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A famous sea fight. ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN • CHILEAN AND PERUVIAN IRONCLADS. DMtrmtfam of the HumcW Off th. Bolivian Coeri A Terrible Slaughter wh#t * Fight Between Modern War Vee- . The Century Claude H. Wetmore . flf go article on “A Famous Sea pjght,” describing the engagement be tween Chilean and Peruvian ironclads o{t the coast of Bolivia in 1879. Mr. Wetmore says: From the first of the battle the en couraging voice of Grau had come to the men in the turret through the speak ing tube from the conning tower, but when the Blanco crowded into the thick o f it and great shot struck the Huas car’s sides as regularly as blows of a battering ram the orders of the com mander were no longer heard. The offi cer in charge of the turret called to his superior. There was no answer, and when Commander Elias Aguerreran up the narrow little ladder that led to the tower he stumbled over the dead body of his admiral. A shell had struck the conning tower and had taken off Grau’s head as neatly as if the decapitation had been by the guillotine. This shell also killed Lieutenant Ferre, the ad miral’s aid. There was only time to puah the corpses aside, and the hew commanding officer pulled back the tube flap to give his directions, but as be did so the Huasoar staggered, keeled over, then shook in every plate, while a concussion more terrific than any so far told that a shell had entered the turret and had burst there. When the fumes had cleared away so that a per ' son oduld speak, a midshipman called out that one of the great guns had been dismounted and 20 men killed. The survivors tumbled the bodies through the hatch that opened into the deck be low, thus releasing the clogged ma chinery, and as the corpses rattled down other men rushed up, throwing off their clothing as they jumped into the pools of blood to seize hold of the gear and swing the remaining gun into position, that it-might train upon one of'the ships—they could no longer make out which, nor did they care—and it was discharged, hauled in, loaded and dis charged again. Once more all was silent in the con ning tower. Lieutenant Palacios has tened there, but before he could enter he was compelled to push three bodies out of the way* He had barely given his first command when a bullet from the well aimed rifle of a marine in an enemy’s top lodged between his eyes. Then the fourth to command the Huas car that day, Lieutenant Pedro Garezon, took the place, and as he did so he call ed through an aperture telling the quartermaster to put the helm to port; for he had determined to ram one of the adversaries and sink with her if neces sary. Over and over rpun the wheel, but the Huasoar’s head still pointed be tween the Chileans. “Port I Port, I say I” screamed the commander. “She won’t answer,** came back the sullen reply from the only one of four quartermasters alive. The bodies of the others were lying upon the grating at his feet. “A shot has carried away the star board steering gear, sir,’’ reported an ensign, and he dropped dead as the words left his mouth. . The Huasoar now lay drifting in a hell of shot and flame, but all the while the red, white and red fluttered from the peak. One by one, in twos and in threes, the men in the turret dropped at their posts, and at last the remaining great gun was silent, its tackle literally choked with dead. The turret could not be turned for the sama reason. Corpses hung over the military top; corpses clogged the conning tower. With coats and waistcoats off the sur geons had been laboring in the ward room upon the wounded, who, shriek ing in their agony, had been tumbled down the companionway like so much butchered beef, for there was no time to use stretchers or to carry a stricken comrade to a doctor’s care. Steam and smoke filtered through the doorways, and the apartment became stifling. While they were sawing, amputating and bandaging a shell tore into the wardroom, burst, and fragments wound ed the assistant surgeons, the chief of the medical staff having been killed earlier in the conflict. Those unfortu nates who were stretched upon the ta ble awating their turn under the knife and those who lay upon the floor suffer ed no more pain. They were killed as they lay groaning. This shell tore away wardroom and stern cabin, and hardly a trace was left of the bulkhead. After that what little surgery was done was performed in the coal bunkers. . Huddled in a passageway near the engine room were a score or more of non combatants—stewards, pantrymen and stokers. They were in a place that was lighted only as flashes came from the guns. It was filled with powder smoke, and clouds of steam that drifted from below told -tflSt the Huasoar had been struck in a vital spot—her machinery. Suddenly they heard a crash, followed by the rending of the deck, and the lit tle ironclad swayed as if she had struck a reef. Some one passed the word that the maintop mast had been shot away. As it came down it brought living men to be dashed to death, also corpses that had been hanging over the sides of the military top. Accounts Squared. Hicks—l owe you an apology. The fact is, it was raining, and I saw your umbrella, and supposing you had gone home for good I took it. Wicks—Don’t mention it I owe you an apology. You left your new hat, you «now, and wore your old one. As I had no umbrella and as I didn’t want to Wet my hat I put on. yours. Hope you don’t mind.—Pearson’s Weekly. SOME ROYAL DOGS. Nearly All the Sovereicna of Burope Are Fond of Canine Pete. Nearly every one of the sovereigns of Europe, it appears, has one or more pet dogs. The collies of Queen Victoria, the fox terriers of Princess Beatrice, with Jock as prime favorite, are known at least by hearsay to everybody. The emperor of Russia is also a great lover of dogs. A London paper reports that he is always accompanied in his walks by a couple cf fine Danish hounds, whose strength and vigilance their master considers his best safe guard. The grave czar is often seen playing with these monster pets. He himself has taught them their tricks, and they are nearly always about him. The king of Greece shares the czar’s taste for the Danish hounds, which are as intelligent as they are strong, and Which, with hardly a bark to announce their intentions, will fly at the throat of any one whom their master may point out to them in case of need. When the empress of Austria goes on her long walks or rides, several pet dogs always accompany her. But per haps the most widely known of all the “royal dogs’’ of the present day is Black, the pet dog of the Russian Grand Duke Alejns. Black is a sportsman’s dog, of no very aristocratic breed. Indeed, if the truth must be told, he is a member of the race of mongrels which the fisher men in the south of France take out to sea, employing them to recapture any wily fish that may fall through the meshes of their nets or slip suddenly back into its element after it has been once landed on board the barge. Black is still rejoicing in the days Os his youth, but his record,; not only as a common fisherman but as a • ‘fisher of men, ’’ is already great, for he has saved no fewer than six persons from a watery grave. - Some three or four years ago the Grand Duke Alexis was staying at Biarritz. One storm/ night he went out on the cliff to get a View of the angry sea. A boat was just being wrecked be low, and he saw a dog dashing with angry growls and barks into the water and bringing to land, one by one, three drowning men, while the crowd cheered .tho brave mongrel to the echo. The grand duke approached to caress the dog, and the animal’s master then offered Black to him, refusing to accept any payment—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. CURIOUS INSECT. A Butterfly That Eqjoys Oaly Five Hooh of Life. It is in August that 'the naturalists observe the marvelous insect which is born, reproduces and dies in the period of a single night, on the banks of the Marne, of the Seine, and of the Rhine. It is the ephemera of which Sirammer dam has written and which is spoken of in Aristotle. The life of this insect does not last beyond four or five hours. It dies to ward 11 o’clock in the evening, after taking the form of a butterfly about six hours after midday. It is true, how ever, that before taking this form it has lived three years in that of a worm, which keeps always near the border of water in the holes which it makes in the mud. The change of this worm in the water to an ephemera which flies is so sudden that one has not the time to see it If one takes the worm in the water, the hand cannot be taken away before the change is made unless by pressing the worm slightly in the region of the chest By this means it can be taken from the water before the change takes place. The ephemera, after leaving the water, seeks a place where it can divest itself cf a fine membrane or veil, which entirely covers it This second change takes place in the air. The ephemera assists itself with the point of its little nails as firmly as it can. It makes a movement similar to that of a shiver, then the skin on the middle of the back breaks apart, the wings slip out of their sheath, as we sometimes take off our gloves by turn ing them inside out. After this strip ping the ephemera begins to fly. Some times it holds itself straight up on the surface of the water on the end of its tail, flapping its wings one against the other. It takes no nourishment in the five or six hours which are the limit of its life. It seems to have been formed but to multiply, for it does not leave its state of a worm until it is ready to deposit its eggs, and it dies as soon as they are deposited. In three days* time one sees appear and die all species of ephemeras. They last sometimes until the fifth day, for the reason that some malady has affect ed some of them and prevents them from changing at the same time as the others. —Exchange Gold and Silver GotpeU. “The Gold and Silver Gospels" is the name of a very peculiar book now preserved in the Upsala library in Swe den. It is printed with metal type, on violet colored vellum, the letters being silver and the initials gold. When it was printed, by whom or what were the methods employed, are questions which have great interest for the curi tes, but have never been answered. MoM and Widow. By the old Saxon law a maiden and a widow were of different value The latter could be bought for one-half the sum which the guardian of the maid was entitled to demand. A man, there fore, who could not afford to buy a teaiden might, perhaps, be able to pur chase a widow. The herd of European bisons protected by the czars of Russia in the forest of Bjelowski, Lithuania, numbered 1,900 in 1856, but is ndw reduced to 500 and shows no sign of increase. The dwin dling of the herd is ascribed to inbreed ing, due to the confined area of the res ervation ENGLISH INNKEEPERS. Said to Ba Mainly Eoore Who Treat Fto trone aa Intruder*. If your pocketbook allows or fate or the desire to see the country compels you to remain in England, there are parts where you con ride on your wheel with great satisfaction and at great ex pense. Nothing could be more beautiful than the midlands, lovelier than the counties that surround London, but Westward go no farther than Bristol or Truro, northward than Chester, avoid ing Manchester—that is, unless you mean to go still farther north into Soot land, which at times will repay your enterprise. The southwest is largely to be avoided. Cornwall and Devon have the worst roads in civilized Europe—in fact, the roads and inns explain that the country is not and never has been civilized; In the inns you are often treated as an intruder, and sometimes cheated in a fashion that would bring a blush to the cheek of a Swiss landlord, for the emptiness of the larder the bill makes up in lavishness. There is hard ly anything to eat save cream, but for that and salt bacon and ancient eggs you are asked to pay as much as for a good dinner at the Case RoyaL The inn keepers are mainly boors. As for the roads, they go straight to the top of all the hills, as uncompro misingly as the roads of Bohemia, then drop down the other side and are unrid able in both directions. When not climbing precipitately, they lie buried at the bottom of a ditch. They are' shadeless and uninteresting, rarely ap proaching the seacoast or passing nepr anything that is worth looking at, and yet we know Englishmen who are pro foundly impressed with the belief that they are the best in England, and there fore in the world. The roads, inns and innkeepers of Scotland are in every way better, but * the fact that the average Briton spends his holiday on the conti nent when he can proves not only that he wants to get there, but also that he is driven from his own country by the shortsightedness of the people who keep its inns and look after its roads.—Mr. and Mrs. Pennell in Fortnightly Review. ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS The Manner of Doctor** Consultation* In the Fourteenth Century. Coming to Mondeville’s exposition of the method of holding a discussion, we find his description almost a story of what might take place today. “First, ’’ he says, “we should inquire into the nature of the disease, examining care fully and feeling, because the diagnosis is made by touching with the hand and observing with the eye. All the consult ants engage in turn in the examination. Then, if the case demands it, they make a new examination all together, point ing out to one another the symptoms of disease and the special or remarkable features either in the patient or the dis ease. Then one of them, the highest in rank, says to the patient, ‘Sir, we per ceive very clearly what is the matter with you, and you ought to have full confidence in us and be glad that there are so many of us here and such doctors— enough for a king—and to believe that the youngest of us is competent to pre scribe and Carry on your treatment and bring it to a good result. ’ Then he in terrogates the patient about tho circum stances of his attack, ‘Sir, do not be displeased or take it ill, but when did your illness begin?’ following this with many other questions, the answers to which are recorded as indications fur nished by the patient. “When all the questions called for by the case have been asked, the con sultants retire to another room, where they will be alone, for in all consulta tions the masters dispute with one an other in order the better to discuss the truth, and sometimes they "come to a pass in the heat of discussion which would cause strangers witnessing their proceeding to suppose there were discard and strife among them. This is some times the case. ’’ —“Fourteenth Century Doctors, ” by M. E. Nicaise, in Popular Science Monthly. _ __ Mozart’* Method. Mozart’s method of composition was such as could only have been pursued by a child of genius. He would rise early, eat a hearty breakfast and then stroll for several hours in a forest near his home, where, inspired by nature’s beauties, heavenly melodies came troop ing through his brain. Repairing to his cottage, he would summon his wife, a very witty woman, and bid her tell him stories. He would then mount his high stool and proceed to commit these inspirations to paper, his wife telling him jokes and funny stories while he wrote. These ho enjoyed immensely, frequently interrupting her with hearty bursts of laughter and sometimes even falling from the stool and rolling on the floor. But amid all this hilarity and uproar the flow of music which was to move the world went steadily on. His productions were wrought without the least thought or study, but came almost unbidden “direct from heaven.** Like Shakespeare, he war purely the creature of inspiration, a genius of the highest order.—G. C. Hieatt in Housekeeper. Remote Sotortry. “It has long been supposed," soys The Outlook, “that the most startling genealogical claim is that of the negus of Abyssinia, who insists that his de scent has been in a straight line from the union of Solomon with the queen of 1 Sheba, but some one has discovered a noble family in France, the counts of Noe, who not only claim Noah as their remote ancestor, but show on their fam ily blazon that veteran seaman in the ark.” Ijjlnf Brick*. A bricklayer can lay about 1,500 or 1,600 bricks in a day of 10 hours where the joints are left rough, about 1,000 per day when both faces have to be worked fair and not more than 500 a day when carefully jointed and faced with picked bricks of a uniform color. —Exchange i,■ BARNATO IN THE COMMUNE. ‘ .'W ’ '. t: ' Bow the Diamond King Saved the Baah of Fraaee. A writer of stories about Barney Barnato says, in the Philadelphia Bul letin, that there is a circumstantially definite account of his presence in Paris during the commune of 1871. In the utter break up of all-social fabric he found his capacities of a paying order. For there is little doubt that his was the craft that enabled the shrewder communards to realize the money need ed to supply the sinews of war. One day, during the gloom and stress of the government siege, the president of the Bank of France was confronted by an unkempt mob. The demand was explicit They wanted ail the gold in the bank’s vaults. The spokesman flourished a bloody saber and the mob accentuated the demand by all sorts of ferocious threats. It was in tho height of this melee that a man who had been counseling the financial deputy of the commune rode up, adorned by a red sash and other insignia of the terrorists. He made his way through the vociferous throng and handed the governor of the bonk a large envelope. While the official was reading it the besashed emissary turned to the clamoring nomads and, in a tongue unknown to the officials and probably to many of the mob, addressed them a few sentences. A singular event followed. A dozen of the ringleaders at once began haranguing the rioters. In a few minutes every'one of them with drew. The besashed personage remained in consultation with the governor and when it was ended withdrew. An hour later six covered wagons came to the bank and were laden with bags such as the bank always makes use of in trans porting specie. When Barnato appeared as the dia mond king in South Africa, a score of the -communards, who had fled from France, were in exile in the region where Barnato had cornered the mines. One day in the plenitude of his afflu ence he was waylaid, riding in the Rand, by a company of miners. One of them, by a few words, succeeded In gaining his private ear. This man was known as the most ferocious of the blood thirsty gang who had taken part in the killing of the hostages in La Roquette. He recognized Barnato as the emissary sent by the commune to the Bank of France, and the knowledge enabled him to get in on the ground floor of the dia mond deal. The tale goes on to tell that Barnato, who figured as Felix Barnette, had fallen desperately in love with a figurante in the Folies Bergeres just as the war of 1870 broke- out; that he had lingered in Paris, became a member of onp of the “Red" societies, exploited the ardent patriotism of his coworkers and succeeded in getting several mil lions of the cash he had forced from the Bank of France. The tale, whether true or not, is by no means so improb able as the actual facts known in the man’s mastery of the African diamond yields, for to do that he was forced to put himself against such schemers as Cecil Rhodes and to contend with the “dour" shiftiness of the Boers, and particularly with that astute old fox Uncle Kruger. ARMY LIFE. Its Social Informality Constitute* Ono of Its Great Charms. "Army life is informal to a degree,” said Mrs. Custer, during a recent inter view. * ‘The custom of using cards when calling is only of very recent date among officers* wives. When I lived in garrison, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. It is only at a few of the larger posts, near the cities, where there is anything like the formality of civio life. The people in a garrison are like one great family. Nothing that deeply concerns any member is a matter of indifference to the others, and the spirit of good fellowship Is universal In time of sickness the friendly helpful ness of the women for each other is shown strongly. Many a time I have known a number of women to detail themselves, in regular military fashion, to duty in the house of sickness at cer tain hours, relieving one another through the day and night with abso lute precision, so that the sick person should never be left without an attend ant “ With all this close intimacy there is surprisingly little friction or ill feel ing. There are, of course, at every post a few people who are disagreeable or hard to get along with, but they cause no more trouble in general than they do in their own households. They be long, we feel, to our army family, and their shortcomings must be overlooked just aa we should overlook the faults of a husband or brother or sister. No dis tinctions between rich and poor are ever observed. There is occasionally a question about calling upon new ar rivals, but it is solely on account of reputation and honor. If there has been anything discreditable to the good name of an officer or his wife, the cir cumstances must be investigated before other families of the post will call ” —Philadelphia Times. Where Prince* Ar* Surrell When a young prince of Japan wishes to learn the mysteries of chirograpby, ; young maidens bring paper, others make the ink and prepare the paint brush. 1 The master expresses admiration by gesture and face, for no words must be ; spoken by him to the prince, his mouth even being bandaged that his breath may not blow upon the'face of the prince. The teacher must move about in the quietest manner and give com mendation only. How Dead gridlore Look. A British army surgeon is authority for the statement that the cause of death is clearly shown in the expression of the face of a corpse on the field of battle He states that those who have teen killed by sward thrusts have a took of repose, while those killed by bullets usually have pain of an intense nature clearly depleted. «cs==-3kSas,— vrtli L-t. I I ELrx To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTO HI A,” AND “PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” AS our TRADE Mark. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, cf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now oneoary bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought vi* on the and has the signature of wrap- per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. , Burch 8,1897. -'**'*•*-'*••*• Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting ‘ a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo" (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” . BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE CF . Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed 'You. 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