Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1890, Page 7

“JACKSON? THE STORY OF A SEA DOG. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY W. CLARK RUSSELL. — CHAPTER L OBERT*RIDLEY is a retired mariner. He never rose to a higher grade than that of second mate, 12 which capacity, indeed, he acted without a certificate, having for the most part of his life sailed in a species of ship upon whose com- manders and officers the state makes few or no demands in an educational sense. Robert Ridley, having on several occasions served as a second mate, and once as an only mate, returned to his earlier condition of able seaman, and whiist still acting in that capacity quitted the ocean forever and settled down as & gentleman ashore in @ comfortable little cot- tege by the seaside. This achievement of in- dependence the population of a great maritime country will not for an instant suppose was the result of his commegbial prosperity as a fore- mast hand. After twenty years of working hike a dog at sea, all that Robert Ridley had to show in the ehape of “effects” was comprised inasmall see chest half full of clothes anda suit of oilskine, with perhaps a matter of £8 lodged in » post office savings bank. No! My friend Bob Ridley gained an inde- pendence uot through old ocean—thnat most beggarly of callings—but through an nucle who bad been an Italian warebouseman, aud who lett the worthy fellow, to his astonishment and Joy, the handsome sum (to an able seaman) of x thousand pounds : I was recently in the town whero Loi Ridley lives, and spent an hour withbim. We ced our pipes together, drank to cach © ina glass of Hollands, and talked of the sea. He Carried me into his little garden, aud with much pride pointed to the various flowers and tow he cailed his kitchen garden, @ con- siderable bed of soil fuli of carrots, cabbage \d the Itke. At the extremity of bis half acre of land stood a summer arbor, the fruits of bis own skill—for he had been euter in his day and few men were he chisel and the saw than he. On entering this building I observed a little wooden obeiisk about three feet in height erected in the center of it. On the apex rested a piece of carving in wood. of which I could make neither head nor tail. Upon the bedy of the obclisk were carved the words- In Memory of JAC “Sanday mora, MDCCC Vv." Atthe hinder base of this queer little struc- ture was the model of awreck. Many queer devices representing mermaids, the sun, an- chors, hearts, and so forth, were,artfully chis- eled on the sides, “Pray, what have you here, Ridley?” said J. " he answered. lear enough. of yours lies buried he “No sailor at all,” be answered, laughing. “Jackson was a dog. and he, poor beast,docen't lie here, either. I wish he did. It wor some- times give my minds sort of satisfaction to fecl that his remains lay snug under this here mark." nd what.” cried I, peering at the little bit of carving on top of the obelisk, “is this?” “It's the portrait of the half of a vessel's caboose, sir—of a vessel that was lost on a ‘Sunday morning.” By the word “caboose” he signified galley, or the kitchen of a little shjp. I could now make out that it was the representation of the roof and a portion of the sides of # caboose, as he called it, with a hole atop for the reception of a chimn see there is a yarn here,” said L “Not much of a yarn,” he answered; “‘just the tale of a poor beast of a dog that in course of time I gotto love as truly as if he'd been a Christian msn anda brother. That's where I fell in with him,” said he, pointing to the model of the wreck, “and that,” he added, indicating the fragment of miniature caboose, “is where he died.” I looked at my watch. “Come,” said I, ‘you shall tell me the story of Jackson whilst we sit here and smoke our pipes and survey your clever piece of car- pentry. “There's no hurry,” and so saying I a myself and he alongside of me, slowly extracting a brass tobacco box out of his breeches pocket as he did so. “Well,” he began, with @ sort of groping look around the summer arbor, and then bringing his eyes to bear in a squint of earn- est memory upon his obelisk, “this was how it ‘ON, x of the sand in the eastern countries. The mus- cles of his arms and chest were something fear- ful to look especially when ae was out of humor at some trick played upon him. Then these musfles would knot and twist and his t would heave like an ocean ell, Hal and I bad always got along pretty well together, af Tattribute to my pair of keen black eyes. which, as you used to say, were bright enongh to be seen in the dark like a cat's cyes. Ti Hal knew that erack of that pistol (I suppose my hand was peralvaed), butit came at Inst and the big lack monster dropped his prey and rolled into @ heap in the bottom of the boat. For a few moments I saw nothing more, but gradually I | pulled myself together, and, making motion | to the others to belp me. we laid hold of the huge corpse and tumbled it into the water. “Ab, that was a fearful deed, but I never re- gretted it, sir, never!” CHAPTER IIL. Here Mr. Robert Ridley, retired mariner, paused, drew a long breath and then continued as follows: “Toward nightfall we fell in with a vessel. We sighted her at sundown and she was then a mere spot apen the distant sea, and we thought no more of her when the darkness came; but next morning she was showing within an easy pull and we then saw that she was a wreck, all three masts gone and her thick shrouds trail- ing over the side, as though her hold was ull of serpents crawling away from her. As wo passed under her stern we read the name, ‘Grace Tucker, Boston.’ She sat high\upon the water and seemed a new ship; sagwray; bee copper was new, and the wet flash of it to the sun might have been seen for miles, “We sprang aboard, all mad for water and then forfood. Figure our jov when I tell you we found a scuttle-butt full of cold water, with a dipper ready at hand to drink from. There was a dead man ying in the galley; he heard s yelp close beside me. I put my other arm into the smother where something showed black and caught hold of the dog—for the it was—and hoisted him on to my back wit his fore paws on iny shoulders. ‘Ihe water was horribly broken and the tumbling of the ca- Loose roof sickening; yet I held on with my arm through the chimney hole and the dog clang to my shoulders, encouraging me as it were by sometimes licking my fade; and whenever a bigger sea than usual ran at us the poor beast id bark as though be thought to frighten it from hurting me. ‘e floated away from the broken tumble of the shoal into a run of the sea that was some- thing regular, but the water was constantly washing over us. I cannot express what com- fort I found in having that poor beast on my shoulders close to me, barking and then giving a little growl, as though to hearten me, and then licking my face. At last he fell silent. ‘The gray of the dawn was stealing into the sky. I said, ‘Jackson, how is it with you, poor beast?’ He didn’t answer. I spoke again and, findin him still silent, I pulled him down and fou he was dead. I was too weak, too near my own death, to cry, yet I felt to be weeping in my heart when I pulled him down and saw that he was déad. My exhaustion was too great to suffer me to -hold him long, and I had to let ay go. His body floated off, and I lost sight of it, jhortly after sunrise s smack hove into view. The mate of her, seeing a black object, put a glass to his eye and instantly spied me waving my arm, whereupon he headed for me, and go he never attempiect to browbeat or bully Me; in fact, he was ever ready to dome a good turn. I always made it a point to keep my eyes ard and full upon Hal's face when talk- lim «pd the consequence was that I finally succeeded in getting the same sort of contro! over the huge animal, for such he was, in plain words, that the trainer gets over alion oratiger. Instinctively he felt that I was dif- ferent from the usual run of men, which I am, | as you know. I never was known to lose my head evcn when a youngster at school, and so I was always the chosen rtwmglesder in times of mischief or danger. “Woll, that’s neither here nor there; all that I need tell you is that the big black fellow was afraid of me, but, sir, would you believe when the other men sent up their cheery , Wescott never opened bis mouth, ew a muscle. Isaw itand it made deep impression upon me. It was just as if a lion-tamer upon entering the cage had caught @ glimpse of one of his animals crouching and sulking in the corner and refusing to obey his call. hardly necessary for me to tell you was half-caste, aud the atmosphere wag so bad with him that two of us tumbled him over the side without ado. Aft was a long deck house; I entered it to rummage for food, and the first thing I saw was the body of a man lying upon the deck stone dead, with a live dog sitting alongside of him. When the dog saw me hi led like a dying creature on to the man's breast, and feebly showed his teeth. Ho was something after the breed of a water- spaniel, but his eyes were red, and seemed on fire, and I felt scared somehow on sceing him alive, and though I saw bow weak he was, I bad no heart to push past him lest he should fly at me. “I called through the door to ono of my mates, ‘Jackson! Jackson!’ meaning that be- tween us we should secure the dog, but I had no sooner uttered the word ‘Jackson’ than the dog crept off the dead man’s bosom, and weakly wagging his tail, comes to my fect and falls a licking my shoe, Why, Jackson, poor chap,’ says I, pattin; him,on which he uttersa sort of howl a looks up at me with his two fiery red eyes with such au expression in his face that you'd have sworn ho felt as if it would have done him good tocry. There was an empty pannikin along- é side one of the dead man's hands, I fetched some water and gave it to the dog, who drank it to the last drain, and on my saying ‘Poor Jackson.’ and patting him again, he howled as before, us though there was something in the name to break his heart. You may hear some dogs howl as ho did when a street organ begins. Iletthim to rummage for uals, and in a locker found some cold salt beef anda tin of white biscuit. On this I called to my mates, and they all came in and we fell to. The dog had got again on fo the dead man's breast, and wouldn't stir abough I threw him a piece of biscuit and then abit of meat, ‘The water had strengthened him, and he was shifting about as though uneasy in his mind, occasion- ally uttering “® low growl and eyeing us steadily, “Likely as not we may have to stay here,’ says 4 man named William, ‘and if so that there poor chap’ll have to come out of it.’ ‘Better tarn to,’ exclaimed another; ‘it’s bad enough to be cast away after this here pat- tern. I'm for frosh air, shipwreck or no ship- wreck,” i “But on our approaching the body the dog snarled and showed his teeth, and cut such capers on the corpse's chest that we all thought he was gone mad, and stood looking at him. At last I says, ‘Poor ! Come along, old Jackson! Poor old Jackson!” patting my leg, on which he drew up to me, and whilst I pattea him and calied him Jackson, he mean- while licking my shoes or lookiug ‘up at me with his tonguo ont as if his heart was ready to burst, the others sneaked the body off. “I thought to see Jackson bolt out of the cabin when he found the body was gone, in- stead of which, after a look around, he uttered along howl, then came to fy feet again and cn oe biscuit And the piece of meat out of my an “We were nearly a week aboard that vessel before we were taken off. Luckily, there was plenty to eat and drink in ber, but she was draining in water and necded constant pump- ing. and we feared for our lives should heay; weather set in, That model you see there at the foot of the obelisk is « true copy of her. I believe she had been struck by Wobttes: One of us, aman named Parsons, said that ne guessed by the look of the corpses that thoy had been smote blind and had died of th blindness, But a derelict is nearly always a mystery when thero's nobody left ulive to tell Iaunched @ boat and took me aboard. I was the only man saved; the vessel had gone to Pieces inthe darkness and drowned all the others. That's the little yarn, sir,” exclaimed Bob Ridley, knocking the ashes out of his pipe and risiug. ‘Poor old Jackson!” and with a deep sigh and an air of abstraction ho led the way out of his summer arbor. ea PIES OF ALL KINDS, Turned Out by the Myriad Daily in a Washington Factory. EN THOUSAND pies a day! A single concern supplies Washing- ton with that many of these crusty delicacies, You could not fail to be interested if you saw the way in which they are turned out in such enormous quantities as a Strap reporter did. Pie- making by wholesale is an indus- try created but recently. The raw materials, asa matter \. of course, are bought in great quantities. Apples, grapos, pineapples, huck- leberries, blackberries, pieplant, pumpkins, peaches, strawberries, apricots, lemons and beef for mince are laid in stock by wholesale. ‘Tho purchase of many of these dopends neces- sarily on the season of production, Sugar, by the hundreds of hogsheads, is an important in- gredignt, To begin with, the fruits or vegetables—save strawberrie lackberries and huckleberries, which are put in raw—are stewed in huge cop- per kettles. Mince for the pies is cooked in this way with apples and spices, and lemons for lemon pie are grated, both skin and pur, the seeds being first removed by hand and the stewing process following. Machines are em- ployed to hash the meat, to pare the applos— whother used for mince or apple pies—to re- move the cores from tho apples also and to strain tho seeds from the grape pulp, BETWEEN TUE CRUSTS, ‘Tho material for the insides of the pies being thus prepared it is poured into tubs, the re- quisito amount of sugar having been mix@d with it. Now it only remains to put the stuff between the crusts. Paste for the crust is made very much as dough for bread is put to- gether, only that very mich more lard is used and the flour and the lard are mixed at the beginning. When the dough is finshed it is taken from the mixing trough and rolled upon atable into cylinders about four inches in diameter. Aman chops these cylinders with a kuife into pieces of just the bulk necessary to make a single crust, under or uppor. Another operator takes these pieces as he ants them and rolls each of them swiftly out iuto a very thin layer of dough. This he slaps upon @ tin plate, which is immediately passed along to the other end of the table, where a highiy skilled young woman does nothing but ladle out from a tub whatever mixture the pies on hand are being made of and put a big spoonful of it on each lowor crust thus pre- pared, how I acted under the circumstances. My mind wes made up in an instant, I heard a voice ringing in my ear above the scream of that nasty sea which was tossing our boat about like a cork in a mill-race, It eaid: ‘Whip him up to the scrateh or you're lost.’ letting fly my leg, I guve the swarthy giant a sharp kick on the shin and fixed my keenest glance upon him, full in the face. ‘Hal Wescott,’ said I, ‘if you're agin mo for capt of this boat, say so, man.’ “That glance was too much for him. Ho winced lke a dog under the lash, and turn- ing his bloodshot eyes away he muttered out “That's all right, mesemate, I'm for you; I @ long breath as heard these words, | oodenough,’ I replied. ‘Now, men, listen We're in a bad way, a very bad way. We haven't auy water at all, and only about half adozen biscuits. halt of which are soaked with sea water, but I'l dry them as soon as the sun comes out. It’s more than likely that we're in for a long fast before we're picked up: but I've | been in just such a fix before this and if you'll be patient and follow my instructions to the letter I'll be able to eave you all. Now, if you don’t know I must tell youone thing, and that's th Aman can go without food, or, better |, with an uncommon small aliowance, for Mind } When | thirst comes on you must grin and bear it, for once you begin to drink sea water you're doomed, . [vil transform you into raving, screeching lunatics, and in your madness youl as likely as not fall foul of some one of your metsmates a6 a tamished beast would of a fat sheep. But hark ye, men,’ I continued, laying my Land on my revolver, ‘I’m determined to | falr play in this business, and as the car- | tridges of my revolver are waterproof, the wet- ting they've bad won't do ‘em a bit of hurt. "ye hear that? Andi give you fair warning that if any one of you attacks his messmate or tries to rob him of his rations, I'll shoot him as I would any other wild beast. ‘he men, Hal Wescott included, gave me hearty chcer and promised me implicit obedi- ence. “Our firet bit of luck was a heavy fall of rain. So rigging a piece of sail cloth in such a way a to catch as much water as possbie, I procecded tocmpty the red wine. one bottle at a time, into the sca and to fill it with water, cork it again securely pack it away carefully in the boat's locker, upon which I took up my posi- tion. “Now it was that that great black brute Hal Wescott first showed his tecth, if I may be per- mitted to express myself so, and big, white, sharp and animal-like teeth they were, too, take my word for When Wescott caught the low gurgling sound of the wine as it spurted like a rill of life blood into the seaa strange look came over his broad, bronze-coi. tace. his little pig eyes glowed with » wicked fire, his lips twitched convulsively and his huge hands opened and shut with a snap in the iron knuckles. He was like a thirsty beast suddenly roused by the trickling sound of water. I could hear the big feliow's tongue fairly click between his massive jaws as he tched my movements. When the time came for me to take up the second bottle and uncork it Wescott could hold his rebellious in’ards no longer in control. With scream, half groan, he burst out: ‘For God's sake, captain, give me a drink o’ that. Don't wasto it. I'm burnin’ up inside, I'm all on fire, captain, Iswear I am! I can’t To COMPLETE THE PIE it is only necessary to put on the upper crust, which is slapped over the mince, or peach, or what not, by two other men who do nothing else but roll out the jumps of dough for the fellout I was able seaman aboard a little barque, and we were bound for the River Thames from Port Allegre. We fell in with a deal of bad weather which drove us well to the east'ard, and then for three wee! we were stagnated with calms, so that putting the fine weather slong with the bad, we reckoned that the vessel had lost ber luck, and that ne'er a man of ourlittle company was to consider it well with us till we were in a situation to pick up our bundles and step over the side on to good English dockyard soil It is supposed that there are no superstitions now going at sea. You know better than that, sir. Any man with that notion in his head should have been aboard ef us. The captain himself came forward one day and nailed a horse shoe to the mast. I re- member being weak enough myself to lament that there wasn'ta Finn amongst us, so that we might have been able to say: ‘It's you, mate, that's the cause of these here calms and contrairy gales, and then have locked him up with nothing to eat until he should have been couxed by famine into correcting his ill-nature and into giving us the breezes we wanted. “One black night we were ratching along under reefed topsails and the forecourse. was at the wheel. The barque having her nose to it put a spite into the wind and o nasty sea was washing past. There was nothing to see but the white water that would flash out in the darkness alongside as though the beams of an electric light were traveling round and round, touchmg the ocean in piacces as they traveled. All on a sudden the mate, who was standing at the weather rail just abreast of the skylight, gives a sort of shriek and then fell a yelling; but there was no time for me to catch what he said; for whilst his cries were still ringing I just caught sight of a huge lump of black- Ress oozing outover the weather bow like a blacker night stilleoming down through the darkness upon us with one spark of light showing; but it wasn’t green nor red.and what itwasican’t say. The next instant we were in collision with some vessel; she caught us on the bluff of the bow and slewed us clean Found with such « noise of splintering woud,of Washing waters and of human cries that I've Only to recall it to feel d& © went clear und vanished, leaving us She had torm out our ws and wrecked our spars forward, but she never showed a flare. never shifted her helm, never so much as hailed us after she had slipped past. She left us .to our fate and by that token I al- low that she was a foreiguer. We had to feel for the boats, so black was it, and God knows how we managed. ‘The boats were slung in th old-fashioned style, dangling overboard at the ends of davits and steadicd by gripes. Had Mhey been stowed as the fashion now is every soul of us must have perished. The vessel was Upin the wind without way, rolling brivkly, sud the curiof the foam off her side to the smite of the sea showed us men who were stending ow the starboard side the outline of the boat as we lowered her. We entered ber in scrambling fashion by the tackles—five of Us, leaving six others of our company wrestling at the port falls. Amongst them were the mas- ter and the two mates, and us five were men— hands. as the term is, The moment the boat Was liberated she blewaway. We never again Saw the others nor did we ever hear of them. “When the day broke we were alone, nothing in sight. the hot sun rising, nothing to drink tour botties of red wine, which a fellow wongst us who had acted as steward bad aght along with him, and nothing to eat but as many broken bits of ship's bread as "ud Make about seven whole biscuits, CHAPIER IL “The outlook was not very encouraging, but &s rou know, 1 was always of a very hopeful @bravo fight for life. There was one thing that encouraged me and oughly etanch and seaworthy condition of the boat in which 1 now found myself together w.th four fellow creatures adrift, with an ugly sea running, I for there was no Peir of oars in the best, and th to use them with any effect. you that this wasn’t the first time had made a fight for life against terrible odds, for you know ali about it. Well, the cou- sequence was that it occurred to me that I was the Proper person to take command of the little ty of castaways and see that fair play was Tule of the day in dealing out the scant su ply of broken biscuit# and red wine which the steward bad bgought atong with bun. ‘So I put the question to the men whether they wore willing that I should act as captain and a cheory “AY, ay, sir.’ was the answer I got trom all of them excepting Hal Wescott, ahuge Bulatto of tremendous strength and not extra food temper. Hal was a splendid-looking fel- ‘ow physically and put me in mind of one of ee fGsene statoots that I've seen dig out stand it, Captaia, for the love of heaven, don’t say no. Just give me a taste of it, justa taste!’ “I needn't tell you, sir, that even a fow mouthfuls of that wine would have trausformed the big mulatto into a fiend incarnate. Poured to his fasting stomach it would have sct a stream of fire in his blood and I wouldn't be here today to tell you this story, for he would have brained every mother’s son of us eure as fate. So in an iastant I determined what course of action to pursue, and in that brief space of time I said my prayers, felt for my pistol and bid Uneie Bob and you good-bye, “silence, sir! Lroared, with ali the strength I could muster, as [ turned upon the writhing, twitching monster, whose face—already fright- fully distorted with suffermg—was now made still more repuisive by ill-disguised rage,which burned in his red eyes, t took all my self control to keep my gaze | riveted upon the man without flinching. but I was successful, and the mulatgo crouched down in his corner again like a half-cowed, haif- defiant tiger. Things went passably well now for aday or so. The men obeyed ine cheer- y aud bore the pangs of hunger with won- derful calmness. I kept Wescott at the bow of the boat so I eould have my eye upon him. Next tomo was the steward—never a strong man and hence the first to sink silent and life- Jess in a heap on the bottom of tho boat, “We had now been washing about for three days, Hunger was begining to give our faces that wild, haggard look which robs the human countenance of ali traces of asoul and leaves nothing behind but the dull, distrustful glare of the animal. “But thirst was the thing I most dreaded. In spite of the few thimblefuls of water which I doied out from time to time it was only too plain to be seen that I wouldn't be able to keep the poor fellows from drinking the sea water many days longer. In their fitful sleep they would dream of coming upon sparkling rilis and coo! fountains, ded by far-reaching boughs, heavy wtth dark green foliage, and wheu about to plunge their red and swollen lips into the cool and limpid pool it would move away from them like @ painted curtain drawn slowly aside only to uncover darkness, blackness, nothingne: Their screams and [ be pec as they awoke were pitiful. sitting olt upright their haggard faces, half flayed by the action of the scorching sunlight and brine, would be turned upon me, and hard though they strove to control themselves I could hear the low dull whisper: ‘Water! Water! Water.’ “Wescott, strange to say, bore ‘his sufferings more patiently tuan I had’ anticipated. I was touched by what seemed to me bis dovotion, his obedience, and I spoke kindly tohim. But he paid no attention to any one or anything, lying like a huge beast, curling up in the bow | of the boat, “Ah, sir, those were terrible hours. I shud- der as I call them to mind, id the recollec- tion of them makes me more grateful than ever to old Uncle Bobert for making it possible for me to quit the sea forever. “We Lad now been four days knocking about jin this terrible fashion, when one morting I | was aroused by asbrick and cries of ‘Captain, | captain! The buckle of my belt had been ¢rawn up to its last hole in order to keep my poor collapsed stomach from grinding itself to | pieces, and I bad left the steward on watch and | Was catching 2 few winks of sleep when that fearful shriek caused me to start up with a jerk. The beast was loose! Yes, these words de- scribed the situation exactly. While I had been sleeping the giant mulatto had waked up and ina frenzy, which the others had made futile efforts to control, had filled a tarpaulin with sea water and taken long and deep dranghts of it. In a few moments he was a raving madman. frothing at the mouth and tearing bis own flesh with his glistening teeth. It was & sight to strike terror to the stoutest heart. What I feared at first thought was that he would swamp the boat, for he threatened every moment to rise from bis kneeling posi- tion. To turn the boat over meant quick and sure death for us all. for not one of us had strength enough to swim astroke, Butno, the maniac had other ends in view. With a deep prolonged growl he throw himself upon the poor steward and seizing the terror-stricken man with his buge hands he drew him into his lap as if he weighed no more than four stone, “Then I felt my hair stiffen and my heart struggle to keep up its beat, for, horror of hor- rors, what did I see? That huge beast inhuman form with a rapid motion bent the steward's head back and then set those terrible teeth of his into the poor man's throat, In an instant I purpose and stamp them with tho maker trademark. Finally a supplementary han trims off the edges of dough around each tin plate andthe pies are ready for the oven. Stacked In 5 one on top of anothes to the height of tive feet, they are rolled across the floor toan elevator and lowered to the first atory, where the ovens are. The ovens are cnormous affairs and their whole floor surface is covered with rows of pies at each baking, 60 that many hundreds are cooked at once. They are lighted inside by lamps, so that it can be seen when they are sufficiently done, at which moment they are taken out with big, flat, long-handled scoops, Eighteen delivery wagons convey the pies thus completed to ehops in all parts of the city Such of them as sell for 5 cents at retail are ~ ased by the shop keepers for 4 cents; the ig 10-cent ones cost the retailer 8 cents, Quite anumber of pies are broken or otherwise in- jurcd in the process of manufacture and they are given a 0 poor people. selirt ns ao WOMEN ON WHEELS, Some Directions by Which Awkward- ness May Be Overcome. the story. As much a mystery was it, too, why that there dog should have answered to the name of Jackson. paths his master wag so called, Be this as it will, -you bad only to call m Jackson to peng se to your fect and con- Yert him into the lovingest beast that ever wagged a tail, “During the week we wero aboard the wreck that dog never lost sight of me. He followed at my heols like my own shadow, lay down with me, watched me asif he was human witha owerful intelligence working out imaginations in him, He was the first to sight the ship that took us off. J was lying asleep on the cuddy deck and he awoke me by licking my face. I was vexed to be disturbed and told him to get away, and turned over for another nap, On this he licks my face again and barked. “ Blast that dawg!’ says William, and he sits up to chuck a boot at the poor beast, “‘Hold your hand,’ L ‘Now, Jackson, what is it?” says I. “He barked again and walked to the deck house door, looking behind him, and on my following the first thing I saw was a iarge brig within half a mile of us, “Well, to cut this. we were taken off, and I took good care to earry Jackson along with me, for by this tiime the love between us was some- thing beautiful. Throughout the passage home he oe in the clews of my hammock at night, and by day followed me about the deck, and, laugh as you may, sir, I tell you I've seen tears of Joy gush into his red eyes when I've allowed him to jump upon my knees and lie there and lick my hand. The master of the brig wanted to buy him from me, but I said no, not for ten times his weight in gold. ‘I'll pawn the shirt ff my back to repay you for your kindness, sir,’ says I, ‘but Jackson and me are friends that must not part if we can help it.” “However, I couldn't take him to sea with me every voyage, and when I got home I gave him to my sister to take charge of. I went chiefly on cousting trips and was absent for short spells only, and, lodging as I did with my sister when I was ashore, never did mortal man from the most loving of wives or mothers, from the most affectionate of fathers or brothers, receive such a welcome home as I did from Jackson, His joy was almost terrifying. It came to this, that when the neighbors heard I was to return they'd assemble in a body in the door to witness Jackson's delight. You would have thought he'd spring through the very roo! When bis demonstrations were over he'd sit and grunt, with his eyes fixed upon me as though he were talking. He was the only dog Lever met that seemed to know his bark didn’t convey all that was in his mind. I can assure you it used to affect me to see him trying to ve expression to his thoughts by utterin, sounds and maneuvering with his ears. believe that a dead sailor's soul had passed into that there dog. Ha! but Ido, then! Never did the like of so much intelligouco walk on four legs afore. “There camo a time when I shipped as sec- ond mate and carpenter aboard’ coslman bound to # French port. This gave me a chance to carry Jackson along with me, the akfpper not objecting. I had now had the dog about three and a half years—perhaps four. He was still an active, beautiful dog, with a lovely brown coat of hair, fine as silk, and eyes AS expressive as a pretty girl’s, It came on to blow after we had left porta few hours, and the weather turned thick as mud in a wine glass. We got the vessel under easy sail; the wind was a little abaft the beam, and we were ploughing through it, reckoning on 40 fathom: of water under our keel, when shortly after six bells of the first watch the vessel took the ground off the Norfolk coast, the masts went over the side and she was wrecked in a breath, beating hard, with the seas bursting over her. “There was s bit of deck house aft, and most of the men took shelter in it, I wae making my way to that structure to join them when An accomplished lady bicycle rider, who is much pained to sce how many of hor sex vio- late the simplest rules of wheeling. has written the following ‘Hints to Lady Cycl to Tue Sram: Wear long skirts. Wear short under- skirte, The habit skirt should be three yards wide, Arrange the fullness onthe right side carefully before mounting. The riding dress should be made of flannel cloth or corduroy. Dark colors are pretty looking and leas con- spicuous. Blouse waists should only be worn on wheels by little girls. Always in town rido with short cranks and use the ankle motion. No lady can afford to sacrifice grace for a slight advantage in power, Better ride three squarcs and look well than threo miles looking like —— well, otherwise, ‘I'he toes should be kept on the pedals, and the knees always turned in almost touching each other, The mount from tho curb stone is the quiet- est and casiest, but, of course, will not do for all occasions, As soon ss the mount is made with o low saddle the saddle should be raised. Riding igh uot only looks infinitely better, but uses the proper niuscles and 1s much better for the health, Very tail ladies should have a saddie post made to order, extra length. The handle bar should be low, on a level with the saddle, so that tho arms can be held nearly straight. ‘Tho rider should, of course, always git per- foctly erect. ‘There is as much difference among lady ridergas among men. Ladies have only to watch some of the awful motionsmade by some of the other sex to realize vividly how little a skirt could conceal them if made by their sisters. If ladies would learn tho management of the wheels at the schools and practice every clear night after dark for a month, or until they had accomplished all of the above requiroments tor grace and so forth, wo shouid be spared many of tho awful spectacles we frequently sce upon reets, and there would be much lees ob- jection to bicycling for ladies than at present. As was said before there is nothing more graceful than @ graceful woman riding grace- Tully, and there \is, algo, nothing much worse to look upon than a woman riding awkwardly, with low saddle, long cranks, narrow short skirt, dc. No matter how skillfully she man- ‘ages the wheel it cannot make up for a bad ap- pearance. aap Written for Txz Evexixo Stan. My Lady’s Face. RONDEACX. ‘My lady's face all may not see,— Well pleased am I it thus should be; All men 4 beauty’s features know: ‘The laughing eyes, the cheeks aglow, And full lips brimming o'er with glee, Whatcharm may others’ glances flee To come when eyes look loverly? Twould not have all praising so My lady's tace, ‘Men gaze upon mine own ladye, Yet know they not bor high degree; feeling horribly lonesome, I thou; putting my head out thro: I whistled on the little silver whis used to carry express! hether he was oe nt men and a let eho suspecting by his capers on ing my whistle that be was going mad,or whether he been sheltering himeel rites fo e to call him, I never could tell. The hull lay with # strong list, and the air was white with flying SPAY. was yawning, yet five soun: that whistle h the door a was upon bim: My own strength nnd vigor as nay oil esbeorkigs ton geo tounded me, bat although I rainea blow after Nay! ‘let thom pass,—and Toavo for blow Weg yee pee s pig gy of My res my no more ef than, ‘tap- laay’s ping of a lady's gloved hand. bs “Meantime, the steward's face blacker and blacker. There was not an fastant to be lost, and, setting the barrel of my revolver at the mulatto’s ear, I pressed the te “It seemed an age before I hoard the sharp Written for Tax Evexino Stan. STREET RAILWAYS AND MOTORS. The Merits of Horses, Electricity, Cable Grip and Compressed Air. THE OPPOSITION SHOWN BOTH IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN ENGLAND TO THE TRAMWAY WHEN. IT WaS FIRST INTRODUCED — CONSIDERATIONS IX REGARD TO MOTIVE POWER. N THIS AGE of progressit hardly ecems possible that horse railways should ever ave been subject to violent social oppo- sition. Yet such appears to have been the fact. An iron tramway constructed by John Carr near Sheffield, England, in 1708, excited such foeling that it wae destroyed by the miners, This road was built for the more speedy conveyance of the products of the mines to the sea coast, and the opposition seems to have ariseu because the plan encroached upon the slower methods of conveyance by pack horses and wagons, The earliest road of this character, the first tramway on record, was laid by Mr. Beaumont in 1602, near Newcastle, England. It seems surprising that the first street rail- way in any city for the conveyance of passen- gers should have beon laid as late as tho year 1832 This road was built in New York city, Strangely enough the enterprise did not pros- per. and not till 1852, when street railways Wore revived in New York under the supervis- ion of Loubat,a French engineer. did this mode of transit begin to pay as an investment. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, CHAMPION RGOTIST and world-girdler, was the father of the street railways of London, and in fact of all tram- ways in England for the conveyance of passen- gers. Though Mr. Train tried to got an act of parliament in 1858-'9 authorizing the construc- tion of, tramways in London, government au- thority was not granted till some ten yoars later. By consent of the road authorities Mr. ‘Train caused tramways to be laid in Birken- head and London in 1860. These tracks and cars were indicted the following year as nui- sances, and not till 1869-71, when enabling acts were passed by parliament, did street railroads become permanent features of the cities of London, Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh and other British towns, Old residents will recall the fact that the first strect railway in this city, a part of the Pennsylvania avenue line, was constructed in 1861-62, As necessary now to the social organism as the veins and arteries are tp the body, perhaps the most pressing question at present in con- neetion with this subjectis that of the best mode of propulsion—the power to be adopted which shall be most advautageous for all con- cerned in propelling street cars, There may be some advantages in the use of horse cars which cannot be fully met by any other system. Thus it is probable in crowded cities there is less danger to vehicles and pub- jic travel, as well as to passengers, in getting on and off cars where horses are the motive force, since the intelligence of the animal, brute though he is, aids in this direction. On the other hand there is something due from humanity to the brute, and where jonds are likely to be excessive, the grades steep and withal speed demanded, we must ob-iously look for some other mot With rail- road companies, the w road surfaces caused by the horses’ foct, the cout of horacs and horse-keep and general ex- peuses relating to tho employment of the animal, all constituto an equally important question. MOTOR POWER CONSIDERATIONS. The considerations which should doubtless weigh in determining this matter, in the order of their importance, aro: First. Safety to passengers and travel. Second. Adequate power to haul heavy loads on all fades as required. Third, Adequate rate of speed. Fourth. Avoidance of smoke, gas, unpleasant noise and odors, Fifth, Economy in expenses. For the purposes of general street travel steam power cannot be said to fulfill the first requisite, since the puff aud escape of steam, the glare of fire, especially at night, tend to frighten horses, aud accidents could not but be numerous, To obviate these difficulties Dr. Lamme of New Orleans experimented some years ago with ® small locomotive of his own invention, which ran without fire, the steam being sup- plied at intervals from stationary boilers, The experiments wero tolorably satistactory, though not sufficiently so to warrant the gencral adop- tion of tho plan, The first cable road for strect cars was located on Clay strect, San Francisco, and was constructed in 1873, The best example of a line of thia charactet performing heavy and constant service is found on the New York and Brooklyn bridge, which bas boemimcontinu- ous. operation since Septomber 21. 1883; the delays to travel from breukages and accident not amounting to one minute per day, though more than one hundred millions of passengers have been ‘ied over the route. Humani- tarians accustomed to ride up the heavy grado at Capitol Hull will be glad when the’ cable, now adopted by the Pennsylvania avenue com- pany, is in operation. THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL ELECTRIC RAILWAY was constructed at the Berlin exhibition of 1879 by Dr. Werner Siemens. A special rail be- tween the ordinary rails conducted the current to the moving car; itthen passed through a motor-dynamo on the car and to the ordinary rails, completing the circuit. in 1830 Mr, Edison ran his first electric en- gine on a track at Menlo Park. Thero are now more than ninety electric plants operating in the United Stutes under patents of Edison, Field, Daft, Van Depoelo, Sprague and others, The Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Electric Strect Railway Company of this city and also the Tenleytown Company both usc the Thom- son-Houston system, with Sprague motor. That there is much antipathy in many cities ard overhead poles pe doy goes without ing; heuce the favor which storage battery traction is receiving. The Wheless conduit system, with the electrical circuit under ground, is being tested in this city. This con- struction company is located ip Washington. Coiled springs have been experimented upon a8 motors for streetcars. A Mr. Leveaux of London attainod a measure of success in such experiments. ‘Tho limitations of power in springs of this kind, bowover, prevent their general adoption for this purpose. ONE OF THE LATEST DEVICES for tramway motors is that of compressed air. A road to be operated by such power is now in process of construction on Brightwood ave- nue in this city, Inarecent report of Consul General Rathbone of Paris the advantages of compressed air, as demonstrated by over two years’ experience on the Nogentais tramway near Paria, arc set forth as follows: 1, The motor does not omit smoke or hot gases and ix almost noiseless. 2A greater syecd is attained than with horses when necessary. 3. A special tract or overhead appliance is unnecessary 4. Being very light it can be easily handied on steep grades. 5. Simple in form, it does not frighten horses; the machinery on the front platform is almost invisible from the outside. 6. A possible explosion of air reservoirs is less dangerous than of steam or superheated water, 7. Maintenance in repair is very simple. 8. Only one person is necessary for managing the machiuery, and ho is uot necessarily o skilled engincer. 9 In crowded days or times of day the num- ber of pasgenser places may bo easily aug- mented by the addition of one or even two or- dinary cars, thus making a short train, The principal consists in compressing air, by means of powerful engines, to forty or forty- five atmospheres and charging the motors at this pressure, The air is first reduced toa Pressure of five to ten atmospheres and at tho same time heated toa high temperature and charged with moisture. From the. heater (voutllotte) it passes to a double expansion oi gine,-where it acts like ateam in moving a pis- ton rod. Theexpense of running a motor per day is said to be about $10 (52.92 franca). ‘The company operating in this city under the Judson patents use an entirely different Process. A compressing engine forces’ con- lensed air into aseries of emall station: en- gines at intervals along the road, which by means of gear serve to rotate an underground shaft laid in sections between the tracks, A connecting yoke from tho car striking this shaft at an angle causes the movement of the car, The common carrier of municipalities, the chariot of the poor and the convemience of all, CARROLLTON MANOR. The Home of a Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. AN HISTORIC HOUSE AND GROUNDS IX MARYLAND— ITS ROOMS AND ITS BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED—MEMORIES OF Wasn- INGTON RCVIVED—THE CHAPEL IX WHICH THR PATRIOT 18 BURIED. Written for Tix EvExixe STAR, BOUT eighteen miles from Baltimore ‘on the Frederick pike are situated the pacious old house and grounds known ‘48 Carrollton or Carroll Manor, the former home of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Unlike most of the similar relics of the stirring times of the last century, the place is kept up today as it was in the days of its in- fancy, at an annual expense, it is said, of $45,- 000. The rosult fully warrants the enormous ontley, as the place is refreshing and restful to the eye in these days of red brick and stone. It is constructed of briek imported from England, overlaid with thick plaster and painted yellow, with white trimmings, after the fashiou of the da; Turning from the pike to the left at the gate of the St. Charles College one enters the manor ground through a large iron gateway, watched over, as it were, by a pretty and com- modious lodge house of gray stone, and there. stretching out before him in long, graceful curves, isthe well-kept macadamized drive- way, which sweeps off through the bordering forests of tall oaks and chestauts toward the hall. Ataconsiderablo distance this side of its terminus itruns through an avenue of arch- ing oaks and pines. planted in double rows on either side, and winds around to the smooth green lawa in front of the mansion, THE HALL, OR MANOR, @ typical old English country house, two stories high, with large wings and tall, gabled roofs, and its deep yellow hue is mellowed with age. Front and back are porticoes of white Pillared stone with tile floors of black anc white flags, Entering the main door one reaches the center hall, running to the back door, if. in re » 18 properly any distinction between front and back. which is us large asa good-sized room. From this hallway the rooms on either side radiat d the stair- way has a smaller hall on the right opening into the main one. One is with the quain ess of the place and its surround- ings. The walls are lined with colored engrav- ings representing horse racing and fox hunt- i there ing in its various phases, and hero ai adeer's head and antiers stand bo! Some odd tables and chairs with lon backs and short legs complete the furnishings of the hall. The right-hand door at the end leads to the main parlor or sa spacious room with paacled o: alls and cornice, which style provails throughout the house. In this room, iookiug out from their massive gilded frames in solemn state. are the portraits of Chas, Carroll, his son and hie grandson, ex-Goy. Carroll, who now o:wns the Vast estates of Carrollton, said to contain at the present day some SEVENTEEN THOUSAND ACRES OF WOODLAND. On the opposite side is an old painting of Niagara Falls, a picture of Gov. Carroll's first wife and » beautiful full-length portrait of his daughter, a girl apparently not over seventeen years of age, who was @ Sister of the Sacred Heart in tho convent at Philadelphia and who died last your at the manor. it is a picture pleasant to look upon; the simple beauty of the girl, with her dark brown hair and large, trustiul eyes, as she stands, clad in deticate pink satin with her hands clasped behind her, is at once sad and charming. Many quaint and old-time pieces of furniture are in this room, The chairs, tables and lounges are of bird’s-eye maple inlaid with darker pieces of the same wood. The furni- ture is upholstered in wine-colored cut velvet, but at this season of the year is covered with a dainty blue-flowered linen. Over the — 5 hang a pair of mirrored candelabra, wh might be described with the iatest Paris adjec- tive, “‘centuryend,” and in the deep fireplace are heavy brass’ andirons. Two doors lead from here, one into aroom of special interest as containing the bedstead IN WHICH WASHINGTON SLEPT when a guest at the house, and also his chair. The bedstead is a tall, four-posted one, and at the foot are two steps by which to reach it, The chair is large, straight backed, and, indeed, avery marvel of comfort. Just beyond this is tho last room in the main building proper and was, during his life, the bed chamber of the signer, It contains his bed, chair, tables, &c., aud,as anaddition to his comfort and con- venienco, a stationary bath tub in an alcove about five feet from his bed. This is a quoer- looking affair about two anda half feet deep and only three feet long. and it has a large wooden top on hinges, which, when down, gives it the appearance of a stand for clothes and other articles of dress. The other door of the saloon opens into a cozy bright room used asa library, in which are book cases well stocked with choice literature. ‘The exit from here is through the smaller hall, where are the stairs to the second story, and into the main hall, across which and di- rectly opposite, is a good-sized reception room. This apartment is, as at were, a veritablo dream of the days of yoro and is fitted up as if the original proprictor himself had directed its appointments or had but just left it. Over the mantel are some old candelabra which, accord- ing to the statement cf the old servant who acts as cicerone, have been there for thousands of years, However, when particularly ques- tioned he admitted he meant hundreds, THIS OLD DARKEY belonged to the original proprietor, the signer. as he always spoke of him, and though as a matter of fact quite old uow, is as lively and talkative as a young man, and secms to take pride in pointing out the antiquities of the place. m the wall of this room is a handsome painting of Queen Elizabeth in her robes of state. On the other side of the houso, that is, back, isthe dining hail, a room of no great pretensions as to size, but, like all the rest, thoroughly comfortable aud bright. In here are some more family portraits, extend- ing back several generations, and in an alcove stands ® handsome eight-day clock, After making the tour of much of the first story as is open to visitors one naturally wanders through the large open doors to the back lawn and gardens, and here, indeed, is a spot not soon to be for- gotten, Acrossa wide lawn of rich, soft, green clover, into which the foot sinks at least two inches and deadens all sound, one wanders to the broad terrace, on either side of which rich flowers bloom in prodigal profusion, under the supervision of @ most careful and artistic gar- dener, and strolls on to the tail pine tree KNOWN AS WASHINGTON'S TREE, the top of which was blown off during the war. On the other side of tho terrace is its mato and its very counterpart before the accident, each standing like grim sentinel guarding the beauties of the garden, a modorn Hesper- ides, Small wonder it is that the signer and the father of his country should have selected this of all the beautiful spots with which the place abounds as the scene of their mutual confidences as they strolled arm in arm adown the perfect lawn. It was under this tree that their councils and consultations on that great matter of such high importance to us all, the Declaration of Independence, were held; it was here that the two master minds combined the vast resources of their fertile intellects, One can picture the stately pair as ope sits where. they have so often sat in the years long gone, and a veneration for the old times anda namo- less longing for something that has gone for- ever comes over one like 4 sweet dream. One part of the building remains yet to be seon—the large wing IN WHICH IS THE CHAPEL Hero is where the great proprietor is buried. One is shown tho very spot in the pew, under the floor of which lies all thatis left on earth of this old American patriet, by the old slave who was present at the time, then but a mere lad, A tablet at the side of the altar conveys the in- telligenco tbat Charles Carroll is there buri born 1737; died 1832. Thus one sees that he lived to the good old age of ninety-five—a quar- ter af a = beyond the alloted life of man—in the full enjoyment of his beautiful home. ——_ are regularly held in the — now as of old and the country folk for mi around attend. The slave quarters, overseers house and other necessary outbuildings form a veritable village about a furlong hot ting in i ieery § i HAF H A NEW GAME OF It fs Claimed That “Waleed!” Will Sup plant Whist and Poker. From the Chicago Berald, “Waleedi” is the name of anew game@ cards that bas caused a flutter in society From the faror that has followed its introdae thon into the charmed circle it would seem thal whist is to be pushed into the background @ rive place to the new game. The fair votariet of fashion, usually prone to shun card playing, have yielded to its fascination and “Waleedi’ has received a boom that will tend to make & one of the most popular of card gamea At Present poker, eucher and whist have los ground among tho men in favor of the nev game. In its terms and the name of the points to be made Waleedi car ries with it a Bret Harte st Reminiscences of mininy ng wile romantic scenery and of the rush for wealt® the gold fever fit through the mind a ein,” “pocket” and “chimney” are called during the game, Waleedi itself is the name of a mine in silvery Colorado. A peculiar dis pute i connection with this mine Jed to ite Invention. The mine was owned by two me! one of whom wanted to work ore wherever, ft was rich ugh to pay and the other to de velop a “chi fe was contident would be found in the lodge some considerable distance on. A compromise wos effected by an agree ment by which they were to share expenset equally and to divide receupts from the ore taken from the tunnel The former was %€ have the privilege to work all veins at bis own expense and to have ali receipts from them, but in case a “chimney” struck he was to © the privilege to work itend pr . Dy playing the game ft cap easily be seon which man made bis fortune first. Lhe game is playea similarly to whist, There are four y 1080 opposite being partners, Th ck 1s deait, one card ata time, entire and the last card turned up for tramp. The ace is the highest card of every jow suit if he can, d are as follows: A game as called & count i a “strike.” a‘ “small strike” or “struck 12.” }) one says “strack 48 in veine,” “struck 98 in a pocket,” &e. Tho six, kuave, queen, king and ac od “waste carde;’ ee is compelled to fo he terms a “fortuni strike,” the two, three, four and five “vein cards,” and the sevon, eight, n P cards.” Four “pocket cards” of one snit make a pocket, A “pocket” of trumps is a“rich pocket,” Two pockets are called « chimn ben all the tricks are played the “strike” is made as follows: The “waste cards” do not count; each its spots num. & “pocket” venty-five; @ Ms is 300, in the victories and defeats, Waleed: ie ng Kame, soe on Klack Dress Coate, h to the London Daily Tele Frevch tulors are literally up in arms and bent upon organizing a revo- lution. There is no nec 'y m the meantime to alarm the tinnd, for the knights of the needle ouly inteud to effect, if they can, @ peaceful reform in clothes, They condemn the present form and color of “evening dress,” and iustead of the habit noir so cacriahed by Frenchmen and worn by them at soloma or ofticial ceremo: as well asat diuper parties and soirees, tary call for the geveral adophon A Paris dis greph 80: ot colored coats, embrodered vests, knee breeches and ilk stockings, =A campaign of this character was started some time 4 members of the “Upper ‘Ten,” and at a famous bail given by the Com- the Duc de Luynes, whois ates of the Duc d'Urleans, ap- the Prince de Sagan wore @ lored suit, while a young marquis was resplenden: in sky biue. ‘Tue now siyle did uot “catch ou” aud the ordinary dress clothes remained the fashiou. The tailors want to change this, aud hope, no doubt, to be able to effect in time at the masculine leaders of fashion and frivolity have beem unable to bring about. With this intention the members of the Philanthropical Somety of Master Tailors: of Paris and Lyons have flung dowa the gauut- let, or ratber issued an address, in which thoy state boldly “that it is time to give up this weakness”--meaning the habit noir—“and to create a new tusbion in evening attire.” Instead of the somber-Lued garments now in vogue im civilized countries, the satorial philanthropists urge the adoption of pink, blue, hehotrope oF ether lively colored drcss ‘coats, with silk lin- ings, white, embroiberod or embossed vests of silk or worsted, silver or pearl gray kuee brecehes, stockings to match, and shocs with gilded or si pisted backles, Ibe master tailors advocate, further, shirts with frilled fronts and cuffs, the whole of the attire to be overtopped when the wearer is out of doors by aFrench hat. Finally, the tailors, either of their own initiative or acting in conjunction with some of their aristocratic patrous, are to organize what arocalled bals dv la toilette in Paris and Lyons during the winter. It is rumored that the tailors’ war on black evening dress will have no chance of success unless their suggested substitution be first taken up in London, whence members of the genuime gratin m this country still take their cues foe clothes, amtihlipiaeanes Chinese Alligators. From the Loridon Dail Two examples of the Chinese alligator have just reached the zoological gardens. They are the first that have been ever exhibited bere alive. The alligator is so distinctively am American animal that the proof, so recently a5 1579, of the species in China was extremely ip- teresting. Nevertheless, the Chinese classios coutumed numerous referamces to the creature, aud even pictures, which could be easily recog- nized as being meant for @ crocodile of some sort. It is to bo hoped that the specimens at the zoo will bear out the notion of the extreme longevity of the reptile. Its name is appe- rently used in certain parts of China in the same sense as Methusalch in this country, Marco Polo wrote about this animel, and reo- ommended its gall as an excellent remedy for the bite of amad dog and for various other complaints, so that it seems to have been the mediavel equivalent of some of our much ad- vertised remedies ofthe present day, Ouri- ously enough the beastiseven now made use of in Chinese medicine.