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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Identifying Dead Soldiers.

About the most grewsome and I'M
welcome duty soldier can be called
upon to perform is that of identifying
the killed and wounded after an &C.
ton. 1t is a difficult task, too, in
many cases; as, for instance, when
the bodies of the dead have been
stripped of their uniforms by the enc
my, for then all marks are missing
save those of physical features, and
these are most unreliable guides, for
the features are usually more or less
distorted.
There is little wonder then, that
mistakes occasionally occur, and
homes are plunged into mourning for
a son who is alive and well, or that
men long dead and buried are regard
ed as living. Even in the case of Of
ficers errors now and then creep in.
There, too, are frequent cases of err
rors in transmission of names.
Rolls compiled in a hurry by weary
and excited men are dispatched by
over-worked operators in remote
field telegraph Office, who not infre-
quently drop q dot" here and insert
dash" there, rendering the message
unintelligible. Under these circum-
stances the ingenuity of the war Office
clerks is called into play. "Kylor" is
discovered to mean Taylor, the Morse
signs for Eta" being Identical with
those for tx" Similarly "Cocor" is
found to mean Conner. Sometimes
initials and surnames are not separat-
ed, and the name reported as "Skelly"
is verified as S. Kelly.
During the civil war many mistakes
were made, and even at this late peri
cd occasionally errors made at that
time come to light. Were the United
States to be drawn into some great
war she would be compelled to modify
her means OF identifying the soldiers
that would fall upon the field. AS she
has been at comparative peace for so
long time, little or no attention has
been paid to this problem.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

It is letter from the colonel of his
regiment, and reads as follows:
Hartford, Conn.,, Nov. %, 1866.
'To the Authorities of the State of
Maine:
'I take great pleasure in stating
that John Porus Undian), now of Old
town, Me-, served in the Twenty-fifth
regiment, Connecticut volunteers, I'M
der my command, in the years of 1862
8. He was a faithful, good man, a
soldier which I particularly liked for
his GOODNESS and bravery.
He lost his leg by cannon shot
while fighting at the very front, and
he is entitled to all the consideration
which any brave, wounded soldier in
the state of Maine is entitled to, and
hope he will receive state aid.
''He is an Indian, it is true, but
would like to command regiment of
just such good men as John Porus
was when he was in my regiment. Re-
specially,
(Signed) George P. Bissell,
Late Colonel 25th Regt. Connecticut
Volunteers"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
IRoN1NG A sHIKr WAIST.

Not infreQuently a young woman
finds it necessary to launder shirt
waist at home for some emergency
when the laundryman or the home ser
want cannot do it. Hence these direc-
tions for ironing the waist: To iron
summer shirt waists 10 that they will
look like new 1t is needful to have
them starched evenly with Defiance
starch, then made perfectly smooth
and rolled tight in a damp cloth. to be
laid away two or three hours. When
ironing have a bowl of water and a
clean piece of muslin beside the IRON
ing board. Have your iron hot. but
not sufficiently SO to scorch, and abso-
lutely clean. Begin by ironing the
back. then the front, sides and the
sleeves. followed by the neckband and
the cuffs. When wrinkles appear ap-
ply the damp cloth and remove them.
Always iron from the top of the waist
to the bottom. If there are plaits in
the front iron them downward. after
first raising each one with blunt
knife. and with the edge Of the iron
follow every line of stitching to give it
distinctness. After the shirt waist Is
ironed 1t should be we'll aired by the
fire or in the sun before it is folded
and put away. says the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Danger of China's Awakening.

Since the beginning of the nine
teenth century the Russian govern
ment has been exceedingly cautious in
it's relations with China, realizing
what danger would arise if the Chi
nese should adopt the western mill
tary system. That most conservative
paper, Grashdanin, published the opin-
ion of a Russian general who has re-
turned from the latest China campaign,
which strikingly confirms the old
traditions. eff we would avoid the
greatest disaster in the far east" he
says, I'VE should by all means and
with all our strength and will gain the
confidence and love of China" At the
same time reports from the Amur
province tell of Russia's preparations
for increasing it's military forces on
the Chinese frontier and the Pacific
coast.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Old Soldiers Protest.

Members Of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Indiana have been
wrought up over the prospect of Con-
gress granting pensions to Mrs. Nc
Kinley and Mrs. Harrison. as the
widows of Presidents, and a regular
against the proposed measure. The
method which has been adopted par
takes OF the nature of an endless
chain, consisting Of resolutions which
one Grand Army post adopts and then
transmits to other posts. asking for
similar action. The resolution de-
clares that:
1--WE have been Inundated for years
by special legislation giving greater
pensions to officers and their widows
than to the private soldier, and it is
wrong and against the theory OF our
government to favor a distinctive
class; that there are now bills pend
ing in Congress to pension Mrs. Nc
Kinley and Mrs. Harrison and an out
rageous bill to give ex-Presidents a
pension of $4,000; therefore, be it
Resolved, That this post will for
ever condemn those who vote for and
encourage such legislation and hold
them responsible for thus aping at the
traditions of effete monarchies and
thereby insulting the intelligence and
heroisnl of the soldier in the line who
fought the battles and received mea-
ger pay"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
In THE ODD CORNER.
Record Of Queer 1nd Curious Happenings
Events.

The pines are black on Sierra's slope.
And white are the drifted SHOWS;
The flowers are gone. the buckthorn
bare,
a language the north wind knows.
The pine boughs creak,
And the pine trees speak
And chilly the north wind blows.
There's never track leads in or out
OF the cave of the big brown bear,
The squirrels have hid in their deepest
holes,
And fastened the doors with care.
The red fox prowls,
And the lean wolf howls
As he hunts far down from the lair.
The eagle hangs on the wing all day,
On the chance of a single kill;
The little gray hawk hunts far and
Before he can get his fill.
The snow wreaths sift
And the blown SHOWS drift
To the canyons deep and still.
Mary austin in ST. Nicholas.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

John Porus, a full-blooded Penob-
scot Indian, a veteran of the civil war,
having served in the Twentyfifth reg
in his lodge on the Penobscot reserva-
ton, Indian island, near Oldtown,
Maine.
While there were few other Maine
Indians in the union ranks, as far as is
known Porus is the only one who at
tracted any attention by gallant con-
duct or who was seriously wounded.
Porus lost a leg at Port Hudson and
drew pension.
At the first call for volunteers he
tried to enlist in Oldtown, but was re-
fused He went to Massachusetts,, and
there was taken for a negro, being
very dark, and was also refused an
opportunity. Nothing daunted, he
went to Connecticut, and there was
enlisted.
After his death a small packet was
found carefully wrapped in deersllin.
In this was a roll of carefully selected,
thin birch bark, upon which was elab-
orately written in Indian dyes his au-
photography.
The manuscript is embellished with
rude drawings of war scenes. 1t will
be sent to the adjutant general of the
state, to be placed in the collection of
war relics in the state house.
In addition to the birch bark manu-
script was much worn paper which
the old veteran cherished with great
care and rarely showed to any one.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
POEM BY SAPPHO.

Man uscript ates hem Sixth Pe1ha
the Seventh Century.
DR.. Schubart, the assistant director
of the Psychological department of the
Royal Museum in Berlin, has made an
important discovery. In examining
fragments of old books and manu-
scripts recently acquired by the mu-
scum he found torn and badly
crumpled piece of parchment, which
proved to be a fragment of a parch-
ment roll containing poems from the
fifth book of Sappho. The manuscript
dates from the sixth or perhaps the
seventh century, which is not surpris-
ing, as it is known that many of Sap
pho's poems had been preserved until
the poems were lost during the Ara
bian invasion of Europe.
The fragment, given in free transla-
ton, but preserving the meter, reads
as follows:
when she now,
Among Lydia's women appears,
IT'S like unto the full moon
Rising serenely in the evening sky.
1t outshines
The most brilliant stars: it casts
Over the mirror-like sea
And meadows, in flowers clad.
Magic light.
Nature is bedecked with dew;
Sparkling are the roses,
Dainty flowers, and bushy herbs"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Windows of Stone.

In a new building attached to some
boiler works in Germany, novelty in
windows has been introduced. Light
is introduced through stone windows.
The ordinary panes of glass were i'm
practicable on account of the nearness
of the works to the railway lines, so
pneumatic glass stones have been used.
From the outside the appearance is the
same as the so-called "ButZen" panes.
They are translucent, and, at the same
time, as strong as the stone wall in
which they are set. They will with
stand any pressure or blow that the
walls will stand
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
What ScRlskin Is.

The beautiful product used for cloth
ing and commonly known as sealskin
is not furnished by the true seal, whose
skin is almost useless except when
used as an ornamental mat or stiff rug.
They are the sea lions and sea bears
the cared seals, otaria-whose skins
are SO highly valued because so soft
and warm. The true seal is common
enough on our own coasts, but It's skin
is only priced as trophy And it may
be added that sealskin when ready for
clothing has not, as often supposed,
the same downy appearance on the liv-
ing animal, being covered with long,
coarse, deep-rooted hairs, which drop
out when dressed by the furrier. and
leave the soft, woolly hair uninjured.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS.
Interesting Reading for the Veterans end
Their Children.

"Garcon! You-you
Shared along with this cursed crew?
(Only child, and yet SO bold,
Scarcely as much as ten years old!)
Do you hear? Do you know
Why the gendarmes put you there In
the row,
You. with those Commune wretches
With your face to the WALTZ"
Know? To be sure know! why not!
We're here to be shot;
And there by the pillars the very
spot,
Fighting for France, my father fell;
All, we'll!
That's Just the way 1 would choose TO
With my back to the WALL"
("Sacre! Fair, open fight, I say.
Is something right gallant in its way,
And fine for warming the blood; Dut
who
Wants wolfish work like this to do?
Bah! tits butchers businessD How?
(The boy is reckoning to me now;
knew that his poor child's heart
would fail,
Yet his cheeks not pale.)
Quick! say your say, for don't you see
When the church clock yonder tolls
out Three,
You're all to be shot?
What?
Excuse you one moment?' o, no, no!
Do you think to fool gendarme soy
''But, sir, here's watch that frleno'
one day
(My fathers friend), just over the
way,
Lent me, and if you'll set me free
1t still lacks seven minutes of Three
I'll come on the word of a soldiers
son,
Straight back into line when my err
rands DONE"
cha ha. No doubt OF it! OF! Begone!
(Now, good Saint Denis speed him on!
The work will be easier since he's
For hardly see how 1 could have
braved
The ardor of that innocent eye.
AS he stood and heard,
While I gave the word.
booming him like a dog to die.D
Sin time! Well, thanks that my de-
sire
Was granted; and now, I am ready
Fire!
One word THAT'S all!
You'll let me turn my back to the
WALTZ"
"Parbleu! Come out of the line I say,
Come out! (Who said that his name
was Ney?)
Ha! France will hear of him yet one
day."
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
The Coal Supply.

It takes a prodigious amount of veg
etable matter to form layer of coal,
1t being estimated that the present
growth of the world would make a
layer less than one-eighth of an inch
in thickness, and that it would take a
million years of vegetable growth to
form a coal bed ten feet in thickness.
The United States has an area of more
than 100000 square miles of coal fields,
and more than 100 100000 tons of coal
are mined in this country every year
enough to run a ring around the earth
at the center five and a half feet wide
and five and half feet thick. Com
petent scientists say that there is
enough coal in the United States to
supply the world for the next two
thousand years.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
AMERICA AsRoAD.
United States Products In Favor
Throughout tho Old World.

U0NVO0 SC0teo tIO0uCtS IN ROV0f
Throughout tho Old World.
Bread is baked in Palestine from
-four made in Minneapolis. American
windmills are working east of the Jor-
dan and in the land of Bashan. Phon-
ographs are making a conquest of all
tongues. The chrysanthemum- banner
Of japan floats from the palace of the
Mikado on a Flagstaff cut from
Washington forest, as does the banner
of ST. George from Windsor castle. The
American typesetting machines are
used by foreign newspapers, and our
cash registers keep accounts for scores
OF nations. America makes sewing
machines for the world. Our bicycles
are standards of excellence every
where. Our typewriters are winning
their way wherever a written language
is used. In all kinds Of electrical APP
planes we have become the foremost
producer. In many European cities
American dynamos light streets and
operate railways. Much of the machin-
cry that is to electrify London tram
lines is now being built in Pittsburg.
The American shoe has captured the
favor of all Europe, and the foreign
makers are fastening to import our
machinery that they may compete
with our makers. In the far east. in
the capital of Corea. the Hermit Ma
ton, there was recently inaugurated,
with noisy music and flying banners.
an electric railway built of American
material by a San Francisco engineer
and now it is operated by American
motormen.-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Measured by Music.

A learned scientist has recently
shown how the velocity of the wind
can be reckoned by noting the musical
pitch of the sound given out when the
wind blows across a stretched wire.
The principal elements on which the
calculation is based are the diameter
of the wire and the temperature of the
air. The length of the wire is inmate
rial. so long as it is not changed. Ev-
cry variation in the winds velocity is
faithfully represented by the rising or
falling of the pitch of the note sung by
the wire
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
The Force of Cyclones.

Careful estimates of the force of
cyclone and the energy needed to keep
a full-f1edged hurricane in active oper-
alton reveal the presence of a power
that makes the mightiest efforts OF
man appear as nothing in comparison.
A force fully equal to over 400,000,000
horse power was estimated as devel-
oped in a West Indian cyclone. This
is about fifteen times the power that
can be developed by all the means
within the range of mans capabilities
during the same time. Were steam,
water windmills and the strength OF
all men and all animals combined,
they could not at all approach the ire
mendous force eXerted.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Inventor of the Bicycle.

Just fifty years ago there died in
Heidelberg, Germany, Baron Karl Won
Drais, who was, the Germans claim, the
inventor of the bicycle. The anniver-
sary of this event was not celebrated
with pomp even in his native city,
though by his invention he founded
one of the most important of modern
industries. Though in America the
bicycle is not as much the rage as it
was some years ago, it is finding in
creased favor on the European CONT
nent and in the vast Oriental countries,
most OF the best makes being manufac-
tured in the United States, where last
year the industry made a record.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

the siege of Petersburg, died in Phila-
delphia recently at the age of IS.
During the civil war he enlisted in
Company l, One Hundred and Nine
teenth regiment, Pennsylvania volun-
teers. During the siege of Petersburg
Lincoln, while visiting the lines, al
though repeatedly warned that the
confederate sharpshooters were active,
advanced as far as the outposts, where
Conrow was on duty, and stood with
his back against a tree. Mr.. Conrow,
perceiving a sharpshooter on the
Notifications leveling his rifle at the
president. sprang toward the latter and
vigorously pulled him to the ground
only an instant before a bullet was
buried in the tree in front of which he
had been standing.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Tho German Census.

The German census, which started
December /, 1900, and has just been
finished, gives some interesting facts.
There are 442 cities with a population
between 10000 and 100000 each. In
1916 the German empire had 24,S33,OOO
in habitants; in 1855, SO, 900; and
in 1900, 56,345,OOO In the year 1916,
Prussia had $1,000 inhabitants; in
1855, 21,32O,OOO. and in 1900, 34,463,Ooo
The enormous increase in the large
cities of Germany is said to be due to
the retrograde movement in agrlcul-
ture, which has driven people from the
country.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Noiseless Alarm Clock.

A noiseless alarm clock would be
a boon to a host of sufferers from I'M
seasonable din, says the Electrical Re
view 1t is suggested that silent
alarm can be given by focusing an
electric lamp upon the head of the per-
son to be awakened, and arranging
switch so that the current to light the
lamp would be turned on by the clock
at the desired time. 1t is claimed
that the 1ashlight would invariably
arouse the sleeper.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
sport. Arr.nx. Man Hunt.

Hurricane Branch, constable of
Nansemond county, Va, famous as a
bloodhound sleuth, has arranged for a
man hunt. to take place from here
within the next ten days. white man
will be given two hours start and his
bloodhounds, Tige and John, put on
the scent. The dogs will be followed
by a large number OF society sports on
horses. Should the dogs locate their
scent, the man will have to climb a tree
to rave his life. Branch arranged a
man hunt for Richmond last year, but
owing to denunciation by the press
che Richmond society sports, under
whose auspices the chase was arranged
abandoned it.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

a 25-foot sycamore tree was being con-
verted into plank, and so cleverly were
the outlines of the bird marked that
the sawyer stopped his machinery and
saved the section of wood as a curios-
fly "The tree was about % feet long"
says the sawyer. Il had to crosscut
into lengths about 10 feet long, the
other lengths being six feet. About
half way down one of these shorter
pieces there was a dark knot one and a
half inches in diameter after slabbing.
BY the old process of hand-pit saving
two-inch plank was taken off this
~ there. on the other side,
ines Of the bird, as shown
SDIcture"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Praises United States Soldiers,


There is a movement on foot to give
to the American private soldier an
allowance of smoking and chewing to-
bacco, and a bill has been introduced
in the house of representatives which
provides for supplying regularly en-
listed men with this commodity.
Give it to them,'' said an officer of
the army yesterday. II have been in
the service for more than thirty-f
years, and in this time have seen a
have taken me abroad occasionally,
and 1 have seen the enlisted men in
the armies Of other nations. This in
spection that l have been able to make
has convinced me, if l needed any con-
vincing. that the American soldier is
the best that the world produces. Moth
ing is too good for him. But, in
the discussion that is bound to follow
the introduction of the bill, l hope
there will be nothing said about our
enlisted men that will make them ap-
pear like paupers. They are a fine
body, sometimes a little rough, but in
no sense men that either need or de-
sire more than is coming to them.
when I say they are the best paid
of any soldiers in the world I am not
arguing against giving to them lit
tie more than they are now receiving.
The fact remains, however, that we
pay our enlisted men better than any
other country under the sun pays its
soldiers and that there are very few
mechanical trades where the pay Is
so large as that received by an enlist
ed man in the United States army.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
SPECULATIVE.

The desire to "get rich quick" leads
many otherwise conservative men and
women into all kinds of speculative
ventures, many of which turn out dis
astrously. There is absolutely no spec
ulation or risk attending the use of DR..
Caldwells Qaxativel Syrup Pepsin,
which is guaranteed to give satisfac-
ton in all cases of Constipation, Indi-
gestion, Dyspepsia and kindred trou-
bles. Ask your druggist. If he does
not keep 1t, send his name to Pepsin
Syrup Co., Monticello, ILL.,. and they
will send you a sample bottle free.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
An Aeropaut.s Danger.

A miraculous escape is related on the
part of an aeronaut named Mousset,
who made an ascent at Bordeaux few
days ago. When he had reached a
height of about 500 yards, large rent
suddenly appeared in the envelope. The
gas escaped freely, and the balloon,
folding in two, commenced to descend
with frightful rapidity towards the
Garonne. The terror-stricken specta-
4ors gave up the ae, onaut as lost. but
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
Cow with n Bark.

Harry was sitting on the fence in
front of the house one day watching
some cows feeding, when they beloved
very loud and long, as cows do some
times. Harry had never heard COW
below before, and he jumped down
and ran into the house to his mother,
crying:
"Oh. mamma there's a COW out there
barking at another cow
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14
"Royal Bacon"

Happy is the citizen of Clifton in the
advantages offered him at his break
fast table circular issued by
local firm has the large heading, Roy
al Bacon but does not refer to Sir
Francis and the rumored maternity of
Queen Elizabeth. 1t is to announce
as now on show and sale, bacon from
pigs bred and fed by his majesty the
kiug,"-London Chronicle.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

when he was hundred yards from the
surface of the river Mr.. Mousset threw
himself from the car and disappeared
headlong into the water. When he
came up again he was pulled into
boat, being much scared. but evidently
none the worse for his marvellous adj
venture
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-14

1t is calculated that about 100000
skins of the ermine will be used to
make the peers and princesses' robes
for the coronation, and that as the
price of this fur has much increased
in view of the demand, about $27 900
worth will be needed for the cere-
mOnial.