Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1901 — Page 20

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUENAL, SUNDAY, I.IARCH 31, 101.

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SHINING STORE OF GEMS

rt:v sovniu:ir;xs nvnit rossr:ssi:u SICH A VAST UIA.MITV. Finest li'ljr Known-A XI"K (Jlven Ilor Allien n Cllrl ly Prince Albert -Hare fiimeoH. London Gentlewoman. Few sovereigns h.ivo cvrr po.r?cJ such a "hininj tcre" of gms as Queen Victoria, for, though the crown jewels have bct n shorn of their t-plcndor by the quantity cedcl to Hanover, and now in tho pos--t'5i:-n of the Duke of Cumberland, a vast number of precious stones remain anil have b;-n added to at different periods by her Majesty's long rcin by magnificent presents, which may rather be called tribute, from the Kast, and by such quantities of personal souvenirs that probably even their royal owner had lost count of them. A great many have been transferred by the Queen to her own children and grandchildren, but such gifts are entirely private, and the woild seldom hears anything about them. There Is, it Is said, among the private apartments at Windsor a strong room, or, rathei, department, called "the wardrobe," in which quantities of keep.-akes and souvenirs ire stored, but though catalogued fuid duly docketed, only those who are in charge really know anything about them. The accumulations of over sixty years must be stupendous. Queen Charlotte, the consort of George III, Queen Victoria's grandmother, had magnificent jewels, many of which remain in the royal family or have reverted to It, though others are scattered. She. poor lady, did not get a great deal of satisfaction out of them, though they were, so to speak, dangled betöre her when she was chosen to be the biide of the young King of Kngland, to whom she proved such a faithful wife. She herself said they were the "pleasure of a week, a fortnight at xr.ost. ar.d to return no moie." Queen Charlotte's pearls alone were valued at 100,CCJ. and part of them went to Hanover, left to her son. the Duke of Cumberland, in her will. The King spent JLGWiO on jewels for her, and she bequeathed them back to him or, failing him, as heirlooms to the house of Hanover. Then in 17'i'J the Nabob of Arcot sent over a box or "bulse" of diamonds of Tabulous value to King George, and he handed most of them to his Queen, who at her death left them to her four daughters, making the Queen Dowager of W'urtemberg an exception, though she directed that a very line set of garnets and diamonds should be sent to her. The splendor of Queen Charlotte's iianionds on st.ite occasions was almost barbaric, and it is on record that in addition to those disposed about her small person she sometimes carried a nosegay of jewels with one huge diamond resplendent on the top. Till: CROWN OF ENGLAND. The crown of England, specially made for her ilajesty in 13S by Messrs. Itundell & Bridge, the then famous court jewelers, has a large sapphire in the center, originally bought for the crown :f George IV. In the front, set in the cer.ter of a diamond Maltese cross, is the tii-t ruby known. It is believed to have belonged to a potentate of Central Asia centuries ngo in the dim past, and somehow it got info the hands of an Abyssinian prince. It was next heard of as worn by a Moorish monarch at Granada, where it excited the envy of Pedro the Cruel of Castile, who asked the great Moor to viit him. a visit from ivhh.h he never returned to the halls of 'Jranada. for Pedro seized him and compassed his murder, tearing the great ruby Irom his turban. Tradition asserts that Fcdro gave it to the Black Prince, who was in Spain a good deal, and. in the internecine skirmishes of the time, laid tho foundation of the malady that shortened his lite. He is said to have worn the ruby at the battle of Najarn In 13J7. and it was Worn by Henry V in his helmet at Aglncourt. The cross on th summit conta'ns th rose-cut "inestimable" sapphire that vras once set in the famous ring of KdWard the Confessor, so long treasured at his shrink, and the heritage of which gave his sueecssors the power of blessing cramp rings. At the first drawing room Princess Victoria attended, in February, she wore a beautiful pearl necklet and a diamond clasp in her hair, and at her marriage she wore splendid diamond earrings and a necklace tw match, and the diamond brooch that Prince Albert had brought her as si wedding present. On several occasions In this early part of her reign she wore a perfect blaze of .diamonds as stomacher or breastplate, and when she dissolved Parliament after her accession, in addition to an ornament of this nature, a j,reat diamond star Hashed on her neck, and on her head was a diamond tiara. At the famous Plantagenet ball, over and above other Jewels, she hrul on a single diamond worth Her Majesty's jewel cases have always been well furnished with these stones, although the diamond bows she had on at her coronation, which were valued at 100,(A0, were destined to revert to Hanover. Of precious rings Qmrn Victoria had a great number. A pathetic interest attaches to the little enamel circlet with a single diamond in It that Prince Albert gave her when they were boy and girl together, and he and his brother came to England to visit their aunt, the Duchess of Kent, and brightened the life of the little princess, their cousin, who was a lonely child, by their merry society and boyish pranks. H. r engagement ring was a beautiful serpent of emeralds, and hh- always wore it, as well as the historic ruby and diamond ring that was the outward and visible sign of her queendem, being put on h-r finger at the coronation, and causing her a gnat deal of pain, because a mistake had been made in the measurement and It was too small. This was snecdüy r"iru II I, and h-he was never without it. She also wore several memorial rings. TWO HIGHLY PllI.I'D PINGS. Two rings that the Queen prized very highly were presented to her by the late Mr. Fortnum, of Hill House, Stanniorc, who was such an cntlui: lasttc collector and loft no less than S) valuable and historic rings to the Ashmolean Museum. At the jubilee of 1 V!T he sent her the diamond sign.t of Queen llenrbtti Maria, and a few yejrs ago sh. accepted from hhn a gold and sapphire signet ring that had belonged to Mary Stu.irt, the wife of William HI. Her late Ma.1e.-ty also pos ssed the signet ring of Charles T. which I not at all loo large for a man's little finger, though it has the royal arm minutely engraved on a hteel shield and the lion ar.d unicorn erquisltely modeled in the same metal, reclining on the shoulders of a massive goi I ring. Another of her treasures was the eignet ring made for Charit.- 11 when Prince of Wales, which had the ostrich rlumes between-the letters C. P. cleanly and deeply cut on a tab!? diamond, onehalf by three-eighths inch In size, formed Into a heart-shaped, seven-sided shle'l. The stone Is lustrous, but slightly tinned with yellow. The back of the Ting is ennmtled with a bow and quiver en saltlre. These are all relics of the Queen's Stuart arioetors, and she hud also som, fine jewelry that belonged to Queen Anne. A very curious and lmrnensel5- valuable ring Is an extremely fine ruby, half an inch in diameter and of splendid quality. It is engraved with a profile head of Louis XII of Franc, and Inside It Is engraved "Loys Nil, 151V so it was probably a memorial ring and a fine specimen of Quattra Cento werk. The noted Koh-I-nor i a personal Jewel, and the Queen woo It. set as a brooch, on special occasions. Its history can be traced back to 7.) years, and In India it had the reputation of bringing ill luck and downright disaster. When it became the Queen's property it was uncut, but was committed to Messrs. Coster, of Amsterdam, to be cut and polished. In doing this many portion were cut away, but It vris made marvelously brilliant. It w:i" l!levrfl that her -Majesty inten.lcl to arid the "Mountain of L!gnt" to the crown j-wels. A very antique brooch in the collection is an "eye-onyx." double c e-1 and brightly colored ar.d presenting tne most Ftriklng' r semblance to the ye of some nr.lmal. It Is supposed to have been worn fas- a prophylr ctlc. The, royal collection of rumens Is almost r-rlceless and gains frs!i irterot from the fart that cameos are again fashionable, r.fter being In retirement lor at hast forty years. A very 11::- one of Henry VIH la executed In fiat relief n a beautiful sardonyx, the hoad standing out in pearly white on the itch brown background. Another cameo shown hi fuil face, with that o! the baby pririce, his r.nly son. who afterward btcame UdwarJ VI. The little face

has a cap round It. and the stone Is a vry large oval nlcolo. the back of which Is hollowed out In intaglio so as to correspond with the relief on the surface. This curious expedient is characteristic of the cameo cutting of the period. A profile head of Francis I on a yellow and white onyx forms the center of a superb enameled pendant for a neck chain and Is surrounded with breloques set with cameos in colored stones pendant from it by short gold chains. The best of them Is a veiled head of Ceres on a large and fine-colored turquoise. Cameo portraits of Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots and a Duchess of Parma are very curious. A very large and perfect sardonyx shows a bust of Queen Elizabeth, standing o.at in pure white. It shows the details of her hair and headdress, and the jewelry she wore, and the face Is lifelike. A pendant to It shows a portrait of Philip II of Spain, and was possibly sent as a love token by that grim suitor. It Is supposed to be the work of his court engraver. Jacopo da Trezzo. A very charming delicate cameo portrait Is that of Clementina Sobieskl. the Polish wife of the old pretender. This Is a very interesting relic. There are many other cameos, but they are almost plaques, and only those described can by any possibility ever have been worn as personal ornaments. The Queen Is said to have possessed some extremely fine opals and to be quite devoid of superstition concerning thrm. She often made presents of these stones, and no sinister results followed her beautiful gifts. AU AMZKICAN NEW ZEALAND.

Itndic.il Political Theorie on the I'rofirramiiip In IIa wall. Honolulu Letter In New York Post. The Territory of Hawaii promises to command the attention of the United States, perhaps of a large part of the outside world, as a small American New Zealand in the mid-Pacific. In no American Territory 'or State have so many of tho so-called advanced political notions been put Into practical experiment as the present Hawaiian Legislature the first under American rule seems likely to incorporate in the laws of Hawaii. Single tax, proportional representation, the government liquor-dispensary system, municipal charters made after the models of municipal-charter leagues and supposed to represent the best theories yet developed, and a law rigidly quarantining the whole Territory against consumptives and all ot'her persons afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases, are among the pet measures of the ruling party in tho Legislature of Hawaii. The Legislature is In many respects a very remarkable body. It is the result of the first election held in American territory beyond the borders of our continent. A very large proportion of the men chosen in this American election on American soil are men who bitterly opposed the union of Hawaii with the United States, as did Hawaii's delegate to Congress, Robert W. Wilcox. These men were elected under the leadership of Wilcox and other Hawaiians who, during the campaign just ended, attacked with all their powers of native oratory every ono who helped to bring about annexation. In some cases the speakers even went so far as to tell their Ignorant and credulous hearer.? that the the success of Wilcox and tho home-rule party might bring about withdrawal of the United States and restoration of ex-Queen Liliuokalani. Some of the legislators do not speak English. A majority have never traveled beyond the Hawaiian islands, and have little Conception of American institutions. Some, judging by their campaign utterances, are in this American Legislature with "Down with the haoll (white)" as their strongest sentiment. These men are to make law -for whites and natives alike, and under tho guidance of a few intelligent leaders of rather socialistic tendencies they have united upon some oi the most prominent of the many millennium-bringing reforms that are being discussed in America to-day. The result of the deliberations of such a body, with its leaven of white men strongly opposed to the more radical schemes, but in a minority, Is an interesting subject to the wholo country, while in Honolulu it is a matter of absorbing concern. Already the opposing Republicans and some o the Democrats are prepared to struggle to the last against some of the proposed measures already mentioned, as well as against others of a more purely local application. The commercial interests will leave no stone unturned to stop an award of JXO.OoO to the ex-Queen, to the support of which measure most of the Independents are pledged. Pusiness interests will fight equally hard, though, perhaps, unsuccessfully, against the payment of a vast aggregate of claims growing out of the destruction of Honolulu's Chinatown a year ago by a fire started under the direction of the Hoard of Health to destroy a building condemned because of a case of plague beneath its roof. The liquor interests are prepared to do all they can against the dispensary law. The contests wiu not end on the floor of the House. Some of the measures will probably be passed over Governor Dole's vetoes. Then there will be a campaign in the courts. The proceedings of the. Legislature may be attacked as illegal because some of the members cannot speak English and must perforce spoak In Hawaiian and have addresses in English translated to them, while the organic act by which Congress provided for a territorial government for Hawaii declares that the "proceedings" of tho Legislature shall be in the English language. One of the leading Honolulu papers, representing the Dole party, has already given notice that this will be clone if tho Independents Insist upon "looting the treasury," as their appropriations for the ex-Queen and Chinatown lire claims are called. The single-tax system would revolutionize taxation throughout the islands, as it would In any otler American community. It woidd throw almost the whole burden of taxation on the sugar interests. On every island of tho Hawaiian group nearly all the cultivated land Is owned by the sugar plantations. A Hngle plantation on one of the Islands covers Grt.O'V) acres. In Hawaii sugar interests are paramount. They dominate all commerce. The passage of a single-tax law would bo a unique example of a legislature opposing capital tmltid as capital Is united in few. If any, other places in the world and this by legislators of a race whose past history in such affairs fairly reeks with palpable bribery. At the start, however, there artgrave doubts about the passage of single trx. The dispensary law appears almost sure to pars. There is very good authority for the statement that it Is approved by Governor Dole. Its adherents claim that they can pass It over a veto if necessary. The system proposed is that of South Carolina with some modifications. Liquor is to be sold only at government stores or dispensaries. In sealed packages, which may not be opened where sold; the contents are not to be drunk in any publlo place; the dispensaries are not to supply the same man twice in one day. and are not to sell to habitual drunkards at all; and. finally, the location of dispensaries is to be a matter of local option the Territory is to be divided Into districts, each of which shall decide by vote whether It wants a dispensary or r.ot. and the quotation can be raised for special balloting at any time. In addition to tho measures spoken of. the Independents and some Democrats and Republicans will work. In the faces of very vigorous oposltlon, fn provide for the Incorporation of Honlulu and Hllo as municipalities with mddel charters. Sen fnrera. The traitors that hall from the CJjrde. And the whalers that will from Dumlee, Put forth In their aean on top of tho tld To grather the srlst of th sa. To ply In the Janes of the se. Tiy fairway and channel and sound. Hy shoal and deep water they go, Gues?lnsr the course by the feel of the ground. Or chasln the drift of th flo Nor'west. In the track of the flo. And we Fteer them to harbor a f ir, . At hazard we win thm atroad. When the coral 1 furrowed by keels on the bar, Ar.d the a-floor I Fwcrt by the Lord, The anchorage dredged by the Lord. To the placid, palm-sklcted bayou. To coaMJ that are drca: and forlorn. We follow the couret the admiral drew In the !iy when they dnubld the Horn, When Drake lost a month ort the Horn. And fcat of thf cargo ye brlnjc For the venture ye bore overseas? What of the trc;iure ye put forth to wrlnc From the chine of til low and breeze? In rdte of the billow and breeze. Oh, we enrry the keys of the earth. And the password of K:nr-lre we lar! Wherever the beaches h !d iiTunil: of Worth We 'stabil. "heil ycur sovereignty thtre. Vj planted your flag over tho re. An! the guerdon for blood we have shed? The rlory that haloes your narr.e? Oh, a firave where the Hrsy Is ttr.i overhead. An t aftermath trlHite of f.tme, A chip from the flotsam of fm. I'erclval Gibbon. n Lcndvn Spectator.

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FREDDY'S NITROGLYCERIN IIU DMANK A QÜAHT OF IT WD THEN WAS t.VLLLÜ AWAY FltOM HOJli:. llemniknble Story Told in the Oil HxeliaiiKe by n Ilrokvr to un Innocent Younu Xew Yorker. New York Times. The big bell of the Oil Exchange at Oil City, Pa., interrupting with its brass note the unfinished business of the day, scattered the ringside. But instead of hurrying off for suburban or out-of-town homes the brokers gathered about the windows, apparently awaiting some event of which they had whispered and whose shadow had been discerned in the shadowless room by those skilled In reading the signs of such things. The man who had been trying with the full vigor of sound lungs to sell "three for " crossed to one whose white hair was In contrast to his youthful and sad face. "Harvey," he asked, "what's Frank Bo wen up to now? "Oh, . It's his same little game." Harvey replied. "A practical joke. You see, there's a young writer visiting him from the wicked Isle of Manhattan. He's confided in Frank In an unguarded moment that he thinks there's miles of unwritten history and romance kicking about the oil regions and that he is going to write it. So Frank told him that the exchange was the best place to get it. The boys commonly talk it after business hours. So Frank's brought him here to get some unwritten romance." "Unwritten romance?" "Unwritten romance the romance of the cil regions. We'll give it to him at first hand." The two joined the others about Fraidc Bowen and his pale young guest from the "wild isle of Manhattan." The face of the host was grave. Ho might have been assisting at a funeral. For a timo the talkwas general. Finally some one spoke of the decrease In the manufacturing of nitroglycerin for the shooting of oil wells. Harvey Rathbun seized the remark as a longawaited cue. "Did I ever tell you fellows of how little Freddy Blake swallowed a quart of nitroglycerin and was called shortly afterward to his heavenly home?" he asked, with a deep and wicked look at Bowen. The eye of tho stranger glittered. He was now to hear unwritten history. Furtively he prepared his cuffs to serve as notebooks. "Drive ahead, Harvey," chorused the group. Slowly and sadly Harvey began: "It was long in the eighties, some time when the Ball lease opened up big. You remember the time, Frank. They put down a test well and got a big strike of oil. You know"he explained to the stranger "after a well has been drilled to the bottom down through the earth, they pour many quarts of the powerful explosive nctroglycerin down into the bottom and explode it. This prepares the well for production. PRELIMINARY FACTS. "Well, as the Ball lease opened big, they decided to have a shooter on the ground all the time, so that the wells could be shot, as they call It, when they were nnlshed with as little loss cf time as possible. John Blake was a well shooter. To him tho manager of the lease went with a liberal proposition that he live on the lease. Blake hesitated. " 'You see,' he said, 'we well shooters are liable to be blown into hell at any moment, and I don't want to bo separated from my family any more than is absolutely necessary. If you'll put up a shanty on the lease for the ole woman I'll Co lt. "Blake was a good man one of the best in the business so the manager didn't hesitate. " 'Done,' he cried. "That's how little Freddy came to live on the Ball lease. For a time all went well with the Blake family. Little Freddy played about the lease enjoying his country living. Ho was a re.M knowing little cuss, and seemed greatly Interested in his father's dangerous calling. Why, the little fellow would dig holes in tho ground and shoot 'em with his fire crackers. " 'Me wants to bo a well shooter, like papa,' he would say. , One fine morning- Blake had a number of wells to nhoot. For this he had big quantities of the explosive stored on the place. He had shot a couple of wells and was kneeling at a wellside lowering the tin tubeful into the hole, when a heavy explosion occurred away down on the other end of the lease. Blake was alarmed. So much of the stuff was about that he feared a big accident. He started off, forgetting a can that was half full that he left on the derrick Moor. Hlake found that the explosion was nothing but some nearly empty cans in the woods, and was returning to the well he had been working on when he &aw Freddy approaching. " 'Me thirsty.' Blake heard him say as he raised to his lips the can his father had left there. "Blake shouted, but Freddy didn't seem to hear. When his agonized father got up to tho we.ll Freddy had drained the can of Its nitroglycerin. "'Me want to shoot a well, papa,' he lisped. " 'You've done it now, Freddy.' his father groaned, 'you'ie a living torpedo.' "Blake picked up his son and started on a run for his shanty. Then, realizing that the slightest jar would set his son off into bits, he stopped. Freddy wriggled in his arms. " 'Mo want to shoot a well, papa,' he repeated. "'Bo still!' roared Blake. 'My son. you're a living torpedo, and the slightest Jar will explode you.' and it was true what he said. "At Inst Blake got to his shanty. How ho got there he never knew. '"Freddy's swallowed a pint of nitroglycerin,' he told his wife. '?he reached for a long stick that to 1 reddy stood for moral suasion. "'You wicked boy!' she cried. 'I've a' uig minu to wmp you hard. '"Ff)r God's sake, do nothing of the ilnd! shouted Blake. 'He'll explode If you cio. TWO UNCERTAIN THINGS. "By this timo tho news of Freddy's condition had spread all over the lease. The men there gathered at a safe distance from Blake's shantj'. They wanted to show their sympathy, but they didn't dare venturo on anything more than a distant expression of it. " 'You see, it's this way,' explained ono of them. 'Nitro is unsartin stuff, a small boy is unsartain. but the two of them together are unsartain.' "However, they wer willing to telephone to Oil City for a physician from the leae office, and this they did. 'A stomach pump and a physician, was their message. While poor Blake and his wife were waiting for the uoetor they had great trouble in keeping Freddy still. " 'Me wants to shoot a well,' he kept saying. "Finally his father promised that he should if he would only keep quiet and lie still. After that he lay quite still with an angel's smile on his lips. Out on the grass before the shanty they carried him to wait for the doctor. "After an eternity of anxiety the doctor drove up in his light rig. He was a youngster Just out of the school. He was one of those young fellows that pride themselves on their unvarying politeness to everybody. So he was smiling sweetly as he came toward the sad little group under the trees. " 'What can I do for you to-dav? he aid to Mr. Blake, his hat in his hand and an Instrument cape in the other. They had told him to bring a stomach pumn and nothing else, so he didn't know what was coming. "Blake explained the condition of things ir a few well-chosen words, as the newspapers say. The smile was still on the doctor's face when he finished, but It was a rigid smile. It was frozen stiff. For a moment everybody stood still as death. The mother bending over her child, the father in the background, and the doctor full In front, with the drillers away back, pcekln? out from behind trees. Suddenly a wid yell broke up the picture. It came from the young doctor. One hand dropped his hat. the other the instrument case. To his horse he bolced. He didn't wait to unhitch. The terrlt'.c Mow he gave the horse tore loose the light hitchlngs, and away he went. The hill sloped at a sharp angle, but he d'dn't m!r.d that. Down It he tore. Occasionally a side wheel would crawl up

one side of a stump and then down the other, but the doctor didn't stop. They eay he passed the exchange here goin at a 2:10 clip. . "Coward!" said Blake, alone in the woods behind. Then he picked up a stomach pump from the case. After some experiments he was able to work It from his knowledge of oil pumps. Freddy was promised three wells to shoot, and he lay still as Blake carefully pumped every drop of the dangerous explosive-ftom the boy's stomach. It was finished. - , " 'There, my boy won't be an Anarchist, said Blake, tossing the pump aside. "It hit a stone sharply. Some few drops of the dangerous stuff had clung to the piston or sucker rod of the pump. There was a sharp and-violent explosion. Little Freddy lay quite still. The pump head had passed through his little body. Poor little Freddy, he's an angel now." There was absolute silence In the group of brokers for a time. "Poor little Freddy!" said one after the other, softly. Then somebody laughed. CA2JTEEN NOT MISSED.

Commnniler of One Post Seen Xo Difference Since Its Abolition. St. Paul Pioneer Press. "During an experience of forty years In the army," said yesterday Maj. P. Henry Ray, of the Eighth Infantry, commandant at Fort Snelling, "the character of the enlisted men has never been so good as it is at present." This opinion was advanced in connection" with some comments that Major Ray was making upon the effect of the recent law abolishing the army canteen. "Yes," declared the major, "the character of our men is so good now that the new law has had practically no effect at Snelling. There is no more drunkenness among my men and no less, for there never was very much. Among the 200 men at the post I don't believe you could find a single habitual drunkard. That means a great deal. It means that there isn't 10 per cent, as much drunkenness in the ranks as there was a dozen or fifteen years ago. "For a long time past we've been weeding out the drunkards and the bad characters. The law provides that after a man has been punished five times by a summary court his case may be referred to a general court, and that general court has the power to recommend his dishonorable discharge. And this procedure has been generally adopted of late years' to purify the service. "Why, you can Judge how false is the general Impression that all soldiers are drinking men when I tell you that for a considerable period before our post canteen was closed the daily reeclpts from the sale of beer didn't average more than 53, and that divided among 200 men. The outside saloons are welcome to this sum. I don't think It will make 'em rich very fast. "But for my part I'm glad the canteen is abolished. The profits from the sale of beer, you know, went towards buying things for the soldiers' mess. Thus the canteen was particularly bad for young recruits. Perhaps they had never been In the habit of drinking at all. But the older soldiers would bring them around and say, 'Now, understand that the more beer you drink the .more food you'll have' to eat.' That, of course, wasn't true as regards the quantity of food. Because no nation In the world feeds its soldiers as generously as we ilo. The quantity and variety of a soldier's food has been increased of recent years. But I never saw a time when a careful captain couldn't give his men abundance and save 10 or 15 per cent, right along. "Yes, I think the canteen ought to have been abolished. For if the men needed tne extra food the Nation was rich enough to provide that food without making thi men drink beer. And If beer Itself was necessary it should have been served out as part of the regular ration, .if beer wasn't necessary It should have been kept out of the post entirely. "Another difficulty was that with the canteen was consolidated the post exchange, where tobacco and miscellaneous articles were sold at cost. But there'.was only one exchange, and it was some distance from the company rooms. No other exchanges were permitted. But now each of my companies has its own exchange. Here tobacco and small luxuries are sold In the sa ne building in which the men sleep. They have a comfortable little club right at home ard they are under no temptation to stay down town." MILHS'S TIF.It DAYS. The Chance Mcetlnsr in isl Which Drew Hint Into the Army. Saturday Evening Pest. General Nelson A. Mlles's Introduction Into the military atmosphere was in Boston, very early In 1SC1, the winter immediately preceding the outbreak of the civil war. Mr. Thomas Huddleston. a wellknown and popular member of the militia organization known, as the Boston Light Infantry, or more familiurly as the "Tigers." was on his way to the drillroom in Boyleston Hall one evening when he was accosted by a young man, a clerk In a local store, who asked klm where he was bound. Mr. Huddleston answered that he was on his way to an hour's drill with his company. The young man Joined him and walked along a way, discussing the stormy appearance of the political skies anl tho dire posslblltles rf the next few months. "I have no doubt It would do me gool to Join such a company as yours." said he presently. "If It were only for the regular exercise It would be worth my while. But yon fellows are very Felect I don't know that I could get in If I tried." "I'll answer for that," responded Huddleston warmly. "Come along with me and we'll see how far my word goes with the bovs.' There was no doubt of Huddleston's popularity. He had merely to propose the name of his young acquaintance, and the company suspended their usual rule, voted the newcomer in as a member and stood him up In the awkward squad with a musket In his hand. Night after night the latest recruit came, to the drills and worked as If his heart were In it. Everybody noticed his wonderful quickness at learning tho manual and praised him. Presently he dropped out as suddenly as he had entered the organization. His associates noticed his absence and could not account for it. They twitted Huddleston about It, declaring that his protege had got sick of the task of drilling. Huddleston defended tho absentee manfully. "I'll answer for my man," declared Huddleston. "Heil be at the front before the rest of us are there. If I'm any Judge." Sure enough, a few feeks later, he mt his friend In the street clad in a bright new uniform. The young man stopped him. to shake hands, and, taking from his pocket a commission as lieutenant just Issued to him by the Governor of Massachusetts, said quietly: "You see. I've profited by that training you gave me. If I ever amount to anything I shall owe It to- our chance encounter that night, In Washington street." Sixteen years later It was the privilege of the toastmaster at a reunion dinner of the survivors of the old Light Infantry to propose the health of "our grand old comrade, Tom Huddleston, and his young Tiger recruit. Colonel Nelson A. Miles, of the Fifth United States Infantry." THE CULOUED ItAEV. The Phenomenon Recently Witnessed in Parts of Europe. New York Sun. The colored rain that fell a few days ago In various parts of G?rmany, the same phenomenon having been observed several days earlier in Italy, is. of course, ascribed by scientific men to the presence of dust in the air whose particles, commingling with the rain elrops. destroyed their limpidity. This dust may have been carried for great distances. It Is thought, for example, that the colored rain in southern Italy may be due to dust blown across the Mediterranean from the Sahara; and some of the scientific men of Hamburg believe that the phenomenon observed in various parts of Germany may be due to a vedcanlc eruption In Iceland. The "muddy rains" that are sometimes observed have often been attributed to the diffusion of volcanic ashes through the atmosphere, carried perhaps many hundreds of miles from the place of the eruption. Perhaps we do not commonly appreciate what an active agent the wind is In the removal of matter from one place to another unless this activity takes the form of a hurricane, or tornado. Several years ago a considerable shower of barley fell from the heavens In a district of southern Spiin. The source whence the barley came was a mystery till It was learned, a little later, that a whirlwind In Morocco had uwept clean a number of threshing floors

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