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t CZAR OF The Captain of an Ocean Is a Real Autocrat. HIS WORD IS ABSOLUTE LAW. " '..)' ' ... ' .' He May, if Ho Deeme It Necessary, Put Passenger In Irons or Clap Him In a Cell, and In Cases cf Emer gency Is Empowered to Take Life. Imagine a major or u Judjje of a circuit court or u county ulierilT or a town marshal of a village of a.soo pop ulatiou stepping out into tin- xtrt'et and uu general and self imposed au tliorit.v picking up u citizen, ordering 1 him to a cell and clapping irons on ' him for safe keeping! Wouldn't the bird of American lib erty set up a scream? Wouldn't the ; old and badly cracked Liberty bell resonate In discord? After one of the great transatlantic passenger steamships leaves the three mile limit of New York the passenger Is in foreign territory on the high seas. English, French. German whatever the Dag at the masthead the ship is a section of Its fatherland, floating In the high seas, where only maritime- laws regarding Its transit in times of peace may hold check upon the czardom of the ship's commander, on or off the bridge. No czar has more power within his territory than has the captain of the great Atlantic liner on the high seas, lie is oh an Island of his country's ownership a floating island, having a population of 800 employees and look - Ing after the welfare and Rafety of per naps j.ijoo passengers. He Is prac tically the administrative, executive and judicial single Individual, such as exists rarely on the map of present day civilization. Aside from his au thorlty over mankind, he may have $7,000,000 of vessel under him. to say nothing of the international malls and millions lu gold In transshipment "There's the captain." Is a whispered -' bit of comment made a million times a year In the beginning of the pas sages of great ocean steamships. And generally the captain looks the part. It Is nqt bo much bis uniform either. Ordinarily the captain Is not young, 1 here Is gray In his hnir. mustache or board. That young man Id his twenties, no matter what his school ing for beginning the work. Isn't called at a moment s notice to the captain's bridge. He must have his maximum of training for six or seven numbers below before he Is called to the foot of the ladder. On the British passenger vessels most of. Hie beginners at navigating an ocean vessel of the first class will hare had a lieutenunt's commission from the navy. It is from the royal nary reserves that the lowest officer's vacancy is filled. Filling It. he has bis chance to rise to the position of cap tain. As to the captain's authority: One midnight, when in a fog the White Star Baltic struck the German oil steamship Standard, the Baltic needed . its captnin. and he was there. Ills ship carpenters were rushed to tbo bow of the vessel and began the work of patching up the bole in the Baltic's steel sheathing. Suppose that In a stampede of the Baltic's crew its employees had rushed up to fill its boats? It was within the captain's power to have shot down the leader-to have brought about war to the knife, revolver and HUe In the In terests of his vessel and Its passen gers. Or bad some passenger or pas sengers become panic stricken nntl against orders menaced the welfare of the majority on the ship death would Jiave been dealt with the same rigid discipline which requires of the cap Main that he be the autocrat at bis post. There are no forms of writs or war rants necessary. There Is no court at Which the passenger or the seaman mu.v give bond, in that instant of nudden great emergency which arises the captniu's word Is more than writ ton law: It is the unwritten common Inw of the high seas. In the spirit of which the vigilance committee of the Wild west of the United lawlessly lawful. Today the captain of tu eroat Itm, may step Into the palatini cabin tv J command order. He may go Into, smoking cabin and stop the ga .ti Z hi, n uii ii me snarper is i or ins st a kes. lu case of re' ancient laud right of "no Of liberty without due pro becomes a rarce. The HV.kll itii. I.. , nun iiiHimci jo .. '., ' I 1 II V 41 II- I'l ay Ing .w i that ' M Ivatlon ss of law" cell "room or tain's authority imiv oe used Mipon the individual who has for his sul. of r.H. .', 'JuJtn '-uuu On the high WjMnS"ml becomes auauf,,;" " individual In ,aeT. ' T, i.im.,iii,v . 1 ''bln rc id at the S"" """i share with the '"t rar nr lUtit tiVe panted 'jnn't buck low thuHi eiiultics to each in lit place. ihi. niitiiliv" "wniil mi VMciui in tbp i ,1Ik.,.H of utoain SMM'nu j, ls , thm t ( nuthor. ' lie l t he suptvme entlt,r of his ship. He l' dressed for It: but, more thnu tlmt. he is trained to It. He Is empowered to take life if he must, and on Innd this is the most serious of all things lu the statute books." "Commodore ot th tied" is one of the oltlces toward which the old tsen enptah) looks, not, enviously, not with disdain. It is a naval uuuiber In the passenger service which marks the age of retirement. There is honor in the title It does not descend to his children. He s'ves half his life to the gaining of It. hiuI It means that bU activities and iwnvers are at au end. Chicago Tribune. . ' VENETIAN WOMEN. The Whims of Fashion Hold No Ter rors For Them. The women of Venice are absolutely free from the rule which Dame Fash ion exercises over their sisters else where. They care nothing for modes. With them the length of the skirt re mains always the same, neither short nor long, and they always wear plainly made dark dresses, black stockings and the beelless slippers of the east. Hats are unknown, i The universal outdoor wrap for oil ages and all sizes Is the black shawl. with a deep silken fringe. It Is folded with a short point above and a long one below, and sometimes it envelopes the figure from head to foot. It is nev er fastened at the throat, and when it slips off It Is gathered up with one out stretched arm. which makes- the spec tator think of a big bird stretching iut wing. In their attire the women of Venice are independent, only wearing local clothing, but with feminine inconsist ency they nre thoroughly up to data in the matter of hairdresslng, the style of their coiffures changing from time to time, according to the vogue of the moment in London and Paris. shillings In order that the thief might escape capital punishment To this' J the jeweler who prosecuted demurred, ' asserting that the fashion of the thing j had cost blm twice that money. , J "Gentlemen," replied the judge, with grave solemnity, "we ourselves stand in need of mercy. ' Let as not bang s man for the fashion's sake!" Professional Identified. William M. Chase, the artist, was a picturesque figure, dressing lu clothes that had a certain orlginajity, though tbey conformed more or. less to the prevailing fashions. On one occasion Chase on his way home stepped into a little wine shop and ordered a jug of claret of a special brand sent to bis house. The lad who biougbt It came to the front door an hour afterward, when the artist had already arrived, "Some wine," he said curtly. The maid, knowing there was yet plenty In the cellar and believing the lad bad made a mistake, said she was sunt it was not for that bonse and did the boy remember the name of the man who ordered It. The boy didn't. "Then," said the servant, "you've come to the wrong place; we never ordered winel" At this moment the boy spied Chase's famous bat on the hall table. "Say," he asked, "does that hat live here?" "Yes," said the amused maid. "Then," said the boy triumphantly, "here's where the wine belongs J" Argonaut MacMahon'e Epigram. When Marshal MacMahon In the Crimean campaign took the Malakoff by V !orm and wrote his celebrated dis patch. , "Jy suis; J'y reste" ("Here am; here I stay"), these words made him famous all over the world. Yet his friends said that the worthy sol dier had written them in the most matter of fact manner, with no thought of phrase making. The most surprised person over the success of this epigram was MacMahon himself. I am . Helping Her Out ; "Have you a young chicken? rather green at cooking." "Such being the case, madam, don't you think you'd better have an old, experienced fowl?" Louisville Courier- Journal. Wife (on returning Tiome after a long visit) Dave you noticed that my husband missed me much while I was away. Mary? Maid Well, mum. I didn't notice that he felt your absence much at first, but this last day or two he has certainly seemed very down hearted, mum. : .' Not For Fashion's Sake. The criminal law of England was formerly marked by indiscrimlnating severity. Theft of an article valued above 10 shillings was punished with death. In writing about "Sweet Hampstead and Its Associations" Mrs. White records a pleasant thing of Lord Mansfield, who, as a rule, leaned to the side of mercy. It was Lord Mans field who directed a Jury to find a stolen, trinket. less. In. value, than .10 Good-bye, Profits! j Next Christmas is a long way off, and we don't want to carry our left-over Novelties until then; so we'll give them to yon for one third off, in exohaoge for cash, to pat in our Spring stock.' They'll come handy when yon want to give a birthday gift, and no one will be the wiser that you have saved the jeweler's pto&t on them. And some of these things are so cute that yon will want to make a gift to yourself. H. H. Hill, Jeweler Athena CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Furniture Repairing, Cabinet Work, etc. Prices right. DESPER & SON, - - Athena, S. F. 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