Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, N OVEMBER 26, 1898-24 PAGES. by them. A press-brick layer gives each | brick a certain treatment in painting it, ! from a brickiayer’s standpeint and view, | which it is Impossible for the ordinary | painter te equal. L admit it dees not make | much differer in these days, when wide | Joints of black or red mortar are a pre- vailing style, but when it comes to the | fine white mortar joints it seems to me the | difference is so marked that any one can | distinguish it. and in favor of the brick- | layer. I could illustrate the idea much | plainer shouid I be allowed to indicate cer- The story of th riences of the loco-| tain fromis which have been painted by sialon ee : on to the activity! painters and others which have been done wf the imarination in last Saturday's Star! bY bricklayers, but such a comparison ! = 5 » explained a| Would not be popular, for the reasons that * great inter ee , | names would necessarily have to be used. + to « Star reporter, “for I went) The same thing occurs when a painter at- gh 4 somewhat similar experience | tempts to paint a carriage. The proper myself. Many years ago [ was at | person to paint a carriage ts the man who he patting us the taxes atided cross -* it. not a house painter. the 2 : = ue reason a carriage painter should hy iz on top of the spire of the Epiphany | paver attempt any house work, for his iscopal Church. We had almost gotten | handiwork cannot be concealed, even to the cross in its position when it careened | inexperienced eyes.” : fel to the ground. It was very - es FAVORITE nd in its fail it brought down part the seatfold on which we were working. | — 0. ow ene Palace ce the Late Em- giving me a pitch into the air from a ais eae Bee Be ese Cees errpe acy vntunecs™ |b Sor tonne wees thet let ee EenirenetGe tantra ‘© me, my m by @ Part Of} of the little Island of Corfu that she en- wastes sh Brass Die' | gaged the Italian architect Cavito to 1 t sup 1 was over three seconds | build for her the beautiful Viiia Achilleion. in reaching the ground, but during that | phe tsiand of Corfu is best known to schgl- me £ went A great deal in the | ars as Coreyra. and is supposed to be the Leesa ne Gi Tae iene ANC ea | Seneria where Ulysses in his wanderings it. U thought that the fall } | found the blessed Phaeaceans. It was on «that L went straight to | the shores of Scheria, or Corfu, that < there T found that heaven was a] Nausicaa, the most charming maiden 7a at es tasy place to enter if you were on the } that ever turned dear fingers to home- UT fae heaven were conducted thither, | I¥ Rousework. took her father's clothes to . kind of a railroad track, which worked | Wash, und escorted the wave-beaten war- s ut ike the cash-carrying systems | rier within reach of security: it w: t Cor- ime the res. There was no! fu that U! s told some of the biggest Hes ise or conf on the steam rail- | ever invented. In more recent times Corfu be verything worked very quietly. | Was known as Coreyra, and is suspected of \ short betore the arrival of the ear | having harbored innumerable pirates. Any- aie a i those who were in charge of | how, it commanded the chief trade route wimissions, giving the name of the party. | frem Greece to Italy, for in those days the eauate ‘record. of the party was { Ships were afraid to trust themselves too Ked up. Though the examination was | Much to the high seas, and coasted wher- P rhuntio’ sade. thcces was. mbcandae | ker Roselle ce its importance during pais haste about it. A glance | the Commercial conflict. between Athens s ape: the stery. All the good | and Corinth. When Athens, following up Bose oad the bad thes | te regular Corinthian trade route, won py isdpeanhthess Bo Fo mek Te the over Coreyra to her own interests, the Re oCer sae Pe oer ws, | great Peloponesian war. which ‘Thucydides fone ee ee ene aw ilehad | BAS So miswritten, became inevitable. The a Tr the recard showed | land came under the Roman sway so ear- into If the record showed | 1 ac B.C. 229. The Romans probably no <i. the car was alloy | found the pirates there interfered with the ty & eee | great route that led to Greece, and there- wer though T imagined, | fore blessed it with the Roman peace. EX- “Bo! man all my { for one century, Corfu belonged to the i : | Venetians trom to 17 mm 1807 to came along whilel | qsi4 it was o¢cupied by the Fr and was cord was put equally | from 1815 to 186% it formed one of the seven- f making any determi- | jstand Ionian league under a British lor switched off to a high commissioner. In November, 1863, i © @ more detailed « was incorporated in kingdom of G an T recognized several | a magnanimous demané place, one of whom told | of the philhellenic isia villa of } there for several months | the empress lies to the south of the capital na H- said that for the | ax id beautiful scenery, and is reached by a " © in purgstory were as | road passing through’a gorge. 1 ough the at been al- | —_—_—> * aven, thor DeNRE WAR COSTS 850 A SECOND. as nnoyia: = i i T, wh At Least That iv the Price Europe “ Spl Pays for Armed Peace. w doors from me in : : Sw sodle, in the; It is estimated that since the days of the wet ft He said | Trojan war no tewer than 1,200,000,000 men P. xhtful n heaven, | have been sacrificed on tt tar of the god he was somewhat lonely, 2s 50 far | of war. If it were possible to guther to- atutances, thecal tk j been told | Sether these millions of war's victims into were there. T asked him about some | one ly army they would form a col- tual friends, and was pained to = at | umn, twenty-seven abreast, long enough to hey had not resched heav-n eo pee dias tee Bae with ae SEO error taal nas net | Cl#Sp the earth at the equator, with a rest due of ten lar columns stretching from s Europe, to Nap! If this file were to pass a saluting point at the r ry second, night the | would only ple in the autumn of 1 half million men fell on Euro- lefields during the first half of this en one admission wampoodle | London, aerc of one ev as day vis ne Two a A pear , ¥ lings which ean be | century alone; and slaughter cost Eu- . cha eis end rope e colossal sum of $6,850,000,000. a eebe ihe z Each victim cost $2.74 to Kill . ass well-known real} “4 calculation as careful is possible t . ter, “but it can | places the total cost of war during the last a tid that they never | 3,000 years at the appalling sum of 3600,- : ents. In the past ten | 000,000,000. ; a “da great many buildings | All the countries of Europe are spending . : ‘en. and in no in. | 0" their armies and navies at the rate of : elt » receive every penny stim of $4,000, da was to me promptly at = +e. == aa time. Th 1 of property | Queer Beliefs About Seven. hinamen us r the laundry shops So numerous are the queer beliefs con- . the lowes of property. and ) corning the number seven that a narration ‘ sb pair; but they | of them all would fill a volume, but r : “y a “| may mention a few of them. From t . oe tatil thes | YEF¥ earllest wges the seven great planets “ 2 ha | Were Known and ruled this world and the a bout? awell in it, and their number entered but b ey will take |! very conceivable matter that con- 5 } and plank | CeTRed man. There are seven days in the ia the ren tacos it regu- | Week, “seven holes in the head for the I master Stars are seven." seven ages both : xistr fer man and the world in which he lives = me There were seven material heavens, and in « 4 u the underworld described by Dante the f rer | great ar dead who were not good r t enough fe heave or bad enough for hell . iw reposed in a seven-walled and seven-gated s ny 0¢ city. Tnere are seven colors in the spec- a an Hever OD trum and seven notes in the diatonic oc- x ss ghee tave. and the “leading” note of the s a et s seventh. Be it noted that the sev- t mths e son is not always gifted with benef th aericae ae ESE wers. In Portugal he is believed to bs Pe: sigh sie canon dene EOC ect to the powers of darkness and eoigeth Shim from the public his | t0 be com: J every Saturday evening to Ms feleuas to it that he has | @ssume the likeness of an ass. re s0 us rent is pai —— 3 ds are very diplomatic in se Bicycles in the Orient. g me AE Es — Corea cycles are becoming common. gaara z i natives are gradually taking to ‘ at as glance whethe it is stated that two ex-cabinet min- se fr < be 1 by a|isters of Corea now ride. The streets of wk ricklay 4 well-known | Seoul ar> excelent; the country roads seem ; as cunt and there are | pretty bal a: first, but when one pecomes easier eater ame. Of accustomed to riding the narrow footpaths ee rence when 2208 the dykes the whole country opens up patie as a field of cycling. There are no fence . red v = put on, but when it | and these paths run everywhere. The mis s to per s joints a painter is | sionaries nearly all use bicycles in making “ ot in xside of a bricklayer. | trips through the country. Nearly ail the Lae thing one way, |C¥eles used in Corea are made in the United 2 ms ph @% | States, and Japan comes next in the w is of wood. brick or iron, and amount of its imports in this department. r with the job it looks, Very few English or French bicycles are aw t ve ninte He may v the | used. nt as bricklayer does, and the es : of it, Ale eat ach Ste tint in glass has its cause in E z i “chemical depesits formed in the coal gas ss <a should, If pos- furnace. and which. under the action of sin nly alled cleaned | the air, produces a blue coat on the giass. » the men © bricks, bu To remove this blue tint causes consider- penciling of the should be done | able trouble. hing Company.) said the cross-eyed But he shut the wrong eye. AS SCHLEY TELLS IT!NO FOUL IN THIS FIGHT “Did you ever kear Admiral Schley’s end- less chain story about that oranz-outangs he picked vp in the East Indies, when he was the executive officer of the Benec’a in 18687" asked a naval officer of nis party in the club corner the ether night. ““Be- cause if you haven't yau ought to. The commodore started to tell me that story ene night about ten years ago, im the s ing cempartment of a sleeping car going over to New York,ard he hasn‘t entirely tin- ished it yet. Every time I meet him and we have time for a talk over a smoke he tells me an irstallment of that orang-ontang yarn. He never repeats himself at ull, but his story of that marvelous orang-outang is a connected narrative of the adventures misadventures of the anthropoid. I am free to say that the monkey must have been a wonder, and I've always been cu rious to ascertain what was his cventual end. But the commodore has always evad- ed that issue. Many times I've asked him what finally became of the orang- tang, but he curls up when | ask him t question and stalls me off by telling me some further instances of the prowess ard mischievous deviltry of the simian. I’m in hopes of learning some day what finish the monkey met up with, and before Schiey goes on the retired list he may relent and tell me. “Anyhow, when Schley was first lieuten- ant of the Benecla, and that good old tub cruising through tae Straits of Sunda. vears ago, a native bumboat man brought the orang-outang aboard. The orang-outang was a natural born sailor, and he made himself so at home with the rigging and running gear of the Benecia on his first visit aboard that ho caught Schley's eye—and Schiey’s he Was thirty years younger wa bit less iscerning than it is now. Schley asked the bumboat man to name his figure for the orang-outang. The bumboat man thought a dolla ‘d be about right, and when the Benecia picked up her anchor to resume her cruise the orang-outang remained on board and became, to all intents and pur- hoses, a member of the crew. I've seen the dampness come into Commodore Schley’s eyes in telling about that orang- cutang. Schley turned the new member of the ship's company over to the old chief bo's'n's mate, to whom the brute took av immediate fancy, and you krow wheat it means for an animal to b> turned loose up forward among the blueackets, If an animal deesn’t pick up sense, not to speak of cul ture, audacity and the finer trimmings of humanity, in the course of a few mont contact with the men forward of « man-o’- war, then the animal must be constitutior ally lacking, and there wasn’t anything king in Porkchops, this orang-outang Schley says that Porkchops was more than human. The orang-outang hada’t been oard the Benecia two days before his keeper, the chief bu's’n’s mate, rigged up a regular bluejacket’s hammock for the thing, and Porkchops slept in it. Porkchops learnt his hammock number, Sehiey says, within a week. and when the call to get hammocks out of ihe netting went forth In the evening Porkel ops would pick his own out of the bunch unerringly every time, carry it bet to the berth deck,where he slung and rigg the hammock i to the correct billet every time without fall, unlashing it and getting it ready for occupancy himseif. At all bands in the morning, Schley says, the orang-outang ‘ud lash up his hamm¢ have it in the nettings before th the bluejackets (counting Porkchor bluejacket) would be through rubbing their eyes. Then, Schley says, Porkchops got to be a valuable Seaman when the ship was cruising. He mastered the running gear in no time, and—of course, the Benecia was and rest of as uw one of the old-time windjammers there was heavy weather his servic going aloft and shortening suil were, says Sehla: , worth those of any five men of the ship's r company. You just ought to ni the number of times Porkchops saved the Benecia and the lives of the whol: company thereof by getting in the read of canvas just in the nick of time before the squalls came along. “And then—Schley says—Porkchops got to be a confirmed tobacco fiend. The old bo's'n’s nate ii for the ¢ filled a pipe one ng-outang, handed 1: to the tring quickly, and then galloped for the topgallant fo'e'sle, fearing that when the anthropoid took a whiff from the pipe and ay, lighted found out what he was up again try to tear the ship apart. But that, Porkchops just pulle pipe—Schley says—like a ro: Seemed to get ail kinds of enjoyment out of the tobacco, and what's more, hops, when he wanted to expectorate, would use the spitkits for the purpose. ‘After that Porkchops was pulling away at a pipe all the time, and Schley had to include in his monthly expense account a couple of pound navy plug for the orang-outang con- sumption. Schley says that it was a touch- ing and amiable sight to see the old bo's'n's mate and the orang-outang walking fore and aft on the spar deck linked arm mess of an evening, both of them on old black clay pipes and thinking ov the happenings of the day—for, strangely enough, Porkchops never quite attained a y of the English language, nowever he may have known of the ptois ailing around the Straits of Sunla hley wanted to ascertain the eff. uous drinks upon the er t in its general charac ies to n. and so, one evening, he called Pork- ps into his room and handed the erang- ng a large glass of an old, nutty sherry he had picked up somewhere. ‘The orang-outang sniffed the sherry at first. and then put the glass to his lips. The first | taste seemed to hit him about right--Schley tys—and with his left hand he rubbed his stomach appreciatively. he began to Porkchops, ands y Says it wasn’t three minutes b fore he had the drunkenest orang on his hands that ever put a marine’s on one side of his head and looked rak: The orang-outang, with a funny express f£ drunken enjoyment on his fa et thing a down the sherry in gulps, did chley—lumbered out the cab: hunted up his the old chief ho's'n's mate. When Porkehops found his yal, he struck a drunken attitude before him as much as to say, ‘Regard me, chum! What do you think of this for a ‘complimentary jag?) The orang-outang had to be put in his hammock that night, not permit of his turning in unassisted, and when he awoke at all hands the next morn ing he was the picture of peniten nd from that time on he could never be conxed or cajoled—Schley tells me—to take another drink of alcoholic liquors. “Porkchops got into the office of the pay- master one afternoon, when the ship was in port and the paymaster was ashore, and what Porkchops didn’t do to the quarterly reports, and the clean books, and the care- fully-made-out accounts, by the liberal use of ink, isn’t worth mentioning, says Schley The paymaster was mad when he got back. and the admiral of the fleet to waich the Benecia was attached heard of the mis- chievous erang-outang and ordered that al} of the ships of the fleet should Se cicared of animals, which made Schley unhappy Schley dodged the issue by declining to re- gard Porkchops as an animal, and the orang-outang was suffered to continue as a member of the Benecia’s crew. But Pork- chops in some way or other found out that the admiral was sore on him, and so every time the admiral visited the Benecia in his barge Porkchops ‘ud hide in the bilges until the admiral’s barge left. Porkchops may be alive and smoking a pipe yet, for all I know to the contrary. Schley seemg determined not to tell me what became of him.” for his jag would —_—_—_. A Lobster Farm, From the Fistong Gazette. Away down on the Maine coast, at Harps- well, a lobster farm is to be established by two enterprising men who have made a study of lobster culture. The work will be carried on according to scientific directions from the United States fish commisstoner. Lobsters have been very scarce along the Maine coast for several years—that is, as compared with former periods. Good-sized lobsters used to be sold from the cart for 5 cents aplece, and, of course, at wholesale they went even cheaper. Many people sup- pese that the smallness of the lobster catch in Maine fs accounted for by the existence of many canneries, but this is not so. ‘There have been no lobster-canning fac- tories in operation in Maine since 1895, in which year a law was passed forbidding the taking of lobsters under 10% inches in length. This law forced the canning com- panies out of business, as it was intended «cphe average annual catch of lobsters on the Maine coast is about 7,500,000, estimated to be worth $750,000. ———— The most ccstly piece of railway line in the world is that between the Mansion House and Aldgate stations, in London, which required the expenditure of close upon £2,000,000 a mile. Three years ago last February a solder and a sailor were engaged in a two-handed game of poker one evening in the rear room of a Honolulu rum repository. The Soldier was a corporal in the “P. G." army —that is, in the army of the provisional government of the Hawaiian Islands. The corporal was a weil-built, smooth-faced young man from Albion, Mich. He was known among his swaddies as an ex-soldier | of the United States regular army, and a quiet, well-behaved man withal. ‘The sailor, as the name of his ship on his cap ribbon showed, was one of the bluejackets of the United States cruiser Philadelphia, which had slipped into Honolulu herkor a few days previously. He was a brawny, tough- looking chap, or with the second- class bo's'n’s mate’s rating badge on his mustering shirt, and his noisiness was in noticeable contrast to the quiet. decent be- havior of the soldier sitting at the other | side of the table. The soldier and the sail- or played along at their game of 10-cent ante and 50-cent mit for an hour or so, with the luck switching first to one and then to the other, when, after the deal had passed a number of times, the satlor opened a jackpot. The soldier stayed for five 10-cent chips and drew one card. ‘The sailor took two cards. The sailor bet the limit and was in turn raised the limit by the corporal. The ralse passed back and forth a number of times until there was about $18 or $20 in the center of the table. While the raise was going back and forth | another of the Philadelphia's sailors saun- tered into the room alone. He was squat, chunky, bull-necked and powerful leoking, and the sieeve of the port arm of his mus- tering shirt was decorated with the eagle device of a master-at-arms, second class. He stood a few feet away from the table, taking in the game. He was the only man in the room except the two players. When there was about $18 or $20 in the pot, and the salior had plunked the last of his chips therein, he called the corporal. Both men placed their hands down, face upon the table. “I've got three fives,” said the sailor. “What you got? “A straight—seven to jack,” replied the corporal, quietly. “A what?" ‘asked the sailor, loudly. “Straight? We don’t play them things on the coast. Straights don’t go.” “Well we play thym down here,” said the corporal, coolly. “I don't know much about coast poker, but straights are played all over the United States back of the coast. I win.” he h—1 you do!” shouted the bo’ mate. “How do you win w'en I tells y that straights don’t go?” “There was nothing satd about not going hefore w» began pl replied the soldier. ‘However, if you're go- ing to take it to heart 30, why, we can divide the pot. As long as we didn’t make any agreement about the valu; of the hands, I’ve got as much right to stick (o my same—in which straights are legitimat: as you have to say that straights don’t go. We'll divide the pot.” No, we won't,” exclaimed jumping up. “The pot’s mine. “T guess " replisd the soldier, 1: slowly himself, and putt the bank, which was “ke did so. this pot “No, you ain't,” said the sailor who had been looking on at the game—the squat man with thy bull neck—stepping forward. “Me shipmate wins that bunch. Take your hand off’n it.” The soldier surveyed the interloper coolly. “I don't Know who you are, nor where pu cut In this,” he said, after a pause. But, not giving you a short answer, T’ll be d—d if I take my hand off of this bank I'll split the pot, and that’s >nough. - My poker is Honolulu poker, and it goes down here. Therefore, according to the way the game's played on these islands, I win this pot. But, as I say, I’m willing to compro- mise by splitting th> pot, stmply as a sop n’s the sailor, ing ng one hand over ping itself,” as he tand clear! We're going to divide to you people’s ignprance of the genuin= game of poker, “Ignorant, hey?’ shouted the sailor wna cl aimed the pot, and he made a pass across table at the soldier's face. The pass fell short, and in a trifle less than no time the strapping corporal had leaped around the table and given the man he had been playing poker with a hard, straight jab right on the point of the jaw. ‘The bo's'n’s mate went down like a log, and remained there. It was a well-aimed blow, and he s out. hen the Iull-necked master-at-arms, sec- s, Tushed at the corporal of the P. G. army, feinting like a skilled boxer, and then sending in a straight left for the pit of the soldier's stomach. The blow was stopped scientifically, and the corporal led with his long right arm and found the bull- necked sailor on the forehead. The report of the blow was like the muffled shot of a ; gun and the sailor went down heavily. He | regained his feet instantly, and, with a fa blood-red with rage, made again at th G. If possessed corporal. He was met this time with a straight blow in the chest, and again he went to the floor. The bartender and a couple of citizens stood in the doorway watching the performance, with interest. Again the astonished man-o'-war's man picked himself up and rushed at the strap- both hands elevated in ov the third time the soldier, who The corporal ping corporal with régular pugilistic style. he was met squarely by knew the game himself. feinted for a few seconds, 1 the feints of thé thoroughly enraged sailor, and then he shot out a lightning blow for the bull-necked tar’s face. The blow landed on the sailor's left eye, and he went down in a heap, dazed, but not entirely out. Thi soldier looked down for half «a minute at the prostrate forms of the two sailors of the Philadelphia's ¢ Then he walked over to the table-where the poker game had been going on, cashed in his chips half of the chips in the jack-pot, leav the remainder of the money in the “bank, which wa: box without a cover, and then, # another look at the pair of man-o’-war’s men on the floor, he walked cut the side door of the saloon He had heen gone for fully half a minute before Sharkey, the bull-necked master-at- yma of the Philadelphia (more recently heard from in connection with a question- able prize fight). slowly arose from the flcor, looked around wonderingly. and began munistering to his knocked-out shipmate. —___ Sparrows Fight Like Game Cocks. Sparrows are the most determined figh* ers among the birds, the bulldogs among the four-footed animals being the nearest to these little pests in point of grit and endurance. Two of them were recently observed in territic combat on the roof of a house. In the fury of battle they neared the edge of the roof and one toppled over. Instantly the other flew on the top of him and forced him to the pavement, where the contest was resumed as fiercely as ever. They took no notice of a bystander w approached the angry birds and picked up both of them. After carrying them a lit- tle distance he set them free, but their spirit was unbroken, and they went at it again, bill and claw. By and by one of them gave in and fled, but his rival was not generous enough to let him be, for he gave chase, but whether he caught him or not the onlooker was unable to learn. Wherever they may roam these birds may always be relied upon for impudence and quarrelsomeness. —__ If you want work read the want columns of The Star. +o+—_____ “I see Jack Fullboy is around again. They say he just got back from taking the gold cure.” “Did he find it very effective?” “Extremely so. It took all his money away and left him nothing to get full on.”—Col- er’s Weekly. COULD RUN IN ‘es RAIN “I noticed, in reading the results on other tracks this morning,” said one of the book- thakers “drawing in” out at the Benning course, in conversation with a party of turfites a few evenings ago, “that that old plug Shieldbearer won a race at long odds at Nashville yesterday. Shieldbearer cost three or four of us who were booking at the St. Louts track at the opening of the spring racing this year from $2,000 to $8,000 apiece. I myself was ‘had’ for the latter figure. Yet I can’t see that any of us were at all to blame in writing the figure we did on Shieldbearer. But the way it came out like to have got my nerve for fair. “I had seen Shieldbearer jogging around in the ruck of his flelds ever since he was a two-year-old, and he’s now a member of the aged division. He was never of much account. I had never Jost a dollar in laying any old price against him until this occa- sion. The reason that we lost on him so heavily on the spring race at St. Louis was because we had all long ceased to ‘depe up’ on Shieldbearer, his performances were so uniformly bad, and we quite overlooked the fact that he came of a breed of ‘mudders.” He had always done better on sloppy tracks 107 in fast going. We forgot about that, owWever, in making him the rank outsider 1 the racc I'm going to tell yfu about. But, even had we remembered it, it wouldn't have done us any good, for the track didn’t get muady until the horses went to the post for the race. ‘There were sixteen entries in the race, and they all went to the post. Some of the lot were corkers—stake winners out there— and we held them at short prices—one even money favcrite, a couple of 5 to 2 shots. then take your pick out of three or four to 1 chances, and the rest ranging from 20 to L up to 300 to 1, which we all laid against the rancid outsider, Shieldbearer. It was the third race on the card, and the weather at the opening of the day’s game had been beautiful and sunshiny, the first two races having been run on a lightning fast track. At the time we opened our books on the third race the sun still shone, but a big black cloud was rolling from out of the west. We noticed that it got dark in the betting ring with a good deal of sudden- ness, but we were too busy taking in money on the favorite and second choices to figure on rain before the race was started. Before that big black cloud slid over the face of the sun a party of four seedy-looking young chaps, pikers of low degree, by their appearance, but yet form players, as I afterward found out to my cost, came up to my stand and each of ’em put $3 down on Shieldbearer to win at odds of 500 to L That sort of startled me. £ became aware of the increasing darkness in the betting ring, and I suddenly reflected that in case the rain started before the horses were ou in the race Shieldbearer might not be such a rank bad proposition, after all, old and ovielassed as he was. So I immediately ‘rtLbed’ my slate to 50 to 1, leaving two or three others as the unnibbled outsiders. me four boys had meanwhile edged around and put down a few dollars each with the other layers at the same odds I had given them. T am confident that they weren't simply taking a long chance for the fun of the thing. They didn’t look lke young fellows that had money to burn up on long shots. They had simply noted the progress of that big black cloud toward the track, and they took a chance on its hitting the course before the horses were off; if the rain did come, they knew that Shield- bearer had a chance, for all four of ‘em had ‘dope books’ clutched in their hands, and they were form players. “Well, when the ho went to the post that whirling black cloud—it had turned in color to a sort of mixed green and yel- low—was right overhead, and the field had hardly lined up at the barrier before the storm came along. It blew great guns for two or three minutes. Then the wind sud- denly ceased, and the rain began to come down. It was the thickest rain J ever saw —one of these tropical rain storms that you read about. It came down in sheets, so that you could hardly the horses prancing before the barrier right in front of the stand. The track was a sea o. mud in ne time at all. But the starter kept at his work, and, after a couple of false staris the hors:s got away. I could just make out that Shieldbearer—of whom, and the bets Thad on him on my sheet, T had been thinking a good deal since the rain started -was away a bad last—practically left at the post—and then the horses disappeared around the first turn in the blinding rain No part of the race could be seen after thi start on account of the rain, which con- tinued to come down in torrents. Every body in the stand settled back to wait for the horses to come around to the finishing post “Well. of course, you all remember what happened. Shieldbearer came in all alone. With a stable boy on his back, and after having been left at the post, to all intents and purposes, Shieldbearer waiked in, ‘eat see ing peanuts down the stretch,’ as they say all by himself. He just emerged trom the sheets of unaccompani lop- ing easily. We at first thought all the rest of the horses had got mixed up and fallen down, or been struck by iightning, or some- thing—but, no, they came up, after awhile. about half a furlong back of Shieldbearer and all strung out. We couldn't any of us make out Shieldbearer’s number when he just cantered in, but those four young fel- lows made out his number all right. They were right behind me. ‘Shieldhearer! they howled. ‘Why : Why, certainly! Nothing to it hut Shield. bearer!’ “What the dickens is the name of that horse?’ asked a thousand people in the stand, Then the ery went up: hieldbearer, at i) to 1! “Now, L don’t stippose any of us belongs to the Sentimental lot, and the stand was packed and jammed with people who had their money down on the favorite: but when old Shieldbearer came capering ba to the post, covered with the mud that h had had to take arly stages of the race, you ought to have heard the ‘hand’ they gave the fine, game old nag for his gallant performance! The crowd just stood up and yelled for Shieldbearer, and the old horse seemed to understand that he was getting an ovation, for he pricked his ears forward and danced n front of the judges’ stand in gr as if he were a two-year-old. “1 paid out to the four crafty youths the 36.000 worth of Shieidbearer that I had taken, as did the other few layers who had been hit the same way; bui, after that, when the betting ring began to get dark and when the betting on a race opened, I got into the habit of looking over the ‘entries with an eye for the ‘mudders,’ and I didn't get caught that wa: se Fron Tic-Bits. Signor Scarem, the noted wild animal tamer, had put his trained tigers through their tricks. He had driven them round and round their cage, and they had crouched In a corner at the word of com- mand, though he was but a weak human being, and they were mighty wild beasts, and could have torn him limb from limb had they realized thelr power. He had n weapon in his hand, if we ex- cept a short whip which he occasionally cracked over the tigers’ heads. His per- formance being ended, amid breathless silence on the part of the spectators, Signor Scarem stepped from the cage unharmed, and then the tumultuous applause broke forth. People crowded about him courage, and one man said: n't you fegard that as to praise his very danger- ous: ‘Not at al!,"’ replied the trainer. “Tigers are not dangerous so long as you keep on the right side of them.” “Which is the right side?" asked the ques- tioner, quizzingly. “The outside,” replied the trainer, as he strode away to the dressing room. peat sae Fast Trains. The high-water mark of European rail- way progress at the close of the century will probably be touched in Europe by the continental services between the Channel ports and Switzerland. There is no train in Europe to match the speed of the Nord de France between Paris and Amiens—S1i miles in eighty-five minutes. The Basle express covers the distance between Basle and London, 595 miles, in fourteen hours and thirty-five minutes, a speed of over forty miles an hour, with two frontiers to be crossed and twenty-five miles of sea- crossing. —__.—_—_ Few people are aware of the immense weight which a diver carries with him un- der water. The diving boots alone some- times wish 100 pounds each. a Thousands of situations have been ob- tained through the want columns of The Star. PHILANDE! " JOHNSON: he Revery Route. In my mind, what dreams are ranging Of the things that yet may be As the firelight fades and flickers In the corner, after tea. Railways? Steamships? Merely (rifle For a tedious age designed. K’en the skiex we now have conquered Iu my mind. iam riding in an air-ship With the meteors flashing near, Hearing but a gentle murmur From yon far-revolving sphere. Silent clouds and [ are comrades. We have left the world behind As we drift in ether currents In my mind. Yet an air-ship’s rather diz It is better, after all. To arrange it'neraries So as not to risk a fall I will shun that form of travel Save when tethered here, exacty To a cozy firelit corner, For a fact. He was of the people who rather pride themselves on being oblivious to the finer distinctions of language. He had once lived in the Rocky mountains for a short time, and the border novel bad gotten into his system. She, on the other hand, was alertly punctilious and sometimes overbear- ing fn her superior knowledge. “The ruin of Spain,” he remarked casual- ly, “has been that word ‘Mananner. “You musn’t say ‘Mananner, served gently. “It should ‘manyana. one she ob- be pronounced “Oh, should it!” And there was a world of sarcasm in his tone. “It ain't speit that way.” “That makes no difference. It is pro- nounced as 1 tell you.” He changed the conversation. “Politics has been right exciting t ear,” he observed. “Lsee you prefer the singular verb not- withstanding the fact that the form of the noun is plnral?” h brities. I once had the pieasure of shaking hands with Mr. Mark Hanna. “Mark Hanna? “Certainly.” “Oh, y he proceeded with an unf: getting glitter in his eye. “You mean Mark Hanyer. 1 chanced to come across hi once. He was eating a bananyer. And, t the way, would you mind sitting down at “Do I “Certainly, You say, ‘politics has.’ | “Oh, yes. { just came from a small town in Mississippi. They have only one kin there.” “I take a great interest in political ce Lawd sake keep out o° Nort * ** A Remarkab s | The lad was only about four feet high {but he had a coonskin cap and a pair of | TAwhide boots which looked as if they had been made to order for a giant. The man who was touring through that neighbor hood, on government business bent, stopped his horse log to make som, | inquiri the roads. He intre the conversation the patronizing quiry at the pow < RS to luced with n “What is your name, my little . The boy looked up at him gravity and answered doctor Hawkins.” Why—how long have you been a @ n with ste vol After some moments of mental calcula tion, the boy replied out fourteen years.” | “Are you the head of the family?” “No. LT reckon you'd call General Haw- kins the head of the family. He keeps jown in Though Baron Hawkins— he's the r between genera i me j helps a lot. He's mighty i to maw | baron is (Are there any more distinguished pe ple in your fan said the astonishe | stranger | “Well, I dunno as they're so ‘nation dis nguished. But Perfessor they "s Ad Hawkins in th. are spending a iral Hawki house ne They’ ve enough to go to work yet got to. They a Admirals 1 ‘ is four yeu his veeth | “What's your father “Paw? His name's Jim. You lowed he wasn't got to ler throngh life without the a | | u and rfess erin Ss name the planyer and playing something in your | ! deprived of hicself. own exquisite manyer?” lime he wa'n't goin’ to g “What shall I play?” she gasped. to the colleges. So he t time by th “Oh, well, let it be something patriotic. | forelock, and give ns our names when we Let it be ‘The Star Spangled Banyer.’ ” | Was baptized. whieh 1 reckon is about as And then he settied back in his chair and and iawful as anything you coult looked inanely Paw's about the most prudento= the whole cow y. paw ts. * * " ad The Violoncello. versation Simplified. I like to shtop an’ listen to der moosic of | a fraud!” exclaimed one of the men der band; | opped to read their pay It sets my feet to marching. It's impossible | u though unpretentious to shtand | Which serves both as railway waiting room In quietness vhe own der street dot ag- j post office. ‘The wh bus ss is a gregation comes | downright swindle.” Mi der singing of der trumpets und der} “Of course it 1s," answered his neighbor scolding of der drums | who was busily engaged in pro eur It fils my heart mid restlessness feel | der his breath all the words in an artt dot I betong | Sn successful fertilizing To busy life und action mid der h | *s an outrage on a confiding public, and hurrying throng. |# backset to civilization Und, vhen dose echoes die avay und o'er | “That's what ft is." was the somewhat my task I'm bent, | Frudging response Dot lingering memory-moosic holds a strain} 7 key ae becam » : | i that he Ce eonient | down the Sut, vhen der shade noout der rom Ss seper caught the eye of troubles of der day link Srain the Und Heinrich brings der shello und si ve people down avhile to play, cuse me for asking Der disappoiatments seater und a calmness | JUNEy (hat ar patie fills der place ler?” As der harmonies are mirrored in der smil- | “Not that I know ing of his face. You knew what your friend was r Dose come sighing gently oud, so | *0uut wit realist “i a Det tren isly sweet | “put you answered him as if you knew Dot I feel dere's nodding lacking to make | “Ves. T wa’n't takin’ any risk in chat. “1 For sorrow. like der vapors from my pipe, | \cctlon or @ prize fight. | An’ is ee floats far away BSNL. etsdaig Vhen He h brings his shello und s Mawks and Hagies in Scotiand down avhile to play Suinharatink at eenien Mae babe 7 hawks in Scoit.nd is not so much the fault * Oe cf the game preserver as it Is of the eg Motherly Solicitude. collectors, Twe pounds « pound “Mamm: said Pickaninny Jim, * Japiece is readily paid for ce ¥ sear here’s a gret country, ain't it? Lirds of prey, and dealers ¢ e nf “Deed it is, horney,” answered the old | golden eagles’ eggs, the reta e bene liddy so prompUy that she dropped the | ftem flo t ; £12 for a si gle pe fine Ay clothespin she had been holding fa her |} dr likes to “hill the moose that lave at teeth. jgelden exe.” But it is ne ne Jess tru: “De school teacher done give me that this process of extermination ha “What did she hab to say? Neate “She tol’ it right out dat any little boy aie wot ‘haves hisse’f an’ learns ‘is lessons The Women of Sciziam. stan’s a chance o’ gettin’ to be Pr No one can travel in Belgium withou ob de United States.” being struck by the extraordinary activit “Sonny, you's been drappin’ off to sleep | and prominence of the women. Over the ovuh yoh lessons.” doors of shops of all descriptions the nam “No I hasn’, Da’s de troof, mammy. All| of ihe owner or owners is frequently fo de yuthuh boys hyuhd ‘er say it.” libcakae Siasohe “Veuve.” You find “Looky yere, chile. You's a good boy. | them proprietors of hotels and restaurants an’ I doesn't want you to hab no trouble. | They are often custodians of the churches You has yoh oppohchunities an’ 1 wants to | = y aed Seat e Biggie cog a 8 see you improve ‘em. You min’ yoh ma tee atchine’ shops ana they ore even to ners an’ keep f'um smokin’ cigarettes an’ | i¢ noticed shoeing horses at the fore I shouldn’ be s'prized ef you wus ter git pa Lies: whah you'd make fo’ dollars a 2 ecco -S CORR ans “A President sits mo'n Gat, tammy.” |The shad bes in ble palace at Teheran “I reckons dar ain’ any way to keep you | (Wolve inet Sloe oat in jewels of various f'um tryin’ foh de job ef yoh mind is not,” she commented gloomily. “But who's gwinter vote foh you?” “I kin vote foh myse'f foh one.” “Well, sonny, go yoh own way. But lem me gib you one piece ob adviee. When yoh gits yoh plans laid an’ is all ready to oper- colors, England with rubies, India with | monds, the ea with emeralds, and so or | >. | te you want anything, try an in The | Ser If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. He—“Awfully 50.) cuncert, wasn't his name?—something like Doorknob.”” She—“Doorknob! Whom de you mean? ner, Handel—” Handel. He—“That's it! T knew it was Awfully joliy thing by that fellow—what's I only know of Beethoven, Mozart, something you caught hold of