THE MORNING OKEGONIAST. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1900.
TALKED TO ROUGH RIDERS
ROOSEVELT AT THE OKLAHOMA
REUNION.
Delivered an Expansion. Address
He "Will Spealc Through Kansas
and Missouri Today.
OKLAHOMA CITT. O. T., Julr 3 A
typical frontier demonstration and a
rousing: welcome from Rough "Riders,
cow punchers and citizens of all classes,
white, black and red, were accorded to
day to Governor Roosevelt, of New York.
The second annual reunion of Roosevelt's
famous regiment brought 10,000 strangers
into this little Western city. Of the 1100,
who originally composed the Rough Rid
ers Regiment, about 200 were here to
greet the Colonel. The surprising part
of it Is that the city took care of her
guests so welL Of course, there was
some Inconvenience, but everybody was
In the mood to take things good natur
edly, and the second day of the Teunlon
can be described at a great success, but
with one distressing feature. That was
an accident lo Clifton George, secretary
of the local committee on reception, who
was thrown from his horse, and is
thought to have sustained fatal Injuries.
The central figure was the New Tork
Governor, and the guests of the city vied
with each other in extending to him a
true Western ovation. The Governor
himself rode a black charger In the pro
cession which passed through the prin
cipal streets. He was cheered all along
the lino, the c y. "Hurrah for Teddyl '
being the prevailing sentiment He was
not attired in the garb of a Rough
Rider, but wore a plain black cutaway
coat. The brown sombrero and spurs on
his boots alone marked him as the Col
onel of his famous regiment. The pro
cession "was formed of members of the
Grand Armv of the Republic and the
United Confederate "Veterans' Cavalry
from Fort Reno, a band of redmen in
their native garb, members of the Twen
tieth Kansas, First Tennessee and Firt
Colorado Volunteer Regiments and civic
organizations of Oklahoma City and
Guthrie.
The exercises of the day were held at
the fair grounds, and were presided over
by A. H. Clasjtn. chairman of the local
committee of entertainment. Governor
Farnea, of Oklahoma, and Mayor "Van
Wyckle. of this city, made welcoming
addresses, and Mrs. N. A. Jennings, of
New Tork. sang "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner. Colonel Roosevelt rose to his feet
when the first strains of the soul-stirring
anthem were heard, and soon the
entire assemblage of 5000 people was rev
erently standing. The scene became dra
matic when a Rough Rider unfurled the
Stars and Stripes and waved the ban
ner over the Governor's head.
A temporary interruption, that threat
ened to result in a panic, occurred dur
ing Governor Barnes speech. One of the
supports to the speakers' stand gave
way, and it was thought for a moment
that the structure Might fall, but the
presence ofmlnd of the Governor and the
owclals in charge averted any serious
crush, and when it was found that the
stand was solid after all. Governor
Barnes continued in his speech.
The introduction of Governor Roose
velt was the signal for an extraordinary
flemonstration, and at times he could
scarcely proceed with his address on ac
count of the applause. In the course of
bis speech the Governor said:
"I had never been in your territory
until last night, but I feel at home here.
You are bone of my bone, blood Of my
blood, and to the home of your sons I
am bound by the closest ties that can
bind one man to his brothers. I hope
to come down here often, and -next time
I come, I hope to see you a state. You
have got free homes, and now you need
statehood. I know I don't have to say
to you, least of all, to those who know
me closely like xny comrades here, that
I am with you heart and -soul to aid you
In whatever you desire.
"And I want today, first of all, to
thank the territory and city, whose
guests we are, for the magnificent hos
pitality extended to us, and then say how
glad 1 am that we had with us men of
the First Colorado, who followed Gen
eral Irving Hale: men of the Twentieth
.Kansas, who followed Eunaton and Met
calf, and men of the First Tennessee,
men of the different volunteer regiments,
and men also of those splendid regulars,
who, in time of war and time of peace,
are ever ready to do the bidding of our
common, country. And I am glad to Bee
here today representatives of the Ninth
and Tenth Cavalry, beside whom we
marched to victory on that blood-stained
morning, two years ago last Sunday.
3ea of Oklahoma it Is 11 years since
yott-had Oklahoma. Why are you here?
Because you expanded into Oklahoma.
This is not politics. This is a statement
of fact. Wherever the flag is, and as
Ions as there is aa armed foe against it,
the flag stays there. Among the men of
my regiment who are here today are men
partly or la whole of the blood of the
Pawnee, the Cherokee, the Chickasaw,
and the Creek, the ancient red owners of
tho soiL One of the men of that blood
I promoted for gallantry in action from
Second Lieutenant finally to a Captain.
Ee was shot, and before bis wound was
healed ho joined us at the front. And
now that man has a commission in the
army.-of tho United States over In the
Philippines. Now, why was he with me?
Because you had expanded over him;
because you had treated him with Justice;
because you had made one law the same
for all men. Injustice and wrong ruin
the nation that does it, and another thing
does it even quicker cowardice, cring
ing and shrinking from the work of the
world, when the world's work has got to
be done. We of the Rough Riders are
proud of our Colonel, the present General
Wood, proud of him not only because we
remember how he formed us, not only
because we remember how he led us in
the fight at Guasimas, when most of us
had not any ides, exactly how It felt to
be in a fight, but we found out. But we
are proud of him because he has been
an able and upright civic administrator
in Cuba; because we feel that our regi
ment has taken the lead in famishing the
sort of men who must be sent to the
tropic islands that have become ours, if
we are going to, as we must, make our
role a blessing Indeed to those islands.
"And I appeal to the people of the
great West. I appeal to the men who
fought in the Civil War, and to their
sons, who came forward so gallantly to
offer all that they had when the nation
called again. Whatever their party did,
I care nothing for their party, I appeal
to them to see to it that the nation does
not shrink from its work: that the flag
which has so far been borne to honor
shall be upheld forevermore as the flag of
the greatest and mightiest nation of man
kind, a nation that shrinks from no duty
when duty calls. I have a right to ap
peal, for I fought with a regiment from
the West containing many men from the
East, men whose fathers once wore the
' blue, others whose fathers wore the
gray, a regiment In which we knew
neither Easterner nor Westerner, nor
Northerner nor Southerner, no distinction
of creed or race or origin or occupation,
but in which we treated each man on his
worth as a man. We could get good
work out of that regiment, because every
man in it knew if he did his duty we
would "stand by him, and if he did not do
nls duty all the politicians In the land
could not save him.
"No nation, no matter how glorious
its record, can exist unless It practices
practices, mind you, not merely preaches
civic honesty, civic decency, civic
righteousness. No nation can perma
nently prosper unless the decalogue and
thtf'golden rule are Its guides in public as
in private life. Don't get into that most
foolish of attitudes of admiring mere
smartness, unaccompanied by moral pur
pose. "If we are going to make' this republic
what it ought to be, insist that a pub
lic man's deeds must square with his
words, that in his performances he must
make good his promises, or he has no
right to appeal to you for confidence or
for support, and when we have learned
that lesson, when we make it understood
that no ability, no capacity, nothing shall
atone for the lack of elementary decency
In public life, then we will put this nation
where it should be, the greatest among
the nations on which through 'the ages
the sun has ever shone."
At the conclusion of Colonel Roosevelt's
speech he was presented with a magnifi
cent sword and scabbard, the gift of the
citizens of Oklahoma City. During the
afternoon, the Governor was entertained
at the fair grounds by exnoits of dif
ferent sports in true Western style, in
cluding mule races, Indian dancing and
steer roping and tying. He was the
guest of honor at an Informal dinner in
the evening, and an elaborate display of
fireworks ended the day's festivities. The
Governor left on his special train tonight.
Governor Roosevelt Is expected to' deliver
some speeches tomorrow on the trip
through Kansas and Missouri.
A pathetic Incident of the reunion was
the presence of Mrs. Captain Capron,
widow of Captain Allen Capron. of Troop
L, of Rough Riders. Mrs. Capron was
seated on the platform during the de
livery of Governor Roosevelt's address
and the greeting between hnr and the
Governor was very affecting. She carried
in her hand the guidon of the regiment
draped In plain black, and when the boys
of the Rough Riders bore to the platform
the colors of the regiment, she wept
bitterly. Mrs. Capron came to Oklahoma
especially to attend the reunion of the
regiment in whose affairs her husband
bore so valorous a part.
CHAMPIONSHIP MEET.
Seattle Athletic Club Woa From
Multnomah.
SEATTLE, July 3. The fifth annual Pa
cific Northwest Athletic championship
meet was held here today, being won by
the Seattle Athletic Club by 80- points as
against 63 points of the Multnomah Ath
letic Club. Four new records were es
tablished, three by the victors and one
by Heater, of the visiting team. Heater
raised the pole vault record from 10 feet
10 inches to 10 feet 11M, inches with a
people who witnessed the contest. Paris,
of Seattle, broke the 440-yard-dash record,
lowering It to 52 2-5 seconds, from 53 2-3
seconds. In the one-mile bicycle race,
Mlllhouse, of Seattle, reduced the record
to 2 minutes 25 4-5 seconds, from 2:34. The
fourth record broken was the mile relay,
the time of which was lowered to S:41$i by
the Seattle Athletic Club.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Scores of Yesterday's Ball Games
in the East.
At Pittsburg
R H E R H E
Pittsburg .... 2 5 lJBoston 16 0
Batteries Chesbro and Zlmmer; Lewis
and W. Clarke.
At Chicago
R H El R. H E
Chicago 9 14 1 'Philadelphia . 3 10 3
Batteries Griffith and Donahue; Bern
hard and Douglass.
At Cincinnati
RHE RHE
Cincinnati ...10 7 4'New York .... 8 14 5
Batteries Breltenstein, Stimmel and
Peitx; Doheny, Hawley and Bowerman.
Other Games.
At Detroit Detroit, 5; Buffalo. 2.
At Sioux City Sioux City, 3; Des
Moines, 7.
At Minneapolis Chicago, 8; Minneap
olis, 8.
At Cleveland Cleveland, 5; Indianap
olis, 2.
At Kansas City Kansas City, 2;. Mil
waukee, 4.
Rational Le&gae Standing
,. Won. Lost." Per cL
Brooklyn ... z& 19 ,K5
Pittsburg ., t 33 25 5(9
Philadelphia ... 32 25 .561
Boston 27 28 .491
Chicago 26 30 .464
Cincinnati 24 31 .426
St. Louis 23 30 .434
New York 22 34 .393
Amateur Golf Tournament.
NSW YORK, July 3. Walter J. Travis,
of the Oakland, L. L, Golf Club, and
R. C. Watson, of the Westbrook Club,
tnet in the amateur golf tournament on
the Garden City Golf Club links today,
and Travis defeated his younger oppon
ent by two up and one to play. Six
pairs of golfers stayed 33 holes each to
day, which meant that 16 of the eligible
ones would be forced out of the tourna
ment during the afternoon.
While many of them had quite a follow
ing of friends, the chief interest of the
spectators was centered in tho match
between Travis and Watson. Up to and
including the sixth hole, Watson held his
own, but from' that point Travis made
gains which left him three up on the
ninth hole, and when the round was com
pleted, he had his lead Increased to five
up. Travis was not as good as usual on
the long game, but he did some remark
ably clever putting, which is considered
his weakest point in golt.
Sporting; Notes.
At the Seaside Athletic Club, Coney
Island, Dave Sullivan, of Ireland, was
disqualified in the 16th round of his bout
with Kid Broad, of Cleveland, for hit
ting low.
The stewards of Washington Park
Club, Chicago, announced that Barney
Schrieber will be barred from the track
hereafter, and will have to lose his horses
on account of inconsistent racing of Fly
by Night, who won the Oakwood handi
cap Saturday after having finished un
placed among poorer horses Thursday.
Winners of the races at heepshead
Bay were: Killashandra, Komara, Roll
ing Boer, Gharentus, Flora and Jack
Point. At St. Louis: Sam Lazarus, Cross
Molina, Minnie Cabb, Wlethoff, Early
Bird and Premus. At Newport, Villa "V..
Helma Clark. Pall Mall n. Ennonla and
Peter Duryeo. At Chicago, Hermoso,
Danger Line, Scheck. Sidney Lucas,
Moroni and Primar. At Fort Erie, Eleven
Bells, Miss Kringle, Fuimlnator, Earl
Fonso, Frank Morrison, Sister Alice and
Midnight Chimes.
EARLY MORNING FIRE,
i
FirevrorSu Bet Fire to Residence of
3 D. Honeyzaan.
This morning at 2:15 a still alarm called
Out truck company No. 2 and fire engine
No. 4, and the residence of J. D. Honey
man, SS0 Fourteenth street, was dis
covered on fire. The blaze had started
under the roof and the rear of the house
and roof were on fire. The cause of the
blaze is attributed to Fourth of July
fireworks. Twenty minutes active work
was sufficient to quench the flames. The
house was fully Insured. The damage is
estimated between H000 and $1500.
Woodstock: Sohpol.
The Woodstock School Board recently
re-elected Professor Miller, Miss Carrie
McCabe and Mrs. Anna Read as teachers
for the coming year? The district is in
excellent financial condition, there will
be a 10 months' school term, and the sal
aries of the teachers increased. The
years' work Just closed is one of the most
successful and satisfactory In the .history
of the school.
The patrons and residents of the dis
trict are well pleased that Professor Mil
ler has been employed for another year.
He is a most successful teacher, and a
man of unsusal strong character, whose
Influence for right and truth is felt in
every home A special meeting of the
voters of the district will be held at the
school house Saturday evening, July 7, to
elect a director to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of W. S.' Church, who
has moved out of the district.
COWARDLY CAPTAINS
JfEW YORK, TUGBOAT MEN WILL
BE PROSECUTED.
Refused to Save Lives During; the
Great Hoboken Fire Recov
ery of Bodies.
NEW YORK, July 8. One "hundred and
two bodies have been recovered from the
waters of the North River, up to 10
o'clock. The list Is growing hourly
and tomorrow, when the tide is at Its
lowest, it is believed that a great many
more bodies will be recovered. The dead f
tonight are distributed among the :
morgues in Hoboken, Jersey City and I
New York, and on the steamship Saale j
there are three bodies which have not i
been removed.
All day long the work of searching tho
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WESTON, Or.. July 1. Dr. J. A. Beattie, the newly elected President of the Eastern
Oregon State Normal School, at Weston, was born In Ohio In 1545. no wcelved hU edu
cation In the public schooks of Ohio, Savannah Academy and Bethany Col&g. He has at
tained the decrees of Master of Science, Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws, and his ex
perience as a teacher extends over a period of 33 years. He has served aa City Superin
tendent of Schools of Ashland, O.. and has been connected with Bedford College, Indiana;
OsfcalcoKL College, Iowa; Cotner University, Nebraska, and the State Normal School at
Peru. Neb. He now realms the Presidency of the latter Institution In order to accept the
position at Weston. In connection with his other duties. Dr. Beattie has done a .treat deal
of worlc In teachers' Institutes, and as a lecturer before teachers' gatherings generally.
For the past four years he has been a member of tho Educational Council of the State
Teachers' Association, of Nebraska, and of the Reading Circle Board.. As an instructor,
his work has been principally along the linos of mathematics, psychology rhetoric and
English literature, ethics, logic and pedagogy. Of the 33 years In which )he has followed
the teacher's profession, 15 have been devoted to administrative and executive work: The
selection of Dr. Beattie Is deemed an excellent one by patrons of the school' ,
The new'Presldent came ont from- Nebraska a few days ajo. and has been visiting his
son, R. Kent Beattie, Professor of Botany In the State Agricultural Collvge, at Pullman,
Wash. Ho has now returned to Peru. Neb., and will arrive at Weston In a.few weeks with
Mrs. Boattle and three daughters. t
ruins was kept up. The officials of the
North German Lloyd line were doing ev
erything they could to straighten out
matters and bring things into some sort
of tangible shape. Their main efforts
were directed to taking care of the sur
vivors and to securing an accurate list
of the missing. They looked after the
transportation to Germany of the sur
vivors who are In condition to go. Thoy
also gave to them clothing and fed them.
Official action was today started on
the charge of cruelty against tugboat
captains and also on the charges that
they refused to rescue persons unless
money was paid to them.
Information was sworn to before Re
corder Stanton, in Hoboken, todliy, by
Ferdinand H. Ktrowse, uhdrd officer of
ttjb Phancla, who charged -tftiat be tried
to get aboard a tug from one of tho
North German Lloyd piers and succeeded
In boarding her, but was put off becameo
he had no money.
A sensution was arcated by an an
nouncement from Mayor Fagan of Ho
boken, tlhat he wlK prosecute eH tug
boat captains against whom charges of
refusing to save lite r the greaa dock
Are can be substantiated. The Mayor says
he wlH apply for warranto chargtng two
tugboat captains with nwrdtjr and that
he has evMenco that these nwsi used
:boat hooks to keep drowning men from
cEntbrng on tfbe&r tugs because the un
fortucatea had no money. An effort Is
aiso to be made to have the licenses
of offending captains revoked.
Up to the stoppage of work late
last night 67 bodies had1 been; recov
ered. Wrecking tugs today continued
their work on the Main and Bremen, re
moving cargo and debris and trying to
reach the bodies believed to be In their
holds. Many persons are known to
have perished In these ships and the
search for the remains will be kept up,
but it la feared that any recovered will
be unrecognizable.
The body of an unknown man, thought
to be ohe of the victims of the fire, was
found at the foot of Essex street, Jer
sey City, today
Afto? dork aet night tire boeta of the
searcberfl were provided with bulls
eya Janrterne and electric hand
torches, and the force at work was
doubled, so, that no bodies might escape
up or down the river. The turning of the
tide Is tho time when bodies are started
from the bottom and come to the sur
face. The bodies began to appear Monday
afternoon when tho tide began to run
ebb, and they continued to rise until the
tide had fallen almost to dead slack. On
the return tide the guards were sent up
the river towards the ThtngvaKo; docks
to see that no bodies floated up the river.
The guard will be maintained for several
days.
Many of the 4,1 bodies found during the
first day's search rose to the surface of
the water between the long lines of partly
burned piles, which are now the only
remains of the four great piers. The
other bodies were dragged from the mud
at the bottom of the river near tho bulk
heads, and some nearer the river ends of
the piers. Scores of men placed about
the docks all day in rowboats were
dragging the mud with grappling irons
or poking with long -poat hooks. Some
of the boats would come to shore with
two and some with three bodies. Men
were stationed at the Hamburg piers to
watch for any bodies that might float
down the stream and be carried towards
the bay. The searchers Tor the bodies
were volunteer workers. They prosecuted
the search without promise of reward.
The New Jersey naval reserves on the
training-ship Portsmouth, to the north of
the Valencia Club's boothouse, saw the
body of a woman floating in the river and
made attempts to recover It, but It was
lost while they wers lowering a boat.
A grocer named Boxbeegan, of Brook-
lyn. went to Hoboken with the Idea of
Identifying a friend. He viewed several
bodies In tho morgue and soon after
ward dropped dead.
Supervising Inspector-General Dumont,
of the steamboat inspection service,
Washington, has forwarded a letter to the
local Inspectors in this city directing that
an investigation be begun at once of the
charge that the captain of the tugboat
Dandy refused to take men from the
steamship Bremen because" they had no
money. In his letter the Supervising Inspector-General
said:
"Wnile it seems almost incredible that
any licensed officer conld be guilty of
such chaxres as are alleged against the
masier of the Dandy, yet the charge is &o
circumstantial it seems that your office
should take Immediate notice of It, so that
if true such misconduct may be punished
to the extent of your lawful authority."
Professor A. E. Burgeon, of tihe
Agricultural College, at College Sta
tion, Texas, bad a ', thrilling ex
perience on tho steamshlj) Bremen. He
was visiting a friend named 'Wolf, a
mechanical engineer of Hoboken. The
Texan was very anxious 'to see the en-
gine-room of an ocean steamship, and
his friend, who was a friend of one of
the engineers of the Bremen, secured per
mission to pay a visit.
They were down In the;engine-room, on
the Bremen when the Are started. In an
instant they found the usual means of
egress cut off by the flames. They ran
out into the hold and came to a hatch
way, through which was suspended a
rope. '
"It Is your only hope; professor; shin
It." said Wolf.
Tho professor tried to climb the rope,
but It was beyond his power.
"Good-bye, o!d man; you will have to
go witnout me," he said, to Wolf. After
a final embrace, tho athlete grasped the
rope. He reached the air in safety, jumped
overboard and was rescued by a passing
! tug.
Down in the stoke hole, the professor
found that he had many companions in
misery. Ho counted about 30 engineers,
firemen and coalpassers, all huddled In
one compartment of the hold.
After a whilo one of the engineers opened
a coaling port and dropped him out Into
the water. He was picked up by & tug
and sent to a hospital. m
The work of removing the car
go from the Saale was discon
tinued today, and a gang of 35 men
was put to work preparing tho ship for
pumping out. Divers weresent down to
J cover the'portiholes that were broken, aril
u. uuuiuer ul uuuerraaKers commencea to
remove rivets from the Iron work that
now covers the ways to tho steerage
hatchway. When this hatchway is opened
up, It Is expected that a number of
bodies will be found..
The fine on the Main has been put out
ana wnne tne upper works will have to
be rebuilt, tho hull of the vessel is in
pretty fair shape. The plates of the hull
above watar, altfhough burned off, have
not sprung any leaks, which shows her
bottoms were not much affected by the
heat.
The Bremen, beached alongside of the
Main or the WetfcowJwn flats, rests on
her port side. The visible part of her
lines, the upper works, looks a deplora
ble wreck, but her hull Is nearly all right
The powerful derrick Monarch is keep
ing the Bremen from keeling over to
port.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross, the
only vessel of the fleet in port to escape
the flames of Saturday, sailed today for
Bremen. On the verael And on all the
piers and shipping and along tho river
the flags were flying at half-mast. The
piers were crowded with people. The
steamship sailed at 10 A. M., with cabins
and steerage full.
Emperor William's Sympathy.
BERLIN, July 3. Tho officials of the
North German Lloyd Company have re
celved a telegram from Emperor William
expressing sympathy with the company
In the calamity that has befallen it.
Foreign Sotes.
The English House of Lords passed the
Australian commonwealth blin
The Consul-General of Colombia at New
York denies that the rebels In his coun
try are making headway
The United States training-ship Buffalo,
which left Malta June 30. on her way fo
Manila, arrived at Port Said yesterday.
'From one and one-half to three inches
of Tain has fallen over the whole drouth
stricken portion of the Colony of Queens
land. The Khedive paid a state visit to the
City of London yesterday; afternoon, and
lunched at the Guild Hall, after the wel
coming ceremonies had been carried out
in the art gallery
QUAINT TOWN OF TAKU
DID?rT AMOUNT TO MUCH AS A
FORTIFIED POST.
Desolate Surrounding aad Business
of Comparatively Little Import
ance Climate Ifot Castrating.
The town of Taku, which has Just been
captured by the allied civilized nations,
is a military settlement rather than a
city, says Marghertta A. Homm in the
New Tork Post. It is situated at tho
mouth of the Peh Ho. the chief river in
the province of Chi LL It was origin
ally a fishing village, and a favorite ren
dezvous of pirates and, smugglers. Even
before the first war of China with Eng
land it was fortified in the antiquated
style so dear to the Chinese heart. The
old fort is still In existence, and is won
dered at and laughed over by the few
who visit the place. The walls are made
of brick and earth and are reinforced by
mud banks made from the oozy soil of
the neighborhood. Originally It was
armed with smooth-bore, muzzle-loading
32 and 64-pounders. It was a stronghold
according to the standards of the last
century, but under modern conditions
practically worthless. It was neatly de
scribed to a party of friends by the late
Captain Gridley, of the Olympla, as "the
most satisfactory cattle-pen on the Chi
nese Coast." During the war between
France and China In 1SS4-1SS5 the old fort
was greatly strengthened by earthwork
batteries on both sides of the river, and
by a number of Krupp and Armstrong
guns. It was the intention of tho Chi
nese commander-in-chief to use Arm
strongs exclusively, but the Britsh agent
refused to pay any commission Jo the
Chinese officials or to give receipts for
amounts larger than those he received.
Negotiations were therefore broken oft
with him, and the remainder of the arma
ment supplied through Chinese intermedi
aries, who furnished Krupp guns at fig
ures satisfactory to themselves and the
purchasers.
"Quaker" Cartridges, Wooden Gun".
The corruption which marked this of
ficial huslness was Illustrated soon after
the breaking out of the war between
China and Japan, when over 1000 cart
ridges In stock turned out to be clay
neatly molded, silvered, and japaned, so
as to be almost Indistinguishable from
the real article. Two of these "quaker"
cartridges were exhibited in Yokohama
among other relics of the International
contest. It Is said by old residents of
Tien Tsln that at least two of what
seemed to bo the largest-sized Krupp
guns were made of wood, painted, sil
vered and carved so as to be perfect
Images of the steel and iron weapons of
the famous German Ironmaster.
There Is no harbor to Tarxu, It being
upon the low coast of tho Hoang Hal,
or Yellow Sea. The settlement consists of
barracks, officers' quarters, a small custom-house,
and a. lot of poor Chinese
houses or hovels. The land is a port of
the delta t of the Peh Ho. This river,
though small, brings down an enormous
amount of silt, andkls steadily shoaling
up the sea beyond. Although the Yel
low Sea Is rather turbulent, the fierce
river Is moving the bar out steadily. The
charts show this movement very clearly.
Those of the early part of the century
make the bar about three miles from the
shore, in 1S50 it was about four anu a
half-miles, and today it is six miles. At
this distance from the land there Is
only 12 feet at low tide, excepting in the
four channels. The bottom Is mud, the
soft and so free from rocks that the
coasting captains who ply that part of
the Chinese waters think little of FUnnlns
aground in this -neighborhood. For many
years enterprising merchants have kep
powerful steam tugs at Tien Tsln, and
they make a handsome profit In towing
vessels up and down the Peh Ho, and In
pulling luckles3 ships oft the number
Uess shoals within the bar.
A Desolate Landscape.
Taku Is exceedingly desolate. Though
the soil Is very rich and vegetation grows
with rapidity, yet the poverty of the
people compels them, to utilize the small-
cat pieces of vegetable matter. In tho
Fall the writor has noticed the natives
gathering all the dead leaves, and just
before the first frost they dug up all the
roots, even the grass roots, dried them,
and put them by for fuel. From October
until April, therefore, the ground is as
bare as a newly ploughed field, and the
endless expanse of clay, sand and silt
forms as lugubrious a background as the
eye could rest upon. So thorough is this
robbery of green things that the land
birds go to more favorable districts, and
even such winged creatures as the wild
ducks make but a short stay in their
long flight to warmer climes.
The natives of Taku belong to the same
type as those of other towns in Chi Li
and Shan Tung. They are much larger,
heavier, and stronger than those of the
south, who give U3 S9 per cent of our
Chinese population, and they nre of much
lighter complexion, many of them having
gray or hazel eyes, brown and even dark
red hair They ore proud and more inde
pendentandoftenmore unruly than their
colleagues In the south. In size and
stature they compare well with the ave--oge
American. Through this district Is
found a strain of very tall and powerful
men, who, according to their own leg
ends, are descendants of a famous Mon
golian horde that camo from the north
several thousand years ago. It is this
breed which produced Chang, the star
giant of Barnum's moral show in the
years long gone by, and Chang's sister,
a colossal maiden eight feet four inches
in height.
The climate of Taku cannot be recom
mended from any point of view. In Win
ter it is bitterly cold, and all communica
tion is shut off by a wall or great ram
part of Ice at sea and drifts of snow on
land. For three months the place Is thus
buried alive. During the Spring rains
the territory is a miasmatic marsh, and,
during the rest of the year. It is hot,
dusty, insect-ridden and uncomfortable.
From Taku an excellent military road
runs to Tien Tsln. It owes Its existence
and fine condition to U Hung Chang,
who. during his 'long official residence
there as Viceroy, bestowed more care
and labor upon the thoroughfares of hla
Jurisdiction than any other Viceroy.
While tho road is not equal to the im
perial post road, which runs through the
empire, it is much better than the aver
ago Chinese road, which goes up and
down hill with no regard to safety or
comfort. It seems to have been flagged
in the beginning of history and not to
have been repaired since. Any good
points about it are due to the millions
of feet, brute and human, which have
traversed its surface, and the rain and
wind, which have brought dust and debris
to fill up Its Inequalities.
The Peh Ho is a stream which resem
bles some of the rivers flowing into tho
Gulf of Mexico. It twists and winds like
a serpent and changes Its channel with
regularity and dispatch. It Is always nav
regularity and dispatch. It Is always
navigable to light-draught boats, and
during the Spring, to steamers of 20 and
21 feet draught There is a river popula
tion as upon every stream In the Celes
tial Empire, but on account of the bitter
Winters and the Spring freshets Its hab
its are very different from those which
prevail on the Yangtse and the Si Klang.
In the early Fall the Junkmen draw their
clumsy crafts high up on the banks and
build around them walls of mud. Fre
quently the walls will be higher than the
gunwales. The first frost changes the
mud to crystalline hardness, making It
a capital defence against cold and storm.
This practice has been copied by civilized
nations, and many aro the men-of-war,
English and American, which have gone
into mud quarters during the Winter at
Tien Tsln station. Our own people have
developed the Chinese practice into a
science and have won the admiration of
the Mongolians. One Winter tho Palos,
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which was a light-draught gunboat, ran
on a mud flat at high tide. A mud wall,
eight feet high and 10 feet wide, was built
all around It. Between the walls and
the boat the sailors put straw, and on
tho straw a coating of mud eight Inches
thick. From the port and starboard gang
ways they ran out wooden platforms to
the top of the wall and thence a light
bridge to the land. Over the deck they
built a barnlike structure containing win
dows, and covered all the joints with pa
per. While building the deck cover the
early frost converted the mud into ada
mant, and so gave them an outside wall
to their craft which was proof against
cold, rats and thieves. They next made
a skating pond along tho wall, and there
during the Winter they held high carni
val. Jnnlc Trade Crushed by Steam.
At one time there was a large Junk
trade on tho Peh Ho, especially of big
freight Junks, bringing rice, beans, bean
cake, bean-oil, and foreign goods to Tien
Tsln. This was almost wholly destroyed
by the coasting steamers. At the present
time two Chinese, four Japanese, six
English, and one German line of steamers
call regularly at Tien Tsln. and at least
two tramp steamers visit It every week.
As a single steamer will bring from 10
to 50 times as much cargo as a Junk, the
decadence of the junk trade is easily
understood. The Junkmen, who even to
day are a powerful element in the work
ing classes, are very bitter against the
foreign devil and his vessels, and even
more bitter against the Chinese mer
chants, who are now so largely interested
in steam navigation. It must be remem
bered that these coasters are manned
by Chinese crews, chiefly Swatow men,
with Malay quartermasters. The Swa
tow men speak a language uttterly unin
telligible to the people of Chi LI, who re
gard them as foreigners of a worse type
than those who have red heads, I. e.,
English or Luzon men (Spaniards), or
Flower-flag men, that is, Americans. A
Chinese steamship sailor receives ?S gold
a month, while the junkman, even in his
palmy days, got but ?1 or $1 50. To the
resentment occasioned by the destruction
of the business is added the Jealousy
produced by seeing a rival receive what
Is to him a princely salary. This may
account In some measure for the fact
that most of the disturbances of the pres
ent insurrection have thus far taken place
on the great internal water-ways, which
have been so profoundly affected com
mercially In the past decade.
Xativc Soldiers.
The native soldiers at Taku are no bet
ter and no worse than those of other
ports. At one time when LI Hung Chang
was in power In Chi LI they were well
drilled, and were thoroughly familiar with
modern weapons, but during the war with
Japan his famous army corps was broken
up. and when he was displaced and de
graded the efficient organization which he
had created at Tien Tsln and Taku was
utterly demolished by his conservative
rivals. Only one regiment and a brass
band remain at Tien Tsln to tell the story
of their former greatness. For the last
five years the Taku garrison has consist
ed of poorly dressed, poorly fed, and
poorly drilled raw levies, with their pay
generally six months In arrears, and with
no medical attendance excepting that
which they could secure from a medical
missionary. Many of them have never
fired a rifle nor handled a cartridge. So
far as Is known, they have never used
the big guns, the only firing they have
done being the salute from a light fleld
pleco whenever a man-of-war passed
the forts en route to Tien Tsln. The pres
ent officers are on a par with the men.
Under the conservative administration of
tho Empress Dowager, all the foreign
drillmasters have been discharged from
the Imperial service, and their places
filled with graduates of the Manchurlan
Military College at Pekln. This school,
its system and graduates, would be ridic
ulously funny If they were not so piti
able. Their chief text book upon military
science is a literary classic more than
1000 years old. It abounds In such extra
ordinary recommendations as these:
"A wise General plays sweet music be
fore going Into battle In order to lull his
enemies Into a deep sleep."
"A good Commander should insist upon
his men practicing with the bow to shoot
backwards as they ride on their horses,
and should at times lead In the exerclso
himself."
"No General should go to war without
taking with him an extra red umbrella
and an extra umbrella-bearer."
These graduates are supposed to have
mastered horsemanship, bow and arrow,
tho spear, the sword, and martial music,
these being even today the chief features
of the Manchurlan curriculum.
The Taku garrison is supposed to con
sist of 5000 soldiers commanded by a Ti
Tal or MaJor-General. If Taku Is like
most of tho garrison cities of China, the
5000 soldiers existed only on paper, ex
cepting so far as drawing their salaries
from the National treasury was con
cerned and are represented by 1100 or
1200 poor wretches no more entitled to
the name of soldier than tho little New
York boys who parade up and down the
street with wooden guns and paper hats.
The Prohibition Convention.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It seemed to ,be the prevailing opinion
among the delegates that the way to
promote the holy cause of temperance
was to slur the Government and Insult
the President of the United States. But
the charitable view is that the majority
of the delegates, Influenced by the causes
set forth above, lost control of them
selves, and that, advantage was taken
of their hysterical condition by the pro
fessional politicians. The dupes of these
professionals seem to have conceived the
idea that the canteen is not an institu
tion that has come down to us through
tho decades, but rather a recent device
lnyented by William McKInley, of Ohio,
for the purpose of debasing the American
soldier and demoralizing the American
army. They have evidently a vague idaa
that tho canteen is something in the
nature of a tin pall or "growler." From
tho remarks of several delegates It ap
pears also to be a common belief In the
convention that William McKInley Is
never quite so happy as when pouring
strong liquors or serving foaming beer
to his callers.
Getting Hla Properties. "Gimme a pair of
Ions, yellow chin-whiskers," said tho man with
the sun-burned face and' slightly rural air.
"Detective, eh?" aslced the costumer. "Naw.
Summer boarders are coming next week., 'and
I've sot to rlt On a make-up for my part."
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ERRORS IN QUOTATIONS
XT IS BOTH TJNWISB AKD VJSSATM
TO RELY OX THE 2IK2IOB.T.
Jingle of Earl of Boieomaos. Creft
Ited to Pope Quotations T2ia
Are Constantly- Abased a ,j
The longer one follows the businewefi
writing tho more entirely he becamss
convinced, by withering experiences, of
the unwisdom and unsafety of quoting
from memory, says tho Rochester Demo
crat and Chronicle.
The man who quotes, without refresh
ing his memory or correcting his distinct
impression of the passage quoted by ref
erence to the text, will, In nine cases out
of 10, bungle his quotation, even If It be
of a passage so familiar that to inclose
it in quotation marks seems almost an In
suit to his readers. Indeed, the more fa
miliar the passage the more entirely cer
tain you are that you recollect it per
fectlythe surer you are to get it wrong.
For the words that are so familiar to you
are, most often, not the words of the
author, but merely the popular colloquial
version, practically certain to be incor
rect, of the author's words. By trusting
to your momory of such passages you not
merely risk mangling them which fault.
If you cling to the popular version, la
likely to pass unrebuked but you also
risk miscrediting them, ascribing them to
some author who didn't writo them;
which fault Is most unlikely to escape
unrebuked by some superfluous busybody.
A Frightful Example.
Hero Is Paul Leicester Ford, In his
"Janice Meredith," furnishing a frightful
example of the danger of quoting from
memory. A man of wide reading, who
ought to know better a "literary feller,"
who ought to set a good example of cor
rectness In quotation to common folks
he falls Into one of the commonest and
most frequently corrected of familiar
misquotations. He had occasion to quote
these lines:
Immodest words admit of no defense.
Or want of decency Is wont of sense.
(Being "entirely familiar" with them,
as everybody is, the advisability of veri
fying his impression of them did not sug
gest itself to him. He confidently quoted
from memory, and so, of course, mis
quoted them, writing "want of modesty"
for "want of decency," and erroneously
ascribing their authorship to Pope. To
do him justice, he doesn't mention Pope
by name, but refers the authorship to
"the reigning poet of the eighteenth cent
ury." The Chronicler thinks it fair to
assume that by "the reigning poet of the
eighteenth century" Mr. Ford meant
Pope.
At any rate, he certainly couldn't have
meant the real author of the lines, the
Earl of Roscommon. For tho Earl of
Roscommon was never "tho reJgnintr
poet of any century, nor any sort
poet of tho ISth century, because ho TiV
been dead and buried 18 years when the
ISth century began. Mr. Ford had prob
atory never read tho author's own wordsw
That Jg no reproach to Mm. Probably
nobody now alive has ever read the. Earl
of Roscommon's "Eioays in Traaslatedi
Verso." So Mr. Ford thought tho lines
were Pope's; because they sound Hka
Pope, and because almost everybody
thinks they are Pope's. He followed tho
multitude with unquestioning faith, and
because, to quote another line of the
Earl of Roscommon's; "The multitude i
always in the wrong" in regard to quo
tations he earned hia little reminder that
every author receives sooner or later of
the wiodom of verifying one's quotatloni
before letting them into print.
"Familiar 911s Quotations.
Somo ono with time enough for th
necessary research couJd write" a very
entertaining essay on "Familiar Misquo
tations." There are a host of them. The
Chronicler probably baa a great many of
them stored away in hds mind, ready at
the first favorable opportunity to faros
themselves lnta Chronicling In the guise
of quotations and get him. into trouble,
but he only knows a. very few of them for
what they are. There is tho remark that
"if a man were permitted to maJce all the
ballads ho need not care who Should make
tho laws of a Nation" publicly misquot
ed a dozen times every day In the year,
and as often erroneously ascribed, to
Fletcher "of Saltoun, aJways, for soma
unknown reason, called "Old" Fletcher
of Saltoun in this connection. Then there
Is-
The mind Is Its own place, and In ltsalt
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Most persons aro now aware that the
haunting Idea that theso lines are Shakes
peare's is a delusion and a snare, but
they are still almost Invariably misquot
ed thus:
"The mind Is Its own place, and of it3elf
Can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell."
Then there are "Go& tempers the wind
to the shorn lamb," as to which It Is
most difficult to rid yourself of the Im
pression that it must oe somewhere in
the Bible," although you know better;
and, on the other hand, "Evil communi
cations corrupt good manners," which ap
peals to most persons as a proverbial
saying of unknown origin, although It oc
curs in a chapter of the Bible than which
no other is more frequently read In pub-
lie. These, with the Earl of Roscom
mon's lines, already referred to, about
complete the Chronicler's list of quotation
traps from which he Is fairly safe. As
you see, the list is short. It could easily
bo extended. For any one can procure
plenty of material for a long and enter
taining essay on "Familiar Misquota
tions" by writing down, from memory,
all the familiar quotations he can think
of, and then verifying thm with ha
aid of an authoritative "Dictionary of
Quotations."
Sapphires of Many Hues.
New Tork World.
It used to be supposed that a perfect
sapphire must be of a dark, rich blue tint.
Now the discovery of a new sapphire
mine in the Rocky Mountains, where
stones were found varying in their shades
of color from a light steel blue to the
deep blue tint and again from a lovely
amethyst to a ruby red, has changed all
that. These new sapphires have become
the rage. They touched the whole color
3calo of blue, red and purple,