Show oregon ablaze kansas city journal soon after the priests of pallas parade started the crew of ohp battleship oregon began letting oft roman candles and bombs the sight was very pretty and everybody cheered when suddenly there was an explosion in the bowels of the ship and and flame burst out from every side while a rattling fusillade was heard in a moment the sap began 0 o leak men from above and underneath the sailors in the tops took flying leaps to the deck and the men on deck tell overboard dropping bundles ot roman candles as they fell the candles kept right on doing business and the crowd that had rushed forward to see what was the matter scattered in wild confusion as the balls of fire came sailing into their midst men yelled women screamed and children cried and everybody tried to climb over everybody else in their frantic haste to escape the fiery shower fortunately the crowd was rather thin at that spot and this gave the people a chance to climb over the fence into adjoining yards and get out of the way in the meantime several firemen had run up with babcock fire extinguishers and after tearing holes in the canvas of the battleship extinguished the flames the accident was caused by cne of the men dropping a light into a bunch of roman candles which in turn set fire to the boat when the fire was out the men climbed back into their places and the voyage was resumed an amusing feature of the incident was the action of a man who t lood in the street earnestly watching he baisy firemen ertl rely oblivious to the tact that he nas standing right oi a pile of roman candles that were sp lulng fire in every direction when he finally discovered it he made a flying leap for the sidewalk where he stopped only long enough to comb the from his hair and then disappeared when was told that his countrymen had passed sentence of death upon him for being at tho head of a conspiracy to overthrow tho religious and political constitution of athens be eaid twill show them I 1 still live he obtained from sparta assurance of personal safety and went hither he delighted and charmed the spartano spartans Spar tans as he had the athenians in his earlier years he adopted customs and dross and was the strictest spartan of them all he wore his hair short bathed in the icy waters of tho eurotes and ato their black broth and barley bread they believed that ho bad been in truth as plutarch said he changed color more quickly than a chameleon in sparta ho was grave temperate and fond of physical exercise m loula he was easy going luxurious and merry in thrace he was drunken in thessaly he was devoted to horsemanship and in the court of the persian satraps bo surpassed himself iu magnificence As sparta was to bo the arizo of tho athenian victory he showed the people their danger advising them to begin active operations against that city no better advice coald have been given them and they profited by it |