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Japan has now advanced far enough
along the lines of Western civiliza
tion to begin having her statesmen as
sassinated.
A newspaper prints an advertise
ment, according to the New York
Tress, that deserves a response. It j
reads; "If John Smith, who twenty
years ago deserted his poor wife and
babe, will return, said babe will knock
the stuffing out of him."
* Great statesmen, poets, novelists, sol
diers and sailors pass away and their j
services to tho world are much talked
about. At Frankfort, Ky„ Benjamin
F. Meek, the inventor of the fishing
reel, died the other day. Though little j
fuss Is made about him, It must be ad- j
mitted that he haa conferred inorc i
real benefit 011 the race than many a J
greater man, as the world counts i
greatness. The gentle philosophical -
race of anglers Is under an obligation ,
to him. Peace to his ashes'.
One of the features of the Louis- |
lana Purchase World's Fair Exposi
tion at St. Louis will be a heroic statue
of Napoleon Bonaparte and tho devo
tion of a day of festivity to his mem
ory. The sale of Louisiana to the
United States was Napoleon's concep
tion, and it was carried out against
tho wishes of his ministers. Tho pro
moters of tho exposition, therefore, i
consider that Napoleon did the Amor- j
lean Republic an inestimable service '
which is worthy of distinguished rec- ,
oguitiob, for the acquisition of Louis- j
iaiia by Eugland, as one of the fruits
of the Napoleonic wars, might have j
changed the whole current ol' Ameri- !
can history. . j -, ];
What a wonderful era of generosity J
and goodwill to institutions of learn- |
ing is that of the present! The am- j
bitious hoy or girl who desires a col- j
lege training iu these days in any part
oiT this country experiences far less 1
difficulty iu obtaining it than did the !
generation of thirty years ago. If 1
there are any Abraham Lincolus at j
humble firesides at the dawn of this (
century they need not confine their .
studies to borrowed hooks painfully
conned by tho flickering and uncertain
light of pincknots. May there not be
some little danger that to some extent, ;
here and there, the higher education I
may be made too luxurious and too
facile? queries the New York Tribune.
Tho Garbage Problem.
The older countries, in spite of the
rapid strides we have made In inven
tion, are a good deal ahead of us in
many ways. There is the question of
the disposal of garbage, for instance!
It is said that It costs the city of New
York about $500,000 a year to get rid
of it, while many English cities, by
burning it in special furnaces, not only
destroy It In tho most effective way,
but actually make a profit out of It.
The furnaces dry it out so that it may
he used as fuel, and this fuel is used in
making steam for pumping water, run
ning electric plants and for grinding
up sueli parts of the refuse us may bo
converted into cement, tiles nud pav
ing blocks. This plan Is In use In sev
enty or eighty of tho smaller cities of
England, and a million dollar plant Is
being erected In London.
One of Life's Ironies.
There Is something horrifying in the
way In which the city takes its annual
toll of victims from the public schools,
dumps them down on a high stool and
sucks their blood. Why is it that the
flowers of school athletics are born to
blush unseen and waste their sweet
ness on an office stool? London Public
School Magazine.
Culture Musi Follow Industry.
There can be no prosperity In Indus,
try unless that prosperity is felt in
what may be called the highest cul
ture. writes Carroll I). Wright In
World's IVork. The man who works
for wages must feel that his condi
tion is improved. He must plav his
part as a social and political factor
If sodtil and ethical Improvement
does not follow industrial Improve
ment, then Industry has failed in Its
great purpose.
I THE BATTLE OF MANZANILLD. J
*'l\
By H. E. Smith, Master-at-Arms of the Hornet During tho
<.;> Spanish-American War. \£>
The fact that perhaps the fiercest of
what would he called small engage
ments, which took place during the
late war with Spain, and was fought
the 3(Jth day of June, IS9B, in the har
bor of Manzanillo on (he southern
coast of Cuba, was but slightly
brought before the public notice on ac
count of its being so shortly followed
on July 3d by tho decisive naval en
gagement in front of Santiago de
Cuba, which resulted in tho complete
destruction of Cevera's formidable
fleet, has led the writer to give to tho
public a description of the memorable
battle of Manzanillo. I say memora
ble, because 1 am confident it will ever
be remembered by many and especial
ly by the crew of tho "Little Hornet,"
of which by chance it was my fortune
to be one. As a volunteer in tlio
navy, I was serving on board the U.
S. S. Hornet (formerly Mr. Flagler's
yacht Alecia, under command of a
brave and able man In the person of
Lieutenant J. M. Helm, U. S. Navy.
During the latter part of June, Admir
al Sampson learned through Mr. Dent,
the U. S. Consul at Jamaica, that many
vessels were sailing from that port
to Manzanillo, Cuba, carrying provi
sions probably intended to reach the
Spanish forces at Santiago by nn over
land route from the former place; in
order to put a stop to this traffic, the
Admiral immediately ordered a block
ade established west of Cape Cruz,
and despatched several of the lighter
vessels of his command to this duty;
much to the displeasure of all on
board the "Little Hornet" she was
ordered "to proceed to and take up
station on blockade off Cape Cruz"—
this point being about 100 miles to the
westward of Santiago. This was in
deed much to the displeasure of tho
crew of tho nornet, for they all longed
to remain In front of Santiago In
hopes of being able to have a hand in
the great conflict which took place
there later on, but our likes and dis
likes were not to be taken into consid
eration, and the order must be obeyed;
so there was nothing left for tho Lit
tle Hornet to do but to steam off to
the westward, and, if my memory
serves me correctly, and I think it
does, it was on Saturday evening,
June 23, that we reached our station
off Cape Cruz. Early the next morn
ing, as day dawned, wo discovered a
two-masted schooner had succeeded
In passing us under the cover of dark
ness, and was boldly sailing on to
wards Manzanillo; she was beyond the
reach of our guns, and paid no atten
tion to one or two shots which wo
fired in her direction Owing to the
peculiar location of reefs and shoals
in this vicinity, it was unsafe for us
to attempt to steam after her, and
Was about to abandon the idea of her
capture, when the writer of this nar
rative vehemenUy appealed to the cap
tain to allow hint with a volunteer
boat's crew undertake the task with a
ten-oared cutter. Tho captain, realiz
ing the danger of being fired on by
Spanish soldiers from the beach, which
the schooner was hugging closely, did
not at first approve of the idea, and
only with rcftlctanee gave his consent
to tho attempt being made. The cut
ter was soon lowered, and the volun
teer crew, armed wilh rifles, started
in pursuit of their prize, and, after a
hard and tedious pull of five hours
against wind and tide, they succeeded
in overhauling the schooner, but not,
however, until they had sent whizzing
through her rigging several rifle balls,
the music of which was not congenial
to the ears of the crew of the schoon
er. She proved to be the "Emanuel
Roaul." loaded with provisions from
Jamaica for Manzanillo, being one of
the vessels referred to by Mr. Dent
She was held as a prize, and with a
prize crew on board was sent two days
inter to Key West in company with the
steamer "Benito Estenger," which we
captured on the following day. Early
In the morning of the 30tli day of June,
while we lay ulongside of the two
mnsted schooner "E. It. Nickerson,"
which we had held up, and one of our
officers was overhauling her papers, wo
discovered smoke on tho horizon to
the southeast. Without waiting to take
on board our officer and boat's crew,
which were alongside tho schooner, we
steamed with all speed in the direction
of this smoke, thinking it, of course,
another prize, and all jubilant over
the fact that they were coming "thick
and fast," and, no doubt, we would ail
have a fortune in prize money before
the war was over. This smoke, how
j ever, proved to be from tho U. S. S. j
Hist (a converted yacht), under com
mand of Lieutenant Lucian Young, U.
S. N„ accompanied by the U. S. S.
Wampatuek, commanded by Lieuten
ant Jungeu, U. S. X. Lieutenant
Young was bearing a sealed dispatch
addressed to the "Senior officer present
on blockade off Cape Cruz," and ex
pected to find the U. S. 3. Dixie, but
on learning that the Dixie was cruis
ing off Cienfuegos, some distance to
the westward, and finding himself to
be the senior officer present, he decid
ed to open the Admiral's communica
tion and called Captains Helm and
Jungen, of the Hornet and Wampa
tuek, on board the Hist for consulta
tion. The Admiral urged upon the of
ficers the necessity of leaving nothing
undone in order to put a stop to this
traffic In Manzanillo; also ordering that
a reconnaissance be made In the vi
cinity of Manzanillo as early as prac
ticable. stating that he had informa
tion that there were three or four
Email Spanish gunboats in the harbor.
Lieutenant Y'oung having on board
the Ulst an excellent Cuban pilot. It
was decided to make the suggested
reconnaissance at once, and by S a. m.
the three small members of Uncle
Sam's Mosquito Fleet were In column
formation, with the Hist in the lead
and the Hornet in the rear, heading'
for Manzanlllo. After steaming about
twenty-live miles aiul on approaching
Necuero Bay, which lay on our right,
we discovered a Spanish gunboat lay
ing at anchor behind a small island;
the Wampatuck, drawing too much
water to cuter the hay, remained in
the channel to prevent an escape; the
Hist and Hornet headed into the hay
and uncovered the Spaniard, who, see
ing that escape was impossible, boldly
stenmed out and gave us a running
fight; but fortunately for us lier shells
all passed over us. The Hist ground
ed and thus interfered with the range
of the Hornet. IVe succeeded, how
ever, in striking the plucky little Span
iard several times, and in a crippled
condition she sought shelter behind a
small island on the opposite side of
the bay, which, however, did not con
ceal her, and the Hist having floated
by tills time, and clearing the range
of the Hornet, the latter vessel soon
landed a six pound shell fairly amid
ships, and the little Spaniard blew up.
The water being so shallow, it was
impossible for us to maneuvre with
ease, and no moro of the enemy at
tills time being in sight, our vessels
Tenewiug their former position in col
umn, moved on towards Manzanlllo,
everyone In our little fleet joyous that
In less time than it takes to tell It,
wo had succeeded in destroying one
of tiie three or four gunboats which I
we had expected to encounter later. I
Tills unexpected resistance proved to
lie hut the "curtain raiser;" the bat
tle was yet, to come. Perhaps during
the Interval here, and before our little
fleet reaches the Harbor of Manzun
lilo, it might lie well for me to give
my readers an idea of the armament of
the three members of the Mosquito
Fleet, the actions of which I am about
to relate. The Hist mounted one throe
pound rapid fire and four automatic
one-pound guns. The Wampatuck, an
armed tug, mounted one six-pound
rapid lire, and two tliree-pound rapid
lire guns. The Hornet (a well named
ship) mounted four rapid lire six
pound, two rapid tiro one pound, two
automatic (i mm machine guns, and
one 47 mm revolving cannon; tlins It
will ho easily seen our armament was
light, and, had we any Idea of the
surprise that awaited us, no doubt
there would have been no battle of
Manzanillo to go down in history as
fought on that day. Our approach
had evidently been wired or otherwise
signalled from Negucron, and on our
opening Manzanlllo Harbor, which lay
on our right, instead of the three small
gunboats wo had been looking for
much to our surprise wo found
a crescent formation of nine ves
sels stretched across the harbor close
in shore; a large torpc-do boat on the
light in entering, and a large gunboat
(the guardsliip of the harbor) on the
left, with throe smaller gunboats be
tween tliem, armed witli four and six
inch and three and six pound rapid
fire and machine guns; 0:1 the right of
the lino was flanked by a big smooth
bore gun on Cnimanero Foint, and on
the left by four large pontoons armed
with six Inch smooth bore guns. To
the rear the line was supported by a
mortar battery of six pieces, and a
heavy battery of three pound field ar
tillery pieces on the water front and
two forts on the hills, one to the right
and one to tlio left of the town, and
the shore for nearly two miles In
length was lined with soldiers who
kept lip a fusillade of small arms dur
ing the entire engagement. When
within 1000 yards of the large torpedo
boat the Spanish gunboats opened Are,
followed closely by the shore batteries.
Instantly we realized the overwhelm
ing odds we had to light, but with the
courage and determination of the true
American, the die was immediately
returned with every gun that could be
brought to hear. The channel being
narrow, it was not safe to turn around
for fear of grounding, thus we were
obliged to light our way directly
across in frcut of the enemies' entire
line, aiul as they were firing twenty
shots to our one, it seemed as if our
chances were slim of ever escaping;
hut if fate was to doom u3, we were
determined to do some damage before
we went, and, with careful and delib
erate aim, wo kept up a hot fire, while
Hie air shrieked overhead, mul the
water around us boiled with the shells
of the enemy. Our shells were begin
ning to take effect and they had dis
covered tiie fact that the Hornet was
doing the work, whereupon their en
tire fire was concentrated upon the
littlo craft to destroy her, and soon
succeeded in landing a shell which
severed the main stcamplpo and thus
rendered lier unable for further move
ments. She was crippled and lying at
their mercy, the target of over ICO
guns, and enough shells were fired at
her alone In the space of a few min
utes to sink a hundred such crntt;
many on board thought the ship In a
sinking condition, but not a gun ceased
firing, the men remaining at their sta
tions like men of iron, some suffering
from the escaping steam, yet determ
ined not to miss n elianee to fire a shot
so long as their gun remained above
water and n Spanish flag in sight. <)n
the opposite side of the vessel, and dis
tant some ten or twelve hundred yards
was an island on which were stationed
Spanish soldiers, who, having noticed
the crippled condition rf the Hornet,
and believing her Jus to be easily
dhpfured, had sot out, some thirty or
forty of them, In a small sloop and
were fast approaching, firing upon us
with small arms. A few men returned
the fire with small arms from the Hor
net, but with apparently no effect, and
when they were within .100 yards of
the Hornet, one man throwing down
a rifle on the deck, crawled on hands
and knees across the deck In the
midst of escaping steam, and returned
with two six-pound shells (the sloop in
the meantime getting nearer, few on
hoard the Hornet noticing her, nearly
all hands being busily engaged hand
ling the lines of the Wampatuck,
which had been signalled for assist
ance, and was at this time making
fast on the opposite side of the ship),
single-handed and alone he cast adrift
and loaded the six-pound gun 1n the
gangway, and, with cool and deliberate
aim, landed a shell fairly amidships of
the- sloop, which exploded, making a
perfect hash of boat, sails, masts and
Spanish soldiers; those who escaped
with their lives could be seen swim
ming back to the island. Modesty pre
vents the writer from mentioning the
name of the man, but be might state
that the cast; of the six-pound shell
which hashed the sloop of Spaniards
Is In his possession, held as a sou
venir of the war.
After lying helpless for fully half an
hour, within SOO yards of the ene
mies' guns, completely nt tlieir mercy,
but fighting as gallantly as ever a ves
sel fought, the Wampatuck succeeded
In towing the little Hornet out of the
enemies' range of fire. Much lias been
said throughout the leDgtli and breadth
of the land, and many glowing tributes
have been laid at the feet of "Lieuten
ant Hohson, the hero of the Merri
mae," but had not the battle in front
of Santiago happened so soon after
the battle of Manzanlllo, the names of
Lieutenants nelm and Jungen, of the
Hornet and Wampatuck, would have
been heralded broadcast throughout
the United States as the heroes of
Mnnzanillo.
[ I wns cover in my life more Im
pressed thnn in the bravery displayed
by Captain Helm, ns be stood upon the
open bridge of the littlo Hornet, while
shells were flying thick all about him,
ns calmly directing the firing of tlio
guns as though engaged in target
practice, and the sinking of the Merri
mac by Lieutenant Hohson was no
more heroic than the act of rescuing
the nornet that day, under the most
galling fire imaginable, by Lieutenant
.Tungen, of the Wampatuck. Although
an hour and fifteen minutes elapsed
from the time the first shot was fired
until we were out of the enemies'
range, during which time it seemed as
though their sole ambition was to see
how many shots they could fire during
a given time, regardless of where their
shells landed they succeeded in doing
little damage. The Hist was struck
a few times, and the Wampatuck
cnctf, with no more damage than n lit
tle shattered woodwork. Tlio Hornet
was struck four times, and had the
shot which severed our steampipe
been four or five inches higher or low
er, It would have passed through, and
we would never have known it until
the fight was over. The casualties
were but three men scalded by the es
caping steam in the fire room of the
Hornet. The superior markmanshlp
of Uncle Sam's gunners will he seen
from the fact that the little Hornet,
though crippled as she was, succeeded
in sinking two gunboats and a sloop
loaded with soldiers, while two other
gunboats were so badly injured tlicy
were obliged to run on the beach to
keep from going down. Even the
Spanish press, notwithstanding tlieir
tendency to make light of, and poke
fun at the damage done by Uncle
Sam's guns, admitted in their Havana
papers the following day that "All of
the Spanish warships were more or
less injured." About twenty miles dis
tant wo anchored for the night, and
then, realizing far more the danger
we had been through, than we did
when shells were shrieking all around
us and the roar of our own guns near
ly deafening, the crew of tlio Hornet
talked over the events of the day, all
agreeing to one thing, that the 80th
day of .Tune would live forever in
their memories and be celebrated ty
them as "Jungen Day," for had it not
been for the heroism of Lieutenant
Jungen, of the Wampatuck, they
would have all been at the bottom of
Manzanlllo Harbor, or fighting yet—
Richmond Hill Record.
A Jolco on tho Doctor.
Coing into the free dispensary of
the New York Medical College and
Hospital for Women one afternoon a
physician found three or four little
girls who, while awaiting treatment
had evidently made friends, and were
huddled together on one bench, eager
ly discussing something of great inter
est, which, on investigation, proved
to be a much-handled "chunk" of
candy. In astonishment he inquired
what they were doing. Some ques
tioning finally elicited an explanation
from the biggest girl, who shame
facedly explained that "fie one what
tells do biggest lie wln3 It" "Oh,"
said the doctor, "I am ashamed of you.
When I was little like you I never told
lies." A slight pause, then from the
smallest girl, "Give him do candy!"—
New York Tribune.
The Sultan.
The character of Abdul Xlamid must
obviously have many facets. The lat
est of his visitors Is Dr. Herzl, the
Zionist leader, who reports to the
London Dally Mail that ho is perfect
ly enarmlng,
"The Sultan spoke to me with the
greatest kindness. I found him a
courteous, charming gentleman—one
almost forgot he was this mighty po
tentate. He lias kept himself in touch,
I found, with all the latest develop
ments of modern life, and evidently is
far from having those mediaeval no
tions which one somehow associates
with the Ottoman Empire."
TPS CHEWING GUM TIME
THE SALES ENORMOUSLY INCREASE
IN WARM WEATHER.
! A. Scientific Justification For the TTahit
Millionn of Pounds of Gum Used in
tlio United States lifTect of the Dis
| corery of Chicle.
| The chewing gum season has begun,
i and the sales of the various chewing
i gum companies have bounded upwnrd.
t Holiday makers include chewing gum
jln their festive equipment Bicyclists
' are abroad In the summerlaud, and
! the bicyclist is your gum chewer cx
i traordinary. Then, too, there Is a se
rious and scientific justification for
| gum chewing in warm wrath, though
; it is to be doubted whether many mor
! tals chew in order to fulfil a duty to
j ward their physical mechanism. The
| chewing of gum In hot weather ex
cites the saliva, moistens the throat
i and relievos thirst. Natives of tropi
' eal countries know this, and often
! chew pure chicle, which is the basis
J of all good chewing gum, or even rub
' her, while working in the heat Chew
ing gum is often recommended for sol
i diers' use on long marches, and last
summer officers in the Philippines re
ported that the gum habit was of
j great benefit to the men, because it
lessened their drinking and enabled
i them to go without water longer than
possible under other circumstances.
So hot weather and chewing gum s-re
affinities. Nevertheless the sales of
gum at any time of the year are tre
mendous. Even a statement of tliom
Is enough to appeal to the imagination
of the individual eliewer and make
his Jaws ache. Within recent years
a number of the most successful chew
ing guin companies have consolidated,
and now most of the best brands cf
gum arc manufactured and controlled
by cno large company. This one com
pany sells on an average 135,000,000
packages of chewing gum every year,
and the sales are constantly Increas
ing.
When to these 135,000,000 packages
sf good gum one adds the tremendous
quantity of cheap and Inferior gum
tlint Is in the market the sum total
wakens a feeling of awe In the breast
if the investigator. About 3,000,000
pounds of chicle is imported by the
United states yearly and, though chi
cle is the fundamental principle of
chewing gum, it is mixed in manufac
ture with many times its weight of
sugar, paste, essential oils, etc., so that
the 2,000,000 pounds Is but a 3mall
fraction of the weight of the chewing
gum manufactured la the United
States each year.
This tremendous demand has grown
up within comparatively few years,
l'he chewing gum industry did not be
gin to assume much importance until
about fifteen years ago, but after it
got a start it struck n surprising pace.
Its first great Impetus came with the
discovery of the x>ossibilities of chicle
as a basis for the gum. Before that
chewing gum was made, but it was poor
and unsatisfactory In quality, the old
fashioned spruce gum being perhaps
the best of the assortment.
A New York man with an eye open
to good things went down to Mexico
and met some other men who dreamed
about getting rich in qnick fashion.
Later these friends heard of chicle
gum and believed that they had
dreamed true—not that they had a
nightmare vision of 133,000,000 pack
ages of chewing gum. They weren't
really dreamers of the first magnitude.
That was reserved for the New York
man. But the men in Mexico believed
that chicle nt a few cents a pound
could be profitably used for the adul
teration of rubber.
They sent a consignment of chicle
to their New York friend. lie wished
they hadn't Ho tried the rubber idea
and found nothing doing. Just us lie
had about decided to throw away the
rest of the stuff he had an inspiration.
The very qualities that spoiled chicle
for rubber might lit it for gum. He
boiled some of the chicle, cut it Into
sticks and originated tne old-time New
York snapping gum. It was pure chi
cle with no sweetening and no flavor.
Chewing It was a good deal lie being
condemned to hard labor, but It sold
liae hot takes. The demand ran fat-
In advance of the supply, und from
that small beginning the present great
Industry was evolved.
Chicle was used for varlouß things
long before its ehewing gum apotheo
sis. It is said that mention was made
of it in New World reports in the time
af Ferdinand and Isabella. Ilowover,
its use was purely local, ami the Amer
ican demand for it lias fairly revolu
tionized the districts from which it
comes. Bo far, it has been found only
In Yucatan, und the entire supply is
shipped from tho various ports along
the Yucatan coasts. Its name ls-Mes
lcan for the Achraa sapole, the tree
from which it is procured.
These trees are found only in the in
terior, aud the work of obtaining tho
gum and transporting it to the nearest
shipping point has always been trou
blesome, though it has been much sim
plilied in recent years. There are many
exporting firms in the Yucatan coast
towns, many of them under tin- man
agement of Northern men. Mexican
peons are taken into the Interior aud
work for a five mouths' season, at
wages ridiculously small. The pay
is, however, fairly well proportioned to
the quality of the work, and the wear
aud tear of handling the workmen,
who are as hopeless a proposition as
auy manager might expect to meet.
Strikes and rows of all kinds are a
regular thing, and murder is common
enough to lose its picturesqueness; so
the peaceful and ti-anquilizing chewing
gum has its birth in storm and stress.
The largest chewing gum company
in America has receutly acquired
2,500,000 acres of laud in Yucatan,
aud is working it as a source of chicle
supply. The company's managers
take the workmen in from Vera Cruz,
and the reports of those managers are
enough to move the obelisk to tears.
Troubles of their own? They haven.'t
anything but trouble, and their opin
ion isn't fit for publication. Still, the
experiment Is proving successful and
Insures n steady supply at a rational
price, although the company does not
expect to obtain from Its own land
enough chicle to fill its requirements.
The quality of chiclo varies accord
ing to the district from which it *
comes, the geological formation of tho
soil affectiug the elasticity and purity
of the gum. According to the quality
used, tho care expended upon purify
ing it, and the proportion of it used,
chewing gum is good or had. Tho
cheap grades are necessarily inferior,
for, though good gum could he made
cheaply In earlier times, that is impos
sible now. The cost of chicle lias
lison from two or three cents to thirty
cents, and there is a ten per cent, duty
upon it.
Tho best chewing gum manufactur
ers tost all eliiclo carefully and reject
nil that Is not of the best quality.
They employ expert chemists, aud,
tinder their supervision the gum is re
fined again, until it is free from all im
purities. iilie best gum when chewed
may ho pulled out into very lino
threads before It will break. If it will
not do that, or if tliero is a rubber
like recoil when tho tension is les
sened the guru Is of inferior quality.
Paste, sugar and essential oils are
added to the chicle in the making of
the chewing gum, the different manu
facturers liavo tlicir own formulas and
processes which are jealously guard
ed. Tlio one company referred to lias
iictorles in several cities ami pays
out ?3000 a week to Its employes.—
New York Sun.
Police Intelligence.
The Intelligence displayed by some
desk sergeants frequently excites the
awe and wonder of the operators at
Police Headquarters in Brooklyn,
whose duty it is to receive reports of
police happenings over the telephone
l'rora the various station houses.
Tlio other night a sergeant in one of
the South Brooklyn precincts wa3
sending in a report about a slight ac
cident in which a man was Injured.
The ambulance surgeon who attended
the man had described the nature of
his Injury to the intelligent pnirolman
on the post, and the latter jotted it
down In"" his book while returning to
the station house. The intelligent ser
geant, reporting to Headquarters, de
scribed the mnn's injuries as follows:
"He received a precise wound of the
alteration."
"A what?" asked tho astonished op
erator.
The sergeant repeated tho descrip
tion of the wound.
"Sny," said the operator, "you don't
expect mo to enter any such fool re
port as tlint, do you? You'd bettef
study tho thing over."
The sergeant consulted with tlio
patrolman, and then returned to the
telephone.
"I made a mistake about that, old
man," he admitted to the operator.
"Tho officer says it's a spliced wound
of the abandonment. It's dead easy
to get mixed ou them medical terms,
you know."
To tho operator the thliig was now
shrouded in impenetrable darkness.
Despairing of obtaining any light from
the sergeant or patrolman, lie called
up the ambulance surgeon at the hos
pital.
"Say, doc," lie asked, "what kind of
an injury' has that man got whom you
just brought In?"
"An incised wound of the abdomt n,"
explained the surgeon.
I'awing the air wildly and pirouet
ting like a whirling dervlsli, the opera
tor made for the clectrie fail, turned
it on, and flung himself, limp aud per
'splring, back into his chair. —New York
Times.
Twelve Hours In n Submarine.
The Narval returned to t port, a Din
don Express telegram from Cherbourg
says, after its experiment of twelve
hours' continuous work under water.
According to the paragraph distributed
for insertion in the French press, the
"trial succeeded without incident," hut
from the official report furnished by
Naval Burgeon Gibrat, who represent
ed the Ministry of Marine, it is clear
that life under the ocean wave scarce
ly conies up to the sailor's ideal of a
jolly existence. After six hours under
water tho lulialing of artificial air he
came difficult, the long exclusion cf
natural atmosphere caused a painful
Irritation of the nerve centres, which
even tlio coolest of the officers could
not resist; aud anaemia set In, accom
panied by cerebral compression and
sick headache that became absolutely
cruel. Finally the manufacture of
electricity under water liberated
among the crew salts of lead aud sul
phur tlint generated digestive and in
testtnnl troubles, which the constant
distribution of milk could not counter
act.
Children Killed nt Fires.
At the conference of Coroners of
England and IVales, held at the Hol
born Itestiiurant, the loss of juvenile
life by burning came up for discussion.
The Home Secretary had requested
the society to inform him as to the
statistics of tho deaths resulting from
this cause. A partial investigation,
had taken place, which showed that
within a brief period there had been
in round numbers 1700 children burned
to death in English houses. 1300 fatal
ities having occurred in houses where
no fireguard was In use to prevent this
kind of accident. In only one case had
criminal negligence been proved, and
the person guilty had been convicted
and punished. This exceptional ease
occurred : . West Hartlepool. The
Coroners' Society resolved to make a
special representation to the Home
Office on the subject in terms to be
settled by the council of the society.—
I London Iteview