Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1898—24 PAGES. 15 ] ernmen The trouble is with the French | ever kept in view the ultimate acquisition | tered upon a survgy—pbrhaps have com- | ne faint tinkle of a bell in the distance. ! CON UEST OF AFRICA thems< . They are not what they used | of the vast territory to the southwest and | pleted it—of the ara_region, with the HE GREAT YOSEMI Listening, he made sure of the direction RUSH FOR ATLIN LAKE | Not even what they were when |east of Algiers. She has paralleled the | ostensible object of asceftaining the feasi- and started for it. After clambering over Philippe, nearly seventy years ago, | nerthern coast line with a railroad for | bility of converting’ it ito an inland sea. rocks and’ thevawh’ brash ‘for some time jhe ——_—— ——— [sent them down to conquer Algiers in | 1.000 miles, with offshoots extending south. | This is said to be féasible, as portions of it came in sight of the outfit—a large flock of AB E | give vent to their turbulent feel- | ward, nearer and nearer to that region of | are known to be Below the level of the BREED. Hin ChEEES lor Boar UPartererss Ue tampede for the Newest Gold Fiel By Rail From the Cape to Cairo No| nd farreaching aspirations. | 1 do | mysteries, the great desert of the Sahara, | ocean, and it is deelarea that by so con- | National Park Protected by U. 8, | tendants or shepherds, and a mot'ey col = ° ld Field op y = e ts not say they have ¢etertorated; their own | She has secured a foothold—more than a pertinga the aes climate would be so lection of dogs. The men were all arme! the Klondike. 3 writers aver it; statistics prove it. modified as to maké habitable hitherto un- with rifles, and had seen Davis as soon as Visionary Dream. pe oe ae St ee inhabited regions; amd by flooding the vast Cavalry From Intruders. he saw them. Not deterred. however, he a Sane BR ne nee evequais areas of burning sanis,with its alternations ¢rew his revolver and advanced upon them, | yy me = Pie be nes Se ee ara ee oe of diurnal heat and:nocturnal cold, obviate ordering them at the same time, both by | Mow the Strike Was Made and Whes | of the lish as zers, as explorers the terrible siroccos, which now periodi wordaind gesture, to throw up their hands WHAT FRANCE AND ENGLAND OWN | 2nd conauerers, tacy nave no right 10 in- ally Sweep across the Ten, blasting vesctn- | TROOPERS’ ARDUOUS EXPERIENCES) movement incy’cxesntat whan hace. Da: Mas Come of 1¢ So Fare terfere in ‘the Britis elopment of the tion and destroying anfmal lif? with its vis then proceeded to take them into camp * pve roar ae heated breath. with him. At first they nied to ny = <- =e Nile regions and the Soudan. They Hees ae ULES ated bere cechrteemeine sine arene ip SeueLie oer eee That would be ai scheme worthy—well understand English, but, seeing his dete } . pe oo erncctcns Y worthy the French themselves—of De Les- “of mination, and overawed by the threatening | 3 John Bull Has Less Territory, but} most beneticent conquest of the cer Seps/audvhis’ great\compatriots: The Long and Difficult Marches | six-shooter. they changed their tactics and Patented a Theiz Rubi con W ached years ax All Aboard for Pimbuctoo. ‘ Legged him not to take them away, prom- Sit diner ay Wants More halted at its the f , Over Forest trails SKAGWA is : Gs it! To them belongs the credit of When I was last at Oran I had the good + avel an nin Brecon » conquest—achicved nd prospective. No | = fortune to meet a party of French scien- pede” bas foun, < FRANCE THERE TO British dosi in Africa: but I | the famous geologis Wel’QO SAVE THE TREES hb alm one ae alee hb ad wished to be on th engaged in conversation, and 1 was sur- Skagway { a ie in truth, has “bucked up’ prised to find that he knew so much of _— nx oy ? aie fox The Exciting Stac Vitable; she should retreat ‘America, while he was astonished that I 2." no “roliir ot ne ; : a ae can with good ar ds Cs knew so little of Algicrs. So he proceed- | Written for The Evening Star. oe pbasspemictd ‘ seh Se Re ee Soe ee nn cE ed to enlighten me, and ameng other| About miies east of San Francisco as : very Mttle e So only Lal Sucka heaton i schemes he unfolded this for the conquest | ¢p, | Rone he wi : 1 ser question le = to con- s e crow flies is one of the wonderlands of ys. since the magnificent victory of | And the lesser question leads us ie Gas of the eastern Soudan. That was some | ‘Pe © Reece See ates Maeaal ery man vt an get away has gon the sirdar over the Khalifa. But if we wil | S2&r the more sizar What is to become time ago, yet I remember the enthusiasm | Noma An sedans bee eres o- is going to new strike at Pine creek See eae ae taiea ae age MIN | of Africa under “the new apportionment? | of my friend and every detail of the plan—| Park. This park was set aside by Congress fi an. id cesetionptbonnces caer Rh WME Ue aes aes ce ae be for one dees not meet so famous a man jas « national reserve in 189) In pursuance tate’ gnc isdn Ae hee cee we It with the sam map of fifty | doubt, she cannot be made worse than she aumivclus every day, and’ raitntully noted lor tuecwise policy or hacbandliig the timber ; Hl tril years ago we sh see that it is not im- | Was before: she cannot suffer a tithe of down his every word. He declared—as |, : 5 RO SEG Ee Y Were not carried away by the stam what she has borne under the suce: ; land near the headwaters ef our great riv : Possible—this glerious scheme of rail-and- saber pe eee ang at A at the French all will declare today—that the steeit ec aates yates Fe SS to Wa reck last w but they sted from Calvo in Eeypt to Caps ‘wong | Tes of Arab, Turk and Mahdis. Twelve time has not arrived for an invasion of |€fS. Carved from,the very heart of the arc ecelieh coe. mor sient ade clit steam from €alro in Egypt to ¢ own | hurdred years ago her northern shores Street 1nlmMlemecn: CES PEG Se eeNeg oe ak ee leans ees Ss ee on 0: the railway, nearly 1,000 hav work Bipies Since en are eee continent: | were swept By.ithe:feres Arabs, under(the | it may be precipitated, perhaps, before the | area of about 1,400 square miles, this res- Many of the small sto have locked le, but probable; that “it will bz an ac- | Mahomet the prophet. They advanced standing her ante-tellum declaration many | ying order! : ST ee R RAT ene 2 their wives. On every side one see complished fact before 1925. There is noth- | Mecca, to Cairo, from Cairo to Tripoli, Tu- | years ago that s vaded Africa only to | ™tEat'a railroad 1s quite practicable has | than twenty snow-clad peaks, raed toa mien ‘with packs ou their backs ghestire ing very difficult about it, for even today Algiers, Morocco here today exist | put down piracy and establish a protecto- | noon shown long ago, for the desert region, | loftiest in the United States; a forest of the slong the sralis to join c Seer cote CC ape pope Si eg ee ek] ee ee Ee et th- ‘rate. Now she protests against her English | ¢xcapt on its borders, is remarkably level, | grandest proportions, including a grove of of other heavily laden two-legged beetles Soe ace puild za the entire dis- | ful still wership in their sacr . to! neighbor playing the ame d of game SHG Rin Grade LleBek very arawuvinanctsr-t6u in ebeeie inated tetean ten Mecanalnnconl = ble Mi noes oe ance from Buluwayo to Lado on the White here, |No one for a moment anticipates a relin- ‘ 5 overt It 5 : aes a The he qumabaanitestiaeen Fae IRG Galea toe : construct or gradients to be overcome. en eds of beautiful lakes and bho excitement began a week ake pectins Nile; and with steam navigation on Lakes an absolute morareh, reigns the Sultan | quishment by England of her costly con- | {2 no¢ over 4,200 miles to Timbuctoo, which Leeder aan ea eas SLE ae Gay. “The Stay Boe teak eee ens Nyassa, Tanganyika, Albert Edward and would be the first objective, and from Rete ea heise aR pe ES Ea a rame of Roberts has been quietiy working Aibert on the White Nile, communication which the invaders could proceed at their | These, fed from the perpetua on a small ereek which runs into Atlin mculd be established betwe ~ ee jeisure to the remoter points, east and | higher aititudes, make their way fn a se- lake from the easterly side. He thought the ee em Cape “Zowr ae 5 he arid region having been attacked | ries of grand cataracts and through gore was in Northwest territory and eutaect to and Alexandria Seat west, t = 7 i & “ dect t ayo is alrea Z eS 2 z and overcome. This railread once built | o¢ amazing depth, to unite eventually, when reyalty, therefore he said little about his S already connected by rail , e eran : the distancé /would’ be’ traversed’ in less | 7 Cone nn = aa within’ the. ereat ovtput. Some ten days ago he came into abate yee a erie. : x : time than it now take to travel from Tan- Fee eae ee ayia citer fennett City to buy some provisions, and jousanc les distant from giers Moroceo; for a week 1s : pcre . ets ea in a moment of indiscretion his seer % gee kiies sires ee giers to Fez, in Moroce QT eae Fabia zh which it n his secret es: sadmers: te the iue oe ee ihe rate of twenty inlles a day, and = reg- | 70W= WUT tue Nile be i ao ee oy the (Ninety-Three Feet Round Tis Base.) ows why ap 3s Vaan e gap first to be fi ie tee Lada iment of soldiers is necessary to pro“ect | roams in the park, before they have en-|jsing to leave the park immediately, 2 ee pes irers aboard, J Uganda, on Lake Victoria, sie demvecs the caravan. tered their canyons, are to be found exten- | offering him a large sum vin gold determin oe ee of latitude apart, and between the lattes Reanties of the Route. sive strips of grass jand, called “ineadows,” | he would give them thelr freclom. Two of a to Binge 3 eb once cat Jor which $10,060,000 contemplating this prospective journey | ti proper season excellent pasturage. aieection. of. hi a aia gy ped we Welk convecting Waasde andes into the Soudan to the banks of the Niger, | When the grass in the valley begins to dry SHesdptnch ment Baw an ea at Mombasa. Between British East and rting from the north coast, touching first eenmen (usually Portuguese and sdown the hill with fo panned i Sut ae Central Africa lies German East. Africa: at Constantine, a sister city of Carthage in | M pherders) have Ween) accustomed ie) Shecp herders in advance. ea which he ie tp Bae o ee and if permission cannot be obtained for iis time of glory, passing through Ratna, bag oe Soe Hee ee rying a Winchesi« r Fille on his shoulder. [cents Lt seen the gold, but as it is in the connecting of Lakes Victoria and Tan- the) lionis hunting) jeround) | where! the)|| 252 Sid See advantacenon as) fresh Were considerably astonishet: and |a boiti locks very m like other ganyika, on the direct Ine south, then the Frenchman, Girard, siew scores of the king | So2P0n. £0. tie ae vanmi he recently melt ir astonishment was increascd) when, as | bottles of rom Dawson, Iam not pre- Uganda-Mombasa read will be built as an of Dexstayy throubh| Bisiaray @niosom edlain, (S22 TAe see erence ered eee tine, the mca he had ap- | pired to announce a great strike on Atlin guilet of the Nile headwaters to the sea. date palms, and past more ancient Okba. | cocks, numbering oftentimes ai thous- | that hat it. Seam Perhaps, in the future and not far away which still holds its mosaue erected in the | flocks, numbering oftentimes ral thous: [that had made oudert vaunte about Mixed, bat It Glitters there may be anott hufe of the Afri. elghth century! preed PS. Be oe the Suaare a eine BERET OnE aia rd they mee wit asda Gl = The other man who has been to this ean cards and Germany will be glad to outlying islands of the Libyan archipelago, |™éreh of an invading and destroying army, aded soldiers Eine earner emrpel on otic trade her far-distant possessions on the chelverant Gaye avaudsletsdintine sand eating up everything that ts green and eat | Davis escor'ed them Into the main bi pronisies Aspe turned is Mr. Jeff C458 codal far sunieltiing nioca/dedcaute oo of the desert. They are the stepping-stones {able. It makes no difference what their | before Capt. Wood, who warned them not | Evans o: tland, Ore. He also was on the west—French Congo, for instance, from the Nile to the Tell; between them the way back from Dawson, and caught which Hes just south of and borders on run the caravan trails, their courses mark- the inspi rg Bennett. He return her colony of the Kamerun. Then Britain ed by bleaching skeletons, ed last night, and has told phory te tak ay on and complete her line all the There are perhaps half a million Soudan- sadees ee ga my w om Cairo to the Cape, and all the ese in Morocco and Algiers, who (or their ener pling pads vuntry as tt way on British territory, or, what 1s the immediate anerstors) toiled paintully over arpears to his eye. He bas some course ame, British from latitude yuth, to the the tropical ca 2ils across the Saha- gold in un envelope which he claims to equator, and under British suzerainty from ra, ‘They are gene thful servants and eae 1 on a sccond the equator to about 35 north. said to be vd superior to the debas aed — a é IDGE - 2 7 ellahin of E swellas of the natives san boa Waseda wilk sco nioanic. . DGE OF THE SAHARA DESERT. E a neues qiee ene and trail, and 3 make And will France have a voice in the mat- == —= = oe | specimens of the strange pecples and the lee Sate nsidens it ter? Most assuredly; she is the power | of Morocco over 300,000 square miles of | quests in Africa. No one could desire Wen ecine uetives anno melmelcome she traversable, with Pat Sie Eee most likely to provoke the strife that will | territory and f million snijee's, | who has given the situation an impar Core (08 tee irae eegpe trem, Alster te ing or ender tp acti {Not long ago there Successor: } examination. e ivory c h i weautifui and Lobrilabee wgeliot coe Indeed, she has | 1. was the same a of his sces- | With Algiers (the capital) as a pivotal |, Mer the sake of suffering tourists who pheerad Seren Th» gold hy not done so already. She Eas gone a long } tore’ tho petione lieves today—| point, France has swung the pendvium of | have well-nigh exhausted the known resorts oped yp ral acter. It con- way looking for 2 quarrel, but will surely | that to shed the blo« ristian is a} conquest across six degrees of longitude, tie: Bktker Boi ion and one or find it if she persists in the course she t to the s of; and 2.000 miles southward, across the S: debian Ming med to has mapped out in Africa. And this is how | the plague spot, the | hara, beyond Timbuctoo, Senegal and Sier- sHigaeneoas gers w feet im it will come about: British East Africa ex- f North Africa—an en ra Leone, to the Gulf of Guinea, and be- cao is claim go to bed tends from about latitude 5 degrees south m the coast yond that immense empire (‘mainly of ii Sli) Shas We kieon north; Uganda lies right on | , nd and negroes”) she still controls the farm q can We septal at te thing Lado about 6 degrees north, | gnificent territory of the French Congo. DETACHMENT OF YOSEMITE CAVALRY. w3n aha ge pment rther north, little more than | then, having more African te Pace eee. % Bk EA xe) aac yes gg ge id 48 n Lado and Khartoum, i ry than wny other nation, does she wish i SP CaaT pare oe go in in ; agi at 09 om to the line of 10 degrees ni get a grip on the hea the line of advance, the shcep are turned loose | to trespass again upon the park, and | ff. yy red what ie say beca > they the and allowed 9 graze everywhere, be the | cau thera to be ejected on the sice of : 6 weillatarts aa Gecausertlereny ene canccons property private or public. With the up- | the reservation opposite to that near which | |SK4sWay has acq oned su- Kitchener is | that vast body of water, have proach of winter the sheenmen set fire to y had ‘been apprehended. By the time | Premacy an Her jm- sent kK all war Egypt—and conse ntly the ‘eyptian the dry timber land, i from the had gathered together their flock “ Syemnents & ; , and dur- up his loins for | | question—at her mercy. But, if the Lion so that as muc getation as Well dispersed among the mountains, | SEY Stay | 2 ae there is little | st in the path at Morocco, he has will be killed, in order that the y were Ww enough to profit hy the | zed that T was in a fs objective. But camped on the trail in the Nile provinces. be earlier in'melting the ig} lesson. The r re adopted may scem | Cold, Winds from the rman tell It he growled and lashed his tail in Moroc- n, and their return to the mountains | harsh, but only one within the | mind me of i. ‘ upied by | ‘ | co, he showed his tect nd claws at correspondingly c oe The sheep ndent’s power that would effect- Jee without pedi- Crapaud” has | nda. “Havings is keepings,” always, unlike the cattle, together in large | ively prevent trespassing. en, dull ‘ which for ielistoneloe tt j with John Bull—whether in Africa or Amer- herds, trample down and kill the young | Ti little detachments were always | ice des its led other fellow” has not the quail, and so completely clean up every-| accompanied by a small k | Swe » whil ' = | stronger force and armament, eatable In thelr progress that they | mules. For a detachment o it | Pe in angry ares accomp) | 3B why not divide the African orange have Beanies ily fore d the deer, once nu- | would be recessary to have along four or | 46d menac yo. ‘Phere | toneitasinally? ‘Thirty degcees ciseviy oe 5 merous in this region, to migrate to other | five of these hardy little s, to carry Dita wt Geriicre Tie and with | the mer of Algiers (ti y) runs that In’ the Desert. ‘ts for subsistence. As il Eteater evil | the ne sssary supplies the men. Sen gous Rgrgcr gerne RaSh [ioe the: + Which General Kitchener has | 6; fe civilized world) 1 . - ults from the appetite which the sheep, | pack mule is a small, wiry beast ee nto the town tful lashings | so closely “hugged, all the way, as he eae agwalized ws ee noe yom etn oe bove all other animals, possess for the a wonderful amount of from the south in response to the Cottage cowering in the | pushed his course southwardly into the | is to. be hoped) that ar Retained = at ae ‘| bark and twigs of the young trees. T! ability to iook out for himse City’s port R 1 Dawson minere but stand aside, anid | heart of Africa. If France were but to | will pursue dete a and France | with all the old timber destroyed by forest | Icaded with about ino itd 4 ee routed’ Gavecoane 0 f es pursue their respective plans for the Prine ohne sa noon reet surrounded iy \ y fin 1o- | parallel his course, African Mahometanism | Opening up of “Ay ae Jans for the lfires of their kindling, on the one as much as they c: 5 sion, why. 4 n liers, and convert that | would be stricken to th ore sup: | shat bp of Africa without colliding, for | and a!l the young timber destroyed by their ails, and witi ihe s: eae ners, but the mam And they will, too as pledged pose It should ev to wtnet ie the Ea ine Oaen ae place to go | fucks om the other, the epmen have that they can pick up on such 1 her » do a, contir drop on ‘Tripoli—due south of and | oe AR os ene cae well been called the “curse of the Sierras, They are not led, but those ‘nd a force southward about mic - OBER. nd their progress through the mountains on behind the troop tween the two? The result might as- has been not inaptly compared with that | Generally one or two exper ; suming Italy can ever recover from her of the destroying Huns through the de- | are tiled as packers or 2 is $20 th ssi) t : , scrimmage with King Menelek—that the | 6eooy F fenseless Roman empire. see that the mules come man and aot for brut hitherto “dark ‘nent would be burst | Steel Tempered With ax Much Care w a . and the most capable and docile mule is te feelingly, for I have had 2 t wide open, its peo: released from the as a Razor Binde. ee 5 ee eee Sate put in the lead, t others following in Tine rs. I fave slept in its “fon- | thraidom of centuries, its illimitable re- | From the Philadephia Record These facts were to some extent known | single file. On acc of the width of ween t latest E . i to the government when the Yosemite Na- | their packs. it is rot a! osstbt acer ac ahs inpentlonmae Une Aches Sten eon B en the © Na- | th t is rot always possible for nq and her souti einai Rca sae ae am oe zee Bowe tional Park was set aside; and the War De- | the mules to ge between obstructions that | yet a way to get t seings in Mas i s has bro o use projectiles that | partmet Asrenneeteas nish a troop | 2M@ord sufficient space for a horse and | thr« 3 English Style of Conquest. are the finest product of ingenuity ana |). .™ 2 Mor He nathal oka tat Gane, | Fider. and they earn with ‘a wonderful | “One a ng that improved machinery, calling forth th alry for its patrol. The late Captain | nicety just what size of hole they ean clin Jets & yom ey collins torehivihe beat Wood, with troop I, 4th United | through, : sas Ncttaat to the efforts of skilled artisans. Instead of cast | ate icin ee ae eee gyre 7 reas enormous tron globes that could be turned oat Ly | Sates Cavalry, was assigned to this duty, Stories of “Kelly.” the Mule. Rome oF ibe pal Biel ro Gees hes : and he became, through the authority of | py, Toy Seek 4 ull were badly w c y foundry twenty years ago, use is now arta ; here was a particular mule in Captain | has disposed of & groped his w Sei the Secretary of the Interior, the acting fy oa. has disposed of roped his w made of the grades of steel, tempered with | superintendent of the parle AG chon ne the | Weeds’ troop that was always giving trou- | for the pr ater as much ca a razor blade, and ground | snow had sufficiently disappeared to snake | Die. This mule and he pos- | $s no truth in t wns, risking . ‘ snow had sufficiently ¢ peared to make | . soit , i nade a rich strik tes Tee and polished with as much exactitude as a | it practicable, Captain Wood marched his |S¢SSed @ wonderfully original and independ. | ade @ rich strik freely Hritish surgical irstrument. 45 p catablis 3 | ent mind, even for a mule. If the mules Cah Gani Ee alifa and his TREE troop into the park, and established his he mules | day, but clouds hover on the Th ase aOck. Bas trMmon ei nory ef the manufacture | main camp on the scuth fork of the Merced | broke away and left the beaten trail, Kelly | & ntinually and the saniieht ts Fbarous This vast work has of armor-piercing projectiles by the steel | river, in a beautiful grove, not far from | was alws re to be in the lead; if there | cold. Winter is not far away en done t of civilization; in- Werks in Readng is a secret so carefully , i 5 z : ays sure to be in the lead; if there | cold. Winter is not far away; I be bene- gvarded that it has always been hard to was any way by which he could shake his | Presence is on the passes already. Pe the whole oktain, but at présent, when the big plant pack loose, Kelly was sure to find it out, HAMLIN GARLAND, culable ben 2 is running on 2 war footing, it is still more and so it was in all other species of deviltry moet ate = Sed eee a Cult, as only employes and government known to mule nature. One day, in mak- NAVAL MYSTERIES. ng closed to commerce. nspectors are permitted to enter the com- eae eee . nity se Gutnecode : : an ascent from an unusually deep}. Jee eee pany’s immense machine shops. Shells canon by a rough zigzag trail, Kelly he, | Wa? Vessels of the United States That spas miles (0 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 13 inches in diameter : : ee es Bice Have Disappeared. ovince? That are belie made forthe navy eat & oo oe came tired and decided to arrest the march | me tien hard to an: action 12-inch sizes for the army. ¥. or awhile. So at a convenient place he de- | From Leslie's Weekly is right in line with all her moves respec Here ia he uistory oC ahepmekine er « berately threw himfwgif over backward and | Curious disappearane»s and accidents to British y in Ee Be ee Wine ‘shell, and as the projectiles of started “down the ‘rough, Stony mountain | our warships characterized the early his- « dog-in-th>-manger policy all sizes are de in the same manne! ide, si s alternately on his pack an rey ot aa navy. spite o' SGakE asks ate fete nae ace thes aamedamannee on his feet, until, having gone in this high. | tcTY of our navy, and, in spite of all the rovernment of Egypt, when labor required to equip a fleet 4 ly novel way a distance of some 30) yari efforts of the Navy Department to ex t Britsh pluck In % Praia Barca feces ec ce he brought up by landing in the vop of a | the cause of the disasters, many of them n the casting shop molten stecl is cast Scrub ionic ives, iconslderaele ate to be into a sclid piece twelve and a half inches is true, but otherwine noe eerie eee Ub. Jt | are as absolut> mysteries today us when anes in diameter, It is then taken to the forge 3 ; not seriously injured. | they happened. On another occasion it became necessary room, where, after being reheated, it is for the detachment to cross a deep nar- theas 7 When the government tuilt ten new gun- rertheast Afric hammered down to ten und three-quarter iD GOVERNMENT ea dian Oatlek Toe rae — nchen CHa eNO he eee ae Tow gorge. using for a bridge the trunk of | boats to prosecute the war against Tripoll ntinent in which esac as appetite S a huge pine that had been blown down | fn 1805, they were sent out as soon as they ameter his Bt the proces Next it 1s conveyed to the across the chasm. The sheepmen had aie aes ie “= bie Se ze ae ee machine shop and placed upon a specially adapted this to their needs by securing two | “27 finished and before they were name (imitate okpaneion of mine’: | dcuks.” waled amongst the inexpressible | Source made available for exploitation. | constructed lethe and turned and polnted. small saplings, about thirty inches apart, | Bach one was given a number, and dis Sacface GH. Mle teium <8 | sith of its streets, floundered in the mud of | Why not give Morccco to Spain (a vicar- |The only parts of the shell that bear along the top of the tree to prevent their | patched to the seat of the war. No. 7 sal vigorous ration, guided by states. | its country roads, followed behind an A jous sacrifice that all Americans would ap- | against the mfled surface of the gun are sheep from slipping off in crossing. .The | from New York July 2, 1805, under th Rice Whe Ge de oe States | with a lantern a’ night through its unlight- | piaud), who now owns, altogether, oniy | the conical end and the copper ring that in the detachment were readily Jed | aga hie oa . ‘ the gift of prescience and | Ta aueys and been jostled by evil-looking | 214,000 squar2 miles of African soll? Onee | enctreles the base, This ring fe entt: os for a well-trained cavalry horse will | CC™mand of Lieut. Og-lvie, and after she fan tied DETAR Tentince tie thie conte PBedou : naked knives 2 was ths time she mi © had the|as not to injure the rifling. After the x 7 his rider almost anywhere Whe {Cleared Sandy Hook light she was never : ction of ane wha | long concetled beneath their burnouses, I | whole north and west coast, had she but | finishing cut has been given to the pro- Kelly” in Repose. most tractable p followed, not so, | h€arc from again. She went down with all rt from an ‘im. | Reve one of those knives, by the way, made | Spent less time murdering American abo: | jectiles the diameter of the largest part | , ee eee however, with y."" who, having pro- | 0M board before she had even been named enue an im: | from a sword blade which may have been ines, who had done her no harm, and | of the cone is 10.5 inches, and that of the | the Southern boundary of the park. He at | ceeded peacefully about halfway across | A MOst extraordinary accident was that et bi iy | terged in Damascus cr Toledo, and with | more in getting even with the Moors, who | body of the shell is 9.90 inches, once sent.out details to patrol the park, | the stream, suddenly seemed to awaken to | Which happened to th> corvet ononga- {For i | Atab characters on it, which my guide sari | Rad invaded her territory. Once she had | Then the “extracting score’ is cut, | €Stablish trails, “blaze” the trees along the | the fact that this sort of bridge was not | hela at Santa Cruz, in IN07. While at meant “death to the unbeliever whose | the port of Oran, which the French own | There V-shaped groove, in which a | bovrdary lines, and put up printed notices | orthodox, and, as there was not room |#Pchor in the harbor « tremendous tidal bleod I may taste.” teday, as well as the insignificant settle- | tool can be fastened when it is desired to | furnished by the Interior Department, | enough for him to turn around, he execut- | Wave lifted her upon its crest and carried However, not to be diverted from the | ™ents of Melilla and Ceuta, which sh2| withdraw the shell from the gun. The | Warning against the starting of forest | eda “backstep” (a distance of Some fifteen | her clean over the town of Frederichstadt main question, though France now controls | WMS now; but, as som> one has said, | next move is the boring of a five-inch hole | fites, the trespassing of cattle, sheep, ete., | or twenty feet) until he was on’ solid jand back azain without injuring the town 3.:300,000 square mile African territory, | {tough Spain's power, for good or evil, is | in the base of the projectile to a depth of | 2nd embodying the other regulations of the | ground. Nor could he again be induced to | or the boat to any great extent. The re penoadbrhl peppnte roth huey err ape England's 2,190,000, Germany's | Smething no longer to be reckoned with, | fourteen inches, ‘rempering follows, In | dePartment. ‘The cuptain also took pains | venture upon the bridge. notwithstanding | ceding wave landed heron the beach ine * ane eee eras 1oncee a tise be San luce on | SU by the p [GRU STATO roe co Cane ie the shell Is suspended, point | t® Write letters to all the stockmen and | all the other animals had crossed to the | stead of in the deep waters of the harbor, v is thing at fault giers has not proven a profitable experi- | Would thereby “flank G r,’ which the in a ‘receptacle filled with | Sheepowners in the San Joaquin valley | other side. At last a lariat was attached | and it cost our gov-rmment $100.00) to float phe aRly Pe siete Mp rath SacEDt am RULOULLEE Torteimiarohan: || British: could mot view withvequaniinter, molten lead, and is alldwed to settle until | Whose names he could obtain, in which he | to his saddle, and he was hauled across by | her again. Fully as siraage was the tate hk. colonics * Martinique she yet craves Morocco with all the We know what England has done and is | the metal rises above the cone base. detined the limits of the park, and enclosed | Sheer force. of the sloop of war Waters She = ehicue aateray strength of her national being. doing in Egypt, Let us glance at what tho | At first the temperature of the lead is | 4 Copy of the regulations calling for the Necessity for Military Protection. anchored in the harbor of Arica, Peru, in as mr Despite her transient frivolities, she | Fre have done—intend to do—in west- | but 500 degrees, but it is increased grad- | €XPulsion of trespassing sheep and cattle. * | 4868, when a huge tidal wave <wept inland : ern Africa. French Algiers today contains | ually to 1,300 degrees. ©The work of heat- | These, however, while respected by the | The park has now been under military | and flooded the whole city. The way> car- about 200,00) square miles, and a popu ing continues for many hours, when the | ¢attlemen pretty generally, had little effect | protection since May, 1891, when it was | ried the sloop several wiles imland and Bomor enone OH with “Morocco, she | shell is withdrawn and Sprayed with water, sae ae shee phen ters: = Sia Piss first opened, and the beneficial results are | finally landed her in midst of a tropical wou ave, say, half a million square | to give ; GT SeEN | lations they did not respect at all, and they |... ag forest. It was impossible to release her miles of territory, compactly located, and |. Bite ih a ad error Detoe Gnome: | expressed the view freely that, with their Be eee te nline oie themmented upon | rom auch a pecullar position, and the Eov- perhaps ten m inhabitants. ‘This } dients, after which the ‘shell 1s cooled with | Knowledge of the country, they would | PY those familiar with the country. The | .rnmerit sold her for a noininal sum. The would b> a good nucleus for her pushing | 9 jet of water graze their sheep where they chose; and | boundaries of the park have been carefully | purchasers turned the vessel into a hotel, ambitions, and when she got an impetus | Once more the shell’ goes back to the | that, if any soldiers should come near to | marked out, and the trespass of sheep and | and the remains of that once formidable toward the benighted regions southward, | machine shop, where the hole in the base | Molest them, it would be easy enough to | cattle prevented. Many of the lakes and | war vessel loom up in the tropical forest she could accomplish wonders. | Beyond the | is widened half an imeh, and the depth | tw back ‘further into the mountains, | streams, once fishless, have been stocked | t©caY a8 a Morument to the power of tical Seacoast region and fertils “Tell,” amid | increased two inches. ‘The hole is then | Where the soldiers would not dare to ven- | Sujvcms: once Mahless. have b “| waves. the Atlas mountains, is the famous “coun- | threaded and a screw plug inserted, ‘The | ture with thelr horses. Indeed, so com- | With trout ai Sree rest fires have | “Among other cases of disaster, which are try of dates.” after which succ>eds, going | grinding room is next. Here the extreme | Plete and autccratic had been their former | become almost a thing of the past, young | attributed to the viol-nce of the Waves or outhward, the vast and arid region of the | diameter of the cone is ground. down to | SWaY, that they locked upcn the pastur- | trees are growing up with astonishing | weather, there is none more sting ahara. Infrequent oases, like Biskara,|ten inches exactly. The workmen now | @&¢ of this region as their own property; | Visor, lawlessness has given place to order, | than that of the strange fat with its hundred thousand palm trees, are | apply the “band score,” which 1s a groove | 2nd they freely boasted that they would / 2nd the natural haunts of the quail and | toga. When she sail-J trom dotted over this waste of sand and rock, | 7PP\% the ‘band score, - ered. | resor ho logic of their rifles before they | deer have been restored to them. C 7 der the o 5 . aste of san ‘ock, | for the reception of the soft copper‘band. ~ | Tesort to th: logic o fi eres its October, 1780, under the command of Cept. the great scaravan routes taking their} “arter the soft steel cap has been fittea } Would be crowded out of their rights by a 1 t 2 time when so much discussion is be- | yames Young, there was no Giner wor hand- cours: from-one to the other, un ; lot of “chuckle-headed soldiers.” Accord- | img carried on concerning the preservation | Lom. 2 at he we om one to the other, until finally | to the tip of the projectile, om the theory ickle-headed soldiers. co ining £ ; somer war vessel afloat. That she was as ending at the coast. that when the sbell strikes the armored | ingly, when the season advanced, and the Hess eee ped che ts. And theortes free- | formidable as she was attraccive was Soon One historic caravan trall leads from | sige of a battle ship the point will be pro- | §t888 had become poor in the valleys and | ly advanced as to the best methods for its | G’monstrated In @ practical Aftor Timbuktu to Fez, in Morocco, a distance of | tected without any. interference with its | foothills, the sheepmen, “as usual, had | 2¢complishment. it will be well to take a | Chiising around @ short cime captared perhaps a thousand miles; another, from | \vctrath ex, the work is finishea so | moved up into the mountains, paying no | Slance at the facts here presented. ‘The | thre. British vessels in successioa, and Timbuctoo northwardly, to the fertile date | far ag the ‘stecl company is toncerned, | attention to any of the warnings that they | {rst Breat requirement for forest preserva- | (000° with ner prizes she started lo Tein ccuntry south of Algiers; another yet | tris then boxed up and shipped to some | Bad recelved. be they posted upon every tree, will accom: | Philadelphia. But off the Deiaware the worth Coast aC Tripelis one cali eet te | United. States areal, where it Is filled Tackling the Boastful Herders. lish this. The class of men By whom the | cep2s she encountered 2 Uuritien sdiip of er penetrates the heart of ths Soudan. And | Mah, Yor Gur cave of destruction, "“"° | _ Not long-nfter Capt. Wood had gone into committed is the class to which force and | uns and the Intrepid was a seventy-four- See eee ere apa ated oasterly elt Se ries camp the sheepmen had a chance to make | force ‘alone appeals. And the sight of a | Un ship, Capt. Young considered it safer wat=rs somewhere south of Khartoum—near Fashoda, in fact! By converting these trails into railroads the French would be absolute masters of that vast interior region, with its wealth of ivory, gold and precious products. In fact, their military enginezrs have already en- Stuck on His Job. From the Indianapolis Journal. She—‘“You have done nothing all evening but make sarcastic dry remarks.” We—‘Why shouldn't I? I have done pothing all day but lick revenue stamps,” gcod their boasting. On one of his first ex- peditions Davis had left his little party in the canyon, and had climbed a steep, bar- ren slope to take a general observation of the country and catch the lay of the land. After a while he thought that he detected blue uniform, entopped with the broad brim of a campaign hat, and engirdled with a woven belt, well stocked with car- tridges, is to them a more potent argument than all the enactments contained in the great volume called the “Revised Statutes of the United States.” to run away. The enemy did it chase ‘her fer. but returned to protect and recapture the British prizes. The Saratoga sailed away in the very teeth of a storm, and sne was never heard from again. Did she founder at sea in the gule or was eh¢ blown up by her own magazines?