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Show r ADRIFT' 'ON THE SEA. Necessity is Surely the Mother of Invention-H- ow the Crew of on English Steamer Mended o Broken Shaft. (Special Letter.) dour Scotch engineer." McAndrewa, could hardly have acquitted himself more oreditably than did Mr. 'William Gerle, chief engineer of the British steamship Border Knight, which arrived at New York e few days ago after an exciting experience In midocean. The Border Knight U a steamer of the genus tramp, a nomadic freighter that eet out from Natal In ballast for New York. All went well with her until July 3, when at 3 o'clock In the afternoon there was a eudden Jar and shock, a whirring or machinery and a hies of steam. "Shaft' broke," explained Third Engineer Findlay briefly, as he closed throttle on racing engine. Examination showed that his diagnosis was correct For no ascertainable cause the tall shaft length of steel, had snapped just out- - Kiplings " i -- - The Mi who manage political eam-me- et with some amusing experience amine - the progress of their work. At the respective national head- -. toarter of th two partly In Chicago the leaden ball some laughable atorlea of their experience with cranks. For no waiter how much pain are taken to prerent hi entry the crank who' ha anna wonderful Scheme to win th battle "hand down will get Into th preeeaoe of the practical men at th head of things. . The other day one of these man got late the presence of Senator Jones, manager of the Democratic campaign. He Insisted that h had a plan that weald "land Bryan In the white house.1 Be explained that It would first be ry for th chairman to Invest n million dollars in nlr balloons, with tbs names gad portrait of the fusion eantldatM printed thereon, and that neo-eme- ' 60,000,000 of these released on a certain day would do the work of the campaign. Of course, he failed to ex- plain how the operation was to convince voters, and the scheme was passed up. Later on he showed up at Republican headquarters, where ha went through a like experience. The political crauk knows no party allegiance and la as much at home around one headquarters as the other. This was illustrated very forcibly one day last week by an accident that betel one of them. The victim was a longhaired. pen artist who carried two rolls of cartoons of his own make Into Republican headquarters. After gaining the presence of Chairman Babcock of the congressional campaign committee he proceeded to busi-- at once. 1 have here, he began, "a series of eartoons that will, when published, an long-whisker- nihilate every chance that the Democrats ever had." and be proceeded to unroll hie wares. "You eee. here is a cartoon that that that wow! in" f The artist had inadvertently opened the wrong roll, the one he Intended to exhibit at Democratic headquarters. Be made a hasty exit Then there la the campaign song crank. One sought an audience with Benator Hanna under the pretense that he bore a note from an important that bemust deliver lo jerson "Into the bands of the aational chairman." Mr. Haaaa was greatly taken back when be found that th envelope contained a poem. Here are the first lines: per-bona- ge hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! "How much do you want for this? atked the cbalrmaD.pc rceiring a chance for a laugh. " answered the "One hundred of haughty lm air an poet, assuming Portance. "Not a cent less." 8ome days later, when thin same poet Visited Secretary Walsh at Democratic headquarters, the two first lines of the poem had assumed this form: i "Hurrah for Billy Bryan, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah! Hurrah for UbcIs Adlal, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!" 12-iu- peditlously a battering ram was improvised from the anchor stocks. The coupling bolts forced out, the Intermediate shaft was lowered clear of the fractured tall abaft, and that piece of metal waa knocked from th opening is the stern. A wooaen plug the exact site of the shaft waa forced Into th hole and then a spare tall shaft was lifted into position and coupled onto the Intermediate. All this work occupied three full" days With both hafts In place again the work of fitting on a spare propeller, which the vessel carried, was commenced. To lift the atern out of the water all of the water ballast was pumped Into th forward hold. Thi lifted the etera until the opening was within four feet of the surface. Meanwhile the six-to- n propeller had been lowered over the port quarter, suspended from a cargo boom and Asd so the cranks come and go from to headquarters. Nona of headquarter "Hurrah for Bill McKinley, hurrah, them ever have a practical Idea to set hurrah, hurrah! forth. They have become th terror Hurrah for Teddy Roosevelt, hurrah. of th campaign managers. ' REPLACING THE SCREW AT SEA. board of the sleeve, releasing the propeller, which went spinning to the bottom. Th ship lost her headway, and, having no sail power to give her steerage way, sat in the sea, biding the outcome of the misadventure. The usual procedure in such cases Is to haul fire, and hqlst your flag upside down, by way of a distress signal, by day-an- d to burn blue light at night. But these men of the Border Knight did nothing of the sort The engineer went manhollng on his back to the end of the tall shaft, and then came back with an idea which the captain gave ulm permission to put Into effect The first step was to uncouple the Intermediate shaft, and to do this ex- eight-to- n pro-vokln- CHAIRMAN "jONES OPOT DEMO CRATKNATfONAI COMMITTEeTnD HISCHIEF Casting a Cfeusot Gun : ness. The provision of thl ftanchlie are In advanct of those of any slm.Iar Instrument thus far granted in the country. The census bureau gives the population of Denver as 133,859. aa against 106,713 In 1890. This is a slight: better showing than that mad by AlleThe gun la heat-- gheny City, which had 105.2ST Inhaand tempered In bitants ten years ago and has 129.896 now two part first th rings and then the Tht Study Malaria. gun itself th two Dr. 1. Bambon and Dr. Low, the operation being two medical men selected the BritIdentical. f The ish government to study bythe conddrawing shows the ition of malarial infection in the Romgun when it la an campagna, have, after rejecting from various other localities aa being unwithdrawn the furnace on the suitable for their purpose, decided from signal given by the upon a spot about two mile engineers whistle. Ostia, between Cast el Porxlans and Suspended from an Castel Fusano, Their hut hi located apparatus composed on the edge of a "stagna," or swamp, . of four columns, which i n part of the royal hunting which dependafrom demesne of Castel Fusano. It has a strong pulley, been left undralncd as n means of the wild boor, water fowl, worked by a mov- preserving which frequent it The sparse eta, the gun ing bridge, seem Incandescent population of the district consist of a the long door of peasant, who are great sufferers from red-hbricks la malaria, and the mosquito, anopheles, la present In great abundance. The opened slowly. The selected by the two daring expermoving bridge la sit 1 said to be one of the most imenter and In action, put in the whole campagna. The deadly the gun la brought out till - It over-bang- s doctor expected to be entirely ready the center of to begin their dangerous Investigaa well 60 to 80 feet tions early tbla month. They have deep. In which It la spent the Intervening time la collectgradually lowered, ing and examining mosquitos, and amid a - deafening state that, although the larvae of hissing of steam, anopheles are comparatively scarce at rises which la thl aeaaon of the year, the houses are cloud. This' opera- filled with the adult mosquitos. The tion la - repeated King of Italy and the municipality of Rome are doing all In their power to several time. assist the enterprise, . special rate granted to student and laborer' and Dr. Hldeso Iked of Tokio, Japan, order n change of motive power or alteration who has bees sent to America by his of the lines." Furthermore, "after a government to study th agriculture of dividend of 7 per cent on th paid-u- p this country, ts looking Into the cultia one-thir- d vation of tobacco In Virginia. Latsr capital hat been paid of the remainder is to be contribhe will familiarise himself with the uted to the municipality." growth of cotton. t The gist of these provisions would teem to be that the public waa to be In Alvinas Hayward, the California mia position to require adequate aenrlc llionaire and mining king, atill wears in ell essential details, and to keep the .the atyl af bearer silk hat that waa la fares down so that profits should not vogut fifty year ego. For half a cenexceed 7 per cent on the capita! actual- tury ha has had hla hata made over the ly Invested by stockholder In the buai- - same block. d lf AIDS.1 Tho Hobo Candidate. Thia is Filipino Joe, candidate to vice president of the United States c the ticket recently put up by the National Tourists, otherwise hoboes, an! commonly called tramps,- at Britt Iowa. Filipino Joe la so homely He at tracts people by hla countenance. Jot la an inveterate and continuous tobaeci chewer. He takes the' advice of thi newspaper agency and keeps everlastingly at It' A quid of "quantity and quality" la bis Uea of perfect bliss. Joi CToJ fib. f The Japanese are a pecu larly eclectic people, and their modes of doing things oftea Indicate n discriminating judgment after n wide review of the subject in hand. A street railway fran-feh- ia was granted In Tokio earlier In summer, which la significant from fact that it leaves the essential tuns of the service. Including fares, jet to the regulation of the public horiUea. According to the Japan ekly Mail, those authorities "may the fares, determine the number of neuters and cars the eee CARELESSNESS WITH MONEY. SHntvr et th Treaaary Appealed to la Betaabane BecUaee People. The secretary of the treasury hat a very large directory of careless people of people who hare money to burn or otherwise destroy, and who appeal to him tor reimbursement Uncle Sam kind enough to restore lost money when he is satisfied that it is actually out of existence, and the treasury department has to look after this branch of. his financial affair Hardly a day passes that Hie secretary la not appealed to to' make good money destroyed, and he often receives nants of bills more or less FILIPINO JOE. Vo hla sobriquet by going to thi Or lest with Wheaton and Lawton. Hi to 860 1)19 world; thought b vu 6n thenght that Impressed him most war a (cor or more of dead comrades. Hi hunted back to the United States and hint out as a cowboy to Buffalo Bill. But this was work, and he finaJy to give It up.. Since then he hat keen on the road. The Rich- eminent German oculist' celebrated hli 70th birthday in London, where h has lived ever since the Franco-Prussia- n war, which drove him from Pari Amotg hla scientific works the on vhleh most Interested the general public ta that in which he pointed out that many strange things In the picture 0f certain palnterf are due to defect! in their eye, ard Llebrelch, recently ' lu the matter of age the British cabinet average very high. Lord Hals buryu 75, Lord Hereford 73. Lord Salisbury 79 asd Mr. Goechen 69. rem- recognis- able, with queer tale of how the work of destruction waa wrought One of the latest applications waa from a Vermont farmer, who sect a mass of remnants of bills that approached the condition Of pulp, and asked for 280 In return, which, after some delay, he received. He said he had very, carefully hidden the money under the rafters of hla barn, and somehow It had gotten Into' the bay and bran feed to one of bla cowa The cow was chewing the green feed when Its nature waa discovered. Another farmer, from Kansas, has sent a lot of chopped bills that he says represents f 40. According to hla story they were In the pocket of a vest that waa hung on a feed cutter, and when it was being operated th corner of the vest that held tha money got between Its knlvee and with the money wae torn In ehredt... The claim la now In pmceis of adjustment A Boston man, took from hie pocket what ha says he thought waa a piece of paper and burned half of It In lighting th gas. The gaslight revealed the ifact that he had used a 120 bill for a lighter. A Washington nan couple of weeks ag? went la pirson to the secretary to get 636 for, some badly mutilated bills that hla playful pup had been exercising with for aa hour. A Wlaconila woman has t a lot of tinder that she says wae oaci 390. Several months ago she hid It la a stovepipe hole. Into whlefc-- s plpo from a laundry fir was recently placed. As the pipe rested In the hills tinder was th result Another woman, this time -V i , quarters. Ti. work of the two men In the water was made somewhat entertaining by the active 'presence of several sharks that played around th stern of the ship. Mr. Mathle was once washed overboard and nearly drowned before being rescued. But that was only an Incident, 98 Messrs. Gerrle and Mathle explained. - ot JYrvef Cor Control in guyed with heavy tackle. Chief Engineer Gerrle and Chief Officer Mathl then took positions n the redder pintles and, standing walat deep In waterr guided the big piece of metal to ita place on the tall shaft The massive nut which was to hold It in place was then screwed tightly on by a giant epanner, worked- - by tackles from th V In Indianapolis, got 10 in greenback! mixed with greens abe waa preparing for dinner and boiled them into an almost unrecognizable mass. A loving Philadelphia papa haa asked $20 for s few strips of greenlah. paper and a score of pellets of the same material He says they once conetltnted e 2I bill, which hla pet boy nadtorn ti pieces, rolled Into balls and blows through a glags tube at the cat, canary bird and nursemaid. An Ohio i want to sell the treasury department a mouse nest for 100. He says he had that amount In bills In a bureai drawer, and that the mice appropriated It In bits to build a home In which to rear their family. This list is continually growing, and the communications giving the remarkable details an so frequent as to causa no smile oi comment in the department Each on is simply a new, case that follow! along a line of red tape Until It is adjusted. Philadelphia Inquirer. Sugar Uaplu Bum. An Interesting experiment la now In progress, which, if successful, will have an important effect upon the use to which one of the chief products of the Canadian woods is put It Is well known that one of the main endeavors In the manufacture of rum waa the preservation of the flavor of the sugar cane. This has been successful- ly accomplished. It Is now suggested that a Canadian rata can be made from the sap of. the sugar maple, Which growa in nearly every part of the Dominion. Those interested in the project say that a wholesome liquor can be distilled from the sap of the maple which will retain all the delicate, sweet- - flavor which - makes pure maple sugar so popular. To this end an experiment is now being carried on in Quebec, with the consent of the Department ef Inland Revenue at Ottawa. "T rhUauephlaO. . There Is little philosophy la growling about the weather. This old world take It first and last-h- at about the best weather of any. world we ever were In. Atlanta Constitution. c IS- - jfmnwCB |
