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I e _____ ___ Ni ruM. I TRI WEEKLY EDITIOY WINNSBORO, S.C., OCTOBER 31, 1899. ESTABLISHED 1844. Mo LIFE ABOARD Ta* J touin on }\dmiral I Bugle's Fe\eillh JACK AT WORK NEW YoRK CrrY (Special).-The 'ife of the sailors aboard Admiral Dewey's flagship, the cruiser Olympia, is a duplicate of the routine peculiar to every other .boat in the United States Xavy. The discipline has not been relaxed'because the jack tars ac luitted themselves so well at Manila. On the contrary, an extra effort is made by the crew to hold by good be havior in peace the laurels they won In time of war. The men-o'-war's men af the Olympia are feted and petted 'while ashore, but once under the Ad miral's tye they return to the stern realities of life on the ocean wave. It is not a very fascinating or wildly ailarious life that of the man forward Da board a modern.warship. There is a monotony and sameness of things that eat into the heart at times, and it is only the excitement caused by a wreck or a storm or a series of battles like that recently experienced that lends a welcome air of diversion to the naval day. To rise at 5.30 to the harsh notes of a bugle and drum is the or der, except during the few winter months, when a half hour's grace 'is permitted. The "musics," as the marine drummers and buglars are called, are summoned ten minutes be fore time by the corporal of the guard. The two l.ads, rubbiig the sleep from their eyes, take their stand near the forward hateb, and, at the word from the oficer of the deck. break into the stillness of te_*arfmorning with an lnlerns ubbub technicelly known as "reveille." The hideous uproar speed ily brings a chorus of grunts and ~rII-G HO3IE. (O board the 1agship Oympia.) vawns, not unmixed with something -stronger, from the occupants .of the harmmock-crowded ' berth deck, and presently the-ladder leading above is .,. roigedwth half -clad figures mount ing upward in a ghostly procession. Each figure carries upon his shoulder his individual hammock, carefully lashed and fettere3. This he de posits in'the receptacles prepared for hie purpose, and then hies himself to his mess, where he finds steaming doi fee without milk and barely sweetened, bat ertremeiy welcome as an eye opener. The spotlessly cleau lecks of naval vessels ar- proverbial. This cleanli -ness, which seemed novel even to royal eyes, is the result of hours of hard, coastant work every morning on board cr' ship, in the service. It is to the executivi-..icer..that all praiE or blame in reference to the condition of r. ship belongs, and directly after the crew has had its early coffee he is on deck personally superintending the hlystoning and scrubbing and per hiaps painting. He relieves the officer oif the deck, who goes below for a light lauich, and then sees that the boat Smates and the captains of the different parts of the ship distribute their men to the best advantage. If it be wash day the crew is allowed to at tend to its laundry work before the scrubbing begins, for, be it understood, there are no "Hop Lees" or colored women in the nav-al service. It is seldom that the ship's cook, who has the exclusive privilege to make and sell--dried apple pies at twenty-five cents a pie, and the ship's '>r~er, who pursues his tonsorial art the rate of $1 each quarter for every an on his books, scrub their own clothing. They are rich enough to hire a needy landsman or coal passer to dto it for them. s the sailor's outfit consists solely of cloth or white duck trousers, fie n A -g does not call for skill or prep on; - or instance, if the article renovated is .the dlannel shirt, k s~euts a clearpart di the deck, THE OLYMPIA, me )evefs Flagship Fromrn the * to fipedown. AND AT PLAY sprinkles a little water upon the spot, then spreads his shirt, previously soaked, upon the deck. Then with salt water soap and a scrubbing brush he sets to work. A subsequent rinsing completes the task and the garment is fastened with bits of twine to the clothesline stretched from mast to mast. Holystoning decks and scrubbing / AT MESS ON BOAD ladders and gratings with sand and canvas continues until ten minutes of :. o'clock, when the call to "spread mess gear" is sounded by the boat swain's mate on watch. This is also. the signal to clean up, and each jackie grabs a deck bucket, gets his share of fresh water from the captain of hi3 part of the ship, and makes his toilet, which, if not elaborate, amply suffices for his needs. After the washing, the sailor's toilet consists of a vigorous rubbing with a coarse -towel-his own private property-and a hair brushing with the aid of an ancient brush and a small wooden-framed glass generally carried in the little chest, or ditty box, which jackie. At the stroke of- eight I c'- the call to '>reakfast i u, free i ty air au ,ll duce txcellent appetites, 2 podawdling in the race for the m tables on the bertlideck. -Breakfast over, the men have un 9 to smoke, then all hands are iurned to and the ship is cleaned up for quar ters. This latter ceremony is con ducted daily, rain or shine. During I AF THE LYA. teek .days the morning hours are generally dev.,ted to drill. A settled schedule is made out when the ship goesintocommission, and this is strictly adhered to. Each ship has 1its general quarters, fire quarters, collision drill, abandon ship, arm and away boats, broadsword exercise, or something of similar character, and from 9.30 until noon the decks are: alive with men under instruction. -Dinner is followed by a short rest, and at 1 o'cloch "turn to" is sounded again. During the afternoon five ING DRILL. days of -the week the crew is kept at work attending to the multifarious duties of the ship. Saturday after noon is considered a halt holiday, the smoking lamp is lighted, and if the shi is in poi the men are allowedI to see visitors aLd enjoy themselves so cording to their individua'r inclina tions. With mess-gear in the early evening, the working day ends. Sup- . per is followed by a period of re laxation until the mellow notes of the bugle sound tape, and the boatswain's mate's whistle echoes through the decks in the last call of the day "pipe down." There are many other incidents which go to make up the naval day. At sea, when the ship's company is divided into watches, the monotony is greater than in port. It is during the latter time, with the fleet at anchor off some friendly city, or when the ship is tied up to a dock in one of the home navy yards, that Jack finds his hours filled with variety and pleasures suffi cient to satisfy even his desires. It is then the liberty list-a potent term in the navy-is made out. To dis cover one's name on the liberty list 1//41 D THE OLIA. means shore with its fascinating at tractions, and if there is anything on this footstool the average sailor loves it is to "hit the beach" with a few dollars in his pocket. Sunday is, as far as possible, kept as a day of rest. After the morning scrub and inspection comes service by the chaplain. The old rhyme of Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able: On the seventh. holystone the decks and scour the cable. Is no longer appropriate, since all labor, except what is absolutely neces- n sary, is dispensed with. t To attend divine service, dressed in C 4 b ' 11 *"~l,?*i/14 BEBBE'SI ON TH LYPA t yn af h mot opla-mn bord heE NeR Yor mHaket. This OyPa. th The bestser one eara clasy rey themselves the disnt and eaenonh as o the ostoremenlar oen aboard,. ndThey rencnie in thimsano and it isn ato ishurerktale. o ern8 ofyhe er SOandn an9.1 Thr takes ahnre million oyerg al wkaytis the rest.I eens on bruhtei New York tuhsearothn dredl pra oieod e prificpe. Oteoe h s ohn u h knf siopysa h ose.Eiue decar thttiCpis t7u ytr me ahtfrtegnrltaei mae .ltl diffeence Ifashce ha be bruh upi-heSuh Eaiimoe r Nrflkfo intnch TSen iyer opees are anewas whe themsaefesh, systnc aclaisur (Ms. thesnshoree for'e liepub is a oortshafter that cildt iweaned, of tmearnage and t$9.nymoni her aet afte man widsow opemar riedste aaio the artie of arng ner tismn waytr the c It depends dpone eswhere and hbee briouh up chage teromn wousiohigbn h TALES OF PL!UJ ANDU AIWETUK A Dangerous ldne. Shut up in an old stean boiler with t bear and a rattlesnake. That was ha experience of Jako Aldrich a few nonths ago, and ho says it is the iglitest box he ever got into, and he ,as been in a good many. Jack is a )rospector n ho for over a year has yeeu working out in the moantains a ew miles from Diamond Springs, El )orado County, Cal. Nest where rake has becn working isan aban loned engine, with-aIl.the machinery, ncluding the boiler. 'The house that :uclosed the nichinery has all been >Iown down, so that the boiler stands >at in the open air. The boiler is one of he old-fashioned kind. without flues. Early in the year it struck Jske hat this boiler would be a pretty cod place to slep in, as it was warmi utd dry au.! periedtly impervious to he he-lvy rains that fall n itie vicinity. I ha took out the manhole gasket, hich was a big one, located at the ad of the boiler close to-the bottom, nd moved il. He found that it was just what he ad been looking for. Dark, of course, n t as warm as a house. By knocking Sa steam pi'e con'nection at the ther end of theboiler the ventilation ras perfect and no danger of getting ret. For months Jake ebjoyed his leeping apartment in tihe boiler and ras the enry of all- the miners for ailes around. Bot last01ouday night hers was trouble. Timt's when the >ar and the snake got iu. At least at's when the bear got in. When he snake got in is a mystery. It! 2ay have been hiberuating under! ake's blankets all wider for all he a.w s, but he does koW that it waC ere last Monday night. Jake went to bed aM his usual time -about dark-and aslhe night was a ittle warm concludil to leave the anhole open.' He ient to sleep in tautly, but some bars later was wakened by i qner sound at the na of the boiler. Y-Rising in 'Lis lankets, Jake reched for life aiierg' matches. Tisse are the kin hat will burn iveral miuntes riking one, he s for a momenti linded by the glar Then it flick- I red and w ' or he couldn't fiud'it. ie"t U ud there, all the ti ue conscious that e sniffling was esming his way. ;od sweat came out all over him ud a frenzy seized him. He wanted -ike a rush for the manhole, but.; mar held him to the spot. Then he felt for his matches again, nd this time ut his hand right on iem. Striking one, his horror was creased. Before him stood a big ear. At sight of the light the bear ecame frightened adj went back to e end of the boiler.; Jake's first im ulse was to draw is revolver and re, but he had a fear that he might ise the bear or not hit a vital spot, nd so ho kept his nutches burning in rder to keep the bear at bay until he old think out a plan of flight. Vhile this situaation was at its most trained point Jake's blood almost roze in his brains, for the whirr of a attlesnako struck his ear. It was in he boiler, right in front of him and etween him and the bear. The first ove was made by the bear through he manhole. This aroused Jake to his senses. hs match had almost burned his fin ers when his nerve came back, and e took careful aim over the sights of us revolver and blew the head off the attesnake just as it was poised to trike. Victory now aroused Jake's sports an blood. He wanted the bear. Climbing out as quickly as he could e saw bruin sitting on his haunches .,few feet from the boiler. At sight f Jake he turned to run, but a pistol >all caught him between the shoul les and stopped him. He concluded fight Jlake and made a fierce attack, nadened as he was by the pain of i wound. As the bear came near Jake pulled h trigger of his revolver, but the artridge missed fire. The bear made aump and knocked him over, but be ore he reached the ground Jake had mt a bullet in the pondrous creature's eart. This ended the fight. Then Jake rawled back into his boiler, threw nt the deal snake and went to sleep. Next morning he was up bright and arny to overhaul the game he had agged during the night. 'ColanleI Piequart's -Charrned Life. The cable news of the reinstate ent of Colonel Georges Picquart akes that distinguished soldier an bject of great interest. Before the ufaous prosecution of Dreyfus he ad been recognized as one of the blest military officials in France. His ersecation and suffering at the hands f the Anti-Dreyfusites have bat served o dm.onstrate him to be a hero of e noblest type. Miany of the tales old respecting the conspiracy which red to add him to its list of victims re now becoming public. When Picquart started the move noit tending toward a retrial of the Dreyfas case the general staff was liled with alarm. They saw only one vay ont of the difficulty, and that was get rid of t.he fearless and truth oving officer. He was removed froms 1s otlice in Novembi.er, 18396, and sent tway upon an important mission, the nspection of the frontier regiments in he West of France. He was bam >eredwith orders which required him.. a zie oil mi tima nnai thought tibiM work. Tnv moment he performed the task he was sent to the southern and southeastern frontier.1 Thence he was rushed on daring the unhealthy sea son to Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, and was required to devote most of his time to those places where Europeans die from the climate and local dis eases. His iron constitution carried him through the ordeal unharmed. The conspirators then sent him into the interior of Africa among the blood thirsty Tonaregs, a tribe or nation of savage and fanatical ireubooters who esteem it a privilege to kill a Chris tian. Here occurred one of the black. est incidents in the history of the con spiracy. Iustead of receiving the usual escort, his accompanying de tachment was cut down to one-half the regular number, and it is said induce ments were offered the Touaregs to at tack him. One native warrior, who was mortally wounded in the conflict, fired twice at Piconart. The first bul let strack the Co'onel's sword, knock. Ang it from his hand. When he fired again the bWIL mortally wounded a French soldier' igut six feet from the Colonel. ' The Touaregs wel, routed with slaughter, and awong the captives was this man. He declared that Picquart wore a charm or .ele was in league with the powers cf darkneas, for 'he had fired twice at him, and had never before missed his mark. - When one considers all that this in trepid young Colone. ha3 risked in his effort to see justice done in the Drey fus matter, one is forced to admit that, in the list of nineteenth-century 1 heroes, the ilame >f Colonel Georges Picquart deserves a place near the head.-Saturdav Evening Post. Raced In a Tith For Life. Abraham Sapiro. an employe at ihe brewery of Katz Brothers, Paterson. N. J., has charge of the mashing tubs in which the malt is boiled. In the centre of each >f these tubs there is a shaft to which are attached two sets of steel knive'. When the upright shaft revolves the knives are driven about and the imalt is mixed. One of the new mash tubs was empty a fcw days ago and Sapiro was at work clean ing the machinery. He was in the great vat and had practically comp!i ted his task when he asked Thomas McKay, who was assisting him, to go and turn a lever in the next room, I which .s used to start the feeding of the malt into the mixer. McKay raise t rcr which starts the central 4h in the b. others dM. ay heard r-_ 7.: rnning into th o. He was so horrifie'. at what he saw that instead of remedy 13g 'the trouble he was rooted to t.0 ground, and in a daze watched th chase. Sapio-m cried desperately for help. The shaft had reached its maxi mum speed and the man between the knives could not last long. In the meantime a slip on the copper bottom meant a horrible death. Sapiro was on his last legs when workmen from other p)arts of the building having heard his agonized cries. reached him. One of these had the presence of mind to signal the engine room and in a momeint the machinery- began to slacken speed. When it finally stopped, and Sapiro had to be very careful to slow up at the same rate as the knives, the runner fell to the bottom of the vat exhausted. He had been at top speed for nearly five minutes, racing with death. He was unhurt. The Brave Work or a Revolutionary Wife. The first sea-fight after the battle of Bunker Hill w as that between the captured schooner Unity and the Brit ish armed cutter Miargaretta, Lieu tenant Moore. The men who came from Pleasant River to the American ship were short of powder, having only two or three charges each. It appears that one of them, yosiah Wes ton, of Jonesboro', forgot his powder horn. After his departure his wife, Hannah. noticed the oversight, and, following the trail through the woods, reached Machias on the next day with the precious powder. In this plucky tramp through the woods Mrs. Weston was accompanied by her husband's sister, Miss Rebeca Wesdon, a frail girl, fifteen years old. Mrs. Weston herself was in her seven teenth year, and had been married five months. The powder, which was carried in a bag, weighed forty pounds. There were no roads or bridges, and the two girls followed spots on trees.-Saturdsy Evening Post. A lemnarkable Tiger Story. One of the London Globe's corre spondents in India assumes the respon sibility for the following story: "Two sportsmen who were after a wounded tiger managed to get separated, and Iat the moment when th:-y were some distance apart Stripes made his ap pearance and bare down upon one of them. 'Ping!' went the rifle. but the tiger came on; 'Ping! again, aind with blood flowing the beast sprang for ward with jaws apart. The sports man saw his one chance; he held the rifle sideways and horizontally to the growling beast, and in a second the huetehwere firmly locked in the~ barrels. Then did that cool hea'ded man calmly hold the tiger like a dog at the end of a string ti11 his friend arrived and dispatched it." Godsend For Golfers. Little swear-wheels, in form not unlike the Burman prayer-wheels, are now in use on the golf links in Kash mir. They are conducive to silenre, as, when one misses a particularly good stroke, one takes. th wheel hururrdly from the caddie a let--e it around.-.Delhi RAILROAD Ti3E TABLES. MUCH DEPENDS ON THE ACCURACY OF THEIR MAKE-UP. Important and DIfcnt Work-Tast. Nr.In her of Detaii Has to Be Considcred Lots of Trains Iun That Aro Not Sched ued on the Time Tables. Everybody is more or less acquainted wi4h the general working of the rail road business, but there are a number of details which, though of great im portance, are not qnito so familiar. The construction of a railroad time table may be taken as an example. The neessity and value of a time table are unquestioned, for there is no composition that is more studied and upon which more depends tLan this little folded strip of paper with its apparently uninteresting figureq and nearly everybody has wondered at some time or other how the wonder fni accuracy and harmony of the whole have been attained. Tho time table familiar to every patron of a railroad is not nt all a complete one, for only a smdi pro portion of the trains that are run on a-y road are indicated upon the fehler for distribution. There are many trains rinning at all times that the traveler knowns or cares nothinug about, but these, like the passenger trains. must have their scheduled ru ning time. Evety railroad division has a special time table for the use of its engineers and trainmen, and this consists of -a large car:l of perhaps four feet in length and two iu width. Upon this card is given all the information neces sary regarding the movements of every engine and train, so arranged as to be I seen at a glance. The work of getting np a time table requires some time, an.l it is not e%. ailty the work of any one mau. At the bea-1 of every railroad division there is a passenger agent, who ha charge of all through trains and :li traius runniug throng'a onto -roads not in his division. He knows when these trains are to start, when they shoald reach their destinations, andt what connections they will make upon his own or other divisions. This is the beginning of tie time table. A schedule i3 madie o" these data, and as soon as it found that all is -orkin order the schedule, informnation . moer wi . . ~ or.pp over it. The sheet of paper. .is then ruled off into little squares with heavy lines. Th spaces between the vertical lines represent each five minutes of 4ie running d-y of twenty-four bors; h--b-ridtl lines.! represent the stations at which. azy train may stop. In the oparations which follow the trainmaster must work with a thor ough knowledge of tha roa4d. e must ba intimately acquainted with every inch of it, its road-bedJ, .grades, switches, stations, and, in fact, every thing that has any possibic relation to the speed or safety of a train. Th'e purpose he has in view in mak ing his time table is to arrange the runs of each engine and traiai on the read that there wi'I b3 no waste of time and nU> confusion. He knovrs from his schedule received fromn the passenger agent that certain train gmst be given the right of way over all other trains. A train is to leave station A, for example, at 12.05 o'clock, to arrive at station X at 4o'clock. The trainmas ter takes a thread and tacks one end of it in the space at the upper part of the sheet which is marked in large figures, 12.05, and on a line with sta - tion A. The other end he draws along to the other side of the sheet and at taches it in the space under the figure 4 and on a line with the station marked X. All intermediate stations touched by tho passing train are also desig nated by a tack placed in its appro priate square, with the thread wonda around it, and the result is in many cases a zigzag line, for the distances between stations are often unequal and besides a train will go faster on one part of the road than upon an-i other by reason of grades, etc. This same process is carried on with all the other trains. .Where traius have a clear road the trainmaster has a simple enough job~ of it. His real hard work come in when trains meet each other, especial ly on single track roads. This must be provided for in the time table, and many weary hoars are spent in so placing a train that it may switch the other to pass by. Having fnished with his passenger trains to Isis satis faction, the maker of the time table proceed to get his freights out of the way. These present a problem of no mean proportious. for on a large road they come and go every few minutes, and somehow they must give way to the express and other passenger tramus. Sometimes it requires days for the trainmaster to get all straight. The times of these fr eights, like the more important passenger trains, are fixed by means of strings, and when the trainmaster is through the sheet looks like a piece of crazy lace work. The only thing remaining then to be done is the espying of the sheet, for the printer, a simple operationI for the time and station designated by each tack along the string is written out in full. Every road has a number of trains running along its line that Dever find - um.abe Tese are rholly upon the conductor, who studies the time table and takes wfis, ima he can get between tbe rans of )the. trains. This method of "wild ,attinj" is common, and it is cause or wonder that so few accidents result rom it. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL' The calcined ashes of seaweed, inown as "kelp," was formerly a nost important product and entered argely into the Scotch manufactured flass, finding a considerable use also a other arts, but in recent years this ndustry has been almost entirely Ibaudonled. The magnetic observations at the iienna Observatory have had to, be m irely discontinued on accountiof the )ad ea'ects of the clectric tramways ud electric light wires. The direc or of the observatory has submitted plan to the Government for a new bservatory. to be situated some dis ance from Vienna. Interesting experiments were re ently conducted on board of the rech battleship Jauregniberry, to letermine the limit of distinct vision t sea. A balloon was held captive at an ele7aLion of 1300 feet while the arnot endeavored to locate the bal uou with her searchlights at distances 'arying from five to twenty-five miler. rle experiments proved that the limit f vision under the circamstances was bout twenty miles. In a new system of pressing cloth, erman silver wires are embedded iu .3bestos laid up between two sheets I card, and two terminals of the irea being brought to opposite cor-, ers of t.e cards; the whole is then sed between the folds of the cloth to e V.ressed. Contact is made by means I clips. The temperature can be per ectly controlled, and there is no dan er of burning the goods. A Montclair (N. y.) lady reports hat a remarkable bird has been fre nucting her lawn of late. .lis noth 1 more than a white robin. The ace is white and the back and wings avO white bars crossing the usual P.acish brown. The other robins eem to be afraid of this freak brother ,a will have nothing to do with him. ome years ago a number of white nuglish sparrows were reported. The ariation, however, did no ase i an adequate exV able. Dictatcd a Lotter to ,imself. A certain young railroad man who ias charge of a department in the mnaiting branch of his company?* business, had occasion recently to die-, tato a letter to the head of a corre sponding department of anotherroad. There was a point in dispute be Lween the two railroads -involving ioney, and this young official had Lahen a stubborn ground that the other iicial was totally at fault and ad ranced what seemed to him unanswei. ble arguments to prove it. A short time after-he had forwarded he letter he received a proposition ~rom' headquxarters of the other rail oad, which he accepted, and within a ew days he became the head of the epartument with wirich he had been a dispute. The first letter which he found on ile ready to be answered was his own m the point in question. There was nly one thing to do. He immedi tely dictated an answer to his own etter, refating and repnaiating its irguments, and wound up by a heated usination that the writer of it was in unmitigated donkey. Of course, :he letter was addressed to himself md igned by himself, but in his en husiasm for the interests of his new mployer he did not mind a little hig like that.-Chicago News. lIarble Hearts Organize. A Wisconsin to~wn has entered the ists as the promoter of a very singu ar crusade. It is the organization of he Marble-Heart Anti-Matrimonial ssociation, into which all the baehe ors of the place have been induced to ast their fortunes. An initiation fee k $25i and annual dues of $10 are ex ited; the young man joining is pledged not to mnarry, but should he reak the vow, he loses all claim to :he funds of the society. The last Iar ble-heart to remain unmarried gets the whole fund, and then is at sberty to marry if he wishes. The oung women have organized a coun :er society, whose vow is not to narry anyone of the male Marble earters. There is, however, no tonewall or strong block in the way yf the breaking of the pledge in either >rganizationl. Penny Weddings. The Scotland penny weddings were so called. although the guests con :ributed shillings, and occasionally ialf crowns, toward the wedding east. The penny wedding of Ger nany is on a different basis. The ride receives her guests with a basin efore her, in which everybody de-. osits a jewel, a silver spoon or pies >f money. In some parts of Germany :he eperise of a ma:;riage ia met each guest paying forgwhat he md drinks, and, moreoyer, at a v 3igh rate, so. that flgon 00 ihereby obtain a sum. start them nicely in-lier. As, 300 guests often assemble. Xn girl is net eligible for marna il she hmas not only .mnades .rousemn -u he ~nari