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10 THM SUNDAY OKEUUJNlAfl, PUKTLAJS'D, JULY. 8, 1900. HOW LIEUTENANT GILMORE WAS RESCUED A 'Graphic Description of the Life and Social Habits of the Natives of the Philippines.' ON BOARD U. S. CRUISER PRINCE TON, off Aparri, Island of Luzon. February Ifi, 1900. It Is very pleas ant, caring: loin In the 'long shore current that sweeps the north coast of Luzon, and broadside on, wallowed deep In the rollers which the Dorthv&st monsoon beads thundering in On the low beach, to enter Rio de Caga yen and lie quietly somewhere in the long stretch that forms the harbor for the town of Aparri. One looks astern toward the mouth of the river as the vessel lies to the current, and on a windy day soes the dead white streaks of the combers come from one end of the bar to the other. The grove of tall cocoanut pilms oa the point to the left masks the close lying nlpa houses of the village of Llnao and the trim little lighthouse that winks so tirelessly from dusk till dawn. On the right is a low spot of sand, the fisher huts and mounds of primitive salt works in relief against the foam and sea bejond. to where, 3D miles away, the blue blur of the crater peak of Kimaguln stains the rim of sky. More to the right and. nearer is the narrow marsh that sep arates the main channel from the town of Aparri, while in the background the sky Is notched by the roofs nnd towers. To the left, this side of Ltnao, and on both banks of the river, is a great level green that reaches to the distant moun tains. One must go almost down to the river's mouth to where, in the wind, the white curls of sea pliy upon the beaten face of the sandy beach, to reach the town. As the launch slips along the back chan nel with the sound of breakers Just be yond the strip of sand one sees the II banac fishermen at close quarters. Thy are mending boats, drying nets, casting for bait, or lounging in their shed-llkc huts, and though next door, as it were, to town, they seom to hwe caught very little of civilized dress or manners. When the first boat from the ship went alongside one of the dilapidated wharves there was standing upon it a forlorn cannon, brought down from the trenches evidently by one whose frd for curios was greater than his ideas for their transportation. The gun was a small one mounted upon the roughest of wood en carriages. A bent axle tilted one of the wheels, a section of tree trunk, quite out of parallel with the other, giving the piece a very mournful look. It is but a few minutes' walk through streets of quite ordinary, plain houses of the uuil Filipino pattern to the plaza, an unkempt bit of posture enclosed by the church and the best of the houses, a bandstand in the center sadlv In need of repnlr, and a neat-looking bll-tower near the church In one corner as its only orna ment. This, beside the nlpa huts that stretch out In all directions, except to wards the river front, is all there is to the town of Aparri. A Filipino Family. The people are much the same as those I have seen In other towns. A few Span iards, some natives of Intelligence and education, and s. great many uneducated, nhlftlcss, worthless ons. The Jefe local is a rather striking-looking man, almost as dark as a negro, but with fine lips and straight black, hair. I went to his house, and, evidently as a concession to American Ideas, he introduced his wife and daughter, "besides the numerous rel atives, retainers and visitors, from which a well-to-do Filipino house never seems to be free The mother is a nlec looktng womnn, but the daughter Is act ually pretty, to one who has become ac customed to the type of Filipino. Her face is a clear, dark brown, her eyes long and Just a trifle obliquely set, her teeth the perfect, clear white of all Fili pinos who do not chew betel, and which I put down as due to a rice diet, her head well set upon her shoulders, and her figure petite and graceful. In her plain, low-cut Unci bodice, the stiff panuelo of plna about the shoulders and folded di agonally so that the corners can be caught together in front by a little dia mond butterfly pin, tho gay skirt pulled in tightly at tho waist, the 5m ill bare feet, cither In or out, of the heelles 6llppers showing Just beneath It, make an unconventional but decid edly pleasing picture. The daily rou tine of the family seems to bo to sit around and entertain callers, or, if none enmo, to take siestas, or look out of the windows. These windows arc a distinct ive .feature of Island architecture. In the house one can go to almost any part of the outside walls and slide back a panel to get a view without. The whole walL from walst-hlgh to celling, is made up or these eliding shutters. Glass, of course. Is not seen, rxcept In small panes let into the center of the shutter. The women never go out except to church, the men comparatively little. On feast days many visitors come, and, after' tho meal in many houses, the adults gather round the cleared white cloth, to gamble. In the larger houses a proper sign of Its necessities are many chairs, but I have yet to see the woman, when interested enough to forget herself, who will, set Jn1 them properly. All shed their slippers and get their feet up under them, or at least, upon the upper rungs. The women, too, seem to do mot of tho clgar smoklng here, tho men preferring cigar ettes, The usual cigar, which one see even In the mouths of children, is quite a foot long, roughly rolled, and tied with p string to keep It In form. Fvxx Xntlres SpenU Spanish. I am surprised that so few of the na tives speak. Spanish well. One would think that the long regime of that language would have resulted In the extinction of the. native dialects, or at least. In the general adoption of Spanish, In the prin cipal towns, but It seems not to be so. A-partlcular friend of mine, Senor Bns ter Salel, lles In one of the grassy streets Just off the plata. He Is a little man Volghlng not mora than 100 pounds, I should say. with a smooth brown skin, intelligent eyes, and thick hair and mous tache Just showing gray. Ho married well and now lends the Ufa of the well-to-do. At 7 ho has his breakfast, or rather his chocolate and bit of bread, after which ho walks out, or sits in his little office. Just oft the small porch which leads from the steps to tho front door proper. At noon comes tho dinner -and the siesta In bed. or in one of the deep cane-bottom chairs, till 2:30: then a waJk out on business, if necessary; at 4:30 choeofate and poto, a nice light bread made from rice flour: then Jo the plaza to hear the band play, or to visit with friends till 9 o'clock and supper and so to "bed. Senor "Said's wife plnys a very small part, or rather a very client part, in the household. She disappears at once, on approach qf visitors, only to reappear when called to execute some order of her husband. I more than suspect that her function is more that of head cook and nurse, than companion in the establish ment. The children, unkempt, little half dressed things, with shoe-button eyes, I catch glimpses of playing in farther rooms. American Soldier Appear. We were idling one day at Aparri In the afternoon under the awning, when we noticed a narrow native canoe ap proaching the ship with a rough-looking crew. Some were white men, we could see, and it was supposed that they were more of the Spanish prisoners escaped from somewhere from the insurrectos, and coming to us for protection. But. when within hail, one of them sang out in unmistakable American, we were roused out of our idleness. Ho shouted to our answering inquiry that he was Colonel Howse, of the Thirty-third Regiment, TJ. 8. V., Just come from the mountains. I looked hard at the figure in tattered clothes, and. though I had known Howse at "West Point, it was hard to recognize that burnt face under the ragged beard. Coming aboard he electrified us by say ing that he had pushed on ahead of a column commanded by Colonel Hare, which had succeeded in freeing Lieuten ant Glllmore. of the Navy, and some 25 fellow prisoners, after following them to the center of what had hitherto been sup posed an absolutely Inaccessible mountain region. In & few words he outlined an adventurous march which surpassed roost fictign. How Gtllmore Wai Rescued. It appears that somewhere in the moun tains back of "Vigan. on the west coast, about half way between Manila and the north of the Island of Luzon, the Amer icans had got wind of the whereabouts of the American prisoners. From that moment they began a doggedly persis tent chase that continued till the Fili pinos had been pressed so hard that to escape they had to abandon the prison ers. At first onr men had General Tlnlo in front of them, wh6 tried, when fol lowed close, to mislead them by diverg ing into the interior of tho island with the main body of hla troops and all of the treasure, while detailing only a small guard with the prisoners to plunge Into tho mountains. Fortunately, this was discovered and, though out of shoes and clothing, with but five days' rations, the little column sent back all but the pick of the men, abandoned all horses, tho country being Impassible for any anlmils. and plunged in after the prisoners. The country was Indescribable. Ridge after ridge, almost bare of vegetation, and canyon after canyon, liable with a few minutes rain to become rushing rivers, were crossed. With the help of the savage na tives, to whom theTagals are traditional onemles, the troops managed to keep tho trail. At one point, as Colonel Hare told afterward, It divided. There were evi dences of recent travel along both banks of the fork. The Colonel said he halted the column, and sat at the crossroads for some time In anxious Indecision waiting an Inspiration, nnd, falling that, chose at ha"zara. He walked on about 100 yards, but some Impulse made him stop, turn back and tnke the other, the true trail. Prisoners iRnornnt of Pnrsnlt. At tW time Glllmore was being presKd" ahead in Ignorance of the pursuit. Into what he saw was the wildest desolation. The party of prisoners was a mixed one sailors, soldiers and civilians. Americans, English, Swedes and Germans. One was a man of the Signal Corps, captured while trying to run a telegraph wire through exposed country; another an Englishman prospecting for gold; an other, a soldier, the only one left of a "point," his three comrades having been found one day by bullets coming from the brush ahead and stretched stark upon the velvet green of a rice field. As though to give a real touch of fiction, another was a civilian, agent for Pabst beer, who had been picked up by the Insurrectos while beyond tho lines in lonely chase of a captured casco of beer. He was a weak-eyed man with a fringe of blonde beard about his face, typically German in appearance, and with a quiet manner that little showed the pluck and persist ence of the man always hustling for trade, never forgetting Its advertisement. Through a grim humor, perhaps, or as a trail mark, or, not lmp'stilbly. because his character as a selling agent wns par amount to all happenings as a prisoner, barefooted, dressed In shirt and trousers only, when he was not too tired with tho day's march he would mark upon some rook or board stuck in the fork of a tree; "ASK FOR PABST BEER. "Guaranteed Perfect." Imagine coming upon this sign, like the pursuers, in some lonesome defile. How They Pieced n King1. While at Vigan with some hope that they might have occasion to use It what they did not know at least to have it anyway the little party had saved their food allowance of 5 cents a day, enough to buy secretly and piece by piece the stuff for a flag. They could not get a solid blue for the field of the ensign, so they bought a figured blue piece and sewed on the rough stars irregularly to cover the figures as far as possible. During the wild flight tho flag was carried In some one's shirt unknown to the guard till the day of rescue. GlKmore oiid that eceaedonally some man swayed by a shamefaced Impulse would ask for a secret jook at It. 'Does not the picture of these men denying themsolves and running risk to possess so frail a bond to country, that seemed so impossibly out of reach, as that bit of bunting, equal in dramatic force most that fiction could conceive? Notwithstanding that no test was al lowed the prisoners it was evident that the pace of the escaping party was not sufficient, for one day. at the edge of a river cataract, with the sawtooth hills covored Just here with a forest growth rising on el'hcr side, tho Filipino officer told the prisoners that he must abandon them. It seemed like leaving them to an Ingeniously cruel fae. Worn with forced marching and without provisions, they saw in this what was doubtless Tlnlo's original Idea, the deliberate intention to abandon them to starvation or death at the hands of tho Igorottes. Glllmore asked the officer for two rifles to keep off the savages. The request was Refused. When the guard had gono the men gath ered roimd Glllmore. choosing him as leader, and it was decided to build rafts and try to run the rapids of the river to again cross the mountains was certain death- Some started to build rafts of bamboo tied with strips of rattan, while others were detailed to gather stones for weapons with the wild Idea of keeping off the Igorottes by such primitive means. Glllmore rays he had no hope of getting through himself, or for many with him, for they were at the limit of their endur ance, but he thought one or two of the strongest might survive to carry the news of the fate of the rest. Then Crime the Tlesoie. It was at this Juncture that Colonel HOwse came upon them. In advance of the column he caught sight of the, little knot of men at the edge of the stream. He could not realize that the guard was not still with them and waited till some of his men came up to push out around the flanks. Then he hailed the prisoners, tell ing them to He down and escape the Are. That order was not obeyed, but with a yell the prisoners rushed tumultuously upon theJr rescuers. Some say the overstrained men wept with relief and Joy. They deny It, Do you blame them If they did? It was a strange encounter. The prison ers in tattered clothes, picked up along the route, were very little worse off than the soldiers of the rescue party. The trail was so bad thaj with wading and climb ing shoes gave out Inside a week. Ihe country traversed was barren and Inhab ited only by nomadic savages. The emer gency rations were nearly exhausted, and but for their numbers and arms the plight of the column was little better than that of the prisoners. But now all was different. The prisoners were once more with friends; the others had forced suc cess by dogged chase and nothing re mained but to reach civilization again. But how to do this? For many days they had marched without seeing enough food to carry them bock. So they could not return. It was decided at last to adopt GUlmorc's plan and fore a passage out by" the river. Jn a week they thought they would react tho sea. It took 17 days. There was no sign of trail, the gorge sometimes being no more than a perpen dicular cut in thp rocks. Rapids were so frequent that Abating was out of the question except flor short distances. Sometimes it wax climbing up nearly to the top of the ridge to And a possible path, sometimes it wras worming around a corner on a spranr-wet ledge. At one place it was necessary to swing men and what equipage wa left from one tree bough to another -with a drop Into a seething pool as the price of failure. Five miles' progress was h. good day's work; sometimes it was not more than two. One day the river had to be crossed by ferry or fording 17 times, land during the trip the average was m3re than five. From capsizing rafts they loat nearly all their guns and equipments. Food there was none except the rice found In the houses of the Igorottes. who usually fled on ap proach like goats to the highest peaks. Often it was necessury to pound out the rice from the "palAy" all night long, working In shifts at the crude native mills to get enough food for the next day. Clothes gave out, shoes fell to pieces, feet MAKES England CreattNavy Distributed for Protection of British Isles Alone, and for Same Little Patch and tho Coast Line of the Empire. - T '-. . - ,..-l-v .1 . fSsraj-i mc uZ&&MZ?A M -.4jaiJJiitfru.-jsn. brfL , ,JiiL" "-lal-kJa -uL ,J&L -L .- a-, ju- j c!H J - u Erery one knows that England's navy 1" the bluest and most powerful la the world, but not ever one realizes why It ha need to be so. The larger of the two dlacnuns, printed hrrewlth and copied from the New Tork Press, shows how the British fleet could protect Great Britain and Ireland, It the Brltlth Isles were alj there Is to the empire. But when It 1 real liM that thfe British colonies and dependencies girdle the globe that, the old saying Is. "The sun nerer tta on the British flag" a. glance at the other diagram will convey to the mind how little of the vwt British fleet would be available for home defence, If the gave out, on the rocks, in the blistering sun and in the sandy water. Think of the sight of picked American troops crawling on hands nnd knees across a sand spot to the rafts! Two days before arriving a muster was held at which 20 out of 130 soldiers answered "here" from their hands and knees. What Colonel Howse demanded first was immediate assistance for the column in tho rear and a good meal for himself and the three men with him. Among these was an Englishman. O'Brien, who had been mado prisoner by the Filipinos while seeking permission from Agulnaldo to prospect for gold. He was a rather bald, short, strongly-set man who dropped his h's, talked a good deal, and yet said what he had to say with de cision. Ho was a fine specimen of that wonder-working species, the pcrabatetic Englishman, from whom no situation or circumstance can ever force the loss of the least particle of his British self: and no, carrying his country with him, makes her known to the remotest ends of the earth. I overheard a bit of O'Brien's story as he talked to the men, and, thinking that I had what he probably wanted most, I smuggled him below. As he poured down one after another three half tumblers of whisky, without the least effect on him. he told me in a casual way that less than three years ago he had I been tho only survivor of a party of four prospectors who crossed the island of New Guinea, two being drowned and one killed by the natives that he had gone from thore to the Klondike, had a very hard time, and hearing of the Phil ippines, had come to look for gold. He had been in South America, at sea before the mast, or somewhere away from homo ever since he was old enough to run away "for to admire and for to see" a typical tramp royaL After h had left I stood rooking at my candle and thought of the wild career I had glimpsed at, feeling how Infinitely more do such men get from "one crowded hour of glorious life" than those content to live "an ago without name," Looking? for EmbarJcinic Pln.ce. After consultation with Colonel Howse our Captain detailed an officer with a man to go to the town of Abulug, 13 miles west of Aparri, to see If the ap proaching troops could be embarked from there. I was permitted to go as a volun teer. It was a rather dismal change from the cory cabin of the good ship Princeton to the thundering surf at" the mouth of tho river and the steady drizzle of the rain as we landed at Llnao at 6 next morning. "We got horses after routing out the pres Idente of the "barrio," or village, a dark little man who disliked as much as a cat to come out Into the rain. The road to Abulug Is level sand, never out of sound of the pounding surf. After passing tho llttlo lighthouse there was a long stretch of open moor-like glades with the sea showing off to the right, then a drive into a green lane, which, with the thick semi tropical vegetation, might have been a way cut through a Florida hummock; then more rlades up to the rough cross that marks the branch trail to the town of Santa Cms; then another long pull through the dense grass at last to see the straggling bouses of Abulug. I am too heavy for these tiny native horses, ill-fed as they are, and my poor beast, not even good of his class, was "beat" when I dismounted in front of the tri bunal. Just In, and waiting for us. was the most extraordinarily ragged, burnt and peaked crowd of men I ever saw. The sight would have been funny but for the pity of it. This -was the advance guard of the column. Officers, hatless, with baro sore feet and torn shirts, crowded round us for news, while tho men, with out trousers and with feet bare, or tied up in bundles of rags, stood, or lay Just behind, listening. But not for long. In a few minutes all who could walk without too much difficulty had scattered for food. Others were building fires. 1 then went down to the river landing In hope of be ing able to greet Lieutenant Glllmore. when ho should arrive. Several boats, containing a part of the column, had Just come In and I met a procession of the ragged and lame absolutely beyond de scription. Private Mulvaney's tale of the taking of Lungtungpen when he said, '"Twas the most ondaslnt p'rade I iver A MIGHTY HEAP OF DIFFERENCE e.jya W . t -LlA- , . JU , ,.t .ui - L.l Ja-,.,,-"" i, IxLT- tini-ah. less. .. JeiUfc- -1.1 "TJftL -."-JfaL.i t y jiMjjiiJZ, Jai.,.., -a- lui: tfT.Jw.. : - i.. i , . i.. i i ""JilL r.ii -ii- I wUI ! fj 1 ' .uL - $4. JU-fi. i . jjigf&Bist&tZgHi K&teta tuk a hand in." came to my mind. It certainly was. Appenrance of Gillmnre. In a few minutes a banca came round a slight bend In the river with a man in a faded naval officer's blouse, taking his turn at an oar. I knew this could be none other than Glllmore, and that tho soldierly-looking man with the gray beard In the same boat must be Colonel Hare. The boat grounded on the mud bank and I had the pleasure of saluting arid greeting the officer whose fate had been the concern of the Navy for nine months. Ho appeared then as a rather short man of about 45, probably once ro tund. He wore a straggly gray beard, a suit of blue striped cotton the gift o( a Spanish prisoner a pair of tough yellow shoes and a Chinaman's saucer hat of straw. He was not an imposing figure, but he looked like a very happy man. He asked me first if he had been promoted (he had seven months before) and then, ns fast as I could answer, as to the news of the Navy since he had lost touch with It. We walked up to the tribunal, and he seemed to be in good physical condition, though, through lack of food, trained a bit fine. The surf and the sea at Abulug were too bad to make an attempt to em bark the men In their weakened state, so we decided to carry them to Aparri In caribou carts. I was sept back with the news of this decision, and was asked to bring liniments and whisky for the doc tor, who had lost all his supplies In the river. Lieutenant Glllmore went back with me to the ship, and as we rode along he told me of his experiences; of the quiet pul up the narrow green-embowered river at Baler; the sharp hall of the ambushing party, the echoing volley, the shock of the Mauser bullets passing through the boat, the thrashing of men in death agony on the thwarts; the clots and smears of blood 'and brains upon them, and on the sail bag In the center, the cries and groans of the men, and the pop, pop, pop, popping of the unseen guns. H told me of the useless fire delivered In return, of the nasty water making In the sinking boat, of tho knife men, savages no less, lurking In the distance, of the wounded man beside him. who was shot a second time through the wrist that held up a white flag. He told me of the line of Americans drawn up on the beach before the firing party: of his request to be unplnloned before being shot; of tho loading of the rifles, the Inconsequential wish that he had more life insurance arid the reprieve at the last minute. He told me. too. of the incidents of the im prisonment; of the long marches through the mountains, with a guard of bolo men, the native towns, the weeks of Imprison ment Incommunicado, the countrj't the natives and the -food. "When you have been living on rice for about a month, horse liver Is great," he said. Sight Ride "With Medicines. Before dark I was hack at Llano for the horse that was waiting for me. He bucked a hit at the unaccustomed weight, for I was heavily laden, but he was so I small that I was able to lock my letcs I under his belly and keep my seat, rather to tbe surprise of the natives, and per- U4&i, i5& .,GTr ' haps somewhat to my own. The ride by night was far prettier than by day. With in sight the lighthouse sent out a wheel ing bar of light over the country, with every couple of seconds. The air was cool and sweet with some aromatic wood. There were countless myriads of fire flies, much more brilliant than our own. and holding the light for a longer time. They seemed to know how to increase their effctlveness by keeping In swarms, which made clouds of fire in the air and lined trees In twinkling robes of flame when they settled on them. I over took a provision train of coolies sent to the column. In their white tunics, they looked like ghosts gathered upon the downs round the gaunt cross of San ta Cruz, rather than like men. In the black darkness of the lanes one could hear the alight movements of night 11 fo in the brakes beside the regular slough of the horse's hoofs In tho sand. In a few minutes I had the pleasure of reporting to the doctor that I had arrived with medicines and four two-quart can teens of whisky. At that a sigh went up all around In the darkness a breath at the sound of a word. I would not havo " Ju. ' X , Au- -w . ? w -.. llhte "r - jzL,. - - i j JaHr jjiizJirr i " - - .r - h&J - coast line of the empire had to be protected at the ramn time. Only 24 warships could be spared to defend the British Isles. There Is another comparison, too, that makes, rays the Press, the British navy look like 30 cents. England's mercantile commerce Is so vast that, numerous as are her warships, they would scarcely begin to go around. It the Brit ish merchant marine needed to be protected. Russia, France, Italy and Germany, with their smaller navies, can protect their smaller mer chant marina better than England can look out for hers. mlssed that slight sound but so eloquent for a hundred times the fatigue. Good Work of the Doctor. The doctor got to work at once. For the opportunity to talk to the men, I begged leave to help him, as the poor fellows rubbed their swollen feet and trouble they were to see they were glad to have the relief of talking of the march as a thing that was past, I could see that the average of intelligence was much higher than that of ordinary soldiers but at that moment they were spent ab solutely, physically. But no one com plained, and hardly one who did not ask If there was enough ointment for those worse off than himself. They were of a splendid race were these Americans. Certainly nothing to equal this march has been accomplished In this war, and for a short trial no such test of human char acter and endurance could have been bet ter withstood In any other. One of the officers turned over his horse blanket to me. I could' not persuade him that he needed it, I was too tired to force him to take it back. 80 I turned In on the floor of tho tribunal, and lay dead until daylight. The provisions came during the night, and though all night long the men had been up and cooking, no one failed at breakfast. The presldente. with a deal of bustle, had collected cariboo carts, and as they moved off the procession was a strange sight. At the head an officer, a splendid big man, with a red beard like a pirate, led his soldiers, wearing a "saucepan" derby. Ingeniously carved from a single block of wood. "Pabst," the beer agent, carried tha prisoners' flag on a sorry horse, that could not be persuaded out of a walk. The men sat on the carts In the easiest positions for their feet cocking them up. So all down the line red legs waved. I walked back to Llnao, being too sore to ride, and when I reached the ship shifted Into clean white clothes, reported my return, and got Into a canvas chair under the cool awning, the laziest man that was ever seen. And so ended an experience I shall never forget. GEORGE P. DYER. Society "Women Who "Write. Many women of the ultra-smart sfc in New York are writers and earn large sums of money each year by their pens. Mrs. Burton Harrison is paid at the rate of Vi a thousand words for articles and stories. Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer receives large prices for her essays upon social observances, which arc always In demand. Mrs. Reginald de Koven is a high-priced writer of fiction. Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer is con sidered one of three most eminent author ities upon church architecture in the world. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's writings upon this Bubject are eagerly purchased by the best magazines, and she receives as high as $500 for a single paper. Mrs. Clarence Mackay, pee Duer, Is a charming writer of verse. Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger Is a novelist of fame. Miss Ruth Lawrence, Miss Cooper Hew itt and a number of less well-known women of the exclusive set devote" many hours each week to literature and earn good'suns thereby. ROOSEVELT NOT RICH His Income la Said to Be Only f 600O a Year. He Will Live Jn 3l6dest Bouse nnd Style at Wanhlnston, and En tertain but tittle. Contrary to an impression which pre vails widely, the Governor Is not a rich, man, says the St. Louis Uiobe-Demo-crat. He came of the old families of 2sew York, and inherited property wnlch insured him a comfortaole living, accord ing to the ideas of his ancestors. Mr. Roosevelt has not been In business in tne sense of devoting himself to mere money making. He has been Civil Service Com missioner, Police Commissioner, Assistant Secrotary of the Navy, Colonel of Volun teers, and now is Governor of New York. All of this time his living has cost him more than his onldal salaries and the Income from his inherited estate. Literary work is Mr. Roosevelt's delight, but the world can never know how much the remuneration entered Into the prob lem of keeping the pot boiling. It Is vouched for by one nearly related to the Governor that but for this revenue derived from the pen, Governor Roose velt would have cut into his patrimony materially to sustain his family. Today Governor Roosevelt receives from all, of his property and investments of every kind the sum of JfiOOO a year. As Vice-President of the United States his salary will be ?3000 a year, and this will represent his Income. Literary work, which Is now a delight and a material addition to his Income, will, presumably, be thought Inconsistent with the dignity of the Vice-Presidency. Mr. Roosevelt talked about this last night, when It had uccomo apparent to him that he could no longer resist the Inevitable. He argued that It would be necessary for him to suspend most, if not all, of ,hls literary engagements, which were entirely proper for. him as the Governor of New York. Ho decided that election to the VIce-Fresi-dency meant living on an Income of $13, OCO a- year. Vice-Presidents have done this. The late Vice-President Hobart did not. He maintained an establish ment and entertained on a scale that cost far more than Mr. Roosevelt will be abie to spend. When it came to the pojnt of deciding to waive personal considerations and to remain passive, Mr. Roosevelt talked plainly. He said it must be understood that he would rent a modest house on N street, at the Capital, and do but little in 0 social way. His obligations to his family required that he should live wltn in the Income of the office and his estate. Upon this he was determined. When Theodore Roosevelt was Civil 8ervlce Commissioner, 10 years ago, he wrote a letter which will be read with extraordinary Interest at this time. The letter was private; It dwelt upon the at tractions and possibilities of a political career. At that time Mr. Roosevelt was reluctantly deciding that he could not make a profession of politics, and was turning to literature as his vocation. Tho recipient of the letter, Mr. Edward At well, ha3 chosen an auspicious time to make it public. This is what Mr. Roose velt thought and wrote: "If a man has a political foresight, who lives In a district where the people think as he does, and where he has a great hold over them, then he can seriously go in for a continuous public career, and I suppose In such a case it is all right for him to shape his public course more or Jess with a view to his own continu ance in office. I am a little inclined to envy a man who can look forward to a long and steady course of public service; but in my own case such a career Is out of the question, and. personally. It seems to me that a man's comfort and useful ness In public life are greatly Impaired the moment he begins to worrying about how his votes and actions will affect his own future. When I was In the Legisla ture I soon found that for my own hap piness, as well as for the- sake of doing good work, I had to cast aside all thougnt of my own future, and as soon as I had made up my mind to this end and voted simply as I thought right, not only dis regarding people themselves, if I honestly thought them all wrong on a matter of principle, not of mere expediency, then I began to thoroughly enjoy myself and to feel that I was doing good. "It Is Just the same way with my polit ical work as Civil Service Commissioner. I believe In it with all my heart, and am absolutely certain that I could not pos sibly be engaged in any other work at the present moment more vitally Import ant to the public welfare, and I literally don't care a rap what politicians say of me, in or out of Congress, save in so far as my actions may help or hurt the cause for which I am working. My hands are fortunately perfectly free, for I have not the slightest concern about my political future. My career Is that of a literary man, and as soon as I am out of my polit ical position I shall go back to my booxs. I may not ever be called to take another public position, or I may be; In any event, I shall try to do decent work while I am in office. I shall probably enjoy the life greatly while I am taking part In it, and I shall certainly be ready at any time to go out of It with a perfectly light heart." RAISING FOXES FOR PELTS. Odd bnt Profitable Industry on the Alaskan Island. Howard M. Kutchln. special agent for tho protection of the Alaska salmon fish ery, reports that fox breeding for their pelts Is assuming proportions of consider able magnitude on the Alaskan Islands, many of which havo been leased for this purpose, and others have been appropria ted without the payment of a Govern ment yearly rental of $100 for each Island. There are now no less than 35 Islands oc cupied by proprietors of fox ranches. The Industry is still In an experimental stage, and In many cases it Is a question wheth er the labor and expenditure may not prove a bad Investment, but there are other Instances In which proper business methods have been used, where the re turns will soon be adequate and promise Immense profits in the future. The foxes with which the breeding Is begun cost from ?150 to $200 a pair, and the work has been going on for 15 years or more, and up to date there have been practically no returns, but as three of the Islands have now over 1000 foxes, it will bo seen that It must be only a- question of time when the venture will turn out satisfactorily from a financial point of view. The orignlal project was to propagate tho silver gray fox. the fur being more valuable than that of the blue fox, the .common rate for a pelt being $50 for the silver gray and $16 for the blue fox. The silver gray Is a comparatively ferocious beast, considering the cowardly nature of the species in general, and Is also much given to killing Its young. It has been almost Impossible to do mesticate this animal. It is, perhaps, more of a wolf than a fox In Its in stincts, and the breeding of them has been practically abandoned, there being but a single island where they are now to be found In any number. The blue fox is practically the only one which Is bred, and It is readily tamed, and with gentle handling soon becomes so domestic in its habits as to accept food from the hand of its keoper. Neither of these is a dis tinct species, the blue fox being devel oped from the white fox, while the silver gray and black comes from the red. The usual food Is fish, either raw or cooked, and corn meal mixed with tallow. Each of the Islands has from two to three keepers for the fox ranch, accord ing to the number of foxes cared for, and they spend tleir entire time, the year around, in the work.. The skins are taken from November 20 to January 20, the method being to catch the foxes In traps. All females are released, after marking them. For each six females one male fox Is turned loose, the finest animals being selected for breeding purposes. The killing age Is about IS months, although fox skins may be had as young as eight months, and if especially well grown, the animals are sometimes killed at that age. The seml-domcstlcation of the fur-bearing animals affords the only possible escape from the early extermination of those species which now provide the most cost ly and luxurious of wearing apparel. It is thopght by experienced fur men that it might be entirely feasible to in troduce the Russian sable and other of the more valuable marten species Into Alaska for propagation on the same lines as the fox experiment. CONSTITUTIONAL FRETTERS. Peevish Children 21 nice "Worried Women Who Live on "Jferve.M A good many people believe that It is natural to be good-natured if one Is fat, and that to be thin Is Nature's manifesta tion of an uncertain temper at least bo far as women are concerned, writes "H. H. A." in the New York World. Why thin men are not affected in the same manner I have never learned. But one does not connect a chnbbed disposition with bones In the male of our species. It Isn't the fat that makes our stout friends good-natured, nor the good nature that accounts for the fat, though it is a factor in that direction. Some women never mind the men are constitutional fretters. They begin to worry and look drawn and haggard a few months or weeks after they appear in the world, and they keep on fretting until the ex pression of discontent becomes a fixture and by repetition dominates.. Dally ac quaintances get accustomed to the fretful child, and she grows up Into the thin, worried young girl, who smiles rarely and. whose face In repose shows the trac ery of discontent. Nothing destroys a woman's beauty so completely as peevishness. It Is almost Impossible to remove the tracks left by years of infantile worrying. No cosmet ic art can accomplish such a miracle. Nothing but peace of mind and health can Iron out the lines produced by a rest less brain and an exhausted body. Babies don't come to this country of their own free will confirmed victims of the quer ulous habit. There's something wrong with the fretful baby. The child that whines cannot be well. It Is not com fortable, or It wouldn't cry. Fretful little girls are spindly and pale. All spindly children are not fretful, but fretful ones are rarely plump and rosy. I havo never seen a thin woman who did not, as wecall It. "live on her nerves." Children do the came. Mothers who have irritable little daughters should loso no time in discovering the physical cause, and In teaching them the destructive ef fect of snarling upon the looks. Vanity is Inherent In us all, and to the tiniest girl, as well as the biggest, and all others in between, there's no greater incentive than the Innocent desire to look pretty. The thin woman Is dissipating her life forces by fretting. She is tearing her self to pieces, destroying her looks by In cessant mental and physical Irritation. We only have Just so much nervous resist ance, nnd days and weeks and years of unrest will finally wear the exasperated nerves to a frazzle. A restless, discontent ed mind will assert Itself by a morbid ac tivity, and the thin woman Is lauded as "never Idle for a second." No woman whose nerves are on edge and whose body Is banged almost to pieces In an ever lasting hustle can be amiable and even tempered, or look so. When the thin woman can overcome her disposition to worry, and has learned to rest body and soul. If only for five min utes at a tlmeshe has begun the process of beautifying her face, and her Irritated spirit Is on the road to. that state qf peace that "brings with It rounded outlines, in place of sharp angles. CURIOUS PYRENEAN DWARFS Anthropological Discovery Amid the Mountain of Spain. A curious anthropological discovery In tho Valley of Rebas. at the terminus of the Eastern Pyrenees Mountains, la thus described by Professor Miguel Marazta: "Thero exists In this district a some what numerous group of people, who are called Nanas (dwarfs) by the other In habitants, and, as a matter of fact, are not more than four feet In height. Their bodies ana fairly well built, hands and feet small. Bhoulders and hips broad, making them appear more robust than they really are. "Their features are so peculiar that there Is no mistaking them among oth ers. All have red hair; the face Is as broad as long, with high cheek bones, strongly developed jaws and flat nose. The eyes are not horizontal, but some what oblique, like those of Tartars and Chinese. A few straggling, weak hairs are found In place of beard. The skin Is pale and flabby. Men and women are so much alike that they can only be distinguished by their clothing. "Though tho mouth is large the lips do not quite cover the large projecting Inclsora. Tho Nanas, who are the butt of the other Inhabitants, live entirely by themselves In Rebas. They Intermarry among themselves, eo that their peculi arities continue to be reproduced. "Entirely without education, and with out any chance cf Improving their condi tion, they lead the life of pariahs. They know their own names, but rarely remem ber those of their parerts, can hardly tell where they live, and have no idea of numbers." Sarcnim. It was lnte. Suddenly a voice from the head of the stairs broke the stillness. "Grace!" "What Is It, papa?" "Tell that young fellow not to knock over the milk pitcher on his way out." Syracuse Herald. A POPULAR MISTAKE Rearnrdfnsr Remedies for Dyspepsia nnd Indigestion. The National disease of Americans is Indigestion or. In Its chronic form, dys pepsia, and for the very reason that it Is so common many people neglect tak ing proper treatment for what they con sider trifling stomach trouble, when, as a matter of fact. Indigestion lays the foundation for many incurable diseases. No person with a vigorous, healthy stom ach will fall a victim to consumption. Many kidney diseases and heart troubles date their beginning from poor digestion; thin, nervous people are really so because their stomachs are out of gear; weary, languid, faded-out women owe their con dition to imperfect digestion. When nearly every person you meet is afflicted with weak digestion. It Is not surprising that nearly every secret pat ent medicine on the market claims to be a cure for dyspepsia, as well as a score of other troubles, when. In fact, as Dr. Werthler says, there is but one genuine dyspepsia cure which Is perfectly safe and reliable, and, moreover, this remedy is not a patent medicine, but it Is a scien tific combination of pure pepsin ifreo from animal matter), vegetable essences, frilt salts and bismuth. It is sold by druggists under the name of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, No extravagant claims are made for them, but for Indi gestion or any stomach trouble, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are far ahead of any remedy yet discovered. They act on the food eaten, no dieting Is necessary, sim ply eat all the wholesome food you want and these tablets will digest It. A cure results, because all the stomach needs Is a rest, which Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets j give by doing the ivork of digestion,