
like to have folks go off that way nowa
days,”
In Mobile Bay.
In describing tho groat battle of Mo
bile Ray, Commander Malian gives an
excellent account of tho Confederate ram
Tennessee and her consorts, of tho torpe
does which formed so great a part of tho
dofonso, and also of tho monitors in Far
ragnt’s fleet.
In his plan Farrngnt wished to com
bine a westerly wind and the flood-tide
—tho former iu order that the smoko
might blow toward Fort Morgan; tho
latter because it would help any crippled
ships into tho harbor, whitlior ho was
resol veil to go, and also because "ho
had noticed that tho primers of tho bar
rel torpedoes were closo together on top,
ami thought it likely that when tho flood
tido straightened out their mooring-lines
tho tops would bo turned away from tho
approaching ships. As at Now Orleans
tho preparations were left very much to
tho commanders of ships.” In the order
of bnttle tho wooden ships were lashed
in couples, and the four monitors were
in n column abreast of tlie loaders. Tho
Brooklyn was allowed to head tho attack
with Captain James Alilen. Hardly hud
the battle opened when tho iron-clad
Tecumseh, Commander Craven, made
straight for tho Tennessee, but, before
reaching her, struck a concealed torpedo
and went down head foremost.
“It was then that Craven did one of
those deeds that should bo always linked
with tlio door’s name, ns Sydney’s is
with tho 011)1 of cold water. The pilot
and ho instinctively made for the narrow
opening loading to tho turret below
Craven drew bnck. ‘After you pilot,’ he
said. There was no afterward for him;
tho pilot was saved, but he went down
with his ship.”
This notion was full of gallant deeds.
Among them was that of Ensign 11. C.
Nielils, who at tho greatest risk, steered
nn open boat from tlio Metacomot to
ward tho wreck of tho Tecumseh anil
saved ton mon; eleven others had saved
themselves, making twenty-one out of a
crew of one hundred. Lieutenant Com
mander Jouett distinguished himself
greatly, ns did Captain Drayton, of the
Hartford, and many others, while Far
ragut’s own conduct in pushing ahead
despito the torpedoes Ims become im
mortal. As for Admiral Buchanan, on
the Tennessee, lie proved himself an ad
versary worthy of tho conqueror. The
fight lasted hut a little more than an
hour, but it determined tho fate of the
port, as tho forts surrendered a few
days later, and the fall of Mobile was
affected afterward by tho co-operation
of tho army.
HOW TO PREVEST STRIKES.
Finn Proponed by n Prominent Kx-OA.VInI
For tho KHilrninilN of IMhiiiHt*.
A Washington dispatch says: The
present status of the strike of telegraph
operators excites a good deal of interest
here. Tho effort to extend it to the rail
road operators is regarded with consid
erable apprehension, effecting so gener
ally, ns it is believed it would, tho busi
ness and commercial interests of the
country. It is telieveil that such a
climax would raise more effectually than
ever before tho issue between capital
and labor, and that tho public would
finally have to interfere and prevent a
demoralization of its commercial inter
ests by settling tho questions at issue.
A prominent ex-officer of the Govern
ment, who has occupied a high posi
tion in the Administration anil in poli
tics, said to your correspondent recent
ly that this issue is one that will soonei
or later claim the attention of Congress.
The welfare' of the country demanded
(hat the issues so frequently beingraiseil
between capital and labor by combina
tions nnil strikes should ho settled by
arbitration established and regulated by
law. He believed in labor having a gen
erous reward, but the endeavor to secure
this by strikes resulting in tho suspen
sion of important commercial interests
and otherwise tending to demoralize the
country should be prevented by legisla
tion. Tho growth and oppressive meas
ures of monopolies were no less to be
dreaded tlmn labor combinations, which
aro increasing and becoming moro and
more powerful every year.
Ho favors the establishment by law of
a labor bureau i Washington to Bettlc
all differences arising between employer
and employee. Tho laborer should ap
}>eal to this bureau, whose decisions
would create public sentiment and ex
ercise a sort of moral suasion upon cor
porations in granting just and reasonable
demands made upon them by their em
ployees. If this bureau hail no legal
right to establish rates of compensation
to employees it would at least have n
wholesome moral effect in preventing
the numerous strikes, whoso evils are so
diversified and widespread, The gen
tleman thinks that a bill providing foi
the establishment of such a bureau will
very likely lie introduced and pressed
next Congress.
In discussing the mother-in-law ques
.ion the Boston Tramcript culls at
tention to the fact that there was one
.named man who never hail a mother-iu
lmv. His name was Adam, and he had
not been married twenty-four hours be
fore he got into tronble. If ho had had
p mothen-in-law, she would have kept a
elose watch over the apples, and neither
Eve ueir Adam would have got a chance
at them.— Detroit Fret Fret*,
TIIE FIRST 1 El,Kb It A I’ll.
Inlrrrailnf Incldci.tN Ui'lnlt'il h> Mu* Ohlpal
Nwrviviiitf OprriUoi'N.
While so much is bciug said and writ
ten about the present striko of the tele
graph operators and tho magnitude of
tlio business interests involved with
thoso of the telegraph companies, the
stories of the “first striko,” and of tlio
first telegraph lines in tho United States,
told by ono of tho first telegraph opera
tors, oannot fail to bo of interest to tho
public. “Tho operator” was fonnd ill
the porson of Captain Louis M. Clios
teau, who now comniauds tho Park
guard, but who is also an old journalist.
Captain Oliasteau readily consented to
give the desired hiformatiorf, and with
no memorandum excepting his appoint
ment as one of tho operators for tho
mngnetio telegraph company ho said:
“Tho first telegraph line in this country
was constructed betweon Baltimore and
Washington about the year 1845, under
an appropriation made by Congress.
Professor Snmnol F. B. Morse, the in
ventor of tho "Morso Alphaliet,” was
superintendent of the line, Alfred Vail
was assistant superintendent at Balti
more, Lewis Zantzinger was operator at
Washington, and I was operator at Bal
timore. All of thoso I have men
tioned are now dead, so that I am tho
oldest operator in tho United States.
Tlio lino was of copper wire covered or
wrapped with cotton. Tho instruments
were all very largo, tlie relay magnet
being kept in a box threo feet long,
which was always kept carefully locked,
tho assistant superintendent keeping the
key.
No insulators wore known nt that time
but sealing wax, glass, oilod silk and a
very miserable preparation of nsplialtum.
i'lio magnets that covoroil tho horse
• lioo iron were covered with sealing
wax and there were no such things ns
thumbscrews to connect two wires. All
connections were mnde by glass tubes
tilled with mnreury, and the operator in
handling these, in case of a thunder
storm, hold in thoir hands largo pieces
of oilod silk. Our hours of service were
V
from three to nine a. m., ono to two
p. m. and from five to six p. m. I re
member tho first arrest which the teh -
graph enabled the authorities to make
was that of a negro, who was a ward
room servant of a naval officer. The
follow took the train from Baltimore and
was arrested on alighting from the cars
at Washington by Detective Cook. The
officer placed his hand on tho negro’s
shoulder and said: ‘I will take that
money and jewelry you stole from Com
modore 1’ The colored man was
badly frightened, and with tho anxious
query: ‘How do you know dat ?’ handed
over tho stolon property. The Con
gressmen would tolegraph from Balti
more to the Washington hotels at which
they had been stopping to know the
amount of their bills. The answers
were considered to lie a wonderful test
of tlie accuracy of the telegraph. In
fact, at first sight it was little more than
a plaything. Our principal business
consisted in sending tho names of per
sons to Washington; tlie operator there
would write it hack, and the paper bear
ing the indentation would be handed to
tho party, together with a card upon
which the Morse alphabet was printed.
The experimenter was then expected to
decipher tho writing at his leisure."
A Fraud.
John Mornnda was a successful fraud
ulent hero for n week in Salt Lake city.
He curried one arm in asling, ariilsaid that
he had hurt it by a fall. Then his con
federate, William Naylor, came forward
with a thrilling account of being robbed
by highwaymen, who would have mur
dered him had not Moranda gallantly
fought them off. "He’s so modest that
he lied about his arm,” Naylor added;
“it is wounded by a bullet. The scoun
drels took my last dollar, but as soon as
I get a remittance from New York he’s
got to tako his reward.” Both men
wore lavishly entertained while pretend
ing to wait for the draft, and they found
it easy to borrow several hundred dollars
before tho time came for disappearing.
Exthavaoancb in speech is, of course,
very reprehensible, but it occasionally
serves to present with emphasis and
force a truth which might otherwise fail
to make a duo impression. Thus, re
cently, when a number of men were
talking about an individual of their ac
quaintance who hail tho reputation of
being rather “closo” in financial matters
and unduly fond of money, one of the
party said: "I Blionld think he was
rather close, indeed. Why, I was in
my office the other day, when ho came
in to see me on some business. An old
fushioned copper cent was lying on my
desk, and tho moment he saw it his face
lighted up and he reached over for it
and clutched it so hard that ho bent it
right up double, and afterward I had to
hammer it out to straighten it. Oi
course, an instant’s reflection caused
him to relax liis grip and apologize and
say something about second nature, but
the incident gave a fair insight into the
character of tho man.” And all the
others agreed that there wasn’t much
exaggeration in the story.
A new Kentucky law fixes the legal
distance between a church and tho near
est saloon at a mile. We’re afraid this
leaves mighty few spots in Kentucky
where it’* legal to build a church.
THROUGH COLORADO.
A TRAVEI.ER’H UNIQUE DESCRIPTION.
What was Hera aa the Trip, With a Few
Krai ark. by tlie Way.
Since I came into Colorado I have
played at snow-boll with John Sutman
on the last day of July. I have seen
ladies scrape away tho snow and pick
flowers from the ground under the
mow, and I havo scon red ripe straw
berries picked from green bushes after
kicking off a footof snow from over them-
This is at Alpine I’ass.
I have Been men on horseback along
tho railroad tracks, where wo havo men
afoot, ns track-walkers; have soon these
horsemen draw out a red flag, and ride
back a dare-devil gallop over the tics to
flag a train.
I havo seen tho ticket agent at Mar
shal's Pass, 10,725 foet attitude sitting
by a roaring tiro iu his office, July 30,
while outside the ladies of our excursion
were gathering wild flowers and berries,
thermometer forty-four degrees iu tho
shade.
I havo seen the adobe houses of the
Mexicans at Pueblo, wherein was more
dirt and filth than ever dreamed of by
an Eastern family; wherein men, wom
en, girls and visitors aliko sleep under
straw on a olny floor, in the one room
which was aliko kitchen, parlor and bed
room. I havo soon Mexican girls with
castanets dancing a fandango, wearing
nothing hut a few sunflowers in their
long black liair, unabashed in the pres
ence of a hundred onlookers.
I have seen in tho streets of twenty
saloon towns open gambling hells, with
a sign abovo the door, "Cards and
Rum.” I havo seen on the streets of
Denver Bplendid houses, tho occupation
of whose female inmates ’was only too
plainly indicated by a transparency gas
lnmp suspended in the vestibule.
I haVe seen mountains of rooks thou
sands of foet high, with tho stones ar
ranged layer upon layer as if built by a
mason, as regularly and carefully laid,
nnd I have been standing in tho middle
of a plain, a flat stone, on its edgo 330
feet to tho top. And I have seen in the
Royal Gorge a mountain over 2,000
feet high, and seeming ono big solid
rock.
NO. 3L
I have seen, and hnve in my satchel,
specimens of coal brought from the same
mountain, one from an anthraeito vein
proving up eighty-nine percent, carbon,
and another of bituminous coal from a
vein eight feet thick, and from a tested
field of 3,600 acres and owned by one
man.
I have seen a girl, dashing over the
plains on horseback, dismount to pick a
bouquet for her hat, and, calling her
Newfoundland dog, step on his back and
remount.
I have scon an open Bible lying on an
elegantly carved oak altar at tho en
trance of a rum shop and gambling don
at Leadvillo, and abovo the Bible a sign
painted, saying: ‘Tlease, Kind Friends,
Don’t Swear.” Think of such nn appeal,
made in such a way, by the koeper of a
drinking den!
I have ridden in a palace ear on the
Rio Grande railrond, tho name of which,
painted oil its side in gilt letters, was
“The Blood of Jesus,” followed by an
other car named “Heart of the Saviour.”
I have traveled nearly 2,000 miles
over territory west of tho Missouri
in a land which my mind had peopled
with Indians, and have not seen a single
Indian on the whole trip—not one— ex
cept two filthy squaws on the station
platform at Cheyenne.
Black Sea Pirates.
Ailvioes from Odessa, via. St. Peters
burg, bring the details of a formidable
system of fraud which has just been
brought to light hi connection with the
shipping trade. The straits of Kertch,
or Yenikalo, are one of the most danger
ous passages of the Black Sea, and of
late years the number of vessels wrecked
on the adjoining coasts had reached au
extraordinary aggregate. The English
insurance companies have paid indemni
ties amounting to many millions of
rubles.
Attention has, however, been drawn to
the fact that a great many of these dis
asters occurred in calm weather, and
other suspicious circumstances are no
ticed, snch as fortunes rapidly made by
some of tho pilots. Information was
sent to London'that an individual named
Francesco, a former pilot, of Italian
origin, was the head of a band of pirates
of various nations—Englishmen, Italians,
Greeks and Russians—who modo their
living by the disasters on the coast.
They were in collusion with the pilots
and charged hugo sums for assisting the
vessels which tho pilots suffered to go
ashore.
In less than two years fifty vessels
were stranded and had recourse to the
assistance of those pirate salvors. An
English marine insurance company, on
learning those facts, sent one of its
agents to Odessa to lay the matter be
fore the authorities. A preliminary in
quiry has fully confirmed the suspicions
of the public, and it is said some govern
ment officials aro compromised in the
matter.
Neal Dow tells of a Boston tragedy
that-never came to the knowledge of the
police or the newspaper reporters until
he gave the information as part of a total
abstinence argument. A gentleman of
fortune and high social position was a
moderate drinker. He went home m a
state of great exaltation, and his little
boy ran to the door to greet him. The
father caught him up playfully, swing
ing him about furiously, in his semi-de
lirium, and the little fellow’s temple
came into contact with the comer of a
marble table, killing him. The mother
shrieked and fell to the floor, and tne
father staggered off to a bed upon which
he threw himself, and was soon in •
state of drunken stupor,