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A SUPPLY ”BOAT.
MAKES A ROUND OF CALLS Tc
THE DIFFERENT LIGHTHOUSES.
All his fear the Armeria is Busy in Unclt
Sam’s Service, Carrying Oil, Etc, to 80(
Stations on the Coast—Also Sees to De-
stroying Unused Articles.
The'United States owns one vesse
that has no counterpart in America:
waiters. She is the Armeria," thI
light-house supply ship. All the yeaI
she is busy/carrying oil to 850 light
houses on- our coast, and not only oil
but towels. wicks; brushes, soap
brooms, cutlery, stationery—all thI
things that the government supplie:
to light-houses and their keepers, say:
a contributor to the Chicago Inter
‘Ocean. And, by the way, right hem
is a good place to tell about the dis
tressing extravagance Uncle Sam dis
plays about all his “second-hand” pos
sessions; perhaps it is unavoidable
but it is painful to a thrifty hear.
nevertheless.
Whenever new things are given f0]
old to his servants, the old are de
stroyed remorselessly; tinware thaI
only needs a little tinkering, lamp:
lacking a new burner, brushes that
are good for work but not for the par-
ticular work required, furniture mm
is being displaced by something bet-
ter—all these things are taken away
by the Armeria, and far out to sea
where ‘it is certain that no currem
will ever carry them back to be of use
to anybody, and they are dropped
overboard. The same plan of de-
' struction of displaced articles is pur~
sued‘in all government departments
only when, say, a. signal service offi-
cer is allowed a new desk, the old one
is not sent to sea, but is backed intc
kindling wood on land. I am not sure
that the kindling wood can be used
for anything but a useless bonfire, fo:
the idea in all this destruction is to re-
move any temptation to get new
things in order to make something oil
the old.
The Armeria is a big, white steam-
er, with yellow funnel and uniformed
officers, so that you can tell from afal
that she is a government vessel, but
she does not belong to the navy; she
isgone of a great fleet controlled by
the Treasury Department and de-
_‘voted to services that have nothing tc
do with war. There are about 156
light stations on the Pacific coast and
about 26.5 on the great lakes. Oil is
purchased in the west for the lake
stations, but all the rest are supplied
from the government depot on Staten
Island; the oil for the Pacific coast is
sent Mound the Born in sailing ves-
Lseiils,‘ and the Armeri-a carries all they
need to all the rest of the United
States light-houses. She visits each
once a year, coming back to Staten Is-
land three times between the differ
ent annual cruises to get new supplies
and to be overhauled and repainted.
Capt. Wright is the shipmaster, and
he has commanded a light-house sup-
ply ship for 25 years, and he is the
only man living who could pilot a
ship into every harbor of the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts of the United States.
He can give you the exact location of
every lighth’iouse, lightship, buoy and
beacon on this side of our country,
from Maine to Texas.
Naturally, light-houses are general-
ly in difficult and dangerous waters;
and the best of seamanship is none too
good for the Armeria. The light of
Jupiter inlet down in Florida is the
hardest of all to supply, for the
freight boat must he landed on an
open beach, Where there is always a
heavy surf; it is frequently over-
turned, but in one way or another not
only the Jupiter light is kept burning,
but at this same point are landed the
supplies for 26 post lights along th
Indian River. .
His Sacrifice.
:‘Darling? he said, looking down
tenderlyiin'to the eyes of his bride, “l
have often heard you say that there is
no true love without self-sacrifice. You
have taught me this great truth, and
'now 1 am going to prove my love by
giving up something that has been
very dear to me for years. You know
how fond I am of smoking. Well,
dearest, I am going to abandon the
practice, even though it be like tear-
ing out my—my—”
At this point his emotion apparently
overcame him, and he looked down at
the sweet face, expecting to see there
appreciation of his noble resolve, but
he saw only a look of blank disappoint-
ment.
“What is the matter? Are you not
glad that I am following your teach-
ing?” he asked. ‘
“it‘s not that," she answered, almost
sobbing. “Never mind what it is,” and
she rushed from the room. '
'l‘he self-sacrificing hero smiled. He
needed no explanation. He had
learned from his wife’s dearest friend
'lhnt she had set her heart on buying
him a half-dozen boxes of cigars cov-
ered with lovely silver paper wrap-
pers, with pictures in the middle.
And that is what gave birth to his
noble resolution—New York World.
Price or a Postage Stamp.
“An American friend tells us.” says
a foreign paper, “that he saw the fol-
lowing written up on a postoffice aWay
back in tire States:—‘The price of a 2-
Irent stamp is 2 cents; licked and
stuck, 3 cents. Any further informa~
tion can be obtained from the post-
master.‘ ”—Chicago Record.
The Accepted Time.
Eva Coy—“What is the marriage-
able' ago?”
Miss Thirtysmith—“Anywhere be-
tween the seminary and the ceme—
tery.”——Puck.
“The Hindoos have a paradox to the
effect that women fear mice, mice fear
' men, and men fear women." ‘
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. be block'aded at once.
WHY WILLIAM HATES THE GREEK.
The Emperor Objectod to His Sister Join-
ing the Greek Church.
The' former Princess Sophia of Prus
sia, now Crown Princess of the Hel-
lenes and Duchess of Sparta, has not
been on good terms with her imperial
and imperious brother from the dayI
three or four years ago, when she
first declared her intention to join the
Greek Church. The Emperor made
strenuous opposition to this resolve,
but the Duchess, after explaining that
she had been in no way coerced, eithel
by her husband or his family, to take
the step, quietly put amend to the
her future subjects.
Since then the Princess Sophia has
become a stranger to her native city,
and her name is never even mentioned
at the Berlin court.
The Cretan incident afforded the
Kaiser the first opportunity to punish
Princess Sophia and her husband. II
was he who proposed that the Piraeus
The Crown
Princess of the Hellenes has become
one of the most popular women of
Athens, where she leads all move.
m-ents to benefit womankind an aid
the poor. Of late she has become the
patroness of a. society for the intro-
duction of a new national dress. She
is also at the head of an organization
for furnishing wholesome food to the
poor at cost price, and the poor school
children receive free noonday meals
at her expense every day in the year.
—-Chicago Tribune.
GRAND OPERA IN BELGIUM.
Prices Ridiculously Low—Two Perform-
' ances foraNickel.
Liege, Belgium, has a grand opera,
of which a correspondent of the Musi-
cal Courier gives this amusing account.
The prices are low, ranging from
$1.25 down to 10 cents. On Mondays
performances are given at half price.
which brings the cheapest seats down
to 5 cents. What would the boxhold-
ers of the Metropolitan Opera House
say to opera at 5 cents? And you get
two operas at that, for they like to give
you your money’s worth here. “Wil-
liam Tell” and “Faust" are on to«night,
“Carmen” and “Trovatore” to-morrow.
Wagner is not given at all, and other
German composers very seldom.
French or Italian opera is the rule.
Massenet and Saint-Sa‘ens are great
favorites. The opera house is a large
old building, utterly devoid of ventila-
tion. If you want to know .what stale
air is—guaranteed genuine—sit through
a performance here. It is the self—
same air that the grand-parents of the
present opera-goers breathed , fifty
years ago. It is there to stay; it can’t
get out, as there is no outlet for it.
.—
REPLACES REVERE’S BEkL.
A Ceremony in Boston Which Recalls the
Famous Elder.
Four years ago the First Church of
Plymouth fell a prey to flames, and
the old town bell, which had swung in
the tower for three generations, ring-
.ng for public celebrations and sound-
ing the 9 o’clock curfew nightly in ac-
cordance with the ancient custom, fell
Into the smoking ruins and was bad
;y broken.
A new stone church now stands on
the site where the old edifice stood,
and by a vote of the town the bell
has been recast. The church tower
has just reached completion and the
hell was hoisted in. position. It rang
) o’clock curfew for the first time since
:he fire, and the event was marked by
1 simple service.
Th original bell was cast by Paul Re-
vere in 1801. It swung in the towers
of two churches, the one lately de-
stroyed. and which was built in 1834,
and its predecessor. The recast bell
.s slightly heavier than the old one.
ind its tone is remarkably sweet and
near.
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J T. tZI-r’flc ol {1 fun.
A company of fisnermen were seated
in 3. Cardiff hostlery. They were tell-
mg fish stories.
“The most exciting day’s sport I
ever had," said one of the company, an
American, "was when I was of Labra-
lor. I was with twoothers; each had
two rods, and we were simply pulling
out fish as fast as ever we could put
“In our lines. I forgot," he added, in
a. thoughtful tone, “what those fish
were." .
“Whales?” suggested an Englishman,
with an attempt to be sarcastic.
“Whales!” said the Yankee, with a
leprecatory wave of his hand; “why,
man, we were baiting with whales!”—
Answers.
Maud—Charley stole a kiss from me
'ast evening. ‘
Aunt Kate-The villian!
you do?
Maud—I was awfully angry with
him at first; but when he said he stole
it only that he might give it to a poor
girl who never had any kisses, then I
couldn’t help seeing what a noble man
he was. So I told ‘him if he thought
that poor girl was really destitute, he
might as well take another one for
lien—Boston Transcript.
What did
First Prisoner—VVlratl
so glum, old man?
Second Prisoner—Glum? I guess
you’d be glum, too. Me time's up to-
morrow, and you know what that
means. No more 5 o’clock teas, no
more opera singers; 'me art studies un-
finished. By gosh, it’ll break me heart.
{Breaks down.)——New York Journal.
What He Missed. "
“I’ve missed more fun this summer
nused the bull.
“How?" asked the family horse.
“To-day, for the, seventh. time, I let
me of those new women gét across
be field before I realized she wasn’t
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i man.”—'Answers. _
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discussion by embracing the faith of _
Tears ? Why
ban you could shake yOur tall at,”
LEVEES ENDANGERED.
The RiVer Threatens to Change [ts Course
at. Vidalia.
Memphis, April 30.—-The river at Mem:
phis fell its usual two-tenths of a foot
and a; continued fall is predicted. One
can imagine, however, the length of
time necessary to drain the water out
of the country opposite Memphis a: the
rate of two-tenths of 3 tom fal. each
day, when it is known that the rich at
Memphis is still about 38 miles Wider
than when ,it was within banks
Boats drawing eight feet of wate.v make
daily trips inland into Arkansas [C a
distance of from 15 to in miles The.
levees at and near Natchez Miss, are
in a most critical state, and it Is feared
they will give way afzer standing ma:-
flood strain for sc- long
The Tensas and Black rivers are ris»
ing over an inch an hour and the water
is now within less than a too: of the
large New Orleans and Western rail-
road iron bridge at Clayton. La. Trams
are still running, but are unlikely to do
so long. Most of their terminals and
turntables are under several feet of wa-
ter at Vidaha, and cannotbe used.
The weather continues threatening
The river is now-within a few Inches 01
the top of thelevee. which is new earth
and has not had time to settle on the
old levee bed.
The United States engineers are pay-
ing close attention to the Cowpen Point
levee, which was recently constructed
to prevent the river making a cutoff.
leaving Natchez inland and carrying
away Vidalia and a fertile portion of
Concordia parish. La. .This levee.
which is constructed of sandy loam, has
four feet more water on the upper than
on thetlower side. with a severe current
around the upper end Should it give
way the force of wash across Lake Con-
cordia and against the opposite levee
would almost certainly demolish it and
create the cutoff which so much money
has been spent to avert.
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A Desperado Killed.
Santa Fe, April 30. —— United States
Deputy Marshal Fred Higgins and
posse of five have had a running fight
with Black Jack's gang of desperadoes
in the mountains of western Grant
county, N. M.. and killed Sid Moore.
one of the desperadoes. The' others
escaped. Moore’s body has been taker
to Clifton. Moore is believed to be the
murderer of Henchman George C.
Smith.
The Newfoundland Fisheries.
London. April 30.-—Thé‘ secretary of
state for the colonies, Joseph Chamber-
lain, received a deputation today of
persons interested in Newfoundland
and who are seeking to remove the
disabilities under which the Newfound-
land fisheries labor. Mr. Chamberlain
said the government was negotiating
with Portugal and hoped to secure the
repeal of tlr.= import dues of that coun-
try.
The North America-n Turnerbund.
St. Louis, April 30.——The turner so-
cieties of St. Louis look for a large in-
flux for the twenty-seventh national
fest of the North American Turner-
bund, which c< nvenes here next week.
The committees confidently expect 50.-
000 visions. 'n‘nii other estimates run
as high as 10:) old. The North Ameri-
can Turner-build has societies in all
parts of the chunky.
Koch’s Latest Lymph.
Washing-to... Apmi aft—Full particu—
lars of ch‘n’:= late-st development of the
method of treating phthyssis by a new
form of tuberculine are given in a re-
port to the state department by Dean
Mason, deputy consul general at Frank-
fort. He supplies a condensed but suf-
ficiently detailed account of Koch’s
process of making and administering
the remedy.
That America’s Cup Challenge.
Belfast. April 30.—-le1‘. Gustav W.
Wolff, member of parliament for East
Belfast and a partner in the firm of
Harland & Wolff, the well known ship-
buiiders, says there is no truth in the
story that he is Connected with a syn-
dicate contemplating building an Irish
yacht to challenge for the America's
Cup or the Queen’s Cup.
Starved Herself to Death.
Bradford, N. Y., April 30.—Mrs. Lau-
re A. .lruudage died at her home here
from x- Illful starvation. She had fasted
for 45 days previous to her death. Mrs.
Bru;i:_Z_.;.e was a noted Spiritualist me.
dilllf. in“. magnetic healer and had pre-
dicted "-=t she would die as she did.
She was .20 years old.
Fraud Order Revoked.
New York, April 30.—The fraud order
issued on March 11 against T. Bigham
Bishop and Clarence B. Bishop of 29.
Broad..:.a_\' In. revoked today by the
postofi. .—‘ a: Jartment. . The Bishops
agreed discontinue the business.
which was held to be a violation of the
postal laws.
Mayflower Documents Returned.
London, Apli. .lO.—The manuScx-ipta
known as the log of the Mayflowe
'were formally handed over to Thomat-z
F. Bayard, the former United States
embassador to the court of St. James.
at 2:30 p. m. today, in the dining room
of the bishop of London’s official resi—
dence. ‘
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