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Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
GLOBE TROTTERS' NEW YEARS
Love of Adventure Has Landed Many Mon in
of Discomfort and Danger.


A grlzzled, sun-tanned. hard-featured
man. whose face bore the stamp OF
hardship and adventure. was sitting
I'm the smoking room of New York
hotel. He happened to glance at
calendar and saw that the day was
Dec. 81.
by Jove!" he exclaimed. so TO-
morrow is New Years day. Unless
something happens before then, it will
be the quietest New Year I've spent in
twenty-three years.
I'm all that time have Eever been
so near my old home in Scotland as
ana now. Often I've tried TO get home,
but somehow or other New Year has
always found me in a tight corner In
some out-of-the-way part OF the world
This mans experience Is typical OF
that OF many OF the globe-trotters in
this age, when people are so fond OF
going 70 and fro in the earth and
walking up and down in it," like GER
tain parsonage In the Book of job
New Years day. 1897. found one
Englishman facing death from hunger
and thirst on board a life raft 300
miles southeast Of Madagascar.
His ship foundered seven days be-
fore In a hurricane The boats were
smashed by the fury of the waves and
some OF the crew washed overheard,
The rest made a raft out of planks and
spars. but during the night high seas
swept over the frail structure and car
Pied away most of the water and food.
''All We had left" said the man who
went through this terrible experience,
were few tins Of pOtted meat, a
small barrel of biscuit anrd the small
est Of the water casks. That was all
we had to keep life in twenty-five hun.
CRY mer.
I'VE made 1t last as long as We
could, but in four days everything was
gone. Some Of the men fell into de-
spair and talked about throwing them
selves overheard. Perhaps they would
have done 20, but during the night Of
the fourth day half dozen big sharks
swan around the raft in circles. The
sea was phosphorescent and we could
see the1 plainly in the waves Of llvid
FIRE which they stirred up as thew
swan around. Even the half-crazed
men who had talked about drowning
themselves shrank from death in a
sharks nav and stayed upon the raft.
Next morning | Eaw by a pocket
diary which carried that the day was
Dec. 80. To keep mp the mems spirits
I told them I had dreamed we were
going to be rescued on New Years
day. That appealed to the Eupersti-
tion inherent more or less in all sail
ors, so I kept on telling them a ship
would come alorg and pick US up on
that day sure. until began 10 believe
Il myself We even discussed grave
~ Whether the sail would heave in
sight 10 the morning or the afternoon,
and one man who said he guessed II
would be toward evening became quite
unpopular
NEW Years morning broke with a
dead calm ON the OILY, blisterlrg see
and a blazing SKY that aggravated our
thirst terfold. There was not a ship
in sigNt all moraing--no except
that Classy sheet OF water and that
cruel. eloucless sky above us. II was
the same in the afternoon. and our
hopes fell as the sun sank slowly to
ward the western horizon.
'sJust as We we're beginning TO do.
snsir. one Of TIE men screamed hyster-
eaaliy and pointed 70 4 thin trail q
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

smoke on the sky line. 1t was New
Zealand liner headed straight for our
raft. In a couple of hours her doctor
was giving us a hearty dinner and
slops ard weak brandy and water"
This same man spent another New
Years day of Cape Horn. He sailed
from Valparaiso in a British wind
TANNER" expecting to reach his Scot
fish home in time to spend his first
Christmas there for many years. But
Gains delayed her for weeks in the
South Pacific ocean, and when she got
of Cape Horn she ran into a tearing
gale, which brought her mizzen top
mast down on deck and ripped out all
her sails. For days she drifted help
lessly. exposed to the full fury of the
western gale.
The crew labored industriously at
rigging UP spare and bending new
sails. II was a task OF tremendous
difficulty, for giant combers rolled
over the forecastle head continually.
filing the vessel amidships with green
seas
Suddenly in the midst Of this toll an
apprentice piped out:
81 say, fellers. this is New Years
day. Have you all forgotten it?"
Delay your tongue" retorted the
gruft old mate. There won't be any
New Year dinner to-day, except your
usual whack of lobscouse."
The skipper was experimenting the
work from the poop rail and heard the
conversation.
Cook" he bawled out LAY aft
here!"
The cook came out of his galley and
the captain asked what he could give
them for a fancy dinner.
"NCthin' but split peas. sir, an salt
horse and marmalade. There amt no
turkeys in my store-room, sir" he said
Lets catch one O. them birds.
suggested an old tar, pointing to sew.
eral addresses which were circing
about the wake of the ship. We'll
stretch a point this day and be for.
given for it. guess"
After several attempts an albatross
was captured with a big fishhOok bait
ed with salt pork and dragged aboard
triumphantly. Served up nice and
! brown and swimming in gravy. 1t
looked so much like a real turkey that
It warmed up the mems hearts and
made them think Of the holidays they
had spent at home. But when they
tasted II the resemblance ceased. 1t
was fshy ard tough. The meat was
like lnotted rope yarn and the gravy
suggested tar. However, II was
New Year dinner all the same. and II
was enjoyed as keenly as the finest
feast ashore that day.
An American traveller who Is well
known commercially in the West In
dies, was mixed up in one OF the peren-
NAL revolutions of Hayti In his hot
and foolish youth. Unhappily. he al.
lied himself with the weaker side. and
one New Years eve found himself one
Of small band Of despersdoes de-
Tending the stockaded town of Mira
goane against a government army
which outnumbered them by more
than 100 10 /.
During the night the government
soldiers forced their way into the town.
Only about thirty Of the defenders
were left alive.
Hstand tnem up IN a line and shoot
them." commanded Gen. Manigat.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

An American globe trotter tells how
he once spent a New Years day hunt
ing a crocodile in jamaica. West In.
dies.
After long hunt the crocodile was
found buried beneath the mud in
shallow bend of a river on the planta.
ton. The hunters only carried small
shotguns, which were useless against
the beasts tough hide, covered as il
was several inches deep in mud.
But the planter was a man of re-
source. He sent hurriedly for negroes
and set them to work to construct two
strong walls of bamboo poles across
the bed Of the stream, thus inclosing
the crocodile in a prison from which
he could find no escape.
After the walls were built every
body hid quietly In the tall grass or
the banks and waited. Hour after
hour they laid there. Their luncheon
consisted of sandwiches and a flask of
rum punch.
II was not urtl the end of the aft
erncon that the crocodile, finding it
could not break through the bamboo
barriers, crept out of the water. Be
fore it could drag the whole of its
huge carcass out of the mud 1t was
lassoed and hauled toward the bank by
twenty willing hands.
Too surprised to offer resistance, the
beast at first suffered itself to be ais
most dragged on the bank; but II
caught on the edge with its foreDaws
aud made desperate struggle. Tween.
ty yelling pegroes hung on to the 9TH
er end OF the rope. but could not drag
that crocodile M; they could only
prevent 1t from looping back into the
water aeain. Honors we're even in
that terrific tug-of-war
At last a yoke of eight oxen had to
he brought. They soon dragged the
beast to the bank. where 1t was tied
around q tree and dispatched with
axes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
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! In Little San MarinO /
Ess-~QN-~IN
Especial Correspondence

THAT stone marks the frontier OF
the republic" Said our coachman as
we were crossing a bridge on the road
between Rimini and San Marine. 1t
was a memorable moment when we
crossed the boundary on this side OF
that smallest and oldest of republics,
for we felt that we we're about to en-.
ter into a state which had at least en-
dured through many changes In the
world that surrounded 1t. The bridge,
on the center Of which stands the
stone affixed to the paTapet, rose high
in the middle, and crossed a little
brook flowing at the bottom of a deep
crevice and rendered invisible by a
growth of brambles and long grasses.
And this divided the territories Of
two gOvernments--on the one side a
newly-established monarchy making
experiments in the art of government;
on the other q miniature state, the
smallest" says a writer, (which the
world has seen since the days OF
ancient Greece. and whose unwritten
constitution has lasted fourteen cen.
turtles" and which retained its indie
pendence while all the rest of the
peninsula, from the spurs of the Alps
to the gulf of laramie, was convulsed
by political revolutions"
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
IN HIS oRANDFATHER's STEPS

Descendant Of stonewaII jackson to
BE West Pointer.
Stonewall Jackson Christian, whom
President Roosevelt has decided to ap-
point to a cadetship at West Point,
is a grandson of Gen. Stonewall Jack
son. his mother having been the
daughter of the famous Confederate
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
Lyman J. Gage.

president of the United States Trust
company.
With q marked improvement in the
condition of the patient, physicians
are now satisfied he is out of danger
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
FORMER CABINET MEMBER III.
Condition Of Lyman J. Gage Seriously
Alarmed His Friends.

Grave fears for the recovery Of Ly-
man ]. Gage, former secretary OF the
treasury. who was critically III at his
apartments, IL East Slxtieth street,
New York, we're entertained last
week
The cause Of Mr.. Cages illness was
said to be infiammatory rheumatism.
The fear Of attending physicians was
that the malady would attack the
heart.
Since his retirement from the Pres
dents cabinet, Mr.. Gage has been
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29
should Have Known better.

Should Have Known Better.
What started the trouble between
the Brownsg"
Brown asked his wife a question
while she was trying to put her haiz
up 3 new way.'-Judge.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

chieftain. He is the son of William
F.. Christian of Atlanta, formerly of
Richmond, who is assistant general
passenger agent of the SeabOard Air
Line railroad. Young Christian is now
a student at the Georgia Military
academy. He was captain Of the
academy football team this fall and is
a manly. popular young fellow.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

called, that the interest of the place
begins. This is a new building erect
ed about fifteen years ago, in the style
of, the thirteenth century, after the
designs of the able architect, Common
datOre Azzurri. Of Rome. It has been
criticized because 1t is an imitation Of
the municipal palaces of the thir-
teenth century such as are found in
several Italian cities. A statue of Lib
erty. rather theatrical in style, stands
in the square that opens in front OF
the palace. II was the gift of a Ger
man lady, once very rich. but after
ward reduced to poverty, who was
granted = title OF nobility by the re-
public.
Government Of the Little State.
The government of this little state
which is carried on in this palace, is
thus constituted. according to the ac-
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

But they were too weak to stand.
All of them were wounded, half-starved
and fever-stricken. So the govern
ment troops propped them up in chairs
and shot them as they lolled there.
Only the white man was spared. in
order that his case might be inquired
into.
When he protested to Gen. Manigat
against the cruelty of shooting help
less captives that triumphant warrior
merely blew a cloud of cigarette smoke
and remarked calmly: "C'est ia
guerre."
Late on New Years eve." said the
American, they tried me by court.
martial. When | woke up on New
Years morning was in the calaboose,
sentenced to be shot at shutdown. It
wasn't very pleasant waiting. | was
quite glad when a gold-laced ofioer
entered the cell toward evening. with
a paper informing me that his excel.
lency, the citizen president had been
pleased TO pardon me, in consideration
of the request of the American minis.
ter and OF the fact that It was New
Years day.
Il believe they had never intended
to shoot me. but only to brighten me,
for they hardly dared to touch a white
man whose country owned a navy that
might lombard their ports. Anyhow,
| got out Of jail in time to eat my
dinner with some American and Eng.
lish friends on a coffee plantation near
Miragoane."
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

FaldCe OF government,
count given of it by Cavalier MarinO
Fattori, one of the two captains re-
gent: A council of sixty citizens is
elected for life from among the most
upright and best instructed of every
condltion-that is, one.third mobiles,
one-third agriculturists and one.third
peasants; and this council has the SUI.
preme power handed down to it in
the ancient manner by a general as
sembly (Arringo Populare) of all the
heads of families.
A people who hold liberty so dear
are necessarily Jealous of those to
whom the government of the state is
intrusted. In order that abuses may
have less chance of fiourishing the
supreme government Is in the hands
of two presidents, called captains
regent, and these are elected twice
a year, entering with great state and
pomp and circumstance on the LIST of
April and the LIST of October. The
installation takes place in the cathe-
dral, built about the middle of last
century at a cost of $4,000, large
sum for such a poor place. On the
left side of the altar two thrones are
placed, and on Inauguration day the
newly elected captains regent, ar.
rayed in black velvet, take. their
places and swear the requisite oaths.
After office has been held for term,
of six months the outgoing regents
cannot be elected until six terms or
three years, have passed. Thus
"CaesaFism" is an impOssibls system
in this constitution, which is, so
hedged round with precautions.
Old Laws Of the Republic.
The old laws Of the republic ane3
perhaps, more curious specimens OF
legal enactments than are to be met
with elsewhere. In 1884 they were
brought together and published and,
this publication having been exhaust
ed, republlshed in 1895, under the d..
tie, "Leges Statutae Reipublicae'
Sancti Marino," with an Italian trans.
lation on each opposite page, copy OF
which | contrived to get during my
visit to San Marine.
THE republic of San Marino," says
inc AulEOuuGAlOu " INC AoHS1 NcASHHNN
ed for its ancient liberty, is the only
one which has remained among the
various free states which fiourished
IN Italy, and from the end of the thir-
teenth century already, 1t had passed
for itself peculiar laws which were
many times increased and amended.
and finally were printed in RimiHi in
the year 1900" Thus the latest
amendment of these laws occurred be-
fore the year 1900
The grand staircase Of the new Pal
ace of Government is attractive. and
it, with the other rooms of the build
ing, are visited by the rare traveller.
From the roof OF this palacs, where
even in summer the mountain breezes
blow strong, the view Is curious and
extensive. One feels as II he were
above the hills. and that their heights
and hollows and verdure and barren
places were revealed to him. The
grand council han, with its sixty rate.
er stately chairs arranged around
the walls, and it's grand fresco record
| ing the tradition OF Sam Marines as
sistance given in days Of distress. is a
noble chamber. The lion rampant on
its vail suggests the attitude Of this
tiny republic toward its foes, while
st. Marinus in glory above the chairs
Of the two regents seems to bless the
double government that saves liberty.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-29

Marine. The gate or Porta San Fran
cesco, is a pretty and interesting relic
that suggests a warlike as well as q
distant past And the fortresses on
the higher SUBMITS have all the char.
acteristics of the middle ages about
them, both in their strength and In
their decay. They are like eagles
nests, unapproacbable except at the
gravest peril The rocks on which
these fortresses are founded are we'll
nigh inaccessible.
II is. however, at the Palace OF the
Prince. or the government, as Il IL
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06
INSULAR TRADE
Continued From Page I.

The trade of the noncontiguous ter ritory question is very largely with the United States in all eases except the Philippine Islands. The exports from Hawaii to countries other than the United States in the nine months end- ing with March, 1901. amounted to S23.I55. and the imports from countries other than the United States amounted to S2.S16.721, of which S94O. 9GS was from Japan chiefly by reason of the large Japanese population in those islands; S444191 from the United Kingdom; S354.716 from British Australasia: S3lO.- SIS from Chile: S257.479 from Germany; S236.9OS from British India, and $155.- 15l from Hong Kong. Porto Rico, in the nine months in question. exported merchandise to the value of S3663.994 to countries other than the United States. of which Sl440. 775 was to France: $4SS.7S3 to Spain: $4S660S to Cuba and S332.1 104 to Germany The imports from countries ether than the United States during the same period amounted to Sl.43O S1O. of which S511.- A65 was from Spain. $2S94S7 from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, S203.151 from the United Kingdom. and S13S .4S1 from France. In the case of Alaska. experts to countries other than the United States amounted to $1296. 313, of which $1.246.052 was to British terri tory and S41e74 to Asiatic Russia. The imports during the same period from countries other than the United States amounted to S475.S72, of which practic- ally all was from British territory.
 In the case of the Philippines. the commerce is at present much more largely with countries other than the United States than is the case with any other of the uonContisuous territories of the United States. This is due in
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06

part to the custom which has long prevailed in these islands of purchasing from Spain and other European Coun- tries and from Hongkong and China, whose proximity gives to their trade a marked advantage over that of distant countries. while the presence of cor siderable Chinese population accounts in part for sthe large imports from China. Another cause of the more ra- pd growth in the trade relations of the United States with the other nOncOn- tiguCus territories than in that with the Philippines is doubtless found in the fact that in all other cases no GUS toms duties are collected on merchan- disc coming into the United States from those territories or into those territories from the United States. while in the case of the Philippines a reduction of only 9 per cent has been made in the rates of duty on meTChan- disc from those islands entering the United States. and no reduction on merchandise from the United States entering those islands, as the treaty with Spain provides that merchandise from that country shall be admitted to the Philippines on the same terms as that from the United States during a period of ten years from the exchange of notifications of that treaty. a term which does not expire until April, 1909. The figures for the niEe months ending with March. 1904. are not at hand. but for the corresponding period of 1909 exports from the Philippines to countries other than the United States amounted to $13.497 .O39 as com pared with imports into the islands from the United States valued at S9,- 235.372 during the same period. Of the merchandise valued at S13.497,039 sent from the Philippines tc foreign cOun- tries. S5.944.S5S went to the United Kingdom chiefly hemp: $2,673.65G to France: S1,162, 543 to Hongkong: S709.- 632 to Japan: S66O, ,3O6 to the Dutch East Indies, and $565,S29 to Spain.
 The imports into the Philippines from other countries than the United States during the nine months ending with March. 1903, amounted to $21.16S,
 SO1. while shipments from the United states to the Philippines in that per iod were S2 9O3. .692. Of this total of S21.16S. sol imported from countries other than the United States. 4169.- OgO was from the French East Indies, 3.727.7 .7O2 from China. $1.4OO.1ZS from the British East Indies. $6S2.236 from HCngkong. S523.57S from Papan, S4S2.- 122 from British Australasia. $363, ,236 from Siam. S2191.533 from Spain, S4,- O6SSS9 from the United Kingdom, and S1. .53J. .962 from Germany.
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06
A TAILOR'S MELODY.

70, Nicholson the Tailor" have you heard of his fame, His rcat fitting clothes all bearing
 his name; His clothes always right, his prices the same, No wonder that Nick" is a man of
 great fame. When you enter his store he'll come forward to meet you; And with a how do you do' hell
 pleasantly greet you; Hell show you his stock composed of
 the best, And hell give satisfaction, he's been
 put to the test. Now boys if you want any clothes
 made to measure. Just drop in at NicRolson's, your
 wish is his pleasure: Hell make you look neat when dress
 ed for the street, And the girls will all cry you look
 awfully sweet" Sc drop in any day before going
 away And pick out suit, you won't have
 to pay, But when the clothes are done we'll
 expect the mon For Nicholson the Tailor" is not out
 for fun.
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06

gredients: The base of this jam was npple parinss and cores. as prepared and packed in barrels by apple evapor- ators. These parings and cores were first put in huge copper steam kettles together with sufficient water and gIu- cose. the latter for sweetening. and boiled until the mass was thoroughly cooked soft. Then it was strained through proper Altering material 10 make g looking thick liquid.
 Next a quantity of analine dyes. a coal tar product, was stirred m for color; then a quantity of grIss seed to imintate raspberry seeds-and the resemblance was close enough to de- ceive an eNpert-was incorporated ln the mass, and finally a favoring eX- tract was added. The label said: Pure Raspberry Jam. made from the Finest Quality Of Fresh Fruit When it cooled off il was a. close imitation of the genuine article. It tasted good. but none O. the ingredients were within miles of a raspberry patch"
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06
MAKES NO DENIAL
That He Recently Denounced Bishop
 Galloway.

Jackson, Miss. June 5.-Governor Vardaman IS receiving numerous let- ters or each mail from his friends i1 parts of the state making inquiry con corning the remarks he has been quot ed as making concerning Bishop Gallo Way. and many of his friends are urging him to mako a reply for publica- tioa of some kind concerning the mat ter.
 The governor has been quoted as having denounced Bishop Galloway as "a worst traitor to the south than Benedict Arnold was to the colonies. % and having branded the bishop as "a lOw-down little parson running around with a belly full of not air ana yellow legged chicken, pandering to the nig- Ger-lovers of the ncrth." and his re- marks promise to become quite as famous as James c. Blainc's Rum, Romanism and Rebellion"
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06
RASPBERRY JAM MADE QUICKLY,
Not Necessary to Wait for Berries to
 Grow-"Purity" Guaranteed.

St. Paul. June 5.-The state dairy and food commission has received an extract of a letter from one of the largest manufacturers of canned veget- ables in the east explaining the methods employed by interruptions manufacturers to produce imitation jelIies. presedves, jams, marmalade and the like.
 The report of the manufacturer on Raspberry jam is as follows:
 T have seen raspberry jam made in large quantities from the following in
Arizona republican., 1904-06-06
NEGRO LYNCHED.
He Shot ard Killed White Man With
 out Revocation.

Arlington Ga, June 5.-Arthur Thompson. a negro. was lynched by a mob here last night. The negro shot and killed NJ. L. Dudley, white man. near the electric plant. Nothing is known of any previous trouble between the two men. A short while before the killing Mr. Dudley was standing and talking With friends.
 After the shooting, mob collected an6 caught the negro, riddling his body with bullets. The dead man was man ager of the plant. and the negro WAS an employe of his. acting as fireman.