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whalers which often pursue their prey far
down below the Horn and meet with many
exciting adventures on the fringe of the
Antarctic ocean.
tiny steamer called the "Spey'' devoted
herself for many years to circumnavigating
the Island of Jamaica once a week. She
called at all the "out-ports' and was the
principal means of communication between
some of them and Observation-Disclosures
being represented by Kingston, the capital
of the island. Naturally, her captain and
officers were lions in the local society of
these little ports, and their visit was the
event of the week.
Games in Installments.
The skipper was fond of chess. Unfortu-
nately. he could seldom stay long enough in
a port to finish a game. He would start
it and have to leave after a few moves
When he got back next week he would
make a few more, and, perhaps, the game
would take months to finish. 1t was the
same with tennis and other social diver
sions in which the officers took part. They
were always in the nature of a serial story.
Two or three years ago the "Sprey" was
ordered to leave Jamaica and go to Trini-
dad, to take up the coastal business of that
island. She is there now, but her skipper
declared, half in jest and half in earnest
that he did not believe he would be able to
make the voyage.
The old tub is so accustomed to going
around Jamaica that 1 believe she'd go
on doing 1t If she were left to herself, he
said. she knows every inch of the coast
as well as / do, and it will be like tearing
her up by the roots to take her to Trinidad
If she refused to let us steer her there, /
wouldn't be a bit surprised
Business and Pleasure.
One of the most delightful businesses in
the world was run by an old gentleman who
had factory up in the River Orinoco, in
Venezuela where he manufactured a certain
patent article for which there is world
wide demand. He bought a fine English
brig and fitted her up palatially as a yacht
Once a year he loaded her with the prod
uct of his factory during the preceding
twelve months and steered her over to
France where he sold the cargo He spent
most of the remainder of the year yachting
about the West Indies and along the South
American coast until another cargo was
ready for him.
When he died his sons kept the ship in
commission, and it is still running. They
have certainly succeeded in making pleas
ure out of their business.
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The Anglo-French Treaty.

From the Fortnightly Review
An Anglo-French treaty of arbitration is
entitled to its place in history as one OF the
three greatest events in the development
of international arbitration.
The first was in the Alabama case In IL
two great countries submitted question
which involved the national honor OF, at
anv rate, one of them, to the adjudication
of court mainly composed OF foreigners.
This was the first time that an attempt
was made to apply the methods of domestic
iIdicature to international cases. The next
great event was the creation of perma-
nent court of judicature on the same model
AT The Hague and the third Is this new
obligation entered into by Great Britain
and France and which has been so rapidly
followed by others, to submit all their
differences of a judicial order 1.-THE only
cases following domestic analogies, within
the jurisdiction of court of law to this
court at The Hague.
These three events stand out as land
marks of progress toward that ideal of
peaceable adjustment of differences. in the
dealings of nations with each other, which
has been the dream of every enlightened
man who ever thought on the subject The
other varieties>and incidents of arbitration
are secondary to these three, which alone
are in direct line of descent one from the
other.
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The Higher Criticism.
Blackwood's Magazine.

From Blackwood's Magazine.
The critics insist that the Bible must be
treated like any other book, and to this
plausible sophistry their success is largely
due Were it not that the great majority
of persons who are charged in our criminal
courts are of low type, and experience
proves that they are charged justly, the
practice of putting accused persons in the
dock would be deemed an outrage upon
Justice 1t seldom fails, indeed, to create
prejudice. Happily, however, an Irish
story which illustrates this is-only an
Irish story, 1t is worth telling, however,
for its own sake. The evidence against the
prisoner broke down so obviously that the
Judge, without a word of comment. told
the rustic jury to give their verdict. With
out a moments hesitation they convicted
him: and in answer to the judges indig
nant remonstrance, the foreman exclaimed:
But sure, my lord, whatever would he be
in the dock for if he wasn't guilty.
A Scotch story will exemplify the appli-
cation of the principle in another sphere. A
great lady of high rank and ancient
lineage, offended by Abernethy's proverb-
ial brusqueneSs, asked with immense dig
nifty If he knew who she was. "Ma'am
he blurted out, you're just an old woman
with a disordered stomach
In view of the history of the sacred
books every true critic will recognize a
presumption in their favor. For such a
presumption differs from a prejudice. But
the pseudo-critics insist treating them
much as the Irish jury treated the prisoner
and the Edinburgh doctor the patient
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The Wren Bush.
From Longman's Magazine.

From longmanS Masdziie.
Among the many odd customs still op-
served in Ireland at Christmas few are
more curious than the practice of carrying
about 1.-THE wren bush" on st. Stephen s
day, and antiquaries are puzzled to ex-
plain why the poor little king of all BIRDS
should be put to death on the festival of
the first martyr
The most probable explanation is that
the wren was sacred to the Druids, and
was used by them in divination and other
pagan rites at the festival of the winter
solstice, which almost conceded with
Christmas, and consequently the clergy
urged their converts to destroy the birds
which were associated with such unholy
rites, Just as st. Patricks relentless dis
truction of the images of serpents, used in
the ancient pagan worship of Ireland, gave
rise to the legend that he
Gave the snakes and toads twist.
And banished them all forever
This seems the more likely, because
t.drean," the old Irish name for wren
also means "a Druid and old folk still
call Jenny. the Druid bird" and say
that she has the gift of prophecy. and that
those who can interpret her twitterings as
she hovers about house or flies from bush
to bush can read the future. In the
library of Trinity College, Dublin, there is d
curious document describing how to inter-
pref the notes of the wren.
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stood on end as, day after day, he read off
the figures on the patent log and wondered
whether he had gone crazy.
To the South Seas.
Many of the Sinbads of modern commerce
have their headquarters at San Francisco,
trading from that port to quaint little is
lands in the South Seas, of which not one
man in million has ever heard. There was
time when Frisco schooners used to be
very busy in the opium smuggling business.
Stevenson's story, THE Wrecker," was
based on fact. But latterly this enterprise
has been made Improbable by vigiant
customs officials at Hawaii and Samoa and
probably few ventures are made nowadays.
Copra and cocoanuts are favorite cargoes
from the South Seas to the Pacific coast,
and a few of the schooners compete with
the Australian pearl fishers in the Torres
straits, or go "blackbirding'' for Kanaka
labor to supply the Queensland sugar plan
tations
There are steamships, too. which trade
from Frisco to unheard-of ports along the
western coast of South America for nitrates
and guano, to say nothing of the steam
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S|NBADS0FCOMMERCE.
Ships That Are Always Seek
ing Strange Ports.
CARRY QUEER CARGOES
VARYING FROM CRYOLITE TO
COPRA AND "BLACKBIRDS."
Many Adventures on Trips to Out-of
the-Way Parts of the
Globe.
CARRY QUEER CARGOES

Written for The Evening Star by Bassett Stanes.
Most people are familiar with the names
and the doings of the ocean greyhounds.
Their speed is timed to half a turn" and
they ply sure as the ferried barge from
port to port. The bulk of the worlds
oceau-carrying trade, performed by a host
of tramp steamers, goes along sea paths
well defined as that by which a man
goes to his office in the morning.
But ramble about the docks and wharves
of any American port-New York, Balti-
more New Bedford Boston, Philadelphia,
New Orleans. Mobile. Savannah, Tampa,
Pensacola, Key West, 'Frisco-and you
will find, tucked away in odd corners. many
'windjammers" and steamers that have
come in from ports you never heard of
with cargoes that are Greek to you. They
are the Sinbads of modern commerce, and
the old salts who man them often have
more adventures in a single voyage than
the average deckhand on an ocean liner
has in his whole seafaring career.
Glance down weekly copy of the Mari
time Register. and you will find that the
names of many of the ports to which YES
sells are bound are utterly strange to you.
Here are some, taken at random, that not
one man in ten thousand could place:
AMER. Tusket, Saco Kahalui, SYRIA, Ari-
chat. Umba, Skonvik. LeiXoes, Sourabaya.
lbrftl, Swakopmunde, Castro Urdiales,
Apalachcolo.
And the cargoes are as strange as the
ports What does The average man know
about cryolite. copra, beche-de- mer pim-
ento, annatto and trepang?
The Cryolite Fleet.
OF all the lines which sail out of Ameri-
can ports there is none engaged in a
queerer or more dangerous business than
the fleet of sailing ships which transport
cryolite from the west coast of Greenland
to Philadelphia
Cryolite is native f1uoride of aluminium
and soda, and possesses great commercial
value. 1t is used in the making of me-
tallic aluminium. and for other purposes.
The man who found new deposit of cryo-
lite in accessible spot would be luckier
than he who discovered a new gold mine
or petroleum well. The only considerable
deposit is at Ivigtut. Southwest Greenland,
where ii is mined by a Danish company,
which pays a royalty to the Danish gov
eminent, and sells the bulk of it's product
to company in Pennsylvania.
The trade started in the COS. When a
representative of the company first called
on the Philadelphia ship brokers and want
ed to charter ships to go right under the
Ice of Cape Desolation for a regular service
they thought he was joking: and when they
found he was serious they laughed at him.
You might well try to establish pas
Senger service to the north pole" they said.
Eventually Danish and Scottish whalers
Were found willing to do the work, but the
ships were old and untitled to cope with the
ice fields, that the enterprise was not
very successful. The Pennsylvania COM
pany then determined to build it's own fleet
of twelve vessels.
Two of these were named the Ivitgut and
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of steamships and sailing packets was es-
tablished to cater to it. These vessels are
usually crowded with passengers on thelr
voyages which are said to be extremely
profitable. The settlers are fond of return
ing to their native islands for short trips,
and they often save up enough money III
America in few years to enable them 10
live ther~ Cor the balance of their DAYS as
men of substance.
All through Massachusetts,, Rhode Island
and the New England part of Connecticut
many Cape de Verde girls are employed as
servants. and excellent servants they make.
They pay frequent visits to their homes,
one of them. known to the writer, takes An
annual holiday by the sailing packets from
Provincetown. AS rule. these girls 40
rot remain permanently in New England
unless they marry. They save up their
wages for few years. and then get aboard
one of the packets for the last of their
many voyages.
Garry Oil.
There is a line of ocean-going tugs which
does nothing but tow huge oil tanks to
Cuba for the Standard Oil Company. After
the tanks have been emptied at Havana and
other ports, live steam is injected into them
to clean them thoroughly from the oil, and
they are then filled with molasses as a
return cargo
Another line runs out of New York to
Trinidad, in the British West Indies, and
Guanaco, in Venezuela, to carry the pitch
dug from the two asphalt lakes at those
places The ships carry a few passengers,
but practically other merchandise ex-
cept asphalt on their return voyage.
one of them, the Maraval, had curious
experience the other day. She made the
distance between Trinidad and New York
in a little over four days. Her ordinary
schedule time is nine and a half The en-
gineers did not put on an extra pound of
steam and there was no occasion for hurry
The ship simply progressed at nearly double
her best steaming rate. The only possible
explanation was that she was carried along
by some swift and unknown ocean current
The skipper declared that his hair simply
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Words Without Rhyme.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Bulb has no rhyme Culm, cusp, recumb,
gulf, month, doth, amongst are other
rhymeless words having the sound of as
in but Few patrician words in the Ian
guage have this vowel sound, SO common
place and without dignity; hence poets
turn to it only for blood, flood and few
similar turbulent monosylables. They use
1t often, however, in forcing the accent
from the antepenultimate syllable to the
final, where it's unpleasant sound is con-
cealed by the softened stress. Thus has
many rhymes, such as felicitous, mysteri-
Gus, inglorious, etc.
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The Pivotal County.

1t is believed that in this county the
struggle for the electoral vote OF New Jer-
sey this year will be decided. There would
seem to be no possibility of the democrats
getting a safe majority in the electoral COL
lege If New Jersey can be held for Roose-
welt. That Is the problem with which these
two political giants are wrestling today
Governor Murphy is a suave and agree
able man. He is a member OF many we'll
known clubs. and is fond of art and liter
ature.
He candidly opposed the election of Mr..
Cortelyou as chairman of the republican
national committee Yet there was no man
who is giving Mr.. Cortelyou more loyal
support.
Mr.. Murphy is rather reserved in his
manner. He likes to take time TO think
During the present campaign he can be
seen frequently taking hasty luncheon at
the Hoffman House or the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, and all the time he Is thinking out
some problem of politics.
At the same time Mr.. Smith can be seen
lunching at the Waldorf-Astoria, and he
always has company. He says he thinks
while he is talking to others
Unlike Mr.. Smith, who depends almost
entirely upon himself to manipulate the
state Governor Murphy has around him
several intimate and confidential friends.
The most conspicuous of these is United
States Senator John Nj. Dryden
Senator Dryden, besides being the presi-
dent of large life insurance company. is
financial world in and around New York
He is tall and grave, but he has become in
the. few short years of his service probably
one of the best known of the members oil
the Senate whose terms have been limited.
Senator Dryden is one of the best judges OF
an investment security in the state of New
Jersey He is also one of the best judges
of a thoroughbred horse.
While Governor Murphy is grave and
thoughtful, Senator Dryden is dignihed. but
also "sunshiny." He can tell a good story.
and he is mighty good judge of whether
action on n political question Is gong 10
take well with the voters.
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One Of the Cases.

He-.aThey say he has more money than
he knows what to do with
-"Has he really! Such ignorance is
bliss"
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Natroua. after the Greenland port where
the mine is located and the Pennsylvania
town where the cryolite is treated. The
remainder received chemical names and
were called the chemical fleet" They
were named the Kryolith tthe Danish for
cryOiite). Alumina. Fluorine, Silica. Iodine.
Sodium Silicon, Salina, Platina and Ar
genta.
But One Trip Year.
The vessels make only one trip year as
a rule. The period in which there is pos
sibility of reaching their destination is
short. They leave Philadelphia in the
month OF April and head to point in the
lee of Cape Desolation. The ships have the
strongest and best of canvas and gear, and
in every respect they are fitted out as well
as experience and skill can provide. Their
hulls are not only unusually strong. but are
built solid at the bows covered with an
extra layer of planks there, and then arm
ored with steel plates.
And these precautions are all necessary,
for the destina ton of the vessels. Ivitgut.
is only a few miles south of the arctic cir
Gle. An ocean river sweeps along the
coast, bearing down ice fields hundreds of
miles In extent. through which the ships
must fight their way TO the port and back
again. And they have not only the ice TO
contend with. but terrible gales as well.
One summer, out OF a dozen ships that
tired the passage one was never heard of
again after she left Philadelphia. TWO
Others failed to get through the ice. and
returned with their crews worn out and
half starved. A fourth vessel only succeed
ed in reaching Ivitgut after battling with
the ice pack for thirty days. The other
ships got through without special difficulty
Frequently the ships have to put back
IL port and refit. and often they are so bad
~ damaged in the ice on the return voyage
that they can hardly limp back to Phila-
delphia or some nearer port.
The cryolite industry employs some two
thousand men. who receive in wages about
q million dollars a year. At Ivitgut the
Danish company keeps a small colony of
fIcm seventy to a hundred and fifty men
and three women. y small steamer visits
them from Denmark once year. bringing
supplies.
Queer Line of Ships.
Even in New England. comparatively few
people know of the existence of a queer line
of ships that ply from Provincetown and
New Bedford. Mass. to the Cape de Verde
Islands.
great number of Portuguese. especially
Cape de Verde Islanders. settled at Cape
Cod and spread more or less throughout
New England This colonization arose
through the discovery by whaling shippers
That the Cape de Verde Islanders were re-
markably skillful harpooners. They were
frequently employed on the whaling vessels
and came to New Bedford on them. Many
became farmers in New England. and sent
II the Cape de Verde Islands for their fam
flies.
lands to Massachusetts, grew up, and line
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his opponent was the democratic strong
hold.
Governor Murphy began to uproot Mr..
Smith with candor and open methods. IL
was these weapons pitted against finesse.
The county of Essex casts more than 40 900
votes in a presidential election The state
began to turn at the first election following
the passage of the Wilson bill Under Mr..
Murphy's leadership 1t went for Mckinley
In 1896 by the humping majority of 81 900.
and even in 1900 Essex county stood like
wall, giving Mckinley 10000. or more than
a third of the republican plurality in the
state.
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The Test of Abstinence.

Some grisly skeptics are expressing the
convection that few of these personally
conducted pledges, so to speak-having
their genesis and genius in the fear of con-
sequences, and born of no innate moral re-
pentance-are liable to stand the wear and
tear of time and the craving for mental hi
iarly. Inc dismal prophets aver the be-
lief that the sworn-off ones will presently
begin to cast about for brands deemed in
nocuous by experts of their own selection.
whereupon they will quickly readiness
themselves TO the non deleterious fluids OF
their own discovery with no conjunction
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Governor Murphy is small in stature and
large in generosity and in fortune. He
left school when he was sixteen years of
age. in 1861. and enlisted in the 18th New
Jersey Volunteer Infantry private. He
came out in 1865 lieutenant, with plenty
of experience for meeting the difficulties of
life He began work in Newark with a
yarnish manufacturing concern. He de-
yeloped it into one of the greatest works
of its kind in the world He has large
plants in Newark Chicago. Cleveland and
Paris This has been his life work.
Politics has rather been his recreation.
He became chairman of the state commit
tee in 1891. These were the darkest days
for the republicans of New Jersey, and
Essex county in which Newark Is located
and in which Mr.. Smith then, as now, was
The independent., 1904-06-23

Editor Independent: Your favor OF
recent date at hand. | hasten to re-
ply as | am interested In the cause
OF populism against boodleism, and
have been for many years.
The woods are full of popullsts down
here In Graham county. Kansas. We
only get 10 vote every two years and
as result the rural population be-
came dlsorganlzod. The Ola Guards
are somewhat discouraged. but | be-
llove a school house canvass by good
old-fashloned popullat spedkefs would
work wonders.
I believe there are GOO popullAts Ia
this county. Iinrrah for good sIoket.
both state and natlonall Enclosed iind
the price that Will keep The Indepen-
dent In a good hunior with me until
February IA. 1905.
q. A. IEunB0N.
Illll CITY. kaa.
The independent., 1904-06-23
SPECIAL MARKET LETTER
FROM NYE & BUCHANAN CO., LIVE
STOCK COMMISSION MER-
CHANTS. so. OMAHA.

Cattle: Receipts of cattle have been
more liberal the past week especially
in Chicago. Packers claim the high
prices have materially decreased the
demand for the product and as a re-
suit prices are 25 to so cents lower
except on-extra choice kinds, which
are slightly lower Grass cows are
nearly 81 lower.
We quote good choice corn-fed
steers $3.50 to $500, textra choice up
to $625), fair $500 to s5.40. Good
fat cows and heifers $4.00 to $3.50, fair
COWS $3.50 to $4.00. Grass cows $500
to 1925. Feeders lower Steer stock
calves $3.50 to $500, heifers 81 less.
Veal $3.50 to $3.50. Bulls $500 to
$3.50.
Sheep: Market steady. .Westerners
arriving in fair condition. Ewes $3.50
to $3.50. Wethers $40 to $4.60.
Hogs: General tendency Tor the
past week was higher. Range. si.97
TO $500.