Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-20
TIE TOWER OF LONDON.
Locking Up Quaint and Ancient
 Ceremony.

| lew minutes pefOre II o'clock the head warder. or yeoman porter, as he is properly styled, clothed in a red cloak, l carrying portentous bunch of keys, and accompanied by another warden carrying a lantern, appears in front of the main guardhouse and roars out, Escort. keys" The sergeant turns out with some of the men, and follows 1 the yeoman to the outer gate, the whole party being challenged by all the sen tries with Who goes there?" and the answer is simply Keys" The gates being locked the keys are brought back to the main guard. Here the sentry stamps and roars out, "Who goes there?"
 Keys" is the reply.
 Whose keys?"
 Queen Victoria's keys"
 Advance. Queen Victoria's keys And alrs well.
 God bless Queen Victoria!" cries the yeoman porter.
 Amen" responds the main guard.
 Present arms!" cries the officer on duty, and amid the rattle of the salute he kisses the hilt of his sword The yeoman porter marches off with the keys and deposits them in the liepten- ants lodgings. and from that time throughout the livelong night you can only circulate within the tower pre-. eincts if you know the countersign. EApoleon's Strange Plan of Conquest.
 A German historian is said to have discovered Napoleon's original plans for the invasion of Great Britain in the year 17s9, and accident wills it that this discovery was made at the same time that the French agitation for submarine tunnel connecting France (via spain), with her African possessions is renewed
 One hundred years ago Napoleon was still General Bonaparte. He had humbled Italy, and had captured the pope; free Switzerland was vassal of France. Then the general set out to be lord of the sea.
 He decided to tow an army over to the British coast on great floating forts, with large bodies of troops IiRed Up in battle order They were then to fight their way ashore, and land on the coast without resort to lighters The troops were to march ashore in the order of their regiments preceded and backed Up by the artillery
 It will be remembered that Napoleon has often declared that he would have been as great an admiral as he was general with half a chance But he added the French are useless as sail ors. They are too fussy, too excltable. At sea one needs a calm mind, quiet foFtitude, and energy"
 To many on this side of the Atlantic, the words engine house, marked on Napoleon's plans. are of peculiar in terest. Fulton, the American inventor. launched his first experimental steam boat on the Seine in 1903, but his con- nection with the French government dates from 1797, when he offered his submarine torpedo boat to France. Failing in this, he turned his attention to steam navigation. From his draw ings, it would seem that Napoleon meant to try steam navigation with his ferries one hundred years ago.
 No doubt Napoleon used Fulton's plans, but there was still another American inventor at his service John Fitch of Connecticut-who built the first unsuccessful sidewheelers in 17S8 to t790, and three years later went to Paris to sell improved plans for steam navigation to the French government.
 Bonaparte's ferries were built in Brest, in Cherbourg, and in Boulogne but when Napoleon inspected them, in the spring of 179S, his faith In the new fangled marine monsters wavered. He abandoned the proposed invasion of the British Isles and instead started on his famous expedition to Egypt
 Praise for American Schools
 Dr. Krohn, prominent educator, a graduate of Yale, and who has studied in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and