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pany. MI. key.
made they hastened to Baltimore,
Where the vessel was, to embark. For
some days nothing, was heard from Mr..
Key, and not until the enemy was de-
and Fort McHenry. did the Mindon re-
turn to Baltimore. Chief Justice
fancy states that it was a week or
made his appearance. 10 our great joy oy
at my house on his way to join his
own family: He told me that he had
found the British fleet at the. mouth
the expedition against Baltimore. lie
said he was ~courteously received by
Admiral Cochrane and the officers of
the army hi and h, naiHy. but bi when he made adj
was received SO coldly that he feared
it would fail. General Ross and Adj
miral ,Cockrane, both of whom, accom-
and particularly the latter. spoke of
Dr. Beanes in very harsh terms and
seemed at first not disposed to release
him. II happened, however, that Mr.;
letters from the wounded British off,
GERS Who had been left at Bladens-
burg, II in these letters to their
spoke OF the. humanity and Kindness
with which they had been treated by
DR.. Beanes after they had fallen into
u hands,
4, u VSIL ! llCE utoL
houses In Upper Marlboro, and lived
Very handsomely. 1t was his house
that had been selected for the quar-
tiers of Admiral Coclsrane and some
of the principal officers of the British
army, and these officers were, of
course, furnished with everything that
the house could offer. AT that time
they, in turn. treated Or, Beanes with
much courtesy and had placed guards
around hig grounds and outhouses to
prevent d~epredations by their troops,
1t was after the return OF the British
70 their ships and after the main body
stragglers, who had left the ranks
to plunder or from some other motive,
made their appearance from time ia
Beanes had put himself at the head
of a small body of citizens to pursue
Information of this was by some means
conveyed to tho British camp a de-
3taehment, Of which I have spoken, WAS
sent hack to release the prisoners and
seize Dir. Beanes.
For DIR. IienReA's Release.
mi. Key said that after a great
deal of conversation and strong rep
standing OF DR., Beanes and Eofthe great
interest which the community in which
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pense, The pioneer ropeway was built
by the engineers OF the Indian Forest
Department. Between terminals 1t is
perhaps 5000 yards long and quite
simple in principle. A loaded carriage
travels down the main fixed rope by
~gravitation, and haul up an empty
carriage on the same rope The two
meet in the centre, and there are trans
ferred by a very ingenious arrange
ment Invented by q st. louis firm.
Building Aerial Tracks.
From one end to the other there is
a fall OF nearly 1000 feet. and the
aerial tracks cross two main valleys
and many deep gorges. Any kline Of
q road would be quite impossible in a
country SO wild and rocky. There are
twelve main spans the smallest one OF
265 feet and the-greatest 1.675 feet. The
fixed rope is q -inch in circumference,
OF six strands, and with a hempen
core; each strand contains seven wires
OF the finest steel.
The carriage consists OF two curved
wrought Iron hangers; and loads of
nearly 1000 pounds can be sent down
great numbers. both swiftly and
safely. The Installation OF this aerial
ropeway through the dense forest was
a tiresome matter. Anchorages had
" oe plePdieu VI ~ 1920
there was no natural rock In the
right place. tifteen-ton boulders were
dragged up and down by elephants and
dropped into position at each end or
the line. Holes were then drilled in
tho boulders for the legs OF the iron
bars, after which the rope was I'M
reeled. The big reels, or bobbins. of
which there were two, weighed four
tons each.
400 Feet from Ground.
1t was proposed to carry this steel
rope up the hills on the shoulders of
aboriginal trIbesmen. but the wild and
broken nature Of the country made
this impossible. Eventually elephants
were. attached to the end of the rope
to haul 1t up; and so great was the
caused by the ropes dragging
that near the end Of the journey no
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How Key Wrote the Star Spangled Banner :

thusiasm, and took its place at once
a national song. 1t was. no doubt,
f%avoTably fec t;iveds ~ tie fap'f Baltimore
public.
Judge Joseph HOPPER Nicholson
a brother-in,laW Or MT: Key and
was a man. continues Chief Justice
Taney, of cultivated. taste, had at one
been distinguished among the
the period of which i am speaking the
chief Justice of the Baltimore court.
and one of the Judges OF the Court
Of Appeals Of MARYLAND. Notwithstand-
empted him from military service, he.
raised o company of volunteer artil-3
lery, which he %equipped at his own
command OF 1T and offered their SER
vices to the government, when an at
tack on Baltimore was expected. They
We're y r. aecentea and formed part Of The
bombardment. The judge had been
relieved from duty. and returned to his
family only the night before Mr.. Key
easily Imagine the feelings with which
at such a moment'he read 1t and gave
It to the public. It was, no doubt, as
Mr.. Key said he believed it to have
been fayorably received
The letter from which l quote was
signed n b.: fancy
Keys Family Connections.
-. fht. LNGS4s WuSh IS IL INV OIL
Chief Justice Taney, who married Miss
Dorothy, Key, his sister. and he was
also n brother-in-law of Judge j. II.
Nicholson. who married Rebecca Lloyd,
and of MIR. Richard West, who married
Maria Lloyd. sister of Mary Tayloe
Lloyd, Mr.. Keys wife was a daughter
OF Colonel Edward Lloyd, fourth. of
Wye House, and his wife, Elizabeth
Tayloe, Of Mount Airy, Richmond
county, Va.
Z am the, granddaughter OF. Judge
Nicholson and the g~reat-nlece of Fran
els Scott key, and the original manu-
and arasr one OF Of these ass FIST Printed copies
struck in handful form on September
Is. lslt, came into my possession from
youngest son Of Judge (Captain) Jo-
seph Hopper Nicholson, and Rebecca
LLOYD, of Wye House, his wife.
THE original manuscript was given
by Francis Scott Key himself to Judge
S%Sicholson and was preserved among
his papers, together with one OF the
These are the true facts of the
writing publishing and setting 10
music of this noW-famons song, The
star Spangled Banner. '-Baltimore
Sun,
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cation will be done by artesian wells,
some of which have been already
sunk and are producing flowing
streams. The company Is composed
Of Englishmen and Egyptians,
and 1t has a capital of s2.500.000. n
has already begun building its rail-
way. and has laid the route from the
equipment. Its locomotives and other
rolling-stock are building in England.
Through Libya by Rail.
When the railroads are completed
one will be able to go through some
interesting parts of the Libyan desert
by train. and 1t Is probable that winter
resorts. similar to that at Biskra. in
the Sahara, will spring up in these
cases. I first saw the Libyan desert in
Tripoll 1t begins there and runs
eastward to the Nile valley. Near
Egypt II Is a monotonous, stony table
land from 600 to 1000 feet above the
level OF the Nile. 1t is absolutely bar
rem. and Is without doubt one OF the
bleakest parts OF the globe. AS one
goes westward and nears the GASES the
land drops. TIL desert Is cut up by
~ravines and cliffs. The GASES are in a
depression. running for several hun
dred miles irregularly north and south.
Just vest OF them the land Is still
rocky. but after about six days' camel
journey it changes to an ocean of sand.
which extends on n on for hundreds
OF miles.
These GASES now have over 10000
people. They are Mohamnedans, and
Include both Arabs and Bedouins. They
live in villages of mud brick houses.
each oasis having n or more towns.
In Bnharia there are four villages, in
Farafra one. and In Dakhla fourteen.
Dakhla is the most thickly popu-
lated of all of the GASES. 1t has over
1900 people, and 1T is watsred by 420
wells. many OF which were bored by
the Romans. All OF these villages have
mosques. In Kharga there are 1880
people in one village, and 1t is the seat
OF the Egyptian government. There
is a government doctor there. and also
n telegraph office. Many of the inhabi-
tants have never been outside the
GASES, and they are said to be Interest,"
ing to an extreme. They grow fruit
and dates. exporting the latter to
Egypt. The new company expects to
raise rice, wheat and barley, as we'll as
cotton and sisal hemp. 1t has already
planted many thousand date palms and
large orchards OF oranges, olives and
pomegranates.
Tie T-ayOum.
Tho largest and most fertile of all
the Egyptian GASES is the FayounL 1t
is so big that it Is a separate province.
IT contains about $50 square miles, and
has a population OF 100000. 1t lies
about seventy miles northeast Of Cairo,
and there is only a short strip of desert
between it and the Nile valley. 1T is
an oyal basin inclosed by tile stony
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Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd Post Shipper,
wl1o-ts a granddaughter OF Judge Jo-
seph Fl. Nicholson and a grand
niece of Francis Scott Key, has writ
ten for the Sun two interesting papers
prominently associated with the history
of Baltimore and Maryland. Both pa
5pers are especially apropos ut this time
because of the profound patriotism be-
ing manifested on every hand in con-
nection with the homecoming festivi-
One Of them the author has entitled
.'The True Facts Regarding the Writ
ing. Setting to Music and Pnb 4 OF
lis an account of the bombardment OF
Fort McHenry. being q copy, of the off
ciaI report of observation-disclosures Arml-
stead, who was In or ING
Federal forces during atlsck on
Fort McHenry.
Mrs. Shipper writes:
tOn the evening Of the day that the
Potomac River, MIR. Richard West, a
brother-in-law. of Mr.. Francis Scott
Key. arrived at the home Of MIR, Key.
n Gsorget9Wnb, ana pad to 1asa nsm t 7 all
their ships they had encamped some
miles below the town, and n night a
OGldClllllGIlt Oh OldlG HWrS SSlIlG buSN
to DR.. Beanes's house about midnight,
and#had compelled DR.. Bennes to rise
from his bed and 60. witt them to
been carried as a prisonet OF board
the British fleet. HEis friends, finding
their own efforts ~unavailing to procure
his release. and alarmed for his safe.
tn, had requested Mr.. West to shasten
to Georsetown and request Mr.. Key.
who himself was a personal friend of
DR.. Beanes. to obtain the sanction OF
the government to his 3tAIr. Key going
on board the admirnl's ship under a
flag of truce, and e~ndeavoring TO pro-
the British fleet sailed. The fleet.wns
then lying at the mouth OF the Poto-
Went to Aid His Friend
INT, key readily agreed and under
President promptly gave his sanction
TO It, Orders We're Immediately issued
TO the vessel called the Mindon, usual
ny employed rs q #eartel In the commu,
&ntcatinns with the fleet in the Ches.
John. S. Skinner,,who WINS the agent
for the government for flag of truce
Was we'll Known as such To the officers
Isof the fleet, was directed to acconl-
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SUPERSEDMG WORKING ELEPHANTS

fewer than fourteen elephants were in
use, together with a large number Of
natives.
Supports for the hangers and sad
dies vary in height up to eighty feet,
and consist Of two uprights and n stout
crossbar. In places giant forest trees
have been used as supports; and so
rugged and broken is the country that
in one place the rope is nearly 400
feet from the ground. 1t is most GU
rious to see great teak and mahogany
logs. weighing over 1900 pounds, sour
rying along high up In the air as
though propelled by a giant catapult.
The speed in some places is more thar
twenty-five miles an hour, but is under
the control of a brake-drum at one
of the terminals.
Flag Signaling Best.
Finally the logs are detached from
their supporting chains and placed
direct On to a little trolley Great
trouble Is experienced, owing to the
which will often entirely overgrow the
starting. platform.
Flag signaling is found to be the
quickest and safest method on this
curious line. Loads can be run down
at the rate of six every hour. and the
saving over the old method of elephant
transport Is enormous. Thus. the car
riage of a ton OF timber down the old
road Yer the ghaut, or hill. inclusive
of loading, unloading and returning.
occupied more than two days. against
the bare fifteen minutes or so Of the
new aerial ropeway.
It was feared at one time that wild
elephants would damage the cables and
supports, for In places the rope is
within eight feet of the ground. For
est fires were also n danger: but care
Is taken to burn all rubbish near the
line. AS to the elephants, no sooner
had they inaugurated the last OF these
,ropeways than their work was done,
and they were sold back again to the
Indian government for hauling guns
over the giant passes of the Hima-
-laYas.
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ILibyan hills. and watered by a great
canal. which some say was first built
by Joseph. and others that 1t was a
branch of the Nile and needed only to
be widened and d%eepened. The canal
which feeds 1t now is called the Bahr
Yusef, which means Joseph's canal.
1T begins a mile or so north of Assiout
and flows through upper Egypt, water
ing the Nile valley until about seventy
miles above Cairo, when it turns to
the left and flows through a break in
the hills int the Fayoum depression.
The canal is 20 miles long. 1 have
seen 1t where 1t begins near Assiout,
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The Lnbyrintt.


which includes q number Of villages.
The Labyrinth.
The T'ayoum is not often visited by
tourists, although 1T contains some of
the most wonderful ruins of ancient
Egypt. There is a pyramid about five
miles from Medinet. in which a mum
my Of an ancient king was recently
found. and there are some traces left
OF the Labyrinth described by Strabo
and other travellers. The Labyrinth is
said to have been quite as wonderful
as the pyramids. 1t was situated on
the banks of Lake Moeris, and was a
vast palace which had 1000 rooms,
half of which were above ground and
half below. The buildings composing
the palace were connected by long
covered passages which intersected
each other and wound about so that
a stranger could not go through them
without a guide. Strabo says hat the
ceilings OF every room consisted of but
a single stone, and that the passages
were covered with slabs OF %extraordi-
nary size. Herodotus, who went
through the rooms above ground. says
that the structure was more wonder
full than the pyramids, and that the
wlndings through the courts present
ed a Thousand occasions of wonder as
he passed through. Just who built this
structure no one knows; but 1t Is sup
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SsTANTANEoUs CITY.

Grew from Nothing in 1850 to $4,000
in 1906.
Oklahoma City is possibly the fines
example OF speedy and magnificent
open prairie, with Il sluggish creek,
which had no right to be digniied as
n river, m%eandering and elbo1ying
through the fertile soil. Why the site
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RUSSIAN SUBMARINES TRIALS.
Type Of boats Demonstrated at
st, Petersburg.

Now II nofNAS KaSSu III
st. Petersburg.
st. Petersburg, October THE Rus
sian admiralty is now conducting trials
OF a submarine boat OF a new type. in
by a Russian engineer. Its
distinctive feature is the elimination of
the accumulators ordinarily used In
subsurface running. The new boat
employs the same motors above
and below the surface. No conclusions
are yet available. and some minor de-
fects have developed.
The first new submarine boat of the
Lake type built here, of $50 tons above
water and 500 when fully Submerged,
will BIZ launched this month.
During the autumn manoeuvres OF
the Russian Mosquito fleet" Just
concluded on the Finnish coast, the
officers were tested In new tactics,
submarine boats acting in conjunc-.
ton With torpedo boats, which are
said to have given remarkable re-
suits.
Another Russian naval invention Is
a system of ~gyroscopic fire control,
which has been constructed at the adj
mlralty works here, and will be install
led and tried on one of the big battle
ships. 1t Is designed to prevent the
discharge OF heavy guns except when
the ship is on an even Keel, and 70
avoid the misses resulting from uneS-
ipected rolling.
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Hens on the F.crnM.

Statistics show that 993farmers OF 100
keep hens, 1t Is estimated that rs per
cent. or this number raise mongrels
and crnssbreds. Now that the cam-
palgn for 3ure-bred cattle, hogs and
even field seeds is on. 1t would seem
wise to reduce the number OF mongrst,
bred poultry,
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tTlELNH s.. - sHS aHa@faAE
The opening up Of the GASES Of
Western Egypt is an agricultural
proposition rather than q mining one.
although extensive deposits Of alum,
p%hosphates and minerals are said to
exist there. Gold, which runs as high
as Sc per ton, has been found in the
lower beds Of the phosphate rocks,
but it Is not known whether 1t Is
merely q local freak of nature or
whether 1t nay expand into richer
collaborating ore.
Tho GASES OF Egypt lie 100 miles or
so west OF the Nile. In the heart of
tho Ltbyan Desert, There are -four
great centres Which have been known
for ages. and some of which We're
noted for their fertility when the
: Hebrews We're still at work under
their Egyptian taslsmasters. These
pnses are Kharga. which lies 40
miles directly west of Esneh, but
which is best reached from Asslout;
Farafra, which is almost directly west
OF Assiout, and may be reached by
camels In tho space of eight days;
loakhla, which lies between Kharga
and lrarafra. and also the oasis of
l3allaria, which is about three days
Journey from Glrga on the Nile,
The corporation of Western Egypt
proposes to build railroads to these
GASES, and as a consideration therefor
1T is to receive 100000 acres of land,
and is to have the right, for thirty
years, to mine the alum, ochres and
phosphates with which the cases
abound. A part OF It's scheme Is TO
irrigate the lands acquired by the
concession. Tho company estimates
that3it will cost them $25 per acre to
do this, and that the lands Will sell FOR
s75 per acre rs soon as the water can
be put upon them, Much OF the irpi-
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ny r1,ANlx q. CARPENTER.

~ n ODERN enterprise Is opening
IN up the backwoods OF Egypt.
iIsN syndicntes with large CAPT
1 tai are prospecting for coal.
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ALI such methods are now to be done
away with. and the British and Egyp-
itian officials are to see that Justice Is
administered according to the laws of
the land.
Copyright. 1907. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-12-05

Nina Clinton, and Rev. w. E.. Walk
ar, S. WI iStarks, c. w, Boyd and
J. f ]. Clark attended the teacher
association TAT ST. Adams last week.
Fhe ,Woman's. Missionary. society
OF St. Paul An. E. church was en-
tertained at the residence OF Mrs,
Fannie Catlett<o n Lewis street Mon
day night by Miss Bessie Taylor
After the regular business the follow
ing oNcers were elected: Miss Bessie
Iaytor, president; Mrs. Sophia Spen.
Ger, first vice-president; Mrs, Emma
Watson, second vice-president; Mrs
Matte Moss, third vice-president;
Mrs. Emma Burbridge, secretary;
Miss Minnie Carlton, assistant sec
rotary; Mrs. Mi2nie Samuel, cores
ponding secretary; Mrs Lettie. John
son, treasurer; Mrs Martha Wash.
angton, chaplain. ,.-..a.
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other haIY ~ TIA joy Ia --ii ~.
. 'h,acLs,;,fb, = H., 49, ~
tarI mr. assarIna,, e., ~, -, - ca ~
,lent $40 h.1s 'i -,
AGA dem; s.. Sdans rtn,ant .'n, ~ - ny
half ~ tha 4: dow Io,r - - 800 S,.N
cookiny drossn,oi,inn o,. ra;,,, ~" .ns :
VIII tha'' 800 " iniiiins'iy.s
under M Es II Csnss ar, NJ, I,si,
lerman Mr. q n ,Tnnna ,,,,a y
NJ, Uao,,
cia1 densrt, ,,ndnn NJ, ~ -
che,I .pdfSris. mn @, w.. =, -: w
militarv danartn,ant "p'. ses' . -,
n Lows, Iarn az weu onss.ti. ~ ~
II 4, ~ az Z +r.aos ,ai,.o,
agricnltnrat denartn,anta 80 80, @.u
pose, To oiua F,nr,, otton+ts, sa.,g,t - ~.
OF these sdenartments tha >,'sii 20
knows ,least aho,,f"I ~ =! p'"'e'
=. - - 81. %.r'.5 H..
~. ..,.t Technical Schools. N>&.3r.
There are tbose who ,,non, MI ~.
tie about such schools whl, tb,ni,
that all schools aonIv nroduca .teoch.
ers, preachers And lowvers -snnh
used to be true hit now mr. indms-
wi nj civ
the best practical results ~ r.nv
pupils. In other words tSorefnre
pupils have often been edn.atod> IN
the classics while Later tbo,.,r &C.,,
ed a trade by aprrentjcaeh;r ~ -,
best thew could, : Tho stato - ,,nfor
tunate that it has at moro ;ndus+,;o1
schools in the state than What u,o
have teaching nnni]s in schools .or,o
useful trade. rs "H
A. r. Whsle Ru;yd;,u
The A. B.. White trades 6ni,d;,a
a large two story hric1, hmildin@
erected at a cost Of s35 600 is he
largest and finest in the IJnited, states
except at ,Tuskegee and Hamnton
The denartments,- tbora;,, nn.;tt 80
wAeelwrighting. smitbinc, n,;nt,, -
plumbing, carpentry, bric,,masanr"
and plastering ,uaintinp and honss
decoration. There is . comnetant !
superintendent or instrnctnr 81, aaah
and the nunil Who snends
, half of each dav in this danart
nent is taught eYerv elementsrr do
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Geo. Collins, or painting, Nj. BAR.
Patton of blacksmithipg, and Mr.5A.
6, Brown, Of mechanicalY.aapd free
hand drawing. ..% |, -
SO Of the young women in. the. de-
partment Of domestic. SCIENCE aud, arts
In sewing and dressmhl1ing,, under
Miss Mary Eubank they, are taught
from the first principles of the work
to making complete dress or any
kind of garment worn by a lady
and under Mrs. M. e. Lowry The pu-
phi IS taught to make a ladies hat
complete. Miss Bessie v. Morris
teaches cooking, agriculture, botany
and dairying'is under Mrs. A. w.
Curtis, while Mr.. w. S. Brown and
Mr.. r. G. Howard are the practical
farmers, Emma Cousins-Dorsey is
matron, G. w. Clair, steward, and r.
l.. Brown, engineer. IS
1t will be observed that the trades;
for the male students to learn in
clude the principal trades men fol-
low and the work the female pupils
learn is essential to the knowledge
OF good housekeeper. ..r...
II was noticed that the members
Of the faculty are all graduates Of
some special industrial school, some
from that school and several from
Tuskegee.
Much could be said Of any one in
dustrial department, but there is not
space here A visit to the school will
answer better.
Nnm}pI. of PuniIC
There are now about 175 pupils
In attendance from all over this state
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Dant BoutiOr SliDyers snccia soft apn,Ie sa@s Il t
lc"' er and silk ponpons i'p variety of coorg