SONO.
Oh!
And
But
Her
like a queen's her happy tread.
like a queen's her golden head!
oh! at last, when all is said,
woman's heart for me!
We wandered where the river gleamed.
‘Neath oaks that mused and pines that
dreamed,
A wild thing of the woods she seemed.
So proud and pure and free!
All heaven grew nleh to hear her sing.
When from her lips her soul took
wing;
The oaks forgot their pondering,
The pines their reverie.
And oh! her happy queenly tread!
And oh! her qneenly golden head!
But oh! her heart, when all is said^-
Her woman's heart for me!
— William Watson.
When the big White Star liner Bal
tic. from Liverpool, readied her pier
recently an attractive Norwegian wom
an and her two little daughters stepped
from the gangplank Into the arms of
former Sergt. Jack Dempsey of Co.
H. Fourteenth United States cavalry,
and thereby hangs a tale of tragedy
and romance that began on the Pacific
Ocean and only culminates to-day.
In their little Norwegian home the
two children nestled on their mother's
lap and listened to a mournful recital
of how their father, Olav Nassjo, a Dig.
bronzed Norseman, gave his life for
that of the man whom henceforth they
will call father.
On May 20, 1899, the United States
transport Logan cast her lines from
the transport dock in San Francisco
and steamed out through the Golden
Gate, headed for the Philippines, with
the soldiers and officers of the Sixth
Infantry, regular army, on board.
They were bound on a mission which
was certain to mean that .many would
never live to see home again.
Happy and most care free of all was
tall, handsome Sergt. Jack Dempsey.
Always ready with story or song, but
never lacking In soldierly obedience.
Sergt. Jack was loved by his comrades
and respected by his superiors.
After the uneventful twenty-six-day
run to Manila, the strenuous days of
regular army life begun.
Marched
from one point to another, at one time
serving with his regiment in the Is
land of Negros, fifty miles farther
south; transferred from one regiment
to another, and from infanty to cav
alry, Dempsey eventually found him
self back In Manila about the time
that the news of the Boxer outbreak
reached there. Manila being the near
est available point, instructions soon
cacne from Washington to rush troops
from there to the scene of the disturb
ance. It was then that Sergt. Jack
Dempsey found his lot cast on the
United States transport Seward, bound
for the China coast.
It was when the transport was three
•days out that a fierce storm was en
countered, which had all the attributes
o f one of the dreaded typhoons of that
uncertain locality.
Sergt. Dempsey
had been chatting below with some of
his comrades, and when he reaches .ae
deck was careless of the pitching and
rolling of the transport in the seething
water which surrounded her. Scurry
ing across the slanting deck In an
effort to avoid a torrent of foaming
water from a wave which broke ovr
the vessel's bow, Dempsey was dashe^
to the lee rail. Fortunately the Sew
ard was almost hove to. having on
only sufficient headway to keep her
head on to the battering seas.
It
w a s « sea In which the lowering of a
small boat would have been most haz
ardous, but even before there was time
to give such an order after the cry.
-Man overboard!” had rang through
the ship, a rigid form, clad In blue,
shot from the bridge and parted the
waters within a few strokes of the
struggling sergeant.
Wheel Quartermaster Olav Nassjo,
stationed on the bridge, had seen
Dempsey swept from the deck. He
stopped not an Instant, but hurled
himself to the rescue* It was the act
o f a hero, hut Nassjo never survived
to receive the idolatry of his ship
mates. ' He accomplished the work of
rescue but sacrificed his own life in
the performance of the task.
As the young sailor's powerful arms
cleft the water during a moment’s
calm In the lee of the ship, and his
hands clutched the clothing of the
gurgling, exhausted man, a line shot
from the ship's rail and was quickly
passed around the body of the half
drowned soldier by Nassjo, who, still
careless of his own safety, shouted
to those on deck to "haul away.”
While the Inanimate form of Demp
sey was being dragged up the side of
the ship. Nassjo struck out in his
wake. He was almost within reaching
distance of another line which was al
ready dangling over the side, when a
rolling sea broke over him and dashed
him with terrific force against the
steel hull of the transport. His awe
struck mates gathered at the rail
could hear the sickening crash as the
poor fellow's skull struck the metal,
and watched with horror the deep red
coloring of the surface as the gallant
hero sank. Following the Inviolable
rule of the sev the transport was hove
to the locality, but the watch kept at
the rail by the entire ship’s company
was of no avail—the cradling waves
had claimed their shipmate for hla
lark, long sleep. After the end of the
dreary watch, during which Sergt
Dempsey had been resuscitated. It was
appewet to all that a life had been
S M S T O ON W0S0CCÂN COAST
M
irin
i usa
DIGGERS OF BIG "DITCH”
Required houses, Hotels, hospitals
and .Many Other Buildings
W ithin Canal Zone.
OVER $9.000,000 IS EXPENDED
N rebelling against the war which Spain has undertaken on
the Riff coast of Morocco, some of the Spanish people have per
haps In mind the fact that little national glory or territorial
expansion is likely to be obtained through a long and bloody
campaign against the wild tribesmen of that region. For the
integrity of Morocco is guaranteed by the powers of Europe,
the Sultan of that picturesque and unprogresslve country Is
taking no part In the proceedings, and the government of Spain has an
nounced that the purpose of the war Is limited to the protection of Spanish
possessions and frontiers covered by the treaty of Tetuan, being In no sense
directed against Morocco as a state. Few Spaniards, however, are given
to reading or thinking abstractly about questions of government or foreign
policy. Eighty per cent o f them are unable to read or write. The antag
onism of the people to the Moroccan war probably springs almost wholly
from their knowledge of what the wars of the past have cost them Individ
ually. Spain’s possessions In Morocco are small—a few towns along the
coast used as convict stations— and their greatest value seems to be to a
few mine owners who have been and are being protected by the Spanish
government at a high cost to the nation.
One of the most picturesque chapters of European history Is the story
of the Invasion of Spain by the Moors, which left permanent monuments oi
the greatness of the Invaders In the Alhambra and other famous structures
Before the Invention of gunpowder the Moors were a formidable enemy In
the field. They are credited, Indeed, with having used gunpowder for the
first time In European warfare, at the siege of Algeciras, In 1342, and with
having long been familiar with Its use before other nations put it to prac
tical purposes. Morocco received the expelled Moors when those of them
that refused to accept Christianity were driven from Spain by the power
of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon in the fifteenth century.
Their settlement on the African coast gave them the opportunity of becom
ing pirates for many centuries. Funclumentally opposed to each other
as Christians and Mohammedans, the Spaniards and Moroccoans have an
enduring antagonism to each other, whether having specific causes for war
or not.
Atmospheric
Conditions
and
W ood Ant Necessitated Brick
or Stone Construction.
the
vlded that It can be made to yield a
profit, the New York Star says. The
space buyer for such a concern has to
be a Alan of Intelligence and adapta
bility. for he may cover the city and
a certain area of the surrounding ter
ritorv, meeting all sorts of people, city
folks and farmers.
Some won't sell their space at any
price, some want too much, and then
there are some who will sell for some
sorts of signs but not for others. The
buyer must know how to get along
with everybody with whom he does
business.
Incidentally the wall-space buyer
keeps track of all the changes along
the railways and the highways within
his outside territory and he keeps also
a constant eye on real estate transac
tions in the city, to know where new
buildings are going up and where old
buildings are to be torn down. He
may be able to buy the side of a new
building or the top space on it where
it rises above the building adjoining,
or perhaps he can get the exposed side
of an old building on an adjoining va
cant lot.
On some city side walls there might
be room for a sign forty, fifty, sixty
feet high, while on the side and roof
of a country barn or shed the space
would be far less. Sometimes in the
country you see an advertising sign
painted along on a number of sheds.
Some of the spaces bought cost a
high price, some are bought low. Many
of the spaces acquired in city or coun
try may be held more or less perma
nently.
Some are held for shorter
periods and of some the tenure may
be only temporary, as In the case of
side walls soon obscured again by
new buildings, but new spaces are con
stantly being leased and the aggregate
amount of space is kept up or In
creased.
One concern in the business in New
York has under Its control for adver
In connection with the work on the
canal It Is probable that the majority
of the Americans back home do not
comprehend all the details, most of
them viewing it as a matter of digging
a ditch, hauling away the dirt and
building a few locks and dams, a Colon
letter to the New Orleans Tlmes-Demo-
crat says. It Is hardly likely that the
work done in sanitation and In erect
ing buildings and the cost of the same
are fully realized. When the French
Canal Company turned over to the
American army officers their posses
sions on the Isthmus there were In
cluded in the transfer close on to 1.S00
houses. For several years prior to
that time the French had been doing
scarcely anything except a little dig
ging at Culebra, and, as these houses
were strung all along the line and
were but little used, they were natur
ally In bad condition. Since that time
the canal commission has erected
something like 1,500 buildings. These
have cost, more or less, $6,400,000,
given for a life, and the ship headed dren. Your husband died a man to American money, and the repairs nec
essary to make the French houses
again in the direction of Tientsin.
be admired by all humanity, and God
During the remainder of the passage will watch over and take care of you.
Sergt. Dempsey was kept to his berth With all my heart’s sincerest sorrow,
SIR ORACLE SPEAKS.
below.
Illness followed his being believe me, your friend,
snatched from a watery grave and this
J a c k d e . m p s e y ,
was accentuated by grief over the ca Co. H, Fourteenth U. S. Cavalry, Ma
tastrophe, so that when the coast was
nila, P. I.
reached the regimental surgeon or
Letters of thanks followed, and the
dered that Dempsey be sent to the correspondence continued through the
Japanese general hospital at Nagasaki, years that Sergt. Dempsey remained in
The days that Sergt. Jack was lying Manila fulfilling his promise to the
on his back on the hospital cot were Norwegian widow and her little ones.
spent In moody reflection, but before Five yeara after the Mayday sailing
he again started for the front, sound the same transport— the Logan— which
enough physically, he had formed a had carried Sergt. Dempsey away from
resolution which he did not communi San Francisco steamed back through
cate to even his most intimate com the Golden Gate with Sergt. Dempsey
rades.
on board. Letters of such a character
Sergt. Dempsey followed his regi had been exchanged meanwhile that
ment to China In another transport, Jack was not surprised to be ap
but found that it had gone to the front proached on the pier by a little Nor
already, so he fell In with the famous wegian woman, who gazed first at a
Reilly’s battery, and made the march photograph which she held In her hand
with them to Peking.
Although and then at the face of the stalwart
wounded in the first skirmish, Sergt. soldier, while the tears streamed down
Dempsey subsequently rejoined his her cheeks. The tall, handsome ser
geant took her in his arms, but did
not speak for awhile. Then they
walked away together. Later a gen
eral order was Issued and three regi
ments lined up while the bands of
their regiments played the wedding
march.
Finally Sergt. Dempsey’s regiment
was ordered to New York, and it was
while he was serving as Gen. Grant’s
NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO BEGIN PRACTISING ECONOMY” -
orderly at Governor’s Island that he
received, on May 13. 1908, his honor James J. Hill.
able discharge from the United States
army, in which he had served so faith again habitable cost nearly $2,700,000 tising signs about 750,000 square fee
fully and well.
additional of the same kind of curren samewhere about twenty acres of ve:
Mr. Dempsey returned to civil life cy. This makes a total of over $9,- tical space scattered here and there 1'
as an employe of William Morris, Inc., 000,000 expended on buildings during large and small lots.
and Is now superintendent of the build the past five years.
Of course some of these spaces ar
ing in 42d street Into which Mr. Mor
These buildings have been erected in preferred positions and cost the ad
ris has recently moved his offices.
for all kinds of purposes. Not only vertiser correspondingly. The adver
Having created a comfortable home were houses built that employes might tiser can buy whatever space he wants
In New York, Mrs. Dempsey returned have a place to live, but others were wherever he wants it. He can take
T H E CORRESPONDENCE CO N TINU ED.
to Norway two months ago to get her also put up In order that the men space, as it runs, through a district
own regiment, but his comrades soon two daughters, who had been left in might find enjoyment and amusement or territory or he can pick localities
found that the rollicking sergeant of the care of their late father’s parents. therein. The list Includes quarters for where he’d like to be or where he
former days had been transformed to a — New York Herald.
both gold and silver employes, offices, thinks it would he advantageous for
sober, serious, thoughtful soldier. The
hotels, kitchens, commissaries, hospi him to be. The advertiser desiring to
canteen was forsaken and it was not
tals, shops, storehouses, jails, court rent wall space for advertising pur
THIEVES TO CATCH THIEVES.
long before the men learned that the
houses, Y. M. C. A., clubhouses and poses may come prepared with data
spendthrift of earlier days had become M a n y F o r m e r H h i m I H n .N o w i n M e x
lodge halls. Of the foregoing the most showing just the amount of business
I o o ’ ii M o u n t e d
I 'o lie e .
a man scrupulously careful of his earn
money was spent for quarters, the hs is doing In various localities. In
The rurales or mounted police have amount of $3,600,000, gold, being used one locality his business may lie fall
ings, and every dollar went down to
pretty nearly put a stop to brigandage. for that purpose. The next important ing off and he wants to Jack it up a
the credit of the paymaster.
At the close of the disturbance his Several years ago the government rec item was the $550,000 expended for little and here he may think he will
regiment was again ordered to Manila, ognized the wisdom of the old adage, hospitals. And in addition to all these take more space; in another locality
and as soon as the troops were landed “set a thief to catch a thief,” and of baths and closets were provided, cost his sales may be running along all
Sergt. Dempsey walked up the Escolta fered pardon and protection to all ing not quite $100,000, besides over right and here he thinks what he has
to the shipping commissioner’s office brigands who would enlist as rurales. $400,000 for buildings for various uses got may do, and then it may be that
Most of them took advantage of the not mentioned In the above list.
and wired the Norwegian consul. The
he thinks he would like to branch out
superintendent of army trasport wrote offer, writes Dillon Wallace in Outing,
The writer has seen houses con a little, in districts that he has not
Jack a letter giving him the home ad and with these men on the side of the structed of pine, less than three years yet covered.
dress of the unfortunate quartermas law and order hold-up3 soon became old, which evidently were held from
Thus it may happen that the adver
ter, Olav Nassjo. Afterward a letter Infrequent, and the rurales developed collapsing like eggshells only by a tlser wants to look the territory over,
from Norway arrived Informing him into a wonderfully efficient mounted miracle. On the other hand, buildings and In such case the concern that buys
that his savior had left a widow and force to hunt down bandits. They are in the interior, constructed of native and sells wall space puts the customer
two babies, who were without means fearless riders, they know every moun lumber and varying from fifty to sev In an automobile and sends a man out
tain pass and fastness, and when they enty-five years old, have been absolute with him to show what it has to offer
of support.
When the next pay day arrived once start after a man he Is pretty ly untouched cither by the climate or
for A
Sergt. Dempsey had a short confiden sure to be caught or killed—generally by the ants. The canal commission,
tial talk with Maj. Kilbourne. The killed.
however, cannot be blamed for Import
Cleanliness and good appetite ar»,
The rurales of Mexico compare fa ing Its lumber, since during the past twins; so are cheerfulness and good
next mail out of Manila carried an en
velope addressed to the widow of vorably In bravery and reckless daring five years there has not been enough digestion. Avoid bickerings and heat
Quartermaster Nassjo. In It was a with that wonderful organization, the native product no supply the market In ed discussions at the table. Eat slow
northwest mounted police of Canada, the city of Panama alone, to say noth ly, taking time to rh«w thoroughly
letter which read:
Dear Madam— While bound for China and rre by far the best armed force In ing of the millions of feet required by your food. You will lie coaxed Into
During the last few an appetite through so little a thing as
on a transport your husband— like all Mexico. Their calling gives them op the commission
brave Norsemen—leaped from the portunity for wild adventure, and thus years there was an opportunity for the immaculate cleanliness of the lin
bridge In an effort to save me from satisfies the craving for a life of dan someone to make a quick fortune sell en and the dishes, the garnishing of
drowning after I had fallen overboard ger. which led many of them to he ing hardwood lumber to the canal com the meat with parsley, watercress or
during a storm. I was saved, but In brigands In the first Instance. They mission, but that opportunity is now latticed potatoes.
A relish —olives,
the gallant act he lost his own life. are a free and easy lot. quite In con paBt. The forests are still standing It onions, radishes, celery often helps a
I learned through the Norwegian con trast to the peaceably Inclined police is true, but tne output will have to he stalled appetite Into another course.
sul that he had yourself and two little men of the towns and the slow mov shipped for long distances, becaus*- [ And the serving hot—not lukewarm—
babies dependent upon him. I can ing, Indolent soldiery of the regular there is no longer a ready buyer for ot the vegetables and meats that come
the same on the Isthmus. The expense j from the oven Is a wonderfud aid to
now only offer you my sympathy and army.
for repairs the coming year will digestion.
life, and both are freely and fully
No
There.
given. Inclosed please find 1200, which
Uncle Eben— If ye ever visit Nw*. »mount to about $375,000, Inolud'ng
A <*ood O p p o r t u n i t y .
Is all I have earned since the acci York and git tired walkin’ around th’ pay for carpenters, screening, painting,
"Your
pa's coming down on Satur
plumbing
and
such
small
amounts
of
dent Each month you will receive all city, don’t ye go Into th’ stock ex
lumber as will be necessary to replace day. I wonder If that would be a good
my pay except a trifle for necessities. change to rest!”
time to speak to him."
old boards.
This, should you live, you shall have
Aunt Martha— Why not?
"Yes. When ma tells him what
so long as I am able to earn It. Tour
Uncle Eben—Gracious sakes! There W ALL SPACE TO BUY AND SELL. she's spent down hers he'll be glad to
husband did not hesitate that eventful they charge 140,000 for a Beat!— Judge.
get rid of the lot of us!"—Comic Cuts.
day as he stood on the bridge of the
H o w the B a r e r W o rk « and H ow th«
When
tempted
to
talk
about
any
transport and I, as a United States
A boy can make a little fish seem
P r o d u c t 1« D l a p o i i f d O f .
soldier, will not hesitate to make any one. remember that right here la a
A concern dealing In wall sign ad all right; he says you can eat the
restitution la my power. My prayers good time to practice a little eelf verttslng will buy any space that can bones of a little fish and that the meat
•hall always be for you and the chil denial.
b« made available for that purpose pro I* sweeter.
1 TOLD THE TIME THREE
j
THOUSAND YEARS AGO
The most Interesting of all water
clocks Is undoubtedly the "copper Jar9
dropping water,” In Canton. China,
where I saw it in 1S97. Referring to
the simple line sketch, which I make
from memory, Figure 8, and reading
four Chinese characters downward the
translation is "Canton City.” To the
left and still downward—"Hon-woo-et-
low," which Is "Copper jars dropping
water." Educated Chinamen inform
me that it is over 3,000 years old and
had a weather vane. As they speak
of It as "the clock of the street arch”
this would look quite probable; since
the little open building, or tower in
which it stands Is higher than sur
rounding buildings.
It Is therefore
reasonably safe to state that the Chi
nese had a weather and time station
1,000 years before our era. It consists
of four copper jars partially built In
masonry forming a stair-like structure.
Commencing at the top Jar each on .
drops Into the next downward till the
water reaches the solid bottom jar. In
this lowest one a float, "the bamboo
stick,” is placed and Indicates the
height of the water and thus In a rude
way gives the time. It Is said to be
set morning and evening by dipping
the water from Jar 4 to Jar 1, so It
runs twelve hours of our time. What
are the uses of Jars 2 and 3, since
the water simply enters them and
drips out again?—Popular Mechanics.
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
The reward of marital virtue Is sus
picion.
It is one thing to win a matrimonial
prize and entirely another one to cash
the ticket.
Gradually the “ How-dare-you-slr!"
girl Is being eliminated by certain In
definable forces In our civilization.
Why Is it that the woman with the
protruding forehead, simply draped
with hair, will wear a hat that tilts
’way back on her head?
Of course everybody feels sorry for
her and all like that, but nevertheless
It's no wonder the watery-eyed cerise-
nosed woman with hay fever takes to
the mountains.
One of the delightful compensations
for males Is that the other girl infalli
bly carries In stock a flue little outtlt
of remedies for the article known as a
broken heart.
The bread-and-butter young woman
who thinks that the dissipated divvle
of a man is Just graaan d Isn’t the
kind that sticks along with her Job
when she marries one of ’em.
The millennium will have arrived
when the really and truly bathing girl
looks even one-eighth as attractive as
the bathing girl in the illustrated sec
tions of the Sunday newspapers.
There's money in It for the llt’rary
feller who'll cook up a regular day by
day series of letters for the use of tna
unfortunate married chaps who have
to write every day to their vacatlon-
lzed wives.
Why is It that, after you siiend a
long time selecting a cute little watch
for your wife, she wears It for Just
three days and then sticks it away In
some hidden Jewelry Junk box for ths
remainder of time and eternity?
Another young woman who wonders
why It Is taking her such an uncon
scionably long time to snag a meal
ticket in the shape of a husband Is the
one who bullies restaurant waiters,
theater ushers, saleswomen in stores
and so on, when eligible men folks
happen to be with her.
Hi*u y
l>l *l nar.
Interest will attach to the effort ot
the steamer Douglas' crew to find and
possess themselves of the steamer Pe-
wablc which, since 1866 , has laid at
the bottom of I^ake Huron, of? Thun
der Bay Island, loaded with refined
copper, silver bullion and money. The
sunken craft lies 160 feet below the
surface. Several attempts have been
m ule by divers to get this treasure,
valued at over $1,000,000, and five div
ers have forfeited their lives by stay
ing under water too long
A diving
rig, wiilch has taken eight years to
perfect, will be used this time. If suc
cessful tfcl< time the ownerB of the rig
will go after other submerged vessel«
with even larger treasure.
A
«Im llarltr*
Youngly— Did you ever notice that
the matrimonial progress Is like that
of making a cal'.? You go to adore*
and ring a belle and you give year
name to a maid.
Cynlcu*— Tea, and then you r« ta b
ea lb
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