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Show "H- A ARMY , ail-an- e sol-dle- rl m civ-,'Ut- air to r privates espec-th- e Foutig soldier, and this bullerou results oue night wss about to go ,rJrracks when be waa met by .TeHtennntKand requested to take a onto to the captain. On entering ,n ttarracks he happrUrd to Stumble, rd the sergeant on guard Immediately put him lu the guard room on a charge of being drunk. The recruit, naturally enough, protested bitterly, and when he was rought up before the colonel, called the lleuteuant as a witness to his snd almve all proved that ha was a lifelong teetotaller! - The colonel was In an awkward position. 5 ' "The sergeant says you were drunk," mid the warrior at length, "and the licutehnut says you were sober,, foI shall order uler these circumstance yon to te discharged. In future, air, however, n member that 'when a Sergeant say youre drunk, you are drunk," no matter whether you're a teetotaller or no. Go away, sir, and don't come here again! , I've had a delightful time oa my holidays No regular hours for meals A large, airy room. No charge for hot and cold baths All kinds of fruit and wins cellar, vegetables. A and bo' charge for corkage, and, above 11. ao fees for the servants." Where la this Ideal "Delicious! spot?" "I staved at horns. well-stock- ed SCOTT KEY. FRANCIS Writs. ( CsIM KspsrS Stats Warship as Sn. Tabs. It seems alniostinersdUil that th Spaniards should ever have considered Cerveras fleet superior to anything we could send against It, yet such seem to be the case. If they believed tho comparisons of the two navies made by their newspapers they are logically correct la tbelr conclusion. These articles, says the Chicago Chronicle, written by 8panlsh naval experts, appeal strongly to a credulous people and represent our warships as absolutely valueless, while their own are simply marvels. A. de Cams, the most popular naval writer la Spain, makes a remarkable comparison la La Illustration Naclonal of Madrid that Is quite sufficient to Insptre his country men with confidence. He adralta that the United 8tatea has the larger fleet, hut shows that It la It Is manned practically valueless. by the drg of an almost worthless populatioacrluitnala- - and released convicts. For the most psrt these are foreigners without the slightest patriotism. The crews, being animated by motives of supidlty alone, are destitute of that pride and enthusiasm that control Spaniards. For these reasons. Mr. Cants concludes: "The result Is, therefore, that If our navy U Inferior to the American nary In quantity It Is greatly superior In quul-telnee our tailor, in addition to tbelr transcendent bravery, which Is universally acknowledged, possess disand confidence, cipline, enthusiasm which the Yankees are far from having." the "utter Having . demonstrated worthless ;(haracter of the sailors who man our, ships, the rival of Weyler and Munchausen In the art of lying goes on tA compare the ablps of the two nayles,' describing that of 8pa!n as Wrkdeup of ships faultless In eonetruc-tlo- n, armored snd armed to suit the queen regent's taste, marvels of rpeed, veritable things of beauty. . Wdrda almost fall him when ha makes a sanguinary attack upon our ships. He declares that the battleships Indiana. Oregon and Massachusetts. wblih he calls cruisers of the first class," cannot go to aea with anything like full coal bunkers. If they should the "waves would wash over them." They are only suitable for coaat guards. The recent sailing record of the Oregon somewhat ... discredits this criticism. He says the nattlesblps California Snd Pennsylvania are under construction, which will be news to Americans. He declares the Texas to be woefully deficient Her machinery Is bad beyond repairing her torpedoboat tube are useless. Sha la a bad lot." Tb only American ship of which he apeaka kindly la the Brooklyn. He says she is fast and "can, therefore, refuse to fight at all, a point which the Spaniards In the Caribbean appear" to appreciate. A Spanking of ihrrtT In tins English srmy, a IxmhIou exchange says: "Statistic show that eighty, per rent of the iltwrikuis that occur In the regular amy arc perpetrated by reccutiy Joined tvcruR. This cewa to Ituply that the treatment of the, youthful Tommy At Mo la somewhat la reharsh, ami that red tape-laito low the the for country sponsible of many fine young men, who, under slightly different circumatancea, would lure been ornamenta to our army. Unfortunately, the recruit's firat Impressions of the aerrlce are of a nature calculated to Lsulsh all enthusiasm for a military career. Juat now we read a great deal about recruiting In Scotland for tnen to fill Scotch reg lmcnta but very little about the shameful f aJlia youuq recrulta are treated by the authorities. "Suppose, for luatancc, a number of meti "present themselves to the recruiting sergeant at Aberdeen and wlah to Join thd Scots Guards. They - pane a rough preliminary tumlU'al ex-- , amlnation, and are next aent on to tin regimental depot at London to be sworn la Until this swearing process Is completed, they are not regarded ai "soldiers Of the queen," and consequently receive neither pay nor ra- - ttee.- - It Is quite a common thing for - twenty-fiv- e or thirty young men to le aent as deck passengers from Aberdeen to London by the authorities to bo' enlisted. The passage. In One hours, and weather, occupies thirty-siunless they can purchase it out of tsbotr own money, which very few recruits are able to, not a particle of food passes their lips from the time they leave Abcrdicu until after they arrive In London, march to barracks, pass the doctor and complete tbclr enlistment, a period of at least forty hours. Owing to this stupid system, numerous young men are lost to the service, for, disgusted with their treatment, some recruits refuse to be sworqlu, and walk away directly the boai arrive. llabllnal. loafers, alsiy when they wish to move from onolowu to another, pretend to enlist aud so obtain a free passage. It wqhld be surely quite easy to devise a iieasure that would nuke It a punlskabk offence to .obtain a free passagd' at the taxpayers expense under'Jdlge pretences, and then It would Ite fail Just to furnish .. Abe men on thel jautnejLwUU refreshments and rathma The reaonhy the aotliorlUos de- -' liue to do io at preaent Is because In their usual blundering way they argue that an, Tro mouse utimlier of objection able jpharaclers would pretend to be willing to enlist In order to obtain a " fry passage aud a "feed cn rente; obviously a childish argument no in support of starving and disgusting scores of honest and excellent men, when U would be m easy te make fraud punishable. On his arrival at barracks the recruit again find that soldiering "alnt all lavender. For the purpose of the medical examInatlon.be has, of course, to strip, but It Is monstrous to think that men ahonld be kept shivering for .hours In an uuwartned room. Owing to the Ingenuity of the recruiting sergeants, recruits who are an Inch or so abort of the minimum stature contrive to pass. A favorite device la for the meu to be Instructed to stick pieces of soap on their hoots, and so add an Inch or so to their height On one occasion a sergeant,' after critically surveying a youth who waa about to go before the doctor, struck him a tremendous blow on the crown of the head with a walking stick. "What did you do that fort Inquired the recruit, rubbing the Injured spot. 15 you fool," replied the serges nr. "You wish to become a Welt you're at least half an Inch too abort, so I've just raised a bump on your head with my cane. Right turn, marvh! - - It seems to be tho rule la most regi missioned offments for the no icers to trio with each other In abusing recruits. They are never under y any circumstances addressed with by their superiors, fault la per-,- t unity found with them, and any 'omplainta they make are laughed at. purpuwe of maintaining dls- . and theteoma word Is nearly ' VIEW. M ... DESERTERS. x r.v'iA-- POST-MORTE- - CastUtsa y, THE BELOVED WRITER OF NATIONAL SONG. llm Ita Hpf BaM k t led tbs Oijb cm Writ tfcs Compelle J tioieberduaeut sf Star w. U- -" tiraul MriiSth ,r Captain, RAKC1S 1 KEY, the T beat author of "The 8tar Spangled Banner," was bora In Frederick Coun- on ty, Maryland, Aug. I, 1779. H; was a lawyer and the son of an ficer in of- the revolutionary army. He was from St. JoLn'n College la 17S8. H? graduated was afterward district attorney lor the District of Columbia. Key wrote the relebrnted song under peculiar In 1814, when the British attacked Washington, Key matured a plan to release hie friend, DKWilHam Beanes, who bad been captured by the enemy. President Madison gave him a vessel and aent an agent tor the exchange of prisoners with the lawyer. The British commander consented to the release on the condition that the American party should see the bombardment of Baltimore. Tbis was the most brutal request ever made by any civilized power. But It had It retribution In the song that It gave breath y. sly without spoiling for tn entire twelvemonth. China t a dose rival THEY CANNOT MARRY. of Japan, and displays an equal Ingenuity In making the delicacies which BRIDE TO BE STRUCK DUMB. 1 ii exports' lo The American market PEOPLE SAY. There is a long list of these which can be bought on Race street; the mors Wanted (a Marry a Diror red Maa A Important are crystallized limes, dates, Vary rseulUr Cass. that la A fits tin figs and watermelon rind, preserved tha Society a al Chareh Folk of Saw watermelon seeds, dried chickens and la a Traaaa for Sis Moatba, docks, which are cleaned and flattened out until they resemble a hem lock fhlngle; gigantic sardines In oil, where . YING In a trance- cy Rhe each fish Is a foot in length and the V i sleep, which r box is over a cubic foot In dimensions; as halfled the ef- U s salted cabbage, of which the leaves, IJr s-- forts of physicians, unlike ours, are an intb wide and three os'eo- hypnotists, or four feet long; sugared flowers, lat paths and special (bee nuts, mate's, which are vegetable) ist of every class, like a amatl potato In appearance, a Mtts Elida Wilber, it chestnut In flavor and a radish in one of tbe beauties look which "sweet pumpkins, crispness; 4 of the coast, has watermelons and like medium-size- d spent the last live are sent over covered with Hour or months hovering at last lime, and preserved eggs. These the gates of death. Since Feb. 17 she are preserved by coating them with a fcas not moved or spoken or shown mixture of charcoal,- - lime, day and of consciousness. Her eyes, any sign sweetglue, Ther ar any number of at open stare Into-- nothingness, times, meats. They are all made upon the and are utterly devoid of expression. same plan as the Canton When food la forced Into her mouth ginger, being the fruit cleaned, pre- she swallows it mechanically, but gives pared and boiled for many hours In no expression of a mental action. Day strained honey. Tamarinds, limes and after day, week after week, for six green dates cooked In tbis manner surmake as delicious a dish as any syba- months she has been lying thus, nurses rounded and her friends and by rite could desire. In August and September they send over vast numbers of physicians striving to bring ber back moon cakes, which are curious tittle to the land of. the living.. . What has caused this strange and pieces of pastry used in the celebration of the festival of the harvest moon. In unprecedented condition? Her family appearance they are like a small pork physician says It was brought about but he pie which has been stuffed with a by monoxide gas poisoning, can not say why the removal of the poison by the usual methods and the lapse of time docs not restore her normal' functions. Her friends, and she has many, for she moved In the most exclusive circles of San Francisco society, declare that her trancellke con- ' r J evcr-popul- MISS ELIDA WILBER. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Dlda't Faa Oat. She Well, how did your shares la to. When the bombardment so at tha Dona gold mine turn out? He an end tbe American looked through Oh, I er Ive lost all interest In then v th smoke to eee if the flag was still Punch. floating over the fort. The dawn was PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR. Just breaking, and the stars and stripes wers flying In tha breese unharmed. oa Cherries on hat, on dresses, Then Mr. Key wrote down the words df one are the la hair and parasols of the song that has preserved bis faehloa's latest whims. name for all tine. He died at Balti' Summer nightgowns are now made more In 1848. of batiste and lawn, eat low In th neck and with elbow sleeves. Hst your aklrta lined with the STRANGE ORIENTAL FOODS. softest of allt: the rustle la no more Bata yM Tblaf That Are Shlppwl to he heard, la considered good advice. fraas the Eut. la Idol silken the la Parla the latest a is heavy shipper of outlandJapan cart twisted In the colls of th hgtr, It needs to be adjusted by tha hands ish foods to the new world. It has a practical monopoty of the meats which of an artlsL st soup, The latest dictate of fash tod Is that are used In making btrd's-neth summer girls wardrobe Is not com- which, by th way, when prepared by an American chef, Is tbe most delicious plete unless she has at least eighteen dish of Its elan In the world. It also shirtwaists. catches and dries armies of ilevlinh. Everything must be sacrificed to harTh patching girl haa her which are as popular In the East as mony, leather spyglass case match th color dried codfish in the West. In tact, th two sea foods are very much alike of her gown. A pretty ruchtns la made in two col- in flavor, and differ ehtefir in their texors of narrow ribbon whipped together, ture, the ficth of the devilfish being tb thread Joining them being drawn hard, compact and more like muscle than that of the familiar cod. Tb tight enough to gtva a full pucker to mushrooms and see mushrooms are ' th ribbon. two other famous Japanese edibles tbat A dainty dressing gown is of narrow come to u across tbe Pacific. They striped washing silk, with large collar resemble mushrooms in their contour of tucked muslin, edged with lace and a wide saah of the same tied tn front and structure, hut tn nothing else. The tree mushrooms have a flavor of m with long ends. wood while the sea mushroom Young women with slim waists draw boll hark, In away cooking very much as If aasbes. satin black th wide Liberty were of It marine glue. In fact. made twice around tb body, knot the streamers ones and pin with a Jeweled It Is used in Japan for making vegstews brooch. , Th knot may be placed at etable gelatin for thickening mansame In and much the soups very -any point on the waist line. . we convert the bladdrs of sturTbe prettiest girdles shown in Jew- ner as other fishes Into animal geland geons elers windows r wide simtlar purpOse. lined a atine for satin or silk, gathered into small sliver, fishes are another Important export foil snd Tha Jeweled clasps. gold thus mads In the back allow th skirt from 4 he land f the Mikado. Unlike eatand girdle to be pinned together, with- us. the Japanese dry almost every out tho usual unsightly appearance' of able fish, from minnows end whitebait up to marine animals as Urge as . th belt pin. A cool tie le made of a length of tbe sturgeon aud the swordfish. Th?lr dotted Swiss about 10 Inches wide, tbs drying appears to' be conducted upon a different system from otfr own. pointed ends being finished with rdion-pleated ruffle of the material When ready for the market their fishrs. d This tie la then wound around tbs are to dried as to suggest same Umber. th process They apply throat a number of time and tied in a puffy. Frencby bow, which mates to the lower forma ef eee life, and a . shirtwaist appear 'almost feminine. desiccate clams, mussels, oysters, crawfish end trabs prawns, until they jeicmbe stone. Jn this ci said le from wooden tablet Printing the foods will withstand any to have beta invented by tb Chines ' and mar be kopt In the or.n la the year 1W A. D. , 1 vsrl-color- , matter-o- -- A Pact of Ufa Religion as a fundamental fact of llfls, as elementat In humanity, Is In evidence today as never before. This le a magnificent demonstration at' the close of the nineteenth century. There U an Immensely augmented vigor, variety and fruitfulness of spiritual life, most Impressive where there Is most enlightenment, Hopkins -- sional observation. Miss Wilber has been unconscious since Feb. 17 of this To tbe present time nothing year. that science can suggest seems to have ary other effect than to sustain physical life; mentally tbe patient's mind is a blank. On tbe morning of Feb. 17 I was called to the residence of the young lady and found her suffering from monoxide poisoning. "The patient was in a precarious condition and I immediately applied tbe usual remedies for such cases. Respiration waa slow and labored, not more than five per minute; the face was discolored, in fact, quite black, The with pulse scarcely perceptible. patient was bled "and leeched, stimulants administered hypodermically, and finally tbe action of tbe heart and respiration were restored, and although there was no sign of returning I considered the patient on a fair way to recovery. Months have elapsed since that time but ray patient ba3 never recovered wbat you might call anything approaching reason. I say It is a most remarkable case, for the reason that all the organs seem to perform their functions in a most normal and f-fact manner; her color Is good, and she has lost no more flesh than would a healthy person under similar circumstances 1 mean being bedridden for auch a long time. Here I wish to say that--, although some. of the young ladys friends seem to think it possible that there never was any foundation for the story that the patient was asphyxiated and that it was purely a case of mental shock, it la a mistake. Miss Wilber was certainly & victim of the deadly gas, and her life waa saved only by prompt and rigorous mediAll the cal treatment. prominent medical men of the city have been called in consultation on the peculiar caae, and as yet the advice of each and all has been unavailing. What we Intend to do next I would rather not state until the treatment is definitely decided on., As to the final result, that Is a question I can not answer; we must await developments. The patient eats, sleeps and breathes as does an ordinarily healthy person, except that she is at times a bit erratic about swallowing. Ot course It Is neceesary that she should have nourishing food, and when she refuses to swallow, as she does at times, we are obliged to teed her through a tube, This reluctance sometimes last ons day, and the day following she will take a little ice cream from a spoon and swallow It with ease and without objection of course 1 mean muscular objection, for she showfa no mental signs of either pleasuie or resentment. "The condition la not absolutely cataleptic, for the face plainly indicates pain if a needle is used to puncture the skin. There la very little muacular movement, but on rare occasions there is a slight change of the position of the bands or lower limbs. Specialists of all degrees have been , called to try their skill In this case. We have tried hypnotism, osteopathy and electricity, all with the same disappointing results. "I believe I am safe in saying that the trouble is purely a mental one as it stands today. The cause Is still a matter of doubt. Nothing known to science, nothing suggested from any pource, has been omitted by Mr. Dunphy and ths Wilber family In their efforts to bring tbe sleeping beauty back to life. Dunphy la at her bedside most of the tlms eagerly watching for a sign of returnAll ing consciousness, but In Tain. day long she lies staring Into th empty sir, and If her eyelids are pressed down they instantly fly open again when the pressure Is removed. She does not speak, and only at rare Intervals are there movements of the limbs. If an am Is moved It remains In the position la which it is placed. At s short Interval during tbe night the eyes close as though Miss Wilber were sleeping and after an hour or two they will suddenly fly open again without any of the premonitions of awakening, such' as sighing, yawning, or the like exhibited by persons in a normal state- - ed -- - quaint mixture of watermelon seeds, almonds, raisins, lard, sugar, ginger, flour, rice and spices. CARP OVER A CENTURY OLD. tra CamFiseetartal Tl bridge, Eagtaad. .Stories, more or less nuthentlcatsd, of fish which have attained extreme old age are common. Who, for instance, has not read of the capture of fish bearing plates with IntcrlpUons to notify that they had been previously captured and" returned to the water centuriee before? But to these stories the average plscator, rendered weary by experience of the class of anecdote which anglers relate to each other, usually lends little credence. It seems, however, that in tbe pond of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, there dwell four carp, concerning one of which there is fairly etrong circumstantial evidence to prove that it Is nearly ISO years old. It has only one eye, snd Rev. A. O. L, d Bowling recollects n carp In the same pond in 1867 which, he was told at the time, was over 100 year old. 8(nce t.hen he has discovered In 81f John Hawkins' edition of "Wal-tonComplete Angler published 1791, n footnote quoting an article of a dally paper published In August, 1782. to tbe effqft that in the basin of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, a carp wa.k then living that bod been in the watei thirty-si- x years, which, though it had lost one eye, knew and would constant There are, ot Ty approach Its keeper. course, large gaps between the datee of 1746 (when th carp is said to have been placed in tbe water), 1782, 1SK7 and 1893. But, seeing that in 1782 oui-ejeS?p"TfM Then eredlted wtta tbtrty-sl- x yearn of residence, that In 1867 n one-eycarp said to be "over 100 years old" was still there, and tbat d k carp, believed to be of greet age. Is there still, tbs conclusion Is nataral that It has been tha same one eyed carp all the Ume. - - Braserkabl one-eye- a d ed one-eye- acco- k'.ln-drle- Bis Beml Mmntn. When a man asserts that he is Just ss good M anybody else, do you think be really believes it?" Certainly not He believes be Is better. sb.-imp- rit' Why isn't your portrait In m country newspaper the unklndest, cut of ' ell? . ditlon was brought about by a mental bock resultant upon a quarrel with her fiance, and this theory, being the more romantic, has by far the most supporters. Miss Wilber is one of tbe beauties of the slope, famed for its Not only tbe regularlovely women. ity of ber features and tbe grace ot ber figure were remarkable, but ber coloring was perfect, and she was everywhere regarded as a type of American beauty. Some months ago her engagement to J. C. Dunphy was announced, and It created a great eodal flutter, for Dnn-ph- y Is one of the richest young men in th city. There was another feature to the prospective marriage which added to Ita Interest in the eyes of San Francisco's exclusive set, and that Is that Dunphy la n Catholic, but bad divorced a former wife, who Is still living. Under tbe regulations of the church he cannot remarry daring the lifetime of' bis wife, the church not recognising divorce. Strong pressure has for some time been brought to bear on tbe pope to Induce him to grant a pedal dispensation for tbs wedding, and much Interest wad manifested in the outcome. In case the pope refused the contracting parties agreed to marry outside the church. Such was ths condition of affairs on Feh. 17, when young Dunpby colled at the home of his fiancee. He was to leave town In a day or so, and called on that evening ns usual. A quarrel arose over some trivial matter, however, and when b departed It was with heartburnings on both sides. Miss Wilber feeling offended and Dunphy regretting the whole deplorable incident. Like the average lover In such a situation, however, he thought tbat tbe affair would appear in a different light to Miss Wilber In the morning, after the heat of her displeasure bad passed, Snd the next day he called upon her to before leaving tb city. say good-b- y Miss Wilber bad hot arisen, it being n rather early hour that hla trip was to begin, and a servant was sent to awaken her. She found the door locked snd a strong odor of gee In the The door wax hurriedly apartmenL broken open and Miss Wilber was found lying on the bed unconscious. Dr. Fuller, the family physician, was called at once by the panic-strickfamily, and lie declared the young woman as suffering from monoxide gen poisoning, and began treatmenL But, though her life was saved and her respiration returned under the treatmenL she never regained consciousness. There she lie, her Upn slightly apart, her -- eyes open 'at times, but no trace Of recognition of anyone or anything In them. More physicians were summoned, but to no svalL Electric shocks had not the slightest effect upon her, and every remedy known to science was tried In vkln. This Is the statement of the physician. Dr. Fuller, who hag had charge ot the caae from the first day.' Jbis la the most Interesting case that has ever come under my profes THERE SHE SLEEPS. What u the cause? Neither science nor experience has been able to decide. For five months this strange condition has prevailed and no one can say whether It will end In- - Ilfe or death." The church people are saying that It Is only God's way of chastising those who would contract a marriage under such circumstances, Diwm DmiS Ca ivu, Charles Hauk, aged 80, enlisted tn the army at Indianapolis la May nd went to Cuba . with .the sixteenth United State regulars. His mother' and sisters have dreamed nightly that they saw him fall In bat- tie and tbelr fears have been confirmed by his name being reported among the missing since the battles before Santiago.- - The last letter re--, celved from him Wss Just after ths landing In Cuba. . |