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Show Ulvti the army who sa arduty passed from the scene of Geld duty Tbere always has teeu a dispute as to abetber MaJ Gen Frederick Ueut Grant, who died a Jew weeks uk. hail right to he considered a veteran ot Collision Device Now Adopted In, the ovti ar (jram uiow nr It las hut 'In the sixties, hen held that he obtained that dinttni 'lou out' 'J IM' ol Ins hiitnewuat adv M hetuuj-hoy fctlut wiilth I d him to wander from hi fathers I ad p. at ter to he u.a.'e the target lur voiia et at I to terli g shots ol the elieti v aav ! younger Grant was not sworn lit"! the t service dmlt'g the Civil Knur lletilihuit g, ml.ila'e car rled on (he nliutl tolls of lie ml' States army the r. nl ttu otto it 'o'l htX'f nan e appeits thHe I A t ashlngton States Tbe I'nited battleship North Carolina how lying lu the Portsmouth .navy yard. Is living Itted with a few simple devkea which, at cording to her commander, Capt C C Marsh will permit her to hit as hlg an Ueherg as did the 111 fated Titanic, to hit It Jtirl a hard and yet to stay afloat for perhafS long enough to tome Into poit under ner own steam at any rate loug enough so that the crew could he picked up and brought to sality Two word sum up the whole story com pressed air It is the slory not of n new Inven tlon. byt erf the new application of a well known and well tiled method Tarhap the most vivid Illustration of what the North Carolina ex peri a to he able to do Is wbat actually was done In the case of the Yankee The engineers who tried to raise that foundered ahlp -- and Captain 'fyarsh waa one of them first set the pumps to going Nothing happened except the throb throb of the pumps The The water refused to go down were astounded They engineers thought It over and they set out on a new tack On top of the roffer dam which reached down to Just above the water line they built a hitle atr fork pressed air waa forced Into the water Oiled compartments below and In the words of Captain Marsh, "the wuier went out like pushing a bull" The workmen descended Into the cavity and found the leak five small rivet bole Had there been coropi eased air pumps on the Titanic a strmlic miracle might have been worked Water Forced Out and Kept Out. I have seen. writes a man whn thinks that compressed air will be the aolutlon of many of the dangers whhh threaten modern oceangoing llnets, Captain Marsh open the ea cocks flood his forward trimming tanka and then, by turning on the compressed air. force out the ara water Id five mlnufet, and by keeping on the compressed air keep the water out. ah though all sea cocks remained open. Every one familiar with the wrecking operation of today will at once comprehend the simple physical principle Involved. Your ship, let ua say. strike another ship, an Iceberg, or a derelict, and a hole Is stove In her The water ruahea In It finds Itself confined to a reasonably water tight chamber which can be shut off from the rest of the vessel by doors If the walls ot the bulkhead sre strong enough the ship can go shead carrv Hit Ing the extra burden of wntcr It better, of course, to remove the water and close the hole, or at the very least to strengthen the walls of the bulkhead so that they mar with stand the added pressure of the enter a pressure which at a depth of 30 feet below the surface of the aea would amount to IS pound per square Mllv One ' uno Gi net ytar 0 11 fV il Ml1' years old. was thiown Horn his horse whiie riding n the Potomac driveway He was had y hurl and lor a tl.ne tear was eiitertan ed that he might not re over tail to.liy he Is up and ahotit, and apjj.tri r.tlv Is tit for another campaign, ft auiti were net es iltier the Sioux tne sary. against S'e I'eries the Aranbxs, 'he Kite was. the Paw nets, the tiyennes the Hlat kfeet or the Apat he- - tirwitn the braves ot every om of these tribes the general has lutasured running and strength Chaffee's Bravery at Santiago Adna K Chaff, e Is a lleutet ant general on the reiiud HM, rat king tie tween G.nerals S It M Young and John C Hates Ills civilian gath cau not tilde the soldier tigiire. and If the evidence of form were not there, Chat fee' face would show that most of his life had been spent In the open 71 j j and tnorover In a position e. , y "" cji. yvr 1 I N some ways ground of .if 5 l The stiff. 54a shlnUz trees, the black aid w bite cows, the feat vlvldJy-painami wooden houses, miglt all have trooped oil of some very new art splendid Is. one Is positlvelv dragged Ino their dwellings int induced to all the household goods, espec tally if one Is an American or an amateur antiquarian to some decrepit old dock or cradle, trom which the owner vows never to to Hut she yields so readily part persuasion that perhaps oue does not wrong her In thinking that she solaces heiself for the loss with a little expedition to Amsterdam in search of Iga Is quite a gad name for the tslaqa of the Zuider Zp land i-- ' "tjt-pla- nurse n - a xW The Marken fleet makes a brave show, hut one feels that a really prosperous concern would not spend so much time in harbor However, on weekdays the men certainly disappear somewhere perhaps only to make their rare appearance the more imAs fs the case all over Holpressive land, man has the monopoly of all the quaintest devices In dress. The Mark-ene- r is said to do his fishing in bis Noah s Ark. The i pie are dressed In a more gay and oi ot coin substitute practical fashion than elsewhere, ajd mand When he was a a .oticl Chuffee was their vocation In life, like a child's. I to make a pretty and pleasing Imprfv In coiumand at one pait ol the hi Id in slon on their observers The cheei front of Santiago where the bullets were flvlng thick enough to make the making and fishing at which the situation uncomfortable Captain l.ee make believe to toil are, or anyh$ to tfc a Uiitlsh army officer who had been appear to he, as unimportant sent to Cuba to watch the operations general weal as the productions 6f j ol the war. and who of eomse was a child's cooking stove. What they hay-tdo is to look, dress and behdve none omluiiiinf. wrote a story at out that they appeal to artists want! lhc fight in which he said that noth lng was more magnificent than the models and Americans wanting exc slons Two thirds of the tourUts a courage of Col A II Chaffee on tha occasion Kveryhody under orders ex half the guidebooks actually seem h could Imagine that this mode of life baa rept Chaffee look such ' he colonel turned fo them quite guileless and childlike, he obtained Captain l.ee, who seemed reluctant to course, they are really becoml consider that seeking rovtr was the thanks to the tourist, the most can and long sighted people In Holla "You had proper thing, and said hellet get something In front of you There Is no line being killed at this stage ot the gaihe l.ee took to cover, hut tn telling the story be added-"noticed that Chaffee refused-t-o follow his own advice " Moral" Bills Annoy Them Occasionally congress urges that It must must be excused for not doing more legislative work because time Is tost by listening to active pereona who are pressing tor (he passage of Of course this "moral measures " plea Is more or less pleasantly bu morous, but the country probably baa no adequate Idea of the Immense nura her of moral reforms that congress Is asked to bring aboui by prop, legislation each year It Is a sad mistake to suppose that the only Washington lobbyist is the gentleman who would safeguard the Intereata of capital and whose check GPotFerrir re? book Is as conveniently placed aa hi sZV VSTZjZA. 22gfy C3 IfiOFjPA Iiandkeri hlef Organizations rloselv JTrSATZA allied with the chur hes have their IZrfdFIS extravagant breeches and ceremonious lobbyists In the corridors and while hat. If this Is a fact, the Havenstoom-bootdienIt may Involve a statement to hard Just aa the remote and pagan Bretos Is getting 4 of Amsterdam, which has a he believed by some people. It must hideously like the rest of the world as regards the very tender and not altogether disinhe said In truth thnt as a rule their itching palm. No; the folk of the Zuider Zee are terested affection in these "buried citlobby Is more powerful than the one emphatically not children, hut they are not the ies of the Zuider Zee, would And it which would make for Immorality leas interesting because they muxt be taken a worth while to run an excursion to. foot U a rertnln reform bureau There vastly engaging. Ingenious and conscious frauds the scene of his labors jC The proposition then Is to turn com " at work so constantly that Its labor An exception must be m ide 'n the case of Marken and Voiendnm are not the pressed air Into the neighboring com may be said to be continuous, which a village whhh, although all buried cities in which the Haven-only In con them and hills at one had time prepartments. reenforcing eight the year round, lives a quite simple and unpreis eager to introduce gtoomhootdienst venting water from leaking Into them greRg of whlih It was urging the pas tentious life Its fishing fleet Its prowess the stranger In fact, as far as one can either from the damaged one or from sage, hills, to use .the bureau's own In the North sea, and its womenproves ire blushing and discover, these places ire not cities a strained plate on the hull of the ves words, which were Intended "to make bashful The houses art really homes, But Monnikendanl, on the all at In net Thl accomplished you have the laws of Christ to some degree the and whatever treasures and heirlooms lie of may having fitted out a ship strength sured your ship from sinking for the. lawsTvf this world" This one bureau withiu are not shown to the stranger or bartered which did good service against the A time being The next step Is to turn at one time had endorsed "and coin for his gold. The costume strikes I'OZZ-one as Spaniards at Hoorn, Is described as the compressed air Into the bulkhead mended to churches and reform socle At any rate, the spirited little boys whogenuine. alCertainare of its greatness In the past "dreaming where the tear Is, thus driving out the ties for support" legislative measure splash of color made by the apron and with the ways swarming about the shows no desi-- e to emu-lot- e prDV, town by their little Bilent the ly flower is water to the level of the bottom of to remove thp federal shield In Inter romps and gymnastics thatjetty a as whhh .is dainty and fragile cap, their If It dreams it its former achievements The Volendantmers are a placid people, with the tear - Conditions now are such that state commerce from "original pack garments and round bl.uk raps faded magenta boi.-tous clang even the not tre and eminently dreams quietly, workmen can patch up the rent more ages Importer Into the "dry" terrl only one strong prejudice against the neighbortram-wa- v practicable to play in. At first, on has fears for a seemingly quite unnece-sar- y bell of of the com a of as it island Marken The denounce or less effectually, after which the tory, to prohibit Interstate transmts the costume. The coats are so ing a forms It reveries its from It breathlessly rouse can tight derest of the water ran he sucked out slon of race gambling odds and be'a -- an economy which, perhaps, munity of beggars whose only excuse is their faccheese whose with counterbalances Edam, 'contrast striking ficient mental capatitv. due to the fact thaT no and the ahlp proceed to repair dork to prohibit interstate transportation the absurd superfluity of material In the trousers tories are extremely bustling but strangely unproone on the mainland will marry with them. The and description of prize fights, to pro and the caps would be at the bottom of the' Expense I Not Greats ductive Edam has a huge church, w hich. havdiffera down to this animosity guidebooks put hlhlt Sunday toll and traffic In the Zuider Zee twenty times a day As has been aftld. the North Caronot as a shelter for men anti cattle durthat er, once acted jt ing ence of religion, but one feels thnt there is somelina la now being fitted up so that she District of Columbia; to prohibit sa they have the tenacity of limpet remen is now afflicted with the a Tbe flood, ing In one when contention Volendammer's the thing esn rescue herself after this fahlon loons In Hawaii, to prohibit Cnlted main faithful to this artistic cosum, both when r The town also prides itself on its cleanliness, a finds that the Marketer standpoint can only be The new cruiser Utah Is nlready pro States district attorney from engag stalwart, aerlous flshormen-- nt which the fact that makes it horribly unsympathei ic On atago ascertained by the application of hard cash. to forbid vUitor sees little of them and vided with the nece sary apparatus. lng In private practice; when their workThe Zuider 7.ee, which lives In the art of Antourist-beloveIsle but mainland that despised bv At first blush It sounds as If a com liquor In ships and buildings used ing life is done and ail that remiSa, is to ton Mauve, is off the beaten track of the tourist. spend is children even The conversation chargeable pressed air equipment which would he the United States government, and to the day leaning up against the Jetty wall, amok-InHis own town of Laren Is visited only hv ertlsts, in exand shriek goodbyes inopportune plaintive In traffic and musing Old age is opium powerful enough and widely enough restrain although It Is a pretty place and the environs are, change for a shower of copper, and the most casHutch fisherman. His flue distributed to he able to fill nv hulk Fear Reform "Movements for Holland, thickly wooded .Zaandom. the plac ms to to fee ual pay nilljr photographer head on a great steel vessel with corn Now here was a reform bureau that eyes, scant "hair hlg w hole at shi where Peter The Great-work- ed w ho chooses to dispose urchin every unmannerly face-have a It was dried old pressed air at a moments notice had undertaken a good deal shrewd, distinguished, In front of his camera. pleases by its bright green houses and btaul old herself would be prohibitively expensive nut a power and Is a power It must bC quizzical look, which is very attractive and la not windmills In these last places the visi.or feels Really, the tosiume of the Markeners is not to Captain Marsh's eiperlenre Is quite understood that criticism of all kinds seen elsewhere injiollnnd ' inclined to stay, but for Markden and Its fellows To begin with, the worsen' I taken b seriously otherwise. A few hundred dollars The women, too. Improve with has been directed at members of the the few hours provided by the Havenstomboot-dies- t In youth dress Is largely made up of printed stuffs, a kind certainly less than a thousand will organization from time to time but they are atout and buxom Uses, ig.Jth are quite sufficient has for which substitute ot embroidery shoddy junburnt Here Is the criticism dees not seem to have af cheek, bright but shallow eye eover the entire cost not been so very long In the world The hftlr tucke surely Uij way of It: fected the spirit or the mental and away, all too neatly, under their UxM and graceCURED. dres itself Is .dark enough, but over it Is worn an, The modern battleship already has bodily activities of the reformers ful winged caps. In age bey gro, often wife "Does your grieve because she threw and most the of the and overall hues; flaunting gaudy twinkling .the two essential things the com Congress Is always afraid of a reform thoughtful, and some of them, over a wealthy man In order to marry you' la chiefly print, and the fair hair is worn in the cap costume, Now this does not mean are Cinderellas godmother to the pressed air pump and the svstem of j movement "She Started to once, but 1 cured her of it the first life Their long ringlets with a straight, bushy fringe across pipes runnlqg everywhere. The com that congressmen are cowards but gowns have not the gaiety of rattle out of the box. forehead. Mr. E. V. Lucas, in his Wanderer mcn.j the "1 wish you would tell me how (tressed air apparatus Is regularlv there are some reform movemen'a being generally a useful black, hhie worthy dames "fine, upor' purple, In Holland,- - call these used for blowing smoke and gases out which congressmen simply do not he broadly checked or striped, and "I started right In to grieving with hei And I creatures." One would like them better a in standing Bade tight of tbe big guns the pipes are the Iteve In knd which v Aa it rrobably thev and awkward fashion Beam, Mm grieved harder and longer than she did If they were less confid'ng and attentive th wl, fire mains, tbe ventilator pipes es- think that the masses of the people o pecially those from tbe coal bunker the country do not believe In, bq' WHAT SHOULD WOMAN and made them see how important It SPEND 7 the dressmaker ask for their dresses' long ago that dress was of importance, and the sounding tubes" tbe ver they are afraid of having their posl is for a noman to have a pleasing apof the because know to she noticed want that many women of Numbers tlca.1 pipe which drop straight from tlon misunderstood w and when cleverest students missed the best pearance, even though ahe may have their dresses, to where Resolves Itself buy QutatPon Into One of the deck Into tbe hold, and through In fact. It has been said of members In after life because they paid no all the learning of the sages. Income and Proper Regard for they know how much they will haTe posts which soundings of the bllge watsr of congress frequently that they Then there is another plea for womattention either to dress or carriage dresamaker they to pay t the big Appearances. are taken. Your system, then, re- stand for Immorality, and this charge sre wom- She herself had no taste for clothes, en who spend time and money on tbelr These elsewhere. them en buy made simply because some quires only coupling up to be com- has-beThe other day a woman writer en who dress well They will not either, but abe was wise enough to ac- clothea They keep endless Industries members have felt that the reforms condemning feminine vanities, vu plete. can afford on knowledge it, and abe persuaded a alive by what appear to many people spend more than they ' That.' 1b word. Is wbat Is being which were asked were not to be will agree they friend to undertake the care ot her to be extravagance, and tbe only thing tbe one of dress To some and everyone dress, done on board tbe North Carolina with which to reproach them is that wardrobe. brought about by laws, but ratber by tent she Is right In her Judging ' are quite right General Brush Retired. of church and school feminine vanities, especially wke . the thorIs So teachings a she twice It on now, dress. It they so often accept hideous fashions year, time spent As to the ' Today there are on tbe active list nd that perhape really the reforms condemn the woman who n opinion on such a oughly turned out with new toilettes, from the dressmakers when tbelr to J, difficult pass of tbe regular army only three were not reforms at nil being merely her day and too much of her In sense of the fitness of things 'should matter, but one thing Is certain and the result being that she has gained who saw service In tbe Civil war. attempts on tbe pert of certain peo- on clothes. But "the average of not make them refuse to look at anything and her baa not Influence lost women do any spend soma that Is thnt in the serious character. Brig. Oew. Daniel H. Brush baa retired ple to dictate how other people should doe neither; In tact, who are She has even lec- which does not express beauty .and up woman, high One the enough. wtlbln a day or two and with bis re live and perhaps bring up their chU- - women who pay the enonnom ' educational world, realised not so very tured to her students on tbe subject. usefulness combined. tirement the last general officer of dren. I i I 1 st v-- srtlst-ridde- n S ei cow-dam- d 1 hbs esoe-clall- y offl-eer- s m,, - |