Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1894, Page 15

WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAB BY HOW- ARD PIELDING. Lawrence Makes His Choice. CHAPTER XI. HERE WAS ONE person who was not decetved by Larry Bangs’ appearance in Paddy's place on the occasion of the Har- vard game. Harry Bangs knew whatwas up before the first in- ning wasover. From that moment he was the most interested spectator, as one may easily believe, He did not betray to either of the guilty persons the fact that he had Getected their treason to the university, un- til about a week after the event. ‘Then, late one evening, he entered Law- Fence’s room, wearing upon his countenance @m expression appropriate to a person who has a painful duty to perform, and intends te divide the misery liberally with the other party to the interview. The student had not been seen to smile since his return from Cambridge. On the evening in ques- tion, he had pushed away his books, and Was sitting with his head in his hands. His attitude suggested the last few mo- ments of an ili-spent life. Harry regarded him for a minute in silence. Then, with an evident struggle to be talm, he said: “Larry, why didn’t you tell me that you wanted to play ball?” So the murder was out. Lawrence looked up at his brother with an expression which may have been quite common in the dun- eons of the inquisition. “Don't,” he groaned. “Why should you make me more miserable than lam? When @id you find this out?” “Within five minutes after the game be- “Why have you waited so long? Why didn’t you descend upon me in your wrath @s soon as I got back to New Haven?” “Walt one minute for your answer. I have a question which should go before it What are you going to do about it?” “Nothing. It’s ali over. I have failed.” “That's your tinal word on the subject?” “Et is.” “Then you have failed. Look here, Larry, when 1 discovered you in the box at Cam- bridge I was delighted. Of course, it was a mistake for you to start in with such ap important game. But I forgave you. Only a born athlete can Know enough to begin at the bottom and work up. A book-worm and dreamer like you would naturally want to succeed by a special dispensation of Provi- dence, and not by his own endeavors. But the athlete understands work. He knows that in order to be what he wishes to be he must make himself that thing. Look at the men who have succeeded. There's Lanky Pierce, the short distance runner. I give you my word that when he first got the idea that there was a sprinter con- cealed inside of him somewhere, he could- n't rum fast enough to keep even with his own shadow. He didn’t win a heat until his junior year, but he kept at it. Now he's im the law school, and he’s a ten-second man at the hundred yards, and a sure counter for Yale in the intercollegiate games. “There are men who try for the teams every year they're in college and never make them. Yet they're a help to the col- lege and they know it. Their examples spur on better men than themselves, and their pluck and perseverance play and win mpiany @ game, though their mortal parts are silting on the benches, obscure and un- noticed. That's what it is to be an athlete. ‘That's why athletics benefit a college. The Paddy and His Secretary. spectacle of one of those men who is for- ever trying and falling short, and-cheering the fellow who gets the place he himself was after, is worth coming to college for. And any man who comes may see not one, but hundreds in the four years of his life — a good exampl+ is most beneficial to ba. “And so, Larry, I wasn’t grieved when the Harvard boys took your scalp. I waited to see what you would do. I've suffered more than you have in the last week. When I saw you give up with- out an effort, I put on sack cloth and ashes and rended my garments. This is the last call, Larry. What are you going to do about arr so much begin ing. to perceive that sport is not satisfy- I shall « “In short, you will play for yourself and Mot for the university. You desire a per- sonal triumph, and you don’t care what be- comes college. And your name is The laws of heredity ¢ time, but when they take @ day off there’s no telling what may hap- pen.” And that was the end of it. The parts Were never changed again, in such a way as to be detrimental to the best interests of the « uent career of “Larry > field would be mere- ery well-informed per- That the name of Law- 3 stool always at the head of t of his class is a matter of no as well be mention- > the fact could not otherwise of the public. He resigned the higher life of bodily endeavor imporian el to Padl 1 intercourse. In fact for purposes uch narration as this or the glorious itions of the university, the real Law- rence Banzs ceased to exist at the close of the second Harvard game im his freshman year. He might profitably be dismissed at this d he not figured in a series of é first of which was witnesseed sands, some of whom may be in- 1 to learn what followed. Nobody nave jorgottea the extraordinary suc- of the allege] Larry Bangs on the . His triumphs there were sec- ly to those which he scored on the diamond. Perhaps the greatest of the last. ale foot ball game in was a bloody and des- The Harvard team that 28 entirely made up of heavy-weight jsilists of the first rank. It was sald that Were trained on a diet of raw meat arm blood. The came which resulted grecn them was The Harvard L he end of the first half Har- yes. But a Yale vs with an eye single to the ollege. and, therefore, the fact that the other eye Is closed up lestroy his usefulmess. So it hap- i that while the Harvard team would taken a better photograph at the of the first half,the Yale eleven looked likelier to win, when viewed by an ex- the pert. Tt must be confessed, ho’ the feminine p wever, that upon part of the vast surrounding rd had made a very deep tm- thing so perfectly lovely as Halford’s slugging had ever been seen before, and his headwork was simply marvelous. He seemed to know by secret, supernatural means when the referee was looking at somebody else, and the man who played opposite him could not have been identified by a coroner's jury com- throng Har pression. O'Toole, but also the trivialities | of his immediate relatives after play been in progress twenty minutes. His face looked more like a strawberry short- cake than it did like any recognized type of the human countenance; yet ‘Buck’ had accomplished it all without so much as & warning from the referee. It is no won- der that the girls thought him clever. Even Florence Lorne admitted that, but she al- ways added, hopefully: “Just wait till Larry Bangs gets hold of him.” Yate had borne the assault of her enemy remarkably well. Only one man had been permanently retired from the game, and he had been restored to consciousness by his own father, who was a celebrated surgeon and one of the most interested spectators of the st le. In the midst of this animated scene Pad- dy O'Toole had been a conspicuous figure. He was unquestionably the best running half back on any college team. When the ball was with the blue and ground had to be gained Paddy got the signal, and in al- most every case it was discovered, after the other twenty-one men had been re- moved from his prostrate form, that he had scored the necessary advance. In this way he accumulated court plaster and glory, till the latter encircled his head like @ halo, and the former covered his face lke a mask. He was the man whom Harvard feared most, and in the fifteen minutes’ interval while the crimson eleven were having their knuckle bones put back into place by a competent surgeon, his doom was sealed. By great good fortune and the most mar- velous endurance he su led in staving off the inevitable for fully thirty minutes of the second half. Neither side had scored. Yale had pushed the ball to Harvard’s ten- yard line and still retained it. A mass play advanced it three yards more. It was decided to send Paddy between right guard and tackle for the remaining distance. Nobody who saw that piay will ever forget it. Everybody was in it. Even the experts among the spectators could not tell what had happened. They knew that a big gain had been made, but it was impos- sible to disentangle the runner from the mass of struggling giants. For the first time in-her athletic experience Florence was frightened. She was certain that she saw one of her lover's legs at a distance of three yards from the spot where his body lay. But as that spot was over the line and Florence was true blue, she breathed @ prayer that Larry's body might be there and the leather spheroid with him, for a touchdown counts four and a leg more or less counts nothing in the game of foot ball. The referee epproached and succeeded ia persuading several men to get off the top of the heap. Then, with the aid of his cane as a lever, he removed such as could not perform that office for themselves. At the bottom lay Paddy O'Toole still clasping the bell, and was six inches over the line! It seemed at first that Paddy had “gone over the line,” too, but the medical and | surgical corps sucezeded in retaining him on his side. A decision on thts point, how- ever, was not reached in time for Paddy to proceed with the game. Hisloss serious- ly weakened the ranks of the blue. They | ; Were pushed back foot y foot, the ball | was within thre: yards of their goal line and in Harvard's possession when time was called. But the came was won, and the name of | Larry Bangs—so familar to Paddy that he had nearly forgotten his own—once more arose until it seemed to echo back from the sky. CHAPTER XIt. Palman Qui Meruit Ferat. It Is a pleasure to report that Paddy had both his legs with him when he wes found. ‘They were, however, of little immediate use to him, first, because he had uot strength | enough to move them, and, second, because there were plenty of willmg hands ready to carry him wherever he wished to go. So great, in fact, was the press that Harry Bangs was unable to reach Paday's side until after he had been borne to the coach on which sat old John Bangs, weeping tears of pride and joy. It was the iirst time that Paddy had been subjected to close scrutiny by the elder Bangs. Harry had always dreaded the pro- verbial keenness of a father’s eye; and he had successfully schemed to Keep them apart. To a casual observer there migat have seemed to be no cause for anxiety in this instance. Paddy looked more like an- quo’s ghost than he did like Lawrence, but Lawrence, after a similar experience,would have appeared not otherwise, except that he would have been dead. Harry tried in vain to separate his father from Paddy; the venerable gentleman was obstinate. “He shall go to my house,” he declared. “I'm too proud of him to let him out of my sight.” So Paddy was taken to Boston. When the special from Springtield arrived tn that city John Bangs hurried to his residence in order to have everything ready for the re- ception of the hero. ‘The servants were drawn up ia the hall and hurriedly drilled in the Yale cheer, which they gave in great enthusiasm when Paddy was led in. ‘The proud old man advanced to meet the noble youth, and embraced him gently, for it was not yet known definitely how many of his bones were broken. He was put to bed, and four doctors, at a hundred dollars an hour apiece, watched beside him, while good old mother nature began his cure with sleep. John Bangs stole into the room every haif hour to look at him, thodgh it must be con- fessed that he was not beautiful to see. After one of these visits Mr. Bangs de- scended to the main hali of the house, and there beheld a spectacle which was almost too much even for his iron nerves. Stand- ing by the door which he had just closed was the real Lawrence Bangs. He had been concealed in Boston during the game, of which he had read an account In the even- ing extras. Having learned that Paddy had been subjected to rough usage he had paint- ed a number of wounds upon his face and | had liberally decorated it with court plaster. He must have been inspired tn this work of art, for it resembled the wreck of Paddy O'Toole’s features to a nicety. Of course he supposed that Paddy had been secretly transported to New Haven, and that he could appear at his father’s residence with- out fear. It flashed across the mind of John Bangs that his son had died in the room above, | and that this was his ghost. He dismissed that notion promptly, but his surprise was so great that he could command no words except a few disjointed expletives. “Father,” said Lawrence, “don’t you know me?” Before the old gentleman could reply, the hall doors were flung open and Harry Bangs rushed in. Since the game he had been wildly careering about, trying to find Lawrence in time to avert the catastrophe which, at that moment, he saw precipitated before his eyes. He made no effort to pre- vent its full culmination. The situation was evidently hopeless. “Come in here, both of you,” he said, throwing open the door of 2 reception room on the right of the ha! They followed mechanically. “It's all up, Lawrence,” he said. might as well tell the whole story.” He told it with wonderful clearness and brevity. To paint the father’s grief would require too firm a hand. it will not be at- tempted here. Indeed, that was a very hard case. No pride was ever higher and no humiliation deeper than John Bangs’. He had believed himself the father of a hero, of the “Speechless Wonder” of “Old Bii's Favorite Son,” and when the mask was stripped off, there remained nothing but a creature of books and rank lists, not laurel- crowned, but with a halo of stale lamp oil smoldering upon the dark background of cbseurity. It is greatly to John Bangs’ credit that he Was able to stifle all upbraidings, and to come at once to the practical consideration of the case. “I will not burden you with useless re-~ “We roaches,” he said. “Neither will I make rd conditions. There is only one thing which I tusist upon, and that is that this deception must cease. It is not honest. I Will not have two of you at Yale any longer. “but, father,” interposed Harry, “how can we take Paddy away? It will’ simply cripple the nine, and Harvard is going to same old batting gang next spring.” “No,” replied John Bangs, “the university cannot spare Paddy, but I can't see that she will suffer the loss of Lawrence.” “Then I am not to graduate,” said Law- rence, sadly. “I am net to have my diploma.” “Have you von tt?” asked his father. ‘Tt don’t wish to be unnecessarily severe, but I mrst ask what you have given to the uni- versity in exchange for it.” Lawrence hung his head. “It's true,” he eaid. “I begin to perceive that I am not fitted for a modern collegiate | head fust life. Let Paddy have tHe diploma. Pal- mam qui meruit ferat.” be ‘what do you intend to do?” “I have an ambitious plan,” returned Lawrence, “and if you are generous to me in the matter of money I believe I shall bring it to success. I have dreamed of brian g a educational institution in Cent ‘Attica. it is much too hot there for either base ball or foot ball, and there is no water for boat - In that favored climate I shall hope to concentrate the mind of youth upon purely intellectual at- its, but I do not believe that can ever be done again in the temperate zone. Have I your consent?” “You have,” said John Bangs, “and I think that’s the best way out of it. Go, my son, and found your school. If you run it on that ciple it can never he a rival to Yale. I'l back you with all the money you need.” “And I say, Lawrence,” said Harry, “if you strike any fellow over there who looks as if he could play football, ship kim across to me. They say some of those natives grow to be seven feet high, and Yale will need two or three men like that after Paddy leaves. The subsequent adventures of Paddy O'Toole are wéll known to the reader. It will be remembered that the so-called Larry Bangs, during the last months of his stay at Yale, suffered from an affection of the eyes, which made it necessary for him to be accompanied whenever he took an examina- tion, by an amanuensis, who recorded the answers to the questions on the paper. It was fortunate that this private secretary &n excellent collegiate education, for otherwise he might have been bothered by the fact that Paddy never said anything which related even remotely to the subject mentioned on the examination papers. As it was, Paddy secured excellent rank. It was even more fortunate that his eyes did not trouble him except at examination time. He could see the home plate and get his eye on the ball as well as ever. He was secretly adopted by old John Bangs, and after graduation he accepted the post of athletic instruetor in a western unl- versity at @ salary much larger than that received by its president, ‘The reader will have no trouble at all in eeeretteg bg baa lagna Florence, with om he is deeply in love, and that she will be proud and. happy always. en —_ BEATING A PIONEER, He Brought Enough Rain to Satisfy His Host. M. Quad in the Ohio State Journal. An hour before sundown I reached a dug- out in front of which sat a gaunt, sunburn- ed and hard up looking settler, who was smoking dry grass in a corncob pipe. He didn’t give me the usual words of welcome, and when I looked around and saw that his crops were parching and roasting for the want of rain I realized that he couldn't feel good natured, even to a stranger who wasn't responsible for the weather. “I expect I'll have to turn in with you for the night,” I said as I gave him some “real tobacco” for his pipe. He looked me over and made no reply. “I can eat anything you've got and sleep out doors. His wife now came to the door, gave me : Jong looking over and then queried of im: “Jim, who's the critter, and whar'’d he come from? i @ critter as wants to put up for the night,” he answered over his shoulder. “Goin’ to permit?" He smoked and reflected for two or three minutes and then turned to me with: “Look yere, stranger, we hain’t had a drop o’ rain around yere fur six weeks, and you see how things is goin’ with us. Yes- terday I took my solemn oath that I'd turn to and lick the very first stranger as cum this way, You ar’ the first!” “But I'm not to blame about the weath- er.” “Mebbe not. T'll tell you what I'll do. You kin stop with us, and if it rains by nornin’ we'll bless you and send you on your way. If it don’t, then I'll give you the all firedest lickin’ a criter ever got in the month of August! Them’s my tarms, and you kin take ‘em or leave ‘em.”” There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but my old war wound waa itching and aching as it had 500 times before when a change of weather w: t hand, and I promptly ac- cepted his terms. The wife got supper, and after supper we smoked and talked, and when we went to bed at 9 o'clock the hus- band said: ‘Stranger, you kin git ready fur that lickin’, and lemme tell you that I'm sure to break bones when I sail in!” I answered “ail right” and was scon asleep. An hour after midnight there came a crash of thunder which lifted us out of ted, and next minute lightning struck a cottonwood near the shanty and tore it to pieces and knocked us down. Then came the rain, and {fn ten minutes we were drowned out and had to run for the sod barn on higher ground. In thirty minutes Little creek was over its banks and floating his fences off, and before daylight half his land was two feet under water. The rain ceased as the sun came up, but it would take two days for the water to run off. “Well?” I queried of the man as wé stood oe the barn and looked at the raging “Accordin’ to tarms,” ds pens in vain for ce in” tarms you hev escaj an all fired lickin’, but if thar’s a eriter in all this world who orter be picked up and driv ‘leven feet into the airth you ar the man! Sally, fry him some bacon and it him started off before he - fer fever and airthquakes!’ meee oe on a Setting a Rooster. | 777, From the Providence Journal. ie A citizen of Rumford had canvassed the town in vain from end to end in search of “a hen to set," when he heard that an old @arky on the Boston, Providence and New- pert road had a great 1 of “setting stock.” As this was Just what he wanted, he lost no time tn hunting him up. He found the old man building a hen coop in the rear of his residence. Approaching, he asked, by way of broaching the subject, how many hens he had setting. Brae” bere ty eerie boss." “And a Ww! 7” inqui 16 poultr; thinking he had not heard straight. eae “A rooster,” replied the darky. Seeing the look of distrust on his visitor's face he took him into a low building, and sure enough there sat a large Brahma rooster calmly covering twenty eggs. On one side of him sat two hens and on the other a third hen. The visitor, seeing how stately the rooster sat, secretly resolved to get some of the darky’s eggs and hatch out a special lot of roosters. On being ask- ed what he did wien the rooster wouldn't sit any longer, the darky replied that “dat rooster done bound to set,” pointing underneath the box. Looking under the box the visitor was irprised to find both of the rooster’s legs sticking through holes in the box. The black rascal had actually bored holes through the box and tied the rooster’s legs underneath so, as sald, the rooster was “done bound to set. Inquiring into the matter the Rumford man found that the darky had four hens and one rooster. Three of the hens were setting and the other hen was laying. The darky, finding the eggs of the hen accu- mulating quite fast, decided to let up feed- ing the rooster corn, and make him hatch @ flock of chickens. + e+ Close. he slowly replied his cornfield—"ac- Prom Trath. Wiggins—“And do you think that Skin- filnt is a miser?” Drump—“Miser! Why, that man would propose to a woman by postal card!” —- A Question of Succession. From Pu Algy—“You wead about the Pwince of Wales’ accident, didn’t you Cholly—"Yes. Lucky escape, by Jove!” Algy—"TIf anything happened to the pwince, would it be his eldest son who would decide what we should wenh?” From Puek. Mr. Hardacre (of Kansas)—It's just time us populists was havin’ a show. Them fellers in Washington is downright robbers! Mrs. Hardacre—What's the matter now, Silas? Mr. Wardacre (bubbling o° ft says postage cers only coat the gov- ernment seven and a half cents a thousand an’ the very cheapes’ kind we kin git is a cent apiece. J—Why, here BIG NAVAL STATION| The Shipbuilding Operations at the New York Yard, CUTTING THE GONBOATS IN TWO The Work of Completion of the Battleship Maine. A ROOMY NEW DRY DOCK fipecial Correspordence of The Evening Star. NAVY YARD, New York, May 30, 1894. HE NEW YORK navy yard has grad- ually, but surely, be- come the most im- portant of our naval Stations, for in the matters of building and repairing ships of the navy it exceeds all the others. In fact, there are only two others—the Nor- folk, Va., yard and the Mare Island yard at San Francisco— where shipbuilding is carried on, as the Washington yard owes its chief distinction to the magnificent gun factory there, the gradual filling up of the Potomac and East- ern branch rendering it impossible for any but the smallest ships to reach the docks there, In consideration of these facts and the widespread interest which the American people take in the rebuilding of our navy, this fine shipbuilding yard should possess a lively interest to all the readers of The Star. Interest here at present seems centered in the novel work of cutting the gunboats Machias and Castine in two and lengthen- ing them by the addition of a fourteen-foot midship section. This peculiar and expensive procedure hag been necessitated by the fact that the Machias, when recently in commission, showed @ very cranky disposition, and it was feared that she might capsize if sub- jected to even a moderately heavy seaway. For general information it may be stated that a “cranky” vessel is one which heels over very easily, and that this fault is caused by an improper disposition of the weights, so as to render the ship what may be popularly termed topheavy. After ma- ture investigation it was decided to remedy the fault in the two new gunboats by lengthening them fourteen feet. They were recently placed in the dry dock, cut in two between the engine room and fire room com- partments, and the two parts were then hauled apart fourteen feet. A Divided Responsibility. This was a very delicate operation, the exactness in the position of the two parts required is to the fraction of an inch, but so far it has been successfully accomplished jand much of the new framing is in place. it is expected that the work will be com- pleted in two months, when the gunboats will be put in commission in condition to stand any kind of sea or weather. It is a deplorable fact that these lately completed vessels of our much-lauded “new navy" should be so faulty in design, but no blame attaches to their builders, the Bath Iron Works, as they followed the de- signs implicitly. Officers are very reticent on the subject, but the fuult seems to be in a lack of concordance between the con- struction bureau, where the ships them- bumwau, where the batteries were designed. For several years the uncompleted moni- tors Terror and Puritan have been fa- millar sights to people about the navy yard. For nearly two years the slowness of the armor contractors in furnishing the heavy armor plates for their complete waterline beits and two heavy turrets delayed their completion, but now nearly all the armor is in place and the vessels will soon be ready for service. However efficient the monitors may have been in their day, that day is now passed, and they have but few advocates among the experts now. These two monitors, together with the Mianto- nomoh, now {in commission, and the Am- phitrite, rebullding at the Norfolk navy yard, are all of the monitor type now in the navy for active service, unless the Mon- terey, a battleship of very low freeboard, be included. Their very low freeboard gives them but ttle reserve buoyancy, and their only hope against sinking in action from even a single successful shot at the waterline is in com- plete armor protection. They are proverbi- ally unwieldy and sluggish and very un- comfortable in a seaw will be restricted in all probability to nar- bor defense, and even in this case they must be surrounded by friendly torpedo boats to prevent them from being rammed by the fast cruisers of the enemy. To rem- edy the inconvenience and discomfort of the quarters on the Miantonomoh, which are all below the waterline, the later monitors have been built with a light superstructure between the two turrets, where the officers’ quarters are located. These monitors were originally laid down during the last year of the Jate war, but have been so nearly re- newed that they are practically all of late construction. The Battleship Maine, Of much more recent model is the new battle ship or heavy armored cruiser Maine, launched at this navy yard in February, 1801, and since undergoing completion at the yard. In general design and appear- ance she very closely resembles the Brazil- far. battle ship Aquidaban, though designed with more displacement, i. e., 6,300 tons, and more speed. The Aquidaban has been an_ excellent ship, even in the hands of the Brazilians, who are proverbially careless and Ignorant in using their ships. The Maine is now practically completed—a very little of the armor and her guns are all that is yet to | be furnished. She has a waterline strake of heavy armor extended for about two-thirds the lenzti of the ship amidships, designed to protect her buoyancy and vital machinery, nearly all of which is below the waterline: a heavy com- pleter protective deck, and two armored tur- Teta en echelon. Her armament is very heavy, and for tor- pedo work she carries bow and stern tor- pedo launching tubes, and two sixty-foot, sixton-ton torpedo boats, which are to be lowered from their cradles on the upper deck by heavy cranes. These two torpedo horte will mrohably each carry two White- , head torpedoes in bow tubes. In time of action they wiil he hoisted out and prepared for batile. They would conceal themselves on the unexposed side of the ship during battle, until the smoke of battle or positicn of the enemy was most opportune, when they would rush out and discharge their torpedoes. @ moral effect of these swift little ves- sels each carrying torpedoes that would sink any ship will be very demoralizing on an enemy ani they will form no mean part of the Maine's armament. The Maine's large secondary battery of rapid-fire guns and gatlings is Intended to meet just such an attack from the enemy's torpedo launch: es. It is expected that the big cruiser will go in commission about the Ist of Septem- ber, when she will have her speed trials. Her engines are designed for 5,600 horse power, to give her a speed of seventeen knots per hour. ‘The engines for the aux- iMary torpedo beats which have been built in the machine shops here are models of strength and beauty. The Cincinnati and Other Vessels. The next ship to go into commission is the cruiser Cincinnati, which is receiving the finishing touches here at present. She waa launched in October, 1802, and it is a fact of considerable pride among the offi- cers here that her hull and engines and guns have all been built in the government yards, under the direction of naval officers, at a cost comparing most favorably with that of contract work. Her armament consists of two six-inch rapid-fire guns, ten five-inch rapid-fire guns in the main battery, with eight six-pounder and four one-pounder rapid-fire guns and two ma- chine guns in the secondary battery. She has six torpedo launching tubes, one bow, one stern and four broadside. The protection consists in a complete steel deck, from one to three inches in thickness, and four inches of steel on the gun sponsons. The motive power is two triple expansion engines of 10,000 horse power, which, with her twin propellers, are expected to give her a speed of twenty knots. Her dimensions ar feet; beam, forty-two feet; selves were designed, and the ordnance | 8o their actual use | feet, and displacement, 3,200 tons. Her cost complete will be about $1,700,000, mak- ing her the finest all-around cruiser of her size in the world. She will be put into commission on June 14, with Commander Henry Glass in com- mand. He is a capable officer, the author of a standard work on marine international law and the originator of the efficient de- partment of discipline at the Naval Acade- my during his turn there as commandant of cadets. The new cruiser Marblehead is fitting out for her cruise to Bluefields, on the Mosquito coast, where she is going, With the Atlanta, to relieve the cruisers New York and San . The training ship Portsmouth, a shapely relic of the old navy, ts here under- going extensive repairs before her annual cruise with the apprentice boys. The Mian- toncmoh is to undergo extensive repairs at this yard. ‘With the old stone dock oceupied by the Maire, and the wooden dock occupied by the faulty gunboats, the need of more dock- ing facilities is keenly felt, and the new dry dock now building is much needed. It is to be over 600 feet long, which will take in the largest ship afloat or likely to be built in many years to come. The contractors have several months yet to complete it a ed TRICKS OF THE TRADE. The Wily Ways of a New York Res- taurant Man. From the Detroit Free Press. “Speaking of restaurants,” said the New York drummer with the Grecian eyebrows, “I had a friend in New York who made a mint of money in Chicago before anybody @ropped to his litle trick.” “He had a trick, eh?” asked one of the smokers. “Why, yes, you might call It a trick, I suppose. He built up such a local reputa- tion for green turtle soup that his place was fairly besieged night and day. He sup- plied as high as 3,000 people a day with turtle soup. It was an eastern man who finally gave him away.” What was there to give away?” “Qh, nothing much—only he had been making that soup out of clams and curry. ‘When a man blundered in who had actually Seen a green turtie with his own eyes and knew what the taste of the soup was like the cheat was discovered, and his business was busted. “Yes, I heard of that case,” said the Chicago beef-extract man, who had been an attentive Hstener, ‘The soup man See business, I believe?” “He “And lost every dollar he had inside of a ear?” y “TI never heard that he did.” “But he did, It was a friend of mine who put him on to the spec that dished him.” ‘What spec?” hipping prairie chickens to the New York market. He had twenty hunters out for three months, and was all ready to ship eighteen carloads of birds when a Chicago man put the New Yorkers on—” “On to what?” nf “On to the fact that every blamed bird in those eighteen cars was a durned old crow, He shouldnt have done it, for the Ne Yorkers would never have known the dif- show to clean out our crows, but he was just that soft-hearted.” “Gentlemen,” said the man with the Grecian eyebrows after long period of silence, “I am not feeling particularly well this morning, and will go back into the drawing room car and try and get a nap!” —+e2—____ A ROUNDABOUT CALL. Waking a Sleepy Operator by a Cable Dispateh. From Donobue's Magazine. There is a good story about a telegraph operator who once worked the land wires |in the Duxbury (Mass.) cable office going to sleep one night and a message having to be sent 6,000 or 7,000 miles to wake him up. The orerator is now a practicing physician |in Cambridge, Mass., but before annexing |M. D. to hts name was one of the gilt-edge telegraphers of the country. One night while on duty in the Duxbury office he fell asleep at his key. The sleep | Was a sound one. The New York operator called till out of patience, when he sent a message to Boston requesting the chief operator in charge to tell Duxbury to an- swer New York. The sleeper, however, was as deaf to Boston’s “Di,” “Di,” as to the — characters flashed on from New ‘ork. In the cable room next the sleeping oper- ator was the cable artist. The room was dark and he was watching the mirror for the tiny sparks that in those days went to make up a message. To him the Morse alphabet was all Greek, so the sleeper slept on. Seeing no other way out of the muddle, and thinking the operator asleep, New York called Canso in Nova Scotia, and addressed & message to the cable operator at Dux- bury. The message read: “Go into the other room and wake up that operator.” Canso sent it to Heart's Content, in New- foundiand; Heart's Content rushed it across to London, thence to Dover, and across the channel to Calais and to Brest. Brest kept it moving on to Miquelon, and Miquelon gave the cable operator at Duxbury a unique surprise. The sleeper was then aroused, about eleven minutes having been ; taken by the grand round of the cablegram. He tried to explain matters by telling New York that he was out of adjustment. story didn’t impress the officials as bein, truthful, and in a day or two there was a vacancy in Duxbury. Dublin Correspondence of the Chicago Record. Of the many places of amusement in Dub- ln the Rotunda is the most Popular. It serves many purposes—concert hall, lee- turers’ platform, auctioneers’ stage und Pall room. It was here that the great tabinet ball took place, in which the Marchioness of Wellesley astonished the continental aris- tocracy by tho grace with which she exe- cuted her first curtsy and the ease with which she regained her equilibrium. This tabinet ball was like the charity ball of to- day. The people were starving to death, dying in wretchedness and misery, so the aristocracy arrayed itself in fine apparel and danced to earn a mite for the poor. Tabinet is a manufacture of Ireland, and everybody at the ball was requested to wear a tabinet dress. The Marchioness of Welles- ley herself wore one, with a garland of flowers across the front, Se ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS. GOS 12th Street Northw: Great Curiosity a Point of id Interest. ‘The many roperts of prominent Individuals from parts of the United States of singular events that have taken place at GOB 12th street northwest, in this city, has eaused amazement and wonder in all circles, At the breakfast table, {at the dinner hour in tgtels, testaurants and if private familes nothing Zeoms to interest all pai ties as do the reports of the wonderful cures made | by Drs. Damon and Maynard, the magnetic physt- | clans, who are now in thelr third sear of as | sured suecess in Washington. The offices are a Permanent fnstitution and the dovtors are here ‘Overt 1,500 patients are now registered on cur books for treatment, and over 1,200 have been ‘od and permanently cured. All chronic dis- eases are treated by them with eqtial sticcess, and no sick person need despatr of getting well a8 long as these men are near to cxereise their won- derful “Gift of Heating upon them. It te ne wonder that large nutbers go every day to conmult with them and be treated ef all manner of dis- eases. Consumption, drops, Bright's divense, scrofula and phrdlrais, Avepepsta, rheumatism, ne ralgia, deafness, lumbago, piles, sore eyes, skin diseased, catatth, canecs, nervous exhaustion, srt tation of the nerves, sleeplessness and all nervous Misorders cured. If your case is curable you till not go away disappointed. No matter whether A patient has been pronounced tneurable or fot Drs. Damon & Maynard can help them. ‘Their practice 1s almost wholly vonfined to thore cases which the so-called regular physicians have prat- tieed upon and failed to benefit. The eases of acute patn and suffering are countless which the doctors have relieved by thelr miraculous power. Mrs. F. A. Lamb of Torner's Falls has been sufferer from spinal weakness, stomach trouble and other diMculties, She was unable to sit wp much of the time, aud was reduced in flesh and strength to a mere shadow, By a happy chance her husband brought her to Dra, Damon & May- nard, and in two short week# ther completely restored her tw health, Mrs. L. D. Waterhouse of Newton, cured of the worst form of dyspepsia by five nimznetic treatments. Mauy cases can te | published, but these show what can be done, Let no foolish prejudice stand in the way of reason and common sense, but if you are sick employ thone means and methods which ate curing others and wilt cure you. Do not let those selfish advisers, Who are opposed to all progress, influence you against your own interests. It is a duty you owe yourself and family to get well as speedily as pos- sible, no matter what the means employed, so go at once to Dr. Damon's office. 60S 12th’ street northwest. Consultations im regard to your case are free. ua ference, and it would have given us @ fine | be ON LABOR *T simply man and the “But nervous prostration stares you in the face.” “TI dare not think of being sick. My children and babies and husband depend on me every hour tn he day," reply those women on the verge of break- ing down. “A month's absence would rain my business,"* says the hard-worked business man. When the nerves and organs of the body are soundly nourished and the waste products quickly got rid of a tremendous amount of hard work can done without injury, It is when the nervous tissyes are used up faster than they are repaired that brain, nerves and vital organs suffer, cry out with neuralgia, rheumatism, heart trouble, nervous yspepsia, and finally break down. 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