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Show whom is an officer pointing shoreward wflh one band and supporting a wo- THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Various Versions of an Old 8uperstl- tlon. Among the multitude of superstitions to watch the sea has given birth not the lewst interesting are those concerning weird spectral ships doomed by loroe Irrevocable decree of fate to sail the wild seas over till eternity without hope of ever once entering a harbor of safety. Conspicuous among these is the Flying Dutchman, for there are Innumerable versions of this legend, which have been colored and designed to concur with the various fancies and Ideas of different nationalities. It Is not Improbable that the original Flying Dutchman was that described In the old Norse tradition of a Viking who bad sacrilegiously stolen a ring from the gods, and whose skeleton was ever afterward seen seated on the mainmast of a black spectral ship, enveloped in fire, to behold which foreboded wreck and disaster. A later Danish variation of this story no doubt Inspired Longfellow's lines describing A ship of tbe dead that sails the sea. And is called the Carmilban; . . . . , . In tempests she appears Without a helmsman steers. Tradition says of this ship that s hideous faced goblin invariably sat on the bowsprit, smoking a horrid pipe filled with a more pernicious weed than tobacco; and ill betide tbe luckless vessel that encountered her, for Over her decks the seas will leap, BEe must go down into the deep, And perish mouse and man. 'The most generally accepted version of, the Fying Dutchman, however, is that of the pigheaded Dutch captain who swore he would round the Cape of Btorms In the teeth of a terrible hurricane. His fatuous determination scared1 the crew out of their wits and culminated in threats of mutiny. Eventually they became obstreperous, but the bold skipper, not daunted, clinched matters by throwing a few of them overboard and, terrifying the remainder, reiterated his oath with , treble violence. Then an apparition endeavored to turn him from his purpose, to receive a most impolite, not to say irreverent, reception. It doggedly persisted and So enraged the captain that he fired at it with his revolver. But Instead of hurting the ghost the ball lodged in his ewn arm, at which misfortune he, perhaps not unnaturally for a sailor and a Dutchman, became even more in his expressions. He was forthwith condemned to navigate the ship forever and ever, with gall to assuage his thirst, red hot iron for his hunger, forever sleepless and without hope of arriving at port. By the aid of his friend Satan he was able to bring about disasters and tempests, and his ship was "the harbinger of wreck and woe" alluded to by Scott in "Kokeby." The French equivalent of this ship was the Courier Hollendals, whTch was saTH to sail around the world in twelve hours, with terrible disasters follow-I- n sacrl-fcgio- in us her wake. German tradition is rich in pfeantoin hips, and tells one on board of whlcn was a nobleman who had been forced to leave his fatherland because of a great crime, and who was alleged to toss dice with the devil for his own soul; while another Teutonic creation was a death ship which was supposed to be chock full of murderers and criminals cf the lowest order. A skeleton holding an hourglass stood in a conspicuous position, and the r.l? was black, her masts were back. And her sails coal black as death, A"nd the Evil One steered at the helm, and lauthe.1 And mocked at their far.Tng breath which must undoubtedly have been a most grewfome spectacle to run against, and something akin to the appearance on All Saints' Day of the souls of sailors drowned during the belief which was prevalent la year, this country. It was said that in the darknefs of the night the wa'chmen on the wharves woull f bs?rve a boat within hr'I. ;nd, battening to cast it a lln. It would dis ppear, and simultaneously frightful agonizing shrieks would rend the air. Block Island, on the Atlantic coast of the United Stales, was alleged to have Hit ghostly ship, which, rising in three pyramidal flames Into the represents-Hoof a ship, was supposed to be a perpetual reminder of the wfckedness of Its former Inhabitants, who, in the C lofilal days, cruelly lured an emigrant ship on to the rocks with great loss of life and then looted and burned It Another phantom ship, so the story foes, spears occasionally oil Cap d'Espftlr, in the Bay of Gaspe, In the Oulf of Ft. Lawrence. She is crowded with soldiers, conspicuous among .... n and overshadowed Its career for many THE KRUPP FAMILY. man with the other. Suddenly the The Evolution of the Great German lights go out, there is a shrill xry and! Gun Factories. the ship sinks. This is supposed to ba Frieclrich Peter Krupp must have the ghost of a British transport which and a been energetic young sanguine was lost at the time of the Anglo-Frenc-h was born in 1787 and went He man. wars in Canada. Condon as a youth into some iron works at Globe. Sterkrade, which came into the possession of his grandmother in 1800. THE GENTLER SEX. These works had been started in 1780 child of Mr. and were Dorris, the among the earliest in the disand Mrs. Joseph Shallcross, of Ashton, still give their name to the while playing on the iawn in front of trict; they business known as Iron and the house this afternoon, was savagely largeGutehbff steel the nungshutte of Oberhausen. attacked by a large, ferocious rat. The Here young Krupp worked at the inchild's screams attracted the parents, vention of a process for casting steel but the little gird, was dangerously bitand committed the represensible imten before the rodent made off. Bosprudence of marrying at 21. One hears ton Herald. a good deal in these days about pruInspector Charles Hughes, of Toron- dence, but in those a young man with to, one of the best known educators In some Btuff In him followed the dictates America, in an address upon "School of nature and took his future in his Menaces," at Chautauqua, N. Y., made hand. Friedrich did so and carried off a strong plea for women on school his bride to Essen, where some Iron boards, two or three women of leisure works that had been built for the aband culture, who would be able to rep- bess in 1790 were at this time acquirresent the women of the city in the ed by the firm, which also became the educational work. "Womaahoed," he owners of the Sterkrade Works. This said, "has a right to direct representa- connection may have been the reason tion at every step in the training of of Krupp's settling in Essen, but at children. It should be possible to find any rate he soon set up for himself two or three such women in every eity. and at the age of 23 he purchased a School boards and schools are Infinite- small forge worked by water power, ly better with women on the board. It where he devoted his time to secret Is harder to corrupt women than men. experiments in smelting steel In small Instead of politics degrading women, crucibles. women uplift politics." Rochester To this day the casting of crucible Union and Advertiser. steel Is the great specialty of the Essen works. A son, Alfred, was bora to" When a woman writes letter she covers everything, from putting the theyoung couple In 1812, when Fried-ricmilk pitcher out In the morning te the Krupp was 25. Want of means cat out at night, and then ends with an compelled him to enter into partnerapology because she doesn't write ship at this time, and in 1815 the firm announced that they were prepared to more. Atchison Globe. orders for cast steel; but as no accept Flashing around her wedding ring, a came the partnership was disorders long, lean lance of lightning burned the finger of Mrs. It. S. Wolfe, of Neal-to- solved and he was left to struggle en Ulster county, so badly that it was alone. This he did for some years, but with difficulty until. In 1826, he swollen to almost twice its size, yet no other Injury upon her and fell ill and died, leaving a widow and did not melt the metaL The same four children. Alfred, the oldest, was stroke hurled a pair of scissors from then 14, and on his shoulders fell the of carrying on the business. thejhand of Mrs. Adelbert Angus, half burden the secret to way across a porch in front of Mrs. His father bad intrusted anothtrade the him Wolfe's home, on which the women him and taught er according reprehensible proceeding, were sitting, and dashed Byron Wolfe, a a young son of the hostess, from a to modern views, which regard it as enter a workshop to a child for crime rocking chair over the rail to a flower school lessons bed. None of these was hurt dan- or learn anything but of 14. Alfred left school before the age gerously. Tbe bolt issued from a big In the shop, black cloud that hung over the house at once and took his place and furnace the at worked he where as the forerunner of a sudden storm. own handful his than harder the forge Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Angus were of Journeymen, and for years made no watching the phenomenon when what more than sufficed to pay their modest looked like a great ball of fire fell from the cloud and burst few feet from the wages. and pains at such "For my own ground. A tongue of flame sprang from an said afterwards, "1 early age," h the center cf the explosion to the verconsciousness the no reward but anda and played the pranks that fright- had of doing my duty." ened the uxmen and the boy. When Few schoolboys have entered on the the fire ball broke It shattered the flagfor life with such a laborious staff on the lawn in front of the house. struggle Inheritance and. fewer have emerged Utlca Observer. so victoriously after so long a proba-Uon- T Miss Jennie Caruthers, of KennetLls years the fate of For twenty-fiva miss whose photograph the concern in the balance, and hung appeared in the book on Missouri is- success became assured only after the sued by Walter Williams for the London Exhibition of 1851. Four years World's Fair. In the book Miss Caruthpreviously the first gun, a 3 pounder of ers figured as a typical schoolgirl. Al- cast steel, had been finished. Thencemost on the very day the book was forward the story is one of rapid and In 1858 published, however. Miss Caruthers, almost continual progress. who is a very pretty young lady, ran the manufacture of weldless ateel tires away with Robert Morris, of Dexter, was begun. Ten years later the irst and became Mrs. Morris, and the vol- workman's colony was built, and not ume goes to its readers with a plump long after Mr. Krupp found himself in young matron figuring on its pages as a position to obtain command of raw a schoolgirl Kansas City Journal. materials, and so place the business in "Of all the heartless men, or crea- a and impregnable positures, I think the 'bookies' are the tion by the purchases of Iron mines worst," declared a fair plunger after and blast furnaces, presently followed she had dropped a few dollars on the by coal mines. He died in 1887, havhorse that "she knew would wine." ing been for sixty years the head and "Now, that man came up here and for forty years the sole proprietor of told ua to bet on this horse,. for he was the works, which then passed to his sure to win. He said he wouldn't tell only son, the late Friedrich Alfred us to spend our money unless it was Krupp. They have been greatly exon a sure thing. Well, he seemed to be tended since by the addition of other telling the truth, so Jane and I each works and mines, and, in 1902, the gave him $3. Here is the horse came Oermania Shipbuilding yard at Kiel, in third, and we lost our money. but are still, with all their branches "Well, you would have spent it any- and appendages, the solo property of the family. They are managed by a how," was ventured. "Of course we could, was the indig- board of directors. On April 1, 1902, the total number of nant reply, "but those $6 would buy I "declare, persona employed at the various works three nice porch pillows. I'll neTer bet on another single horse." was 43,083, representing, with their families, a population of about 150.000. Indlanaoolls Sua. The numbers were thus distributed. 14.S3I W. N. Wight, of West wood, N. J., Bteel works at Essen 2,77 Essen at works baa made for use at his home a cement Oruson Kiel i.M7 at tove, cement Ice box, shelves and dog Shipbuilding yard 46f Coal mines kennel which have attracted much atj Blast furnaces, proving ground, tention. The stove radiates a mild M2k etc and equitable leat that would not be Horse possible from an Iron stove. Total blocks, hitching posts, carriage houses, little house of fire The stables and a mushroom cellar also Alfred Krupp's parIn which rooms. testify to Mr. Wrights fondness for and brought up worked and lived ents cement, for of this material are they their children, bard Vy the original built. forge, still stands at the entrance to the works, and a tablet on the door reAppendicitis has caused the death to the privacf a chimpanzee at the Pasteur Insti- fers, modestly enough, which atanxieties tions, efforts and tute in Paris, says the Petit Journal of the business tended tbe founding h n, ed e self-sufficin- g d The contrast between the 6mall, struggling beginning and the immense eventual achievement stands embodied before one's eyes with a dramatic significance which cannot fall to Impress; but if one Inquires the origin of other manufacturing concerns ome- finds that with rare exceptions and those of recent date they were started In much the same manner, went through similar early struggles and survived by virtue of tks same qualities. The "factory system" is not the creation of capital, but of the superior Intelligence, industry and endurance of individual workmen, and it has been a great school for the exercise and development of those qualities. The denunciation of the "system" and all similar cries are, at bottom, demands that the naturally superior shall not be allowed to exercise the qualitiea implanted in him by nature, but shall be artificially reduced to the level of the Inferior. Not all successful manufacturers, however, have used their success in such a responsible fashion as Alfred and his successor. There are other model settlements in Germany and elsewhere. England invented them and can show as good specimens today as any other country. But there is none on so large a scale or perhaps so complete as Krupp's. It was in many respects a pioneer and has long served as a model. Consequently, It Is the object of bitter resentment on the part of those theorists who maintain the right of the workman to the whole produce of labor. Tbey denounce all such benevolent works as a fraudulent imposition on the recipient Their theory is out of date, and their attacks are base, but in part they are right The reign of the benevolent employer is over. He gets no thanks, and the tendency is all in the direction of securing such conditions of employment as will enable the employed to provide their own benevolent institutions. This will not of course, satisfy the extremists, who want to have no employers or employed, but to merge both into the community. In fact, it Is a blow to them and another nail In the coffin of orthodox social democracy, for it will tend to make the employed more content More philosophical observers will regard it with equanimity as tbe next turn In tbe social current, whose ceaseless change represents the fresh readjustment of conditions and men to theorists by confounds the Invariably At the bend. an unexpected taking same time they will pay a tribute of appreciation to those who have done good work In their day. Among them Alfred Krupp stands out as a man of mark. Only blind hatred can refuse to see in the Institutions started by him and continued by his son for the welfare of their men a high sense of responsibility and a genuine fellow, feeling. Their value may be a matter of opinion; it depends on the object But if material well being be the measure of success and In these days none other ts recognized the proofs of It are abundant London Times. years. - ever-movin- ever-changin- g g Stripes. "Did you ever stop to think about the origin of the stripes we use in our prisons," bam a man with an eye for tlie curious. "If you have not it win not take you long to figure the thing out if you happen to know anything about the Bible. The tct ia that we get the idea from the old dispensation. When I say we I mean the people of our civilization, of our own day and time and who live under and are guided by our systems and notions. For Instance, in the laws and ordinances of Deuteronomy we find the following, which will give us the clew to the origin of stripes as a badge of infamy; 'If there te a controversy between men, and they come unto Judgment, that the Judges may judge them; then they shall justify tbe righteous, and condemn the wicked. And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to bo beaten, that the judge shall cause him to! He down, and to be beaten before hlej I face, acording to his fault by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give' him, and not exceed; lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee,' Now Instead of inflicting these physical stripes we put striped clothes on the men who offend the law, or who may 'come unto Juda ment, that the judges may judge them,' as It is put in the text Of course, you should go much further back In history if you cared to trace the origin U marks of infamy, but you would find that physical mutilation of some sort in a majority of Instances afforded the means. But I was Just telling you about the origin of the penitentiary stripes and did not mean to open the wholo question which lies behind the modern practice." New Orleans Times Democrat A So New System of Ethics Needed. far as science and philosophy go, they have given us both the material elements and the freedom of thought which are required for calling Into lift the reconstructive forces that may lea mankind to a new era of progress. There is, however, one branch ot knowledge which lags behind. It Is ethics. A system of ethics worthy of the present scientific revival, which would take advantage of all the recent acquisitions for revising the very foundations ot morality on a widur philosophical tasi.1, and ptoJuoe a hlgfw er moral ideal, capable of giving to the civilized nations the Inspiration ro quired for tbe great task that lie before them such a system has not yet been produced. But it Is called for osi all sides, with an emphasis the sense of which cannot be misunderstood. A new, realistic moral science Is the nec of the day a science as free of super-sHtloreligious dogmatism and metaphysical mythology as modern cosmogony and philosophy already are, and permeated at tbe same time with those higher feelings and brighter hopes which a thorough knowledge of man and bis history can breathe int men's breatts. Prlnco Kropotkin, ia the Nineteenth Century. n. Higher Mathematics. James Hogan was no doubt an ImAt the American Journalists' conpTtoo In Branbury, as he was vention In Baltimore a Philadelphia i: portant the only man who could be hired to said of James M. Beck, who la one cf caw and split wood or to use a lawn the Association's most dlillog'ilsbed mower. He never lost a chance to Immembers: this fact upon a casual listener. "When we had our convention In press "I've got lo get through this Job for Philadelphia Mr. Beck was the life of your tr,a quick as ever I can," h anit. He kept the table In a roar. In nounced to the sma'l son cf one of his it was impossible to get tbe employers, "I'm losing sixty rents au better cf him. hour right along every minute I'm was about "At one time be talking here. There's three folks wailing for fishing. The best day's sport I ever had, me now, and I don't know how they're he said, 'was off: the Florida coast going to get along till tomorrow withThere were three of us; we each had out me, any one of tbem." "Why. Mr. Hogin." S3ld tl.- - boy retbtre rods, and all day long we pulled g in fish as fast as we couli throw out spectfully, "I don't etc bow you're cur lines. I forget, he added, sixty rents an hour wVn mo'her 'what kind of fish tbey worf ' pars you twenty, and ycu toui jn't be some in were bnt one piste and" whales, 'Perhaps they cne suggested. ."Have you pet a f.ir a? n'om try In " 'Whales T said Mr. Beck, 'why, your studies?" Inqjlrrd Ir. Ho;; in. ran, we were baiting with whales. " coldly, renting his arms :; In? haiulo of the lav n nicwcr. Cincinnati Enquirer. , Mr," admitted the boy. Shell as an Age Indicator. .'WhIn you do you'li undTrtind a The fresh egg has a rougher shell good many things that's hid from you than the stale ones. The new, clean now," said Mr. Hogan, resuming his appearance of tbe shell of a fresh egg leisurely progress over the fawn. becomes moTe faded, slick and greasy Youth's with age. Tbe air space In a new egg Is very Intestines of sea lions are sTit and small, snd grows larger as the egg stitched together to form hooded coats, aged. If several eggs, laid a which are superior to India rubber as nnmber of days apart, can be Walrus Inteswaterproof garments. eaeb marked with Its dat, and tines are made Into Mils for boats by then held before as egg tester In a the Eskimos of Northwestern Amerdark room, snd fb air spaces be noted ica, and remembered, one can thus become a Judge of undated eggs. There are Z'il railway paener s'atlons within twelve miles of St Pay as you go and you will go broke. Paul's, London. Good Fishing. ios-in- thoii-?bt-full- y, "N-no- Cornj-aiilon- be-ccrn- es pro-cure- d, . |