TIMKA BNTHBPRfBB, TBOMABVILLB,
THE ISLANK
my friend, fa your long-tailed coat,
. vour white ere rat at roar withered
your head on the pew In front,
r “Amen!" with in
You’re tirojr on a lonrljr isle, «
Where the uroat hrwcb-elout i* the only
atyJe,
Where the day of the treek forget* ft*
name.
Where god and devil are all the came.
3x»ok at yourself in your care lea* clout,
■And tell me, then, would you be devout?
You, dear maiden, with ejrea nakance
At the little toubtirtte and her daring
dance.
Thanking Clod that Hia ways ate wide
Jo allow you to pass on the other aide,
•You. as you oak, WUI the world approre
At the hint of a wabble oat of the groove?
ladd
On that iole of the lonely aee,
■Art you, the eency eonbrette end he.
And the little groove# Diet yoa circle in
Are forever ee though they never had been.
Now you ere naked of aoul and limb:
Will .vou say what you will not dare—for
vniich of the women ia real?
The one you suppress, or the one you feel?
You, good air, with your neck a-ctrctcb,
Plaining yourself that thc'moral hire
■Are centred in yon ae effect end cause.
Bat It wat No. 8, and hi* name wag at
her program for that one, ao then
drag no reason why they tbooM harry
beck to the ballroom If they preferred
the conservatory,
“I dost know,” bo eild. . “There
araaM hot be macb danger of eaves-
drop pare on top of an Alp.”
“Ob, well. If one wen afraid of
earnedropperr," abe replied, “a path
conld be ahorrlrd through the Mow
nut Into a Held gomewbere. tt l Were
u win and loved a girl well enough to
wont her to by my Mrlfe I wouldn't
earn who might be lurking nroand to
hear when I naked her."
Why do you keep laying what yw
would do If you were a man? No girl
ronld possibly have any Idea what ube
wonld do If abb were a man—any more
tbaa a twin can tell olfband whet he’d
do It he were a girl.”
“I know very well that 1 abonld
never bant for a better place than a
eoneerratory In wbleb to confess my
love, aaywiy.”
“Ia there any particular kind of com
serratory that yon would select?"
“Any kind would do, I think; but
•ueb a one as tbls wonld be egpeelelly
doe. Bow eweet the flowera emell,
and bow glorlonn the. moonlight let I
never realised before bow lovely a
place a conservatory coaid be. Ko won
der the story writers eo often have, the
men. lead the glrle Into conwrvatorles
10 confM * ,ht|r Iot «-' How a
AlklngnnuffTof’huSll.m f *| rl ,0 HS* U . ,h ®
-fudging “he'a getting hia jntt deserts,” him Ireblnd a big cactna-as we are
standing now? It aeema at though
Cnpld blmeelf mast be peeping through
that cluster of rosea."
lie glanced hastily toward tbe en
trance. They could still bear tbe
music, and taming suddenly he caught
her, lovely and radiant, In bla Arms/
Chicago Record-Herald.
WEST POINT’S CADET DEBTORS
THEY PAY THOUSANDS OP DOtLABS
AFTER GRADUATION
Trusted For Four Years by a Jeweler, a Grocer, a Pbetogt
raober and a Hotel Keeper la Now' Yorit-'-OflljE
‘WHl"
Security Is tbe Army Mail'd Wbrd I
titter;
©
With the long, atroog arm which reachc*
far,
'And there are the native* who kneel and
bow,.
And where are your meutn and teum now?
Are you sure that tbe balance swings quite
Or dor* it a little incline to you?
I have an island, too, and *o
Answer, nr not, but I knpw-l know.
-Admund Vance Uoobe, in Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post.
CUPID AND
CONSERVATORIES,
WWWW'.WiVWWWW
' AtOlt, HEY had somehow become
B on )( aopurated from tbe rest of
0 1 1' O the guests, and found
y " p themselves nlono In tbe
, wWP conservatory.
“Ii jW fortunate It l»i” ehe said, “that
there are conservatories."
“Yea," lie replied, “I have a weak'
lieaa for Rowers of nearly all kinds.” a
"I wasn't thinking of the flowers par
ticularly, although they are lovely, anil
help an much to brighten tbe world.
Rat wlmt would the story writers do
If nobody had ever Inrenietl conserva
tories? Where would the lovers In the
stories ever hnve a chance to get by
themselves, and talk about It If no
much things na a conservatory had ever
been mode?"
"Well, It wonld be r.-.lltcr difficult
for the authors, I admit. Of course,
the loving rouplea ronld go' out In boats
or automobiles If tbe stories dealt with
things that happened In the aummer
time, hut fur tales of the winter season
they’d hnve to steal Into the libraries
or get Into dark corners on tlic stair
ways, I suppose.”
•:Yra." she admitted, “there would,
of course, he a rlianco to use the stairs
and libraries, but I'm glad there are
conservatories. It has always seemed
to gun that n conservatory Is such n
natural place for lovers to stray away
1o>
They were standing Ivhlnd a big car.
Ins that towered high above their
heads. Kite had thrown something
light and gamy over her white, grace
ful shoulders, and, ns she hulf turned
to look up at hint, the mooli, shining
through the glass roof, cast Its rays
upon' her- face.
“Tlic queerest st>ot I ever heard of
for a man to select as the place In
which he wished to propose,” be said,
“was a coni mine. One of my college
friends, while being shown through a
mine III Pennsylvania by tbe daughter
of tbe president of the company, asked
her when they 'were nearly 200 feet
underground."
“What did she say?"
"I suppose she must have said yes.
1 was at Ihelr wedding."
“Itow romantic! Rnt do you think
he took her down there Just to propose
to her!"
"They never told me all the facts In
the ease, lint It would hove been Just
like him. -He was always doing queer
things."
“I don't believe I should want to he
takeu down In a mine to tic asked to
lie somebody's wife. I've always had
such * creepy feeliug about mines.
I'd never expect to get out again If I
went Into one."
“I know another man," he continued,
“who proposed to a girl up on the high
est point of one of the Alps."
"Br-rr," she exclaimed, with a
shiver. "Think of going sway over to
Europe and climbing an Alp to tell
your love, I should. If I were a man.
prefer ■ nice, comfortable conserva
tory."
. He looked down at her for a moment,
and, as be was not blind, there was one
thing that probably Impressed Itself
very.forcibly upon him. Tbat was her
beeuly—for aha was passing fair to-
Tbe leaves of the big cactus spread
out ao that tbe taro were so thoroughly
bidden from ntiyone who might have
looked In as It they bail taken retain
behind a haystack. * Bits nf mu, ic
■ The Habit mt (salsa.
Individuals who aave and accumu
late auma of money for lucrative In-
vestment are Individuals who form the
liablt of saving.
To be prodigal of your resources la
natural. It Is a survival of tbe primal
nature. Bering la an acquired trail.
It la necessary, therefore, to form bab-
Its that are conducive to economy.
Many men and women wlio work for
wagea or aalarlea find It difficult to
save, unless some circumstance forcea
them to It. The fact tbat this Indul
gence only meana a dollar or a dime,
as the case may lie, la regarded as a
sufficient excuse to spend tbe money.
It will take long to acquire a fortune
by laying up tbe odd pieces of change.
Yet many great Inatltntlons derive their
entire patronage from dimes, nickels
and even pennies. The habit of aaring
meana the saving of the little denomi
nations. It Is to enrb tbe Inclination
spend money simply because the
denomination la Inslgnlflcant. Any
one can aave the dollars, Mg bills and
gold pieces.
That the prodigal aide of man la un
derstood Is fonnd In tbe devices for
catching the pennies and tha dimes.
To offset this and to enconrago him to
lay by a portion of bla earnings, sav
ings banks and tbe monthly payment
plan for real estate, property assn ranee,
etc., uro In existence. Onr Wealth la
our property. In the possession of
property la centred onr materia! well
being. onr prosperity. Tbe habit of
saving, If persisted In, will make all
men possessors of property. The value
of that property and the measure of our
well-being jnrlll depend npon tbe
amount of onr accumulations and the
measure of onr desires. A thrifty peo
ple Is- n contented people. Improvi
dence results In want and suffering.
Habits of saving will contribute to In
dividual happiness and to general pros
perity In proportion as the habit of
saving, thrlftlneas, becomes a habit, Are they for gifts to the girls?” was
common to all tho people.—Seattle I Inquired.
HERB li h MbWl gWq) ttf
Jh>* Yott business man
who will collect next sum
mer an annual unsecured
debt of several thousand
dollars with as little diffi
culty 4 s though tbe payment bad been
guaranteed by tbe signatures' of every
banker In Wall Street Tbe debtors
are tbe members of tha data of 1000
tn the United States Military Academy
at Weat Point They owe the money
principally for Jewelry, confectioneries,
photographic wbrk, and rare hotel bills.
The pay-after-gradnatlon credit sys
tem at the Point Is as well eatabllabed
as the rest of the Academy's Iron
bound, and better known, customs.
Few, If any, of next June’s class will
emerge from their fonr years of toll
free from debt, and the financial con
fidence their credltorr have reposed in
them has been practically unlimited.
They conld order whatever they liked,
and some of them are "In for” aa much
as S0OO or $700 apiece.
Tbe result Is that tbe "good spend
era” will aw their equipment funds
wiped sway Immediately after gradtui
tlon day. This fund la the accumnla
tion of small monthly auma retained
by the Academy authorities from the
csdeti’ salaries. It should aggregate
about $900, wbleb la Intended to give
tbe. newly made army officer a start
In tbe way of uniforms and Incidental
necessities. Fortunately tbe officer
finds the tame ease as the cadet tn ob
taining credit, ao tbat tbe swamping
of his fnnd simply prolongs hia period
of Indebtedneaa. Whereas he owed
money to New York photographers,
hotel men and aweetmeat dealers lie-
fore graduation, he afterwards owes It
to tho tailor.
A well-known Jewelry house, a big
grocery firm, an uptown bote! pro
prietor, and a photographer are the
most regular creditors of tbe cadets.
From tbe Jewelry store tho embryo
soldiers tray Christmas and wedding
presents and tbe like.
"Enclosed find my visiting card,” a
cadet writes to the firm. “Please ship
to a suitable gift, coating
Sometimes be furnishes to tho Jew-
•liy boose an elaborate description of
tbe person for whom the gift Is Intend
ed—maybe Ms sweetheart In a far-off
State, or his slater or his mother. Tho
firm baa a man who baa studied tbe
dnty of selecting presents. Tbe cadet
learns biter what has been sent. The
amount Is placed on hia account—for
settlement after he graduates. If he
should die or abonld be expelled, or
for any reason should fall to “make
good.” bis classmates club together to
pay hia bill, however large or amall It
may be. Tbe merchant knows his
money la sure to come.
“Do you have to p«y Intereat?" a
cadet was asked last week.
“Oh, no," was the reply. “They
charge ns fancy prices for everything,
ao aa to avoid tho trouble of calculating
Interest."
From tbe grocery establishment,
which carries candles and frnlts as a
side line, tbe cadeta receive frequent
shipments, especially during the sum
mer ramping time.
What do you do with the sweets?
Post-Intel llgencer.
The Art of Letter-Writing-
Tha agitation which, according to a
dally contemporary. Is going on Juat
now In France on the matter of how
to wind up a letter In a suitable man
ner, la not tha flrat tbat that aubjcct
lias started. The Illogical nature of tbo
ordinary letter haa a way of Irritating
tbe public periodically, and various
wcll-meaut suggestions are mule for
Its reform. Every body baa heard of
the tnau who began his letter. “Dear
8lr, you're n liar." Through king use
tha “dear” haa ceased to annoy people.
They write It unconsciously, and to
begin with a mere “Sir" seems moat
Icily formal. The fact tbat Ilea at tho
root of the matter la that one must be
gin a letter somehow, and It Is too lato
to start a reform. There are people
who open with the word “Graeting!"
but these are not numerous; and
'Greeting la n good deal more effusive
"Not n bit." said tbe cadet. "The
girls who come to West Point give na
candy by tho peck, yon know. These
boxes we get from New York are ad
ditional. Of course. It's against tbe
rules for us to receive packages of any
sort on money In letters. The grocer
ships tbe eatables to a mau wc know
in Highland Falla, which la a mile be
low Weit Point. The boxes are hnuled
up to us In a wagon and smuggled Into
camp or barracks"
THE PHOTOGRAPH ACCOUNT,
ir a young woman were to spend as
orach for photographs aa docs a West
Point cadet, ahe would be open to the
.■barge of extreme vanity. But the
Mdet baa to do It. There are tbe folks
st home, calling for pictures of him
ind hia uniform every little while. Hts
young women friends—and he has
many of them If ho Is a cadet of the
usual calibre—are making similar de
mands, and there are scores nf others.
The result Is that the New York ram
and out of place than'“Denr Sir." Tbe
question In France, however. Is, It i are man reaps a harvest of debts,
seems, not how to begin, but how to which, like those of the other denlers,
cud an epistle. The French are revolt
ing against the over-flowery type, of
which “Accept the nssuranee of ray
most distinguished sentiments, and be
lieve me your very humble and obedi
ent servant” Is the beat example. Thla
Is, as our contemporary points ont,
long and abject. If we are to retain
our manly self-respect we must be
more curt. Perhaps the best way of
all la to use a postcard. Nobody can
be fulsome on a postcard. Even n pic
ture postcard!—London Globe.
•re as certain of payment aa they are
unsecured. Tbe cadet never signs a
note. There la a rumor tbat a mer
chant once attempted to build up a
clientele at the academy and demanded
written promises to pay. and that tbe
cadeta. Indignant at the reflection on
their honor, awlftly boycotted him.
Ono of the creditors who is sure to
have almost every member cf each
graduating class on his list. Is the pro
prietor of tbe hotel at which the young
sters atop in passing through New
York during their Infrequent furloughs.
For years the cadets have had a free
rein there, getting whatever the bouse
“Will pocket tn4r equipment funds
nearly complete, but I don't believe
there la a single man who will escape
with do debts at all. Moat of us,here
been surprised, I might say domfound-
cd, at our financial condition. A week
or two ago I heard one of tbe fellows
talking of bla bill at tbe Jeweler's.
“‘What do you think of thlsr ha
walled. Those people In New York
most think I'm coming ont of the acad
emy coated with gold—they sent my
ten-year-old sister a $50 parasol when
I asked them to supply a Christmas
present to her.’
“ ‘Didn’t you name tbe costf I asked
him.
“ ‘Why, no; I Just wrote ’em to send
something nice by express, and they
did It.'
“That's the way with most of ns.
We've been too busy studying and
drilling to practice economy, and now
tbe waklng-up la q terrible shock.”
The cadet mournfully remarked that
be hoped to get ont of debt by the time
be reached a first lieutenancy, bnt the
check for bla equipment fnnd, be said,
would be endoreed over to bla creditors
In toto.
Most of tbe West Pointers come from
families of small means, but there are
a few whose supply of cash from home
ia limited only by tbe atrlngent rules
of the Academy. They cannot receive
money ordere, and It la troublesome to
have cheeks cashed, so the remittances,
for the most part, are in tbe form of
greenbacks, and are lent in letters,
which, of course, tbe officials cannot
open. It Is said that the graduates
who owe the largest amount of money
at tbe end of each year are the onea
who have received most from home,
while the poor members of the corps
keep their obligations down to almost
nothing.
The extent of cash shipments to cad
ets was indicated Jast before • recent
football game In Philadelphia against
tbe Naval Academy. From tbe “mid
dles” there came a telegram:
“Can yon raise 12000?"
This meant: “We have gathered to
gether $2000 to bet on our team- Can
you cover It?"
The West Pointers begah to hustle.
A committee was formed to raise the
amount, for a challenge like thla from
tbe navy must not remain unanswered.
The barracks were canvassed thorough
ly. and each cadet produced from his
hiding places ns much cash as be
wished to wager—In most cates all he
bad.
Within leu than three honra after
the telegram came the needed anm bad
been collected, and the news was wired
back to Annapolis. Every cent of the
money had been slipped Into barrack!
contrary to the regulations, and now
tbe blanket bet was made with equal
disregard of rules.
As it happened, West Point won the
game, and a week later tbe hiding
places In barracks had been replen
ished with whatever trenaure waa left
over after the holiday expenditures In
Philadelphia.—New York Mall.
lbs Wished to Maks Sara.
“Why. Marla," exclaimed Mr. Cal
kins, hurt and Indignant as he saw the
fish-wagon turning at the lane, "what
ever have you gone an' ordered fish for
to-day, and you puttiac np my lunch
for a day's fishing."
“I know, ’Bias,” returned bis wife,
cheerfully, "snd that’s just why. When
I get my mind set on fish. It Jnst breaks
me all np to bare to onset It. Now
If yon hadn't mentioned anything abont
It, and had Just come home to supper
aa If you'd been digging potatoes all
day, why, I never abonld have missed
'em. Bnt as 'tls, It didn't seem aa If I
could let tbe Ashman pais."—Youth’s
Companion.
Sssslallai Harrises In Kiiui.
The freaks are coming to the front
rapidly at Topeka. Klrat It was a bill
to establish conditional marriages—to
separate all husbnuds and wives after
they bad lived together ten years. Then
vtme a bill abollshiog all divorce.
Then came a hill that If a roan was not
married at thirty years cf age he must
espouse a woman selected for hltu by
a State commission. And / now comes
n crank from Chcrryvalc who wants
tbe Legislature to establish the whip
ping post for tbe man who corrects his
wife with a ■ trunk strap or tbe soft
side of a two-by-four scantling.—Kan
sas .City Journal.
Antiquity nf l-las.
,,, Pins have beeu found among the
floated In, and they knew that tbe Egyptian mummies and In tbe proKfi
(tit of tbo people were dancing again,! uric revel ot Bwitrerland. - _
Mlwourt Youth's Ullrmtnu.
A young mau tn Platt County Is !n
a quandary. He lives on a farm, butigorid'without ‘res'tricUon aT to coat,
ba. been courting a girl In town. FI- j Xhw Mt , drln k, occupy the
naliy be asked her to marry him. She rooms available, u«e theatre tlek-
aeemed willing, but said she could ^ ght ^, th money Advanced by
never live on a farm. He then pro- m potel-all with no thought of pay-
posad moving to own and engaging j Untu nn „ months afterward,
u some other business and .he said “« tte ^ Ume ^ t0 fl
If he waa fool enough to do that aha gn „ p ^ when the „, t
Is wall under way. Abont this time,
for Instance, the graduates-to-be of
next Jnne are acqnlring a knowledge
as to “where they will aland.”
-possibly four or fire men In our
tte**T mM on* of thus tho other day,
wouldn't have him. He it still figuring,
Stnltbrille (Mo.) Herald.
On of th* (Ireen Klutl.
As the two women in the crowded
csr carried ou their high-pitched and
animated UIscumIou, there was a great
craning of necks among the other pas
sengers. says tbe New York Sun. Sud
denly tbe train slowed down, and in
the hush the voices became plainly
audible to everybody.
“Your parrot may be a better talker
than mine, although I don’t believe it.’*
said one of the women, with an air
of presenting the final.clinching argu
ment in her own favor, “but you’ll
have to admit that mine has the most
beautiful foliage.”
Fun With Aapirinjr Warrlon.
'A gentleman has written to tbe press
to say tbat the question in algebra set
at a recent examination for cavalry
officen and quoted as absurdly difficult
is in no way unreasonable, for It haa
been solved at the first attempt by a
slx-y«Rr-old school-girl. But our recol
lection Is that all tbat wus said was
that it was absurdly difficult for car*
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|®hicK«nd ®
© © ^Venture,
Mood Off fiery iJeath.
0
EVEN men, tha survivors of
a crew of elghteeti; who
ware oil board the naph
tha-laden Norwegian bark
Marpesla when that craft
was .lotvu to pieces on Christmas "Day,
arrived at New York a few days ago
on the Bermuda liner Trinidad, with a
story to tell of hairbreadth escapes
that has faw parallels.
Still coffering from terrible naphtha
trams, Captain Jenson, of tbe lost craft,
staggered down tbe gangplank of the
Trinidad. Once ashore tbe aklpper
consented to tell his story. Hare U la
in bla own words:
"That any of ns are here to tell the
story of tbe Marpesla la nothing more
nor lets than a miracle. That any of
ns are alive Is remarkable enough, bnt
tbat tha only ship tbat we sighted
since we sailed away from New York
abonld bare arrived on tbe scene al
most st the moment of the disaster la
what I call an act of God.
“The Marpesla was a three-masted
bark, and had on board 9470 barrel! ot
naphtha, bound from New York for
Zltto, In the Mediterranean. Wa sailed
from New York December 9 and eight
days later ran Into the northeaat hurri
cane. the fury of which was primarily
responsible for tbe loss of onr ship and
so many of my poor men. The storm
was the worst I ever encountered. The
terrific winds and giant acds played
with the Marpesla as if she .were a toy.
and every Mil that we put up was im
mediately torn from the bolt ropes as
If they were so much tissue paper.
Mountainous seas’ were continually
bombarding ns, with the result that at
the end of the second day onr lifeboats
had been smashed, the compass and
blnnocle washed overboard, and the
cabin stove In and full of water.
“During these turbulent days the
naphtha barrels were being tossed
about In nil directions, ami dozens of
them began to leak.
When Christmas Day dawned we
were itlll laboring heavily In the seat,
but, conalderlng tbe circumstances,
were doing fairly well, with only itarm
Mils set. At about II o'clock on tbls
day the explosion occurred. Nobody
alive knows why.
It came without a moment's warn
ing, and ao terrific was Its force that
tbe forward deck and forecastle were
tossed Into tho air as If they were made
of pasteboard. Parts of the super
structure must have been bnrled at
least a hundred feet Into the air, and
with them went the bodies of the poor
fellows who were forward at the time.
Though we heard shrieks of terror, we
never mw the face of one of those
eleven men again.
Then seven ot ui who were aft
were thrown to the deck with great
violence, bnt we were back on onr feet
In an Instant Tha entire forward part
of the ship was a perfect hell of flame,
the foremast had gone and the main
mast win toppling. A minute later It
too, had gone. Helpless, doom staring
us In the face, we seven stood astern
and watched tho flame eat Its way In
our direction.
"Then an Inspiration came to me,
and I yelled to Hanson, the steersman:
Hard down with yonr helm.” Hanson
obeyed, and slowly what wa* left of
the Marpesla wore around before the
wind. As I expected, the flames were
blown forward, but nevertheless they
soon began to crawl back to where we
We had about given up hope,
when In the distance, steaming in onr
direction, we saw the trinMtlantlc
liner Gnllla, from Marseilles.
The Guilin signaled to us that she
was coming to the rescue as fast as her
engines could make her. The decks
were then so hot that we bad to dance
to keep our feet from being burned.
The Are was then within twenty feet
of us, and on the very rim of the flame
stood Hanson at the wheel, hia face
and bands blistered and In frightful
agony. Had be allowed the ship to
swerve three points tbe flames would
have enveloped ns. I want to My right
here that no braver deed was ever done
by a sailor than that of Hanson during
those terrible minutes while wo were
waiting for the Gallia.
“Finally we realised that to mvc our
selves we would have to Jump, as the
beat had scorched our clothes. I knew
tbst-another minute ou the ship woukl
last on earth. We had two life
belts left, and one of them we gave to
Evensen. the mate, whose arms were
In a pitiful shape, and who was almost
helpless. The other we gave to Lund,
the second mate, who also had a bad
arm, but Lund learned that Salberg.
the cabin l»y. could not swim, aud
made the lad take It.
Then we all jumped. The Gallia
as still several hundred yards dis
tant. and we saw the seamen on her
lowering a lifeboat. Tbe moment the
boat struck the water the great seas
tbat were running smashed it like a
cockleshell.
'The captain of the Gallia did not at
tempt to launch another, hut brought
vessel close to where we were
struggling in tbe water, threw lines to
us. and drew us all ou board except
Evensen. the mate. Evensen waa so
weak he could not bold tbe rope. For-
tunately, a lucky roll of tbe sea washed
him up to tbe gnuwale. and a sailor
caught him by bis lifebelt and dragged
him on board.
‘Captain Wilson went out of his
course to Itnd ns at Bermuda, and I
want to My rigbt here tbat more gal
lant men thau Captain Wilson and his
men of the Gallia do not Mil the sea.”
-New York Times.
AN HEROIC EFFORT.
The Des Moines Register and Leader
onder date of New York, December 18.
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“Burtad undar ten tons of coal, with
lift sustained by means of a gaa pip*
forced through tb« heavy mass, whU*
hia comrades w*rk0d herdtctHy to reo-
One him, wa* tM experience of Hugh
kelly, forty years Old, kfl employe of
the Hudson tidal Company: Kelly U
now lit the Jersey City Sospltah
braised and injured internally: Physi
cians there sty he ctnndt lire; .
“Kelly wee at work on top of * thir
ty-foot treotle, np which big atari care
each carrying fifty tons of coal, are rat
from tbe barges. Hia dnty was to se
cure tbe cars before they were emptied
Into fhe chnte. Kelly was on a eat
fastening the brakes when another em
ploye, Thomea Haggerty, polled tin
lever wbleb releasee tbe coal from tbe
bottom of tbe car. Kelly fell with tbe
coal thirty feet, and waa In an Instant
buried under tona of It
“Kelly’* fatal plunge waa seen by
Haggerty, bnt bis cries for help brought
other employes, headed by Alderman
Holmes, superintendent of the yard, t<
tbe scene. A long piece of gas pipe
was shoved down tbrongh the coal and
fortunately reached the entombed man,
who was thus saved from suffocation.
"Then followed a brave fight against
deatb. Armed with shovels tbe band
of rescuers delved and dug with frantic
baste to rescue their comrade.
Occasionally one would abont en
couragingly tbrougb tbe pipe to tbo nn
fortunate man. Haggerty, a lifelong
friend of Kelly, tbrougb wboae mistake
tbe accident occurred, was among th<
foremost In the work of reacne, and
when the last lump of coal had beer
removed and anxious hands raised
Kelly to the platform he was ancon
scions. His teeth were clenched like I
vise on the end of tbe gaa pipe.
An ambulance bad been sommoncC
In the meantime, and Kelly was taker
to tbe hospital, where an exnmlnatlot
by tbe physicians proved tbat blrln
Juries were fatal.
When bis friend, Hsggerty, who In
slsted on going to the hospital with
him, learned tbat there waa no bop*
of raving bit friend's life, he brokf
down and cried Ilka a child."
BRAYE DISOBEDIENCE.
Among the daring, light-hearted and
weather-tanned aeamen of Nelson's
time was 81r Alexander BalL At a
hundred points of character.he waa al
most everything that tbe typical tea
man of that day waa not, writes tbs
author of “Nelson and Hts Captains."
His happiest hours were those he conld
devote to reading. Tbe reading of
Robinson Crusoe,” be told Coleridge;
bad sent him to ssa. It It Interestlni
to reflect on tbe number of recruits
which that Immortal tale has given to
the fleets of England.
Ball won Kelaon't heart by a splen
did exhibition of coolness and conrage.
On May 9, 1798. the Vanguard. Nel
son's flagahlp, with tbe Orion and tbe
Alexander, sailed from Gibraltar. On
the 20th a furious gale caught tbe three
ships between Corsica and the south
ern coast of Italy. The Vanguard, a
somewhat rickety «hlp, which rollad
like a barrel, fared badly. Her main
and mlsaen topmasts went, then her
foremast snapped (lose to the deck and
waa rolled overboard. Here was a flag
ship In imminent peril of being car
ried by the heavy westward swell on
to the Sardinian coast. Ball’s seaman
ship was of tho careful and thorough
order, and he brought the Alexander,
throngh the gale unharmed. But he
did more than thla When the gals
waa at its highest point he took tbo
helpleta Vanguard In tow.
All through the night of the 22d the
Alexander tolled on, dragging the flag!
ship, slowly and doggedly, off the eoaat.
The swell waa furions, tha breaker*
were near, and Nelaon, tbe last man In
the world to risk another ship to rave
his own, ordered the Alexander to caat
off the hawser. Ball refused, and per
sisted in bis refUMl, fill Nelson broke
Into furious threats and ordered Ball to
cast them loose. Ball at last took his
speaking trumpet and shouted back,
I feel confident I can bring her In
Mfe! I therefore moat not, and by the
help of Almighty God, I will not leave
you?’
He bang on to the half-wrecked'Van
guard till ahe fonnd tafe anchorage.
Nelson's first business wss to go on
board the Alexander and embrace the
somewhat embarrassed Ball, crying In
hls vehement way. “A friend In need
Is n friend Indeed!”
THE LAST TRAIL.
And now comes one of the most ro
mantic and most pathetic Incidents in
the history of tbls brave man; Indeed
In all Western bistory. Rebelling at
tbe tameneM of ranching and bora*
trading and wagon trafficking, longing
once more for the freedom of tbe trap
ping trail. Kit Carson sent word among
Ills old friends, tbe free traders of th*
Rockies, and made np a party of eigh
teen old-time long-haired men. They
rallied forth with rifle and axe and
pack and JlngUng trap chains, in- tha
fashion of the past, making once more
deep into the heart of tbe Rockies,
They visited the ArkanMs, tie Green,
tbe Grand, tbe White, tho Laramie—
all tbe loved and lovable parka of tbs
mountains. They came back through
the Raton Mountains with abundant
fur. They said It waa tbelr last trail;
tbat they bad visited thestreama which
they loved In order tbat they might
“shake hands with them and My good
bye." Tbe expedition was made fot
sheer lore of the ok] life which they
knew bad now gone by forever.—Em
erson Hough, In Ontlng.
Dawn a Klx Bill as s Lag.
Two lumbermen made a descent ot
500 feet in four minutes on a log In
ilnnema boning district, Pa., a few
days ago, on tbe strength of a banter.
Tbe ride waa nude with the under
standing tbat the “purse" abonld be
used for the pnrehasa of a barrel of
flour and a ham for * widow, whose
husband, a lumberman, bad recently
4Ied of typ told fever, .
