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7 PRESS FRANKLIN; N. C. WEDNESDAY. AlAltCH 28, 1906. NUMBER 13. VOLUME XXI. THE o t I "Waters, The Loafer." $ J By Louis Becke. S We were lying la Apia harbor, ready for tea1, bound on a labor recruiting cruise to jJew-Brttaln and New-Ireland. It was Just about dawn when the skipper and I, who were sleeping on 'deck, were awakened by hearing t canoe come alongside, and a strange voice hailing the anchor watch. "I Want to see the captain at once." Then the strnnser came aboard and walked aft. "Well," eald the captain, "who are yon and what do you wantt" "I'm oh, my name Is Drown or Smtthlf you like and I want a berth U steward." "Do you! Well, I have a steward M you'll find out In a few minutes when he comes on board and kicks you ovor the sldo." (Our Steward, Simpson, had been given a nlsht's lib erty oa shore, and, had promised to be back at 8 O'clock.) "H6 won't, captain. In fact, he Can't, poor chap. He's dead. Had a mill with a Us Dutchman at Charley the Russian's over a game of cards about an hour aj-o. and the Dutchman lilt him over the heart. He dropped llko a stone, and died in half a minute. Too fat, you know." "And you want to stop Into his shoes before the poor ik-vil it cold!'1 "Will that hurt him! now that he U '"sure that when the cj.se came on I should get five years at tyast. And yet t only acted a3 I Oughjt to have done and saved the Shlp" la tin Instant our interest sad Sym pathies aa well were r.rmsed. The Princess case was then being much talked about, Briefly it was this. The vessel, like ours, was In the Kan aka tabor trade and when at Hougain ville Island, In Ihe Solomon group, a determined effort to cut her off was made by the natives. The captain and two Of the crew were clubbed to death and the rest would hnvt Shared their fate but for Water and a sea man, who taking their Winchester carbines, sprang up the ripping Into tho foretou and frur.i there shot down Al the savages ci deck, killing (rkven and wou:uling several Hhtri. The rest sprang ofetbwrd and pwam shore, and Waters, unfortunate'y Wiled two others as they v.cre escap ing. This, in ihe opinion of ths com mander of a g'.mlioat the:i (raising In the Solomons, was "Vriiel and unneces sary Blauehtir." The Princess was Seized and rent to Mil with .1 prl::.? crew and a few days M;r Waters, by brtblni bis native jaibrs, made his escape' The Captain pondered a moment tr two, Samoa was then out if the juris diction of the HIsh Oaiinls-.l mer foi Western rarlflc, so Waters was from arrest for the rresrnt. But ultl not be so once we left and thers waa every likcll- If our mealing a British man-a'- ewhere about NeW-BritaIn or IjLnd. Ill here, Waters. Ill do wha ryou, and will ship you as re tewsrd, l:ut you know that vhat 1 i cook we Mat to the Northwest, and Ira nodded. "I know, hut I'll V chance. Will you give me the Is. Now you caa go fof-ard and iota the galley. Then after "last you can come ashore with I the consul s' and sign on. Any 11 know who you are," lone." iat "wttKyou to give, us. noe. eubam , "You were poor Simpson's sure on gci i. Waters. come below and a gln-and rs. This Is Mr. 'son, my re r," and he lndl- d me. . lad to meet you sir," said the quietly, as he and I shook hands. nd from that time out till we saw last of him, he was "Brown, the ward," and always "SIr-ed" the cap- and me when any one was pres At night, however, the captain. two mates and myself would talk ly together with "Jack Waters." 3 of the best sallormen that ever d deck. In my ever-vivid memory him, the man Is here before me f aobr as we first saw him the square sefl bronzed face, unshaven chin and long, ragged moustache; keen, deep sett1 heavy-browed s&ea of steely, chal lenging gray. ..His every feature waa In consonate with his build somewhat i short In stature,' broad chest, small feet and equally smalt and shapely bands, that somehow seemed quite disproportionate to bis other, limbs. But they were hands that be would use affectively, as we soon discovered. Our boatswain took a Jealous dislike to "Brown," and, two days after wa bad left Apia, said something deroga tory tn him about his cooking, -iietter. .The Consul is """"tiYe you Jollce cn .ou back lull Were, omach to Iter." ruiter, be '' Without ervlence, he da brimmed I I f .i i LI Brown came aft id the skipper. "I'm very sorry, sift but 1'vC hurt he bos'un. I think It Is One Of his fibs." i i i . i .' With the lusty southeast trade we aade a quick run from Samoa till we vere abreast of Ysabel Island, in the ,'olomon group. Thed We ran into dirty weather fronj the Westward and .he second mate, a half caste Maori, aad his leg badly fractured in trying to secure some of the spare spars vtfs carried da the main deck, and which had got adrift one wild night When ihe llttlo brig was rolling her soul out In a thumping cross sea, in which two of our boats were damaged. "Brown" (who was tenderiy nursing the boe'uU with his broken rib) made splints and et the limb In a thoroughly surgeon ike manner and then offered to take the Injured man's watch. "No," said the captain, "you Stliit to your patients but you can lend me a hand to put In a couple of planks In the second Covering boat. That Is, If you like." "Certainly, sir." replied "Brown, the well-mannered Bteward. I took the second mate's Watch, and tho captain worked at the boats. Waters was a man who could "turn his d" to an:Xns. and every thing e, we carried smuil guns, which were always kept In good order, though wo had never had occasion to use them to keep off a sudden rush of canoes, rely ing upon the numbers and steadiness of our crew to foil any attempt at cutting off. A vessel with a low free board like ours was a great temptation to mlschovlous Ravages they could so easily Jump out of their canoes owr the rail, but the Right of the guns was always enough for them. Our complement consisted of the cv?Kt two mates, myself (reirulter), boat swain, swttlleii Rarotongans, Savuge Islanders, Samoans and two Fijians. The last nmed, lthough not such good men at boat work as the Pthefs, were fine plucky fellows and belonged to my boat, fOr they both spoke the New-Britain and New-Ireland lan Xiiages, and were Invaluable as In terpreters when opening up communi cations with Ihe treacherous savages with whom we had to deal. Our Maori half caste second mate was also a fairly good Micruneslan linguist, and always came with me In my landing boat. I could sreak very little of the Ncff-tirltaln dialect, for I was almow uew to the Northwest Pacific tabor trade, although I had had long expe rience of It In tl'.t Line Islands, where the language is Malayo-Polyneslan. Ouf arms were Snider carl iaes for the native crew and Winchester carbines nd revolvers for the officers, white seamen and myself. So far we had been very lucky In not losing a rrtah in three voyages, although Ihe boats bad bepn fired iipon rtften enough In :he Solomon and New-Hebrides groups-. Early one morning we ran Into Montague Bay, on the south coist of New-Britain. No labor vessel had been there and we were In hopes of getting our first recruits from a big native town there. I had heard ttf the place from the captain of an Amerli-an whaleshlp, who said that the natives, though they swarmed around his ship In their canoes, did not at tempt to come on board, and supplied Mm with all the fresh provisions hf wanted. We anchored In ten fathoms, abreasj of a big village, and In less than half an hour six or seven canoes filled with natives came off, but would not come alongside they had caught sight of tho guns on the main deck. My two FIJI men began to talk to them, but their dialect was so different from that of the natives on the north coast of the island that they could not be very well understood. However, pres ently one of the Fiji men Jumped overboard, unarmed, swam to a canoe and, clinging on to the gunwale, held a conversation with the occupants. Then he called to. me to cover up the four guns, as the strangers knew what they were and were afraid of them. We quickly covered up the four 8 pounders and closed the ports and In a few minutes the canoes came along side, and several of the natives, all carrying spears and long, stone headed clubs, timerously came on deck. They were tii" wildest looking savages wa had ever seen, as naked as they were born. Their skins were the color of freshly chipped logwood, and their hair was done up In Innumerable tiny ringlets smothered In grease and dyed a dirty red by means of lime. Their lips were simply hideous slashes of scarlet, covering teeth as black as jet, the result of continually chewing betel-nut. Altogether they were the most unpromising looking "blackbirds" that ever put foot on a ship's deck. In the course of an hour or so we became quite friendly, and I had every hope of getting a batch of "recnflts" during the day, so I told our visitors to go on shore and tell their friends that I waa coming to see them. Off they went and then we lowered and manned two boat my own and the covering boat '' ' '''., A "covering" boat, t may mention, s sent as a protection to the first. In which the recruiter goes. With dan gerous natives and In those days all the northwestern Islands were danger-ouer-the following practice waa ob served. The recruiter's boat pulled In to the beach, but befor touching It was slewed found and backed In stem nrst, Then the recruiter had his box of trade goods placed on the beach and stepped out of the boat ' Generally he was unarmed, sb is to five the natives confidence:, for sometimes they Would resent this sight of a revolver in hid belt, would sulki arid no "business'' would be (iorift Then the boat would push off a llttlo so as just to keep afloat in case of treachery the crew ready to bend to the oars the moment the recruiter was on board that Is, it he was lucky enough to gat 'there. MaanwhlW the covering boat stood by, ready to. open fire arid cover the es capi of the first boat, of go to the as sistance of the recruiter and hlS crew if they were being overpowered by a sudden rush of savages; On this occasion I had with me in my boat ths two Fijians, twd Rarotori gans and a Savage Islandef. My trade chest was filled with the usual gear dear to the New-Britain native-lS-Inch butcher knlves, red beads, hoop iron for making knives,, and clay pipes and tobacco, although the iatter article was almost unknown to these particular savages, whb did not pos sess a pipe among ttierri. just as t was going over the Side into the leading boat. Waters asked permission to come with me, as he wanted to get some sand for holyston ing the cabin floor. The captain was agreeable and So was I, so off we went, and In a few minutes we were abreast rtf Ifte Village beach, which was throng ed with natives, all armed wltji spears and clubs, as Was to be expected, but maintaining a friendly, demtanor. Three hundred bj fiftrn the men, and some to- account of the magnificent salary each was to receive six pounds h year in trade goods. They promised to come oh bojrd later on In the day with their relatives, when I was to make them a further advance of what ever might take their fancy In the traderoom. Just as I was about to not back into the boat 1 remembered Waters, whti had gone along to a lltt'.o bay some distance away, whore there waa a beach of fine white sand the spnt Where the. boat were had a muddy foreshore. "Where is the steward, Bill?" I rai led out to the second mate In the cbv erlng boat. "Just along there, sir," and he pointed to the sandy beach, which I could not bee from where I stood, "we can pick him up there." Remarking that ho had no business to go so far away from the boats In a new place, I got Into the boat and had Just taken the haft of the steer oar In my hand when the second mate gave a yell. "Look out. sir! Look out!" and then he and his boat's crew opened fire as a shower of spoars rallied iipon us frm the shore. Only one, however, did any serious damage It hit one of tho FIJI men, who was pulling stroke and went through his thigh. But in less than two minutes wo were out of spear range and then both boats set off to pick yp Waters. "He's all right, sir," ci ted the second riat, "he tiAs ybur Winchester. He's tbmirig to meet its." balers was running not very fast along the beach, carrying a bag of sand In one hand, and my Winchester In the other. Suddenly he stopped and threw himself flat down upon tho sand, his bag of sand in front of him, and facing toward tho dense bush less than twenty yards distant. Then at tho same moment as tho Winchester crack ed a shower of tipcats flew about hirri, arid Again and again he fired, while We in the boats, although we could not see a single native, began firing into the bush, whence the spears were coming. Then we rushed the boats for the beach, and while the men in the covering boat went to see to Waters, my crew and I tore up the bank, bent on getting to close quarters with his treachero ii assailant Not a single live native could be seen, but we found three dead and two .wounded. As we were examining the latter the brig opened fire on the vil lage with the port side guns, much to the delight of the two Fiji men, who now had the slaughter lust, and want ed me to attack and burn the village. But I had had enough excitement and was half blind as well, for in running up the band I had caught my foot lit a creeper and fallen and the man be hind me a Savage Islander, one of my boat'B crew trod on my face and filled my eyes with sand. Returning to the beach I was grieved to find that Waters was badly wound fed. No fewer than three spears had truck him, and It was marvellous that he had not been killed, for we picked up fifty of the long slender weapons lying about him. His worst wound was In the back the spear had entered It obliquely,' come out on the left side and burled a half foot of Its length In the sand. The other wounds were trifling In comparison, btit the poor fellow was in great agony, although losing but little blood. I saw that it was necessary to re move the spear from bis back at once and this was done by the unwounded FIJI In a splendidly expert manner. It was of the same thickness for two feet of Its length aad the Fijian first cut it off at the back, then we turned Waters over on his side, and the "sur geon," seizing the sandy, blood stain ed point, drew It out by one swift, steady pull . - . - "I feel like a cursed porcupine,' Waters said faintly, as I gave him some rum and water. "Did you find any dead niggers?" "Three and two wounded.'' ., In a few minutes we were on our way to the brig, and Waters was laid out on the skylight; and while the cap tain dressed his wounds the mate got the ship to aea again. Then we stood wav for New-Ireland. - . , , ' 'aters had recoT- ' ered and was at wor again, and waa helping to get ' at Ralum, on of great assistance nearly forty 'tecrut the north coast of IV Britain, Where he was Well known ,o the natives, Then wa worked bdekli fteW Ireland and got sixty mors, Welch made us a tuii ship and left uS thrash ouf wav against the southe trade back to Samoa", Just oft noturaah tsla We Uet H. M. Si Which S to us to hdave to. Then We wSrs1 oafded by her first lieutenant, a tall, ay haired man, who was god enou after he had examined bur papers Compli ne brig ment us on the appearance and the healthy Contented 1 of our hundred "blackbirds." As he was talking to Us In Cabin Waters entered, and the moJ t the ofllcCr saw him his face Bus' ard for some moments thetwotne keenly at each other. Then turned to the captain and said "Is there anything you wan "Nothing, thank you, stewari Water's stood still a second looked at the naval officef ind I deep set gray eyes there camo Such look of deadly hatted that his fai was transformed. Then, with a con temptuous gesture; he turned aijd went on deck. At Samoa he left us, shipping asK able senman on an American schoone bound to Honolulu. We were sorry t lose him and, as he bade me good on shore that evening, he told mej little of his past. r i i i nl i '' "-r- Many persons aro left-eyed more are right-handed. Few persons see equally well with both eyes fewer still are ambi dextrous. There is one lighthouse In the world that Is not placed oil any mariner's chari. Jt is the Arizona desert, and marks tho spot where a well supplies pure, fresh water to travellers An English barrister, arguing be fore Iho criminal court, says Answers, remaikcd with much solemnity to tho presiding justice: "My Iord, there is much honor among thieves." Tho jus tice looked at him severely. "There Is gold In sea water," he replied, "but it cannot be extracted In profitable quantities. Go on, pit." One of the greatest of living English Jockeys has n most remarkable col lection of tributes from admirers, un known and otherwise. It contains, among other strange things, pawn tickets, w-rlts and summonses contrib uted by unsuccessful bnckers of his mounts, talismans of Nil kinds to brinij Mm luhk In bis raevs, sermons and tracts for his spiritual welfare, recipes for all ailments from coughs to a tendency to corpulence, forms for In suring against accidents, offers of mar riago accompanied by bundles of welcbers' tickets and a pair of worn out boots with the legend: "All that Is left of them aflcr walking frtim York to Iondon; backed ail your mounts." At a book sale iu a Paris auction room the other day a gentleman turn ing over the leaves of one of tho books saw a time worn piece of paper which, ho had the curiosity to open. This proved to be a will executed In proper form about ninety years ago, but never proved. It was that of a woman whose Heh.Ui. ns subsequent Inquiry has sliowrl; lorik places eighty live years ago. As no will could be found, Intestancy was assumed, and a personality of 10,000 was divided among relatives. In fact, the will be queathed everything to a niece, long since dead, and the question now arises as to the claims of her descend ants against those of the other partici pators. Hard Tack and Persimmons. "When the frost Is on the pumpkins and the corn is In the shock" persim mons are' ripe good ripe; and you don't want to fool with a persimmon until It Is good ripe. Some forty and odd years ago, away over In the ene my's country, eastern Virginia, When we had been living tor months oh hard tack and flitch and black coffee strong enough to hold up an IrrJU wedge, we while strolling a little fur ther beyond the lines than was really safe, ran across a persimmon tree on which some belated clusters were clinging, although It was midwinter. A change from hardtack to persim mons was a delightful one, and we tnink we never enjoyed eating any thing more than we did those few clusters of Old Virginia persimmons. This Is quite a prelude interesting to the writer If to no one else to the fact that B. F. Murrain, who has doubtless heard us tell that story, brought In this week a box of fine per atmmons that grew on his own tree. They aro mighty good and would be better If we had been living on hard tack and flitch , for many months. Brookfleld (Mo.) Gazette. Trea,to Employee. The bead of a well known wholesale house on Broadway engaged In the manufacture of specialties in men's clothing attributes the fact that his concern is noted for not having fric tion with Its work people to his prao tlcfe of annually entertaining the hun dreds of male and female help In his employ to a year-end theatre and sup per party. : , vv; As an object lesson In fostering Ideal relations between staff and em ployer, this mode of celebration' Is voted an unalloyed success. New York Press. The usual six of the shell of an oyster Ib three to fjve Inches. In three weeks A TKOPldAL F0KEST WE 'OWN. it 13 in portfo rico and a very Interesting possession. A Tangled Mou'ntaln Wlldsrness Never Fully Explored, Containing Plant Llf New te Botanists Dr. Glfford Would Makel It a Sportsman's Para- (Itc. In the Island of rorlo Itlco, Undo Sam took to hlmrclf for. a special Government pi .-session Just three years ago a tropical forest. His folks didn't know miich alwut It, nor for that mat ter did the na.tivo Porto lllcafls them selves. ! Roughly speaking it comprised Some 06,000 acres I i the eastern and most mountiilncous parts of the Islan I, btit Its boundaries were ill defined. Its (tees were ovi and troplerGn all and n plored it. . rgrown with thick vines It had no paths at i'er thoroughly tx- t belonged to nobeidy 1 it was In line with jrvatlon policy of our then to acquire such or use in studying me m, which affects large t interests. duly made a forest reserve ovefnment experts were set to explore and survey It, to value to the Government ay what bad best be done with John C. Oifford of the Unread restrj was sent to examine the t pre serve. report contains, In addition to jt escrlw Ion of previously itn- forest and much botanists atlons of United for- uty. It atl At present it opens n; did opportunity for stud forest botany. What it fts ft source of timber of less problematical. ever present In (lie fi probable", has bcArt f?ht' cd, and the cigar be practically gone, Valuable wood tern; tlally tropical cha Iti which a gren. contend wild on sion, makes the! ment a very dl fibbifilrt; and theri forestAMowth. whlcfsewhere beautiful timber bttly shrubs. The best of the forest Is found In the fertile gorges. and ta vines from G00 to 2,000 feet above sCa level, where th trees are protected from the constant winds. There are four leading timber trees the tabanueo, with a wood very liko our sycamore; the laurel sablno, which tvuld grade In the market with yellow poplar, the ausutio, comparable with black walnut and the gmtruguuo, sim ilar to red cedar. All these trees reach a large size, ranging from two to five feet in di ameter. The tabanueo has. In addi tion, the very valuable cburae-terlstlc that it tends to form pure or nearly pure stands. 11 produces a kind of gum which m.iy prove to lit1 un article Of commercial Importance. Climbing vines add to the density of the vegetation. Then there la a species of grass which grows to five feet high and cuts like a razor at the slightest touch. The most abundant tree growth Is the mountain palin, which Is very beautiful but of little or no value. To get fid of these trees will have to be the first Job If valuable timber Is se cured. They grow to a height of forty feet, and already cover half the best part of the reserve. They yield an Im mense amount of seed and grow very thickly, so nothing in the forest can compete with them for possession on anything like equal terms. "Wild trees of the most aggressive kind" Dr. Oifford calls these beautiful but useless specimens. Above 2.000 feet altitude the trees are stunted, gnarled and slow grow ing, of many different species, with moss covered limbs and roots often bare. They are of no commercial value, but are of great Importance as a protective forest cover. It Is In this last respect that the for est Is particularly Interesting to tho Bureau of Forestry and the .Pu''td Rlcan government. It places the whole reserve In an Important rela tion U the economic welfare of the people who are near It, and tho bene fits of establishing It as a reserve will be increasingly manifest, it Is ex pected, as time goes on. The reserve Is a small wilderness of serrated mountains, tropical for est and rushing torrential streams, cot;rning which all sorts of fantastic fabieB find currency. It covers a large part of the Sierra de LuqulUo, a mountain mass separated from the mountains of the rest of the Island by the valley of the Lolza, the largest river In Porto Rico. One of Its peaks, El Yunque, Is the highest mountain of the Island, wit ban altitude of some S.S00 feet. Upon the' eastern slope of these mountains, which face the sea, the westward blowing trade winds form an enormous precipitation, the heavi est In the Island. In 1902 the total was almost 142 Inches. '.This rainfall Is WW distributed throughout the year.;. " V " " vf j c In the highest mountains tt Is rare for twelve hours to pass without some rain.' As a rule, heavy,: drenching showers alternate with bright sun shine. The result is violent fluctua tions In the streams, which often leap into impssRlble floods "and subside again 'within an hour or two. : Tlfe LuqulUo Reserve, as the forest has been officially designated. Is most Important to Porto Rico as an agency tfor the control of these flood waters. To soon extent It will even supply 1 l I ine IK JR i t& by Ck jT wor gr fs wf SOecV mmm water for agriculture, tor u.uiediately to the south and west of the mountains the climatic conditions are very dif ferent from those of the" profusely watered eastern Slopes.- , The country Is dryer,- evaporation more active and the vegetation cor respondingly changes its character. While other parts of the Island are drenched with water most of the time these other parts, though only half a day's tide distant, are depend ent upon Irrigation. The forest Is expected to retain and supply abun dant water. ) Beyond this It will be a protection against too much water for other dis tricts, and for this it Is wanted most. Even with tho mountains forest cov e red, floods have caused great destruc tion. Massive stone bridges have been carried away, roads damaged, farms fand pasture ruined and lives lost. Strlwped of their forests, as the mounalns sftbn would be if they pass ed I'iio privuto ownership, Ihsy Would socja bo washed bare of soil. Theffl "mild be no stay to the floods at all, and aftfir very hnavy showers the lowlands would lie) swept by danger ous Hoods. The reserve lies been set aside frOiB Iblblio lands formerly owned by the Spanish fcovernmont. To two-thirds Of It private owners advance some shadowy claims, and In practice the agriculturists to whom the) flearost private lands belong have already pushed thnlr clearings far up the mountain1 sides and have helped them selves to whatever (i'trilieY they nee"', ed from the accessible forest be'6nd, But all that will now be stopped and tho forest scientifically adminis tered. It I small in relation to some of the large reserve I'l the western States, for the whole island of Porto Rico Is only about three-quaftcf thJ Kim of Connecticut. But under scien tific management it is' pretty sure to become valuable, and anyway it has the distinction of being the only tropi cal forest which this doildlry owns on this side of the globe. NeW tort Bun. RiMiNAL'S STRANGE career. i three miles of tne Stiiip. Tfeougn vry effort was made to discover the crlnw inals, not sL clew turned up for severai months alter the deed was ccimmltted. Afterward we learned who all tile? prin cipals were, but this story has only tfl do with one of them 'Little Reddy from Texas' the thief and desperado who was the actual slayer of Slaugh ter. He hiid been in Texas, but his real home was lu Ohio. " By accident I found out that 'Rd dy' had a hand In the jdb, httt it was A Ung while before I got oh the trail. Then I ascertained that he had goiie buck to bis old home in Highland coun ty, Ohio. Armed with a requisition, I wnt East to try to get him, for wo had nt'Vof given up the hope of pun ishing tfie villains for (heir dastardly work. I found him keeping ft sloM In the same neighborhood in which he was born and reared; he had marrtr-'d n lovely girl and bad the respect of the entire communi'". "it was uphill work for me trylnf to get the sheriff and other officials to believe that this young fellow had been a hlghwnymnn and murderer In the west. Rut at length I secured his ar rest, and was congratulating myself on the thought of taking him back, when his attorney, Judge Hough, now living in Washington, got a bearing In the local courts, there; being a law Id Otlld that probablo cause must be shcrwri bej fore a defendant crJuld be taken eXit Of the state to answer a criminal Charge?. This waf) decided In my favor, dnd again 1 was blocked by Judge Hough, who appealed to the Bupreme crAirt. Disgusted, I returned to the west, and ere long got a wire that Reddy bad broken jail, an event I had all along anticipated. "Months elapsed, and I had almost given up hope of capturing my man, when I heard of his return to the Ohio home and the curious deeds done by him after getting back there. It seems that he was afraid to reveal himself to his former friends, so what does he do but get about him a gang of thieves and proceed' to the work of robbing his old time neighbors. In a little while the entire country was terrorised at the operations of a bold and desper ate nd of freebooters who plundered even defenceless women that were suspected Of having any valuables. Finally the whole county turned out to hunt down the bandits. "They were traced to their hiding place and In a fight Little Reddy waa shot and disabled. Then It was I was telegraphed for, and, making baste to the scene, once more I got handcuffs on tlii murderer of Johnnie Slaughter. With native cunning, and fearing hit life would be forfeited If he went back to Dakota, the villain pleaded guilty to enough burglaries and robberies in Highland county to secure blm an ag gregate of seventeen years' Imprison; ment In the Columbus penitentiary. All the rest of the old gang of stagecoach and railway robbers. Including Joel fltilllns, Jim Berry and Sam Bass, were killed in course of time, as they richly deserved." Washington Post. The Origin of It ' She I wouldn't be surprised 1 the servant girl were listening at the keyhole. - - ' s, . He Nor L That's woman's trick. . . She Oh! Indeed ' ' ' He Of course. Tbat't why It's called Eve's dripping. Philadelphia iTCSf. I VTes I J J Vat m w UP TO DATE RECRUITING. - ,j Phonograph and Stereoptlcon U to Get Labor for Queensland Ml (! Plantations. Thousands of natives of Polyn are needed to work on the si and othar plantations of Queensli These plantations are In the low C regions; Slid as the climate Is tro white labor is not successful, For many years sailing vessehi been visiting the Islands to Kanakas for the Queensland tioils. The trado gave rise which hare been suppresse law, r jo but the natives are not I emigrate as formerly and hard work to fill the vessels, A sea captain in the has introduced a new n :a trade of mak- Inc emigration attractlv. Before he year ago st?d from Queensla: he visited a number the planta- tions where South Si Islandcrs are employed. He had a camera a phonograph. Going from one Ion to anot'vr ho photographer gri of natives and also took ineiiv pictures of well- known fellows f the New Hebri- e'en, Solomon an her groups. Then ha hro the phonograpn Into service. 7 best known natives who had a lar acquaintance in the Islands were I iced to talk into the instrument kind of life tell their friends the led In Australia E.d how they getting along on me plantations Th.a naWinoExanhed letters were obtained jfom Kanakas who formerly lived In Juout a dccn of the islands which ifc rucruitlng vessels are in the bat of visiting, Then tho ingen ious shipmaster had his photographs turned into lantern slides and off he sailojd for the islands well equipped to A.tthlh the natives. According to a Queensland news paper the scheme has been a great ajuccess. The captain naa an anum. gluppiy of lantern slides showing cml 7grant from each of the Islands ho visited. Everybody was on hand to see tho show and the natives woro beside themselves with delight when they uitjm the well-known visages of their ds and acquaintances thrown Scroen. But the greatest when each picture actu- In the very ine nni zing,? from away. well, that Queensland come to, Ho ntry, the money good treatment he were shown or me nuts the emigrants, the fields ked in and groups of labor TBfJ'tmmt niJUj lug lile. The result Is that the stereoptlcon and phonograph hit vo proved to be valuable reiTliitiiig agents. Even the natives who have had the worst mis givings abeflit emigration become en thusiastic converts to the Idea when they see their Mends actually before tfienn ami bear tlit'ir well-known voic 'S. The captain had no difficulty lu making up a load and other captains engaged in the kanaka trade say they ar going to emplov the same expedi ent. Pelican laland. In that lone, narrow lagoon on the east coast of I-'lorl la known as Indian Hiver, there Is a muddy islet three or four acres in extent. Originally it doubtless did not differ from hundreds of similar ne'lxhboring islets; but, for some reason past finding out, this is let, and this alone, forms the nesting resort, tho home, of all the pelicans of the Indian Hiver, if not, Indeed, of Ihe cast coast of Florida. The brown pelican, unlike Ha white cousin, nests normally In low trees add buahes; and there Is evidence that when the orlg- I inal pelican colonists landed on the Islet which now bears wielr na.me. It was well grown with black and red mangroves in which the birds placed their s.-affolding of sticks. Excep tionally low temperature and high wa ter perhaps also excessive use by the birds, which sometimes build as many as seven nests in a single mangrove have killed tree after tree, until at present only three serviceable trees remain. Still the birds come back, the impelling motive which prompts them to return to this particular spot being evidently stronger thad that which In duced them to nest In trees. Century. Ate the Heart of Louis XIV. There is no need to be skeptical regarding Mr. Labouchere's story that the late Dean Buckland swal lowed the mummified remains of the heart of Louis XIV, and that tt now rests In the dean's body in Isllp churchyard, when one recalls the many weird dishes that the famous divine consumed in his life time. At his dinner parties, which were at tended by leaders of science anfi lit erature, the menus were often of a most eccentric character. On one oc casion pickled horse tongue was great ly relished by the gue.it s until they were told what they had eaten. Alli gator was served up as a rare deli cacy, and puppies occasionally, and mice frequently. . At other times hedgehogs, tortoises, potted ostrich and sometlmea rats, frogs and snails were prepared for the delectation of favored guests. What more likely than that the dean should have fancy for a royal heart? London Chronicle. . - The Kaiser's Health Rutee, i The German emperor endeavors to follow the "rules of life" laid down by hia favorite physician, as . follows: "Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit (or lunch. Avoid pastry and dot cakes. . Only take potatoes once A day. Don't drink tea or coffee. Walk tour miles every day, wet or fine. Take bath every day. Wash the face every night in warm water. Sleep eight hours every night." The kais er ascribes hia excellent physical con dition to close adherence to this ad vice. Ion doa Tlt-Blts i 1 1 r t fle nl f IF. t,f ises 11 nl I I m a I E 1 Mi. m m II I it m il V W .1 W M AN EX-HERO. My boyhood's heroes! h, how were they! I'll never look upon their likes anun; Bob Simpson seemed to me, when I wis ten. ' To be a very Launwlot; I lay . ; At nighi, considwing now I some dy : WOuld try to be u great as he wb than. kinged to look: mm mm; wi oinar nw , iaed bad Deen inaae oi oasor .-? v laved the alto horn, and wheths Marched down the street I trotted al ; hiajjdff i' How Jodi41y hia breaat aeemeJ to ! , pand. . , , And how J envied him! T,o-day hs nd lKt, and on a litUa patch of land " ' He tolls to keep the village mart sup plied. ' .. Chicago Record-Herald. Creiunits lite "I'd do anything In the world art." J. Caustic-" Well, why don't S' quit painting." Judge. Charley "Rowell claims to be a self- in fOf I made ninu." Jack "I don't think much of the method of construction, 1 "Therc'a room above," the wiie ma-fllTi "Then peach it while KrewcSn!" . "I will, for I'm," the lad replied, J , i "A avfond-story.man!" , Miss Antique 'The man I mart J I must be a b-3." Miss Pert- me no doubt about thaf'-PbHadelpbla Record. "What Is that old saying: Tut a beggar ou a horse and He'll kick because It Isn't an automobile." Philadelphia Press. There Is one consolation In being a poor man nowadays, anyway: No one Is sufficiently Interested In blui to ask: "Where did he get it?" "And why have you never married, Mr. Priestiey?" asked Miss Oldgirl. "Because." said the curate sternly, "I (id not approve of games of chance." Life. ' Skrawler -"I've seen Snlppen, the tailor, going up to your studio every, day for a Week. Is be sitting foe you?" Dauber "No, he's laying for me." pteavelnnd Leader. "Did you hear that the daughter of tho'f Heii ninu in the next block nacl mauy of thebeen drlvfn fronl uomer "Not When . MA i i.nnnen?" "Just after sne got Into the carriage." Baltimore Ameri can. English Motorist "Is life held SO cheaply In America?" American Motorist "R ally, I don't know. No true sportsman ever stops to ask 111 a thing is cheap or not, in America.'' -ruck. f He says hia blood is blue good lack! . He'a nucli a haughty fellowl , , ' Hia eyea are brown, his hair l black, His cheeks like apples mellow, . Bill just the same, adown ma back: There runs a stream oi yeniv I "illotts-'HrBeTY! speech I feel as though I had for; 1 everything I ever knew." Blobbs I "What an ideal witness you would j make In a Trust investigation." PUIUv , delpbla Record. 1 "I have been misquoted," said th0 new congressman. "Well," ansWeri the experienced statesman, "wait an j see how It turns out. Sometimes a hian is lucky to be misquoted." I Washington Star. ' "I intend to pursue a literary career,' said the ambitions youth. "How would. I you advise me to study and practice?" "I should advise you," said the man I with the bulgy forehead and pointed I whiskers, "to study economy and prae- ticc self-denial." Washington Star. . Waiblngton vas crossing the Dela- ware. He stood. "Better sit down, sir," suggested an aide. "Sit down!" 'r. sponaea wsiiiy me ruiutr oi, mi County. "And, pray, what sort of ai picture would that make?" Blushing under tbe rebuke, the aide resolved to monkey no more with art. FlilUdel phla Ledger. t - Xrfiokad Llka Oua. A sleepy passenger in the smoking car of a train coming Into town yes terday morning was startled' to observe protruding above the back of ft seat in front of him the bead of wbat ap peared to be a reptile of some sort He gazed through the smoke-dimmed ' atmosphere fascinated and observed that the man on the seat ahead turned aud contemplated tbe thing without emotion or surprise. When tin bead had raised about three yards, more or less probably less end gave loud and distinct hiss tbe horrified observer rose and made a dash for tbe door, yelling "Snakes!" as he ran. When he encountered the conductor that . official made light of the story, and when the man was coaxed back to his seat he found that the "snake" was only a large fat goose wblcb, being confined In a basket on the seat, bad stuck Its head and neck out. to get the air. Several other observers agreed with tbe sleepy man that It "certainly did look like a snake'-Pullodelphta . Record. A member of tbe bar of Baltimore relates bow a witness in a trial suit In that city once "got back" at tho lawyer wbo bad been endeavoring to "rattle" the witness by a severe cross examination. At a certain point In tbe proceed ings tbe witness suddenly Interrupted the cross-examining lawyer by ex claiming: "Look here! You needn't think yon kin rattle me by askln' all them ques tions." ;v . J:. .vf : "Nor waa tbe sarcastic rejoinder. : "No slrree!" came In emphatic tone from the - refractory witness. "Tom questions don't bother me at alL I've raised three sons an' two grandsons, an' I've been la training a. good mary years."- -Harper Weekly "Sw .-' Buparor Alii ' ' Ladles Inert and gent With punk proclivities should take courage and not be mentally 'cast down, for, while success may not be for them, they can still teach by antithesis, bene fiting humanity as horrible examples, like the honest Weary Willy, who, be ing too strong to work, yet volun-1 teered to pay tbe farmer for his din ner by serving as scarecrow. The Philistine. .-:- J -J J
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