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An Eton Boy.
BY JAMES GRANT.

An Eton Boy.
BY JAMES GRANT.

CHAPTER U.-(Continued)
Now l began to be assailed by that
Illness, which terror and anxiety had
hitherto but partially repressed-a vio-
lent seasickness in all its horror.
Afraid of being washed from the deck.
over which the waves were breaking
now, once more l crept in wretchedness
below.
Before descending, I cast despair
ing glance at the loosening sail which
still caught the wind; it was source
of increasing danger which l dared not
attempt to remedy, even had strength
to have Gone so. for the wet deck was
now sloping like the roof OF house,
and would assuredly have fallen into
the sea to leeward. After several feeble
efforts, succeeded in partially closing
the companion hatch, for warmth and
security, and, descending, threw myself
on the cabin floor, sick and despairing.
The lurching of the vessel. the close
ness of the atmosphere, and general
odor of the cabin, overpowered me at
last; l became fearfully i'll. and from
being so, lapsed into unconsciousness,
after enduring all the wretchedness IN
duced by that ailment Of the ocean.
For the top Of my head seemed about
to fly off, its sides to be crushed in;
there was singing in my ears, an
ache in my eyeballs: and then came
that awful sinking of the pulses, of the
body, of the soul itself which thou
sands have endured in cases of aggra-
waited sea-sickness. but none has been
able to depict.
In short. after n paroXysm OF illness
| and tears, l became totally unconscious
of the peril and horror OF my situation.
and found = refuge in sleep.
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Lord and Minister.

The Scottish Leader says that the
former Lord Elphinstone's parish min
lister was a very scatter-brained theo-
logian, and in his sermons often knew
not the end from the beginning. One
Sunday his Lordship. In his customary
sleeping, gave vent to an unmistak-
able snore. This was too much for
the minister. who stopped and cried:
"Waken. my Lord Elphinstone." A
-runt followed, and then his lordship
answered.: I'm no sleepin'. minister"
But ye are sleepin. | wager ye din
ma ken what said last" exclaimed the
pastor. "Ou. ay," returned the peer.
aye said. 'Waken. my Lord Elphin-
stone" "Ay. ay," said the minister.
But wager ye dinna ken what l
said last afore that" "Tuts." replied
the nobleman. promptly. "I'll wager
ye dinna ken yerSclf."
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WHERE FLAGS ARE MADE.
A Large Mandatory at the New York
Navy Yard.

Large Mandatory at the Now York
Navy Yard.
In the equipment building Of tho
New York navy yard there Is q large
mandatory, where most of the flags
of our navy are made. A large vessel
carries forty American flags, and q
smaller vessel almost as many. This
does not include the fleet and interna-
tional signal flags. and the flags Of 9TH
er countries. There are three rooms
in the equipment building that are CIV
en- up to flag making. One of these Is
very large, and the others at either
end are much smaller. There are sew
ing machines. scissors, pincushions
and flatirons scattered around, so that
the place does not look unlike a pa
tr!otic dressmaker's establishment.
The flags are all made by womcr.
though Il few men help to cut out the
stars and do the finishing. The wind
and weather destroy flags so fast, and
new vessels are put into commission
so rapidly, that it is necessary to en-
ploy n number of people even in timo
Of peace. The working hours, during
'''' i"'t "ti, "tlt tAi'huSh iioh
o'clock In the morning to o'clock In
the evening. In one week eighteen
hundred flags were made at the flag
department, and this was when tho
rush of work was about over. The
women cut all the square flags and the
devices for them. The men cut the
stars and bias pennants. and put on
the finishing touches and the heading
through which the rope runs. They
also put in the rope and stencil the
flag with the size and nationality.
There is a pattern for every flag. and
the patterns are put away in pap5r
bags when not in use. There are for
ty-four flags in set of general sig
mails used in the navy. These arc In
three sizes. while the regular flag Is
made In nine sizes. The largest flag
measures thirty-six feet long. while
the smallest is only thirty inches.
Pennants are made up to seventy feet
long. There are nineteen interna-
tional signal flags and forty-three for
olgn flags. which are made at the navy
yard.-Sclentiilc American.
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A chronic bore sometimes Errts
worse than dentist.
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The Toledo Blade
FREE!
70 Epto,priSp Subscribers
to Enterprise Subscribers
Every New Subscriber and Every
Present Subscriber Who Pays n
Year's Subscription, Gets the
Blade Free For One Year.

Every intelligent family needs in addi-
ton TO their local paper good national
weekly. The greatest and most widely
known general family newspaper is the
Toledo Weekly Blade. For thirty years
it has been regular visitor in every part
OF the Union and is known IN almost
every one of the 10000 postoilices in the
country. 1t is edited with reference to
national circulation. 1t is n Republican
paper, but people of all politics take it,
because of its honesty and fairness in the
discussion of all political questions. 1t
is the favorite family paper, with some
thing for every member Of the household.
Serial stories, poetry, wit and humor;
the household department. (Uest in the
world. Young Folks, Sunday School
Lessons. Talmage's Sermons the Farm
stead. the Question Bureau (Which an
swcrs questions for subscribers), this
News OF the Week in complete form, and
other special features.
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Corcoran Art Gallery. Ruskin, the
great artist, placed Mrs. Cooper as one
of the greateEt sculptors and painters
OF this century. Mrs. Cooper is an ar
dent friend of Pe-ru-na and in a letter
dated January rs. written from Wash
ington. says the following: 81 takc
pleasure in recommending Pe-ru-na
for catarih and Ia grippe. have suf-
fered for months and after the use OF
one bottle Of Pe-ru-na am entirely
well.'-Mrs. NJ. c. Cooper.
Send for a free book on catarrh en-
sitled Health and Beauty" This book
is written especially for women, and
will be found to be of great value to
every woman. Address DR.. Hartman,
Columbus. o.
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MRS. COOPER.

The Most Famous scuiptrcss In tho
World. Entirely Cured by fc-ru-nn.
Mrs. NJ. C. Cooper OF the Royal Acad-
emy of Arts. London. England, is un-
doubtedly ono of the greatest living
sculptors. She has modelled busts OF
half the nobility OF England. and Is
now in Washington making busts OF
distinguished Americans. Mrs. Cooper
has just completed bust of Mrs. Bel
va Lockwood. which is now in tho
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Standard oil Oncluding
premium and interest in
Dr.pondinE France.

What rank does France now hold
among the nations OF the world? A
few years ago. In spite or our disas-
ters. we were still great nation. the
second in the world. yielding first place
only TO England. Now we are no
higher than fourth. for both Germany
and the United States have surpassed
us.-Siecle.
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Our stock OF blanks is being constant
ly increased. II the above list does not
contain what you want, call on us any
low.
Orders for quantities filed n. special
prices.
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LEGAL
BLANKS
For Sale at
ENTERPRISE
OFFICE

The following Legal Blanks are kept
for sale at the Enterprise Office, and will
be sent per mail prepaid on receipt Of
price named:
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Adagio.

The lonely street. the last in all the town,
Whence was wont to watch the sun go down,
Close on the green, deserted fields 1t lay
To reach the country one must pass that way.
And so l came 10 know the corner house,
Its doorstep never trod by man or mouse,
Its blinds drawn down against the evening
breeze
Prison-like, sombre, barred with mysteries.
And always every night at the same hour,
Drawn thither by strange, relentless power,
l heard woman playing soft and low
certain Beethoven Adagio.
The sky, dyed all in tender rose and green,
Warmly oerhung the grim, deserted scene;
And every night, vending in heavy mood
| heard this music in the solitude.
Low, sweet, enhancing, the piano sang,
And mournful memories through its chanting
rang.
Upbraiding with their poignant harmonies
The half-glsd ghosts OF ancient ecstasies.
Once through crevice might my eyes divine
Flowers in great vases, shedding perfumes fine,
A huge funeral mirror. l began
To see the portrait of a proud-eyed man,
Swarthy, magnetic Deep amid the shade
A silver lamp a feeble lustre made:
The rigid curtain in majestic fold
Hung by the clayier's keyboard, stained and old
And in this melancholy atmosphere
The music poured its thrilling cadence clear
A pure immortal freshness seemed TO bloom,
A fountain yelling in the silent gloom
Lower and lower vet ii sank away,
Fainter it grew and fainter, day by day:
One night in August when passed the door,
Twas hushed-and L have never heard it more.
Since them my dreary walks are otherwise
Fleeing the crowded ways. afar l fare:
Ny heart from yonder street is not estranged,
But nowadays hear, It's greatly changed:
Children play ball, and street pianos MI
The evening hour with polka and quadrille.
Pail Mall Gazette.
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One OF the people! Born to be
Their curious epitnrne.
An old Poem Reprinted.

Some day, when an essayist familiar
with the subject happens TO think of il,
We shall have picture, In romance or de-
scriptive form, of the New York of the
last generation-New York at the time of
its transformation from a somewhat staid
and Dutch CITY to a whirling American
metropolis. In this transition stage there
were old families who vainly tried to stem
the current of extravaganza and gayety-
and gave II up. Some OF them retired into
the background and some plunged desper-
ately into the stream and became leaders
Of society. But for time IL was all be-
wilderment and much evaporation
When this period is given a resurrection
day for the benefit of those who love the
past and its manners and customs. we
shall find among the relics one poem By
William Allen Butler, entitled Nothing
to Wear" This proddction-it is not a Iy-
ric, or ballad, or an epic but character
study in verse, in somewhat irregular
metre-is now reprinted together with 9TH
er poems by the same author in substan-
tial volume. Ii is like breath from the past
10 read IL. 1t carries one back 10 the per-
iod of hoop-skirts and waterfalls, of the
costumes pictured last season in "Trelaw-
ney Of the Wells when it took fifty yards
OF silk TO make gown. and rows upon rows
OF narrow velvet ribbon and lace TO trim the
same besides tucks, and ruffies, and bows.
and shirrings, and frills. and other mys-
terious decorations, which made the for
tunes Of the fashionable dressmakers and
ruined the eyesight of a good many poor
sewing-women. There was a time when
this poem was byword, just
as some OF the music-hall catch
words are now. Ii is the story of
Miss Flora McFlimsey, Of Madison
Square, who really and truly had nothing
to wear. 1t is to be feared that she has
not yet disappeared from society, but she
Is rather less In evidence now than IN 1857.
Uhen the poem was published. She is the
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His Secret.

The good man lay, all white and still,
Under the pail of fragrant flowers,
And the neighbors wondered about the will,
And talked of the dead mans gifts and powers
With many 4 dOeful shake Of the head,
Reco,nting the kind, wise words he said,
That had helped so many 10 climb life's hill.
said one: ''He never would press debt
That he held against the needy or poor
Said another: ellis table was always set
For the hungry stranger who passed the door, -
While yet another, with bated breath,
Told OF his gentle and peaceful death,
With never sign OF jar or fret.
And each one asked what was the gift
That made his life so full Of peace.
While Others burdens were hard 10 lift,
And death seemed only a strange surcease
From toilsome labor and constant strain
OF hopeless effort and helpless pain,
With only the hope OF the shrouds white shriftl
Then one whose voice was soft and low.
Rose up and spoke 10 the funeral guests;
Friends and neighbors of long ago,
We are heriters all OF his bequests.
Not from duty his deeds were done,
Not for Heaven his was run;
This is the secret-he loved men so!"
Pauline Darlington Bouye, in Boston Transcript
The times., 1899-08-27

young lady who. with gowns in her ward
robe fitted to every possible occasion, never
has anything to wear except once or twice
year, when q new consignment arrives
from Paris. Those We're the days before
golf, and tennis, and boating, and coach
ing parties. The fashionable maiden in
society had very little with which to occupy
her mind except her clothes, and the dress
maker ruled her with a rod of iron.s The
nonsense and frivolity of the period inspir-
ed Mr. Butler 10 protest, and he did so
by writing this poem. (New York: llar-
per & Bros. S115l
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The Cure of ST. C.r,s.

The tangled roses twist and bloom
Against the garden wall,
So thick they leave but seanty room
For the ripened peach to fall
Among the stately hollyboeks
The wild bee drones and veers.
And here at eve ne always walks,
The Cure OF st. CyF's.
The village knows the kindly face,
The old hats broken rim;
The veriest baby in the place
filings out smile to him.
The gentle hand, the silvered hair,
The look that chides or cheers,
He always has laugh 70 spare,
The Cure of St Cyr's.
His house IS small and dismal, yet
His treasures are not few;
An old flute and a silhouette,
A cherished book or two.
Still, rumor says that long ago,
In dim, forgotten years,
His life had other gifts 10 show,
The Cure Of St. Cyr's.
He was soldier of the king
A cOurtier learned in bliss;
No man can say what made him fling
The old life by for this
He bears instead of love and mirth,
The parish hopes and fears
The little burdens OF the earth
The Cure of st. Cyr's-
The sunshine foods his garden ways,
The rose no6S to the wind;
Who knows If he regrets the DAYS
He lett so long behind2
Perhaps the silhouette could tell
Whose face has felt his tears
Methinks she knows them over-well,
Oh. Cure OF ST. Cyr's
-Theodosia Pickering Garrison, in Life
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The Tree-Inxer

Lord of the leaf and the tree,
When It's time for my going,
Leafiug time let it be,
Neither showing nor blowingI
After that journey taken
Let me open my eyes
To woods by May wind shaken,
Full of the birds repliesl
Lord of the world to be,
Build me no jasper palace,
But the Young leaf on the tree
And the young bloom on the trellis,
katherine lyman.
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CURRENT VERSE.
Drcyfus.

-
A man stood stained; France was one Alp Of hate,
Pressing upon him with the whole worlds weight.
In all the circle Of the ancient sun
There was voice 10 speak for hin-not one
In all the world OF men there was no sound
But Of a sword flung broken TO the ground.
Hell laughed its little hour; and then behold,
How one by one the guarded gates unfold
Swiftly sword by Unseen Forces hurled
And now man rising against the worldl
II
Oh, import deep as life Is, deep as timei
There is Something sacred and sublime
Moving behind the worlds, beyond our ken,
Weighing the stars, weighing the deeds OF men.
Take heart, o soul of sorrow, and be strongl
There is one greater than the whole worlds
wrong.
Be hushed before the high Benignant Power
That moves wool-shod through sepulchre and
tower.
No truth low but lie will give il crown;
No wrong SO high but He will hurl il down.
O men that forge the fetter, it is vain;
There is a Still Hand stronger than your chain
'Tis no avail to bargain, sneer, and nod,
And shrug the shoulder for reply to God.
Edwin Markham in McClure's-
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Life to Art.

Said Life to Art love thee best
Not when l find in thee
Ny very face and form expressed
With dull fidelity.
But when in thee my craving eyes
Behold continually
The mystery Of my memories
And all l long TO be
Charles G. D. Roberts.
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cious 1t is one of the records of the life
OF the Confederacy. (Atlanta: The Foote
& Davies Company
The times., 1899-08-27

Ibsen is writing new drama. which will
appear in the early autumn. The famous
Norwegian is also contemplating a volume
of "Memoirs"
The times., 1899-08-27
NOTES AND QUERIES.

In how many States ard Territories in the
United States can Hrst cousins marry lawfally1
COUSIN
Ten States forbid such marriages. None
OF the Territories does so. so far as we
know.
The times., 1899-08-27
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths oi

Had the heavens embroidered cloths.
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
OF night and light and the haIf-light,
l would spread the cloths under your feet:
But l, being poor, have only my dreams;
have spread my dream under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
w b. Yeats
The times., 1899-08-27
SAHARA.
JoHANNEsRIrRc

Maenad seated on golden throne
Ny paything is a nations destiny;
My feet are clay, my bosom is a stone;
The Princes Of all lands are fain OF me-
But, stark, before the splendor of my gates,
The grim Boer, leaning on his rifle waits
William Charles scully, in Spectator
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VOICES of Africn.

Voices 3tEiC&ls
AFRICA
Sphinx among continents-the nations strive
To guess my ancient riddles, Greece essayed--
She dropped TO death; upon me Rome set gyve-
She died in her own bonds; the Persian laid
His life down in my deserts. For 4 day
smiled each, then tore them for my play.
SAHARA
The ghosts Of buried cities scale the air
When day wakes my mirage. The lion keeps
My iron hills. The bones of men lie bare
Where my thirst-sickle its rich harvest reaps.
Time, like little child, amid my sands
Builds and unbuilds with feeble, nstless hands.
EGYPT
The gods who dwell mid equatorial SHOWS
Bade Nilus cleaye the waste, and l awoke.
giant robed in mystery / arose.
The young world listened, breathless, when
spoke
Ny Sphinx Times sister is; her brood lies hid
Where the dead dream meath rock and pyramid.
The times., 1899-08-27

Word comes from London that Punch"
next year will appear as a six-penny paper
and that it is to contain department of
serious criticism.
The times., 1899-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.

The Atlantic Monthly" for September
contains as its leading article a paper on
Irresistible Tendencies" by Charles Ken
dali Adams. There is another of Jacob A
Riis' papers on the East Side of New York.
entitled THE Genesis of the Gang" This
is one of the most interesting and Import
ant of the series. Jane Helen Findlater, in
an article on THE Scot in Fiction" gently
satirizes those noyelists who insist on por-
traying types and ignoring the
fact that human nature is human Da-
ture In all countries under the
sun. "The Man at the Edge of Things" is
a story of Western sheep farming, by Ella
w Peattie There is a poem of unusual
merit by Charlotte Fiske Bates, entitled
Supreme Moments" Two interesting es-
says are THE Mission of Humor," by
Samuel NJ Crothers, and "The Book Re-
view, Past and Present, by j. S. Tunison
"Criticism and the Man" is a paper by
John Burroughs, somewhat out of the line
of his usual work.
''McClures Magazine for September be-
gins with a poem on Dreyfus, by Edwin
Markham. which is just such a poem as
Mr. Markham might be expected to write
calm. dignified, and dispassionate w. A.
Fraser the clever young comedian, con-
tributes one of his racing stories under the
title 1.-The Rechristening of Diablo." An
other story is The Coming OF the Ser
pent." by Sara b. Kennedy, and another
is 'aThe Saving Grace" by Stewart Ed
ward White. Cleveland Moffett writes on
'.Menelik and His People Ray Stannard
Baker of Admiral Sampson, and Theodore
The times., 1899-08-27

We can only guess for you; perhaps
main active. 2. About s13. SOC, 600 a year
The times., 1899-08-27

Where in Whittier's poems can be found the fol-
lowing; The mills OF the gods grind slowly. but
they grind extremely Anel'' y ;. G.
The times., 1899-08-27

What will be the cost Of maintaining an army
OF 60,0G0 in.the Philippiness 2. About What taxes
did Spain impose these islanders before the
wa-7 T. C. A.
The times., 1899-08-27

Though the mills of God grind slowly.
yet they grind exceeding small. is Henry
Wadsworih Longfellow's translation OF
lines by F. Won Logau, who lived Ia t5e
first half CT the seventeenth century.
The times., 1899-08-27

What authority has a ssonemason for calling
a perch OF stone work sixteen and halt cubic
feetg @. "
The perch varies greatly, but IS usually
10 1-2x1 1-2x1-that is, about 25 cubic feet
Masonry contracts that make the perch
unit OF measurement usually specify how
many cubic feet the perch Is to eonsain-
The times., 1899-08-27

Waters contributes an article on the work
OF the photographic Office, which he calls
'Guarding the Highways of the Sea-
The times., 1899-08-27

Over 10000 copies of David Harum"
were sold during July.
The times., 1899-08-27

Small, Maynard & Co. are issuing Sec
ond edition of 1.-The Dreyfus Story by
Richard w Hale.
The times., 1899-08-27

1t is said that William D. Howells sub
scribes internationally TO clipping bureau
for incidents In real life bearing upon
whatever theme he may be treating in
novel form.
The times., 1899-08-27

r. Fl. Russell announces for early publi-
cation the Maude Adams edition OF &c
meo and Juliet" The book Will be beau
tifully illustrated by pictures OF Miss
Adams and her company, by Gilbert, Has
kell and others, and attractively bound
The times., 1899-08-27

The much -talked-of Charles Lever novel
Gerald Fitzgerald" has just been pub
lished by the New Amsterdam Book Com
pany. The reason it was not included in
Levers collected works was caused by a
misunderstanding between Lever and the
proprietors of the dublin University Mag
azine" who published the novel serially.
The times., 1899-08-27

A volume of short stories from the pen
of Joseph Conrad will be published by the
Doubleday & Mcclure Company under the
title Of ''The Heart of Darkness
The times., 1899-08-27

Mr. Walter H. Page has resigned the edi-
torship of the atlantic Monthly and has
accepted an invitation TO take a prominent
post in the direction of the literary work
OF the allied houses of Harper & Bros. and
the Doubleday G Mcclure Company. His
successor in the editorship of the Atlantic"
is Mr.. Bliss Perry, known in literature as
the author OF two novels and a number of
essays and stories. Since his graduation
from Williams College, in 1881, Mr.. Perry
has been in the department of English, first
at Williams, and afterward at Princeton
University, where he was lately appointed
to the Holmes professorship Of English
literature,
The times., 1899-08-27

VIII the Columbia require A larger OF a smaller
crew than If she were sehoOner-riggedz A. G..
The Columbia's present sloop rig calls
for larger crew than would be needed II
she had TWO masts; because it's a Job for
many hands 10 hoist her huge mainsaIl
This applies to any large sloop.
The times., 1899-08-27

What is considered to be the cause Of ocean
tides? How high do they rise, and how swift
is the current2 B. n
The attraction of the sun and the moon.
the latter. though of much smaller mass
than the sun. exerting the greater power
because of being much nearer. The pro-
portion is 100 for the moon to IS for the
sun. The height varies greatly. but nor
mally is from 10 feet. Yet TO u feet
is usual for our North Atlantic coast. and
the celebrated tides OF the Bay of Fundy
sometimes reach 20 feet. Influences that
cause the tide TO vary at different times
in the sane locality are the wind and the
relative positions Of sun, moon. and earth.
\ strong oH-shore wind will pile the wa
ter up and cause higher &c than 9th
erwise would be had. Then when sun,
moon, and earth are n line. there is an
unusually high tide caused by the
sum of the lunar and solar influence.
This is the spring tide When the sun is
at a right angle from the moon, their in
huenees are opposed. and the neap. or low
est, tides are had. The current varies
from a mile or two an hour TO the swift
ness of mountain torrent. The course
of the tidal wave itself Is very rapid, trav-
cling from India TO our coast in twelve
hours. -