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lars were spent on tho Iowa, which
went ashore in fog on the French
coast near Cherbohrg and turned ON
her side. In this case appliances
were borrowed from the French gov
ernment dockyard near by, and steel
mast5 were set up. with great pulleys
at the top. Over these were passed
hawsers attached to the masts OF the
fallen Iowa: but when the strain was
put on the big vessel refused to rise.
and the attempts was abandoned after
nfteen thousand dollars had been
spent Three months later, however
the salyors made another attempt. as
tonishing in its simplicity. The YES.
sci was pumped out and made air
tight, with the result that as the fu-
rlous tide came rolling In she rose to
meet 1t as though overjoyed Mt her
own recovery. But this second effort
simple as 1t seemed, cost another
twenty thousand dollars.
1t seems to be the principle OF the
merchant marine that as long MS n
ship holds together, whether aboy
water or below. hope Is not to be
abandoned. The Wells CITY went
Gown in New FORK Harbor, and little
was seen OF her but her mast tons.
Yet she had an immensely valuable
cargo of tin plate goods, and though
the sea doctors spent one hundred
thousand on her case, there was still
an immense profit The instruments
used were enormous pumps, with such
suction power as to be capable of dis.
charging sixty thousand gallons of
water every hour.
Even huge warships similarly treat
ed; the ten thousand ton British hat.
tleship Howe was raised, after an ex-
penditure OF public money far exceed
ing her prime cost, three thousand
tons of clinging mud was pumped out
OF her. Her obstinate back had to
be broken with dynamite before she
could be moved from the spot where
she had so long INSTRUCTED naviga-
ton.
The Hoodoo Terrors.
"Hoodoo ships" are the terror OF
surgeons and owners alike, Take
The fine, handsome. brand new Daphne
as she stood newborn on the ways.
ready for long and honorable career
OF the sea. Men said devil possess-
ed her. AT the vary terminus of tie
launching ways she capsized and
drowned one hundred and twenty four
workmen. Thus early did she need
the physicians of the sea. These
righted her, rechrlstened her the
Rose for good luck-only to see her
fiii and sink at Londonderry. Pump.
ed out here. she passed over TO Mill.
port. and tore her bottom out. Float
ed again by the ever ready surgical
aides. and given yet third name, the
lanthe, by her alarmed owners, she
sun continued to seek misfortune. At
last she was sold to the Greeks, and
is at this moments sailing as the Elem
of myrna-a veritable hoodoo of the
sea.
What does the hospital bill of the
worlds shipping run into every yeare
Probably fifty million dollars at least
And this is only small traction of
the total involved In deaths. OF Care
Race alone, that fateful southeastern
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extremity of Newfoundland, one re.
cent years record Is eight fine steam
ers and two big windiammers. sent To
utter destruction. involving the loss
OF thirty-five lives and two million
dollars in hulls and cargoes. AS to
the causes of wounds short of total
loss. these may range from icebergs
to meteorites from other worlds. Why
these fragments of planets should fall
so frequently has never been explain
ed.
Talking of injury from bergs surely
the strangest case on record Is that
OF the Guion liner Arizona, New York
TO Liverpool, with five hundred and
nine passengers and n big cargo. She
was tearing over the Grand Basin at
midnight. two hundred and fifty miles
northeast of St. Johns. when without
moments warning colossal leo
castle lounged over her masts. Imag-
me the impact of the six thousand-ton
liner at eighteen knots! A frlghtful
panic ensued as the halfclad passen-
gers swarmed on deck and beheld the
mighty shape that lowered white and
CHASTITY, with cleaning crags hun
dred feet above.
Wounded almost to death. staeeer.
ing as ii in agony, the liner drew
back. with her deck and fore part ne .
tered with two hundred tons OF ice
boilders. And so she put about for
st. Johns. Never had that mort. so
famous in maritime annals. beheld
such g sight as the manned Arizona
as she limped in: Bows smashed from
toprail to keelson. with wounds TWEEN.
ty-feet wide; massive plates and eli.
ant ribs crumpled like tin; her IRON
work twisted like strands of wire.' the
great oak planking in matchwood:
and the immense stempiece bitten
clean off by tine monster she had
struck. First aid was promptly given
by the ship doctors of st. Johns: ami
then, with n temporary wooden how
built into her. lack came the ArIzo.
ma TO New York for mora permanent
treatment at the hands of specialists
OF world wide repute in tie merchant
marine.
Such Is ship surgery. And 80 profit
able may this first aid work be-, in the
ratio of half the value of the cripple
to her salvors, that many syndicates
have been formed expressly to 20 ort
into the highways and byways Of tho
sea to play the good Samaritan-at a
price.
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want and pay tho right price for 1t.
IL woman guest wants to drive
about New York she Is sent out with
hotel chauffeur, and a complete
record of the taximeter cab ia kept
In the office.
Our transportation bureau mas n
special department for women. under,
the direction OF man OF family and
his daughter. How this bureau works
ior women may be illustrated by
concrete case. At half-past twelve
one night the hotel was called up on
the phone by a young woman. Sho
stated that her train had arrived five
hours late, and she mad missed con
nections to suburb. She didn't
Know anything about the New York
hotels. Gould we help her.? Instant
ly uniformed guide was sent to the
depot He arranged for the transfer
OF her baggage to the Jersey depot
brought her TO the hotel, where the
night housekeeper met her, and she
was assigned to a room. Her friends
In Jersey, who happened to have
telephone, were notified of her safety.
In the morning the transportation
bureau took her TO the depot, saw that
5he had the right ticket and caught
per train and then notified her friends
10 meet her. If the girl had been 20.
ing to Japan the bureau would have
secured her tickets and berth or state.
room, planned connections across the
continent to Seattle. and IL at any
polnt she could not make connections
and would have wired to reliable
motel in that place to look out for her,
and would have later received re-
tn ct hot 1,k,.r
TO illustrate again: Suppose
woman guest. dining with friends in
BROOKLYN. found she would arrive In
Manhattan on the subway rather late.
A courier in uniform would be at the
3Srd street station to meet her ard
escort her to the hotel.
Once in the hotel, the woman
guest can dine with absolute comfort
IN the public dining room, or have her
meals III ner own room. There are
ladies' maids. hairdressera and seam-
stresses TO do repairing. The hotel
makes it its business to see Il, it that
It's guests are not overciiarged. and
woe be unto a cab.nan or florist or
any one else who tries sharp PRACTICE
on our woman guests or. for that mat
ter, on uny guest. Our professional
shopping guides look ou; for that.
The truth of the matter IA that a
woman with baggage can arrive at q
first class hotel any hour OF the day
or night and receive courteous treat
ment, The stories that an unencorted
woman arriving after I, o'clock at.
night has TO sit all night ia D depot
waiting room or hunt up some special
shelter Tor women Is as foolish az Il
Is malicIoi1.''
a woman can like shoet nn$ novel
IS II eonidn't have happenad iut real
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Wonders of Ship Surgery

These are days of twenty thousand
ton liners fitted with all the opulence
OF n palace at sea, and representing
more than million dollars of capt.
tai. Yet such monster Is as helpless
in a fog as any fishing boat on .ne
Grand Banks. writes w. G. Fitz Gerald
in the Syndicate Magazine. For this
reason 1t Is well worth while to main
tain colossal hospitals" for ships,
and skilled surgeons" who at mo.
ments notice may proceed to the spot
where an accident has taken place
and after swift diagnosis begin upon
more or less drastic operations, which
in hundreds of cases have sayed a
superb vessel from total destruction.
In this regard hospitals and Sur
geons" are only fanciful names for
drydocks and salvage experts, those
modern miracle workers of the sea
whose daring speculations have
snatched many a rich haul from
pounding waves and cruel rocks.
A Capital" Operation.
Take the strange case OF the MIL.
waukee. This was brand new steam.
err OF eight thousand tons, which lief.
the Tyne in ballast one lovely Septen-
her day, on her maiden voyage to New
Orleans. Steering merrily north by
the Scottish coast. she ran into a bank
of fog, and then straight on to the
awful rocks between Aberdeen and
Peterhead. Her bottom was entirely
torn out in the forward part. and he..
master sent q hurry call TO Liverpool.
even though he thought the case hone.
less with huge moss green rocks driy-
en- right through his ship and wild
seas lashing the wreck
A fleet of tugs responded as "am-
balances" and Surgeons" there were
In plenty. with the famous ship sal
vors Captains Bachelor and Pomeroy
in command. After much consultation
II was decided that all OF the patient
could not be saved. Her forward sec
ton was SO badly hurt and would Take
so long TO make ready for the final
operation. that the dreaded equinox
would surely be on the workers befor,
they were ready. For this reason il
was decided to save only the Milwau-
KEGS huge afterpart. which was
swinging dangerously in deep water
as IL in pain through her bows being
SO cruelty impaled on The jagged
rocks. And so the diflicult and deli
cate work was begun of cutting the
vessel in two at the bunker talk
heads. with view 10 wrestling from
the rocks the whole of the afterpart,
containing the big boilers. the mighty
engines. and the whirling propellers
OF phosphor bronze. IS;
Captain Bachelor, the chief "sur-
geon" in this queer operation, had a
drastic remedy at hand, He applied
a belt OF dynamite cartridges weigh
ing Ave hundred pounds all around tho
hull. taking care that the explosives
did not damage the boiler room bulk.
heads. The main operation of cutting
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A Bad FAN.

For goodness sake.' exclaimed
mama. returning from shopping trip,
whats the matter with little Tommy
"'Tis bad boomp he got ma'am.
Ye know We told ME was to let him
play upon tho pianny an onct whin
he was sliding on the top of 1t lie slid
too far Philadelphia Press.
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ers both above and below water.

The big Suevic. however, at length
dragged off nearly five hundred feet
of herself, and even this mutilateG
section was worth seven hundred ami
fifty thousand dollars. The surgery in
this case cost something like tw.,
hundred and fifty thousand dollars; so
there was profit for the underwent
ers of half II million.
No Cure, No Pay.
But the work is entirely specula-
tive. No cure, no pay" is the motto
OF this Titanic surgery; and often
enough the salvage people lose a for.
tune IN vain efforts over one vessel.
as In the obstinate case OF the unfor-
tunate liner Paris. which ran ashore
on the dreaded Manacles Rocks.
Big capital is needed. II cost TWEEN.
ty-flve thousand dollars to save the
Independent, sunk in New York. Har-
Dor; yet the task was as nothing
Compared with the salvage of the fer.
rryboat Chicago. which was worth one
hundred thousand dollars. Many
horses and wagons went down with
her. and in one of the latter was n
load of silver bars valued at thirty
thousand. dollars. The work of tie
divers in this case was made terrible
by the presence OF the bodies of the
victims. which had to be recovered
from forty-three feet of mud and wa
ter.
Costly Apparatus.
To rase wreck in the open sea in
wolves the use OF costly and compli-
Gated gear A common plan Is to
sink pontoons beneath the stricken
ship, and then pump the water ont
of them, so that they become buoy
ant. and in rising lit the submerged
hull clear of the sea floor. But in the
case of very large vessels, enormous
derricks supported on huge. squat
lighters must be hauled out to the
scene and disposed on each side above
the sunken monster And it is a won
derful and fascinating sight to watch
the giant cables as they are hauled
taut with immense power, and grad.
nally drag the mighty hull into view.
Less sensational. yet troublesome
enough, is the case of a big ship
stranded on sandy beach, high and
dry, far from her native element. vet
quite uninjured. Sometimes a wooden
slipway Is laid down and the vessel
Is hauled along the creased ways. Or
temporary canal will be dug from
ship TO sea with infinite patience and
ingenuity; SO that at high tide the
towering craft out of water may be
lowed seward. But in this case the
work must be protected from the ris-
Ing tides with thousands of sacks of
sand, otherwise the improvised canal
will be obliterated.
High Specialists Needed.
Thus, the work calls for money, pa
tience. rare judgment, and engineering
skill OF a high order. Four times was
the huge Hypatia brought to the sur
face.-a vastly profitable case to the
Surgeons" and four times she sank
again, through some failure OF the
gear
Then too tens of Thousands of dol
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Mo- fdore Leisure.

Leisure is an obsolete form OF KILL
Ing time. 1t once existed In large
quantities. 1t Is now. however, a
thing Of the past.--Life. - : :.
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Then Hampton touched spurs to his
horse and galloped swiftly forward.
CHAPTER XXI.
The Fight in the Valley,

Far below, in the heart of the sunny
depression bordering the left bank of
the Little Big Horn, the stalwart
troopers under Reno's command gazed
up the steep bluff to wave farewell to
their comrades disappearing to the
right. Last of all, Custer halted his
horse an instant, silhouetted against
the blue sky, and swung his hat be-
fore spurring out of sight.
The plan of battle was most simple
and direct. 1t involved a nearly SIM
ultaneous attack upon the vast Indian
village from below and above, success
depending altogether upon the prompt
cooperation of the separate detach-
ments. Scarcely had Clusters slender
column of horsemen vanished across
the summit before Reno's command
advanced, trotting down the valley,
the Arikara scouts in the lead. They
mad been chosen to strike the first
blow, to force their way into the lower
village, and thus to draw the defend
ing warriors to their front, while Gus
ter's men were to charge upon the
rear.
half-mile, a mile, Reno's troops
rode, with no sound breaking the ST.
lence but the pounding of hoofs, the
tinkle of accoutrements. Then, round
ing a sharp projection of earth and
rock, the scattered lodges of the In
dian village already partially revealed
to those in advance, the riders were
hrn oh 70
cracking of rifles from rock and ra-
vine. Men fell cursing, and the fright
ened horses swerved, their riders
struggling madly with their mounts,
the column thrown into momentary
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confusion. But the surprised cavalry
men, Quailing beneath the hot fire
poured into them, rallied to the shouts
of their officers, and swung into a
slender battle front, stretching out
their thin line from the bank of the
river to the sharp uplift of the west
ern bluffs. Scarcely $50 white troop
ers waited to stem as best they might
that fierce onrush of 1900 battle
crazed braves.
For an almost breathless space those
mingled hordes of Sioux and Chey-
ennes hesitated to drive straight home
their death-blow. They knew those
silent men in the blue shirts, knew
they died hard. Upon that slight
pause pivoted the fate of the day:
upon it hung the lives of those other
men riding boldly and trustfully across
the sunlit ridges above. "Audacity.
always audacity," that is the accepted
motto for cavalryman. And be the
cause what it may, it was here that
Maj. Reno failed. In that supreme in
slant he was guilty of hesitancy.
doubt, delay. He chose defense in
preference to attack, dallied where he
should have acted. The observing
savages, gathering courage from his
apparent weakness, burst forth 10 re-
sistless torrent against the slender
unsupported line, turned his flank nv
one fierce charge, and hurled the
struggling troopers back with a rush
into the narrow strip of timber border
ing the river.
The whole narrow valley seemed TO
swarm with braves; they poured forth
from sheltering coulees and shadowed
ravfnes; they dashed down in count
less numbers from the distant village
Custer, now far away behind the
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bluffs. and almost beyond sound or
the firing, was utterly ignored. Every
savage chief knew exactly where that
column was. but 1t could wait its turn.
In leaderless effort to break away
from that swift-gathering Gordon, be-
fore the red, remorseless folds should
close tighter and crush them to death.
the troopers, half of them already dis
mounted, burst from cover in an en-
deavor to attain the shelter of the
bluffs. The deadly Indian rifles
famed in their faces, and they were
hurled back, a mere fleeing mob.
searching for nothing in that moment
OF terror but possible passageway
across the stream. Through some
rare providence of God, they CHANGED
to strike the banks at spot where
the river proved fordable. They
plunged headlong in, officers and men
commingled, the Indian bullets churn-
ing up the water on every side. The
loss in that wild retreat (Which Reno
later called "charge') was heavy,
the effect demoralizing; but those who
~SNoPSO AOoA0 q opOI WSll SullSQ
defense. Even as they swung down
from off their wounded, painting horses
and flung themselves fiat upon their
faces to sweep with hastily leveled
carbines the river banks below, Ben
teen came trotting gallantly down the
valley to their aid, his troopers fresh
and eager to be thrown forward on
the f7Yln0-1in0 Tho
and like maddened lions, the rallied
soldiers of the Seventh, cursing their
folly, turned to strike and slay.
A line of skirmishers was hastily
thrown forward along the edge of the
bluff, while volunteers, urged by the
agonized cries of the wounded, en-
deavored vainly to procure a supply
OF water from the river. Again and
again they made the effort, only to be
driven back by the deadly Indian rifle
fire. By three o'clock, although the
majority of the savages had departed
down the river, enough remained to
keep up calling fire, and hold Reno
strictly on the defensive.
AS the men lay exposed to the con-
tinuous shipping fire, above the sur
rounding din were borne to their ears
the reports of distant guns. 1t came
distinctly from the northward, grow
ing heavier and more continuous
None among them doubted its ominous
meaning. Custer was already engaged
in hot action at the right of the Indian
village. Why were they kept lying
there in idleness? Why were they not
pushed forward to do their part? They
looked into each others faces God,
They were 800 now; they could sweep
aside like chaff that fringe of red
skirmishers if only they got the word.
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Hiqh Endowment.

One OF the highest and best enjoy
ments comes through what is done for
others. This is believed in theoreti-
cally, but seldom practically. If a man
has money, he imagines that the way
to enjoy it is either to keep and accu-
mulate 1T or to spend 1t on personal
qualification; yet he misses the very
finest OF its delights when he refuses
TO share it or its benefits with others.
So with our time, our talents and our
thoughts-kept to ourselves, or used
simply for our own delectation, they
do not give US a 1.-THE of the real en-
joyment that they afford when we use
them literally for the benefit Of the
family, or friends, or the community.
No one, remarks the New York Week
ly, who has once tasted the sweets Of
ministering successfully to the happi-
ness of others will, if he be intelli-
gent, ever again relapse into a purely
selfish use of his advantages, what.
ever they may be.
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Officer after officer, unable to restrain
his impatience, strobe back across the
bluff summit, amid whistling bullets,
and personally begged the major to
speak the one word which should hurl
them to the rescue. They cried. like
women, they swore through clinched
teeth, they openly exhibited their con-
tempt for such a commander, yet the
discipline of army service made active
disobedi@nce impossible. They went
reluctantly back, as helpless as chill
dren.
1t was four o'clock, the shadows of
the western bluffs already darkening
the river bank. Suddenly faint cheer
ran along the lines, andsthe men lifted
themselves to gaze up the river. Urg-
ing the tired animals to a trot, the
every halter-strap, Brant was swing
ing his long pack-train up the smoke
wreathed valley The outriding flank
ers exchanged constant shots with the
skulking savages hiding in every ra-
vine and coulee. Pausing only to pro-
tect their wounded, fighting their way
step by step, \ troop ran the gantlet
and came charging into the cheering
lines with every pound of their treas
ure safe. Weir of D, whose dismount-
ed troopers held that portion of the
line, strode a pace forward to greet
the leader, and as the extended hands
of the officers met, there echoed down
to them from the north the reports of
two heavy volleys, fired in rapid sue
cession. The sounds were clear, dis
tihctly audible even above the uproar
of the valley The heavy eyes of the
two soldiers met, their dust-streaked
faces flushed.
THAT vas a signal. Clusters signal
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Duo Up Chest of Gold.

A workman named Leznaert, en-
ployed by NJ Defrancq, a builder at
Menin, France, has made for his en-
ployer a stroke of luck which will
probably contribute also to his own
advantage He was making a trench
in the courtyard of an empty house
recently bought by n. Defrancq, when
at a depth of about three feet his pick
struck something hard. Working
around the obstruction. he at last laid
bare a metal chest of considerable
size, and this, on being forced open,
was found to contain gold coins still
negotiable to the value of $4,000.
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There is, probably, no human fac
ulty that is more in need of faithful
and patient cultivation than the judg-
ment, for there is none that has more
complications to deal with or more
difhculties to overcome. Nevertheless,
there is, perhaps, none which receives
less systematic discipline, or upon
which people are generally less will
Ing to expend labor and thought They
train their children's memory, exer-
else their powers of expression.
school them in habits Of industry, en-
durance, patience and self-control, but
seldom discipline their judgment os
teach them how to draw correct con-
clusions. That, they suppose, says
the New York Weekly, is something
which time and experience will do for
them, yet, when they see what hasty
opinions and ill-advised judgments are
continually formed by older people,
they might infer that some definite
education in this respect was neces-
sary for both young and old.