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annapolis harbor On these boa+s +ho,, do
all the work of the enlisted men. There is
notnlns 100 nara or too dirty in a hand and
CLONES so1l1ng way for the "middies, in the
line of sailor labor. They do if all uncom.
pialnlngly. Discipline serves, if willingness does
not TO keep the lads in the line of dutv There
are Few n1ceties in the initial life of the sailor
mere Is something of regularity about the
life OF the student at the naval academy. If
tnere should be any doubt on this point a
glance at the daily routine of the fourth class
men, the "pebes" of the school, will bring
conviction.
Here is the daily round of work as set down
in the books
500 a. m-Reveille, except on SUNDAYS
and holidays
O:5O a. m.-Breakfast formation Breakfast
sweeping and arranging of rooms and making
OF their beds by the midshipmen themselves.
g. a Information for first period drill
seamanship ordnance
1918 a. m-Drills in either ordnance or
seamanship.
1890 p. m.-Dinner formation
300 p m.-Seamanship drills in either cut
tiers or launches
5:OO p. m.-Swimming. Recreation period
$50 p. m.-Supper formation
500 to 300 p. m.-Drills in either gymna-
SUM armory
$3.50 p ns.-Gun fire.
S:SU p. m.-Warning call for beds
IO:OO p. m.-"Taps' and "aIl lights OUT
The hard work of the officer sailors contin-
ues after the academic days are over There
are duties on the modern man-of-war of which
the old wooden-ship sailor knew nothing In
the earlier days, when there was nothing to do
on board. the jackies were set to work polish
ing the brasses which already shone resplen-
dent with much polishing. The captain be-
heved thoroughly that the devil always was
about with tempting tasks for the idle hands to
do, and as he wished to be in supreme COM
mand of his ship he never gave the devil
moment to ply his trade. They polish the
brasses on the modern men-of-war, but not
oftener than they need polishing. There il
no waste time for officers or crew.
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NOT A MATTER OF LOYALTY.
Simple But Insuperable Reason Why
Subject Could Not Kneel
Before His King.

One fancies that few types Of men.
can. from time to time, have afforded
royalty more amusement of a quiet
sort than provincial majors of Eng
land. From the Forelaud to Pen
zance," by Give Holland, contains tho
story of a mayor of Weymouth who,
during one of the visits of King
George to the town, was destined to
afford comic relief to a ceremony Of
some Importance.
The occasion was the presentation
Of an address of welcome to the king,
and we are told that the mayor, on ap-
preaching to present it, to the aston
ishment and dismay of all, instead of
kneeling, as he had been told to do,
seized the queens hand to shake IL
as he might that of any other lady.
Col. Gwynne, the master of the cere-
monies, hurriedly told him of the
faux pas, saying: "You should have
kneeled, sir
"Sir, cannot" was the reply.
Everybody does, sir" holly asserted
the colonel.
The mayor grew red, and evidently
much upset, exclaimed: "Confound II,
sir, but I've got wooden leg!"
History records that "a smile sui.
fused the face of her majesty, and the
king laughed outright."-Youth's Com.
panion
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after. Moreover, with the fight over, things
are better for the others of the crew. who
suffer from the friction of the i'll feeling and
are glad to have the affair settled and the
bitterness thrown overheard. visitor
the accidental witness of such fight on
man-of-war which he boarded In Hampton
Roads. The most striking feature of the thing
was the celebrity with which the petty officers
disappeared when the row began.
The Frigate Santee, one of the strong ones"
of the elder naval day, is moored close to
wharf in the naval academy grounds. The
Santee is rooted over and made comfortable
for living quarters The vessel however, is
isolated, and when one gets into the bowels of
the hold he is cut off from the world as COM.
pletely as if he were in mine. Light he
does get and this is much when the matter
of confinement is considered. When a mid
shipman does something to break the regula-
tons which the ordinary punishments will not
meet efectually he is locked up on board
the Santee, where he is given a chance to
think over the sin of disobedience and to re-
cite a penitential psalm or two if he is re-
ligiously inclined.
The Santee is not altogether a pleasant
berth. 1t is the dearth of companionship that
hurts, and term the ship generally works
a rapid change of mind and heart in the con-
fined one.
Ellnu b riley recently toIo the story OF
Midshipman Coombs, who was locked up in
the hold of the Santee for breach of academy
discipline 1t was a terribly cold night in
winter and two skaters were carried away
an ice foe into the waters beyond the prison
ship Coombs heard the cries for help. and.
dressed only in his underwear, he crawled
through portfolio and started over the break
ing ice to the rescue. He was Joined by other
and much better clad rescuers from the Shore
but he kept on and was the first at the scene
of danger. Coombs pulled oar in the boat
that put out from the edge Of the ice to bring
back the imperiled ones. The next day the
superintendent of the academy told Coombs
he was brave lad and sent him back to his
comrades in barracks.
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An EGHT MlH Gun.

father and mother, the presumptuous petit
toner would find himself facing a court-mar-
tial on the charge of attempting to smash that
holy of holies-precedent
The first cadet West Points walls held
was not allowed to take meals away from
the mess hall, and the last cadet the academy
will hold in the time to be, must dine where
his forerunner dined a century ago and be
content with the place and the fare.
The West Point cadets have a little the
best of the Annapolis midshipmen in some
ways. The Irritation walk at the military
school runs through cool and very much
sequestered way along the wooded bluff of the
river. The Irritation walk of the naval school
is called Lovers Lane, and it runs broad and
open under the high-branched trees. The sail
or and his lass who can f1irt there unseen hold
the magician's lost art of invisibility. There
are 40 self-constituted chaperons for every
pair of lovers, and then there is the sentinel
who may desire blindness from sheer love of
lover, but whose orders keep his eyes open
and at an admiral's orders not even Love
may laugh.
There are shower baths in the room of the
midshipmen in the Bancroft hall barracks.
Years ago bathing was considered a luxury
six days in the week and a necessity only
on Saturday night. The fact that they can
and do battle daily has not enervated the
midshipmen. Their quarters are severely
plain, but they have running water and the
boys are not bucket carriers four times
day, as are their comrades of the military
service in the Hudson highlands.
The Annapolis students seem to be happy
lot, even though they work harder than the
boys at Harvard Yale. If the students of
the civilian schools were confronted with
tasks such as the sailors look on daily there
would be no students to sit on the Yale fence
or to gather in the Harvard yard. The college
man pays for his course and rightly expects
something like an OCCASIONAL rest; the Annapo-
lis man is paid to study and to work. and he
earns his wage
All this work of body and mind agrees with
the "middies" apparently, for they are as
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OVER THE FENCE
Neighbor Says Something.

The front yard fence is a famous
council place on pleasant days. Maybe
to chat with some one along the street,
or for friendly gossip with next door
neighbor. Sometimes it is only small
talk but other times neighbor has
something really good to offer.
An old resident of Baird, Texas, got
some mighty good advice this way
once.
He says:
Drinking coffee left me nearly dead
with dyspepsia, kidney disease and
bowel trouble, with constant pains in
my stomach, back and side, and so
weak l could scarcely walk.
Zone day was chatting with one of
my neighbors about my trouble and
told her / believed coffee hurt me.
Neighbor said she knew lots of people
20 whom coffee was poison and she
pleaded with me to quit it and give
Postum a trial. / did not take her
advice right away but tried a change
of climate, which did not do me any
good. Then dropped coffee and took
up Postum.
MY improvement began Immediate
ly and got better every day / used
Postum.
My bowels became regular in two
weeks. all my pains were gone. Now
am well and strong and can eat any
thing want to without distress. All
of this is due to my having quit cot
fee, and to the use of Postum regu-
larly.
My son who was troubled with indi.
gestion thought that If Postum helped
me so, 1t might help him. It did. too.
and he Is now well and strong again.
We like Postum as well as we ever
liked the coffee and use it altogether
In my family in place of coffee ana ALI
keep we'll" There's Reason" Read
The Road to MELVILLE" in Pkgs.
Ever read the above lefterf
one appeers from ttme 60 tfme. Tkev
are genuine trues and fan O. hnne.
interest. .1A1
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healthy looking ships crew as one can
find in a coastwise journey. The. are ath-
letes. every one. and show that they are proud
of it. In the gymnasium. through which ne
gro who is much of delight linguistically,
shows the visitor, are the records of individual
athletic achievements of nlidshipmen who had
outdone their fellows. On one appears the
name of Midshipman Worth Bagley of North
Carolina. Poor Bagley! Only a few short
months after he had made this record he made
a heros record in fight with the Spaniards
and gave up his life for his country in ma,
king it.
The ''middies" are taught to box in the
gymnasium, and the bouts" are Interesting, %
so it is said Boxing is of as much service
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to the sailor at times as is workmanship,
and no lad is graduated from Annapolis who
is not qualified to give good account of him.
self in fight with all weapons but bare fists
barred. The enlisted men of the navy know
the boxing game, and it is this that makes
them come out with fairly short casualty
list when the shore leave play in foreign ports
gets tri1e rough.
The modern battleships are none too large
for the comfortable quartering Of their crews.
When two men have CROUCH the word
goes, it frequently happens that they have it
out somewhere in the seclusion of an iron
walled corner of lower deck This applies
to enlisted men and not the "middies," though
possibly such things occur in the student
ranks.
AS a rule the sailors are allowed to fight
it out unchecked. 1t is the only plan worth
considering for two men who have fought and
have shown pluck have mutual respect there
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mans life, taking it all in all, from reveille
to taps, is an easier round of existence than
that of his brother, the West Point cadet.
The sailors work is as hard as that of the
soldier, but he has more creature comforts
and much more liberty to go and come
There is still altogether too much of what
the English visitor called the "beastly grind"
of life at the naval school, but time is bring
ing relief 1t will never bring relief to the
West Pointers, for at the military academy
tradition rules hard, and what was good
enough for Cadets Grant and Lee is good
enough to-day for their successors.
The delights of town life shut off from
the sea school students, for at certain times
they may attend what they irreverently call
society blowouts," and they may dine at
the hotels and do other things that are not
denied to boys at civilian schools. If a cadet
at West Point were to ask permission to dine
at the hotel the reservation, even with his
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The MILDLY" has full OPP
portunity before graduation
to know what his sea life is
to be. He makes three prac-
tee cruises, each of three
months duration, in the
course of his school career.
The sea trade is hard. yet
alluring. There are some
designations, but the sailor
will tell you that the re-
signed ones have a daily
yrowl with themselves all
through their land living, to
which the growl of the quar-
ter deck is a babes protest.
The Annapolis midship-
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when he may require it of
others, is impressed upon
him from the start. Instruc-
ton in feet tactics is pro-
gressive, extending through
the course and in the last
year the actual maneuvers
Of a fleet are practiced with
a fleet of 20 steam cutters"
The "middies of course
are given progressive in
struction in all things that
pertain to the modern men
of-war. For practice during
the first periods of the sea-
manship lessons the steam
launches are pressed into
service, and then the BOYS
are taken aboard the small
gunboats which lie in the
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AN INDIGESTION
REMEDY FREE

Many people who are otherwise
healthy suffer from indigestion, or
dyspepsia. When you consider that
the stomach and allied digestive or
gans are the most important organs
Of the body. 1t would seem that q dis
order there is to be taken very seri-
ously.
Dyspeptics cannot eat the things
they like; food sours in the stomach.
then chronic constipation begins, or,
as is often the case, you have been
constipated all along, and the stools
are forced and irregular.
But there is no use letting Indigestion
go until 1t becomes chronic and under
mines your health. 1t is good advice to
suggest to you that you go 10 your drug
gist and get a bottle of DR., Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin, the wonderful cure for
stomach. liver and bowel troubles That
Is what c. Fowler, of Carson City, Mich.
did and he is well to-day. Others who did
the same and are cured are Ida A For
tune, OF Grand junction, Tenn, B. F.
Thompson, of Shenandoah, Ia, who ac-
tually considers that it saved his life.
You can obtain a 5O-cent or 81 bottle of
the druggist, and, taken according to d.
rections, it will probably be all you need.
1t Is liquid, acts gently, never gripes,
and besides the laxative effect, contains
exceptional tonic properties which tone
the stomach, and that is what is espe-
cially needed in Indigestion.
All sufferers from indigestion who have
never used DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
can obtain free test bottle by writing
the doctor. 1t will be sent direct to your
home without any charge. In this way
thousands have proven to their own sat
isfaction DR.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsn is
the very remedy they needed to cure in
digestion. When once you use this grand
remedy you will throw violent cathartics,
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tablets. salts, ETC.. away.
If there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or If you want
any medical advice, write
to the doctor, and he will
answer you fully. There Is
no charge for this service.
The address is DR.. w. B.
Caldwell. POI Caldwell bldg,
Monticello, Ill.
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lieve that she isn't saving money
when she spends ten cents in car fare
In order to obtain a dollar article for
SO cents.
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A Plea for Bachelors.

There are few people in the com.
munity more generous. according to
their means. MOI unselfish, and more
self-denying than the much-maligned
bachelor class. Why, then. should It
be taxed? If tax is required. let It
be levied on the pampered. petted.
overindulged. usually ungrateful mar
ried man.-London Daily Graphic.
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The reports of the Central of Geor-
gia Railroad for the fiscal year just
ended show very neat increase in
their earnings. Their net earnings
for the year are $3,O69,773 above the
operating expenses. This does not
take in the Improvements and ad-
vantages, taxes, dividends, interest,
etc. 1t would seem from this that the
railroads are not in such bad condi-
ton as they make out they are
Walker County Messenger.
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In his capacity as Collector of the
Port of New York, there is no ques-
ton but that Mr..
The Khayet Loeb has done some
Case. excellent service, in
what might be called
the direct and the indirect way. He
has set a new pace for his subordi-
mates to follow. He has been firmly
convinced that the duty of collector
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Summary otEvemts

The Ballinger-PinchOt row has not
quoted at the wave of Mr.. Taft's
serene, fat hand. 1t
The Two is, from yelled an
Cabinet Officers tagonism, become
Still at Odds. open warfare. Mr..
Taft broadcasted an
elaborate defense of the Secretary,
which had about it the semblance of
calm, judicial findings. But, alas,
he fell into the error Of presenting
only a part of the truth, which at
once removes from the document it's
deceptive dignity of tone and puts it
where it belongs-in the category of
partisan pleading. Mr.. Pinchot does
not hesitate to continue his fight
against Ballinger, and his reiteration
of the charges of the formation of
gigantic power trust, to which Bal
linger is subservient. Ex-Governor
Pardee, of California, recently came
out in a card which throws much
light upon the one-sided, delusive
character of the Presidents state
ments in regard to the Cunningham
land claims. He had been among
those chided for criticising the Int
riOr Department, and his reply GER
tainly shows his criticism justified.
He said:
cat the irrigation congress | read
a copy of letter approved by Secre-
tary Ballinger and directing that over
four million acres of land, previously
withdrawn by Garfield to save power
sites from being grabbed, should be
restored to entry. This was but one
of the several similar orders ap-
proved by Secretary Ballinger. The
President mentions but one order of
Ballinger's restoring to entry only
one million and half acres and says
this order of restoration was upon
recommendation of the reclamation
service.
Il have seen documentary evidence
that the reclamation service argued
with Secretary Ballinger against the
restoration order Of which the Presi-
dent speaks and that it reluctantly
made the recommendation only. after
having been repeatedly ordered by
Secretary Ballinger to do So
Altogether, the little breeze may
turn out to be storm in spite Of all
Taft can do to al1ay it, And Pinchot
has the public strictly with him.
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was to collect and has been no re-
spector of persons in carrying out
that duty. The way he went after
the Sugar Trust for it's stealings was
gratifying, and this constitutes one
instance of distinguished direct pub
lie service.
Keying his men to a more rigid
standard of vigilance against snug
Cling has had some results apt to
cause Mr.. Loeb some embarrassment,
however, as in the suit being brought
by Mrs. Aces Khayet against him.
The complaint made by this lady is
such as to cause the American to
hang his head in shame, and it is
scarcely probable that Mr.. Loeb will
view the matter otherwise than as
humiliating to himself as responsible
head of the Port. Although he alleges
that he has been in receipt of infor-
nation that Mrs. Khayet had been
the fact that she and her three chill
dren were, upon suspicion, stripped
stark naked by customs officers and
subjected to the indignity Of as rigid
a search as the Russian police could
make of suspected Nihilist, will
more than outweigh any smuggling
able was found in the possession Of
this lady or her children, and the
nervous shock they underwent, it is
alleged, has had most serious conse-
quences for them all. Mr.. Loeb must
assuredly regret the length to which
these underlings went.
This case, however, could, despite
it's deplorabIe features, be termed an
indirect service. 1t shows the oper-
alton of our beautiful tariff law in
one of it's phases. Tt is all very we'll
to say that if people had not persist
emily tried to smuggle, no such
thing as breaking open trunks, de-
iations, would greet the returning
traveller: the fact that people will es-
say to bring in dutiable articles free
only proves that in spite of every
specious protection plea, the individ-
ual is for free trade whenever he
comes in contact with any of the dis
agreeab1es of the tariff. If the wives
and daughters of some high protec-
tionists should happen to be stripped,
with as little ceremony as is shown
a Congo slave girl, their ideas might
undergo some modification. Any
thing that is wrong in principle, is
pretty apt to work out badly in &C
tual practice, and the Khayet Incl
dent is but one of many tariff evils.
King Peter, Of Servia, has of late
become quite a house plant, the rea-
son being the penchant
The Job Is of certain of his de-
Playing Out. voted subjects to re-
lieve him of the bur
den of life and reigning. Their anna
bic attitude to him is: "Wait It'll we
ketch we out, when yer ma amt look
I'M" and he has accordingly become
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-07

If you haven't got hook-worm dis
ease, go to work to earn that ten
dollar prize
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1u1ICSu W JlIC dlISduy
There is, however, no such distinction
in Constitutional law. The newest
State becomes, upon admission, pos
sessed of identically as many rights
as the Oldest.
Of course, if it be maintained that
the gift was for specific purpose,
and the donors purpose is being de-
feated by the donee, some very diff
cult complications might develop
the burden of proof, however, rest
ing upon the Federal government
Peace has come in for a few hon
ors Of late. The Hudson-Fulton cell
ebratiOn has engross-
Celebrations. ed New York City
and all who could get
there, in commemoration of the first
important steps in steam navigation
To Denis Papin, French physician,
is accorded the honor of being prob
ably the first man to navigate a boat
by steam, in 1907; while John Fitch
made the first American attempt to
apply steam to navigation, in 1885.
But Robert Fulton's name will al
ways be associated with the practical
blishment of a regular steamboat
service between New York and AL
bany just century ago. Models Of
the "Clermont" that first packet
boat, and of the Half Moon, the
small sailing vessel in which Henry
Hudson explored the river which
bears his name, three hundred years
ago, in quest of the passage of In
dia'', have been interesting features
of the great water pageant.
Paris is taking a weeks holiday
to celebrate the Tooth anniversary
course of which a magnificent statue
of him, by Rodin, the great French
sculptor, was unveiled. Meantime,
our modern scouts of civilization,
Cook and Peary, have come in for
honors, only marred by the unfortu-
nate controversy which still RACES as
to which first-or which really
reached the Pole. The military hero
has been somewhat in eclipse, which
is welcome indication that the
world will not always save all it's
bouquets for the victors in war, but
have flower or two for all who de-
serve it.
ST. Louis is this week celebrating
it's Centennial. A feature of this will
be the effort to get as many mayors
as possible to attend a conference for
the exchange of ideas relative to mu-
nicipal government Toronto, Can
ada, and st. Joseph, Mo-, have been
the latest additions to the cities try
ing out the Commission plan and
a gathering of wide-awake mayors
would doubtless devote much time to
a study of this plan, with it's various
notifications.
In his capacity as Collector of the