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w | .....jnf "s"' Ill case of the seizue of Mexican I thlB most efficient arm are here allow Infantry. MAIN '?- t; l^r,1J>^i' |'||W? y^-WfMMCtfSW11 sr 2 ' l.fl.-"-**-.-. i ins is me ciliei piaza t?I I lie CH3 bombardment by the American warshl ADMIRAL FLETCHER krar Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, Atlantic fleet, has been stationed at V flagship. Some Ages of Trees. fOhanrvatlons and records as to the I age of trees have shown that le tree attains 700 years as a um length of life; 425 years is 3d as the allotted span of the fir; the larch lives, as a rule. 275 years; the red beech, 245; j pen, 210; the birch. 200; the j ash, .370; the elder, 146; the elm, 130. j Trad?. They Are ready to go, but they are as idverse to intervention, If it can be pevented without dishonor, as Are any ivllians In the land. Your tcorreaponurat attended West Point with some of the field officers of the army, who .oar are stationed In Washington. He knows their feolings in this matter md believes that it is the feeling otthe soldiers now in the field in Texas. Intervention wfli 'mean long years of occupation'0.the Mexican country, . ->-v > 10 MAY BE LANDED IN I ' Tf. . \- - - ?$ f.p? /# Kf>f? - 0MI % I , Jr^v &?&&&&?*? ?. '? iui is n win liu in*., marines who win ue t n, being inspected 011 silipboard, iightii PLAZA OF TAMPICO, M . ? <?U " - ^ ^ m . ,'TI*X'" ?i** ** ' , of Tamplco, the gathering place of th ips. AND HIS FLAGSHIP >' </>>'***+ vO * commanding the first division of the era Cruz. The battleship Florida is his The heart of tho oak begins to rot at about the age of 300 years. Of the holly it is said that there is a specimen 41ft years old near Aschaffenburg, Germany. A count of the annular rings in a gigantic California redwood tree showed that it began to crow in A. P. 55ft. It was 350 feet high, with a base circumference of 00 feet. ' % | Huerta yields, and this Mexican is I not one of tho vU.iHinur bins I he may give the tie to his record. Barring a shortage of ammunition for the field guns and some shortage in the supply of guns themselves, the army is prepared for a campaign tn Mexico. There seems to be little doubt in the minds of the officials that Invasion once begun, the constitutionalist leaders will Join forcoe with their political antagonists, but, nevertheless, their blood-brethren, to resist the Invader. ' THBfORT; MEXICO lent ashore first. Some of the men of lg with landing una and acting as EXICO e people, und it may be subjected to GENERAL HUERTA General Huertu has refused to ordet the American lias saluted at Tanipieo and filPi'S sin inuuoiAn ' ? ......v... v#i mu uuuuir/, which has been trying to govern. Nonsensical Question. Jakey. the lazy and overgrown son of a resident of the Itronx, was recently haled before the magistrate in the Morrisania police court by his father who charged him with being incorrigible, a deadly enemy of work in all its branches, staying out late at nights, smoking cigarettes and a few other habits unbecoming a boy on the threshold of manhood. The pnrent was mad clear through, and told the i court in no soft language Just what he though his boy was coming to. '"Does he strike you?" asked the judge of the young man's father when the latter had cooled ofT somewhat. ' Strike?" came back the father. < "Why. Mr. Judge, your honor, how t can dot boy strike ven he doesn't ' even woik?"?New York Tribune. 1 The army Is ready to do its duty in any event, but it is no more anxious for war than is any organization I of civilians in the whole of Yankeeland. t Equal Division. I "How did that couple divide their : effects when they separated?" "They agreed mutually to an equal division, so he took the prize bull terrier, the motor car, the country place , and the income, and she took the chll- f dren." MILL TOMBS, TORT MILL, S( REAR ADMIRAL BLUE ? ?' ^ r . Mm< jf~j* JHk Rear Admiral Victor ltlue, chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy department, is a busy man these days in Washington, directing the departure of the warships for Mexican waters. NELSON O'SHAUGHNESSY "Nelson O'Shauglmessy, American charge d'affaires In Mexico City, tried his best to show lluerta the serious results that would follow his refusal to order a salute to the American Hag at Tfimidco, but failed. GENERAL GEORGE BARNETT General Harnett is the recently appointed commander of marines and to his men may fall the duty of seizing the customs houses at Tampico and Vera Cruz. G. W.'s Fame. "When opportunity knocked at the loor of George Washington/' remarked the Observer of Events and Things, | "It seems to have made uso of a \ hatchet." Two Reasons. "Why must I pay more for meat than my grandmother did?" "Your grandmother walked down to my shop and took it away In a haslet." explained the butcher. "You I telephone and have it delivered, and rou pay for both transactions." In a Boston School. Teacher?What was it our forefahers threw overboard from English ships In Boston harbor in 1773? 8cholar?Deans, ma'am. >UTH CAROLINA l nPAAHPA a nania I. traits A BABb; BUYS IT DUNNAGE A Deep Sea Sailor Finds a Baby and Wanted Her for a ( Mascot. \ HERO ROARS A BIT I Had Great Plans for the Little One \ Until He Discovered One Stray Mother?The Baby Did Not Gc Aboard Ship. San Francisco.?lie had a face the , color of a new inaline, his shoulders wero wide and his chest was deep, and he walked with a roll that was a 1 real roll. He was, in fact, a sailor. a None of your steamboat winch-ham t dlers. No, sir. One of the real old Clark Russell variety. i t Steering a fair courso along Kearny street, he decided it was tlmo to take < ballast aboard, so he put his helm i hard down and was off for a restau- j rant. j r Making the entrance without pilot- t age, he came to anchor at a table, and c ; was about to call lustily for the stew- i | ard when a faint hail of distress j t ; reached his ears. n The faint hall suddenly became a i; I shrill yell and our sailorman discov- 1 , ered a small human bundle lying on j a chair ut the next table. "Well, well, here's a likely looking r little craft in trouble," he said. "Stand B by to tip 'em a warp. We'll take the [ e little eloop In tow." j j So he gathered up the baby, sixteen B mouths old and lusty as to voice, into v his arms, called the waiter and ordered a steak for two. 1 ( The waiter, who didn't seem to know j who owned the baby, thought steaJk ' ( was too strenuous a diet. So the sailor I i agreed on a compromise to feed his r as Hi Sq i I (^v ."T I Ordered a Steak for Two. < find with a teaspoon, UBiag encourag- , Ing nautical terms the while. Tho waiter ventured a timid inquiry ' as to wlyit his guest intended to do ( with the baby. I . "Do?" roared our hero. "Why. I'm t going to take her aboard ship and we'll j raise her for a mascot." j j Outside a drug store he hove to and ? i finally made Into the store. i "Fix mo up with dunnage for a craft < like this, will you?" he said to the druggist, displaying the baby. So he was given a bottle and a | whole lot of other things, and then he made all sail and rolled his way j contentedly to his lodgings on Fine 1 j Street, the baby sleeping with its tiny ^ head cuddled confidingly into the hoF , low of one brawny arm. Hut the baby didn't go aboard ship. Mrs. Frances Kmery. wire of Owen Emery, employed on Goat Island, and mother of the baby, whose name Is | j Natalie, was given back her baby j ; after the sailor learned through the I papers of its parents. i | It seems that Mrs. Emery left the baby iil care of u male companion while she xaa shooting in a Kearny Street gallery, and the companion in : turn left the baby in the restaurant. h The advice the sailor gave the for- c getTul mother about leaving "helpless 1 little craft like itini - ' ....... mj tun ui umiu was ! nautical and to tb.j point. LAUNCH BIG U. S. WARSHIP ' I Dreadnaught Oklahoma Will Be One e of the Most Powerful Vessels of the Navy. c Philadelphia.' Pa.?The dreadnaught v Oklahoma, launched from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company at Camden, N'. J., will be one of the I largest and most powerful ships that ' has yet been floated for the Amerij can navy. A sister ship, the Nevada, w | i? under construction at Qulncy, Mass. f The length of the new giant sea tl ' fighter is 583 feet and her displace- II i ment will bo 27,500 tons, or 500 tons ]< I greater than the largest American li ! fighting shin now nflno? ? Jl In both nrmarnent and armor the u | Oklahoma will be far abend of proa- 01 ent American ships. Its principal C weapons will be ten 14-inch Runs, cap- tl able of firing shells weighing 1,400 n pounds. 1r The armor belt Is especially heavy, j Ic It is 13% Inches thick and will extend un 400 feet along each side of the hull es from eight and one-half feet below the 1? water line to nine feet above the wa- ?( ter. There are two protective decks tr to guard against plunging fire, one lr three Inches thick and the other of ti one and one-half inches. b< How to Quiet a Woman. si New York.?To present a woman oi from screaming, catch her by the Hi throat and choke her Into submission, tc ta the rule laid down by a burglar s in textbook captured by the police here. p? I 1 I^WjBjB fcKKM, MMffi$ J^grg Compulsory Education Regulations and Illiteracy ?ASHINGTCN.?Although 6lx states In the Union are still without compulsory school-attendance laws, and four others have laws that apply only partially, definite progress uuiiu?r f \ the past decade Is reported In a bul' I (AffT \ letln just Issued by the United Statee 00 THIS J ftrSk bureau of education. Since 1905 eight yJ'ftMt'LE/ states previously without compulsory Y|Ty laws have adopted them, and It Is thought to be a matter of only a few I ,V " IT years when compulsory school attend|f g- y/L . /-V I once will bo In effect In every state ?Jl -f' \ it A / alu' t?rrltor>' of the United States. J (J-\ll [y f).\\ ??(,W stx stat.es still without compulr' /v^ ** sory school laws are: South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi nd Texas. The four local-option states, where the law is in effect In cerain counties only, are Maryland, Virginia, Arkansas and Louisiana. The bureau's investigation of the subject reveals a close connection beween lack of compulsory attendance laws and illiteracy. The states rank n percentage of illiteracy very much In accordance with the length of time ompulsory schooling has been in effect and the completeness with which t is enforced. The states vary widely in number of years and amount of attendance equired each year. The period of compulsory attendance is from eight to welve in North Carolina and Virginia. In most states it is eight to fourteen i in let:ii. me present tendency Is to rnlse tho upper limit of compulsion, n 17 states the compulsory ago limit is sixteen years or above; in Idaho It s eighteen. As a general rule, however, children in all these states aro illowed to leave school nt fourteen years of age It they secure employment or lave completed the eighth grade In school. There Is a constantly increasing ITort to safeguard the child between fourteen and sixteen years of age, the erlod of special importance for the vocational preparation of most children. As little as 12 weeks of school attendance during any one year may bo equired in Virginia. Oklahoma, Delaware and Nebraska, while in Vermont ind other states there r ust bo 150 or more days of actual school attendance ivery year. Many states require attendance "during the full time school is n session." which may mean anything from 41 to 104 days. Some states iecuro attendance during long terms by conditioning state appropriations ipou the number of days of actual school attendance. A variety of exemptions are found in the laws of the different states, 'onnecticut and Arkansas will not enforco the compulsory attendance law If tho parent is not able to provide proper clothing" for the child. Physical >r mental incapacity is a general exemption; another customary exemption s remoteness from school facilities. Occasionally exemptions are made on eligious grounds. Thus the Michigan law exempts children from compulsory Lttendance between the ages of twelve and fourteen while in attendance at ontlrmation classes for a period not to exceed five months in each of the wo years. Some Visitors Uncle Sam Does Net Want rilK recent seizure by the New York customs authorities of tho village of meadow ants which Mrs. C. W. Morse wished to bring with her from Ouropo is only an episode in the perletual war waged against undesirable ^ ^ mmlgrants. human, animal and veget- liMtiHG I ible. Mrs. Morse's village, like the ( \ thocF" \ . fortnight beforo, was probably a by- ^ 'h'^l iroduct of the Increased Interest In V^S v ''"'' lr^7 lature study, bat the United States f\V \ ^ ;overnment not only discourages such 1 _L-^@9lik /p'.''rv^i Ids to amateur research but absoluto- \\\\ ^ y prohibits them, lty a law passed wSJH i\\ I' n 1005 the importation of living In- it?rrv * ects into this country Is forbidden ind there are other laws which regulate no strictly the Importation of larger mimals that in many cases no discretion is loft to the authorities. Nevertheless tourists and amateur scientists are continually endeavoring o Introduce additions to the flora and fauna of the United States which the 'nlted States is happy to be without. It Is estimated that fully one-half of he pests that afflict farmers and stock have been imported from abroad, nany of course by accident in the course of commercial shipments, but some trought in deliberately by misguided enthusiasts or thoughtless travelers. The classic instance of misguided enthusiasm is the introduction in 18C>5> >f the destructive gipsy moth by a scientist named Trouvelot. Trouvelot. a Yenchnian by birth, an astronomer in Harvard; unfortunately he was also m ardent entomologist who had devoted much of his leisure time to the consideration of the silk worm industry, in an evil hour he conceived the dea of breeding a hardier worm which might withstand the diseases which hen were ravaging rearing establishments in Franeo, and In pursuit of this purpose imported some gipsy moths, intending to cross them with some of he native specleB found in the United States. It so chanced, however, that ie left the window of his study in Medford, Mush., open one day. When ho ?turned a mass of eggs laid by tlio gipsy visitors had disappeared?apparjntly it had blown out of the open window. At tills point Trouvelot's experiments stopped. Their results did not. They are still with us and have ;ost the country millions of dollars. J Everything Was All Right Except the Logic, FORM Kit Senator .toe Rlackhurn, now in the city, is bringing to light a 'lot of forgotten anecdotes of the day when a black slouch hat simply had to be worn by a statesman?otherwise 'ruA*J\^.r\ ho *aB no ?t all. When|nuvJf ] ("I '/y ov,?r 1 lo?k the coterie ef fa ?,en ?? hil1 nowadays who wear ">F r>Z^y Y"_ brown derbies, I wonder how far along J; iS they would have gone in the old 1 ' 0 s A ' w Co^^rfws^ ?* black slouch-hat days. HftT YOU zK^^ir ?, Anyhow, tliis liitlo story comes cOuld I i r, from Senator Blackburn, lihotg? I LL?J When Charlie Towne of Minnesota bl Ant) fin was In the senate, serving his 28-day term by appointment, ho made a speech. Sort o' short time to get In a ipeech in the senate, but he did get it in. It was a rip-snorting speech, full f wit and blood and thunder, just the sort of speech that you do not hear ivory day in the senate. It was a criticism of the Republican policy In the | Millippines, and to tell the truth a lot of Republicans were secretly tickled >ver it, but just didn't dare say so. Among those present was Senator >epew of New York, who just thought to hiniselr he would tako a crack at tiat brand-new 2fc-day senator. When Towne had closed and his trlends were rowding around to congratulate him, up inarched Senator Bepew. "A magnificent effort," lie said, "a wonderful speech. Your diction waa le'gant, your delivery forceful, but your logic was execrable." ' Hut Towne was not overpowered by this. He smiled as he returned tha ompltment. "Thank you, senator, for your appreciation of the things in iny speech /hlch you could understand." Buy Coal for Poor With Climbers' Leanup FunH J ? ? JERK Is a story thnt Is "right so," as they call It down hero, and, being 1 true, of course, will scarcely bo believed; but if tho people who have tioueand dollar bills where these dores r.ToCir lg when cold weather comes. It Is ( #*^ (!l j Jy y .. ~ g^Y ist the story of one John Parks, who rn&\ FAR sed to be a deckhand on a liner He h*jlj/i sofifc amo to town laat fall and Joined tho C^S^^j"~7}vVr(^rVJ P0OP. Iimbors' league down at the Salva- iji 7/i LoX' ' Famu if I on Army hall in Pennsylvania ave ?! U V / '<*1 ' uo. The idea ot the Climbers' league ft \ ! to seo which member can stay X^iL- gj ingest on tho "water wagon " F'ach ?\J " icmber is employed hv the army and ach drops a nickel into the leaeue tre?siiri> ...?.. . .. * ?'-?* in mo spring the ague given & banquet with tho nickels saved in winter The nickels ^cumulate rapidly, as forty or fifty men belonR to the league When the easurer reported at a meeting recently that the members had saved $15 i nickels prospects of a fancy "banquet" were bright. The "banquet " bv le way. marks the end of the winter and the departure of the league memprs for the highways. Hut John Parks upset tho program at the meeting e got to figuring on that "women nnd children first" rule and ho made a ^och. The burden of his words was that he didn't think a hunch of "bums" Jk ight to buy a "banquet" when women and children needed food and coal arks made a motion that the $15 saved by tho league be used to buy three ma of coal. The motion passed unanimously, and as a result Major Evane t charge of the army, bought the coal and distributed It between several >or families. Cmild there possibly be a more glorious charity than this?