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doubles on Itself. running by shoals which.
ut extreme low tide. are Almost bare. The
channel il In some places hardly ships
length In width. and large cruisers would
have difficulty In entering. even IL Ii were
possible for them to do SO. The channel Is
deep. OF a rich blue color. In strong con-
trast to the reef. 1t turns gracefully
around Garden key. passing between IL
and Long key. then past Bird key. thus
completing the circuit and affording an
outlet to the southwest and northwest by
Logxerhead key.
Fort Jefferson IL therefore q coral bank
In the center OF q great lagoon, protected
by coral reefs and surrounded by COM
plete miniature harbor. Kissing as 1t does
directly from the sea- 1t looks Like float
ing castle The sand on which. the fort
stands Is so shallow that by digging foot
or two anywhere salt water can be reach
ed, and during heavy storms II has risen
30 that one could doat about on raft
within the fort. Nevertheless the parade
ground In tho center was covered with
grass. and little lawns OF Bermuda grass
were seen In various yards. The path
from the sally port. where there Is a draw
bridge. and to the officers quarters was
frineed with tall cocoa palms and button
weeds. while In various parts OF the key
eocoanuts grew and fourished. their roots
deep In the salt water. The cottages Of
some of the officers were covered with
vines, thus presenting an attractive ap-
pearance and fully tustifying the name Of
Garden key.
Each casemate on Fort Jefferson was
over cistern. During the civil war. when
II was additionally used as a base OF oper-
ations against the confederate states and
1000 men had to be furnished with water.
the supply gave out, and a condenser was
kept running day and night to supply the
demand.
The old fort shows the wear and tear
OF time and weather. Guns which were
never fired are dismantled, the roofs OF
bastions have been blown away by hurri-
canes. and the useless gun carriages stand
like ghosts cracking in the sun. II Is q
picture OF desoiation ana decay. Uncle
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Tho DRY ToFtuaas II group OF ten ts'ets.
or keys ffroK the Spanish word eayess.
forming q part Of Monroe county. Fla, at
the extremity OF the Florida keys. 10
Miles southwes. Of Cape sanie and seventy
miles west OF Key West. The population
IS generally Indefinite. the highest numbo.
years age being about $50. There IL an ex-
tensiee ciustsr OF sunken reefs and shoals.
ana the ten above water are thus called
dry" They have length northeast ana
southwest OF ten miles and breadth COLI
lectsvely OF six. Their exact location.
which Is in the gulf Of Mexico. Is latitude
1k37 north and longitude IS west.
The isiets. which are OF coral formation.
aro low and barren except where partly
covered with smansrove and small cedar
hunhes. On Bush Tor Oarden1 key IL Fort
Jefferson. which In 1870 had q garrison OF
nlae<y EIGHT men. but ever since yellow
foter q few years ago carried away 20
many victims nearly DISCRIMINATING bat
fffy OF artillery, the place has bean LETT
under the charge Of an ordnance sergeant.
n lighthouse known as the Tersusas
Harbor light In on this islet. inside the fort.
and Loggerhead Key lighthouse. at the
western edge Of the group. Is lbz feet above
the SEQ aud visible for eighteen and half
nautical miles. There are snree entrances
70 the harbor named the northwest, south
west and southeast channels. During the
ciyii war the fort was used as penal sta
ton Tor Confederate prisoners. and In 1855
CIAnwhlin, Arnold. apangier and DR..
Nudd, who were found guilty by a military
commission Of participation I'm the assas-
einasion Of Lincoln were confined there.
The first died there. SpangIer served out
hts term Of imprisonment. and the other
two were pardoned by President Johnson.
Apanxier worked about Baltimore as q
drunken carpenter till his death in the
early seventies. and DIR. Mudd renewed
hts home practice in ST. Mary's county.
M, un.il his deeease few years ago. a
cousin OF his family Is one OF the present
congressman of that state.
Prisoners under sentence of court martial
wore often confined there. The entire
Tprtugas group consists principally OF
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FORT JEFFERSON.
RAILROAD WORK STOPPED.
City Enjoins Further Construction
Cattl Property-owners Are Paid.

Special Dispatch to the Posi-fnteitlgencer
ABERDEEN. April s--Rsiiroad work is
al a ssaadstIll a. the present time The
city has secured an injunction agains. the
company Scsng any farther with the work
until the company secures easements
from the rrcperty-owners along she tine
~ Rad. as the city had been threatened
with several suits Tor DAMAGES on account
at the grade OF the railroad running ;he
streets In front OF property. II viii doubt
less neces.state the railroad company
bringing suits In condemnation against
different ones along the Hire ,a secure ease
nen's The war department. has put
stop 10 work In the wtsAkah river as
faer had been driven out nearly in the
middle Of the river. thus impeding nayiga-
ton
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shAkESPEARE ON WHEELING.


writer in Invention cites Shakespeare
N support ~ the claim tAas TIRE bicycle 10
aes nineteenth century production He
says:
sA@aesasaFe Il wcal3 sseul, nssass have
krewn something about the nssye.s far
shxus's hegs bis plays he rnakss frequent
reEeFeFces 20 tae wheel 1; must he shs;
hAmieE's tstaer aaa visited bicycle acaa-
enss. WHERE beginners en- the wheel vers
pseass, fe7 hss CHEST SAID:
what r falling ~ was sherss
Eass mast excellent description IL rs~-
sfteaesi ~ aacShsr IN the same pay a.
waash reference . Ca3e 10 IA accident
Use rev ~onsss Of sAs early sixteenth cea-
sssFy n~snx essdsnily sae grsatesS sufferer.
Tae trsi pssysx says:
: Elr~ak al the spekes ana fesu<s from
Der wheel.
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Had 100 Pounds OF Letters. Many Of
Them From Imrri.ou~a Whni~rs

PORTLAND. April s~-fsesrgc r. Triton
third mate OF the Arctic Whaling schooner
Beividere. who arrived iron, Copper river
On tho steamer Albion delivered Il, ire
Portland possoryice lssa pounds OF letters
frem Alaska. A rude mnsl1a sack. IN
which the letters were carried In labeled
'*Fors Get There. Alaska =. x Malt by
George r, Tliton. sox-iesm mas from
Point Barrow. Arctic OCEAN. via -. Mi
chas.. kadaik and Siska to Portland
Tais package contained go settsrs from the
ics~soesd whaling feet. aE4 large num-
Der es ttters 70 war and other depart
n.ents ~ the government,
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Great Work to Be Accomplished at the Glib
raltar Of America Occupation Of
Fort Jefferson.

Long. Bush, East. Middle. Bird, Sand and
Loggerhead keys. Of which the East II the
hrges; and Logxerhead the longest. and In
almost the exact center Of which In Gar
den tor BGshD. ;htrtken acres in extent
The main entrance II from the east. From
q distance nothing In seen but long ne
OF rollers. which break on Q coral reef
several miles In extent. The ship channel
here enters between East and Bush keys.
passes Sand and Middle keys, then almost
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1.-THE availability OF wheels in danger
Gus service Is illustrated in 'Coriolanus,
when the winged. messenger says TO CO.
minus:
"'Spies of the Voices
Held sue In chase that was forced to
wheel
Three or four miles about: else had. sir.
Half an hour since brought my report
1.-The tire of which Shakespeare wrote
was evidently filled with hair instead OF
air. and even its color was of importance.
In Much Ado About Nothing Margaret
says:
"T Ike the new tire within excellently:
IL the hair were a thought browner.
.'Puck.s prophetic remark about placing
a girdIe around the world IN forty min
ules is fully equaled by that or I'aunce
in the Two Gentlemen Of Verona He
says:
"'Then. may set the world on wheels
Surely this prophecy mas been ful-
filed
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Copyright, i@s.

Copyright t8s4.
- HE concentration Of the Atlantic
squadron ftne most formidable
feet assembled In tropical waters
by che United States since the
civil war; at the Dry Tortugas
within eighty miles Of Cuba and
no Of Havana, has drawn special attention
20 this unique corner Of cur country. which.
from stratesfc point % view. Is today the
Gibraltar Of America.
, 1898-08-31
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

I'LL OtG01ZS OAA4ASNs
London, August 26th, sugar in stock on
the. goth inst. wns $1,000 tons. Last year
$4,000 tons.
Now York, Aug. 27th.-A Madrid telegram
reports that The Queen. Regent has signed
aRoysl decree cOnvoking the COltes for Sep
tember 9th.
Washington news reports Tint Senator
Frye has 0ccep ted @ place on the Peace Com
mission,
A Vienna despatch received ia London re-
ports that 8 hundred miners have been drown.
ed by the flooding Of the Kaslmir COAL mine
ut Mence.
Hong Kong kilograms announce that an
insurreotion has broken out at Madsa in the
Island of Hainan. The same dispatches ad-
wise the departure Of 2 English cruisers for
Manila.
Another Madrid despatch states that Tie
Government has received from General Rios,
the successor Of the late Governor Of the
Philippines, a telegram s%tatingthSt a songui-
nary conflict has taken place between the
Spaniards and insurgents, the latter losing
about s hundred men.
Paris news reports that advioes have been
received from Madagascar reporting many
cases Of smallpox in that island.
A Belfast telegram states that an epidemic
Of typhoid fever is raging there and is on
the increase. Six hundred cases have been
reported in three weeks.
Other Paris news states that it is rumoured
the cruisef 'Bruix'' has been lost with all
OH board in the Indian Ocean. Tho loss
has not been confirmed 10y the Minister OF
Marine.
The "Gaoeta" OF Madrid reports That the
amount of the Cuban war expenses is
9,447, 1853, 45O pesetas..
Other advices state that perfect Tranquil.
lily exists throughout the Peninsula.
The steamer Norge, of the Thingvalla
Line, arrived here yesterday with the sur
yivors of the French schooner "LalCon4uete,"
which tho former struck and sank last
Saturday on the Newfoundland banks. OF
the crew of q only the captain and s men
were saved.
st. Thomas, 26th.-Code commercial mes
cages can be accepted for Ponce. those for
San Juaneand other stations in Porto Rico
subject ITO. strict censorship by The Spanish
Government. many stations are not yet open
for commercial traffic, and all messages must
be accepted entirely at s9nder's risk Of delay
or nou delivery.
, 1898-08-31
PASSENGERS.
CHRTsTIANsTED

Aug. 23rd.-For New York via Frederik-
sled-Miss f. Larsen, Caroline D%rummond,
Ca'oline Cruise, Oathrine Henry.
.Aug, 24th.-Por Bchnr. "Vigilant" from
st. Thomas-Louiss Kingqade, Lawyer Brun,
Medina Lungi Hermann, wife, 4 children
and Q servants, Enkon Psulin0 Loleva, Daniel
de- Gresolia, Lieutenant Olsen.
Aug. 26th.-Per sohnr. ''YigiIant' from st.
Thomas-Patrik Putrik. I
Aug. 29th,-Por scIrnr. "vigilant' for St.
Bnptis to and child, Eyeline Edward
J.. AHg1 3QtA-per schnr. Cameo 200 tons,
CRpt. AS. CoIbeth Of New York. from New
York via Frederikstod with provisions Cor
BartralD Bros.
, 1898-08-31
Proklama.

ALE og Enhver, som maatte have
III noget- at fordre i Boet eeter af-
gangne. ANDREW KING indkaldes
herved med 3 Maaneders Varsel til
for undertegnede Skiftoret at anmel-
de og bevisliggjGre deres Krav.
FredoriEsfods Skifterot. St.Croiz, den 8Oto
August 1898.
L. C. LARSEN,
, 1898-08-31

Having had the pleasure Of. being, present
at the dees rehearsal Of the DraMatic En-
tertainment to be held this evening, l
unlIesitatingly assure The public that there
IN q very pleasant evening in store for ihem.
he songs and faroes were, excollenLly
rendered, aud indeed l was agreoably sur
at the efficiency Of tue amateurs
a. M.
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NEW TRAITS FOR OLD FAVORITEs.
Our FODdness for Certain Old Clas-
sizes HypOcritical.
Prof. Brander Matthews. in Forum.

Prof. Brander Matthew'S in Forum.
Much of our veneration for the classics is
sham, due. in a measure, to our sheep-like
unwillngness to think for ourselves. Follow
my leader is the game most of us play
when we are called upon to declare our
preferences We put Tom Jones' for ex-
ample. into our lists of the hundred best
books "-lists, for the most part, as fatu-
Gus as they are absurd-but if we were
honest with ourselves. as L suppose we
should be if the choice were actual, very
few of US would pack Tom Jones" in the
chest we express to the mythical deSolate
island. There is no doubt that Tom Jones'
is a great novel, one of the greatest in our
language, and perhaps one of the greatest
in modern literature of any country. 1t has
form and substance; 1t is admirably planned
and beautifully written; it abounds in
humor and in irony and in knowledge of
human nature; 1t is peopled by a company
of living men and women, each of them
firm on his or her feet; it reveals to us a
most manly character, the character of
Henry Fielding himself-sturdy honest and
sincere, clear-eyed and plain-spoken. The
book is eternal in its verify and. therefore.
in its interest; but it has the remote moral
ity of the eighteenth century, and the hard
ness of tone of that unlovely era; 1t belongs
to an earlier stage in the development of
fiction; it demands for its full enjoyment a
certain measure of culture In its readers;
more and more = p novel for the few. and
less and less a novel for the many.
AS with tom Jones" so with don
Quixote"-a greater book. making wider
appeal, and not bounded by the horizon of
a single century. The carelessness with
which Cervantes put his story together the
fortutous adventures and the incongruous
meetings-these things are of little conse-
quence; for, as George Sand APPLY put It.
.'the best books are not those with the
fewest faults but those with the greatest
merits" The merits of Don Quixote" are
great beyond dispute; but are they such as
can be appreciated by that impossible en-
tity, the average reader? SPANS chivalry
has been laughed away so thoroughly that
nowadays a man must needs have studied
in the schools to understand the circum-
stances of Cervantess satire. The genuine
appreciation of Don Quixote" and of Tom
Jones' also, calls for a. preparation that
few readers of fiction possess, and for an
effort which few of them are. snclined to
make. -" When Mr.. Reed defined a
statesman as "a successful politician who
is dead he voiced a sentiment very like
that which rules many of our literary
guides. In their minds nothing is literature
that was not written either in dead Ian
guage or by a dead man, and everything is
literature which was written by-a dead man
in a dead language. They praise the old
books which they either read with an effort
or do not read at all; and it rarely occurs
to them to analyze the source OF their
pleasure in the new books which they read
with iOV
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LEGEND OF THE WATER LILY.
It's Origin as Told by Indians of the
Saranac Tribe.
Philadelphia Times.

Fuldu6lpHId 1lHlSS.
What's in name? 1t all depends. IT you
call one of the beautiful clear lakes of the
Catskills ."Tupper's lake." as it is now
called, there is nothing in its name, put
when the Indians lived on its shores and
fished upon its waters there was much in its
Iame, for because of its beauty and its
many inlets they called it the Lake of the
It was upon the bosom of the Lake of the
Clustered Stars that the water lily had its
birth, and this is me way it happened; III IL
tribe, had been away at war. Then he re-
turned, and there was wild feastlng to cele-
brate his victories All were full of joy,
except one lovely ma den, the sweet singer
of the tribe, called C.seetah, the Bird. She
stood far off. sad AM quiet. for in her hear-
she had made q Vow that, according to
Indian creed, she mus: keep o. lie though
10 one knew It save the Great Spirit, 20
whom she had given her sacred thoughts.
Slowly the Bird withdrew from the reve-
lers and crept to the edge of the Clustered
Stars. There she sprang into her canoe and
padded swiftly away under the curtain OF
the branches along the shore. But ner cnleI
had seen her. He guessed her purpose ana,
running to the lake, he leaped into his canoe
and went after her
was pursued leaped Upon the shore and ran
up to the edge of high cliff. There she
but to let her choose her own way out to the
Spirit But the Sun did not hear or under
stand, for he came bounding after her, in
tending to take her back to the village and
persuade her to give up her vow. Then.
seeing that she could not stop him, the Bird
raised her face to the sky and sprang like
an arrow down into the lake below.
The Sun leaped in after her, and swan
with giant strokes in search of her. but she
was gone, and at last he went slowly and
sadly back to his people and told them what
had happened
Now the next day at noon a stranger came
into the village, holding in his hand Won
derful white flower, sweet and pure. Every
one was filled with amazement. No Indian
had ever seen such a blossom before, and
their surprise was even greater when the
stranger told them that he had found the
bosom of the Clustered Stars covered with
such flowers, all around the base CT the
great high rock. Swiftly they ran to see
for themselves, and there stood silent look
ing at the great white lilies floating On the
water.
Then the wise man of the tribe waved his
hand and told them that because Oseetah,
the Bird had been true to her vow, the
Great Spirit had given her this form: that
the white was for her goodness and the yell
low cup for her faith; and that, If they
would watch. they would see that she would
open to the Sun as he came up at daybreak.
but close her eyes when he left her at
night.
So it is that the water lily is to the Indian
the emblem of good faith and that they see
in it the disembodied spirit of Oseetah, the
Bird, of the tribe of the Saranacs.
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PEOPLE WE LIVE WITH.
We Are Slaves to Their Whims and
Caprices-UngenerO Traits.

Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the hardships of life is the fact
that We have to bear so many unnecessary
unpleas antnesse and are the victims of so
many profitless and useless tragedies. that
none the less bitter because they are
so little and sordid. Do as we may, we
cannot emancipate ourselves frcm our sur
roundings, and even the freest OF US are
slaves to the WhimS and CaprlceS OF those
with whom we live.
Not long ago gentleman was telhng
story about a friend, whose wife, Al
though a good woman was one OF those
uncomfortable creatures who are forever
fretting and nagging all about her. At last
the gardener unable to stand it any longer,
gave notice and quit, but as he was depart
ing he stopped by the gallery, where MS
master was entertaining several TRENDS
Goodbye sor,'' said he, touching his hat,
I'm sorry for yer, sor. l can lave; yer
can't"
Surely such story voices much of the
pathos of our common experience. There
are many times there are SO many
places that we can't leave. 1t is the peo-
pie to whom we are tied by thousand
duty and responsibility; who have our hap
piness in their keeping, and oh, the pity OF
it! they are so careless of their trust. ana
we have no recourse. We can't leave.
There is in reality no more ungenerous
trait in human nature than this taking ad-
vantage of the utter heiplessness OF those
up their jobs and quit They are bound to
stay on and endure US, and we trade upon
it. Think of the young girls you nave
known who put forth every attraction to
captivate a man, and then, as soon as the
marriage ceremony was over, subsidized into
listless Stevens. 1t was as much as to say:
"Oh, well, he can't leave now, and / won
bother any more to try to please. Inlnk
of the men you have known who were vert-
table Prince CharmingS in their counting
days, but who, once married, would speak
to their wives in way they would not care.
to have used to a good cook who could give
warning and leave.
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WARNING TO THE CHILDLEss.
A French Colonial Governor Proposes
to Punish All Not Rearing Citizens.

London Telegraph.
Desperate ills, it is said call for desperate
remedies. When it becomes indispGta bly,
manifest that the population of cour try
is steadily diminishing in number year by
year, the Dictates of patriotism and self
preservation naturally enough suggest to
sity of taking effective measures, legislat-
tive or administrative, to check so alarming
a tendency in the direction of national de-
Utilization and decadence. A chronic dispar-
ity between births and deaths, be it ever so
slightly in favor of the latter, propounds a
problem difficult of solution by any govern
ment, whether constitutional or despotic.
Frederick the Greats methods of dealing
with the question, though eminently practi-
cal and by no means devoid of a certain
rough humor, would assuredly be repudiated
by public opinion in this age of sweetness
would have the courage TO decree their en-
forcement, nor would any parliamentary
Ministry venture to submit them to the con-
Sideration OF legislative body.
In France, where the sum total of natives
to the soil annually becomes small by de-
greeS' and lamentably less, various expert
mentS have been made of late years with q
view to stimulating philoprogenitivenes
and discouraging it's converse. Unfortunate
ly, they have not been crowned with success
in either direction. 1t is one thing to set
premium on productiveness by tightening
the fiscal burdens of parents blessed with
numerous offspring and another to render
nonproductiVeneSS in the matter of children
a penal offense by infiicting fine and i'm
prisonment upon such adult persons mar
ried or single, as fail to contribute to the
increase of the population. The former eX-
pedient has been recommended to the
french Chambers by National Society"
of which NJ Bertilon is president. The lat
ter has been masterfully adopted by Gen
eral Gallieni, the military governor of NADIA
gascar. This distinguished officer has come
to the conclusion that the main obstacle to
the work of colonization in that island is
1.-The sparseness of the population" Conse-
quently, he proposes to do away with this
hindrance by furnishing, at stated intervals,
any Or docs
provide for the support and education of an
adopted or natural child.
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or death menaces you. you cannot bear the
sight for you do not trust Him then when
you need Him most.
The prayer Of faith is the prayer OF trust.
It comes from the heart that is satisf1ed
with Gods knowledge and power ard love.
And 1t is merely the leaning Of our weak
ness upon Gods strength, knowing that He
does care whether we perish and yet that
He desires us to ask Him to save U.S.
Father, If it be possible, let this cup pass
from me: nevertheless. not as will, but as
thou wilt"
This is the prayer Of faith, the true faith,
the faith of trust, not of fear.
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Inland Educator.

The following incident occurred in the
Evansville High School: A teacher or Ut
erature was discussing with her class the
beautiful description of a day in June in
the Vision of Sir LaunfaL" When they
came to the lines
every clod feels stir of might,
An instinct within it that reaches and
towers,
And. cropping blindly above 1t for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass or flowers
The teacher tried to find out whether or not
the pupils understood what that stir OF
might was Various opinions were adj
yanced bus none of them was satisfactory.
Finally a bright thought seemed to strike a
little boy His hand went up gleefully. and
he almost shouted. II believe it was q
wormi"