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Show IAS A GEh.dAitS UMQUE TOMB. BURIAL PLACE OF SIR LION DINER ON LONG ISLAND. Cupllal of tha fulunjr Is It jw City. GAR- Klaa-wou- (Special Letter.) land-locke- 3Ir Lion Gardiuer, Knight, to whom the King of England granted Gardin-er- a Island, off the eastern end of Long Island, was probably the only man burled on American soil over whose bones a distinctively armorial monument has been erected. Lion Gardiner came to this country with Lordand Lord Brooke, after they had received a grant of a large tract of land to the westward of the Colony of Rhode Island, and settled at Saybrook Point, now in Connecticut. There Sir Lion in 1636 and 1637 built a windmill, which for 175 years afterward ground the grists of the farmers. The mill fell into decay, and now all that is left to mark the spot are a pair of millstones, brought from England, which lay where the mill formerly stood until this fall, when they were removed to the roadside, about one hundred feet to the westward, and a sign recording their history was set up by the people of Saybrook. One of the stones is .still bound with the hoops of iron 'that were around it when It crossed :tbe Atlantic. Sir Lion, after he received the grant ;of Gardiner's Island, moved to his estate and began to improve it, but he .died before he had ma:!e it the splendid 'feudal realm he intended it to be. His body was buried in the village cemetery at Easthampton, Long Island, the nearest settlement of any consequence, 'and his grave was marked with four plain cedar posts, set at its four corners. This was the only monument j to his greatness until a few years ago, when Mrs. Gardiner Tyler caused to be erected a monument unlike anything else in the United States. It is a mausoleum of polished granite, of modified Gothic design, within which is the figuri of a mailed and vlsored knight hors de combat. This sculpture is impressively hold, and the gauntleted hands, folded high upon the bosom, proclaim more eloquently than Say-and-S- Say-bro- Vhrfi-iu- g The Germans have none wonders fo. Dar es Salaam, the capital of their colony of German East Africa. They have been greatly assisted by its natural advantages, for the harbor is one of the heft on the whole seaboard, offering to shipping an available space se viral square miles in extent. However fiercely the storms may rage d without, the waters of this haven always renriln unruffled. Eleven years ago I)&r es Salaam was an insignificant huinlet containing a half dozen cabins and 200 native huts. Two years ago it had a population of nearly 300 Europeans and 15,000 natives. It was found in the past fall that the European population numbered over 300 and that 21,000 natives live in the place. The town, which occupies ah elevation above the harbor, has been beautified with Bplendld gardens and long avenues bordered with lilacs and almond trees. Even the quarter occupied by the natives, which is usually very filthy in African ports, is a model of neatness. There are now in the capital eight German commercial houses buying rubber and other products of the interior and sending quantities of modifies inland to be sold to the natives. The town, having a brewery, is able to make its own beer. Three hotels make life very comfortable for travelers. There are also a few Greek and Portuguese merchants, in addition to about 2UU shops kept by Hindus and Arabs. Dar es Salaam has a newspaper of its own, which every week prints all the local news and condenses tidings from the world at large for the perusal of its African patrons. The climate is hot, and therefore machinery for has been imported, ice being now an article in common use. Soda water is also manufactured In the town. A German company has opened a plantation of India rubber forty miles inland, cud coffee and cotton also promise to receive a great deal of attention. The planters, who are increasing in number, hold monthly meetings wit!) the traders at the chamber of (omnierci in Dar os Salaam to talk over prices and products for the general good of the community. Thus a civilized and prosperous little city has rista where there was nothing but barbarism a few years ago. ftafllnh Xolilnn.il Whu Kerrir.ii from tha King Lore Trwli of Land bract. luipoalug Rtractura Ovar III. Loat Bwi1d( 1'Imcc. - a ok and-consu- SQME SHORT STORIES VETERANS. FOR THE SI Hit ary breech-loadin- e! . ad-dre- es one-ha- lC-in- rh Jute on tha "TowrUt. The jioor Saxon "towrist what he may piiflVr in the Emerald Isle! There is a story on reiord of three Irishmen niching away from the race meet-;:at Pir.rhcrtown to catch a train v: hrcpch-luadin- h. y i 10-in- uuc-i- l 20-i- Sir I.lon (urrtliiiT'. Tomli. storied nu.rbie that lie g.niant in:: and warrior has fought his :::a fight and been vanquished. s.iK The title to Gardiner s Island held under the patent, to Sir 1.Ij:i. never having passed except hy inlieilt-ancand the estate is almost as wild as in the days when it 'was grant m by the British King. I ... hive ye j i got til" tickets?" cr i:- - - e, pea-jacke- n ; - mnl raid: . are "Yen i.uite saf. giutlemcn; wait Hear Caught get to the next station." On her last trip from l he north const tiii looked at each other. T!u ii:i the steamer Mandalay brought but one a we're done directhor he's passenger. He was not an ordinary now entoireiy." for steamdid board the he nor personage, B it ns soon as the train pulled up er In an ordinary way. The passenger 1:: tie gentleman jumped out and iic He was rescued was a young deei. bark with three first class tick- cum.? enchief the from threatened death by llaiid'ng them to the astonished gineer of the Mandalay, who jumped lie rail: "Whist, I'll tell ye i si angers, overboard and pulled the half-d- i owned I Ciint i M it. 'now along the thrain animal from the water. ' I tickets, plaze, ;i!i.ze: How the deer got into the sea at the :: :1 f es:1 're o.:g to three Saxon mouth ot the Coquillc river is a mysiowiis:s in another carriage." tery, unless he plunged into the wain from to purin an attempt escape Slump I'erullarltlM, suers, but this last Is merely a theory. With his lack against the wall, ex-- I At all events, he was in the water, I.. Slump of Idaho sat struggling to reacli the shore, hut un- rVivuur George room of the Normanthe in smoking the make to able headway against a few nt evenings ago. Washington strong outflow from the river. Tim die men of the Mandalay saw the beast Me sat in t1 e corner furthest from the and the chief engineer determined to door, which he faced. Senator Shoup save him. Jumping into the water the ul ways Mis down with his face to ths i rescuer swam to the deer, which wail, whr-.- be can. and he always faces e ti don. the know that seemed to approaching It is instinct, with Shoup. man meant it no harm, for it made no of his many stirring resistance and quietly submitted to be- It is the s of life us a western scout. His ing towed to the steamer and then ye.it in the senate often make conferev sailors The board. on thought hauled It a mascot and brought it to this city. fun of G.c caution with which he would in the committee i .f; in la's.1 iiis place San Francisco Bulletin. h Lai k against the wall, his i.- on :ho door, in order that no one Tlia Aga of Ieipofki. mi::'.:. ,v. 'the drop" on him by sur-- j A writer In Country Life touches on -, In the hotel iliniii, room, ex-- i a most interesting subject namely, Shoup always tries to get a of a bird's life in favorable cirthe wall, and he icfiiHs to next cumstances, and gives nil instance of table can not see every one that tie where ;.il a peacock which Is certainly over r i: cm;.hundred years old. Once upon a ti ne this bird belonged to the author nr I.ilMe Mini In lllg rrolibm. Lothalr," and it is more than thiviy An tun nice... i .. i,. ...a i.a.ii in New years since he was sect a3 h picsci York tint will make 7u inlies an hour to Lady Warwick's father-in-laQuite an old bird, you say, and yei on a level road. The next and most ill tile, it lark w .11 lie to Inil a love? Judged by the peacock standard has not quite attained middle life yet. 70 milec in l. n :u In Open San. ! i j .-i.l. : ! 1 I ; j (t-li- J I rei-i'i- . - j- e. - w ! 10-in- rh double-breaste- t, ear-fla- ps ld ar-live- d, fleece-line- 10,-0- 00 nt ot i OiHt-urdn- t u - nr Oceuratlon l'a IOYS. Wamlt-far Itluikl of Landfill FjvcuiciiIs. An ingenious list- has hem found fur the discarded wood blocks from London street pavements. The woods employed f.ir tills purpose are tle karri and jarrali woods of Australia which, owing to their density of grain and extreme hardness, are peculiarly for paving purposes. Ths adapted blocks are in reality only surface damaged and the inside is us hard and a durable as it was wlien first laid down. Several top manufacturers now purchase the blocks for the purpose ot making toys out of them. The outside is trimmed off and the remaining portion converted into small toys. Owing to the fact that the raw material is purchased so cheap the home manufacturers are in a position io underHitherto sell foreign competitors. Germany has enjuyed a monopoly'- in the English toy market. But even cheap labor cannot place the toys upon ihe market at the same price at which the English manufacturer is now sellthe ening his products. M. of of police laris, has ergetic prefect hit upon a plan hy which lie hopes to htlmulate French toymakers and keep out the wagon loads of German toys which find their way to the boulevards during festive seasons. For this purpose he has issued a circular inviting a public exhibition of toys, which can he cold for sums varying from a soil (two cents) to three francs (60 cents). No toy already known will be admitted to the competition. The competitors are to be of French nationality, and the exhibition will last from Nov. 24 to Dec. 8, when a distribution ot prizes will take place. A treat was in store for the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York when their parents brought home the Canadian toys that they have had presented to them. Among them was the model of the city of Toronto, complete In every detail, for which the school girls of that place subscribed. This wonderful toy is made in sections, duly numbered, and can be put together quite easily. Chicago News. Haw kaictiix ihn. laugemt of Alaaka The biggi st guu in tile world is now rraaouta a Xaw 1rolilaiu a to tlia practically completed .ml awaiting iii the Slen carriage in the shops of the gun facClothlug X ceded to Iruli-r- t la That I'lluiata. tory at Watervliet. N. Y. It was planned ten years ago and has been over five years In process of construcSOLDIERS-Stand! AMERICAN , TO TUB the ground's your own, my tion. It is the must powerful engine of destruction known. When combraves! Will ye give it up to slaves? pared to it, the largest gun built in the civil war times looks like a toy Will ye look for greener graves? cannon. The new weapon is known Hope ye mercy still? g as a sixteen-inc- h Whats the mercy despots feel? rifle, and it is intended for harbor defense. Hear It in that battle peal! Read It on yon bristling steel! Forty of these monsters were recommended by the Endicott board for the Ask it ye who will. harbors of New York, Boston, San Fear ye toea who kill for hire? Francisco and Hampton Roads. New Will ye to your homes retire? York was to have eighteen, San FranLook behind you theyre cisco ten and Hampton Roads four. And, before you, see According to present intentions, thiB Who have done It! From the vale number will be somewhat reduced. On they come! And will ye quail? Some idea of the size and power of Leaden rain and Iron hall this gin may be had from the fact Let their welcome be! that, it throws a projectile weighing 2,370 pounds. It requires 1.17G pounds In the god of battles trust! of ordinary powder to do this, or 576 Pie we may and die we must; pounds, of the new smokeless powder. But, O, where can dust to dust The cost of a single firing of the gun Be consigned to.' well, is over $1,500, of which the projectile As where heaven Its dews shall shed costs $1,CQ0. The gun has a alone On the martyred patriot's bed. of twenty-on- e miles. It has a range And the rocks shall raiBe' their head, that power will, it is estipentrating Gf his deeds to tell. 42.3 Inches into hardened bore mated, Rev. Mr. Warren. steel. The missile which it hurls s nearly as long as a man. 5 feet and 4 The author of the above poetical Inches. It will throw this projectile, was graduated from Tale In 1804. if aimed at an angle of 45 degrees, to He occupied himself successfully with a hight In the projectory of over five business and the He law. teaching, entered the Unitarian ministry in 1819, miles. If Mont Blanc were set on top of Pike's Peak this gun would Bhout and .was for twenty-si- x years pastor of the Hollla street church, Boston. Be- over them, clearing the top, it is computed, by 500 feet. The time between coming embroiled with bis congregation on account of his sympathy with the sheH8 leaving the gun and its striking earth will be a minute and a the abolition and temperance movements,' he resigned his charge in 1845. quarter. The best performance of any He preached for a time In Troy,.N. Y., gun up to this time is credited to a 9.45 caliber Krupp gun. In 1S92 an and at Medford, Mass., and volunteerwas given before the German ed at the age of seventy-si- x as chaplain in the civil war, hut was soon emperor on the Meppcn range. The afterward in consideration of his in- greatest hight reached by the Krupp firmities, transferred to the treasury shell in its flight was 21,456 feet and a the men mi red range was found to he department, where he retained lf clerkship until his death. He is the 22,120 yards, or twelve and miles. of author Airs of Palestine, and Cither g This gun is Poems," 1816 and lfclo, and "Poems." 50 feet in length, 5 fe-- t in diameter 1845. at the breeeh. tapering to a little over extwo feet at the uiuzio. It SOME QI EEK IX I Kill MS. clusive of the carriage, 130 tons. It Col. Patten says that the military is interesting to compare these figures of Alaska occupation presented a netv with the largest gun built in 1S64, problem as to the pariTnriar clothing smooth-borneeded to comfortably protect the men namely, the Rodman This is now at Fort Hamgun in garrison or on the trail from the New York, where It was placed ilton. rigors of that trying climate. The fur and other heavy clothing furnished nearly forty years ugo. It was never seetroops at the most northern posts in in practical use, the largest gun in a actual service the w.ir ing being the states, being manife-tlina le 1 u; te Pan cut. Several of these for the purpose, a supply list of extra were at the siege of Charleston, heavy clothing was made up for Alaskan service. The eoit of this extra whore they were known as "swamp The Hodman gun is supply per man was about $30, and angels." 2i is feet arid long nia the secretary of war authorized that bjn a single amount to be added to ihe clothing al- casting. It weighs r.S tons, shoots u about 1.000 lowance of enlisted ni'-serving in round ball, weighing a with charge of powder Alaska. Based upon experience, it has pounds, been found advisable to eliminate weighing sixty pounds. Its range Is about S.dOu yards, or 45 miles, and it from future issues for Alaska Mackinaw overcoats, shoe and boot piles, will penetrate about six inches in felt boots, wild cat cap:- and sweaters. wrought iron at short range. Only Mackinaw clothing not having proved two guns of this type were ever made-- . entirely satisfactory, cspcialV, In se- They were east at Pittsburg in 1864. d vere weather, a Parrott canDuring the war the vas, blanket-line- d blue in guns were regarded as "monsters." color, with trouseis of the same can- They are small, even as compared vas, but having a lighter weight blan- with the Rodman. Major Charles S. ket lining, has been devised as more Smith of the army bureau of ordnance, fully meeting the requirements of the says the new gun will be ready for the official tests as soon as the carcountry and will, it is belie verl, eventually supersede all the Mackinaw gar- riage mounts are completed. WashA muskrat cap of Improved ington Times. ments. .pattern forms part of the clothing shipped to Alaska this year. The Wanted Ills "Little Frock." in front are extended to cover The wife of a Gordon Highlander, the cheek bones, a small detachable received some time ago an invitation fur strap serves to protect the bridge to the barracks in Scotland at visit and end of the nose from freezing with her their litwhile the lower corners of the flap lap She did so, taking When they tle girl. over and fasten by means of a snap as husband was it the happened, fastener so as to cover the chin. For field or trail purposes a garment engaged ou sentry duty, and so they called a parka, made of blue denim, could not approach him. The child her "daddy with a rather sorhaving a hood trimmed with wolfskin eyed but amazed expression, as he rowful, and a lining at the cuff of the same up and down the square, paced kind of fur, has been specially manu factured and furnished to meet an shouldering a rifle, and wearing a kilt never .before beheld him thus existing need not filled by the outer She had and for a few minutes the arrayed, garments heretofore supplied. The muskrat mittens hereafter to be fur- spectacle seemed to be quite beyond nished troops In Alaska will have the her; but for no longer could she keep lining sewed In only at the cuffs so silent. Mamma, she said, in a voice as to enable the wearer to pull it out that betrayed a trace of childish If daddy finds the man .and dry it when damp from perspira'ees stole that trousers, will he gimme tion, which frequentily happens. The frock?" dat little woolen underwear regulation heavy .worn by troops in the states being found from experience to be too light National Cemeteries, for proper protection In Alaska, In seventy-nin- e separate national d garments have been cemeteries the bodies of nearly 300.000 heavy specially procured to afford a greater soldiers who died during the civil war amounof warmth during ths severest are interred. Some of the cemeteries year. Owing to the contain each a silent army of over portion of th of scarcity transportation facilities soldiers, in rankR, marked by the and the difficulty of Communication white headstones, on nearly half of with the posts in Alaska, it has been which is inscribed "Unknown. deemed advisable to keep at least one year's clothing supplies, ahead of reA good wife remembers a compli-nieIn addition a reserve quirements. paid her husband as long as depot has bren established at Fort St. she lives. Michaels, well stocked! with' all arMeat generates motion. If you don't ticles of clothing, equipage and matebelieve it, pick up a red-hpoker. lima to the rials essential te, which An expert Is a man who has a little can be drawn upon at iny time much more expeditiously thl-- by requlsi- - ability and a lot of Tha e, . ASDUT the United By this means the troops stationed in Alat-khave been and will continue to lie adefurnished with necessary quately clothing supplies. Wdohingtc . Star. Bias to CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. IN EAST AFRICA. - CLOTHES PROVE THE RUIN. I Dying Off from, tha Effri'li of Wearing (oat. The white mini's glory his clot lies is likely to rove the lmuc of the,' red man of the nest. At least one tribe of Indians is sncciiuiliiiig to the enervatcoat. ing influence of the tailor-mad-e The Topowaks, of whom a few lonely individuals still survive, were an agricultural race living happily on the bottom landB of the Colorado river near the gulf of California. They peacefuliy tilled the soil and went about as ilic-i- ancestors lia.i done for hundreds of years, enjoying life in their untutored fashion. Bet one day sudden envy of the white man's wardrobe implanted itself in Mu ir breasts, Then after each liarvi-sl- . me head of or a hunthe family put seventy-liv- e dred pounds of eurn into small sacks mill s' jourand made tin seventy-liv- e ney to Yuma. Here the corn was sold to the traders for about $1.50, which is fully 50 cents under i lie market value, and he ill variably spent all of the proceeds in shirts and overalls for himfor his wives. It was self und not alone the unaccustomed physical oppression lollowing the wearing of these unusual garments that weakened the savages, but they even began to deny themselves proper food in saving money to make additions to their colTo le lection of store clothes. dressed like the neighboring white man was a distinction among the braves that cost them dear. Professor W. J. McGee of the bureau of ethnology said of this strange case: "The fact is, they are dying from civilization, or it would be more proper to say, from the fact that their civilization has not kept pace with their ambition. They are an interesting people from the fact that they are the lowest, most primitive and thoroughly degraded of all the InChidian tribes in tin southwest. Chronicle. cago Yrilxt of I ml In ii r Largont (ton In the World. The biggest gun in the world is now practically completed and awaiting It carriage in the shops of the army gun factory at Watervliet, N. Y. It was planned ten years ago and has been over five years in process of construction. It is the most powerful engine of destruction known. When compared to it the largest gun built in the civil war times looks like a toy cannon. This new weapon is known as a g rifle and it is intended for harbor defease. Forty of these monsters were recommended by the Endicott board for the harbors of New York, Boston. San Francisco and Hampton Roads. New York was to have 18, Boston 8. San Francisco 10 and Hampton Roads 4. According to present intentions this number will be Bumewhat reduced. 16-in- ch breech-loadin- There Is one great and vital reason why I would oppose the education of idiots; it would only swell the vote of the two big political parties. The man who does more for his neighbors than his neighbors have done for him shouldn't boast about it. ar they might outdo him later on. |