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A PRISONER’S RUSH - HOW ROC ESCAPED FROM THE BP/ N ISH PRISON BY A TRICK. A. Clever Firnte Who Won Freedom For Himself and His Companions by Forcing a letter and Playing on His Captor’s Fears. Mr. Frank R. Stockton, telling St. Nicholas readers about “The Buccaneers of Our Coast,” describes the clever es cape of Roc, the Brazilian, a famous pirate, from captivity among the Span ish at Oampeachy. Mr. Stockton says: When he was coming into the bay, Roc had noticed a large French vessel that was lying at some distance from the town, and he wrote his letter as if it had come from the captain of this ship. In the character of this French captain he addressed his letter to the governor of the town, and in it he stated that he had understood that certain companions of the coast, for whom he had great sympathy—for the French and the buccaneers were always good friends—had been captured by the gov ernor, who, he heard, had threatened to execute them. The French captain, by the hand of Roe, went on to say that if harm should come to these brave men, who had been taken and imprisoned when they were doing no harm to anybody, he would ■ swear, in his most solemn manner, that never for the rest of his life would he give quarter to any Spaniard who might fill into his hands, and he moreover threatened that any kind of vengeance which should become possible for the buccaneers and French united to inflict upon the Spanish ships, or upon the town of Cajapeachy, should be taken as soon as jxissible after he should hear of any injury that might be inflicted upon the unfortunate men who were then lying imprisoned in the fortress. When the slave came back to Roc, the letter was given to him with very particular directions as to what he was to do with it. He was Ao disguise him self as much as possible, so that he should not be recognized by the people of the place, and then in the night he was to make his way out of the town, and early in the morning was to return as if he had been walking along the shore of the harbor, when he was to state that he had been put on shore from the French vessel in the offing with a letter which he was ordered to present to the governor. The slave performed his part of the business very well. The next day, wet and bedraggled from making his way through the weeds and mud of the coast, he presented himself at the for tress with his letter, and when he was allowed to take it to the governor no one suspected that he was a person em ployed about the place. Having fulfilled his mission, he departed, and when seen again he was the same servant whose business it was to carry food to the pris oners. The governor read the letter with a disquieted mind. He knew that the French ship which was lying outside the harbor was a powerful vessel, and he did not like French ships anyway. The town had once been taken and very badly treated by a little fleet of French and English buccaneers, and he was very anxious that nothing of the kind should happen again. There was no effective Spanish force in the harbor at that time, and he did net know how many buccaneering ves sels might be able to gather together in the bay if it should become known that the great pirate Roc had been put to death in Campeaohy. It was unusual for a prisoner to have powerful friends so near by, and the governor took Roc’s case into most ear nest consideration. A few hours’ reflec tion was Sufficient to convince him that it would be very unsafe to take risks with such a dangerous prize as the pi rate Roc, and he determined to get rid of him as soon as possible. He felt him self in the position of a man who has stolen a baby bear and who hears through the woods the roar of an ap proaching parent. To throw away the cub and walk off as though he had no idea there were any bears in that forest would be the inclination of a man so situated, and to get rid of a great pirate without provoking the vengeance of his friends was the natural inclination of the governor. Now, Roc and his men were treated well and, having been brought before the governor, were told that in conse quence of their having committed no overt act of disorder they would be set at liberty and shipped to Spain upon the single condition that they would abandon piracy and agree to become quiet citizens. To these terms Roc and his men agreed without argument. They de clared they would retire from the buc caneering business and that nothing would suit them better than to return to the ways of civilization and virtue. There was a ship about to depart for Spain, and on this the governor gave Roc and his men free passage to the other side of the ocean. There is no doubt that our buccaneers would have much preferred to have been put on board the French vessel, but Roc made no suggestion of the kind, knowing how astonished the French captain would be if the governor were to communicate with him on the subject. He Told Them. , At a general election in Victoria a candidate who was making a speech ex claimed, ‘‘What is it that has made England what she is—mighty, revered, feared and respected?” And every one was trying to think, when a voice with a rich, sonorous brogue in the back part of the hall answered, “Oirleand.” 3 f An old Georgia darky, on being asked if he believed the whale swallowed Jonah, replied: “Yes, sub. Jonah didn’t have nowhars else ter go, ’kase bouse rent wus due an de bailiffs wuz artar him!” HUMAN BRAINS.””* How toksce View. the INff.rance Hea and Womb. The weightier brain would seem also to indicate, a priori, the greater intel lectual power, and this, too, is borne out by undoubted facta Women, it has often been said, have yet to produce i their Newton, their Dante, their Aris totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The assertion is very feebly met by the con tention that women’s education has been for centuries neglected! It was not education which enabled Pascal as a child to see his way through problems which not one man in 1,000 can understand after prolonged mental drill. It was not education which gave the race its great men poets. “They lisped in numbers for the numbers came.” But where are their feminine equals? We will, however, take an art in which women have enjoyed far more training than men—the art at music. There are some excellent women pianists and vio linists, but where are the female Bachs, Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagners? Na ture only can explain the absence of great women composers as of the femi nine compeers of Titian and Raphael, the technique of whose art seems pecul iarly fitted to women. Nature tells us that she cannot form the matrix out of which commanding intellectual geniuses of the female sex would proceed. Why this is so we may partly guess, but cannot wholly know. We see that nature has divided the world into sexes for her own purposes, and that to each sex peculiar functions arc assigned. We see that the physio logical functions of woman necessitate a different anatomy from that of man, and we infer that these functions and this structure preclude, speaking gener ally, the kind of effort which we call supreme genius, as also that kind, of effort which we call sustained executive power. While women are not so far differentiated from men that they can not enter with pleasure into men’s works, and, often in a great measure, share in their production, it remains a fact that it is man's particular organi zation which is alone capable either of the highest manifestations of Mmius or the most sustained exhibition of energy. Whether it will always be so we do not know, for we cannot peer int<> the fu ture. It is sufficient that it not only is so now, but that it always has been so, and that science does give us some good grounds for believing that the fact is deeply rooted in the very structure of sex.—London Spectator. THE HEALTHY PALATE. It Doea Not Crave Condiments, bat the Food Must Possess Flavor. While a perfectly sound and healthy palate does not crave for condiments, even prefers to do without them, yet the majority of digestions require to be humored and kept in order, and their peculiarities must be studied. Dr. Brun ton says: “Savory food causes the digestive juices to be freely secreted. Well cooked and palatable food is therefore more di gestible than the unpalatable. ■ If food lacks savor, a desire naturally arises to supply it by not always well selected or wholesome. ” As commerce brought them within reach of the people condiments, in sim ple or complicated forms, came greatly into favor, and foreign spices were add ed to the wild herbal growths of the fields and hedges. In our early history the “spicery” was a special department of the court and had its proper officers. In the fourteenth century spices were both costly and rare, most of them com ing from the Levant Chaucer mentions many by name—canella, macys, clowes (cloves), grains of paradise, nutmegs, caraway and spikenard. The ancients, especially the Greeks and Bomans in the luxurious period of their history, used condiments very freely. An old English historian, referring to the earlier Roman court, says, “The best magistrates of Rome allowed but the ninth day for the city and publick business, the rest for the country and tho sallet garden. ” From this it would seem as though the education of taste was accounted of some consequence in those day a —Exchange. “Profe»»ors.” The misuse of the title “professor,” when it is applied indiscriminately to musicians in general, finds an amusing example in the following story, credited to Bandmaster Sousa and printed in The Musical Age: Some years ago Sousa was leading a band. at a small country festival. The advent of the band had been awaited with intense interest by the audience, and when they arrived the bandsmen were quickly surrounded by a surging crowd which hemmed them in so that it was difficult for them to keep on playing. Sousa appealed to one of the commit tee to keep the crowd away and said that unless his men had more room they could not play. The committeeman shook his hand warmly, and, turning to the asembled multitude, bawled out: “Gentlemen, step back and give the purfesser’spurfessers a chance to play!” Aggravation Below Stairs. Mrs. Greene—Really, I think that girls in domestic service have a pretty comfortable time of it One of Them—But we have our trials, mum. Just as like as not when we have got a bonnet or a gown that is particularly becoming, first thing we know our mistress comes out with something exactly like it—Boston Transcript French billiard tables have six legs instead of four, as in America. There, are no strings for marking; score is kept by chalking the figures on a slate set in the side of the table or on a me chanical reckoner inserted in the same place. Nearly £500,000 worth of artificial flowers are sold in London yearly. OUTPUT OF TWO FORESTS, The Altaeal leeene*iva'ble Aaacnnt of Lam her Cut la Wisconsin uad tluUMOt*. “The Story of a Pine B< trd” is the title of an article by W. S. 1 larwood in St. Nicholas. Mr. Harwood says of the lumbering in Wisconsin and Minnesota: About 4,160,000,000 feet of logs were cut in the season of 1895—that is to say, what is equivalent to 4,160,000, - 000 pieces of board 12 inches square and 1 inch think. I wonder if even the lum ber men themselves, and the log cutters, and the manufacturers of lumber in the great mills, realize what an enormous amount of lumber this is. Why, it would build a house around the globe, with a main room ten feet high and a large attic, ceiling up the inside walls and roof with sweet, fragrant pine. It would put down a matched floor, and then, when the house was all com pleted, there would be left enough lum ber to build tight board fences on either side of the house 3 feet high the whole distance around the globe. Besides all this there would be shingles enough for a good portion of the house, and then, if the mighty builder of such a globe girdling house wanted to fit it up a lit tle more neatly, there would be a large •apply of laths, and, I suppose, the I plasterers could furnish him enough stucco and lime. Or if he wanted to construct a roof shelter for all the people on the globe our mighty builder could accommodate them all, allowing to each man, woman and child a clear space of two square feet in which to stand, and still have room left over for 500,000,000 men with the same room in which to stand. And, to look at it in still another way, this same bdilder would have material to construct a bicycle path of pine, a lit tle over two feet wide, from the earth to the moon, for there would be nearly 800,000 miles of board a foot wide and an inch thick. In sawing this lumber up into the required length and thickness there was a great waste in sawdust—so great, indeed, that the sawdust pile would stand 112 feet high on a city square and 500 feet square at the base, and this is saying nothing about the vast amount of pieces of slabs which are split up into kindlings. This enormous quantity of lumber represents merely the output of two forests—one in the northwestern part of the state of Wisconsin, and the other in the northern part of the state of Minne sota, and at the rate the logs are being cut up there will not be a piece of pine forest standing in all this vast region at the end of ten years unless something is done by the government to put a stop to the ravages. MR. LAMAR PAID TWICE. General Lee Tells a Story of the Justice’s Absentmlndedness. General Lee tells this story of ex-Sen ator Lamar, while the latter was a member of the United States supreme court. “He was in a herdic one day, ” said General Lee, “and, as was not unusual with him when not actively employed, was almost entirely oblivious of his sur roundings. He was a deep thinker, you know. Well, he forgot to pay his fare. The driver rang his bell, and finally an other passenger called his attention to it. “ ‘They’re ringing for your fare, I think, ’ said the man to Judge Lamar, touching him on the knee. “ ‘ls that so?’ asked the judge, start ing up. ‘I had forgotten all about it.’ He then pulled some silver pieces from his pocket and selecting a dime dropped it into the box. “The passenger who had observed his action, said to the judge as he re sumed his seat: ‘Didn’t you make a mistake? The fare is 5 cents. ’ “ ‘Why, so it is. Excuse me, ’ replied the jurist, and again making his way to the cash box he put in a nickel, after which he took his seat, confident that he had discharged all his obligations, as he had, indeed, and more. “And so far as I know,” continued General Lee, “he never realized his mistake. The best part of the story is that it is true. Goodby. I get off here. ” —Washington Star. A Quaint Scotch Wedding Custom. A quaint wedding custom still pre vails in many of the little country towns and mining villages in Scotland. When *a wedding is held, the contract ing parties make their guests pay in full for the eating, drinking and danc ing facilities which are usually provid ed on such occasions. The practice still seems to survive even in Glasgow. A correspondent observed a notice posted up in the Cowcaddens —a low class Glasgow thoroughfare—informing the public that a soldier would shortly en ter into the bonds of wedlock, and that twopence would be charged for admis sion to the ceremony and an additional sixpence imposed for attendance at the wedding feast. The practice seems to be peculiarly Scotch, but sixpence certainly seems moderate enough for a marriage •upper. —Westminster Gazette. The VaeleM Men. “Married life isn’t what it is cracked up to be, ” remarked Mrs. Grimesleigh. “When I married Daniel, I thought it would be so handy to have a man about thehouse; but, Lor’, that’s all it amount ed to. He’s never at home when he’s wanted for anything, and if he is he’s tired or bufiy or something or other, and so I have to go to work and do the thing myself. ’3 far as I can see, men are only in the way when they are in the house and out of the way when they’re wanted. ” —Boston Transcript The sciara, a wormlike insect of for ests of Hungary and Norway, is only a tenth of an inch long, yet in migrating, in July or early August, the creatures are said to stick themselves together in a serpentlike mass often 40 to 50 feet long and several inches thick. In Derbyshire county, England, there is a subterranean rood seven miles long. It connects two mines. FORMER DUELS. •omo of tho F. moo* Affair. of Honor of the Put. General Benedict Arnold fought a duel near Kilburn Wells in 1701 with Lord Lauderdale, who, after Arnold missed him, refused either to fire or to apologize, saying that if the general was not satisfied he could keep on firing until ho was. In 1804 the turbulent lord Camelford, the symmetrical ar rangement of whose whips and sticks over his chimneypiece is described by Byron, “From the thick bludgeon to the taper switch,” lost his life in a duel h<f owed to a vengeance de femme. Captain Best had caught a sharper named Symonds in tho act of cheating and kicked his face to a pulp, The man’s wife wrote Camelford an anony mous letter to tell him his friend Best had slandered him. A duel was fought with pistols (they were the two best shots in England), and Camelford fell with a mortal wound. “You have killed me, Best,” said the dying man, "but the fault is wholly mine. I relieve you of all the blame. ’ ’ But men of mature years and established reputation risked life as recklessly as the wildest young guardsmen or London rakes. Charles James Fox fought a duel with a cabinet minister, M r - Adam, in 1779. Four shots were exchanged. Adam missed, Fox fired in the air and apolo gized. "Sir,” said Adam, “you have behaved like a man of honor. ” In India, toward the end of the last century, a duel was fought between Warren Hast ings and Sir Philip Francis, the latter being dangerously wounded. Shortly afterward, in Bombay, Lord Macartney and Mr. Sadler quarreled at the council board, and in the duel Macartney re ceived a dangerous wound. The Earl of Talbot and John Wilkes, fighting a duel at night in the garden of the Red Lion inn, at Bagshot, and discussing the conditions of it beforehand in a private room over a chop, is a tableau de mceurs. George Canning was seriously wound ed when he and Castlereagh met at Put ney in 1807 to exchange four shots. In the duel between Henry Grattan and Mr. Corry a bullet shattered the latter’s arm. As late as 1885 Mr. Roebuck fought a duel with Mr. Black of The Morning Chronicle, when two shots were exchanged without result. Tho fighting parson was then as well known as the fighting editor. The Rev. Henry Bate, editor of The Morning Pqst, was both. A dead shot, and with what his contemporaries call "a profligate tongue,” he was most successful as a duelist. He "pinked” “Fighting Fitz gerald,” a Mr. Temple, a young barris ter who was his assistant editor, and several others, but met his match at last in Captain Stoney Robinson, who gave him a severe wound, but whom he also wounded.—Cornhill Magazine. The Number Thirteen. The superstition that 18 is unlucky, which is traced back to a sacred, source, meets with as many contradictions as confirmations. The fact that the horri ble fire in the Paris bazaar started at booth 13 was telegraphed all around the world, whereas little notice is attracted by Nansen’s success with 18 men. At one time 2 was a dreaded number in England, owing to the dynastic disas ters to all monarchs second of their name from Ethelred II to George IL Yet Napoleon’s number through all his life was 2, and who could wish for better luck than came to Goody Two Shoes or than that which results at times from having two strings to your bow? Three, which since the days of Py thagoras has been the divine number, shows that it is not invariably fortu nate, for, though the fates are three, so also are the furies. The graces axe three, but so also are the judges in hades and the heads of Cerberus. Then there are the records of three disloyal tribes in Welsh history; there are the three robbers in Orion’s belt; there were the three tyrants at Athens, and 3 in mythology is as unlucky as it is divine. Just so clearly as it has been shown in time that the unlucky 2 can be lucky and that tho pleasant 8 can be unpleasant the followers of the late Captain Fowler would show that the unlucky 18 can be the luckiest number there is. So wo may as well regret his departure, while we wish success to his associates.—Boston Jour nal. Hi* Authority. Daniel Webster’s oratory was not al ways of the ponderous order. Occasion ally he would introduce a bit of hqpiur very effectively, an instance of which The Green Bag gives as follows: Daniel Webster when in full practice was employed to defend the will of Roger Perkins of Hopkinton. A physi cian made affidavit that the testator wax struck with death when he signed the wilt Webster subjected his testimony to a most thorough examination, show ing by quoting medical authorities that doctors disagree as to the precise mo ment when a dying man is struck with death, some affirming that it is at the commencement of the disease, others at its climax and others still affirm that we begin to die as soon as we are born. “I should like to know,” said the op posing counsel, “what doctor maintains that theory?” "Dr. Watts,” said Mr. Webster, with great dignity. “The moment we begin to live we all begin to die. ” Religion Verna Politics. Clerk—Man wants transportation to Chicago. Railroad Official—Confounded cler gyman, I suppose. Well, I hate to do it, but you may sell him a ticket at half fare. Clerk (a minute later) —Man says he’s not a clergyman. He’sa member of the legislature. Railroad Official—Ah! Tell him we take pleasure in handing him a free pass.—Brooklyn Life. 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