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THE BROKEN DRUM.
There is sorrow in the household,
There’s a grief too hard to bear;
There's a little cheek that’s tear
stained,
There’s a sobbing baby there.
And try how we will to comfort,
Still the tiny tear drop’s come,
For, to solve a vexing problem,
Curly Locks has wrecked his drum.
It has puzzled him and worried,
How the drum created sound;
For he couldn’t understand it;
It was not enough to pound
With his tiny hands and drum sticks.
And at last the day has come,
When another hope is shattered,
Now in ruins lies his drum.
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With his metal bank he broke it,
Tore the tightened skin aside;
Gazed on vacant space and nothing,
Then he broke right down and cried,
For the bursted bubble shocked him
And the baby tears must come;
For a joy has gone forever,
Curly Locks has wrecked his drum.
While his mother tries to soothe him,
I am sitting here alone;
In the life that lies behind me,
Many shocks like that I’ve known,
And the boy who’s upstairs weeping,
In the years that are to come
Will learn that many pleasures
Are as empty as his drum.
—Detroit Free Press.
“OLD IRONSIDES.”
When Congress appropriated SIOO,-
000 to restore the old frigate Consti
tution some doubt was expressed
whether it could be done, but this
doubt is dispelled when “Old Iron
sides” is looked at as she lies in the
big stone dry dock' at the Boston navy
yard, receiving the three massive
spars that have been constructed in
duplicate of the three original masts,
rhe great cross-saws, adzes, and other
tools that were in vogue when levia
than wooden ships were built, and
which are rarely seen in a modern
shipbuilding establishment, have been
diligently applied by shipwrights, ship
joiners, ship fitters, and calkers xor
many months day after day, until the
veteran looks today almost as did the
original ship when launched in Bos
ton in September, 1797.
And in the rebuilding of this ship
her lines and form of old have been
followed after the model carved by
Josiah Humphreys, who was one of her
designers, which model was found a
few years ago in a state of good pres
ervation at the Humphreys family
homestead, at Haverford, Pa. The
first of her masts was put into the
ship recently. It was the mainmast,
which, with its massive semi-circular
top, of an area big enough for a
southern family’s dining room, weighs
eighteen and a half tons, a tremen
dous weight for the keel of the old
ship to support.
One of the features to be preserved
in this restored “sovereign of the
seas” is her battery, which consisted
of thirty long twenty-four pounders
and twenty-four thirty-two pounders,
smooth bore guns that would carry,
so history reports, a projectile “in the
neighborhood of a mile with fair ac
curacy.” This is scarcely one-tenth
the efficiency of many of our modern
naval guns. Duplicates of these old
guns are now being cast in the foun
dry at the Boston navy yard, but they
will be of that character that could be
carried on the lakes without reason
for protest, since they are not to be
fitted for physical use.
Since the act of Congress was ap
proved letters have been received
from various parts of the country con
taining offers to sell to the govern-
The Golden Age for May 23, 1907.
ment, to the Daughters of the Revo
lution, and other patriotic societies
snuff boxes, canes, and other curios
made from time to time of the original
wood of the ship. But one relic of
more historic value than any other
was recently learned of by a letter re
ceived by Naval Constructor Snow,
who has had charge of the restora
tion of the old ship. It has been lo
cated on an old mill (the Butterfly
Mill) near Saylesville, R. 1., and cor
respondence has been opened by the
Daughters of the Revolution, since the
government cannot legally purchase it,
to secure this famous relic of the Con
stitution-Guerriere fight.
The relic mentioned is the old bell
that was put on the British frigate
Guerriere when she was built by the
French, and was removed from her
just before she was blown up on Au
gust 20, 1812, after her commander had
surrendered himself and crew to the
commander of the Constitution,
following an engagement that
lasted about forty minutes. This
bell is said to be the twelfth
oldest one in the world. In the cast
ing is this: “Peter Ziest, 1260, Ams
terdam.” Inasmuch as it was taken
from the Guerriere, its history is
traced thus: It was believed to have
been suspended on some church or
other religious institution in Holland
and was obtained by the French dur
ing the period of the Reformation, and
became the ship’s bell of the Guer
riere when that vessel was built for
the French navy. The bell was on that
vessel when she was captured
by the British warship Blanche off
the Faroe Islands, just six years and
one month to a day prior to her de
struction by the Constitution.
The historic bell remained on the
Guerriere, and when a midshipman
was sent from the Constitution to
save everything from the ship remov
able and of special value before blow
ing her up he found that the bell had
been dislodged from its hanger by a
shot from the Constitution, and it was
swaying back and forth with the mo
tion of the sea, and solemnly tolling
what seemed to be the death knell of
the ship. The officer took the bell and
sent it to the Constitution, on which
ship it was installed, and for many
years afterward, until about 1845, it
tolled off the half hours —“one bell”
to “eight bells.” —New York Times.
STORK AS A SONGBIRD.
In Montana the stork is by law
classed among the singing birds. This
is the result of a joke started by a
legislator, in which the whole legisla
ture joined.
In 1895 the game laws were up for
amendment. The House resolved it
self into committee of the whole for
the consideration of the amendments.
The committee was about to arise
and report progress, when a»Lewis
and Clark representative saw an op
portunity to spring a joke at the ex
pense of a Cascade county colleague
named Stork. To make it more effect
ive, he stepped over and informed the
Great Falls representative of his pur
pose to introduce an amendment in
cluding the stork in the protected
class; that is, to make it a violation
of the law to kill a stork at any season
of the year.
Not seeing the joke, the Cascade
county member assented to the
amendment, which was duly offered,
to the effect that the stork be included
in the singing bird class and, there
fore, entitled to protection from
sportsmen and their shotguns. The
Cascade county representative second
ed the adoption of the amendment, de
claring that he thought it a splendid
step.
Then another member from Helena,
a lawyer, made a somewhat extended
speech in support of the amendment,
declaring that those who had heard
the stork sing could not fail to ap
preciate its melodious notes, and he
asserted with great vehemence that it
should by all means be protected
against the onslaughts of the cruel
hunters. Still another Helena mem
ber arose to second the motion and
told of the visits of the stork in cer
tain parts of Cascade county.
By this time the Cascade county
representative realized that a joke was
being perpetrated and endeavored to
catch the chairman’s eye that he
might protest. But the chairman was
deaf to his entreaties until half a
dozen speeches had been made in
favor of its adoption.
Finally, Mr. Stork was recognized
and he became especially bitter in his
remarks which caused his colleagues
to become all the more determined to
put the amendment through, which
was done, to the discomfiture of the
Cascade representative.
The bill as amended was recom
mended for passage and passed on
third reading, despite Mr. Stork’s
speech in protest, and it went to the
Senate. Here, again, Mr. Stork made
a vain attempt to kill the bill with
the objectionable amendment.
It went to the governor, as did Mr.
Stork, but the governor was as obdur
ate as the two houses had been, and
thereafter the Montana statutes classi
fied the stork with the singing bird
class. So the law still stands. —
Washington Post.
“Look here, you said this gun would
shoot 100 yards. I’ve tried it and it
only carries fifty.” Isaacs —“Veil, but
mine friend, there are two barrels.”
Farmer —“What do’ you mean, you
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tree?” The Young Rascal —“The ap
ples on the ground are all wormy.”
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