THE NAVAL HEROES OF THE GREAT SANTIAGO BATTLE.
A GRANITE PILL
i ; I hi., iii. .. ' Hi
Focetlons Pngrgeatlon of an Old Bar
; V " . PtateOdd Fellow.
; The authorities of the Oddfellows of
Worcester,! Mass., are anxious that nil
local Oddfellows shall be burled to
gether In the locul cemetery, and, ns an
lDdueenieut, the tomb shown hns been
put up. The 'monument Is mnde of
slabs of solid granite, and has been pol
ished. It looks like ft stupendous ball
of stone, nnd Is the most conspicuous
object In the cemetery. A large plot
' of land round about It has bpen pur-
TUB MONIIMR5IT.
chased by the committee,' and the
Worcester Oddfellows will have their
names engraved ou thU unique memo
rial. , v - N , ': ;
. It appears that some of, tho members
do not approve of the Idea, as many
people prefer to be burled with their
families. Some amusement was caused
by one of the objecting members sug
gesting that the memorial should be
placed over the grave of a doctor who
died recently, as the ball of stono would
represent a certain pill which It np
pears the physician luid boon fond of
giving to his patients.
" Climate of Iceland.
Iceland is not by any means bo for
bidding a country as Its name Implies;
It Is no more a land of Ice than Green
land Is 11 laud of verdure. . It Is not
nearly so cold us many places In the
I'ulted States, not to meutlon the
Cunadlan Dominion. The fifty and
sixty degrees below ero registered ev
ery winter In the Northwest Territory
and AkhIuIIhiIo, and even tho thlrty
llvo and forty below experienced In
Montana ami Northern Dakota, lire
unheard of In Iceland. Neither Is tho
other extreme of great heat felt, such
as these very regions In North Ameri
ca , endure. No Icelander ' knows
what a temperature of a hundred In
the shade Is. There are no , sudden
fluctuations or great changes; tho cli
mate Is remarkably equable. A varia
tion of thirty degree In a mouth Is
probably not on record In tho Island.
This equableness Is due, of course, to
the same cause that produces a similar
effect lu the British lsles-tho gulf
stream. This groat ocean current
wnshes the southern and western
shores of Iceland, Insuring a mild win
ter ami a balmy summer. There are
cinders, but they form no Icebergs.
The sou around the Island Is never
frozen, nor Indeod Is any floating Ice
seen, save ou rare occasions off the
northern coast Now and then, In
summer, prolonged storms will carry
floating Ice aeross from the Greenland
coast, and drive It upon the northern
shore of Iceland, together with cold
fog and rain. Iu this way polar bears
are also sometimes landed on the Isl
and. On the other hand, the winters
are so mild that thunderstorms often
occur. In fact, most of the thunder
storms In Iceland are In the winter
months. " ' ' . ' ,,
, A Tastn of Discipline, t .
The woman who Insists on dragging
her holpless child Into the most crowd
ed of shops Is abroad lu the hind this
year, as usual. 1 encountered her, or a
certain variety of her, In the waiting
room of a big store day before yester
day. Sho wasn't quite the. common
variety, for her child was not helpless.
In fact, It was quite evident that the
child had dragged the mother, and not
the mother the child. She must have
been 5 years old, and was so "spoiled"
well, hi my old mammy used to put
it, she was spoiled till her presence
was really an offense to the olfactory
sense. She wanted something her
mother couldn t give her, nnd she pro
ceeded to scream. The mother coaxed.
Tho mother begged. The child scream
ed. The child danced with rage, and
then Bhe held her breath. The fright
ened mother tried to pacify her, and
then when the child grew purple In
the face and seemed on the' point of
choking, tho poor woman began to
cry.
'Oh. what shall I do? What shall I
do?" sho sobbed. "The doctor told
me not to get her Into a tantrum. She'll
die, I know she will!" , . .
Just at this Juncture an elderly
woman, with a square chin, stepped
up. She did not say a word. She sim
ply reached down, lifted . that child,
laid her across her knee, and gave her
several resounding spanks. Tho as
tonished child caught her breath in
stantly. She was too surprised to go
on screaming. She simply Btnred. The
mother began to say things to the el
derly woman with the square Jaw, but
the elderly woman walked calmly
away. There was the look In her face
as of a great desire gratified. Wash
ington rout, , ... , ,
Their Hats Came Oft
7 "I had a bit of fun on Labor Day,"
said an English resident of New York.
"I was on tho big ferry steamer coming
aeross the ten miles wide bay, when I
said to the crowd on board, Take your
hats of.' What for T was the reply,
I laughed, and said, 'See those ships
over there? About three hundred,
aren't there? They are British ships,
every one. See that little red flag
hanging at the stern of each? Take
your huts off to that. Those three hun
dred or more flags are Britain honor
ing your Lalwr Day; take off your hats
Land return the compliment Where are
your manners, anyway? And the hats
came off."
Novel Afittbiirtclar Device.
In a report from Lelpslc, Germany,
Consul Warner describes a novel Ger
man anti-burglar device. This con
sists of flexible safety curtains made
of hardened tubes properly connected,
which are Invulnerable to the ordinary
burglar's tools, for the reason that the
tubes revolve ftoely and the ceuterblt
or other tool cau find no hold.
Cannot Work tn Blgh Altitude.
It has been found In Switzerland that
In building a railway laborers could
work only oue-thlrd as long at a height
of 10,000 feet as a mile lower.
Illithest Point for Health.
The highest point to which a man
can ascend without health Wing se
riously affected Is 10,500 feet
TOAD'S INGENIOUS PLAN
Owes Its " Board and Keep" to the
Electric Light Company.
A Kansas City toad owes Its "board
and keep" to the electric light, com
pany. An electric arc light hangs at
tho corner of Prospect avenue and In
dependence boulevard, and ait night It
attracts myriads of flies and bugs.
They flutter too near the flame, become
Winded or singe their wings and fall to
the toad, who sits below In delightful
anticipation.
lie dines slowly, as becoms an epi
cure, taking about an hour for the per
formance, ,
WORLD'S BLACK DIAMONDS.
British Isles Fupply Nearly 88 Pel
Cent of All the Coat Mined.
The British Isles congratulate them
selves that hi spite of their , limited
cab
BSlTltH Iiia
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tragi
WHAST
Slid
THE COMPARATIVE OfTrUT.
area, they supply 38 per cent of all tht
coal mined In the world at the present
time. Tho United States Is not far be
hind, however, annually digging from
the earth 80 per cent of the valuable
black diamonds.
A Hall of Education,
Greater New York Is to have a hall
of education, to cost something like
$500,000. The project has been drag
ging irlong for nine years. It Is to bo
used exclusively by the Board of Edu
cation, which now rents quarters on
the outside from time to time.
People are beginning to admit that
many men are looking for work who
do not want It
HOW TTIB ELECTRIC LIGHT FEEDS ItlM.
, ISIS
DEWEY FIGURES IN IT.
Anecdote Showing the Bravery of
. American Seamen in Danger,
Capt Isaiah H. Grant, keeper of the
United States lighthouse department
storehouse on Central Wharf, recalls
an Interesting anecdote that Is particu
larly appropriate at this time, and goes
to show the stuff of which the Ameri
can navy Is composed. Captain Grant
Is a brother of William G. Grant,1 the
keeper of the light on Matinieus Bock,
and of the later tells this story:
It was back In 1S64, and Commodore
Dewey was then executive officer on
board the United States vessel Color
ado.' William Grant was a seaman on
the same ship, and Is naturally well
posted as to our gallant commodore's
fighting qualities.' The Colorado was
steaming into Hampton . Bonds, , Va.,
towing a large boatload of sailors, re
lates the Portland (Me ) Express. .' .. !
It was a windy day and the waves
were running high. In some maimer
the boat capsized, and In a moment ev
ery one was struggling In the water.
All but one, however, succeeded in get
ting on its bottom. One sailor who
could not swim sank to the bottom. A
boat wag at once lowered from the Col
orado, William Grant being one of the
men assigned to it . ''.'
The men rowed with a will, and soon
reached the overturned boat and the
sailors clinging to Its bottom. They
had so much, headway that the boat
Shot over the place where the .unfortu
nate went down. Mr., Grant was In the
bow keeping a sharp lookout for him
when he came to the surface. As the
boat moved along be looked down into
the water, which was clear, and plainly
saw the- man near the surface. Like a
flash, he scrambled to the stern of the
boat, and, without hesitating a second,
dived over the coxswain's head for the
drowning man. He calculated Just
right and In a moment had him by the
collar and succeeded In bringing htm
to the surface. .. Both men were taken
Into the boat, and af ter hard work the
half-drowned sailor was revived. He
owed his' life to Mr. Grant's bravery
and prompt action. ',
The next day Dewey, as executive of
ficer, called Mr. Grant up on to the
quarterdeck, and before every one.
thanked him cordially for his bravery
In rescuing the sailor.
" A few years ago when Dewey, then
commodore, visited the Maine coast
and called upon Mr. Grant at MnMnl
cus,,the Incident was recalled, and a
long talk was enjoyed by the men.
Commodore Dewey recalled the matter
Instantly and again complimented Mr.
Grant
Slenklewloi's Method of Wort.
Slenkiewiez's, method of making a
book Is as follows: He works out a de
tailed plan, and writes It down careful
ly. He fixes this In his head, and lots
It "seethe and ferment" there, as he
says. , When ready to begin work, he di
vides his time, not into days, but weeks.
During the first week he produces a
certain amount the second week a sim
ilar amount and so on, week after
Week. He writes Without correction,
and. never copies, producing Just one
manuscript the one which be sends to
the printer. Each week's work contin
ues that of the preceding week. Though
the plan of the book Is elaborated care
fully in advance, this plan is not fol
lowed strictly; from the "seething and
fonntmting" In his head changes are
suggested to the author, and he makes
them, fie has no secretary, amanuen
sis, copyist, or assistant
To write such books as he does with
out copying or correcting, to create
works likethe trilogy and "Quo Vadls?"
by a series of efforts, each one of which
gives a finished part, and each part be
ing a seamless and flawless continua
tion of the preceding, till the last, to
gether with all the others, forms a com
plete, unbroken whole, Is peruais the
niost amazing tour de force In literary
experience. Sienklewlez employs no
man or woman to help him. He makes
all literary researches himself; visits
and studies the places which he. needs
to see; and when writing in Switzer
land, Italy, France, or other countries,
takes with him all the books he re
quires, and shuts himself In with them
during working hours, which for him
are from eight or nine till lunch at one
o'clock, and then a couple of hours later
on. ne never writes after dinner in the
evening, and has so ordered his "works
and days" that he needs no assistance.
Century, ........
. . .Wesley's Sermon,
Now and again, no doubt, the text Is
everything, the sermon nothing. There
Is an anecdote of a London bishop who,
having rend that story of John Wesley
cutting out every word of his dlscourst
that his servant maid did not under
stand, determined to preach to n coun
try congregation the simplest sermon
he could write. He chose an element
ary subject and took as his text "The
fool hath said In bis heart there Is no
God." On leaving the church he asked
the parish clerk what he thought of
the sermon. "Oh, my lord." said he, "it
was very fine very fine and grand. I've
been talking It over with -Mr. Beard,
and we aaUl how flue It was. But. after
all, we can't help thinking that there
Is a God."
Tempers of Married People.
A recent luQulry was made Into the
tempers of married people. Out of '.Ci
couples who were examined 52 per
cent of the wives had good tempers,
and only 40 of the husbands were
good-humored. Out of the bad-tempered
men 32 had good-tempered and
22 bad-tempered wives. Worse than
all, 23 per cent, of wives were fretful,
13 per cent violent and 0 per ceut
very masterful.
A Woman's Watch. Miss inborn It
eenis to run very well for a day and
a half, and then It will not go at all."
Watchmaker "Yes; It should be wound
1 occasionally." Jeweler's Weekly.
CENTENNIAL OF OUR NAVY.
Prom the First Its History Has Been
. One of Brilliancy.
The United States navy completed Its
Brst hundred years of existence on Sut
nrday, April 30, 1808, and It is a coinci
dence worthy of remark that the cen
tury ended as It began, with a country
facing a foreign war.
As a matter of fact, it was the pros
pect Of trouble with an alien people
that called the navy into being. Dur
ing the revolution, In which such cap-
mm.
JK
STEPHEN DECATUR.
Who recnpturwl tho Phtlndelphla from Tripoli.
talus as John Paul Jones and Esek
Hopkins made- the patriot cause re
doubtable upon the seas, naval affairs
were Intrusted to a marine committee.
The few public cruisers which remain
ed after that costly conflict were sold,
and when the Dey of Algiers began to
prey upon American commerce, the In
fant nntlon was, for the moment pow
erless to protect Its own. This led
Washington , to urge tho creation of a
naval force; Congress In. 1784. voted
money to build six frigates, the Consti
tution, President United States, Ches
apeake, Constellation and Congress,
and on April SO, 1788, the present de
partment was formally created. : : ' '
From the first the navy confirmed
the wisdom of its creators. Early In
17!9, the Constellation we then had a
little misunderstanding with Franco
fought and captured the Insurgent In
West Indian waters, and late In 1803
a squadron of four vessels was sent to
protect American rights and honor In
the Mediterranean., The frigate Phila
delphia, under Capt Balnbridge, , cap
tured a Moorish privateer, but ran
aground In the harbor of Tripoli, and
the officers were made prisoners of
war. ; Stephen Decatur, then a young
JAMES LAWRENCE.
Who died shouting, "Don't gt dr. the itrtp."
lieutenant proposed to the commander
of the fleet to put a crew on board a
Trlpolitan ketch that had Just been
captured, enter the harbor at night and
rescue or burn the Philadelphia. This
was doue on Feb. 16, 1804. The tiny
Trlpolitan vessel stole. quietly to the
side of the captured frigate, and De
catur and his men recaptured her In ten
minutes. But as It was Impossible to
move her, she was .flred, and Decatur
escaped Into the open sea without the
Joss of a man.
The navy's part In the war of 1S12
was a glorious one. At the outset of
that war Great Britain had 1.048 ships,
carrying 27,800 guns and 151,572 offi
cers and men. The United States, on
the other hand, had but seventeen
ships, carrying 442 guns and 5,025 offi
cers and men. Yet at the end of the
struggle, which lasted less than three
years, the little American navy bad for
the time swept the British mercantile
marine from the seas, capturing up
wards of 1,500 vessels, on board of
which weremore than 20,000 British
seamen.
This Is a record without parallel, and
It qukkens the pulse to read how In
Its making the frigate Constitution,
commanded In turn by Isaac Hull, Will
lam Balnbridge nnd "Old Ironsides"
Stewart, captured the Guerrlere and
OLIVEB PERRY.
The hero o( Lake Erie.
four other British men-of-war; how In
the battle of Lake Erie Oliver Terry
compelled the surrender, for the first
time In history, of an entire British
squadron, and Thomas McDonough
won a victory not less decisive on Lake
Champlaln; how captains like Joshua
Barney and Bichard Dale came out
successful from a dozen hard-fought
battles, or David Torter, In the harbor
of Valparaiso, fought the Essex against
two British vessels for two hours and
a half, and only surrendered wrhen the
frigate was burning under him, and
finally, how when the British Shannon
captured the Chesapeake, at the mouth
of Boston harbor, James Lawrence,
the American frigate's lion-hearted
commander, died nt his post shouting
which his last breath,"Don'tglve up the
ship!" It is a chronicle that will live
as long as the language In which It Is
written.
THE AUTHOR OF "QUO VAD1S."
1 English Writers.
In the Century Jeremiah Curtin, the
translator of "Quo Vadis," has a pa
per entitled "An Acquaintance with
Slenklewicz.", Mr. Curtin says: Slen
klewlcz expressed himself at some
length on English literature and art. I
give his own words; .
"Of English novelists I like Dickens
best. His 'David Copperfleld' seems to
me nearer genuine human nature than
any other English production of tho
century. Dickens derived immense
pleasure from the people whom he de
scribed; he had a true and vivid ap
preciation of unusual characters. In
literature Shakspeare stands apart. His
knowledge of man seems to me almost
superhuman. I am amazed at his in
sight and truthful vision, especially
when I compare him with other writ
ers. Scott had a power of narration
that was really phenomenal, but there
Is much in his novels that Is not true;
not infrequently he ornamented in his
own way beautified, as he thought.
His account of the chivalry and knight
hood of the middlo ages does not cor
respond at nil with ' reality. Still, he
was a wonderful writer. Thackeray
was a great novelist, but to me he has
always seemed enthralled more or less
by society, mastered by it In a degree,
hence Injured as an artist . Tennyson
used beautiful language, but he was
artificial; he was the poet not of hu
manity, but of a class, and devotion to
a class always enfeebles an author. Of
receut Englishmen, Kipling stands
alone as a writer of Bhort stories. Du
Manner was very much of an artist
by nature. In Trilby his description
of Parisian artist life Is ttne; but the
book, though entertninlng, Is too fan
tastic; the end especially Is unreal be
yond measure, as Is, of course, the
hypnotism. Blder Huggard I know to
the extent of one, novel, 'She,' which I
read In Eastern Africa, ' Though very
extensive, English literature Is weak
In one kind of mental creation, , in
which It Is not likely to be strengthen
edthe fable. .In this field the Bus.
slans have surpassed all Europe; their
Kryloff Is the greatest fabulist of mod.
ern times." '
SPANISH PUNCTILIO.
Amusing Phase of Castillan Character
, Exhibited by a Cabinet Crisis.
. The Cabinet crisis which took place
In Spian In 1888 exhibits an amusing
phase of Spanish character.. . The minis
terial crisis had existed almost a year,
when the resignation of the Cabinet
took place us the result of a trivial
question of , military etiquette. The
Queen had left Madrid for an excursion
to Valencia, which the Minister of Jus
tice Insisted on her making, according
to the published arrangement lest the
postponement should ..boousrue4, as
a sign of fear of the Zorilllst republi
cans, who had convoked a mass meet
ing In the same city. The Infanta Isa
bel, who was left to represent her, de
cided to take a Journey also, and In
formed General Martinez Campos that
her sister, the Infanta Eululle, would
give out the military watchword. , The
military governor of Madrid replied
that the married Infanta was not legal
ly competent to perform that office, and
that It was Impossible, according to
military rules, for him to recedve the
parole from her husband. Prince An
tonio, Due de Montponsler, who was
only a captain In rank. The Minister
of War, who was not on good terms
with the captain general sent a brusque
telegram ordering bini to receive the
password from the Princess Eulalie,
whereupon General Campos offered his
resignation. All attempts to settle the
quarrel failed, nnd, as a majority of the
Cabinet sided with the captain general,
General Cassola and the ministers who
had supported bis view resigned their
portfolios. Senor Sagasta handed to
the resignation of the entire Cabinet to
the Queen Begent but subsequently,
upon the Inter's request formed a new
ministry. , T
A Tart Inscription.
Great Barrington's free public library
appears to be under obligations to one
of her summer residents In the person
of Justice Gnynor of Brooklyn. It hag
received a copy of the Bible with the
following Inscription on the fly-leaf,
signed by Judge Gaynor: "I have vis
ited many libraries which lacked many
books, but only one library which lack
ed The Book and to that one I send
this." .
Italians and Military Service,
Out of every 100 young men called
out for military service In Italy In 1800,
62 were refused for physical unfitness
or other reasons.
"I suppose you are very glad that
your husband Is entirely cured of his
rheumatism?" said a doctor recently to
a fashionable lady of Germantown.
"Yes, I suppose I ought to be," an
swered the lady, "but from now on we
will have to guess at the weather or
buy a barometer If his bones quit ach
Ing before a damp spelL" Philadelphia
Call
Proud father My daughter strikes B
and Is reaching for C. Friend Oh, but
you can't really complain until she be
gins to strike you for Vs and reach for
X's. Judge.
Many a man who has nerve enough,
hasn't money enough.