Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1891, Page 12

12 - —_—_ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C. SATURDAY, EDMUNDS AND EVARTS Their Departure From Public Life Marks a New Era. TWO GREAT MEN MISSED. How Edmunds Entered the Senate—His Lead- ership From the Start—Mr. Evarts asa Type of the Able Political Lawyers of the Cen- tury—His Witticiams and Political Career. 7 OUR AVERAGE POLITICIAN WORSHIPS the rising, not the setting, sun. It is the man coming down the road, not the fellow who just went past, that stirs his pulses. A last year's statesman is worth in practical politics hardly more than a bird's nest of the same vintage. For that reason it is that we are hear- ing so much nowadays of the new men in Con- gross and nothing at all of the veterans whose retirement is an event of quite as much im- portance. With the entroe of the Fifty-second Con- gress there is good deal of ability conspicu- ously absent—a vast amount of gray matter gone home for rest. This is especially so in the Senate, where men stay greata long while. The six years tenure there lends the force of reit- eration to whatever aman may do. One Sen- ator, they say, has never failed for twelve years to get his name in the Kecord at léast once every day in every session. By simple repeti- tion he has gained # national reputation. He is not much of a Senator; the colored men who sweep the chamber drive everybody out with their dust—he with his speeches. Yet in his own state and section his name is a houre- hold word and bis people hold him in Web- sterian awe. I suppose that even this man, if by any chance he should sometime fail of re- election, would make the Senate chamber seem lonesome for a time after his disppearance. ‘The old habitue of the Senate galleries—and e are scores in Washington who seem to live only for the pleasure of looking down day after day upon their favorite statesmen in the arena of legislation below—the old habitue of the galleries must suffer long and acute heart aches in these passing days. The great men who sat in that chamber in the afternoon of this century are gone. Of those in the last Congress who connected the passing age with that which included the war and reconstruction period .but one is now left. Evarts and Ed- munds are out; John Sherman remains. ‘MR. EDMUNDS’ FIRST ACHIEVEMENT. ‘Mr. Edmunds has by his own wish concluded his public career and now lingers to see him- self go into history. He is the last of the great men who like Webster, Clay and Sumner, tower above the age in which they lived. He entered the Senate in April, 1866, having been appointed the suc ‘of Solomon Foot, who had for sev- eral Congresses been President of the Senate. ‘The first speech Mr. Edmunds made was in eulogy of his honored predecessor. Heentered freely into the debates that occupied the at- n of his fellow Senators, and was at once though new to ‘The leaders on the republican side of the Senate were Sumner, Fessenden, Trum- bali and Wad On_ the democratic side were ‘y. Among the influential republicans were also Zach Chandler, John Sherman, Henry Wilson, Pomeroy, Ram were chairmen of the i To Mr. ship of the and from that cot mittee, during the of Lis senatorial be reported the tei of office act and s its passage. To few gen in public life is it permitted to accomplish MR. EDMUNDS. such a great achievement on the very thresh- bold of their career. He was then thirty-eight yearsold. , From that time to the close of the Fifty-first Congress Senator Edmunds has stood in the front rank of American statesmen. His rule of official conduct has been peculiar to himself. His cardinal aim was ever to be the servant of the public. Other Senators sought to serve their own states and sections first and only: some have bad their personal and selfish ob- jects forever in mind. But the Vermont Sen- ator has given bis unremitting care to ques- tions affecting the welfare of the whole coun- try. His lawyer-like mastery of details and worship of précision earned him the name of a stickier and at the same time awed his col- leagues into submission to his will. His leader- ship has been irksome and even despotic, but he ns always led and in leading has sought the welfare of the government and the coun- try. Senator Edmunds succeeded Lyman ‘Trumbull as chairman of the judiciary com- mittee in 1872. For nineteen years, with « short interval when the democrats controlled the Senate, he has held that honorable and powerful chairmansbip—longer than any man ‘ever has in the history of Congres ‘THE SOUBKIQUET OF ST. JEROME. It during the impeachment trial of Presi- dent Jobnson that the soubriquet of St. Jerome was first fastened on the Vermont Senator. The likeness was discovered by a newspaper cor- respondent and soon gained wide currency. People who never saw picture or plaster of St. rome have heard Edmunds called by that name and had their interest in the man som what quickened and vitalized by it. Itisn't a common thing to compare a Senator or member of Congress toa saint. Mr. Edmunds looked nearly as old when he entered the Senate as he does today. His beard was then a rich brown already beginning to turn gray. The vast bald dome was then as polished us now. ‘The story is told of one of the German diplo- mists that as be sat in the gallery one day whil Edmunds was addressing the Senate the Ger- man suddenly turned to the American friend who was with him and said impulsively: “I vish I could haf his skool.” “What!" said the horrified Yankee. “you don’t mean that you want Edmunds’ skull” in do place of dis von,” and the Teuton ra; bis oaiae with his knuckles. — With his height and large, impressive physique, patterned after some one of his Nor- lan ancestors, who doubtless fought with Wiilism the Conqueror, Mr. Edmunds has never been more than seemingly strong. The bone and gristle of the man make him a giant, but he has been the plaything of a bad stomach and in constant fear of consumption, which is hereditary in bis family. Yet no other Senator in his time has been more regularly in his place of more tenacious in his attentions to the cvurse of public business. Grim venera- bie, be has been the most striking figure in the Senate for ten years past. Whether in his seat, en the floor or presiding in the Vice Presidential ebair, the most casual spectator could easily see that behind that cold, passionless exterior was intrenched the master will of the Senate. ‘The picture of him will always remain with any one who has seen him at his post. Promptly as the hour of noon came he pushed through the green baize door at the rear of the ehamver and, looking neither to the right nor left, he strode with a rolling step to his chair. MIS APPEARANCE IN THE SENATE. Carefully dividing bis coat skirts, if dressed, as Le often was, in broadcloth, he would drop into his seat like ® man who was tired to the very edge of complete exhaustion. Sinking down wntil he sat on the middle of his spine he would rest his ead on his hand, his fore finger stretched up across his temple, and wait for proceedings to The high, broad foreliead, the rd. the cold ¢ ali made: came faster with the expectation that he might spring to his feet at any moment and dis his mastery of that arena where he had so every other sense you had of the power of the man. Webster could have been more msjestic, Clay more winsome, Sumner more eloquent, Calhoun possibly more convincing, but no ma ever ruled his fellows with such iron determi- nation. Stern and unbending as Mr. Edmunds was as a Senator, in his home he isa very different man. Among his friends he is whoily another man. Take him ona bunting or fishing tri and his companionship is ideal. He can cool his own meal or brew something good to drink as well as the oldest of woodsmen. In his tastes he is as simple and democratic as you please. Ithas been said he is unapproachable. He may be to politicians and ne men, but do not seek him for favors or to views out of him he is aseasi" ny man in public life. He keeps good horses, but his favorite ride to the Capitol was on the street cars. fis stiff, tall form sit- ting at the end ofa street car in midwinter with a heavy gray shawl wrapped around his Jogs isa familiar sight to people who live in the northwestern part of Washington. PROBABLY DONE WITH PUBLIC LIFE. Itis not likely that Senator Edmunds will again enter public life. He is now sixty-three. The only temptation possible to him now is a seat onthe Supreme bench, and it is doubtful if he would accept that. He would have been glad to round out his career as chief justice, but that was not his allotted honor. His home in Washington, built by himself to co md to every convenience of himself and his family, is one of the finest of the new mansions in the fashionable part of the city. He used to live near Thomas Cirele, in the neighborhood of Mr. Bayard, Senator’ Morrill, Justic Miller and many other noted men. When he decided to build he went to the end of Massachusetts ave- nue. “Ihave been crowded out down there by the excess of civilization,” he would say when speaking of the change. SENATOR EVARTS’ ANCESTRY. Senator Evarts had but one term in the Senate, but his achievements in politics and the high honors he received as the member of two cabinets and the great party lawyer and advocate of his half century make him a type of the statesmanship of the decades now gone into history. Unlike Senator Edmunds he was a college man and enjoyed the best schools of his time—the Boston Latin School, Yale Col- loge and Harvard Law School. Mr. Edmunds’ father was a small farmer in New Hampshire, a wm. EVARTS. man who came of gvod old Puritan stock and bore the biblical name of Ebenezer. On hi mother’s side Quaker blood entered the family. To her doubtless the ex-Senator owes his heritage of intellect. From his father, who was a good deal of a Barebones and argued strenuously, it is sid, against tea as harmful beverage. came his keen insight into human nature and his punctiliousness. Mr. Evarts came also of devout parents. His’ father, Jeremiah Evarts, wasn graduate of Yale and twenty years secretary of the American rd. He was eminent in his time for his in- terest and knowledge in mission work in ail arts of the world. He was especialiy zealous rging the conversion of the various tribes of American Indians. His wife, Mehitabel, daughter of Roger Sherman, who jigned the Declaration of Independ- ence, but was a member of the committee with Jefferson and Franklin to draft that precious document. Mrs. Evarts was a most devout woman, whose clear intellect was a tower of strength to her hard-worked husband. It was not strange that such afather and mother should desire to bend the growing mind of their son toward the life work to which they had devoted themselves. One night a few winters ago, when I had oc- casion to interview Mr. Evarts, he reverted ap- parently with a good deal of pleasure to this circumstance. He sat alone in his library, his slippered feet on the fender before a glowing fire. All the jokes about his weight seemed justified by his appearanceat that moment. He sat in a low rocking chair that made him seem even jess than he was. His rusty broadcloth coat, the careless cravat ends, the old-fashioned turn-over shirt collar, the absence of the ordi- nary ornaments of dress that the average man wears were vigorous strokes in the picture he made as he sat therein, but they were thrown in the shade entirely by the magnificent head that rose above them. In his old age—he will soon Le seventy-four—Mr. Evarts is a wonder- fully handsome man. His profile is severely classic in every line. The great sweep of fore- head, the aquiline nose, the mobile tips, the firm, projecting chin, the smooth-shaven though wrinkled cheeks and the keen, penetrating eyes, taken with the grand contour of the head, form a splendid subject for painter or sculptor. It is not strange that men compare him to Cicero, especially when the likeness extends beyond physical characteristics. CHOOSING A PROFESSION. “In my time,” said Mr. Evarts, “it was not 80 easy to choose « profession as it is now.” We had beer talking about my old college — lent, who was Mr. Evarts’ classmate at fale, and for fifty years a noted clergyman in the west. “Every likely boy was bent and fashioned for yeurs before his education was tinished either for law or the ministry. I con- fess I had no very decided choice of my own and Iwas good deal impressed with a sense of obligation to my dead father’s blessed mem- ory when my mother and her friends urged me to enter the ministry. ‘That was then the profession toward which the godly ambition of most of our college boys turned. I think a large majority of my class went into the minis- try. It was either that or the law, for then science was in its most impotent infancy; there was no such thing as journalism and. literature was only possible with men who had fortunes to enable them to indulge their tastes. I lingered quite a while, I remember, on the thought of journalism and its possibilities as a path u ward into literature. But it would make ti freshest Rewspaper tyro in these days roar to see the men who made newspapers in those days or note their surroundings and the jour- they put forth. ‘They were for the most part job printers, especially in the provincial press, and’ they printed newspapers chiefly for the incidental commercial advantages con: nected with them. They wrote no editorials. ‘They spent more time getting up their ship- ping liste than in securing the news of the day, and the greater part of their space was given up to miscellany sheared liberally from other papers and from European periodicals. The newspaper of 1837 was useful to tell you when the stage would start or arrive, what mer- chandise bad been received from Liver- pool or shipped to that port, what time the moon and sun would rise and sct, orwhat Henry Clay or Tom Benton had said in a speech two months before in some pioneer community in the Mississippi valley. Asa great duily engine of political influence, & disseminator of the news of the whole world day by day, the newspaper was as much a thing of the future as aerial navigation isnow. Iwas nota job printer aud did not become a journalist. " I did not feel that I was sanctioned to enter deliberately upon the min- istry asa life work. I therefore turned to the law as my only recourse, and, whether wisel: or not I cannot say, put forever behind me thought of hterature or journalism.” HIS POLITICAL CAREER. Mr. Evarts’ political career always suggests 9 comparison with that of the orator of Arpinum. Cicero, his splendid intellect giving hima an im- tance in every situation, was not unlike the rst lawyer of America whenever he entered | srvemee His legal career, one of the mozt riliiant in history, earned for him thirty years ago full recognition in the republican party. Thurlow Weed used him as a foil in 1861 to thwart Horace Greeley’s ambition to enter the Senate. The old firm of Seward, Weed & Gree- ley had dissolved and Grecley's secession edito- rials had girded Weed to a determined hostility to the editor's political desires. Evarts Jed on the first ballot in the senatorial contest; then Greeley steadily gathered headway and Weed had to surrender to the suggestion of to Henry J. Raymond and turn his forces over to elect 1 ira Harris. What Mr. Evarts’ career that he would have been less a lawyerand pond cate and more a statesman. In 1850 igi to de- pepey bebo mae law. T itive slave law. ‘Ten years later, in the ‘cane, lawyer-like, he denounced ‘what he had said in 1860- IN THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. It was his three days’ speech in peachmont trial af ried Mr. Evarts into the cabinet of that chief magistrate. In 1872 he was a liberal and would Sahn aaa ease tes a Eottook the stulsp for Gen. Greet Tn i576 be earned another cabinet portfolio b; = the legal it which seated President yes. In 1879 Mr. Evarts sup; Cornell for gov- ernor of New York and denounced bolters; in 1882 Gov. Cornell said Mr. Evarts bolted a and refused him any possible aid. In 1 Tas regarded as so uncertain in his faith in Garfield because of the understanding between the latterand Mr. Blaine that Mr. Dorsey would not let him make a 5] in Indiana. ‘In 1884 Mr. Evarts was on election to the Senate in combinations originating entirely outside of Mr. Evarte’ desires or power in New York jet To Warner Miller and Chester A. oe he owes that honorable passage in his EVARTS’ WITTY SAYINGS. There are a good many stories to be told of Mr. Evarts. His wit has embellished his per- sonality through all the political vicissitudes of his long life. The best of his jokes have been told again and again and will still bear telling. ‘The best of his sayings, considering the situa- tion in which ft was, plsced, occurred when he accompanied Lord Coleridge, the English chief justice, to visit Washington's tomb at Mount ernon. “I have read,” said the Englishman, measur- ing with his eye the width of the Potomac from shore to shore, “that Washington was a splen- did athlete and could thrown silver dollar across this river. It looks pretty far. Do you think he could do it?” “I don’t know,” said the Secretary of State. “It is possible he . You know a dollar would go further in those days than it will now.” Nearly as good was his remark at the close of his first day as Secretary of State under Mr. Hayes, when he had been besieged by office seekers all day. “Many called,” said the weary statesman, “but few were chosen.” te dinner he remarked champagne.” When he undertook to argue the mistress of the White House out of her determination not to serve wine at her dinners she insisted that People must “be sociable with water. ‘Inever knew people to be sociable with water, Mrs. Hayes,” said Mr. Evarts, with the gravest face imaginable, “except at bath.” When some one was explaining how Xerxes measured his army by marching detachments of men into pens that held just a hundred Mr. Evarts commented that be “always preferred measures to men. Once, it is told, a sneak thief called on Mr. Evarts in his New York office and giving him a retainer asked for legal advice. “Tama sneak thief, Mr. Evarts,” said the man. “Suppose I go intoa bank and make a teller or a porter think I am an employe of the ace and he hands me a bundle of money, and ney, sir, for an answer to that question,” the re} sponse. ‘The ex-Senator delighted in telling one or two stories on himself. One was about a Span- ish donkey he bought for one of his grandchil- dren, of whom there isa, large troop. The donkey at first was homesick and brayed a good deal. “The little girls of the family went ont to comfort the animal, but to no avail. He kept right on braying. At last one little miss thought of a source of relief. “Never mind, girls,” she said, “grandpapa will be here tomorrow and then the poor litue donkey won't be so lonesome.” At a Whito House reception, when he was Secretary of State, Mr. Evarts overheard « com- ment on his personal appearance that he has found more enjoyable than remarks by the newspapers in a similar stram. ‘There came along in the stream of callers an old man lead- ing a little boy. The youngster looked at everybody critically and’ at Mr. Evarts very closely. As he moved off he said in a louder tone than was entirely necessary: “Gran'pa, is that little man there too poor to geta dress suit?” ‘Mr. Evarte’ wit sparkled as brilliantly in the Senate asin the lounging room of the Union League Club in New York. His fellow Sena- tors not only admired him, but felt a deep affection for him. There, too, although he did not assume in any degree party leadership, his speeches displayed his great learning in the Jaw and his wonderful aceumen und skill_in argument. His absence, like that of Mr. Ed- muuds, is one of the most conspicuous things to Le noticed im these first days of the new Con- gress. SAT. ———— A PLUTOCRATIC BOOTBLACK. He Has Accumulated $10,000 and Had Fun Besides. ‘New York Mail and Express, There is an Italian bootblagk up in Harlem. He has a good corner stand and a lucrative run about twenty years ago. During this period he has accumulated nearly $10,000. Besides this he has substantially assisted his relations in Italy, and taken more and longer vacations than nine out of ten successful business men can afford. Every second autumn he sails to Italy, spends the entire winter there and returns in the springtime. Every summer he spends away from New York, either at some fashionable seaside or mountain resort. One summer it was Long Branch, the next Saratoga. Last year it was Newport, and this it was the Adirondacks. And while away summering he managed to make it pay, while at the same time securing enough leisure toenjoy himself and to benefithishealth. In the fall returns to this city, and if it happens to be his winter for work, as it is this year, he succeeds in piling up @ rexpectable in- crease of savings by spring. Next winter he will spend, according to plan, in Italy, but whon he returns’ he proposes to go to Chicago and favor that city during the course of the world’s fair. In private he lives a quict, respectable life, much above the standard of his fellow-country: men. He is unmarried and boards with a re- spectable family of Germans. He has educated himself up to the point of appreciating stand- ard English fiction, and he reads much. It is bis ambition to accumulate $25,000, a sum he hopes to acquire within another ten years. Then he has planned « return to hie ative land to remain there permanently. He makes no secret of his intention, having reached that point, to purchase a country seat somewhere along the shores of the Mediter- ranean, and there he hopes to pass his declin- years. (e's an all-around rational fellow, is Miguel. ae Bacteria and Plant Disease, From Meehan's Monthly. In many diseases of plants, bacteria, as small micro-organisms are called, are so often found and seem so close allied to the disease that many close students have come to regard them asthe sole cause of disease. Though the gen- eral tendency of scientific thought has been in this direction, the fact has by no means been demonstrated. The best that can be said of this belief is that there is great probability that itis correct. But occasionally there are facts which bear on the other side. Dr. Woolford is quoted as saying that between the sound por- tion of teeth and that in which bacteria are found is always portion softening in which no bacteria are found. These organisms fol- low and do not cause decay in teeth, though Dr. W. believes they hasten decay and should be zealously combatted by those who would pre serve their teeth. If this is good science in dentistry, it may be equally good in regard bacterial phenomena every where—in plants as well as in animals, It may be that they hasten oo plants, though not directly engen- ———+e-—___— In the Tropics. ‘From Judge. Skipper—“For heaven's ipper— sake, come aboard quick, man! Don't you see what's chasing ou? **Paseager (who is fond of bathing)—“Don’t mind me, cap. I'm to 'm. the whole summer at N Int season.” A CHOLERA CAMPAIG The Terrible Plight of a Band of Re- oruits After the War, AT SEA WITHOUT A DOCTOR. How the Dreaded Epidemic Made Its Ap- Pearance—Daily Burials at Sea—In Quaran- tine—Heartrending Scenes—The Nerve of = ‘Young Irish Doctor. Written for The Evenin Star by A. H. Nickerson. HE 9TH OF JULY, 1866, WAS ONE OF the hottest days of an unusually hot sum- mer. The atmosphere that hung over the cities of New York and Brooklyn was heavy and sweltering. The steamship San Salvador sailed out of New York harbor on that day en route to Savannah, Ga, Besides the usual passenger list booked for the city of luxuriant foliage, there were on board 476 United States army recruits, destined for the seventh United States infantry, then on duty in Florida, with regimental headquarters at St. Augustine. Four officers from the re- cruiting rendezvous on Governor's Island ac- companied the detachment. They were Capt. E. A. Ellsworth, eleventh United States in- fantry; First Lieutenant A. H. Nickerson, four- teenth United States infantry; Second Lieuten- ant J. H. Blaker, ninth United States infantry, and Second Licutenant J. F. Mays, fourteenth United States infantry. A medical officer had also been assigned to duty with the command, but for reasons, the precise nature of which it is unnecessary to state, he did notreport andthe troops sailed without him. ‘The usual supply of medical stores, however, had been sent on bonrd froin the medical depot on Long Island. ‘These stores were very carefully put up, with minute directions as to their use, so that in an emergency, though no medical officer was pres- ent, any one of ordinary intelligence could ad- minister them. Except that the heat was overpowering the day was a beautiful one, and as the stanch shi gracefully glided down’ the harbor, the swe from tho ocean lifting her nose in the air as if she already snuffed the bracing salt breezes from the old Atlantic, the soldiers crowded up from their quarters below to the upper deck, and the saloon passengers took possession of the after decks. From tho gala appearance of the whole they might easily have been mis- taken for a holiday excursion party out on a picnic. Even when the loom of the land on the Jersey shore and Long Island had faded away in the distance was fairly at sea the weather ne and the sbi Waa 60 and there was 60 little swell that cases of scasickness were infrequent. ‘The men were .cheerful, even to gaycty, and there was absolutely nothing to indicate’ that they were not in the very best of health. There seemed to be a notable absence of the ordinary ills to which soldiers, especially recruits, are fubject, ‘To all appéarances everybody’ on board the ship was in the best of health and spirits. XO WARNING SIGN. That night, when the men had finally wrapped themselves in their blankets between decks, and the officer of the day had made his rounds and retired to his cabin, that official had noted nothing unusual in ‘the appearance of the troops. He had carefully inspected the whole detachment, and,yet he siw nothing to indi- cate that, even then, smong those slum- bering forms were quictly working the in- sidious germs of that mysteri rible pestilence that has long cradle on the banks of the Ganges, perictrated as far north as the regions of arctic Kussia, and, like the Wandering Jew, has left 1ts deso- lating footprints all along the great routes of travel from the Orient to the 0 ‘The second day of the voyage was as clear and beautiful as its predecessor had been and the ocean equally calm and blue. The invig- orating air was in delightful contrast with that of the murky cities left behind. After brenk- fast had been eerved and an informal sick, call institute a few cases only of mild illness were reported, while two or three were too ill to come upon deck. The ofiicer of the day, ac- companied by the junior lieutenant, went down into the hold “to see these cases. He found them suffering from exerneiating cramps, mortal chillincss and great prostra- tion. ‘The rigor, however, was apparently con- fined to. the outside, for internally the patients seemed to have a consuming fire, a burning, frightful thirst, that water could not quench ‘They were oblivious to the chills, but the fever scorched them and made their voices dry and ye ‘THE FIRST FATAL CASES. As it was close between decks and the air very impure, the officer bad these patients brough? up on the upper deck and there made as comfortable as possible. ‘The medicine chest was then brought into reauisition, and, follow- ing the caretully prepared directions, such of the remedies us were thought to be applicable to the cases were used. Warm cloths were ap- plied and it was sought by friction to superin- duce a circulation “that sppeared to be stug- nant, But nothing could again warm those stricken bodies, upon which the icy hand of death was already laid. A few short hours of mortal agony, some more, others less, and they died. None of the officers with the detachment had ever before seen a case of illness of this char- acter. The body of the first man that died was covered with bright red spots, and until this was explained by the fact of his having once been the victim of smallpox it served to make the disease appear still more mysterious. But a fellow passenger, who was either a medical student or a quasi doctor, loaned one of the officers a brochure, which, if he rightly remem- bers, discussed the question whether a certain disease was contagious or was conveyed in cur- rents of air. AN ACCIDENTAL DIAGNosIs. Tho officer, glancing carelessly at its pages, was startled to note that it gave a correct diagnosis of the cases of his mysteriously at- tacked patients. It was not till then that he and his fellow officers realized the awful truth that they were at sea in more senses than one, with nearly 500 men crowded into the least pos- sible space in the forward part of the ship, a full passenger list in the after cabin, no doctor, and they face to face with that most appalling of dis ‘Asiatic cholera in an epidemic form. After a brief consultation among the officers it was decided that as no good could be served by imparting their impressions to the passen- gers they would say nothing to them about the nature of the disease. Tho soldiers, however, had already given ita name which, if it did lack euphony, was most expressive. They called it “cramps.” BURIALS AT SEA. The master of the ship was notified that the burial of the men who had died would take place that afternoon; and thereafter until the steamer reached soundings in Tybee roads, off Savannah, these notifications became unpleas- antly frequent, ‘The bodies were sewed up in blankets and each laid on a plank with a sack of coal firmly bound to the feet. ‘The plank was then run out from the deck; the powerful en- gines ceased for the moment their throbbing; the great wheels of the steamer stopped, and amid a silence most profound and impressive an officer read the beautiful service of the Church of England. As he pronounced the wor arth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” a soldier gently raised the head of the plank bier, the heavy sack of coal slid from its place, and with its human attachment shotdike &n arrow into the bluo depths below. WHY THE PASSENGERS FELT SECURE. By the time the ship dropped anchor in Tybee roads most of the passengers were fully cognizant of the true nature of the disease that was making such bavoe among the troops, but, as they afterward assured officer whom they had seen dispensing the medicines, they felt that they were comparatively safe becanse they as they supposed, an experienced officer ot the regular army medical corps in ». Imagine their astonishment and ex Seceunte 26, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES: the spot where steamer at snd from the shore was an obsolete earthwork inclosing « Martello tower of the seventeenth century pattern. Time and the action of the elements = rades tially leveled the rude walls and covered with grass and bushes. While they would have been of little use in a warlike sense, they were high enongh to shut out the air and yet low enough to admit the scorching rays of the sun to every nook and corner. ‘The citadel or tower itself was, as its name indicates, circular in shape, and the entrance ag well as the apertures that stood in the place of windows were exceedingly small and gave admission to very little light or air. It wa therefore, when the troops landed infest with bats, lizards, centipedes and other noisome insects and reptiles. The josphere that could penetrate to this dimly isticel wan close, damp and exeeed- =e. disagreeable, but it was the only avail- able place, and possibly on the principle that any house is better than none the sick and dying were carried into the inclosure and laid around on such level spots as could be found, while a few were taken inside the town itself. The remainder of the detachment bivouacked some distance away and immediately on the beach. ONE SOLITARY DocToR had been sent from Savannah to take charge of this improvised lazaretto. No hospital steward or other assistant accompanied him, and there was a painful lack of many of the necessities and most of the conveniences which are con- sidered absolutely essential to the carrying on of such a hereulean task. The doctor himself was a young Irishman, not long away from his native sod and the ‘university where he had been graduated. He was new to the countey and never bad any experience whatever wi troops. INEXPERIENCED BUT NERVY. Though the medical department of the army in charge at Savannah was undoubtedly under great disadvantage by reason of the epidemic being so suddenly thrust upon it, there was at first at least a grave suspicion that this young and inexperienced contract doctor had’ been sent to perform this important duty principally because he might naturally be supposed to possess at least one great and essential qualifi- cation—he came from a race that is proverbially not afraid of anything. It certainly required great courage fora man successfully to fight so fierce an epidemic under euch adverse cir- cumstances. ‘Though he did lack experience he was certainly not wanting in nerve. He did all that he aah and showed no signs of fear. ‘The men died so fast and the new cases cume so rapidly that hours would sometimes elapse before a man would know that his immediate neighbor was dead, and even when this was ap- parent there might not be any one to separate and carry out the dead bodies. Attendants would be detailed by the score and ordered to report for duty at the “Hospital,” as tlus horrible charnel house was called, and in less than an hour thereafter another niessage from the poor doctor would come that the nurses, attendants, fatigue party and all Lad fled and that he was absolutely githout a man to help him do anything. A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY. ‘These panic-stricken men scatteroa over the island, and as few of them ever returned and there appeared to be no way for them to es. cape to the mainland their disappearance was at first something ofa mystery. At lasg one of the ,officers, who was exploring the "isiand, pushed his way through a copse of tangled undergrowth und suddenly came upon a ghastly sight. ‘The island was separated from the mainland by a series of rather shallow la- goons that looked, when the tide was out, as though they might casily be forded. Lured by these’ treacherous shoals a number of the de- serters had started to wade across. As they had gone further and further from the shore they had sunk deeper and deeper into the miry bot- toi until finally they had etuck fast in the mud, unable to get forward or to return, In this awful position the incoming tide had caught them. Each relentless wave rose higher and higher, the helpless victims were engulfed and drowned. When the tide ebbed there, nearly erect, stood the lifeless bodies, their empty sockets, from which the carrion birds had plucked the eyes, looking hopelessly out upon the weary waste that had separated them irom the main land and Life, * from the great number of buzzards that were hovering over other loculities the last hiding places of many more of these panie- stricken men were discovered. Guided by these ominous but unfailing indicators an ofticer with a burial party would go direetly to the spof, Where they invariably found the de- composing body of one of these unfortunate soldiers. Usually the appearance of the remains showed that they had already experienced the premonitory symptoms of the dreaded pesti- lence, when they provided themselves with two and sometimes three canteens of water, and running away from their only real hope of re- covery lay down under a bush or tree. drank all the water, drifted rapidly into the last stages of the disease, and soon, under the hot, or the cold and silent stars, with they, too, had died. ‘ese unfortunate creatures without jeopardizing the lives of the men who per- formed the task required great circumspection. When it wax determined in which direction the wind was blowing the burial party approached the corpse from the same direction, thereby avoiding the horrible stench and consequent nausea. Sickness caused in thi cholera and almost certain d bers of huge carrion birds struggled for frag- ments of the putrid bodies and it was with the greatest difficulty that they were driven far enough away to permit of the corpse being covered up just where it lay. When this was done large mounds were raised above them and on top of these logs and branches of trees were piled, in order if possible to prevent the vultures from digging up and renewing their interrupted feast. Of course it would not do to kill or to permanently frighten away these usefui scavengers, which were #o effective in re- moving other offensive matter. In the early stages of the epidemic the troops had been divided into companies with acting first sergeants in charge of each, assisted by 3 suitable number of other acting non-commis- Sioned oficers. A nuyber of muskets with ac- couterments had al: nm brought down from the city and regular guards were duty. on TERROR-STRICKEN SOLDIERS. Soon after guard mounting one morning man from one of the companies reported to the commanding officer that one of the first sergeants, aman named Franklin, was ill with the dreaded “cramps.” ‘The captain directed that the man be sent to the hospital. About an hour afterward another man came and re- orted that the sergeant had been abandoned Pythe men sent tocarry him. to the hospital and that he was then lying on the beach alone, about midway between the camp and the tower. An officer was immediately ordered to take whatever men were required, by force, if nec- essary, and personally see that the sick man was carried to the hospital. It was with the greatest difficulty that the required number of men could be procured, so panic Stricken ‘were they. Every man’ detailed pleaded illness, some with tears in their eyes, and it was only at the muzzle of a revolver tha a half dozen mon were obtained. When the party reached the abandoned patient they found him lying upon a thin army blanket nearly naked, the almost vertical rays of the broiling sun fairly burning his livid fiesh, and the man himsclf writhing in the ’ last stages of the fatal disease. Four of the attendants wero at the corners of the blauket; two were kopt in reserve to relievo others, and the officer with his drawn revolver at the “ready” thus marched the squad to the iazaretto, When this little procession entered the sally port of the fortification sight such as, it is to be hoped. few men ever looked upon, greoted their eyes. Lying about on the ground as thickly as they could be placed with the burning rays of the tropical sun pouring down upon them were scores of wi unt-looking men in all stages of the awful isease, from excruciating agony to distorted th. 'Thove who were able todo so started up, and with faces made hideous by the torture they were enduring, their eyeballs bulging ulgit from their heads, and with bony, clammy hands | sel ry that clutched the empty shy For rieked: “Water! Water!! lieutenant, give us water!!!" ‘The doctor, overwhelmed with his bilities and perplexities, was nearly as frantic as his patients and wildly wrung they | fairl; God's ake, and separated the living from the dead carried the latter outside the inclorure. ‘The others wore in rows with spaces between so that the attendants could with the ly of provi Soot soar m 8 sul rovisions, = utensils fon ir few gate They could not get off the island, however, as. gov- ernment cutter bad recently arrived and wes patrolling all the supposed avenues of escape. they went regularly into camp by them- selves, and when discovered were easil persuaded to return to their Stores were brought down from Savannah by ‘small steamer, which landed them at some little distance from the camp in order to avoid as much as possible ail danger from infection. A fatigue party had to receive the cargo, how- ever, and on one occasion while they were en- gaged in this duty Lieut. Mays confided to bis comrade the fact that his wedding day had been fixed for the first of the ensuing month. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK FoR A WEDDING. “And now,” said he, gloomily, “Iam more likely to attend nfy own funeral.” The officer with him endeavored to dispel these forebod- ings and the conversation finally drifted to the incidents that had transpired on their voyage down, Lefore they had really found out what the dread disease was. “Ah!” waid Mays, “no one can ever again deceive me in regard to cholera, All I shall want todo to convince me will be to look at the person’s hands. If they are clammy, shriveled up and look hke the hands of a laundress who has done a big washing i shall bid that patient good-bye.for there will be no more hope of his recovery than there would be if he had been struck by a cannon ball.” That night Mays seemed to have recovered his cheerfulness, and entertained his fellow officers until long after midnight with humor- ous accounts of his experiences in the ranks of the regular army, where he had served previous to the rebellion, "At daylight the next morning he was taken ill, and at 7 o'clock the atten: ants came to remove him to the hospital. As they were about to start the officer who been at th landing with bim the day before \d asked if there was anything he . The poor fellow held up his hands, all shriveled, clammy and wrinkled, as he had said, “like a er woman's,” and then ied: “No, thank you; but I will say good-bye, for I shall not see you again.” Less than eight hours later he was dead. His ‘was one of the most violent cases in the gloomy record. Perhaps the most onerous task the men were required to perform, because of its known danger, was that of the burial of the dead. Each morning the doctor sent a notice of the number requiring this sad rite. The number varied from five to fifteen a day, and. I think, one day it may have reached the high-water mark of a score—e fearful mortality for so small a command. AN MISH Boy's DISCIPLINE. Among the recruits was a tall, fine-looking Trish boy, who jcould hardly have been a day more than the minimum age required by the regulations for the recruiting service. His life had evidently beer spent with the horses, stables and paddocks of the race tracks of Ire- land. He knew very little else except what ertained to races and race horses, and yet he had learned there, or somewhere else, the great lesson of discipline—obedience to orders. A burial party happening to fail tobischarge, one of the men engaged in the disagreeable task suddenly dropped the portion of corpse he was carrying and attempted to escape. In a moment Mike was upon him with a drawn bayonet and would certainly have run him through had the man not begged so hard to be permitted to resume his duty. After this Mike always had charge of the burial of the dead. The captain gave him carte blanche to take whoever he called upon for duty and to use summary measures upon any who faltered. here were no more open mutinies among the burial parties, but the poor Irish boy came to be the worst hated of auy one in the camp. After the command re-embarked for St Augustine, on the way down one night so cowardiy assassin sneaked up on him while he lay asleep and struck him on the head with what the doctors decided had been a stone in a stocking. He never recovered from the blow, and died of brain fever as the result. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. The first dawn of light which came to this stricken command was when a young doctor of the regular medical corps of the armye arrived and took charge of the hospital. Several other doctors not long after reported to him as assistants, and the chango that was soon wrought in the condition of the hospitals and patients was almost magical. A large number Of spacious tents were ordered down, and as soon as they came were pitched on the ocean each. ‘These were supplied with comfortable beds and all the appliances of a» regi general hospital. ‘Then the sick were removed from the dismal tower, and its gloomy earthwork surroundings, to the new, cleanly and cheerful location. The man who wrought this change was Assistant Surgeon Charles K. Winne, U.S. A. He had seen much service in the war that hal so recently closed and brought to this, probably the most important and onerous duty of his life, not only many scieutific and profes- sional attainments, but also a courage that is born of the field of battle. ‘THIS WAS A BATTLE OF MANY Dats’ and nights’ duration. In asenseit was a smoke- less powder engagement; the enemy was an invisible one, but death was in the very air. The death-dealing shafts came from no one knew whence, and when they had done their work they sped no one knew whither. The young surgeon faced the danger with the cool- ness and courage of a true soldier. He met the grim specter at the bedside of every new patient, grappled with him and fought him a loutrance. One of his assistants died after an illness almost as brief as that which had carried off Lieut. Mays. Another was stricken pigh unto death, and in the extreme cases all science, medicine and care could not avert the fated end;and yet until the last breath was gone, the last throb had ceased, the doctor would not surrender—of such stuff are our heroes made. Encouraged by this magnificent example there were no more descrtions from the hospi- tal. Menno longer concealed the incipient stages of disease, but reported them promptly and went to the hospital, and in these cases the doctor was generally able to save them. For a period of about fifteen days the pesti- lence ; then it began to flag and suddenly it ‘and wholly disappeared. But in the meantime two of the officers and 117 men of this command had died. A BRAVE SOLDIER OF THE CROSS. This sketch would be incomplete if it failed to mention one other soldier who fought on this field. Victor Hugo has truthfully said that where both are equally sincere = no men anialgamate more easily than an old priost and an old soldier, for they are the same men the bottom. One devotes himself to his country down here and the other to his coun- been that is the sole difference. ith the first news of the epidemic on Tybee a Roman Catholic priest wae immediately dis- patched to the scene. Father Kyan's arrival Was most opportune and during the entire time in those intimate relations which sub- sist between the priest and the penitent he never faltered, day or night, in the solemn duty assigned to him. And what a comfort it was for those poor fellows in their extremity. Though eqt ly advised no other church sent its representative to this pestilential spot. No clergyman bent over the saying Fx siomuns wol- dier and whispered in his ear ‘That fall on the roses in May; oni Kpg ph vttv yn tama | Hl oor fH SE: : a8 2 flatts) #' - rl ‘ I the | BIG TURTLES OF THE SEA. Facts About Great Marine Tortoises and As the dealer made the remark he took out of a bucket and handed to Tue Stax reporter three or four little white spheres. Each one was about an inch in diameter and looked as if it was covered with exquisitely delicate canvas. “Those were laid by a loggerbead turtie,” he explained. “I've seen tortoises of that kind Which would weigh 1,000 pounds apiece. Some- times they grow to 1,500 or 1,600 pounds, I un- derstand. Sea turtles get to be monsters There is a kind called the “leather-back.’ which is bigger than the loggerhead; but they are very rare, However, they aren't good for much, only their oil being useful for a lubrica- tor. “You take a thousand-pound loggerhead and he will measure seven or eight fect in length and nine fect across the back, including the flippers. He is a very fast and strong «wim- mer, so that you must catch him asleep on the water if you expect to bag him. Specimens are often seen many miles from land, floating on the wave. Unlike the other great aca turtles, which prefer a vegetable diet, the loggerhead is carnivorous. It has very powerful jaws and with them it easily cracks the shells of large conchs, eating the meat. The young ones are said to be pretty good ina stew or soup, bet those which are full grown are leathery and musky in flavor. Sometimes the oil from the {nt is smeared on the sides of vessels to keep worms from cating the wood. “In the spring the female loggerhead comes ashore and scoops out a pit with her hind lege in the sand on the south side ot a shoal. Then she lays from 150 to 200 eggs in the hole and covers them up again with the sand, leaving them to be hatched by the heat of ‘the sun. Bears are ever so fond of turtie eggs of all sorts, and they dig up the nests wherever they can find them, gobbling amazing quantities. 1 have known as many as thirteen nests to be robbed by a single bear in one night. As soon as they are hatched the young ones scuttle into the water. Crabs, fishes and shellfish of all sorts contribute to the diet of those tortoises. “Turtle eggs are an acquired taste with most People, although they are not 60 with bears. hey Lave around, yellow yolk and a white like any other eggs, but you can cook them for year and the white part will remain liquid. We sell them mostly to colored folks. Notice the curious dimple in the side of exch one. If You squeeze it out the dimple appears on the Other side, and you can never get hold of a turtle's egg which hasn't got a dimple in. “Most of the green turtles that reach the northern market come from southern Florida, but there is another species on the Pacitic coast. They grow bigger as rou go farther south. In this latitude they t often found larger than eight pounds, but at Cedar Keys they reach a thousand pounds in weight. They live in deep water and feed on sa plants, mostly the kind called ‘turtie grass,” which they cut off near the roots, eating the lower parts and leaving the tops floating, so that it collects in great fields and marks the «pots where the animals are to be hunted for by the fishermen. “After browsing on such ocean pastures the green turtles go to the mouths of rivers for baths in fresh water, which they seem to need from time to time. ‘The Florida fishermen the reptiles enter the creeks and roil togethes inasses of grass, cementing them into balls with clay. When the turn of the tide takes the balls out tosea they follow them. The fishermen watch for suchi balls floating down the creeks, and when they see them they stretch nets across the mouths of the streams and always catch the turtles, “In springtime the female green turtle secks the shore of a barren island or the bank of a to lay her eggs. Being very shy, alanding at night cautiously and point above high-water mark, where hole one or two feet deep with her pers. In this hole she lays from 100 to 200 eggs, arranging them very carefully. she scoops the loose sand over the ing and smoothing it so that it is har bie to tell that there is a nest there. ‘The Tor- tugas Islands are a favorite haunt for green turtles. Pelicans and other big birds frequent the breeding grounds and snap up the young onesas they make for the water. I dare say you know that the green flesh attached to the upper shell is called “calipash,’ while the yellow fieth attached to the lower shell fe called cm: From the eggs an oii is obtained, but called ‘turtle oil’ soap is really made from beef fat. “Sometimes the flesh of the tortoise shell turtle is eaten, but it ix mot good for much. ‘There are two ‘sp-cies—the ‘tortoise shell’ and the ‘hawksbill’—with not much difference be- tween them. Although their diet is a vegetable one, they are much more fierce than the car- nivorbusloggerhead. ‘They bite very severely, and those who catch them sometimes receive inful wounds, Ihave understood that the est tortoise shell comes from the Indianarchi- pelago and is shipped from Singapore, but much of itis obtained onthe Florida coast. There are three rows of plates on the back, calied ‘blades’ by the fishermen. In the cen” tral row are five plates, and in each of the others four plates, the latter containing the best material. Besides these there are twenty- five small plates around the edge of the shell, CLAIMING TO KNOW PEOPLE. The Queer Habit to Which « Chicago Young Man te Addicted. From the Chicago Tribune. “Do you see that slender young man with « dark mustache, derby hat and patent leather shoes chatting with the man at the end of the cigar case?” asked an old-time traveling tan of a companion as they sat talking ina corner of the Palmer rotunda. “He is possessed of a mania for one of the most novel kind of lying— all things considered—that I ever knew. He is the taho-it-easy son of a quite wealthy and rather prominent family bere in Chicago. I have known bim three yearaand it's my private opinion the fellow is daft on bi ular hobby for queer lying. First, I'll tell you that he has done little traveling, never any outside of this country, however, and seldom goes into society. His mania consists m affecting toknow, although only by sight, all the big men ia rica, many of the nobility of Europe and ont of the foreign dij He spond deal of his time sitting around the prin- cipal hotels, and every now and then——scores of conf dential air, “See that man yonder? He is Marquis of Lorne, who is traveling incognito and spending @ day or two in Chicago for rest.” Or he will say om news p give a good deal to in- rview, but they don't know him. He is seo~ retary to the lord mayor of London.” And #0 that man anybody Occasionally he yo will sh, and charge him with not knowing what he is talking about AS times he blushes like « girl, and excusing self moves ing the play seem: by “See, even now he is calling the attention of that man whom he I don't know chy y ager what he said to bim, nine chances in ten Tl be able to give you good proof that I'm not ing. known as ‘feet’ or ‘noses.’ The biggest tu: does not furnish more than sixteen pouni of tortoise shell. Formerly the under shell was thrown away, being considered worthless, but ut present it is very highly valued for its deli- cacy of coloring. Nowadays a very beautiful imitation of tortoise sheli is made out of cows’ horns. Hunting for the great sea tortoises af- fords a good living to many thousands of fish- men in the world.” eine A STRANGE DUEL, A Kentucky Colonel Who Didn't Believe im an Apology. From the New York Journal. A bold Kentucky colonel was the father of a lovely daughter, who loved anice young man in all respects unobjectionable. All the girls and matrons in the country sympathized with the lovers and the gossips pronounced it the beppicst affair in the line of marrying that had been heard of for along time. But the colonel was an obstinate man with a very red countenance, fierce gray eyes and @ nose somewhat mottled in blue and purple from the long habit of generous potations of Bourbon. ‘The more he heard of the courtship the more he swore that he would have no such puppy for a son-in-law, aud the young man got into such a state that he was afraid to see his be- trothed except surreptitiously and both were afraid to open the subject to the colonel. Happily, when the path of true lovers does not run smooth, owing to the opposition of a cruel parent, the misery of the situation hoightons the delight, and so the wretched, 2S SS geen The stolen interview and the surreptitious note, the agony and fear and the constant suspense made the hours glow with romance. Bat, anon, the colonel learned through one Of the gossips that he was likely to be a law without his consent. He stalked up and down the hall muttering and growl- ing something to the effect that this was the frst time in Lis life that he lad ever been ] and, by Jupiter an OF eeEetts weouldlbe ths Lnst! "Thon be eons for hie friend the major, and the two worthies dis- cussed wl {tie presumptuous rascal should be horsewhipped, shot on sight or politely slaughtered poet, ee to the code. = ‘The last method was determined on anda challenge delived to the enemy, with th ing Set coll oak eters, Snpdlags © daniel the cxtendl, “Hang his 's L 1 3 all sinteraa ged, wo Sine tater men. Idon't son-in-law, but "Or way, but if he than a minute later the alleged qucer d the man to whom he had been talking separated. Stepping up to the latter the trav- eling man said: don me, sir; but do you know the young maa with whom you were just talking?” “Ne answered the stranger, “but he telle me that oldish-looking man sitting in the cor- ner, wearing a big silk hat, os the head keeper, as he calied it, of Westminster Abbey, and a distant relative of the royal family of Eng- ni “Let's go see if he is,” said the traveling man, A moment later the traveling man bad one of the clerks of the hotel at his side. “Who is that oldish-looking man in the corner, with the big «ilk hat?” he asked the clerk. “Why, that's Judge Blank, from the south- ern portion of the state, who is here every week or #0,” said the clerk, and buried back to his duties, “There is no doubt in my mind,” added the traveling man, “but that the young fellow is totally insane’ on this particular thing. He never tries to ‘work’ a man for anything. His father provides him liberally with money, aud in many ways is a seusible, clear-beaded young iman.” A ae BREAKING THE CORD. It ts a Long Friend ‘That Has No In- terruption, as This Story Shows, From the Detroit Free Press. Deacon Jones and Elder White had lived on adjoining farms for over thirty years and never 4 word of dispute had passed between them. Their wagons, plows, drags, hocs, rakes and other utensils were used in common. They had lots side by side in the graveyard and more than once they bad loaned and borrowed chaira fora funeral. Two brothers would not ba agreed as wi religion aud cider was mowing his dooryard the deacon came over to trade newspapers with him aad they satdown under a cherry tree to talk. Pretty soon along came » stranger, who an- nounced that be was a surveyor, and’ be asked if they didn’t want the lime run. Shy, bless you!” replied the elder, “we've bin livin’ by that line fur thirty years!" “That doesn't make it right,” replied the sur- veyor. “{ guess that line is right on the spot,” said << ited a job and he kept tall © survevor wanted a job an: - ing and talking and finally offered to run the line so cheap that the elder said: “Well, I'm willin’ to pay my sheer,” replied the deacon. After the stranger had seen their deeds and dug out the old stakes asa starting point be got down to business, and in about balfan Lour be announced that the line fence was four feet over on the deacon. “I allus snepected it,” said the deacon, “but I didn’t keer about them four feet.” “And I've knowed fur over twenty yeers that over five feet on to me!” replied the . “Thad the line run that time you went to Unio, but 1 didn’t want to say nuthin’.” “I'll warrant my work to be correct,” eaid the “Can't be,” replied the elder. “He orter know his biznes,” put in the dee- con. “What! D'ye claim that I'm four fest onto yo ve allus suspected.” “Wail, ‘tain't so, and I'l bet the farm "tain’t! You've been havin’ five feet of my land all this time “Can't eee it that way.” “But I kin!” ight a» well call me a Mar!” me anybody lies "tain’t me!” It's me, Is'pose! Elder, “Of course not! Ti git right off your land!" “And you kin stay off till you git some sense! T've got more sense in my little you have in your whole body ! T hain't no use fur land stealers!” er, and don’t you rile me or I'l you!” lay. “I would if you wasn’t sich Don't you never dare to ['ve just found out what « snake in you are.” “Speak to you! I'd see you dyin’ home and pay yer honest debts.” And the surveyor shouldered bis instrument and went off down the highway, softly singit “Allis Pence Over There.” He bad plished his mission. From the Lewiston Journal. ‘One Lewiston girl Lelieves that prayer meet ings are not the piace for flirtations and pair- ing off. 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