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Queer Human and Animal Sprig's
in Our Philippine Territory
By Frank G Carpenter
Written for Che funzzy South
WANT to give you tome of
the strange sights you see
every day In the Philip
pines. Our new posses
sions ought to be called
Top sy-Turveydom, for
everything is upside down
and everything is strange.
Take, for Instance, a white
carabao In spectacles. I
saw one In Manila. The
carabao or water buffalo
is the ugliest of animals.
It is a mixture of a hippo
potamus, a cow and a hog in appearance,
and It has been described as a big hog
with horns. It is larger than the largest
cow. Its horns are at least half a yard
Iona, and Its hair stands out like the
bristles of a hog. The usual animal Is a
dirty gray or black color, but there are
some albinos, and they are the ugliest
of the lot. Their skins are a rosy pink,
their bristles as white as snow and their
eyes a#.v>st white. Put one of these
animals into a cart, yoke it there by a
bar across the neck, and drive it with a
line through a hole in Its nose, and you
have one of the moving pictures of
everyday life in Manila. You must add,
however, the spectacles. These are two
halves of a brown cocanut shell, so tied
together that they completely cover the
eyes and blind the beast, as it were.
Whether the goggles are used on account
of weakness of the eyes or on account
of the viciousness of the animal I do not
know. I have seen many such, and am
told It Is because they are dangerous and
liable to -horn.
These water buffaltes are the ducks of
the ox family. They have wide hoofs,
and they can swim through the swampy
Tice Helds, dragging their harrows or
plows. They can travel over the quick
sands which swallow up army mules,
and they are used to drag flat boats and
sleds over the soft soil. They are fond of
water and are to be seen lying In every
pond or puddle taking mud baths. In
deed, they must have water every few
hours or they will go mad, and their
owners drive them every now and then
down Into the canals for a swim.
These animals do the draying and cart
ing of the towns and the heavy farm
work of the country. They are also used
for riding, and a common sight is a farm
er going to or from work on one of these
ungainly beasts. The children ride them,
lying down upon their backs or sitting
with their heads to the horns or toward
the tail, as they please, directing the
buffaloes this way and that by a kick
or a slap. The animals are fond of their
child masters and submit to them with
out trouble.
The street scenes of our Filipino cities
would be a continuous vaudeville if they
couid be transported to the United States.
Take the men and boys
Out Fil- who go about with their
ipino Vaa* shirts outside theiy trous-
deville a ers. It seems so queer
ipshoes are hung up on poles rather than
laid away In boxes and the shoe mer
chant hooks them down with a long stick
for his customers.
The shoes of the lower classes are half
wood. Every market has Us shoe bar a nr
and the one In Manila consists of low
tables covered with shoes. The dealer,
who Is Invariably a woman, squats on
the table with her goods about her and
gossips as she sells. All the shoes have
wooden soles with- uppers of white or
dark leather. There Is nothing hold
Revelation It. If you could drop th
' Esoolta, the principal
street of Manila, down upon Pennsylva
nia avenue this piorning the police would
run in the little brown men who In their
Sunday best are on their way to church,
because of indecent dressing. They would
tell the women to go home and put on
hats and stockings and perhaps warn
them that their mosquito net dresses are
rather too thin for propriety.
The Washingtonians would stare at The
half-naked Chinese coolies, bare to the
waist, trotting along with great bundles
on their naked shoulders. And they could
not understand one-tenth of the other
queer characters. They would wonder
' at the milk man with a great clay jar
' on hla toeK. who serves out milk from a
tube of bamboo. They would wonder at
the chicken peddlers carrying wicker
crates of fowls fastened to poles on their
shoulders, and they would stare at the
women going home from market with
bundles and baskets on their heads.
The Washington gtrls would hold their
fans before their faces at the sight of a
naked brown baby riding on the hip of
Its half-naked brown mother, and the
boys would probably hang about the
church doors and itch to tickle the bare
feet of the pretty Filipinos kneeling on
the stone floors of the cathedral with
their upturned feet peeping outside their
dresses.
Indeed, everything in Manila would be
odd could it be dropped down In the
1'nltod States. Every store would be a
curiosity and every trade would make
you open your eyes. The tailors, for In
stance, all squat on the floor as they
sow. They have hand sewing machines,
which they rest on the floor or on tables
half a foot high, and they use their feet
os we'l as their hands In thb work. In
deed, every Filipino has four hands and
twenty fingers, for the feet take the place
of the hands. The cooper holds the tub
between bis feet as he puts on the hoops,
the carpenter steadies his lumber with
his toes as he saws and planes and a
woman carrying a bundle on her head
through the street and haring a baby In
Tier arms may pick up something from
the pavement with her toes. The Filipino
farmer threshes his grain with his feet
and the cocoanut peddler walks up the
great trees with all the facility of a cat
or monkey.
A queer instance of skillful pedallty I
saw one night on the Luneta in Manila.
It was a coachman using his toes for
candlesticks. According to the mun'clpal
regulations no cab can he driven through
tile city streets after dark without lights.
This man was the driver of one of the
little camarotes which ply In Manila for
20 cents an hour. He had taken a party
out to the concert on the Luneta, but had
forgotten his carriage lamps. By the
time the concert was over it was dark
and he knew by the law that he must
have a light on each side his carriage or
he would be arrested. He could not stay
wheTe he was all night, for his passen
gers would not pay their fares unless
they were taken hack to the city. The
man solved the problem by making cab
lamps of his toes. He borrowed two can
dles, and having lit them, fffuck one be
tween the first two toes of each foot.
He then stretched out a foot at each
side of his cab, and so drove on through
the crowd of fashionable vehicles, groan
ing as the hot tallow melted by the
flames ran down and congealed upon his
bare skin. This training of the feet as
an additional pair of hands begins at
babyhood. Many of our Filipino houses
have ladders for steps and the baby who
cannot hold on with Its • toes has many
falls.
Speaking of feet, those of the Filipinos
are small and well formed. The women
have high Insteps and slender ankles, and
as a rule feel no delicacy
about showing them.
Che Show* But few stockings are
of the Fill- worn. I venture that the
plnoi Washington gtrls alone
wear more stockings
than are used among
ihe 8.000,000 of our Filipinos. Even the
ladles use them only at churches and
parties, and some of the fairest and swell-
est of the Filipinos dance with their bare I lui . ...
feet thrust into sandals. If In the whirl and streams are "‘th them,
of the waltz the fair dame, Cinderllla
like, happens to cast a shoe, she dances
on with one foot bare until she comes
near the lost shoe, when she picks It up
with an entrancing twist of the ankle
without stopping the dance.
The shoes worn by the Filipinos are
usually heelless. The better class wom
an’s shoe Is a .bright colored velvet em
broidered with gold; it is often elaborate
and very expensive. In the stores the
c4 Filipino Milkman
the heel at the back, and it bobs up and
down as its wearer clatters over the
streets. The shoes for children are about
the same as those for grown-ups and the
prices are correspondingly less. A 10-
year-old boy can be shod for 10 c»nts, and
as he wears shoes only on Sunday, it is
easy to keep him supplied.
I wish I could show you a Filipino cook
ing stove. There are many stores In
Manila which sell kitchen furniture, and
which nevertheless have not a bit of iron
In them. The stoves and all the pots,
pans and kettles are made of red clay.
They are merely clay bowls with little
knobs on them ,to hold up the pots on
the charcoal fire within. The average
stove Is about 14 inches in diameter and 8
Inches deep, and It can be bought for 25
cents. The cooking bowls are equally
cheap, as I found by asking a stove mer
chant the prices. As we talked I per
suaded him to lift up one of his stoves
Startling that you can t Set overt and ho , d , t out In the sun while I photo
graphed it. He did so, bending over and
reaching the stove out toward me while
I pressed the button.
It is on such stoves that the meals
of the Filipinos are cooked. The natives
do not like our stoves, and one which
was imported by the wife of an army
officer had to be thrown aside because
the servant would not use it.
A separate stove is used for every dish,
some families having a dozen going at
every big dinner.
The fuel is usually charcoal or little
sticks of wood such as we use .for kin
dling. The wood is sold In bundles so
small that an average 10-year-old boy
could carry a dozen of them in his arms
at one time.
I spent much time about the markets
in Manila, now and then eating mv
breakfast at a market cook shop. There
are many little stands there where rice,
fish and other foods are offered for sale.
Everything Is sold In small quantities,
and 5 cents will buy you what the Fili
pino considers a good meal. I remember
one cook stand on the porch of the mar
ket house In Manila. The cook was a
btaek-halred, brown-skinned woman,
bare-footed and bare-headed. She chewed
vigorously at a quid of betelnut as she
worked, and her blood-colored teeth and
gums shone out when she laughed. She
was cooking shrimp patties In a red clay
basin of boiling grease. She would mix
some white sprouts and rice flour to
gether into a dough and wrap it around a
couple of shrimps as big as your little
Anger. This she would drop into the pan
and In a moment it would be cooked a
light brown, ready to bo ladled out with a
cocoanut dipper, and served with pepper
and sauce hot to the customer. Just be
side pits woman was another who sold
chocolate squares wrapped up In green
banana leaves, and beside her a girl who
peddled out yellow cocoanut candy. In
the same place I was offered sausages
about the size of my little Unger for 2
cents apiece.
I am surprised that the books about
the Filipinos make little mention of the
fish. I doubt whether there Is a country
on earth which Is so blessed in this way.
Fish and rice form the chief diet of the
people, and both are consumed in vast
quantities. The fish are of all sizes, from
little ones no bigger than a pin to some
weighing several hundred pounds each.
There are quantities of white bait, bush
els of shrimps, oysters and crabs of all
sizes in every market. The fish peddlers
and sellers are women, although salt fish
are sometimes sold by the Chinese. There
is no danger of getting stale fish, for
those of the markets are sold alive, be
ing kept there In bamboo baskets of wa
ter. When a sale is made the woman
takes the kicking fish out of the basket,
lays them on the stones and kills them
by striking them Just back of the neck
with a club. One of the most common
fishes sold In Manila Is a roun£ sunfish
not bigger than a 25-cent piece. In the
southern Islands fish of gold and ruby
and other brilliant colors are common.
All of the Filipinos are excellent fishers
and fish trappers. They catch fish with
hooks, they seine them out in great nets
and entice them into traps of all shapes
and sizes. The rivers are filled with
fish traps, labyrinthine networks of bam
boo into which the fish swim and cannot
find their way out. All along the coast
of the islands you see great fish corrals
fenced in with bamboo canes- woven to
gether with rattan, so set that t!#ey are
below the water at high tide. The fishes
swim In and when the tide falls they can
not find their way out. Then the men
come and scoop them up in dip nets,
killing the larger ones with their spears.
They have also small fish traps In the
shape of bamboo barrels, which are not
unlike lobster traps.
What would you think of going into
the fields and catching fish in every mud
puddle? That is what they do in the
Philippine Islands. The lowlands are so
underlaid with water that In some sec
tions you can break through the crust
at almost any place and by digging down
a few feet come to a slimy mud which
Is full of fish. Some of the mud fish are
as long as your arm and they are so
common that after a rain the ditches
Small
mud qsh are sometimes found even in
the gutters of Manila. In the wet season
the people always go out after a heavy
rain to fish In the rice fields, and In dry
times you may see women and men wad
ing in the mud of every canal with fish
ing traps. These are mere cylinders of
bamboo open at both ends. The fisher
man pushes his cylinder down through
the muddy water Into the mud bed of the
canal to prevent the fish -caught In It
from getting out and then reaches in with
his bare arm and pulls out the fish. Many
such fish have no scales; they seem to be
a sort of catfish.
I spent much of my time In Manila in
strolling about the 'fcanals. Parts of the
city remind one of Venice, they are so
cut . up by waterways,
Walerwzyl overhung by old Spanish
of Manila buildings. The business
Remind parts of the towns can all
One of be reached by canals:
Vonico The Escolta runs parallel
with the Pasig river and
canals cut through Blnondo and Tondo.
These waterways are filled with craft
of all kinds, from steamers from China
and all parts of the archipelago to the
little dugout canoes in which the--natives
bring their wares to the market. A trip
through these parts of Manila gives you
an idea of the real business of the Philip
pines. There are ships from the north
unloading great cargoes of tobacco and
steamers from the south with cargoes of
hemp. There are cascoes filled with co-
coar.uts and other flat boats of goods
brought In by the steamers out In Manila
bay. The cascoew are the chief boats
of the Interior. They are found in an
the large canals and you see many at
anchor In different parts of Manila, their
owners using them as retail stores, *n
which they peddle out the stuff they have
brought In from the country. In one ca
nal not far from the Orlente hotel you
may find floating rice stores. The rice Is
exposed for sale In great baskets and In
piles, and It Is peddled out by the women
belonging to the boats. There are cascoes
of firewood, cascoes filled with grass,
cascoes of vinegar and sugar and. In
fact, cascoes filled with every kind of
Philippine product.
Many of these cascoes form the homes
of their owners and the people who live
In them are of their own kind. They
have a covered awning over one end of
their boats and It is there that they cook
and eat. It is there that most of them
are born and there many of them die.
The cascoes are Intended for Inland
travel and freighting. They are barges
about 15 feet wide, 6 feet deep and 100 or
more feet long. They are made of great
timbers of hardwood so Joined together
that the prow and stern rise high out of
the water. On each side of the cascoe
Is a path of bamboo poles laid upon sup
ports extending out at right angles with
the boat. This Is for the pushers, who
.thrust long poles Into the banks or bed
of the stream and thus force the boat
onward. Each cascoe has a supply of
mats of woven bamboo, which are
stretched over the boat to protect it from
the sun and rain, making it look not un
like the cover of an old-fashioned emi
grant wagon.
The ferry boats of Manila are the
smallest and cheapest of their kind. They
are mere rafts and of about the same
shape. Each has a rude matting canopy
over It and each Is manipulated by a
ferryman, a browp-skinned, bare-footed,
bare-headed Filipino. The fare is equal
to a half cent of our money. The pas
sengers stand up sis they ride and a
stream of brown Filipinos, whlte-helmeted
Englishmen, American soldiers In khaki
and others flows on such boats across
the Manila canals from daylight to
dark.
Haiti, a Brooding* Nightmare of Savagery,
Bloodshed, Cannibalism
By Frederick J Haskin
Written for Che Sunny South
AITI Is the degenerate of
the West Indies. It is the
black sheep of the Antil
lian family. It has had
Independence for nearly
ninety years and yet it is
still groping in the dark
ness of barbaric night.
Although the waves of
civilization are washing
Its shores on all sidgi,
African savagery Is as
rife as If It were In the
Congo. The man who Is
skeptical concerning the benefits that
have accrued to the other Islands as a
result of American occupation, and Who
is Inclined to clamor about their self-
government, has but to visit Haiti for
an object lesson that will silence him
for all time.
It Is called the "black republic,” but
there is no semblance to law and order.
Everything bends to the power of brute
force. The lives of men are taken as
coolly as If they were bo many flies.
The pot of political .intrigue simmers
so steadily that only one of seventeen
presidents has lived to complete his time
in office. It Is here that the saying
"uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" is exemplified to the utmost.
The dreadful rites of primitive bar
barism are practiced in thetr most re
volting forms. When the voodoo drum
beats, Haiti bends the knee. Voodooism
lifts its hideous head and there is none
powerful enough to strike it down.
Neither the officer, the editor, nor the
citizen dare oppose It, for terrible things
happen to those who even talk about it.
There are occurrences In Haiti which
are horrible enough to disgust the devil.
In the sacrifice of the "goat without
horns" a voodoo priest, surrounded by
worshipers, dances to the low throbbing
of a drum and a crooning chant, until,
In the height of fanatic frenzy, with
eye3 upturned and lips frothing, -a
child is seized and stabbed, its blo|>d
sucked, and Its body afterwards boifcd
and eaten. TJhe government is power
less to prevent cannibalism when )t Is
practiced as a religious rite, for the
priests. In an unknown way, are always
successful in defending their votaries
against punishment.
Voodooism Is terrible on account of
Its stealth. It stalks under cover, and
the blow It strikes Is always unseen.
Poison Is the weapon and the priests
are past masters in its use. Strange
diseases afflict those who oppose the
voodoo or offend Its worshipers. Some
times the victim becomes blind In a
single night, another goes insane with
low, and allot her a red-hot corner In
the big bonfire that is kept ready to
accommodate all of her kind.
Haiti does not amount to much com
mercially. It has a teeming population,
but does not buy near so many goods as
other smaller islands
The with fewer inhabitants.
Commerce The natives In the inte
rs rior live on bananas.
Very yams and other things.
Inferior which grow wild. The
articles that are Import
ed In the largest quantities from the
United States are bread stuffs and pro
visions. Cotton goods are third In thf
•order of importance. Under existing
circumstances It is not a market that
the commercial powers are likely to
quarrel over.
There Is a ludicrous side of life In
Haiti that will afford the stranger much
amusement. The plug bat habit has se
curely fastened Itself on the men. He
who leans In ihe direction of being a
dandy gets a high hat, even If he has
not enough money to properly equip
himself in other ways. The women go
in for powder to such an extent that
being a bit dusky is not considered a
barrier to its use at all. To say that
one of these bedaubed belles Is a sight
Is putting it mildly. When a ship
oomes into the harbor there Is generally
a free fight among the boatmen who
come out to It. Each one is so anxlotis
to get ahead of the others that oars,
clubs and all -available missiles are
brought into play in the offensive and
defensive tactics that result from the
scrimmage. These fellows make even
more noise than the squawking crowd
of black “barkers" who lie In wait for
the weary traveler at the old train shed
in Atlanta.
The most sickening’cruelties are prac
ticed In Haiti every day. Every one In
power carries a club, which Is used
freely on the slightest provocation. A
policeman will beat a citizen Into insen
sibility on the street and no one dares
to interfere for fear of receiving -the
same treatment. Officers club the sol
diers until they fall to the ground half
dead—and If they, die of their wounds
no one seems to care. Exhibitions of
brutality are So numerous that they
pass unnoticed. When men receive
such treatment It goes without saying
that cruelty to animals is practiced to
an- extent not dreamed of in other coun
tries. That there Is a- limit to the
strength and endurance of his beast
seems never' to 'hdtve occurred to the na
tive. He wttiOfcite—It with enough to
almost break ltefback, and then lash It
and prod it' wfifk a metal pointed goad
until the blood streams down its legs.
If the poor beast falls from exhaustion,
It may have Its brains beaten out by its
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a i\ picat hattten Home
out a moment’s warning, and still an
other suffers the tortures of the damned
from some loathsome 6kin disease. The
victim Is seldom killed outright, but af
flicted In such a manner that torture
must be endured. I was told of the
pitiful case of one man who had unin
tentionally offended an old woman. They
were neighbors for a great many years
and had been the best of friends, yet
she turned upon him for a slight offense
and- poisoned him. It sefims the old
woman had several pigs that were all
the while getting out and running over
her neighbor's place. He complained
and each time she would apologize and
promise to fasten them more securely.
One day the man came across them
again; he picked up a club and threw
It at them, more to scare them thtki
with the Intention of doing them any
injury. However, the club struck one
of them In a vital spot and killed it. He
went at once to the old woman and of
fered to pay for the pig he had acci
dentally killed, but she would not take
anything, saying it was her fault In al
lowing them to get out again. Nothing
more was thought of the matter until a
few days later, when the man. after
drinking some buttermilk that bad been
given him by the old woman, began to
act in a strange manner. He was first
noticed down on his hands and knees,
making a strange noise, frothing at
the mouth and trying to eat grass. He
had been poisoned with some mysteri
ous vegetable mixture, and the sight of
anything green—even a window shade of
that pcolor—throws him into a fit. He
must be confined to his room or go
about In darkness, for v the doctors can
do nothing ffir him. The miserable old
hag—despite the fact that he had been
her benefactor for years—says nothing,
but gloats secretly over his agony, it is
to be hoped that Satan will give her
his personal attention when she goes be
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merciless master, and that, after all,
may be the best thing the> can happen
to ft, for then its misery Is ended, when
otherwise it would only be prolonged.
Among all the stories of cruelty one
hears in this land of blood, there are
none to compare with the deeds of the
E m peror Christophe,
Cruel whose palace Is crum-
Tslei bltng to ruin on the side
Which of the mountain above
Read Like Cape Haitien. This
Dreams prince of butchers was
a tavern cook in Cape
Town, Santo Domingo, until the revolu
tion against the French gave him an
opportunity to indulge in his passion
for killing. His rise was rapid and his
path to prominence was literally
drenched with gore. It is said the build
ing of Da Ferriere, the palace In • he
clouds, cost the lives of 30,000 slaves. It
has walls nearly 20 feet thick which
bristle with hundreds <V canno\i. All the
material to build It. as well as all of
the furnishings, were hauled up the
mountain by the exertions of hapless
slaves and prisoners It Is told of Chris
tophe that while the palace was In The
course of construction, a line of 100 men
who were dragging an immense cannon
up the mountain, became exhausted and
sent one of their members to ask for
help. In response to their reasonable
request the inhuman wretch ordered
every fourth man to fall out of the line
and he-fhot them In their tracks. He
then told the remaining seventy-five to
move the cannon, and upon their failure
to* do so, shot every third man In the
line, leaving only fifty at the ropes. He
then .gave orders to his guards to shoot
the remainder of the men If they did
not have the cannon at the tGp of the
mountain by nightfall. The poor
wretches finally succeeded In the terri
ble undertaking, but nearly all of them
died from their ej*?rtton. The few who
did not die were so badly disabled that
they were of no further uae as burden-
bearers and were thrown over the preci- 1
pice. Christopher was finally oornered In
his palace by a mob of rebels, and to
escape the vengeance l^e knew they
would certainly wreak upon him, blew
his own brains out. TFe Intervening
years have not In the least removed the
bane his evil life put upon the moun
tain; It is shunned as persistently as it
it were In fact the abiding placq of
Satan.
One who walks the streets of the cities
of Haiti must wade through piles of
unspeakable filth. He must elbow un
fortunates whose countenances are so
disfigured by disease that they are
forced to wear hoods—and anything that
is too terrible for a Haitien to look
upon Is Indeed horrible. The streets are
never cleaned except by the rain, and
by pelicans. Although these diligent
scavengers haye a wonderful capacity
for devouring filth, the supply Is far In
excess of their possibilities, and the
smell that arises from these difty, dirty
towns is dreadful. And yet, seen from
a distance, Haiti is a gem of beauty. It
Is another case of "distance lending en
chantment to the view.” If one could
see only Its scenic beauties, and remain
in ignorance of the dark practices that
are common to It; If one could avoid
the dreadful stenches and the sight of
Its depravity, and come only in contrast
with nature, a visit to it would be re
plete with lasting and pleasing memo
ries. Its mountain passes are grand; its
vistas superb. Bare flowers bloom by
the wayside and sweet singing birds
flit into every thicket. There are water
falls that from a distance look like
Shining threads of sliver, and valleys
as fair as a vale In Eden. But when
the sun goes its way over the hills, and
the shadows of night come down, that
awful drum throbs, and mystery hangs
over the land like a pall, chilling the;
ardor of the traveler as he realizes that
he is making his bivouac in the domain
of witchery. If a bell would only ring,
or a bugle call, or a whistle blow—any
thing but the awesome pounding of
that drum. But when It sounds all
other things are still. It is king and
rules with despotic sway. With the;
knowledge of the horrors It. Is responsi
ble for, there comes a disgust and loath
ing which overshadows every other senti
ment one might feel. YJihen the wrath
of God falls on Haiti there will be a
busy day In Hades.
Ever since the French abandoned Hai
ti—nearly ninety years ago—It has been
left to itself; not caring to have any
thing to do with any one, and no one
caring to have anything .to do with it.
But one of these days? -as- the light of
progress continues to Illumine the dark
places of the world, there will come, a
realization of the fact that such a peo
ple—filth ridden, rotten with disease, and
living in the abandon of their savage,
ferocious natures—have no place In civil
ization that Is crowding around them.
They are now a reproach to the morals
of this hemisphere, and a constant hin
drance to the work of making the West
Indies healthy and habitable. When the
time comes that the purfleation of this
pest hoi* cannot longer be postponed, the
power that performs the job will come
to have a perfect understanding of what
the "white man’s burden” means. There
are few places In Ihe world where the
slimy trail of the serpent is so plainly
marked.
Crew of the Gold*Dredger
A Thrilling Romance for the Youth
(Copyright, 1902.)
CHAPTER THREE
HE day arrived which to
Sam was the completest of
the year. On Saturday af
temoon at 12 o'clock ho
walked abroad a free man.
There was some misgiving
mingled with his elation—
a feeling that perhaps af
ter all It had been better to
“stick it out" at the office,
but the further he left the
office behind" the weaker
grew that feeling, and by
the time he reached his
boarding house he could have whooped
aloud In sheer lightheartedness. It was
done now. He had committed himself be
yond recall. With Johnny he went up to
the museum of art to take a farewell look
at the beauties of civilization before turn
ing his back upon them for a long time
Everything in the city took on a'new
light to the boys from the fact that they
were going to leave It. It was much more
interesting a place to leave than live In
they both decided. Its blessings brighten
ed on taking flight
Sunday was spent In visiting and saying
goodby to the few friends they had In
town—neither of them owning a near
relative, in town or out of it—and on
Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, the Judith,
thing goes from kicking to pulling hair- -
don’t you never get into It Wl>en you
have a difficulty with a gentleman, and
really don't know what you’re fighting
about. I naturally expect you'll use the
gun-handling your old dad has licked Into
you; but that's different.' The Only excep
tion the old man would make was lit case
the British tried to take this country
again. 'If that happens,’ says he, 'you
get the biggest gun you can carry, and
you stay as long as your legs tqill hold
you, or don’t you never say old man Oak*
was your father.’ Dad was p kind of pe
culiar man," continued Peter' gravely,
"but he done well by me. and I’4n going to
mind what he said."
The boys, thinking this was some of
Pete's dry joking, began to laugh, bȣ.
the look of sore hurt that came on hi*
face, although he said nothing, showed
them their mistake, and they apologised
instantly.
"Oh, that's all right!" said Peter, at
once appeased. "Can’t expect everybody
to feel alike—but It always cuts me up
to think anyone's making fun of dad-
mighty fine man. he was, body and soul.
1 wouldn’t come much more’n up to hi*
ear if he was livin', and he never had
a dollar In the world—gave it all away
to the rtrsr man that needed it. Hello!'
he cried, to turn the subject. "There"*
a mighty spin-looking little boat, trying
for a bresh with us.”
"HI!" said Johnny. "We'll give bln*
Then everything was lost'in noise and r tt>ind and falling water
Chicago Tribune: Dord Kitchener once
had an extraordinary experience, having
swallowed a bullet with which he had
been wounded, and which he now pre
serves as a memento. During .the cam
paign of 1888 Major Kitchener was hit In
the side of the face by a bullet during a
skirmish near Suaktm, and was taken
down the Nile and thence to the citadel
hospital at Cairo, where, despite all the
efforts of the surgeons, the bullet could
not be located. The wound was a healthy
one and soon healed, and the medical
officers came to the conclusion that the
bullet had worked Its way out without
being noticed. The major’s nurse one
day tempted the patient's appetite with
a tasty beefsteak, which had the major
no sooner attacked than he put his hand
to his throat, exclaiming: "Bllton, If
there Is no bone in the steak, I’ve swal
lowed a bullet; I felt It go down!" This
proved to be the case.
♦
Westminster cathedral, the basilica
which Cardinal Vaughan is building, has
come Into possession of the “Dupplln
carvings” bought for It from the earl of
Kinnoul. There are fifty-four superh ca
thedral stalls, which were originally In
the monastery of St. Urban, near Lu-
ceme. Tfcey were sold at the suppres
sion of the monastery, and forty years
ago came Into the hands of the earl of
Kinnoul. The Swiss government tried to
obtain them for Us national museum.
♦
The British consul at Nagasaki reports
that the new shipbuilding yards, known
as Mltsu Blshl shipbuilding and machine
works, are making the most strenuous
efforts to develop the shipbuilding trade
in Japan. For the purpose of getting
trained engineers a special school has re
cently been opened, where now over 250
students are. studying. Last year the
above-mentioned yards turned out sev
eral large ocean steamers of 6.300 tons
for the American service, as well as sev
eral freight steamers.
The police have compelled Russian art
dealers and book sellers to give a pledge
In writing that henceforth they will not
exhibit portraits of Count Tolstoi. All
postal cards bearing his picture have
been confiscated.
The mileage of street railways In New
York city has increased from 132 In 1864
to 1,142 miles In 1901. The total of pas
sengers In the former year was only 50,-
830,173 against the enormous total of D-
124,432,660 for last year.
, +
The prince regent of Bavaria presented
the pope, on the occasion of his twenty-
fifth Jubilee, an expensive crucifix of
opal, studded with jewels and bearing a
Latin Inscription expressing a sentiment
on the Jubilee.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
offer of Alfred Austin, the poet laureate
of England, to. dedicate to him the
American edition of "A Tale of True Love
and Other Poems.”
In 1877 the German patent office rot
on with only forty employees. Today
there are 729, and three large buildings
are needed, with pert* of four other*.
perfect in every equipment, cosy beyond
words, cast off their lines and filled out to
open sea, with hearty shouts of “good
luck!" from the boatman following hei
It was one of those perfect days in late
August that steal their beauties from all
the year. A brilliant, warm sun and a
cool, steady breeze. They swept out of
the bay at a spanking gait! everything
drawing and the Judith parting the water
most sweetly.
Sam and Peter sunned themselves upon
the cabin roof In blissful repose.
"Oh, I don't know!" warbled the se
date Samuel. "This ain’t so bad. There's
other Jobs—that's worse than this!”
"Right you are. old hoes.’’ assented Pe
ter In prose. “I wish they had boats on
the prairie—that’s the only thing Bhe lack3
—not that I'm going back on horse flesh,
but this kind of traveling is as smooth as
slippery ellum.”
“Yes!” jerred Johnny. "Walt till you
hit the swell outside—then I’ll have a
chance to see what you hardy salts are
made of.”
"I hope it won't be as bad as that!"
murmured Sam. Which called out a
laugh. It doesn’t take much to do that
cn a beautiful day, with office work
rapidly dimming in the distance and a.i
little ship slipping over the glinting waves '
like a fairy.
"There’s a craft that knows what hard
weather Is all right!” cried Johnny,
pointing.
"What's that?” asked the others, sit
ting up.
"Pilot boat—looks as If they were going
otl a cruise, too. Must have been bought
bv other parties—they’re sewing a piece
of canvas over her number—see?”
A couple of hundred yards away lav a
sturdy schooner. On her decks the men
were working, taking in stores frem a
small boat. As Johnny said, one man was
sewing a patch of canvas over the num
ber on the main&iil.
"People that bought her. bought a good
boat, all right!” continued Johnny, airing
his special knowledge. "No better boats
float than those pilot boats.”
"Say!” announced Sam, 'I'll bet I know
what she Is; that's the boat they spoke of
In the papers this morning. It’s supposed
she’s fitting out for a filibustering expedi
tion—the government may stop her."
"Filly-busting?’’ said Peter. "I’ve done
some of that—what do you mean?"
"They’re a crowd going down to fight
In Cuba—outsiders taking a hand In.”
"I wonder If that is her game?” asked
Peter.
“I doubt It,” replied Johnny, shrewdlj.
“It seems to me that they've called at
tention to themselves too much to be on
that lay.”
"You fellers haven’t any Idee of Join
tng the Cubans, have yer?” asked Peter,
suddenly.
"I haven't thought of doing anything of
the kind, and I guess Sam hasn’t either,"
replied Johnny. "No; we just wanted to
go down and see what all the trouble was
about."
"I’m glad to hear that,” said Peter,
"for if you had that In your mind you’d
have to count me out.”
"What?” they cried In one breath. That
the redoubtable Peter should have an
aversion to war was. unbelievable. "You
wouldn’t loin, Pete?"
"No, fir!” answered Pete, emphatically.
"No war In mine. My dad fit all the way
from Bull Run to Lee’s surrender. H*
used to say that he led the forlorn hope
Into Washington after the first Bull Rim.
and that he was the most relieved man In
the army on the day of the surrender.
However, his record shows he didn’t bring
up the rear all the time. But you never
see anybody qo sore on war as dad was.
“Pete,’ he says to me, Til tell yn.i
straight. Three-quarters of us fellers
didn’t know what the fuss was about and
most of the other quarter didn’t care a
durn. As for "dying to set men free," as
they sing about, I for one, didn’t have the
least notion of the kind, and there was
other members of the company felt the
same way. War’s a rotten rough and turn-
Die scrap, Pete,’ says he, Where every-
all he wants. Get to trindward, you bal*
last—lay out there and stiffen her ujp."
Neck and neck the little boat* Meed
out of the bay, and the pilot boat feO
out of sight and out at wd tl the lh»
terest of the race. The crews waved their
hats and shouted, laughing defiance at
each other, until, striking heavier water
and a fresher breeze outside, the Judith
drew ahead, at first slowly, but at last
leaving her opponent far In the rear.
“Oh, my heart! Isn’t this fine!" thought
Johnny as he raised his eyes to the blue
above. The plunging of the Judith ex
cited him, the spray cast up from her
bow tingled on his cheeks, the wind hum
ming through her rigging sang an exhil-
erating song. The boy was uplifted.
"Isn’t this great?" he called to his com
panions. But where was the enthusiastic
response? Peter sat with grltten teeth
and one eyebrow cocked up. He looked
as if he came down hard when the boat
rose, and pulled up as she descended • to
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