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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-03

When Kingston visited by the recent earth
quake there in process Of organ zation in
London a syndicate, composed Of English capt
talists and Jamaican planters, having for its OBJ
3ect the restoration OF genuine Jamaica rum to
the markets OF the world. Forty-two distil-
years. and in the same period the output alleged
leries in Jamaica of business in five
years and in the same period the output Of alleged
Jamaica rum in the markets of the world was
enormously increased. This rum was sold every
where as the product of the little island but 1t
bore much relation to jamaica the German
potato the French grain and the American maize
from which the ethyl alcohol was distilled, bears
10 the sugar OF the West Indies.
The traders found that the rum could be made
the banks of the Thames the Seine or the
Ohio, in fifteen minutes by the judlcious admixture
OF neutral spirits. OF rum and burnt sugar
The earthquake has caused a temporary cessation
of plans for the restoration of Janaica's trade in
this particular, but there is strong movement to
induce the British Parliament TO do something 10
protect this colony's valuable product from imi-
tation. To this end the local government of the
island sent special commissioner TO London to
prosecute the imitators Of the rum This commits
sioner has already obtained many convictions in
the courts of the United Kingdom and other
being vigorously prosecuted.
Portugal is endeavoring protect the name OF its
famous port wines from imitators 10 be found in
every country in the world. but this is a work of
more than ordinary difficulties. The Portuguese
have enacted law, however. which limits the use
OF the port 10 wines of the Douro shipped
from the Bar Of oporto. and by operation Of this
law the importer may be that he is getting
CHAT he is paying for.
The Russian government controls the manufact-
IRE and sale OF its national drink the fiery vodka
The penalty for adulterstion of vodka is fifteen
years in Siberia, perhaps the most stringent of all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-03

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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
and black on the horizon ahead.

and black on the horizon ahead.
To the rear and off to the left flank
the Hull was riding into the seas
and showering the spray over every
thing forward.
Then came the Stewart, hanging on
to the Hull and then the Hopkins, all
going like race horses, plunging and
mingling steam and smoke, with the
spume flying about them. The Hop
kins was making desperate plunges to
get away from the tail of the process
sion of flyers. She gradually crawled
up to forward the Hull The Hull was
handicapped by being short-handed,
but she, too, took on a squirt and over
hauled the disabled Truxtun. She set
pace that kept the Hopkins strain
ing every nerve to maintain every
inch she had gained.
Thus the long, narrow, olive green
fighters were strung out from horizon
to horizon. They flew past sailing YES
sells as If the schooners were at an
Choir. Crews and passengers on coast
wise liners strung alongside the rails
of steamers to watch the contest.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Worden Takes Lead

The Worden, going steadily and
easily, gradually hauled away from
the rest at about noon. Her clean
bottom was in her favor. The cham.
pion Truxtun was beginning to lose
her grip in the wake of the leader
whereat there were loud words and
much perspiration down in the en-.
gineroom.
-Four streams of smoke had been
coming from the Truxtun, but sudden
ly the smoke ceased to belch from her
two forward tunnels She slowed
down to half speed. Something had
gone wrong in the boiler room.
The Whipple, running third. was
still hugging the shore to cut corners.
The Worden was forging steadily
ahead, her four columns of smoke
merging into one as she appeared low
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Ready for the Fray

The stiletto-looking sextet steamed
out to sea from New York in Indian
file, stripped for the fray. The rapid
fire guns and torpedo tubes had been
slowed below deck. The wide-mouthed
ventilators were unscrewed and
slowed away. The lifeboats were up
side down on deck, so that the curved
bottoms would suffer less resistance to
the wind. The canvas coverings had
been stripped from the bridges. All
ports were closed to eliminate air fric.
ton. Everything movable was sent
below The navigators wore automo.
bile goggles TO keep the wind from
cutting their eyes. The crew were
stripped to the waist
On the bridge of each craft stood
the commanding officer, the navigator
and the seaman at the wheel. Down
in the engine rooms there was a post
for every man. Now and then a puff
of black smoke rolled out of a funnel
or safety valve popped forth an i'm.
patient scream of steam, telling of the
suppressed eagerness to be off.
The line headed for the starting
point, off the Scotland lightship. The
wind was fresh. 20 miles an hour from
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23

and headed for the starting point off
the Scotland lightship. The wind was
fresh 20 miles an hour, from the
west-southwest, with lumpy sea roll
ing of shore. AS they neared the post
the fleet closed in on one another in
confusion in jockeying for position.
They cut across one anothers stems
with the swiftness of an arrow or
curved in circles with the gracefulness
of a swallow. Now one would plunge
ahead, to be halted in a swirl of hiss
ing bubbles, as the twin screws
churned the sea to check too much
Roadway or another would place her
self at the head of the line and sui
lenly wait for the others to come up.
Generally it is not good nautical man.
ners to GUST the flagship from her
place at the head of the line, but the
craft were hot for the contest and
many, from stOker to shoulder straps.
had wagers on the result. 1t was diff
cult TO pick the favorite. All had
made 2S, 20, or 80 knots, which EQUALS
80 miles an hour, or express train
AihAS' vi liSll llldl NIlpS. CONSTRUCTING
the Difference due the flagship, many
picked the Whipple as a winner, others
thought much of the Worden, because
her bottom had just been scraped and
painted, to the non-resistance of
creased steel, while all the others had
more or less foul bottoms. not having
been in dry dock for some time. The
majority favored the Truxtun, for she
had never been beaten in a contest
and was supposed to have the best
crew that ever stepped aboard a tor
pedo-boat destroyer. The bluejackets
pinned their faith in the we'll known
grit and never-give-up of the Hopkins.
while the champions of the Stewart
and Hull argued that these vessels
could keep up as fast a clip as their
sisters.
The flagship Whipple happened to
be heading the fleet as the ships bore
down on her. Off on her starboard.
running nose and nose with the flag
ship, was the Truxtun, and to port
was the Worden forging ahead. The
Stewart, also off to port, was gath
ering Roadway and pulling into line.
The Hopkins was tumbling the seas
outward from each bow as she came
up toward the line, and the Hull hung
on the left flank.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
1T WAS TOO SHORT NO rIcE.

"Old Uncle Jed" was so fond of his
coppers as to have acquired the repu-
tation In Millville of being "leetle
Nigh" but he was also fond of crea-
ture comforts. Somehow it taxed his
ingenuity to reconcile these conflicting
tastes.
The citizens of Millville were much
addicted to entertainments of a So
cial and edible nature called "subscrip-
ton parties" and Uncle Jed was al
most invariably one of the partici-
pants. He sacrificed his desire for
economy, however, by fasting for a
certain length of time beforehand.
On one occasion party was hastily
arranged in honor of a transient guest
or the town, and Uncle Jed was in
formed of the affair on the forenoon
OF the very day on which the enter
tainment was given.
NO, no." said the old man emphat-
ically. Il should have been happy to
go II you'd gin me more notice. You
gin rally charge about four times
what It's wuth, anyway; but If have
chance to git ready, can git about
half my moneys wuth. AS it is, |
can't go this time. It's too short no.
ice."-Judge.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Costly Peace.

Westerner Tin eastern city)-Yes,
I'm gettin' sort of tired o. western life,
an as I'm purity well fixed, | says to
myself, | guess I'll come east an set
tie down. Who lives in all them fine
houses?
Resident-Well, most of those hand
some residences you refer to are occu-
pied by eminent lawyers and judges.
Lawyers. Does lawyers here git
as rich as that? BY gum! How many
is there?"
Lawyers? Oh, presume there are
about thousand here"
BY gum! It's goin' ter cost too
much to live peaceably here. l guess
I'll go back to where folks carry
guns. N. Y. Weekly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Pace Begins to Tell

AS the afternoon wore on, the kill
ing pace began to tell. The officers,
in goggles, felt the strain of keeping
the vessel on the course and all hands
keyed up to their best efforts. The
helmsman at the wheel never lifted
his eyes from the compass.
Down in the engineroom the flying
oil still stung the mems eyes blood
shot; it ran down their arms and
chests and out of the eyelets of their
shoes. The stationary parts of the
engine were inches deep with the
butter-like substances that few out.
Now, the boiler rooms are alright,
so that the two forced-draught fans in
wall may suck in air that can escape
only by going under the fire CRATES
and up through the Goals, and in these
prisons were locked the half-naked
stokers. They had shoveled tons of
coal on the white-hot fires, so fierce
that a shovelful of fuel turned red the
instant it touched the Goals and be-
fore the furnace door could be swung
shut.
AS the afternoon wore on and the
sun got down on the horizon, the
CLEAN of Cape Henry lighthouse, at
the mouth of Chesapeake bay, showed
clear ahead. The Worden was hull
down and out of sight in the lead. The
rest were strung out until the last
craft was hull down astern. The stars
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Used Ink for Bluinu,

zone can never be too careful about
apparently harmless articles setting
about the house." said housewife the
other day. mot long ago my husband
brought home one of those big tall bot
ties of ink from the office. 1t had got
to be such a nuisance buying one of
the small five-cent bottles every time
We ran out of ink, that he said he
would bring home a supply.
About week after that I got a
new maid, and when she did the wash
ing she took the big bottle of ink for
bluing. OF course every stitch of our
white clothes in the washing was
ruined"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Worden Reaches Goal

Inside Cape Henry, at Hampton
roads, were ten battleships of Admiral
Evans fleet. This was the goal of the
destroyers. 1t was near nightfall when
a long streak of olive green came In
by Cape Henry, slashing through to-
ward the feet of big fighters. Her
sharp prov cut the waters with the
hiss of razor cleaving a sheet of
paper as she swished along like an ex-
press train, still going so fast that the
rush OF wind she created whirled the
four streams OF smoke into one and
fiattened 1t out on the waters astern.
1t was the Worden, the winner, going
easy and strong, 25 miles an hour, as
she had from 500 o'clock in the morn.
ing until 1880 in the evening.
The Hull. short-handed, came in Sec
end. No other vessel came In up 10
midnight.
In the morning hours OF the second
day in came the flagship Whipple, with
the story of a disaster to the Hopkins.
the undefeated The unbeaten had
nearly foundered in an effort to keep
up.
During the night the Truxtun had
fought her way down the coast with
all the speed that was in her and had
passed the Hopkins, the Whipple and
the Stewart. The Hopkins had fought
so gamely that the officers had be-
come accustomed to the culver of her
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Barely Kept ARoat

Lieut.. Howe gave the alarm, and the
after watertight doors were closed, but
not before the wardroom had been
flooded. AS the wide compartments
near the center of the vessels filed,
she sank until her decks were awash,
and preparations were made to aban-
don ship. A distress rocket was sent
up that was seen by the Whipple and
the Stewart. They gave up the race
for honors and went hard about to aid
the Hopkins.
The Hopkins lifeboats had been I'M
dashed and swung out on the davits.
All the steam and hand pumps were
put to work. 1t was a question of
whether the craft would live or
founder. 1t was nip and tuck between
the pumps and the onrushing waters.
The Whipple and Stewart closed in
on the Hopkins. Then the Whipple's
wireless operator called on Newport
News for help. AT daybreak the navy
tugs Washneto and Hercules came out
and dashed themselves alongside the
cripple and towed her into Newport
News, where no time was lost in get
ting the Hopkins into dry dock.
But all that is but bit of the price
of an efficient navy.
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happy and all were working hard.
We travelled without a guard over a
country that ten years ago was the
most dangerous in the islands. On
one OF the trains, now used by Fill
pino farmers to take produce from
Isabella into Cagayan, the Spaniards
had three heavy outposts. Nothing Of
the kind is found there now and the
trail is perfectly safe.
II do not believe there is anything
in the world that can equal the man
ner In which the people of the noun
tains have made their country produc-
tive. 1t certainly surpasses anything
| have ever seen. The terraces in
Japan are pygmies compared with IL
The earth aud stone were brought for
miles and the most wonderful part
about 1t is that the terraces are as
solid and substantial as IL they were
part of the mountain itself.
Some of them are 20 or 100 feet
high and remain undisturbed through
all sorts of weather and landslides.
And at the time these terraces were
made the people were under arms.
working with their knives and shields
close at hand and with sentries on
every high point of land and noun
tain top"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
AFFLICTED ONLY AT TIMES.
Good Reason for Capt. Baseomb's In
termittent Hearing.

When Capt. Bascomb had left his
old friend, Capt. Somers, and the new
school teacher sitting on the south
porch, and had disappeared down tho
road, the young woman spoke of him
with some curiosity.
Il understand from Mrs. Bascomb
that her husband was very deaf, al
most stone-deaf,' she told me, I'm
sure" said the school teacher. But
he seemed to hesi all we said with
perfect ease"
Capt. Somers leaned toward her
and spoke in a low, cautious tone, al
though there was no eavesdropper to
hear him.
Don't let Mis- Bascomb know IT,"
re said, hurriedly. HE does seem
to hear pretty well when she amt
round, but none of us folks ever let
on to her. She's a good woman as
ever lived. but a most tremendous
bosser and an everlastin' talker. An
we all think that Gersh Bascomb be-
gun TO realize ten years ago that IL
he didn't want To be harried right off'n
the face O. the earth, the thing for
him to do was to grow def, gradual,
but steady-an' he's done it, to all
intents an purposes, ma'am!"-
Youths Companion.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
FOOD
FACTS

70 Cd
A Body Balance

People hesitate at the statement that
the famous food, Grape-Nuts, yields as
much nourishment from one pound as
can be absorbed by the system from
ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or
oats. Ten pounds of meat might con-
tain more nourishment than one pound
Of Grape-Nuts, but not in shape that
the system will absorb as large a pro-
portion of, as the body can take up
from one pound of Grape-Nuts.
This food contains the selected parts
Of wheat and barley which are pre-
pared and by natural means predi-
gested, transformed into a form of
sugar, ready for immediate assimila-
ton. People in all parts of the world
testify to the value of Grape-Nuts.
A Mo. man says: Il have gained ten
pounds on Grape-Nuts food. / can
truly recommend II TO THU people,"
He had been eating meat, bread, etc.,
right along, but there was no ten
pounds Of added flesh until Grape-Nuts
food was used.
One curious feature regarding true
health food is that its use will reduce
the weight Of corpulent person with
unhealthy flesh, and will add to the
weight Of thin person not properly
nourished. There is abundance of
evidence to prove this.
Grape-Nuts balances the body in a
condition of true health. Scientific Sc
lection of food elements makes Grape
Nuts good and valuable. It's delicious
flavor and powerful nourishing prop
critics have made friends that in
turn have made Grape-Nuts famous.
There's a Reason" Read The Road
to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
The Race Begins

Lieutenant Commander Anderson
was holding the starters flag over the
contestants until they got in a straight
line abreast. At 500 a. m. the signal
Make the best of your way" was run
up and the race was on.
Each Prov pitched forward. The
sterns squatted to the suction of the
speed and the waves rolled up to a
level with the deck aft and swept
astern, as if eager to escape the gath.
ering speed. The Whipple took the
lead. hugging the shore. Next came
the Worden, to port, with the Truxtun
hanging on to her. 1t was at least 81
miles an hour from the start. and a
gap opened between the trio in the
lead, as the Hull, Hopkins and Stewart
dropped back, making a second trio
hghting it out among themselves.
After two hours the Worden had
taken the lead, with the Truxtun sec
ond and the Whipple third. The sec
ond trio scattered astern. The spume
hew in showers over bows and bridges
and spluttered against the tunnels.
The sterns, built fiat as a floor IN
counterfeit the powerful downward
suction of the propellers. squatted low,
while seas rolled up aft higher than
the decks. 1t seemed that they would
tumble in over the sterns and flood
the decks, but the swift-moving craft
were always just beyond reach as the
chaldron fattened out and rushed
away in white foam.
Men with big brass syringes stood
beside the cans of oil and squirted it
over the engines. The machinery
churned the oil into yellow butter
and then sprayed everything a golden
hue. 1t stung the eyes of engineroom
crews.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23

The Manchester canal was built at
a cost of $75,OOO,0OO to reduce freight
rates for distance of 35 miles, and,
while it did not prove a good inter
est bearing investment on such a
large expenditure, its indirect and
more permanent benefits are said to
have warranted it.
Germany has 5000 miles Of canal,
carefully maintained, besides 1000
miles Of other waterway. France,
with an area less than we would con-
slider a large state, has 1900 miles Of
canal; and in the northern part,
where the canals are most numerous,
the railways are more prosperous.
England, Germany, France, Holland
and Belgium are all contemplating
further extension and Improvement OF
their canal systems.-Century Maya
zine
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
HIGH STATE OF CULTIVATION.
People of Northern Luzon Have Made
Country Productive.

Gov. Gen. Smith of the Philippines
recently made tour of the mountain
provinces of northern Luzon, chiefly
inhabited by pagan tribes. On his re-
turn to Manila he said: The journey
through the mountain country was a
revelation. | have never seen such
cultivation as we saw in the noun
tains. Those people have terraced the
mountains in some instances 1000
feet high, and every bit of the land
is under cultivation. The people are
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Accounted For.

Bill-The bedbug has been scien.
tifically investigated by the depart.
ment of agriculture, and the reassur.
ing information is given that an adult
bedbug feeds only once in from SO to
40 hours
Jill-That is why so many Of them
are content to remain in some board
ing-houses, suppose.-Yonkers States.
man.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23

frame. But even steel gives way
sometimes. This time 1t was not In
the engine, but in a totally unexpected
quarter on the outside of the craft.
Projecting out from the underbody
of the stern is a steel sleeve envelop-
ing the propeller shaft. This shaft is
held to the hull by an upright as thick
as a mans arm. The vibration caused
this shirt to break, and the steel
bludgeon, swinging around and around
with the shaft, tore a hole in the hull
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
What Do You Think of That7

81 understand you carry dogs on
this road for one cent a mile?" said
the red-faced passenger.
That is correct" replied the con.
ductor.
And you charge me three cents a
mile?"
Yes, sir"
Amt | as good as a dog, I'd like
to know, sir?"
yes, sir;.I think you a little better
than a dog, sir!"-Yonkers' States.
man.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23

nc IdCG WIS 10 IIy OUT IHe sCUI-
pions of the navy under wartime con-
ditions. 1t lasted day and a night.
A hitherto indicated winner came to
grief, and another craft, on which the
bluejackets bet their money, nearly
foundered. Two others also had mis-
haps.
Locked in a steel hull only a quarter
of an inch thick while plunging
through a rolling sea on a black night
is creepy" business.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Fresh Fuel,

The scrap between the married cou-
pie had died down to a few listless
mutterings, and the canary bird in the
cage was beginning to think about
singing again, when she remarked, as
sort of afterthought:
"At any rate, everybody in my fam
lily thinks I am very intelligent"
Eyes, by the side of them you are"
he replied with a bitter snort.
After this the scrap was renewed
jubilantly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
SWIFTEST AND
MOST STIRRING
SEA SPRINT
UNITED States Torpedo
Boat Destr0yers I'm
Contest for Championship

New York.-It was a gruelling race
when six 30-knot torpedo-boat destroy
ers recently made the 240-mile dash at
sea from off this city to the mouth of
the Chesapeake bay. The fighters for
supremacy were sisters, built in the
same year-long, low, olive-colored
craft, four tunnels raking aft, the
power of 5000 horses in each hull and
II men working each. 1t was the
swiftest and longest competition of
war craft on any seas.
The fleet and their dimensions fol-
low:
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Punishment.

Head InQuisitor-You were the
chauffeur, | believe, who was con-
tinually letting vile smoke come out
of the rear of your machine.
Late Arrival-Yes, sir.
We'll, go and swallow a cup Of
boiling cylinder oil every ten minutes,
until l can think of some punishment
to fit your case. Life.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Not His Element,

"And If give you money" said the
philanthropist, will you promise to
go and take BATH"
Redface Leary drew himself up to
his full height.
"a bath? And is It a mermaid you
take me for?" he cried bitterly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23
Under Escort.

A black goat may be seen almost
every day wandering along the streets
of Leeds, England. To all appearances
IL is unattended, but closer observa-
ton reveals the fact that there is al
ways a black dog in its immediate vi
cinity. il any attempt is made to mo-
lest the goat, one bleat is sufficient to
bring the dog to the scene ready to de-
fend it's protege.