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:.0ST IN THE CHAPARRAL.
nv (-ovvaui) n. clank.
At
It. loon
i at. i til II
V tit
" vour mind a crass-
less stretch of
conntt y with
groat mclii
allowing in tho
sun-baked earth,
with hero n n il
there a stunted,
leafless tree, mid
upon il hillock
little way off
a pjatnit, gray wo'f
a i Hi o il (i I i (i il
against thn sky,
Mil In vm some nlon or the
i one part of tho country
liic'u for two y cor the United
."pilars marched ami seniiteil
-(nipt t" kill "' capture u hand
' ms bandit.
' thou Id tide some houra over
" ste wto you would conio
jo a denso woodbind of c'uap
' ilinoet impenetrable thorny
'; tliieh stretches for nuiuy
one; tho Kio (Iraiide Hivcr
miles inland from either
,, b?o the time seven years
1 Undo, Sam's cavalrymen
emlcd iu lonnuuif; iii) nmi
io outlaws tho face of that
Texas country Iihh
I Pain, which nature Had
the spot lor nearly two
aaain visited the region.
as again nppearcu ami me
has drunk to its fill with
Was a man with Mexican
' '"I but a oitizon of the United
jteriuo K. Garza by uarae,
,''" thought intended to en
l"n attempt looking to the
,K,.f President Dial of Mexico
ini'fllce and to tho establishing
1; :i in the presidential chair.
.(not have oiioukIi followers
i raid to cause inuoh anxiety
""'ttic'au authorities. After n
!' lexioan territory tho leador,
tit two hundred men, ro-
Texas and there for two
tho dcuso thickets along
mumu oi-ciimiuuiii loriij s
i , ' a ;vet hnionut of smtig-lu-nclo
Sam put a number of
y i iu the field to hunt down
'y. ib, but owing to the nature
feutry and their familiarity
it,, (rails tho hunt was a long
Iii; was during thin campaign
he outlaws that Trooper
Hi' t D Troop of tho Third Gov
Jio experience of which this
l Gcuige . 1'. Ghaso, now
waigeuta in tho Philippines,
I i jmmaud of D Troop in the
ihnlst the bandits. Tho littlo
rto ifoopora was unenmpod at a
tit thirteen miles from tho
JiO phaparral, through the
i (,rhich at a distance of thirty
M .lay the Rio (iralido lUver.
jutf hefoia tho last star had
Mfd from tho southern sky n
. lie imnicdly to camp. He
jot pelf from Ids horse at the
i it. from tho' sentinel and said
Jo the commanding otlicer at
pnnginst lonod -wnocomoa
tho sentry as he chucked
1 of t'lti idor at tho point
iio roused Capliiin Chose.
iuulo he was confronting
who reported that there
Itil'ill'r (if l!;tvvn'n mnn In.if
jl, Jf ohapmval nour tho rauch
-i Uertrudrt, something more
u Are miloa aivay. Within
l the cominauing ollicer
' h!l-(T, nf l.ju 4......
.....Biuoin liaundarT was tho
I,, (he chapori-al, tho captain
yfird his uittn and throw thum
iJp iniBhline with an interval of
J yards between each skir-
nri " tm" ntlil!l' tho lino wont
(l ,.(to the uhaparral. .Tust as
Kihtered tlia outlying edge of
Dii f thickt a volley was pourod
,!(.-", hut uo one whs hurt. They
; iaoveral hundred yards into
itauglo of mesiiuite, prickly
Other thorn-glowing HOiith
UMiou, a'jd. finally found tho
0, p'ethe enemy had campod.
jvB'tj, !;u,vev.;r, had dimp.
nM pnvs.lii through that laby.
!,: physical impossibility.
.JWfeitromo right of tho skir-
Trooper Thomas. So
Tn tho undrgrowth that ho
e"l8"e' avoal times, the skir-rivl'-lhis
left, only two yards dis.
1 tt-boimo, l,,st hi., .lireotiou a
I! ' maun:- ifo get farther away
; . near, ,4 wmrado than the
rJ 6 Ll,' !"iBU liuo Urination
' 1. hu.Ulcniy there came tho
'.f,D trumpet ordor: "s
w lUt4,tba r' Dtro "kirmiHher."
Jt tUui,UUmenat tho right
; tho o.,lllW should turn and
Ntly tov.rd tho centre, thus
..tt.-'f '"'"'fiiig the command
w.'r 8h'i ler in closo order.
He ;.l bonus turned ami headed,
Hi-f- --"-, 1. 'i uie fcouud of tho
hu"""r '"a nearest com
fr'"vsiii tho thickot
w:,l. rIu . r
" Klin, father and farther
JiU 1 iri n In o
on una Mouiul
tes hol,pt up the pace as
was astounded to
Uf a 11, it vut -,,, .... ...in.
- uiB voice
ion) was no answer.
; d his oarbiuo, put
" and pressed tho
fforty listoned. Iu
'to two answuriug
roni what seemed
. Tho dousity of
-Ti wag in juelf an
smission of sound,
turned as ho sup.
on from wuioh the
and once more
irough tho thiokot.
'or a fow minntes
nuothor cartridge
Id and fired. Ue
v "ve ininutea, but
co gladdoued big
i.tho direction imlicatod by
1 it ut 11. ,'
"i. ofi u utiu h ra n 1 .
u.U.
'1
car. lie fired three inure (hots in
rapid succession. Still uo answer.
The cavalryman was lost in an almost
impenetrable jungle, through which
every stop of progress was a toiling
pain and whoro there was no means
whatsoever to give Iii 111 a key to direc
tion. He stood Btill for a few minutes
to think what was best to do. lie
had no compass, and while ho knew
that tho northern edge of theehajiarral
was within a comparatively short dis
tance ho had not the remotest idea
whether that odgo lay before him, be
hind him or at his right or left. For
two days thick, hesvy clouds had ob
scured the sky. They were full of the
promise of rain, which would not
come. Time after timi- the few people
living iu tho region had looked upon
just such lowering cloud with some
gleam of hope that they might let fall
a burden of blessed shovels. There
was promise, but no fulfilment. Tho
heavy, murky bank, however, served,
with the aid of thn matted canopy of
tho chaparral, to prevent the lost
cavalryman from getting any idea,
however faint, of the position of the
snu. North, south, east mid west
wero aliko to him.
Trooper Thomas finally dctormined
to trust to luck, and taking the course
which he thought was right be worked
his way through tho thorcy growth.
For two hours he toiled on, and then
iu despair ho realized to a certainty
that he was hopelessly astray. When
the line had boon deployed Thomas
hatl left his canteen behind, and he
Low begun to suffer severely from
thirst.
Honrs passed, and still neither open
ing iu tho chaparral nor the glint of
water gladdened his eye. Ihe trooper
slipped a cartridge from bis bolt, aud
taking his kuife cut the head bullet
from the brass cup. He put the mis
sile in his mouth nnd it momentarily
relieved his raging thirst.
It was beginning to grow dusk, and
thn soldier realized that ho must spend
tho night iu tho chaparral. lie cut
some of tho thick leaves of the prickly
pear, and scraping otV the thorns from
tho green surface chewed tho pulp for
the slight relief that the juice afford
ed. Theu he cleared a place, and ly
ing down tried to sleep. Physically
worn out though ho was, his thirst
and the horror of his situation kept
him awake. Toward morning he had
a little feverish sloop (hat brought no
rest. As tho first streak of daylight
stole into the chaparral the trooper was
on his feet aud on his way oneo more.
Tho puckering juice of tho prickly
pear leaves seemed simply to havo ag
gravated his thirst, and his sull'oring
was beginning to be more intense than
can be expressed iu words. Painfully
making bis way along, Thomas camu
to an open place iu tho chaparral. At
tho farther side of it ho heard a crack
ling, and in a moment a peccary one
of the little wild hogs of tho Texas
jungle broke into tho clearing.
Thomas steadied himself with an el'
tort. He raised his curhiuo, aimed
aud fired. The shot was a clean one,
and tho littlo wild pig fell dead in its
tracks. To oaso the pangs of his
thirst Thomas drank of the auimul'B
blood, aud it gave him strength and
courage to keep on. The effect of tho
drink, however, was not lasting, and
in an hour's time bo found himself
sui?ering as keenly as before. He
strode along, however, with occasional
rests, all through tho morning and
tin) long afternoon. At night ho was
half delirious with suffering, bnt tho
utter exhaustion of his body forced
him into slumber. He slept in 11
troubled way for somo hours, and
then, waking, found his sntl'eriug so
iutenso that remaining still was im
possible, aud through tho darkuess of
that Southern chaparral bo stumbled
on. Finally ho loll from sheer ox
haustiou and lay for somo time in a
half-daisod coudition.
Thou the morning came. Little by
littlo some oxpressiou of returning
sense oume into tho trooper's face.
He looked straight ahead, and there,
not ton yards iu front of him, he saw
that (hero was a break iu the thicket.
New lifo came to him in an instaut,
aud ho fairly dashed through the un
derbrush. Iu a moment ho stood at
the chaparral's edge. Ueforo him lay
a great clearing, with 11 bouse in its
center. With a cry of joy the soldier
made his way to the building. It was
deserted. There was not a sign of
life anywhere, and all iirouud, com
pletely inclosing tho cleariug, ho saw
tho ohuparral walls. A great woodeu
cistern, such as one finds in southern
countries, rose beside tho house. Iu
tlio times when there had been rain
water had poured from tho roof into
the cistern. Thoro was n faucet
six iuohes from the bottom of the
great tauk. Thomas almost staggered
as he went to it aud turned the han
dle. Not a drop of water trickled
out. He was at tho verge of despair,
but with that hope which is always
present oven at fortune's lowest ebb
ho thought that it was possible that a
little water might still remain in the
cistern below tho point tapped by tho
faucet. Ho climbed upon a shed and
from thence to the roof of the dwell
ing. The top of the cistern was cov
ered, save for the small hole into
which tho pipe from tho oaves trough
ran. Tho trooper tore olf two of tho
rotting boards and looked into the
cistern depths. Far down, bulow the
entering place of tho spigot ho saw
something glisten. It was water. He
cut strips from bis suspenders and
from his clothing, and lotting down
an old tiu pot that be had found in
tho house he innuagod to draw up a
mouthful of water. It vras stagnant
aud ill smelliug, but no draught that
man ever took seemed sweeter to him
than did that drink of green-coated
cistern water to Trooper Thomas. He
let tue can down again and again, aud
drank until new Ufa and strength
oaruo to him. Ho knew that thore
mast be a disused trail leadiucr some
where through the ohaparral from the
clearing. .Ue made a oirouit of tho
jungle's edge and finally found the
trail. He knew not where it would
lead, bat he know also that bis only
hope lay in following it. He bad not
gone more than a hundred yards be
fore he met two Mexicans, who proved
not to belong to the bandit gang.
They gave him something to cat, and
agreed to pilot him ba'-k to the camp
or his troop. It was then that
Trooper Thomas made the astounding
discovery (hat, although ho had been
wandering for forty-eight hours, he
was not five miles from tho placo
where ho had lost the (tank of tho
skirmiMi line. Goinpassless and with
no landmarks to guide him, ho had
been practically traveling in a circle
until when, in tho half delirium of tho
second night in the chaparral, ho bad
risen, and going blindly ahead had
managed to keep for a v.hilo in
straight line. Chicago Hccord.
WHAT A JOURNALIST IS.
IJimt Hi, Dlfirm Troin jt I'lnln, Orllmir.r
it.w-in,.r Mmi.
After his lecture before tho journal
istic, class at ('omwall University, a
sophomore asked Kit Perkins when ho
became a journalist.
"Never," said F.li, "but I do hope,
after twenty years' mors experience,
to become a newspaper man."
"Well, what is tho difference?"
asked the sophomore.
".fust this, my son," said F.li. "
callow reporter calls himself a jour
nalist. As ( ieorgo Welshons says, 'in
his first tadpole stae, when his head
is swelled,' he is a journalist. If ho
finally shows great brain and indus
try, and escapes tho fool-killer, he
may become a reporter. After years
of study aud toil, and when his brains
are stutled with wisdom, wit and dis
cretion enough to kill bis own editor
ials and 'make up' a sixteen-page Sun
day edition, then I say he's a news
paper man."
"Then tine is as high 111 tho profes
sion as bo can get?"
"les; he is now at the pinnacle.
Ilv aud by, when he gets la.y and
stiff aud old and stupid, they reduce
him to the position of editor.
"Au editor is a decayed newspapor
man with bunions on his brain, chil
blains on his heart, corns ou his ears
and warts and dyspepsia on his liver.
The I'lisinoss of the editor is to sleep
uptown all day and at night ho prowls
around a newspaper office, aud at mid
night bo takes a blue pencil and assas
sinates ovcry bright and readable idea
that the smart reporters have brought
in during the day.
"The editor is all epithet, while the
reporter is all proof. The editor calls
a man a chicken thief and gets sued
for libel, while the reporter, kodak in
baud, interviews him while picking off
the feathers in his back yard, and the
next day the thief takes a whole ad
vertisement to shut up the newspaper.
"No, contiunod tu, "I hope ( am
a newspaper man, and I dread the
time when I shall get old aud stupid
and have to kill my own bright things
which made tho people glad, sold
newspapers aud made Americans know
me."
How Sam lonen Turned NnclnlUI.
Sam Jones. Mayor of Toledo, be
came a socialist after he bad made a
fortune. Ue describes the manner of
his conversion as follows:
"Since 1870 I have been more or
less of an oil producer. In 1893 I
invented some important improve
ments in appliances for producing oil.
I inding manufacturers unwilling to
niako tho article, I went into the man
ufacturing business. This brought
me in contact with the condition of
labor in a city for the tiist time in my
life. As a rule, workers iu the oil
field enjoyed large wagos. I found
mou working iu Toledo for tho frac
tion of a dollar a day. I began to
wonder how it was possible for men
to live on such a small sum of money
in n way becoming citizens of a free
republic. I studied social conditions,
and the inequality and injustice around
inn led me to feel that some protest
xhotild be made agaiust the degrada
tion of my fellow men. I at oneo do
clarod that the so called 'going wages'
rule should not govern the Acme Suc
cor ltod Company. I said, rather,
that the rule that every man is en
titled to such a sharof the product of
his toil as will enable him to live
deceutly aud iu such a way that ho
and his children may bo fitted to bo
citizens of the free republic, should
be the rule governing the wages of
out" establishment." Aiuslco'j Magazine.
The tnlly Tr n.
Not loug ago 11 promiuont citizen of
Now Orleans went ragiug into the
electric-light eompauy's office nnd de
clared that one of their wires had
killed a pot tree ou his premises.
"Tho tree," said be, "has boon
standing thoro for twenty years, and
wo regarded it as one of tho family.
My children played under it when
they were babies, and U is associated
with some of the pleasautest mem
ories of my life. When it began to
die we all mourned, and we could not
imagine what ailed it until yesterday,
wheu I noticed that a wiro was lying
right across a brunch. My poor tree
has bcou eloctrocted, and I feel as if
murder had been done in my bouse."
Considerably moved, tho agent of
the company went to view tho scono
of the tragedy, . and found the tree
still alive, but feeble. Wheu he came
to trace tho wire, he discovered one
end nailed to tho roof of an old barn
and the other twisted around a dis
carded polo. It had beou cut off
for at least two years, but tho oc
casion demanded something, so ho
made the following report:
"Tree alive, wire dead. Wire evi
dently killed by the tree. Pill en
closed." Now Orleans Timos-Deuo-
(Tilt.
I.umluD'a Pint Hallway.'
Tho last remaining relic of tho first
railway in London has just disap
peared from public viow, having fallen
wearily into the waters of the Waudle.
It was in 1801, or nearly a century
ago, that au act was passed authoriz
ing the construction of a railway from
Wandsworth to Croydon, the sleepers
being of stouo and horses the motive
power. Tho aoherae iuoluded a dock
at Waudsworth, and it is the ancient
woodeu crane connected therewith
which has just committed suioide in
despair at the futility of its life.
London Chroniole.
Our Navy Will II lluublatt.
By the end of the year the United
States navy will be twioe as strong as
it was at the beginning of the war with
Soaiu.
FlLirLNO BA'NDIT-KUOS'l.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS CAPTURE A
RENDEZVOUS STORED WITH BOOTY.
1 hp Slory nf Mi Kxptnlt In ilia Maul Wlrl
Tlint lfn4 llff4iti Forwtirilft.l Krnm h
,'lillliplmi n Aiirlrnt Itnhhrr Hmul
llrokuii rt-lentli nf the Lender,
Ali llaha's Forty Thieves shrink in
to insignillcauce when compared with
tho nest of robbers which, according
to War Department dispatches, has
been cleaned out ou the island nf
Negros by Captain li. A. Ityrne aud 11
detachment of the Sixth Infantry.
The story is by all o ld the most
weird that has been forwarded from
oiif newly ueqnired archipelago up to
date, aud, on tho whole, the achieve
menl iu a military reuse is the in jst
remarkable.
It. seems that for several years past
ih Negros there have eiiited bauds of
marauders anil robbers who lived in
the mountains and dulled authority.
Under Spanish rule they exacted
tribute from the haciendas and pueb
los without much interference, and
the prospect that their revenue would
be cut off under the new regime has
not served to make them warm friends
of U10 United Stutes.
The greatest stronghold of those
bandits was at Itobong, where they
wero about 4.V1 strong, and, when
Captain liyrno received orders to at
tack them, they had been for some
timo making life uncertain and prop
erty unsafe in tho Sun Carlota ilis
trict. Indeed, the natives were iu
such terror of them that it was very
difficult to get any information us to
their exact whereabout.
At length, however, everything
necessary was ascertained as to tho
sitniiliou of tho robber town and its
approaches, and it was ulso learned
that the outlaws had au observation
tower aud signal station outhe moun
tain top, from which they could watch
tho movement of troops marching
against them.
"On this account," says Captain
nyrnc, in tolling the story, "I de
cided on n night march of fifteen
miles, though the odds scorned much
against success, part of the wuy being
through trackless jungle. Hut it was
that or nothing, il the buudits were to
bo surprised, aud in that insurer only
rould u blow bo delivcied with fatal
effect.
"I had 103 men. My plan was to
f;o in command of seventy men uinl
Isiid them, if possible, iu such posi
tion on the mountain side as to com
mand loth Salupitau and Uoboug, the
attuok to be on the place where the
.nemy happened to bo strongest at
1 1 10 time. Another column of thirty
fivo men was to march to tho vicinity
of Sauguiuit and hold the mountniu
pass there, by which tho buudits
might escape should they elude my
column.
"At 7.H0 o'elock tho men were noti
fied to be in ranks at H. Fxactly ou
time the column started.
"It bad been raining most of the
afternoon; the night was as dark us
night could be; the rain came down
as though the heavens hud opened, us
it only can iu this country. ' '
"After entering tho juugle the night
was as black as ink; the hand held one
foot from the faco could not be seen.
The rulo was that each man should
hold on to tho man iu his front, uud
each man was required to keep in com
munication with tho 111 nu in his reur
by touch or voice, not speaking louder
than a whisper. In this manner the
men with difficulty w ere kept together.
"In this way, with un occasional
halt to close up the coin mn, we march od
until ;i o'clock a. m., when the guido
informed us that we wero near tho
base of the mouutaiu, which it would
be impossible to climb until daylight.
"We therefore restod until -1 o'clock,
tho day beginning to dawu ut that
hour.
"Al i o'clock we hegnu tho ascent
of tho mountain.
"Steep at first, and then, getting
almost petpeudicular, it ceased to be
marching and was only climbing in
stead, "Foot by foot tho mou pulled them
selves up by grasping roots aud siniill
trees; anything to hold on to or upou
which tho foot oould rest, was takon
advautago of, and, moving in this way
for teuor fifteen yards, all would stop
and rest.
"Wo climbod to the top of tho bill,
and, looking cautiously over, we wore
astonished to find one of tho robbers'
block-houses uud observation towers
not over fifteen or twenty yards away.
Ithad a commanding view of tho vulley
and all the trails iu that vicinity, but
not of tho route wo came.
"Some of the bandits were cooking
breakfast iu perfect ignorance of our
presence. We instantly rushed upon
them, aud, before those in and around
the house had realized what had hap
pened, seven out of the nine had been
shot down, the two who escaped, zig
zaging so quickly in their flight that
they oould not be hit beforo reaching
somo high grass.
"I soon heard continuous firing in
tho direction Lieutenant Nesbilt had
taken, and I started thither. I had
proceeded but a few hundred yards
whon 1 came iu plain viow of the vil
lage, about three hundred yards dis
tant. "It was a beautiful ptaoo for a ban
dit ntronghold, defended by block
houses and stookadeagaiustany onemy
except on the side of tho mountain,
whore it was not expected, appar
ently, that a foe would appear.
"The mountain did not descend
directly to tho village, but its slope
continued to a point some distance be
low the levol of tho town, whore it was
met by the slope of the elevation upou
which tho village was situated.
"At tho lowest point, whore the
slopes from the mountain aud village
would have mot, there was a ohasm o(
suoh depth as in make it -impassablo
except by a single footbridge. A clear,
beautifui stream of water ran through
the chasm.
"I fouud that Lieutenant Nesbitt
had taken an advantageous position,
whioh afforded him the opportunity to
flro into the confused inasa of bandits
with terrible effect and at the same
time to cutoff thoir esoapo from Salu
pitau i'y the only trail iu that direc
tion. "Sorgcant .Bennett soon arrived
with the other men who were able to
travel, making iti all fifty-five tired
soldioro for the work ahead, the re
mainder being too much exhausted to
joiu the command. J Bent Herseaut
Tlcnuolt to the l ight to fire the tillage
and to post himself so that ho could
cutoff tho escape of (he robbers t
the hills 011 that side. I felt quite
snro that they wonl "1 not try to come
in tho direction in whVh they had
first scon my men.
"Shortly after wc opened lire tho
village seemed to be suddenly desert
ed, the riflemen alone remaining al
their posts. The robbers did not,
however, leave tho place but, much
to my surprise, went iuto I bo houses,
which afforded 110 protection excepl
to screen them from view, nnd,
stranger still, the deadly lire of our
men could not dislodge them, as volley
after volley f.ule I to bring: any of
them out.
"It occurred to me Ilia! at this rate
our supply of ammnnttou would be
I'limo exhausted and the village still
remain in possession of a considerable
force of the--enemy, so 1 concluded
they would havo to be attacked at
close quarter un 1 poked out of tho
house..
"My force was too small for me to
retain a reserve under my immediate
command, and I sorely felt tho need
of it now. I could not take the force
from tho hills for 'ear the bandits
would avail themselves of the oppor
tunity to escape, so, having two men
with me, I sent 0110 to each of the de
tachments for fifteen men, and then,
with Trumpeter Steele, ran down the
hill toward the village. In the dead
spaco under the hill tho trumpitei'
sounded the assembly repeatedly, so
the men sent for would kuow whore to
assemble.
"I took tho position of center
skirmisher r the party and directed
Trumpeter Steele to sound tho chargo,
telling tho men that at tho last note 1
was-foiug forward and expected them
to go with mc. .
"At the last nolo of tho trumpet we
sprang up over the bank into tho vil
lage. "This sudden countercharge by tho
men whom the bandits had a few
minutes before probably regarded as
their victims completely demoralized
them. They became panic-stricken
and dispersed, fleeing down the hill,
while our boys poured a deadly lire
into them at closo raugo so long as
they were in sight.
"A notable incident of the fight was
the killing of the chief of the band, a
tall, handsome man, who looked like
u Spuniard.
"He was apparently a pernor; of
great importance aud . iuHuouce: was
equipped with a good Winchester
ritlo, a' revolver aud fine talabong, or
kind of broadsword; he also had u
lino pair of Hold glasses of French
make.
"A man of superb eotunge, ho used
his Winchester from his horse.
"He died as bard as ho fought.
Wheu pierced by two bullets through
the breast ho fell from his horse,
rolled, plunged and scrambled over
the gronud like a chicken beheaded.
"it was now S.:!l) a. m., the affair
having htstod in its various phases fur
two hours and litteen minutes.
"Tho men wore now afforded nu op
portunity to get breakfast, but ex
pressed 11 desire to go elsewhere.
"The stock was driven iu from the
gra.iug ground: chickens, pigs and
goals wero killed to bo brought iu for
food for tho soldiers. (Ireat quanti
ties of rice and various kinds of pro
visions were destroyed, ulso house
hold goods of great variety, the ac
cumulation, probably, of years of
plunder and robbery.
"We burned the town.
"As wo mined out of the moun
tains iuto the valley the command
presented 11 remarkable sight,
"Almost every man corned one or
more of some sui t of bundit weapon
spear, bolo, etc. and the soldier wk'i
did uot havo u buiitjh of chickens, ,
young pig, kid or somo such thing
was tho exception.
"Tho combat rosultod in tho killing
of lot) bandits, according to couut."
Virginia' Applo True.
Near Stuart, iu Patrick County, at
the foot of a spur of the Pino lUdgo
MountuiuH, there is an apple tree
which measures uiuo feet five inches
around. Five foot from tho ground
are four brauche, the largest being
six feet around, the next five foot, tho
smallest four feet fivo inches. The
tree is fifty-two foet high and seveuty
oue feet broad. Although it is about
seventy year old, it bore last year 11
very large crop. It has boon known
to produce 1 ID bushels iu a season,
and, as might be supposed, the soil
iu which it growH is exceedingly rich.
Ou a neighboring furin there is au
upple tree which is eight feel five
inches around. In 1SS0 eighty-fivii
bushels of choice picked apples werii
gathered from it and sold at the appl 1
house for sixty dollar. The tree is
sovouty-livo years old aud is btill
bearing.
Two miles from Stuarl. ou the farm
of J. W. Uobertsou, stand the famous
liobertsou tree, the parent of all the
applo trees of that name iu tho United
States. It bears n large, red apple,
which keeps well, and it has pro
duced at one beuriug eighty-five bush
els, is about eighty yours old and is
still bearing.
A few years ago there was on a farm
near Stuart an apple tree whioh pro
duoed at one bearing 130 bushels. It
shaded ut meridian ninety feet ot
gronud iu diameter. Charlottesville
(Vu.) Progress.
t
The Detlnllion ur a Duclnhiiml.
This is what I be boy wrote about
the daohshuud: "The doehshund is a
dorg, uotwithstaudiu' appeereucis.
Ho has fore logs, two iu frout au'
two behind, au' they ain't on speakin'
terms. I wnnst made a doohshuud
out of a cucumber an' fore matches,
an' it lookt as uaeheral uh life.
Docbshunds is fairly intelligent con
sidorin' tharo shaip. Thare braiuf
iiu' so fur away from thare tales it
bothers them sum to wag the lattur,
I wnnst 1100 a doehshund whowustoc
impashunt to wate til he oood signal
the hole leugth of his body when he
wanted to wag his tale, so he maid it
up with his tale that when he wanted
it to wag he wood shake his rito ear,
an' whon the tale soen it shake it
would wag. Hut as fur me, gimme a
bull pup with a paddygroe." Satur
day Fveuing Post.
Uoo'l Wrought by iooil Mtnnin,
To smile, to bow, to lift the hut, tc
beg pardon, to say "thank you," cost
nothing. No one will ever know the
vast good that these words aud simi
lar ones have aoooinDlished
1 (5001) U0ADS NOTE J
Nenl il Metier II I Til W4.V.
EYF.HV owner of au automobile
wants good roads so that ho
may diivo his horseless car
riage over them. He i not
selfish in this. The man with the boo
the farmer wanls good road so
that ho may bring hi. produce to mar
ket nnd his family and himself to the
neighboring town with a les expeudi1
ture of time, wear nnl tear, and
trouble. In sections of the country
where the farmer has good romls he
would not lose tnem for more than
their cost and go back to tho old cvh
torn of having to haul through the mud
and over the stones. Hi' finds that
tho valno of his properly is inoreaed.
aud he can haul two yes, three--times
a greater load in less time to
market, and that ho is richer and bel
ter because of the good road which con
nects his property with tho neighbor
ing town. In Furopo the highway
was built before the railway. It wa
their only means of communication
until within the last sixty years. Af
terward the railway came, and their
system of highways was found so use
ful that they have been kept, up, and,
indeed, improved.
It has been claimed that We do not
need better highways because of our
excellent system of railways. This is
absurd. Every pound of freight which
is carried by tho railways, except such
as is loaded at factories, quarries,
mines, etc., at side tracks, must first
bo carriod over our highways. Fvery
passenger who travels on tho railway
must, to reach 'tho railway, first pass
over some portion of tho highways. It
cau safely be said that the highways
of this country carry more passenger
and more freight than tho railways,
but of course for a shorter distance.
General Hoy Stono wheu he wasKu-giueer-in-Chief
of the Department of
Agrioulturc, said that tho annual cost
of hauling iu this country over the
highways was $!)II,-Hl,rti5. General
Stouo estimated that nearly two-thirds
of this vast expenditure is chargeable
to tho bad condition of tho roads.
Let us sec what our neighboring
States hr.vo done to improve their high
ways. Several of thorn in the past few
years have passed good roads laws.
The following data of the amount h'
spent by tho States aud comities un
der their good roads' law, and the
miles of road improved is made up
from returns of the authorities iu the
different States named:
To. .Miles. Amount.
Mass linn. 31. Is.lj.
New .lMtMy..l,.. :). IH.I'.I.
Connecticut. Do:. :!l, tsyj
i70;,' ?.1,l:l7.IMM'
l'2'.l!, -1. 117,-17-;
jmi i.2.i,niMi
yon -i'i,.-)7 j,its
How does the grcnl Umpire Stale
of New Yorl compare with her sister
States in this matter? Something
over two years ago the Higbec-Arni-strong
bill for improving the high
ways of this . State becamo a law.
Under it. the Legislature ha made
two appropriations of $.30,000 each.
Tho Slate Engineer's office bus ad
vised me that up to October 1, 18!l'.i,
the State and counties had expended
:$S8,0:12 under this lun, and they had
iiompleted seven uud a half miles of
road, and had seventeen miles in pro
cess of construction. lie reports
ninco the Higboo-Armstrong bill went
into effect bo 1ms received 1 li 1 peti
tions for the improvement of high
ways, aggregating about t!25 miles; in
other words, the counties and local
people stand ready to pay their hall'
of tho cost of iii" miles of road, and
all that remains i for tho Stnto to
appropriate their half under tho pro
visions of the lligbee-Armstrong bill.
It bus been estimated that there i
soraeiuiiig more man i,iiiiii,tiiMi a
year spent in the State of New York
in repairing the highways, Tho usnal
method of repairing roads is to plow
up a ditch aud scrape the silt, grass
nnd roots which uro there up on the
road. Tho flist time there is a hard
rain much of this goes back into the
ditch and a very large part of this an
nual expenditure of over $3,000, 000 is
simply money thrown away.
What docs the State propose to do
for good roads? They nro little arteries
which bring the blood of trado to the
ruilways aud the cauals. If those
arteries are poor and if tho circula
tion of trado is sluggish the useful
ness of great railways aud great canal
systems of tho Stuto are greatly im
paired. Speoch made iu Nov York
by Albert It. Shatliu-k, Chairman ot
the Committee on Good Bonds ot thn
Automobile Club of America.
Thn Need nl IJouil ItoniU.
Good roads uro a business necessity,
not only to tho farmer, but to eveiy
municipality, industry and enterprise,
and till would be equally benefited by
improved highways. This proposi
tion is not without supporting cvi
donee, which on 11 be accumulated ir
abundance. Tho fanner who must
haul to a distant market the product)
of his acres finds that such truusporta
lion is excessively expensive iu time
uud labor involved and in the main
tenanco of vehicles and beasts ol
burden. All this increases the sellinp
cost of tho product, without oonferriug
nny compensating benefit upon any
body, Consnmera everywhere arc
thus compelled to pay a heavy tine
for neglect of road improvement. On
the contrary, if the public road 1
should bo made solid, smooth aud ol
easy grade hunts from tho farm to the
preforred market would bo rendered
of shorter duration and physically
less difficult and the stock and vehicle
account would bo shortened.
These facts are so obvious that they
ought to appeal forcefully to overt
progressive citinou. Philudolphil
Itoeord.
The llmul Inquiry llureini.
For several years the Department o
Agrioulturo has maintained au. ollluu
of road iuquiry, upon which devolved
the duty of circulating uud oollectiue.
information regarding the good roadt
movement iu this country. Tho oftlot
has had only a small appropriation; so
small, in faot, that contributions foi
its Btipport have had to be made bj
those iuterested iu its maintenance.
ArEeiillii Oelltim IiitereMutl,
Tho appoarsuco of the automobili
in lltienos Ayres has been the siguul
for a good roads agitatiou throughout
the Argentine Hopublio. The Argen
tine Touring Club has boon organized,
and roads exclusively reserved for bi
cyoles and light automobiles are al
ready in course of construction.
(iATHERING KIIBBEK.
HOW THE MILKY SAP IS COLLECTED.
nie Kmplnymeni to industrious Colo
le on ihe Vrn Itlfer As Sum
from Ih I nlle.l state Mteamer Wil
mington B
Hy studying on a map of Brazil you
can see that the Para river extends
almost due west, south of the Island
of Mara Jo, to n network of narrow
streams, known as the Passes, which
onnect the Para with the Amazon.
These numerous t-hnnnds are from 70
to ,"i0 yarn's In width, and some of
them are navigable for vessels of 18
to JO feet draught. These passes are
Interesting enough to those traversing
them In small craft, hut to tho officers
onl sailors of such steamers as the
I nitect States ship Wilmington they
are trebly so. At night fherp is littlo
to arrest the attention other than tho
weird, tlark shapes of tho banks,
which ever seem rinse aboard. Tho
land firing low anil flat, and the trees
near the water's eilgc. It seems as It
the ship has forsaken her natural cle
ment nnd IsYunnlng overland on In
visible wheels. When daylight comes
In a sudilen hurst of light like Uie un
heralded flash of the theater's illumi
nation, there Is revealed on each side)
of tho narrow channel 'ho forest's
solid wall, exposing to view a pano
rama of overhanging vines, of creep
ers and foliage and branches brilliant
with the multitudinous hues of tropi
cal vegetation. There Is a strange
rhatterlng of animal life and a whirr
of winged Insects. Tho discordant
cries of myriad parrots echo frotr the
trees. There is human life, too. lv.'re
and there embowered In the Junglo
can bp seen littlo wooden huts, with
thatched roofs nnd sides open to the
cooling winds. These are the houses
of the rubber gatherers, who labor day
In antl day out collecting the milky
sap of tho Hevea hrasillensls. ThU
nihlier gathering Is interesting, and
tho Wilmington's crpw watch curious
ly as the wintll.tR channel reveal.t lit
tle groups of natives at work along
the eilge of the stream. Those on
board who have read the descriptions
tell others of the manner In which tho
half-naked Indians labor, of how each
family works what is called at "es
Iraihi," or street, a path through the
forest, which embraces- as many rub
ber trees us can he conveniently tend
ed, of how these trees are slit with a
machete and a cup fitted In the cut to
catch the sap, nnd of the manner in
which the ownes makes his daily
round and brings to his hut tho col
.cctcil juice. There Is also interest
111 the description of Its next stage,
when the sap Is illpppil up by a stick
ami revolved over a smoky flro. The
smoke causes earh layer to congulato
on the Ft irk. and when the desired
amount Is formed it is removed and
made ready for shipment. These balls
of crude rubbpr usually weigh In the
neighborhood of twenty-five pounds,
II nil tire of a dark, lustrous hue. It
wus a novel experience, this visit of
the Wilmington's crow to the homo
of the rubber gatherers, nnd tho clos
est attention was paid to the over
changing scenery ns the white cruiser
steamed tdowly along through the
Passes. Ainsloe's Magazine.
An Inherlteil Oplntnii.
Mrs. (lay Well, suppose I was a co
quette! There's 110 great harm In a
pirl flirt lug a little before she's mar
ried. The Colonel Do yon teach j-our
daughter that? Mrs. Gay Why, no;
It Isn't necessary! Puck.
MARKETS.
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food to Prims 14 5I ).'0'
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