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EHPBCT ENTERED : ; : OP PlTGr.;ilR; JSLAHD. Doufcls Murder Done In the Home of the Mutineers' -Descendants-First Serious Crime in 1 1 0 Years. ; For the first time ia all its romantic history, Pitcairn Island' has been the scene of a murder, says the New York Press. For nearly 110 years the mutineers of the County and their de scendants lived on Pitcairn an ideal ; existence. Then a young man named Christian, a descendant of the leader of the mutineers, killed a young wom n and her little child and threw their "uuicimln in. ii.. -?-t t "VZ:"S ocean caves, lie child in orJerTat he anight raarrr another young woman on whom he had cast his eyes.. The . rulers, of the island had decided that if he married any one it must be the young woman of whose child he was. the father; that, in fact, he was to all intents and puroposes the girl's husband. One evening Christian met the yonng wom an and her. child in the forest and killed them. He was suspected of the crime and accused, whereupon he con fessed. " It was the first capital crime ever 'committed on the island, and the islanders were much excited over it. PARLIAMENT HOUSE, ON P1TCAIEN ISLAND. The windows are double rows of pnrtholes, and the supporting timbers are the only " relics ol the Bounty. The British Government Was asked to send, to the place some one with judicial authority to try the murderer. From officers of the British man-of-war Royalist information has been received of the trial, by a special commissioner sent out for the pur pose. Though the settlement of Pitcairn Island was the result of a crime, the descendants of the ' original settlers have lived in an ideal state of tran quility aud brotherly love. The people were religious, and such lures of the evil one as intoxicating liquors and tobacco were . not allowed to be brought to the island. For over a hundred years Pitcairn Island lay sleeping in the warm waters of the South Pacifio, and its people feared THE PITCAIRN ISLAND. MURDERER. God, kept the Commandments and were happy. ; The crime which was responsible for the settlement of Pitcairn -Island was the mutiny of the crew of the British warship Bounty in 1789. That mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian, master's mate of the ship. The first murderer of Pitcairn Island was Harry A. Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian. " When, under the lead of Fletcher Christian, the crow of the Bounty seized that ship, they put the captain, Bligh, and certain others who had refused to join them, into an open boat and set them adrift'. ' The captain and his party, after a . severe "and hazardous experience, reached Timor Island, in ths South Pacifio, where they were picked up by a pass ing ship and taken back to England. The mutineers, after setting the cap tain adrift, sailed for Pitcairn Island. Pitcairn is only' two miles long- and about a mile and a half wide. It lies in the South Pacific, between Aus tralia and South America, out of the pa-h of commerce. Though expedi tions were 'sent out by the British Government to find the mutineers of BOUNTY BAY," the Bounty, all trace of them was lost until one day, many years after, when a sailing ship happened to find herself in the vicinity of Pitcairn Island, and sent a boat ashore for water aud fruit. A curious, isolated civilized commun ity was found there, lining under the rule of a venerable patriarch,. John Adams, the last survivor of the muti neers .of the Bounty. Adams had taught the natives to read and write, and beggec that missionaries be eent out to aid him in his work. Fron be ing wild and reckless mutineers, , the tailors ol the Bounty, bofore they . . ... , .'.,.., . r Jo1 ' T!2 E03J' ; died, became religious 'enthusiasts, and when they. died they left a God fearing community in their - children and grandchildren. v " For 110 years crime Vas practically j unknow on Pitcairn Island. Then Harry A. Christian murdered a young ( woman . and . her year-and-a-half-old child. It was the first serious crime thatahad ever bee committed qnthe island. Christian met the woman and child walking in the bush one Sunday erenibg, and killed them in cold bipod. After dark he returned to the scene of his crime to drear the bodies down the steep face of a cliff to the rocks below, where he threw them through a "blow-hole into a cove where the pounding Surges of the Pa cific soon tore them to pieces. The murderer, when accused, confessed his crime, and it is believed that his object was to be free to marry another i - 1 1 j , young woman-wine lsiauawiui wnom he had fallen in love, and for? permis sion marry whom he had applied un successfully to the .parliament" of the island. , The island parliament is an execu tive committee of seven members, presided over by a president. .. The parliament and - the president are elected by popular vote, the women voting as well as the men. All the in habitants of the island are desendants of the mutineers of the Bounty and of native women found there, except one family, and that is a family the head of which is named Coffin, and, of course must have sprung from Nan tucket. There are 141 souls on the island, and the families are five in number. They are the Christians, the Youngs, the McCoys, the Buffets and the Coffins. The president of the isl and is named McCoy. The Queen of England is the "over-lord" of the isl and, and in the island church is an organ which she sent out to her "lov ing subjects of Pitcairn Island in ap prepiation of their domestic virtues," according to the silver plate on the organ. But England .seldom inter feres with anything concerning the Government of Pitcairn. When Christian had confessed his crime, however, ' President . McCoy called a meeting-of his "parliament," and, as there,, was no precedent by which to be guided, it was decided to imprison the young man and appeal to England to send out and try him. So the man -of -war Boy alist was sent to Suva in the Fiji Islands to get the British "Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific." The commis sioner went to Pitcairn in the Royal ist and Christian was tried before him and convicted, thongh he repudiated his confession and pleaded not guilty. He - was taken to Suva "for final satis faction of the demands of justice.' . One peculiar thing about the Pit cairn Islanders is that they all speak English with a decided "down East" twang, anda use many . expressions which are seldom heard in Old Eng land, but are . common in New Eng land. They are a light-colored peo ple, with s blue or brown eyes. The only harbor in the island, and that is not a good one, is Bounty Bay, a slight indentation in the shore, where the mutineers burned the Bounty when they finally decided to stay on the island. Rising up back of the little settlement is. a peak called the Goat House, and near its top is a cave where the' mutineers used 'to hide when they saw a sail approaching the island. In the first few years follow ing their crime Christian used to spend a certain part of each day on the mduntain on the lookout for sails, in order that "all hands might douse the fires and go aloft," when there ap peared any possibility of their exist ence being discovered. They did not descend to the village again until not only the coast, but the offing, was well clear. But men and times are changed now on Pitcairn, and a visiting ship is warmly welcomed. .1 The Parliament House of -the island is interesting, because in it is some tfmber taken from the Bounty. This building has for windows two rows of portholes, which give it the appear ance of a stranded ship. The house in which the president lives is the best PITCAIRN ISLAND. one on the island, and is called the While jHouse. Some of the natives of Pitcairn have visited the United States, and sailing vessels from San Francisco touch there more frequent ly than any other ships. Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Logan' are' among the largest women pensioners of this country. They receive respec tively $2309 aad $2000 a year, : In France '; there, are 1,130,241 foreigners, while in foreign countries there are but 617,000 Frenchmen THE DEWEY MEDAL. Will Be Presented lo Eaett OIBear JIn Who Fanxht Under lh Admiral. , By the courtesy of 4he sculptor, Daniel C. French, Harper Weekly i4 able to publish the fire autnemic re- reduction Of his completed design foi 1C T--i-al TiffanT com-' After a photograph In Harper's Weekly. - Copyright, 1899, py Harper A Brothers. pany will cut the dies and strike the medals in copper 1635 in all. Upon the obverse side is a life-like presentment of - the head of Commo dore' Dewey, with the following in scription: "The gift of the people of the United States to the officers and men of the Asiatic Squadron under the command of Commodore George Dewey." Upon the reverse, sur rounded by the words. "In memory of the victory of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898," is the figure of a young sailor, stripped to the waist, who sita upon a gun, with the flag across his knees, and one foot resting upon a swinging loop of rope. In this beautiful figure Mr. -French has admirably embodied the genius of the episode in its high est and purest aspect the spirit of the fleet, such as one's imagination may picture it to have been on that memorable .morning, and also the spirit of the. country on ;lwhose behalf jt was" going into action. , The chief characteristic of the 'face is youth the beauty, confidence and pure In tention of youth. In the pose of the figure are alertness, fearless upright ness and the unconscious grace and composure of assured strength. The very disposition of the flag is sugges tive. The moment represented is not the one of victory, but of preparedness thereto. . The flag is not a menace to the world, nor under the pretext of its name is a policy of aggrandizement foreshadowed. It: is safe in the keep ing of Young America, and when the cause is right it will be uplifted. . Its placing in the circle secures an ' admirable balance between the varied portions and the flat ones very enjoy able to the eye. The strong horizon tal bar formed by the cannon, low down in the space, lifts up the lithe figure of the youth, and gives it a dig-. nity and sense of size very difficult to obtain in so small a compass. Again, the poise of that foot upon the rope " observe how exquisitely sensitive it is! brings into the narrow space at the bottom an interest and distinction which make it ""contribute to the deo orotion of the whole. Lastly, the whole possesses that quality which is such a charm of low relief "envel oppe" as the sculptors call, it. At mosphere is, perhaps, our nearest English word; the pattern of the dec oration is not one merely of liget and dark, cut of several degrees of light and several degrees o dark, as if viewed through .varying planes of at mosphere. The result is, though, not hard and gritty, but luminous, rioh and velvety. Harperfs Weekly. The Original "Bock of Ages." There are few photographs, out-, side of those relating - to Bible lands, that will. possess a greater fas- "BOCK - OF AOXS," AT BURR1NGTON . COOMBE. ' The rent cliff, in whose hollow Toplady found shelter from a thunder-storm, ia la Somerset County, England.) cination for Christian readers every where than that which appears below. It is a photograph of that wonder ful rock in Burrington Coombe, Eng land, which afforded Bey. Augustus Montague Toplady the inspiration, which found expression in the imper ishable hymn, "Bock of Ages."" At one point there is conspicuous crag of mountain limestone seventy or eighty feet in height, a prominent ob ject on the right hand to any one ap proaching from th BJag4on rold. Bight down the center of this mass of stone is a deep fissure, in the recesses of which grows.many fern, while on the hillside around are trees, whose stunted growth and wind-worn ap pearance tell of the scanty soil and the exposed situation. - In this fissure Toplady took refuge from a thunderstorm; and it was this "cleft" and this rock which suggested the central idea of this beautiful hymn. . - ... . . " -ASIATIC A ' ? rlL ' b:?L' com. jt-osr f v., nZPA IJ-J ;;v?T V C liketTIslMain ' l " TRUTE ABOUT THE SOUTH WHY T BUILD 13 THE IDEAL PLACE TO HOMES AND FORTUNES. The Idea That It is Afflleted With FeTers 'Is Erroneous One Tbe uiouitu ' . DtUsMnl una - Healthful tli Tear Kounrf Batlaess lie t hod. The Atlanta Constitution recently printed an article from the pen of Dr. Stirling,, a local physician, in which he asked why it was that the people nf .th-fifflith did not make their ad- ! vantages known to the world at large. :"Re drew attention' to the fact that in Europe and in the Northern States of the Union there was a widely prevalent idea that the South was afflicted with fevers, which rendered it dangerous for human life. The doctor went on to suggest that if once this impression should be removed, there could be no doubt that a vast stream of immigration would invade our fields and our waste places would thus be built np. ' To, corroborate what Dr. Stirling said as to the. impression held abroad regarding the South, the Constitution has received a letter from a gentleman in Wisconsin, which reads as follows: Editor Constitution I am becoming interested in the South, and- would a few questions regarding business 1. Are nil bfanchesot fettslness well represented? 2, Are business men compelled to give long credits? 3. Are the farmers in your vicinity tllrlity and eontented? i. Are rents high? 5. Are malarial diseases prevalent there to any extent? ' , I nm familiar with drugs, dry goods,' groceries, shoes, lurnistungs, etc., and would like to locate in a good live town. Would be prepared to invest from $509(TT6 $6000 la business. C. Have ajways heard it preached that to go South was to become Indolent, lazy, : victim of fevers, and, ia fact, all that is dreadful in the shape of diseases to which human flesh is heir. 7. Would you think It advisable to come South with a family in which there are small children? I am tired of our long cold winters. - - L. NlCKEKSON. Wantonhi, Wis. This letter is reproduced in full for the reason that it comes as a confession of want of information from an intelli gent American, living in a State noted for the intelligence of its people. When such ideas as hinted at by the ques tions asked exist among the people of such a State as Wisconsin, it certainly becomes time for the organs of public opinion in the South to set forth the facts, so that henceforth no uncertain ty may linger in the public mind as to the South, its resources ahd its future. The writer of the above letter honestly se'eks information, and should be as honestly met and answered, which the Constitution proposes to do seriatim: 1. Throughout the South there are metropolitan cities, of which Atlanta is a fair sample, which rival any of the cities in the- northwest for the amount of business done, the field covered and the advantages which they offer to the people pf the surrounding country for trade and commerce. In these cities there are represented all interests, classes and degrees of busi ness, and in them may be found pros perous merchants and' even million aires, who, starting at the very bot tom, have built up until they have reached the top scale, in commerce and society." The rivalry between business interests is fully as keen and alive to the necessities of the day as can be that in the city of Milwaukee, which is - the metropolis of the State from which our friend writes. 2. As to business credits, it is not likely that there can be much differ ence between the conditions in Gew gia, for instance, and in Wisconsin. In the larger town and cities cash,- or its equivalent, is the 'rule, while the opportunities for credit to those who are worthy of it are abundant. In the smaller villages, owing to the al most complete devotion of our agri cultural interests to cotton, which is a crop coming in but once a year, a much larger margin of credit has to be given. This is a condition, however, out of which the people of. the South have been' emerging. Within the last ten years there has been a remarkable escape from the single crop idea, and during the present year the revolt against that idea and in favor of di verse interests has grown to ssuch proportions that the the time is cer tainly in eight when Southern farmers will have something to sell every day in the year, which will bring them money on delivery. In this connec tion it is proper to state that the de votion to a single crop is not an out growth of a want of opportunity on the part of nature, because in almost every section of the South everything can be raised which is now peculiar to the North, in addition to the great money crop of cotton. The ideal goal to which our people are now aspiring is the ability to supply all human wants as the first work of the farm, making the rasing of cotton" the extra or surplus work, which will thus be come pure profit in the pockets of our farmers. 3. As to the farmers, in Georgia, they' are certainly contented and un deniably thrifty, but they have much to learn in the line of diversified agri culture. They are people possessed of honesty, character aud the will to work, as soon as they are directed in the right channels. To people from the North, where the rigor of the cli mate ia such as to force attention to personal comfort, the people of the South may appear to lag behind, but tne fact is that thev have not felt th necessity of mnch of the extra eflorH which nature has forced' upon those of the snowbound regions. Blest with genial skies, with the almost absence of anything like winter, they possess what not even the hard work of those in the Northwest can secure. ' 4. Rents are cheaper than they are in Iowa and Wisconsin, according to character and location of business. 5. -Malarial diseases are not .as much known in the South, taken as a whole, .as they are in the Northwest. To make it more explicit to onr correspondent, the malarial area in the State of jGeorgia is less than it is In the State of Wisconsin. WJren our friend hears people talking about chills and fever in some river valley in the South, he snocid think of the fever and ague which he meets in similar places; tn the State of Wisconsin. The difference between the two States is this: that we of Georgia have permitted too much parading of a few sporadic fever cases, whereas iu Wisconsin they have been passed over as matters of no moment, long as the ncraal . death' rate was not cected thereby. Even, in the small malarial belt in Georgia tho death rate will . bear: comparison with that of any similar area in the State of Wisconsin. To put this whole question in a nutshell, there has been a bugaboo kept up, no one knows how, as to the existence J of fevers in the South. If our friend will but look at the man'- and see that the South ex tends from Chesapeake Bay diagonally down to .El Paso, Texas, he will find that it covers" much more than 2000 miles. If, for instance," half a dozen cases should occur in this, vast area, what - cause wonld that be for alarm? Yet when these half dozen cases do occur, they are heralded forth by the press, and people abroad hold up theu hands and pity the people ; of "the poor south." m the south, as whole, there are no diseases which do not. come to every other section of the country? There is not a day in the South, when the whole house cannot be thrown open to the breezes, which is the first requirement of sanitation, while in Wisconsin, there : are weeks and months when the house is kept as tight as a book,rand there is no oppor tunity given for a breath of fresh air to strike into the dark corners. T 6. If our correspondent could only visit our section, there is not a county in which it would not "famish him With a score of centenarians, whose long lives prove the healthful condi- Touider which they have lived. It is a daily"mutter for the Constitu tion to receive news of the death of people who have passed the century mark, while the patriarchal age of seventy-five is so common that it ex cites no comment whalever. The man who would be lazy or indolent in At lanta, for instance, would be equally lazy in the city of Milwaukee. There would be no cure for such a one. The air is bracing while not cold, neither inclining to tropical heat nor frigid in tensity. It is that happy medium which keeps the blood in good circu lation and inspires one. to activity and industry. The average temperature of Georgia the year round is 76 de grees above "zero. The lowest tem perature during the present year was upon one occasion 20 degrees above zero. The highest temperature in the month of July, taking the city of At lanta as an example, scarcely ever passes, for one or two days, 94, while 85 degrees more nearly expresses it during the three hot summer months. , Added to this there is an absence of undu humidity, aud there also prevail pleasant breezes to do away with the intensity of such heat as we have. The nights are pleasant and cool, generally calling for some coyer. 7. , From what has already been stated, it may be readily imagined that the -South, being the garden spot of the world, is certainly an ideal region in which to make a home. There are schools everywhere. There is the op portunity to make a living. There are good neighbors, all of the advantages of a refined civilization; freedom from the rigors of the Northwest, as well as from undue heat. Of course, as to the question of moving, every man has certain matters of business to de- cide in connection1 therewith. Th discovery of a. suitable location in which to establish business is some thing which, of course, Ihust be a matter of inquiry . with "each one. Knowing the situation in Wisconsin as the Constitution does, it would have no hesitation in recommending a re moval to almost ahy part of Georgia, or of the adjoiuiug States. All of the advantdges of which w have spoken are common to each of them. , REFLECTIONS Or A BACHELOR. - r u Be happy and you can pose as being good. ; . .-- v- Women aren't any more of a mys tery to a man than their clothes. V The queerest thing is tbe new ideas a girl gets about modesty after she is married.' A woman is bound to have trouble; if it isn't servants or mumps she goes to house-cleaning. It isn't that widows know such a lot more, but they can make so much out of so little. . There is no place where a woman can have such a good cry as sitting down on the floor. ' . It's discouraging the many ways a man can get scratched by the pins a woman wears. , "Half the- time when a woman pre tends sho is jealous about you it's be cause she is mad because you aren't jealous about her. U There is one thing a woman can't forgive in her husbaud; it's to have him come home on time when she has thought up a lot of heart-breaking re marks about his staying out late.- Iew York Press. FioJeclluc Orchards From TAgUt Frost. It was, we believe, William Saun ders, the enlightened Chief of the' Government Experiment Gardens at Washington, who, some fifty years ago, insisted, in leading magnates, that tbe textbooks were wrong in teaching- that heated air ascended that is, ascended in an active sense. It was, rather, pushed up by the heavier cold air pressing against it. It seems a slight distinction, but it has immense practical importance. For instauce, those who understand this smile at the Florida orange grower who builds fires around his orchard to make smoke when he fears a frost is coming. He lightens the atmos phere at the same time among the trees, and makes it all tue easier lor the heavy cold air to push in and take Hi place. The modern thought to spray with water is more philosophical. Water is a good conductor of heat, and would, add to the chances of resisting cold by the heat it wonld abstract from its sur roundings. Horticulturists have long knownjhat evergreens are quite hardy in a moist atmosphere, when they would easily succumb under the same temperature in a dry one. Maban's Monthly. . : ': r Replaced the Woman' Scalp. The remarkable surgical operation recently performed in Paris is still be ing much talked about A laundress had her scalp torn off from the nape of the neck to the eyebrows, by her hair catching in some belting. She was taken to the Bronssais Hespital, where Dr. Malherbe, after, seeing her, sent for her scalp. He obtained it after a delay of several hours, shaved off the hair, washed it with antiseptics, and applied it in place again. The scalp has grown onto the Lead, , TALK ABOUT "HORSE ' SENSE. There's Ko Snch Thin;, Professor Leo a Says, and Tell tbe ICaaoa Why. , Professor Leon, after ' more Chan twenty years experience in the train-, ing of .horses, clogs, lions and other animals, declares that none of the lower animals possesses intelligence. None of them, he says, has ever per formed a noble action, and is utterly without the power to do so. A dog and a horse, as well as other animals, hare excellent memories, an d can . bo readily trained to the perfosmance of certain tricks, which appear to be the result of intelligence. If you stop to analyae this, however, yon; will see that it is only the - exercise of the rjower of memorr. ? The doar or the horse has no knowledge of the result of its performance. - I;-"r- " "It is easy to teach a dog, Pro fessor Leon says, "Jtp obey signs, signals or words; such as 'fetch or 'carry, 'close the door,', or open the door, but the dog has no 'knowledge of the meaning of . the words in any connection apart from the command. "He may, too, , be just as easily taught to shut the door whsn com manded to open if, or lie down when told to stand up. That, infaot, is ex actly the way 'clown' dogs and horses are taught. I have, a Str. Bernard dog, Csesar, that is noted for his tricks, and I have made many experi ments with him to . see if possible whether he could go beyond the limit of instinct. I remember some time ago I was walking along the bauka of the Surrey Canal with "Caesar, whom I had frequently trained to go and fetch tnings out ol the water. "Suddenly a little child fell into the oanal from a bridge just ahead of us. I at onoe called the dog's atten tion to .the . child iu the water, and said, 'Fetch it. Csesar.' He started for the floating body, canxht it in his jaws, and swam back to within a foot of the bank. Then he loosened his grip and stood looking up at me. He was waiting for me to throw the child back into midstream again, as he had seen me throw sticks. "He had no idea at all that the child was drowning, and woujd have drowned had I not gone into the water myself and dragged it out, nor did he realize that the bundle of limp rags was anything other than the usual stick that he had been accustomed to 'fetoh. He was landed by people as a noble creature who had . saved the child's life, yet neither he nor any other dog ever attempted to save a child's life unless he had been previ ously trained to retrieve." ' Professor Leon tells another story of hooking the end of a walking-stick into the rails of an iron fence, and then commanding a dog to go back and get it. He went back and tugged at the cane without being able to ' re lease it: Then he chewed the stick in two and brought one half in his mouth. Commanded to s return, he tried again to pull the stick away, but never attempted to give it the simple turn that readily released it when ap plied by man. . Professor Leon gives his animal friends full credit for the use of their instincts, and says they often make better use. of them than man does with reasoning powers. A horse, he says will never drink 'more than is good for him,, and yet a man, when his instinct tells him that he has had enough to drink, attempts to reason out that he can stand more, and takes it, to his physical detriment. An Advantage In the Nary. From ihe purely physical point of view, apprenticeship in the navy is a fine thing for a lad. . Nine out'of ten naval apprentices when they attain their jnajorities are strapping, rugged, brawny men, capable of enduring any amount of hardship, and possessing a quality of health and soundness that is bound to see them through many nps and downs ashore should they elect to quit the sea when they reach the age of twenty-one which not many of them do, by the way. Of course, in order to get into the navy at all, the apprentice must be sound of body, but many of the lads only get into the service by narrow margins, owing to their being under sized or of no very rugged character of physical make-up. Once they get to work on the decks of a man-of-war, providing there is nothing latent and constitutionally the matter with them, it'is amazing to see how the lads be gin to spread and grow.' They are put through the most exacting exercises, quite aside from their daily bit of heavy work exercises that are de signed to bring every muscle of the body into play and the result is that they very soon begin to expand, and the steel gets - into their muscles, there to remain as long as they live. Embarrassing For the Lectnrar. Civilized people when they listen to a lecture on some abstruse scientific subject applaud even if they do not understand. But there is evidently more frankness among savages, ac cording to a story' told by Captain Gay Barrows.' A white man one evening tried to explain to some members of an African tribe, the Mobnnghi, the wonders of the steam engine and steamship. He drew diagrams on the sand, and .the audience listened and looked with apparently intense inter est. At last he - asked his hearers whether they understood "Yes," they replied, "they thought they did." "There was a deep silence," Captain Barrows says, "for sometime, and then a voice in the centre of the crowd expressed the unspoken senti ments of the whole assembly in one emphatic word, uttered 'in -a tone of the deepest conviction 'Liarl' " Em barrassing for the lecturer! West minster Gazette. , Usaora to a Monkey. A lady of Sharon, Mass., buried her pet monkey several days ago in a coffin covered with blue silk aud lined with white satin. .A quilted robe ' of whito satin served as a shroud to tho beloved dead. A silver plate" on the coffin lid bore the name "Peppo." A handsome " monument will be erected later. . " An Isaaeaat Csast f TronV.c. A recent suit brought to recoter a Kenfnrky copy dog occupied the attention-foe an entire day of a epecLil judge, six attorney, the plaintiff and defendant, twj Baptist preacher a the jury and a rooai fall of witnesses. The dog was asleep under the table, in the custody of the Sheriff, VESUVIUS DID NT FIRE DYN AKIT& None f th So-Called Dynauitte CraiieM or Gans lXoes, 6ay an Kipert. "jOneof the commonest errors." said a man who makes explosive shells for' the big guns used by the army and navy, "is the description of any gun as a dynamite gun. -Two-thirds of the people believe that the so-called dyna mite guns really hurl dynamite. The Vesuvius, you know, is called a dyna mite cruiser. As a matter of fact, I can state that there never was a pound of dynamite on the Vesuvius, and no dynamite ' guns, so-called, has ever fired any dynamite. Dynamite shells', " so called, are never loaded with dyna mite. Dynamite nevfr has been, and X don't believe it everwill be, used ia time of war, because It is not a safe ... explosive to handle. It would be more dangerous to the side using it than it wonld be to the enemy. Another rsa son it will never be used is that there- are other explosives that are . more? powerful "than dynamite that .can be handled with safety." Guncotton, for instance, will give a "greater , number of expansions than dynamite provided it is properly made and property used. I don't know the exaqt composition of the shells that were used by the Vesu vius during the Santiago campaign, but I remember reading ia the Sun that the Spaniards. who left the city and were picked up by the American troops said when they were asked how the people in the city were getting on, replied, Oh, we got on all right until the Yankees began to throw earth quakes at US.'... -;' "By the way, the only thing I have ever seeUk printed about those shells the Vesuvius fired is in a pamphlet issued by the Office of Naval Intelli gence,' written by Lieutenant Jose Muller. He says: 'One of the pro jeotiles which fell on the northern slope of the Socapa tore np trees right and left for a distance of about twenty metres. From a certain distance, as I could see the day I went to the Mercedes, it looked as though a road had been opened across the mountain. Another, which fell a short distance from the one just referred to, made an excavation, not very Jeep bu .ver. wide. I was told that it would hold, twenty horse3. If the projectile dropped close to a battery its ruin was certain, for one must see the effects of one of these projeotiles to understand them." Sun. " . . Life In Siberia. ' " The five years that I spent iii Siberia -were for me a great education in life and human character, says: Prince Kropotkin in the Atlantic. ) i i. l -i. :n. . waa pruugub iuiu cuunvt w j l u uicu u. all descriptions; the best and the worst; those who stood at the top of society and those who vegetated at the .very bottom the tramps and the so-called incorrigible criminals I had ample opportunities to watch the ways and habits of the peasants in their daily life, and still more opportunities to appreciate how little .the Slate admin istration could give to them, even though it was animated by the very best intentions. Finally, my exten sive journeys, during which I traveled7 over fifty thousand miles in carts, on board steamer., in boats, and especial ly on horseback, had a wonderful effect in strengthening my health. They also taught me how little man really needs as soon as ho comes out of the enclianted circle of conven tional civilization. With a fewponnda of bread and a few ounces of tea in a leather basr. a kettle and a. hatchet hanging at the side of-the saddle, and under the saddle1 a blanket, to bo spread at the camp fire upon a bed of freshly cut spruce twigs; a man feels wonderfully independent even amidst i i ui -i M. .1 with woods, and in winter time. Siberia is. " not the land buried in snow and peopled with exiles only, that it is imagined to be, even by many Bnssmns. In its southern parts it is as rich in natural productions a, are the southern parts of Canada; and besides, half, a million of natives, it has a population of more than-four" millions as thoroughly Bnssiau as that to the north of Moscow. The Carolina Island. The Carolines include forly-eighf groups, of which forty-three are of coral formation, with an areaof twenty square miles, and five are mountain ous, with an area of 510 square miles. The population is approximately 36, 000. The four large islands are Kusale. or Strong's island; Ponape Rug, or Hogolu; Yap and Pelew. The first oi these is 2500 miles southwest of Hawaii; the last within COO miles of the -Philippines. The chain thus stretches across the Pacific for 2000 miles, south of the Ladrones. The natives are of the same Polyne sian stock as the natives of New Zea land and the Samoans. All are daring, navigators, sailing over the whole Pacific in large canoes with outriggers to windward, guided by the waves and the stars. They formerly maintained regular schools of astronomy and navi gation for the training of pilots, and made charts representing the direction of winds and currents and the location o. islands thousands of miles distant. They have social and political clubs, the women maintaining their own organizations and- exercising an in fluence scarcely inferior to the men. At Yap, for example, they lay out their villages on a regular plan, pave their streets and construct admirable atone wharves and piers. Chicago Becord. Harrleanas Cans Shipwrecks. Hurricanes have been responsible for the wreckage of several of our na- ' val vessels other than those at Samoa inl8S9. The brig-of-war Bainbridge was turned over by a hurricane .off Cape Hatteras in 1863, and everybody onboard was lost except a colored cook, who managed to cling to si piece of the wreck until pfeked up. Ninety-eight lives were lost by the wreck ing of the sloop-of-war .Huron iu 1877. A small hurricane blew her on the shore of Norfolk, and the wai pounded to pieces by the violent surf. The Saginaw was wrecked in the very mid dle of the Pacific in 1 870. . . Overcame th Obstacles. ' When Mary Gregg's rich uncle died in St. Louis he left her his fortune on condition that she should ; never change her .name., Mary had a sweet heart whete name wasn't Gregg, but after the old man died the young fel low had his name legally changed to Gregg, and now Mary has her money, her iwesthtart and her name, . . . - - ' '; . .. '
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