Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1892, Page 7

THE How the Force on the River Front is Organized. HARBORMASTER SUTTON. ARBOR POLICE. He Has Held the Position Since the Office Was First Created—The Officers Who Are Associated With Him—The Joe Blackburn and the Good Work She Has Done. HE OFFICE OF HAR- bormaster of the Wash- ington harbor | created in 1883, though for two years prior to ne this date the duties in- Egy cident to the office had ei been discharged by Po- #1’ /| lice Officer J. R. Sutton SH of the then sixth, now On meee second precinet. the creation office he was appointed sequence of numerous acts of lawlessness in and nround the waters of the District, Commis- sioners Wheat! Webb and Ludlow deter- mined upon the organization of a harbor police force. This was in June, 1585. ‘Tho force as then constituted consisted of Oficera Russell Dean of the fourth, George W. Boyd of the second and Thomas Kennell of the first pre- ¢inct. Denn is the only charter member who ¢ontinues in the position to which he was then CAPT. 3 R. SUTTON. assigned. The places of Boyd and Kennel have been filled by Oficer Trammell and Officer O. Constantine and are now occupied by Officer Silas D. Lewis of the fifth precinct and Officer Frank Hughes of the first. THE POLICE BOAT. Cozy quarters were established on the 7th street water front between M and N streets. To render the force effective a swift steam craft was essential. Accordingly Harbormaster Sut- ton was directed to huntaboat. After con- siderable search he chose a neat steamer which had been built on Staten Island in 1484 for Monroe, the publisher, at a cost of 26,500. She was then the Edwin C. Passing from Monroe's oseensiOn she was rechristened the Sadie Valker and used asa public excursion launch on the East river. Thats who and what she jas when the District bought her. The price paid was $1,900 delivered at Washington. Ar- Fiving here she was in honor of the blue grass Senator renamed the Joe Blackburn. her life on the Potomac she and her crew have Tecovered ninety-seven drowned bodies, rescued thirty-seven people, prevented prize | fights, dog fights and cocking mains, rendered valuable aid to distressed *vessels ‘and made numerousarrests in the Washington and George- town harbors. During her Potomac residence | she has never taken the wake of any craft of | her class. It is only this summer that the Lovie Randall and the Ratling Spring have | been threatening to wrest the speed pennant from her. Her friends all affectionately call The harbor office is decorated with many souvenirs of the chase—black jacks, rusty pistols, sling shots, handcuffs, &o. A gallery of Marine pictures decorates the walls. HARSORMASTER SUTTON. Harbormaster John Kobert Sutton was born in Washington in 1847. He received his early training Brother Cashon at the little pa- rechial school which stood for years on F be- tween Sth and 10th streets northwest, imme- diately in the rear of old St. Patrick's Church. During bis eleveath year he entered the bakery of Noerr Bros..at the corner of 1th and E| rthwest. Her graduated as a} worked till 1 In that year he pted“s position in the Willard Hotel bakery and dn: two years’ service there tickled | a palates, the bak: tare prise: shop at Point Here he manu- | and 1,000 guards and officers. From 1566 to ed by P.G. 11th and Mth streets west. @ he went with the firm of Harvey & Hol- den, with which he continued here till 1873. HIS APPOINTMENT ON THE FORCE. February 13, 1873, he was appointed on police force and assigned to duty hh, now the first precinct, under we the second precinct. September 7, 1578, he was detailed nd fich inspector, and creditably dis ce till 1881, when Congress ap- Prop wt the employment of a sala Fied inspector, and Mr. Gwynne Harris assumed charge. In 1881 the Commissioners directed the major of police to detail a man to act substan- tially as a harbormaster, and Mr. Sutton was ebosen. In “43 he was duly appointed and in- vested with the authority of ha-bormaster of the District of Columbia. Though this is his legal title, ‘he most popular preface to his name f» commedore. OFFICER LEWIS. Oficer Silas D. Lewis is an ex-warrior with a score of battles to his eredit. He was born o1 in Northumberland county. was James H. Lewis, waterman. moved to Washi attended the pablic n Virginia avenue Jefferson School stan His fatl family uness under Cupts. Tichner, | a, Perry and Lewis, pe yaters from St. George's Isl fe: sogud and Hog Island, aand from Tangier islands and gravel from Colonial Beach. In July, 1361, he enlisted at Beyer’s Park, on 7th street, in con D, Young's first Kentucky cavalry, inter the third Pennsylvania cavalry. He reported to Gen. McDowell at Arlington dshipped from Alexandria under Gen. Me- CieUan for Fort Monroe. In the memorable Peniaule campaign be participated in the bat- les ai William-burg, Mechanicsville, Quaker City Cross Roads, Gain . Chicohominy, Boitom's Bridge and White Oak Swamp. At Parker's Cross Roads on the plank road in the Wilderness he had his cartridge box shot off. He also did duty at ¢ toueman belo v He was dis- charged States cavalry. Most of his period of enlist- ment way served as the White House mounted messenger under Grant. He was on eusy terms th several of the political and dipiomatic dig- nitaries of that time, especially so with Henry Thornton, British minister. . in rth precinct, under ‘ gt. Ashton, Sam’ Clem- yan Jarboe. THe was transferred to th precinet im April, 1891, and assigned to bor force about one Year age OFFICKS RUSSELL DEA er Russell Dean is a son of Maryland, an Iturist by birth, bata waterman by nature, Hie was Lorn near Port ‘Tobacco, Charles county, Md. He is the son of Obediah Dean, planter of that section. Early he Stteuded the schools of his county and talks pleasantly of several of his oid rs, P. A. Henson, W. F. Kendrick. At sixteen he eatered Charlotte Hall Academy under Principal Thompson. He made as record. He spent one year as tiller of th» soil. but the cecupation did not fit him. He shipped from Alexandria, Va., in the coasting schooner Kate K. ., Capt. Hardy. His next service was in the Maryland oyster pavy abo:rd tho Katie Hines, Childs. Best abipped as mate the Potomac of the | In 1864 he was | for 22,000 confederate prisoners | rivate watchman in that district | a labor and that the men employed in the refin- le | id, Tan- | at Philalelphin. August 24, 1864, re- | rned home and re-enlisted in fifth United | steamer Matiano, Capt. Skinner, retired. Ho| aleo served for iy period as quartermaster of the George under Capt. Tulle, ear , now | pilot of the Samuel J. Pentz. He served somo | | time aboard the fieh commission steamer Fish | | Hawk, Lieut. Wood commander. In 1885 he | was appointed on the force and for three years | aid treet duty in the fourth precinct under Liouts. Greer and Vernon. In 1883 he was assigned to duty in the harbor and for four ears has acted as pilot for the Joe Plackburn. in this period he hes never beea in a collision, struck @ snag, hung up on a mud bank, nor even broke acrank pm. His record shows his | merit. t | OPFICER FRANK HUGHES. Officer Frank Hughes, the successor to the [lamented Constantine, is a Washingtonian, having been born here December 18, 1857. | the heads of the tenderfeet present and to | | He attended school at the Wallach and at the, | age of sixteen struck out as plumbers’ appren- | | tice with P. J. Burk. He followed this for | | eight years and in 1871 enlisted at Norfolk in | the United States navy. He served six years of | | tea duty aboard the ships Lena and Swatara, | | He was inted: to the police force in 1887 | and was doing duty in'the first precinct under | Lieut. Amiss, when he was assigned to fill the vacancy on ‘the harbor force created by the , | death of Officer Constantine. | Mr. James A. Davis, engineer of the Joe, has | bedu navigating the Potomac river for forty | Fears. He succeeded Engineer Brawner Mills | been driving the Joe for fourteen and has months. the manner born, eighteen years old. He is the | to the position. In con- | Youngest member of the harbor department | He was Ked nd has been in it since the date of its forma- | | tion. THis boudoir is aboard the Joe and his | headquarters the river front. | Robert E. Lee Fergurson has been a member | of the harbor crew since 191.0 He was born in | | Washington twenty-four years ago and is a con- | fectioner by trade, but takes to uavigation like | aduck. He was educated in the public schools | and is popalar along the front. —_— “"POSSUM A’ WATEERMILLEN.” The Mixture That Caused Jim Jenkins’ U; timely Death. 66QRUDDER JOHNSON, I HEZ'NT SEEN Jim Jenkins "bont hyar fur sum time.” “An’ yo’ ain't gwine to see him ‘bout hyar fur sum time longer yit,” Uncle Rastus.” “Yo° doan’t tell me. Nuthin’ wrong, hopes, Brudder Johnson?” “No, sab. Jim's jus’ dead, dat’s all, sab.” “Ump, I is sartinly sorry tu heah dat. What wuz de ‘cashun of Jim's removal, Brudder Johnson?” “Woll, de doctur gib it out ez confushun uf | de stummick, sah.” “Confushun uf the stummick, Bradder John- son?” “Yas, sah. Dat’s what do doctur eay. An’ I wuz berry partichler tu ’cognize jus’ what he tay.” “Confushun uf de stummick, ch. Well, dat beats me, Brudder Johnson. What wuz de ‘cashun uf dis confushun?” “Possum an’ watermilin, sah.” “What's dat yo’ say, Brudder Johnson. ‘Pos- sum and watermilin?” “Dat’s what de doctor ‘cided, Uncle Rastus. It seers like he wuz uf de ‘pinion dat ‘possum | an’ watermilin, tuken tugedder, wuz tu much | fur Jim's stummick, sah.” Uf course dey wuz, Brudder Johnson. Dar ain't no mistake "bout dat ‘clushun, sab. An’ it duz seem like folks nowadays is a-gittin’ so dat | | dey rushes right in de face uf Providence. "Pos- | eum an’ watermilin’ ~Yo" isn’t a-runnin’ down ‘possum an’ water- | milin, is yo’, Uncle Rastus?” “Luk hyar, Brudder Johnson, is I cullud ur is I whité: “Cullud, sab.” “Well, den, did yo’ ebber heah tell uf any cullud puseon arunnin’ down ‘possum an’ water milin?” “No, «ah. Nebber, sab.” ~An’ yo’ ain't likely tu, sah, ez long ez cullud folks doan't lose dere sef-respec’, sab.” “I doan't kno’ dat I understans’ yo, den, Uncle Rastus.” “Den I'll try tu_splain, Brudder Johnson. | Dar ain't no doubt in de wurl but dat ‘possum | an’ watermilin wuz made ‘clusively fur de eullud folks, is dar?” bh. Dat dar ain't.” ‘No, sah; 00, sal feourse, I 'cognizes de fuc’ dat de white folks eats bofe uf ‘em, but dat is jus’ annudder ‘cashun uf dere a tramplin’ on de purrogatives uf de cullud race. But, to pursume de op dar’s a time fur dis, an’ dar’s a time fur dat; jus’ whar Jim Jenkins los’ bis "mem- “How's dat, Uncle Rastus?” ‘Why. sah, © pursumin’ to tempt de wrath of de Lawd de way he did. When de good Lawd ib de culled peoples ‘possum an’ watermilin fo nebber ‘magin d dat dey'd be eatin’ tuged- | der, No, sah, He nebber ‘tended dat dey shud bong ‘Why, Uncle Rastus?” “Brudder Johnson, tell me dis: Is yo’ los’ all r reasonin’? “No, sah, dat I isn’t.” “Well, den, yo’ taks mighty like it, Brudder Johnson. When de Lawd made de "possum an’ sot it aside fur de cullud man, an’ when He made de watermilin an’ sot dat aside fur de cullud man, He specially fit de cullud man’s | stummick fur dem blessin’s uf His. But He fit | "em so dat one wuz tu be eaten dis time uf de yaran’ de udder wuz tu be eaten dat time uf de y'ar. An’ so it is, Brudder Johnson, dat | when de cullud man furgits tu "joy dese ‘bles- | | sin’s uf de Lawd one at u time an’ in dere_par- tickler season, den it is dat He rushes, ez I say, | intu de berry’ face uf Providence, ‘an’ calls down on him de righteous wrath uf Gawd.” ‘0 is a-talkin’ now, Uncle Rastus.”” “Yes, cah; dat I is. ’An’, glory be tu Gawd, sah, I is got de Good Book’ fur my foundashun, Understan’ me, Brudder Johnson, I duzn’t say dat yo'll tind dese berry words dar, but I duz say dis—dat de Lawd said unto de cullud man, | ‘In de time uf ‘possum, eat "possum, an’ in de | time of watermilin, eat ‘watermilin, and fear de Lawd dy Gawd.” So, sah, when de’ cullud man | fargits dat, an’ rushes de blessins uf de Lawd ‘outuf dere season, den yo’ kin luk fur con- fushun uf de stummick ebery time, Brudder | Johnson.” a ‘A Sugar Scare. Secretary Foster of the Treasury Department | recently received a letter from the Spreckles | Company calling attention to the fact that large | | quantitios of refined beet sugur are being im- ported at San Francisco and elsewhere from the free ‘port of Hong Kong, where an extensive | manufactory has been established by English colonists. The Spreckles Company says that the raw material is produced there by slave | eries receive only ten centsa day. The company says that these importations | are destructive to American industries, and asks ifthey cannot be prohibited under’ the reci- procity clause of the McKinley law. Secretary Foster has replied that in the abvence of any evidence that Hong Kong is discriminating against the United States in favor of any other country he fails to see any warrant for execu- tive interference in the matter, and he suggests that Congress alone can provide a remedy. aa ere Omiicers Elected. Union Tent, No. 87, I. O. It., has elected the | following officers for the ensuing term: C. R. E. ips (second term); | 8., J. D. Adams (second term); treasurer, Bunch (tenth term); levite, R.'A. Beasle; inside guard, J. P. Clancy; outside guard, Wm. | Jones; chaplain, Win. K. “Hunt. | — | _ Just as Much Fun and No Danger. From Puck. Col. Blood—“Well, sir, with you—it is amistake to en I thoroughly agree discourage northern rise by promiscuous shooting; but, re- we are a bi i and wise?’ Northern capitalist—“‘Use blank cartridges!” egg ares ‘Two explosions in the furnace room of the | Minois steel works at South Chicago Wednes- day resulted in the death of one man, Petet | Vingart aekooens He | August Conly. James Neale, the watchman, is native and to | Th THE DOCTOR. ‘Max I. Harvey in the New York Herald. WwW r TE TOOK TO HIM FROM THE FIRST. He walked quie at New Parndise one night, when a half dozen of u miners sat smoking, drinking and ex- g reminiscences of civil war, in which every one of us had taken part on one side or the other, emerging therefrom with a treas- ury of wounds, haiz-breadth escapes and des- perate experiences enough to raise the hair on draw comments from the toughened veterans themselves. Ife came in as soft! wowere all asleep and he was afraid of awaking us. Ho was the handsomest fellow that had ever shown up in the Golconda diggings. Six feet tall, straight, « natural and graceful athlete, even the full yellow beard that covered his face could not hide its symmetry and won- derful winsomeness. The nose was slight aquiline, the brown eyes bright and the with its scant covering, was as matchless as any that Rubens ever immortalized on canvas. He greeted us familiarly and captured us all by ageneral invitation to the bar—an invita- tion promptly and enthusiastically accepted. jere was some surprise when he named lem- onade, but only one of the company objected. ike, the most vicious desperado that ever had a price set on his, head, and tol- erated at New Paradise only because we were afraid of him. If half the rumors about Red Mike were trae he ought to have been hanged adozen times over. He was quick to draw, forever hunting a guarrel. and played the king bully over all. He was a frowzy, snarli wretch, slouchy of gait, husky of voice, wi beady ‘eyes, led red beard—a tramp in giant in strength and a devil in dispo- “T obsarved, stranger,” said ho, after gutping “down his share, “that you insulted us." “‘How is that?” asked the now comer, in his gentle voice, the twitching of the beard at the sides of his mouth and a twinkle of his wo- eyes showing that he was smiling. ‘You drnnk some pizon, while the rest of us took ours straight.” “You drank what you preferred and I did the sami Every one of us«ympathized with the stranger, but, like cowards, hept our mouths closed. We knew what was coming. “What did yer swaller?” continued Red Mike, stepping in front of the man, leaning one elbow on the bar and glaring into the face of the smiling stranger. never drink anything stronger.”” When you're with this crowd the samo as the rest of us.” “I shall exercise the same right a8 you—that of choosing my own drink." I plucked up enongh manhood at this point to interpose, sceing that Mike was determined to force a quarrel. “You forget yourself, Mike. This gentleman isastranger. He comes among us, and we have all drank with him. He took, as he says, what he preferred and we did the sgme. You have no ewuse to object.” “TM ‘tend to you when I’m through with dress, a sition. you've got to dri | him,” he growled, flashing his flaming visage on me ‘and turning back the same instant. “Stranger, you Rave the ch’ice of drinking a tumbler of mountain dew or you die.” He slid his hand down his hip as he spoke, but the other was quicker than he, so quick that none of us ever rightly understood how it was done. ‘Two pistol shot reports rang through the little barroom of the Angel's Bower. but one was a second abead of the other. Witha frightful oath Red Mike lurched against the har, sagged sideways and then collapsed, going down on the floor, his hat tumbling off, weapon dropping from his nerveless hand and both arms flapping out above his head as, he thumped over on his back af full length. His bullet had nipped the ear of the st T and embedded itself in the timbers behind him; the other had passed through his neck and it looked as if the time had come for Red Mike to die with his boots on. None of us moved. The stranger shoved his pistol into his pocket. stepped forward and knelt on one knee beside the head of the senseless mis- creant. He ran his fingers along the wound, bending his head lower and examining the hurt ina way that made us suspect on instant that he was a doctor. it him where T intended, looking around and up in curfaces, “He won't die, but when he gets well he'll know more than he A swallow of brandy will help him,and, gentlemen, you will oblige me onge more.” He drew the bulky form one side, aa though it was that of « child, set it upright, with the back against the wall, with the d flopping limy ly ly to the right and left. The brandy was he 1 eld to the whiskered lips, and after Mike had swallowed the stuff and showed | signs of reviving the attendant bandaged the wound with some subtracted from the superabundance around Mike's person. “Now, you will come. all right,” remarked the visitor, walking back to the bar, where, glasses in’ hand, we awaited him. He lifted his lemonade again and said: “Your health, gentlemen.” While the bottom of my glass was tilted upward T shot a look alongside of it at Mike. His shaggy bead drooped forward, but it was done purposely, and the lower whites of his eves showed. He was glaring from under the beetling ridge of his brows at the stranger, who, having drunk again, was fishing out with his forefinger a piece of the dried lemon in the bottom of the dirty glass. Mike's head was bent so far over that it was hard to see what he was doing, but he was studying his master and that master knew it. “How do you feel?” he asked, in the sympa- thetic tone of a physician. “None of your business,” granted the desperado. “*A good sign when a patient talks like that,”” remarked the stranger, champing the bit of withered lemon; “if you'll i on a couch where he can be qniet for several days he will soon come around again. I will drop in tomorrow and look at him.” Landlord McGuigan helped the snorting Mike to wobble to the back room, where he was dumped on McGuigan’s only spare couch and ouce more and finally he collapsed. “I judge youare a physician?” I said to the visitor. “Yes, Iwas a surgeon for the confederacy from Manassas to the sunset at Appomattox— Dr. Edward Creighton, at your sevice.” He lifted his: army hat With a “good-night, gentlemen,” and passed out into the darkness, carrying our hearts with him, for he was @ born knight, with the daring of a lion, ‘The next morning Ked Mike was wilder than aloon. McGuigan was scared out of his wits and begged the doctor to give him a dose right off that would kill or soothe him, preferably the former. Ten minutes later Mike was sleep- ing as sweetly as when an innocent infant, though it 1s hard to imagine him, even at that early stage, guiltless of any of the crimea attainable by fallen huinan nature. A week later he was substantially well, though the wound troubled him for a considerable wi I. That was how Dr. Ned Creighton and Red Mike became partuers. That burly, tousled knot of concentrated deviltry was now the méek bulldog, never so content as when allowed to lick the hand that had smitten him. He gas as ready as ever to strike, bite, claw. gouge and shoot with any one except the doctor. One lance of those soft brown eves electrocuted im. He was happy only in the doctor's com- pany. Shrinking in one corner, doubled uj and introverted like a turtlo, he fixed his beady eyes on his master, who talked and Inughed and captivated all by his wonderful | 7”: magnetism, unconscious apparently of those orbs that seemed not to wink for Crack! sounded Mike's revolver, and Boston Hank lesped from hie seat with % questioning glare at the fellow, who from place on a smashed barrel held his smoking revolver still leveled. T didn “But you opened your mouth and war goin’ to lip in: I shet you off. “J was gapmg—that’ from your looks that you meant to speak when you got them jaws of yourn back ‘ag’in to place. The doctor isn't to be ‘nter- hear me, a as though he suspected | “Blamed if T know,¢copt he has a picter that he takes ont from his inside westcot over his heart, I'spose—and holds it the light and never takes his eyes offen it, onleas to rend a letter that he carrios in the same place.” Are you sure he never says anything’ oheerd hig mutter once or twice, heav- ing a hig sigh, but the only word I've ever been | able to catch ‘was ‘Maggie.’ and I'm not sure of | that. He kisses" the picter ever so many times, | and when he is throngh puts ’exi ba ther. | He is the m ‘ist man I ever knowed He never forgits me and moves about like acat, | ring of waking me, not ‘specting ‘cause my | eyes appear to be shet I'm peeping atween the nd then doos he lie down?” He slips out of doors, comming buck jest afore daylight to prevent my waking up and finding him gone. Tthiak thar's some woman in the business, and, if a woman,” added the philos- ange ‘then a man, and,” resumed the bull- wing his fangs, “I want to find that “And has the doctor never explained any- of this?” “Lean't "zactly say no. Ho was so infarnal Dlue three nights ago that [up and acks him whether I couldn't do nuthing for him. He looked at me steady like for a minute and then says, says he, ‘Mike, what do you thinkI come out to the mines fur?” 5 “ (To dig gold,’ I says, innocent like. # ‘No,’ says he: ‘I’m looking fur a man.’ 1 {it feokéne all abeck when he said that and continners after a proper pause: “«+And what are you going to do with the man when you find him?’ “Tsay, did you ever see blood red thunder and lightning mixed up with the fire from the eyes cree heey 2) snaps back his head tostrike? Wal, that was the doctor's face when T drops down on him with that question, and then he says: ‘Wait till I find him; he’s somewhar on top of the ‘arth and I come out to the Goleonder to look for him.’ “Then I purceeded, kind of gentle like, to ask the doctor what might be the man’s namo, what did he look like and any other p'ints that ight be of use to me. But he shook his head and says: ‘Mike, it is't for you to find my man; it's for me.’ If any one else #hets me out T'l shoot the chap that does it, even if it’s you. toll you he's mine.” And that look that I'm speak of comes ck agin ten thousand caus grea faatiaiiea elt eatateaetres He wouldn't say nothing more, which is all I ow."* A few days latera blizzard struck New Para- dise and Devil's Gulch. Little snow was fiyi in the air, but the sleet that spun and gyrat everywhere waslike billions of birdshot. ‘There were place» in the gorges where it would enutch up man and fling him away likes feather in a hurricane. It bounded through the gullies, gorges, ravines and pockets, shriek- ing like a legion of demons; it penetrated the thickest clothing like a dagger and chilled the marrow in one’s bones; sometimes its howling sank to a dismal wail, s0 low and tremulous that we fancied it was subsiding, only to break out the next minute with tenfold fierceness. All that we could do while it lasted was to cower in our cabins, or at the Angel's Bower, and wait for it to spend itself. There was no working in the Golconda until an abatement came. On the second night we gathered at McGui; an’s. There had been abatement enough durin, the day for the landlord to gather more wood and plug some of the chinks and crevices in the Bower. It was the same party that was there three months before, when the doctor intro- duced himself particularly to Red Mike. I never saw him in amore enterteining mood. He told a.number of his army experiences, and every one felt when listening to him that nothing in our own lives was to be named be- side them. I can see now in recalling that night that the difference lay in the ‘manner of telling and the resistless personality of the man SA phe his stool, As he sat, partly tipped back on his stool, with his logs” crossed, his fect, us delicately ped as a woman's, showing through the big boots, which came above his knees and into which his trousers were tucked, his slouch army hat on one knee, his bright eyes spark- ling and the thin silken ‘hair tossed off his fore- head, he formed a picture whose peculiar win- someness no painter ever surpassed. ‘The bulldog crouched in his corner,devouring him with his eyes and ready to spring at our throats on the first provocation. But there could be none. No one would interrupt the narration which we wished could continue till morning. At times the shrieking blizzard shook the structure so savagely that we expected it to go scurrying down the gulch, spilling us on the way. We drew in our breath and tried to be as heavy as we could, while praying that the elemental fury would hold off until the doctor Ainished the particular story he was telling. Tn the midst of bis narrative the goor was shoved inward and John Wilkins entered. * The man lived half a mile up the gulch with his wife and small child, @ little girl four or five'years old. He was shiftless ne'er-do- well, who rarely visited New Paradise and was known to only a few of us. He spent most of his time wandering through the mountains ‘be- yond prospecting, except when compelled to shoot game for food or fill tho little patch of ground attached to his squalid home. His wife was such a recluse that none of us had ever seen her. Our first feeling was that of wonder that the fellow could have fought his way through the blizzard, which was bitter and fierce enough to strangle @ polar bear. In appearance he was a | reminder of Red Mike, except he was more | cadaverous, hollow-eyed and stooping. Something unusual must have driven the man thither; for, without approaching the fire or the bar, he said: “Gentlemen, I've come foradoctor, I heard you had one with you.” “What is the matter?” one asked. “Is your child sick?” | “No; it isn't Alice. It's her mother. I'm) afraid she’s going to die. She's had a bad | fever for more than a week; but I didn't hear | about your having a doctor among you till to- day or I would have come for him.” “How is your wife now?” “The fever is gone, but she is so weak, Jving with her glassy eyes fited on the ceiling, that don't know whether she’s alive or dead till I to her. One thing is certain—if she sn't get help before morning she will go. Is it true, boys, that you've got a doctor among you?” “Yes,” I replied; “there he sits.” The turning of Wilkins’ eyes toward the doc- tor naturally caused us to do the same. With- out any one having noted it he had donned his | army hat and pulled it down so low that only) his nose and eyes showed between the rim and beard, | He was looking straight and silently at | the caller, but even with this partial screen I was struck by the strange glitter in hiseves, A protrusion of his mustache showed that his lips were compressed and he was breathing hard through his thin nostrils, His legs were still rossed and the arms were folded. “I don’t suppose you want to make a journey up the gulch with me.” bogan Wilkins apolo- getically, “for it’s mighty tough out doors, but if [can stand it you can, and it’s.a case of life and death.” His last words were uttered tremulously and | he drew the back of one bare hand across his eyes. All of us were sorry, for rough men are quick in their sympathies, but we felt the doc- tor would be warranted in refusing in self-de- fense. I don't know whether we were sur- | prised or not when he quietly rose to his full | ‘ight and began buttoning his thick coat up to his eyes and drawing on his mittens, saying as he did so: “Pil go ense, please. ‘The doctor's small leathern case of medi- 8 you, McGuigan, hand me my weight in gold, he always kept at the Angel's Bower, taking it with him when making a pro- | fessional call and leav: again on ‘The bulldog slowly ed his —_ box on which ke was crouc! y ing and “Mike, there's no use of your going along.” The doctor spoke kindly, as he always did, to the dog, but his voice sounded like another per- son's. “You'll need me to take care of you, doctor.” “I'm, obliged, but 1 profer to go’ alone to- Alike backed slowly to the box, glared behind him as if angered and suspicious of the su and sagged down with a vast sigh. ‘His was broken: it was the first time his mas- ter had repulsed him. “Idon't know how to thank you, dectar,” muttered the grateful Wilkins, “but"-— “Then don't try. Lead the way. I'll fol- ‘The curt interruption iting Pl tg pt was as cut as the Whatever the rest may have thought I never el more certain of anything in muy life than when Dr. shton w: out of Al ¥ Ape pe one mane whom be had ing lo! thete many i cines, worth in the diggings more than their | thy EF F E ile a . g ee Sa eens ey Rees bene, teneng He s' to the crackling fire of stumps and knots extended his unmittened to- ward it. He stood gent, with his ou! hands, and seeraxd td have forgotten to remove his bat on entering the place. “Ob, doctor, yout have made me happy again!” over and a ope The husband ‘followed him beside him, his whole frame shivering with: anda new-born happiness. “I will say, doctor, that after years of prospecting through pov- erty, eufferiug and almost death, in which she | was always and forever the heroine, I have struck it rich at last; [have found the biggest kind of paying lead and. my fortune is secure. Nurse my wife back to health and strength and alf of i: shall be yours——" an Warndyke, that is not what I want of ¥ ou. ‘The doetor snatched off his hat and flached his face about with the suddenness of light- ning. The countenances of the two men were = a foot ae That of —————— ith rage, hate, fury and very ecstacy revenge. The giare of his eyes was the Bengal tiger's when his fangs meet in the velvet throat of his rival. “My God! Edward Creighton!" ‘The other breathed out the husky wl witha single aspiration, recoiling a step, hands supplicatingly upward and out Little noise was , but enough to arouse the sleeper. She opened her eyes, large, dark and lustrous, and, from the slightly elevated rest on the rude pillow, saw the couple facing each other. “Ie that you, husband?” she faintly asked in a dazed way. “Whom have you brought with horn He called back enot “The doctor, Mag better. Iam sure——" *'Go to the next room, close the door and do not come back till I bid’you.” Red Mike could not have obeyed the com- mand more meekly than did the husband. It was dark and cold whitherhe went, for the bliz- zard was still raging and little heat penetrated from the fire by tho sick woman, but John Warndyke knew it not. He walked out un- steadily and closed the door behind him. The doctor waited until it was shut, when, keeping his back toward the patient, he removed his outer coat, into whose pockets he had thrust his mittens, laid it over one of the few chairs in the room, where also was his medicine case, and then, turning slowly about, walked to the side of the couch with the sedate step of a 7 self-control to answer: , and he says you are soldier on parade, In that gentle, thetic tone which became him more naturally than any one else, he said, drawing up his chair and venWell, Mago, Tamm glad to dnd you better. “Well, ,» Lam fo you Sad Paletags 5 sa tenghiaih gerne bed pengreal given name cansed her to look inguiringly in the face of the doctor. ‘The burning candle and blaze of the open fire filled the room with yellow light, ‘Bosides the doctor pu his countenance 80 as to reflect its glow. the attempjed to raise her head to gains clearer view, but be gently forced her beck. “What! Can it be?’ No, but you look itke him, but he is deed, has been dead—died years ago_—what does it mean? Is my brain going ‘wrong aguin? "No, no, no, but you look 6o ike him and he had no brother.” “Don't excite yourself, Maggie; T como as our physician and must not’ endanger your ife. Bat rou are growing strong, I'see that. A little care and the danger will bo past. Tam Edward Creighton, to whom you oonfessed your love more than six years ago, I am. not dead, though John Warndyke made you think — The dark eyes were centered on the counte- nance and for a minute she was silent. Not yet could she be fully assured of what she heard and saw. “Yea, it is he—it is Edward. I know that noble countenance. He was the truest man that ever lived, and how I loved him!" She was murmuring to herself, and any one beside the doctor would have believed her mind was wandering, but he knew her senses had crystalized and they were viewing each other through the windows of the soul. He still held the hand, but spoke not. “Edward, no woman ever loved man asI loved you and no man ever loved woman more than you loved me. John sought me first, but I turned him aside for you. I thought he had given me up, but he came to me with the woeful word of your death at Petersburg. I was broken hearted, , homeless, with no friends,and grateful when he offered himself again. He took me, knowing my heart was with you.” Ahot tear dropped upon the tiny hand tm- prisoned in that of the doctor, but that was all. “God knows I cannot censure you, but what of him who has wrecked two ‘must settle with him.” Pa is my husband, the father of little Alice ere.” “IT am mortal and his crime is beyond mortal forgiveness.” . ‘She Fepeated more softly, more gently, more peed. than before, with the great lustrous eyes looking up in his: eee my husband—the father of little Alice calle thifted his gaze to that of the sleeping a. “Yes, your child—his daughter—with all your loveliness and, thank God, none of his hard, cruel features.” ee oh The hand nestli: in the im crept out and tho wasted fingers closed ‘aa far sn they could around those of the doctor. Their grip tightened so strongly that he withdrew his gaze from the child and looked wonderingly into the mother’s face, “Will you promise me, Edward?” “Promise you what, Maggie “To harm him not.’ It is for my sake; it is for the sake of little Alice there. Edward, have I your promise?” e grand head bent lower and the lips touched not hers, but the emooth, cool fore- head, from which ail fever had fied. He did not speak—he could not—but with a face as it was the face of an angel she said, looking up in his race: “Thank you, Edward.” Through the’ moan and howl of the blizzard came the thudding report of a Winchester just outside. ‘The door was hastily pushed inward and John Warndyke, his cadaverous face livid as death itself, bounded in. “The gulch is full of Indians! What shall we do, doctor?” “Fight,” was the calm reply, the physician rising to’ his feet ua if, having’ completed his Professional call, he was about to make an- other. “But—but they will burn us out; the cabin isn’t stronger than a cobweb; I have only a single ritle; you have none,” “Lhave my revolver; what else can we do? ough to walk we lives? I & If your wife was strong might reach the other cabin A rustling caused the doctor to look around. ‘The woman was hastily donning her outer gar- ment and shoes. “What does this mean?” he asked sternly. We must leave” —— ‘Impossible! Torder you to lie down at once; you may as well be shot here as outside.” She gave no heed, but wrought with the deft celerity which only’ her sex can show in an emergency the ill, weak patient had become well and strong in's twinkling. Comfortably clad, she donned all the heavy outer garments at command and hurriedly swathed her child. ‘The little one roused from sleep was stupid and without comprehension of what was Going on around her. Listless and passive as potter's clay, she was quickly patterned by the potter. ‘The doctor surveyed the mother with the eye of a professional. “Your strength may last half an ho 1r—possi- Vly alittle longer—then you will be weaker in before. The excitement nerves you un- naturally “And will doo tothe end; if not, you or John may carry me; 1 weigh searcely morethan “‘And what of her?” “She is now wide awake; I will hold her hand and we will hurry down the galch. It is not far; we shall soon traverse it.’ ‘Your plan sounds good, but the way may not be oven; Yll boa lost ene ey He stepped through the door, shutting it quickly behind him. “he blizzard was how! like 10,000 demons through the mount i trated nos of darkness; vision of the doctor saw dimly for a A lump of gloom a few away the grotesque ou‘lines of © human Somewhere z i ii way is clear!” eons ens "at, Rdward, what of you?" Lake cacNom; ght down the gulch a fast as you Eaten. Soe was “I will linger a bit to cover the rear; don't wait for me. “But ought not Jobn to stay with you?” ‘Some of them may be in advance; Fou need | ‘But, doctor, won't you take my gun?” | “You will waut it. have my revolver and | plenty of cartridges. Of with you! Not} another eecond!” ‘They vanished and the Doctor was alone. Holding tight the iittle Land within her own, the mother almost on the heels of her husband, who, grasping his Winchester and Posting into the night, forgot the teeth of the * iifelike blizzard. A little way only, and then John Warndyke heard that which 1 never expected to hear again in this life. When the gray-coatediegions rushed up the slope at Gettysburg, laughing as | they looked into the muzales of muskets and cannon spouting red death, and pouring over every obstruction, animate and human; at ; in the Wilderness; when Stone- | wall Jackson sent the eleventh corps flying as | ff @ thousand-ton bomb had fallen smoking in the middle of their camp; in the hell of battle, when the pant conflict was hand to hand— John Warndyke had heard that electric ery. It wwaa the old «rebel yal" webieh through 's Gutch, above the shricking of | blizzard, the screech of Sioux and the explosion | of revolver and rifle. rge. I ‘old ecstacy tingling vein and brain, he knew not of the cry that escaped him—i under his control than the pulsing of his heart. The door of the Angel's Bower was dashed in- ward and a man half supporting terrified and fainting wife and with a little child clinging to her dress staggered into the room. “For heaven's sake, quick, men! The doctor is at our cabin fighting a hundred Indians! You haven't a minute to ue The “bull dog” wes the first to leap to his feet. With a hoarse oath he plunged through the door, the rest of us streaming after him. MoGuigan and Warndyke were the only men te “Look after my wife that I may go, too.” “Yes, John; you are needed; delay not a mo- ment.” . She faintly and was so weak that the two had to carry her to the rear room, where she and her child were gently placed. Then her husband vanished without a word. Less than two hours later we returned bear- ing a still form among us. It was tenderly laid and Notes. ‘The judges in the problem tourney have snc- Place, No.8 by Mr. Geo. Heintz of Annapolis, Md., takes eecong and honorable mention is gained by Messrs. A. V. Boatrite (No. 17), H. C. Messrs. Otto Wurzburg and Spencer Hiatt, for their effective services. No. 131. By S.C. DUNIIAM. First Prize. ‘White to play and mate in two (2) moves. No. 132. By GRO. HEIN at full length on the floor of the Angel’s Bower, where the firlight fell on the magnificent head and figure. The right hand still clutched the empty tevolver and the left was thrust in above he bone, oo if to still the throbbing of the heart. Following the sleeve with my own hand till I reached the cold, stiff fingers, I felt the death grip closed around something. “These are for you,"I said to the pale, speechloes woman that had come from the inner room and leaned, white and breathless, over the form on the floor. She took the letter and picture without a sign, for she knew it was her hand that had Pinned the one and her own sweet features were fimned on the other, and the last things clasped in life were they, noble a heart as 6 man. here they nestled aguinst as throbbed in the breast of (rue exp.) ——__+e+-_____ OUR MASTER DIGIT. From Times of Old the Rule of Thu: Prevailed. From Chambers Journal. Tossya man works by rule of thumb is to reproach him with exactness, but when ex- chequer tallies were in use a notch, the width of a thumb, represented exactly £10. When drapers employed the cloth-yard wand the possession of narrow thumb was an advantage to an aspirant to the counter, as in goods the buyer gained a thumb's fingered ones of their advantage and the draper’s customers of their “thumbs.” It is by the thumb the miller tests the char- acter and qualities of the grain he grinds; spreading the sample over the fingers by a pe~ culiar movement the thumb, he gauges its value by the thumb itself. Cornelius ted _his pictures with his thumb, and it is still the picture cleaner’s safest tool. When was rendered enster by the invention of the thimble or thumbell, as it was originally galled, that useful article was worn upon the thumb, not the finger; and the Japan- ese dentist, disdaining any but’ nature's appli- ances, finds hia thumb and finger all-sufficing in the extraction of the most stubborn of aching teeth. ‘According to the epilogue writer of the sev- enteenth century it was then easy to distinguish nad country from < the town gallant in ma Senter, latter being known by putti in order with a comb, wi = oteaey | brother was content to ‘attain the same object with four fingers and a thumb. ‘A Chilean merchant used to defy forgery by placing one thumb on the paper he wished to sign and tracing its outline. Then he placed the other thumb across, outlined that, and his ture was complete. The Chinese have long been aware that the impressions of no two thumbs, individual, are aljke, and impressions of every, criminal’s thumb are taken by the police and numbered for reference. He may disguise him- self as he will, make up as he can, but a cot parison of the impressions of his thumbs wit that in the police archives settles the identity of an old offender beyond doubt. —_—+e+____ Written for The Evening Star. The Song of the River. As I stand by the stream in its murmuring flow And watch the stray beams of the moon as they glow, And the glimmer and shimmer in ghostly array On the turbulent water e’er rolling away, And I see the dark clouds gather over the night As the shadow of death dims the life's faded light. And the night's palling breath with its funeral moan In the dole of a soul that is dying alone Chills my breast with a shud’ring, ineffable fear, ‘There comes a strange sound, @ strange voice to mine ear: °Tis the voice of the river that calls to me there, Enthriliing and filling my heart with despair, While thralling and calling and drawing me near With its mustc so dismal, so dread and so drear, And this {s the song that it murmurs to me As It rolls o'er the shoals on its way to the sea: “Come, oh come from the world with its trouble ‘and strife! Cast into oblivion the bubble of life! Float away on ny breast to the ocean of sleep, To the ocean 80 peacefal, so great and #o deep, ‘That none ever wakes to the sorrows of earth, But returns to the bliss from which taken by birth! For life’s but a struggle from cradle to tomb, A striving and driving through torment and gloom, ‘While man’s but a creature of torture and pain, Discerning, yet yearning for heaven in vain, For the joy of a day is the sorrow of years. And the one happy smile is a fountala of tears— Ever the greater the pleasure the greater the woe ‘That follows the loss of the joy that must go. Man fs born bat to die and the grave is his goal, Whate'er his convictions concerning his soul, Yet he struggles and strives with the world and its hate, Ever groping and hoping ’gainst pitiless fate, And he battles and tolls and he suffers and fears "Mid the care and despair and the burden of years; And-the meed for his struggles that end with his breath Is nothing, aye nothing, but intinite death! ‘Then, oh, flee from this scene of malevolent gioom! Why stay and delay the inex’rable doom? Come, oh, come to me now,te my welcome embrace, And my waters shall smother and cover thy face, And banish for ever the phantom of life ‘With the chains and the pains of a merctless strife!” measuring PKs width in every yard,but the adoption of « meas- | 3 Pca ure embedded in the counter deprived slim-| $ ren of the cerry cessfully brought to a close their arduous labore | and have made their award in a very able and | Bot to incroase it, satisfactory ganner. Tourney problem.No. 11/™uch beat in the body, due to the too great by Mr.& C. Dunham of this city takes first | Painter (for both No. 14 and No. 9)and Mr, | the body through the pores of th: F. A. Cooley (No. 16). The editor takes this thus to preserve » ‘occasion to express his thanks .to the jndgos, | VARIOUS SUMMER BEVERAGES. | The Star's First Problem Tourney—Games | How Some of the Most Common Inter-Ab- dominal Washes Are Urodaced, From the Boston Herald. Summer drinks are taken to quench thirst, Thirst is caused by too Proportion of beat-producing food consumed, such as fatty, farinaceous and saccharine arti- cles of dict. Liquids are taken to carry off this heat from vkin, and ormal tempe nat Now, if the drinks which we take to allay thirst in the summer season are of themselves charged with heat-producing matter, a is the cae with unduly sweetened soda drinks, root deers, &c., the end for which they are imbibed fs defeated, and the thirsty citizen who aima to quench his thirst by euch beverages finds it in creased, and keeps on drinking, much to his discomfort and * relief He hae an idea that acid drinks are cooling, and goes into # well-known place abere temper- ance drinks only are suppli There be amie for lactart. hoxphate, orangrade orlemon- ade, and, while he t+ given a certain amount of the acid. it is smothered in sirup, and it i 20 with all drinks taken from the oda fountai save the plain soda water itself, which is one the best beverages extant to queuch thirst This leads to the consideration of the soda fountain iteelf, no called, and the ageucy it now has in furnishing sun drinks, The so- called soda water is not soda water at all, but water impregnated with carbonic acid gna, de- riving ite name, however, from the fact that when it was fire made ured to obtain the carbonic Now carbonate of lime or marble dust is used, and carbonic acid is liberated from it by the agency of sulphuric acid, which, having « greater affinity for the lime, seives it, freeing the gas and forming sulpbate of lime Tampregnate Ssoda water than it neither, im fact, but isanvthing. The gas is prod vessel, and tranemitted by torts cantaining the water to &@ pressure of a square inch, A retort will hold water, but only ter ting movement b No. 133. By A. V. BOATRITE. Honorable mention. ‘White to play and mate in two (2) moves. GAME No. 68. SCOTCH GAMBIT. old masters, in which Cochran, the ventorof nang brilliant serletions. fn the operas Hprone a spatkuing innovation on guod cid George or. ERS SBxKtch xB ‘ Kia? (a) Big” Pon Bears ORES 7 KtxKBP(b) KxKt aya which 11 nigh obsolete. he deshine ingovatign relecred testers, Tee kscallit “hazardous,” but say that black must conduct his defenee with the greatest care. fc) There SSinore resource in castles followed by HK, he. ores. Mr. Emmet Hamilton, the well-known western amateur, has transferred his excellent chess column from the St. Paul Pioneer Press to the St. Paul Dispatch. Lasker is suffering from the effects of his ugh ly : challenge Tarrasch toa match. There is also a possibility of bis playing old Bird before his American trip. Mr. Bird's wonderful vitality . He was playing in'the time of our grandfa' and there seems to be every probability that he will still be playing in the time of our grandchildren. ‘The eighth game in the Von Bardeleben-Wal- brodt match was drawn after « long ending struggle, leaving the score $ to 0 in Walbrodt's favor with 5 draws, The City of London Chess Club has just dis- tributed the prizes to the successful competitors in its winter tournament. Mr. Morian, first choice, chose a set of ivory chesemen of Staun- ton pattern, value £15, presented by the presi- dent of the club, Mr. Kershaw. Mr. A. J. Maas, having second choice, selected a set of ivory chessmen of Indian’ pattern, valued at 20 Guineas, presented by Mr. Frankenstein. Messrs, Witmer and Pollock took first and second prizes in the Baltimore handicap. A quintangular simultaneous tournament has been commenced at the Washington Chess Club. ‘The first round was played vesterday evening with Mr. L Y. Knight officiating as peripatecic layer. he playing simultaneously against the Four ‘other contestants, Messrs. Gwyer, Dunham, Molstad and Macfarland. Mr. Dunham de- fended a Scotch gambit and won in brilliaut style. Messrs. Gwyer and Molstad also de- fended Scotch gambits, but each was compelled to resign after somewhat prolonged contests. ‘Mr. Macfarland adopted a Petroff's defense, but lost the game after thirty moves. ——_e+—____ Army of the Cumberland. Many letters have been received from Grand Army men and members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland in regard to the dates for the reunion of the latter society at Chicka- manga, The change of date for this latter re- union to avoid conflict with the encampment at Washington has led to much confusion. The meeting of the Army of the Cumberland will take place September 15 and 16 at Chickamauga, the week Wefore the national encampment, and not after it,as at first announced. Reduced fares have been secured on the railroads, and information received by Gen. Rosecrans indi- cates a very large attendance at Chickamauga. os ‘The Order Assigning Gen. Kelton. The following order was yesterday issued by the War Department: By direction of the President Brig. Gen. John C. Kelton, U.S. army (retired), is selected to be governor of the Soldiers’ Home, District of Co- inmbis, vice Big. Gen. Oxtento B. Wileos, U. 8. army (retired ), resigned, and wil the duties of that ofee accordingly. Acting Secretary of War. ——e-____ A Dark Secret. From the Chicago News-Record. “Oh, Wadsleigh, which way?” “Going down to have a pair of trousers pressed.” ‘Trousers “Sh! Got ‘em on!” Where are they?” So the river is luring and thralling my soul, ‘While low, like the flow, kuells the tremulous toll Of the funeral bell far away in the ione— ‘The knelling and telling of life that has town. Aye, the river calis loudly, and madly and clear, ‘Strange visions are becking and calling me near: “Oh, come to me, come to me, come to my breast!” “Ah, come to the river, the giver of rest!” See, the watera are boiling and toiling to meet, ‘To meet me, to greet me and further And the river 1s welling and swelling its deep ‘To grasp me and clasp me forever in sleep, ‘While lapping and purling and hurling it sings, And splashing and dashing tt stealthily clings, er palling, enthralling and calling to me ‘While whirling and swirling its way to the sea. Jaly 9, "92. Curroap Howanp. —_+e-—___ ‘No Doubt About It. ‘From Trath. ‘Jagge—‘T hitard of « young lady who gets a great many people into trouble.” Gaggs—‘‘You did; what's her name?” Bertha a herself before a nd’ abe cannot jaiter—“Customer sent he seer - wee Sern Tae ‘We can never use it again; he has ; it for it. of shape” label end is tui he water thrown other. An agitation of some ten or twelve minutes usually suffices to change the water under ‘ure, which ¥ about two gallons, or 0 Tt may here be «tated that the oda water of ent affair from what it Then ordinary service ne cases epring water, was used. Now only distilled water is used to be tmapregnet 4 with carbonic acid gan. is water is produced from a «team boiler, an is well known, by jensation from the steam, the latter run into a cooling nil lowered alternated from one end to the chamber or condenser, wh stracted from it by runn’ the surface. The distille densed h temperature it, it is through coi are surrounded with When the water ix warm or hot it will not take up the carbonic acid gas, and the lower its temperature the more readily the latter will combine with it, Now, from this source the soda fountain fs derived the great bulk of our summer temper- ce drinks, and it is satisfaction to know that the charged water employed is absolutely in am ice box which |. which is so dangerous to breathe, appears to have a good, if not a tonic, effect on the stomach. In wines and beers, where it ix produced by fermentation, it i the life of these drinks, for without it they would be fut and tasteless to a degree. The art of introducing it artificially into nom alcoholic drinks is a great benefit to humanity. The effect of the extended employment of the soda fountain now ix that; if'® ix thirety and wants a cooling, efferveseing drink, he re- pairs to the nearest apothecary store, or place where summer drinks are dispensed, and calle for any kind of dri The compound h drix 3 and very quickly accomplished by the . ‘The various extracts, and favors, « ready prepar from faucets in in to the req amount in the bottom of the tumbler. the glass is filled with the carbonized water and # palatable drink 1 ready for the castomer. ¢ only eriticinn that can be made on these drinks for summer consumption is that they are too «weet, and therefore too bi wublic tast , but the public taste is wrong. d, if it is desired to quench thirst a glass of plain soda is the best drink that cam be taken, even betier than spring water. So-called tonic bottled beers are made in the eame way that the drinks are compounded at the soda fonntain. The required umount of sirup with the flavor is drawn i and the bottle filled with the ch: These tonic drinks are produced in lange quantities, and are good and wholeso Devernge, but after the bottle — whic! large—is opened once or twi acid gas the later draughts from it are comparatively flat. Still, where the soda fountain cannot be afforded, this isa good substitute for it. Af root beer are «till made, placed in retorts and charged with carbonic acid gas, The trouble with «uch beverages, owing to the saccharin drawn from t ree as to be undrinkuble, dixpense them in portable form the #l must draw the beer in large vessels at w it to when a glass of beer is called p under the faucet. draws a small amount of foam in it, and then fills in the beer from a pitcher There is another class of summer drinks — styled nerve foods, ne Litter or tonic prince of wormwood or son | juice or extract—which may merit as they have grown into exten count of their tonic properties, in part, but quite largely from liberal advertixing. These nerve food beers are made in the same way that the ordinary tonic beers are, only that in addition to flavoring extracts they contain the bitter principle aforesaid, and sometimes only that alone in combination with the sirup. These “nerve food” drinks are very agree- able to some palates, the bitter principle act- ‘as a tonic, but no doubt some of their jects may be ascribed to thi i the users or their faith in the chums made for the drinks, From the above enumeration of summer tem- perance drinks it will be seen that in them all the fermentative principle bas been altogether eliminated, and ite resultant carbonic acid gas artificially produced and introduced. Whether this is for the benefit of the buman stomach or not is still an open question; the ity of opinions, however, will no affirmative side of the qnes- enter upos | tion, for the reason thot all fermentative drinks are more or les# alcoholic, and that is injurious not only to the body, but to mind ‘and morals. “Och, sure an’ she's done well wid herself. ‘She married a lord.” “Why, you don't tell me! An English lord?” 1 Ron's think he's an English lord. He's He kapes summer hotel out “Why shouldn't « man flirt with his wife?” “Ab—but ube was bis first wife and they were, divorced.” :