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lamp in the oil room. The ship was a total loss, but this time the loss of life was comparatively small.
 The boys on the sailing frigate Eury- dice were not so fortunate. She was homeward bound from the Bermudas. About 300 officers, men and boys were on board, and she came up along the Isle of Wight with every sail drawing and her ports open. Off Ventnor, the famous watering place on the Isle of Wight, the boys manned the rigging and cheered and cheered to those on the beach. A squall struck the old frigate, over she went and nearly ev- cry person on board was drowned right before the eyes of hundreds of persons within hailing distance on shore.
 Ten years before Ericsson built the monitor Captain Cowper Cowles of the British navy invented what he called a turret-ship. It was not until some years later that the Lord High Ad- miral accepted the captains plans and ordered a turret ship built. H. M. s. Captain was launched in 1869 and seemed to be ''hoodOoed'' ship from the start. She was a full rigged iron ship, armored and with steam as an auxiliary power. High bulwarkS were intended to be let down, uncover ing the two turrets when the ship was cleared for action.
 On September ', 1870, she was sailing in the Bay of Biscay. A squall sprung up and struck the topheavy ship full abeam. She 'heeled over and never righted Of the 490 persons on board only eighteen were saved. When the court martial sat to try some one for negligence in losing the ship the only person they could try was James May, a gunner. Every other officer was lost.
 The Victoria, with 700 persons aboard, capsized in the Thames on May A, 1881, and over 300 were drowned Tn the merchantman serv- ice hundreds of ships and thousands of lives have been lost right in port, when the ship is supposed above all other times to be safe It is only a few days ago that considerable wreckage was done right here in San Francisco har- bor.
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The capsizing of the Royal George is probably the most disastrous accident on record. It was the flagship of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfeldt. The ship was anchored off Spithead at the mouth of the Thames. A pipe below the water line needed some repairs, and as 1t was so simple an affair the ship was not docked In order to get at the pipe the ship was "heeled,'' or listed to one side by running one broadside of guns from one side over to the other The Royal George was a line of battle ship and the pride of the British navy and in full commission. All her off cers and men were on board, together with any number of their visiting friends, to say nothing of swarm of trades people. Soon after she was "heeed" stiff land breeze sprung up and the great ship capsiZed. Nearly eight hundred people were drowned.
 The battleship Eastern Monarch an- chored off Spithead on June ?, 1859. She had just reached home port after a voyage from India and had on board. not only her own officers and crew, but a great number of invalids from the army and navy stationed in India. She had in all over 800 men and officers on board. Many had been absent from home for years. There was great re- joicing that night when the Eastern Monarch anchored within sight of the shores of old England. During the merriment a lamp was upset, and the ship burned to the waters edge, with great loss of life.
 A similar accident destroyed H. NJ. s. Goliath On the night of December 9, 1875, just three days before Christmas. She was a training ship, and had aboard over 500 officers, men and boys, mostly boys. She had just returned from a long cruise and lay in the Thames. The boys were anticipating the Christmas festivities, and in their pranks upset a
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worlds history-fnds his squaw not so obedient. not so devoted. not so unques- tioningly simple and confding. As a great historian says, the advance in learning breeds pessimistic, inuuiring spirit Buckle lauds this spirit, and to 1t traces all the glory of modern science. But Jim doesn't agree with Buckle and when Mahala, after leaving the Indian school pessimistically inquiries of her lord why the greater share of the work is hers. and the greater profit is his. Jim becomes disgusted at her want of proper feeling, at her irreverent questioning of precedent, at her iconoclastic desire 10 destroy the time-honored decrees of the wickiup
 So when there's a question in old Los mind as to which, the son or the daugh- ter, is to be yielded into Uncle Sam's keeping for decade or so. the wise old Indian decides in favor Of the boy.
 People who have had years of experi ence in teaching and training Indians de- clare that the Nevada Indians compare very favorably in intelligence and docilitv with those in the East. They rank the Pi- utes first. The Shoshones come next and the Washoes last.
 These copper-colored school bows and girls seem altogether happy in their sur roundings. The kindergarten. with it's cir- cle of dark-faced babies, singing playing
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pie, clay-eaters are as common as dope eafers in St. Louis. Onre aC- quired the habit takes such a firm hold on person that it is next to impossi ble to shake it off.
 The strength of the habit does not seem to depend so much on the effects produced as upon the acidulous taste of the lighter quality of clay found in the South, which contains among other ele- mentS silica and alum.
 There is a belief that as in the case of Irene Jones, the habit originally had it's rise in the tasting by children of make-believe pies made of the clay.
 It is in this way at least that the habit is acquired by white people in the South. Of late years a great many young ladies of good families have be- come slaves to the habit. The explana- tion given by them has always been that while playing as children with col ored girls of their own age, they were induced to eat the mud pies and quickly became addicted to the habit.
 Irene Jones is suffering from inf1am- matory rheumatism, and her conditioS is due, in large measure, 1t isi believed, to her clay eating propensities.
 She came here a month ago from Southern Arkansas and secured work as @ servant t 3925 Washington av- enue. ,
 The clay here is not as good as the Arkansas article, and she told the doc tor she had not been eating 1t very reg ularly.
 The desire for clay does not come on her at regular intervals.
 T eat it when I want it. and when I don't want it let it alone" she said.
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character, unless there's good reason be- nlio ms oetermlnaton-you have not gained this Indians good will. There's a grudge against some one or something American that mere clothes and food and shelter will not cure. It would be inter estng 10 know just what Injustice or in- herlted resentment or imagined wrong makes this young fellow differ with his mates.
 These boys keep an eye upon the news papers. They're well informed upon cur rent events. Washington is their hero at least 1t Is his name that comes from most or them in answer to a demand for the greatest man that ever lived. Of course, this may be school boy prudence or the youthful hypocrisy that seeks to give the answer not in their own minds put supposed to be in that of the ques- frage was broached to these latter-dav savages nearly every boy in the room de- c!ared that If the thing lay with him his sisters should vote; But when the ques- ton was put to the girls, conservative demure Mademoiselle Lo cast down her eyes, simpered and declined to commit herself. No doubt she considers voting quite as unladylike, fully as shocking. as the wearing of bloomers
 But education and civilized surround lngs have had their effect upon these h. alan el maidens nevertheless. Only fifty of the one hundred and fifty students at the school are girls. And the reason of this Is not a feminine distaste for learning or civilization, but the Knowledge gained by eXperlence among the WaShoes the Sho- shones and the Flutes that when a girls mind is enlarged by study by living on terms of equality with her brothers by receiving the little attentions and a greater or less degree of deference which civilized man has decreed is woman's due, she is less and less inclined to act out the part which her mother. her mothers mother and generations of red women before her never dreamed of evading. In short, Mahala. civilized, with good command of English, accustomed to decent clothes proper food and just treatment. objects to being a drudge
 Jim,like all other Jims of all colors
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girls may become Those red-brown fln- gers which have learned to write and to sew so well are hopelessly incapable when it comes to a question of running typewriter, even. For the boys too, destiny has ordained only subordinate positions. With a few exceptions, I found a surprising lack of ambition among them. They expect and are con- tent to become farm hands, laborers and kitchen servants.
 Tt isn't worth while" declared Car sonite. Whats the use of spending all that money on Indian girls and boys who'd be happier and just as well off out in the campoodies, where they all wind up sooner or later? There's many a white orphan lacks the care those girls and boys get over wonder. And I tell you. nine out of ten of 'em anyway go back to the old life as soon as they're allowed to leave the school. Whats the use of teaching em to dress and act ana talk like white folks when they take to the blanket and the moccasin as soon as they get back to the wlcklup?'
 The school at Carson Is too young yet to answer this question. It hasn't yet sent out a young generation to battle against old habits and inherited tenden- cies toward savagery It can point to individual cases, instances of such excel lence that one is tempted to idealize. But
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n DERHAPS in no location during
 the Civil War did people display
 greater terror than at Madison, l Indiana, when word came that
 the raider Morgan with his band was sweeping through the country, and would undoubtedly make that town his headquarters for a day or two at least.
 The citizens made up their minds to resist his encroachment, and welcomed as allies the panicstricken country people who flocked in from all quar- ters, believing they would be safer than in their isolated homes; for with the credulity of rural ineXperience they, had accepted floating rumors as actual facts. and endowed Morgan with the attributes of demon; the more imagi- native boldly declaring that even torture wa5 resorted to by him when vaIuables demanded were not forth coming.
 In anticipation of the arrival of these refugees long tables were arranged in the market place. and for hours before the first dilapidated. creaking mule wagon, with it's frightened load made its appearance the housewives of Mad isor had co-operated in preparing food in quantities sufficient for the needs of hundreds. nor were their calculations misplaced; the town was for many days thronged with people flying from the dreaded Morgan. Numbers had ta-
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games and marching, Is precisely like any other save that the voices seem bit un- familiar not so shrill, more nasal. deeper pitched: and there Is a slight SlugglShness of action one doesn't notice in white chil- drep. I saw a group of girls chattering and laughing in the washroom, off one or the dormitories-mo of neat, small, white-bedded, iron cleanliness-whil they washed those round brown faces of theirs and combed the shining, straight. black hair. They looked like pretty human To was playing marbles These boys have good football and baseball teams. They were beaten, though, by the Carson boys not long ago. When l asked one of the beaten team for the reason he smiled sly ly, and younger boy volunteered the an- swer:
 were 'fraid of hurting the Carson boys"
 Which isn't complimentary, though 1t may be true, so strong and well-developed are the Indian athletes,
 But it isn't all play for these young Americans. Their industrial training is not neglected, and all the work about the school from running the engine to mak- ing the rag mating that covers the sister. There's a curious case here of a boy who reads and writes backward; who can read ordinary handwriting only when it is held before d looking glass and turned topsy-turvey as Alice saw it done in looking-glass world. There's ge- nius, too here-John Howe, Washoe Indian, who possesses a rare faculty of making mechanical drawings. The loco- motive he drew from memory, after sec ing a train but once or twice in his life, is declared by mechanical engineers ab- solutely correct in every detail, so quick and accurate are his powers of observa- tion, so great is his love for everything pertaining to machines of all kinds.
 They have a natural taste for music and drawing, but the great majority here as elsewhere is hopelessly commonplace The Indian mind seems unable to ad- vance beyond a certain point When that point is reached an insurmountable bar rier intervenes and forbids further culti- vation. Cooks, maids, seamstresses, the
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HTE H MUD PIE
 IND NOV EATS CLHY

TEN years ago Irene Jones, at play
 with other children in the
 branch which ran by the door 4 of her cabin home in Southern Arkansas, ate mud pie. She Is now a confirmed clay-eater and is one of .Dr. Suffers patients at the City Hos pital.
 She is 23 years old. She was 13 when she first tasted clay. She has eaten it regularly ever since. In the South, among the colored peo-
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WATER RAcURE FOR INDIGESTION.

we must give special attention to the outside of the body as well as the inside" writes Mrs. s. T. Rorer on What to Eat When You Have Indiges- tion," in the March Ladies Home Jour nal. "The skin must be bathed every morning with tepid water, followed by a brisk rub Thisis equally as important as correct diet A good rule is to use water freely inside and out. At least two quarts of water daily should be taken: half pint the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, a cupful of warm water before each meal, and the remaining quantity divided and taken before meals
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INDIAN SCHOOL AT CARSON NEv

TT takes just one visit to an Indian
 school to convince one that Uncle Sam
 doesn't agree with the popular opin-
 ion as to the only recognized process \ of making over a bad Indian into
 good one.
 This is his recipe, as translated into words from his deeds: Catch your h. dian early; the earlier the better; when he is young and tender. At five years old. or four, or even three, is the time to begin. Wash and clean thoroughly. thor oughly thoroughly. Seeson with the best you have of elementary education and
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ranging in age from the baby of the school, who is three, to youths of IS. 19 and 20 There are repre- sentatives of the Flutes. of the -lo- shones and of the Washoes, and to one who knows only the blanNet Indian of small Western mining towns it's a pleas ing shock and surprise to watch this red faced colony and note its exemplary be- havtor, the apparent ease with which It has grown accustomed to the restraint of the buttons and bands civilization has decided upon, the various occupations 1t purSueS' Ile uIIi6enCS WIIu "IISIl IL dL- plies itself to English books and Ameri- can ideaS-and above all, to hear 1t eX- pressing its opinions in good English with the smallest and not in the least disagree
 Very human I found these boys and girls at Carson, brimming with good na- ture, bubbling over with giggles, very much a pAmericaine. These descendants of Indian warriors are the most amenable, the gentlest of pupils, their teachers say. Rarely in some dark breast atavistic tendency which cries out against law and order. But, as rule, it is easier to discipline Lo than his .palefaced brother. As for Mile. LO. she's copper study hours she sits in school demure and neat in her gray uniform with a red rib bon bow at her throat and another tying her dusky braids; but when she isn't studying, when she's sewing or washing dishes or making beds or helping iH the kitchen she's attired in the female na- uOnal dress or shirt waist and skirt, and she's merry and cOmpanionable and very interesting. She plays basketball, like other CO-eds.
 And do you wear boomers when you play?'' I asked a girl of about 14, who sat hemsttching a handkerchief out in the yard, the hot sun beating down upon her uncovered head, with its shining black hair.
 No, mo-" she answered. vehemently. while a torrent of giggles went up from her companions of all ages about her.
 Why not?" I asked.
 But she shook her head and refused to
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you nave or element ary education and simple mechanical training. Then bake slowly, conscientious ly, for a dozen years, about basting care fully with healthy. happy surroundings. Serve with a sauce made up of good na- ture and humane treatment. The re- suit may be recom- mended."
 He allows S167 a year for the mairte- nance and education of every bronze-faCed boy or girl who will leave the familiar. loved diSCOmforts of the wickiup for the neat iron bedsteads, the coZy sitting rooms of the school; who will forego the de- lights of broken vic tualS and Cast-off clothes for the sim pie well cooked food and neat uniform.
 There are 150 real Americans at the h. dian school at Car
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The smallest perfect watch ever made is owned by a Russian princess. It was first placed in an exquisite gold case, cov- cred with the most minute. but literally perfect, Vatican scenes in enamel; then at the princess desire, the works were removed and placed inside splendid dia- mond scarcely two-ffths Of an inch in diameter
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TERROR CREATED
 BY NORGHN'S RAID

In Buried a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14
BaIARWooD PIPE AS A WEAPON


James Gleason of No. 161 Bulls Ferry
Road, Town of Union, was tried in the
General Sessions Court Yesterday after
noon for alleged assault and battery on
Charles Becker of No. 1871 Morgan street.
in the same town. Gleason was on his
way home on the night of November q.
and while passing Becker's house Beck
er's bulldog grabbed him by the calf of
the leg. Gleason kicked the dog in the
neck and the dog howled. Becker and his
wife ran out to see what was the matter
with the dog, and the result was a com
posite fight, in which Becker, Mrs. Beck
er, Gleason and the dog were mixed up.
Gleason came out victorious He put
the dog hors du combat by jabbing the
stem of a briarwood pipe in his eye and
then, as was alleged, he used a knife on
Becker.
Mrs. Becker wanted to take entire
charge of the case yesterday. She was
aggressive and vindictive, and insisted
that the defendant did cut her husband
with a knife, although Becker himself
was not sure that he was cut.
Lawyer James f. Minturn, who appear
ed for the defendant, insisted that Gleason.
had a legal right to kill the dog and to
defend himself. The jury acquitted Glea-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14
NORTH BAPTIST LEAGUE.
Successful Sociable on Monday-The
Programme.

The Young Mems League of the North
Baptist Church held a successful and en-
joyable sociable on Monday evening, the
parlors being filed with the members and
friends of the congregation.
The programme included the following
numbers
Overture, piano and violin, Professor A.
Byrne and Master A. Byrne. Jr.; So
prano solo, Miss Nellie Mughson; piano
duet, Misses Morgan and Fannie Lud-
Ium; tenor solo, Mr.. William Clapp; vio-
lin solo, Master A. Byrne, Jr-. accompanied
by Professor A. Byrne; vocal duet, Mrs.
Howard butcher and Mrs. c. N. Halsted;
dulcimer solo, Mr.. Harry Narberg, accom-
panied by Professor julius Herzog; recita-
ton. Mr.. Fred Ramoth; soprano solo, Miss
Jennie Van Newell, and dulcimer solo (se-
lected), Mr.. Harry Narberg.
The various umbe on the programme
were also accompanied by Professor Ju-
Illus Herzog, Misses Margaret and
Mamie Hummer and Jennie Van Newell.
The entertainment committee was kind
" assisted in serving refreshments after
he completion of the programme by the
following observation-disclosures J. w. Kidd,
L. Titus. Heidek and Winans. The COM
mittee of arrangements was composed of
g. N. Halsted, William Clapp and A. Pol
lack
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14


ness is vast. He is a very entertaining
man. ard tells Of some interesting happen
ings during his career. Al a club recently
he was called upon To spin a yarn and
told the following tale for u fact:
About five years ago he was engaged
to play the part of an insane inventor in
a New York production. and never having
been affected with instSiity, was at 4 loss
how to proceed to size a natural per-
Torrance of such a part. After days and
nights of worriment, he concluded 70
spend a few days In an insane ASYLUM,
After approaching several friends he saw
the only VA to get in an insane asylum
was to become crazy; so he left, as he
told his friends, to go crazy. Returning
to his home, he proceeded 10 act in every
way un%naturaly until his wife called a
physician. who decided to place him in
an insane ward temporarily. This being
accomplished. he set to work to make a
study OF the real lunatics. After being
confined some thirty or forty days, his
Eext thought was to get back home; and
il was only then that it struck him 1t
might be more difficult to get out than in.
He sent for his physician and told him
he wished TO return home, but he replied
1t would take fully a year to cure him.
Poor Phillips. after confiding in his
physician, begged him to get him out;
but the doctor couldn't see it that way,
and decided he should remain.
The next move was TO send for his
managers to whom he explained the sit
uation, and after utilizing their influence
Phillips was released and the play was
produced.
Critics who saw the first performance
say MI. Phillips. as the insane inventor,
was the hit of the production, adding,
his performance was SO natural His
part in The Electrician is that of an in
surance agent, and is a clever piece of
work.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-14
The KELLYs' GREAT STAG.
\ Large Audience Delightfully."-
Eufertafaed

a LaFSe Auulence DeftsutfuhA
Entertained
The Thomas j. Kelly Association held
their third stag and smoker last evening
in Bank Hall, Morgan and Grove streets.
and the spacious room on the whole first
floor was packed with fully -four hundred
men. Last evenings entertainment far
surpassed all the previous ones given by
the club, and it will not be long before
the club will be one of the most popular
of its kind throughout Hudson county.
On a platform at the far end of the hall
in the programme, and a plumber of prom
inent citizens, including the standard
bearer of the club.
Mr.. James J. Wiseman acted as master
of ceremonies during the evening and
filled the roll very well.
The programme was a large one, and it
long after midnight before the last
number on it was called by Mr.. Wiseman.
The features of the evenings entertain
ment were.-Empire City Quartette, Mr..
Sidemin, humorist; ]. S. Donnelly, tenor
solo, Con Corbin, comic songs; John
Smith, song James Conner, song; Messrs.
Hoffman and Broderick. musical selec-
tions; Joe Black and Fred Gapp, duet;
Mr.. Mcbride, piano solo; Mr.. Waters, inn
itations; Master o'Nein. boy soprano;
Charles Farmer, piano solo; Chris Laub,
song; Edwin J.. DAILY and Mr.. Neddo, MINI
les; Professor NJ. Ginsberg, magician, and
George Thomas, the well known humor-
list. During the evenings pleasure re
freshments were served.