jgj ADMIRAL DEWEY 1 gf' HOMEWARD BOUND. I iSf . i H . Life Story of the Her oof Manila. p| WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special).—Ad miral Dewey will arrive at New York about October 1. This information was received by Secretary Long a few days ago, and was immediately an nounced by the officers of the Nav;* Department. Two or three days before Secretary Long cabled Admiral Dewey at Hong Kong asking him to state about when he would arrive in the United States. Admiral Dewey was informed that he was to govern himself entirely by his own wishes in the matter of coming home. The Department desired that ho feel no official restraint whatever. The hero of Manila Bay was to take FATHER > his time, if he desired, and stop wher ever he wished. Of course the official despatch to Admiral Dewey conveyed this information very briefly, but enough was said to let him feel that he was to govern himself according to His individual desires. Soon after the Admiral cabled from Hong Kong the announcement that he ■would stop at various places on his •way home. Lieutenant Ward, of the Navigation Bureau, then made the following official announcement: "Admiral Dewey telegraphs that he will stop at various places on his way to the United States and will reach New York about October 1, George Dewey—the man who in one lay made his bare namo bigger than ill the titles that could be fastened to ,t and whose home-coming the entire United Status are now awaiting with 'everish impatience —is a strictly American product. For nearly ten generations, cover ng the greater part of three centuries, ;he blood that feeds his cool, clear Drain has drawn its vigor from Yan kee soil. He is an American, and that is •nough. Just as his name needs no official flourishes, his fame has no use "or heraldic tinsel; and the pedigree jranks who profess to trace back his iineage through English barons and Mediaeval kings even to the pagan gods, will do well to carry their wares ;o a cheaper market. George Dewey is no. proper subject for trifling of this sort. The lively baby who was destined some sixty years later to smash the bubble of Spain's pride was born at Montpelier, Vt., December 2G, 1837. His father was Julius Y. Dewey, a physician of Montpelier, and one of the founders of the National Life In surance Company. He was a flue, dignified specimen of an old school New England gentleman, very scrup ulous about small things. He was of the first communicants of Chr Episcopal Church, in Mont iiuner. Georgo Dewey's mother died when he was five years old. His insepara ble companion and closest confidante from infancy was his sister, now Mrs. Mary P. Greeley, of Montpelier. The affection between George and his only sister, Mary, is touching. They are of about the same age—only some eighteen months apart—and were constant playmates during their •whole childhood. When George got up a "show" in his father's barn,with p/ T MIS a buffalo-robo for a drop-curtain, Mary was the "lending lady," whose duty it was to fall on her knees and weep irhenjSeorge "shot off the pistol." It was Mary who would glory when George was victor iu a fist fight. It was Mary who would co along to b^it! the book when Oeorge went fishing in Onion River or Dog Creek. This same sister, now Mrs. Greeley, a cultured widow, is living in Montpelier. Like Nelson and Lord Clive, George Dewey was a very bad boy at school. He used to be known in Montpelier as "That naughty Dewey boy." He was a recognized leader among the boys of his age in the town. He could stay under the water of the Winooski River longer than any | of them. He could skate and swim J and run as no other boy in Montpelier could. But at the little old district school where he learned to read and write and multiply, he was a thorn in the flesh of any one who had the mis fortune to try to teach him. Teacher MONUMENT OF THE FIRST OF DEWEY'S PROGENITORS IN AMERICA AT WEST FIELD, VERMONT. after teacher left the school iu dis gust. "That Dewey boy runs the school," was the complaint of all of them. But the Dewey boy found his match and his master at last in Z. K. Pang born, his teacher, who is now promi nent in the politics of New Jersey. Mayor Pangborn once when George was unusually bad licked him within an inch of his life. Says the Mayor, describing the incident: "I escorted George home to his father that day. He looked at the rawhide aud at the cuts on his son's face. 'Well, Mr. Pangborn,' he said, sternly, 'I don't care what you've done, if you've only maile him mind you.'" Aud George Dewey did mind after that. At a meeting many years after- ward with his former teacher aud dis ciplinarian he said: "That rawhide came just at the right time. It made a man of me." The Norwich Military Academy was the successor to Pangborn's I school. [Here George learned the manual of arms and prepared for tfcs Naval Academy, the one goal on which all his boyish hopes were centred. Through the influence of Senator Foote, of Vermont, he was appointed to Annapolis in 1854. He graduated in 1858, and his pub lic career since then is found in the books of the Navy Department. As a lieutenant he was detailed to the Mis sissippi, one of Farragut's fleet in the West Gulf squadron. The Mississippi took part in the capture of New Or leans. It was when Dewey was thirty years old and stationed at the Kittery Navy Yafd, off Portsmouth, N. H., that he first met Miss Susie Goodwin and fell desperately in love with her. She was the daughter of the fine old fighting Governor of New Hampshire, Ichabod Goodwin. Commander Bhind, of the Navy Yard, who outranked Dewey by a good many numbers, was also deeply attached to Miss Goodwin, ami for a long time all Portsmouth wondered which of the two navy officers would be Miss Goodwin's choice. Dewey won and Commander Rhind sailed on a tine old ship, the Narrangansett, just about the time that Susie Good win and George Dewey were married, October 24, 1867. The great sorrow of George Dewey's life came in 1872. While on his first cruise on the European station as com mander of a ship, the news came that a son had been born to him. Five days later Dewey received the saddest cable message of his life. It told him that his wife was dead. For a long time Dewey was inconsolable. More than one of his friends thought his career had ended with the cablegram announcing his wife's death. His sou, who is now iu New York, was named George Goodwin Dewey iu honor of his father. From 1572 to 187G he superiutendeJ vi | yj GEORGE GODWIN DEWET, ONLY SON 01 THE ADMIIIAL. the Pacific Coast survey. He wai made a captain in 1884 and chief of th« Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting iu 1889. From that time up to 1897, when he went to Hong Kong to as anme command of our Asiatic squad ron, the greater part of his time waf spent in Washington. No one in all Washington was mor« sought after in clubs or a greatei favorite ,'iu society thau the quiet kindly, geutle man of the world George Dewey. He had a suite of apartments in thi Metropolitan Club at Washington aud was for years a member of thi House Committee. He was scrupul ous in his atteutiou to dress. He ii always fond of a good cigar and I good story. Wreck* Around S»l»le Inland. Since 1802 a wreck register has beei carefully kept of the disasters arourn Sable Island which shows more thai 150 wrecks. Ouce entangled in thi shallows of Sable Island, once strandec upon the bars, and it is all over witl the hapless craft. Men-of-war an< stately frigates have been wreokec here as well as steamships, barks au( fighting smacks. Storing Up Knowledge. "Edith, what made you ask Mrs Crumpet how to make tea? You know you don't like her tea." "Yes, mp.mma; but, you see, I thinl I ought to know how not to make it,' Cliicfgo News. A CEREAL DEGENERATE. Cheat or Cheas U Wheat In an Incipient Form. Cheat or chess, as it is botanicall; termed, is a plant that has caused an immense amount of controversy, the popular superstition being that it is the ivheat plant itself degenerated by "CHEAT." unfavorable conditions. This botan ists strenuously deny, but in the earlier stages of its growth, at any rate, it so nearly resembles the wheat plant that till the main stem is suf ficiently advanced to open and detect the difference in the budding ear its presence can only be surmised. As soon as the crop shoots, however, the undesirable visitor at once betrays it self, for the head of cheat does not bear the slightest resemblance to an ear of wheat. But different as is the appearance of the seed of the two plants, the farmer who excites the ridicule of the scientist by declaring bis wheat has turned to cheat has some strong points in favor of his as sertion. It is certain tbat chess sel dom appears except iu fields where the wheat has suffered from the effects of a hard winter, ami tbat in tbis event it frequently does so in locali ties where it has hitherto been un known, while though wild fescue, which resembles it closely enough to deceive an ordinary observer, is com mon almost everywhere in the tem perate zone, real chess is never found iu spots where it is improbable that kernels of wheat might have been carried. Mauy stranger things occur in plant life than for wheat to degenerate into an apparently useless weed. Almost all cultivated vegetables are given to sport more or less, and when neg lected soon return to the wild condi tion from which they have been im proved by long years of assiduous culture and selection. Take the pars nip, for instance, which, though a wholesome and useful esculent when cultivated, soon develops very poison ous properties when allowed to roam at will. Speaking of cheat, the well-known horticulturist, John Thorpe, s»ys: "Cheat or chess is, in my opinion, based on years of careful observation, wheat in an incipient form. It has many of the apparent outside attri butes of wheat itself, but lacks the true principles of that plant. The organs, as far as they are developed, resemble those of pure wheat, but the gluten, the most valuable attribute of the latter, is wanting. In other words, I regard chess as the pure type of the wheat species as first dis covered, in which theory I am sup ported by the fact that the wheat plant has never beeu found growing wild." But the origin of cheat is of little interest to the bulls or bears, though the former will be delighted ii amateur botanists have ample oppor tunity of studying this peculiar plant this coming season. A Town Tramp* Avoid. The genus tramp has become an ex tinct animal iu Oakland, Me., since the adoption by the town authorities of the tramp chair, of which Sanford J. Baker is the inventor. It is simply a strongly built cage iu the form of a chair on wheels. It is so constructed that the occupant must MAINE'S TRAMP CHAIR. remain perfectly quiet in a sitting position. He cannot draw up his feet or move any part of his body. A shelf is placed near the top for food, and the contrivance can be hauled about from place to place at will. The vic tim is confined as firmly as though he were glued to the seat. The Bepublicau majority in the next United States Senate will be six teen and in the next United States House of Representatives it will be the same. SCIEN.CE AND INDUSTRY. John Richie of Boston has received from J. E. iveeler, director of Lick observatory, news of the discovery of Temple's periodical comet by Mr. Perrine, an assistant at Lick. The comet's position was ou May 6, right ascension, 18 hours, 52 minutes,s7.B seconds; declination, south 4 degrees, 32 minutes, 19 seconds. The comet is faint The fact that bright stars can be Been with a telescope at high noon sometimes astonishes curious to an observatory. Even more sur prising is the fact that stars call bd photographed in broad day. The Draper photographing telescope, be longing to the Harvard observatory, has pictured the dog-star, Sirius, at midday, and it has been suggested that photographing of bright stars crossing the meridian in daylight may prove to be a source of increased knowledge for astronomers. Within a few years Europeans have become interested in the mica miues of Bengal, aud though the ancient methods are still employed, there is a growing demand for the product. The mica occurs iu pegmatite veins, which have beeu worked for centuries by the Hindus. The mica has been used for ornamental purposes aud also for portrait painting, as it is not affected by climate or iusects. The waste is ground to a powder, and after being mixed with starch is applied to cotton cloths to give them a sheen. The mines are worked only in the dry mouths, as in the wet season the na tives are engaged in tilling their fields. The rock is cracked with wedges so as to expose the mica, which is out iu blocks and carried to the surface. It is thou slit into sheets about one eighth of an inch thick and the edges trimmed off, aud is shipped from Cal cutta to Europe aud America. To overcome some of the peculiar difficulties in the construction of the Juugfrau railway the Swiss engineers, with their usual practical spirit, have resorted to a mixed system of a unique character. On the greater portion of the road the plan will be that of the cremailliere or sjjring-back cog wheel, an used ou the ltighi, Pilatus, Mouta geneioso aud elsewhere, with this ex ception, tbat electricity has beeu sub stituted for steam, which is deemed both a practical and an economical improvement. The motive power is derived from the waters of Lutschine, so that the glacier furnishes itself the means to overcome its resistance. The electric locomotive to be used on tbis remarkable railroad is of a new and ingenious type, and the contemplated average speed of the trains will be four miles an hour; every train will consist of a locomotive and two cars, aud the entire weight will be about twenty-eight tons. The fibre of pineapple is being seri ously considered as a material of in dustrial value in certain branches of manufacture, possessing a quality which, when spun, is said to surpass the ideal flax iu strength, fineness, and lustre. An illustration of tbis fact is furnished in the case of a cer tain quantity of such fibre prepared at Singapore, which, when tested against an equal quantity of flax, sus tained 350 pounds, while the latter could not bear more than 260 pounds. An to the characteristics that render it readily adaptable fur textile pur poses, it is stated that the mere pro cess of bleaching suflices to destroy the adhesion between the bundles of fibres, and so renders it fit for spin ning in the same way as flax. The isolated filaments are described as very fine, of a tolerably regular diam eter from end to end, but of different size, aud of remarkable flexibility, curling and crisping readily under mechanism. It is confidently asserted that such fibre can be employed as a substitute for silk, and as a material for mixing with wool aud cotton, as silk is now so extensively employed, its particular qualities seeming to ren der it specially adapted in tbis line. The Increase of Feeble-Minded Children. Periods of extraordinary efflores cence or fruitage are followed by ex haustion aud sterility not infrequent ly demanding the free use of the prun ing knil'e; and, just as we remark how frequent is i liocy the offspriug of genius, so do we find the same seem ing paradox, of mental defect in rank and increasing growth the product of this most wonderful nineteenth cen tury. True, science has contributed to numbers by revealing as mental de fectives the many "misunderstood," "the backward," "the feebly gifted," as well as by showing what was once esteemed moial perversion to be moral imbecility; but a truth to which sci ence also attests is, that unstable nerve centres uniting and reacting through successive generations, pro ducing various forms of uetroses, evi denced in insanity, moral and mental imbecility, idiocy an I epilepsy, do show the influence of a highly ner vous a.reat distillers of Holland been 30 busy. There is a great boom in gin, and the manufacturers of "liquid damnation" say they are utterly unable to execute a'.l their orders. High dividends have been paid to Britl-h shareholders In the trading com panies, for the trade Is all In British hands, though the greatest makers are German und Dutc.'i. Last year destruction wis dealt out to the wretched Negroes by six million bottles of gin, and by over a quar ter-million gallons of rum. Most of the natives have become drunkards, and, in spite of the noble work of missionaries like Saker and Thomson, the population Is growing more and more immoral through the vast importation of cheap and vile spirits.—Christian Budget. Ingredients Used In Cosnac. The membors of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union take comfort in the published result of the analysis recently ma le of the liquor supplied to"the French army under the name of cognac. Accord ing to the report read before theAcademio de Medicine, of Paris, the "best cognac" consists of castor oil, cocoanut oil aud other fatty substances treated with nitric acid. "Pure Jamaica rum," sold by an English house, was proved on analysis to oe made up of much the sine materials. What Won Ills Vote. During a temperance campaign a lawyer was discussing very learnedly the clauses Df the proposed temperance "law. An old farmer who had been listening attentively (hut his knife with a snap, and said: "I lon't know nuthlu' about the law, but I'wa jot seven good reasons for votln' for It." 'What are they?" asked the lawyer. And the grim old farmer responded; "Four sons and three daughters." The Biter Kitten. Eighty-four per cent, of the destitute saloon-keepers osve their condition to the consumption of their own wares. Next come the sailors, with fifty-eight per cent., the butchers with fifty-seven per cent., the printers aud iron and steel workers with Ufty-tlve per cent. Note* of tlie Crusade. SomO men will protest loudly if the salooc Is located along their street or neighbor hood, but be perfectly willing that the town should receive the license fee and locate it iu the midst of the poor and weak who cannot help themselves. A now and dangerous departure in edu cational institutions Is tlie establishment and endowment of a chair of brewing and malting at Mason College, Birmingham, England. According to the State Auditor of Ohio the number of saloons in that State de creased 296 during 1833. Oue fact worthy of mention in the recent city elections wiis the retirement of six saloon keepers from the City Council ol Chicago. There will now be twelve saloon keepers instead of eighteen in this body. Alabama has passed an act to prohibit the sale of liquor within six miles of the agricultural school at Albertville. We verily believe that a great deal of bad company, drunkenness aud tolly and sin comes from mere want of knowledge, from emptiness of bead. Therefore, if you want to keep your brain and thoughts oat of temptatloo, read and learn; get useful knowledge.