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grappled and the fighting was hand to
hand. A marine interposed his arm.
1t was cut off by the heavy weapon in
it's swift descent, but Decatur escaped
unhurt.
In the war of 1912 the marines dis
tinguished themselves in the battles on
the great lakes and on land. In Cuba,
Porto Rico Guam. Hawaii. the Philip
pines, Panama and Samoa the marines
have been first on land wherever there
was fighting or police work to do
The marine is a sort of policeman as
well as soldier The corps was Gre
ated originally with view principally
to policing war vessels That was in
the days when in order to obtain a
quota of sailors it was necessary now
and then to fill man with bad liquor
and drag him aboard. then impress
him into the service. Happily that day
has passed, so that it is not necessary
now to keep police force aboard YES
sells of war merely to quell protesting
sailors.
sample of the police work done by
the marines was their quelling of the
mutiny in the Massachusetts state
prison in 1924 Hundreds of prisoners
rebelled and were about to break out
and turn themselves loose to prey upon
the public when aidetachment of thirty
marines under Major Wainwright
marched in and broke up the mutiny
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in brief time. Some school text books
still tell the story of that affair.
First to Land In Cuba.
But 1t is as a fighter against men
equally well armed that the marine
prefers to distinguish himself. Since
the war with Spain. when the marines
were first to make landing upon Cuban
soil, when they covered the landing of
troops at Guantanamo under heavy
fire from superior force public re-
spect for this branch of the fighting
service, always high, has risen to the
hurrah altitude.
Whenever and wherever there is
any trouble or likelihood of trouble in
which the laws of nations and the
general tenets of civilization seem to
require that Uncle Sam shall take a
land the United States marines ..rn
ordered to get ready. No: they are al
ways ready. They are ordered to go to
the breaking out point for active serv-
ice. They always go cheerfully. Like
land soldiers. sometimes inactivity
pals upon them, and they long for
something really exciting.
The personnel Of the marine corps
is said to be somewhat higher in quail
ity than that Of the army. This is
said with no intention to disparage
the regular soldier
The requirements of the marine serv-
ice are such that recruiting officers
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rines that on the day of the famous
battle in Hampton Roads between the
Monitor and the Merrimac the very
first shot fired from the Confederate
ironclad killed nine marines aboard the
Cumberland and the very last shot fired
from the Monitor at the Merrimac was
from the marines.
All through the civil war the marines
did splendid service. In the primary
importance of vaster fighting affairs
their work was slurred over in pass
ing, but history has embalmed it to
posterity. Admiral Farragut used
them in opening up the Mississippi
river, the marines frequently going
ashore and fighting along with the SOL
diers. In Farragut's successful fight
in Mobile bay the marines did such he
roic work that the admiral made spe-
cial mention of them in his report
Marines With Paul Jones.
In the Revolutionary war the ma
rines fought side by side with the
sailors. When John Paul Jones of the
Bonhomme Richard took the Serapis
! forty-nine American marines out of a
force of 1877 We're killed or wounded.
1t was marine who saved the life of
Stephen Decatur when that gallant Of
fcer fought the Tripolitan gunboats. A
huge Tripolitan sailor raised his cut
lass to crash it through the skull of the
American commander when the ships
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Moody of Massachusetts, Taft cried to
induce President Roosevelt to give
Lurton the vacancy. But Roosevelt,
like Taft, had his own favorite. Taft
sat down and awaited me course of
human events Now his opportunity
has come, and he has improved it.. .
There was opposition to Justice Lur-
ton on account of his age, which is
siXty-five. 1t was expected y the OPP
position that the judiciary committee
of the senate would make objection to
his confirmation on this score. but the
president found upon inquiry that the
members of the committee were of
mind with himself as to the opinion
that Justice Lurton is in the prime OF
his powers
The new justice has had judicial ex-
perience enough to equip several ordi-
nary men for judgeships. When he
got out Of the penitentiary and the
war he vas twenty-one years old, but
he started to school again In 1867
he was graduated from the la depart
ment of Cumberland university, at
J ebanon Tenn, and began the practice
Of the profession at GAINESVILLE, in the
same state. The governor appointed
him to fill a vacancy as chancellor in
1867, and the people elected him to a
| full term. He resigned aftei three
years on the chancellor's bench and
practiced law for eight vars. During
this period for time, he acquired
! financial experience as president of a
[ national bank.
! In 1886 Judge Lurton was elected to
! the supreme court of Tennessee and
became chief justice. From that posi-
! ton he was promoted by President
4 Cleveland to he federal bench.
The new justice is accounted high
authority on constitutional law.
! THOMAS B. HART.
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Belgium Has a MacE1inist For Monarch

the cities where most of the machinery
is manufactured.
AS to the new queen parceling out
the pills. it may be recorded that she
has an M. D. degree from the Univer-
sity of Leipzig.
1t is in the manufacture of textiles,
machinery, cutlery firear,n; AMI vari-
Gus other commodities fo. export that
Belgium enriches herself Recently it
was estimated that the country exports
every year enough goods to give each,
FAMILY in the kingdom $500 if the in
come were divided equally.
Laces from Belgium go all over the
world. In the lace factories of Client.
Louvan and Bruges 1906 women are
employed The output is about s1O,-
100000 a year
II is to be said to the everlasting
credit of Leopold IL, whose personal
protllSacy was notorious and whose
rule In the kongo was for years a
shock TO civilization. that he ruled Bel
gium with statesmanlike sagacity.
To turn TO the other side of the shield.
one of the harshest things ever writ
ten about the second Leopold as ex-
ploiter of the Kongo is this sonnet by
William Watson. tho British poet now
visiting the United States. Leopold
of Belgium is the title:
khalifs and khans have we beheld who
trod
The people as one neck beneath their
heel
Whose revel was the woe they could moi
feel.
Whose pastime was the dripping scourge
and rod
Who shook swift death on thousands with
NOD
And made mankind as stubble to their
steel,
Who slew for faith and heaven in dread
full zeal
To pleasure him whom they mistook for
Gou
No zeal, no faith. inspired this Leopold
Nor any madness of half splendid birth.
Merely he loosed the hounds that rend
and Stay
That he might have his fill of loathsome
gold.
Embalm him. Time Forget him not.
Earth.
Trumpet his name and flood his doads
with day.
| But Leopold gave up at last his pri-
rate holdings in the Kongo, turning
4 over to Belgium that vast interest II
/ is hardly to be doubted that King AL
| bert will rule his African empire with
| a renewal of that benevolent ideal of
philanthrophy which is said to have
inspired his ro-ai uncle until Leopold's
greed for "loathsome gold" overmas-
tered him ROBERT DONNELL
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VI n Cincinnati nearly seventeen years
ago a large young man introduced
n a smaller but considerably older
a man to each guest at a morning
reception in honor of the latter Then
HE introducer and the guest of honor
proceeded arm in arm to the United
states circuit court, where the heavier
man administers to the lighter man
the oath of Office as one of his brother
judges of that bench.
The big man was William Howard
Taft of Cincinnati. The other was
Horace Harmon Lurton of Clarksville,
Tenn. The other day Mr.. Taft, as
president of the United States. APP
pointed Judge Lurton an associate JUS
tice of the supreme court OF the United
States to succeed the late Rufus w.
Peckham of New York.
Justice Lurton is a Democrat, an eX-
Confederate, and is the only man ever
appointed to the supreme bench who
has served time in pen1tentlary.
Don't draw quick conclusions. Justice
Lurton was prisoner of war, but his
place of imprisonment was the ONO
state penitentiary at Columbus where
he remained from the summer of 1863
until the close of the civil war.
Lurton, who was born in Kentucky
was seventeen years old when the war
began For two years he had been
studying at university in Chicago,
He went straight home and joined the
Confederate AIR. but was discharged
from service ext year because or
r. ,,ealth Y g got well he re-en-
"A and " zen prisoner at Fort
4 uelson. l. .apcd A few weeks
! rr he mao, his third enlistment,
ieining General John H Morgan cele-
orated cavalry brigade.
In midsummer o. 1868 young Lurton
accompanied Morgan on the noted raid
INTO Ohio. circling around Taft's home
.own, lWilliam H then being but a
small boy, and with Morgan and many
others Lurton was captured and sent
10 the state prison by the federal au-
thorities The war department had
discovered that John Morgan was 4
mighty good man to keep inside high
stone wall until hostilities ceased, but
The Kentucky raider escaped and went
back into the service. only to be be-
rayed by a supposed friend in Ten
sAaaae and shot ia daath. Tnrtnn fail
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England used to hold her marines in
contempt. The expression Tell it to
the marines" from which the recent
Tell it TO the Danes" is derived, was
an outgrowth Of that contempt. What
ever the British may think or may
have thought of their marines, those
in the United States service never yet
have merited any mans contempt,
During the Mexican war. as a mark OF
honor for distinguished service on land,
the chevrons on the uniforms of the
marines were turned point up. 1t was
stipulated that If ever that arm of the
service dtscredited itself the chevrons
would he reversed.
The chevrons still point up.
Not only have the marines fought
bravely and effectually in every one of
our wars, but they have done all the
fighting in several incipient wars
abroad And no foreign nation ever
vet whipped the United States.
Marines First at Pekin.
# by reason of any curious kinll II
the cerebral nerves anybody imagines
that the United States marine is play
boy. let him recall the work Of this
arm of the military service during the
Boxer uprising in China. 1t was the
United States marines that were first
over the walls of Pekin, in the van of
the forces of all the other nations en-
gagged in that fierce assault.
! Go tell that about the marines.
Go tell also that for a month before
the final assault the United States ma
lines bore the brunt of the fighting,
when the combined forces of several
nations held off the Chinese fanatics
and saved from humiliation the for
eign ministers and residents. Many
foreign officials rendered special thanks
and praise to the United States ma
rines for their services in China.
You m hit also tell it about the ma
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command of the first detachment sent
to sea. Colonel Biddle belongs to al
old time Philadelphia family. His ia
Their was Captain John Biddle. who
served in the civil war with distinc-.
ton President Grant in 1875 APP
pointed Bidd!e to the marine corps as
second lieutenant. Meritorious work
advanced him to a captaincy. Under
the personnel bill he was made a ma
jor. He became "a colonel Feb. 49,
1905. For some time he has been COM
mandant OF. marines at the Brooklyn
navy yard
Colonel Biddle possesses medal of
honor bestowed upon him for service
with Admiral Dewey at the battle of
Manila Bay in 1898. He was on the
flagship Olympia during the fight
which destroyed Montijo's Spanish
| fleet. After the battle he headed the
force of marines that landed at Cavite,
| and for two months his mon garrison
ed the port. -
H. Colonel Mahoney is one of the ma;
rine officers who helped to save the
4 day at Guantanamo when the sea SOL
diers went ashore to cover the landing
of the troops. He received for his
4 service that day the brevet captain.
4 For eleven years he has commando
ed the marine barracks at Washing
| ton.
Major Smedley D. Butler is another
! distinguished marine WHO is in the
| Nicaraguan detail. At Tientsin he was
shot while trying to carry wounded
soldier TO safety under the fire of the
enemy
Whatever message President Taft
and Secretary Knox desire to be taken
to Nicaragua. there seems no doubt
that the marines will tell it to Zelaya.
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are compelled to insist upon an appli-
cant for enlistment showing general
qualifications little higher than the
average soldier recruit. The marines
are small but select body of men.
The percentage of riffraff material
accepted is very low. AS a conse
quence assertions are less frequent in
proportion to numbers than is the
case in the army.
This fact may be due in part. how
ever. to the difference in the kind of
service experienced The marines get
sea voyages. see many foreign ports
and cities and enjoy adventures in in
teresting lands. while many of the
soldiers never set far outside their
prosy barracks. An assignment to the
Philippines is about the only ocean
voyage the soldier may expect. and he
is not sure Of that. but most of the
marines are sure to get as much sea
service as their land legs desire.
The marine corps is Differed by
men of high military efficiency. The
commandant is Major General George
r. Elliott, an Alabaman by birth. APP
pointed from New York. He has seen
forty years of marine corps service
and has worked his way up step by
step.
Brave Men In Command.
Colonel William P. Biddle. the rank
ing colonel of the corps. in all prob
ability will command the operations in
Nicaragua so far as the marines are
concerned. In the event of an unex-
pected emergency General Elliott him
self may take the field.
! Colonel Biddle was detailed TO the
duty a few days after Lieutenant Colo
ne. James E. Mahoney was placed in
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tice Peckham's death-six Republicans
and three Democrats Much pressure
was brought to bear upon President
Taft to induce him to name a Repub-
lican The president was determined
from the first to elevate Judge Lurton.
with whom he served for years on the
federal circuit bench. Lurton was APP
pointed TO that bench by President
Cleveland in 1898 and has been Judge
of the Sixth judicial circuit ever since,
with principal headquarters at Nash
vile, Tenn. Mr.. Taft discovered that
Judge Lurton was a lawyer of excep-
tional ability and determined if oppor-
tunity presented, to place him on the
supreme bench.
Prior to the appointment of Justice
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Hazel Twiqs Find Water.

Hazel twigs long have been used as
instruments with which to discover
water underground. The twig has at
various times been credited with many
marvellous powers. Not only could it
discover water. but concealed lodes of
metal, especially silver, were betrayed
by the hazel, which, according to ira
dition, was guided by the pixies who
guarded the treasures of the earth
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Albert of Flanders, Succeeding at Leopold
Death. Is Married to Graduate Doctor
and Scientific Writer

way Of expressing it may sound face
tious. the reader is assured that the
writer is using figure of speech with
a serious purpose.
Belgium is pre-eminently an indus
trial nation. Her greatest industry is
the manufacture of machinery. King
Albert from Ills boyhood has main
tanned workshop in which he expert
ments in mechanical invention He
could work skillfully in almost any of
the machine shops at Licge or Seraing,'
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sorace Fl. Lurton, Democrat. Morgan
Raider, War Prisoner, Was Presidents
Associate or Federal Bench

ed to escape, but he lives to become a
member of the supreme bench of the
nation against which he fought and,
curiously enough, he is appointed by a
member of the party of Abraham Lin
coin and native of the state which he
helped to terrfy in 1868.
Justice Lurton's appointment keeps
the makeup of the supreme court the
same politically that it was before JUS
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cure industrially and physiologically
when Albert and Elizabeth of Flanders
get into good working shape as sue
cessors to the royal prerogatives and
household of the late King Leopold IL
The new king can oil the wheels of in
dustry, while the new queen can parcel
out pills to pale people While this
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Sore Eyes From Moonliaht.

Moonlight, most intense, sometimes
causes sore eyes in Cuba, and the ma
tives navigate and perambulate with
umbrella and paraluna.
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Canton's Popularity.

Canton China. is the coolest place on
the globe for it's latitude. the one place
in the tropics where snow occasionally
falls
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= = - GstE -. - IN <.
The blue marine :, dandy man,
A gritty and Il sandy man,
Wherever he's demanded.
oh. he's the nations handy man!
Where there is need to land a man
The handy man is landed.
NJ n ow that several COMPANIES Of
EAE United States marines have
| W gone to Nicaragua to aid in
restoring peace there is a re-
newal: of public interest in what the
British term the handy man" Rud-
yard kipllngs definition of the marine
S incorrect les Il sort of a bloomin'
mopolouSc-soldcr and sailor too
says Kipling. but the marine is not a
sailor He is soldier undoubtedly
both d sea soldier and a land soldier
The marine need possess no qualifi-
cations, for Scamanship He has moth
ing to do with running the vessel on
which he may sail Sometimes the
marines arc called upon TO man the
secondary battery in a sea fight, but
their principal business is to rest up
while on board. keep their land legs in
and so ashore when nrces-
sary where they fight just like land
soldiers a.l
Marines Sc the World.
At present the marine force numbers
about 10000 men A thousand of these
Fave been sent to Nicaragua Several
thousand Of them went around the
world With the Atlantic battleship fleet
il its memorable cruise during the
Roosevelt administration But TO GO
around She world is not much of an
experience for United States marines
historically speaking These fighters
nave touched at nearly every port since
the marine corps was organized l3S
years ago They have landed at many
ports and done valiant fighting service
against foreign foes.
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VI VA Nth qualified machinist
q ~ \ for king and graduate
" " doctor for queen little
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OW that several companies of
United States marines have
gone to Nicaragua to aid III
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
DEAD FROM THE PLUWOSE
Two Bodies Recovered from the
Wrecked French Submarine.
NATION is IN MOURNING
Americans Contribute Literally
to Charity Performance for
Victims of Disaster.
LRr Gable 70 Tn. Tribune. ]

Paris. June 1.-THE raising OF the
French submarine Pluviose at Calais
elicits spontaneous outburst of synpa-
thy for the victims. The feeling pre-
vaiIing in Paris and through France to-
day in it's way resembles national
mourning.
A charity performance arranged at
the Opera House for the victims Of the
Pluviose on Sunday. June 10. is being
Hberally subscribed to. and Americans
in this take prominent share. Among
the American gifts in the form Of the
purchase of boxes or stalls may he men
toned the following: Robert Bacon.
amba ssador. $1,000; william K. Van
derbilt. $1,000: Percy Peixotto, $1,000:
Mrs. Marshall Field. $500; Mrs. Living
ston Simpson. $500; James Gordon Ben
nett, $500; James Hazen Hyde. $500.
and scores of other Americans, residents
or tourists. in sums varying from SO to
$500 each.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
LoNDoN's LEPER PROBLEM
Metropolitan Health Authorities in
Predicament Over Patient.

London, June f.-'The metropolitan health
authorities do not know what to do with
an unfortunate man who is suffering from
Ieprosv and has been sent from the London
Hospital to the Whitechapel Union Inhru-
airy.
The traditional dread of infection from
this disease would seem to render isolation
necessary. But so absolutely has leprosv
been eradicated from England and Eurona
generally that no place of isolation nov,
exists where this afflicted man NAV ba
taken and maintained.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has haan
communicated with on the subject but ca
far nothing has been done in the matter
of providing quarters for the man Tbero
fore he remains in the union infirmar,
AT the London Hospital II is stated tn.
no doubt exists regarding the nature Of tho
complaint.
In Eastern countries where the disco.
is unfortunately too commonplace "a 4rci.o
more than casual pity, the dread OF cor
tagion is not so great as 1t is here
Within the last few months futile 90
forts have been made in Bombay. the ,ara
est city In India. TO induce the sutboritio.
TO take action for segregating the tho,,
sands Of lepers. mostly mendicants vI-.
infest the thoroughtares of that great nor,
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
BIG Church CONGRESS
Practical Approach to Unity in
Meeting in Edinburgh.
MANY BODIES REPRESENTED
Enthusiasts Predict New Cru
SADIE for Evangelization of
the World.
rBy Gable to The Tribune ]

London. June 1.-THE Worlds Mis-
sionary Congress at Edinburgh next
week will be a practical approach to
Church unity About one hundred and
sixty religious bodies and separate So
cieties have sent delegates. About five
hundred delegates are Americans and
seven hundred are British and colonial.
Native churches in important mission
airy fields will be represented by leading
workers
A series of commissions has been col
Iecting facts during the last two years.
and reports printed in nine volumes will
be discussed from day to day. This
unique library may enable the Congress
to revise and improve missionary meth
ods which is the main motive of the
gathering.
The presence of a large body of Ameri-
can laymen Is an indication that prac-
tical measures Will he adopted for i'm
parting unity to missionary operations
and for improving the equipment of the
workers. The formation of an interna-
tionaI advisory committee is probable.
Enthusiasts talk about a new crusade
for the evangelization Of the world.
They may be oversanguine, but there is
likely TO be a great gain of efficiency in
consequence of the suspension Of de-
nominational differences and the demand
for unity of direction.
An important series of letters and
greetings will be read on Tuesday when
Lord Balfour of Burleigh takes the
chair The Archbishop of Canterbury
will make one of the earliest addresses
and Robert E. Speer, from America,
may follow him. John R. Mott, who
rivals Mr.. Speer in oratory, will pre-
side over the discussions and the re-
ports of the commissions.
Honorary degrees will be conferred by
the University of Edinburgh upon both
Mr.. Speer and Mr.. Mott, and also upon
Seth Low and DR.. Douglas Mackenzie.
Among other American delegates are
William Jennings Bryan, Silas McBee,
DR.. w. II. Roberts. DR.. Thomas S. Bar
bour. DR.. F. P. Haggard, Joshua Lever
ing, DR.. Howard D. Bridgman, President
Capen, Bishops Bashford and Hartzell.
the Rev. DR.. Buckley, the Rev. DIR.
George Alexander, Mrs. John S. Ken
nedy, William G. Low, W. J. Schieffelin.
and Bishops Lawrence, Brent, Ander-
Root, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. A large majority of the Ameri-
can delegates are already in England.