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Chief-Jjjudiee A Washington correspondent says:
Watfe, of the. Supreme
Court, hfl a in any fias etj»fri>ii>ce related the other
Hay, aldii* lie it to any
number of frieAds, t.qe story lias HoVefftl had a
wide circulation iff society.
weeks ago ho bad iui imis-rativc engage¬
ment proverbial!# iu Baltimore/ ‘absent-minded. Vi|o all gfeatj ruen Ho
lie is
went tip WJlHi, CUfift Ai*d-after a few
fuoiuo!it.U«*aM'*» nHjottmed the conrt
s«id came down leisurely to thc Balti¬
more and Ohio depot, wliirfh is only a
ehp« - t duilaiwat fropi tlve Cujiito|. As he
gdt out of ffie Street car he found he had
ten minutes in which to jnnohnse a
ticket, and get a seat, on the train. As
iho w««.t Up to the tieket-ofH<«v he dis¬
covered, to his surprise, that he had
only a few jiennies in his pocket. He
' |in|ii •ieglia;tml ..tLi iyuttwy-’j ptovulo hiinself 1141 h^ked with
“scrijt for .Jns.
around tb* wniring-roisun. bnt sa».nooau
w Imuw. Wimt was to be done must
to th' t/ekS't office, and whe.n he
readied tho window the Chief-Justice
silli 1 oil nil awful,,Htklfie (Icross tbe full
width of hts Ample mouth mid asked
the ticket. agiW if he knew him.
“and I J/tlpS’H” rlAlied : the agent,
wbat is more, I don't want to!
Wbat do yon-want!?”
“I want a ticket to Baltimore and re
trt>k- i hai thd (’Jiajf.Justicf: monby of tlie
ifvupfeme (kturt, and I have no
aatb me, H is pureiv. aecnlental. loan
give yoy my jieraon il chuck.”
‘‘Oli, I kpuw yo»r^ I know all- tbe
iiloofW, but thiit undgn work .
woii t on
J“ e * ^ w<> nQ ^ I! ; i,<irH of
, . -i/-J^bbutoi f tiekoU
Alia no (Tiiier-Jns! ice dodge gets me.
1 nki* your ugly lyug out oi the Window,
fill- 1 '* th< WAy “ f P ' 01, ° wl ‘°
U n 7 onov y ,'i
T he Oftfrf..TnrtW u. .. glared. . , TT Tin could ,,
not fine the young man for contempt of
<•<•1111. Ho felt cheaper * and worse tlmn
if (ite hud *ij<ip«>rMji.]d|o4l'.M(> I wen a real i fraud. He
Inid belief'strengthened. fliat theafroiiU
liia firm The
Chief-,Justice dashed out of the stfttipn
to see if lie could not find someone to
fdentlfe Wfc bin.., Uc liua fijJjUluwuhratw tAetomn
to
the (iqflhil. He saw no one Aecm»,
the street there was a saloo 1 iwAl aJUfc
bouse. The Chief-Just ice mad.) a rush
\ dk£T WIiIJhH lie Sirid ! K&lirt®
‘ iraSianS
any on* n. Here should , know, faiml
HP
an.
frantic Inquiry of “Dp you know ifewfr, „*»’
“Yes. bet yer bead, I do, Yer '
Haul the .hurt-Inured, freoklo-faofd nu*
Hnupram" lifiiud (Joort. h,f. i I ivory day
Bee ye
fpiug by hero on the cars.” .
fituo Will to you cash -Ay wiWlc? T have
^nibbe.1 fo iff f HereThf >)g 8 tten
it piece paper iijion a desk
m , 4it*r, 'lilmr< fly upd. 1 wilLB beHAn W wruo lmr^Mdly.
I I . L’ve seen <mtd byes
itb.in h tear l»e#on* get full of moftJv.
- fj iwbt>tu«t ! hotp; Id It twertfy K ye wimt ?
Here it is, -^llt to tnivH drop before
^,/uiuu.z'.:.—.— Hut before further explanation
any
could lie mode the Chief Justice had
jjrabbqil the #l»e street. {tqii^fy :y)d Wall running
across In some way the
^&iitai£vi<|Jm%pV picket ageat hatl a lewtucd iff LisJjJuiuJer iuA
ii'*>8i<'#, was All
* politeness when lrt‘ saw the money,
Mr. Waite barely nuide the tmui, h#
has not bad sncll a shock td hiH digiity,
Hinqt^i^wg^ j^iou thejieuch ^ tli e Su»
m m ari.oil o *4 fc-iAf fiiall Htq<n
A Fori.me From Six Inches of String.
,
• money u won ’ dn t.&ii? l ‘rf Udl, u it 11 was ° u
.
bu.lt by a h tie p.eoe of cord not more
than six inches long. Hen, the speaker
w .s.*| and th* re,ior‘nra
<>..u,teu.uce for , .mlu-aboue of iner.s u
hty, not to say astonmbmsnt. But the
..S 3 SS 3 »MA-S:
m«. e.tapointo( pnne.i.letolH,readyfor
mjyU.. UK .u 4 A<.UeU t we .U Umt he hears.
The s,«.d»r »• de.t: ‘Eight years ago
• them hrot in tho thud story of a cheap
tonemem, in New York city, a poor me
ohanio, who was kept ,**.!• beoauMe he
had a passion for He inventing; didn’t it and amounted didn’t
to a piissnui drmk
travel with the uoliticiaua, and idl who
.1 aa«s
and still the man was p.g>r, but at last
he |selected an invention—the simplest
thing on earth—and with his pateut iu
Ills hand bo weut dow u town one dav
and called for the bead of a lumse whose
oheck was, current for five figures any
wherein ‘the street.’ The inventor of
fered tos. lL two-thirds bojise wra^d <ff his Ipnil jiaieut Vw'lf tor
$20,000 V t%e
put SKkt.lHKi into factories for producing
the litUe thing that ho had invented.
Th* tirtn W»ied papers in less t linn an
hour Inun the tnue of hearing the pro
“fwn ixisai ! and iu —
7 .
000 iuto greenbacks, ls'ts were t-ought
and a factory .-reefi-d. The busnuss
spee.1il.v gi » 10 gigantic proportions,
suid at length tlie tirui acquired all the
re*t yf tlie bkx-k, aint coveici it with
id aortar. ami i*»w the«inrci*tor
is able to i-aocute with the millionaires,
The littie glove fosterer- .piece vU
oord alxmt six inches long and a dozei
little ineta, hooks or buttous-u thc
thm^ J tbot >Ld r-or*rt'ea,cu. •'Ai
- v-* -a- 1-1
“Tm _ ints . uolhiug like leatuer, . but
■fche Isitfinu crust of the railroad r.^taii
rant pie .cwmhls^t twmewhat.
.■ski.ievi**. i
An loternatiouit exhi’. itioa of f xxl,
dress, li.ibitsti T'l | 5 * a: d edacation will l«e
held iu Riij'.au t
THE EDITOR’S WIFE.
BEAD it mi ASttcai, BAiujrrr or to* cHica**
ratsa arv.
Soaloqueht thought awl no flowery word.
That the moot of vou, ' listening enraptu-ed,
have heard ,
ConM allure me tn.m vian-la so temptingly
'That ^
I've missed the extempore speeches you’ve
read.
Pet mv heart beat, responsive to one theme
divine—
Tim woman we drink to in bumbersof wine :
bo I throw down my napkin, my fork, and my
lmffe
To ft., all to tbe toast of “The Editor’s Wife."
Amt of course you'll agree—since our wive, are
alllwre
To br.^.'tn tlie scene and partake of our
Tlrtlthe fhi hpt of n*a is kind heaven ha*
H< ‘ nt
T® bring a iiia man Joy* sympathy, and lessen peace, )u» and , content^ 4 ,
To add to to woes,
To s.:w on hi* buttons, and [Hiicti np iiis hose,
And to smooth out the i.:: k« and the wrinkle.
«t no-,
I. tlie idol we worship : the editor m wife.
night .
When the editor comes from ids office at
rtt a very iat« hour, it, ;t tlubiouH pught,
'nm lapreteMM prevail* and nwryi* , " l<1
‘1 hat an editor a wife can he always enjoied
Willi a Jib about •hridges ’ and “broken-down
pres*,' froa^e .
But we who have ... been there .are ,
are rife
IU. Iient to own up to tbe editor’s wife.
Ail such fables are cruel, and men are "kind
To libel a «* Oi such generon. mind,
A sex who economize all through the year
The women who scrimpingiy, patiently wait
fbr ttn-annual feast at three dollar* per plate;
Tor of ell the wild joys in the circus of life,
A hanging ‘ seems best to the editor’s wife.
Hut, nil jc-Htipff ide--since I dimly'Hunni^o
That the* ladivrt rtganl mu Witii HiniMtc-r (yotf—
Wlm m<ne than tho wife of our bosom de
Hcrvt’A
Th«Teueration herboatitypresorven?
And tho y« ar» may go by and our headu may
grow wlilto,
nei ' b-Mity K'-m** evr ns pure and as bright
As when she faced poverty, sorrow and strifr,
Ant , bll . HK „ (1 , mr estate as an editors wife.
And some of us, glancing back over tallowed the years,
Can tt-airsi call sweet visions, all by
A dr <, or a toy, or a hood that is torn.
Or » guaint liitlo shoe thut a baby has worn,
Or a white little face lying under a pull
JU«1 * w.»*-mvmd jnm.lef-thaf.
a«f ’ J '
uMtfo wy know tho great grief that has clou,led
* ' 1
Anil brxikeu thelieart iif an editor’* wife.
nmy <lrink UtyMr tr:ldp a,Ml )m,r ne:i -
1^1’°* 7 K jr 1 W ,i f r .*'7‘ ” a T
?/" «>>>'»««.aPM P Wnta*l, lx,ns
°" y ’“”1 »•*»«*
^ «* h, ' r 1 WouJd Jr^-our oomp*niou iu
lir j ! /
q.Htsl.'st _ , ln»piiwh.)n, . . .. tUe editor .... wife „ ! ,
*
Edosms fau.
Tlie Bailiff at Sea
BY W, CLAUK lit’H^KLL,
“So you're the mate of the vessel that
stole away the county court man ? ” said
1 to ill old sailor. lookjiiftHlf
“Right,” said ho, me,
trlthfmt a move in his face; “but don’t
you go mid say that I’m the mute as
gave him up again. If I’d had ruy way
he’d l>e iu charge o’ any goods he might
have come across in the inside of a
whale by this time. I’d ha’ chucked
him rAeVbthird, as sure as tliit there
band’s on this table.
“A'.c it got works nothing for to say against the
law as them as Mw^s ashore
. caiiT —.in tlii sftil ai as are with ju fixisl bloomjjyj^ll houses, aud
away any
in rag of a chap, bit iu a greasy takes coat, 1 lie
with a et paper, ami cer;
and |iaid sMj^Hero But uliat I sit, has mates, the !’m of
lilor
• ’’The V, wosseiwas.abrip fl J; of tlu—nun- M
ho . q
Y HielcKor’s
bt A W^ lt was J
f j y ,«k u[ to , mr ^ of
, ^ tl of lbbu B hiob Ml0
» , , M if to , )ro vokp ll4> uu ,
we nt, doing her a deal of damage
--KftTs w * agaiu with cooL
, lt was
Tl „ M , ilv rt ,terno.m, the skv 4 middling
dlrt 1 alul ft frosb breeze ol ind blow
, Tl , b;l „led out and lay at a moor
toK-bnor, , . waiting , for , the tide to serve,
* n / L ’ 1 b'.kuig to the captain, when 1 took
»"’ 11 oon hr '' P'' ( “ ’ ho 'vateriucn, ‘‘ f 0 " U11,: ” and A \ on a 8 > chap *»*«* in b - v a
sa«r ' ,f bo 7,«? ‘ l t foi^BLsgys “ 7 the cap
win, looking.
”‘W iy,’ L says, ‘it looks as if she
m.ibiit to run us down, wls it a wager ?
Bifll me if never I gaw|pitermon pull
liklfthal nfore.’ \ 3 a^
•‘“They if they were would draggi^Hm AjningTm, lying their back oars
**
nntjl notlfiug buFtheir noses wa$ to be
Kuuh>ve the gunwale, and making the
wrWtlv in clouds over the cov®u the
stiaHas gixidE'r it jirompt drowning was t<x>
him, and he was to be snioth
ered w;ow. They dashed alongside,
hooked on, and the fellow in the chirn
bley-pot hut ivun.s scraping frAti’water over the
rail, sinking himself as he
tumbled ou the deck like’a Xewtound
land dog.
“*Ju>t in time, captain,’says he, with
ajpuioudent j* kind o'smile, nuumagutg
Jjis si ae.pocket; and with that he
uitb a 8ort o{ doekiment, and
bau<ls it to tbe sk i p?er .
.“What’s ajnuad this?’ says the skipper, might
vntUifig offering the paper, touch as if! it
‘t>e. bill hever to
“ ‘Oniv 11 border for vou to return to
tbe ^ yoiur family,’ he s»j», ‘as
[ b ,, date o’ vour sailing's not vet fixed.’
Ytfgtmjft. .. j{S‘ aa ^ Ul0 cap tain, Imisth
‘YTTio are yoft, and whalff'ye
want?’
“ T*rj a bailiff,’ says the mau ; ‘and
I'm here to take charge o’ this wessel.
pending the haetiou that’s been entered
against her j a the Hadmiralty side o’ the
county coni'j v>y the schooner as ye was
’a collision ivith.’
“ ‘Can ye s«;m ?’ ask* the captain.
“ Never yo>i mind whether I can or
not,’ says the bailiff, locking round at
US, for Jill hands was ct»ll*eUe«J.«id liaton
^ tlwir h.rdest. jQJ j.,„
‘Because, /fays the captain, ‘if you
cuiaH awim yon 4 better turn to ami hail
j^boaf to conic, back again and put ye
8 »»9 ,, . 5 tariff, lT I . not ,
\* m
g. .ing ashore, m. trend. I m here to
_ ^ St0I> h
toe'toseo'‘» 3 j?
T *
there H f to give tne or<lc Ca f tam w for «*«“ , that bailiff ^ to be ,
dropped would overboa,.,^ hr, I believe I’m the
man as va executed the com
maud. Taking the temper I was then
j D> j ,]on't kno> anything that would
ha’given Tlie me m-> re satisfaction toper
form. when aggravation all ready of bring stopped
we were to get away waa
tlie leant part of ^ ; it was the bailiff's
cool be looked grins, arouik. the impudence much in his to eyes as
( gg as say,
‘All wliat I see , m j ne ’ his taking the
skipper’s place ’
a^j suy in g, ‘Y e
do this, JL* and I y on ’t allow that ’ that
,«a/L warii t. ’ la i f ) i , ^7 i
.
| ul "
1 ' “l|' *j, ‘ r ,
n , 0 ’ 0 A -’'
| j ‘
,
(( f / n “ not!ie ’’ TiJirtar of
( Bays he, loose the top-sails
'•y< r 5 *E& *<■.». a,
iff, it .1 lie gross contempt of court if
y°!} C°wr*. , ,, savstbo . pkipper^ , . f ourt.
.
j ‘ her T « no ~ nrt bc M ’ Tb*»
j w a V”?’ MOt a % S f ' V ° D f° i’S] a ^ °
i there ordering of meT
: n . ]>,. f assured’ savi the boHfb
‘vou'ifbe s punished"
: if you don't do what
I Tow J sa v You'll k<>« u have *»a/« to to runre ptugt. in m open open
: court, - / and that a a job that may cost ye
\
: enough to lay you up in the Union for
the rest of your natural days.*
“ ‘Stow that f says I, stepping close to
! the fellow; ‘if the captain stands that
kind o’jaw, I won’t.’
14 ‘I’m here in the hexecution of my
! duty,’says the bailiff, dropping his eqji
| fident grins Whatever and beginning doconfify to .grow
; whitish. ‘ you '* ”•’ to
j mv or .i ors von '.i (lo heT Tonr i
Atld , . so ; saying, „ viu-- he walks iIks right ri&ht aft aft,
and sits on tho taffmil with his arms
folded.
“Never was any quarter of an hour
longer than that I had which (he captain told
me to wait. my watch in
hand, and all the time ! was afraid the
sapper would ebungo his mind and give
w to the tnubft, who _sat ait with his
fiat ov-r Ins ears, looking at the shore
WI .< ri Time !?S -■*. s 1e up, ^*’„ sir! I „ bawled , , to , the ,, cap
tain.
, Loos T ’' ‘" e or f;-?" , ' s : . lie sin . « s out , :
and , m a moment all bauds were running
about, sheeting home and Tailing out at
the ropes, being as much afem-d its I was
Mifi that n w« were not quick the .logged
ml operat.- upon t he skipper a
ellect arid stop our ju S t rewe„ge
that
seeing the men at work, UinW «TIT
tah.ai and comes running forrard, f
<« < D ye mean to .t«v you tlon t intend
to •'bey the law ?' Jw shoute out, holding
on to ‘Out Ins cbimbley-pot the
of ways ! answers too
xkniper ; ‘there s no room for law here.
\\ ere full up, mate; and since ye re
bound for « voyage blow your nose and
wave >onr hand to them as ye re a part
mg from ! ami as Wmu he says thw, the wes
sel.catelung the that was; coming
strong enough to ntOBm.thiug above our
top-a uls meessaiy, 15 W down to it, and
we beads fur tbe open water.
‘‘I saw llie bailiff staring wddly round
fungus if ho really would jump over
board, and it was worth a month <» pay
to seo him kxiking’tte that, and holding
Why. nian, .. h^shouts V, . to , the cap
tain, you re never in earnest. Dye
calls out to the meft ‘You’ll work this
v-ssel at your peril if you obey your cap
*
tain. M y orders are to stop this l.rig,
and if yon don’t allow me execute mv
dntr ■ * -
“But just as be came to this the vessel
met the first of I ho seas which were roil
ing outside tho harbor—stiff seas Vale they
was, for it was blowing half a o’
wind; she put her nose into it, and then
rolled over, fit to bring her lower yard
arms into the water; away flew the bail
iff’s chimbley-pot list clean over
board, and ye meant may boil me follow alive if for I
didn’t think he to it;
the send o’the weasel tripped him over
the. weather hatch coamings, and he
seemed to shoot—ay, as neatly as if
he’d been kicked by one of them giants I
used to read about when I was.a little
’nu—clean into the lee scmirwuw- where
lie lay stunned, as I thought, until all
on a sudden he jumped up We ^rrl weut
clawing after-dmi artufgtiU he come to lee o’
the house, where valler b Jttquattad and
down, loempg with bis face
blowing like a Madagascar monkey
recovering from a fit of intoxication. ’
Here tnv companion broke into a lend
laugh, which he repeated again *nd
again, as if the thoughts awakened in Iris
mind were of too exquisite ft kind to be
dismissed with a single guffaw.
“I don’t know.” , he continued, after a
f>it, wiping his eyes, and then fixing his
dismal and malignant squint upon m^|
“whether on the whole we should U.f
done lioard. better by dropping him pretty over
i ue tang was as < eep as
rngh twice her tonnage m uai oould
make has; she was a wt boat at any
time ; but *ow sue tumbled about as it
she made timber mind to drown bei-sctf.
I reckon sue knew she had a bailifl
abord. Every dip roriard threw tne
water over her head uiooemis; she d roll
to wind ard almost as heavily as to ie.
ward so that the decks was ail gwath .
and I was looking and hoping :iM||e
time there to wasenough see the bailiff law, eft fetch in him away. to Tpfi Jpop
him wind’aril holding of the on. house—the 1 was standing skipp*r x \>e- to
ing aft agin the wheel—when Mx.
comes sfiiggenng round, his breeches
clinging to his legs like wet lwiwn
p.qxr, and his shoes fnU o’ wxter.
“ -Hallo, shipmate! ’ I sings out. see
ing him making for the cabin dsor,
•where are you bound to ? Aren't yon
happy where you are ? ’
*« * I’m going to he down on one of
the lockers,’ savs he. ‘I fed half
froze, and I shall lie sick presently.’
<( t You may be half froze and sick
too,' says I, ‘but smother me, Mr.
Riliff, if you shall use the cabin.'
“ ‘Not use the cabin ? ’ says he,
gaping at me, and talking as if there
something in his swaller; ‘d've
to keep me on &wk ail „ ight ? -
* a,“‘Don’t ask no questions, says I.
_* , . French leave. Nobody
astim, If I had mv way you’d be
towing with your neck in a bow
line; and if all the rest o’ your tribe
and the blooming ’tomies you sarve
we .. e tailed on in vonr wake I’d be
willin „ fo woyage round the world, and
cever „ nim ble if we took * years in reach
■ .
‘
V.j was j„ a passion which rose my
mes' • ul the skinner ’ hearing ° me
CO over
‘“Hallo ’ bailiff »’ ’ says he, cheerfully:,
n “'] 0WIie< ' T e,: m Y , “id What u ye
. .
. ?’
* w eatller
“‘Captain, . , the 1 you , yo
says man
ffgf ° tree ™ me to D death / by keeping *> 7 ° meau tr.s
on dock all night? Year mate here
says I’m not to use the cabin. ’
u ‘Why should he ase it CApt’ll,’say3 I.
‘ Could a sailor man sit with the likes oi
llim? I’ve messed afore now with
Chuneymcn; I’ve slept along with Te
ruvian beach-combers when the air’s
that thick with tbe smell of onions
enpied a cabin along with a bailiff afore
and if he’s to share that crib along with
U s, I’ll sleep forrard.’
“ ‘ You hear that, bailiff,’ says tlie
‘I can’t let mv mate live for
r* da,re say to the cook VS, 11 let }‘ you J '“ n warm ' le "“•> your
selt m the galley. But nobody wanted
•'"° U J 1 10 '.,, I0U w ® re uo * ; i uv ited, conse
'L' lcn ^y don’t , its find not , yourself for you perfectly to grumliie if
you com
fortable and happy.'
“But as he savs this, Nature fell to
mauhaudling the bailiff as if she’d taken
his own trade upon herself, and making
one rush he lay over the lee rail so ill
that I never saw the equal cf it. even in
a Frenchman- he twisted himself about
just as if he’d been revolving on a cork
WtheT-rail h,„ water blowing over the for
wa ” ala r j w ™ ,ner ™ u hit nit him 111111 neat ueatJ v J> and ‘ lnJ
h ' ! waM ll -“‘ u streaming rag m . five nmi
utcs .
“Wo left him enjoying himself and
went on with ©nr work. It was falling
dark, and not wily blowing hard, but
there was ihe tbe look of a whole gale of
wiuJ J u south-west sky. The brig
wag making desperate bad weather of
jt j Iower torn-sails ^ and reefed fore
u ’ takin 4 in water fit to wash
mo ble thing overboard, and
shoving t through ?o it very slowly with a
BUrpris ng Bag leeward. The skipper
went below 1 for some supper, and after u
bit fie calks me in.”
„ , WheM - 8 tho bailiff? ’ savs he.
„ , D , t kuow exaetiv/ * There's j; « u y S . < T o
x A S0Inew , !ere ,, a figure
ha|f over the mil just abaft the fore-rig
. if Uiat - 3
¥eu *^ shipped taming it over in my
. h ‘fand I’ve we’Tl got a
William,’ savs “ be, ‘that ha’
a i K , tter 110t to bring that bailiff
^ on witb us <
.. ? Bllt ho 'wouldn’t go ashore whoa
you told him,’says 1
. Qllita ^ true,’ says Q the captain; ‘but
Umt oa>t mAe it ter ior us . Afler
aJ , ’ {he law 's not a thing T,metbiug v« can lake
Hb ertie3 ^ making aU(1 there > 3 : in
b - g tbreat of me purge in open
ooart i W illiam,’ savs i' he, ‘which
mi ^ h n - t matter if knew what it
at ’ bnt b(?i iguordnt , I’m willing
t(J thin k it alarmhur.’
... PooU - SilTH I, < it ’s only a lawyer’s
wo ,. f , Tb „ e T nothing in it. They
uae on intelligible words to scare plain
men; but there can’t be anything more
t er rifying in language ye (don’t under
stand than in language ye do. ’
‘“I wish I had some book aboard that
> U( j eX piain that word,’says he. ‘The
bailiff ’ll know, but I’ll notask him for
fear ho should think me atraid. bu we
1 le u “ starve ; Bett « r f ead hl “
^ and !et lu “ ^ EO f 1D « t0 f at ;.
“I was . to argue, but he wouldn t
listen.
“ n0 -’ “?». h «- b5m
«>d I knew by that that the ( tear ot the
law «a,sbegimimg to master him.
“Well, it «• my duty to obey, so I
wont on deck and after rummaging
I fo « ud thc badifl sittingu to h
’•»» la a Kf last tlle ac »ttle-butt
of the galley. I.
alo ‘ .
the “‘C?“ cabin, 8 and “g. the captain s «DP° wants ra you 111
there.’
/‘He stood ... np, but was so cramped in
his timbers that he could scarcely shnffle
along, and I had to drag him by the
collar. When the captain saw by the
S imnliadit the plight the fellow was in,
heart failed inm altogether. There
was no more proper dignified scorn,
“ ‘Why,’ says be, looking at him,‘I
didn’t think it was such a bad job as
that,’and be jumped clothes, up and brought
him a suit of dry and then
poured , out , a dose , oi . medicine. ... r A „ his .
was regular KnucKimg under. He and
8 ou .® ® u con-sidenng ana con-sidenng
1111,11 lie was 111 au " nt
lhere G”-' ll!llllil was; n° lild use m my saying a /“/ anything. d ®“,
* row ' ;a ’’7
-
become the strongest man aboard 1 that
brig; brig; though though as ?.s for for me, me, when when I I^te.l tell you you
tb 7 t had I been the captain I'd have
sent the fellow aloft, and kept him there
a u u i g ht, as a hint to leave sailor-men
alo;;e ou ft , tnre occasions, ye’ll allow
p iult S! v caving in wur only because I
wwn * t ; kipl ^ r( a: ,d that’s all. YYell, sir.
to cut thH varu sbort . luck turned in
Uvor of t!lat bailll p with a weageauce.
M it was blowing a hurricane,
lin d the skipper said there was no good
jming on facing it, he must put back.
*• -There’s a handier jKirt.’ savs I,
naming it,‘than the one we’re from to
make for y
••• Av.'savs it’li he,‘but since we’re bound
to np kw q,J. look K'tter to earrv
tho bailiff slick home than to give him a
mnnnr ' journev.’
,.r. won ;q b;iT e made a hansel growl
^ j, ear tbe captain, all through Ear,
p ] ao ; u „ this bMTff before the werrv hur
ricane that was blowing, and thinking of
him only whom he’d ha’ gladly drownded
a few hours earlier, instead of the wessel
and the lives aboard her. But reasoning
was out or the question. The brig was
just a smother of froth, the gale roaring
like thunder, the seas as "high shivering as our
main-top, and the old hooker
with every upward heave, ns if she must
leave all the lower part of her behind
her. It was a job to get the vessel
round, but we managed it, au.l at haif
past five o clock in the morning we
fetched the harbor we had started freon,
and brought up, nothing having carried
away but the bailiffs ohimbley-pot.” ?"
“And w hat was tue result of ail this
said I.
“Why,”said he, with a loud, rumbling
laugh, “the skipper had to find out wbat
purging in hopen court means. He
was brought up afore an old gentleman.
who lectured him for about half an hour,
said that tlie law meant to be respected,
and that it would be a bad job for any
mao as sneered at it; and after having
talked oat ail that Jay in his mind, he up
ami hues the captain ten pounds and
fifty shillings costs. It served him right.
He v d no bnsiness to bring that bailiff
back. But lie wa3 hoperated on by the
j ear 0 * wor< j Si and depend upon it, the
man who allows that sort of alarm to
b ini Ls not a fit person to carry a
bailiff to sea.”
THE REY 9 LUTI 0 NA 11 Y WAR.
The IIiHslan Troops I’uipJoved by Grunt
Britain—Who mid What They Were.
A work on tho “Hessians in the
Revolutionary War,” gives us some
further insight into the character of the
recruits furnished by the Landgrave of
Hesse Cassel to Great Britain during
our first war with the mother country.
These Hessians have always been held
in derision by Americans, as human
cattle sold by their Princes; they have
been looked upon as men without char¬
acter or principle, and not only ready
but anxious to be thu 3 sold.
Mr. Lowell, in his new work, de¬
scribes the position of these soldiers as
little, if any, above that of slaves. The
soldiers, he says, really got nothing for
th.ir American service. They had their
rations, their clothing, aud their pay, it
is true; but these would have been theirs
if they had staid at home in their bar¬
racks. It is their petty rulers who were
paid for their service, their hardships,
and their dangers; and if they were
killed or wounded it was the rulers who
were compensated at a fixed price foi
the loss of their human cattle.
The recruits furnished to keep up the
supply suffered more than the soldiers
who first left their homes. They were
men enlisted by force, kidnaped, in a
werd, and shipped off to America like
convicts or swine—-six men to a berth in
a ship’s hold. Once kidnaped, the poor
fellows had little chance of escape, for
the petty Princes knew their trade as
slave drivers very well. Iu Wnrtcm
burg, if a recruit escaped or a soldier
deserted, the whole parish was required
to go in pursuit, and in order to make
their pursuit earnest and effective they
were required to furnish one of their
own number iu the place of tlie deserter
if he cquid not be caught. The clergy
were required to read this order from
the pulpit ouce a month, in order to im¬
press upon their congregations a sense
of *neir duty aud responsibility. There
were fines and imprisonment at help hard
labor for. every one .whp dared fd? a
fugitive, And death \vas The penalty
inducing desertion.
Many of the Hessian prisoners taken
by the the Americans were aud permitted hire themselves to go
into country
out as farm laborers, aud when we con
aider tlie nature of the despotism under
which they lived at home, tlie ease with
which they might avoid pursuit, aud the
abundant opportunities which this
sparsely settled country offered them to
improve their fortunes, it seems some
what strange that so small a proportion
of either the prisoners or the soldiers on
duty deserted. Congress held out in
ducements to them to do so, and set ac
tive agencies at work to persuade them
to change their allegiance. They were
assured of exemption from military
duty, and were promised lands if they
would abandon a service to which they
were supjiosed to owe nothinu but
hatred. And yet, according to the best
estimate that Air. Lowell’s investiga
tions have enabled him to form, only
about 5,000 of the German troops de
sorted during the entire seven years.
German writers assert that there were
fewer desertions from the ranks of the
mercenaries than from those of the
British regiments, and Mr. Lowell ex
plains the fact by saying that desertion
was at ouce less easy and less attractive
to the German than to the English
soldier.
How to Disappoint a Balky Horse.
A Leominster farmer recently broke
bis horse of a “balky” freak in a very
quiet and, as he claims, not a cruel man
ner. His horse is in excellent flesh and
shows no signs of ueeiecc on the part of
his master. He drove him, attached to
a ruck wagon, to the wood lot for a small
load of wood. The animal would not
pull a pound. He did not beat him with
a club, but he tied him to a tree and
“let him stand.” He went to the lot at
sunset and asked him to draw, but lie
would not straighten a tug. “I made
n that p m y m i n d,” said the farmer, “when
horse went to the barn he would
take that load of wood. Thc night was
not cold. I went to.the barn, got blan
kets and covered tlie horse warm, and
he stoo.1 until morning. Then he re
fused — to draw —..... At At noon noon I I went went down down
;>nd am] he he probably probably was was hungry hnngrv and and lone- lone
some. He He drew drew that that load load of ot wood wood the the
first time I asked him I returned and
got another load of wood before I fed
him. I then rewarded him with a good
dinner, wliich be eager!v devoured. I
have drawn several load's since. Once
he refused to draw, but as soon as saw
me start for the house he started after
mo with tho load. A horse becomes
lonesome and discontented when left
alone as much as a person, and I claim
this method, if rightlv used, is far less
cruel, and is better for both horse and
ma u thau to beat the animal with a club. ’
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Ax , individual ..... , applies to , ,, the cab . com
pany for a situation. Do von know
!‘. oi y *° drive . “Yes, sir. ''Ion know
* U hs iVM? ' t s !it b ^ lte ..“lL -Vui hooest
”
^d^hi . , , rob^a^^ketb^k
voar
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A WAR STORY.
Crtllnt Mixed t’p llecidedty on tfce Conn
irr»i«n.
Colonel Owen, of a Philadelphia regi¬
ment, was anxious to show off his com¬
mand before the division co mm » n der.
He had endeavored in every way to per¬
fect his men in guard duty. He bad
drilled them on guard mounting in chal¬
lenging and receiving the “Grand
Hounds.” He thought he had got them
perfected in this part of their military
dnty an.l felt very proud of Lis achieve¬
ment. till he was informed one day that
his men were all tbe time making mis¬
take's in tbe countersign. So he drilled
them in that, giving out all conceivable
words, easy and difficult ones as exam¬
ples. He lectured his lieutenant colonel
to be watchful and to severely punish
every dereliction of duty in this regard.
On this occasion the word “Cayenne”
was given out as the division counter¬
sign. The lieutenant colonel, a very
careful officer, said to the officer of the
day o£ the regiment:
“Just think of Cayenne pepper and
you can easily get tue men fo remember
the countersign. Now, mind ye, the
Colo:;el and thc General a-e going the
rounds with me to-:iiglit. and if yez
make mistake ye’ll catch it. ”
a
Tlie division commander, General
Charles P. Stone, came and Owen sallied
out with him quite proud to show him
his finely instructed regiment. Every¬
thing ivent on well until they reached
one of tho posts and were challenged in
broad brogue : “Who goes there?”
“Grand Rounds.”
“Halt, Grand Rounds: dismount!
Sergeant, advance and give the counter¬
sign.” heard, to his
The officer of the day
dismay, the sergeant told that the coun¬
tersign, Cayenne, was wrong, When
tlie sergeant reported the lieutenant
colonel dismounted and in great wrath
approached the sentinel on duty and
said :
“You blundering fool, why don’t yon
take the countersign and let the Grand
Bounds pass ?”
“I’ll cut yer head off if ye speaks sentinel, to
me like that again,” replied the down
and then bringing his gun to,a
charge bayonet, said: “Stand back,
or I’ll run a hole in ye. How
do I know bnt ye are some of the
inemys trving to pass tinbeknowns to
me ?”
“Call the corporal of tho guard,”
commanded Owen.
The corporal of the guard was called, •
and the sentinel said there was a body
of men out there who called themselves
tlie Grand Rounds, but he didn’t believe
them for they hadn’t got the counter
sign. did give ye?
“What they
“Cayenne,” said he. corporal.
“That’s right,” said replied the the sentinel,
“No, it’s not,”
“fur ye tonld mo with yer own mouth
if anybody axed me Cayenne I d mitst it'
think of Cayenne *p tlie e PP er > all to-night, 8
Cayenne- pepper that’s sign
and divil a one I’ll pass here this night
until he speaks Cayenne pepper.” him aud
“Cayenne Pepper” was allowed given
the Grand Rounds were to pass.
A Talk About Perfumes.
'—*“** -—-s ■ *—*
■ “How many flowers are used In the
manufacture of perfumc-s ?”
! “Tim principal ones are roses, orange
! flowers, tuberoses, the jasmine, cassia,
| perfumes vl °leh Aside produced from roses France, the flowery where
are m
I farmers and gardeners devote themselves
to the cultivation of flowers for the pur
I****. The pomades, which are a sort of
vehicle for carrying tbe essences, are
shipped to perfumers m all parts of the
world. These pomades are all made in
tbe same way. Several new processes
! have good been devised, the old but none have I proved
j as as method. may also
j say that perfumes are everywhere made
J j from/he cess.” raw material by thc same pro¬
1 The perfumer took down another curi
I ous object from the shelf. It was an ox
; horn with a cloth tied across the open
j end.
j “This is the original in which civet is
| shipped from Egypt, Civet is an ani
, mal odor and is obtained from a pouch
: on an animal of that name, in which it
is secreted. The best known of animal
, odors is musk, which is obtained from
the musk deer. China furnishes the
best quality. Twenty-five pods or sacks
are packed in obloDg boxes composed of
: plates of lead inclosed in a caddy made of
' pasteboard. The caddy is decorated with
curious-looking Chinese characters.
Musk is obtained from Assam, Siberia,
the Altai mountains and other parts of
Northern Asia. London is the depot for
all varieties of musk.”
| “What is ambergris ?”
“That is another animal odor. It is
: secreted iu the intestines of the sperma
: ceii whale. A very curious fact is that
ambergris is only accumulated by dis
; ease--that is, it is only secreted in aside
whale. It is hard, of a light gray color,
and is found in quantities varying from
twenty to fifty pounds. It is worth §30
an ounce. So you 6ee if a party of sail
ors strike this kind of a whale they can
make for shore. Spermaceti whales are
found near the island of Sumatra, Mo¬
lucca, Madagascar and thc China seas.”
— The Druyijijst.
A ISoutli !Sea Figiit.
A report from Auckland states that the
government schooner Julia, which is
regularly employed in procuring labor
ers from the different groups of islands
111 the Pacific to work on the suga;
plantations in the Sandwich Islands, re
cently landed at the island of Nanouki
with about thirty returned laborers, who
belonged to thc islands of Taraway and
Apiang, in the same group, the mhabit
ants of which have been at constant
warfare with the inhabitants of Nan
onki. The returned laborers cm land
ing seized a number of young girls and
assaulted them, which provoked a fight
with the natives, who were armed only
with clubs and spears. Twenty of the
Xanoukis were killed and many were
w - oua ded, while the others escaped to
tbe island of Apamama, a short distance
a ’ vra T- Being reinforced there, a num
ber returned to Nanouki, where another
affra T 0CCUI T ed ’ 111 wilich several were
- and three
killed on eacu suie, or four of
the assailants were carried off to Apa
mama.