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Show trWra. No port lamps gleam along our aides, No banners float on high. No human lookout raUen glass , To scan our seas or sky No Admirals above our decks 'Mid guns and gunners stand, In hidden sheath to send the sound Of warlike, stern command Yet all tha navies or the world ' Our bows In vain assail, W fear no smoking batllo tower That thunders through the galo. I Dy captains gray our path la marked, 1 Ily sailors white and old, , Tor us tho phantom rockets glsro And phantom bells sro tolled. I In misty, unrcmembsred ports l Our bescon lights wo set . lij hands long gone from mortal view, Ily forms that men forget. ' And wo may -wander on our course I 'Till tlmo at end ahall be, I Tor In our breasts aro locked tho hulls Of ships once lost at sea, John James Meehan In the Criterion Fort Hayes land Qiititlon. The atate of Kansas and other officers offi-cers representing It presented a petition peti-tion recently to Acting Secretary ot the Inte'rlor It) an, praying an Interview Inter-view and reversal of a departmental decision rclatlvo to the Kort Hayes military reservation They want the land vacated and turnvd over to the state Tbo Kansas officers, claimed to bava discovered that certain survey naps and plats shown by the general land office In Washington and necessary neces-sary to the former departmental decision de-cision ara not on file In tho local Unltod Btatcs land offlco at Wakceney and never have been on file there saya I Washington correspondent ot tho Olobe-Democrat. For that reason they claim that Cox and his associates, who tied homestead applications for the lind, could not have obtained orlglnat right by tha mere filing ot theso papers ot application, not being a long-established rule of the land department, founded upon the atatute, that local Ud offices can not allow applications or entries until aftor the filing In the local land offlco of tho requisite maps and plats, showing tho surveys and subdivisions of sections and quarter sections ot the lands An Investigation Into the matters presented by this petition pe-tition and Information elicited by tho department through Correspondence with 'ho local land office nt Wakceney corrouoratcd tho statements of tho Kunsas officers reprccntlnB the state Acting Secretary Hyan has directed the commissioner of the general land office, Mr Hermann to call upon Cox and" other Individual appllcnnt for theso lands to show cauao why these applications should not be rejected and the lands made over to tho stato under tho recent act ot congress granting the unappolnted landa In tho reservation to tbo state for agricultural college purposes It Is a settled rulo In the department that a former decision for an ontry of land will never bo vacated upon an ex parte showing and hence Cox and hla nasoclates are accorded an opportunity In this Instance, to fully set forth their claims and views Tho papers presented recently strongly Indicate that tho department can not awfully do otherwise than award the land to the stste of Kansas Benator Harris and tbo assistant attorney general gen-eral of Kansas, and a number of other prominent Knnsans wero In Washington Washing-ton recently Interesting themselves In tha case. In tho petition which they presented at the Interior department they Include some Interesting exhibits, such aa a photograph ot tho map of Fort Hayes military reservation now In the land office at Wakceney, showing show-ing that tho divisions snd subdivisions are not Indicated on It, and also a photograph of tho mop In tho General Land office here. In which such subdivisions sub-divisions are shown In rendering the original decision favorable to Cox the department was net aware of the difference between the two maps, and it could not but presume that they were alike Why the difference exists la not apparent as yet. but will probably prob-ably be brought out In the further hearing of tho case Tha N.t.I III li.r. Tho naval cipher would make a good textbook for tho punle editor and the queer people who solve their freakish maneuvering! Words and sentences are as Involved In these mysterious writings a It I well nigh posslblo for human thoughts to be concealed All the great departments ot the government govern-ment have their own way ot transmitting transmit-ting secret messages, but the naval oode Is the most Intricate and vexatious vexa-tious of all This naval code has been doing business for a good many year but i one ever thought much about It untl the Washington newspaper men audi ily discovered that It was a very gr nulsanco In thalr business Not that thee enterprising chapa are un-mtrlotle un-mtrlotle and want to pry Into govern tocnt secrets but tho transmission of a code message takes such a long time that the waiting become tlresomo In some mysterious manner the receipt ot an Important message la always bi rallied furl i in thla little newspaper community and there Is usually n si urrylng to tbo department to get auih portlni a ns am In be given out. At first sight these code cablegrams aro not different from any other codo mciwages they are a Jumble of words from all language llngoM and dialects, dia-lects, with a sprinkling of common strong slang They suggest history, prize fighting art criticisms, mathematical mathe-matical problems politics circus advertising, ad-vertising, nnd In Met almost everything every-thing except something about ships, Italian words are Joined to Ilowery brevities to form a word and strango surprises romo In tho shapo of a collection col-lection of letters with x's on both mils and two or three xs In the middle, Detroit Journal lt..llr Tltn.il tompllmHl, Urtgadlcr General James I' Smith of San Kranclaco becaruo colonel of tho Pint neglmcnt, California National Ouard, In IM7. went to the Philippines Philip-pines In 1898, became tho first American Amer-ican governor ot tho Island of No-gros No-gros In ISM, and li now a brigadier general of volunteers Hla rapid advancement ad-vancement recalls an Incident that marked tho tlmo when he was elected colonel. The election was held In tho evening. During tho day Mr. Smith, who Is a lawyer was engaged In defending de-fending fifty Chinamen charged with gambling During tho hearing the Judgo suddenly asked tho prosecutor to point out certain ones ot tho Indicted In-dicted Chinamen who were supposed to bo standing among tho horde or orientals In the back of the room The prosecutor could not and asked Mr Smith to do so Mr Smith declined de-clined tho prosecutor persisted, tho Judge Insisted and tho futuro general remalnlug defiant, was sent to Jail for contompt of court He went to Jail late In the afternoon nnd that very evening was elected colonel The next morning the newspapers throughout the state published a brief Associated I'rcaa dispatch from San Francisco relating re-lating the fact that James F Smith had beon elected colonel ot the First Iteglment The fact that he was also ' In Jail was omitted A friend ot Mr. Smith, who had gone to Napa tho day i before, saw tho dispatch and Imme- ' dlately sent the following congratulatory congratu-latory -telegrom' "Tho right man In the right place" When the message was delivered to tho new-made colonel In Jail he couldn't seo the humor ot It at first- Then ho realized that his admiring ad-miring friend did not know tho "place" whero the meaaage found him. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Post Ara.rlr.n Molill.r. (I.n.riHllr. A writer In "Alnslcos Magazlno" tells this story "Our government allowed al-lowed several transports with returning return-ing volunteers to stop at Yokohama, and so hundreds of American soldiers visited that city and Toklo Ono ut them hired a bicycle, and was taking n rldo about tho streets ot Yokohama when ho ran donn an elderly Japanese man The soldier rang his bell several times, but the Japanese apparently paid no attention to It, and the American Ameri-can round himself promptly arrested and taken to rtiurt where tie was fined 10 yen ((J) He protested that he had done everything possible to avert tho accident, nnd asked why tho man made no attempt to get out of the way The policeman then told him that the man waa blind The soldier looked dazed for a minute, then felt In hla pocket nnd brought out a 110 bill. 'Here,' ho said, 'It's tho la. I ve got, but he can have It,' and ho turned It over to tho 'blind man The Japanese were deeply touched, and that same day a delegation delega-tion of policemen hunted up the soldier sol-dier and gate him back his One" Armj orae.r. InlrleaU Ilotl.i At the presont time an American nrmy officer's duties are oftoh bewll-derlngly bewll-derlngly Intricate It Is said of Lieut N O. Illshop of tho artillery that whllo administering his duties In tho Philippines his labors In addition to his regular taaka as officer, have embraced em-braced the licensing of business not provided for elsewhero In the govern ment; the management of markets and tho collection of market taxes, the management of the matadero and the collection ot the meat tax, weights and measures, carriage taxes and taxes for carts and horses, building permits, registration ot live stock, public land rentals and tbo collection of various other small Imposts and taxes All of theso with a few exceptions, wero farmed out for collection and supervision supervis-ion to Individuals under tho Spanish regime, but Lieut Illshop has broken up Ibis corrupt system tar Ih. Navy, Lieut D. W lllamer, of tha United Btatcc navy, opened a recruiting station sta-tion at Indianapolis recently, and for ten or twelve data enlisted a large number ot men tor the navy The building ot new battleships for the navy opens opportunity to many ' land lubbers" to begin a sailor's life Mon from eighteen to twenty five years were enlisted with pay ot 116 a month, and youths from fifteen to seventeen j cars were taken as apprentices Each man received a bouus ot four months' pay and an allowance ot 115 worth of clothing as soon as the recruiting officer offi-cer accepta him In addition to Bailors, tho recruiting officer enlists sallmak-era sallmak-era machinists, electricians musicians, bollermakers, hospital stewards painters, paint-ers, carpenters coal passers and men from other trades |