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GALLANT SEA CAPTAIN
'BRITISH NAVY PROUD OF WORK
OF LIEUTENANT COCHRANE.
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His Exploits With Small Ship, Poorly
Armed, Are Classed With the
Most Brilliant Annals of War
fare on the Ocean.
A recent writer, Mr. J. J. Edgar, has
retold the almost incredible exploits
of the Speedy, the first command of
young Lieutenant Cochrane, after
wards Admiral Lord Dundonald, in
ventor, fighter and strategist. The
little vessel was absurdly small and
ill-equipped; an over-manned and un
derarmed craft of 158 tons, carrying
ninety men and fourteen four-pound
«rs. Nevertheless, she soon became
•so troublesome to the enemy that a
'Spanish frigate was especially dis
patched to hunt her down. But young
Cochrane, foreseeing trouble, had pur-
Jposely shipped a Danish quartermas
ter; and instead of avoiding his formi
dable foe, he dressed the Dane in his
<mn uniform, disguised the Speedy,
-with the aid of paint and canvas, as a
Danish brig, and ran up the quaran
tine flag. A few questions were asked,
to which an unmistakably genuine
Dane, apparently the captain, replied;
and the hoodwinked enemy continued
peacefully on her course.
Some months later, however, they
met again, and an encounter could not
be avoided. The action that followed
■was unique in naval history. The
Speedy made no effort to escape. In
stead, she boldly attacked. She had
at the time only fifty-four men, and
her scant crew and fourteen four
pounders were opposed to the thirty
two heavy guns and 319 men of her
six hundred-ton opponent, the frigate
El Gamo. Coming swiftly to close
quarters, she ran in under the fri
gate's broadside, which hurtled harm
lessly above her, while every shot
from her own guns told. A moment
later the vessels touched, and Coch
rane, at the head of his crew, actually
boarded and carried the frigate, which
struck her flag after the iirst rush.
Between these two exploits the
Speedy visited Valetta, and Cochrane
enjoyed a little adventure ashore. \ A
fancy-dress subscription ball was be
ing given, under the patronage of
some French Royalist officers, and
this he attended, selecting for his cos
tume the ordinary dress of a British
common sailor. A Frenchman, mis
taking him for a genuine jack-tar of
dubious sobriety who was intruding
among his betters, ordered him out.
He refused to go. The Frenchman
collared him; he knocked the French
man down, and the next day they
fought a duel on the sands. Coch
rane received a ball through the trous
ers and the Frenchman one through
the leg, aftor which they parted gayly
with expressions of mutual esteem.
The Speedy's career ended at last
in capture; but although she surren
dered to one vessel, the French bat
tleship Dessaix, she had been gallant
ly fighting against several at once.
The chivalrous French captain de
clined to accept Cochrane's sword,
saying he could not "deprive of his
sword an officer who had so many
hours struggled against impossibili
ties/'
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The Pallas, Cochrane's first really
adequate ship, did not achieve so
many near-impossibilities as the little
Speedy; but her return to Plymouth
after her first cruise was marked by a
uniquely brilliant touch. She had
taken rich prizes. Among the booty
were some wonderful great golden
candlesticks from Mexico. They were
of superb size and workmanship, and
designed for ecclesiastical use; but
Cochrane found them equally adapted
to enhance a naval triumph. When,
at sound of the signal gun, the inhabi
tants of Plymouth flocked to the
wharves, to behold the Pallas sweep
nobly to her anchorage, they were
dazzled and amazed to see her tall
masts aglitter in the sunshine as if
tipped with living flame. To each
mast was proudly affixed a five-foot
golden candlestick! —Youth's Compan
ion.
Indian as a Waiter.
You can find all kinds of people on
Broadway, says the New York Trib
une. There is a full-blooded Chey
enne Indian who is a waiter in one of
the chop suey restaurants in Long
acre square. He wandered here from
the Western plains, scene of his early
youth, to seek fame and fortune in
the metropolis as a singer of Indian
melodies, but with syncopated music
anchored to the boards the red man
hasn't a ghost of a chance. Now he
languishes as a waiter in a Chinese
restaurant, hoping in his heart for
the day when writers of Yiddish and
Irish melodies will again feel the spirit
of the Sioux, Cherokee or Chippewa de
scending upon them. Even the "fads
and fashions" beauty cabaret, in
terpreters par excellence of pres
ent-day dances and music, cannot
arouse his interest. But, then, he is
only a humble Indian waiter, although,
perhaps, the only one of his kind along
Broadway.
College Gets Precious Memento.
Allegheny college, at Meadville, Pa.,
has received from Doctor Haskins of
Boston the die which was used in the
original seal of the college nearly 100
years ago. Doctor Haskins discovered
the die among the records of his fa
ther, who was a professor in the col
lege from 1874 to 1886. This die was
probably made in Boston in 1822 or
1823. It was in constant use until the
early sixties, when it disappeared.
Visible Means.
A certain magistrate in-the south of
Ireland had the reputation of being
hard on vagrants and loafers. One
of these unworthy specimens came be
fore him charged with loitering, and
after hearing the charge he pleaded
guilty. The magistrate put some ques
tions to him which he readily an
swered. Then his worship said:
"Prisoner, have you any visible
means of support?"
"Yes, your worship," replied Mick,
quick as lightning. Then, turning to
the area of the court, he looked at
his wife, who was a washerwoman,
and said "Bridget, stand up, so that
his worship can see you."—London Tit*
Bits.
Work of a Million Years.
Could we stand upon the edge of &
gorge # a mile and a half in depth, that
had been cut out of the solid rock
by a tiny stream scarcely visible at
the bottom of this terrible abyss, and
were we informed that this little
streamlet was able to wear off annu
ally only one-tenth of an inch from its
rocky bed, what would our conception
be of the prodigious length of time
that this stream must have taken to
excavate the gorge? We should cer
tainly feel startled on finding that
the stream had performed this enor
mous amount of work in something
less than a million years.
Britain Still Growing.
Great Britain is growing in size.
During the last 35 years about 6,640
acres have been lost by coast erosion,
while 48,000 acres have been re
claimed from the sea.
Walnut Trees in United States.
The last census reports gave the
number of bearing English walnut
trees in the Tailed States as 914,270.
EDINBURGH WORTH A VISII
Time of Traveler Can Be Well Spenl
in an Inspection of the Scot
tish Capital.
There is generally an east wind
blowing in Edinburgh, whipping the
fog about, or else it is raining. Other
wise the climate is very attractive.
When a clear day does come, you ap
preciate it. It is very calm and clear
and bracing. You climb a hill —Edin-
burgh carries an assorted stock of hills
—and you look down on a city that is
picturesque in the fullest and broadest
application t>f that overworked poly
syllable. Edinburgh is easily the most
picturesque capital in Europe.
The castle keeps you from looking
at anything else for the first fifteen or
twenty minutes. It stands in the mid
dle of things, capping a hill that shoots
up almost straight from the level. You
cannot see where the hill leaves ofi
and the castle begins; it seems to have
grown from the living rock beneath it.
They tell you that the castle has never
been taken by assault, though it has
been perched there for a thousand
years or so. You are not surprised at
the statement, but you indulge in a
little mild speculation as to the par
ticular form of foolishness that led
anybody to assault it.
After a while you look away from
the castle and size up the city at large.
Miles of gray mansions spiked with
towers and spires stretch before you,
backed and cut off in all directions
by hills Just rough and rocky enough
to be decorative. Hundreds of little
blue pennons of smoke arise from the
chimneys. They do not consume
their own smoke in Edinburgh; the
Scots have nicknamed the capital
"Auld Reekie."
Edinburgh is running over with his
torical association and the tradition
of greatness. Here the national life
of Scotland has centered ever since
she had one. All her warriors, all her
patriots, all her men of sciences and
her poets have left their mark on the
capital. As a result, Edinburgh has a
personality as clear cut and individual
as that of some great actress. She is
as Scotch as Robert Burns. If you
like the reticence, the mixture of sen
timent and resolution that make the
Scottish, temperament, you will find
Edinburgh a never-ending delight.
TELL OF HUMAN SACRIFICE
Significance of Pair of Thongs, in New
York Museum, Will Be Ap
parent to All.
The curator of anthropology at the
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, values among recent acqui
sitions in the Pawnee Indian collec
tion a pair of thongs which so
far as known, the only existing relics
of the Pawnees' tribal rite of mak
ing a human sacrifice to the Morning
Star, god of war. Curiously enough,
the Pawnee god of war star is believed
to have been the planet Mars.
When life grew dull it devolved
upon the Pawnee priests to relieve the
tedium of the tepees by dreaming that
old Morning Star demanded a sacri
fice: , Then the bloods went on the
warpath until they captured a maiden
of a hostile tribe. After due ceremony
she was bound by thongs to a scaf
fold, her feet pointing right at old
Morning Star himself. When the
brave bucks, who rather prided them
selves ou their sharpshooting, had
stuck her so full of arrows that she
looked like a hedgehog, and when her
heart had been cut out the party was
over.
Pencils Made Sterile.
School physicians have recently de
cided that school lead pencils may do
deadly work as disseminators of dis
ease germs. The lead pencils for an
entire room are usually in charge of
the teacher and are distributed when
they are needed for class work. Chil
dren habitually moisten the pencils in
their mouths, a practice more unsani
tary than the use of the old fashiohed
slate cleaned with saliva. It is now
proposed to have the pencils fumi
gated daily with formaldehyde .gas,
and a small fumigator has been de
signed for that purpose. The fumi
gator is the size of a one burner gas
hot plate. The top will hold 50 pen
cils. They are set in place and the
fumigating gas turned on for 15 min
utes, which renders them absolutely
sterile.
Cab, Sir? "Cab, Sir?
Public carriages for hire, or hack
ney coaches, were introduced into Lon
don in 1625 and rapidly grew in popu
larity. Notwithstanding the opposition
of the king and court, who thought
they would ruin the roads, they grew
to number over 300 by 1650.
In Paris they were introduced dur
ing the minority of Louis XIV by
Nicholas Sauvage, who lived in the
Rue St. Martin at the sign of St. Fi
acre, from which circumstance hack
ney carriages in Paris have since been
called "fiacres."
fey 1694 there were over 700 of these
conveyances in London.
First Footpaths in 1762.
The student of old London, notic
ing the whitened curbs in the streets
today, is inevitably reminded that the
institution of the footway is really
of quite recent date. It was not, in
deed, until after the Westminster pav
ing act of 1762 that footways became
at all general. Before that time man
and beast took the same road. Many
cf the old iron posts, which are still
to be seen in Regent street and else
where, showing the crown and the
monogram of the Georges, indicate the
corners of these first footwavs.
Dogs and cats are usually considered the particular friends and pets of the children. There are often times*
however, when they become a menace to their childish playfellows, for both dogs and cats may become carrieri
of disease germs.
When certain diseases occur in a neighborhood, unless these domestic animals are kept in quarantine they
may help to spread it. Dogs are also the carriers of other parasites and unless care is observed may transml'
them to children.
Some of the smaller animals also carry disease. The ground squirrels and rats, for example, carry the dread*
3d bubonic plague. Of these two the rat is far more dangerous. As its migratory habits and ability to live undei
conditions and in localities where animal life would not ordinarily exist in and about the human dwelling place®
make it particularly dangerous.
Rats destroy each veaj- food products worth millions of dollars.
FATE TRICKS ROYALTY ALSO
Two Pathetic Old Ex-Queens Still Live
to See Europe Torn by Most
Ruthless War.
There are two women, once of world
prominence, who within the memory of
those now living have experienced un
usual extremes of fortune. Their lives
have touched the heights of power and
tragedy. One is Carlotta, daughter of
Leopold of Belgium and wife of that
Maximilian, archduke of Austria and
emperor of Mexico, who faced a firing
squad at Queretaro in 1867; the othei
ts Eugenie, on whose head Napoleon
in placed the crown of France, once
worn by Marie Antoinette, and who,
more fortunate than that unhappy
queen, escaped a French mob and sur
vived the downfall of an empire. The
misfortunes of both were spanned in
less than half a dozen years. Carlotta
has been insane for 49 years, with
some slight chance at this late day,
It is said, of recovering her reason;
Eugenie, ninety-years old, the sth ol
next month, still lives in exile, a bent,
worn old woman, leaning upon crutches
and clad in perpetual mourning—she
who was once queen of beauty and
ruler of fashion, setting its modes ID
accordance with her whims.
Those who believe in present retri
butions may see in Eugenie's long
years of bereavement fate's requita)
for the cowardice and cruelty of Na
poleon the Little, who left Maximilian
to his fate, denied Carlotta's pleas and
requested her to leave France. Hi?
own fall came soon. The Franco-Prus
sian war, which France ascribed to
Eugenie's influence —that her only son
the Prince Imperial, might more se
curely hold the crown—left him a
prisoner after Sedan. He died, brok
en hearted and in exile, in 1873; the
Prince Imperial, who, according to ru
mor, joined the British forces in South
Africa because of his mother's opposi
tion to his love for a girl he wished to
marry, was brought home pierced with
Zulu assegais. That loss was greatei
than that of husband or empire to the
ex-empress; for weeks she did not
speak.
After her great bereavement Eu
genie left Chislehurst, her first shelter
in England, and has since lived at
Farnborough, where she busies herself
among the poor. Last winter an Eng
lish paper pictured a very old, lack
clad woman, leaning upon a staff, talk
ing with some wounded soldiers. What
memories those men in bandages must
have brought to the woman who had
once talked so lightly of "my little
war" —the war that was to spell ruin
to all her ambitions!
Of all the great figures of that mem
orable conflict which cost France mil
liards of francs and two of her fair
est provinces—William I, Bismarck,
Von Moltke, Bazaine, Garibaldi and
Macmahon —the deposed empress
alone survives.—Detroit Free Press.
Poor Hubby.
The young bride was doing the fam
ily marketing for the first time. She
stopped at the fish stall and looked
over the array of sea food.
"All perfectly fresh, mam'am," said
the dealer, ingratiatingly.
"Oh, dear,"' exclaimed the bride.
"That's what everybody says. I wish
I could find some stale fish. You see,
my husband has indigestion, and the
doctor won't even let him eat fresh
bread. I'm sure fresh fish would be
even worse for him "
SAVING ART WORK
Italian Army Has Special Depart
ment For This Purpose.
FEATURE IN PRESENT WAR.
Organized by General Cadorna, This
Division Protects and Preserves
Treasures in Fighting Areas, Not
Only In Italian Territory, but In
Places Taken From Austrians.
Headquarters of the Italian Army.-
A department of fine arts is one of the
features of the Italian army. It Is at
tached to the general staff, and it has
proved to be such a highly Important
feature in modern warfare that ad
miration of it was expressed by Gen
eral Joffre and the late Lord Kitch
ener on their visits to Italy.
This art department was organized
by General Cadorna, commander in
chief of the Italian armies, primarily
to protect and preserve the 'xrt treas
ures in the fighting aress, not only in
Italian territory, b'lt in places taken
from the AusTlans. Ugo Ojetti, an
art <l. reputation.
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Photo by American Press Association.
GENERAL CADOENA
who has long been officially identified
with Italian art and architecture, was
appointed the head of the department
just a year ago, since which time many
million dollars' worth of art treasures
have been taken in charge.
The art department is kept fully in
formed regarding any new advance on
the part of the Italian army, and it fre
quently acts under artillery fire. Once
the Austrian troops have been definite
ly dislodged the department conducts a
thorough search for art objects and
takes complete charge of those that the
Austrians have left behind. The search
often leads into graveyard tombs and
into vaults under churches where the
treasures are hidden for safe keeping
nr* curiT- u sj o- <rr tus vrs r. - irnr.in
many instances the Austrians have
taken everything away with them.
The work of the art department in
Venice has given that city the aspect
of a much bandaged football player.
All of its monuments have been care
fully protected against the, stray_shell3
df~XustrTan aeroplanes. Tt~ls~estlmat
ed that no less than 700.000 sacks full
of sand have been placed around the
finest buildings and monuments. By
actual count 20,000 such bags protect
the basilica *jf St Mark's. In addi
tion, BO extensively have wooden sup
ports been put about certain buildings
that many of them, such as the ducal
palace, seem to have been rebuilt Be
cause of the peculiar construction of
the ducal palace It was feared that a
single shell striking a given building
might result in the collapse of the en
tire structure and the loss to the world
of a priceless example of architecture.
Bags of sand could not be used because
their weight might cause the buildings
to fall or sink. It was necessary to
erect a full set of brick or wooden arch
es to catch the real ones should they
be moved by the shock of a shelL
In an interview with a correspond
ent Lieutenant Ojetti told of his work
and said that the war, Instead of kill
ing the artistic spirit, would make the
art treasures of the old world more
loved than ever.
"Within ten years," he said, "I look
for the development of a new epoch In
both art and literature not only in Eu
rope. but in the United States. I ex
pect to see the world developing a
manly literature embodying both hu
man and eternal elements. Mankind
will have come to a simpler and more
profound way of thinking. Our old art
treasures will be cherished because hu
manity will have a need of rest from
worry over material matters, and ob
jects of fine art are the consolation of
a tired spirit All art movements In
history have originated in unhappy so
cial conditions, in the need of mental
refuge from material, earth to earth
weariness.
"The new art period will be one of
classic simplicity, with a vast amount
of architectural production and solemn
and impressive monumental sculpture,
but with little painting.
"In literature the knell of the nerv
ous. womanly, sentimental, weeping
willow class of writing has been
sounded. People in every condition of
lite-IT-, ri-'OOiia.
ly and look with contempt on weak
ness with tears. Within the next dec
ade or two the world will produce Vir
gils—a literature very clear, very easily
read, oalm in spirit sober s*u4 truly
profound."
Wholly Inappropriate.
M I can't find any old clothes to put
on the scarecrow," said Farmer Corn
tossel.
"You might use some of the fancy
duds our boy Josh brought home," sug
gested his wife.
"I'm try in' to scare the crows. I'm
not trj*i* to make 'em laugh."—Ha*»
Tard LampooD.
Dcscended From the Crusaders.
The Touaregs, a Sahara desert tribe,
whose members wear veils so contin
ually that near relatives are said not
to recognize each other if the garment
in question happens to be removed, are
direct descendants of a party of cru
saders who were lost on the way to
conquer Jerusalem and Mecca.—Detroit
Free Press.
Wise Precaution.
"Good night, Jinks. What are you
stuffing all that raw cottton into your
ears for?"
"Well, I was told not to stay out
late and I believe In preparedness."—
Baltimore American.