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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.