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And galloped down the west, ,0 )
easa?,**' '- ,
^Audit's 6 wearyl^eary 0
waiting, love.
The erhel , Wind , ., is rising wall. , -
< With a whistle and a love.)
f And it’s weary, weary waiting
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- And it’s weary, weary waiting,
THE CUBAN’S BSC APE.
By DR. W. B. RULE.
ITeUlng liovr an ry HeC»«l «al’vatio« and cakes con
lTtL eX inHlvan“ and dagger.] in <lrn Sg ed wine
talning silk cord a
%. i Cubans made to
il T% free from themselves the Span
ish yoke ' there
were several
extraordinary
experiences, following
w The l
.« one that
4 shows how the
'execution of a prisoner and was the almost
.miraculously averted, is ver
Charles Lee Cook, r^wat^: whom I met m
Mexico. Hewosthen assistant pn
secretary to President Diaz s
predecessor. He was also connec e
■with the Associated Press, and p
plied news telegrams to all the
v .I-
boy was a s employed fn a menial way on
a man-of-war. I should have prob- 1
f&h VrU°To, a a nd remai e ka U btSen 8
* i»e“' State tore 1 be™ told able be- to
[ore by others, but few are
Wxow ia their bodies proof of their
Teracity, Atm^aS^were aslcan
Wlf th e ec c tSXZrtfS .y *^ it “ “
staut l picked it up “ d “^ rew “ over- o ;?
!*T?- ar e th
this, it -V wo nlrlhave been well for me.
But my cun y , to run to
of the ship to i Be the 8 J«“ 8 S
. It l 0
were L_ several in numbei, and of large
_
size.) I was taken to niy bunk,
for some time lay between life and
death. On my recovery, the captain
considered that my act ought to be
rewarded, and through bis instru¬
mentality I received a fair education,
which enabled me to seek a
^career of a higher character than
of.
My life was, however, one wan¬
derings and many a£i£l$. vicissitudes. I
TSXttrOab^Tin •" themselves 1 ___fVtvQlrlnm of the thraldom »" in iu
-
whichThey were made held by the Of Span- the
iards. I was movement, a bow
rebel rebel forces, forces. The
.fkair, Ws was was not sufficiently well organ
either as regards numbers ot
Loyp a t a nts or means to gam the end
in view. After various .skirmishes,
which were generally disastrous to us,
our forces became demoralized and
scattered. The scouts sent out y
the Government never ceased to hunt
us, and there was but one sentence
they took, which
was to be shot. We were
to hide in the woods and thickets
and to keep away as far as possib
tC from every known path, ^hile being
driven my companions dwindled
^n number, until at last I was qiu e
‘alone. -I was for some days without
tifood, nL except what I could gather the m
shape of wild berries in
HIs,- not daring, to venture ni the
^Knity Mkii ned of roads to me or was houses. my rifle All and that a
^^raounds of ammunition. wandering until
PW^ day after ground
I sat down on the to
Preat 7 and lean my back rifle against might not a tree, be
Jn Jtolen order that my
iustorr while I was asleep, it was back my
SSI! to place it betweeu my
X dropped into a sound
sleep Mow long 1 slept I don t,
know, but.I was removed from its
by my rifle being I
ft PlTBSl P "¥al and soldiers 011 °P emng forming my eySS a cirde S T
se ordered to get
m rand I me. and I was
L, in 'not the politest language,
they had found mo out, and I
■bothing treatment, to look forward ignominious to now
[brutal Irlsoameut of short an duration and
l.death. I was immediately the fortress-, hand
■d ■a and taken to
of Morro Castle. I Yf
permitted klo^he to walk in the
Si
WAITING.
rm.
® It’s weary wearf waiting love.)
am s t“n tw“roS«>'“ J iS htpeMPWP
And It’s weary, weary waiting, love.
- The stretches of the ocean
;> Are A r bare D r and Weak to-day. love.)
Ul t t> weary growing wea ry dimmer- waiting,
eves are asv—
B S KSRS Sv» ,
Laurence Dunbar, in the Cosmopolitan.
arriving at the fortress my feet were
chained together and ^ked l wa
led to an inner room which had the
appearance of a dungeon, and was
made to sit on a wooden bench that
was placed against the wall. Another
chain, which was fastened to a staple
in the wall, was passed round my chest
and locked to a staple on the other
side. Thus my hands, feet and body
^ in this position, wiino^ retxaS
captur0
t
'
informed that my j There
- lace in a few d a s .
ge0!ned to no hope. A few more
thorf davs of existence awaited
me, and then death deatn. What wnai could ouuiu I
do? of No one that knew.me 1bad hej«d
^ ^"^^e any one
(could an effort to
com
to hold me seemely until liltbeyinit tneyp an
^
drowning man a
Englishman »»>■ that 74* might * be m
to an do the
Havana, and asked her to me
kindness to deliver it. After two ay
she said she could not find the person
at the address given, or by inquiry- Eng
then asked her to give it to any
J the ^ parties> aud influential as soon as it
became known to some pel
raised whereby to make an effort
some way to rescue me. The sum o
$14,000 was promised to the a most man sin
was selected as being
to undertake the matter.
I was informed at first that my case
had excited much interest, and that
was possible would be done to
.
sav6 me —. But no active steps cou day c
be taken until the evening of the
th., »< the *—**«
tioa - of the
te q agony
®^ 6 ° f those days V 9 What was in
^P tended to be 0 d done ^ kne w not. by day I bad in
no eboioe bu ^ mingled
^ d d a3
' I
y { hope . was cer
0very sunse t brought me
t^nty-fc) , f hours h nearer to the time
set for taken 0 ut to be shot,
LINCOLNTON, GA.. TH| Y, 'November it, ts98.
possible, to induce the soldiers to
take of the drugged wine, and as
as they were asleep to take the
from the one who kept them, whe
I could unlock and remove my fetl
I was then to dress in the unifor!
one of them, and endeavor to past
sentries and make*my perpendicular way to wall the]
tery whose rcachird i
down into the water. On
battery I should see the cannons,xl
were the position close to each of other triangle. and placj I wj
a
make down the for wall the by point, means and of let the nj j
and my rescuers would be on tha
out for me and receive me into!
boat, and take me to a ship in till
bor, til the where search I could for me remain would biddej be j
doneu. In to case take I the could drugged not induj wj
soldiers and endear
was to use the dagger killing!
hold of the keys after
Well, now the
escape was disclosed to me, P
really any better off? What we
chances of my being able to ca;
out? Could I induce both
soldiers who guarded me to ta,
wine? And if I succeeded nnnnraH
how could I pass the two sentn
get to the spot from which I ’
lower myself to tb.e boat?
were points which _ almost cus
me, but to make a desperate therHM s
was my only chance. If .
but one chance in twenty of a
I must do my utmost to accornf
I could only now pass the rerl m
days in gaining the confidencei
soldiers who were on duty by
How far were they, alas, meek from] sub
ing that my apparent speaking o|
to my fate, and as
had only two oy three subtle days j
were in reality but a SB
securing their death and sa
life!
night question. soon came I had
settle the ki
task to perform, and well I
one false step would spoil th<
With that trepidation did I
mychances.*- duly received the two b
I x j I
ca kes
silk cord in the other, and n.
mark of tbe bottle contail
drugged vdn. M . '
wbicb I tegan TlfSllt, watcHH .JH .
conversation with my ,
oe0(ledj x offered them wouw'akel both.
as tht ", -V
pai'falie more c of)my * “
keys readily
tha W nn 1 d give & me somff
ho my ^ removing Ts'-lV?
, refused
This vras at on,=e
partook freely °f both c
bu wSM
Si ? 1 n ,
n A®® da L e r. M
°. seized him i Q ft rara w
same _ „tit $ife^i^fn^
U P° 1)een
my g . d ag j dr
’
) l °wn, I thrust tlie the
bac '
hetorcel could could mustof
bones, ‘J
now between those
it in with all my might. unde
soldier was already
e nce of the drugged wine, I
Up to this moment
the most
‘ the wall,
^ “ d aecured me to
d th c01iatant guard of soldiers,
di the innermost precincts of
y m 7 , stronghold—of an enemy,
“^d thelause wh°X completely van
^ I had es
pousecl d wby vv y d i d I cherish a hope e of
__
escape? mahe 1 up 1 my WasRjUiette 1 ; * gad
fat ® aU ag calmly
p^-CVhich Q ne thing 1 should gain
was that m Y mind would
J’ 1011(10 alternatives of
hope and . de:spail. , • The suspense ■ P that
wor se
than the ceuaiuxy o my 1 impending ^
While u bem pinfft *hu bus ^ kept P in tbe
between me ana e iT0i , a
,
l nhich e £^f bad be been ^te^
10 “ re 3 “ u d d e ^ hat on tbe evening of to tbe be
tbat on whicIl I was
f hot ’-l messenger would bring me
two cakes 1 wav y differing ° in ap- {’
pearance f ■ ould Q
^ £ k>8 sbop . Iu
°F ® f K ld fi nd a small dag-
6 i, n the other a sUk cord which
0 was shon oj^ h t0 bear ^ my weight,
. yonld
Accompauji io ,
tlii^h Qf wi one of
wouhl be heavily drugged,while
the, muei won i 1 ‘ d contain pnlv j^ged pure
. th
-1
of my programme. the keys, A]
got hold of
my fetters and threw t
then> in the quickest ti
dressed myself in the un
of the soldiers and wen
dungeon toward the beat
sentry I had to pass.
_ 1
the musket of the man
and then wore the ap^
sentinel. I had barely 1 ^ 1
dooi wlien an officer “Wh^o
y cllallenged Mm once.
tller e?” He answered by giving 1
the pass-word. He then passed
without suspecting that anything v,
I now reconnoitred as ^ as
eould in the darkness of the nig
and after a short time made out
three cannons, at which point I v
instructed to let myself down to
boat B ut what was my dism.-f- wl
. two
^ee discovered that there were
soldiers sitting near by
spot, apparently having a chat. I
cided that I had better make my -
to the opposite corner of the batt
I passed the,next sentry without ti
ble, on giving tbe pass-word. Be
bad uow a terrible alternative. '
was to let myself down into the we
and be probably devoured by
sharks, and the other was to give
keif up to be shot on the morrow
cW ding to my sentence. I dec
that I would take my chance with
sharks. I began to lower mysen
the silk cord, but before I had
reached the water, oh, horror! I
^ “hartt Isyi-g
NBt, but in a moment I was un¬
rad. It was the boat-hook of
HHufeuers. ^Hrapusers They had seen my
Hi against the wall as 1
myself, and had made for the
BBH 6 noiselessly that I had not
v fthem. They caught hold of
received me into the boat, and
H went as quietly as possible.
Htat a revulsion in my feelings—
[raft BHto of be going received into the into mouth the friendly of the
Hja Hag They imagined. cannot be described, and
• ler rescuers placed me on board a
, in the harbor. An agree
Hpad rafhim been made with the captain
l^next $2000 for rescuing me.
|||||d morning there was a great
cry at the battery when they
rathat their prisoner had escaped,
were given that no ship was to
he harbor until she bad been
od. So as to prevent their
§11 81 { full me of I was molasses. put in a The barrel ship two
b was
d in the morning, in common
. 11 the rest in the harbor. The
f the butt-end of the musket of
' the soldiers sounded in my
I the barrel in which I was con
| was hit, eh to see fruitless, if it was and empty, the
sear was
;o detain the ships being with
», H the captain cleared and was
H ut of the harbor, and I was once
i free man, after one of the most
1 cable escapes ever experienced.
8 )ii the narrator arrived at the
■ he called my attention to his
Bad. I saw it was covered with
Hof perspiration. He told me to
Hthem. I did so; they were cold,
lid he rarely alluded to that sub
pis H it upset him for days after,
could not relate the adventure
lilt Hjl his forehead becoming bathed
sweat.—The Wide World Mag-
ORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY.
Says Science Must Increase It
or There Will Be Starvation.
William Crookes, President of
•itish Association, delivered the
fof address at the annual con
that body at Bristol. He re
jle f the wheat sources supply, of the and present argued and
vl™ tlrougU fixation tbe l.bCT.tor, if the
of the of the supply
contained -m the atmos
that fixed nitrogen lasted of
Iue,of ^ tF&t $80,000,000 was ST,hi
the atmosphere / was unlim
h e problem as bow to utilize
these stores of fixed nitrogen
applied to the soil they would
rathe average wheat crop e per P acre
be obtained byutiliz
agara Palls, and the fixed nitro
h, p™au C ,d..u,a .0^5
William concluded his address
asserting with much conviction
views on psychic, espe
telepathic phenomena, declar¬
bat scientific investigation was
more exact knowledge on
phenomena, ^ and mentioning |
w0r0 throwill
tbe darkness William James,
United
jtrongliold |e in Britisli Columbia. is
town of Esquimault, B. C.,
e razed and wiped out of exist
So the British Government has
red. Upon its site will arise one
e greatest fortresses of the world.
] iornians, point is of because particular this interest maguifi- to
iy designed stronghold will be
door to us, in British Columbia,
t above the Washington State
Some idea of its proposed
rgth may be gained when it is
yn that the British engineers have
idy dubbed it “The New Gibral
Jle plan contemplates the equip
} t of a store, repair, and supply
on second to none in the empire;
? building and manning of forts
,ble of defendingthisdepotagainst
force that could be brought
nst it by sea or land; the provid
of docks large enough to receive
best and biggest examples of ma
architectural skill, and the estab
‘ment 01 barracks, a service prison,
other necessary buildings for the
and benefit of the numerous sol
- 3 and sailors who will be required
f old the forts and man the ships of
station.—San Francisco Call,
wimt Fiseons Can Do
)urin g the recent French naval
iceuvres in the Mediterranean,
n i ra i Humana let fly from the flag
p Brennus teji pigeons at 175 miles
n Porquerolles. Three of the num-
1 W ere lost, but seven arrived
,i y> having averageespeed accomplished of the, tweftty- dis
ce at a u
> miles an hour. ; The pigeons had
, n absent from their houses twenty
-Hays, and the result of this ex
is considered highly satis-
LOBSTERING IN MAINE.
-r
Thos« Who Follow It Have to Endure
Much Hardships.
One of the most profitable indus¬
tries down on the coast of Maine is
“lobsterin’.” It is a laborious occupa¬
tion, and those who follow it have to
endure much hardship and exposure
and many perils from the sea. Lob¬
sters are eaugbt on rocky bottoms in
“traps” or “pots,” which are made of
hickory saplings after the fashion of a
crockery crate. At the two small
ends holes are arranged with spikes
of flexible wood running to a focus, so
that the lobster, tempted to enter by
a bait bung from the center, finds it
impossible to get codfish out. The most
common bait are beads and
other fish which are too plentiful and
unpopular to be salable in market.
The pots are submerged in two or
three fathoms of water with stone
sinkers and their location marked by
short logs of wood fastened to them
by ropes and allowed to float on the
surface.
Twice a day, at sunrise and at sun¬
set, the pots are visited and the lob¬
sters taken out and thrown into a
chest in the boat with a lot of seaweed
to keep them fresh and give them
“something to chaw on.” After the
pots have all been emptied the lob¬
sters are taken to a large “float” at
some convenient spot, where they are
transferred to a tank and kept until
called for.
Lobsterers who are convenient to
towns sell most of their catch in the
local market. Those who are work¬
ing at distant and isolated spots along
the coast are visited every week or
ten days by tugs fitted up with large
tanks or reservoirs capable of holding
from 10,000 to 15,000 lobsters. These
vessels patrol regularly up and down
the coast, and when their tanks are
full drop in at Boston or New York
and unload. This year lobsters are
worth from’twelve to seventeen cents
each, according to size, and the catch¬
ers are paid cash as they are delivered.
In Boston and New York they sell
from twenty to thirty cents each, but
by the time they get to the retailers
they have doubled in value.
The life of the lobsterer is lonely as
well as dangerous. He generally
lives alone in a cabin on a rocky
island, cooks his own meals of fish
and bacon and spends bis days catch¬
ing bait for his traps. Nearly all of
them have lobster “farms,” where the
undersized lobsters and those with
spawn are imprisoned in salt-water
ponds to grow and breed. The law
protects the traffic by imposing a heavy
fine upon the sale of small ones.—
Chicago Record.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Nothing ages like laziness.—Bulwer.
Kindness is the golden chain by
which society is bound together.—
Tolstoi.
A man of integrity will never listen
to any plea against conscience.—
Home.
He who commits injustice is ever
made more wretched than he who
suffers it,—Plato.
A man cannot leave a better legacy
to the world than a well educated
family.—Thomas Scott.
When a great man dies, for years
the light he leaves behind him lies on
the paths of men.—Longfellow.
We are always complaining that cur
days are few, and acting as though
there would be no end of them.—
Seneca.
No abilities, however splendid, can
command success without intense
labor and persevering application.—
A. T. Stewart.
An inquisitive man is a creature
naturally very vacant of thought it¬
self, and therefore forced to apply to
foreign assistance.—Steele.
When -we would, with utmost de¬
testation, single some monster from
the traitor herd, ’tis but to say in¬
gratitude is his crime.—Froude.
Insincerity in a man’s own heart
must make all his enjoyments—all
that concerns him, unreal; so that his
whole life must seem like a merely
dramatic representation.—Hawthorne.
Three things too much, and three
too little are pernicious to man; to
speak much, and know little; to spend
much, and have little; to presume
much, and be worth little.—Cer¬
vantes.
How Consuls Get Kicli.
The absolute necessity for acquiring
all the money possible during his term
of office often leads the Consul into
the temptation of making exorbitant
charges,'writes a correspondent of the
Chicago Post. One day, while I was
engaged upon a deposition, a visiting
confrere from Italy strolled into the
office. There were a great many ques¬
tions and answers, and I charged the
regular fee, $2.50, for the entire ser¬
vice. When we were alone my brother
Consul said to me: “Why, you don’t
know how to work your office for all it
is worth.”
“Isn’t that right,” I asked, “$2.50
for an oath?”
“Certainly,” he replied, “but I
make them swear to every answer
separately, T}iat. paper would have
been worth at least $150.to me.”
! The value of the annual plum crop
iu France i, $8,000,000. -
NO. 24.
7 HORSES IN HISTORY.^ 1
A Few ct Those That Have Been Had*'
Famons.
Readers of Macaulay will remember
the famous black Auster, the horse oft,
Herminlus, and the dark gray charger
of Mamilius, whose sudden appearance,
in the city of Tuseulum without his
master brought the news of the defeat
of the allies at Lake Regrillus. Con¬
nected with that battle, too, were th®
horses ®f the great “twin brethren, 1 ’
Castor and Pollux, coal black, with
white legs and tails. But those are
legendary. Not so. however, the well-j
known horse of Caligula, Incitatus.
This animal had a stable of marble;;
his stall was of ivory, his clothing of
purple, and his halters stiff with gems.;
He had a set of golden plates, and wa»
presented with a palace, furniture and
slaves complete, in order that guesta;
invited in his name should be proper
ly entertained. His diet was the mast
costly that could be imagined,
finest grapes that Asia could providal
being reserved for him.
Venn, another Roman
about a century later, treated his
almost as extravagantly. He fed
with raisins and almonds with his
hands, and when he died, erected
statue nitaries of gold to him, while all the dig’
of the empire attended the full
eral. As we come to later times, ho||§| il
we get more examples of favorite
es. William the Conqueror Hasting!! had oSM
that he rode at the battle of
about which almost everything se
to be known except his name,
was of huge size and was a pro.
from King Alfonso of Spain—"sue_ __
gift as a prince might give and a pr lli
jdid receive.” not survive This gallant the battle, horse, for how< G Ig
W *
Harold’s butcher, “clove him w
bill, and he died.” Richard I.’s -
was called Maleck, and was jet blacl
He bore his master through the holy
*war and arrived in England bqfortt'
him; in fact, he survived the kin#
several years. The second Richard,
too, had a favorite horse, called Roan
Barbary, which was supposed to be
the finest horse in Europe at that time,
and it was on Roan Barbary that tha
young king was mounted when the in¬
cident wherein Wat Tyler was- stabbed
by the mayor of Walworth to>pk place.
About a century later we gdt to the
Wars of the Roses, and |k tfhe many
battles of that civil distf| nee two
horses played important part These
belonged to the great Earl of Y. T arwR.' t
the beautiful kingmaker. His first wa s Maleck)
a gray, which he rode at the
battle of Towton. It was this horse
whose death turned the fortunes of the
battle, for Warwick, seeing that his
men were giving ground deliberately
sprung from his favorite horse and
killed him. Then his men knew that
the kingmaker was prepared to con¬
quer, hut not to fly. They rallied and
finally won the battle.---London Stan¬
dard.
rtT-DiSE ASi-g,
It is safe to say that a fai greater
amount of misery is caused b: suppos¬
ed heart trouble than by a'-tuffi di* asa
of that organ. This t s di„, i;1 rbc drst
place to the fact that siipp, sed heart
troubles, functional troubles as they
are called, are much nu»r e cumeroua if
than the real, the organic dLeases;
and in the second plac* (o ae fact
that true heart disease shows
with comparative infreq UeaC y, by*
symptoms which the patient
can discove . whereas thfc nalpitat
the thumping in ’he
sound of surging blood k »
the the noise of the expressionflBHH laborec«raffi|
common
or functional disturban
action.
PUESENCK 01 1 '
Excited Lady (to
neighbor)—Hurry ! ’ I
■ ’■
tor. My husband ba
mit suicide. He ha
four times. m
Next-door Neighb
use of getting the
don’t think any of
prove fatal, why do!
gun for him ?
GEORGIA
mm M A.
Connei
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Write to either o:
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