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Fourth-Class Postmasters.

The following fourth-class postmasters
were appointed today:
Maryland-Rolphs. Thomas r. Sudler.
Virginia-Bunker Hill, W. 8. Woodford.
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Russians Buried by Japanese.

TOKYO, September 15.-Field Marshal
oYama telegraphed today that the posi-
tons of the Russians i'll the direction of
Mukden are unchanged. The total num-
Der of Russian dead buried at Liaoyans
was 3,luo.
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To Ascend the Lao River.
Additional List of Casualties.

ST. PETERSBURG, September 15.-An
additional list, published today, of casual
ties among the officers at the front. cover
Ing the period from August % to September
:. gives the names of 81 killed and 143
wounded
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F. S. WILLIAMS & CO., 9th & F SITS. N. w.,
and EDWARD iii. KOSS. 9th & Fla. Ave.

lucky voyage, losses were still more
heavy when they ACQUIRED; for the owners
mad absolutely no control over their ships
once they had left port.
They could not even feel sure that in
case of misfortune the limit of their loss
would be the sum that they had invested
in the ship and her equipment, for the
captain of a whaleship had unlimited and
complete authority to draw on them for
any sum he might need. sell his cargo
anywhere at whatever terms his judgment
might dictate and even 20 have the ship
condemned and sold to be broken up IL
he thought 1t proper
Once the captain of a whaler left the
headlands behind he was a king. He went
whithersoever he listed and stopped wher-
ever he thought "suitin' and fittin'."
But like a king, he was burdened with
heavy responsibilities. The Pacific islands
where he had to take wood and water were
UNEMPLOYED, and many were inhabited by
oannibalS. The harbors were uncharted.
There were tens of thousands of square
miles of world then where no man could
hope for supplies.
SO dependent on themselves were these
whalers that there was nothing from
boat nail to bricks for the try works that
they did not carry with them. There were
no dry docks in their hunting grounds, and
when hull needed repairing, the ship was
sailed to the most promising beach and
run aground at low tide, broadside to
shore. Then tackles were fastened to her
heavy, stumpy masts. and she was hove
down" on her side till the men could get
at the injury and repair it.
'Heaving down. was so customary q
method of repairing whale ships hulls that
1t is done there at times at the present
day.
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outfit, took $4,000 worth of bone and oil,
thus paying her cost in one cruise and earn
ing for her owners dividend of 125 per
cent.
In the same year the Russell of New
Bedford arrived there with 5000 worth
of oil.
Enjoys Wonderful Voyage.
One of the wonderful records of those
'get-rich-quick" whaling days is that of
the Envoy of New Bedford. In 1874 she
was condemned and sold to William c.
Brownell to be broken up. He concluded
to fit her for one more voyage, and Capt
w. I. Walker took her out. Nobody would
insure her. At the first port she touched
her captain found 1000 barrels of whale
oil saved from a wrecked whaler, which he
bought at a nominal price, and shipped
from Manila to London. Then he cruised
in the Pacific ocean. and in fifty-five days
took $500 barrels of whale oil and 10000
ponds of bone. He put into San Francisco,
where he sold part of his cargo and ship
ped the rest home. Then he sold the ship
for $4,000. Altogether the voyage brought
$13S. 45O. and the total cost of purchasing
and fitting out the Envoy was only $1,000
Big as the prifits were when ship made
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Origin of Orrery.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The Earl of Cork and Orrery, who has
been unwilling the beautiful memorial win
dows in Wells Cathedral TO the two hun
dred Somerset men who fell in the late war;
was the right man in the right place for
the ceremony. for he has been lord lieuten-
ant of Somersetshire for great many
years, and is warmly interested in all
county matters. Though five times an Irish
peer, Lord Cork has seat in Ireland, and
he resides most of the year at Marston
Biggott, near Frome, which gives him his
English title of Boyle of Marston. At Mars
ton is preserved the original "orrery," the
astronomical instrument designed by Geo.
Graham and called by him after his patron,
the fourth Earl of Orrery.
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ship Penelos> recorded her arrival in the
arctic seas in IS north latitude, with zone
hundred American whale ships in sight"
And this point, so far north that it still
is a polar adventure for expeditions to
reach it, was reached In those early days
by little craft which did not even have
coppered bottoms.
Long before that, solitary American
whalers had penetrated into the frozen seas
Indeed, in 1853 a Boston schooner had tried
to ind the northwest passage and had
spent seven eight months in the ice.
1t was the sperm whale that first induced
American whalerS to round the Horn and
enter the Pacific. In 1871 seven ships sailed
around the Horn from Nantucket and New
Bedford.
which the whale ships carried the American
flag into every spot on the globe, one Nan
tucket man entering even the Red sea.
TIE first right whales were taken on the
northwest coast in 1885, again by a Nan
tucket ship, and in 1S43 the first bowhead
whales ever taken in the North Pacific
ocean were killed by two New Bedford
ships off Kamtschatka.
In 1913 the Sag Harbor bark Superior
under Captain Royce. passed through Ber-
ing straits and within three years 80
American ships We're filling with oil and
whalebone there.
Bone was only just beginning then to
amount to something in value. In 1923 the
finest kind was worth only 3 shillings a
pound in Philadelphia. In 1920 to 1924 1t
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The Heritor lived in the most beautiful
house in the city of Horta-. He was a mer-
chant of great distinction and much wealth.
He held more slaves than anyone in the
city. and he was feared by everybody. On
an October afternoon in 1924 people who
were passing his house heard shrieks and
curses. crowd gathered, wondering what
it all meant
Presently the Hertz himself came from
the house. In his hand he he'd a CATO
nine-tails. and as he came into the street
he cursed the crowd for their curiosity.
Get out. all of you,'' he commanded.
The crowd melted away. and then came re-
newed cries. The Heritor turned and shook
his whip
Bark as much you like-dog.' he
shouted. The lesson will do you good.
You will not dare for some time to tell me
that you are free! Free! For what die
spend my good money in buying you?
Rubbish"
With the Heritor was a monk of most
brutal appearance. and hearing the cries
from the house, he approached What is
all this. senior? You are provoked?'
What would you have? These are dew
lis who come from Brazil. They are I'M
pudent. That one in there is mad today
because / gave her some kicks-a
scamp of four years who appeared, l don't
know from where, or to whom he belongs"
The monk seemed to wish TO change the
conversation, but the Heritor continued:
And to tell me that l must not touch
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III

year later the Corregedor Amilio and
the Donna Eugenia were married, and there
was great ceremony in the church of La
Conceicao. Jao Vincente, the boatman of
the fortress. decked his boat gaily, and sail
ed with Amilio and his wife across the
Fayal roads-that wonderful channel which
divides Fayal from the mount of Pico.
Up the mountain side the Senior Amilio
had great vineyard and there the honey
moon was spent.
And upon day when there was no cloud
on the mountain. and when the orange trees
bloomed. and when the loQuots were sweet
in the mouth. Amilio took his wife tight In
his arms as they looked off over the sea,
But the slave was let out from the
closet" he said.
Yes" said the Donna Eugenia
But who should let him out? 1 who love
thee would have done it. If only for the
punishment of one who should strike thee
across the cheek with lash. Who should
II be that let him out. and who was 1t who
locked him in his closet afterward?"
Il did, said the Donna Eugenia
MY most belOved!' said the Corregedor
Amiio.
Then together they went into their house,
as the light grew dim on the tip of Pico.
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New Things in Guns.
From the Scientific American.

From the Scientific American.
A most striking recent development in
guns-and in speaking of guns we usually
include the gun-carriage or gun-mount-is
the effort now universal to throw the &C
curate and quick control of the gun into the
hands of the people firing 1t. 1t may well be
wondered that this has not always been a
controlling idea in laying out guns and their
mounts. but at the present time 1t is in this
direction that the greatest effort is being
made. The proof of this is to be seen by a.
comparison of the guns and mounts made
ten or fifteen years ago with those now be-
ing made. The latter are arranged much
more conveniently. and consequently their
rate of fire is much faster. Modern 6-inch
guns are being fired from ships eight or
ten times in minute at targets about the
size of a ship and a mile distant, and hit
ting the target at each shot OF course, do
ing this from a stable platform on shore
would be comparatively easy. The proJec-
tile of these guns weighs 100 pounds. the
powder charge about 40 to 80 pounds. and
the weight of the gun. including all the
turning parts is about %. 600 pounds. This
weight must be moved, to keep the sights
on the target, by one man, and 1t will be
seen that 1t is of the greatest Importance to
lay out all the shafting and gearing with
minimum of friction and lost motion.
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was worth only from to 10 cents pound.
In 1857 whalebone was selling for 30 cents
pound. The price of sperm oil then was
% cents and of whale oil 30 cents gallon.
Hawaii Sixty Years Ago.
In those days the meeting ground of the
whalers was off the islands of Oahu and
Maui in the Hawaiian group, and that land
was then. in practice, as American as 1t is
now in reality. The mail station was de-
serted coral reef far to the west, known as
Bakers Island, where cask on a pole was
used for the deposit of letters by every
passing ship.
Even before the capture of right and
bowhead whales had brought the American
ships to the Arctic ocean and the Boring
sea in force, small whalers from New En-
gland had ventured into unknown seas.
Before 1913 two Russian warships on a
voyage of exploration sighted a group of
islands in the Antarctic ocean, and had be-
gun to send men ashore to take possession
in the name of the car when the fog lifted
and they were amazed to see little seal
ing sloop from Long Island riding quietly
in the harbor. The Russians were disap-
pointed and disgusted, but honest enough
to name the islands "Palmer's Land" after
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tances from the shore until 176O, when the
animals found the matter monotonous and
moved of. Then small sloops Of abou;
fifty tons were used to 60 out to OF shore
grounds.
In the meantime. in 1712, Nantucket
whaler that had been blown OF shore Ia
gale. struck the first sperm whale and
began the great business of deep" ocean
whaling.
Before long, the whalers of New England
had ventured north to the Gulf of st. Law
renee and to the Grand Banks in pursuit.
ing more and more from the overturned
Massachusetts coast. In 176S almost q hun
dred vessels, few of them more than sew
enty-f1ve tons in burden mot large as
many pleasure yachts of today, took whale
off Newfoundland and worked into the ice
Of the Straits of Belle Isle.
Before the revolutionary war began the
Nantucket whalers had begun to occupy
all the whaling grounds of the Atlantic.
Captain Uriah Bunker in the brig Amazon,
the first Nantucket whaler to cross the
equator, arrived at home from his voyage
on the very day of the battle of Lexing
ton.
1t was a Nantucket man, Captain Folger,
who first charted the gulf stream. Ben
jamin Franklin caused this chart to be en-
graved for the use of navigators, and it is
substantially correct today.
First Stars and Stripes in England.
1t was New Bedford whaler, the Bed
ford, which was the first ship that ever
flew the ''rebellious thirteen stripes of
America in any English port She was dis
patched from Massachusetts, the moment
the Thames with her cargo of oil before
all the acts of parliament against the
''rebes" had been descended
In 17sS the log book of the Nantucket
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the mulatto again, because he as well as
herself should be free
This is what the senior Marquis Of
Pombal has done" added the monk senten-
tiously, with his foolishness as to the
passage to the equator. 1t is a good thing
the devil has had him in his grip for the
last forty-two years. We all have the
date in our memories 1t was in 1882
Equator be hanged" broke in the Herr
tor 1T is whipping which teaches brutes
Everything else is nonsense. Let her say
anything more to me and l will take the
skin off her."
The Senior Heritor," said the seemingly
best-informed spectator in the group, lis
perfectly within his rights. The slave Is
his property. She belongs to him and he
must teach her whatever he thinks fit No
one has a right to interfere"
Il don't want the same to happen to me
that befel the husband of Donna Eugenia,"
said another.
That was a case in which nobody was
to blame. The Senior Heritor knows well
enough that the mulatto was found in the
morning locked in as usual"
And who told you that he had not the
artfulness of the DEVIL" and the priest
crossed himself; the artfulness of the
devil TO deceive everybody and cheat jus
tice2 What l don't understand is how the
Senior Corregedor can leave that mulatto
going about free"
Il have heard that it was fit the mas
ter had"
Fables, The husband of Donna Euge-
MIA, every night before going to bed, was
in the habit of locking the mulatto In a
room at the bottom Of the staircase to
keep him more safely. Perhaps 1t was be-
cause he was already suspicious of what
he was capable of doing"
We'll, If on the following morning they
found him in the middle Of the stone stair
case, with only his shirt on, covered with
blood. with his head under his body and
the key still in his hand. although the mu-
latto was shut up and the door locked on
the outside, 1t is plain 1t was he who was
the cause of ii all. Is It not SOP
But how?'
How can / know how? Those beasts
are cunning and know charms. They be-
witch everything. If they were not useful
In our families I should never wish to see
another. One has to be very patient
Like job broke in the priest
Exactly. Father Chaplain, Jobs pa
tience,' said the Heritor. But l. with a
daughter and a son, both demented, who
could | get to put UP with them? Only me-
Sroes. Let US now go and see what Do
mingas has got ready for supper"
ut Is time, Senior Heritor, for I am al
ready feeling hungry"
Come. then. father"
"Good-by, friends. May you have health"
God be with the Senior Heritor, and
maybe have more rest"
Five minutes afterward the street was
deserted and the Hertor and the priest at
well-garnished table were supping freely,
while from the middle OF the board stood
out an enormous bottle of good Pico wine,
grown by the owner of the house under the
shadow of the mountain.
Thus far goes the tale OF Ernesto Rebello,
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DISARMING THE GODS.
How Chinese, Japanese and Hindoo
Schoolboys Prepare for School Life.


From Everybody's Magazine.
Among the eastern nations the beginning
of school life is a critical time for the
child. The priest or astrologer must be
consulted to choose a lucky day. Every
precaution must be taken to avert the
jealousy of the gods. whose malice is
especially directed against fine boy.
The Chinese father who adores his son
will take the utmost pains to convince the
powers of the air that the boy Is of no ac-
count. The child may be given a despic-
able name. like flea, or Chu-tZe, a pig or
more insulting still, he may be given q
girls name. The boy may be started off
to school wearing a girls dress and one
earring, and If the deception is complete
this will be the most effectual of all, for
even the gods do not care for girls in
China
The Japanese schoolboy wears hanging
from his belt little red bag containing
brass tag, with his name and his paren. s.
name and address upon it. He must have
his paper umbrella and his fan, and, in a
gay bag upon his arm, is a jar of rice for
his luncheon. This quaint little fellow has
probably made his offering at his own pr-
vate shrine to Tenjinsen. the god of pen
manship.
When the Hindoo boy has found an
suspicious day to begin school, he is taken
to the god of learning. Sarasvati. Here the
little supplicant presents his offerings of
rice and betelnuts, and repeats the letters
of the alphabet after the priest. Thus
he Is entered into the ways of knowledge
In the very presence Of the god.
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10 America and became a very rich man.
All the money that he made in the Shaving
he left to Eugenia when he died, but this
was not until she had been married for a
year to Sebastiao and had gone with all
the slaves which her husband owned to
live In Horta, which is In the island of
Fayal.
For a year all went well enough. Sc
bastfao had his business to watch and his
business was of curious nature, for he
had to do with the ships which came I'M
expectedly into the Porto Pm
You must know that the Porto Fin is q
pay, a round bay, which sets in from the
sea and makes a deep indentation into the
coast line of the island Here, in the old
days, the ships came when they were
wrecked, or had been wrecked, for some
times the shippers who had an eye for the
dollars and little feeling for the crew and
Tor their lives, used to take their ships to
sea-sometimes from Southampton or LIS
bon or Valencia-and when they were near
the island they would cruise up and down,
up and down for days off the coast. Then
when the fogs came and the clouds came
down over the sea from Pico and from the
Caldeira, they would run them sharp into
Porto PIN, and there would the boats lie
wrecked on the jagged rocks which rise
sullenly almost to the very surface of the
water.
And today, even after a century, if one
comes down from the Monte da Guia,
round by the Spanish forts. and looks out
through the City Gate. he may still see the
timbers and the sea washing through
them And when these ships were wreck
ed the men who had written the insurance
would lose much of money, and the skip
pers and those who were in their favor
would make an equal sum-perhaps a bit
less, for mouths may be closed by money
but still 1t served.
That, then, was the business in which
Sebastiao traded. He wrecked ships, and
after time, together with the wrecking
and the whaling, he came to be one of the
powers of the city and was very rich
man.
1t was during the long nights and the
long days when he was watching for the
ships to come into port that Eugenia was
left much alone, and 1t was during that
time that Amilio came to love her, for
across the street he worked as a law stu
dent in the Office of Dom Jao Aquila, and
each day she came into her balcony-hood-
ed to be sure-and gladdened him.
Within the year after he had come to
know the law he was made corregedor at
the election, which was held In the church
on the Sunday following Easter. There he
did justice to the islanders who appeared
in the court-after the manner as it is
written in the law which was made when
Philip was King of Portugal.
Then, one day. Sabastiao was found dead
on the stairs which led into his dwelling.
Blood was everywhere. On the stone stair
way, and on the walls. and on the door
which let into the room where the Donna
Eugenia slept.
In the closet at the foot of the stairs
Jose was found, locked in the key turned
from the outside.
Such day was never seen in all Horta.
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the captain of the little sailboat. The
British ship Caribou had similar expert
ence at almost the same time, for she
thought she had discovered the land now
known as Hurd's Island, but on approach
ing she found the schooner oxford of Fair
haven, Mass, there, engaged in whaling:
Many of the ships that opened this Pa
cific and arctic fishery are afloat today and
catching whales as bravely as if they were
brand new. There is the famous old bark
Morning Star, which, when last reported,
had sailed out of Fayal, in the Azores. with
125 barrels of sperm oil which she had OBJ
tanned since last July, when she left New
Bedford on her cruise.
The Famous Morning Star
The Morning Star entered the Pacific
fishery in 1853, and made rich hauls of oil
and bone even through the civil war, evad-
ing privateers successfully and landing
her cargo at a time when the market had
scared to dizzy heights.
In one cruise Of go days she killed 2O2
whales She penetrated Hudson's bay in
1884 and 1896, and brought back oil and
bone that made her two voyages net more
than 100000
This was at top prices. when oil was
worth $1.65 a gallon and Whalebone. was
selling for $40 a pound.
Great as this record was, it was excelled
in that same period by Capt. Ebenezer
Morgan, who entered port in 1855 with
SlOUUuU WOIlIl VI DOHS anu Oii.
Even before the civil war, and without
the aid of war prices. the whalers of those
DAYS made fortunes in single voyages.
In 1853 the schooner Alabama, under
Capt Consider Fisher of Sippican, made
six months voyage and came in with
S13COO worth of whale. She was worth
only S22O1 originally with her full outfit
Another schooner, the James, took $4,000
worth in three months.
Other great voyages were those of the
Captain Richmond of New Bedford, which
took $50, 900 worth of whale in two and one
half years in the Pacific ocean in 1923 The
Falmouth ship Uncas got $4,000 worth in
two years and eight months The Lopez
of Nantucket got $4,000 worth in fourteen
months.
The Sarah of Nantucket returned after
three years cruise with $4,000 worth of
oil.
In 1910 the South America of Providence,
fitted at a total cost Of $4,000 for ship and
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IL
There had been another Eugenia once.
but she, poor girl, had died Of the fever in
Rio in the very year that the little daugh-
ter came to her. and when, three years
later, 1t was said that there could be no
escape If the people staid in their houses in
Nichtheroy, the captain took the second
Eugenia upon voyage with him, that the
fever might not take her. too. away. So
it came about that for years and years, or
until Eugenia was fourteen, she went with
her father in his great ship over strange
seas and to the lands of which she dreamed
afterward and people with queer-looking
men of her own imagination, for in her voy-
aging she had but little glimpses of the real
life and of the men themselves who dwelt
in the far-away countries.
And this was the way of her education:
She was taught all that her father knew of
books She knew all that he could teach
over trackless oceans. Sometimes. when
to stand at the stern of the gig and repeat
the orders of the captain, her father, to the
men forward, and they obeyed her, these
great brawny sailors, and gave her the
name of the admiral. They built for her
wonderful model ships and carved marvel
Gus things out of cocoanut shells and out
of the calabash.
Then when the slave trade of the African
coast became the best business in which
merchant ship could engage. the captain
brought negroes to Brazil and to Cuba and