s
The "cnrfew" idea is ssld to be get
Ing very popular in Kansas towns,
ml, wbere tried, to have been eflee
live of good results in the coutrol of
Die young.
The German emperor wrongs Amer
icana by imagining they doubt hie ex
pressions of friendship. But they are
justified iu a suspicion that bo limy
ee lit to tnke them back.
United Hint os Consul Smith nt Mos
row, Russia, report)) that the Russian
govern men t hn ntrendy expended
188,014,938 on the construction of
the Trans-Siberian railway.
Angnati, the Spanish governor of
the Philippines, o (To red a reward of
925,000 for the head of Aguinaldo.the
ioaurgent leader. The hitter cap
tured the governor'-, wife and chil
dren, whom he trented as tenderly ns
if they were his own. Perhnps this
it an exhibition of the Philippine sav
agery that Madrid tulka bo much
about.
The export trade of tlio Congo stnte
is growing splendidly. Iu lHHIl it was
$304,000. In 18H! it was 88511,000.
In 1884 it was 91,752,000, and iu 1807
it was 8.1,020,000. More than half the
export trade is in rubber, which hits
increased la amount more thiiu flfty
fold since 188(1. Ami tlmt increase is
chiefly due to the enormous extension
of wheeling. Thus docs civilization
get swiftly forward upon a bicycle-
The population of Cuba increased
from 715,000 in 1825, to 1,0.11,400 in
1804. The population is much less
now than it was then, owing mainly
to starvation. About sixty-live por
ceut. of the population is descended
from the aristocracy and peasantry of
Cnstile, Andalusia, Catalonia and
other provinces of Spain. Most of
the remainder of the population in
mainly of African descent Havana
is about as populous as Washington,
and until the war Logan was a very
gay city.
It is hardly possible that the widow
of the great English commoner who
11 through life declined ennoblement
at the hands of the Queen will now
fall to the bait, muses the St Louis
Star. She is the relict of Mr. Glad
atone, and a space is reserved beside
his body at Westminster Abbey for
her reninins. Mrs. Gladstone would
read much more eloquently on the
tablet tuun the Countess of Liverpool.
Oh, no. Gladstone lived and died as
plain Mr. his widow, if she reveros
his memory, will live tho balance of
her life and go down to the touib as
Mrs. Gladstone.
The poverty and low state of social
life and civilization of the Spauiurds
is indexed quite accurately by their
wuge rates, states Gnu ton's Magazine.
For instance, the average woekly pay
of bricklayer in Hpaiu (Malaga) is
$3.80; in the United States $21.18; of
a mason 83.30 iu Hpaiu, $21 in the
United Stutes; of a carpeuter 83.00 in
Spain, 814.35 in the United States; of
printers 84.50 iu Hpaiu, $10.42 iu tho
United States; of laborers, por
ters, eta, $2.75 iu Spain, $8.88 in
the United Stutes. While rents, and
possibly prices of few native pro
duets are lower in Spain thau iu the
United States, the difference comes
nowhere near equalling the wide dis
parity of wages. Moreover, iu a com
parison of this sort the quality of the
living must be considered as well as
the nominal cost Thus lower rents
nearly always imply inferior acoom
modations, and, to the average Span
lord,' most of the comforts and con
veniences iu ordinary use here art un
attainable luxuries. '
The president and the secretary of
war had a dolicate task in seleoting
195 men out of 7000 applicants for
appointment as second lieutenants ia
, the regular army under an act of
Congress providing for chauges in the
farm of battalion organization. The
aelectious indicate that the task was
performed with rare discrimination.
Eighty-nine of the men designated
are college graduates, representing
aixty-seveu different institutions in
which military instruction is a part of
the curriculum; thirteen are eulisted
-sen in the United States army, and
the others are serving in various ca
pacities in the volnntesr service. The
appointment of college graduates
who hare had a military training to
eerve as junior officers in the regular
army can hardly be called an experi
ment, says the Chicago-Times Herald
(or the methods employed by military
instructors iu colleges are much the
same as those at West Point The
averument is tho assured of a high
C:;te of efficiency ou the part of tha
raw junior officers, who have the ad
" "-msl qualifications of learning and.
'"I ecthBsiasm,
ONE 80LOISR DEAD.
A fnlr young mother calmly rend,
While one hand rooked the cradle beil
Wherein her flint-born slept away
The twllljrht of a summer day.
Nhn carelessly the isper turned
Till "Latest War News" she discerned)
"Our loss was small," itlpatohes said-
"A skirmish, and one Soldier dead."
They troubled not to Rive his name,
Or e'en the troop from whleli he cams
For who, rejoicing lo success,
Cares If there hn one private less?
Only a soldier lying there,
With hloml upon his sunny bslr,
With no kind friend to raise his head
Or treasure the last words bo said.
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WHY I LEFT SANTIAGO DE CUBA.
HT A OABt.FI
I was the only American operator
in F.astern Cuba in February and
March, 1HU8, which were very busy
months in the cable office at Santiago,
where I had been for four years, in
the early part of 18115 we seldom han
dled more than 110 messages a day,
but after the insurrection began the
number rose tit 00 and 100 daily, in
creasing a little every mouth.
The cable from Santiago to Spain
goes under sea first to Kingston, Ja
maica, thence to Puerto ltico, thence
to St. Croix and from there to Para
maribo and Pernambiico in lit anil.
Cables from Pernambiico cross the
Houth Atlantic to St. Vincent, Cape
Verde islands, and from Ht. Vincent
other cables extend to Madeira, thence
to Lisbon nnd overland to Madrid.
There is also a less direct cable from
Pernnmbuco to Ht. Louis in Senegal,
Africa, and thence to the Canary isl
ands and Cadiz.
lleside myself, tliero was but one
other operator in the Santiago olllca,
Lnnrin Merodo.n voting Spaniard, who
had learned cable work at Lisbon.
We thought that 100 messages daily
made work enough, but over8HII passed
the day after the Maine was blown up
in Havana harbor. Pour more oper
ators were needed, and we called to
Havana for help; but no notice was
taken of our appeal, and, rather tlinn
desert onr posts and leave the com
pany's business undone, we slaved
night and day, always hoping the
pressure would moderate.
One day we sent 13, 742 words in
over 1100 despatches, yet we were two
hours "back" at midnight, with Ha
vana fuming at us over the land wire
and still hurrying messages through
the Cienfuegos cable. There were
Spanish government ciphor messages
from Sagasta to Blanco and lilnneo's
cipher to Sagnsta; reams of bombast
from theCuhnn correspondents of The
Imparcinl and Correo for Madrid, fol
lowed by more cipher to Weyler nt
Barcelona from his brother officers at
Havana, and then the bankers and
merchants quoting, selling and order
ing! To add to our vexations, the "mouse
mill" of the siphon recorder gave
trouble constantly, and the clockwork
that carries the record tape broke
down every day or two. Now a Span
iard is utterly without native ingenu
ity. Merode was a tolerably good op
erator, but when it came to rectifying
faults of the instrument ho was an in
fant d all such tusks fell on me.
Anything like oiockwork I can
tinker," but the mouse mill that
works the siphon pen is a very delicate
bit of mechanism, which nssiats 'the
faint electric impulses that come great
distances through the cable to more
the ink point of the recorder to and
fro oa the tape.
I suppose I had taken the record
tape clockwork and mouse mill apart
20 difl'ereut times, aud on the evening
of the second of April, after Merode re
lieved me, I set to work to wind a
new motor coil for tho mouse mill,
which had worked so very badly all
clay that, rather than struggle with it
louger, I hud determined to sit up all
night and build a new "mill."
The cable-house at Santiago is a
most lonesome place, particularly at
night; bnt a Spanish sentinel was sup
posed to pasH the door every three
minutes. These poor follows were
rarely paid and often looked in at the
door to beg a cigarette. So when the
outside door opened behind us thnt
eveuiug, I supposed the incomer was
the seutiuol, aud I did not even look
around till anamused voice exclaimed:
"Aba, aeuors! Buenos nochesl"
A Hpuuiah'seutinel begging a cigar
ette does uot speak in thut tone, so
Merode and I faced round with a
jump. There atood a rather tall, good
looking young fellow, iu a white duck
suit and white cap, regarding ua keen
ly; and a step behind him was a typi
cal Cuban rebel sombrero, long mus
tachios, broad belt, loug boots, revol
ver and muchete.
In au instant Merode was on his
feet and shouted, "Sentlnela!" at
which onr nuexpected visitors laughed
good-humoredly, end the Cuban said:
"I must beg the He nor Telegrnfero
cot to distress himself ooncerniug the
worthy sentinel, for that watchful sol
dier is now lying comfortably on his
back outside.with a gag in his month,
and bis bauds are tied to his feet."
"Well, who are you, and what do
yon want here?" I exclaimed, in Span
ish. Tha young man in white duck
laughed. "You are au Americau; any
body eonld tell that by your Spanish.
Oh, I know about you. .Speak Eng
lish." "Certainly," I replied. "What do
yon want here?"
"The news."
"What news?"
"Are the Bpauish warships, Vizeaya
and Oqueudo, etill at Puerto Rioof
Has tha torpedo flotilla arrived there,
has it gone to St Viuoent, at Cap
4e Verde?" '
"It is contrary to tha roles of the
cable company for ma to giva such in.
Oh, happy mother, do yon know
That not so many years ago
That Soldier was a bahy, too.
With faeo as sweet and eyes as blue
As those within yon cradle there''
And kuew a mother's tender onrn,
Who now must sit alone and ween
liHcnuse ha wakes not from his sleepy
And other thousands nlso saldi
"Only a private soldier dead,"
W it limit a passing thought that he
Might one ot nntitre's noliles he.
Or that tho words that line contained
Would wreck a life that yet remained.
Ills mother waits for III in In vain,
Vr he, her only child, Is slain.
-Jean Paul Wayne, In tho Chicago Post.
1
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J.
OPERATOR.
formation," T replied. "Iloeides, all
these Spanish government messages
are iu cipher, which I am not supposed
to know anything about."
"Don't lot the ciphor trouble yon,"
be replied, laughing. "I have tha
key to their cipher all right."
"As to who I am," he continued,
"my imiiie's Macotnbnr. I am the
correspondent of the ." He
named an American journal. "News
as to the whereabouts of the Spanish
torpedo boats and those cruisers
would be valuable just now, not only
to my paper, but to the American
navy at Key West. Now you are an
American and a good pntriot, I dare
say. Will you not help ns out?"
"I'm n good pntriot," snid I. "And
I inn also an honest man, employed
here to do n certain duty, w hich I will
Hot betray."
"Von w ill not help mo tlinn? Very
well, I shall examine your tapes bv
force."
"It Is not my business to fight for
Spain, " said 1. "I Imvo no force to
resist you, but I will not help you."
"Tlmnks. That's all I ask. .Just
yon sit quiet."
"Do you think you can read our
tapes?" 1 naked, incredulously.
"Sure. 1 was a cable operator three
years."
"But where did you get your cipher
key?"
"That's a matter that was arranged
in Havana three mouths ago; Your
tape bobbins for the current week
are In the table drawer, I presume?"
"Look for yourself," I said. "But
my fellow-operator here is a Spsuimd.
I do not speak for him."
"Henor Merode," I said In Spanish,
"these gentlemeu wish to see the rec
ord tapes."
Merode had stood listening, making
out what we said with difficulty.
"N'uncn!" (Never!) he exclaimed, ex
citedly, mid made a jump for the big
table d a vor. with some notion, I
think, ot destroying the tapes. He
was a plucky fellow, but the Cuban
seized him by the collar Iwfore he
could open the drawer, flung him vio
lently backward ou the floor and drew
his machete.
"Don't hurt him, Lilly.!" shouted
Mncomber, and then, after a steady
glance at me, ho stepped to the drawer
himself ami took out the rolls of tape.
"This will be a somewhat long and
tedious business," he remarked, be
ginning to unroll one of them. "Von
might help me, if you would; but at
least oblige me by turning np the
lamp n little and placing it on the
tuble here."
"Thanks," he went on, when I had
complied and began rapidly unrolling
the tapo through his ti.igers. He
read well aud fast, aud his running
comment amused me.
"Oh, this is a dandy siphon of
yours, isn't it!" "What ails your
mouse mill?" "Say, friend, your rec
ord here looks like the teeth of an old
dull buck saw." "Your ink's coagu
lated." I sat back and quietly looked on.
Merodo still lay on the floor. The
Cuban stood wutuhing ns both; if
Merode stirred, he shook bis machete
at him. Thus, fully au hour passed;
it seemed much more than au hour,
indeed, before our American visitor
found what he sought
"Ah!" he exclaimed at last "Hera
we are! So the Vizeaya and Oquendo
left Puerto Kino for St. Vincent last
Sunday . Good! Blanco is informed
that the torpedo flotilla is going to
St. Viuceut, too, instead of coming to
Havana."
"That's all I wanted to know," he
continued, turning to me. "Sorry to
leave your tapes iu such a mess, but I
reully cannot stop to roll them np
again, for I must be well out to sea
before daylight. Oblige ns now, both
of you, by remaining quiet here after
we bid you good uight"
But just then there was a new noise
outside. The door opening to tha
street was flung back, and there stood
a Spanish lieutenant from the fort,
with half a dozen soldiers at his back!
For the Spanish sentry a boy of 18
whom they hud gagged and tied up
outside the honse, had proved mora
nimble than they had thought him.
He had worked himself loose and had
ron to the fort for aid.
The Cuban turned instantly, killed
the lioutenunt with a awing of his
maoheta aud waa at once shot down
by a soldier who fired over the shoul
der of his falling officer.
Macomb r showed better judgment,
it lesa courage: he dashed the lamp
out and grasped me by tha arm. "Help
me out," he said.
It would be difficult for anyone to
resist the appeal of a fellow-countryman
at suoh a time. While the sol
diers rushed iu, trampling aud falling
over the slain men and Merode, I
pulled the American after me through
a door, back of the tables, which
opened into onr battery room. In
this back room waa a window looking
ont on tha harbor aide, from which
Hacomber swung in an instant and
decamped without a .'word. I had
time to get forward into tha cable
room before Merode.who had regained
his feet, strnck a match and relighted
the lamp. Of the gruesome spectacle
which the light revealed I will not
speak.
After the manner of Spanish justice,
both Merode and myself were put
under arrest, pending an investiga
tion, which showed thnt neither of ns
knew anything about the afl'nir. Yet
the commandant at Hantiagosuspeoted
thnt I bad planned it and sent me
under arrest to Havana, by stenmer,
the following evening.
I expected to renminbi Las Cabana
for the rest of my days, but was dis
missed without trial the second day
after arriving there and left Havana
along with 180 Americans ou the fol
lowing Sunday. Youth's Companion.
MANUFACTURES AND COLONIES.
The follry of Nations Win, Make More
Artli-tea Than They fan Consume,
There has recently appeared under
authority of the stnte department in
Washington a table showing the rela
tion which the colonies of certain Eu
ropean countries bear to the borne
country, aud from it Is seen that four
of the governments of F.tirope Great
Britain, France, Holland and Portugal
have colonies larger in respect to
population than the home country,
while two other Kuropeau govern
ments, Germany and Denmark, have
colonies larger in territorial area than
the home country. It is more than
a coincidence that the governments
which have colonies are, for the most
part, those which are conspicuous in
manufacturing industries, while it is
observable that in nearly ery case
tho agricultural countries of Kttrope,
notably Itussiu, Austria, Spain end
Sweden, either have no distant colonies
remote from the home country, or are
on the point of losing those colonics
which they have, and tho same is true
of Italy nnd Turkey.
The figures show that nil manufac
turing countries under the impetus of
steam power, electricity and modern
invention are able to produce consid
erably more than their inhabitants
can consume and, the home market
being insufficient, recourse bos been
had to a foreign market artificially
created by the colonial expansion of
the kind now generally favored by
those who are seeking to get for
American manufacturing products a
larger field than can otherwise be se
cured. The three manufacturing
countries of Europe, England, France
and Germany, have been increasing
very rapidly their colonial possessions
of late years and this is more particu
larly true perhaps of Germany, which
has in Africa alone colonies covering
over 800,000 square miles.
"The Statesman's Year Book" for
1808 shows the commerce of Great
Britain in the export trade during the
yenr previous to have amounted to
$100, 000, 000 of cotton goods, 8100,
000,000 of wooleu goods, 840,000,000
of linen aud jute manufactures, 8:15,
000,000 of wearing apparel, aud 10,
000,000 of machinery and cutlery,
France's trade with French colonies,
exclusive of Algeria aud Tunis, amount
ed Inst year to 8:10,000,000 of imports
and 820,0110,000 of exports, and the
exports of German manufacture to
foreign colonies now amount to a con
siderable figure. Last year these im
ports into the Caiueroons amounted to
82,000,000 iu value, into German
Africa to 81,000,000, and into Togo
laud to about as much.
The policy of all producing conn
tries largely engaged iu manufacture
is to discriminate against like manu
factures iu other countries, and the
possession of hu ge colonies, there
fore, ia a decided benefit to the home
country, a benefit which agricultural
countries do not enjoy. Austria-Hungary
furnishes a fair illustration of
this. The Austrian products, and
particularly glass, loather, woolen
goods, porcelain aud stoneware, are
extensive and give employment to
nearly 8,000,000 persons, tint the com
merce of Austria is inconsiderable,
nnd much more than half of it is with
Germany under conditions which are
necessarily more favorable to the Ger
man consumers thau to the Austrian
producers.
UUAINT AND CURIOUS-
Five is the great sucred Chinese num
ber. In Greenland potatoes never grow
larger thau marbles.
If kept going, the wheels of a watch
travel 8008 3-4 miles a yeah
The smallest oows in the world are
to be found iu the Sumoan islands.
The Japanese have a custom of cele
brating the blossoming 0 fruit trees
by a general holiday.
The largest clock in the world is
that in the Westminster clock tower.
It was set np ou May 30, 1859.
In some parts of central and Sonth
Africa a single firefly gives so much
light that it illuminates a whole room.
The cloak on which Wolfe breathed
his last, at the capture of Quebec., is
one of the curiosities in the British
Museum,
The elephant can neither trot, can
ter nor gallop. Its only pace is a
walk, capable of being hastened to a
fast shuttle.
Tomatoes have been grafted npon
potatoes by a French experimenter,
whose hybrid plant produoes tuber
underground and tomatoes above.
Iu a certain village it is said that
the church offertory is collected iu a
bag at the end of a pole, with, a bell
attached for the purpose of arousing
sleepers.
In the early days of Borne the la
diea of that city wore snch heavy ear
rings that they made the ears sore,
and sometimes tore the lobes. There
were doctors whose bnsiuess wan
chiefly to heal sari thus, injured.
A NAVY'S ELEOTHICITY.
THE APPARATUS USED ON A MODERN
BATTLESHIP VERY COMPLEX.
The Crntser Itronklyn Is steered by
Kleetrlflty On Mini of Onr Htilps the
(inn Are fired hy the Mysterious Cor
rentThe Itsnge finder Novel Itevlre.
It is in the electrical appnralus that
the modern battleship is especially
complex. For a vessel like the Massa
chusetts there are three "generating
units," with multipolar dynamos, each
having a capacity of 300 amperes at
80 volts. These dynamos are run by
engines which make 400 revolutions a
minute. This electric plant is nsed
for the operation of nearly 500 Incan
descent lights, four search lights, one
set of signaling apparatus, two sta
tionary and four portable ventilating
fans, four motors for the 8-inch am
munition hoists, and other apparatus
peculiar to warships, such as rsnge
finders, engine telegraphs, telephones
and the like.
The introduction of electricity on
warships has been a constant fight
aud struggle against steam. Inch by
inch the ground has been fought over,
and inch by inch electricity has been
winning its way, and the end is not
yet.
Very few of our warships are steered
by electricity. Tha cruiser Brook
lyn, however, has such an apparatus
and it is said to work satisfactorily.
On most of the Inrge ships the guns
are fired by electricity. On nearly
all of theru an elaborate telephone
system is in place and use. Another
eR'ctrical device is what 3 called the
helm indicator, which shows the navi
gator of the ship the exact uondition
of t,he helm at any time. One of the
commonest uses of electricity on ship
board is the steering telegraph, where
by the navigator communicates with
the engine room and is enabled in re
turn to see whether the orders be has
transmitted have be 111 carried ont.
Another electrical instrument, which
is coming into use on warships, is the
spend and direction indicator, which
reveals to the navigator of the ship
not only the number but the direction
of the revolutions ot the shaft of each
engine,
Then there is the range finder and
the range indicator whereby, with
dials, the captain of a ship cau regn
Inte the direction and all the details
of firing guns in a ly part of the ship
from his station iu the conning tower.
Another electrical apparatus is the
electric telescopic sight. Thin works
in co-operation with the range indi
cator. It has been found that when a
ship is rolling tlte man who is sight
ing the gun has to get the target,' the
front sight and the rear sight into line
aud that he has only about one-fifth
of a second in which to do this work.
Through the operation of this tele
scopic sight the man who ia elevating
the gnu merely watches the range in
dicator and keeps the gun in a certain
vertical plane. The man nt the tele
scopic sight waits until the vertical
and horizontal cross-hairs rest upon
the target as he looks through his
telescope, and the projectilu goes
straight toward the mark when he
presses the button to fire a gun.
A scientific paper recently called
attention to the fact that it was im
possible to provide any more search
lights for our larger ships owing to
the scarcity of the mirrors nsed in
them. They are of a peculiar make,
and cannot be produced quickly.
This emphasizes the fact t'mt the war
ship of the present time is something
that cannot be put together in a
helter-skelter, slam-bang fashion, like
the war of 1802, whon even a battle
ship was made iu something like six
mouths. The modern searchlight,
such as is used on the Massachusetts
or Indiana, has 100,000 candle power,
and there is no manifestation of elec
tricity on a warship that so appeals to
the average man as a shaft of light
from one of these instruments in a
dark night The average ship, also, is
full of various indicators which
are operated by electricity and
which, although apparently of trifling
importance, are of serious moment.
One of these is a thermostat, which
is placed cn the walls of the mugnziue
which automatically rings a fire alarm
iu case the temperature of the maga
zine rises to a dangerous point
Another indicator is called the water
alarm. This tells exactly when any
compartment of the double bottom is
perforated iu any way, and also ex
actly where the injury is. If it is a
serious injury the captain on the ves
sel again employs electricity and by
the mere pressure of a button blows
that ear-splitting instrument of tor
ture known as the sireu whistle. This
is a .signal to close all water-tight
compartments throughout the ship, so
that, if possible, a tragedy may be
averted if the vessel ia in danger of
sinking.
Another nse of electricity on war
ships that invariably attracts the at
tention of the spectator at night baa
to do with the signalling apparatus.
Hod and white lights are strung from
a yard to the deck, and the various
combinations of lights form certain
letters, which are the means of com
munication from ship .to ship. The
operator of this signalling system sits
ut a little table on which are arranged
a large number of black keya with red
aud white spots painted on them, re
presenting every possible combination
of the two colors in the use of
five lanterns of each color. These
keys look like so many dominoes. The
operator becomes very expert in the
manipulation of these keys, and cau
place his finger on a certaiu letter or
sigu as quickly as au expert operator
011 a typewritiug machine ean touch a
certaiu key.
In battle formation it is very neces
sary for ships to keep at exaot dis
tances from each other so ss to
maneuver properly. An electrical
device is now in nse on some of onf
warships whereby the vessels are en
abled to tlx the desired distances ac
curately. The helm indicntor, another
electrical device in nse, simply tells
the niau at the wheel at what angle
the captain wishes the helm set to
make a turn. A registering device on
the bridge, operated by electricity
notifies the captain whether his order
Lave been carried out, A mistake in
obeying the orders of the captoin iu
time of battle in this respect might
result in a collision, and how serious
that might be the fate of the Victoria
when the Cnmperdown sunk her in
the Mediterranean several years ago
would seem to indicate.
The range finder on ships consists
of two sighting apparatus, nstially
situated well upon the superstructure'
of the warship, with an operator for
each station. The exact distance be
tween the stations is known, and this
forms the base of a triangle. The
operators simply focus their instru
ments npon the target. An automatic
device registers the angles involved
and this at once indicates the exact
distance of the target from the ship.
This distance is telegraphed to the
various guns and the tnau who lias
charge of the elevation of a gun
knows the exact range.
There are other electrical devices
which are being nsed or perfected for
use on warships. One of them is a
sounding apparatus to take the depth
of water when the ship is going at
full speed and to give warning of
danger. Another is to secure some
means of communication between the
various ships of a squadron withont
wires and by means of induction.
Neither of these systems has been
successful yof, but both serve to indi
cate the trend of events in electrical
engineering, so far as it applies to
warships. Hence it is that the use of
electricity on snch vessels would
probably grow, and it must be a very
positive and learned man who can in
dicate the limit of its future use.
Saluting In the Army.
One thing which the volunteer
find it hard to do a thing which per
hnps they will never do iu anything
like the form in which the regulars do
it is to salute officers. Take a vol
unteer who is bron.ed and big, like a
regular, and put bim in a regular's
clothes and send him out on the
street, and be would certainly betray
himself as a volunteer at his first
meeting with an officer. The regular,
walking on the street, salutes every
officer he meets by raising the
straightened fingers of his right hand
to the brim of bis hat, just over his
right eye, and keeping them there
nntil the officer has passed. The
volunteer cannot be made to hold hie
hand there in any such wsy.
If he salutes a strange officer of low
rank at all, he salutes him with the
quick dash which is the regular offi
cer's salute to the private. If the
regular soldier is seated when an
officer approaches, in camp, on the
street or anywhere else, he rises, faces
the officer, stands very erect, and
makes this salute. No one ever sees
n volunteer private do this. Recently
a regular cavalryman was trying to
get his horse across a bridge while an
electric car was crossing it from the
other direction. The horse was
plunging and leaping wildly, aud the
soldier had to work hard to control
him. At this moment a young second
lieutenant of Ohio volunteers came
along the footway. In the midst of
the horse's gyrations the monnted
regular managed to salute the pedes
trian officer in proper form. The
smile of admiration and satisfaction on
that young officer's face was worth
going a long way to see. Boston
Transcript.
. Mylterinns Spring.
"There isn't.much to say about the
little villain of Joy, np iu Wayne
county," said a citizen 01 that quiet
hamlet in the peppermint belt, "ex
cept that just outside of it is a spring
which is undoubtedly unlike any other
spring in the world. That spring
1,, isn't aiiv viail.lA n,ittAl- tif
two very visible inlets, thus reversing
tho natural order of springs. Spring
are usually the sources of streams.
This one is jnst the oppoite. One of
the iulets of the spring is a rivelet that
flows from the south. The other
comes from the north. The waters th.it
come n oin tue north ami empty into
the spring are as clear as crystal. The
waters of the stream that discharge
from the south are almost ss black as
ink. The southern inlet never freezes,
while the northern one is the first
water in all that region to freeze.
"Another singular thing about this
spring is that although no water flows
from it water is constantly boiling np
through the white sand that forms ite
bed. The spring is only two feet wide
and three feet deep, but a force pninp
worked steadily and rapidly in it for
hotrrs bus failed to decrease its water
supply in the slightest degree. Tls
mystery is, what becomes of the water
of the spring ? Fed by two streams,
and from au underground source, and
with no outlet, this spring bus been
a thing impossible to explain from tint -time
the original settlers squatted iu.
that psrt of the state and found it -there
nntil now." New York Snu.
The Native or tha Philippine.
The Filipinos are a very cleanly
race, forever washing themselves, and
they, the women especially, tuks great
pride in their hair, which is often air
lowed to hang loose in a great, black,
wavy mass, sometimes reaching to
their heels. When "done up." it is
combed straight back from the fore
head into a big kuot at the baok of tha
neck and surmounted by a huge comb
of horn or tortoise shell or silver.
Not a native of either sex can be seen
with the least sign of baldness, aud
gray heada are very rare. Youth s
Compauion.