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PLAN TO IMPROVE NATION’S MILITARY/ POST DE LUXE Ml ■hmmaovERNORS ISLAND,” says one of its un hronicle s, using the Indian name Pag- VJ ganck, lies like an emerald gem pendent on the green chain of Long Island." Certainly It never deserved such a pic /Sh Wa turesque description more than it does this spring. ting place for future peace conferences. Y™ *iy It is true that there are warlike touches \J) —Fort Jay, the one time Fort Columbus, ■■rmw and Castle Wliliuin, the six acres on the north shore where is situated the arsenal of the ordnance corps, the commissary buildings, battered and gray as seasoned veterans, the green turf, marked off here and there with huge cannon balls, but the general atmosphere is so peaceful that if it were not for the skyline of minarets and towers, seen through a purplish smoke whenever you make a turn, you could not believe yourself near the nois iest city in the world. Governors island is the headquarters of the de partment of the east. On this small plot of ground, which one of the staff described as being "two miles I.' I, l * ♦ tLrvtmoH iowMn rt*kr and larger in winter,” is transacted the principal business for the military territory extending along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Texas and west to the Mississippi, exclusive of the mid western states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michi gan. One battalion of the 29th infantry is now sta tioned at Governors Island under the command of Gen. Thomas il. Harry, who came there from West Point last September, succeeding the late Gen. Frederick Dent Grant. Several years ago congress appropriated sl,- 100,000 for the reconstruction of Governors Island and 103 acres have finally been reclaimed from the bay. Further improvements were suggested, ami in 190 S ex-Presldent Taft approved plans for a regimental post, but nothing has been done since then to carry them out. It was intended to make of the island the finest military post in the world. All the old buildings were to be razed, Fort Jay, South Battery and Castle William alone to remain. The first was to be the center of a park with a castellated tower, its moat, draw bridge, line old gateway and sallyport to be unin terfered with. The barracks were to bo of the latest model, with every appliance for comfort and use and to house a full regiment of 1,200 men. Magnificent parade and athletic grounds, libraries, piers for passengers and freight and rows of commodious dwellings for the officers were Included in (he plans. Following this a firm of architects presented an even more elaborate design. This latest plan has been approved by several prominent men and representative societies. To the casual glnuce at present every house on Governors Island would be bettered by a coat of paint, lint complaints are rarely heard, notwith standing the dictum that an army officer who doesn't complain has something the matter with him. This military station is one of the postes de luxe; It is hard to get there and one has to pry an incumbent away. So when the authori ties at Washington spell, “economy" out loud the officers at the post are obediently silent. General Barry’s house, an old-time dwelling, is a three-minute walk from the lauding, and direc tions to reach It are given by a trio of guards sunning themselves under a large placard bear ing the Inscription "Do Not Loiter.” With this example of military obedience in mind, you cross the sward resplendent with another sign saying “Keep Off the Grass," step up some cracked steps thiough which tender blades of grass are springing and turning a corner face the parade ground on which many of the houses, including General Barry's, front. Like the majority, his Is a two-story-and-a-half structure and has an addi tional wing or two- to distinguish it. The architecture of these old houses is that of the late colonial period. The color Is a saffron, dulled to a brownish tint, the trimmings white and the blinds green. The latticed porch and bal ustrades recall the gingerbread work of the Dutch housewives preparing some special form of ornamented cakes. Along Colonel's Row. a 6 one of the residential streets Is called, the names are printed in black letters on the rise of the veranda Bteps. Prize babies and young puppies freckle the parade ground. There is no profusion of flowers, but here and there are pansy beds kept trimly within wooden frames. A great snowball bush blooms riotously In front of General Barry's door and the perfume of honeysuckle Is In the air. Most of the gardening attention Is devoted to the lawns and park, and the general effect is that of clean liness, order and discipline. The Dutch name for the island was Nutting, Notting, Nutten or Nut. It was so called, ob viously, for the splendid orchards of nut trees, but with the exception of the chestnuts—horse, not edible —there is no trace at preset of them. _ - - -^— \ wA' %£*..: \ \ \l\^ SS 'r 4ii » qr*t#*9tuki\~~~~~~ fII \ j \ u *\ V b#o smsmmQ pm. J / // H I \ ■ (risovr/D I'l I \ J MJL_Jii\\ m // fl rip 3 iJtlk \ \pzajtj tVßiMPßcnffrt&rt' or eoysTrojj’J iSzjirfD There are six Lombardy pop lars, remnant of the hun dreds sent by Louis XVI. At headquarters, a large house with Georgian front and high eeilinged, roomy offices, the affairs of the island are man aged. Hero Lieutenant-Col onel Haan, In command dur ing General Barry’s absence, receives the reporter and gives some of the informa- tion contained herein. He mentions, particularly among the active work of the post, the branch of the Y. M. C. A. conducted by Chaplain Kdmund B. Smith, the classes for enlisted men and the drills supple mented now with the more picturesque music drills or silent manual. The military student finds at present little to Interest him, for the island is not fortified, being in no way u part of the scheme of fortifications, which embraces Sandy Hook and the mouth of the harbor. Fort Jay, for 100 years known ns Fort Columbus, but originally named for John Jay, was during the Civil war manned with heavy guns, although not even threatened. When Fort Lafayette was too crowded with prisoners at that period Castle William took charge of the over flow and at one time housed over a thousand prisoners. Among the noted prisoners who have been confined there was John Yates Beall, the Confederate spy. Castle William was completed In ISII and Is built on bed rock. In one of the departmental reports it is described as "a stone tower with fifty-two 42 and 32 pounders maintained on two tiers under a bomb roof and a terrace intended to mount twenty-six 50-pound columblads.” In several other reports Castle William is referred to as an “example of outgrown science.” In the museum on the island is Sheridan's fa mous horse, Winchester, who bore his master In forty-seven battles. In place of a regular army chapel, Trinity Cor poration has provided the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion for the use of the post. It is a charming Gothic structure of granite, built near the old frame building, erected in 1547 by Dr. Mc- Viekar, who taught ethics at Columbia college during the week and on Sunday preached in the chapel he built and presented to the island him self. Garlanding the chancel are several upright posts connected with a heavy chain and a bronze tablet explains that they are cannons used in the several battles of the Mexican war. Over the choir, a double row of tattered battle flags hang. One is a mere cobweb and the light from the stained glass window 6hows a fringe of blood red threads and a splash of blue where stars were once woven. This Is the last flag pulled down in Cuba. Another of peculiar Interest is the one under which Major Reilly died and which was carried from Tien Tsiii In the Boxer uprising In China. Chaplain Smith Is about to publish a book on Governors Island, for with the exception of a monograph or two and some scientific articles on technical subjects, the place has practically been overlooked by chroniclers. The book is to he Illustrated with several rare prints and engrav ings besides more modern work, and contains data that have never been printed in this coun try and represent years of the most untiring re search on the part of the author. Situated near what is considered today one of the most valuable pieces of real estate prop erty in the world. Governors Island was pur chased (1637) by that shrewd old barater. Wouter Van Twiller, director general of New Nether lands. for some axe heads, a string of heads and a few nails from two Indians whose names, Cakapetejon and Pehiwas, would indicate a great er mentality than they seem to have possessed. Across Buttermilk channel, to the origin, naming and history of which Chaplain Smith devotes two chapters of his book, Sara, the first Christian child to be born In the Dutch colony, daughter of Joris Janson de Rapalye, was taken In a tub at a very early age of her career and furnished the only thrilling narrative.* of the place for some time. For several years it furnished a convenient landing place for the settlers’ cattle, and the first building was erected (1698) by Van Twiiler, and THE COCHRAN JOURNAL, COCHRAN, GEORGIA. this was set aside by the assembly as being "Part of the Denizen of His Majestie’s Fort at New York for the Benefit and Accommodation of His Majestie's Governors and Commanders in Chief for the Time Being.” After this it became known in familiar parlance as Governors Island, but not all at once irr legal documents. In Its early history it furnished examples of rapine and graft which put to shame the efforts of ihe present day. One of the early governors. Lord Cornbury. cousin of Queen Anne, comes down to us as “being universally detested.” prin cipally for his questionable dealings in regard to this piece of laud which the people at large were already beginning to cherish lor iis beatify and utility. In 1710 the Island served, in fact if not in name, as the first quarantine post of the province and in that same year shiploads of "Palatines,” re ligious refugees, were housed there, "the proper est place for their sickness and poverty,” said Queen Anne, who financed them parsimoniously. One of these Immigrants, Peter Zenger, was the first citizen to vindicate publicly the freedom of the press and personal liberty. Nutten Island (Governors) was made part of the city of New York by the Montgomery char ter (1730) and an act of March 7, 1788, included it in the county. It was in 1755 that it first ful filled its manifest destiny as a military post. From 1755 to 1773 there were several royal regi ments of England living there. These were the Royal Americans, His Majesty’s Sixty-first Regi ment of Foot under Lord Loudoun, and His Ma jesty's Twenty-second and Forty-fourth Regiments of Foot. Details of their life were found by the historian referred to in the private library of Col onel Fitz-Clareuce, Earl of Munster, who commit ted suicide (1542), and in the English army rec ords 1754-1842. These regiments are in name ex isting today, and the leader of the band who played at the garden party of the Army Relief society is a lineal descendant of one of the officers. In 1766 the first fortification was built, in 1776 a "Strong Castle" was erected. General Putnam writing at this time to the president of congress speaks of it "as a very Important post.” Wash ington wrote of "Its strong works," the New York Gazette referred to the thousand Continental men stationed there; Lord Stirling considered it "bet ter guarded than any other post." The brothers Howe stayed there until the evacuation of New York. After the battle of Long Island and the British victory. August 27, 1776, the "Liberty" boys came back under cover of the darkness and right under the noses of the victorious enemy secured muni tions and food. Tradition says that Governor Clinton loaned the island once for a race course (1784-5). In 1794 a ferry was established which took pas sengers at threepence a head. The one in use now averages 30,000 passengers a month. That year congress appropriated $3,727.52 for the island's defenses. In 1796 the works were dignified as forts, and about this date Knox re ports "On Governors Island, one bastioned square, commanding two low batteries quite finished.” Between 1794 and 1806 more than SIIO,OOO was expended on the works. In 1798 the faculty and students of Columbia college, repeating their patriotic work in Harlem, came down to Governors Island with pickaxes and shovels to help erect breastworks when one of the French war scares aroused local fears and inspired the call for harbor defense. In 1880 it was ceded by the State of New York to the United States, and in 1821 the Federal military headquarters were transferred there. OCCUPATION. ”1 haven't anything to do,” complained Cholly. “A fellah gets tired of just twirling his cane, don’t you know.” "Of course,” assented Algy. "Why don’t you get a dog to lead, old chap?” THE WORST OF IT. "So you went out motoring with that ill-tem pered Jaggers. Did his temper explode?” "Yes, but I wouldn’t have minded that, if his tires hadn’t, too.” I— j '•■ / / * n i p. ( Jm\ w/ m . WUm V 4»- jBF FARM POULTRY DISCOURAGE A SITTER Necessary to Keep Up Earning Capacity of Hens. Sift Coops Not So Immediately Effeo tive as Old Treatment of Placing Under Barrel, but They Don’t Hurt Fowls. Just as long as the broody hen is permitted to sit in the nest and keep herself warm she will persist in sit ting. So long as her body is in a state of considerable heat she in stinctively fights to remain on the nest. It is nature trying to help the hen carry out the purpose for which she was created. There are some weeks in the year when it seems to me that every hen on the place is trying to sit. Tur keys, geese, chickens, ducks and guineas follow the same instinctive lines at about the same time, to the utter distraction of the poultry keep er and the great dropping off in egg production. They simply must be "broken up” or the whole profits of the poultry sheds will slump down to nothing through the broody summer months. 1 once shut the hens up in the dark est place I could find and kept them there for two or three days, feeding them little or nothing, says a writer in Slat coop for broody hens. Suspend it so it will swing easily. This swing ing motion creates a current of air which cools the fevered condition of a broody hen. the Farm Progress. It was effectivo all right, but it injured the hens' lay ing powers, and general thriftiness to be starved for a few days. Putting them in the darkness is al ways very effective. I still carry out that part of the treatment, but I have abandoned the plan of sticking them under barrels, boxes and other un ventilated places since I smothered four of my best hens to death one night I am using an inexpensive set of coops now for the purpose of dis couraging the broody hen. The coops are not so immediately effective as the old, under the barrel or box treatment, but they do not injure the hens as much as under the old method. They get more air in the new way, and by putting them in a dark Bide room of the poultry house they are rather easily bluffed. The coops cost but a few cents each, as they are made of lumber picked up about the place and from light pine laths usefl by plasterers. These coops have slatted bottoms so the liens cannot drop down and brood themselves warm while con fined. By taking these coops, plac ing them inside a darkened shed and lifting them off the ground a few inches, even the most,determined old sitter will soon give it up as a bad job. FEW POINTS ABOUT GUINEAS Habit of Changing Nest Makes It Dif ficult to Say How Many Eggs They Will Lay. The guineas are good layers, but owing to their skill in hiding their nests and their habit of changing their nest if it is disturbed, it is hard to say how many eggs they will lay, pos sibly 60 to 100. Guineas are inclined to be monogamous, that is, to have but one mate, but a male will mate with two females. Poor hatches usually result If more females are placed with a male. Young guineas are fed like young turkeys, with curds, bread and milk or boiled eggs and bread crumbs the first week, always mixing once a day with sand, and for every meal making one-third of the meal green food, chopped onion or dandelion tops. Finely chopped lettuce is good when plentiful. Unless they have a good run they should have animal food for some time, but if they have plowed fields to roam over this is not neces sary. When they are large enough to be given free range they will pick up most of their living, but should always be fed at night, to give them the- habit of returning home. Grading of Eggs. Eggs may be graded on the rnaiket for size, color, cleanliness, freedom from cracks and the actual condition of the egg content. This later factor is of great importance, particularly during the later summer months. In Far-off India. In some unknown manner a little sample cf Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh found its way into an interior village of India. It was its own agent, and from that small beginning a steady trade has developed and each succeed ing shipment has been larger. Adv. Many a gir! might be proud of her ankles if it wasn't for her feet. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Strop /or Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays patn.cures windcollcJSc a bottieAflt No cat can be fooled into watching the wrong mouse hole. For wire cuts use Hanford's Balsam, Adv. Men may come and men may go, but the stream of gossip flows on forever. For lame back use Hanford's Bal sam. applied thoroughly and w T ell rub bed in. Adv. Many a fluent talker would make a bigger hit by keeping still. For the big and little burns In cook ing and baking, keep Hanford's Bal sam of Myrrh near for -quick relief. Adv. If a man was born a fool he is likely to die one. Egotism is the root of much tire some conversation. Yon Can Stop a farfinnde or 801 l After It begins to form by using DU. FOR TER’B ANT I SEPTIC HEADING OIL. the. 60c. SI.OO. The going is ulways good on a to boggan slide. Newspaper stereotypers use Han ford’s Balsam of Myrrh for relief from splashing metal burns. Adv. It’s when riches take unto them selves wings that they feather other people's nests. FOB HEADACHE. NKI DAUiU AND PAINFUL PERIODS! of Women use Lotus Flower Compound. Kellevea promptly, contains no habit forming drnrr*. Tablet form at druggists or by mail 25c. Lotus Flower Co., Atlanta, Ga. Adv. Love may make the world go round, but sometimes it takes marriages t» square it. No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX This is a prescription prepared es pecially for Malaria or Chills and Fever. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the fever will not return. 25c—Adv. Made Daddy Gasp. A certain small Chicago laddie is quick-witted as imitative, and so given to considering himself as quite an adult in comparison with his baby brother, that he now and then talks and acts in a manner that might by the uncomprehending be judged im pertinent. Not long since at the fam ily table the boy attempted to relate a recent experience. His father, who was talking, paid no attention, and the child’s anger got the better of his politeness. Raising his voice shrilly and speaking with an absurdly unconscious resemblance to bis fa ther's tone and manner under similar circumstances, he demanded. "Papa, will you kindly close your little, trap for just one moment while 1 get in a word!" Mandy's Gentle Little Hint. “Mandy,” said her mistress, "that beau of yours shouldn't wear white clothes. He is so black it makes him appear all the blacker. Why don’t you give him a hint?” “Lord, Miss Sally, you know some thin’!," said Mandy, with animation. “I dont give him er hint, but he jes natterly ain't got sense ernuff ter take it.” "Perhaps you didn't make it strong enough. "No’m, thet's right, maybe I didn't. I jes looks at him right hard, an’ I says: ’Nigger, you sho do look like a black snake crawlin’ out o’ cream, you do!’—thet's whut I says ter him. Miss Sally.” PANTRY CLEANED A Way Some People Have. A doctor saidtp. "Before marriage my wife observed in summer and country homes, coming in touch with families of varied means, culture, tastes and discriminating ten dencies, that the families using Pos tum seemed to average better than those using coffee. "When we were married two years ago, Postum was among our first order of groceries. We also put in some tea and coffee for guests, but after both had stood around the pantry about a year untouched, they were thrown away, and Postum used only. "Up to the age of 28 I had been ac customed to drink coffee as a routine habit and suffered constantly from in digestion and all its relative disorders. Since using Postum all the old com plaints have completely left me and I sometimes wonder if I ever had them.” Name given by Fostum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Write for booklet, “The Road to Wellville.” Postum comes in two forms. Regular (must be boiled). Instant Postum doesn’t require boil ing but is prepared instantly by stir ring a level teaspoonful in an ordinary cup of hot water, which ma&es it right for most persons. A big cup requires more and some people who like strong things put in a heaping spoonful and temper it with a large supply of cream. Experiment until you know the amount that Dleases your palate and have it served that way in the future. “There’s a Reason” for Postum.