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FART TWO.
GREAT NAVAL PARADE.
THK INTERNATIONAL DISPLAY OF
WARSHIPS.
Bear Admiral Ghernrdi’s Task— As
sembling of an International Fla t.
The Vessels to 3a There—From
Hampton Roads to Now York—Bunt
ing, Tare and Myriads of Spectators.
Thunderous Demonstrations.
{Covyrtgiil.)
New York, April I.—On April 27 will
take place, in the waters of New York har
bor, a naval review whioh promises to be
the greatest event in the way of marine
parades that navigators have ever planned,
and one that only a cuuutry on friendly
terms with all sister nations could oarry
cut. It will mark an epoch in interna
tional friendship that would have beau im
possible a score of years ago, and might
still have seemed only a hope for future
realization had not the republic, whioh is
the greatest nation on the continent Colum
bus discovered, taught older powers the
secret of peace.
As the arrangements are now made there
jvill be in the fleet that will be commanded
by Admiral Gberardi, the ranking naval
ortioer in the United States, about forty
vessels, representing nearly every different
style of fighting craft on the seas. Of these
fourteen will fly the American flag; prob
ably eight the union jack; four the tri
color of France;four, the flog of Italy;
two, that of Germany; one of Holland and
four of Russia. Other countries will be
fittingly represented, and each will do her
best to outdo the others in presenting to the
eyes of naval officers from all over the
world the best and strongest ship.
The review will be of unusual interest on
account of being the first great event of Its
kind under the direct supervision of the
American government, and because it will
offer to the “new navy” an opportunity to
6how, by comparison, its value lu possible
future confliots. It will bo of additional
interest because international naval reviews
are of rare occurrence, and from the faot
that every landsman looks upon a warship
in much the same reverential way as heathen
regard their idols.
New York has had four big naval parades
in recent years, but none has been inter
national in Boope. One of these was at the
completion and opening of the Brooklyn
bridge. The next was at the uuveiling of
the statue of Liberty. The third took place
on the oooasion of the Washington centen
nial and the fourth on Oct. XI, 1892, on
Columbus day. Not one of these demon
strations, howaver, is comparable in splen
dor and inaguiflceuce to tne great pageant
whioh will take place on April 27 in com
memoration of that glorious achievement,
the discovery of anew world.
The rendezvous for ail the ships will be
Hampton Roads, at whioh point fourteen
Amerloan vessels have boeu ordered to re
port on April 17. The following are the
ships of the United States navy that have
been ordered to take part:
Philadelphia, first-oiass cruiser, Capt. A.
S. Barker, 29 guns.
Baltimore, first-class cruiser, 24 guns.
Chicago, first-class cruiser, Capt. Y. S.
MoGlensey, 27 guns.
San Francisco, first-class cruiser, Capt. C.
Watson, 28guns.
Atlanta, first-class cruiser, 20 guns.
Bennington, gunDoat, Commander R.
Bradford.
Dolphin, gunboat, Commander B. H.
Buckingham, 9 guns.
Newark, first-class cruiser, Capt. S.
Casey, 28 gunß.
Vesuvius, torpedo oruiser, Lieut. Seaton
Sohroeder,
Yorktown, gunboat, Commander B.
Wilde, 14 guns.
Concord, gunboat, Commander E. White,
14 guns.
Charleston, first-class cruiser, Capt. H. T.
Picking, 22 guns.
Bancroft, “practice cruiser,” Lieutenant
Commander Asa Walker.
Cushing, torpedo boat, Lieutenant McR.
Winslow.
Groat Britain will make the next largest
display, with probably the eight ships of
her squadron no w in North American wa
ters. The squadron will be in oomm tud of
Vice Admiral Sir J. C. Hopkins, IC. C. 8.,
whose flagship is the first-class oruiser
Blake, one of Great Britain's fastest ships.
The English ships that will probably be
present are as follows:
Blake, first-class cruiser, Capt. W. V.
Hamilton, 38 guns.
Buzzard, sloop of war, Commander T. B.
Hav, 16 guns.
Canada, second-class cruiser, Capt. W.
Wihon, 18 guns.
Cleopatra, third-class cruiser, Capt. Cur
zon Howe, 24 guns.
Magfoienne, second-class oruiser, Capt. Y.
P. Pipon, 20 guns.
Mohawk, third-class cruiser, Commander
E. H. Bayly, 17 guns.
Partridge, first-class gunboat, Lieutenant
Commander McAllister, 10 guns.
Tartar, third-class cruiser, Commander
H. L. Fleet, 10 guns.
Other celebrated foreign vessels that It
has been indicated will be present are the
French flagship L’Arethuse, Admiral Leb
run in command ; the Italian cruiser Gio
vanni Hausan, and the Spanish cruiser
Infanta Ysat>el.
From April 17 until April 24, when the
fleet will start to Ne w York, tho foreign
officers will be royally entertained at
Hampton Roads and will, meet prominent
Washington officials who will not be at the
review in New York. Early on the morn
ing of April 24 the fleet of forty vessels will
leave Hampton Roads and wiii proceed at a
slow rate of speed to Sandy Hook, where all
will anchor until the morning of April 27.
Shortly after sunrisa on the day of the re
view the line will be formed in Gravesend
bay, with all the ships drawn up at auohor
in the positions they are to ocoupy. The
scene will present as pretty maneuvering as
baH ever taken place at sea, and will be
easily witnessed from Gravesend, Bath
Beach and Fort Hamilton.
At the head of theoolumnon the port side
will be all the American ships, about 200
feet apart, with Admiral Gberardi's flag
ship, the Philadelphia, in the lead. In an
other column, 200 yards away on the star
board side, will be the foreigu vessely, with
the British cruiser Blake ahead. All these
vessels will be trimmed with the brightest
"f bunting, and festoons of gaylv colored
flags draped from the masts and riggings.
Bailors in their white canvas suits w ill be
plainly seen from shore, waiting to obey
the oommands of brightly uniformed
officers, and not one thing will be left un
done by the representatives of every power
present to n ako her squadron the most at
tractive in the eyes of the spectators.
The command to start will be given from
the Philadelphia by use of the code of flag
signals. As quietly as tiny boats moviDg
about New York harbor, the most formula
ble fleet ever assembled in times of peace
will move forward to conquer the admira
tion of probably 51)0,000 speotato sand not
until Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth di
rectly opposite each other on the Narrows,
are reached will there be a sound other than
n ise of engines to note that the great pa
geaut is moving.
•lust as the Philadelphia pokes her nose
between the two forts, however, the first of
a salute of twe ity-one guu3 will be fired
from Fort Hamilton, and Fort Wadsworth
will follow with a like salute, it being ar
ranged that the respective batteries will
alternate. Then the Philadelphia will
respond, the other men-of war will join in
the imaginary engagement, and for nearly
half an hour there will be the effect of a
bombardment suoh as if the navies of the
world were united in an effort to destroy
Gibraltar. Again, wheu Governor’s Island
is reaobei, the batteries on shore and
aboard ship will belch forth, and from that
time wnile the parade is passing up the
Hudson, until it reaches the turning point
opposite the Grant monument in Riverside
Park, there will be a continuous cannonade
in which the batteries of all the vessels will
take part.
So much interest iu the review is expeoted
that many New York owners of buildings
on the water front are already preparing to
rent space to speculators. Tugboats and
craft of every kind will line the banks, and
is thought that from the Battery to
Harlem there will not be a foot of space un
occupied that is available for seeing the
parade. President Cleveland and party will
probably witness it from the monitor Mian
tonomob. The historic Kearsarge, which
made a reputation for herself during the
civil war by fighting and sinking the Ala
bama off the port of Cherbourg in the
English obanuel, will also be used as a re
ceiving ship.
The credit for makiog arrangements for
the review, and the praise or blame for its
success or failure will belong to Rear
Admiral Bancroft Gherardi. He entered
tho navy as a midshipman from Massachu
setts on June 24, 1846, and went into the
war as lieutenant commander. He will re
tire within a short time, and, as there is no
prospect of war to give an opportunity of
adding to his glory, he has set his heart on
making the review the crowning aot of a
successful commander in a timo of peace.
“The only thing of whioh I am afraid,”
he said to me the other day in
speaking of the coming review, “is
this treacherous New York weather.
There ~is likely to be a fog that will
rnakr maneuvering difficult and dangerouß,
as well as uninteresting to spectators. There
oan be no postponement, however, for the
President must leave New York in time to
be at the opening of the world’s fair iu
Chioago. Our arrangements are as nearly
completed now as they cau be, but, of
course, they may be changed in some minor
details. Foreign powers are slow in indi
cating what vessels they will send, because,
naturally, no nation wants to be outdone by
another, and, as in war, It is policy to keep
secret your strength, so other nations do
not care to make known the display they
will make.”
Admiral Gherardi will entertain the for
eign offioera on board the Philadelphia iu
true uavy style, and is trusting to New
York city to do her part toward sustaining
her reputation as the second maritime city
of the world. He says the greater part of
the congressional appropriation of $300,000
will be needed to defray the expenses out
side of entertaining.
The fear has been expressed by some offi
cials of the navy that Vice Admiral Hop
kins, who will represent the British govern
ment, will protest against obeying the oom
mauds of Roar Admiral Gherardi on ac
count of being superior to him in rank. The
United States government has abolished the
ranks of vice admiral and admiral, and
some officers believed it would be necessary
to recreate a rank above that of rear ad
miral ; but Secretary of the Navy Herbert,
during his visit to New York, stated that
nothing of the kind would be done. He in
timated that an American rear admiral was
just as high in rank as an English vice ad
miral, and that naval courtesy would have
to adjust itself to that condition.
Admiral Gherardi s most aotive assistants
in preparing for the review are Acting Rear
Admiral Walker and Capt. Bridgman.
J. W. Stevhnson.
BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.
Tho Process of Making the Paper for
50,000 of Them Daily.
From the London Anstcirs.
In a picturesque Hampshire nook in the
valley of the river Test stands a busy mill,
from which is produced that paper whose
orispneßS is music to the human ear all the
world over. Since 1719 this Leverstoka mill
has been busy in the manufacture of the
Bank of England note paper, and at the
pr sent time about 50,000 of the coveted crisp
pieces of paper are made there da '.y.
To a careless observer there does not ap
pear to be much difference between a Bank
of England note of the present day and one
of those which were first issued toward the
eud of the seventeenth oentury, but wheu
looked into It will be found that the present
note is, as regards the quality of the papor
and the excellence of the engraved writing,
a much mere remarkable production.
The fact is, the Bank of England and
forgers of false notes have been running a
race—the bank to turn out a note which de
fies the power of the forger to Imitate it,
and those nimble-fingered and keeu-witted
gentry to “keep evou” with the bank.
The notes now in use are most elaborately
manufactured * 'bits of paper." The paper
itself is remarkuble iu many ways; none
other has that peculiar “feel” of crispness
and toughness, while the eye (wheu it hag
satisfied itself with the “amount”) may
dwell with admiration on tho paper’s re
markable whiteness. Its thinness and
transparency are guards against two once
popular modes of forgery —the washing out
of the printing by moans of turpentine and
erasure with the knife.
The wire mark, or watermark, is another
precaution against counterfeiting and is
produoed in the paper while in state of
pulp. In the old manufacture of bank notes
this water mark was caused by an immense
number of wires (over 2,000), stitched and
sewn together; now 1c is engraved in a steel
faced die—which is afterword hardened and
is then used as a punch to stamp tho pattern
out of plates of sheet brass, fhe shading of
the letters of this water mark enormously
increases the dillloulty of Imitation.
The paper is made entirely from pleoes of
new linen and cotton, and the toughness of
it can be roughly guessed from the faot that
a single bauk note will, wheu unsized, sun
port a weight of thirty-six pounds, while
wheu sized you may lift fifty-sir pounds
with it.
Few people would Imagine that a Bank of
England note wan not of the same thick
ness all through. it is not, though. The
paper Is thicker in the left hand corner, to
enable it to take a better and sharper im
pression of the vignette there, and it is also
considerably thiower in the dark shadows
of the center letters and under the figures
at the ends. Counterfeit notes are In
variably of only one thickness throughout.
The printing is done from electrotypes,
tho figure of Britannia being the design of
Macliss, the late royal ucadomiciau.
Even the printing ink is of special make,
and is manufactured at the bank. Compar
ing a genuine with a forged cote, one ob
serves that the print on the latter is gener
ally bluelsh or brown. On the real note it
is a velvety black. The chief ingredients
used in making the ink are linseed oil and
the charred husks aud some other portions
of Rhenish grapes.
The notes are printed at the rate of 3,000
an hour at Napier's steam press, and the
bank issues 9,000,000 of them a year, repre
senting about £800,000,000 in hard cash.
First Tramp—As I woz tollin' yer, I left Cin
cinnati by rail, and ....
Second Tramp-Wot yer givin’ me: Yer left
b5 Fim Tramp—That's wot T did. The rail was
carried by a lot ot tellers and they give me oue
hour to git out.— fUltonrg Bulletin.
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1893.
THE REAL FOOL KILLER.
THERE’B BEEN A LOT OF “GASSING"
ON THIS SUBJECT.
Here Are Statistics Which Show How
Many Fools Are Choked Oflf by the
Fumes of Escaping Gas After They
Have Succeeded in Blowing the
Flame Out.
Front the Neto York Advertiser.
The Fool Killer Is, after all, proved to be
a stern reality—a sort of throttling vam
pire, and not a myth, nor, as many persous
have been led to think, a figure of speech
intended to illustrate how worthy of death
some sap heads are. This destroyer of
boobies is nothing but common illuminating
gas, which local students of vital statistics
say has done more to exterminate fools than
anything they, the observers, have been
able to discover.
Pursuing the subject deeper, those of the
students who have a fondness for etomolog
ioal research have found that the term
Fool Killer came into general use almost
immediately after ooal gas was first used
for illuminating purposes In factories in
Great Britain. From this they infer that
so many of the bumpkins laboring at the
works were smothered because of their lack
of Knowledge of the then new illumtnaut
that gas beoame commonly known as tho
Fool Killer.
Therefore a good many persons must ad
mit that the appellation was most happily
chosen to express the witlessness of bloak
heads who blew out gas jets. As police
men, ambulance and hospital doctors and
coroaers have found that the number of the
Fool Killer’s victims seem to be on the in
crease. they reckon that human donkeys
are multiplying in the agricultural regions
of Wavbaok; although it is true that about
one-tenth of those who have, within a year,
been laid out by the esoape of carburetted
hydrogen have but reoantly come from
other parts of tne world.
Prof. Walter B. Carruthers, one of the
faonlty of Bellevue hospital, who is widely
known among medical men on account of
his extraordinary familiarity with com
plaints 9f tho organs of respiration, and
who has cared for uearly all the victims of
the Fool Killer la that institution, recently
read a paper on the subjoot before the College
of Physicians and Burgeous. In five years
he has discovered that the number of oases
increases about 5 per oent. every yea., and
that persons are more easily made uncon
soious by coai gas than by ether or almost
any other anaesthetic. In 1892 no less than
43 persons, 37 of whom were men, were at
Bellevue treated for asphyxiation or partial
suffocation caused by blowiug out gas in
their sleeping rooms. In the same period
14 patients suffering from the same trouble
were cured, sat the Now York hospital
and 9 at Chambers Street hospital.
These figures do not include those who
were cured by ambulance doctors. Nor do
the figures obtained from Bellevue hospital
include those who turned on unlighted gas
with suicidal intent. With very few excep
tions all these patients came from boarding
or lodging bouses or from cheap hotels.
JJr. Carruthers says that the fact which
impressed him most in his examination of
the “ blow-out-the-gas” orauka was their in
telligence, which ho seems to think should
have prevented them from indulging in suoh
dangerous tomfoolery. This appears singu
lar when one considers how public the news
papers and the caricaturists have made this
very class of ninnies. He also says that ex
cepting the few Italians. Poles and Huns
who have fallen victims to their ignorance,
all the shiniug marks cf the Fool Killer are
country folks acoustotned to go to bed by
candle or lamp light, and who, though they
had some general knowledge of gas, had not
the slightest idea of its danger or how It is
oontroiled.
b trail go to say, the strongest men with
the nearest perfect lungs are first to suc
cumb to escaping gas. but the doctor ex
plained it by the power suoh persons have
to gulp down almost a half a foot of gas
with every inhalation. In many cases, if
detected before the breathing apparatus is
completely clogged with the noxious vapor,
an ambulance doctor oan bring the sufferer
back to semi-consoiousness; but even then
if he do not receive constant care at a hos
pital be is likely to die without regaining
his senses.
In some instances such sufferers from
their own folly have been known to be in a
state of coma fluttering between life and
death for a dozen hours or more. If the
body is not past hope an electrio battery
will usually make him show some signs of
life, after whioh be is flogged anti marched
until revived onough to be put to bed.
Nausea, oonpled with a depressed feeliug iu
the lungs, is felt for days after the loon is
out of all danger.
Two men knocked out by the Fool Killer
in Bowery lodging houses lost their lives
last winter through the stupidity of the
ambulance doctors, who diagnosed their
ailment as drunkenness and left them to
die. Ferhaps a small percentage of those
witless ones who are found overcome by
gas escaping from open unliguted burners
in their rooms may truthfully attribute
their torture to oarelessnes- in turning
checkless cut-offs too far around, that is,
twisting thepoisonous stuff off and on with
one movement of the wrist.
"I make it a rule,” said Dr. Carruthers,
“to question all patients convalescing after
inhalation of illumiuating gas as to what
possessed them to blow out the flame, and
the answer common to nearly ail of them
is that they knew no other way to extin
guish it. Almost every one of them ad
mitted that they knew in a somewhat in
definite way what gus is, as well as what it
is nsed for, but they had had no experience
with it until they cauls to extinguish it.”
Therefore tho doctor gathers from this
that the tool killer will oouttuue to get in
Its baleful work until eleotrioity everywhere
supersedes gas as an illuminaut; yet he ten a
that evou then some jays would break the
inoandescent globe to quench the flames
therein.
The ordeal experienced by a batch of
Tammany men, rooming with a jay from
the mountains of Maine, on the night before
the inauguration of Fresident Cleveland In
Washington, is not likely to be forgotten by
them when the yankee has went to the
sweet hereafter. He found the Fool Killer
in good shape. He blew out tho gag, and it
seems almost miraculous that the Tammany
statesmen also were not made as dead as
dried cods.
As soon as the quartet of Tammanyites
learned that the cause of the close squeak
they had heard hailed from Malue,
they declared that it was but a
malicious republican conspiracy to
land four good democrats in the
cold, oold ground. Their wrath became
temperod a little when they heard that tho
dowu easier bod turned up his toes for
good.
It happened In a private house, tenanted
by one McCue, and situated on Second
street, near Pennsylvania avenue. The
bouse had been turned into a rendezvous
by wayfarers who were unable to find
room lu the crowded hotels. Iu the third
floor front room were three "shakedowns”
on the floor and a rickerty single bed, which
creaked with every footfall. The “shake
downs” were single mattresses, a pillow.
sheets and one government blanket to eaoh.
Fortunately for every oue except the yan
kee, McCue remained up ull night, admit
ting men who had hired “shakedowns”
therein. Sixty persons spent the night of
Maroh 3 there.
-.The Tammany men, loaded to their muz
zles with varied assortments of tipple, strag
gled, one at a time, into the third floor front
and turned in. At 3 o’clock in the morning,
when tho four members of the Tammany
trine were snoring like so many trombones,
Mr. Yankee rolled in with a tide that
threatened to run out of bis scuppers.
Beiug too tired to undress, he hung his
overooat on the washstand, blew out the
gas, and, boots and all, tumbled Into the
ramsbaokie bed.
Maybe an hour later MoCue, who has a
nose as fine os a beagle, sceuted gas in the
halls. After running about a bit he located
it in the room tenanted by the yank aud
the Tammanyites. Though the door was
unlocked, he,’iu bis excitement, kicked it
in and In the glooth saw the five uncon
scious men. The gas was so strong that he
feared to enter. By this time his yells had
aroused the forty-live other inmates. Mo-
Cue fired a couple of bottles and a soap
dish across the room and through the win
dow. This openlug made u draught, and in
a minute or two so much of the gas was dis
pelled that rescuers rushed iu to help those
overcome by it.
In the meantime someone had called an
ambulance from the city hospital. The
doctor who came with it helped all but the
yankee, who, despite the efforts of the phy
sician, showed no signs of life. They were
all taken to the hospital, whioh the Tam
many man was able to leave about raid
day. The man from Maine never re
gained what little wit he had. He died that
night.
The doctors told the survivors that their
salvation was no doubt due to the fact that
they slept on the floor where the gas was
less dense than above, while the Maine man
lay ou a bed elevated considerably higher
.than the pallets and immediately under the
burner from which tho deadly vapor
escaped. Owing to the excitement of the
other lodgers It was impossible to learn with
any exactness bow iong the live men were
under the influence of the gas, but the doc
tors thought perhaps thirty or forty min
utes. McCue was under the impression
that about an hour elapsed between tho time
the yankee entered and tho moment he
threw the soap dlsb through the window.
One of the saved, describing his sensa
tions, said: “All 1 oan recoil is the horrible
dreams and specter-like visions whirling
around me while 1 slept. 1 was conscious,
too, but while I was perfectly satisfied that
the speotei s were confusings of mv own
brain, they were noue the less appalling. In
that respect they differed from any other
dreams I over experienced, for I seemed to
look at them in a dull way. Iu an ordinary
dream I have seen, felt and conversed with
strange creatures to the utter exoluslon of
any other t hought.
“They alone occupied my whole atten
tion. But the visions I saw whilo under the
influence of the gas were blood-curdling;
yet all the while I was aware what they
were, and yet, though my mind was dear,
I had no power to blind myself to them
or to pull myself out of the hair-raising
lethargy.
“In the same way,” he said, “I was con
scious when they dragged me out, although
I thought th >se who had hold of me were
strange demons who were about to hear me
to the infernal regions. I wanted to cry out,
but could not, and much as I tried to resist
1 felt that! was not moving ainusole. When
the doctors brought me to my senses I felt
ob though I bad just been awakened from a
deep sleep, and beyond a qualmish stomaoh
and a buzzing in tho head I felt all right.
But as soon as my mind beoame clearer
all the dreadful phantoms I had seen in my
sleep returned.”
Folice Captain Price was oalled on to help
a couple of jays from the interior of New
Jerroy, who ran up against the Fool Killer
In the Tenderloin precinct a little while ago.
It was their first visit to New York, and
they were as green as young gourds. They
found a room lu a cheap lodging house in
Seventh avenue. The house has so manv
queer fish among its guests that tho land
lord hires a night man to parade the balls
to prevent lodgers from taking French
leave with towels or bedding, and also to
make them quickly shut off the lights to
keep tho gas bill down.
The watchman notioed that the light in
the room tenanted by the two gentlemen
from the piney woods was burning longer
than the house rules permitted. Hearing
them talking he banged on the door, say
ing; "Hay 1 you ducks iu there! Put out
that light I You don’t want to burn it all
night, do you f"
“All right 1 all right!” replied the green
horns.
Presently tho watchman heard one say:
“Snuff her out, Jim: snuff berl"
“Snuff it be daugedl" exolaimed Jim, “It
hain’t got no wick."
Through the glass of the transom the
guard saw the light flare up and then go
down as tho Reubens within tried to pinch
out the flame. Even rhen the obap outside
did not suspeot that ttipy were talking of
the gas. Then he heard oue whisper, “I’ll
fix it!” He next heard them sopping some
thing in water, followed by a swishing
sound and a dark shadow, with which the
light went out, leaving the room In dark
ness.
Ha heard them laugh and snuggle down
in their creaking cots, after which he
trotted along to inspect other parts of the
house. An hour or so later he smelled gas,
and after a hurried Bearch found that it
Mins from the room in which the jays
slept. Getting no response to his call or
| his thumps on the door, he procured a chair,
j on which he stood to peep through the tran
som ; but the gas came out in suoh volumes
that it almost knocked him down. Help
came in answer to his cries, the door was
burst in, and, using a blanket, they fanned
fresh air Into the room until they were aide
to enter aDd open the window.
Capt. Price, who happened to be passing,
heard tho hubbub, and, supposing it was
caused by a free fight, hurried upstairs. Ho
found the comatose Jerseymen stretched on
the hall floor, while men dashed buckets of
water over them. They were removed to
tao New York hospital, where they were
forced to stop twenty-four hours before
they were well enough to leave.
Not to the Manner Born.
"I beg to bo excused. I don’t belong In this
round-up. I’m off my roservatlou.'’
That, says tho Washington Star, was the
j peculiar reply a very stylish and remarkably
I liaruisome young woman made when a society
j reporter struck her for a description of gowns,
which must have b“en ’ fetohlug,” indeed, with
i <hat girl’s splendid brunette beauty iaiide of
them.
“O. well, rnokt everybody is strange here
i now." wua the sociery reporter’s cheerful re
sponse. "We are very auxious to have all the
notable people "
“That’s It. I'm not a 'notable,’" said the
brisk young woman. “Dad’s not an office
holder nor an offlce-se-iker. He's just a plain,
every day cattle baron, and we re not In it this
trip. We’re stampeded.’’
’ Stampeded!"
‘‘Bl, we don’t feed with tbese kind of cattle,
you know. Our crowd is ‘ft.;’ these people all
belong to the *D.’ dash range, and they’ve
turned off the water, burned all the grass, cut
all our feriCbs and stampeded us in great shape.
Four years from now. If you happen to be
around here, you will And the national range in
the hands of the old bosses again, and I'll have
no objection to giving you a description of my
harness. Just now I’m astray and object to
being bunched with this outfit.”
The objections mast have lieen Intelligible to
the society reporter, for they were accepted,
and the daughter of the "plain, everyday cattle
baron” was excused from being “branded’ as
mixing with a breed or political “cattle” by
winch she declared she had been “stampeded.”
AUTHORS OF WISE WORDS
phrases that ar® not credited
TO THEIR PROPER SOURCE.
For Those Who Make Quotations.
Many Trite Sayings Wrongly At
tributed to Shakespeare or the Bible.
Famous Writers Who Merit Remem
brance.
From the Boston Globe.
In popular phrase- there are two great
sources, both so much drawn upon that we
are apt to attribute all suoh sayings to one
or the other—namely, the Bible and Shake
speare. It is often difficult to persuade peo
ple that the saying, “God tempers the
wind to the thorn lamb,” is not in the Bible;
it is, in faot, a phrase of Sterne's, the au
thor of “Tristram Shandy.”
"Cleanliness is next to godliness" and
"God helps those who help themselves,” are
also generally supposed to be In the Bible,
but are not.
Many of our usually quoted phrases are,
however, from the Bible, among them being:
"No rest for the sole of the foot,” "Dark
ness which may be felt,”‘‘Bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave,” “The
wife of my bosom,” “I am going tua wav
of all the eartD," “A still, small voice,"
“All that man hath he will give for bis
life," "There the wioked ceaso from troub
ling and the weary arc at rest," “Man is
born to trouble as the sparks ily upward,”
“O, that my adversary had written a book,”
"The lines are lalleu to mu in pleasant
pla- os," “Ills enemies shall lick the dust
“ Happy is the man that has his quiver full,”
"The heart kuoweth its own bitterness,”
"Heap coals of fire on his head,” "Open re
buke is better than secret love,” “There la
no now thing under the sun/’ "A live dog
is bettor than a dead lion,” "The race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,”
"Wise iu hi* own conceit,” "Grind the faces
oi the poor,” "Weighed In the balance anil
found wanting,” “Who touches pitoh will
be defiled,” “Laughing to scorn,” “lie that
runs may read,” "Do not toss pearls before
swine,” and a great many other expres
sions that have served the turn of thousands
of years, aud help us to realize how little
human nature changes in the generations
that go by, since what suited men of so long
ago expresses our minds still so well.
WRITItRH OF BMAHT THINGS.
But, on the other hand, many familiar
phrases have another source thau the Bible,
and some of the best known have been orig
inally said by people not at all otherwise
famous as sayers of smart things.
.limit. Coruue was the author of tho
phrase, “No man is a hero to his valet."
One Harel said: ‘'Speech was given to
man to disguise his thoughts."
An obsoure journalist invented a phrase
that was immensely quoted iu France os
having been said by the Bourbon prince,
who was restored to the French throne In
1814 as Charles X. He was credited with
assuring the natiou that he would not re
store old abuses In the following phrase:
“Nothing is altered. There is only oue
Frenchman the more in Franoe.”
"A nation of shopkeepers,” generally at
tributed to Napoleon 1., reully occurs in
Adam Braith’s “Wealth of Nations.”
“The pen is mightier than tho sword” is
the saying of Bulwer Lytton.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is
from Keats.
“The heart that has truly loved never
forgets” bolongs to Tom Moore; so do “The
luxury of woe” and “The trail of the ser
pent is over them all."
“To live in hearts wo leave behind Is not
to die,” was the pretty saying of Campbell,
and his, also, is “Coming events cast their
shadow before.”
wadbwouth'h ideal.
"Flain living and high thinking” was
Wadsworth’s ideal.
“ Rose like a rocket and fell like its
stick,” was said, incorrectly as smartly, by
Thomas Falne of Burke.
“Variety is tho very sploe of life that
gives :t all its flavor,” is not quite the senti
ment that we expect from the excellent
Cowper, hu( he said It. It was he also who
wanted “A lodge iu some vase wilderness,”
aud deolared that “God made tho country,
man the town.”
“Alliteration’s artful aid" was spoken of
by the little-read poet Churchill.
“Fursues tho even tenor of his way,” was
the phrase of a bishop of London in the last
century, I)r. Forteous. “The pink of per
fection” was originated by Oliver Gold
smith; so were “Measures, not men,” aud
"Man wants but little here below, nor
wants that little long.”
Gray, the author of the "Elegy," is re
sponsible for many popular phrases, among
them, “Full many a gem of purest ray se
rene,” "To waste its sweetness on the desert
air,” “This pleasing, anxious being,” “Tho
paths of glory lead but to the grave," and
“Where ignorance is bliss ’Us folly to be
wlie."
Dr. Johnson gavo us "To point a moral
and adorn a tale” und "Who lives to please
mult please to live." He also said, “Who
drives fat oxen should himself be fat," In
whioh there is more sound than Reuse; and
uttered the dangerous saying, "Claret for
boys, port for men, but hraudy for heroes.”
HAPPY PHRASES or POPE AND BURNS.
Pope and Burns are respectively the
authors of more familiar phrases thau any
body else but hhakespeare in modern tunes.
Hire are a few of I’ope's: “Bhoot folly as
she flies,” “Hope springs eternal id the
human breast,” “Man never is but always
to bo blessod,” “Whatever is, is right,”
“The proper study ot tnanklud is man,”
“Grows with his growth and strengthens
with his strength,” “Order is heaven’s first
law," “Worth makes tne man and the want
of it the fellow," "Honor and shame from
no condition rise; act well your part—
there all the honor lies," “An honest
man’s the noblest work of God,” “Thou wort
my guide, philosopher and friend,” “Wo
man’s at best a contradiction still,” ”.iu->t as
tho twig is bent the tree’s inollnod,” “Who
shall decide when doctors disagree?" “A
little learning Is a dangerous thing,” “To
err is human, to forgive divine," “Beauty
draws us with a single hair,” “ Fools rush iu
where angels fear to tread,” "Damn with
faint praise," “Tho many-headed monster,”
aud an endless number of equally familiar
aud clever phrases took their rise In the
clever little hunchback's brain.
A few specimens of Burnt’ happy phrase*
to conclude: "The best laid schemes of
mioe aud men gang aft a-gley, “The fear o’
bell’s the hangman’s whip, to hand the
wretch iu order," “But pleasure* are like
poppies spread, you seize the flower, its
bloom is shed." "O wad some power the
glftie gie us to see oursoives as ithers see
us,” “Man’s inhumanity to man makes
oountless thousands mourn,” "Nursing her
wrath to keep it warm,” “The mirth and
fun grew fast and furious," “What’s done
we partly may compute, but know not
what's resisted,” Friucos and lords ere but
the breath of kings,” “The rank is but the
guinea stamp, a man’s a man for a’ that.”
Kino Oscar of Sweden is a very simple
minded man. When he went to see the pope he
kissed the holy father on both cheeks. Bucn a
salute was quite Irregular, long usare having
established the custom of kissing only the
pope's hand This rule was only broken once,
in the case ot the late pontiff, by a President of
the United States. Geti. Grant simply shook
him by tne hands and said, “How do you do,
sirf”
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