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THE liARKE DAILY TIMS, SEPT. 21, 1001.
Makes Cooking Easy!
The Times' Daily Short Story. I
BUNKER HILL AFLOAT
Copyright, 1304, by T. C. MClurc
, The good ship Hanger had been
chartered by the Chinese government
to carry $10O,inkj In silver from I"u
chau to Japan, and her crew of four
teen Americans were reeuforeed by
(thirty Chinese soldiers, and two heavy
cannon were mounted on our decks to
Lid defiance to pirates.
On the morning of our second day
out, which happened to be on the 3d
jof July, we found a suspicious looking
Junk bearing down on us from the
west. She ran down to within a mile1
wf us, apparently established our Iden
tity to her satisfaction and then laid
jher course parallel with ours. As we
had a light breeze all day, the Junk
:held her own, and Just at suudown two
more craft of her size came down on
jus from the lee of the Chinchin Is
lands. Word must have been Rent on
iat least three days ahead of us that
we were a treasure ship.
Night closed down with the three
Junks a mile to windward, and each of
tbem held Its position through the long
hours. We could have gone off to lee
ward and made a utern cbhse of It, or
we could have turned and hoped that
they would not dare to follow,
"No, I'll be hanged If I do!" shouted
Captain White when the crew gath
ered aft and asked him if he should
take that course. "I'm bound for Ja
pan under charter, and if there were
six Junks instead of three I wouldn't
vary a point from my course.. Dern
an American who'll run away from
anything! They won't attack till morn
ing, and tomorrow Is the glorious
Fourth. We'll dress the ship and then
dress the pirates."
We would have daylight at 4 o'clock,
and when the first signs of dawn came
stealing over the waters there was
wind enough to do with the Kanger
as we saw fit.
Every flag we had aboard, no matter
what the nationality, was hoisted, and
in addition to them the steward was
olered to make other flags of the cab
in sheets and tablecloths, and every
blue or ed shirt lu the men's chests
was likewise converted Into bunting.
The old craft must have had a queer
look to the pirates, and when she her
alded the day with a salute of cannon
and small arms, followed by three
rousing cheers, the fellows must have
wondered what sort of a menagerie
they had been following during the
night. The cook had breakfast at
once, and by sunrise we were waiting
for a move ou the part of the Junks.
Then the native officer was sent for,
and Captain White asked:
"Well, are you going to fight?"
"If not too many come," was the re
ply. "Too many, you slab sided son of a
gun! What difference does it make to
us how many there are? Trot out your
gang, while I give them a word or
RUSSIA LIKE AMERICA.
Plains About Moscow Resem
ble Kansas and Nebraska.
PEOPLE KISDLY AND DEMOCRATIC
Country Sccnea Recalllna; New Ens
land and Swampy 11 tie Lands Sim
ilar to GrorBla No Snoba In the
Star Land Children of Katur.
It is quite a new light that is thrown
ou the Russian character by Louisa
Kimball In a current issue of the New
York Evening Post:
My first experiences ia Russia, she
says, were much in the nature of a
revelation. Here was an entourage of
country and people and life at first
sight astonishingly like America and
the Americans! The boundless level
stretches of woodland and wheatfleld3,
the great rivers and lakes seen from
our car windows, the ranchlike settle
ments and small frontier towns at
which our train halted, transported me
on my first day in Russia to the
prairies of Iowa and Nebraska. When
we loft the railroad at L , the wood
en built country town, and drove the
fifteen versts to my friend's estate,
among the chief impres3lous of my
Every seven minutes in the day a
new Glenwood is made and sold
IS fej f 1 t
M(BlWi
REYNOLDS & SON, BARRE, VERMONT
two."
The Chinese soldiers came shutTlins
forward, and one glance was enough
to show that they had no heart for a
fight
"You miserable, cowardly trash:"
shouted the captain as he caught one
of the gang and lifted hi in off his feet
and cracked his hwls together. "Now,
then, are you going to help us? Wake
up here and listen to uie! You'll either
fight like devils or we'll chuck you
overboard to the sharks. Mates, take
hold and help rue to kick some grit
Into their cowardly hearts."
It was the funniest scene ever wit
nessed before a battle. For ten min
utes we booted the soldiers up and
down the decks, with the crew laugh
ing and cheering, and we eeesed kick
ing only when they promised to do
their full duty. They feared our boot
toes more than the cannon of the Junks.
They were scattered along between the
guns, where our men could keep an
eye on them, and we were all at our
stations when one of the Junks flew a
signal and the three bore down on us.
Our ordnance was twelve pounders,
with fuse shell for the first charges,
and there was hardly a whisper among
the men aa the foremost juuk came
'sailing down to get us wilhiu range of
her four pound pieces. The captain let
her loose to within two cable lengths
and then gave the order to fire. The two
starboard guns were discharged at al
most the same second, and as the men
knew Jlttle or nothing of big gun prac
tice it was luck or accident that sent
the shells where they landed. Both
went plump Into the Junk's hull on her
port bow, and both exploded Inside of
her. The pirate was literally blown
out of the water. It wasn't thirty sec
ends from the time the shells struck
Jier before she was out of sight under
water, and not one of her forty or fifty
nieu escaped death.
"Now tor the next:" shouted Cap
tain While when his voice could be
heard above the cheering, and the star
board watch ran to the braces and
brought the ship around so that our
port battery could be brought to bear.
As we, came around we had the sec
ond Junk almost under our bows, and
such of our men as were not at the
plus, assisted by the soldiers, opened
tire with muskets. We got a hot fire
b.ck. but only for a couple of minutes.
Then the big guns plumped their shells
lis' her, and she was simply torn open
to follow number one to the bottom.
Ovil of her complement of fifty men we
observed about half a do?eu clinging
1 1 the wreckage. The third Junk hung
J . the wind for a moment and then
l . ide off to the westward.
"Not If I'm a Yankee and a patriot!"
exclaimed Captain White as he saw
her turn tail. "We've got two. but It's
the glorious Fourth, and we want the
third one. Round with her, men. and
we'll finish this Job in shipshape fash
ion." We ran one of the guna forward,
opened on her with shell and sank
ber. M. QUAD.
first Intimacy with the Russian coun
try were the miles of swampy pine
land, reminiscent of Georgia, through
which ran the rough macadam road;
the newly cultivated fields, with piles
of stone by the roadway; American
field machines, and little villages of
log built cottages, each with Its Ameri
can "yard." As we arrived at the sim
ple gateways and drove through the
lilac bordered avenue to an old fash
ioned wooden mansion embowered in
trees, with its flower beds, tennis
court, apple orchards, and, beyoud,
farm buildings of New England's gen
erous proportions, sAisatious strangely
familiar could not be quite crowded
out by the characteristic enthusiasm
of the Russian welcome that awaited
us, by the barefoot peasant maids who
ran down the steps to unload our be
longings, and by my immediate Intro
duction to the steaming samovar and
to a bath with a handful of snowy flax
for a sponge.
The lovable Russian peasants inev
itably came to be the object of my
warmest interest and study. It la true
that they are children of impulse, aud
drunkenness is said to be aa at least
weekly custom among the men. But,
although one of the villages was situ
ated within a quarter of a nolle from
the house, I did not see more than
half a dozen peasants under the influ
ence of the baneful vodka during the
two months of my visit. The vll'ige
school building would be a model of. its
A
kind anywhere light, clean and airy,
with growing plants and all modern
appliances of maps and blackboards.
As to the present relations between
these peasants and their former mas
ters, not even among the settlement
workers of our great cities hare I seen
more ideal relations between rich and
poor. The greatest practical interest
is shown by the members of the pro
prietary family in all that concerns the
welfare of their peasants.
Above all, unfailing love, sympathy
and trust are both given and returned
in full measure between them. Upon
the return home of a daughter of the
house as a bride the peasants Join the
family in the general welcome at the
entrance to the village, offering their
homemade sweets and toasts ia their
own home brewed wine. The Intimate
"thou" la always exchanged between
them, as well as the whole category
of caressing names, "little soul," "little
dove," "little mother," etc., with which
the Russian language abounds.
This close touch and freedom of rela
tions with the lower classes brings us
to one of the salient characteristics of
the Slav nature. Mindful of the prob
able exceptions there must be to prove
the rule, one can say In absolute truth
that a Russian snob is an impossibility.
When the peasant girl becomes en
gaged to be married and 13 about to
leave her father's home her first duty
Is to follow the time honored custom
of throwing herself at her father's feet,
there to sob out her thanks for her past
life and beg forgiveness for all she
may have done amiss. High and low
alike show this spirit of really Christ
like humility.
Many other traits of the peasant's
childlike nature are rooted deep in the
heart of every sou and daughter of
Rurik. Simplicity, unconsciousness and
frankness seem their chief character
istics, combined with the paradoxical
passionate Intensity and Insouciant
gayety of children. Yet, above every
thing else, their extreme religious faith
ftands supreme.
We are striving to return to nature
in our civilization; the Russian baa
never left it His simplicity and frank
ness bear the unconscious charm oi
some bright resistless fountain burst
ing forth from the heart of nature.
As we continue our observations ot
the Russian character we are recalled
to our first Impressions ia again com
ing across curiously American traits.
These are more external, to be sure,
and perhaps, like our own. greatly the
result of a large, new and developing
country. The American notes with a
thrill of sympathy the Russian's opea
handeduess, the freedom with which
money is spent and even wasted on
little external luxuries of bonbons and
flowers, the recklessness of spending
the last penny in his purse with as
much freedom as the first There Is a
more than American generosity about
the Russian, who knows no such thing
as "Dutch treat," but must pay every
thing himself, even his friend's hotel
bills and cab fares, and who cannot
come home from a shopping boot with
out arms ladened with gifts
ForelKiiern In Germany.
Americans often growl because on
arrival in Berlin they are obliged to
register and have their names sent to
police headquarters. But the system
has its advantage even to them, as.
when wrongly directed, letters are sent
to the police station ami thence for
warded to the right address.
Tautoca rnitiHna;.
While the tapioca is boiling for a
pudding slice in the apples and let
them cook chough to partially soften
them. Turn out Into a baking dish
and beat through well with the yolk
of eggs, reserving the whites for me
ringue.' Flavor with vanilla or nutmeg,
as preferred.
UNHAPPINESS DISPELLED.
Sim and Women Vnunlraoun About It.
Many women weep and wall and refuse
to be comforted because their once mag
nificent' tresses have become thin and
faded. Many men incline to profanity
because the tiles bite through the thin
thatch on their cranlutns. It win be good
news to the miserable of both aexei. to
learn that Newbro'a Herpicide has been
placed upon the market. This Is the new
scalp germicide and antiseptic that acts
by destroying the germ or microbe that
Is the underlying1 cause of all hair de
struction. Herpicide is a new prepara
tion, made after a new formula on nti
entirely new principle. Anyone who has
tried it will testify as to its worth. Try
it yourself and bo convinced. Sold by
leading1 druggists. Send 10c.- In stamps
for sample to The Herpicide Co., De
troit, Mich.
Rickert & Wells, Special Agents.
SOKE STORIES OF HOAR
How the Massachusetts Senator
Got Out With Hairis.
rOEAIES AND TILLMAN CORSECTED
Take-off on General Butler, Hoar'a
I'rt A version Inquiring aa ia th
Corporal" Flta of Abnen t mlnded
neaa The loathful Cnllom aud Al
ii ao n.
An incident in Senator Hoar's public
career which occurred somo years be
fore the death of Senator Ishatn G.
Harris of Tennessee is thus describe!
by a man wfio spent much of his time
at Washington, says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat:
"The seuator from the Bay State and
the senator from Tennessee had been
friends for twenty years and, while
belonging to different political parties
aud often clashing in the senate, talk
ing against each other and voting
against each other, nothing had ever
happened to disturb the intimacy of
the relationship.
"One day some question was up la
the senate which developed a great
deal of partisan wrath, and Senator
Harris had been well to the front in
the debate and had given way proba
bly too much to his Confederate sym
pathy and a certain smoldering prej
udice which he carried to the tomb
with him. He was attacked, of course,
and in defending the position he had
assumed one of the younger members
took occasion to refer to Senator Har
ris as a major. Senator Hoar finally
drifted into the debate, and in the
course of his remarks he criticised
Senator Harris rather sharply. The
senator from Tennessee did not mind
this so much. But the statesman from
Massachusetts did not stop here. He
began to have fuu w 1th the idea that
Senator Harris had ever been a major
and climaxed his scathingly sarcastic
remarks by saying he could not con
ceive the senator from Tennessee be
ing a major, 'unless,' he added, 'he was
a major lu the drum corps a drum
major.'
"The Tennessee senator was stung to
the quick. He made no reply. He
would barely speak to Senator Hoar.
One day Seuator Hoar was talking to
one of his senatorial associates when
Senator Harris passed. 'By the way,
Senator Hoar, said the friend, 'you
have wounded Senator Harris deeply
by your reference In the senate a few
days ago ia which you compared 1dm
to a drum major.' Senator Hoar was
surprised, for he had intended no of
fense. The next day when the senate
met Senator Hoar rose to a question
of privilege. He recounted the Inci
dent in the senate a few days before.
'No man on this floor,' he said, 'has
more respect for the feelings and the
ability of the senator from Tennessee
than I have. I regard him as not only
the greatest practical parliamentarian
in this body, but as the greatest in the
world, aud I offer him now our long
continued and Intimate friendship as
euflleient evidence that I did not mean
to offend him and I trust he will ac
cept it,' And so he did. Senator Har
ris shook hands with hia friend from
Massachusetts, and that day they left
the capitol together."
General Butler once said In explain
ing and defending his flat money
scheme that the word "flat" meant
"let there be." God said, "Flat lux,"
"let there be light," and there was
light He argued that fiat money was
excellent from the very fact that It
cost nothing and had no intrinsic value.
So if a bill were lost or destroyed a
new one could be supplied without
cost lie also said that it would stay
in the country and would not be sunk
in the morasses of Asia, especially la
China and India, where silver and gold
were absorbed and never heard of in
civilized nations afterward. In answer
Senator Hoar quoted these sentences
with the following comment: "That,
fellow citizens, is precisely the differ
ence between omnipotence and hum
bug, between the Almighty and Gen
eral Butler. God said, 'Let there be
Hghf and there was light General
Butler says, 'Let there be money, and
there Is rags. This Is the first time In
our history that the American work
ingman has been gravely asked to take
for his wages money it costs nothing
to make, that it is no loss to lose, that
it is no gain to get and that even a
Chinaman won't touch."
The relations between Senator Hoar
and all the presidents were, of course,
the most cordial, and the visits of the
Massachusetts solon to the White
House were frequently quite pro
longed. On one occasion Mr, Hoar was
ushered Into the president's room, and
Mr. Roosevelt asked him to be seated
in one of the big chairs. Then the
president and the senator plunged into
a discussion which stretched out for
over an hour. In the meantime other
senators who wanted to see the presi
dent were held up in the secretary's
room. As time went on half a dozen or
more were waiting, and they became
impatient at the delay. Presently Sen
ator Cullom, who Is seventy-three years
old, asked Senator Allison, who is also
sever ty-three, what was the causo of
the delay. "Why, old Hoar is in there,"
said the youthful Iowaa disrespectful
ly. "That's Just like an old man," said
Cullom. "They never know enough to
do their business and leave. It Hoar:
was not eo old I would ask him if he
had slept at the White nouse all
night." Senator Hoar was then seventy-six
years of age."
Senator Hoar was quite a match for
the Irish blarney that came his way a
year ago in Worcester when tho oldest
Irish organization in the town aid him
FACTORY LOADED SMOKELESS
POWDER SHOTGUN SHELLS
Good shells in your gun mean a good bag
in the field or a good score at the trap.
Winchester -"Leader" and "Repeater"
Smokeless Powder Shells are good shells.
Always sure-fire, always giving an even
spread of shot and good penetration their
great superiority is testified to by sports
men who use Winchester Factory Loaded
Sheila in preference to any other make.
ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM
iifei;
Jionor on mst seventy-seventh birthday.
Alderman McMahou, president of the
United Irish league, declared that the
senator had done more for the Irish
American in New England than any
other man.
"Thank you, eir," responded Mr.
Hoar, "but the handsomest compli
ment ever paid the Irish was paid by
Wendell Phillips."
"What was that, senator?" chorused
a dozen voices.
"Phillips iu his lecture on "The Lost
Arts' or iu some other," blaudly replied
the Massachusetts statesman, breaking
into a paternal smile, "said there was
nothing new under the sun and that all
the Irish bulls were Greek. Now, by
the same token, I submit every Hiber
nian may claim kinship with Demos
thenes and Phidias."
Senator Hoar's absentminded exploit
last year of securing the passage by
the senate of a measure that had al
ready become a law recalls the story
of the senator which is sometimes told
about Worcester. He was at a private
dinner attended by a number of public
men and citizens. One of the guests
had just finished an anecdote, and the
V ugh had scarcely subsided when Mr,
Hoar started In, saying that reminded
him of something, and told over again
the same story that the company had
Just listened to. Mr. Hoar's telling
was naturally a great success, for ev
ery one realized at once that he had
been thinking of other matters when
the story was being told the first time,
but had caught barely enough of the
thing to be reminded of the anecdote
as it lay in the recesses of his own
mind. It should be added that little
foibles like this have only endeared
Mr. Hoar to the people of Massachu
setts.
Senator Hoar as a member of the
Philippines committee was one of the
most punctilious. Sadly enough, how
ever, some ot the evidence presented
to the committee was prosy and tire
some, aud the venerable senator fre
quently nodded over the drowsy evi
dence. One time he aroused himself
Just as the witness was talking about
corporal punishment of a prisoner. The
senator from Massachusetts aroused
himself and said, with dignity: "Corpo
ral punishment? I would like to have
the witness state the name of the cor
poral and the regiment to which ha
was assigned. This will give us a
chance to get at the facts better." It Is
needless to say there was a smothered
smile, and when the circumstances
were explained to the senator ha
laughed with the rest.
When some years ago the Boston pa
pers announced the serious Illness of
Judge Hoar a group of his friends, ob
serving the senator at breakfast in a
clubroom, hurried over for Informa
tion. "Oh, yes," replied the senator genial
ly, "riy brother was ill. His family
were all off, and I was away, and there
was not a person to differ from him.
Ho was lonely as one katydid without
another to cry katydldn't. I came
back to town, hurried up to see him,
contradicted everything ho said, and
we had arguments. Now he Is better
much better. He will soou be himself
again."
Senator Tillman pronounces the word
"gyrate" as if the "g" was hard. Ho
says "guy-rate." So does Senator Fora
ker. When the pronunciation fell upon
the ears of Senator Hoar he shrugged
his shoulders. Being a stickler for cor
rect English, it was remarkable that
he did not express In the open senate
his sorrow at hearing a word mispro
nounced. "It Is 'ji-rale,'" lie said later when
some one asked him about the word.
"But," he added, "I haven't the time
to play schoolmaster here."
Three Hundred Skin Patehea.
S. II. Tweedell, a young man win.
was scalded at tho smelter several
months ago. Is beyond danger and rap
Idly recovering, but his body is a spec
tacie, says a Northport (Wash.) dis
patch to the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Nearly 300 skin patches from one to
three Inches In length were grafted on
his body.
Mr. Twocdell was caught In a lluii
bin and subjected to scalding steam foi
twenty-five minutes. The skin grafted
ou his body was giveu largely by his
fellow workmen and his brother Wal
ter.
A Reaiarkablo Timepiece.
A remarkable timepiece Is a clock
fan manufactured by a Swiss jeweler
The clock as described by the Jewel
ers Weekly consists of twelvo leaves
hinged like an ordinary fan. The num
ber of the hour Is marked from 1 to 12
at the end of each of these leaves. Tha
fan timepiece starts at 0 o'clock and
expands regularly for twelve hours,
when it closes up and starts over agam
'CHBSTM
THE WRITERS.
Martin Hume, novelist, writes equal
ly good stories In Spanish as lu Eng
lish. .
George Meredith, fhe novelist, walk
ed "i.tHHj miles a year for several
years In his younger days. This Is an
iverage of about fourteen miles a day.
Joseph Conrad, the author, seems t
have a charmed life. Among his many
ulher hairbreadth escapes he was
blown up in vessels at sea three times.
S. R. Crockett is a paragon among
rarly risers. - He gets up at 4, has a
cold bath, n quick walk over the
moors and then partakes of a frugal
breakfast. Before 9 o'clock he has
flone quite a lot of work on the type
writer. THE CZAR'S HEIR.
The czarowitz after his immersion
was invested with the cross of St. An
drew. This is the first ot many crosses
he will have to bear if be lives long
enough. Boston Transcript.
A thousand soldiers are said to be
guarding young Alexis Romanoff. May
be his father fears that thought of the
troublous career ahead of him may
make him commit suicide. Baltimore
Herald.
A Town Poll of Lunatic.
Atesa, a (own In Italy, Is suffering
from a plague of madmen. One even
ing recently a party of forty lunatics
were unloaded at the railway station
without notice and set free. They
wandered about the place iu a half
starved couditlon, to the great terror of
the inhabitants. The mayor telegraph
ed to the prefect of the province for aa
explanation. Iu reply he learned that
the provincial council, owing to lack
of funds, had been obliged to close the
lunatic asylum and send all the in
mates home to their families. Those
who were unclaimed and without rela
tives had been sent to Atesa, the near
st towu, and set free.
Pronounce It "Goawar,"
"I wish to see Henry Gassoway Da
Vis," said a visitor at Democratic head
quarters Iu New York the other day.
"You want to see whom?" asked Ser
geant at Arms Martin.
'"Henry Gassoway Davis," repeated
the inquirer, emphasizing every sylla
ble of the candidate's name.
"He's not here. If you have occasion
to pronounce his middle name again do
It as if It were spelled Gozway, and
you'll be doing It just as the candidate
and his relatives do."
Searching For Pretty Girl.
Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 20. Mrs.
Philo Newell of Judd street has gone
to Brooklyn In the hope of obtaining a
clew to the disappearance of her niece.
Miss Adelaide Anderson, a beautiful
girl, nineteen years old, formerly of
Brooklyn, who has been missing from
the home of ber aunt for three days.
The girl had made her home here niiice
the death of her parents four years
ago.
Seven Injured In Car Collision.
St. Joseph, .Mo., Sept. 20. - Seven per
sons were Injured, one of them fatally,
iu a street car collision here today.
Mrs. J. K, Pierpout of Skidmore, Mo.,
Jumped and sustained s fracture ot
the skull. .
Fairbanka on the Move.
Dover, Del.. Sept. 20. Senator Charles
W. Fairbanks, the Republican nominee,
for vice president, attended a Repub
lican rally here during the af tern on
and at night delivered a speech in Wil
mington. Murder Suspectt Arrested.
Helena, Mont., Sept. 20. -Mrs. John
Mottner, whlow of John Mottner, a
sheep raiser, has beeu arrested at Glas
gow, charged with complicity iu th
death ot her husband. Mottner was
shot. An employee of his, named Dy,
is also under arrest.
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