_ was he is mending on the: deck of his "woolen ' sweater," cloge-fitting cap, ea ee oe eg hsiny co ers that cause diver's paralysis. They are bent over in their work until the strain through the small of the back stops the circulation of "A Sponge Diver's Trade 7 UROMOKE Rewerexeneke. exsKen | A picturesque toiler is the sponge . diver. of Florida. You know him by the sitit of heavy rubberized can- muscular and lood activity in the lower, limhs. But the strange part of their pre+ didament-is tharamder- water most) ittle. diver 'boat, or by thé heavy | ©! exe canvas trousers and thé Polling gait, or br the tragis jerk of Ins paralyz=: ed legs" and the rhumiy of his shoul. ers. For. the hazard. of } 118. work is to be cémpared with that, of- many other dangerous occupations -- a} -hazard which 'he voluntarily as s-_| sumes and for which there has hot | ¢f a positive cure. yet been enacted a liability or com- | But a young diver lcoks forward pensation law. to the day when he wil i have diver's He is young or o}d, as chance may | P paralysis. With sponges only 50, dictate, und generally unmarried, | *5 or 100 feet below the surface the but he is always Greek. The Greeks pressure is very much reduced and have pre- empted the occupation of | there are man¥ men in the trade helmet or- bell diving in Southern who stay underneath for half a day. _Waters. the west Coast he| ¥¢ orking rapidly a little ahead of 'abounds, plying his trade from 60! their boat and keeping one man to 70 days at. _& stretch from Key | busy at thé oars. Their hands fre- West as far north as Anclote Keys, | quently become stiff from the cold north and west of the little city of , and lack of circulation on account Tarpon Springs. . the tight wristbands on their nis) foreign-complexioned © city suits and rheumatism may develop, is a rendezvous for nearly 3,000 but they do- not regard this as seri- Greeks engaged in the business of, UNS. sponge gathering up and down the} -- . cohét, It is here that they have! HARNACK CLOSE established within the last-ten years | stares thes.agtion they -lese » <i ground. ; However, recoyery. fri an .diver's paralysis ig a rare -accur- rence, though the. disease: is. not fatal. Physicians who have treat- TO KAISER. - copper RIESE on their ate ; | the blood, which impairs the nerve} 'webs The alt pressure "again . re-f "ed divers say they never have heard one of the principal industries of estate. The harbor at the mouth | of the Anclote river the home for} scores of lateen-sailed vessels which } are their base uf. operations while | oruising for the deep-sea sponge. | These vessels have a tonnage of 75 te 125 and are equipped with ac-: ecommodations and supplies for from aix to a dozen men. Trailing along | behind or beside them are the ding- | heys or diver boats which-the queer- | ly costumed salt water men and their helpers and-air pump.engin- | eers use for the day's catch. The Greek sponge diver plies his trade in a canvas suit with an air : in from seventeen to 25) fathoms of water. He 'scorns the' old methods of hooking sponges from a boat fitied with a glass bot- tom--a method which is still uséd. by adventurers of less.capital. In-,; ; 'etead of hovering about the shore- i line, the Greek diver explores the bottom of the sea far out of sight of Jand. The diver himself is often a man of no great capital, thongh many divers do own a bie schooner with fhe necessary equipment of smal! boats and apparatus. The divers and assistants generally work on a share basis, the former taking three sha es: of the catch and the ether, | taking from one to two shares apiece. If the sponge fishing is guod the watch for 60 or 70 days may amount do as much as $2,000 or even $3,000, according te the current market price for each grade of sponge. The annual trade in sponges in this one little city amounts frequently to 750,000, and sometimes approxi- maies a million dullars p No one has seen the sights of Tar- a pon Springs who has not visited the ie sponge market on a day when a P half dozen catches are being bid! : upon by the buyers 'Tor the packmg rs houses. The biiding is done in si- lence, each buyer using a slip of pa- | . per upon whieh to figure his price on to the secretary of the exchange. who announces highest bid Fach pile of eponges is subjected to close seru- tiny and its value figured by the buyer. There are wool sponges, the. large. soft balls used for bath pur- poses, which sel] at prices ranging from $4 and 85 up to $12 and 815. each; grass sponges, a coarse vari- ety, and rag sponges which have a ' and passing it pe low commercial value. | e The divers, and their helpers are, ; : of course, much interested in the price their catch is going to bring, and they gather about the pens in which the sponges are placed and make their own comments in Greek. But they rarely. refuse to sell; 3 knowing as little as they do con- {2 cerning market fluctuations, they ! generally accept the situation as it 28 and without much adverse com- | : ment. : They are a hardy set of fellows, to all wider ge Their constant outdoor life gives them a tinge of bronze and the exercise keeps them in good physical condition. Among the younger men there are many | stalwarts. It is only among the older divers that one sees the rav- | ages of this ---- occupation | of the sea. Any day, along the river front or on the streets of tie | town and at the Greek restaurants, | one can see the human wreckage-- old men who have been crippled by | | Biesnike. "Rhee Roe" Hose | onk | a cane or crutch the Ow * pervous jerk of their 'are very noti Ie. ey ere hd the price o ei , Dhey are victims hn sician told' me probably a Goame cases such sedelsnia' in n Springs, not one of them had Lomaiaeted re. All of of them were brought the Mediterranean, where the er must go down 300 feet or More to out the sponges from the i ke or bede of corral to which ; ty attach themselves. is the pressure of the water pnd te ooetaint weight "Of the Great Scholar is 5 the Emperor's Ré- ligious Adviser. Among the "Men Around the Kaiser" no one is higher in the German Emperor's councils, no ad- viser to wh&m he listens with more marked attention than Adolph Har- nack, the religious 'scholar. Har- nack is not the Kaiser's adviser in the great affairs of State, in mat- ters connected with the army and navy, in the conduct of foreign af- fairs; but outside these important 'matters there are affairs not less important which the great scholar influences in a way undreamt of by the crowd. He is generally regarded by per- sons with a knowledge of what goes on behind the curtain, as powerful- ly influencing the Kaiser's mind in all that has to do with religion and i morals, -with history and the sons to be derived from history, les- |: NO MORE NEED FOR BEING DROWNED aT SEA' sere oes OT ' deepremrene nescence one | GERMAN INVENTS NOVEL LIFE-SAVING DEVICE. A novel apparatus, has been me ost successfully tried for saving life at sea. It is the invention of the enginéer, Heinrich, of Gestemuende. The efficiency has been demcnstrated in the-presence of a large num- ber of experts. The new apparatus has the shape of a skittle. The central part is of watertight canvas, wéth two sleeves; the lower part is a metal bucket. This bucket fills itself with water as soon as = enters the sea, and keeps the life-saving epparatus, by Sts weight, a.vertical position, the man standing on the =a of the buekais. 'The top part allows ithe person to lock out by a 'ng dwor, which is watertigit. when ehut. Incide the apparatus suffic tent food amd drink- ing water can be stored, and the Shipwrecked men can float and ho'd out for weeks. There are alto ropes attached for two or three people to hang on outs'de. On the top is a tube, whieh all4ws-air to enter, but is most ingeniously constructed to prevent water from entering. Signals and a-revolver can be carried for the chipwrecked to signal to passing ships. The whole apparatus can be easily stored on beard, and can exeily be made ready for use in & ininute or two. VERA CRUZ FORTRESS. NOVA SCOTIA FUR FARMS, and, above all, in the regions of so- _cial reform. Harnack is a frequent visitor at the Court, not at the} great State levees and receptions, but at those intimate little gather- | ings where the Kaiser meets his: 'losest friends and diseusses with} them «openly and without reserve | the questions burdening his mind. In grateful recognition of his ser-} vices to him. and his house the Kuis- r has conferred every honor on avack it is possible to confer. | Harnack is an 'Exe 'ellency, Privy Councillor," and his "brea is decorated with some of the high- | orders. Kaiser wished tay confer on him the coveted "Von hereditary nobility, est The of but the modest! professor of Church History declin- ed this unusual honor. ' Lis not tow much to say that the} "development of the Kaiser's religi-' ous views, from the somewhat nar- row Evangelicalism in which he was reared tw the broader and more to-! lerant beliefs whieh he new holds, ' is owing almost entirely to the be nignant influences whieh Harnack has brought to bear on him. It is also worthy of note that the Kaiser | and the Professur have both coine through the same period of stress. Ten years ago, when the "Babel: und Bibel". controversy was agitat- 'ng Germany, the Kaiser showed an! _inelination to "follow Delitzsch -and | Harnack in a more liberal interpre- | tation of the teachings of the Old, Testament; since then both have'! been gradually going back to orthodox conceptions, and they have gone back together. Harnack has certainly shed much of the ra- tionalism which made him the most pronounced Ritschlian of his time, and on the verge of old age we see him a devout, if still somewhat lrberal, Evangelical, with strength- ening fait and hope. | Harnack has the distinction of being one of the most brilliant! speakers in Germany. Even in the lecture room he seeks to clothe the most dry-as-dust themes with an: attractive dress, and he eertainly succeeds, As a preacher he is also! in the front rank, and no Berlin) church is large enough to contain the crowd which congregates to! hear him when he is announced to! preach.' Harnack is a Christian So- cialist in politics, of a mild type, it is true. but when we renteinbe: that he has been brought up 'n the most conservative of State churches, we must marvel at his freedom from conventions. ke The average man's idea of being unselfieh-is to let sofme other fellow have something he doesn't want. "*My wife was to give a rase ten everything scented with roses." 'A delicate conceit." "Yes, but things went wrong. The people in the next flat took that occasion to have onions and cabbage After twenty Pee office the chairman of a Weat Wales parish council was about 'to give up his position, "'And now, gentleien,"' he said, with feéling, "the time has come. for me to vaccinaic _ the chair,' y | almost seventy-five years ago and Old Walled City V Was Founded By Cortez 400 Years Ago. Success in P, E. Island Has Giver Them a New Impetus. Unhealtinly situated in the low : , ake marshes and sand dunes on the, An interesting review of fur-jaren- east. coast of Mexico, the city of /298 in Nova Scotia is giyen in the annual report of the Game Commis- vioner, "which was recently tabled in Provincial Legislature. The » "The breed reeding of fur-bearing ami- mals in captivity promises 'to be- come, ™ industry of large propor- Vera Cruz is the chief seaport town ; of the Repubhic of Mexico. populate of +t yy city, eal city built in the sixteenth cen- tury, int 'erspereed with those o ie f lige tet wrodermm = constructiu, produce a Poem Fur- arming in } t ove "ht most picturesque effect. | began wit experiments an re | breeding of mink. For a number of | For many years the harbor was in} ' Aet has contained |veara the Game a poor condition, but it has sincs | iat f h Lat been greatly improved by the build | PRYY+stOns tor one encouragement ing of docks, piers, and break mink-breeding. Up to a year ago watets, On account of ta Iscation | man had taken axlvantage of yellow fever was prevalent, aad this, and im few cases, if any, had carried off hundreds of the city's, the ih got much beyond the jprpulatton. The sanitary condi Sa stage. The great im- | tiams in the past few years (vai: .| petus which has been given to fur- |farming by the successful breeding ef foxes in Prince Edward eats and el«ewhere has resulted > a | great extension of the Dusinews Ae ing the past fear. Nearly all the | fur- bearing animals are now: bein bred: in captivity, and in the case 'of most of them. some success has | been attained. The -- chiefly re the fox, been greatly anproved, and wit! the installation of oralnnye and im-|' proved water systems the' chy 18 | now free from the ravages of fever. | Within the city has been built the Zasrora Hoe pital, one of the best in | the country, a national schoo! for 'seamanship, an artillery school, a ; public library, and the Custis' ouse. A parochial church is the | eae beautiful building in the city. Among th2 old buildings of nots is the Government House and the | mi nk. "What was probably the first at- fortress San Juan de Ulua, begun | tempt to establish a fox farm in Nova Scotia was made at North Sydney some eight or ten years ago. | After about a year'sexperience this proved a failure. Among the firct| ---- ventures was that of Dr. . T. McPhail, who established the W 'yeocomagh Fox Farm in 1911. One 'the harbor. A copy of the New York | Statue of Liberty has been built pair produced a litter of four fe- within the harbor. in males, three of which were sold for The principal industry of the in- | 315,000. ---- black es" 2 farm habitants is fishing, and the manu- |six pairs of silver black, as hd factures include coffee, tobacco. |cach of a cross and me foxeg, be- hides, drugs, and ores Over half |*ides a number of r ; of the exports cf the city are ome "Acccrding to reports received | to the United States. | from fur-farmers, there are 7 in »rat he Intcroceanic of | captivity in Nova Scotia 447 foxes} | Menices dhe Mente a 9 ves Vera 'f all kinds. During the yest 122 Cruz, connect the city with Mexico | were sokl, and of these 19 have been City, 263 miles to the south, Vera 1 exported, Nova Scotia mink are Cruz is also the terminal for a num- | 'elebrated for the quality of their ber of local lines. fur, the pelts bringing the highest The city was founded by Cortez price in the market. It is probab! a in the sixteenth century, and al- | that, next ¢o the fox, the Se most entirely destroyed by bucca- prové to be the most ars ry neers in 1653 and 1712, Vera Cruz | 'he fur- bearing w 1 for oe has played a prominent pari in the ing in our are ores ae yarious revolutions of the Republic. siderable dem sak, ° breedi In 1847 it was captured by Comm- provinee for our min for Ned ie dore Perry aiter a siege of twenty | PUTpOSes. ly the anima's anti, days. captivity can legatly be export There are now over 300 licenses to keep fur-bearing animals in cap- ele, The numbers of such ani- roals in captivity = Lae time of coni- (of mish i ner were S black 3 an om completed at a cost of over a mil- lion dollars. It is the principal fortification of the city, and sbands on an island a mile and a half Sromn aw NN Eee Of course it is less trouble to make 'enemies than friends t friends are worth the trouble. They say that: thieves broke in- to your father's office and. cracked his safe."' "They did, but didn't Since then, however, this ag get anything." '"The' safe wasn't has probably largely increase whet it was cracked mp to be, ' i eee a Goodheart: "I've: got you down for a couple of tickets; we're get- ting up @ raffle for a poor man of our heighborlised."" Jaakley: 'Neon? "Very well, my dear. As Tonk asi fer "me, thank you. # "wouldn't suppose.' Fond Mamma--"I think T shall send Eunice 'abroad to have her voice cultivated.'" "Fond hig smember of the | M aa buildings about the town" give space wigmskiag, and confecticnery maa- rfhoing available, '4 i a sufficiently long time to master | in me NICH TEACHES TRADES. ladastvhil: Schools \ Which U ndoubt- = dly Lead the World. Dr. Georgs Kerse ohace isteiner, a German Reichstag, i has fought a long fight to bringsthe urich- schools to their present ! splendid contiticns, To-day Munich 'has fifty-two trades fur-which. teach- -ing as Hive a, and tstenlargiag her (THE STATES WAR HISTORY 600,000 SQUARE MILES CAP TERED IN MEXICO. One of the Bloodiest-Chapters, im Human Revers Was War 'present plans one? faciHitics,~ says}-~-" - PHarper's «Weekly: 'Sevea fino}: Se 1si2- -ASI4. Fa 18. War deaged against Great Britain*by U.S: Con-' gress, fier reveiVing message from President Madison recounting Brit- ish aggressions, such as imprison- ment of American seamen. etc. War lasted till 1814, when it was settled by the Treaty of, Ghent (December 24), but the last battle of the war was fought at New Orleans, two weeks after the treaty was conchid- ed, but- sévéeral weeks before the news reached America. , for' clresds. 'aad. for well-equipped jtieps, where -come*ten thousand boys and about the same numberof girts receive instruction. Practicdl men direct alnost all- the" 'subdiyi- 'sions of the "commercial, paint ng 'and decorating, building, printing, _mechanical- ~engineening; Ww and metal working trades, besides mis- eéllaises ms cnts Kke shoemaking, ufacturing. These teachers are of- ten taken from their trade and Mexican War, 1846-48, taught to "teach. Dr. Kerschen-| 1846, May War wit) Mexico steiner would rather make a teac her! was declared ' 'by the Act of Mexi-! sonvert a| co,'" according to the on of teacher into a@ man of tools, al- | the President, James K. though, when dccasion arises, suit- | ter the independent Rewabih 't able teachers in the trade itself not | Texas hecame a part of the United academically-in- | States a territorial dispute arose as formed men: are given furloughs in} tu its southern boundary. The Unit-! order to 'enter into actual practice | ! ed tates forces seized the territory dispute, and being attacke Some of the best teachers are | by Mexico op 24, ine. time men who aré emineat ia} followed. The War was closed 12. April war _| chickens to serve as an experimen-, ns, their various lines, as, for instance, cominercial photography and sculp- ture. The boy who works at a craft like stueco- making may get part of his instructions under an artist instead of aneartisan. Tho foundation of trade educa- tio: is laid in the day school. At about ten years of age, boys pian- ning to enter the professions cus- tomarily, separate from the others, to go then or later into higher schools, It must be noted that this is in reality a separation of social classes, and there. is litile further contact between the groups. Those not planning for "higher" educa- tion, those numerous needy "oth- ers' who constitute the real human school preblem, are then grounded in the use of tuvls, in carpentry, metal-werk, the rudiments of mec anies, and gardening ; or, in the case of girle, commercial study, pondiencel, housekeeping. In the beautiful new Siebolstrasse com- mon school there are excellent work-rooms for all these sitbjects, and, in addition, fine bakeries with practical modern ovens, attractive garden-plots where even henticul- ture is begun, and the concierge's tal chicken farm. The boy who in his last elementary year really pows what he wants to do fre- qvfently obtains his apprenticeship by himself, or in answer to a re- quest from an employer, who ap- plies to the head teacher for a éer- tain kind of helper. Deseription of jobs, with or without pay, or per- haps even requiring a premium, are posted as bulletins in whis sohuol The parents, possibly the teacher, ana well-clasetfiead information | about occupations, baced on the ¢ ex-| cellent census of trades and employ-' ment, are depended upon to help the boy decide. REGIMENTAL COLORS. No Longer Taken Into Action, But. Left at Headquarters. Every infantry battalion, with certain exceptions, carries two col- ors. These are officially known as the King's color and the regimental color. They are' issued from the Royal Army Clothing Factory at Pimlico, England, and have to last for twenty yence. To distinguish them is simple, since the first Sako shows a Union Jack on a blue field, with a crown in the centre, while the second color has a wreath of roses, shamrocks, and thistles, with © regiment's crest and motto and list of battle honors embroidered oa it. . Infantry colors are always car- ried by the two senior second-lieu- tenants, aud are escorted by a guard of non-commissioned officers, termed color-cergeants. In barracks the colors are kept in the officers' mess, and whenever they appear on parade they are received witti the) highest honor, and all pgesent have | to salute them. Cavalry regiments carry sian- dards or guidons, seslead of colors, These are made of crimson silk or damask, wrth gold-embroidered tas- sels and-cords, mounted on a Jance. Owing to the ands ouark they offer the enemy!s bullets, and the great sacrifice of valuable lives en- tailed in preserving them from pos- sible capture, regimental colors 'are no longer taken into action. The last time they were carried in the ld wag during the Boer War of Nowadays, when a bettahon proceeds on service, the colors are Jett behind at headquarters. a c eatears.- Kniek---Does the dentist your teeth ; Knack--Yes: them | act right. "drill but re-can't make 4 ift-marriage iv a bt tery, thas may explain" why tie lar ianieorfe res in oF the cu! Itivation, is ve abroad, Likrw whiat to do- with # poor naa ee Fit I won hani.'"' ' plaining that he could by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 2 1848. by which 600,000 square miles of Mexican ter- ritory was annexed to the United States, which agreed to pay $15,- 00,000 in cash. Ont of this terri-! psn the States of California, Ne' vada, Utah, more than half of Colo-; rado, and nearly.all of Arizona andl 1. New Mexico, have since been earv-! , The Civil War, 1861-65. 1861, April 13. The Civil War, ber tween the United States and Confederate States, began with tt =~ fall of Fort Sumter, which oceurrt ee 40 days after Abraham Lincoln be- came President. The Confederates bombarded the fort, and compelled its surrender, There were hundreds! of battles in the ensuing four yeare.| 7 On April 9, 1868, five. weeks "nd 7 Lincoln's second term begasi. five days before he was assansinat-- ed, General Robert E, Lee surren- dered his army to General Grant @ Appomattox Court House. ic. was foHowed on April 29 by the gur- render of Johnson's army to r- nam, and the war was over. Jt had- ost the lives of 300,000 none erners. lost. nearly a million . ied men. At the close of the war there were 1,000,516 men in ie northern army. General Gr was the i general history ta battle front a we miles long. Spanish-American War, 1898. 1898, April 11.--President MeKin- ley sent a message to Congress, Biy5 ing a history of the Cu rebel4 lion, and asking that he be cme red to secure a full and final ter mination gf hostilities betwee Spain and?Cuba, to secure the tablishment of a stable governmeao in the island, and to use the mili tary and naval forces of the Uni States for these purposes. On Apr 19, Congress demanded that grain withdraw her treops from. Cuba and give up her. authority there. ners was given until April 93rd to give a satisfactory answer to t the demands, but the American Mini-' formally declared 'that in progress. e chief events of the war were the destruc; tion of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, the capture of Santiago Cuba. and the destruction of Admiral Cerveras' fleet of Santiago. As a result of the war, Cuba became a republic, and the United States came into the possession of tha Phillipine Islands. Tip for Husbands. The younger man had been com. Te get hie wife ta mend his clothes. ™. * "T asked her to sew a@ button on this vest lest night, and she hasn't touched iit,"' he said. Att this the older maa assumed the air of a par riarch. "Never aek a woman to mend anything,' he said. "You haven' been married very long, and I think serviceable suggestions. mended I iake it to my wife eaeiat tt around a little and say, 'Where's that rag bag?' ' ion ""«What do you wanit of the bag?' asks the wife, her suapick arouse "<7 want to, thro hemes, | with few more fletrishes. 'Tet me see that shirt,' my wife, says ; then, ANSY John, hand it t4 at once.' away. It's belo out,' y say, "Of course I pass it over, and sha examines it. "Why, et only needs--"; and tiven e@he metids it.' epee * "You keep a jo! int bank _aeconnt, z withtyour wife, do you net?" "Yes,! I déposit the money an she raw many < i a 4: it out." eee