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Show V -- - i CAMPFIRE SKETCHES. woods at the Buffalo. The riches of an la exposition the Philip- pine forests In both building and fur. THE niture woods Is Incalculable, but for use in the islands many valuable spe-de- e are almost useless owing to the ravages of the white ante which swarm t lit Nary far U EUanl there. A few months ago Capt, Ahern litlutM lau Ending Jmaa 0, 1HI, BLnw reported to Ute war department that La-- he was Ik. Knnd af making experiments with a Taai.d Coat. variety of native woods to determine their capacity to resist attacks from the ante. He labeled a large number of HYMN OF TBI WAGONER. ample pieces of wood and placed them O Bailor bold! when oer tb 4m Ths brava ibip beat through stormy In an unused house where the ante could operate freely upon them. On weather, aua and atari thy count must reaching Washington, Acting Secretary Tla of War, Colonel Sanger, who follows keep; closely everything done In the Islands, tobind all hiarta Tli trusting Inquired as to the result of the experigether. ments. "Mr. Secretary, said the capna hall! Tor the landsman, Then, tain, when I went to examine the sun Marks out a path which acTar Yarice samples they were all gone. "What! exclaimed the secretary, had the ants Uadi within the west la won utterly destroyed them?" No," anA rest beyond the rolling prairies! swered Capt. Ahern, not the ants. Some native, more interested In Let hungry danger haunt our way. There's yet a time for mirth and than In science, bad made off with the entire lot" Saturday Evensighing! sworn our leader we'll obey ing Poet And seek the hills where gold is lying! ONLY TWELVE KNEW BONO. Then come away! Across the plains Only twelve out of the 400 enlisted Good fortune yet shall smile above force on the receiving ehlp Richmond, at the League Island navy yard, orAnd some glad morn the love that dered to learn the words of the "Star Kilns Spangled Banner," gave evidence reShall lead us back to those who love cently that they knew the song, say us! the Phlladephla Press. Capt Leary, of the Richmond, sent forth the order his the Has n6t wish. hunter here would! Where roads are smooth and streams that no leaves of absence ashore be granted unless the men showed that are shallow? they knew the words of the national Each prairie pool's aglam with fish; fallow! anthem. To ascertain bow many ot The shy deer feeds along-th- e In hollow trees bees hide their sweets; the sailors and landsmen really had Wild fowl to every wood are wing- memorized the song Capt. Leary decided to hold a examination. Is ing; men had bees the the after morning, And natures joy the heart repeats When through the silence song la lined up st roll call. Chaplain Morrison requested all those who knew the singing! words to step forward. To the surWhat though In marshes serpents prise and dismay of the officers only twelve stepped out from the ranks nest? What though in thicket lurks the To relieve the nervous tension and merriment the lieutenant in charge imsavage? These are the perils of the west. mediately gave the order to air beds" And theres no spot death will not Some of the sailors say that while the captain has authority to compel them ravage! Then westward ho! We venture where to learn rules of ordinance, ne has no The bright day dies In a golden right to order them to learn The Star Spangled Banner." As a large majorglory. And all our hopes lies over there ity of the men who crave leave of abIn lands unknown to song or story! sence declare they will not learn the song, the situation promises InterestThen lift the song! Let valleys ring! ing developments. We lead the way, and more shall fol, low, A MINDANAO RTLERS CAME. Who to a slumbrous life will cling A curious letter, written In long, When hearts but ache and truth Is loops, not wholly unlike hollow. the whole notes in musical notation, we bound hlll and oer as. dale, Sing the departLike ships that ride above the bll- -' recently "passed tnrorigtr ment, saya the Boston Evening Tranlows, script It was from Wato Mams Da-toOur wagons mark the outward trail Baqul, one of our faithful subject And God keeps watch where valor in Mindanao, a ruler ot bis people, and ' pillows. a Mohammedan of true faith and allegiance. . His conduct Jbad been, so exMATAS KSfAtATiEd. at. the time when other inemplary The estimates for the navy for the habitants of tbe Philippine Isles were fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, .were giving- - much trouble to the United made public at the navy department States, that Gen. MacArthur, after a recently. The total amount Is $08,910,-98- 4, tour through that pact of the archlpel against 877,924,52a appropriated ago, decide to send this Datoh a cane. for the current year. The chief In- He accordingly .,had ;pne beautifully creases are' 82,500,000 for construction, headed and engraved, at an expense .82.000,000 for armor-an8129,255 In the of about $30, and forwarded to tbe appropriation for yards and docks loyal ciflef with his compliments. Tbe Secretary Long, In speaking ot the es- acknowledgment, translated Into Engtimates, said that they were made with lish, Is as follows: "This letter from due regard for the needs of the navy, your brother Wato Mama Datoh Baqul and intimated they had the approval to his brother the Captain-Generof of the administration. He spoke of the the Philippines concerning the approIncreased cost ot the navy, and said priate present a cane which I have that the building of a battleship cost- received from his Excellency through ing 85.000,000 was not the end of its the commanding officer at Malabang. I expense, as Its maintenance was very wish to express my great gratitude to costly. These estimates, he said, did him for his. thoughtful remembrance. not cover any recommendations for In- My pleasure at receiving it reaches the crease. of the navy over that already skies." . authorized, but it la more than likely the secretary will recommend three Cartons Condition Governing Arrest. new battleships and three new armored Rear Admiral Terry, commandant st cruisers and a number of small gun- the Washington navy yard, tells an boats. Among the newltem of imamusing story about court martial reportance in the estimates are the fol- quirements In the navy. Admiral Sker-re- tt lowing: New battery for the Newark, was then a captain, and an officer 8175,000; new batteries for the Albany who had been charged with an offense and New Orleans, 8200,000; reserve and ordered under arrest presented uns for ships of the navy, 8500,000; himself his full dress uniform, wearing floating dry dock. Portsmouth, N. H, but having no sword. "I cant arrest 8500.000, making the total for that yard you," said Capt Skerrett, looking for 81,644,575. A total of 81,227.700 for new the missing sword, "unless you coma works at the Boston navy yard, which prepared to submit your sword to me." storIncludes a plant for houslng and ThC offlcervexplained that he hadnot ing torpedo Vessels"and new buildings. received bis siford from home, alnew The estimate for improvements at though it had been expressed to him. the New York navy yard aggregate $3,- - "Well, youll have to get one," waa 110.000, which Includes 82,000,000 for the fepiy. So tbe officer skirmished ths purchase of land and 8200.000 for about In the navy yard for some one barracks for enlisted men. The new who had a sword to lend.- Finding estimated Items for the Norfolk yard one, the offender returned to Capt $1,208,500, which includes Skerrett and was promptly and reguaggregate $350,000 tor the purchase of land. The larly put under arrest according to estimates tor the naval station at San regulations Juan, Porto Rico are$?,CT3,000rTf nil Include $1,000,000 for a masonry dry Money Sickles Hu Drawn. dock) $30,000 for the purchase of land, One way and another Gen. Daniel E. 1250,000 for dredging and $200,000 for has drawn about $300,009 salSickles esextension of coaling facilities. An Aa colonel timate of $G50,000 is made for s plant ary from New York volunteer Seventeenth the of ves for housing and storing torpedo Forty-secon- d regular An eslimate of infantry Bnd the selB at Pensacola for seven years he received Infantry naval Is etatlon for made the $108,000 year, or. $24,500, As major-generat Tutuila, Samoa. An estimate of $3,500 a retired for thirty-fiv- e years $381,000 Is submitted' for the Cavite a year, aggrereceived $5,625 he has rea for 200,000 station, and included f gating $196,875. As representative In frigerating plant Estimates are made- congress from New York for four years station at naval Olongfor a complete he' received $5,000 a year, or $20,000, - apo, P. L, amounting to $1,443,000. and as minister to Spain' he received Other estimates are as follows: Naval $12,500 a year Chicago Chronicle. magazine near Boston, $500,000; naval - magaflne near Portsmouth, N. H. Moon meat te Gen. Reed. naval- - magazine Puget $400,000; Bound, $100,000; defense for Insular - The citizens ot Kent county, Marynaval stations and coal depot, $300,000. land, hare decided to erect a monument to the memory of General Philip Reed, ' hero ot Caulks field. General Reed CAPTAIN AHERN-- SAMPLE. - Capt George P. Ahern, Ninth United was commissioned lieutenant in the of the Maryland line, States Infantry, chief of the forestry Third13,regiment 1778, and served through the Oct the archipelago,' Philippine of bureau war of the revolution. He commanded who has prepared a book on the wood the militia .which repelled the .British .. of the Philippines, .has been In Wash-st Caulks field, near the Cecil county the publishing Ington superintending which will line, and was made brigadier general. of his bureau, "" of the reports He was United States senator fron soon he Issued by the war department 1806 to 4813. of Philippine Maryland from He ha also an fvbibit SOME SHORT STORIES VETERANS. FOR pot-boili- Wti tit -- ' back-hand- -- al -- - al, ' v BOLD v CITY BR.IGANDS tyOMAN KNIGHT ERRANT TO AMERIOA. Thn Prtnerea Halrln ' (Philadelphia Letter.) Demure Philadelphia la greatly agl tated over the arrival of Howard Sloan, his halt brother, Knight Flu ley, Henry E Wallace and Oscar B. Dunlop for the abduction f Mabel Goodrich, a well known woman, ' who consorted with the gttded youth of that city. Mis Goodrich was accustomed to dress In the richest of fabric and word jewelry of tb most expensive kind. She spent money freely nnd It was thought she always had considerable reedy cash and was In position to obtain large sums at wllL Wallace, Finley and Dunlop confessed guilt upon arrest and agreed to tun State's evidence. It is believed that Wallace will flu this role as be was the least concerned In the abduo-tlThe prisoners are much cast doa over their fruitless folly and wlG the prospect of a long term of tmMltonment staring them In the face for Intimidating a social outcast 2heh apprehension la felt In Philadelphia because of the abduction, as it Mows that unprincipled parties haw power to wresJt much harm In this manner, even In Urge cities. House of the wealthy may be The AkSutlm. and large ransoms demanded, AbThe young men arrested tor her but It Is hoped the quick capture of duction were In pressing need of monMia Goodrich's abductors will have ey and they resolved on bold measures to obtain It It was decided by S hlutary effect end prevent similar the quartet that, If they could get the crises being enacted. woman to a place ot concealment nnd r KNIGHTS OF THE DESERT. by cruelty make her disgorge or agree jr to make soma of her rich Intimates tha Aral b . get the money, the plot could be car- Tbfefh Always Poor FltluMsn Fron. ried out successfully nnd their identity Tb Arab of today U one of tbe most unknown. Salt begun. Finley disfkselnating creatures to be met with, guised hlmBelt ss Mike. Glbbtnndy, sptcially it you meet him at home. fashionable coachman, Bloan as attorney of the, Philadelphia Law and Or- Th oases are little lsUuds of beauty der League, bent upon purification of aet In a sea of sand, consisting of a society, Dunlop ss Mr. Parker, a man multitude ot palm trees, growing of millions, and Wallace as a society whir there Is sufficient water, for the man. The last three Inveigled Miss Anb tay that the palm "stands with Goodrich, after she had partaken free- lta feet In the water and Its head In Without the ly of wine. Into a coach driven by Fin- th fires of heaven. "uniley, and then their trip began. First pain the desert. Indeed, would be the drove to an engine house at North nhabited and uninhabitable." t, Wayne and kept the woman there for t There are spine 360 oases In the of various sizes. One of the chief some time. Later they took her to the furnished flat of Bloan, on North Is Biskra, which has not less than tOOO palms, and from which we get Twelfth street, where the ImprisonHuge quantities of our dates. - To see ment terminated. The woman surrendered all her Jewelry and money to after hours of-- " weary traveling so her abductors sooner than face death, many palms in such a setting Is which was threatened in case she hes- sight a impressive as it Is beautiful, itated. Her captors demand was for san the Harmaworth Magazine. The $10,000, but the best the victim could Frmch Sahara covers 123,500 square do was to lef them have plus and tone, and 50,000 Arabs live in It la tt-- the large proportion of youths from 1$ to 2) years of age among those for crime. Of 600 cases Investigated, the majority were offense by boys or very young men. Hold-u- p were Invariably the work of young fellows, ss were most of the larcenies and burglaries. Whst la true of Chisago applies to the rest of tbe United States, according to a statement by 8tat Attorney (toneen, of that city, who le a Student 'of criralnology.H . t ays: walk .through th Cook Take County jail and yon will find It welt ' filled with young men. It waa even worse before the juvenile court was established, when w had to deal with boys over 10 and under 16. If I remember rightly, the criminal statistics of the United State Show that the majority of crimes are committed by persons between the ages of 23 and 34, while for th whole world the most prolific period of life la between tbe ages of 18 ant 23. Some people still form their Ideas of ths criminal from the sinister creature carrying a dark lantern or a dirk, which they see on th stage from time to time. In real life the iverage criminal a generally' a -young man who looks a good deal like the rest of young men. Crimes are committed by tbe yonng when their passion are strongest and their judgment 1 weakest Some are neurotics, others . are degenerates. In an Infant there are a!) tne elements of the criminal There develops vanity, cruelty, truancy, destructiveness, tbs proclivity to theft lack of foresight and all the ' traits of ths criminal Boms children do not grow up criminals because their natural tendencies are curbed. "In Chicago and other large cities had environment Is a powerful agency In producing young criminals. Mors than 80 per cent of the arrests the world over of which any record Is kept are of persons who came from tha tenement-hous- e districts of the large cities. The city reverses the Lord prayer and lead Into temptation and delivers to evil. Society is gradually oomlng to its duty of unmaking th criminals It ha mads and preventing others from becoming criminals." -- " I ' COMING The United States is to receive a visit this winter from Princess Helrle Ben Ayad, who has created a stir lu England by her crusade against social conditions la Turkey. The Frio-- 1, who la a daughter, of a former Turkish minister to France, hopes to eradicate polygamy In Turkey by organising a movement against it from the outside. Her lectures in London have been-- crowded and. aha has become a tad with society there. She has a beautiful and refined face, unlike tbe usual heavy type of the East, and carries herself In a regal way. Her husband, 4(ho waa sentenced to prison for espousing tbs cause ot th deposed sultan, Murad, but escaped, la ot - LEAD IN CRIME. Amtlii IisUiUm rnrnlnbnd by A City l Chians. The last grand Jurj doing service In Chicago expressed itself ss appalled at a A jad, Wtfn ( Fore Mr Diplomat of Ottoman Empire, U Corrtof on n Crnnodn Asnlnat Social CondUloo. It , BOYS T0 TELL OF TURKEY. crime-produci- long-haire- , 8a-bu- PRINCESS BEN ATAD. with her In London. When out driving she wears a heavy veil over her face, according to Turkish custom. LIFE Disposition ky Hnppy-Go-Lar- IN GUATEMALA. of loans Loootsd Thorn. It Is one of the Ironies ot fate that fond parents with dissipated sons should send them to the tropics In the hope that the outdoor life .and sew surroundings will reform them, writes a Guatemalan correspondent. The experiment has been made many times with disastrous results, and nowaday when a young fellow steps down the gangplank at any Central .American port the American and European vet erana who have for, years been on. their way to the devil via tbe tropics, mutter cynically; , On ., more ... unfortunate. Wonder if be baa any good money to sell," and as a preliminary to conversation, ask the newcomer to take drink, If he takes the first one, it, is all off with reform, and the chances are ted to one that he will drink from three to five times as much as be did af home 7 There are men, of course, who are strong enough to resist the temptation to drink, but, they are even fewer than one would expect. Indeed, It Is only natural that It should be so, sines there Is every Inducement to forget bnsent miseries In drink and few rea sow. for not doing so. While the tropics contain many "white men, as dlatln gulshed from natives, who are of the finest character and highest attain ments, it is unfortunately true that they also contain more than their full ahare of men who hare made a failure of life' elsewhere. ' elsewhere . Life , In Guatemala, as south of Mexico, Is a strange medley ot civilization and barbarism, grim Ilfs and death struggles, and , humor. To begin with, the absence of public opinion makes every man a law unto himself to a large extent The constant never-fallin- g source of jokes, and oaths ss well, Is tbe money. When a man lands In ths country with $100 and suddenly finds that he has $800 he Is apt to think it is a fine country and to THE PHILADELPHIA ABDUCTORS. throw away what he has ss if Ubad no value whatever.' Tbe rate of exchange (Knight Finley,- - Oscar ; B. Dunlop, Howard Sloan and Henry E. Wallace, arrested for abducting a woman and forcing her to surrender her Is constantly varying, and as all railroad salaries are paid In the native jewelry and to sign checks for what money the had In the bank.) currency, no man knows what be will earrings to tbe value of $2',500 and $85 tHe oases they build their houses In money. Then the bandits lowered the palms, which afford, much-seede- be drawing at the end. shade from the hot sun. Sun-dritbe prtoe of freedom to $7,000. Fimud bricks, are the chief thing " KoMtnll nnd Omni nally they agreed to let her fgo If "President Roosevelt," said an old she promised not to Inform the au- ssed In making these houses. Palm thorities of tbs kidnaping and would bfea provide any timber necessary, resident of Washington, "has msny of give them checks bearing herjtndorse-men- t The housea are two stories high. tbs tastes and traits of Gen. Grant Of for the sum' of $1,100. The quar- ?ut for the low doorways one would course he is more loquacious, snd I do tet represented themselves as ths think they were high walls only. All not doubt that be will make a better worst gang of burglars that ever In- the Internal light is obtained by open- administrative officer, but like Gen. vaded Philadelphia nnd threatened to ing on the courtyard round which the Grant, he doesnt wish to have a sort of halo thrown around him because be murder her If she Informed on them. house la built The Imprisoned woman was In' a The Arab home is somewhat of a Is the President of the United States. wretched state of mind, fearing her prison for the women, who are rarely He walks to church and'he permits his life might be taken at any moment seen abroad. , They take their walks children to romp. Gen. Grants chilShe was let, go finally and sent away upon the flat roofs, which are common dren were not so young ss the Roosein a closed carriage so aa to confuse to all eastern lands. But few Arabs velt heirs, but Just the same they her as to tbe locality. She said she live in houses. They are great wan- ruled the unofficial end of the Whit House. Gen. Grant walked nearly evsuffered tortures while in ths power derers. Wherever you travel In ' Albe went end a stranger who of the kidnapers, being bound ,and geria you 'axe always meeting large erywhere had never seen his portrait would confinecaravans Tbesa-Betouther on four gagged during ths move. days lira la tents, Which are simply camel probably have taken him, on ope of ments cloths stretched over boughs. For ths his trips from tbe White House to the Abdaeton Arrmttd. Jor. a countryiiian seeing - the ' Upen her re esse the woman told the most part they are poor and live on capftol, "He was the greatest window-gazslghf. the produce of a few sheep and goats. novel I ever knew. Anything particulars to her lawyer, who engaged would attract him. I can see him now. the sheriff to hunt down the guilty, . In my .mind, with the inevitable cigar and soon tbe four accused were brought Hlpu Want nnd Bret Birin In. The first was Knight, a stenogGtorge.W. Carleton, ths New York between bis teeth, standing in front rapher on the Philadelphia North publisher, who died recently, opened of somp store on Pennsylvania avenue American; then Dunlop, a barber, and a book store on Broadway nearly half looking st baubles designed to attract Wallace, a society reporter on the a century ago, and it became ui llte-rtr- y women and children. And so demorendezvous of the time. He pub- cratic was President Grant In hi Philadelphia Press, and lastly Sloan, tha leader and a bad man generally, lished Artemus Wards" first book, habits that the crowd passed him by." who baa been concocting evil schemes slid also th books of Bret Harts and Minnesota Is called the "Bread and for years with the Idea of getting other leading novelists. Butter State," snd rightly, too, for last rich out of them. He Induced the othher mills turned out 26.630.500 Miss Eleanor Gist has been er young men to go Into the Ooodrich engaged year of flour and churned over barrels Mire r.nce 1 for was there money clot, believing big Georges company. pounds of butter. lly happy-go-luck- d, WHERE NATURE IS UPSET. In street loronfrnlUw ad leolnadln Pfcanootaao. Nature is all turned topsy-turvin Iceland. Most people regard the Island simply ae an ont of the way spot ot no particular consequence to anybody under the sun, yet It supports a frugal, industrious and pious people. V bas almost a right to be called fire land, for there, frost and fire at strangely mingled. Tbe lofty ! skyward, alo. dud snow field and glaciers, yet at tK same time tend foith fire and steam and molten rock. At times the eruption,, suddenly bursting forth, melts the Ice and snow on the mountain hides, and great floods fmh down Into the valleys. On' ths cooled surface of the lavs flow Ice and snow accumulate and then perhaps a new flow of Java covert up the ice without melting It. The ice is thus shut up as In a great natural Ice bouse, and may be o preserved for thousands pf years. If Gelkle mentions a case in' which layer of ice bcchra between two beds of lava In a geological section. Tb antiquity of such a bed of ice la to be measured in thousands and tens of thousands of years. .On a smaller a natscale Is tbe famous ural Ice house not far from Cassel-bur- g, In the Elfel There on the hottest day In the summer Ice la to be found, .This Ice Is famous and was always served at the table of tha elector X of Cologne. Mnny r-n- ey -- gsiWfWF'' t Eis-hohl- e, y, Ammtmnr devll-may-ca- rt th ed er 00 H- Bran Bm4 fiend was practically short. It had Its full strength numerically; but two of the regular members had not been able to come, and in their stead had been pressed a couple of "followers who (In the vernacular) "could not play for nuts." Effectually to prevent their getting out a single sound, tb conductor- - had. jammed k cord Into their Instruments, or rather, the Instruments they carried. So that they were player and yet not players; they counted ss two, but otherwise they were s source cf weakness rather than of strength. Handicapped though the band thus was, however, it succeeded In carrying off tbe first prize. Good Words. A men well-know- n Their Horn In n Statnts The heroic equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, In Richmond, Va., Is believed to have hundreds of pounds of honey concealed inside of It. For months bees have been going In and out of the parted lips of both the hu- -' man and animal figure. The Insects were first seen there last summer, and doubtless have been making hpney ever since. There is tfo way to get Inside either figure without doing Irreparable damage, but fear is entertained that vandal hands may make - th attempt- Bore Malt Ileqata for MeKtnler Autographs. Among the papers of the late President Secretary Cortelyou has found 5,000 requests for Mr. McKinleys autograph, the accumulation ot tha sum-- mer. Cloarly Apparent, He Yes, I know two men J oughly admire. She Indeed? the .other one. thor-Wh- os Byron spent the leisure hours of nearly four years In the preparation of the first two cantos of. Childs Harold. - . 4 |
