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THE FUGITIVES.
Tbe winds arc piping shrilly ***W C&
Above the trembling tree;
Before their fingers chilly
The frighted leaflets flee;
t longing look behind them, cast upon the
branches bare,
!< I on they wildly flutter, the exiles of the air.
With cruel speed relentless,
The shouting winds pursue;
O’er meadows brown and scentless
Still flit the timid crew;
iteir gold and purple garments, whose tints sur¬
passed the morn,
sullen mire are drabbled, by heartless flinte
are torn.
Some with a sob and shiver
Gk> hurrying through the town;
Some in the cold, dark river
Their sorrow's fain would drown;
1 some with w eary faces within the church¬
yard fly
seek among the quiet graves the rest that
storms deny.
—Samuel Mrnturn Beck in Home Journal.
CORPORAL CRUPP.
It was a gloomy December day in the
r of grace 174—.
\u cast wind coming over the cold
dors of the Atlantic, and a wide ex
n e of salt marshes, moaned through
,ie pines and swept the sandy stretch
here the little settlement of Savannah
as just beginning to pull itself together.
The scene was not very attractive. A
de but strong stockade corita ! ning a
unber of shops and houses, the head
art ers and barracks of the military, and
w outlying cabins of the more advent
s pioneers—this was all.
■ n comfortable room in the most pre¬
vious building in the stockade, the
.idquurters of the commanding general,
ree gentlemen sat by a blazing wood
r. They were drinking Madeira, and
vir rubicund visages showed that they
ere not unaccustomed to this and even
ronger beverages.
One of the three wore a scarlet uui
•in, glittering with a profuse emblazonry
gold lace, but his large, spare figure in
fed great strength, and his face, with
prominent Roman nose and brilliant
. would have stamped the man in any
•le as a remarkable person, a born
:<!or of men.
iis man, the central figure of the
i *, was Gen. Oglethrope.
other two, dressed also in scarlet
, ms. were brother officers. One was
,(j. Dalhousie, the other was Capt.
.rdigiin. They were young men, but
eir appearance showed them to be
Hunt soldiers, well suited to the busi¬
es in which their general kept them cu¬
red night and day.
he three officers had something more
ions on hand than the discussion of
■ir Madeira..
Uhe fellow* w r ill have to be shot, then,”
narked Maj. Dalhousie airily, as he
lowed another bumper.
I am afraid so.” replied Capt. Cardi¬
adjusting his ruffles, “but it is a
. Corp. Crupp is a good soldier at
es. Lord! But he can fight!”
Zounds!” exclaimed the general,
ucti do I deplore such a necessity, gen
ten. but discipline is more important
hese savage wilds than it is iif Europe,
e warfare is nothing but butchery,
we need every man in our small
<*. Now', w hen 1 was campaigning on
continent,” continued the general, as
unused to drain another glass, “a lit
'.lrmikcnneaa, more or less, <lid not
r.lter. I mvself once refused to take a
eneh ollieer prisoner because lie was so
fuddled that he ran into our lines. A
letulid fellow he was, too. Once our
■mmauds were fronting each other just
the light* opened, and the Frenchman,
king off his flat, said: 'Gentlemen,
•( the goodness to fire first!’ ”
hat was grand!” cried Maj. Dal
tisie.
« as,” answered the general, sen
it i.'uslv, “but it was not war. It was
• attempt to apply t»w tactics of the
U room to the battle field Well mv
II dogs accepted the invitation, and in
- than five minutes we had driven the
msiettrs out of sight ”
“But,” said Maj. Dalhousie, “we are
leaving the subject. Must the corporal
be shot?”
“To a certainty,” murmured Capt. Car¬
digan, who had spilled his wine, and was
peering into his right boot under the im¬
pression that something was wrong some¬
where.
“Let us see,” said the general, “you
have had the varlet in the guard house?”
“A hundred times,” replied the cap¬
tain.
“Damme if I think he has ever left it,”
replied the major.
“And yet he fights?”
“Like a devil,” exclaimed both officers.
“He saved us from a surprise a month
ago,” put in the major.
“It is a serious case,” said the general.
“The trustees of our infant colony are de¬
termined to prohibit the drinking of rum,
and all that is brought here has to be
staved.”
“Blood and death,” interrupted the
major, “how does the fellow get his
tipple?”
“Tremenshus mishtery to me,” said the
captain, who had just lost another glass
of Madeira, and was glaring at the water
pitcher very suspiciously.
“I think,” suggested the general,
“that I will have the corporal brought
here. I desire to question him.”
As the officers made no objection, a
messenger was sent to the guard house,
and in a few moments the offender came
in, escort ed by a guard.
Corp. Crupp looked a little the worse
for wear, and his face wore a surly ex¬
pression, but he did not appear to be
vicious. He faced the three officers quietly
and waited for them to speak.
“Corporal, we have lost all patience
with you,” said Gen. Oglethorpe sternly.
“I am not surprised,” was the sad re¬
ply, ‘ ‘and I am ready to stand the conse¬
quences. ’ ’
“You fell asleep while drunk on your
post.”
“It is true,” admitted flic soldier.
“Yesli, corp’l, and you’ll have to he
shot,” interposed Capt. Cardigan.
“I have no objection,” answered the
corporal stolidly. general
4 k See here, corporal,” said the
severely; “you are a man of intelligence.
You know all about the prohibitory order
of the trustees. Now, why is it that you
will smuggle rum and drink it?”
For a moment the corporal was silent.
Then lie straightened himself to his full
height and pointed to the table and the
half filled glasses.
“There,” he X aid, in a stead *< ringing
voice, “there i X the explanati o n. You
place yourself above the law. Do you not
see thafrothers will be tempted to do the
same? When Corp. Crupp breasts the
cold and wet, and sees his superior officers
W e a ™ Ple? Llke master ’ lika
ma« you kuow
•‘ImDudent impudent knave!” kmnci yeuea yelled me the major major.
“Gad! If he w'as a gentleman I’d call
him out,” said the captain. and
The commander rose from his chair
walked the room.
Then he faced the culprit, and said:
ik In your coarse, blunt way, corporal,
yon have taught me a lesson, I don’t
know that it is possible to save you, but
3011 shall have another chance.”
He summoned a servant.
“Go and empty every drop of wine and
spirits in the house!” he ordered.
The officers jumped from their seats in
surprise. kenerak 1 he
I >*- “‘J 1 T' e
will be no more tippling among , lei maj.
‘sty’s officers in this colony, and the hrst
,n:m "• hu dl «*eyB this rule will find him
self in the guard stammered house.
“But—,” the captain.
“I have said it,” was the firm reply.
4 k Now, Crupu, J want you to go to the In
dian village, twenty miles north of here,
and return with a report ot the warlike
prepara; ions Utw©- ’ ’
“General, will trust * me?” cried the
yon
soldier.
“l did not say I trusted you. It is an
experiment. I have placed myself and
officers under the same discipline re
fitiired by you. You are, in honor, hound
to accept the common lot of your iellow
soldiers.” ~ . kissed
'Hie corporal stepped forward and
the general’s hand, and dropped a tear oh
it. Then with a salute he retired.
* ♦ * * *
Corp. Crupp accomplished his mission
with signal fidelity.
He did more. He became the best sol
dierin the colony, and in thecourse of the
war with the Spaniards rose to the rank
of captain.
When Gen. Oglethrope returned to
Europe Capt. Crupp accompanied him.
Long years afterward Col. Crupp was
in the habit of entertaining young officers
with reminiscences of Gen. Oglethrope.
“Ah, he was a man!” he would say,
“and he knew men, too. That, gentle¬
men, is the great secret of leadership and
command!”—Wallace P. Reed in Atlanta
Constitution.
Big Fish of the Caspian.
In the southeast of Russia is the great
est salt lake in the world, the Caspian sea,
which has an area of 130,000 square miles
—that is, an area greater than all the
British Islands put together, with an ad
ditional island larger than England
thrown in extra—is intimately connected
with the fresh water fisheries of the Volga
and the Ural, for the fish migrate from
fresh water to salt and from salt water to
fresh there as elsewhere, The great
fishery of this region is that for the
sturgeon and its kindred; also for the
salmon, white salmon and knife fish. The
sturgeon family attains to an enormous
size, especially the beluga, which some¬
times measures twenty feet in length and
weighs 2.500 pounds, though specimens of
over 1,000 pounds are rare. The sewruga
is also a giant, but the other sturgeons
are seldom taken above six feet in length.
The number of these giants disposed of
annually at Astrakhan has in some years
been enormous—300,000 sturgeons, 100,
000 belugas, and millions of the others.
No wonder that there are complaints of
the failure of the supplies, and. as is
usual where ignorance prevails, the mis¬
chief is attributed to every cause but the
right. “It is because of the steamboats,”
says themoujik, and forthwith the moujik
hates the sight of a steamboat. But steam
or no steam, the sturgeon of the Caspian
may soon become as rare a curiosity as
Thames salmon. Astrakhan, the princi¬
pal Caspian port, is one of the most im¬
portant fishing stations in the world.
From this region alone the Russian reve
llue nets about £ 1 , 000,000 for fishery
licenses, and during , the fishing . season
20,000 strangers, ranging in degree from
simple laborers to gigantic capitalists,
come in to compete with the regular in
habitants for the profits from the hsh in
dustries. Chambers’Journal.
-*-*
story of Pugilist Sullivan.
L.isuUWan!^Some°years
redoubtable Boston boy was making a
tonr o£ tke cou " try markmg hls
progress with , victims of his massive mus
cles, my friend happened to travel some
distance on the same train with him.
When they stopped for supper Sullivan
became an object of interest to the swarm
of people at the station, and after supper,
when he went out on the platform anti sat
down to read a sporting paper which he
had bought, a mob gathered in a semi
circle at a modest distance around him
and stared at him in mute and admiring
wonder. The big man w-as in good humor
and smiled as he looked at the pictures in
his paper. An old farmer finally broke
through the line and approached him and
said: .
“Mr. Sullivan, will you do me a
favor?”
“Why not, daddy?” replied .... the cham
pion . amiably. “What is it?”
“Let me,” said the ancient agricultur
i st> -‘feel that there fist of yours.”
Sullivan, with one of his superb, power
f u i gestures, put out his arm, with a
clinched fist at the end of it that would
' filled hat box. The old farmer felt
have a
it all over. The arm held firm, like a bar
o£ iron , a „d its owner grinned, while the
crowd began to snicker.
“Ah,” said the farmer at last. “If you
was to hit a man with that, Mr. Sullivan,
j cness lt would hurt him.”
“That’s what they say I do. daddy,”
responded the giant, resuming his perusal
‘ of his paper.—Trumble in New York
.
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