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crease our naval force then engaged IN
the war with Tripoli. She returned to
this port after being out for a few days,
and then she sailed on June 20 the sec
sond time. But she never reached her
destination. Although nine other boats
left about the same time for the Med
5iterranean service, and all reached
their points of sailing in time gunboat
No. was lost, and no word was ever
received from any Of her officers or
crew.
The loss of the Wasp followed this
disaster. The mystery about this
handsome naval fighter is generally IA
miliar to all readers of American his
tory. Her exploits on the water after
her first launching before the time Of
her strange disapp earance were so brill
liant that every schoolboy knows about
them. Within a period Of five months
the Wasp took fifteen English mer-
chaEn nan valued at nearly quarter
OF million OF dollars, and fought sew
eral stubborn battles with naval yes
sells Of her own size and strength. On
Oct. !, 1914, the Wasp hailed the Swed-
ISL bark Adonis, and took on board
two Of the surviving officers Of the old
Essex after her destruction in Valpa-
raise harbor, and then passed on into
the dark mystery which has never been
solved. That was the last intelligence
ever brought to any port by any ship
concerning the veteran fighter and vic
tor. Her fate will ever remain an un-
explained puzzle.
The last vessel of the series to be lost
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vessels flying the new stars and stripes.
The Inflated Saratoga, an eighteen-gun
ship, after performing brilliant SER
vice on the high seas, sailed forth up
on the great ocean and disappeared for
ever from all human knowledge. What
we know of her is briefly summed up
in a few sentences. After capturing
three English prizes she was intercept
ed on her way to Philadelphia with
them by the British seventy-four-gun
ship of the line intrepid, and after a
long fight she escaped from her heavier
adversary. No further word from the
Saratoga was ever received, and no
signs of her wreckage was ever dis
covered. She probably foundered at
sea in gale, but she never left anyone
behind to tell the tale.
This was in $780, and the next loss Of
similar character occurred twenty
years later. The thirty -six-gun frigate
Insurgent, commanded by Captain Pat
rick Fletcher, was originally under
the French flag, but after she was cap
tured by the Constellation off the Is
land of Nevis, she sailed under The
American flag until the end of her short
career. She had sealed orders to sail
from the Chesapeake capes out to sea
but after she started on her easterly
course she went forth to her mysteri-
Gus doom. No word from any slip
brought tidings of the Insurgent. She
disappeared from the world as COM
pletely as if swallowed up by whale.
No one on board Of her was ever saved
to give official confirmation of the story
of her loss. III !
About month after this sad occur
renee the fourteen-gun brig Pickering
met with similar fate, she was cruis-
ing off Guadeloupe, with Master Com
mandant Benjamin Hitler in charge,
when a severe storm arose and swept
the seas. It is generally supposed that
the vessel .succumbed to the heavy
waves, for she was an unseaworthy
tub, and foundered with all on board
Pieces Of Wreckage were picked up
along the coast, but as so many yes
sells were lost during this gale there
was no certainty Of identifying them.
It is thought also that the same storm
might have caused the loss of the In
surgent. although as to this no trust
worthy account can be found.
The next vessel in our navy to dis
appear In this mysterious fashion was
known as gunboat No. Z, commanded
by Lieutenant OgelYie. She sailed
Rom New York May II. 1903. to In
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5MAHDlsM PECULIAR DOCTRINE.

Few Foreigners Can Comprehend tho
Moslem Theory Embraced In 1t
Mahdism is the doctrine of the Nus
sulman messiah. No foreigner seems
to me to have grasped it, in spite of its
close analogy with your Christian doe
trlne of messiah. There is no reliable
book upon the subject. Mahdism is
taught only orally; it is a tradition,
and why it is not impaired to outsiders
IS chiefly because before this can be-
done the initiated are obliged to submit
to formallties which, in the presence Of
the "profane,'' are of an embarra ssing
nature and likely to expose them to-
rldlcule. History repeats itself. AS
the doctrine of your messiah was Gre
ated chiefly by the sufferings of the:
Jewish people, in constant bondage and
persecution, and ever dreaming of some
national deliverer, so the dogma of our
Mussulman messiah was born of the
suHerlngs of the people combined with
the hope of a brighter future.
At this time of day, owing to GU
rlous concurrence of many circum-
stances, the messianic or mahdist. be-
lief is so deeply rooted in all Mussul-
man nations especially the Schiytes
Persian-that it has become their life
and soul. If these oppressed hordes in
Persia, Turkey and Morocco have on
dured patiently SO many bad govern
ments it is because they are sure that
mahd1 will soon arise to remedy all
these evils. They are crying out, like
the Jews, for savior and a deliverer.
Tradition declares that Friday is the
day on which he will reveal himself to
the world, and, accordingly, every Fri
day in all our mosques prayers are Of
Tered up and invocations are made be-
seechlng allah to hasten the time Of
messlah's advent. All Mussulman sects
schools of philosophy, attempts at re-
form, political Or social-aim invaria-
ply at the realizations of this messianic
mystery. All the different mahdis.
past and present, those of the soudan
as well as all others, are but the ex-
preston, more or less incomplete Of
this central doctrine of a miracrjous
messianic deliverer. ..&
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at sea without leaving any sign behind
to explain matters was the brig Eper-
vler, commanded by Lieutenant John
Shubrick. When the terms of the treaty
between the United States and Algiers
were dictated to the dey at the point
OF the cannon by Decatur in 1915 COW
OF the paper was sent home by the
Epervier. The brig passed the strait
Of Gibraltar on July IL, 1915, and from
that time all trace of her was lost. She
sailed out upon the ocean and was
swallowed up by the sea that has
wrecked the hopes and ambitions of 50
many. @
In modern times the loss of naval
vessels at sea has been comparatively
limited. The United States navy has
been singuiarly fortunate in this re-
spect during the last half century. but
this may be attributed as much to the
number of ships in commission as to
any skill or safeguard. The modern
navy is built upon such different lines
from the old class of war vessels that
it is difficult to compare the two. but
it is safe to assume that the cruisers
of today could stand the elements much
better than their prototypes Of fifty
years ago. The mysterious disappear
ance of a member of the white squad
ron would undoubtedly cause more
general sorrow and comment than the
loss Of the Wasp, Insurgent or Sara
toga did in their days. A naval vessel
of our modern feet carries a much larg-
er complement of men, and her cost
is several times as great. The navy
department probably exercised more
precautions than any private company
in surrounding the war vessels with
every safeguard known to science. and
it is because of this discipline that
war vessels are so seldom lost. The
mysterious loss of only six war vessels
during q period of 100 years of active
national existence is a record that the
navy department of any nation might
well be proud of, and when it is re-
membered that some Of the strange
disappe arances recorded were only CIR
binary merchant vessels fitted up as
warships the cause for pride is in
creased.
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STORY OF A BULLET,
Travels of n Piece of Lead Which
Was Shot Into IL Deer

Travels of n Piece of Lead Which
Was Shot Into IL Deer.
A story of how forgotten shot came
back to a hunter was related recently
by one sportsman to another on a
train bound northward to the Adj
rOndack mountains. -Four years ago q
New Yorker took down his small cali
Der rifle from the rack on which it had
hung ever since the previous fall,
cleaned it, and the next day took it on
a deer hunt to the Moose river region
Of the Adirondacl1s. He got to camp,
and the next day took his stand at the
natural dam runway. A deer came in.
a small buck, and two shots We're fired
at it, one of which drew 4 little blood
The trail was lost. and the deer for
gotten in the success that attended the
next days hunt.
Last spring the sportsman was talk
ing with 4 woodsman about hunting
experiences, and the Woodman showed
him bullet battered by the force of
it's impact. In the head of the bullet
was the mark of knife blade In
spite of it's battered condition the New
Yorker identified it as the one he had
fired at the small buck four years be-
fore, for he had cut a crease into the
bullets fiat point to make it spread
well should it hit the deer.
The woodsman told how he found
the bullet two years ago, in the spring.
It was lying on a fat rock Il mile from
the natural dam, as if some one had
laid it there. 1t Was evident that the
wounded deer had fed and died back
in the woods. Its carcass had been
torn by wood creatures, its bones
gnawed by mice. and the bullet had
fallen on the rock, borne there by some
fox, perhaps, since it was good table.
The New Yorker bought the bullet for
one dollar, and it now hangs on the
rifle that fired it.-NeW York Sun.
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Couldn't Treat Him That wav.

Col. Yerger and his son Tom came
home a few nights ago in an intoxl-
Gated condition. Mrs. Yerger had been
waiting to open the door, but had
fallen asleep, hence there was cons.d-
cradle delay, at which Tom, who had
been educated at college, remarked.
to his parent:
Look here, old man, if I was mar
ried to that woman I'd teach her not.
to keep me waiting this way
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WORTH KNOWING.

To salute with the left hand is a.
east.
The brain Of an idiot contains much
less phosphorus than that of a person
of average mental powers.
William C. Ussery, M. D., of st. Louis
says that the best food for those suffer-
ing from typhoid fever is the banana.
In Mexico the mescal plant attains
such an enormous size that one of them
has sufficed for the making Of barrel
of whisky.
Destitute Englishmen abroad can.
demand to be sent home. They apply
to their consul, who gives notice ac-
cordingly to captains of ships about to
sail.
Ludwig Barnay has given the i, 700
marks he received for his performance
at the German embassy in Moscow
during the coronation festivities to tho
relief fund for German actors and
actresses.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railway las
had plans under way for several
months for the erection of new s,ta-
ton and terminal facilities in Rich
Amond. Va, on which it designs to
spend $2,OO0,OOo.
The average price of Canadian
horses sold in London for some time
has rarely been above s125, a price
which, freight and all expenses con-
sidered, is said to yield a satisfactory
margin Of profit.
Litchield, Mich, has resident who
believes it pays to exterminate weeds.
He pulled up big burdock plant the
other day and found upon one Of the
roots q diamond ring which was lost
by his wife four years before.
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An American Heiress.

Miss Edith Collins, the great grand
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and
heiress to $10,OOO,O 1000, is just now start
ling the Partisan world with the beau
ty and costliness of her gowns. The
French papers have just been describ-
ing her wonderful wardrobe and her
great personal attractions to such an
extent that she is said to revel in daily
offers of marriage from the hauta,
monde.
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BLOCKING the Reform.

One er de great troubles bout some
er de folks dat tries ter reform de hu-
man race, said Uncle Eben, is dat
dey doan wanter do muffin but STAN
'roun' an boss de job, while udder peo-
pie does all de wuhk.'''
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TO OCEA Ms BOTTOM.
NAVAL. VESSELS NEVER HEARD
FROM AFTER SAILING.
Their Fats Involved In the Profoundest
Mystery Up to This Day Few Such
Losses in More Recent Years-Fate Of
the Insurgent. sgs IN sS.855

HE p navy depart
m,ent has many In:
.t.eresting records Of.
ships that have met.
with sad endings,
but none more so
than the brief ac-
counts Of six differ
ent ones summed
up tersely in these
w or d s: N e v er
heard from . This
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Clara Hendy's father will require
Mrs. Banta to show cause why she
should not give up the girl. Clara is
employed as a servant by Mrs. Banta
of New York. In court she throws her
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arms about the woman's neck and de-
clares she will die rather than return
to her home. She says her parents have
starved and ill-treated her, while her
mistress is kind to her.
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clever Japanese Gardeners.

In districts in Japan where fruits
and vegetables are liable to suffer from
early spring frosts or, to speak met
eorologically, late spring frosts- they
carefully preserve all the prunings of
their trees and make heaps Of them
in various outlying portions of the
orchards. When the frost likely to
do injury is imminent. they start one
of these brush fires in the direction
from which the wind comes. They
only make fire enough to make a
smoke. To make a fire has a tendency
to bring the cold into the orchard
rather than to keep it out. Heat rar1-
fics or ligiltens the atmosphere, and
the cold or heavier air presses for
ward unto the vacuum made by The
heat expanded. They depend on the
smoke aud not the heat for protection.
Meehan's Monthly. IN
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ono of Many

Patron MI. Dentalle, put my set 81
false teeth in this morning, and / cant
get them out.
4 Mr.. Dentane (great DENTIST We'll
what do you want to get them out for:
Patron " hy, its dinner time. NeW
York Weekly.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-11-25
THIN GRANDNST on ALL
That Is Proposed OF the Nc
Kinley Inauguration.
HANNA SOON TO BEGIN WORK.

II IL the Intention 70 Make the Ocoa-
sion, 80 Par ~ Numbers Nre Con-
eerned. second 90 None Ever Had.
Fred Grant Does Not Deny Ills Cab.
met Aspirations.
CLEVELAND Nov 2l-Early next
week National Chairman llama will ec
10 Washington 70 make arrangement.
for the ceremonies IN connection with
the Inauguration Of President Elect Nc.
kinley. II is the intention 20 make the
occasion, 50 far rs numbers are con,
cerned, at least. one Of the greatest
events Of is kind that has ever taken
place. Il il already known that the az.
tendance from Ohio alone will be near.y
double that at any previous inaugura.
tion.
Colonel Fred Grant. who was Ia IN,
city over Sunday, went TO Canton foi
the purpose, as be stated, Of paying hi,
respects to the president elect. In an
interview Colonel Grant said he wa,
aware that his name had been men.
toned IN newspaper as possibility
for secretary Of war IN McKinley's cabi.
net.
"Bui. said he, Il am not like most
candidates ! do not deny that would
like y bo tendored The nlace."
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DC NEWs N sRIEE.


The grocerystore Of ID. W. Wnsten
& Co. AZ Baird. Tex. was robbed Of $500
In money from the safe. and few gro.
ceries. Il Is believed 10 have been 40
complished by experts.
One hundred men went on a strike Al
Richmond, Va, because their wagts
were reduced 10 per cent
Rain has fallen In India and has in.
creased the crop prospects.
The North Texas Poultry association
viii give four days poultry show At
Fort Worth, beginning Dec 8
During a scuffle with two officers Al
Fort Worth, Tex, John Smith, colored.
was dangerously shot in the thigh. The
officers had a warrant for him for a..
sault TO murder.
Burglars stole S55 worth Of pistols
from the store Of @, b. Spencer At Mar.
lin. Tex.
A tour Of Texas is being arranged for
W. J. Bryan.
Mich cows around Bells, Tex, are
dying OF an unknown cause.
The Davies County SAvings bank a
Gallatin, No. has failed.
The commissioners have agreed as "a
the place Of an international dam acres,
the Rio Grande river at Fl Paso.
B. O. Pawley OF South Carolina wa
arrested at Del Rio, Tex, on a charge
Cf bigamy. lie married a young LADY
there last week.
Six wagon loads Of emigrants passed
Tyler, Tex, en- route 10 Arkansas
Congressman d. b. Oulberson is men.
toned IS a good man 10 an the bench
at fort Smith. Ark, left vacant By ths
death os Judge Parker.
w r. Walker, shoe dealer, AZ Co.
lumhus, Tex, fled decd OF trust.
A humane society has been formed Il
Fort Worth, Tex.
W. +. ruShong was convicted Of
forgery at Fort Worth, Tex, and given
10 years in the penitentiary.
Clifton Strickland, colored, Z year.
old, killed himself while playing wisk
a pistol At Ardmore, l. I.
4 steam launch blew up At Chicago
fatally woanding one man and danger.
uusly iniuring another.
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BATCH OF FRENCH NEWS.
Trial Of the Men Charged with Mur-
dering baroness Devniruy.


Trial Of the Men Charged with Mur-
dering baroness Dsvnirny.
PARIS, Nov. ei-The first serions
frontier incident IN a long time occurred
ON Sunday at Munster. when a German
forest guard shot an alleged French
poacher, inhlcting a flesh wound. The
government is inquiring into the case.
The trial Of Bazin's patent roller boat,
which 1t is alleged would shorten the
Atlantic passage to 90 hours. Is expected
to occur in tho middle OF December
across the English channel from Havro
IN the presence Of distinguished naval
authorities and possibly Of President
faure, who is interested In the expert.
ment
Michel Levy, the mineralogisi, has
been elected to the academy Of sciences
20 the seat Of the late Gabriel Auguste
Daubrec, the theologist.
Jean Perrin. who fired a blank cart.
ridge at President Carnot in 1850, and
who was adjudged insane, has been
sentenced TO three months in prison for
conducting a swindling servants regis.
ter.
The trial Of the five persons charged
with the murder Of Baroness Devalony.
an aged misor, Is attracting great At
tention. The baronoss. who was 50
years old, was found gagged and
straneled an her home IA the well known
house in Rue dc Penthiovrc. Just on
the Champas Elysee. which was once
inhabited by Benjamin Franklin whom
he was the envoy OF the United States
20 the court Of King Louis XVI The
murdered woman was said to have been
a daughter Of Count Monbcll. who fig.
ured As minister Of war In Prince Po.
hgnac's last administration. In her
youth she was said 10 have been the IA.
forite Of Prince Metternich. and at a
later period Of her life 20 have been in.
timately associated with George sand.
She played a brilliant role in society
and diplomacy in Louis Philipe's reign
and throughout the reign Of Napoleon
Ill As age came upon her she deyel.
oped ecceutFicities and traits Of the
most sordid ayarico She would not al.
low her apartments 10 be cleaned ana
she set mp sort Of unlicensed pawn.
broker establishment This brought her
into contact with many disFeputable
people and IL was by some Of these that
she was murdered. She was found dead
m her bed with her feet tied together.
her wrists covered with bruises, indi.
eating a violent struggle; a handkcr.
chief tied tightly around her throat an
a cloth stuck in her mouth. Nearly ev.
erything of value had been carried
away from the room and Il was evident
that robbery was the motive.
The late Baron Hirschs splendid
mansion, a, the corner Of Avenue Ca
briel and Rue ID Elysce. has been Of.
| fered for sale for $500. 900.
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BRYAN IN COLORADO.
Is Received With Enthusiastic
Greetings at Denver.
THOUSANDS WERE AT THE DER

Thsy Gave ths Nsbrashan Hearty Cheers.
wonsn Give Him . Recsption-H
visit Was 10 Attsad the Annivorsary
of The Aanission of Colorado Into
shs Uniea.
DENVER, Nov. aA-If William ]. Bry.
an had come 10 Denver a. a conquering
hero. whose victory presaged the resto-
ration Of silver. he would not have 70.
osived any more enthusiastic greetings
than those given him today. The occa.
sion Of his visit is the twentieth ami.
vcrsary Of the admission Of Colorado 10
The Union Before being nominated TO
the preaidency he had agreed to speak
at the exercises in commemoration Of
me event.
He arrived satly today and was
met At the depot By COMMITTEES. Even
At that hour thousands Of people were
standing about the Union depot and
chosrod Justify. Mr.. Bryan was driven
81 once TO the residence Of Hon. Q. s.
Thomas. where be hreakfaated and 70.
mained until 10 .. m, when he went 10
the Brown Palace hotel to attend . 70.
eeption given him In his honor BY the
women. Mrs. 7. N. Patterson, presl-
dent Of the woman's Suffrage society,
presided. Introducing Mr.. Bryan. she
said;
'It is the height Of my privilege to
present 10 you formally today our dis
hnguisAed visitor. already well known
10 Ne and honored bsyond words. For
In him we see embodied the hope Of our
nation against the dangers that threat
en- from our vsry strongholds all liberty
and privilege Through him we hope
70 ses the national fabric Of the future,
founded upon the Christ-given principle
Of the gcldsu rule. and in prophetic Wis.
lon We zee the stone which builders re.
jected become a Last the head Of ths
corner. Women Of Colorado, I present
70 you the first president Of the twonti.
eth century, William Jennings Bryan. .
Mr.. Bryan responded tothe address Of
welcome By the ladies In a neat halt
hour speech. he was applanded By
every one of che 1000 women ureeent
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ANpRApE AT cAnAcAs.
Reaches There with the Axresmsnt 70
settle the boundary Troubis

Reaches There with the Asrssmsai 70
settle the boundary Trouble.
NEW YORK. Nov. PA dispatch 10
The Herald from Caracas, Venezuela,
says sonor Andrade. the Venezuelan
minister to the United States. arrived
there on the last steamer from New
York. His coming was publicly an.
nounoed He was accompanied BY Mr..
storrow. counsel for the Venezuelan
government in the boundary dispute
with England.
The minister will give the govern.
ment full details In relation 10 the
agreement between the United States
and England upon which an Anglo
Venezuelan treaty is to be based for ths
disposition Of the disputed territory.
The government Is roticent about the
arrival Of Senor AndrAde. Il is report.
ed, however, that President Crespo IL
highly pleased with the terms Of the
proposed treaty.
The whole question will be discussed
tomorrow AZ = cabinet meeting.