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find her in possession Of fortified coal.
ing stations ut Trinidad, Barbados,
jamaica and Belixel, off the coast OF
Panama. Off the Atlantic coast,
about opposite the city of Charleston,
she has the Island Of Bermuda, which
has been recently very strongly forti'
fed, and where she has enough coal 10
supply one of her largest fleets for a
considerable time. To the north of us
she has coaling stations and forts at
Halifax and Quebec. The extent and
the strength Of her possessions are
very wonderful when you come to
study them.
at is a fact ot'generally known
that England and the United States
possess nearly 80 per cent. of the coal
of the world. The only other great
coal fields outside of these countries
are those in China. If England and
the United States were TO reach an
understanding, therefore, that when
either one or the other was seriously
threatened coal would be made con
trahand of war. they would have nc
need to be iu fear of any great danger
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trance to the Suez canal and her coal
ing stations at the entrance TO the
Red sea and at Sokrata island, at the
mouth of that sea, make her also the
mistress of those waters. The public
will recall the great ostentation with
which the German fleet under Prince
Henry left for Asiatic waters several
months ago. That fleet was obliged
to coal at English coaling stations
three times on its way to it's destina-
ton, and if England were to refuse to
furnish Germany with coal tomorrow
Prince Henry's fleet would never be
able to get back. England has num-
Der of coaling stations off the east
coast of Africa, and in the Arabian
sea. They are the islands of Mauri-
thus off Madagascar, Cape Colony,
Beluchistan, Bombay, Columbia, Cey-
lon and Calcutta. In the China sea
England has we'll fortified coaling
station at Singapore. She has also
recently acquired coaling station in
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FEAR In BATTLE.-"When you hear
a soldier say that he would as soon
fight as eat, or that he can 60 into
battle without feeling the least bit
afraid, just present him my compli-
ments and tell him for me that he is
either a fool or a liar" said General
Sheridan after listening to an officer
boasting about his GOODNESS and brave
ry.
81 have been in as many battles as
any of them, perhaps, and l am not
ashamed to say that l was scared
every time, and sometimes my knees
almost knocked together. The truly
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The system has the services of 2,3O(
men stretched along the coast from
Bar Harbor, Me-, to Galveston, Texas
These are divided into "a central sta
tions about 60 to 100 miles apart along
the coast. The stations are in turr
connected directly by telegraph with
the signal office of the navy department
and operators are on duty night ant
day keeping the navy department ir
constant telegraphic touch with the
entire stretch of Atlantic and gul
coasts.
Secretary Long projected the system
month ago, and $4,000 was set aside
to establish the points of observation
along the coast. After selecting the
81 central points from Maine to Texas
rush orders were given to build obser
vation towers and towers for the OBJ
servators. The naval militia was
drawn on TO make the different obser-
vation towers, and five militiamen
with the rank of naval quartermaster,
are now on duty at each of these sta
tions.
The towers are completed and also
the small houses for their living pur;
poses. There are 233 of these militia
men now in service. The next steI
was to have the lighthouse service
made an adjunct to this coast observa
ton. This was done through the CO.
operation of the treasury department
and the lighthouse force of 1900 men
scattered from Maine to Texas are
assisting the work of observation.
The life saving service was brought
into similar cooperation, so that now
,O6O life-savers are added to the OBJ
servatlon force. The 81 central sta
tions, with the numerous lighthouses
and life saving stations, make a com.
plete chain of observation points, al
connected by telegraph or telephone
with one another and with the navy
department.
By arrangement with the telegraphit
com panies, the reports from these OBJ
servers take precedence over the pri'
vate telegraphic business, so that the
navy department is able to get imme
diate notice of the approach of any
hostile fleet or suspicious ship. The
work of observation has been thor
oughly systematized. Watches are
kept on the towers throughout the
day and night. The life-saving crews
in particular are assigned to night
duty, and they patrol the beach
Throughout the night on the lookout
for approaching ships. Allthe central
points and the observers have been
supplied with telescopes and full ap'
pliances for marine observation. They
are also supplied with torches, rockets
and other paraphernalia for signaling
The results already secured have
shown the efficiency Of the plans
adopted. Naval vessels passing along
the coast are able to signal day o.
night by torches and otherwise with
the naval observers along the beaches
The signals are Immediately telegraph,
ed to the navy department here. Thus
the naval vessels can be kept in con-
stant communication with the depart
ment without the necessity of coming
into port.
Captain Bartlett sleeps throughout
the night alongside the telegraph in
strument and ready to convey his su-
periors wosd of the approach of any
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OUT HUNTING.

he was plausible young fellow, and
he received considerable attention.
1t will be remembered that young
McQuary promised to write letter tc
THE ENQUIRER on his return from
Cuba, and as matter of interest
The ENQUIRER promised to print it
in connection with a cut of him made
from a photograph taken opposite the
Ganson Dry Goods store. The last
that was heard from McQuary, direct
ly, was about the middle of February
when he took a steamer at Charleston
for Jacksonville, Fla. The Cuban sit
uation began to grow more and more
critical about that time, and the young
traveller appeared to be lost in the
shuttle. But whether of any interest
or not, The ENQUIRER had promised
a letter and the picture, and so some
weeks ago wrote to McQuary's friend
NJ. 5. Glenn, at Mountain Grove, Mo-,
asking as TO his whereabouts. The
reply was not received until last Tues
day. 1t reads rs follows, and the Nc
Quarry cut will be found elsewhere ii
this issue:
MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo-, May %, 1898
Editor Yorkville Enquirer:
Nearly four weeks ago, l received ;
letter of inquiry from you in regard t.
Mr.. r. Allen McQuary, and while
am ashamed that it has never before
been answered, l assure you the reason
was because l kept thinking "the nex'
day" would undoubtedly bring tidings
from the young man. But l har.
heard nothing from him since he was
lust in the act of entering the Sue2
canal, at Port Said, Egypt.
He succeeded admirably in fulfilling
his contract as to Cuba, and after re-
turning to this country, he "stowed
away" at New Orleans on the steamer
"Indrani," and was not heard of again
until at Gibraltar, Spain, and Port
Said, Egypt.
| should have heard from him by
this time from Yokohama, l supposed
but probably he has not had time
enough to get me letter from there
although am confident he has reach
ed that point ere this. I will receive
telegram the moment he sets foot or
American soil at San Francisco, ano
win Immediately notify you after
wards. The reason he could not carry
out his contract with you folks, i:
easily understood, when you consider
the situation he is in in having to &C
as "stowaway."
OF course, in his letter to me from
Egypt, he said he had already "crawl
ed out" made the acquaintance OF the
captain (the crew knew he was on-ir
fact, helped him to conceal his trunk
ETC., and hide himself until thousand
miles or more from America, and thai
they were now fast friends, etc. Said
he had become considerably hardened
to the life of a "salt," and was get
ting along very nicely, althoug III the
climatic changes went somewhat Sc
verely with him for awhile.
think, unless he got mixed up IL
the Gray" near Manila, that l shall
hear of him being in this country by
the 10th of next month, at the farth'
est.
He has shown extraordinary grit, sc
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AROUND THE WORLD.

A Letter That Never Came and Another
That Did.
Although stirring events have taken
place since that time, many of our
readers, no doubt, remember T, Allen
McQuary, the young man who came
through this section last December
representing that he was engaged in
making a trip around the world for an
Arkansaw girl. His story was unique,
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GUARDING THE COAST.
A Perfect System In Operation From Ma
tn TaYaR.

A Perfect System In Operation From Maine
to Texas.
After several weeks of work along
the entire stretch of the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, says a Washington dis
patch, the navy department has COM
pleted the most comprehensive system
for observing the approach of hos
tile fleet that has ever been put in
operation.
A new bureau has been created for
this purpose known as the coast signal
service, in charge of Captain Bartlett,
who attends to this as we'll as the work
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from any one, or from all, of the re-
manning great powers of the earth
combined. 1t looks very much as il
the present war between the United
States and Spain would result in some
such understanding even if there is no
actual alliance"
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far, and I feel confident that he is 60
ing to make it in on time with flying
colors.
Would be pleased to receive copy
of your paper containing whatever
this letter brings out in regard to the
bow. Yours, etc., NJ. S. GLENN.
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brave man is more or less afraid in
the presence Of danger, l wouldn't
want to command body of men who
had no fear, because they would be
forever running into danger. Give me
the man who is afraid, but has the
nerver to control his fear. He will do
his duty we'll, and do it without ex.
posing himself unnecessarily"
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Chinese territory, opposite the island
of Formosa. She has an excellent
coaling station on the south side of
the island of Guinea, and five in Au-
stralia, with one also on the island of
Tasmania. In New Zealand she has
two coaling stations. She also COM
mands the FIJI islands.
ARGUMENT FOR ALLIANCE.
Coming over to the west coast OF
America, we find her strongly fortified
and we'll supplied with coal at Van
couver. Her possessions of the Falk-
land islands, where she has strong for
tifcations and plenty of coal, give her
practically the command of the Straits
of Magellan. St. Helena and Ascen-
sion island, midway between the coast
of Brazil and the coast of Africa, are
hers, and they are also fortified and
coaled. On the west coast of Africa
she has Bathurst, Senegambia and
Monrovia. In the Caribbean sea we
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the Pacific. We should require fewer
warships in the Pacific and fewer for
tiications on western and Alaskan
coasts than would be required il
Hawaii should remain in its present
condition or pass into the possession
of foreign power.
EXAMPLE OF ENGLAND.
"Few persons not conversant with
marine matters have had any appreci-
alton of the necessity of these coaling
stations to the United States until the
present war forced the matter upon
their attention in a striking manner.
A cruiser or battle-ship with a coal
necessary to carry her 5000
miles, steaming at speed of 10 knots
an hour, will exhaust her coal in less
than 1000 miles by doubling her
speed. One of the greatest arguments
in favor of our possession of the
Hawiian islands is that with supply
of coal we'll guarded in Pearl Harbor,
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e% California has women tramp.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
A Buoy,s Long Journey.

The inhabitants of the lonely isle Of
st. kilda were astonished not long ago
at the appearance of great blood red, /,
conical object floating on the wild At
lantic billows to the westward of the
isle. With much difficulty the derelict
was brought to shore. and, as the St.
Kildans had never before seen such q
queer-looking thing and could make no
guess as to its purpose or place in the
scale of created things, they INDUCED in
wild visions of its valuable nature. But,
when the factor came across on his
yearly visit from the. neighboring but
distant island of Great Britain, he iden-
titled it as great iron buoy, which, it
subsequently appeared, had broken
away from its moorings in New York
harbor and drifted in the gulf stream
across the Atlantic. 1t had taken two
years in the passage.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24

first called, from its supposed resem-
blanqe to that substance, soon followed.
1t was first known in Paris in IVA.
Due de Chartres often went at that time
to the Paris coffee-houses to drink a
glass of iced liquor, and the landlord
having one day presented him with his
"arms" formed in edible ice. this kind
of sweetmeat became the fashion. Ger
man cooks at once took up the new art.
1t was not long in reaching England. for
in 1776 French cook resident in Lon
don, named Clermont. wrote "The
Modern Cook" in which sweet ices were
first described for the instruction of
English cooks. The ice cream of
these days is an enormously elaborated
sweetmeat compared with that of the
oldep time.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
ICE CREAM CENTURIES AGO.
The Delicious Summer Cossecsiea
First Manufactured in italy
How II Orlginrtcd.

Early June days generally see the Ice
cream and soda par!ors doing stead
lily increasing business. Ice cream 10
much older sweetmeat than many
persons suppose. In the beginning Of
the seventeenth century goblets made
of ice and also iced fruit-that is. fruit
frozen over were first brought to
table. The limonadiers, or lemonade
sellers, of Paris, endeavored to increase
the popularity of their wares by icing
them, and one. more enterprising than
the rest, an Italian named Procope
Couteaux, in the year 1860, conceived
the idea of converting such beverages
entirely into ice, and about 20 years
later iced liquors-that is, liquors
changed into ice-were the principal
things sold by the limonadiers. By the
end of that century iced liquors were
quite common in Paris.
Ice cream, or iced .'butter," as it was
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
SHOOTING AT SEA.
lt IL Dsacult to shoot Excessively
from q ShiD's Deck-Rule Followed
by American Navy.

Necessarily the deck Of vessel at
sea offers much less satisfactory plat
form from which to shoot than the
solid foundation provided in land fort,
since even when the ocean IS calmest
the vessels must constantly roll from
side to side. Theoretically the best
time to fire would be at the moment be-
tween the rolls, when the deck of the
ship is perfectly level, and in general
way it may be said that an attempt is
made to do the shooting at that in
slant. It is practically impossible,
however, to fire invariably when the
decks are horizontal. No matter how
careful the gunner, the piece is almos,
always exploded just before or jus,
after the proper instant, says the New
York Press.
The American practice, both in the
army and navy. has always been tt
shoot low and always save ammunition
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The elephant has no fewer than 40,-
600 muscles in his trunk alone. while q
man has only 577 in his entire body.
Air in its pure state is composed
thus: Nitrogen, q per cent; oxygen,
2l per cent: other compounds, two per
cent.
1t is noteworthy fact that sheep
thrive best in pasture infested with
moies. This is because Of the better
drainage of the land.
A London specialist says the most
expensive drug in physostigmine, an
ounce of which would cost nearly ST.
100000. 1t is prepared from the Gala
bar bean, and is used in diseases of the
eye.
Glass bricks are gradually coming
into use, and it is said that glass will
soon be used for making statues for
public squares, as it resists the corrod.
ing effect Of the weather much better
than marble or granite.
The so-called Liver" or pyloric caeca
of the common starfish, has been found
by Miss Ellen Stone to be closely re.
lated in function to the pancreas of the
vertebrates. The work was done in
the laboratory of Brown university un.
der the direction of Mr.. Il. w. Tower.
The largest stock yards in the world
are in Chicago. The combined plants
represent an investment of over $1O,.
100000. The yards contain 20 miles
OF streets, 20 miles of water troughs, sc
miles of feeding troughs and rs miles
OF water and drainage troughs. The
yards are capable of receiving and &C.
commodating daily 10000 cattle, co..
600 sheep and 10000 hogs.
Drops of Air.-It is not an uncom
mon sight in laboratory where ex
periments with liquefied air are being
conducted to see drops of air falling
on lecture table and running abou,
exactly like drops of water on a hot
stove. In fact, the table may be called
as "red hot" in comparison with tn,
temperature of the liquefed Oxygen
and nitrogen, Of which the drops con
sist.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
All Indications Are That Trade IL
Good Throughout the Country
and On the increase.

New York. June ls-Bradstreets says:
Unprecedented foreign trade totals, in.
volving heavily increased shipments OF
breadstuffs. provisions. raw cotton and
manufactured products: flattering crop
prospects. pointing to very large yield OF
wheat and most other cereals. as we'll as
cotton: profitable railway operations. as
reflected in relatively higher gains in net
than in gross receipts: activity in nearly
all lines OF manufacturing except some
textile branches: prices for most staples
showing heavy advances over the pre-
ceding year; bank clearings exceeding all
previous records at this date; a volume
OF new demand limited in the east and
south to midsummer dullness, but in the
west and northwest comparing favorably
with records OF previous years. and low
rate OF business mortality, are all features
Of the general business situation at the
present time.
r. G. Dun & Co.. in their weekly review
OF trade. say:
''The passing of the war tax bill. the Of
ifering of bonds and the collapse of Letter
and cash wheat. have made the week
somewhat exciting. In spite of some fea-
lures which cannot be justified. the tax
Dill was approved as probably the best
that could be obtained from congress this
year. and gave assurance of needed rev.
enue for the emergency. Its bond provi-
sion has already called out offers for more
than three times the amount desired, and
1t probably will prove the most successful
loan ever invited by the United States. A
great victory in the field could hardly be
more important. especially in its influence
on foreign opinion. Not less significant
was the excess of exports over imports in
May by s56.sso.s .s5s making merchandise
balance in favor of the United States of $571.-
sS9.0S7 in II months of the fiscal year. while
net imports Of gold were slO2. .9s9. though
in no previous fiscal year have the net
imports of gold exceeded s97. .466.l27 in 1852.
mot less important is the official show
ing that this nation has supplied to others
10.05S,2OS bushels of wheat and 2O4.O0O 0GO
bushels Of corn in liz months. without
checking receipts from farms. and sees
wheat fall 20 cents in a week because a
crop is promised greater than the last by
10O,0O0.00O bushels. This decline would have
come sooner had not Mr.. Letter looked for
larger gains. but the benefit to this coun-
try by the average advance Of nearly %
cents for the crop year on wheat export
ed has been about $4sC00.000. and to pro-
ducers much greater.
Failures for the week have been 2ss
In the United States. against 234 last year.
and 20 in Canada. against SO last year"
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
Home. of the Anthracite Miners.

Each little house, with the boxes,
cubby-holes, and fences about it, has
been built by the man who lives in it.
And he is a laborer, a struggler for
mere existence, not deft in the use of
tools, nor with an eye for the sym
metrical, nor with an appreciation for
anything beyond the most primal facts
of living. The roofs of the buildings
slant at all angles, with no two sides Of
the same length or detection. One por-
tion will have caves, while its compan-
ion will scorn the luxury. The same
incongruity prevails everywhere. Some
of the small openings used for windows
are high, while others are low. One
door will open. in, and another out.
The hinges haye evidently come from
the company JSrap-pile, and the staples
and iatches and locks from the same
source. Some of the roofs have shin
giles, others weather-boards, while
others arc formed of great pieces of
rusty sheet-iron.-Jay Hambridge, in
Century.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24

ing its object with force equal to that
of 1880 tons falling one foot. And
yet, comparatively speaking. they are
very harmless. Thus during the cne-
day bcmbardment of Alexandria by the
British feet of IL ships, lasting from
z a. m. TO 4:3O p. M. no less than 3,165
shells were thrown into the town. yet
not more than 800 Egyptians were
killed-that is, it took, roughly speak
ing, six shells to kill one man.
Again, during the Franco-German
war, the Germans threw 100000 shells
into Belfort, only killing GO French
men, or 500 shells to kill one French
man. At Strasburg, in the same war, it
took IS shells to kill every man. And
at the siege of Paris 100000 shells only
killed 1O7 and wounded 200.
Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
THE MAN IN THE TRUNK.
Anew Way the Thieves of Paris Hav.
Of Getting the burglar
Into the House.

Two well-dressed men from Paris
drove up to the best hotel in country
town in the department of the Eure, re-
lates a Paris correspondent, and en-
gagged double-bedded room. They de-
posted very heavy trunk in corner,
and then went out to see the town, tell
ing the landlady, widow, that they
would return at night. But night came
and the two men did not come back at
the time specified. The landlady wait
ed, much surprised, and kept her estab-
lishment open after the usual hour for
closing. This was soon observed by
the local gendarmes on duty, who en-
tered the hotel and reminded the pro-
prietess of the place that the curfew, or
it's modern substitute, had tolled the
knell of parting day, and that it was
full time to extinguish lights in all inns
and cafes. The widow said she was
waiting for two men who had left big
trunk behind them. This caused the
gendarmes to reflect little. One of
them, well versed in criminal annals,
suddenly remembered the Gouffe case.
He also thought of the young stamp col
lecteor who was murdered in Paris a
few years since, and whose body was
thrust into trunk. Anxious to secure
all the credit of discovery which might
lead to promotion and glory, the gen.
darme learned in criminal lore asked
the widow to let him see the trunk, and
told his companion to wait for him at
the bar or buvette of the hotel. The
landlady accordingly led the man to
the room, and he began to gauge the
weight of the big box, when suddenly
the lid flew up and out jumped a wiry
little man, who brandished big revolv-
er in his right hand. The widow
screamed and the gendarme was tenn
porarily thrown off his guard, but he
soon pulled himself together and grap-
pied with the person who had been act
ing jack-in-the-box. The other gen.
darme, hearing the landlady's shrieks
and the scuffling overhead, was soon on
the scene of action and helped his COL
league to manacle the mysterious per-
son who had jumped out of the trunk
and to take him to the lookup. There
the fellow refused to give his name or
to say anything about his.companions,
who are supposed to have returned to
Paris, leaving him to plunder the inn
when the owner and her servants were
asleep.-St. Louis Republic.