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£ COM! I loom'" sounds and
Vftll resounds the reveille gun
of the Naval academy at
6:30 a. m , and a « It echoes
ami ro-ochoes along the
shores of the Chesapeake and Ib an
swered by the drum and bugle corps
of tb*» Marine quarters, a mile north
of Bancroft hall In a lively martial air,
a stirring scene begins In the midship
man's balls. Tlie bugle blares up and
down the corridors and the
»f con/panles begin to call up the
sleepers,, who leap from their cots
and commence active operations to
dress, and put their rooms In order.
Immediately, upon the bugle call, the
Inspecting officers begin the work of
visiting the rooms of the midshipmen
to see that they are out of bed. They
must be up and stand at military at
tention when the officer enters.. Then
the midshipman dresses, opens the
window, and turns down the bedding
lor an airing, and hurries below for
the first formation aud roll call of
the day, which Is at 7 a. m. At the
fcugle call, the roll begins, and up to
the last second belated ones are hur
rying down the Bteps and "falling In"
Just In time to save themselves from
being reported "tardy!" and demerlt
ed. Here, demerits count.
Regular Routine.
Immediately after breakfast the
chaplain reads the prayers of the day,
and the brigade, that, when at Its av
erage complement, numbers between
800 and 900, make for their rooms, for
these few minutes left them before
recitations begin, are the only period
for them to put their rooms In order
for the dal'y Inspection that begins at
10 a m. At 8, study and recltotion
periods'*commence. They are of one
hour each. If a midshipman has a
recitation, he, with the other members
of the. section, somewhere iti the
neighborhood of 10, assemble at the
proper place, and march off In mili
tary order to the section room where
the Instructor awaits them. All stand
until he Is seated. At the end of the
recitation, the section march back
to their quarters, are dismissed, and
•ach midshipman goes to his room.
In these marches to and fro the rank
Ing midshipman takes command. Tills
rank may be held by appointment as
a cadet officer or may arise from being
the leading scholor. If it should hap
pen that only .two are In the section,
the ranking midshipman assumes com
mand, marches hiß '"company" and
fcltnself otT and brings him back, halts
the squad, brings his one man to at
tention, and announces: "Squad dis
missed!" as though there were a hun
dred In his command. Everything Is
military here. When a midshipman
usher, at chapel service, escorts a vis
itor to his or her pew, he halts at the
place selected, turns on his military
heel like a pivot, and assumes a mar
tial "attention" until the guest Is seat
ed. The brigade comes Into church In
regular order, the superintendent has
his appointed position, and no one
leaves the chapel after service until
the brigade was marched out, and none
dare drop from the ranks until It has
been regularly dismissed.
If a midshipman should have no rec
itation during any of pe
riod, he must stay in his room, and it
ts a serious offense to visit, or receive
visitors during study hours, or even
to leave the floor to get a drink of wa
ter If none happens to be in the cooler
on that floor. Yet midshipmen will
risk demerits and run the gauntlet of
detection. One day an officer of the
department of discipline, that branch
of the work of the academy that has
.the management of the midshipmen
tn charge, whose business Is, said one
mt the officers, "to know at all times
where every midshipman U, and to be
•hie to pat your finger on him." made
an inspection of one of the rooms. He
saw by the manner of the two occu
pants of the apartment that something
was wrong. He could not ask the mid
shipmen themselves what they were
doing that was Irregular, so he looked
sharply around the room to see what
was the matter. The next day the
midshipmen In the secret were greatly
amused to tee on the morning report:
"Midshipman A, shoes out of place."
Those shoes were not Midshipman' A's,
but Midshipman C's feet. He "was a
rlsitor, and when he heard the inspect
ing officer coming, he had only time
to run behind the wardrobe door, and.
as it was not long enough to cover
him. his feet stuck below it. Another
host's not He raw th« Inspecting of
ficer coming and, making a desperate
dash, hid completely behind the ward
robe; but hi* action, so unaccountablo
to the hosts, whtf had not seen the
officer, made them look toward the
spot where the vlaltor had hid, and
this hint was enough for the keen-ayed
officer to make him come out from cov
er.
"Hikes" In the Country.
The responsibility fpr order In a
room Is fixed by the authorities requir
ing one man In each room to take a
week's turn at a time, and no matter
who Is tho evildoer, tho authorities
know where to lodge the charge.
Soon after 12 the morning,period of
study and recitation ceases and dinner
formation and dlnner follow. At 1:30
p. ni; begin the afternoon periods of
study and recitation, and at 4:30 prac
tical exercises commence. The fourth
class will have cutters In oars or sails;
the upper classmen will have launches
under steaip? rifle-range or
great-gun practice on the Chesapeake
in vessels under steam. These exer
cises are alternated In their seasons
with artillery and Infantry drills, and
long "hikes" In the country under com
mand of their proper officers.
At 6:30 p. m. the mldshtpnian Is free
until 7 p. m. to do as he pleases, un
less ho belongs to some one of th*
athletic practice squuds of the N'aval
academy. Then h» Is a slave to It,
until the supper formation, after which
there are two hourß for study. At
9:30 p. m. gun Are relieves the mid
shipman from his studies and he has
a half hour to glance over the evening
newspaper, write a letter, visit a friend
tell a yarn, search up a "plebe" for a
song or a dance, and then to bed by
taps, 10 p. m., when thd bugle soundti,
and down the- corridors echoeß the call.
"All lights out!" A few moments la
ter the Inspection begins, and should
a midshipman have been tardy In dls
robing, he Jumps Into bed, boots and
all, and covers up to his chin, until
the Inspectlhg officer looks In and sees
all hands accounted for, then the be
lated one rises and undresses at hW
leisure.
If he Is behind In hlB studies, an am
bitious midshipman will have secured
the contraband lamp, and then he will
rise, tack a gum blanket over his
transom, light his lamp, burn his mid
night oil and. be ready for the next
morning's recitation when It comes
Sometimes me authorities allow night
study to stay up until 11, an?
then they work and move by written
ruleg in slippered feet so as not to
arouse the faithful sleepers who have
been more diligent and have Justly
earned the slumber they are getting.
CITY DWELLER UTTERS WAIL
"S
Among Other Things, He Seems to
Have a Grievance Against the
"Fresh" Egg.
An unhatched crocodile, according
to a learned Journal, utters a cry from
Inside the egg. As we dwellers In
this metropolis know to our cost, the
egg of our acquaintance—the domes
tic breakfast variety, to-wlt—cries
aloud after being placed under our
noses. Eggs are usually regarded as
a comic subject, and the late Dan
was wont to deliver a most dl-' 1
verting dissertation concerning them..
Too long have we however;
from that ghastly Imposture, the
"fresh" egg, which may go back to
the days of good King George—tho
F\mrth for all we can tell. Eggs are
far more uncertain than woman's iove
or horse races, and whenever I think
of them I long to be In the country.
F\>r there the milkman brings them
along In the morning and we have a
guarantee that they will not revive
memories of- Methuselah. With all
oar boasted advancement we take re
markable risks where provisions ar«
concerned. Some of the tinned pro
ducts observable in huckster's win
dows I should be sOrry to sample for
a royal ransom. And T couldn't eat a
winkle If you paid me SSO down. It
was.lJxzle Coote who used to sing:
"Did you ever catch a winkle asleep?"
Most of us would plead "Not guilty;"
As for seeing an oyster walk upstairs,
the chances are hopeless. The oyster
Is a swagger mollusc today and would
Insist on being taken up |t i lift.—
London Chronicle.
Second thoughts are best. God
created man; woman was the after
tbwmht.-Proverb h
IMNAnONAL
SUNMSfIHE
LESSON
(By E. o. REI„I.EKB, Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute,
LESSON FOR DECEMBER 14
THE BIN OF ACHAN.
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KEBSON TKXT—Joshua Read
Joshua chapters 7-11.
OOL.DEN TKXT- 'Bf sure your sin will
find you out."—Num. S2-2ti
Before proceeding againui Jericho,
Hod. through his servant Joshua, liad
given strict injunctions as regards the
taking of anything from the city for
" self-enrichment, ch. 0.17, 18. It w»i
necessary at the outset of: thlg cam
paign to safeguard Israel against any
such motives. The fruits of their vie- :
tories must In no way seem to be the
rewards of, nor to be dependent upon, j
the efforts of their own hands. Splr- .
Itual victories are, as we learned last,
week, won by means and upon prln-;
clples utterly foolish and Inadequate |
In the view of human wisdom. Nor I
Is the Christian dependent upon the
principles of hytnan thrift for. his sue-,
tenance or enrichment. That does not |
mean the divorcement of the
tlan from those principles.
The story of Achan Is an lllustra- !
tlon. While his sin was Individualist!
yet It was national In Its results (v. 1.)
After the fall of Jericho, Joshua sent '
a detachment of 2.000 or 3,000 men to |
take possession of the small town of
AI (literally, "ruins"). The task waa
seemingly an unimportant and an easy
one, but the result was that the expe- j
ditlon was turned Into a miserable
rout (vv. 1-fl). _
Achan'a 81ns Revealed.
The stages of the sin of Achan are j
wonderfully revealed In the confession ;
(v. 21) which was Anally wrung from
r—"l saw .. . I coveted ...
I took . they are ,hld."
rI. Joshua's error, vv. 6-9. It was ;
right and proper for Joshua to bring |
his difficulty to Ood, 'but It wss not
right for htm to lay upon him the j
blame for his defeat. Moseß before i
him had made that same mistake (Ex. j
5:22, 23), and it would Beem that !
Joshua should have profited thereby.
In this, however, he is supremely hu
man. \Ve of today with far greater |
light are constantly making this same
mistake ,of accusing God, instead of
finding out nns judging our sin. i
There is, however, an underlying note j
of the maater passion of Joshua's
heart, that note which had so gov-1
erned the heart Of his predecessor, I
Moseß. It Is expressed in the last note j
of his complaint, "What wilt thou dp
for thy great name?" v. ». This com
plaint and petition sounds very much
like those of the preceding generation
uttered In the wilderness. For us to j
wish ourselves to be "content to dwell 1
beyond Jordon," when the testing
tlmos of our Christian life come, when j
the calls come for an advance, is to j
doubt his wisdom. No wonder Joshua |
was amazed when he saw Israel turn |
its back upon Its enemies (v. 8). We t
must bewure lest we, too, be dismayed |
when we see tho church of today give
wny before the world and the devil.
11. The cause of defeat, vv. 10-12. j
Joshua's petition is answered by the j
voice of Jehovah in terms of rebuke, j
strong, yet tender. In verse two we!
are told that Joshua sent men to view |
Al. Why? Because In thfe language of j
verso one "tho children of Israel com- I
mltted a trespass in the accursed J
thing." Jdbhua wanted the people to
know that the sin of Achan and Its !
results was the sin of the whole na- j
tlon. (tod brings the essential one
ness of the nation before us In verse
eleven; for an Illustration, see I. Cor. I
B: 1-7 and 12:12-14, 16.
God's Instructions.
111. The victory of defeat, vv 13-15.
It Is a testimony as to the spiritual j
condition of this nation that the fraud j
was so soon located. The early Chris- I
tlan church had a parallel Incident in S
the case of Ananias and Sapphlra, Acts i
5:1-11. In each case the evil waa j
quickly judged and reveals the closer [
noss of God to his people. In the pro
cess of years Israel passed from that
condition; has the church of today BO j
passed? Ood had given explicit In- '
struct ions as to the spoil (ch. 6 :18 R.
VJ. God commands Joshua not to
cry unto him, but to "sanctify the peo
ple."# Thfe church of Christ, as well
as the Individual, needs to judge Its
sin and to set itself apart unto God.
"" It was a stern judgment and the
query 1 arises what sort of bouflre
would the church have today were all
sinfully acquired property to suffer
similar destruction. It is noticeable,
however, that there 1B no suggestion
of any confession on the part of Achan
until the. narrowing circle of judge
ment had' closed upon him. ye con
fessed only when there was no pos
sible escape. This seems like a stern,
hard process, but yCt God wa3 deal
ing In mercy with the whole people.
IV. The Qolden Text. The words of
thla text were uttered by Moseß to the
two and a half tribes who settled on
the east of Jordan, that In case they
refused to come to the help of their
brethren.in the conflict necessary to
the possession of Canaan, their sin
would discover them. This lesson war
rants the application of (his principle
A aln against God results in Injury to
your neighbor. It Is a sin not to help,
your neighbor and conversely to In
dulge In any act which results In
the defeat, moral or otherwise, uf
those with whom we associate, la
also a sin.
The Basement
Philosopher
By KENNETT HARRIS
(carrrixkc ivii.br w. actsu)
The Janitor sat at the top of the
dtono steps that led to the basement,
nursing his injured toe, a grimace of
pain contorting his usually pleasant
countenance. His Scandinavian as
sistant was at the bottom of the steps
In the act of arising from an undigni
fied posture, complicated by a ofushed
a«u can, and his expression was half
wrathful, half amazed. I
/'Excuse me," snarled the Janitor,
"ray foot slipped. And now we're
htjuare, ain't we? Don't look at me
In that tone of voice or there'll be
more accidents and I'll have to wait till
you come to to make my apologies.
A .id don't jgOj" Jie added, as the assist
ant picked up the can. "I've a word
or two to say to you.
"Kirst of all, let me ask if you didn't
have the whole dashblnged court to
walk on without taking a constitution
al on my corns?" the Janitor de
manded. "You didn't mean to? Sure,
you didn't. I never imposed you had
the nerve to do it a-purpose; but I
want to tell you that what you meant
didn't take a pound off your weight,
und your asking me to excuse you
didn't help none. You may think It
did, but you're wrong. If it had been
tny feelings you had tramped on,
apologizing might have been a little
comfort, though that would depend;
but it waa my corns. You remember
that, you big-hoofed blundering block
head 1 Excuse me oaillng you that,
won't you?
"I see you've tore your pants on
that ash can. Well, I'm to blame. I
uidn't mean to have you do that, and
you'll have to pardon me. AH 1 real
ly meant was to break your neck and
teach you to look where you were
setting your feet. My Intentions was
all right. Now the next time you
com ' tripping along where I'm stand
ing peaceable and quiet, you try and
rem -tfber that the world is wide and
"YOU BIG-HOOFED, BLUNDERING BLOCKHEAD!"
t bat there's room a plenty to steer
around me as a general thing, and If
there ain't, you can aak me to move
to one side and let you a-past. I'd
sooner do that than have you walk on
me. -
"Here's the thing I want you to
keep 4n mind, Nels, my friend," con
tinued the Janitor. "You can't square
yourself by apologizing. That ain't
the general impression, I know —not
with the ginks that have got the apol
ogizing habit and seem to think that
they've made it all right when they
say they're sorry. They'll smSsh the
china vawse that your wlfe'i cousin
that was in the commissary brought
home from the Emperor's palace as a
souvenir at the time of the Boxer
trouble—a vawse that you've been of
fered a hundred dollara cold cash for,
and they'll Bay, 'Oh, ain't that too
bad! How careless of me to slam it
again the radiator! I didn't mean to
break It I Just though I'd see'lf'it
sounded cracked.' And then they think
your wife's real mean If she doesn't
tell 'em that It ain'fno consequence.
"And they'll jump Into an aqtomo
blle and throw the -slutch into high
and head right Into the middle of a
bunch of kids. 'Rumpety-bump,' goes
the machine. 'What's that?' say thej.
'Little girl kir.ed?-Dear me. ain't that
too bad! We're Just so sorry as ,we
can be. We hadn't no more intention
of killing her than anything- We're
awful sorry.' And then they think
they're abused when •». cop arrests
them. 'We didn't run Off,' says they.
'We stopped and we apologised to the
heart-broken parents,' they says.
'What more could we dor
"There's all kinds of them," the
Janitor continued. "You ain't the
only one. There's them well-meaning,
but high-spirited rah, rah boys, with
thfeir hazing, that I'd like to have my
way with. They don't mean no harm
when they tie a new Johnny up hand
and foot and gag him and lay him on
the railroad track; they JU3t want to
scare him a little, and If they hadn't
forgotten all about the 8:40 express, It
would have been all right—unless the
kid died ofheart failure. They're just
as sorry as you was, anu It certainly
seems too bad to give them a set
hack on their educations by firing 'em
out of college Just on account of a
boyish prank and after they had ex
pressed their regret, don't it?
"It ain't only the onen that Jabs tha
ends of their umbrsUas in your face
and upsets their b'lllnfc coffee In you
lap with their elbow and short-changes
you and sita down oq your silk hat
and such as that aa needs the fool
killer's attentions. There's a breed
that will knock you till your beat
la your eye. they think they're mighty
high-minded and virtuous If they take
It back and apologize. They, tell you
that they didn't intend to be took
literal in the way everybody had took
'em. or that they was under the wrong
Impression when they said you'd tione
a stretch In the pen for sheep steal
ing, and was sorry that they'd been
misinformed and hoped you'd shake
hands and excuse-'em. And they look
as if they expected you to buy 'em a
drink, cuss 'em! And there's the
kind —your friends mostly—that'll
bawl you oat by the hour and when
you're reaching for a club, they'll tell
you they're sorry if they've i>ald any
thing to hurt your feelings.
" 'You're » low-lived scoundrel and
a pup, begging your
pardon if I'm sort of personal, and
hoping that you won't take no offense
where there ain't none meant,'" quoted
the Janitor, with bitter empbasl*/
"That's their style. 'Was that your
eye I knocked out? Pray pardon me.
Here, let me pick it up and dust it off
for you. Quite unintentional, I assure
yvar
"Well, I guess that's all now, Nels,
my friend," concluded the Janitor.
"Yarn qui go straighten out that asbr
and believe me, the next time
you plunk your two-hundred and-twen
ty-flve pound of awkwardness on my
bunion, your head will be harder to
get back Into shape than the can.
Maybe that'll keep you from the ne
cessity of apologising."
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WHEREIN WAS THE MYSTERY
Henry's Bewilderment After Sam'a Ex
planation Quite Natural Under
the Explanation.
Here is one of the favorite stories
of Josephus Daniels of North Caro
lina, the new secretary of the navy:
"Two darkies bought a piece of
pork, and Sam, having no place to put
hia ahare, trusted it to Henry's keep
ing. They met the next night, and
Henry said:
"'A mos' strange thing done hap
pen at my house, las' night, Sam. All
myst'ry to me.'
" 'What was dat, HenryV
" 'Well, Sam,' explained Henry,
solemnly, 'dls mawnln' I go down in
de cellar for to gtt a piece of hawg fo'
breakfas', an' I put my han' down In
de brine an' feels 'roun', but ain't no
po'k dar; all gone; so I tu'n up de
bar'l, an', Sam, sho' as preachin', de
rats had done et a hole clar froo de
bottom of dat bar'l, en' dragged de
meat all out!'
- "Sam was petrified with astonish
ment for a moment, and then said:
" 'Why didn't de brine run outen de
hole?'
" 'Well, yo* see, Sam,' replied Henry,
'dat's de myst'ry.'"—New York Eve
ning Post.
Fought on Edge of Precipice.
A terrible struggle took place near
a precipice of 3,000 feet, on the south
slopes of the Bernlna range, between
an Italian officer and a private.
An Italian custom-house patrol, un
der the command of Lieutenant Rocla,
was visiting the Alpine posts in the
Valtelin, on the Swiss frontier, when
the officer bad to reprimand a soldier
named Cell. This man determined to
have revenge.
When the patrol was away on other
duty Cell attacked his officer on a
lonely Alpine pass and attempted to
throw him over the precipice. A long
struggle followed, the men being of
about equal strength and unarmed. •
The officer, to save his life, bit
through an artery in the wrist of his
subordinate, who collapsed, owing to
loss of blood. Soon afterward the pa
trol arrived and carried Cell to a hos
pital in the valley, where he recov
ered.
The military court, which has now
tried the caae at Milan, took into con
sideration the condition of the soldier,
and above all, the refusal of his office *
victim to proeecute, and sentence!
Cell to six months' Imprisonment.
MiaJeter and Moving Ploturea.
M. Cheron, French minister of labor,
waa sitting in the darkness of a cin
ema show watching the pictures of an
official reception. On the film ap
peared M. Cheron himself In tha pro
cession. 1L Charon's neighbor In tha
house remarked to him upon tha ex
traordinary likeness between him and
tha gentleman on the film. Ha add
ed, "The only difference between you,
monsieur, and the real M. Cheron
seems to be that you and I are mere
plain bourgeois, whereas, of course, M.
Cheron, the minister, is one' of our
greatest geniuses."
The labor minister could not resist
it. He took his card and it
silently to hi- neighbor. The neigh
bor returned hla own card, and on It,
M. Cheron managed by the dim light
in a previous cabinet.
POULTRY
• FMTS •
FOR BETTEH POULTRY STOCK
Keeping Bird* Hwithy and Improving '
Thsm Can Be Don* by Adoption
of Few Systematic Rules.
ID raiting stock or poultry ft should
be the air of everyone to keep It
healthy and improve it. You can do it
very easily by adopting systematic
rule*. These may be summed up In
brief as follows:
Construct your houses good and
warm, ao aa to avoid damp floors and ~
afford a flood of sunshine Sunshine
is better than medicine.
Provide a dusting and scratching
place where you can bury the grain
and thus induce the fowls to take the
needful exercise.
Provide yourself with some good,
healthy fowls, never to bo over three
years old, giving one cock to every
12 hens.
Ulve plenty of fresh air at all tlmea,
especially In aummer.
Ulve plenty of froah water y dally, and
never allow the fowls to go tnirsty.
Feed them systematically two or
three tlmea a day. Scatter the food ao
they cannot eat it too last or without
proper exercise. Do not feed more than
they will eat up clean, or they will get
tired of that kind of feed.
01 ve them a variety of both dry and
coked feed. A mixture of cooked
meat and vegetablea is good for a
morning; meal.
Olve soft feed In the morning and
the whole grain at night, except a lit
tle wheat and cracked corn placed in
the scratching pens to give them ex
ercise during the day.
Above all things, keep the house
clean and well ventilated.
Do not crowd too many into one
house. If yon do, look out for dla
eaae. . * ' '
Keep the bouse, nests, etc., sprayed
with aome good diainfectaot, in or
der to keep down the lice and mites.
Wash your roosts and bottom of
laying nests, and whttewaah once a
week In aummer and once a week la
winter.
Let the old and young have aa large
a range aa poaaible, the larger the befc
ter. .
Do not bred too many klnda of fowls
at the aame time. Better have one
breed and understand It
Introduce new blood Into your stock
every year or so, by either buying a
"cockerel or a setting of eggs from
some reliable breeder.
BROODER HOUSE VENTILATOR
Device Invented by New Jersey Man
Prevents ths Delivery of Teo
Strong Current of Air. 1
The Scientific American, in de
scribing a ventilator for broodei
houses, the design of C. W. Brick of
Crosewlck, N. J. f says:
This invention relates particularly
to a meana for ventilating brooder
houaea, and protldea an improved
/ i 9
Ventilator for Brooder Houses.
form of ventilator and in connection
therewith, means for beating the air
Induced by the ventilator; and to pro
vide a safety valve exteriorly of the
brooder house, whereby to prevent the
delivery of too atrong a current ot
air thereto.
Feed plenty of aharp sand or grit
with the food.
• • •
Please the consumer you can
raise the price.
• *-s
Systematic marketing will ever
come overproduction.
see
Pekin ducks do not make good sit
ten—use a chicken ben.
• • •
Good development before beginning
to lay is beat for the pullet.
• • •
Ducks must have plenty of green
food or they will not thrive.
- • • •
Impure water will not produce many
nggs of any kind, had none that are
good.
see.
Fewer and better Mrds, and ail aa
much alike as poaaible should t>s
every poultry keeper's motto.
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Ton must know that a dock has as
crop. The food must be soft be
cause It passes directly into the gia
rard.
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Pore white exhibition birds will
have their plumage made yellow by
constant feeding of corn, though a
little corn occasionally will dp, a*
harm. . '