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10 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 ■ Kffife v*? * ; V ; V " ,v, dgf§SSH 'j-tJvMSw ifef Li' v •% ,V 'i3P ■£?* J ■lh** • 4%1(r *Aa yfTE.*'yfla •■' ■ ■Cj ;. ... '** " * <• *V t HKstSj2/ ~ yJH f 'V^ HL.Af : .WM V v * %T#?MB i ttfevsEa*Prtfc f j > • k kSskSI tSJrJfcpasg^-V^igitig I. j i •;.. fct .'.-iilijaW^i Rm£2ffiQßßSS%nv I. * * s ./BHrmlxf > 'iM : k\ .*r ' ■ ”.35 ■ '." - t‘f |) / 'JJarrw>jL gry' .J^ V.. ■• ■ II I V; : : ;,. ■ fßpjte *Mi ft. • * i Wgm 9' i- : i I HBH [f Is *4 1 *••1 . ISSISi • A | !, vk m sr ~'j wl!lfls'*!wiSS " Ill'L l *jt - . **t ! 'AM * BPllliJf 'if Wjjri* ■ '^f Jr ''£*’#• , - WwA '** "' i%.r * Mlxi * '’ ■ 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 .**• OWI. l*t£H4‘Ht:i> 0% KM Till: Jt IICK. Itlrd of 1\ Ikitmai Solemnly Papervlaeil ( 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. 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