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AFRAID OF UNCLE SAM ENGLAND ORDERED DOWN HER FLAG. She Said the Sulu Islands, Too, Were Ours—Captain of a British Merchant Steamer Gave the Flag to Natives to Raise for Protection. V On the departure of the Spaniards the Inhabitants of some of the Suhi Islands, notably Palawan, Balbabac and Kulion, applied for British protec¬ tion, and CapL Pfort of the British steamer Labuan, visiting Palawan in response to the urgent request of the natives, handed to the latter a British flag, to be used in case of emergency. On the matter being reported to Sir Charles Mitchell, governor of the Straits, and subsequently to the for¬ eign office, the latter telegraphed to Singapore orders that the British flag should at once be hauled down, and ac¬ cording to advices just received in Lon¬ don, H. M. S. Archer was dispatched to Port Royalist, Palawan, to haul down the flag. From the report of Capt. Pfort it appears that it was only on seeing the really critical state of affairs that he gave the flag to the na¬ tives. The Labuan called at Port Roy¬ alist, Palawan, on February 1, and found the people In great consterna¬ tion. The Spaniards had left three months previously, saying that the Americans would take over the gov¬ ernment in three days. On leaving, the Spaniards turned adrift, without food, clothes or money, all the native sol¬ diers. The convicts, too, were set at liberty, and all arms and ammunition having been removed the people were entirely at the mercy of the disbanded soldiers and freed convicts, who loot¬ ed and pillaged the whole country. On his arrival Capt.' Pfort was asked by the head man there if the governor of Sandakan would afford them protec¬ tion, and he, in reply, suggested that a letter in that sense should be dis¬ patched to the governor of Sandakan. Capt. Pfort also handed to them a Brit¬ ish merchant ensign with instructions to inform anyone seeking to molest them that the people were under Brit¬ ish protection. He also gave to them this letter: “Be it known unto all men that I, Captain Pfort, master of the British steamer Labuan, having arrived at this port and found the people de¬ sirous of British protection, have this day given to the president of this port a British flag, which I have instructed him to use and call upon all men to re¬ spect the same until such time as Her Britannic Majesty, Queen Victoria, notifies her pleasure regarding the pro¬ tection of this port and the Island of Palawan in general.” After leaving Port Royalist the Labuan called at Curaray and Jilandak ports, on the northwest coast of Palawan, and found a similar condition of things, the people being in terror in the mountains. Pro¬ ceeding to Kulion, an island seventy miles north of Palawan, Capt. Pfort found a local republic set up under Aguinaldo. From this place he took on board his steamer a number of refu¬ gees. The dispatch from Lord Salis¬ bury to Sir Charles Mitchell in refer¬ ence to Capt. Pfort’s action simply or¬ dered the flag to be hauled down, and added that the British government dis¬ approved of Capt. Pfort’s action. Her majesty government stated that Pala¬ wan and the adjacent islands, being portions of the Philippines, became by virtue of conquest, American territory. A DOUBLE-BARRELED CANNON. Almost as ingenious a weapon as the celebrated gun which was intended to fire a bullet around a corner, is the double-barreled cannon—“the only one in the world”—described by the Athens (Ga.) Banner. The cannon belonged to the Mitchell Thunderbolts, a company of old men organized here in 1863 purely for home defense. One of the company, Mr. John Gilleland, invented this cannon, and had it cast at the Athens foundry. A fifty-foot chain, with the ends at¬ tached to two cannon balls, was the charge, and the idea of the inventor was that when the balls came out of the muzzle of the cannon they would have a tendency to diverge, draw the chain taut and mow down an entire company. The Thunderbolts took the cannon out into the country near Athens one day to test it. It was properly charged, and was touched off with great ceremony. One of the balls got out a little ahead of the other, and then the mischief was to pay. It had a kind of circular motion, and plowed up about a quarter of an acre of ground, the members of the company in the meantime scattering in all directions to keep from being bit by the flying chain. The old cannon was never used after that except at an occasional democratic jubilee, when charges of powder would be fired. About five years ago it dis¬ appeared. Recently it turned up in a junkshop, and the city promptly bought it, and wil mount it near the Confederate monument. Penalty of Absent-Mindedness. A wealthy but absent-minded resi¬ dent of McPherson, Kan., recently bought a safe in which to keep his valuables and being unable to remem¬ ber the combination scribbled it on the plastering of a near-by wall. Subse¬ quently he ordered a calciminer to put a new coat on the wall. The mem¬ orandum was obliterated and it be- came necessary to have the safe blown open. ANIMAL DRUNKARDS. nor.es, Fowl., Cat. aud Bee. aa “Shock¬ ing Example.” In the course of a county court ac¬ tion tried early tills year it transpired that an ailing cat consumed two bot¬ tles of whisky, says Answers. Now, that horses enjoy strong drink is a well-known fact, but that the domeatia cat Is capable of imbibing will coma as a surprise to many, who imagined that the conectlon between the cat and the decanter was but a stock summer joke for the humorist when seaside lodgings are at a premium. It was probably to a great extent due to the large quantity of stout that Rory O’More the effects drank, of when accident recovering received from at j j an Kempton, that he survived to carry off numerous prizes. If prize-winning ; formed a natural corollary to equine drinking, British owners wooJd have reason to look forward to the forth- coming season with apprehension, for a few months ago there was discovered in Paris a horse belonging to a dealer in wines that is a positive inebriate. The animal, after many battles of wine had disappeared, was found one day hopelessly intoxicated in its owner’s cellars, into which it was in the habit seemingly of making its way at night and helping Itself. The horse was not altogether to blame, for it had been corrupted to a certain extent by hav¬ ing its oats mixed with wine when it was rather overworked, with the result that it acquired a habit which grew upon it with disastrous results. Some few years ago an action was brought at Oban by a poultry keeper against a local distillery company for injuries done to his hons by the said company having allowed intoxicating material to flow into the burn at which his poultry drank, with the result that the said fowls failed to do their duty in laying eggs, and, being more or less always under the influence of drink, refused to eat and grow fat. During the case one of the fowls was produced in court, but its conduct was such that it had to be ejected. Alas! on making an undignified exit, half a glass of whisky was presented to it by a by¬ stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat ruffled bird, whereupon the condition of the creature became con¬ siderably worse. The chicken is not the only bird that indulges. Parrots are notorious for their drinking pro¬ pensities, particularly the gray African parrot, a specimen of which the writer has seen hopelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense. A piece of “tipsy” cake was presented to a Hampshire donkey some time ago. The animal on being left to its own devices lost all sense of shame and proceeded to the larder of its owner and consumed a plum pudding of con¬ siderable size, two loaves of bread, and among other trifles a dish of tinned apricots—an action quite foreign to the usually well-regulated race. The effect of a very little spirit made fifty ants, upon which Sir John Lubbock experi¬ mented a couple of years ago, very drunk and almost incapable, so much so that twenty-five sober ants, whose attention was drawn to the depravity of their comrades, had the greatest difficulty in carrying the sinners home, though they eventually succeeded in doink so. The locust, however, appears to , have a capacity for spirit unparal¬ leled in the animal kingdom. Some months since an entomologist on a steamer off Gibraltar, wishing to se¬ cure a specimen that had alighted on the deck and not having a killing bot¬ tle with him, poured raw brandy upon the insect, but with no result. He then partially immersed it in more spirit in a saucer and waited for the end, which did not come. The locust, taking a long, refreshing drink, ab¬ sorbed all the spirit and did not die until several days elapsed. Bees and wasps are easily made tipsy by a mix¬ ture of beer and sugar. The expres¬ sion “to drink like a fish” is nothing short of a libel perpetrated upon the finny tribe, for it has been found that 1 per cent of alcohol will kill a gold¬ fish in one hour and thirty minutes, while 20 per cent will act on its sys¬ tem like prussic acid. TO SPEND ON DRESS. The society women of London spend enormous sums on dress and yet there are many women moving in fashion¬ able circles who manage miraculously on very little to appear well gowned. A fashionable dressmaker of i^ondon says among her customers are women whose allowances range from $750 to $1,000 a year. While one gown will cost $S00 and is destined to be worn but three or four times one can see how vast a sum can be expended. The dressmaker in ques¬ tion gives it as her opinion that no so¬ ciety girl can be artistically and hand¬ somely clad on less than $1,000 a year, and then she must economize in many particulars. Professional society wom¬ en and leading actresses are the most extravagant. Fads account for much of the money spent. This last winter in London women wore silk equestrian tights a great deal, claiming their skirts hung better and were easier to wear over them. Corsets lined with kid and chamois breeches for riding and cy¬ cling—these are some of the expensive novelties that cost. Royalty is not as extravagant as its subjects. The trous¬ seau of a princess mounted up to $30,- 000 this spring, but many an American bride spends more than that. Three or six dozen of everything in the way of lingerie mounts up. The path of a good woman is in¬ deed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.— John Ruskin. WAS NEAR TO DEATH. TERRIBLE ADVENTURE OF JOHN S. FEE OF OHIO. A Voyage In Polar Sett*—The Experience of a Traveler Who Has Keceutly Returned from the Arctic Region* — Ho Describes Northern Scenes. Mr. John S. Fee of Ohio recently spent more than a year In the Arctic regions, enduring all the hardships in¬ cldent to such a stay in a land of Ice and snow. Mr. Fee Is a young man, possessed of excellent educational ad- vantages, and has traveled extensively in both Europe and America. He talks entertainingly of the remarkable ex- perience through which he passed while in the neighborhood of the north P°>e- He is a personal friend of President McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna, and a brother to United States Consul William T. Fee, who recently sailed for his post at Bombay, India. “When I think of all I have expe¬ rienced on this voyage, I wonder that I am alive to tell the tale,” he said to a reporter recently. I don’t try to re¬ member, but I am doing my best to forget the incidents of my voyage to the Polar seas.” Mr. Fee sailed from San Francisco on July 1, 1897, going north, and passed the Aleutian islands thirty-two days later. On July 26, the Bering sea was entered; nine days later East cape, on the Siberia coast, was sighted; on Aug. 18, passed through the Bering straits into the Arctic ocean. Herschell island, which lies in 73 degrees SO min¬ utes and 40 seconds north latitude, and about 142 degrees 20 minutes and 40 seconds longitude, was reached on Aug. 24, where the whaling fleet of fourteen vessels was met on Aug. 27. Three days later they again weighed m 3 W' Ife” mmr ; ■ X % V a 4 VI VI m '4, 5 m 1 % /Ifi mM X* m i §8Sll Plilllll km, lJg§|S|fc V m s? id _ , i \ w r ’ *>^3 FEE IN ARCTIC DRESS. anchor and were caught in the ice and fearfully jammed; there they remained fastened for four days, and then the ice, by the aid of strong currents and heavy winds, worked off slowly and carried them 1,000 miles to the north¬ west of Banks Land. There they lay five days for repairs, tied to the ice¬ bergs, arffi by heroic labors of officers and crew worked their way out of the pack. The return trip was then be- gun, and on Sept. 15 they were again caught and frozen in. There they re¬ mained all winter, until July 24, 1898. After several days’ drifting, they man¬ aged to free themselves, and were again caught in the ice pack, and for over two weeks drifted in mid-ocean. They again freed thmselves and on Aug. 8 managed to get in shore to Franklin’s return reef, where Dr. Franklin was lost in 1852. The ship on which Mr. Fee was sailing was in a sinking condition and unseaworthy, so all the cargo was transferred from the stern and the vessel laid up for sev¬ eral days for repairs. On Aug. 16 they again put to sea and succeeded in working their way through the float¬ ing ice. At length the passage back through the Bering sea was made, and Mr. Fee found himself safe again in America on Oct. 13, 1898, less than a year ago. Of the whaling fleet, the steamship Orca, one of the finest vessels on the Pacific coast, was crushed by the ice in September, 1897, and was sunk. Eight of the eighty-two members of the crew were lost. The Jesse H. Free¬ man was caught in the ice and jammed, and afterwards fired, that she might not prove a menace to navigation. Part of the crew took to the ice, which afterwards drifted into mid-ocean, which was the last seen or heard of them. The steamship Navarch was also lost, and two of her crew per¬ ished. The steamer Ward D. Hume now lies at Herschell island, unfit for service. Only one-third of her crew remain, the remainder having been lost or frozen to death. These casualties will give some idea of the dangerous experience. The privations which part of the men suffered can better be Im¬ agined than described. From their al¬ ready scant store of provisions it was necessary to take largely to exchange with the natives for fur clothing. With¬ out furs it would have been Impossible for them to have withstood the cold, the temperature being most of the time from 70 to 82 degrees below zero. The United States revenue cutter Bear was sent by the government with relief. By the aid of reindeer and dog sleds the relief crew succeeded in getting as far north as Point Barrow, but not to Herschell Island, The unique expe- rience of Mr. Fee was the forty-day pe¬ riod of total darkness when the north- ern lights appeared in all their splen¬ dor. During the remaining ten months there was perpetual day. THE PRESS THE THING. W World Famans Froacher 8oe» th« Ideal K.w.paper Coming. Here is an inspiration for a right aa- bition! If I were not a minister, I would choose to be a journalist. For surely no prospect for a life work ever opened up so vivid a picture of oppor¬ tunity. There is an alluring fascina¬ tion at the thought of the originality, the resourcefulness, the influence that may be found in a paper or magazine that has for its motto, “For a Better World,” and for its purpose everything holy. What a magnificent opportunity to mark out one’s own plan and devel¬ op his own campaign! What endless possibilities to shape public feeling and mold private character! Oh, yes, I know the old pessimistic cry of Uto¬ pian! and visionary! and impractical! It is not the first time I have heard practical newspaper men say a paper cannot be run on strictly Christian principles without going bankrupt in thirty days. Nevertheless, oh, ye fu¬ ture journalists, what a splendid oppor- tunity is offered you to try running your paper or magazine on new prin¬ ciples as old as God, but applied in new places! What we do in the world is not worth doing, unless It is done to the glory of God. We have been created with different powers, and are called to do different things. But if each one of us in his own calling works out the will of him who made us, the result shall be one result. The world is al¬ ways ready to test what we do by its standard of “success.” But eternity will test what we do by the standard of the “cross.” Genuine Wife Trading. Perry (Ok.) Special Chicago Chroni¬ cle: A real case of wife trading ip re¬ ported from Woodward county, Okla¬ homa. Charles Newbern and J. W. Al- sup were neighbors, and swapped wives, and now Newbern is living with AIsup’s former wife and Alsup is liv¬ ing with Newbern’s. Both are farmers and each sued for a divorce from his wife about the same time, alleging ex¬ treme cruelty and gross neglect of duty. Newbern’s wife was a witness for Al¬ sup and AIsup’s wife was a witness for Newbern. The trial judge remarked when the divorces were granted that there was something strange about the divorce cases. Two months after ob¬ taining his divorce Newbern and the former Mrs. Alsup were married in Kansas and a few days ago Alsup and the former Mrs. Newbern were mar¬ ried in Texas. Now the two former neighbors are still living near each other and all seem happy. Cheap Marriages. Some of the clergymen in Melbourne advertise their readiness to perform the marriage service for the low fee of 50 cents. For $2 the ring and a wed¬ ding breakfast are supplied. A man must be healthy before he can be holy.—Mme. Swetchine. LETTER FROM AN AFRICAN KINO' It Is not every day that a king regent of Africa favors the civilized world with a letter, and extraordinary inter¬ est attaches to the communication here presented in translation. It is from Zakaria Kizito, Kangao, regent of Uganda, and wa3 sent to Sir Henry M. Stanley. The language in which Zak¬ aria wrote is Kiganda, and the unblot¬ ted and unscratched appearance of the original manuscript shpws that the “heathen king" Is facile with his pen. Twenty-five years ago Zakaria was one of the pages at the court of Mtesa, king of Uganda. A few years later he was a pupil of an English missionary. In the meantime Mtesa died, and Mwanga, one of his many sons, suc¬ ceeded to the reign. Mwanga was a cruel king and persecuted missionaries and converts, ordered the murder of a bishop and finally expelled the mis¬ sionaries. Eventually a combination of Protestants and Mohammedans turned Mwanga out. This alliance didn’t last, and Mwanga, professing re¬ pentance, sought to return. Stanley was in that region at that time, and aided in the establishment of Mwanga. When that gifted African got back bis job he retained it only two years, when he fled and waged war against the British. Meanwhile the people of Uganda put Mwanga’s infant son on the throne, and installed as regents three of the principal chiefs, of whom Zakaria was one. Last March the English defeated and captured Mwanga. This is the letter the regent sent to Stanley; “To my much-beloved of great hon¬ or, and, sir, my father in mudi love, Chief Stanley, who has honor, thanks for my letter which you wrote to me on Dec. 17, 1898, as you had just got off your bed. Sir, that—to rise from your bed on two occasions to write to me—makes your love to me apparent. “Well, sir, thanks for telling me the many works which you do. Sirs, well done, ‘because it is the trouble taken by the parent that makes the child fat.’ Because it is the care taken by Eng- land which delivers us Baganda and the other lands guarded by England. Weil, then, we pray much to God, be¬ cause he is in the midst of your de¬ liberations as you take counsel in much love to guard us who are in Buganda. “Well done to understand the words I wrote to you about the Soudanese, and you replied and understood the whole matter well. I understood well what you told me about the English who called the Soudanese faithful, and I understood about your love, which is warm to me and to all Buganda. And, sir, although you are unable really to see me with your eyes, I know you are with me in spirit, and with all the Baganda and Buganda. In our conver¬ sation we speak very much of you to this effect: ‘Master Stanley loves us very much, because he told our friends, who teach, to send us people to preach to us the name of Christ our Saviour.’ "Well, then, sir, you have told me these things, viz.; ‘To hold fast to God' I % m € If mmm v/. Will I \w I, ; 6 , ZAKARIA Z1KITO. —Yes, because the laws of God teach the foolish and give light to the eyes and to fear God’s wisdom. Were they (the laws) commenced there, when I work God will help me, and 'to obey the Parliament of the English Queen and those who rank near her in honor,’ as I do. “Well, then, thank God Almighty be¬ cause the great enemies of Buganda, and of the English, and of the relig¬ ions of God, God has given them into our hands. Mwanga, who was King of Buganda, .and Kabarega, who was King of Bunyoro, our friends the English soldiers, who guard Buganda and Bun¬ yoro, routed them and caught them both, and princes to the number of twelve were caught in that battle. In that fight they overcame them and killed about thirty people, and on our side five Indian and two Baganda were killed. Well, we shall find much peace, because the enmity injures most which comes from the mist within the coun¬ try itself. Our deeds which we per¬ formed with Captain Fowler and Colo¬ nel Coles to Bilal Aminl, captain of Soudanese, you have heard before in the English letters, and Captain Fow¬ ler has returned some time ago to Eu¬ rope. Well, then, my great friend and father in very much love, salute for me Mrs. Stanley, my motherland my little brother Denzil and the other children. My wife, Elizabeth Kizito, and the children of my brother and my people salute you. Salute your wife and children for us. Well may the Lord make the light of His counte¬ nance shine on you. Again, sir, fare¬ well, I, your favorite child, ‘‘ZAKARIA KIZITO, KANGAO, “Regent, Uganda.” Had Been Shaking Long Enough. At a recent duel the parties dis¬ charged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of the seconds inter¬ posed and proposed that the combat¬ ants should shake hands. To this the other second objected as unnecessary. “Their hands,” said he, “have been shaking for half an hour.” "He is Wise Who Talks Bat Little.” This is only a half truth. If noise men had held their tongues, nxt should know nothing about the circulation of the blood. If H were not for this advertisement you might never know that Hood’s Sarsapa¬ rilla is the best blood medicine. 3&0i€i SaUafmdS^ Rough on thi Doctors. 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