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'uE COFFEE ItOOM OF FLADONG'S.
6o boy Jim went dnw'L to the George at
Crawley under the charge of Jim Belchur
and hie uocc : to tram or Ids great flgbt wttt ,
Crab'4'llson of Glnucesder , wldle every club
nod bar parlor of Lnndmt rung svfth the ne-
count of low be had sppeared at a snout' of
Corhithtans and beaten the formidable Joe
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V. Berta in four rounds. Jim load told me that
he would mukc hls name Imown , and lie
words hnd come true snoner than he could
dore exl eted It , for go where ono might one
heard nt nothing but the match between Slr
Lothian flume and Sir Charles Trrgullte. and
the polute ut the two prubable combatants.
The bulting sus stttl strongly in favor of
% V1li' n , for he had a number of bye-bathes to
set agufnrt tills single victory of Jtm'n , and It
nos thought by connolracurs who had seen
} , hn ajar that the singu ar dnfonsive tactics
wLlcli had given him his nickname would
lane very puzzling to a raw autagonBL !
In belght , strength and reputatlm for gameness -
ness there was very little to ciionse betwera
them , but 1'ilercn had bt'tn the most severely
tented ,
it was but a few- days before the battle
that my father made his promlred vlrlt to
London. The seaman hod fro love for cities ,
and was happier when wandering over the
downs , and turtjng his glaas upon every
topsail which rhuwed above the horizon.
Luau to finding hdr way among crowded
ttrecta , where , as be complalned , it was
SmpMSlble to keep a course by the sun , and
very hard by dead reckoning. Rumnra of
war were in the air however , and It ass
necessary that he obnuid uae hls influence
with Lurd Nelson If a vacancy was to be
found either for himself or for me ;
hey uncle had just set inrth , as was hit cue-
tom of an evening , clad In his green riding
truck. her plate buttons , hts Cordovan hoots ,
and lds round hnt , to show himeetf upon his
little crop-tailed Ut in the Mall , I had remained -
mained behind , for , Indeed , 1 lied ntrendy
made up my mind that I had no culling for
Lida fashionable life. There men , with their
small walrtn , their gee uree , and their unnatural -
natural wu3n , had become wearisome to me ,
and even my uncle , with his cold and
patronizing manner. Abed me with very
mixed feedings. I1y thoughts were bnck
in Sussex and I wee dreaming of the kindly ,
simple ways of the country , when there
. came a rat-tat at the knocker , the ring of
a hearty voice , and there in the doorway
wan the smiling , weatherbeuten face , with
the puckered eyelids and the light blue
ergs.
"Why , Roddy , you are grund , Indeed ! " he
cried. "put I hod rather see you with the
Li king's blue coat upon your back than with ell
t these fr1lh and ruffles. "
'And I had rather wear it , father , " I
nnawered.
7t makea me glad to hear you say ? o.
1 Lord Nelson had promised me that he would
Sind a berth for you , and tomorrow aye shall
acek him out and remind him of It. But
'where is your uncle" "
He is riding in the Mall. "
A Iool of repel parsed over my fnther's
honest Inca , for he was never very btsy in
ills brother-in-jaw's company. "I have been
to the admiralty ; nald he , "and I truat that ,
I shall have a ahip when war breaks out ; by
all accounts it will not he long first. Lord
St. Vincent told me so , with his own lips.
13u + I am at Fladong's , Jtodney , where , If
you will come and sup with me , you will
see some of my mesamatea frnm the
Idediterranenn. "
When you think that in the last year n1
the war we bad ] d0O0d seamen , cnd marines
afloat , commanded by 4,000 ofcers , and ( lot
half of these had been turned drift when
the peace of Amiens laid their ships up in
the Hamoaze or Portsdown creek , y.U will
underntand that London , as well ns'be uock-
, yard towne , was full of noafarer. 'You
could not walk the rtreeta withnut cr. tLrng
sight of lylwy-faced , keen-eyed men , vlcse ,
plain clothes told of their purses as plainly
as their listless air showed their 'wenrinee of
a life o1 forced and unaccuetomed inaction ,
Amid the dark streets and brick hrcaee
there was nometloing out of place is their
appearance , as when the acaguils , driven
by etresa of weather are seen la the mid-
. f land shires. Yet , while prize courts procrastinated -
crastinated , or there was a thence tf an
appointment by shawing their sunburnt farea
at the admfraity , no lung they would continue -
tinue to pace , with their quarter-deck strut ,
down Whitehall , or to gather of no evening
to discuss the events of the last war ur the
chances of the next at Fladong's to Oxford
street , which was resorted as entirely for
the navy as Slaughter's was for the army
or Ibbetsou's tor the Church of Engluul.
It did not surprise me , therefore , that 'we
should find the large room in which we
supped crowded with naval men , but I re-
anember that what did cause me some ns-
tonisltmi + nt 'was to observe that all these
talinrs , who had tervvU under the most
"varying conditions , in all quarters of the
globe , from the Baltic to the West Indies ,
ubould have been moulded Into no uniform
a type that they were more lite each other
than brother is commonly to brother. The
rules of the service Insured that every 'ace
should be clean shaven , every head powdered ,
and every neck covered by the little queue
of natural hair , tied with a black silk rib-
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1)on. Diting winds and tropical suns had
counblued to darken them , while tbe' habit of
romm uMl end the menace of ever-recurring
daugera bad stamped them all sitb the
sane expresaidn of utUhorlty cad alertneers ,
There were some jovial Iacca amaug them ,
but the older offoera , with their deep-lined
cheeks and their masterful noses , xere fur
the Innaf part as anatere as as many Reutber-
beattto ascedlcp lrom the denert. Lonely
watches and a disclpltto which cut them of
from ail companioneldp Iad left their mark
upon those red Indian faets. For my part , I
could hardly cat my supper fur watching
them , Young as I was. I knew that U there
were any freedom left in Europe it was to
these men ( lint we owed ! t , and I seemed
i to read upon their grim , harab featurea the
record td 'that long ten years of struggle
which had sscpt the trl-color from the
sass When we lad Autshed our auppor my
lather led ms late the great coffee room.
where 2(10 or more otOtere may have been
assembled , drinking their wine and smoking
their long day piptse , until the air was as
thick ae the male deck yi a close-tougbt
ncUua. As ae entered we found ourselves
lane to tare with an glderly oAuer who sus
eoming out He was an uudeu-sized man
C 'with large. thoughful eyes „ and a full ,
olaeid faee-sucb a face as one would expect
trom a phlluaupber and a philanthropist ,
rather than from a figbUng seaman.
' "Here's cuddle Collutgwood ; ' wLlspored
my lather
"Hullo , Lieutenant 13tane , " cried the fa-
men a admiral very cheerily. 'T have scarce
caught a glimpse of you elnee you came
aboard the Excellent after St t'InCCM. You
had the luck to be at the Nile also. I under-
ntand. "
"I was third of the Therens under Miller ,
air. "
' 7t nearly broke my heart to have mlrued
it. ,1 hnse no yet outlited it. To think of
such a gallant service and I engaged In
haraneing the market boats , the miserable
cabbage carriers of St , Luccara , "
"Your plight was a better one than mine ,
Sir CutbberL" said a voice from behind us ,
and a large man In the full uniform of a post
captain took a etep forward to include himself -
self in our circlee. His maetlf fare was
heavy with emotion , end he shook his heAd
ntioerably as he sl'ole : ,
"Tee , yes , Troubridge , I can understand
and rymathiae with your feelings. "
"I passed through h-1 that night , Colling-
wtrod , it left a mark on me that I shall
never lone until I go over the ship's ride fn
a canvas cover. To have my beautiful Col.
loden laid on a riudbank just out of gun.
ahoL To hear and see the fight the whole
night thorough , and never to pull a lanyard ,
or take the tomplons out of my guns. Twice
I opened my pistol care to blow out my
bralna , and It war but the thought that Nel-
snn might have a use for me that held me
back. "
Cnlingwnod : shook the hand of the unfortunate -
fortunate captain.
"Admiral Nelson was not long in finding a
use for you , Trnubridge , " , Id he. "We have
all heard of your elege of Calms , and how
you ran up your ship's guns without trenches
or paralle a , and fired point blank through
the embrusuree. "
The melancholy cleared away from the
massive face of the big seaman , and his
deep laughter filled the room.
"I'm not clever enough or slow enough for
their Z Z fashions , " bald ha. "We got along-
elde and slapped ft in through their portholes
until they struck their colors. But where
have you been , Sir Cuthbert ? "
"With my wife and my two little lansles
at Morpeth , in the north country. I have
but Peen them once In ten years , and it may
be ten more , for al : I know , ere I see them
again , I have been doing good work for the
fleet up yonder , "
' I had thought , sir , that it was Inland , "
said my lather.
Collingwoad took a Jlttle black bag out of
his pocket and shook ft.
"Inland it is ; said he , "and yet I have
done good work for the fleet there. What do
you supper 1 hold fn thin hag ? "
"Bullts ; ' said Troubridge.
"Something that a sailor needs eves more
than that. " answered the admiral , and , turn-
log it over , he tilted a pile of acorns onto his
palm. "I carry them with me fn my country
walks , and where I see a fruitful nook I
thrust one deep with the end of my cane.
My oak trees may light these rascals over the
water when I'm long forgotten. Do you
know , lieutenant , how many oaks go to
make up an eighty-gun fillip ? "
My father shook his head.
"Two thousand , no lees. For every two-
decked ship that carries the white ensign
there is a grove the leas in England. So
how are our grandsons to beat the French 1f
we do not give them the trees with which to
build their shlpe ? " He replaced his bag in
his pocket , and then passing his arm through
Troubridge's they went through the door
together.
"There's a man whose life might help you
to trim your own purse said my father , as
we took our seats at a vacant table. "He Is
ever the same quiet gentleman , with his
thoughts bury for the comfort of his ship's
company , and with his heart with his wUe
and -children , whom Ste has so seldom seen ,
it Is said In the fleet that an oath has never
passed his lips , Rodney , though how be-man-
aged when be was first lieutenant o1 a raw
crew is more than I can conceive. But they
all love Cuddle , for they know he's an angel
to fight , How d'ye do , Captain Foley ? My
respocs ! , Sir Ed'ard ! Why , 11 they could but
press the company they would man a corvette
with flag oflcere.
"There's many a man here , Rodney ; ' continued -
tinued my father , as be glances about him ,
"wimse name may never find Its way into
any book sate his own ship's log , but who
in Ids t wu way line set as fine an example
as any admiral of them alt. We know them
and talk of them yn the fleet , though they
may never he bowled in the streets of Lon-
don. There Is as much seamanship and
pluck in a good cutter action as in a lone-o'-
battle ship fight , though you may not come
by a title or the thanks u1 Parliament fur it.
There's Hamilton , for example , tie quiet ,
pale-faced man wbo Is leaning against the
pillar. It was be who with six rowing
boats cut out the forty-four-gun Irigata
Hermione from under the muzzles of 1.00
shore guns in the harbor of Puerto Cabello ,
No filler action was done In thew hole war ,
There's Breretuu , with the whiskers. It was
he who attacked twelve Spanish gunboats in
his own little brig , and made four of them
strike to hint , There's Walker of the Rose
cutter , who , with thirteen men , engaged
three Frentcb prlvateers , with crews of 14G.
He sank one , captured one , and clutsed"the
third. How are you , Captain Bou T I hope
I see i'ou well. "
Two or three of my father's acquaintances ,
who had been sitting dose by , drew up their
chairs to us , and soon quite a circle had
farmed , all talking loudly and arguing upon
sea natters , slinking their long red-tipped
pipes at each utter as they spoke , My
father whispered In my ear that his nelgb-
bor was Captain Foley of the Goliath , who
led the van at the Nile and that the tall ,
thin , foxy-hatred man uppusite was Lord
Cochrane , the moat dashing frigate captain
! n tLe aert Ice , Even at Friars Oak we had
heard how in the little Speedy , of fourteen
small guns , with fifty-tour men , he had
carried by boarding the Spaniah frigate
Game , with her crew of 800 , it was easy to
see that be was a quick , irascible man , for
he was talking hotly about his grievances ,
with a flash of auger upon his freckled
cheeks.
" % Y e shall never do any good upon the
ocean until we have hanged a few dockyard
contractnrs , " he cried , ' 1'd have a dockyard -
yard contractor as a 6gurebead for every
first-rate 10 the fleet , and a provision dealer
for every frigate. I know them , with their
puttied seams and their devil boats , risking
600 lives that they may steal a few pounds'
worth of copper. What lucame of he
Chance. and of the Martin , and of the
Creates ! They laundered at sea , and were
never heard of more , and 1 say that the
crew ? of tbe'm were murdered men. "
Jrird Cacrane seemed to be exioreasing the
T'ews o1 all of them , for a murmur of assent
with a mutter o1 hearty deep-sea curses ran
round the circle ,
"Those rascals over yonder manage thlags
hheer , " weld an old , one-eyed captain , with
the blue and white ribbon for SL Vincent
peeping out of his third buttonhole , 'They
sheer aNay' their btaula 11 they get up to any
ftrolnry. Did ever a vc'eel eomc Out of
Tnulon as my tblrty-e1ht-gun ( frigate did
Item Plymouth hat year , with tux masts
roiltng ateut her shrouds like Iron bare en
one side and banging in festoons upon the
other ? The meanest shnpp that ever tame
out of France would have overmatched her ,
and then it anuld have been on me and not
en this Devonshire bunglcr that a court-
martial would be called. "
They loved to grumble , these old salts , for
as soon as one had shat of his grievance bds
nedghbnr wnuld follow- him with another , eeeh
one mote bitter than the last.
"Look at our sails , " cried Captain Foley.
"Put a French and a British ship at anchor
together and how can you tell which is
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which"
"Frenchy has his fore and main topgallant
masts about equal , " said my father.
"in the old ships , maybe , but many of
the new are laid down on the French model ,
No , those Is no way of telling them at any
alter. But let them hoist sail , and bow
d'you tell them then ? "
"Frenchy hiss veldts ratls , " cried several.
"And ours are black and rotten. That's
the difference. No wonder they outsail us
when the wind can blow right through our
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canvas
1 "in the Speedy. " said Cochrane. "the tail
cloth was P3 'thin that when I took my ob-
servattcn 7 always took my meridian through
the foretopanil and my horizon through the
Ioreaatl. '
There was a general laugh at this , and
then at it they all went again , letting of
Into speech all those weary broodings and
r silent troubles which had ranlded during
i years of service and w.cb an iron
discipline prevented them from speak-
log of when their feet wets' upon
their own quarter decks. One spoke
of his l'ow det , six pounds of w hich were
needed to throw , a ball 1.000 yards.
Another cursed the admiralty- courts , where
a prize goes in as a full rigged ship and
conies out as a schooner. Thcc old captain
spoke of the promotions by parliamentary in-
, teuest , which had let many a youngster into
the captain's cabin when lie should have
been in the gun room. And then they came
back to the difficulty of finding crews for
their vessels and wailed ,
" \'hat's the use of building fresh ships , "
cried Foley , "when even with a i0 bounty
you can't man the ships that you have got ? "
But Lord Coairane w sa on the other side
in this question.
"You'd have the men If you treated them
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I SAW CAPTAIN TROWBRIDGE APPEAR ABOVE THE SHOULDEitS hF THE CROWD
well when you got them , " tald he. "Ad-
miral Nelson can get his ships manord. So
can Admiral Coillngwnd. WhyBecaus'a
he ha , thought for the men , and so the men
have thought for him. Lt men and officers
lnow and respect each other , and there's
no difficulty In keeping a ship's company.
It's the infernal plan of turning a crew over
from ship to ship and leaving the ollcers behind -
hind that rots the navy. But I've never
found a difficulty , and I dare swear that U
I hoist my pennant iomorrcw I shall have all
my old speedies back , and as many volunteers
as I care to take. "
"That is very well , my lord ; sa'd the old
asntaIn. with some warmth. "When the
jacks bear that the Speedy took fifty vee-
selr in thirteen mouths they are sure to
volunteer to , serve with her commander.
Every good cruiser can fill her com lement
culc _ ly enough. But It is not the crutsero
that fight the country's battles and blockarh'
± hc enemy's ports. I say that all prise
money should be divided equally among the
whole fleet , and until you have such a rule
the smartest men will always be found where
they are of leant service to any one but
themselves. "
Thr ! speech produced a chorus of protests
from the cruiser officers and of hearty agreement -
ment from the line-of-battle-ship tnea , who
seemed to be in the majority in the clrnte
which had gathered round. From the
flushed laces and angry glances it wascIaa
to me that the euestion was one upon which
there was strung feeling on both sides.
"What the cruiser gets the cruiser earns ,
cried a frigate csptatn.
'Do you mean to say , sir , " sad r.c tan
Foley. "that the Lutiea of an officer unen a
cruiser demand more care or professional
ability than those of one who is employed
upon blockode service with a lee coast under
him whenever the wind shifts to the west ,
"al the tohlansts of an enemy's eouadron
forever In his eight ? "
"I do not claim higher ability , sir. "
"Then why should you clan , higher pay ?
Can you deny that a seaman before the mast
makes more in a fast frigate than a lieutenant -
tenant can in a battle shla ? "
"It was eely last year , " said a very gentlemanly -
manly looking officer , who might ! lave passed
for a buck about town , had his skn ; not heen
burnt to copper in such sunshine as never
bursts upon London , "It was only last year
that I brourbt tbtotd Alexander back from
the Mediterranean fleeting like an empty barrel -
rel and carrying nothing but bcnor to her
cargo. in the cbannel we fell in with the
Irigate Minert'a , from the western ocean ,
with her lee ports under water and her
latehee bursting with the plunder which had
been too valuable to trust to the prize crews.
She had lr.gots of silver along bier yards and
bowsprit , and a bit of silver plate at the
trucks of the masts , .My jacks could have
fired into her and would. too , if they had
not been held back. It made them mad to
think of all they had done in the youth , and
then to see this saucy frigate flashing her
money before their eyes. , "
"I cannot see their grievance , Captain
Bel. " said Cochrane.
"iPhen you are promotes to a two-decker ,
my lord , it will puss bly become dearer to
you , "
"You speak as if a cruiser t ad nothing to debut
but take prizes. If that Is your view , you
will permit me to say that you know very
little o1 the matter , 7 have handled a sloop ,
a corvette and a frigate , and I have found a
great variety of duties 10 each o1 them. I
have had to avoid the enemy's battle ships
and to fcht his cruisers. I have had to
chase and capture his prlvatetrs and to cut
them out when they ran under his batteries.
I have had to engage his forts , to take my
men asbrre. and to destroy bps guns and
sgnal stutlous. AU title , with convoying ,
f reconnoltering and risking one's own ship in
1 order to gain a knowledge of the enemy's
movements , comes under the duties of a
commander of a cruiser. I make bold to
ray that the man who can carry these objects
out with success bas deserved better o1 the
country than the offices of a battle ship tack-
lag Unto Psbant to the Black Reeks and back
again until ate builds up a reef with her beef
Laae.r'
"Sir , " Bald the angry old soldier , "such as
ufficer is at least to no danger of being
takeo for a prlvateersmaa. "
"I am surprised , Captain Bulkeley" Cacb-
rune retorted angrily. "that you should venture -
ture to couple the ' amtx of privatecrsman
and king's officer. "
There was mb'chief brewing betweeo these
hot Leaded , abartspoken snits , but Captain
Foley changed the subject to discuss the
new ship which were being built is the
French ports , 1t was of interest to me to
hear these men who were spending their
lives in lighting against our neighbors dia
cuaiing thetr character and ways. Too cannot -
not cuueeive-you who live ! n times o1 peace
and charity-bow fierce the hatred was to
England at that time against the French ,
and above all against their great leader. It
warn morn than a mere prejudice or dislike ,
C It was a deep , atgresvive loathing which you
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day. The ward Frend ikn was hardiy
"Pn withcut rascal"or "deoundre. . " slipping -
ping in before it. In ratlran , of life and in
every part of the ccuntri"-4i u } Feeling was
the same Even the jacks aboard our ships
Sought with a viclou.cie J p + ltatnst n French
resel wscb : 'they would-rover show t
Dane ; Dutchman or Spantardh'
if you ask me now , after illy years' , why
It was that there 'should have been this virulent -
lent fooling against them , so foreign to the
easy-going and tolerant Brltlch' natura , I
would confess that I think the real reason
was fear , Not -fear of them individual : ; , of
course-our foulest detractors have never
called us faint-hearted-but fear of the.r
star , fear of their future , fear of the sabtie
brain , whose plans always seemed to go
aright , and of the henry hand which had
struck nation after nation to the ground.
We were but a nmall country , with a population -
lation which , when the war began , was not
much more than half that 'of France. And
then France had incrcaoed by leaps and
brunds , reaching out to the north Into Bel-
glum and Hul aud , and to the south into
Italy , whole we were weakened 'by ' deep-lying
dlaaifectfon among both Cathollcs and Free'
byierlans in Ireland. The danger was lmml-
nent and plain to the least thoughtful. One
could not walk the Kett coast without seeing -
ing the beacons heaped up to taU the country -
try of the enemy' , landing , and if the sun
were rhinlrg an the upiande. hear Boulrgoe ,
one might catch a glmpseof its gleam upor
the bayoaeta of maneuvering veterans No
wanner that a fear of the 'Frcneh pcwer lnj
deeply 1n the hearts of idle most gallant
men , and that fear obauld , t it always dues ,
beget a bitter and rancorpus hatred.
The seamen did not sle1Ik kindly oftheir ,
recent enemies. Their hearts loathed them ,
and , In the fashion of their country , their
hips said what their hearts felt , Of the
French offlcerfi they could net have spolen :
with more chivalry of worthy foemea , but
the nation was an abomination to them , The
ulder men had fought egalost them In the
American war , they had 'fought agata for
the last ten years , and.tbe dearest ti'lsh
of their hearts seemed to he that they might
'l'c called upon to do the same for the remainder -
mainder of their days Yet if I were surprised -
prised . y the virulence of their animosity
against the larencit , I was even more so to
hear how highly they rated them as antagonists -
tagonists , The long succession of Brltleb
victories , which had finally made the French
take to their forts and resign the struggle
in despair , had given all of us the Idea that
tar some reason a Briton on the water must ,
in the nature of thing' , always have the
best o1 it against a ? renckimau.
But these mea who bad done the fighting
did not think so. They were loud in their
p else of their loeman"e gallantry- , and praise
in their reaecna for his defeat. They
showed buw the officers of the cld French
navy had nearly' aU been aristocrats , How
the revolution had swept them out of their
ships and the force In.eit left with loau
bordinate seamen and no competent leaders.
This ill-diregied fleet had Luca husJed into
port by the pressure of the w ll-mauued and
well-commanded British , 'h } had pinned
them there' ever sines so that they.bad never
had an opportunity of learyljng eeamanshlp.
Their harbor drill and hbarhor gunnery
lad been of no service w t ite sails 'had to
be trimmed and brood 1d Axed an the
heave of an Atlantic swill. 'Let one of their
frigates get tt sea an 1 a a couple of
years free run In 'whic 't etrn their duties -
ties , and then It would feather in the
cap of a .British of l Itiwith a ship of
equal farce , be could brio duwn for colors ,
Such were the views t4lcifcse experienced
officers , fortified by mafy juiuiscences and
examples of French gaIl utrp , sucb as the
wayin which the crewof the ' 'Orient had
fought her quarterdeck puny when the main
deck was in a blaze beneath them and when
they must have luewu tTi t"tbey were stand-
tug over n exploding magazine. The general
hope ass that the Went Indian expedition ,
since' the peace , might Lave : given many of
their fleet an ocean training , and that they
might be tempted out into mid-ehannel 1f
the war were to break out afresh , But
would it break out afresh ! We bad spent
gigantic aunts and made enormous eaertious
to curb the laver of Napoleon and to present -
sent him tram becoming the uulversal
despot of Europe. V'ouid the government try
it agala ? Or , were they appalled by the
gigantic hod of debt which must bead the
backs of many generations unborn ? Pitt
was there , and aural ) be was note man so
leave hla work half done.
And then suddenly there was a bustle at
the door. Amid the grayswift' ' of the tw
bacco smote I could catch a glimpse of a
blue coat and sold ej.aulets , with a crowd
gathering thickly around them , white a haarsi
murmur arise tram the group , which thickened -
ened , nto a deep-chested cheer , All were on
tar feet. peering and asking each other
what it might mean. And still the crowd
teethed and the cheering swelled.
! "What ! s It" What has happened ? " cried
I a score of voices.
I "Put him up ! Hoist him up ! " shouted
eamebody , and an 'nstant ' later I saw Captain
Troubridge appear above the shoulders of the
crowd. &is face war' flushed , and he was
waving what seemed to be a letter in the
atr , The cheering tied away , and there w a ,
ouch a hurh that I could hear the crackle of
the paper in his hand.
"Great news , gentlemen ! " lie roared. "Gin.
1 rlous news ! Rear Admiral Collingwnod has
directed ms to communicate it to you. The
I French nmbae = _ ador has received his papers
'tonight. Every ship on the pia is to go into
-cemmlasion. AdmiralCornwallis is ordered
out of Cawsand bay , to crue'e : of Ushant , A
squadron it starting for the North e'ca and
I another for the Irish channel. "
He may have had more to say , but his
audience could waft no longer. How they'
shouted and ; tamped and raved in their delight - 1
light ! Harsh old flag officers , grave poet
captains , young lieutenante , all were roaring
like schoolboys breaking up for phe holdays.
There was no thought now of those manifold
and weary' grievance" to whichl had listened.
The foul weather was passed and the landlocked -
locked sea birds would be out on the foam once
more. The rhythm of "God Save the King"
osielied through the babel , and I heard the
old lines sung in a way that made you forget
their bud rhymes and their bald sentiments.
trust that you will never hear them s'
sung , w-th tears upon Tugged cheeks , and
catchinga of the breath from strong men.
Dark days will have came again before you
Lear such a sang or see such a sight as that.
Let thts'e talk of the phlegm of our countrymen -
men who have never seen them wbep the
lava crust of restraint is broken , and when
tor an Instant the strong endurance flres of
the north glow upon the surface , T saw them
then , and if I do not see them now I am not
rn old or so fuoileh as to doubt that tbey are
there ,
( To Be' 'Continued. )
OUT ( IF TILE URDISARY.
Dr. Brinton , one of the greatexet American
elhnolugieta , says that man first appeared
on the earth 70,000 years ago ,
Mrs , Mary Mabew of South Latrobe , Pa „
has just ccmp'eted a quilt of white and red
shades 'which contains 7,600 separate
pieces of cloth ,
The hottest place In the United States
is Bagdad , Ariz. At that place the thermometer -
mometer utten registers 140 degrees in the
shade for day's together ,
Earthworms six feet in iztb and us
large In diameter as a hue handle are found
in great numbers along the creeks and rivers
in Southern Australia ,
Human blood travels through the arteries
from the heart at a speed o1 1 : feet per
second ,
Flab are not such cold blooded creature
as Is generally supposed , Their normal
temperature is 77 degrees , while that.n ! the
nuntaa being is but 96 delroca.
The year-old daughter or M , J. Preston of
Worcester , N , T , .full headlong from a sac-
ond-sury window a few day's ago , turned a
somersault , and landed an the stone pavement -
ment , sixteen feet below , In a sitting posture.
Rushing down , expecting to find her child
dead , the mother found the youngster unite
jured , chewing gum , which she had in her
mouth at the time she full.
American lovers of the' weed who can
"make rings" pride themselves on being
"artistic amtokera , " but they are not to be
compared with the Japanese jugglers and
their famous smoke tricks. Japanese artists
in that line llnk rings together , make cratsea
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A PERMANENT CURE of the moot obstinate cuss's of Ghunorncc'ea and Gleet
required and without the nuusel tI1 of dosing wiitthtCa1'lelce lbjialbu and 6autui treatment -
.011 T Ferro S Co. Isuecacsors to Jirou ) , Pllvtrmaclens , Pads. 5010 by all druggists.
and'spoked wheels , and tome are even said
lb be able to make a enccesson of readable
letter ,
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Turner , the naturalist declares that he
once saw , upon the coast of Brazil , a race of
giant ravages , several of whom were over
twelve feet to height , the average appearing
to ho about nine and one-bait feet. M. The
vet , in iris decription : of South America ( published -
lished ! n 1G7i ; ) rays that "there are few among
the full grown men of Patagonla that are Item
than eight feet Sn Sleight. "
A small town in Bavaria ! s about to
celebrate the lOOlh anniversary of a lawsuit -
suit with a line of barons concerning the
ownership of a forest of oak and beach
trees. The villagers will come into full
posscssian next month and have managed
the property so well that its value has increased -
creased to 5600,000 ,
The Columbia river liar hind three names.
It was first called the Oregon. Afterward
it was called the SL Roque , but when it
was discovered by Rubert Gray in 179 :
It was given the name of his vessel , the
Columbia , 'in place of the two floating up-
pellatiens-Orogon and St. Roque. Accord-
log to Whitney , the original name of the
river was the Oregon , "big ear , " or "one
that huts big ors , " the allusion being to
the custom of this Indians who were found
in its region of stretching their ears by
boring them and crowding them with or-
naments.
The medal which was presented by congress -
gress to John Paulding , one of the captors
of Major Andre at Tarrytown , in recognition -
tion of his patriotic survicos and which had
been lust for over a quarter of a century ,
hus been discovered by Dr. I , B , Coutant
of Tarrytown , N , T. , while looking over
some old articles which had laid ! n Van-
derbilt's storubouse so long that they were
going to be sold for storage , It was only
a few years ago that an offer of tUDO had
been made and refused for one of these
medals , as one was presented by congress to
each of thethree captors of Andre , Paulding ,
Williams and Van Wart. This medal is now
the property of Mrs. Dodge , a descendant of
the Paulding heirs , and she probably had
forgotten all about the existence of it.
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1 I 'i DEFEATED IIOI'Etl. f
Plelladeti t is North American ,
She heard 013' suit.
And then in coyness blushed ,
And in a whisper iiuahed ,
Acknowledged that..my passion grand
Had caused her dear heart to expand.
And bid me ask liar father for her hand ,
Away I went.
lie heard my suit ,
And then in fury lure
About the r'eoml , and swore
That .2111' presumption was immense ,
Though bucked by little' common sense ,
An bid me , are he threw me out , go hence ,
I went.
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