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OUR PRESIDENTS
JAMES MONROE
The fifth president of the Uulted States was born in Westmoreland county
Va in 1758 He died in New York on the Fourth of July 1831 During the
earlier years of the Revolution he served with great bravery and ability as
an officer In the American army In 1803 President Jefferson sent him to
France as special envoy to complete negotiations for the purchase of the vast
territory of Louisiana Monroe served as president from 1817 to 1825 His
name Is Identified with the famous Monroe doctrine which was chiefly the
work of John Quincy Adams his secretary of state
FIRE FIGHTING AT SEA
Methods of Extinguishing Flames
on Board Ships
RIGID DISCIPLINE THE RULE
When the Alarm Is Sounded Every
Member of the Crew Has His Station
and Carries Out the Particular Duty
Intrusted to Him
Of all disasters that can befall a
ship none Is more dreaded by the
mariner than a fire at sea Indeed the
annals of Lloyds record few greater
ocean tragedies and be it said no
more conspicuous instances of gal
lantry and heroic effort than those con
nected with ships afire
No wonder then in view of the
dreadful possibilities of an outbreak
of fire on board that a thorough knowl
edge of the proper steps to be taken
in extinguishing the flames at the out
Bet or at least holding them in check
is expected of every officer from the
captain downward
Most vessels are nowadays fitted
with hydrants several on each deck
and in the case of large liners hose
is kept in handy places ready to be
attached to the hydrants at a mo
ments notice Moreover every large
passenger boat carries a number of
portable extinguishers which can be
strapped on a mans back The spray
from these Is of course thin but very
effective in subduing small outbreaks
where the fire has not secured too firm
a hold
Fire drill forms a weekly feature in
the routine on every ocean liner Ev
ery member of the crew literally from
captain to cabin boy has his fire
station allotted to him at which
when the signal is given he takes his
position and carries out the particular
duty intrusted to him
When an actual outbreak occurs the
fire alarm is if possible avoided so as
to prevent panic among the passengers
Word is passed quietly around the pas
sengers being kept in ignorance as
long as possible In fact more than
one fire at sea has been extinguished
without any suspicion on the part of
the passengers that the outbreak was
other than an imaginary one engineer
ed by the officers to give the passengers
a chance of seeing what could be done
in the event of the real thing occurring
In many cases of course the passen
gers have to be informed but the news
is always broken as lightly as possible
and some special entertainment a con
cert a dance theatricals and so on is
got up to allay any natural feeling of
nervous anxiety- Of course if the fire
shows signs of becoming unmanage
able the boats are got ready and swung
out in case it appears necessary to
abandon the ship
Every boat on large liners is kept
fully provisioned food sufficient for
several days being contained in air and
water tight tanks
The worst fires at sea are those
which cannot easily be got at These
usually occur amid the cargo in the
lower holds and are often spontaneous
in their origin In such cases it is
highly dangerous to open the hatches
The fire which may have been smol
dering for days will naturally burst
Into a blaze as soon as the air Is ad
mitted
The proper course is to exclude the
air In every possible way consequently
even the ventilators are stopped up
If the holds are fitted with steam
pipes the steam Is at once turned on
Otherwise hoesace cutJnthexlci
just large enough to admit the nozzles
of the fire hose and water is vigorous
ly pumped into the hold
In one form of extinguishing ap
paratus instead of steam or water
sulphurous fumes are injected Into
the hold the fumes being generated
in a machine specially fitted for that
purpose This injection method is
highly effective and rarely fails if the
pipes are properly placed in each hold
The steam or fumes are turned on
from the upper deck
If a fire breaks out In the hold and
assumes such dimensions that steam
injection is powerless to check it the
vessel is when possible got into shal
low water and if necessary beached
In any case the sea cocks of the par
ticular hold are opened and the hold
allowed to fill with water This can
usually be done with very little fear
of the vessel foundering as modern
built ships are divided into many com
partments separated by strong water
tight bulkheads of steel or iron Such
is the buoyancy of a vessel so con
structed that instances have been
known of a craft remaining afloat with
only one or two of these compartments
dry
If the burning hold is a very large
one and by flooding it with water
there is danger of the vessel founder
ing the cargo In another hold Is
thrown overboard or jettisoned as
It is called at sea to counteract the
weight of water admitted into the first
hold As a last resource the vessel
If in dock or shallow water is scut
tled by opening the sea cocks This has
been done more than once in Tilbury
docks
We seldom hear nowadays of fire
breaking out in the passengers quar
ters on largo liners The introduction
of electric lighting on board ship has
no doubt conduced greatly to this Im
proved state of matters When a fire
does break out in the cabin it is usu
ally soon detected for a constant
watch is kept by the officers and night
stewards who make periodical tours
of inspection during the nocturnal
hours Pearsons Weekly
Look on the poor with gentle eyes
for In such habits often angels desire
ilms Massinger
A Catch Question
Of Bishop Short who held the see of
St Asaph many curious stories are
told Occasionally he put questions to
candidates for ordination that appar
netly had no connection with the dis
charge of their parochial duties They
tested probably their wit or tact two
necessary qualifications to public men
but nothing more One such question
proposed by the bishop was the fol
lowing Which has the greatest num
ber of legs a cat or no cat
As might be expected this created a
titter but the bishop would not take a
laugh as the answer and consequently
he repeated the question and desired
some one to solve the problem At last
one of the candidates smiling said I
should think my lord a cat
No retorted the bishop there you
are wrong for a cat has four legs and
no cat has five London Telegraph
Story of a Greek Saint
A member of the Royal Geographical
society gives this little story of a
Greek saint Our good St Blazios
gave us the phrase drunk as Blazes
for this saint was pleasantly done to
death by having his flesh torn off by
wool combs and so he became the pa
tron of the English wool combers and
as a high feast was kept up on his day
and the people who frequented the
feast were called Blazers so the saying
grew Into the English tongue and re
mains there fixed and useful
CYPRESS KNEES
How They Aro Formed Trees Curious
Blunt Rjots
The cypress knee Is a familiar object
in all the lowland forests of the south
but there are thousands of northern
people who have never seen them and
there are many southern people too
who have not seen them till they
stumbled over tliem some dark night
The knee is of solid wood has no limbs
or leaves Is anywhere from six Inches
to six feet In height and its rounded
top and flattened sides give it very
much the shape of a human leg bent at
the knee till thigh and calf are brought
together hence the appropriate name
of knee
For a number of years I was curious
as to what part the knees played in
the life of a cypress tree writes a cor
respondent of Forest and Stream for
they are part of its root system and do
not grow Independently They were
not sprouts trying to grow into trees
for they never developed branches and
the final conclusion was that their only
use was for people to stumble over
How and why such useless appendages
to the tree wero formed was a mys
tery until one day when drifting down
a deep channel which had been washed
through a cypress swamp the secret
was exposed
The earth had been washed fiway
from the roots of some of the trees
and roots in all stages of growth were
In sight None of these roats 13 less
than two and one half iuchco tlickand
of uniform size clear to their tips or
rather clear to their blunt ends for
there was no tip
Nature Intended these roots to grow
In soft mud and they were all right
for that purpose but when the blunt
end of a root encountered something
too hard to push through It bent or
buckled In the line of least resistance
and this was generally toward the top
of the ground and the continuing
growth of the root pushing the bend
further upward made the bend closer
until finally the two arms of the bend
were close together and they grew to
gether with one sheet of bark Inclos
ing both
STUDY YOUR HORSE
If the Animal Has Mental Troubles
Try to Remedy Them
To begin with does your horse suffer
from nostalgia or homesickness Most
horses do and many really pine away
and die from no other cause We can
at least by making the poor creature
thoroughly comfortable do all in our
power to give his pain surcease and
to make him happy and contented for
than homesickness of the acute and
chronic form men knows few more
wearing ailments Is your horses dis
position sociable or misanthropic You
dont know Well why not find out
Does it irritate him to have his yoke
mate or neighbors eating noisily and
visibly while he does Is privacy evi
dently his preference Very well then
by boards or zinc or tin or canvas shut
off both sides of his stall at the head
so that he may eat in peace and live
the isolated life which he prefers
If he lays back his ears or snaps at
his neighbors or fidgets and kicks at
the partitions etc he does not fancy
company at least at mealtimes and
he will be better do better and here
the pocket comes in keep more cheaply
if you cater to his fancy If on the
contrary a shy feeder let him see
others eat even let him by a simple
arrangement feed from the same man
ger as one of his neighbors which is
to be tied up short until Master Dainty
has eaten all he will when upon al
lowing the neighbor to partake the fas
tidious one will redouble his efforts to
eat just to spite the late comer at the
feast The writer has used this plan
with many poor feeders from race
horses down and always with the best
results F M Ware In Outing Maga
zine
He Hadnt Changed a Bit
The Smiths had invited the minister
to dinner As the last course was
reached little Willie who had been
closely watching the guest almost con
tinually through the meal looked over
at him once more and said
You havent changed a bit since
you started eating have you Mr Cur
tis
Why no laughed the minister
Why do you ask that question
Because blurted Willie confused
by the pairs of eyes focused on him
because I heard pa tell ma youd make
a big hog of yourself as soon as you
got your eye on the corned beef and
cabbage Bohemian Magazine
He Had Had Some Help
The man who applied at headquar
ters for a little help from the char
itable association set forth his case
with so much tact and moderation that
the secretary was beginning to be fa
vorably impressed
I cant ask them to do too much
the applicant said modestly You
see he continued in an outburst of
delicacy and ingenuousness they
paid for my wedding last month and
twas a real swell one Youths Com
panion
Pain of a Wooden Leg
Barneys wooden leg has been pain
ing im of late said Scholes to his
wife
How can that be asked Mrs
Scholes irritably
Mrs Barney has been thrashing Im
with it was the explanation
The Twins
Cholmondely You and your sister
are twins are you not Marjoribanks
We were when we were children
Now however she Is five years young
er than I Cleveland Leader
Reason serves when pressed but hon
est Instinct comes a volunteer Pope
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JAMES MPARLAND
Orchard to make the astounding con
fession of crimes In which he impli
cated officials of the Western Federa
tion of Miners McParlaud began his
career as a sleuth thirty four years
ago when as a young man of twenty-
mous organization of cutthroats known
as the Molly Maguires For nearly
twenty years these criminals had been
murdering mine superintendents po
licemen constables and other men In
authority
McParland at first became a coal
miner but he soon discovered that
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membership in the Mollies was not
confined to the miners Saloon keep
ers backieg politicians and others were
in It The society had lodges in va
rious parts of the state The meetings
were secret and there were passwords
grips and other signs McParland join
ed the Mollies and became apparently
a saloon bum after he quit the mines
He drank so much bad whiskj that his
health failed and he came near dying
All the time he was reporting daily to
his employers the Pinkerton agency
After two years as a Molly the young
man had enough information Many
arrests were made Eleven men were
hanged on evidence discovered by Mc
Parland and forty were sent to the
penitentiary That was the last of the
Mollies
For several years McParland disap
peared It was given out that he was
dead Another story was that he had
gone to the other side of the earth to
escape the vengeance of the Mollies
McParland became manager of the
Pinkerton branch at Denver a number
of years ago For years he worked on
the supposition that the niauy murders
explosions mine burnings and other
crimes in Colorado Idaho and Utah
were instigated by men officially con
nected with the Western Federation of
Miners When Orchard was arrested
shortly after killing ex Governor Steun
enberg of Idaho the veteran detective
had so much information already on
hand that It was not a very hard task
to get Orchards confession
RED MAN ON DIAMOND
Charley Bender the Wonderful Indian
Pitcher of Philadelphia Athletics
Charley Bender the Indian pitcher
of the Philadelphia Athletics is a
typical representative of his race He
is lithe and of powerful build though
not stocky He is a graduate of the
Carlisle Indian school and gained con-
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BEXDER OX THE DIAMOND
siderable repute as a football player
while at this institution Bender rose
to fame two years ago when he twirled
the Philadelphia Athletics to victory
in the second game of the worlds
eeries against the New York Nationals
He was the first Indian to play in this
kind of a series Is a wonderful pitcher
tfnd fools the strongest batsman
Such a Friendliness
Mabel Guess what Jack has prom
ised to bring me tonight to wear on the
third finger of my left hand
Stella Oh thimble I supposa De
troit Tribune
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A CULTURED BASS
Veteran Detective Who Secured Harry Hion8r Education Wat tho Ruin of
Orchards Confession Ths intelligent Fish
America has no detective more Inter- I RflSS nro intelllcent little beasts
esung man james Mcrariana tne
Plnkerton operator who induced Harry
A Story of Samuel Warren and Mat
thew Davenport Hill
Sam Warren the author of Ten
Thousand a Year has been the sub
ject of many anecdotes none of them
better than one which I first heard re
lated about him by his friend Matthew
Davenport Hill
Looking in one day at Warrens
chambers Hill noticed that he seemed
a little troubled It Is said the lawyer-novelist
most unfortunate I
ought to have dined tonight with the
lord chancellor but Mrs Warren Is
about to present me with another olive
branch How can I leave her I hope
his lordship wont be annoyed at my
putting him off Oh returned Hill
dont make yourself uneasy I am
one of the guests I know him so well
I can put it all right for you With
these words the visitor prepared to
leave the room
At first profusely grateful Warren
presently seemed a little perplexed and
said By the bye after all I wont
trouble you to say anything about me
to the chancellor Between ourselves
I have not been invited
Well rejoined Hill make yourself
comfortable on that point For that
matter neither have I Pall Mall Ga
zette
To Cure Blushing
A great many men blush said a
physician some so painfully that they
come to me to be cured
The cure I recommend is an odd
one It is the abandonment of over
heavy clothing especially of wool
en socks Amazing it is how many
male blushers have a predilection for
thick socks of wool
But some blushers wear light
enough clothes To them I can only
recommend a nerve treatment I ad
vise them to make speeches at ban
quets to be witnesses in murder trials
to go to teas and dances to develop in
short the nerve as a wrestler develops
his muscle
Blushing Is a difficult disorder to
cure As a rule it passes away of it
self when the victim reaches his thirty
fifth year New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lying
It was said of Dr Johnson that he
always talked as though he were tak
ing an oath Die detested the habit of
lying or prevaricating in the slight
est degree and would not allow his
servants to say he was not at home if
he was A servants strict regard
for the truth said he must be weak
ened by such a practice If I accus
tom my servant to tell a lie for me
have I not reason to apprehend that
he will tell It for himself A strict
adherence to truth the doctor consid
ered as a sacred obligation and in re
lating the smallest anecdote he would
not allow himself the minutest addi
tion to embellish his story
The Transformed Pythagorean
Some undergraduates once wished to
play a practical joke upon a man who
was a disciple of Pythagoras so one
day when he was a little sleepy by
reason of the amount of brandy and
soda that he had imbibed his friends
smeared him with honey and rolled
him in the inside of a feather bed
When the disciple of Pythagoras got
up in the morning he looked In the
looking glass at himself and said slow
ly with a whistle Bird by Jove
London Telegraph
Love and Hate
Love once more perhaps this time
you may succeed in being loved back
ngain
Enemies are only useful as long as
you are rising Once at the top you
must do away with them by making
them your friends Epigrams of Queen
Elisabeth Carmen Sylva
Making Sure
Dentist Ive filled all of your teeth
that have cavities sir
Mahoney Well thin fill th rlst av
thlm too thin whin th cavities come
theyll be already filled bgobs Lon
don Tit Bits
The first farmer was the first man
tnd all historic nobility rests on pos
2ssion and use of land Emerson
Tho Stato Fair to bo held at Lincoln
Sept 2 6 gives promise of being tho
greatest State Pair over hold in Ne
braska Secretary W K Mellor in
forms us that the exhibits in all do-
That Is the reason they travel in partments ore very heavy ana promiso
schools remarked Walter Dumpling to exceed in magnitudo those of last
an authority on Ashing and a veaTj wnjch was tho record breaker
date for the nature fakir class heretofore Tho management have se-
I have frequently observed then 1
cured Cua8 j Strobeland bis airship
studying ho continued whether It -
inch aro now making Aghta at the
was better taste to swallow a minnow
wholn or on tho installment plan I Jamestown Exposition to mako daily
nine he went Into the coal regions of have Bcen tnem scek knowledge con- flights nt our Fair Tho stake races
Pennsylvania commissioned to discover ftlrnlnir runber frosrs and having made have 128 horses named in them as
all that he could concerning the t mlnlfl that it was a false i ncninor m nnmA t vnr nnd this
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friend go off and warn their com-
rades
I have seen them studying weather
conditions coming to the surface gaz
ing Intently at the sky finding the di
rection of tho wind and satisfying
themselves whether tomorrow would
be clear or rainy
All real fishermen can vouch for
the statement that bass are fond of
children I have seen them eat up the
little ones
Bass are natural defenders of the
home life and when a carp or catfish
comes browsing around to devour the
eggs the female had laid the male will
attack the Intruder by swimming un
der the enemy and slashing him with
the sharp dorsal spine
I once knew a bass so intelligent
that It refused to bite on the ordinary
bait and was only caught after a page
from an encyclopedia had been tied
to the hook Higher education was his
finish Philadelphia North American
IN THE SAME BOAT
feature of the Fair is looked forward to
with great anticipation by tho horse
lovers Fully 25 per cent more swine
will be exhibited this year than last
and all the live stock departments are
receiving an abundance of entries If
no more entries of County Collective
Exhibits aro received from now on
Agricultural hall will havo a finer
exhibit than ever before Nebraska
has tho best agricultural exhibit shown
at any Fair in tho United States and
such un exhibit is a credit to our stato
and worth going miles to seo The Im
plement section is even greater than
that of Inst year and a farmer contemp
lating the purchase of a pieco of mach
inery will secure the best of satisfaction
by comparing the different kinds of the
same machine all of which will be
shown by experts who can teach you
tho points of superiority
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