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for the entrance to the harbor is a per-
feet network of submarine mines. Nor
does he know that those smiling, green
clad hills contain dozen masked forts,
armed with the biggest and latest style
guns, some of which are capable of
throwing a she'll ten miles or more.
Port Royal has been regarded for
many years as practically impregna-
bic by British naval and military au-
thorities, who call 1t 1.-The Gibraltar of
the Caribbean" Many mimic attacks
have been made upon it by land and
sea, but it has always repealed the in
vaders with terrible imaginary losses.
Once the entire British North Ameri-
can squadron score of battleships
cruisers and destroyers-rnade a sud-
den night attack. The ships were de-
tected before they could get near the
harbor's mouth. Twenty searchlights
from the forts concentrated on them,
and the hills belched a hurricane of
fire. In ten minutes, according to UNI
pires, every ship was sunk or crippled.
Yet the British War Office and Ad-
miralty are not satisfied with Port
Royal Every month they are send
ing out fresh men and fresh guns TO
strengthen the Notifications. Two new
forts are now being constructed at
fresh points, four others are planned.
type of 12-inch disappearing gun.
These new forts are costing millions
of dollars, and millions more will have
to be spent before the present scheme
of fertilization is completed. Like all
other Port Royal forts, they are being
constructed so that they will be invisi-
Bile from the sea, and offer absolutely
no mark to an attacking feet. They
are built right down in the earth, and
the enemy will have to batter down
the hillside before he destroys the forts
and dismounts the batteries.
The military authorities OF Jamaica
guard these forts most rigidiy, and
nobody is allowed to inspect them
Tourists who have tried to photograph
them, or to bride the sentries to lst
them inside, have often got into seri-
Gus trouble, and only escaped going to
jail by the intervention OF their con-
sui.
II Is commonly believed In the Brit
ish army that valuable ordnance Sc
crets are guarded In these forts, as all
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10

| in and snatch her up in his arms,
somehow despite herself to win her
love by force; but he set his teeth
and stole silently down the stairs and
out of the house.
When Mistress Kate showed the
letter and papers to Sir William Howe
that gentlemen threw back his head
and laughed till she feared apoplexy.
"Egad, y'are too late, Mistress
France" he told her through his tears.
'Too late; do you mean that he has
been already--that-?" she cried with
blanching face.
Eyes. the mischief is done already.
It's the best joke"
''Then-he-is-dead?
Dead? BOUNDS, no! I mean you
came too late to save him, for he is
already saved. While you were rock
ing his room Capt. Hamburg was here
with the papers which showed Maj.
Arundle to be only a rebel and not a
spy. Faith, it's a situation for a play
wright. 1 must get Maj. Andre to write
it into a play for us. You went to his
room and stole the villains papers, ha,
ha! Rebel condemned as a spy-loved
by Tory maid-saVed with the rope AL
ready around his neck just before cur
tain falls. Gadzooks, twill make a
hit" %
And Mai Arundle-where is he?"
Sir Williams hilarity abated in a
measure, though he continued to
chuckle.
"Slfe, yes, To be sure. had for
got the last scene of the play. Happy
lovers in each others arms! Soft mu-
sic from the wings as curtain falls!"
He tapped the bell and commanded
an orderly to fetch the prisoner, who
presently appeared in the doorway.
Good morning. Maj. Arundle Glad
to see you still in the land of the liv-
ing. You're in luck, sir, more ways
than one to-day 'Twere worth a bad
night to make so fair a lady solicitous
on your account. Y'are to be congratu-
lated. Major"
The General began to hum merrily
a fragment of a Scotch street ballad
much in the popular favor:
The caul blast o the winter wind,
That third through my heart,
They're a blown by; I hae him safe;
Till death We'll never part
Egad. the cold blasts will thirl no
more, Major. Tis all May and sun
shine with you now. But l fear l in
trude. Exit Mars. enter Eros"
And Gen. Howe left them alone with
the little god.
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THE BETTER WAY
BY WILLIAM Macleod RAINE.
Copyright. 1908. by William Macleod Rains.

"Man. ware a fool. Tomorrow
Won may walk out an exchanged pris-
oner into the warm sunshine. If for
once you yield on point of honor, as
YOU call it, none need ever know"
II shall know"
"Well, and if you do? A man must
bend to the wind when it blows against
him overheard. There come times when
il were the worst of folly to stand hard
and fast on the narrow line of conduct
which at other times rules him. When
life and death are in the balance nice
points of honor must go by the board"
Arundel smiled. Must they?" "A
The Hessian turned on him a face
hard as iron. "They must, or you must
hang" he returned brutally.
(Which brings us back to the point
from which we originally started. We
must agree to disagree, 1 fear"
"Then YOU will die a fool
'I believe you mentioned that be-
fore" retorted the American quietly.
II have no answer for it, except that
I had rather die a fool than live Il
knave. May ! offer you glass of
wine before you leave? Gen. Howe
has kindly supplied me with enough
10 last me till l shall no longer need
any. No? The saying is current in
our army that a Hessian is always
thirsty. 1 shall brand it a, libel-or
rather 1 should if l were going to re-
join the army" he finished with his
easy, rather wistful smile.
Hamburg did not rise to the occa-
sion. His instinct told him that this
colonial officer who was to be hanged
on the morrow was of the stuff out of
which gentlemen arr made, and that
he himself was fashioned of different
warp and wool. His rage cropped out
and mastered him.
Bonner! Your blood be on your own
head" he cried. 81 have given you
your chance; If you are gawk to let
II slip Fritz Hamburg is not to blame"
80 that you will now be able to sleep
with an unruffied conscience. I have
had my chance; reject it; one cannot
expect more of you," answered the
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dishonor. Is it not SOP
''I shall try, Will But oh! it is so
hard. I cannot-I cannot let you 60"
The jailer opened the door to let
them know her time was up. She
chung despairingly to her lover, her
body all torn with silent sobs. Pres
entity he gently unclasped her arms
and led her almost fainting to the
door.
Dusk had fallen, and the city lights
were already twinkling through the
growing darkness when Mistress Kate
France came knocking at the door OF
the house where Capt. Fritz Humourg
lodged. Her people were Tories, and
she had none to lok to for help save
her own mother wit. She had slipped
from home and stolen along the crowd
ed streets to plead with the Hesslan
officer for this life that meant so much
to her. More than one young blood in
the Kings uniform had attempted IA
miliarity with this 1.-the, graceful
Young nightwalker whose face, save for
the shining eyes, was hidden IN her
cloak, but she had hurried past with
heart beating fast and cheeks afiame
at their gallantries. They might think
what they would Of her, but she would
stop at nothing to gain her end.
The stern-faced keeper of the lodg-
ing house looked suspiciously at this
night visitor. She had an opinion OF
Young women who came visiting at
the rooms of an officer-and after dark.
Resides. this particular Miss had al
headv been here twice to-day seeking
the captain. Therefore the manner of
the woman was something less than
civil. ,,o,.od
shortly. I'm
back?" asked the girl timidly.
But l must see him Tonight
must!' .,,....,o.
f,ono her. If she did not see the
naDtain soon her lover must die. She
JARED not go home. lest she be locked
-, FOR the night. nor could she go wan
dering through the streets alone. She
resolved to wait for Capt. Hamburg,
and said so. ,-..,.,.
The woman snorted at the impudence
of the brazen hussy.
saThat you will not, unless you wait
outside, Miss. -.
The girl shrank back as from blow.
Then she cried out desperately:
"Oh. YOU do not understand. A life
hangs on IL. am not-I do not come
IRE to-Oh you will help me. VIII you
not? | am only girl ana l nave no
friends to help me. ~,
The forlorn pathetic appeal did not
soften one line on the hard face:
You should have thought OF that
before you got in such a pickle
but he Is my lover
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Major with a gentle bitter irony. Don
Quixote himself could do no more. L
have made my bed; tomorrow lie
in It, If it be somewhat overnarroW
for comfort are you to blame
The Hessian laughed, and in the
sound was something sinister and cruel
TT pleases you to make sport OF me-
Maj. Arundel. Very well. / advise you
laugh while you can, for by Hirnmei'
his time tomorrow you Will De De-
yond all laughter"
"As God pleases. Neither you nor L
know which of us will then be alive
Capt. Hamburg" said the American
lightly.
Il can guess" retorted the other bru-
tally.
And with that he turned on his heel.
But even as he wheeled around, Tue
door swung open to let in cloakeo
and hooded lady. In the darkness
neither of the men recognized her Ior
the moment She stood in the doorway
blinking in the uncertain hgnt.
Kate" cried Arundel in gao
amazement, while the Hessian let sip
out Dutch oath between his set
teeth.
she went straight toward her lover ;
outstretChed arms as tired child 10
it's mother. He tried to comfort her'
not with sDeech-he dared not trust
himself to speak-but in the sweet
ways a lover has at command. fIes
entity she explained in pathetic little
broken voice:
IT made Gen. Howe give me pass
into the prison. Twas all he woulq ,! 40
lie will not believe that-Oh! Wli'
why did you Gomez
'"Twas reported you were dying
from the accident. I came to see you;
And it's you will die-not /. On
would to God 'twere T." she moaned'
The Hessian stood in the BACK
ground, watching their misery stolluly
and awkwardly. II he felt emotion ms
phlegmatic German face gave no mint
of it, But he shifted from one foot 70
the other, and at the sound the girl
looking over her lovers shoulder, rec
ognized him. Her eyes dilated.
You! You here" she cried Iheil
to Arundel, What is he doing here
He has come to make me an offer.
Something in the constrained man
ner of the two men puzzled her. She
threw back her head and looked at her
lover searchipgly; then at the Hessian'
What offer has Capt. Hamburg 10
maker" she demanded.
He proposes a way by which my
life may be saved, but to my thinking
the terms do not consist with honor
ne answered SLOWLY.
Your life? How can he save your
He has possession OF the papers
which would prove me not spy-the
decoy message for one. When ne
recognized and arrested me this letter
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grab, and didn't make such a bad
bluff at being good. Here Is where
Carnegie has the best of the rich
Standard Oil churchman. He doesn't
believe in anything that he can't see.
and he doesn't pretend to. He is quite
frank in his zeal in laying up treas
ures on earth, but he puts on none Of
the affectation about the fear of moth
and thieves that makes people laugh
at Rockefeller Carnegie says he has
not bothered heaven with petitions for
forty years. And, pray, why should
he? Isn't he receiving all that Is
coming to him without Asu;ibling Prov
idence 10 help him? The mere fact
that Rockefeller is a praying man Is
the best proof in the world that he
can't get enough.
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Money Barons.
From the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas city Times.
There is little cause for wonderment
in the declaration that Mr. Carnegie
is not a praying man. 1t is Mr..
Rockefeller who works the pious bust
ness to a finish, and 1t is easy to UNI
derstand that he makes 1t a bit IA
tiguing for other suppliants at the
throne Of grace by his Importantly.
There is nothing on earth, by the way,
that makes religion so odious as to see
IL continually exploited by persons
whose hearts are set on all Of the
things OF this world that they can get
their hands on. Rockefeller wouldn't
be hated half as heartily as he is IL he
was straight out with his game Of
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--Bess-"Young Mifkins is daffy on
the subject OF matrimony He asks ev-
cry girl he meets TO marry him" Nell
well, why don't you get some one
10 introduce you?"-ChieS&9 Daily
News
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EUROPE SPENDING MILLIONS
TO FORTIFY THE WEST INDIES

The Digging Of the Panama Canal the Cause of Enormous
WarIike Preparations - England Is theoretically
Strengthening Port Royal. Jamaica. the Gibraltar of
the Caribbean" with Six New Forts and Many Mountain
Disappearing Batteries.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10

You see. they give very little
space to the golf tournament" Yes;
80 notice. It's strange how they will
let politics and criminal news crowd
out matters that are really interest
tng!"-.Puck
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WOMEN WORKERS SWARM
IN A MODERN HOTEL

Every Skyscraper Hosiery Employs Hundreds Of Them
Graded All the Way from Scrubwomen to Clerks and
Cashiers Each Of the Latter Often Handling as Much as
$4,000 Day Without Making the Slightest Error
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10

in and snatch her up in his arms,
somehow despite herself to win her
love by force; but he set his teeth
and stole silently down the stairs and
out of the house.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10
The Cockpit of Europe

However this max be, the West In
dies for centuries were the cockpit OF
Europe. The navies of England
France, Spain and Holland battled for
national supremacy in the Caribbean
Sea.
European and military strategists
now in the Caribbean are of the opin-
ion that the fate of the world may be
decided there again, when the West
Indies are restored to more than their
old Importance by the construction OF
the Panama Canal. They hold that
this is the obvious inference from the
strenuous efforts of their countries TO
strengthen their position there at the
cost Of millions upon millions OF dol
lars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12
Aunt Dorothy's Corner

My Dear Children:
What a big mail found waiting for me
this morning. l had a good laugh over some
of your drawings the funny ones, like
Sunny Jim, etc. number of your stories
are very good and 1 enjoyed reading them.
| am glad to welcome into the league our
manv new members who have written to
me this week: your badges will be sent to
YOU as soon as possible. l have been so de-
lighted to find that almost every letter from
my little friends contains some word OF a
kind act done in the name of the league,
some helping hand held out where II Is most
needed. some poor animal cared for. poor
sick child helped and made happy by a little
gft or CHEEKY. kind words The time Tor
the league play Red Riding Hood Is get
ting very near and L am sure all my wash
irgton Children are doing all they can 10
help me in regard to 1t. 1t is so cold now L
suppose hundreds of you are enjoying the
many things our cold winters bring. l.
wish l could see you all skating, snow pail
ing coasting etc; it's such fun, is 1t not!
l hope you will all be able to enjoy many
weeks of ii this winter.
Annabel Stockman. Melissa Dement,. Ruth
Hutson. Sophia NJ. Reh your letters re-
oeived and your badges will be sent you
soon: Francis Todhunter. Beatrice Cameron,
Beulah =. Smallwood. Blanche Harmon.
Emily V. Brown. your letters received ana
I was very pleased to hear of all the things
you are DONG 10 nelp dlOHS ever " mo- = -
can; Elouise Worthington. Irving Town
send Clayton NJ. James. P. j. M. Katherine
Watson. Lucy Lee Offutt, NJ Carmody.
Ruth Louise Hubbard. George G, Eleanor
F. French. Eliza beth H Offutt. James Don
nelly, r. t. Edna Hall Smith, U. W.
Hodgkins. Isabelle Schofield, your contri-
buttons received and ] thank you all Write
promptly TO me this week and tell me OF
GASES YOU know of needing Christmas cheer
and we will have some sent wherever you
may say. All league members have TINS
right and all children who please to may
Join our league by sending In coupon from
this page, properly flied out, with re-
turn stamped and seif-addressed envelope
BE sure you do this II you want to join me
in giving Christmas cheer in Washing ton.
With love to you all. yours sincerely:
AUNT DOROTHY.
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quaint garden which seemed to be Hood
ed with silver light reslbnh5hg moonlight
What beautiful ulace" said Louise.
And do you always -haye this beautiful
light?" -
Yes. always" said The, ire girl
But this does not seSm b. have anything
to do with the fire. sa{d Eouise
Nevertheless. it Is ax home" said the
fire girl. And now irwin show you the
house, she said. as she led the way be-
hind a tall clump OF trees
And there. before thsrk was a dear little
house. quaint and oldfa Siaioned. like the
garden. N
Now. stand on the so9r step, for must
leave YOU said the bea,it Atn girl
So Louise stepped u11H She door step of
the littleshouse and felkieeself sinking she
knew not where
She closed her eyes and sclutched wildly
at the air for something tp hold by. Her
hand grasped something .ssft, and opening
her eyes to see what it was she found her
self holding tightly the arm of the chair
before the fire.
LUCY LEE O., Age 10.
32O1 32d Street.
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1t was indeed a disconsolate little Betty
who sat upon the dining room divan. gazing
with troubled eyes at the white kitten play
ing in the sunshine. Not that the kitten
had anything to do with her thoughts. no
indeed. something far more important was
troubling her little nine-year- head. For
her mother was coming home that very day;
her own darling mother. whom she had not
seen for three long months; three centuries
they seemed to Betty.
This home coming was joy indeed. but
Betty had caught a sore throat a few days
before. and notwithstanding the pleadings
of his little patient. the doctor would not
allow her to leave the house. This was
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Christmas Night.

was Christmas night, and the wind blew high
Toward the old church tower round the corner:
And Jack Frost, that sauey, fleet footed SOY
Was making the poor wee little babies cry
But see, In the freight two children sit
WIN hands full OF candy and goodies
Jack Frost cannot nip their noses and toes
For fire Is his most dangerous foe.
Mamma calls them to go to the groeerman's
My. how they shun that trip
IT'S dark they cry. for Jack they spy
Making ready their noses to nip.
T.. MADE mistake" says mamma. now;
So saying, she quietly turns around
And hastily closes the door.
How the little tots laugh
And seaI2Per back to their place by the warn
freside .
But Jack Frost, from his station outside of their
door, - N-
Their good mother chides and ehides
LAURA MCINTOSH (age 10 yearsl
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escaped the fate Of filing fraternal stom-
achs But there were some mothers which
happened to secrete larger drops or raised
them by accident little higher from the
surface of the leaf. and thus saved more Of
their children from the cannibalistic attacks
Of the first-born: and these offsprings In
herited this saving tendency to place their
eggs on pedicels. Thus. little by little the
habit has been developed until we have q
family, Chrysopinoe. that lay eggs upon
stalks. while all the Chrysopinoe that knew
no better than to lay their eggs on the sur
face Of the leaf were exterminated long
ago through their own foolishness and lack
of foresight.
This Is what evolutionists would say: and
they would also assure us that all insects
perform all their wise acts through inherit
ed habit instead Of through wise thinking.
However, 1 think 1t 10 prettier theory to
believe that mother Lace-wing lays her eggs
on stalks Just because she wishes her chill
dren to be good. and so leads them not Into
temptation"
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The Man Who Did Not Like to Work,
MY COUSIN
Drawn by Beatrice F. NJ. age 10 years.

| From The Jones Second Reader
Once upon a time there was a man who
| did not like to work
He lived In a great forest and his work
| was to cut down trees
Every morning he wished that he had
nothing to do
One day fine plan came into his head
lie went to very wise man and asked
for giant who should do his work for
| him.
What is your work. asked the wise
man.
Il am woodcutter." said the lazy man.
i Will give you a giant" said the wise
! man: but if you do not keep him busy. he
| will kill you"
"oh. l can keep him busy" said the lazy
| man. That will not be hard to do / can
give him all the work he likes"
80 the wise man gave him the giant
The giant was SO tall that his head was in
| the clouds: his voice was like a trumpet
and his eyes were like great lamps
What fs there for me to dor he roared
Cut down all this forest" said the lazy
In five minutes it was done.
What is there for me to dor roared the
| giant again.
The lazy man was frightened
Build me a city where the forest stood"
| said he at last
In five minutes the giant was back again.
w hat more is there for me to do?'' roar
ed the giant again.
The lazy man saw that II would be hard
work to keep the giant busy.
1t would be as hard as TO cut down trees
But he had one more plan.
Go and find all the pearls In the sea-"
he said to the giant
Then the lazy man ran to the mountains
as fast as he could go.
He hoped to hide from the giant
In five minutes the giant was by his side
There are your pearls. What Is there
for me to do?" he roared.
The pearls were in great banks by the
sea.
Quick roared the giant What 10
there for me to dor
The lazy man looked UP and down and all
around him. He could think of no moro
work.
He wished that he had never gone to the
wise man.
Just then he saw his little dog near him.
ray of hope came to him.
Giant" said he. take the curl out of
my dogs taili''
The giant bound the dogs tail to a stick
till 1t was straight string; but when
he took the stick away. the tail was as
curly as ever.
He worked a long time.
Then he said to the lazy man: III you
will let me off this time. will never trouble
you again.
So the lazy man went back to his work
with light heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12
An Emergency Call for a Washington
Baby and Its Mother.

DeaT tnllOTen.
Aunt Dorothy has found a dear little
baby. two years old who can not have It's
mother to take care of 1t. because the faith
er died last year and left two children for
the mother to support. The baby is i'll and
needs its mother. but to make 1t possible
for the mother to be with her baby we must
agree to pay her enough from our emer-
gency fund to make 1t safe for her to leave
the place where she Is now working. Now,
dear children. Aunt Dorothy wants you all
to write and tell her what to do about this
IF you agree with her that this sick baby
shall have its mother for the time 1t Is i'll,
write at once and the president of the Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank, who sends out
the money held there for our emergency
work. will be told by Aunt Dorothy il is
your wish that he shall send some of your
league fund to this mother and baby, and
Aunt Dorothy, herself will consider 1t is
your Christmas present to her to do this
act of kindness.
Yours cordially.
THE CHILDREN'S EDITOR.