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New-York tribune., 1900-01-01

The staff of this splendidly equipped vessel IS
commanded by Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel
Hensman, of the British army medical service,
who represents the War Office. Otherwise the
whole medical staff, male and female is Amer
lean with United States non-commissioned Off
GERS. acting under the direction of Surgeon Ma
ior Cabeu of the Army. There are three Amer
tcan surgeons-Dr. George Eugene Hodge and
DR. H H Rodman. both OF New-York. and DR.,
C H. Weber, of Philadelphia. DR.. Cabell has
seen service in the hospital in Manila, and has
since been assigned to the charge OF the Co
lumbia Hospital in Washington. special leave
of absence was granted to him by the directors
of Columbia Hospital in order that he might
take UP this work. for which his large expert
ence mad admirably fitted him. DR.. Hodge and
Dr. Rodman have been we'll trained by service at
Roosevelt Hospital and Dr. Weber is warmly
recommended by Dr. J. s. Billings, U. S. A.
There are five tTainsd nurses. Miss NJ. E.
Hibbard. who is in charge OF the party. and Miss
Virginia Ludekens Miss Jennie A Manly Miss
Sarah c. McNean and Miss Margaret j. Nc
Pherson Miss Hibbard has held the position Of
principal of the Grant Hospital Training School
IN Detroit and entered the United States Army
service as acting chief nurse. during the Span
ish-American War All her assistants have had
wears of service in well known hospitals In
America and three out of the four were in ac-
tive service in the military hospitals at Long
Island City and Fort Hamilton. The corps OF
workers is augmented by sixteen male nurses
from the Mills Training School at Bellevue Hos
pitaI ten ordeTles who also act nurses and
two apothecaries.
The friends Of the ship are deeply indebted TO
New-York tribune., 1900-01-01

CORNELIUS VAN corr Pustmasr.r.
pcstornee. New York. y. Y. pecaIaHSS - La---
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
Americanized Children.

81 am well satisfied with the Amer
lean method of education" said an
Englishman residing in New York to a.
New York Tribune man. I'm fact, for
girls, especially, l consider that it is
better in many way than the English
system. I do, however, object to some
of the geographical ideas that they
nave in regard to England. Last win
ter my little girl started to learn about
the states. From October until May
she drew maps of each one, learned
about their towns, rivers, mountains
and commercial products until she had
them all at her fingers ends. That was
all well enough, and 1 greatly admired
the thoroughness of the teaching; so
this year, when she told me that they
were beginning on England, Scotland
and Ireland, l felt quite pleased that
she should learn all about the dear Die
country. and promised myself a good
deal of pleasure in talking to her OF
nv old haunts. Well, if you will be-
Iieve it. in about a week she announced
that they had finished up with Great
britain and that the class had started
I to study up the divisions of the con-
tinent. Six months for the United
States and a week for England, Scot
land and Ireland! Then l felt, indeed,
that my children were Am~ericanized."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
BURIED rwo HUSBANDS.
Washington Widow Disposed of Her
Partners in Short Order.

Washington Widow Disposed OF Her
Partners in Short Order.
From the Washington Star: I'VE
have had double funerals without num-
Der, of husband and wife, sister and
sister, brother and brother" explained
an attache of a cemetery near the SOL
diers' home to a reporter, "but a fun
eral here recently seems to surpass
them all. There are several men who
have three and four wives buried in
this and similar cases in other GEM
~eteries, as well as a number of women
who have from two TO as many, in n
instance at least, as five husbands. The
case that / refer to as being somewhat
new is not of the kind referred to, for
there was a lapse of time between the
funerals OF the husbands and wives
spoken of, but a case where a lady bur-
led w husbands at the same time.
And she was not a Mormon either
Her first husband died in August, and
his remains were temporarily placed
in the vault.
t"The will and certain directions left
by the husband, for business and other
reasons, directed that if it could be.
satisfactorily arranged the widow
should marry the business associate
and particular friend of the deceased.
In less than three weeks, under these
circumstances, the widow married the
gentleman referred'to, who in less than
three days was confined to his bed by
an illness that in three weeks proved
fatal. The doubly endowed widow ar
ranged for his funeral, and at the same
time gave orders that her first hus-
bands remains, which had been left
in the vault temporarily, should be in
tered by his side at the same time.
Two graves were dug and both were
buried at the same time. Their collins
were identical, as well as were the
floral decorations, which were rather
elaborate. 1t was the first time in my
experience hat l ever saw or even
heard Of a widow burying two hus-
bands at the same time, though it may
have happened elsewhere. The wild
ow has arranged that she shall be bur-
led beside them, the first husband to
be On her left"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
A Double Twister.

Whats the matter, old man? Come,
don't sit there looking that way.
Something's happened, but it won't do
you a bit of good to brood over it.
Let's go to some funny show and
laugh; that's the best thing to do
whenever any trouble of this kind
strikes a fellow. None of your folks
sick, I hope?" ooh, no, it's nothing
of that kind, and l suppose I'm a fool
to give the matter a second thought,
but it's pretty hard to get a knock OF
this kind without showing that you
feel it. You know that girl l was tell
ing you about, whose father is the
vice-president of the p, D. & Q. rail-
road?" ooh, yes. The one you met
down east this summer? Sent your
ring back, has she? Well, didn't l tell
you from the first that she would?
And l thought you looked upon the
matter as nothing but a little lark,
anyway" 81 did. 1t isn't the return
of the ring that has upset me. She
has not only misspelIed my last name,
but she hasn't got my initials right on
the box in which the ring was sent.'
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
A DEVONsHIRE WITNESS.
lie Didn't Mention His Lordship's
Name at ALL,

~
The difficulty of discriminating be-
tween the first and third persons has
been amusingly illustrated by the late
Lord Iddesleigh, who used to be fond
Of telling Devonshire stories, says the
Westminster Gazette. One of his IA
vorite one was of a. Devonshire farmer
who was a witness in a horse stealing
case. Tell us what you know about
this case" SAID the prosecuting coun-
sci. We'll, eur" was the reply, 81 iced
the prisoner and l zed to he, how
about that 'oss, and he zed he didn't
know mort about the 'oss." mo, no."
the counsel said, "he didn't say he
knew nothing about the horse, he didn't
cpcak to you in the third person." Beg
your pardon, zur," said the witness,
there wasn't no third person present,
only him and me-" You don't under
stand what mean," was the counsel's
petulant reply. "He spoke to you in
the first person." "You'm wrong
agen,' said the witness. II was the
fust pusson as spoke to he" At this
point the judge interviewed and put the
question himself. you saw the pris-
oner and you said, How about that
horse?' and the prisoner answered: I
know nothing about the horse -"
Il beg pardon, my lord" said the wit
ness. He didn't mention your lord
ships name at ALL"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

bucketful. At Panama the annual
rainfall is in the neighborhood Of nine
feet, while that of Colon is twenty
one feet, and it all in five
months-an average of four feet a
month. 1t is humorously said of Co.
Ion that there it takes the people all
the rest of the year, after the rainy
season, to get dry. In the dry season
the heat is intense, the mercury rang
ing from eighty to ninety degrees, day
and night. There is little difference
in the temperature after dark, but It
is possible to adapt ones self to the
conditions of the place, and there is
a certain fascination about it that, in
the case Of some people, seems to
make up for the heat.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

The armored cars which Col. Baden
Powell hastily improvised for the pro-
lection of Mafeking were simply or
binary fiat cars with armored walls
made of steel rails firmly bolted to-
gether. When the town was invested
this officer, it will be remembered,
surrounded his position with a rail-
way about which circled his train, well
loaded with machine guns and sharp
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

fort in living at a place where you can
tell to a nicely just when to expect a
shower. This is the case at Panama,
where-so says the Churchman's
shower may be looked for every day
at about three o'clock in the after
noon. This is the rule all through
the rainy season. The morning is
clear and the evening, after six
o'clock, is delightful, and except from
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

When a French anarchist gets too
active, his government has the habit
of shipping him off to the lonely is
land of New Caledonia, the accom-
panying illustration being from a re-
cent photograph of a group of these
same French anarchists in exile on the
island. The government rarely sends
to New Caledonia prisoners convicted
for the first time, unless, of course, the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

offense is one for which the offenders
must receive a life sentence. Beyond
his enforced labor and confinement, the
life of such a French exile need not
necessarily be a hard one, since mar
riage is permitted on the island be-
tween the male and female prisoners.
Some of these marriages are extremely
happy, the French authorities assum-
ing control of all children and their
education.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

Tor a whole long, weary hour he had
held forth on his 1rstlys and secondlys
and albeits and therefores, and, get
ting his second wind, he exclaimed:
"On the other hand-what?" And
when a clear, small voice replied Fin
gers!" he knew that the greatest eff
fort of his life had struck a snag.-Ex>
change.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
THE ARMORED TRAIN IN MODERN VAR.

When in operation, the armored train
is usually preceded by an advance
guard of cavalry, regarded as necessary
to insure protection to the roadbed and
to report on Interruptions in rail con-
nection or obstacles along the line.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

The important part which the ar
mored train is destined to play in the
war of the future has been pretty well
shown by the way in which the rail-
way ironclad has been made use of
during the struggle now going on be-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
Not So Easy a Mark.

Friend-Why do you have such mis-
spelled and ungrammatical signs in
your front window? Sharp TradesmaE
People think I'm a Ounce, and coma
in to swindle me Trades booming
Stray Stories.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

shooters, and held back for a consider
able length of time a superior force of
the enemy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

three to six nobody ever thinks of
carrying an umbrella. Not SO at Co
lon, only forty-seven miles away.
There it rains all the time during the
rainy season, and it never rains but IL
pours. Water down by the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08

Very Wet.
There is a certain amount Of COM
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

The young man that thinks that there
are any God-given qualities in him that
will enable him to achieve success
without hard work will live in disap-
pOintment and die in remorse AS q
matter of fact, we are not all born
equal, so far as our mental capacities
are concerned. Most of us have inher-
tied some peculiar and undefinable pre-
dilections-some for music, some for
languages, some for mathematics, some
for the acquisition of wealth, and so
on. But you may set it down as an un-
deniable fact that the young man that
has inherited the love Of work is going
to1ive the most satisfactory life and is
going to do the most good during his
brief span on earth. Genius has been
ing palms." and while the definition has
been attacked by some philosophers
there is the best evidence to prove its
correctness. Demosthenes is generally
accepted by scholars as the greatest
orator we have record Of. AS young
man, he was not only an awkward
stammerer, ridiculous in gesticulation
and rhetoric, but his early utterances
gave absolutely no promise of origin
ality of idea. How he overcame by
patient study and practice not only his
physical defects, but acquired the
learning which found expression in his
grafton, ION the Crown" is we'll
known history. The greatest scientists
of modern times-for instance, Lord
Kelvin, Helmholtz, Robert Mayer, to
servation Of energy-were or are al
most recluses in their devotion to their
vocation. Given mind of ordinary
normal strength to start with, some
equipment of early training and
healthy ambition, any young man may
reasonably hope to succeed if he has
the industry to pursue persistently the
purpose he has chosen. , He need not
bother to ask himself whether he has
genius or has talent. The capacity for
hard work is true genius. He may be
quite sure, however, that unless his
ambition includes something outside
OF himself, the winning of it will give
him in the end no satisfaction. That Is
one of the curious laws of life, one of
the compensations that tend to equal
ize in "A way the conditions of existence.
If you want money or power, for the
sake of money or power you might just
as well be breaking butterflies
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
THE FREIGHT BUSINESS.
It Is Not the Haphazard Thing Many
Suppose.

L
Suppose.
Most people have an idea that freight
Is the last thing that railroads look az
ter. Many profess to believe that
piece of freight once started on its
journey is allowed to loaf along at its
own sweet will and pleasure, stopping
where it wishes and staying as long as
it likes, and only bringing up at its des'
tination when there is nowhere else to
go.
When you have waited day after day
for that piano which was shipped
month ago you are ready to adopt that
opinion. But don't be in hurry. When
that piano box shows up in Poughkeep-
sic at the time it should be in Portland
the Poughkeepsie agent does not un-
case the instrument and give a series
Of box car recitals for the next two
months. You may think he does, but
he doesn't. Not bit Of it! There is no
welcome anywhere for the wandering
Willies of freightdom. No agent wishea
to be caught with missing freight piled
the matter is the railroads are continu-
ally punching it to move on.
1t is an interesting study to see how
the railroads handle their Immense
freight business. To the outsider a
freight office seems like confusion
worse confounded, but to the men who
have been trained to the work it is all
as simple as a problem in short divi-
sion. No matter how far from home
car is it is always in touch with the
home Office. Ii the car mas mad bad
luck and one of it's trucks is sprained
the home office knows about it and
sends an order to have it placed in the
nearest car hospital and doctored up to
working condition. The office knows
just what the car is earning, and il it
thinks It's travelling expenses are get
ting too big it shifts its route or calls
it home. 1t is only once in a while that
a car gets away from the home Office
altogether, and when one does thers
is no sleep for any one till the runaway
Is found and started in the right direc-
tion.
After you have listened to a freight
agents description of the elaborate
plans to look after freight, you will
marvel that single package ever goes
astray.
But-the man who Is waiting for that
piano knows that it does.-Lewiston
Journal
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
Training n Nose.

Mothers should care for the noses of
the children and see that they grow
properly. The soft tissues of the or.
gan can be nodded in early life. A
thick nose can be made thinner by reg
ular treatment, such as compressing II
daily, either with the fingers or with
instruments made with strings and
padded ends, so as to clasp the nose. A
clothespin has been used and so ad.
justed as to bring about the right
amount of compression. Many noses
are wrung and twisted out of shape
by the vigorous use of the handker-
chief The delicacy of the structure
of the nose is not appreciated.-Har.
per's Bazaar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

papers and certificates which were nee.
essary for the celebration of their nup-
tials. No less than fourteen certificates
were absolutely Indispensable. and Su-
zanne, as well as her fiance. was
obliged to show in default of their
First, her fathers death certificate;
second, her mothers death certificate;
third, her fathers fathers death certiti.
cate; fourth, her fathers mothers
death certificate; fifth, her mothers
fathers death certificate; sixth. her
mother mothers death certificate;
seventh, her own birth certificate. Sew.
eral months elapsed before all these
papers could be got together.
When at last all was ready Suzanne
B. appeared at the marie and inquired
when she might be married. "Have
you the consent of your conseil de fam
ilieT" family council, which regulates
the affairs of orphans and minOrs) was
the question. mo. My parents died
intestate." "Then you can't be legally
married" "But l have no conseil de
familie." "Well, then, get one as soon
as possible" was the reply. And poor
Suzanne was forced to write to all her
relatives in all corners of France
many of whom she had never seen
and ask them to come up to Paris to
form conseil de familie. After much
expense, worry and trouble, not to
speak of lawyers fees, etc., the various
members of the conseil de familie We're
at last collected together to give their
consent to the marriage of Suzanne
and Henri
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15

Some troublesome questions are
doubtless destined to find n solution
through the courts. In case which
has Just been brought to trial in Indi-
ana, an association of master plumb
ers in Indianapolis, in order to secure
a monopoly of business, drew the lead
ing dealers into an agreement not to
sell plumbers supplies to any except
the members of their own combine"
An outside plumber brought suit
against dealer who had refused to
sell him the goods needed in his bust
ness. The Judge decided that such
discrimination in trade is against pub
lie policy, and that the complainant
was entitled to damages for the incon-
venience and loss he had suffered,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
|rIxlDsmSCienCe
HIM SNSsS9z, ANp
IS |@,a:SslI1VentiOn :

The French peasants who live near
the sewage farms have entered a pro-
test because of the contamination of
their wells.
The population of the earth as esti-
mated by Ernest George Ravenstein
some few years ago for the Royal Geo
graphical Society was 1,4S7 100000.
The velocity of light is 10000 miles
light comes to the earth in eight min
utes. From some of the fixed stars of
the twelfth magnitude it takes four
thousand years for the lightto reach us.
In the London Hospital for Consump-
ton the basis Of treatment is rest in
the open air, graduated exercise and
good feeding. No window in the open
air ward is ever closed, and during the
cold weather the consumptive patients
are kept warm with extra clothing and
artificial heat. 1t is encouraging to note
that practically all the early cases and
10 per cent. of all cases improve consid-
erably under the open-air system.
Last summer a Norwegian mariner.
Captain Grondahl, succeeding in trans
porting two young musk-oXen alive
from northeastern Greenland to from
so. These are said to be the first living
specimens of their species ever brought
TO Europe. 1t is reported that they are
doing well amid their new surround
ings. The musk-ox, next to the white
bear, Is the largest land mammal in
habiting the Arctic regions. 1t attains
a height of nearly, or quite, four feet.
and is clothed by nature to endure ex-
treme cold. During the Arctic summer
musk-oXen become very fat from feed
Ing upon the pasturage which grows in
every sheltered spot, but in winter their
long fasts make them gaunt and thin.
Norris Gibbs descrlbes-what prob
ably thousands of our readers have OBJ
served-the very curious lowering. or
dancing, habit of species of two
winged flies, which assemble in groups
of from 20 to 100 or more, in some spot
sheltered from the wind. and indulge
in fantastic dance for hours at time.
The motions consist of alternate rising
and falling in periods of n few seconds,
and over a distance varying from one
to four feet. The insects seem to be-
come so interested in their sport if
sport it is, that they cannot be driven
away from one another but immedi-
ately reform their companies when dis
turbed. Many species Of insects have
the habit of lowering in the air. some
in parties only and some singly.
Recent experiments at Sheffield, Eng
land, suggest the possibility that in the
twentieth century shields may once
more form an important part of the
equipment of an army. Steel shields,
three millimetres in thickness and
about $50 square inches in area, have
been devised, which afford complete
protection against bullets fired from the
service rifle ut range of 400 yards.
The small size of the shield. which
weighs only seven pounds, requires
that the soldier shall lie prone on the
ground In order to be sheltered. Each
shield has loophole for the rifle. and
studs at the side so that series of
them can be linked into continuous
screen. The idea is that by the, use of
such shields the necessity Of digging
trenches may often be avoided.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-06-15
The Land of the Lezv

"ln late sojourn in Honduras" said
l.. B. Givens to Washington Post re-
porter, Il came to the conclusion that
1t was paradise for lazy man. Every
thing grows luXuriantly, with but little
labor on the part of the natives. and
many crops do not need replanting
more than once in eight or ten years.
The country offers fine inducements to
enterprising men, but it is hard for Il
white man used to civilized ways to go
down there and dwell among an ignor-
ant lot of natives who are 100 years be.
hind the times. A man would have no
congenial society, and might as well be
In exile. The natives usually live in
bamboo houses, though in the towns
the dwellings are of adobe. Children
go naked for the first two or three
years of their life, and the attire of the
adults is rather scant. The Govern
ment is liberal with concessions in or
der to encourage the development of
the country's resources, but there Is
no general rule governing the granting
of privileges; it all depends on how
good bargain may be driven. The
climate is very salubrious, and laziness
Is about the only prevailing disease"