Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1898, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1898-24 PAGES. 4 ALOR Oe) Deak Or Sej SO NETO IO ED FIO eS, “No. she = : trader, as he glanced at the pretty young Sam man who had just entered and ange papalangi with a grace- at all offended at my random It was quite excusable, for in rader without a native wife omeron. But I might, if I had faculties of observation, hav no trace of wo- tlese rege rs a phe my krown better. There w 0 manly care in the dingy, unkempt litt! Gining room, the wooden walls were dirty ard bare of adornment, the table was lit- tered with old books and ragged, much- vorn newspapers, while the floor looked as if it wet r to the broom. ‘The girl, her smiling greetings over, squatted cross-legged on the floor, and by self preparing a bowl of kava, which, had been suggested as soon as 1 An ample lav: of blue c ok- was wrapped around her 1é som was but partially ik handkerchict er shoulders, 2 flower of the red hibiscus lit up her dre d black hair. dinary na costume, such put on when called in to va for a stranger. But she wore an air of grace; a than r dingy $ tte and fr nong the huts bung around t edge of the na glimpse of the wire. a device of jous natives of be to keep the too cu! ut the tra wrbed in e-drawn wire, rainer a corner, ¢ sraph. mon pietur nd, tha ng Into ob: was ben handied ft reve ke again, Inid t cle. bo remarke p it from tt ? trav Girt Was om the Floor. ard of them, I firm breke up, and f n the be 1 hadnt x and_ there When I Britain and new ling ns, f jumped at it, without thinking overmuch of the risk. “IL was a fool and now, if 1 could only take "He took an- other cup of kava to hide his emotion. 1 could think ef nothing appropriate. to y. so 1 sat and waited, while the girl, squatting on the floor, looked up in her Inuster’s face and thoughtfully began to prey cond bewl of kava. At last he resumed the breken narrative: “We got on all right as long as we were @t the head station, where there were sev- eral whites, and the natives had, in a way, DEN CNOME NON THE TRADER’S WIFE. ———— WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING <TAR BY J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. (Copsright, 1808, Uh seh se Ased ce Kae X90 5) » is not my wife,” said the ola Hearnea some manners. But whe ACD seek K S. S. McClure Co.) n I went away to distant par » to open of the up new stations, i began to feel sorry that I'd brought the s with me. But she would not hear going back, not she; she swore she'd stick to me through thick and thin, and so she did til the end. “But to cut a tong story snort. ed up three er four stations saf We used to so, just ours with our box-s of trade, ard i beys from the Duke of York's e more afraid of bei We open- prett r now we were not killed umes over. The understand a them like that. a ished that F2 & poco . that doze id not en TF look They ahout quite naked, them a pie & and if you gave one of print, he would hang it i walk away as proud e al fighting and thought no more | n we would of shooting pung fellow ocoanut dared readily for a chi they would b the tre y goods with, copra and some be shells. They wante and knives, m er and pe: nd temah: the: t of n all fas font know, bacco. Kept ish, T st a sort of idol would sell eve! ore. cursed pipes ly lest my own Hf have been as we ly fully as I could, tell me all about i “It was the fourth bink, wild part, w ad e€ dared to set b long way from the m ad to dep p a went up a steep et | top of wh | pot in th i close to the | ran up a have been w f did. spoken and t m with the greatest me tot “1 migh for all the S to lo ork of the he r el worn put with | leep | mi h stock 41 within the crew Winchest > arms pe hin a body kind of rox pout the hou: S up and < that the 5 ing a bright lookeut. At last, on the third night, we had everything packed, and I made up my mind to start at once. The S got the whaleboat oat from the shed onder wh en Iving, and to- gether we | wn the steep bank into the bay. But we had no sooner launch- ed her than she filled, the water was up to her thwa’ ing for it but to haul her “I covid net make {ft out she had been a pe hy boat, ard Tk she could the time some time, previo! lot ef holes over the 1 have te piece: s bad enough, but as lay there in the man- u glimmer of hope. Tf could patch her If w p we rofght still get couldn't—well, 1 knew none us would see another dawn. It was euch and go, but there was just a chance. J posted the men on-guard all around the isade, with strict injunctions to fire at every native they saw approaching. Then the wife and I, id she was a brave little woman, set to work. We collected all the old meat tins we could find about the place, and, as we had been living on nothing byt tinned stuff for the past week, there were jenty. I made a fire and melied the solder out of the tins, so that I had a number of strips of clean meta! to use as patches. It was hard work, I can tell you, lying on my ack in the mud amid the prickly man- grove stumps, nailing little bits of tin on h broken place. We put the children to sleep in the bettom of the boat, while my wife held the candle for me. How many hours I toiled I don't know, but I thought I would never have finished. Now and again an alligator~and they are plenty in those parts—would crawl out of the water to see what was going on, or perhaps in search of his supper, but the wife would dash the light In his face, and he would go back quicker than he came. “Tre first flush of dawn was in the sky by the time I had finished. I was stiff and sore and worn out, but there was no time t» think about these things. We launched the beat, and she scemed pretty tight, so I bade the men bundie the trade boxes into her and make ready to shove off, whilst the wife and I went up to the house to get the few litile personal effects we had not yet carried down to the beach. “I remember, just as well as if I could see it now, serimbling up the slippery bank and making our way to the little house. We were careless, perhaps, but we did not anticipate any attack. I walked straight up to the but. The door was clo: , and I w: going to push it open, when my wife, who was just behind, caught me round the waist a threw me back- ward with all her foree. She was a strong woman, and I was weak and tired, and 1 relled over like a baby. At the same in- nt she fell, a dozen spears through her the door burst open and a crowd of naked savages dashed out and made a rush for the boat. They thought me dead, er badly wounded, I suppose, but at any rate they did not stop to look, they were in such a hurry to get the goods, and the oversight saved my life, I yelled out to the beat’s crew to shove off, and then I crawl- ced up to waere my wife ying. Tt was over with her, T eo ri a glance, nd all she could ‘whisper was “Vave, vave, run quick and ° “Perhaps I should have stayed, I do not iow, but at © IT had no time to son over th er. There were the zea coming hack } age and disappointment at finding out of their reach. I erawled nd mate a circle round to d luckily 1 got away unobser C from the beach fuil ihe The hoat was lying a hundred yards o} fortuna men had had the sense wait . if we escaped. T swam to them and found the children al anda the native boys shivering with But a kick or twe soon roused them, 1 had tne boat pulled as close in shore as I dared. The and out rushing savages were auting and making a tremendous row. Evidently they were searching for me, and th ad lit great torches of dr, nut leaves, which showed them u what I wanted, midst of them, volley was jus 1 like magic in evers airection. » a rush up the shore nd carried wife down, for mning by this time to fee of myself for having left her s ald 1 do? My gun was in the d stopped 1 should only d shildren without the s too left in a ay. the boat and I though it throu the time T was nearly da t and see blood mad, and Peary WHE TRADERS HUT. ut I tho h my i SO peac y by boat off, Just out ir spears. By and by, was up, a great big s ach thim as wild pig. n anothe til they began to see that th AS a dangercus oO} and gave it aa yasT an- ashore. if they were ys afraid of atta Most of the peo- 1 d out into the bush, but any that found I nd I burned ever: mnt they will Jay I by ind. resi of New think A “thirteen don saying we are the right pedant, will not alrez = hambles, aulay gives me as! to read works.” Why gas Wo! soap work and Ss” ar becoming established as ¥ nouns, but the newspaper scril ull bothered with ok plural of which Is given both and Yo rut. is not defensible » Is not a noun, but a To my min ‘author’ and ‘‘authoress,” as ap plied to a woman, which is the better There appears to be no rule. Miss Braddon on her ttle pages always calls herself an “author. ’ +02 the Pantomimes. ‘Tit m the Lond » the Lord W a boy's w “He was a minister of Henry who exclaimes n Journal of Education, yiseley? VII, : ‘If Thad served my God as I Should not ha confusisn between s notice. a definition of i whier pecial interest to the ehurch and guild— n by ladi in cir- ver, will be of st u Aunt Emily—“‘I have just had my photo- graph iaken, Eva. 1 have one done every year, you know.” Eva-—Goodness, auntie! You must have hunéreds!”"—Punch. ISIGNS OF SPRING Games That Children Play at This Season ‘of the Year. HOP SCOTCH, MARBLES AND TOPS Various Sports Follow in Their Regular Order. JACKS AND MUMBLETY-PEG Written for The Evening Star. NANIMATE NA- ture is not alone in informing Washing- tonians when the backbone of winter is broken and in an- rouncing that spring hovers just around the corner, awaiting a balmy opportunity to make its full di laration. Human youth feels the ad- vance of spring more visibly than nature. For example, several weeks before this spring’s reckless cro foolhardy hya- cinths and early budding trees—rendered unwarrantably confident by prematurely warm zephyrs from the southland—came mber of shop, perienced udes last time, puss OV hop where you lis You will p twenty years, played hop of steh vicis the since the vich . just try bably find you measurement has un- icable deverioration, and xf Work in the game you to wonder why t it so enthusiastically after “all day Saturday" —when you to work. forerunner hing- of spring, the Wa ton children’s annual revival of the game ot “Follow my of the leader” antedates the rising ap ta the tre f young: of both es there determined, action of u hands of ¢ md analysis the bi something quite natur. secs "isa sort of out the children who of the ring Ul palouli pnd t nerve of ein it. [tis the be anything and e t the f the ordir brink ef any r to be called “cowardy” a by ali the rest ef the chil- Spinning ‘Tops. boys of Washington out their ine Saturday of the late y do not wait for the spring, close by in the offing girls have of but they do s of the thin: A little girl throws a top from its string very much as a grown woman shies a rock at a hen. But the patience the little girls in top: gis commendable. They contrive to get their tops to feebly whirl “round about once in every five throw. but they stick to the g. and look as if they were enjoying it. They look a bit envious, however, in the direction of the © auite incompetent rthy who, with the simp! possible of heave a top ten feet away with a a and skill that causes it to spin bummingly for an indefinite period—until the boys pick the still spinnin, the palins of their hands. eae oe noticeable that the little much of a fist of spinning tops, eiihe job a bit » girls do not of picking up their They go about the Washington the irick—employed re uty ts about a ¢ rter of a of culung dee Ks in the ds of their top; in ar to extract it Mummies music from them as they spin, They stil play ring top, though. The girls do not take to ring ton. They can’t the sense of risking ticir tops to the spikes of boy top-throwers a ood dent more skiliful at top-spinning than they f-el themselves to be. This game of ring top is a Gueer sort of game, after all, come think of it. The boy who makes ‘a hash or throwing his top has to permit the top to remain within the ring. Then iy — a wna at it y ‘The boy that hits, the tep in the rin; the spike of his top (which must tee spinning after the impact of the blow. and remain within the circular ring besides) be- comes the possessor of te “dead” top. The skillful lads know how to strik> a dead top without splitting it. The little boys who are both skillful and bad enjoy casting |. their long-spiked tops at the tops the little girls are playing with, and their delight is huge when they succeed in splitting such tops quit> In half. The boy who manages to crack his little sister's playing top open in this fashion can wiih difficulty restrain his mounting joy. Marbles All the Year, Washington is one of the few large cities of the country in which the boys play mar- bles on the streets all the year around. Of aul th other li their tops. course during the hard days of winter they give the marbles a rest, but they never stow them away for months at a time as do the boys of some of the northern cities. ‘There is a revival of interest in mardles hereabouts every spring, nowever. Wash- ington boys are this year playing, many of them, a new game of marbles that is seid to have come here from ih2 west. ‘The ring is only about a foot in diameter and the taw-line is a dozen feet away. From the taw-line the boys “plump” at the marbles in the ring, and they are not alowed to roll their marbles on the ground. It is a game of marbles that re- quires a fine eye and first-rate marksman- ship. Most of the Washington lads, how- ever, still stick to the old-time big ring, about five feet in diameter. The marbles that boys play with nowadays are a good deal finer in finish than marbies used to be when there weren't many concrete pavements in Washington. and, moreover, all of the marbles you the boys play ing with now are round. Marbles didn't used to be all round. There were a lot of lop-sided “aliies” that rolled sluggishly and sulked and stood stock still about half an inch within the ring. In the old days, too, it used to be the ambition of all marble- playing boys to get hold of an agate “taw.” Such taws used to cost 5 or 10 cents, and the boy that had one of t instead of even the shiniest of “crocke " for a taw, was regarded by other boys as a pretty presperous and warm member of his neigh- berhood. Every boy now has two or three agate taws in his marble box. Marble Pirates. “Snatching up” still goes. It will prob- ably always go as long as there are natur- ally predatory boys. The boys of today, however, are endowed with hawk-like vis- ion for snatchers-up, and when they per- ceive them in the distance they knock of playing until the pirates get out of the way. It has often been noticed that Was! ington boys treat their girl frienas pretty chivalrously. They may split the giris’ tops, it is true, but they think top-split- Ung is funny, ana they mean no evil. If youeure in the marble-playing neighbor- hood you will ot boy erve the great pains the take to teach the giris how to play marbles. Girls don't appear to have ugh strength in their knuckles to ch much success at the game, but they plod along at it br: Snatching up doesn’t go when girls are playing mar- bles together. The mean boy girl's marbles and bolts for it is impa tially s by all his boy friends the > he tar f the be “purgatory, rt of golfish, this game of purg: cept that in. 1 of using ciut direct the marbles into the py by knuckle force, as in the ory, the boys marble last to ¢ his marble tory hole ha | as of old, to p to be she at by the ts ts the ys asm t ther the ALary. y seem to the shar beaten boy's knuckles when t tt avi- est taws at them with ¢ AG 1 of their re me. ‘The old-time prejudice line boys against th seems still to prevail a of girls playing jac there is a single boy engaging in ti with them, you can stand by to hear all the art jot boys around 1 and poke fun at him for his » ‘They offer to chip in and buy and ail U sort of thing, with the 1 that the acks-playing |i My at the wk. J . grown-up better game when it i but the little they do the playir amount to ar | who like to play jacks out have y got the ¢ Little girls of school hours retion not to play game in front ©: ir own he ., in view ‘ir mothe rs expect :hem to en- ive, running-about play when they are out, d tot pley sticit rhs piano le Fes. W e stil Maiden on their chan consider that if th their time in such jacks they might as their piano 1c not un they ouly 7 M1 they put on tic nful retlec- You ma nigh when spring fs of mun in full b) murmh ol he much as be at that has chang abouts sinee—well There used to be Washington were for mumblety-peg, and the xa wa harder to play, and consequen skillful, v the Tra steal of e: Phe chi the gar sod, ther compelied to be their judgment of their aim kn as were the mumble of another generation, knife points down The girls have gotten out th s ropes, too, and that is @nother sizn that the winter has gone henee Labrad ra. Skipping ror however, are not ro com mon as they used to be. Mode oped a prejudiee ag: the little girl of today the «1 test number of to ‘undertake the nerform out of sight of her mother. Tt that the skipping rope is pa dience to the ‘mandate of the phys! (which mandate, however, is no soul based), for there could hardly be anything prettier or taore graceful than the picture of two little girls of a s ‘poping roy together, their arms aroual each othe waists. Other Signs of Spring. The children are out th's spring with a rew sort of roller skates. The wheels of these skates are of solid rubber, and there- fore much more resilient than the old wood- en wheels. The solid rubber wheels clutch the concrete safely, and no doubt save many a bruised elbow. Hoop-rolling has practically disappearcad in Washington. Once in a while a poor little girl is seen frantically running after a> old flour barrel hoop: but the fancy brass hoops, with clutching handles, that used to be so ccmmon on the streets of Washington when the rarks became redo- nt with the fragrance ef flowers are rarely seen now. z ‘There is a revival this year on the streets of the ‘wooden balls attached to long rub- bers that were commen a full generation ago, and that have been rarely seen in Washington during recent years. The boys permit the girls to manipulate these re- turning spheres of wood, and consider the centrivances essentiaily girly. Finally, the iitle girls of Washington are playing bean- bag. Bean-bag is about as certain an in- dication of spring in Washington as the fish huckster’s “Roe shad” moan. ee Still Another Order. this new patriotic order Smith has founded?" “Cousins of the Revolution. You see, Smith's great grandmother promised to be the sister of a man who afterward fought in the war of independence.” - MEN WITH RECORDS Officers in the Navy Who Have Seen War Service. FOUGHT BRAVELY FOR THEIR FLAG Would Do It Again if the Occasion Arose. es ON THE ROLL OF HONOR Written for The Evening Star. Should the navy of Spain confront the American navy with kostile intent there would be found aboard Uncle Sam's fight ing machines not a few men who are fa- niliar with the grim reality of war. heroes of the civil war have not yet pass- ed away, nor have they reached an as where they cannot render new and splendid service to their country on the seas. Many of the men who now occupy high places in the navy were youngsters in 1861 and have re is of deeds of dai They are near- ing the time now when they must retire frcm active life, but the fighting blood still coul 3 through their veins and t? as capable as ever of a display of ¥. grit and daring. Reac Admiral Stcard, who is in command of the North Atlantic squadron, and who Would thus be conspicuous at the very be are nkce ginning of a war with Spain, was a li tenant in 1861 when Sumt. The fired on lively coult t and Philip of Xt four years he was a3an amitlou the bom:bardme » of Foris Jeckson and St. ‘halmette bat in the the Vicksburg t and in thi ment with t ate ram in July, 18¢ took part iwo attacks on Fert Fisher in December, Iso4; in th or nd assault on Fisher January 1 nd the bor ment of Fort A Since Sicard has not had a sensational career, but he is one of the model officers of the navy, and in time of stress he be de ded upon to render as good an account himself as years ag In Commodore 1 Scott Schley fs a veteran with fare, en his conduct during the beea over- achieve e pluck » he has won 2 is of M. . and When ged in the Ww hingt hat Lieut. ( perishing in the pr to command a left. this pos: the ery 3 ation of aly to take command where a combi e him an opportunity fr tinction. He was in th ing the Chilean harbor m » Dluejacket was killed and hurt. Commande followed with : ssession whi of which m dohim as the thorouz American sailor. Should there be tween the Unite Si Spain, Schley would have a command hich would give him ample opportun for splendid maneuv nd daring d Is. At the head of the = squadron he mizht well become the most picturesque and fj ting tigure of the war. ehting Bob” Evans. When laying so much pcol judzmé in the harbe Valpar: lief with the aA mere nd was sti A . he entere show the ssault on oy Fisher he n and marines. ‘ort bears the n ittime. “Fightin, vetive men in th stilities he will whic! i bring him int to the front with the destr ad. Mississipr ed in the who hed destroy: of a gallant is chief sul “d ehout a with fine 1 they were the ‘It is In such trying moments a1 Porter, in commenting on this hat men show of what 2 made, 2 said Admi incident, are t both the war attacks on Fort Fisher and since he has n distinguished service. He is now in command of the Asiatic station, and gainst ould unquestion- he abl break of war with Commodore Albe-t Kautz became a lieu- nant in the navy in Apri D eventful record. In 1862 ved upon the ff of Adm r t on the Hartford. He commanded th st division of great guns in the enga: rents wi Forts Jackson and St. Philip the Chalmette batteries and the capture. of New Orleans in Apeil had com- mand of the “hon under Capt. Henry Bell at New Orleans, with his own hend hauled down the “Ione st flag from the city hail after the mayor had refused to strike it. and ho’ and stripes in it in the cngagement Vicksburg, and served gallanlly through the war. He Is now commandant of naval station at Newport. Commedore Howell is another veteran. He was eraduatei from the academy im was attached to the gulf blockading squadron, and took part in the battle of Mcbile bay. He is now commander of the European squadron, and his fighting qu ities will doubtless be again shown in J of war. He is the mventor of the Howell terpedo, which is extensively used aboard vessels of the United States navy. Two Popular Men, There are two officers of the navy whose names are always linked together by men who"have been graduated from the acal- emy in the past twenty years. These are Capt. Sigsbee and Admiral McNair. Sigs- bee’s qualities have just been tested before the eyes of the world. Should a test come to McNair it is believed he would pass through it with equal credit. These two officers were stationed at Annapolis for years, and each in turn was at the head cf the department of seamanship, where each irrpressed himself strongly upon the boys in his charge. Wich the cadets who took their first lessons from them it ts to this day “McNair says so,” or “Sigsbee wouid heve it thus.” For years they have been the pride and example of the navy per- scnnel. In actual war Admiral McNair would have a detail which would bring eyes world. Sigsbee is there today. Both Sigsbee and McNair have war Lieut. Kautz w th the batteries $5 A MONTH This Rate Made to All Patients for All Di:eases tor Reasons Fully Explained—The Great Benefits to Be Gained Are The Reason Why. THIS RATE IS MADE TO ¢ TRADICT AND CORRECT AT ONCE AND FOREVER THE PASE STATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY ENVIOUS AND UD DIVIDUALS WHO NAVE SUCH AccUSA TIENTS OF 1 AS HUNDID PHYSICIANS CAN FULLY AND TRUTHPULLY TESTIFY FROM THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE THAT CASE, AND IT MIGHT BE DF HEIGHT OF FOLLY IF IT WERE ACT THAT THERE ARF WOUND Ef WHO NE u SAS ARE RY DRS. Mccoy WHO MIGHT RE RUMORS AND FOR TREATMEN’ AND D COWDEN BY SUCH AKE TUE RM ALIKE TO ALL, FOR ALL Drs. PER MONTH. THIS $500 RATS MEDI PON, EX INCLU AMI ACTED IN MAKING THIS RATE DRS. McCoy AND NOT CHEAPENED THEDR NY MANNER OR FORM UPTLIPD WITT PAL PON TREAT ST CAREFUL N. THERE IS TrD WITH THE TREA’MENT, ATIENT W JoY THE SAME CARE THAT TAS MARK THE CONDUCT 0) LAST TWO YEAR: THE OFFI 2 DURING The w., cured niLity te what + -But it wtiment was del pte prersiet. in ts Ton ford and “Tt seems Boe 8 memting my tr r his treatunent for a Mr. Webster Richards pupil of the Hi isn 5 stflered fren in with a This iinens e they despa attack weakete At uny rate, vere of Aste atly with my studies my plessures, and ence T Lad to stay in ¢ 1 wint or with this out at all; cold would bring Gust irritated and aggravated 1 suffer during the n with th: arth all the t for this aise » house whial condition, an I attack: iy would It alunest sl 1 had taken some ut until L applied nent f was 2 not cateh cold se easily: en during the Asthma T have 1 ride out on my wheel with a, and tais change, membrane. f Tam very much ult of my treatemmt.”” he treatment has by and improved the condi have very little f gratified at the re Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, 715 13th Street Northwest. Office Hours—9 a.m. te 12 m.; 2 to 5 pan; 7 to 8 p.m. dafly; Studuss and bolidays, 10 alu, to] pan. records. Sigsbee, a New York boy, was graduated from the academy just time to take part as #n ensign in the butile of Mobile bay, and he was present 100, at the assault of Fort Fisher. cNair, a Fennsylvanlan, was in the service before the war began, and he fronted the enemy many times. These are enly a few of the men who have seen service. There are 20 officers who were enrolled in some capacity in “he navy before the peace at Appomattox. Most of them were midshipmen cr ensigns, but each did the work assigned him as competently and conscicntiously as those who figured more conspicuously in aciion. +06 - Distinctions, From the Somerville (Mass.) Journal. It is not pretty to say of a woman that she taiks too much, but she looks compli- menied when you tell her that she is a fine conversatioralist. ——_.-. + e+ ____ From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mrs. Ferry—"Are your new neighbors well-to-do?” Mrs. Terry—“I think they are. chil- dren have such awful =e