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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. < j " ground MCA /All i tiS FORT < £ | il. 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- ' W 9 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 00 ] 0 0 • o * *7 \ , CD ® f o o ( n 1- V 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 1 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,