6 ADMIRAL SAMPSON. SON OF A FARM LABORER-AN INSAT IABLE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE. Be Owe. Mil ell of 111. Sure... to HI. Early Instructor.-During the Civil War the Ship He Waft Commanding Was Mown Hp In Charleston Harbor. Acting Rear Admiral William T. Sampson owes his position In the navy to his own Individual efforts, and not to any Influence. He has worked hard for all his honors and well deserves them. He is the Bon of poor parents, had to divide his time, when a boy, between work and study, and In the face of seemingly insurmountable dif ficulties he has, by close application to hla duties and to study, risen to his present high rank. He was born in Palmyrna, N. Y., February 8, 1840. His father was a farm laborer and could not Afford to let his son devote much time to his school books. Young Sampson was hot willing to do so, even had his father been disposed to permit him, to spend his time as other buys did. When old enough he went to aehool, but the conditions were such that he needs must find time, too, to do the chores, cut and pile wood, and do much other hard work known to far mers' boys. He pluckily kept hard at work with his books, however, and Principal Far mer of the Classical Union School took a great liking to the boy and helped him In his studies. The young man bad an Insatiable thirst for Informa tion, and despite the fact that no had less time to devote to it than many of the other boys In the school, he soon distanced them in the race for knowl edge. WILLIAM T. SAMPSON. Mr. Farmer enlisted the Interest of W. H. Southwiok of Palmyrna, and Congressman E. B. Morgan In young Sampson, with the result that Mr. Morgan offered to appoint him to the Maval Academy when there was a va cancy. When the proposition was made Principal Farmer decided to make a special effort to bring the boy through with flying colors, and he of fered to give his pupil some special In struction to fit him for the Annapolis examination. The result was that he had the necessary books and worked bard over them. When the examination was held young Sampson's percentage was higher than that of any other ap plicant for the nulla nation. William Sampson entered the Naval Academy in 1857, and was graduated first in his class three years later. His first cruise was made In the frigate Ptotomae in 1861, and during that year he was promoted master. In 1862 he was commissioned a lieutenant, and wan detailed to the practice ship John Adams, on which he remained until the end of 1863, when he went back to the academy. After that he got his first taste of war and distinguished himself highly. He was detailed to the Ironclad Patnpsro In 1864. The Pataps- ■ eo was one of the vessels on the South Atlantic blockading squadron. On Jan uary 15, 1865. Lieutenant Sampson was executive officer of the Patapseo, and 1 he was ordered by the admiral of the fleet to enter Charleston harbor and, remove or destroy all submarine mines, and torpedoes with which the city was protected from Invasion. This was an exceedingly difficult and dangerous task, as for several days the Confed erates had devoted all their time and .abor to stocking the water with these explosives In order to repel any ad vance. As soon as the ironclad entered the harbor she was met with a rain of bullets from the sharpshooters on the' forts. Several of the men on the Pa tapseo were struck, and Lieutenant- Sampson, who was on the bridge, see ng his men falling all around him. ordered them below while he remained a target for the rebel rifles. The men had scarcely obeyed the order when there t as a big explosion, and the iron-- clad wes hurled out of the water. She bad been blown up by a mine. Then the vessel sank, and several of the crew went down with her. Lieutenant Sampson was blown about 100 feet, but he was rescued with about twenty-live of his men. After this he was detailed to the Col orado. the flagship of the European station, and while on that vessel he wa commissioned a lieutenant commander. He was attached to the Naval Acad emy from 1868 to 1871, and was on the Congress In 1872-3. In 1874 he was made commander and his first vessel there after was the Alert, which he ded for two years. Then for two years he was at the Naval Academy, and from 1879 to 1882 he commanded the Swatara on the Asiatic station. The two years following he was stationed at the Naval Observatory, and during that time was a member of the Inter national Prime Meridian and Time Conference. He had charge of the tor pedo station In 1885-6, and was a mem ber of the Board on Fortifications ajid Other Defences at the same time. From 1886 to 1890 he was superlntettr dent of the Naval Academy, and In 1889 he was a delegate from the United States to the International Marlttmo Conference held at Washington. He was promoted to the rank of cap tain In 1889, and the next year he was placed In command of the cruiser San Francisco. In July, 1892, he was In spector of ordnance at the navy yard, Washington, and the next year he was made chief of the bureau of ordnance. He held that position until the lowa was ready to be commissioned, when he was detailed to that battleship. When the fleet was sent down to Ha vana Captain Sampson was placed In command, and raised his flag on the cruiser New Pork. At the outbreak of the war he was made acting rear ad miral by President AlcKlnley. Socially, Admiral Sampson is a great favorite. He Is a slightly built man md his shoulders a trifle rounded. His hair and beard are gray, his eyes blue, set deep beneath strongly marked brows. He is affable, but a man of few words. Nothing disturbs the evenness ef his temper; he is quick to grasp a situation and resourceful In an emer gency. Admiral Sampson has been married twice. He has four daughters by his Srst marriage. They are Mrs. Roy C. Smith, wife of Lieutenant Smith of the United States navy; Mrs. Jackson, wife >f Ensign R. H. Jackson, United States iavy, and Miss Nannie and Miss Olive Sampson. His second wife was Miss Burling of Canandalgua, and there are two sons by this marriage. Ralph, ten vears old, and Harold, eight years old. —A. F. Aldridge In New York Times. A ACHIEVEMENT OF A BIG FEAT. 1 New. I..us Printed on Paper Made from Trees Felled the Same.Day. The Stroudsbury, Pa., Daily Times tccompllshed a surprising feat a short time ago by getting out an Issue prlnt td on paper made that day from two rees chopped down the same morning. This may at first seem an astounding issertion, but the following description from the paper Itself will prove that tuch a thing can be done; "It was Just on the hour of seven /clock when workmen of the Mlnsl Pulp and Paper Mills walked to the :ree, which stood In all Its freshness, t short distance from tho works, with iharp axes In their hands. "Arrived at the spot they soon struck t death blow to the poplar and In a lew minutes the tree lay prostrate on he ground. Horses were at hand and :hey were fastened to the trunk and jore it to the mill. Two trees were recessary to secure the amount of pa ler for our extra edition. GEORGE C. HUGHES 3 Publisher of the Strondsburg Times, "Stripped of branches the trees were juickly cut Into two-foot lengths and the bark taken off. Then the wood jvas thrown Into the grinder and In a liffy the huge stones were crushing and mashing It into pulp. In an hour or 4o the poplars were in shape to be lucked up Into the machine for refln ng and extracting the water. "This done, it was passed into the fourdriner,' and by the hour of nine /clock the paper you now have in your hand had come from the machinery, dean and ready for use. "A Times man was at hand with a tvagon, and Into the vehicle was placed he roll necessary for the edition, and by 10.30 It was In the press room ready to be printed upon. "The balance of the work necessary to turn out the newspaper is too well cnown to need description, but suffice it to say that in eight and one-half hours the living poplar trees were cut lown, made into paper and ready for iellvery." BRAVE AS THE BURNING DECK BOY. Voting Officer Hlop. to I.lght a Pipe at a Critical Moment, "He's a cool 'un," Is the way the sol diers in a certain English regiment de scribe one of their officers. The circum nances which gave this officer his rep utation Is related by Rudyard Kipling. He writes: A very young officer, who had gone tlmost straight from school to the ar my, and thence to India, was leading his company through a rocky pass, on returning from a scouting expedition. They were beset by the enemy, who fired at them from behind rocks, and the men were growing very unsteady. Those In the rear began to be Impa tient, and shouted to the men In front; 'Hurry up! What are you waiting fir there?" The young officer answered quit* toolly: Hold on a minute! I'm light ing my pipe!" And he struck a match and lit It. There was a roar of laugh tee , and a ! soldier called out, "Well, since you're j 4o preßsin", I think I'll have a pipe my j self." And he, too, struck a match : and began to smoke. This bit of fun j steadied the men, and they came I through- In good order.—Westminster Magazine. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. PnIUHFINc AFFAIRS A PUZZLE. What Hltall Ito I>on. With the Philip, plnen When They Are Conquered. Washington, June 22.—The recent turn in a flairs which puts Agulnaldo hi the position of a cat watching a mouse in a narrow ihole is embarrass ing to our government, on the theory that we intend to follow up our vic tory at Manila by the reduction of the whole Philippine group. Already, be fore we have actually taken possession of the principal city on the principal island, our statesmen at the capital are announcing their policies and plans for disposing of the entire Philippine sys tem. On one hand is heard the dis cussion of whether we oan hold the is lands as security for tne payment of a heavy war indemnity from Spain. But what would this mean? That if Spain were to tender the money we demanded we should have to surren der the islands. Meanwhile, if the in surgents had overcome the Spaniards, should we be compelled to suppress the insurrection before turning the is lands over to their former owner? The prompt arrival of reinforcements for Rear Admiral Dewey may solve a part of the difficulty, for if Augusti is able to hold the Insurgents at bay till a sufficient force of United States troops is at hand to enable him to sur render to us instead of to the rebels, the general belief here is that ihe will do so, and his recent hopeless and for lorn reports of the situation indicate this intent. We should then take possession of Manila, and constructively of the whole Philippine group, establish a military government and await further events, the insurgents being given their choice between submitting to our authority peacefully or by compulsion. All this explains the anxiety of the Washington authorities to hasten the Merrltt expedition in every possible manner, even at the expense of draw ing away some of the men and mate rial really needed for operations against Cuba anl Porto Rico. The fact that we are .taking such pre cautions to prevent the embarrass ments Incident to a oomplete mastery of the situation at Manila before our policy for the future Is definitely form ed does not absolutely Indicate what that polioy will be. As things look now, we may leave the other Islands In the group to their fate and hold Luzon as our own territory, thus satisfying the cravings of the annexation element In the Senate with the least possible concession from the life long policy of our republic. This Is evidently the purpose which is now taking shape In the mind of the president. It has been suggested that the Phil ippine islanls, if taken as a whole by us, might be handed over to the Insur gents for the establishment of a re public, under a<n agreement that they should pay for their possession by giv ing us their surplus taxes and customs receipts after paying ,the expenses of local government. Whatever may be thought of this plan later, the admin istration is not in the mood for con sidering It seriously now. RUMORED SHOOTING OF BLANCO. Sulci to Uuvo Reun Wounded by a Man WhoMO Brother He Hud l'ut to Death. Washington, D. C., June 22.—There Is an unconfirmed story here of an at tempted assassination of Captain Gen eral Blanco by Mariano Salva, a young Cuban member of the volunteer army, and i,f a condition of affairs In Havana bordering on revolution as a conse quence. GENERAL BLANCO The story has It that Blanco was se verely wounded in the thigh. According to the rumor, which was started by a Cuban, Salva was a guard In General Blanco's palace. Salva's brother hod been shot by order of Gen eral Blanco for alleged treason. Balva planned revenge, and as Blanco was emerging from the palace with his staff shot him. Officers who tried to cut down Salva, lit Is said, were prevented from doing so by Salva's comrades among the volunteers. The would-be assassin is said to be In Morro. The story goes thn t the news of the attempted assassination spread rapidly over the city and long before nightfall Its Inhabitants were in a state of up roar. The volunteers, sympathizing with their dead comrade and his Im prisoned brother, fomented the confu sion and paraded the streets, shouting "Down with Blanco! "Long live Wey ler!" and shouting loudly for the recall of Weyler to Havana. Places ot business wore closed and the peaceful residents vacated them and their houses and look refuge in the country. The position In Which General Blan co now finds himself Is a doubly seri ous one. The volunteers are wildly ex cited over his aotlon and are bitter In their condemnation of him, and espec ially loud In their demands for the re turn of General Weyler. Ordered to Sautlagn. Washington, June 22.—The war de partment has Issued orders to Brig. General Henry M. Duffield to proceed with his entire brigade from Camp Al ger to Fort Monroe, where they will take transports for Santiago. The brigade comprises the Ninth Massachusetts and Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Michigan, about 3,000 men in all. Asloi Battery In California. Oakland, Cal., June 21.—The Astor Light Artillery has arrived from New York. The battery crossed the bay yesterday and Is located at Camp Mer rltt In Son Francisco. CHURCHES OF THE PHILIPPINE& * The Cathedral of Manila Colt f 1,000,000 —Twalve Years In Building. Church conditions among the people of the Philippine Islands are not ideal. Spain, which demoralizes everything she touches, has used the Roman Cath olic church there for political ends, and many priests are notoriously far from what they ought to be as spiritual ad visers, and also as men. By the law of the islands everybody is Roman Catho lic. No other church services of any kind are allowed. There are church buildings in every town, and the church buildings are the finest in the town as a rule. The Roman Catholic cathedral Is the finest edifice in the city of Ma nila. It is under the care of the Jesu its, as are many of the churches on the Islands. It was twelve years in build ing and cost $1,000,000. The very finest and hardest woods in the Philippines were used for the finishing, and the structure is of a blush tint marble. There are exquisite carvings, some of which have recently been made. The education of the young on the islands is in the care of the Roman Catholic church authorities. There are no endowed schools and no hospitals. The children go to school only one hour per day for two days each week, and study almost nothing save church his tory and a few verb*. '//*. ... All news published is censored by the Archbishop of Luzon. This island gets its name, by the way, from "losong," a wood mortar kept by the Indians Just outside their doors, in which they dally wash their rice before cooking It. The only newspaper in the Philippines is printed in Spanish and everything in it has been approved by the archbishop. All marriages have to be celebrated by the priests. Some time ago a mar riage was performed between British subjects in the British legation, and so much trouble came from it that a battle well nigh ensued. The men who are best oft in the world are the priests. A reason for this is the fact that car goes in the harbor may not be unload ed on feast days except by permission from the priests, which permission has to be paid for. As feast days are rath er more numerous than those that are not feast days, the fees are given as a regular thing and the church greatly enriched. No music is permitted in the houses of the people after 10 o'clock at night unless by special permission from the priests, and this permission has also to be paid for. The great institution of Manila is the lottery. This is drawn monthly, the prizes ranging from $5 to SBO,OOO. It is managed by tlie public officials and by the archbishop, and $200,000 each month is collected for the state and th church. It is from this lottery that Spain and the Roman Catholic church in the Philippines derive much of their enormous revenues. Wages of farm male laborers are about Ave cents per day, and each man Is required to pay an annual tax of from $1.50 to $26. Much of this tax goes to the church, since It is the church officials who collect it all. The archbishop forbids the sale of farm products, but requires them to be sim ply exchanged. There Is a tax for the benefit of the church on cocoanut trees, on animals when killed for feed, on shops, mills and oil presses, and a par ticularly high tax on cock fightß, which are the national pastimes of the peo ple. Incidentally it may be explained that the word Cavite means fish hook. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. HERO OF THE WINSLOW. Ilariiariou's Interest lu the Little Iloet IleoMuse He Was Her Sponsor. Lieutenant John B. Bernadou, who was In command of the Winslow In the fight at Cardenas, has been officially commended several times for meritori ous work In the naval service, and on each sleeve of his uniform he wears a star of the Insignia of bravery. He knows the Winslow well, for he super- Intended her building from the day her keel was laid till she steamed out of the dock at Baltimore, Md. When the government accepted the boat he was placed In command. JOHN B. BERNADGC. One of the Incidents of the career of the dashing young hero was his trip with the Winslow to Join the squadron at Key West In February last. The boat had scarcely lost sight of New port when it ran Into the teeth of one of the most terrific gales experienced for years. The torpedo boats are not good sea boats, and the Winslow was Just out of the builders' hands and without having been thoroughly tested. The navy department was In the great est apprehension for her safety, when she turned up at Delaware Breakwa ter. It appeared that In the height of the gale, when the ablest seamanship was required to keep the little torpedo boat above the water, Lieutenant Bernadou had discovered two poor fellows adrift on one of the big garbnge scows blown away from New York, without food or water. Regardless of the great risk to himself and his little boat, by adroit handling of the craft he managed to rescue the men and h:!ng them to the Breakwater. 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