The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1906, Page 8

THE S$SAN i B FRANCISCO SUNDAY voice cried They are in er t ey are coming all the of them , we must go to Moraga now; there is the only . You sre our brothers and we will sll go together. “That's b sald PFitsmorris “Let’s g0 to Moraga then. I'll look after you. The United States won't do nothing tor we t owe it nothing. And be miss ers strolied to the door and pming in. “Get read: he “We're all going to Moraga —wherever that is. But let's call around and wake the American clitizen. Pity to leave him behind. The two young fellows walked to the uiling, shook open a door tle room. ‘They struck matches and 2 native Filipino awoke with a yell and then raised a refiective brow from & heap of blankets. s called The Citizen because his was hard to pronounce and as an enthusiast. said Harry French. “Come We've all got to year of the b end entered a ame because } “Come © and see the country. fo ke our native land and go among the heathen.” He was staring about him as he spoke. “So this is your bome, it it?” he asked. “Ax my schoolrooms,” replied The Citizen, with proud regret. “Here, as well as ] ma I teach the American civilization to the young who will come to me He nodded solemnly toward the wall, on which was displayed a map of the United States, as furnished by &0 allroad time table. t to that” explained The swelling with the great idea. *I instruct them that they, too, may become citizens there; they, too, have & share in that great world and rise by merit to the lofty heights.” of it responded Jimmie “And go to Congress, mebbe. that be grand?’ We'll bring as a keepsake Citizen.” The zen rolled up the blankets, the map, one two.other articles and trotted after them. Amigo J an meekly or mes’ people were various points -with ready for a march. g to flare up redly from of the town, dogs the panic, and hen the sound of shots came r g and echoing down the pande- monial streets. Day dawned on the lit- tle group of outcast Westerners leaving the ci the southern side. - They stoppe d looked back after u while; the broad daylight bhad come, but other sort of night had fallen again on 3 In the blazing streets, before 1y cleared ther d been an- put to death by tort and they're used to it .by now,” ex- ed Clayton len. . “Town's been that s ug from the s Off and on for three hun- d Titz- fro art that » along as the friends 1 the soners,” observed frect 4an imp a prope buke to would them retelied rid; they passed a hill visible from Baguak, ad faded into the mist s though a gate i shut out the old principal- arted—across n ranges, and down valleys. It occurred that it would not be linger in these places and jocile natives to wait upon But Moraga lay ant vermore. , the ever plausi them ga was alway lovely t. in his le, took perfect riend Allen. one day to not Te rked “1 don’t ‘kmow that we need c 1 bold off frox grief—not if. he ,wi Melanao men. We might be good cards for him to play; his who can’t approve of our roment, and who ‘have goue nderstand?”’ arted ‘up, in. wrath. wouldn’t do, that?” he eéxclai 3 at” hi I'm- not aliies, 1 what property in" the reach of - Amigo's . And I rather think it wiil be that or trouble.” Afterward, however, in private, he promised French not to ee to anything without a vote of party. s gow beginning to take hold but they covered it over h or attempted jokes. The o knew as of this itry as any of them, was their hollow mirth. Some- ught him to:play upon a about half through one She Had Never Seen the Streets Cairo. They assured him that this a national air of the land which 80 adored; and his painful tootings d to sound out like a dirge in tue evening “from the camping places, 'to the amaz nt of the tribes who silent- opened before them and closed in upon their One day, before. - du they and made camp on the The panic was visibly in- creasing, -and Amigo James addressed them in flowers of specch to make them He took several oatns that mies were his enemies, and that Moraga was just beyond the next hill. After he was gone the Americans held & council' and Aillen summed up matters: “We've got to seem to trust him; we can't go back. It may be all right. But weli nced to stay well to- gether now and keep our eyes well zmorris sneered sickl; ““Much good that will do us here,” he said. “On, why did we ever come to such a place! Later, wher the camp s quiet, Allen took Harry French to one side. i don't know,” said he, “but I raiher think that Amigo James has been away taiking busi- ness with the Melanao men. If he has, it’s all offt. We must go along with him, dear friends and all that, until he shows his hand, and If it'’s what I'm beginning to believe on, well,-we're an armeg party; we can make them awfuily sick for a few minutes anyway. And as Fitzmorris said, we won't be missed.” The younger man gat in gloomy reflec- tion. “1 hate this,” he exclaimed. “Trick- ery on both gides! What's the use of our fighting it out? It won't make any dif- ce. You know yourself that it fsn't 1 believe I'm getting ou've got whatever consci is in this crowd, I guess,” said ‘Allen gravely. “But look here, Harry. I've knocked about for quite awhile, and 1 tell you what, I've found that life is a pretty mixed up sort of a proposition. It isn’t like the stories in the school books, where it’s a8 plain as a post what you've got to do in order to finish a favorite. Some people, wWhen they get on to & course that they can't see the end of, will keep saying: ‘This way is good; this way is good’—when it isn't good. But the question is, wouldn't any other way be worse? Can we back out now and be men? No, we must take things as they come.” The two were silent for a while, listen- ing glumly to the river which swelled ever greater with the rains. ‘Allen snoke again with & kind of prophetic conviction: “Hearry, we won't see this place again. ‘After that the two kept their own coun- sel, and went forward into a future - of which they guessed nothing, except that thep could facs it At last upon a day they saw high rocks ahead of them, and presently heard, be- yond the trees and flowers, a long, slow thunder. A vista opened among the rocks and revealed a blue expanse, and Harry French, who had some education, shouted the “Thalatta; Y “How sc?’ asked Jimmie Peters, who would not appear ignorant. It was the sea, but it washed upon un- known shores, and in all the wide expanse they saw no sails or smoke-clouds. The fere BOO! “gLrF 7D coLo®s ~ 7:2’.5 507 0B VT WORD ATES THE FI5G7LLZS WEXE COMTZ7Y 5~ rocks ran down by precipices into deep water, and there were no villages; but upon the very crest of the clifs appeared sul{ne kind of stone building—a castle or a ruin Up to this plach the Americans tofled, and -many natives with. them. Moraga HO ever suspected that the much despised pin which holds her dress collar in vlace and keeps_ her belt from slipping up would become miladi's vaunted fad? But that is exactly what has hap- pened, and from the masculine point of view it is the most sensible fad which she has chosen in many a long year. It there Is one thing about a woman that annoys her men critics more than any other it is the appearance of loose ends, tmperfectly joined bands and gaping discrepancies about her clothes. Some wise man, who had as much of an eye for business as for criticism, grasped the situation. Notion and jew- elry counters were flooded with sets ot the prettiest pins that fancy could wish for. They did not fall to catch the atten- ion of the fair shopper, and when she re- quested the price it was so amazingly low that she bought half a dozen cards with- out a moment’s hesitation. . Neither was there mention of having’them sent. ;She took no chances on their being lost in delivery. - 3 < 2 With innumerable dainty pins on her dressing table, every ome ‘of . which ‘wi holes were not worked in her new waist the pins were the kind fairies that en- was nothing blt a low, circular wall, m- closing a double apartment or pen. In one of these a few stones were piled: the other might serve as a sleeping place, or a prison. They looked rather blankly at this, the end of their journeyings, and as blankly upon the empty Sea.. And then abled her to wear it on the next day’s jaunt. One by one, however, the imitation pearls and turquoises fell from tkeir sock- ets. She made 2 special trip to the well- remembered counter to replenish her sup- ply, but the cards were no longer thrown in heaps on the glass shelf. The discern- ing busin man had won his point. Women could no longer do without these handy ajds to a trim toilet. And though there were no cards on top of the glass shelf, the case beneath was lined from end WOMAN’S LATEST FAD— THE PIN to end’'and from top to bottom with sets ‘of fancy pins of infinite variety for every conceivable seam and juncture in a ‘woman’s get-up. This is the history of the fancy siock pin, and the well-dressed woman now onders how shé ever finished her toilet without it. It fastens on her sheer ‘muslfn and lace cuffs. It holds the edges of the embroidered collarette squarely- to- gether. It keeps straps and suspender ribbons in just ‘the proper place on the reach e - . buiging -purse. - ¢ e shoulder. 1t catches up ‘the scol lecks. It closes the tiny gaping. of the CALL. they looked back v where Amigo James was and saw two men in the dress which the chlefs of the Melanao wear, standing in the open space beside him. These three came forward, and behind them long rows of armed men had closed upon the place and waited for a word. Amigo James stopped and looked at his late brothers; & dignified joy was on his face, and he made with his arms a sweeping gesture toward them, as one might say, in an- other language: “I have delivered the g0ods.” But Allen walked to Amigo James, a half smile on his lips, and with the butt end of a rifle he struck him in the face twe quick and furious blows; the thud of these and of'the falling body sounded ominously in the stiilness. Standing for a moment in leisurely contempt above the prostrate one, Allen glanced back at’the others, as though with a sort of flecting satisfaction at having told them so. “In- side 'the wall, boys,” he directed, and strolled in after them, the rifle under his arm. The natives there went out as they came in; with a kind of awkward, sol- emnity the two forces moved apart—only the fallen form of Amigo James lay quiet in the sunshine. It would seem lkely that Allen, in this .bodice at the throat and tacks the old- fashioned sleeve into a smart puft for the evening’s party. American woman what_the common pin does for the perfectly attired women of ‘Paris. It holds this ribbon and that foid in just the right position to give an in- imitably chic effect. But miladi does not chdose these pins merely with a view to usefulness. She selects designs and settings that please her and then makes them exeélusively ‘ner own.. One woman has only bars inlaid .with tiny seed pearls. Every length of pin, from the automobile hat pin to the very wee baby pin, as well as the adjust- able support for thin collars, is a band ot pearls. Another woman has large pins set wil tiny marguerites with geld centers. The stick and clasp pins belonging to the sect .are beaded by irregular water pearls. Crescents or horseshoes of rhinestones ‘make up some of the sets, while others: “contain only turquoise or coral. One of the most unique designg fs a .row of amethysts or emeralds in old- fashioned oval go'd settings. In some cases just orc stcne in. gval setting perches on the end of a bar of rhine- -umus ‘An eccentric girl with a substan- tial “bank “account has ordinary safety pins’only, but they are of solid gold. ‘Whatever the particular fad, the wom- an of to-day owes her extremely tidy ap- In fact, it does for the. stroke of reckless audacity, may have acted from a deep knowledge of the Ori- ental character. Everything had been prearranged, every way of escape cut off; it was the sudden and paralyzing change into the offensive on the part of the ridic- ulous handful which acted like hypnotism upon the troops of the tropics. None the less were these certain of their prey. Below, among the rocks and groves, near and far, the brown men armed and gath- ered, while away inland along the coast the clouds of rising smoke showed how the tran was closing. The handful upon the high rocks looked attentively at what was around them and at what théy had, and as the absurdity of their making a stand fully -appeared to them, for the first time in days they laughed. But .one among them did not laugh. and he came forward eagerly and threw something upon the ground. ‘““What's the Citizen got to offer?’ somebody asked. Fhe Citizen unrolied his bundle and ris» ing, proudly displayed a strip of dingy bunting on a stick. It was an American flag. They looked at it in silence for a while. The Citizen went and planted it in the low wall. “Oh, well, let her stay there, said one; and they turned.to take stock of their ammunition. In half an hour came the first assault, and they beat this off by mere blind instinct of fighting, not having the slightest tdea that they would live to sée the sun go down. On the low stone wall, hardly more than a breastwork, there burst in the days that followed sixteen assaults, as they reck- cned. Sixteen assaults, and they were only a dozen riff-raff Westerners. The ex-privates fought as they never had fought in the service, and all of them used humorously to grumble because their deeds of carnage could not be called official. . Fitzmorris coliapsed early, but the others were tough subjects. “Rally to the colars!” got to be the word when the assaults were coming; and afterward, when the swarms of frantic brown men had wavered and vanished away, the humor of their being there still would strike the stubborn handful and move them to a new laughter. At other times they would despond. but Allen and young French held them ruthlessly up to their work, and threatened and chaffed by turns those who were the nearest to de- spair. Upon Allen, with a sure instinet, they had shouldered the thankless task of leadership, and he rose to responsibility with the unguessed strength of the men who speak English. They used to poke rude sarcasm at his plans and regulations, and had in the bottom of their hearts an unreasoning confidence that he would bring them through. Among them all the most cheerful was The Citizen. He was a mere brown wisp among the lean glants whose skin was so fair jeath their tatters. He was en- thusiastic’ for an organized government once, according to the constitution. “You go easy, Citizen,” the leader would advise. “You're coming along splendidly, with fronical compliments,or beat tims oo the rocks to his single tune. It was all the martial music they had, and the wan- dering tribes used to listen while there | floated down to them in the valleys.th § mournful strains by which The Citizen) expressed his fervid patriotism: vel ts of Caire, S tha miaway she Bad never strayed. Sometimes they -would be undisturbed for days, and would sit and watch !h; sun go slowly down into the sea, an wonder, with a curious interest, what stranger lands might lie beyond their view. The rains, however, became more frequent, they were bathed in alternate sunshine and pouring clouds, and they had water enough, but aimost no food at last. All their sensations e being re- duced to two flerce cravings, for food and for the lives of ememies, and they dropped off one by ome. )Jx nie P;:z;’ 3 < lanao . led a .chief of the Meiunao IO knocking him over cleaniy at dred vards, as though it had been b_!l game shooting. And Jimmie Peters was Killed himseif in beating off one of the assaults. They got him Inside, still breathing, and his last remarks Wwere made as he looked up at the flag. which still fluttered upon the wall. “Good old dishrag!” he said. “Sae.never comes down.” They waved it three times over the body in salute, but fired away ne cartridges. Mr. Allen still had half of a cigar, and always believed that he would live to smoke this. He got up upon the wall one . day, and putting the stub between his teeth, feit longingly for a match, m he dropped the tobacco, intc his poel and stood staring down the valley: darkened already by approaching twi- light. In the glow of the sunset his figure looked miles high, as he turned to the others and said gravely: “Boys, here comes the seventeenth.” The Melanao men advanced withk num- bers too uneven, mad to finish it this time and avenge thelr leaders. They poured up to the wall and over; the lean white forms went reeling back, borne down and overwhelmed. ‘Allen himself, beaten to his knees, looked across at Harry Frenech, and saw the latter, like'one bepeft of reason. run to the' wall and tear down the dingy flag. Allen got to his feet again with a supreme last effort. “Oh, hold on, Harry,” he cried. “Don't do that.” 8 But the boy, with a shout which broke into a joyful cackle, turned and waved the ecolors frantically toward where be- low upon the water was anather : o “ flag like leutenant Tompkins of “Cetsi GIrl” sent three -mm,pg;uu nsv:- them, and the fighting eRded;: upon the high rocks the uproag «uddenly away into deep silences, Afterward Tomp- kins ceme ashore, and. 4 queer expression crept into his eves when he saw what Yas lett of the defeiders of Moraga. But J he himself, led by 'z rumor along the coasts of these white men who would not die, had come 600 miles. through the un- known seas to save them. He said: :ln'un. isn't much of a place, is jer en turned aside to light the' stw of a cigar. “No,” he g ‘*.m: kind of good-for-nothing hole to live in. Much obliged to you, though.”