BABIES CONTEST-NOMINATING BALLOT.
I hereby place in nomination and cast this ballot for
(under two years of age), in the Independent’s Baby Prize
Contest.
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FIRST OF NAVAL BATTLES. |
It Was Fought in Maryland Waters |
in the Early Colonial
Days.
—
April 23 of this year was the two
hundred and sixty-ninth anniversary
of the first naval battle fought in
American waters. On that date two
armed forces met at the mouth of the
Pocomoke river, within the boundaries
of the province of Maryland, and set
tled, at least temporarily, the authority j
of Lord Baltimore. The settlement at
St. Mary’s had been made but 13
months when this test of arms oc
curred, says the Chicago Chronicle.
About three years before the land
ing of the Maryland pilgrims under
Gov. Leonard Calvert, by virtue of the
grant of the territory from Charles I.,
a trading post had been established by
William Claibourne, of Virginia, on
Kent island. It was not a settlement
Intended for permanent homes and the
tilling of the soil, but merely a place
fixed upon by Claibourne for conven
ience of trade with the Indians. Kent
island was clearly within the jurisdic
tion of Lord Baltimore, but Claibourne
very foolishly resisted his authority
and refused to take out a trader’s li
cense from the proprietary’s govern
ment at St. Mary’s. This stubborn
stand of Claibourne resulted in the
capture early in the year by Capt.
Thomas Cornwaleys, one of the Mary
land commissioners, of a vessel be
longing to Claibourne for trading in
the waters of the Chesapeake without
a Maryland license.
Claibourne realized now that he
would either have to break down Lord
Baltimore’s authority by force of arms
or be compelled to submit to that au
thority. He chose to fight and, accord
ingly, he fitted out an armed boat, the
Cockatrice, which was manned by 30
men and placed under the command of
Lieut. Radcliffe Warren, who was com
missioned by Claibourne "to seize and
capture any pinnacles or other vessels
kAlAfin-Un> 4-V. ~ Ctt
Mary’s.”
This was a declaration of war and
when the news of the rebellion reached
Gov. Calvert he at once determined to
put it down, as becomes a governor
whose rights are denied and whose au
thority is defied. Knowing the strength
of the insurgents, he wisely fitted out a
superior force, with the full determina
tion to crush the spirit that was giv
ing him no little trouble. So he
manned and commissioned two vessels
—the St. Margaret and the St. Helena
—placed them in command of the gal
lant Capt. Cornwaleys, with orders to
search out and destroy the enemy and
reduce Kent island to submission.
The little squadron sailed out from
St. Mary’s with the Maryland colors
flying fr6m the flagship and animated
by the same courageous spirit that two
and a half centuries later inspired an
other Maryland naval commander in
his gloriously successful search for the
Spanish fleet in the waters of the West
Indies. Their course took them across
the bay and soon they were rewarded
by sighting the sails of the insurgent
ship off the mouth of the Pocomoke
Cornwaleys skillfully .maneuvered his
little fleet so as to prevent the escape
of the enemy and both sides cleared
for action. The insurgents delivered
the first Are, and so true was the aim
that William Ashmore, of the Mary
landers, fell to the deck, the first
American sailor whose life was sacri
ficed while in action upon the altar of
duty. The sight of their dead comrade
inspired the Maryland men to greater
determination, and made more deadly
their aim and threefold more terrible
their revenge. Their first fire killed
the enemy’s commanding officer—
Lieut. Warren—and two of his crew.
The insurgents having lost their leader
and two of their comrades and seeing
certain destruction staring them in the
face, were brought to realize that dis
cretion was the better part of valor and
therefore they wisely struck their col
ors and surrendered themselves and
their vessel to the victorious aMry
landers.
Kent island was afterwards subdued
and Claibourne stripped of his posses
sion. But lie did not cease to be a
source of great trouble to tne settlers
of St. Mary’s and more than once suc
ceeding in destroying, for a time, the
government of Lord Baltimore. But
that belongs to another story.
Thefts from Hotels.
A certain hotelkeeper in Washington
says that the people have no idea of the
small depredations that are committed
by guests,, most of who are people of
money enough of their own to refrain.
He declares that not long ago he bought
700 yards of toweling for his rooms, and
before he had time to learn whether or
not the rooms had been supplied, the
whole outfit was gone, says the Washing
ton Post. “They are drummers, and
women and all kinds of people who took
them,” said he, “and probably they did
not think it was stealing to take things
away from the hotel. As to downright
theft from rooms, or bilking in the mat
ter of meals, there is much less of it in
hotels than you would suppose; but
Lord! how they will crib the soap and
linen and spoons!"
Far from Home.
Relative—I notice that you have at Iasi
got ae,quainted with your next-door
neighbor, who has lived alongside of you
for the past ten years.
Mrs. D’Avnoo—Yes, we were intro
duced to each other at the Pyramids of
Egypt, and I found her a delightful com
panion. We became very intimate.—
London Tit-Bits. i
His Ignited Circle. 4
Solon was inventing his motto.
“What do y| u think of ‘Know thy
self?’ ” he aslf ;d.
“Fine,” theji answered, “but can’t you
get acquaint*} in any better circles?"
i ■ Sadly he b^gan to search gfor a new
trade-mark.-f -N. Y. Tribune.
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THAT TIRED SPRING FEELING
Which Comes to Many with the Sea
son That Should Renew
Life and Energy.
There are cei tain persons to whom the
advent of spring, instead of bringing a
sense of rejuvenescence, provides a very
different sensation, says the London
Lancet The youth of the year, when
nature seems to revel in growth and de
velopment, ought to give, it might be
thought, to the human species, too, a
sense of vigor ar.d of the natural Joyful
ness of fecundity. When the birds are
breaking into song and the plants into
flower, poor man might also exult in life
and its annual time of awakening
growth. Yet to many the return of
spring is only the return of a vague ,
feeling of listless languor, a slack sense
of fatigue that comes without labor
and of weariness that is uncalled for by
any unusual effort.
To those who dwell In cities, at any
rate, spring has trials that are peculiar
to itself. To some extent these arise
from the knowledge that abroad in the
country all Is new life, refreshened
vigor, and inspiring atmosphere, while
in town the wonted thraldom Is en
hanced by the suspicion of these things
that Is gained from the trees and the
plants of public parks and open spaces,
where poor little bits of nature bloom ;
only to suggest in vain all that awaits
the town dweller if he could escape. It
is not only dissatisfaction, though, at
being unable to partake in nature’s
gaiety that produces the feeling of which
we speak; something is due to climatic
conditions.
Who does not know the enervating
sense that accompanies the first warm
day of the year? We may agree with j
Johnson that he is a weak creature who
is influenced by the weather, but if we
do we must confess with the same breath
that to-day most of us are weak crea
tures. If, like Johnson, we lived in more
leisurely times and regaled ourselves
heartily in Fleet street about the middle
of the day, following the weal with a
comfortable discussion, maybe we, too,
.v i * i i j s as i. ab 4-h/v min
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shone or the rain fell. Unfortunately, |
we work our nervous systems more and
our alimentary organs less than did our
grandparents. Inevitably we have a
sensitiveness that was unknown to most
of them. Their fits of “the spleen” were
well earned, probably, by loads within
the stomach. We acknowledge no such
consoling cause for the ennui that often
In the spring assails the town dweller.
Happy he who can dispel it by a week
end in the country or at the sea before
his regulation summer holiday arrives.
COPPERS BECOME A PLAGUE
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Nearly f15,000,000 Worth of the
Coins Are in Circulation
in England.
Many large towns in England are, like
Leeds, suffering from a plague of cop
pers. The extension of tramways with
half-penny fares, the use of penny-in
the-slot gas meters and automatic ma
chines, and in London the Tube railway, i
with its two-penny fares, have produced
an enormous change of small silver
coins into pennies and halfpennies, I
states the London Chronicle.
Tradesmen consequently are finding j
themselves burdened with huge quan- !
titles of coppers, and they complain that
they cannot get rid of them by an ex- :
change for small silver. It might be I
thought that the royal mint had some
thing to do with this excess of coppers,
bui on that point the master of the mint,
Mr. W. G. E. Macartney, M. P., is tm
phatic.
"It is not a question of minting at all,”
he said, “it is merely a question of bank
ing. If the tradesmen of Leeds, or any
other town, find they have a superfluity
of coppers, they have only to tell their
banker that if he cannot give them sil
ver in exchange they will transfer their
accounts. Take the case of Leeds. Ob
viously the money has not left the town,
and it is the tradesmen’s fault if they
cannot get silver for copper.”
The mint, it may be added, always
strikes more than the ordinary quanti
ties of any particular coin for which
there is an abnormal request. But there
lias uetfii nu exiTMive uvmauu icbcmi;
for coppers. The value of the bronze is
sues in 1902—the latest year for which
the statistics are available—was some*
what larger than in 1901, but there was
also a considerable increase in the value
of the silver issues. In 1901 the number
of bronze pieces struck at the royal mint
in London was 41,349,387, valued at
£120,280, while in 1902 the number had
risen to 45,774,848 pieces of the value of
£148,499. The silver coins struck In
1901 totaled 18.843,425, valued at £914.
201, while in 1902 the figures were 26,
270,996, amounting in value to £937,202.
In his report for 19<T2 Mr. Macartney
gives the following estimate of the prob
able value of the bronze coin now cir
culating in the United Kingdom: Pence,
£1,968,048: halfpence, £713,450: farth-;
Ings, £150,190. This estimate is based |
on the total issue from 1860 to 1902 in* i
elusive, allowing 10 per cent, as theesti*'
mated issued to the colonies and for
coins lost or destroyed.
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It Was Wished On.
Johnny’s sister has a ring that Johnny .
Is very fond of. He is allowed to wear it
| sometimes for an hour or so, when he
has been very good, or has promised ta
| be. One day he suddenly found that h«
wanted to wear that beautiful little gold
band, and so he informed his sister. Sb«
wasn’t just in the mood, so she told him,
as bconsisted, that she couldn’t take it
(off b^tuse it was “wished on." Johnny
said little and thought much, and tE?
next afternoon, when sisters had caller*
he rushed in and plumped down on an op
1 toman in the middle of the room.
“Johnn,” reminded his sister, “youi
cap, dear.”
“Oh,” returned the boy, intocently, *‘J
can’t take It off, sis; It’s wished oa.’ —N
I Y. Tribuna.
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That is the comment Mrs. Seymour
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other medicines and other treatment hare
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By far the greater number of Wine of
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WINEofCARDUI
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I am pleased to endorse Wine of Cardui as I found it so beneficial to
restore my strength after my baby was born. I could not seem to get well
enough to be up and able to do my work, and as I had been in bed for six
weeks this was rather serious, but soon after I began to use Wine of Cardui I
could see that I was beginning to get back my strength. In another week
I was able to sit up most of the day and in a month I was able to be up and
do most of my work. I think it is sy a V
splendid medicine for a woman and j
^cau certainly give it highest praise. TBEABOBBBi womaVb ,<dubtb(al lbbo„. 4
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tion of its great musical worth, the cuuse of its popularity with artists and musicians. Perfect
piano scale-making is a mathematical problem figured out by sound waves to the merest fraction ■
of a second. Not all piano makers strive for perfection along this line (many making no pre
tense), but out of the few who have nearly reached the goal,
Kimball is Prominent.
One of the most perfect musical scales is displayed in the cultivated human voice. An
imperfect scale piano is like a person who cannot sing correctly—it’s worse because all do not
claim to sing. It costs money to cultivate the voice, it costs more money to perfect a piano
scale. The cost to produce a perfect Kimball scale has been no less than that of °ther of the
recognized artistic pianos of the world, yet because of the advantages of the largest output
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To the Distressed.
Fortunately for those suffering with
Rheumatism in all its various forms, in
cluding Sore Joints, Sore Muscles, and
Sore Feet, a remedy h3S been discovered
by modern science which in every instance
effects a speedy and positive cure. This
new remedy is founded on scientific prin
ciples which are acknowledged by the
medical world as the only correct treat
ment for Rheumatic or Neuralgic troubles.
Medicines taken internally rarely ever ef
fect a cure without upsetting the stomach.
As a rule, they injure the digestive organs,
shatter the nerves, and in many instances
the patient contracts a drug habit which
leads eventually to a decline of the physi
cal and mental forces.
Paracamph is the new remedy and it is
a departure from the antiquated methods.
Paracamph enters into the system through
the natural channels, namely, the pores
of the skin. When applied it opens the
pores and allows the healing, soothing oils
to penetrate the sore, inflamed mebranes
and muscles, removes the congestion and
draws out the fever and inflammation, by
inducing sweating. This is the only treat
ment that can be indorsed by science, and
is guaranteed to cure even the most obsti
nate cases of Rheumatic Swellings if used
as directed. Paracamph can be procured
at drug stores in 25 cent, and 50 cent, and
|i.oo bottles. Write for book of testimo
nials, sent free. The Paracamph Company
Louisville, Ky., U. S. A.
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To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “The Over
land Route” all the way. Be
sure your ticket reads over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrof, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
A. Mortensen has moved his
cleaning and pressing shop to the
newly remodeled building oppo
site city jail. 86dtf
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they can please you.
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