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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. 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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. 1 _ i mm CARDIII The Woman’s Tonic t t 10 ItHHHWtHWKgwwW S’