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Bayan on tbe
Island of Mindanao offered the resist
ance It did to the American attack,
which was made with the assistance
of a field battery on May 2, 1902. The
fort looked like any other Moro fort,
but the Americans lost many men In
trying to get Into It.
Many forts, stockades and In
trenched positions of the Moros had
very promtly surrendered to our col
umn In the march from the sea to the
lake country In the Interior. There
were many fortified places, because
the entire lake region Is divided up
among Sultans and Dattos, each with
his following and fortification.
fn fact about every house Is a fort.
There are trenches about it and stone
walls and bamboo stockades. In each
house thus protected live a Datto and
his immediate family and working
force of slaves, who cultivate the lands
and care for the stock. Every forti
fied place Is supplied with one or
more old cannon, a few Bmall guns
and many home-made bamboo can
non, spears, bolos, etc.
I shall never forget the march from
the sea to the lakes, some thirty-four
miles, in which we overcame all op
position. Forts and stockades were
taken without much resistance and
oftentimes without loss on either side.
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Our first view of Fort Pandupatan
occurred shortly after the taking of a
large stockade in the Hay an district.
The little fort, which was to cause us
so much loss looked much like any
other Moro fort.
In a general way the fort was a
square inclosure. The walls are of
stone, earth and bamboo and about
twelve feet thick at the base. They
are some fourteen feet high.
These walls are covered with bam
boo pols on the outside and also with
an immense entanglement of thorny
brash 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
Moro seemed to have a cannon or a
rifle at every porthole and their shout
ing proved to be effective.
The Moro engineers had also con
structed two trenches about the fort
of considerable depth. One trench
was crowded with desperate Moros
who had taken the oath of their tribe
to die facing the enemy. 1 can cer-
tJfy 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 were all
deadi but 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 contin
ued all this time. The inner side of
the walls in several feet lower than
the outer and affords a position from
which the Mo -os could fire at our men
without exposing themselves to return
fire.
There were several “lantakas” or
cannon arranged to shoot from the
port holes at the sides and ends. In
the middle of the fort is a bamboo
shack. The narrow entrance to the
fort was protected by heavy wooden
barred doors during the fight.
The designers of most Moro forts
take the precaution to make a pas
sage by which the garrison can retire
If need be. In this case the mode of
retreat seemed to be through an un
derground 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
this trench to the open field and then
ran to the brush.
The cannon of the Moro fort consist-
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an Inch and a m half.
These„ annona were slung ugp on
beams ©, arranged in port holew.
This ei j might
amuße one 'under- ©rdimfiy circum
stances. This time every piece of
ordnance ©T the enemy was made to
do such execution that we cannot rid
icule the devices. Of course it was
the very close range that made these
pieces effective.
When ’the cannons 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 fire the cannon con
sists of a piece of native wood that
burns steaoily, on which are lashed
pieces of bamboo sticks to protect the
band. „
The proieetile used 1n these cannons
consists of a series of pieces of thin
bamboo or strips of leaves bound in
cylindrical form about pieces of metal,
glass, pebbles, etc. These cartridges
are about four Inches long.
I saw some of these projectiles with
tacks, screws, slugs, etc., in them.
After toe battle our surgeons cut ma
terials of this kind from many of the
wounded.
Our surgeons did nob!® work In the
field that day. Some of them were
close to the front with us, attending
to the wounded. So was the chaplain
of the regiment. He helped get some
of the wounded men to a place of
shelter so they would not get shot,
cgaln. In fact the colonel and his staff
and the field and line officers of the
Twenty-seventh Infantry did excellent
work in the battle. The officers and
men of the Twenty-fifth Battery also
did finely.
Several men and two or three horses
fell into pitfalls. The depth of these
pitfalls is about seventeen feet. One
man who fell In cut steps on the sides
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and thus worked his way up to the
face.
Such was the fort that defied the
Americans from the middle of the aft
ernoon until daylight the next morn
ing. About 5:30 a. in. on May 3 the
Moro flag had disappeared and a white
flag was in its place.—Letter from a
soldier In the field, in the New York
Sun.
A Japanese Trick.
A story is told in the l'ail Mall of
the Russian admiral entering into an
agreement with a Japanese contractor
to purchase 10,000 tons of coal, to be
delivered to his squadron immediate
ly. The captain of a British man-of
war in a Japanese port suggested that
it was not wisdom to provide a fleet
which might shortly be used against
the giver with the primary weapon of
naval warfare. ''But what can we
do?" The British officer could not
presume to advise. Next day a Jap
anese admiralty official came aboard
the British ship . "We are out of it.”
he chuckled, rubbing his hands to
gether gleefully. "How did you man
age?” "Oh. we made the contractor a
bankrupt so that he was unable to ful
fill his engagement.”
Why We Grow Old.
A French writer, Jean Finot, dis
cussing the question why we grow
old, says:
“For three reasons: First, want of
physical exercise in the open air;
second, poisoning by microbes which
the phagocytes have not succeeded in
destroying; third fear of death. It
| is hard to imagine the importance of
this last element. If a man fears
death, it will carry him away. And
yet it in quite pleasant, too; no sensa
tion could be compared to it."
Rough on the Clergy.
In a certain Cleveland minister's
family are two 'youngsters w'ho play
much together, especially with dolls.
The other day the younger of the two,
a little girl, confided thus in her
mother with regard to Christmas:
. "Mamma, I do hope Santa Claus
will bring us a respectable boy doll.
We haven't got a boy doll In either
family, and every since Harry broke
Jumpio-Wumpie, the monkey doll, has
had to be the preacher.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
English as She Is Spoke.
This item is from a Corean newspa
per. published in English:
“Seoul. Corea. May 23. 1902.—Late
ly the Police Headquarters ordered to
forbid the servants &e to run the
horses fastly on the big streets as
they sometimes pressed the children
down and hurted them on the ground
and the police stopped a mapoo run
ning a horse hardly on its back, but
a number of soldiers came along
quickly and captured the police
away."
OFF
Ten hr,: b*!oiv! Is - "
“glow
With the scud and the spuiite
fret of the sea?
The salt air is keen on your brown cheek,
I ween,
And the heart in your bosom’s a-danc-
Ing with glee!
Then up with the sail to the freshening
gate
And joy to oir sailing—right seamen
-are we;
At the first gleam cf morning we’ll laugh
at the warning
Of the Jolly red sun peeping up from
the sea.
Illinois Board of Arbitration
No state board of arbitration has
come in for so much praise as that
of the State of Illinois. It is a com
mon expression to hear labor men, In
speaking of the board, say that Illi
nois has a state board of arbitration
which arbitrates, and in most in
stances has gone out of its way to
secure concessions from both sides be
fore calling employer and employe
together for a Joint meeting in order
that their differences may be adjust
ed It is conceded that no better selec
tion for timber to compose this
board could have been found in the
state. Frederick W. Job, the chair
man, is a well-known attorney of Chi
cago, and represents the disinterested
side of the controversy. Chauncey
H. Geiger of Ashley Is an employer
of labor, whose policy seems tj be
"to live and let live.” W. A. Mathis
of Clinton, is a member of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
in the hearings of the hoard follows
closely the footsteps of the chief of
the engineers, that It is better to
Two Unions Claim Jurisdiction
There is a war on between the
Amalgamated Woodworkers* Interna
tional union and the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners. Cir
culars have been sent out by each or
ganization declaring the othe- to be
a “scab" outfit and quoting instances
of duplicity on both sides. A circular
which is now being scattered broad
cast throughout the country by the
Amalgamated Woodworkers’ union
lays the blame for tho strife on the
present officers of tho United Broth
erhood, whom it characterizes as "vi
cious and unscrupulous.”
The circular shows that, the Furni
ture Workers’ union, which later be
came a part of the Amalgamated
Woodworkers’, was organized in 1873
The American Federation
Reports from the western country
indicate that the trip of the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor will he productive of much
good to the general movement. At
every city where the labor leaders
speak they are being received by en
thusiastic crowds—in fact, there nev
er was such a boom for organization
seen before. Some of the newspapers
In San Francisco devoted columns of
space every day to the proceedings
of the executive council, and the trou
ble between the building trades there
has been adjusted through fts efforts.
Incidental to the western trip of
the executive council comes the old
story that Samuel Gompers will not
be re-elected at the next convention
Worker’s View of Child La.bor
Mr. Maguire, who is a native of Fall
River, Mass., says: "In the North
our labor unions have practically
driven child labor out of the mills in
the interest of humanity and better
industrial conditions. In the South,
however, t, 81 'child-labor condition is
general,- sgsults are inconceiv
able and misery. The
conditions writhe southern textile
workers may be summed up as fol
lows:
"They are treated worse than
slaves. They work longer and for
less pay than any class of mill labor
ers in the world.
"They are subjected to a 'docking
system,' under which they are shame
fully cheated and robbed.
Equalization of Wages
Another battle, and not of lit4l im
portance, is that of equalizing the
wages of men and women for the
same class of work. In every walk of
life where you find women working
you will find them underpaid and
rarely ever receiving the same pay a
man would receive were ne doing the
same work. This method of injustice
that has been established of basing
remuneration upon the sex of the
worker and not vpen the quality of
the work—of unequal pay for equal
work—Drings injury to ali and good
to none. Whatever a woman is able
to do, mentally and physically, and do
Japanese Workmen to Go
Labor papers in the Northwest re
port that the Great Northern railway
will replace its Japanest workmen
throughout the western states with
Eupropean Tabor, and that the change
will be made as soon as practicable.
The railway company is understood
to have found the work of the brown
meh unprofitable, and the change Is
in the nature of an experiment. While
the company has not yet brought the
Japanese east it has and does now
employ over 1,000 on its line in Mon
tana alone. It is there that the
change will be made. At one Mon-
Mprune
the life-giving wind as Restrains at
the sheet;
The wild airs will scatter our troubles—
what matter!
When the brine’s in our nostrils the
world's at our feet.
Then up with the sail to the freshening
gale
And joy to our sailing—right seamen
are we;
We will sing to the daring of hardy sea
faring.
And welcome a fight with our brother,
the sea!
—Harper's Magazine.
make a little gain at. a time than to
attempt to capture the world at once,
in the dozens of controversies settled
by this board since its existence both
sides have been satisfied that they
had received justice and fair treat
ment. .1. McCan Davis has been sec
retary of the board for five years. He
has made a careful and exhaustive
study of the subject of industrial
arbitration and conciliation, and is
the author of the several amendments
enacted by the legislature that have
brought the arbitration law to its
present state of efficiency. The law,
as it now stands, is quite generally
conceded to be superior to that of any
other state. Mr. Davis is a member
of the bar and is well known as a
newspaper and magazine writer. He
is an authority on the life of Abraham
Lincoln, and his magazine contribu
tions, founded upon original research
on this subject, have been extensive
and important. He is an authority
also on Illinois history, and oy recent
election is secretary of the Illinois
State Historical Society.
and claimed jurisdiction over ail cab
inet-makers and machine woodwork
ers. The United Brotherhood was or
ganized in 1881, eight years later. The
v oodworkors, therefore, claim as th-y
were first in the field, and as their
claim to jurisdiction over machine
woodworkers was recognized by the
United Brotherhood nt its national
convention in 1894 they have a right
to preserve their organization.
The American Federation has rec
ognized the claim of the woodworkers
to machine men and cabinet-makers,
and indorsed the label of the organi
zation. The i sited Brotherhood has
recently adopted a union label of its
own which it is placing on sash and
doors manufactured in mills where ...
has control.
at New Orleans in December. It is
said that, the national officers of sev
eral large organizations have already
talked the matter over, and have se
lected anew man for the head of the
labor movement of the country. The
man generally favored is James Dun
can, first vice president, who, it is be
lieved, is more aggressive than Mr.
Gompers.
It is not the intention of these lead
ers, they say, to entirely dispose of
Mr. Gompers, as they feel he has giv
en the best years of hiS life to the
movement, and would find it difficult
to do anything else now. They say
he will be provided for as an organ
izer. and they believe that on this un
derstanding Duncan will accept tne
nomination.
“They are forced to live in the mill
owners' houses, trade at the mill own
ers' stores, support the miii owners'
churches and doctors; and, should
they dare to oppose any of these re
quirements, they are driven like dogs
from the mill district.
"The child-labor system in the
southern mills is a disgrace to our
boasted civilization. The health,
and even the lives, of thousands of lit
tle children are being sacrificed to
gratify the demands of capitalistic
greed,
"The mill bosses in the South en
slave the operatives, who formerly
were innocent country people, by tak
ing advantage of their astounding ig
norance and iri dulity.”—Baltimore
American.
well, Is her sphere, but if she has
come to stay in mans special domain
of opportunity and occupation let her
join the ranks of organized labor and
demand equal pay for equal work;
battle for the hours and toil to be
restricted to eight per day: battle un
til all children under 15 years of age
are placed in the schoolroom that they
may learn to exercise th ■ powers
they possess, and be equal to the op
portunity to build a grand manhood
and womanhood, a true republic, a
real land of the free.—George Hodge
secretary Brick. Tile and Terra Cotta
Workers’ Union of America. \
tana points arrangemnts are now be
ing made, it is said, for the accommo
dation of 200 Europeans. They will
receive sixteen cents an hour. The
employment of Japanese on the Great
Northern has long been a matter of
annoyance to the different union men
on the .system. While the former are
too small for heavy work, they have
done fairly well in lighter work, and
their cost to the company is said to
have been nominal.
Life's thistle crop doesn't care a
hang about wind, weather, or rain.
When Whittier Was a Boy.
When Whittier was a boy in Massa
chusetts country boys and girls had
little schooling. About nine months in
the year boys were expected to give
their attention to farm work. A term
of three months in the winter was
often the only time school kept.
Young folks learned more from I
woods and stream and earth then they
are apt to now. So it was with Whit
tier. Tip to the time he was 14 he
had read no poems except those in
the Bible. At that time his first
schoolmaster brought with him to the
house of Whittier's father a copy of
the poems of Robert Burns. "I begged
him to leave the book with me,” said
Whittier, speaking of the occasion. "It
had a lasting influence upon me. I
began to make rhymes myself, and to
imagine stories and adventures.”
Four or five years after this Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison was editing a
country newspaper in Newburyport,
Mass., and to him Whittier ventured
to send some of his verses, which were
published. This is said to have been
the beginning of his life as a poet.
But a little later, in tbe summer of
1826, when he was 19 years old, he
was one day hoeing in the field when
a visitor inquired for John Greenleaf
Whittier. The young man hastening
in his hoeing clothes to the house to
find tho editor who had published hi3
verse. Fancy what must have been
the questionings in his head at that
moment!
The editor of the Newburyport pa
per felt that he had discovered in
Whittier's lines genuine poetic ability,
and he urged upon the youth the need
A Bit of Pivrlor Magic
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Cut from a fourfold piece of paper
an arrow shaped like the illustration;
A Chimpanzee Honored
The Municipal Council the
French town of Grenoble has recently
voted a large sum of money for the
purpose of erecting a bronze statue
of the famous chimpanzee named
Charlemagne, who not. long since died
there.
For nine years the chimpanzee,
which was brought to Grenoble by
an African explorer, had enjoyed the
freedom of the town, being privileged
to enter practically every house and
to help himself to anything he fancied
in fruit and vegetable shops.
The chief reason of the town's great
regard for the chimpanzee was that
about five years ago he rescued a
A Chicken Tale
A lady living in Maryland writes
to the Woman’s Journal as follows:
I want to tell the children a story of
a little Plymouth Rock pullet that I
have. She was hatched under the
back yard porch, and has never been
willing to live in the chicken-yard
with the rest of the chickens, but
stays around the house and is very
tame.
One morning a few days ago my
husband said: "How did an egg get
on the staircase leading to the third
story?”
Sue said: “I saw the little puilet
Bird’s Nest on Track
O. E. Fairs, goods agent at the
Werthßsg railway station, supplies
an interesting piece of nesting in
formation. says the Pall Mail Gazette.
of robins have built their nest
in an old beef can. lying between the
rails of one of the lines in the goods
yard at Worthing station. Trucks
are shunted over it daily, and tttfl
unloading and carting of goods take
place almost every hour of the day
within two feet of the can. The nest
at present contains four eggs, and
the birds do not appear to be con
cerned in the least at the constant
noise about them.
li.dian Prince Visits the Pope.
A novel spectacle was witnessed at
the ( Vatican on a recent morning
when the Indian Princ'e, the Maharaja
of Kolhapur, and the Calcutta repre
sentative at the Coronation. Maharaja
Kumar Tagore had a private audience
with the pope. The prince wore his
native dress,a turban studded with dia
monds, from the back of which hung
long strings of fine pearls. He was
accompanied by his secretary and an
Indian suite, who, however, with the
exception of the turban, were clad in
Buropean fashion. The rector of San
Siivestro acted as interpreter. The
pope questioned the prince much upon
the present state of Indian affairs and
learning that the Maharaja was en
route for The Coronation ceremony In
London, he inquired after the king,ex
pressing much gratification at his
of using and developing his talent;
that he should not lay It away idle.
The youth’s father joined the discus
sion, and the elder Whittier, sedate,
practical, and spent with the labor of
his thin soil, protested against “put
ting notions in the boy’s head.” He
could not school the lad. He was
poor in money, and his acres brought
Whittier Mending Shoes,
him barely enough to support his
household.
At last Whittier himself solved the
problem. During the summer a young
man worked on the Whittier farm who
I in the idle time of winter made worn
| en’s shoes. He had offered to teach
: him bis handicraft.
The poet bent himself to the trade
the following winter, and became so
j skillful in making shoes that he was
j able to earn his support, both tuition
> and board, at a ne’ghboring academy.
I aDd so to gain the instruction that he
needed and desired.
then place this arrow on the point of
a needle, vertically situated in a
cork, at its center part marked X. but
without causing the needle to pierce
the paper; after the cross has been
properly balanced on the needle,
cover the whole with a common
glass, thoroughly dried.
Now get a dry woolen cloth, and
by placing your hand or finger on top
of the glass to insure its steadiness,
rub the cloth briskly up and down
the glass at a point between the
points of the cross and the pointed
end of the cross will slowly but
surely move toward or revolve on the
needle until it points to the place
on the glass where the cloth is being
rubbed.
The point of the cross is attracted
by the electricity which is generated
by rubbing the glass with the woolen
cloth.
child from drowning in a well. Char
lemagne had seen everything, and
for him to swing himself over the top
of the well was the work of a mo
ment. Descending by the rope used
for the buckets, he grasped the child
and quickly carried her back to her
friends, climbing up by the rope.
Charlemagne increased his popu
larity by spending hours in the child
ren’s hospital of the town, playing in
different wards, and amusing the
children, who were all very fond of
him. In such respect was this chim
panzee held that when he died the in
habitants of the town followed hi*
remains to the grave.
in the front hall. I suspect she laid
it.”
I thought that was rather improb
able, but did not say so.
This morning i was out in the gar
den, and happening to glance up, saw
the little hen on the window sill
of my bedroom in the second story!
She came down as quietly as she
went up. Before I leave my room in
the morning I always turn the bed
back to air it; and there, on the wire
mattress, 1 found a freshly laid egg.
Was it not the fuaniest nest you ever
heard of?
rapid progress towards recovery. At
the close of his fifteen minutes' audi
ence the prince, after the fasaion of
his country, offered a handsome gift
in the form of a gold and glass vase
containing the essence of roses.
For Girts to Do.
There are many ways of preserving
the rich crimson and gold leaves of
autumn, and of pressing seaweeds, so
that they will retain their coloring.
Many boys and girls are familiar with
the different processes, but few of
them know’, perhaps, that the form
and color of a rose leaf may be trans
ferred to paper in a way to make it
look as natural as the leaf itself.
Here is the way to do it; Lay a rose
| leaf carefully on a sheet of white pa
| per. put the paper in an open book,
j and over the leaf lay a piece of white
| linen cloth saturated with spirits of
nitre. Protect this by another sheet
of white paper, and, having closed the
kook, put it away for a few days
where it will pot be opened. After
the few days have passed open the
book and you will find that a perfect
impression of the leaf, colored and all,
has been transferred to the paper.
And to think that Chicago has an
anti-kissing club. Oh, Chicago.'
Perhaps the reason a woman does
n't keep a secret is because she's
afraid some other woman will tell it
first.
OCTOBER M,