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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
"Starboard little. Charlie:"
.''Starboard, SIR" said the man 1t tho

"Starboard little. Charlie:"
''Starboard, SIR" said the man at tho
wheel.
'Irun into every one of them state
rooms, cryin': Where's the girlsT
Pretty soon, way up on the Dellas
deck. 1 heard my steward hollerin's
'He.e they are. all safe. sir!'
Ollie was a good one. that fellow"
the captain went on, after pause.
LAS soon as we was struck he run for
the girls an got 'em out, an the three
just crawled fiat on the deck through
the steam
'And was no one lost?" asked the H.
vorite passenger.
STEADY, Charlie:'
STEADY, SIR said the man at the
wheel.
"Three. ma'am, three the captain
hummed in his deep voice. THAT
same steward-lt makes me laugh
now to think how that man hollered-
yoa see, when I knew the girls was
safe, thanks /, I've got time to get my
books. So run to my cabin an got
'em out just in time. But the steward,
him an passenger an the mate, they
started to save that poor Teller that
was hollerin' in the boiler room. The
passenger an the mate, they went
down, an they'd got the man on the
passengers shoulders, an the steward
was lynn fiat on deck ready to take
hold of him when they got that far.
But all OF a sudden the passenger hol-
Tered: Look out for yourselves!' an
thEowed the man off his shoulders, an
our ship went down like a log. 1t
warn't more than five minutes, all
told, after we'd been struck
but that was four drowned" said
the passenger.
IL was climbing up the Della like
mad when heard that steward a-yell'
in: tCap'D! an instead of bein' safe on
the Della. there he was doatin' in the
water on a board.
"You see. the suction of the ship go
in down had lifted the hurricane-deck
clean off an let him out, an there he
was.
1.-THE Della was chuck full of pas
sengers. an they fixed up my girls all
| right. But you see. that cap'n, he jus
got ratified. He had to change his
| course completely to run into me, an
he had
''Now steady, Charlie. steady!" said
| the captain. as two shri1l sounds came
out of the darkness.
"Well, you had nerve to go bach
| after your books" said the read,es,
one of the passengers.
| ''Well, maybe" the captain an
swered, modestly; but tell you," he
announced, standing straight and tai
before us. and bringing the edge o:
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
SAT ON THE HOT RAILS.

Band of Apaches Given u Surprise On
Santa Fo Train.
For real hot-weather stories Won
want to go to hot-weather country"
says w. F. White, passenger traffic
manager of the Santa Fe railroad.
Now you can find hot weather that is
hot weather in New Mexico and Ari-
IONA. It's one thing to go through
that country now on train which car
ries the conveniences for keeping cool,
but it was quite another thing when
the railroad was being built and there
was nothing between you and the sun
but fiery alkali dust.
1.-The Atchison road reached Deming,
n. NJ, in 1881, and it was a hot sum-
mer. 1t had been hot right along for
days in that steady, energetic fashion
that would make man wish for an
hour in a BeSsemer steel mill to cool Off.
The first construction train pulled into
De1ning on a day that was SO scorching
as to stand out even among those other
bliStering days. The train was made
up of long line of fat cars, and along
the center of the cars ran pile of steel
rails a foot high. The rails had been
in the full glare of an unblinking sun
until they were about as hot as when
they first came through the rolls at the
mill.
'.When the train came into Deming it
was, of course, an object of great in
terest, and no one was more inter-
ested than a lot of Apache Indians.
They were peaceful enough, and
filed with curiosity AMI were
quick to assert the birthright of
the American Indian to ride free
ON 4 railroad train. The conductor in
charge was something of a joker, and
saw an opportunity for some fun. He
urged the Indians all to climb up on the
fat cars and have ride. The engineer
was in the scheme, and, as soon as the
Indians were up on the cars he backed
| his engine with jerk. They could ride
| a bucking pony under any condition OF
| nnsteadiness. but this motion was new
to them. and the entire party sat down
on the rails
''Now, you must remember the sum
mer costume of an Apache can be cut
out of a pocket handkerchief with cloth
| to spare. Well, my idea of Indian stoi.
| cis1n was shattered. There were shriel<s
| that added new notes to the regulation
| war whoop, and the Apaches left that
| train and started off across the hot
| sands in a way that would have turned
us all gray if they had been coming
toward us instead of running away.
They undoubtedly to this minute re-
member that as the hottest day they
ever knew.'-Chicago Tribune.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20


one huge hand down across the palm
of the other, I'm more excited this
minute tellin' about it than T was do
in it that night.
Now, starboard, Charlie, star
board,'' and the captain leaped up on
the pilothouse deck and blew an an
swering signal to the big barge which
presently came floating toward us in
the wide expanse, with half-dozen
schooners, loaded to the waters edge,
in her wake.
The favorite passenger sat silent.
her eye on the set young face of the
man at the wheel, turning, as his
duty was, his wheel to the left
when his orders were to go right, and
to the right when he was to go to the
left. ~ Think said she. contemPla-
lively, eff there were little more
common sense IN the making of steer
ing-gear, such accidents as yours
wouldn't happen
The captain looked down at her
quizzically, and considered her words.
''Darned if it doesn't take a woman
to see through things" he said pres
ently.-Outlook.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
PETTY P,LFEa,Nlas CEASED.
Proprietor Doctorea HSlno I.oxenges and
Left Them ON 1Lls Desk.

Proprietor Doctored Asno I-oxengss sna
Left Them ON liz Desk.
He was in the habitSof keeping odd
cigars. chocolates and things of that
sort lying around shiA Office desk, and
the clerks, messengers and Office bow
were in the habit of helping themselves
without so much as asking the priv
ilege. 1t was sometime. before he took
any official notice of it. But of late he
could scarcely turn around before every
thing was gone. When this freedom
finally extended to the disappearance
of little boxes of bon-bons purchased
for his wife he began to inquire into it.
Its that boy suggested the clerk.
s'Indeed, never tech EN-" said the
boy. Everybody what comes along
bites into rything.''
The next day the proprietor brought
home some doctored 1ozenges and went
out to lunch, leaving a box half full on
his desk in plain sigks About an hour
after his return to the Office one of the
CLERKS in the next room came in and
asked to be excused for the rest of the
day on account of illness. AS soon as
the man had gone an investigation of
the lozenge box betrayed the fact that
all had disappeared. He rang his bell
and the office boy appeared, pale and
trembling.
Look here, Billy" says he, II left
some lozenRes on my desk at noon-1
hope you
mo, sir, didn't see en-
"I'm glad of that said the employer.
tOf course, you wouldn't have touched
them. / was afraid that you might
have done so. Not that they were of
any value particularly, but because
they were fixed up for cat medicine.
You see
But Billy suddenly bolted for the
door. His unceremonlous exit was inn
mediately followed by the entrance of
another clerk. He was accompanied
by a man friend, and both looked high
ty embarrassed and uneasy. Billy had
rushed in upon them and told them in
an awful whisper that they had all
been poisoned. They manfully faced
| the music.
s.I-we-that is
'Ah, I see!'' interrupted the boss.
You, too. have been eating my cat
medicine!' He tried to look serious,
| but his is not a serious nature, and he
! laughed instead. The young men be-
gan to brace up.
''Then they ain't-were not poisoned?
! Billy says they were fixed for rats, sir.
| I know we oughtn't to have eaten them,
| butt
| 'sOh, they were not exactly poisoned,
bullets see (taking out his vvatch)-if
! you'll go down to the corner drug store
! and take an emetic you'll be all right
| in a short time
| Both young men disappeared in I,
twinl<ling, and the laughing old practi.
| cal joker leaned back in his chair and
| lighted fresh cigar 1T is we'll
| enough not to let them off to easily,
he soliloquized. "They'd have gotten
| over it in about another minute
There are no more petty offerings
| around that office. But then that of
| fee boy has never come back.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
A NATURAL THOUGHT.

Why the Pullman Porter Kept tho Roll OF
Bills.
After Mr.. Scadds left the station he
experienced a severe shock upon dis
covering that a packet of bank notes
which he was taking to che city was
nowhere about his person.
He must have left it in the Pullman
car.
iii go to the superintendent's Office
and make my loss known - he though t,
and he did. II left a package contain
ing So, 900 in bank notes in Pullman
car not half an hour ago. said Mr..
Scadds to the officer.
(Which train?''
''The one which arrived at 9:15."
''IIave you your Pullman check?''
Fortunately he had. and this enabled
the superintendent to send for the con-
ductor.
He soon arrived, for he had not yet
finished the report of his trip, and was
still in the building.
conductor said the superintend-
ent. did you sec anything of a pack.
age left in your carr
mo, SIR
Bring the porter here"
He was brought.
Ibid you see anything of small
package after the passengers left your
car?''
Eyes, sah.''
You haven't turned it imp
''Why, no, sab. 1t was lot of money,
sah.''
'.Precisely. Where is it now?"
''Here, sah.'
1t was produced from an inside peck.
ct.
Mr.. Scadd's eyes frightened when he
saw the roll. '',rhat's it, he exclaimed
He counted the money, and it was all
there, the entire five thousand dollars
Look here, porter said the super
intendent, severely. II want to know
why you did not bring that package tc
me the moment you got your fingers or
it?''
"Why, sah," replied the man with ar
| injured air, II s'posed dc gem,nan lac
/ left it for a tip, sab. That's why, sab.
| -Harper's Magazine.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
WOMEN DISGUISED AS MEN.
Romantic Stories Recalled by "A British
War Office Incident.

Romantic Stories AGCAlIed
War Office Incident.
The late Col. Burnaby told of the
discovery of a woman who served as Il
soldier in the ranks of the army of Don
Carlos in 1874. She wore the uniform
and lived and fought just as the other
soldiers, but priest in whose parish
she had lived identified her. Don Car
los removed her to the nurses quar-
tiers, but she begged to be sent back to
the ranks. He laughed. Not to the
regiment of men, but when form a
battalion of women you shall be
colonel
In Australia not Sc many years ago
there was woman who travelled under
the alias of Edward de Lacy Evans.
For years she was a miner at Bendigo.
She is stated to have been married as
a man three times. Her true sex was
discovered upon her reception into Kew
lunatic ASYLUM. She eventually re-
outer world.
The career of Mary Ann Talbot con-
tains still further flavor of romance.
She was the reputed daughter of the
earl of Talbot, and at fourteen years
she fell into the hands of certain
Capt. Bowen of the royal navy. The
captain, being ordered to San Domin-
go, took her with him, disguised a
page boy. When Capt. Bowen was
killed in action Mary Ann changed her
flag and entered the French navy. She
then entered the American merchant
marine. She quiclzly-of course, still
in male disguise-became favorite
with the captain Of the vessel, and he
took her home with him. His niece
fell in love with the pretty sailor boy,
as she considered him, and proposed
marriage herself. The proposal Mary
Ann deemed it prudent to ac-
cept, and it was arranged that
the marriage should be celebrated
on the sailors return from the next
voyage. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that this gay deceiver had no intention
whatever of going back. Landing in
England. Mary Ann was arrested as a
deserter from the British navy, and, to
escape further service, she confessed
her sex. The story of her adventures
Immediately spread abroad and created
a considerable sensation at the time.
The then duke of York procured for
her pension, and she received numer-
GUS and handsome presents from him
and from others.
1t is strilSingly noticeable that many
of these Amazons were fatally attrac-
tive to their own sex. AS we have seen,
Mary Ann Talbot unwittinRly capti-
waited the heart of the American cap
| tain's niece, while Edward de Lacy
Evans who married three wives, must
| also have been very pretty fellow
| London Truth.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
ANTIQUE GLASS.
Priceless Bits That Have Survived AL
Other Art Forms

Priceless Bits That Have Survived AL
Other Art Forms.
The world of the Mediterra mean sea.
eighteen centuries ago, was rich in
works of art and decoration beyond our
experience. and beyond our flights of
imagination. 1t is an effort which few
of can make with success to picture
the wealth in beautiful art of great
city of the empire. The marbles have
been burned to lime, the bronzes have
been melted into gros sous or their
equivalent, the stuccoes have crumbled
from the walls, the paintings have gone
down with their walls to ruin, the
shattered pottery has been used in fill
ing and grading and building, and it's
remaining fragments are of no value
except for an inscription or AN i'm
pressed name-mere postherds, with
now and then a scrap of antiquarian
interest. The shattered glass alone
contains in its very substance such
ruin, that it's fragments are treasured
up and studied. These broken bits
point to a general use of vessels of dec
orative glass, used as we use porcelain
for the finer vessels of table and toilet,
and also great abundance of objects
of pure ornament, of wall-linings and
hoor-coverings, made of the same splen-
did material. No other substance is
like that-beautiful in itself. in its
every essence. Fragments of glass
have often the value that fragments OF
pottery sometimes have-the partial
figure, the incomplete pattern on the
surface; and they have also what no
pottery and no other artificial sub
stance has-the beauty we generally
think of as peculiar to natural stones,
to agates and to jaspers. AS = collector
fills his cabinet with pieces of precious
and semi-precious stones, with here
and there a piece which has, as it hap
pens, a head or a piece of a head carved
upon it, SO the enthusiastic vitreologist
collects glass as glass, loving its sub.
sta nee and its surface, its color and its
texture, its translucency and its opac'
ity. its set patterns and its vague
clou dinRs; here and there stamped OF
a wheel-ground pattern adds its OWL
attractiveness, but the glass itself II
the thing! Precious and beautiful il
| glass, even in fragments.-Russell
| Sturgis, in Century.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
An Even Exchange.

A lady in San Francisco engaged a
Chinese cook. When the Celestial
came, among other things she asked
him his name. my name," said the
Chinaman, smiling, ''is Wang Hang
Ho." ''Oh, I can't remember all that,
said the lady. II will call you John. "
John smiled all over and asked: ''What
your namee?" MY name is Mrs. Mel
vile Landon..' t'Me no memble all
that" said John. ''Chinaman he no
savoy Mrs. Membul London-I call you
Tommy."-SanF Francisco Report.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
One ON the Chicago Man.

The different ways in which dealers
advertise their wares are sometimes
very clever. At an uptown shoe store
there is a sign in the window on which
is pasted three one dollar bills, and un-
derneath this inscription: ''Three of =
kind beats two pair
The other day a Chicago drummer
stepped brisl<ly into the store and in
quired of the clerk after booking at the
sign: "Do you do business according
to Hoyle?''
"Yes, sir" was the reply.
WELL" said the drummer, "I'll take
two pair of Shoes
"All right" said the clerk. "What
size?'
Two pair of Mines"
But" interposed the clerk. accord.
ing to Hoyle three OF a kind don't beat
four of kind
II knew you New York fellows
would get ahead of us somehow was
the Chicago mans reply, as he started
for the door. 81 wish had said a pair
of sevens and a pair of mines, then I'd
had you. IN Y. Herald.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
Hard In for an Excuse.

Mr.. Hen1ow had advertised for a clerk,
and, being a kind hearted man, dis
missed the surplus applicants as gently
as possible.
MY lad" he said to the last one,
you're too young for the position"
TOO young?" echoed the unfortu-
nate. ''Why, I'm a grandfather"
well, if I were to hire you it would
be an encouragement to men to become
grandfathers at your age, and I'm dead
against anything of the sort-''-Judge.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
NOSTALGIA.

I'm tired OF tho town; want
The silence OF tho folds;
I'm thifsting for the peace and feoo
The quiet meadow yields.
want the little breeze to blow
Across my tired face:
I long to shut my eyes and feel
The beauty of tho place.
want to hear the busy hum
Our little kinsfolk make;
want to smell the damp moist. earth
That feeds the fern aud brake.
want SO much. only want
The Lethe summer brings;
To hear the bluebird's liquid note
And see his flashing wings,
To lie upon the kind brown earth.
And hear the sweet brown thrush
Calling the trooping daisies up
Through all the grassy hush.
want my little brothers songs
To set my soul in tune:
want forgetfulness of all
But birds. and leaves, and Juna.
I want no Joys Of life and love.
No touch OF human hands;
long to lie on natures breast,
And feel she understands.
Mary A.TaGgart in N. Y. Independents
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20

queen Elizabeth was called Good
Queen Bess by her friends and Bloody
Bess by her enemies. She was also
designated the Maiden Queen, the
Queen Of Virgins, the Untamed Heifer,
Fortunes Empress, the Glory of Her
Sex, the Miracle Of Time, Astrea. ORR
ena, the True Diana, Glorinna and 9TH
er names respectful and the contrary.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
duchess OF Hamilton has

The duchess of Hamilton has had q
large stable built for her cows and goes
there daily, according to English pa
pers, to milk her favoritieS. She also
makes the butter, it is said, which is
used when she has guests. The stable
is built Of marble and cost large sum
Of money. The duchess wears milking
gloves Of = special design.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
HE WAS A eENEFAcToR.

but He Never Got a Chance Explain His
Mission.
When the gentleman at the desk had
attended to the case of various aPpli-
cants, he turned to pleasant-faced,
well-dressed man who was patiently
awaiting his chance to get it.
''Well,'' he said to him with a smile,
"what can do for you to-day?''
Nothing was the quiet response.
''Ah, that's pleasant; everybody
seems to want some sort of favor.
Come in and sit down; you are a re-
lief
The pleasant-faced man bowed and
accepted the invitation.
ION the other hand,' he said, when
he was comfortably fixed, II want to
give you something"
That's nicer than ever smiled the
host. 1--WE heard that it was better to
give than to receive, but I've never had
much chance to try both.
The visitor took book out of his
pocket.
II want to give you,- he said. bow
ing again, IAN opportunity to put your
name down for the finest work ever
sent out by any publishing firm in"
but he never finished the sentence
Detroit Free Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20

No Funds.-,Jersey Belle-''Are you
going to Europe this season? Della.
ware Rclle-"We can't afford to. OuJ
peach crop didn't tail last year."-
Puck.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20

-..I infer" said the young woman,
.'that the habit OF writing for pnblica-
ton teaches one the necessity OF weigh
ing his worlis.' sit does replied the
poet. .There is the return postage
to be kept down to as low . limit -
possible. you know, "-1pdtsoapoete
Journal
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
Knew the Sex.

First Tramp-Let's wait here till
that picnic is over, and then go and get
what they leave behind.
Second Tramp daintly)-My stum-
mick is so empty that cake and candy
nd make me sick.
that. What they'll leave will be the
roast beef. and tongue. and chicken.
and bread, and such things. It's = girl's
picnic.-Good News.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-14
LOST In THE SECOND.
Resolutions Against Apportion-
ment Are Tabled.
NOTABLE DEMOCRATIC CONVERT
Second ward Kepublfezn Ciub Refuses
80 Follow the Esghth-yohn n.
Elder Jsfns the Ranks.

The Second Ward Republican Club at
its meeting last night unanimously voted
TO table the resolution passed last week
By the Eighth ward club coacemning the
superintendent made by the eoanty cen
tral committee. and reeommen ded its OH
GERS for the primary election. Eighteen
new members we're added 20 the club,
among them John III. Elder, the we'll
known lawyer and ex-DemoeraL About
eighty members we're present
In Introducing the sppoFsi0nment reso-
luton y. W. West said that IN Martin
Greek precinct there was only one Rep1b-
lican in the precinct and thought il an
imposition that be should be entitled 20
seventeen votes in the county convention,
which was almost as many as the Second
ward had.
J. A. johnson replied that the county
central committee made the apportion-
nent according TO the vote cast In the
precinct at the last election. and he Was
willing TO accept its Judgment. The reso-
luton oy unanimous vote was laid on the
table.
The following were recommended as
officers OF the primary election: In
spector. A L. Spencer: judges. y. III.
Martin. ]. p Campbell; clerks. z. r.
Hubbard and II. A. Chadwick.
Soon after the meeting opened John II.
Elder walked up 70 the secrssary's desk
and signed his name to the club roll. He
was Immediately surrounded by dozens
OF men, all an xious 10 shake him by the
hand. and shout went up that made the
building tremble. In speech Mr.. Elder
said that mp 70 three years ago he he'd
been an ardent Democrat. but shook the
Democrats ~ that time TO become an In
dependent. 1--WE have tried the IN both in
this county, and they have been weighed
and found wanting" he said. land l
now desire 70 affiliate and work with the
party Of progress. From now on you will
find in me one of the greatest workers in
the Republican ranks"
Speeches were also made by Sam Piles.
II. l.. Sizer, DIR. Egbert. G. W. Somerin
dyke, and State Senator ]. NJ. Frink.
As each of the new members went for
ward to sigu he was greeted with q round
of cheers