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the MILDLY squared yards with the funny
man the next time that parsonage failed in
some duty.
Every morning, while the decks were
being washed down, the Boy was put
through salt water bath. He objected
until he saw dog Jack and Denis the pig
subjected to the same ordeal. Then he
submitted. Jack would shut his ewes
when the soap lather covered him in airy,
fairy. snowy robes and be dumb, but the
frantic expostulations of Denis could be
heard at dawn all over Central America.
The monkey never could abide the fire
of the great guns, and the conclusion from
the discharge OF 9-inch piece would
knock him over like q bowled tenpin.
Then he would start for the royal truck,
the highest point he could find. to be far
away from that awful roar. Of course, the
jar OF each discharge would travel UP the
mast to him and he would cross the STAYS
to some other mast in his vain search for
peace and tranquility. Long after the
place and watch the guns and finally ven
ture down with reproachful look on his
face.
One day Brown took his charge ashore
and the animal escaped into the woods.
The men came eff to their ship without
their pet, feeling that he. had deserted
them for good. That evening they heard
the Boy screening on the beach and going
ashore they found the runaway and an.
other monkey.
The stranger took to the woods on the
appearance of the men, but the deserter
readily climbed into the boat. Like his
biped shipmates he had become hungry
and came back, also bringing new recruit
with him.
The animal died on the voyage north,
and Brown said it should have a burial
betting sailor, and Fisher swore that
| such was the proper thing.
"a shark or big-mouthed cod will get
him before he reaches the bottom" said
Sake. "but we must give the Boy a good
send off,
So the body was sewn up in
piece of old royal for a shrord
and chunk of holystone for a sinker
made fast to the feet. The little
white package wrapped for its deep tomb
was laid on The rail of the topgallant fore
castle and the ships COOK. who, next to
Brown, had mad more dealing with the de-
ceased than any one, also made speech
over the remains. 1t was somewhat dis
jointed eulogy, forecastle- mendation
and culinary metaphor much mixed, but
Dave Clark pronounced it Al at Lloyds as
funeral sermon and Sake Fisher said
the parson had used like words over his
sisters brat" Then Clam johnson in
toned Light in the Darkness, Sailor" as
he tilted the plank and Browns Boy went
down in the sea like dead sailor.
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to his kinfolks, passed without notice, be-
cause he was known to be a high-color
story-teller, and in proof of this it was also
known that his sister had no brat, had no
husband and had no existence-herself out
of Fishers world of Imagination.
"Looks like a farmer" unused Tom
Walker, the agriculturist of the navy.
'See the hay-straw in his hair
So welded was Walker to life on the
rolling lea that he would, when afioat on
the topsail yard reefng down in the teeth
of a screaming gale, stop to tell of his ex-
perience on the ranch.
"Ha, my son, he would say, as he bent
to pass the reef-earing around the yard
arm, "that's the life to lead. Damn a
shipi Flowing and sowing, reaping and
mowing-all day watches and all night in
your hammick." And the folds of the re-
sentful canvas, believing upward in the
blast, would slap him in the face, and the
mad, mad midnight storm would carry his
words away to leeward.
pass your boy over to me, Brown" {"
said George Romer, boatswain's mate CT
the port gangway, 'and I'll ship him on
my chicken ranch"
Poor old Romer's chicken ranch was an
eternal mirage in the desert of his ocean
life. 1t always stood just before, to be
reached when his time was out and he had
But he would always come back when
his ''pay day. had fed his pocket, and from
the deck regained he heard as of OLD the
siren song of the worm-seeking, cackling
hen. The sea is ever calling, calling back
her own.
before the ships cook" advised Dave
Clark, the master-at-arms, $50 he will be
sure to get his ration of salt horse" David
Clark was the ships lawyer and dispensed
marine Jurisprudence with an unsparing
hand. To weather a section in the 'blue
boob" or burst the restraint of coil of
red-tape successfully, one only had to con-
suit I'D. Clark, attorney at-sea-law." and
the case was won.
AZ think dars 'possum blood in i'm -
suggested "CIam" Johnson, the colored
cooper, rolling his voluminous lips over a
juicy recollection of some past feast
Clam duties on shipboard were unhead-
ing beef barrels, building deck-buckets
and leading the choir at divine service
He had mouth like the bell of fog
horn and voice like 1.-THE thunder-drum
of heaven" But when this dusky though
sweet minstrel of the main turned loose
his organ-voice in a Sankey aria the tri-
tons OF toe deep ceased their sounding
shells to listen.
Better send him ashore" growled
PADDY White. who owned plank in the
ship, because there's too manv boys
aboard this hooker now not worth their
salt. All they think about is loaf up un-
der the fo'c'sle out Nv hail Nv work. But
they always answer their names at the
mess-table MUSTER
And the snappy old man of. the sea
turned on his heel to tramp his plank.
Paddy White had been so long in the navy
that his first enlistment papers were laid
away In some deep stratum of a prehistoric
era. Even the date of his putative title to
'the plank" was lost In the mists of an
tiquity.
'"Is heys er like burnt 'oles in
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that sacred parsonage. Here the ships
cook observed that the story-teller was
getting the apostles somewhat mixed, but
Sake insisted that st. Paul might not
have been there, but his shipDate's old
man was.
Brown was untiring in his efforts to
make a thorough navy sailor out of the
Boy. Being an expert tailor he soon had
the youngster provided with a well-filled
clothes-bag. In the tropics the crew, at 8
O'Clock in the morning, would shift from
blue flannel to white duck. and at o. clock
in the afternoon back to blue again. The
Boy went through these revolutions in
raiment guided by the modiste hand of
Brocky. SometImes he objected to these
seemingly lightning-like changes, and,
having been brought up in the Costa Rica
woods, too much civilization thrust upon
him was burdensome.
But Brocky, brought up in the old
school of the sea, permitted no relaxation
of discipline, and a small cat-o'-nine-
tails, hanging on a belaying-pin in COM
pany with paint-swab end scrubbing-
brush, always fetched the Boy mp with a
round turn. Sometimes ne would miss
his muster in the night watch and Brown
would find him fast asleep in his tiny
hammock.
Then the culprit would be brought TO
the foremast-not the main, which is the
place of justice, the tribunal on board
ship-and put on the "black" or "extra
duty" list for punishment. He even re-
ceived summary court-martial charged
with stealing the sailmakers' beeswax.
Brown, as senior officer, heroically SEN
fenced his protege to be confined on
board ship all his life.
Brown and the old shellbacks would
gravely discuss the Boys future as they
sat around between the guns during the
dog-watches, with the subject of the con-
| ference perched on his own diddy box
| (which had formerly held cigars), lntently
watching their faces.
"If we can get the Secretary of the Navy
to take off the court martial life sentence,
said Brocky solemnly one day to the ex
/ ecutive officer, ''me and the Boy will take
the road and go cruising with hand
organ for a change. Do you think the
captain will forward petition to Wash
ington, sir? ?"
He was told that there was not the leas
doubt of it, as the Boy was well known tt
the department.
A MILDLY who had once crushed" Brown
to the mast, charged with some frac
ture of the rules, once started in to Josh
Brown regarding his pet, and have pleas
ant quarter OF an hour with the sailor.
Brown, you should pick out somethins
easy for the Boy" said he, ''some profes
sion that he shows the most fitness for"
II WILL SIR" answered Brown. remem
bering the young officers hostility at tht
mast and chuckling inwardly at his owr
wit Il am going to get him in the Nava
Academy"
The conversation ended abruptly, bu
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cruit sat on the deck and looked at his
judges with the sad simian eyes of hi s
race. What paradox monkey is. with
all the solemnity of the animal ages in his
face and the sprightly motions of king
dom of harlequins in its limbs. Browns
oled together in confusion worse con-
founded, and was destined to be at once
the plague and favorite of the ship.
After they had used up their fund of wit
and satire at the little animals expense
! Brown launched out in history of his
protege., The yarn was SO manifestly
apocryphal so full of "holidays" blank
spaces, where whole links were missing,
that the paternity, even the maternity, of
| the subject, was lost in doubt. The only
thing tnat gave Brown a sea-legal right
and title to the youngster was their COM
mon comeliness, or rather their uncom-
mon uncomeliness. Dave Clark handed
down learned opinion on this showing,
supplementing other decisions along the
same lines, and Brocky was confirmed in
his guardianship.
The naked truth of the matter was that
Brown had stolen the baby monkey from
its mothers encircling arms and tail one
day in the forest while that lady was en-
gagged in a fierce battle with Jack, the
ships dog. Jack got whipping, but
Brown got the youngster.
The Boys education was conscientiously
carried on by the old gray boards of the
topgallant forecastle. Under such training
he soon became useful member of the
ships company. He knew the names of
all the gear Delayed around the foremast,
Brown said, and could lead out the royai
sheets and clewlines as well as the boat
swain himself.
Like all ssllors. the Boy early evinced an
ear for music and gave promise of be-
coming vocalist. On Sundays, when
the quarterback was rigged for church by
laying the capstan-bars on empty buckets
Tor seats, the Boy could hardly wait till
brown got h1m into his mastering clothes
lie would station himself with the choir.
and when Clam Johnson tuned his mighty
pipe In "Puil for the Shore, Sailor'f the
song-loving younaster would treble in uni
son. Nor was the Boys church-going
practice without its fruits. for the men be-
gan to follow the good example ne set
them.
At least 1t seemed that way, because
when the boy went off with Clam all the
topgaliant forecastle followed, and would
watch every movement of the small chap's
devotions. Paddy White would walk
down his plank as far as the deck to look
on, and George Romer from his place in
that blue-jacket congregation found his
mind led up to place higher than "a a
chicken ranch. Dave Clark quoted Mosaic
law and swore vehemently (therebv break
Ing one OF those ordinancese when any BODY
questioned the righteousness of the Jewish
! code. Tom Walker, the agriculturist, said
II was Just heaven here below TO hear
Clam warble Bringing In the Sneaves.' y
and Cockney Burns said 1t was good for
the art to see such piety in one SO
young, referring to the Boy.
Even Sake Fishers mind dwelt upon
better things and his narrations took on
purer tone. He said he had been ship
mates with man whose father had not
only been wrecked with St. Paul on the
Isle OF Patmos, but had looked upon the
sublime scenes of the Apocalypse with
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The Peer and the Butler.

A titled Englishman was a guest at
was given in his honor. The host eau
toned the colored butler to address the
Englshman as MY Lord" This he re-
membered to do until he passed the spe-
cial dish of the occasion-stewed terrapln.
The appearance of the dish is not spe,
cally inviting. SO, when the butler handeo
it to him, the Englishman declined it, say
ing sotto voce:
"It looks uncommonly nawsty."
The butler was so taken aback at the
idea of any one refusing such dellcacy
that he forgot himself and said:
"But it's terrapin, my God. ."-Plttsbure
DISPATCH.
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How a Princess Travels.

The Princess of Wales. to the great dis
comfort of whoever may be acting as the
waiting, never puts herself at ease
in travelling. Hour after hour she
retains a bolt upright position and
never thinks of removing her bon
net or lying down. She attributes
in speaking of it recently said to friend
I'VE were never allowed 10 lie down dur
ing the daytime when we were children,
for fear of making ourselves untidy, and |
am so accustomed TO the habit now that l
should never dream of removing my bon
net while on a journey"
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the championship. The next Stanford
game will be at Palo Alto on the 9th, and
the last on the I'd of May at San Jose.
tional games with the University Club on
the 24th, and return game with Reliance.
The game with the University Club will
be for the benefit of the Mercantile Library
Auxiliary, and will be played at Central
Pa
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Not Afraid of Hard Study.

Tom Corwin did not believe that there
was great danger of young man injuring
his health by hard study. When his son
was attending college in Ohio Mr.. Corwin
wrote to him: II am informed that you
are seriously injuring your health by
study. Very few young men nowadays
are likely to be injured in this way, and if
you should kill yourself by oyerstudy it
will give me great pleasure to attend your
funeral"
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fan communications concerning whist, an
swers to problems, etc., should be addressed
"Whist Editor" CALL, City.l
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1t has been estimated from the stamn
duties paid by patent-medicine makers
that 1000, 600 pills are taken by the inhab-
itants of the United Kingdom every week.
In France the quantity is about half.
only about 600, 600 are taken by the peo-
PIE OF Russia. The Australians are the
biggest pill-taKers in the world
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Central American coast. He took the
youngster up on the to'gallant forecastle
and introduced him to the old fellows
there. MATES" he SAID, "this is my
Boy - Browns Boy! That's mis- name,
duly entered on the log as naval appren-
tice Extraordinary. Touch yer cap to yer
father and his peers, Boy!'
Then he listened for the comment he
knew would come from these old wise
men of the sea.
Reminds me of my sisters ugly brat
that looked just like its drunken father, "
said Sake Fisher, the captain of the main
top, after a profound study of the new
arrival.
Sake s observation, strongly discreditable
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WILLIAM BROWN, the for e
\ mastman. brought his Boy
I aboard the ship one day
while we were lying at an
chor in a little bay on the
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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-13

ware and had destroyed the worst ring
that the Republican party had ever
known.
Mr.. Higgins replied. He alluded to
Addicks as ''tnat creature" and said that
his speech showed him to be the "moral
IDIOT that every one in Delaware knew
he was.
r. G. Kerens moved that all of the Ad-
dicks delegation, with the exception of
Addicks himself, be placed upon the tenn
porary roll.
Senator Thurston declared that on the
floor of the convention he would speak and
vote TO unseat the entire delegation.
Numerous speeches and motions were
made, all taking the ground that Addicks
was not a Republican, and should not be
recognized as such. Finally Senator
Carey of Wyoming moved that the Hig-
gins delegation be placed on the temporary
roll. The vote was 10 ayes to 80 noes.
Then the committee. on motion of Mr..
Sutherland, voted, Al to 8, that it was not
willing to place either delegation on the
temporary roll, and referred the entire
matter to the National Republican Con-
vention.
Before the Delaware case was taken up
there was long discussion on motion by
Delegate Catron of New Mexico to the
effect that six delegates each be placed on
the roll for the Territories of New Mexico,
Arizona, Oklahoma and the Indian Terri
tory. 1t was finally adopted.
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ADDICKs IS DENOUNCED.

Singing Words Characterize the
Struggle of Rival Delegates.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June Pr would not
vote for J. Edward Addicks, if his vote
were needed to make the next President of
the United States"
This declaration. uttered by Senator
Thurston of Nebraska at 10:30 O'Clock to-
night, as he stood in the center of his
fellow National Committeeman, with up
lifted arm and clenched fist, was the climax
of one of the most sensational scenes ever
witnessed in meeting of a similar body
on the eve of National convention. For
two hours previously the committee had
been listening to the presentation of the
cases of the rival delegations from the
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RENEWAL OF THE STRUGGLE OF CONTESTING
DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION.
Meanwhile the Mckinley Men Are Shouting
"Finance' and the Adherents of Allison,
Reed and Quay Are Quietly Working
for Their Candidates.

strike out the words 'gold standard" the
plank to be so framed that this could be
done without interfering with the context
or the sense. Such motion being enter
tanned, the proposition would be subject
to debate, and could be finally settled by
the convention on test vote. 1t is under
stood to be Mr.. Hanna's judgment that
the words "gold Standard ought not to
appear in the platform.
Ex-senator Platt to-day issued over his
signature the following statement:
Governor Morton Will be placed in
nomination and cordially supported by
his friends. Speaker Reed and Senator
Allison will also receive the votes of their
supporters, all reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding. 1 am hopeful that the
convention will recognize the wisdom of
making Governor Morton our Presidential
candidate and declaring unequivocally for
a single gold standard. He is essentially
the gold standard candidate as his record
demonstrates.
"From cursory observation duriny my
brief stay here 1 am sanguine that a ma
jority of the delegates favor the continu-
ance of the existing financial system as
interposed by Republican administrations.
The New YORK delegation will certainly
do all in its power to put gold plank IN
the platform, for New York Is for gold.
''T. C. PLATT."
Senators Allison's friends, who have
hitherto remained so silent that the
impression gained ground that he had
been withdrawn from the race, are now
assuming an aggressive attitude and as
sert that ne will be supported by vigor-
Gus oratory and many votes when the con-
vention proceeds to nominations.
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SETTLING THE CONTESTS.
National Committeeman Make
Short Work of the Disputes.

National Committeeman Make
Short Work of the Disputes.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 12.-Every mem
Der of the National Committee was in his
seat or represented by proxy when the
committee reconvened at 10:30 o'clock
this morning.
Just as soon as Chairman Carter had
called his associates to order Committee
man N. B. Scott of West Virginia asked
the committee to give it's serious attention
to the fact that while this was the third
day of the session only sixty con tests had
so far been passed upon and 108 still
remained upon the order of business. He
moved that from now on each side in the
contested delegations be allowed but ten
minutes for presentation of its case, and it
was carried.
Secretary Manley announced that the
contest in the Eighth Virginia District
had been withdrawn by letter and the
names of w. B. G.. shumate and H. Y.
Wayle were placed upon the temporary
roll. Both are instructed for Mckinley.
Consideration of the Mississippi contests
was resumed, the Sixth being next on the
calendar. Ex-Congressman Lynch ap-
peared for the contestees, J. w. Randolph
and Sam d. Young (colored) and General
Thompson of Ohio spoke for the contest
ants, C. A. Simpson and George f. Bowles
(colored). There was no debate in COM
mittee and the two last named were
promptly seated, by unanimous vote.
With equal celebrity the contestants in the
Seventh Mississippi district, James M.
Matthews, Sr., and George G. Cranberry
(colored) were placed on the role to the
exclusion of J. Meredith Matthews and
Thomas E. Richardson. In each of these
cases both contestees and contestants were
McKinleyites.
Next the committee took up the case
brought from the First district of Ala
bama and which had been laid over from
Wednesday afternoon. Here the contest
ants were S. M. Murphy and D. H. Prem
tiss, both colored and favoring Reed as
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and other issues they are unit in the be-
lief and are unanimous in the demand
that American labor m ust be protected from
the cheap slave LABOR of Europe. This cry
for relief comes from Maine to the south
ernmost rim of Florida, from Washington
to the Mexican border. and is echoed from
all the States that lie between.
In this interest has come to st. Louis
Henry T. Oxnard, founder and proprietor
of the beet-sugar factory in Chino, Cal.
Mr.. Oxnard sees great possibilities in store
for sugar beet culture i'll California and
other States whose soil and climate may
be adapted to the produc tion of this vege-
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 12.-Now, that
the matter of the Presidency is about set
tied and that the contest of the Vice-Presi-
dency is narrowing down, the question of
protection is coming to the front and is
being discussed in the hotel lobbies to-
night. 1t is conceded that one of the
strongest planks in the platform must be
that of protection to American industries.
Unlike almost any other issue before the
political parties to-day. the demand for
protection is universe. There is not a
State in the Union that does not clamor
for it. While Republicans may be divided
on matters of policy respecting finance