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He Wants Information About
That Nicaragua Incident.
HIS BESOLTJTIOH WAS ADOPTED.
gtattor Harris Tried to Get the Blond
8,ljnior»ge Bill Before the Senate, But
{!• Met Objection to Unanimous Consent
Shrruian, Who Found Much Fault
with the Measure—Other News.
Washington, March 7.—Mr. Morgan,
from the committee on foreign relations,
reported a resolution requesting the
president to inform the senate, if not in
consistent with public interest, whether
the government of Great Britain had oc
cupied Bluefields, or, also, any other
place on the Mosquito reservation in
Nicaragua with a military force; to
state the character and strength of tnch
force, and the claim of anthority on the
part of the British government so to oc
cupy that country. He supposed, he
said, although be did not know, that the
Kearsarge hnd been dispatohed to Blue-
flslds ou account of that occupation.
it was r very delicate and grave ques
tion for the people of the United States,
particularly so if the military occupa
tion had taken place on the idea that
Graat Britain had reserved to herself,
in any treaty with Nicaragua, a right
to make intervention of this kind, which
in the estimate of the American govern
ment, violated the spirit and purpose of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850.
The resolution was agreed to.
At 12:30 Senator Harris said that after
• conference with his colleagues he be
lieved a majority of them were in favor
of the immediate consideration and dis
posal of the Bland seigniorage bill, and
he asked unanimous consent that it bo
taken up for consideration.
He did not propose to limit debate,
hut would leave that to a majority of the
eenate. He knew the Republicans were
in favor of putting this bill before the
eenate. Mr. Sherman objected to unan
imous consent, ahd said he was opposed
to the bill, and would move to refer it to
the finance committee.
Two propositions were found in the
hill, Mr. Sherman said, one was, whether
we bad a legal right :o coin the seignior
age, and the other, whether to pay the
current deficiencies in times of profound
peace, we shall issue irredeemable paper
money.
Mr. Hale said he probably would be
found agreeing with Mr. Sherman, bnt
he thought nothing was to be gained by
lending the bill to the committee. The
country ought to know what the views
of the senate were,
Mr. Sherman said such a proceeding
was revolutionary; that all bills had
been sent to the various committees for
their re[K>rt prior to action by the senate
Our Consul at San Juan Del
Norte Scared Up.
WANTS A WARSHIP SENT AT 0N0E.
The Recent Landing of Some British
Marines Looks Suspicious to Him and He
Believes That the Interests of HU Gov
ernment Are In Jeopardy—It Is Not
Known Why the Britishers Landed.
Washington, March 7.—The depart
ment of state has received its first offi
cial information of the operations of
British naval forces at Aefields, near
the month of the Nicaragua canal.
It came in the shape of a dispatch
from United States Minister Baker at
Managua.
He says the United States consul at
San Juan Del Norte, Mr. Braida, tele
graphs him that soldiers from the Brit
ish warship Cleopatra have been landed
at Bluefields and strongly urges that a
United States naval vessel be sent there
at once. There is no explanation in the
minister’s dispatch of the reason for the
landing of the British forces.
The preceding report* of Consol Braida
show that when the Nicaragnan govern
ment forces occnpied Bluefields, the
reigning Mosquito chief appealed to the
British consul at Sau Juan Del Norte
for protection, and the question of inter
est at this stage of affairs is whether the
British troops have been landed to af
ford that protection, or whether the
landing was made to protect British cit
izens only.
g EDvVARD FIELD'S CASE.
Application taf Hie Release Hu Been
Denied by tlie Coart.
New York, March 7.—Justice Patter
son, of the supreme court, has denied
the application made by Clara M. Field
for tup release of is. M. Field from Lnd-
low street jail. The application was
made by Mrs. Field as the cominitte of
the person of her husband.
Field is detained in jail in an action
brought in 1893 by Charles Nette to re
cover $1,800. Judgment was entered, but
no further steps were taken.
It was urged that Field was entitled
to bis discharge because he was insane
at the time the order of arrest was
gran tod by Jnstice Beach, and because
execution against the body was not is
sued within three months after judg
ment was entered. Jnstice Patterson
holds that he cannot review the action
of Jnstice Beach. The report of the
superintendent of the Buffalo Insane
asylum has now established Field’s san-
y and the alleged laches on the part
Mr. Notte are sufficiently explained.
Johnson's Magnetic.Oil onres cramps
and colic.and internal neuralgia and
hesdaohe and backache instantly. 25
and SOcts. Palmer & Kianebrew.
ANOTHER FIGHT.
The English Have Accounts of Another
Engagement With QUief Fodisilah.
London, March 7.—The admiralty
office is in receipt of a dispatch from
Bathurst, Gambia, reporting another
engagement between the British troops,
a detachment of the West India regi
ment and strong band of the followers
Chief Fodisilah.
Rear Admiral Bedford of the flagship
Raleigh, reports that the West Madias
were attacked by the natives while ad
vancing upon the village of Bamjur, a
fight ensuing, in which s&ven of the
British soldiers were wounded. The
West Indias then opened a deadly fire
npon the natives, causing them to re
treat. The advantage was followed up
nntil the British took possession of Bam
jur, which they burned. The loss to
the natives in killed and wounded was
very heavy. >
Gladstone Goes to Bod.'
London, March 7.—Mr. Gladstone is
now confined to his bed. He became
chilled by the raw winds and is suffer-
Mr. Cockrell said he was confounded lug from a severe cold,
and amazed at the attitude of Mr. Sher
man, he come here with the belief that
when the Democrats moved to take up
this bill they would have the united sup
port of the Republicans, who yesterday
could scarcely contain themselves when
unanimous conse-t was refused.
Mr. Aldrich wu referred to speci
fically, to which he retorted that he
wanted te call up the bill, not to pass,
bnt to defeat it.
An eicuod colloqny followed between
Senators Cockrell and Sherman over the
question as to what the seigniorage
- ally is; Mr. Cockrell contended that it
ilongsd to the public fund; Mr. Sher
man said that no seigniorage can accrne
until the bullion-is coined. Mr. Cockrell
characterized Mr. Sherman's distinc
tion as the difference between tweedle
dum and tweedledee.
“The seignorage ought,” he said, “to
be coined and paid out. Mr. Sherman,”
bs said, “wanted to hold silver in the
treasury as a commodity, like hemp,
iron or cotton, to be subsequently sold
for good.”
All the Bland bill did was to make
that silver money to meet the expenses
of the government instead of the issu
ance of interest bearing bonds. Conld
any honest man say this |was not good
law? «•
In the house, after the reading of the
journal consideration of the pension ap
propriation bill was resumed.
The Existence of a God.
The rooms of the senate committo on
Judiciary, wherin the proceedings are
usually conducted in the ntmost secrecy,
were thrown open to the public, and"for
more thau an hour the committee lis
tened to arguments favoring the pro
posed change in the constitution intend
ed to provide for the recognition of the
existence of a God. A number of cleri
cal looking gentlemen and many ladies
lhade up the audience.
Johnson’* Ornamental Soap imparts
a del-cate odor and leaves the skin soft
and velvety. Try it and won will nev
er use any o-her. P timer & Kennebnw*
A NEWSPAPER CHANGE.
Tbe Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Will
Go luto New Hands Soon.
Cincinnati, March 7.—The Commer
cial Gazette of this city is to have new
men in control of its property and man
agement. Some days ago The Tribune
printed a Washington special in which
it was stated that P. S. Heath,
tbe well known Washington corres
pondent, in connection with hiB
brother, Fletcher Heath, of Hamilton,
Ohio, was negotiating for a controlling
interest in the paper. A special from
Washington, just received at The
Tribune office, g ive the result of an in
terview with Mr. Heath, in which that
gentleman said he and his brother,
backed by New York capitalists, had
bought The Commercial Gazette, but
declined to give the figures.
It is rumored that there will be a com
plete elimination of Halstead influences.
Mr. Moorhead, president of The Com
mercial Gazette, and the largest single
owner, is in New York. The price is
understood to be about $150,000.
Breckinridge's Case Pot Oft
Washington, March 7.—The trial
brought against Representative W. C. P
Breckinridge of Kentucky, by Madefin'
V. Pollard, for breach of promise, and #
“ which is involved the charge of se^
duenon, was to have begun here, but on
account of the illness of one of Brackin-
ridge’i counsel, it is likely that a post
ponement will be asked for.
Bonds Go Begging.
Washington, March 7.—Two hundred
I thousand dollars of the $50,000,000 loan
I have not been taken up; the subscriber!
■defaulting and failing tomakethe neces*
I airy deposit within the tune named.
| Troteit Against India’s Doty Exemptions.
Bombay, March 7.—The Bengal and
Itad Madras chambers of commerce and
1 Miller* association of Bombay have pre-
Hentid to India’s government protest of
a * e ? t char »cter against the ex-
“ption of cotton yarns and fabrics
import duty.
Vivo in an Orphanage.
Louisville, March 7.—Fire broke out
| ths boiler shed of the Orphanage of
it Good Shepard on Morton avenne at
C? 1(K ;h*. m. There were 43 people
adjoining, including84
*dett W#re *° tten ont without
■•rbsrt Gladstone la the Cabinet.
LOK&3N, March 7.-The announce-
,*nt l * made officially that Herbert
wbtone will succeed George J. Shaw,
commissioner of works in Lord
TS cabinet.
i»£rBU T hnn 0t ix hwird th ® MWt date
TO.but h« faygood will visit onr
S&s: ten 1 * '»««■*««
Mb wil fou,t > Sand »* this
r»iii i^*i?*y n *hatR.v.D C. Oli-
H»v^ dWn ^? - ftn K,der *>y Bis-
^*»ygood on this visit.
**iioM ■Hendidbook,
1 M Church,” * 8 now
M boo J»tore. It is
Ittu* »***» of one dollar. All
e8 P eou Ny Methodists,
WotfcJcopy of this admira-
NOT MUCH SCARED.
An Express Messenger Who Defied the
Bobbers and Saved Bis Valuables,
East St. Louis, Ills., March 7.—Train
No. 5, on the Mobile and Ohio, which
left the relay depot at b:55 p. m.,
held,up three miles below the city. Two
masked men jumped on the engine and
at the point of revolvers compelled thb
engineer and fireman to accompany them
to the express car. *
A third man stood near the exp:
car and when he saw the engineer' and
fireman jump from the engine, yelled to
tbe express messenger to open the door
and stated that if he did not, he would
hit the door with a stick of dynamite.
The messenger refused and told the
robber if he came in to tbe car he wonld
kill him. It appears the robbers were
not prepared for a fight, for, upon re
ceiving the express messengers answer
left.
LoniH Ko.trfulfi Very Ill.
Turin, March 7.—Louis Kossuth, the
distinguished Hungarian patriot, is suf
fering from weakness, arising from old
age. His condition has assumed a grave
aspect, and Vas complicated by the fact
that he persisted in refusing all medical
assistance, but it is reported that he is
bettor.
Overland in a Bog Cart.
Tacoma, Wash., March 7.—GusKuehn
of New York, has arrived here, en route
to Alaska. He will leave Juneau on
June 1, on a wager to travel to New
York city overland in 300 days on a ve
hicle drawn by two dogs.
Harcourt Takes Hold.
London, March 7.—Sir William Ver
non Harcourt, chancellor of tbe ex
chequer, assumed the leadership of the
Liberal party iu the bouse of commons
amid enthusiastic cheers from the Lib-
ggmi benches.
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Naval Stores.
Savannah. March 7.—Spirits of ti
nn at 29)4 for regulars; sales, !
Rosin, Arm and in good demand;
~ • "E, $1,10,
intinn
:asks.
A. », C,
avwjim* ****** *** Riruu uvuiauu, A. 0. v,
D and E, SI. 10, F, $1.15; ft, $1.35; H, $T-5; I,
$1.95; JK. $2.30: M, $2.50; N. $2.60; window
glass, $2.80; w.aterwhite, $3.15.
Wilmiko ton. March 7.—Rosin, Arm; strain
ed»92tt; good strained, 9714; turpentine, qniet
at 29; ;tar, steady at 90; crude turpentine,
steady; hard. $1 lo; soft and virgin, $1.80.
Produce and Provisions.
N*w York. March 7.—Pork, moderate ac
tive andeaiy; mess new. $12.25@13.75 Mill
dies, nominal; short clear, —. Lard, quiet
and weak;'western steam, 7.80; city steam
6.62^(3,6,75; options, nominal.
Chicago, March 7.—Cash quotations were
as followstSMess pork, $1132V&31110. Lard,
Short ribs, loose 5.9214®5,#1U Dry sait
JESulFHE?? 6.00@ti.25; short clear sides.
0.75&7.1216.
Cincinnati, March 7.—Pork, mess, $11.75
0$1L87H. Lard, steam leaf 7.25. {Bacon,
steady; shoulder.-, 6JS0, short rib aides, 7.00;
abort dear, 7A0.
OF LOVE AND TIME;
When he died, though he had hot been dead
an hoar. It seemed as if he had died a great
while ago, such a difference there is betwixt
life and death.—“Essays of Elia.”
Dead bnt a montL I Yet his smile is gay;
His laughter light as of yore.
How frail is love!" So the idlers say,
“How soon is his sorrow o’erl”
Dead but a month! Nay, tbe time has flown.
It iS surely many a year
8ince I left my dear dead love
. All alone, on the hillside here.
Oh, lore, my love, how can mortals speak
Of “lately” or “long ago?”
Let them mete out life by the day or week.
Our love is uot measured sol
And what is tbe difference now to me.
If the moment yon went away
Fell ten years since, or one or three.
Or, as men count It, yeeterday?
The hours pass, bnt I care not now
How swift or how slow they glide.
For to me all time fell dead, 1 trow.
The day that my darling died.
—Mary Macleod in Chambers’ Journal.
A COXSWAIN’S DEED.
in&de a mistake. He still hojK-d that he;
might avert disaster by rushing the fort,'
and he made the attempt; bnt, as baa
been already shown, he failed and felt
His men surged past him for a few
yards, bnt were then repulsed and driv
en back pellmell. In the confusion and,
. s,.,«oi.t fences.
Practical inventions that Were Originally
Patented, but Are Now Public Property.
Numbered with some expired patents,
illustrated and described by Ohid Farm
er, are two portable fences worked some
darkness they missed him, and he -was I what on the same principle, and either
left lying, with his left knee mangled,' of which can be utilized to advantage
to bleed to death or. to get a speedier where movable fences are desired at a
le of the many bullets
ng after the retreating
Heavy iUmpouiubility.
“Have you got any family?” asked Mao
Anderson, a San Antonio lawyer, of a col
ored man whom he was appointed by the
court to defend, the latter being charged
with having stolen a horse.
I’ze got no family yit. I looks to you
for dnt.”
’Look to me to supply yon with a fami
ly?” exclaimed the astounded advocate.
“I looks to you an de jury, boss, I does
for a fac’."
What kind of spiff is that yon are talk
ing?”.
“Hit’s just what I says. Miss Matildy
Snowball says ef I only gets one yeah in de
penopotentiary she'll wait fur me, but ef I
gets moah den she is gwine ter marry de
very first niggah what comes along. So
yer sees, boss, what a ’sponsibility dar am
restin on yer.”—Texas Siftings.
Ont of Sight, Oat of Mind.
Bootblack—Shine, sah?
Mr. Broad width—Well, really, my man,
I don’t know.—Trnth.
A Blow at Prohibition.
Sioux Falls, S. D., March 7.—The
supreme court has rendered a decision in
the Sioux Falls brewery case, which
nullifies the portion of the prohibition
law prohibiting the manufacture of
beer in this state. The lower court had
declared the brewry to be a nuiBance,
and had issued a decree ordering its de
struction.
Democrats to Get Together.
WaCQ. Tex., March 7.—The two state
Democratic committees will have a con
ference at Dallas on March 10, with a
view of healing the split in the party.
The proposition was made by Chairman
Baker of one of the committees, and ac
cepted by Chairman Matlock of the
other.
Poisoned by Eating Tainted Cheese.
Anderson, Ind., March 7.—At Lapel,
three miles west of here, 14 people were
poisoned from the effects of eating
tainted cheese. It is not thought any of
them will die.
Don Carlos Seeking a Wife.
Vienna, March 7.—It is announced
that Prince Charles (Don Carlos), the
head of the house of Bourbon, and pro-
tender to the throne of Spain, is shortly
to m«rry the Princess Mane of Rohan,
General Lee’s Son to Wed.
Washington, March 7.—Robert E.
Lee son of the great Confederate gen-
Jffi wm be married in this city, to Miss
Jnlidt Carter, of A irgima.
Japanese Liver Pellets »reJhe jst
family medicine for liver
and constipation. 50 pill* in 35ol$.
Palmer & Kinnebrew.
He Preferred an Upper Berth.
•“Why do I prefer an upper berth to a
lower in a sleeping car?” repeated thedrum-
mer as he counted ont and swallowed six
pellets without explaining whether they
were for his liver or lungs.
“Yes, why?” queried the man who was
felicitating himself on having secured low
er No. 7.
“Well, there are various reasons. When
I
first began to travel, 15 years ago, the
wheel of a car on a train passing us flew off
and killed a man in lower No. 6. The chAp
over him never got a scratch. Later on
fellow threw a rock at tbe car, and it en
tered the window of lower No. 4 and broke
the sleeper’s thigh. Man over him nevet
even woke up. Again, a car I was ou ran
over a lot of dynamite. Man in lower No.
7 was blown up with tbe. floor and killed
but the one over him didn’t even know that
anything bad happened. Once more, a man
In a lower berth caifeasily be robbed, while
one in an upper is seldom troubled. Last,
but not least”
“What?” was asked as he paused.
“I always undress, same as at a hotel.
There’s no telling when an accident may
come. In case the car goes off. the upper
berth is apt to close up, and you are thus
secure from the ga»» of the vulgar public
nntil the porter can pnt up a tent alongside
the track and get your clothes there and
help you to dress. Modesty is my chief rea
son, but as all you fellows broke your necks
How Captain Bellamy’s life was saved
at Tri-Chan has never yet been told.
Every officer and man who belonged
to the Chrysolite on that disastrous night
recollects, of coarse, that, while endeav
oring in the darkness to storm the fort,
the captain fell, and that when onr peo
ple were driven bac’.; ' -idlong to the
boats he, with many others, was miss
ing. Every one remembers also that
when on the following morning the Chi
namen were shelled ont of the place and
the bluejackets and marines again land
ed Captain Bellamy was found lying,
not where he had fallen, but a couple
of hundred yards to the right, sheltered
on the ride of the enemy by a thick stone
wall.
His left leg was smashed at the knee
by a jingal ball, bnt around his thigh
was a bluejacket’s "rilk handkerchief,
neatly applied in such a way that aftickel
tobacco box placed beneath it effectively
compressed the femoral artery 1 and
stopped the bleeding. It was well known
that both box and handkerchief had be
longed to James Larch, the captain’s
coxswain, whose dead body, with half a
dozen bullets through it, was found on
the enemy’s ride of the same wall. Cap
tain Bellamy himself acknowledged from
the first that he owed his life solely to
Larch's devotion and skill. Yet the
whole story has never yet been told.
Captain Bellamy’s recent death pats me
in possession of his private journal, and
so enables me to tell the tale.
When the Chrysolite was commission
ed at Portsmouth for the China station.
Captain Bellamy took a house at Hong-
Kong, and in due course Mrs. Bellamy
and her only daughter* Violet, followed
him thither. In the second year of the
commission the Chrysolite was at Hong-
Kong for several successive months, and
daring that period the ladies came on
hoard nearly every day. There were
picnics on shore and water parties afloat,
and if not on the Chrysolite then in the
house, or in the boats, or on the various
expeditions. James Larch, the captain’s
coxswain, was in continual attendance
npon Miss Violet and her mother. Vio
let Bellamy was then barely 18. In
England she had led a somewhat doll
life, and at Hong-Kong she lost no time
In redressing the balance of her exist
ence, which was by no means dull there.
It was not perhaps her fault that ev
ery officer of the garrison and of the
squadron was either in love with her. or
was prepared to he, for she gave no spe
cial encouragement to any one. On the
other hand, she discouraged no one. The
larger the number of her admirers the
greater was the enjoyment which she de
rived from the situation. Among them
Bhe was like a child in a room full of
toys. Some she damaged, some she
smashed irretrievably, hut without the
slightest malice or wickedness. She sim
ply had never realized the powers and
responsibilities of a very pretty face and
figure, supplemented by high spirits, un
tiring activity and abundant health, and
although she spread rain around her she
never for an instant intended to do harm,
to anybody.
There were many who suffered. Com
mander Corcoran of the flagship, Major
Browleigh of the Royal Bucks, Staff
Snrgeon Bennett of the Bridport, Lieu
tenant Maplin in command of the Borer,
and at least half a dozen sublieutenants
and midshipmen, besides army subal
terns and civilians, were turned upside
down by Violet Bellamy. And if these,
who only encountered her at social func
tions, were so seriously upset, it is little
to be wondered at—when we recollect
that human nature is not confined to the
Classes—that James Larch was also over
balanced.
His associations with her were, though,
in one sense, more distant and more
purely conventional than those of any
gentleman in the colony, of a privileged
character. He helped her to mount when
she went for a ride, he wrapped her
cloak aronnd her when she left the ball
room, he carried her a hundred times
from the ship’s boat to the shore, or vice
versa, lest she might wet her feet Her
Lreath had fanned his face, her light
form had rested in his arms, and while
he never by word and seldom even by
look betrayed his feelings he neverthe
less steadfastly, and with all his being,
worshiped her.
Larch was a young and smart petty
officer. As snch he had a promising ca
reer before him, and no doubt he wonld
have been wise had he strictly minded
his own business and endeavored to be
oontent with tbe sphere in which it had
pleased Providence to place him. Bnt,
like many of his betters, he went down
before Violet Bellamy.
It was at the beginning of the third
year of the commission that the Chryso
lite was suddenly dispatched to Tsi-
ripnn There had been a riot and a mas
sacre there, and Captain Bellamy was
ordered to teach the local mandarins a
severe lesson.
One morning the Chrysolite arrived-
off the place and sent in certain de
quietus fron
that were wl
bluejackets.
It is astonish j that he escaped being
hit a second time, for not only were the
Chinamen firing with rifles from the fort,
bnt the men in the boats were using their
machine gnns. In five minutes, though,
the worst of the storm had passed away,
and with tbe loll Captain Bellamy saw
a dark figure q]pwly drawing near him
from the right. He folly expected to
find that his visitor was one of the ene
my armed with a mission to put an end
to him, or perhaps drag him into the
fort, where death might be administered
a little at a time, and though a brave
man he was much relieved when he was
able to distinguish that the newcomer
was one of his own people.
“Beg pardon, sir, I hoped it was you,”
whispered a voice, which the captain-at
once recognized at that of his coxswain.
“Hopedr growled the captain. “What
do yon mean by hoping, yon scoundrel?
Here I am with my knee smashed, bleed
ing to death 1”
“Sad news for Miss Violet,” muttered
Larch.
“Confound Miss Violet and you toot
Bear a hand here and pull me out of this
if you can. The beggars will be blazing
away again in a minute.”
“Mustn’t move you, sir, till I’ve tied up
your leg,” said Larch, who had already
taken off his handkerchief and was sat
isfying himself as to the position of the
wound and the quantity of blood that
.was being lost. “It’s that big artery on
the inside of your leg, sir, that’s got to
be attended to. If you won’t mind my
using my ’baccy box and my handker
chief—so—now, TU twist it close."
“Hang it! You’re twisting my logoff,'
cried the captain.
“Never mind, sir,” said Larch. “Fve
Stopped tbe”
At that moment the Chinese in the fort
opened fire again.
“What the dickens is the matter with
yon, Larch?” demanded the captain.
For an instant the coxswain, who had
drawn back with a shudder, was silent.
When he spoke, it was with an altered
voice. “They’ve hit me, sir, I think,” he
said.
“Then run, man, and take shelter,’
urged the captain. “I’m all safo now for
an hour or two, if they don’t come out to
look for me.
“There’s a wall a little to the right,
Bir,” said the coxswain, who paid no at
tention to hischief’s orders, “and I think
I can get you behind it if you can drag
yourself on to my back as I crawl. Only
don’t disturb the bandage, sir.”
Captain Bellamy, with a great effort,
managed by degrees to work himself on
to tbe man’s back and to clasp Larch
round the neck. “I hope, Larch, that
you’re not risking too much, but if we
get through this there’ll be a Victoria
cross for you as certainly as there’ll be a
wooden leg for me."
“Beg pardon, sir,” mattered Larch,
who was now crawling slowly with his
bnrden toward the wall, “bnt I don’t
want any Victoria cross. Would they
promote me, do you think, sir?’
“I don’t doubt it, Larch. You’ll get
your warrant.”
The coxswain stopped suddenly.
“What’s the matter?” cried the captain.
Larch resumed his laborious crawl.
“I was only thinking,” he explained.
“Won’t you be wiser to defer yonr
thinking until we are under the lee of
that wall?” growled the captain,
those fellows fire any more, we’re done
for.”
The coxswain made no reply, bnt
dragged himself on, yard-by yard, nntil
at length he gently deposited his load be
hind the thick stone shelter. As he made
motion as if to return whence he had
come the captain cried: “Stay in here,
yon idiot. Where the dickens are yon
going?’
Larch sank downby the captain’s side.
•Beg pardon, sir,”~he said after a pause,
“bnt may I speak my mind ont to yon
just for this once as between man and
man?’
“Certainly yon may,” replied the cap
tain, somewhat astonished at the ques
tion.
Having got permission, Larch neither
hesitated nor attempted to restrain him
self. His confession came with a rush.
“Tvo been a fool,” he said. “I knew it
all along, only I wouldn’t see it. I’ve
had mad dreams of promotion, not to
warrant only, but to a commission. I’ve
thought of nothing but her. Tve kissed
the earth she has trodden npon. I’ve
hoped; I’ve prayed. Look in that ’baccy
box when they take off yonr bandage,
and you’ll find a bit of her hair that
begged from her maid. Yet I know
quite well that it can’t be. For her sake
I wouldn’t have it to be if it conld he.
And there’s only one end to it. She
mustn’t know, bnt 1 can tell yon, sir,
that, though yon are my captain, it
wasn’t for that that I went ont to look
for yon tonight. It was because yon are
her father—Miss Violet’s—and may God
bless her and forgive met”
He staggered to his feet, and without
another word bent his head and dashed
toward the fort, firing his revolver wild
ly as he went.
The enemy answered with a volley,
and the captain heard the coxswain fall
on the other ride of the wall.—W. Laird
Clowes in London Sketch.
comparatively small cost.
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three hours, were to be enforced by
moans of the resources of civilization.
The three hours elapsed, the demands
were not granted, and with absolute
punctuality the Chrysolite began to shell
the fort from her 6 inch B. L. guns.
The Chinamen laid low and did not re
ply with so much as a single shot. Mis
led by their silence. Captain Bellamy
after dusk had fallen led ashore a much
weaker landing party than he wonld
have employed had he anticipated re
sistance. Not until tlie men had tum
bled out of tlie boats did the enemy j>pen
captgin kuew he had
A LIGHT PORTABLE FENCE,
ed where desired without the labor of
digging postholes, at the same time that
it forms a firm fence and cannot be lift
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der, bnt is quickly and easily separated
and removed when desirable.
This fence is constructed in lengths or
panels, as light as consistent with
strength, consisting of two posts, A and
B, of unequal length, connected by asnit-
able number of rails (preferably five)
with a brace, abonc the midlength of
each panel. The post, A, at one end of
each panel is only of sufficient length for
the attachment of the rails, bnt the oth
er, B, is longer, leaving a foot to support
the panel above the ground of snch
length as may be necessary. The top,
bottom and center rails, more or less, of
each panel, extend at each end beyond
the posts and are gained ont, c, for half
their width. The panels are connected
by engaging the gains of one panel in the
corresponding ones of the next, as shown,
and are set upon the ground in a zigzag
form, so that each panel serves as a brace
for those adjacent.
To secure the connection of the panels
from accidental disengagement, one or
more of the intermediate rails, a b, have
tongues alternately npon their upper and
lower edges, which, engaging under and
over each other in the manner shown
when tbe fence is set np in its zigzag posi
tion, prevent the lifting of the upper
panel.
The construction of the second fence
is as follows: Take common fence boards,
•A A, and cut dovetail notches, a a, several
inches long and about half the width of
the board, and then on one end of the
boards nail two battens, B B, with bev
eled edges far enough apart to leave a
space that will admit the opposite end
of another panel which has. nailed onto
it one batten, also beveled. Then, when
the two panels are attached And locked
A Heavenly Match;
Husband (irritably)—It isn’t a year since
yon said you believed our marriage was
made in ht—ven, ind vet you order me
around as if I wasn’t anybody.
Wife (calmly)—Order is heaven’s first
law.—New York Weekly.
A Lock of Coincidence.
Downer—I am glad it is good form not to
wear a watch with a dre.ss suit.
Upper—Why?
Downer—Because l never have my watch
and my dress suit at the Same time.—Life.
She Didn’t Umlcntand.
Little Girl (looking at impresrionistio
landscape)—Mamma, what made him think
it looked like that?—Harlem Life.
According
to His Light.
“How do yon like that colored valet you
Imported from Alabama?"
“He won’t do."
“What’s the matter?”
“I told him last night to get out what I
needed for the ball, and he brought me my
razor.”—Life.
The End of It.
A precocious, impulsive young Mr
Was in love with a girl and he Kr.
Said she, “Sir, go slow.
For I’ll have you to know
I’m lo yon nothing more than a Sr."
—Spare Momenta.
A
Revolution
In Eating
ANOTHER'FORTABLE FENCE,
by the dovetail notches, a key or wedge,
C,is crowded into one of tbe spaces be
tween the boards of the different panels,
which presses apart the bottom of one
board and the top of the next one below
it, thus locking the two panels securely
in place. The wedge, C, can be fitted in
to a groove; C, to hold it more firmly in
{dace. This fence can be pnt npand
taken down in a few minnteB, and it is
especially desirable on account of its
neat appearance.
Didn’t Like Work.
“Harry, dear, I found an honest dentist
today,” said Mrs. Cnmso to her husband.
“Yon don’t say 1 Tell me about this won
derful freak of naturel”
“Well, he examined my teeth and said
they didn’t need anything done to them.”
“What did he charge for that?”
“Only $5, When be might have worked all
day and charged me $10 or $15.
that show he was honest, dear?”
“No. It shows be was lazy.”—Life.
ItWiUte
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bloc
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Fuitou, ArKausu:
sayrofg
meted a severe case of blood poi-’
■m. Leading *pli.vsiciau3 prcsc»ibed*medicir
ifter medicine, which I toot without any relic
I also tried iacrcnrir.1 and potash remeok
Mdth unsuccessful ;csult3, bas which brougt
sn an attack of mercurial rheumatism tha
four years I gave up pll remedies and bega:
zsiag S. B. S. After tuV.in" foveral bottles
was entirely cured and: ' !c to resume vor!:.
j Is the ere*test medicine for bloo,
poisoning to-day on the market.*
S.S.S.
Treatise on Blood and S':in Diseases maiie
!ree. Swire Srr/trrf Atlanta,
flEORGIA. CLARKE COUNTY, Ordinary’s
n Hi-fi vnrrh nth. iB9i.—Notice is herebv
Deplorable.
Miss Azurehose—What a terrible, hope
less longing is expressed in Coleridge’s
lines, “Water, water everywhere, but not
a drop to drinkl”
Mias Littlered—It doesn’t seem possible
that the liquor habit ever had such a hold
on a human being.—Puck.
Where It Was.
Dunn—'Why is it that you never have
any money the day after you receive your
salary?
De Flssett—It’s all owing to other people.
—Life.
Waited Too Long.
Polite Gentleman (in street car)—Take
my seat, madam.
Lady—Never mind, thank yon.
out here too.—New York Weekly.
I get
Following Up tbe Resemblance.
Hojack—Mrs. Glanders can read her hus
band like a book.
Tomdick— Yea. And she can shut him
np like one too.—Puck.
has been brought about by the
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while it is well known that thous
ands are obliged to abstain entire
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address.
ATHENS., GA. j
“Mothers’
Friend’
.»»
MS CHILD BiRTH EISY,
0*Hce. .'aren fith, 189».—Notice is Herebv
given to all concerned that Thomas Voss, la‘e of
said county, died testate, and that Henry Moss
qualified as exeentor of said will, and that his
authority as such executor h>s bsen revoked,
and that letters ot administration tie bonis non
with will annexed will be vested in the County
Administrator, or such other fit and proper per
son on the first Monday In April next, onlesa
objection is made thereto.
S. M. HERRINGTON, Ordinary.
“olv'ii, t-i, Dee. 2,1886.—My wife usee
uOTHER'S FRIEND before her thirc*
•ufinemeut, and says sho would not hi
without it for hundreds of dollars.
DOCK MILLS.
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it by express on receipt of price, J
Book “To Mothers” mailed free.
BRAOFIELB REGULATOR CO.,
v all druqqivr«. ATLANTA, <2A,
iNo. .....October Term,
I- Clarke Superior Court,
| Libel for Divorce.
E. Li. Hoixaxp,
vs
Luna S. Holland
To Lula S. Holl; jto, Greeting:
By order of tbe Court, I hereby notify you
that on the 19th day of September 1893, E. L.
suit against you for total di-
to the Ocf
Holland filed „
vorce, returnable to Ste October term 1893 of
Baid court, under the forejotng caption, you
are hereby notified to be present at said court,
to beheld on the second Monday in April, 1894,
to answer plrintift's complaint. In default
thereof the court will pro:eed as to justice
shall appertain. .. '* _ ,
Witness the Honorable N. L Hutchins, Judge
of said court.
Clerk
The Weeki;
great Democ:
.Eighth and
It’s worth moi
9th, 1894.
K. Kixxrr,
Clarke Co. ft*.
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