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but Pan was too smart for that, and SO
we reached Yellow Bayou just at
night-moonlight, however.
yellow Bayou was perhaps 60 or 10
feet wide. shallow, with slack water.
On the opposite shore was all the hum.
drum, rumble and rustic of great
military camp at that hour OF course
you know how it was. The little dat
boat lay at the shore and l stepped
into it, went to the farther end and
sat down on the gunwale l felt rocky
you bet.
Pan led his horse into the boat. cast
loose her moorinSs and commenced pol
ing the boat across. We had reached
about the middle of the bayou when
pole, found the water deeper than he
had counted and his carbine bothered
him: so he unslung it, laid it at my
feet and commenced polling toward the
other end Of the boat.
Il picked up that caTbine, and am
proud to say that / did not tap him on
the head with it. l never did such a
thing in my life, and if l had struck
that young fellow without a positive
necessity, l would be ashamed to write
this letter. There was no necessity for
such thing. On the contrary, it would
have lessened my chances of success
full escape. l therefore whispered to
him, as he turned his back toward me.
and said: IF you open your mouth I
will knock your brains out. You push
this boat back, and if you hesitate one
instant you are a dead man.
Pan obeyed my order and pushed
the boat back to the shore. Then l
said. Get out and hold the rope: pull
the boat up until | get ashore all the
time menacing him on his failure to
obey Pan held the boat and l led. the
horse on shore. all the time keeping
him covered with the carbine. I retired
some Is feet and mounted his horse and
then he said: For Gods sake, Mr..
Bell, you are not going to take my
horse and carbine, are you?'
"All the time the rumble, noise ard
rustic of that great camp seemed to
me like the roar of Niagara, but I said
to Pam Why, sir, l am the biggest
Yankee that ever went through these
woods. and do you suppose | would per-
nit contemplate little Johnny Reb
to march me into camp" And then I
told him goodbye and rode away to-
ward the AtCha falaya."
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leader chances to be one of the bellig-
erent Tulisanes he will attack we'll
armed planters with audacous recS-
lessness. One notorious Filipino bandit,
for instance, acquired the reputation of
having anting-anting because he had
escaped the fire of six native Spanish
soldiers But by the same mark there
must be several thousand Yankee boys
who are also unconscously carrying
about with them an anting-ant1ng. Inc
Filipino believes the power of ant
ing-anting to reside in certain little
charms, sometimes pebble worn about
the neck, sometimes a button or piece
of rag. Dean Worcester in his interest
ing book on the Philippine islands, tells
of a remark BILE exhibition OF faith I'M
anting-anting which he came across in
his researches in MindorO. A native
with an anting-anting confronted hin
and stated that he had come 10 the viz
lage 20 have the white professor shoot
him. To say that Dean Worcester was
surprised is putting it very mildly. The
native stoutly proclaimed that he could
not be shot and that he would catch the
cashila's bullet in his hands or blow on
it and make it fall to the ground. The
man insisted on being shot at, and
Worcester was in a dilemma until he
suddenly suggested that he would shoot
the anting-anting itself instead of the
owner of the charm. Then the native
produced a little leather bound book he
had somewhere picked up and put his
wonderful and long treasured charm 20
PAGES from the marksman. When
Worcester took aim. the crowd of ma
tives who had collected took to their
heels, but after the shot ran forward
with great eagerness to see the effect Of
the white mans gun. The impact of
the bullet caused the little book to fly
high in the air. whereupon it's owner
proudly affirmed that it had itself jump
ed aside so as to escape injury. When
he saw the hole through it. however, he
was considerably crestfalien. He ex-
cused the failure Of the charm by pro-
testing that it was old and worn out"
and at once said that Worcester had Il
stronger anting -anting than his own.
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High Lights.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Life is bureau drawer which sticks,
and through a crack we heplessly thrust
our fingers at the things we would like
to reach.
Woman can't throw stone but when
she drops a flower pot out of a window
she always hits somebody.
The ideal woman is one whose preserved
Strawberries should hold out until fresh
Strawberries get cheap.
Three-fourths of the bread cast upon
the waters return because it has string
tied to it.
Few women can sit through a sermon
without hoping that the cook won't let
the dinner burn.
In the chase after happiness there are
too many crossroads and too few guide
boards
1t is a wise woman who never reminds
her husband that he forgot to kiss her.
After bad dinner human nature is
cross; after a good dinner it is stupid
Mans experience is like his spectacles-
seldom good fiji for any other man.
You cannot forgive a friend without
lowering yourself in his estimation
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HOW OLD GLORY WAS
RAISED ON WAKE ISLAND
Written for the Sunday Standard.

Written for the Sunday Standard.
u. S. S. Bennington, April aC.Before
leaving Honolulu for the purpose Of in
vestigating and taking possession of
Wake island, in the Pacific ocean, had
been informed by Captain Hooper of
the revenue cutter McCulloch that a
passage on the south side of the island
was feasible for boats, and that a boat
had been landed there from the steam
ship China, and that Gen. T. c. Greene
had hoisted an American flag on the
island at that time. I approached the
southern outlet with the Bennington
within a quarter of a mile and found
no bottom at a hundred fathoms. The
breakers extended over the wall of the
coral reef that embraced the entrance
and as they receded, the edge of the
coral rock of the reef was visible for its
entire length.
With the navigator at the masthead,
we then steamed slowly along the
southern and eastern sides of the ISL
and to examine carefully for signs of
habitations, and looking, but in vain,
for an anchorage. A heavy swell from
the northwest was rolling in on the
north side of the island and frequent
rain squalls passing over. I did not
circumnavigate the island, but, after
rounding Heel Point and seeing from
the ship that the outlet on the north
side of the island was barred, not only
by the wall of coral reef, but by a
sand spit not shown on the chart, re-
turned to the lee (southern) side of the
island.
At o'clock, having made the neces-
sary preparations, the gig and the
whale boat We're lowered and pulled
ashore. The landing was made within
a hundred yards of the west end of the
outlet, where the serf was moderate.
l then examined the spit and selected
site for the flag pole. While this was
being erected by Mr.. Wettengel, in
charge of the whale boat, Passed AS
sistant Paymaster Du Bots and En-
sign Whitfield, as we'll as 1, looked about
the spit and along the lagoon to see if
there We're any signs of human occu-
patton on the island Besides a few
pieces of Wreckaee, none was seen in
this locality. On the eastern side of
the island, from the ship. imbedded in
the sand half way from Peacock's Point
W f1eel fOlnl, an duciioE WAS seen, anu
also what appeared to be the wreck of
lower mast higher on the beach.
When the flagstaff was in place the
men were landed and formed into two
ranks facing the seaward and the staff,
when, having called all present to wit
ness that the island was not in the
possession of any other nation at 1922
p. NJ l ordered the flag to be hoisted by
Ensign Wettengel. Upon it's reaching
the truck. the flag was saluted by 81
guns from the Bennington. The posi-
ton of the flagstaff as determined by
Ensign Campbell from observations
from the ship was latitude 10 degrees
II minutes so seconds north; longitude
166 degrees 81 minutes no seconds
east.
,, After the salute was fired the flag
was nailed to the masthead with bat
tens, and brass plate with the follow
ing inscription was screwed near the
base of the flagstaff
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From the New York Sun.
A philosopher, who wishes to de-
scribe correctly the sensations that
arise or sink in him when he reads the
anti-eXpansion twaddler, shows in the
following request his passion for exact
knowledge:
ITO the Editor of the Sun-Sir: Kind
ly criticise severely the phrases which
| quote below and which are so COM
monty used by the general public, ard
let your criticism appear in your editor.
ials, SO it will not escape the eyes that
l want to satisfy in regard 10 same:
I am sick TO my stomach
ct am sick OF my stomach
al am sick AT my stomach
THE latter, if any, in my estimation
is correct. X. l.. F.
New York, April IL"
Granted but with an amendment
We cannot criticise a phrase as if it
were a criminal. nor can we regard a
disagreement with the commonly ac-
cepted customs of the English language
as a hanging matter. The fellows who
write the grammar are usually such
pragmatical OATS that nobody can be
blamed for breaking their precepts and
leaping over their rules. But let US be
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Dol Barelas. a native of Los Angeles,
gallant fellow and magnanimous as
WELL as the squel will show, who re-
fused to raise his hat to a corporal.
and was arrested and placed in tee
guard house. When released he re-
belled, raised the rancherCs, besieged
the Americans. forced their capitula-
ton, treated them generously and sent
them on board the frigate Savannah.
which sailed for San Diego.
There was another garrison So miles
I east of Los Angeles, at a ranch called
Chino" This was commanded by
Captain Wilson. Barelas also forced
generous manhood. Many of Wilson'S
company being Americans who had
taken the oath of allegiance to Mexico,
were regarded as traitors, and the Cal
ifornians determined to shoot them as
such, but Barelas protected them and
treated them most generously. for
which he had the gratitude of all
Americans of that period, until the
time of his death.
All this happened in September, 1916,
and in October following Commodore
Mervine organized a force at San
Pedro, composed of United States ma
rnes and sailors from the ships Sa-
vannah and Congress, with Bells COM
pany OF rif1emen, and on the Sth of DC
tober took up his line of march for Los
Angeles, 30 miles inland, over an al
most level plain. He camped for the
night at DomingueZ ranch. midway be-
tween the two places. and in the morn
ing resumed his march. He had covered
about two miles of ground when he
was met by the Californians, and bat
tie ensued Bells rit1emen formed the
advance guard The seven sailors and
marines were killed in that encounter,
and the mustard, being very high, dry
as finder and almost as dense as a
Mississippi canebrake, the Californians
set fire to it on both tanks, which would
have roasted every one of them rad
they not made a precipltate, yet order
ly retreat to the Dominguez hills, from
which they marched in the morning.
Upon reaching San Pedro the men who
We're killed and had died of their
wounds We're buried on the little island.
The navy records show that there Were
six. There are seven graves, however,
on the island, but one is said to be that
of an English skipper. who was buried
there about the year 1885. The names
and description of those six men, all
of the Savannah, are as follows: Will
lam Smith, cabin boy; Michael Hoy,
seaman: David Johnson, ordinary sea-
man; Charles Summers musician;
William Berry, seaman, and Henry
Lewis, marine.
! came to Los Angeles just four years
after October, '46, and of course, those
things became indelibly impressed upon
my then youthful mind, being the COM
mon talk of the day.
HORACE BELL.
Major Horace Bell has had his own
exciting experiences since the events
ne records above. He participated in
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tolerant and not severe, even to the
grammarians.
So much for the preface. Now for
Tie ailing stomach. Il am sick to my
stomach does very well in the mouth
of a philosopher who wishes to cay that
his sickness extends as far as his ,stOm-
ach, but if he means to say that he is
stomach qualmed he will prefer II am
sick at my stomach" Herewith the
Typographical description of his trlu-
BILE is complete.
If he is whimsical or has an inveter-
ate quarrel with his stomach. he may
we'll say, Il am sick of my stomach
Many a man IS sick of his stomach
and we dare say that the stomach is
equally sick of the man and would say
so if stomachs had not, unfortunately.
lost the power of articulate speech. You
remember that in the fable of the stom-
ach and the members which, as told by
Menenius Agrappa. if that was the old
sages name. produced great deal
more effect upon the producing class of
Rome than it does on boys who have to
grind it out in the Latin reader the
members were sick of the stomach on
the ground that it was an idle holder
of idle wealth. Presumably they were
sick at the stomach, too. for when any
thing in this goodly frame of man goes
wrong, the poor old stomach Usually
has to bear the blame. In short, it is
the physical Crime of 1873" and in it,
at it, with it, by it, for it the race of
man must suffer, or think 1t suffers,
especially in these days when the coun-
try is cursed by prosperity and eats too
much.
Our philosopher has a happier fate.
He is not sick of his stomach. but at
his stomach. He must leave off read
ing the anti-expansion twaddle and
take some less laborious form of eXer-
else.
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About Men who Are Known.

From the Chicago Journal
'Rudyard hipling,' says the Congre-
sationalist, "once sat in London club
listening to a discussion concerning the
existence of God He said nothing until
toward the last, and then with We
hement gesture brought down his hand
upon the table, saying: L know that
there is somebody somewhere who
gives us our ticks Lick is a COLO
qulaltsm meaning punishment
Kansas soldier. in a letter home,
tells how General Otis came along one
evening, and when the men had
stopped firing for minute. said:
We'll, boys, how are you coming? Only
a few of the men knew him, and one
Of them said: All right. pard hows
yourself" Another of the boys that
knew General Otis told him to shut up;
that the man was General Otis. The
general overheard him, and said:
That's all right; pard is as good as
general tonight
An interesting story is told about
Herbert Putnam when he was librarian
of the Minneapolis public library One
day he delivered a lecture to a gather
ing largely composed of girls from the
University Of Minnesota. The girls
We're captivated by Mr.. Putnams adj
dress, as well as by his manner of de-
liVering it. and when it was concluded
one of them said "Oh. if | only had a
million doIlars!' What would you do
with it," asked her companion. The
reply was ecstatic, and in a sudden
hush everybody heard it: I'D just buy
Herbert Putnam with it,"
A certain Welsh member of parlia-
ment, who was of humble parentage,
was rather fond of telling the house of
commons that he had made his own
way in the world. and had risen by his
own unaided efforts. On one occasion
l.; a1-I, 1t
speech. Mr.. Disraeli quietly remarked
to Lord harrington, who was sitting
by him on the treasury bench: II
think. George, that Mr.. Blank must be
a deeply religious man" What makes
you think so?" inquired Lord Barring
ton. why" replied the prime minis
ter, he seldom makes a speech with
out telling us that he is a self-made
man; and he is constantly adoring his
creatOru'
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Ill Luck Sure.

From the New York Times.
Talk about i'll luck that would come
to the bride in the case of the falling
of a wedding bell, such an incident as
was reported about town as having
happened at the Hammand-Sloane
wedding" said a Broadway florist, lis
all superstition and rubbish. of course.
The i'll luck would all fall to the florist,
and he would probably be the sufferer
and he would probably be the suf-
ferer, for it would probably result
larly superstitious, just as they are
faddish. If an accident of that sort
should happen to me when I had the
decorations in charge at a wedding, I
should at once apply to the bankruptcy
court to be thrown into bankruptcy. I
know it would 'hoodoo me in such a
way that | should never be able to
recover from the effects IF III" acct
dent. Society would gossip about it
for a week, and none of its families
would place an order with me, no rat
ter how big standing account they
might have with me. Those people
would insist that I was AN unlucky
florist and that would be my finish.
One of the cleverest florists Boston ever
had was ruined a few years ago by
just such an accident, though the we'd
ding at which it happened turned out
happily enough for all the parties in
terested. They are rich, envied. have
fine family of four children and
nothing has ever happened in the way
of i'll luck as result of the wedding
incident, except the ruin of the florist,
who is to-day selling flowers on the
sidewalk surrounding the common in
competition with the Greek street SELL
erS.'
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H0B0ES FLEE IN TERROR
FROM THE TRAMP CHAIR

their hearing what town this was, and
on being told that it was Oakland said:
What! is this where the tramp chair
Isl The bystander told them 1T was.
We'll, them answered the tramp, I'VE
will not stop here and went on.
Our lawmakers have racked their
brains for the last II years to make
laws that would drive the tramp from
Maine, hut everything except the tramp
chair has proved IA failure. l will pay
any man or woman 500 if they will
produce one tramp that ! cannot cure
of tramping, if ! can have control of
the case. The tramp chair is the only
thing ever invented by mortal man that
tramp ever feared. Not even powder
and ball, for two can play at thai game,
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The EilipinoS' Dt;nr

From the New York Sun.
Superstition enters very largely into
the makeup of the native of the PhiEp-
pines. Many of tho more unsophisti-
Gated of the Islanders have a childish
faith in the potency Of what they ttrrl
anting-anting. The Fi!ipino's faith in
this mysterious charm is patheticallv
childish. A person who has anting-ant-
ing is held to be inv.ulate from injury
and will cheerfully face impending
death or fling himself upon an enemy'i
guns. 1t is usually the leader of a tribe
who has anting -antins, and if the tribe
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| this nuisance the community in which
l was most interested, I set my wits to
work and evolved the tramp chair
which I will describe.
1t is simply a strongly built cage in
| the form of a chair on wheels. 1t is so
| constructed that the occupant must re-
main perfectly quiet in sitting posi-
ton. A shelf is placed near the top for
food and the cOntrivance can be handed
about from place to place at will. The
chief popularity of the chair lies in its
door. When used as a method of pun
ishment the culprit is obliged to enter
into it and sit down. The door, which
is so constructed that it follows the
lines of the chair, is then closed and
locked and the victim is confined DIS
firmly as though he were glued to the
seat. Another peculiar thing about RE
chair is that when the door is locked he
cannot draw his feet up or move any
part of his body enough to obtain rest.
The chair resembles some of the an
Gent instruments of torture used by
the Inquisition. in being only moder-
ately formidable as to appearance. hut
a terror to those who are forced to
spend only a few hours within its con-
fines.
When l first introduced the chair to
my surprised townspeOple attempt af-
ter attempt was made TO induce some
one to sit in the chair as an expert
ment but no one seemed to be willing
to go back far enough in Puritanc days
to allow himself to become a subject.
AS last resort, to show it's workings,
by the assistance of a IS bill I par
suaded one man to enter the chair and
remain there for two and one-ilalf
hours The victim remained in the
chair for the length of time agreed, but
at the end of his penance srasped the
money with such alacrisy that it was
shown he considered he had earned the
reward many times over.
Through the experiment it was shown
that l had substantiated one of my
claims that no man could remain in the
chair for any length of time and when
he was out of the chair say that he had
been thoroughly comfortable or that he
would be willing to repeat the expert
ment, even with money consideration
as the reward for the time he had spent
doing nothing.
That suggestion of doing nothing is
one of the strong points of the tramp
chair idea, for the true hobo spends his
life in studying new ways and means of
accomplishing that greatest desire of
his lazy soul-absolute inaction. To be
wheeled about in chair like a big
baby seems to him to be the acme of
slothful ease. He steps in for his first
ride in the chair with alacrity, finds it
not unpleasant for the first 10 minutes
then begins to feel uncomfortable, gets
cramped and finds his bones aching
and before the end of an hours ride he
is yelling murder and dynamite and
promising all kinds of reformation if
only he can get out. When his punish
ment is over and he is fully released,
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Special Dispatch to the Standard.

NE'VVEttF I'IspdlCH 10 I!1t SlaNUuTU.
Oakland, Me-. May 1.-The genus
tramp has become an extinct animal in
this locality since the adoption by the
town authorities of the tramp chair.
of which | am the proud inventor. My
bride is, I think, a pardonable one. for
live in a town that for years suffered
abominally from the hobo nuisance; the
wandering Willie fraternity at times
in fac became an unmitigated and dan
gerous evil and drove us to adopt ex-
IRENE measures or be at the mercy Of
the NagabOnd lOafer Inspired with a
desire to find means of freeing from
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A Good Game SpoiIed.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Il thought Winkerly was such good
whist player
HE was. but ne has been playing at a
wOman's whist club.
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Hot and Cold.

If people from the grave so chill
To crematories turn.
1t won't be very long until
We all have friends to burn
L. A. w. Bulletin
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Placed.

Placed.
Does he belong to the army or the
navy?'
Army. / heard him say he got his
appointment through pull
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United States of America.
William Mckinley, President,
John D. Long. Secretary of
the Navy,
Commander Edward. D. Taus-
sig. L. S. A..
Commanding the L. S. S.
Bennington.
This 18th day of January,
1899, took
Possession of the atoll
known as
Wakes Island for the a.;
United States of America.
.
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Classical,

From the Syracuse Herald
Phidias-Say, Pericles, you make me
weary with your shouts of war.
Pericles-And you make Mineryas with
your mallets and chisels
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When the crews We're called to re- !
turn, the swell which had been making J
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Major Horace Bell has had his own
exciting experiences since the events
ne records above. He participated in