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The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

Mrs. Fogg-For mercy VS. sake, Daniel,
what are you doing down there on your
knees, peering under that bureau?
Fogg (who has lost his collar button
and is not i'll a sweet frame of mind)-
Looking for the Spanish fleet. What do
you suppose l was looking for?-Boston
Transcript
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

Eager Watcher lin front of war bulle-
tin boards)-What's all the crowd rush
ing away from here for?
The Other Fellow (who has just re-
turned)-There's chap down there
with basket of young pug dogs for
sale.-C ago Tribune
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17
brought FORWARD.

II am glad of the war for one thing,
said Miss Passay of North Carolina.
what is that dear
can now TAX OF things happening
before the war without giving away
my age. New York Journal.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

"H'm" said the man who had
bought an extra Il must have missed
an issue"
"Er-why?" asked the man who was
looking over his shoulder.
ut confirms the news in the extra l
bought awhile ago instead of denying
it. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17
Just wh.. It Seems.

"It seems like Dream" he said IN
speaking of his coartship
MY boy" replied the veteran.
when you wake mp after marriage You
will find that that is just exactly what
it is-nothing but dream. Chicago
Post.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

MY Love.
When my love smiles,~
The Gun shines out,
And nll is glad.
mark her wilcs,
Her glance, her pout-
Now pleased. now sad.
When my love frowns,
Each gath ring iiig cloud
O'ercasts my sky,
Yet next she crowns
My love so proud
kiss and sigh.
She asks me why
sigh. and then
! turn my head. G.
For proud am
Among all men, u.
And yet joys fed.
"Come. tell me. DEAR"
She cries to me,
With upturned face,
what grief is near.
Whate'er 1t be,
My love shall chase" 4
Yet dumb stand.
Then move away,
with streaming eyes.
For in her hand
She holds today
A fragrant prize
An onion she'd been munchiHg-
such stxe
Pick Ne o.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

why do they call it commencement
when folks get through going to SCHOOL,
1t seems to me that's n misnomer &"
"Oh, no They just commence to
realize. after they get through what a
soft snap they've been having. Chi
cago News
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

"A great many years ago. when I
was little girl, began Miss Candide.
You mean n number OF months ago,
don your" said Softly
1t was no wonder she said Mr. Softly
was exceedingly nice when somebody
else called him stupid. Tit Bits
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

1.-THE old fashioned statesman said
the Cumminsville sage, who kept the
ship of state clear of the breakers was
very useful parsonage, but what we
need nowadays is man to keep it clear
of the brokers. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

Member of the Firm-Jamesi

Member of the Ftrm-Jamesi
Office Boy--Yes. sir.
Member of the Firm-James. am
very glad to learn, upon Investigation,
that your grandmother is really dead,
and that you are therefore not lying to
me in order to go to the baseball game
this afternoon. --Detroit Journal
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

Summer Boarder-Why do you charg.
SO much?
Landlord-Can't help it. was at
Santiago. New York Journal.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

"What is parvenu2"
That's what the man who got rich
ten years ago calls the man who got
rich yesterday. Chicago Record.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

"Is Smith a bicyclist?"
He was before his marriage"
"And now?''
Hes pedestrian - Vim.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17
Beyond the Critical Stage,

Mrs Nearby-I understand your hus-
band is ILL Is his condition critical?
Mrs Growell-Critical. indeed Why.
he is positively abusive. Exchange.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17

"It's your birthday tomorrow
Frank.
Yes, but promise not to buy me
anything expensive can afford itr'
Ally Sloper.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-09-17
The Worst Yet.

The Worst Yet
He is gold brick, ism hep
He is worse than gold brick. Say,
he's Spanish bond New York Jour
nal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-15

1.-THE Italian sCds reading aloud to the
1OOnld1l."
and to stare with more devouring spec.
tacles. "She's 1900 ton. commanded
her in 1866. To think of it, ha! That
she should be passing yonder under my
very nosei"
He favored mo with many reflections
upon the passage Of years and the
changes which happen in a man g life
have no room for them in these pages.
Meanwhile watched the hull as she
towed slowly by, and now quite clearly
saw that she was merchantman of
the old East hdiaman type. She might
have been sister ship to the Blenheim
or the Alfred. She had large open ports
like gun ports. and row Of big cabin
windows along the line Of her poop
deck. Her faint gilt work glanced as
her square handsome stern foated round
the bend Of the shore and disappeared
And still the old man by my side NOR
allied on life, occasionally pulling out
9 great silver watch and looking upon
it. as though the power of resisting
time had suddenly left him.
Somewhat later while we still sat
together he told me the story-a queer,
tragical memory Of an emigrant shin.
He shall relate it himself, and I'll helm
him as he goes along.
1T was in September, 1855, that ]
sailed from the Thames in the Ramil-
lies, the poor, sorrowful old hull that q
just gone past, but in those days what
was she? Nothing more queenly ever
lifted q truck to the stars. Aye, and she
was an old ship even then. In that year
I'm telling you Of she was owned BY q
small firm in Billeter street. When she
came out Of drydock. she looked a
brand new vessel, gilded afresh, repaint-
I'D, her sheathing new. We hauled out
On Monday, and every mothers son
OF the people was in charge Of was
aboard, 100 tween deck passengers, a
number in the steerage, 40 in the cuddy
and large ships company, making in
all 80 souls. We were bound to Ade.
laide. South Australia. Wew were mostly
Britons. I guess by the accents I caught
That every county was represented in
the tween decks. There was plenty Of
Scotland going, too, both in the steer
age and in the saloon, nor was Ireland
a-missing, nor Wales. But we had some
real foreigners likewise. twigged sew
eral bilious skins when leaned over
the rail and tooka look at the people in
, tho waist and on the main deck.
II don't know how passengers are
divided in these days on board ship. In
those times we made three divisions of
them according to their money. First
the saloon folks; they bedded and
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-15

Images OF the past grow pale in the
memory Of the old, but the aged skipper
gave me at least one recollection of col
ors distinguishably bright enough to
detain the attention. He sat beside me
on Thames hillside far below bridges.
The river was a wide and spreading
breast Of water hereabout, streaming in
a long blue reach under the pure sum-
mer sky. All that passed was within
easy view, to the trembling silver of the
reflected sails, to the CLEAN of gilt dog
vane over the ripping folds of house
flag, TO the figure Of a seaman jockeying
flying jibboom end, to the burning
sun spark in the bright brass pinnacle
hood.
While we sat ta1king-'tis years
since-a tall bulk came towing into
sight. / thought it was the hull of a
frigate. My aged companion stared
eagerly through his glasses. When
broadside on, the hull showed as noble
old relic. The sparkling bravery of her
day still fingered, but dimly, in the
gilded holdings and carvings round
about her quarter galleries and stern.
Her fgurehead was milk white angel
with lifted arm in posture of tri-
umphant bugling but the trumpet was
gone! Time had robbed the old sheer
hulk of that power and poetry of silent
music. Her hawser holes had a look of
human nostrils, large with disdain. 1t
was clear she was being lowed down
river for some ignoble purpose-to be
made coal hulk of, perhaps, or her
destination might have been the echoing
yard of the marine knacker, and she
clearly knew it and felt it, for ships are
intelli gences though they may not be
launched with immortal souls, and it is
true of them, as the Firms do swear,
that they converse as they lay side by
side in dock when the darkness falls
and the shipkeeper SHORES with drink,
but in language you must be Finn to
understand.
"There goes an old frigate, I" said l.
"Not she, )" cried my venerable COM
panion in the raised and broken tones
of time and breathing short with sud-
den agitation of memory. .That's the
old Families. Don't know her?''
Here he seemed to breathe shorter yet
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The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Wonderful Snake Charminp

A well-known magician tells this story "One morning 1 was sitting in my room writing letters. There was no furniture in the room except a few chairs, table and the cot bed on which I had slept and which had a single sheet thrown over it. There were no curtains or drapery anywhere about. Suddenly a snake charmer appeared iH the doorway and remarked, cheerfully, Heap plenty big snake in room, sahib! Heap plenty big snake.'
 'I told him to go away; that had no time to waste on him, and besides, that did not believe there was a snake in the whole house. But he declared ear nestly that there was heap plenty big snake and 1 finally told him to come
 n and drive them out. He advanced two or three places into the room, put l pipe to his lips and began to play. The sheet of the bed rose in the air. The native twitched 1t off and behold there was a great cobra cOiled up with his head in the air. The charmer's eyes were fixed upon the cobra, and the music became soft and slow. From the bed the serpent descended and slowly followed the man, who was backing toward the door. Just out side the charmer stopped. and the snake coiled himself on the threshold, his head high in the air, hissing angrily, while his tongue darted in and out, full of menace. He was just ready to strike when another native who had remain ed outside stepped forward and, in a flash, cut off the monsters head with a sharp sword. I went out and saw the writhing, bleeding, headless ser bent on the ground"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The State of New York is about to begin a great work which will eventu- ally have to be performed in every part cost of probably more than a hundred million dollars. We refer to the aboli- tion of grade crossings, of which there are 5000 in New York, only 1000 of which are protected by gates or flag men. In other words there are, in a single State, 5000 places where rail-
 roads intersect with highways at grade and where there is no arrangement for
 giving warning of approaching trains.
 Fatal accidents at such crossings are
 almost every day occurrences, and the people of the Empire State realize that such a condition is disgraceful by req son of its reckless inhumanity. The enormous cost incident to this work will be divided, 50 per cent. going to the railroads, 9 per cent. to the State, and 9 per cent. to the municipality or county. It is estimated that the State will eventually be called upon for not less than $3,OO0,O00, but the present Legislature will begin with an appro- priation of $40O,OOO to be expended in putting the railroads above or below grade at the more dangerous intersec tions. It may be many decades before this reform will be accomplished in all the States, for this country has an i'm mense total of railway mileage in which there are probably not less than 100000 unprotected grade crossings. It would have been wiser and, in the end, cheaper, to have avoided such inter- sections from the beginning of our rail- way constructions, but the mistake having been made, 1t will have to be corrected. Hindsight is clearer than foresight, although it is often more costly.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
THE MELUNGEONS.
Peculiar People Who Live in East Ten.
 nessee-Legend of History.

Peculiar People Who Live in East Ten
 nessee-Legend of History.
 It is not generally known that in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee there lives class of peculiar looking people whose origin is wrapped in mystery, and who are called by the whites Me dungeons. They resent this appella- tion, and proudly declare that they are Portuguese. The legend of their his tory, which they carefully preserve, is this:
 great many years ago these noun tains were settled by a society of Por- tuguese adventurers, men and women, who came from the shore of Virginia that they might be freed from the re- straints and drawbacks imposed upon them by any form of government. They made theyselves friendly with the In dians, and freed as they were from ev- cry kind of social government, they up rooted all conventional forms of so- ciety, and lived in kind of delightful Utopia of their own creation, trampling upon the marriage relation, despising all forms of religion, and subsisting up- on corn-the only possible product of the soil-and the game of the great for ests. They intermiXed with the Indians and subsequently, with the negroes, and thus formed the present race of Melungeons
 They are tall, straight, well-formed people, of dark copper color, but with Circassian features. They were privi- legged voters in the old slave days and accredited citizens. They are brave, but quarrelsome, and are hospitable to strangers. They have no preachers among them, and are almost without any knowledge of a Supreme Being. They marry by established forms. but husband and wife can separate at pleasure without meeting with any re- proach or disgrace from their friends.
 They have but little association with their neighbors, and are in every re- spect, save that they are under the jurisdiction of the State government. a separate and distinct people.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
Taking tho Hint.

At home stations the private soldiers washing is usually done by the married soldiers wives, who are expected to sew on missing buttons and do repairs, for which a small sum is deducted from the private's pay.
 Pat McGinnis had good deal of trou- ble with his laundress. Sunday after Sunday had his shirt come back with the neck button off or else hanging by a thread. He had spoken to her on the subject, and she had promised to see to it, but still the button was not on prop erly.
 He got out of patience one Sunday when the missing button had made him late for parade and exclaimed:
 ''Bother the womaHl I'll see if can't give her hint this time anyhow"
 He then took the lid of tin black ing box, about inches in diameter. drilled two holes in it with fork and sewed it on to the neck of the shirt that was next to be washed. When his wash ing came back, be found she had taken the hint. She had made buttouhols to fit itI-Rival.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07
PERILS OF SEA GUNNERY.
The Hate's Agility and Quick Witted-
 ness Save the Ship.

ness Save the Ship.
 An officer of the United States Navy relates the following as illustrating some of the perils of gunnery at sea:
 Il am glad to see you again, and all the more so, because, without knowing 1t, l came very near going up into the air tn small bits on this last squadron cruise We were at heavy gun prac- tice at sea, and but for the Quickness of gunner's mate would never have re- turned. AS you probably know, the heavy guns in the turretS are fired by electricity, the gun being discharged simply by pressing a button. The off cer in command of the forward turret on our ship during rapid-firing practice was just about to press the button to fire one of our big guns, when a gun ner's mate was seen to grab at some thing on the wall of the turret and then fall in heap on the floor. The officer pressed the button, but the gun was not discharged. When the mate came to he was asked what had happened, and be informed the officer that the breech of the gun had not been locked and that what he grabbed at on the wall was the wires forming the electric firing cir cult. When he saw that the officer was prepared to fire the gun and at the same time observed that the breech of the gun was not locked, the only thing that occurred to him to prevent the gun being discharged was to destroy the cir cult, which he did promptly and effec lively. When all this occurred there was a charge of 250 pounds of powder il the gun, another charge of the same size in the turret ready to be served, and the passageway leading to the pow Ter magazine was wide open. But for the quickness of the gunners mate the gun would have been discharged, the breech block would have blown out in- side the turret, the gases from the burning powder would probably have lgnited the charge lying in the turret, this explosion would have ignited the powder in the magazine, and the chances are that the whole ship, crew and all would have gone up in the air. A thought that has occurred to me is this: Suppose the accident had occur red, what do you imagine the verdict of board of inquiry as to the cause of the loss of the ship would have been? Since this experience the department has adopted electrical means to prevent the discharge of any of the large guns until the breech is locked"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-05-07

The recent destruction of the battle ship Maine has directed public atten- tion anew to the armored man-ofwar as an engine of destruction, and al though Captain Mahan has pointed out that the chance of accident on battle ship in time of peace Is infinitely be- low that of a first-class Atlantic liner in passenger service, the modern man. of-war Is practically an unknown Quan- tity in actual warfare. There have been only three opportunities in recent years to test the practical worth of fighting crafts. The war between Fur
 key and Greece last year had no naval incidents worth mentioning. In the
 Chilean, the Brazilian and the Chinese
 wars, however, armored cruisers were brought into action, and 1t Is signifi- cant that in those wars the chief dam age was wrought by torpedoes and not by battle ships. In the Chilean war the Blanco Encalada, an ironclad of $500 tons, was struck by a torpedo In a night attack and sank in nine min utes, with 1S0 members of its crew. In the Brazilian war the AQuidaban. an ironclad of 5,791 tons, was render ed useless by two torpedoes. The first sent the cruiser to the bottom, but, as the engagement occurred in shallow water, the upper battery could still be worked. The second torpedo practic- ally lifted the Aquidaban out of the water. In the Chinese war the Chen Yuen, the most formidable vessel of China's insignificant navy, was wreck ed by a torpedo and was only saved from sinking by being beached and abandoned to the enemy. These incl dents point to the conclusion that the effective naval fighting of the future will be done not by heavy ironclads but by torpedo boats. These boats are comparatively inexpensive, and they can be built and equipped in a hurry two very important points of superior ity in the event of a war with foreign power. Give me $3,OOO,OOO for the construction of torpedo boats," remark ed naval engineer in Washington the other day, "and cannot only protect the American seaboard from attack but also destroy $50,O00OO0 of Spanish commerce within a month from the commencement of hostilities." The Maine alone cost $3,0O0,OOO.