THE FIFE AND DRUM. “This is life,” cries the fife: “Come, oh, come,” shouts the drum, As the steel that is bared flashes light; Heart and pulse quicker beat, As fast, down the streat, Is heard the wild rhythm of volunteers feet, Marching forward to fight! “Leave the wife!” screams the fife; “Leave the home,” booms the drum, And the blood answers hot in the ery, What are children or wife To the glory of strife, life? Let us live, ere wa die! ‘Mid the strife is the fife; Drowned by gun is the drun, Bared steel is now dinted and gory; Yet, strain as we may, There are some that must stay And forget, in the duty dons bravely each day, Chance for honor and glory. AVENGED BY A SERPENT. 1. When I got George's letter telling me that all was ready for in and we were to come was do. lighted. Within a week we—mother and I—were on our way out about time f salves the Essequibo, where on the waiting ake had made for us George Haden our receptic at once | and three weeks’ between the tO t try, and love sight. We were to bh he returned uddenty with mother. You agine sweet! and a ance; he looked fifirst I put it down Harr quiet wedding, on the home | 3 more t His 1 Spaniard had leaving It was « that had ment he had stay with arrangen then most and ex istence Now, George the tempered you on with, but not t« We steamer, band tropl washed clean On the a pale yellow crowned with splendidly S8he ful way “So 3 casually “And Her calm was good tempered ed Ie + 's death; died (ieoree i x ined ioneg my forgotten nes and hands woman! a half aunt’ F new unbearable m with anger “Never mind, my nn better: and it won't | But it was for longer ¢ oned. She was to boen her godmother, whe But the old lady was to keep the girl ¢ It was trying to day EOt Worse ands temper was somethis her general lack equalied WARS anything to be for my husband's sa Toward the end of the co our old English ov : a! stop-gap, George took on 1 Spanish-American, Ramon Ma: Ramon was a smart lookir but there was something in eyes which repelled me. 1 fait a shrinking repulsion “or the man, and George didn’t care much for him. Still, it was necessary to have someone who understood the sugar, and men knew anything we 80 scarce couldn't pick and chooss Teresa who loved the cheap gavetiss of Rio, had been nearly bored to death all the winter, Ramon was a godsend to her, and the two used to chat in Spanish every evening over their coffse on the veranda, Sometimes I blame myssif for letting them be so much together, but. to tell the truth, the relief of getting rid of ber even for an hour or two was very great. And how could I know what a scoundrel the man was, or what une spenkable wickedness those two were brewing together, And now [ must pass over the events of the next ten months and tell you what happened on that dreadful day which so nearly proved fatal to all my happiness, Old Juan, a half-caste Indian em- ployed on the place, came up that morn ing wanting to see my ausband. They talked for a .ime, and then 1 saw George go out with a gun on kis shoul- QL ow - Sie Know han frir e 1Or ong $i 5 4 aan we K- sent to Madrid begged us re Ave ards i Weil by her TG * black always who you * hear what he said. He was a keen collector, and I sup he was after, The day passed and the short, trop- ical twilight was closing over the for. est when | saw George returning. He was followed by two natives, who heavy ob- Ject up the path to tha house. ‘This they pulled along trailing In the dust, houso, really two study, by where George's so-called a sort of a museum, opened French windows on the lawn. IL I was dressing for 8 o'clock dinner, so not go out. Soon I heard George's house, To make you understand what fol- lowed, I must partly explain how the It was from north to south, long and narrow with a veranda way round, A hall ran through from east to west, and a long to south, The room the wide dining room was the front my room, under There north end, under the south, occupied, the were sludy at Teresa two 3, one le of hundred away, high- vards it the be ward after hear in dreadful 1 1 my husband i his flyin CAT room ant g feet way. Other soun 1 hea ries tor and alarm, hurring footst slamming of doors. Then I sum strength to follow. As | rye vy rot D : moneaed A frightful pound- ing, like a dozen sledge-hammers going at once, ensued. and the next | heard a scream of maniacal laughter, and Teresa rushed by me and out into the night, The next thing I remember ia George volce, in tones of strong command, “Keep back, Marian!” he called “it is no fit sight for you.” IL I stood there in the middie of the passage , while around the open stuly door stood a little knot of native ser- vants. Their faces were ashen with terrer, and the white of the'r eves gog- gled horribly. A thin smoke floated out of the room, and the keen smell of gunpowder filled the air. The throb- ing beat had almost ceased and George passed into t.e room, while | stagger. ed back, and sinking into a chair in the hiil, fainted dead away. I need hardly explain what had hap- pened, The wreiched Ramon had come in earlier than usual to dinner; had, contrary to his usual custom gone to the study, evidently t= leave the pass-book for the day, and had walked straight into the trap set for another, Those horrible colls had crushed him quick succession. i in its terrible agonies, had rent ths wretca’'s body In a shocking way, leaving it an unrecognizable mass, That was what Teresa had seen, The shock no doubt had crazed her, When she ran out, she went straight to the river, at least we SUpPOKE BO, for we never saw anything of hor agalr alligators in those waters, There are THE RAINY SEASON IN CU3A. Sald to be the Most Charming of the Year Epidemics Due to Negligence. Mr, William T. Hornaday, chief natu- rallst of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, has spent nearly ten years in East India, Borneo, and Sumatra jungles collecting rare animals, birds, ingects, and serpents for the Smith- sonian. He is the only white man who ever lived among the head huaters of jorneo, “All this talk of the danger in Cuba of the rainy season, yellow fever, ete greatly exaggerated,” Mr. Horna- day sald recently. “Because the Span- ish army has lost heavily, many un- informed persons fear that the country would be fatal newly arrived Americans it to green BSpan- lards, The Spanish troops I saw were wretchedly fed and clothed, and abso- lutely no heed is to enforce the regulation is as to as wag taken obvion food, » men shoul sanitary clothing, i have to live medicines who sald alled out nost vtharm- wins gener. wit 1 $4 PAY ANG Asis 2 u } mest arn her . § i usually ite $ somesim ana MIOPDAn ied makes y crops what they cooked food eschewing over-indulgence in the fruits of the to the growing ve our sugar and t are By eating well shat country, usually so tempting ¢ always sleeping under some and not the 1d, the green Yankee from New hills may laugh the ‘rainy season’ and the ysl. It for the unaceli- mated man the first three months of his from three to six grains morning and a mild twice a week. You may be as wet as possible if you are on the slrangers, shelter on bare of Hampshire at bogy of the low fever is well tay to take of quinine every purgative, say move, but when you stop change yout socks and all this fever wel clothes for dry ones You will never have if ’ you remembered rules” Suastroke from a Germ. The symptoms of “sunstroke” are known to occur without any necessary tion with the rays of the sun or high temperatures, hut a somewhat novel view of the earse of the malady has been taken by Dr. Sambon, an Italian physician, who believes the cause to be a specified germ. Accord: ing to Dr. Sambon, “The specific or- ganism of siriasis’ (siriasis or ther. mic fever is so called from a connec- tion which is believed Uy certain peo- ple to exist between Sirius, the dog star, and sunstroke) “is prabably spread in the superficfal layers of the soll like other pathogenic micro-ors ganisms, and may be conveyed to man by dust blown by the wind or thrown up under the tread of a marching col- umn, It is then inhaled into the lungs or injected into the aiimentary canal, where it produces the virulent texin which probably, as in cholera, becomes absorbed and get up these symptoms of the disease. Gireat Britain's Five Flags In all Great Britain has five flags the royal standard, the union jack, the merchant flag, the naval ensign and the blue ensign, the flag of the naval reserve, The union jack is hoisted by colonial governors and each colony shows a different badge. It takes long practice and constant study to identify every British flag that one would see in a voyage around the world. —~Chicage Tribune. faa fect » - THE CITY OF MANILA. A DESCRIPTION OF THE CAPITAL OF THE PHILLIPPINE ISLANDS. For Fifteen Months, Manila, the capital of the Island of Luzon and of all the Philippine Islands, 18 a city of about 100,000 population, not including the adjacent which have a total population of about 60,000 additional, The city is pronounced by the Spaniards as suburbs, name the accent on the middle is the see of the Roman Catholic arch- bishop and one of the great emporiums of the It is located on the bay of the same name the mouth of the River Pasig. The city proper forms tne of a circle between the river sea, and its suburbs extend merous islets formed by the river and The Pasig is d by syllable. East. at ai segment and the over nu branches, into the bay ing, the one in a small fort in a light Vessels hundred come up Wh POOLE iwo pliers, terminal the other house of Bom tons the bridge. the but may On the 8 having a strongly fortified, ituateq pop resid auth side dilapidated in the Elnondo itburb city, 100K nort the than the city itself of foreig: the great center of The as Spanish “ » th nee the age man ¢ Lhe rdens 1 vegetables embroideries artisans Anda ar for Pedro iit is inhabit Convalescent sort health Anna and San incipal put $b Le Santa The the cath pr different mona {0 teries Young the supreme court , University, a ma a large and bar- squares of which the Prado of Charles IV University tha women, wrison, civil hospi the The largest house several theater, custom racks has the city in there is a bronze The Royal and Thomas Dominican of statue Pontifical hands a téondaneas attendancy ¢ of of St Li an Fhe Colleg the Jesuils plain half tO the about St. Jose to utheran gives ucation to Indians and Es Pia belongs and is for Spanish children mar.ne school was IS20 and a commercial s bella are for girlz, the latter orphans. Manila is the scat of gover ment and of the supreme courts. municipality dates fr 1551 hich formerly occ which rank of comparative obscurity, is now ueia alone royal established in t Pan otf. isa hool om Manila, commercially equal to Cal. Batavia This change has been wrought by legislative and poe {itical changes during the nineteenth century. Being the chief port Philippines all .aeir productions flow to and through it, and it is the resort of a great number of colonial vessels of all sizes. It exports sugar, tobacco indigo, manila, hemp and cordage, gold dust, birds’ nests, coffee, sapan wood, mats, hats, hides, trepang tortoise ghell, cigars, cotton and rice. The manu. facture of Manila consists Chiefly of cigars and cheroots, a government monopoly which gives employment to several thousand men and women; cordage from the filament of the abaea and the beautfui fabrics called pinas woven from the fibres of the p neappie teaf and afterward beautifully embroid- ared, Manila was founded by Legaspi in| 1571. In 1645 it was nearly destroyed by an earthquake. In 1762 it was taken by a Brisa fleet and held for fifteen months. regarded as cutta and of the — Curious Phillippine Industry. The Philippine Islandsers pursue an! interesting and curious industry, They take the great marine shells known aa sea conchs, which are plentiful in the China sea, boil them go as to kill the mollusk which lives inside, remove the | meat, and then saw and carve the shell into all sorts of useful shapes. The shell is a very handsome white, with | a light pearly lustre on the Accord: | and an Irridescent gold within. Accord it 1s cut they turn out bowls, plates, oups, saucers, vases, large and small boxes, card casey pinholders, matchboxes objects, Labor is very cheap, thanks to Spanish role, the from five to ten cents result these shell goods A handsome for one cent The wife of Manila has a col- thousand s did not shells are very durable and much stronger than china or pore celain, a day, As a are very cheap likewise tablespoon can be bought and a dozen for a former resident lection of which she # a dime at over a pieces, ay COst over thirty dollars. The AN IRISHMAN IN SPAIN Si of an O'Donnell Doas. of the ory be The Very Strange Among arl brotaers In the early part century left and, of spain named yonnell their native ( course country re and went : where they all one died in the Duke he was better known nell; he has car- Cars hese ' TT ¥ became Of i etuan, though General O' Don. y 1 2: T 3 } 1 "nt Wag one i # NOR oriiiant military men of est brother but was nothing in i to General breakfast happy expr wa fence wy 4 w give Ag he waz fini guard came to take ut the pr O'Donnell t 1 at once, shook hanls yooth his friend jaoners with the man who was 1 and his another cigarette i ana enemy, lit walked r own dogs writes R. H. Hartwell, with G. F, Barmofe, to pay such bills by a general property, no justice in townships insuring the owners of sheep againet the loss flock, and not insuring other property in t manner In New townships in done to sheep and other I agree that it is unjust tax on the 8% there is of their } ae same allows the the town Jersey law meetings to { manner th damage domestic ani. mals should be paid, whether by a lax of 50 1 head dog, or whither a sulicient be laid on the dogs the to pay such damage. ner ia tax is laid sum is not bills, then tage and Heil at their decide wha e on each tax shall townsnip the Srst man. on, then a per capita and collected and if such sufficient to pay the ghesp each one gets his percen- there the matter ends for that year. If the second plan is adop:- then all sheep bills are presented at the August meeting of the township committee, and the assessor is orderid to place a sufficient tax on the dogs wo pay the bills in full, together with the cost of collecting. This jaw works well in New Jersey, and if the people of cents or 1 per of it decided ed, less could have a jaw of this kind passed. The members of the Legisia. tire of New Jersey” who voted to as sese dll property to protect the own. ers of a particular kind of property would dig his political grave ' Tha owners of dogs will see to it that no unjust valuation is placed on the sheep destroyed.—~American Agriculturist A tunnel under the straits of Gibral. tar is proposed by Mr. BerDer, who lately drove the tunnel under the Seine for the s=wage disposal of Paris A special industrial association has been formed at Copenhagen with a view to promoting trade interests be tween Scandinavia and Russia A DIPLOMATIC BOUNCER, Unique Position Held by Eddie Savoy In the State Department a: Washington. “One of the most interesting charac ters in the Government service,” said an official of the State Deparime®:, at “is Eddie SBavoy, the col- messenger of the assistant secre. He has been emploved in that department for the past years and is thoroughly imbued with all its customs and traditions A per fact in his way, never BEER he should not nor it is intended he least is he do business well as those Washington, ored tary of state = he Hangs diplomat anything knows anything should know, At that impresses the people who BOA how with him-his superiors as desiring to communicate with thes. His pogition is a tly confidential one, aud frequehtly puts him in posses gf ric sion of highly important state secrets, the premature disclosure of several instances would have Government. recent seriously embarrassed the But never since first mgd Y foreign office, back in he enter the 2 tion of Secretary F Department was located ing at the corner of 14th now used by the orphan been Known w anything of the ne tell whatever Htate ot personalls nid onfided retary Day « 13 holy paint, clean and scouring brig no means ready of their mess leave, | ants to order the have been whi h big cold be Now, this « gentiemen haughty Bellevue seam walter and the Continental many moments filled with great aston ishment, for t of men in seamen's of deep knowled » hear from the lips garb words indicatiw go B naicaia “ Bustato- walters, al- yet of things rial, in the {f the most these opinion © lerstanding And passes waiters Une wig | A Strangely Lost Race. The great myster: and one which must ev i inzoiud is the story of the lo race and th country. The i Wat, rising vanished civilization populated jungles, remal morial ‘of a great empire which has utterly disappeared and is altogether ost to history. No one will ever haow who planned this gigantic temple, or what tyrant hounde on his myriads of people to build up immense blocks of stone and cover them with the most elaborate of sculptures. Ang- kor-Wat is one of the most astonisa- ing monuments in the world and this forgotten temple was built so as to endure as long as the sarh itaslf. were it not for the irresistibly destructive effect of plant life on the strongest walis that man can raise. Oniy a highly civilized and wealthy people could have erected Angkor-Wat—a very different race to the Annamite of modern days. The whole nation has China, ie, KOOP sparsely slrange= the me theses disappeared as utterly as the busy myr- fads who once populated the wastes and solitudes of Memphis. —Singapore Free Press. Medical science has made little pro- gress in Turkey. Missionaries have irequently found people. ill from smail- pox, neglected, in order that the divice will ehould have its own way. s
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