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sponsible for possible damage through
ordering their crews to help the animal
men.
Troubles Of Modern Noah.
&c. full of troubles. the modern Noah
takes his ark across the Indian and west
ern oceans-kicked at by the giraffes. that
aim as surely as foot ball players, with
hoofs that cut like a knife: bitten by the
hypocritical. snake-faced eamels: spat at by
the still more hypocritical lamas: trodden on
by the elephants. gored by the gentle buck
antelope; presented with ignoble insects by
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VEsUVIUS REFITTED
WILL BE COMMISSIONED AS TOR
PEDO TRAINING SHIP.
Old Vessel Was Formerly the Only
Dynamite Cruiser in Any Navy
A white Elephant"

The ancient and honorable Vesuvius. after
numerous vicissitudes and long periods of
inactivity, has now become vessel of value
in the naval service. Once the Vesuvius
was the only dynamite cruiser in any navy,
and during the Spanish war she frightened
many Spanish soldiers and sailors at Sam
tiago. The vessel will go into commission
again in a few days at the navy yard. Bos-
ton.
The Vesuvus is a dynamite cruiser no
longer, her new designation being torpedo
training ship She will be stationed at the
torpedo station at Newport. About 5000 900
has been expended in refltting the ship for
her new work, and practically all that re-
mains Of the old fittings are the hull and en-
sines, and these have been thoroughly over
hauled and entirely new in many parts.
The work of rebuilding and reftting has
been in progress about a year.
For long time white elephant" of the
navy the ship will at last be of some prac-
teal service She has been tied up at the
Boston navy yard since her return from the
campaign in Cuba. The Navy Department
has been considering what could be done
with the craft to make her of some service,
and probably hundred plans for convert
ing her were considered before the torpedo
instruction ship idea was decided upon.
The reconstruction of the dynamite cruiser
Into training torpedo ship is based on the
recommendation OF q FORMER chlef OF ord
nance.
Necessity for Training Ship.
The bureau of ordnance has for some time
considered the advIsability OF fitting this
ship with submerged torpedo tubes so that
she might be used as torpedo training
ship for officers and men, who might thus
become capable of taking charge of torpedo
outfits on board ship. The assignment Of
officers without any previous experience to
take charge of these outfits is expensive
and inexpedient, resulting in the loss Of
torpedoes and improper handling of the tor
pedo machinery and fittings.
The necessity for training officers and
men for this work has been considered as
obvious, and up to the present time there
were no means for training them with the
submerged tubes. Besides, great experience
is required for handling the torpedoes them
selves. which have complicated and delicate
machinery.
A vessel of special design was regarded
as necessity as torpedo training vessel,
and the Vesuyius was accordingly convert
ed to that uses The pneumatic guns and
their fittings located forward on board the
Vesuyius were entirely removed The space
they occupied was sufflcient to install sub
merged tubes and their fittings. The weight
OF the former equipment (pneumatic guns)
about eQuaied the weight of the submerged
tubes and necessary fittings.
The ship will be attached to the torpedo
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The Professor.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Iftbune.
Speaking OF the troubles of that insur-
ance company observed the professor. at
seems to me 1t ought to economize now by
making up its kid Hyde into Alexander
gloves 1t would save import duties"
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What truly. is The AbsoluteT' inquired
Crttias of Socrates.
xanthipper' replied the philosopher
shortly
whereupon Critias, aware of his faux
pas, FASTENED to change the subject. -Cleve-
land Plaza Dealer.
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he was calling asked him out TO lunch. The
invitation was accepted as the lawyer dived
for hat and door, and although there had
been no apparent rush at the New Yorker s
Office, both men bolted a substantial meal
in few insignificant minutes, and before
a half hour had passed were heading hot
foot for the skyscraper When they got
there they laughed and talked and other
wise fooled away twenty minutes then
went at the business in hand and rushed
it through in half that time, fearful, evil
IDENTIFY, that Gabriel might summon them
, before they could put the deal through.
Dinner was disposed of in much the same
manner. after which the middle western
man and chance friend picked up in the
hotel made frantic motions in the direction
of theater, got there just as the doors
were being thrown open. and then said
things about the management and worked
themselves into an excited state of mind
because there would be nothing doing for
a good half hour.
After the theater there was a supper of
highly indigestible foods bolted in short
order, because the men We're anxious to get
to bed after a busy day. That object was
accomplished somewhere between j and =
o'clock. and al the man from the middle
west was up again, for he wanted to stay
Only three days, and it was necessary for
him to hurry things along, which he did by
boiling breakfast and reading his paper
for half an hour after, and then scurrying
down town as on the previous day.
Well, to make a long story short, he got
away as per his revised plans. and during
the hours he spent in travel he also spent
combating as best he could with the limited
means at hand, a severe case of indiges-
ton. When he arrived at home. looking
the worse for wear, and his family and
friends anxiously inquired of him how he
felt and enjoyed himself, his honest reply
was Like the devil"'
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Appalling Record of Sudden Deaths.

Did you ever do anything en- this order
rush your meals, rush your play, make a
fool of yourself running half a block for a
car already crowded to the guards? You
plead guilty. do you? Then you are going a
pace that kills just as surely as the more
widely heralded pace. Listen to what a
leading physician has to say on this line
and your own doctor will undoubtedly back
his words:
1.-THE health authorities of our leading
cities are appalled, at the remarkable in
crease in sudden deaths in the cities with
in recent years. In New York, for example,
in 1868 the number of deaths from heart
disease and Bright's disease was 13 per
10000 population. Last year 1t was
30, more than double in thirty-six years.
Last year 5000 persons in New York fell
suddenly dead dying the most of them
in the streets. During the first quarter of
tho present year 1Io0 men and women
came to their end in similar fashion.
Now, to what shall attribute this
phenomenal increase in sudden deaths
To no other cause than that all of us who
live in the cities, and many of us outside,
who have caught the habit, are subjecting
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Upson-"what is your favorite breakfast
food?"
Downs-"Most anything can GET
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our hearts and kidneys to a greater strain
than they ought TO or can stand FOR any
length of time by doing our ordinary duties
at too swift a pace. This is the age of the
strenuous existence. and we rush around
like mad, doing everything in hurry and
at the last moment crowding everything
together even when there is plenty of time
for well-ordered procedure, burning the
candle at both ends and never stopping 10
think of the consequences until ii Is too
late And the consequences of boiling
meals. rushing for trains when there will
be fifteen minutes to spare a the depot,
and taking our pleasures in slap-dash fash
ion, are worn-out hearts and kidneys and
sudden death-nothing less.
The microbe of hurry-hurry-usele
hurry, Is in the air; so much so. in fact
that ii is almost impossible for a city
dweller. no matter how we'll balanced he
may be, not to become inoculated with it.
The other day man came into my office
with scared look on his face.
" Doctor he said, I'm afraid I'm going
to die. Six months ago l came to the city
from country town. Then L was we'll
apparently. as a man could Define appe-
| tite, excellent digestion. all that sort of
! thing. Now, 1 can't eat a thing that Will
agree with me, and I've lost twenty pounds,
/ and haven't had a sound nights sleep for
nearly two months. What's the matter? L
can't understand it"
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The Way to Be Saved.

Well I can l said. Here's what
you've been doing since you came 10 the
city: The first few mornings you went to
business you beheld men and women rush
ing madly about you on all sides-going
If some demon were pursuing them. You
saw them dive recklessly into street cars.
hSht their way out again. You beheld
them grab food off counters and before
they had finished with the last of 1t scram-
bic into the streets again. You beheld all
this, and many other scenes of excited
hurry, and before you knew it, you, too,
were boiling meals, and rushing madly
hither and yon. and laying up the penalty
against yourself which you are now pay
ing. Tie only difference in your case IS
that you've given out before your fellows
and have had sense enough TO seek aid in
time.
Now all you've got to do to be saved
Is to go about your business in a perfectly
normal way. Do your business as you did
before you came to this city. Don't get
the idea that because other people are hur-
ryings and scurrying all about you il is
essential for you to ape them. 1t is es-
sential that you should not. Be natural for
a month. Then call around to see me
again.
'At the end OF that period he showed up.
all smiles.
Feeling fit he cried, joyfulIy Took
your advice. No longer run up and down
steps Let car pass ME if I'm not where
l. stops before Ii stops. There are others.
you know-I've found that out, thanks TO
you. It's early to bed and fairly early to
rise. so | won't have to throw down a
breakfast in a hurry, give my wife a peck
instead of a kiss. and take to my heels for
the office And I'm doing even more and
better work. than when [ went flying
around like a chicken with fits head cut
OFF,
But there are few men. once the hurry
germ invades their brains. who ever re-
cover That's why the news reports every
day contain the names OF men who have
fallen dead in the streets while walking
along or waiting for cars. or been picked
up unconscious and taken to home or hos
oital."
Think of it! Heart disease and kindred
diseases constantly the increase in our
centers of population, and all other diseases
annually claiming fewer and fewer victims
hurry and worry, rush and scurry SLAP
bang, pell mell-these words tell the tale of
ST dden fatalities.
Are you so sure now that you are not
going the pace that kills, Mr. Business
Man? And how about your wife who
PUSHES from the breakfast table to the bar
gam counters by day. and at night seeks
amusement in strenuous and merchandising
form in your company?
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Wonderful SomaH Hunters.

White men who have accompanied these
unfearing desert hunters tell wonderful
tales of their bravery and skill. There are
stories of Somalis who have walked on
a Hon or leopard and speared him as a man
in our tanner lands would spear a fish.
Wild animal collectors tell of Somalis who
capture lions and panthers by noosing them,
and. having pulled them down, fall over
them in a horde and so wrap the giants in
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moved me like new made wine. |
grew hot for shamefacedness at N.Y.
self-an intruder-going there. |
turned away, but not before had
caught sight of pale blue satin slip.
per hiding under a frail chair. To
see was to desire-to desire was IN
obtain. But how? All sorts of Iudi.
crous ideas flashed upon me as A
means of becoming the owner of that
crumpled slipper The maid-most
acute observer-divined my thoughts
ere l had time to say word.
Pretty, is 1t not?" she laughed
Pretty, indeed" l admitted. ad.
miring her cunning.
What will ye pay for it," shs
asked.
What you WILL" replied, delight.
ed at being able to gain possession 50
easily.
"A sovereign, please, SIR" she said.
put my hand into my pocket and
drew out the gold piece. passed 1t
into her greedy palms-fat mink
palms. Evidently Mistress Rosemary
Allyn did not work her maid to the
spelling of her hands.
picked up the slipper, and before
put it away balanced i. lightly upon
the tips of my fingers. while l yet
stayed to banter the pretty maid, even
to pinch her saucy cheeks.
had my back to the door. The
woman faced it. read in the steady.
ing of her too heavily lowed cupid's
lips that some one stood in its en-.
trance. | turned. and saw youth
beside whose beauty the bold dash of
the maids faded as the lesser beauty
must always before the greater when
brought together. He looked not more
than sixteen. He was blue-eyed, raven
wissed, and as exquisitely appointed
as a court beauty Venetian lace fell
over his jeweled representations
knotted MS low shoes. From his
wrist pouncet ball dangled and
waited all the odors of Arabia. He
was dazzling sight to behold.
Mistress Rosemary's brother.
gasped the maid, and then she Topped
into the easy chair.
To what. sir, am indebted for the
honor of seeing you in this poor
room?"
The honor sir, is mine" replied.
striving to make time in which some
reasonable excuse should come to me
for my presence in his sisters room
But why, sir, why" ha asked
again.
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That Rising injection.


She needn't be handsome. she needn't be
witty.
Sac needn't be filled with the arts of the
city:
Rpection;
Her remarks mustn't end with a rising
infection.
II you neer knew maiden with this af-
fectation.
Stop reading this. turn to your own rum
ination
But, ah. il you've met her. you'll fathom
the reason
ho4l her a girl that's not fitting to
freeze on.
For a sentence or two. say. you don I
find the question
Concluding each statement too hard for
digestion.
But when for an hour the same thing
1t gets every nerve in your bone and
your sinews!
You feel like a witness a lawyers been
quizZins
In the box for five hours; and there's
something a-sizzing
In car and in brain when you're ready to
leave her
Suggesting you're taken with quinine and
fever.
And when in the hallway good night
you are saying.
A speedy escape from the agony praying.
Good ,,,ngh,n night she replies the infection
Suggesting doubt i: it's night and not
morning.
New Orleans Times Democrat
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CHAPTER II.-continued.

walked down the path. l had but
gone short distance when | hehrd
shrill voice call:
Wait little, the lady bids you
wait"
1t was the old dame. l waited un-
til she hobbled near. thinking the
damsel had sent message. was
mistaken. 1t was more jollity the
lady wished.
Take your fish, my Lord of the
World" the nurse mumbled from be-
tween loose teeth, as she held out the
basket of trout | had left on the
grass. IN answer for it that yell
get ne'er bite nor sup to-day but these
same. my Lord-my Lord Fishmong-
err"
Then she cacchinated, echoed in the
woods by fresh young voice. Milady
was enjoying herself immensely.
Such had been my meeting with
Mistress Rosemary Allyn.
laughed now as recalled it. Mis-
tress Rosemary Allyn thought me a
boor, and because | dressed as the
villagers, that | needs must be one
of them. 'Sdeath! she might have
seen with half an eye. had she not
been SO engrossed in her own little
tempest that my kerseymere was of
the finest, and my linen being from
the hand loom to Nance was of as
sheer texture as any to be had in
London, aye, or even Paris. Again. !
lanpha1 | lpnl.aI ah
far as eye could see from the emi.
nence We were upon, | looked upon
my own land.
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near Long Haut. 1t was much nearer
than our huts (these lay at the sal
wage Of vast wOods) If one could
have bridged the steep and ragged
ravine which separated the two cas-
ties. AS it was, the road led one
some miles in and out of tortuous
lands.
came near the castle. 1t loomed
still and quaint as a deserted house.
| got OF my horse and left him to
Craze. l sat down on a bowlder not
many yards from its postern gate.
supposed l was hidden from the eyes
of its Inhabitants, yet from my place
of vantage could see if perchance any
one either emerged or went in
through the narrow portals Of the
gate. l mad not been there many
minutes sitting with my chin resting
upon my hands, when n voice said:
What need 10 watch the cage when
the bird has flown away"
1t was the wierdest place: people
came upon one without a sound.
started and my face flushed.
Quickly l assumed an Indifferent air.
for one does not care to wear ones
heart upon ones sleeve for DAVIS to
p..k at. and certainly this was a daw
"A most pert one-that stood beside
ne. 1t was a red-haired maid with
bold black eyes, which peered saucly
into mine who had spoken. She was
capped. aproned. and had all the other
accessories that go to make up the
toilet of a fashionable lady's maid
Bird? What bird. my pretty
maid?" I asked.
'As if the gentleman did not know"
she said.
II know that you're a deucedly
pretty one" | affirmed, and | kissed
her cheek.
"Oh, lud!" she cried. with a mock
show of Indignation. What would
Mistress Rosemary say?"
To that terse question I had no an.
swer.
II levy where may" said instead.
Then. My good maid. tell me where
Mistress Rosemary Allyn has gone
If gone she has,"
Where would fine lady go?" she
said.
You have a glib tongue, my girl"
put in sharply.
Il serve a glib mistress" she re.
torted as sharply with a courtesy.
81 have message for her" sug-
gested.
Let me be the messenger" she
sid since follow her tomorrow"
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Mistress Rosemary Allyn
BY MILLICENT E. MANN
Copyright, 1904. by yLUCAS-LINCOLN co.

No" returned. Il prefer to give
it into her own hands"
"Well. London" at last she admit
ted, with shrug of her pretty shoul-
ders. Al which lace scarf knotted
about them became unloOsed. London
of course-London the home of hand
some women and gallant men. Lon
don should suit you, sir, and you suit
London down to the ground she
added with toss of her head, and
quick change of expression as though
to apply compliment
Whereabouts in London" i per-
sistently asked.
Seek and ye shall find" she brief
ly answered.
IF l should wish to see the maid"
| said, and | gave her glance meant
to be most taking. where shall l find
her."
Seek her, too, and ye shall find"
she said smiling audaciously. But
would you not like to see the birds
cage-I mean the Castle?'
| acquiesced and followed her for
very idleness think. through the por,
tails into the house. We passed many
rooms of old and quaint furnishings.
We came to the end of 4 long hall in
wing separated from the rest.
She threw open door in mys-
terious, sly manner and said in a
raised voice while her eyes were de-
murely dropped:
The mistress's.'
The room was daintiness itself in
its extreme femininity. albeit the bed
was dlsarransed as if milady had but
just arisen. Lace fine as cobwebs
was valanced about bed and dressing
table. The table was bare of any
toilet articles, save box or two, but
many silken bows stuck here and
there filled up the baroness, and gave
a touch of beauty to the whole. A
large roomy chair of blue and white
damask, an immense divan uphol
stored in the same material, with a
few spindle legged chairs was about
all the room contained.
Such daintiness. such femininity
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R9zN oStN1H MMZSMGIlN NNzz2

ers In the majority of cases are such
that of the conditions of their lives
it is said there cannot be even speech
Workers from distant localities,
says the above authority. for the
most part have sack or box with
personal property, such as changes of
linen and sometimes even bedding;
Frightened Back to Health.
While the fire at Hartford was in
progress Friday Mrs. Frank Hunt lay
i'll in the tenement over Hunts har-
ness shop. She was pronounced to be
suffering from an attack OF appended
tis and was removed on mattress tn
the Pease hotel. An operation was
appointed for the next day, but the eX-
element caused by the fire had most
favorable effect Her condition grew
better and the operation was indef-
nitely postponed and in day or two
she was around as usual. Burlington
News
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Nla17~Czz.N NQlDX AAGI %As&z7Na12S

condition of these factory workers n
the city, and also augment the dis
tress among the peasants in the agr
cultural districts? In time of peace
their condition was bad enough but
when war prevails. as it does :.ow,
their resources are sure to be cur
tailed and indescribable misery en-
sue.
AS was to be expected the revol,
of the Industrial classes is hailed
with delight by other groups of Rus
SLAMS who have been prosecuted by
the government for many years. The
Hebrews. the Poles. the Firms and
other classes of citizens, have long
list of terrible grievances against the
government. The absolutism of cZars
has destroyed many precious lives. as
well as vast amount of property
within the empire.
Emperor Nicholas has been upon
the throne only ten years, and the
whole world, which knows the terrible
misery existing in Russia, has been
watching to see him destroy those
conditions which degrade his country
With or without his consent there
have been many terrible outrases
among defenseless people. and now he
is confronted with a demand for con.
stitutional liberty. They desire free.
dom from autocratic rule When
vast population begins to clamor for
constitutional liberty, as the Russians
are now doing. they will continue t.
demand it until they receive it, There
may be delays, but it must come
Whatever other nations may think
Of this revolution they must be onlook-
ers merely. because it is a problem
to be solved solely by the Russians in
their own way
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Writing in the Boston Globe, a
United States consul who spent many
years in Russia, tells the following
facts OF the situation
There can be various sound reasons
assigned for the present revolution in
Russia, but il is obvious that grim war
has also caused the revolt OF the in
dustrial classes against their auto
cratic ruler
This revolt. although startling to
the world. was not unexpected by
close students OF Russian affairs, and.
indeed. it has long been predicted
that the first war the emperor engag-
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HE RESTORED LOST ART.
Alfred Meyer, Who Died Recently, a
Wizard in China Decoration.


Alfred Meyer. who died recently in
Paris. at the age of 70. passed the
greater part of his life in the great
Sevres works and was chiefly known
for his researches and discoveries in
the so-caled lost art which rose to
importance in the sixteenth century
with Leonard Limousin and Bernard
Palissy.
The process by which these masters
attained their brilliant enamels, says
the Detroit News-Tribune. were prac-
tically lost until within the last forty
years, when Meyer and other expert
menters took up the problem. Meyer.
in particular, having before him some
of the finest masterpieces of the Linz
oges school as models and the vast re-
sources of the Sevres factory in the
way of men and material. accom-
plished in twenty years what the pot
ters OF France and Germany had
failed to do in two centuries.
His persistence was remarkable. no
less than ten years and 5000 tests
having been devoted to get at the Sc
cret Of one plate by Limousin now in
Louvre; but he considered his re-
suits as we'll worth the trouble. and
the French government. which award
ed him with honors and large sal
ary, agreed with this view. His book
on enamels is considered the standard
technical work on the art. and he
leaves number of pupils among the
foremost OF the Sevres decorators.