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The Chinese soldier does not amount to a great deal as a fighter. He Is mere ly the man behind the firecracker. It may not be generally known that the United States Marine Corps was organized before the navy itself. The motto of the corps is Semper Fidelis. And that description of Ever Faith ful lias been well sustained lu many a trying situation iu American his tory. Scarcity of hemlock bark Is said to have caused the almost total extinc tion of the once prosperous tanulng in dustry in Maine. Though there is a large growth of hemlock in the state, It is so far from practicable tannery sites that the cost of hauling pro hibits its use. Justice Davy of the New York su preme court has rendered a decision that a woman's "right of privacy" is violated by any one using her photograph as an advertise ment without her consent. The person so offending becomes lia ble to the payment of damages accord ingly. The hope is expressed that this will cover the vexed question about snnp-sliooting people of social prom inence for newspaper uses. It would bo interesting to know to what extent the general introduction of tlie trolley lines lias diverted popu lation to the suburbs which would otherwise have been added to that of tlie city, thinks the Philadelphia Times. These lines have added a not able development of the lust decade, and they have added many thousands to the population of suburban places within a radius of 12 or 15 miles. Re gardless of those that have gone to the suburbs because the trolleys fur nished rapid transit and cheap fares, Philadelphia's rate of growth during the past 10 years lias been very grati fying ami shows that it is keeping up very well with tlie procession, al though rival cities still permit them selves to labor under the delusion that it is slow. Mr. F. T. Bullen, tlie author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot," says a good word for the modern battleship, in the London Spectator. He says that the modern ships are restoring tlie old lines of beauty. Monstrosities like the French lloclie anil Charlemagne are going out, but in the British Formid able the battleship type is reverting more to that of the merchantman. "Their spacious freeboard catches the seaman's eye at once, for a good free board means not only u dry ship, but plenty of fresh air below as well as a sense of security in heavy weather." Then when tested in Atlantic gales "olio is never wearied of wondering at their splendid stability and free dom from rolling which makes them unique fighting platforms under tlie worst weather conditions." Then tliey steer perfectly, "a range of over three and a half degrees on either side of their course being sufficient to bring down heavy censure upon the quartermaster." Mr. Bullen is both ered by these boats" since "going into action one of the first things necessary would bo to launch them all overboard and let them go, secured together, so that they might be picked up again." He grimly admits that there would be no means of escape in case of sinking, for nothing would be left to float. Poo, Hoy Worked Up. J. C. Monaghan, ex-consul at Mann heim and Chemnitz, who lias been ap pointed professor of commerce in tho new School of Commerce established by the Wisconsin Strte University, be gan work in a cotton mill at Salem, Mass.. when only eight years old. He attended night schools and after many reverses managed to work his way through Brown university. OGOGGOGQOOOOOGOGOCOOOOQOGG o o | gccqES in Galveston £ | y\ftcr the G rEa t Storm | o o QO33GO3OOOOGQGOGOGOOOGOOOO Galveston lias experienced storms be fore, and on several occasions severe damage has been done. But the peo ple have grown used to the danger from inundation, and even when the storm broke 011 that fateful Saturday morning they wore not unusually dis turbed, writes John Gilmer Speed, in Harper's Weekly. They went about their business in ordinary fashion, confident that the storm would soon blow over. At ten o'clock a gale was blowing. By noon this gale had in creased to hurricane proportions, and those dwelling near the beach began to realize that this was something more than an ordinary summer gust of wind. Great waves wore dashed over the beach, and the summer re- MORNING AFTER TIIE FLOOD NEAR BASE BALI, L'ARK, FOOT OF TREMONT STREET. sorts were no longer habitable. Even then tlie people in Galveston were not apprehensive. But shortly past three iu tlie aflernoon it was appar ent that something unusual was iu tlie wind, which was blowing at forty-four miles an hour, while tlie barometer read 20.22 inches. Business men closed up their places and started for their homes to look after their fam ilies. But before these tardily awak ened people could realize what was happening the full fury of tlie tropical hurricar was upon them, and com munication was cut off not only with the outside world, but it wns impossi ble to get from one part of tlie city to another. T .ro groat forces were fierce ly at won,. The Gulf waves drove high upon tlie beach, and the gale - - RUINS • A r % s/\ 7f gut. WRECKS from the northeast pitched the waters against the wharves and abutments, choking the sewers and flooding tlie city from that quarter. The wind, which had been some fifty miles an hour, quickened to eighty-four, when tho measuring apparatus of tlie Weather Bureau was wrecked, a:> 3 the rest can only lie guessed at. The streets wee rapidly filling with water, and caeli person had to stay where lie was caught, as it was nigh impossible to move from place to place. In times such as tills, however, tlio impossible is (lone, and many men did succeed in getting their families into the more sllLstantlal buildings, such as tlie public scnools, the court house and the hotels. From three o'clock in tlie afternoon the wind increased steadily until it was at its highest, and certainly not less than 100 miles an hour. TT - barometer also continued to fall, reaching its lowest, 25.01 , / 5 y|§S .A ppp EARCHING FOR BODIES IN THE DEBRIS ON TREMONT BTREBT, GALYESTO TWO DAYS AFTER THE TIDAL WAVE HAD RECEDED. Inches, fit 7.30 p. m. This wns tho very height of the storm, but this high est continued lor more than two hours. The liimsy among the structures in the city were nearly all down, knocked into kindling wood by the fury of the wind, and even the mc t substantial of the buildings were b.lng damaged. Here a slate roof vaa blowr off, there an Iron roof rolled up and was hurled across the street as though It had been paper; timbers were carried In the air as though the solid oak and pine were only grass or straw, while wires, tele grapj, telephone, electric light and trolley, were everywhere, for the poles had snapped like pipe-stems and let their burdens loose. The force seemed irresistible, as mighty as it was mer ciless. All tids was in unrelieved dark ness, which prevented even the most resourcefr' from averting the dan gers that were on every hand. There was little if any change for two hours and a half. Then the barometer be gan slowly to rise and the worst of the storm was over. In two hours more the wind had subsided, and by midnight there was quiet in stricken Galveston—the quiet of death. The water, which in some streets had been eight feet deep, began quick ly to run out, and by daylight the pavements wore again exposed. But what a scene of devastation tills day light revealed! Wreckage on every side, wreckage and death. A battle field has its dread story to tell, but a city suddenly stricken as this was is a more pathetic spectacle. When men light men the strong are killed alone, for all are strong, hut here it was the weak, who suffered most severely, it was tlie women an 1 children who died iu tlie greatest number. They could not reach places of security for lack of strength, and the brav. and willing men were powerless t • help them. Those plpued down by solid wreckage lay where they had fallen, those drowned while fleeing for safety were carried out by tlie ebbing waters, while tlie fallen houses each held tho secret of those who had been crushed Iu tlie downfall. A more pathetically wretched condition never met the eyes of men. As the day got older, however, there was other work than grieving. There was no drinking water iu the town, and the uninjured food supply was short, while commu nication was cut off from the world that was willing to help. But above all was the necessity to get rid of tho dead, which iu so hot a climate began quickly to decay. In very many, indeed in most. Instances the dead could not be recognized, and therefore could not be claimed by relatives. The bodies were buried in trenches, and boat loads were taken to deep water and there sunk, yielding up to tlie sen the victims it had come ashore to claim. But tlie vicious iu the community, many of them negroes, were as dili gent in evil work as tlie rescuers were y-.od. Hundreds robbed tlie dead bod ies of what valuables they could find, even cutting off fingers and cars to get finger rings and ear rings. The few United States soldiers stationed in Galveston were called upon to do police ' l- ity, and State militiamen were sent to help as soon as possible. Every man caught robbing tlie dead was shot, and some twenty-five more were tried liy drum-head court-martial and shot immediately. The summary ex ecution of these wretches put au end to this phase of tlie awful situation. One of tlie most thrilling tales of the Texas disaster Is told liy Miss Sadie Illrshfeld, of New York, who has just returned from Galveston. She wns with her family In their home on Seeley avenue when the storm came, and unt 11 she wns rescued twenty-four hours inter battled with death upon the roof of a cottage which had become enmeshed with de bris bound seaward. "The cry, 'The water's coming,' reached our ears," said Miss Hlrsli feld, "and it was not until this mo ment that we thougiit that something unusual had happened. My father, mother, sisters and brothers all rushed to the windows just as the water swept i-arough our street. At my father'# request all the doora were bolted and the shutters that were uoS carried away by the wind fastened. "Suddenly the house gave a lurch', creaked mournfully and then began to swing to and fro. Our home was lift ed from its foundations and set adrift. The waters rose higher and higher until they reached the second story. "Jp the garret stairs we rushed, and soon the nine of us were clinging on the coped roof. "Hundreds of families were in the same plight. We had gone about a block when the house struck against something, which we discovered later was an o.d hut. "We remained there all night, while our clothes were being torn from our backs by the wind, and house after house floated by us, telling its story of misery. "On one coped roof, when Sunday dawned, I saw a mother with a babe, which I judged to bo some two months old, clinging as best she could.- The wind had taken every stitch of cloth ing she had had on her back, and the expression on her face wus almost heartrending. "All eyes were turned in her direc tion waiting to see her disappear be neath the water. We had not long to wait. The babe slipped from her arms, and in her effort to save It she also was lost. "On the floating house tops men, women and children knelt in prayer and sang hymns. Our family was half starved and on the verge of drop ping into the sen and about to utter a last prayer when I tired a pistol which brought about our rescue. "Two men from the convent for ne gro women a short distance away put coMscß.!P t rJ^^<a , ■ J JLAbOR-ERS ToBUnVI "THE. DEAD. I out in a raft anil carried us to that bulging." Miss Hershfeld said that she saw at least fifty persons lose their lives un der the most trying circumstances. , No Honda on Chinese Colna. Numismatics who may in the dim and distant future investigate the coinage of China in order to find some authentic record of the lineaments of its sovereigns will he doomed to dis appointment. A representation of the human head separate from the figure is there an object of horror; hence there is never an efllgy of the emperor on his coin. Further, the hermit-like seclusion in which the Son of Heaven traditionally lives is intended to stim ulate veneration; and there are very few of the subjects apart from the officials of the palace, who ever see his face. A missionary recently returned from the celestial land observes that were it known that in Europe portraits of kings were suspended before inns, exposed to dust, wiud nnd rain, and to tile witticisms nnd perhaps the sar casms of the populace, we should be held in even greater derision than we are. —London Daily Chronicle. Power of Modern Guns. Tile power of the modern gun is a thing that cannot be grasped. The 100-ton projectile strikes with a force equal to 405,000 eleven-stone men jumping from a height of one foot. When the eighty-one-ton gun fires a shot twelve miles, it is fired at such au angle that the shell goes up to a height 5482 feet higher than Mont Blanc. Big guns have been longer in use than most people think. In the year 1478 they had guns called "bom bards," which threw projectiles weigh ing a quarter of a ton. They were wider at the muzzle than in the bore, and were used for battering buildings. The English used big guns at the bat tle of Crecy, and amazed the French, who had never seen such weapons be fore.—The Kegiment. Teaching Little Ones. It Is wonderful how much knowledge can be Imparted to small children by a quick nursemaid who has an inkling of the kindergarten system. Children are never tired of asking questions, and if these are intelligently answered they pick up all sorts of useful knowl edge without any netual teaching. Tho object of t lie kindergarten system is to teacli the little ones to think for themselves.nnd it is worth every moth er's and nurse's while to learn some thing of it. The custom of talking non sense to them and distorting words cannot be too much condemned. ABLE BOER LEADER. GEN. OLIVIER, RECENTLY CAP TURED BY THE BRITISH. It Was He Wlio Led Gatacre Into the Trap at Storm berg—Tribute Paid to Him by One of the IteproHeutative Men of the South African Republic. Gen. Olivier, who was recently cap tured by tho British in the fighting at Winburg, in the Orange Free State,was one of the most active of the Boer generals in the fleid, and as a guerrilla leader ranked next to Gen. Do Wet It was Olivier who led Gen. Gatacre Into the trap at Stormberg, which proved disastrous to the British, cost ing them 800 casualties. In discussing GEN. OLIVIER, that action a Boer leader said to a newspaper correspondent: "Our Gen. Olivier is one of the 'slim mest' men in Africa. You don't know Olivier. If you Britishers were to talk to him you would reckon him up as a rather stupid sort of fellow. He knows how to know nothing—when it suits him. He can make his face as expres sionless as the back wall of a ceme tery on a wet day, even when he is just boiling with excitement inside. You may think that it Is an easy trick, but Just you try it some day when some one springs a big surprise on you; perhaps you won't And it so easy as it may appear. Olivier knew ail about Gen. Gatacre. He had studied him. "We beat you Britishers that day, beat you pretty badly, too, but the men who think Gatacre isn't a general on that account don't know the country, nor know Olivier, don't know the Boers and don't know what quick firing rifies can do in such circumstances. If either Kitchener or Roberts had been in Gen. A Unique Sower Bel! When the first settlement was mafic on Commencement Bay, Puget Sound, It was simply a lumber camp and trad ing post. After the Northern Pacific railroad was completed to Commence ment Bay a city was built on the nigh ground above the lumber camp south ward, and that is the handsome city of Tacoma, Wash. The ancient lumber camp is now that part of Tacoma which is called "Old Town" locally. Early in the history of Old Town an Episcopal clergyman, now Bishop" Morris of Oregon, built a little wooden church in the place alongside of a huge fir tree that had been broken off about 40 feet from the ground. It was first the Intention to build the church behind the tree and cut a door way through the trunk, thus making the tree the entrance as well as the bell tower, but this plan was aban doned. A belfry tipped with a cross was built upon the top of the tree, a bell placed therein, and swung. To this day the ivy-clad fir is ; :o bell tower of the church. A ladder .una from the roof of the church to the bel fry, and this is used as the approach to the bell whenever it becomes neces sary to visit it for any purpose. The ivy that clings to the tree has crawled under the roof and into the WOMAN DID BAPTIZING. Male Converts Took It. bat the Women Hacked Out. At Cramer hill, in New Jersey, hun dreds attended a "baptizin' " recently. The immersing was done by a woman —Mrs. Lottie Miller. Sbe marched bravely down to the shore, followed by the candidates. These were by no means the least Interesting features of the baptism. They were arrayed in the cast-off black skirts of their wives or sisters, which anything but facili tated their movements through the mud. Their legs became unaccount ably entangled in the voluminous folds of these garments, and before midstream was reached the converts were begrimed by their many trou bles. After a final exhortation Sister Miller started with her little flock on the road to Zion. Among those about to be immersed was Mrs. Miller's lit tle son, a chap of about 9 years. The party had gone only half way in the mire when the woman's maternal in stincts rose above her religious ones, and without waiting to gain the deep water she then and there "sprinkled" the head of her son, rather than sub tect him to the dangers of the stream. By this time rowboats,steamboats and Gatacre's place that day wo Boer* fancy it "would not have made a great deal of difference." QUEER CUBAN FANCIES. Superstitions Tlmt Have Obtained • Strollfi: Hold on the People. A belief that ha 3 a strong hold on a certain class of people In Cuba is that certain diseases can be cured by eat ing dirt, and so when one of these dis eases manifests itself the believer does not consult a physician, but instead gathers up a handful of dirt and eats it. If any relief is obtained It must be the result of faith cure, which tho pa tient is unconsciously trying. Why all kinds of germs are not taken in with the dirt is a mystery—possibly they are. The moonlight seems particular ly objectionable and strangers are warned not to go out in it with un covered head, and not to go out in it at all If it can be avoided; it is thought that this light brings many evil effects, and not under any circum stances will a Cuban sleep in its rays —he thinks that, among other things, it will draw his mouth to one side of his face. To ward off sickness of vari ous kinds there are little silver or tin images to wear suspended about the neck as a kind of charm, images of the same kind are offered in the churches as thanksgiving or prayer, and so we find near the altar 3 of cer tain churches cases in which are hun dreds of these little trinkets, hands, feet, arms and babies. The hooting of an owl is taken as a very bad sign. The superstitious Cuban kills any creature of this kind which makes weird sounds near his home. This is supposed to break the speil, and it ie not then inevitable that a member oi the family shall meet death in tho near future. Butterflies also are looked upon as omens. The Cuban women are great believers in the efficacy of vari ous herbs in sickness and have a rem edy for almost every ailment. Ameri can physicians find that they nave much more knowledge in this line than the women of our own country, and more knowledgo of sickness in general. In many homes, even the poorest, there is a thermometer, and if anyone is ill his temperature is tak en before the physician arrives. Immigration to Argentine. Immigration to the Argentine Re public is increasing. Official statistics for 1890 show the number of immi grants from other thr.il South' Ameri can countries to have been 84.442, an increase over the preceding year of 44.045. I ato King's Foster Brother. A foster brother of the late King Humbert, M. Leon Gorinflot, is mayor of tho Commune of llaubert-Fontaine. church, and forms delicate green tra ceries along the inner walls. The bell tower tree is many hun dreds of years old, and was a good sized tree when Columbu3 sailed upon the voyage which resulted in the dis- FIR TREE AS A BELFRY. covery of a new world. Thue the for est monarch now forms the oldest bell tower in America. other pleasure craft had assembled In the river, and everyone was ready for the dipping. In a stentorian voice, which could easily be heard on shore, Sister Miller read a solemn service. Then with the help of a deacon and an elder she Immersed the candidates. They came up spluttering "Hallelu- , jahs" and "the Song of the Saved" Jt greeted them as they returned to shore. It was said that arrangements had ,been made to immerse ten wom en, but nine of them had backed out, and the tenth, being of dimensions that made Mrs Miller look like a dwarf, had decided to wait for a stronger arm. Bnlmru*s Water Supply. The wells of Erg, in the Sahara desert, occupy the bottom of the de pressions. As the surface of the ground in which they are excavated is covered with a thick layer of eand they have to be protected against the falling in of the latter. Their very narrow orifice is, therefore, hermetic ally closed by means of wide stones sealed through a mortar composed of sand and mud. Each caravan undoes the work in order to obtain water and then carefully seals the wells up again before departing.
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