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have forty officers and 449 seamen
and marines. She has triple-expan-
sion twin-screw propelling engines,
capable of 12U revolutions minute.
Her ormor consists of a belt, four
feet below and three and half feet
above the toad line, Of sixteen and one
half and nine and one-half inches
thickness. The turrets are protected
by seventeen inches Of steel plate.
She carries two thirteen-inch guns
each in her forward and aft turrets.
fourteen six.inch rapid-dre guns. and
q secondary battery Of sixteen quick
firing six-pounders. and four quick
firing one-pounders, and two Colt and
two field guns.
The speed of the Illinois in the trial
race, as given above 17.3l knots an
hour) Is the actual time made against
tide and currents. Her corrected
speed, calculated by the Board of In
spection and Survey, is much better
17.45 knots. This great speed places
her still further in the lead Of Amert.
can battleships, and is her warrant to
rank pre-eminently as the feetest
ship Of her class in the navies Of the
wOrld.-COllier's Weekly.
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Savcre Treatment.

The noise made by the burglar IN the
Ferguson pantry. slight as it was dis
turbed the light sleeper in the bed
room not far away. and the midnight
marauder was surprised a moment
later to find himself covered with q
hig revolver in the hands Of a deter
mined looking man in a long, whlte
robe.
81 hain't done nothin' but eat few
cold victuals, mister" stammered the
burglar.
81 see," sternly replied George Fer
guson, "you have been eating the re-
mains of a strawberry shortcake my
wife made for dinner last night. Do
you know what I'm going to do with
you?"
Turn me over to the police,
s'pose," gasped the helpless thief.
Worse than that" said Ferguson,
with a ferocious grin. I'm going to
make you eat a quart OF health food.
It's a new kind my wife heard of and
fixed up for us yesterday, and it's
pretty dry eating, but you'll eat every
particle of it or III bore six holes
through you. There it is, in that big
bowl. Turn yourself loose on. it!'
With grim determination the indig-
nant householder stood over him till it
was finished, after which he picked
up the luckless scoundrel, who had
fallen exhausted to the floor. and
threw him out Of the open pantry Win
dow.
1T may kill him." soliloquized Mr.
Ferguson somewhat remorsefully, as
| he crawled back into bed. without dis
turbing the rest of the family, but a
man who breaks into another man I
house takes bis life in his hands any
way."-Chicago Tribune.
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Golf Tendon the Latest Malady.

The golf tendon is the latest discov.
cry of surgery. A Chicago doctor has
recently written a description Of the
newly affected ligament. The tendon
begins to make itself felt when the
"duffer" throws his weight on his left
heel. This causes a sudden and great
strain on the golf tendon. which re-
bells under repeated strains. goes on q
strike entirely. with the result that
the "duffer" is compelled to take tc
his bed as a sufferer from a novel
malady.
In some cases the rebellious tendon
has snapped completely. and partial
paralysis OF the golfers leg is said to
have ensued.
If the "duffer'' persists, in spite of
the protests Of the tendon. and deyel.
ops In time into a golfer, he learns
that the most effective strokes are not
given by standing on his heel.
Then he stands squarely. until the
swing Of the final stroke carries his
weight to the ball Of his foot-New
York Mall and Express.
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A Short Lived Yacht.

An instance of the rapid passing OF
a racing yachts us'fulness is that of
the grand old Defender. the 1895 cup
racer. 1t cost fully 100000 to build
her-not to run her; just to put her
afloat ready for racing. Those who
designed the yacht thought that a
bronze hull with aluminium topsides
would slide through the water with
greater celebrity than any other COM
bination of metals that could be Ge-
vised for a hull. They SO inform d
the syndicate that ordered her. But.
they added. aluminium and bronze
make poor combination. and il
course of time the aluminium will rot
where it joins the bronze. and the De-
fender will be useless. But what
mattered that? She was to be built
IS defend the cup; after she had de-
Tended it she might rot or not as she
pleascd.-Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly
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WOLVES OF THE SEA.
From dusk until dawn they are hurryil

From dusk until dawn they are hurrying
Unfettered and fearless they fee;
From morn until eve they piunder and
thieve-
The hungry white wolves of the sea!
With never a rest, they race to the west,
To the Orient's rim do they. run;
BY the berg and the foe OF the northiend
they 60
And away to the isles of the sun.
They wall at the moon to the desolate
dune
Till the air has grown dank with their
breath;
They snarl at the stars from the treacher-
Gus bars
Of the coasts that are haunted by
death.
They grspple and bite in a keen, mad de-
light
AS they feed on the bosom of grief
And one steals away to a cave with his
prey
And one to the rocks Of the reef.
With the froth on their lips they follow
the ships,
Each striving to lead in the chase;
Since loosed by the hand OF the king their
band
They have known but the rush Of the
race.
They are shaggy and old, yet as mighty
and bold
As when Gods freshest gale set them
free;
Not sail is unfurled il port of the
world
But is prey for the wolves of the sea!
Herbert Bashford,. in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly.
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THE BATTLEsHIP ILLINOIS, TIE FINEST WARS AFLoAT

metal than her enemy, and can hurl
it as accurately and timely, she will
win, and the ship is built to win.
She must get to her fighting ground
quickly, and Outright her foe.
81 believe the Illinois can do both.
I believe she is the feetest ship Of
her tonnage and fighting power on
the sea to-day and can whip anything
that can now force her to fight. and
many battleships that she could force
to fight her on her own terms"
The Illinois was launched October
4, 1898, at the yards Of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com
pany, Newport News, Va. Her hull Is
36S feet long at load-water line, her
beam seventy-two feet, and draught
at normal displacement of 11,525 tons
is twenty-three feet and six inches.
Her indicated horsepower Is 10000;
her speed is 1871 knots, and her
coal supply is 1900 tons. She will
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the busy harbor traffic of Boston, on
the morning Of June II. awaiting the
supreme moment that should see her
transformed from a germ in iron and
steel into a battleship. She had lain
there for some time, and every hour
her picked crew and her shrewd build
ers had made her filter. and stronger
and feeter. They had let the CRIME
and dirt accumulate on her decks, and
soil the creamy white Of her graceful
ly curved sides; but they kept the ma
ehinery clean and free, and as sleek
with oil as the mouth Of million
gallon "sponter.'
The test Of the ship had been re-
garded by all as a dramatic climax
toward which everything was moving.
Her builders had been preparing her
for this moment ever since her launch
Ing on October 4, 1898; and the United
States Navy, which was to reject or
accept her On the result Of the trial,
had selected trained body Of Off
cers to witness the race. AS if to
mark the occasion as sort Of baptism
Of fire, Rear-Admiral "Fighting Bob"
Evans was placed at the head of this
Board.
On one, however, not even her build
ers or her crew, expected that she
would run the marvellous race she
did, eclipsing all records. But after
she reeled off her wonderful speed Of
1871 knots so steadily, without fret
ting or quivering, Admiral Evans said
she could easily be forced to eighteen
knots.
AS soon as the members Of the trial
board. which consisted Of Rear-Ad-
miral Evans. Captain G. ]. Train.
Captain J. N. Hemphill, Commander
Charles Roelker, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Charles q. Vreeland, Lieuten-
ant Commander T. s. Rodgers and
Naval Constructor ]. J. Woodward,
bad made a tour Of inspection Of the
ship, she left her anchorage in Presi-
dent Roads and steamed slowly out
Of the bay. At first she moved with
extreme caution, as if wary Of the tor
tuous channels. and hcr helm was in
the hands of harbor pilot Then. as
the wide seaway opened before her,
she dropped the pilot, shook off her
swaddling bands. as it were, scorned
all guiding hands. save those Of her
masters. and turned her head toward
Cape Ann for her life or death race.
The course Of thirty-three knots
had been carefully measured the day
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knots an hour. So smoothly did she
rush through the water, without vibra-
tion or clatter, that even the naval ex-
perts could hardly believe she was
moving at that wonderful speed. Only
the white beaten foam size dashed
wide and far from her bows, and left
in q broad. swath behind her, told Of
the tremendous power and speed with
which she was being driven. Admiral
Evans and President Calvin B. Orcutt,
of the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company. the builders, who
were on the bridge, Admiral W. T.
Sampson. who watched the first part
of the trial from q station near the
wheel, and all the other naval officers
present, held their watches to catch
the exact time Of the start and finish
of the first reach, as if the ship were
a racehorse nearing the wire in q
sharply contested heat.
The gunboat Hist saluted as the bat
tleship crossed the startins-line, and
the great fighter snorted curtly
through her siren whistle in acknowl-
edgment.
At this moment, as the Illinois had
attained almost her utmost pitch of
speed, she presented q remarka BILE
spectacle, viewed from her own for
ward fighting-top.
That she could and would make the
speed required by her contract-six-
teen knots an hour--was evident to all
from the moment she rignted herself
from the turn and moved down the
line of stakeboats that disappeared
in the direction of the Maine coast.
The crew, from Captain Hanlon and
helmsmar and engineer down to the
deckhands, regarded the race as a
personal affair. Each one knew exact
ly what the Alabama and the Wiscon-
sin had done, and, therefore, what the
Illinois was expected to do, and each
felt the heavy responsibility that rest
ed alike on steering wheel, or engine
shaft, or sack Of coal, or on a single
drop of oil.
At the end of the half-course SIN
gular thing happened. Until the race
is finished every power Of the ship Is
guarded against mishap. For this rea.
son, the ship usually swings about on
an easy helm. and reserves the test Of
her ability to turn in smaA circle
to the very end Of the race. But
there was some confusion in orders.
and the ship suddenly came about.
hard a-port, and then as suddenly and
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She said that she was sure you would
| not recommend anything that was
wrong; that you would advise her as
| if you were her own father, anu she
hopes you will stand by us. We shall
be married tomorrow. before Mr.
| Meadows is up. Very thankfully, I
Harry Conrad" !
The old gentleman brought the note
| with him to the table. opened it out
before him, adjusted his spectacies
and read it over and over again.
"rd give q f10 note." he said
chucklinp. "to see the old fellows
face when he hears how Harry has
done him"
# was the custom Of Mr.. Sheldon
to read his newspaper at breakfast.
while waiting for his only child ana
daughter, who, a little spoiled by
oyerindulgence. was generally late.
But this morning Matty was later
than ever.
The banker had read all the foreign,
rs we'll as the home news. and even
reperused Harry's note and stlh she
had not made her appearance.
"The lazy puss" he said. at last.
Then he looked up at the clock. Hall
an hour late! Now, this is really 100
bad. Johnw he cried, addressing the
man servant at the sideboard, send
and see why Miss Sheldon doesn't
come down. Tell her," with a severe
air, "I'm tired of waiting"
John came back in about five MIN
utes looking very much hustered.
"If you please, sir" he stammered.
"NIiss Sheldon's not in her room, and
the maid says that the bed looks as
if it hadn't been slept in all night
The rich merchants jaw fell.
He started up. with q cry OF agony.
to 20 and see. But he was prevented
by the footman appearing at the door
with a telegram.
"a telegram!' cried the merchant
unfolding it with trembling hands.
what can it mean? Has she been
found dead anywhere"
This was the telegram:
Dear Father-Harry and I were
married at eight o'clock this morning.
I would not consent to an elopement
till Harry assured me you had advised
if, and had shown me your check as
proof. He says you promised to STAND
by us, and I know you pride yourselI
on never breaking q promise. we
wait for your blessing. Matty.
"Wen, I neverw calculated Mr.. Shell
don, when he had recovered breath.
"The impudent, dsobe-
But here he stopped-stopped. and
mopped his bald head, which, IN MS
excitement, had broken out into great
drops of perspiration. He remembered
that he had himself advised Harry
to elope, and that, if the story got
wind, he would be the laughing-stock
of the town, including-hardest cut
of all-Mr. Meadows. He remembered.
too. that he had but one child. and
that she was all in all to him.
So he accepted the inevitable anu
telegraphed back:
"You may come home. and the
sooner the better. so as to keep the
fifty pounds for pin-money. Tell
Harry he's too sharp to remain
clerk and that I take him to-day into
partnership. Only he must remember
that partners never tell tales out OF
school. God bless you! II. Sheldon.
The runaways returned by the next
train. The marriage proved, too' an
eminently happy one. The story never
got out. We only tell it now IN con-
fidence.-Woman's Life.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7 FHE'REE0RD. D.BREAKIhE !
+ RAEE Or THE IbbIK0IS. (
81 BY Stanhope Sans, Special Corre-
d spondent Of Golfers Weekly. Il

~ HE seemed almost conscious of
~ the part she played-the great
y battleship Illinois-as she
settled down to her race
through the ocean path that had been
marked out for her to prove that she
was the swiftest, and withal the most
terrible, sea-fghter Of her class afoat.
She gave the impression that the
beauty and splendor she will some day
wear had been renounced, and that
here she was to exhibit only her
winged power of flight and her deadly
strength. So stripped was she that
every muscle seemed laid bare, and
she was still begrimed with the sweat
Of labor that had fitted her to run and
win the race against hundred rivals
In the navies Of the world.
The Illinois, dull, dingy, gray hulk.
lay beyond the brooding islands and
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Hu1nor of EnplIah Red-Tape.

Captain Oliver Young, of the Eng
lish Navy, when lieutenant on board
Her Majesty's ship Beacon. in the
Egyptian campaign, was laid up in
hospital, and. being reported dead and
buried. a stone was erected to his
memory at Suakim. where it still re-
mains. 1t is one Of the humors Of
English red-tape that the War Office
requested his executors to forward a
guinea, the cost Of engraving his name
upon the stone.
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coast. The gunboat Hist was the first
stake, and the others were, in their
order, the training ships Lancaster
and Essex, the gunboats Newport and
Peoria, and the naval tug Potomac.
Long before the Illinois reached Cape
Ann she had worked up to a high
speed, and when she swept around
the first stake-boat and swung easily
into the path she had to follow. she
was making more than seventeen
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before, and was marked by six boats
and buoys stationed at intervals OF
little more than six knots. the total
distance to be gone over twice. out
and In. The path lay directly across
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the deep blight in the shore-llne of
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
and ended off Cape Porpoise beyond
Mount Agamenticus on the Maine
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mysteriously swung hard to star
board. like q tipsy sailor. Then she
swung again in a short curve, and
came round, beautifully righting her
self, and seemed to lean back into
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TAKING HIS ADVICE.

Il. SHELDON was the
principal merchant in the
important manufacturing
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In the Chapel.

"a 'Ye came like water and like wind We Co."
So spake the preacher. only yesterday
In the cool grass beneath blue skies ye lay,
Tomorrow morning brings the storm and snow.
Eye who but now chased pleasure with hot
breath
Must forth TO battle with a world uncouth-
Hopes endless days are done. Lo. in your
youth
Ye have lived out a life and died a death.
"fYe came like water Has this meadow been
Impoverished by your rivers bitterness?
Or have We, with a lingering, sweet caress,
Lifted it's flowers and made its green more
green?
a Like the wind we co. How are We going
hence?
Where We have passed do the fields bake with
drought,
Or have we blown upon them like the south,
And left them lovelier for your innocence?
IF we have killed no flower, we need not fear;
If We have nourished one. go forth content
To the great life-ye know why We are sent;
Water and wind have done their errand here"
Ballads of Harvard, by Lloyd McKim Garri-
son.
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were the herd protected n enabled to
grow and increase.
To the present commercially unproft-
able condition of the fur seal industry we
must add certain debts and obligations
hanging over 1t. The Paris Tribunal Of
Arbitration was convened in the interest
OF the fur-seal herd, and though it failed
s.gnally in its effort to protect and pre-
serve the herd, its expense IF half a mil
hon dollars or whereabouts remains TO be
made good. Another half million was re-
Gently appropriated by Congress to pay
damages awarded by the Tribunals de-
cision. this amount arising from the illegal
seizing OF sealing vessels on the high seas.
The cost of recent commissions of investi-
cation and otherwise has been consider
able. The present Quebec commission will
aco its contribution of expense. and in the
final settlement of the matter a further
payment of from a quarter to half a mil
lioI dollars must be provided for. The
industry, therefore, when it does start
anew. must do SO with a heavy handicap
of indebtedness. This fact. however, is
both a reason and an incentive for i'm
mediate action. Every season of pelagic
scaling further diminishes the herd and
tAC VI u
Assuming that the herd will be pro-
tected, what then OF its future? There
would be at once a steady and consider
able increase in its breeding stock and in
its quota. 1t is impossible to measure this
increase exactly, or to tell in how many
years it might be expected to regain its
normal condition-the condition in which
the herd was during the period from 1871
80 fCSE xl IA ~ 49, rrlI -,,ot. ~
10000 skins a year. From the history of
the herd We know that there was a time.
from 1913 to 1850, when by some calamity
probably an ice b~lockade), it was brought
to the verge of ruin, doubtless much nearer
to biological extinction than 1t is to-day.
We know also that in about twenty years,
or very soon after the transfer in 1861 to
tho United States, of the seal islands with
the Territory of Alaska, the herd had re-
gained its normal condition and its maxi
mum productiveness. We may safely pre-
dict, therefore, that in twenty years from
the date of its eman eipation from pelagic
sealing the herd would again yield its 100,-
600 skins a year. Under the terms of the
present lease this would yield to the gov
eminent an annual income of $1,000, 600 in
royalty, to which must be added a con-
siderable revenue GO per cent. ad valorem),
on dressed seal skins imported for con-
sumption in the United States from Lon
don, whittier all seal skins are now taken
to be dressed and dyed.
Thus from a present condition of mini
mum production, which would still be
profitable were pelagic sealing abolished,
the industry ought, under such abolition, to
grow steadily in the comparatively short
period of twenty years to a maximum prod
uct OF over a million dollars a year. Sure
ly, such an industry should be saved at any
reasonable cost, and it is to be hoped that
our diplomats will find a way to speedily
accomplish this end.
DAVID STARR JORDAN.
Stanford University, California
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Gods grace be with you, fearless elf
The city streets are strange and wild,
And yet, quite by your dauntiess self,
You tread the mazes. little child!
The seas blue dream is in your eyes,
Your brown cheek shows health's rudy rose
And where the deepest crimson lies,
A baby dimple comes and goes.
I watch you as you dive and dart
Over the roadway's crowded space,
Hanging on car, and lodging cart
A gamin, with a cherub's face.
A gamin. with a cherub's soul!
Twas such a little time ago
You slipped the angels sweet control,
Earth's ftful. wearying life to know.
What is there in the years for you?
The place Of master, or OF slave?
Good to attain. or i'll to rue?
Perchance, a tiny wayside grave.
Oh, small, strong soul! Yet life seems gay
Where your feet pass and greed and pelf
Pause, as 1 pause, to smile and say,
Gods grace be with you, fearless elf"
Madeline S. Bridges, in Frank Leslie's.
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Mother Earth, who bred US stalwart,
Bred US lusty, bred us free,
She hath spread her nets TO take us,
She hath lured us warily
To the wind across the open,
And the restless, roaming sea.
She hath sent her winds to whisper
OF the far lands whence they roam,
Sent her shouting storms to call us.
From the green fields of our home,
With a dream of far wild places
And the rowing, racing foam.
She hath sung to us divinely
In the moaning of her tides,
OF some ship that waits our coming
That for us at anchor rides
Set us longing for the sea-song
OF the wave-wash on her sides.
By the rowing hearts within US
Hers for good and i'll are we,
By the vigor she hath sent US
Hers while youth and strength shall be
Bondsmen of the boundless open
And the restless, roaming sea.
&C. Fox Smith
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Coming Rain.

Hung in the shining north, light showers
As over a breast of silks and flowers
Like dusky unbound hair
Trail weeping; but the west is dark.
And the rain-crow's tripping voice, o harkt
Treads down the echoing airi
Hark. how the bobolinks ripple and bubblei
Out of the orchard what rapture OF robins,
And look, the brown thrush up and facing the
storm
With a shaken jubilant splendor and storm OF
song
And more than the heart can bear!
o look and listen, the last lights glisten,
Save for the moments glare:
. look and harkeni the valleys oarken,
Fade, for the rain is therel
Joseph Russell Taylor, In February Scribner's
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The smiling PeddIer.

Chicago Tribune
This is the lady of the house. is it not:'
Yes, sir"
Il am not taking a political census
n.a'am, but something seems TO tell me you
are all good Republicans here
Not exactly: but we are Gold Demo
Gratis"
"Then you will be interested. 1 think, IN
nowing that this brand of soap, which ]
am selling at the ridicuIously low price Of
10 cents q cake. Is the Identical soap which
William Jennings Bryan refused 70 take q
that measly new paper II bis Thanks
mo,am. win you kindly tell me the poll