Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 34

2 ¥ . e gy s - A 2 June 21, 1908, MacTurk,Empire Builder (Continued from Pago Five.) had taken to their heels. around the room with smashed collarbones, He can do some remarkably neat tricks with his rifle and revolver. Rambling through the jungle one day he met a party of Venezuelan revolutionists. There were over a hundred of them and, as Artemus Ward would say, only one of him. They admired his guns and suggested that he should hand them over for the good of the revolution. He pointed to a wild orange tree a couple of hundred yvards away, raised his rifle and fired six shots as quickly as he could pull the trigger. The revolution- ists ran to the tree and found that an orange had been pierced by each shot. They passed on without asking for the guns a second time. Prior to the Venezuelan boundary dispute MacTurk was captured by the Venezuelan soldiers several times, after desperate bat- tles, and was flung into jail. Twice he was sentenced to be shot, and once he was ac- tually led out to execution and placed against a stone wall, with a file of soldiers waiting for the command to fire. A tele- gram arrived in the nick of time counter- manding the execution, in consequence of threats made by the British minister in Caracas. Before letting him go the commandante tried a bluff. “If we show mercy and release you, senor,” he said, “will you take an oath never to enter Venezuela again, never to seek to annex our territory and never to demand any indemnity for this affair?” The men with the guns looked threaten- ing, but MacTurk did not turn a hair. “If you let me go,”” he replied, "I shall do exactly as I have done before, and cer- tainly I shall do my best to make you pay sweetly for this business. I'm not going to lie in one of your dirty jails for noth- ing."” They let him go, and sure enough he managed to secure an indemnity from the republic by the aid of the British Foreign office. Then he went to England, worked up the British case in the boundary dis- pute and was made a companion of the Order of 8t. Michael and St. George by Queen Victoria, who took keen interest in his exploits, Despite the international complications that aises, MacTurk's way of doing things appeals irresistibly to the British temperament. “Ile is unique,” said a high official of the British Guiana government. ‘‘There's only one MacTurk, thank goodness! Life would be too strenuous if there were many like him. But such as he is, we would not be without him for worlds.” Office work is not congenial to this enter- prising man. He does not care to stay at home at the head station of his district writing dispatches, collecting taxes and ty- ing all the odds and ends of red tape that fall to the lot of a district commissioner. After a week or two of that business he takes his rifle and knapsack and walks off into the jungle. leaving the district to be run by an assistant. Nobody knows for weeks, perhaps, where he has gone; but he always comes back with something inter- esting to report. He has found a new rub- ber forest or a new diamond field, climbed & hitherto unexplored mountain or enjoyed another brush with the Brazilians, Any other offictal who left his work in that casual manner would find his services dispensed with, but everybody recognises that it is absurd to try to tie MacTurk down to an office chalir. He does not walt for the Indians under his rule to bring their quarrels to him to judge ifn the manner prescribed by law. He goes into the forest or the native village, sees things for himself, and decides them on the spot. His is rough-and-ready justice, like that of an eastern cadi. Sometimes he travels among the Indians disguised as one of themselves or as a Venezuelan peon. As he speaks their lan- guage perfectly and is a good actor, he is never detected. And when, later on, some of the Indians come before him in his capacity of magistrate he surprises them by showing an intimate knowledge of their affairs and detecting their cleverly-con- structed perjuries, “Why did you acquit that man?' %Mac- Turk was once asked, at the conclusion of a trial for stealing a gun. “A dozen wit- nesses swore that they saw him take the gun. Your judgment was in direct contra- diction to the evidence.” “So it said MacTurk, “but then, you see, I was sitting around a campfire with those dozen witnesses when they cocted that evidence other in it nutil they They did not know me again, The rest lay Venezuelan con- and rehearsed one an- were all word-perfect. but I knew them." MacTurk's lust big exploit in the annexa- tion business hapne d about two TS ago. The authorities at Rio de eiro were alarmed by a report from the frontier of “an armed invasion from British Gu- fana.” On inquiry it appeared that the in- vading force consisted of Mr. MaecTurk, with a shotgun and a servant. He claimed a large stretch of [ zilian territory, adorned it with British flags and sat down quietly to await developments, broken heads and THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. The Brasilian government dinpalchsw. roldiers to arrest him and the governor of British Guiana sent a peremptory command to him to recross the border. MacTurk did not hurry to obey the command. He waited two or three weeks for the soldiers, in- tending to submit his eclaims formally to their commandante for transmission to Rio, and hoping to enjoy a little physical argu- ment on the subject. But those soldiers knew MacTurk. They took care to make the slowest journey on record, and when they reached the district he had grown tired of waiting for them and had gone back to British Guiana. FHe sent an Indian runner to tell them where he was and invite them to come and take him, but the commandante replied with dignity that he could not dream of violating the British border. MacTurk's physical strength is as remark- able as his political strenuousness. He was traveling on a malil steamer once from Eng land to Barbadoes and the usual athletic rports were got up by the officers. “What's the good of needle-threading competitions and egg-and-spoon races?"’ asked MacTurk. “They suit the women, hut we men ought to have something more vigorous—weight-lifting and that sort of thing.” As the speaker was a very small and very thin man, looking as weak as a kit- ten, people naturally laughed. But when they organized the strenuous contests he desired, they soon found out their mistake. MacTurk won everything. The brawniest sailor aboard could not vie with him in weight-lifting; nobody could stand the grip of his sinewy right hand; and in boxing and fencing he was unrivalled. An Alabama Hermit (Continued from Page Fourteen.) In an hour's time the two yachts were standing out board and board over the shallow bar which guards the entrance to the Bayou Secours. Then we slipped out through the channel between Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan, and lifted to the swing of the outer sea, running east along the Gulf coast. Night had fallen before we made the creek, and we tacked in over the bar by blazing moonlight, with center-boards up, and the breeze eddying light and fitful through the trees. That night we took the rifles and the bull's-eye lanterns and shot a dozen alligators by way of giving ourselves countenance. Of course, Miss Wilcoxm did go to see Atcheson. 1 took her to the island myself, through an infolerable maze of lakes and waterways, and told the Van Sciaks that we hoped to slay alligavors by daylight, which is probably the baldest excuse a grown man with a pretty Invention ever made. But 1 shall give the girl credit for one thing—she didn't stay talking to the fellow for more than ten minutes. When she came bhack, gnd we rowed off, she found cause to comment that Atcheson was a curfous handful. “I told you that before,™ Y said. ‘“‘Now, you've learnt it for yourself I trust you're satisfied?"’ “I am entirely, Mac. I hope you are too?"’ “I don't know about that. But I do know I'm extremely hot.” “Well, then, hurry and get back and I'll fix you up a mint julep. We've ice on board, and all the other necessaries, and Mr. Van Sclak has shown me how to use a swizzle-stick. He sala 1t might come in useful, as I had thoughts of settling down."” “S8o I've been given to understand. As you have not had my congratulations be- fore, please accept them now in all full- ness. T suppose 1'm scratched from the running now?"’ “Com-plete-ly, my dear boy. tastes in common. for perhaps hunting.” And so we went back, warded, eral. The Van Sciaks wanted to go to Missis- sippl sound next day, and as the other man and T were bound for Pensacola, in Florida, the yvachts separated, and 1 did not see Miss Wilcoxn again for some time. But T heard of some of her We've no For instance, except once, I loathe alligator- and I was re- not with one julep only, but sev- to say the least of them, seemed eccentrie. Also, which was worse, they were un- worldly. Young men with culture and ten million dollars are every day: nor should lightly aside But when 1 got not to he picked up they be thrown back to New York, to my astonishment, saw Atcheson then a light began to dawn upon me. He had on a frock coat down to his and the lasgt gift of the gods in the of hat and tie. He shook me by the and sald T was a great man. He to me how a hermit cannot has a disease and, there, heels, way hand explained hermitize un- less he vulgarly known as the “hump.” “It's enjoyable enough that," said Atcheson, goes, the while you have “but when the hump knocked out of the altogether. What bottom's hermit business jualid brute I must have been all that time." “Tlut you liked it w-_-XI enough.” “I belleve T did, In my morbid way. But it's over and done with now, thank heaven! doings, which, a filthy,* and ‘I'm going to marry Yum-Yum, Yum Yum, your anger pray tarry—' Oh, bother, T've forgotten the words, it's so long since they were sung. Jove! 1 shall have a lot to pick up again “That's a fact,” I sald. “Ordinary sanity among other things. And so you're going to marry Miss Wilcoxn, after all?” “It's a sure thing. Of course, her people were mad, because I'm not v well off, don't you know; and the other Johnnie's people are mad, too, at his being cut out jut you're the person they can't get over They will persist in it that you are at the bottom of the whole thing. Isn't it de- lightfully funny?"” But I don't think it funny at all. I make quite sufficient enemics off my own bat for personal consumption. And, besides, as 1 have said, if the other fool hadn't got his calves sunburned 1 shouldn't have gone off solus in the yawl boat, nor meddled with Atcheson at all. Such an Easy Way “How is your fund for that new carpet for the church getting along?"’ “Splendidly. We s=till lacked §$75, you know, before we gave that entertainment. We worked like Trojans on that for (wo weeks. You remember it rained the night we gave it, and the attendance was rather small, but we had sold enough tickets by going around to the people’s houses to in- sure us against loss, and we made $47 out of It. Then we got up that bagar for the sale of fancy goods and we realized 34.66 out of that. All we have to do now to complete the fund is to raise $15.60, and we are going to give a concert to get that, Some of us have musical friends that will be glad to help us out by giving their time one evening for nothing. We'll raise that $75, just as we said we would, without culling on anybody for a cent.”—Chicago Tribune. . H eadaches >aint At this season, when houses are painted everywhere, a great many head- aches are suffered by those who have to breathe the fumes of paint. A preventive of these headaches was indicated by a painter yesterday. “If your bedroom is be- ing painted,” he said, *and you sleep in it while its walls are wet, or if your sit- ting room is being painted and you work in it, headache is almost inevitable and with some persons this headache I8 8o seri- ous as to confine them to their rooms for several days. Such illness might be easily avoided. In the newly painted room a basin of milk should be placed. The milk somehow will deaden the paint’'s odor and, since it is odor that causes the illness, no headache will ensue. After the milk will have a distinct smell of paint about it. A basin of water in a fresh painted room is another preventive of odors and of headaches. The water, after a little while in such a room, acquires an oil scum.”—Philadelphia Record. from being Sea Serpent Seen Second Mate Gray of the steamer Tresco, who arrived at Port Richmond from San- tiago, says he has seen a sea serpent. le is backed by Captain W. H. Bartlett, who says: “I got a glimpse of the serpent myself. It was ninety miles south of Hatteras on our way up that Gray first noticed a school of sharks. They were rusning madly. Mr. Cray watched more closely and right be- hind them saw what seemed to be a dere- lict. He steamed toward it. 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