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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1907)
HIS GREETING. Do you know why tho sun Is bright today? Why the flowers arc decked In so fair array? Why all thlR wide world Is so glad and gay? My dearest Is coming homo! Did you hear the mockingbird's gladsome note? Such a world of Joy from so small a throat 1 A message to me his carols lloat My dearest Is coming homo! Do you know why the same glad song Is mine? Wliy my face Is reflecting God's own sunshine? Why my being Is filled with a Joy divine? My dearest Is coming home ! ITe Is coming home. Fro,ni the toll and stress, Coming to cheer all my loneliness, And to list to the love that my lips confess, My dearest Is coming home! lie Is coming home to the arms that wait; To 'clasp him forever, whate'er his fnte, To guard him In high or low estato! My dearest Is coming home ! &s&sZ5- xfl.rE&v P- . OUR men were seated upon a tracer's veranda at Maduro, one of the Marshall Islands. The night was brilliantly moonlit, and the Lull nnd spars of a little white brig tha: lay anchored In the nguon about i utile distant from the trader's house j-tood out as clearly and d!?tinetly as If she were but 50 yards away from where they sat. Three of the men present were vis itors Ned Packenham, the captain; Harvey, the mate, and Deulson, the supercargo of the Indiana. Lhe fourth was the trader himself, a jjrlzzled old 'wanderer of past CO. It was long past midnight, and the old trader's numerous half-caste family liad turned In to sleep some hours be fore. It so happened that the old man Lad Just been talking about a stalwart son of his, who had died n f-w months previously, and Packenham and Denl son, to whom the lad had been well known, asked the father where the lody had been burled. "In there," replied the old man, pointing to a small whlte-walled In closure about a stone's throw from where we were sitting. 'There's a $:oud many graves there now. Let me c'C. There is Dawney, tlie skipper of the Maid of Samoa, and three of his crew ; Peterson, the Dutchman him that got a bullet Into him for fooling around too much with a pistol In his liand and challenging natives to light when he was drunk; two or three of my wife's relatives, who wanted to be Juried in my boneyard because they thought to make me some return for lieeplng their families after tney were dead ; my boy Tom and the white wom an." "White woman?" said the mate of tho brig. "Did a white woman die foere?" "I'll tell you all I know, bnd a very meer yarn It Is, too. In those days I was the only white man bote. I got on very well with the natives and was loIng a big business. There were not many whaleshlps here then, but every ten months or so a vessel came here Irom Sydney, and I was making money .Land over list. "The house In which I then lived tood farther away toward the point, In rather a clearer spot than this. You can see the place from here and also -.see that a house standing In such a po sition would be visible not only from aill parts of the Inside beichea of the lagoon, but from the sea as well. "My wife not the present one, you 3mow was a Bonln Island half-bred Portuguese woman, and as she general ly talked to mo In English and had no aiative ways to speak of, we used to It outside in the evenings pretty often nnd watch our kids and the village people dancing and otherwise amusing themselves on the beach. "Itotau, the head chief of this lagoon, one night told us that a canoe had come Irom MI111, an Island about three days' aall to tho leeward of Waller's place, and reported that a ship had passed quite close to their Island about a week ibefore. "After wo had sat talking for awhile my wlfo called the children In and put them to sleep, and Itatou and I and Lis wives sat outside a bit longer smok ing. It was u moonlight night, al most as bright as It Is to-night, and the sea was as smooth as a mill pond m smooth, In fact, that thnre was not -even a break upon the rsef, and, the trade wind having died away, there was not the sound of a leaf stlrrlug hi the palm grove. "We had been sitting like this for about half an hour, when Xora, my wife, just as she was coming out of the door to Join us, gave a cry. " Te Kalibuke! Look at the ship.' "I Jumped up and looited, and there, sure enough, was a big ship Just show ing round the point, and close In, not more than a mile away from tho reef. "For a moment I was a bit scared, remembering that there was not a breath of wind, and yet seeing her moving. Then I remembered the cur rent, and knew that she must have run up to the land from tho westward before dark perhaps, and that as soon as the breeze had died away the cur rent, which runs about four knots, had caught her and was now moving her along. I took her to be either a Yan kee or a British North American. "Just as I had asked Itotau to get one of his women to hunt up a boat's crew he sang out: 'Listen, Ted, I hear a boat' "In another moment or two I heard It myself plain enough click, clack, click, clack and at the same time saw that the ship was heading away from the land. "I knew the ship was right enough, and could not get Into any clanger, as the current would take her clear of the land In another hour or so, so we all went to the point to see here the boat was coming. "As soon as she was within 100 yards of the beach I balled them to keep a bit to starboard, as there was a big coral bowlder right In rront of the spot they were steering for. " 'Aye, aye !' answered the roan steer ing, and he did as I told him. In an other minute or two the ftoat shot up on the beach, and we crowded round them. " 'Stand back, please,' says the offi cer, speaking In a curious, hurried kind of way, and then I saw that he had a pistol in his left hand, and that the men with him looked white and scared, and seemed to take no notice of us. "Two of the men Jumped out, and then we saw that there was another person In the boat a woman. She was sitting on the bottom boards, lying against the stern sheets, and seemed to be either asleep or dead. The offi cer helping them, they lifted her up and out of the boat and carried her ashore. Then the officer tamed to me, and I saw that, though he tried to speak quietly, he was In a flurry over something. "'What's all this I said. 'What's the matter? What have you got this pistol In your hand for, and what Is the matter with this womnn ' "He put the pistol out of sight pret ty quick, and then, speaking so rapid ly I could hardly follow him, said that the lady was the captain's wife, and she had been taken 111 very suddenly, and her husband, seeing my house so close to, had determined to send her ashore, and see if anything could be done for her. 'That's queer.' I said. 'Why didn't he come with her hlmwdf? Look here I don't believe all this. How did he know, even though the house U here, that a white man lives In It And I want to have a look at the wom an's face. She might be dead for all I know.' "By this time my wife and one of Hotau's wives had gone up to tho wom an, and I saw that, although she wasn't dead, she looked very like It, for her eyes were closed and she ecemed quite unconscious of all that was going on. She was young about Jfl or so and was rather pretty. " 'Please take her to your house,' says tho officer, 'and as soon as we have towed the ship out of danger tho captain will come ashore and see you.' "'Hold on!' says I, and I grabbed him by the arm. 'Do you ;iean to say you're going oft In this fashion without telling me anything further? Who are you, anyway? What Is tho ship's name?' "He hesitated Just a second and then said; The Inca Prince, Cupt. Brough ton. But I can't stay to talk now, The captain himself wlli tell you about it In tho morning.' "And then, before I could ttoo him, ho Jumped back out of my reach Into the boat, and the four sailors, two of whom were nigger of some sort. Ghoved oflf, and away they went again. "Well, wo carried tho woman up to tho house and placed her In a chair, and the moment my wlfo look off tho woolen wrapper that covered her head and shoulders she cried out that there was blood running down her neck. And H didn't take mo long to discover that fie womnn was dying from a bullet wound In tho bnck of her head. "Wo did all that wo possibly could for the poor thing, but sho never re gained consciousness, and toward sun rise she died quietly. There was noth ing nbout her clothing to thow wlm she was, but she wore rings such as would belong to a woman ol some po sition. That she had been murdered I could not doubt, and perhaps some day, oven nfter nil these yenrs, tho crime may come to light." "But what became or the Milp?" ask ed the mate of the Indiana. "Out of sight by 8 o'clock In tho morning. As soon as I saw what was the matter with the woman 1 knew that we need not expect to s-hi any one from the ship back aealn." "I wonder what the true story of that woman's death was?" said Pack enham, thoughtfully, as ho looked to ward the place where she was burled. "Heaven only knows," answered the old trader. "Whether It was a mutiny nnd her husband was uiurdered, or whether the officer who came ashore with her was tho captain himself, and her husband as well, 1 ca'iot tell. Any way, I have since learned that thero never was a ship named the lnca Prince. Tve told the stoy to every ship master I've met since that night, and It was written about a pood deal In the English nnd AmerKui newspa pers. Then the affair wis forgotten, and, like many another such thing, tho secret may never come out" London Chronicle. AMERICANS BUY POOR LAND. Colonfnta In Culm Rive Too Much At tention to I.nvr Price. It must be remembered Unit there Is some very poor land as well as much very good land In Cuba. In only too many cases the buyers eltho did not know or did not care about the quality of their purchases If on'.y the price was low enough. Flowery prospectus es, with pictures of beautiful tropical scenes, and luscious fruits, and most extravagant statements as to tho pro fits to be derived from the products of the few acres, were scattered broad cast, especially In the United States, Large commissions were given to can vassers nnd the work was merely be gun of unloading worthless acres that cost only ?2 or ?3 on unsophisticated teachers, clerks and railroad men at price ranging all the way from $15 or $20 to $50 or more per acre. During the early days of my resi dence In Cuba I had the good fortune to travel some distance by rail with a typical representative of the most charming class, the well-to-do Cuban planter. My friend was educated In France, had traveled much hi Europe, and had resided for many years In the States. He was thoroughly lasted on Cuban agriculture and was keenly alive to any suggestion as to the means by which existing conditions could be im proved. He talked entertainingly and Instruc tively of the country through which we were passing, pointing out with unerr ing Judgment the best cane lands, others that were suitable tor tobacco, and still others that were -ireful only for pasturage. Finally, the charact er of the country began to change and we came Into a region where the scanty egetatIon proclaimed only too clearly the poorness of the soil. "And what," I said, "do you consider this land Is good for?" 'This," he said, "so far as 1 know, Is good only to sell to American colo nists." World To-day. TKe Greed The Clock Plnnt. There Is a plant, a native of Borneo, which Is known as the "clock plant." The name Is derived from the action of the sun's rays on the leaves, which are three In number, a large one ex tending forward, with two small ones at the base pointing sideways. These, coming in contact with the rays of tho sun, oscillate like the pendulum of a clock, the larger leaf moving upward and downward, going its full length every forty-five minutes, the smaller leaves moving toward tho larger, com pleting the distance forward and back ward everj' forty-live minutes, thus re sembling tho hour and minute hands of a clock. Appropriate Vehicle. Mrs. Newrlch lived In nn expenslvo and luxurious hotel. She knew that well-appointed equipages of many sorts were to bo had, ajul proposed to show! that she knew what was suitable for each occasion. "Chawles," she said to Mr. Newrlch's alet one nfternoon, with great dignity. "I nm going to return some calls this afternoon, and you may go to tho ti hlo and tell them to Rend up the best cart-de-vlslt they have." A Conxollnif Thought. "They say you aro hut tho servant of tho trusts," said the reproving friend. "Well," answered Senator Sorghum. 'The position has Its advantages. Of course, It's more agreeable to bo tho boss but nfter all, tho servant Isn't tho one the grand Jury goes after." Wash Ington Star. About tho hardest thing In this world to handle Is a Jealous disposition, Ell Germany con vulsed with laughter over boatw Captain and hood winked Burgomaster and Town Treasurer If the verdict on Wllhclm Volgt. tho rx-convlct cobbler who captured lvoo-peuk-k Town Hall nnd rilled tho urn 1 nlclpnl treasury, could be deter mined by tho votes of tho Ger man people, thero Is no doubt ho would Ihj allowed to go scot freo by n largo majority. Though a crim inal, as the nu thor of tho great est hoax of tho nge, ho Is acclaim ed n hero through out Germany. Ho holds the stage as the world's cham pion bluffer. Ho has eclipsed tho Kaiser at his best. Ho has conferred Immortality on tho town which wiujam voiot. wnH the scene of his exploit. He has added a new verb to tho dictionary to koepenlck. Ex cept In officialdom, which he so lenutl- full v fooled, tho only regret re It in con nection with tho Incident Is that he has been caught. Now that his personality has been re vealed to the worm, HW Rrvim-r M""" the admiration for the colossal audaci ty which enabled him to carry his plot through successfully. It would lie hard to find a man outwardly more 111 suit ed to the role which he played. "Low class" Is writ large all over him. It Is the fetish of the military uniform which mnde It possible for such n man to carry out his daring coup. Nowhere else but In Germany could he have succeeded. That Is one of the lessons which Germany Is taking to heart. Volgt fully realizes the fame that ho has achieved, and not even the pros Iect of spending tho rest of his life In prison lessens Ills satisfaction. When the Idea of his coup first came to him Volgt frequented music halls nnd other places where military officers resort that he might study them and their ways. Tho deference with which ho observed they were everywhere treated soon convinced him that the uniform counted for vastly more than the man Inside of It He had first thought of raiding one of the Berlin municipali ties, but came to tho conclusion that In a place where there are so many of ficers about the risk was a little too great Then he selected Koepenlck, a thriving city of 75,000 Inhabitants on the outskirts of tho capital, for his ex ploit. After donning a discarded uniform of p. captain In the First Iteglment of In fantry guards, which he purchased In a second hand clothing shop, he stroll ed cnlmly along a street In tho east of Berlin, awaiting the return of a detach ment of grenadier guards from the drilling ground to their hnrrncks. True to his calculations, the detachment ap peared, consisting of twenty-four men, each carrying a rifle. "Your men must follow me," said Volgt, accosting tho corporal. "I have the Knlser's orders to make an Impor tant arrest and need your assistance." Grimy and battered though ho was, nnd much too old for n captain, none of the soldiers thought for an Instant of challenging the seedy uniform of tho first guards. They oleyed him like sheep. He marched them to tho near est railway station, whenco he took them by train to Koepenlck. Arrived at Koepenlck he ordered them to fix bayonets and inarch to t) town hall. Uniting nt the telephone exchange, Volgt ordered the official In charge to cut off communications with the town hall for the next two hours under pen alty of Incurring the Kaiser's dlspleas ure. The uniform triumphed again. The trembling official promised Implicit obedience. Tho chief of the Koepenlck police took orders from Volgt without ques tlon. The uniform hypnotized him, ns It did everylHxly else. By VolgfH di rectlons ho placed n squad of poll?o around the town hall to keep the crowd hack, and as proof of his zeal, actually arrested five citizens whoso curiosity got tho better of their discretion. In his wildest extravaganzas Gilbert novor conceived anything more ludicrous than a municipal pollco force helping a thief to loot tho municipal treasury and arresting honest men to make things easier for hhn. , Now only red tnpo fettered official dom which has been held up to ridi cule feels sore over tho exploit. The fetish of tho military uniform has re ceived n deadly blow. Tho day may come when Germany, freed from tho tyranny of a military bureaucracy, may recognize that It owes n debt of gratitude to tho cobbler who mndo tho wholo world laugh. Volgt's case has cnlled nttentlon to another form of tyranny which needs reforming In Germany. It Is tho sys torn of pollco supervision of ex-convicts. That maiJo It Impossible for Volgt to make nn honest living. It wns ho says, because there was no wny' open to him by which ho could mako a decent living honestly that ho con- iceived tho Idea of effecting a coup which ho romuy nopou would bring him enough money to enable him to llvo without nny more work, either honest or dishonest, nnd wed nn old sweet heart. Thnt tho hoary sinner has hoiiio good stuff In him which has survived a score of years spout In Jails In hIiowii by tho fact, attested by tho old folk In whoso Iiouso ho wan lodging when caught, thnt ho nursed thero, with touching devotion, n young girl who wns dying of consumption, DIFFERENCES OF DIARISTS. Horr Tivo Public Men IMfTcreil In ICatliuute of lllmtinrck, Public men who keep diaries should either hop that thoy nro destnyed while there is yet time, or get together fro. quently to eomparo notes nnd agree In their versions of Incidents, says the Boston Transcript Either course would save tho hUtPxInn of tho future a world of trouble, the nature of which Is indi cated by the sharp differences between the late Prince Hohenloho's explanation of Bismarck's policy nnd that recorded by Crlspt. Tho former, who was uio of Bismarck's successors as German chun. cellor, wrote In his diary, on the nil thorlty of the grand duke of Baden, un cle of tho knlscr, that tho Imiwrlnl dis trust of BlHiiiarck wiih based yi a suv plclon that ho wa secretly favoring HiiHsla and laboring to undermine the triple alliance. Crlspl, the Italian pre mier, left a diary, extract from which tho nephew has printed In fucslmllo to demonstrate that Bismarck was a zeal ous superior, not e,nly officially hut jiersonnlly. of the alliance. Crlspl wroto while Bismarck's words were fresh In :0, memory. BLsmnrck explained that he had endeavored to live In friendship with Uussla, hut had failed, nnd urged that In extension f the drelhund thero should bo u "grouping" of Austria, Italy and England. WheUier we should no ccpt the grand duke's statement, pre sumably based on the confidences f his nephew, or that of Crlspl, In estimating Bismarck, In a puzzlo Unit promises tu be prolltlc of literature. BlMimrck Is still an Ido! with a larre proortlou of the Germans, who, how ever, may be deferential enough to, the kaiser to moderate tho terms of their defense. Those who have studied him In "a neutral atmosphere" may recon cile the differenced between diarists by saying that Bismarck talked one wny with one man, and tho oppe.slte with another, and that ho wn-s pulling wool over Crlspl's eyes as he luul pulled It over those of Najwleon III. Bismarck was n lleji with a great mnny fox traits In his make-up. Letters and diaries -ire of great value to the historian, but their product Is often small as compared with the amount of lalnir necessary to reconcile contradiction and extract Uie residuum of fact Without them many historical incidents would be cloudy, and It cannot have cxcnicd detection that some of the richest finds hnvc been made In letters which their writers sol emnly pledged tho recipients to, destroy. One of the moHt luminous documents In the Paston cnrrcriKndeuco has a P. S, rending "Bum UiIh letter." IS MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN ENGLAND. This Is Lady Beatrice PolcCntwr, the woman to whom King Edward; Huh awarded the palm of beauty of -ills realm. Ho recently referred to her as "England's handsomest woman," and that title Is expected to cling to. her for many years. Lady Beatrice Is tho wife of General Pole-Carow and daughter (ft tho Marquess of Ormonde. Njmv un Aiitl-ISxpiMiNloulat. A Virginia mountaineer, who had strayed to Hlchmoiid c;i nn excunloi, and who, as his holiday progressed, be came rather hilarious, grew overcoilfl dent of his twn greatness. "Gentlemen," ho said, "I kin lick any man In Itlchmond." No one tried to, dlsputo tho assertion, and he tried again. "Gentlemen," ho snld, "I kin lick nuv man In tho wholo Stnto of Vlrglnny." The wordH wero hardly out of hi mouth before n tall, sinewy man from his own part of tho State entered the game and gave tho boaster a good thrashing. The mountaineer had a sense of hu mor. He slowly picked hlumolf and faced tho group to which ho had boa ic ed, "Gentlemen," ho said, "I nm now ready to acknowledge that I klvered to-) much territory In that last statement" Bnltlmoro Still. ' '' ' I'unnlti-r Hedd I see In Germany tho Kai ser's chief chauffeur must motor through Ufa uudor tho Imposing tltlo of "oberhofwagonfuohror." Oreeno What's tho matter? Had ho beoa speeding? Yonkera Statesmuu. 0T.r eFavorite When ! r " Ik. . . A tijl i " UJO mil .1 1 i - ' - inn .it. ... -iimiin .... -"iwmiji ...IU 1111 fintl.l..l '"MTWl ".ftin or m. I toon on H, i'mn . v. . . '," t M best. 1,0 lcv tho ho ' u, When tho frn. '"VVM "-' " 7""niir klndo'hirf,.i l! utmoufcre tn"ti!w Wl'oathehontof ... coolln' fall U h ""a, Of COUr0 WA ml... .. . And tho milml)Io ofe ,r nml i,i. V..' h'a!a't,;a K in ma-.,,.. .. . nriy autumn d -" Et n I'lctur that B .ni,.. i ., 11111 I lit rriHit I. it -HVVftl lnuky The And ttiu Tho .tubblo KOIIII A-preachln Tho Tho Oh. 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A very largo "Ia undrla, anil u V & Creek, who Impo rtlWf their own country and . j, , foreign coun'r United States Uclnj ( the dg ror Egypt.. " foct ureeK iBportt tho title TurkUU being m Turkey direct. A native jwatman tu of West Africa nt tab the Country """' , to W P "ia Mm following leer w master: . . ih oleIlrt Dear Mastor-I ." vWf reirrot to Inform you u f bath tlila worn"" " " w wrtfij sor o i m uga, - Oood day, you? lA-inB corpora'' nIfi linron. ou 1 . kJ uaron - couiu-lt.jii Tales from Fiiui-