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Show THOSE sharks on the Jersey coast are up to H date. They have evidently established a sum- H mer school there. M r Those Man-Eating Sharks V7 E anticipate that in his next public address W president Wilson will explain that it is a j mistake to suppose that the ravenous sharks that V have been devastating the Jersey coast came in H from the deep sea; that they are really from H Wall street, New York City, having been driven 1 out by the effect of the federal law on their busl- H ness, and this opinion is confirmed by tho report H of the medical profession that their bite is ac- H companied by thoir exuding at tho same instant H a sophorlflc liquid which kills the pain of the bite, H so that when one of them takes a man's leg off he H Mloes not realize his loss until later. H Who says that the abovo is not a plausible ex- H plauation? By the way, a near contemporary H suggests the going out and patting one of those H sharks on tho back. That would be safe for a H shark's lower jaw is so much shorter than his H upper jaw that he has to roll over to be dan- H gerous. Done Before THE news comes that the little Deutschland's freight bill when she reached Baltimore paid H all the expenses of her cost and her voyage over H from Germany. H That is a reminder that another ship did the H same thing more than three score years ago. H But it was not a little skulking submarine, B but the largest and finest clipper ship that up to H her time had ever been built, "the Sovereign of H the Seas." The canvas she spread was measured H by acres. She could sail almost into the teeth M of a gale, and the only thing she dreaded when fl at sea was a calm. When a stiff breeze was blowing off her quarter and she had put on all m her canvas in response, she was a glory to look m at. Boiled half on her beam by the pressure B upon her sails, with her main yards almost '1 touching the water on her lee, then with her M main sail, fore sails, top sails, main royals, top ' B gallant and sky sails and the rest all bent on, she H seemed possessed with a frenzy for leaping the K seas and daring the winds to do their worst. Hj She Avas built by the great ship builder of H Boston, Donald McKay, in 1852, and owned by H Grinnel, Minturn & Co. She left New York for V San Francisco in August, 1852, and reached San Hi Francisco in eighty-eight days. The freight on H'l her cargo paid the cost of her building, but then H flour on her arrival was selling at $44 per barrel, H and part of her cargo was flour. B' But what beauties those clippers were! The H) Comet, the Flying Fish, the Flying Cloud, the H Sovereign of the Sea, the Dreadnaught, the An- H drew Jackson and the rest; never before had any H such sea wonders been seen, never again will they B be, for steam has driven them from the sea, for H commerce is inexorable it wants the shortest H lines and the swiftest ships. H Not Quite Settled Hi MO sane leader is clamoring for war and no H party favors it outright. The party conven- H tions were peace conventions, barring a touch of H buncombe. And even the Republican blood-drink- B ers of a few weeks ago don't want war, now that H a war will almost certainly re-elect Wilson." H St. Louis Mirror. H But if the killing of American men and women H and the running of their live stock over the line B into Mexico continues, and the outlook for Demo- B cratic success in the election looks bad in the M last few days of September, will it not be per- M fectly natural for President Wilson to lose his M patience at last and make a ringing demand for M justice, and have all the state guards and militia M S and regular soldiers on the border don their war B ' paint? It would be easy to get a better excuse M i for that than when Mr. Wilson had to send the M ' i fleet to Vera Cruz when there was danger two ' i years ago of the loss of Democratic control of Hi 1 , congress. The Mexican question is not yet certainly cer-tainly settled. More Lights Needed HP HE wrecking of the steamship Bear on the rocks a few miles south of Eureka, Cal., is a reminder that our west coast from San Diego to Nome, Alaska, is not half lighed. People who have visited Alaska say that tho contrast between the lighting of our coast and the way the British Columbia coast is lighted is humiliating to Americans. Ameri-cans. It is said a heavy fog was on when the Bear struck, and possibly a light would have saved her; but certainly no light was there. How that coast is strewn with wrecks! It is a dangerous coast. Outgide a little way is the mighty Japanese current and there, too, the winds play polo almost daily. The masters of ships are prone to set the courses of their ships too near shore. Many ships that have been lost have been obsolete and the insurance has been full compensation compen-sation for them, 'but the Bear was only six years old and a fine craft. DANGS was reading the morning paper and J-'came upon an article headed "Hetty Green's Fortune." The "fortune" was blurred and he read it "future," then, dropping the paper, remarked "that is a fine question to discuss with the thermometer ther-mometer at 98 in the shade." An esteemed contemporary says that in the North sea 'fight the English cruisers held the Germans in the battle until the English battleships battle-ships could come up. Describing his fight with the editor of the San Diego paper, John Phoenix said as a last resort, "I inserted my nose into my adversary's mouth and thereby held him down." |