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Inhonorofheroes + + INHONOR * iiWpAVY OFHEROES I French People Employ Word Torpedo Boat Destroyers , SILENT WAVERL&Y E LECTR.ICS "Sabotage" to Explain. Named for Naval Officers. # jpjj SCARCELY TRANSLATABLE LIST NUMBERED 43 TO "50 t % r . Means That Has Resulted Tribute to Men fSew loirk, Otfober 22, 1911. >ns Violence Distinguished for From Failure to Secure Brave Deeds in Service of | DEAR MADAM: of Grievances. Redress Their Country. We want to tell some reasc why Nemo Corsets you than | are so much more durable and comfortable any PARIS, October 21..Ten stiange Eight heroes who won honors in the t but , have occurred in the French navyaccilentsservice of the American Navy have been others. You know that hey ARE, prob- r already .vithin a year, fires on shipboard, shells distinguished by the selection of their ably you don't know just why. oursting prematurely, suns exploding namps as those to be borne by new the first the best of materials are none ^ ivhile at practice, culminating in the boat destroyers, Nns. 4.'! to 50, torpedo In place, very of the battleship L.a Riberte whilesinkngat These great Americans are: inclusive. we have even had to invent mchor Stephen Cassin, who won too for the Nemo; and in Toulon harbor. distinction in 1 good The Are on l.a out near the war with Tripoli, commanded the r to them ei yard of I.iberte broke 9 new fabrics get good lough. Every he apparatus for flooding the forward Ticonderoga in the battle of Eake I i' m I means of I , matenal is accurately tested for strength, by magazine, which afterward exploded, so and was a terror to West ChamplainIndian I instruments. ! 1near that the flooding machinerv could pirates. specially devised not be used. This circumstance has John Downes. distinguished for I As know, Nemo Corsets r?ever stretch and lose seemed odd to inquirers, and even more in the Tripolitan war and latergallantly you the of the : seams are sewed in ; singular was the breaking out of tires the power Malay chiefs,breaking their That is because the a shape. is same morning on the I'atrie and on the yiias Duncan, hero of the battle of I el o such a way that there is no "give" to them. This Suffren. two other battleships. The Bake Champlain, who carried, in the I # of our own itivention which is built < inquiry will endeavor to establishofficialface of the enemy's fire, orders in a dene by machinery 1 die facts, but in the meantime sinister small boat. our own machine Now you can understand nferences are In circulation. Either there Andrew Boyd Cumming*. who, while in shops.- executive of won't i s a certain want of precaution, which is officer the Richmond with other manufacturers can't meike corsets that Admiral Farragut, was why f i theory rejected by admirers of the navy, mortally now own machines at Forts Jackson and St. Philip.wounded stretch.we invented and the only tr the accidents have been caused with George Beall Raich, who was can do the work , nallgn purpose. for special gallantry duringcommendedthe civil in existence that that'Way. war, and saved Gen. Terry from French a mlust the Have Name. capture. i Nemo Corset pass eagle-eyes John Gushing master of Again: Every Upon the latter the Aylwln, sailing no a dozen skilled in before it can supposition the old Constitution, who was wounded of less than spedtors ' accidents might have been destructivewhile maneuvering against the Guerriore The in shuts it out bv the communistic revolutionary and again mortally wounded in the battle get into its box. slightest iperfedtion incited the i propaganda carried on in the navy by against Java. from all chance of ever t,tour hands. Alexander Parker Foxhall. one of the reaching ivilian agitators, or the.'! may have been founders of th.e United States 'Naval Nemo Corsets outwear all others because every Nemoj! letached acts of ombit'Fred individuals! Academy, and who greatly promoted the > n rebellion and success' of Admiral Foote's operations in as much in material and i private agalpst society represents at least twice value, ill authority. Scarcely a day throughout Mississippi. )MPANY J (l.A .nmA iAn/*Ae F. LUTTRELL CC lie Andrew K. Renham. who THE France of corsets so Ill di uic saiuc year passes in without acts prevented making, as any other puv^co* simple destructi^eness affecting tlie the Brazilian rebel fleet from interfering to douible value because we such as tlie cutting telegraph pubic,ami with American shipping ir^-the rebellion AGENT TOtt U. C. DUPONI CIRCLE We can afford give you elephone wires, the derayspng of railway of 1803. and saw service against the PHONE N i762 more corsets 3.00 and than witches or tlie placing; *;.if obstacles or Chinese pirates and in the battle of Port make high-pneed ($. upward) racks. Royal. other American ns combined, Tiie French have a woftii of their own all manufacturei ' 1 'or these acts. It is Sabotage." Tlie Career of Stephen Cassin. skillful vord is transi t, As for that is y the result of scarcely a'We. although Cassin was born in comfort, simpl ikin to vandalism. In Collective Stephen correct physiolog;ical and hygienic lines, tlie first step is to'iboinplain tomovenentsthe February 16, 1783, and Philadelphiadied in designing along rovernment or the corporation, the Georgetown, D. C., August 26, 18."7. He to fit; the so that no Jk - and Reduces the corset is made figure is to "demonstrate" by processionsec>ndor entered the navy as midshipman Supports whereby w, ^ -1: i it.. i . j .1 *J or seam can Ren/e, bone or artery. It ueeung iiii'i u;e next is .- > uesiroy 21. 1800; became a lieutenant FebruaryFebru- A Stout Figure £teel press upon vineyards in (he champagnesomeliing.the IS«>T; 1814: jp to master this art irovinces, tlie provision si'.ops in northern ary 12, master, September 11, The Bandlet of Lastikops takes years '"ranee or the railway ciatiors, as has captain, March .'{, 1825; reserved list, Webbing is firm enough to is to imitaite Nemo Corsets mi pened on the Western railway, September 1 "t, 1855. support, and It simply impossible tiie sulmrhan trains were usuallybeaiiscHe served with distinction in the war give ample leiiind tlieir schedule. * to insure Corse No. 523 suct with Tripoli. In the war of 1812 he sufficiently elastic cessfully. Sell-Reducing (pictured Now those who know' the French navy the in the battle of ^ Tieonderoga commanded perfect ease. is an example of that fcicft. No fabric except in<i holieve thoroughly i'11 tiie excellent i -ike Ohamnlain and was rewarded by a today) pirit and that with a for Mom Please discipline generally Congress gold bravery Just can be used for the Bandlet the service ice idea of coin in that action. nied^l gnt, accept perade ^ No. 523-low Lastikops Webbing possibly I would deem it a sure to face to face bustj v ever in the number of violent idenceFour of the eneffiy's gunboats united in quite plea meet you i this the rec corset and attribute them where not an attack the again No. 522~me<lium} which makes greatest lucing hap>onings upon Tieonderoga, in I to woman I abdominal nirely accidental to "sabotage." amf again coming almost within my office. would like tell every man, and A marvel of figure-re^uc- stru&ed for women w.ho need pe supportcon:rfe<ft distance, but were a« oftengrappling tion. Sizes 20 to 36. I Queen's Interest in Lace. i.ieut. Cassin coolly walked therepulsed. child in Washington how'import ant a part of the human from underneath. schooner's after deck amid a storm of tern are the we all so tho The fact Queen Klizabeth of Belgium has und. i» missiles, watching their movements and teeth neglect. svsughtlessly a biit with a I No. 522 is similar model, slightly higher aken to revive or preserve tiie failing1 directing his guns to be loaded with is. no one likes to go see a dciitist if there's a tooth to be SELF-REDUCING / are the corsets which thousands of physi- 1 i-trusscis lace industry. Mthough Rrus-j canister and-bags of musket balls when bust. These i n -1 H the.v attempted to elose. drawn or a hollow to be filled, W e are all horn " HI ;ois lace is admired and worn quite as cowards, and even To carry the Tieonderoga by a fire are preserving. , nueli us it ever the cians heartily recommending probably was, indus- poured over iter stern or by boarding hei that's-the size of it. But, why 1 >e slaves to ourselves? Cast BROS. » ry is a fading one. Tiie girls of Bel- pv»-r t lie tab"rail were both that over. KOPS . ' perseveringly think 'X « Please rintvt t.rof.vo * .1.x l.inn.Tl, .mill ri«-i l<> Hi' I . and as anil off that called fear aind see me work wrm(A5TI^DPjl J| J'l PUiUvtiU I | 11 attempted, gallantly bug-a-boo today. My resisted. I BANDLET mall profits, the effort on the eyesight successfully tj <D He was a terror to the pirates thaj is absolutely painless and guar;anteed for 20 years. Come, ind the Ion? apprenticeship required to tie West Indies and capturedinfested My Patent Suction Teeth !o good work drive them into other four of their vessels in 1*22 see me if you would be happy a nd healthy.
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