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Show 1 NOT WORKING THIS SEA3j;i. C&ICHAfeD There used to b a wonderful echo heie, I understand. " Hut last year Yes, sir, marvelous. ona of the tourists Insulted it and now KI.KKT of 16 battleships v-- : the around teaming . globe affords at night a which Bub Watspectacle It won't answer. kins. the captain's coxswain, calls 'Tillin'." "What At St. Louis Lawyers Talk. do they look like after had an Circuit Judge Reynolds dark?" I asked before we no meed that he would hear Jurors started. "Like a string who had excuses to oiTer for not serv of cheap drug stores, lnj;. and a dozen American citizens suid the midshipman who crxwded up to the bench to tell their had been way over to were as trouble s Their excuses the Mediterranean on bis varied as those who were bidden to the feast that the Bible tells about practice cruise and who was therea man of the world. die bad an Important engagement fore and another rould not hear very well, But It Is better than that. Home time ago they took the green and another had sickness In his fam !;y, and another had duties to per shades off all the lights in the offform which nobody else on earth could icers staterooms, became they shone the peris and made the men-o- f perform, and another was going on through war look like- eitizen liners. Even u Journey. And so it went. The last man In the line wauted to now the lights thine out of the ports lawlessly, while the law compels conbe let off because he was a German He might have been excused If he bud stant flying of ti red and green port as well not presented his excuse wrong end and starboard running-lights- , as the ti t that Indicates the forward. that Indicates cant under-stan- speed and the "Judge," he said. the class of vessel. Then, too, the Intricate good English." "Oh, you'll do all right," said the system of signals adds confusion, but color, to the spectacle. Judge. "There Is no good Knglish One night, shortly after the deck officers spoken in here." St. Iuls Post hud gone on duty for the the four white ardois lanterns at the masthead of the Missouri were turned on. They fluttered for They Didnt Hava to Change. During the years tu which our pure about half a minute. Ttyen, with three rapid food laws have been put Into effect pulsations of the red light at the top, the sigthere has been a great hurrying aud nal went out and left Hie fleet riding as bescurrying on the part ot tue lood man- fore, like a trail of titans phosphorus through ufacturers to chauge their methods to the tropic seas. Z It was; aud Z" means make them conform to the law. a man Is overboard. The Quaker Oats Company Is a con- that Instantly on 16 bridges was sounded the It was admitted spicuous exception. that Quaker Oats whs as pure and cry, Man overboard!" and from 16 annunciclean as possible and that It was an ators "Slow speed" was rung to the engine-roomThe Ohio, which was Just ahead, and Ideal food. It Is so cheap that any one can af- the Maine, which was Just astern, flashed ford It and ao nourishing that every their searchlights on the waters about the one needs It. The result of lust year's troubled ship. From the and experiments at Yale and other points from the forecastle of the quarterdeck Missouri copper where food values were tested is that were hurled Into the sea; these Quaker Oats has been adopted bv bore cans of calcium chloride, which burst many persons as their food on whl; into flame as they touched the water beacons they rely for adding vigor and endin' ior the lost sailor. ance of muscle and brain. There was a patter of bare feet on the The Quaker Oats Company meets t ell demands In the way It packs rstrueture of the Missouri, three or Quaker Oats; regular size packages four sharp orders, a Jangling of and the large size family package; tackle, and the which hangs the latter, both with and without ever ready on davits, swung clear of 4 china. the shipa slije, slipped Into the water, and was rowed swiftly into the "Filthy Lucre." The expression "filthy lucre" Is of white circle made by the Biblical origin, and is to be found in neighboring In the the third chapter of the first book of of each t are always necTimothy, where the qualifications provisions for two days ahd a cask essary for the office ot a bishop of fresh water, for frequently In a are thua set forth: This Is a true storm the big ship loses the little one srylng. If a man desireth the of- for many hours, and it Is always a fice of bishop, he desireth a good question with the officer of the deck work. A bishop must then be blamewhether or not he should order away less, the husband of one wife, vigilant, the boat. sober, of good behavior, given to hosAt the same time a similar boat pitality, apt to teach; not given to from the Kentucky, the eighth ship in wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy the had cast off. line, These two not a not but brawler, lucre; patient, bonis, each manned by six oara and a covetous. coxswain, rapidly came together into the region of the Hard Work for the Daughter. which In a New Engaml weekly newspa- could be seen like stars jeweling the sea. there not The Missouri and the tisky per appeared long ago the four ships In her rear had veered out following advertisement; A stone mason or his daughter of column. Presently the three ships may receive one quarter's music les- ahead veered, as well as the eight sons In exchange for work on a cel- steaming a mile away on the starboard beam. For one man out of lar. Youths Companion. the whole fleet was stopping. It Shake Into Your Shoes seemed unfair; some strain of mercy, Alien's Font Ksm, the antiseptic powder. foreign to the storied business of It make tight or new shoe feel easy. It la a certttln cure fur wealing, callous and war, was halting this world-tour- . u use " hut. tired, actilng feet. Always Meanwhile, from all that lireak In new aiinea Hep! by all Itrugg.-t- s square expanse of quiet sea clatter 2Pe. Trial paekuge lliniletl free. AiPirte ! lied on Allen 8. Olmsted, t ell v. New York. spectacle, spectacle on won-Uwonder on apprehension. appreKind of Wife He Wanted. hension on curiosity and curiosity on Itinks "If you ever intend to marry laughter. Now ensued the quickest pick out a woppn who can swim,' job an officer of the deck has to face. Jinks Why?" Dinks "She can keep When a man falls overboard that ofher mouth closed. ficer has seven separate and distinct things to do. all at the same count them. (1) He flashes Z on the ardois; (2) he throws his helm three points and veers out of column; (3) he stops his engines; 141 he fires a gun; (51 he drops the (6) he orders away the lifeboat; and U he shirts the white truck-light- , which has previously announced his peaceful progress at standard sliced, to a red light, which says ne has stopped his engines, and then blinks It. which declares feverishly that he is backing. Prom all over the fleet things were doing. s were barking out rusty salute Ardois Zs were curaeeling lusty chiuges. staccato shrieks. The crenmy surge that had been curving over direct bows now churned under propellers and (li eel up foam Into the searchlights. The entire first squadron, except the Connecticut, from the Kansas down the line, had come to a stop. Finally the Connecticut, too, slowed her engines and hove to. The captain came from Positively cored by bis bunk, climbed the bridge and asked many these Little Pills. questions that nobody could answer. The adThey sleo relieve Pie miral was roused from his emergency cabin treat from P;npppMU, In and hurried out, aching a coat and in slipHirrtloiiaidTiK Ilearty pers, but not before he had paused to lift a Kntin?. A f 'rfect mu Nau h1jt for stogy from a drawer, had viciously bit off the InwilnftM, Hud end and thrust it into his mouth. Then he Taut In the Mu ft, Cout went about, from to quarterTufttrti, Pain In th 8WW, TORPID LIYKti master, from quartermaster to yeoman, from Bvwoia. AejrnfftlftM the yeoman to signalman, asking nothing about the accident. Imploring only for a light. And SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICr between each Irrelevant question he looked Genuine Must Bear aft over the rail of hit bridge upon a rare CARTERS sight. Signature Some hundreds of miles off the cosst of Brazil and just south of the equator 16 battleships and two little auxiliary cruisers, which REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. had been loafing In the rear, had come to a full stop. A southwesterly current had been TO HOUSEKEEPERS Btwful pmvUcai Meaar sweeping them along at the rate of two knots ftei epHiltisi. wewlwt ecry de. ti ettry American btiOM htHiefkeeiirr. an hour and the engines had added 10. A Uy Ynr Vtmiitr. Cteep in pm only aUuup top contrary current and some hurt steering-gea- r t, cat), PJAtlDUHlTPlTCO. in the Alabama had delayed them north of the i.-- - . C.QPYHICH7, fT: ' 1 X im t. -- 1 r ' height, a weary laugh flitted Into the vast night. "Choke the idiot!" "If hes over board let him stay!" Belay his ! This from the chest ami the tangle of legs. Then, from a slight form: "Pardon me. 1 was sleeping in the gangThen, from a severe face way. one that authority had cut with ex ecutive decision: "Gangway there! Clear the gangway!" ... i deck-tackle- vx" r t- -y- lick-ligh- s. s su-p- HER TEARS BY athwart the superstructure I bumped down to my knees, fell flat on my face, heard grow Is, curses, stumaled up with a skinned hand and peered Forms dimly in the darkness. were rolling under the cutter, a tangle of arms and legs tnssed aloft under the yellow ventilator, a hairy chest rose to superb J- well-wor- 1 SEEKS DIVORCE VAINLY STRUGGLING,, H'M TO LOOSEN ?a jRl"-.,- . ! :s-,- V.- WIFE equator, lmt now they were hurrying on to get Into the harbor of Rio de Janeiro before Yet sundown of the second day following. here they were, engines idle at midnight, losing a precious hour because a common seaman had Inadvertently slipped over the side of the Missouri. There was no temper lost. Every one waited patiently. The machinery was at work, as provided In the regulations. There was no need to worry; the Incident would take care of Itself. The laws of the Medea were exact and those of the Persians explicit; the Jews had a decalogue and there have been a few codes devised since by Justinian, Napoleon and others. All those, however, were amateur attempts; In States lawmaking the Vnited professional naval regulations say the final word. So, when a man drops overboard front a fleet at night, though wars go on and people perish, that vivid and diverse spectacle cannot be coung termanded. We lay there becalmed, fumbling In the The searchlights played their tepid dark. stark wonder over the dancing nightcaps where the silly waves tried to hide their loquacious heads. Each described its ment In the report of a Junior officer. "Happy to report Seafalse alarm. stern-sheet- CURE tit ItST 1IMQH TM (gttGKS$ (is as safe as it it effective. Guar to contain do opiates It is palatable loo children Eke it AM DrtifaKMCMD Perhaps, In the golden days of the "City Beautiful, there may be a new kind of school a school built all over the ground, with plenty of room around 1L Failing this, there may xe school buildings with elevators In each end, eo that children will not y reSPnSe She got were u married A dozen neighbors testified that they had not heard him utter more than a curt "yes or "no in the kst tei years. Becoming desperate at the silence which pervaded her home, Mrs. Beek man has not cared very much of ltt what her husband would say when ht finally did consent to open his moua She tried burning the soup. Still Beekman was silent. She put Balt ii his coffee, but he drank it without i word. How Beekman managed his courtship is a mystery in Asbury park, si though Mys. Beekman asserts that tl sel of my pajama-corto see if I should go fore or aft. It turned and I climbed near-silto the admirals bridge. There he lay, his slippers off, in shirt and trousers, his gray old head absolved of In the cabin beyond his nestled In a knit Only the signalman on the lookout by the semaphore d k kept watch there near the brain of the fleet. that trailed Aft time-seve- Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia Thinks School Buildings Should Be Alt on the Ground. stare.0 mystery to every one in Asbury part - two-mll- e ONE-STOR- Y eft Why Beekman has not spoken it i , sight the fleet at night. 15,-10- 0 Fac-Simi- le , would like for dinner, but she got s SICK HEADACHE New York.-Silt.- nce! son, wooden, impenetrable has been broken by the hardly a single word in since he mumbled the respond ? wedding is the reason Frank man of Asbury park is being Mrs. Lizzie Beekman for divorce For four years Mrs. Beekm,. tried by every artifice know,!? an to make her her testimony before Refereln! J. Parker she admitted that failed. At first she squeezed hi. and chucked him under the answer to any of her observations. At last she wept, but even the ten failed to melt her husband's silence .or to abate the stony stare. life-boa- Three-pounder- Jr k at 7 oclock in the At the wedding breakfast BeeS after murmuring what was takeaZ an apology, hurried off to work. Wh he came back in the evening hig hrid. met him at the door with an ate smile. Beekman returned thi smile and hurried into the ho where he sat down. Mrs. Beekmu started the conversation with n mark about the weather. Fromt this she led up to a question of what ht life-boa- men-of-wa- EFF- r- in His Coffee r Burned Soup-- He Moved H Once, But Then Change, H,s Mind. 1905 momengathering tum for her flight around the world, was that the tas- ND Put Salt The Beekmans man sleeping in side hammock had nightmare and called out Man overboard! No, the Missouri was not reprimand ed. The admiral and his captains and only laughed turned in. But. I was awake. It'was two bells of the midwatch and, spread abroad on the far? of the waters, again I twirled HAD sweep of comets. The 16 were back again. In line of squadron, the drug-stor- riding-light- s e abeam, the truck-lightwhite, thus spelling standard speed. Heaving, swelling, majestically plowing, they pursued their ponderous, implacable way. Mothered of crested seas, sired of the deep, they sped on, like the curse of Thor, lightning forged. Ominous there in the solemn night, the hushed spirit of the guns draped them with hidden might; the cabalistic twinkle of those blinking eyes By robed them with profound intelligence. day they were white and yellow fortresses, unlovely, ungainly; by night they wore new beauty, new power. Behind them lay terrors bested; ahead there lay a magic carpet of infinite variety, a bath of stars leading them s arc of the circle and then began over again. The The coxwandered aimlessly. swains blew their whistles. The copper buoys were gathered in. No answer, no sign of life. The hope of a nation sat down on Its course; the modern armada waited. But we were obeying the law. Final'y the Connecticut grew petulant; she began flashing her interrogatory. And the Minnesota became peevish; she blinked and sputtered with the ardois. The commander-in-ehte- f must have been on the bridge; the other admirals, in their Isolated grandeur, must have been abroad. When one of them talks It is not with human kind; he chatters with the elements anil gossips by electricity. At length the Missouris ardois came to life. It began winking, blinking that life-boa- dot, dash, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dot, dash; pulsating, winking, still flashing on, a long, long, message. A guffaw floated up from the deck. Some jack who knew the code had caught the message. Whispering, chatter, laughter; a ripple of merriment went over the ship. Then the searchlights were shamefacedly doused. We over the heard the angry slap of the davit-bel- t Missouris side. They were buckling up the boat and there was unmistakable disgust in that slap. From the Kentucky, far down the line, came only blank and discreet silence; she was accepting her shame quietly. Then an orderly brought a transcript of the Missouris message to the admiral. "Happy to report, he read, and shrugged his shoulders. There is seldom editorial cora- - SCHOOLS eternally' The gray old head of the admiral tossed and muttered In its sleep. When he first went to sea his mother asked him how they tied up the ship at night, and when he replied that it kept on going right through the night she wanted to know how it could see. For 50 years he had survived ocean's perils, and now he was going for the last time to that ingenuous mother, as safe in his lofty bunk as any shoreman In his cot, protected by the intricate laws of the road and the naval regulations. On the quarterdeck below a marine paced slowly from side to side, waiting lest another signal be flown, when he would leap to the Alone, the trigger that releases the only sign of life on the quarterdeck, he looked In the dim shadow like an errant spirit confrom imaginative perils. juring sentry-dutever-vigila- life-buo- y It was too lofty a perch on the too lonely a space on the vacant quarter-deck- . I groped my way forward, wiping from my brow the tropic Vnder a spreadsteam-cutte- r that lifted its giant shape ing after-bridg- night-swea- "This building is ideal, he said, "but the only criticism is the three stories. I would have it cover a square and be two stories, with plenty of room around. I do not advocate building schools up in the air they should all be on the ground floor. Philadelphia North American. A I stumbled down the f rst ladder to the main deck. Here men were clinging to the floor of the superstructure, what you might call the ceiling of that warships top story. Each man in his hammock, slung up above like sacks of flour, they slept there by the score. Down the next ladder to the I passed with what celerity the tropics leave In one for night prowling and still the hammocks clung, like barnacles on a castaway, tight to the steel rafters of the protective deck. And piled in compact rows, behind the breeches of the seven-incguns, which showed indistinctly against the open ports, lay the light oaken one of which constitutes the entire kit of the enlisted man. A ditty-bo- x the size of a bootblacks kit, a canvas bag such as golfers use, a hammock, and leave to cling to the ceiling that is the sailors lot in the new navy. Cleanliness and discipline by day, folded up like a by night and fed the best food on earth these are the rewards he reaps for charting out the of a new A goat bleated in the next passage to the deck where the openings are to the engine-room- s A coon slunk a pitiful way, yearning in the close night for release from his fur. Wearing a coonskin in the tropics is not healthful, especially if you are the coon. A parrot nodded from her flylpg-percand I wished that the regulations provided a place shaded with palm leaves for all mascots when in the tropics. I p from the engine rooms crep the deep rumble of the insistent chug that drives a steamship front seaboard to seaboaid as steadily as the hands of a clock, while you eat and sleep and loaf and read and dream. I found the open hatch and slipped down among the brass rods and the purple disks of the higher power than gunnery which leads a people to prosperity, the power of steam. No inch of wood was visible and space stretched forth on every line of vision; space, vast, complicated, crammed full with delicate contraptions. In the hollow distance an oiler inverted his can and poured soothing lotions Into his monster plaything, as a mother ladles soothing-syrup, and he went about it with the same loving fondness, singing bis lullaby to the lungs of the ship. Down, down, down ladder after steel ladder, into the tortuous ways directly above the double bottoms, until, at last, I stood squarely s in the themselves and watched the grimy stokers ply their unhandsome task. Cool, cooler than the quarter-decit was down 11 there, stories rather, 11 decks from the after bridge where slept the oblivious admiral. And the stoke-shilooked as comfortable as any deck-hanswabbing a hatch. ' gun-dec- k He Wouldnt Quarrel. ditty-boxe- Miserly King. One of the most Inveterate hoarders on record was George IV. Not have to climb flights of stairs. only was he averse to destroying books and papers, but he preserved Perhaps but these two suggestions were all that Mayor Reyburn veneverything that could possibly be kept tured as he addressed the 800 pupils When he died all the suits of clothes and teachers of the new Hawthorne he had worn for 20 years were discovpublic school, when that structure ered and sold by public auction. His was dedicated. Gothamites Eat Much Butter. Only, while he wantexecutors also found secreted in varied it to be known that he liked the New York city consumes more but- ous desks, drawers and cupboards school, he also made It plain that he ter than both London and Paris. The numerous purses and pocketbooks had ideas of his own about school averago daily consumption la 718,000 crammed full of money, to the extent construction and matters educational. pounds. it Is said, of 20,000, together with e jack-knif- sea-pat- h world-powe- h k mid-watc- h ft d It lil though he was not loquaciousto speak not seem to give him pain thsl Mrs. Beekman may have felt then f she was able to do all the talking the pair, but after her marriage K found little satisfaction in talking a man who refused to answer. refused to express any opinion aW her clothes or hats. house All the time he spent In the front he sat and stared straight Inmattn of him. When an important came up for consideration he sometimes condescend to shakin 0 head and indicate his opinion letter way. Once it was a red Wa W for Mrs. Beekman he moved as if about to say something,closed dently changing his mind lips again. could g Not even the landlord when word out of Mr. Beekman rent the collect to came Still adhering to his policy no lence, Beekman interposed and w to his wifes suit for divorce, referee will recommend that Beekman be given a divorce. . . BOY BANK ROBbIrT IN AUTO Confess to Sheriff and Say They CaPlanned to Rob Several lifornia Institutions. Santa Clara, Cal The oto bank robbers captured the o after an automobile chase their robbery of the baJ Clara confessed to that they had planned a seri San robberies, and that the . was only an MPer'fdtt, According to Joe bad companion, Fred Carr, w tured their plans that re automobile waiting their hold-u- p entered the First Nationaana the heart of Oakland, ma ot weighed the chances So that escape with a fortune. at t bank in the were pt pie a they decided not to make Use for Titanium. The two boFS Titanium is said to be the held m teie only court here and metal suitable for the of robbery. urt tWT and charge bearings axles of certain modern Jose. gasoline mo- to the jail at San their identWtors, which run at speeds as high as refused to divulge 3,000 revolutions a minute. The metal Hurrah! Is obtained from d rutile, or titanium diTh man who aald he jf hu R oxide. a mineral of littla commercial Importance heretofore. more sentimental treasures in th form of locks of hair from the tresses of forgotten beauties of the court London Chronicle. ;S.' |