21 the prrrsBURo dispatch. Sunday, june 5. isoa AROUND JHE WORLD Anson's Voyage- Oyer 150 Years Ago Hasn't Its Equal in History. OF KEABLY 2,000 MEN Only 195 Survived the Cruel Cruise of the War With Spain. THEY MADE ONLY ONE CAPTURE, Bnt That One Was the Richest Ever Made in a Single r.ottom. FACTS RIVALLING MARRTATTS TALES rWKITTEX FOR THE DISPATCH. Of all the voyages around the world, from the days ot Magellan to the present time, not one equals in interest the famous voyage of Cnnimodore Anson in the good ship Centurion. Anson, following as he did Cxuam, Drake, Cavendish, Woodes-Roers, Dam pier, Selkirk and others, has been desig nated "the last of the buccaneers," as Cxuam was undoubtedly the first at least in the Sonth seas bnt as Anson sailed with a regularly organized naval squadron, and in a time ot declared war, he scarcely merits the appellation. Perhaps one reason why Anson was thus called was because the voyagers immedi ately following him Cook, Bougainville, Carteret, Wallis, Vancouver, La Pirouse, Galnett, Flinders and others, had a nobler aim in view than that of the cruisers science and discovervl W ar From Mashlnc Ofl an Ear. The war with Spain in 1740 was precipi tated in England by the cruel treatment or one Robert Jenkins, master of the Rebecca ol Glasgow, by a Spanish Guarda Costa. "When Jenkins appeared before the House of Commons he told the members that alter the Spanish crew had maltreated his men they savagely cut off one of his ears, put it into his hand and bade liitn take it home and present it to his sovereign. The burst of indignation which inflamed ell England rendered war with Spain in evitable. It is told by Jenkins, upon being asked by a member ot ihe House of Com mons as to his feelings at the time of his maltreatment, he made the memorable reply: "I committed my soul to God and my cause to my couutrv." Walpole said these words were put in his mouth by another. The English Government prompted hostili ties even belore the declaration ol war; but the motto of those days taken from tha buccaneers of -the previous century was: "No peace beyond the line. lh J.DElich Dan of Campaign. The intention of the Government at first was to send out two squadrons, one to pro ceed direct to the Phillipine Islands via the Cape ot Good Hope; the other to round Capa Horn, scour the coast of South Amer ica, and then to cross the Pacific and join the first. The latter part of the plan only was car ried out. A squadron was fitted out for this purpose and consisted 01 the following ves sels: Centurion, tiO guns, 40J men, Commo dore George Anson; Gloucester, 60 guns, 300 men, Captain Richard Norris; Severn, fiO guns, 300 men, Captain Hon. E. Legg; Pearl, 40 guns, 250 men. Captain M. Mitchell; Wacer. 28 guns, 160 men, Cap tatn Dandy Kidd, Tryal, 8 guns, 100 men, Captain Hon. J. Murray. In fitting out these vessels the Admiralty displaved an amount ot stupi lity, and even brutality, hardly to be conceived of in these days. It had been originally settled that part ot each ship's company should consist of soldiers, and the regiments which were to furnish them had been specified, but a most execrable and unhappy change was made in this particular. Instead oi the SOU sailors of whom he nas short ot comple ment, Anson only r-ceived 170, and of these 2 were from hospitals and 93 were green marines. Embarked an Armv of Invalid.. The land force of the expedition was in tended to consist ot 500 soldiers; but instead of embarking suitable men, orders were issued for 500 iinali's to be collected from among the "out-peusioners" of Chelser Col lege poor iellows whom old age, wonnds and disease had long unfitted for any active tervice. The wiseacres of the Admiraltv thought the invalid the "best seasoned" and fit troops ior the occasion! Most of the men were over 00, and some upwards of 70 years ot ase. Not one of these aired warriors, Eotne ot whom had survived the carnage ot the Itnvr.e and at Blenheim, lived to revisit his native lnd. The 6quadron was delayed sailing so long that the Spanish Go eminent had time to dispatch information to South America, to put the colonies in a state of defense, as well as to equip a squadron of six ships ot war four o them ot the line under Ad miral Josef Pizarro, to intercept Anson on his passage. Neer was there a squadron worse equipped, or sent to sea under greater dis advantages. But that did not deter the active and vigorous spirit of An6on, who now hoisted his broad pennant as Commo dore, and soon afforded presumption that the resources of his own mind were capable of counteiacting some of the evils which were eu'aiied on them. The squadron sailed from St Helens September 18, 1740, and after a tedious passage arrived at Madeira on the 23th of October, where, having taken in wine and other refreshments, the Commodore con tinued his course, narrowly escaping from the Spanish fleet under Pizarro. A ICrcord of ickn-ps and torm. Even at this early period of the voyage much of that sickness prevailed in the squadron by which its crews were soon af terward so fearfully thinned. Anson or dered -xtra air scuttles to be cut in each ship tor more effectual ventilation. "On tne 18th of December the squadron i anchored at the Island of Santa Catalina, on i the c an ot Brazil, aud landed the sick to . th number ot some hundreds; but. through the insolence and treachery of Don Jose Bvlva de Paz, the Portuguese Governor, thev were very poor! v accommodated; and, aiter burvin? great numbers, the sickness rather increased than diminished." The ships were here fumigated, cleansed and washed with vinegar. January 18,1741, the ships tailed for Port St. Ju lan, in Patagonia, where they an chored IheTrjatwas here refitted. On the 7th ot March they passed the Straits of Maire, and here the trouble began. The stormv season came on, the ships were separated, and encountered appalling diffi culties and unparalleled distress. The Cen turion was lor 58 days under reefed courses, a d ail this tune was trying to double the ciieaded Cipe Horn. In wearing ship, by manning the fore shrouds, one ot the ablest seamen was thrown overboard. Thev were unable to lower a boa', vet as the historian (Chaplain Walter) tell" us: "We perceived that he " swam vtry stronjr, and it was with the inmost concern that we found ourselves un able to assist him." Cowpei's XVpjnofthe Castaway. Upon this inc. dent the poet Cowper founded his exquisite poem ot "The Cast away." In it occurs the terse: or, ciuelas It seemed, could ha Then haste itselt conde-nn; Aware that flight In such u tea Alone cou.d succor them. Tei ciuel tell it xtill to die Deserted, and his friends so nlsh. Meanwhile disease again raged among the crew to a melancholy degree, and a scurvy of the most virulent kind carried dis may to every heart. It was no uncommon thing for those who were able to walk the deck to drop down dead in an instant, aud many perished in this manner. In those days sailors afflicted with the acurvjr were, upon reaching land, buried up to their necks in the earth. The late Com modore J. C. Long, U. & N., told the writer he had been treated in this way as late as about 1820. The Severn and Pearl bore up for Bio de Janeiro, and never rejoined the squad ron, which was now redused to the Cen turion, the Gloucester, the "Wager, the Tryal, and the Anna Pink (itoreship(. On the 23d of April thee were so completely dispersed in a storm that no two of them were in sight of each other. The Commodore, having succeeded in doubling the capa, steered for Juan Fernan dez, but was so much iu doubt as to the longitude that, having arrived in the lati tude of the island, he steered east (instead of west) until he made the main land of Chile. He then put about and arrived at Juan Fernandez June 9, having lost much valuable time, by which they estimated they lost 70 or 80 men. Drath'a Harvest Without a Battle. "Three months before had seen them with a crew of npward of 400 healthy officers and men, besides the quota ot supernumeraries; but of these 200 were buried and 130 were on the sick list." The Tryal arrived a day or two after ward, having lost 34 ot her small comple ment. The sick and afflicted of the two ships were carried ashore, and refreshments ot all kinds speedily obtained, but it was 20 days before the mortality ceased and for the firi ten or 12 days they seldom buried less than six each day. "While here the sailors caught or shot some goats whose ears had been slit, and were therefore conjectured to have been thus marked, some 30 years before, by Alexander Selkirk," (Robinson Crusoe.) On the 2G;h ot June the Gloucester ap peared in the offin;. Boats with men and provisions were seut to her; but as she had lost two-thirds of her crew it was not until the 23d of Jnlv that she could make the anchorage, 146 days from Port SU Julian! About the middle of August the Anna, storeship, arrived, which caused much re joicing, as all fears of scarcity o provisions were now 'removed. This vessel was the last that joined them. She had suffered but little, "having been forced into a com modious harbor of the Peninsula de Tres Monies, not fur to the northward ot where the unfortunate Wagner struck, and her crew were then enduring much misery." TLe Anna, being found not seaworthy, was broken up. Nearly Two-Thirds TTr Dead. The three men-of-war had left England with 9G1 men on board, of whom 626 were dead before this time; and the number that were left were barely sufficient to man the Centurion, an appalling circumstance, when they expected every day to fall in with the fleet under Pizarro." What became ot Pizarro we shall soon see. On October 8 the squadron, considerably relreshed, left Jnan Fernandez, and on the 11th they captured a large Spanish, ship from Callao. They learned from her of Pjzarro's failure to double Cape Horn with his squadron, and that the Spaniards of Pern thought all of Anson's ships had per ished. The Tryal was next destroyed, as unsea worthy. There now remained but the Cen turion and Gloucester. "In one of their prizes they found an Irishman who gave them some particular in telligence which induced the Commodore to steer forPaita." They landed a force at Paita, captured the town, and obtained a very rich booty in plate and merchandise. The Spanish refusing to ransom the town, it was burned. Some prisoners were taken, whom Annon treated courteously nd welL The ship now went offAcapulco to look for the Galleon from Manilla, and touched at Quibo Island on the way. Alt Ships Gone bat One. Upon their arrival at Acapulco they learneu tnai me iraileon had already ar rived; and that, moreover, sho would not leave that fortified and safe harbor for a year. Anson then went further up the coast to Tejupau for wood and water. On the 6th ol May, 1742, the ships started across the Pacific Ocean. The scurvy broke out again and made fearful havoc among them. The Gloucester was now in so leaky a condition that on the 13th of August she was abandoned, and burnrd, and the Cen turion was left alone. On the 28th of Augus', after a very long passage and which is partly to be attributed to very bad navagition, the Centurion anchored at Tinian, one of the Ladrone islands. At this time only 71 men were capable of standing to a gunl The rick were landed, and refreshments in the shape of beef, pork, poultry, with vegetables, watermel ons, oranges, limes, cocoanuts and bread trnit, were obtained in abundance. On the 12th of November they arrived at Macoa, then, asnow, in the hands of the Portuguese. "Tne Chinese, a eople always jealous of strangers, vexatiously harrassed the Com modore by equivocating measures as to re fittins the ship; hut his firmness and con ciliating carriage counteracted the shuffling of the Celestials." They shipped here 23 new hands, and the officers and crew now amounted to 227 healthy men, "whicn, thoucn still a short complement, was superior to what they had lately been used to." Flshtlnjr Come, at last. The Commodore now gave out that he was bound to England, via Batavia, and ac tually received on board the mails for tha latter place, and on the 19th day of April, 1743, the Centurion sailed. When clear of land Anson called all hajids and announced his intention of cruisinjr off Cape Esnintn Santo, Sainar Island, and having another "toy" for the galleon. The crew responded J wiin uiree encers. From the30thof May to the 19th of June Anson cruised off Cane Espintu Santo, drilling his men constantly at the great guns and small arms. At sunrise June 20, Midshipman Charles Proby from the mast head announced a sail to windward. "The general burst of joy which this occasioned wa3 heightened to rapture when she was 60on afterward seen from the deck, coming down before the windtoward the Centurion. The Comtnod re wis somewhat surprised to see her advance steadilv on without chang ing her course, and seeing her take in her top-gallant sails and fire a gun induced him to suppose she was making a .signal to her consort to hasten her un. But tlit Wfcv vessel was already in Manilla, and it afterward appeared that the Spanish commander instantly conjectured how matters stood, and trusting to tie British ship being weakly manned, as well as from a conviction that an action could not be avoided, he beat to quarters, hoisted his colors and stood boldly on. She w as much larger than the Cen turion, and had a full complement of men; but though pierced for 64 guns had onlv 42 mouuted, exclusive of a row of brass pleira roes which eacli carried a tour-pound ball." A Memorable Victory on the Sea. The crew of the Centurion, though short in number, were in good health, well trained and distributed to advantage. On the lower deck each full gun's crew fought two guns. At 12:30 p. m. the ships closed, and the action began, which was smartly maintained, and attended with great slaugh ter to the galleon, but with little mischief to the Centurion. The small arm men in the tops ot the Centurion shot down every officer but one who appeared on the quarter deck ot the galleon. "British valor and foresight then pre vailed; the Spanish colors were hauled down, and our gallant stars were amply re warded tor all they had undergone by the welcome prize." After engaging her, says Anson in his official report, "an hour and a halt within lcs than pistol shot, the Admiral struck his fla to the main topmast head. She was called the Nuriitra Scnora de-Caba Donga. Don Gironiuio Montero, Admiral; had 42 guns, 17 of which were brass, and 28 pied raroes; 550 men, 58 of whom were s'lain, and 38 uounded. Her masts and riggine were shot to pieces, and 150 shot passed through her hull, many ot which were be tween wihd and water, which occasioned her to be rery leaky. The greatest damage I received was by my foremast, mainmast and bowspirt being wounded, and my rigging being shot to pieces, having received only 15 Bhot through mv hull, which killed but two men and wounded 15. I was under great difficulty in vavigating two such large ships in a dangerous and unknown sea, and to guard 492 prisoners. Richest Capture On Record. The galleon had on board 1,313,843 "pieces-of-tight;" 35,642 ounces of virgin silver, some cochineal and a large quantity of merchandise. It was calculated after ward that the total amounted to no less than 1,000,000, the largest sum ever cap tured in a single bottom. On the 11th of July the Centurion anchored with her prize at Macao, to the great wonder of the "Heathen Chinee." The prize was sold to the merchants of Macao. It is interesting to note the errors in the longitudes of Anson. Though he had on board W. Pascoe Thomas, "Teacher of the Mathematics," and who appears to have been pretty well versed in the theory and practice of navigation, the longitude was frequently as much as eight degrees in error! This is the more remarkable as Dampier in 1687 fifty-six years before An son was only about three degrees in error. But Dampier was the most skilful navi gator of his day, and a very remarkable man. To resume: The Centurion having dis posed of her prize, sailed for home about December 15, 1743, and, after an excellent passage, in which she touched at the Cape ot Good Hope, arrived at Spithead June 15, 1744. "Thus did a single ship, out of a whole squadron, regain England, and of 1,980 men who had embarked in the summer of 1740 exclusive of the crews of the Anna and Tudustry onlv 195 were restored to their homes. The Centurion's safe arrival was a subject of much public exultation. The treasure of the calleon was drawn in triumphal pomp through the city of Lon don in 32 wagons, which were preceded by a band of military music playing national airs, and guarded by a detatchment of sea men and marines of the victor ship, amid the shonts and acclamations of thousands of spectators. The crew was paid off with im mense sums of prize money. . Captain W. H. Paekeb. ORIGIN OF TH2 NAME AHEEI0A. Jnles Slarcon Says the Word Was Taken From tLe Indian Language. Pearson's Weekly. M. Jules Msrcon, of the Paris Geograph ical Sjciety, has lately spent a great deal of time in making researches into the ori gin of the name "America." The popular notion that America was so called from the Christian name of Amerigo Vespucci is, be says, wholly unfounded, the name really being taken from "Amerrique," the Indian name of the monntains between Juicalpa and Libertad, in the provinces of Chon talcs, which separate Lake Nicaragua from the Mosquito coast. The name in the Maya language signifies "the windy countrv,"" or "the country where the wind blows alwi " The Christian name of Vespucci was Jberico in Italian and Spanish, and Albericus in Latin, but it is subject to a great number of varia tions, and consequently M. Marcon suggests that the name Amerigo is an adaptation of Amerrique, added to Vespucci's name to distinguish it (Amerrique being a name already known and applied to the New World) in the same way as we say now "Chinese Gordon" to distinguish this par ticular Gordon by suggesting one of his heroic feats. Vespucci's claim to the dis covery of America is put out of court by the fact that he was in Seville when Colum bus made his voyage. He did, however, make two or three voyages to the New World later on, and being a vain man and acquainted with map-makers, he would be nothing loath to see his name associated with the vague splendors of the new con tinent THE PACIFIC FISHERIES. Alaska Is Fast Becoming tha Great 5almon E-Elon ortheFntare. New York Times. As to the importance of the Pacific fisher ies, taking 1839 as the last year of which re liable statistics of the salmon-canning in dustry were obtainable, the vast total of 1,287,060 cases of salmon is presented as the yield of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. This was worth at first cost $7,000,000. Taking the whole canned product during the 14 years prior to 1889, the Pacific salmon were equivalent in weight to 1.000,000 head of cattle, and "exceeded the latter in economio importance and lood value." Every year there are more canned salmon coming from Alaska. In 1883 there were 36,000 cases; in 1889, 675,000 cases. But how long this enormous supply will last is not known. The yield in Oreeon was at one time apparently diminishing. Captain Collins writes: "It would seem that in any event Alaska is to be the great salmon region ot the future. lintuh Columbia shows the ame increase in silnion products. In IbTG she made 10,000 case of salmon; in 1889, 414,400 cases. British Columbia sells one-halt ot her products in Europe and about one-fifth in the Eastern States. A Stir That Isn't Coming to Amirloa. One of the new faces that charm on tfie English stage is Hiss Ethel Mathews. She is quite a novice yet, but already a favorite with Londoners. I n the five years of her career as an actress in parts that require girl ish charm and a eommand of buoyant, bnb bliughumor,Miss Mathews has had the advantage of association with Ethel MathetLs. the Kendals and other cultivated players. She is at present taking the part created by Miss Marion Terry, a sister of the divine Ellen, in "The Magistrate." An unusual feature of her declared ambition is that it does not Include an American starring tour. Played Billiards Without Balls. Chicseo Times. According to an eye witness a peculiar in cident happened one evening recently in the billiard room of a hotel at Tacoma, Wash. The room was crowded and all of the billiard and pool tables were occupied bat one. Two gentlemen entered the room attired in full evening dress. Engaging a billiard table, the boy brought the balls, but the players, to his utter astonishment, told hiin they did not need them. Remov ing their topcoat, coats and hats, they took cues and commenced a mimic game. They made the customary moves around the table, studied apparent plays, made tha customary grimaces at misplays, and regu larly counted their strings. A wondering crowd gatheied about them. They thought the men were crazy. A funny part of it was that they never smiled, took the "guv ins" of the crowd serenely, and, when the points were marked up, paid for the game and unconcernedly walked out The solu tion of the mystery was that the imitation game was played on a wager. A New F'an for Exploring Africa. Sxn Francisco Chronicle. The old-fashioned method of striking across the dark continent in search of new territory has been abandoned. One man takes a district in the upper Kongo, another a bit of East Africa, another a corner of Mashoualand. In this way the course of rivers, the strength of tribes and many other interesting facts are discovered. It will take only a few years at the present rate to leave no part of Africa unexplored. i CHILDREN OF AFRICA. Mrs. French-Sheldon Gossips on New Phase of Her Experience. DO K0T CAKE P0R PLAYTHINGS, Broke Up Her Dolls and Shot Holes in the Kites She Brought. SHE ENTHUSES A WHITER TO POETRY rWMTTIjr FOB THlt DISPATCH.! It seemed to me, I remarked to Mrs. French-Sheldon at Washington the other day, that Stanley had told us very little about the women and children of Africa of love, family life, marriage, manners, fun, games would she speak of them? "Yes," she said, ''but 'love' there is no such word in the languages of the savages whom I saw. Thev have words for 'like,' for 'pleasure,' for 'husband,' 'wife' and 'friend,' but none for 'love.' No word for 'love' and none for 'God,' whether spelt with a large or little 'g.' They have no idea of immortality whatever, and of course no word to express it "Now, do you gee what follows from the fact that they have no God? Why, of course, they have no oaths. One may travel among them for months, as I did, without ever hearing an oath. When they give way to anger they must get their satisfaction out ot "You are a pig!' Tou are a toad!' TTou area goat!' 'Yon are a junglemauP This is the extreme ot their ungual anronts. Sometimes they fight, but they haven't; any thing to swear by, differing in this from Mark Twain's cap'tam, who, you remember, 'wove a glittering streak of profanity through his garrulous fabrio that was re freshing to a spirit weary of the dull neu tralities of undecorated speech." A fries Meeds a Lot of Saws. I asked what was apparently needed most bv the savages among whom she traveled. '"Saws!" she said. "No, not Bibles or hymn books or missionaries, school books or schools, but saws and axes and augurs means of working easily in wood. Ten thousand dollars' worth of tools and ten carpenters would go a good way toward civilizing all the wild men between Zanzibar and Kilnianjaro. Saws are what they need, and I am going back there some time and I shall carry a cartload of saws." African children have been verv little talked about, and I asked Mrs. French Sheldon if she could tell me something. "Yes, I am glad to," she said. "Africa under the equator is the children's para dise. In all those months, among children every day, I never saw a child struck, and I heard a child cry only twice while in the Dark Continent Up to the age of 6 or 8 children go asjnaked as they were born; after that they wear a small piece of cloth or leather, and are little men and women, learning to be bread winners. There are, of course, no schools; but the young ones early begin to learn learn to work; the girls to sew in their rude way, and the hoys to swim, and to run, and to use the bow and arrow expertly. Different Work for Each sex. "There is a definite division of labor be tween the sexes; the men kill game, do the fi?htinsr. make the weapons, (fundas). and fabricate the women's ornaments, while the women work the gardens and plantations, tend the herds, and build the dracean hedge of canes. The married woman dresses simply in some animal's skin drawn round her shoulders; the unmarried woman in a fig leaf apron. Girls are often married at 10; at 15 they are old maids. After the age of 6 they are children no longer. "1 saw a pretty comedy in front of my tent on Lake Chala one morning. A boy of about 6 was playing with a little girl of 5 or so in the stately, serious fashion of the equatorial tots. He walked around facing her, and flourishing his wooden spear, and he said to her in a loud and boastful voice: 'Seel When I shall be el moran (a war rior) and thou en dito (a belle) I shall con quer many and wear the bearded collar, and thou shall be ray wife, aye? Thnu shalt have more beads than all ot Endella's wives, aye? I have spokeul Now walk thou with me, and show my fellows how a sultana ought to look!' and the t.To midgets went circling pompously round about" Don't ppreclaia Dolls and EUrs. "About playthinss?" I said, "have tbeso children no plaything?" "Hardly anything that can strictly be called playthings. I carried out a lot of dolls and they would not play with them. They broke them up. I carried some fine Jananese kites in the shape of birds and fishes, but, instead of being amused by ' them, the little boys drew their pows aud shot my poor fliers full of arrows. I car ried some mechanical chickens that could hop a little ways and peeD. But these got me a reputation for witchcraft, and came near breaking up my caravan. It I had had a phonograph along, I should probably been burnt as a witch. It is dangerous to trifle with the intelligence of the African." "I iudje from what you say that women have considerable freedom in Africa?" When I asked this question Mr. Sheldon leaned bark on the sofa and laughed laughed till her very blue eyes half closed, and her autumn-leaf hair quivered, and her pink slippers twinkled. "The desire for lreedom seems to be largely a matter of fashion," she said. "Everr married woman in Central Africa wears lily-shaped iron bells on her wrists and ankles, so that her husband can always find where she is somewhat like the sheep in flocks on the common. The Womm Favor Polygamy. "Polygamy thrives in Africa, and every wife seems to be glad of it For, as th'e wives have to do the farmwork. thev are always glad when their mutual husband brings another wife to divide the labor. They receive her with enthusiasm when she appears sing to her and feed her with sweetmeats. In the family kraal each wife has a hut of her own a boma and it is verily her castle. Her husband never enters till he has knocked and called out 'hodi?' (mav I come in?) and received the answer 'karlbool' (welcome.) The equatorial peo ple are very polite. "At every new village I came to in that tour of 2,000 miles I advanced alone and held up in my hands a bunch of grass the signal of peace and was received with friendly salutations. They are very cour teous to each other, too. If they meet a hundred times a day thev exchange the 'ah, kwahari' (how d'e do?). When a man wants a wife he first buys her from her parents, and then hunts the fleeing girl into the woods and captures her. It is the uni versal fashion for her to run away when he comes after her." Was Golnz to Shoot Some Men. "No insubordination in vour command?" I asked. "Never but once. At the foot of Mount Kilima-NjarQ eight of my guard refused to obev mv orders to move on. The Sultan ot Zanzibar, in swearing them in, had given to me the right-to kill any man who dis obeyed, and I had to enforce my authority." I inquired if she did that iu the tradi tional manner of her sex. She lausrhed and said: "No, sir; I did not cry! Two of the men yielded. The other six were mar shalled before me and I aimed a rifle at the leader and ordered 'Pall in! one, two and he tell into the column. The same policy brought each one to submission." I asked ber if she would actually have killed them. "I would!" she said, and her very bine eyes flashed like an are light "I would fc&va shot them in their tracks, one by one, without flinching. It was either authority' or dea for me, don't you see?" It is im necessary to say that the enter prising narrator is quite cosmopolitan in her language and manners and far from prudish; but she is also facile and pictorial ot speech, melodious of voice, and so witty and sell poised as to be quite capable ot surprising audacities, whieu make her less conven tional but more Interesting. She obviously kuows all of human nature, for a woman would not be likely to explore savagery till the had thoroughly exnlored civilization. I Hue is a solidly ouut, comely woman, - - '-p.-., . .-- t; i slightly less than the average height of her sex, with dainty feet and hands which "she loves to decorate and which respond sympa thetically, with an agreeably modulated voice, brown hair and eyes as blue as indigo on the whole, rather an attractive per sonality, and I wonder that some savage chief didn't seize her for his own and build for her a "boma." Come, O, my Muse, Allonsf O, Franoli with the Sheldon attachment, Cerulean eyes, golden thatchment, Gemmed tinners and slipper a-qulver, And vofco like a soft ruunhu river, And nose like a princely Egyptian, And lips that bewilder description O Sheldon, pel mft me to ask ft. When erst thou wert slung in thy basket, Or, wishing the weather were colder, " Wert tripping.with nun on thy shoulder, Defiant ot Afiicnn arrow, Jiom ocean to Kilima-NJaro, bo fleice when the line was assaulted, So cool when the caiavan halted, O, French, with the ligatured Sheldon, To wlloi we vooiferate "Well Uonel" in that emiatorlal junirle Betweet Zantbar and Uwungle, XDOSed fill tlinf. IniiAeAm. nr-nnaim With nosts of the coloiea persuasion, Ho lankee or Briton or Asian. O, Sheldon, with Frenoh aud the hyphen, While facln ' the tel-rihln tvnhnn Why didn't somo cliloftliat was bigger Jhan others some kin of a nezro V hst trobble your outfit and make yon His Queen to the Wahaga take yon. And huilu, when compliant he found you, A nieo little 'boma" around votit O wouldn't he with pride have been jrlddyt I'm glad ho abstained, but why did he? W. A. CaorpuT. WHAT WOJIEW WAKr 10 SHOW. Shirley Dare on Coarse Skin, Dazzling Kosai nnd Itoand Shoalderm Of the numerons inquiries sent to Shirley Dare by readers of The Dispatch, she has found time to answer the following: A Sbwickley Girl I am in despair ahout my nose. It shines so that at times it is absolutely dazzling. Of course I use powder, and the luster is dimmed for pei faaps ten minutes. My nose perspires dreadfully it is the only part of my face that does perspire. What can I do? Use equal parts of pulverized boras and prepared chalk as a powder. Plaster the nose with this moistened with glycerine at night or melt fine castile soap and rub on the nose nightly. Keep a piece of flannel to rub the nose frequently instead of pow dering it by day. Mild purgation and alter atives are called for and correction of all ir regularities of health and habits. Second Can you tell me how to make my eyelashes grow?" If you have a friend you can trnst, clip the minute points once a month and apply a drop of glycerine niehtly with a fine hair pencil. Third How often should a Turkish bath be faken? Is once a week too often? Not if one has fair health and strength. It is often enough tor any one. Fourth What exercise can I take to keep my shoulders back? I lean over a desk all day, and I am afraid I am growing round shouldered. Throwing the arms back till the hands touch 40or 50 times daily1 is good. O sit bolt upright, let the arms hang down easily with elbows stiff and straight, raise the arms two feet from the sides and swing them back till they touch the sides again with the upper arm, keeping the forearm out This exercise should be easy and comfortable. If the palms of the hands are kept uppermost then the shoulders naturally fall back. Painful gymnastics are not to be recom mended tor sedentary, nervous persona Skipping rope, throwing it backward over the head, also corrects bent forms, and is the best of exercise for the whole body. Or go to the end of a room, face a wall, nnd throw bean bags backward over the shoulders, 40 or 100 times in succession. Beans are espe cially healthy when taken in this form. This is the sort or letter I like to get from a wo man, who thinks about her habits all round, and docs not concentrate ber apprehensions on a few pimples or on her grav bangs. M. J. I wish you would advise me what to do for my skin. The pores are coarse. Some years ago it was only on my nose, now my forehead and chin arid face around my nose are all large pores and my face is very flabby. I have tried steaming it every day for six months. It brought out a red rash that did not disappear for three months. Hints from just such experiences are in valuable, proving that there is no specific mode of treatment for the disorder known as a bad skin. Massage is not a general im prover, steaming is not, salves and creams are not To be of service and safety these remedial processes must be selected and used with as much care and knowledge as goes to the work of a physician. Steaming the face" is a risky performance, and the woman who tried 'it daily tor six months was lucky to get off with an inflammation that was cured in three. The most intelligent and experienced French cos metic artists do not advise the use of hot steam, as it tends to make the face wrinkled and bajrgy, just as the skin of the hands is after soaking in hot suds and steam over a washing. Wonjen who intend buying a steam apparatus for home treatment had better send the money to starving Russia, for it will do their com plexions more good and save facial neu ralgia most likely. The cure for enlarged pores must be internal, if the improvement is to be at all lasting. The skin of the lace is very sensitive, the blood vessels numer ous, and local irritation predisposes to the disorder. As ior steam treatment, a woman might as well apply a mustard plaster daily for the same length of time 03 the heated vapor, which draws the blood to the surface even more powerfully. Were a specific called for, upon honor, I should name bread of entire or unbolted wheat meal. The readiness with which the disagreeable appearance of the large glands vanishes when this bread becomes a fixed diet is delightful. But as it is easier to live on golden plovers'.egcs than to se cure a constant supply of good bread, one must fall back on the established treatment A hearty purgation to begin. A table spoonful ot Epsom salts in a small cup of coffee first thing in the morning or a pill at night, not a mercurial one. Follow this with half a teaspoonful of the salts in half a cup of hot water, with five drops aromatio sulphuric acid daily for two or three weeks, to clear the system of its accumulated wastes. By this' time a coarse nutritious diet should render such medicines unneces sary. Hot alkaline baths to stimulate the skin all over, twice a week if not daily, tenderloin steak twice a day and sunsnine every hour will supply nervous energy and strength. If these are unattainable the same preparation of iron, strychnia and quinine must be a poor substitute. Mrs. W. M. What will make the eye lashes grow dark and heavy? An old and very clever book says a decos tion of dandelion plant and root will restore this growth, applied nightly. Olive oil is reported as having a satisfactory effect on the lashes. Use it six week3, and if the growth starts, have a discreet friend clip the tips infinitcsimally. Lauoline might be of use, as it seems to make hair grow every where it ought not M. P. What is eood for a red nose? The nose is an Index of the state of the alimentary organs. If inflammation or ul ceration exist there the nose reddens in sym pathy. It it comes from a tendency to erysipelas,poultice with cooked cranberries, and take sweetened lemonade or cream of tartar water, drinking a pint in the course ot tbeday.taking it preferably an hour before meals. White vitriol the size of a pea dis solved in a plut ot waim water was recom mended bv a well-known physician of New York to a pati-nt with a nose inflamed by much drinking. Polly Pe ibody What can I do for my feet to make them soft They are very hard and dry and feel uncomtortable? .patne in water not as tney can Dear, with a teaspoonful of borax to the pail of. water, 10 minutes nightly or oftener as con venient Keep the water hot till the end of the bath, dry the feet thoroughly and rub all harsh parts with plenty of vaseline or any of the petroleum jellies, 'and wear thin stockings to bed. In a week or two the skin will be fine, soft and sufficiently moist Ihe perspiration sometimes cannot get through the calloused thickened sur face. - OARSMEN IN COLLEGE. Walter C. Dohm Tells How the Crews Of lale and Harvard Tmin. THEY BEGIN WITH THE NEW YEAR. General Gymnasinm Work Firat and Cockle-Sliella Later. the MEN WHO WILL ROW THE GREAT RAOE. nntirrajf ron the dispatcs.i What would you boys think if beginning with the 1st day of January you had to go to school seven times a week? If absence for even a single day for any other reason than sickness positively would not be tol erated? And if the beginning of spring and summer vacation meant the beginning sim ply of longer hours and harder work? Would you not think life not worth living? And yet this is exactly the sort or thing to which each year a score of young giants 4he very men who by reason of their physi cal strength feel the restraint mare than others submit and submit willingly and gladly. The school they attend is the gym nasium; their recitations are held in an eight-oared shell, and their final examina tion over a foui-mlle course on the Kiver Thames at New London, Conn., before a score of thousand yelling half frenzied spec tators, who line the river banks, follow on the water in steamboats and on the shore by trains and open cars. Not Much Fnq In the Training, The work of the athletes in whose hands lies the boating reputation of Yale and Har vard begins in earnest immediately after the Christmas vacation, though for weeks before the men have been taking preliminary ex ercise. There are but eight seats for oars men in each boat, bnt perhaps 50 or 60 can didates apply for the positions at each university. The athletes are first taken to the gymna sium, where their muscles are hardened by constant exercise. The "wind" is improved by running, care being taken of course that each man is warmly clothed before he starts, and that he Is well rubbed aud dried before he resumes his ordinary costume. On Sun days the discipline is relaxed somewhat and the men are required to take only long walks. Then comes the exercise in the impro vised "rivers" in the gymnasiums. Each university has a large rowing tank, in which is fixed the "boat" The water passes through troughs when the oars besin to work, and a current is established flowing around the boat That the resistance offered by the water to the oars may not be too great, large boles are cut in the oar blades. Here the men are taught the primary prin ciples of rowing. At first the sliding seats are fastened, and day after day for weeks the men are "coached" in the correct method of using the arms and swinging the body. They first Cralse in a Heavy Barge. About the middle of February or the 1st of March, ontof loor rowing is begun not in a shell, but in heavy barge. By this time the three-score candidates have been reduced to a dozen or 15. First, the men who show a lack of interest are told they need train no longer. Then go those who, though willing, have not the weight and strength to make them available. Once on the water the men begin with a very slow stroke. Individually and by pairs and by eights the men are taught by masters of the stroke who come from Bos ton, New York, Philadelphia and even Chicago. The stroke is dissected and each part is explained until the oarsman knows the stroke from A to Z. Brute force alone cannot make a boat go at le,ast not fast enough to win a race and this is dinned and hammered into the heads of the mm who want to do all the work with their muscles, until they forget that they have such a quality as strength. From the barge the crew steps into the lisrht, cranky, paper or cedar shell. Then the trouble begins anew. In their efforts to keep the shell from rolling, the men seem to torget everything they have ever, learned. Gradually, however, they be come accustomed to their new seats, and then the "coachers" go to work to the more delicate points of the stroke and to teach the men uniformity in their work, that the whole eight may row as a single man. The Time for the Final Choice. The regular 'varsity crew is selected as soon as possible. Harvard, particularly, makes this a point, to decide early upon the oarsmen who will represent her on the Thames. It is an open secret that the easy victory of the crimson over the blue last summer was due iii a great measure to the fact that the eight oarsmen who won the race had been working and rowing together since the February preceding. Yale's crew, on the contrary, had not been definitely chosen to within a month of the race. There are many names that will become familiar to the hoy who reads rowing news this year. There is urptain "Hob" Cook, the father of Yale's stroke, who runs up to New Haven trom mnaueipnia as otten as possible to give the crew the benefit of his advice; and when Captain Cook can't be present, John Rogers and Alfred Cowles, also ex-captains of the Yale navy, will be there to carry out Cook's instructions. At Cambridge tne most familiar names will be those of "Charley" Adams, "Harry" Keyes nnd Captain Perkins, of last year's victor ious crew. The Captains Are Veritable Qlanti. Then there are the captains of this year's crews. Few, even of Yale men, would recognize, under the name of John Augustus Hartwell, the athlete who for five years has been famous on the football field and on the water as old "Josh" Hartwell. Captain Hartwell entered college in 1886, when he was but 16 years old. He lias roid in three victorious crews, those of 'S8, '89 and '90, and he played last fall on the football eleven that defeated the teams of both Princeton and Harvard. Captain Hartwell is 6 feet 2 inches tallrand weighs 179 pounds. Captain Keiton, of Harvard, though not so well known to the outside world as Can tain Hartwell, is every ounce an athlete, and that means a great deal, when one con siders his weight of more than 200 pounds. "Pa" Kelton, as he is known to Harvard men, is a scholar as well as an athlete, and when he is graduated this summer he will be very near the head of his class, though he has taken his four vears' college course in three. Walter C. Dohm. The Oldest Living KnglUh Authors. Lord Tennyson is the oldestliving En glish author, his first book having been published in 1830. Mr. Gladstone comes next, his pamphlet, "The State in Its Rela tions With the Church,'' appearing eight years later. Sen Francisco to Nw York. J, Edwin Stone, the pedestrian now en route from San, Francisco to New York, wrote from Logan, la, on his arrival there: "Since I hv been on ray walk across the continent I have suffered greatly trom diar rhoea through change of water. I was in duced to try Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and say with pleas ure that it is an article of merit and has done all for me that it was represented to do." Every traveler and every family should be provided with a bottle of this remedy. 23 and SO cent bottles for sale by druggist. wsu WHTnllow bedbugs to keep you awake at night when a bottle of Bngine will destroy theuiall In half a ininuteT 25 cents. Cjlbsuba AwmjrGS Don't fall to see them if you want uwnlnjrs. At Mamaux & Son's, 638 Penq avenue. Tel. 1072. wsu STuamsMiunnAAlrail nftnlAd anil antnnail- jaAUOH Si JXaKRAJTi IT 0r 11X001. AN IMAGINATIVE ROMANCE OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION. WEITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH BY HERBERT D. WARD. fcYNOPSIS OK PREVIOUS CHAPTEB3. In a sleeplns car Journeying from the VTenl to Chfcaso ore sir chance acqnatntaneesv Millionaire Vanderlvn. ot Cuieagoi Prof. Wilder, inventor of the Aoropole; Serjeant Will twfcr, who was wrth Greelvand with Lock-wood on their Polar expedition; Royal Sterne, ft technical Institute student; Jack Hardy, who is goln into real estate in Chicago, and Fred eiickBall, an astronomical tutor. Out of a Jesting remark a serious expedition to the North Pole in Prof. Wilder' airship is arranged. Millionaire Vanderlyn furnishes tho money. Wilder the conveyance, Wtlltwig the experience, nnd the three yonnger men the enthusiasm. Jnst as they start officers anlve to serve an injunction on Wilder. Theaction Is brought by Hennepin, who claims the airship is his invention. After some exciting ex- Serlences the officers are persuaded to desist. The airship Rets on, and when over Lake liehUan Sergeant Willtwisremembers that he left his supply of matches in Chicago- Only a row can be fonnd in the pockets of the explorers and they are preserved as If they wera sold. Soon a strange, new sickness steals over the party. It is like seasickness, only more severe. Whilo thev are prostrated by It they narrowly escape dashing against a mountain top in Canada. All goes well until in tho far north they eipy a ship In the ica and from is a man is signaling. They throw him some provisions, go on and finally reach the pole. XI. A 'GHASTLY .BEXDEZVOTJS. "What a fool!" he gasped as he fever ishly wrote down crooked figures that would rank him with the greatest discov erers of the world. His voice came in hoarse whispers. The Sergeant supported him as he spoke. "That barometer is all right The air i rarefied, as if we were on a great height, because " he couched as he went on, "be cause we are in a partial vacuum caused by the rotation of the ellipsoid at the Pole. You see, the currents of the air rise from the shoulders of the earth.tangent to the earth's surface. Yet the wind blows." Thus science and feeling had the usual contest even here. 'You're right! You're right! That's worth coming up for! That's one problem solved." The Sergeant tasted the point of his pencil, and was jubilant for the mo ment Now the tntor calculated eaeerlv, as it he were afraid that his strength would not hold out As it was, he could hardly drag one foot before the other. Read what befell the crew of the Jeannette arter the ship was nipped and sunk, and you will understand a little of the tutor's condition. At last, he looked up with a wan smile. "I make it just 876 feet W. N. W. from where I sit I think I will be able to get there." , , With infinite care they measured the space between them and the mystic goal of their journey. A strange exhilaration ani mated, the tutor. He tried to burst into a college song, but his vocal cords only uttered Only a hundred feet more! The Sergeant took from bis breast, with the hand that was not supporting his companion, aUhited States flag, and solemnly regarded it Fifty feet morel They halted. Even in that dreadlul temoerature perspiration oozed from the faces of both. "My country, 'tis of thee," sang the tutor. At the end of the first line his voice hushed into a sob. Ten feet morel Before them was the pole. They stopped and stared. The first human eves that ever looked upon the dream, the despair and the murderer of thousands gazed at it sternly, and then at each other. The tntor would have fallen had he not been held in strong and tender arms. Before them lay the North Polel Then the commander of the Polar expe dition took the flag and fastened it to the head of the staff. Ho took from his belt his ice-pick to make a hole, and cut blocks of ice and snow to prop the pole up. For ten minutes he dug powerfully. The tutor, leaning upon one arm, watched him as if hypnotized. With the other hand he fum bled beneath folds of fur. After several futile nttemnts he brousht out a book. "What's that?" asked the digcer resting. "It's only a prayer book one I happened to have. Pat it under the flag-staff when yon plant it It'll make a good foundation for it, if you dont mind." The young man fell back exhausted. "All right!" said the Sergeant. He conld find no more words. He bent to his work, to hide the fact that he was unmanned. "Good God!" cried the Sergeant, sudden ly starting back. "What's this?" he shrieked. His eyes glared with terror, and, with the fear of his being suddenly stricken mad, he sought the tutor for confirmation? no, for denial. "What is it? Speak!" cried the tutor, starting up like a corpse galvanized. "My God! I dare not look again. It's a human hand!" Fearing that the final excitement had actually curdled a steady bead into insanity, the tutor jumped up and bent before the shallow hole. Beneath the translucent ice and snow, embalmed and lifelike, a hand stretched itelf outto him. A finger al most touched the air. Impossible! Not here! They stared at each other. Tbey laughed hysterically. One of them cursed his senses. Nay, they de ceived not There lay a hand perhaps at tached to a body to an explorer. Can It be to another, a previous discoverer of the Pole? Yes, even so! Human ambition bent before the ghastly remains. There is nothing nen; nothing undone under the sun. Two hours of superhuman work laid the chipped body entirely to view. The life like, emaciated face of a man mocked at the futility of their achievement. It seemed as (rhe bad breathed only a minute before. A sardonic smile still distorted the mouth, as if it had prophesied this denouement He might have lain there ten years, a hundred years, or ten thousand. Men have eaten with relish the meat of a mastodon dead 3,000 years. Compared with this corpse4the mummy of a Pharaoh is a caricature of the human race. The one is a revolting sketch in tan bark; the other lay belore the as tounded explorers, almost palpitating in his own flesh and blood. He looked as if a cab alistio word would raise him to life. But he was as hard as flint That he died of starvation and cold was evident. His shoes were only a few tattered sl.ina partly gnawed. His attitude indicaU ed a final yielding to a forlorn struggle. One hand was bent at his breast and evidently clutched at soniethinc. The sergeant tugged at It It broke off .like a stalagmite. He drew the arm out and tore open the tattered garments. There, came forth 'a British flag I This was more than the, patriot conld HU Tho incarnation of AjMrigaa amduj-. A Stanliyg IHtJOvr!. ance, doggedness and maenificent push staggered before the emblem of British pluck. To find another man before you was not so bad, but to be superseded by a rival nation this was not to bo endured. The Sergeant now acted like a madman. He cursed the flag, the man, his luck and tne evil star that presided at his birth Then, beside himself, forgetting his sense of honor, he began lo wrench the flag to pieces. Who knew of it? The only witness to his defeat lay frozen before him. None should ever know. Bnt the tutor touched his arm. "No," he said, gently. "We mnst not, we cannot," and he took the obnoxious flag from tha Sergeant's tense fingers. Aj he did so a paper fell heavily to the snow. It had evi dently been carefully folded in the flax for preservation. It was the log of the ill-fated man, written in lead pencil With tre mendous difficulty the exolorers deciphered the tortuous scrawl of a numb hand. "1821, September. Am sole survivor of 28 men ot Franklin expedition. Franklin dead, No hope of rescue. Had to die any way. We marched, to the north to die as near the pole as possible. Last observa tion at 82 28' 26 days ago. I- " Even as he had written, the torpor had reached his arm, and after thrusting this missive of nn- J7n Tutor's Effor'. paralleled heroism into this flag which, aa sole survivor, he carried upon his heart, he had died. But what diabolical agent brought this man here, then? If the last observation was made at the eighty-second degree, how could this starved and frozen creature make his way from thence, nearly 480 miles? It was a monstrous impossibility. Such thoughts demanded an answer; and the two dumfounded men demanded a solu tion from each other. They glared at tha dead face, but it rendered no account of Its grewsome presence. Then, to cap tha climax of this day, the Sergeant sat down and cried, like a man shaken with a terri ble sorrow, or like a woman relieved from an awful anxiety. "Oh oh!" he sobbed In broken tones, "it's all right. Of course he's here." "Ho?" stammered the tntor, looking for all the world like the dead man. In glassiness of color. "Thank God! Oh "h he didn't comet He drifted! He just happened here!" This scientific and simple solution re lieved the amour-propre and the madden ing distress of the explorer so suddenly, so utterly, that the great sobs came as a bless ing. "We can raise our own flag, anyway," remarked the youns man. Sergeant Willtwis did not notice how feebiv the words were spoken. He only thought of the honor of taking possession of the land and of doing it honorably. "When will it emerze between Spits bergen and Nova Zembla?" mused the Ser geant as he raised the pole. "I think the English flag ought to float there, too," observed the tutor. "It got here first" "But it wasn't its fault" The Sergeant glanced at the pleading eves of his com panion. They looked as if they belonged to a body translated. "It shall fly below," he added. Relnetantlv he tied the British flag to the halyard aud made ready to raise it The tutor struggled to his feet and stood before the flags. For a moment both removed their fur caps and bowed their heads before the emblem ot their nation, placed on the proudest eminence in the werld. The beautiful Stars and Stripes floated fair and free above their heads. "Can't it go a little higher?" urged the tutor In a whisper, pointing to the British flag. "Somehow I think it deserves it," faltered the shattered man. Mumbling a little reluctantly, as if it detracted from his glory, the Sergeant raised the under flag three inches. -s :S- sfeSM "There! that's enough!? he growled. "Oh, my boy I we haven't eaten tor five hours. Come! let me carry yon back. What have I been doing?" Remorse smote him too late; he saw the anguish of death in the tutor's face. 'Not yet," he breathed. Crawling even upon his knees, the gen erous youth, with a last effort, stood np and raised' the undermost ensign until it floated on an equality with its conquering rival. The Sergeant look at him helplessly. This act killed the boy. He cast into the face of the Sergeant an imploring, a commanding, a loving look, tried to speak again, and passed, like hundreds of Arctic heroes, softly into the other world. As be breathed his last, the most beauti ful phenomenon of nature saluted his marchins soul. Ahout the sun, two other suns of marvelous radiance were seen to shine. They glowed in the colors of the blue, the yellow and the orange. Their iridescent rays kissed the face which soon, n. its eternal tomb on the neighboring Island, would never know change and de cay. With bowed head the bereaved man, now the loneliest man in the world, set bis back upon the dead hero, upon the triumphant flass, bis face against the glittering par- hell on, and (aught, with broken steps, his hut of ice. IT0 ft OuMmma, An J I t . i f .... 1 ' . ) . ' i ' 4.Ai,J ,3L lv c .jfitAi.. -s! 2L,J?i JfcrtMU A j. la'.-JL'sU .. t . 1i t i Ini i n ' ,' ?n 1 "TfSraff fcitfn '-iValfcAfljlSrn i iTifl1 nMTff tt.t . A..fcfcrt. j4"nv a . - BSHBHSByflllHWJkSBMaBP
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