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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-20
Star
GENDER IN SHIPS.
Varying Opinions as to Why They Are Con-
sidered Feminine,


sidered Feminine.
A subscriber writes to the Balti-
more Sun asking: why is a ship
called she ~"
The application of the feminine pro-
noun to ships is as old as the Script
ures. In the voyage OF Paul from
Cesarea to Rome in a 'shipof Adram-
yttium' it is related in Acts, chapter
81, verse Is:
And when the ship was caught and
could not bear up unto the wind, we
let her drive"
Verse 30 OF the same chapter says;
''Thcn the soldiers cut Off the ropes
of the boat and let her fall off,"
1t is a characteristic OF the English
language to apply the feminine pro-
noun TO a vessel. In England and
America many persons have a peculiar
inclination to give the feminine gen.
der to Illuminate objects. Carpenters
moving a large piece OF timber will
say, "Hcre she comes" A sailor calls
his watch "she." The navy and mer-
chant marine being subjects of general
interest and pride, peculairitics in
the language Of scamen would be more
likely to come into general use than
the cant phrase of other classes.
a variety Of answers to questions
as to why ships are alluded to as of
feminine gender were brought out
by inquiring among persons con-
nected with marine affairs in Balti-
more. Some of those who venturcd
opinions were:
Captain Cleophas Bennett, schooner
J. S. I0skins : because she wears
hoops, bonnets, hooks and eyes"
Captain Charles Myrick, bark Good
News Because, like most other good
women, she has a husband
MI. Richard Wheedon: because it
takes a man to manage her."
Captain BrennOn, Of the steamship
Bcngore Head: "There is absolutely
NJ theory for it. 1t is the result Of
custom"
Captain Reuben Lee: because she
keeps a man on the lookout"
MI. Frank Claridge: because she
is a bride OF the sea-"
Mr.. +. L. Clayton because she
goes in stays"
Captain George Moore: Don't
know but If the sun is called he, why
do people speak Of the moon as shc?"
Mr. John II. Wcllncr, ship builder:
81 know Of no reason for calling a
ship she except what l learned from
Murray's grammar when l was a boy.
The rule was some nouns of the neu-
ter gender by the figure OF speech con-
vcrted into masculine or feminine
gender, as the sun, he is setting and
Of a ship, she sails WE'LL"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-20

"How do you like your new mamma,
little Roy !" asked an incrutiOus visit
or at the house Of a newly married
widOwcr.
II like my new mamma we'll
enough" replied Roy, tipping his head
on n side to get an impartial view
Of the matter, ''only she is always sit
ting on papa's lap. and never gives me
a chance"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-20

Mississippi was the first State to
give a female education. The Wes-
leyan Female College at Macon, Ga,
was antedated twenty-five years by
a female college near Natchez. And
Mississippi now apprOpriatcs $25, 0OO
a year toward the education Of her
daughters,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-20

Schoolmaster- Tommy, surprising
your father had three barrels of wine
in his cellar. each barrel containing
ffty-two gallons, and lie drank one
gallon a week, how long would they
last?
Tommy-'Bout a month, sir.
Sch0olmaster Il am afraid you
don't know much about arithmetic,
Tommy.
Tommy--No, sir; but ! know my
dad.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-04-20

a Florida alligator crawled into the
residence of a sleeping citizen near
Orlando and swallowed one pair OF
boots and all the old shoes that could
be found. The noise awOke the citi.
zen, who dispatched the saurian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07
THE GENTLE SAVAGE.
Admirers of "RamOna" VIII b
Panied to Read This.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The story told of the murder of Mrs.
Plat, a teacher in the indian school on
the Pichango reservation. In Riverside
1t seems that because Mrs. Platt declined
to comply with the demands of Metteo Pa,
the chief of the Pichanges, for money to
pay his railroad fare to Perris and return,
she was stunned or killed, placed on the
floor of the school building, oak wood piled
around her and her body cremated. We can
only hope, in mercy, that she was killed
before the wood and the building were
fired.
Pichango reservation contains the rem
apotheosized by the late Helen Hunt jack
son in Ramona" AS a rule the natives
are harmless and peaceable, but none the
hereditary traits which were CLOSED over
with so much skill by Mrs. Jackson, and
which make them as dangerous as a sleep
ing rattleSnake.
Down i'm Arizona, where the Indians, like
the poor. are always with them. the people
do not take much stock in the civilization
and ChristianiZation OF the Indians. Not
only do they protest vigorously against the
withdrawal of the United States troops
from the Territory, but they object seriously
to the return of Geronimo to Arizona, even
though that doughty warrior is said to have
become a Sunday school teacher, a justice
of the peace and a deacon in the church.
and we shrewdly suspect that the people of
Arizona know quite as much about the
Apache as he really is as does the indian
Friends Society.
There is one kind of good Indian, says
the frontier proverb, and that is the dead
Indian. Possibly this may be stating the
case extremely, but it is no exaggeration
to say that all the education that can be
bestowed upon the American Indian, as a
class. will not breed out of him his innate
cruelty, lust and savagery, and that sooner
or later his hereditary traits will assert
themselves at the expense of those who
have labored for years to make him some
thing better than he is capable of becom-
tho
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07

tons He would leave his most cordial
blessing behind him, and take away a good
subscription for the mysterious lamaseries
in his native and
There Is only one exception to the state
ment that prophets OF all races, chimes and
proclivitieS are welcome to bring their
teachings to Boston so long as their con-
duct is according to Boston standards.
This is the Pope of Rome. No matter how
angelically he might behave while promul-
eating his doctrines, he would inspire a
red-hot antagonism too deeply burnt in to
nave been caused only by the recent feud
about public schools. This is another in
h%eritance from those old Pilgrims who
crossed the sea for freedom to worship and
freedom to prosecute. Throughout New
England persons who are literally disposed
in every other direction enjoy a fling at
priests and nuns as bugabOOs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07

Table Talk.

IdDfe Idlk.
The best of porterhouse steaks is. just
good enough for this dish, and fine large
count oysters. Broil the beeksteak in your
best manner over a clear, hot fire, until il
is about two-thirds done. Meantime care
fully run each oyster between the thumb
and foreinger TO remove every particle of
shell. and lay them on a clean. dry towel.
steak is ready lay it on a hot platter
containing salt. pepper and butter. Cover
the top of the steak with the oysters In a
thick, even layer; put bits OF butter all
over them and dust them with sweet red
pepper; set the dish in a hot oven only
until the edges of the oysters curl. and
and send it at once to the table with Its
contents smoking hot Be sure that the
platter Is heat proof: OF course you can
use a silver plate If the family plate is not
at the bank. or a tin-lined copper grating
pan, or even a white-lined blue enamel dish.
ANY OF these hot dishes may be slipped
upon another platter. slightly larger. to pro
tect the surface Of the table.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07
Miss Frances Albert Doughty, in the Fo-
rum

Miss Frances Albert Doughty, In the Fo-
rum.
The grandest attribute Of the Boston pub
Of selfhood, for individuality as a forma-
tive power, and, as a consequence, charac-
ter concentrates to a focus. As might be
factor so potent. 1t often plants its stand
ard on unscientific territory, and interest
in theories proven beyond proof becomes a
craze. Exotics are especially welcome. The
Grand lama OF Tibet, turning of yard
upon yard OF mysticism on a brass prayer
wheel-if only he would be careful to OBJ
serve the decencies of New England life
through the week-would draw a large and
attentive audience at Music Hall on sun
day. and make an earnest band OF con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07

Cooks Imperial, Worlds Fair, Highest
award, excellent Champagne; good efrer-
vescence, agreeable bouquet n delicious
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-07

See our beautiful Dinner
Set for So.
See our beautiful Toilet
Set for 81.
See our beautiful brass
Banquet Lamp for So.
See the odd Decorated
Ware at almost your own
price.
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
GREAT NATIONS TO STEP n
WILL PUT A STOP TO THE
CHINA-JAPAN WAR.
THEY HLYE DECIDED TO INTERVENE
Germany, Great Britain, France Russia.
ana Possibly the United States, Seid
e Have Reached an Understand
ing Whereby Hostilik5es Are 20
BE Brought to an End-Tw0
Jspanese Armies In China.

LONDON, Oct. 10 There Is every
reason to believe that the japanese
war on China will not be SO serious As
was str6Est feared for it is stated on
the best authority that Great Britain.
Germany. France and Russia have
perfected an international agreement
20 use their best endeavors to bring
hostilities to q speedy termination
and there is every reason to believe
that the United States will become q
party to the agreement In pursu-
ance of this British, German, French
and Russian warships are being sent
to the scene of the war as speedily as
possible and it is probable that the
last of this month may see the end Of
active hostilities.
The italian minister at Pekin has
also addressed a note to China, at the
request of his government. inviting
pour parlers with Japan in an endeav-
or to bring about an end Of the war
and offering his own Offices in order
to effect such an arrangement Il is
also stated that the general of the
Jesuits has sent a memorial to the
pope, asking the latter to use his in
huence with the European powers in
order to terminate the war between
China and Japan
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the Russian government has lodged a
strong protest against the recent vio-
lation of the Russian frontier by
body of armed Chinese who killed two
men who were working on the Si-
berian railroad and pi1laged the
houses of two Russian settlers Rus
siA is said to have declared this breach
of international law demands the
payment of a substantial indemnity.
A dispatch received here from
Shanghai says that second Japanese
army is reported to have crossed the
Yalu river and to be advancing upon
Aouxden which it is believed will soon
fall, as the Chinese are reported to be
In a condition of decentralization.
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 "A cablegram
was received by Acting Secretary Uhl
to-day from United States Consul Jer-
nigan at Shanghai, China. stating
that the two Japanese students ar
rested there in September on q charge
of being spies and reported to have
been beheaded were alive and being
Wa1l traatad
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
STOLE OVER d,50O,OOO.
Bio HAUL BY A RAscALLY
CHINESE OFFICIAL.
BOLDLY SKIIDLED FHR GOYERHEEEF
Bought SOC. 600 Discarded Rifles From
Germany for which He Faid 01.57
EACH and Charged the Govern
mens %. O6-Had His Face
Slapped by Ii Hung Chang
Foreign Intervention.

LONDON, Oct. "a dispatch received
from Shanghai to- day says that Sheng,
the taotai or district magistrate of
Tien Tsin, whose disgrace and fight
have already been reported, bought
from Germany 800, 600 discarded rifles,
for which he paid S1.57 each and
charged the governments S7.O6, max
ing over 81, 500, 900 by the deal He
also bought a large quantity of cart
ridges, which were found to be inter-
ly useless When Lii Hung Chang dis
covered the fraud and summoned
Sheng to him, in the interview that
followed, Lii Hung Chang is said to
have slapped Sheng's face. Sheng later
made an application for leave of alb
sence on the plea that he was i'll and
the leave was granted.
A dispatch from Chez Foo to the
Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon says:
''The British and Russian ministers,
Mr.. n. r. OCOnnor and the Count
Cassini, started for Pekin yesterday.
The object of their visit to the capital
is not known. All the women and
children belonging to foreigners have
left Pekin for places of safety"
The Russian cruisers Djitit and
Vladimir Monomachi have been or
dered TO the far East.
A dispatch to the Standard from
Berlin says the negotiations of the
powers with the United States with
view to the joint protection of
their subjects in China are said to be
much advanced by the AngIo-French
agreement on the subject and a gen.
eral entente may shortly be expected.
The dispatch further says Austria has
entrusted the protection of her sub
jects in China to Germany.
The Japanese government has in
structed Field Marshal Ysmagata to
inform the diplomats at Seoul that he
will not allow the Japanese army to
plumber Pekin in case that city is
taken. This assurance will probably
induce the diplomats to stay In PelkIn
even should the emperor leave the
capital They will, at any rate, at
tempt to negotiate peace by asking
Japan to be moderate in her demands.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin dated,
Saturday, says that the japanese are
pursuing the campaign towards Mouk-
den cautiously, and are avoiding any
dashing enterprises Their cruisers
are closely watching the Chinese feet
in the gulf of Pc Chi Lii Fugitives
from Ping Yang describe the Japanese
tactics as most scientific, while their
weapons are perfect On the other
hand the Chinese operations are said
to be conducted in an antiquated
fashion and there is considerable dis
agreement among the Chinese gener-
ais. The Japanese are gaining the
sympathy of the Corean people by
paying for their supplies and main
tanning strict discipline.
The Japanese army advancing on
Pekin is said to have many Coreans
in its ranks
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
INDICATED AT LAST.
A Kansas Postmaster E1Onerated of
Crime After Twentv-Tvo Yarrs.

A Kansas Postmaster Exonerated of .
Crime After Twenty-Five Yarrs-
WICHITA, Kan, Oct. 1O.-Twenty-two
years ago J. T. Holmes of this city,
who at that time was postmaster, was
convicted in the United States court
at Topeka of stealing registered let
tiers and sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
Eighteen months later Holmes was
released at the intercession of friends
who paid the shortage and whose
pleadings almost convinced the au-
thorities that he had been wrongfully
convicted. But during all these years
Holmes has been unable to disprove
the charges
Yesterday he received the proof in
q letter written from the Lansing,
Mich, penitentiary by King Price,
which completely exonerated him..
Price was a clerk in the Office at the
time and his letter recites how he lost
money by gam bling, how he first
robbed the money drawer of the pest
Office, and finally took the registered
packages.
One night Price heard a postofiee
inspector was in town and he fed to
Texas and was never heard of here
again.
He afterward drifted into Detroit
where he became connected with a
gang of crooks, was captured and Is
now serving a sentence for counter
feiting in the Michigan penitentiary.
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
CHAIRMAN WILSON TALKS
Declares That Governor Mckinley Has
AIsauOted HIS London Banquet speech.

Declares That Governor Mckinley Ens
Mlsauoted HIS LOndOn Banquet speech.
BALTIMORE. Nd, Oct 9.-The Balti-
more Sun correspondent boarded the
New York as she came up from quar-
antine and carried to Mr.. Wilson the
first home news he had received In
some time. His attention was called
TO the Suns report of the speeches of
Major Mckinley, commenting on the
London speech and the chamber Of
commerce dinner. He read this at
tentively and putting down the paper
remarked: 1.-THE best answer to all
this is the speech 1 delivered and
which Major Mckinley is criticising.
If Major Mckinley is rightly reported
he has simply garbled my speech by
using the first half of sentence to
last half which could not be used. /
knew full well that whatever might
say on such an occasion would be
thus garbled and falsely presented to
the American people by protection
speakers and papers, and SO I did
what 1 seldom do, or have time to do,
dictate and gave Reuters Press a full
and accurate copy of my remarks in
advance My speech was fairly well
reported in the London Times and
called for the long editorial in
that paper the next day,
from which Major Mckinley and
his followers may. take all the COM
fort they can draw. 1 mean, now
that it has been so garbled, to
publish the speech in full and
spread il over my district. 1t is just
what I have been saying and just
what I shall to my people. 1 went
abroad at my doctors suggestion to
shake off my unspeakable fatigue SO
as to take part as much as possible in
the campaign In England visited
friends at Oxford and Cambridge.
Everybody being, in London phrase,
out of town saw few public men.
''The dinner rendered me was, I
felt, too great an honor to my coun-
try and myself to decline, coming az
it did from the great commercial
chambers of the world, and I ac-
cepted, feeling that could not show
my appreciation of it better than
speaking as an American citizen and
exactly as speak here at home. In
this I was not deceived; my speech
was received by the whole audience
in the spirit in which it was made,
and while many, perhaps most OF
them, may have disagreed with me, I
found more than one long-headed
Englishman who agreed that our re-
duced tariff would maze US a great
competitor in the worlds markets,
and eventually regain for US our
share OF the carrying trade at the
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
THE cRisIs.Is NEAR AT HAND.
Approaching winter VIM Force the Japs
to Active Measures.

Approaching Winter VIII Force the JaPs
to Active Measures.
WAsHINTsoN, Oct. 10. The crisis Of
the China-Jspan war is looked for
within the next ten days or two weeks
by those most in Interested and best in
formed en- the contest The 1ega-
tions of the two countries are
expecting daily to hear that the
decisive battle has been fought
This is based on the fact that the
Japanese have been gradually closing
in and around Pekln, and the invad-
ing army is compelled by force of
circumstances to strike their blow at
once or not at all The intense cold
which comes on about the middle of
October makes this imperative The
Japanese climate is very mild in
winter, and the Japanese troops
are wholly unprepared for the
rigorous climate about Pekin,
which is due within two weeks.
The Chinese look upon this
as one of their defenses-
and the Japanese fully appreciate the
fact that it compels them to concen-
trate their campaign for this year
into the next few weeks, and, if posi-
BILE, days For that reason they are
expected to make heroic efforts to de-
eide the contest at once. They are
without the heavy clothing, camp
equipments, etc, for a campaign in
the bitter cold
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
DIR. HOLMES DEATH.
The AutOcrat Was Talking to His Son
When Called Away.

The AutOcrat Was Talking to His Son
When Called Away.
Boston, Oct. 1O.-The res dence of
che late DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
is closed to all visitors. From neph-
ew of DR.. Holmes it was learned
that the poet was sitting in his study
in his easy chair chatting with his
SON Judge Holmes, when death
came upon him without a moments
notice. He died at 1:3O p N. No one
but Judge Holmes, his wife and the
servants were in the house. Mr..
Holmes passed a perfect summer, as
far as health was concerned, and
only returned a short time ago
from his summer home in Beverly to
his Beacon street residence. He had
been suffering for a week from bad
cold, but his death was entirely unex-
pected even by the nearest members
of his family Messages of sympathy
from all over the country have been
received and many callers have left
cards at the house. The funeral will
be Wednesday noon at Kings Chapel,
and the services will be conducted by
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, life long
friend. Interment will be in the
Jackson lot at Mount Auburn. The
pail bearers will be members of the
family
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
coNpITIoN o. ARIzoNA.
aovsraor Hughes Speaks wen OF the Ter
ritOry's PrOgrsss-Apsehes Feared.

rIkORy's PrOgross-Apsches Feared.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA long protest
against the return of Geronimo to
Arizona and against the liquor traffic
in that territory Is made in the annual
report Of Governor c. Hughes, to the
secretary Of the interior, made public
to-day. The report comments generally
on the increase in population, moral
education aud social advancement of
the people and the absence of the dis
tress prevalent in other sections It
shows that the two previous years Of
drought resulted in loss Of SO per
cent of range cattle in the territory,
but was followed by q general re-
euperation of the stock industry. The
closing of the silver mines caused by
the low price Of silver resulted In in
creased gold production and develop
ment of gold resources, with the
prospect that Arizona will become .
larger gold producer than any other
territory or state. The gold output
500, while of copper 4s, go, 500
pounds were mined. The increase in
gold over the previous year was ST.
O7s, COO and from the present monthly
output of gold it is estimated that
the gold product for this calendar
year will be over "a, GOO, 600 and for
1895 will reach 50, 600, OOo- The value
of Arizona's total output of gold. sil-
YER and copper for the last eighteen
years was S1O1, 7s4, OF.
There are 600 Indians in the ter
ritory and friction with the whites
only exists among the Navajoes,
caused by scarcity Of water and past
urage on their reservation Governor
Hughes stamps the proposed with
drawal Of troops from Arizona as un-
wise, suggests encouraging younger
Indians to take allotted land
in seyeralty and says that no
more fatal mistake could be made by
the government than to return Chirt-
cahua and Geronimo Apaches to Ari-
zons, where their presence would be
fraught with great danger. If troops
are withdrawn it Is urged that the
Indians be protected from strong
drink, insurinG the people immunity
from Indian outbreaks, consequent
massacres and ganton destruction OF
property. The statehood question Is
discuSsSd Al lanRkh
The Goodland republic., 1894-10-12
FIVE YEARS ron CRAWFORD.
The Ex-Banker OF Springfield Sentenced
on Only One AecOunt-NO Appeal

The Ex-Banker Of Springfield Sentenced
on Only One AecOunt-N0 Appeal.
SPRINGFIELD. Mo-, Oct AT 10
o'clock this morning S. B. Crawford,
ex-cashier of the defunct Ameri-
can National bank, was taken
from the Green county Jail by
deputy marshals to the United States
district court to receive his sentence.
When Judge Philips asked him if he
had anything to say, ne glanced at
ex-Attorney General W. Fl. Fl. Miller,
who shook his head, and Crawford did
like wise. Then Judge Philips SEN
fenced him to five years In the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, after expressing
sympathy for the prisoner. The SEN
tence was on the seventh count alone
false entry.
Crawford was convicted Of five
counts. but the other four were ig-
nored- The district attorney would
have had him reindicted on the five
counts which were quashed if Craw-
ford had carried the case to the su-
preme court, but it is understood that
the attorneys have made an agree
ment whereby the case will not be
appealed and Crawford will be pun
ished by the five years sentence
alone