A 'Lansahonman'i Sense of Modesty. "You would hardly believe what silly ideas some rough, uneducated men have about propriety," said the nurse, as she smoothed out the pillow and rearranged tbe bed covers with a gentleness and a dexterity that recalled to tbe patient the ministering hand of a mother to her sick boy. "1 recollect nursing a big 'longshoreman 'long-shoreman when I was in the hospital, who had an idea of chivalry which, mistaken mis-taken and nonsensical though it was, yet was refreshing in one of his class. He had been in some fight in a shop near the river, and had received a number of bad wounds. Ilia antagonist had cat right for his heart, and had made three or four gaping slashes in his chest. "The injured man was one of the best built men I ever Baw, and if his chest had not been padded with thick mus- cies, ue won ia nave oeen miiruereu outright. out-right. As it was, he was in a critical condition, and only tho best care and treatment could save his life. The surgeons sur-geons dressed his wounds the first few days, and then turned the task over to me. I went up to tho patient, whose name was Jackson, the next day, and began to lay back the covers of the bed. " 'What are you doing?" he asked. " 'I am going to dress vour wounds,' I answered. " 'You, a lady!' he said in astonishment. astonish-ment. ''Of course; come, no nonsense,' I went on, for be had grasped the cover in his weak hands and was trying to prevent pre-vent my laying it back. I tried to argue with him, but he blushed and said doggedly dog-gedly that he wouldn't let a lady dress his wounds. I told him he would die if he didn't let me tako care of him, but he said he didn't care if he did, so I had to send for the surgeon. After several days the patient was persuaded to let me dress the wounds, but he turned crimson when ho bared his chest for me, although al-though he bad to expose little more than a society woman does when she wears a ball tfown. Well, the 'longshoreman got well, and since then I have been convinced con-vinced that the coarsest men are not without instincts of gentility." New York Tribune.