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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
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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<?e.
Our last census reports, although
necess irily uncertain aud unreliable,
yet show i iuetv thousand mental de
fectives, not inclut iug the insane.
Unrecognized aud unacknowledged
cases s« ell the number easily to one
hundred thousand within our present
borders—how many we are going to
annex remains to be seeu; but this is
an enemy that attacks not our fron
tiers but our hearthstones. We have
reached that point when we must con
quer it, lest it should conquer us, and
the means to this end may be summed
up iu three words—separation, asexu
alization, aud permanent sequestra
tiou —Dr. M. W. Barr, in Appleto:n'
Popular Science Monthly.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN;
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Inve Faith In the l!oy—Liiqnnr Drlnklnfc
Is Diminishing lterause KelMnlercit
l» Teaching the Importance of Clear
Heads and Firm Nerves.
Have faith in the boy, not believing
That he is the worst of his kind,
In league with the army of Satan,
And only to evil inclined;
But dally to guide and control htm
Your wisdom and patience employ.
And daily, despite disappointment
And sorrow, have f<ii in the boy.
Have faith to believe that some moment
In life's strangely checkered career,
Convicted, subdued and repentant,
The prodigal son will appear;
The gold in his nature rejecting
The dark and debasing alloy.
Illuming your spirit with gladness.
Because you have faith in the boy.
Tho now ho Is wayward and stubborn,
And keeps himself sadly aloof
From those who are anxious and fearful,
And ready with words of reproof.
Have faith thot the prayers of a mother
His wandering feet will arrest.
And turn him away from his follies
To weep out bis tears on her breast.
Ah! many n boy has been driven
Away from the home by the thought
That no one believed in his goodness,
Or dreamed of the battle he fought,
fco if you would help him to conquer
The foes that are prone to annoy,
rjncourage him often witli kindness,
And show you have faith in the boy.
Have faith In his good resolutions,
Believe that at last he'll prevail.
Tlio now he's forgetful and heedless,
Tho day after day he may fail.
Your doubts and suspicious misgivings
His hope and his courage destroy;
60, If you'd secure a brave manhood,
Tis well to have faith In the boy.
An Unsolved Problem.
The economic aspects of the llquoi
problem In this country, as reported by
the committee that was appointed a few
years ago to study the liquor question In
all Its bnarlngs, are summarized by Trofes
nor Farnbow In the Atlantic Monthly.
Briefly, the committee finds that produc
tion of liquor In 1890 consumed 58,000,000
bushels of grain and gave employment di
rectly to 1,800,000 persons, and that the
liquor traffic yielded to the Government
more than $182,000,000 in revenue. On the
other hand, of course, are familiar statis
tics showing how the drink habit increases
pauperism and crime. What these statis
tics do not show, however, and what prob
ably such statistics never will be able to
show, is tho effect of immoderate drinking
in diminishing physical and montal en
ergy. All drinkers do not die in the alms
house or become criminals. Tho majority
of them are probably self-supporting, and
never see tho inside of a police court un
less to appear as witnesses or do jury du'ty.
To what extent dots drinking diminish the
power of persons of this class to think
clearly aud toll vigorously? These are
distinctly economic nspects of "tho liquor
question, and yet they are aspects on
which It Is Impossible to obtain statistics.
It Is encouraging to believe, however, that
tils phase of the liquor question Is less
serious than It was formerly. The people
are understanding more fully, in these
days of sharp competition in the various
trades and In business, the necessity of
self-control. Self-interest Is teaching
the Importance of clear heads and firm
nerves, and this motive, commercial and
practical In character, is contributing
greatly to lessen tho evils of the liquor
traffic.
A Gin-Soaked Land.
Deeper and deeper runs the black cur
rent of the liquor traffic In"the Itivers,"
b" which West Africans mean the Niger
COi.st Protectorate. The Niger Delta iu
cludts the network of creeks and channels
extending from Lagos to the Cameroos.
This vast district is inhabited by races as
degraded as any on earth. The reeking
and decaying vegetation breeds loathsome
diseases. In these Niger swamps the shed
ding of human blood plays a leading part
In religious customs. The Dutch and Ger
man gin distillers here find a grand Held
for their horrible traffic. The gin trade
has succeeded the slave trade. Never have
the >.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.