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To Naples $18 From Naples 5:117 “ Genoa. 18 - “- Genoa ‘17 “ Me‘sslna 16 “ Palermo 19 BE OBTAINED AT THIS OFFICE. “ Messlna 2'0 “ Palermo so TICKETS CAN THE-CONNING TOWER. _ ' ‘ . Where the Admiral is Stationed During an Engagement. The conning tower of the modern ironclad presents the greatest possible contrast between the old and new methods of fighting on the seas. The conning 'tower starts over the forward turret. In this circular chamber, scarcely six feet across and protected by walls of steel twelve inches thick, stood Commodore Dewey. Above his head was a roof of solid steel. The brat impression of the lay observer as "he entersrthis little inclosed chamber is that the" enemy and all other things are invisible and that. the battle is to be fought out on the lines of simple guess- -work But stepping forward and bringing his eyes to the level of the armor plat- ing between the arched roof above and the steel walls he becomes aware of a little narrow slit along which he may sweep his eyes and take in the whole range of the horizon. Below and directly in front of him is the sharp-painted bow of the boat and the two long..white muzzlesof the guns protruding many feet from the forward turret. From the moment of the beginning of the battle until the end the com-- mander is invisible to his men his voice is the only thing piesent—maim 1y through speaking- tubes and tele- phones. On .that group of speaking-tubes to the right are the words “Bow torpedo tube” and “Above water torpedo tube.” At the left is the voice tube to the en- gine-room, and this completes the cir- cuit that discharges the giant guns. Right in the centre of the conning tower is the steam-steering M1881. binnacle and compass. Thus by the directing hand of the commander standing in the centre of the tower. with his hand upon the compass, is the battle fought. Who of all. humanity save the man himself can realize the immensity of the strain upon the nu. man mind placed in control of this mighty engine on the day of battle? In this little spot is concentrated the whole power of the mighty machine which we know as an ironclad ship. Never since the world began'vwas such a. power concentrated in the hands of one man, and with that power the judgment to direct it, the will to apply it, the knowledge to utilize it is placed in his hands. The commander in his conning tower has but to press the button and the great engines will drive the boat through the water. Down in the chambers of the guns are the masses of. the powder charges. A touch, a spark, a great flame and a thundering crash, and the steel shot will rush 2,000 feet in a second. The touch of another button will loosen the torpedoes. A word through a third tube will send a storm of steel and lead flying from the machine guns on the upper deck and in the round tops. OLDEST OF AMERICA’S CONSULS. Has the Proud Distinction of Ovor a Half 11 Crnt11r;.’s Service. The proud distinction of half a con-1 tury’s service, making him the Nestor of the American consular corps, be- ‘ongs to Horatio J. Sprague, the United States Consul at Gibraltar. Mr. Sprague was appointed by President James K. Polk May 12, 1848. More- over, his father before him, Horatio Sprague, of Boston,_Mass., was ap- pointed Consul at Gibraltar by Presi- dent Andiew Jackson April 30,1832. Again, the son of the present Consul, Richard Louis Sprague, is Deputy and Vice Consul, and, if the 1ecord of the Sprague family is kept up, will be serving the United States at Gibraltar ' when the twentieth century is half gone. Horatio the elder, a native of Bos- ton, visited Gibraltar before and after 1812. He subsequently established in Gibraltar the business of American merchantman and shipowner. An- cient records refer to him as “enjoy— ‘ing a high standing in the commercial world, of great moral worth and gen- eral hospitality, especially to his coun- trymen.” ~'During the first years of his Gibraltar residence, in 1815, he was presented by the Humane Society of Massachusetts with .a gold medal for aiding in the rescue of Captain James Riley and his crew fi-Om slavery. Those worthy New Englanders had been placed in slavery by a horde of wandering Arabs in the African desert. The present Horatio was born in Gib- raltar on August 12, 1823. ‘ The “Cumin _ 352111" nl‘Spain. Don Francisco Romero y Robledo, former Spanish ’ Minister of Justice, and present leader of the Conserva— tive party, is just now an interesting figure in Spanish politics. It is not unlikely that he is the “coming man." He was born in Antequera Andalu- sia, and in appearance is much more like an Englisizman th He is tall, of fair complexion, with light, curly hair, 110w :turuing gray, bright, piercing blue eyes, blond mus? tache and beaui tugged with redgand big white teeth. with two larger ones in fiont, slig‘ml; protruding, which the caricaturist usually consid- ers no Englishman complete. The com- ic papers do gleat things with these teeth, and put them in evidence on ev- ery possible occasion. Senor Romero’s success as a politi< cian has been due in a great measure to his personal magnetism and splen-‘ did oratory, which is considered second only to that of the great Caste lai; his volce’is musical‘and resonant, and his most bitter opponents in politics are 3 often so carried away by his speech. that they applaud almost unconscious- ' ly, even when the Words which flow I In such graceful, telling eloquence fiom - his lips are directly against them and ' their aims.- . United States. an a Spaniard. without . ‘ . ~ THE nvnn‘inoGAZETTE WENT HUNTING 1N OFFICE House. The Easy-going Roles in the Department: , Fifty Years Ago. “The-rules regulating the hours of work of the government employee. in the departments," says one who for-_ merly- served his country in the capac- lty of a clerk, “are'quite different from those in vogue half a. century ago. What would you think if .I were to tell you that under the old regime I" have known clerks to take their fowl- ing' pieces to their offices and. after perusing the old Intelligencer, or some other paperkascertaining the show for work coming to their desks and walk- ing over to the ‘pint,’ near where the monument is now, or south of the President’s mansion, and shooting a. few birds. I have known clerks to go‘ gunning in. office hours, but usually those who thus acted were fine shots and successful in: bringing down the birds. Poor sportsmen seldom took this privilege, but it was understood all round that all that was necessary was that the work should be kept up. I have on many occasions strolled along the avenue or worked about. my home for hours when my office work was well up, and nothing was said. There were even messengers who 0c. :asionally' took French leave.- . “On one occasion one of this class ioined in a procession, and the follow- ing day he apologized to his chief, re- marking: ‘I waited to as kpermission for absenting myself yesterday, but you had not arrived when iny com— pany was about to form, so I took leave and'now come to ask for it.” “‘That was right,’ said the chief, 'always take holiday when you want to, unless you see a rush of business coming, and you will be sure to have it. Only ask for the leave afterward to make it all right. But do not be extravagant. Spend your leaves for some good purpose.’ “This was when the entire force in the executive departments was not as large as some of the present bureaus, when the business of the government was a mere fraction of the present output. There was no need then of iron-clad rules, and so you kept your work well up there was no complaint." —Washington Star. BRITISH DIPLOMATS CARED FOR. l‘hey Are Treated far More Generously Than Are Our Representatives. The British Government owns the fin- est residence in Pekin. It is occupied by its minister to China. and his staff, which consists of eighteen or twenty persons, including three or four “com- mercial attaches,” as they are called, whose business is to study the commer- 3ial possibilities of the empire and make reports to the foreign office in .London for the benefit of the British manufacturers and merchants. There are also several “student interpreters," young men who are placed there for the purpose of, acquiring the Chinese. anguage and a. knowledge of the cus— toms of country prior tothelr appoint- ment in the consular service in any :ountry unless he understands the language of that country, which does not apply to the consular service of the In addition to the le- gation in the city of Pekin, the British Parliment has recently apppropriated $85,000 for the erection of a. summer residence for the use of its minister and his officials in the hills fifteen or twenty miles away. Twenty—six thou- sand dollars was also apppropprlated for the erection of a. consulate at Chung-King. Wherever the British establish an embassy or legation or consulate they always provide a. suit- able building, as in Washington. But the United States Government owns only one such building in all the world, and that is at Topyo, Japan,, where the land was given by the Japanese Government, and the original residence was erected by Mr. Seward when he was our minister there. We have paid twenty times its value in rent during all these years, and finally purchased it from his heirs for $16,000. THE WRITING ON THE BANK NOTE. And How It Was the Means of Liberating a Man from Prison. Some years ago the cashier of a. Liv- erpool merchant received a small Bank of England note, which he held up to the light to make sure it' was genu- ine. In doing so he noticed some in- distinct brownish marks, as if words had been traced on the front of the note and on the margin. Out' of curi- osity he tried to decipher them. In a weak solution of acid the words came out much more legibly, and he was able to read the following sentence: “If this note should fall into the hands of John Dean, of Longhillmar, ' he will learn thereby that his brother ls languishing a prisoner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean, when the note was shown to him, lost no time in asking the Gov— ernment for assistance, and finally se— cured the freedom‘ of his brether, on payment of a ransome to the Dey. The unfortunate man had been a. prisoner for eleven years, and had traced, with a piece of wood for pen and his own blood for ink, the message on the bank- note, in the hope of its being seen, sooner or later.' Economic Uses of the Rattlesnake. The mountain ranges of 'New Jersey and Pennsylvania abound in rattle- snakes, which are turned by the na- tives to various commercial uses, and, though the reptile does not pay very well, his residuary substances have some selling value. For instance, his skin if a. large one is worth $1 and if sold to the summer boarder brings on an average about $2.50. It is made into belts, pocketbooks, slippers, and- other articles of like sort, and is of a delicat ornate texture, with curious interlacings and imbrications showing how finely the original serpent was jacketed. Its 011 is very costly and has vairious uses, and its venom,~ still more costly, is administered in case if scarlet taverns-New YorkTribune. . drill was a pantomime. PANTOMINE. DRlL. Leompany Instructed With Chalk Pict- . urea of Guns One of the first artillery companies organized in the west at the beginning of the civil war was formednt, St. Joseph, 'Mo. It was known as long' as any of the organization were left as Coon Thornton’s artillery. Thorn- ton was a lumber merchant in the town. He was a Yankee. Prior to the war he-was disregarded socially. The community was suspicious of an eastern man, especially one from New England. But when he espoused the cause of the south he became a favor- ite. When he organized a company to. fight the Union he was a hero. There was not a cannon in the town where the company was organized. It was considered advisable to drill be fore going to the front. The only public hall in the town was used for that purpose. A local artist who had seen pictures of cannon chalked out the outline of one on the floor of the 111111. A man who had been 121 the Mexican war and had a book on tac- tics was drillmaster. The evolutions necessary to familiarize the company with a cannon were made about the chalk outlines. In other words, the But the men were as earnest in: the motions as if they had had a great gun. From some unknown source there came a cargoof Roman swbrds. They were exact copies of those worn by Caesar’s legions. Where they had been stored and for how long no one knew, unless it: was the donor, and he kept his personality in the back— ground. But when Coon Thornton’s artillery went into camp with the state guard it went armed with R0- man swords and no cannon. The com- pany never had a. cannon until it went int its first fight. It was attached to the regiment of a Missouri coldnel., who ordered Thornton to drop a few shells into a thicket, where a federal squad was. seen to go. Thornton said he would do. it if he had the gun. There was a brass field piece in a. wagon in the commissary department. and it was brought out. It was swab- bed, rammed and fired in accordance with the chalk drill, and did effective work. Coon Thornton‘s artillery made an effective record during the war. The Roman swords were never brought into requisition, however, ex‘ cept when raids were made on her] roosts or on a fugitive p0rker.——Chi- cago Inter—Ocean. “ HUTCHY " IN THE BULL RING. An Escape of the Executive Officer 01‘ the Hudson .‘Vhen a Cadet. Apropos of Second uieut. J. E. Scott, the Philadelphia boy who is ,the executive officer-- of ' the Hudson, who pulled the Winslow out of a hole when disabled at the bombardment at Cardenas, a story of his love of ed- ucation is given by a classmate while the pair were on the United States boat Chase as cadets on their prac- tice cruise. The vessel was at Lisbon, Portugal. The starboard watch of cadets were ashore on leave. Some, with “Hutchy,” as Scott was famil- larly called. went to see a. bull fight at a suburb of Lisbon called Cintru. In the royal box that afternoon in August, of 1888, sat the present ruler of Portugal, then a debonair and dem- ocratic youth. Suddenly a cadet’s cap was seen to fly through the air and drop in the center of the arena. I‘he’owner, none other than “Hutchy,” lumped into the ring, grabbed a. spear from a dazed matador, and, after giv- ing his trousers a-sailor-like hitch, the hero of Cardenas proceeded to assail a. lively nunt of a. bull. The multi- tude that crowded the tiers recognized the uniform and yelled, men. women and children: “Bravo, Americana, bravo,” “Viva le Americano.” Sud. denly the bull fell. However, with spear in one hand and his cap in the other, looking very much scared, "Hutchy” was conducted by some at. tendants to the royal box, and received much to his surprise, , not only con- gratulatlons, but Prince Carlos re- moving a signet ring from his finger presented it to Scott. The affair was the talk of Lisbon for several days.' and as a result of the celebration that followed, for the ring had to be wet: ted, “Hutchy” and his chums were kept 011 board the Chase for a month or more—Philadelphia Times. No English Picture of the Queen. There is a curious story of a public personage in England who wanted'to purchase a portrait of the Queen to present to an institution, and partic- ularly desired a genuinely British work of art. In vain. be hunted through print shops and picture deal- ers; either made in Germany or, at any rate, the product of some other coun- try than England. Mall, he inquired piteously, “Can, I really get no portrait ofthe English Sovereign that has not the‘brand of either Germany or France upon it?” The dealer shook his head; the best he could offer was the Work of a Ger? man artist, engraved by French hands in Paris on German paper, with a frame of American molding and Bel- gian glazing. .—-. A Phenomenon. _ "It’s remarkable,” said Senator Sor- ghum, “how different people are af: fected by the same thing.” “Have you-been reading medicine?” “No. I was thinking of my speech. [I kept me awake four nights, ‘and put everybody who heard it to sleep.’.’ —Washington Star. Mrs.‘ Mlllugun—"An‘ what did his onner say to you this morning?" Mrs. Mulcahy—“Can’t you and your husband live together without fight— ing?" Mrs. gay?" Mi‘s. Mummy—two. yer annen, not 'Muelllgan—An' w'at did yer happily. " everything shown to him was" At last, in Pall ‘ the irrigation problem. CURRENT COMMENT. Europe professes to attach very llt- (le impeltance to the Monroe doctrine, but it never takes much to piecipita a discussion of it in- tho foreign press. The walnut library and bedroom sets of furniture in. Jefierson Davis‘ old home, in Beauvoir, Miss. have been shipped to Richmond, Va, for preservation in the Confederate museum. ' Nearly all the gambling dens in Chicago are so busy. that their em- ployes are working overtime. The theory that war paralyzes industry 'does not go in that town. Letter writers should not fail to obey the caution given by the post- office department, to. have their ad- dress on the outside of every letter mailed, and, in return, the depart- ment should note and respectrthe pro- tests of the public against the defacing of postal cards by impressing stamp on the written side; It is. a. poor . rule that will not work both ways, and since writers are forbidden to inscribe anything on the address side, it should be equally imperative on the postal clerks to do nothing to deface the mat- ter on the written side. I No one is more interested in the wet than the veterans at the Soldiers Home. That usually quiet place is stirred up by excitement. Men with gray beards and faces seamed with wrinkles, men maimed and ill, gather in little knots under the trees in the beautiful grounds of their peaceful home, and discuss the situation with eagerness, intelligence and patriotism. Many a tale oil-their prowess in by-» gone days is brought out and furblsh-. ed up for the entertainment of their.- comrades, and the stories of battles. long ago foughtare told over again. “We fought our brothers then,” said. one of them. “Oh, if I only had my leg back that I left at Winchester and could get a. good chance at those cuss.- ed Spaniards, I would die happy.” “Would you really like to fight again?” he was asked “ “Aye. that I would,” he answered, “that I would. and there’s hardly a boy here that wouldn’t go in the ranks ngainvif he could, to fight'for Old Glory, God bless her!” ' 1 Against the verdict of history and the conclusion reached by official in- :quiry andjudicial proceedings, all of which sustain the account that John Wilkes Booth was killed by his pur- suers a few days after his murder of President Lincoln, we have at this late day the revival of an old woman’s story that the assassin escaped and died a natural death, years afterward, in Eur.ope Since it is admitted that he is dead, the point is of little prac Iticnl importance now, but too incident goes to show how such stories begin and linger in tradition, until they be ,come, in many cases, articles of popu flar faith. History is full of such in :stances, relating to both good and bad ,men. For many years the early [Christians had a belief that Nero Was not dead, but would return some time ito renew his persecutiOns; while the Istories of the Seven Sleepers. the IWandering Jew and the heroes of the gVenusburg' are familiar toscholars. In an age of tradition and ‘not of news- Ipapers this Wilkes Booth story might Ieasily become'an accepted version of lhis later career. ~. l I The House has properly refused to Iconcur in the Senate’s proposal to Iabolish the forest reserves created Iunder the executive proclamation of 1February 22, 1897. These reserves [were set apart at the recommendation Iof the” distinguished commission of experts of which Professor Charles S jSargent was chairman, the commis- sion itself being selected at the-request of the interior department by the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. -_Its mem‘ bers gave their time and labor to the - public ‘ service without - pay, \ the reim- bursement of. their travelling, expenses being- alone =2provided for. A , few ,monthsv-afterfi the reservations _ were made} some:- Complaints. of persons dwelling on them-orinterested in en- croaching upon, them, caused Congress to suspend the executive. order, with certain exceptions, until this year, so that a more careful examination of the grievances might be made. But the Senate, through an amendment tc the sundry civil bill, now proposes to set aside these reserves ' altogether.‘ No one can question that the pres- ent reserve system, as initiated by President Harrison, is of vast import- ance to this country. Not only does it preserve millions of acres of valua: ble woods from the ravages of the axe, but it is of the greatest value to When that system was extended by the Sargent commission another great step in ad- vance was taken. Necessarily the se- lection for withdrawal from settle. ment of many millions of acres. situ- ated in various states, and territories, had to be done roughly; With this once effected, the modification of boundaries in order to lessen indlvld~ ual hardship was a. mere matter of detail. . ,But to abandon the scheme because some complaints have been received is utterly unjustifiable, and . the.f.House shOu-ld not, consentto It.
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