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Show BELOVED BY DEWEY BUT DEATH CLAIMED HIM FOR ITS OWN. The Late I.l-nt. Itraioliy, the Admiral's lag Lieutenant at Manila He Was tlove Peru., nil Friend of the Ad-ilral Ad-ilral Son of titorgia. The oeati. of Lieut. Thomas M. Brum by. which occurred in Washington Washing-ton lettntly. tc-moved another of Admiral Ad-miral Dewey's gal. ant ofticers who were with him at t h naval battle in Manila Lay. Bmi- uy w.s the flag lieutenant of Dewey during the Manila campaign, and was besides a close personal per-sonal friend cf the adinual. The laf-ter laf-ter reposed great -;iih:en- in his fla-j lieutenant, s.j much that it wan he who was sent 1j.-w. y s t-:--s-titativ- to Admiral Von Diedriehs. in command of he (leriiiMii :;.j,i,i.i',.m, afu : the buttle ;if Manila. when the a'-rions of the tv-man tv-man admiral were so asinoviiiR to the Americaa f-ommander. Brumby did - .its ' j . LIEUT. THOMAS M BRUMBY. his work well ami ihe aliuir was riticot luil over ii a manner satisfactory satisfac-tory to all ri( i-i in .1. Lieut. r;niii !,y v ,s born i:i Georgia 4J y :ti.s iiuii. bis f.Ml.er bring Col. A. V. Brumby, v. hn c-jiaia the Four teenth Georgia I n fan try . lining the ivi! war. Col. i:;umb was for some time prit ilpa! of the Go.g.a Military Institute at Marictt:.. v. h. re his Son remain, re-main, d for a time. Youiik Urumby attended at-tended school at At'ai.ta ami then went c the Anu:p.dis Naval Academy, i where he was graduated in lST'x He haw servi ; on roast survey vessels and receiving ships fur some time and was commissioned a lieutenant in H'J'J. His commission ns V.mi lieutenant to Commodore Dewey dated from January. Janu-ary. ls:t. Lieut. Brumby returned to this country coun-try with his hit f and was made a popular hero . couple of months ago lie received a rousing reception in At- I " 1 Janta. Ca . where he was presented j the appropriation had been shamefully a sv.ord ami the freedom of the city. cut down by the economy-loving chair-Soon chair-Soon after his return to Washington j man of the committee on that special be manifested symptoms of tropic- fever and November Carlield hospital, whert was sent to his death oc- turred. 1 he remains of Lieut. Brumby were taken to Atlanta for interment. The lameii;(d oll.cer h;is an auetl mother residing in Marietta. Ca.. to whom se rcuity Long sent ;( letter of condolence, condol-ence, expressing the esteem in which her son was held. A WARRIOR OF THE DEEP. T li- Sn or.lii-.ti ! a 1 i-liler Absolutely U i I hunt irir. The swoidti.sii is utterly without fear and will, like a buffalo or rhinoceros, charge auything that offends it, often doing an amount of execution hardly to be believed did not the evidence exist ex-ist savs the San Francisco Call. Com bats between swordfish r. e mo.-,t inter- i -sting ami may he compareu to a duel ; between two expert swordsmen. Such j a contest was observed oii the long! pier that extends out into the ocean at Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, last year. Some fishermen noticed two big iish leaping out of the water and dashing along the surface. Soon it was seen that they were swordfish. The season was when the fish are tin- ; ikually ferocious. They had made several rushes and when observed . were at close quarters, striking each ; other powerful s.de blows like cavalrymen. cavalry-men. This was unsatisfactory, and finally they separated and darted at each other like arrows, the water hissing hiss-ing as their sharp dot sal fins cut through if. They evidently struck head on. one m s i-:u. while the sword of the other struck just below the eye and plowed a deep furrow in the fish, partly disabling it. so that it turned and attempted to escape. But its adversary ad-versary al.-o turned and with a rush drove its swor ! completely through the body of its foe and held it fast, only wrenching its weapon loose when its enemy stopped swimming. SWITZERLAND'S PPESIDENT. Walther Hauser. who has recently ( Pci n ri- lo ;i'J presidt nt of the Swiss ; tpublic. has long been prominent in j the politics of liis country. He was j for ten years a member of the Na- i ttonal council, then became vice-presl- I dent aad last year wa- elected presi- 1 PRESIDENT HAUSER. dent His re-election this year is the reward of merit. He is a leather merchant mer-chant and is 62 years old. Iat of the Maori. Judging from the recent report of the registrar general at New Zealand, that fine martial race, the Maoris, is going the way of all aboriginie whose country has been colonized by the .Kites. They may not become absolutely abso-lutely extinct for a few more decades, but their doom' is sealed. Among the causes officially assigned for the thin-n thin-n n of their numbers are the high fntlle mortality resulting from improper im-proper food, exposure and the want of or linary care, constitutions, debilitated by past debauchery, the belief in na-tlre na-tlre doctors and neglect of the sick, and the adoption of European habits and costumes, reading to diseases of the respiratory organs. AN IMPRESSION CHANGED. - Au English Correspondent's View on the Itoer as a Fighter. Commenting on one of the earlier battles of the Boer war an English correspondent remarks: "During the j last week or two many delusions with j regard to the enemy have been de-l de-l stroyed. Those who professed to have the utmost intimate aequaint-j aequaint-j ance with the Boer character were wont to declare that the first British success would send them scampering home, that he would never face our soldiers, and that our artillery would frighten him out of his wits. In short, they persuaded themselves that the Boer was an arrant coward aud would not stay even to be rained on. Events l:ive modified these opinions. Talana add Elandslaagte have not brought the enemy to his knees. He has attacked Dundee and Ladysmith. He has captured cap-tured two battalion of infantry. He Las manifested no alarm at our guns, which ate inferior to his own. On this last point 1 have had abundant evidence. evi-dence. Though our shells swept the hills with flame and steel, the Boers maintained their position and their ii-irk figures were often silhouetted on the gray sky line. These peasants have one decided advantage. They have initiative and rapacity to act independently, in-dependently, while their extreme mobility mo-bility and their knowledge of the country giv.-; the.n the confidence that comes of a sense o? security. There was nothing r-i.i:sr.al in the spectacle of two or three men eondiu tiug a fight of their own under conditions that seeneij more than hazardous. Three of these small groups of brave men kept up a regular fusilade on the face of the mountain long after the main body had bet n driven back. They remained re-mained to the end iind added a few Mauser bullets to the shells that hastened has-tened our departure when the signal was given to retire." MRS. DEWEY'S QUICK WIT. An tirlileitt of Iter UaNhinslon Life Wiieu Mie ;t M r. liazell. 'I he quick wittednf ss of Admiral Dewey's wile, just at present one of the most conspicuous women in America, Am-erica, is shown by the following incident inci-dent of her life in Washington, when she was Mrs. Hazen. Gen. Hazen was the first head of the Weather Bureau in Washington, and found the new position by no means a sinecure. It I was almost impossible to persuade the members o' ivugrcas to vote for him ! the necessary funds with which to 1 carry out his plans as he desired, and j he was at the same time grumbled at ! as if he were positively and personally responsible for the weather, which it I was a fad of the moment to say he furnished. fur-nished. Mrs. Hazen was the recipient ! of all his woes, and gave him her full i sympathy, especially one spring when I appropriation. A few days after the j passing of the mutilated bill Mrs. 11a-! 11a-! zen was a guest at an afternoon re ception at the house of one of the cabinet cabi-net members, where the most detestable detest-able and unendurable weather, untimely un-timely and unlooked for, was the topic of the moment. As Mrs. Hazen crossed cross-ed the room she was waylaid by the arriving chairman of the offending committee who accosted her thus: "Well. Mrs. Hazen. well, madam, and is this the best your .husband can do for us in the way of weather?'' Mrs. Hazen turned, looked at him with a sudden flash in her pretty eyes, then i answered, clearly and sweetly: "Yes, Mr. Blank, the very best for the appropriation." ap-propriation." The discomfited man I fled, in the midst of the hard'y con-! con-! cealed smiles of the surrounding 6uest9 FATHER OF THE GOLD BILL. Congressman Jesse Overstreet, who introduced the monetary bill which passed the house recently, is one of the rising young men in congress. He represents an Indianapolis district. Mr. Overstreet is just 40. He is a lawyer of ability and is serving his third term in the house. He has been prominent in national politics and has served as CONGRESSMAN OVERSTREET. secretary of the Republican congressional congres-sional campaign committee. Ilrain on the Czar's Purse. No boverei-n is so rich as the czar, and no sovereign has such heavy calls u pen his purse. The Grand Dukes MUbael, Vladimir, Alexis, Serge and Paul Alexandrovitch, as the Sons of emperors of Russia, receive from the head of the house an annual sum of 185.000 roubles 2G.20O) each, which, added to private means, makes them very rich. The wives and widows of Russian grand dukes receive 40,000 roubles each; their sons 150,000 roubles. It was the Czar Alexander III. who decreed that every member of the imperial family must spend a part of the year in Russia, or else lose a third of bU or her allowance. Speaker Henderson Caret. Speaker Henaeraou s gavel is some-! some-! thing of a curiosity. The h,ead is of j rosewood from Montojo's flagship and 1 the handle of native osage, grown in j Polk county, Iowa. It is decorated by an eagle's beak bearing a scroll in- scribed "E Pluribus I'num." On the upper ferruie are doves and a garland, on the lower, pictures of the United States ships Iowa and Des Moines. The Iowa arms and Mr. Henderson's monogram are on the side of tht hed. C'apt. Orldley'a Mother. A bill is pending in Congress providing provid-ing for an increase in the pension of Mrs. Anne Gridley, mother of CapL Charles V. Gridley. who commanded the Oljrmpia in the battle ;f Manila Sfce 1 ao aged woman, but has long r?en alloyed as a clerk ia the Land office. Her salary, together with a pension of $20 per month for services s a nurse in the civil war. kept her alive. She is now too obi to work. i ii - " ff srr-- - (New York Letter.) Cerras of disease, brought over the Atlantic or from the Caribbean, whether wheth-er of the dread yellow lever or of the more dreaded bubonic plague, at the port of New York tind their progress effectually barred. For at least three years the health authorities at quarantine quar-antine have been fully prepared to fight all kinds of infectious disease. Constant experiments have been going go-ing on in the bacteriological laboratory. labora-tory. Numerous serums have been produced by the inoculation of animals ' and important discoveries have been made in the use of gases for the destruction de-struction of disease germs. Improved apparatus has been obtained for the application of disinfecting agents, and the use of formaldehyde gas in the place of the old-time sulphurous acid h-is been a long step forward. Ail ships arriving at litis port are boarded by a deputy health officer from the Charles F. Allen. If Cue ship has come from an infected port, or if any of her passengers or crew show signs of contagious disease, the vessel is ordered or-dered into quarantine and completely isolated. The first step then taken by the health officers is to destroy all germ life on board the infected ship. For this work the James W. Wads-worth, Wads-worth, a small sidewheel steamer, has been elaborately fitted out. The Wads-worth, Wads-worth, equipped with a complete sterilizing steril-izing plant, is moved alongside the infected in-fected ship. The passengers and crew, with all their baggage and personal per-sonal effects, are assembled on the upper up-per deck of the Wadsworth; thence passing clown a companionway to the disrobing rooms in the stern. Each person's clothing is made .into a separate sep-arate bundle for which a check is given. giv-en. All then pass into the bathrooms. These suites of rooms are in duplicate, dupli-cate, so that male and female passengers passen-gers may be treated at the same time, with the most perfect seclusion and privacy. The whole interior of the boat with which infected passengers or crews come in contact is enameled with porcelain. 1 ue bathrooms are divided into stalls, where each person, occupying his individual "cell," is treated to a shower bath of a weak solution o( chloride of mercury, which destroys all germs that may be present on the surface sur-face of the body. While this has been going on the clothing has been sterilized steril-ized by the action of superheated steam in large steel vacuum chambers in the central department of the boat. A THE PITT OR REGENT DIAMOND Some of Its Possessors Had No Peace of Mind. The "Pitt" or "Regent," as it was afterward called, is the most perfect brilliant in existence, and Ks history is also very remarkable, says Chambers' Cham-bers' Journal. It is said to have been found by a slave in the Parteal mines in 1701, who, to retain his treasure, cut a hole in the calf of his leg, in which he concealed it, although it is more probable he secreted it among the bandages. The slave escaped to the coast with his "find," where he encountered en-countered an English skipper, whom he made his confidant, offering, indeed, to bestow upon him the stone in return for his liberty. The mariner, apparently appar-ently consenting to the slave's proposal, pro-posal, took him out to sea, and when there drowned him, after obtaining possession of the diamond. Disposing of the gem to a diamond merchant for 1.000, it is said the man afterward hanged himself in a fit of remorse. Mr. Pitt, governor of Fort St. George, and great-grandfather of the illustrious William Pitt, became the next possessor posses-sor of this valuable stone, weighing 410 carats, for 20,000. He sent it to London, where he had it very skillfully cut at a cost of 5,000. the process occupying oc-cupying two years. Pitt appears to have found his diamond no very enviable envia-ble possession for, after refuting the calumnies of his enemies, who had charged him with having obtained it by unfair means, fee was so haunted by the fear of being robbed that he never slept two night 3 consecutively under the same roof, never gave notice o'f his arrival in or departure from town, and went about mysteriously disguised. dis-guised. He must necessarily have felt greatly relieved when he parted with the diamond to the Due d'Orleans, regent re-gent during the minority of Louis XV., king of France, in 1717, for the sum of 135,000. TRENCH MAKING BY STEAM. In that greatest of businesses, modern mod-ern warfare, machinery continues to play an ever greater and more important im-portant part. Time was when the soldier sol-dier dug his trenches with a spade bayonet, and tedious and difficult work it was. In up-to-date warfare all this ia changed, for hereafter progressive nations will use the steam trench maker, a picture 0 which is shown in j hatchway in i deck opens : this disinfecting ', room, and any ob- , jects like bedding j which it is desir- able to treat in the retort with the bundles of clothing cloth-ing are pitched down from above. An iron cradle is drawn out of the i steam chamber which is loaded with the objects infected. in-fected. When this is shoved back into place and the opening op-ening made fast the steam is turned on, subjecting the articles arti-cles to a heat of 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Fahr-enheit. All articles of c'-.ct.ing which mifitit be damaged or destroyed by the action of steam are disinfected with formaldehyde gas, which is sure death to all germs, and does not injuriously injurious-ly affect fabrics. Passing from the bathrooms the passengers pas-sengers receive their clothing, and are transferred to 11 o f m a n island, where they are detained de-tained during the period of incuba- tion of the disease germs, which is usually from tux eight days. to The disinfection of the passengers and crew having been accomplished, the attention of the officials: f tho i Wadsworth is turned to the sterilizing ot staterooms, hold and cargo. All bedding from the staterooms and crew's quarters, all table linen, carpets, car-pets, rugs and hangings are treated with superheated steam in the vacuum sterilizing chamber. A portable formaldehyde for-maldehyde gas generator is then carried car-ried on board and the staterooms and saloons are filled with this gas, the most powerful disinfectant known. The hatchways of the ship's hold are carefully battened down and live Charles I.nmli Had His Little Jokes. The Rev. David Macrae in English Humor: A pretentious poet got his verses submitted to Charles Lamb by a friend just before the poet was to meet Lamb at dinner. Lamb found the verses to be feeble echoes of other poets, and when the author arrived he was seen to be as empty as his verses. This awakened Lamb's spirit of mischievous mis-chievous waggery. At dinner he said in the course of conversation: "That reminds me of some verses I wrote when I was young," and then he quoted quot-ed a line or two which he recollected from the poet's book, to the latter's amazement and indignation. Lamb was diverted immensely, but kept perfectly per-fectly serious and quoted more lines in connection with another remark, begging beg-ging the company to remember how young he was when he composed them. The author again looked daggers at him. Lamb capped all by introducing the first lines of "Paradise Lost" ("Of man's first disobedience," etc.), as also written by himself, which brought the poet to his feet bursting with rage. He said he had sat by and allowed his own "little verses" to be appropriated without protest, but when he saw Milton Mil-ton also being pilfered from he could sit silent no longer. Lamb reveled in telling this story. On another occasion occa-sion Lamb was brought into contact with a retired cheesemonger, who aped nobility and disliked any reference to the trade by which he had made his fortune. A discussion arose about the poor law, and in its course the cheesemonger cheese-monger said haughtily: "You must bear in mind, sir, that I have got rid of all that nonsense you refer to as the milk of human kindness." "I know it," said Lamb; "you turned it all into cheese." Japanese mills prefer American cotton cot-ton because it has a longer staple than that from any other coutnry. the accompanying illustration. This huge steam plow for cutting trenches was invented by Col. Templer of the royal engineers, and is being made use of for the first time by British officers in South Africa. This plow is hauled by a large traction engine and can turn up several miles of trenches in a few hours. into feMarrM A'S2&y it T.zzzzi KEEr-UOTAKAGUEl . pri tnixny g fipaycAixg .at inland siaxxm. steam, formaldehyde gas and sulphur dioxide gas are blown in a sufficient volume and strength to search out ....... . , . . : m . 1 .i F e V, mnnit. cci v ci e vice ciiiu iiduin ui cue work. After a period of six or eight hours the shin is comnletelv onened up to allow the noxious fumes to escape. All the decks and woodwork are washed down with a solution of bichloride bi-chloride of mercury. This work is done with scientific thoroughness by a body of trained experts. As a further precaution, after the foregoing process pro-cess of disinfection has been completed samples of all materials from the disinfected ship which might possibly carry contagion are carefully examined exam-ined in the bacteriological evidence of THE MILLS HOTEL. Former Millionaires Are Cared for t'nder lis ltoof. The Mills Hotel in New York has justified jus-tified the business acumen of the projector. pro-jector. Oguen M. Mills believed that comfortable lodging at 20 cents a night and meals at 5, 10 and 15 cents could be supplied, in a well-built and well-kept house, at a profit. The first year the Mills Hotel earned three and a half per cent. Its manager, Mr. Thomas, tells Chicago philanthropists who are thinking of erecting a similar hotel in that city that hotel No. 1 has 1,554 rooms, and that the average number of lodgers for 12 months past has been 1,559, some few rooms being rented by day to night workers and again at night to day workers. Thus the hotel is constantly full. Of the classes patronizing pat-ronizing the hotels he said: "Of the thousands who take rooms at the hotel ho-tel for 20 cents a night and meals for 5, 10 and 15 cents, several were former millionaires, several former members of the state legislature, a number were former ministers, lawyers, physicians, young students. Numbers were working-men, salesmen, canvassers, . men who are earning from $5 to $10 a week, men from other countries who go directly di-rectly to the Mills Hotel upon reaching New York. Numbers who are in the city seeking work go to the Mills Hotel, Ho-tel, as do small country merchants who have been enabled to go to New York markets for their goods by reason of the inexpensive lodging." The Mills Hotel is for men only. Success has prompted a movement to erect a similar sim-ilar house for women. Already $150, 000, half of the amount needed, has been subscribed. A hotel for women, affording the comforts, conveniences ana cleanliness that mark the Mills Hotel for men, undoubtedly will be a feature of New York business philanthropy philan-thropy in the near future. The Astronomer on Karth. The astronomer's disregard for things terrestrial has often adorned the comic story, but a tale which has the added virtue of truth is told of the famous Sir John Herschel In a volume by James Milne. Sir John, who was living near Windsor, had been up to London and was to return for dinner. din-ner. He wished to call for certain instruments in-struments which were being constructed con-structed for him. So off he set, carrying carry-ing in his hand several parcels, the contents of which were probably intended in-tended for dinner. His quaint figure looked still older than usual as he scudded along the streets. When he had gone half-way, he was alarmed. It was clearly impossiblethat he could go on to the instrument-maker's, and still get home in time for dinner. He had a party of guests that evening and thus his punctual arrival became imperative. im-perative. He wheeled about and started back, when suddenly the cry was raised, "Stop, thief!" A policeman had been watching the not very fashionable fash-ionable bearer of the parcels. When Sir John came to his sudden halt, this fellow reasoned, "Ah! he observes me; my suspicions are confirmed." There could be no longer a doubt when Sir John set out to run in the opposite direction. The policeman shouted, "stop, thief!" and rushed after the astronomer, as-tronomer, a crowd of curious people gathering from all sides. Sir John jogged on, heedless of the noise, until the policeman brought him up. The man of the law looked awful things. the station, and if the slightest evidence evi-dence of germ life is detected the entire operation of disinfecting the ship is repeated. The bubonic plague bacillus is no stranger to the corps of expert investigators inves-tigators at quarantine. Ever since the plague was first reported from Bombay its attributes and vulnerable points have been carefully studied. For two years or more its coming has been anticipated, an-ticipated, so that the arrival of the Joseph V. Taylor, bringing it as a distinguished dis-tinguished passenger, caused barely a ripple of excitement at quarantine, where only the usual routine was observed. ob-served. Effective as the appliances on board the James W. Wadsworth are, she is an old boat refitted for her present use, and much too small. In a few months New York will be outclassed by Philadelphia in the effectiveness of its disinfecting steamer, which is t , , ! about to be launched at the Cramps i shipyards This boat will have a fully equipped hospital of eighteen beds, with a corps of surgeons and nurses in attendance on its upper deck, so that sick persons received from infected ships may be treated on board, if such a course is desirable, without being taken ashore. Albuquerque, N. M., has the record of the greatest number of sunshiny days in the year of any town on the American continent. The astronomer explained that he was hurrying home to meet his wife and friends; that to be detained in such fashion was a trifle absurd, especially as he was Sir John Herschel. "Sir John Herschel!" echoed the officer. He laughed, and the crowd took up the cry. In the end poor Sir John had to send for friends who could vouch for him. With many expressions of regret, re-gret, the police then allowed him to depart. He was late, very late, for dinner, but the worst of it was that with an excellent excuse, he did not care to communicate it at the dinner-table. dinner-table. j A NEW FAD IN DESIGNING. j .One of the latest fashions among ar-I ar-I tistic and talented women is design-; design-; ing in stained glass. In New York city a society of arts ttnd crafts was recently formed for the designing of decorative windows by women. The success of this society may be judged N S S 7-7 N ,N from the accompanying illustration, which shows one of the efforts of this society's youngest member, who bears a name well known in New York society. so-ciety. He Is Tamed Now. About two years ago a fairly well-known well-known young man of this town who, in the days of his bacherlorhood, was addicted to the habit of conversing through his head covering, was delivering deliv-ering himself oracularly on the subject of the duties of paternity. "A man who'll wheel a baby carriage," he perorated per-orated loftily, "is a triple-plated, quadruple-expansion ass." On Sunday afternoon aft-ernoon last he was observed all of the customary earmarks of sartorial economy econ-omy distinguishing his ciake-up placidly trundling a pe.-ambulator through Lafayette park. A huge, fat baby goo-gooed in the perambulator, and a littla 2ady with a bulgy, homemade home-made bonnet walked at his side. Silence Is ready money, and there's a lot of pathos in the spectacle of a tamed man. Washington Post. Drawing a Fine Distinction. Laurence Gronlund, the socialistic writer who died a few weeks ago in New York, was a thorough pessimist. One evening, after he had denounced the modern industrial system in savage sav-age terms, a friend remarked: "It is not so bad as Russian despotism, is it?" "Not quite; the former is the worst possible; the latter the worst conceivable." Tilled br Old Methods. The soil of Egypt at the present day is tilled by exactly the same kind of plow that was used 5,000 years ago. The mud picked up by the wheels does not Increase tbe speed. 7 CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. SOME SHORT STORIES THE VETERANS FOR Respect for a Raw Kecrntt How It Was Created in the Breast of a Lieutenant Lieu-tenant iu the Philippines by a Clever Private, Burial of Alarlc. The warrior king in death reposed Amid his warriur hordes; His stirringr life esf conquest closed Where he had led their swords. Lest foenien should despoil the ground That held the royal clay, secret spot was sought and found 'Tls secret lo this day. A river llowed where camped that force Beneath a foreign sky. They turned the waters from their course And left the channel dry. There, deep below the sandy bed, A tomb was quickly made; Its burled walU it!it;lit hide the dead Till human glories fade. With martial show to match those years, And wealth a victor's share. With much of pomp. If less of tears, They left their hero there. The stream resumed Its wonted way, Performed the mission well. "Neath surging flood the monarch lay, But where no tongue could tell. Charles Bryant Cheney. Resceot for a Raw Kierult. It was on the Calamba expedition, and the dismounting cavalry regiment regi-ment had been alternately fighting and hiking all day. About three-fourths of the command were raw recruits, and the day had been a very trying one to them. At night they were almost al-most too tired to lie down and sleep, and some would have slept standing up if their friends had not pushed them over, so that they lay upon the ground. One of the recruits, the smallest small-est and newest man in the regiment, had been toled off for post duty and sent to keep watch on the edge of a river that flowed some 600 yards away from the camp. At 9 o'clock the officer of the day came around inspecting the outpost. The recruit was sitting on the bank of the river holding his feet straight jut in front of him. The corporal had told him that if he sat with his feet held up he would not go to sleep. The recruit was so busy holding out his feet that he did not see the officer of the day, who happened hap-pened to be the lieutenant who Ecorned raw recruits. The recruit finally fin-ally realized that the officer of the day had come up, and he arose, ( clumsily enough, and tried to look as soldierly as the rest of the men. But the officer of-ficer of the day looked at the little boy in the khaki soldier clothes with con tempt. Then he glanced across the river, and a happy idea struck him. "Sergeant," he said to the non-commissioned officer of the outpost, "you ought to have a man across the river. If they come in on us there we could be forming while they were coming across, if we only had a man over there to give the alarm." "Yes. sir," said the sergeant. "You go over there," said the lieutenant to the shivering little recruit. "Get behind the bushes and watch close. If the gugies start for us, fire once, anyhow. Then you can drop over the bank and come back to the outpost" the lieutenant paused for a moment, and then concluded "maybe." The little recruit shivered so that his teeth rattled, and to hide his fear he merely saluted and hastily waded into the cold, dark liver and across. The current was swift, and at one time the water came uj) to his armpits, but he got safely over, and then, alone in the enemy's country, he sat shivering through the night, trying try-ing to make out the fantastic shapes that loomed up in the darkness. About midnight be heard some one walking along the beach on the American side of the river. He raised his rifle and challenged "halt." The figure across the river halted. "Who's there?" asked the recruit. "Officer of the day," came back the response in the unmistakable unmis-takable voice of that individual. "Advance, "Ad-vance, officer of the day!" commanded the recruit with all the dignity of a brigadier general ordering the formation forma-tion of his brigade, "and be recognized." recog-nized." "O, that's all right, my man," said the officer of the day. "I can't advance across this muddy river, you know. How is everything over there?" "Advance, officer of the day," came from the recruit on the other side, "and be recognized." Then followed a peculiar click such as is made when the safety catch is thrown back so as to permit the firing of a rifle. The officer of the day hesitated no longer. He plunged into the cold water and waded across. He stepped into a hole and went in over his head. He walked ashore so wet he could have beeu wrung out by hand. The recruit looked at him. "It's all right," he said, tossing toss-ing his gun to port, "I recognize you. Everything is quiet, sir." Then he stood waiting for the officer of the day to empty a vial of wrath upon his head. But nothing of the kind happened. hap-pened. The lieutenant asked the usual questions, then waded back. And he never showed by word or action that he remembered the thing afterward. Except that he seemed to have more respect for raw recruits, and for one raw recruit In partic alar. Chicago Tribune. Heroes In Blue. In the year 1876, during the Sioux uprising, Gen. Terry, who&e camp was on the Big Horn, wished to communicate communi-cate with Gen. Crook on the Powder river. The country between the two commands was infested with hostile Sioux Indians. Trained plainsmen, scouts who had been Indian fighters all their lives, abandoned the courier task as hopeless. Then Private Jas. Bell, company E, Seventh infantry, came forward and told Gen. Terry that he would carry the dispatches. Terry gave Bell the papers and told him that he was riding to his death. The scouts said "suicide." Bell said nothing, but went. He rode principally at night, hiding in the daytime. Twice he was within earshot of the thumping hoofs of the Indian ponies bearing their riders rid-ers by his hiding place. A neigh from his horse meant capture and death. Yet Bell got through and gave Terry's message to Crook. Some years ago, when the Comanches, Cheyennes and Kiowas were on the war path along the Washita river, Texas, Sergt. Zachariaff T. Woodhall. with four privates of Troop I., Sixth cavalry, agreed to carry car-ry dispatches through the very heart of the redskins' country. The troopers troop-ers were attacked by a band of 125 warriors of the allied tribes. Wood-hall Wood-hall and his men held an advantageous place, with water and food and with an abundance of ammunition. They could have held off the reds probably tjnti' relief arrived, but Woodhall said to h's men: "Those dispatches must go through." Accordingly the little band cut its way through the circling horde. Woodhall was desperately wounded, but clung to his horse and his dispatches and succeeded with his followers in reaching their destination. They pinned a medal ot honor on htt blouse while it was hanging alosiJ his cot in the hospital. "In Matter of a Private. Kipling's story, "In the Matter of a Private," written years ago in India about a British soldier, was duplicated almost exactly recently at Fort Meyer, just across the river from Washington. Nicholas Davis of Troop B, Third cavalry, ca-valry, an enlisted man from the state of Kentucky, went daft over real or fancied wrongs inflicted by members of his troup. and, aggravated by drink, obtained a Krag-Jorgensen and a supply sup-ply of ammunition, barricated himself in the troops' quarters, and began firing fir-ing in every direction through the open windows at each private or civilian civ-ilian putting in an appearance within range. Fortunately his marksmanship marksman-ship was not good, and his bullets did no injury. The commandant at the fort, after exhausting all possible efforts ef-forts to capture the crazy trooper without with-out sacrificing the lives of any of his men. finally ordered him shot, and a sergeant and squad were detailed for that purpose. Instead of ordering a volley fired, however, the sergeant.who is a crack marksman, took a single shot at the crazed soldier. Only Davis' Da-vis' head and the stock and barrel of his gun could be seen above the window win-dow sill. The sergeant's bullet broke the ammunition chamber of the Krag-Jorgensen, Krag-Jorgensen, driving the pieces of metal into Davis' face and head, stunning but not killing him. This remarkably fortunate shot prevented what might otherwise have created considerable comment, the ordering of a soldier to be shot without trial in time of peace. Davis was secured, and, if he does not recover his reason, will be transferred to St. Elizabeth, the government insane in-sane hospital. The commandant at Fort Meyer refused to discuss the incident, saying that his first duty is to report to the war department. St. Louis Globe-Domocrat. titn. (iraut Owned Up. When (Jen. Grant came to Liverpool Liver-pool and was entertained at the town hall a quite unknown Liverpool man wrote to the mayor, with many apologies, but asking if he might take the liberty of asking for a few minutes' min-utes' conversation with the great soldier, sol-dier, says Sir Edward Russell's "That Reminiscence." The mayor hesitated, but found a way of mentioning the matter to the great man. who, without hesitation, said: "Certainly, let the gentleman come." He came. He said to the general: "Now, sir, utter amateur as I am, I have followed every step of the war and think 1 understand under-stand evti-y movement except one. On such a day you were there and the southerners were there," pointing to plans on a map that he had brought. "Now. it seems to me that you ought certainly to have gone there, whereas you went there," pointing again. Gen. Grant, the usually taciturn, and when not taciturn phenomenally terse, just took the cigar from his mouth and said: "You're right, sir; blunder!" blun-der!" and in a moment the strategist, beaming now, was courteously dismissed. dis-missed. Army and Navy. Wreckers working on the sunken Spanish armored cruiser Almirante Oquendo, near Santiago, discovered a chest containing $19,000 in Spanish gold, which the firm employing the divers will retain. Work on the cruiser has been in progress five months and many thousands of dal-lars' dal-lars' worth of treasure has been secured. se-cured. On the torpedo boat destroyer Furor the wreckers found a service of lreavy silver plate. Experts assert, after inspecting the destroyer, that she might easily have been raised and repaired. re-paired. The wrecking operations have proved a source of large return to the companies, estimated at $500,000. Holders of the Victoria cross in the British army, who have been a slowly dwindling band for some years, promise prom-ise to receive new companions as a result re-sult of the Boer war. Seven years ago they numbered 196, and just before tne outbreak of hostilities in the Transvaal Trans-vaal there were only 155. The Indian mutiny still accounts for the largest number of names on that roll of honor, no fewer than forty-two recalling that year of heroic struggle. The Crimean war, which started the roll, now ranks second with South Africa, each claiming claim-ing twenty-five names. Afghantistan contributes eleven names and Egypt and Soudan together make up the same number. For the rest of the names one must follow the union jack to all parts of the globe. It has been related thnt in one of the battles in the Philippines participated partici-pated in by the Twentieth Kansas, Albert Al-bert R. Stutevilie, a member of the Abilene company, had his gun at his shoulder when an insurgent bullet passed into the muzzle of the rifle and was stopped by the breech-block, against which it now rests. The circumstance cir-cumstance was so extraordinary that Gen. Otis sent for the gun and had it transferred to the war department at Washington. Stutevilie believed he had the right to buy this gun under the rules of the department, and sj he made some inquiries about it. Now he is informed from Washington that he has that right, and that the gun will be sent to him on demand, though the officials would very much like to keep it in the war museum at the capital. cap-ital. Having established his right, Stutevilie now gracefully yields to the wishes of the department, and the rifle will remain in the museum. Developing: Yankee Traits. From the Criterion: Every true Yankee should look with a great deal of quiet, internal pride upon the yan-kee-evolving south. That an Englishman English-man under a southern sun should ever become a genuine yankee has often been despaired of. It is now a swelling swell-ing fact. When these Spaniards called Lee a yankee a year ago it pleased the whole south, though there is as yet a comparatively small spot on the southern south-ern map where the yankee, sprung Out of the very soil, threatens to outstrip his own blood elsewhere. This soil out of which the southern yankee Is springing with such robust energy extends ex-tends from Lynchburg, Va., on the east, and Bristol, Tenn., on the west, to Eu-faula Eu-faula and Birmingham, Ala., on the south. It is about 500 miles in length, and from 200 to 300 miles in breadth. It embraces the iron, coal and cotton mill site, and decidedly the most in-' teresting phase of all this energy here is the cotton mill, for this phase is the latest and is developing more of the genuine characteristics of the New England yankee in the southern man than elsewhere in the country. Both Might Be Right. Peacemaker I wouldn't fight, my good men. First combatant And he called me a lazy loafer. Peacemaker Well, I wouldn't fight over a difference of opinion. You both may be right. Tld-Bits. |