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VOL. XIII. NO. 31
GIBRALTAR OF THE PACIFIC.
GUNS IN A CRATER
*fhe Mighty Defenses of Oahu Make
That Lovely Island a Veritable Fir«
Lined Wall of Steel, Behind Which
Crouches "Hhe Lion of Hawaii/'
DIAMOND HEAD, UNCLE SAM'S I AVA FOkTRESS IN HAWAII
Diamond Head, that monumental ele
vation of lava which stands out so
prominently on the Honolulu side of
the lovely island of Oahu. Hawaii. U
the one and only original crater in th«
world which is being devoted to the
use of the army of a great power.
The island of Oahu is the key to the
Pacific, and Uncle Sam carries that
key on a chain in his capacious pocket.
At any time war breaks out Hncle
Sam's hand, which has not lost its
cunning, will go to that pocket with
the swiftness of a western sheriff, and
the result will bo a roar of guns which
will be heard around the world. The
roar will be contributed to by the guus
Of Fort Ruger, which are at the base
of Diamond Head on the landward
side.
From Diamond Head, called by poets
"the Lion of Hawaii," to Pearl Harbor,
named by newspaper writes "the Gib
raltar of the Pacific." there is a chain
of forts which makes Oahu one of the
greatest fortresses in the world. When
in Houolulu the writer had the pleas
ure of working with Albert Pierce
Taylor, who has been spoken of as
"the recognized literary authority on
things pertaining to Pearl Harbor and
the defenses of Hawaii." He said on
one occasion:
"Uncle Sam has declared to the
world that he is on guard in the Pa
cific. At Pearl Harbor is Fort Kaiue
haineha. with its battery of twelve
inch guns at the mouth of Honolulu
harbor will be a battery of small guns
at Fort De Kussy, Walkiki. a battery
of fourteen Inch guns, while at Dia
mond Head a battery of eight mortars
has been manned for some few years.
Within the extinct crater of Diamond
Head Gibraltar-like galleries have
been constructed, and in one of them
an observatory has been established.
The fire control for all the Oahu coast
batteries has been located in this gal
lery. From this station the tire of the
guns of all the forts can be directed by
the electric telegraph. The guns of
Pearl Harbor cross those of Diamond
Head and with the batteries between
make a veritable wall of steel."
After inspecting the guns at Fort
Ruger two of us. with a soldier guide,
walked to the entrance of the gallery
which has been bored through the lava
and sandstone which compose the
steep sides of the crater of Diamond
Head. A sentry barred the way. The
permit was produced and proved the
open sesame.
The heavy irou door at the entrance
to the volcanic passage was swung
buck. and. with a soldier in front and
another in the rear, the visitors started
down the gallery. A single narrow
gauge track ran the entire length of
the passage. On this steel small trucks
had been pushed by the soldiers, who
loaded and unloaded the debris which
army comrades had dug from the walls
of the crater. The tics were broken in
places, and the guide issued a warning
to step carefully.
On first stepping into the gallery the
darkness, after the tropical sunlight
was of the kind that Milton described
as visible. Only a few steps had been
taken before the light at the far end
of the gallery was easily seea.
Instead of the barren lava bowl,
"hard as flint and as smooth as glass,
as the picture man so pic* -esquely
puts it the inside of th». crater was
found to be grass covered, with trees
and bushes standing here and there,
which drew their moisture from the
"liquid sunshine/'^as the Honolulu peo
ple charmingly describe the rain.
The guide pointed out the observa
tory high up on the Ewa side of the
crater from which officers direct the
shooting by the men who man the big
guns at the fort outside the crater.
Those men never see the target at
which they aim far out at sea. The
projectiles from the high powered guns
pass over the crater, and by telephone
from the observatory the men learn
whether they have made a hit or miss.
They generally score a hit.
In the event of a war involving the
United States on the Pacific-the crater
of Diamond Head may indeed prove
"the Lion of Hawaii." as Frances
Bent Dillingham, a Honolulu poet, has
described it. and "if once stirred his
paw could sweep a navy to its death
If once aroused his roar would soon
be heard across the sea and echoed
'from the sky."—Harold Sands in Los
Angeles Times.
Two Views.
The senior partner was talking to the
Junior partner.
"I notice the bookkeeper stays after
office every evening."
"Good sign. He's willing tB work."
"Bad sign. Must be monkeying with
the books."—Louisville Courier-Journal
A Truo Optimist.
An optimist is a man who, despite
experience, hopes to recover from the
exenses of his summer vacation in
time to meet nis Christinas bills in
January.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
ECCENTRICITY OF GENIUS.
fcn the Days Tfeat Are Gone It May
Have Been Due to Eye Strain.
It seems that at last genius is dis
covered not to be allied to insanity, but
that rather all Its eccentricities are due
to eye strain.
Brain specialists, for instance, are as
serting that if rarlvle had had proper
ly adjusted glasses and good electric
light to work by instead of a skylight
over his desk, and that illumined by a
London fog much of the time, he
would not have been such a grumbler
and dyspeptic, in fact, eye strain was
the cause of all his eccentricities.
All geniuses, in fact, would have
been optimistic, says science now. if
they had only had bifocal glasses at
the right time. The same unnormal
eyesight is given as the cause of uiany
tragic paintings. That famous artist.
Turner, would never have painted the
slave ship in a storm, but would rather
have depicted the peaceful landscapes
that so many artists paint when their
eyes are properly fitted with glasses.
Wagner, too. if he had worn the cor
rect spectacles and had had that decid
ed tilt to one eye remedied, probably
would never have' written about Wal
kyrie and dragons, but would have
written pleasant dances and even
ragtime instead.
Darwin also was another victim of
eye strain. Doubtless lie would never
have given to the world his theory of
evolution which stirred society up if
his eyes had been normal.
De Quincey suffered from bad eyes.
Surely he would never have taken
opium if he had had glasses. But
then, on the other hand, the world
would have missed his opium dreams.
And. after all is considered, scientists
conclude society could better dispense
with spectacles than with geniuses.
London Tit-Bits.
COOK WITHOUT FIRE.
New Zealand Maoris Prepare Their
Food In Nature's Kitchens.
The Maoris of northern New Zea
land enjoy cooked food to a far great
er extent than other uatives, but they
never bother with tire. They build
their huts on the edge of some "friend
ly" geyser, where they may cook in
nature's kitchen. The methods of this
primitive people living in so strange
a neighborhood are described by Max
Hera in "New Zealand."
On a spot which superstition would
associate witli death and the devil the
huts of about 200 Maoris lie scattered
—the remnant of the once warlike tribe
of Tuhourangi. It is lucky that these
simple folk ueed no kitchen, for na
ture has built for them the best of all
cooking appliances and saved them
endless trouble with the stove, gas
company or coal merchant.
A pond of boiling water lies in the
middle of the settlement. In this the
Maori woman puts her water kettle to
boil or hangs the wide meshed flax
bag filled with potatoes ami waits un
til they are cooked. True, the potatoes
cooked in their skins taste a little of
sulphur, but that is the right flavor for
a Maori palate—the haut gout for the
brown gourmet.
For the cooking of meats the fuma
roles. or holes through which steam
escapes from the ground, are used,
box with a wooden grating for a bot
ton is placed on the ground over the
hole. In this the Maori woman places
the meat, well covered with tin or iron
pots. An old sugar bag is then spread
over the box, and the crude apparatus
is left until the imprisoned steam has
completely cooked the joint
A Famous Lampoon.
It is handed down in tradition that
the caustic comment "he n«ver says a
foolish thing nor ever-does a wise one'
was written in Whitehall on the eham
ber door of King Charles II. The wit
who created the lampoon seems never
to have felt it quite prudent to estab
lish his authorship, but there is ex
cellent reason to accord it to John
Wilruot, earl of Rochester. The text
of the inscription is:
Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whpse word no man relies on.
He never says a foolish thing
Nor ever does a wise one.
—New York Snn.
Bradshaw and the Months.
Although the provision "D. V.'* has
never figured on railway time tables, a
close examination of Bradshaw re
veals a trace of strong religious feel*
ing. On the cover the months are re
ferred to by their numerals—"1st mo.'
for January, "2d mo." for February
and so on. Bradshaw .as a Quaker ob
Jected to taking the names of the
months from heathen emperors and
deities, and this prejudice has been
perpetuated since the first issue of the
time table ii 1841.—London Answers.
Fatal Mistake.
Some years ago in a mining town a
man was found dead in his hotel room
hanged to a bedpost by his suspend
t*rs. The jury of miners brought in the
following verdict at the coroner's in
quest: "Deceased came to his death by
rotning home fuil and mistaking him
lelf for his pants."—Argonaut
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SHAW, THE ECCENTRIC.
His Personality Compels Him to Wear
Cocoa Colored Clothes.
I tote order in all things," said
George Bernard Shaw at a public
meeting some time ago. "For this
reason 1 am not content with ordering
my life I also order ray personality.
have cocoa colored hair, so I wear
rocoa colored clothes and drink cocoa."
Shaw today has reached the position
becoming a public* institution. For
more than twenty years be has suc
ceeded in fulfilling his boast that every
day some leading paper would have
something to say about him.
George Bernard Shaw is the jester
at the court of King Demos. When
years ago he was appointed dramatic
critic to a well known journal he re
fused to obey the Ironclad regulation
that occupants of the stalls must wear
evening dress. The first night he was
stopped at the door of a theater by an
attendant. "What do you object to'"
Inquired Shaw. "My cocoa colored
jacket?" The attendant assented.
"Very well then." said the critic, "I
will remove it." And the next moment
he wa striding up the aisle in his
shirt sleeves.
"That won't do. sir!" shouted the at
tendant. running after him.
"Won't do?" exclaimed Shaw With
a fine assumption of indignation. "Do
you think I'm going to take off any
more?" The nonplussed attendant
handed him his jacket and Shaw took
his seat in the stalls triumphantly.
During the first nine years this bril
liant man was in London his earnings
from literature brought him the prince
ly sum of £(5. Now he has an income
of several thousands a year. Of that
period which lie spent in want he says
with his characteristic candor: "My
mother worked for my living instead
of preaching that it was my duty to
work for her therefore, take off jovje
hat to her and blush. I did not throw
myself into the struggle for life
threw my mother into it. I was not a
staff to my father's old age 1 hung on
to his coat tails."—London Life.
A CURIOUS LOVE SCENE.
Roehefort Sprang a Surprise on the
Troubled Couple.
Roehefort could be very democratic
on occasions. I remember an amusing
Incident which occurred when Roche
fort was in London. His French cham
bermaid fell in love with his English
••oachman. and they were engaged to
be married. John, who never spoke of
Roehefort otherwise than as "the mar
quee." gloomily informed Charlotte
that their project must be kept a pro
found secret, for it was a custom in
aristocratic houses in London that
when servants in the same household
became encaged to be married they
were promptly dismissed. Charlotte
could hardly believe this, but John as
sured her that it was so
At last Charlotte took her courage in
two hands and. dragging the trembling
John behind her. advanced into the
awesome presence of "the marquee'
while he was taking coffee after lunch.
I was present and witnessed the scene.
"Monsieur Roehefort." said the cham
bermaid boldly. "I have something to
tell you."
Roehefort-Tell me. my child.
Charlotte—John loves me. and I love
John, and we want to be married.
(John went as pale as a sheet.* Does
monsieur see any objection?
Roehefort ihls great blue eyes danc
ing with fun. his arms raised in the
air)—Objection, ray children, objection?
What earthly objection can I have?
Venez done que Je vous embrasse!
(Come and let me embrace you.)
And. to the utter amazement of John
he heartily kissed both young lovers
on both cheeks. —Westminster Gazette.
Can't Escape Lime Salts.
In answer to a communication from
a lay correspondent, who expresses his
belief that "the lime in common water
has much to do with bringing on old
age." the London Lancet says that
while that opinion is common, it is, of
course, fatuous. To those people who
believe that water Is the only possible
channel by which lime salts are con
veyed to the organism the writer says
"Lime salts are Inseparable from the
common, everyday articles of food, so
that if hard water were left out of the
dietary there would still be secured a
large Intake of lime salts, which could
only be avoided by a hunger strike."
Woman and Clothes.
One can't help thinking what a col
orless life a man Is forced to lead when
one reflects that chiffon and Venetian
point and hand embroidery and Irish
crochet are to him mere empty words
"whereas a woman, whether she is in
terested in babies, or microbes, or hus
bands, or poetry, or servants, or paral
lelograms, or gardens, or Plato, or
bridge, is fundamentally and always
interested In clothes.—"Daddy Long
legs," by Jean Webster.
In a Dilemma.
"What are you crying for, Bobble?"
"Boo-hoo! Willie's broke his arm
an* if I lick him all the fellers will say
I'm a coward."
"Why don't you wait till he's well?'
"Boo-hoo! I can't lick him then.
St Paul Pioneer Press.
Picking Up.
"How's collections at your church
Brudder HamboneV"
"Much better since we got a one
armed man to pass de plate."—Wash
ington Herald.
Kept the Better Half.
Algy—You say she only partially re»
turned your affections? Clarence—Yes
She returned all the love letters, but
retained all the Jowelry.-Brooklyn Clt
Uext
I LLE BUTLER COIJNTY PRESS.
A NATURAL RIDDLE
Attraction of Gravitation Is
Yet That Wonderful Force That Di
rects and Regulates Moons, Planets,
8uns and Stars Without Visible
Means of Conneotion Is Inexplicable.
The mystery of mysteries in science
is the attraction of gravitation—that
very force of nature that is the most
familiar to us all. It seems strange
that the most familiar thing in the
world should be at the same time the
most inexplicable, but so It is.
In order to see clearly wherein the
mystery consists, let us first consider
what gravitation appears to be. It is
gravitation that gives ttie property of
weight to all bodies. If there were no
gravitation we could float like thistle
downs and infinitely better than this
tledowns, for they. too. are finally
brought down by gravitation.
It is gravitation that brings a can
non ball eventually to the earth, no
matter how swiftly it may be project
ed. The faster it starts the farther it
will go. but during every second of its
flight it drops the same distance ver
tically toward the earth, whether the
speed imparted to it by the powder is
500 or 3.000 feet per second. Gravita
tion acts on a moving body exactly as
well as on one at rest.
It is gravitation that, curbs the mo
tion of the moon and keeps it in an
orbit of which the earth is the active
focus.
So, too. it Is gravitation that gov
erns the earth in its motion around the
sun. preventing it from flying away
Into boundless space. Astronomy shows
that gravitation acts between all the
plants and all the stars and controls
their motions with respect to one an
other.
Now. this mysterious force appears to
be an attraction, as if there were elas
tic cords connecting all the bodies in
space and tending to draw them to
gether. But space, as far as our senses
can detect, is empty. There are no
elastic cords and no physical connec
tions whatever between astronomical
bodies or between a flying stone or
cannon ball and the earth. How, then
can there be an attraction? In order
that a body may be attracted or drawn
there must be something to draw it.
Gravitation does the trick, but com
pletely hides from us the mechanism
through which it acts. We can discov
er no mechanism at all.
When an unfortunate aeroplanlst
drops from his machine at a height of
a thousand feet he begins at once to
fall toward the earth as if It were pull
ing him. But how can it pull if it
has nothing to pull with? You may
think at first sight that it is the air
which acts as an intermediary, but
that is not so. because the earth and
the moon "pull" upon one another with
a force erpial to the strength of a steel
cable f00 miles in diameter. But there
is no air and no other tangible thing iu
the open space. 240.000 miles across,
that gaps between the moon and the
earth.
Then, gravitation exerts the same
force at every instant No matter how
fast the falling aeronaut may be de
scending at any moment, gravitation
will keep on adding speed as if he had
Just started. Disregarding the slight
retardation produced by the resist!nee
of the air, he will fall sixteen feet in
the first second, forty-eight feet in the
second second, eighty feet in the third
second, gaining thirty-two feet in his
velocity during every second after the
first.
From a height of 1,000 feet he will
come down in about eight seconds, and
will strike the ground with a velocity
of about feet per second. From a
height of 10.HJ0 feet he would fall in
about twenty-five seconds and would
strike with a velocity of 400 feet per
second.
The same kind of calculation can
be applied to the gravitation between
the earth and the moon, if the moon
were not in motion across the direc
tion of the earth's "pull" it would fall
to the earth in about 110 hours.
Now, to returu to the mystery, how
is this force exerted? Is it really a
pull, as it seems to be? The answer
to which science is tending Is that in
stead of being a pull, gravitation Is a
push in other words, that the falling
aerouaut is pushed toward the ground
and the moon is pushed toward the
earth.
On the face of it one might think
that nothing was gained by this
theory, because it seems as impossible
that a pusb should be exerted without
a tangible connection as a pull. But
the clew is found in the supposed prop
ertles of that invisible, intangible, all
pervading medium called the ether.
This, to be sure, is explaining one
mystery by another, for we know
nothing about the ether except that
it couveys the waves of light and elec
tricity: but, at any rate, it affords a
conceivable explanation of gravitation
Dr. Charles F. Brush's theory regards
the ether is being filled with a pecul
iar form of waves and that material
bodies may intercept these waves in
such a way as to be pushed toward
one another on account of the diraln
ished
effect
of the ether waves in the
space between the bodies.—Garrett
Servlss in New York Journal.
if yon know bow to spend less than
you get you have the philosopher's
stone.--Benjamin Franklin.
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Mystery to Science.
IT CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE.
Cuzco's original plan was. singularly
enough, that of the Roman camp, a
quadrangle divided by two intersecting
streets into quarters, with a gate on
»ach face and towers at the angles.
The Incas. like the citizens of the
United States, had no more definite
name for their country than Tavan
tinsuya, the Empire of the Four Prov
lnces. The four streets of the capital,
prolonged by great roads, divided it
Into four main provinces, each under
the dominion of its governor. When
their people came to Cuzco they lodged
In their own quarter, where they ad
hered to their national costumes and
the customs of their own province.
The city today retains the same
general plan, its two principal streets
being virtually the old main thorough
fares. Its two eastern quarters lie
upon steep hillsides: the two western
are in the valley, where runs a little
river, the Huatanay. spanned by
bridges.
The northeast quarter was the Pala
tine hill of this South American Rome
and contains the palnces of the kings,
for each Inca. after the manner of the
Roman emperors, built his own abode,
scorning to live in that of his prede
cessor.—Scribner's Magazine.
HISTORIC NOTRE DAME.
Checkered Career of the Wonderful
Parisian Cathedral.
Some account of the history and
vicissitudes of Notre Dame appears in
the London Strand Magazine. The
first cathedral was erected in the year
528 by Childebert and afterward de
molished, the same site being used for
the present building, which was begun
in 1163 and finished in 1351.
Alexander III. laid the foundation
stone, the first mass being celebrated
by the patriarch Heraclius. The grand
old building has been sorely beset by
many dangers and has witnessed many
strange and stirring scenes.
The reign of terror in 1793 led t«
such disgraceful orgies within the pre
cincts of the cathedral that it wa*
closed to the pubiic as a place of di
vine worship in 1794. but was reopen
ed In 1802 by Napoleon The interior
has suffered severely at times at the
hands of the mob and individuals
The worst offender was perhaps Louis
XIV., who. carrying out his father's
vow, caused the destruction of the
fourteenth century stalls, the high al
tar embellished with gold and silver
statuettes, the cloisters, tombs and
unique stained glasswork. In 1845
restoration was necessary in many
parts of the building, the work being
successfully undertaken by Lassus.
Vlollet le Due and Boeswlllwald.
In 1871. also during the commune.
Notre Dame was menaced with grave
dangers owing to the fury of the
communists, who. having effected an
entrance, collected all the available
chairs and other combustible material
and. piling them In a bonfire, drench
ed with oil in the center of the choir
attempted to destroy the cathedral
by fire. The evil designs of the in
cendiaries were, however, happily
frustrated by the arrival of the na
tional guard.
Misters Are Second Class.
Though one cannot decide what is a
lady by rule of thumb, there are cer
tain kindred problems that can be
solved In that way, and the railway
company knows how to solve them.
Are you, for instance, an esquire or
only a plain mister? The railway com
pany can tell at once. If you hold a
second class season ticket any letter
comes addressed to Mr. Blank, but if
you rise to a first class you become
at once A. Blank, Esq. That Is where
the railway has the pull over the mo
torbus, on which there are no classes.
London Globe.
One Worse.
Blnks, with a yawn, said to a fish
erman:
"Time ain't very valuable to you
brother that's plain. Here I been
a-watchln' you three hours, and you
ain't had a bite!"
"Well," drawled the fisherman, "my
time's too valuable, anyhow, to waste
three hours of it watehin' a feller fish
that ain't gettin' a bite."—San Fran
isco Call.
Habits of the Hired Man.
"Well, did them moving picture peo
pie get pictures of everything on the
farm
"Everything but the gosh blamed
hired man." said Fanner Heck. "They
couldn't ketch him in motioa."-—Kan
sas City Journal.
Cheering.
Mrs. Knagg- If 1 were to die you'd
never get another wife like me. Knagg
—It's very kind of you to say that—
Boston Transcript.
Method is the hinge of business, and
there Is uo method without order and
punctuality. Hannah More.
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CUZCO AND THE INCAS.
Peru's Anoient City Was on the Plan
the Roman Camp.
The ancient city of Cuzco, when first
viewed by European eyes. was. accord
ing to the best authorities, a great and
wealthy municipality of perhaps 200,
000 souls. How old it was at that time
we have scant means of knowing.
Garcllasso would have us believe that
there were only thirteen Incas in the
royal family line from Manco Capac
to Huayna Capac. Montesinos, on the
other hand, assures us that the Incas
ruled a thousand years! Which are we
to believe? No written history of the
race exists—only the records of the
Juipus, those queer knotted strings
which were the Incas' sole documents
and for which no archaeologist has as
yet discovered the key, the Itosetta
stone.
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