< * BL H , Or , The Adventures of An Eton Boy. , , CHAPTER XIX. ( Continued. ) "Ilnllo ! " said Tom Lombourno , sud- .1enly looking aloft , us the topsails flapped and shivered ; "she's yawning or steering wild ; what is that Span iard ahout ? " "But where is he ? " added Carlton , as we now missed Antonio from the wheel ; "Antonio , where are you ? " "Gone overboard , I hope , " exclaimed the second mate , with something more that need not be repeated , as he rushed to the wheel , and , after making it re volve a few times rapidly , he filled the sails and steadied the brig. This Was done 1imt In time fn- * - n &cuii , nad a press of canvas on her , and , had she been taken aback , the consequences quences might have been serious. "Look about for the skulking lub ber , " said Lambourne , in great wrath , "and SOUBO him well with a slush- bucket ; another moment and the craft would have been broached to ! " "He must have crept behind the longboat and got into the forecastle , " suggested Carlton. Til bring him up with a round turn for playing this trick , " grumbled Lain- oourne. "Hush , " said I , as a strange sound fell upon my ear. "What IB it ? " asked the others , lis tening. "A cry did you not hear it ? " "No nonsense ! " said they , together. "It was a cry that came from some where. " "I did bear something , " said Will "White ; 'but it was a sheave creaking In a block aloft , I think. " "No , no. " said I , pausing by the capstan , as a terrible foreboding seized mo ; "it came from the cabin. " "There is no one there but the Cap tain , Hlslop , and the boy Bill , who sleeps In the steerage , and they are all three sound enough by this time , " aald Lambourne. "But the sound was from the cab in , " I persisted , hastening aft. At that moment another cry , loud and piteous a cry that sank into a hoarse moan , echoed through the brig , "piercing the night's dull ear , " and ringing high above the welter of the sea alongside , the bubble at the stem and stern , or the hum of the wind through the taut rigging. We all rushed aft to the companion , and at that instant Antonio sprang up the " cabin stair. By the clear splendor of" the tropical moonlight wo could see that his usually swarthy visage was pale as death , while his black eyes lIazed like two burning coals. He grasped his unsheathed knife.the blade of which , as well as his hands and clothes , were covered with blood ! My heart grew sick with vague ap prehension , and my first thought was for a weapon ; but none was near. "What have you been about , you rascally picaroon and why did you leave the wheel ? " shouted Lambourne , becoming greatly excited ; "the masts might have gone by the board what devil's work have you been after bo- low ? " Then the dark Spanish Creole grinned , as the blood dripped from his hands on the white and moonlit deck. "Knock him down with a handspike , Carlton , " added Lambourne , who could not leave the wheel ; "knock him down the shark-faced swab ! " On hearing this , Antonio drew from his breast a revolver pistol , one of a pair which we knew always hung loaded in Weston's cabin , and fired straight at the head of Carlton who dodged the shot which , killed the sea man named Will White , who stood be hind him. The ball pierced the brain of the poor fellow , who bounded convulsive ly nearly three feet from the deckhe fell heavily on his face and never moved again , for he was dead dead as a stone. In its suddenness this terrible deed paralyzed us with horror , not unmixed with fear , as we were all unarmed and completely in the power of this Span ish demon , the report of whose pistol brought all the startled crew tumbling over each other out of the forecastle. "Aha , maldlta ! Santos y Angeles ! " said the Spaniard , waving the pistol , the muzzle of which yet smoked , to ward us in a half circle , as a warning for all to stand back ; "did you think to run your rigs upon me ? I am An tonio el Cubano , and don't value you all a rope's-end or a rotten castano , as you shall flntl. I am now the cap tain of this ship , and shall force you nil to obey me , or else" hqro he swore one of those sonorous and blasphem ous oaths which run so glibly from a Spanish tongue "I will shoot you all in succession , till I am the last man left on board ; and when I am tired of the ship I can burn or scuttle her. Do you understand all this ? " Dead silence followed this strange address , the half of which was scarce ly understood by our men , as it was said in Spanish. "Basta ! " ( avast ) I see that you do understand , " lie resumed ; "and now begin by obedience.- Throw this car rion this bestia muerta overboard. " But perceiving how Wo all shrank back "Overboard with him ! " ho added , brutally kicking the Inanimate body of poor Will White ; "or demonlo , I shall send the first who disobeys mo to keep him company. " He grasped me by the hand his hateful clutch was firm as A smith's vise and then he leveled his pistol at the head of Ned Carlton. For a moment the latter stood Irresolute elute , and then , seeing the black muz zle of the icvolver within a foot of hia head , he muttered a deep maledic tion , stamped his foot with rage on the deck , and said : "Mr. Rodney , hear a hand with mete to launch this murdered man this poor fellow overboard ! " "Obey ! " thundered Antonio. Like one in a dream I bent over the dead man , on whoso pale face , glazed eyes and relaxed Jaw the bright moon- llcrlit irnc. .Ulnl.it , , " " 11 111 my U.V- citement and bewilderment I nearly slipped and fell Into the pool of blood which flowed from his death wound. I had never touched a corpse before , and an Irrepressible shudder ran through all my veins. But , that emo tion once over , I could have handled a dozen with perhaps indifference ; and there are few who , after touching the dead , have not experienced this change of feeling. Ned Carlton , with a sound like n sob In his honest breast a sob of mlnelcd rage and commiseration raised the yet warm body ; I took the feet , and through one of the quarter-boards , which was open , we launched it into the great deep , and as the brig flow on , rolling before the early morning wind , there remained no trace of poor Will White , but his blood , a dark pool upon the deck , and the crew stood staring at It and at each other with blank Irresolution , horror and dismay expressed in all their faces. Empty-handed and defenseless as wo all were , each was afraid to speaker or act , lest ho might be the next vic tim whom the merciless Cubano would shoot down. With a growl of defiance Antonio now turned away , and , brandishing the revolver In token of the obedience he meant to exact , he descended slow ly into the cabin , where we soon heard him smashing open the lockers , and busy with the case-bottles In the stew ard's locker , or Billy the cabin boy's pantry. His departure seemed a relief to all , but in half a minute after he was gone below little Billy , or "Boy Bill , " as he was usually termed , whose sleepIng - Ing place was the steerage , rushed up the cabin stair In his shirt and ran among us , sobbing with fear and dis may. CHAPTER XX. Conference of the Crew. Some time elapsed before the poor boy became sufficiently coherent to be understood , but it would seem that on hearing the first cry , which had alarmed me , ho sprang out of his berth , which was at the foot of the companlonway , and on looking into the cabin , he saw by the night light which swung In the skylight , the Cubano , armed with a bloody knife , rush from the captain's state-room into that of the mate , which was op- nositn. Another choking cry acquainted him that Antonio had stabbed Hislop in his sleep ; and fearing that his own turn would come next , he had crept into an empty cask which lay below the com panion-ladder , and remained there , trembling with dread until , he took an opportunity of rushing on deck and joining us. This terrible revelation added to our dismay. We were now in a desperate predica ment , without a captain or mate to navigate the brig , and at the mercv of a well-armed desperado , to whom hem icide was a pastime ; thus , all who had handled him so severely on the night we crossed the line began to feel no small degree of alarm for their own safety , being certain that more blood would bo shod the moment ho came on deck. All dressed themselves with the ut most expedition , and it was resolvtrl to hold a council of war. Lambourno was still at the wheel ; and to bo pre pared for any emergency , he resolved to reduce the canvas on the brig. So the royals were taken down , all stud ding-sails taken in , and the topsails were handed all this ; was done as quietly as possible , lest any sound might arouse the fiend who seemed now to possess the Eugenie. Lambourno ventured to peep down the skylight , when he saw Antonio drinking brandy from a case bottle , without troubling himself with a glass. Then the Spaniard proceeded to attho himself in the best clothes of Captain Weston ; ho forced open several lockfast places , and took from them money and Jewelry , which he concealed about his ncrson. wimt M Ultimate object could bo in perform ing these acts of plunder on the open sea , we could neither conceive nor divine , but on chancing to glance up ward , ho caught a glimpse of Tom's eyes peering down. There was an explosion , a crashing of glass and a ball from a revolver , fired upward , grazed Tom's left ear and pierced the rim of his sou'-woster as a hint that our Cubano had no in tention of being overlooked In his op erations below. We heard him close the cabin door with a bang , and after locking it , throw himself on the floor behind it , with the Intention of sleeping , proba bly , but- with the full resolution that no one should enter without disturb- in/T him ; nrd In this way , after ex amining his pistols , he reposed every night afterward while on board. lln-iu . , . , , . * . . . _ _ . _ , , . , , . . | | , , n' somehow , " said Henry Warren , an old foremast man , with n reproachful glance at me , as ho threw the two al batrosses overboard. We now held n solemn conference to meet the emergency which was certain to come anon , and to consider the best means of subduing and disarming the culprit. "Whoever goes nigh him in the cabin , either by the door or the sky light , risks being stubbed or shot , " said Tattooed Tom ; "so we must go to work some other way , shipmates , and that other way must bo considered. " "We might close and batten the sky light and companlonway , and then starve or smoke him out , " suggested one of the crow , Francis Probart , our carpenter. "Smoke him out ? " echoed Tom. "Yes , as we do rats. " "By what ? " "Fill a bucket with spun yarn and greased flax , with sulphur and bllgc- \vntpv nin't timt tiiu medical com pound for rats ? " "Nonsense , " said Tom ; "you would burn the ship " "As ho has often threatened to do , " said Carlton , "and may do yet. " A most extraordinary scheme was proposed by one man that wo should launch the longboat , throw Into her some bags of bread and gang-casks of water , unship the compass , double- bank the oars , and shove off for the const of South America , after scuttling the brie and leavlne Antonio to his fate. fate.Wo Wo were In a horrible state of per plexity , and I Heemed to see constantly before me the gashed bodies of my two kind , bravo and hospitable friends Captain Weston and Marc Hlslop lying in their berths dead and un avenged , with their destroyer beside them ! We had the capstan-bars , and with these It was proposed to assail him when next he came on deck. Then wo had the carpenter's tools , among which a hand-saw , nn auger , an adze and a hatchet , made very available weapons , and these , with the old cut lass and harpoons which figured on the night we crossed the line , were speedily appropriated. I was armed with a heavy claw-hammer , and , vowIng - Ing firmly to stand by each other , wo resolved to lynch Antonio the mo ment he came out of his den. While we were thus employed In devising the means of punishment , the dark shadows of night passed away ; the morning sun came up in his trop ical splendor , and the blue waves of the southern sea rolled around us in light , but not a sail was visible on their vast expanse. The crow seemed palo and oxclted , as they might well be , and with buck ets of water we cleansed the dock from the blood that stained It. The morning advanced Into noon , and the vessel was steered her duo course , for the wind was still fair. Ned Carlton was nt the wheel , and the men were all grouped forward , when sud denly Antonio appeared on deck with a knife In his sash and a revolver In each hand. He was so pale that his olive face seemed almost a pea-green , and a black crust upon his cruel lips showed the extent of his potations in the cabin. Ho glanced into the binnacle , and perceiving that the brig was still being steered her .old course , ho cried , In a hoarse voice : "Hombres , allegarse a la cuesta ! " ( men , bear toward the land ) and pointing to the direction In which ho knew the vast continent of South Am erica from which wo wore probably four or five hundred miles distant must be , he added orders in English to shape the brig's course due west , and stamped his right foot on the deck to give his words additional force. ( To bo continued. ) MAIL NUISANCE That Threatened to Innnilnto the Family of u Now rather. At nn Adelaide street residence the servant went to the door , mot a per spiring and scowling letter carrier , and took in a basketful of mail. It was the third such lot of the day , and there had been a like delivery for a week. "Dump it into the furnace , " roared the young man who is nt the head of cno family. "I'm going to see the post master , write the head of the depart ment at Washington , and get out an Injunction. I'll see If there Is not some way to abate this nuisance. " "But there may be some other mall ; something that wo want to read , " in terposed a gentler and feebler voice. "I don't care if there is. I don't care If there's a draft or a postal order In every other envelope. Chuck the whole outfit into the furnace and don't lose any time doing it. Whoover's work ing this rig on me may think he's smart good and plenty. It's the con- foundest , meanest , smallest , most Im pertinent thing I over heard of. " "But It's onlv a Joke , my dear. " "I'll inke 'em. Do you know that we've received over a car lot of catalogues , prospec tuses , and all that sort of thing from female seminaries In the country ? There were over 200 In the first batch and that was the smallest one received. Dump the whole batch into the fur nace , I aay. Nice thing ! I guess not , sending up those female seminary ad vertisements and our little gjrl not two weeks old yet. You can bet that I'll atop the thing or know the renon why. " Detroit Free Press. It is an excellent rule to bo observed In all disputes that wo should give soft words and hard arguments that we should not so much strive to vex as to convince an enemy. Blsjiop WllUlns. TALMAGE'S SERMON. -itr. notlNKARD'S WOE , LAST "And Thcro Shall Ilo n Mrrat Cry Throughout the I.niul of llBypl" Kx- oilu , Clinptrr 11 , Verio 0 The Loan of Sclt-Ucftpuct. ( Copyright 1509 by Louis Klopscli. ) This was the worst of the ten plagues. The destroying angel at midnight Happed his wing over the land , and there was ono dond In each house. Lamentation and mourning and woo through all Egypt. That de stroying angel has Hcd the earth , but a far worse has como. Ho sweeps through these cities. It is the de stroying angel of strong drink. Far worse devastation wrought by this second than by the first. The calamity in America worse than the calamity In Egypt. Thousands of the slain , mil lions of the slain. No arithmetic can calculate their number. Once upon a time four fiends mot in the lost world. They resolved that the people of our earth were too happy , and these four Internals came forth to our earth on an embassy of mischief The one fiend said : "I'll take charge of the vineyards. " Another said : "I'll take charge of the grain fields. " An other said : "I'll take charge of the dairy. " Another said : "I'll take charge of the music. " The four fiends met In the great Sahara Desert , with skeleton flnirora clutched each other | In handshake of fidelity , kissed each other good-bye with Up of blue flame and parted on their mission. The fiend of the vineyard came in ono bright morning nmld the grapes and sat down on a root of twisted grapevine in sheer discouragement. The fiend knew not how to damage the vineyard , or , through it , how to damage - ago the world. The grapes were so ripe and beautiful and luscious. They bewitched the air with their sweet ness. There seemed to bo so much health In every hunch ; and while the fiend sat there In utter indignation and ulsappolntment , ho clutched a cluster and squeezed It in perfect spite , and lo ! his hand was red with the blood of the vineyard , and the fiend said : "That reminds mo of the blood of broken hearts ; I'll strip the vine yard and I'll squeeze out all the Juice of the grapes , and I'll allow the Juices of the grapes to stand until they rot , and I'll call the process fermentation. " And there was a great vat prepared , and people came with tholr cupb and their pitchers , and they dipped up the blood of the grapes , and they drank and drank and went away drinking , and they drank until they fell In long lines of death , so that when the fiend of the vineyard wanted to return to his homo In the nit. ho stopped from carcass to carcass and walked down amid a great causeway of the dead. Then the second fiend came into the grain field. Ho waded chin-deep amid the barley and the rye. Ho heard all the grain talking about bread , and prosperous husbandry , and thrifty homes. Ho thrust his long arms Into the grain field and ho pulled up the grain and threw It Into the water and he made beneath It great fires fires lighted with a spark from his own heart and there was a grinding , and a mashing , and a stench , and the people ple came with their bottles and they dipped up the fiery liquid , and they drank , and they blasphemed , and they staggered , and they fought , and they rioted , and they murdered , and the fiend of the pit , the fiend of the grain field , was so pleased with their bo- havlor that ho changed his residence from the pit to a whisky barrel , and there he sat by the door of the bunghole - hole laughing In high merriment at the thought that out of anything so harmless as the grain of the field ho might turn this world Into a seeming pandemonium. The fiend of the dairy saw the cows coming homo from the pasture field , full-uddercd , and as the maid milked ho said : "I'll soon spoil all that mess ; I'll ' add to it brandy , sugar , and nut meg , and I'll stir It Into a milk punch , and children will drink It , and some of the tcmpcranco people will drink It , and If I can do them no moro harm , I'll give them n headache , and thnn I'll hand them over to the moro vigorous fiends of the Satanic delegation. " And then the fiend of the dairy leaped upon the shelf and danced until the long row of shining milkpans almost quaked. The fiend of the music entered n grogshop , and there were but few cus tomers. Finding few customers he swept the circuit of the city , and ho gathered up the musical Instruments , and after nightfall ho marshaled a baud , and the trombones blew , and the cymbals clapped , and the drums beat , and the bugles called and the people crowded In , and they swung around In merry dance , each ono with a wine glass in his hand ; and the dance be came wilder and stronger and rougher , until the room shook , and ( he glasses cracked , and the floor broke , and the crowd dropped Into hell. Then the four flends the fiend of the vineyard , and of tlio grain field , and of the dairy , and of the music hall went back to their hoiiie , and they held high carnival because their work had been so well done ; and Satan rose from his throne and announced that there was no danger of the earth's re demption go long as these four fiends could pay such tax to the diabolic. And then all the demons , and all the sprites , and all the fiends , filled their glasses , and clicked them , and cried : "Lot us drink drink to the everlast ing prosperity of the liquor trafllc. Here's to woe , and darkness , and niur- der. and death. Drink ! Drink ! " "but whether by allegory or by ap palling statistic this subject is pre sented , you know an well us I that It U Impossible to exaggerate the ovlla of strong drink. A plnguo ! A plnguol In the Ural place the Inebriate suf- tion fntU'W''naa ' o.f .a good name , loses his reputation except by his own act. The world may assault a man , and all the powers of darkness may assault him they cannot capture him so long ns his heart Is pure and his life Is pure. All the powers of earth and hell cannot take that Gibraltar. If a man Is right , all the bombardment of the world for live , ton , twenty , forty years will only strengthen him In his position. So that all you have to do is to keep yourself right. Never mind the world. Let It say what it will. It can do you no damage. But ns soon ns It Is whispered , "ho drinks , " uud It can bo proved , he begins to go down. What clerk can got a position with such n reputation ? What store wants him ? What Church of God wants him for n member ? What dying man wants him for an executor ? "Ho drinks ! " 1 stand before bundieds of young men and I say it not In flat tery splendid young men who luxvo their reputation as their only capital. Your father gave you u good educa tion , or us good nn education as ho could nffoid to give you. Ho started you In city life. He could furnish you no means , but ho has surrounded you with Christian influences and a good memory of the past. Now , young man. under God you are with your own right arm to achieve your fortune , and as your reputation Is your only capital , do not brlnn upon It suspicion by going In and out of lltiuor establishments , or by an odor of your breath , or by any gluro of your eye , or by nny unnatural flush on your checks. You lese your reputa tion and you lese your capital. The Inebriate suffers also In the fact that ho lobes his bolf-rospect , and when you destroy a man's self-respect there Is not much loft of him. Then a man will do things ho would not do other wise ; ho will say things ho would not say otherwise. The fact Is that man cannot stop , or he would stop now. Ho Is bound hand and foot by the Philistines , and they have shorn his locks and put his eyes out , and made him grind In the mill of a great horror. After ho is three-fourths gene In this slavery , the first thing he will bo anx ious to Impress you with is that ho can stop at any time ho wants to. Ills family become alarmed In regard to him , and they say : "Now do stop this ; after a whllo It will got the mas tery of you. " "Oh ! no , " ho says , "I can stop at any time ; I can stop now , I can etop tomorrow. " Ills most con fidential friends say : "Why , I'm afraid you are losing your balance with that habit ; you ore going a llttlo fur ther than you can afford to go ; you had bettor stop. " "Oh ! no , " ho says , "I can stop nt any tlmo ; I can stop now. " Ho goes on further and fur ther. Ho cannot stop. I will prove it. Ho loves himself , and ho knows never theless that strong drink Is depleting him In body , mind and soul. He knows ho Is going down , that ho has less self-control , less equipoise of tem per than ho used to. Why docs ho not stop ? Because ho cannot stop. I will prove it by going still further. Ho loves his wife and children. Ho sees that his habits arc bringing disgrace upon his home. The probabilities uro they will ruin his wife and disgrace his children. He sees all this , and ho loves them. Why does ho not stop ? He cannot stop. * * If n fiend from a lost world should como up on a mission to a grog shop , and , having finished the mission In the grog shop , should como back , taking on the tip of his wing ono drop of al coholic beverage , what excitement it would make all through the world of the lost ; and if that ono drop of alco holic beverage should drop from the wing of the fiend upon the tongue of the inebriate , how ho would spring up and cry : "That's It ! that's It ! Rum ! Rum ! That's It ! " And nil the caverns of tlio lost would echo with the cry , "Give it to mo ! Rum ! Rum ! " Ah ! my friends , the inebriate's sorrow In the next world will not be the absence of God , or holiness , or light ; it will bo the absence of rum. "Look not upon the wlno when It Is red , when It mov- cth itself aright In the cup ; for at the last it biteth like a serpent , and it stingeth like nn adder. " When I see this plnguo In the land , and when I see this destroying angel sweeping across our great cities , I am sometimes Indignant , and sometimes humiliated. When a man asks me : "What nro you In favor of for the subjugation of this evil ? " I answer : "I am ready for anything that Is rea sonable. " You ask mo , "Arc you In favor of Sons of Temperance ? " Yes. "Are you in favor of Good Samari tans ? " Yes. "Aro you in favor of Good Templars ? " Yes. "Are you in favor of prohibitory law ? " es. "Aro you in favor of the pledge ? " Yes. Combine all the Influences , O Chris tian reformers and philanthropists ! Combine them all for the extirpation of this evil. Thirty women in ono of the West ern states Dnnueu toKotlier , and with an especial ordination from God they went forth to the work and shut up all the grog shops of a largo village. Thirty women , with their song and with their prayer ; and If ono thousand or two thouhand Christian men and women with an especial ordination from God should go forth feeling the responsibility of their work and dis charging tholr mission , they could In nny city &hut up all the grog shops. But I must not dwell on generali ties ; I must como to specifics. Are you astray ? If there Is nny sermon I dislike It is a sermon on generalities. I want personalities. Are you astray ? Have you gone so far you think you cannot get back ? Did I say a few mo ments ago that a man might go to a point In Inebriation where ho could mt stop ? Yes , I said It , and I rclt- rate It ; but I want you also to undor- .tnnd that whllo the man himself , of ils own strength , cannot stop , God can stop any man. You have only \n ' "JX.JUPM " of the strong arm of the Lord uou miiiitui.j , . * * „ „ ann you. Many summers ago I wont over to Now York ono Sabbath evening our church lot yet being open for the autumnal services I wont into a room In the Fourth ward , Now York , where n re- Iglous service was being hold for ro- 'ornied drunkards , and I heard a rev elation that night that I had never leard before fifteen or twenty men standing up and giving testimony such as I had never heard given. They not > only testified that tholr hearts had boon changed by the grace of God , but that the grace of God had extin guished tholr thirst. They went on to sny that they had reformed nt differ ent times before , but linincdln'toly fal len , because they were doing the Whole work In their own strength. "But ns POOH an wo gave our hearts to God , " they snld , "and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ has como Into our soul , the thirst has all gone. Wo have no moro disposition for strong ( 'rink. " It was a now revolution to mo , and I have proclaimed It ugnln and again In the hearing of those who have far Bono astray , and I stand hero today to tell you that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ can not only save your soul , but suvo your body. I look off today upon the desolation. Some ot you nro BO far on In this linblt , al though there may bo nn outward Indi cations of It you hnvo never stag gered along the street the vast ma jority of people do not know that you stimulate ; but God knows , and you know ; and by human calculation there is not ono uliunce out of live thousand that you will over bo stopped. Bo- wuio ! Thcro nro some of you who nro my warm personal friends , to whom I must say that unless you quit this evil habit , within ten years , as to your body you will Ho down In a drun'tard's grave , and a's to your Im mortal soul , you will * Ilo down in ft drunkard's hell I It Is a hard thing to say , but it Is true , and I utter the warning lest I have your blood upon my soul. Bo ware ! As today you open the door of your wlno closet , lot the decanter flash that word upon your soul , "Bewaro ! " As you pour out the boverngo let the foam nt the top spell out the word , "Beware ! " In the great' day of God's Judgment , when a hun dred million drunkards shall como up to get their doom , I want you to tes tify that this day , In the love of your soul and in fcnr of God , I guvo you warning In regard to that influence which has already been fait In your homo , blowing out some of Its lights- premonition of the blackness of dark ness forever. Oh , If you could only hear Intemper ance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wlno cask the dead march of Immortal couls , you would go homo and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should over become victims of this evil habit , you might carry thorn out to the cemetery and put them down in the last slumber , waiting for the flow ers of spring to como over the grave- sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hnth a balm for such a wound , but what flower of comfort over grow on the blasted heath of n drunkard's sepulchre ? Women I.lvn Longi-nt. Women are said to bo longer lived than men. Among centenarians the proportion of women to men Is almost double. There are In this country 2,583 women who have reached the century mark , whllo there are only 1,3)8 ! ) mon who have lived so long. In Franco seven out of ten centenarians are women , whllo In the rest of Europe there are sixteen women among twen ty-one centenarians. WORTH KNOWING. A Kansas soldier , In n letter home , tells how "General Otis came along ono evening , and when the mon had stopped firing for a minute , said : 'Well , boys , how nro you coming ? ' On ly a few of the men knew him , and one of them said : 'All right , pard , how's yourself ? ' Another of thn boys that know General Otis told him to shut up ; that the man was General Otis. The general overheard him , and said : 'That's nil right ; pard Is as good as general tonight. ' " Strangers sometimes mildly wonder what newspapers or sheets of blank paper arc tied on the windows or bal conies of certain houses for. A sheet of paper thus arranged Is a sign mean ing that there are rooms to rent In the house on which it is displayed , and Is just as significant in Us Import as three golden balls over a pawnbroker'a shop are In other countries. Mexlcar Herald. "I am sorry , " said the magazine ed itor courteously , "but wo nro not ac cepting nny short stories now , " "But the scone of this story , " snld the con fident contributor , "Is laid In a place that- nobody over heard of. umi Is writ ten In a language that no one can un derstand. " "Then ' why didn't you say so before ? " exclaimed the magazine editor , ns ho grasped It eagerly. Life. Count Sorglus Tolstoi , the second eon of Count Leo Tolstoi , who has thrown in his lot with the Doukho- bortsl , is now located in Winnipeg , where the most important of the set tlements is situated. The count Is looked upon as a kind of leader , and ho has so far realized his role as to sot his fellows an example of uncom plaining fortitude. Yawns nro excited by improper noratlon of the blood , and are akin to the unconscious , tired sigh. BJth are evidence of mental fatigue , and sometimes are symptoms of brain dla- ease. „