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the More fort of I’andhpatan of the
Sultan of Bayan on the Island of Min
danao offered the resistance It did to
the American attack, which was made
SPECIMEN OK LIVING CORAL
WITH POLYPS EXPANDED
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with the assistance of a Held battery.
The fort looked like any other Moro
fort, hut the Americans lost many
men in trying to get iuto it.
Many forts, stockades and Intrenched
positions of the Moros lmd very
promptly surrendered to our column
In tlic march from the sea to the lake
country In the Interior. There were
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many fortlfled places, heeause the en
tire lake region Is divided up among
Sultans and Dnttos, each with his
following and fori Rival ion.
In fact about every house is a fort.
There are trenches about it and stone
walls and bamboo stockades. In each
house thus protected live n Itatto and
his immediate family and working
force of slaves, who cultivate the lauds
and care for the stock. Every fortified
place is supplied with one or more
old cannon, n few small guns and
many homemade bamboo cannon,
spears, bolus. Ac.
Our first view of Fort. Fnnilupntan
occurred shortly after, the taking of
a large stockade in the Bayan district.
The little fort, which was to cause us
so much loss, looked much like any
other Mor# fort.
In a general way the fort was a
square inclosure. The walls are of
stone, earth and bamboo and about
twelve feet thick ai the base. They
arc some fourteen feet high.
These walls are covered with bam
boo poles on the outside and also with
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an immense entanglement of thorny
brush both on the sides and the top.
This brush made the fort look easy to
take, as the stone walls did not show.
The walls of stone and loose earth
neatly and tightly piled and packed
have many portholes and the fighting
Mora seemed to have a cannon or a
rifle at every porthole and their shoot
ing proved to he effective.
The Moro engineers had also con
structed two trenches about the fort
of considerable depth. One trench was
crowded with des|>eratr Moros who
had taken the oath of their tribe to
die facing the enemy. 1 can certify
that practically every Moro in that
trench kept his oath.
They fought our officers and enlisted
men on the edge of the trenches, in
the trenches and everywhere. It was
shoot, cut, bite, throw rocks, and yell
for fully thirty minutes. By that time
the Moros in the trenches wore all
dead, lust our loss was heavy. Three
or four of our officers were wounded
and some twenty-five of our soldiers
were killed and wounded.
The shooting from the fort continued
all this time. The inner side of the
walls is several feet lower than the
outer and affords n position from
which the Moros could tire at our men
without exposing themselves to return
fire'
lie re were several "lnntakas” or
cannon arranged to shoot from the
portholes at the sides and ends. In
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fort, was protected by heavy wooden
barred floors during the fight.
The designers of roost Moro forts
take Ihe precaution to make a passage
by which the garrison can retire if
need lx*. In this case the mode o? re
treat seemed to he through an under
ground passage from the fort to the
lake. There was also a passage which
led from the main trench. During the
first part of the fight I remember that
a few Moro soldiers escaped through
tills trench to the open field and then
ran to the hush.
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PRECIOUS CORAL—A BRANCH IN
OUTLINE AND ENLARGED VIEW
OF POLYP FULLY EXPANDED.
The cannon of the Moro fort con
sisted chiefly of bronze lautakes with
a bore of about an Inch and a half.
These cannon were slung up on beams
or arranged In portholes.
This crude arrangement might amuse
one under ordinary circumstances.
This time every piece of ordnance of
the enemy was made to do such ex
ecution that we cannot ridicule the
devices. Of course it was the very
close range that made these pieces
effective.
When the cannon were suspended
by ropes the gunners had to maintain
the aim by holding the cannon in its
proper alignment during the discharge.
The torch used to tire the cannon
consists of a piece of native wood
that burns MeadiJ.v, on which are
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lushed pieces of bamboo sticks to pro
tect the hand.
The projectile used in these cannon
consists of a series of pieces of thin
bamboo or strips of leaves bound in
cylindrical form about pieces of metal,
glass, pebbles. Ac. These cartridges
are about four todies lung.
I saw some of these projectiles with
tacks, screws, slugs. Ac., in them.
After the battle our surgeons cut ma
terials of this kind from many of the
wounded.
Several men and two or three horses
fell into pitfalls. The depth ot' these
pitfalls Is about seventeen feet. One
man who fell in cut steps on the sides
and thus worked his way to the sur
face.
Such was the fort that defied the
Americans from the middle of the
afternoon until daylight the next
morning. Attout 3.30 a. n\ the Moro
flag had disappeared and a white flag
was in its place. New York Sun.
An Advertising; Kesult.
A lecturer on advertising says that a
century ago a firm had to do business
for a generation to become widely
known and trusted, but by modern ad
vertising methods a house can achieve
the same result in a few years. Con
stant advertising aud honest dealing
will build up a high reputation.
tVliblMDr Sweetmeat Tong*.
An English novelty is a pair of sugar
tongs shaped like a merrythought, and
of solid silver.
A man can always square himself
wilhoui resorting to cube root
Whrs hecti rcnlai valu
able decorative My lady
has simply was not a f.
feeted bYyth.e | jpfflers 0 f her set. and
presto, it has been stowed away In
out of the way places. Not seen, it
has been forgotten. But now there
are signs In ft late twirl of fashion's
kaleidoscope that It will soon again
reclaim* its old place among the highly
prized contents of the jewel casket.
It is perhaps not known that while
coral grows—for it does grow and can
be reaped like a crop Jn almost all
parts of the world—precious coral, or
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LARVAE ESCAPING FROM MA
TERNAL POLYP.
that used in Jewelry, is found only in
the Mediterranean, where it is gath
ered In the rocky bottom at depths t>f
from twenty-five to sixty feet, though
occurring also even down to 1000 feet.
Important fisheries exist on the south
ern coast of Italy, on the island of
Penza, off the Gulf of Gaeta, on the
coasts of Sicily. Corsica aud Sardinia,
on that of Algeria, south of Sardinia,
and other places. At: some of these
tlie reefs are divided off into ten parts,
only one of which is fished annually,
ten years being considered sufficient for
tlie proper growth of the coral.
Collectively, corals constitute a well
defined natural group of several sub
groups of distinctive peculiarities.
These, naturalists have classed accord
ing to their characters under various
heads, that to which precious coral
(Corallium rubrum) belongs, being
called the Aloyonnria, a name derived
from Alcyone, the fabled daughter of
Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, who. incon
solable for the death of her husband,
flung herself into the sea.
In this tribe the so-called polyps, the
minute animal organisms that con
struct the corals, have a body of a
more or less cylindrical outline, which
Internally is divided by longitudinal
partitions into eight compartments,
each of which is surmounted by a
fringed tentacle or feeler capable of
being agitated in the water. The
mouth, situated in the centre of the
space surrounded by these tentacles,
opens into a stomach. which, at l:s
lower end. communicates freely with
Ihe interspaces between the eight par
titions before mentioned, and these
open below into a series of ennuis,
which pervade a rather thin subslane ■
that covers the article we call coral,
and are continuous with other like
canals belonging to other polyps con
nected with the same mass, or polyp
ary. as it is called.
Into this covering material or cortex
ONE OF THE DELIGHTS OF BEING A 30 Y,
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The Pirate Chieftain; “We're surrounded by perils. Behind us is a herd
of wild buffaloes, on one side is an unfriendly shore swarming with hos
tile natives, and in front of us are breakers and deadly reptiles.”
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they into nearly
microscopic \ larvae, covered
with vTliese. after play
ing for a tim<BWk’ 11 qfehe internal parts
of the mother. a%r|lon this singular
sanctuary and go out in search of ad
venture.
In this pursuit many of them come
to grief by forming an acquaintance
with other inhabitants of the deep,
who regard them as a food delicacy,
but those that escape, after their time
of vagabondage, seek out a rock or
shell to which they become attached
aud then transform into polyps. Each
of these produce from its base expan
sions which, gradually growing larger,
begin to hud out other polyps.
C.cupalofU'Rl Chain Record.
Any one who has ever made the at
tempt to trace their family record
knows that there is a curious fascina
tion about it, ami it is with consider
able pleasure that each link is discov
ered which connects the present with
time long past, especially if it be found
that some ancestor held a prominent
position in affairs, either as a states
man, soldier or business man. Numer
ous devices have been thought out for
the convenient recording of the names
aud history of these ancestors, the
chief difficulty being that in bringing
all branches of an ancient family down
to tlie present the branches are so
numerous that It is hard to Join them
ail to the one head in a form easily
traceable. Puttie Williams Gee lias
designed a system of links and tablets
which is practically limitless as to
length aud number of names which
may la? recorded, an illustration o? the
Idea being presented herewith. In
tracing in a direct line the tablets are
connected otto to the next by small
rings or links, the branches being in
dicated by additional tablets attached
at Intervals around the tablet. One
tablet of individual shape is provided
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to make prominent the owner's name,
and each record contains space for the
main facts of ihe person's history. K
dcsirod a card system can he used in
addition, a number on each tablet re
ferring to a corresponding card, wi; re
a complete' history in detail can be
recorded. „ ,
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For years railroad lines have been
advertised mostly by booklets, folders,
circulars and the like, using the news
papers only for time table. Recently
several managers have used news
paper space for d'splay advertising,
and otic says that soon all the compa
nies wiil reduce or abandon other
forms of publicity in favor of the
newspapers.
There are still over twelve per cent,
nf Belgian soldiers who can neither
read nor write.
Soundings have shown that the
ocean basins are comparatively steep
sided and flat floored. The greatest
depth yet found Is 31,614 feet, in the
Western Pacific, near the Island of
Guam (latitude twelve degrees forty
five minutes north, longitude 143 de
grees forty-five minutes east). An
other place of great depth. 30.1*30 feet,
is in the Pacific, near the Fiji Islands.
The deepest sounding yet made in the
Atlantic is 27,366 feet, or over fire
miles, in a local depression 100 miles
north of Porro Itieo. West Indies.
It is always cold at the bottom of
tffe sea. the influence of the warm sur
face currents not extending below 100
fathoms. In the greater depths the
temperature is always close to the
freezing point. In the tropics the dif
ference between surface and bottom
temperatures is frequently more than
forty-five degrees. From 100 fathoms
down, or throughout the waters be
yond the influence of tlie sun. temper
atures remain practically unchanged.
The low temperature there is due to
the cold water from the Polar regions,
which sinks and gradually spreads it
self over 1 lie ocean bed.
Dr. Victor Vaughair, of Ann Arbor,
Mich., at tlie annual meeting of the
American Medical Association, read a
paper in which he said that the steril
ization of milk, as ordinarily carried
out. and even the Pasteurization of it.
is not desirable, but that perfectly
fresh milk from The cow. with certain
common-sense modifications, is the
best food for the baby. The high death
rate from summer diseases among
children, which continues, notwith
standing the sterilization of milk, lie
attributes to failure in sterilization.
Our aim should be. be says, to take
care of the milk and prevent its eou
taroinatlon. Many leading physicians
express similar views.
The United .-bates Consul-General at
Berlin sends to the State Department
some interesting details of the recent
trial of high-speed electric motors by
tlie Prussian .State Railway Adminis
tration. The track used had been put
in thorough repair, and at ordinary
speed everything worked perfectly, bin
when a speed of eighty-one miles an
hour was reached and exceeded new
and serious conditions were encoun
tered. The rails and lies both proved
too for so meat a strain; the
track began to give way and the side
swaying of the cars increased seri
ously. The highest speed attained
was ninety-nine miles an hour on two
occasions, but, as tlie result of condi
tions then developed, the experiments
were discontinued. Up to a speed of
eighty-one miles an hour, however,
they proved successful and satisfac
tory.
Much attention is now being given
lu many States to the of con
tagion among the children of the
schools, and every effort on the part
of health boards and tile school au
thorities is making to impress the
child with the importance of cleanly
habits. The Providence (it. I.) Board
of Health has sent a circular letter to
the teachers in the public schools ask
ing that they teach the children the
importance of observing the following
rules: "Don't spit, either ou the slate,
the floor or the sidewalk; don’t put
the Augers in the mouth: don’t pick
the nose; don't pur a pencil in the
month or moisten it with the lips;
don't wet tin- finger with saliva in
turning the pages of a book; don't put
money of any kind in the mouth; don't
put pins in the mouth: don't swap with
other children anything tiiat is put
into flu* month, such as apples, candy.-
'hewing-gum, whistles or bean-blow
ers; don’t cough or sneeze, while fac
ing another person; wash the face and
hands often.
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Reports from ail the summer resorts
say that the one conspicuous result
of the country's great prosperity lias
Ih'oii to send a small army of the new
ly rich to the exclusive resorts, where
they are crowding out thiskAd summer
visitors. Nothing so impresses are
brought in contac t with these gei-rich
quiek families as the remarkable man
ner in which the maternal head of the
house's accustoms herself to tlie new
conditions. No matter what her for
mer station, in nine times out of tea
she will giaee tiie drawing room with
an elegance and charm supposed to he
acquired only through genera
wealth and culture. Tlie men. ontoim
oilier baud, seldom change to any
great extent. If they have been ac
customed to .eating with their knives
they usually coutinuc to do So. and the
fact that silver now supplants steel
adds relish to the operation. Nowhere
is this illustrated better titan at the
summer hotel. How really pathetic it
is toi see some smartly gowned matron
vainly endeavor to make her husband
appear as though lie had been coming
down to dinner in a tuxedo all his
life, aud what a series of frowns,
coughs and mulgings there is if per
chance lie so far forgets her warnings
as to tie iiis napkin around his net*!;.—
New Y'ork Press.
Advertising i* Educational.
That advertising creates business has
been demonstrated by the success of
the men who have put new articles
on the market. As one experienced
business man has said: "Advertising
ts educating the public coatiiiuuiiy and
each new advertiser finds a more intel
ligent and responsive people to hear his
argument."—Philadelphia Record.
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