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Show CAAirFUtE SKETCHES. SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. gtstlaaatee f the Kt rue Ihe Fleea! "r Ending Jane lo, ItOI, Mm Ike Md at Sa.tlO.ese Nevye lm-amuse lm-amuse Coal. MTM or TUB W AOONKB. O eallor bold! when o'er the deep The brave ship beats through stormy waal bar, TW sun and atari thy couraa mutt Keep; Tla trusting binds til aearta to-gatbar. to-gatbar. Than, landsman, hall! Fer ua tha sun Marks out a path which never varies TJatil within tha waat Is won A raat beyond tba rolling prairies! 1M hungry danger haunt our war, Tbsrs's yet a tlma fur mlrtb and sighing! We've sworn our trader we'll obey And seek lbs hill where gold Is lying! ly-ing! Than coma away! Across the plains Good fortune yet shall smile above us. And some glad morn the lor thai sains Shall lead us back to those who lore us! Has not the hunter here his wish. Where roads are smooth and streams are shallow T Each prairie pool's ag1"am with flah; The shy deer feeds along the tallow! In hollow tree bees hide their sweets; Wild fowl to every wood are winging; wing-ing; And nature's Joy the heart repeats Whan through the silence song Is sinning! What though In marshes serpents nest? What though in thicket lurks the savage? These are the perils of the west. And there's no spot death will not ravage! Then westward ho! We venture where The brlKlit day dies In a golden glory, And all our hope Hi s over there In lands unknown to song or story! Then lift the sung! I-ot valleys ring! We lead the wuy, and more shall follow, fol-low, Who to a slumb'roiis llfo will cling When hearts hut acho and truth Is hollow. Ring ss we bound o'er hill and dale, Like ships that rldo above the billows, bil-lows, Our WBgn.is mark the outward trail .And (iod keeps watch where valor pillows. NAVAL KHirtlATrX ' '"' ' The estimates d.r l ho navy for the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1903, wcro made public at the nnvy department recently. The totul amount Is :iK,!M0,-884, :iK,!M0,-884, against in.'JU, appropriated for the current year. The chief Increases In-creases nro I2,5ii(,i uu for i onatruetlon, $2,000,000 for armor nnd $l.'!),2'.5 In tlio appropriation for yard and docks. Secretary Ixhir, In Hpeaklng of the estimates. es-timates. Mild Hint they .to made with due regard for Iho ne uls of the navy, and Intimated they had the upprovul of the administration. He spoke of the Increased cost of tha navy, and said that the building of a battleship costing cost-ing $5,006,000 was not Iho end of It cxpenso, as Its maintenance was very eo-tly. These estimates, ho said, did not cover any recommendations for Increase, In-crease, of the navy over that already uthorlzed, but It Is more than likely the secretary will recommend three new battleships and th.oo new armored cruisers and a number of small gunboats. gun-boats. Among tho new Items of Importance Im-portance In the estimates are tho following: fol-lowing: New buttery for the Newark, 1176.000; new batteries (or the Albany nd New Orleans, $200,000; reserve guns for ships of the navy, fM'0.000; floating dry dock. Portsmouth, N. H., 1(00.000, making the total fur that yard 11,644,676. A total of 11.127,700 for new works at the Huston navy yard, which Includes a plant for housing and storing stor-ing torpedo vessels and new buildings. The estimate for new Improvements st the New York navy yard aggregate 1.1,-110,000, 1.1,-110,000, which Includes 12.000.000 for the purchnse of land und 1200.000 for barracks for enlisted men. The new estimated Items fur the Norfolk yard aggregate r-l.2iiH.500. which Includes $jr.0.000 for the purchase of land. The estimates fur the nuvul nation at Sun Juan. I'oitn ltleo. are f2.HI3.000, and Include J I OOO.iOi) for a masonry dry dock. ",oooo for tho purchaso of land. 250.000 for dredging ami 2o0.000 fur extension of entiling facilities. An estimate es-timate of filaO.ouO Is made for a plant for hottBlng mid storing t irpeilo vessels ves-sels t Pcnsiicola An intimate of $108 000 Is made for the naval itntlon at Tatulln, Samoa, An cstlmulo of $81.C00 Is submitted tor tho Cavlle station, mid Includi f'jeo.ooii fur a refrigerating re-frigerating plant. Kstlmntrs lire made for a complete naval station nt Ohing. apo, P. I., amounting to $1.4 1.'I.OOO. Other estimate are im follows: Naval mngozlno near lloaton, $."iO0,M0; navnl mnga?lno near Portsmouth, N. 11., $400,000; naval nuigaztno, Puget Bound, $100,000; defense for Insular naval stations snd coal depot, $.".00,000. CAPTAIN AH1IIV8 N.IMI-I.I.S. Capt. Ucorgo P. Ahern, Ninth l ulled States Infantry, chief of tho forestry bureau of the Philippine archipelago, who has prepared a hook on tho woods of the Philippines, has been In Wssh-lngton Wssh-lngton superintending the publishing of the reports of his bureau, which will soon be Issued by the war department. Ha has alo an exhibit of Philippine Woods at the Pan-American eipoatUoa In HutUlu. The rlchea of the Philippine Philip-pine forests In both building and furniture fur-niture wmiris . incalculable, hut fur use In the Islands many valuahl sne-cloe sne-cloe are almost index, owing to the ravages of the white ants which swarm there. A few months sgo Capt. Ahern reported to the war department that bt was making experiments with a variety of native woods to determine heir rapacity to resist attacks from the ante. Ha labeled a large number of sample pieces of wood and placed them In an unused house where the ants could operate freely upon them. On reaching Washington, Acting Secretary of War, Colonel Ranger, who follows closely everything dune In the Islands, lagulred as to the result of the riperl-ments. riperl-ments. "Mr. Secretary." said the captain, cap-tain, "when I went to eiamlne the samples thsy wsre all gone." "What!" eiclalmed tba secretary, "hsd the ant utterly destroyed them?" "No," answered an-swered Capt. Ahern, "not the ants. Soma native, more Interested In pot-bolllng pot-bolllng than In science, bad made off lth the entire lot" Saturday Evening Even-ing Poet ONLY TWRI.VR KNF.W BONO. Only twelve out of the 400 enlisted force on the receiving ship Richmond, st the league Island navy yard, ordered or-dered to leain the words of the "Star Hpangled Manner," gave evidence recently re-cently that they knew the eong. says the Phlladephla Press. Capt. Leary, of the Richmond, sent forth the order that no lenves of absence ashore woulil be granted unless the men showed that they knew the words of the national anthem. To ascertain how many ot the sailors and landsmen really had memorized toe song Capt. I.eary de-elded de-elded to hold a t it examination. In the morning, after the men had been lined up at roll call. Chaplain Morrison Morri-son requested all those' who knew the words to stco forward. . To the sur. prise and dismay of the officers only twelve stepped out from the ranks. To relieve the nervous teuslon and merriment the lieutenant In charge Immediately Im-mediately gave the order to "air beds." Homo of the sailors say that while the captain has authority to compel them to learn rules of ordinance, ne baa no rlitht to order thorn to learn "Tho Btar Spangled Manner." As a largo majority major-ity ot the men who crave leave of absence ab-sence declare they will not learn the sung, the situation promises interest, log developments. A MINDANAO HI I.KH S CANF. A curious letter, written In long, back-haaded loops, nut wholly unlike the whole notes In musical notation, recently passed ttirough the department, depart-ment, says the Huston Evening Transcript Tran-script It whs from Wato Mama Da-toh Da-toh Ilaqui. one of our faithful subjects In Mindanao, a ruler of his peoplo, and a Mohammedan of true faith and al-IosUauco. al-IosUauco. . Ilia conduct had been m exemplary ex-emplary at the time when other Inhabitants In-habitants or the Philippine Isles were giving much trouble, to the United States, that (len. MarA-thur, after a tour through that part of tha archipelago, archipel-ago, dcclini) to send this Da ton a cane. He accordingly hud ono beautifully headed and engraved, at an expense of about $::n, und furwarded to the loyal clflef with his compliments. The acknowledgment, transluied Into English, Eng-lish, Is as follows: "This letter from your hrnl her Wutu Mama Pat oh Darjul to his brother tho Cnptuln-Onoral of tho Philippines concerning tho appropriate appro-priate present -a cane which I have received from his Kxcollnucy through the commnnding officer nl Mulalmng. t wish to express my great gratitude to him for his thoughtful remembrance. My pleasure ut receiving It roaches the skies." Curious Condition (lovernlug Arrest, Hear Admiral Terry, commandant at the Washington navy yard, tells an amusing story about court martial requirements re-quirements In the navy. Admiral fikcr-rott fikcr-rott was then a captain, and an officer who had been charged with an offense and ordered under arroet presented himself wearing his full dreas uniform, but having no swnrd. "I can't arrest you," said Capt. Hlierrett, looking for the missing swnrd, "unless you come prepared to submit your sword to me." The onicer explained that be had not received his sword from home, although al-though it had been expressed to him. "Well, you'll have lo get ono," was tho reply. So tlio officer skirmished about lu tho nnvy yard for some one who had a sword to lend. Finding one, tho offender returned to Capt Slterrctt and was promptly and regularly regu-larly put under urraet according to regulation. Money Hlrklea Has Drown. One way and another (Jen. Daniel K. Sickles bus drawn about $1100,000 salary sal-ary from tho government. As colonel of the Seventeenth New York voluntoor Infantry and tho I'urly-Becond regular Infantry fur seven years he received $:i..luu a year, or $24.1100. As major-general, major-general, retired, fur thlity-llve years he has received $3,1125 a year, aggregating aggre-gating $!Ut;.K75. As representative In congress from New Vurk for four years ho received $.",000 a year, or $20,000. and as minister to Spain ho received $12,600 a year -Chicago Chronicle. Monument to (len. Heed. The citizens of Kent county, Maryland, Mary-land, hnve decided to erect a monument to the memory of (ienoral Philip Hoed, hero ot Caulks Held. General Reed was commissioned llouteuunt In the Third regiment of the Maryland line, Oct. 13, 1778, snd served through the war ot the revolution. He commanded the in 11 It lu which repelled the lirltlsh st Caulk s field, near the Cecil county line, and was made brigadier general. He wus I'nlted States senator from Maryland from 18(10 to 181.1. |