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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
TIE 6Az7zEaHNo IONA EN7E7RN0 TIE ABNEAlD DOCK

pumping of several compartments. A
telephone gives communication with
the boiler room and pneumatic
valve house announces the amount OF
water in the dock.
On the starboard side is a machine
shop, quarters for officers and crew,
kitchen and bathrooms. The machine
shop is forward. IL is fitted with ev.
cry appliance for minor repairs. On
this side OF the dock is the distilling
apparatus, which has a capacity of g.
500 gallons of sea water a day. II
will be used principally for feeding
the boilers. Three tanks contain the
distilled water. An electric light plant
on the port side gives light for the
entire structure.
Running clear through the side
walls of the dock is a thorough ven.
tilating system, a large fan whirling
fresh air into every corner. II is pro.
PEELED by steam. Ventilators are thus
dispensed with, except over the boil.
err room, where there are two.
At the forward end of the dock a
bridge connects the walls. Two life
boats are carried. The members OF
the crew will get double pay and free
passage home.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
{ Immense Steel Dry Dock Dewey
Now on Way to the Philippines


permanent anchors OF the dock. and
are to be used on each corner. To
each of the great anchors are 1875
fathoms of 2A inch chain cable. The
amount OF gear is enormous, for the
great brides for the dock are in quad
duplicate and are in addition to the
towing hawsers, regular and extra,
and the regular and extra chains for
the anchors.
There are thirty-six men all told on
the dock. In the complement are
three engineers, a wireless telegraph
operator, and an electrician, four fire.
men, twelve seamen, a steward,
cook and two mess boys. The dock
carries 400 tons of coal. designed for
the use of the dock machinery only.
1t is generally calculated that the
Dewey will make about 100 miles a
day, which would require 124 days for
the passage, or four months, II the
dock goes straight through without a
stop. It is believed, however. that the
dock will be five or six months on the
cruise.
The cost of the trip can only be
surmised The Boston Towboat COM
pay got $25 900 for taking the dry
dock Algiers from Baltimore to New
Orleans, and there was an insurance
on the dock of $4,000 for the voyage.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
THE MONSTER DEWEY.
Mo chance for Santa CLAUS.

"City houses with steam-heating are
all very WE'LL" said Charles FELTON,
Pidgin, the statistician of Boston, "but
when it comes to Christmas games
they are a little lacking.
"A friend of mine heard a loud.
rasping noise in his parlor last Christ
mas eve very late.
I'm great alarm he got up and has
tened down to the delicate and pale
parlor. with its coloring OF white and
pink and gold, to find there, all black
with SCOT smears, his little white
robed son, whom he had thought fast
asleep in bed.
why, why he cried, what does
this mean, Willie?'
The little fellow, lifting cake OF
SCOT out of his fair hair, pointed rue
fully TO the ornamental fireplace,
wherein there was room for about
three logs the size of lead pencils.
I'm playin' Santa Claus, he said,
and II can't get up the chimney
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26

on 1t. and the big one pumped out to
raise the little ones.
When heavy weather comes on at
sea the bottom sections of the Dewey
will be filled with water until the
body of the mass of steel is submerg-
ed and only the side walls extend
above the surface to the wind, which,
1t has been calculated, may reach a
pressure of thirty pounds to the
square inch.
There will be no effort to tow the
vessel while it is partly submerged.
The towing vessels will simply hang
on, drifting along with the giant
where the wind chooses to send 1t,
and waiting until the storm blows
itself out, for no Roadway can be
made with such tow in heavy wealth
er.
Three 24-inch centrifugal pumps,
the steam for which is furnished by
three separate 225 horse power Bah
cock & Wilcox boilers, will pump out
or flood the Dewey. These pumps
are controlled in the engine room.
On the port side, forward, is the valve
house, where there are twenty-four
levers. The three sections OF the
dock are divided into sixty water
tight compartments, and each OF these
levers controls the flooding and
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Letters Written purino crusades.

M. Gustave Schlumburger, a Paris
ian collector, has one of the strangest
hobbies of the world, and interest in
the work is doubled by the variety OF
the objects he seeks.
His hobby, which he has pursued
for over thirty years. has been the
bringing together of the seals former.
ly attached to the correspondence OF
the princes and prelates settled In
Syria in consequence of the crusades.
In all he has secured fifty specimens,
which he intends to bequeath to the
French nation.
Some of the seals are of great inter.
est, as. for example, that of King Am.
aury II. of Jerusalem, showing on its
reverse the three chief buildings OF
the city; that OF Balian d'Ilberlin,
seigneur of Naplouse, who defended
Jerusalem against Saladin in 1887,
and that OF seigneur of the stronghold
of Marvellous, on the seacoast of Syria,
which shows the formidable keep OF
the fortress.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
FOUNDER OF BUDDHIST FAITH.
Siddhartha Gautama, the Teacher
Whom Millions Follow,

Buddhism, professed by about one
third of the human race, arose out 2f
the philosophical and ethical teach.
ings of Siddhartha Gautama, who
lived during the fifth century, II. C.
His father was chief OF the Sakyas,
an Aryan clan occupying the banks
OF the Kohana, about 100 miles north
of the city OF Benares, and within
sight OF the lofty SUBMITS of the Him.
alayas. Little is known of his youth
except that he married his cousin
at the age OF 10, and gave himself up
to a life of Oriental luxury and de-
light. When about 80 the mystery
of human life pressed heavily upon
him, and led him to spend the next
six years away from home and
friends in practices of great austen
ity and in constant and well-directed
meditation. He at last by sheer
force OF thinking arrived at a knowl-
edge of the truth, and assuming the
title Of Buddha (enlightened), set out
for the sacred city of the Brahmins,
where he preached with great sue
cess. After travelling over most Of
India and making many converts. he
died at the age of 80 while sitting
under a tree near Kusinagara.
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1t is current report that the dues
through the Suez canal will be $780,
600.
The Dewey was built at the plant
of the Maryland Steel company, in a
great excavation near the water
front, just outside of Baltimore. When
it was completed a bulkhead that
separated the Patapsco from the hole
in the ground was cut away and the
water ran in and f1oated the huge
mass of steel, while Miss Maud En-
dicott, daughter of Rear Admiral En-
dicott, christened the dock the Dewey
with a bottle of champagne.
The dock was not only completed
ahead of contract time, but in excess
of the requirements, for it will lift a
10000 ton battle ship, whereas the
contract called for only $4,000 tons.
It also exceeded the speed require
ments in lifting a ship.
When the big cruiser Colorado was
placed in the dock to test 1t in the Pa
tuxent river the contract called for
the lifting in four hours. The Colo
RADIO was lifted until her keel was six
feet above the water in a few min
utes more than two hours. Then the
dock broke all records by lifting the
battle ship Iowa, OF 10000 tons, with
heavy weights in her turrets amid
ships, In one hour and thirty-seven
minutes.
The Algiers dock, also built by the
Maryland Steel company, will lift IT,
500 tons and is the second largest
afloat. The other big docks of the
world are the Bermuda dock, built in
England. 545 feet long and 100 feet
wide, lifting only 10000 tons; the
Pola dock. owned by the Australian
government, 400 feet long, with a ca
pacity of $4,000 tons, and the Stet-
tin dock, owned by Germany, $40 feet
long and lifting 1000 tons.
A novel feature of the dock Is It's
ability to dock itself. All steel YES
sells take on marine growth on their
bottoms, which necessitates hauling
them out every year or so. as their
life depends on receiving paint to pro-
tect the hulls. Docks now afioat are
so gigantic that they cannot be dock
ed to be cleaned or repaired, with
the exception OF the Dewey.
The Dewey can release the two
side walls and disconnect the three
pontoons that are Joined together In
the flooring OF hull. Then the two
smaller pontoons are filled with wa
ter and sunk under the larger or cen
ire pontoon. They are then pumped
out, and the two smaller steel pom
toons rise with the larger one on top
of them.
When Il is desired TO dock the
smaller pontoons the conditions are
reversed. The big centre pontoon is
sunk and the two smaller ones placed
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Possessed OF a Devil.

In small town in one of the south
ern states very good old minister of
one OF the churches OF the town was
presented with pair OF new
breeches.
His old ones we're not quite worn
out. so the new ones were hung in an
unfinished chamber to wear on state
occasions. The occasion came, and
the preacher donned his breeches,
which in the meantime had been the
abode OF several hornets.
He entered the pulpit and began
his three hour sermon. His firstly"
was a little uneasy, his secondly"
showed signs OF coming storm, his
thirdly" was a regular cake walk and
before his ''fourthly" was finished he
said: Brethren, l am awfully sorry,
but can't finish this sermon. You'll
have to excuse me. The word of God
Is in my mouth. but the devils in
'Lsse breeches. Washington Times.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
erevity the Soul Of Ghosts.

Here's the shortest ghost-story in
the world" said the red-nosed man
who now, with the coffee, broke sill.
ence for the first time at the dinner.
1.-TWO men were travelling from Bos.
ton to New York; strangers, but shar.
ing between them the smoking com.
partment. After bit, one laid by
his magazine and said: Seems a bit
jolly right here Yes replied the
other, Il was killed just here three
years ago."
Shortest In the world, did you
say?" remarked some one at the other
end of the table. But here's a short
er. A lonely old bachelor waking up
late at night, reached out his hand
for the matches, and they were hand
ed to him."
Then the host nodded to the but
ler.-The Sunday Magazine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Ring Tail Wildcat Caught.

A ring tail cat, an animal decidedly
rare in northern Michigan, has been
caught by Herman Thiele, Negau
nee man, In trap set at Goose Lave
five miles distant. II was the frs;
specimen ever captured by either Mr.
Thiele or his father. and together they
have been engaged in trapping for the
past forty%fve years.
The animal has fine. silky gray fur
Though there are some black stripes
down the back, the most striking char
acteristic is a series of black rings
around the bushy tail. In this .ap
pendage it differs radically from the
ordinary wildcat. The wildcat. like
the lynx, is possessed of bob tail
while the ring tail cat has a tail over
a foot in length. and very bushy.-St
Paul Dispatch.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
LEFT TO FORTUNES DECISION.
California Girl Let Coin Decide Which
Man She Would Marry.

California Girl Let Coin Decide Which
Man She Would Marry.
Two suitors, Roland Storrs, an Eng
fish churchman, and Howard Jones,
theatrical manager, sought the
hand OF Miss Alberta Jewett Dabney
of Monrovia, Calf. She has just be-
come Mrs. Storrs, but not without
having gone through period Of per-
plexity.
The story comes from the lips of
Miss Storr's sister, Miss May Cut
ter.
"She really didn't know which to
marry" said Mrs. Cutter, "and so a
little more than a week ago she told
me she was going to leave the ques-
ton of the decision of tossed coin.
II asked her il she cared more for
one than the other. and she said yes.
but that she thought her family would
be better pleased should she marry
the one whom she herself did not pre-
fer.
Heads for Roland; tails for How
ard" was what Miss Dabney said
when she sent the coin to the CELL
ing.
Both sisters watched its upward
flight, the younger one breathlessly.
and the Cupid guarded quarter came
Roland.
THE minute we saw which side of
the quarter came up" continued Mrs.
Cutter, II gave an order for the we'd
ding announcements, and we began
making preparations for the event.
II do not know even yet whether
the decree OF chance was on the side
of love or my sisters promptings to
filial duty, as she expressed 1t.
But do know that on the night
OF the wedding she looked very hap
py and very pretty. York
World.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26

Some people question the statements
that coffee hurts the delicate nerves
of the body. Personal experience with
thousands proves the general state
ment true and physicians have records
of great numbers Of cases that add to
the testimony.
The following is from the Rockford
ILL.,, Register-Gazette:
DIR. William Langhorst Of Aurora
has been treating one of the queerest
cases OF lost eyesight ever in history,
The patient is o. A. Leach OF Beach
county, and in the last four months he
had doetored with ell az The specialists
about the country and has at last re
turned home with the fact impr--=ed
on his mind that his case is incurable
A portion of the optic nerve has
been ruined, rendering his sight SO
limited that he is unable to see any
thing before him, but he can see plain
ly anything at the side Of him. There
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26

The great steel dry dock Dewey,
which left Solomon's Island Dec. 2S,
to be towed fourteen thousand miles
to the Philippines, is now well started
on her voyage, and If all goes well
the powerful naval vessels which are
hauling the immense and unwieldy
structure will not stop until they
reach the entrance to the Suez canal,
says a dispatch from Baltimore to the
New York Herald.
In towing the dock, hawsers having
a total length of 1920 fathoms, or
140 yards more than a mile and a
quarter, will stretch between the
ships and the dock This great
length Of hawser, together with the
lengths of the ships and the dock,
will make tow Of about one mile
and three-quarters.
These giant machines hooked up
will present a dazzling spectacle on
clear nights. The four ships convoy
ing the dock are fully equipped with
electricity in the way of search and
signal lights, and each ship and the
dock are equipped with wireless teleg-
raphy, so that communication should
be perfect. There are spare hawsers
and chains, and a vast quantity Of
coal will be used.
To the dock will be fastened forty
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
TRACED TO EMPEROR TIsERIUs.
Originator OF Remark About "Forty,
Fool and Physician"

Fool and Physician"
II would appear that the Emperor
Tiberius was the originator of that
wsD known saying: Every man at
ferry is either fool or physician"
But Tiberius said thirty, not forty. so
Bacon informs us In his History of
Life and Death:
"Tiberius, though a drunkard and
luxurious In his diet, was yet very
careful of his diet and used to say
that every one after thirty was either
fool or a physician"
Probably Bacon's authority was
Tacitus Canals" book VI, chapter
46), who says of Tlberius that "He
was wont to make sport of the physi-
clans, and of people who after thirty
needed others to tell them what was
good or bad for them" In Tacitus, of
course, the epigrammatic flavor is
lost.
But why has popular usage altered
the age from thirty to forty? Simply
on account of the ALTERATION. so car
essing to the popular ear. De Quin-
cey, who quotes the modern phrase In
his "Opium-E Eater" dwells upon its
! alliterative value, and conjectures
that our forefathers emphasized that
ALTERATION by spelling physician with
an F. Likely some OF them did. The
strange thing is that De Quincy
seems to have been ignorant OF the
fact that the craze for ALTERATION
had gone so far as to change the age
In the proverb.-Penn Steele in The
Sunday Magazine.
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five fathoms of 21s inch chain for a
bride. To this will be fastened 100
fathoms of hawser made up of two
15-inch manila hawsers seized to-
gether. From this will go to the ship
nearest the dock 200 fathoms of g.
inch steel hawser. From ship to ship
will stretch 100 fathoms of 15-inch
manila and 200 fathoms of 6-inch
wire hawser
One of the most important factors
in the towing of the dock are the
automatic towing machines, which
are an American invention. These
are depended upon in large measure
TO make the undertaking compare
lively safe The resistance of the tow
is borne entirely by the steam pres
sure in the cylinders of the towing
machine, which consists of reel or
drum upon which the steel wire haw-
sers wind and unwind automatically.
This drum is driven by pinion gear
in the crank shaft OF the engine,
which meshes with the gear on the
drum shaft. The machine has regu-
opening is increased or diminished
according as the strain on the tow
dng hawser increases or diminishes.
In a seaway, as the vessel rises on
a wave or sea, thus increasing the
strain on the hawster, the drum be-
gins to revolve and to pay out or
slack the hawser This action of the
hawser opens the regulating valve
and increases the steam pressure in
the cylinders until the pressure is
sufficient to equalize the strain on
the hawser. Then, as the strain on
the hawser decreases. the pressure
in the cylinders will revolve the drum
and wind in the slack of the hawser.
In this way the machine is prevent
ed from paying out the whole of the
hawser and only enough is paid out
to relieve the extra and momentary
strain on the line and thus prevent
its injury or breaking. The regulat-
ing valve, which admits and cuts of
the steam to and from the cylinders,
is entirely automatic and requires no
handling whatever. An independent
admission valve is provided, by which
steam is admitted to the cylinders
and the hawser heightened and short
ened at will.
The golfers Brutus and Caesar and
the supply ship Glacier are to tow
the Dewey. The tug Potomac is TO
be used partly as rudder for the
dock when necessary and for emer-
gencies. The Potomac will run on
sea errands. such as putting into
ports for supplies.
In addition to the great nine thou
sand pound anchors there are four
mushroom or umbrella" anchors Of
four thousand pounds each on the
Dewey. These are designed as the
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
LOST EYESICHT
Through Coffee Drinking

have been but few cases of its kind
before, and they have been caused by
whisky or tobacco. Leach has never
used either, but has been great cof-
fee drinker, and the specialists have
decided that the case has been caused
by this. Leach stated himself that
for several years he had drank three
cups OF coffee for breakfast, two at
noon and one at night. According to
the records of the specialists OF this
country this Is the first case ever
caused by the use OF coffee.
The nerve is ruined beyond aid and
his case Is incurable. The fact that
makes the case a queer one is that the
sight forward has been lost and the
side sight has been retained. Accord
ing to the doctors statement, the
young man will have to give up cof-
fee or the rest of his sight will fol-
low and the entire nerve be ruined
Register Gazette.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
SLOW Horses.

It was during mess hour at a saw
mill camp that the slowness OF horses
came up for discussion.
There's Kelly's old gray; you
couldn't whip her into a trot." said
one.
"Johnsons black mare will beat
that; she refuses to help herself to
the barley at night, for most times
she isn't through eating her dinner"
said another.
"Old Waters spindle-shank takes
the prize" put in a third; shes dou-
ble-jointed in the knees-she walks
both ways at once"
81 stood out on the road" drolled
Shepard. coming in late for his din
ner, for twenty minutes talking to
Myers; and all that time his bay
mare never stopped. Francisco
Chronicle.
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s Tons Grass Hay Free.

The enormous crops of our Northern
Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms
the past year compel us to issue a spe-
cial catalogue called
sALzER's BARGAIN sEEs BOOK.
This is brim full of bargain seeds at bar.
gain prices.
SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY.
and receive free sufficient seed to grow s
tons of grass on your lot or farm this
summer and our great Bargain Seed Book
with its wonderful surprises and great
bargains in seeds at bargain prices.
Remit &C and we add a package of Cos
mos, the most fashionable, serviceable,
beautiful annual flower.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lock Draw.
er W., La Crosse, Wis.
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Let It be remembered that the eyes
may be attacked in one case and the
stomach in another, while In others 1t
may be kidneys, heart, bowels or gen.
eral nervous prostration. The remedy
is obvious and should be adopted be-
fore too late.
Quit coffee, II you show incipient
disease.
II is easy II one can have WELL
boiled Postum Food Coffee to serve for
the hot morning beverage. The
withdrawal of the old kind OF coffee
that is doing the harm and the sup
ply OF the elements in the Postum
which Nature uses to rebuild the
broken down nerve cells, insures q
quick return to the old Joy of strength
and health. and It's we'll worth while
to be able again to do things" and
feel well. There's reason for
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Refined Cannibals.

while It is true" said the mission
airy, that my dusky parishioners will
refuse to abandon cannibalism, may
at least claim credit for having so re-
fined and uplifted them that now
they eat altogether with knives and
forks. Evening Bulle-
tin.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Medieval Swing.

In the middle ages swings were
hung by an ingenious pulley device.
The rope was passed over a grooved
wheel that was fastened to the ceiling
by bracket. The one who was swing
ing was not only pushed from behind
by one of his fellows but was also
helped from the front by striking with
his foot the outstretched foot OF an
other comrade. This sport was ia
vorite pastime of pages.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
JOYS Of Missionary Rishon.

DR.. William Dudley, bishop of New
Caledonia, told recently some of the
joys of missionary bishop: 81
travel about my diocese with tent.
bundle of blankets and Gladstone
bag. do my own cooking. washing
and mending. though take care not
to have too many things to mend. I
even know how TO make yeast.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
Odd sequests in Wills.

Among the wills or early days are
found requests which are amusing In
1648 the widow of John Granger OF
Scituate, Mass. In her will gives to
her son John a saw. broad axe, and
a narrow axe. when he is 81 years OF
age" To daughter Elizabeth a bed
and bedding, one heifer, also one great
mortar and pestle. and one great ket-
fin
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-26
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