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1 i GALLANT J< < t M Interesting Stc * Confederate C i - - - - - " ? * * r a M7.JL a ft#. A A W'SVA w-*~rm w After many years in the employ of the government which half a century ago put a price upon his head. Colonel John S. Moshy, the famous guerrilla chief of the Confederacy in the civil war. has retired front the Federal department of justice, because of his age. says the Evening Post. He is only 7:5. according to his birth record, hut in the first half of the '60s he lived 10 years in every one, and he has carried at least one bullet in his body ever since, den. Lee once said of him: "Mosbv, I have but one fault to find with you; you are always getting wounded." After the war Gen. Grant had no fault to find with him, although the general, when in command of all the northern armies, had had a narrow escape front capture by this same guerrilla. Grant told the story in his memoirs. "While my headquarters were at Culpeper, from March 26 to May 4." wrote the general, "I generally visited Washington once a week to confer with the secretary of war and the president. On the last occasion, a few days before moving, a circumstance occurred which came near postponing my part in the campaign altogether. Col. John S. Mosby had for a long time been commanding a partisan corps, or regiment, which operated in the rear of the army of the Potomac. On my return to the field on this occasion, as the train approached Warrenton Junction, a heavy cloud of dust was seen to the east of the road, as if made by a body of cavalry on a charge. "Arriving at the junction, the train was stopped and inquiries made as to the cause of the dust. There was but one man at the station, anil he informed us that Moshy had crossed a fewminutes before at full speed in pursuit of Federal cavalry. Had he seen our train coming, no doubt, he would have let his prisoners escape to capture the train. 1 was on a special train, if I remember correctly, without any guard." Grant Liked the Guerrilla. In the same volume Oen. Grant had this to say of the man who had become an outlaw immediately after the war, because he did not believe that the amnesty given to all other southern commanders would include him: "Since the close of the war I have come to know Col. Mosby personally, and somewhat intimately. He is a different man entirely from what I had supposed. He is slender, not tall. wiry, and looks as if he could endure any amount of physical exercise. He is able, and thoroughly honest and truthful. There were probably but few men in the south who could have commanded successfully a separate detachment in the rear of an opposing army, and so near the border of hostilities, as long as he did without losing his entire command." Mosby's name was used in war times by the mothers and nurses of the north to frighten unruly children into obedience. and was dreaded by the Union soldiers as a scourge. There was nothing he was not accustomed to. from the wanton killing of women and children to being a wizard who could disembody nimseii ior me purpose 01 ni.mn^ ?btral visits to the headquarters of northern generals to learn all their secrets. The Mosby Legends. "Among the survivors of the Army of the Potomac," says Mosby in his "War Reminiscences," "there are many legends afloat, and religiously believed to be true, of a mysterious person?a sort of Flying Dutchman or Wandering Jew?prowling among their camps in the daytime in the garb of a beggar, or with a pilgrim's staff, and leading cavalry raids upon them at night. In popular imagination I have been identified with that mythical character, on the day after Mr. Lincoln's assassination Secretary Stanton telegraphed to Gen. Hancock, then in command at Winchester, Ya., that I had been seen in the theater in Washington on that fatal night. Fortunately I could prove an alibi by Hancock himself, as 1 was at that very time negotiating a truce with him." After referring to other myths about himself and his command, and the reports that they usually wore Federal uniforms to lure their prey into traps, the colonel adds: "I can now very well understand how the legendary heroes of Greece were created. I always wore the Confederate uniform, with the insignia of my rank. So did my men. So any success I may have ' had. either as an individual scout or partisan commander, cannot he ac counted i??r on iin* mior.v uiai u mm due to disguise. The hundreds of prisoners I took are witnesses to tin- contrary." For nearly four years he nagged the northern generals (even captured one of them with his entire staff), upset their big plans by carrying out his little ones, terrorized the border, killed many, but captured and paroled more, and convinced all northern sentinels in Virginia of the foolishness of going to sleep on picket duty. In explanation and defense of his guerrilla methods of warfare he has "I told Hen. Stuart that I would, by incessant attacks, compel the enemy either greatly to contract his lines or to reinforce them: either of which would l?e of great advantage to the southern cause. The means supplied me were hardly adequate to the end I proposed, but I thought that zeal and celerity would go far to compensate for the deficiency of my numbers. There was a great stake to be won and I resolved to play a bold game to win it. I think Stuart was the only man in the army of northern Virginia except two or three who accompanied me and knew me well who expected that I would accomplish anything. "Nearly every one thought that 1 was starting out on a quixotic enterprise tenia rt.csn 11 in .I.ono in, harm In the enemy, I >ii t simply in tr?-i t inir :t 11 <<f my own in?*n or captured. "As a 1 iii** is only as strum; as its weakest point it was necessary for the enemy to he as strong as I was at every point to resist my attaeks. It is easy, therefore, to see the results that may he accomplished by a small body of cavalry moving rapidly front point to point on tlie communications of an army. To destroy supply trains, to break up the means of conveying intelligence and thus isolating an army from its bases, as well as the different corps from each other, to confuse their *** *** *** **>< y<K"Ji i 3HN MOSBY f: .% ' "Y < * >ry of Gallant % i *5? 4? iuerrilla. ... * 1 ?.% i * I HA rHA I'HA i?HA ^HA l?*+A 1 plans liy capturing dispatches, are the 1 objects of partisan war. It is just as ' legitimate to light an enemy in the rear 1 as in front. The only difference is in J the danger. "Now to prevent till these things 1 from heing done, heavy detaehments ' must he made to guard against them. 1 The military value of a partisan's work ' is not measured by the amount of prop- ' erty destroyed or the number of men ' killed or captured, but by the number ' he keeps watching. Every soldier withdrawn front the front to guard the rear of an army is so much taken from its 1 lighting strength." ' To apply these theories Col. Mosbj ' had a following that seldom exceeded ' 100 men. Tie often worked with only a ' score. But they could yell like a regiment, and worked so effectively that ! whole brigades were sent to vxtermi- 1 nate them, one general after another ' tried and failed, to eliminate the guer- ' ilia colonel from the war in Virginia. 1 Orders to Sheridan. In an order sent to (Ten. Sheridan on February 20, 1865, relative to destroying the railroad front Lynchburg, Va. ' Gen. Grant said: "Sufficient cavalry ' should be left behind to look after ' Mosby's gang." "I fiutcnvori'ii. as far as I was able." ' said Mosby, "to diminish tin* aggressive power of the Army of the Potomac l>y compelling it to keep a large force ' on the defensive. I assailed its rear ' for there was its most vulnerable ' point. "My men had no camps. If they had 1 gone into camp all would have been captured soon. After each raid they ' would scatter for safety and gather again at my call, like the children of ' the mist. A blow would be struck at a ^ weak or unguarded point, and then a 1 quick retreat. The alarm would spread through the sleeping camp, the long roll would be beaten or the bugler would sound to horse, there would be I mounting in haste and a rapid oursuit But the partisans generally got off with their prey. Their pursuers were strik- I ing at an invisible foe. < "I often sent small squads at night ( to attack and run in the pickets aemg t a line of several miles. Of course f these alarms were very annoying, for 1 no human being knows as well >.* a t soldier how sweet sleep is. I wanted s to use and consume the northern cav- i airy in hard work. I have often c thought that their fierce hostilby to i me was more on account of the sleep I made them lose than the number vc s killed and captured. t "It has always been a wonder with i people how I managed to collect my i men after dispersing them. The true c secret was that it was a fascinating s life, and its attractions far more than ; counterbalanced its hardships and < dangers. They had no camp duty to f do, which however, necessary, is disgusting to soldiers of high spirits. To i put them to such routine work is pret- i tv much like hitching a racehorse to ( a plough." 1 Another incentive to join the guer- \ rillas was that the members of the troop were entitled to the spoils of war, , according to the rules governing par- j tisan organizations. Guerrillas on hand j had the same rights in that respect as < the crews of privateers in warfare at ] sea. If a Mushy trooper captured a , horse it was his. And a good horse , was a l>ig prize in those days. 'I al- , ways mounted, equipped, and supplied t my men," reported Mosby, "at jhe ex- , pense of the northern troops." t When the capture by Mosby of Hrig. . Gen. Stoughton and his staff and a lot , of horses was reported to Mr. Lincoln. t the president said: "Well, there will be no trouble in making another brig- j adier, but how can I replace those j horses?" . Lincoln always had an appreciation ( of Mosbv. one day when the guer rilla was operating so close to Washington that he could see the dome of the Capitol, he stopped a woman who j was driving into the city, borrowed a pair of scissors from her, and after cutting off a lock of his hair gave it to her and asked her to give it to Mr. Lincoln with his compliments. "Tell him," added the guerrilla, "that 1 am coming to Washington soon and would like a lock of his hair." The president received the memento 1 and enjoyed the joke. Started as a Lawyer. There was nothing in Mosby's early life or in the first months of his ca- * reer to indicate what was in him as a ' soldier. He was a young Virginia lawyer when hostilities began, and he en- ' listed in a company of volunteer caval- 1 ry. As a private trooper he was de- ' tailed one day to escort two young 1 women to a place of safety. They * were friends of Gen. Stuart, the great ' cavalry leader. Mosby reported to ' Skftinrt in ituputiii tli'it In- )i:nl MCPIIIII plishcd tlit* mission, and tin- general i told him to stay at iiis headquarters ' for the night. as there was a severe . storm, (lens. Jose|?li K. Johnston and , (J. \V. Smith were at the same head- t quarters. Stuart told Mo.?l<y to join ' them at the supper talde. "I was pretty hungry," said Mosby j afterward, "hut did not enjoy my sup- .< per. I would have preferred fasting t or eating with the eouriers. I know I never spoke a word to anyone I don't t think I raised my eyes from off my : plate while I was at the talde." Hut the next morning the private trooper was again summoned t? eat i with the generals. "At breakfast." he I continued, "my courage rose, l actually got into conversation with Joe John- , stou. The day before I would have re- t garded it as a great privilege to look at him through a long-range telescope." It was the winter of lsf.i'-t;::, sooii ,, after Lee had hurled Iturnside lack from Fredericksburg, and the two ar- ' mies lay glaring at each other across j the Rappahannock. that "Mosby's ; Men" had their small beginning. The i great captains were idle, and the young cavalryman, reealling his supper and j break fast willi his eolilllllliider. (Jell. I Stn.'irt. 111 11u)11 it :i i nnspii'ioiis tim?- ' t<> stnrifi'st :t plan thai had I tiu" I I>uxxi11tT in liis hrain. His First Adventure. > !.? had ahaiiiliiiH'il to toiioniy tlio 1 part i>f Virginia lyitm n<?rth tinItappahannoik ami :tst of the I'.hio ; Iii11 ii? Mountains. and .Mushy askod his a h-ador t<> h i liiin tako a small siitiad of mint. u<i tip iiit<> that <- >u1111'\. and ( do things to tin- 1'ni'tny. Stuart tvad- t ily assi-nti'd. for ho had nnirh faith in I tho initiativo of tin- Voinitf Virginian. Tin* plan '.vis carrii-d mil snri i'ssfully. < >nly a few Confederates being captured. Imt of the few one was Mosby. lie was sent to Washington with oth r prisoners, ami remained until tin arrangement for an exchange was perfected. Hi- was one of the tirst exhanged. With his return to Virginia his experience as the leader of tin independent command began. He received a oininission tis captain and was permitted to select men from Stuart's 'omniand as the lindens of his com [ any. The company once inrmcii, u i received ii roving commission to liar- I rass the enemy upon all possible occasions and to furnish the commanding general of the army with information >f the movement of the I'nion forces. These instructions placed Mushy on an equality with till other commanders? at least that was the way many of the soldiers understood it. although the captain recognized the authority of tnny and corps commanders where he operated?that is. he recognized the authority when it suited his purpose. One of the most famous incidents in ihe life of Col. Mushy was the caplure of Oen. Stoughton with about thirty of his command at Fairfax Courthouse. Va.. the expedition against Stoughton, like most of Moshy's early exploits, was conducted at night. Riding through the Union lines with a small party, he visited the general's tent and awakened him. Arising dazed, the general inquired the meaning of the disturbance. Mosby informed him that Stuart had captured the camp and [it* wart <i |n lisoMvi. A Federal Deserter. The Confederate partisan and his party escaped without injury, taking iheir prisoners to Richmond. For this let of daring Capt. Moshy received his major's commission, and his independent company was henceforth known as :he Fifty-third battalion of cavalry. It ivas divided into two companies, one ?f Mosb.v's trusted lieutenants being placed in command of the second company. This man was William Smith, a jesccndant of John Smith of Jamesown fame. Another of Moshy's lieutenants and me of his confidants was one Ames, a i'ankee from Maine, who enlisted in he Union army and deserted when President Lincoln issued his proclamaion abolishing slavery. CURIOSITIES OF MISSISSIPPI. Remarkable Facts About the World's Greatest River. The longest voyage possible from Cew York to any European port via >ne body of water, the Atlantic Venn, is less than 4,000 miles. But in American may make a longer voyige via one body of water and never cave the interior of his own county. For the length of our great Mis;issippi river, including the Missouri iver, which geographers now consid>r really the main stream, is 4,200 niles. It is a wasteful river; enough good toil is ejected annually from its mouth o mnko a ureat many farms. If t were possible to collect and eoniiress this sediment, it would make t block 200 feet high and one mile :<iuare at the base. Or, think of it is being a quantity of rich silt sufn ient to plaster six inches deep 300 arms of 1,000 acres each. And water! Stand on the levee ?ank at flood time anywhere below he mouth of the Ohio, and for every ulse beat of your wrist there passes icfore you 14,000,000 cubic feet of vater; 840.000,000 every minute. Curiously enough, this vast mass of vater flows up hill to the gulf. For t has been found that the mouth of he river is much further from the enter of the earth than is its source, t is the so-called "centrifugal force," >r inertia, produced by tho rotation f the earth that keeps tho stream noving toward the equator. Tho waer is acted upon somewhat as it is >vhen you rapidly swing a pail of it ibout your head. If the old earth should slop rotating, the Mississippi vould flow north; as it is, inertia brows it southward. That is not the only curious effect or which the rotation of the earth s responsible. Another most queer liing is that the right bank wears in?re than the left one, owing to a vestward inertia produced by the arth's motion eastward. Any one who has ever had to lie in >ed in one place for a long time knows low tiresome it gets and what a relief t is to make a change. Perhaps his is why old "Father Waters," as he Indians called it, shifts so rostessly; for it has been lying in its bed i long time. As it lies there upon its villi its arms outstretched across treat states, it shifts and tosses very ineasily. Sometimes it grows fretful rom very weariness, no doubt, of lyng in one place; and then it flings it"ll right out of ln il, for its banks are ow. These wriggles are tremendously releving to the old stream, but they iring disaster and dismay to farmis ensconced near by. They feel iec|>iy iiBsncvm. not 10 iVlu'ii the old father squirms out of M'd. They would like for him to lie luietly. For this reason the banks, or sides of the bed, have been raised by "levees," just as the sides of your bed vere built up high when you were t>ry little and prone to l<>ss about. The teiideiiey of the stream t?> make Vat oT:<" aeross its multitiKliiioiis rooked t ingle of bends is productive >f curious results. For many of these leeks arc long and narrow, fifteen to wenty miles around, and only two or hreo miles across. At time of Hood he river has a tendency to take the ihortest cut. It often rushes across hese narrow nocks, establishing new ind shorter channels. Then a town which was a "river own" when the sun set will find itself it sunrise far in the country, miles iv ay from the river. Sometimes a lanter goes to sleep upon his farm n one state and wakes to find himself n another state and his farm transerred to the domain of another. ".M.v father left me thousands of ich acres." said an old lady to me lown in lircenville. .Miss. "I never ransfeiTed them: the Mississippi did t for me. There they lie, aeross the iver now, owned and cultivated and njoyed by my neighbor in another Hate." In all the world there is no stream hat traverses such a variety of clinalcx as the Mississippi. I have left is upper reaches near St. Cloud, ' ! I? , I I...,,,,,| i,, Ml II II., V\ I It" 11 U ? I r l Mwuim .iiiiI snow, ami. trawling l?y train " Louisiana. have stood on its banks main, two days later, and watched ts waves lay lazily against grassy cvi'i'S iii the warm sunshine? levees bat lead through green forests of nagnolia and livoonk. scented gardens ind orange groves. The area draineil by the Father of iVaters is over 1.24r?.ttft0 siiuare miles. >r. think of it another way; think of i as an extent of land that is not nl>- the heart of the country, but is 1111lost the country itself, for it is only i trille less than three-fourths of it. Viewed from the standpoint of the aimer it comes near being the whole liing. for the twenty-eight states and errilories from which the Mississip- , i Valley claims tribute of drainage ontain '.hi per cent of all the improvil farm land in the Fnited States.? 't. Louis (.lobe-Democrat. THE DIARY OF A JILT. Went Through Woods But Failed to Get Crooked Stick. Jan. 1, 1907. 1 have today heroine euKatfed to Arthur. poor fellow, he is deardfully Rone <>n me and I can tell hy the way he follows me around with his eyes that he fairly worships the ground where I have walked. Of course he is only Retting $14 !i week, hut he has nice manners and wears Rood clothes. So I think he will do for the present. At least he can take ill*' annum aim iiuruiua-c mi' m mis* friends, and *?n my part, of four.se, I shall keep my eyes open. Mareh Ifi, 1007. l^ist night I met the loveliest fellow at a da tire. Arthur int rod need me to him. Poor Arthur! He tries so hard to please me, hut $14 a week doesn't go very far. He feels it dreadfully, too. Wallace Hayes, the fellow 1 met last night, is getting $20 a week. He asked me if he could call and I am expecting him every minute. March 30, 1007?I am engaged to Wallace and tonight I must break with Arthur. Here he comes now. (Later). Really, it was ridiculously easy. I contradicted everything he said, wouldn't let him sit by me and yawned once when he was in the middle of a story. He said: "What's the matter?" I said, "Oh, nothing." He said "Yes. there is." Then I pretended to get mad when he contradicted me and when he said I was unreasonable I gave him back his ring and said "Goodby." There. Now, I am going to bed and dream of Wallace, June 28, 1007. Yesterday Wallace hired a motor launch and we went out on the river. Something happened and the engine stopped. A perfectly lovely fellow, in a dandy private launch, came over and towed us back to the dock. He gave m*' *1110 of his cards and it was easy to see that 1 had made a hit with him. I have just been writing to thank him again for his kind assistance yesterday. He had the loveliest name: Augustus Bailey. June 20, 1007. Augustus called this evening to see if I had recovered from my adventure. I rather thought he would come, and I had my blue silk ready for him. He brought randy and (lowers, too, and stayed till after 11. He has the most romantic eyes I ever saw. He said we were really in great danger, as the tide would have carried us out to sea and we should have been lost. I said, "Isn't that perfectly lovely! Then you saved my life!" It is his own motor launch, and I am going on the river with him tomorrow afternoon. June 30, 1907. Well, Oussie and I are engaged. His ring puts Wallace's in the shade altogether. Poor Wallace. It is his regular night tomorrow night and I shall have to shake him. Oussie in on a vacation. He is a buyer in one of the large stores and he makes $40 a week. July 1, 1907. Rroke off with Wallace this evening. As luck would have it he was ten minutes late. Of course I was in tears. I said he didn't love me any more and I gave him back hi? old ring. He pleaded very hard, but I just went right on crying and I wouldn't let him kiss me or anything. Finally I made him go. He went away looking awfully dejected and said I would h -ar i something from him later. I wonder if he meant? At least 1 hope he will > not do anything very rash. July 4, 1907. Pooh! Wallace wrote 1 me a letter. I guess that's all lie m ant 1 when he said I would hear from him later. His letter was sixteen pages long, but I answered with a short note 1 beginning "Dear Mr. Hayes" and end- ' ing "Yours, very truly." Sept. 1, 1907. I have ju3t been living on the river this summer. Oussie's ' launch is a beauty. He has named it after me in the loveliest brass letters. ! It was rather chilly last night and it 1 rained too. I guess there won't be much more fun on the water this year. Billy Fairfax brought us home last night in his automobile. It is quite a walk from the club house to the cars and he had his machine right there and asked us to jump in. Some class to an automobile! When I said Rood- ' by I made a few eyes at him and? dear me, there's the doorbell now! Sept. 2, 1 907. Hilly came last niRht, as I thoURht lie would. He said he just wanted to make sure that he hadn't caiiRht cold or anything. We're going out for a spin in the morning, have our lunch at some nice little place in the country and get back before dinner. Sept. 1907. We had a perfectly splendid time yesterday and ?oh! well ? Hilly and I are engaged. He is an automobile sales manager and makes over a hundred dollars a week. Poor Oussic! Sept. I, 1907. Last night, just as Ril.v and 1 came home from a spin in tin- park, I saw Augustus standing on the corner of the street, from the way he scowled 1 guess it is going to be easy enough to get rid of Mr. Augustus. Sept. f., 1007. Augustus has just called, lie began right away by saying I had no right to go out motoring with Hilly Fairfax. That was as faras he got. The next thing lie knew he was walking down the steps and I am writing him a letter in which I shall return liis ring. Oct. 1007. Rally's automobile club gave a ball last night. 1 waltzed four times with Archibald Fielding. He has live machines and has ordered an aero- i plane! He introduced me to a lot of : awfully nice people and he has prom- j ised to take me up in his aeroplane, i He's coming around tonight to give me 1 an informal lecture, he says, on aviation. Hilly says the Fiehliugs are pret- | ty rich and belong to what is known as I the Saphead Hang. I told him it wasn't J very nice of liiiu to repeal such a tiling | mi.I Utile u-.-iu .1. i-i.l.-.llv ..In,.. I><w.r I Billy ! , ' Nov. ". Archie is really 1 lit* ( dearest follow! Wo aro engaged. T!il- j ly is sulky, I guess. Ilo didn't phono ' loilay. It's his regular night tonight. 1 ' lily hopo ho'll stay sulky. Nov. :!, 1!M?T. Such lin k. Bully didn't all last night so I have just sent his ring hack hy special messenger, to- , get her with a cutting little note, hoping t we shall always ho friends. Sineo then ' he has telephoned seven times and has called twice. I was "not at home." lie t has also sent two letters hy niessoit- ' gei' hoys, which I have returned to him unopened. ; .Ian. 17. l'.t?S. This sporting life is beginning to tell on inc. I looked at ' myself in the glass this noon, and I | have to liinl si iin1 plan' where I * can have my cheeks plumpnl mil. to say the least. Archie's set is awfully ( smart ami swayycr ami there's some- ? thinu tloiim all the time. Archie wants ' to fjet married. Well I think I'll en- ( joy my self one month more ami then? a Fell. 1', liuis. Last night. at the the- ' ati'e. I'crcy Astorman came to our l?ox. Archie introduced us. They say he has j, ;in income of a million dollars si year! lie lias just returned from a cruise on his yacht, l^ist week, lie ssiid, lie felt homesick for the lights on Mrondwny, so he turned the yacht around and came home. I had on my very pesiehicst dress, and Percy insisted that we [ should have supper with him. 11 has the swellest limousine ever. He f, squeezed my hsunl when he helped me 1 in. and 1 squeezed his when lie helped ' me out. A million n year! I have to laugh | when I think of Arthur ami his $14 a ' week. Feb. 3. inns. Percy Astorinan called this afternoon. We went out to.dinner 1 and lie invited me to Join his yachting party for a cruise to Itermuda. ^ There's an awfully nice crowd going, | small hut select, and lie looked at me (1 and sighed and said he hoped I would j like the boat?and it's owner, too-he- t cause? And just exactly at that mo- s inent Archie joined us and we simply ^ couldn't shake him. 1 could have a thrown the electroliers at him. He stuck to me all evening and took me ' home, too. As soon as we were alone j he positively forbade me to have any- 1 thing more to do with Percy. I h*?d to ' laugh. I just couldn't help it. Of j. course I gave him his ring hack then and there. 1 Feb. 4, 1008?Orrrrrrrrrrh! Percy As- ^ torman and Effle Shay, the show girl, were married late last night in Holm- ' ken and have sailed for Bermuda. The papers are full of it! Isn't it awful! f The papers say they have been engag- f od for over a year hut his people ol>- t jeetcd to it. I should think s<>! I fool * and look positively haggard. I must write Archie at once forgiving him. c Feb. fi, 1908?A letter came today * from Archie thanking nie for my for- ( giveness. He hoped I would ho hanny. t And that was all! I guess I'll have tq look up the old gang. Fob. 14, 1908?I found out today that j Arthur married the youngest Wilson i girl. A frump! J March 1, 1908?I met Wallace today. He married Ethel Parkhurst. A fright! j April 1, 1908?Augustus, they toll me, f married Madge Manning. A fraud! ] May 1. 1908. Tlillv Fairfax is mar- i riod to Angeline Smith. All men are a t set of wretched deceivers. Juno 9, 1908. Archy Fielding was j married today at St. Thomas's to that horrid MoElroy girl. Oh, dear: every- 1 body's getting married hut me. . June 1. 1909. I am not going to look r at a paper this month. Those stupid < marriage notices simply make me ill. f June 1, 1910. A strange cat followed ( me home today. I have adopted it. I ' can feel the end approaching. July 1, 1910. I have acquired the s strangest, strongest appetite for tea. \ The end. I think, is very near. J August 1, 1910. Today I bought a parrot, and that, alas! I know to be j The End of a Jilt.?New York Sun. 1 JS ( THE AUSTRALIAN DESERT. r t Explorer's Remarkable Journey? | Treachery of the Natives. I Having spent most of an adventur- I ous life in the exploration of the J "hack" of western Australia. A. W. Fanning, tall, bronzed, now in his j prime, has come to London to enjoy t - - T? \ r,f t a wo 11 meriteti noimay. m ... r this year Mr. Canning successfully j concluded his task of making a stock r route across 050 miles of unknown ' country, extending from the southwest jr to the northeast of western Australia, y Having toiled for months in a tem- t perature of 120 degrees in the shade * and been forced to place his trust In f treacherous natives, the returned ex- r plorer. says the T?ndon Standard, has now the sntsifaction of having ac- , complished not only what had been j hitherto declared impossible in finding t sufficient water right across Australia 0 to supply both man and beast but he has opened to the white man a coun- 1 try which in ten years time will be re garded as among the most valuable in j the empire. j The result of the expedition was a complete vindication of the theory r held by the explorer before he start- ' cd that there must be supplies of wa- s tor at easy stages right across the t country. Aborigines were known to pxist in the center, he argue 1, and 0 how could they live without water? t Therefore Mr. Canning, with seven r white men. started from Wiluna, in f the south, in May, 1 ! 00. To find the water springs tlie party had to My upon the natives. One man would be obtained from one tribe or family to ' take the expedition about fifty miles until another native who could give information of the water in the new ;1 (strict was forthcoming. The natives were fairly friendly, though treacherous and hostile at times. There was little fear of danger if the party travelled quickly, as the natives, who were in every way exceptionally cunning. were anxious to talk the matter tiver among themselves before making an attack. - a? tlm nrp "We IOSI one in urn 11luii uii i liminary expedition," pursued the exlilorer. "This poor fellow was named Tohin. He had Rone to speak to a native l?y one of the wells with regard to the water and had told him that we were very friendly and wished hint no harm. The native agreed to teli hint what lie wanted to know. Hut ivIdle Tohin was talking he happened to look away for an instant and at that moment the native thrust a spear Into the side of his faee. Poor Tohin fell, hut though dazed was ahle to lire his gun. Instead of aiming at the native, however, lie intentionally tired nver his head to frighten him. The native ran away, and Tohin seramhled to his feet and followed. "When I heard the report I was ihout half a mile away without a ride. I ran toward the two men and shouted to Tohin to halt, as I noticed ihe native had his spear poised. Tohin could not have understood and continued chasing the native. Suddenly Tohin stopped, realizing his position, and |mt liis rifle to his shoulder and lired. As lie did so Ihe native hurled (lis spear, which tore its way light through our comrade's chest. Tohin lied next day. Strangely enough, as lie was struck hy the spear he pulled llie trigger of his rille and the native dropped dead." When Mr. Canning again visited I he spot?."71 miles from any town? lie carried with him a marble cross . inscribed in memory of his unfortunate colleague and erected it over the spot where the body was buried. ' w 1 ,?r t Iwi tri>nphf?r UllH'l f.\|irinim^ wi ?..v ?.? us nature nf the natives wore recalled l?y Mr. Canning. Once lie crawled ivith a guide into a narrow cave in search of water when he discovered hat the native was evidently trying O wriggle hack to the entrance apparently for the purpose of closing 11 the exit. The explorer prevente.' his hy seizing the native's foot ami oreing his guide In-fore liini until the >vuter was found. The retnarkahle characteristics ihout the natives of Central Australia. Mr. fanning discovered, was their ihilily to track hy footmarks. A naive could I'll hy whom a footmark lad been made, even though its posicssor had not been seen hy him for ears. On one occasion a hand of natives had discovered tin- footprints if the exploring party and. fully armsi. awaited the appearance of Mr. 'aiming, accompanied hy his guide, at me of the natural springs. Fort finitely the guide discovered that the rmed hand were members of his own rihe. After considerable parley they p pea red hesitant as to the attitude hey should adopt toward the exdorer. <?hc .Story (Tetter. PAID! Jy Roland Ashford Phillips. Through the dusk of the parly vening. allowing his pony to walk, tucky Smith rode off the main trail oward tho low-roofed cabin that jilted out from the mountain shoulder. In the low door of the cabin Kingsand came to his feet with a sharp nth. fumbling at his gun. Itucky lipped from his saddle. The other calked down to meet him. "What madness brings you hero, lucky?" he said. '.'I've been riding hard for three lays. I'm hungry and dog tired. i'ou and me ain't the host of friends, reckon, hut you won't deny me a Irink and a hit of bacon?" "I guess you have to have 'em," Cingsland. answered, hut his lips set hemselves in a straight line, and a term came into his hard eyes. 'You're doing a fool tiling, Bueky." 10 added after a pause, "coming iround those parts, when?when?" Bueky lifted his head. "You?ail leard about it?" "Heard? How could wo all help t?" Kingsland opened and shut his >ig coarse, brown hands. "Every saoon wall in the district has got your ace pasted on it, offering a thousand lollars reward." Bueky laughed, absently passing a land across his lips. "Reckon I was never worth so much lefore. eh? Never knew a sheep man iver got so valuable." And then 'Can't I eat?now?" Kingsland led the way through the ioor ami puneo oui a cnair. aucKy ollowed arnl sank wearily, thankully, into it. watching the other cut he baron and toss it into the pan on he warm stove. The very smell sent lis pulses leaping. When it was done. Kingsland lumped the dozen thick slices into a in platter, set out a pan of cold bis uits, and poured a dipper of muddy offee. After that he sat opposite him it the table. "I guess you know that I hate every lair in your head, Bucky." he broke tut finally, "but I can't see you starve. ?I'd have thought you'd turned in liost anywhere?'cept here," he add>d suggestively. "Did you know of he?reward ?" "I sort of guessed it." Buckey mused from his eating. "I killed old Samson because he deserved it. I gave lim time to draw, but he was too ilow. Of course, you cowmen won't iclieve that. Wasn't another man in he world I hated like him?unless it's ,'ou, King." Kingsland frowned. "Where you leaded for?" "Not particular. I'm worth too nuch to hang around here for long." de finished the bacon and swallowed he remainder of the warm coffee at 1 gulp. After that lie sat back in his hair, wiping at his lips with his (Inters. "King." he said presently, breaking lie hush that lasted between them. 'I'm going to get back home?back last. I'm tired of this hell out here. tried my best to play the game square, but you and old Samson .vouldn't let me. I reckon you and lim did me all the dirt you could. L'ou killed off my sheep?every head. \nd one day I found my boy. my own cid, lying dead with a bunch of them. knew what it meant, but I didn't my anything at the time?except to 7od. And then the fever came, and ioor Molly died. She wasn't used to he west and its ways. She was one vife in a million, and she died out lere with only me a-holding her hot ittle hands. Only Ood knows how 've been able to keep up. Guess it's ust thinking of how I'd pay you felows back. "Last month your company got my and. Old Samson was at the head of hat. He came into the house and obi the men to throw me out?throw ne out of my own house?just 'cause was helpless, and you fellows wanted some more grazing land. Everyhing ramp back to me then; I renembered my sheep, my poor, helpess. murdered boy. and?Molly. Do ou wonder it sent me wild? And hen, when Samson came out, I met dm face to face; told him I was gong to kill him. and we both drawed. lod made my arm the quicker. I eekon part of my debt is wiped out." "You?you're using hard words, lucky." came the cowman's answer. 'You'd better go slow. You know tow matters stand. You ain't out of he country yet by a whole lot." The gloom increased, and the gold11 horizon went grey. Kingsland rose presently, found some candles, ighted them, and put them on the ta?le. after which lie opened a can of ohacco and pushed across a few pa>ers. Roth men rolled their cigarettes 11 silence. "The moon ought to be up by middght." Rucky began evenly. "I reck>n T'll ' ait till then to ride on." Kingsland drew in a full breath of moke and allowed it to trickle hrough his nostrils. "You'll excuse me a moment." Cingsland spoke up finally, coming rect. "I've got some business to atend to down at the corral. I'll be ight back." Ducky's eyes widened, but through he smoke the speaker did not see nor nderstand, and went out of the door. Tesently Ruckey walked to the door nd squatted on the step. Abruptly here came another form gliding from m mm mm?mmm mmmm j LADIES I I We have 1 on the sec< L. I I r This depar | known to ; and Dress I? our store MENT T "What we vertises us V Two s Iored Suits daily. Do will be gla< purchase o I KIRKP/ j If You Don't behind the cabin. He saw and wail- ( ed. and he recognized the man. It was Davis, a friendly puncher working j for the cowman. "That you. Davis?" "For goodness sake, Ruckey," returned the man horsely, "why are you < staying here? (Set away! Don't you t know old Kingsland by his time? He's ( sending one of the boys down to camp for the sheriff!" ' "Davis." Rueky said gravely, rising to his feet and gripping the man's shoulder. "I'd be a coward to run now. I've only paid back half the 1 debt. Samson's dead, but Kingsland ? Is still alive. It s a debt 1 owe to my | boy and Molly?anil (Sod." And while the man listened, openeared, Bueky whispered long and ear- * nestly; and afterward .they shook hands and parted. x When Kingsland returned, a moment later. Bueky was sitting cross- ' legged in the doorway, his head and i shoulders outlined against the glow of t the candles, while the red tip of his { cigarette burned steadily in the gloom. Twice the cowman's hand slipped to his hip. and twice he seemed to re- \ consider before his fingers touched the gun. t "I just saw that your pony was fed and rubbed down." he explained brief- ' ly. "Midnight will he plenty of time | to get away. And by that time he'll t be as good as new." "Thanks," Buck replied, tossing y away the cigarette. "By midnight I 1 reckon I'll need him too." 1 ? ???? ,, At 11 o'clock a dust-covered cow- 1 man rode up the solitary street of the camp, tossed his reins over a convenient post, and burst into the crowded 1 saloon. The sheriff, with a dozen pun- 1 chers. was hanging over a card table. * The abrupt, unceremonious entrance j of the man startled them. The fellow made straight for the ^ sheriff and thrust into his hands a ( crumpled note. With wond' ;ng eyes ] the officer smoothed the paper out ( and read the contents aloud: "Sheriff Crowley:?Bueky Smith is < at my shack. I'm keeping him here i until midnight. Come up at once. In t pretending to am nim. i m giving mm my clothes .> wear, hat and all. He 1 believes it will help him Ret av/av. i Don't let him slip through your fin- 1 gers. Kingsland." A pregnant silence followed the t reading, broken a moment later by a ] chorus of shouts as every man made a < dash for his ponv, the sheriff In the s lead. 1 There was no light in the shack i when the posse cautiously crept up by ' the corral, after leaving all the horses i a mile or so down the trail: but the ? moon was shining vividly, and every post and fence rail stood out as if ' etched in silver. s Crowley, the sheriff, managed to ' gain the shelter of a haypile. Crouch- J ed in the friendly shade, he waited 1 nervously. He was unable to tell the ' time, but presently, as a cloud swung over the moon, he saw the sliding ] form of a man come out from the shed leading a pony. "Bucky!" he declared under his breath, and reached for his gun. The figure dressed in Kingsland's widebrimmed hat and his peculiar long coat, mounted the saddle and began to ride quietly down toward the trail. Opposite the hay pile the sheriff stepped boldly out. his gun leveled. "Hands up. Bucky!" he warned. "I'm on to you." Put the figure on horseback laughed and made as if to ride on. Crowley repeated his demand. "Hands up! Hurry, or I'll?" Put again the laugh rang out, while a quick spur was touched to the pony's side. Tt leaped sideways. The sheriff's finger tightened on the trigger and he pumped three shots as fast as he could pull. Bucky was not to escape if he could prevent it. The man on the horse fell limply to the ground. Crowley dashed forward the smoking gun still in his fingers. A dozen of the boys came hurrying into view, crowding around. The moon slipped from under the cloud, flooding everything. The sheriff bent over and V... li flmip.. Thn lint f?.ll off. and one of the men. who was near broke into an oath. "Mv stars!" he gasped brokenly. "It's Kingsland!" ?** *? * Tn the deserted street of the ramp two men met. One was Davis, who. slneo delivering the deeoy message, had remained there. The other, hatless. sitting wearily in his saddle and weakened by his mad ride down the trail, was Bucky. Their hands met in a firm, understanding grip. And then, turning, thev rode side by side, in moody silence. on their course toward the east. From Two Points of View.?Waiting for a train at Moorestown, N. J., th" other day were two young women and a man, fashionably attired and evidently on a holiday. At the ticket window were a New Jersey farmer and his wife. While they waited a sweet young girl entered like a gentle April breeze through an open window. As the girl glided out of the door again the young man turned to his companions and said: "Isn't Miss Berry a beautiful girl? Her complexion's as soft as a rose petal." Just then the old farmer turned to his wife and remarked: "Maria, did you took note o' that 'ere girl? Ain't she got a party hide, eh?" ' READY- TC EPARTMEN fitted up an attractive Disp 3nd floor of our store and ADIES' Coat Suits Tailored Skirts, Cloaks, Coats, Raincoats and Furs. tment is in charge of Miss Sa you all as an experienced maker. We make all alte o r? rl OFTARAMTPR PVRI 14 I 1 VI VJ VXllllill M. M~J ms ? ?m. 0 FIT or we refund you advertise we sell?what v 9 9 hipments of Ladies' High-( already on display?others n't fail to visit this departm 1 to show you whether yc r not. 1 TRICK-BE : Trade With Us We Both L CRIMINALS THAT ARE WELCOME. 3ol itical Refugees Who Trade on Strange Law of Nations. When u man commits an ordinary lime and then flies to another coun- * ry, the government of that country s, as a general rule, only too glad to land him over on demand, and cry, 'Good riddance to bad rubbish." When, however, the crime happens o be a political one, the case is altoret her different. In such an event it lot infrequently welcomes him with ipen arms. In any case, it almost inatiably refuses to surrender him. This is in accordance with both the vritten and the unwritten law of naions, which decrees "right of sanctuiry" to political offenders, and for his reason a good deal more is likely o bo heard in the near future of the 'Savarkar incident," as n. is now Detinning to be called. 0 Savarkar, it will lie remembered, was he Hindoo student who was arrested n London for carrying on a seditious propaganda in India, and was deported to that country for trial. On the vay out, there, however, the steamer 9 hat was conveying him put Into the larbor of Marseilles, and Savarkar iclzed the opportunity to jump over>oard and swim ashore. A French policeman arrested him is he clambered up the quay side, and landed him over to the crew of the ship's boat that was sent to fetch him jack, in ignorance of the fact that he vas a political offender. But he was me, in fact. He had set foot on French soil; and he had thereby entiled himself to his r'right of sanctu- ^ iry." As a consequence, the French government, as soon as it learned the ruth of the matter, started to make 'friendly representations" to the British government, and these are >till in progress. What the result will ie remains to be seen. Of course, a good deal turns upon :he question as to what constitutes a political offense, but the general tenJency is to allow the very widcot posdble latitude in the interpretation of :he term. England, especially, has ^ always shown herself exceedingly tolerant of all sorts and kinds of conspirators belonging to nationalities -ither than her own. Thus, when Orsini tried to blow up :he emperor of the French, we persistently declined to hand over his ^ accomplices, who had taken refuge in * London, and this, although France very nearly went to war with us in orJer to try to compel us to do so. A more recent case in point, again, n'nn thni of the Chinese reformer Sun 5fat Sen, who also took refuge on British soil, and whom likewise we refused to surrender, although the Chinese government Insisted. Eventually, despairing of gaining their point in any other way, the Chinese authorities here caused him to be kid- _ napped and imprisoned inside the Chi- ^ nese Legation in London, where it was intended to hold him a prisoner until he could be smuggled on board a mail steamer bound for China. But the facts leaked out, and the Chinese minister had perforce to deliver up his captive on receipt of a curt order ^ to that effect signed by Lord Salisbury. The same principle holds good today. A foreigner who is disqualified under the alien act for residence in this country, can claim admittance at [ nee provided he can show that he Is 3 pol'tlcal refugee, and that his life ir his liberty would be endangered if he were rejected and deported. Nor are other nations much less tender of the rights of "politicals," as this class of offenders is generally designated for short. Switzerland, for instance, refused to give up the notorous Vera Zassouiich, who shot Geniral Trepoff, the chief of police at St. Petersburg. Stepniak, the famous Nihilist, lived in France, Germany and [taly before finally taking refuge In England, and by each of these three latlons in turn was his extradition -efused. These kind of incidents often cause considerable international ill feeling, 'or naturally the governments concerned look at them from entirely iifferent standpoints. For instance, >ve were once within an ace of going to war with the United States of \merlca over two "politicals" named Mason and Slideli. They were rebels from the revolted southern states, who were traveling :o England on board the British mail 4? iteamer Trent, with the object of pleading their cause before our government. In midocean, however, the Trent was stopped by the United States battleships San Jacinto, and Messrs. Mason and Slideli were forcijly removed from her, despite the ^ protests of her commander, and taken * prisoners to Boston. There were great rejoicings in the United States over their capture, but hese were somewhat short lived, for n a little while there arrived an ultimatum from the British government Jemanding their immediate release. It vas made plain at the same time that i refusal would be followed on our part by an immediate declaration of var; and, as the government at Wash- # ngton already had its hands full battling with the seceding southern itates. it had no option but to obey.? Pearson's Weekly. )- WEAR | I * lay Room I will show I I A I illie Craig, I Saleslady rations in I IY GAR- 5 r money. I re sell ad- B ^lass Tail- * expected fl lent. We fl >u wish to fl LK CO. I ose Money. ^ ^