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Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles a ruffle of drums
A flash of color beneath the sky
Hats off
The Hag is passing by
Blue and crimson and -white it shines
Over the steel tipped ordered lines
Hats off
The colors before us fly -
But more thau the flag is passing by
Sea fights and land fights grim and great
Fought to make and fo save the state
Weary marches and sinking ships
Cheers of victory on dying lips
Days of plenty and days of peace
March of a strong lands swift increase
Equal justice right and law
Stately honor and reverend awe
Sign of a nation great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wrong
Pride and glory and honor all
Live in the colors to stand or fall
Hats off
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles a ruffle of drums
And loyal hearts are beating high
Hats off
The flag is passing by
Youths Companion
AN AUTISTIC ENDING
sun shone under her hat ana
THE her shade her eyes with
her hand as she looked up at me
standing by the edge of the river
Now Mr Conway she said are
you quite sure you can manage a
canoe
- Ill -promise you a new frock Miss
DeHa if I upset you said I gallantly
Dont be rash she laughed per
haps Ill think a new frock well worth
a wetting
I said if I upset you I replied If
you upset yourself I cry off the bar
gain
Im sure youll never be so mean as
to argue the cause of the damage
said Delia anyway Ill risk it
I feel a little afraid she said as I
gave her my hand to help her aboard
I am inclined to think however that
her hesitation was not altogether due
to nervousness but was a little influ
enced by the fact that she has the pret
tiest little feet in the world and was
wearing the very daintiest of brown
shoes which showed to the best advan
tage as she stood in timid uncertainty
one foot on shore and one poised over
the canoe I confess the attitude was
fascinating to me more especially as it
necessitated a very distinct pressure of
my steadying hand
I was the more convinced that the
timidity was affected when she even
tually settled herself among the cush
ions In the bow of the canoe for all
the world as if to the manner born In
deed as I stepped warily in the center
of the craft I am sure I was really the
more nervous of the two but then I
could judge of my shortcomings as a
canoeist far better than she
Now then 1 said are you quite
ureyou are comfortable
She gave a last smooth to the folds of
her brown skirt gave a little pat to the
leeves of her white blouse and lay
ack against the red cushions with a
sigh of content
Yes said she sweetly I am
ready
I let go the tuft of grass to which I
nad been clinging pushed off gently
-with my paddle and we were fairly
afloat
The sunshine sparkled on the water
vhe leaves of the trees waved ever so
softly in the breeze the bright colored
dragon flies darted hither and thither
while along the bank the bees flew lan
guidly from flower to flower as if they
only kept themselves awake by inces
sant buzzing
Isnt it delightful murmured De-
lia
It is indeed I assented but would
have done so more truthfully if the bow
of the canoe had not displayed so great
a reluctance to keep straight up the
river
The splash of the water from the pad-
die was wonderfully soothing and my
fair companion closed her eyes Direct
ly she did so politeness no longer de
barred me from gazing my fill at her
upturned face
I looked admiringly taking mental
stock of her charms How softly her
dark eyelashes swept her cheek how
coquettishly curved her mouth how
dainty the suspicion of a dimple either
side her lips how delicately turned her
chin how becomiug the red cushion to
her wealth of black hair yes undoubt
edly her nose was retrousse but a fig
for your stately Greek beauties there
is a fascination in the crash into the
bank went the bow of the canoe and
the subject of my reverie opened her
eyes with the start
Per the life of me I cannot steer a
canoe and think of something else at
the same time By the greatest good
luck we were not upset
I am most awfully sorry I stam
mered
I was nearly asleep she said
I cant think what happened if was
dreadfully careless of me
0 it really doesnt matter she re
plied with a great good nature
I paddled clear of the bank and vow-
ed such a collision should not occur
again Delia however made no fur
ther attempt to go to sleep
How smoothly the river runs she
said thoughtfully
Unlike the course of true love I
added wilier weakly
- It was not a very apposite remark
but then 1 knew the topic of love was a
dangerous one for me and so
dy I courted it as the moth the candle
There was a pause in the conversa
tion while I successfully negotiated a
sudden bend in the river
Its a great pity isnt it said De-
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What Is I inquired
Why that the course of true lore
over runs smooth
O but It does sometimes really I
asserted 7
I suppose the love isnt really true
then said she Nowadays books and
plays -nearly always end unhappily
0 well -said I philosophically
there are two sorts of love there is a
passionate love full of presentiment
which makes a man morbid and melan
choly and forces him a thousand times
to curse the fate that brings it to him
but this sort of love is too lofty for a
workaday world and the only artistic
ending is a tragic one
I am afraid I bored Delia now and
again by holding forth in this way but
she only gave the politest possible
yawn as she said And what about the
other
The other I went on taking care
to watch the course of the canoe is a
tender pastoral love which makes a
man cheerful and take rosy views of
life causing him to thank heaven ev
ery day that such a love has fallen to
his lot and the artistic ending is wed
ding bells and domestic happiness
Dear me Mr Conway said Delia
smiling you seem to know a great
deal about it
Delia has the sweetest gray brown
eyes and it is an extraordiaary pleas
ure to look into them longer than is ac
tually necessary while listening to or
making a remark only speaking of
artistic endings made me feel quite cer
tain tb ere was a more artistic ending to
such a look than mutually to drop our
eyes
I was just thinking about this and
now very graceful some girls look in a
canoe when like a fool I let my paddle
catch in a weed I endeavored as gen
tly as possible to extricate it but the
weed proved obstinate Delia grew
nervous and sat up in the canoe
0 please be careful Mr Conway
she cried
jl puneu a trine naraer Dut to no
purpose Then I lost patience I gave
the paddle a sharp jerk the weed gave
way all too suddenly Delia gave a lit
tie scream and I clutched wildly at
the side of the canoe in a vain attempt
to keep my balance It was all
over in a moment and when I say all
I include Delia myself and the canoe
Fortunately we were close to the banh
and the water was shallow I scram
bled a shore and helped Delia on to dry
land as best I could
Really Miss Delia I said feeling
unutterably foolish as I caught tk
painter of the canoe and rescued the
floating paddle Ill never forgive my
self for this I wish you were a man
and could swear at me
What an awful fright I must look
said poor Delia putting back her wei
hair from her face
I murmured of Venus rising from
the sea but indistinctly suddenly
doubting the propriety of the allusion
Dont forget your bargain Mr Con
way said she shaking the water from
her bedraggled skirt will you order
the frock or shall I and send you in the
bill
I know it was not a very suitable oc
casion to -do anything so serious as
make an offer of marriage also that it
was a very prosaic way of putting it
but upon my word I couldnt help it
I wish you would give me the right
to pay your bills I said
Delia blushed and then she laughed
I dont think I mind if I do she
said
We were both very wet and both very
muddy but I looked into those afore
mentioned brown eyes and this time
she didnt turn away for I discovered
the more artistic ending I put my arm
round her waist and kissed her Ma
dame
MUCH COVETED SPOT
Clipperton Island in the Pacific Has
Many Claimants
Few persons even know of the exist
ence of Clipperton Island and probably
not one in a hundred could point out its
position on a map Yet it is one of the
most coveted portions of this earths
surface and its ownership is disputed
by Mexico France the United States
and England Clipperton Island itself
is a mere speck in the Pacific Ocean
about four miles in circumference and
with but two palm trees on its barren
surface It is a coral island or atol
very difficult of access lying about 800
miles west of the Mexican coast
If this has been all the existence of
Clipperton Island would in all prob
abilitj have remained unknown But
it is the home of millions of seabirds
and tens of thousands of tons of guano
are to be found on its surface The va
rious claims to its possession have been
dormant for a long time and have not
disturbed the harmony of nations
But now this is all changed An Eng
lish guano company appeared on the
scene and commenced operations
From all quarters at once claims to the
rightful possession of Clipperton began
to come in and the company found itself
in a somewhat embarrassing position
It was willing and anxious to pay a
royalty on the guano removed but the
question was to whom should it be paid
Mexico appeared to have the greatest
right but this was deputed by the
United States No sooner were the
claims of Uncle Sam disproved than an
other claimant put in an appearance
France protests against the action of
Mexico and insists that the island
rightly belongs to her
Probably the best solution of this in
ternational tangle would be for the
present handful of inhabitants to sol
emnly declare their independence and
establish a republic which would rival
in minuteness those of Andora and San
Marino This would avert the possibil
ity of the addition of a furthest eastern
problem to the troubles -of a world
which is already burdened with an
eastern and a far eastern question
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THE STOKER A HERO
On Men-of-War There Is No Position
More Trying than Hia
Stripped to the waist perspiring in
the terrible heat of the furnaces the
stoker never knows how the battle is
going whether his ship will be blown
into the air or sent to the bottom as
he throws the coal into the fiery maw
of the furnace
Amongthe heroes on a battleship
none have so onerous a position and
none more dangerous than the men
who tend the furnaces and pass the
coal However the conflict above him
may range the stoker hears only its
distant murmur and feels onlv the
shock as the shells impact themselves
against the steel sides and the great
guns recoil from the thousand pounds of
steel and powder hurled at the enemy
Perhaps a chance shot may pierce the
10 inches of armor that guard the en
gines and boilers and the rushing water
may drown him as he vainly seeks to
escape Perhaps the 50 tons of ex
plosives in the magazines may be
reached by a projectile from the en
emys guns and he may be blown to
pieces in the steel cell where he is at
work
At any time the crisis may come and
small chance Is there for him to catch
on the floating spar or wreckage In
such cases the stoke hole always
proves the coffin of the men who feed
the furnaces and lend the initial assist
ance towards making the war vessel a
thing of life
The stoke hole in a battleship is sit
uated far below the water line at a
point almost amidships A long grimy
room it is hemmed In by steel walls
STOKERS AT WORK
and coal bunkers with a score of fiery
Ifurnace doors that send out gleaming
jrays of light Into the apartment the
only light that the room ever receives
It has no windows and no doors In the
ceiling above great ventilators pierce
the steel Currents of cool air take the
place of that sucked in by the furnaces
JThe room Is filled with a sickening
Iheat that only the experienced stoker
can stand
In this room the stoker works and
works hard The duties are so severe
that he is rarely required to work a
ishift of more than four hours A line
of coal passers constantly moves each
man trundling a barrow of coal into
the stoke hole and as it is dumped on
the floor the stoker armed with a long
shovel jerks the chain that opens the
door seizes a shovelful of fuel and
dashes It into the great hed of glow
ing roaring flame where it is licked up
almost before the stoker with half
shielded face can close the door
Each stoker has an alloted number
of furnace dors to take care of ac
cording to the size of the ship and the
capacity of its boilers He has scarce
ly a moments rest during his shift and
when he is not throwing coal into the
glowing ovens of flame he wields a rake
in the burning fuel and nicety of ex
perience keeps the great furnace at an
even heat The steam gauge over his
head is watched and every fluctuation
noted The assistant engineer who su
perintends the work of stoker is con
stantly on the alert The life of a bat
tleship may often depend on a proper
handling by the engineer If one of the
furnaces Is disabled by a chance shot
no harm may result but if more are
disabled the ship may be at the ene
mys mercy
In spite of their hard duties the
ers are healthy strong and vigorous
men The intense heat in which they
work tans their skki a dark brown
They are fairly well paid and have
many liberties They are idle more or
less when the vessel is in port and little
steam is kept up
When the battle begins the men in
the stoke hole are able to tell only that
the ship has gone info action They
hear the roar of the batteries as they
are fired and feel the shock of the shell
as It bursts on the armored sides but
the terrible anxiety of a half days con
flict Is greater to them than to the men
Who work the guns or direct the ships
movements 5
As the battle goes on there are many
who win praise for bravery in action
but to the stoker there is only to toil on
In the furious heat each one doing his
small share He helps to win by keep
ing his integral part of the engine of
war in working order at the direction
of the commander
The Use of the Great Toe
The negroes of the West Indies use
the great toe constantly in climbing
Several years ago While spending some
time at one of the famous resorts in
Jamaica I had an opportunity to ob
serve the skill with which the black
women who do a great part of the
menial labor carried stone mortar and
other building materials on their heads
to the top of the flve story tower in a
part of the hotel not then finished
Much of the unerring accuracy with
which they women and girls chased
each other up and down the long lad
ders with heavy loads skillfully poised
on their woolly pates was due to the
firmness with which they grasped each
rung of the ladders with the great toe
They did not place the ball or the hol
low of the foot on the rung but the
groove at the juncture of the great toe
with the body of the foot and they
held fast by making the back of the
other toes afford the other gripping
surface In much the same way the
Abyssinian native cavalry grasp the
stirrup And I have seen a one armed
Santo Domingan black astride the
near ox in a wheel yoke guiding a lead
mule with a rein held between his great
and second toes while his only arm
was devoted to cracking his teamsters
whip Overland Monthly
No Repentance in the Grave
A Scotch divine entered the church
yard one day while the sexton was bus
ily employed neck deep in a grave
throwing up soil and bones to make
room for a dead parishioner
Well Sannders said the minister
that is a work well calculated to make
an old man like you thoughtful I
wonder you do not repent of your evil
ways and make resolves while so se
riously occupied about anothers grave
to live a better life and prepare for
your own The olid man resting him
self upon the edge of his spade calmly
replied I thought sir ye kent that
there is no repentance in the grave
On Dangerous Ground
Dick I am convinced now that the
funny men are right when they say a
woman cant understand a joke
Tom Why whats happened
Dick I called on Mrs Dartleigh
that sprightly little widow you know
last night and just in a joking way pro
posed to her
Tom Yes
Dick Well it looks now as if I will
have to furnteh a very elaborate dia
gram to get her to see through it
Cleveland Leader
Horse Brains
An East Hebron Maine horse proves
his wit in this wise Two nights in suc
cession the nag slipped his headstall off
and pushed an inner door of the stable
open and slid the outer railroad door
with his teeth and went into the field
and helped himself to grass He was
detected by the prints of his teeth on
the cross bars of the door
More than a fair profit is realized on
the articles sold at a church fair
Boils are not consideredfashionable
but they are always swell affairs
A horse will livs twenty five days
without food merely drinking water
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GREAT GUNS QALOftE
Nearly Halt a Hundred Latest BapU
Fire Machine Gnna
The Cunard liner Etruria just before
war was declared brought over a cargo
of fifty five cases of rapld firerifles and
machine guns and a large quantity of
smokeless powder consigned from
Armstrong Whitworth Co of
to Baring Brothers
Co of New York City With the gnns
were their carriages and fittings This
shipment was for the War Department
The guns were all purchased from the
Armstrongs Twelve of them were
manufactured for tba Brazilian Gov
ernment which released the Arm
strongs from their contract that our
Government might have them In all
forty six were purchased The total
weight of all the guns purchased Is
something over 900000 pounds
The guns are unlike anything made
in this country For that reason the
ammunition for them was bought on
the other side since it would take alto
gether too long and would cost too
much money to change the machinery
in the ordnance plants in this country
In order to supply the projectiles for
the guns The rapid fire guns are all
Maxim and Nordenfeldt rifles about
five inch bore and are to be used for
coast defense The machine guns it is
said are to be mounted in some of the
ships of the navy
Admiral Itos squadron m the recent
Chinese Japanese war was well equip
ped with rapid fire guns while the
Chinese had none The battle of the
Yalu demonstrated the value of rapid
fire guns Ship after ship of the Chinese
fleet opened fire at long range with the
heavy guns but the Japanese ships
stood straight on until within 3000
yards of the enemy when they turned
in succession eight points to port and
opening with broadsides from their six-
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poured in a hail of steel riddling the
upper parts of the superstructures of
the Chinese ships The water was lash
ed to foam by shells which ricochet
ting inflicted most of the hits The
Japanese fired three or four times as
fast as the Chinese cutting down all
who were on deck Officers were killed
at their posts by the deadly rapid fires
and none of them could be forced on
deck even at the muzzle of the pistol
Clergymans Experiment
A laudable attempt on the part of Sr
Notting Hill clergyman to practicall
illustrate to the working class portion
of his flock the combined benefits of
religion and a tankard of beer has we
regret to hear proved unsuccessful
The Rev Prebendary Denison started
for the social pleasure of his congrega
tion a club where the reverend gen
tleman or his curate went after dis
pensing theological pabulum in the
church and served the members with
beer and other corporeal refreshments
The idea was to keep them away from
public houses and to afford them hon
est recreation with a reasonable amount
of tipple By the rules no man could
be served with Jiquor more than three
times in the course of a night But the
clergyman was unaware of the degree
if not of original sin at least of bibulous
Ingenuity among the rougher classes of
Notting Hill They evaded tbe rule
by clubbing together their twopences
and treating each other so that In the
course of the evening a member was
able to obtain half a dozen or even
more drinks instead of three The re
sult was sometimes unpleasant and
the Prebendary has therefore reluct
antly determined to give up the experi
ment London Telegraph
Spread of the English Language
Mr Gladstone lately expressed him
self as believing that English is to be
the language of the future Mr Glad
stones reasons are based on what has
happened within his own lifetime
When Mr Gladstone was born Englisih
was spoken by 30000000 of people It is
now spoken by 120000000 Tbe num
ber of people in the earth who speak
English is doubled every forty years
This forms the basis of a very simple
calculation as to when the entire popu
lation of the earth shall speak English
The two great English speaking coun
tries are Great Britain and the United
States Wherever Great Britain goes
she carries the English language and
whoever comes to the United States
learns it
Sufficient Provocation
Alkali Ike Wots the matter pod
ner Why did you hang that ere
chap
Cactus Cal He got his guitar out
last night and begin playin the Spao
Ish fandango Pittsburg Chronicle
Accustomed to It
Ella Jack dear do you think you
can stand up in the battles brunt
Jack Oh yes I have become quits
accustomed to face powder Nevi
I York Evening World
President yure a Worker
President Faure Js a tremendous
worker Following the custom of his
earlier life he arises before dawn and
has accomplished much long befora
fashionable Paris is awalfe He gives
his personal attention to countless mac i
ters which are ordinarily looked rter
by secretaries and he conducts the
manifpM affairs of the government on
strict business principles All letters
are answered the same day they are re
ceived
BIHb of Fare in Fashionable Restau
rants
The question has been mooted over and
over again whether French and German
dishes upon the bills of fare is or is not an
Improvement Many pretend that before
their introduction cooking was coarse No
bill of fare presents attractions to the dys
peptic but even they can be cured by Hos
tetters Stomach Bitters
Women of Paris Are Very JBeantifnL
I like the way the French take their
amusements writes Miss Lilian Bell
In a letter from Paris to the Ladie3
Home Journal At the theater they
laugh and applaud the wit of the hero
and hiss the villain They shout their
approval of a duel and weep aloud over
the death of the aged mother When
they drive in the Bois they smile and
have an air of enjoyment quite at va
riance with the bored expression of En
glish and Americans who have enough
money to own carriages We drove in
Hyde Park- in London the day before
we came to Paris and nearly wept
with sympathy for the unspoken grief
in the face of the unfortunate rich who
were at such pains to enjoy themselves
I never saw such beautiful women as I
see in Paris French men are insignifi
cant as a rule and English women are
beefy and dress like rag bags
Ate the Card in a Sandwich
One Sunday evening a party of poker
experts were seated in a prominent up
town hotel lobby discussing incidents
relating to the science of Schenck and
some good stories were the outcome
jOneof the veterans at thumbing the
pasteboards related an incident in his
own career where he had been dealt
six cards
It was at a critical stage of the
game said the old sport and when
I looked at the cards they were of the
most needful variety
What did you do with the sixth
card queried an attentive listener
I ordered a ham sandwich was the
reply and concealing the card be
tween the bread and the meat ate the
whole outfit
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