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LONELY SOUTH SEA KINGS.
WHIW HEX THAT IUVR HI I,KI
TIU. fAR-AWAT IftLANDI.
0 *# Thnn on A nirrlrim-> ff
tarUina Who Are *‘rAln a Xrw
l.lfe—A I *yummty of hr** tv It Unari.
Klaafum of m Hnnawar anllor*
Aaotlier It >**!• on rotor.
From the New York Hun
Pomoru, Cel—* The moat Interewtin*
thin** 1 flml In my t nje In the Smith
Sea,*" wld Opt \V. K Hoatwlek of Iglm-t.
Peru, "are the little Mind* that rear their
I.Midi above the water In the South Pacific I
Ocean
* There ara probably f*w Americans who
know that for more than forty-five years
the Stare and Stripes have b*en flylr.jr over
an atoll Inland a wav down In the South
t*ee in the northern part of the Samoan
croup and that an ard* nt Atmrl'an llvei
tnere ae kiruc for iwenty-elcht yeara and
founded a colony of Am* ric-tri-S-imnan d* -
cendants on the palm-frlnc cl lalet The Isl
and Is Gent# M rmo, and the lorrl and
tnasterthera was a New Hampshire man
named Jennings. Jn INW or HwA a Yan
kee akipper. Ell Jennings, was galling
the Horn on a whaler for the Hawaiian
Jalande The ship stopped at Gents Her
vnosa for water and fruit, and Jenninga
was charmed with the spot and the primi
tive court* **v of the natives. He sail***!
away to Honolulu with pi* .isant tn* ns*ri*-
of the atoll In the Souiii H<*a. At Honolulu
he saw wl.at the I ankf** has! done tu
fretting rich among the Hawalians. Ho he
quit the whales and was back at (Sente
Hermoaa In another yar.
“The story of Jennings’ life on tliHt bit
of land far oft In the S*uth H* u In almost
as sirniuce as anything In fiction. ll*
learned the ftam<fi ianguase. married the
vnos* i’*iutifui Aimoan girl in the whole
mrrnlpviago ami wa the undisputed! lord
of all he surveyed, lie got several English
aaiiora to rone and live on (iettfo ll* r
rrsjsu KiMtliMh became the language of thr
Island, ami the natives were taught Indus
try and temi*erai*'e. lint Jennings newt
gave up his contention that he had added
Oente Hetmoaa to the United Mates aud
that ail people there were Americans.
When he became rich Iti the • >tpra trade*
he prorued American imoks an*! an Ameri
can teacher from Honolulu, arid all of hlf*
many diiskv-skinntsl chltdern weru taught
Amerl* an history American Ideas and
the Kp)M*>|Mhan ntdighHi. Jennings was
loved as much by th< Hamuana thirty y> a r n
ago os Robert lgOUi<* Hievt*ns*n was year*
later He made Gonte lit rtims.! nno of
the most nvoral and indu>trhMJs littH* coni
cnunlties in all the South Sj. Under his
aklli a dosen large house* w. r built fur
the Jennings family ami a th* headquart
er* of the community government and
buatneas of the Island When he died he
left eleven grown-up children unite thirty
grandehiidren. Ills rermiina were Inclosed
In a mavnmnth sarcophagus of cement ami
coral, which stands on the si*ot where he
vlept first on Gents Ifermosa soil In 1K57.
"An American colony of veg*-tarians are
living on Tagula Island, a tiny bit of land
In the Hutch archil** iago. about 7uu miles
flKUJibeast from N* w Guinea, and 1.0 U
mil* * northeast fr*m 'Aumt ills. Under
the leadership and a Methodist ckrgyman.
the Hev. Jam* N'ewltn of Ohio, some
•eventy pe.qh salted from San Francisco
fo I**U few Hawaii. They believed that a
higher |done of Christianity was to be
reached by a vegetarian diet and freedom
from contamination with degenerate man
kind. Bo they gave up their frtenda and
homes In the Eastern State* Tagula Is
land was finally choeen for their colony.
There were about fifty good-natured nat
ives there who welcomed the new comr*.
“I visited rhe Newllmitce on the island
several yeara ago. They had lost by
desertion ■•pm* twenty of the original
of ihe rrieorlin colony, but
they had a good mi ln.Tfjsi' In number
fry rosaon of birth* and accessions of
people from England. Australia and
Amrrloi They had huill roads and hrtiwr
and a largo mowing Ikiuw They gained
their livelihood by growing Indigo and
jiima and other fruit* for tiro Australian
and New Zealand m *rk*'ts They seemed
to be hap|>y and ihey believed they were
the pioneers .n a scheme that would tie
come of mighty Importance In another
century. The colonist* had very little In
common with anything In lire world nut
etde of their wee Inland. A few of them
wrote annually to relative* and friends lit
America and Kurofie. hi*l >om tied ■ in
tlrelv cut themaelve* off from a knowledge
of all that had once been deur to them
In the buay world.
"The htatory of the Coras group of la
land* end th lordship that a couple of
English adventurers, Itoaa ami Hare, ns
turned over the natives there 1* unusual.
Hare and Rosa by coincidence aettled
simultaneously on Islande tn the t'ocoa
group amt each proposed to be me it Of
there After live years of petty warfare
Jisre did. From 1537. when the otlglnal
hors flrst settled In the Ctaiw, a Ross has
ruled the archipelago Th ■ It rat two Bosses
the father and grandfather of the present
pr tHtetor*. ruled the Island, as their
Highland ancestors had held their land*
Tone ws- a f.itma! annexation of the
group tn I*S7 by a British man-of-war;
fret until eleven year* ago the Rosa
dynasty was practically unmolested by
any outside Interference. Kvett now the
Hr nidi Colonial office leaves the Ho*,
family to govern the I-land by the
traditional mnhod* aud by pist ex
perience
"The Cocoa Island* are about 10 degrees
eouth toittude and llodrgree* east. They
are 1.2< mile* soutwesi from Java and GOO
miles from Christmas Island. They num
ber twenty-two, and the largest of them
has an average diameter Vf nine mile*.
The imputation Is aliout 700. of whom the
greater imrtton are native com and the
rest are Malay*. The Boss family are
the only European* inhabiting the group,
ami though all the male members of the
third generation wrr< cdtn t• and in Hoot
land, and are and. scribed os well-e lueated,
quick and llt rlllgent. they have almost
all coni ractrd native marriage*, nnd
thrown their lot In with the people whom
ttv ' :
with few exception*. neither *|ieak nor
understand English, uml (teorife t Tunis*
Ross, the hi ait of the family, and a man
of remarkrbit force of character, was at
one time eighteen years without heattiig
Kngllth simken. and confesses to being a
little rusty In Its use.
■ All punishment are meted out fry one of
the Rosa family u|miii the advice of a com
mittee vouri-ilng of tjeorge C unlcs Ilia*,
und a native end a Malay' cltiaen. This.-
three nii'ii have the power of Inflicting the
i • Hh penally, but they have not xerel-. t
the right In a dost, years When a law
Is made Mr. Boss writes It and post* It on
the front of liis house It take* effect
twelve hours after Its posting. The people
are very orderly.
"Another queer frit of land In the Pacific
1* i 'rialmas Island, near the equator and
nearly due south of the Hawaiian group.
It t* about thirty-dive miles long. The
eloll embraces a long lagoon, the water
of which becomes mi salt at limes through
evaporation a* to he veritable brine. In
this water we found many large fishes,
literally pickled. Evidently they- had Im-ci,
thrown over the reef from the ocean.
Though doubtlew* month* old thetr flesh
was perfectly preserved. On the occasion
of a visit In 1-trs •* anchored under ihe
lee of the Islai 1 In 19> ten of water, which
wa so c ear that one coo<V*<e .numera
ble fishes of many species swimming
about They were greedy for halt, but
the sharks took them as fast a* w-e got
them hooked It frequently happened
that a fish a fool or two tong would get
on th* hook. It would Immediately be
swallowed by a bigger fish, and the latter,
while being pult to the surface by the line,
would be gobbled by a shark. That sounds
like a fteh Its. but I give you my word
that tt Is true.
The government of AlliMlOll Island Is
gary uk* that tn a comm opera. Annobon
Is In latitude 1 degree an 34 minutes south
and I •ngltiide A degrees and St minuets
east. A century ago a race of coal-black
•thieving, murderous and treacherous na
rives lived there but an English man-of
war went down thera in I*l2 nt settled the
* usseuaeMs of the natives by a few broad
side*. Tho Ida* k hava been g*d sin *
that day. Young men are bought for
hufcbaml* by the young women and the
governor ha* the privilege of naming all
the children born on the island. The
women own the island’s wood, while the
men own tha fruit crops. M n*y la almost
unknown there, ail commerce teing car
ried on by barter.
•‘Prealdent M* Coy of the Pitcairn Island
government tl l me of an evjerlcn'e he
once ha*l on Hw.dlowr Island In the Haritw
f*ru groups* When h* and a party of
nasalonarU s went there to open nils inns
they f tur.d that a King still reigned there
and that all his siihject* were member*
of the royal family The party liad been
• n shore but a shrrt tim* when they met
tne King. He was a full-blooded white
man. and what was more astonishing to i
the eXfkJnrer’M they found that everyly
on the Island could spak the English law*
gii ige. The King was found t< 1- liale
and h* arty J* llv good fellow, and his sub
ject a were ail prosperous They tilled ttie
ru t and are s* if--ustalidng people. There
w* re forty-five men, woman ■*n*l hlllr**n
‘*l the |h ard. The King was n runaway
English sail r who had anitled there.
“I U-*d to kti >w a (’hil ar* who lived
alone for about three years on a little
id and n ti.e Galapag- m group, like Hob-
Maori i‘ru<'. ills name was M.itiu* I Agul
lar. lie was soi* master of Hi C’hsrlw
Island, which Is abut six hundred miles
from Guayaquil Hay on the <*i ( of
Ecuador He had be* n convicted of crime,
had broken jail ai.d ha*! taken refug** on
tr I * lonely I*, and \ illar *•*( al**ut in
Orta* -like fashion to make life on the
l lard of Ht. (dairies s agreeable as jm
ible ||r h gan t* knp track of time by
ut*ing a uolt-h in a tree ai very sunset,
but wh(n he lay 111 fo many day* with
fever he lost .ill Ideu of time and
op hi- eaJenl-r. He aid that when he
I* ft Ht. (’harl s Nl rd tie was sure hr had
I nth re t*n cr more years, whereas it
w'a- *.icily thirty-seven months He had
nothin* nltout him to even build a fire
ui h when I o landed. In time he learned
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A Pantti m Kv*nltkff Ckxik of Mastic S.ittn Fared Cloth with Tap* 'try Trim mi nr
to new with a tie* die made from the hone
of a hint aril hemp flhraa for thread. He
became n adept with club* and atone*4
at kl.hn*? same. One day he auccerded
after ifuntirH failure** In polking a a park
with at< n*s mo qk to Mart a tire He never
1 ! that flr* go completely out for two
>eir. nnd fr* m It he made hundred of
other fir* < .it different port* of the lalond.
He I nged to go back to the penal colony
where he might have human compinfon
*hlp. He waited over two yearn before a
ahlpi gftw* *loe i txMigh to his ialand to ee*
hln afgnal of dtnireM. Then he freely gave
Mm 4 l r up and volunt**ered to go ha< k t >
the p nal v tony of h>uador, but the rhlp
that rex.:i*e*l him w.u* ati Kng Ith whaler,
and the poor fellow waa carrhd to Rant!-
uro, Cht I. end there art fre .**•
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( nnrt'a U ork.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Baltimore. Ml, Sept. 34 A big
found It* way Into the court room at
Towfon Ihla morning, and there It stayed
whl> the i*e**lon ln*te*l.
When the l.lrd f wladom came tn nt
the window ourt waa in arfelon. an l
judge Burke *t mon the tiench with
kiiltfedi brown, trying t fulhom nome of
the Inir * a Is of th* iiw which w.n being
exp .ilihnl l> on of the I*%<vl dght of the
SjCWinty. *
The nr Int once took In the idtmtiiOM.
nnd. flying* ovr Ju*lge Burke’a head,
perched itself upon the drapery po> Ini
medtatelv t.*ck of the Judge.
Her** If e*t without moving a leather,
with one *ys turned downward and f a*
ienei upon the movements of
Burke until court adjourned.
—Cond*fifd Tragedies—" What do you
think !* the saddest work of fiction you
ever read?" "The rook book." answered
the young w* man who has not been mar
ried very long ".Sot more than one In
:rn of thfp*e es comes out right."—
Warhltigton Star 4
THE MOKMNG NEWS: SUNDAY. SEITKMBEK 30. 1900.
'ISLES FAMED IN FICTION.
I si'l.i K* or LAM) IA TIK OCB.AA
HEAR TO SCHOfIbMOI IK IRH.
Mnnfr frl(o tn Hr t srd nm a floating
(•round l> Hoyalt> Hoblasoa Crs*
•or't l.nnrly llin- In the (ioslkers
Pad lie— lliirnira of the latfter
M hen It Una I rd mm Penal €’oloa>.
From the Ch cago Chronicle.
Announcement is made in the raids dlt
patchas that the Island of Monti Crlsto
has leefi purchised ty tie young king of
Italy, Victor Emanuel 111. who Intends to
erect there a hunting 1 dge to which he
and his wife can r**tlr when tired of court
life on the mainland This dot on the
Medlturrabean sea U doubtless amotg the
most famous bits of land on the globe. It
Is practically uninhabited and not of the
slightest Importance, either historically
or strategically, yet the g. tuns of Alexan
der Dumas has made it famous wherever
books aie read or plays acted In any
tongue. The island H a part of Italy and it
lies twenty sev*n miles south of Kll>a.
where Napoleon was king and prisoner
for less than a year In I*ll.
IJttle ms It is. and mountain peak 2.®h
feet b gh rls s iheer from the sea upon Its
narrow base and the waves beat and boll
sinvt It so that only in fair weather
can a landing be made from vmall bouts.
There 1* no wharf or h.iriior. There l*
not an acre which can be cultivated upon
the whole island, but wild goats have for
generation** earned a living among the
crags, and partridges breed undisturbed,
while there Is a luxurious shade of olive
tree*. There areygrottoes on th** island,
but hardly such s erse as Dumas describe I
the one in which the marvelous treasure
was found.
Long (hr l.alr of IlnndllM.
It was there that Edmund Intes es
tablished his marvelous underground re
treat, the description of which ias da
*:n| renders for two gsner i lons There
may have bren hi !den tre t uree on the
Island In very fact. f<'r it useil to he a
favorite hiding place of <|p r -4b \tl smug
glers and pirates In the days when pirates
were 4 real and bloody, a* and when smug
gler* were armd nun wi U their lives in
the r hands and rut seek clerks with
silks and d!am rds hid in their trunks.
Tradition le.ls us th 1 many a jovial
banquet was h* Id here lv Italian Robin
Hood*, many from * and Sardinia,
when the Mngnlhc*nt was play
ing hi** daring role In Florence, wn*l there
is more than • ne I- *. nd which tells how
Moorish bandits frequently f umd the ls!-
. irl .1 m place of refuse. Kor within
the p * *4 nt century the fierce pirates from
ti e r. 1 h rn co t of Afrl • 1 ra%~aged all
tlie Inlet** of the Mediterranean and even
ot 1 id off Christian captives from the
Italian towns It took the smart men of
the American 1 avv. Ike Preble md
l> catur, t* put *1 wn these ptsqde and
let ••amen and c**as| dwellers sleep sound
o* night
The telsnd of Monte Crlsto came to
Italy along with nil the r st of Its new
domains In W7l, when Louis Naooleon’s
empire w* nt to pieces. Once there was
talk of putting prisoner* there, hut that
plan has nw !>••) ahand * • 1 It wouldn't
do for mert In Hrped suit* t* Im* next*
do.*r neighlro s of a kl ’g and queen.
The nw <|tireti of Ital l on* of th*
finest -le ts n Korop and ti • • rifle and
shotgun with equal skill year she
went to Hpltxbrrgeti. awa\ .n tm* frosen
north, and was suciw-sftil In hrli.glng
down many relmle. r,• we 1 as 1 large
numl'T of elder duck and other pmc,
which abound In Its barren waste of ice
and snow A shoo'ing hex Is to he huill
on the Bland and it h to be stocked with
birds and game, t lely for the amusement
of this fortunate young huntress.
llidtltißiin i rnior i hl.imt.
Perhaps more dear to the youthful heart
than even Monte Crtto 1 * Juan Feman
dei. a speck of land cn the surface of the
Factor ocean Its fame has come from a
work of fiction which since Its first ap
; pearencr has been more widely road than
[uny simitar book vi publishvd. I'rom
ih* i r.( of l->rn*n4*a n0 hi* Bpanl*h
| >olonl*t* th- i*Un<l w* ••lAom
**v Oy Winif xhlp wh|fh wa, prea—Kl for
lr or frrt.h fooA, in which caws It
furn!*h*<l both In ample ijuantlllc*. the
Koala rupplyln* fr-h meat, th, fruit
tr*c, „t out by Krrnandex flvtn, of th-lr
produrt*, whll, arvrral kinda of wild
urnw In abundance on dlff-rml
P*' rla of the Uland. Hlatnry, however, ro~
c*>rda hut f*-w ot three vlalts up to the
healnnlna of the elable.nth century. Krorn
a r >uh nurvey of the Inland It wa* act
down a, Lrtru: nb ut twelve mile* lon* by
four mile* In It* wldeat portion, curving
In a northwest and aouthwrot direction,
with !l lilgbtst peak ai the bend of the
curve Thl peak wa* named by Kernan
der. "HI Tuiique*’ fThe Anvil), from It*
rloe rrwmblenre to that mechanical Im
plement.
For considerable over 100 year* the *oll
tiple of the Island wa* broken only by the
ci.nliu( and going of a few visitors, until
In IJWi galley, named the Cinque Pori*
ailed under command of Captain Strad
dling. Thi* Hrldleh commander was un
popular with hi* men, forty of whom de
eerted and fled to the Interior of the Isl
and All hut five returned to the shin,
wnh-h sailed aw at. but came back four
year* later. Bjr that time only two of
Captain Straddling'* deserter* were there,
tlie other* having been ■ a tried away by
a French ve-*'l which called In the mean
lime.
Alone for Konp gear a.
But thl* *eqcnd vl*lt of Ihe Cinque port*
wa* to he prrnurttve of the great event In
KVrnande*' history, for while In th* bay
tho commander of the galley had an ar
stmvnt with hi* sailing master, one Alex
ander Selkirk, who demanded that he be
given an allowance of store* and landed
on the Island. Hi* request was complied
with and Ihe galley sailed wit bout him
For four year* and four month* did Sel
kirk maintain hla lonely vigil at the top
of the Island's mountain range, scanning
the *" for a sal) which might come to
end hi* dreary-exlle. In 17*4 he wa* taken
off by Ihe l>iike, an English privateer, on
l.nnrd of which he returned lo England,
bringing with him an extensive notebook
covering his cxperlenre during these year*
of solitude. This notebook was presented
by him to the novelist Defoe and on It
Ihe writer founded what at once became
one of the most popular Actional work*
of that and each succeeding generation
Of course Defoe used an author's latitude
In !■* construction, hut there exist* today
Upon Juan Fennande* every one of the
principle landmarks described In the chap
ters of “Robinson Crusoe.'.
Thus did Juan Fernand** become known
But In year* which havo passed since
Kelklrk's release there have occurred
events which would go much further In
th* construction of a harrowing tale than
the story of the marooning sailing manter
These occurred during the early day* of
Chill's Independence and while she wa*
struggling for her release from the Span
ish yoke.
Owe* a Penal colony.
At this time. Fernand** being a conced
ed ponton of Chili's territory, the Island
wa* fjritfled and used as a penal col"sy
Overlooking the water* of Cumberland
bay there at this time stood the fort cal
led Ban Juan Bautista with tia attendant
settlement. Here was stetUncd a garrl
son which looked out for several hundred
prisoners who were sent to the Island.
And during this occupancy Fernandes
became an Isle of horror*. El Yunque'i
heights lock down upon Ihe suffering of
a few hundred wretches who for the most
part came lo the Islsnd on thetr laat Jour
ney, save the crossing of the Styx. Most
ly prisoners of a political clasa. Chill de
sired Ihelr death more than she did their
confinement, and took this method of
ending their careers, as being more quiet
than a public or even a private execution
on ihe mainland.
Not alone were the poor wreteba forced
Into confinement on Fernandes. but
they were compelled to construct their
own prison*. These were deep caverns
dug from the rocky mountain side* close
by the walls of Juan Bautista. In such
miserable places of confinement existence
became a burden, and from these dread
ful prison cavern* there arose many a
prayer for the coming of thet death which
the unfortunates knew to be the only re
lief from their sufferings. These horrors
lasted for about twenty years, when either
the necessity for condemmg humans to
a living death passed away from Chili
or even the touch of Spanish blood which
flows through the republic was Impressed
by the terrors of the prison cave* on
Juan Fernandes. At bast the Island was
abandoned as a penal colony, but was
ng.-tln reoccuphd In Ihe same way during
Ihe early 3f>. 1
Again left to Its original condition the
tale ha* until recently been th* home of
a handful of unfortunate Chllenoa, who
certainly failed to posses* the means of
leaving Ihe desolate spo: about which
there hang so many tales of suffering and
d’ath.
|
—VYhy She Had None—'Have you no
Heed,'' said th* secretary of th* meet
ing to th* treasurer, "that the little wo
men In the corner I* the only one who
has suggested r.o beautiful theory of
child-training?" "Oh. she hasn't any." re
plied th* treasurer. "How doe* flint hap
pen?" asked the secretary. ' Bhe'a mar
ried and has children herself."—Chicago
Evening Boat.
—Deacon Ooode (lo a little girl former
ly of hla Hundav School—l hope, Mary,
you are still wa.k ng in Ihe straight am)
narrow way.
Mary—Oh, dear, no, Deacon Ooode.
Haven't you heard? We now live on the
j boulevard —Boston Transcript.
HAS NO COMPETITOR.
One I'ntenl Xlrillelnr Whleh Has the
Flrlil lo Itself.
A prominent physician was recently ask
wG why ll w.is there ore so many "l>io-*l
purlflers." “nerve Kaik-*'' and medicine*
for every 111 except one of the most com
mon ami annoying diseases, vlx.. pile*.
He replied, there are two principal rea
sons; First, physician* und people in gen
eral have thought fqr years that tho only
permanent cure for piles waa a surgical
o,H>rallon. and that m-dldlial preparallon*
were simply palllallves and not a cure for
the irouiiie.
Another reason I* that piles, unlike
many other disease*. I* in no sense an Im
aginary trouble. A sufferer froro piles Ii
very much aware of 4he fact nnd for this
reason the few pile valves and ointment.,
etc, hale been short lived be.-atiai- Ihe pa
tient very soon discover* ihelr worthless
ness.
He continues: However, there4* anew
pile remedy which. Judging from l* popu
larity and extent of Its eale. will soon
rake Ihe place of ail other treatment for
plies. It has certainly made thousand*
of eures In this obstinate disease and Its
merit, repeatedly tested, ha* made It fa
mous among physician, and wherever |n
trodured. The, remi.lv I* sold fry drug
gi.ts everywhere under name of Pyramid
Pile Cure.
I: | In convenient, suppository form
-•-nqiored of harmless astringent* and
h-allng oil*, gives Immediate relief In ail
( 01 ,,| pile., and a mdl.nl eure without
resort m Ihe knife and without pain or
Inierfeience with dal.y occupation
One strong recommendation for the rem
edy Is that it contain* rv> cocaine nor
opium and is absolutely safe to use at any
lime.
One of the suppositories is applied ••
night. Is absorbed and the cure I* natural
and painless.
It permanently etire* Itching, bleeding or
protruding piles and Is the only remedy ex
cept a dangerous surgical operation that
will do so.
All druggists ssll a complfts treatment
of the suppositories for 50 cent* and th*
Pyramid Prut Cos. of Marshall. Mich.,
will mail frss to any address a little book
on eause and cure nt pile* which may be
of aistetacce in chronic cases.
SHIPMENT OF GOLD.
IVHI Hi ELIOS, NOT COIN, 19 |IWIT
TO El HOPE.
Mblpprre Hint Vmj ITemlotna of
|4oo a Millioa fur Ike llolllon-How
It la ( arrlrd ou the Elaere.
(From the New York Mail and Kipraaf.)
In addition to the political end ttnenrial
“why" of gold ehJpmrnta the public le
ever asking “how " Hr me peraona aeem to
he morally and mentally Irv apable of rea
lising why (he actual praeeneu of a har
of gold on one akle or the other of (he
Ad.iiulc should be more desirable at one
lim* than another. The Identical bar will
be shipped to Europe and bark again,
neither growing nor ahrinking in value by
ihe of* ration, yet contributing greatly to
(he wealth of (he ehipper.
The man not a financier pusxlea over
(Me fard, and been use he cannot under
stand the why he weaves endleaa mys
teries about the how He imagines strange
celemonl-a. and see* the gold bug perform
ghoulish rllea in passage. Just now. when
the money vaults of England are being
replenished with millions of American
gold, the question of how the gold te tran
sported la revived with more than usual
Inakrfnce. Probably no other huadneep Is
hedged about with such powerful safe
guards as is (he shipment of gold— the
chief of these are publicity and simplicity
In shipping gold two objects are sought
to prevent theft and friction. The gold
la so heavy that theft Is not likely so long
as It Is handled In public, where any at
tempt lo carry It away would le observed.
The great weight, however, make# friction
a great waster of value.
John Smith wants to send $1,000,100 to
Ijordon As gold !* the only standard of
valu#asctUHlged by (he clvi|ix**d world, he
senda It In gold He can g i the metal
by collecting It from the g*f‘ral public
in return for silver dollars, sliver t'ertifl
cittea, gold coin not#-* or any form of
money hearing the United Htales damp, i
He can get it at a bank for any of these •
kinds of money, but by either of these j
ways he will get It In * olns that have been ;
In circulation. As the government stamp ■
doe* not guarantee (he value of a gold
coin, he will find on weighing hla $1,000,901k
lOjjp . '■■**■■** jA’/iy**cs|aSwf!f-* ;
§ ... §
An Coreet For a Blender Figure.
If It he In coin, that he has many dollar*
less a million—*ev ral hundred perhaps.
He ccuUl spend hi* million coin by coin
and get full value for It. for Ihe abrasion
of each coin is so sight tt I* barely notice
able. Only when weighed In hulk Is Ihe
discrepancy visible. A* Ihe gold will ha
incited as so n as tt ties lejt.don the
discrepancy will t*e noth cq, so he cannot
afford to ship coins that have been tn
circulation.
Tln-re I* only one place where he can get
Gl.nM.ooo In gold colli that has not been
worn. That Is at Ihe United Slates trea
sury, or one of Its substations, of whl h
that on Wall *tre< t Is the principal. But
even hero he ts liable to find himself with
less than Gl.onu.mo. Tim coinage law sav*
a gold coin shall consist of nm parts pure
gold and Ift* part* pure copper. But only
In theory’ can gold and copper be mixed in
that proportion. The most delicate me
thod* van only approximate It. and the
law fixes a "limit of tolerance," That Is.
Ihe mint must do It* best to make the
coins exactly 9m part* gold, but If they
havo but S9‘j parts they will be accept
ed as legal coins. Therefore, the most
that the g*verment guarantees In 11.000,000
of Us coin* l* Hint they are within one
half of 1 per ix-nl or Gl.nou.n® of actual
value, ltut they may be still les*. The
Clerks In the atsbtreasurv will not go to
the trouble of picking out Ihe heaviest
coins. The law fixe* ano le r limit on gold
coins—the weight at whleh they must be
r< tired from circulation If Ihey be found
In the siibtreasury. That limit requires
that a i-oln must not have been worn so
much but that SM tiria of gold remain
Coirs far Irelow that value ar. In general
circulation. iuid are kept there because
the man who take* one to Hi* subtreasury
must stiff, r a less on It. But many barely
hnilng s!W i art* are reissued by the suh
tr. aaury. o that In fwski.two one would
get eoltis averaging ah ut 3S ! a or about
JI.SOU l sa than Gl.m.un.
It ts therefore clear that John flmlth
will not ship the million In coin unless
he Is merely supplying Amerliwn coins
to be p*ld to American* In exchange on
tourist business, thereby running no risk
of hsvlng the loss by melting.
There I* only one place where gold can
be had with absolute certs nty that there
will lie no loss That Is at Ihe assay of.
flee. In the shape of Mill on liar* or brisk.
These bars Ihe government guarantee* to
be full value, and oil the world a *iit*
the governm nt stamp without question,
for ihe faith of the entire people Is pledg
ed In that stamp. The g ivernment sells
these bar* for their value plus I cents a
Giro. Thu* John Smith * million will cost
him G1.0c0.400. Bui as he would probably
losc Ji.tsn If bo took c< In he can well af
ford to pay for these government bricks.
The government further r*quir< s of John
Smith that for this gold he shall pay gold
coin of full legal value, or gold cerrlfl
cata. or coin notes Silver and silver
ceitlfftaiei will not be accepted for it.
The g' ld standard Is a ihe ry In all places
but at th* counter of the treasury.
Although John Smith appirently pays
Gi 001,400 for hi* G 1 .000 .000 In bar*, eh* gold
coin he pays for li may be worth only
for the coin may be ahraded to
the bare line of lagnlliy. It he pay* In
coin, notes or othsr currency, he pays the
lull GI.OW.W, of tours*, for a premise of
the United Bute* n,v*r miffer* * br ** lo "_
It must not be Imußtned, however th* In
P*>lnx hut *s*.l h* •
. tment, for he must v, *• ,u “ *£®'**®
In value <o *t the X> -)h, * h^
Is lai-kin* I* allckln* to th* pock>t ot
th* thousand* who h*v handled th* coin*,
as Infinitesimal bit In each pocket. .
Having deposited ll.Wo.Ban In the *)ib
treasury. John Bmlih receive* * eertlfl
rat* to that efTect, and carrte* It to tne
***ay office, adjolnln* Ihe *ubtrenaury. on
Wall street There the cashier keep* that
certificate, collect* Ihe *WD and five* to
John Smith anoiher certificate bewrltifi
the numbers of lairs of gold set aside to
make up the million.
These are called bars, but they ars real
ly bricks, shout the 1* J of ordinary build
in* brick*, hist varying in *!**. The hrlok*
made In each fiscal y-ar ar* numbered
consecutively, beginning with No. 1 on
July I. Ihe first or the fiscal year. •Beside*
Ihe consecutive number each I* stamped
with an eagle and the words '1 8. Assay
about *7."to. gold being worth *3O.7l*J4Ji
an ounce.
John Smith turn* the assay office cer
tificate over to his shipping c erk, who tn
company with a watchman, goes for the
a-tua! gold. Usually a policeman or two
t* present. Th* assay office place* the mil
lion dollar* In r.ak*d bar* on a truck and
pushes Ihe truck out Into the hack yard.
The hat k clerk signs a receipt for th*
bars. and. as the cashier of th* assay of
fice takes th* receipt, ihe clerk selaes lh#
handle of the truck. From lhat Instant
th* responsibility of the United Btate*
ceases, and It ha* no further Interest In
Ihe gold.
In the yard of th* assay office the hank
clerk packs the bars In short oak k*g*.
about L'smOO lo a keg He doe* no! wrap
them In paper or cloth, for ihat would
cause abrasion H* places several Inches
of sawdust on the bottom of Ihe k*g. set*
the liar* In that on end and packs sawdust
among and sbiut them filling the keg
with It. The head l then put In and the
keg Is sealed with wax.
Jn thr istcklng Is shown another rea
son for not shipping coins, for It la tm
p's:b|e lo pack • olns so they will not he
• hruded In croe-lng ihe sea The loss on
coins by abra.-lon would be perhaps a
hundred dollars In a million. There la no
abrasion with Ihe bars.
Th* kegs of gold are put on a truck and
hauled (O the st* .nishlp wharf The bank
clerk, watchman and poll** ride with the
gold At the wharf the bank clerk re
ceive* a bill of lading for the gold, and
all responsibility then rest* -with the
*!>am*hii> company.
The keg* ar*' placed In the strongroom
of the ship Tfrl* Is a room with slsel
walls and about 30 feet square Ijy } high
It Is closed with a combination ’lock, the
same ,1* ii bank vault. The agent of Ihe
ship, the captain and the steward usually
witness the p.ac ng of the gold In this
room. It is closed mid locked with a key
In addition to th* r imhlnailon lock, and
the captain keep* the key. The room is
In a place where sailors are constantly
passing and r-pa.-slng Its door, which
opens on H passageway. It Is never open
ed until the ship reaches the other side,
but every day at noon, when the regular
Inspection of th- ship Is m-nle. ihe door
Is examined to ere that It has not been
tani|iered with.
There Is no secret about the location of
Ihls strongroom, hut II I* not In Ihe same
place on uii ships On the Bi Haul, of
th,- Am- rl an line, for Instance, It la
Just shaft ihe engines on the orlop deck—
the llrst -le.k nliove the hold. A* this
r iom I* never used except for gold and
s'lver It stands empty most of the time
There wre other places for Ollier valu
ables.
A* soon a* the ship reaches Its port In
Europe the strong ioom Is opened in the
presence of the agent of the line, the cap
tain and the so ward The gold Is taken
nshorn ami, no matter what the hour of
da> or night, It Is dispatched at once lo
th city of it* destination.
It will thus lie seen that ihe gold Is In
the public eye practically every moment
It Is In transit, and that fact makes It
f*\ for ail )lnrff arc prfp.irorl to put
down with force any uprl-lng among crew
or las-enger*: and can outsail any pirate
ctaft ihat might seik to attack.
M’OI'TINO 1% mil l'll 4 I'll II I
MaJ. Burnham Tell. I.ondonera How
II la Hone There nnd In America.
From the I-ondon News.
"I am lust gelling used to feeing , n ,„.
viewed." said Jlaj. Burnham. In reply to
Ihe apologies of a pres* representative,
' and I confeaa I prefer you methods over
here to those of our reporters at home.
It Is not necessary for them lo see you at
nil; they can do JUM a* well without, and
It Elves more scope lo 4helr Imagination.
0 "' - occasion a reporter wrote several
columns about my landing in New Vork
.in-l .!• rlts -i up .is a nun six feet two
1. r'l!" W ! U ! lo " K Mi *J- Burnham
I* ralh<r below the medium bight, and
we us Ills hair elosely cropped. ' Asa mai
ler of la-1. I did hot land In New York nt
*oat time, hut in Boston."
Vei | ntti an American.” replied Mai
Burnham, to an Inquiry on the vexed
question of his naUnoallty; "| was born
in Minnesota and raised In California Mv
Americans of British descent
and th* o.d home of our family la by the
river, not far from Burnham Beeches I
know It ha* freen stated that I am a Ca
rmdlan, hue that ta probably due to the
fk i the- I wore the same kind of hat In
Booth Africa as that worn by the Cana
<llan ront|nfPnt.
h*n did I begin scouting? Almost
since I can remember. When I was a h y
I had experience In frontier war*. Amer
ica haa learned a great deal from th* r 1
Indiana. We have had to light for every
Inch of oor territory, and learn lo bat
the red Indians at hla own game; when
the Indian* were not fighting u* on th< ir
own account they were employed again.,
us. In Colonial day* by the French. You
most remember that every tlmk there wa.
war between England and France our ai
rastot* took up Ihe cudgel* on behalf o'
the old country on the other side of th
Atlantic. Many of our great genera.*
have been scouts and gained their flr-i
experience In Indian warfare. 1 look upon
Kit Carson ** the greatest scout who
ever lived, but George Washington was .
great scout also; with the aid of furt -
ipicked men he once saved Den. Braddo k
from dlaaater, because they knew how
scout, and accounted for a man with
every shot Instead of wasting their pow
der In volleying Into the wools at random,
where lhe French and Indiana lay con
cealed. Many prophealed when I left
home this time Dial, with modern tactics
and long-range weapons, the day of the
scout wa* over. Bui 1 think so long as
war remains there will always be work
for the scout lo do. And I do not **•■
much likelihood of universal peace yet. '
he added.
•'ll Is the atrnng who rule the earth; a
great nation can only maintain her grea’-
ne*s by her military power. Once ehe gels
enfeebled, atronger nations will wrest her
possession* from her. You can see that In
China. The present rising Is largely due
to the fact that Ihe Chlneae have at last
realised lhat they must light If they wish
to releln their national existence. There
would never have been any talk of tho
Pennine of China If she had been a
great military power.
"I do not advocate a large increase o'
your native armies; I think the English
man, or. speaking generally, the white
man. should moke hlmaelf capable of
fighting hi* own batlle*. 1 don’t hellevo
In a shlck-hended, stolid man ns the be -1
lighting material, hecauae ha obey* orders
and doe* not think. An Intelligent man.
with a good physique, make* the best eol
tller—hut a man with a knowledge of no
ture a* well nm of hooks. The best honk
written Is only the reflection of another
men's mind. An Intelligent eotdlcr will
stand d*r*a heller than a alttpld one; ho
can see further than the present, and hi.
pride will hold him to his order" though
death seems certain. The Imperial Tec
nianry. when they have got used lo ihn
\‘,to on the veldt, will be Ihe finest sol
diers in Ihe British Army. Their vert
dash and go. whlrh has sometime* land'd
them In difficulties and cul-de-s.-ic*. will to
of the greetesl value when they hove and. .
veloped more camion bv a longer exp* • ■
ence of campaigning Again, the C. 1. V i
only want guiding and lending. Ihelr pluck
and courage are beyond question, while
• heir physique wa* a aourc* of wonder to
all who saw them and remembered thnt
they were mostly london clerks, necus
tomed lo an Indoor and sedentdry life.
"Keen vision and an acute sense of
hearing fre the primary qualifications for
a acout If I were picking men In England
for that purpose. I should choose the.
young pilots who inny be found round
your coasts.
"Yachtsmen, hunter*, young officer* In
the army, moke fine material; but all need
.pedal training, for the scout of the fu
ture will have to know something about
engineering end modern science.
"People who alt nt home and crltl tse
our troop* hecauae they move so slowly
cannot rcallj* the difficulty of the coun
try or the length of lord Rottert-* line •'!
communication* ll I* much elvnn the
same a* If london wa* dependent on Rome
for all her daily atippltee And 11 la not
only food, drink and clothing for lfnmc
soldiers, but for every town on the line,
of route Including Kimberley, Bloemfon
tein. Johannesburg and Pretoria: It le
forage for horse*, and fodder for the cat
tle. besides ammunition for Ihe rifle* and
shell for Ihe artillery. The wonder I* not
that the line* of communication have oc
casionally been cut. but that they have
not been cut more often, and In Cape Co',
ony Itself The Boers have Ihe advantage
In being able lo obtain slorea where the
British cknnot—and so muat take the'r
transport with them and also employ the
native pottle*, which are atronger and
thrive better on Ihe local fodder lhan h“
Imported Brillah one*. Where a horse can
go six miles In England, can only go
two miles out there, anti a Ihlrly-mt.e
gallop would finish off every horse In
South Africa.
"When the British public fully rewllxc ''
concluded MaJ. Burnham, "the iretno.-
dotis dtm.’Ulile* to be overcome, they will
appreciate even better than they do new
the splendid work lhat has been done out
there. Many gallant deed* have been per
formed, and It Is almost Imjiosslble to es
timate Ihe thousand of miles covered I"'
ihe cavalry division tinder Oen. French,
who have usually done ihelr work on
quarter rations for horses and half rationt
for Ihe men "
—My little West End friend came home
from Sunday School yesterday In a very
thoughtful mood. He sat beside his matb
er nervously crushing his lesson paper,
and then said: ' Bay. mammo dear, don't
you think I've hecn a pretty good boy
since I started to go lo Sunday School’"
"Ye*, my boy, certxlntly.” “Don't you
tblnk I am good enough to be trusted
now all right T' “Of. course I do. but why
do you askT' “Oh. nothin', only I wraa
Just wondering why you kept the cook
ies locked up the same as you did before
I went to Sunday School, that's nil."—Al
bany Journal.
A Faitern to His Bex—‘‘Listen Harriet.
LI Hung Chang's wife has 4.000 gown*"
•'Well, Harold, you don't call him a he.ub
en, I hope."—lnd umpolls Journal.
INTERESTING. IF TRUE.
Vo* ran Try It for Yoirwll anil
Provt It.
On* irraln of the active principle In B,u *
art's Dyspepsia Tablet* will digest 3.'* ,J
cralnn of meat, eggs or other wholesome
food, and this claim ha* been proven by
actual riper linen t which anyone can t>*t
fortn for hlmaelf In the following man
ner: cut hard boiled egg Into very atna’l
pitcee, a* It would hr If masticated pb‘ *
the egg ar.d two or three of the tahht*
In a liottlo or Jar containing warm water
heated to *K degree* (the temperature of
the body) and keep It at I hits teroi* ni
ture for three ami one half hour*, at tha
end of which lime the egg will ba
completely digested a* It would have been
In the healthy stomach of a hungry •> ■>>'.
The point of this experiment Is that
what Stuart'* Dysprp'la Tablets will do
to the egg In the Untie It will do to the
egg or m< at In the stomach and nothing
else will test and Invigorate the atone h
so safely and effectually. Even a lit* l "
child can take Stuart's Tablet* with safe
ty and benellt If It* digestion Is weak an I
the thousand* of cure* accomplished by
their regular dally us* are easily explain
ed when It Is understood that they are
composed of vegetable essence*. gaeptlc
pepsin, diastase and Ualden Seal, w'deh
mingles with the food and digest It < •"
ought)'. giving the over-worked stomach
a chance to recuperate.
Dieting never cutes dyspepsia, neither
do |>ill* and cathartic medicines, which
simply Irritate and Inflame the Intesttm
When enough food I* eaten and prompt
ly digested there will be no constlpr'*o’l
- In fact will there be disease of mv
kind because good digestion means good
health In every organ.
The merit and success of Stuart's Vy?
p-p ia Tahlats are world wide and thev
are sold at the moderate pr ce of 5° cent*
for full slz and pirk-ig* In every drug *' ' r *
In the United S’e'e* and Canada, as we ll
at In Europe.
For the Information of those inter*’’'''
a little book will be mail'd free by >
dressing V A. Stuart Company, Marsholi
Mich . giving briefly the symptoms of th
various forma of stomach weakness, eau
• and cure*