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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

The Atlanta Constitution says
although nothing may ever come of
the Nicaragua canal project, there is
still ground for hope that the two
oceans may yet be connected by means
of the Panama canal. Some time ago
it was announced that wealthy Brit
ish syndicate had purchased the canal
franchise, and that work thereon
would be commenced without delay;
but since the announcement lacks con-
firmation, there is probably nothing
in it. Our consular agent writing
from Panama states that the canal can
easily be completed within the next
ten years if sufficient men are EN-
ployed. Up to the present time this
monstrous undertaking has cost in
round numbers not less than S275,-
600, 900. Everyone is familiar with
the long story of fraud and disaster
which underlies this enormous ex-
penditure. Suffice it to say that the
French government, though eagerly
embracing the project at the start,
would be ready to part with the fran
chise on moments notice In order
to finish the canal it is estimated that
some $500, 900, 600 must yet be ex-
pended, and France is not able to
shoulder the burden. Up to the pres
ent time the canal extends only four
teen miles. When completed it will
measure distance of fifty-four miles.
from Colon Oh the Atlantic ocean to
Panama on the Pacific ocean. The
width of the canal will be 100 feet Mt
the top and ~ feet at the bottom. In
certain quarters it is urged that the
United States should step in at this
point and undertake to rnish this
canal; but without discussing che
feasibility of this proposition it may
be observed that the completion of
the Panama canal either by national
or /rdividual agencies is one of the
probabilities Of the near futu e."
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

London has discovered an evil at
tached to the motor cab. In case of
the ordinary horse and hanson, an in
toxicated cabman is unpleasant to his
fare, but he can be deposed from his
seat and the horse, which is never
drunk, will go just as well with
another driver. But with the motor
cab it may be more difficult to deal
when the engine driver is discovered
to be incapable. The other night in
Gray's Inn road the man at the wheel
was noticed by the police to be guild
ing his cab in n very erratic fashion,
and he was stopped and taken off the
box. A constable volunteered to
carry ont the contract; but he coz ided
with the curb and gave up the NIB,
leaving the motor-cab standing in the
road
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

William +. Curtis tells curious
story about the late Senator Kenna of
West Virginia, whose statue is to be
placed in the Capitol. When he first
came to Congress Mrs. Kearon, who
lived in the same boarding house,
persuaded him to buy a ticket in a
rattle at church fair for a cooking
stove and complete kitchen outfit.
His ticket turned out to be the lucky
one, and he sent the goods to his
home in West Virginia. While he
was arranging for the shipment at the
railway station he was introduced to
the young lady who afterward be-
came his wife and iocularly invited
her to become his cook. She replied
that she would be very glad to do so.
The next winter Mrs. Kearon sold
Mr.. Mckenna ticket for another fair
given by the same church. This time
the prize was plain gold ring, and
again he was successful. He put the
ring carefully away until it was
needed at his wedding a few months
later, and it so happened that his
bride was the first person to use the
cook stove. Mrs. Kenna is now post
mistress at Charleston, W. Va.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04
The Great Rat Dance of';4.

During the fall of 1874 rats became
serious menace to the farmers of
Jackson county, Kan, and one night
at meeting of the literary society in
the Coleman schoolhouse it was pro-
posed to organize hunt. Sides were
chosen and it was agreed TINT the
losers were to pay for supper and
dance. Three weeks were fixed as
the limit OF the hunt, but this was
reduced to ten days when it was dis
covered that warm weather was MAX
ing it impossible to preserve the tails,
which were to be used in making the
count. AT the end of ten days both
hunting teams assembled at the
schoolhouse with their tails and a
count was made, with the result of
showing $3.50 dead rats in total.
More than 1000 of these had been
killed on the farm of q. W. Mercy
nolds alone. After the count supper
was served aud dance followed un-
iii daylight. The affair is still known
in local annals as the great rat dance.
-Halton Kan. Signal.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

A telegram from Portland, Oregon,
states that within the next few months
raft containing 5000, 900 feet OF
lumber will be constructed and towed
to San Francisco by the firm Of Inman
IL Poulson, owners of large timber
interest. The raft will be 1876 feet
long and SO feet wide. Several RATS
of piling have been towed from the
Columbia river to San Francisco, but
the rafting of sawed lumber is new
undertaking.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

1t has been found by careful obser-
walton that in the New York tenement
district the American family lives the
poorest and at the greatest cost. On
the contrary, the Italian lives in the
most wholesome manner at the least
expense, while the French follow
closely upon the Italian. The Ger.
man is economical, but the cooking is
not as dainty and palatable.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

What compensations France may
ask of Germany in China the latter
will have to pay. Before the trouble
is over China will heartily wish that
she had let Japan have the Liaotong
peninsula rather than run into debt
to Russia, Germany and France for
the means of turning her out. The
diplomatic triumph over which Ii
Hung Chang prided himself seems
merely to have armed China's western
enemies with the means of dismem-
bering her empire.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

Within year or two there will lie
some half dozen Arctic explo rers in
the field---Peary, Jackson, Nansen,
Wellman, Sverdrup and perhaps An
dree, if he be yet alive. The pole
may as well come in and surrender
and save all this trouble.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04
The Recipe.

Mistress-Do you call this sponge
cake? Why, it's as hard as it can be.
New Cook-Yes, mum; that's the
way sponge is before it's wet. Soak
it in your tea, mum, Boston Tray.
eler.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04
THE HUSKER.

To the crow with an eve intent
On kernels Of eight-rowed-yelow,
On ears OF crimpled dent.
The mournful corn stock bows It's head
With murmuring signs of woe;
Ger heaps OF yellow and CLEANS Of red,
The whispering south winds blow.
The red sun dies
In the western skies,
Wide rises the hunters moon,
Through the lucid light
OF the silent night
Rings the chirr u the sly raccoon.
whistle calls clear and mellow.
And the tall hound finds the scent;
Cnheeded the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
The red smutnose and dent.
The lonely corn stock bows its head,
While shadows Its tassels throw
On silver dent and the smutnose red
Go waverinp to and fro.
Elsie II. Egan.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

In some Of the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to draw them, it is
said.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04
TIC breaks ne leaves

Ho breaks ne leaves
OF the tall corn sheaves
Dried crisp in the autumn rime,
While he answers the hail
OF the piping quail
And the blackbird's resounding chime;
And singing, the careless fellow,
Till the morning hours are spent,
He jingles the eight-rowed-y yellow
In heaps with creamy dent.
The faded corn stock bows its head
And leans from Its zigzag row;
From brown husk glmmers the smutnose red
And dent with its golden glow.
The long day through,
From "a mist OF blue
Faint smiles Of the sky fash down;
From the sun unrolled
Snarls n thread Of gold
In those tangles OF curling brown.
Hes calling a noisy Hello"
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04

The diocese Of the Bishop OF Mash
onland in South Africa is six times rs
large rs the whole of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-03-04
The Same,

Inc same.
~ How is the bank doing at the
Gulch:' asked Broncho Pete.
suspended said Alkali Ike.
so? And the bankers?"
"Ditto. Life.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
HIS BUSINESS INSTINCT.

One of the brightest travelling salesmen in modern commerce was thinking se- riously of going to the war
 You see" he was saving to the old military man whose stories of adventure and achievements had kindled his ambi- tion. "I have had experience in every branch of trade that amounts to very much except fighting.
 "I have sold nails, barbed wire. cigars dry goods, paper. paints. oils and num- Der of things. Now, 1t strikes me that I'd like to handle lead for the Government awhile"
 You would have to undergo a good many hardships, remarked his friend
 T don't care. l am not married-no- body but myself 10 think about and I'd like to see if I can't do something But I'm willing to take my chances at getting q monument some day, with the rest of them"
 "Of course, you would want to go as an officer" remarked the old military man.
 I'd like to. But if I found 1t couldn' t be arranged I wouldn't stay away for that reason
 Young man. like your spirit Any thing can do for you I will gladly under take. I'll see if 1t can be arranged for you to have a commission"
 The salesman looked startled.
 No" he exclaimed. Don't do that Of course, I don't like to seem mercenary. but l don't want to do anything on that basis. I have tried 1t over and over, but I never got any satisfaction out of work ing on commission. Give me a salary every ime.'-Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
HOW WAR HORSES ACT.

When horses are hit in battle they stop. trernble in every muscle and groan deep ly.".while their eyes show wild astonish- Eent During the battle of Waterloo ground. having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding themselves with a circle of bare ground the limited extent of which showed their weakness. Others of these interesting animals were observed quietly grazing 'ih the middle Of the field between the two. hostile lines, their riders having been shot off their backs. while the balls tfiat flew over their heads and the tumuIt behind and before and around them caused no interruption to the usual in stfncts of their nature.
 It. was also observed that when charge of cavalry went past, near to any of the stray horses mentioned, they would set off. form themselves in the rear of their mounted companions, ana, though without riders, gallop strenuously along. with the rest, not stopping or even hinching when the fatal shock with the -enemy took place.
 At the battle of the Kirb, in 1754. Major Macdonald. having unhorsed an English officer, took possession of the horse, which was very beautiful. and immedi- ately mounted 1t. When the English cav airy fed the horse ran away with ms captor, notwithstanding all his efforts . to restrain him; nor did the animal stop until 1t was at the head of the regiment Of which, apparently, it's master was the commander.
 The melancholy and at the same time ludicrous figure which Macdonald pre-
 tim of his ambition to possess a fine
 horse, which ultimately cost him his life
 upon the scanold, may be easily con
 ceived.-New York Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
INDIAN SCHOLAR
Hoopa Reservation Children for the
 Government School at Phoenix

A party of young Indian pupils arrived in the city yesterday morning on the steamer Orizabo and are at the Russ House They are In charge of Emma H. Denton, matron of the school on the Hoopa reservation in Humboldt County, where they have received instructions for some time past and this morning she will Cowan who will take them to the Phoe- nix Government Industrial School where they will receive the finishing touches to their education. The Indians are nam ed Ida Buker, Linda Griggs, Carrie Rob- erts, Emmie Peterson, Lucia Merrill, Jo- seph Donohue, Jerry Horn and Frank Rob- ert. They range in age from IA to IS years
 Few people,, said Superintendent Mo- Cowan, have any idea of the magnitude of the Phoenix school. We have over accommodation of our scholars, stair of thirty white people who are teachers in the literary and industrial arts and at the present time we have over 700 Indians grey. Next to the institution at Carlisle. Pennsylvania, it is the largest Indian school in the United States. l have been engaged in gathering the more advanced will take the nine from Hoopa away with me Tuesday morning. They will have ffve-year term.
 There are thirty-three tribes represented military company of sixty members to whom the Territory has loaned guns, anc they are a well drilled body of men. We have also a football team composed of and Pima tribes. Their captain and lead CT Is Cyrus Sun. a full-blooded Marico- plan and a sprinter of no mean ability. 1 propose bringing the team to this coast in November for series of games, and am quite certain that the proposition will be rrfad ont v
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS.

It Is over half a century ago that Eliza beth Blackwell applied to the faculty of New York for admittance. to the ranks of students She took the five years course, graduated with distinction and was the pioneer of the nineteenth cen tury in the profession, so far as women are concerned. Other women who fol- lowed in her footsteps had hard time, for the next twelve applications to va rious medical colleges were refused by the cold-hearted faculties. Some refused without qualifications and others stated In no unguarded terms why they con- sidered women unfitted for the medical profession.
 On faculty stated that 1t refused women admission to it's medical school because women by nature were assigned to oe- pendent position; because men had pe- culiar and exclusive right to the art or healing, and because the study of medl- cine was demoraliZing or "defeminiZlng. Nowadays women have proved that they are not content with dependent posi- ton. It would be interesting to discover by what right men hold the exclusive right to practice medicine. TOT ancient history tells of many women who were doctors.
 The Athenians tried to put to death Agnodice, who practiced medicine. In sicians and the names of some of them have been preserved to us through 'n- scriptions. There were Flavia and Nil, nucia and Sententia, who were well
  Greeks up to the middle of the eighteenth century, when Anna Mazzolini qualified and became professor of anatomy at Bo- Iogna, women have been numbered among the medical practitioners.
 In regard to the "defeminizing infiu- ence of the study of medicine, that ob- jection has been raised in turn against every art and profession women have taken up. At one time art was consid- cred quite beyond the pale and yet now none of us would be willing to give up the works of sculpture and painting which have been bestowed upon the world by women of talent. The second wo- man to study medicine was Elizabeth Garrett who started the move in Eng land In 1860 she began to study and met many obstacles, the least of which was her exclusion from some of the classes so that she was obliged to have the necessary course of lectures delivered to her privately. But she triumphed in the end
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
HELD UP IN ALASKA.

Twelve capable and experienced off, cers of the United States army" says the Boston Transcript, "are In the will derness of Alaska on a Government surveying detail, hoping that the pow CTS in Washington will allow them to shift their details and join the army of invasion of Cuba. Some of them have had as many as twenty years of active and honorable service, and all of them are filled with an ambition to earn glory and laurels in mortal combat with the Spanish oppressors of the Pearl of the Antilles Their formal ap- plications to Major General Merriam, formerly commanding the Department of the Columbia, who succeeded Gen eral Shafter in command of the Depart ment of California, for relief from Alaska detail were recently sent to him. All save two of the twelve officers were turned down. as they will probably express it when they learn, as they will in the course of ten days or two weeks. that the War Department has decided it to be impracticable to abandon the Alaska surveying expeditions"
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST MILES
TELEGRAMS SAID TO HAVE
 BEEN SUPPRESSED.
One Message Was From Mckinley and Directed the General to Take Command at
 Santiago.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.-A sensa- ton was caused here this morning by the publication in the Times of bitter attack on Secretary Alger, who IS ac- cused by the Times of having, with other War Department officials, stolen and suppressed telegram sent by President Mckinley to General Miles This telegram Is alleged to have di- rected General Miles to take command of the army at Santiago, relieving Gen. eraI Shafter. It Is charged that the conspirators substituted a telegram to General Shafter informing him that General Miles would not take com mand. Further, the Times prints tele- grams alleged to have been suppressed by the War Department. The tele- grams contained orders from General Miles to field officers, and are declared to have never reached their destination.
 NEW YORK, Aug. PA Washing ton special to the Herald says: The grave charge printed this morning in Philadelphia that there had been sup pression of an order intended by the President to be sent to General Miles Is much deprecated here. It is believed, moreover, that when General Miles re- turns and becomes cogniZant that fric- tion is thus bitterly alleged as existing between him and General Shafter and the Secretary of War he will deny that such friction existed. The Secretary of War holds in high esteem the conduct of General Miles in Santiago and his campaign in Porto Rico. Speaking to me about the matter, Secretary Alger said:
 'I hardly care to reply to the charge that there was any suppression of any orders. It Is absurd, brutal and beyond belief. There could have been no fric- ton between General Miles and Gen eral Shafter, for In looking over the list of names of men available for the con- mand of the Fifth Army Corps General Miles was called into the conference, and said he thought General Shafter was the strongest man. It was largely upon this opinion of his that General Shafter was chosen. It is very unfor- tunate on all sides that there should be such agitations involving good feel ing between friends, especially when they are absolutely groundless.''
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
CELEBRATION AT WINDSOR.

The first English settlement in Con- necticut was commemorated at Wind sor, Wednesday, June 29, by ''unveil- ing' a memorial stone on the spot first landed in that State. The stone, a great boulder, is placed on ''the isl- and," beside the highway, opposite the spot where the first house was built. It bears this inscription:
 This rock marks the first English settlement in Connecticut by members from the Plymouth colony, 1883. Dedi- cated by the Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Chapter of the D. A. R., June, 1898"
 This named chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution carried on the exercises of the occasion. which fn- cluded meeting in the Windsor Town Hall, whereat Mrs. Sara T. Kinney. State Regent, gave an account of the organization, and showed that 1t IS an active factor in the hospital service Of the present war, as well as working Tor the preservation of ancient landmarks.
 To Deacon Jabez Hayden was given honor for his assistance in this latter line, and an honorary daughtership was suggested for him. A paper by Jabez Haskell Hayden about the pio- neer days was read by Miss Lulu All bee. After these ceremonies came the "unveiling,' for the stone was covered by an American and an English flag. which were removed by Mrs. Kinney, after which the Rev. F. w. Hartman made an oration, in which he urged upon the Daughters of the American Revolution the erection of a suitable monument to the settlers who came from Dorchester.
 He said it must bear the names or Roger Ludlow and John Mason, of Thomas Wareham and Ephriam Hew- 1t. He enlarged the scheme to include names of men who fought for inde- pendence or in the civil war, and even "any son of Windsor who may give his life in the present struggle for the liberty of Cuba" But perhaps these generations had better be severally than jointly memorialized by monu- ments, and MT. Harriman's concluding idea was that the great comprehensive memorial should be a public library.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
SPANISH NAVAL YARN

Perhaps the most humorous story in connection with the 1st of June, Lord Howe'S victory, is the amazing fable or the Vengeur, which is due to the patriotic tmagination, unreStrained by any regard for prosaic accuracy, of Barrere. Bar rere reported to the convention that the Vengeur went down with all her colors flying scorning to surrender, VlVR ia Republique, and universal volley rom the upper deck being the last sound she made "Glorieuse affaire du Vengeur
 became for the French a national myth It has inspired innumerable French songs A wooden model of the Vengeur was solemnly consecrated and placed III the Pantheon. Carlyle embodied the story in his French Revolution. Lo! he wrote, "all flags. streamers, Jacks, every rag of tricolor that will yet run on rope flies rustling aloft. The whole crew crowds to the upper deck, and with uni versal soul-maddening yell shouts NiVe Ia Republique' sinking, sinking.
 Carlyle later on discovered how wild flight of fiction the whole story was Barrere was a liar of Titanic scale; but the Vengeur myth, Carlyle declared, must be pronounced "BarrereS master piece; the largest. most inspiring piece or plague manufactured for some centurles by any man or nation" At the time the Vengeur went down the battle had ceased for some hours; her captain was peace fully getting his lunch in one or the cabins of the Culloden, and some 4o0 or her crew had been rescued, much to the1r own satisfaction, by the boats oI the various British ships!-Cornhill Maga-