Marshall County Independent, Volume 2, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 November 1895 — Page 6

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SOMEBODY'S LETTER TÜUN'S VV IS SENSATION AL MANNER IX CHICAGO. It Purport 4 to Have l'een Written In tlii City and Figures In Dirorce Proceeding Chronicle's Iteport Inforiiiiitioii as Elicited by Inquiry in This City. From Saturday's Dally. There have been apparent for two or three days some premonitory signs of an inpending sensation but the in definite nature of obtainable informa tion has been such that the matter has not until to-day been given publiaty but what was apparently inevitable has come to pass and the public is now in possession of a story purporting to involve some one in this city in a Chi cago ease of domestic woe. The ex posure of a letter in Chicago alleged to have been written here seems to have been an incidental cause which led to the publication of the story which is given by the Chicago Chronicle, as follows: ".Mrs.EIIa M Zingsem wants to know who "baby" is. From all the docu mentary evidence in the hands of the police of this city Mrs. Zingsem has been led to believe that "JJaby" lives at Plymouth, Ind., and thinks she is married to I. II. Zingsem. As that gentle man happens to be Mrs. Ella Zingem's husband, Mrs. Zingsem is rather pertui bed over the incident and has told Assistant Chief of Police If oss all about it. The police of Plymouth, Ind., are now trying to find out about Zii igsem and it looks as if there was trouble ahead for "12 by." Mrs. Ella Zingsem has had some little trouble with her husband, Raphael P., before this, so the shock is not so severe as it might b?. Her husband was one of the architectural superintendents connected with the world s fair and is well known to exposition ollicials. On file in the superior court is a bill for divorce, in which Mrs. Zingsem alleges that her husband has not been all that a kind and dutiful husband should be. She avers that he was fond of the rosy flush which clings about the wine cup or the beer glass and was guilty of habitual intoxication. She avers further that when Paphael was in this joyous condition his chief delight was to come home and kick her in the ribs. At times, she explains in the bill, he altered this by punching her in the jaw. Now and then he would drive her out of the house at night, she declares, leaving her to shiver in the midnight blast. For all of these little peculiarities on the part of Paphael Ella sought divorce and the possession of her property at 37 AVashburne avenue. SEPARATED SOME TIME AGO. It appears that the couple separated some time ago and Zingsem went to live at the Hotel Holland, Fifty-third street and Lake avenue. A few months ago he became an inmate of Dr. Porton's sanitarium, a gold-cure establishment in Hyde Park, and early in October removed to another dipsomania cure resort of Porton's at Plymouth, Ind., where he remained until about the middle of October. A few days ago Mrs. Zingsem walked into the office of her attorney, C. Porter Johnson, who filed the divorce bill. Her eyes were flashing bright flashes and her cheeks were flushing. "There, what do you think of that V" she demanded. "That" was a letter addressed to -'P. U. Zingsem, Hotel Holland, corner Fifty-third street and Lake avenue, Chicago," and was postmarked "Plymouth, Ind., Oct. 15." It reads as follows: Plymouth, Ind., Monday. Office of Dr. T. A.Porton My Own Dear Husband: 1 am thinking of you so intensely to-night am missing you so much. The house has seemed so lonely, and I know you are thinking of me and wishing for me. Could it be otherwise after the week we have had? It is all just as I anticipated. I want you more than ever. You are nearer and dearer to me and I can't live without you. To-day as I watched you as far as I could see you, it seemed as though my very life was going with you, and I seemed rooted to the spot and I have felt all day the impressions I knew I would. Your visit was so happy for me, and I realize more than ever the great happiness that is mine in the possession of such love and tenderness as you give me. I want it now. Papa asked me to-day if there was any probability of your taking me away soon, or before the holidays, and I told him when the way was cleared there would in all probability be no delay, but I will tell you all thia when I am with you again. It has been but a few hours comparatively since you left, and yet it seems so long and now I have to say good night without a kiss and without the happiness of looking into your eyes and seeing your great love for me. I lovo you so and want to tell you all about it. Your IJaky. "Where did you get this ?" asked Attorney Johnson. "In pocket of my husband's coat," snapped the irate wife.

"And who is Baby?" queried Johnson. "That's juit what I want to know and I want you to find out," declared Mrs. Zingsem. The attorney asked a few more ques tions and then sent Mrs. Zingsem over to Assistant Chief of Police IIos:;, ask

ing him to learn from the police at Plymouth whether Zingsem had committed bigamy, as the letter would in dicate. .No answer had last evening been received by the police of this city and Mrs. Zingsem is still waiting And Attorney Johnson is thinking of filing an amended bill in the divorce case, making a few more charges." DK. I50KTOX SEKX. How much truth there it in the Chronicle's report dws not yet seem quite clear. The matter is being generalty talked about and various opinions are being hazarded relative thereto. A representative of the 1nii:ii:mi:xt called on Dr. Horton and was the first to call his attention to the. C'hronisle article as above given. The doctor knew nothing of allegations that are charged against Zingsem but said he always hail the appearance ot being x gentleman in every respect. When Dr. Horton and his associates, then of Warsaw, sold the Chicago rights of the JJorton Liquor Cure they accepted part payment in stock of the Chicago company that was then organized. The doctor and his associates soon became dissatisfied with the manner in which that company was conducted aril his associates withdrew. The doctor retained his stock for some time, however, and it was when he went to the Chicago institute to trv to better its conditions that he first met Zingsem who had taken the cure and was then boarding at the institute. The doctor i' 1 . . i . louuu a very unsausiactory, not to say disgraceful, state of affairs anil soon de termined to withdraw entirely, which he finally did. He had gained the friendship of Mr. Zingsem, and in his contention with the opposing factions had had his (Zingsem's) co-operation al most from the beginning. ZIXtiSEM WAS THKEA 1 EXi:D. Animosities were here engendered which seem to have lived and devel oped into a bitter hatred as Mr. Zingsem claims to have received a number of communications of a threatenin nature. Zingsem has, since Dr. Por ton's withdrawal from the Chicago in stitute, visited or boarded at various times at the doctor's institute in this city and has nvver given reason for the doctor to change his good opinion. The doctor jould throw no light on the ex isting relations between Mr. and Mrs. Zingsem except to say that they had Jt lived together for a considerable time. THK PLYMOUTH WIFE. So far as the Plymouth wife is con cerned matters are shrouded in deep mystery. The publication of the al leged Plymouth letter from "Your I Ja by" does not of itself furnish proof that there is a Mrs. Zingsem in this city. If there is, she has been remark ably quiet not to have been discovered under the light of general inquiry that augmenting itself as it went, has ex tended to almost every corner of the city to-day. The probabilities are that the morbid curiosity that is seeking a Mrs. Zingsem No. 2 in this city is seeking the impossible and will be disappointed. From Monday's Dally. The Zingsem affair was the subject of a great deal of gossip in this city yesterday. A Plymouth dispatch to the Chicago Chronicle, in which the name of Miss (Jraco Porton, of this city, was prominently used in connection with the authorship of the letter alleged to have been taken from Zingsem's pocket by Mrs. Zingsem had the effect of opening wide the flood-gates of gossip, and the matter was talked about and speculated upon in all parts of the city. The dispatch referred to, however, so tar as its most important parts are concerned, is mere presumption with no authoritive foundation and by insinuation makes an allegation which might be very dillicult to prove and which probably could not be proven except by the most exhaustive investigation leading into all the highways and byways of a wide Held of inquiry. There is no doubt that there has been a close friendship between Mr. Zingsam and the family of Dr. Porton but what is plainly alleged in the Chronicle dispatch does not necessarily, and would except under the most extraordinary circumstances, follow the fact of such friendly relations. The fact that the alleged letter was written on Dr. Porton's letter head proves nothing as the doctor himself often receives letters written on his own paper and in justice to all parties concerned it is fair to state that there are possible excellent reasons to believe that there are causes why such a letter might have been written on account of personal hatred with malicious intent to fix the responsibility on some one other than the author. It is, perhaps, needless to say that Miss Uorton deniei positively and emphatically any knowledge of the letter until she saw it in print. One of the mysteries that would need be solved before conclusions are reached, is how Mrs. Zingsem secured the alleged letter. If she had not, as is claimed, lived with her husband for a num

ber of years how could she have access to his pockets? Here is one of the inconsistencies of the story. It Zingsam has received other letters of a threatening and insinuating character as is alleged and probably true why mav not this one have from thesime source prompted by a deeper laid a -.id auroitly executed, scheme. Pefore jumping to hasty conclusions or accepting as a matter of course state

ments of questionable authority made from hea;sa and based on the nmst superficial knowledge of lac's thee and many other things sh.u!d be duly weighed and considered. HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM. Tin lion. H. Tli: t I-aci-N :i a l.icl-lirer-Kn1liui;if Uallj IUt-il at Will- ; . The Hon. II. (i. Thayer,of this city, is winning new laurels as a lectures wherever he goes to fill an engagement as is evidenced in the in inner in which lie captured the people of Varaw by his recent leciure at that place. The Warsaw Times of Wednesday reports, the le-jture as follows: In times past the people of Warsaw have had many opportunities of listening to lectures from noted people; but it can be said in all truthfulness and with no attempt to embellish our remarks that a better phased audience never before assembled in the place to listen to a more impressive lecture than that of Hon. II. (I. Thayer, ol Plymouth, given in the l'uu audience room of the M. P. church, for the beh eld ot the organ fund ot that denomi nation, in IWZ Mr. Thaver spent six months in I'üurope, and while in Home the historic city of the world, he visited every point of interest, especially those connected in any way with the journey and confinement m prison in that place ot Paul ol larsus, the champion par excellence of the 'Meek and Lowly Due." Mr. Thayer took his auditors along with him on his journey to the great city, and so impressed his audience that it was almost like being present in person on the route, especially in his beautiful description of the route pursued after his arrival in Italy, the last 1Ö0 miles of his trip. The lecture was replete in eloquent descriptions, lie visited while in the i'.ternal City the prison in which Paul was-confined and for the forty-live minutes the lecture required in delivering the attentive listeners felt themselves to be in Koine in the identical days described. The whole lecture is filled with interesting, thrilling points, and when it was concluded Mr. Thayer received the congratulations of an audience that embraced the intelligence ami culture of the ''little city by the lakes" from one and all. We were delighted to learn that Mr. Thayer has been invited to deliver his lecture on "Pome Proper" by the Zerelda Peading Club, of this place, at some future date, and wo feel sure that the occasion will be looked forward to with deep interest. Jt is proper to say that Mrs. Dr. Puikett and Mrs. Merl Punk rendered a beautifully executed duet just previous to the open ing of the lecture, with Miss Zella Comstock presiding at the organ. In conclusion, we can only say that a better pleased audience neer before assembled at the M. P. church than the one lust night, which was so vividly taken along with the speaker in "Paul's Journey to Pome." Victimized a Logutisport Merchant. The Logansport Journal tells of the manner in which a leading merchant was swindled out of S7ÖÜ the other day, but does not give his name. Jt says a traveling salesman called on the mer chant and while conversing showed a treasure of a violin which he said he thought so much of that he always carried it w ith him. lie said he had to visit some small towns in the vicinity and asked to leave his instrument with the store keeper till his return. Soon after the man left another trave ling man came along and, seeing the violin, claimed to be a collector and desired to possess such a line instrument as that. He offered the merchant 8500 for it, but the man would not take the responsibility of selling. The second stranger left but instructed the Logansport man to give as much as H00 for the violin and he would come back and give him ."51,000 for it. When the fellow returned the merchant bought the in st, ument lor . ÖO and is now waiting the coining of his purchaser. So far nothing has been heard of him and the reasonable conclusion has about been reached that it is a thorough case of swindle. A similar trick was played on Jake (Jerson, a merchant tail r, in Pochester, about sixteen years ago. but the price of tlx liddle was only twenty dollars. Its real value being a dollar and a half. is:il Kt-jtorlH We are in receipt of the biennial re port of Phillip II. Kirsch, state Fish commissioner for Indiana and of the Nineteenth Peport of the Department of (Jeology and Natural Pesources of Indiana by S. S. (Jorby, state geologist. These reports are bound in two neat volumes and contain much valuable statistical and other detailed information touching upon the subjects treated, With these reports is also a map showing comprehensively the the mineral, gas and other resources of state.

'SUMMER IN FRANCE.

Th Host Dfl ;'..:ml (oiintry ia tf.i Mi.lt- Worl.l. The people in Km nee make a mm h simpler affair of every-day life than we and thus find nmre time for recreation, which, indeed, is so much a matter of course with them that there is no tm c of effort about their little diversion ; Where a garden io possible, it he -oir.t furnished with a table and chairs, a much-used outdoor room, roofed with "that dome some three miles high ci soft dappled gray and yellow cloud through the vast lattice work wh.ivot the blue sky peeps." There in pleasant weather the children play anions tblilac hushes and the mignonette: there their riders resort with needlework and newspapers; and there a simple meal is often serve.!. How well appreciate are the public gardens of Paris any tiiu day will show. droops of happy people alone: the main walks, or in sonic out-of-the-way nook of the lovely gardens, seem entirely at home as th. quietly make the most of their opportunities for pleasure. A pleasant feature of some Knud, houses is a porch before the entrant1 door partly enclosed with glass. One such vine-clad summer parlor, opening into its tiny Paris garden, was a most refreshing contrast to the glaring, dusty street from which it was all hidden by a high wail. With its cool summer furnishings, arid large ornamental plants in green tubs, it made a (k-liht-ful reception room for visitors, while a little round table with it h load of work baskets and hooks bore evidence of tip family liking for this summer rendezvous In a pretty country house Iii space between two projecting viiif was roofed and fronted with glass. The room thus gained was one of the most Interesting of its kind, being glared with an extensive collection of the ferns of the locality, and guarded by a pair of curious Chinese idols holding back the opened door on either side. To the American in Krance It never ceases to be a wonder where so much leisure for out-of-door life is found, particularly, as it does not follow that home du'if s are shirked to obtain it. Indeed, the proverbial French thrift is in no way better shown than in the readiness with which French women take a share in the work of the household, even ia well-to-do families, and this without loss of dignity, since custom sanctions the keeping of few servants in France. And but few servants are needed, as no baking or laundering is done at home, a net polished floors do away at once with dust, and that tear-lng-up and setting-to-rights process which we call house-cleaning. It would seem that they arrange their days, as well as their household affairs, wisely In France, and are skilled in the happy art of making the most of each one as It passes. For, however busy the morning hours may be, in most French homes the lonn afternoon finds household cares laid aside for a time, while rest and quiet enjoyment take their place. Perhaps one secret of tlils wonderful leisure may lie in the fact that French mothers, strange as it may seem, do not consider it one of the cardinal virtue.-? always to have cake In the hoi;se. and it really was not evident that the children suffered at all in consequence. It r. therefore, quite possible that the pleasant s!ght of mothers spending whole happy afternoons with their children out in the open air may be partly owing to this great lack of ambition in cake making. The tittle baskets which French children carry with them to their muchloved parks and gardens are usually supplied with a generous piece of one of the long French loaves of bread, and a bar or two of sweetened chocolate. A few sons procure this quite sufficient lunch, as well as time for those pleasant little expeditions it may be only to Ihe nearest public garden which they like and so well know how to arrange in sunny France. American Agricul turalist. THE ALLIGATOR ""VS LIVELY. Man Who Had lleeu Pumping Lead Into Him Had to Swim for Life. From the Florida Times Union: W. A. Gilbert, the gunsmith, and a party of friends have just returned from a hunting and fishing cruise in Nassau Sound in the yacht Fannie, and Mr. Gilbert has good reasons to congratulate himself that he is not sleeping in the stomach of a monster 'gator. The 'gator was found one morning dozing on the placid bosom of the sound, only his nose and a part of his head protruding. Mr. Gilbert drew a bead on him. "Crack!" went the gun, and the ator half leaped out of the water. Then he churned it into bloody foam. Mr. Gilbert hurried up to the 'gator and pumped eight more bullets into him. Then the saurian lay still and Mr. Gilbert concluded that he was dead. Not caring to lose so fine a trophy, he pulled off his clothes and swam to the 'gator to tie a rope to his tail. He had adJusted the rope nicely, when suddenly, to Mr. Gilbert's surprise and horror the 'gator wheeled around, with his mouth wide open, and made for his would-be slayer. Mr. Gilbert, with remarkable presence of mind, dived. When he rose to the surface the 'gator spied htm again, and on he came at a clipping pace. .Mr. Gilbert dived again. Three times the same thing was repeated. At last Mr. Gilbert reached the shore. He was almost winded, and his hair, in spite of the water, stood up straight on end like the quills of a porcupine. Leadvlllc I Rich. It la the opinion of one of the most distinguished mining experts In Colorado that the mineral wealth lying be. neath the streets of L-eadville exceed! the gross amount that has been mined in the entire district to date.

KING OF TRAMP'S." Once a Valiant Sol.Uer. He Been me a Hoples4 Wreck. A few days ago there wa3 buried in j Brooklyn, X. V.. the body of William Heiser, a'ias "Jumbo." 4T veil-!? of :iptie was 1-nown as "The Kin; ot rranips," and for the past twenty years was one of the most interesting characters of the city. He was the son of the mayor of a town in Germany, and hroMgh a money broker wa in receipt f ao allowance of $100 e-ery three mouth F.ven under the dirt of a tramp he s, io .vint his breed ins. Tall and comnirnuing m appearance, he was in the habit of reminding all with whom he aiae in contact that although a tramp ..e ws once a gentleman. Of the thousand.-, who knew him no one could contradict aim. Twenty years ago he male his appearance in Brooklyn. It was at the lime when lodging houses were at- ';.-!:-. 1 to the station houses. He was ver about the Hedford avenue station, ''e.raiüg and tending the furnaces. All .tt -'i;i:s to make him tall: of his pre-v-i.": life were a failure. His only an- - 'i-r v:is: "I am a gentleman if I am a ,.-a;i.j." it was his pleasure on receivi remittance to take his friends out iad .-! them drunk and then pay their tines. Through the money broker it was han-?: that "Jumbo" gained a gold medal during the Franco-Prussian war, jui mat Having incurred the enmity of the German government he eame to ihis country. Kighteea months ago, on expressing a wish to reform, his relatives sent him $1,000, with which he started in the furniture business, but failed. An officer found him sitting on the Steps of the hospital at Bedford ave- ' nue and South Third street. He awoke him. "Keep moving," said the officer. Jumbo's reply, "They don't know me : any more," was scarcely audible, but he kept moving as best. he could. A few hours later another officer found him ; sitting in the gutter. He made an at- ; tempt to get up, but fell back uncon- ' scious. He was taken to the station house, where he died. Fortunately the regular $100 remittance was received i the day after, and he was not buried ; in the potter's field. A I'rairie 1 ir Describing a prairie fire in "The World of Adventure," the writer says: "A more picturesque scene could hardly he imagined. The night was very dark; but as far as the eye could reach, all across the horizon, about four miles in front of us, was a broad, bright, lurid glare of lire, with a thick canopy of smoke hanging over it, whose fantastic wreaths ,a.s they curled in the breeze, were tinged with the red reflection of the flames. Even at that distance we could hear the crackling and rushing of the fire, which, as it advanced, caused a strong wind; every now and then a brighter flame would shoot high up into the black cloud of smoke over the top of the hill, illuminating for an instant our tents and wagons in the dark hollow, and giving a momentary glimpse of the horses which were picketed on the side of the rise, on the crest of which the figures of the men engaged in lighting the opposition fire which, as it became too extended .they beat down with blankets, only suffering it to burn a space about tweve feet broad right across the line of the advancing contlagration stood out in strong relief against the glowing wall of light beyond them; and as they ran, tossing their arms and waving the blankets and little torches of lighted grass, they looked in the dis tance like demons rather than men." THE FIRST BICYCLE RIDER. Ho HaiU from riiicaco and Makes ThU ,'!aiiiu "I rode the first bicycle in America, Ii any otnor man claims to have done so, I would like to hear from him, but I don t believe there is such a man So says Mr. John William Tyler, of 6L tast Monroe street. The pioneer of the millionswhonowflit onwheelsall over this broad continent is a middleaged man, well built, with dark hair and eyes. In early life Mr. Tyler was a gymnast He is now a jeweler. Dur ing his apprenticeship as a jeweler he was a reader of the Scientific American, in which magazine ne one day came across a paragraph which interested him very much. It dealt with the improvements made to the bicycle, or velocipede, as it was then called, by the brothers Hanlon, who were surprising Paris by their exploits on the new machine. At this time the riding of a bicycle was considered rather as a gymnastic exercise, to be undertaken only by the very skillful. Thus it appeared to Mr. Tyler, and he at once ordered a velocipede from the advertised manufacturernamely, Calvin Witty, of C3S Broadway, New York, who had purChased the patent from the Hanlons. Said Mr. Tyler: "After having waited about three months the velocipede came at last. It came c .o. d., with a bill for $G0 and a letter from the manufacturers stating I had given them their first order and the cause of the long delay was their not being ready to manufacture. From the illustration of the machine I thought it would cost only $10 or $15. and I was not ready to pay $C0. A friend, however, came to my relief an(f paid the bill, telling me that I could give exhibitions on the machine and In that way soon be able to pay him back, which I did, there being plenty of people then in America willing to pay lor the privilege of seeing a man rida a velocipede. I hired an inclosed arena and people paid to come in and see me ride, and that fall I established x velocipede school in Wilkesbarre. My .vheel attracted much Interest, became o 'popular, In fact, that articles In reference to It appeared in a great many newspapers." Chicago Iuter Ocean.

A GERMAN

TMS1 v G IN ALASKA. H!;:n . ::-.'!iingr Large Profit ..i i. . .r .Vfeny t'elt. Fox l'.ira i .,, in Alaska, which has assume I ".;.!:. i. proportons, was original i J. a l'itisburrher. in 1879 Ueorpe W..r I .van was tiavellng aV the roast in- :he steame Hush, saw a wI'U'Me black fox skin soli : '.! t . t'ived the notion fariaiim t:;e fnx would be profltal II? g;:t :e.. h Taylor, Thomas F. M: gia a.nd .lames i Iiedpath, Interests and a romp. my was formed. The gnth'iiu n are agents of the Alaska Com-men-ia! romp i ay at St. George. Mom, :ii ii;-gested as a place for the expi rimetit ti-e Remedies group of aovf-ty r.-rky islets, sixty miles wst of Ko.Ji ik. uvirh produced nothing but sea birds and sea lions, rnd are uninhabited. At the seal islands of the FrlbylotT roup the Alaska Commercial Com piny e;Hca 1,000 to 1,600 blue foxes every winter. The black foxes are starre, while the blue fox Is not nearly so valuable. Duriris; the winter of 18S0 arra ements were made with an agent at diak to get some black fox cubs. e .secured h ilf a dozen, and while he x a away on business the natives killed the cubs by kindness and by overfeeding them. No more of the cubs could b f ound. .ind no further effort to carrr out the sfliHiii.' was made until the summer of 1 v s 1 . when about twenty blue fox cubs were cauirht. They were taken In a steamer to Fnaiaska and thence In a chartered schooner, with a quantity of seal men, to the Semedies Islands, where they were released. The islands are inaccessible except in culm weather, which helped the enterprise. is :t kept poachers and Ind' from catching the stock. At first It w. difficult to get any right on the land. The treasury department, however, addressed a letter to revenue steamers and the provisional government of Alaska, to give their protection to the fox farmers under the law protecting squatters, and the company has not been molested in Its enterprise. The foxes eat eggs and catch birds in the summer. They are also adepts at killing sea lions, which serve them for food. Thev are very intelligent. They take the eggs in summer and hide them in the thick moss, which Is like mattresses, and leave them until they get hungry in winter and can find nothing else to eat. If they hid the eggs in the dirt they would be unable to scratch the frozen ground away froL them in winter, hence the wisdom dl played in covering them with mos. The foxes have been watched during the mouths of July and August on the rliffs searching for eggs, and have been tracked to their hiding places. The blue fox pelt is valued at $15, and as seals become scarcer it becomes uore valuable. All attempts to catoh tIack foxes have proved failures, as they are so scarce. Natives are hired to live on the island and watch the foxes. The latter are trapped in certain seasons, killed, and skinned. The carcasses are valueless, as the Indians, who will eat almost anything, will not touch the fox meet. The number l:a3 multiplied from twenty cubs to about 5,000 foxes, and they have been trapped every season since they were large enough to be of value. Mr. Wardnian soid his interest to Hyron Andrews of Washington. SPLINTE w CONDS. On Ships of War They Are a Oreat Source of Danger to the 3Ien. The recent war between Japan a. China has taught the officers of thi American navy at least one new thing In the construction of vessels. There will be scarcely any woodwork In the Oregon, that is rapidly nearlng completion at the Union iron works. This is due to the fact that there were w people killed and injured In the naval battles in the Orient by flying wooden splinters than by the bullets or exploding shells. Most of the cruisers and battleships that took part in the war were constructed with steel hulls, and all of them were more or less protected with heavy armor plates. The interior fittings and furnishings of the quarters and the deck coverings, however, were of wood. When a shot pierced a hull of a vessel and tore through the wood in the interior of the ship splinters wert sent flying in all directions. In mos; cases the shot passed through the vessel without injuring any of the crew, but the shower of wooden spllntera filled the sick bay and kept the sailmaker sewing up the dead In canvas sacks for burial. On the battleship Ore gon practically no wood will be usel All the bulk-heads and partitions divid ing the rooms In the officers quarters are to be of iron. No wood will be used on the decks, but instead linoleum will be cemented to the iron deck to prevent clipping. All the doors will be of iron, and all those leading to the decks will be made water-tight. lie Wiitd Work and Got It. Frank Matthew has been in Chicago three weeks. He has answered all the advertisements he has seen, but in no instance was he successful in securing the coveted employment. Meanwhile his slender savings had become all but exhausted. Necessity proved the moth er of invention, and, according to a Chicago paper, he took a great board about a foot square ind marking on It in big black letters, WORK WANTED. he fastened It on his breast and took up his beat anting the commission houses. A great many people Stoppel him, but none iffered him work. He walked several tfher down town streets. the object of ue same curiosity. At last one man gve him a situation.

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