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Islands as Gable Breaking Points.


Contrary to common impressions, a
very weak current is used in trans
mitting oceanic messages. And the
receiving operator, instead of listening
to clicks, as in land telegraphy, watch
es the play Of a spot of light on a
screen. The greater the distance trav-
ersed the slower the message trav-
els on account of the cumulative re-
sistance of the wire. For this reason
a midocean island Is a valuable land
ing place, enabling the use of two
shorter cables instead of one cOntinu-
Gus one. It IS interesting to note how
remote islands all over the marine
seas have thus been utilized as cable
breaking points.
Two ocean cables cross the Pacific.
One. a British line, connects Victoria
with Hongkong, and by alternate ca
BILE and telegraph connections over
Asia and Asiatic waters the European
and Atlantic lines are reached. com
pletely girdllng the earth with electric
communication. The other Pacific ca
ble. owned by an American company,
passes from San Francisco to Homo
lulu, thence to Midway island. thence
to Guam. thence to Manila. From Ma
nfa a cable (the one Dewey cu0
reaches Hongkong and furnishes tele-
graphic access over foreign lines to
Europe and the Atlantic feld.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14

The Magician Who Makes Singers.
Every September Nine. Melba visits
Paris to go through her roles with
Nine. Marchesi, and Of all her great
pupils Mime. Melba, who is perhaps
very changeable in her friendships,
even for a prima donna. remains to her
teacher the most loyal Of all. The
class room in the Marchesi home is
today Just as it was in the time
when the singers now world known
were girls in their beginnings. Nine.
Nfarchesi teaches six days in the week
as energetlcally as she did hfty-two
years ago.
"What I want" she said lately to
William Armstrong. who writes OF her
in the Ladies' Home Journal, rs
young, fresh voices. If they have new
er been trained so much the better
but want them to remain with me
for two or three years. Then l can
show what may be done with them"
She has pupils from nearly every
civilized country, but America and
since Melba's great success, Australia
furnish the largest quota.
Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14

is it they take? It is the body Of Jo
seph who was not known to Pharaoh
They carried those bones through the
Rea sea; they carried them through
the wilderness: they carried them over
the Jordan; then they carried them
near to jacobs we'll where they We're
buried. So IS it with every faithful
servant of God Though the world
forgets his services. though his very
name sinks into oblivion. his record is
written in the book ST Gods remem,
brance. and at the resurrection he will
stand among the people of God.
Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14
The Redooats and the Ragged Boys.


In 1856 or thereabOuts an old lady
who must have been nine or ten years
old in 1776 told me that on the 18th
Of March of that year she saw General
Washington alight from his horse at
her fathers inn at the head of King
street, in Boston. l think this had
been the headquarters Of General
Howe. who had left Boston with the
English army that morning. Wash
ington with his army had entered in
triumph. I think he stayed in this inn
till he moved with the army to New
York. Washington was fond Of chill
dren. and he called the little girl, took
her on his knee, l think, and said to
her:
you have seen both the armies to-
day. and which do you like best?'
The child could not tell a lie" and
said that she liked the redcOats best,
TO which she said General Washington
replied:
"They look the best, my dear, but 1t
takes the ragged boys to do the fight
ing"
believe this story to be true, and 1
recommend it to the people who say
that Washington never smiled.-Ed-
ward Everett Hale in Woman's Home
Companion.
Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14

Jail. Oh, ye brazen llbertines Of high
life; oh. We immoral and wantOn de-
bauchees, legalizing your crimes in a
divorce court, come today and sit at
the feet of this young man Of the east
and learn the lesson that in Joseph's
sight, as in Gods sight, the marriage
altar is the most sacred place in the
universe, next to the great white
throne.
But Joseph was more than morally
pure. He was financially clean as
well. No tainted money stuck to the
palms of his hands. There is many a
man who is morally pure in his home
and good to his family who is a thief
and n robber and who will cheat every
one he can C-ece in financial way.
BOSS" Tweed the biggest political
thief New York city ever produced,
was a devoted family man. The great
est gambler and dive keeper Of New
York. a man who made millions Of
dollars out of his dens Of infamy and
who spent some years in the peniten-
tiary. loved his family with a passion
ate love. Yes Joseph was politically
clean as we'll as morally pure When
he gathered up the tenth part Of all
the grain of Egypt during the seven
years of plenty he stored it all in the
public granaries. And when the seven
years of want came he sold it all back
to the people. Not one dishonest coin
stuck to his fingers. Thus, because he
was honest and made his deputies hon
est. the dishonest officials hated him
and tried to forget his existence. And
one of TIE surest signs that you are
pure and true and honest and upright
and good is that dishonest people and
impure people try to forget your name
and push you into oblivion.
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What is true Of the sociological and
scientific world is also true Of the do
nestle and the ecclesiastical. When
an issue which has made a man IA
nous passes away the mans work IS
done and the mans name will surely
be forgotten.
Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14
Joseph Was Pure.

In the first place, Joseph was pure
man in his moral life. He believed
that marriage was more than a mere
name or a cloak behind which man
or a woman could hide a multitude Of
sins. He did not believe that as soon
as married men or married women be-
came tired Of their marital partners
they had a right to turn their backs
upon each other as one might throw
away a bouquet Of withered flowers IN
order to seek some new wild flowers.
Neither did he believe in the pernicious,
immoral and damning doctrine that a
Young man, because he was a man.
had a right to sow his wild oats wher-
ever he would before his marriage and
then on his wedding day swear fidelity
to a pure girl and let the filthy buzzard
and the spotless dove set up housekeep-
ing in the same nest. If you do not
believe that what 1 say is true read
the Bible account of Joseph's life in
the house of POtiphar. His master
trusted him. He gave into the young
Hebrews care all that he had. He
said to the young man: Joseph, there
is my money, my family and my honor
Protect them. trust you" And rath-
er than betray that trust, Joseph, with
sealed lips, went to poverty and to
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Steel Cars the Best.

One of the leading railroad companies OF
this country has In operation no less than
1000 steel cars, some Of which have been
IN use for eight years This rolling stock has
been subjected to all kinds Of experiences
and In that time only eleven cars have been
so damaged to the point OF sending them
to the scrap heap, and even then, the claim
Is made. that several Of these were de-
stroyed only because Of the ignorance Of
the officials responsible for their condem-
nation. who failed to recognize the possi-
bilities of repairing them. It Is said to be
almost impossible to put these cars out Of
service. Experience has shown that the
matter Of deterioration by corrosion which,
years ago. 1t was thought would be great.
in the case OF cars carrying coal and ore
has been found inconsiderable. This cor
rosion was found to be greatest In the case
of cars loaded with high sulphur btu
minous coal when standing at rest, but
when In motion the friction existing be-
tween the lading and the plates serves to
keep the latter clean and free from cor
rosion
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Value Of Old Violins.

From the Circle.
The best strings for yiolins are of Italian
make and are from the intestines of spring
lambs, killed in September. The process Of
drying and bleaching OF the woods and
strings by the hot italian sun. rather than
by the artificial method used In other coun-
tries, accounts In o great measure for the
superior quality of both materials. This
intense heat was also the reason for the
slow distillation of the oils used by the
Italian makers, which always remained at
a high temperature, and the varnish, slowly
soaking into the woods Of the violins be-
meath the heat OF those Italian summers,
produced, in part, the meilowness of tone
that gives to Cremona instrument its
value. after lapse of two hundred or more
yeaLR
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man blacksmith, was taken with an ambi-
ton to have a shop Of his own and SO pur-
chased place on the Olive street road just
outside the city limits. In buying the shop
and necessary tools and machinery Hag-
mann was forced to go into debt and SO
was unable to get a helper. His daughter
Minnie volunteered to aid her father and
so entered the shop as his assistant.
The girl readily learned how to heat and
bend shoe on the anvil, and soon picked
up the knowledge of shoeing. Not content
with knowing how to make a shoe and put
it on a horse. she began to build every
part of buggy or wagon. The girl is
proud Of her ability and nothing pleases
her more than to show visitors her handi-
work.
The father is proud of his daughter and
says he would rather have her about the
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chagrined, and began to realize what the
circumstances naturally suggested.

hWhiie all OF US were in this depressed
state OF mind the same canoe with several
Indians on board which we had seen that
afternoon came up to where We were
anchored, and the Indians with q loud voice
inquired for the admiral. They were con-
Quoted to the admirals vessel, and remained
there on board for three hours talking
dtscted to the admirals vessel, and remained
ell They said that some of the Christians
left on the island had died Of disease,
others had been killed in Quarrels among
themselves, and that those who remained
were all well. They also said that that
province had been invaded by two kings
named Caonabo and Mayreni. who burned
all the houses, and that King Guacanari
was at another place. some distance away.
lying Ill Of a wound in his leg, which was
the reason why he had not come in person.
Next morning some of our men landed
by order OF the admiral. and went to the
spot where the Christians had been housed.
They found the building, which had been
fortified to a certain degree by a palisade
surrounding 1t, all burned up and leveled
with the ground.
s"They found also some rags and stuffs
which the Indians had brought to set the
fort and the houses in the environs on
fire. They observed, too, that the few
Indians seen going about in that neighbor-
hood were shy, and dared not approach,
but on the contrary, when called. fed"
4 \
The gala attire of the Indians was a
source of amusement to the Europeans.
DR.. Chanca says:
when these Indians wish to appear full
dressed, both men and women paint them
selves. some black, others white and red
and different combinations Of colors, in SO
many devices that the effect produced ID
very laughable; they also shave some parts
OF their heads. and in other parts Of 1t
wear long tufts Of matted hair, which give
them an indeserfbably ridiculous appear
ance. In Short, whatever would be looked
upon In our country as characteristic of
mailman IL here regarded by the most
prominent Indians as mark Of distinc-
ton"
A great part Of his letter IL taken up
with subjects which appeal to a man of
his profession. He catalogues in valuable
form minerals, grains, fruits and many
kinds Of flora which caused him to wonder,
as he wrote, whether his friends at home
would believe him. The reports from ma
tives and from exploring parties Of vast
quantities Of gold in the islands form the
climax Of his narrative.
Thus surely" he concludes, their
highnesses the king and queen may hence
forth regard themselves as the most PROS
porous and wealthy sovereigns on earth,
because never yet, since the creation of
this world. has such a thing been seen or
read Of. On the return of the ships on the
next voyage they certainly will be able
10 carry back such quantity of gold as
VIII NIL with amazement all who hear of
IT.
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shop than any man he knows. He says the
girl knows more about blacksmnthing ana
wagon building than the average worker
and has more interest in her fathers bust
ness than hired man could possibly have.
The girl not alone helps her parent In the
shop, but also takes care of the books and
collects the bills. The book work Is done
at night after q long days work In the
shop, for the Hagmann shop begins WORK
shortly after sunrise and continues until
sunset.
The girl has a pony Of her own, which
she calls Fawn and on which she rides
when returning shod horses to their owners
and in collecting bills. During the busy
season when the shop has been open late
into the night the girl mounts her pony
and takes horses home as she would dur
ing the day. She has no fear Of the night,
and her father says that she would be
the equal Of any man because OF the
strength she has gained from her labors. =
II would much rather work in the black
smith shop with father" said the girl,
than do housework. am always healthy
and feel good all the time, although do
get tired some days. When we are not
very busy in the shop help mother with
the Homework, and on Sundays have
chance to rest and 60 to church and Sun
day school.
four-year-old sister OF the girl black
smith Is seen about the shop all day, ask
ing questions of her father and patting the
horses. This sister says she wants to be
blacksmith, and the father says he Will
teach her the trade when she gets older If
she wishes to do the work.
Hagmann says his daughter can stop
work whenever she pleases, but says he
would hate to see her leave the shop be
cause of the difficulty he would have In
getting a competent workman to take her
place.
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London Hotels Dependent
on American Patronage
Special From a STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
LONDON, May g. 1907
IF H~were not for American patronage
most of the big fashionable hotels in
London would be run at loss, which
means that several Of them would
soon have to go out of business That
is strikingly illustrated by statistics which
have been furnished me by William Harris,
chairman of the board Of directors of the
Carlton Hotel. They show that this great
Pail Mall caravansary receives more Ameri-
can than British visitors. Here is a table
which exhibits the nationalities of its guests
on a percentage basis during the last two
years:
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NAH1wG 4 IRE.
rvrr ORkING from morning till night
" in her fathers blacksmith shop,
w where she shoes horses and builds


M in her fathers blacksmith SHOP
" where she shoes horses and builds
wagons with the skill of an experienced
craftsman, is the occupation of sixteen
year-old st. Louis girl, who believes that
women can do manual labor and whose sole
ambition is to become one of the greatest
blacksmths in the United States.
Miss Minnie Hagmann, the young woman
who has chosen blacksmithing as her life
work, is skilled in the use of tools and
from years of labor has earned a muscle
sufficient to enable her to sndfe the most
refractory of horses.
Taken from her dolls and childish play
to help in her fathers shop, the girl has
grown to like the work so we'll that she
says she would not change places with any
girl she knows. She is a great lover of
horses and lavishes her affection on the
animals that come to her to be shod. She
has no matrimonial aspirations, but Is con-
tent to work beside her father at the
forge.
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The following Is from DR.. Chanca's
letter:
ION the first Sunday after All Saints
day. namely. the Sd of November. about
dawn pilot of the ship Capitana cried
out: The reward, l see landl'
THE JOY of the people was so great that
Il was wonderful to hear their exclama-
lions of pleasure. and they had good reason
to be delighted. for they had become so
wearied of bad living and of working the
water out OF the leaky ships that ell
sighed most anxously for land"
Dr. Chanea gives vivid account of
their search for harbor, OF their first
landing upon an uninhabited shore, the
new fruits they found and pictures Of the
towering mountains and fresh streams.
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Elevators with a platform eighteen feet
square are in use in some New York
garages.
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First Original Description 81
the New Country by
an Actual Observer.
Written in JAN
. uary, 1494.

irregularly, also because they engrave on
their heads innumerable cross-like marks
and different devices each according to
his fancy, and they make these lasting
marks with sharpened bamboo sticks. All
of them, both the Caribbee and other In
dams, are beardless, SO that it is an I'M
usual thing to find one of these men with
beard. The Caribbees whom We have
taken prisoners have their eyes and eye
brows stained circularly around, which I
think they do for ostentation and also be-
cause it gives them ferocious appear
ance."
DR.. Chanca's letter is particularly inter
esting when he speaks of Porto Rico, which
he terms 'Borinquen." He says:
I'VE proceeded along the coast the
greater part of that day. and on the even.
ing Of the next we discovered another
island, called by the Indians Borinquen,
which we judged to be on that side about
thirty leagues In length, for we were coast
ing along 1t the whole of one day. This
island is very beautiful and. apparently.
very fertile. Here the Caribbees come to
make war upon its inhabitants and often
carry away many prisoners.
These islanders have no large canoes,
nor any knowledge Of navigation, as our
prisoners inform US, but they use bows like
those of the Caribbses, and IL by chance
when they are attacked they succeed in
taking prisoners some Of the invaders. they
eat them up in a like manner as the Carib-
bees themselves, do"
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,any G, I'd Regiment: Private Leonard B.

pany G, I'd Regiment; Private Leonard B.
Jay, Company G.. I'd Regiment; Sergt.
George W. Marin, Company B, I'd Resi-
ment; Private Christopher Woodhead, Com
pany B, I'd Regiment.
BY reason Of removal from the District
Private Otto w. Hermann, Ambulance
Corps; Private James g. Reeves, Company
G, LIST Regiment; Private Stanley Wolf.
Company g, LIST Regiment: Private Alfred
]. Laframboise, Company g, LIST Regiment:
Private James L. Thompson, Company G,
list Regiment; Private Arthur w. Fletcher.
Company B, I'd Regiment; Private George
w. Leonard, Company B. I'd Regiment;
Private James D. Mcnamara, Company B,
I'd Regiment: Private John w. Brown,
Company B, I'd Regiment; First Sergt
Joseph H. Mcintyre, Company>M, I'd Regi-
ment.
On certificate of disability-Private Frank
vitale, Company NJ I'd Regiment.
In the interest Of the service-Privates
Samuel H. Sneeden, Ermino A. Smogoreich
and Walter E. Hardester, all Of Company
G, LIST Regiment; Privates George c.
Weeks, Frank c. Hall, Clifton D. Howell.
William D. Knott, Robert Latham, Hugh
P. Mccain, John T. Nobel and William
Summers, all of Company B, I'd Regiment.
Private John G. Dyson, Company A, list
Separate Battalion, has been ordered dis
honorably discharged by reason Of expulsion
from the company.
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From these figures it will be seen that
hotels In the course Of year not only
exceed the Britishers, but outnumber all
other foreigners by over IL per cent. Nor
is there any reason to suppose that the ex-
perience of the Carlton is exceptional in
this respect. 1t is probable that the Savoy
and Cecil-if their managers were given to
compiling statistics-would show a still
larger preponderance of American guests.
And at the other big first-class hotels it is
likely that the same ratio is maintained.
The Cartons statistics afford fair idea
Of the extent to which the number Of Amer
leans who come to London varies at differ
ent periods OF the year. Here, for example,
is table showing the percentage of Amer
leans arriving at the hotel during each
month of the
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Capt. Redman, Lieut.. Duff1e and Lieut..
Hodgson are forming a high school cadet
company for the National Guard There
will be no one eligible who Is not high
school cadet or who has not at some time
been a member Of that organization. The
I'd Regiment and will be in Maj. Simms
battalion.
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Transfers have been ordered as follows:
Seaman Apprentice William F. Au. Atm
Division, Naval Battalion, to the Signal
Corps; Private Louis Schapiro, Company
c. I'd Regiment. to the Ambulance Corps.
The following named enlisted men have
been ordered honorably discharged on their
own application: Private Miriam L. Carter,
Company c, 1st Separate Battalion; Quar-
termaster Sergt. Joseph B. Murray, Cd
Regiment; Sergt. Horace G. Shull, Com
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To Span Atlantic by Wireless.

One Of the leading wireless companies
has been untiring in its efforts to span the
ATLANTIC ocean. and recently some ex-
periments have demonstrated to the salts
faction of the experimenters that the feat
is entirely feasible. A station is about to
Of ireland, and 1t is expected to establish
direct connection with the United States.
At the new station an innovation will be
tried in the shape of metal plates to launch
the etheric impulses into space instead OF
a latticework of wires, which have been
generally made use of heretofore
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them to Santo Domingo, known to the
Spaniard as Hispaniola.
when we reached Hispaniola the land at
the place where we approached 1t was very
low and fat, on seeing which a general
doubt arose as to it's identity, because
neither the admiral nor his companions on
the first voyage had seen 1t.
This island of Hispaniola, being a large
one, is divided up into provinces; that part
which we, touched at is called by the ma
tives Haiti; another province adjoining it
they name SANTANA, and the next province
is known by them as Bohio, which Is the
place where we now are. These three prov
inces are subdivided into smaller portions"
DIR. sChanca writes in wonder at the
snakes, and IAN enormous kind of lizard
and another four-footed little animal, in
the color Of its hair, size and fur like
rabbit, but with long tail and feet similar
to those OF rat. These animals he
says. climb up the trees, and many Of
our men who have eaten them say their
taste is very good
A pathetic incident in the trip was the
search for the little band of adyentnrers
Columbus had left the previous year upon
the island.>4The feelings of the searchers
when they reached harbor of Sanfo
Domingo they called Monte Cristo are
wildly described. DR.. Chanca says:
This harbor is twelve leagues from the
place where the Christians had been left
by the admiral on his return to Spain from
the first voyage, and under the protection
OF Guacamari. a king Of these Indians, who
/ suppose Is one of the principal sovereigns
Of the island. After we anchored at said
spot the admiral ordered two lombards to
be, fired in order to see If there was any
| response from the Christians, who would
fire In return as a salute. for they also
| had lombards with them, but we received
no reply nor did we see on the seashore
| anybody or any sign of houses whatever.
Our people then. became very much
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Three years ago the father, Lorenz Hag-
mann, who had been working journey