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TRENTON.

TRENTON.
The Trenton was once Justly called the
pride Of the navy, for. being the last
vessel built Of the wooden cruisers, she
was fitted with all tho appliances and
improvements that modern ingenuity
could furnish. Eho was the first war
ship in the world to be fitted out with
electric lights, and 30 perfect was her
arrangement that the guns aboard could
be sighted with the lights and fired by
electricity.
She had considerable speed during her
first years in active service, and officers
and bluejackets delight to tell how, when
the Trenton first left the United States
for duty In Europe, she raced fast
transatlantic steamer out of New York
across to Queenstown, and beat her
In by day. The feat was ascribed rs
much to the splendid sailing and sea
qualities of the Trenton as to her engines,
for there were periods when the flag
ships machinery was doing little else
than keeping tho screw in motion 80 as
not to make drag of 1t. To be sure,
both the racers had a gale Of wind ut
their back all the way across, which did
wonders for the Trenton's great sail
spread.
The Trenton was considered the best
fighting ship the United States possessed
until the advent of the new steel cruis-
ers, and 1t was not long ago that some
Of the fighters of tho navy declared their
readiness to fight an Italia or Duilio
with tho Trenton, claiming that they
could "plug" the shot holes she received
as fast as made, and in the meantime
fight all around the big brutes.
The Trenton was 253 feet long, 48 feet
beam and % feet depth Of hold, with
ram projecting 8 feet beyond the bow.
She was ship rugged and armed with
eleven 8 inch rifled guns.
The Vandalia was built at tho Boston
navy yard and launched in 1915. She
was 2l0 feet long, 80 beam, 17.8 draught
and 2,10O tons displacement. She was
rated as l2 knot ship and carried zoo
officers and men. Her armament was
carried on single open deck between
the forecastle and poop, there being no
stern chaser or bow gun, except one
light Parrot mounted above the fore
raaflo
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tlcA k1ts fnoener died in his childhood
and his father remained widower dur.
ing his long and active political lifs. The
other children Of President Van Buren,
have remained unknown to fame.
It is Q curious freak In the public
memory that though the Hon. John Scott
Harrison, son Of one president and father
Of another, was quite prominent man
In his time, he Is known TO most readers
Of today only by an incident which
united the dramatic, the grotesque and
the horrible to . degree rarely pictured
outside Of French romances. A few
days after his death his son, now prcsi.
dent, went to Cincinnati to search for
the corpse Of neighbor which had been
stolen from the cemetery Of North Bend.
Armed with the legal papers he entered
medical college and demanded view
OF the ''cadavers" waiting dissection,
The janitor commenced raising the "ca-
davers" from the well. and tho very first
10 be exposed was that Of the venerable
statesman, father Of the searcher, his
naked body and snow white hair dab
bled with blood. Words cannot describe.
the Imagination can but family portray.
the horror and anguish Of the affection
ate son.
John Scott Harrison was born at Vim
cennes, Ind, Oct. 4, 1904. and died at
North Bend, O., May go, 1878. He served
two terms in congress as a Wing and
Republican-18S3t to 1857. His grandson
and the present presidents son, Russell
Harrison, has already shown marked
ability - business man, but his poll.
tical course Is yet to be shaped, and this
article deals with history, not prophecy.
The same may bs said Of the still youth.
full sons Of the lamcnted Garfield and the
only son Of President Arthur.
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An Old Testament Mistake.

A Partisan paper calls attention to q
singular mistake In the revised version
Of the Old Testament, or rather to the
perpetration Of an old error. II occurs
in ii Chronicles xxi, 1, where Ahaziah
is described as. at the age Of AZ, having
succeeded his father, who died at the
age Of 40 Seeing that another, and q
perfectly possible account Of the same
circumstance Is given in II Kings viii,
20, 1t is surprising that the obvious error
should have escaped correction. Ac-
cording to the Book Of Kings. Ahaziah's 3
real age at his accession was only 22. At
the time Of Ahaziah's birth, therefore,
his father was ls-a fair age for Syrian
father Of firstborn. This particular
error Is older than the art Of printing.
IL dates back to some ancient Hebrew
copy Of the Book Of Chronicles. 1t Is re-
produced In the Dousi version OF the Old
Testament.-San Tsancisco Chronicle.
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A Prophecy FULFILLED.

II Carlyle predicted as far back as
1865 the greatness Of Bismarck, his wife
is to be credited with prophetic instinct
in forecasting the baseness and ignominy
OF Pigott. In her diary. under date of
April 27, 1S45, occurs this entry: "Young
Mr.. Pigott will rise to be o Robespierre
OF come sort. He will cause many heads
to be removed from the shoulders they
belong to, and will eventually have his
own head removed from his own shoul-
ders." As an instance Of successful
prophecy that passage is certainly re-
markable. II Pigott failed to become a
Robespierre Of any recognized type-for
Robespierre can be anything the biogra-
pher or historian chooses to make Of
him-he certainly has cut of more heads
than poor, credulous Macdonald's, and
lost his own as well.-New York Tribune.
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A Communi.tIo settlement.

lrccently visited the Amina settlement
In Iowa, where there are about 4, 900 peo-
pie living In common. found that the
community system works better among
them than among any other In the coun.
try. However. there was this to be OBJ.
served. that most Of the communists
were middle aged or old men. Ilearned
that the younger generation which has
grown up wants to own something as
individuals and leave tho community a.
soon a. possible. There are several vii.
lagos, Amina being tho principal, and
this has o pretty hotel The landlord re-
ceives the money from his guests and
every day turns It over to the treasurer
OF the community and receives his sup
plies from the commissary department.
1t Is the same throughout every branch
OF business In which these people en-
gage 1t Is like the general government,
only no salaries are paid. Every family
has house, built at the general expense.
They arc all alike.--St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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A good story is told about one Of the
Maine Central engineers, says Tho Ban
gor Commercial. Last summer when
the Vanderbilt car was at Bar Harbor
the manager Of the Maine Central sent
an engine down there to take the car to
Portland. The run was made In very
quick time, and at Brunswick the train
stopped to take on water. While there
MIR. Vanderbilt got out and said to the
engineer that he didn't want him to drive
80 fast. The engineer, the veteran Simp-
son. looked at him for a quarter Of q
minute. and then said: ~ am running
this train under orders from Payson
Tucker to be in Portland at l:O7. II you
want 70 stop here. al right Hyou want
% 90 g Portland, 81 IN" Hs sot in.-
3rlo H1As.
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NIPsIC.

NIPSIC.
the officers and the men became yery
gloomy, and anxiously looked over the
List OF the dead. Nearly all Of them had
old shipmates on the lost vessels. They
grew reminiscent of the traits Of friends
whom the list indicated had been en-
quilted by the waves, and one seaman on
the receiving ship Vermont, whose
brother, another seaman, was one Of the
Vandalia's lost, appeared quite broken.
The lost brother, he said, was his only
relative Of whom he had any knowi-
edge. The sailors collected in groups on
the decks Of the vessels and talked about
the disaster; and such expressions a.
"The last time saw Jim was in China
In TO-" or II met Billy in Aspinwall
last year." were to be heard all around.
Lieut.. Nickels, Of the Chicago, who has
been all over the world, told graphic
tale Of the suddenness and the awful sp-
pearance Of o South Pacific hurricane,
and all said that the Pacific ocean bellies
its name. A sailor In tho Despatch,
who some time ago applied for trans
fer to the Vandalia and was refused,
was being congratulated oil around, and
seemed to admire himself tremendously
for his luck. The officers said that
neither the Nipsic nor tho vandalia was
much Of credit to the United States
navy, but that the Trenton was very
good vessel Of her class.
The harbor Of Apia, where tho vessels
were wrecked, Is q coral reef harbor
with an entrance about 1 500 yards wide
and open to the north. It Is not large
and the anchorage ground is limited. 1t
Is undoubtedly the fact that the English
steamer Calliope was able to escape be-
cause she had sufficient steam up to put
out to sea. But even to do this must
have been extremely dangerous, as dur
ing storm the only way to distinguish
the mouth of the harbor Is by the break
ing Of the waves on the reefs. In the
part Of the Pacific in which the Samoan
islands are situated the hurricane season
lasts through December, January, Feb
ruary, March and April, and it is con-
sidered rather a risk to remain during
this time ins the harbor Of Apia, while
Pago-Pago, in the neighboring island Of
Tutuila, is perfectly safe, being land
locked and otherwise sheltered. Hurri-
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A woman's Invention for the Blind.

Mile. Mulot, Of Anglers, has invented
method by which the blind can easily
correspond with those who see. The in
vention Is, therefore, q marked improve
ment on the Braille system of raised let.
ters, by which persons afflicted with loss
of sight correspond with each other only.
Mile. Mulot's apparatus is really little
printing press in portfolio about the
size of sheet of note paper. The blind
person spreads 1t out and impresses the
letters required on white paper. under
which there is a colored pad which gives
them blue appearance, and they are
thus not only brought out In relief for
the touch Of those deprived of sight, ut
are also visible to the eyes Of those who
SEQ. One Of Mile. Mulot's blind pupils
has been able, by means Of this system,
to take part In q competitive examina-
ton for the diploma Of elementary
teacher, and to distance" some Of the
candidates who were in possession OF
their visual faculties. York Tele-
gram.
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A 10 no was HI
fathers private sec
r etary in Russia
and after a tour

"Aoe6" AsdAoPc
ROBERT 7. LINCOLN. he entered Har.
ward college and was graduated I'm 1888,
at the age Of 81. He studied law and
tried to practice it, but the times were
stirring and the new nation had need of
such men as John Quincy Adams. He
was made minister to Portugal and then
to Berlin. In 1868 he negotiated the
commercial treaty with Sweden. In
1790-1S00 he completed similar treaty
with Prussia. Then the Anti Federalists
came into power and he was recalled,
but entered the Massachusetts legisla-
ture. His career there was what is usu-
ally called stormy" for he tried to lay
out middle course bet tween the conserv,
atism OF the old regime and the wild de-
structiveness Of the new parties, and was
therefore, Of course, impartially con-
demned by both. His splendid public
services In the negotiation Of treaties
from 1909 to 1919 are familiar to all.
Charles Francis Adams, only son Of
John Quincy, born Aug. IS, 1907, main
tained the family record well. In tho
first eight years Of his life he learned the
common speech Of three European na-
tions, to Which his father was ambas-
sador; and after the peace Of Client.
maintained with his fists the honor OF
his country at an English school. As
American minister to the court Of st.
James during the civil war, he met in
close diplomatic intercourse some OF
those he had fought as schoolboys. He
was graduated from Harvard, was a law
student Of Daniel Webster, a candidate
for vice president with Van Buren. a
member of congress and finally minister
to England during the darkest hour of
the republic. Az these positions no
filled with honor and TO the advantage
Of his country. He left three sons, in
whom much of the family talent sur
wives.
Historians have apparently not made
their verdict on the son Of Martin Van
Buren,, familiarly known as prince
John" He was born Feb. IS, 1910, was
graduated from Yale in 1928, practiced
law with some success, was for q term
attorney general Of New York and died
at sea Oct. 10, 1865, on his return from a
European tour. His friends were much
attached to him. and he was a popular
orator; his eulogists claim that he would
have taken leading place in the ma
tional Democratic party, but death came
just as he was passing from state affairs
into the broader arena OF national poli-
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What are the feelings Of man or
woman who has risked life itself In an
s6ort 10 ave people from Q pestilence,
and b then shunned BY every one, even
after the danger Of contagion has passed.
What could have been the feelings Of q
poor woman who lived not far from
Count Tolstoi's estate, whose story Is told
In THE Truth about Russian
Tho villagers had becp greatly excited
BY the fact that several persons had been
bitten BY mad wolvea A widow lived
In . cottage with her daughter-in-law
and her little grandson. Ono day wolf
came out Of the forest and attacked one
Of the widows dogs. The lad, thinking
the wolf q strange dog, picked up stick
and struck II to make Il leave the dog.
Instantly the wolf left the dog and
seized the lad. His cries brought out
his grandmother. who saw him In danger
OF his life, and ran 10 save him. The
wolf left the boy and rushed at the
woman. As no came at her open mouthed
she thrust her naked hand down his
throat. His teeth laccrated her arm, but
she held him until tho wolf choked.
The boy, at her bidding, ran into the
house for knife; but Il was some time
before he could get IL The woman held
her hand down into tho wolfrs mouth
until the boy came with the knife. and
then killed the brute.
Tho wolf had been tho scourge Of tho
neighborhood. and tho peasants as.
scmbled with Joy to SEQ IL carcass. Sud.
denly great fear suggested that tho
wolf might have been mad, and that tho
woman might also 60 mad.
Weak - she was from loss Of blood,
and suffering from her wounds, they
seized her and shut her up In an out.
house without attendance, without
water, without food and fire. For
twenty-four hours abe lay there, almost
delirious with fever, not knowing but
that she might have been bitten by
mad wolf.
At last she was allowed to 60 at large,
as she showed no signs Of hydrophobia,
but oil her dogs were killed. She asked
for either dog or . man to protect her
from other wolves. Tho peasants needed
not her request. She recovered, but for
months the peasants shunned her house,
saying: "Who knows but that she may
suddenly 60 madY'-Youth's Companion.
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An ingenious agricultural person who
lives not very far from Boston has hit
upon new and decidedly profitable In
dustry. There has recently arisen q do.
mand for crows heads. hitherto deemed
valuelsss. and It II his purpose to supply
It Ten cents apiece the county authori-
ties have offered for the crania Of these
interesting birds, from whose destructive
propensities the farmers' crops have been
suffering seriously OF late years. Under
ordinary circumstances this bounty
would not leave . very large margin Of
profit for the recipient II costs somo-
thing. you zee. to kill crow. There 10
tho ammunition, in the first place, which
10 expensive. and one cannot count upon
staying even single inky fcathercd fowl
for each charge Of shot and powder.
Besides. tho sportman's time must be
reckoned In the account.
But tho enterprising speculator above
referred to has devised Q scheme by
which maximum percentage Of gain Il
to be secured without any risk worth
speaking Of. Ho has Get up chicken
incubator Of tho most approved pattern.
In which 10 placed a. fast - laid the pro-
duct OF about 100 hen crows that have
been trapped and confined, In company
with perhaps dozen cock crows. With
In fifteen days tho little creatures arc
matched. and fortnight later they arc
ready to be decapitated. For be Il un-
dcrstood that tho head OF crow chick is
worth just as much as that Of an adult
OF the same species. At the uniform rate
OF ten for dollar, dead. they pay the
produccr.-Albany Argus.
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DR Q. noLASE's
csLRBRArHp
Verm.fuge, for Worms.

Andrew Downing. Of Graz burs tovnSoaD
venango county. gave ME chsl0 one lSasD00S.
tai 81 the genuine Dr. q MctApe'e C0i0S{0f00
vermtfuges ana she passed III WorW0. IoN4
inrr"ice Z In repetition Of Ne oose che pooo06
Joseph @ Alien, ri Amboy, eava . 0osa -
mifnge TO child OF HE yeavs old. on1 d
nother coee tn the san . chtd which brU1ei0
hours. -
Mrs. ouisby, Mo. lsa Ks.esstreet, New Yoea.
writes US tha. she had q child which had b0o6
nnweiI iOr better than two mcn, h. - pg0.
cured Doll o. tho EeMutue DIR. q. y woLAnoO
Nermifugc and nd alr isteted 70. The OhS16
passed . large quantity 4 worms, ana q
Parents With sueh tsndency bsfcts 49,
ehould mot hesitate whom theie II any rsoSo0
70 suspect worms, AUD losg NO time IN eaHsn.
fugc. IL never rats aud Il perfectly sale.
1his r. to oertity that vas troubled win Z
tape worm for more than six months. tried
All the know o iemedk for this terrible a0Io
ton. but Without being able 20 destroy d. I
got bottle OF the genuine nr. y. MolAHe'S
Vermifuse. prepared By Fleming Byos fitoo.
burg. Pa. whkh uIok accorhtog 70 oifeo-
lions ana the result was Disc c6argoa one
large 0peworm. tneasuring moru than yo9d,
besides - number Of small ones.
rr,.e IS cents bottle. Insist on havipg the
genuine. iSl
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DIARRHEA

sud painful irrcgniarlty 0f bowels owing N
the Irritation of the mucous liptugs By the
passage OF sour ana indigestion food Cl0anoo
and soothe tho Innings and see that ths etomsch
stops I'm POSING on the bowels. Schepck's Aan.
drase pills are sovereign.
For sale by all DruRgists. Price q cts. per
box Q boxes for 6S ct%; or sent By mail, post
age tres. ON receipt Of price. Dr.. J. u. echensk
4 ron, Pbtladelphia. mag lJ.Iy6kv
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uUMPHREYy SPECIFICS.
HUMPHRAYs'

DR HuhPHRRYa SPR0ISico are scientifically
sud carefully prepared prescsipta0nss useA
for many ears in private prAotice With 0uo.
CO. aud for over thirty yearu used b. ~
people. Every singie Specific y = sVsetntU9iy
tor the dtsoas6 named,
These Specifies cure without arusrgns.
purging or reducing the systsm, a-d ~ ~
fact and deed tho SovHRBIGH 11H1pIn1 o. fnu
Lis! Of Principal Nos. Curss. Prsee.
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u. 9ALT khBuAs Erysipolas, 1rupt1ons ......0
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it kBvnR Anp Asun. Chills. MalAEia. ..........0
y. fnnss Blind or nlee0ing. .............e1
y. CArARRn. Infuensa, Colo In the Head....0
%. WHooPiHo COUoH. Violent Coughs .........0
z GnnnRAL DEBILITY, Physical WeAkuaoo. -
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iysNv w.lrrs. .,;;n IL.
~ DlspAsns OF THE hBARf. PalpttAt10n 90, .ol q
SOLD by druggtsts, or sent postpaid % y.
ceipt OF mice. DR. HUNPHRHYs' NJ uUAI. (l(A
psgesl richly bound in cloth aud GOLD, msiIol
free: HUnrHkEYy AkDlCIME 90. - Phi.
SPECIFICS.
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The Nipsic was a vessel Of the old war
navy, but after six years of repairing ut
the Washington navy yard she emerged
in 1879 as practically new vessel, little
but the old keel remaining. She was
bark rugged, 1856 feet long, 35 feet broad.
drew 14.3 feet, displaced 1875 tons and
was slow vessel as things now go, be.
ing set down as little over 10 knots in
speed.
The great disaster represents loss OF
over $2,500,0 to the United States
government.
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@. r. ADAMS.

JOHN 2. ADAMS. son In the latter
JOHN TYLER. Considering th q {
this leaves but thirteen fathers Of sons,
and that the sons Of four Of these have
not yet had time 10 show what IL In
them, the proportion Of talent In tho de.
scendants Of the others q really surpris.
ing. And Of all 1t may be said that they
have conducted themselves with honest
dignity and shown the traits Of good
Americans. Ono presidents son became
president, another had the rare distinc-
tion Of being the son Of one president
and the father Of another, and several
others have served acceptably in very
prominent places.
The Adams family have shown uni.
formity Of talent for Ave generations,
albeit in some instances the talent was
associated with q rather testy temper.
On the Goth day Of October, 1784,
John Adams married Abigail Smith,
and on the next Sunday her father
preached from the text, "For John
came neither eating bread nor drink.
Ing wine, and ye say he hath Q
devil" with very pointed references
showing that he did not approve of the
marriage. When his Oldest daughter
Mary married he had preached from the
text, "And Mary hath chosen that good
part which shall not be taken from her."
It was the New England fashion in those
days Of the union Of church and state,
and a very bad and cruel fashion Il was.
Not only did the stern old preacher OBJ
ject to John Adams father, who was a
small farmer, though q man of talent
and influence, but John himself was a
struggling young lawyer and an avowed
enemy of the established religion.
Mrs. Abigail Adams was indeed won.
derful woman, and it was tho happy
fortune Of her son to inherit oil her ha-
tired Of injustice and a Il his fathers polit.
ical ability.
OF course, this article cannot deal at
length with the life Of John Quincy
Adams, the first presidents son." He
was born In Braintree, Mass, July II,
1867, and at the early age Of II went
with his father to France. At the age
OF 10 he taught English to the French
ambassador to the United States, De La
Luzerne. In 1880 he went with his father
to Holland, and astonished the Dutch by
his knowledge of Batavian antiquities.
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Fast IeleSraphinp.

The most remarkable time made In
communicating by means Of electricity
with the old world was that in the case
OF Hermann Muentefering, of this city,
recently. At 1880 In the morning ie
caDied Bonn, In Prussia. Returning to
town after lunch, less than one hour and
Q half later, he found his message an.
swered. In that time, In round numbers,
1900 miles hadbssn tyAvsrssd -ouaha
~ .ss~.ss-
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:as-. ana CT ~ ua.::.::c,.:a csys :. s...,
Be said that they sgivs every promise Of
becoming fine men," But Of all the
preeidents' sons since Lincoln Il is not
yet time to speak at much length.
]. II. BEApIE.