tfAME FOR SRAFTER.
HOW THE CONQUEROR OF SAN Tl
hGO HAS RISEN.
IHb Career nn Example of America's
Possibilities - earned for Military
Life While Working Upon a Farm
Rapid l'rouiotiou iu the Civil War.
ITU Glory Pelf-Won.
Mivjor General William Rufus Sliaf
ter, conqueror of Stmtingo, military
hero In the war with Spain, was born
and grew to manhood near Galosburg,
Mich., and many are the stories that
are being told of bis boyhood by men
who knew him when he was a lanky,
barefooted lad, working on his father's
farm. General Shatter's career is an
object lesson upon the glorious possi-
OKN. WM. B. SHAFTER,
bllltlea of this land of the free. lie
was like Abraham Lincoln. He was a
commoner. lie grew right up out of
the soil. If the civil war had not come
along It is possible that General Shat
ter would still be a Michigan farmer.
He never had a taste for the husband
man's life. As a boy he groaned over
his work not that he did not like work,
but that he detested what work ho had
to do. Ills father was the plainest of
plain farmers. His mother , was a
farmer's wife, whose life's horizon was
bounded by her kitchen, ber poultry
yard, her "front room" and the meeting-house.
The elder Shatter was a
A'Ichlgan pioneer who hewed wood and
drew water and built the traditional
log bouse with its one and a half sto-
j ''''''"''"
LOG HOUSE IN WHICH GEN. SH AFTER WAS BOItNi
rles, and brought up his two sous, John
and William, in the fear of God and to
bard work.'
The military soul of William and of
John, for that matter revolted against
the field and harvest and the sowing
and the reaping, William had an am
bition to go to West Point, but the
military academy was as far beyond
bis reach as was the lost Pleiad. lie
might as well have pined for the crown
of Hussla. He knew lie wislied to be
one thing a soldier and he knew
there was not the remotest chance to
gratify his ambition.
One thing, however, he could do. Ho
could read books. Higher education
does not particularly help a man to
make bay and guide a plow, and young
Shutter got no schooling. But he read
history, chiefly alwut battles and ar
mies and arms. He saw mistakes that
were made by the world's generals. He
rend up on mathematics, and carried
Ids Intellect high among the refine
ments of ratios and equations. He
studied the growth of the modern regi
ment from the battle line of the Greeks
through .the Macedonian phalanx aud
the Itomnn legion down to the modern
soldier with his cartridges and his gun.
So was spent his youth and hit man
hood. Working on the farm, reading
his books, longing aud thirsting for op
portunity with tho military academy
on another planet! He was torn in
the log house his father built and lived
wttliiu its narrow walls until he was 23
years old. The old house still stands,
Hugh Shatter, the father, and Mrs.
Shatter died long since, and their
graves are within a five minutes' walk
of the house, Hugh Shatter was a
model father, and John and William
were model sons. They were obedient
and filial. Tho life of that family was
as dull and uneventful as that of any
agricultural household. William's am
bition for militarism was apparently'
hopeless, and he had just begun to rec
oncile himself to a life of drudgery
when the bugle blast from the lips of
"the great commoner" In tho White
House roused the nation to arms and
thrilled the very nerves of the whole
people. Young Shatter was at last to
have his way.
The two brothers went to the war
and tho patriotic father bade them a
sturdy good-by. William enlisted as a
lieutenant in the Seventh Michigan In
fantry. His commission bore date of
Aug. 22, 18(11. He was exceptionally
gallant War to him was pabulum. He
burned with It. He fought so well that
he was a major within a mouth. Two
years later he was mado a lieutenant
colouol, and toward the end of the war
he was brevetted brigadier general.
William Shatter's exploits In tho war
cover tbe siege of Yorktown, West
rolnt, Fair Oaks, Savage Station,
GleudnlH and Malvern Hill. His broth
er .John had meanwhile won the rank
of captain. When peace came they re
turned to the farm and went to plow
ing, sowing and reaping once more.
But both entered applications for com
missions In the regular army. After
two years of woodchopplng the broth
ers wore ordered to St. Louis to pass
the examination. Both came out of it
with flying colors, and were about to
be commissioned when the father ob
jected. One of his boys must stay at
home, and John, owing to bis Inferior
rank, agreed to let his brother have the
prize. William Shatter was given a
lieutenant colonelcy and was ordered
to the Forty-first Infantry.
For thirty yeears he lived beyond the
mountains or in them, and tbe people
of the East did not know his name.
For nearly twenty years be was the
colonel of the First infantry, and saw
men rise from posts subordinate to his
to be brigadier generals, ne did what
he thought was best for his regiment,
and not always what his officers would
have liked him to do. He bore up
bravely under the stress of this oppo
sition until a year ago, when President
McKinley made him a brigadier gener
al. . ..
When the general got bis brigadier's
straps he was -placed in command at
San Francisco. His life in the West
and on the coast had the usual effect
It made him a heavy weight. He Is a
tremendously big man. Almost six feet
tall rare stature for a commander he
weighs 300 pounds, and his avoirdupois
has been the occasion of many a jest,
which he has taken pretty well Ho
has a win that is in keeping with bis
physique. What he wills to do be does,
He has the heroic stuff of a Grant la
his make-up. .
BRAVED BULLETS.
The Atrventnre of a Cuban Patriot
Among a Hand of Spaniards.
During tbe early part of the Cuban
rebellion an officer in the patriot army
wanted a few packages of cigarettes,
and to obtain 'them went openly into
a town hold by the Spanish soldiers,
purchased what he desired and safely
retreated, holding at bay, single-handed,
200 Spanish soldiers who attempted
to capture him. '
This officer is Mai Henry E. Brooks,
who recently came to New Tori from
Jamaica, where he went - to recover
from wounds received in battle.
MaJ. Brooks, who was born In the
province of Santiago do Cuba of En
glish parents, was among the first to
engogo In the Insurrection aaglnst
Spain. When In command of tbe Cuban
forces around Guantanamo be ran out
of cigarettes, so he left his command
In charge of the next officer in rank and
started for Guantanamo to get them.
Ho crossed the long bridge leading Into
the city and proceeded to a cigar store.
Ho had with him his repeating rifle,
his revolver ami the always present
machete. In telling of his adventure In
Guantanamo MaJ. Brooks said:
les, I did have a little fun there.
You see I wanted some cigarettes and
decided to go after them. I got into tho
town all right and entered the etonr
store. I placed my rifle on the counter
where tt was handy and bought what
I wanted. Just after I had Dlaced tha
cigarettes In my pocket I happened to
wok toward the door, and there I saw
a party of Spanish soldiers drawn top
In line. They had their guns pointed at
me and their officer sakl In Spanish the
words which In English mean "hands
up,' Instead of doing that I grabbed
my rifle and let go a shot at the crowd.
One of the soldiers dropped and I rush
ed out of tho door during the excite
ment and got Into the street The sol
diers ran after me, shooting all the
time.
"I ran irp the long street toward tho
bridge that leads across the river Into
the country. The soldiers followed m.
shooting us they ran. Their bullets flew
wim ana aid not strike me, but one
poor old woman wos tilled by a Bhot
which was Intended for me. Tho !.
dlera who had first attempted to cap-
iure me were joined Dy reinforcements
until there wore at least 200 After ma
When I got to the bridge I turned and
seiu a coupie or snots at the crowd, and
then started across the bridire. whloh I
long and narrow. Several times I
turned around and fired at tha soldi
who had attempted to follow
the bridge, and I rather think I killed
a few or them, for I saw some dmtv
finally got np Into the hills, where I hid
behind rocks and took a few mora
shots at the Spaniards. Then they gave
up the chase aud I went back to my
men,"
Brains and Cllmatn.
The weight of a man's brain has
nothing to do with his mental power.
It Is a question of climate, not of in
tellect The colder the climate tha
greater tbe size of the brain.
Lots of women go with women they
talk about
You like that best which you get the
least of.
The Dream or
Rotlcirjg
FROM DUDE TO SOLDIER.
Checkered Career of Hallett Alsop
Borrowe, the Famous Rough Eider.
Hallett Alsop Borrowe, who went
with the rough riders In Cuba and who
was given charge of a dynamite gun
capable of deadly execution, has led a
life replete with incident. '
When hewas a young man he thought
be would become a great artist and
studied art at the Columbia Art School.
Then he thought that law, and not art,
was his peculiar calling and entered the
Columbia Law School. After a while
be decided that neither law nor art was
Just what be was cut out for, and went
across the water to see the world. He
had already seen something of It In on
this side. His father was Samuel Bor
rowe, Vice President of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, and young
Borrowe had the entree into New York
society. ''
In England and Prance nallett Alsop
was put up at the most exclusive eluhs
and was distinctly "In the swim."
When he returned to this country he
had become a crack billiard player, a
crack shot and 'a man about town gen
erally. , He was fond of dog fights and
all sorts of "sporty" things. In short,
the mild art student was thoroughly
transformed into the gilded and giddy
young man of the clubs and the Incon
sequential world. He stayed abroad a
good deal and was attracting no par
ticular attention In this country, being
regarded by bis acquaintances as
neither better nor worse than the aver
age man of his type, when suddenly
came the Ooleman Drayton scandal.
The social prominence of all the parties
concerned (Mrs. Drayton was a daugh
ter of Mrs. William Astor) and the chal
lenge to a duel (which did not take
place) between Mr. Drayton and Mr,
Borrowe kept society gossiping for a
long time.
Finally that passed away and Hallett
Alsop Borrowe was for a time forgotten.-
It was said that he was living
quietly abroad. Suddenly It was dis
covered that Borrowe had returned to
this country, forsaken the ways of his
former life, and was employed as a car
starter on tbe trolley road In Newark.
He had started In to work for a living
and had begun at the bottom of the
ladder.
He worked bard, and finally was
made a division superintendent at a
salary of $75 a month. For a time his
doings in his new sphere of action were
written about and talked about, ami
then the young man was forgotten
again. He was not destined to remain
forgotten long, however, for In Novem
ber, ISSXt, it was anounced that Bor
rowe had married Miss Anna Wheeler
Oorbln, Austin Corbln's youngest
daughter. 1
It seems that the Borrowe and Cor
bin families had been Intimate when
Hallett Alsop was a sehooHoy, and his
especial friend had been the youngest
daughter. The schoollwy love had re
mained through all the intervening
years, and Borrowe had gone to work
on the trolley line to prove that he had
reformed and was Uvlug a life which
made him worthy to marry his boy
hood's love.
Old-Time Torture,
In former times the punishment of
the bagnio (bath), one of the most
cleverly cruel inflictions ever devised
by an official of the torture chamber,
was administered In Italy, probably In
Venice, where the waters of the lagoons
played so Important a part In Its penal
system. The punishment was as fol
lows: The prisoner was placed In a
vat the sides of which were slightly In
excess of the average height of a man.
In order to hold In check the rising
tide of a supply of water which ran
n At. LETT ALSOP nOHIIOWB.
Don Montijo.
r ffje l).rbor of
xu ffie Admit-Aft flotilla
geotly At it1 itjcljors ii iort or fropic jwoopi
Slept a$or) tfje peaceful wUerj
Tljit whisked wif$ i$olfei) iwer frpnj I5 overflowiQ3
All inoe yftpc Ul war ftiju jiaujijicr
ffjoon.
, Swaoj ft wilWo? Iwywh . . . ,
li) tf)elr bannock &y tlje jjiii)i&ip,
VeMijg of Ifje Gol&liiiverAodHje coaijtry of tt)e Cidj
LoogiQj forttje tovely . .
Of Seville, Toledo, udiz,
AqJ tt tolls iod SeporiUiof GrAOAU or flfdrid.j
6eii)4 drowjy.rpatfertd ubo:
Tfelj Is uijexcifioj busioess for & ooble of Castile )
Imj wtiry of tlje MaIa,
I will M.lly fortij Aijd way la,
Tf) pljjieijs of tf)e yiotee &od njy veojeiflce Ije jJjaII feel.
Tljo rjAiJ goodrjijljf "Awe"
Ai)J in dreanjj l)e roked te ovy
For & yttS Aod rsf tfry o'er jt ib'P of UotleoAHy
. 01) jt led tftenj Afaodinjo
T ran) (1oQ$Koog fo PngcfP,i7go
AodbCcJlMedttj1? troiiHev&AlAftf6tl))or4eriof Vmi).
WTjrte b ly fijere wf fly Jleeptijj,
Up l?e birfW, creeping, ceepioj,
Cwi)e 15 lean u)A frusty Jre yljoaijds of ffie Itttje Xotippiart
Yoa njy wyniAt be wm pweky,
toa my ui pinj-ooty acky,
&af tbrpedoocouwttarn bi"J ijarkij3iio4ion3 tfje shore,,
Don Ho7t1io wo(e tb wonder
At a sadden birit of tf)u oder.
Be M Bund Ifje ytsfctt janners t.ni hjey bitbin)vfry fiige;
li) t$e ijArbor of fUoiiU
Uy t AdnjifAl'J fbtilU '
Fifty tioegs aoder viier.njid tf)e oystert od f?e H'm
Geome HofiToit:
into the vat In a constant stream the
criminal was furnished with a scoop
with which to bale out the water as
fast as it came In. The respite from
death by immersion thus obtained was
more or less prolonged, according to the
powers of endurance possessed by the
victim. But Imagine tbe moral torture,
the exhausting and even hideously gro
tesque efforts, the incessant and piti
less toll by night and day to stave oft-
the dread moment fast approaching,
when, overcome by sleep and fatigue,
he was unable to struggle any longer
against his fate!
Shakspeare Does Bait
Shakspeare, so far as Is known, never
witnessed a ball game, yet his works
are replete with phrases often used by
fans. Here are a few:
"Hit it bit It hit It!" Love's Labor
Lost Act IV.
. "Not one hit" Merchant of Venice,
Act IIL
' "Base second mean," et cetera. Hen
ry IV., Act L
"Our valor ra to chase files." Cymbe-
line, Act IIL
"On the bats back I do fly-ntns
Andronicus, Act IIL
"We can kill a fly.M Tttns AndronV
cus. Act IIL
"Where go you with bats j" Corto-
tanus. Act L
"Then thou wast not out" Tempest
AetL
!"Play out the game." Henry IV, Act
IL
"Who's outr-Lear, Act V.
"To field with him." Coriolanus, Act
IL
"With two prtch balls." Love's La
bor Lost Act IIL
' "They pitched in the ground." Hen
ry VL. Act I.
"I'll bring him home," Pericles, Act
"I'm right glad to catch." Henry
VIII., Act V.
"So easy a stop." Henry IV.
"He stopped the fliers. "Coriolanus,
Act II.
"If he should even double." All's
Well, Act II.
"I will run no base." Merry Wives,
Act I.
"I'll run for thee." Midsummer
Night's Dream, Act 11.
"Thou mayst slide." Taming of the
Shrew, Act IV.
The Frenchman's Fault.
While one of the American frigates
was once at Malta some of the crew
got into a terrible fight with the crew
of a French man-of-war. At the lnves'
tlgatlon that followed the captain of
the maintop said:
"You see, sir, it was all the French
man's fault We was a walking down
the street jlst as quiet as lambs, sir,
when along come some Frenchmen
from the Etwoll. I wanted to be civil,
so I says to 'em:
" "Will you come In and take a drink?
says L
" 'Kayf says he.
" 'Kay? says Jimmy Legs, who was
wrth me; 'what kind of an answer Is
that to' give a gentleman? and he up
and hit him; and that's the way tbe
row began, sir. You see H was all the
Frenchman's fault, sir-"
Run Him In.
It Is little wonder that foreigners de
spair of learning to speak our language.
One of the greatest difficulties Is the
way in which the same syllabic sounds
have often very different meanings.
"You'll get run In," said the pedes
trian to tha cyclist without a light
"You'll get run Into," responded the
rider, as he knocked the other down
and ran up his spine.
"You'll get run in, too," sold the po
liceman, as he stepped from behind
tree and grabbed the bicycle.
Just then another scorcher came
along without a light so the police
man bad to run In two.
RoUlatr-PIn Will Serv, Sometimes.
"Men differ." said the feminine per
son of varied experience. "Some can
be conquered with tears, but with
others It Is necessary to resort to the
hatpin." Cincinnati Enquirer.
Pineapples In London.
Upon an average 10,000 pinearples
are Imported Into London every week
throughout the year.
An old maid says she never married
because she couldn't find a man to
suitor.
THE INFANTA EULALIA,
Spanish Princess Who Visited This
Country During; the World's Fair.
The Princess Eulalia, who represent
ed Spain at the World's Fair, is escap
ing much that is disagreeable In het
own land, as she Is sojourning to Eng
land. Princess Eulalia was for many
years only third in the succession, and
she is very popular In Spain; where at
one time It was said openly that she
would have made a much better regent
TUB ISFA.STA EULALIA.
than her sister-in-law. That was, how
ever, in the very early days of Queen
Christina's widowhood and before the
country had become accustomed to her
gracious hand. The Infanta Eulalia
was married at the age of 22 to Prince
Antolne of Bourbon Orleans, a brother
of the Count.de Farts. .The Infanta
has two sons, the younger of whom will
soon celebrate his tenth bdrthday, :
LITTLE VICTIMS OF THE SEA.
Two Pretty Children Who Went Down
In La Boorgoa-e,
Carola and Mildred Schurtai two pret
ty children, went down In La Bour-
gogne with their parents, Mr, and Mrs,
Albert Schultz, of New York. Mr,
Schultz was engaged as European buy-
CAROLA AND MILDRED SCHTLTZ.
er for a large New York house and was
formerly for many years in the same
capacity with a Chicago firm. He
had safely crossed the ocean sixty-four
times. The children were exception
ally bright Carola was aged 9 and
MlldredSu
OPIUM SMUGGLED IN NUTS.
The Drug Is Frequently Bronchi Into
the Country in That Way.
One of the duties of the custom bouse
officials in San Francisco Is nut-crack
ing. They do not open all the nuts
which enter the port but whenever
CUSTOM BOUSB OFFICIAL ISVEST10ATI50
there is reason to believe that the gullo-
less-looklng nut is aiding smugglers,
out come the customs nut-crackers.
Opium is frequently brought Into tbe
country In that way. The drug Is pact
ed in the shells of a Chinese nut very
much like our walnut and Is sent to
America in that shape.
Derivation of tbe Word AdmlraL
The word admiral Is derived by tho
dictionaries In a rather roundabout
fashion from tbe Arabic emir, a word
which has been variously translated
lord, commander, general. An emir
was an officer In the Saracenic and aft
erward in the Turkish army, and, as
these were composed mostly of caval
ry, the emir was originally a cavalry
officer. As the conquests of the Turks
broadened the Turkish Sultans began
to make war upon the sea as well as
upon the land, and the officers who
commanded fleets and vessels retained
the title that they bad when directing
squadrons of horse. The title is found
among the Algerlne and Barbary pi
rates and Is first noticed In English use
during the reign of Edward HI., when
officers were commissioned as "Amyrel
of the Se" or "Admiral of the Navy.1
Greedy Little Fish.
Tbe little fish known as miller's
thumb the fresh water sculpln Is one
of the natural checks on the overpro
duction of trout and salmon. It eats
the eggs and the young fish. It Is found
In all trout waters as fast as examined.
It Is very destructive. At an expert
ment once made In the aquarium of the
United States Fish Commission In
Washington a miller's thumb about
four and one-half Inches long ate at a
single meal and all within a minute or
two, twenty-one little trout each from
three-quarters to an Inch In length, .
A Clock Run by tho Wind.
There Is a clock In Brussels which
has never been wound up by human
hands. It Is kept going by the wind.
IMPROVED SEA MESSENGER.
Device to Convey Tidings from Ves
sels in Distress. ,
Should you.be walking on the beach.
and pick up a tiny boat bearing the
legend: "Whoever finds this. boat look
in the stern tube for an abstract log.
rhlch please forward to Lloyd's under
writers, London," you will know that
one of Captain Bowden's patent sea-
messengers has fulfilled its mission.
The messenger Is like the model of a
vessel or boat (length 2 feet 2 Indies,
breadth GMi inches, depth GV& inches).
THB SEA MESSENGER.
From thestern, which Is square, a cham
ber is bored forwards longitudinally,
and In It Is inserted a metallic tube, to
bold a small wooden rod, round which
the ship's log or any other Information
written upon paper or the like may be
rolled. The sea-messenger Is mode of
solid wood (pine), and Is entirely cover
ed externally with Muntz' yellow metal,
to protect It when afloat and also to
ender It conspicuous. Upon the deck
the Inscription is engraved on a metal
lic plate. The boat is suitably ballasted
to prevent its capsizing and to keep the
deck-plate in view at all times while
floating. The inventor wants to make
It imperative by . law for all shipmas
ters to keep an abstract log fully writ
ten up day by day (noon preferred) and
kept inserted In tbe messenger In readi
ness for an emergency. By this means
tbe ofttlmes cruel silence and dreaded
suspense to those on shore may be
averted.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS.
Wisconsin Set a Good Example In
Providing a Traveling Library.
The good example set by Wisconsin
tn providing her soldiers with a travel
ing library has been Imitated by Buffa
lo. The plan adopted by the latter city
Is much the same as that In vogue In
Wisconsin.
Each company Is to be given a library
of from fifteen to eighteen volumes. In
cased In a weather-proof box, and the
companies will exchange libraries peri
odically. The work Is to be done at
BEADING MATTES PASSED ALONG,
the library, but tbe reading matter is to
be furnished by the people, as also the
money needed for coses, transportation,
etc In addition to the bound volumes,
It is hoped to send large quantities of
paperjbound volumes, magazines and il
lustrated newspapers, to be distributed
without the requirement of returning
them to the company libraries.
Buttons.
It Is only In comparatively modern
times that buttons have been utilized
as fasteners. Tbe Greeks and Romans
knew nothing of them, and, though
they presented themselves as orna
ments in the fourteenth century, button-holes
were still an undreamed-of
possibility. It was not until nearly the
middle of the last century that the man
ufacture of steel buttons was entered
npon at the Soho works In Birming
ham, England. Then, on the accession
of George IIL, gilt buttons appeared
and became quite the vogue. But it was
reserved for tbe artisans of our day to
make these useful fasteners in the
greatest variety at marvelously low
prices and out of all sorts of material,
even to tbe seemingly Impossible po
tato. Royal Yearly Incomes.
The total annual income of the Impe
rial family of Russia cannot be less
than three and a half million pounds
sterling. Probably the nearest approach
to this revenue Is to be found in the
combined Incomes of the brothers
Rockefeller, tbe oil kings of America,
which amount to two and a half mil
lion pounds. Tbe Austrian Imperial
family posseses an estimated annual In
come of 1.500,000, the German family
one of 1,000,000, and the Italian house
of Savoy a revenue of 000,000 a year.
Durhan Observer.
Stone In Judea,
The hill near Jerusalem where the
crucifixion of Jesus occurred Is formed
of limestone. The shores of the Dead
Sea are lined with pumice-stone, show
ered out of some volcano that destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah, which cities
finally sank beneath the waters of the
Dead Sea.
Mile High View.
A balloonist a mile above the earth
commands a field vision 96 miles In
radius.
After a man has cut the crash towels
off the bottoms of his pantaloons for
two or three years, the pantaloons be
come so thin aa to b immodaat