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SEGTION 4 TALES TOLD OF TELEGRAPHERS Intcrestlna Facts About tfie Gomlna Speed Tournament. VETERAN OPERATORS A Bombardment That Was Reported Over the Wires. DISTINGUISHING THE GLIGKS Abraham Lincoln's Gurlosltu About Wires and Electricity. iWrltten for the Courier-Journal. TUST at the air Is surcharged With Aflrrf-iif rtrtl nf 1 n- Vj triral talk apropos of the tournament of telegraphers to be held in New York at the Madison Square Garden during the month of May unJer the auspice the New York Electrical Society.

Roughly, the tournament Is divided Into two big clause, the sending events and the receiving everts, the former being much the most important. Competl- nULNK L. CATXm. CManager of th Telegraphers' Tourta-meut.) tors In the sending eventa send off as many words as they possibly can during a period of f.e minutes. Those In the receiving eventa "take" as many words as possible, sent to them during a period thirty minutes.

In the tournament of 1S33 some surprising record wer made. T. J. Kihm, of the Brooklyn Eagle stiff; White, of the Associated and Frank Catlin tied at word--, though Whits had few errors against him it th. finish.

Gibson made a record of 24 words, Frank English. 239 and Hi tin a at 134. All these men are expected to compete again this year, and It Is quite possible that last year's best record may bettered by one of them. The prize In each class will be J100 for first and JTS for second place. Special events will be a.

sending contest limited to temal operators, and a code contest for senders and receivers, unknown matter In tte Phillips code to be handled. Cartons Things Done Br Telesrraph-ers. The expert telegrapher Is as far removed from the ordinary telegrapher as Is. ths orator from the stammering schoolboy. In sending his dispatch- all the mechanical side of his craft icemi to be eliminated; he loses all consciousness' of the key and the suo-' cession of clicks.

lis talks to his ma-chins as he would talk to a rloud, never. thinking how he forms his words or letters. Some of these wonders can even send upon one ky arrll receive upon another It Is the same in the mailer of receiving. It. reading a page of print the reader never stops to separate the sentences into words and the words into letters.

He does not spell. The shape of the word is enough. It is so with the expert iterator. The general sound of the clicks is all that is neces-Jry. The writer remembers once talking with a telegrapher at a time when his whole attention was absorbed by what I was saying.

For over ten minutes an instrument had bewn clicking away near at han. Suddenly my friend wheeled sharply about and went to the key. He had heard his name. in the clicks of the instru-ncnt. To him it wulJ not have been plainer than if some one hid shouted it In his ear.

Another curious fact is style in telegraphing. The manner of the clicks themselves varies enough to enable an operator at once to detect variations in thesendlngs. The writer has seen cases of this In the Western Union offices. Philadelphia calls up New Yoik, and TBAIX J. KIHM.

Champion Telegrapher. ths receiver In New York at once responds with: Hello. Tom. Is that you?" or "Dick." or "Hairy." recognizing the flifferent men by the style and manner of their "Mort-e" as friends would recognize one another over the telephone by the sound of the voice. There were two operators once in Salamanca.

N. great chums, who used to telegraph to each other by the -hour from different ends of the town during slack business. One of tUece men his name was etur-g-iswent West finally, got mixed up in au Indian row and. at cording to report, was killed. Five years later his friend was tn the Western Union office of New York on a Sunday afternoon business was dull.

He was aitting upon a receiving desk, when Chicago called up, asking who was there. Instantly the man on th Jumpe-l the key and sent back: Is this you? "We heard that you had been killed. And Sturgls it was. sure JuM what it is that gives this atyio to operators, and precisely what the style itself may be, can not bs very clearly ex- plained, but telegraphers have their styles for all that, Just as writers do. and they can be detected thereby.

One of Ed lion's Feats. Put the expert, or even ths average operator. Is not confined to his key in the matter of sending messages. Two operators can talk to each other by ths mere touch of their fingers in the dark, or. If needs be, can communicate to each other in a crowd, unnoticed, by ths same method.

There is a story of Edisonthe wlxard that Is well worth repeating here. Edison was a marvelous operator In his younger days, and at one time managed to transmit his messages even when his wires had been broken. He was the agent in a railway station located upon one side of the Ohio, the next station was on the other bank of the river and also in a railway orrtce. On the day that the wires parted 11 communication was cut off until F-dison got aboard a switch engine that was standing at the depot and began to call up the other side by means of the engines whistle. The other operator understood at length, and during almost the entire djy the two engines were hoarsely whistling messages at each other.

An Amnalns; Mlatako. Flomer sometimes nods, and even the expert operator can make mistakes. C. S. Lawton.

a sometime employe In the Western Union offices, tells the following amusing anecdote on himself. He was receiving a dispatch from Albany. In which the sender wan not overcare-ful in the. matter of spacing his letters. Lawton took the address as follows: "Dr.

A. Wing, room car agent, central depot, York." The diepatch came back with the marginal report that there was no such person at the address named. The operator at Albany waa called up, and explanations followed, la consequence of which the address waa correctly changed to drawing-room car agent, central depot. Hut even a mora ausura mistake was once made in the same offices when a wire was received for "James W. Giles, pie clerk.

Brooklyn nasty yard." This was afterward amended to read "James W. Gillespie, clerk. Brooklyn navy yard." The expert telegrapher's great chance comes at the time of national conventions and presidential elections. Speed like lightning variety is then a requisite of his every movement. During the last Republican convention Frank J.

Kihm, press operator of the Brooklyn-Eagle staff, covered himself and his paper with glory, and established a Speed record which will long remain unbroken. Klhm had planned for this feat weeks ahead by learning to operate a linotype. At the time of the nomination Kihm rlaced himself at llnotvne. sounder, at his elbow. As the sounder began to click the news from Chicago Kihm "received" the message and ran it off on the linotype.

The first part of the speech was In the newspaper forms ready for printing before the speech Itself was ended, and the paper with a vf-rbatlm report of the speech was being sold upon the streets of Brooklyn before the audience In the convention hall of Chicago had ceased Its applause. Telegraphing During Bombard- A good story of telegraphing done under perilous conditions is told by Mr. P. J. Tlerney, of the New York cable office, as follows: "I was once working a line which had a hero at the other end of It.

I was reminded of the story the other day, when it was intimated in the newspapers that our cables would be cut in case of war with Spain. Well, they were not cut during the last revolution In Brazil: they were not cut when the former Chilian Government was overthrown by the leaders of the Chilian navy, and they were not cut in several other places where the conditions were about the same as now exist between here and Cuba. But to go on with my story. It was durtng one of ttysa South American revolutions. I will not say where, for various reasons.

The city in which this telegraph operator sat was being bombarded. Every report which went out of the place had to be examined by a censor, and no news of the bombardment was supposed to leave the place. Yet I knew of the bombardment while it was going on. The affair waa of the most absorbing interest, inasmuch as the operator waa sitting in the most unprotected part of the town and were dropping thick and fast all around him. In between the ordinary business he would intersperse ejaculations which, perhaps, were as much the result of his nervousness as anything else.

For Instance, after a regular message would come the words: 'My! that was a big Then again: That shell killed Again: 'There goes that old house down the Again: 'Hear that one screaming; wonder where it will And so on, until he practically sent through a complete report of the bombardment. I suppose the receivers at our end of the line were the only ones who knew of the battle until long after it had taken place, for of course these scraps of news were not In a line of regular messages and were not to be divulged. I have always thought, however, that that man sitting in the midst of the falling shells was entitled to ii thnn i nrilinnrv Tiro luu orhfnh every brave man merits." A Veteran's Story of Lincoln. Mr. Charles A.

Tinker, now superintendent of the Eastern division of the Western Union, Is a veteran who tell many a tale of the ticker during our civil war. Mr. Tinker was the operator for the War Department during that war. He knew President Lincoln 'well, and sent many messages which he dictated. He waa the first man to explain to Lincoln the workings of the telegraph.

This was long before Lincoln wa President of the United Slates. He was sending dispatches from a hotel in Pekin. 111., when Lincoln walked into the otilce and said: "Mr. Operator, have always had a curiosity to see the telegraph work. You don't seem to be very busy, and as I have half an hour or so to wait for dinner I wonder If you would not explain it to me?" Mr.

Tln- ke-r Ht as only too happy to explain the battery and the workings of the Instruments. Mr. Lincoln seemed to comprehend lLyery readily, and when the lesson remarked: "How simple it la when you know it all." Later on, when Mr. Tinker was appointed for service in the War Department, he saw Lincoln almost every day, and saw many Illustrations, of his great kindness of heart. When some particularly annoying message was received by the President it was often his first Impulse to reply Ki kind.

Mr. Tlr.ker has In his possession several messages which Lincoln dictated to him on such Impulses of the moment, and afterward asked him not to send them when his usual goodness of heart had worn off the edge of bis first anger. OTja COTJNTSY. Written for the Courier-Journal. Great truths for ares half concealed In the dim tilllit of the past Are by our country now revealed.

And open to the world at last: Not voiceless as the gods, ss those Whose silent feet were shod with fleece. 1 But tuneful as the sorig that flows Melodious from ths lsies of Greece I The mighty streams from pole to pole, i That 'round the world ben'gnant flow, i To'if-h at our shores and onward roll. With light and freedom all Through ail the still, invading deep. They bear airoul our belter day. To shores where weary nations sleep.

And smp.res hasten to decay. These messengers of nations roam From north and south iin holy quest; And bless each low or lordly home That dare receive thm as a guest: With light and" warmth they bless tha shore. Whose Isles thpir lucid waters lave; Whili; Freedom luat.T evermore And Truth's full ra-liunc crown the wav WM. F. WOOD.

THE COUTHFR A OUR YOUNG PEOPLE SCHOOLS AND PUPILS. Th New Girls High School. Th new Girls' High School, at Fifth and Hill streets, although not possessing an imposing exterior, will leave but little to bo desired in the Interior arrangement and finish. Designed originally for a ward school and completed as such, hv was a model building. However, In order to suit its present purposes It has bean necessary to tear down and rebuild on a larger and entirely different plan tha southern extension, besides making many other material changes.

When completed, the building, which is of two stories, will contain twenty-three large clans rooms, besides ths office, the auditorium, tha art studio, the gymnasium, cloak rooms and toilet rooms. The principal entrance, which is on Hill street (there are nine entrances) in all), is in a one-story extension. This will be added to so as to contain a reception room and prlva office for the Principal. This office commands an imposing view of tha spacious open hallway, with it two handsome staircaoea. Hie whole finished In hardwood.

The hall emends the entire length of the build. ng, terminating on un lower floor in two side entrances. Sixteen class rooms on the two floors Open Into this hall, also two passage-wnys Ufuiing back into the southern extension, which contains the auditorium and seven class rooms. Tha' auditorium Is on tha second floor, with two tuuulitoma exterior entrancea, on on the FIfih-street side and the othr on Sixth street. Tha size of tha hall is MxM ft, with seating capacity for l.JO peuple.

This will not only wrv for regular chapel axerclSMS, but wiU "flU a long-felt want" DAVID JOSEPH. i i a- 2 ri X10STENSE IXEXNER. of a hall for school commencements and other large school entertainments, thereby saving an annual expenditure of several hundred dollars. The liKhting of tha hail will be one of the special features, with its lu alectrio lights, besides gaa fixtures. Every class room will aiso be fitted for eleulrto lighting, twelve lights In evety room.

The clana rooms ax ail 36x20 feet, are well lighted, and have roomy cloets for storage and convenient cloek room. The heating apparatus, regulators and ventilators have received special cou-sluonktlun. Although the building Is a two-snory one, there will be one third-floor room the studio. This has been necessary in order to secure proper lighting. It will ba an ideal studio.

The basement Is delightfully roomy, fur. nishlnx a tine gymnaMuim, dressing room, bAUiee recreation hail, etc Under the laltoratorles two of the bucnumt rooms are reacrved for supplies, etc. On the first floor will be located the heads of departments and the library. At th rltfht of Prof. Hartholome w's office, th two rooms frontlna on Hfll street will occupied by Misses Anna K.

and Valeria E. Hanna, instructor tn Er.ellsh literature and history: the corresponding two rooms In the western wing will be occupied by Mrs. Belle Tevis Spted, Instructor in elocution, and Miss Anna Hamilton, inatruc-tor in fclnglish. Acroxs the hall opposite the. office will be Prof.

Bartholomew's class room, separated from the library by a passageway. The room west of th library will be occupied by Miss Jessie Stewart, instructor in mathematics. On the east side of th southern extension Miss Kat Palmer, Instructor In science, will have two rooms a laboratory and a class room, while tha two corresponding rooms on the west will be occupied by Miss Anna Adele Monnch Instructor In biology. Miss Anna M. Heln-sohn, Instructor in Otrnian, will be located In the room adjoining Miss Palmer's, and Miss Sully Maury, Instructor in Latin.

In that adjoining Ml" Monsch's class room. Miss Margaret K. Chrlstensen, instructor In drawing, will be on the third floor. Misses Kate Chamberlain. Margaret C.

Board, Louisa S. Baird, Olive B. Catlin, M. Eleanor Eva Allen and Jennie M. Staadeker will have rooms on th second floor.

The building will be ready for occupancy at the opening of th next s-lon in 8ep. tember. As yet it is hot sufficiently near completion to impress the casual visitor with a sense of its interior beauty and magnificent proportions: however, it is safe to predict that notwithstanding th many protests against the conversion of the building into a high school, It will when completed df light the members and friends of the institution. School Concert On Friday. May 6.

at 3 p. a musical concert by th pupils of the public schools will be given in tha chapel of the Girls' High School. Probably In no other subject has there been greater improvement In the method and character of Instruction In our schools than in music. Gone Is the old-time loud, harsh school singing! It exists now only as a memory. The children sing sweetly and softly with their little voices under' control to express the varying sentiments Inspired by what they sing.

In order to give th general public aa opportunity to hear the children, as Well as to encourage the children to greater effort. Miss Lina liourgard and Mr. Os-bourne McConathy, directors of music, have arranged this concert. Within the limit of oik programme It would be impossible to show ail the classes, so each grade will be represented by one class. The Girls' Hliih School will be represented bv the Glee Club, tile Boys' High School by the chorus lately orirar.ized, the Normal classes by the Seniors and by a duct bv Misses Hccgs and Snaw.

"The various grade will be represented as follows: First Grade, MIks Fullerton's class, Kentucky-street school. HONOR PUPILS, JOURNAL. LOUISVILLE. SUNDAY MORNING. Recond grade.

Miss Relbert's class, Montgomery-street school. Third grade, Miu Monsch's class Seventh-ward school. Fourth grade, Misses Von Donhoff and Henry's classes, Luels-avenue school. Fifth grade, by Miss Drewry's boys, Duncan-street school. Sixth grade, by Miss Evans' class, Lucia-avenue.

Seventh grade, by Miss Kubaugh's class, Orayson-street school. Eighth grade, bv tha classes of Mrs. Smith and Miss Qrisaman, Madison-street school. A few other clsssea. not mentioned here, will also sUig.

The clssses will in every case he led by their regular teachers, which will prove that the grade teachers, undtr the supervision of the instructors, ean teach miislo Intelligently and well. This alone will ba an Interesting feature. This year no attempt will be made to give publicly any other of their musical acquirements than song singing, hut in future exhibitions this Is contemplated. The song singing will show that the present order of Instruction teaches the children to sing softly, sweetly, with good expression, aood attack and pronunciation, and that the souks are choice, calculated to cultivate a taste for good music. The children of ths classes selected are delighted at the honor conferred on them, although they understand that they ara not the only classes of their grade that are worthy of the distinction.

Tha publio Is invited to ths concert. Honor Pupils Kentucky-Street School. Tha honor pupils pictured on our page to-day are Slxth-grada pupils of the Kentucky-street school: Hortense Flexner and David Joseph, of Miss Sproule's class: Mary Kewsum and George Looms, of Miss Gardiner's class: Irmas Bossung and Wal- SIXTH GRADE, KENTUCKY-STREET SCHOOL iff- i r'" i i 1 WALTER GRATJ. tor Grau. of Miss Smith's class.

These pupils were unanimously voted by their claAites aa being their first-honor This lncludis not only scholarship, but also deportment, regularity and punctuality. In these ciasaew, where su-h general merit exists. It was no small tribute to the powers of these honored ones to rtcoive unanimous recognition. Grayson-Street SchooL Tha unfurling of a new flag on the Gray-aon-strect school last week aroused enthusiasm not only of ths children but of the whole neighborhood. The old flag, after weathering the winter, was torn and shabby, which did not suit the young Graj son-street patriots at all.

They approached Mrs. Coleman, the Prin-clil. with a request that the children be allowed to make penny contribuliona toward buying a new flag. They were aa-scured that a new flag would forthcoming without any contributions; that the Board would furnish it. When th fum was received at the school Mr.

Coleman 0ened the package in a room filled with little First-grade childrvu. The enthusiasm of tha children was so great that she carried It into every room, where It waa greeted with general rejoicing and a great show' of patriotism. A programme for the unfuri.ug was then arranged for, tha next day. hen th time came all th children wer at fever-heat. They wer arranged in line In th front yard and on the pavement, while a table served as a stand fcr the speakers.

Exercises wer opened with "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" by the whole school. Sam Bingham and Emmett Doran then gave "The One Hundred and Twenty-first birthday of Our Flag." "Honoring Our Flag," by Thomas Emmets burger, and thrilling select.ons by Clarence Wilson and Erma Huth were given with all the fire such an occasion could produce. Saluting th Flag" by six hundred chll-dred was very Impressive. This was followed by "The Staj ifyangled Banner" and marching by th school, heautd by the Drum Corps. By the time th exercises were completed an liumens audience had gathered.

Th street naa filled with carriages and wagor.a, while the entire neighborhood had turned out in force, much to the edill-oation of Uncle Sam's young hopefuls. The Second grade of this school deserves especial mention for improvement made in punctuality. After a previous record of having tli highest per cent, of tardiness for several months, a new leaf has been turned over, and for a whole wk there was not on case of tardiness. The following girls were r.elther tardy nor al-nt during the week ending April 22: Knuna Bayer. Alien Bingham.

Susie Brian, Susie Brown, Lona Beiie Burks, Mollle Canova. Iouls Dewser, Mamie Ge-hring, Madeline GrunwalJ, Edna Haines. Blanche Harbin, Carrie Heasehr. Edna Edna Irvine. Stella Jckel, Marguerite Kllvlngton.

Nettie Belle Klr-bv. Annie Klein, Vtrgle Lambert. Tiili Marquet, Edna Meyer. Corlnne Miller. Sophia Miller.

Besaie Paul, Isabelle Rahe-necker. Mary Ransdell. Ina Retder. Hazel Roth. Maruaret Runge, Theresa Sargent.

Elsie May Sohns. Gertrude Stahr. Anvr Lm Steber. Edaa Strobel. Katl Gross.

Lula Gross, Maggie Waller, Jettle Watson. Margie Webb. Klizabeth West. Frances Wilberdlng, Ksdie Wrlstht. Jo-nhlne Zettler.

Alvlra Kohb, Hattle Crawford. Mary Crawford, Frances Grogan, Lorraine Kngrlrman. Hallie Vaticy, a favorite ex-pupll of Ora son-street school, died last week. The Fifth and Sixth rrade pupils attended the funeral In a body, paying loving tribute to her memory by smtr'nc that beautiful hymn. "Lead, Kindly Light." Prospect School.

The following pupils have been on ths roll of honor for deportment and recitation during the past six weeks: Dick Tritrg. Mamie Chelt lUrtman, Bernlce Smith. Maggie Hardin. Ella Msddox. Florence DitzUr.

Lucy Pinnell. Lucy Clore, Lucie TriRir. John Helta IJ. Wilhoyte. Clifton llntwll.

John Hrdm, I-sura Maddux, Walter Sail: Mihovte, Miller Litvr, Marian r. Frank! May-baiim. Katherwe It ger. Hewitt Wilhoyte, lliley OUR LETTER BOX. My Dear Young Friends: Who of yon la not Inspired by the war spirit which Is calling out so many volunteers, all fired with enthusiasm to accomplish acts of heroism in their country's sen-ice? Tha volunteers and would-be volunteers are not only men and boys, but women and girls, who wont to serve as army nurses, even though some of them would be likely to faint at the sight of a bleeding scratch.

Don't you think Uncle Sam ought to feel proud and happy? The little lad of eight years who last I OEOKGE LOOKS, JB. TSilAE MIGNONETTE MOSSTJNO. week presented himself before Capt. Paul Galleher In full regimentals, requesting to be enlisted In his company, is not the only little fellow In this city with such aspirations. A little boy attending the Kentucky-street school lias only been waiting for his regimentals to make the same move.

When his father came home last Saturday night without the coveted suit his tears could not be suppressed. He had read the evening papers with enthusiasm, but now sat quietly while his father read aloud the latest bulletins In an "extra." After a time, seeing his son so subdued in spirits. he said: "Son, what kind of a soldier would you make if you can't brave such a little disappointment?" "1 am ail right, papa," he said. "I am Just tninking what page I'll read In the Courier-Journal to-morrow the war news or the children's paga. I think." he added, with a touch of pnue "that my name will be in the school column on Ihe roll of honor lor perfect punctuality all tills that is the case, I know what page I shall first examine in the morning," said the father, "and it will be the best of war news to me if I can read that my boy is a lKiiditr who has not lot Time bea4 Ill's name did appear, and he deserves his regimvJiiais a.d a urum, too.

Don't you think so? Drums, by the way. are the moat popular of Instruments with boys at present, so a dealer told me yesterday. And uruiu corp. composed of drummer bo. ar the pride of many neighborhood.

Apropos of drummer boys, have you ever hcrd tne story of the twelve-year-old Illinois drummer loy who wa mortal, ly wounoel toward the close ol the late cavil war in the battle of Wilsons screek? If not, you will want to know how so young a boy came to be a drummer for a company of real Federal soldiers. It came alKiut In this way: Th regular drummer of this Illinois company was taken very ill the day before the regiment was ordeied by Gen. Lyons to march toward Springfield. The Captain waa In a dilemma, for there waa no one to lake his place, when a pale, sad-eyed woman approached him, leading a small boy carrying a fine drum. "Captain." she said, "Eddie has set his heart on going with you aa drummer boy, and.

though it nearly breaks my heart to say so, I have given my consent If you will tae him." Kddle was engaged and at once became a general faionte. In every feast of fruit or other dainty Eddie always was given the first share. His drumming, which the soldiers declared wa different from all other army drummers, and his boyish enthusiasm endeared to his older companions. After the engagement at Wilson a Creek, where the Fedrais were defeated Corporal who had been wounded, heard the faint sound of a drum, and at one recognized the touch of Eddie. Crawling to where the sound came from, he found the boy propped up against a tree, his drum hanging from a convenient shrub and his fa deadly paie.

Corporal." cried he. "I am so glad you came! Don't leave me!" then pointing to his feet, said: "See!" The Corporal looked as directed and to his horror saw that both feet, had been shot- off by a cannon balL "He said," continued Eddie, pointing with his drum stitk to the dead body of a Confederate lying be.d him, "he said the doctors could cure me. He was all shot to pieces, but he heard my drum call and crawled oveg here and tied my legs upao they would wouldn't bleed sol" and Ed.lle closed his yes wearily, his drum sticks falling from his hands. "I wi mnmma couid come!" he murmured. The Corporal's eye were blinded wlih tears aa he looked down.

What do you think he saw? The Confederate soldier hot to death and in the agonies of the last struggle bad managed to tak off bis aua- 1 T- I I MAT 1, 1898 penders and bind the lege of his boy-enemy above the knees! Much affected tha Corporal stooped to lift the boy when a troop of Confederates earns up and he waa a prisoner. With a sob In his voice ha told the story. What do you think the rebel Captain did? i Just aa tenderly aa though Eddie was his own son he lifted him to his own horse and. carrying the drum himself, led the hors back to camp. When the little procession reached the camp Eddie was dead.

Faithful to his duty, even though mortally wounded, this little drumer boy. with his last call, had aroused in the heart of one who waa hla foe the noblest feeling. Inspiring his last act to le an effort to save and comfort his boy-enemy. Eddie and the Confederate, you will agree, wer both heroes. However, you do not have to go to war to find heroes.

Every day we read of them In everyday life, and there are countless numbers of them that never beer of who go through life so quietly performing their heroic arts as simple acts of duty without any thought of glory that only God knows them as heroes or heroinea. AVe often hear the expression: is of the stuff that makes heroes" now what are the qualities that make up this "stuff?" Io you personally know anyone whom you consider a hero? If so write and tell ut? about it. Who Is your favorite hero in history and why? The history which is now making Is furnishing many heroes-have you heard of any? This subject is an Interesting one, and I hope you will write of it to AUNT BETH. PRIZE PUZZLER. Conducted for the Courier-Journal by Mrs.

Julia B. Chick. 19 Illustrated Diagonal. All th words pictured contain the tame number of letters. When rightly guessed and placed one l-low the other in the order named the diagonal (from the upper left-hand letter to the lower right-hand) letls the name given by Thomas t'arew (HiOl) to his lady love.

VEHNA. A nicely-bound hook will be given for the first correct solution. X. ITrt 'nnerlcnl Enlina. I am composed of 6 letters.

My G2 2t 20 SS 3 3u 3S and 41 was a mythological maiden who was stolen by king. My 21 i 23 1 4S and 21 is one of the United Stales. My 2 29 54 48 13 Gl ID and 21 is the title of one of Shakespeare's plays. My 10 14 12 24 30 25 and 7 was the name of a Roman empress. Myliisitia and.

32 was th mother of King Arthur. My 41 9 4 2 and 37 Is a celebrated Island. My tt IS 31 and 5 Is a celebrated river. My 21 49 16: 22 44 51 20 and SO Is on of the seven cities of Asia Minor mentioned in the Book of Revelations. My IS was a brand formerly Impressed on one convicted of manslaughter.

My whole is a familiar quotation. MlSlREisS DOROTHY. ofcJ71 PL Sa sakerb het nus guthroh het doclua dan stim Adn sieing het nalr spord thiw shaveen euh Os yam het stera nl royu file eb siskde Yb het nus of pensbipas ginnish grothuh. MINNIE. So.

173 Diamond. 1. A letter. 2. An insect.

3. One of a certain secret order. tine who shares the lot of another. A beautiful Mower. A shade of red.

To relinquish. Spenser's personification of Truth. A letter. JOHN. 173 False Comparative.

Positive, to revolve; comparative, a famous painter. 2. Positive, a measure; comparative, a study in the corranon schools. 3. Positive, to admonish; comparative, an American writer of to-day.

4. Positive, to quiver; comparative, a religious sect. 5. Positive, a receptacle; comparative, an old town In England. Positive, a machine for grinding or polishing; comparative, a Scotch geologist of note.

7. Positive, the principle of production; comparative, a kind of tree. Positive, a barrier; comparative, a kind of shoe. 9. Positive, a large wlckerwork hamper; comiaralive, the niouth of a volcano.

10. positive, to worn in the ground; comparative, a part of a boat. EDNA. o. 174 Modern Writers.

1. The whole of anS'thing and a small bed. 2. False hair and a kind of drink. 5.

An Instrument making sound when shaken and a girl's name. A lody of water and lielng In health. 6. Part of a fowl and to pais through water by wading. 6.

To consume and a part of a hog. 7. Domestic animals on a farm and a weight. 8. A part of a house and a single point on a die.

9. Destitute of light and greater In number. 10. A farm product and a descendant. A.

B. D. Answers to Prise Pnssler for April IT. No. 157 Hinge A a a I No.

15V-If you seek his monument look around you. No. li A A TACIT I I ATE 8 No. ISO 1. Bums; 2.

Hayes; S. Horeb; 4. Salem; a. Ghent; it. Stow; 7.

Gates. No. 161 "Whom first wa love you know seldom wed. Time rules us all, and life, you know, is not The thing we planned it out ere hope was dead. And then women can not choose our lot." No.

1C2 Co(log)ne; 2. T(Hebes): Yar-(moutti); 4. C(airo; Misisourjl; S. Y(aie; 7. German)y; a Wtabaahj; k.

O(aage); 10. Virlglnjia. Tha first correct solution of puzsls No. 157 was received from Mrs. Margaret E.

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THE OLD WOLF. My papa Is a writer msn. And writes on a machine. And mamma says that 'round our door A wolf is oiten seen. But I have never seen him there.

And I heard papa say pounds upon his typewriter To scare that wolf away. As vr flMERIGRN BATTLE GRIES. Historical Utterances ol Some ot Our Heroes. 1 GALLS OF FREEDOM. Thrilllnrj Words That Have Helped To Rallu GREAT SEA AND LAND flGMTS.

Words That Have Been Burned On American Hearts. I written fo 11 Tp K.ME5 I I Comm mous Written for the Courier-Journal. EMEMBER THE MAINE." Commodore Schley's now ra tional of attack on the Spanish fleet, will undoubtedly become Immortal In American history. In the history of the English-speaking peoples-, in fact; for, aa an appeal to patriotism. It is as thrilling as was Nelson's battle cry at the Nile, "England expects that every man will do his duty." During the 132 years of our existence aa a nation the commodores, captains and other officers of the navy have made a magnificent contribution of patriotic phrases of our war literature.

As the terse embodiment of popular sentiment In trying situations and emergencies, they are not surpassed by expressions of a like character in any language. Onr First 9n Fighters. The sea fighters started in this line at the very beginning of the revolution In fact, btfore that tremendous struBtle with the mother country was begun. Capt. Whipple, of Providence.

R. for Instance, when notified in 1775 by Sir James Wallace, of the British frigate Rose, that he would be strung up at the yardarm for having burned his majesty ghlp. the Gahpee. sent the laconic reply to Sir James: "Always catch a man before you hang him." The lion-hearted Whipple, ho, in the preceding war with France, In his privateer, the Gamecock, had captured In a single year twenty-three French prizes, voiced In that defiant answerthe sentiments of all the rebels In the colonies that catching them was an essential preliminary to the hanging business. Who first raised the American flag on a ship of war is one of the disputed questions of history.

John Adams claimed the honor for Capt. John Manly, a New Englander. Faul Jones asserted that "my (his) hand first hoisted the American fig." He was then a Lieutenant on the frigate Alfred. There were several American flags that time, and Paul Jones does not describe his particular one. Some historians think It was the pine tree and rattlesntke flag with the motto.

"An Apial to God; don't tread on me." Others assert that it was a flag consisting of thirteen stripes, with the motto, "Don't tread on me." and a rattlesnake stretched diagonally across them. Some of Panl Jones' Sayings, "I have not yet begun to fight." was one of Com. Jones' famous replies to a British captain with whom be had been fiercely engaged for over an hour, and who desired to know if he had surrendered. It was not Jones who surrendered when the battle came to an end. That was the celebrated engagement between the Serapls and the Honhomm Richard.

The captain, of the Serapls having been knighted for his gallantry on that occasion by George Jones, when he heard of the promotion, characteristically remarked: "Never mind; If I meet him again I'll make a lord of him." The first commodore of the young American navy was Capt. John Barry. In the spring of 17fcl he was hailed by a British ship on his way from Havana. To the Inquiry as to- his identity, he re-piled: The United States ship Alliance. Saucy Jack Barry, half Irishman, half Yankee; who ate you?" "Not the value nor the command of the whole British fleet could tempt me from the American cause." was the heroic reply of Harry to Lord Howe, in 1776.

wheti he tittered him 1.V0') guineas and a commission in the English navy to Join the royal cause. Equally heroic was the r-ply of the captive American sailor. Nathan Coffin, when usked to enter the king's service: "Hang me, ir you will, to the yard arm. but do not ask me to become a traitor to nty couu- try." Decs tar's Itlaslns; Words. Com.

Stephen Decatur was one of th very bravest men that ever walked the quarter deck. His famous toast at a public dinner In Norfolk, in 181. "Our country! In her Intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." would, if he had never said or done anything else, have won him immortality. The destruction by him of the frigate Philadelphia In the harbor of Tripoli as declared by Lord Nelson to be "the most bold and daring act of th age." Decatur was as generous aa he was brave. "I can not," said he to Capt.

Carden. of the Macedonian, as he offered to surrender his sword, "take the sword of a man who has so bravely defended his ship, but I II thank you for that hat." This was In the 1M2 warand the referenoe to the bat was a reminder of a bet between the two ollicers, made previous to the outbreak of hostilities, In regard to the fighting powers of their ships. At the first fire the Macedonian lost her mlzzenmast. Hearing a sailor remark to one of his mates that "they had made a brig of her," Decatur added: "Take good aim, my lads, at the mainmast, and we'll make a sloop of her." To the hail of a squadron of Algerlna pirates, while cruising in the Mediterranean, of Dove auute?" "Where ar you going Decatur from his lone ship answered back, "Dove ml place" I and they let him go. Toward the close of the Algerlne war one of their Captains sought for delay In order to gain some advantage.

"Not a minute," replied Decatur, with a threat to capture a pirate squadron if his terms were not complied with In-stanter. Toward the close of the U12 war Decatur, in command of the President was chased by a large squadron, all of which, with one exception, the Endymlon, he outsailed. In the emergency he conceived the daring design of capturing that ship before her sisters could come to her assistance, and. having scuttled his own vessel, which was Injured at the time, sailing Into port on his anticipated prize. His speech to his crew on that occasion la unique.

"My lads," said he, "that ship Is corning up with us. As our own ship won't sail, well go on board of them, every man and boy of us. and carry her into New York. All I ask of you Is to follow me. This Is a favorite ship of the country.

If we allow her to be taken by the nemy we shall deserted by our wives and sweethearts. What, loss such a ship as this fcr nothing! Ttvnuld break" the heart of every pretty girl in New York." The iTesident at once heaJed for the Endymlon-, and the engagement began During th action Decatur was wouttded ami the Endymlon dismantled. Before the President bad time to repair damages the Tenedos and Pomona came up, and Decatur waa forced to haul dow his flag. Lawrence's Immortal Cry. "Don't give up the ship," the dylnf w-ords of Com.

Lawrence, the herolo commander of the Chesapeake, ar among the very noblest ever uttered. They will live as long as ocean rolls or Ship floats The gallant Perry flew that signal at his masthead in the memorabla battle of- Lake Erie, at the glorious close of which be had the Inspiration to pen that dispatch which has canonized him in our "We have met tha enemy and they are burs." It was written on his stiff hat In lieu of a table, on the half of an old letter, and the additional Information in it gave the siza and number of the enemy, namely, "two. ships, two brigs, one schooner and one) sloop." Perry was a heio In peace as well aa in war. During a fearful winter storm, while lying In the harbor ot Newport, he heard that a merchant vessel had been driven on a reef six miles distant. He at once manned Ins barge and said to the crew: "Come, my boys, we are going to the relief of shipwrecked seamen; pull away." That ace was applauded by the country almost as much as was the battle on Lake Erie.

During the Mexican war. Gen. Scott re. quested the loan of some guns from thsj fleet, to be used on shore. Perry compiled, hut on one condition, thaf "tvhvrs ever the guns go, the ofllcers and men must go also." Free Trad nnd Sailor nishl.

Com. Porter, father of the late Admiral Porter, happily phrased the sentiment of he country in the motto hich, he flew tn his flag In the war of "Free trade and sailors' rights." Int those distant days It became the text for many a patriotic song and thousands of political speeches. A Britlsls Captain, meeting Porter, flung out au answering signal to this etTect: "God, -and country. Uracil sailors' best rights. Traitors offend both." The belief in England at the time was that the crews of the American ships were nil British deserters.

Porter answered his enemy-next day with a fresh signal flag: "God. our country and liberty! Ty rants offend them!" When the Constitution, under the command of Commodore Hull, engngctl tha English frigate Guerriere, dramatlo scene was witnessed on the deck of "old Ironsides." As the Englishman's guns began to thunder out. Lieut. Morris, second in ci mitiand. aed Hull if should give the order to lire, i "Not yet." replied Hull.

Nearer ard nearer came the two ships. Again Morris asked for the order, and again came the "Not yet." A few moments later, high above, the roar of the guns, as the Constitution completely covered her enemy, Hull's voice, rang out: "Now, boys, pour it Into them!" The Guerriere was literally torn to pieces, "the blood of the killed running out cf llrvir scuppers," aaya a naval historian. "llow Preble Hailed the Maldslune. The dashing Preble, durieig a cruise in the Mediterranean, ran across another ship. It was night, and he could get no reply to his hail.

This colloquy followed: Pi oI(! I now hall you for the last time; if you don't answer I'll" fire a shot into you. Stranger If you do I'll return a broadside. Preble I should like to catch you at thaS, I now hail for acv answer. What ship' is that? Stranger This Is his Britannic majesty's H-grun ship of the line Donegal. Sir Richard Strachan.

Send a boat on board. Preble This Is the United Stales 44-gun slilp Con stitution, Capt. Edward, Preble, and I'll lie If I send a tat on board any ship. Blow your matches, -boys. Ve were at peace at that time, and tha two Captains euspeciwl that each was a pirate.

They lay to during the night. Explanations followed In the morning, when the British t.hlp proved to be not the formidable Donegal, but the 32-gun frigate Maidstone. Com. Macdonough sighted the enemy on Lake Champlain on a Sunday morning He ran up the signal for dlvlna service, and. kneeling on the deck among his men.

offered appropriate During the engagement a British shot struck the hencoop on the Saratoga and released a gamecock, which flew into the rigging and crowed lustily all throuch the fight, the men loudly cheer-lrg. Macdonough's vk'toroy aroused tha enthusiasm of the entire nation. "It r-nt en her the Alamo. A war cry that closely resembles "Remember the Maine" was that which Gen, Sam Houston gave to his troops at tha battle of San Jacinto the battle which gave freedom and Independence to Texas, CoL Travis was In command of about lfi5 Texan soldiers in the fort called ths Alamo at Bexar. There he was surrounded by a greatly superior force under the Mexican dictator, Santa Anna, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1SU6.

the little garrison of the Aianto capitulatnl on the pledge of the Mexican Oeneral that their lives would be spared. Notvi itlistanding this plede, CoL Travis and his entire force wera massacred aa soon as they hud surrendered. Their dead bodies were gathered together, a huge pile of wood was heaped upon them and they were burned to ashes This fearful act of barbarity stirred the TexatiB to intense wrath, arid, Implanted In their breasts a fierce thirst for vengeanre. On April 19, 1K38, Gen. Houston, with about 7t0 men.

gave battle at San Jacinto to Santa Anna, with nearly three times the number of "iTex-lcans. and. In spite of the disparity of nurnliers. Houston's little force swept the Mexicans like chaff before the wind. It was more a slaughter than a battle.

Just before the assault of the Texana was made on the army of Santa Ana, Houston addressed his soldiers In a fervid speech, closing with these words: "Remember the Alamo." These words fell upon the ear of the Texans with, wonderful effect. Every soldier In tha. little army at the same Instant repeated the words "the Alamo." until th word became a shriek for revenge that struck terror to the" souls of the Mexicans. When the battle was over, it was found that only seventy Texans had been killed, while (30 Mexicans were left dead on the field. "Remember the Alamo" was evidently a battle cry that not only nerved the arms of the avengers, but paralyzed tha resistance of the Mexicans.

The answer of Com. Stockton to tha. Mexican Governor of California when we took possession of that country la worth recalling. "If you march upon the town (Los Angeles." threatened tha Governor, "you will find It the grave of your men." "Tell the Governor." said Stockton, "trj have the hells ready to toll at 8 o'clock tn the morning. I shall be there at that time." Com.

Tatnall's "Blood Is thicker than water" won grateful recognition In England In Seeing the British Ad miral. Sir James Hope. In a tight placa under the fire of Chinese forts, Tatnall gallantly came to his rescue. In so do-lrg he was guilty of a breach of neutrality, but his answer, "Blood is thicker than water." had the effect ot condoning his offense. Heart Disease From Bicycling.

A curious effect of hard cycling is reported from France. Out of tbe last batch of conscripts no fewer than eight widely known cyclists were rejected as being physically Incapable of military duty. Diseases of tha heart were tha chief reasons for their rejection. This causes profound astonishment, alt classes thinking them at least fit to accepted as military cyclists.