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Show National Prison Ship. Every schoolboy knows In brief the frightful story of cruelty nd horror t practical upon the prisoners of our irlveteers by the Itrltleh during th revolution, and eperlally of that rec- ord of tbe old Jersey, which -will go , down the long corridor of time with undlmlnlshlng reproach to our once ' bitter foe. The whole story wu born anew the other day by the announcement that the nary department would use one of Ita colllara aa a prison ahtp at Norfolk, Va.. to lighten the tai upon the pretty well Ailed prlaoa at the lloaton navy yard. The report of the Judge adTorate of ; th nary for the part fleral year point- j ed out the Inadequate quarter for I prisoners at Uoeton loni the principal naval prlaoa oa the Atlantic coast, aad arced that something be done to Met tbe growing demand fur such c-eommodattons. c-eommodattons. Incident to the great Increase of the aervlce. The etory of the Hrtthih prison ahtp Joreey la a .criminal record of Hie (troareaalT murder of nearly ICON) continental patrlota. and tint wiihl i tbe light of their own dear land and mid the vaunted plenty of their raptor: rap-tor: and It la something to the dli-red dli-red It of us, who enjoy the fruit of their sacrifice, that no fitting monument monu-ment ha yet been reared to their memory, ven though their bone hare been gtTn the Christian burial Unit atonled them, says Doston Herald. . The Jersey, the most notorious of th several prison ships, was an old shlp-of-the-llne, a tt-gun craft, which had passed the days of naral usefulness useful-ness ere th revolution was more than begun. rt decaying, th hlp was dismantled disman-tled and first turned Into a storeahlp and moored In the Bant river at New York. In the year 1780, however, becoming be-coming unfit for that service, she was ter suffering la even ninny times worse. The old hulk wan aheoluMy unhealed, aad the great mass of the prisoners hsd only their tattered garment In whlrh to wrap thcmaelvea. The rold winds hlew through the old craft without with-out hindrance, tne elect and mow filtered fil-tered down through the hati hwsys upon up-on th crippled alrk. snd the wretched prisoners saw their fniet-bltten feet actually fall from them for want of medical attention of the mildest sort. Heaven knows the record la grew-some grew-some enough aa far aa we have gone, and yet Ihti Is hut the briefest hint of the sufferings of thst 10,000 that went to martyrs' graves with the prof- fer of plenty, and the comfortable ei-j ei-j amide, of their renegade countrymen ashore should they desert the continental conti-nental cause. With every reaeunahl consideration for their health and comfort, the prls-ouers prls-ouers on the 8outhery hsve nothing to endure save confinement to the ship. Pood they have In plenty, and of work and eierrlse enough to keep them In proper trim. Th ship Is under th police control of a marine guard detailed from th receiving re-ceiving ship Frsnklln herself roost famous because ahs brought back from the Mediterranean the notorious "boss" Tweed years sgo. ROBERT O. 8KERRETT. Ttrteee ef Teniae. Doctor Yerkea of Harvard University. Univers-ity. In eiperlmentlng with the turtle, has discovered that It Is a model of patience and persistency. It rise superior su-perior to great obstacles. The Prudential Pru-dential Record glvea certain result of bis observations: Ths doctor arranged a box with various obstacle between th extreme corner. In on of which waa a dark neat. At the end farthest from th nest be placed a turtle. Th difficult a piece of work? Hut th dacolt seldom fnlls. Mow to ile.(e of Tebeeee. Color, burn and tenure are lb three things which the grower of tobacco to-bacco ha chiefly to conalder. At present pres-ent the trade rails for a light cinnamon cinna-mon brown hade. whlrh muat be uniform, uni-form, not mottled. The leaf wbea rolled on a cigar and smoked must lesve a white or light gray ash, which doe not flak off and fall Into one bosom or over his waistcoat, and It must not "coal" I. have a black, charred ring lust behind th aah on the burning cigar. This Is sure to give a bad flavor and taste. The leaf also must burn freely, and when lighted hold firm for a reasonable time. It muat have a soft, silvery teitur. glossy surface and the elasticity of a. piece of kid. so that It may be drawn smoothly and closely about th cigar, flavor la not wanted In Connecticut tobacco, for If there be murh of It It Is sure to be bad. l'erfert burn, color and tenure ran be got In the northern climate, but a delicate and agreeable flavor has not yet been obtained. Flavor Fla-vor la conditional upon soil and ter-tllliers. ter-tllliers. Tt I desirable, therefor, that th leaf be neutral, without taet. aa far a may b. "W get th flavor wholly In th Cuban filler. To obtain ob-tain these qualltlea 'of leaf la th problem of the grower a much more complicated one that meet th ordinary or-dinary farmer. iMdnri Tottai aervtee. From any point In 1-ondon man ran write a letter In the morning and get an answer the same day. and If not too far off h can do th same In th country, depending, of coura. upon th promptness of th person to whom the letter Is addressed. Thl JL Of THE UHTl IATt q0vlRrl1rr .jBrssirSy?' A. of m RevoiunoM V - . z? - - ' '" - NEW PRISON SHIP BOl'THEY AN 1) THE OLD JERSEY. relegated to the duty of prison ahlp and a plar of conllnemeut for our prtvateersmen csptured by the British, toward whom th bitterest animosity waa felL Smallpox In Its most virulent viru-lent form soon fastened upon her Inmates, In-mates, and fearing that the dls-a.e Bight pread to the well-populated bore, th blp waa moved to th Wallebout. then a solitary and unfre-auented unfre-auented part of Long Island, but now tb sit of th flourishing Brooklyn TT yard. Ther fch lowly rotted away during the remaining yeara of out atruggl for liberty, and "nally sank an th lte h had made th enter of so much human misery aavl needless uBrlng. u . Any oa that has been aboard th old order of our wooden ships can recall re-call th limited pae between decke. th canty nllowane of sunshln that found Ita way In through the none-too-generoua gun pens, and th general atmoapher of confinement even under th pleasanteat condition. The ur-roundlngs ur-roundlngs on th. Jersey were these limitation Intensified by an Indifference Indiffer-ence that amounted to well-nigh dev- Utah cunning. Th old gun port were ecurly I closed as won as the hlp was. given over to prison purpose, and imall holes, about 10 feet apart, were cut Instead. Thus openings, only !0 Inches square, were, In turn, partly closed by the stout Iron bars that crossed them In two direction; and when w remember that the vessel' I .Idea were from 18 to twenty odd ' Incbe thick, on cn realise bow ef- f fnrtually the Inmates were cut out from th reach of unshlne, except for the briefest while In the earliest and latest hours of the day. Th bowsprit of the ship was th only original spar of the ship left, and out upon It ample length the hardiest of the prisoners clambered to be aa fr as possible from the noisome atmosphere at-mosphere of the body of th hulk. Bpr-era! Bpr-era! accounts of the ship have been written, but none of them with more fulness and startling truth of color than the simple, straightforward account ac-count of Cupt. Thomas Drlng of th rrovlrtenc. privateer, The Cuance-a vessel of 12 six-pounder canuon and a complement of 65 men. Drlng" account dwells upon ihe summer sum-mer period. In fact he was liberated In October, after a confinement of only tVe months, but the story of the win- i animal wandered around for thirty-1 five minutes before finding what It wanted; but after It once knew the route It began to Improve on It record, rec-ord, in fact, the fiftieth trip was made In thirty-five seconds. More difficult dif-ficult labyrlntha were arranged, and the turtle aguln showed that when once It knew Ita way It went as straight as possible to Ita destination. If it got lost. It would go back to th starting point and begin over again. All these thlnga show that the turtle has some points which everybody might copy with profit. Kor Instance, Its way of making Its record better with every effort Is entirely commendable. commend-able. Its habit, when loat, of going bark to the suiting point and beginning begin-ning over again can also be warmly commanded. Youth' Companion. Tbleve W India. Probably the moat expert thieve la tbe world are those In lower Bombay. Ther theft baa been made a Sue art. To enter a xenana, or tbe woman's apartment In a native house, where all th family treasures are kept, 1 the ambition of every native thief. Thl la no easy matter, for the aenana I the center of the house, surrounded by other apartments occupied by ever-wakeful ever-wakeful sentinels. In order to reach It the thief burrows under the home until his tunnel reaches a point beneath be-neath the floor of the room to which access Is sought. But the cautious native na-tive does not at once enter. Full well he know that the Inmate of th house sometimes detect the miner at work and stand over the hole armed with deadly weapons, silently awaiting await-ing his appearance. He has with him a piece of bamboo, at one end of which a bunch of grass repreeent a human head, and this he thruata up through the rompleted breach. If the vicarious head does not rome to grief the real one take Ita plsce. and the thief entering the xenana lerrete himself or, finding everything favorable favor-able for this purpose, proceeds to attempt at-tempt what seems an Impossible undertaking. un-dertaking. This, Indeed, Is no leas a task than to remove from tbe ears and arms and noses the earrings, brace-lota, brace-lota, armluta, bangles and noae ring of the sleepers without awakening them and to get safely away with his plunder. Who but a dacolt would be eqfiHl to so delicate, dangerous and rule wlfl apply anywhere within 100 mile of th Hank of England. There are hourly collections and hourly deliveries de-liveries In all parts of the city, the bualnesa aa well aa the residence quarters. quar-ters. The average number of deliveries deliv-eries In rrtle of ver 10.000 Inhabitants Inhabit-ants Is fourteen a day. Within the city limits a letter Is carried by tb ordinary mall service about as promptly prompt-ly ana aa rapidly as a telegram with us. There la a letter box at every corner. A person mailing a not at o'clock Is tire to have It collected before be-fore 10 In the morning and delivered at It destination anywhere within th limit of London before 12, and If the reply I posted before 1 o'clock he will receive It within three or four hour at the furthest. Thl quirk postal service ser-vice baa been a great obstacle In th way of telephone. There are probably prob-ably fewer telephones In London when compared to th population than In any city of tb United Bute. UmsiW a telle PeUaale Celt. National Locomotor Ataxia League baa been organised, with an office In rifth avenue. New York. Th object of tb league la to promote research for a permanent cur for tbe dlaease. It 1 the Intention of the league to offer reward of $10,000 for th discovery dis-covery of a guaranteed cur. It 1 believed be-lieved that there are from 18,000 to 20,000 sufferers from locomotor ataxia In this country, all of whom, It I hoped, will become members of tb league, aad by contrlbutlona from tbem and other and with government govern-ment aid It Is expected to secure the money to build a sanitarium. New York Medical Journal. laventors Avert to Meale. It I said that Edison deaplses mu-Ic mu-Ic and that Nikola Teala Is peculiarly avers to Ita charm. That I a strange freak. Many believe that a person who doea not love mualc has no soul. But some of the acknowledged geniuses genius-es of history, among them true poets, could not bear the sound of the sweetest sweet-est melody. Ilyron had no ear for music, mu-sic, and neither vocal nor Instrumental afforded him tb slightest pleasure. Edmund Burke, whose oratory was music to bis audiences, hated music. Charles James Fox, another great orator; or-ator; Daniel O'Cminoll, still another; William Pitt, a third; Robert Peal, a fourth all of these ran away from the sound of muulc. |