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STORIES OF HE SEI,
Quenching a Blaze In a Hurry on
Board a War Vessel.
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PRANK OF A TRICKY MASCOT.
Yhr* W*r* Lively Tim** on Dock
Whn the Big Monkey Got Himself
Mixed Up With Hot Pitch and Gun
Cotton and Took a Trip Aloft.
We were ouiklup passage from Nor
folk, Vh., o Lisbon, Portugal, In tlie
llnlfed Stales steamship Alliance. It
was shortly after 4 o’clock. I had Just
gone to my room for a pipeful of to
iMteeo when the aallmnker earne to my
door with a seared face, “Got any wa
ter In your room, Mr. Du Bols?” be
an Id.
•'Yes; here's a pailful.”
“For God’s sake give It to me quick!
'l'he sail room's afire, but don't say
anything! I*ll have It out In a mln
hte!”
I handed him the pull of water, but
was not going lo take auy chances of
a tire on a man-of-war with fifteen
tons of |K>wder not six feet away, so
1 ran to the ship's bell arid rang Ihe
fire alarm as furiously ns 1 could. In
less lime than It takes you to rend this
band grenades were being thrown and
water was pouring into the now sti
fling mass of burning canvas. Men
Jumped in among the great bundles of
furled sails and passed them out, and
when one could not endure the smoke
any longer another took his place. At
last the danger was over, and I began
to look around and take stork of ihe
affair.
I had often wondered what I would
do In case of a fire on Ihe ship. I
would save m.v watch. A watch Is
never used at sea. so it hung from a
hook over my desk. I would he sure
to take along my best girl's picture,
and there were a few other little be
longings which must not lie parted
with. Well, when the tiling was over,
what had 1 gathered together? Not
my watch, not m.v best girl’s picture,
not anything that I had thought I
•would, but I had filled my poekets
with extract of beef and nothing else.
Dumb Instinct, not n thought of any
thing but of something good to eal in
dire extremity.
flow did the fire start? The sail
maker, whose duty It is to keep the
walls In good order, is privileged to go
to the sail room at any time, but he Is
supposed to always carry a peculiar
lantern, consisting of a common candle
set In a globe of horn, sufficiently
opaque to give enough light for bis
needs there. The candle does away
with liny danger from oil that might
be spilled and catch tfrre, Hiid the globe,
being of horn insiead of glass, pre
cludes n possibility of breakage. This
time the sailrnaker, desiring a little
more light, had taken out the candle.
It had dropped from his Augers away
down into the bight of a furled sail,
and the cloth had caught fire. There
was a terrible mess of burned and
smoky sails In there, and they were
all hauled up on deck and spread out
in the sun to dry and to find out Just
what the damage was. In the bottom
of the room on the floor one of the
men found the slump of candle and
put it in his pocket. The sailrnaker
was a favorite on board, and the offi
cers never found out how the fire
started. They thought they knew.
The captain ‘'broke’’ the sailrnaker—
that is, reduced him lo the decks. But
he couldn’t prove anything. So after
a week or so he restored him to his old
rank.
We came near having another fire
once, and, while It might have been
very serious, it was really funny.
We had several hundred pounds of
gun eotton on board, and, fearing that
It might have gathered dampness, the
guuner's gang got up the cases from
the magazine, pulled It all out and
spread it on the warm decks far aft In
the sun to dry. Away forward the
boatswain’s mate and his gang were
busy with tar pots and ropes putting
some of their stuff in order.
We had on board a mascot In the
shape of a monkey, one of the largest
I have ever seen. He would stand
quite three feet high and he was the
very Old Nick for mbschlef. He was a
great nuisance, that monkey, and must
always be doing what he saw any of
the men doing.
Well, Mr. Monkey saw the men wit 1 -
the warm tar, and nothing would do
but he must have a hand In the job
literally, so he ran forward and dipped
Ills hands Into the pot and in a minute
was all besmeared with the sticky
stuff: then he bolted aft ns fast as he
could scamper and rolled In the gun
eotton. got himself well covered with
It and ran aloft iuto the rigging. Bail
ors have a saying, “The devil to pay
ud no pitch hot,” but the pitch was
hot this time, and the condition was
actually appalling. Some of the men
ran after him. hut it was lmjiossfble to
catch him. He was too shrewd for
that. The gunner’s gang gathered up
that gun cotton as men never did so
fast in their lives !>cfore and put It
back Into the cans, for lir.d ihat fp< •
monkey drOjpjied from fiioTT Into it be
would have blown the ship to king
dom come. They got. it out of the way
without dlsasier. but for several hours
that creature sat up there picking gun
cotton from himself and throwing It
overlioard. As I sold, the episode
would have been comical bad It not
lieen fraught with so much danger. It
might have been “another sea mys
tery.” but It was uot.—Stanley Du Bols
In Dos Angeles Times.
He bear* misery best who hide* !t
most.—Shakespeare.
Bank of England Watchers.
When you enter the Bank of Eng
land by nuy door four pairs of fses
watch you, though you are unaware
of this fact. Situated close to the
doors are hiding places In which are
four guardians of the bank. You can
not see them, but they can watch you
with the aid of reflecting mirrors In
which they can see your entrance and
exit and every movement from the
time you enter the portals of wealth to
the moment you leave them.
Har Vcralcn.
Mr. Highbrow—lt was Michelet, I
believe, who observed that “woman Is
the salt of man’s life.” Miss Keen—
Quite true. Young men aren't half so
fresh after they get married.—Boston
Transcript
EFFORT BY PROXY.
Involuntary Attempts to Help Athletes
at Exciting Moments. .
In pictures of athletic competitions,
chiefly hurdle races and high jumps,
an occasional spectator is seen in a
queer posture.
If it is u picture of an athlete leap
ing, ten chances to one the si*ectator
has Involuntarily raised his right leg,
twisting bis body in automatic expres
sion of a desire to help ihe jumper.
With hurdle race photographs this of
ten may be noticed, too, and iu the
case of sprinters not a few men stand
with faces twisted up and holding the
breath Iu correct imitation of the alh
lete actually competing.
So, too, with football views. In one
of a big game there was a photograph
of a man on the side line watching a
tackle who was crouching down in al
most exact imitation of a waiting de
fense man who was shown at the mo
ment making ready for his leap at the
runner.
Men who follow athletics know how
involuntary this is. (Jue athletic train
er has ap|>eiyed in hundreds of pic
tures as watching someone of his
charges high Jumping, with his leg
swung out Just as if he were making
the leap himself. There is a sort of
relief for the feeling of trying to help
the Jumper in swinging the leg up so,
and almost any person Is likely to find
himself doing it instinctively.
It may be noticed at prizefights that
some men go through the entire battle
punch for punch, crossing and counter
ing an imaginary opponent as they
watch the struggle before them. Men
drive and ride horses in races from the
stand, making the effort in the stretch
along with the jockey of their fancy.
This is one of the well known features
among the race crowd where there are
many “grand stand riders.” In wres
tling matches almost any one will try
purely by instinct, to help tlie athl<
who Is down and who is bridging
perateiy to avoid the fall.
And yet there is rarely enough it <
pathic suggestion In the air surcharged
with desire to bring about a result dif
ferent from what naturally might be
expected at the moment when the
greatest wish for something else is
born—that is to say, the high jumper
doesn't necessarily clear the bar, nor
the sprinter squeeze out the inch or
so that he needs, nor the Jockey whip
his mount in for the head that means
victory.—Washington Post
Eugene Sue’s Vanity.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary
literary success which be enjoyed
when his works were the vogue, Eu
gene Sue posed much more as a man
of fashion than a man of letters. After
bis dinner at the Cafe de Paris he
would gravely stand on the steps
smoking his cigar and listening to the
conversation with an air of superiority
without attempting to take part in it.
His mind was supposed to be far
away, devising schemes for the social
and moral Improvement of his fellow
creatures. These ‘philanthropic mus-
Ings did not prevent him from paying
a great deal of attention—too much
perhaps—to his personal appearance. |
for even in those days of beaus, bucks
and dandies, of Counts d’Orsay and
others, men could not help thinking
Eugene Sue overdressed.
Umbrella Etiquette In Turkey.
In China ladies are attended by serv
ants who hold umbrellas over their
heads. The Chinese and Japanese in
troduce both the umbrella and parasol
into their decorative work and athletic
sports. In western Turkey It is ueces
sary to close an umbrella on meeting
people of high rank, and a European
traveler who was passing one of the
palaces of the sultan was nearly run
through by the guard before be com-
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Yours to please,
KILGORE & KELLY
WINDER, - GEORGIA
prehenfled that ne must pur Gown the
open umbrella he carried. Kvory one
passing the actual residence of the
sultan lowers bis umbrella as a salu
tation to “the brother of the sun and
the moon.”
An Old Idea.
Macaulay was not the first man to
frame the famous image of the man
of anew civilization standing amid
the ruins of that which we knerw to
day. tong before he wrote of bis
traveler from New Zealand meditat-'
lug upon London bridge Mrs. Barbauld
had used the same image, with the dif
ference that she applied it to Black
friars bridge. An earlier reviewer had
used it in an article published in 1767.
we are told by au English commenta
tor, and Horace Walpole says in one
of his letters. “At test some curious
traveler from Lima will visit England
and give a description of the ruins of
St. Paul’s.”
The Perfect Woman.
There is a quaint old tavern sign in
Kent, “The Perfect Woman”—a wo
man's head without a mouth. This
signboard was once quite common, and
as late as 1818 a “silent woman” stood
tn St. Giles', in what is now Now Ox
ford street bearing beneath the picture
of female the following
u oran-how can it be?
t traveler, do not scoff.
iawn from the very life is she
.And mute because her head is off.
—London Chronicle.
Like a Mule.
“A man wif a bad disposition,” said
Uncle Eben, “is a heap like a mule.
You's always havin’ yob doubts about
whether his usefulness on some occa
sions pay's fob his troublessraeness on
others.”—Washington Star.
OgiiDy, translator of Homer and Vir
gil. was unacquainted with Greek un
til he was past fifty years of age.
Sick Folk’s Fancies.
“Isn’t it funny,” said (he brown
eyed woman, "how important some
things are to you when you are sick
and how trivial they seem when you
get well? When 1 was ill awhile ago 1
could not take any water to drink, al
though I nearly died of thirst. But
late every night the nurse would
bring me a small glass of cracked ice.
Oh, how I anticipated that thing
through long and painful hours, and
when I could hear her cracking up the
ice the sound was the most beautiful
thing in the world. When 1 was eat
ing it if one little scrap got lost in the
bedclothes 1 almost wept, so precious
it was. And now that I am well and
have the Icebox at my command I
wouldn’t eat a piece for anything.
“A friend of mine, a strong man.
told me that when he was recovering
from typhoid and couldn’t eat any
thing he would lie for hours compos
ing menus. He would call out bis or
ders in a loud voice and then nearly
burst into tears when no waiter ap
peared with loaded tray. Sick people
certainly are funny, though they can’t
al ways see it at the time.”—New York
Press.
Money amassed either serves or
rules us.—Horace.
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After January Ist, you will find us in the Winder
Banking Company’s building next door to John Lyle.
Everything in heavy groceries will be sold at
greatly reduced price before we move.
Very truly Yours,
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Herrin Brothers.
F. W. Bondurant & Cos.
insurance,
Winder/ - - Georgia.
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NOTICE!
I have withdrawn from the firm of
ELROD & BARRON,
And purchased the
SHA VING PARLOR '<
Located in the Granite Hotel, where I
would be pleased to greet my old
friends.
Thanking you for past patronage,
and hoping you will call upon me ahj
my new quarters.
' Respectfully,
W, P. ELROD, j
WINDER, - GEORGIA.
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