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ANECD0TAL LITERATURE.
Contributed to tie Independent
by W. @.
VESSELS AND wAR sHIps.

In these days Of constructing and
buying war ships ia order to be ready
for our little brush with Spain,
it may not be embarrassing TO know
what was done in that line by our
country in the "long ago.
The first deeked vessel was con.
structed on the banks Of the Hud-
son, by Adrian Block in the summer
OF 1914. She was called yacht
and her first voyage was made
through Hell Gate, into the sound,
and as far as Cape Cod, by the
Vineyard passage. 1t was on this
voyage that Block Island was dis
covered and named in honor of the
builder of the vessel. Within the
first forty-six years after the settle
ment Of Massachusetts,, there were
tuilt in Boston and its vicinity $50
vessels, varying from to $50 tons in
burthen. One of these-the Bless
ing ofthe Bay. bark of 80 tons,
was built in 1881. The celebrated
English patriot and divine, Hugh
Peters, caused vessel of 800 tons
TO be constructed at Salem in l64l.
The first schooner ever launched is
said to have been built at Cape Ann
in TIA. Her name is not known.
In 1913, Connecticut had but two
briggs, twenty sloops, and a few
smaller craft, employing but 100
seamen while Massachusetts, about
the same time, had 492 vessels, the
tonnage of which was %, 406, and
employed 3,493 seamen. The first
ensign ever shown by regular
American man-of-war, was hoisted
on board the brigate Alfred, in the
Delaware, by the hands of Paul
Jones, in the latter part of Deem
Der, HIS. What the ensign was is
not precisely known, as the national
colors were not formally adopted
until HI. The first regular
American cruiser that went to sea
was the Lexington, a little brig of
IA guns, commanded by Capt. John
Barry, of Philadelphia.
The first American man of war
That got to sea after the adoption of
our present form of government, was
the Gauges. She was originally an
Indiaman, but was purchased by the
government, and turned into a
cruiser, having an armament of "a
guns. She sailed in May, 1898, IN.
der command of Capt. Richard
Dale, who was first lieutenant of the
Bon Homme Richard, when that
ship captured the Scraps. The
Constitution was the first of tie
new built vessels that went to sea,
under Capt. Truxton. She sailed in
June, 1898, and was followed by the
United States, and a little latter by
the Constitution, both these latter
sailing in July, the same year. The
first prize made under our present
naval organization, was the French
plivateer LIE Croyable. She was
schooner of IA guns, and was cap.
tured by the sloop.of,war Delaware,
Hr,t nooot,,
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Vulgar, selfish minds sre still the
rule, rather than the exception in
the human race, and neither vulgar
souls nor selfish souls can ever
know what it is to be disappointed
in a sublime belief.
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Unfortunate People

Are they who while suffering from
Kidney Diseases, are prejudiced
against all advertised remedies.
They should know that Foley's
Kidney Cure is not a quack remedy,
but an honest guaranteed medicine
for Kidney and Bladder troubles.
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does your sister sing much,
George ~
"Not when I'm around"
whats the reason ~
II always leave when she be-
gins"
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Men are tatooed with their spec
ial beliefs like so many South Sea
islanders; but real human heart
with Divine love in it, beats with
the same glow under all the patterns
OF all earth's thousand tribes.
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To COnsHmptives.

As an honest remedy, Foley's
Honey and Tar does not hold out
false hopes in advanced stages, but
truthfully claims to give comfort
and relief in the very worst cases,
and in the early stages TO effect a
cure.
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"Hal ha |" said the pawnbroker,
as he opened McSwatter's watch,
and saw there the picture of the un-
fortunate mans wife, ''der is VOC.
man in der case !"-Syracuse Herald.
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Fogg-The train at the time was
going at the rate of 60 miles an
hour. l was brushed off by a re-
porter.
Fenderson--Were you injured ?
Fogg-To the amount of quar-
ter.
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Miss Leftoyer-There is saying
"Loye me, love my dog And I
believe it is true.
Her Little Brother-0f course il
is. Anybody who could love you
could love anything.
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A sandbag will hold heat better
than anything else. A wooden
stocking filed with fine sand and
heated in an oven will retain warmth
twice as long as water bag or a
brick.
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Not exactly right is the way
thousands of people feel. 1t is be-
cause their blood is poor. Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood
Purifier, viii promptly set them
right.
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Photographer-That is certainly a
good picture for an amateur; very
good. How did you manage to get
such pleasant expression on the
gentleman's face?
mateur-I told him / wasn't 60
ing to charge anything.
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Castoria.

aCcstoria is sowell adapted to children tkAs
recommend it as superior toany prescription
known to me-"
Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, n. z.
sour physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castor.a,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products. yet we are free to confess that the
merits CT Castoria has-won look with
favor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL AID DIspErsARY.
Boston. Mass.
ALLEN C. SMITH. Rreso
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$50 you won't concede that wom-
ans intellectual superior ~
"No not while she can't drink
cup of tea without sticking out her
little fnger.p
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"The people seem to be getting
tired of this brand of cracked
wheat said the wholesale dealer.
aWe'll have TO change the name of
it,
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Have You Kidney Tr ouble :?

a so cent trial bottle of Foley s
Kidney Cure will prevent serious
results from this usually fatal dis
case,
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HooD's PILLS are purely vegetable
and do not purge, pain or grippe. All
drug gists.
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THE ONLY True Blood Purifier
prominently in the public eye to-
day is Hoods Sarsaparilla. Therefore
get Hoods and ONLY HOODS,
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We live in country of which the
principal scourge is stomach-trou-
BILE.
1t is more wide spread than any
other disease, and, very nearly.more
dangerous.
One thing that makes it so dam
gerous is that it is so little under
stood.
If it were better understood, it
would be more feared, more easily
cured, less universal than it is now.
So, those who wish to be cured,
take Shaker Digestive Cordial, be.
cause it goes to the root of the trou-
BILE as no other medicine does. The
pure, harmless, curative herbs and
plants, of which it is composed, are
what render it SO certain ard, at the
same time, so gentle cure.
1t helps and strengthens the stom-
ach. purifics and tones up the sys.
tenn.
Sold by druggists. price 10 cents
to Sl.00 per bottle.
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who suffers from weakness and disease of
the delicate and important organs that are
distinctly feminine is sure to fail of happy
wifehood. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton imparts health, strength, virility and
elasticity TO the womanly organism. 1t fits
for healthy wifehood and capable mother
hood. It allays Inflammation, heals ulcera-
ton, soothes pain and invigorates and
vitalizes. 1t banishes the nausea and COM
plants of the expectant period and makes
the little one's arrival easy and almost
painless. It insures baby's health and
bountiful supply of nourishment. Thou
sands of homes that for years had only
needed the added tie of baby to make
them happy now resound with the laughter
of happy, healthy childhood, as a result of
the use of this remedy. Over 90, COO wo-
men have testified to its marvellous results
il writing.
This wonderful medicine is the discovery
of an eminent and skillfll specialist, Dr.
r. v. Pierce, for thirty years chief consult
ing physician to the great Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. By
writing to DR.. Pierce, ailing women can
secure the free advice of specialist who
has treated more women than any other
physician in the world, and avoid the dis
gushing examinations and local treatment
insisted upon by obscure doctors. The
Favorite Prescription is sold by all good
medicine dealers
AL about the home treatment of ordi-
nary diseases. Send 81 one cent stamps, to
cover cost of mailing only, for paper-cov-
cred copy of Dr. Pierces Common Sense
Medical Adviser Cloth binding 81 stamps.
Address Dr.. K. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Found.

At Matthaei's drug store, "a marye-
lous cure for all kidney complaints,
nervous exhaustion and female weak.
ness. 1t is Foley's Kidney Cure.
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Castoria..

aCastoria Is an excellent medicine for chill
dren, Mothers have repeatedly told me OF its
good effect upon their children"
Da. G. G. OsaooD,
Lowell, Mass.
~Castoria is the Lest remedy for children -
which am acquainted. l hope the day is cot
far distant when mothers wiiIconsider thereal
interest of their children and use Castoria in
stead of the various quack nostruns which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
Dr.. J. D. KNcHKLoE,
Conway. Ark.
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Rich Men of The Past.

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an ice-cream sign a long ways of.
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Evening star., 1898-10-13
Good Luck for the Police.

Young Mr.. Powell came so near joining
Dorsey Foultz yesterday, with the added
prestige of an escape from the hands of the
Washington police, that he gave the COM
munity a decided shock. Perhaps if he
ever comes to realize what a scare he
caused among the guardians of the law he
may be in measure compensated for the
failure of his enterprise. Yet he has prob
ably only himself to blame for his recap
ture, for If he had jumped train in the
Baltimore and Ohio yard, where he soon
found himself after pulling aside the bolt
at his cell door and walking out through
the back yard. he might by this time have
been far away, as safe from arrest as his
distinguished colleague, already mentioned
ana Frank Funk, and perhaps some others
who are not definitely enumerated But
Powell, with the faulty of the average
criminal. persisted in haunting the homes
of his relatives, the very places where the
policemen and detectives would be most
likely to look for him. and so was readily
and neatly trapped anew.
Thus the police have to thank their lucky
stars that they were dealing with a man
of little discrimination, else they would be
in sad quandary today. His escape from
the station house reflects no great credit
Evening star., 1898-10-13
Porto Rico Evacuated.

The formalities preceding the transfer Of
sovereignty in Porto Rico from Spain to
the United States have practically been
concluded, according to the dispatch from
Gen. Brooke, which was received today and
appears in the news columns. The flag will
be noisted next Tuesday and from that
time forward Spain will cease to exist as a
governmental factor on the island The
work of evacuation may not be completed
by the 18th, but that fact vill not delay
the assumption of possession by this gov
ernment. The joint commission III Porto
Rico has had few difficulties II. reaching an
agreement in comparison with that in
Cuba owing to the far greater military
force in the latter island and the more ex-
tensive interests which Spain is seeking to
save from the crash. Then too Cuba is
not being transferred directly from Spanish
TO American sovereignty as is Porto Rico,
ana this fact operates to embarrass the
American commissioners somewhat in their
dealings. But the Spanish eplescnratiye3
on the Cuban commission will find .hat
they, too, must walk the straight path and
abandon their present position of obstruc-
uon and resentment.
Evening star., 1898-10-13
The President as IA Speaker.

Tn, Presid, MT is giving the country re-
Iew,d evidence of his unusual ability as a
public speaker. and especially in the way
Of aptueSs and the coming OF teIiihS
phrases lie manifested tu-s quality IN the
campaign of 1896, anu ii one sentence IN
particular summed up the contest OF that
year most frlicitously. rree silver on the
one side and prote. tIOn On the other had
L., en- e,d by numberiess speakers in very
effective. fashion. but wien Mr.. Mckinley.
addressing a delegation Of Wage-earnerS
from his front steps i'll Canton, sald that
the thing to do was not to open the mlnts
hut the mills the country responded at
once to a vote-making statement The re-
publicarS everywhere caught it up, and 1t
appearrd ON The transparencies of march
ing clubs in every state in the Union.
ON his Journey through Iowa the other
GAY tho President expressed himself IN
most happy way. At one place. in refer
ring to the unexpected responsibilities in
CURED by the war he declared of the
American people that they have the cour-
age of destiny" At another place. in COM
pairing the business conditions of today
with those uf two years ago, he said that
we have gone from labor seeking employ
ment to employment seeking labor. And
at Omaha on yesterday his carefully pre-
I,ared address was gem of its kind and
altogether worthy of SO notable an occa-
sion
Mr.. Lincoln. of all our Presidents, pos
sessed this gift in the highest degree. In
tact it was the exercise of ii in the famous
debate with Judge Douglass which first
drew attention to the genius of the man
and laid the foundation of his triumph at
Chicago in 1860 The learning and the elab-
crate uJteranCes of Mr.. Seward succumbed
To- the knack possessed by this Illinois law
Yer Of stating a great problem in few
words and setting 1t off with illustrations
of th, highest. if sometimes of the home
lIest. common sense. His legacy of epi
gram and Illustration is, lnGeed, the richest
III our political annals.
General Harrison has attracted very wide
attention in this same line. and Mr.. Nc
kinley well deserves 10 rank with him
both are men OF the highest sincerity, both
go straight to the point. and both clothe
their ideas in plain and readable English.
They are Invaluable TO their party on the
stump and good models for the young men
10 follow.
Evening star., 1898-10-13
Spain at Paris.

Spain is carrying herself at Paris not as
q conquered nation but one voluntarily
negotiating for peace in the interests of
humanity She seems to have forgotten
the loss Of her ships, the surrender of her
forces at Santiago and Manila, the protocol
signed for her by Ambassador Cambon,
and everything else that brought her to
sue for cessation of hostiliues. She pre-
sents her case very much as one would
ready and not unwilling to appeal to arms
again if necessary to enforce a contention.
This may be mere bluff or it may arise
from the amiability and moderation of the
American demands. SPAN may again be in
error about the American character and
temperament. Her first mistake was in as
Stunning that she could make short work in
IN" field Of people whom she characterized
a. mere pigs and traders. She found her
self confronted on both sea and land by
her superiors in every way. She was done
for so quickly she must nave felt the force
Of the inquiry as to what the war was be-
gun for.
Was she surprised at the moderation of
the American terms? Did she expect such
Us are the fashion in Europe, and would
have been presented by any of those pow
ers in the hour of victory? Has she been
rupean and the American fashion? Does
~he associate moderation with timidity or
Indt tcisiOn? Does she really believe that the
failure to demand big indemnity argues
weakness on the part OF the United States,
and JusJties her in assuming that this gov
ernment either does not know the value, or
mas not the enterprise, OF Its opportunity ?
While the United states is the victor,
with the power and the rignJ TO enforce its
own DEGREES. there IS no disposition 10
nake the fact ofIensIveIy prominent at
Paris Al the same time too much should
not tee conceded To the matter of ceremony
and good taste. II necessary, the Span
ards should be brought to understand at
= not TOO distant day precisely how mat
ters stand, ana what the victory in Ameri-
can eyes cOmprehends- Just as it was
necessary TO bring the war to an early
close in the interests of both parties, so is
II necessary now TO push the proceedings
at Paris with all reasonable expedition. A
treaty III time, like d stItch in time. serves
q very valuable purpose.
Evening star., 1898-10-13

! upon him, for he merely took advantage of
freedom. 1t remains now for the police
officials to ascertain just now il came to
pass that the cell of so important a pris-
oner was left Unsecured in this manner. 1t
is interesting also to inquire into the ar
rangement and discipline of a police sta
tion email ling a prisoner who has once
passed through his cell door to get clear
away into the open without attracting any
attention, especially in the middle of the
day. OF course, the station house is not
regarded as an exceptionally strong place
of detention, for prisoners not usually
confined in them for more than few
hours. sometimes in exceptional cases re-
chain of punishment and detention it is
highly important that the station cell
should be at least strong enough to prevent
quick and easy escape.
A prompt investigation of this case will
doubtless disclose the facts and throw light
by Powell's escape. IL may be possible to
learn why a prisoner who has been sup
posed to have been searched can have on
his person the means of picking a lock, or,
If as is asserted in this case why lock is
used which is capable of being picked with
the unaided fingers. In almost any view of
the affair it is clear that there has been
gross carelessness somewhere along the
line, and it deserves speedy punishment.
Evening star., 1898-10-13
The Illinois Strike Riots

The d~plOrIble tragedy at Virden, Illinois,
yesterday. was in some respects unique
II involves certain responsibilities which
del end for their adjustment somewhat
upon the personal point OF yi=w of the OBJ
server. but more directly upon the law
ana the facts. The case is that of a gov
crncr Of "A state who, knowing that condl-
UoLs resembling anarchy prevailed at 4
certain place. refused to take the initiative
10 prevent bloodshed. though clearly cog
infant Of its imminence
The strike at ViTden has been of half a
year duration. Ii is based on the de-
mands of the coal minrrs for a rate of 10
cents ton The company employing them
has offered - cents. which the men have
refused. denouncing the corporation as av-
aricious- The company, failing TO persuade
the miners 10 return, and having to choose
one Of TWO alternatives, either to suspend
business, or to hire other miners, chose
the latter. The strikers made it Impossible
10 secure help from the immediate neigh
borhOod, threatening violence to those who
would accept employment under the COM
pany. especially at the companys rates.
The corporation therefore undertook to
bring in miners from other states, which
the law did not forbid it to do II
brought one lot of 81 ch men from a south
ern state, but the strikers prevented them
from going to work, threatening them with
violence.
The company officials appealed to the gov
ernor for protection in re-estabIishing their
business. The governor refused taking the
ground that the company was acting
against the best interests of the state in
importing minsrs whom he characterized