Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 7, 1915, Page 2

Battleship Arizona To | Be Launched On June 19, (By Arsociated Press.) i Washington, June 7—The thirty- ninth battleship built for the Ameri- can navy since 1892 will take the water June 19 next when the super- dreadnaught Arizona slips from the ways at the New York Navy Yard. Compared to the first American bat- ' tleship, the Indiana, lmmched,' in 1893 ,the Arizona will be nearly twice as long, half again as wide ' and of three times as great displace- | ment. Against the Ondiana's four 13-inch guns and eight 8-inch, the Arizona will carry twelve 14-inch and twenty-twe 5-inch rifles, the same armament as her sister ship, ' the Pennsylvania, recently launched ' at Newport News. In addition to the great size of the ' new ship’s main battery, the guns are of forty-five calibre as against ' the 35 calibre of the Indiana’s thir- teen-inch guns, identical with those aboard the famous old Oregon, which played their part in the battle of Santiago. With the fourteens of the Arizona in her turrets, the Oregon could have halted any one of the fleeting Spanish ships a'most with- out leaving her station. The Ari- zona’s guns have a range, even at the low elevation of American navy mountings, of fifteen miles or more against eight or nine miles for the old thirteens. The Arizona will be the fourth battleship built by the United States in its own navy yard at New York. The others were the Connecticut, the dreadnaught Florida and the su- perdreadnaught New York, at pres- ent one of the largest, swiftest and most powerful of American fighting craft. Against the New York's dis- placement of 27,000 tons, however, the Arizona will displace 31,400 tons and will measure 600 feet in length and 97 feet 6 inches in width. She will mount twelve 14-inch guns to the ten 14s carried by the Texas and they will be carried three to a turret as aboard the Pennsylvania. i Scotland Time Keepers Fined if Lax In Their Duties (By Associated Press) Glasgow, Scotland, June 7—The West of Scotland Armaments Com- mittee has put into force in all fac- tories making munitions for the gov- ernment a system of fines for bad timekeeping or ‘“slacking.”” The Committee states that important and urgent government work is being re- tarded by the action of a minority of the workmen. Men who are found guilty will be fined $5 for the first offense, $10 for the second, and $15 for the third. The fine in the latter case will be accompanied automatically with in- stant dismissal from work. The money realized from fines is to be turned over to the labor unions for charitable work. 300,000 BRITISH MINERS GET BIG RAISE (By Associated Press) Manchester, England, June 7— The biggest increase in wages ever granted in any of the coal mining districts of Great Britain has just been awarded to the 300,000 miners employed in the districts presided over by the Coal Conciliation Board for England and North Wales, The award gives an advance of 15 1-2 per cent. from May 5 on the actual wages earned by the men on that date. This is equivalent to an advance of 25 per cent on the so- called standard fixed under the min- imum Wage Act. A colliery owner testified at the last meeting of the board that many of his men were nearing $5 a day uned the old standard. It is expect- ed that the granting of ths latest advance will greatly stimulate pro-\ duction, as the narrow margin of coal on hand is causing the govern- ment much anxiety. The Concilia- tion Board, in granting the increase, added the following statement: “The board strongly urges all miners’ associations to take such steps as, in their judgment, are need- ful to ensure the fullest possible at- tendance at their work of all work- men in the federated area.” TIME DIDN'T MATTER A prominent lawyer tells this tale of the hills of Kentucky, says the ‘Immediately upon the launching | of the Arizona the keel of the navy | department’s greatest experimnt in ' naval consctruction, the electrlcally. driven superdreadnaught Calilornla.‘ will be aid at the New York yard. She will be nearly a thousand tons' vhen\ier than the Arixona although carrying the same equipment and ar- rangement o guns; but is expected to develop greater speed than the 21 knots desired o the Arizona. Comparing the most recent gov- ,ernment built battleship to the first ,turned out, , the fact that alhoug the Arizona has navy officials point to twelve guns to the Connecticut’s four and displaces 15,400 tons more water, being nearly twice as large, she will carry only 915 men as against the 1,012 needed to handle the smaller ship. This is due to the improvement in mechanical appli- 'ces for battleships in the last de-| cade and also to the fact that oil has been substituted for coal as fuel, decreasing the necessary fireroom force, and that only two sizes of guns compose her armament against the four sizes aboard the Connecti- cut. The result is a reduction in ammunition handling forces. The Arizona will be sponsored by Miss Esther Ross of Preston, Ari- zona, nominated by Governor Hunt of Arizona. As she looks in the water immediately after the launch- ing, the ship will have cost the gov- ernment $7,425,000. An even greater sum will go for her guns and armor and other equipment and when she goes into commission her cost to the country will have reached the huge total of $16,000,000 or more. This cost represents a reduction of nearly $500,000 in guns and armor, ac- cording to the navy department, un- der the prices paid for the Pennsyl- vania’s offensive and defensive equipment. It was in dealing with contracts for the Arizona's armor that Secretary Daniels demanded competitive bidding and succeeded in effecting the saving. Sylvia Pankhurst Says Looting Due to High Cost Living (By Associated Press.) London, June 7—Much of the breaking and looting of shops during the anti-German riots was due, says Sylvia Pankhurst, to the increased cost of living. The English shops to suffer had all created hostility among their customers by putting up prices, in most cases without warrant. In the suffrage organ, Votes For Women, it is pointed out that a large. number of the wives of Germans, in- nocent sufferers because of these riots, are English women. While these English women must live on greatly reduced incomes through the internment of their husbands, the German wives of Englishmen, who by reoson of blood and education might very well be supposed to have pro-German sympathies, are free and unmolested . Suffragists tried to have the aliens act amended so as to protect the English wives of alien enemies, but failed when the bill was put through last August. A WIFE'S COMMANDMENTS (Seneca, Mo., News-Dispatch) 1—Remember that T am thy wife, ‘Whom thou should'st cherish all thy life. 2—Thou shalt not stay out late at night When worldly trivials invite. 3—Thou shalt not smoke indoors or out, Nor chew tobacco roundabout 4—Thou shalt with praise receive my pies, Nor pastry made by me despise. 5—My mother thou shalt strive to please, And let her live with us in ease. 6—Remember ’tis thy duty clear To dress me well, however dear. 7—Thou shalt meek Give me thy wages once a week. 8—Thou shalt not be a drinking man, But keep the prohibition ban. in manner duly Louisville Times. He had been in Jackson during the hearing of a big land case and after the strain of several weeks in the court room had decided to take a trip up in the mountains and enjoy the quieting in- fluence of the hills. He traveled the paths and narrow mountain roads till he found himself at the end of several days’ journey about 40 to 50 miles from the railroad. It was about noon, the lawyer judged, for his watch had run down and he could not be exact. But in the midst of this deep contemplation the law- ved came upon an old negro sitting upon a boulder alongside the road. “What time have you?” he asked of the old negro. ““Well, suh, boss, the old Water- berry says she’s about ten minutes to twelve was the reply. “Is that sun t ime or rallroad time?” again questioned the lawyer. “What diffunce does that make? One 2m about as fer from here as the other.” 9—Thou shalt not flirt, but must agree To leave that privilege for me. 10—Thou shalt arise when baby cries And bid him close his lit- tle eyes. These ten commandments dayl by day Thou shalt implicity obey. I — The Last Resort, A Chicago judge has just ruled that “the man is still head of the house.” Further details, however, might dis- close that when he went home his wife applied the recall of judicial de- cisions.—Pittsburgh-Gazette-Times. — Do Postmen Get Letters? Do you suppose the post office clerks care to receive letters? I have my doubts. They get into a dreadful habit of indifference. A postman, I imagine, is quite callous. Conceive his deliver- Ing one to himself without being startled by a prcliminary double knock!—Cherles Dickens. LIN LEE, PATRIOT { How He Provided for His Wife’s Safety When Called on to Flght. By GEORGE MUNSON. Nobody ever suspected that there were two Chinamen in Lin Lee's laundry until we met Lin Loo. For the matter of that, nobody cared, or would have cared, if there had been half a dozen. Chinamen come and go and nobody takes any stock of them except the immigration officials, main- 1y because all Chinamen look alike, at first glance, to the untrained Cauca- slan eye. And the first glance is like 1y in most cases, to be the last, also. In that part of Virginia where Lin Lee 'had his temporary residence Chinamen are not common. The slight prejudice against them in the north and the considerable antagon- ism of the west do not exist. If they were not pig-tailed heathen they might pass among us whites as equals —and I come of the Ramsay family. To say that is quite enough in our part of the country. BEverybody liked Lin Lee. He had cut off his pigtail and he attended the Episcopal church. When he brought home the laundry he was gen- erally asked to come into the parlor and have a glass of wine. Yes, it sounds odd, I know, but Lee was a very intelligent man, a member of the Chinese Reform association, and had studied law in Canton, he told us, before the Manchus drove him from the country on account of his partiel- pation in a seditious ‘movement. Like all Chinamen, he had a natural genius for the washtub. So Lin Lee became a resident of our village and, as I sald, everybody thought he occupled his shanty alone, We though so until the evening when, having brought home the laun- dry in its usual highly starched con- dition, and having received the red paper with its mysterious hierogly- phics which he always left as security, It Was Lin Lee. he turned round and whistled and an- other Chinaman came out of the dark- ness, “My cousin, Lin Loo,” he volun- teered. “He washee well—as well as me. He take your laundry tonight.” “Where are you going, Lin?" asked my father, Lin grinned. ‘“Me going to China,” he said. “Me fight in grand army of the republic.” This sounded a little like blasphemy to my father, who was a Grand Army man, and fought under Grant, though it cost him his estates to do so and he was boycotted by the neighbors until an indefinite time in the seventies. However, all that is forgotten now, thank God. We understood that Lin Lee had felt the breath of patriotism stirring in the dry, sapless bones of his native land and wished to enroll himself under the Dragon flag to fight against the tyrant, and, as patriotic Americans, we could not but approve his choice. Lin Lee disappeared just as mys- teriously as Lin Loo had come, but that made no difference. Lin Loo was just as capable a laundryman as Lin Lee. The ladies of our family, i in fact, maintained that Lin Loo had a -mhl genius for interpreting the laundry needs of their own garments and, as a result, Lin Loo was to be seen ‘ironing until far into the night in his little store on Main street. It is strange, by the way, isn't it, that one always sees Chinamen iron- ing and never washing. Lin Loo was also an Episcopalian, we found, and when he made his first visit to our church everyone sat up and gasped. He was attired in quite the extreme of fashion, in a silk hat and frockcoat and patent leather shoes. He carried a silver-head cane, too, and was very devotional in the responses. The rector took a great fancy to him and invited him to his home to discuss theology. Mrs. Stubbs, his wite, was equally attached to him. Yes, it was odd what a general fav- orite Lin Loo became. Of course ladies are apt to take a faney to Chinamen, especially when they are converted. People say that they only preund to believe, for the sake of advantages. I don’t know much about that, but anyhow, the ladies all liked him and, what is stranger, the men too. Lin Loo was astonishingly well posted in western ways. But he Booked Ahead. “Now that your son is through col- lege, what are you going to make of him.” “Can’t tell for a couple of years. He went to a co-ed institution, and he's booked up for two years solid to act as an usher at weddings.” Too Many Highballs. Speaking of tennis, when a man g0es on a racket he is apt to get into the court. Then there’s the deuce to pay, the net result sometimes being | that he has to serve a term for his fault.—Boston Trauscript. vmfldn‘t drink and wouldn't swear. None of us thought the less of him on that accouat. “Any news of your cousin, Loo?” we would ask, as we stopped in to watch him bending over his iron and pressing with his scrawny arms. And Loo always looked up and smiled and shook his head. Whether or not any news ‘of the missing cousin filtered through to him, he always denied knowledge of his nhv.lve Yet somehow he never seemed to doubt that Lee would re- turn. And when a year had rolled by and Lin had become only a mem- ory, he still maintained the same assurance. Imperturbable, suave, courteous, jolly, Lin Loo was a social asset in our town. And then the missing cousin turned up just as unexpectedly as he had gone. One evening Lin Lee stepped into our parlor, his basket on hié arm, as though he had only left us the night before, and received the red paper from my mother. Then he an- nounced: “Me going to leave tomorrow. No more wash. My cousin, Sam Hong, has bought my shop.” “And your other cousin—Lin Loo?” , we asked. “He go away,” replied our visitor. “No see any more.” THat was all. Sam Hong was a very “ornary” kind of Chinaman, with a thick pigtail, a surly expression, | and an ugly cast in his eye. He was a rank heathen and was sus- pected of smoking opium in his little shack behind the store on Sunday afternoons. Our interest in the Celes- tial race rapidly evanesced. It must have been nearly a year after our friends’ departure that busi- ness called me to Richmond. I was strolling down one of the side streets when I caught sight of Lin Lee be- hind the glass window of a laundry, froning as hard as ever. I walked in. He greeted me with the same cheer- ful smile as ever. We shook hands and discussed old times, “Why did you leave us so suddenly, Lin Lee?” 1 asked. “We all miss you in our town. What was the mat- ter? Didn't we treat you well?” “Sure—fine,” answered Lin Lee with a broad grin. “I come to Rich- mond to open bigger place, more busi- ness. I get married.” Then I ventured upon a very bold experiment. I asked if he would pre- sent me to Mrs. Lin Lee. I knew it was not Chinese etiquette and 1 was not surprised when he told me that she was out. But she wasn’t out, because at that moment the door opened and & Chinese woman, with a little, black- haired, squint-eyed baby in her arms, peered out. I knew her too. It was Mrs, Lin Lee—once Mr. Lin Loo. She nodded and smiled and shut the door in my face and I said good-bye quickly and went out, Now I hold no brief for or against Chinamen, but I will say I was of- fended at this horrible deception at the time. But afterward I began thinking; could he have been assured of his wife's safety, living hlone in our town, the only Celestial within twenty miles? I think he could; I know he could. But I can imagine what dangers he may have feared for her—the young husband, called back eight thousand miles to fight his country’s battles, with all he loved dwelling alone among white-faced bar- barians, (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) MENTAL LABOR IN OLD AGE Writer Points Out How Impossible It Is to Mark Culminating Point in Man’s Career. Who talks of fifty years as the cul- minating point in man's career? Were all the great work performed by men even beyond seventy erased from his- tory the human race would be bereft of some very proud achievements. Jefferson founded a university by his own activity after he had passed three score years and ten. John Quincy Adams, although he had been president of the United States and five times a foreign minister, wrought as a congressman by far his greatest deeds after he was sixty-five. His ro- bust father sat in a constitutional con- vention when he was almost a nona- genarian. Franklin did valiant serv- ice in helping to frame the Constitu- tion of the United States after he had turned a serene and contented eighty. Seventy saw Gladstone so vigorous that he was still good for the greatest battle of his political life and a pre- miership. England's foremost living historian, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, who is even now completing his mon- umental story of the American revo- lution, occupied a seat in parliament half a century ago. This brilliant ne- phew of Lord Macaulay has done his best writing since reaching seventy. Germany's first emperor, the vener- able William, saw Waterloo as a sol- dier, but fitty-five years later he was directing armies at Sedan and welding an empire after the fall of Paris. John Bigelow at four score was mentally as virile as a boy, and his powers as an author were not dimmed. Our own Frederick Fraley was an active business man, president of a bank and the national board of trade since the Spanish-American war, and yet he was prominent enough in 1844 to serve on a committee that wel- comed to Philadelphia Daniel Web- ster. Science is making lives longer than they were in the days of our grand- fathers, and also far more comfort- able. The same agency that prolongs bodily vigor will surely lengthen the age of man's most virile mental labor. —Philadelphia Ledger. ——————— Daily Thought, If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because | he hears a different drummer.—Tho. reau. —— Side Products. Of course, if they force the condition 10D uS, we can return to liver, corn I dodgers and parched corn coffee. But if the packers are willing to be con [ siderate we hope they will find a way | to commercialize the grunt of the hog and the moo of the steers.—Houston ! Post. A BASKET llF FLOWERS By DOROTHV BLACKMORE. D e AR s Al A (Copyright, er .g,y:lmcx;():lure Newspa- “Oh+h, see the beauties!” cried lit- | tle Hazel, scampering over to the bed | of gayly colored spring flowers she‘? suddenly. h"“lssoflzdfiowers"’ breathed her little brother, Ted, who was helping her to fill her basket with wild flowend that | w along the edge of the woods. n:‘he chflgdren had wandered farther than they had known, and the bed of lovely tulips that they were now de- moralizing was the only boundary line at the rear of the home of Mr, and Mrs. Marden. When the two trudged into school, tardy and tired, but rosy and laugh- ing, Miss Mott gasped. “We brought you a May basket, teacher,” the two said in unison. They had been rehearsing their speech all the way from the Marden flower beds. “Oh, what a beauty! Thank you, | children. Now take your seats. You ! are tardy and we must make up for lost time.” She hadn't the heart to i dampen their joy by asking where they had picked the lovely flowers. She intuitively felt that the little ones | {had secured them innocently, but none the less destructively and dis- honestly, from some of the gardens bordering the woods on the south side. When she reached home her friend was sitting on the porch waiting for jher to have a cup of tea. “And who gave you the flowers, Flo?” she asked. “It's May day; bless your heart! And two of the children brought me the basket. It was lovely in the early morning,, but—" Mrs. James laughed. “You will be | surprised to know that I saw the children picking the flowers very early this morning from Mrs. Mar- den’s border gardens down by the woods, but I, like you, hated to spoil the children’s joy.” Miss Mott looked serious for a mo- | ment. “Don’t you think I ought to go and explain? It seems wrong, somehow.” ! “It wouldn’t do any harm, dear; ' and I'll go with you as soon as we have our tea. Run upstairs and | freshen up while I have tea served, and then we'll go and call on Mrs. | Marden and explain. I owe her a call, anyway.” When Florence Mott reappeared she ‘was as pretty and fresh as had been her gift of tulips in the early morn. ing. They walked down the path and turned into the winding road that led past the Marden home. “I' stand behind while you ex- plain,” said Florence laughingly, as they shook the knocker on the great white door. To the surprise of both women, & tall young man in house jacket and Wwhite flannel trousers opened the door. “Is Mrs. Marden in?" asked Mrs. James. “No—I'm sorry. I am her brother, left in charge for a whole week. My name is Congdon, Will Congdon.” “We came on missions,” went on Mrs. James. “First, I wanted to call on your sister, Mrs. Marden; and, Second—Miss Mott,” indicating Flore ence, who had euddenly, she knew not why, become confused, “received a May basket this morning, which we think was filled with your tulips.” Will Congdon laughed. “They were taken to fill a May basket, were they? Pardon me, won't you both sit down a few minutes. You've had Quite @ walk, perhaps.” The three sat down. “I have felt guilty all day over having the basket, but two of my little kindergarteners brought it to me with the information that they had picked the flowers all for me.” “And I had seen some kiddies gath- ering your tulips early this morning when I was in the bridle path in the woods,” added Mrs. James. “It doesn’t matter in the least—now i that T know who did it, but my sister | has had a good deal of trouble with llf::n'! and flowers, and I was about to 8¢ a row,” explained t| i P d the young “Oh, I'm so—so sorry,” Florence. Congdon raised a protesting hand. “Don’t be, please. I'm glad you were the recipient of a May basket. I'm go old that I had forgotten that such pretty sentiment existed,” he laughed. ~Old!" repeated Mrs. James, scorn. fully. “Well, 1 feel like a crusty olg bachelor living out here in this tur- tle-dove community of Young marriedq folks.” wfl::e::e] !pcz:;e? prettily. “And n this game?” she repeated Mgs. James was interested in the situation at once and beamed at this opportunity for matchmaking. “Why, Flo, obviously it is Yyour duty to keep Mr. Congdon from qualifying for the oldymnn s home, isn't it?” “Yes—isn't it?” the man looking straight at F'lorencemm”d’ “It looks like it,” ghe said. And she began by letting him take her out in the runabout that night in order that he might find out the exact location of the schoolhouse where she “For I shall often At her wedding in May time the bride basket of tulips. the following carried a May —_— Thimbles Were Thumb-Bells, Thimbles were first known as - thumb-bells,” from thelr shape and convenient place, their position the to “thimble.” — —— Immune From Many Diseases. 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