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Deeds of a Dare rs ! % i?> V yCVIL ROVEf? NEW YORK.?Salute Ransford D. i Bucknam Pasha! Once more the international limelight plays | on the doughty American. Now I he emerges from the obscurity of his recent years In troubled Turkey and j is revealed as the head strategist of the Ottoman fleet in the sea battles with tho Greeks. Rover and adventurer all his life, hoy captain of u whaleback on the great lakes, later commander of vessels plying between New York, Boston and Baltimore, chief navigator of big steamships on tho Pacific ocean. Bucknam became a firm favorite of the cruel and fickle Abdul Hamid who made him admiral of the Turkish DaVV. Rllf halni. o V-,,1? ' ? ?? . . ? ?? vv>*i?b U launcu UU1U UUCII* port, and when Abdul was overthrown, refused to accept the ultimatum from the new Sultan, Mohammed V., that ho swear allegiance to the Ottoman flag and become a subject ot I Abdul's successor. Bucknam Pasha was ace-hlgh with the young Turks and also strong with the old Abdul Hamid supporters, but he quit the Turkish servlco rather than become a Turkish subject. But his restless, constructive mind was not to be curbed, and It has Just become known that ho is now a sort of John D. Rockefeller and William C. Whitnoy In Constantinople. lie ob- ' talued concessions In oil lands as well as in street railway routes, and his friends In New York have learned that he bus begun to pile up a big fortune. It was to Bucknam, now an oil mag nate and a traffic expert, that the Turks turned when the Oreeks began to threaten the Dardanelles with their squadron. When the Ottomans made a desperate and dashing sortie and In attacking and driving off the Greeks followed a tactical plan of unusual skill, the Greeks were astonished. Only when their spies lusidu Constantinople reported, did the besiegers understand what had happened. It was Bucknam Pasha, the down east Yankee, who drew up the olaborato plan! During the battle he watched and advised by wireless from the heights behind Fort Kum Kaleh. y American Brain Won Out. Bucknam couldn't keep out of it. lie owed much to his Turkish friends, even though under a new regime. And although not In active command, li was an American brain that furnished the strategy of what Turku hailed as a brilliant naval achieve- I meat. ' t Hut Hucknnm doesn't need an}' i three-sheet advertising on the bill- 1 boards of the world, lie is forty-nine I years old, hard as steel and shrewd : as a storekeeper at the four corners , l ir. his native state, lie is short, broad as he is long, undershot Jaw?a rogu- | < lar human bulldog. It was lucky fate < for him that Mohammed V. tried to I force him to give up his American 1 citizenship. Otherwise he might not < have had the opportunity to develop < as the chief explorer of somo ot' the I most valuable petroleum resources of < the Ottomans. 1 Ilucknain has tho rights In three Important oil centers In European and Asiatic Turkey. His opportunity is a wonderful one, because Turkey has in the past Imported 400,000,000 gal- j Ions of oil from Russia, Roumania and < A "...1 - Auioi iv/u crci j j car. PUt'tlHUQl 8 All* I glo-Amerlcan syndicate owns enough oil land to supply not only tho wants of Turkey but to export largo quanta ties to foreign countries. An lmpor- , taut source of his supply is tho region of; Merloflto, a port near Itodosto on the European shore of tho Sea of Marmora. He haB negotiated the exploitation of 50,000 acres of this oil land by a British company capitalized at $1 ,000,000. Bucknam Pasha also eon- j trols 100,000 acres of oil-producing territory near tho northeast shore of; Bake Van In Eastern Asia Minor, and another 15,000 acres about 80 miles ; south of Trebizond, the chief Turkish port of tho Black Sea. The oil found on the Bucknam possessions excels the Russian product as a fine pcralAue oil, and also is three to five days nearer tho European markets. This is the new phaso of an amazing career that Bucknam has now entered. His life has been replete with bold adventure that finally took him luto strange service in a strange country. His exploits began young. Early Fondness for the Ocean. When Rucknam's father died at sea the lad was fourteen and his old grandfather gave him the choice between farming and the seafaring life. Young It uc kit am had an Instinctive love for the old ocean, a love that helped him to pick up the knowledge of a ship with little effort. Ills first venture was made on the great lukes as cabin boy aboard a schooner, of which tho captain .vas also the owner. The captain's wife took a fancy to tho youngster. nnd ultimately they adopted him When he was sixteen Bucknam sailed from New York as quartermaster 1 ot a sciiuoner uounu ior mo l'aciflc. At Manila the captain and mates died of cholerra and Bucknam went before a special board to bo examined for a master'j certificate, aa ho was the only remaining member of the crew who had studied navigation. He pass A ?d the test trimphantly and was made i captain at seventeen. Ho' brought ho ship home. Early In the "nineties" Ilucknara was in command of a steamship that mailed from Tampico for New York aden with hemp and silver. Twentyfour hours out of Tampico he struck i sunken wreck and smashed his propeller. With the aid of a tug he got the vessel into Key West. It was assumed that tho ship would tiave to be dry docked before Bhe would be fit for sea again. But Rucktiam balked at the expense. So he ihlfted all his cargo into the forward compartments, thus elevating the :tern. Ho managed to get the pro poller out of water and then went , ihnml n.ltl, V. i a I?. ftttvau " itu ilia i cpau . It 1b said that Pucknam was the flint nan to put a propeller on a ship wlthjut drydocklng her. Devised New Lake Steamer. Shortly before the world's fair at Chicago, In 1893, Pucknam went to :hat city and built the whaleback Coumbus. In 1897 he went to the Island if Naoa at Panama, and It was there :hat ho met W. H. Uodbetter, formerly an officer In the United States navy. Ruckuam and Ledbetter became great 1 :hums. This friendship has lasted, for Ledbetter also became a Turkish idmlral through tho favor of Pucknam, and quit the service with Pucknain and joined him In tho latter's oil ventures. About 1900 Bucknnm was transferred from Naos to the City of Pekln, Ihen tho Pacific Steamship company's I new u niis-rtieiuu utter. n wa? Iioi long afterward thut he as engaged by the Cramps of Philadelphia In order to juperintend the trial inns of new battleships and cruisers. The Cramps directed him to Jellver the Philadelphia-built cruiser Medji- j ileh to Turkey In 1904. Bucknam was to stay three months in Constantinople In order to train th(; crew. It was Lho Fourth of July when the Medjiileh arrived in the Golden Horn, and the new comer, fired with patriotic nrJor, began to set off flretyackers and fireworks on board the new warship. Tho Turks were aghast and there was excitement in the city. Won Admiration of Sultan. Bucknam was summoned Into tho Imperial presence of the gray old wolf In tho Yildiz Kiosk. Abdul was so impressed by the bluff and jovU 1 sailor I that he asked hltn to enter his serv- I ice as naval adviser at a huge salary. J IIIb popularity with the sultan in- | creased to such an extent that he was I made a pasha and a vice-admiral, and the sultau conferred on him tho Order of Osmanlleh and n distinguished service medal. Bucknam distinguished himself at the time a bomb intended for the sultan was exploded near Yildiz Kiosk. It was tho sutlan's habit to go every Friday from his palace to the Hamldich mosque, about a thousand yards from the palace. Diplomats and other privileged visiters view the procession from a torraco under the j puiiicu winaows ana me rest of the route Is filled with troop3. Just as the sultan was leaving the mosque there was a terrible explosion. Scores of men were Killed or Injured. IJucknam was uninjured, though a inan at . his right fell dead with his head crushed. Tho sultan stepped back Into the mosque when he heard tho explosion and the Irregular firing In tho air was begun by the panlc-strleken soldiers, but In a few minutes came out again and tottered toward his carriage. First to Monarch's Aid. Bucknatn drew his sword and rushing to tho side of" the despot stood ready to repel any attack. Tho American was the first to reach the fright- , oned monarch's side and directed the soldiers In drawing lines and pressing i back the rubble. Sword In hand, Bucknani walked beside the carriage all the way back to Yildlz. "When the sultan renehed the safety of his palace," said Ilucknam, in describing the event later, "he became much more agitated than he had been immediately after the explosion. 1 told him of my observation, and added that in my opinion the bomb cr Infernal machine had been buried underground. "Afterward the palace people and ? r. I tho commission which was appointed to investigate the affair maintained ( that the explosive must have been hrnuehf in nun nf liio nofi-inoua Kn? II was naturally their policy to take this view, as nothing could have been buried beforehand in the palace i grounds without the connivance of somebody in the palace, or at least without gross carelessness on the part j of the palace guards." Today Flucknam can be seen daily in the Club de Constantinople, and save that he wears a fez, looks little altered since the days he was ..nown around New York. Invariably can he be found at noon each day In the club, j seated before a cocktail which he him j self invented, ai d which is known all over Turkey as the "Bucknam Cock* tail."?New York World. TWO REALLY GOOD STORIES Congressman Comes to the Front With Humorous Anecdotes Which He Avers Are True. An out-of-town mintster stopped at a home In Bardstown, Ky., to remain over night with a neighbor of Representative Ben Johnson, who now steps up to the plate and tells about it. The weather was had the morning after the visitor got there and he decided to stay another night. It looked a trifle threatening the nest day and the minister said ho thought Providence had intended that he remain there in their hospitable midst for one more night. So that evening when they held family prayer, the host offered this supplication: "O Lord. v?e pray thee that we may have a bright and propitious day to- , morrow that the good brother may continue his Journey." Ben Johnson tells still another one about a preacher. This one was colored. He got into enibarrasment in the little Kentucky town where he had been living, *!n consequence of some chicken thefts that led to a warrant being made out for his arrest. I He beat it away from there and went to a village in Johnson's district, where ho got n temporary pulpit. Just ' as he was about to announce his text on the day of his initial address there he saw a man in the rear of the church whom he thought he recognized as an officer of the town he had recently loft. Ho hesitated a moment, but said to the congregation: "Brothers and Sisters: I had calc- 1 lated to talk to y'all this mawnln' 'bout th' resurrection, but since stepping into tho pulpit I done decided to preach from the Fo'th cliaptah of Hezekiah: "If thou seest mo and think thou knowest me. say nothing; and verily 1 will Roe you later.' " Wilde Is Among the Great Dead. "Wilde's grave," writes a I'arls correspondent, "is in the newer section of Pcre la Chaise, and, though no monument marks It, I found it with little difllculty. There is a fiat slab upon the grave, and this is surrounded by a chain, connecting four short posts, one at each corner lipon the surfaco of the flat stone some one probably with the shaft of an umbrella had scratched the words. 'Do Profundis. Oscar Wilde.' Oscar Wlldo lies where' he would have chosen to lie?among Intellectual and spiritual Titans. Hut a few steps away are the ashes of Mollcre; near by, Alphonso Daudet; Hachel, the world's greatest tragic actress; Alfred De Musset, tho composer; Balzac, the novelist. In the same section those unhappy lovers of history, Abelard and Ilclolse, are locked forever as they both desired, in the same tomb Pocket "Wireless." The latest development in wireless telegraphy was shown recently at the Imperial College. South Kensington, Rngland, by the Marconi company It took tho form of a "pocket wireless." In four little knapsacks all necessary j apparatus ran no stored. and if a party were lost li; a wilderness help eonld be easily summoned At present the apparatus can only Bend messages within an area of fifteen miles, but It is expected that In time this range will bo greatly increased. THIS MARY'S LITTLE LAMB HAD "PEG" LEG Wooden Underpinning of Kansas! Pet Cause of Tragedy in Chase to School. c l.arued. Kau.?A case of Mary am. ; ^ her little lamb that ended tragically i Ef was reported the other day from ' Richmond, county seat of Morton | r county. Mary, the ten-year-old daugh- re tor of T. A. Schoor, a millionaire ? rancher, had the lamb, which she called Pet. I ' While romping with the dogs. Pet ' was caught in a barbed-wire fence aud her leg so lacerated amputation ; was necessary. Mary's heart was , | broken, but the lamb soon learned to ! f hobble on three lcgH and follow her ' I about. ! After n while Pet pined to romp ' with the dogs and run with Mary on the cattle trails. Inactivity produced m ! \ I;-;.| The New Wooden Leg Worker 1 Finely. obesity, and Pet became so fat she i panted at the slightest exertion. ' Then May conceived the- idea of r . wooden leg. t Mary started for lUchlield to sew- ( lug school, the morning after secur- ' lng the artificial number, fitted to < Pet. who was tied in the barn. i She had scarcely gone when Pot | had nn Idea ?her last one. She 1 < chewed the rope viciously until but a i thread remained. Then with the full < weight of her fat body, she plunged through the doorway and raced down the trail in pursuit of Mary. The | new wooden leg worked finely, but ] the long-enforced la7.inesa brought a different answer from the flabby heart, which longed only for Mary's ( i presence, a ien nine run and I'et was , i no more. CARED NOT FOR THE CROWD ?. i ! Lovesick, but Dignlfi d, German Hus- ' I ear Pro?ose3 Before a Laughing Audience In New York. I 1 New York.?Apparently oblivious tt ills surroundings Frederick von Holtzer of the Fourth (Kaiser's) hussars, n tall, dignified soldier, dropped to his knees at the foot of the main com panionway of the i'nited Fruit steamer Turrialba and begged Miss Margaret Allen to marry him. "Do not go away and leave me," he cried. "It means my life if you refuse me. Everything I have in this world is yours if you will only accept me, but please, please glvo me some hope." Passengers stepped bark startled and impressed by the earnest proposal i of marriage. Then a fat man laughed I and everybody followed suit, all but j I the principals In the little drama. The stewards suddenly came into the scene with a trunk, which accidentally car omed the fat man, who went tripping over the kneeling hussar and went : headlong into a big palm. Iii a situation uproariously funny, i Miss Allen blushed deeply and tied to her stateroom. Her mother begged the hussar to leave the ship, which he did. : Von Holt/er's dramatic proposal came after a long chase after Miss Allen, whom he met In Germany. He ; followed her to Buenos Aires, thence to lmr home in San Jose. Costa Rica. | to St. I cui3 and th?n to New York. Von Holt/.or. heartbroken, said he vould return to Germany. Coughed Up a Lizard. Fayette, N. .1. The cough that for two years distressed Evan Jones is : vanishing because Evan lias got rid ..t <i.? ? 11~ .i_i..i ? ,t... i UI nil- \ aun? . lie ? uui ill iv iiik l lit* other clay when ho had a terrible paroxysm of coughing On the verge or strangulation, he thrust a Anger into hi? throat to widen the passage, lie j felt something hard there ami drew' It , out. Tt was a lizard three inches long, Jones said The lizard seemed to he is happy as ihe man to dissolve partnership. and was wriggling away when .lones decided he would capture ! it and show it to Dr. Kdgar Allen. The doctor put the lizard in alcohol, where it still Is. to show to persons who doubt the story. The theory Is that Jones, when drinking at a spring, swallowed a lizlrd's, egg. which instead of being assimilated hatched out. Grew Too Fat. Yonkers. N. Y. Mrs. James Mr .nughlin complained to the authorlirs because her husband had grown ? during a term In the eountv iaH . "/WASHI 'Growler" Is Thing of I yIT ASHINQTON.? A band of crepe, If dangling mournfully from the mndlc of a large gray "growler,'-' Bits j ipon an Inverted champagne basket in j i down town saloon, and bears a mute j ributo to the leading feature of the jeer consumer's uew year. It marks . ho passing of the "growler." The : ast can was rushed at midnight. New k'ear's eye, the last dime was laid ipon the bar, while tho thirsty mor- I 4il on the other sido signified that ill that was needed to make his hap- : >lnrss complete was a bucket o' suds, rhe man In the white apron and ;hirt sleeves, handling the growler ifter the manner of many generations, ho barkeepers, mixed In just enough 'nam to make a profit on the transition, and the chap who chased the luck In his slippers, and without a 'ollar, silently slipped through the S'ew Year's dawning moment to his Do Not at All Times Di r\VO men who had every earmark of being tourists from the Pie Pelt Aero nearly stricken with apoplexy in lie eapitol building a few dayB ago a-hen they ran suddenly on "Pnr'e loe" Cannon and Representative Burleson of Texas, who were talking to acli other in a most confidential way. They backed ofT. made motions lndi.ating proper appreciation of greatness. although neither one of the two gentlemen mentioned hud any idea of what was going on. The 1'le Belters gathered themselves together in a Jarkened corner. One of them said: "That's Uncle Joe." "Sure," said the other, "and he's talking to What's Ills Name?you know?" "Yes, I know; that fellow who " "Yes, that's the man. Gosh! I'd like to know what they're a-talkln' about." "Somethln' big, I'll bet." And the two stood there overawed. Now James C. Courts and Marcellus Ukl.,l.l<. a. ?.? ? - ...... .in.i tut- .minor oi uiese lineB happened to hear what the two grent statesmen were talking about, and Hourts and Shields are certainly reliable. Builders Preserve an 0 CROSSING Florida avenue at Thirteenth street and beginning the ascent of the steep hill which trafllc avoids, you will see a great tree, one of the old Belmont oaks, growing close to the brick wall of a row of new bouses thai front on Belmont street, a street that not long ago was cut through from Thirteenth to Fourteenth. The trouble which the preservation of this tree cost the builders of that row speaks well for their sympathy for and appreciation of a tree. The houses are three-story and basement and a two-story back porch, railed and roofed runs along their rear. nr/littn rv Vnillrlincr Aimral Ia?o #1*1^ tree would have been chopped down Trojan Horse Unknown t TWO honeymoonlsh tourists were standing before a painting in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The man was of the self advertising type, and his analysis of the picture was elaborate and loud. It was not, however, convincing enough to satisfy entirely tho young person with him, for she interrupted as if she honestly desired to know things. ' Are you sure it's a box office at the race track? Seems to me there must b<? some other reason for building a horao out of wood. Besides, nu n don't go around dressed like that. I'm going to ask this lady." Tli" woman to whom she appealed dispensed knowledge: "That's tho Trojan horse, don't you remen? ber ?" The young person shook her hf ad. The young man looked hnughjtily glum. oh. you've just forgotten it. The ,.i? I'.m: ' |Mcotiiio an Mil iiiriii III iix?' c. pture of Troy after a ten-year war .11 account of Helen of Troy." You must be lulbtuken, ma'am," tb'. I B B -^V-Jrv L<I JUl ^^H l?^ _\ s F rlw ^L I I I w I kSHIII 'M&BP' yyf millll |^ji | y *[ home, there to contemplate the bloWjjara^^^Bfl Acfl how the "growler" sits fjgjBIB^^^^B IllOllrnlng lta hanitlo nnTP- wnnrtx f ? will be pushed through the side doorJp^^^JH and over the mahogany bar. The shirted laborer who has hailed thatffl^H^H growler at the stroke of 12 upon aJag^^^M hot summer day will perhaps havnnP^^HM to take to cold tea or Ice cream ^dajffigjBB^B The growler has passed on beyondT^K^^^H And sad to say It, the Retail Uquer.^f^^^H Dealers' association did not favor the.^^S^HH growler, and. in faot, belped to banlshJ^SB^B It. The man in the red shirt and ear* pet slippers, who has been seen bw10*^u^h ing Joyfully toward his little cotta^-^S&B^^l home with a pall of brimming amber In his right hand, believes in a gen oral way that the police or tho H mlssloncrs had something to do wltb it, or that the excise board gave tbel9 order which killed the growler at midnight New Year's eve. Dut such is not the truth. In the best legal circles where growlerology is being studied, it is said that the jjfeifiaM excise board merely warned the sa- ' loon men that they don't like tho Va growler business, and while they |,V'w '' really cannot stop it by law ^ , growler, if pushed across tJ $ v03| any more, will count *^\ A X jju loon man when he com T license again. "> 3 \ 'jl eeneo A ffo ire aI Cii \ 31 ouuoo ft 11 ail O UI OlClk^ J| The fact ia that just as the two Pie C'^B Belters were backing off and bowing 'v#jSgM J their obeisance Uncle Joe was saying H to Brer Burleson: '*0 "I have on a fine pair of walking shoes here, and if your friend Wood- |wBB row wantB to walk down the avenue ~*3W to his inauguration he can come to v' me, and I'll tell him the namo of the ' JTM finest walking shoes he ever stuck on JjSBH his feet." MM "Aw, go on, Joe. He isn't going to <JHH[ walk it. The avenue would be too 4?HH crowded." "Well, lot him take a few back streets and come thfough an alley or *|w8 two. Then he'd make it. If ho wants B ' to, I'll give him the best recommends- ^99| tion for a pair of shoes a man ever ,191 got." "IBMB j Affairs of state! Id Tree at Great Cost and Its stump grubbed out as an obatruction to progress, but it was ailowed to live. The north bark of ita Nil trunk is within a few inches of the w bricks of the south wall of the third jnj house in tho row. The trunk is about ? ;?. _sSj thir.' feet in diameter and as tall as H? the top of tho house. The crown growa - IbB as high again and its big, strong branches spread themselves over the roofs of three of the houses and over fl an alley that runs between Florida 9 3 avenue and Belmont street. fy The diameter of the tree is nearly 9 as great as tho porch is wide, and to JB accommodate the tree the porch waa stopped at one side of the tree and 1 its building resumed on the other side. V | 3 It Is an unusual spectacle and many persons passing that way have their $j 9 attention arrested by it. 1 This tree is one of the grove of % oaks that stood In the blar trant ? tween the boundary and Clifton street, 3 Thirteenth and Fourteenth street*. About n dozen of these oakR are still J growing in that tract on the Clifton street side. o Honeymoonish Tourists |f| | ^ ^ ; f " ^ interruption came from the self-advertising young man. "I never heard of ' :.that fight, and I was born In Troy. , / and lived there all my life until two *. i years ago. when 1 left to go into bus!- fl "'v ness with a friend in Utlca. Isn't that ' The woman who had umJertuken to ijjria ! explain history acknowledged her de- ^ |Nn feat with a polite bow and passed on..^_ 1 And when she looked back MSMjfc gH I honeymooners on their way ^fl| i room, she said to herself,"having ^-9m no one else to say it to: When 1 tell the girls about thing they are going to say I made 9