ooooooococcoaocccooocococa 1 BOER PRISONERS | 8 OFF AMERICA'S COASTI o o Q Are Quartered Opposite Hamilton, Q Q lievimiilu. () O 6 OOOOCOCOCCOCOOOCwGCCOCOOOO THE 2300 Boer prisoners' iu Bermuda are quartered on Tucker's and M'organ islands, in Great Sound, opposite the city of Hamilton, writes a corre spondent of the New York World. Tile entire area of the isles on which these men aiul their guard will be encamped is less than thirty acres. Dari-ell's Island, containing the lirst lot of prisoners, those who arrived from Cape Town in .Tune, is less than twenty acres in extent, a long nar row strip of land on which the tierce summer sun beats down, reflected in .GENERAL VIEW OF THE BERMUDA ISLANDS, WHERE T£IE BRITISH ARE SENDING BOER PRISONERS. THE LONG. NAR ROW ISLAND IN THE CENTRE IS DARRELL'S ISLAND, WHERE THE FIRST DETACHMENT WAS SENT. OPPOSITE THIS IS PORT'S ISLAND, WHERE THE HOSPITALS ARE STATIONED. TUCKER'S ISLAND IS THE SHALL ONE AT EXTREME LEFT IN BACKGROUND. the glare of the tropic sea. Its rocky surface is covered with a thin soil on which grows a coarse grass and a few scrubby cedars. Darrell's is distant afcout 000 yards from the main Island ami is surrounded by the bright shallow waters of the sound. Across this island is a strong iron fendo, to the east of It Is the Boer camp, composed of ten rows of tents, fset as closely together as possible. Here and on a tiny island, Burt's one acre, to the north, are huddled to gether like sheep in a pen some 030 prisoners of war, eighteen of whom are officers. i The sick have been placed on an other small island; Port's, on which a convalescent tent and hospital for their accommodation is being built. VVTTISa BOER rr.ISONERS ON BOAIU) 1 SHIP AT POUT NATAL. It lias been very hot and dry for weeks, and no provision has yet been Tnade for an ample supply of fresh water. A condensing machine was sent out from England, but it is useless so far. because an important part of the machinery was left be hind. There are no wells in Bermuda. All the water used on the main island is rain wdter caught in huge cisterns, and the supply is low, owing to the drought. Their cooking places are still incomplete. England has sent these prisoners to the smallest and most holpless of hrr colonies, from which the brand of a penal colony had been wiped iiway chiefly by the introduction of the industry of lily-growing by an IIOH' THE PRISONERS ARE FENCED IN ON DARRELL'S I I A THICK NETWORK OP BARBED WIRE OFFERS UNCOMFORT ABLE RESISTANCE TO ESCAPING BOERS. 'American and by the winter visiis «112 Americans to an American hotel. The Inhabitants of the islands mostly seem to believe that a Boor <s a mixture of pirate and cannibal with a dash of wildcat thrown In, New rifles can now be found in priv ate possession among the co'onlsts to defend their household if tffSe of tile Boers get loose! A Boer prisoner amused himself by making a toy, a little box, and threw it to a resident who rowed past the camp in his boat. The lid of the box slid back and showed a snake's head with a pin for a tongue. The Ber inudan keeps it as a relic of war, but with the greatest care, not allowing any one to touch it, as he thinks the pin is probably poisoned. Precautions are taken to guard tiie prisoners as if they were dangerous wild beasts Instead of unarmed gray haired old farmers, some of them nearly eighty years of age, kindly fathers of families, three with grand children with them, little boys under twelve years of age. A gunboat lies on either side, and not far away are the batteries of one of Groat Britain's greatest dock yards, all pointed day and nlglit at that helpless camp. Since the escape of David du I'loy a powerful search light has swept the camp from time to time during the night to prevent further escapes. Two prisoners did swim to the shore of the main island lately, dic ing under the water to avoid the search-lights, only to be caught by the negro soldiers. A reward is offered for information concerning any runaway, and all per sons are warned that a severe pun ishment awaits any person who fails to inform the nearest English offltf?r or magistrate of the whereabouts of an escaped Boer. Along the shore of Warwick Par ish a sentinel paces, winching the Boers, ready to alarm the camp of negro soldiers just over the hill. On a few small sun-baked isles within 700 miles of New York Bay .'IOOO men will soon be sweltering In the August sun. There are only about ."000 white inhabitants in Bermuda- There are 10,000 colored subjects of King Edward. Books, papers, food can be sent to the Boer prisoners of war, but nobody may goto speak to them. They are incommunicado, shut off from sound of a voice o£ sym pathy. Fashion* For Dynnmlte Worker*. In factories where gunpowder and the modern high explosives are made the greatest precautions against acci dent are taken. Not only are the buildings so con structed as to minimize the danger of explosion, but the dress of the work men is also regulated by the manage ment. All workers in smokeless or nitro powder and other high explosives weai rubber aprons and sleeves. Another safety appliance is the aluminium hel met, which causes the simian appear ance of the men In the picture. The object of this queer costume is to pro -1 teet the man from splashes of acids and other chemicals. The tongs pir rled by one of tho men are made ol aluminum and are used for making guncotton from its bath of nitric acid, which has no effect upon aluminum. . BLEACHING PROCESS. Attention Called to a Modlfleatlnn of tlx Salt Water Method. The production of a bleaching anil disinfectant liquor by the electrolysis of salt water is a thoroughly well un derstood commercial process. Some years ago it was tried on a large scale for the disinfection of the garbage refuse of New York City, but for some reason was never followed up. Consu lar Agent Harris, of Elbenstock, Ger many, sends the following illustration and information in regard to a modi fication of this principle for the use of textile manufacturers, laundries and others, requiring chloride of lime for bleaching or disinfecting purposes, such as laundries, hospitals, etc. In this device the production of the bleaching liquor is continuous as long as desired, and the current for Its op eration can be taken from the ordi nary house mains. The apparatus consists of a box of slate, swung on trunnions, with an inlet for the brine nnd an outlet for the sodium hypochlo rite, which is the active chemical bleacher. The current passes In at one end of the box. nnd passing be tween the poles or electrodes at oppo site ends, traverses the solution of brine, disintegrating it and producing the bleaching solution. It is asserted tliat the bleaching liquor is suitable fn T bleaching raw cotton, yarns, jute of flax, paper, clothes, etc. For use in laundries the apparatus is somewhat modified in form and attached to t!ie washing tubs. This solution is claimed ID bo le.ss harmful to the fibres of the threads than the usual bleaching pow ders. goods bleached by electrolytic means here described losing only two per cent., against some eight per cent, for* chloride of lime bleach. The ra pidity of the bleaching operation is ilso somewhat increased. Filipino Letter Carriers. The queerest mail carriers In the United States postal service are the Igorrote Indians of the Philippine Islands, which are shown in the ac companying photograph. The Postmaster-General at Wash ington may make all the rules he pleases about shirt waists and other proper uniforms for United States mail carriers, but the Igor rotes will disregard them all. Their idea of a uniform is a breechcloth, and noth ing can change that notion. It. must be admitted that this cos tume shows off their figures to good advantage. The Igorrotes, though small, are well proportioned men, and their muscles are firm as a profes sional athlete's. These couriers carry mail from Dagupan to Bagio, Bouguet Prov ince, the round trip being one hun dred miles for sl, and consider them selves making good money at that. Their principal diet is rice and fish, and though it may sound somewhat strange "dog" is their chief luxury. In leaving Dagupan it is no un usual sight to see them each with from eight to a dozen dogs. They pay twenty-five lo forty eentavas for each dog, according to his size and condition. They travel naked thrcugh rOCTMASTER KINGSMORE AND TWO OB HIS MAIL CARRIERS. tiie burning sunshine ol' Luzon with much more comfort than an Ameri can with umbrella and fan. Their skin is almost as tough as that of a cariboo, and their feet have never known what shoes are. "They are perfectly trustworthy," rays Postmaster Ivingsn Vre, of Dag upan, "more so than tlie average Fil ipino, and among all 1 have ever seen i_oi. one was a beggar." English Usages About Spurt. Lord Grey de Rutbyn claims t!io rig'it to carry the sovereign's golden spurs. A Field Marshal wears gilt spurs, and mounted oilicers of other services wear steel spurs, except in mess dress. A victorious South Af rican general has been presented by his many admirers with a pair of gold spurs. He will never be able to wear them in uniform.—London News. A specially trained sanitary troop lately drilling near Berlin lias trans formed cars of different kinds into hospital ciys with berths for sick or wounded In from three auil one half to five minutes per car. MEASURING THE SUN'S HEAT. Tlie Immense Work Done by tlie r.ayi on tlio Kartli's Surface. Every school lioy knows that rain. 13 produced by the sun evaporating tin water from the sea an.#rlie reprecipi tation of this water. But let him ask y^vSTSAMZWfS <? §» ]j |%?lw ! \ / SMFACeS 112 \ ' I ro W t ' KEri.ee-* 1 t t (V I s A 1 m I i> ' r 112 ~~ COHDtH&tO gS WATER. ■<9L MEASURING TIIE SUN'S HEAT his teacher at what rate this evapora tion takes place and few will be able to answer. In trder to study the force of the sun Professor Buchanan has, according to Nature, devised what lie calls a "Solar Calorimeter." By means of this apparatus the sun's rays are concentrated by a reflector upon the surface of a silver tube in which Is water, the area of all parts being accurately measured. Now the heat from the sun changes the water in the silver boiler to steam and this is condensed by a suitable arrangement and measured. Thus by noting the time required, the area of the various surfaces and the amount of water changed to» steam tht sun's heat can be calculated. Observations made at Sobag In Egypt showed that the sun could evaporate to steam more than seven teen and a half cubic centimeters of water per square meter of surface per mlnntfc. No allowance has been made for instrumental Imperfections. They certainly exist and by making suitable corrections we tind the force of the sun per sqoare meter to be equal to about one horse-power. By making suitable calculations the au thor reckons that each meter of the sun's surface emits 45,000 horsepower per minute. Signs Used by English Rurglars. Should you, while taking your mora- Intr or evening stroll around your house, notice any -of these drawings, or any chalk marks in the least resem bling them, ou your garden wall or (hi walls of your house, says Answers, < mi <X is# u a <- -S I </ I ~ MARKS USED BT ENGLISH HOUSEBREAKEI notify the police. These signs are ic common use among housebreakers and tramps and thieves, each having its special significance. Thus Fig. I means: Following the point of the arrow, the fourth house in the direction given is to be burgled during the night of the next moor crescent. The tools needed for the burglary are indicated in the second line. A bird (lantern), die (hammer), key pitcher (chloroform), and ladder. Fig. 'J, a key crossed by an arrow means that a free-lance tramp has been reconnoitering and desires assist ance; also that it would not be amiss to visit the place at night, when in al probability a valuable acquaintance may be formed. Fig. 3, two swords crossed, with ai arrow running through, siguifles the direction a certain troop of tramps oi gypsies have taken. Fashions For Equlnes- HATS WORN BY PHILADELPHIA HORSE! DUBXVa THX HOT SPELL, DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON sUNDAY'S DISCOURSE DY THE NOTED DIVIN?. Suhjeet: "Woman's Sphere She Should ltule an a IJueen In the Itoine lts Value an a Held of Usefulness The Mother's influence on the Nation's I.lfe ICopyTiirht IPOI.I WASHINGTON", D. C.— ln this discourse Dr. 'falmage extols home as a field ol use fulness and especially encourages wives and mothers; text, Genesis i, 27, "Male and female created He them." In other words, God, who can make no mistake, made man ami woman for a spe cific work and to move in particular spheres, man to be regnant in his realm, woman to be dominant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzer land, between England and Scotland, is not more thoroughly marked than this distinction between the empire masculine and the empire feminine. So entirely dis similar are the fields to which God called them that you no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, treas and stars. All this talk about the superiority of one sex to the other sex is an everlasting waste of ink and speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can v.-eigh the dust of diamonds, but where are the scales so deli cate that vou can weigh in them affection t.gainst affection, sentiment against senti ment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a mans word against a wom an's word? You come out with the stereotyped re mark that man is superior to woman in intellect, and then I open on my desk the swarthv, iron tyoed, thunder-bolted writ ings of' Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot. You come on with your stereotyped r«nark about wom an's superiority toman in the item of af fection, but 1 ask you where was there more capacity to love than in .John, the disciple, and Robert McCheyne, the Scotchman, and .John Summerfield* the Methodist, and Henry Martyn, the mis sionary? The heart of those men was so large that after you had rolled into it the hemispheres there was room still left to marshal the hosts of heaven and set up the throne intellectual. I deny to woman tlie throne affectional. No human phrase ology will ever define the spheres, while there is an intuition by which we know when a man is in his realm and when a woman is in her realm, and when either of them is out of it. No bungling legisla tion ought to attempt to make a definition or to say, "This is the line and that is the line." My theory is that if woman wants to vote she ought to vote, and that if a man wants tV> embroider and keep house he ought to be allowed to embroider *nd keep house. There are masculine women and there are effeminate men. My theory is that you have no right to interfere with anv one's doing anything that is righteous. Albany dnd Washington might as well decree by legislation how high a brown thrasher should fly or how deep a -trout should plunoe as to try to seek out the height or tne depth of woman's duty. The question of capacity will settle finally the whole question, the whole subject. When a woman is prepared to preach she will preach, and neither conference nor presbytery can hinder her. When a wom an is prepared to move in highest commer cial spheres, she will have great influence on the exchange, and no boards of trade can hinder her. I want woman to under stand that heart and brain can overflow an;, barrier that politicians may set up, and that nothing can keep her back or keep her down Uut the question of capac ity 1 know there are women of most unde sirable nature who wander up and down the country, having no homes of their own or forsaking their own homes, talk ing about their rights, and we know very well that they themselves are fit neither to vote nor fit to keep house. Their mis sion seems to be to humiliate the two sexes at the thought of what any one of us might become. No one would want to live under the laws that such wom en would enact or to have cast upon society the children that such women would raise. But I will show you that the best rights that woman can own she already has in her possession, that her position in this country at this time is not one of commiseration, but one of congrat ulation; that the grandeur and power of her realm have never yet been appre ciated. that she sits to-day on a throne so high that all the thrones of earth piled on top of each other would not make her a footstool. Here is the platform on which she stands. Away down below it are the ballot box and tne Congressional assem blage and the legislative nail. Woman always has voted and always will vote. Our great-grandfathers thought they were by tneir votes putting Wash ington into the Presidential chair. No. His mother, by the principles she taught him and bv the habits she inculcated, made him President. It was a Christian mother's hand dropping the ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philoso phized, and Alfred the Great governed, and Jonathan Edwards thundered of judgment to come. How many men there have been in high political station who would have been insufficient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had it not been for a wife's voicl that encouraged them to do right and a wife's prayer that sounded louder than the cla mor of partisanship! Why, my friends, the right of suffrage as we men exercise it seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come up to the ballot box. and you drop your vote, ilight after you comes a libertine or a sot, the offscouring of the street, and he drops lift vote, and his vote counteracts yours. But if in the quiet of home life a daughter by hgr Christian demeanor, a \yife liy her indus try, a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in the right direction then nothing can resist it, and the influence of that vote will throb through the eternities. My chief anxiety, then, is not that woman have other rights accorded her, but that she by the grace of God rise up to the appreciation of the glorious rights she already possesses. 1 shall only have time to speak of one grand and all absorb ing right that every woman has, and that is to make home happy. That realm no one has ever disputed with her. Men may come home at noon or at. night, and they tarry a comparatively little while, but she all day long governs it, beautifies it, sancti ties it.it is within her power to make it the most attractive place ou earth, it is the only calm harbor in this world. You know as well as 1 do that this outside world and the business world is a long scene o!" jostle and contention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it; the man who has it not struugles to get it. Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations. Gougings. Under selling. Buyers depreciating; salesmen ex aggerating. Tenants seeking less rent; landlords <'/\iianding more. Gold fidgety. Struggles about office. Men who are in trying to keep in; men out trying to get in. Slips,_ tumbles. Defalcations. Panics. Catastrophes. O woman, thank God you have a home and that you may be queen in it! Better be there tlian wear a queen's cor onet. Better be there than carry the purse of a princess. Your abode may be humble, but you can by your faith in (tod and your cheerfulness of demeanor gild it with splendors such as au upholsterer's hand never yet kindled. fhere are abodes in the city—humble, two stories, four plain unpapercd rooms, undesirable neighborhood—and vet there is a man here to-day who would die on the threshold rather than surrender it. Why? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it he sees angels of (!od hovering around it. The ladders of heaven are let down to thia IIOUSP. Over the child's rough crib there nre the chantings of angels, as those that sounded over Bethlehem. It is home. These children may come up aftei awhile, and they may win high position, and they may luive an affluent residence, but they will not until their dying daj forget that humble root under which theii father rested and their mother sang and their sinters played. Oh, if you would gather un all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial, fraternal, paternal and conjugal af fections, and you had only just four let ters to spell out that height and depth and length and breadth and magnitude and eternity of meaning, you would, with streaming eyes and trembling voice and agitated hand, write it out in those foui living capitals, H-O-M-E! What right docs woman want that is grander than to be queen in such a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven canrtot fly across that dominion. Horses, panting and with lathered flanks, are not swift enough to run to the outpost of that realm. They say that the sun never sets on the British empire, but 1 have to tell you that on this realm of woman's influence eter nity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation's anathema, but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principalities. When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of Cath erine of Russia or of Anne of England or Maria Theresa of Austria, but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of the plain woman who sat op posite your father at the table or walked with him arm in arm down life's pathway, sometimes to the thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always to gether, soothing your petty griefs, cor recting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel and on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she luy in the back room dving and you saw her take those thin hands with which she toiled for you so long and put them together in a dying prayer that commend ed you to God whom she had taught you to trust —oh, she was the queen! The cha riots of God came down to fetch her, and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep founda tions of your soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap, and if you could bring her back again tc speak just once more your name as ten derly as she used to speak it you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her, crying, "Mother, mother!" Ah, she was the queen, she was the queen! Now, can you tell me how many thou sand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot box? Compared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common councilmcn and sheriffs and constables and mayors and presidents! To make one such grand woman as I have described bow many thousand would you want of those people who go in the round of god lessness and fashion and dissipation, dis torting their bodies and going as far to ward disgraceful api*»rel as they dare go so as not to be arrested of tne police, their behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious and an insult to that (iod who made them women and not gorgons, and tramping on down through a frivolous and dissipated life to temporal and eternal destruction? O woman, with the Kghtning of your soul strike dead at your feet all these al lurements to dissipation and to fashion! Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbage. God calls you up to em pire and dominion. Will you have it? Oh, give to God your heart, give to God your best energies, give to (iod all your culture, give to Cod all your refinement, give vourelf to Him for this world and the next! Soon all these bright eyes will be quenched and these voices will be hushed. For the last time j-ou will look upon this fair earth. Father s hand, mother's hand, sister's hand, child's hand, will be no more in yours. It will be night, and there will come up a cold wintMrom the Jordan, and you must start. Will it be a lone woman on a trackless moor? Ah, no! Jesus will come up in that hour and offer His hand, and He will say, "You stood by Me when you were well, now I will not desert you when you are sick." One wave of His hand and the storm will drop; an other wave of His hand, and midnight shall break into midnoon, and another wave of His hand and the chamberlains of God will come down from the treasure houses of heaven with robes lustrous, blood washed and heaven glinted, in which you will array yourself for the mar riage supper of the Lamb. And then with Miriam, who strucli the timbrel by the lied Sea, and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the tight, and with Han nah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord, and with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were angels singing in the air, and with Florence Nightingale, who bound up the battle wounds of the Cri mea, you will from the chalice of God drink to the soul's eternal rescue. One twilight after I had been playing with the children for some time I lay down on the lounge to rest, and, half asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream this dream: It seemed to me that I was in a far distant land—not Persia, although more Oriental luxuriance crowned the cities; nor the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gar dens; nor Italy, although more than Ital ian softness tilled the air. And I wan dered around, looking for thorns and net tles, but I found none of them grew there. And I walked forth and I saw the sun rise, and I said, "\\ hen wiPl it set again?" And the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and I said, "When will they put on workingman's garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?" Hut neither the garments nor the robes did they put off. And I wandered in the suburbs and I said, "Where do they bury the dead of 1 his great city?" And I looked along by the hills where it would be most beauti ful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towers and battlements, but not a mausoleum nor monument nor white slab could I see. And I went into the great chapel of the town and 1 said: "Where do the poor worship? Where are the benches on which they sit?" And a voice an swered, "We have no poor in this great city. And I wandered out, seeking to lind the place where were the hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions of am ber and ivory and gold, but no tear did I see or sigh hear. I was bewildered, and I sat under the shadow of a great tree, and I said. "What am I and whence comes all this?" And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the flowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when I saw their step 1 knew it.and when I heard their voices I thought I knew them, but their apparel was so (ftfferent from any thing 1 had ever seen 1 bowed, a stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they clapped hands and shouted. "Wel come. welcome!" the mystery was solved and I saw that time had passed an.l that eternity had come and that God had gathered us up into a higher home, and I said, "Are all here?" And the voices of innumerable generations answered, "All here. And while tears of gladness were raining down our cheek* and the branches of the Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout, "Home, home, home! '
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