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81 Raleigh Rivers
50 Jack Dudley's Wife.
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Farm for Sale or Trade.

contaia Iasy terms, four miles esst Of subl,m,,v
in or naar ny s. acres; win trade for properiv,
SSdw '"'en' b. g. DOVE.
sublimity, Or.
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piles, and gave relief from constipation.
All praise for Hoods Sarsaparilla. What
have written to you are facss, and ycu
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29

and larks ready roasted fall into the old
mans mouth. Well finish up with the
trio from 'Guilliaume Tell And mind
now, we're singing for the honor of the
conservatory as well as for the sake of
brother artist"
The three young men played and sang
probably as they never played and sang in
their after life. The most critical of
audiences was enthralled.
THEY GAVE THEIR NAMES.
Life came back to the old man. He
grasped his stick. and adopting it as
baton, used it with the air of one having
authority He stood transfxed when they
had done, his face lighted up, his eyes
glistening.
The proceeds of the entertainment net
ted 800 francs. Many of the Weather
listeners had thrown gold pieces into the
old battered hat
Then they gave him back his hat and
its contents and wrapped up the instru-
ment in the old checkered handkerchief.
Your names! Your names !" the old
man gasped, Give me your names that l
may bless them on my death bed"
My name is Faith. " said the first.
And mine Hope" said the second.
and mine Charity" said the treasurer
of the enterprise.
PROPHECY FULFILLED.
you do not even know mine" con
tinued the old man, regaiuing his voice.
"Ah l might have been an impostor, but
l am not, am not! My name is Cha
puce. For ten years / directed the or
chestra of the opera at Strassburg. It
was l who mounted Guilliaume Tell
Since I left my native Alsace misfortune
has followed me. With this money nv
daughter and I can go to the country and
there she will recover her health and |
shall fine place to teach what can no
longer perform. Xou-all of you-shalI
be the greatests of the greatest
"AmenH was the hearty response of
the students as they shook the old mans
hand
Despite there attempt to disguise the
young men had been recognized by one
who afterwards told the tale.
They were known to fame in later
years as Gustave Roger, the great tenor:
Adolphe Herman, the great violinist, and
Charles Gounod, the great composer.
The old mans prophecy was fulfilled.
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krankford, and wound up by saying:
The unfortunate mans body was re-
moved TO his late residence, where the
funeral will take place.
After that had been done we met. as
prearranged, at the Pen and Pencil club.
where we collected the $50 and tried to
decide who should carry it to the widow
1t was thing none of us wanted to do,
so we agreed after much talk to go all to-
gether. Then we went to our various
homes and slept, or at least tried to
sleep, though none of us made out very
well in that line, for all felt that to d GER
tain extent we were responsible for the
mans death. We had a sort of Judas
feeling and the twenty pieces of silver
helped to carry out that idea. Thoughts
of that character are not productive of
sleep.
The next morning we met at the club at
II o'clock, and after each had taken
good dose of whisky to give him courage,
we started out TO face Mrs. Mike. II was
long journey, down almost to the
Meek 1t took US an hour, and even
then, when we did get into the right
neighborhood it took US some time to find
the house. As we came up the street
looking for the black crepe, we saw
man sitting on the steps
in front of a neat-looking,
two-stOry brick house, and l remarked
that he must be Mixes brother for this
man looked very much like Mike. When
we came up to him this individual shout
ed;
"How are We now, boys2"
And 1t was Mike sitting there smoking
the same, short, clay pipe we had always
seen him smoke. We stood still and
stared.
didn't 'spect yer so soon, but come in,
boys. I'm glad to see yer, an I'll intro
duce yer TO moi wife, an yer kin guve her
the rocks"
We went in.
Aren't you dead Mike?' was asked.
He looked at us in disgust. He said:
do OF look like a corpsel Do oi?"
But didn't you drop of the roofl''
"Oi did not"
But we saw you"
mo yer did not Now Jockey here.
YOuse was kiclzin fer a sthory an youse
got it,"
Eyes, but the story was a lie. See
what scrape we are in. We said you
were dead. ="
That's where youse loied. Do OF look
dead2 No OF do not. But yous ill pay the
money, won't yer3"
We paid it to the ''woife, " who pocketed
the rocks with a broad smile over
spreading her countenance.
Yer wouldn't hove wanted moi mon to
have diedl"
We said: "Of course not, and that we
were glad he was still living, but we
almost wished he was dead. Our inner
most thoughts, l am sorry 20 say, would
not have done for publication. We We're
almost afraid to face our different editors,
but II had TO be done, 50 we started back
up town.
Some one bought an afternoon paper on
the way up and we read how we had
been 0uped Mike had rugged up q
dummy, had stuffed an old coat and pair
Of trousers with straw and dirt, and had
dropped it instead Of himself, while all
the time he had been lying in the deep
gutter at the edge Of the roof Owing n
The width Of the area and 20 the fact that
the sky was overloaded az the time, we
had not noticed him
Our editors didn't say much. They
simply gave as q little advice and left rs
20 the mercy Of our fellow reporters ~
was 20 tender mercy. J can assure sou.
and II was many moons before we heard
She last ~ the joke.
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Know you had a wife, I answered. We
nad always taken it for granted that he
was unmarried, therefore we were sur
prised when he spoke of a wife.
"Oi have a wife an OF can git a sthory. :"
what is she like! and have you any
heirs2" WAS asked. We were more inter
ested to learn something about Mikes
family than TO hear the story, for we did
not have much faith in his news capacity
II have hairs an moi wifes foine
woman, she is. an a domned sight too
good for a drunken basic the loikes of
moiself. But that's no matter. Win yer
give the twenty balls to her if OF git yer
the sthory!"
Certainly we will, but you'n have to
give US your address. Where do you live,
Nike"
Listen an oi'n tell yer wher at OF
Hve.n And we listened. Then he made
US give him written statement, signed
by US all, promising that we would give
his wife the so.
"Now yer hay right here till OF holler
to yer TO come. Dim goin' out on ther
roof to look fer somethin'. Sure as any
Of youse foller me, DILL not give yer the
sUhory. Does yer see -
We saw and sat down t. wait. 1t was
twelve O'Clock then. y n4.f hour passed.
Three quarters, and we began to think
that he had gone TO a saloon and got
drunken, so that he could not come back,
and we had also begun to think that if he
did not bring his "sthory''on pretty soon,
we would not get it in time for publica-
ton
Then we heard him call.
We jumped from our chairs and all
hurried out the door and along the CORR
dor to the roof We could see nothing of
Mike after looking around so we shouted
for him to tell us where he was He
answered and we saw him standing on
tie o 1er side of the roof the area in the
c an,er of the building being between him
and ourselves.
As soon as he saw that we were LOOKING
at him, he called out:
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rounds with full charges. The 1lO-tOa
gun, and indeed all large guns are fired
with slow burning coca powder, the name
coca being derived from the brown color
of the powder 1t is shaped in heXagOnal
prisms, this being the most convenient
form of packing, and 10000 of these
prisms are needed to make a full charge
Tor this monster gun. Each prism is
pierced with a hole in the center to
give ready access to the
flame and insure an equable
Ignition. For nearly all naval guns the
powder charge is made up of four cart
ridges, but, owing to the extraordinary
weight of the no ton gun charge 1850
Pounds), it is divided into eight cart
ridges, each weighing 100 pounds. To
load the gun it is necessary to bring It 10
its extreme elevation, that is, the muzzle
is pointed upward as far as 1t can be on
the mount; and these operations follow;
a. Unlock and unscrew the breecn'
block ~ withdraw the breech-block; 81
traverse breech- block to one side; ~
place the loading tray in the gun; 10
swab out the gun (6) ram home, or put
into place, the projectile; az place the
first charge ;-(S) place and ram home the
second half charge; 90 withdraw the
loading tray; (l0) replace the breecn-
screw; Ql)Screw up and lock the 0reech'
screw.
The gun is then ready to be sighted by
the captain of the turret from his con-
ing tower. 1t is fired by electricity
The gun can be loaded aud fired within
two and half minutes. The projectne
used in the gun when ships or forts are
attacked, weighs l, 800 pounds, or only
200 pounds less than a ton, and it leaves
the muzzle with velocity of 2,lO5 feet
second, and has destructive energy
equal to 50, sos foot-tons. When testeu
before mounting on the Sansparell Ihree
years ago the shot tore its way through
specially manufactured steel armor ~
inches thick, and yet the armor DelI Oh
the Victoria ranged from 10 to % lncnGo
in thickness only In addition TO Ihe ~
inches thickness of steel shot WenS
through eight inches Of iron tasteheu
in a heavy WrCught-iron Irane,
20 feet of oak banks, 8 feet of granite
blocks, II feet of concrete, and IeeS
of brick. In other words ii went through
Az feet of wall unique in history IOI
combination of width and variety anu
strength of materials The cost OF one
firing of this gun was 800 for the poWueI
and 5000 for the projectile ana fuses an Nv
after seventy-five ronnds there Woulu,o w
the cost of the gun to add, nancy 9lO0'
600.
In firing the gun against BODY OF i i'si
or a fotilla of boats, it is intended 10 uSo
sbrapnel drum-like cylinder OF steel,
including 1890 four-ounce bulletS' as
soon as the shrapncl bursts the pqlle s's ~
flying on, the spinning of the smell ca9 ~.
by the rifled grooves Of the gun spre"It,ai1
them out over a large area. leu Iii(
is used it is charged with powder VIZ
causes il to explode and scatter us PleO0'
with great destruction.
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room at the city hall in Philadelphia. He
had another name-a last name-but we
hardly ever heard it. The fact is, we
never did hear much from or about him.
Most of the time when on duty he read
newspaper or book, though sometimes,
pitying his loneliness, we would ask him
to join ia a game of "high-low." He was
a good player, had good luck and usually
won.
Mike did deed on this particular Fri
day night which will cause him to be re-
membered as long as tradition lasts
among reporters.
1t was this way:
Being sum ler, news was scarce and we
were grum bling over this fact. A reporter
usually complains that there is no news.
on general principles, even if he has two
good cries in his pocket, for no other re-
porter must know that he has those two
stories. tS5ories in the newspaper sense
menus anything which is not an adver-
usement. from murder to a wedding or
III obituary notice..
Mike had fallen asleep because he was
drunk, out he awoke wuIle we were ais
cussing the lack of news. Some one said
to HIM
why don't YOU get US a story. AIikel
You ought 10 know something"
'P'r,aps OF ought an p'r'ars OF ough-
tent. he s. nd, blinking his req eyes
wow, look here, " said he who had first
spoken, IN tell you what wei DO. If
You VIII get up "A real elegant story we'll
give you so for DC. Won we2" he asked
the rest Of as with broad smile on his
face
We said Of course we would.
Mike said nothing for fully O minute.
WINE Dee gozed steadily az ms. looking
from one % The other of the Sin faces h..
fore him
WI y0lse give the twenty 10 moi
Won. iomorrer III Z give ser the stnory
nov g he asked finally.
"Dl course we viii, Mike. but didn't
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we looked at the body Lying motion
less in the court below US, hoping against
hope that it might show some signs of
life
1t did not move.
We each looked at the other Then
some one said:
Hes dead, Door fool. Let's get one Of
the detectives and 20 down TO the body"
We went TO the detective bureau. two
floors below and told what had happened.
Then there was a cOmmotion. Everyone
in the room rushed TO the windows to get
a look at the body. 1t still lay where we
had seen it land
Two of the detectives went down with
us When we reached the first floor,
some one remembered that the doors
which led to the courtyard were all
locked, and then everyone asked everyone
else, where the keys were kept The
night Waterman of the halls said that
the day-watchman had one set Of keys
and that the day-watchman lived in
ErankfOrd
We were stuck The windows which
open into the court are all over an area
which is about 10 feet wide and 80 feet
below the level Of the court yard, so the
only thing to do, was 10 send some one up
to t'rankIord in a cab. 10 fetch the day
Waterman. One Of the detectives went.
IL was quarter past one o'clock, so we
decided That, as we could do no good by
ai,ing, we had better hurry down 70 our
Offices and write the story Of the mans
suicide.
As piece Of news, the story was fine
Mike had kept his word and given us
good story We wrote 10 out with an the
narrowing details, giving as much Of
Mixes biography as we could remember.
mentioned the fact that he left a wife
HHf q HHgas
cause we didn't know how many he had
We described the scene on The roof OF the
city ball with an The yiridness we could
collect, dHeli On the fact tLal the body
1ad 20 iay ln The court yard until the
day-watchmau could be- fetched from
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GREAT GUNS OF GREAT NAv1Es.
The 11o-Ton Guns Are Extremely Ex-
pensive-They Can be Fired ONLY
Seventy-Five Times.

FROM the New York Tribune.
Two of the mammoth 1lO-ton guns
upon which the British Admiralty has so
proudly commented as the Modern Naval
Artillery" and which cost about 500 OO0
each, went down into seventy fathoms of
water with the battleship Victoria. and
in connection with this fact there must
nave been awakened much interest anong
readers as TO whether such heavy war
weapons, heavier than any vet made for
the United States navy, and heavier than
VIII probably be built, are a wise addi-
ton TO modern war vessel And vet
THIS Dig gun Is not a new thing. as n prac-
tically dates back twelve wears. About
forty Of these big guns have been built
ana some Of them were sent 10 Ttalv
IL is easy 10 comprehend arnon,,
navy officers that such guns are an ~,
Pehsige luxury, not only 10 the aetf,@t
cost u the gun and rs ammunition
DIT also 90 tho sile
tne snlpa required 10 es,,..,
mem but what win be- Of most inlsrss,
~ iat -people Is the quantity ard go.f ~
ai9n4DltOn. aaa the lifr M ths getIt..'f
~ lesi ordnance experts caIr4|ate ~,
liis " We ll9-ioa g.H " be seyeatg-6ge
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Gods sake, don't! Well give you the
money Come back! Come backl'
But it did no good. The last words he
said before he let 20 were:
"Give the twenty balls to moi wolfe and
tell her was haste, an not for her to
cry. Good by"
Then he let go.
We watched the body, as it descended,
turning over and over faster and faster
way down, and bounced outward. finally
landing on the asphalt below, Wee did not
hear that dull, sickening thud" you read
abont, for he had dropped eight stories,
and they were high stories at that.
For moment none of US spoke, but
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29

Mrs. Observation-Disclosures a mann pam
some house your father has built ou'N
beautiful balconies! ~ ,lo,tv
Miss Juliet with sigh i CO. P'0''''
Of balcony, but alas no Romeo. the
Mrs Nouveau-kiche-ls hUuloiS ,i,,ses
name Of that material the Raston
Transcript.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29

Sir Edeard Fitz Walcs-You. ~. Ai'J Je
leans aw 80 chahmingly thoukh"u''
know. ,t.g5gard
SIR. H0bbles-ln what way -"
tltY Wales; ..,. avn
summer. Sc know. YOU have 40 ins li,5.
summer ioh tie p00ah natives
posc.- Chicago Record
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-29
BY C. FREDERIC CREssY.
lCopvright. ls03.N

Mike was drunk
That was natural, for it was Friday
highland Mike was paid on Friday after
noon. We would have thought 1t unnat-
ural if Mike had not been drunk. He was
not 'boiled' drunk, but just drunk
enough to have a keen edge on his wits.
He was the watohman in the reporter's
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-14
HISTORIC FORT Hill.
Calhoun's Old Home Now the Site of an
Agricultural College.

GalhOul'S Ol0 NOW the Site of an
Agricultural College.
John Caldwell Calhoun is still a now.
err in South Carolina. though 4s wears
have passed since his death, and the
proposition to utilize his old home for
educational purposes excited all the poli.
ticians in the state. Fort Hill, as the
highland estate was named, is in The
loveliest foothill region of South Caro-
hna-that is. on terrace of the Blue
Ridge and on the northwestern border
of the state It is about two miles from
the Richmond and Danville railroad.
The summer climate is remarkably cool
for that latitude, and the district is
among the most healthful in the world.
Calhoun was born in Abbeville dis
trict March is, 1889, and died in Wash
ington city March 81, 1850, but his home
during his working life was at Fort Hill,
and there were written nearly all his
philosophical and well considered works.
Thomas G.. Clemson became owner Of
the place by marriage with Calhoun's
daughter. He was at one time charge
d'affaires at Brussels and man Of DO