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The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

II the weather is good this forma-
ton is held out of doors. At its close
a gun is fierd and the station nag
hoisted to the top of the lofty staff in
front of the commentaries office, with
proper ceremonies. This is "colors,
and a formal notice that the navy is
"at home" for the day.
At this gratifying intelligence the
entire battalion marches off to break
fast. They have all had a cup of CO.
coat when they first got out of their
hammocks, but by this time every boy
feels that he could do justice to sew
eral breakfasts, all at once. The new
apprentice thinks with a smile IF his
motehr could see him now'-she that
used to have to call him on an aver
age three times in the morning before
he would get up and tumble carelessly
into his clothes, and then have to senr
him away from the breakfast table on
not infrequent occasions because he
had omitted to wash his face and
hands properly.
He already begins to say to himself,
"Oh, could that boy be IT'
When he takes his place at the
breakfast table to-day, he sits among
the older apprentices and looks over
patronizingly to where the "newcom-
ers" sit The breakfast formation has
been held in the great hall with the
gallery around it. In the gallery there
are signal flags, and, inlaid in the
stone floor, is a compassionate with all
the points marked in brass.
1t is an imposing place, and, this be-
ing the first time the new boy has
taken part in any formation in 1T, he
feels a new sense of belonging to a
vast system in which flags and state
ly officers, orders and uniforms, play a
part.
After breakfast the apprentice, I'M
less he is sick and has to attend Sick
call" or has a report against him
about which he has to give an expla-
nation, has half an hour to himself
to do what he pleases, provided he
pleases to do nothing which conflicts
with the regulations and rules of the
establishment.
At 9 o'clock all assemble in the big
hall again at quarters" and from
there the different divisions are
marched to the places where their real
work for the day begins-the work of
learning the various things which a
sailor has to know in order to be one
of Uncle Sans best.
With the exception of half an hour
for dinner and half an hours time
for recreation after it, the rest of the
day, up to quarter of five in the after
noon, is taken up entirely with the
instructions and exercises, which
transform the boy into the man-o'-
war's-man.
From quarter of five until supper
time the band plays and the boys can
dance and play about the building and
the grounds, or read and write and
play games in the library.
After supper there is nothing to do
but to enjoy oneself until hammocks
are "piped down" at S:35, when every
boy goes and gets his hammock and
carries 1t to the place where he Is to
sling II from great hooks in the beams
overhead.
Then, at the order, he hooks up his
hammock and prepares for bed. When
the lively notes Of tattoo are heard
they boy Is supposed 70 be In his ham
mock, and when they are followed by
the good night Of taps" AZ o'clock
a silence falls over the great building
and that days work and pleasures are
done.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
The Probationary Term.

bright, ambitious boy, who really
means business, and wants to be a
sailor and a good one, need not stay
in the newcomers squad at the train
ing station more than two, or at most,
three weeks. BY that time the novelty
Of his surroundings has worn of and
he knows a lot of things he did not
know before, notably how to keep him
self and all his belongings scrupulous-
ly clean.
He has been Instructed in the man
ual of arms, has had plenty of exer-
else in the gymnasium, and, If it Is
summer, has been exercised and in
structed in swimming.
A dentist has examined his teeth and
repaired them if they needed 1t.
Finally, the day comes when the
chief boatswain's mate, who has
charge of the squad, and whom the
newcomers have learned to look upon
as vested with authority little lower
than angels, recommends lot of them
for promotion to the battalion.
Bearing his hammock and his clothes
hak and his other belongings, the new
boy is marched over to the big build
ing in which he is to make his home
henCeforth while he is at the training
school,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

Constantlnople, as in other Turkish
cities, bodies are placed In the ground
as soon as the last spark OF life has
fed. The Musselman believes that as
long as the body is unburied the spirit
Is In torment and that it is a crime
akin to murder to modest grave. Ac-
cordingly the cemeteries around many
cities far exceed in extent the abodes
OF the living.
One of the cemeteries of Damascus
is believed to contain many members
of Mahomet's family. Like the other
graveyards Of the city 1T is near a city
gate. Like the rest, II is of great area.
The mounds are made of brick and
mortar, and the headstones denote the
sex of the graves occupant. IL a
woman, there is a carved palm leaf; il
a man, a turban. Those who were rich
or distinguished rest in stone vaults,
rooted like mosques.
Moaning Women.
Women throng tho Moslem cemetery
on Friday, the Mahometan Sabbath,
and scream and PROSTATE themselves
over the graves of loved ones till many
fall exhausted on the ground The
graves are kept scrupulously clean and
left wholly unguarded. There Is no
fear Of medical students in the land Of
Islam.
but the BTdNeydTub Oh DdIldSSuS dHA
those of New York afford a less strik-
ing contrast than exists between two
cemeteries in Italy. In Genoa the
good Catholics ornament the monu-
ments to their dead with elaborate
groups of statuary. They seek to make
the abodes of the dead even more beau
tiful than the habitations of the living.
In Rome. on the contrary, there is a
Catholic order which believes that
death should be portrayed as grim and
grewsome as possible. 1t not only
digs up the bodies of it's members after
a time, but stands their skeletons in
inches, or decorates walls and ceilings
with their bones.
Visitors to Genoa always find the
guides anxious to lead them to the
Campo Santo. or sacred field. After
climbing part way up the hills which
surround the city like an amphitheater,
a guide will point to what appears In
an art gallery in the form of a long
peristyIe with central dome. Tie
main corridor Is lined with statuary,
and every figure represents a sorrow.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

At the first command the boys strip
off their undershirts all together, turn
ing them wrong side out as they do
so. At the second command they
stand with them in their hands, hold
ing them out so they can be seen all
over.
Two instructors now walk down the
ranks looking carefully at the boys
and their clothing to see If, by any
chance there is a suspicion of dirt
anywhere. AS each boy is passed by
the inspector he puts on his under
shirt again, and this makes ripple
of undershirts being hoisted on to
bare young backs running down the
two long lines.
The uniform order for the day is
then read out-whether they shall
wear their blue suits or their white
ones-and then, at the order to break
ranks" the boys scamper off to the
bag room, where they get out their
bags and don the designated uniform.
They are supposed to be all dressed
up with shoes shining like their faces,
their hair combed and brushed and
generally IN ship shape and Bristol
order by the time the bugles blow for
breakfast formation at 1880
The new boy has a hard time of 1t,
for he Is nervous with so many other
all talking at once, and he has not yet
quite got the hang of his sailor toys
and the knack of getting into them
quickly.
His knife lanyard refuses to hang
with just the same graceful and aban-
doned air as that of the older boys,
and when it comes to tying his black
silk neckerchief he despairs of pro-
ducing anything in the way of sailor
H. fo~rr 70 he
battalion. But some good-natured
fellow helps him out and he is back
in the great hall with the rest of them
and in his place in the formation be-
fore the bugles have ceased anonunc-
ing that breakfast is ready.
This breakfast formation involves
another inspection, at which an officer
looks over the boys 10 see if they are
all in proper uniform. One who is
not is punished with two dement's.
The officer OF the day, a commits
stoned officer, makes this inspection
and presides at the formation. To
the apprentice he is a great and pow
erful potentate, and he has sharp eyes
and the military air which impresses.
At this formation the names of
thoge apprentices who have been
guilty of attractions of the rules and
regulations of the school are read out,
together with the charges against
them. The orders for the day are also
read, but of these the new boy under
stands about half.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

He is like any other boy at big
boarding school nova young cub with
his troubles all before him-yes, and
his pleasures, too.
He will have his friends and enc
mics and possibly his little Scraps"
but he learns to rely upon himself and
to become strong and manly.
He swings his hammock that first
night in the big building in a great
room with hundreds of other boys,
and, as the waves on the beach lull
him to sleep, he feels that he is already
n sailor. But he isn't-not by a long
shot.
When he is taken over to the big
building in the morning the boy no
longer a newcomer is told that he
now belongs to such and such a sec
ton of such and such division, and
realizes that he is part of the regu-
lar battalion.
He gets his full outfit of clothing
and is told where to stow it in big
room full of hundreds of other clothes
bags. He is also taken to a locker,
where he Is to keep his hammock, and
he gets a new lot of orders and in
structions which soon come to be to
him only a part of the daily routine
of his life.
The place is full of boys going and
| coming, petty officers hurrying about
and a commissioned officer or two
| here and there. The morning clean
ing and scrubbing Is just over and the
place and its occupants smell of soap
| and water.
It is time for the early morning in
| spection being 7:15 a. M, and as the
| call sounds the boys fall in. They
take their places in long lines. Their
! faces shine from recent scrubbing and
4 they are clad in only their under
/ clothes. The new apprentice, possibly
| with some difficulty, finds his place in
| the line and a petty officer may order
! him in a decided tone to stand
straighter, to move to one side or the
other, or a little forward or back.
! The roll is called to see that all the
boys are there, and then the ranks are
opened and the senior instructor GoHl-
naands loft understands" "Rest!
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
WHEN YOU DIE.

Burial Customs Differ with the
Countries and Even the Same
Country.
From the New York Tribune.
Men differ as much dead as alive.
As various as the languages of the
living are the methods of burying the
dead. The very abodes of death diff
fer among different people, and one
may find striking contracts between
cemeteries of even the same countries.
Not far from this city thre is a Mo-
ravian cemetery, In which the men are
buried on one side of a central walk
and the women on the other. Only
fiat hagstones mark the graves. In
a New Orleans cemetery bodies are
buried beneath mounds above the
ground because the water in the soil
is so near the surface.
In London until recently sections
were accustomed to bury one coffin
above another in a grave, and then
heap on more earth to make the tiers
still higher. In Paris, even at the
present time, the poor are buried in
trenches. and crosses are placed at
their heads to mark their resting
places. At the end of five years, how
ever, unless money is forthcoming
from relatives, the cross Is torn up,
five more feet of earth are added and
another set Of graves begun in high
err stratum.
Test of Death.
In Frankfort the body Of the dead Is
removed as soon as life is extinct to
'leichen hausen," or death houses,
where 1t rests until the first signs OF
decomposition appear. Such a death
house consists of warder's room, with
five death chambers on each hand. A
ring on the finger Of each body is con-
nected with bell, and should one
rouse from trance that had been mis-
taken for dead he could summon the
warder. Since Frankfort has had death
houses several young girls have been
rescued from being buried alive. Mu-
Mich HAS a similar system.
In Russia many of the peasantry still
bury their dead in grottoes and caves,
just as their princes and noblemen were
accustomed to do centuries ago. In
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

The Genoese monument maker leaves
nothing to the imagination. A simple
slab or shaft of stone is not enough.
One monument. for example, depicts a
whole family mourning over the grave
of father. The wife stands by the
bed. gazing at the face of the dead,
and leaning, as IL about to swoon, on
the arm of a devoted daughter. The
aged mother sits near with her eyes
raised to heaven as In prayer. A son
Is consolins younger sister. One is
holding the sepulchral candle; the 9TH
er gcrucifx.
widows In Marble.
On the other side OF the corridor,
above double tomb, sit husband
and wife in marble, clasped as IL in
farewell embrace. Not far down the
corridor widowed mother stands on
the steps of a vault. holding up her
little one to kiss its dead papa. The
door of an adjacent vault Is partly
open. Within lies a husband, and with
out his wife knocking, and waiting
through the long years for the voice
that Is silent.
But the guides have seen the Campo
Santo 50 often and repeated its stories
so many times that they seem to have
forgotten its solemn side. They point
out that there are many more widows
mourning In marble than widowers,
and with the gravity of Gonzales they
assure the visitor that such and such a
widow has married again, and lives in
fine house, In such and such street.
Most of the widows are married again.
say the guides.
The widowers for the most part are
portrayed in a higher degree of agony
than the widows. The reason is per-
haps explained by the following story
of a Geneese nobleman who had re-
Gently lost HE wife.
II saw you at the funeral" said a
friend the next day after the services;
but couldn't go to the cemetery"
That was a pity" answered the
widower, you should have seen how
l carried on at her grave"
The Capuchin.
Death, in the eyes of the Capuchin
monks, Is chiefly terrible reminder
of the vanities of the flesh. Their GEM
etery in Rome is a cellar, whose walls
and ceilings are covered with the bones
of their predecessors. Skulls, ribs, thigh
bones and knuckles are arranged in
grotesque designs, and even the chan
delier is constructed of parts of skel-
etons.
When a Capuchin dies he is buried
in loose dirt without coffin. AS there
Is room for only forty bodies In this
earth, which was brought from the
Holy Land, the body that has lain in
II longest Is dug up, the skeleton
cleaned, garmented in monkish garb
and placed in a niche. To make room,
the oldest skeleton in a niche is dis
membered, and its various bones are
added to complete some wall design.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

Whenever an unkempt weather
beaten man puts in an appearance in
the streets of New Florence, Pa, a lit
tie mountain and railroad town, ten
miles west of Johnstown, the loafers
on the stoops Of the general merchan-
disc stores and at the depot unani-
mously express themselves:
Another one Of them there hermits
Of Laurel Ridge"
This observance finished, they renew
their task of waiting for the next
meal, while the man Of the mountains
goes about trading off his huckleber-
ries or bags of nuts to the storekeep-
ers and then quietly sinks out along
the main street of the village in the
direction of his rocky fastness.
For a hermit is no novelty to the
people of New Florence, or to any of
the inhabitants of the mountain-en-
circled valley of the Ligonier, which
has the Chestnut and Laurel ridges of
the Alleghanies for it's boundaries.
This valley, except in the extreme
southern and northern ends, is free of
railroads and all other marks of mod
ern hustle and commerce. The stretch
of lana between the two steel evil
dnces of modernity is as primitive and
inaccessible as it was fifty years ago,
for the mountain roads are not whit
better now than they were then,
1t is a stretch of country in which
the simple life can be lived with ease.
Equally we'll any one, tired of the
clatter Of the world beyond the noun
tains, can immune himself from it all
with case. Many have done 1t, many
are still doing it, and that is why
hermit from Laurel Ridge, where near
ly all of these people build themselves
miserable cabins out of logs and stray
boards picked up around deserted
saw-mills, excite no interest among
the inhabitants of New Florence, to
which town the hermits wend their
way over mountain trail and road
whenever they want to market the
wild products of the thousands of I'M
occupied and uncleared acres about
them.
These solitary men of the noun
tains have come from everywhere.
Somehow, in some mysterious way,
men who want to be alone, for some
cause or another, hear of Laurel Ridge
and the Ligonier Valley. AS a result
some have journeyed hundreds and
others thousands of miles to hide
themselves on the mountain slopes
and to look out upon the valley below
from small clearings in front of their
novels.
Thomas Patterson is one of these
men who Travelled far to reach Laurel
Ridge.
1t has been many years now since
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

selves in unguarded moments. 1t was
in this latter way that the story Of
Whistler originated
For years Whistler was known as
! The White-H Haired Man of the Noun
! tains." He got this name by reason of
his long hair and his beard, which
! reached to his waist He kept both
scrupulously neat and clean, which
! qualities were not shown anywhere
else about his persons or his hut.
He was always willing to tell anyone
who happened to stumble across his
! clearings that he was a distant rela-
: tive of James Mcneil Whistler, the ar
I fist, but when asked why he had bur-
] led himself in such an out-of-the-way
place, he would grow non-communi-
cative and show that he would be
pleased to have his visitor depart
Only once did he fail to preserve
taciturnity on this point. That was
when two girls from a farm house In
the valley Unexpectedly found them
I selves in Whistler's clearing when
they were berry hunting.
The old man received them politely
and, finding that they had lost their
path, took them to it again. AS he
babe them goodby he looked into the
! Il once knew girl like you"
! That was all linen he turned to-
wards his cabin and was soon lost to
view in the forest.
But II was enough to start a story
aboAt THE White Haired Man of the
Mountains" and people to this day say
that he fed to his lonely home be-
cause long years ago the girl that he
was to have married died before the
wedding day came around. The old
man was never married, but from the
time the story originated until they
buried him several years ago, no one
! could get the great artists distant re-
New Florence VOWS made him a life
! long hermit.
These are three of the hermits of
Laurel Ridge. Then there is Rattle
snake Jim'-no one knows any other
name for him-who comes into town
every few months with a batch of live
snakes. which he sells; Smiling Sam"
1 of Shannon's Run, whose broad and
| never clouded smile wins him a live
lihood from farmer wives kitchens;
and many others who can be run
across in a days tramp through the
mountains On such a tramp many a
deserted cabin will also be found set
on the edge of what was once clear
ing, and where the remains OF old
flower beds can be seen a few pinks
growing in a weed-choked mound.
| These are the mute reminders of other
hermits who have passed into the
Great Beyond with the secrets OF the
causes of their hermitage safe from
the curious and inquisitive folks of the
valley.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

II want to be left alone was the
response.
So Patterson went into the noun
+ains and took his wife and child with
him. He is still there-he and his
wife and their half dozen Children
living in a two-room cabin that is all
hut ready to tumble down, and
through whose leaf-stuffed sides the
winters storms blow with almost UNI
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

the mountains.
You cannot live in comfort there"
the residents of the town told him.
sponded.
You will be exposed to all sorts
Of weather and danger" they went on.
80 much the BETTER" he answered.
"And you will be far from neigh
bors.''
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
9 SKIN. Price " cthtS
Men. Quit Shaving.

HAIROFF for men Is different from HAIR.
OFF for WON, and makes shaving unneces'
eary u takes on the hair without destroying
the roots and saves time trouble aud temper
of men Who shave ~ shaves for Soc. ~ 81 drug
ana department stores PURITY d. w. CO.,
81 william street, New York
Gunnison news-champion., 1903-12-18

Peabody caps the climax OF his
sale 1f the g0vfuors office To- the
mime owners by declaring martial
law n Teller county and herlldiug
Co the world chat & Dorado Is "a hot
bed ui anarchists. when u fact the
only first class anarchists in sight
are himself and his asiuine tin sol
der, Sherman Bell. There has new
fr been as much danger 10 life and
property in Cripple Creek as today
IN Denver or in any large city Of the
continent where more or less Grim
mails Clugregate
Gunnison news-champion., 1903-12-18
How 70 Prevent Cronn-

1t viii be good news 90 the moth-
ers of small children 90 learn thar
Group can be prevented Tie first
sign of Group is baarsencss. A dav
or two before the attack the child
becomes hoarSe. This Is soon fol-
lowed by a peculiar rough cough.
Give Chamberlain Cough Remedy
freely as soon as the child becomes
hoarse, oreven after the rough Cough
appears, and it will dispel all svmp-
toms of Group. In this way all dan
ger and anxiety may be avoided.
This remedy is used hv many thou
sands Of mothers and has never
heyu known % fail 1t is. in fact
the only remedy that can always be
depended upon and that is pleasant
and safe 10 take.
Gunnison news-champion., 1903-12-18
Market Letter.

Kansas City. Mo-, Dee IL, 1908
Cattle receipts at Kansas City last
week were 3i.juS cattle aud 3.7l9
calves. as compared with 53. cat
tie and 3.gu6 calves same week last
year The week. 1f course. showed
a further reduction in supply Of
western range stuff. >tockers and
feeders had good demand. Some
S325 feeders Thursday were 40
cents higher than the low time in
November Cows did not change
for the week, aud though beef Steers
were more or less dull all week
prices ON them averaged about like
those ot previous week, and sold
from ~3.JDt0 Si.2J.
Gunnison news-champion., 1903-12-18
NOTICE ~ FINAL ~tJvItNENJ.

In the matter Of the Estate of John Smith de
ceased
Notice is hereby iiven. that on Wednesday
the Ath day ~ December A. u 1sH being one
81 the regular DAYS of the December Term Ol
the County Court of Gum isOu County, in the
state of Colorado, in Probate, !, Mitchell Mel
SON, executor Of said estate will APPEAR hsforf
the Judge of said Court. present my final settle
meut a. such executor, pray the approx yul ot the
same, and will then apply 10 he discharged a.
such executor At which time and place suy
person IN interest may appear and present Oh
jecttons to the same, II any there be.
Dated at Gunuison, Colorado, Nov. y, 1906
hITCHEL NELSON
Executor Of the Estate of Johnsmith, drrensed
First Pub. Nov q, Last Pub. Dec. =, 1913
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