St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-13

have never seen a white man who could use
it so well as native. They throw this
weapon sometimes along the ground, some
times in the air, but never directly at the
objects. 1t whirls about in the most eccen<
trio fashion, turns corners, sweeps abou.
trees, and very frequently comes back to kill
an object fifty yards behind the man who
threw it. Small spears and boomerangs are
the toys of the native boys, and it is really
astonishing how accurately they can use
them. The little girls here, as in every
country in the world, have their dolls, made
out of charred wood, or clay, which they de-
light to carry as their mothers do their
babies.
AS you may well believe, the Australians
are not very particular about their food, for
they regard quantity rather than quality.
Their greatest delicacy is the tail of kan
CARGO, which they broil on Goals, and eat in
half raw state. Next to this is the giant
cray fish, which resembles our lobster, but ia
four or five times as large, and is found in
abundance along the sea coast and on the
haps because he had grown weary of the
subject, had never mentioned the story of thu
watch to his friend, but the impulse seized
him, and he did SO this night, and then un.
hooking the guard, he handed the chronome
ter over for inspection.
The captain glanced at the face, then
hurriedly opened the back case, and, as the
beautiful face met his gaze, his hands
trembied, his lips grew ashy, and h<
gasped:
"My Godp
"Why, what's up, old fellow sick?" asked
the doctor, as he rose from his chair.
Nothing, I'm all right now. But knew
the man that carried that watch, and the
face of the girl on the case is"
"Whose?" cried the doctor, seeing that the
other hesitated.
"My sister's!' p was the response.
Then it came out that the dead Confederate
from whom the doctor got the watch was
Frank Herbert Of Southern Maryland, Com
mander of a regiment in the famous Con-
federate Maryland brigade. Ella Lewis of
OF Loudon, Virginia, the captains sister, was
engaged to young Herbert, and being in
France the year before the war she bought
for him the watch end pasted her picture on
the back case. The breaking out of the con-
test caused the marriage to be postponed,
and death of the colonel left his beautiful
fancee brevet widow.
"Take the watch said the doctor, when
he had heard the story, ''and give it to your
sister,"
"Keep it for week or two,' responded the
captain, ''she and my mother are coming on
to keep house for me, and I think il would
be more fitting for you to hand it to her in
person.
The doctor agreed with this, and three
weeks afterwards he met Miss Lewis and
handed her the watch. The years had not
changed her, except for the expression of
sadness on the beautiful face
The lady took the watch, but the doctor
did not buy another. After this he was
frequent visitor at Mrs. Lewis cosy cottage.
About six months after the doctor had
found the owner of the gold chronometer
he and Miss Lewis had a long, private and
evidently satisfactory talk in the parlor.
AS the doctor rose to go, she laid her hands
on his shoulders. and whispered: So
"Wait Roland"
She darted out Of the room, and returning
with the watch, showed him the picture had