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VOL. I.
UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES-
High on the world did our fathers ot old,
Under the Stars and Stripes,
Blazon the name that wo now must uphold,
Under the Stars and Stripes.
Vast in the past they have builded an arch.
Over which freedom has lighted her torch—
Follow it! Follow it! Come, let us march
Under the Stars and Stripes.
We in whose bodies the biood of them runs,
Under the Stars and Stripes,
We will acquit us as sons of their sons,
Under the Stars and Stripes.
Ever for justice, our heel upon wrong,
We in the right of our vengeance thrice
strong !
Rally together ! Come tramping along
Under the Stars and Stripes.
Out of our strength and a nation’s great
need.
Under the Stars and Stripes,
Heroes again ns of old we shall breed,
Under the Stars und Stripes.
Broad to the winds bo our banner unfurled,
Straight in Spain's face let deliauce bo
hurled!
God on our side, we’ll battle the world
Under the Stars and Stripes !
—Madison Cawein in Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Lucy’s Lesson.
“I think I can trust you, Lucy,”
said Mrs. Evelyn.
“I hope so,ma’am,” said Lucy Lee,
coloring and playing nervously with
the string of her apron.
Lucy Lee was the daughter of Mrs.
Evelyn’s housekeeper,the girl who as¬
pired to the coveted position of “own
maid” to that lady, when the present
incumbent had married the ex-coach-
man—an event in “high life below
stairs” which was soon about to tran-
spire. And Mrs. Evelyn, called sud¬
denly away to Boston for a few days,
had decided to leave Lucy in charge
of the hotise on Madison avenue.
And a proud little lassie Lucy was,
as she fluttered about the house, in
the first days of Mrs. Evelyn’s absence.
Mrs. Evelyn bad trusted her,and Mrs.
Evelyn should see that she was worthy
of the confidence reposed in her.
But the third evening Norali, the
cook, who took charge of the lower
regions of the house, called to her up
the back stairs:
t * Lucy, there’s two girls here to see
you!”
i t OliF’said Lucy, “I think likely it’s
Maria Hart and Nelly Peabody. Please
ask them up into the sewing-room,
Norali. ”
Maria Hart was a waitress in a ladies’
restaurant. Nelly Peabody worked in
a hoop-skirt factory; but to judge by
their cheap finery, plumes and jet
chains, one would liaveimagined them
to be independently well off.
Lucy welcomed them with a smile.
They had all three been at the ward
school together,and in her unsojiliisti-
cated little heart Lucy thought their
raiment splendid.
“So you’re all alone, Lucy?” said
Miss Hart.
“Yes,” said Lucy smiling; “all
alone.”
“Beau comes to see you often?”
giggled Nelly.
“Oh, I haven’t any beau,’’answered
innocent Lucy.
“Maria lias, though,” said Nelly
Peabody. “Got engaged last week.
He drives a baker’s wagon and wears
the sweetest mustache.”
“Is it really true?” said Lucy, look¬
ing admiringly at Maria.
“Yes,” simpered Maria; it’s true.
He’s asked me to go to the Seven
Maskers’ ball tomorrow night.”
“Are you going?”asked Lucy, think¬
ing Maria Hart must be the happiest
girl in the world.
“Yes, I’m going,” said Miss Hart,
“and that’s why I’ve come here. I
must have a decent dress to wear,and
I’ve spent my wages, every cent.”
“But I can’t lend you anything,”
said Lucy Lee in a flurry. “I haven’t
a dollar!”
“Oh, pshaw!” said Maria; “I don’t
want you to leud me any money, you
poor little chick! Only Helen Kay-
mond wore the sweetest canary-colored
silk, trimmed with real black lace, at
the Antelope ball last month, and she
said that Narcissa Hill got it for her
out.of her lady’s wardrobe. Narcissa
keeps all the keys, and her mistress
never suspected that, the dress was
for anight,/ Wasn’tjhat sharp
of Narcissa?”
“I don't "know,”' said Lucy, some-
what bewildered.
‘.‘And I thought,” added Maria,
speaking smoothly and plausibly,
‘.‘that as j\Irs. Evelyn was gone, and
jon r wouidn^t'inind were left ip. charge doing of everything
pittcl? aTid ; me a good
turn at a getting the loan
of one of her fine evening dresses for
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“Don’t Give TJip tlxo Ship.”
BUCHANAN. GA„ FB I DAY, MAY G. 1898.
me! It’s only for one night,you know,
and I would be very careful of it.”
“Oh, I couldn’t,” said Lucy, color¬
ing scarlet.
Maria burst into tears behind a
flimsy lace pocket handkerchief.
“Then, of course, I can’t go,” said
she. “And he’s to be there—and—
and-”
Here her voice died away into a
half-suppressed series of gurgling
sobs.
i . Ob,Lucy Lee,I think you might,”
said Nelly Peabody, reproachfully. “I
didn’t believe you were so selfish and
cowardly. Only for one night, you
know. No harm done. And dear
Maria made so happy. ”
“But I don’t think it’s right,” said
Lucy piteously.
“Aiid why not?” demanded Maria,
behind the pocket handkerchief. “If
it was any way wrong, of course, I
wouldn’t ask it of von. B—b—hut
-” And away went the jerky little
sobs again.
And Lucy yielded.
Miss Maria Hart was quite in her
element looking over the contents of
Mrs. Evelyn’s mirror-fronted ward-
robes.
“I guess I’ll wear this,” said she,
selecting at last a superb glace silk of
the softest sunset shade of pink. “It’ll
be becoming to my brunette complex-
ion, though, for that matter, so would
this cream yellow, but piuk is the
most distaugy. Oh, you dear, sweet
little Lucy, you shall certainly be my
bridesmaid.”
“But you’ll be Very careful of it?”
said Lucy, whose heart was beginning
to sink within her.
“Of course I will,” said Maria
Hart-
And they took their leave, and with
them went outpoor little Lucy’s peace
of mind,
The next day but one a parcel was
left at the door for Mrs. Evelyn by a
disreputable-looking little boy. Novak
carried it up and laid it ou Lucy’s
bed. The poor girl could hardly wait
to open it until she was alone.
It was the pink silk dress, creased
and crumpled, with a note pinned to
it in Maria Hart’s coarse handwriting:
Dear Lucy: I Kettnrn the Dres. Had the
Misfortune to spil a little ize-creme on the
side-bredth, but have took it out with Ben-
zeen. so Noe one would Know. I am mutch
obliged, and Bemane
Your afeetionate
Mahia.
With a fainting heart Lucy unrolled
the parcel and saw the dress was
ruined; what the oleaginous stream of
ice cream had commenced the daubs
of benzine had finished most effec¬
tually.
Lucy burst into tears, and, sinking
down in a chair, hid her face in her
hands.
“I kneiv it was wrong,’’she sobbed.
“Oh, why, why did I allow myself to
be over persuaded? I have been false
to my charge. I have proved myself
unworthy to Vie trusted. I shall be
dismissed without a reference, and
mother’s heart will be broken!”
Mrs. Evelyn came back the next
day. Lucy Lee met her with a face
like a ghost.
.. Why, child, what is the matter?”
said Mrs. Evelyn kindly.
And Lucy, with a faltering voice,
told the whole trlith, exculpating her¬
self in no one particular.
“Ot course you’ll discharge me,
ma’ma,” said Lucy, “but if you’ll be
so good as to -wait I know mother’ll
pay the value of the dress in install¬
ments out of her wages, and I’ll make
it good to her when I get another
place—if ever I do!”
And venturing to glance through
her tears into Mrs. Evelyn’s face she
saw that it had not hardened into the
stony anger she had expected to be¬
hold. Mrs. Evelyn laid her hand
kindly on the shrinking shoulder.
“Lucy,” said she, “you have had a
lesson. Seo that you profit by it in
the future.”
“Then —then you will not discharge
me?” fluttered Lucy, scarcely able to
believe in her own good fortune.
.. No,” said Mrs. Evelyn, kindly,
“not this time. For your mother’s
sake, Lucy—and also for your own—I
will give you another trial.”
So poor Luey Lee kept her place,
after all, and Mrs. Evelyn had no
cause to regret her leniency. For
Lucy needed no more than that one
lesson to teach her that “the way of
the transgressor is hard.”
A Klondike in Our Moutlis.
About 4,000,000 false teeth are
manufactured annually in the United
States, while one ton of gold and three
tons of silver and platinum, to the
value of $100,000, are used in filling
teeth.
VESUVIUS, DYNAMITER.
All About a Unique Fighter Possessed by
the United States Navy.
Whatever may have been the opin- j
ions of naval officers regarding the use
of the Vesuvius and her guns, and
notwithstanding that they have ob- !
jected to the use of the pneumatic
guns in sea fights owing to their high
angle fire, there has never been any i
difference of opinion as to the great
value of these weapons in bombarding
and in countermining.
In the bombnrdment of Alexandria
by the English fieet years ago it was
demonstrated that the effect of high |
powered guns against forts and for-
tifications of all kinds was far less de-
structive than had been anticipated.
Foreign naval officers who examined
the forts after the bombardment were
astonished, and it was said that the
forts could have been put in a defeu-
sive condition again in a very short
time and that the English fleet would
have suffered severely had the forts
and guns been properly manned by
expert gunners. Goodrich United
Captain of the
States navy made a careful examina-
tiou of the Alexandria defences after
the bombardment, and declared that
mortar fire would have been far more
effective in reducing the forts and in
driving out the enemy.
High powered projectiles traveling
iu a fiat trajectory may pass com¬
pletely over and far beyond a fort
before striking. Their mine affect is
comparatively small, and the damage
is not widespread. But large charges
of high explosives landed inside a
fort would do terrible execution. The
guns of the Vesuvius can fire three
different shells. The hundred pound
charge of guncotton, equivalent to
about four hundred pounds of powder,
can be thrown two and one-haif miles;
the two hundred pound charge, equiv-
aleut to eight bundled pounds of
powder, can be thrown a mile and a
half, and the five hundred pound
charge, equal in charge to two thou-
sand pounds of powder,can be thrown
about a mile.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated
that the gun is remarkably accurate
and effective if the range is known,
In a bombardment the range can
easily be found, and in that case
shells could be landed inside a tort
Avitli perfect ease. Four or five of
them Lave, in practice, been landed
Avithin a rectangle of fifty feet. The
effect of such shells exploding inside a
fort can be easily imagined.
In countermining the gun has
equally important uses. The shells
may be throAvn into a harbor and along
a ship channel, at different distances,
and being fitted with a delayed action
fuze, which allows the shell to sink
some distance before exploding, the
shock Avill tend to destroy the enemy’s
mines and all the electrical connec-
tions used to fire them.
Naval officers have admitted that a
channel could be opened for a fleet in
this manner at a point defended by
mines Avliick could not be removed or
put out of action in any other manner.
The guns of the Vesuvius use gun¬
cotton.— NeAV York Herald.
Queerest Town in England.
The most curious town iu England
is Noi'Avich. There is not a straight
street, nor, in fact, a straight house in
the place; every part of it has the ap¬
pearance of having suffered from the
visitation of an earthquake. Norwich
is the centre of the salt industry in
Cheshire, England, on nearly all sides
of the town are big salt xvorks, with
their engines pumping hundreds of
thousands of gallons of brine every
Aveek. At a depth of some 200 to 300
feet are immense subterannean lakes
of brine, and as the contents of these
are pumped and pumped aAvay, the
upper crust of earth is correspondingly
Aveakened and the result is an occa¬
sional subsidence. These siibsidenees
have a “pulling” effect on the nearest
buildings,and they are drawn all Avays
and give the toAvn an extremely dis-
sipated appearance.
Fish Wintering in Mud.
The superintendent of the Missouri
State Fish Hatchery Avas recently
surprised, on draining off a pool con¬
taining bass, to find veryfeAv fish in it.
At first theft was suspected, but closer
investigation revealed the missing fish
in a condition of hibernation, or Avin-
ter sleep, in the mud covering the
bottom of the pond.
For a fee of from tivo to eight cents
message, one may talk to even the
naliest of Saviss toAvns over a long-
MARKING THE COAST LICHTS.
The Endless Task of Perfecting the Hy¬
drographic Office Charts.
Miss Eliza Scott, cousin of Admiral
Scott, is a little woman who sits hour
after hour, day after day in the by-
drographic ollice, Washington, and
puts little dabs of yellow paint hero
and there over the thousands of maps
issued by this department. Each of
these yellow splashes covers, but does
not conceal, a tiny black dot which
marks one or anothhr of the hundreds
of lighthouses scattered along our
coast lines, for the guidance of those
who go down to the sea in ships. Al-
though the same yellow dot marks
them all, there is a variety of lights,
They are fixed ones, intermittent
lights, revolving ones, and red and
white flashlights, with occasionally a
red sector, which indicates shoal wa-
ter and danger, and tells the mariner
to keep his ship well outside the space
covered by the light.
For twenty years has Miss Scott sat
thus jabbing yellow dots, apparently
in the most haphazard manner, over
the maps after they have come from
the press. A few moments’ watching
will convince one that there is method
in her manner. She knows the situa-
tion of every one so well that she could
almost perform her work in the dark,
It is very trying on the eyes, and only
one thoroughly acquainted with the
situation could do it in a satisfactory
manner, The object of the color over
the dots is that they may be more
readily perceived by those using the
maps. Formerly a tiny drop of red
was put in the centre of the yellow
splash, but as the black dot under-
neath shows through the yellow per-
fectly, the use of the red has been dis¬
continued, which lessens the labor by
half.
There are 535 lights on the Atlantic
coast, beginning tocountat thenorth-
ern part of Newfoundland, and con-
tinning to the south shore of Vene-
zuela. This includes those on the
Gulf of Mexico, and along the coast
of the West Indies, On the Pacific
coast there are only 33 lights. Thus
it will be seen that Miss Scott puts on
hundreds of thousands of her little
yellow dabs in a year’s time, although
she works but from 9 a. m. to 4 p. xn,
—New York Sun.
a Drouth-Resisting riant.
The chief reason ivliy alfalfa hay
will grow in the short-grass country
is that it has long roots. They have
been kuoAvn to strike twenty-live feet
deep for moisture. The plant Avill not
thrive, therefore, in soil that is not
open and deep. An ideal place for its
growth is along the river bottoms in
the western pact of Kansas—land un-
der which great lakes of “sheet Avater,”
miles upon miles in extent, are found
from ten to twenty-live feet beloAv the
surface. The roots of alfalfa readily
push down to the Avater and drink
when they need moisture, and the
result is that Hie plant blossoms and
prospers, and becomes a never-failing
source of revenue to the man avIio cul-
tivates it. On the rolling uplands,
where there is scarcely an average
rainfall of tAventy-five inches a year,
the plant Avill live and produce hay
nearly always. It makes good pastur-
age under ordinary conditions there,
and is almost certain every year to
produce a fine crop of seed. All the
uplands are fertile enough, the only
trouble about making use of that fer-
tility being the lack of moisture. Irri¬
gation has not yet succeeded in bring¬
ing Avater in abundance to the assist¬
ance of the tiller of the soil in this
region, and therefore only such a plant
can live as has deep roots, and a per¬
tinacity that even the hot Avinds of
Kansas cannot shake.—Franklin Mat¬
thews, iu Harper’s Weekly.
Music and the Hair.
Physicians appear tohold the record
for baldness, which is thirty per cent.
Baldness is frequent among musical
composers. The cornet-a-piston and
the French horn act Avith surprising
surety and rapidty; but the trombone
is the depilatory instrument par excel¬
lence. It Avill clear the hair from
one’s head in five years. This is Avhat
the author calls “baldness of the fan¬
fares,” Avhich rages Avith special
voiletice among regimental bauds.
The Insult of the Age.
Examining Surgeon— I am sorry,
sir, but you have failed to pass the
necessary physical examination. You
are not up to the requirements of the
navy
Applicant—What! Not a good enough
man to fight Spaniards!
(Doubles up his fists and sails into
the examining surgeon.)
NO. ‘2 2.
RATS ENDED THE STRIKE.
A Combination Against .Striking Minors
Which They Could Not Itetdst.
“Not one of the biggest but one of
the most stubborn strikes that ever
occurred in the Pennsylvania coal
region,” said a former mining
engineer,” was ended by rats. The
rats that infest coal mines ore of
enormous size and as ravenous as they
are big. The miners not only tolerate
them, but stand in awe of them, for
it is a firm belief with the coal miner
that these rats can foretell disaster
and give warning to the miners of
their danger by scurrying out of the
threatened mine in droves iu ample
time to euable the miners to make
their escape also. So careful are the
workmen of these great, hungry rats
that it is not an uncommon sight to
see a miner feeding half a dozen or
more from his dinner pail. They some-
times become so tame that they will
climb on a miner’s lap as he sits at his
underground meal and crowd around
him to receive such portions of his
meal as he cares to toss to them.
“These rats never leave the mines
so long as work is going ou. The
food of the mine mules is kept
in the mines, and ou this the rats
largely subsist. They eating, swarm and about
when the mules are some-
times the mules have to fight the rats
to save their meal. Often scores of
dead rats will be found in a mule’s
stall in the mines, when they have
been trampled to death in efforts to
secure of portion of the mule’s feed.
When a mine lies idle any length of
time, and the mules are taken out, the
rats abandon it and become a great
pest in the mining villages.
“The strike I refer to was caused
by the refusal of a mine boss to rein¬
state a miner lie had discharged. The
men quit work. The mine owners de¬
clared they would let grass grow and
choke the mouth of the slope before
they would give in to the men, and
the men swore that they would cut
the grass and eat it, if necessary, be¬
fore they would yield their point. The
mules were taken from tiie mine and
turned out to pasture. The rats, being
thus deprived of their sustenance,
abandoned the mine and took up their
quarters about the miners’ shanties,
where they soon became a tcror t<_>
the families. The strike continued*
and the supplies of the men became
exhausted. Miners at neighboring
collieries avIio AA'ere at work responded
to the requests of their striking
brother's for aid and sent two wagon
loads of provisions and supplies of
various kinds. These Avere taken in
charge by a committee appointed for
purpose and Avere stored in a
building, from Avhich they were to be
distributed to the neediest of the
miners. The very first night the sup-
plies Avere in the building it Avas raided
L.v a horde of rats and everything was
devoured ’
or carried aAvay. Four dif-
ferent loads of provisions were con-
tributed by the sympathetic Avorking
miners, but it A\as impossible to saAe
more than one-third of them from the
rats. Home of the miners kept coavs
a t time, there beingplenty of free
pasturage, but soon after the strike
began the coavs began to fall short in
their yield of milk. This Avas a mys-
tery until one morning a miuer dis¬
covered half a dozen big rats sucking
the milk from his coav as she lay on
the ground complacently chewing her
cud. These combinations against
them at last forced the miners to
Aveaken, and they Avere compelled by
and by to resume work on such terms
as they could obtain, absolutely beaten
by the devouring horde of rats.”—
NeAv York Hun.
Pearls.
As yet the origin of pearls is a mat¬
ter of mere speculation. The old
theory that they Avere “congealed
deAvdrops pierced by sunbeams” Avas
supported by - naturalists as late as
1844, and is evidenced in a Venetian
medal bearing an open oyster shell re¬
ceiving drops of rain, Ayith the motto,
“By the divine deAV. ” Later con-
chologists, hoAvevor, contend that the
pearl nucleus may be some minute
particle, as a grain of sand, or the
frustule of a diatom,or a tiny parasite,
or perhaps one of the ova of. the pearl
oyster itself. This particle or foreign
body is gradually surrounded by thin
layers of nacre until it is completley
eucysted and the pearl formed. The
conseeutiA'e layers may vary in bright¬
ness and color, and a defect may be
caused by contact Avitli another foreign
substance, thus changing the value
Avith each neAv layer, and sometimes
causing a “lively kernel” or “seed” ta
be inclosed in an apparently poor
pearl. —Lippincott’s.