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THE Ail I
NEW YORK PIER
PIRATES DARING
Waterfront Freebooters Are Pro
ficient at Looting Cargoes
of Vessels.
TAKE BIG FORTUNE IN GOODS
Modern Thieves, With Value of Loot
Mounting to Fifty Millions a Year.
Make Captain Kidd Look Like
Mere Piker.
New York.—None of tig? thousands
who ll\e quietly in the cramped apart
ments and narrow houses of New York
City have any first hand knowledge of
robbery, beyond enforced association
with rent thieves, coal highwaymen,
and mercantile crooks.
They will, therefore, he surprised to
discover that 4 the populous waters
about tlie city yield more than $* r >0.-
000,000 every year to the modern pirates
and sea rovers. All the buccaneers of
antiquity, whose names and deeds arc
written fast into tiie texture of mem
ory, never approached such capitalistic
magnitude.
Government Wages Campaign.
The modern thieves steal more each
month than Captain Kidd is said to
have accumulated out of all Ids llagran-
cies. In the last few years the federal
government hits waged a campaign
against these thieves, aided by the rail
roads which deliver goods to tidewater,
tlie owners of ocean-going ships and
harbor craft, the companies operating
piers and docks and, particularly, by
tlie great marine insurance companies.
A number of gangs of river and har
bor pirates have been broken- up and a
trickle of the robbeys lias run into tlie
prisons, hut the losses are as great as
ever and promise to increase. Probably
three-fourths of tlie stealing near New
York city is aimed against exports.
The merchandise is consigned to Eu
rope, to Asia, to Africa, to tlie furthest
Isles in tlie southern seas, and tlie out
ermost ports and lands. It may ho
months In transit. If part of a cote
signment is stolen who is to discover
tlie erinie until tiie bales and eases ar
rive at their far-off destination and are
examined by receivers?
Pier .Officials Go Crooked.
One of the typical ways of accom
plishing sm li robberies is made cleat
by the ease of a silk goods exporter ot
Fourth avenue. New York city. Five
heavy eases of merchandise, valued a*
close to $40,000, were Sent to a pier to
he loaded for South America. Tlie
eases got Into the bands of n truck tuns
who was working with the burbot
thieves.
He took tlie eases to tlie pier, got n
signed bill of lading from tin' shipping
company, turned his truck about ant
drove off the pier again without evei
•unloading. The trick was aeeom
pllshed, of course, by means of enllti
slon. One of tlie officials of tlie piet
was working with tlie thieves and lit
had supplied tlie truckman in udvanet
with a pass, which tlie guard at tin
land end of tlie pier was bound tt
recognize.
Man Fights Crew to Make
Good His Purchase of Tram
Secanous, N. 4.—When a trol
ley ear ».T tlie public servlet* cor
poration passed through hero on
its way from I’assaic to Hobo
ken. a tow-haired Six-footer
swung aboard and casitully in
formed the conductor: "You
can turn over tin* fares to me.
I Just' Inflight this car."
After a short but decisive ar
gument, the passenger a rose front
tlie tnud beside the track and
sought tlie police. He said lie
was Olnf Jansen, a recent ar
rival front* Sweden, lie curried
ids savings with him, lie said,
so lie was able to pay easlt when
a prosperous looking stranger
who sat beside him on tlie same
car offered lo sell it to him for
$100.
Tlie stranger told JaTisen he
had cleaned tip $200,000 on the
S-rent fare hi!sis. They got off
here to complete tiie deal., Tiie
stronger then disappeared, after
directing Jansen to board tlie
ear on its return trip ami just
tell tlie conductor* he was the
new owner.
CANARY SINGS AT COMMAND
“It happened one day that, in com
pnny with some 1, leans, i attended i
review of our troops, at n distance o
several miles from the city. * To
maneuvers were iu.errtii ted by a suii
den attack of the enemy, and instead o.
the spectacle promis d us, we cn\
some reinforcements gallop hastily -*tc
the aid of a small force of our own
which had been surprised and sui
rounded.
“Our return to the city was im
peded by the homeward marching of
the troops, wno nearly filled the high
way. Our progress wns, therefore,
very slow, and to beguile the time
we began to ting army songs, among
which the John Brown song soon came
to mind. Some one remarked upon tin
excellence of the tune, and 1 said that
I had often wished to write some words
which might be sung to it.
“i s ept as usual that night, hut
awoke before dawn the next morning
and soon found myself trying to weave
together certain lines which, though
not entirely suited to the John Brown
music, were yet capable of being sung
to it. I lay still in the dark room,
line alter line shaping itself in my
mind, and verso after verse. When I
had thought out the last of these I felt
1 must make an effort to place them
beyond the danger of being effaced by
a morning nap. .
“I sprang out of bod and* groped
about in tlie dim twilight to find a
bit of paper and the stump of a pen
cil which I remembered to have had
tlie evening before. Having found
these articles, and having long been ac
customed to scribble with scarcely any
sigiit of what 1 might write, in a room
made dark for the repose of my infant
SMALLEST SHRINER
The smallest midget and the small
eat Shrlner in the world, known ui
Major Mite, caused more excitement
#hen he celled at the White Houar
recently than many a notable hex
done. Be declared he'd like to be a
cameraman hut found rhat he wat
but little taller than one of the sv
erage size cameras, being only 2f
Inches In height and weighing only
pounds. Major Mite Is eighteen
years old.
Lake Lew; Blame Beavers.
Middletown, N. Y.-— Shortage of wa
ter in Electric lake, near Branch
vllle, N. J., which has caused much
Inconvenience to the borough lighting
plant bus been traced to the opera
tlon of beavers. Tlie animals have
diverted a considerable amount ol
water from its natural channel b.v'con
strutting dams.
OUR FAMOUS SONGS
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Ag Originally Written
(from the Washington Star)
lino eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord;
Ho is trampling out the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored;
lie hath loosed the fatal lightning of
His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
I have scon Him in tlie watch fins of
u huiulscd circling camps;
They have builded Him tin altar in the
evening dews and damps;
I can rend His righteous sentence by
the dim and flaring, lamps;
Hih day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in
burnished rows of steel;
‘JAs vo deal with My contemners so
with you My grace shall deal;
Lot tlio hero, horn of woman, crush the
serpent with his heel;
Hince God is marching oil.”
He has sounded forth tin* trumpet that
shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men be
fore His judgement seat;
Oh, he swift, my soul, to answer Him,
lie jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of -the. lilies Christ was
born across the snT.
With a glory in His'bosom that trans
figures you and nfflj*
As He died to make men holy, let 'us
die to innktf men free,
While (ioil is marching on.
Tlie popularity of miiily a well known
song has depended largely upon cir-
-umstanoes surrounding its publication.
This, is true of “My Maryland,” by
Randall, and “The Star Spangled Ban- I children. I began to write the lines
aer,” by Francis Scott Key. When of mv l
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe wrote “The
Battle Hymn of the Republic” the
ume local conditions made it at once
famous, and the song found a lasting
place in the hearts of the American
people.
The poem was written in December,
18(11, when the whole country wns stir-
iil to its very soul by the military
AFTER GCA'i. *. . „3T BABOON nADIUM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ape Drops From Tree Into Surrey
Driven by Woman on
Long Island.
New York.—While Mrs. Samuel
Powell, wife of a Babylon (L. I.)
letter carrier, wns driving to Cn-
piague in a surrey, n baboon dropped
from a tree to her shoulders in a
bark road near tlie village. Her
screams were hemal liy an Unidenti
fied hunter, who came on tlie run
and shot the monkey dead.
Mrs. Fowell carried tin* ditrenss to
Babylon, where site exhibited it. She
will have it stuffed.
Mrs. Powell was on her way to
Caplague to buy a goat. ■
of my poem in like manner. On the
occasion now spoken of I completed
my writing, went back to bed and
fell fast asleep.
‘ ‘ A day or two later I repeated my
verses to Mr. Clarke, who wns much
pleased with them. Foon after my re
turn to Boston l carried tlie lines to
James T. Fields, at tiiat time ediior
of the Atlantic Monthly. The title,
inditions then existing. An oppor- d'Battle Hymn of the Republic, wax
nine occasion and the song met. As ; ( ,f ],i s devising. The poem was pub-
natuial outcome, this bugle blast ot i-hed soon afterward in the magazine,
mtriotic outpouring at once took its j and did not at first receive any special
A Saint Andrews roller canal*,
trained to sing and stop on command
presented to Mrs. Harding by Mis.*.
Albertina Schlenkofer—both appear in
the picture. Tlie canary was exhibitei
at tlie Washington poultry show.
‘VIKINGS’ WILL SELL ENGINES
Swedish Locomotive Builders Plan tc
Make Unique South Ameri
can Tour.
Stockholm.—A new viking vessel
from Sweden, manned with expert
salesmen armed with literature on up-
to-date railroad engines, will sail
shortly fur South America.
Tills unique way of finding new mar
kets for their products lias been de
vised by Swedish locomotive builders
who have just delivered the two hun
dredth locomotive on un order from
tlie Husslan soviet. A fine steam yacht
of 500 tons ltuti been purchased in
Spain and will be fitted out for (be ex
pedltlon. A commander of the .Swedish
navy will serve- as skipper and ids
crew will Include several of the uien
who have Just completed a round-the-
world cruise in a sailing yacht.
The president of the company, to
gether with several technical experts,
will direct the work of the expedition.
It Is expected that most of the South
American republics will be visited.
Swedish locomotives have formed a
big Item In Sweden's exports to Ro«
sla and shipments are continuing,
though the number originally ordered
by the'soviet has been reduced.
ARE REMNANT OF LOST TRIBES
in tin* hearts of mir people
the song has remained a pdfemhir fa
vorite since flint time. In relating
hese circumstances, Mrs. Howe lias
old the story in the following letter:
“In December, 1861, 1 made a jour-
icy to Washington in company* with
Dr. Howe, Gov. and Mrs. John A. An-
lrew, and other friends. 1 remember
veil the aspect of tilings within what
night have been termed *‘1111* debatable
and.” As our train sped on through
he darkness, we saw in vivid contrast
he fires of the pickets set to guard
he line of the railroad. The gallop
>f horsemen, the tramp of foot soldiers,
lid bugle were |
and | mention. We were nil too much ab
sorbed in watching the progress of the
war to gjve much heed to a copy of
verses, more or less.
‘*1 think it may have bee a a year
later that my* lines, in some shape,
found their way* into a southern prisou
in whirlD several of our soldiers were
confined. An army chaplain who had
been imprisoned with them rump to
Washington soon after his release, and
in a sprech or lecture of sons* sort, de
scribed the singing of the hymn by
himself and his companions in that
dismal place of confinement.
“People now began to a-k wlm had
ho noise of drum, fife and bugle were I written the hymn, and tit** author’s
card continually. The two great name was easily* established by* a ref
towers were holding each other in cnee to tlie magazine. Tlu* battle
■heck and t he very air seemed tense j hymn was often sung in the course of
\itli expectancy. Bull Run had shown j the war and under a great variety ol
the north that any victory it might
lojie to achieve would be neither swift
nor easy. The southern lenders, on
lie liih or hand, had a'ready learned
omething of the determined temper
mil persistent resolve of those with
whom they laid to cope.
ircumstances.’
Mrs. Howe was born in Boston in
1811) and was married in 1843 to Ur.
Samuel G. Howe, a well known phi
lanthropist. of that city. She was the
author of several popular books. All
that she wrote, however, is practical-
Aid Breathing 66 Hours; Lives.
New York.—After 60 hours of arti
ficial respiration, Simon Shulin, 10, of
Brooklyn, with paralysis resulting
from a broken neck, regained bis nor
mal breathing mid is on tlie road to
recovery, according to a statement
issued by the orthopedic hospital au
thorities.
Tlie boy sustained a broken neck
when he dived into shallow water at
Coney island.
* forgot ten, sn (-.(.’. a
which has placed, her name among tin
mmortals.
Edward Caron, u French-Cunndlan
miner from Montana, has discovered
radium in a mountain at Berlin, N
H. He has prospected with such suc
cess on a lot of woodland in* pur
chased recently as to attract tlm at
tention <TT the United Stnb s |> urPU „
of mines. Engineers will investigate
to determine the extent of the radium
deposit. Caron Is shown ten* W |th
samples of the minerals j„* found nu
his property. In his left band |„.
holds a specimen of which
contains radium, in bis rigid hand
is a specimen of beryl.
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Descendants Isrselitieh Captives
Carries Inti BabylSnia 2S Centu
ries Age Reach Erivsn.
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To a teaspoenful cf
Instant Postum in the cup,
add. hot water* stir, and you »
have a satisfying, comfort
ing drink,delightful in taste—
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digestion. As many cups as
you like, without regret.
“There's a Reason”
Your grocer sells Postum in two forms,
Postum Cereal, (in packages)
made by boiling' Full 20 minu.tes.
Instant Postum (in tins)
made instantly in the cup by adding hot water.
Made by Postum Cereal Co. Inc., Battle Creek,Mich.
Makes
the outhouse pleasant
T^REVENT odors and dry up out-
^ house deposits with Red Devil
Lye. Used regularly it helps keep
such places odorless, especially in the
summer time. Costs only a trifle,
with benefits that cannot be measured
in dollars and cents. Handy sifter
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Always demand the genuine
RED DEVIL LYE
Sure is Strong
Ask* Planes Keep Away From Church,
Santa Monica, Gal. An appeal t,
city authorities to prohibit airplanes
from soaring over his church during
services lias been mailt- b> ltev..\V. It
Cornett, pastor of the. First Presh.v
lerlan church, lie says llie splutter ot
tlie engines tlirmVs the hymns sung by
his choir sadly out of harmony.
Chicago.—Thirteen families, be
lieved to be remnants of the lost trlbee
carried Into captivity by Babylonia 26
centuries ago, have reached Krlvan,
Armenia, according to a cablegram re
ceived by the local branch of the Near
East relief, It wee announced. They
fled from Uruiula, Persia, going over
the mountains with ox teums and*on
foot.
A rabbi, Vanock Slnilnlv, carried
with him records which seemed to cou-
aect the Israelite colony at Uruniis
with tlie lost tribes, according to the
cablegram.
Only 47 adults and 33 children out
of tin* large number that started rtfhde
the journey safely, the advices said.
Six Pennies in Gizzard.
Martins Ferry, O.— Six pennies
worn nearly smooth, presumablygilue
to action of jlie fowl's digest I ve h|*-
pat. *.us, were found In tin* gizzard
of a chicken which Mrs. Harry
Koelinlein, wife of n local banker, was
I cleaning. Koelinlein declared that no |
‘ money was ever found in eggs laid by I
- the I en.
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