rieHTERS
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By Edward B. C
ASHINGTON—'There are a
few officer seekers who come
to the national capital in pur
suit of places which carry no
pay for the work involved.
The boards of visitors ap
pointed annually by the presi
dent to report on conditions
at West Point and Annapolis
are paid “in honor” only.
Annapolis is distant front
Washington only a few
miles and when the members
of the visiting board go to the school
THE C/iAPEL , AH HA POL/<3
? keep the old names ditious route and, more than this, if the hazing
rather than turn to is brutal the offender faces a prison sentence in
*9 the new at the close addition to the certainty of dismissal from the
of the reign of roy- service in disgrace. Hazing is an unpopular pas
alty in America, time at Annapolis to-day.
The southerner ap- The Annapolis school was built to provide for
parently thought a few cadets. The changes time has brought has
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that the shad- made it necessary that provision be made for
ow • of things many. Congress has appropriated large sums for
kingly was noth- increasing the capacity and the usefulness of the
ing as long as school. New buildings are going up, new facilities
b the substance for the training of the modern-day sailors are be
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hundreds follow in their train.
The modern part of Annapolis is
the naval academy. The rest of the
town is ancient, and—with the sail
ors’ school—honorable. The residents
of Annapolis are loath to change
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ing added, and in a year or two, at
the cost of $10,000,000, the institution
will be so transformed that the shades
of the old salts who in life knew it
will not know it save by the abiding
of the spirit of things sailorlike,
which must ever remain if the Ameri
can seaman is to keep true to tradi
tion.
Within the grounds of the naval
academy the old is giving way rapidly
to the new. This holds true, happily
enough, however, only in regard to
the buildings. The broad parade
ground in its green beauty and the
great trees that sheltered the stu
CffTBAMCF TO BANCROFT NALL . U.S NAVAL ACADEMY
things, and as longas they arewholly comfortable
there is wisdom in their reluctance to part with
the old things and their clustering memories.
The very inn at which you eat your dinner
housed men and women who saw the revolution
and the passing rule of Britain—a passing that
some of the conservative ones of the town
viewed with regret. This inn is on Prince George
street—the revolution did not change the name
of the old Annapolis thoroughfare. Within its
walls Richard Carvel courted Dorothy Manners,
and the host of the inn seems to be prouder
of the ancient fact than he is of his modern
prosperity.
There is a trap for him who is attracted by
the bait of things ancient at every turn of the
Annapolis way. The old elm on Boston Com
mon. now gone the way of all things perishable,
was of no earlier seed sprouting than was the
old poplar that still stands, sturdy and green,
on the campus of St. John’s college.
Annapolis people call the poplar the “liberty
tree.” and it has a right to the name. Cnder
this tree the patriots of the colony inet and made
their pronouncements for freedom.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who signed the
declaration, spoke to the people in its shade and
urged them to their “duty to liberty as against
kings;” Lafayette was entertained under it. and
it has been the central point of Independence
day celebrations unnumbered. The records, said
to be authentic, have it that in 1652 the colonists
and the Susquehannock Indians agreed under
the great poplar to have a period of peace.
Annapolis people believe that their liberty tree
was growing when Columbus landed. Its trunk is
only a shell to-day, but it is a huge shell, and
the branches thereof put forth leaves in the
spring in thrifty multitudes.
There are three houses standing-in Annapolis
in well-preserved old age that served as the
dwelling places of three colonial governors. One
of these residences was erected, as a street
passer informs one, “the Lord knows when.”
Certain it is. though, that the house was standing
and in use in 1692, for it was occupied then by
Gov. Francis Nicholson. When the statehouse
burned in 1704 the residence was used for the
sittings of the colonial assembly, and it. is sturdy
enough to-day in appearance to war against
time for centuries to come.
There is a King George street as well as a
Prince George street, in Annapolis, and not many
squares removed is the Duke of Gloucester
street. Williamsburg, in Virginia, has a street
named for the duke, or, rather, for his title, and
there was a tendency all through the south to
had sped over the water. Modern Ameri
cans know Annapolis as the home of the
naval academy. The school of the sail
or has an interest that has proved over
shadowing to the American at a dis
tance. When he gets here he finds that
the old sea town has an allurement of
which he knew nothing. Little by little
the residents of lie Maryland city have
come to realize the importance to their
town of the great government institution..
The time was when all roads led to the
state house or to the Carvel mansion,
but to-day they run without the shadow
of a turning—as the townspeople view
it—to the gateway of the academy
grounds.
The naval academy of to-day is a
stranger to the naval academy of yester
day, but the spirit is the same, grate
fully enough, for if :t were not it would he
“a sorrow and a mournful cause" to the country.
They are turning out sailors from the school to
day so the veterans say, who will meet the mark
square-toed with the seamen who have made
American ships respected wherever a starred
pennant floats.
They are graduating classes more than 200
strong in these days. Formerly a class of 50
was believed to be fairly large. The school in its
membership is fully double the size of the mili
tary academy of West Point. The increase in
the number of sea cadets is due to the great
growth of the navy, and to the fact that ship
for ship the vessels of the present day require
three officers where the vessels of the past re
quired one. There are more than 700 cadets
at Annapolis and in a year or two the number
will be augmented b£ at least one-third.
The whole system of instruction, save in one
marked respect, has changed since the day the
present superintendent, Capt. Charles J. Badger,
was learning the ropes on the training ship in
the Annapolis harbor. The older officers had to
learn many new and strangethings with the change
from the old type of fighting craft to the new.
The changes came gradually, however, and it is
said that the adaptability of the veterans to new
conditions led the authorities to decide that al
though steam had supplemented sail, the best
preliminary instruction in seamanship for the
cadets was to be had on vessels of the style of
the old navy.
Admiral Sands, while superintendent, broke up
hazing at the academy. He shares honors with
Gen. Mills, who killed the practice at West Point.
Not long after Admiral Sands was detailed for
duty at the school there was an outbreak of
hazing, and the admiral, with the commandant of
cadets, went at the task of stopping the practice,
not for the moment nor for the month, but for
all time.
Formerly every time there was a hazing scan
dal at either the military academy or at Annap
olis congress would censure the authorities for
not maintaining discipline, and then would pro
ceed out of hand to reinstate the guilty cadets
whom the authorities had dismissed in order
that discipline might be maintained. How much
stopping of hazing there could be with congress
condemning the offense one minute and condon
ing it the next may readily be conceived.
Through the influence of the superintendent a
law was passed which gives the authorities a
much freer hand in hazing matters than they had
before. The cadet who hazes to-day can be sep
arated from the service by an extremely expe
dents in tne early days ot tne scnooi. ana mat are
of sufficient age to have done shade duty for many
generations of sailors before their day, are still
standing, the march of modern improvements hav
ing been so directed as to pass the ancient mon
archs by.
The midshipman's life, small as is its compass, is
intricate and full of interest. The externals, it
they really may be accounted externals, have a
world of significance. The young sailors are
hemmed in with incentives to a heroic discharge
of duty. West Point has its battle flags and its
memorial tablets to the men who served their
country against its enemies on land. At Annapo
lis are gathered the trophies of the sea. and there
are many of them, for the defeats of the ships
of the American navy were so few that a line or
two of history’s pages are sufficient to record them.
Perry's pennant, which flew from his flagship','
the Lawrence, at the battle of Lake Erie, is here
It is a red ensign with the words of Lawrence em
broidered on it in white letters—words that are
now the rallying cry of the men of the American
navy: “Don’t give up the ship.” Capt. Lawrence
had been killed in the action of his ship, the
Chesapeake, with the British ship Shannon only a
few months before Perry engaged the enemy, but
his last injunction to his men already had become
the Yankee tars' watchword. The Lake Erie flag
is in an almost perfect state of preservation.
The flag of the British brig Boxer, Capt. Blyth
commanding, captured by the American brig En
terprise off the coast of Maine, is in the academy’s
keeping. Capt. Burrows, the American command
er, was killed in the very hour of his victory. Near
the Boxer trophy are the flags of four of the
British vessels captured by Perry at the battle
of Lake Erie—the Lady Prevost, the Hunter, the
Little Belt, the Chippewa, and the Detroit. With
the Erie flags are those of the Confidance, the
Beresford, the Chubb and the Linnet, British ves
sels sunk or taken by the American McDonough at
me uauie oi LUKe vnampiam.
Possibly the most interesting of all these spoils
of the American sea fights is the great wooden
figure of the British lion wearing a crown and
with one paw resting on a globe representing the
world. For arrogance of presumption the concep
tion has few equals. It was, of course, carrying out
in sculpture the idea of the world sovereignty of
Great Britain. When Decatur, in the ship United
States, defeated and captured the British Mace
donian the lion with its globe was found on its
forward deck.
There are two iron “long Toms” in the trophy
collection that fell into the hands of Commodore
McDonough after the victory of Lake Champlain.
One of the guns has a deep indentation made by a
shot from a gun of the American fleet during the
action. The British commander, Commodore Down
ie, was killed in this lake fight. It is a matter of
record that he came to his death by getting into
the way of the recoil of one of the cannons now
in the Annapolis museum.
Charles Stewart, the American grandfather of
the Irish leader. Charles Stewart Parnell, made
possible the addition of two flag trophies to the
Annapolis collection. When in command of the
Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) he captured two
British men-of-war, the Cyane and the Levant
which he fought near the coast of the Madeiras.
Stewart won the fight.
The navy of the United States had its full share
of making the country’s history. There is no pres
ent intention on the part of the men who have
the midshipmen in charge to let them become for
getful of the past and the glory that has come td
the service.
Stoats Hunt in Packs.
In some years stoats appear to be
more numerous than in others, an<K
they are seen not in ones and twos but
in dozens, hunting together in small
packs.
Stoats will hunt together from
scent and in full cry like a pack of
hounds, one always keeping the line
and followed closely by the others.
This sight has been recorded by dif
terent observers, who have also seen
weasels hunting in the same way.—
Fur News.
Dined on Ancient Food
One of the most singular meals ever
eaten was that given to a select few
by an antiquary named Goebel in
Brussels some years ago. The bread
was made from wheat grown before
the children of Israel passed out of
Egypt and it was spread with butter
made when Elizabeth ruled England.
For fruit there were apples which
ripened before the Christian era and
the wine was older than the white
man’s knowledge of the new world.
The bread was made from wheat ta
ken from a chamber in one of the pyr
amids, the butter (of which there
were several pounds), had been found
in an earthen crock on a stone shelf
under the icy wall of a well in Scot
land. A pantry In the ruins of Pom
peii had furnished the jar of apples
(which were as sweet and finely
flavored as if only a few months old).
and the flagon of wine bad been re
covered from an old vault in Corinth.
Six guests enjoyed this amazing meal.
Won European Scholarship.
Miss Mary L. ChamLerlain, of Hud
son, Mass., has won the $1,500 schol
arship at Vassar that will enable her
to study social conditions in Europe.
She was elected by her classmates as
well as appointed by the faculty. She
has done a great deal of work in
Boston.. She is a senior, and will
graduate summa cum laude.
MONUMENT AT M/iD£fif1QOK W If
B/ftTHPjLACE or/MAmy VAH BURES/
AT R/fiDTR/iOOH
A1ART/U VAU BURSA*
The New York state legislature has
passed the measure appropriating 5U),
000 for the erection of a suitable mon
ument in Kinderhook in memory of
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of
the ITnited States, and the first presi
dent of the nation chosen from New
York state. He was also the first of
the presidents born after the United
States became an independent nation.
If the bill becomes a law, as seems
probable, the governor will appoint a
commission of five residents of Colum
bia county to select a site in the vil
lage of Kinderhook, probably in the
village park, choose the design and
superintend the erection of the memo
rial.
President Van Buren was born in
Kinderhook December 5, 17S2, made
his home there during a major part
of his life, being familiarly denoted
in his later years as the "Sage of Kin
derhook," and died there July 24, 1862,
almost an octogenarian. His grave in
the village cemetery is marked only
by a small monument.
Many evidences of his life in the
staid old Dutch village still remain.
At the side of the village street stands
a remodeled dwelling pointed out as
the birthplace of Van Buren, although
what remains of the original building
is an addition to the present main
structure, the old hand-hewn timbers
and the walls bearing every evidence
of their antiquity. “Lindenwald." the
estate just south of the village, where
Van Buren lived in dignified retire
ment during the declining years of his
life, is more closely associated, per
haps, with the man whose memory the
state now seeks to honor. The hos
pitable residence, fronted by great
trees, and surrounded by a fertile
farm, remains to-day very much as it
was when Van Buren died there. The
property is now occupied by Adam
Wagoner, the present owner.
The life history of Martin Van Buren
is one of rapid progress to a place of
prominence in his state and in the
nation. The son of a farmer, he at
tended the academy at Kinderhook in
his youth, and at 14 years of age be
gan the study of law, finishing in the
office of William P. Van Ness in New
York, and being admitted to the bar in
1803. Before reaching his majority he
was active in political affairs, aud in
1808 was made surrogate cf Columbia
county, the youngest surrogate that
county has ever had. He was elected
to the state senate in 1812, from 1815
to 1819 served as attorney-general, and
was again sent to the senate. The re
organization of the Democratic party
in ISIS was directed by him, and he
was a leading member of the Albany
regency. In 1821 he was chosen
United States senator from New York,
and in the same year was a member
of the convention for revision of the
state constitution. In 1827 he was re
elected as United States senator, but
resigned in 1828 on being elected gov
ernor of New York state. In March.
1829, he was appointed secretary of
state in President Jackson's cabinet.
and resigned in April, 1831. In Sep
tember of that year he went as min
ister to England, but in December the
United States senate refused to ratify
the appointment chiefly on ihe ground
that while secretary of state he had
introduced domestic party matters
into foreign diplomacy. This petty ac
tion made Van Buren more popular
than ever, and in May, 1S32, he was
nominated by the Democratic party
for vice-president, and elected in No
vember. In 1S3C he was elected
president, receiving 170 to 73 electoral
votes for William Henry1' Harrison; his
chief opponent, and a majority of the
popular vote as well. At the time of
his inauguration the country had suf
fered from financial difficulties, and in
1837-9. following the suspension of
specie payments by the banks, the
crisis came which is yet remembered
among the greatest panics in Ameri
can history. President Van Buren
established an independent treasury
system for the care and disbursement
of public money, and for this, which
was at length permanently adopted,
his administration was chiefly distin
guished.
MACHINE THAT BLOWS GLASS
American Engineer Said to Have In
vented Really Practical Labor
Saving Device.
Common, ordinary window glass is
one of the few industrial products of
which the method of making has prac
tically remained stationaiy.
From time to time attempts have
been made to use mechanical appara
tus for blowing the glass, but the re
sults have been unsatisfactory and the
old method has persisted.
The .workman blows a cylinder of
glass, which is then split open length
wise and carried to a furnace, where
it opens out under the influence of the
heat. A slow process, consequently
expensive, and above all injurious to
the health of the blowers.
Now an American engineer has just
invented a simple machine for which,
when certain difficulties are overcome,
great success is hoped. The glass is
made like paper, then a sheet of the
paste is drawn vertically from the tub,
and this a horizontal cylinder carries
over an endless table, then into an an
nealing furnace, from which comes
forth an uninterrupted band of glass,
that can be cut off in desired lengths.
One of the greatest difficulties in
this method is to prevent the glass
paste from growing thinner by its own
weight as it is drawn from the tub.
This problem has been solved by plac
ing in the tub two balls that rotate
rapidly from the bottom to the top,
which has the effect of continually
drawing masses of glass towards the
top, thus counteracting the tendency
to string down and contract.
With this new method a single fur
nace can produce 12 tons of glass
every 24 hours, and all its service re
quires is a watchman, a cutter and two
boys to take away the mines.
By the present method of blowing,
it would take 24 men to produce the
same result.
Earthquakes and Bridges.
The damage to bridges by earth
quakes is due generally to the banks
of valleys being drawn together, ac
cording to W. H. Mobbs, whose con
clusions are based on a study of earth
quakes in the United States, India and
.Japan, extending back to 1886. More
over, it seems to be the general rule
that a Assure or a series of parallel As
sures opens during an earthquake
along the banks of dyers parallel to
their courses.
ADMITTED HE HAD BACKSLID
Captain of Fishing Schooner Had No
Bible Aboard, But Was There
with Explanation.
Rev. William G. Jones, who for 27
years has been the sailors' agent for
the distribution of Bibles for the New
York Bible society, went aboard the
fishing schooner Elizabeth at Fulton
Market. The Elizabeth had just come
in from the banks with a fine catch
of cod, and the captain, a stout, glossy
chap, with a face the color of a lob
ster, was talleying the baskets.
“Have you any Bibles aboard?” in
quired Rev. Mr. Jones.
“Bibles of all kinds,” replied the
skipper glibly. "We've got Bibles
enough to reach from the deck to the
foretop. Oh, we get them from all
over,” said he in reply to another ques
tion.
“Let's see some of 'em,” said the
missionary. So the schooner was
searched in her cabin, below and in
her galley, and even the shack locker
was looked into, but nary a f/ible or
psalm book was found.
“How much better it would have
been to be nice and to tell the truth,"
said the minister. “Why didn't you
say you hadn't any Bibles?
‘Til say why, parson," said the skip
per. “So many Moody and Sankey
fellows and sky pilots come around
calking as if a fisherman hadn't any
thing else to do but talk to 'em when
he ought to be counting oysters. I
allow 1 used to be a Sunday school
boy in a Methodist church up in
Gloucester, along with my father and
mother, but I've kind o’ backslid and
spilled the wind out of my inains'l and
got. taken aback some since them
days."
Couldn’t.
Brooke—Cheepiee doesn’t think it’s
proper to wear a watch with a dress
suit.
Lynne—He never had both
same time.—Lippincott’s,
at the
DIFFERENCE IN THEIR VIEWS
Uncle Si Eggmann Discourses on Rel
ative Sizes of Farms East
and West.
“Yes. sir, gentlemen; thar's a leetle
difference between farmin’ out west an’
back here in Old Varmouct," said
Uncle Si Eggmann to the cronies
around the stove at the Crossroads
store, on his return from a visit to
his brother in Dakota. “Now, out thar
in the west they don’t think they've
really got a farm unless it totals about
three or four thousand acres; an' if
they air raisin’ stock they speak o’
5,000 head as bein’ a 'leetle bunch o’
cattle.’ An’ takes 'em ’bout half a
day to hoe one row o’ corn, the rows
air so long, an' they harvest corn an’
wheat enough on one farm to till our
town hall. Now, that’s a leetle dif
f’rent from what it is here in New
England, where we call 20 acres o’
ground—a fourth of it graveyard—a
couple o’ dozen hens an’ a rooster, six
or eight lteows, an' a rozberry patch,
a farm! Yes, sir, gentlemen; that’s
a turrible diff'rence between farmin'
east an' farmin' west—a most turrible
diff’rence! ”—Puck.
RECRIMINATIONS.
She—You have now more than a
dozen shirts, and when we were mar
ried you had only one solitary one!
He—Yes, but that one didn’t need
mending!
Family Medicine Chest.
Every mother of sons ought to keep
an “accident box’’ containing a spool
of adhesive plaster, a package of car
bolated cotton, a bottle of boracic acid
and some soft old linen. A fresh cut
should be carefully bathed immediate
ly and bandaged to keep out the dirt,
which so often contains germs of lock
jaw'. If there is much bleeding, first
close the wound with the plaster, then
cover It with the cotton. An applica
tion of alcohol will easily remove tha
plaster.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
eas»‘ of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail’t
Catarrh Cure.
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We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cb-»ney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hoo
orable In ail business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan A Marvin.
Wholesale Druceists. Toledo. <X
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, artinc
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent lree. lTlce 75 cents par
bottle. Sold by all DnutRlsta.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Children Need Acting.
Rev. Perry Grant of New York
thinks that acting is a psychological
need, and is looking for the rich man
who will build a theater for children.
The purpose of such a theater, he says,
is educational and is in keeping with
the discoveries of Froebel, who knew
that play is an instinct implanted by
nature for educational purposes.
Safe and Sure.
Among the medicines that are recom
mended and endorsed by physicians and
nurses is Kemp’s Balsam, the best cough
cure. For many years it has been regard
ed by doctors as the medicine most likely
to cure coughs, and it has a strong hold
on the esteem of all well-informed people.
When Kemp’s Balsam cannot cure a cou. k
we shall l>e at a loss Hi know what WUH
At druggists’ and dealers', 25c.
There is no pleasure beyond the
rules of righteousness; there is no
pleasure in what injures another.
Lewis'Single Binder straight 5e cigar is
good quality all the time. Your dealer or
Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
Rather be thou the tail among lion*
than the head among foxes.
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