Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-01-18

Ats #eaAEt8a4s tA9 U4t#4zk4H AG s@4I~
ter Of the LondoA Aeme, has kAd an
eveutfui life. Here are some al biz ad-
ventures in has pr0fession. Ina reeent
interview he said: Il crossed the
channel 10 Join the Crown Prince Of
Ssxony's army. l Idelermined 70 throw
over ali literary pretenlions. and hence
forth adopt the telegram style Of writ
ing-two words and = lnIi stop. AL
that I did ] did through sheer audaeity.
I was The first man thar entered Paris
after the siege. got wind of the surren-
der, slipped Through the Eofse De Chap-
pelle on a stout butchers nag, and rode
straight down the Boulevard Magenta.
though II was crowded with drunken
National Guards. / never did riskier
thing. wandered all night about the
streets of the famine-stricken city, ate
for breakfast the last leg of chicken in
Paris, got my PASSPORT pised at the Ame-
rican embassy, slipped back along the
bouleyards, was stopped ut the gates
BY one of our own German troops, was
rescued by friendly officer, caught the
only train running to the frontier, wrote
my dispatch in the car, and arrived at
Strousburg too late, for the telegraph Of
fee was closed for the night. That was
blow. | found out where the clerk
lived, rang peal at his door, brought
him down in his nightcap, produced the
belt of sovereigns which carried round
my waist and offered 10 pay twenty
francs a word for the message. He
dressed himself, went TO consult the au-
thoritIes, and returned after an hour to
saw that he would take the dispatch at
the usual night rates. It contained 400
words. 1t appeared in the Daily .NssUs
next morning, and ] got back to our
lines in time TO enter Paris with the
first battalion that passed the Are de
Triomphe-the first man that entered
Paris and the second"
81 thought" said skeptic Of the
party, "that telegraph Offices in France
were open all night"
During the war. sir" said Mr..
Forbes, with asperity, ''they were
scarcely ever open in the day. That
was my main difficulty. When we lay
before Metz, the German commanders
said, Let nothing pass out of camp
Nevertheless all their movements, all
their plans, all the officers converse
tions, all our festivities, even the pro-
gramme Of music which the band played
at mass, appeared next morning IN the
.NeICs. They were dumbtounded. The
truth was had suborned a country tel
egraph master and lived outside the
camp, so as to send him my message.
At last / was detected and new precau-
tions were taken. One night a joke
went ripping around the mess table,
and an old Colonel shouted out my
name. Thunder end lightning sir,
said he, you won't put that in your pa
per tomorrow said nothing. but
escaped at an early hour from the table.
My servants met me with the news
that the usual lines of communication
were blockaded. had my two horses
saddled and rode of at full gallop on
one of them, leading the other by the
bride. After going twelve miles at
high pressure, Ichanged mounts, left
the first at roadside inn, and reached
the town Of Thionville, twenty-five
miles from our camp, in time to trans
init my daily dispatch, the ColoDePs
Joke and ALL"
"hnd what do you consider your
masterpiece oigeneralship :" asked Rat
tie.
"My last exploit before leaving Eng
land 7" he replied. ~ went down TO
Falmouth to meet the Warrior (iron-
clad), having on board the single survi-
vor Of that wrecked vessel, whose ere W
were adrift in boat for eight days, and
ate two of thew comrades. Falmouth
was full of correspondents, so put up
in q pot-house outside the town, and en-
gagged the only steam tug there was in
the place. / waited three days, and
the night of the third / was playing a
quiet game of billiards, when in walks
one Of the correspondents.
"HalIo, Forbes" says he in astonish-
ment, you here i'''
"Ten minutes afterwsrd came word
that the Warrior was sighted. My tug
at once put out, and we lay quietly 10
the harbor, burning no lights. Present
ly dark mass loomed upon us, and
shouts arose.
"Forbes, Forbes, say. come. Come.
no shsmming. We know you are
there"
"But kept quite silent. and remem-
bered, with DO little vexation. that q
second tug had arrived in the harbor
that morning. At length the Warrior
appeared. We steered toward her and
as she passed. fsprang for her chains and
was dragging in the ships wake up to
my waist IL water. However, / got on
deck. / ran down 70 the stewart and
offered him 20 to bring my man into
the cabin. He did 80. and locked the
door. Then offered ESQ to the poor
lean devil Of shipwrecked sailor in
exchange for his story. He began II
and scTibbled away.
"Ten minutes later came q violent
raPping."
''Lei US in Forbes said the well
known voices"
"But Only wrote the harder. Al
last an oficer appeared and insisted on
my coming on deck. There found the
Captain in a towering passion.
what the-do you mean. SIR.
BY boarding my ship Like thatf' he de-
mandedD %