ADMIRAL SAMPSON'S FORMIDABLE FLEET. What You Get PEN POINTS.' A FIGHTING COMMANDER. Dewey, the Itero of. Manila, Has Seen . - . Hard Service. In his slxty-ofte J'P.avs of life Admiral George Dewey, the horo of Manila, lias seen a great deal of red hot fight ing, lie was born among the fcreen hills of Vermopt and received his appolnit ment to the Naval Academy nt the age or 17. wncn lie graduated tn lH&a lie rt-ent with' the steam frigate Wabash on a cruise in Mediterranean waters. When Fart , Sumter wae fired upon Dewey was promoted from enelgn ho lieutenant and assigned to the steam sloop Mississippi, which wne to take part In the fierce flgbthig of the West Gulf squadron. The Mississippi was a side wheeler of seventeeii ' guns, and was' commanded by Oommnnder Mel anctihon Smith. The West Gulf squad ron went a once to the Mississippi Itlver to, force Its way up. The "His tory of Our Navy" thus describes the ACTING ADMIRAL DEWEY. sort of things the men on the Missis sippi experienced when they preceded Farragut up past New Orleans: "The I'ensacola and the Mississippi steamed slowly, with their blaclt hulls at regular Intervals sheeting the air with lurid fire as they replied to the forts. Abreast of St, Philip, where the Confederate fire was hottest, they drew In so close that the gunners afloat and . . .1 , -, . J V- as they worked." ' " '! The Mississippi was with the squad ron again when it ran down past . New Orleans on the way back, fair targets for nineteen big guns at close range, : The hardest fight that the Mississippi ever was In was the one that ended her. 1 The fleet was trying to run by Port Hudson with Its powerful batter ies. Noiie of the squadron got by. Tho Mississippi ran aground In the fog and smoke and .stuck , hard and fast. In thirty minutes she was shot full , of holes. Her crew climbed ln.ro boats on the side oposito the forts, and, after setting her on fire, made for the other side of the river under a withering rifle fire. Upon this occasion Lieut. Dewey stuck to his guns until the last and he did not quit the ship until all others had left. Admiral Porte singled Mm otft for special praise. tn July, 1803, Dewey was on the' gun boats that engaged the Confederates below DonaJdsonville, tn 1804 be was attached to the North Atlantic block ading squadron, otisl-gncd to 4e eteani guntnoat Agawaon. "The Agawain was one of the great crescent of warships, bg and tittle, that plumped phot. Into Fort Fisher m December, 1804, and January, 18(i3. Dewey received his oom rrrtsslo nas lieutenant oomrniandcr on March 3, 18C5, and served for two years on Che European squadron, first on. the steamer Kearsarge and then on the f rlgiate Colorado, the flagship. In 1808 be was assigned to duty a ttie Naval Academy. In 1870 be received his firs command, thait' of, bo Narragansett, wWch was employed on special eervtce unitfl 1875. . " The Pacific survey of 1872-75 was In trusted to him. After two years as lighthouse inspector and five as secre- tary of the Lighthouse Board he was put In command of the Juniata on the Asiatic squadron In 1882. In Septem ber, 1884, he was promoted to be a cap tain and placed la command of the Dolphin, then brand now, and erne of the four vessels to w-hlcib the name "white squadron" was first given. From 1885 to 1888 he was the commander of the reusacola, the flagship of the Eu ropean squadron, - In 1888 his energy and ability to complete matters of de tail was recognized by making his chief of the bureau of equipment and recruit ing, which carried wtth tt the rank of commodore. , '. 1 .. . v . In May, 1803, he took another turn on duty as a member of tflre Lighthouse Board. He was made an actual com modore on Feb. 20, 1800, and was at about that time put at the head of the Important Board of Inspection and Sur vey. He was transferred to the com mand of the Asiatic squadron Jan. 1, 1808. '- Railway pools may bo prohibited by law, but the stock will continue to he watered Just the same. y ; : No dress is Immodest unless the wearer Is. '"' ' THE ORIGIN OF POBCELAtK. Invented by the Chinese? Perfected bj Japanese, Named by Portuguese. Frank II. Vlzetelly, to "A Ohat Abou China" In the Woman's Home Com panion, writes lnterstlngly of the Intro duction of fine porcelain into Europe': "The word porcelain, as applied to china pottery, originated In Japan dur ing the thirteenth centnry. The Chi nese, the pioneers hi tbe art of porco lafn manufacture, began to make It nearly two centuries before tho Chris tian era, and so careful were they to guard the secret of the art that nearly fifteen centuries lapsed before tbolr neighbors, tbe Japanese, got any to kttng of h. But once tn their posses sion, the. wily Japanese lost no time to profit by their knowledge. Tbe few Intrepid navigators" of those days brought samples of both Chinese and Japanese ware to Europe, btrt no until early In the sixteenth centnry did a trade In tt of any extent take place. Among the early importers were Pcrtti gueso traders who had settled on tbe Japanese coast, and to them, It ts claim ed, wo owe the word porcelain, derived from the Portuguese parceUana, or sucking pig. When the Portuguese traders first saw pieces of , Japanese ware they were struck with Its translu cence, which somewhat resembled that of tho cowry shell. The cowry shell, In turn, resembled In shape a small sucking pig, or porcellana; hence OUr 'porcelain.' . ; . Development of tho Transvaal. In 1802 the main trunk line from Capo Town was pushed forward from its then northern terminus Jqj Johannes burg. The distance trow -Cape Town to Johannesburg by rail Is 1,013 miles". In 1804 the road was completed from Delagoa Bay, a port hi Portuguese ter ritory on the southeast coast of Africa, to Johannesburg a distance' of 877 mllea Tho third road reached Johan nesburg a year Hater, from Durban, a port to tho British colony of Natal, dis tant 483 miles. ' . '- From 23,000 ounces of gold !a 1887, the annual output bos risen to 3,000,000 ounces to 1807, giving the Transvaal the second place fn the world's gold production. There Is no doubt that tho present output of the country will rap Idly Increase; and probably . wtthln a few years, notwWhstandlng the Increas ed output of other countries, tho Transvaal will rank first as a gold pro ducer. , " Tho town of Johannesburg may bo taken as a good Index of 'the wonder ful expansion of tho gold-mining indus try of ttho district From a few huts tn 1880, It has developed Into a town un excelled, If Indeed equaled, In the im posing character of Its buildings by any of the enterprising mining towns in Western America. Indeed, Johannes burg has but little of tbe aspect of an American mining camp, tn Its general appearance tt reminds an American more of -Spokane or Salt Lake City. John Hays Hammond, In tho Englnee tag Magazine. . , . . . ' Pretty Japanese Custom. 7 At tho birth of a Japanese baby a tree Is planted, which must remain untouch ed tin the marrlago of tho child. 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