Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Page 3

THE VANISHING FLEETS

By ROY NORTON

ILLUSTRATED BY A. WEIL

IM, V Suday Aafauaa*. _ CHAPTER XXIII. Peace Is Declared. The world had become an Instrument attuned to the breaking pitch, and awoke to have every string within it played upon in a day; It was a royal ttine in which city after city was called upon to contribute. London, Which had passed a sleepless night, was astir before dawn, aroused into a pitch of terrific excitement by the return of the Roberts, Which swooped down from the air aglow with light, and courting notice. At the iron gates in front of the palace, where the sentries were briskly tramping to and fro until called to gether by the descent of the radioplane, the Roberts came to the ground with every searchlight playing into the air. The alarm had been given before she came, and guards were turning out from their barracks and hurrying to the palace on the run, with arms in hand to defend Buckingham from the oncoming monster. Not until it was near the ground was it discovered that from the peaks floated three flags, the Union Jack, the Stars and Stripes and the white banner of truce.

In hasty formation the soldiers faced the place where the machine with its staring eyes would alight, and rank on rank presented a stubborn front to the visitor. Their astonishment was Incalculable when they recognized as the first man to emerge from the side of - this unexpected craft the missing king, followed by the prime minister and the head of the navy, as well, all smiling, and all taking quick cognizance of the array of defenders. The ranking officer of the guard recovered his poise, gave the command and the soldiers saluted, after which he stepped forward in response to the king’s beckoning and received instructions for" the safeguarding of the Roberts. Bevins and the secretary of ■tate, as they walked through the iron gates, guests of the British nation, heard the quick precise steps of men marching .to form a square round their craft, and pictured to themselves the curiosity which would be aroused when the day broke. Thus it was that within an hour after the’r arrival a crowd was collecting which outdid the one that assembled to view the Dreadnought on the day of her return. The strange and silent Roberts, resting In the roadway and floating the American and English flags, which had been intertwined by the fingers of a friendly breeze, was of greater interest than any other sight within memory. It was rumored through the throng that the king had returned; but the explanation of his absence was yet to come. For once officialdom did not hesitate, but sent to the newspapers of the city the full account of the visit to the United States, together with the reasons and results, and also the story of the fleet which had been given up for lost. It was intimated that the official overtures of the United States would be made known at a later hour of the day through due channels, and thus the air was charged with expectancy.

In the meantime Berlin too had been given its time of tumult. The return of the emperor had been no less astounding; but he with characteristic energy had no sooner stepped within the doors of his palace than he called his secretaries and dictated a complete explanation of his own disappearance, together with a statement of what had transpired in the United States and a summary of the pro posals for peace which had been formulated. The Ncrma waited for a brief time only, and then in full sight of an immense gathering of spectators turned her nose homeward to carry her report to Washington. This news was cabled to London, where its dissemination gave another impetus to speculation, and before it Had subsided the world's cables resumed operations. An operator in a transatlantic cable office, who for weeks had sat before his silent keys, saw a livid signal flash, and sprang excitedly to respond. Across the depths of the ecean came the words: “Afl embargos are removed. The United States of America gives greeting, and reiterates the message which was the first to be transmitted, ‘Peace en earth. Good will to men.’’’ Events were now moving with such prodigious rapidity that wherever wires of communication ran men left their occupations and waited for whatever other remarkable Information might be forthcoming. For once the nations seemed in such close touch that they reached out to each other to tell their own part In the unfolding of the great mystery. The whole civilised world knew speedily that the kaiser had been carried away by aocident, that his health had been improved, and that he bore nothing

but good will toward his captors. London transmitted the complete' story of the taking of the British fleet, elucidated the Dreadnought's singular return, and also made known that the king and his associates had visited and been detained in Washington by their own volition. In the United States the night had passed with most exceptional activity. The sight of the Roberts leaving

Arma In Hand to Defend Buckingham.

New York had been heralded from coast to coast, and the administration, . besieged for information, yielded to ' the popular demand and gavfe out the history of the war, including the account of the Invention and the creation of the plant on the Florida key. The IWe inventor and his daughter were thrown into the limelight, and ’ exaggerated accounts of their mar- ■ vefous work were spread over pages ! of extrsts wherever newspapers were printed. The public insistently clam--1 ored for news, more news, throughout I the hours, and seemed nevpr satiated. | All eyes were turned to the president, who finally, in desperation, de- , dined to make any further statements, and announced . that details, i would have to come in later sequence, I when time could be given to their dictation. From the great republic the cloak of mystery and inaction was thrown ■ aside and the cordons to the north and the south were being dissipated as if Iby magic. That menacing line of blue l along the Canadian border was crumbling with greater rapidity than ft had been formed. Here and there through the air swept 50 radioplanes carrying '■improvised passenger accommodations, the sun showing them as flashing birds of blue carrying the | hosts of the guard back to their arml orles, whence they might return to • their homes and occupations of peace. I 111 every city throughout the land asi tonished and exultant inhabitants j watched these friendly monsters i which had made the nation the most ' redoubtable in all the world. The ghns of ttie border were now standing unguarded, the bivouacs obliterated, and the paths of the sentries abandoned to the effacement of nature’s . kindly growth. | Seattle was at last liberated, and ( proceeded to astonish the world withaccounts of the imprisonment of the i Japanese fleet which had rested in • the waters of Lake Washington for so i many days. Photographs of it were . sent broadcast, together with inter- . views gained from the commanders I of the hapless expedition, and by special permission Admiral Kamjgawa was allowed to cable to his government the first full report of his disaster which went through uncensored and unchecked. The fact was made patent to Japan that her men were prisoners bn parole, her ships trapped I in a helpless position, and their fate : resting entirely on the mercy of the As if to add to the proof of helplessness, Tokio learned of the detention of the British ships, and knew that any or all alliances could depended . upon in the presence of such might ! as the Americans could being to baar. | Another day dawned in'Washington, . bringing with it the unconditional , capitulation of Japan. She appealed , for peace with dignity, and left the suggestion of terms to the nation with whom none might dispute, trusting to her magnanitnity. Congress had ; been called into being again, and, imbued with the spirit which had actuated the president through all his siege of stress and trial, fol’owed his I wishes. The lone man in the White | House loomed as something more than mortal, and was at last being appreciated. x Japan was told that the United i States demanded neither Indemnities I nor retention of the conquered fleet. . For the benefit of the public the latter would be conveyed to New York bay, whepe it would be liberated and restored to its crews. The only condl- . tlon was that on its return to Paclfle

waters It must withdraw all men it had placed in the Philippines and Hawaii, and restore the American flag with appropriate salutes. This then was the end of the great venture by the Island across the western sea, which had staked Its hope of advancement upon a ruthless descent on an unprepared and Apparently impotent nation. It had spent years in anticipation, had purchased the most deadly agents of destruction whenever presented, had worked night and day In its navy yards to build giant ships of war, had covered the United States with its spies until Its espionage reached everywhere, and all for this I (To be continued.)

NEED WE TORTURE CATTLE

Unnecessary Cruelty to Cows and Sheep in Transportation. THE NE£D qf Reform. Sidetracked for Hours or Days With Insufficient Food and Water— Uncovered Cars Render It' Difficult for Animals to Retain Footing in Sleety Weather. Defenders of present conditions have a good deal to say about “improved stock cars,” that is, cars provided with troughs for feeding and watering the cattle without unloading them en route. The superintendent of one of New York’s largest meat companies assured me that these cars were used almost exclusively, and that cattle In transit were well cared for in every way, saye a writer in the New York Tribune, while on a tour of inspection of one of the large stockyards In that city. “Show me some of the improved stock cars, those with feed troughs,” the visitor asked the Inspector of the yard. The Inspector shook his head. “You don’t see many of those,’.’ he said. “The cattle couldn’t be driven to the troughs to feed, if there were troughs; it wouldn’t be practicable; they are packed too tight. Here,” he went on, pausing by an empty car, “is a typical stock car. Five out of six of the cars that come In here are like this one.”

It was an open box car, without troughs. The sides of it were partly of slats, which had wide spaces between them, giving practically no protection against the weather. There was absolutely no bedding on the floor. “This car,”, said the inspector, “Is just as it came in last night, with a let of steers in it. You see the floor’s not bedded, and, naturally, especially in sleety, freezing weather, it’s not easy for an animal to keep its footing on a floor like this, with the car bumping and swaying over the rails.” Dr. Jaques, of Chicago, says: “1 know that the cattle car in general use is open on all sides to the weatner, the cold being much increased by rapid transit. The cars are usually crowded, to save room and to prevent savage animals from goring one another. The long journeys, unbroken by rest, result in animals falling down from exhaustion, when they are trampled upon by the others. It is a usual thing for cars to arrive at their destination with a certain percentage of dead and wounded.” At Buffalo, according to statistics gathered by Dr. 'William 0. Stillman, president of the National Humane Association, there were taken from the cars in the year ending with October, 1905, 13,547 dead cattle which had died in transit, and 10,9/2 cattle more or less seriously crippled by falling in the cars, if this was the case under the 28-hour law, how would the animals fare under a law extending tne time to forty hours? The 28-hour law is disregarded in the far West. One Western railroad kept cattle on its cars for from fifty to sixty hours without anything to eat or drink. The uninitiated may find it difficult to believe that the catle owners anc the railroads can be so careless oi marketable property. As to that, the history of cattle raising shows that the stockman will often submit to lose a certain percentage of cattle rather than take measures to prevent the loss; witness 7 how cattle are left out on the great ranges of the West, to perish in the terrible snowstorms by thousands. Whether it is carelessness or cruelty, whether it is that these losses amount to less than it would cost to protect- the cattle properly, there are the facts. As to the shipping, there is no doubt that the cattle owners would be pleased to have the railroads take better care ot livestock, and not smash it up so badly in transit; but this the railroads have so far declined to do —at least without charging more than the shippers are willing to pay.

Many cattle owners, though, do not let the usages of the railroads cost them too much. They have their methods. For instance, when a lot or steers are prisoned in a car for two or three days, bumping along the tracks, or perhaps sidetracked at some way station for hours because it is Inconvenient to move them Just then, they lose, through hunger and thirst and exhaustion and terror, considerable in weight. Promptly upon reaching their destination, however, they are allowed to take all the water ano feed they can hold, which brings up their weight and makes them look plump to the buyer. Physicians say that this treatment (longer hunger ana thirst followed by excessive eating and drinking) makes an animal feverish, tends to render virulent any seeds of disease that may be lurking in its system; in short, makes it unfit for human food. But then the railroads and the cati.emen do not have to pay the doctor bills of the persons who are m«dg IB by eating impure meat.

Franklin—“ls Smith a man of the world?” Penn —“I guess so; I haven't heard of his funeral.” Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, of Manchester, England, is credited with having originated the phrase The Grand Gid Man,” as applied to Mr.

MANHATTAN'S BATH

Billy Was Enthusiastically In Favor of Icy Plunges

“Now you listen to me,” Billy Manhattan is fond of saying to his friends “let me hand you a bit of advice about this bathing thing. Cut out the warm baths you’ve been in the habit of taking every morning. Fill the old tub up to the vent notch with the, coldest kind of water that will run opt of the faucet. Then jump in, swash around for about two minutes with a big cake of soap and a sponge, and then jump out and rub a coarse crash towel over your body. If you don’t feel like a brace of fighting cocks, I don’t want a cent.” •

That’s the way Mr. Manhattan has been talking for years. He says it doesn’t make any difference how many times a young fellow has crooked his elbow the evening before or how many strong cigars he may have burned up in the course of the session—if he’ll just tumble into that cold brooklet that flows into every well regulated home there’ll be nothing tp it. “Makes you a new man,” he’ll tell you. “Freshens you up for the rest of the day. After you get through, you go into the dining-room and the way you mutilate the country sausage and flannel-cakes is enough to make your wife gfve you a hard look. Don’t slip me any of that stuff about nc< being able to eat in the morning. Nothing in it, son, take it from me. Everybody can eat in the morning if they’ll play the game I play. Look at mA Don’t look exactly like an understudy for the party of the first part in a necrological contract, do I? Bebcher life I don’t. I’m hard as nails and twice as sharp, I’m here to promise you. Got a string of life Insurance writers lined up in the hall leading to my flat fighting among themselves to make me a policy. No chance for the company to lose for another hundred years or so. And cold baths have done it, son, cold baths and nothing else.”

As a matter of fact, Mr. Manhattan took a cold bath in th® autumn of 1905. He got Ih the tub one morning the hot water tubes weren’t working, and after he had got over sputtering and was out on the cork mat again rubbing himself dry, he wasn't at all sure he hadn’t enjoyed the novelty. He told himself he'd take a cold bath every morning of his life after that. He took the plunge next morning and emerged radiantly. He took it for a week or so and began to feature himself in his talk with his friends. He allowed there was only one way for a grown-up man to start the day, and that was to scuse his person in water ftiat was just one degree removed from the temperature of an ice cream freezer after the cream had been friz. Then along came a cold morning, a proper cold morning, and as Mr. Manhattan regarded the frigid bath it seemed to sneer at him. He shivered and put his hand in the tub. Then he turned back to his shaving. Suddenly he laid aside the razor and reached over to the tub. He switched the faucets. The hot water poured in. “I ll just take the air off this bath,” said Manhattan. A week later be was going at the bath as he had gone at it most of his life —a tub filled with warm water in which he could recline and doze and enjoy himself thoroughly. He has never taken a cold bath since.

Every morning Mr. Manhattan has taken his bath and finished shaving he turns on the same sort of water for Mrs. Manhattan. Only he doesn’t tell her it is the same style.“Gee,” be says to her. “I don’t see how you can go against that game, • honest, I don’t. It gives me the Willies just to think of soaking my brtiins in that sort of soup. Why don’t you be sporty and take a flop in the cold stuff?” Mrs. Manhattan tells him that in the first place she doesn't necessarily soak her brain when she takes a bath, and in the second place she isn’t so constituted that a cold bath seems good to her. Mr. Manhattan took the big sleep the other night, after he had put in about ten hours at two dollar limit, and quit so far to the bad he was disgusted. Mrs. Manhattan, contrary to usual custom, got up first that day, and after she had bathed thoughtfully turned on the cold water for her mate. When Mr. Manhattan reached the bathroom he shaved abstractedly, thinking all the while of the game of the night previous, and paying no attention to the full tub. This he accepted without question. He had forgotten he had not turned the water on himself, and when he had made his face presentable be sank leisurely into the water.

Mrs. Manhattan, in alarm over the shriek of agony which her husband emitted, knocked fearsomely at the door. Manhattan, now out of the Icy plunge and shivering on the mat, scowled so furiously Mrs. Manhattan would have fainted had she been able to see through the door. “What's the matter,*dear?” asked the lady, who boasts of Billy’s cold bathing.propensities almost as much as be does himself. . V , “Mmatter," said Manhattan, his teeth chattering so be could hardly form the words, “you put a t-t-tut-tack in the b-bath and I stepped on It.” Mrs. Manhattan pleaded lack of intent and begged forgiveness, which Manhattan reluctantly granted. He hasn't stopped starring himself as a cold-bath performer, but he takes mighty good care tfi draw the water himself after the cruel and inhuman experience.

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