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STORIES OF HE SEI, Quenching a Blaze In a Hurry on Board a War Vessel. ■f 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- We have just received the first installment of SPRING GINGHAMS * And for the next ten days will offer to the trade one of the prettiest lines of Ginghams ever seen here. DRY COODS- This department is full of the choic est patterns and the prices are Rock Bottom. ERESS COODS. A full line of up-to-date Dress at the lowest prices. CLOTHING. 4 This department has been moved into the stores room recently vacated by Herrin Bros., and we can dress you out in the latest styles at the lowestprices. 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. REMOVAL SALE. ~ . ; ■%; - 11 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, I Herrin Brothers. F. W. Bondurant & Cos. insurance, Winder/ - - Georgia. j 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. DRESS WOOLENS. Beautiful fabrics for Spring SuiS and skirts full live of new shades. 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