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BTLlLVILiLK qCN THE RUN. "
(A -Story of th4 Coming- War,)
A soldier of the 'Legation lay dreaming in
There was never lack of glory for that
hero heart of his; j
. But a fair face bent over lain, as he
snored the time; away,
. I Ana the heard a low voice whisper; "John
the. gas bill's due today!" .
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The dreaming soldier faltered as he heard
t that voice so blandji
And he said: "Thank heaven, no more
- I'll see my own-imy as (bill land!
' raKe a message to
i comfort them, w
'For I was born Jfor
. t!he Grit! "
-"Tell my tailorlf and
my ; creditors, and
th it,
Glory f or - Glory jon
mv ETOcers . as thev
meet and crowd around
To, figure up their losses on the old, aban-
i doned ground, j '.1
That I 'hit the grit full I bravely, and ere
the day wad done
was fifty miles
from - Billville from
Billville on the
Run!
"Tell my bankers . not to weep for me
when on my -notes they gaze .
An1 ffrriA tho nrao tho HamnAnPid with thp
: t
- dues of thirty days:! ;
But to 'figger' on 'erft (bravely from mora
till set of sun,
For I was born at B
the Bun !".
llville-at Billville on.
And the . calm moon-;
4 he rose slowly, and
! -camly she-
down
at : Ceewhizz, long
On the soldier there
miles from
Billville Town;
Yes, -calmly o'er his
she begun. ;
slumbers her journey
As she shone on those who mourned him
t at Billville on the run
A IMODBBJN fitE3A; 'FTGHT,
Its Morrors as
Illlustrated-'iin. the OJiili-
t ' Peruvian
'War.
i The following account of a fight be-.
y een 'two modern jnayal vessels the
Y7-3v'6-turret-hip illuascar , of Peru and
the Ironclad (Alm'irjanlte CocfhrUne of
' Chili is taken from "A Famous Sea
. ;pight" (ki ithe Chili-Peruvian war of
1879), in the Aipril 'Century, 0y Claude
II. We'tnrore: ' "'; ' v
j The drummers and touglers were, or- -dered
-jt'6 sound, calls first f or , general
d.uar'ters, then for at'iioii; and, stripped
to the waist, the jris' j ere vs croi vvded
in'to ithe' ill-ventilated;! j turretj where
they were to toil and sweat at the great
pieces in -aai bmosiiietd jlhaii -'-thje' suln's'
fierce rays, 'already causing the morn
ing to toe el'ose and st'ioky, would make'
Stifl ing. lAmmunitiLoin f holds' were
thrown open, and 'tJhe aong cUr'tains of
green felt were siluhgl: f rom the deck
ibeams above to prd-tept the magazine
passages, ,:in order t)hat I sparks might
not fall among the exploisives. iA dozen
men tourried Into the main military top
to serve the .Catling ; gun and rifles
there. Ttubber cldtha were stretched'
pver the wtard-room jtaJble, and fastened
in such a manner that? the blood of t!he
(wiauinded would" flaw -smoothly, and toe
caught in Ibuckets that' iwere placed at
jjTiie ifour corners, f of there one science
, jyould endeavor t6 'ave the lives jthat
'iamat'her science was trying 'to destroy.
The 'surgeon and ihi's! ass'isitants laid but
soalipels.-tohigi igleaSiihg knives, and
saws. Huge piles jf 'lint were placed
on -the floor. j ' ;
I The stewards hurriedly passed atoout
coffee and toread, and 'the siallors in the
(turret ate .their morning meal teamng
lagaiinst the already
loaded pieces, and
those 'in the top to-a'd
palls of coff ee car-
up to them.whidh ttoey drank while
""Betting their - -sights.
The hinged toul-
warks of 'tlhe little vessel were let down
and the smooth water rippled only four
tfeet below the Huasoar's oecK. Tne
forecastle and maiin
ha'tcihes vera toat-
tened. but the after
'compantonway twasN
"left open, for down
thus1 passage the.
taken. (Between,
' fwioumded would 'be
iftwirs wer 'station e(i those sailors not
eded! in service cjf the. guns, where
they wi6uld toe most handy to a'ssist,
in the navigation ofi th'S' iS'hip, the ser
vice of ammunition or: 'to rep face the
killed. A score of non-coinitoatants
were also there.- At nine p'clock the
CochiUne was withia' three 'thousand
yards, and GraU, haviing given, al ast
glance around, and having signalled
the Union to keep jut of the enemy's
way, entered the fconniing-tower that
was .to prove his tomb. Not a sihot had
as yet 'been fired. . These moc'ern ships,
carrying guns that could throiv a shell
from four to five miles,! reserved their
fire for closer quarterej iFive minutes
later :G rail gave a command to the of
ficer, in the turret, ajn4 a shot tram! one
of the , I luasoar's r ten iffic'h 'guns -Whist-,
led over the water.' The comimiander of
the Codhrane wished for still closer
range, and did mot reply until three
shots' had: left the turret of the , little
' ship, j iFinaflly the ' ahswer came in th
sihape of a ibroadsidei and a shell derited
the Hulascar's protective. .belt lut aboye
ithe water line. A, moWent later the
Gatling guns In the tops of tooth snips
' were brought init'o aotfon, and a leaden
"hail began to patteK' while great pro
r jectiles were hurled from the large
i.deck cannon. The r ipid-'firing pieces of,
ithe Chilians were: timed upon the Hu
aPiir's turret apertures, while the one
irf the military top;'of the latter vessel
wa'a aimed at the gtm-ports of the en
; eray. Many a marl dropped, dead or
wounded, hit by one of these shot. For
i fifteen minutes not much; was accom
plished .by the great! gun-fire,- the
heavy shot either fell short of the mark
or Were buried In the. armor, 'By this
tlme,When the shipi werewflhtm fifteen
hundred yards i of feach other, a snell
frn-m thA. r.chra hp lent efed-!the Huas-
! oar's turret, explod4d land killed twelve
men. But the places of the dead were
quiCKiy taKen Qy men truiii. uciw.
chamber was cleared of the corpses,
the guns were loaded again, and the
action was renewed. Then the Huas-
car secured an ad vintage. One of her
ten-inch shells forded its way through
la casement on the starboard. side of the
Cochrane, exploded, on the deck, dis
i mantled- a gun, and kilted several men.
For a few minutc'- the enemy was in
-! uch confusion thai not a cannon was
fired;- and it became almost a panic on
i the Cochrane whenr the iHuascar edged
in . closer, her sailors oheerihg as they
' again disefharged the twin pieces . ;
; . tAt this -stage of the j oomtoat victory
perched for a moment on the red, white
und red; but even as.it did so the com
' onander of the Cochrane saw relief
wfhtich Grau had nofi j perceived. In fact,
; iRjt1 that plough into the Huas
. ricar's ' side was the first warning, the
Peruvian admiral had of assistance
! ooratog to the Chilians; and. looking to
! ct-mrtooard throucrh a peep-hole in . the
f conulnff-tower, he slaw Ithe Bianoo En-
oalada beariaxg down ;
While veering
seaward,; only a few catole-lengtns t
astern of the rapidly approaching' Iron-
clad,! were the Mat1as CJousino and the j
Oovadonga,, evidently , starting off to '
give chase to the Union, toy: this time
'well in the offing, and fitted,, because of j
her superior speed, to take "care
of i
herself. Crau 'therefore turned
his I
attention to Wis own ship, which indeed
was m sore straits. s a f j
Seeing aid at hand, the men on the, j
yoenrane had redoubled theii efforts,
and when the lan'oo. had ranged along
to port the hjorror of -it "began, and the
engagement resolved itself into a ma
rine carnage; fr the 'BPauscar lay be
tween the . two fires, the Cochrane to
startooard, the Blanco to port, and both
so near that the gunners to. the turret
of the . Tittle ship " could see the f faces
of their adversaries as the latter sight
ed the pieces on the ChllJan iboats. t
This turret rapidly fbecame so crowd
ed with the .bodies kf the dead that
the steam training-gear of the iron
roundhouse was clogged - and useless.
As the men struggled to remove the
tum'bled corpses . of their 'comrades,
blood toeoame smeared over their chests
yand it -m'ingled -with the sweat which
dripped -as they roiled in quarters that
resembled ,a baking' charnel-house,
through which filtered! steam and
smoike: whil a 71 ?5f 11 C?(WnG rir?irV"T WC.i mMm
t'he.ibodies and the. heated guns.; The I
:,L i vuvw ii unu 't ilt? IW11H1 SSKJfcTTl'e'
through i air so icalm that, after the
white sm!oke had 'belched from .the
guns, It rose in . pillars and clung to
the mastheads. . : .
-From the first of the toattle the en
couraging voice of Grau had cJome to
the men in the turret through the
bpeaicing-tuDe rrom the conning-tower;
tout When; the: "Blanco crowded into-thi
thick! of it, and great shwt tr,n ,fhl
II uascar's ?ides as regularly "as blows :
of a I'battermg-ram, the orders of the ;
oommjander were no tonsr 'hozv :
office in charge of the 'turrefti called to -3
ni& superior, iihere was ,n'o answer,
jand when ; CommanderESlias' Aguerre '
ran im naTwriw iiwia .k.:. i. j.
to the toweir. "he issitnTnrKioi -..-.tuW v.,a a i
body of his' admiral. A shell had ;
struck ' the" conni-ng-ltower, and ' had
taken off - Gran' s head as meat ly as if
the. decapitation had toeen by the guilo-1
uuue. ,. linis sneu also killed liieu tenant 1
'F'erre, the- admiral's aide. There was t
only time tk push the corpses aside f !
. . "iii'ciiixuii.iiig 'omcer pull
ed back It'hf -tnTw-flla
rect'ions; tout as he did so the Huacar ;
.5Se-rfcHu, Keeiea over, then shook! in
every plate, While ,a' concussion ! more
terrific than' any so : far told that a
shell had enterred. the ifurret and' had
burst there. When . the .fumes' - had
cleared away so that a person could
speak, a midshipman called out that
one of the great erunst h'ari !ho H50
mounted, and twenty men killed. 5 The
survivors ! tumbled the bodies tthrod'h !
the hatch that opened into the deck, i
uemw, inus releasing the clogged ma- i
uiwu'ep ; ana as tne corpsef rattled!
down other men-rushed
off their clothing as they jumped into r
me poois oi oiooa to seize -noid of the
gear and swing the remaining gun into II
position, that it micrh't train ilnon . Atm
of the ships they could no longer make jj
ou t wnicn, nor did , they care and ft ;
was discharged, hauled in, loaded,- 4nd !
discharged again: i f ;
V Once. more all was silent In the cpri- !
ning-tower. 'Lieutenant Palajios has- I
ten'ed there.tout toe-fore he could'enter he i
w.-.s compelled to push three Ibodies dut
of the way. He had toarely given ibis,
first command when a bullet f rom ihe
well-aimed rifle of a marine in- an .ni
emy's top lodged toetween his ! eyes.
Then the' fourth to command the Huas
car that day, Lieutenant Pedro Gare
zon, ook the place', and as he oid so! he
cabled through an aperture, telling jhe
quartermaster to put1 the helm jto pdrt;
for he had determinied to ram onej of !
the adversaries,, and. .sink with hei if
necessary. ' Oyer and over spun the
wheel, but the Huascar's head still
pointed toetween the Chilians, j r ':
'Pont! IPor't, I ay!" -ecreained the
cor.imander. : . ' '' .. , . . . ! ": j .
"She won't answer," came hack the
sullen reply from the only one! of four
quartermasters alive; the toodio. of the
o thers "were lying upon, the grating at
hiss fpf1 : ' . . '
"A I shot has' carried away the star
board teering-gear, sir," reported an
ensign ; and he dropped deadj ' as the
words left - his mbu'th. T ? !
- The Huascar now lay, drifting;! In a
hell of , shot and flame, tout all the
while the red, white, and red fluttered
from the, peak. One by 'one, j in .twos
and n threes, the men in the , turret
dropped at their posts; and at j last the
rem a ing great gun was" silent, its
tackle' literally choked with dead. The
turret could not toe turned for the
same reason. Corpses hung, overt "the
military top ; "corpse's clogged 'fhe con-'
ning tower. .. . : '
i Wilh coats and waistcoats off, the
su rge o n s :had been latoori ng in t he ward
room upon the wounded, who shrieking
in their agon y, had been tumtoled down
the companionway like so much butch
ered beef ; for there was no time to use
stretchers or.! to carry a stricken I com
rade to a doctor's .care. . Steam : and
fMTioke filtered' throuhi the diorwav?
and the apart me nJt becoming stifling.
While they were sawing, amputating,
and 1 band aging, a shell tore into "the
ward room, burst, and fragments
wounded i the . assistant surgeons, the
chief of the medical staff having" been
killed earlier in the conflict.-TliiyQe', nni
fortunates who were s'trcttched upon the
tatole Waiting their turn under the' knife
and those who lay upon the floor, suf
fered no mare pain; they were killed as
theyj lay groaning. , . This , shell tore
away ward - room and stem catoin, and
hardly a trace was left of the bulkhead. .
After that what little surgery was done
was performed in the coal tounkers.
Huddled, in a passageway near the
engine room were a score or more of
non-oomtoatants stewards, pantrymen,
stokers. 1 They were in a place that .was
lighted only as flashes came from the
guns; it was -filled with - j powder
smoke and clouds of steam that drift
ed f rom below -told that the Huascar
had been: struck in a vital spot -her
machinery. Suddenly they - hear a
crash,.' followed by the rending! ot Ithe
deck; and the little iron clad iswayed
as if j she had strugfe a reef. Some jone
passed the word that the fnatotopniast'
had toeen shot away. !As it jcame down
it brought livijig men to jbe dashed to
death, also corpses that had toee?t hang
ing over the sides of the military tops.
There was a cry of "Fife!" Laid all
hands rushed to sations perhaps two
men to a 'boat's crew, one to a pump
gang. - - - j ' !
"D the ! fire ! " shouted lieutenant
Garezon. "Kepel boarders!" ' .
They were I metamorphosed by this
order from the fire fighters mto (war
riors again, and formed a line of bleed
ing men, their clothing in rags, and
ranged in company front,. stoKers el
bowing marines, pantrymen levelling
rifles in union with midshipmen, await
ed the coming of a flebt of the enemy's
boats which; crowded 'with marines,
were forcing their way through thje wa
ter, toward (the wounded,, otaggerng
Huascar, that lay like a log, motionless.
.. But the. fire raged toetwien the decks,
and flames flared- up the after compan
ionway; and when the boats had crowd--"ed
around, like threshers attacking" a.
whale that (had been struck to the
death, the few survivors were compeiXed
to yield to ithe force of the , numbers,
and the Chillians swarmed J the j iron-'
dad's deck. As they mounted at the
red, white, and Ted, tattered and torn
fey. bullets, still .fluttered its rags at the
Peak. j i i 3 UI!I3
The victors had toarely got control of
the flames when word was -brought to
the officer commanding the ; iboarding
party that Jithe, prize was sinking. He
examined her sides, and as there was
no great injury -below the water line,
he summoned Chief Engineer MactMa
hon, and accused him. of scuttling the
ship.: The) la'tter laughed defiantly'
The officer cocked a, revolver, placed it
at hi head,and threatened to. slloot if
the man did not tell what he had Idomej
Only then did he admit 'having opened
the sea valves, and the ChilLians rush- -ing
below, were only able to close, them
just ci ithe, blood stained water lapped
th slipper deck. ' , -'.jj., .j
There is no authentic record of the
numtoer' slain, tout the accounts in CaK
lao : were that of 200 men on the Huas
car; nearly J.00 were killed, and of. the
remainder only half reaped w
injury. Thie .Peruvian dead
thout
were
thrown into!
the sea .as the Blanco En
calada" took
Husacar in
the 'battered, blood -stained
towl
PREtMCftnTjlONtS OJF D'EIATH. :
The first
bymptom of approaahing
death with some is the strong presenti
ment that they are atoout to die. i J
Ozanam, the mathematician, while in
apparent health,- reject eu pupils from
the feeling that he was 'the eye of rest
ing ; from his- labors, and he expired'
soon after of an apoplectic sitroke'.
Fletcher, 'the1, divine, had tja dreaim
which shadowed out his impending dis
solution, and believing it to be .the
merciful Warning of heaven, he sent
for a sculptor, and ordered j his I. tomib.
"Begin your work forthwith'' he said
at parting;!
And unless
adnionitionl
"there is no time .to lose."
the artist: had olbeyed the
death would have proved
the quicker, workman of vthe two. "(Mo
zart wrote jhlis requiem under the con
viction that the monument he-was rais
ing to his 'genius would, toy (j;he power
of association, prove a universal monu
ment to hi's remains. 'When! life was
fleeting very fast,, he called for the
score, and mustering over it, feaid,.Tid
I not 'tell you truly that lit was for my
self .that I composed 'that death cihant?"
Affiother great artist, in a different
department, ! , conivlnlced - that ! ibis -hand
was, atoout to lose its, cunning, chose! a
sutoject emblematical . of the coming
event. His j friends inquired ithe- nature
of his comltig design, . and Hogarth re
plied,' "The lend of all thongs.";! -"In that
case," rejoined one "here will toe an end
of the painter." 'What was Uttered an
jest was answered in earnest, with a
solemn look ( and a heavy sigh. 'There
will," he - said, "and the sooner my
work is done the .better.'.' He commenc
ed next day, lalbored upon .the drawing
with unremitting . dlligencie, and when
he had given it the last toufch, seized'
his palette, j broke it in pieces, and said
"I Jhave finished." ' The print was pub
lished in March, under the title of "Pi
mis," and in October the curious eyes
which sawj the manners in the face
were dosed in the dubt.j Our ancestors,
who -were' prone to. look in the air .for
causes which were to toe found upon the
earth, attrfitouted these intimations to
various supernatural agencies. . ! -
John Huhter has solved the- mystery,
if.mysteryj it can be called, in ; a sin
gle i sentence. "We . sometimes," j he
says, "feel ; within', ourselves; that "Iwev
shall not ;live; for the living powers
beteome weak, and the nerveis commun
itefate; the intelligence to the torain."1;
His own case has often (been quoted
among the marvels of which he offered
miis Taaonai explanation. e intima
ted,! on leaving home that if
a discus-
skn which, awaited him at the hospital
took an angry turn, it Would
prove
his
death. A. colleague gave him the
lie;
the coanse: word verified the nronhecv.
and he expired almost Immediately 5n
an adjoining room. There was every
thing to lament In the circumstance
but nothing to wonder at. : ;
Circumstances which at another .time
would excite the attention are-accepted
for an Omen when health is . falling..
The order for the requiem with iMozart,
the ; dream with Fletcher, turned ! the
current of , their : though ts to the- grave.''
Foote, prior to', his departure for the
continent, stood contemplating the pic
ture of a brother author, and exclaim
ed, his eyes- full of tears, "Poor Weston!"-
In the same deie'eted tone he
added, after!
a pause, Soon others shall
say 'Poor
prise of his
Footer -And to the sur
f riends, a f eW days jproved
the jus Wee, of his prognostication. The
expectation j of the event had a share
in producfing it; for a slight slhocrk com
pletes the destruction of prostrate 1 en
ergies. . !'. i' .- . '. j '. ; !" .
: The case of Wolsey was singular,
The morning before he died he asked
of Cavendish the hour, and was an
swered; "Past- eight." "Eight 1 of 'the
clock?" replied Wolsey; ".that) cannot
be;; eight! of the clock nay, nay, it
cannot be eight of the clock. I for! by
eight of the clock; you shall ! lose your
master.
The day he miscalculated,5
the hour
came true, j On the followiiriisr morning-J
as the clock, struck eSght, has troubled
spirit passed from life. Cavendish and
the bystanders thought he must have
had a revelation of the time; of ! his
death, and, from the way in which the
fact had taken possession of his mind,
we suspect that he relied oniastrologi
ical prediction, which had the credit of
a revelation in his own esteem. -Household
Words I
Debt An easy thing to run-into! but
bard to walk out of, I
Energy The ability to work given
to otherwise perfectly harmless bodies.
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EHe Told 3033 ;Friend3 He Would TMe
'Early hv Q3is Second Term Visions
Like INapolepn, Aoraham !Linooln al
ways 'believed he "was bom a man, of
destiny. H ithought- he -would rise to
some lofty'fstatio3i In life, tout thaSt he
would have a sudden fall, i tie was
pleased, yf alariaed, at what he. look
ed upon aa.' a . rent in. the j veil which
ihldes the diture if rom mortal sight, for
the: vision saw was one of glory and
of -ibiooa: -AB: ; : U-; - -15. '-f I .! -:: ' f '
Incolhs 1 friends never willingly al- ,
lowed him ''to dwell In his QBalth. In 'oc- f
cult mfiuencesy and not untili the dark
shadow of ? the anticipated . had fallen
did they trange fatality ; in his re- ,
currmg'vifes. Theo?th!at most im
pressed hmiK apphed In prrngfieM in ;
.1860. He Ws lying on a: lounge in his j
owm, chanibe when, glancing . into a
mirror at ifuiig nt;ar, aie slw a. iwuik
image or ' himself . reflected there. ' Alt
that time Ldncoln was in ithe : f ull glow
of Iheal'tlx and hope, Ibiit in the mirror
the face showed a moral j paleness.
! Again- and again he tried the experi-,
ment, asid' ajyways with the same ghast
ly result. 3erward he tried it in the
executive mansion; tout .there it failed.
(He did, not (alttaclh so muah i impor
tanioe to . Ithii vlsioaii or. illusion untile
1864, on the' day of: hi!s' renomination
at (BaTtimoreJ . Oa ; thatt day Lincoln
was at th.ar departmen.t in Itelegra
phio : i leohuhloatlon with General
Crahit, who:was at Richmond. A tele
gram ' . arriypd at ' the White house i in
formihig! liipcoln- of his . renomination
as president; tout" thoug'h he went home
for hasfty luiich-lie did not stop to read
'rh'eitelegra;.On returning; to the war
deipartmehit 14 dispatch was handed, to
him tellmhW' j of ;the nomiaia'tion ;of
'Andrew Johnson "(for the yicerpresSden
cyJ Mr.- Xancoln. was surprised and
said: 4;V- ; ? ! . I i .
1 thorugfhit It Was customary, "to nomi
nate the president first." ' ' .
On toeing r ltoltd ' of the .first telegram
he said, 'miirnifully recalling the doutole
image in e.' imirror: , - '
i irtI'll neY;11iVe through .. my , second
-term. That ' 'belongs : to Johnson ait
least ! the tofits part of it." ' !
iShortly .'Vefore his assassination Iau-'
coin haki atange dream, Which he re
lated i to hS! wife and: Mr, Iiamon, his
former la partner. ' I
."I xe)t'ir;ed' jlate, for 1 hadi waited, up
for importifiutiit dispatches, ; and 1 sojem
'fell into a'i jight slum'b'er. ;I dreanied
there was $f r deathlike stillness about
me, tout is'tpflT could hear the subdued
sotos of a inlmtoer of people. jl left my
room, wenjlall throuigh the ithouse jin
my dreameverywhere the same , weep
ing and WaHingtouit 1 could-see nobody.
Finially'I Ppent - Into, the Bast Room,
and therei. saw, a' coffin-'. With' -many
soldiers asiuard..: w- ::. f j i; .
" ,:V" Who:ld!ead In.ttoeifWhite (house?'
T -asked. v Vj! J .
f 'Whyn'tt you know? said one of
the soldiersV .'the (president has toeen as
sassinalted.f' , Then a loud 'bupst ? of gdef
fame frorri f ihe crowd,- and ! .wittlx that
I-awoka-IJlV'S ! -.;. & . : -
IMrs. iJlrijdotft reniemlbered the dream
on the tfataM nighoif, his' dearth, and
Cried OutRf' ' " "' Ml"
"His dreaui was prophetic!"
- . tlnicojln had one. fortunate dream,
which he ' often dreamed, and: which he
said was " alw'ays welcome, as it in
yriatoly preceded a great union vc
tory. f He said he. dreamed it before ,t$ie
toattle of 'i lAhitietam and again befdre
that of '6-ettyiSburg and ereval other en
gagements ' He dre'ainied that he saw
a (badly ; damaged ship sailing away
rapidly,, rsie pursuing vessels over
toojk j aoid enoli This
dream alvitLys comforted" Mm. j.
rWhen 1M& liincoln wouTfed toe called to
task by 'iUki friends for; his toelief in 1
dreamt '!bould invariatolyij quote the,
Biible for ' InltlittioVi'ty. -Aft er -his midst
important !frieam! he s;ald:; i'lj-;.'-;; ' i---.. ;
s "In the ';inornlngt when took dry
Bible the first, chapter I opened at was
the twenityf eighth n of Crenies'is, relating
JaKb's--S 'fthderful. dreain. ) looked
r through ithW Bitol, and everywhere "J I
seemed to .find tl e. same: lesson.' Six
teen :chaj)ter . in Ithie New ! Tfe-stament
that reveal .God's meaning in dreams."
His formert partner; Mr. Ijiamon, says:
"The moilhtensethe light which is
poured oh what may be Mr... IiincOln's
weakest point the .greater and grander,
will hid jlaracter ? appear' lM: il
Rayne in' Chicago Times-Herald.
. NAVAD.f5N'LISTIiE!NT SLOW. !
: . j : :t -:i fprV ;". : ' "t.: 1 1 " " . '.-' - b '
; (SpHngfleld Union.).
The nav par tmentfis having great
ditttoul'ty-i inbllstln jr suitfalble men. for
its war vessels. TMs is not ibecause
seamen are; lackin In courage! or patriot
ism, tout rather toecause service, in the
navy is not particularly attractive, and
-the numfbei, of trained staiilors. is small,
Poratoou t a fortnight efforts have 'been
made to "enlist seamen, tout the num
ber procurfl !is mot so near so great as
naval officers had aniticapate'd. The pay
off the seaihen Is mot !Mgh, tout it is re
garded as satisfacftory; that real trouble
is the fact that a sailor caauiot advance
atoove a .petty officer. This has been
a ; dra wtoadkJto the inavai ' service v for
yeare, andvvas largely re sponsible tfor
the great ;nunlber of unnaturalized men'
in our vnavyta few. years: (back. Good,
stout, and -ejftrnest American tboys .are
not anxious! Sto igo on war vessels in
times of peace un less they have an
opportunity & advaunce themselves. In
vsrartime, pafcriotisan will (furnish a plen
hful supply ;51 raven, tout skilled sailors
are at discount. A naval recruit can
not learn his tLuries in as! short time
as he might to the days i of wooden
ships. -Now : the vessels are lulled with
complicated macfliinery and t guns, and1
a high grad6 of intelligence fis required
to work thorn. Skilled mechanics are
really, needoji on the warships nowa
days, tout such men will Ifihd little in
ducement --$6 lenlist - until j they know
that i theyJpaan rise above i seamen or
petty officers-, Un til th service is
made more- .attxactSve and offers' jnore
indu-oement; it win lack dn the , toest
character of seamen. As! ithe Phila
delphia Press says, the. navy must"
"Open the 'way for ' promotion." Pre
judice against the- man j who was not
graJduSatei: at 'Annapolis mus t not toe per
mitted ; to interfere with the good of the
Wi " 3 l
MarriagQ-rSometimes : a "succesi, It is. a wise child that knows enough
sohietiEi.es a failure, but usually a coni- to keep its face straight when, its fath-promiseT--hicago
News; 1 er is learning to ride a wheelt !
IIAS AXBREE BEEN HEAiRD FROM
x (Philadelphia Record.) ' . I
; From British Columbia 'comes the
strange news that one "Jack" Carr, a
former 'mail carrier in Alaska, has ar
rived at Departure Bay oil. the Cana
dian western toast line, with advices
from 'Andree, the mislsmg Arctic ex-
piorer. This bearer of eventful tidings
has come, moreover, according to cur
rent account, from St. Michaels, at? the
moojth of the frozen Tukon River, toy
way of Dawson City, 1,600 miles up the
. ice-locked and impenetrable channel of . n
the great stream,
How a -single individual in such an
environment, could have come into pos
session of information in regard to an
Arctic balloon voyager whQ was lost
with his two companions nearly nine
months ago, is a mystery scarcely less
profound : than the real -secret of An
drees fate. ' i ..-
A 'MAN WHO WANTED TO GO THE
' : POKE, TALKS. ' - '-.I--'.
Chicaga, 111., April 5. Evyln B. Bald
win, Who visited the Andree balloon
station in Spitztoergenand Who volun
teered to accompany the daring aro
naut on his' voyage to the North Pole,
tout could not on account 4of the limited
capacity of the balloon car, was inter- j
viewed, this afternoon regarding the
bulletin from Victoria, B. C. Mr. Bald- ,
win said: . '
"While I can scarcely believe the re
port to be true it seems too good to! be dlnfeldt "rapid-fire " and one 1-pounder -truer
I realize that it is. not Impossible aiaxim-Nordenfeldt automatic gun.
that AnKtree may have arrived in Alas- jfi the- toroedo-boat-des trover class
ka. for to accomplish that feat was his
most ardent desire. That he could have
done so toy. this time, provided his toal
loon 'carried, him for enough eastward,
say to some point on the sea, ice north
of Alaska, is proven toy the afe arrival
of a captain of one of the whaling ves
sels fast in the ice off the north coast
of Alaska after, a' six months journey
southward. !
EXPHOTBD TO HlBAJP PRQM HIM.
' Andree may have arrived at some
point in -the Tehookchee , peninsula, 'off
Northeaster Siberia, last autumn,! as
Baron Nord en skj old toelieved he would,
and as." Andree himself thought; he
might, and thence made his way across
-n.r,i ,fQif Aia'aira P-rartn'ailv
I . have held that ' Andree would most
i:u.i.; v., i a e. w. c.nfr Too.f
I I M r- I V .1 IH II r-y-I 111 I Iirill 111 VI. I I MA i3 V 1
Land; and had atoout completed j ar
rangements to assist in the search for
him in that region, my plans toeing to
st'art nfxt month. ' i
J'l received a letter this morning from
Capain Ernest Andree,' of Sweden! (a
brother of 'the aeronaut), and the cap
tain expressed his toelief in his-broth
er's return and that the world would
hear from him not later than next !Au
gust." - - :' ' . .1. -
- AiNDREE'S HEROIC EPEKRT. ;
-Andree sailed away in his "big toal
loon frOm Spitzbergen, Norway, on
July 11, 1897, With two companions, Dr.
Strumdberger and; Dr. Praenkil. I
Just toefpre he bailed he dictated a
message to the Copenhagen (Denmark)
Aiftonblateit, ' in wihich he said : 'We
sh'all probably be carried in : a north
easterly direction." He had figured out
his probable course to a nicety. He
had atoout -700 miles to go ito reach the
pole and atoout 1,200 miles more toefpre
he would toe where ' it would toe advis
alble to land. His toalloon left Spita
'toergenj going at the rate of 22 miles
an, hour, which would mean his arrival
at the pole in 32 hours of atoout I 10
oclock Monday night, July 12th, . This
Would hot - interfere with observations,
however, as there is . no night at the
pole just alt his time' of the year, 'so
that the explorer had , daylight j
. He said himself as to his time: "We
shall toe three weeks or even more. I
would rather not do It so quick be
cause Of our otoservations.' ; j . .
In the toeginning of July, two years
ago, Hansen's ram naa in tne poiar
.basin the identical winds with which
A'ndree left Soitztoergen. ' Dr. INansen
also confirmed another important fact
for Andree, and that was that there
are no highlands, up to the 86th degree
of latitude, so the explorers will , not
have to consume any great amount of
gas to lift them Over 'any mountain
ranges. ! , " ; :- - -r '; ". -
The' explorers had decided that 'they
would go: in. one, of four directions.
First. That the toalloon will land in
Siberia in atoout latitude 70 north and
lognitude 135 east, 1
Second. It may land on the Samoge
d'an , Peninsula, in latitude 70 north,
longitude 70 east. This is in the vi
cinity of the Gulf of Obi, in .the north
eastern part of Russia, s
Third. ..It may land in the vicinitjr
of Point Barrow, Alaska, in latitude
70 north and longitude 155 west, (where
there- is' a United, States ' government
station. Point Barrow ds .about 600
miles northwest of the hew Klondike,
gold regions, and about the same dis
tance from the mouth of the Yukon
River or about ,600 miles from Bering
Strait. It is almost opposite to Spitz
bergen. :;' . . .. ' ' .
This direction fs' what Andree; charr
aqterizedj in his address before the So
ciety Anthropology and (Geogra
phy, in Stockholm,1 Sweden, on (March
,20, 1897, as "the desired way." He gave
his reasons in sutos'tance as follows:
"This part of the world Is -not I now
so nearly desolate and unrnhabited as
It was when the Franklin expedition
perished. : Ever . since 1S89 , American
vessels have toeen stationed about the
hunting purposes and, twelve to fifteen
mou'tli of t the Mackenzie Riyer for
ships pass the winter there with 400 or
500 persons aboard. Along the coast of
Alaska are to be found more or. less
civilized i Indians and Esquimaux. In
the interior of Alaska ther are a great
numtoer of gold diggers." ' ' :
Andree had a. fourth ,possi!ble route,
viz: That the balloon may land in
British NOrth Am ericip. in latitude 67
north, longitude 100 ' westj. -which is in
the vicinity of 'Melville sound. j
Landing at the points at an angle to
the pole would hot necessarily! mean
that: Andree did hot cross the pole be
cause the topographical and astrono
mical charts of the Arctic show that
he -might ,toe carried from Spitztoergen
across the pole and landed in British
America, because the winds tolow in a
circle much after the- fashion of th2
gulf stream of the Atlantic ocean. '
the wheel of fortune. -
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SPAIN'S NAVAL STRENGTH.
I.
. (Washington Star.)
Ait interesting compllatloa of the na-
strength available for Spain In
ieof war has been issued by Colonel
Wagner, chief, of the military informa
tion ) division of the "war department.
Itf shows the total number of ships, in
Chjding those now building, and such
merchant vessels as may be impressed
inijo service by Spain, to be overJOQ.
e compilation, however, does tibt in-
e coast-defence . vesse-ls nroner.
a number of small special craft em-
fyfed by the Spanish government in
al waters or under1 special circum
stances. There are j eleven armored
sh$ps of - an aggregate tonnage of over
81000, all of which, except three, have
aljspeed of 20 knots ' or imore. There
are thirty-eight cruising ships, which
Include cruisers proper, gunboats, tor
pedo . gunboats, gun vessels, dispatch
vessels and sloops of war. . All except
eifht of these are of less ' than 3,000
tdns. Atoout two-thirds ; are of lesa
ttfan 1,200 tons. None of the cruising
slip's, has any armor, except two or
tlyree, which, have a slight deck ' pro
tection. Thirteen of them ; have a speed
alcove 18 .knots. "There; are three gua
vessels and .four gunboats designed
"or service in Cuban waters." They
at of light tonnage arid armament.
iTtiere are also eighteen ; Ismail steel
nfboatd for service, in I Cuba, carry-
iflf
each one. 6-pounder. Maxim-Nor-
ther'e. are six vessels with a speed of
28 knots- or over. There are sixteen
torpedo boats of light tonnage .and a
I speed of ranging. from 8to 25 1-2 knots
hour. The ships building include
tae
following: Battleship, unnamed,
1,000 tons, designed to make 19 knots;
ah
armored cruiser, unnamed, 10,500
ns.
21. knots; two protected cruis-
s-fthe Reina Regente 'iof 5,372 tons
the Rio de la Plata of 1.775 tons
ieftich of 20 ' knots ; the armored cruiser
liedro d'Aragan, 6,840 tons, 20 knots;
tie torpedo gunboat Velos, 750. tons, of
25 knots speed, "and 'torpedo gunboats,
the I numtoer of which i is not given.
Thirteen vessels of the Compania
iijTrams - A'uaniica, oi uaaiz, areueais-
;ii1Ud as being available i ot arming as
i cruisers. They aV erase from 3,084 to
. : xl i w " 1 .
433 gross tons each, and - have a speed
Sf from 13 1-2 to 17 knots.
4 . i
THE LAST G
AUK.
Dr- Kenneth; Campbell; Oban, -has
$eeh telling .the story of the last living
; reat Auk. it seems about my. years
igoja strange bird was seen one day on
$t. Kilda.-.It was agreed to try and
j eatch it, as, though it had an enormous
' Beak," ' It seemed to have very small
I wings. Several 'of the natives,, .who
j Verp 'adepts a;t toird-s talking, manag
j d 'jo get so near the srange monster
j hat: they i threw f themselyes on the
I fird,; an , afer a; severe struggle, were
! Successful, in capturing -it alive. .When
fejhuge .bird was taken o; he owhship,
"he Island parliament" was assembled
dclLberate on the strange visitor, and
it was agreed to tie its legs securely
! with strong cords, and' to tether it for
the J night to a stout pin fixed in the
i ground near the f houses, and to (decide.
Its fate the next! day. -j '. -J
On the morrow the Parliament was
galled very early,1, as the toird had made
I such, hideous noises during the night
hat hardly anybody could: sleep. The
irdj was undoubtedly! i considered an
iivil emissary.. After serious corisidera
fion the verdict was given jto -have the
file toird stoned jto death, and the sen
fence was at once carried out; Montha
f fiter this, when comniiuni(atioiits were
again opened with St. Kilda, and the
natives minutely . detailed! uie ' points
4f tjhis awesome toird to a jvisito, they
JVere informed hat if they had kept
VAn .fho 'ro rvt.a act: It rtiriMiljl 'Vi'aui h pvi 1 01H t
I them 300 on 400. Then their chagrin
tas beyond expression, and some of
lein began to. search forjsome of the
jllones of the innocent and valuable .vic-
fime.-r-Westminster Gazette.
'-.Jl,. household saved
BY A DOGI '
(Here Is The
Spectator's latest dog
dtory: : "
i
""Zulu," who sleeps in- the basement
f a larg-e house in a fashionable ouir.
fferj of one of our largest j cities, was
anyone Sunday morning 'lately roused
y an outbreak of fire, which had ap
parently toeen j smouldering . for some
fime between the floor , of the dining
pooin and ceiling of the i room toelow.
$Iej after repeatedly 'scratching' at the
ed-room door
of one of the servants-
waking her. Thinking
he dog must toe unwell, she let him in-
-ib her room, and eot into! bed. tout was
J,4 allowed to sleep, as "Zulu,"sitting
fiwe oy ner 'Deasiae, Kept taiiang' to
laer (as she describes it) 'so vigorously
nax sne suspected something must b&
:ong. On getting up the dog appear
so, delighted that she j followed him
fmt- of the room, and on. looking into
one of the rooms, discvered the ceil
ing tournlng. Upon rousing the owner
tf the house, who Immediately had the
pre alarm rung (which was fortunate
ly close at hand); "Zulu,? seeming to
fonow he hadj done' his I duty, rushed
pp j stairs to his mistress and left the
iiouse. with the children, ievidently sat
isfied -that he had fulfilled his part On
jthe fire brigade's arrival! It was found
Ihat the fire . had taken serious hold.
I IThe,. timely ictioh of ther dog, how-
ver, saved the dwelling, and the Al-
iance Insurance Compady, with whom
fhe premises were insured, haveaward-
fed a "silver medal to "Zu!lu.'J We hone
ft (will jnot disturb any Russophobe's
Enjoyment of this story, to learn, that
I'Zulu" is a Hussian soodle.-nLondon
tpaily (News. ' . ' j .' .
DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS.
Millionairer-Oneinan. In a million.
1 Joupoh- The veal cutlet of the gold
en calf. j '
Heat The tailor that makes the
rants of a dog, !
Fable An open-faced lie with a '
noral attachment. - J
Diamonds The gems of . thought
Snost peculiar to women.! 1
Monopdlist-fA man who tries to get
p. monopoly on monopolizing.
Egotist A man who! can't disguise
interest he feels in himself. ,
Hypocrite- A man who prays lor
something he isn't willing to work' for.
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