The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 March 1911 — Page 7

STORY I The Courage of Captain Plum By JAMES | ' OLIVER CURWOOD _1 L_ I Illustration* by Magnus G. Kettner I (Copyright 1908 by Bobbs-llerrill Co.) a>’ * SYNOPSIS. Capt. Nathaniel Plum of the sloop Typhoon, lands secretly on Beaver island, stronghold of the Mormons. Obadiah Price. Mormon councilor, confronts him,, tells him he is expected, and bargains for the ammunition aboard the sloop. He binds Nat by a solemn oath to deliver a package to Franklin Pierce, president of the United States. Near Price’s cabin Nat sees the frightened face of a young woman who disappears in the darkness, leaving an odor of lilacs. It develops that Nat’s visit to the island is to demand settlement of the king, Strang, tor the looting of his sloop by Mormons. Price shows Nat the king’s palace, and through a window he sees .the lady -of the lilacs, who Price says is the king’s seventh wife. Calling at the king’s office Nat is warned by a young woman that his life is in danger. Strang professes indignation when he hears Nat’s grievance and promises to punish the guilty. Nat rescues Neil, who Is being publicly whipped, and the king orders the sheriff. Arbor Croche, to pursue and kill the two men. Plum learns that Marion, the girl of the lilacs, is Neil’s sister. The two men plan to escape on Nat’s sloop and take Marion and Winnsome, daughter of Arbor Croche, and sweetheart of Neil. Nat discovers that the sloop is gone. Marion tells him that his ship has been seized by the Mormons. She begs him to leave the island, telling him that nothing can save her from Strang, whom she is doomed to marry. Plum finds Price raving mad. Recovering. he tells Nat that Strang is doomed, that men are descending on the Island. Nat learns that Marion has been summoned to the castle by Strang. Nat kills Arbor Croche, and after a desperate fight with the king, leaves him for dead. The avenging host from the mainland descends on St. James. Neil and Nat take a part in the battle and the latter Is wounded. Strang, whom Nat thought he had killed, orders him thrown into a dungeon. He finds Neil a fellow prisoner. They overhear the Mormon jury deciding their fate. CHAPTER X.—Continued. He shrieked the words again and again, maddened beyond control, and the Mormon king,, whose self-posses-sion was more that of devil than man, still held the strug-’ing girl in his arms as he turned his head toward the voice and saw Nathaniel’s long arm and knotted fist threatening him through the hole in the wall. Then Neil’s name in a piercing scream resounded through the dungeon corridor and in response to it the man under Nathaniel straightened himself so quickly that his companion fell back to the floor. “Great God! what is the matter, Nat? Quick! let me up!” Nathaniel staggered to his feet, the breath half gone out of his body, and in another instant Neil was at the opening. The great room into which he looked was empty. “What was it?” he cried, leaping down. “What were they doing with Winnsome?” i“lt was the king,” said Nathaniel, struggling to master himself. “The king put his arms around Winnsome add —she struck him!” “That was all?” “He kissed her as she fought—and I yelled.” “She struck him!” Neil cried. "God bless little Winnsome, Nat! and —God bless hfer!” Neil’s breath came fast as he caughj ' the other’s hand. “I’d give my life if I could help you —and Marion!” “We’ll give them together,” said Nathaniel coolly, turning down the corridor. “Here’s our chance. They’ll come through that door to relock us in our cell. Shall we die fighting?” He was groping about in the mud of the floor for some object. “If we had a couple of stones —” “It would be madness —worse than madness!” interposed Neil, steadying himself. “There will be a dozen rifles at that door when they open It. We must return to the cell. It is worth dying a harder death to hear from Marion and Winnsome. And we will hear from them before night.” They retreated into the dungeon. A few minutes later the door opened cautiously at the head of the corridor. A light blazed through the blackness and after an Interval of silence the jailer made his appearance in front of the cell, a pistol in his hand. “Don’t be’ afraid, Jeekum,” said Nell reassuringly. “You forgot the door and we’ve been having a little fun with the jury. That’s all!” The nervous whiteness left Jeekum’s face at this cheerful report and be was about to close the door when Nathaniel exhibited a handful of gold pieces in the candle-light and frantically beckoned the man to come in. The jailer’s eyes glittered understandIngly and with a backward glance down the lighted corridor he thrust his head and shoulders inside. “Five hundred dollars for that note!” he whispered. “Five hundred beside the four you’ve got!” "Jeekum’s a fool!” said Nell, as the door closed on them. “I feel sorry for him.” “Why?” "Dacauso he is acceptor the irnnev

Don’t you suppose that you have been searched? Os course you have—probably before I came, while you were half dead on the floor. Somebody knows that you have the gold.” ‘ Why hasn’t It been taken?” For a Full minute Neil made no answer. And his answer, when it did come, first of all was a laugh. “By George, that’s good!” he cried exultlngly. “Os course you were searched—and by Jeekum! He knows, biit he hasn’t made a report of it to Strang because he believes that in some way he will get hold of the money. He is taking a big risk —but he’s winning! I wonder what his first scheme was?” “Thought I’d bury it, perhaps,” vouchsafed Nathaniel, throwing himself upon the straw. “There’s room for two here, Neil.” A long silence fell between them. The action during the last few minutes had been- too great an effort for Nathaniel and his wound troubled him again. As the pain and his terrible thoughts of Marion’s fate returned to him he regretted _that they had not ended it all in one last fight at the door. There, at least, they might have died like men instead of waiting to be shot down like dogs, their hands bound behind them, their breasts naked to the Mormon rifles. He did not fear death. In more than one game he had played against its hand, more often for love of the sport than not, but there was a horror in being penned up and tortured by it. He had come to look upon it as a fair enemy, filled, of course, with subterfuge and treachery, which were the laws of the game; but he had never dreamed of it as anything but merciful in its quickness. It was as if his adversary had broken an inviolable pact with him and he sweated and tossed on his bed of straw while Neil sat cool and silent on the bench against the dungeon wall. Sheer exhaustion brought him relief, and after a time he fell asleep. He was awakened by Neil. The white face of Marion’s brother was over him when he opened his eyes and he was shaking him roughly by the shoulder. “Wake up, Nat!” he cried. "For heaven’s sake —wake up!” He drew back as Nathaniel sleepily roused himself. “I couldn’t help it, Nat,” he apologized, laughing nervously. “You’ve lain there like a dead man for hours. My head is splitting with this damned silence. Come —smoke up! I got some tobacco from our jailer and he loaned me his pipe.” Nathaniel jumped to his feet. A fresh candle was burning on the table and in its light he saw that a startling change had come into Neil’a face during the hours he had slept. It looked ljp|S Ml i \ “I’ve Got Word—but No Note!” He Whispered Hoarsely. to him thinner and whiter, its lines had deepened, and the young man’s eyes were filled with gloomy dejection. “Why didn’t you awaken me sooner?” he exclaimed. “I deserve a good drubbing for leaving you alone here!” He saw fresh food oh the table. “It’s late —” he began. “That is our dinner and supper,” interrupted Neil. He held his watch close to the candle. “Half past eight!” “And no word —from —” “No.” The two men looked deeply into each other’s eyes. “Jeekum delivered my note to her at noon when he was relieved,” said Neil. “He did not carry it personally, but swears that he saw her receive it. He sent her word that he would call at a certain place for a reply when he was relieved again at five. There was no reply for him —not a word from Winnsome.” Their silence was painful. It was Nathaniel who spoke first, hesitatingly, as though afraid to say what was passing in his mind. “I. killed Winnsome’s father, Neil,” he said, “and Winnsome has demand ed my death. I know that I am condemned to die. But you—” His eyes flashed sudden fire. “How do you know that my fate Is to be yours? I begin to see the truth. Winnsome has not answered your note because she knows that you are to live and that she will see you soon. Between Winnsome and—Marlon you will be saved!” Nell had taken a piece of meat and was eating it as though he had not heard his companion’s words. “Help yourself, Nat It’s our last opportunity.” “You don’t believe —” “No. Lord, man, do you suppose that Strang is going to let me live to kill him?” Somebody was fumbling with the chain at the dungeon door. The two men stared as it opened slowly and Jeekum appeared. The jailer was highly excited. mi weed—-hut nn note!” ' •

whispered hoarsely. “Quick! Is it worth —“ j “Yes! Yes’” j Nathaniel dug the gold pieces out of his pockets and dropped them into the jailer’s outstretched hand. “I’ve had my boy watching Winn some Croche’s house,” continued the sheriff, .white with the knowledge oi the risk he was taking. “An hour age Winnsome came out of the house and went into the woods. My boy fol lowed. She ran to the lake, got intc a skiff, and rowed straight out to sea She is following your instructions!” In his excitement he betrayed him self. He had read the note. There came a sound up the corridor, the opening of a door, the echo of voices, and Jeekum leaped back. Na thaniel’s foot held the cell door from closing. “Where is Marion?” he cried softly, his heart standing still with dread “Great God—what about Marion?” For an instant the sheriff’s ghastlj face was pressed against the opening “Marlon has not been seen since morning. The king’s officers are searching for The door slammed, the 5 chains clanked loudly, and above the sound of Jeekum’s departure Neil’s voice rose in a muffled cry of joy. “They are gone! They are leaving the island!” Nathaniel stood like one turned into stone. His heart grew cold with in him. When he spoke his words were passionless echoes of what had been. “You are sure that Marion would kill herself as soon as she became the wife of Strang?” he asked. “Yes—before his vile hands touched more than the dress she wore!’ shouted Nell. “Then Marion is dead,” replied Na thaniel, as coldly as though he were talking to the walls about him. “Foi last night Marion was forced into the harem of the king.” As he revealed the secret whose torture he meant to keep imprisoned in his own breast he dropped upon the pallet of straw and buried his face between his arms, cursing himseli that he had weakened in these lasi hours of their comradeship. He dared not look to see the effect of his words on Neil. His companion uttered no sound. Instead there was a silence that was terrifying. At the end of. it Neil spoke in a voice so strangely calm that Nathaniel sat up and stared at him through ths gloom. - i “I believe they are coming aftei us, Nat. Listen!” The tread of many feet came tc them faintly from beyond the corridoi wall. Nathaniel had risen. They drev close together, and their hands clasped. “Whatever it may be,” whispered Neil, “may God have mercy on ouj souls!” “Amen!” breathed Captain Plum. (TO BE CONTINUED.) DUG UP HIDDEN TREASURE California Community Greatly Ex cited Over Mysterious Actions of Stranger. The people of this community an wondering who was the mysterious stranger who visited the ancient adobe but a mile north of here a fev evenings ago and dug up a box oi can that had been buried there fiftj years or more, says an Oakland cor respondent of the San Franciscc Chronicle. It is supposed he carried away a large quantity of gold bul lion that belonged to Glanville Swift an early day miner who lived in this hut while operating in the mines ir the hills east of Chico, leaving in ths early ’6os with nearly $750,000 ir gold, which took six weeks to weigt and required a pack train and strong guard to transport out of the country The stranger was seen loiterins about the adobe but one evening, anc a Mr. Fawcett, who lives near, triec to learn his mission, but failed. Th< next morning Fawcett found when a box or can had been dug up during the night. There were several stakes showing that measurements had beer made from a chart to locate the placf to dig. Only one hole was made. When Glanville Swift weighed his gold he found two or more large por ter bottles of it missing. It is sup posed they were stolen and burled and that this stranger learned of thefr whereabouts. Longest Straightaway Bird Flight. Perhaps the longest straightawaj flight made by birds in their migra tions is accomplished by some of th< shore and water birds that nest in tht islands of Bering sea and spend the winter at Hawaii and Fanning island, 2,200 miles away. Inasmuch as ’some of these birds live entirely on the shore and ar« prob bly unable to rest on the surface of the water, it is thought that thej must accomplish the whole distance in a single flight. Yet, although there are no land marks for them upon their long jour ney over a waste of waters, they make their way to their destination with the precision of a rifle shot. Only Too Glad to Pay Tax. Inheritance taxes are not generally liked by those who have to pay them but the eldest son of the Swiss en gineer, Herr Brandt, who built the Simplon tunnel and died in 1908, is paying $500,000 with the utmost sat isfaction. The Swiss authorities dis covered that Brandt possessed $3, 000,000 worth of property in Russia which he had failed to declare in his will. The son, who was unaware oi the existence of this property, is only too glad to pay the fine of $500,000 to secure a windfall of $2,500,000.

CAP and BELLS BOTH GOOD CAT IMITATORS Lawyers Sleeping In Court Room Meow Like Feline, and Finally Come Together in Mix-Up. “A bunch of lawyers were sleeping in a stuffy court room in a country town because of the overcrowded condition of the single hotel during a session of court,” said a lawyer, “when one of them, a practical joker, possessing a remarkable faculty of imitating a cat, concluded to have some fun out of it. After all of them had quieted down to sleep he started a plaintive moan like a cat. Another fellow on the opposite side of the room had a similar faculty of imitation, and was awakened by the noise of the supposed cat, and remarked to his next fellow: “ ‘Some darned cat has got into the room. Just wait. I’ll imitate a tabby and we’ll catch the Tom.’ “So the two began meowing at each other. The first supposed it was a real cat, and the room being extremely dark, they kept approaching each other, each with a boot in hand to demolish the supposed cat. They got together finally, and then there was an act not down on the program. Each had aimed his boot well, and when a light was finally struck the two men were mixing it up badly in the center of the room, and it took the rest of the lawyers and the town doctor to get them in presentable shape for court the following day.”

WALKED BACK. \ V>\ LJI/ Friend —How long were you out on the road?” Ham—Six months. One going out and five getting back.” Adorning the Menu Card. “How is it,” demanded the patient man, in the Soho garbage den, at last, “how is it that quail is always off the menu ?” The hireling readjusted his greasy lapkin and yawned wearily. “That,” said he, “is just a fancy touch. We never had a quail.”—Sporting Times. Highly Improper. “What is the proper thing for a man to do when his wife asks him for money and he hasn’t any?” inquired Newed. “Oh, there isn’t any proper thing to do under those circumstances,” replied Oldwed. “Anything he does will be wrong.” A Question. "We must have no sinecures,” said the reformer. “Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, thoughtfully, “sometimes I’m in doubt as to which make the most trouble, the fellows with sinecures or those who work overtime getting in the way.” Attractive Attention. “Johnson says he’s getting along splendidly in his new position.” “Is that so?” “Yes, he’s been there three months now and already one member of the board of directors knows that he’s working there.” Crowding the Market. “What are these old masters held at?” “Sixteen thousand each.” “I’ll give you two dollars apiece for two of them. “Make It five dollars for three, am' they’re yours.” One Point of View. Mrs. Exe —You don’t hear my husband going around complaining about jmy treatment of him, as yours does. Mrs. Wye—No; but that doesn’t mean that your husband* is satisfied—merely that he is subdued. A Mistake. “Don’t you think that candidate indulges a great deal too much in verbosity?" i "Oh, no, indeed; he’s strictly teriterance.”

LITTLE THINGS IK NATURE Little Girl Who Did Not Know Number of Seed Compartments in Apple, Asks a Puzzler. “How many seed compartments are there in an apple?” he asked. No one answered. “And yet,” continued the school inspector, “all of you eat many an apple in the course of a year, and see the fruit every day probably. You must learn to notice the little things in na> ture.” The talk of the Inspector impressed the children, and at playtime the teacher overheard them discussing. A little girl, getting her companions round her, gravely said: “Now, children, suppose I am Mr. Taylor, you’ve got to know more about common things. If you don’t you will all grow up to be fools. Now, tell me, Minnie,” she continued, looking sternly at a playmate, “how may feathers are there on a hen?” PRESTO! CHANGE! Mrs. Telllt—Yes, she is a decided blonde. Mrs. Knockit—lndeed! When did she decide? The Rich Uncle. Young Doctor—Hello, old chap! Don’t believe I have met you since we were boys at school. You’re looking prosperous. Young Lawyer—Yes; a rich uncle died two years ago and I came into possession of nearly SIOO,OOO. Young Doctor—Why, I wasn’t aware you had a rich uncle.. Young Lawyer—Oh, he wasn’t my uncle. He was the uncle of one of my clients. Hard to Satisfy. ‘1 always kiss him when I am in need the money.” “And do you always get it?” "Always.” “Then why that faraway, doubtful look in your eyes?” “I am just trying to decide whether he lets me have the money because he likes to have me kiss him, or because he wants me to stop.” Merely Suggested. "I see where stripes and the lockstep are to be abolished in the Minnesota state penitentiary because they depress convicts.” “Very thoughtful on the part of the reformers. Perhaps they will next abolish steel cages and barred windows because they give sensitive sojourners that pent-up feeling.” Striking Personality. “Do you observe his calm, judicial eye?” “Yes.” “His breadth of shoulder? Hla flrm-set mouth? His powerful jaw?" “I do.” “Well, there stands a man who wrote ‘l9ll’ the first time he tried it and has been writing the year con rectly ever since.” Punishment Fit the Crime. “I think that when an able-bodied man comes around to a kitchen demand has the nerve to ask for sor thing ter eat he should be punishc. in some manner.” “So do I; why don’t you make an example of the next one?” “How can I?” “Give him some of your cooking." Still Running. “What did that cowardly gossip, Gabble, say when you made your announcement that you Intended to horsewhip him for his remarks about your family?” “I didn’t catch what you said." “How was that?” “Oh, it was some kind of a running comment.” One Way. A Scotch student, supposed to be de flcient in judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of his examination, how he would discover a fool. “By the questions he would ask," was the prompt and highly suggestive reply.—Tit-Bits. Unappreciated Favor. “Did you kiss papa before you came out for the walk, dearie?” •No, mamma. But I asked Julie > it for me.” The walk is called oft—Journa Amusant All Off. “Can I see Miss Chick?” asked A. Rooster of Old Chanticleer ?” “No,” was the reply; “she is getting dressed for dinner.” More Immediate. “Here’s an affecting poem entitled ‘Lost Youth.’” “Don’t talk to me. I’ve just lost • □liar."

SPIES GETSECRETS Uncle Sam’s Military Plans Become Public Property. Foreign Experts Caught Working In Many Disguises—Forts Sketched and Blue Prints Made of Coast Defenses. Washington. — Astounding revelations of the extent of the military spy system practiced against the United States government are made in a report presented to congress recently by the house committee on judiciary. More than a score of instances, in which spies are known to have been engaged in collecting the military secrets of the United States are cited. Plans of insular fortifications have apparently been spread about as freely as hand bills. Officers of foreign nations, disguised as waiters in restaurants, have been caught in the act of delving into the secrets of our national defenses. A package of blue prints containing the schemes of defenses for Corregidor island in the Philippines was picked up in the streets of Calcutta. Spies have swarmed in Pacific coast ports and without molestation, for there was no law governing the case, have mapped and charted every bay and inlet, fort and fortification along the Pacific coast. Members of the house read the report with amazement. Inasmuch as the facts in the report were gleaned from • secret records of the government and confidential police reports from various large cities, no names were mentioned, nor were the nationitles of the spies who have been detected disclosed. The report came in connection with a favorable recommendation for the I passage of the Hobson bill, providing I for the arrest and imprisonment of all persons caught in the act of spying. The bill carries a penalty of a fine of not more than SI,OOO or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, tor any unauthorized person who makes, maps, sketches or photographs of anything connected with the national defenses. The report in part says: “A gentleman in the city of Calcutta picked up on the streets of that city a small package of blue prints containing information with reference to the defenses of Corregidor island. Recognizing their character, he delivered them to the American consul at Calcutta, who forwarded them through the state department in Washington. Significance is attached to the fact that these were blue prints. The whereabouts of the original tracings is still unknown. These blue prints contained a complete set 1 of drawings of the defense of Corregidor island, which is the main stronghold of the United States in the Phil- : tppines. “In 1907 and 1908 a number of reports were received, to the effect that ' foreigners were very active in mapping the Pacific coast and the har- ! bors in the vicinity of Puget sound and the mouth of the Columbia river, making sketches of the fortifications pnd seeking in the most open manner to secure and record military information bearing on the defenses of that locality. « “In one instance report was to the effect that a certain officer, a lieutenont in the engineer corps of a foreign service, was serving in the capacity of a waiter at the Commercial hotel at Seattle. | ‘Tn January, 1907, the police department of Los Angeles, Cal., reported that a foreigner was actively engaged in copying records from the land office in the city. “In 190-7 also the American ambassador at a foreign capital notified the state department that a certain captain belonging to the army of the country to which our ambassador had been accredited had been detailed to secretly visit the American countries and spend three years there ascertaining the strength of their troops, i arms, fortifications, etc. - i “In January, 1908, the police department of New York reported that military maps and information qf a military character had been found in a trunk belonging to an American whom they had reason to believe was in the employ of a foreign government. “In Manila in April, 1910, an enlisted man of the United States engineering corps was approached by two officers of a foreign nation, which it is unnecessary to name. He was sounded thoroughly, and then a flat offer of $25,000 was made to him for complete detailed drawings and photographs of the defenses on Corregidor island. The prize was too big to resist and an agreement was reached. "As the official photographer for the department the engineer had no trouble in getting his material. No one suspected him as he went along taking photographs of the interior works at Corregidor. When he had everything he met the foreigners in an office building. He spread out his documents and with eyes asparkle they prouonneed the results splendid. They had a general knowledge of the works and did not hesitate to show it. " ‘You have brought us just what we want,’ the spokesman said in broken English, ‘but we did not bring the $25,000. Tonight at nipe o’clock you will meet another agent of the government and a place on the outskirts of the town was named, where you deliver to him the photographs and plans and he will pay over the money.’ “These words had scarcely been

uttered when the door of the room flew open and four soldiers rushed in and arrested all three. Two weeks before the engineer had repented and told the plot to his superiors. The attorney general of the Philippines undertook a prosecution, but habeas corpus proceedings were brought and the foreigners went scott-free because there was no law under which they could be prosecuted.” MAKING OVER THE HOUSE. Our average representative in congress now has to look after some 41,000 more constituents than he had on his hands ten years ago, or more than 235,000 in all. But the reappor- s tionment bill reduces this number to about 212,000. This will be effected by adding 42 representatives to the house, but even then the average member will represent some 17,700 more men, women and children than he did a decade back. This Increase of the number of representatives to 435 means that from a vast hall crowded with Individual desks the house must* be contracted into a small chamber, smaller than that of the senate, with a seating arrangement similar to that of the British house of commons. So Mr. Elliott Woods, the architect who serves as superintendent of the capitol, has placed before congress a plan for remodeling and entirely reconstructing the hall of the house during the eight months of adjournment. So the great hall of the house is to be made even smaller than the little senate chamber, according to Superintendent Wood’s scheme. From a space 93x139 feet it is to be contracted into an area 61x80 feet, while the senate is 83x1’3 feet. This means that the house will be nineteten feet narrower and twenty-four feet shorter than the senate. Or, to put it in other words, the area of the present house is 12,827, of the senate 9,010, and of the proposed house, 5,429 square feet The height of the ceiling with its vari-col-ored skylights, is to be left as now and the contraction of the walls is to be effected by new partitions, bringing the four walls much nearer together than now. At the same time the public galleries will be made deeper, narrower, and the press gallery will be stretched entirely across the space over the desk, instead of occupying a third of it, as at present. Interested spectators will find as many seats as now, nor will even the dusky habitues who daily repose upon the Olympian heights, have to be crowded out. Between the new partitions and the old will be new cloakroom space, wherein members may hide from pes- ’ tiferous constituents and enjoy pollinaris lemonade, santa yerba and elbow room. - Beneath the speaker's lofty station, which is to be flanked on either side by three massive columns, will be ranged concentric rows of benches, not to be sat upon, as in the house of commons, but to be used as rests for books and papers. And between these benches, it is planned, will be rows of folding theatre chairs. Such great economy can be effected by the closeness of these chairs and the ness of these benches that enough seats can be provided for all the representatives who are liable to be added to the house after several more reapportionments. But no longer can the tired member rock back in his swivel chair and contemplate the millinery display in the ladles’ galleries, nor will there be desk room for attending to the daily correspondence while public business is being transacted. -NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL. The United States has recognized the close of the Zelayi regime in Nicaragua and the establishment of President Estrada. Rev. Henry M. Couden, chaplain of the national house of representatives, had a silver wedding anniversary recently. The mother of Bill Nye is yet alive at the age of 83. Her other son, Frank M.-Nye, of Minnesota, is a representative in congress from that state. United States Ambassador Reid and Mrs. Reid are home from London on a brief vacation. It is stated from Jekyl Island, where Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, went to recuperate, that his health is very much improved. It is now stated that Senator Depew will expatriate himself after his term in the United States senate expires,’ and he will hereafter make his home in Paris. Former Representative Asle J. Gronna, of North Dakota, a new senator elected from that state, is very patriotic. He gave $lO out of the first SIOO he ever earned for the building of the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. When President Taft appointed Edward Douglas White, associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States, to be chief justice, he broke a hundred-year precedent. Never before was an associate justice of the Supreme court elevated to the head of that venerable body. It is reported to the war departmen from Manila that General Pershing, who is in command of the department of Mindanao, has cleaned up the Davao district, and has either killed or captured all the murderers of Americans, and has dispersed all the Manabo bands. The Point of View. “A great deal depends on how” you look at a thing.” "I know it. I nearly lost an eye. once looking at a ball game thieugh a knot-hole in a fence.”