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W A S H IN G T O N fc'AME FOR SHAFTER. C O ITNTT Point. Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Glendale and Malvern Mill. Hls broth er John had meanwhile won the rank o f captain. When peace came they re H O W T H E C O N Q U E R O R O F S A N T I- turned to the farm and went to plow H A S R IS E N . ing, sowing and reaplDg once more. Iiut both entered applications for com missions In the regular army. A fte r U liC a r r - r no Uiiim [>lc o f A m e ric a '! two years o f woodchopplug the broth Cosi.ik.il i tice Yearned fo r M ilita r y ers » ere ordered to St. Louis to pass L ife W hile W ork in g Upon a Farm — the examination. Hoth came out o f It Hepid iru iau tlu a in the C ivil W ar. with dying colors, and were about to be commissioned when the father ob Ilia G lory Pelf-W on. jected. One of hls boys must stay at M ajor '.onerai W illiam Ilufus Shaf- home, and John, owing to bis Inferior ter, conqueror o f Santiago, m ilitary rauk, agreed to let his brother have the hero In the war with Spain, ’.vas born prize. W illiam Shatter was given a and grew to manhood near Galesburg, | lieutenant colonelcy and was ordered Mich., aud many are the stories that j to the Forty-first infanlry. are being told o f hls boyhood by men For thirty yeenrs he lived beyond the who knew him when he was a lanky, , mountains or In them, uud the people barefooted lad, working on hls father's ; o f the Last did not know hls name. farm. General Shaffer’s career Is on For nearly twenty years be was the object lesson upon the glorious possl- colonel o f the First Infantry, and saw men rise from posts subordinate to hls to be brtgndler generals. He (lid what hi? thought was best for hls regiment, and not always what hls officers would have liked him to do. H e bore up bravely under the stress o f this oppo sition until a year ago, when President M cKinley made him a brigadier gener al. When the general got hU brigadier’s straits he was placed In command at San Francisco. Hls life In the W est and on the coast had the usual effect. It made him a heavy weight. H e U a tremendously big man. Almost six feet tall—rare stature for a commander—be weighs 300 pounds, and Ids avoirdupois ha* been tlie occasion o f many a Jesc, which he has taken pretty w e ll Ho has a w ill that U In keeping with hls physique. W hat he wills to do he does. O K N . W M. n. »IIA P T ls n . H e has the heroic stuff o f a Grant In bis make-up. bllltlcs o f this land o f the free. lie was like Abraham Lincoln. H e was a commoner. H e grew right up out o f BRAVED B U LLETS. the soil. I f the civil war had not come along It Is possible thnt General Shat The Artventnre o f a Cutcn P a trio t A m ong a Hand o f Spaniards. ter would still be a Michigan farmer. During the early part o f the Cuban H e never bad a taste for the husband man's life. As a boy he groaned over rebellion an officer fn the patriot army his work—not that he (lid not like work, wanted a few packages of cigarettes, but that he detested what work he had and to obtain them went openly Into to do. H U father wns the plainest o f a town held by the Spanish soldiers, plain farmers. H ls mother was a purchased what he desired and safely farm er’ s wife, whose life ’s horizon wns retreated, holding at hay, single-hand bounded by her kttchen, her poultry- ed, 200 Spanish soldiers who attempted yard, her "front room" and the meet to capture him. ing-house. The elder Sluifter was a This officer Is Mag. n en ry E. Brooks, Michigan pioneer who hewed wood and who recently catne to New York from drew water and built the traditional Jamaica, where lie went to recover log boose with Its one and a half sto- from woands received in battle. HATCHET, THUBSDAY, AUGUST T he D ream or D on M ontuo . (<; ffi* barbor of Maoilfb Lay KJ* Adn)iraft flofifla Rodung gepfly At ih iid jo rj if) A sort of fropic IW009) All ffiose shapes of w*r and slaughter Slepf up09 If;» peaceful w rie r Tf)ri wnm ixeJ w i^ qoifco Ji«*r frgr) iy overflowing 19009. Swung ft m olLTing lanyard) In tOefr hato «Dock slay flje jpaniaato O rtin jllJ of l?e Guadalquivir andnje coanfry of Il>e C idi Longing forlfie lovely ladi«) Of Seville, Toledo, Cadiz, K y i ttje ball) and Seoorilascf Gra/;.-da or M wiridy 19 cabin, Don rtoijfijo Being drowsy (fluttered YDbo! Tb[)Ijofle«cifiog business for o noble of Casfll« 1 U rj weary of tjye Malay, 1 will ja lly forrf) ai?d w aylay m Tfje pigpzflj of He ybqkze and njy vengeance b* fetL ¡ § ¡ I § ¡ -M p i i i 4, 1898. TH E IN F A N T A E U L A L IA , Sp an ish P r in c r w W h o V ia lte d T h is C o u n try D a r in g th e W o r ld 1« F u ir. D evice to Convey Tiding;* from Ves sels in Distress. The Princess Eulalia, who represent Should you be walking on the beach, ed Spain at the W orld’s Fair, Is escap and pick up a tiny boat bearing tho ing much that Is disagreeable la bet legend: "W h oever finds this b oa t look own land, as she 1* sojourning in Eng In the stern tu-be for an abstract log. land. Princess Eulalia was for many which please forw ard to L lo yd ’s under years only third In the succession, and writers, London,” you w ill know that she Is very popular In Spaip where at one o f Captain Bowden's patent sea- one time It was sold openly that she messengers has fulfilled Its mission. would have made a much better regent The messenger Is like the model o f a vessel, or boat (length 2 feet 2 Inches, breadth Inches, depth inches). Tljef) be jaid goodnigljf Ave And in drean)i b« ranked navy Tor a great and b rin g t merry o'er »ye vtjip) of Unde San)/ Of) b< led Hern a fandango fron) Hongkong fo PangoRango A»)db< e-Vsed ttyn) Iron) tiew ialaoi (6 k)« borders of Sial* • -- / \ TU B SEA M ESSENGER. W))f1« be lay Here w fffy 5 lee ping, llpdje barbor, creeping,creeping, Can)« He leioaodTrusty greyboondjof He little Uflyoodcre- Yoa n)ay say 'hat be was plucky, You Hay call binyonly lucky. But tbrpedoeicoaldiit turn fynj n<vb. g y m along H* shore. Don fhnfljo woke To vooOtr At a sudden burst cf Hundef, Be baJ bond H« yankee gunners and l^ey bit (w ?«fry Tune; If) toe barberaf Manilla Lay t$e Adnjiral'i flotilla Tidy taS)oe»uoder wrier, njid H)e oysters a n /fV slln)*« I MP R O V E D S E A M E S S E N G E R . TIT E I X F A X T A F U T .A L I A . From the stern, which Is square, a cham ber is bored forwards longitudinally, and In it Is inserted a metallic tube, to hold a small wooden rod, round which the ship’s log or any other Information written upon paper or the like may be rolled. Tbe sea-messenger Is made o f solid wood (pine), and Is entirely cover ed externally with Muntz’ yellow metal, to protect It when aficat and also to render It conspicuous. Upon the deck the Inscription Is engraved on a metal lic plate. The boat Is suitably ballasted to prevent Its capsizing aud to keep the deck-plate In view at all times while floating. The Inventor wants to make It Imperative by law for all shipmas ters to keep an abstract log fu lly w rit ten up day by day (noon preferred 1 and kept Inserted In the messenger In readi ness for an emergency. By this means the oft times cruel silence and dreaded suspense to those on shore may be averted. than her sister-in-law. That was, how ever, tn the very early days o f Queen N* — ^ V J 6eo# oe M a rro n .' Christina’s widowhood and before the country had become accustomed to her gracious hand. The Infanta Eulalia Into the vat In a constant stream the F R O M D U D E T O S O L D IE R . was married at the age o f 22 to Prince criminal was furnished with a scoop Checkered Career o f Holle-tt Alsnp with which to bale out the water as Antoine o f Bourbon Orleans, a brother o f the Count de Paris. The Infanta B o rro re , the Famous Rough Rider, fast as It came in. The respite from H nlletl Alsop Borrowe, who went death by immersion thus obtained was lias tw o sons, the younger o f whom w ill with the rough riders In Cuba and who more or less prolonged, according to the soon celebrate hls tenth birthday. was given charge o f a dynamite gun powers o f endurance iM>ssossod by the L IT T L E V I C T I MS OF T HE SEA. capable o f deadly execution, has led a victim. But Imagine the moral torture, life replete with Incident. the exhausting and even hideously gro Tw o P re tty Children Who Weirs Down -in L a B o u rg o g n e . When he was a young man he thought tesque efforts, the Incessant ami piti B O O K S F O R S O L D IE R S . he would become a great artist, and less toll by night and day to stave off- Carola and Mildred Schnitz, tw o pret studied art at the Columbia A rt School. the dread moment, fast approaching, ty children, went down In La Bour Wisconsin Set a Good E xam ple In Then he thought that law, and not art, when, overcome by sleep and fatigue, gogne with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. p ro v id in g a T ra v e lin g L ib ra ry , was hls peculiar calling and entered the he- was unable to struggle any longer Alliert Schultz, o f New York. Mr. The good example set by Wisconsin Columbia Law School. A fte r a while against his fate! Schultz was engaged os European buy- til providing her soldiers with a travel he decided that neither law nor art was ing library has been Imitated by Buffa K h a k sp o a re Does B a il. Just what he was cut out for, and went lo. The plan adopted by the latter city Sbakspeare. so far as Is known, never across the water to see the world. He Is much the same as that la vogue in had already seen something o f It fn on witnessed a ball game, yet hls works Wisconsin. this side. IP s father was Samnel Bor- are replete with phrases often used by Each company Is to be given a library rowe. Vice ITesklent o f the Equitable fans. H ere are a few : o f from fifteen to eighteen volumes. In "H it R, hit to hit i t r —Love’s Labor L ife .Assurance Society, and young cased In a weather-proof box, and ths Borrowe had the entree Into New York Lost, Act IV. companies w ill exchange libraries peri “ Not one h to "—Merchant o f Venice, society. odically. Tbe work Is to be done at In England and France HaTlert Alsop A ct III. "Base second mean,” et cetera.—Hen wns put up at the most exclusive clubs and uns distinctly “ In the swim ." | ry IN'., Act L “ O u t v-okrr Is to.chase flies.*—Cymbe- When he returned to this country he j had become a crack billiard player, a Itoe, Act I I L “On the bat's beck I do fly."—Titus crack aljot and a man about town gen erally. He was fond o f dog fights and Aiulronicus, A ct I IL “ W e can kill a fly.*—Tttus AndronV all sorts o f “Bporty** things. In short. cus. Act I I I . C A R O L A A X T) g ì L D U ET) SC U rLTZL “ W here go you with b a t»? "—Corio- lanus. A cL L er for a large New York house and wns “Then thou wa*t not out-"—Tempest, form erly for many years In tbe same Act L capacity with a Chicago firm. He “ Play out the game."—H enry I V , Act had safely crossed tbe ocean sixty-four IL tim e * The children were exception “ Who's ou t?"—Lear, Act V. ally b righ t Carols was aged 0 and "T o field with him."—Cortolanu* Act Mildred 5. IL “ W ith two pttch balls."—Love's L a O P IU M S M U G G L E D IN N U T S bor Lost. A ct III. LOG H O USE IN W H IC H G EN . SI I A F T E R W A S BOIÎX. "Th ey pitched In the ground."—Hen T b e D r u g Is F r e q u e n tly B ro u g h t In t o th e C ou n try in T h a t W a y. ry V I , Act I. One o f the duties o f tbe custom bouse ties, and brought up hls two sous, John “ TU bring Mm home."—Pericles. A ct MaJ. B rook* who wna born In the officials In San Francisco Is nut-crack and W illiam , In the fear o f God and to province o f Santiago de Cuha o f En IV. burd work. i ’m right glad to catch."—Henry ing. They do not open all tbe nnts glish [w ren t* was anxmg the first to which enter the port, but whenever The military «tail o f WTTthvm—nml o f engage In the Insurrection oagtnst IIA I.I.E T T A L S O P BOKBOW E. V I I I , Act V. John, tor that matter—revolted against Spain. When In command o f the Cuban "80 easy n stop.*—H enry TV. R E A D IZ O M A T T E R PA S SE D A L O X O . the field and harvest and the sowing forces around Guantanamo he ran out the mild art student was thoroughly “ l i e stopped the fliers."—Coriolanus, and the reaping. W illiam had an am o f cigarette* »0 he left hls command transformed Into the gilded and giddy A ct II. the library, but the reading matter Is to bition to go to W est Point, but the In charge o f the next officer In rank and young man o f the clubs and the Incon be furnished by the people, as also the " I f he should even doublet"—AH’s military academy was as far beyond started for Guantanamo to get them. sequential world, lie stayed abroad a W e ll Act II. money needed for cases, transportation, d o par good deal and was attracting bis reach as was the lost Pleiad. Ho H e crossed the long bridge leading Into etc. In addition to the bound volumes. “ I will run no base."—Merry Wives, ticular attention In this country, being might as well have pined for the crown It Is hoped to send large quantities o f Act I. tlie city and proceeded to a cigar store. regarded by hls acquaintances as o f Russia. He knew he wislied to be paper-bound volumes, magazines and Il " I ’ll run for thee.” —Midsummer H e had wtth him hls repeating rifle, neither better nor worse than the aver one thing—a soldier—and he knew lustrated newspapers, to be distributed hls revolver and the always present age man o f hls type, when suddenly N ight’s Dream, Act 11. there was not tlie remotest cltance to without the requirement o f returning “ Thou mayst slide."—Tam ing o f the machete. In tailing o f hls adventure In came the Coleman Drayton scandal. gratify hls ambition. them to the company libraries. Shrew, A ct IV. Guantanamo MaJ. Brook* said: The «octal prominence o f all the parties O d « thing, however, he could do. H e "Yea, I did have a little fun there. concerned (Mrs. Drayton was a daugh B u tto n s . T b e F re n c h m a n ’s Fanttt could read books. I Uglier «1 m at Ion You see I wonted some cigarettes and ter o f Mrs. W illiam Aston and the chal It Is only to com paratively modern W hile one o f the American frigates does not particularly help a man to deckled to go after them. 1 got Into tho lenge to a duel (which dkl not take waa once at Malta some o f the crew C T S T O M TIOUSE O F F I C I A L I X V E S T IO A T I X O times that buttons have been utilized mnke hay and guide a plow, and young town all right and entered the cigar plait»» between Mr Drayton and Mr. as fasten er* The Greeks and Romans got Into a terrible fight wtth the crew Hlinfter got no schooling. But lie read «torn. I placed my rifle on the counter Borrowe kept society gossiping for a o f a French man-of-war. A t Che Inves there is reason to believe that the guile knew nothing o f them, and, though history, chiefly atiout battles and ar- mles ami anna. H e saw mistakes that where It waa handy and bought what long time. tigation that followed t l » captain o f less-looking nut Is aiding smuggler* they presented themselves as orna out come the custom« nut-cracker* ments to the fourteenth century, but Finally thnt passed aw ay and Ila llett the maintop said: w ere made by the w orld’s general*. He I wanted. Just after I had placed the "Yon see, sir. It wns all the French Opium Is frequently brought Into the ton-holes were still an undreamed-of read up on mathematics, ami carried cigarettes In my pocket I happened to Alsop Borrowe was for a time forgot hls Intellect high among the refine look toward t h door, and there I saw ten. It was said that he was living man’s fault. W e was a walking down country In thnt way. The drug Is pack possibility. It wa* not until nearly the ments o f ratios and equations. He a party o f Spanish soldiers drawn up quietly abroad. Suddenly It was dis the street Jlst as quiet os lambs, sir. ed In the shells of a Chinese nut, very middle o f the last century that the man studied the growth o f the modern regi In Una They had their guns pointed at covered that Borrowe had returned to when along come some Frenchmen much like our walnuL and Is sent to ufacture o f steel buttons was entered upon at the Soho works In Birm ing ment from the battle line o f the Greeks me and their officer said In Spanish the rhls country, forsaken tin» ways o f hls from the EtwolL I wanted to be civil, America In that shape. ham, England. Then, on, the accession through the Macedonian phalanx and words which In English mean ‘hands former life, ami was employed ns a car so I says to ’em: D e riv a tio n o f th e W o r d A d m 'ra L o f George I IL , gilt buttons appeared “ I V 111 you come In and take a drink?* the Roman legion down to the modern up.' Instead o f doing that I grabbed starter on the trolley road In Newark. The word adutral la derived by the and became quite tbe vogue. But It was soldier with hls cartridges and hls gun. my rifle and let go a shot at the crowd. He had started In to work for a living says I. dictionaries In a rather roundabout reserved for the artisans o f our day to “ ‘ K ay T says be. So was spent hls youth and hls man One o f the soldiers dropped and I rush »nd had begun at the bottom o f the fashion from the Arabic emir, a word “ •Kay?’ says Jimmy L e g * who waa which has been variously translated make these useful fasteners in tbe hood. Working on the farm, reading ed out o f the door during the excite ladder. greatest variety at marvelously low ment ami got Into the street. The sol H e worked hard, and finally was with me; ‘w hat kind o f an answer la hls books, hinging and thirsting for op lord, commander, general. An emir portunity with the military academy diers ran after nw\ shooting all the made a division superintendent at a that to give a gentleman T and ha op was an officer In tbe Saracenic and aft prices and oat o f all sorts o f material, salary o f $75 a month. For a time hls and hit him: and tbaTa tbs way the erward In the Turkish army, and. as even to the seemingly Impossible p o on another planet.1 He nos born In time. “I ran tip the long street toward the doings In hls new sphere o f action were row began, air. Too see It waa all tbs the log bouse hls father built and lived these were composed mostly of caval find TTenehmAD’s fault, sir." wltbln Its narrow wall* until be was 25 bridge that leads across the river Into written about i m i raws H* »to R o ya l Y e a r ly Incom es. ry, the emir was originally a cavalry the country. The soldier« M W W H the young man was forgotten years old. The old house still stand* The total annual Income o f the Impe officer. As the conqueris of tbe Turks R un Him In. Shooting as they ran. Their bullets flew again. He was not destined to nunaln Hugh Shatter, the father, and Mrs. It le little wonder that foreigners de broadened the Turkish Sultans begun rial fam ily o f Russia cannot be less Shatter died Vmg since, and their wild and dkl not strike me. but one forgotten long. however, for to Novem spair of learning to speak onr language. to make war upon the sea aa well as than three and a half million pounds graves are within a fire minutes' walk poor old woman was killed by a shot ber. 18WV. It wns nnounced that Bor One of the greatest difficult!« Is the npou tbe land, and the officers who sterling. Probably the nearest approach which was Intended for me. The sol rowe had married Miss Anna Wheeler of the house. Hugh Shafter was a way in which the same syllabic sounds commanded fleets and vessels retained to this revenue Is to be found In the Austin Corbin's youngest model father, and John and William diers who had first attempted to rap Corbin, the title that they had when directing combined Incomes o f the brothers have often very different meanings. were model sons. They were obedient ture me were Joined by reinforcements daughter. "Ton'll get run Ip " said the pedee- squadrons of bora* The title Is found Rockefeller, the oil kings o f America, It seems that the Borrowe and Cor and filial. The life of that family waa until there w,-rv at least 200 after me. among the Algerine and Barbary pi which amount to tw o and a half m il trtan to the cyclist wit boat a light as dull and uneveutful as that of auy When I got to the bridge I turned and bin families had been Intimate when rates and Is first noticed In English ose lion pounds. The Austrian Imperial “You’ll get run Into,“ responded the agricultural household. William's am sent a couple of shot* at the crowd, and Ila llett Alsop was a schoolboy, ami Ms during tbe reign of Edward IIL, when fam ily posseoes an estimated annual In rider, a* he knocked the other down bition for militarism was apparently- then started aero«» the bridge, which Is especial friend had been the youngest officers were commissioned as “Amyivl come of £1.500,000, the German fam ily hopeless, and he bad Just begun to rec long and narrow. Several times I daughter. The schoolboy lore had re and ran np hla spine. one o f £1.000.000. and the Italian bouss of the 8e” or “Admiral of the Navy." "You’ll g«* run tn. top" said the po oncile himself to a life of drudgery turned around ami fired at the soldier* mained through all the Intervening of Savoy a revenue o f £ 00 U,UU 0 a year. lice m ap os be stepped from behind a when the bugle blast from the Ups of who had attempted to follow me across years, and Borrowe had gone to work —Durban Observer. Gre e d y L it t le Flab. “the great commoner" In the White the bridge, ami 1 rather think I killed on the trolley line to prove that he had tree and grabbed the bicycle. Tbe little fish known as miller's Just then another scorcher came reformed ami was living a life which House roused the nation to anus and a few of them, for 1 saw some drop. I Stone In J u d e * thumb—the fresh water sculptn— la one thrilled the very nerves of the whole finally got up Into the hill* where I hid made him worthy to marry hls boy along without a light so the police of the natural checks on tbe overpro Tbe hlU near Jerusalem where the man had to ran In tw p people. Young Shafter waa at last to j behind rocks and took a few more hood's love. duction of trout and salmon. It eats crucifixion of Jesus occurred is formed bars bis way. shots at the Stem lards. Then they gave R o il lu g - P in W i l l R eeve, H o m e tlm e a tbe eggs and the young fish. It la found of limestone. The shores o f the Dead O ld - T im e T o r tu r e . The two brothers went to the war up the chase and I went back to my "Men differ," said tbe feminine per tn all trout waters aa fast aa examined. Sea are lined with pumice-stone, show In former times the punishment of and the patriotic father bade them a men.* son of varied experience. "Some can It la eery destructive. At an experi ered out of some volcano that destroyed 1 the bagnio (bath), one of the moat sturdy good-by. william enlisted as a ment once made In tbe aquarium of the Sodom and Gomorrah, which cities B ra in s a n d C lim a te . ; cleverly cruel Infllctlona ever devised be conquered with tear* but with lieutenant In the Seventh Michigan In United State* Fish Commission In finally sank beneath the water* of the other* It la necessary to resort to the The weight of a man's brain has by an official of the torture chamber, fantry. Hit commission bore date of Washington a miller's thumb about Dead Sea. Aug. 22. 1MI. He was exceptionally nothing to do with hls mental power. was administered In Italy, probably In hatpin."—Cincinnati Enquirer. four and one-half Inches long ate at a M ile H igh V iew . gallant W ar to him was pabulum. He It la a question of climate, not of In- Venice, where the waters of the lagoons Pineapples I « L ondon. ~ 1 single meoL and all wltbln a minute or ▲ balloonist a mile above the earth burned with It lie fought *0 well that I tellect The colder the climate tha played so Important a part In Its penal Upon an average 10.000 pineapples two, twenty-one little trout each from . system. The punishment waa as fol are Imported Into London »vary w>wk commands a field vision 96 miles tn be waa a major wtthla a month. Two greater tbe else of the brain. three-quart era to an loch In length. radius. low*: The prisoner waa placed tn a years later ha waa made a lieutenant Lota of women go with women they ▼at tbe sides of which were slightly tn throughout tbe year. A C lo c k R a n by tb e W in d. colonel, and toward the end of the war After * man ha* cut the crash towel* talk about An old maid says she never married Thera Is a dock in Brussels which exceoa of tbe average height of a man. be waa brevetted brigadier general. off the bottoms of hie pantaloons for In order to bold In check tbe rising because she couldn’t find a man to baa never been wound np by human You like that best which you gat the William Shatter's exploits In the war two or three year* the pantaloons be hand* It la kept going by tbe wind. 1 > tide of a supply of water which ran suitor. corsr tbs siege of Yorktown, West least of. com* so thin aa to ha 1 i ip u m icu uj