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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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,