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ADMIRAL ToGo's CADET DAYS.
"reminiscences of the Foremost Jap
anese Admiral.
Ito be continued.) }

"reminiscences of the Foremost Jap
anese Admiral.
A retired English naval officer, who.
when lad, was on board the train
ing ship Worcester at the same time
as the prominent Japanese Admiral
Togo, tells the following reminis-
cences:
Togo was constantly the victim OF
all manner of chaff from the young
Britishers on board, who called him
One o-go-three-go." Disliked at
first, perhaps because he was unlike
his mates, he grew in popularity on
account of his remarkably alert mind
and agile body, until at length he be-
came a general favorite with officers
and boys.
He stood all chaff with a certain
amount of bravado, unless it touched
on his resemblance to the Chinese.
To one fellow sailor who dubbed him
Chinaman he said with emphasis:
You wait; when | am the admiral
| hang you on the yardarm."
One day that Togo had his leave
stopped for some small offense, Lib
erty boys to go ashore" was piped,
and the boys went up to him and said.
Are you to go?" NO" he replied
Immediately the youngsters got round
him and pinched him for telling lies,
shouting at the same time, "You are
Togo."
His Christian name being rather
difficult to pronounce, Togo was told
by one of the boys to shoot his god
father and godmOther on his return
home. I'VE do not shoot gods in
Japan" was his reply.
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Mark Twain Was Too Smart.

Once, when l was a Mississipp
pilot" said Mark Twain, Il got out o
work and had to hustle for job.
talked to number Of captains. hG
none of them wanted a pilot. Fina.N
l met man who said there was Va
cancy on his boat that l might fill ii
could qualify. He asked me about NJ
habits, my religion, my birth, ny
schooling and so on. Then he said.
Now, for the main thing. Do -.
know where the snags in the rive
are?"
No, captain I said, 4 don't
He swore. Wants to be a pilot.
he muttered, and don't know wher'
the snags are
81 know where they're not sa..
l. But my smartness cost me th.
tob."
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CHAPTER xxv.-continued.

The sun came on, valiantly stripped
bare, knowing what was to be. Still
louder rose the requiem of the wire.
The sky smiled on. There was no
token to strike with alarm these hu.
man beings, their faculties dulled by
a thousand years OF differentiation.
TO the north there appeared long,
black cloud, hanging low as the trail
of some far-off locomotive. new upon
the land. All at once the cloud
s2-ang up. unfurling tattered battle
flags, and hurrying to meet the sun
upon the zenith battle ground.
Once the wind pelted the slant snow
through the interstices of the grasses
upon the furry back OF the covering
coyote. Now they found a new sport
in driving the icy powder through the
cracks Of the loose board shanty, upon
the stripped back Of the mother hud-
ding her sobbing children against the
empty, impotent stove, perhaps wrap
ping her young in the worn and whit
ened robe OF the buffalo taken years
ago. For it was only the buffalo,
though now departed, which held the
frontier for America in this unpre-
pared season. the Christmas Of the
Great Cold. The robes saved many
OF the children, and now and then
mother also.
The men who had no fuel did as
their natures bid, some dying at the
ice-bound stove and others in the
open on their way for fuel Mishap
passed by but few OF the remoter
homes found unprepared with fuel
and Christmas day, deceitfully fair,
diwned on many homes that were to
be fatherless, motherless, or robbed OF
frst-born. Thus it was that from
this, the hardest and most self-re-
liant population ever known on earth
there rose the heartbroken cry for
comfort and for help, the frontier for
the first time begging aid to hold the
sx!rmish line.
Sam Poston came into the Office
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where Franklin sat on Christmas eve,
listening to the clinking rattle OF the
hard snow on the pane. Sam was
white from head to foot. His face
was anxious, his habitual uncertainty
and difiidence were gone.
Cap said he, with no prelude,
the whole country belowll be froze
out. The billiards. awful"
II know it," said Franklin. I'VE
must get out with help soon as we
can. How far down do you think the
danger line begins?"
We'll, up to three or four miles
out it's thicker settled, an most O.
the folks could git into town. AS fur
out as thirty mile to the south they
1night git a little timber yet, over on
the Smoky. The worst strip is fifteen
to twenty-five mile below"
Franklin felt a tightening at his
heart. About fifteen to twenty
five miles," he said. Sam nodded.
Both were silent.
Look here, Cap" said the driver
presently. you've allus told me not
to say nuthin' bout the folks down
to the Halfway house, an I hahn
said a thing. | low you got Jared
down there some. l know how that
is. All the same | reckon maybe you
sorter have a leanin' that way still
You may be worried some"
Franklin groaned as he sank into
chair. his face between his hands.
Then he sprang up. We must go."
he cried.
Il know it," said Sam simply.
Get ready" exclaimed Franklin,
reaching for his coat
What do you mean, Cap-now?
Yes, to-night-at once"
"You ID fool" said Sam.
You coward" cried Franklin
What. Are you afraid to 90 out
when people are freezing-when-'
Sam rose to his feet. his slow feat
ures working. That amt right, Cap
said he. ~ know I'm scared to dc
some things but IL don't believe
I'm no coward. I amt afraid to &C
down there, but I won't go tonight
ner let you go, fer it's the same as
maybe make 1t in the daytime, but
I'm willin' to try it then. Don't you
call no coward to me. 1t amt right.
Franklin again cast himself into his
chair. his hand and arm shifting or
the table. II beg your pardon. Sam,
said he presently. Il know you're
not a coward Well start together ir
the morning. But it's killing me tt
wait. Good God! they may be freeZ
ing now, while we're here, warm ant
safe!"
That's So" said Sam sententious
". We can't help it. We all got tt
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The Three Symbols Of Japan.

The three symbols of the imperial
crystal and the sword. and they are
carried in front of the emperor or
all state occasions. Each has its sig
nificance. Look at the mirror and
reflect thyself," or. in other words,
Know thyself,' is the message of the
mirror. BE pure and shine is the
crystals injunction, while the sword
is reminder to BE sharp.
Weekly.
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IN A GLASS HOUSE.
And Miss Simpson Objected to tho
Use of Slano

OSG u 0ldn9'
Nobody who looked at Miss Simpson
as she twitched pins out of their paper
and stabbed them into her small red
cushion could have been in doubt as
to her frame of mind-she was plainly
in fine rage.
I've been working at Mrs. POr.
ter's,' she volunteered at last, after
she had portioned out the basting to
the meekly waiting family and taken
up her shears, "and every time go
like her. and so l go. Her Oldest
daughter. though, that Jennie, cant
abide.
Yesterday l gave her piece O. my
mind, and it did me good. She hal
been using slang all the morning, and
| spoke to her about it. ! told her it
didn't sound well in young girl, and
deacons daughter. And she up with
that sassy little head of hers. and
says she, I don't see why you should
object, Miss Simpson You ought 10
be the last one, I'm sure.
Then l looked her right back and
says, Because l go out sewing by the
day, | suppose? Well, | can just tel!
you,' says, that know what's what,
even If do look like the lat run o
shad; an those that use slang en-
hope to approach elegance of IN.
guage.' l says, not within a row u
apple trees!'"
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Cannon for Ornaments.

Four of the cannon taken from the
French off Finisterre in 1747 by Ad.
miral Boscawen now fill the lowly
if useful roles of curbposts and lamp
posts in front of the house, No. ST.
James square. London, of Boscawen's S
descendant, Lord Falmouth; while on
Tower Hill there is row of posts on
the curbstones. evc-y one of which is
a cannon which has done service, or
has ben ready to do it, against Eng.
lands enemies.
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Craters of the Moon.

1t is estimated from recent photo
graphs of the craters of the moon
that they are over 100000 in number
Prof Pickering thinks that the white
patches in some craters and the mum.
erous bright radiating lines are due
to snow and the less conspicuous
lunar canals, which gradually appear.
increase and fade away. in the lunar
day. are attributable by the same
authority to vegetation.
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Tuberoses from North Carolina.

Tuberoses are produced in the
United States on a large scale, the
market being chiefly supplied from a
small area in Duplin county, North
Carolina, which produces many mil
lions of them annually for sale and
for export. The bulbs are plowed out
of the ground in autumn, gathered by
colored women, hung up in punches to
dry Tor month or two. and finally
packed in paper-lined barrels.
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CONGESTION OF cordite,

Cordite consists of gun cotton, nitro
glycerin and vaseline. 1t has a
stringy appearance when finished, and
hence its name. Blasting gelatine is
solution of gun cotton in nitro.gl
cerin. Various forms of "smokeless
powder are principally composed Of
gun cotton, which leaves no residue
after explosion and gives very little
visible smoke
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Birds EoreteII Storms.

Birds are endowed with a remarkable
instinct which enables them to meas
ure up their responsibilities in con-
nection with their nests. Birds never
fail to return home long before 1t
rains or a storm approaches. The
common sparrow comes first. From
his nest he chrps warnings to his
feather brethren of larger species
than his own.
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Excuses a Bookmaker.

At the Central Criminal Court sit.
tings in Sydney bookmaker was
summoned to act on a jury to try a
case OF manslaughter, and. before tax.
ing his seat, asked to be excused The
judge inquired the reason. Il have a
very heavy book on the Nemarket
Handicap" hs replied. "and my part,
ner does nss understand how to run
it, The elCGSe was accepted.
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Improvement in Cables,

cable of to-day for submarine teleg-
raphy will transmit twice as many
messages as one made in 1858, due
TO the greater purity of the copper
now employed. Many metals are most
susceptible to minute additions of va
rlous alloying elements-being with
out them, and crumbling easily when
slight trace is incorporated.
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Picture Postal Cards.

Frans Borich. a Nuremberg artist.
is dead. The German papers say he
was the inventor of the picture postal
card. His first cards appeared in 1872,
but as early as 1868 German brewers
we're advertising their beer by pic.
lures and notices on cards, which
they sent to prospective customers.
Those are the earliest known speci-
mems.
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Soldiers in Silk and Satin.

Ethiopian troops on ceremonial oc-
casions are arrayed in silks and sat
ins. with lion and leopard skin man.
ties, and gold and silver-plated buck
les
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EnoIish RAILWAYS.

England north of London has three
fourths Of mile of railway for each
square mile of land, and south OF
London more than mile.
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Travelling Toqcther,

where's that dude hunter?'
"Oh, he left me to go after a bear.
"When's he coming back?"
"Whenever the bear does"
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Cost Of Illness.

The working classes of England,
according to the bishop Of Chester
.ose 93,000.000 in wages through i'll
mes in the course of year.
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Gives Sons Names Of States.

Three sons were born to Kentuch
farmer few days ago and he IA
named them. his wife acquiescing
Kentucky. Tennessee and Virginia, Il
honor OF the three states in which :.
wife has lived.
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Couldn't Find It.

Why don't you appeal to his con-
science?"
I'D have to locate it first, and !
have no microscope
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Truth About Precious Stones.

The American garnet, the hyacinth
and the stone known as spinel are
commonly mistaken for rubies, and 1t
is only within few years that the IA
nous ruby in the crown jewels of Rus
sia was discovered by an expert to be
a spinel. The renowned diamond"
in the collection of the King of Portu-
gal Is now known to be a white to-
paZ
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Fortunate

Fortunate.
Percy-l-aw-won why NJ
"lnsom ls-aw--always out vAfo)
sall?'
Jack-Oh. that girl IVES born xSSs
lucky star.
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Memoriam to Architect.

A library will be erected in connec-
tion with the British school at Athens
to perpetuate the memory of F. C.
Penrose, an authority on Greek archi.
lecture.
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OPENING GOLF SEASON.
Chevy Chase Club First to Hold Fall
TOURNAMENT

The annual fall golf tournament of the
Chevy Chase Club, open to members of
clubs in the U. S. G. A and such other play
may be invited, will be held on Oc-
tober 20, u and % 1904. The following
cups will be offered:
Club cup-Match play Eighteen holes
Second prize Qualification round, stroke
competition, thrty-six holes. Prize for low
est score in qualification event.
Consolation cup-Match play. Eighteen
holes Second prize
Handicap cup-Stroke competition. Eight
cen holes. Second prize. Prize for lowest
gross score Entries to be accompanied by
home secretary's statement of handicap.
Entries will close the evening before each
event. They should be addressed to the
secretary
The program will be:
October 30, 10 a.m.-Qualification round,
stroke competition, thirty-six holes.
October 81, 10 a.m.-Club cup. First
round, eighteen holes.-1O:30 a.m.-Consola-
ton cup. First round. eighteen holes.
2:30 p.m.-Second round, both cups, eight
cen holes.
October %, 10 am.-Semi-fnals both
cups, eighteen holes. 2:30 p.m.-Fnals,
both cups, eighteen holes.
The handicap competition will be played
on October %. Play may begin any hour
after 10 am, but must be finished by $50
pm.
Handicap competitors must give way to
those playing in semi-finals and finals. both
cups.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy in
that state. Refreshments were served dur
ing the evening.
Miss Isabella Calhoun and Mr.. James
Peverill were married Thursday evening at
the home of the groom, in Alexandra
county. Rev. j. p. Stump of the NJ. L.
Church South officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. James P. Lash, formerly Of
this city. but now of Norfolk, Va. have
announced the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Miss Catherine Lash, to Mr.. George
Percy Peterson. The marriage will take
place at Epworth Methodist Church South
Norfolk, Wednesday, October 26.
The reported reduction contemplated in
the force on the local line of the Southern
ralifoad is creating considerable uneasineSS
among the employees of the company here.
1t is said that the use of the new large
freight engines, which can draw such
heavy trains, will result in the opera ton of
smaller crews.
Miss Elsie Dorothy Acton, daughter of
Mr. I. M. Acton of this city, and Mr.. John
Seymour McNett of Washington were
quietly married at Rockville last Thursday.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. Rob-
ert L. McNair.
Mrs. Dolly j. Ssson died this morning of
consumption, after a lingering illness, at
the home of her husband, Mr.. John Sisson,
I13 South Lee street. She was twenty
three years of age. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon at o'clock from
the family residence.
who was arrested by Officer Knight yester-
day on a charge of having escaped from the
Rockville Jail, was returned to the Mary
land authorities last evening.
There will be a baptiZing from Liberty
Church (colored), North Pitt street, by the
thing waters south of Lee street tomorrow
afternoon at / o'clock.
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DR.. Slime The score by games won and
WALCoTT's ARM BROKEN.
His Fight With Cans Went Twenty
Rounds to Draw.

SAN FRANCISCO, October Joe Cans
and Joe Walcott, holders, respectively, of
the lightweight and welterweight cham
pionships, fought twenty rounds to a draw
last night. The decision was not well re-
ceived by many of the spectators, who
seemed of the opinion that Cans should
have been favored.
The fight throughout was furious Cans
started off like a winner, enjoying decided
advantage in the opening two rounds
After the second round. however, and until
the middle of the contest Walcott en-
ployed his right almost exclusively to Cans
body, gaining a decided lead. Walcott nut
tremendous power behind his blows and
several times greatly weakened Cans who
was unable to stop the terrific onslaughts
of Walcott's right.
After the tenth round Cans succeeded in
evading most of Walcott's vicious swings
and forced Walcott to change his tactics
He met Walcott's leads with straight clean
rights and lefts to the face and several
times had Walcott dazed. The later twice
experienced difficulty in locating his cor
ner. From the eleventh. to the sixteenth
rounds II was nip and tuck, first one and
tLen the ether taking the lead.
The tide turned in Cans favor in the
seventeenth round. In this round Cans met
all Walcott's rushes with straight rights
from the shoulder and forced him to fight
back wildly. The nineteenth round nearly
saw Walcotts finish. Cans started the
round with a tremendous smash to Wal
colts jaw and soon had him in apparent
distress Cans outfought his opponent. who
failed to land blow in this round
Several times Cans sent his right and left
to the face with terrific force, cleverly
blocking any attempted counter.
The twentieth and last round was repe-
tition Of the preceding round. Cans en-
ployed his right and left principally on the
face and Walicott led out his right and left,
but failed to find resting place on his
shifty opponent
In the infight.ng Cans was clearly Wal
colts master.
The decision of the referee was greeted
with tremendous hooting and kissing and
cries of Cans" Cans"
After the fight 1t developed that Walcott
had broken his right arm. An examination
of the injured arm disclosed that the arm
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DEPARTMENTAL BoWLERs
Government Printers Took Two Games
From Commissioners.

Mr.. c. b. Hunt, captain of the Commits
soners bowling team of the Departmental
League, was presented with beautiful gold
watch fob by the members of the team
The Commissioners rolled their first contest
last night and had the government printing
once team as their opponents. The G. p.
the three games.
After the G. p o. boys had secured the
hrst game the Commissioners got together
captured the game by 63 pins The last
game went to the printers by large mar
gin Brosnan In the first rolled a total of
10 as did Atkins in the final contest.
Meyers was high man for the Commission
ers his score for the second game being
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His wife Accuses Him of Shooting.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: When Robert L. Wrenn, druggist,
who shot William H. Lyons, clerk en-
ployed at John G. Van Horne's office, %
Broadway, was arraigned before Magistrate
Barlow in the Tombs police court Thursday
his counsel asked for postponement until
Wrenn's brother from Washington arrived.
Magistrate Barlow acceded to the request,
and Wrenn was held in 5000 bail until
October 3. Mrs. Wrenn. the prisoners wife.
was in court. She told story that her
husband tried to kill her, and shot Lyons
in the scuffie that followed when Lyons
interfered. She added that her husband
had repeatedly threatened her life, and
that she was afraid Of him. In holding
Wrenn, Magistrate Barlow said he did SO
because he was assured that the amount of
bail could not be secured. Il Will hold him
in the original amount, but II he attempts
to offer bond. will increase II later"
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of the Friends Select School by the score
of to 0. The c. c. C.'s are open to all
challenges from teams averaging eighty
five pounds. Address all challenges to II.
r. Quinter, 1922 14th street northwest.
The Tanglewood A. c. foot ball team has
organized and would like to arrange games
with all teams averaging from $50 to lao
pounds. Emerson Institute, Washington
School, Washington Boys Club, George
town Props. and all of the high schools
preferred. The members OF the team ana
substitutes are as follows: Peak, Murphy,
Alexander Brewer, Bayly, Beckett, Byram,
Carroll Clarke, Feorch, Mcmahon, Olmsted,
Prospect Harris and Tasker.
Foot Ball Notes.
The indications are that penalties will be
more numerous than ever in big games this
fall. The new rules also make the game
more complicated than in former years.
That much touted tackle shift play said
to be right hot from the oven of Walter
Camps trick factory is not so very new.
Yale used ii during the best part of last
season
Dartmouth has seventeen of last years
team back Many good men are in the
squad, but some of the best and heaviest OF
last seasons squad are gone
The new umpire's horn, which Will make
a noise quite distinguishable from the ref
eree's whistle. sounds like the brass tooters
used on sixty-horse-power automobiles.
Nat Poe Princeton, 81, has charge of the
II SnTlan team Oh tIdt iliStlNutioh dho, win
, fairly good material to build on, promises to
drive the Yale youngsters to the jungle IN
little more than month.
The University of Michigan expects to
come east this fall with a team which aver
ages 200 pounds to the man, and yet fast
as lightning This will certainly be a nov
city on the gridiron.
Pennsy will insist that the halves in the
gene with Harvard shall be thirty-five min
utes. AS this will be one of the early
ga mes Harvard is not anxious for so long
and grueling contest
Matthews, Harvard's negro base ball
| shortstop, says he will not come out for
the eleven this fall, as he will be in the law
school and cannot give time to both foot
ball and base ball.
Either Yale or Princeton may get Robert
Maxwell, the guard on last years Chicago
team. He is anxious to enter one of these
two universities, but prefers Princeton. His
father, however is anxious that he remain
| Chicago.
Coach Stage of Chicago is having his
troubles thus early in the season. About
halfa dozen of his best men are laid UP
with injuries and what Stage says about
the practice of his understudies is plenty.
Even king has his troubles.
johnson, the Indian quarterback of last
season, who intended to go to Harvard, is
playing with Walter McCormack's North
western University eleven, where the one
year residence rule does not appear to be
enforced
| Captain Charles Soule of last years An
napolis team Is now a midshipman on
board the cruiser Chicago, how at the
Charleston navy yard. He is coaching a
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ROGUE TOURNEY.
Bryant Sprung Surprise by Defeating
Williams.

Another large crowd gathered last night
to witness the games Of the Associated
Rogue Clubs of the District at the courts,
Rhode Island avenue and 9th street north
west. The contests were all interesting, a
surprise cropping up when Bryant defeated
the crack, Williams, by a good margin
Mr.. Williams has at two different tourna-
ments captured the national championship
and it was the general impression that he
would be the winner by big margin this
fall. Bryant now has a chance and may
yet nose him out.
The games played yesterday resulted as
follows: First division, Bryant won from
Williams; Yost won from w. III. Wahly;
w. H. Wahly won from Bean; MARI won
from Baker. Second division, Blanchard
won from H. Duryea; H. Duryea won from