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Show .V BTOfiY OF A WRITER. COL JOHNSTON HAS CLOSED LIFE'S LA8T CHAPTER. SAMPSON AND DEWEY, 'JUl lacldant 1 Uuilr,U, tb Plftr Mt, 111 w tb Two. Autl-M.lla- u eua-csto- best-drille- gold-painte- lun-berl- 1 great-grandfath- man-o'-war- 's ante-bellu- m Jinan to-ha- FLUSH DAYS. B Gtlma d g Wm a (temblor of. Corwin sod Mlaolaolppl Klror Play How Ho Sarod a Toadnr-foo- l't A Story PUo. AM s believer," said the colonel, tilting Mis chair hi and resting perfectly polished boots on one of Its in man' rungs, natuial goodnesd. I had the pleasure once of knowing an honest gambler. 1 liked him, a gentleman. The days of this class of gamblers are past, however, and today they are A scurvy lot. Corwin, when I met him, was a Mississippi river gambler. He traveled In fact, lived on the big river teambotts. He never attempted, to conceal the truth about himself. It was simply, Gentlemen. I am a gambler by occupation, and a good one. If you care to have me play with you It will give me great pleasure. If you don't It doesn't make a particle of I got to know Corwin very difference well, and soon discovered that when playing with the average man. lurk being equal, he would win ninety-nin- e times out of 100. I never touched cards, but I used to like his society. He was a wonderfully entertaining talker. On summer nights the steward used to serve dinner on deck for those who preferred to have It there. After dinner we wohfd"go"vlp to tb hurricane deck and when Corwin was on board he would bring out his Bute and play for us. When the moon was out and threw a thin blue veil over the water, or when the boat carrying the passengers swept so close to the shore that It brushed the dark wlllowe on the bank, the rising and falling notes that came from his instrument were gentle music to the ear. I never "knew him to propose a game at cards. He would play there until someone suggested a game, when he would take his Instrument apart and put it away In an Indifferent manner. I watched him at play one night when Satan seemed to throw every card to this man. calm, There was a cool, matter-of-faway about him which froze the ardor of everyone else except a young man about 25 years old. This player waa in ill luck, but with flushed face and feverish eye he made hla bets furiously, only to lose every time. It soon became evident that he was playing beyond his means. Corwin muet have noticed It, for he ceaued to bet heavily against the younger man. This angered the other. There was a pot of $300 once, and everyone had dropped out except the yonng man. Corwin had been playing his hand like a wonderful automaton, passionless hut sure. No man except his opponent, perhaps, could doubt that be held the winning hand. Suddenly, when his rival bet $50, Corwin I have laid down his hand, saying: nothing. You played that well. The young man reached out feverishly for the pile of money, and then his hand laid on the table. That is not true, he said. You have a good hand and you are afraid to play It against me. Corwin shot a hot glance across the table at him, and two red spots flashed I lay down my hand,' into his cheeks. he said slowly, but with a slight tremAnd I say, added or in his voice. the other in a low tone, that you are a gambler, and, therefore, a coward. "Hush, I said, laying my hand on the young mans sleeve. You do not know what you are saying. He is not a coward by any manner of means. The young man shook off my hand vehemently, He is a coward, be repeated, and I will answer for my words at the first landing. I looked at Corwin. I had seen him sit on the hurricade deck, a revolver In hand, and, as a waiter threw champagne bottles over the rail, raise ct I -- v clt-lze- , City. When discovered and Informed of tbe damage she was doing to the bus lness of the telegraph lines, Bertha was greatly surprised and was apparently utterly Ignorant of the fact that her seat on the wires Interfered In the slightest degree with the working of the lines. FIERCE FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE, Anton Baccarlne, who Is employed at the dam now in thecourse of erection at Cornell, N. Y., for the New York city waterworks, reports having had a terrific battle with an eagle In the woods bordering on Croton lake, Baccarlne, while out gunning for squirrels, heard a noise above bis bead, and saw an eagle trying to car ry a rooster away in its claws. The hunter knew that the farmers In the neighborhood had been troubled greatly lately by having their fowl stolen, so he determined to kill the bird If possible. He Quickly knelt, and. tak careful aim, fired both barrels of ing bis shotgun.- - Engle and rooster fell to the ground. The terror to barn yards lay perfectly still, and Baccarlne thought be had killed the monster. -- 7-. WHIMS- - OF SEA-SIC- PEOPLE. K The captain of a big liner says that he ahould conslder hlmself a rich mao If he had as many sovereigns as there were curse for Every person who sells with him knows just how to. act when the "go roundand round sort of feeling" begins to assert ItsetlWnd there ere so many certain remedies that mal de uer ought long ago to have lost Its terrors. During e very rough trip across the Atlantic, a gentleman down in the center of the deck, produced a photograph, and staB d hard at it tor houra, 'Passenger who were In a condition to notice hi strange conduct thoyght he waa gating upon the face of hhi best girl, and winked knowingly at one another; but their surmise waa an erroneous one, Tbe photograph was really a representation ot the gentlemans worst en- - . emy, and be firmly believed that, it he glared at R long enough the' bitter thought aroused In his mind by the sight of it wpuld ward off Fix your mind upon some one you hate, he explained, and you will never- be 111 while at sea. ..There was a wild commotion onboard another vessel one morning, for the captain found that some thief had broken into his cabin tbat night and stolen bis best uniform, A hue and cry waa at once raised, end the rough sailors, secretly enjoying the Joke, questioned every one on board, not a even sparing passengers. . At last, however, the missing uni form walked unsteadily from the cooks galley, and the person Inside made a bee line for the bulwark. "I always thought the togs captalna'wor were a preventative of be stuttered, but lm afraid Ive been lkborlng ,yodeFa.rtelMilo!W,,TU...ih,t..,Jf,,,.,.,,, - skipper Ill let- - blm have em back Inhalf g minute theyre no good to me. One of the sailors cn a vessel outward bound for- India rushed on deck with a livid face, and startled the captain by stating that seven passenger had been found dead IR their bertha. , Instantly assuming that there bad been foul play; The captain aroused the doc: tor, and theyjWenl together to visit the stricken sleeping places To all appearance the frightened sailor had spoken - the truth for passengers UF well-dress- wave-wash- ed - - flrst-cUa- - - -- 1 -- MAYOR ZIEGENHEIM. white and still, that life stlll remA The doctor examined them, and then went away wltji a. Crown on bis face, Louis returning aboitty wltb a dapper little Frenchman,. Arho bad made himself a, AN INTERESTING KAFFIR. . favorite with every ons,. . u v This d, be to will able gentleman sot) P. 8ihlaH of Simon Rev. Th who returned recently to South your mind at rest; eajdiTn. remarked Africa from England, is doubtless tbe the doctor, and the Ffeaehman, with1 imoet interesting Kaffir who has visit- a eateless smile,. rap;l(Jly: proceeded to Hewaa rouse all the quiescent passenger, ... It ed England for some years the first Kaffir to matriculate at the seemyd that he was 4 professional fee of one Cape university, and also tbe first to hypnotist, and that for he agreed tp eeq pny one who' represent officially the churches of guinea .South Africa at the Congregational feared to undergo tiie pangs of sea-'- ,, onion of England and Wales. This sickness Into a sound tbealnerlc sleep.. he did In May last Mr. Slhlall, whe But for the doctors Interference, h v said,, pis parent would.have slum hewed until the shores of ; India was , sighted. - pleadings of hla wife and the gibes of hie friends will not make hlm change it. His bat is famous in SL Tem-bulan- , A Maroeea lXIlt;, There' is no accounting for tastes. What suits tha palate of one may be little esteemed by another.' An English traveler and sportsman bad recommended to blm, when be was in Mo-rooco, a variety of game which he would not be very keen tor at home., His Informant was a soldier, tor no foreigner Is allowed to travel In that country without such attendance. He began telling marvelous stories ot the. game In the neighborhood, of the sultan's army, and of his own importance. One remark on cooking for he wan gourmand Is worth repeating "There Is," he said, only one kind ot game worth eating In Morocco wildcat Ita THE REV. SIMON P. SIHLALt taste la as the taste bf all other va--: was educated at Lovedale, was ordainof game mixed. When once you rletles Graaff-Reloet, entering ed in 1884 at have tasted wildcat, never will you eat two years later on hts work in Tembu-len- d. with pleasure." ProbHe has been Instrumental In anything again 1 should think it not; ably' of enough to six places securing tbe erection of poison most people, but I dared not say worship and schools, and his church no. I merely proposed In a weak voice has a metabershp of 600 persona Durthat I preferred owl stewed wltb musfriend in England ing his brief stay tard and sand. Hf said that ought to have subscribed over $2,500 toward the erection of a permanent church at Sol- be good, too, but b hiuj .never tried R. omon's Vale, th center of hi field of Matebwrahlp of th Lfioa f Bauo. labors, for which the chief Mgudlwa More than 50,000 Frenchmen belong ' has presented a site, to the Legion of Honor. Thirty-tw- o . But few women have ' time to look thousand of these are connected with tbe army The rest are civilians like their portraits. ' Y t r was gazing stupidly at the card before him. Four aces lay there, an In- A MAN OF THE PEOPLE vincible hand, for straight flushes were not then played. There waan blue REFUSES TO POSE IN FULL tinge in Corwins white lips, and the DRESS FOR SOCIETY. young man looked bewildered Then the Joung fellow burst Into tears. We can't play together any more.' Majar Henry Ztgahala of at. La la he cried 'You threw money Into my Ta(ht I Bear tb Qmr Cuitoa pocket because you thought 1 was losaf Wearing Swaltow Tailed Cant and ing too much. I can't take it. he said, Wblt Kecktl. rising from his chair. 'You can. said the gambler iu an even voUe I laid AYOR HENRY down my hand The money Is yours ' Z 1 E G E N HEIN, ' Beside he added, with a little shiver, who has pulled the I held out an ace on you.' beard of the greet Everv man at the table knew that Veiled Prophet by Corwin had lied We all got up and refusing to wear left the joung man sitting there befull (Irene at the big fore hi- - money. I found Corwin ball in 8L Louis, Is shortly af'piward standing on deck a plain, blunt man, looking lnI0 tj,e daikly whirling who likes not the water. 'Give me your hand. 1 said. fastidious ways of. What iu the world did you mean? sfi high society. Those You never (heated at cards In jour who know him are not surprised at the life wears a 'Tut tut he answered with a stand he took. He always he says that he was Prince and Albert, little laugh ihat was slightly harsh, In such a coat; was Inauguhe - oulv a boy and 1 loved bis moth-e- r married rated such a coat and has worn a in once TOM I.IjOYD. similar garment at all functions where his office has demanded hi attendance, BERTHAS LOFTY PERCH. and that he does not pfopcaa to gtyf "A little 11-- ear-bi- d Pawnee county up now. He Is a man of the people. (Kan ) miss, Bertha l,eonard, has He was born In St. lxjuis county and has always reb'ded either in the counit. ty or city. His wife, also, ts from the county and there his children were born. His tastes are few and simple. The fact that he Is the chief executive has not changed him, and today he visits and dines with the humble who knew him before his induction into office. When the mayor Is lu his office at the city hall he Is always unapproachable. As a general rule he stands In the reception-roohear what his callers have to say, and answer? them at pure, , During ,th tvot weather he received visitors in his shirt sleeves and In very warm weather left off his vest. He Is over six feet in height, smooth shaven and with full, fat florid face. There Is usually a smile on his lips sod a merry twinkle in his eye. He dresses modestly, wearing a Prince Albert coat, with trousers and vest of similar .cloth; white linen and a plain black tie. There Is but one oddltyind that Is his hat His hats are patterned after those of and the the Quakers of Penns-da- y, BERTHA ON THE PERCH, lately given the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies an unlimited amount of trouble in a most unique and peculiar way. Berthas daily duty was to herd and watch a large drove of cattle, whose range was near the Western Union and Postal line. For some Ume past at irregular Intervals during almost every day these lines absolutely failed to work, and the trouble seemed to be somewhere In the vicinity of where this girl rinsed her fathers cattle, but try the line repairers would, it could not be definitely located. Finally It was discovered that Bertha, In order to get a better view of the herd, had driven railroad aplkee Into a telegraph pole so that she could climb It, and that she would, whenever she got weary watching tbe cattle from the ground, climb the pole, pull up a board by means of a cord, place it across tbe wires, seat herself on the board and spend an hour or two watching the herd from her uniquely Improvised elevated station. Whenever the board happened to be damp'or wet, and the frequent rains this year have kept the board wet most of the time, It destroyed the electric current and practically cut off all telegraphic communications between Denver and Kansas He cautiously approached the eagle, and when he was almost upon hla prey the bird flew at him and sank It claws in his- - body. The attack was such a surprise that Baccarlne dro'pped big gun. The eagle used its beac on the hunters face and dug deep furIn his cheeks. Round and round "YOU ARE A GAMBLER AND A rows the on ground hunter and eagle COWARD. his arm swiftly and shatter the falling rolled, but after each roll the bird of the forest was invariably on top. glass with a bullet. There were graver stories, too. of his deadly aim In Weak from the loss of blood, Bsc duels. He sat stiff and motionless, made a desperate attempt to carlne fire In was terrible his a with eyes. I reach hw bowle kntfe, Which be car: amazed by hla neit words, "Does the game go on? he asked, ried In his belt, and succeeded. With quietly, Not with yon, said the almost a superhuman effort he plunged yonng man, bending forward, tbe the blade into the eagle's breast, veins In his forehead swelling. Not piercing the heart and causing almost until I prove that you are afraid to instant death. The bird measured bet, and with n sudden mqtlon he three feet from tip to tip. Except for thrust his band across the table and, tbe loss of blood, which made bm eelzlng Corwins hand, turned the weak. Baccarlne is getting along we!, cards face up on the table. 1 was on and If he does not get blood poisoning bis physician says he will recover, my feet at that Instant to arrest Corwins right' band, for I felt that he About the time a man begins to have would draw his revolver at the Insult common sense old age makes him hush over fell round good A the those But table and the young man childish and he canTuse It hot-head- i OF THE A NOTED CHARACTER letter recently received front August H. Runge, an apprentice oov on the Colorado In the sixties, but now Anther f Wld.ly Heed Sketch assistant chief engineer of the Minneend Start of Uf. t. apolis Are department, recalls a case th Senth PeUtg HU Let Dy tm t n point, says the San Francisco Chronicle. I give it here as illustrative wpiUL of the difference between Rear Admiral and Commodore Wm. T. OLONEL RICH- George Dewey In the capacity to handle Sampson ARD MALCOLM men. We were off Palermo, Sicily. The JOHNSTON, t h e ere of the Colorado had a surfeit of r diotiug'iished dm nig the day and were inclined drill and ujelii. to In in bo recently uiind a littlewesulky You must bear of that had the reputation d the ship in Eurocareer hav.ug class nor In the Mania1. I pean wacrg, barring neither iiua'uin I Ins lcpntation was not gained Genetal liooital at by d flying a sign at our Baltlmoie, mil mizzen truck It was due to the long have behind management of Mi. Dewey as him the reputation of being one of the executive ofliccr and to the pride the most skillful painter of negro charmen took under him in pcrtecllng their acter in the hiloi of Amemau let- - work by continuous painstaking drills. ters. At sunset on the day in question the Colonel Johnston was born in Han- - watth below was called up for boat cock county. Georgia, on March 8, IV!- dr ill Mr ?ampon had the deck. When the word was passed to hoist Through hia mother, Catherine Davenport. a native of Virginia, he ia de- away on the ialU Sampsuu was very scended from the distinguished English much displeased with the listiessness family of that name who were among of the crew. "Look alive there, you y On men! You trail along like a lot of the early eettlerg of Connecticut. his fathers side Mr. Johiirtou is demourners hired to follow a HinNone of the boys knew scended from Rev. Thomas Johnston, doo funeral' a clergyman of the Chitrth of England how Hindoo lubbers nailed at funerals; who came from Scotland and reitied in indeed have an idea that Mr Sampson was equally ignorant, hut ail the same He was the Virginia. of the novelist l.i 1779 Wil- the boys weie mad and showed it by liam Johnston settled in Georgia and slackening up Mr. Sampson was befrom him the Georgia bianrh of the side himself with anger Three times were the bouts lowered to the water family sprung. Colonel Johnstons early life was Just before lie gave the word the last time to hoist away he shouted "IT! spent In Georgia. There he was preblacklist every mother's sou of you pared for college and he learned his classics at Mercer college, from which from liberty on shore if there' is any Holst he was graduated in 1841. He taught more of this hangdog work now were men The now' away there, for a time, and then became a lawyer. on their mettle. Liberty ashore is one In 1844 he married Miss Frances Mans- man. grand prize of the hut Jacky g not going to buy it. With one accord the long line started on a blowmans race up the quarter deck, noisily tramping to the time of the dead march in Saul." Mr. Sampson looked as if he was about to jump off the bridge and lay about him with his trumpet- - .Fortunately at this moment Mr. Dewey came up the afterhatchway, attracted by the unusual noise. Taking In the situation at a glance, he sprang up the steps leading to the bridge. Ill take the deck, sir, he said. Mr. Sampson handed over the speaking trumpet and retired to the other end of the bridge with a very sullen look. Mr. Dewey Belay that, you men! called out In a short, firm tone. The boys halted and looked up. Mr. Dewey looked down the line for a moment, cool, quiet and smilingly confident. There was at once a very perceptible COL. JOHNSTON. change In the moral temperature. The old. 16 waa not Held, who years yet boats were again lowered to the water. He became the professor of literature Man the falls, men! The long lines at the Georgia State University and were with a hearty grip, the grasped own. of his afterward opened a school men nodding to one another approvNazt he removed to Maryland and ingly. 'Holst away, there!".. With a taught until hla success as a deecriber cheery stride the men walked away of negro character de- with the falls with such good will that termined his life work as that of let- the four cutters came flying np to the ters. The first stories that were writ- davits with a celerity that threatened ten by Colonel Johnston were not In- to send them inboard. Belay all. Pipe tended for publication but were worked down the watch below, boatswain. out merely for his own gratification. The boys scampered off to the foreDukeeborough Tales has few equals castle to get tbelr usual evening in its line and no superior in all the smoke, while Mr. Dewey, after a few wide range of letters devoted to dewords In an undertone to Mr. Sampson, He went scription of the southern negro. below, leaving that officer a wiser published many of his stories under and possibly a better man. the pen name of Philemon Perch In the Southern Magazine. For these ear- BENJ. FINCH. 108 YEARS OLD. ly efforts he received no pay whatever, hot this was made up by the goodly The pride of Broad Hollow. Greene sums his stories brought him after- county, N. Y Is Benjamin Finch, Mr. ward. Besides Dukesborough Tales Finch was born July 4, 1790, is one he produced Mr. Neelus Peelers Con- hundred and eight years old and can ditions, "Studies, Literary and So- hear clearly, hut has been blind three a History of English Literacial, years. He is a basket maker by trade ture and a Life of Alexander Stev- and has had fourteen children. Of ens. his four sonB two fought In the civil war. One of them wsa buried a few Tralaad Eaglm la Tartar. days ago at the age of eighty-si- x. The golden eagle Is trained and used Mr. Finchs wife, with whom he had by the natives of Tartary and the Klrkhla steppes for hunting foxes, wolves, boars and deer. A traveler In those countries describes the process; "We had not gone far when several large deer rushed past a jutting point of the rocks and bounded over the In an inplain, 800 yards distant. stant the eagle was unhooded and hla shackles removed, when he sprang from his perch and soared into the air. I watched him ascend, and was under the impression that he bad not seen the animals, but I was mistaken. He rose to a great height, and then poised for a full minute, then gave two or three flaps with his wings, and swooped in a straight line toward his prey. I gave my horse his head and in a few minutes he carried me to the .front When we were within a hundred wards the eagle struck his prey, with one talon, in Its neck, the other in ita back, while hie beak was tearing .the deers BENJAMIN finch. head. The animal fell as If shot, and was quickly, dispatched by the eagles lived for seventy years, died twelve years ago. Only his youngest child la keeper." Golden Days. now living, but he has a sister one hundred and four years old. Big Trad la Flag, The remarkable activity which came to the bunting and flag industry with Bald Culprit Forglvm. the outbreak of the war has largely England has now reinstated nearly all the culprits in the Jameson raid. subsided, and now the manufacturers are beginning to find time to talk of Col. Frank Rhodes, who was wounded what they have done. A superintend- at Omdurman while acting as correent of a large Boston store paid the spondent of the London Times, has other day of the rush for flags when been, restored to this former position the war broke out: Oh, It was some- In the army, sod Sir Graham Bowers, thing terrible, simply terrible. In the who, as colonial secretary at the Cape, height of the rush there was one manu- came out badly from the investigation, factory I know of that turned 'out each has received an equally lucrative post One at Mauritius. day twelve miles of bunting. bouse received an order for UKhOgb toeen flags, to be sent Immediately. A Aaivftr. Tomorrow will be the Secretary single house In Boston sold 15,000 doc-e- n flags In one day. Some of the larg- twenty-fift- h anniversary of the day est wholesale orders came from the when I entered your service. EmIndeed ! Then I Suppose south. The largest sales now being ployer you - made are of email silk flags and ailk a Jubilee - dinner? are going ve Dont forget to Invite' me patriotic streamers for Interior Fliegend Blaetter. A closed his earthly TOM CORWIN. ABOUT -- |