Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1892, Page 12

. Y~80, 18 a gigantic snake threaded through the body of se wd hring te, Retecotoar, eT) PLEASE WOMEN. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, | things uD he has no gun, but mostly always | Alliance and other parasites, has this kind of a THE OCEAN’S TERRORS bas a gun, we find » gerr; in the | layout in the second district: « [eleventh district, represented by John H. Real Sea Serpents That May Turn Up Any Day Off Shore. | Wilson, republican (and the only one), in this THE G — | form: LIKE GIGANTIC EELS. ‘Weitten for The Evening Stax. TO ROW ACROSS THE OCEAN. IN HOLIDAY HUMOR. _C Ambition of the Young Swede Whe Made & ‘What the Man tm the Moon Saw and Heard | Groat Rowboat Voyage in the North Sea. on the Upper Potomac. Prom the San Fran-iacs Chronicle HE MAN IN THE MOON SAW MANY| A number of people have attempted to row things during his Journey through the aky | across the Atlantic in «mall boats, but none of that night, but when, after passing out of | them has accomplished the fest anda few have mortal view he recounted what he had observed | perished in the attempt. This has not aiscow on earth to bis consort, the woman in the moon, | aged the modern viking C. G. Uddgren, the Who is 0 seldom seen because she prefers to | young Swede now at the lalace Hotel linger on the other side, particularly during the ‘I think the Atlantic can be crossed in a row- summer girl period, this was the only incident | boat,” he said toa reporter yesterday, “and if he considered worth relating in detall: Tcan get a bott such I want built I'll doit. The His gaze had wande-ed rapidly and restlessly | trip would,ef course, have tobe made in the over that portion of the earth's surface lying | best part of tho summer, whon the sea is gon- within the range of his vision; he had observed | tlest. I came from HMolland to America in the summer girls and summer men, his ever |fourteon days, and there was not an bour « constant devotees in many places and that time when I couldn't have rowed on the in many and varied forms of that Atlantic in any kind of abot. Wedid not vertisement ¥ ‘flirtation;” he had been | have nsangle storm. That was an 1 caused to blnsh (inwardly) at their eyn- feet of a crocodile, a neck like a serpent thirty feet long, the ribs of a chameleon and the pad- diez of a whale. THE MOST REMARKABLE OX RECORD. The “glistening eye” of the monster is a point particulary mentioned in the accounts given of what was in some respects the most remarkable appearance of the sea serpent on record, inasmuch as the creature was viewed by thousands of people coincidently. It selected as the Fen for exhibiting itself the bay off Na- hant—that staid and sober place which has been described as tlice of cold roast Boston.” ‘The season was suramer, in the year 1818, and the weather was pleasant and calm, so that the crowds which gathered on the shore were able to observe the great “‘snake” to the utmost vantage, asit swam about between twoprojecting headlands, coming so near the beach as to cause many of the spectators to retreat affrighted. It appeared to be about eighty feet long, of a dark color and held its head two feet out of water, through which it progressed at the speed of an. ERRYMANDER How the Original Strange Animal | Has BeenChanged by Evolution What the Voice of Experience Says on the Subject. T STATES. RESULT OF A LIFE STUDY. IN THE DIFFER You Must Be at Your Ease, Must Be Defer- entially Polite, Must Get Them Interested and Have Them Think You Are Clever Without Appearing Conscious of the Fact. Extraord{nary Carcass Found in New River Inlet, Florida—Plenty of Great Sea Snakes in the Past Kighty Feet Long and Upward— ‘The Giant Squid and the Octopus. AN About the Gerrymander, Living and Dead | —Peeullar Looking Pets Secured by Poli- | ticlans—They Look Like Kelics of Prehis- toric Periods. ELEVENTH DISTRICT, ERNTUCKY. Croasing the river on the north to Ohio,where SECOND ALABAMA. % the gerrymander bas been active for several | Dlinois is mild, with nothing worse than this, years past, we find it to have assumed peouliar | fonnd in the nineteenth district: form in the seventh district, composed of Written for The Evening Star. | Miami, Clinton, Payette, Madison and Pick- REVIOUS TO 1812/ away counties, and republican in tone, » there was no such word | 4 Special Correapcadence of The Evening Star. Aspunr Pang, N. J., July 28, 1892. ‘HIS I8 THE TIME OF year when the sea ser- N EXPERIENCED ladies’ man was met by the writer for Tux Stan case, however, and I would not trust to having remarks concerni the while his much luck. I would ot make the effort bi in Ga Engh begmee | ordinary steamboat. As it turned short after ‘at the seashore the other | ical soul had told him that each and one | unless had a perfect boat and until! bs a “gerrymander™ (20t | pent sapaktnoad | advancing to within 100 feet of the land and day and asked to give uarded against all possible contingencion. 1 correctly, but fre- tach ah e M88P- | went seaward its snake-like form became appar- some facts on the sub- ost decided to do so from | waves of the Atlantic are not harder for » eroail quently —_ ptonounced | Pearance off the Atlsn- | ent, the body bending like an eel’s. It was fol- ject of how to please | heer weariness at the monotony of the scene | boat than those of the North era,which I fouglt ceewmioudonk,” tek tic coast, and keepers | lowed for miles along shore by people afoot and when suddenly be four o five pleasure | in my little craft with enfety. ‘The waves of the jepeym » | of the hotels that fringe | in carriages, women. But before his | boats filled with a merry y of young people | North sea are short and sharp, cliopps like, and pear Aa — ph the sandy strand of THE ocTorvs. views are given it must | pulling pitt from one ‘of the landings on th | are dreaded by old. mariners oe tease linn political exigency in | be premised that be is | upper Potomac. practiced eye | those of the Atlantic.” Massachusetts called Jersey scan the ocean! In the seme spartment at the National not's “lady killer” or « | Picked out the prettiest girl inthe Sacks: wall | Mik Setesde tootsie cn mibitsh ene at | SEVENTH OT. Museum with the model of the monster previ- forth a new line of tion, and the action de- manded = name or a, This is » product of the present republican logislature and will not elect its Representative NINETEENTH ILLINOIS. Rhode Island, at all times modest and re- horizon hopefully for a | monster which may be | turned into dollars and | ously described is a hideous reproduction in r mache of that other frightful mollusk, “masher,” in the ordi- nary acceptation of Roticing incidentally that she was holding, the tiller ropes rowed bi stalwart youth whose eres pai of a narrow “outrij y= x r merited de~ his experiences in a email boat im th era, sdowing that he has made | of the wave motions, their utre North votion he at once determined to devote his at- tention to them. A few quick, muscular strokes sent their boat rapidly of the others, while » heavier pull on the our its prow sharply toward the center of the riv Suddenly the rocks of the Hen and Chickens loomed in front and as the oarsman backed water promptly in order to escape a collision with one of them « peculiar emile fitting across his face informed the watchful man in the moon that the event had been calculated and pre- pared for in advance. This manonver and the consequent necesti:y of picking his way cars- fully and slowly among the rocks allowed the other boate to get far in advance and effectu- ted m from the rest of the party. those words, but is sim- ply a man who has made it his lifo's study to plense women and has been pretty suecessfal. Such a man is very different from either the “lady killer” or the “masher.” The former tion, as well as of the action of winds, ince he mae the ¢ d the ambition of ¢ boat, and his mind designing a craft that be would consi worthy. “What is my idea of euch a boat! apie! The pouip, or ontopus, the species sepressated cents as s senshore sd-| having a spread of sistean fost, Tht ereeiere some dark cranny in the | vertisement, chooses for its haunt Increased faith in the existence of an un- | rocks, where it lies in wait, clinging with three | known marine reptile of vast size is felt since | oT = ite Apelor toned the others, wav- the secu ages | ing, gliding and feeling about in the water, are the discovery ol the natant oar ses oe wats °t | on the alert to grasp cny prov. ‘Tho Chiness | term fe uned generally to describe a man who ts discovery of care cl regard such octopods, big and little, as @ great | no longer youth, who dresses fantastically, creature in Florida. According to his account | delicacy for eating, and they are similarly | whe eeaee reget rete ina eaak: the Rev. Dr. Gordon of Milwaukee, president | relished in many other parta of the world. In | Wetihe mmorens chine tr wee a ant of the United States Humane Society, was fish- | the Mediterranean numerous species of them, | tain they all fall viotims to bis cl ing in New River inlet, when the flukes of his | mostly of small size, are fished for, and along | «Taay killers” are sometimes ve, in anchor caught and pulled to the surface the | the coast of Algeria they ure caught in very | which event they have been known to get killed dead body of @ snake-like animal 42 feet long, | Curious fashion. by means of falge 2 Jags sunk | themselves, but generally they are harmless and though lacking both bead end tail, It was pe | in the water. Probably because astinlly ints onl arb autre camiasnoan un decomposed and the belly was sipped open. the law cannot reach. Now, the “masher” is i until this fall. cently republican (see Grover Cleveland's last North Carolina turns out something in its | report), gets this kind of = shape from her sixth district also a new product, electing its | Water-split shores and calls it the first district: Representative this fall, which may be partly fieh and partly animal, However, the reader may judge for himself: word to express it euc- cinetly. That word was ‘“gerrymander,” which, evolved by chance, bas become part of our American English. In 1812 Elbridge Gerry, who was a democrat without 1:agwampic tendencies and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governot of Massachusetts. after two previous ineffectual attempts to get there. He hud succeeded on a Very narrow margin and it natrally occurred to him that bis party needed strengthening. so he set about devising ways and means to that end,and the result was, according to Wor- cester's definition: “To rearrange electoral dis he conti: f ingles | somewhat after the shape of # It whould also have to take in revolving covers, which be put up at night #0 ae to create aw | compartment for the lone pant of craft, The entire deck w: ‘ a soft-bodied animal for many enemies it tricts, as of a state or part of it, so as to enable ‘one political party to return a greater number of representatives than it is fairly entitled to.” Whether the definition is perfectly correct or not is not for discussion here: it is enough that Governor Gerry's plan worked as he wished | it to, and he made the towns of Chelsea, Lynn, Marblehead, Salem, Lrontield, Danvers, Mi dleton, Andover, Methuen, Haverhill, Ames- bury and Salisbury intoa congressional district, | which, while it gave his party what it wanted, also gave such a contorted and unusual outline on the map that some witty artist, catching the spirit of the work, raade someappropriate addi- tions thereto, and this strange animal was the result. ‘THE FIRST OF rts RACE. Later, some one seeing the caricature, if it may be called a caricature, remarked that it looked like a salamander. “Say rather a gerrymander,” suggested an- other, and the gerrymander on the instant be- came a recognized organism, and the name of it was incorporated into the language, when its fitness bad been tried ard not found wanting. ‘That same year (1312) Gov. Gerry was elected to the vice presidency on the ticket with Jas. Madison. and in 1514 be died suddenly in Wash- ton city while driving in his carriage. ‘or many years the gerrymander—the word fs both noun and verb—throve so poorly that it seemed as if this climate was unsuited to it and final dissolution must ensue, but as time Went on and politicians grewapacs, in numbers and devices, if not in gra ymander began to find life was worth liv- and in these later years it has grown to ions, and scarcely a state is without one at every polftical change of its legislature. ‘There have been famous and infamous gerry- manders,and one party ususlly attempts to oat- do its opponent in the style of the animal it loose upon the people. | ‘As evolution is an interesting study, not only | fm zoology, but in politics, perhaps it might | Prove instructive to give a few examples of the evolution and development of the gerrymander, ‘taking the original. of course, asa basis. Omit- the intermediate stages let us come down Yo the conditions of the gerrymander as we find it today in various states of the Union. Giving New York the lead it is observed by ‘the g of 1892 that the most notice- ble form of the gerrymander ix found in the twenty-second district, composed of the coun- ‘tes of St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Fulton and Saratoga, represented in Congress by Hon. Newton M. Curtis, republican, and looking sor ing like this: | one fell swoop produced in her seventh district SIXTH DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. The Missouri legislature has no call to com- Plain on an exhibition of freaks, and in ite re- districting of 1892 it puts up its severith district in this wise: SoMth Carolina's legislature, disregarding custom and counts lines, broke loose and with something very like a whale aud sent s dem- ocrat, Wm. Elliott, to represent ite TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT, NEW YORE. SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLENA. Colorado has only two districts, or had in 1891, but she had those bad, and her legislature gives us this in the first,asort of « sphinx turned upside down on the map: Georgia gets her sixth district up something | in this wise, and sends that old wheelhorse democrat, J. H. Blount, to represent it: FIReT RHODE ISLAND. ‘The great state of Pennsylvania gets this out of her twenty-seventh district: ‘TWENTY-GEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA. Maryland,with e peculiar-shaped state bound- | ary, furnishes in her sixth district something | quite unique: SIXTH MARYLAND. | For state which doesn’t raise anything | much except ice in winter and temperature fn summer Maine shows a very fair speci-| men of the creature under consideration. | ‘This is its shape in tho third district: THIRD MAINE. People who go around at night hunting for votes in the second district of West Virginia, | where it is ‘gmoonshine" all the year through, | are likely to see a gorrymander like this: SECOND WEST VIRGINIA. What these figures teach is not precisely known nor ever will be. As they are here pre- sented they show the gerrymander in his worst form, and that some of the states almost cut the creature out by running their district lines as nearly geometrical as may be gives reason to hope that some day the gerrymander will be- come extinct or that he will have only a decen- existence. The millenium is also coming, but the signs ‘Two small flippers were remarked. intention was Tot, but most unfortunately a hurri and this invaluable find was swept awa; va confirms the attitude of science in this matter, which has never denied the possible survival of | certain giguntic reptilian types of past ages | #7 found quite which would correspond fairly well with tue | numerous descriptions of the alleged sea scr- ty as many eminent thinkers today, basing the mi bone it reserve its ‘4 and dragged up on shore by the and lost. Nevertheless the record of it nt, Although such a theory is pooh-poohed the ignorant, Agassiz believed in ir inion upon affirmative testimony of eye-| nesses, When it is considered that two. thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water, the depths of which, miles and miles be- neath the waves, have never been approached by human explorer, who can say what huge and formless: monsters may not lurk there in the darkness of an aqueous night never illumined | by a oun's ray? ‘A GIGANTIC CARCASS. The description given by the Rev. Dr. Gor- don of the carcase-found by him in New River | inlet might very well apply to certain gigantic | numerous in those days, which are supposed have been the ancestors of modern snak lizards. One species, the Clidastes, about the same size, attaining @ length of forty-five feet. Another, the Mosasaurus | maximus, was nearly twice ax big, measuring | when full grown not less than eighty feet. Yet larger was the Liodon, hugest of all the mighty saurians of that vanished era, which had.a long myzzle that ia surmised to have been used as a rain in fighting. These enormous creatures, in general form resembling eels, plonghed'the waters with four paddles and Propeller-like tail in pursuit of the fishes, Which were their food. ‘Their heads were large and flat, and they swallowed their prey whole, being able to take in animals of greater girth | than themselves owing to the arrangement of | their jaws, which were provided midway in | length with hinges. When they lived | this continent was lower than it is now. New Jersey and Delaware, as well as most of the southern states, were under water, and the Rocky mountains, inp! 10,000 ‘feet less elevated than at present, a; as of a broad expanse of sal an inland sea teeming wi WHEN RESL Sra SERE In those days real sea werpents not only ex- isted, but their numbers were almost inoalcula- ble, as is proved by their bones left behind in | the rocks of subsequent formation, andin many | cases so perfectly preserved that entire skele- | tons have been found and mounted in the mu- | seums. Prof. O. C. Marsh of New Haven | speaks of having seen as many as six of ihese | fossil monsters in view at the same time rmull valley out west. After all the question is inasmuch as marine snakes are very plentiful ut present in some parts of the world. They swarm in the Indian ocean, and a naval officer wns telling me the other day that he had seen chem in shoals of thousands | together in the Gulf of Siam. So numerons were they that it was necseary to thread the | cables while at anchor through barrels in order | to prevent the reptiles from climbing up the | ropes and coming aboard while the anchor. Nor was sucha prec ; means superfluous, owing to the fact thut these serpents are most dangerously poisonous. FIERCE AND VENOMOUS. Dr. Stojneger, the reptilian expert of the Smithsonian Institution, tells me that they are | among the most poisonous of all known ser- | advat any | that of the cobra and rattlesnake. Further- more, they are very fierce and aggressive, and will commonly attack human beings if they get achance. They do not frequent the shallows, unless possibly for breeding. but live in the open ocean. When full grown they are from six to eight feet long. Fiskermen in the waters where they are found are greatly afraid of them. Their bodies are flat and the inside of them isalmost wholly filled by the lungs, which are large, in order that they may be en- abled to stay beneath the surface for a long time without soming up to breathe. They have eyes modified for seeing in the water, so that when they are taken out of their native ele- ment they seem blinded and strike wildly. Their fangs, like those of the cobra, are always erect. THE GIANT SQUID. Undoubtedly the giant squid, which has only become familiarly known to science within a fe | oceupied by an octopus. | octopi, which must have been regarded by these reptiles of the cretaccous epoch, exceedingly | his assistants have to be exceedingly carefy) in none | tt pents, their venom being not less deadly than | can judge from personal obsersation the Ayr- of an opportunity to seek shelter in a jug, from the mouth of which it can spread its tentacles | for prey. Accordingly it is not uncommon for | tho dishermen, on hauling up these queer traps | after a few hours, to find every one of them In the graves of the ancient Peruvians, inclosed with the mummies, | quently objects which were at first ignorantly supposed to be dessicated uman eyes. As a matter of fact. however, they are the corneal parts of the eyes of ‘the people as charms of great value. WHAT THE FUTURE MAY BHOW. If there is a sea serpent, presumably one will | be taken alive or dead some time. Then it will be known by its tecth what it feeds upon and whether it is dangerous or not. Its habits will be duly determined and it will be ascertained whether or not its bite is poisonous. One rea- son why the bites of the venomous marine snakes of eastern seas are apt to result fatally is | that no severe pain follows them immediatel as with those inflicted by the cobra and the rat tlesnake, and so no. prompt remedial measures are taken. Dr, Stejneger tells me that he and andling dead serpents of dangerous species hich have been preserved in spirits or other- wise. ‘The venom is not injured by alcohol and | it will last indefinitely without deteriorating when dry. A little scratch from a fang of @ water moccasin which bad been killed and bot- tled years previously might cause death. Some poison from a former bite remaining on the tooth ora small quantity of venom from the poison bag getting into a cut would be likely to produce equally serious results, RENE Bacug. s oe DANGERS OF LONG WALKS. Too Much Pedestrian Exercise Makes Peaple Dull, Cross aud Thin, From Londén Truth. Few persons are aware that violent pedestrian exercise, by generating more carbonic acid than the lungs can conveniently let off, fills the | ystem with poison and stiffens the muscles. It is, for this reason, very dangerous if the heart is weak. ‘The professional pedestrian is hardly ever lithe, whereas the equestrian is graceful, because he takes exercise without filling his blood with the poison I have just named, the immediate effect of which is shortness of breath, sometimes with a stitch in the left side. Syclists make journers of hundreda of miles without getting knocked up. This is because the Inngs are not overstrained as in, say,a long, quick walk or pedestrian race. Alpine elimb- ng is worse than running. It has been noticed that Alpine climbers whose forbears were not | t of mind Switzers begia to break down | zht or nine seasons of mountaineering and age prematarely, Tam glad to know thi are little for mountain scenery and | feel as if in jail when Alp rises above Alp around | me. The strong sunlight from dawn to duck | and the simple and reposeful horizon of the | pivin are far more congenial to me than the | patchy lights and chillingly deep shadows of moun Lad als occurs to me, may be inter- ested to know that # muddy complexion is often conseqnence of violent clambering of hills, | the blood losing, when overcharged with cai acid, its ruddy glow, the skin deli- | trying to aid in working off the poison. | mon in ge over the Norwegian, a: thire girls have more to be proyd of than the Highland lasses, Those who go in for pedes- trianism and lawn tennis should carefully drill | their breathing organs to keep their good looks | Gwhen blessed with them) or to improve their | appearance when they are not good looking. Spirits suffer just as much as appearance from | the self-poisoning process of which I have been. | speaking. Have you ever noticed what fear- | fully dull and cross beings gentlemen become after a hard day's deers 2 s —+0+ 1S THE CORSET RESPONSIBLE For Woman’s Loss’ of Silvery, Eippling Laughter?—Perbaps It is, From the New York Sun. It has become quite the practice to ascribe to the wearing of the corset most of the sins of omission and commission, the ills and evils of womankind, and the latest charge to be laid |ject which you can easily seo is the one she dente different. He is young, loudly and, frequently, cheaply dressed, self-confident and wholly ob- noxious. He “spots” young women in the streets or horse cars and marks them for own, and then he speaks to them and attempts to walk with them. The slightest snub discon- certs him, and he fies at the faintest eniff of eee danger. If a “masher” bothers you y his attentions to any lady who is under your ion, tell him to go. about his business, and he will probably go. If he does not go once, then kick him and he will run howlin down the street like a mean dog, “Lady killers are objects to be pitied, but*“mashers” are worthy only of withering ‘scorn. Young bo who ought to know better sometimes practice the ignoble art of ‘‘mashing,” but they outgrow THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE. The man who is so well informed on the sub- ject of how to please women says that and “lady killers” never do it. Very well, then, how should one go about it? This is the voice of experience: In the first place you can't do it if you are self-conscious and obviously thinking of the impression you are making youreeif. You must be at your ease when you talk to women. They don't like a bashful, awkward man, but they do | like a man to be modest before them and not as bold as brass. There are, it must be paren- thetically remarked, men of great ability who are intensely beshful, through their modest ap- preciation of themselves, bat as a general thing the very bashful man is a very conccited man, although timid. He thinks he is the best man in the company, but that they don’ { fear they may by some possibility laugh at him. | Such a man can't succeed with women. He can induce some woman or other to fall in love with him—any man can do that—and he marries early, whereas the favorite with women marries The object sought in con- versing with a woman is to make her like you, nd this you can only do by convincing her that she has made an impression on you. Pay a ention to_her, show an interest nd try and get her on some sub- A MISTAKE TO AGREE WITH THEM. It is a common failing cf unpracticed men to agree with all a woman eays, under the impres- sion that such course is pleasing to her. So it is to some women—to some silly women, that is—but it is not pleasing to women of brains unless you are sincere in your agreement, and you may rest assured that they can tell whether you are really of their opinion er only prevend to be for politeness’ sake. Don't make the mis- take of trying to impress a woman with your owncleverness, If you are really clever she will find it out soon enough, and, anyhow, she won't care much about it, unless peradventure she comes of the race of Boston blue stockings, In this latter case talk anvthing that she doesn't understand and she will be flattered. Es- pecially if yoh know some mathematical sci ence that only a few professional men take an interest in, it is well to ask her opinion about it, pretending to take it for granted she is familiar with it. Keep the conversation in the shadow of the class room and don't let it get out into the world if you help it. It will bore you to Please, soung woman of the order of Boston blue stockings, and it is questionable whether it is worth the trouble, but it is the easiest thing in the world to do, The difficulty comes in where you are trving to please some young woman who is all brightness and life, and no the “finished product” that works by certain easily detined rules, COMPLIMENTS MUST BE DELICATE. Of course you must please women by compli- menting them, but you should be wary with your compliments, The man who tells » good- looking woman in.so many words that she is pretty eeldom pleases her. She knows it already,and she thinks there is nothing genuine in his admiration or he would not be so ready to express it. On the other hand if he tells an ugly woman that she is pretty she will posi- tively dislike him. She knows it isn’t true and that either he is afool orislying. These remarks apply to women of average intelligence. There are, of course; pretty women who never get tired of hearing of their beauty and will swallow any amount of nauseating flattery, and there are uglx women who honestly believe themselves to be pretty and who like to be lied to, but these are stupid, silly women, and it is not worth your while to be liked by them. Women of average common sense appreciate their looks for no more than they are worth. aly separa\ rhape exertions, perhaps the beauty of the moonlit | hills or th | the combination of them all with the even | more tangible enchantment of being with so | fair 2 companion amid: | fe | muscular. Up to this time scarcely a word bed been spoken, now he let his oars rest upon the | brilliant. the oarsman was exhausted by his acid gleaming river, or possibly | such romantic sur- roundings caused him to linger over his strokes, for certainly they were now neither quick nor water and ben toward his companion re- gave a few vigorous “Are you going to say #0?” Each time the expressive monosyllable was spoken softly and sweetly and accompanied by aamile intangible and incomprehensible. The young man frowned. Yet the man in the moon knew he would bear anything she ask him to endure for the sake of such a She spoke again: San't you get some other girl to go with (es, easily.” The man in the moon listened attentively, for the conversation was becoming interesting. The girllooked happy and non-commit companion vexed and unhappy. Then of adden resolve passed over his face. “This isn't fair, Cora. You know you ex- pressed a desire to go you Ter- theaffair. x t is always the way. You know I only did it for you and don’t care to go without you. Am I not entitled to some c: i?” You shan’t talk like that. There are cer- tainly plenty of other girls if you don't like me.” “That is the trouble; I do—too well.” ‘Then you shoulda’t try to make me do what I don't like.” “But you said you wished to go.” “That was Mond: “And today is Wednesday. Of course, if you don’t want to go I can only be sorry.’ “Very kind of you, I'm sure.” Rowing and silence were resumed and the made water proof and air ught, ter opening, which might be cle in an emergency. | would not be over four The width Jengthwiee would not exceed {« | feet. The material used in the coustra the boat rhould be ligh | Rs poss constructed rat g0 fo: sculls, “Three i continued dry, warm clothing. friction, the waste ra, I changeable from commodate itself to the change in tl important factors in such a trip, Mr. Uadgren, “are light, food « cate one of which should be carr of the craft when closed at night. matter upon which I will cc wh g would have to be consira have thought that of eluminum. sliding t e ctricity for lights, ed over the sult com Food will not eral months in Up 40 compactiy and of the most excellent and tritious q) small matter. forward a: nally for storing heaviest, I would ard. The pr sel with clothing ix the most difficult p There must be one ft trip. Every day would mean « drenching, and the body must have warmth. fire is almost an absolute m lives on cold meats feel like a mumm: | of some sort a aft sections of ne person fe smail compass. It ix no ity that provisioning #ucl Itis my plan to ¢ bout purposes, reaft. The clo: ‘oper equipment every For that rease essity. When or a few wecks he beg Hot coffee or hot liquids absolutely indixpensable. rit lamps and all similar contri dangerous and impracticable. be utilized? That isa q ation yet “Then there would have to be movable ances for the sides of the boat, to be attach ‘as it floats at will at night. the boat somewhat of a cross rhay balances might be made of in:lia rv collapsible. Nothing can be done the currents, but a driving anchor would ueduet bridge passed before either spoke. “4 ‘Cora, I didn't mean to be rude.” fou were, exceedingly.’ “Perhaps; but you seem to delight in ill- treating me.” can't you let me alone and finda more agree- able girl.” you see too much of me. Now, I have decided that I will not aliow you to see me oftener than a week—not until Friday of next week.” at “Yes, but you can’t come. Now, let's talk of something pleasant. How beautiful is the night, and you've tried tobe ill-tempered and spoil it ail.” It is you are cruel.’ The man in the moon did not consider the balance of the conversation worth a verbatim report, He thought the young man was inclined at first to be sulten and disagrecable, while his companion was radiant and sought to change his mood. Then the young man's de- meanor changed, he beame #uddenly lively and seemed in no hurry to land and made a wide circuit before pulling up to the float. The man in the moon thought he must have some scheme the success of which depended upon the quality of the entertainment he provided, for every timo she laughed at one of his sallies of wit he smiled a self-satisfied smile as though he wns assuring himeelf that he was gaining ground. Arriving at the boat house they were that their companions had gone on ‘Then they disappeared within to reap few moments on the balcony. moon waited and listened. to forgive me that week.” “But I can't.” “But you must—I can’t stand it.” “You'll be hateful again.” “And you are always finding fanlt. Why he reached the boat house he | | uring about two fect square. suspended a foot or two under wa’ This an r by a boat, when well cast out will bold = «mall float aguinst a strong wind. A strong break board will complete the outfit, “How long would the trip take? that should make My old boat did that and I think a more modera | craft should do much better. | to be mazte in two months, making a lil lowance for mishaps and delays.” A boat like at least six knote an hour. The trip ought ale In response to a query as to when be would try to make this projected trip, said: “If Lean get euch a boat b mer I will try it after the wor Swedish naval engineer in the navy is considering the building of 2 boat fur me, and I hope he will develop something per- fect. I will «pend a searon in Chicago aud will consult marine engineers there. Uddgren ext «um- efwir. A d States ‘lt see THE RECOLLECTION MULE. He Dodged So Many Shells During the War That ‘M_ Quad inthe New York Sun. He Never Forgot Them. A faded out old mule which looked to be before a shacklety old wagon in which was scateda colored man. Ashe drove up tc the depot platform and stopped I inquired “Well, uncle, [suppose you'd sell that mule for money?” mewl—cash right down on do nail—han't far from seben dollars and « balf, bat I @ulda't @un sell him for dat, He bain'tno ommon mewi, he hain't.” “Is he blooded! “No, sab; dat “What's a recollection mule?” ‘Why, suh, he reckolects back to wi timos, He was right around yere doin’ all dewah, an’ be hain’t dun disremem ered nugin.” “What docs he remember?” “Bout dem Yankees’ ehelix, muh. De Yon- Kees dun fired cannons at him e! }, but he alias do ry cluace dey sdged de sheila. Wold you Jo alg 3 years, has frequently been mistaken for a - 3 Stee pobsdciaheyiny pape pet Seed poser te earned Jat Bow, and the |seaserpent. In all qualities which can render | at the door of the girdle of bone and buckram | 7He triths that thepractice of profuscly compli- Fae way goed aay ie pentaemstonn” | theaaa™ = . fire (water) tested old state of New Jorse; the 0 aoa eae | Yas ar of |» marine monster horrible this huge and fright- | is that it is responsible for the decadence of | anything but an insult to women’s undorstand- | “I'll be there and Gora” “Would yo" be willin’ to put up fo'vite far = Md fal mollusk may be euid to compare very favor- laughter. Certain it is that the “‘soft | ing, and as their mental equality with men has} “What?” 0 Ge wagin? Hes bound » «mach where the gerrrmander reaches its most pecu- Bar shape in the countics of Mercer, Ovean, mand Atlantic, comprising the second Honest politics is a sure exterminator of the | —— and honest politics is a contradic- | jon of terms. In the meantime, however, ably with any creature of fact or fiction. When full grown it weighs 10,000 pounds, having a body fifty feet long and two arms each 100 feet the “ringing melody,” the “musical trill” of a woman's laugh is rarely heard save in come to be more universally acknowledged the old-fashioned, flowery Ianguage with which it ‘Please go tomorrow.’ “You horrid boy, come up and if I'm not too district, represented by’ James Buchanan, a re- Gerry's state does not lead ag a gerrymander | i, Jength, as well as eight small tentaclos. A ey, rarely indulged in by any Sropped. The ancien, ‘rot ime often Een: with name which doesn't fit his producer. In fact, it is not in ye model of @ diminutive individual, measuring | woman outeide the covers of the novel. laughable. Here is a good example: An Irish- litics anywhere. Here the gerrymander is as + 5. Lauprox. | only forty-two fect from the end of its tail te ‘The womaa out of the book emiles immod- | man was talking toa lndy of Scotch descent. we: eet either tentacular extremity, is on exhibition at | +1, G¢ she has pretty teeth, ‘and cacklos a | “My grandfather,” if Needed Some Help. the National Museum. Specimens of this kind | &™tely Pretty » ee ms WEW JERSET's eTRAXoE ANIust. ‘To what order, genus or species it belongs no ‘man knoweth, and it looks more like a jim-jam struck by Jersey lightning than anything else. is but little better than New Jer- sey, and in the counties of Yazoo, Holmes, loss of | tes himself. two wheels, ‘Atta, Leoke, ; Kew pe ‘million perhay individual dollar, sab. SIXTH GEORGI. It looks more like = fiying turtle than any- thing else. The Arkansas legislature rens its second dis- trict clear across the state to secure results, and the down there is worthy to go on at the world’ SECOND ARKANSAS, Wisconsin has this wild and woolly shape its eighth district, as redistricted in 1890, and Wisconsin has a record in the redistricting busi- ness: fair. Itisin a new n ‘From the Detroit Tribune. He was a slender, blonde youth with sad blue ‘eyes and fresh-laid creases in his gossipy trous- He leaned against the bar sipping a glass of sherry and looking tenderly at the portrait of some intrepid leader of the Amazon march. The old man next to him had just ordered a are not infrequently encountered by fishermen inthe Indian occan,where “the humble toiler of tixe sea must be prepared at any time to seo a monstrous creature with enormous goggling eyes rise out of the depths and fling across his boat a gigantic tentacle armed with scores of suckers so powerful that nothing short of horse power can pull them off from the object to which they have been once fastened. For such an adventure the fisherman has alwa; a keen knife with which to slach off t before it has dragged him overboard in fatal embrace. He must work Pax. for the mon- ster has another tentacle to help'him in the at- tack, and it is an even fight between one Fe men anda with an arm reach of ten! in ‘WITH HUGE ErEs. Such is the appalling description given by the author of ‘‘Sea Monsters Unmasked” of the TEE i giant quid. “As for the victim,” he adds, shrill accompaniment to the sharp staccato shrieking that fashionable women consider “talking,” which makes the hysterical ecstasy of tne afternoon tea like nothing so much as the pandemonium of a poultry show. But the low, musical merriment of a real laugh is indeed as rare as it is exquisite. And the prosaic who go about tho world classifying the co the rainbow and analyzing the fragrance of the roses tell us that this ri melody ia pro- duced by the vibration i ‘end the elasticity of the other respiratory ‘When this diaphragm is laced down with bones and steels 6o that it 18 only bj that it pumps énough air into a woman's to keep her from dropping dead tends it hasn't any | not tell 2 woman you are devoted to her, but just devote yourself. SIMPLY TO PLEASE WOMEX. ‘These remarks, you understand, apply to the 5 ‘when to waste on ing up melodious laughter, it peesianketto mares sat doom en suything Le : Hd Be dee i i 8 i i i if ri Hl ss pleasing of women simply and not to the art of making them fall violently in love ‘with you. As for this latter, it is a thing not always Gesir- F i if iff i fest e g& FH i i i i 3 ri Ht th ith i FE iil if i a B i 8 Hi i Hy : | tf f Bt 4 ie E i i i y > t i i f i E f