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< GALLANT SEA CAPTAIN " BRITISH NAVY PROUD OF WORK OF LIEUTENANT COCHRANE. His Exploits With Small Ship, Poorly Armod, Are Classed With the Most Brilliant Annals of Warfare on the.Ocean. A recent writer, Mr. J. J. Edgar, has retold the almost Incredible exploits of the Speedy, the first command of young Lieutenant Cochrane, after wards Admiral Lord Dundonald, Inventor, fighter and strategist. The little vessel was absurdly small and Ill-equipped; an over-manned and underarmed craft of 158 tons, carrying ninety men and fourteen four-pounders. Nevertheless, she soon became so troublesome to the enemy that a Spanish frigate was especially dispatched to hunt her down. But young Cochrane, foreseeing trouble, had puriposely shipped a Danish quartermaster; and instead of avoiding his formidable foe, ho dressed the Dane in his own uniform, disguised the Speedy, with the aid of paint and canvas, as a Danish brig, and ran up the quarantine flag. A few questions were asked, to which an unmistakably genuine .Dane, apparently the captain, replied; and the hoodwinked enemy continued peacefully on her course. Some months later, however, they met again, and an encounter could not be avoided. The action that followed was unique in naval history. The Speedy made no effort to escape. Instead, she boldly attacked. She had at the time only fifty-four men, and her scant crew and fourteen fourpounders were opposed to tho thirtytwc heavy guns and 319 men of her six hundred-ton opponent, the frigate El Gamo. Coming swiftly to close quarters, Bhe ran in under the frigate's broadside, which hurtled harmlessly above her, while every shot from her own guns told. A moment later the vessels touched, and Cochrane, at the head of his crew, actually boarded and carried the frigate, which struck her flag after the first rush. Between these two exploits the Speedy visited Valetta, and Cochrane enjoyed a little adventure nshore. A fancy-dress subscription ball was being given, under the patronage of some French Royalist officers, and this he attended, selecting for his cos tume the ordinary dress of a British common sailor. A Frenchman, mis taking him for a genuine Jack-tar ol 1 ?-*- *- - uuuiuub uuurieiy wno wan intrufling among his betters, ordered him cut. He refused to go. The Frenchman collared him; he knocked the Frenchman down, and the next day they fought a duel on the sandB. Cochrane received a ball through the trousers and the Frenchman one through the leg, after which they parted gayly with expressions of mutual esteem. The Speedy's career ended at last In capture: but although she surrendered to one vessel, the French battleship Dessaix, she had been gallantly fighting against se^ral at once. The chivalrous French captain declined to accept Cochrane's sword, saying he could not "deprive of his sword an officer who had so many hours struggled against impossibilities." The Pallas, Cochrane's first really adequate ship, did not achieve so many near-impossibilities as the little Speedy; but her return to Plymouth after her first cruise was marked by a uniquely brilliant touch. She had taken rich prises. Among the booty were some wonderful great golden candlesticks from Mexico. They were of superb size and workmanship, and designed for ecclesiastical use; but Cochrane found them equally adapted to enhance a naval triumph. When, at sound of the signal gun, the inhabitants of Plymouth flocked to the wharves, to behold the Pallas sweep nobly to her ancliorasre. thev were dazzled and amazed to Bee her tall masts aglltter in the sunshine as If tipped with living flame. To each mast was proudly affixed a flve-foot golden candlestick!?Youth's Companion. ' Indian as a Waiter. You can And all kinds of people on Broadway, says the New York Tribune. There Is a full-blooded Cheyenne Indian who It n waiter In one of the chop suey restaurants in Longacre square. He wandered here frorq the Western plains, scenh of his early youth, to seek fame and fortune In ,the metropolis as a singer of Indian melodies, but with syncopated music anchored to the boards the red man hasn't a ghost of a chance. Now he [languishes as a waiter In a Chinese {restaurant, hoping in bis heart for the day when writers of Yiddish and Irish melodies will again feel the spirit of the Stoux, Cherokee or Chippewa de scendlng upon them. Ehren the "fads and fashions" beauty cabaret, interpreter* par excellence of presjent-day dancee and music, cannot |arouee his interest. But, then, he la [only a humble Indian waiter, although, perhaps, the only one of hie kind along Broadway. Wledom of Willie. Mother (angrily)?Why didn't you come when I called yon the first time? Willie?'Cause f didn't hear you till you called the third time. Mother?Now, how could you know ft was the third call unless you heard the other two? ?ndBiftinnftMH nnrfh, afc 1 >"w"? < 1 rfsent intrusion of mm Wild Elephants Greatly Retard Worl< of Missionaries In Central African Region. The strongest opponents to the ad ' vance of civilization in west Central Africa, says Bishop Lambuth, the Methodist missionary, are the wilt elephants. They break down fences trample gardens, pull up trees anc even telegraph poles, for no other ap parent reason than because they ob ject to anything strange in their fa miliar haunts. One savage monstei nearly wrecked a small steam launcl belonging tn ?h? _ w ??/ 1UIOI>IVU VU lilt) Uppoj reaches of the Congo. The boat, with three white men, In eluding the bishop, and a crew of flvi negroes, had tied up on the edge o: a deep forest In a quiet bend of th< river. A stout plank was laid as gang way from the bow to the bank, and th< crew worked until nightfall cuttlnf and piling firewood for the boat's fur nace; then they came on deck foi their evening meal. The three whlti men were already at dinner, when i fearful yell from the natives trough them out of the cabin to see a largi elephant viciously attacking the wood pile. The blacks shouted and threv missiles, and two of the more veu turesome even went ashore with fire brands snatched out of the cook Btovi to drivo the monster away. But h? paid no attention to them until he ha< demolished the woodpile, when h< whipped one man with his trunk heeli over head into the river, and chaset the other back into the boat. Thundering loudly, with red gullo open, tusks flashing and trunk llall ing the air, he planted both tre mendous forefeet on the gangplank It bent until it cracked under hi weight, but held stoutly, although th whole boat careened, and seemei ready to capsize. In another moment the elephant ha< crossed the plank, and was astride 1 with hindfeet- on the shore and fort feet 011 the boat. There he stood afraid to advance or retreat, a g gantlc image of battled rage. In hi fury he began stamping with thos great forefeet, and the boat rocket crazily back and forth. What might have happened If th ' monster had come aboard with all hi 1 frenzied weight can only be imagined for the captain by this time ha fetched the only rifle on board anc risking all on one shot, had thrus the muzzle almost into the gapln mouth and pulled the trigger. Fortunately, the bullet lodged In th , base of the brain. The elephan Lumuiea 10 tils knees and into th water next the bank, his bulk thrusi lng the boat astde so suddenly that 1 snapped the bowlines and sent th men staggering to the gunwale. At the next government trading poa the captain had two splendid tusks t show as the result of his cool daring but to his astonishment, he was ai rested for shooting the elephant witt out a license. It was with great diff culty that the government official wa convinced that the animal had bee: shot in self-defense. Even then h confiscated the ivory.?Youth's Con panion. Dressing for the Party. On the trolley the other day ther were two winsome damsels hanging t straps and entertaining each other ii sparkling conversation about wha they were going to wear at some fun< tlon that was soon to happen, accord lng to a writer in the Ohio Stat Journal. They told of their shoei their stockings, their lingerie, th skirts, the bodices, the neckweai their hats, their gloves and every iter of their garb and the material thereol and their conversation seemed almos a symphony in velvets, silks, Jewell that one could imagine them enterlni the drawing room in p'.nk, tulle am Powered voile, the objects of the ad miring gaze of all the company. We would have given a $5 banl note if wo could have caught that cot versation on a dictagraph. By th way, whv don't tb? - ? - ? WVVI U JiCUJJlO KG a couple of these fascinating damsel together and have them tell what the; are going to wear to a party? It wouli be very interesting talk, as one migh < Imagine, if he had seen that whot car using their auricles in every sor of fashion to catch the mellifluous &c cents of those gentle maidens tellini what they were going to wear. 8nake in Search of Modern Eve. A decorator at a millinery shop a i Atlantic and Kentucky avenues, At lantlc City, N. J., reached into a draw er behind the counter while waiting on a customer. She felt somethlni grasp her arm, then she fainted Colled around her arm was a snak six feet long. | The woman shopper screamed an< ran for the street The clerks an< other patrons followed. The polio arrived on a hurry call, and found th J snake still curled around the firl'i arm. They took It to headquarters. How the snake got in the storo wai solved tonight when members of i high-school fraternity tried to claln ' | It. They explained they had two o the reptiles for initiation. Both es caped from the fraternity rooms abov* the store. The other snake has no been found. Fewer Deaths From Tuberculosis. The tuberculosis death rate of Nen York, Philadelphia and Boston com ' bined has declined from 380.6 per 100, 000 of population in 1882 to 164.6 It 1914. The 1914 death rate was, there fore, only 43.2 per cent of that of 18t>2 .or. to pu'? it the other way, the death PHE LANCASTER NEWH TV j HKASON' FOR IT. ]l When Lancaster i'itlzvns Show a ' 1 - w?y- r There can be no reason whf am i reader of this who suffers the tor- l Vires of an aching back., the annoy- f [ ance of urinary disorders, the pains j and dangers of kidney ills, will tail | ' to heed the words of a neigabor who I has found relief. Read what this e Lancaster citizen says: ( 1 t . I 'William Carnes, farmer, R. F. D. ( :i ;jYm <??ag r :l ? What's in the varnish you buy a Wc can supply \ 1 j formula of content J ; PALE II MARBI i I For outside work an< IVernositc. It will sun cannot blister it. For inside wood-wot required, use DEV( I beauty of the grain; For all floors use I, proofs the wood, an j. and tear without ni. :| LANCASTER MERCi 1 LANCASJI ?/-T 9 ^ M M d HBOR i| Watch I ; OU I ; I Saturday sj I into our stc i I where to g< ; J Cleantine \ I set aside ot i the people & .1 .1 t tnem tnat >| WhenGroc s u ! Plyl f h I ? t Up Town F 108 t 'ESPAY. March 27. 1917 *Jo. 8, says: "My kidneys were dis ordered and my back pained me. r[ The kidney secretions were too freluent in passage and caused a burnng sensation. My rest at night was | iroften by having to get up four olive times. Doan's Kidney Fills gave ne great relief." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't limply ask for a kidney remedy? ;et Doan's Kidney Pills?the same hat Mr. Carnes had. Foster-Milburn 3o., Props., Buffalo. N. Y.?Adv. ^ S3! ou with varnish that has the exact ts printed plainly on every can? 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