Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1904)
THE OREGON iY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1964. TL7 Limmie i Copyright, 104, by Edward W. Town- I LL TELL YOU what I'd Ilk to be on of doM felleye flat palnta pictures of people. It'a a softer Job dan house painting, for day al ways wotka Indoors, and has a nice Ore to wolk by In cold wedder, while d house painters has to wolk out In d cold, and has no fun In delr Jobs except spill ins paint where It'll do da moat harm. I know a picture painter dat wolks teas dan eight hours a day. don't uae up a pot of paint a year, don't belong; to no union, and makes mora dan a walking; delegate shaking- down bote de bosses and de hired men. AU he does la to take a little dinky wipe of canvas and put paint on It da also and color of folks' faoea. and p'cnee! he makes em part wit mora boodle for dat dan If day had de whole of a four-story country house painted, with a coat of paint for da stable and doe; house trun In. What do you tlnk of datT I'm pretty tick wit dat painter now but I had me suspicions of him for a time dat made me tlnk aim a grafter Listen: Wlddy you remember Wily Wlddy. dat Whiskers Is sweet on? she had her picture took by de artla mug, de painter I was telling you of, and whan ahe'd give him a check for de job, and It was a corker, for Duchaas told me. he gives a blowout for a fsw of our set to see da picture, and have tea. But let me ask you about dla tea game. I've got so now dat I know who la getting on well In delr trade. Dey la de ones dat gtvea a tea. Der waa a Utry lady Miss -Fannie knowad. and she never sold any goods to da maga slnea until aba give a tea. Miss Fannie puta her up to de game. She says. "Ma dear," aha says, "all you haa to do to be press-agented aa da real ting In de utry line la to give a tea dat will be reported In de papas. Bare la a llat of odder Utry mugs" doa waan't Miss Fannte'a exact wolds, but dat'a what aba meant "her la a list of mugs for you to Invite, and I'll stand de price." I eeen de Hat, and It waa of peekaboo editors and writers about odder writers, and a few real ting swells, and some for' n nobs wit handles to delr names and 'wit half-grown whiskers and full grown appatltea for tea, and two or .tree real autora of real hooka what had been printed already. Bay, de pieces ' in de papea about dat lady'a sore to de lltry woiid brought her more orders lor wolk dan ahe could do. .It haa been da same way wit odder folks In swell trades like milliners, silk stocking Im porters, and horn-mad pie sellers, dat Miss Fannie baa wanted to help Just give a tea or two In d home-made pie atudlo, or da cosey corner where allk stockings la triad on while you wait, and p'choe de trick la done yours to de bank account Well, aa I was tailing you. dla artla mug waa a cracker-Jack at his trade, but only a few of us know it, and Wlddy waa de only to order a otltyp and pay for It, and de paintar was doing every thing but eating tree meals a day and paying room rant. "He la really a great artla," says Wlddy to Miss Fannie, "and should be give de welcome hand by New York." "No," aaya Mlaa Fannie, "ha should give de welcome hand to New York. Dere la Just de difference dat makea for success or failure la dla tout-hearted town. It won't have any one or any thing dat asks for help, but anybody dat aaka It to tea, and ahowa signs of not wanting any kelp he's de white haired lad for de Island of Manhattan. I don't want me picture took by your artls fren. but I'll stage-mange a tea for him. and stand de price, dat will bring him more orders for wolk dan he can do without giving out aome of de jobs to rival shops." Dat'a de way It was. Miss Fannie she aenda out de Invites In de artla's name, and she lets folks know dat she la going and la tickled to daat to go; and before de afternoon of de tea every ' Itttle Willie Boy and Violet Jan trying to hurdle Into d real ting fashionable aet was crying for invites, but Miss Fannie told de artla mug to .say dat his shop held no more, dan waa already asked to come, and a second chance would be give Inter in de season. Miss Fanni sent our silver and china to de studio, and I waa dere to help in de handout. Duchess waa dere, too, for to help take off ladles' wraps, and de crowd waa so tick dat before we came to de tea hand-out we d wolked so hard dat we taught a sup of beer, and a small smoke for me. would do no harm and makea us feel more like d true artla Der was a little back room where Ducheas aald de art is' models rested, and I'd put a few bottles der. and wa waa having a little tea of our own. Duchess and I, when a lady pokes her head In and says cunnlng-llke, "Oh. you are de models, are youT How perfectly lovely!" she says. "So Bohemian!" she aaya. "I never seen a model before; and ao Jolly to be having a glaaa of beer. May I come In?" "Sure, lady." I aaya, "and bar a glass of beer. If you like." if ' l "Soma of ' 'em had a ahell of bear wit the Ducheaa and aome took a puff or two of a cigarette." 1 1 HE AND DUCHESS ASSIST IN MAKING aaaen an artists Say, be did look Well, she slid into de room, and waa tickled to deat at de situation, and ahe looks about and discovers a few pic tures dat haa no frames on 'em, and aaya how much waa day wort. "Sorry, ma'am." I aaya, "but he haa no pictures left dat lan't sold except one," I aaya. Unking dat I might do de artla chap a good toln. "Ils one Is not sold, but Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Mor gan bote wants It bad." Indeed!" ahe aays, looking at da picture hard. "What's re price of it?" Only five hundred dollars," I aaya. "If d lady dat'a In de picture had more close on de price would be a tounand, but being only naif dressed It goes for half price." Say, aba hustles fast, takea out a card. aaya for me to send d picture to d framer and de bill to her husband, and den she goes out to spread de glad tidings. Inside of a minute anodder lady sneaks In snd asks if dat la de place to -buy pictures of de delightful artls. Ducheas takes up de game dla time, and she soaks da next buyer for seven hun dred and fifty; and In half an hour we'ed sold every picture dere was In.ds room, and took orders for more. Ducheaa aald shs knew dat da artla hadn't a cent on eart, dat de long green Wlddy had paid him want .for his debts, ao we took chancea. But de gam didn't stop when we'd sold all dere waa to sell, dolls came la making a sneak! of it. and' aaying how wickedly nloe It waa to meet models, and some of 'em had, a ahell of beer wit Ducheaa, and aome took a puff or two Of a cigarette, and wa waa boosting de trade to beat a hurry-call ambulance, when He artls cam In to see what was de excitement. When I told him what we'd done In de way of trad be wouldn't believe until I ehowed him de cards, and de orders to send pictures to framera, and bills to' hubblea. "But," aaya da artls. half crying wit Joy, "I'd aold de whole bunch for ds price you have got for one. I've tried to sell de whole of 'em for leas dan you has got for de cheapest you have sold. Now, at last people have recog nised me gen I us T "Not a bit like It." I says. "Dey have recognised dat you are recognised by Miss Fsnnle snd her set. and dat beats genlua to a pulp. I never painted any thing but a black eye for de coachman which I gave him de black eye ail de 1 reputation : ; fierce for fair. same I'll give you a line on your Job dat you never will get out of de book of genlua: de next lady dat aaka you to paint her picture, tell her you are engaged for a month, and charge her five thousand Instead of one, and aee what you'll aee." De tea was a grand success. Dere waa so many folks dere dat nobody could drink tea and dey talked so hard and loud dat nobody could hear de music, snd dey waa so crowded nobody could see nobody else's dress, but dat only made It more of a winner. It waa out of sight and near to de limit In about a week dat artla sends for me. and he aaya I waa a wlae guy for fair. He d done what I told him about de foist order he got and de result would take him a year to do, and de dealers dat wouldn't have him at any old price waa now begging wolK from him at his own price. "Now, Chlmmle, he says. "I want to do sometlng nlcs for you. I 11 p.ilrlt your picture. 'Not mine!" I says. I'd spoil de canvas. Paint me wife de Duchess All right," he says; and I chases home to tell Duchess d news. But dnt goll snvs. .. 'Not me, Cheems; not me, but Kiddle. ,t ' "Dat'a a funny ting about women; der atn t none ao stuck on heraelf but dat when she has a baby ahe la more stuck on de Kiddle dan she Is on herself ruppose dat Is because wnat de Kiddle Is, de modder made It herself, and what de modder la, somebody else made It; snd after all It'a delr own wolk dey la stuck on. I took some photographse nf Kiddle In his football togs to de artls to show him, because Mr. Paul aays dat would be a good ting to have Kiddle as a foot bailer. De artla was tickled to deat. "I've an Idea." h nays, as delighted ss If he had a winning ticket st de races. "Bring dls child here In his football close, snd we'll make an exhibition canvas of de little rascal." Dat Idea wasn't strong wit Duchess she wsnted Kiddle dressed up In his best close, hut when he came down on a vacation. I took him to de studio on de sneak, and had his worst stained foot bail togs wit me. De srtls snd Kiddle waa great pals st once, and Kiddle posed Just ss de artls told him. and was painted bending over like he was Just going to make a plunge trough de Una. Say, he did look fierce, for fair. Well, whan de got de picture dona, h painted a sign. "A Coming Champion," and wit dat sign on de- picture ha allowed It at d exhibition, and It took a orlaa! Duchess never eeen It till I took her one night to de show, and she near fainted at de sight of de erowd sround It. say Ing dat It waa de greatest aver. couldn't drag ber away from It till d gaa waa tolned out. But before dat Ducheaa had a run In wit a critic mug wnat waa aaying tinge dat didn't roeeV anything about de picture to any one who'd listen to him. Seeing dat Ducheaa was willing to listen to anything aald about It. he aaya to her. "Madam," he aays, "It la something to be proud of dst New York haa an artla able to produce so frne a canvas " "Blen sur!" aaya Ducheaa, "But It la aometlng to be prouder of dat we haa women able to produce ao fin a boy." "If it were ao!" aays de critic. "But dls Is not painted from a model; it la an Ideal child." "Ideal!" saya Duchess, humping her snomaers at de mug no dat he Jumped 10 feet. "Do I look like a woman who would produce an Ideal or a real child, monsieur? 'Dat child Is ss real aa I am. for he Is my child!" ne critic goes to de Janitor and warn him dat dere was a crank woman sitting In front of de "Coming Champion," and to look out for her. Thomas A. Edison fJonaa, Howard, in Chicago Tribune.) O the general public Thoma A. Bdlaon la the "Wlaard" of Or ange, N. J. Nothing short of a social and economical cataclyam would get the Idea, of his Inventive un csnnlrress out of the public Imagina tion. Thla Imagination poses a tall, thin, angular, ungainly figure In a linen duster aa the figure of Bdlaon. and It adds to him a telegraph key and sounder, with which he is eternally sitting down to "queer" soma, country station opera tor, or els It puts him In conjunction with a feed wire from aome electric gen erating plant, supplies his quarters with the dim. mysterious light of the Voodoo doctor, and prepare to believe anything which gossip and improbability auggeat as the result of the seance. Such a public Is in Una for a shock. Waiving the personality of the man who long ago outgrew the linen duster. It msy be ssld for Thomaa A. Bdlaon that he never haa ahown to the world one sci entific principle that waa not recognised when he waa born. He la not of the stuff of which genius la made. His mind Is not philosophic His position In the scientific world la that of an adapter of mechanisms that are the out growth of other men'a elaborate and distinctly scientific research. Some one haa sized him up in a paragraph: "Lying under the famed apple tree, as Newton did. and receiving the apple on his nose, Edison never would have given us the law of gravitation. Bather we might have expected of mm a series of experiments providing for the spples to fall, ready packed Into barrels that needed only to be beaded up for ship ment' " But If the genius slds of Rdtson Is to be questioned seriously, there are some evldenoea of It at hand. First, perhaps, the general public will be Influ enced more by the absence of one funda mental qualification of genius that dis position not to care for the worldllness of life. On one occasion a friend con gratulated Bdlaon upon the perfection of the phonograph, catling it the most wonderful Invention ofthe age. "Yes." drawled this erstwhile genius of the linen duster and the telegraph key. "but the d d thing don't bring In the money Edison today Is I? years old. and his hslr Is aa whtte aa snow. Considering his modes snd manners In early life, and the strenuouaneaa of his work and way In all his later years, the anatomist might well wonder at the physique thst has stood under such strain. The nerve racking vigils of the exoerlmenter seem to have concentrated their effects in his hair only. His face Is lo years younger than his years, and the quick, nervous footstep In the hlt or on the graveled aths of the nark would Indicate to a blind man a vigor and frame not at all In keeping with the man's snowy hair. To this man of men In th mastery of mechanical things, a seeming failure la only a spur to further work on the same line, and so sharply does the oc casion nrlck thst he knows no rest under th task In his old workshop gown, over a stained and ahlny non descript trousers snd Jacket, he Is the last In hla laboratory to eat and to fall asleep when the work In hand presses to a finish. '' Of this man described on one occaslor. by a friend aa "an Inrenlotis mechanic." another friend has said: "I doubt If any living aclentlst Is able to grasp ths sig nificance of accidental phenomena with anything like the nulckness thst be longs to Edison's nature." It war this qiilckneaa of perception thst made the phonograph possible. Edison had ben singing Into the mouth piece of a telephone when the vibration of the diaphragm sent tie fine metal point Into his finger. Instantly the effect of the reverse order of the phe nomena occurred to him. He took up piece of neper, snd calling "Hello. hello" Into the mouthpiece, psssed the paper over the needle point. Then with an ear to the receiver he drew the paner heck over the metal and heard the faint "Hello, hello" that In a moment made the phonograph. , This perception, together with Edi son's freedom from the necessity of In spiration having his material alwaya In hand, with only the task of making the application has made him the light of Inventiveness In Amerlcs. In this con nection his fondness for epigrams led him away from the spirit of the true genius when he took occasion to say that 'Genius Is two per cent Inspiration and it per cent persnlrntlnn." Kdtson dis covered th prlnrlnle of the phonograph by accident snd followed It up: Mercen thsler started out to make a machine that would set type when all the world was saving that In Ivnesettlng. at least, the cunning human hand always would keep lis cunning. In the days since Edison was going Into debt, signing notes, snd paying them only after they had gone to protest, he has evolved s system In his business relations with the world. In those early days he could not see the Importance of bookkeeping when his credit was good. snd the nrotest fees were never more then 11.50. Today he haa settled a million dollars or mora upon hla wife, with the Injunction, "If I fall, take car of ma" The Thanksrrlvlng Oocoocoo. From the Sunset Magaslne. The original name of the turkey waa Oocoocoo, by which It waa known by the native Cherokee Indians. It Is sup posed thst our Pilgrim fathers, roaming through the woods In search of game for their first Thanksgiving spresd heard the Oocoocoo calling In the famil iar tonea of our domesticated fowl Turk, turk lurk " These first Ysnkee huntsmen, mistaking this frightened cry of the bird for Its real song. Immediate ly labeled It "turkey." and turkey It la to thla day. Much more beautiful and musical waa the Indian name "Oo -coo- coo." th notes peculiar to the flock when sunning themselves In perfect content on the river beeches. Naval Panics of tke SpanisK WW1 From the New York Herald. WE? ETHER or not that tragedy the North sea was dus belief ou the part of the men of Russia's Baltic fleet that they wer being attacked by Japan as torpedo boats or merely to the "panic which shells a drifting apar." certain It la that there la a pronounced disposition among American navy men who went through the Spanish war to suspend Judgment In this case. To relate a few of the many Instances of the sort which came about when Sampson's unllghted ships patrolled the Cuban coast and kept atern vigil over lta blockaded ports. There came about then, a night when the gray fleet off Santiago had "torpedo boats, ' aa they phrase It In the navy. The enemy waa known to be In the harbor, and tie waa known to have destroyers, thoae then untried and much dreaded englnea of war. Picket launches had been atatloned at either aide of the harbor entrance and from duak to dawn a battleship had been detailed to lie directly off the entrance, with her searchlights blaxlng up the channel and a supporting battle ship at her side, the rest of the fleet distributed In a semicircle about the entrance. It was a Mack night, moonless and misty. For many daya and nights th ship had been on this duty and nervea were on edge none knowing but on each velvet fold some destroy r might rid. It was at thla tense crista that th searchlight of the sentry battleship dis closed a glint of flushing metal juat off th Monro. A thouaand pair of eyes were on wstch st the time snd In sn In stant a doaen searchlights were focussed on th point A moment's waiting and then it hove Into view again, sclntlllant as burnished steel. A gleam of sheet lightning quivered through the blackness, and where the glistening thing had ahowed waa a whole acre of driven foam, shells bursting and aptttlng about In a whlssing hall. From Sampson s quiet flagship Imme diately biased the signal. "Ceaae flrlng," and on the next morning a general or der waa Issued a bit curt In tone and to the effect that henceforth no more empty coffee tins were to be thrown overboard or anything else that might drift Inshore and cauaa fusillades at night. One of the narrowest escapea from terrible dlsaater waa when the torpedo boat Porter came near sinking the flag ship New York, believing that vessel waa an enemy. This waa In the early daya' of the war and on the Havana blockade. At that time no one knew the whereabouts of Cervera'a fleet and thoae on blockade duty wars not sure but th four fine armored cruisers of Spain and Its flotilla of destroyers might. appear at any moment. To the Porter had been delegated the N' EBRA8KA Spiritualists assert that It 1 due to th revela tions of a trance medium that two murderers are now within the walla of the atate peni tentiary. The prisoners are Charles Hutchinson, aged II, and hla mother, aged 35 The boy Is sentenced to 11 years Imprisonment and th woman to 10 yeara for the murder of Ell Feasel, an old man and their employer. Ell Feasel lived on a farm about eight mllea from Superior and Mrs. Hutchinson wss his housekeeper. Charles did the bulk of the farm work. Harley Feaael, a nephew of the old man. era a frequent visitor at the- farm houae, drawn there, it la aald, by die at tractions of Mrs. Hutchinson, with whom he soon became In love. The elder Feasel alao had eyaa for the charms of hla housekeeper and ob jected to the attentions paid the woman by the nephew. Nevertheleas, It Is aa aerted thst the two were engaged to be married, and rumor said that they; had declared that they did not carei whether th old man gave hla consent or not. In the meantime th old man Waa annoying Mrs. Hutchinson with his love making. This angered her aon ("hnrles, who at one time la ssld to have threatened his employer with dire vengeance if his mother waa not let slone. The rivalry between uncle snd nephew thus cauaed constant friction In th Feasel home. Ell Feaael and Charlea went to Superior October 1, 10I. with a load of corn. Feaael .waa seen that afternoon buying a flask of liquor, but was never seen sgaln. A few days afterward T la of th Papuans, a little- known race of British New Guinea, that A. E. Pratt and hla son ar now telling Lon don, and their descriptions of these strange aborigines of thla remote part of Australasia have aatonlahed all hear ers Tba monstrous practlcea in which they Indulge ar enhanced In htdeous nesa by the fact that according to the returned explorers, they are, an intelli gent, aulck. merry race of men. Alert of mind, comely and strong of body, they laugh delightedly over the unspeakanie outrages which they commit. They ar not a low browed, skulking, squalid race. Ilka other maneatlng aavages. but nim ble of mind and muacle. daring people with open countenances and laughing lips. It Is when tribe meets tribe on festive occasions that what we may call mur der la done between the merrymakers, snd that men. women and children actu- lly feaat upon the cooked fleah of fel low-creatures. It Is when the mirth Is at its highest that one of thoae laugh ing, singing tribesmen spears his rival or his tribal adversary. Nor does the most timid Papuan look upon such a tragedy as other than a Jolly Joke, a cause for lsughter. a proof that the festival has proved a grand success At other than a festival the slaying of a tribesman means war with the tribe of the slayer, and the victims of battle sup ply the victors' commlssarlst. Some tribes actually slnv and devour the peo ple of their own tribes, striking them down in cold blood, hesitating not to gorge themselves upon the flesh of their own relative. Nor la there In this mon strous practice any evidence of malig nity. Th corpse la looked upon aa proper food. The killing Is done by th village butcher, as a matter of course There la no grief manifested, and It Is likely that none Is felt. "But while we were encamped at Ke be." Mr. Pratt saya, "the natives of a village on an opposite ridge, within call ing distance, shouted over to ua that they had killed and eaten the brother of one of my beat hunters, Ow Bow. The s'sln Papnan himself waa a faithful and trusted guide There was great excite ment, and th brother of th musdered man, summoning all th other villagers. duty of aeeing that only friendly keels approached the blockade line, snd with "stripped hull slinking through the gloom, hslf guessed and gone again." the Porter, In her Indistinguishable coat of olive green had circled twice or thrice around th fleet, when suddenly through the gloom and close aboard loomed the outlines of a large veasel, running with out lights and apparently standing In from a direction In which the enemy was expected. Show the night fleet signal," ordered Lieutenant (now Commander) Tremont. The signal wss shown, but there waa no reply. Dark and unheeding the stranger held her course, and on the Instant th torpedo boat waa In purault. One more the night fleet algnal was ahown, and when there waa no reply Tremont waa convinced that the vessel waa aa enemy, and the three torpedoes which the Porter carried were made ready for a simultaneous discharge at the stranger. Any one would have de stroyed tht vessel it. an Instant, and the torpedo boat waa then ao near that there waa no possibility of escape If all three were launched. The ship waa rolling with a deep eaay motion and the Porter waa so close that a pebble could have been tossed from ons to the other. "Wait until ahe ahows her boot leg on the next roll," Tremont ordered, "and then Are." Between the terrible dilemma of de stroying a friend or letting an enemy escape, Tremont determined to give the vessel one laat chance, and the menace In hla hall, 'What ahlp is tint told his silent crew that it was to be her laat. The shtp was just beginning to lift her underbody to a long alow heave of aea and Angara were Juat beginning to press triggers when clear and dis tinct cams back the reply: "This la the New York. Js that the Porter?" Aa It- afterward developed the New York had aeen the signals and the alg nal officer had sought to reply, but ail unknown to him the apparatus had not worked. "You may live a long time," Tremont aald later to one of hla frlenda on the nagsnip, nut you win never have a closer shave thaq you had that night." In hla "Wounds In the Rain" the late Stephen Crane tells of how hla diapatch boat, the Three Frlenda, waa fired upon and rammed by the gunboat Machias. The dispatch boat waa off the Cuban coast one dark night when "suddenly a familiar signal of red and white flashed like a brooch of jewela over the pall that covered the aea. It was the elec tric queation of an American warship snd It demanded a awlfi anawer In kind. The man behind the gun! What about the men In frpnt of th. gun? "Our algnals far from being electric were two lanterns which we kept In a tub and covered with a tarpaulin. When we were accoated at night It was every neighbors missed the old man and In quired of the Hutchlnaona aa to his whereabouts. They said that he had gone to visit his mother and brother, who lived near Humboldt. Comment was roused after thla by young Hutchinson selling hogs and corn from the barn. Soon several neighbors received letters from Thomas Feasel. the brother at Humboldt, Inquiring con cerning Ell and aaying that hla Hum boldt relatlvea had heard nothing from him for a long time. An Investigation followed, and Harley Feaael, Mrs Hutchinson snd Charlea Hutchinson, were arrested on suspicion. But no evidence could be found against them, snd st the preliminary bearing all were dlacharged. The Hutchlnaona left the Feasel farm, the mother obtaining work as a housekeeper on a farm near Nel son and the son getting work near Oulde Rock. One of the neighbors of the missing man consulted a trance medium about the affair and'was told that th body of Kli Feasel would be found burled In an outhouse on the Fessel farm. Thla caused considerable discussion snd a party decided to investigate. No body waa found In the building, but a hole waa there that looked aa If It might have contained a body, and In It was a rusty wrench with spots on it, which chemists declared were blood. The medium wss again consulted, and thla time aald that the body bad been taken from the hole and burled in a field. Vague directions were given aa to the locality of the field, and amateur de tectives dug up most of th Feasel farm without result Spooks Hunt Down Murderers The High-Minded Cannibal came and demanded all the guna and rifles to go to this village snd shoot all these people, which, of courae, I refused. The noise waa terrible, and It went on throughout th day. Than, on th third day, an emissary arrived from the other village and announced that hla people were willing to give a pig as pay for the murdered man, and the outlandish propo sition waa not only promptly accepted, but welcomed by the tribesmen of the human victim. The pig waa brought a feast waa proclaimed, and my villagers were delighted with th settlement On ordinary occasions of this kind it would have been a life for a life, the frlenda of the victims usually waiting In advan tageous places to apear the offenders at th first opportunity. 'My party had little trouble with the natives but on on ocraalon I had to send my son who wss now II and had acquired th language to a distant town for provisions, with a very small follow ing. He had to paaa through a hostile village a lied Madul. Our carriers war reluctant to make th Journey on ac count of this village. I myself waa alao reluctant to allow my son to go: but aa we were very abort of food and trade, the matter was urgent. "On th Journey down they passed through the village without trouble, but on their return they heard that a man had Just ben killed, and the villagers de manded that one of the boys of our party ahould be given up to them to be killed end eaten. "At once there waa consternation and terror among our curriers. It waa a most critical moment for my son, who might have been abandoned by the frightened carriers to the furious canni bals. Fortunately, he wee well armed, and he mat th trying situation like a grown man. He quickly ordered his car riers to remain In line and thrat dire punishment on the fleet to signs of desertion. " Ws will gtve you no boy te tent aad eat.' he shouted back through the inter preter, and we will kill all that you send to get them. Beware Of th god that hurls th llghtaing- It goea (far mwa atrmee aea re ' asm ae fired in thJe strata be MMJtJsWM wltfclW tbem tail aafjb, MJ aatl 1 body's duty to scramble wildly far tub and grab out the lanterns iM them. It amounted to a ale speech. I remember a atory of a who upon hearing a noise la hla ona dark night called his usual query, 'Halt, who goes there? Halt. I nre: And getting no Immediate sponse he fired even aa he had said. ,' killing a man with a hare Up. who un fortunately could not arrange hla vocal - machinery to reply In season. W war something Ilk a boat with a hare lip" Describing bow the vessel, which proved to be the gunboat Machias. first fired a ahell acrosa the bow of th Three Friends, rammed her and then backed off the writer saya that "later from some hidden part of the sea the bullish eye of a search light looked at us and the widening white raya bathed us In th eglare. 'There waa another hall.' Hello, there. Three Frlenda!" " 'Aye, aye, air.' " 'Are you Injured? "Our first mate had taken a lantern and waa studying th side of the tug. snd we held our breath for his anawer. 1 waa aure that he waa going to say that we were sinking But th first mat (aid, 'No, air!' Inatantly the glare of the searchlight was gone and the Inci dent waa closed." There Is snother story of that "blind fold game of war" which la told In whispers by navy men and haa never been told elsewhere. It tells of a mid night encounter off the north coast of Cuba between the Resolute, one of th converted cruisers, and the crulaer Cin cinnati. The Resolute, which was then unarmed and heavily laden with ammu nition for Sampson's fleet, mistook th Cincinnati, which waa coming up astern, for a Spanish cruiser and her efforts to avoid the stranger convinced those onf the Cincinnati that she wag an enemy aeeklng to escape. With all men at quarters and guna loaded and trained, the Cincinnati wa on the point of flrlng a broadside at close range when the Identity at th Resolute wa discovered. A half doaen or even on live-Inch shell bursting 1 that heavily laden ammunition ahlp would undoubtedly have destroyed her In sn Instant The Wanda, a yacht engaged In dis patch boat service, had many adventures with our men of war. One waa when she wss approaching the Santiago block ade directly after the lnveatment of Cer vera'a fleet by Sampaon. It waa In th gray of early dawn when ahe drew near and the first that thoae on board knew of their proximity to the fleet waa when a shell wh taxed under her bow. Th little craft promptly atopped and her startled crew saw the loom of a dark gray masa a abort distance away. Thla waa soon made out to be a battle ship of high degree and a few minute later the voice of Captain Clark of th Oregon was heard hailing. Seven months afterward a human hand and a coat containing In a pocket an empty whlakey flaak was ploughed upon the Stanley farm near Oulde Rock. The Stanley farm adjotna the farm on which young Hutchinson was working. Only the day before the discovery was made young Hutchinson had quit work, saying that h waa 111 and would have to go to town. He appeared that night at a livery stable In Bad Cloud and obtained a buggy and team, which be did not return until o'clock th next morning. The horses were almoat ex hausted. Hutchinson wss arrested a few daya later for the second time, aa were alao Harley Feasel and Mrs. Hutchinson. Testimony showed that a body was burled In the place where the band and th coat were found. It waa evident that the ground had been recently dug up, and a man s and a woman's foot prints were visible around the spot. There were tracks of two horses and a buggy. One of the horses had a "trailed" ahoe. So did one of the horses taken that night from Red Cloud. Young Hutchlnaon waa unable to tell of hla movements the night be took the team from Red Cloud. May . laot. after he left Superior. Slowly the links ef evidence were forged, ail circumstantial, but damaging. Harley Feaael waa able to prove aa alibi and was discharged, but Charlea Hutchinson and his mother war found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment. Both insist on their Innocence and deny all knowledge aa to Ell Feasel s dis appearance. camp with the understanding that the pow wow should be finished In the morn ing. "It aeems that each aid expected aa attack. At any rate, my son didn't close hla eyea through the night But with ready weapons be watched the enemy and his own carriers lest they ahould de sert him. "At the first sign of light he had them ready for the trail, and they atole away. By the time the cannibals were aware of th trip, my son had hla car riers at a place where they could safely defy the cannibals. He managed to slip a carrier through to me. I sent help, and it waan't long before he and hla ear lier wer back aafely In my camp. It waa a hasardoua adventure, but the lad got through It all right." Mr. Pratt describes the ornithology of Papua aa Including the oddest and most beautiful examples of bird life he haa known. There be saw ths marvelous blue birds of paradise, one of th latest discoveries, and there he watched aaton ished th splendid bower bird, which builds upon th ground a neat that la a true bird cottage, which makea about Its door a garden of orchid blooms plucked In tbe wilderness, and which actually dances with Its mate among the well-ordered rows of flowers. The Papuana fish In the low countries with hand-mode nts. and their weapons ar spears, bow and arrows, and clubs. They have a ayatem of spreading news and communicating from village to vil lage by ahoutlng to one another across tba valleys snd gorges, the words spreading from hilltop to hilltop with wonderful rapidity. Neer Hood's bay th Pratt party visited tbe Motu Motu toeoDle. th mysteries of New tlulnea. for they sre piebald, and th whit spots upon their black fleah has never explained by scientists who have them. The eeswwJ Utee frees JBM A sees) . M