LETTER FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
For Years Senator Gorman Leader on
Democratic Side—Place Difficult to
Fill—Practical Joke of "Dave”
Culberson.
WASHINGTON.—A wide gap was made In
the Democratic ranks in the senate when Arthur
Pue Gorman, of Maryland, died a few days ago.
There have been few more forceful characters
among the Democrats in that body. He grew up
with the senate; knew all its traditions and re
garded it as the greatest legislative body in the
world. For many years Mr. Gorman was the
real, as well as titular, leader on the Democratic
side of the senate. It was his genius that thought
out political schemes and it was his management
that secured for the Democrats the most there
was in the situation. His place will be difficult to
fill, as there are few men of his temperament and
sagacity now on the minority side of the senate.
Mr. Gorman was almost born to the senate,
as he first took service there at the age oi 13. His rise irom tne numuiest posi
tion in the senate, that of page, to the highest, that of leader, of his party on
the floor, is another illustration of the possibilities ahead of young America. He
always had an ambition to be a senator even when he scurried around the
chamber as a little page running errands for the senators. He was a protege
of Stephen A. Douglass and learned his first political lessons from that distin
guished man. By attention to his duties Mr. Gorman in 14 years that he was
employed by the senate, became in turn a messenger and assistant bookkeeper,
assistant postmaster and then postmaster of the senate.
Mr. Gorman was a baseball crank and in his young days belonged to the
famous Nationals of this city. The Nationals were often called the “Old
Pioneers” because they were one of the first ball clubs in the country. Mr.
Gorman was right fielder for the Nationals. An account of a game played be
tween the “Pasttimes” of Baltimore and the Nationals of Washington in 1863
gave great praise to young Gorman for his brilliant fielding and catching.
THE CUI.BERSONS. FATHER AND SON.
Senator Culberson inherits his phlegmatic
temperament from his father, the late judge or as
he was better known ‘’Dave.” Culberson who for
more than a score of years was a member of the
house from Texas. Old man Culberson was one
of the rich and rare characters in the house, a
man of great ability but averse to exercising it
unless absolutely pushed into a contest. In his
later years of service he was regarded as th9
nestor of young Democrats in the house and they
all went to "Uncie Dave” for advice which he
freely gave. The old man, however, was an invet
erate practical joker and some of the young fel
lows had cause to repent following his advice at
times.
1 -lit1 1 — i_| a lew years ago a young man came to the
house from Alabama named Jesse Stallings. He
was very anxious to make a name for himself by some fine oratorical effort on
the floor. He asked Mr. Culberson to give him some suggestions and let him
know when it was advisable for him to “butt in,” as it were, in debate. One
day Gen. Bingham, of Philadelphia, was in charge of a big appropriation bill in
which there were some strong provisions in the interest of the old soldiers.
Culberson called Stallings to his seat and said:
“There’s your chance. Jesse. You hear Bingham talking about the old
soldier? itou just ask him what right he has to do so. Why he kept a grocery
store in Philadelphia during the war and never smelled powder?”
This was Stallings’ opportunity, and as soon as he got recognition he
startled the house by addressing Gen. Bingham thus:. “What right have you
to champion the old soldier? You who never smelled powder except as you
sold it over a store counter? Let some man who has been to the front take
up their cause-.”
Here the house burst into a roar of laughter and Gen. Bingham, who was
laughing louder than anyone else, walked over to Stallings with the congres
sional directory in his hand and pointed to his splendid war record as he said:
“Somebody has been putting up a job on you, Stallings.”
I - _J
FLOODING CONGRESS WITH PETITIONS.
When John Quincy Adams retired from the
presidency and took up service in the house of
representatives one of his greatest achievements
was to preserve to the people the right of petition.
There was a disposition on the part of some
members of congress to shut oft this right, but
through the efforts of Mr. Adams the privilege was
retained and has been enjoyed ever since. Mr.
Adams little thought at the time he was fighting
for this right it would in the future be lightly re
garded and used really as a franchise for a busi
ness enterprise. There has been established right
here in Washington agencies that undertake to
flood congress with petitions on almost any sub
ject. They send out letters to parties interested
in public measures and offer “to circularize the
country by letter or wire" for so much money.
The effects of these petitions factories has resulted in millions of memorials
pouring in on both houses, 95 per cent, of which are never signed by the men
whose names appear on them. The labor organizations of the country are
worked completely in the matter of petitions. A representative of some organi
zation who is desirous of having a labor bill put through will send blank peti
tions to every lodge throughout the United States and the secretaries of those
lodges simply write the names of the members upon the petitions without con
sulting them. The same game is worked in church and religious societies and
through patriotic orders of various kinds.
Speaker Cannon probably receives more petitions than any other man, not
excepting the president. Appeals are made to him as the one potent factor in
legislation. When these machine-made petitions come pouring in “Uncle Joe”
scarcely gives them a thought, but when a letter or a telegram bearing the
stamp of individuality reaches him he is sure to give it his consideration. The
telegram form of petition is overworked also, and when 200 or 300 couched in
exactly the same language reach the speaker from different portions of the
gounrry he knows at once that they have been inspired from the same source
and are probably paid for by one man. This destroys their efficacy.
THE SUICIDE OF REPRESENTATIVE ADAMS.
The recent suicide of Representative Adams,
of Pennsylvania, is the first instance, so far as is
known, of a member of the house taking his own
life. A few years ago Representative Chickering,
of New York, was found lifeless on the sidewalk
outside a hotel in New York city having fallen
from his bedroom window. It was always a
doubt whether he fell by accident or threw him
self out with suicidal intent. There was no doubt,
however, about "Bertie” Adams’ act and it stands
unique in the history of congress. Away back in
war times Senator Lane, of Kansas, committed
suicide during a recess of congress, but aside
from his case and that of Mr. Adams there is no
authentic record of any other member of either
house having taken his own life.
The deliberation with which Mr. Adams went about, his suicide is still the
wonder of his associates in Washington. He was the last man on earth who
would have been suspected of contemplating such an act. He was the last
man also who anybody would have thought had the nerve to decide upon this
act before hand. His whole life here in Washington had been of such a butter
fly character and so at odds with the gruesome idea of shooting his brains out,
that the first report of his suicide could scarcely be credited. It was not be
lieved he had the courage to fire a bullet into his head.
In the opinion of Speaker Cannon and many who knew Mr. Adams his sui
cide was an extraordinary courageous thing to do. He had exhausted all there
was in life, was a bankrupt and was slated for defeat in seeking a renomination
and was threatened with cancer. He had nobody dependent upon him and
nothing evidently to live for; so that he was not shirking any responsibilities
in shuffling off this mortal coil. Looking at it in this way his friends consider
that their old associate displayed real courage in taking himself out of the way.
MARCONI VERSUS SLANG.
Phrases That Have Sprung Into
Use Through Use of
Telegraphy.
" *To wire’ in the sense of ‘to tele
graph,’ is a phrase rapidly passing
(into disuse,” said an electrician.
“Where ten men used to sty they'd
‘wire,’ all but one have dropped the
new word in the last ten years and
jgone to the old word ‘telegraph’
isgaic.
“What is the cause of that change in
our speech? What is the cahse ot the
decay of a verb so terse, direct and
charming as 'to wire?’ Marconi,
young Guglielmo Marconi, is the cause.
“Since 1895 more and more tele
grams have been sent without wires.
More and more firmly has the world
become convinced that in the future
wires will be practically useless in
telegraphy, just as sails are already al
most useless in navigation.
"Because the wire is no longer the
essential factor of telegraphy, the verli
‘to wire’ has begun to disappear.” •
CONCERNING DRESS
LOOK OUT WELL FOB HEALTH
—ABOUT DAINTINESS.
A Schoolgirl’s Thin Waist That In
vited Pneumonia—If You Would
Have Soft, Beautiful Hair, Go
Without Hats in the Hot Months—
Change Your. Out-of-Door Shoes
for Others as Soon as You Are In
doors — Dainty Underclothing
Characterizes the Beflned School
girl.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
In order to be healthful, the dress
we wear must be suited to the season,
the weather and the business we have
in hand. We are now in the midst of
spring with soft airs, sudden showers,
bright sunshine, and every other de
lightful thing that belongs to the most
charming part of the year. But last
December, although we had what is
called an open winter, there were
piercing winds and sullen skies, and
much of the time the temperature was
somewhere in the neighborhood of the
freezing point.
A friend of mine had occasion to
take a train one December afternoon
from New York to Albany. Midway
on the journey the train stopped and
among the passengers who stepped
aboard was a pretty girl with a jacket
over her arm, no hat on her head,
and protected from the weather only
by a thin shirt-waist, with short
sleeves. The shirt-waist was dainty
and pretty and trimmed with lace and
embroidery, but, nevertheless, on that
day and in that atmosphere, the girl’s
dress was an invitation to grippe or
pneumonia.
Ail last winter, any one who chose
to look might see beautiful New
York girls walking on Fifth avenue,
in the afternoon, with furs around
their necks while their feet were
shod with low shoes and their short
skirts left visible the most elaborate
open-work stockings. This was cer
tainly not a healthful style of dress.
I trust not a single school-girl left
her mother’s home garbed in so stupid
a mamuu.
Now that warm weather Is here, the
problem has less difficulty and the ele
ment of protection from cold is elim
inated. You are rather better off
without hats than with them in sum
mer, unless the sun is blazing and you
need to be screened from its direct
rays.
If you would like to have thick, soft
and beautiful hair, you will run about
without a hat whenever you can.
Mornings and evenings a jacket may
be necessary and a golf cape in the
mountains or at the shore is a very
comfortable addition to a girl's ward
robe. When sitting out of doors on a
summer evening, it is always well to
have a wrap and either a golf cape, a
railway rug or one of those sensible
cloaks with hoods and pockets made
so neatly by our Shaker friends, will
fill the need to perfection.
A school-girl’s dress should be well
fitting and its weight hanging from
the shoulder, should never be allowed
1o become an impediment. An elder
ly lady whose girlhood was passed
60 years ago, in a southern state,
tells me that she remembers when
every girl’s mother did her best to
squeeze her daughter's waist into very
small compass, and that a girl some
times wore tied around that same
slender waist eight or nine very stiffly
starched petticoats at the same time.
It was small wonder that the girls of
those days too often went into a de
cline and early faded out of existence.
Those who survived were delicate and
fainted away at any slight shock, had
very precarious appetites, and would
have been amazed at the rude health
rf the girls of our time.
Whatever you do, girls, be sure that
you have ample room to breathe. Any
form of dress that contracts your
powers of breathing is unhealthful and'
far from beautiful. For all-round
wear, few fashions exceed in common
sense the loose costume insisted upon
in the gymnasium; with a little more
length in the skirt than is permissi
ble when one is playing basketball,
running or jumping, this dress is ideal
for the schoolroom. For walking, and
every school-girl should take a long
walk every day as a matter of course,
the only healthful dress is one that
easily and thoroughly clears the
ground.
• # • » •
You girls who read this possess a
great advantage over girls who lived
a century ago. I suppose it is hard
for you to realize that women who,
were they still on the earth, would
be more than a century old, were once
girls like yourselves. They had pret
ty hard times under the regime then
in vogue, for they often had to spend
hours lying flat on their backs,
strapped fast to a board in order that
they might be perfectly straight and,
when they did not recline in this tor
tured fashion, they were equally com
pelled to be uncomfortable, for they
had to sit or walk with a stiff board
fastened to their shoulders. In the
end, most of them gained what is a
great beauty for any girl—a flat back
and a graceful carriage of the head—
but they did not usually have such
health as you are born to possess.
They wore wretchedly thin shoes
with soles like paper, pointed toes'
and pointed heels. The roads In those
days were muddy and the girls were
afraid to go out when it rained. Their
dresses were of muslin, close and
clinging, with baby waists that ended
under the arm-pits, and in the house
and out most of them wore either
turbans or caps of muslin and lace
trimmed with flowers, velvet and rib
bon.
Your rasnions are less picturesque,
but are really finer and better adapt
ed to your tramping out of doors in
rain and sun, and to your varied oc
cupations when in the house.
A girl who would like to be splen
didly well must always wear shoes
that are neither too loose nor too
tight. A shoe that wobbles about and
does not nicely fit the foot, is as little
to be desired as one that distorts it
by cramping and pinching and crush
ing the toes together, or otherwise de
forming one of the prettiest features
of the body.
A chiropodist told me one day that
in his opinion nearly all dealers in
shoes hired lunatics for salesmen.
I said: “Isn't that an extreme
statement?”
"Not at all,” he said. “If you could
only see the feet tnat I do, the young
girls who have bunions and corns and
hobble about in shoes never intended
by Nature for their wearing, the old
er women whose feet were ruined be
fore they were 16, you would under
stand what I mean. Of course,” he
added, “if everybody had sense enough
to adopt hygienic shoes, with broad
soles and low heels, I should have to
choose another profession, for my
vocation would be gone.”
Never neglect to change your out
door shoes for indoor ones when you
come in, expecting to spend the even
ing at home. The shoes last longer
and the feet feel better if this precau
tion is regarded.
I have not said anything about un
derclothing, because most girls wear
what is most agreeable to the skin,
and are Influenced in their choice by
the judgment of their mothers. What
ever you adopt, notice that it should
frequently be changed and be careful
to have it good of its kind. Dainty
underclothing is one of the character
istics in dress of refined and fas
tidious girls.
(Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Empire Lan>p Shades.
The Empire Craze Has Affected Lamp
Shades, But There Must Hot Be
Too Much Trimming.
Plain green shades for libraries, »tc„
ire also not permitted to escape the
Empire craze, although in truth many
periods of French decorative art are
h - ■■ ■ - ■ - — =n
A NEW SHADE.
Intermingled with the Empire. The
green shades are made of plaited
satin, silk or paper of a dark tone
and finished with heavy gold fringe.
For decoration they have two or three
tiny gold eagles, set midway between
the top and bottom of the shade and
the same modest offering of tiny gold
Empire wreaths.
Handsome drawing room shades are
of shaded flowered silk, heavy in
quality and many colored. These
shades are trimmed at the top and
around the bottom with gold lace in
bands, on which are tiny garlands of
ribbon work flowers which carry out
the design and color of the silk. An
other innovation is the trimming of
the panelled shades with shirred white
gauze ribbon. This is used to outline
all the panels and around the top and
bottom. One flowered shade made
over a pink lining had this ribbon
outlining the panels and a-border also
of braid and fringe in white silk.
Many of these shades, whether of
silk, lace, cretonne or paper, have two
scant flounces of liberty silk which
has been fringes out along the edge
hanging down beneath the fringe to
its very end. These are used to make
the light softer than it would be fall
ing through the fringe alone. The'
chiffon and very elaborate lace or silk
shades are also made with as many
fluffy underskirts as a ballet dancer:
but it is always a question whether
an overelaboration of chiffon is real
ly beautiful on a lamp. After all. It
is as a piece of furniture that a lamp
must more or less be considered. It
needs a certain rieidity of line.
STRAWBERRIES AND INSANE
Eastern Expert Makes Some Inter
esting Observations on the
c_ Subject.
Denver.—Do more persons go In
sane during the strawberry season
than at any other period of the year?
If so, why?
According to Dr. E. P. Blomer, a
Buffalo physician and alienist of rep
utation in the east, the statistics re
garding the insane of the country in
general show that each year there is
a marked increase in the number of
persons who become insane by the
time the strawberry season is well un
der way. When the fruit disappears
from the daily table, he asserts, rec
ords of different asylums show the
number of cases decreases.
' Dr. Blomer advanced his views on
the subject to C. E. Hagar, secretary
pf the state board of charities and
corrections, during a visit to the state
house. He is on his way to the Pa
cific coast to get definite statistics from
insane hospitals in California and oth
er western states, and will visit th»
Colorado asylum on his return jour
ney.
Dr. Blomer said he was unable t<
explain why insanity cases should b
more numerous during the time wheif
shortcake and berries and cream are ii
general use, but added that he wai
firmly convinced there was some pe*
culiar influence exerted on persons o.
a certain nervous temperament b;
strawberries. Their' effect on somt
persons physically, he said, was showr
to all physicians. Many are unable
to eat one dish of strawberries with
out suffering from a rash which covers
the entire body. Dr. Blomer believes
that in the case of some persons tht
mind is affected instead of the body
Secretary Haber had never heard tht
theory before, but declared that tht
next time he visited the state hospita,
he would go over the records care
fully in search of corroboration of th<
views of Dr. Blomer.
9
THE BACK-YARD PROBLEM.
First the Soil Must Receive Atten
tion, Then Cover Unsightly Fence
with Lovely Vines.
The first gardening problem to
tackle in an ordinary back yard is
the soil, and it is generally tue last
to receive honest attention and a
“square deal.” It is probably full of
brickbats and other builder’s rubbish
and almost devoid of available plant
food.
The first year or two a part of the
garden allowance snould surely be put
Into compost, which should be thor
oughly mixed with the soil when it
Is spaded. Don’t give up the most
stubborn, sour-looking soil. If it will
grow a pig weed the chances are that
it. will grow something more desir
able. The finer the soil is made the
.better. Wood ashes, lime and manure
will all help the soil in texture as well
as in the line of plant food.
Next, the fence and ugly outbuild
ings must be hidden. Vines will do
this. The rear elevation of the house J
deserves the same careful treatment.
Oi the permanent vines Boston ivy is
best for stone and brick. Virginia
creeper for wood. Wistaria is excel
lent for great cities, but seldom, if
ever, blooms there. Its foliage is
worth the cost. It needs iron rods for
support.
Annual vines of many sorts will
cover the fences the first year or so
and pay their way in cut flowers.
Nasturtiums, scarlet runners, wild cu
cumbers, morning glories, are all good
and cost little. There are more seeds
in some packets than you can use.
Divide with your neighbors. Hall's
honeysuckle can be grown from seed
if necessary for economy’s sake, but
nursery-grown plants give quicker re
sults. They eventually climb high on
verandas and will make beautiful
hedges if they have a framework of
woven wire fencing. Their white and
Straw colored blossoms make fragrant
and graceful table decorations.
WILHELM MILLER.
EGG-PLANT RECIPES.
There Is No More Tender Vegetable
Nor More Toothsome When
Properly Prepared.
EGGPLANT WITH ONIONS.—Cut
an eggplant into thin slices length
wise; dust over with salt, and let re
main until the bitter liquor is drawn
put. Then place in a frying-pan with
olive oil and butter, whichever pre
ferred, and brown over a brisk fire.
•Take them out of the pan and lay
them at the bottom of the baking dish.
Peel four medium-sized onions, cut
them in slices and put them in the
frying-pan; add more butter if re
quired, and fry until browned. Lay
the onions over the eggplant, season
with salt and three teaspoonsful of
sugar, pour in one teacupful of water
and half that quantity of vinegar, and
set the pan over a slow fire. When the
moisture is nearly all absorbed, ar
range the eggplant and onions on a
hot dish and serve.
v BROILED EGGPLANT.—Peel the
plant and cut into half-inch slices, roll
in flour, put into a pan which has al
ready been supplied with melted but
ter or sweet oil if preferred. Let broil,
turning as needed, for five minutes.
Take off and serve with a gill cf
maitre d'hotel sauce.
EGGPLANT FRITTERS—Boil in
salted water flavored with a little
lemon juice; when tender, skin, drain
and mash into a pulp. To every pint
of pulp use a half breakfast cup of
flour, beat up and add two well-beaten
eggs; season with salt and pepper to
taste. Shape into any form chosen;
and drop in boiling fat, and fry both
sides until brown.
^ BOILED EGGPLANTS. — Remove
the skin, cut into moderate-sized
pieces, put into a saucepan of boiling
water, pinch of salt, little parsley and
an onion. Boil until tender. Prepare
sauce as follows; Place one ounce of
butter into a small stewpan with one
third of a tablespoonful of flour and
mix it over the fire, then stir in a
small bottle of catsup and keep on
stirring until it boils, season with salt
and pepper. When cooked drain the.
water off and serve with the sauce.
FRIED WITH CHEESE—Peel the
plant, cut into quarters lengthwise,,
scoop out the seeds and cut into con
venient lengths. Rub garlic over the
stewpan and put in a large lump of
butter, melt it, then lay in the stripy
of eggplant, season with salt and pep
per, and small quantity of nutmeg,
grated Parmesan cheese and more but
ter if necessary. When quite tender
turn the eggplant into a hot dish and
garnish with buttered toast.—N. Y.
World.
A Correct Diagnosis.
George—Eh? You got engaged last
night, Gus, my old, my dear friend,
tell me how you did it.
Gus—Keally, I hardly know myself.
Couldn’t help it. Just like falling
downstairs. I was on the edge of a
proposal, she gave me a push, and
tbere I was engaged.
"Well, I haven't had any such ex
perience. Every time I try to start, my
knees knock together, and my teeth
chatter, and my tongue cleaves to the
roof of my mouth. I’ve tried a dozen
times to pop the question to Miss De
Pink, and slumped every time.”
“And did she let you slump?’ ’
"Yes.”
"You are courting the wrong girl.” !
—N. Y. Weekly.
" t
Fishing for a Compliment.
"She said you were fishing for a
compliment the last time you were
up at her house, but that you didn’t
get it.”
"Why, I don't recall having said any
thing that she could have construed
that, way.”
"Well, she says you did.”
"Did she say what it was?”
"Y'es; she said that you asked her
if she considered monkeys intelligent.”
—Houston Post.
Wicker Furniture.
Unvarnished wicker furniture that
has grown unsightly can be made to
look very nice by enameling, prefer
ably white. Another way is to dye
them some color, red being partic
ularly effective. Wet the wicker work
with clear, hot water before dyeing,
so It will color evenly.
Jimmy's Wife
By T. JENKINS HAINS
(Author of ’'Wind Jammers," "Cruise of
the Petrel." Etc)
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
We were about 50 miles south of
Cape Horn, hove-to in a high, rolling,
northwest sea which made the main
.deck uninhabitable.
In the dog-watch the carpenter took
mercy on Gantline and myself and al
lowed us to share his room in the for
ward house for an after-supper smoke.
We had started forward when the man
pn lookout hailed. Through the gloom
of the flying drift and twilight a
shadow bore down upon the ship,
grey-white above black. Then there
suddenly loomed out the shape of a
great ship tearing along under t’gal
lant sails dead before the gale.
Then in an instant she was gone.
The drift had closed upon her as she
swept astern before anyone could read
her name. She had vanished as quick
ly as she had appeared, passing on in
to the dismal sea behind us like a
salt-streaked mystery.
We stood gazing at the whirling
drift in the gloom astern for some
minutes, and then we followed Chip3
into his room. Gantline could not re
:all the vessel by her shape or rig and
asked the carpenter about hel\
“Do I know her?” he hissed fierce
ly. “Would f be apt to forget her?”
And he thrust out an arm, pulling up
his sleeve until a long livid scar
phowed clear to his elbow. “It isn’t
WE SAVED HIM.
likely anyone would forget the Morn
ing Light if they ever sailed iu her.
Man! I’d know her in the depths o’
perdition, the deepest hole in devil- !
dom, where she’ll sail in the hereaf- j
ter—
“No, I didn’t intend to ship in her.
Jimmy Turner an’ I got into her after
we left the navy. When we went
broke a fellow wanted hands for the
Morning Light, Cap’n Sam Smith, I
master. We hadn’t heard of any par
ticular Sam Smith, so on we signed
with shaking hands an’ dry throats,
willing to go anywhere or do anything
for enough grog to keep alive.
Jimmy had gone in the navy, be
cause he couldn’t live ashore. He’d
married and was sorry for it—made a
mistake. But he’d never said any
thing to me about his wife or family,
and I never asked. Nobody asks ques
tions of anybody aboard men-o’-war.
When we dropped down the bay a
tug came alongside and Cap’n Smith
went to the rail to greet a little hatch
et-faced fellow who jumped aboard.
He was with a woman.
"Sammy Smith an’ niece,” said an
old shellback standing on the forecas
tle head, ”1 thought so.”
“What’s the matter?” we asked.
“Matter! Don’t you know that fel
low? That's Morrell, the worst thing j
in man’s image that ever trod a deck
plank. Come it on us as Sammy Smith!
Man, if ye can get ashore, swim fer it
afore it’s too late. I'm too old.” But
Morrell didn’t ship men to have them
do the pier-head jump. We were in for
a western ocean cruise in one of the
packet ships who will leave her mem
ory a black and bloody track In the
minds of sailor men.
Before we d crossed the stream. Mor
rell had begun on us. But—well, nev
er mind. It would make the tales of
old-time horror seem like play to tell
one-half of what took place in a week.
Save ye, Gantline, I could sit here and
tell you things till morning—and each
one would make you shiver. We had
five men “missing" before the voyage
was half over. Jimmy and I came in
for some of it but even that tiger
shark aft knew when he had reached
the limit—and we were men-o’-war's
men.
“One night there was a row aft and
there were cries of a woman. Jimmy
heard them and started out on deck
witn his sheath knife, but we held
him, and four of us got the marks of
the knife to remember how we saved
him.
"After that Jimmy was quiet and
ugly. He never spoke to anyone.
There were no more ‘men’ in the crew,
only square-heads and Dutchmen, and
they never go aft.
"I wouldn’t consent to go alone
when Jimmy gave me a look that told
his game. Soon I noticed he wouldn’t
turn in at night and then I knew it
was coming. I stole aft to see the end.
“I found him standing close under
the break of the poop, talking in a
whisper to some one. Then I caught
the glint of a skirt and recognized the
voice of the woman.
" ‘It's no use, Jim, let me live It
out,’ she said. ‘It won't last long.’
Her voice was like that of the dying.
"Then Jimmy answered her slowly
and quietly. His words came deep and
low like the smothered roar of the
surf on the shore. Man, it was like
the great sea rolling over an outlying
reef, bursting, gathering again and
then rushing witn that mighty power
to the end. When he stopped she was
choking, gasping for breath. Man, it
seemed like her heart would break. I
couldn’t help listening, hearing her
pay for what she’d done. But Jimmy
never blamed her, no, not he.
“Jimmy stood there waiting for his
answer.
“ —go! Go and forget.’ She was
choking, kat it came plain and dis
unct. There was s> long silence, and I
looked hard into the gloom. She had
gone 1 immy was standing there sway
ing in the night like an unstayed mast
and I led him forrads, his head hang
ing down and sagging like he was
asleep.
“The next day it came on heavy
from the northwest. Jimmy was sent
aloft to put an extra gasket around
the bunt of the cro’ jack where it had
been blown out by the gale. Some
thing went wrong with the foot-ropr.
Looked like a clear case of cutting,
for it was all right when we furled the
sail a few hours before.
“Jimmy fell with the dull wallop
that generally means death, and he
landed right across the cabin skylight.
It was a long fall and he was still.
Morrell was watching his ship and
saw the fall. He started for Jimmy.
Just then the woman beiow rushed on
deck and flung herself upon the poor
fellow. I reached his head and start
ed to raise him. The woman was sob
bing and calling for him to speak just
once more to her; and, man, it was
terrible to hear her what she said.
“Morrell stood looking on, and then
burst into a laugh.
“ ’So that’s him, is it? Ho! ho! ho!
So that’s the fellow?’ And he went to
the dying man.
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it. striking him a blow that sent him
reeling. Then he went mad and had
his pistol out firing and cursing like a
maniac. It was all over in a minute.”
Here Chips stopped awhile and cut
some fresh plug for his pipe.
‘ Before the morning watch I had
talked Heligoland over, and he talked
to a Dutchman named Langter. An
derson finally joined, but Jacques was
afraid to go without his watch behind
him. There were just four of us start
ed aft out of that crew of 20 men.
“Heligoland took the starboard side,
and I took the port, both getting into
the mizzen channels when the watch,
was called. The rest were to rush
when they heard firing.
“The second mate bawled for hi3
watch to clew up the mizzen lower
topsail, as it was now snoring away
worse than ever and the short seas
were coming aboard U3. This was our
signal.
“We crawled along the deck strake
outside the rail, holding on like death
with our finger tips. Morrell was near
est to me. When we were near enough
to get behind our men, Heligoland
gave a cry and jumped over. I fol
lowed. The next second I had broken
my knife short off in the b ackest
hearted captain that ever cursed a
ship’s deck. He jumped back and ran
forward, I after him, trying to close
before he could get out his pistol. He
dodged about the mizzen and fired as
he swung. The shot hit me there on
the arm and split it to the elbow. Then
something flung out of the darkness to
leeward and there was a dull smash.
That was all. Heligoland stood leaning
upon his handspike while I picked up
the pistol.
“The day dawned upon a storm-torn
ocean, all grey-white, and a hovc-tf
ship staggering off to the southward
with her lower topsails streaming in
ribbons from her jackstays. As the
blow wore down toward evening wt
could hear the piteous cries of a dying
woman calling for her husband—”
Chips waited for a few minutes and
puffed hard at his pipe. Then he went
on in a low voice I could hardly hear:
“We buried Jimmy and his wife the
next day. Old Jacobs sewed them up
together and weighted them. All
hands uncovered as they went to lee
ward. I didn’t know any service, and
there wasn’t any such thing as a Bible
aboard. ‘Good-by, Jimmy,’ I said—and
let him go.”
There was a long silence. Qantline
stood up and then sat down again. He ‘
seemed to want to ask a question, but
would not. Chips watched him.
“Yes,” he went on, “we got five
year3 apiece for that. Five long years
behind the bars, where the memory
of the blue water and the hope I
would get out again kept me from go
ing mad. Is it likely I’d forget the
Morning Light?"
EXPORTS TO SOUTH GROW
Sales of Argentina Will Be 810,000.
000 More This Year Than
They Were Last.
Washington. — Commerce of the
United States with Argentina aggre
gates over $40,000,000 per annum and
is growing very rapidly. In t^e fiscal
year 1905, ending June 30, the total was
$39,000,000, in the calendar year 1905
the total was $45,500,000 and in the eight
months of the fiscal year 1906, for which
the department of commerce and labor,
through its bureau of statistics, has
presented figures, the total of $34,333,
500 seems to justify the prediction that
for the full fiscal year which ends June
30 it will reach $50,000,000.
Notwithstanding the rapid growth in
the trade of the United States with
Argentina, the percentage of its im
ports supplied from this country is com
paratively small, being but about 13 per
cent, of its total imports, while we sup
ply 36 per cent, of the imports of Vene
zuela, 34 per cent, of those of Colombia,
29 per cent, of those of British Guiana,
25 per cent, of ttl>se of Ecuador, 18 per
cent, of those of Peru and 15 per cent,
of those of the Dutch West Indies. The
South American countries whose per
centages of imports from the United
States are less than that of Argentina
are: Brazil, which takes but 11 per
cent, of her imports from us; Chili, 8V4
per cent.; Uruguay, 8% per cent.; Bo
livia, 6 2-3 per cent., and Paraguay, 314
per cent The total imports of all South
America are, in round terms, $450,000.
000, of which the United States supply
about 1“3 per cent., and the total exports
of all South America are $630,000,000,
of which the United States take about
22 per cent.
Naturally the United States take a
small percentage of the exports of Ar
gentina, since the products of that coun
try for exportation are largely of the
same character as those of the United
States.
Pope Uses Gramophone.
The gramophone has been chosen by
his holiness Pius X. to illustrate the
sacred music described by his cele
brated “Montu Proprlo.” His grace,
the archbishop of Westminster, alsa
allowed the gramophone to be used as
a means of personally addressing the
whole of the Catholic laity on the
momentous question of religious edm
cation in the schools.