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HE RESIGNED, j t ( General Gobin's Visit to Augus- J ta, Ga., Recalls Chivalry of < ! 1 A FEDERAL OFFICER Captain E, 0. Smythe, Who Was Courtmartialed Because Me Resigned ( Rather Than Persecute Defenceless Women and rilil.lr.n VIIIIUI VII. Apropos the ooming visit to the olty of General J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, as announced In Wednesday morning's Issue of The Chronicle, and his presence In the state last week, a reporter Wednesday chanced upon a bit of 'by-history of the civil war, 1 ltd the r to unpublished, that merits attention because of the interesting and unusual 3tory of the refusal of an othcerof a victorious army ,to participate in uo.ruel opi^-ession of a col que red peop'e. Peculiar h>eal Imprest is git-en the incident hy reason </?* the fact that the feder'i* othcer who took tills manly and courageous stanA, in the f?c3 of almost certain disgrace a.nd punish moot J las for a score or more years been an honored resident of Angusta and is no less a personage that the popular postmaster, Captain E. D Kmytho This a bit of Captain Smyth's record that Is not generally known ' to his many friends. ] It will bo remembered that General , Gobln commanded the Pennsylvania r regiment that was a member of the r corps stationed here during the Span 1 ish-Americau war. While at Camp f McK.er.zle Col. Gobln was elected to y an important state (lllee and is at L present lieutenant-governor of Penn- r sylvanla. He is a past commander of i the G. A. R.; and also had charge of r the state troops during the great an- s thracite coal strike in Pennsylvania a few years ago. While hire General Gobln had a number of fast friends among whom t was Captain Smythe. Put they had c become acquainted long before that t period. Tneir friendship was formed \ during the bloody strife that has been \ so aptly termed "the time that tried i men's souls. " And they o in a to know t each other is a peculiar capacity tliat ^ served to impress itself upon them i more than tl\e ordinary intercourse a between young otlicers lighting in the 1 same army would have done, as we ( brought out by general Gobln him- 1 self, when Captain Smythe chanced \ to meet him in Atlanta the other day, \ while he was in Georgia as a member c of the Pennsylvania delegation to An ? der.-onvil)e. *1 c "boys," said General Gobiu, grip l ping both of Capt. Smythe's hands in ^ a grasp of good fellowship, "look at]] old S my the here To see us now you i would never think that we once occupied the respective positions of defendant and prosecutor, tut It Is true, as he will himself alTirm. He was once i court-martialed and I acted aB judge- i advocate. However, he got through ] all right and ought to be proud of the i experience which, 1 may say at this ( dis ai ce from the trying times of the j sixties, but seved to emphasize and perpo uate a noble stano taken by bim ] foi '.be principles of humanity that t should merit for him the esteem of all j Southern people and hrave men every- { where." , s This trial referred to here by Gen- j eral G 'bin was one of the most mem ( orable experiences In Captain Smytbe's j career, While c'mmander of Company ( G, 90th New York Volunteers, he was { S'atlOned with his regimental Kjy y West, Fla , during the winter aud spring o 1803 It was there that the whole . fifair ocoured and Capt. Smythe still prosei ves and cherishes all the r p i i v !n c nnection with it, some of 1 which $re now sadly tattered from 1 handling and yellow with ago. He ' ha a c )i y of the whole proceedings l a Vi p u the v ar cllloe at Washing I ton, t e < rlginal copy of the c larges < and hpic licatious in the beautiful and 1 kgir.lo baud writing of the clerk, < typewriters oemg men unknown, < % winch wa> served upon 111 no, and of a < handbill, remarkable like those of the < present day containing tho order wl ich was the causa of the whole i trouble. In largo type It is headed "Attention!" and reads as follows: < "II' adqu triers, Island of Iveywest, i Fla. "U. S. Barracks, Feb. 17th, 1803. "General Order No. 10: "In accordance with Instructions received from Headquarters, Dep't of the South, the families of all persons (whit?) r.aiding within the limits of this Command, who have hut-bands, brothers, or ^ons In Rebel employment, will hoid ,hemsi iVt S In readiness to emha?k on toud of the first available Transport, for Ililtou Head, S. U., with a view of being placed within the re bel lines. "The heads of Mich families will report In person to the Headquarters without de.ay, Due notice will be given as to the Transport and time of sailii g "By oommand of "Jos S Morgan", "Col. 00th Reg't. N. Y. V ds. "Cimmandlnir Post." "W. T. Wooley, "Lieut, and l\?sv Adjt." The harshness of the Inhuman order i ;hat the families of Confederate sold ers be placed within the Confederate Ines aroused the indignation of all, ( )ven the officers of Col. Morgan's own command, and they held a meeting ihree days later to discuss the mat ter. After long consideration It was ieclded tha* there was nothing they jould do. However, C&pt. Smythc's jcnse of Justice would not submit to the proceedings, ami with characteristic frankness he declared, "Gentlemen, we (lid not come South to make war on women and children, but to tight for our country. This Is an un holy proceeding that I cannot stand for, and for my p-irt If I can't d > an/ thing else 1 will resign." Tills he did do and refused to withdraw despite the urging of Col. Morgan, who ac circling had him court-martialed. General Orders No. 118. dated "War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, March 24th, 18(ii," gives an account of the trial. It was during a general court-martial which was convened at Kort Taylor, March 28 1803, Major W. H. Gansler, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, pres d lng. Capt. Smythe was arraigned and tried on three different charges, Inoludh g live spccitlcatlons, alleging that he participated in a mutinous meeting, which did not attempt t<> suppress, which did not inform hh commanding i nicer of, that tendered bis resignation at a critical time, and refused to withdraw it when urged tie was fouud "not guilty" of all . charges and specifications save th< llrst epeellication of charge three (notwithdrawing his resignation when asked by bis superior cffloei), the re port on this future being "Guilty ex cept the words "insist upon Its being forwarded at a time when there wer< apprehensions of a general resist,unco ( to the execution of an order from { headquarters of tlic Department of f ibe South." , The f-0,1 lowing is the verdict: "And , ;he court .being of the opinion tuai ] jhere wa^ >ao criminality, dot s ther , 'ore acquit him." Cipt Smyihe war ( atfir reinstated to his old c mmand t It interesting to note that as i , esult of tills cruelty Col. Morgan was t emoved from c inmand of the punt j 'Ofllvjlal It cords of Union and Con ( ederafre Navies, Series 1. volume 17, t >age .*17(1," contains a copy of the irder and a r? quest for Morgan's re- j noval on account of lUi UUiuaulty b> t tear Admiral Theodore iUlley, com c Eiandlng the Eastern Gulf blockading n (juadrun.?Augusta Chronicle. r Death hist Of hakes. f According to tlgures complied by ^ ihe Lake Marine News bureau, toe a leath list on the Graet Lakt-s during die season now closing has been the leavlest of any year since big steel ressels began to he used on the lakn* C( \. total of 215 lives were lost. (> s ?bese, lid were lost during the ihret < treat storms of this fall. The remain f ng 99 were lost by falling overboard y >nd like causes. Durii g toe season of j, 904 only 49 lives were lost on the ^ *reat Lakes, this being the smallest t oss oimec )rci, ana only two or these B vore due to shi wrecks. LakeJJjEMe, i vhlch led the list of dead for a num a )f yearp, this season gave place to Lake u superior, where 95 sailors w r? ost, ns s compared with 40 for Lake 10Me, 38 8 'or Lake Huron, ,15 for Like Michi jan, 10 for Lake .Ontario, 11 for tht f, Detroit and St. Clair river passant, L ind 0 for the Soo passage e o Ju(Ik? Oaiy's Help up. ^ The Columbia Record says; Will v \. Teague, a white man was arrested f ast night In the mill villag by Oilicer Knox, on a warrant sworn out by II. t W. and J. J. Holloway, on thecharg* 1 )f robbing Judge Ernest Gary some i jlone ago. It wih be recalled that lome time ago Teague was arrested i 'or participating in a cutting all ay < ind at the time the police *uspbcied 1 dm of complicity In this hold-up. A f ihain found in his possession was 1 ihown Judge Gary, but. it could not be < dentitied and he was not held on this ( sharge. Teague claims that Will 1 VIeetze, another while man uow in jiil m the charge of robbing a drunken 1 nan, knows something of the hold 1 ip. i Olljjll f to tlnvc 1 t. Senator Stone, of Missouri, Intro ! luced a petition yesterday that calle' '??r a few words of i x, no .1-on, s&ys ; Washington Dsp.Gcii corresoonrioi t ] ?rni. i ? i ? - - - xmsisouooi my con .ntue i v'salr i the Senator. "1 think his case ?houlo se passed on favor bly w thouu t<? jlose scrutiny. President Olevelanvetoed many special ponsio s Hut 1 :lo not think President Ro ' eve tc . souslstentley veto a bill to tf1" .m In i urease of peuslon to Pulllp Ivorucoan [>f Willow Springs, in iny S ate, lie i is, an I said 89 years old. Nine years iKO he married a youiitf woman, as many old pensioners d), for the sake l>f wifely care and to bestow his penslen rights somewhere after death They have two lusty, bright boys." 1V1 ailn I i(iv<. Tii A Ik..i>. J. 1\ Kimbrough is a native of German town, Tenn., and was appointed to the naval academy by RepresentstlveM. H. Patterson of the Tjnth Tennesee dlstrlot. Relatives say that recent letters fn m y ung Ivlrubrough tell of some of his experiences at Annapolis. One letter states that a broomstick was drrssed In female apparel, and tlmt the young man was fojc^d to "make love" to the dummy. Hwi'co I1) i>{lnn Amuck. At EvansvllJe, Ind.; a switch ene .j umpf d the main tiaok on the Illinois CiiUtrU Friday m rning and ploughed into the f< ur story building of the Indiana Stove company at Pennsylvania avenud and Sixth street. It buried- the engineer and iheman in the wreck and their bodies have not yet been rescued. It is beli ,ved both ire dead. CHINESE DOCTORS POPULAR. Have a Lucrative Practice In Western Cities. The method of treating sick persons in some cities is similar to that of the other physicians of the United States and those of Great Britain. They depend much, nowever, on the examination of the jiulse. Their sense of touch is so wondertully developed that it is Baid they can determine the condition of tlie heart as well as some of the other organs merely by the feebleness or strength of the beats; but they say there are no less than twelve different movements of the arteries in the human body, all of which can be detected by feeling the fingers, wrist und arm, says an exchange. When a patient calls on him for examination, the doctor first presses the arm, wrist and fingers, touching nearly every part. Sometimes ten or fifteen minutes is occupied with this examination. Then he may ask if the patient is married or single, and also his uge; but this is about the limit of the examination. Apparently he can tell th# nature of the disease without questioning further, and if the caller wishes a prescription ho writes one in the ordinary Chinese characters on a generous sized square of paper. Kinging a bell, he hands the prescription to the Chinese attendant who enters, for each physician has his own ihop, lilled with the ingredients which le uses in treatment. If he has a large practice he may employ a native cheinst, who makes up the prescription. One of the curious features of Chinese medical treatment Is the way in which lue physicians administer their remedies. Nearly all the offices of the principal doctors have what may be sailed a tea room attachment. This is i spacious apartment, well lighted, freluently ornamented with oriental potery and pictures, and containing small ables, each with two or three chairs. 'f In.roll.l ? - . .....tuvi huco uvji wish to nine ma tiedlcine at home, he is ushered into hia room, and, while seated at one of he tallica, drinks hia proscription as ha would a cup of tea or a gbuss of wine. iVith but few-exceptions the medicine s in liquid form, and served hot in lainty Chinese bowls, for most of it is sovnpoRcd of a decoction of herbs. Each table contains a bowl of rnisna, and when the attendant brings in he medicine he also brings in a glass if tepid water. If the drink la bitter, ia it usually Is, the patient can oat onie of the ralMns to roniove the taste, vhile with the water ho rinses his nouth and throat. Then no is ready to ;o home, returning the next day for ,pother examination and dose. Charities of Joe Jefferson "There need he no surprise at the omparatively small estate left by Joeph Jefferson," said A. L. Erlanger, To be sure, the immense earnings rom his many seasons in 'Hip Van Vickie' and his keen sense of business 2d the public to believe that there rould be millions of dollars left when be great old man of the American tage died; but to those who knew of lie charitable side of his personality, nd the free hand with which he gave louey away to members of the profeslon who needed it, there should be no urprise that tills is not the case. . "I was associated with Mr. Jefferson or many years, and knew, probably, iiore about his charities than any one ise. In fact, 1 distributed thousands f dollars every year for him, without >eing asked to account for it in any vay. At the least call for aid Mr. Jeferson would say, 'Look up this fellow ?I used to know him?and if lie needs he money let him havo it; only he's tind of proud, so don't Jet him think t's charity.' "If 1 wanted to, I could toll you the lames of a dozen or more actors, some )f them now living, who received regular weekly amounts from Mr. Jefferson, ranging from $25 up to $100. The ate C. W. Couldock 1 used to pay $100 ivery week, and it was Mr. Jefferson's jrders that Couldoek should never want for anything. "Couldock was a peculiar old man, honest and candid, and a little tiling like $100 a week did not prevent his saying what he thought of Mr. Jefferson. Once Jefferson bought an apartment house up in Harlem, a fine, new building, then very fashionable and well appointed. " 'Couldock needs a good place to live," he said to mo. 'Furnish a nice apartment in the hops.j for him, and toll him to occupy it, rout free, with my compliments, just as long as ho wants to.' "1 sent for Couldock and gave him the glad tidings. Ilif gratitude was something surprising. lie stormed, fume 1 and swore, and finally blurted out in ill mo; t approved 'You are no longer a ohee?lid of mine* tone: " 'What! Live In a tenement on that old mi er's bounty 1 No, sir. No, sir. Never-r-r-r-r!' "He stalked out of my office, pounding the floor with his cane, and I never dared mention the subject to hiui again." The Power Behind the Puree. The determining factor in all modern life is money. The hand that holds the purse rules the world, though the spirit must regulate it, Man is the wageearner, but tbo purchasing power of the nation is in the hands of the woman?that is, among the only women who are of any account in the empire, the women of the middlo (in all its tiers) aud the lower classes.?London Mall. v Liberia exports about 50.000.00u gallons of palm oil a year. It is made from the outer part of the palm nut, not from the kernel. In Bangkok you travel from the steamer to the hotel on tho back of an elephant. ^ BALTIMORE OF THE FUTUREFireproof Structures, Widened Streets and Growing Commerce. The area ravaged by flames consisted of bu city blocks, or more than 14U acres, bounded by Ldberty, Baltimore, Fayette, Lexington and Gay streets, Jones' Fulls to the water irout and Pratt and Lombard streets, in Ibis section were 1,382 buildings, and with the exception of about 30 of them, every one was luid low either by ilauies or by city officials in fighting the lire, and the section, which beiore the lire hud been the finest in the business d?strict, was leit practically a teiritoiy or unimproved land, says the New York lleruld. Immediately after the fire Baltimore began planning improvements, livery street in the burned district was narrow and unable to accommodate the city's rapidly increasing trade, and the main thing planned was the widening of these streets. Haiti more street, the most important thoroughfare and the dividing line of the north and south streets, was not widened, though agitation of it held up Improvements on the thoroughfare for more than three months and it was several times beiore the city council. Business men who at that time opposed the widening and won their light have in many instance* admitted they were at fault, but too late. In addition to widening streets, the eity made provision for a large plaza on the west front of the court house, a building which cost nearly $4,000,000, and is considered one of the very finest of Its kind in the worm. The city has also planned to take possession of all the property south of Pratt street and extending to the water front. It will build new docks and will lease space on them to individuals and corporations, a system similar to that in vogue in New York city. With tlie property condemned for the improvements named, there were actually U5S lots upon which the habituation of the burned district depended, and on these permits for 44G structures have been issued or applied for. But as these t tti nnrmits: ill tmiiiv ciiBnc I'lin resent two or more lots, about 770 ol the 958 have been covered or will soon be improved with new uuildings. The tax assessments on all the buildings which occupied all the 968 lots in (he burned district before the lire amounted to $10,810,975, which Is $4,098,145 less than the declared cost of the new ones erected or now in course of construction. All of the' buildings are as thoroughly fireproof as man can matte them. It is doubtful if any city in the country has as many fireproof buildings at this time its Baltimore. In the construction only improved methods were used, and there are quit? a number of buildings about the city now that have not a particle of wood in them. Practically all of the new buildings have metal window frames, with metal sashes fitted with \\ .i e glass on the most exposed parts. A large number of the new buildings are of concrete construction. In tact, thoie are now more concrete buildings in Baltimore than in any other city in the country. Builders say that this has been found to be one of the best methods of construction, being solid its well as fireproof. Probably the largest building constructed of concrete In Baltimo is the new home of the Baltimore News. This building occupies a largo lot on the southeast corner of Fayette and Calvert streets, and has just been completed. One warehouse is now being erected which Is entirely of concrete, the ouside walls being dressed in a manner closely resembling limestone. In rebuilding the city the general tendency has been to erect buildings ol medium height rather than skyscrapers. Desnite the fact that tho fire demon strated that wooden pavements will burn, Baltimore has paved some of tier streets with wooden blocks since me fire. The wooden blocks have been used principally on the streets in tne vicinity of the court house, it having been found that they deaden tho sound of passing curs and wagons, which before the fire was a source of great annoyance. Most of the streets in the burned district have been paved with Belgian blocks, however. Durability of Tantalum. Although the existence of tantalum, the new material employed for incandescent lamp filaments, has been known for a hundred years, It is only very recently that the metal has been prepared in a pure state. This is effected with tho aid of the electric furnace. Tantalum combines extreme ductility with extraordinary hardness. When red hot it is easily rolled into sheets or drawn into wire, but upon being heated a second time and then hammered it becomes so hard that it has been found impossible, with a diamond drill, to | bore a hole through a sheet only one millimeter thick. Such a drill, working day and night for three days, at 5,000 revolutions per minute, made a depreslspn only a quarter of a millimeter deep, and the diamond point was badly worn.?Youth's Companion. Leather Railway Tieo. Leather is being used on the Russinn government railroads. All sorts of material liavo been used for this purpose, but chiefly tarred wood ami iron. No tie has given perfect satisfaction; the wood decays and the iron changes nnder the influence of temperature. It is expected that lmther ties will not be perceptibly affected by either air or heat, nor will they split when nails are driven into them. If leather ties prove more durable than wooden ones, they may in the long run be even less expensive. According to a French international > almanac the czar draws annually from the Russian exchequer $40,000,000. > . PHONE ON STEAMSHIPS. Lookout Will Convey Warning Over Wire Instead of Shouting. When the lookout In the crow's nest f the ocean liner of the future sights an object, in lieu of shouting ho will pen a copper telephone box, and say to the skipper through a transmitter: "There's a steamer's smoke ahead, sir. ! Two miles off the port bow. Four aiiles away.' James H. Hill's new steamship Dakota, the largest vessel ever built in America, and a replica of the Minnesota, now engaged in trans-Pacific commerce, is equipped with two distinct systems of telephones, connected with which are the newest wrinkles : in both general and marine telephony. , Telephoning at sea has never been a j success on account of vibration of the vessel, noise of machinery, the roar of the wind, and the admission of moisture to the parts. On board the Dakota one system is an exchange, with instruments in all the staterooms, women's saloon, smoko room, Stewart's department and executive officers' cabins. The telephone girl will bo in the stern. At command of her deft hand will be 150 stations. If a passenger wishes a steward he pushes a button. On the switchboard drops a target, disclosing the cabin number. When "Central" inserts the plug she looks for a red lamp. If the red light does not glow she knows that only a steward is wanted. If a passenger desires to talk the receiver is raised from the hook, the tiny electric lamp associated with tlie plug reddens and the girl knows that conversation is called for. Any lumber of passengers can talk togetner, conducting from as many different parts of tiie ship a general conversation. When the Dakota reaches her pier a line is run aboard, enabling passengers and crew to call up their friends ashore, or vieo versa. The second system is the "intercommunicating." The officers using this do their own switching. It will largely supplant the gong and jingle systems and the marine telegraph. It. extends between the navigating and engine-room stations. The stations are the bridge, the after bridge, crow's nest, port and starboard engine spaces, wheel-house, chief engineer's room, chief electrician's room, central electric lighting station and the dynamo shelf. The six exposed stations have waterproof instruments. The holding case is of copper. The talking and listen ing part are connected, says the American Syren and Shipping, so that all the officer, or sailor has to do is to put the receiver to his ear. To pass a hook up and down would admit dampness or water. Over the earpiece is placed a rubber cushion to shut out the throb of fluengines. In signals requiring the shutting of water-tight doors, engine control, communications from lookouts and delivery and receipt of messages, the intercommunicating telephone is expected to be of superior utility. A mechanical arrangement of the parts is designed to do away with mo oojecnonauie reature ot violation, which on ships has been the great bugbear in marine telephoning.?New York Mail. Raw Opium From the Poppy. The preparation of "raw" opium In North India is, according to the Tropical Agriculturalist, carried out as follows: In February, as a rule, the juice Is gathered, the poppy plant being then in full flower and of a height of three oij fqpr feet, each stem having from two to live capsules of the size of a duck's egg. Before the capsules are pierced the fallen petals of the flowers are carefully gathered and sorted according to condition, in three grades, and then are heated over a slow fire and formed into thin cakes, to be used for the covering of the drug when collected, j T,he piercing of the pods requires great skill, and upon it largely depends the yield. The opium farmer and his assistants each carry a small lancelike tool, which has three or four short, sharp prongs, and with this a half dozen perpendicular cuts aro \ made, In each capsule or seed pod of ! the poppy. The Juice begins to flow . at once, but quickly congeals. The day after the thickened juice is carefully gathered, being scraped off with a small Iron trowel, and the mass , thus gathered Is put Into an earth' i vessel and kept carefully stirred for j a month of more, great care being taken to havo It well aired, but not , exposed to tho sun. The material is now examined by export testers, who determine its grade or quality, and then the whole is put into a large box, where it is worked very much in the same fash- j ion as baker's dough, to give it the required consistency. Tho opium is , now made into balls for export. Tho natives wade about In the largo vats containing the paste like drug and band it out to hundreds of ball makers sitting around the room. Every man has a spherical brass cup, lined with poppy flower petals, before him. Into this is pressed the regulation quantity of opium. From this brass cup when properly pressed, the opium ball Is transferred to another man, who gives it a coating of clay. Tills gives the drug, when ready for shipment, tho nppearanco of a fair sized cannon ball. When well prepared In this manner, opium will keep Its properties for fifteen years or more. Before it can bo used, the opium balls have to bo broken up and further treatod. Tho religious revival In-Carnarvon, "Wales, has resulted In Its prohibiting tho landing of Sunday excursionists from Liverpool upon Its plors. DISCONTENT! OUR NAVY Jack Tars'Reasons For so Many Desertions From Warships. EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENTS Declare They Get Poor Food, Misfit Uniforms and Not Enough Shore Leave?Demands Exacted In Past Two Years Have Been Unusually Severe on the Jackies. Statistics show that desertions from, battleships in the last few years have been occurring at a surprising rate. In almost every port warships touchy blue jackets are unlawfully quitting the service. Within the last two years the crews of at least two American warships have been reported in a mutinous state. Bluejackets who do not desert or mutiny grumble openly whenever they get a chance on land to air their grievances. Dissatisfied sailors appear to be in the rule instead of tho exception, says the New York Tribune. To quote one bluejacket: "In the American navy there are good ships and bad ships. The former are known in tho navy as 'homes' and tljg^tter as 'madhouses.' The terms,?x^^juk> 4 explain themselves. I myself, I ant glad to say, am serving on a 'home,' where the officers are kind, tho 'grub' ^ good, and we get more shoro leave than on the other ships." "Grub" is undoubtedly the particular subject about which the sailoa? are most bitter. The revolting pictures they paint as to the grade of food served aboard would at first blush seem to bo drawn ireely from the imagination, but a score of sailors of different ships, separately Interviewed, told the same story, and among these was a cook's assistant of a first class battleship. Next to the question of "grub," there would seem to bo uo grievance which is causing more general discontent, throughout the navy than the matter of uniforms. The men interviewed were bitter over the present system of distributing uniforms to the enlisted men. They complain that they arecompelled to wear uniforms that do not fit them, under the present system; and here tne paymaster is the officer who is blamed. They are compelled, they allege, topay for tailoring alterations 'dit of their owii small wages (from $12 to $120 a month), and, to "rub it in," they are oftentimes punished by their captains for untidiness, and. no excuses ore listened to. "The uniforms, too, are made of poor material. We wear the suits as well as we can. Then comes tire captain along and oraers an inspection, J/nat uniform doesn't fit you,' says he. 'Have it altered, or I'll punish you severely.' That means spending half your month's pay, perhaps, to have the Uniform practically made over again. Then, when the uniforms aro washed they shrink, because of the poor quality of the stuff of which they are made. That means buying a new uniform, and it costs us $7 a suit. "The sailors complain that whilo the navy bltio book declares that for certain offenses men shall be punished either by confinement in a brig In double irons, by denial of shore leave or by fining, captains often sentence offenders to all three of these punish-ments. / "There Isn't a navy in the world where the sailors are punished for small offenses the way they are in the American navy. I have mixed with sailors of all nations, and I know what I'm talking about. The average American sailor Is more Intelligent than the fai'ors of other nations. We can see the injustice of the thing more readily than foreign sailors can, and yet we are punished more severely of all. When you punish an American sailor* unjusuy or wun too groat severity, you make a surly brute of him instead of man." That sailors do not get. enough shore leave is another assertion strongly advanced by Jack and given as a >\use for so many desertions. The tailors declare that the men are deprived of the right to go ashore w't^out any appuient cause or reason. O.'.e sailor d?claved that during a cruise of five months, in which his sh?.> had touched r-o.t twice, not a man aboard had been allowed to go ashore tor more than two nays in nil that tlras That "grog" is denied while afloat 1? another grievance against the service cited by Jack. Tie com tlains bitterly that 'n other navies the men are allowed a bottle of beer each day, and that as a consequence they do not get so drunk when they go ashore. He declares that many temperate sailors would be more satisfied with the service if they could have a little liquor each day, as used to be the c?-^|u the navy beforo "grog" was abo* ^bd. A severe arraignment of their junior officers is made by the sailors of manyships. According to the statement of these blueiackets. snohherv is mm. pant among these officers, and there is more class hatred aboard a battleship than ashore. The men describe the Junior officers as being in many cases< bullying, overbearing and haughty and evincing ill concealed hatred for the enlisted men, and declare that in no navy in the world is there such lack of sympfthy between officers and men tm in many warships of the United States* navy. ^ Shirt Pointed Out Dead Body. Verifying an old superstition, momers of a searching party in quest of the body of a drownod boy threw upon tho waters of the lake the shirt of th? missing lad, and found the article effective, where grappling iron frilled. The Rhlrt sank imediately, and in lea? than an hour the body rose to the surface, within two foot of the plac#> whe/e the garment had gone down.