FAME FOR SHAFTER. HOW THE CONQUEROROF SAN fl- a . GO HAS RISEN. Rio Career i n Example of Amcrlra'i 1‘ooMh.iiitiei Yearue.i for Military Life While Working Upon u Farm — Rapid Promotion ill the Civil Wur. Ilia Glory Self-Won. Major General William Rufus Shaf­ ter, conqueror of Santiago, military hero In the war with S[ aln, was born and grew to manhood near Galesburg, Mich., and many are the stories that are being told of bis boyhood by men who knew liitn when be was a lanky, barefooted lad. working on his father’s farm. General Shafter's career Is an object lesson upon the glorious possl- gi : n . WM. n. snAFTF.n. bllltles of this land of the free. He was like Abraham Lincoln. lie was a commoner. He grew light up out of the soil. If the civil war had not come along ft Is possible that General Shaf­ ter would still be a Michigan farmer. lie never bad a taste for the husband- nu. n’s life. As a boy he groaned over his work- not that lie did not like work, but that he detested what wvrk he had to do. Ills father was the plainest of plain farmers. Ills mother was a farmer’s wife, whose life’s horizon was bounded by her kitchen, her poultry­ yard. her “front room” and the meet­ ing-house. The elder Shafter was a Michigan pioneer who hewed wood and drew water and built the traditional log bouse with Its one and a half sto- Pofnt, Fair Oaks. Savage Station, Glendale and Malvern lllll. Ills broth- n John had meanwhile won the rank < i aptaln. When peace came they re­ turned to the farm und went to plow­ ing, sowing and reaping once more. | But both entered applications for com­ missions In the regular army. After two years of woodchopping the broth­ ers were ordered to St. Louis to pass the examination. Both came out of it with dying colors, and were about to be commissioned when the father ob­ jected. One of his boys must stay at home, and John, owing to bls inferior rank, agreed to let his brother have the prize. William Shafter was given a lieutenant colonelcy and was ordered to the Forty-first Infantry. For thirty yeears he lived beyond the mountains or in them, and the people of the East did not know his name. For nearly twenty years he was the colonel of the First infantry, and saw men rise from jiosts subordinate to his to be brigadier generals. He did what he thought was best for his regiment, and not always what his officers would have liked him to do. He bore up bravely under the stress of this opi»o- sition until a year ago, when President McKinley made him a brigadier gener­ al. When the general got his brigadier’s straps he was placed In command at San Francisco. Ills life in the West and on the coast had the usual effect. It made him a heavy weight He Is a tremendously big man. Almost six feet tall—rare stature for a commander—he weighs 3(Xi pounds, and his avoirdupois has been the occasion of many a jest which he has taken pretty well. lie has a will that Is In keeping with his physique. What tie wills to do he does, lie has the heroic stuff of a Grant la his make-up. - ■ ■ ■ - BRAVED • -------- 5 BULLETS. Tlie Adventars of a Cuban Patriot Among u Band of Spaniards. During the early part of the Cuban rebellion an officer in the patriot army wanted a few packages of cigarettes, and to obtain them went openly Into a town held by the Spanish soldiers, purchased wbat lie desired und safely retreated, bolding at bay, slngle-hand- «L 2(X> Spanish soldiers who attempted to capture him. This officer is Maj. Henry E. Brooks, who recently came to New York from Jamaica, where lie went to recover from wounds received In battle. rles, and brought up ills two sons, John Maj. Brooks, who was born tn the and William, in the fear ot God and to provlnoe of Santiago de Cui« of En­ bard work. glish [«rents, was among the first to The military soul of William—and of | engage tn tlie insurrection aaglnst John, for that matter— revolted against Spain. When In command of the Cuban the field and harvest and the sowing forces around Guantanamo he ran out and the reaping. William had an am­ of cigarettes, so be left bls command bition to go to West Point, but the In charge of the next officer tn rank mid military academy was as far beyond started for Guantanamo to get them. bls reach as was the lost Pleiad. He 1 He crossed tlie long bridge leading Into might as well have pined for the crown ! the city and proceeded to a cigar store. of Russia. He knew he wished to tie He had with him his repeating rifle, one thing a soldier—and he knew his revolver nnd tlie always ¡»resent there was not the remotest chance to machete. In telling of his adventure tn gratify his ambition. Guantanamo Maj. Brooks said; One thing, however, he could do. He “Yea, I did have a little fun there. could read books. Higher education does not particularly help a man to You six? I wanted some cigarettes and make hay and guide a plow, and young decided to go after them. I got into tho Shafter got no schooling. Blit lie rend town all right and entered the cigar history, chiefly about battles and ar­ store. I placed my rifle on the counter mies and arms. He saw mistakes that where It was handy and bought what were made by the world's generals. He I wanted. Just after I bad placed the read up on mathematics, and carried cigarettes In tny pocket I happened to his Intellect high among the refine­ look towant tlie door, and tlx re I saw ments of ratios and equations. He a party of Spanish soldiers drawn tip studied the growth of the modern regi­ tn Uno. They had tlielr guns pointed nt ment from tlie battle line of the Greeks me and tlielr officer said In Spanish the through the Macedonian phalanx and words which in English mean ’hands the Roman l<-gion down to the modern tip.’ Instead of doing that I grabbed soldier with his cartridges and hts gun. my rifle and let go a shot at the crowd, So was spent his youth and his man­ line of tlie soldiers dropped and I rush- hood. Working on the farm, readlug id out of the door during the excite­ bls looks, longing and thirsting for op­ ment and got Into the street. The sol­ portunity with tlie military academy di»» ra ran after me, shooting all the on another plane11 He was torn in time. “I ran tip the long street townrd the the log house his father built and lived within its narrow walls until he was 25 bridge that leads across the river Into years old. The old house still stands. the country. The soldiers, followed me, Hugh Shafter, the father, and Mrs. shooting ns they rnn. Tbelr bullets flow Shafter died long since, nud their I wild and did not strike me, but one graves are within a five minutes’ wnlk poor old woman was killed by a shot of tlie house. Hugh Stuifter was a which was Intended for me. The sol­ model father, and John nnd Wllllnm diers who had first attempted to cap­ were model sons. They were obedient ture me were joined by reinforcements ami filial. The life of that fatuity was until there were at least 200 after me. as dull and uneventful us that of any When I got to the bridge I turned and agricultural household. William’s am­ s» nt a couple of shots at tho crowd, and bition for militarism was apparently, then started across the bridge, which la hopeless, and he had just begun to rec­ long and narrow. Several times I oncile himself to a life of drudgery turned around and fired at the soldier*, when the bugle blast from the ll[»e of who hail attempted to fallow me across “tlie great commoner" In the White the bridge, ami I rather think I killed House roused the nation to arms and ’ a few of them, for 1 saw some drop. I thrilled the very nerves of the whole finally got up Into the Mils, where I bld people. Young Shafter waa at last to la-hind rock» and took a few more have his way. shots at the Spaniards. Then they gnve The two brothers went to the war up the chase and I went back to my and the ¡«trlotlc father hade them a men." sturdy good-by. William eullsted an a Brains and Climate. lieutenant In the Seventh Michigan in­ The weight of a man’» brain baa fantry. His commission bore date of Aug. 22, 1861. He was exceptionally nothing to do with his mental power. gallant. War to him was pabulum. He It 1» a Question of climate, not of In­ burned with It. He fought so well that tel lect The colder the climate the he was a major within a month. Two greater the site of the brain. yean later lie was made a lieutenant Lota of women go with women they colonel, and toward the end of the war talk about. be was brevetted brigadier general. William Shafter’s exploits lu the war You like that best wblcb you gat the cover the siege of Yorktown, West , least of. T he D ream oe D on M ontijo . |i> fije harbor of FUnilfo Lsy fije AdnjitalY floFIl! a Rocking jeotly At.Is 4i)cbors ¡i?» sort of tropic swoopi All rioie shifts of wxr *od shuSbfer Slept apoi) il)« MwU witer, Tl)*t WAxrcbed 17009. 5wn0< 15 osciHartp« linyids I7 their tjArprpocKs Uy He -bpApiArtfs, Dre¿n)lhS of H« GuAdAl«]uwer aqj He country at tl)e Cid» Loojioj (or the lovely Udies Of Seville, Toledo, Cudiz, And ije bulls AJjd beooriliscf trz.'JAd* Of Hkdrid;, ! THE INFANTA EULALIA IMPROVED SEA MESSENGER. Spanish Princess Who Visited Till» Country During the World’s Fair. Device to Convey TidinK« from Vea- Bel« in Di«trc8«. The Princess Eulalia, who represent­ ed Spain at the World’s Fair, Is escap­ ing much that Is disagreeable In her own land, as she Is sojourning tn Eng­ land. Pi-ma -is Eulalia was for many years only third In the succession, and she is rery popular in Spain, where at one time It was said openly that she 1 would have made a much better regent Should you be walking on the beach, and jiiek up a tiny l»oat bearing the legend: “Whoever finds this boat, look lu the stern tu-lie for an abstract log. which please forward to Lloyd’s under­ writers, London,” you will know that one of Captain Bowden’s patent sea- messengers has fullllled its mission. The messenger is like the model of a vessel, or boat (length 2 feet 2 Inches, breadth 614 Inches, depth 0% inches). k) bis uMi), Moi)fijo Be»ng drowsy rpolfered "ODo! i Tblsls u$e»cito3 business ‘or a noble of ¿»stile Í» 1 i") we*ry of ri« FI a ! a /, will silly . I ..... »».,7 forfb ... ... AQd e Tlje p'JpeQj of ty ywjkec »nd n?y vwJeAOte Ije sM fed. Tjep bejild joodntybf "Ave” Arjd in drwnjs l>e r^nei t$e OJvy For A Jre*t brilliant vnfry o'er ße sl/ps of UockSsny 0t) b« led then) a Fron) rtonJKooJ fó P*ock the rising tide of a supply of water which ran Rolliag-Pin Will Berre, Bometlmea. “Men differ,” said the feminine per­ son of rarled experience. "Borne can be conquered with tears, but with others It Is necessary to resort to the hatpin.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Pineapples in Ixmdon. ~*1 Upon an arerage ItUXlO plneappka are Imported into London er»«ry week throughout the year. I i J , than her slster-ln-law. Tliat was, how­ ever, In the rery early days of Queen Christina's widowhood and before the country had t»ecome accustomed to her gracious hand. The Infanta Eulalia was married at the age of 22 to Prince Antoine of Bourbon Orleans a brother of the Count fie Paris. The Infanta has two sons, tlie younge.r of whom will soon celebrate hls tenth lilrthday. LITTLE VICTIMS OF THE SEA. Two Pretty Children Who Werrt Down in La Fonrgog-.e. Fromtliestern,"'hichls square, a cham­ ber Is bored forwards longitudinally, and tn It Is Inserted a metallic tube, to bold a small wooden rod, round which the ship’s log or any other Information written upon paper or the like may be rolled. The sea-messenger Ls inode of solid wood (pine), and ls entirely cover- «1 externally with Muntz’ yellow metal, to protect It when afloat and also to render It conspicuous. I'pon the deck the inscription Is engraved on a metal­ lic plate. The lx>at Ls suitably liallasted to prevent Its capsizing and to keep the deck-plate in view at all times while floating. The Inventor wants to make It imperative by ktw for all shipmas­ ters to keep on abstract log fully writ­ ten up day by day (noon preferred) and kept Inserted in the messenger in readi­ ness for an emergency. By this means the ofttlmes cruel silence and dreaded suspense to those on shore may be averted. BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS. Carola and Mildred Schultz, two pret­ ty children, went down in La Bour­ Wisconsin Set a Good Example in gogne with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Providing a Traveling Library. Albert Schultz, of New York. Mr. The good example set by Wisconsin Schultz was engaged os European buy- tn providing her soldiers with a travel­ ing library has been Imitated by Buffa­ la The plan adopted by the latter city is much the same as that in vogue in Wisconsin. Each company Is to be given a library of from fifteen to eighteen volumes, in­ cased in a weather-proof box, and the companies will exchange libraries peri­ odically. The work is to be done at er for a large New York bouse and was formerly for many years In the same capacity with a Chicago firm. He had safely crossed the ocean sixty-four times. The children were exception­ ally bright Carola was aged 9 and Mildred 5. OPIUM SMUGGLED IN NUTS The Drnj la Frequently Brought Into the Country in That Way. One of the duties of the custom house officials In San Francisco is nut-crack­ ing. They do next open all the nuts which enter the port but whenever READING MATTEIl PASSED ALONG. the library, but the reading matter is to be furnished by the people, as also the money needed for eases, transportation, etc. In addition to the bound volumes, it ls hoped to send large quantities of paper-bound volumes, magazines and 11- lustrat«! newspapers, to tie dlstrlbut«l without the requirement of returning them to the company libraries. Buttons. CUSTOM nOUSB OFFICIAL INVBSTIGATIXG there is reason to believe that the guile­ less-looking nut is aiding smugglers, out come the customs nut-crackers. Opium Is frequently brought, into the country In that way. The drug is pack­ ed In the shells of a Chinese nut very much like our walnut and Is sent to America in that shape. Derivation of the Word AdmiraL The word admiral is derived by the dictionaries In a rather roundabout fashion from the Arabic emir, a word which has been variously translated Lord, commander, general. An emir was an officer In the Saracenic and aft­ erward in the Turkish army, and. as these were composed mostly of caval­ ry. the emir was originally a cavalry officer. As the conquests of the Turks broad«»ned the Turkish Sultans began to make war upon the sea as well as tipou the land, and the officers who commanded fleets and vessels retained the title that they had when directing squadrons of horse. The title Is found among the Algerine and Barbary pi­ rates and Is first noticed In English use during the reign of Edward III., when officer» were commission«! as ’’Amyrel of the Se" or "Admiral of the Navy." Gree«ly Little Fish. The little fish known us miller’» thumb—the fresh water sculpin—Is one of the natural checks on the overpro­ duction of trout and salmon. It eats the eggs and the young tlsh. It is found In all trout waters as fast as examined. It 1» very destructive. At an experi­ ment once made in the aquarium of the T'nited 8tatee Fl»h Commission tn Washington a miller's thumb about four and one-half Inches long ate at a single meal, and all within a minute or two. twenty-one little trout, each from three-quarters to an Inch In length. A Clock Run by the Wind. An old maid »ays she nerer married There Is a clock In Brussels which because she couldn't find a man to baa never been wound up by human suitor. bands. It U kept going by the wind. It ls only In comparatively modern times that buttons have been utilized as fasteners. The Greeks and Romans knew nothing of them, and, though they presented themselves as orna­ ments In the fourteenth century, but­ ton-holes were still an undreamed-of possibility. It was not until nearly the middle of the last century that the man­ ufacture of steel buttons was entered upon at the Soho works In Birming­ ham, England. Then, on the accession of George III., gilt buttons appeared and became quite the vogue. But It was reserved for the artisans of our day to make these useful fasteners In the greatest variety at marvelously low prices and out of all sorts of material, even to the seemingly Impossible po­ tato. Royal Yearly Incomes. The total annual income of the Impe­ rial family of Russia cannot be less than three and a half million pounds sterling. Probably the nearest approach to this revenue Is to be found In the combined Incomes of the brothers Rockefeller, the oil kings of America, which amount to two and a half mil­ lion pounds. The Austrian Imperial family possescs an estimated annual In­ come of £1,500,000, the German family one of £1.000,000, and the Italian house of Savoy a revenue of £600,000 a year. —Durban Observer. Stone In Judea. The hill near Jerusalem where the crucifixion of Jesus occurred ls formed of limestone. The shores of the Dead Sea are lined with pumice-stone, show­ ered out of some volcano that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, which cities finally sank beneath the waters of the Dead Sea. Mile High View. A balloonist a mile above the earth command* a field vision 96 mile» in radios. After a man ba» cut the crash towel» off the bottoms of hls pantaloons for two or three years, the pantaloon» ba come so thin •» to b* Immodaat.