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HISTORIC OLD IRONSIDES.
How She Escaped When Pursued by Seven
British Warships.
The Constitution, or Old Ironsides,
as she is familiarly known, is the most
famous of all the wooden ships that we
have preserved, says a writer in Har
per's Young People. Time and again
did she vanquish the English ships in
the war of 1812, and proud were the
people of her captures. Probably the
most thrilling incident of her career
was her escape trom seven English
men-of-war after an exciting chase of
nearly three days and nights. The
chase began on July 17, 1813. The Con
stitution was out for a long cruise,
and was weighed down with stores.
The sea was calm and no wind was
stirring. Capt. Hull put out his men
in boats to to tow the ship. They
pulled valiantly, and as night came on
the "kedge" anchor was run out half a
mile ahead. The crew on the ship kept
pulling on this, and the Britishers
didn't discover for a long time the
secret. Finally the English sa w it, and
adopted the same tactics, and by
doubling up their crews began to pull
their famous ship Shannon near to the
Constitution. A light breeze sprang
up and saved the American ship for the
time. There was a calm the next day,
and the agonizing struggle went on.
The next night another light breeze
came up and the tired sailors obtained
a little sleep. The next day there came
a sharp breeze after many hours of
struggle. The Constitution trimmed
her sails to catch it, the boats dropped
back and the men were caught up as
the ship gathered headway. The Guer
riere, of the English- fleet, came abeam
as the wind freshened and fired a
broadside, but the shots fell short, and
the Constitution's men ignored them
and calmly went about straightening
up their vessel as if they had just left
port and such a thing as an enemy was
unheard of. As long as the Constitu
tion can be kept together she will
probably be seen at Portsmouth, N. H.,
where she is now doing duty as a re
ceiving ship. Our old ships have al
ways been proud, and it has amused
some of the thoughtless officials of
other nations; but there was bravery
in their pride and absolute courage
that has always been the embodiment
of that famous saying: 'Don't give up
the ship!" We frequently hear laments
, that the old soldiers are dropping away
fast. I always share that feeling, but
I also include in it those wooden ships
of the navy scarred veterans most of
them are, worthy of the abiding re
membrance of a grateful people.
MONEY GIVES SOCIAL TONE.
The Best Deportment Found Among Those
Accustomed to Wealth.
Long-inherited wealth, together.with
the power it brings, creates a kind of
social ehmate in. which most of the
qualities which give charm to social
intercourse ripen in a way that is not
possible elsewhere and acquire more
delicate flavors, says an article in
the North American Review.
This is not indeed most true, but true
most obviously with regard to charm
ot manner; for manner, though its
raw material is always personal tem
perament, is in its finished state the
result of social circumstances and
bears something the same relation to
them that its scent does to a flower;
and, though the greatest charm of
manner is a personal gift, like genius,
and though persons who have enjoyed
the same social advantages possess it no
doubt in very different degrees, it is
only in the best society that its great
est and finest charm is, as a rule, pos
sible; and the manner of any average
man or woman brought up in Buch
society is, undoubtedly, with few ex
ceptions, more agreeable than it would
have been had the person in question
been brought up in other circum
stunces. This will, perhaps, be more readily
understood when a fact is mentioned
which, though absolutely true, is the
exact reverse of what many people
imagine, and that is that manner in
the best society is distinguished before
all things by its simplicity and absence
of affectation a simplicity which is
mainly due to that command of life
of which I have already spoken and
the fact that the conventions which
those iu question obey are conventions
which are made or sanctioned by them
selves and themselves only. It .is only
iu the best society that this complete
simplicity is to be found combined with
the highest polish.
A Kubblt Department.
People who object to a multiplicity
of departments iu the government, says
the New York Tribune, should be
thankful that they do not live in New
Zealand, where, in addition to the
usual state divisions, there is"the rab
bit department, which is the most im
portant of the lot. It has the organi
zation and equipment of forces and the
planning of campaigns against the
rabbits, which, if not kept under con
trol, would overrun and devastate the
south island. The need of this depart
ment is shown by the fact in the
last five years about sixty-four million
rabbit skins have been exported, and
it is estimated that nearly three hun
dred million animals were killed to ob
tain that number of skins. In spite of
this wholesale slaughter the number of
bunnies is constantly increasing, and
the handling of the numerous multi
tude of animals is an undertaking re
quiring both judgment and force.
HISTORIC FAT WOMEN.
Celebrities Who Were More or Less Dis
posed to Kmbonpoint.
From ancient, medieval and modern
history the following facts about fat
women are gleaned: Agrippina, Nero's
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mother, was fat. Cleopatra, the ser
pent of the Nile, as Marc Antony
called her, was small and fat. Laura,
Petrarch's muse, was fat, fair, with
blonde hair. The Marie Fiammetta
whom Boccaccio loved intensely was a
brunette and fat. Elizabeth, the virgin
queen, was tall and fat, with thick red
hair. Marguerite of Navarre was fat
All Rubens' women, except his wife,
were fat. All Titian's women, except
the Madonna, were fat. Catherine of
Russia was tall and fat; Louisa Stroz
zi, for whom Alexandre di Medici died,
was rather stout. Josephine lleau
harnais, the indolent Creole, afterward
empress of the French, was fat and
perfumed; Mme. Roland also. The un
fortunate Marie Antoinette was tall
of stature, majestic and fat; Mme. de
Stael, small, dark and fat, with a small
viper's head. George Hand had a
beautiful head, but was fat and small.
Heine said of her; "The build of her
body has the appearance of being a lit
tle too fat, or at least a little too
short; the head alone bears the eachet
of the ideal." Queen Isabella of Spain
is fat; Queen Victoria the same; Queen
Margherita of Italy is certainly going
on the same way, and most of the
great singers have been noted for their
embonpoint.
NO TIME TO SPECULATE.
Prompt Action of an Engineer Saves the
Life of a Child.
"To do the right thing at the right
moment is a great faculty," said a
well-known railroad man to the Lewis
town Journal man. "I saw this illus
trated once. I was on the engine with
Ed Chase, who was for many years en
gineer on the Dexter branch of the
Maine Central. Now as one comes into
Corinna village from the south there is
a long down grade that makes a heavy
freight or mixed train a pretty hard
thing to handle there. We were
booming along at a good speed with a
heavy load behind us. I was chatting
carelessly with Chase, when all at once
he jumped and whistled on the brakes
with a vira, at the same moment re
versing his engine. 'There is some
thing ahead there on the track, he ex
claimed. 'It may De a uog, out may
be it's somebody's body.'
"The breaks were put down hard and
the train slowed up and pretty soon we
saw it waB in fact a child sitting be
tween the rails playing in the gravel
a baby too small to think of danger.
It seemed certain that the train would
not be held before striking her, and
Chase ran out on the pilot to snatch
her out of harm's way. The big en
gine came to a standstill only about
three feet from where she still sat.
She looked up, laughing merrily, as if
she thought it was a fine thing to atop
a train.
"Itwas Chase's instantaneous action,
when he didn't know whether it was
child or dog, that saved the little one's
life. A delay of five seconds would
have been too late, for the train would
certainly have gone over her. I have
seen men act many times in emergen
cies, when cool and quick judgment
was required, but never a happier in
stance than this."
GETTING AROUNDTHE OLD MAN
An Unrelenting Tapa Carries Jits Daugh
ter's Love Letters.
There is a business man of this city
who has a very pretty daughter with
whom one of papa'B office staff has
fallen hopelessly in love, says the De
troit Free Press. Ab the young man is
not invited to the paternal mansion,
and the young woman has been notified
to keep away from the paternal office,
the course of their love does not flow
very smoothly. However, they have
hit upon an expedient which gives
them a channel of communication, and
they will continue to employ it if papa's
eyes do not rest on this expose. It was
the girl who thought of it it always
is the girl who finds a clew to the situ
ation. It is this way: When papa enters the
office in the morning he hangs his hat
on a certain nail among a row of other
hats and proceeds to -business. Then
the interested clerk, while the head of
the firm is reading his morning mail,
takes the hat from the nail where it is
hung, looks inside, slips his hand under
the lining and takes out a tiny missive,
which he at once conveys to his own
pocket, and the contents of which de
light and amuse him all day.
At night when papa returns home his
pretty daughter slips into the hall and
makes a raid on that hat, always find
ing there an answer to her missive of
the morning. How much longer papa
will occupy the position of Cupid's
mail-carrier remains to lie seen. He
will be madder than a hatter when he
finds it out.
A FATAL SUPERSTITION.
Mexicans Keganl Smallpox as a Divine
Visitation.
The poor and ignorant class of Mex
icans have an uncanny religious super
stition about smallpox. On a recent
visit to the interior of Mexico, says u
writer in the New Orleans Picayune, I
saw mothers carrying around in their
arms babies whose little bodies were
almost eaten up by smallpox. I was,
of course, shocked at the frightful spec
tacle, and even offered one deluded
mother money if she would take her
terribly afflicted child home and call in
a physician to attend it. Hut she re
fused my proffer with scorn, and be
gan to croon some weird incantation as
she tenderly caressed the little half
clad sufferer in her arms. I afterward
learned that the ignorant class of Mex
icans consider an outbreak of the red
pest in their miserable hovels a visita
tion of Divine wrath for some sin they
have committed. So set are they in
this belief that they will do nothing
whatever to check the ravages of the
disease, except when it attacks their
infants, to take the victims iu their
arms, press them closely to their
breast und pray devoutly and con
tinuously to Ood to forgive thern for
their wickedness. Of course the small
pox runs its course after awhile, though
never before claiming several members
of every family as victims, but not un
til it doea are tha alllioted par.au
purgef) of thalr slna.
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ONE TOUCH OF NATUEE.
Its Remarkable Efleot Upon a Lot
of Hardy Gold Diggers.
Fifty Fngllsh Miners Tramp Right Miles
to Hear a Lark SingHough Men
In a Rongli Country Hungry for
a Word from Mom.
No one should think that he knows
nil that it is to be homesick until he
lias turned his back not only on home,
but also on native land, says a writer
iu the Indianapolis News. Here are a
few incidents that fell under my own
observation during a sojourn in Aus
tralia. We were gold digging on the
bunks of the river Lodden, and had
been hard at work for many months.
In those early days nearly nil the men
on that particular "diggings" as, in
deed, on all the gold fields, were Brit
ish subjects, cither from the "old coun
try" itself or from some of the North
Aniericau colonies.
One day a rumor was circulated
through our cuinp that an immigrant,
lately from Englnnd and located some
distance farther down the stream, had
brought with him an English lark.
The news spread far and wide, from
river to hill and from hill to gulch, and
when the next Sunday forty to fifty of
us went to see the precious songster we
found fully five hundred rough-bearded,
tender-hearted men congregated about
the lucky ower's tent, listening, enrap
tured, to the old familiar trill of the
bird's sweet carol. Many of these
hardy diggers, great, strong fellows,
whom no danger could appall, had
tramped 'twenty miles simply to see
and hear a common lark, solely be
cause it came from their own "island
home," and it was nothing less than
pathetic to observe how deeply each
one was affected by the liquid, musical
notes, culling vividly to mind never-to-be-forgotten
joys. I have reason to
know, however, that this sentimental
indulgence cost not a few of the sturdy
Britons many an hour of lost time in
the following week. This little inci
dent has been told with some varia
tions from this, but I was there a an
eyo-witness, und the facta are as here
stated. 1 may add that 1 saw the qwn
er of the bird refuse more than one
offer of fifty dollars for his prize.
One day it was in 1853, I think a
number of us set off across the ranges
on a visit to the post oilice at Castle
mnine, about eight miles from our own
diggings, in the always present hope
of receiving home letters. Oh, those
monthly trips! Shall I ever forget
them? Each step of the thither jour
ney made light and buoyant by fond
anticipation, each foot of the return
seeming, only too often, a furlong in
length, dragged out in the weariness
of disappointed hopes! We were a
party of twenty, all stout young fel
lows under thirty years of age, and, as
we went over the quartz-strewn hills
and through the shadow valleys, ali
clothed with a gorgeous profusion of
strange shrubs and (lowers, and saw
myraid birds of brilliant plumage,
from the tiny parroquet to the great
crested cockatoo, flitting about from
tree to tree, while overhead shown the
dazzling rays of an Australian sun, our
spirits rose to the point of ecstasy, and
each one of us felt sure that this time
he would certainly receive the long-expected
missive.
Cheerfully, then, we trudged along
and at last came to the brow of the
heights overlooking the commission
er's headquarters, and there on a level
space iu front of the tents, about one-
third of a mile from us, were drawn
up, in their scarlet uniforms and with
flashing arms, Bomj) two hundred men
of the British Fortieth regiment of the
line!
Up to this moment none of us were
aware that a single English soldier was
In the colony, and the effect of this un
Busoected sight was simply astounding.
Almost no suddenly us if we had run
I Only 50c.
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against a stone wall, our little crowd
came to a dead halt, and while for a
time not a word was spoken each man
Bought to read in his comrades' eyes an
amusing thought to his own overpow
ering emotion.
As we stood in a kind of dazed be
wilderment the splendid regimental
band struck up, and, most strangely,
the musicians selected as the first piece
"Home, Sweet Home!" Then, indeed,
"the fountains of the great deep" were
broken up and we, roughly clad, clay
begrimed miners threw ourselves upon
the ground, totally overcome by the
rush of tender memories awakened by
the familiar old air, while boyish tears,
of which all forgot to be ashamed,
tijitlcd down each sunburnt cheek.
For nearly an hour, until the band
had gone through its whole repertory,
we lay there hushed and silent, but oh I
with such unutterable thoughts of far
away homes and loved ones, never,
perhaps, to be again seen. By and by
we rose and wandered slowly down the
slope toward the large canvas tent
which then served as a post office.
Whila we were taking our places in the
rear of the long line of anxious diggers
waiting their turn at the wicket, a
young fellow of our company wistfully
said: "Oh, boys, how shall we live
through it if we don't hear from
homeV" and the question found echo in
each expectant heart. But, alas! only
three men of our twenty received let
ters that day, and the homesick youth
was not one of them.
As we sadly walked back to camp
our party more nearly resembled a ftt
ueral procession than a squad of usual
ly reckless miners the three fortunate
Individuals considerately restraining
their exuberant joy out of sympathy
for the luckless seventeen.
The Stepmother.
A Jewish rabbi, lately deceased, left
the following clause in his will: "To
my dear children I commend the fifth
commandment of the Decalogue, which
ever was my guide and star. If they
truly wish to honor my memory let
them preserve peace among themselves
and affection toward my dearly be
loved wife, their noble and unselfish
seoond mother, to whom they are so
greatly in.debted."
Kquallty of Hex.
It is natural for a woman to resent the
Imputation that the feminine mind is
not so strong as the masculine, and this
spirit of independence was early mani
fested in a schoolgirl living in a Massa
chusetts town. She had, too often,
perhaps, been made to acknowledge
the superiority of her brothers. One
day her mother remarked upon the ap
parently utter lack of intelligence in a
hen. "You can't teach a hen any
thing," she said. "They have ruined
more of the garden than a drove of
cattle would. Y'ott can teach a cat,
dog, or pig something, but a hen
never!" "11m!" exclaimed the child,
indignantly. "I think they know just
as much as the roosters!"
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there are some remarkable echoes
in the wood-encircled Adirondack
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about a dozen times from abitof wood
land edging the lake, and when the
last echo seems to have died awaysomo
more distant woodland Will suddenly
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ness, and the sound will at length fade
out in extreme distance. The nearer
echoes seem to be tilled with the inex
pressible freshness of the woodland,
and it is hard to believe that the sound
is mere airy mimicry of the human
voice.
A policeman was taking a little boy
to the Btation-house recently. The
child was very small, very dirty, but
not at all frightened; he carried a lit
tle red pail and a fire-shovel in his
hand. "Poor little fellow!" exclaimed
a lady. "His mother will miss him
and find him when she wants the
shovel," was the nnlieomon's remnrk.
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