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90S lost their lives, 100 of them being
lost in a single wreck in which a YES
sci went down so far out at sea that
the service was practically prevented
from being of much assistance.
That the vast Importance of the SER
vice is recognized by Congress is
shown by the increase from the initial
appropriation of $4,000 which DR..
Newell secured to that of $780, 900,
which was approximately the cost of
the service during 1900. Beginning
with a single station on the New Jer-
sey coast, there are now no less than
265 stations located along the Atlantic,
Pacific, and gulf coasts and the shores
of the great lakes. OF this number
twenty-eight stations are located on
Lake Michigan. As rule, particular
ly on the more dangerous coasts, the
stations are located five miles apart,
the shore between being regularly
patrolled at all hours of the day and
night by coast patrolmen. The patrol
man from each station travels two and
a half miles, at which point he meets
the man from the next station, with
whom he exchanges brass tally checks.
At night each patrolman carries a So
called Coston light, a torch from
which bright colored flame caa be
elected to considerable height The
instant he discovers a shipwreck he
discharges the torch a signal to the
sailors that their plight has been noted
and that assistance will be brought as
quickly as possible. If the wreck rs
located close to shore, within a few
hundred yards, the Lyle gun is
brought into use. This is a peaceful
weapon by means of which light
line can be shot out to the wreck, a
itrong cable being afterwards rugged
up between shore and ship. On this
cable. which is supported at the shore
end by a high triangular framework,
the breeches buoy or the life car is
run to and fro until all the people in
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Use for Lincoln.. Old Home.

Lincoln's old home, near Hodgens-
vile, Kentucky, will probably be con-
verted into home for ex-slaves. Such
is the plan of Thomas T. Thomas, a
wealthy negro and ex-slave, who has
entered into negotiations with David
Crear, of New York city, the present
owner of the farm, for the purchase OF
the birthplace of the great emancipa-
tor Should Mr.. Crear decide to keep
the farm he will offer the free use OF
it for the building of home for ex-
slaves The logs comprising the origi-
nal cabin, in which the ex-president
was born, which are at present ON ex-
hibition at the Pan-American exposi-
ton, will be brought back to the farm
and erected on the site of it's original
location Additional land will be pur-
chased and cultivated to supply pro-
visions for the ex-slaves.
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The Canadian Flag.

Undoubtedly the only strictly &C.
curate and appropriate national flag fol
display in civil life, throughout the
length and breadth of this Dominion is
the Red Ensign, flag of plain red,
having the Union Jack in the upper
canton" or corner, next the mast, and
the dominion coat of arms in the fly
or field of the flag. However, in civil
life in Canada there is no written code
either obligatory or prohibitory. The
use of national flags or emblems-like
so many other matters under the easy
going British constitution, which WISE
ly avoids all undue interference with
the liberty of the subject, or needlessly
repressive enactments-is almost en-
tirely a matter of usage.-Montreal
Herald and Star.
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TYPHOONS IN THE PACIFIC.

These Great Storms Rage About a Calm
Center.
The first signs of a typhoon are fine,
f1eecy cirrus clouds which move from
the eastward to the north. The barom-
eter is stationary, the weather is hot,
clear and dry and the winds gentle or
else calm. If the clouds come from the
west there will be no typhoon. if from
a typhoon some 600 miles to the south
ward. These clouds, often of wonderful
shapes, appear as far as 1900 mil rs
from the center of the typhoon. Sun
dogs, phosphorescents seas, brilliant sun
sets, often precede such storms. Atten-
tive observation of the cirrus clouds,
interpreted according to rules well
known to sailors, will often enable a
lance of the storm center. If it is with
in 500 miles the cloudiness increases
and the barometer falls slowly Within
200 miles of the center the temperature
falls rapidly and the sky is filled with
cumulus clouds, the wind increases
From two to fifteen miles from the cen
ter the wind ceases to blow, the sky
clears toward the zenith. This is what
sea folk call the eye of the storm. >
The sea seems to boil and is covered
with foam. The calm center about
which the storm RACES varies in diam
eter from four to fifty miles, and here
the rain usually ceases. The barometer
varies suddenly up and down during
squalls of about ten minutes duration
and rain falls in enormous quantities
If the center approaches it is known
by mighty squall, the direction of the
wind changes and the barometer be-
gins to rise. The velocity of the vino
often rises to 16O miles per hour in the
open ocean. The direction of motion OF
the storm center and of the wind in
the typhoon itself are known from
rules based on theory and verified by
long experience.
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THE QUEENS PREACHER.
How Bishop Carpenter Preached to the
SculIery Maid

How Bishop Carpenter Preached to the
SculIery Maid
OF DR.. Boyd Carpenter, the bishop
of Ripon, whose preaching was much
admired by the late Queen Victoria.
the following remark is quoted by
writer in Black and White:
Il never address the queen at all,
he told somebody who asked him if he
felt nervous when preaching before
Queen Victoria 81 know that thee
will be present the queen, the princes,
the household and the servants down
to the scullery maid. and 1 preach to
the scullery maid" The remark is
typical of the man DIR. Carpenter has
always been a royal favorite, but he is
infinitely happier in the cottage than
in the palace. He is not ashamed to
ride in a bus, and he has often told
the story of penny ride from West
minister to Charing Cross When the
ticket collector came around the bishop
found, to his establishment that he
had not penny In his pocket. and his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-14
ODD CASE OF MIND CURE.
Cures

v.Liny of thermometer Cures
Woman of Fever.
A prominent Philadelphia physi-
clan. who has looked skeptically upon
all the new theories of curing disease
without medicine, says he has recently
seen an instance of the influence or
the mind over the body that mas
greatly surprised him. One OF MS
patients, a woman who ten years ago
was saved from a wreck at sea, mas
since been subject to attacks OF FEVER
regularly once a year. As there SEEM
ed to be no particular reason for these
spells of illness, his usual treatment
has been to send her out of town, and
the change was always beneficial. This
wear. however. a wedding in the fam
lily prevented the trip, and the fever
Increased with such severity that the
doctor became seriously alarmed One
day the patients temperature was aD-
normally high, and the doctor, to see
if the heat of the atmosphere could
partially explain it, took thermome-
ter from the wall to note the tempera-
ture of the room. The instrument
slipped through his fingers and fell to
the floor breaking the glass tube.
Turning to his patient, he saw that her
face was less flushed, and as he felt her
pulse and watched her, the fever rap
idly abated and left her quickly The
ia ermometer had been on the wrecked
vessel, and it was always on the an
niversary Of the day of the wreck that
the fever appeared. It was inferred
that at these times the woman's nerves
had responded to the terror and anx-
iety of that experience, and the break
ing of the thermometer had shattered
the nervous strain of memory kept
alive by it's associations.-Phila
Record.
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ten to the contrary by the Htterateur,
who is accustomed to taking striking
exceptions as types, says M. Charles
Seignobos in the International Month
ly. There are not in all France more
than twenty electoral districts in
which the election is carried by money.
I could point them out one by one.
They are the environs of Paris, in the
country places of the Pyrenees and of
the Alps. and in the Center 1t is true
that the Conservative candidates often
believe themselves obliged to incur
large expense. but the electors, even
when they profit by them, continue to
vote according to their opinions
Money holds very little place in the
electoral life of France.
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A Ghost Story.

A sea captain at the Continental
Hotel recently told a ghost story for
which he said, Herman Merivate stood
sponsor. "A ship" the captain be-
gan, was crossing the Atlantic from
Liverpool. Half way over a sailor
came to the chief officer and said he
had just seen a strange man sitting
in the cabin, writing. 1t seemed i'm
possible for a strange man to be
aboard, and the officer told the sailor
to look again and see if he had not
been mistaken. When the sailor re-
turned he had a slip of paper in his
hand. The man is not there now. but
this paper lay on the table where he
nad been sitting, he said. On the
sheet were the words Steer due south.
This thing was so mysterious that the
ships course was actually changed
and she did steer due south for six OF
seven hours. She came then on a
wreck and succeeded in rescuing the
men upon it. One of these men the
sailor of the rescuing ship recognized
as the stranger whom he had seen be-
fore. This stranger some hours earlier
had told his captain that he often went
into cataleptic frances, and that he
had just come out of one in which he
asked the aid of ship that was sail
ing somewhere to the north. 1t seems
an improbable story, this, but it is
very well authenticated, all the same
Philadelphia Record.
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KINDERGARTEN LEGISLATORS.
Little Sketches of Odd Proceedings In
Hawaiian Legislature.

little Sketches of Odd Proceedings In
Hawaiian Legislature.
eft is curious to watch the kinder
parten stage of a people just learning
to use political freedom and putting
into operation the machinery of legis-
latiye government remarked Civil
Service Commissioner Rodenberg to
Star reporter on his recent return from
the Hawaiian islands. THE Hawa-
iian legislature is very amusing
body in some respects. There are ma
tive members and American members
Translators of both languages are
employed. but the original remarks OF
members will be delivered in first one
language and then the other The ma
tive members regard their official posi-
lions with great solemnity. and their
COMPREHENSION of the power of the leg
islature is sometimes ridiculously IL
Illustrated by the bills which they intro
duce. Not long ago bill was intro
duced by a native member to repeal all
the laws of the United States which
might apply to the islands. Following
this was a measure which provided
that any person might become 1icens-
ed physician simply upon payment OF
the fee for securing the license AS a
travesty on these bills young Amer1-
can member one day introduced a bill
with all solemnity to prevent the
waves from beating on a certain por-
ton of the beach which was used for
bathing The august body sat in soi-
emn and dignified silence while the
measure was being read. and 1t, did
not occur to it that it was not a mat
ter for its earnest consideration =
WASHINGTON Star
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wife, who was with him, was in the
same unhappy state of pennilessness
DIR. Carpenter made up his mind to
borrow the money when he alighted
at Charing Cross, but before he reach
ed his destination, workingman, with
a bag of tools thrown over his shout
der, turned to him as he left the bus
and said: Don't bother about that;
I've made that all right" Almost be-
fore the bishop COULD say Thank you"
the man with the bag was gone and
Dr. Carpenter found that he had paid
his fare and that of his wife to the
end of the journey.
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STEERING A LIFEBOAT.


danger are safely landed. In the life
car number of people may be car
ried at the same time, while the
breeches buoy can support but single
passenger.
Wherever it is possible to do so the
surf boat Is also launched as soon as
1t can be dragged to the nearest point
on the beach These boats are now
SO built that if overturned by the
breakers they will right and empty
themselves. 1t being absolutely impos-
sible to sink them. AS a rule ships
are wrecked on a lee shore, so that
the surf boat is almost always obliged
to put out in the teeth of a strong
wind and is more likely than not to
be capsized- When launched the surf
boat Is propelled by six oarsmen and
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before they got near enough to pass a
line to the crew, which was almost
ovrcome by the awful cold Big
waves were daahing high over the
steamer, and wherever the water
struck it froze almost instantly. Three
trips were made before all of the crew
were taken to places of safety, and
when this work was over the mem
bers of the crew were quite as badly
off as the men they had rescued.
The short and simple annals of the
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zen. Smarter before and after
Cervera's fleet dashed out of Santiago
bay to it's destruction he would bs we'll
equipped to play the part of a star
witness in the coming Sampson-Schley
investigation He did not seem to re-
gard Sampson as great fighter in
those days.
We who were with the doughty
Shafter have very lively recollections
of the generals bringing his huge fist
down upon the quivering camp table to
emphasize the string of characteristic
strong words he used to express his
opinion of Admiral Sampson.
why doesn't he force his way into
the bay?" said the general. "Is he
afraid of scraping some of the paint
from the bottom of his ships?''
This was after the Spanish fleet had
been destroyed. There were no war
ships flying the Spanish flag in the
bay, but it was said then that the
channel was mined and that if any
hostile craft attempted to force an en-
trance it would be blown over the
mountains
Gen. Shafter was a rank skeptic
about the mines. The Cubans had told
him, and their report was partially
corroborated by some refugees. that
any mine or torpedo which had been
laid in the channel had been there so
long that it would not explode. They
said the only danger to an American
ship was in the shore batteries.
Lieut. John Miley, who was Shaft
er's executive officer. but who has
since died in the Philippines with the
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ed that Schley was coward
The boys who had faced Spanish
shells and Mauser slugs, who had
fought while fever burned their piooo'
who knew what fighting meant, seem
ed to hold a contrary OPINION 10 thal
entertained at washington Tney salu.
"Schley did it, Sampson WASH IN II.
It was Schley who licked the Span
iards."
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1sh admiral would Rear-Admiral w.
leave the harbor at T. Sampson.
9 O'Clock the following morning On
that day was told by officers that the
French consul had told Maj. Noble
that Cervera was getting ready to
leave and would make the attempt the
next morning
None of US believed that the Span
ish admiral would attempt such a des-
perate movement We were told that
day that the news was wig-wagged-
by order of Gen. Shafter-from the
shore to Admiral Sampson If this was
done Admiral Sampson did not be-
lieve that Cervera would make the
dash. for when the Spanish ships left
the harbor, Sampson, aboard the New
York, was steafhing toward Siboney to
hold a conference with Gen. Shafter.
About $50 O'Clock on the morning
of July we heard several of the navy
guns roar. No one in the trenches of
San Juan hill paid any particular at
tention to the booming, for we thought
the warships had begun their daily
bombardment of MORO castle and the
other batteries.
But the heavy cannonading grew
stronger and we could hear the Span
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The Order Promptly Fined.

Mrs. Mary Mikesel1. who lives near
Dublin, o.. while attending the funeral
OF relative a few days ago, told the
undertaken In charge that she desired
that he conduct her funeral Before Is
hours had passed she was dead.
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render. from Gen. Toral, who COM
manded the beleaguered Spanish
forces, if it could take UP a position
opposite the city of Santiago. He
urged Sampson to make the attempt,
but the commander of the American
fleet did not seem to see it that way.
Then it was that Shafter declared
that he would do it. Capt. Stewart
Brice, son of the late Senator Calvin
Brice, one of Skaters military fam
lily, and Col Creighton Webb, inspec-
tor-general of Gen. Lawton's division,
and other adventurous officers came
20 Gen. Shafter with a scheme for the
army to do what the navy seemed to
be afraid of doing. They planned call
ing for volunteers to man an army
transport, putting on the vessel bat
terry of field guns, and with it force an
entrance to the harbor and take up
position behind one of the islands in
the bay, where they would be out OF
the line of fire from any battery and
yet be in position to rake the city.
Shafter took kindly to the plan,
which was kept a deep secret. but, like
all secrets, the scheme leaked out and
scores of officers were eager to volun-
teer. some of them offering to go as
privates But just as the scheme was
taking tangible form Gen. Tora1 made
it known to Gen. Shafter that he was
willing to come in and nothing
more was done with the transport
proposition.
The day before the Spanish feet
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WAS SAMPSON WARNED?

and jaunty in their fresh-laundered
white suits, came into the parlors of
the governors palace in Santiago.
where Shafter had his headquarters.
The army officers, dirty and yellow,
their thin faces showing the effects of
fever and hardships and lack
of food, fiocked around Schley.
Admiral Sampson stood al
most alone at one end of the long
room, but Schley was the center of an
enthusiastic crowd. He was congratu-
lated again and again. Generals, colo
nels, majors, captains and lieutenants
pressed his hands. They threw their
arms around him and told him he was
a great man. OF course every army Of
ficer paid his respects to Sampson, but
most of them did it in a conventional
way There was no warmth to their
greetings.
1t was not until we reached Mon
tauk Point that we learned that the
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the fleet was moving into the harbor
The Spaniards opened up all along the
line about that time and we were some
what busy ourselves, yet we kept
Keen ears in the direction of the bay.
The heavy booming seemed to move
eastward, and finally the voice of the
great guns grew fainter and at last
died out Even then we did not think
the Spanish fleet had gone out, and it
was not until noon that word came
from Gen. Ludlow, who was north of
the city, where he could see the bay,
that the Spanish ships apparently had
gone out of the harbor, for none was
to be seen.
At last we received definite news of
the great victory and then the men in
the trenches gave voice to their en-
thusiasm. The next day we got the
details, and it is interesting to recall
the fact that no one then had whis-
per against Schley. ''Schley did it,
'.Schley was the hero" The Brooklyn
did most of the work. were the COM
ments heard then. The army officers
declare that the celebrated loop which
the Brooklyn made was a great ma
neuvers-that Schley proved himself
to be a great sea fighter.
Schley's name was ON every tongue.
Sampson was only mentioned in words
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steam launch. OIeWdTC NJ bTIce.
The army officers took particular
pains to let Schley know that they
gave him the credit of smashing the
Spanish fleet when Sampson and
Schley came ashore to call on Shafter
after we had entered Santiago. The
naval officers, clean and trim, well fed
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A Record-Bre.kinx Par.on.

Rev. Jones CoIvin, of Youngstown,
o., SO years cd, known as 1.-The marry
ing parson," broke all records the
other day by marrying II couples in
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of condemnation.
He was cenSured
for taking the New
York out of line
when he could just
as well have made
the trip to Siboney
on one of the mos
quito fleet or in a
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During one month no less than 32h
tons of eggs were sent to England
from Bulgaria.
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The nourished soul makes steady
nerves.
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Gen. Shafter, who commanded the
Fifth Army Corps. which captured
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Purity of French Elections
venality is wholly exceptional in the
French election, whatever may be writ
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rank of lieutenant
colonel, told me
that Shafter often
declared that a
steam launch or a
torpedo boat with
only a one-pounder
rapid-fire gun on
deck could force an
immedi a [ e S u r
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Ism batteries OPEN
ing up. In a few
minutes a continu-
Gus roar came over
the hills; the indi
vidual booms seem
ed to be lost in the
concert, and our
men began cheer
Ing. They thought
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BrOOKIyn S ! o o p
was held up as
e " i d e n C e that
Schley was faint
hearted, even COW
ardly. But at San
tiago, on San Juan
hill, at Siboney and
in the trenches no
one had even hint
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COMING ASHORE IN A BBREECHES
BUOY.
service are full of similar instances
in which the surfmen have displayed
their heroism.
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Aldut It's udSA Oul
c o m m o n t a l k
around Gen. Shat
ter's headquarters
that the French
consul in Santiago
had been told by an
officer of Cervera's
fleet that the Span
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Santiago in the
ummer of '9S, was
once an enthusiast
tic admirer of Ad-
miral Schley, and
probably is now. If
he can recall all
that happened just
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-04-12
Southwest Bennington.

Mrs. Slater Vert and Mrs S. b. Bug
bee' OF Laingsburg, spent Friday with
MRS. Emma Goble--Harry Barnes. of
Detroit, and mother and sister. Mrs
Barnes and Mrs Mamie Wilcox. OF
Owosso, were the guests of Mrs. Barnes
orother Mr.. Isaac Lewis, Tuesd ay--
Claude Mitchell will work for Cook
BROS. this summer-Claud Spanpler
VIII work for Mr.. b. G. Chittenden--
Mr. Bert Beebe, of Laingsburg, is paint.
ing Mr.. John Ruess' new barn--Born
April 1st to Mr.. and Mrs. Lantson
Beardslee, a son--Miss Clara Baese.
OF Fort Huron, is visiting her aunt, Mrs
Sue Hutchings Miss Emma Ford. of
Laingsburg, spent Sunday with Miss
Matte Skinner--Some new steps are
being built at the Morton school house.
much needed improvement-Mrs
Pauline Vosburg, Mrs. Alyina Lewis
and Mrs. Ida Kytes spent Tuesday with
MI. and Mrs. Isaac Lewis.