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AN EXPERT GUN CREW OH THE MAINE AIMING AT A TARGET.
TRAINING GUNNERS
IN THE NAVY
Our Battleships BreaUag ill lectrfc
ia Storting at a Target ? iaa
Kilters Setatei Alter KgM Trial
?A Foreign Experiment ia Sfcnatiag
at a Battlaiip ? The Yalae nf
Target Practice;
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By Unit. Cm. ALBERT BUAVEt,
OtmuMdlBi V. 8. Mayflower.
REVIVAL of target prac
tice dates from the Spanish
American War. Up to that
time adequate attention had
not been paid to the neces
sary training to produce ex
*rcn trulls in any navy lu the world,
except possibly the French and Itus
alan. Since that time, England and
Germany have made Important
Ranges In their systems, and In the
United States target practice has been
carried on so arduously that recently
the American gunners established the
best records that have ever been made.
The Wisconsin first broke the record!
*nd later the Texas shot even better.
Target practice In our navy Is as old
?a the guns. We always devoted much
time and. attention to the guns, and in
?o doing we acquired a world-wide
reputation In all our wurs for excellent
?hooting.
In the beginning of the new century,
where the Infant navy of the United
Statea first began to make Itself heard
In the West Indies and on the coast of
Barbary, target practice?not the
?cientlflc drill of to-day, but none the
less target practice, including shooting
At.beef casks?became throughout the
nary ? part of every ship's routine
and our sailors were thus for years
kept in training until the great strug
gle came with the acknowledged
champions of the ocean. Up to that
time only one English ship, the Shan
non, had target practice, or put sights
on her guns, and her reward came one
?ventful June day In Boston Bay
ninety years ago. when she fought the
Chesapeake.
The necessity for target practice was
taught for all time on the bloody decks
of the Guerrlere, the Macedonian, the
Java, and the Peacock. It matters not
whether the gun In vogue is a cnrron
ade, a Dahlgren, or a modern high
powered rifle; unless It can be made to
hit the target, It is absoIut*Jy useless.
But it was not until tlie battle of the
Yalu, in the Chinese-Japanese War,
that heavy gun-practice was serlousiy
considered. The value of the practice
was proved at Manila and Santiago.
The search of foreign experts for the
best way to hit a mark resulted In the
present system of target practice, gen
erally the same In all navies, and
brought to a high point of efficiency in
ours.
'J'8 ?n,Jr haIfthe work to arm and
equip ships with the most Improved
*u"8 "nd 8'8&ts; they must also have
a highly trained personnel capable of
manipulating guns, turrets, and tor
pedoes. When China found herself nr.
rayed against Japan she offered $500
cash per month for skilled gun
pointers, but. In all great navies, gun
a?,tfa,,lod' n?t bought, and
'" ?""18'"? "?*,or
How does a man become an expert
runner? Diligent drill and consiant
training are not enough without a cer
tain amount of natural aptitude One
man after another is tried. A few
flays' drill in the turrets eliminates all
Wccpt the fairly promising. For the
talent of eye and nerve which marks
the born gun pointer the Government
fi* ?9 /ro.H to *10 * month In addi
tion to the man's regular pay. This
premium is not confined to any race,
creed, or color. On one vessel in the
navy one of the gun-pointers Is a
negro.
v "Selecting gun-pointers Is one of the
most important duties in the navy.
Having selected the men for gun
pointers, the next step Is to train them.
Two methods are now In vogue, both
having the same principle, but differ
ing In detail. In the old days of sails
and smooth bore guns, the Invariable
rule?and the only rule the fcun-cap
tains knew-was this: "Fire at the
top of the downward roll (Just as the
?hip begins to roll toward the target),
?ad aim at the enemy's waterllne."
This rale lasted far Into the age of
?team and turret gurts. and has only
recently been supplanted by "continu
ous slm-flrlng," or the art of keeping a
gun trained on the target regardless of
Ihe oscillations of the vessel, during
the Whole or a portion of the roll.
Only one person In five uses the tun
Bel built In London for crossing the
?treat near the Bank of England. The
?thera prefer to take their chances
among the horses and vehicle*.
SILENT BRIDES OF KOREA.
Newly Mate Hub and Hay Not Hear
His Wife's Voice For Months
Alter His Vlarrlafe.
Here la a picture brought from the
far east only a abort time ago wblch
shows exactly how the "silent brides."
as thooe of Korea are called with so
much reason, look on the wedding day.
It may be said that although the robes
depicted therein remind one somewhat
of Japanese garments, the broad girdle
with Its enormous knot at the back,
which Is formed on the Island girl's
klmona. Is not a part of the Korean
belle's decoration, while the sleeves
edged with deep white bands are much
larger than those worri across the
straits.
The headdress, a most important
part of the quaint outfit. Is peculiar to
Korean brides. Made of heavy cloth
carefully quilted and stiffened with a
sort of canvas lining. It covers all ex
cept a very little of the hair and rises
about a foot above the head. The
large wooden pins at the back hold
the headgear securely in place, the
ribbon falling over the left shoulder
being decorative only.
Dressed In this costume the young
woman who. since her parents have ar
ranged all her marriage affairs, per
haps never has seen her future hus
band. Is led before the priest for a
ceremony which probably has no equal
for simplicity. At a word from the
priest the contracting persons bow to
each other slowly and solemnly and?
ail Is over! Then the bride goes home
to await further orders, while the hus
band. gathering about him all his
friends and acquaintances, departs fot
an elaborate feast, which be gives In
honor of himself.
Once married the bride's family
Identity at once sinks before her new
name and she Is never known except
as So-and-So's wife. Her chief duty
Is to attend strictly to her own busi
ness. not speaking except when neces
r
KOREAN BRIDK IN BRIDAL GOVTS,
ftury. So (Irmly is this virtue im
pressed upon the young girl's inlnd
that several months often pnss before
her husband benrs his partner's voice,
and where a father-in-law is one of
the family whole years of almost abso
lute silence are saiil to elapse. Since
the son bas no say in choosing a wife
or a daughter In choslng a husband,
the parents are held responsible by the
community for the proper marriage of
their children. If a man allows his
son to reach the age of twenty unmar
ried bis neighbors consider him sadly
lacking In his duty to his son.?Kansas
City Star.
Tobacco For Kifort In Future.
"No more strips will be shipped to
England," said T. B. Auchterlonle, of
Liverpool, who Is an official of the
American tobacco trust and represents
that concern In England. "The export
of tobacco strips Is practically at an
end. The exporters cannot afford to
ship the stripped leaf when the un
stemmed leaf can be entered at Eng
lish ports six cents lower. Leaf to
bacco will be the thing for exports
after this. And the North Atlantic
ports will not lose the business, either.
The rate In that direction la ten cents
a hundred higher, I will admit, but
ten cents a hundred pounds Is noth
ing In comparison with the more rapid
time which cau be made by the North
Atlantic ports."?Louisville Courier
Journal.
A Ltpm' MlMlon.
The Presbyterian Mission at Canton,
China, carried on a work among lepers
which was originated by a poor bliud
and lame slave girl. This girl was
brought to the mission for treatment,
and abandoned by her mistress when
it was discovered that she had leprosy.
She was converted before she went
to the leper settlement, and after that
she became the centre of religious In
fluences that have succeeded In reach
ing large numbers of these outcasts.
An extremely fine quality of green
leather made In Turkey Is manufac
tured from the skin of the angel flsh.
SANITARY SOAP SERVER.
Prevents Contamination and Cuts Dotra
Expense.
In tbls day and generation, when the
enormous importance of sanitary con
ditions is so well recognized, it is diffi
cult to reconcile the Indifference of th?
public to numerous transgressions 01
tbe laws of byglene and sanitation that
are encountered dally. Soap In office*
and otber semi-public places may b?
SANITARY SOAP SKRVKK.
cited as an instance. Powdered soap
receptacles that furnish the user with
a sufficient supply of soap without in
dividual contamination are offered in a
number of forms, but they are only oc
casionally met. The Illustration shows
nn English type that has been adopted
In the houses of Parliament and in
many English hotels, which otherwiss
are notoriously behind the age In con
veniences and comfort. The soap la
put ifp in the form of a circular bar,
perforated through the centre, is placed
on a spindle and inserted through th?
top of the cylinder, which Is locked to
prevent pilfering and meddliug. The
end of the spindle which passer
through the soap is cut with a fine
thread, and Is connected with a modi
tied catchet wheel carrying four flnt
saws crossways at the bottom of thf
apparatus, which Is open. By turnlni
the cylinder the saws are brought int<
contact with the bar of soup, cuttin;
away line granulations, which dfof
into the haud placed to reeeive them
This sonp cup. the manufacturer'
claim, effects a saving of seventy-tlvi
per cent, in the amount of soap ordina
rily used, besides possessing essentia
sanitary advantages. Somewhat slinl
lar devices have been introduced it
this country.?Philadelphia Record
BARON ROTHSCHILD,
Head of the Banking Firm of N. M
Rothschild and Noun.
Baron Rothschild Is one of the lead
Infc financiers of the world, and head
of a Arm controlling a chain of hank
Ing hpunes throughout Enrope which
wield a powerfnl Influence in the af
fa Ira of the world. It has been openty
stated several times that no European
country can go to war without first
consulting the Rothschilds. For ovei
a century, the operations of the
Rothschilds have been startling in
their magnitude. Their achievement
Is due to family adherence. The mem
hers of each successive generation are
received into the co-partnerablp, and
the cousins, like crowned heads,
usually Intermarry, and, as their Im
mense wealth Is being continually aug
mented by safe and profitable business
methods, the. firm may last as long as
sitm* royal dynasties
PLUCK. K&MAHCC
MHO ABftHTURE.
FOUND bbidb on cactus.
D
MNTZ Maud Howland. of
Mew OrlNU. is married,
but tka H?nt would not
hare taken place just at
this tfaM had It not been
for am Arizona cMtu plant and Wii
JUmm L Anderson, ber rescuer.
Becontiy Mlsa Howl and went to
Pboenix, says tip Pittsburg Dispatch,
to visit her slater, lira. Henry V.
Thompson. Near that cltj la a cactus
farm and on thla farm one daj Maud
Howland stood upon the back ot her
saddle horse, eating the fruit from a
cactus plant. It was delicious fruit,
aa red and as sweet aa a strawberry,
and Just about the slae. But It grew
so high she feould not reach it from
the ground.
As Maud Howland was busy with a
cactus berry something untoward took
place. A big fly hit her horse; he gave
a leap'and ran away. Miss Howland'*
skirt caught nud there she was ma
rooned high aud dry upon the cactus
plant, with her skirt hooked over a
big mine on the desert plant. That
was the beginning of her romance.
Maud Howlnnd Is the daughter of J.
William Howlnnd. of New Orleans.
He Is a cotton broker there. Mr. How
land, by selling short when 8uliy be
gan to fall, gathered in another mil
lion only a few mofiThs ago. Indeed,
he Is admitted to be one of the coterie
who manipulated the downfall of the
last cotton "king."
Until March Miss Howlnnd was
among the pupils at a fashionable
school in New Oceans. In March,
however. Miss Howland told her father
she wss tired of school, and packed
her trunk and went to Phoenix, A. T.
No one would suspect Phoenix to have
attractions for a society girl. Few
young men there wear evening clothes.
Instead, they have sombreros, fringed
trousers and top boots. But one thing
nenr Phoenix is to be found nowhere
else in all the world. It is the cactus
farm.
Here Dr. R. E. Kuntz. the noted
naturalist of New York, gathers cacti
from all over the Southwest, and makes
them grow to enormous size and into
outlandish shapes.
Some are twenty feet tall and fif
teen feet in diameter; others look like
overgrown hitching posts all covered
with mossy spikes. From March 15 to
May 15, they shoot out rose-colorcd
flowers and grow delicious fruit.
This remarkable farm preseuts an
amazing spectacle In April. As far ss
the eye can reach, for hundreds and
hundreds of ncres, all one can see are
gigantic cacti bristling with ferocious
spikes, a background of deepest green
set off by gorgeous bloom.
It was here Maud Howland spent
the greater part of her time and her
accident befell.
As her horse made his leap the
dainty girl from New Orleaus?with
a* red ripe berry betwixt her lips?flew
into the cactus plant. And there she
hung, her riding skirt speared by a
great big spine.
Now, a close neighbor of Dr. Kuntz
Is William L. Anderson, also of New
York. Mr. Anderson lives in Arizona
partly because the climate is suited
to his health, and partly for the reason
that he likes to ride about. He owns
a cattle ranch.
As Mr. Anderson rode through the
cactus farm on tlie way to see Dr.
Kuntz he heard a sweet soprano
scream. He could not mistake; it .was
a woman's voice, but what could she
be doing in such a spot? He hastened
over to where Maud Howland made a
picture at once appealing and mys
terious.
In the first place she was about six
feet from the ground. How had she
got there. In the second place, what
was she doing on Dr. Kuntz's cactus
farm, anyway? Obviously Dr. Kuntz
did not approve. Into these questions,
for the moment, however, he was too
gallant to inquire. Instead, he set
about getting her down.
In removing a girl from a cactus
plant the fundamental rule to be ob
served Is gentle care. Anderson ele
vated Miss Howland as best he might,
then he let her down again. She stuck;
the spine had spoared clear through
the riding skirt, and refused to set its
prisoner free. And the more he tried
to move her the more uutenablc be
came her position.
Forlorn hopes are undertaken under
other conditions tlian war. Anderson
soon found the situation one that only
a Jack-knife could relieve. So after a
little time Miss Howland was lifted
tenderly to the earth. Then the clever
tailor and rescuer caught her horse
and escorted her to her sister.
Now, Miss Howlnnd was the most
benutlful creature Anderson had ever
seen since journeying from New York.
The accident occurred on a Wednes
day; on Thursday he called; on Friday
they rode through the cactus farm; on
Saturday he callcd again. Within ten
days the engagement wns announced.
The wedding took place recently In
New Orleans.
But It Is not often on? can pick a
MlllionM'-"-- bride from off a cactus
plant.
A REVIVAL OF WHALE FISHING.
In an article which preseuts all the
thrilling interest cf some of the old
talcs of voyago and adventure in whal*
lag ships, the Toronto Globe notes the
revival of the whaling industry by the
people of Newfoundland.
Iustead of two and three year voy
ages in which ship's boats are used In
capturing tho giants of the deep, the
Newfoundland Industry is prosecuted
la tho immediate waters of the island
by tho use of small but handy steamers
of about 130 tons burden, with a speed
of about thirteen knots. The "strike"
Is made with a bor.ib flred from a gun
at the bow of tho steamer. A success
ful shot results in almost Immediate
death, and three, forr, and even five
whales a day have been taken by sin
gle crews. One steamer brought to
tbe shore five whales each day for
Uiree days in succession, and another
one killed twerty-tbrce In a single
week. That Is the purely commercial
side of the Industry, and Is quite as
flrll aud prosaic as digging potatoes.
? But Uiwa is Tnn hnM tUAa which U
?* thrill *ad exdtHiMt Tak^
Si?"? !t bears a boat th? NO*
Z u^on ibJ, "Tf eXClti?* MUM.
or typon fishing that those sports I
*? tb* Pursuit of ths shoes clam '
whlle ftr^? a 9l toot *>*"
?p
days bsfors a killing shot coold be
Kln^. t^U-fa** h?**" R?wsedw?.
fir^hI U^IOUt the ??** f*"?d ts
i ?on*tw- Agsin and again hs
Si JESS? ?fiT by the ^cknes. of I
of fiIr?T *eventy-four hours
? kHUo,'^0"' f..
afr^T^T ."d.K* hoar
Th^ShTt ? "?th<kr off C*P? Spear
w7?k . ? nlneteen-hour fight
?,n? ^?"i00ter- 8I* to twelve hour
runs with danger In every minute of
ie?are fr?iu?nt When killed, the
whJirther<L.. .k?,A? "h?re 8tat,OM
wnere the oil is tried out. the whale
UeitnZJT0rtb*ab0at *12000 ? i?.
UP 2S23LT ,he tetU" ???
Four steamers are now st work lc
the coastal waters of the Island. The*
catches for last year were: Puma 2t?
? Cab0t' 211: Vlk,n* 107?'
a total of 803. a record-breaker in the
history of whale flshlag.
A WHOPPInTwIiaLB gT0KY.
v "Jfc?rdin* to the reports of the most
AtUnH08 U,arlner?- that portion of the
Atlantic coast from Florida to the Del
nuZt?S\ba' beC?me th* *?"'ot
if sorts of sea monsters. The Inti?si
?>nw"i* ">?r>r.hPro0t " C'P'?'?
win schooner Thoiua?
bT anT^ V* ?f a" the WtiH SI?">
l?y an honest son of the sea this skin
Per ? is tJle most inter?stin^ ims
Lot it be known that to sight a
mammoth '^habitants of the deen ?re
?port?"t to ?sr?ore. More than th's
jXt r1""8 '?"ccoui
Captain Conwell's whole story is but
37 lo 37.10 and longl,?de ? ,o tJC!
KJf Vumlr<"'8 ?Perm lb.)?, '
much in that, but Just think ?i inin
ute and see what ,, mean, "
bat for thirty miles ,ll(.re W?J
w?r?^je,us: ~rfvwh",M ,u
SSnl-B'-saB
And this swordflsh was as plnckv as
boam?l2Co't lu'wi^" 0ll! "" *"""
a school ?f /. " insn,?re clustered
-*r?est or the whales. And ?i? ti.?
SL*E T?Uy upon
oouies of the whales they were thriiil,i
?PPM?r among them the
srsr s; "clCrlT^r
^ttxrraars
Tho swordflsh could be plalnlr seen
akllTof a T,".", "f,er ,b""? ?'th thJ
of a deft fencer Mnnv ir ?h i
wfldered whales sounded, and 'hM
^apod the cruel darts of the sword
Ash. but those that had been pierced
?on began to spout blood, and then
for yards about the surface of the ?ea
^ked0nonanneddi8.1' ^ The 8a,,??
Ihu tu f ama*<*' It seineed incre.1
havoc ?ne ^ C?U,d Work 8UC,?
v?2 8ti,II1 tliat deatl'y thrusting of the
i< ioiis i>lood-8eeking swordflsh con
tinned until tirincr u con
work il l 8 ?f ,t8 murderous
awnv 1,7" .80en to suddenly dart
attacked or^ wi? .Sc'l0?' had been
hflslp tft' ? , ?at wns ot It, made
f. to Joi" its fellows. As one of
the seamen said: "For a sea UgJt 1
"ever saw Its 0qual" * 1 1
A KESOLUTE LITTLE JAP.
A Korean vessel commanded by a
German ran down n small Japanese
passenger steamer in the Inland Sea a
few* days ago. Tho Japanese steamer
had no boats, and, seeing this, live
Japanese blue-jackets who happened
to be among the passengers clambered
on board the Korean steamer, forced
their way through the Chinese sailors,
who were calmly smoking their pipes,
lowered two boats and saved the lives
of forty-three persons left struggling
In the water through the sinking of
their vessel.
Among the rescued persons was the
captain of the lost steamer, who po
lltely asked the German captain to
put into the nearest port in order that
he might give information of what had
happened. The German refused,
whereupon the little Japanese produced
a lethal weapon and said:
"In that case, I roust kill myself,
and It Is my melancholy duty to In
form you that you must die with tne!"
The German captain immediately
changed his mind and did as requested.
FIRST MAN A SOLDIER KILLED.
The killing of a brother man, even in
battle. Is a painful thing to remember.
A soldier of the war thus vividly de
scribes his first experience:
"My first man I saw but twenty sec
onds, but I shall remember him for
ever. I was standing by my gun when
a Confederate Infantry soldier rushed
up.
"I whipped out my revolver and took
him through the breast. He tossed
up his arms, gave me the strangest
look In the world, and fell forward
upon bis face. He had blue eyes,
brown curling hair, a dark mustachc
and a handsome face.
"I thought the instant I fired I should
have loved that man if I had known
him. I tell you war is terrible busi
ness.M?Youth's Companion.
A Civilised Intllnn.
The first foreign venture of tho Brit,
ish Bible Society was to have part of
the New Testament translated Into
Mohawk by a chief with the extraor
dinary name of Tyonenhowkarawen,
but who finally reduced It to Nelson
and became a British officer and fought
this country In the War of 1812.
' News tf Merest
AFIO-AHEKICANS
FrMdman'i Aid ?eelety
A Ctadnmtl special says: The
preedman's AM end Southern Educa
tional Society has elected the follow
thg oMeers for the Maohif year:
President. Bishop John M. Walden;
Tlee president. Bishop Henry Spell
meyer. Bishop L. Wilson. R. 8. Rust
and W. F. Boyd; treasurer. H. C. Jen
nines; assistant treasurer. Homer Ea*
Carnegie Negro Library.
Construction of the Carnegie library
building at Normal. Ala., was begun
during the past week and It will be
rushed to completion. Andrew Car
negie has given the Agricultural and
Mechanical college for Negroes the sum
of $10,000 for the library. The build
ing will be erected by students of the
mechanical department of the insti
tution.
? ? ? ?
Will Touch on Lynchings.
The subject of "lynching" will bare
a hearing before the general conven
tion of the Prostestant Episcopal
Church, which meets in Boston next
October. The discussion will be led
by Judge John H. Stotsenburg. of New
Albany, Ind.. whose friendship for tho
Negro has been of long duration, and
whose sympathies have ever gone out
to the oppressed. He will, by request.
Introduce, as a part of his remarks
the appeal to the American people to
suppress mob rule, sent out by the
National Federation of Civic Rights.
? ? ' ? ?
A New Immigration Scheme.
A press dispatch says another as
sociation has been formed for the pur
pose of sending a number of colored
fhmltles to Liberia, to find homes and
grow rich In the cottor^ belt of that
country. The headquarters of this
newest movement are located at New
*rk. N. J., and it la said that represen
tatives are to start this month to look
for a proper place for settelment and
to obtain some sort of concession from
the authorities of Liberia. President
Tlnsley, the head of the association,
desires the American Negroes to take
up the twenty-five acres of fine land
offered by the Liberia government,
together with ration, which will be
furnished to Immigrants until the
%xms begin to y.eld paying crops.
? ? ? ?
Enforcing "Jim Crow" Law.
The first conviction In Maryland un
der the "Jim Crow" car law, which
was passed at the last session of the
legislature was secured In the crimi
nal court at Baltimore a few days ago,
wnen Judge Wright found James Da
via, colored, guilty of violating the
terma of the law, and fined him $5.
Davis was arrested on board the
steamer Rock Creek while she was
lying at tho Baltimore wharf on a
charge of refusing to occupy the col
ored apartments on the steamer. In
Imposing the fine Judge Wright said:
"It must be understood that this
law must be explicitly obeyed. A law
similar to it has been declared consti
tutional by tho highest court in this
land, and citizens must remember
that Infractions of it will be punished."
? ? ? ?
Haight Forced to Resign.
A St. Louis dispatch says: Lieuten
ant C. Sydney Haight, of the Fourth
United States cavalry, military aide to
President Francis and director of the
military camps at the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition, has tendered his re
signation to the board of directors of
the fair upon the request. It Is said,
of the war department, which after
hearing the result of an Investigation
into the Negro problem at the exposi
tion. ThlB Investigation was ordered
by President Roosevelt, it is said.
The resignation of lieutenant
Haight is believed to be the direct re
suit of trouble created over the Eighth
Illinois, a colored regiment of Chicago,
which was originally assigned to the
regular military camp at the fair. It
was learned later that the Eighth
Illinois was a Negro regiment and
Lieutenant Haight wrote to Colonel
Marshall, its commander, to ask him
If he would consent to occupy a camp
in a remote part of the grounds.
Marshall, In reply, advised Lieuten
ant Haight that his regiment had aban
doned Its plans to visit the fair.
Friends of the Negro regiment called
President Roosevelt's attention to tho
afTalr, it is said.
? ? * ?
Division of 8chool Fund.
The bill providing for the division of
the school funds of Georgia between
the races in proportion to the amount
of taxes paid by each Is not apt to pass
the legislature and become a law. It
will serve a useful purpose, though,
as a warning to the long-distance
friends of the Negroes that the pa
tience of the white people of the
south may some day become exhaust
ed and measures of this nature be
come the rule In all of the states in
this section. The southern whites are
the true friends of the Negroes. Kv<;ry
year since the restoration of the gov
ernment of thoir states to competent
hands there has been an increasing
large expenditure for schooling of tho
?olored people. Last year, It Is stated,
the total amount paid out In tho tou'h
for Negro education was $(>,000,000
practically all of which ^s n direct
tax on the white population. Ai<aln-?t
this there were expenditures of n few
thousand dollars by philanthropist* of
the north, many of whom are. through
Ignorance, Inimical to the Negro's true
Interests.
It would be an unfortunate thing for
the Negroes If the spread of anti
southern sentiment should develope to
such on extent as to creste a feeling
In the south that would bring about
reprisals of this charactor.
The mass of the white peoplo hav?
ktodllaat foeMb? to??4 tte Ne
ud an willing to bur the bur
4?as tmpoMd upon tkw tor their up.
ttfUng la the actU at
O^.
Rao* FriJ?diu? ?t the Fair.
n any w?r? lacking to
th? U.W. U ?
th* Uwlatau Pinbw BxpoMtloo
thick enough to ba out with a knife
? r*fu-al to admit the Eighth Illi
nois colored regiment certainly ought
to ropply It. A dispatch says:
OI*anlx*Uon h*d made pre
tlone t? attend the fair In all the
Panoply of war. Col. Marshall asked
that Quarters be provided them In the
barrack, occupied by other mllltla or
Sanlzatlons. In reply he was told that
ooJored troops could not be allowed
n the barracks occupied by white
troops nor could any protection of
?VrrmC^L?r ?ther garters he assigned
them. They could oome but they must
provide a camp and commissary out
fit of their own and go Into camp out
*lde *** srounda. The Indignant col
onel and his aides and line officers
appealed to Uncle Sam for redress,
filing attention to the brave work of
the regiment in the Spmiirt-Amerioan
^ it all rested
7 JS* fWr officials and he could
do nothing. They have abandoned the
trip.
This Is a disgrace to a fair that
pretends to be International In scope,
and to illustrate the progress of the
r * ***' ??c?ence and elements
of civilisation. The Negro press of
the country Is ventilating the condi
tion of things at St IjouIs pretty thor
oughly. and self-respecting Negroes
are BUying away from the place. The
ism*-" w** *fln? 8h?w
but it needs us a great deal more than
we need It. Those who wish to spend
a really delightful vacation will find
it well to go elsewhere.?Indianapolis
Freeman.
0rtl and VounB
Romping uses muscles in an unsv*
tematlc but a very thorough way
low B*bt0t S" through a vigorous pit
ustne ali ?th * *ame, ?f hor8e w'thou?
using all the muscles of your bodv
more or less. Best of aU d^J
breathing Is prompted. You find yoij
self out of breath, as you call It the
brIShi tm CXbaj,n? ?? d?ef
for them m exc*?ent practlc#
IupernoT.lly y P?0|"e br,!*,,le ^
The more you breathe deeply th?
more you will do so. That Is .if yot
take a cerUIn Ume each day t?
InTLni ViKOro"3,y tbat deeper breath
mg will soon become automatic and
you will And that you sre practlc",
l. when you do not intend to. Ths
angs grow used to expanding, and
Dwth,ng they enJ?y better
once they have learned the trick oi
It. Soon you wlU see signs of th?
chest expanding, the bust growins
higher and Armor.
Handless Fiddler!
Frank Clawson is the name of a
singular fiddler of Atlanta, who Is
without hands. Many years ago be
was caught in a blizzard and his arms
frozen so badly that both bands were
Hm?,ttHted, th? Wr,8tS- P?r * ,OD?
time the violin was silent and he sui>
posed that his fl dd I lag days were
over. He decided, however, to experi
ment. and. being a mechanical genius
he mado a contrivance of heavy wire
which would enable him to wield ths
bow. The fingering was more difficult
but by long prsctice ho trained the
stump of his left hand to make the
necessary shifts from one string tc
a"? ?tQe varyil)g positions,
ith the violin held in place by his
chin and knees and with the help of
his flngtrless arms. Clawson manages
to play bis old-timo selections with
nearly as much skill as be formerly
did.
Cireat 8ea Disasters.
Loss of the Russian flagship Petro
pavlov.sk at Port Arthur, with Ad
miral MakarofT ajd an estimated
strength of nearly 800 officers and
men, while a severe blow to Russian
prestige in the far East, is one of
those catastrophes In naval warfare
to which ar actual combatant is al
ways liable, though happily their oc
currence is not common. In 175t?,
when Ifawke did bang ?<fonsleur Con
flans" at Quiberon bay, Sir Edward
Hawke ordered his pilot to lay the
!i?yf! t?.!0r8e ot 100 Kuns- alongside
the Solell Royal, the French admiral's
flagship. Before this could be donu
another French ship. I* Superbe of
seventy guns, gallmtly interposed,
and, receiving her opponent's broad
side, went down Into the deep with
her colors flying and 650 soul* on
board. Her revenge, however, came
on Aug. 28, 1782. when the Royal
George sunk at anchor ofT Splthead
in a squalL
Mastolon Tooth in Tennessee.
A magnl-Jc-nt and perfect mastodon
tooth was unearthed at the Tennessee
Marble ctmrany rf property near Con
l ord a teff days ago. and was brought
?o Knoxvllle. where It has created con
yidernble curiosity. The tooth was
found in making a dam for the opera
tion of a hydraulic ram. The tooth is
a fossil, but Identically like the orlgl
. tw,,h " shows every Indenture
and -urface condition of a real tooth
It Is about seven Inches in length
across the crown and about four
22sWT T.1"'
Except where broken off near the
th?e >8'n broken places show
the hollow part of the t?>oth. It Is
??*} lhat the tooth *? ?*?? only
part of the mastodon to be found at
lllri .ihe tooth be,n* Probably
e p,ace !>y water.-Kno?
Villo (Tenn.) Journal.
Oreat Comet of 1861.
The great comet of 18fil was dl?
Covered by Teebutt at Sydney, Au?
tralla, May 13 of that year. On June
?9 and 30 it was discovered In Franc*
and in England. It was Donati'n
comet, bo named from tho fact that
It was discovered by Dr. Donati at
Florence, in June, 1858, that was cred
ited with having great Influence in
France on the vintage. It Is a fael
that that year was a favorable season
and the products were advertised at
"les vlna do la comet." This. Hk?
many other speculations on comet/
has no scientific basis.