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enough to express it. Tell ye what,
Ducks all right"
you bet he's all right" agreed a big
Dakotan. You won't let no cussed
goo-goo do us dirt, will ye. Duck?" He
looked languidly UP at the big green
bird perched on his favorite pole and
conscientiously gnawing the last shred
of meat from chickens leg bone. He
held 1t in one gnarled foot as man
would a club. The Dakotan's words
seemed to attract his attention. He
suspended operations on the bone and
turned his yellow head to one side.
You bet" he said, abruptly.
That's all right" responded the Da-
kotan, admfringly. "Ye see, he's got
sabe. Yer all right. Duck"
You bet" persisted Duck, in a loud
er tone.
'FYes, that's what say" agreed the
soldier: You bet yer life. Yer all
right"
you bet" said the parrot.
1t was some days after that a SER
geant and fifteen men were detailed to
convoy four carreton loads of commits
sary supplies to the next post, San
Qulntin, twenty miles still further into
the heart of the mountains. The four
OK carts, with their four carabao driv-
ers, stood waiting the order to start.
The men were lined up and the ser
geant stood at attention while the first
lieutenant gave him his orders.
You must try to make it before
dark, sergeant, and don't let any of
your men wander off into the BRUSH
Keep them all together
The sergeant saluted.
BY the lieutenant's side stood a small
sallow-faced native, in white duck. A
black band about his broad d-brimmed
hat bore the inscription, ''Hefe de Po-
ltctas' which meant that he bossed the
local native constabulary by consent of
the powers in office.
You feel certain Tino isn't about,
do you, Ramirez" the lieutenant asked.
Most certain-lee," assured the chief
Of police, complacently. He is now in
Cagayan."
''What?" broke out harsh, deep
voice.
The native started. The line of sol-
diers chuckled.
"D-n that parrot" exclaimed the
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the surgeon thought the major mad.
His manner of calling them to his room
gave them ample grounds for such a
belief. Then they saw Duck and un-
derstood.
1t was soon noised about that Duck
had come back, and the entire garri-
son crowded about under the majors
window. Duck, apparently bewfldered
at the excitement, cooked his head in
characteristic manner. Then he planted
both feet on the limb, lowered his head
and raised his outspread tail.
Hello, boys!" he shouted.
A few answered, but the majority
held an awed silence.
'Haw-haw-haw!" chuckled Duck,
rufling his feathers; then. in an angry
tone:
Shut up, Hill; yer loco-yer loco
loco!"
More than one man turned white
about the mouth. The major leaned
against the window sill and wiped the
moisture from his forehead.
"Get him in here" he gasped. rava
The second lieutenant cOaXed Duck
in with a banana. The old bird re-
garded him suspicious1y at first, but
the fruit was a tempting bite. He side
stepped along the limb to the lieuten-
ants arm, and was drawn in. Then the
major closed his blind. Duck found the
banana good. and was pleased. s.l.
"This is hell, bOys-this is hell. boys"
he crooned cheerfully. Then. resent
fully, as he came to hard lump in the
banana, That cuss Ramfrez-Ramirez
Ramirez did It,"
The officers started.
"Ramirez-Ramirez = Ramirez" re-
peated the major, softly.
"Ramirez-he be d-d!" groWIed
Duck. Were here?-we're herein
HELM San MigueERamirez did it."
Captain" whispered the major, 'go
out and nail him yourself. Then bring
him here. and we'll make him drink
fresh water until we know something" J"
Next evening the entire company
marched out Of San IldefOnso, and the
major was in command. Beside him
walked q very sick looking Filipino,
but he no longer wore the broad
brimmed hat with the official band.
All night the soldiers tramped; when
morning dawned they were on high
plateau, in the center of which rose
an old gray church.
A shot broke the morning stiffness,
then a fusillade. The fight was short.
Seventeen ladrones rolled over into
the dew covered grass. A big iron
door swung open and ten hysterical
men were dancing about on the level
ground. One threw his arms upward
and whooped like red Indian.
It's Hill" shouted some one, "and
he's Ioco!"
Not loco, boys; not Ioco!" he yell
ed; "only feeIin' gOod-hOoray"
Three cheers for Duck!" shouted
the second lieutenant.
Where Is hep" gasped Hill, petri-
fed.
"The majors got him."
'It was, In fact, Duck on the ma
jor's shoulder, and as tough and gar
rulous as ever.
shut up, Hill" he shouted, yer
loco!"
.'Three cheers for Duck!" yelled
Hill; and they were given, and they
even say that Duck Joined in.
Copyright, 1904, by Albert SOnnich-
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been sitting. He sprang up with
yell; his commands We're drowned in
sharp. cracking volley up the hill
side, and three blue -shirted men fell
among the boulders. In an instant the
soldiers, springing behind carts and
rocks, were firing into the jungle. The
native drivers ran in panic down the
road; one fell Squirming and Shrieking
in the dust. A wild chorus of yells
and cheers burst out from the dense
thickets, then a mob of small, brown,
ragged men came swarming out down
into the road. The shots died out
the fight was hand to hand. There
were yells, curses, blows, shrieks, then
the uproar fell to babel of excited
words. The fighting was over-ten
American soldiers stood disarmed
among a band of excited Filipinos.
When the excitement cooled down,
the leader of the natives counted his
fallen, and as they numbered only
three. he felt in very good humor.
Three Americans were dead, two seri-
ously wounded. The dead were
thrown into the river, whose currents
were deep and swift enough to carry
them beyond discovery.
The earabaoS were quickly har-
messed to the carretons, and, escorted
by the exultant natives, the ten pris-
Oners followed the carts up a mar
row byroad, switching into the jungle
and up the mountain. When well away
from the main road, the carts were
quickly unloaded and transferred to
the backs of natives. Then began the
march upward by trail and through
Jungle
Finally small plateau of the
mountain was reached where stood a
dozen bamboo hutS. Beyond a thick
fringe of bamboos rose the old relic
of Spanish ecclesiastical authority
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TN A CORNER of the Island of Sumatra
1 war is being waged in comparison
with which the Russo Japanese con-
flict is a mere infant. For thirty years
the Dutch have been battling with the
fanatical Achinese, and they have come
no nearer TO conquering them now than
in 1873. The Achin wars have cost Hol-
land over 1900 lives and nearly 500, ,000,-
0o0. 1t would almost seem that the strug
gle ''beats the Dutch Yet the Dutch
fight on.
When Europe learned the other day
that the English under the command Of
Col. Younghusband had killed 400 Tibet
ans. diplomats at London and st. Peters
burg made long faces. Stories came from
the Russian capital that the Muscovites
were alarmed at England'k ambition to
conquer the sacred land of the Iamas, and
a few British statesmen were quoted as
prophesying that disaster would follow
such bloodshed., Yet from Sumatra only
two days later came the news that the
Dutch had just killed Sal Achinese. and
the dispatch created little more comment
in European capitals than the advertise
ment of a new breakfast food.
The Dutch-Achinese war would seem to
dispfove the efficacy of "bottling up the
enemy" For years the Hollanders have
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THE FIGHT WAS HAND
TO HAND. -

large stone church and its adjoining
convent Toward this the prisoners
were marched. Disconsolate, sullen,
they stood in a row before the con-
vent door, ten Americans and two ma
tives. the latter caraboa drivers, while
the guerrilla chief inspected them with
triumphant satisfaction
AS the Tagalog strutted up and
down before his prisoners, he was
startled by fiap--a big green parrot
altghted on the railing before the con-
vent gate 1t was Duck. IT was an
even guess who looked most aston
ished, the Filipino chief, the prisoners
or Duck himself. His orange trimmed
eyes were wide open, his head was
cooked first to one side then to an
other, and there may have been some
vague psychological association be-
tween establishment and the words he
uttered:
tSWell, I'll be d-d!"
Even the pompous chief Joined in
the laugh which followed. Duck slid
off the rail to Corporal HIPS hand,
and when the prisoners entered the
big iron-barred cell in the convent
Duck went with them.
A room thirty feet by twelve may
be large enough for some purposes
but not to hold a dozen prisoners COM
fortably; and the Anglo-Saxon temper
ament does not chime in with prison
walls. Corporal Hill especially took
his misfortune to heart. While the
others sat gloomily on the floor, with
their backs against the brick walls and
their eyes moodily regarding the sky
beyond their barred windows, he paced
rest1essly up and down the earth floor,
swearing. Not SO Jose, one of the pa
tive drivers. He coiled himself by the
door, closed his eyes and listened to
the guards, who talked outside the
door. They had believed him an Ilo-
cano, but he wasn't He understood
Tagalog. Then one evening he whis-
pered with his fellow captives.
.sYou see," he said, ''dees not insHr-
rectors' by a good DEAL Dees
chumps ees ladrones-what you caH
-tief-robbers- Dees place, San
Miguel, is. high up an not easy to get
at. Here dey lif-no can see"
Jose curled up by the door again
while Hill rayed up and down.
D-n these Iadronesi We're in
hell, all right, cerralled up here on this
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takes all the profit which the Neither
lands might otherwise make out of Su-
matra, and also takes a good slice out OF
the rich revenues of the neighboring isl
and Of Java.
The jungles of Sumatra produce as big
game as the sportsman could desire.
Tiger hunting is favorite sport, although
many an adventurous Dutchman has met
his death in pursuing these great cats toe
far through the underbrush. The natives,
however, care so little to risk their lives
in the hunt that they use gigantic traps,
with which they catch tigers as the
Americans catch rats.
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blasted mountain. Hooray for hell an
San Miguel"
Shut up. Hill" growled the ser
off. Shut up"
Yer loco, HILL" repeated Duck.
gravely, from his perch on a window
sill.
One day Jose whispered again:
"Ramirez-de hefe de polica, you
sabe?-he put up job. Desc ladrone
captain ees brother to Ramirez. Sabe?
Ofeecially what you call-he is presi-
dente of San Miguel. He get-what
you call-tip-get put wise-from
dees Ramirez-see? Some day Ra-
mirez will come here wild police
have sham battle-we will be rescue
much noise, holler, much credit Ra-
mirez-poor insurrectos get blame.
Den Ramirez an his brother wink.
Sabe?
The days became weeks, still Jose's
prophecy did not come true. The cap.
tives grew lean and white and hag-
gard, and Hill raved at times, with
the vehemence of a madman.
One day the presidente, or "chief of
ladrone," as Jose called him, paid them
a visit. He inspected the cell with
pompous complacency. Finally, he
came to Duck, seated on a window sill
and quietly arranging his wing feath-
ers. The men saw the presidente reach
out his fat black hand, then they heard
a yell. The commotion which followed
boded no good to Duck. He had nip
ped the chief, and the chief meant to
have satisfaction for a bleeding hand.
He struck the parrot with his bamboo
cane and the bird fell ffuttering to the
floor, where he lay senseless. A guard
picked him up by the tail feathers,
rushed to the open door and hurled the
body far into a bamboo thicket Duffy
and two others sprang up; next in
slant they were rolling on the floor
with Hill.
yelled the corporal. I'll kill the black
dog!"
But Duffy was not yet tired Of life
The major was composing himseli
for an afternoon nap. His haggard
face showed that he had not had toe
many maps of late. 1t is no small
thing to report sixteen men lost when
there is officially no war. He had
secured the country much of late-he
was tired. His eyes closed drowsily-a
familiar sound caused him to open them
dreamily.
There's = that = cussed = parrot =
again!"
Suddenly he sprang to his feet.
My Godt" he gasped, what was
that?
He listened, Outside his window he
heard itsagain.
w-haw-haw-hawl Liven up
there; We bald headed gaIoot! HaW-
haw-haW!"
The major dashed to his window
and tore aside the shell blind. On thG
lower limb of the mango tree sat Duck.
1t is not to be wondered at that the
captain and the two Heutenants anc
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pared for the feast separately. To a
guest who has a reputation for stupidity
are fed brains; to the coward is given the
heart, while before him that is too tickle
Is placed a plate Of liver. regarded by
them as the seat of constant affection.
In those parts of Sumatra which the
Dutch have subdued they have cut down
vast tracts of Jungle and laid out tobacco
plantations The rich soil, tropical rains
and hot sun produce crops unusually
luxuriant other exports are pepper,
camphor, nutmegs, rice. cloves, gutta
percha, gold, copper, tin, sulphur, coal and
oil Yet the expense of the Achin wars
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STRUGGLE THAT ALMOST "BEATS THE DUICH'

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larger than any of the others for the
fresh meats. From 10000 to 10000
pounds of fresh beef, half as much
lamb, 5000 chickens, an equal number
OF turkeys and ducks, game in season
and other meats in proportion will be
discovered carefully hung in the meat
room, where the temperature is kept
close to the freezing point all the time
In the same. room a very large stock of
dried, smoked and canned meats is car
ried as a reserve
Besides the supply Of meat and vege-
tables, one finds packed in the ships
cold storage rooms an almost endless
variety of general provisions. A SAM
pie inventory shows 200 barrels of flour.
rs tons of potatoes, 5000 dozens of
eggs the same number of oysters, 5000
pounds of fresh fish. 5000 pounds OF
butter, 5000 quarts of milk, 1000
quarts Of ice cream, several tons of
sugar and other things in proportion.
The wine closets, of course, are never
neglected. They are refilled at the end
of each voyage with all the popular
brands of wines. liquors and mineral
waters.
With all her storerooms thus packed
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Wrath of the Wisconsin Press
Aroused by Lincoln Stef-
fens Article
CALL LA FoLLETT A PATRIOT
Senator spooner and His Following
Are Given scant Praise and Are
Severely Denounced For Their
Course In the Present Controversy
In Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis, Sept. 2S.-There is
wrath. immense and bitter, among the
"stalwarts" of wisconsin, because or
Lincoln Steffens' article Enemies OF
the observation-disclosures in Nc
Cures Magazine for October. This
wrath has been voiced in the press OF
Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Sentinel
calls the article a mixture
of falsehood, half truth, and truth,
the proportion of the latter being
hardly sufficient to flavor the mass ana
make it palatable even to those who
are ignorant of the neal situation
Other papers speak of the article IN
like manner.
At the very outset of the article
there is note Of praise of the govern
or, such as to make the hair OF the
stlawarts bristle. Then comes some-
thing about Senator Spooner under the
heading, "Spooner's Senatofship
Bought for Him."
This gives in detail conversation
between Isaac Stephenson, wealthy
lumberman of Marinette, and the late
Senator Sawyer, in which the Two
compared notes as to what 1T cost 10
get the legislature for Spooner that
time
Mr.. Steffens gives Senator Spooner
credit for being liable. deliberate, re-
sourceful, WISE" "as near as any man
we have in that august chamber today
to craftsmanship" But Mr.. Steffene
saws he represents the System" which
he defines as ga reorganization of the
political and financial powers of the
state by which for Doodle OF one sort
or another, the leading politicians OF
both parties conduct the government
in the interest Of those leading bust
nesses which seek special privileges
and pay for them with brides ana the
moral support Of graft.
The article gives sketch OF La FOL
lette's life and political career, placing
the governor in the light OF a knight
fighting for civic virtue, able to meet
the system" on its own battle-ground,
and win by direct appeal to the better
instincts Of the people despite the OPP
position and efforts of corporate greed.
In the course Of this sketch is recited
meeting between La Toilette and the
late Senator Sawyer in which the gov
ernor insists that Sawyer sought to
bride him with cash.
The article still further makes the
charge that in 1895 La Toilette was
beaten with money in his effort to Sc
cure the gubernatorial nomination.
The whole article bristles with
charges which pierce to the quick. from
a charge of another defeat Of La Fol-
lette by the use of money to that of q
combination between the stalwarts and
the democrats and the calling in Of
the federal system" to aid the anti
La Toilette faction In the fighting be-
fore the republican national conven-
ton.
Considering it all, the Milwaukee
Sentinel, whose name is mentioned in
far from complimentary manner in
the article, pronounces the article "a
deliberate insult to the people of Wis
consin."
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CRACK THREE-YEAR-OLDS
-BELDAME AND T0KAL0N.

The principal topic of comment in
turf circles throughout the country at
present concerns the relative merits OF
Beldame, the best three-year-old fly
on the eastern tracks, and Tokalon, the
acknowledged queen of western FLIES
of the same age.
Beldame has beaten everything OF her
age and sex on the eastern tracks In
the most impressive fashion, while Tor
kalon is generally admitted to be the
best flly Of her age developed in the
west in recent years.
Tokalon's best performance, and the
one on which her admirers assert will
compare favorably with Beldame's best
race, was her decisive victory in the
Premier stakes at Chicago.
Tokalon ran mile in 1:40 fiat with
III pounds up, defeating such good
ones as Miss Crawford and English
Lad in the most decisive fashion.
Tokalon's admirers point with prid0
to the fact that she shouldered stake
weight and beat stake colts and FLIES
in this event and ran a stake horsa
time. It certainly was superior per-
Torrance, but Beldame fully equaled
if not excelled it when she ran nine
furlongs in 1:54 2-5 in the Mermaid
stakes with 126 pounds up. The east
ern crackerjack reeled off the first mile
in this race in 1: Al fiat.
Tokalon's fastest mile of the season
was run in the Chicago stakes. She
stepped the distance in 1888 As in this
event with ninety-six pounds up and
defeated such good ones as Flying Ship
Beau Ormonde and Fred Leppert.
Beldames fastest mile Of the season
was made in 1889 rs with Ill pounds
on her back. Beldame's admirers claim
that this was better performance than
Tokalon's race in the Chicago stakes,
basing their argument on the differ.
ence in the weights. Their contention
is that Beldame could have run thG
mile in 1:3S fiat with fifteen pounds of.
Both Tokalon and Beldame havO
shown conclusively their ability to beat
good horses in the mud or on the dry,
pack weight and run fast at any route.
Tokalon ran nine furlongs in 1:55
fiat with 104 pounds up. She moved
the first mile of this race in 1:41 Us.
While good race from time stand
point, there were no horses Of any class
behind the mare, and the performance
does not compare with Beldame's nine
furlongs In 1854 2-5 with 126 pounds
up In the Mermaid stakes.
In fact, as a weight packer, which is
after all, the true test Of real cracker
jack. Beldame has all the best Of 1t.
r. "a =
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day before the ship sails. with the port
steward constantly on hand to see that
nothing is overlooked and that the sup
plies are properly slowed in the cold
storage rooms.
The task Of supplying an ocean liner
with just the right amount of provi-
sions for voyage is a very difficult
one. The port steward cannot accu-
rately foretell the exact length of the
voyage, though with the great reserve
power Of the present day Atlantic f1ier
there is very little variation in the
time of her passage. For example, the
American line steamship Philadelphia,
running between New York and South
ampton, makes the trip in just about
six and one-half days, and in twenty
five trips, covering period of more
than year, she has varied only few
hours. By familiarizing himself there
fore with reports showing the amount
of food consumed on previous voyages
and knowing the number of passengers
scheduled to sail the port steward is
able to calculate pretty nearly the
amount of supplies that will be re-
uuired for the voyage, so that when
the liners numerous storerooms are
filled with all the necessary edibles she
goes to sea with a sufhciency to last
her 1000 or 1,500 passengers not only
a week or ten days, but. in case any
thing should happen to the ship and
cause her to be delayed. three or four
weeks.
The provisioning Of an ocean liner
for one voyage alone costs something
over $4,000, and the commissary bill of
one of the big lines operating twenty or
thirty immense passenger ships, as the
White Star line does in it's various
services, runs into the millions in the
course of year.
JAMES v. BROWN.
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QUITS BLAckMAlL SHEET.
Editor of Investors Guardian Makes a
Confession.

New York, Sept. %. - Turnout the
financial district today bankers, brok-
ers, and promoters were discussing the
remarkable confession made by the
editor of the United States Investors
Guardian, a matchmaking publication
of Wall street, which has been getting
blood money" from scores of con-
Germs since the first of the year. The
editor" announces on the front page OF
his paper his resignation, and calls
those who have backed the paper the
most desperate gang of swindlers and
thieves that has ever infested any
country"
For months the police have been
trying to find the man.
Upon complaint of a large real es-,
tate concern here the postoffice de-
partment on August 25 issued fraud
order against the paper. Other black
mailing publications of this city are
likely soon to feel the hand of the law
Bankers are ready to sacrifice time
and money to fight them.
The self-deposed editor of the ln-
vestors' Guardian says:
Il wish before leaving to say IN lhls
my last issue that no word OF ifuta
has ever appeared in these columns.
Upright and honest business men, as
we'll as straightforward and prosperous
CORPORATIONS have been maliciously at
tackled with the sole idea that money
might he influenced from them to the
Golfers of the gang that has given me
employment.
"Some of these who have been at
tackled have been ruined thereby, and
many thousands of dollars have been
lost by small investors as a result. l
feel directly responsible for this loss,
and when think of the wreck and ruin
1 have wrought in order that l might
earn a few dollars my heart is heavy.
1.-THE paper was conceived in iniqulty
and produced for but one object-to
influence money from trusting country
people to the concerns recommended
privately by this paper and controlled
by the gang which for few months
has kept me in bread and butter"
Among the concerns of this city at
tackled in it's columns We're: Wood,
Harmon & Co., Wheeler & Co., Marconi
Securities Company, DeForest Wireless
COMPANY and A. l.. Wisner & Co.