——————— A So i A AAA A KISS, Surrounded by admirers At Long Branch, Hobson stood, ‘As any hero under Sueh circumstances would, And with his heart in tempest, His surging soul in swirls, He calmly faced the muzzles Of halt a hundred girls. There were eves of skyey blueness, There were eyess of beaming brown, There were eyes of gray and hazel, There were eyes to bring one down From heaven to Long Island To wear the hero's crown, And Hobson stood among them, While batteries of smiles Were turned full on the hero, In varying forms and styles, Which filled the air with heart-throbs Aud strewed them ‘round in piles, At last one dainty maiden, A dream of pink-white bliss, From saintly old St. Louis (Wik more of them like this), teached up and handed Hobson A large and luscious Kiss. Then out spake Hero Hobson: “By all the gods,’ said he, “If any one had mentioned That this would come to me, For sinking that Lown in Cuban sea, I'd not have been contented To sink a single one, But would have sunk a million Jefore the job was done.” old vessel the } i » I.’envol. Now { FH: A true and a to Hobson, man ro aood! Who wou And -W. J. ikdn't be an hero Hobson stood? York Sun, ind where st ~ ‘arty ” RR, not bol ie habit of ng an tl drop “hh” on other occasions, said instead of “hearty.” will for- a mystery. addressed on this { onl reon Oceans fon—a rath look tleman, pleasure good heaith. “You healthy, as a “Yes, cidedly. ty « 1 vé r g ing young gen silled his captain's of at sea-faring class” “wy ry pi ® ANnswe ou are HOMme ough sea-z The young by marked, “Comm bhman-— whose name the Johns-re- way, as a ari to A new ves 1 gol, if capt wef That have; found Captain reputation Tome down to Ernest, “and They were meal, in the good old fon of bolting it. “So," the captain, when it was entirely bolted, as he leaned back In his chair in a way that threatened to split t back—"so you're to be my supercargo 7?” “IT am to have swered Mr. Johns, “I like that!” exclaimed the old salt, bringing his st down upon the table iat made the dishes rats that! A supercargo of the gives a moral tone to a ves to yout n sted, and you . indeed, have vou been has never and wantin x B for wi = Lad, indeed, reliability into the cabin,” he sald take dinner.” dispatehing the American fash KOON said he that pleasure,” an-: a £1 ti f there's anything I like, it is a morai tone.” i captain, having expressed added additional emphasis by 1+ round oath, sO ng Both owned by and it at sition 1 Criticism, its discipline, or he mi abin-boy. shrank in glaace, One inconsistency. however, Ernest could hardly help noticting. The cap- tain, in continuation of his remarks upon moral tone, condemned, in no mild terms, the practice of imbibing spirituous or malt liquors, indulged in, a8 hie knew, by some commanders, As this tight-—tight, it is to be feared, in more respects than one—old salt's breath had a suspicions flavor, and his nose an equally suspicious rosiness, his remarks were not calculated to in| gpire confidence. The first week of the voyage passed off without any incident of note. On| one or two occasions the captain | knocked the cabin-boy down, but this | seeming to be nothing unusaal, the siipercargo only wondered a little, and was silent. ‘ It was the ninth day out. Toward | the east nothing could be seen but #ky and ocean: in the west, however, | the cargo and the vessel were John's employers was necessary to have an agent the discharging port; hence his po 1% SuUpereargo. as regarded the vessel, or was no part of his duty, the upon them, the captain's have observed waited from that who terror distorted with passion, ing: “Break dishes, will you, you young scoundrel!” The blow had been a terrible one, for the blood was flowing freely down fhe boy's face. Flushing with indignation, Ernest ran and was about to lift the prostrate lad from the deck, when the captain pushed him rudely aside, muttering: “Attend to your own affalrs, sir, or I'll give you some of the same.” Suppressing his anger, for he saw the man was mnch intoxicated, Ernest stepped aside in silence, Smarting ander this slight interfer men, and commanded: “Don't stare at me, you villians; but tie that boy to the foremast, and be quick about it!” | | | | but they certainle one who did, thalr commander, would oppose no Both supercargo and mate stepped to the captain's side. The former touched him the shoulder, saying “Captain I3i do you know where you are steering?’ The man turned claiming: “Oh, it it?" then your state <i or ov gs sas, with a laugh, ex the mnoldetd, sir “ tio to flercely I'll TOOL, or have “Captain Biggs." ly, “lliis is noe time to waste words or threats, You have overstepped your authority, and I command you to let go that wheel I” The words were scarcely bare back exposed. Now Ernest understood the captain's The boy's cries for and the stripes already on his back, it plaluly. Respectfully, yet with decision, he inquired of Cap- tain Biggs: “What do you intend to do with that child ?—for he is nothing more, ber that!” “None your business, you med dling puppy.” was the reply. “T cannot afford get angry said the super purpose, showed 100 remen- of to with is drunk.” he you lie!” bellowed captain; faced hound irgo making led into holding With a stagrered His another left it «h he abin, and no reply, t tyrant the returned, ugly looking whip at Er ward the bound i ke, and Cen in his hand an rl gi soon ance of defiance est {0 i OV. arm was in mo hip wonula have Hu the white fle with descending blow was : per arm alsed iggs turned an angry 3 re - f ¢ rin grasp of the s Snatehing his infuriated again r man Ernest's flushed « ted | HOW sitetlehe with difficulty Ernest stood upon the « tain, feeling only mu You shall suf ashore.” siupereargo rotsed “It ball 1 suffer the owners of thi rid for it auch nlite naum looking on n's reply, but to » only slunk away ¢ VOWS oi + boy, al He entered after thelr cups wed win Hr desu ra own lives tho tn Liem he had not arrived at r ‘ t conld ) dis f him so « i aft hay Have not 0 but ernoon It knocked room “Who manded. Recognizing of the mate, door. anily in the edd bad reached it four yo was at o'clock. Bome one door of Ernest's state the is there?’ the young man de in the he reply the volee rose aud opened the Seeing the much agitaiad, he inquired: “What is the matter?” “We're all lost unldss something's | done,” was the hurried reply. “An hour ago, the captain came on deck, more intoxicated than ever, and tak ing the wheel. pointed the vessel direct for the shore what he The if we man He either doesn't know iz doing. or intends to very dangerous, and keep this course an hour longer we are all doomed men.” “Mate, madness like this er legal anthority” CArgo. sink is const is is no long the super me in re sald “Will you stand : .s ys $19 £6 357 by sistance “Here's the it, or hand on “mutiny here's my hand on it.” Ernest quickly opened his trunk, and taking from it one of them Me other himself, i “I hope there may no need of | these,” he said, quietly, “but it is best to have them. A revolver 8 a most powerful argument sometimes.” The mate agreed, and with the alr of a man to be depended on. They went on deck. There was a spanking breeze, and theré was not a wrinkle | my gir,” replied no mutiny, tt salior two revolvers, handed te the mate, retaining be Straight before them lay the coast line. Even then the yeast of waves, toward which they were so madly moving was plain to be seen, Once | him. The action and ti Ernest was borne furlated man The mate veered the was upon Wis BO pected, that to the deck, the in- him, ye» shock so great, upon sprang vessel about, The fra wma], helplessly on, while the captain and the roy supercar | of the two: but of physique, youth the stronger man nest, by reason sobriety, was his These equally matched, must fight it out, I'he mate TW, dF dared as not yet in what he open sea, Ww At seemed In re BEA LILe apable of action of doubt, last SRO the contest seized opponent In a way superce "s agility was of huge strength Ernest felt of the ship. avall again Slowly, forced Captain Bigg overboard to tl t : intention to throw ie Sirained muscles quivorsd with pain on, o sel's versary would attempted uri The : 3 to drop the £547] all, when mate, hazarding was about hay ry ’ sharp [oe upon Ernest 1c When 1. he was Prously, wi thin Lif pot each A Celestial Map of Cuba. rRnoon a cur and to those wap the island to and at Decatur an in the trac n all its beauty and the painting Dia zed AVINmetry upeon gaze of the aston rs ished passe ngs Everybody om the car saw it and the car was look could teen ter of Mississippi “ E to H. ( foe secured. Mr Was one ar the island, “It was absolutely perfect,” he said “There the bay of Santiago, that are was found on the map was as perfect could be found in the geographies and as plain printed in ink on fine paper.” “The seas perfect in its out lines,” said Mr. J. H Smythe the execution of the shadows and indentations not have been excelled i - nev est ore to be as as picture lines, by n drafis man saw life Above the cloud bit of the plain fell the 112 moon island the wa one of pletare and or grandeur, the strange the oil} All ov cominented upon fsricdge an excellent and from the tall of fice buildings the wonder fully beautifesl and sublime. The pic ture in the clonds remained for sever al minutes before it vasished—Atlao Rats on lronclads, swith the was Broad streot view could Iw see 1 ey. SOV Was Confronted difficulties the way of rats In drains akirtings, the black rat be baffled, while the rat still remains more of the situation. The ia typical of the value Routine, which is the usual condition of animal existence, does not exist for them. They have to face “reconstructions” of their com. mon surroundings at any given mo- ers put in floors, and would probmbiy sngacious gray or less master rat of brain power. ing men’s cries. A sailor stood by the captain, be-| Ship rats have survived the era of i drunken song as he steered the good ship onward. { Efnest saw that the firearms would | ind that they made her Majesty's mimost uninhabitable, House rats have learned how to cope with gasfittings, lead pipes, brick and ocement floors; “sewer vessel, watehing be dancing waves, ind, turning. beheld the cabin-boy A Sailor Landsman, Pillsy a smattering of naval knowledge and loses uo opportunity to alr it during this period of interna tional unpleasantness, “Heave tol” the when he meets with whom “Just give lings is i Tas my thie way in which or money paid, order delivered thie street talk. on Ww to ne shel pt he asks or a rece and it is probably due to afforded him bills regn the pleasure thus that he is settling which the dl sealed orders’ Is the good had begun “Salling under with which for desire many 1 n=» re aus er toy ns dead dud he meets which he does “face comment quest information not give, aud as a yardarm' is his who not In hilarious mind. He “hauls close to” is confidential and Is always when looking for to as long 5 upon ole is Fl frame of when on a a friend he sits down when he “Where's vour mother the other he “stern chase” He “anchors” and “clears Lis business office. Will?” SOON for action” enters asked as "Hs 'ilisey evening ie reached home, upper de k.! an who 8 a chip of the old or two about “Serubbing the swered WIL block, and knows a nautical affair “Hey, what's that?’ «ft cantanke thing himself shouted the old wis with i taste of the 1 * You hat do know about luting and vou 104, mizzen rigging, stern min hard n frills ith na salty ol I sea dog Uke Leprosy ia Russia Klin r nha every 100.000 total 1.404 women bred S10 mare a i ber of suicides were men His and w» wa f OOK months of mer, | Prof buna di Wing Lombroso toma. attributes the in the number of suicides to the § difficulties of whic upon the cansed of the future er supporting il country bv hh wi thaote de lope fiotesd 1 each dag heavily and to ae utter It where due diff ued lrssness is that in the 8% is th widels s maxim of lot iE tion iis ‘ eddueg advanced than in hool Fortunate Muskegon. Muskegon, one of the most favored cities of the nation in the princely ben efactions she has received at the of one of her citizens, again has rea- son to rejoice In an. additional gift at the hands of her farfamed philan- thropist, Charles H. Hackley. A short time Mr. intention of presenting to the city statues of Ldnceln, Grant. Sherman, i ago «© the contract Just closed fixes the cost at £25,700, and Mr, Hackley, with his characteristic manner of solving such problems, contributed the additional £5700 necessary. The statues will be in bronze, and will represent Lincoln in a sitting posture, with ihe others standing. Mr. Hackley's donations to Muske- gon thus far have been: Hackley Pub lic Library, $125,000; Hackley Square, $45,000; Soldiers and Sailers’ Monu- ment, £27,000; toward the Hackley and High School builaings, as an endow: ment for the library, $75,000; Hackley Manual raining School building and equipment, when completed, $70,000; endowment, $100,000; statues of Lin- coln, Grant, Sherman, and $25,700; total, $467,700. Detroit (Mich. Journal, aaa 1 i THE NEWS. The Thingvalla Line steamer Norge rap into and sank the fishing sebhooner La Co quette on the banks of Newloundiand six- teen mea being drowned, Prof, Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard University, io an address at Ashfield, Mass. said that the prineiples upon which the United States government depends bave besn violated by the war. Lieut, William Tiffany, 8 New York society man and an ofMeer of the Rough Riders, died fu Boston from the effects of starvation and « xposure in Cuba, Tho democratic Btate convention of Ohlo met at Dayton snd pominated a full ticket, The platform declares for free sliver and for William J, Bryun's nomination for President in 1900, Henry Gage, of Los Angeles, was nomi- nated for Governor by the republican Biate convention of Callfornia Michigan probibitionists nominated =a Governor, ““‘Patriotio Spirit of Bankers’ was discuszed by the Amerlean Bankers’ Association in session at Denver, Col. Admiral Behley ly suffering from a slight attack of nervous trouble at the home of his daughter, at Bridgeport, Conus. Obilo Democrats are aroused by a report that John KB, McLean, the Cluelnngs! paper publisher, widely known as a Bryan ad voouats, has been offered and has socepted the post of Bocretary of War as successor to Alger. The semi-oentenninl meeting of 15s amor lean Association for the Advancement of BSelenoe was begun in Boston, The police of San Francisco have been asked to arrest Mrs, Botkin, of Btosktan an the charge of being the woman who sent through the malls the box of candy which of Mrs, SEwEe Dunniag aud ber sister, Mrs, Deane, An express traln on the New York, Haven and Hartford Raliroad ran intc cal train standing at Sharon Station, killing »ix and injuring twenty-six, The formal transfer of the Hawall Islands to the United Biates by the ceremony of rals- ing the Stars and Stripes occurred at Hono- New —— pEiscas brought by a steamer arriving at A negro who killed a woman and har sap bed with an sxe near Friendship, Ga, mutilsted a oclored is woman, was lynched red woman. HBeveral persons lost their lives which destroyed two hotels, a in a Joseph Castellanos, detained in Fort Me. Ga, on suspicion a his release acd injured by s mol Texas Republloans, in State {adorsed Nicarague project and the annexation of Hawaii The Boston Convention oanel the os that the organi was complet the United to have a including Journal stat to be and Aoiiare intts In this ©0 ed in Boston, tis said of several millon ¥ CRUSHED IN A TUNNEL. Blast That Buried Nearly a Seore of Workmen Eight Were Killed, A Pittaburg special says: Eight men kliled possibly ten, and five more badly In- Jured, two fatally, at the Carnegie tunnel on the Chartier's division of the Panbandie Baliway. The accident was due to the wall of tunnel caving in a number o were ys Lhe on of was taken West Penn Hospital tn a dying One of th is also expected to be men wore part of a gang of 68 empis 5 | m AK ured, unkpows, Five men were it negr One GADe eon thers ed by Casper Paris, a contractor fr ~ iumbus, O, They were engaged in the puel on the Chartier's branch of the Panhandle road, just west the town of Carnegie The work bs being done at night in order not to interfere with trafflo during the day. It bas progressed for about a month out secident, and was nearing completion, The gang of workmen were engaged tu Valley it in the out the purpose and were ready to driii some Suddenly the wall fell over on them, Every man standing at The other workmen at once began Seven of the men were taken dead, out supposed to be under a great pile of rock at the eastern snd of the tunnel, Most of the men employed on the work They go by numbers instead of names, and nothing is knows of their family relations, EXCLUSION OF ARMED REBELS Firmuoness of Gen, Merritt Believed Have Saved Manila, to The Manila correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph, in a dispateh dated Sun- day, says The news of the armistice arrived on the 16th. Itis feared that the Americans may restore the Philippines to Spain and thus in- augurate a fresh perold of tyranny, extor- tion and rebellion, ““The Spanish guarantees for freedom of supervision, “The Americans Spanish treasury, “Foreign opinion is lond in praise of the action of the Amerfoas commanders in ex ciuding armed rebels from the city. There found $500,000 in the *‘A week 8g0 there appeared 10 be a pos- sibility of a collision with the rebels, but quiet.” or Promotion, A Washington special says: The Presi. y manding the military forces at Manila, for ations that resulted in the surrender of the oapital of the Philippines. It ts the Presi dent's purpose to promois officers woo rendered conspiolously meritorions service in the land fights at Manila, just as was done in the case of the gallant ofMcers at Santiago. Spanish Prisoners Moved, THE KEYSTONE STATE. Latest News Gleaned from Various Parts. BIG FIRE AT CAMMAL. Desperate Fight with coming Hamlet in » Ly- George HH. Mel- lotte Ordered Heport st Montauk Foint- Disappointed in Her Sweetheart a Young Woman Attempts Her Life, Finmes Hew to The plant of the Williamsport Wooden Pipe Company, st Cammal, was nearly de- stroyed by fire, the blaze being caused by an "Xplosion in the creosote department, Levi Kyre, an employe was horribly burned A argo fores of men and boys turned out to fight the flames, but they spread so rapidly that the town was threatened with destruc tion and ald was asked from Willlamsport, A fire company with engine and hose left at midnight over the Fall Brook Foad, but the fire was under control when they reached thers, During the progress of the fire a large boller filled with ereosots ploded. It was carried seventy feet up the mountain side, but fortun ately no ote was gure, ex- Brooklyn's Guuner Talks E. C. Campbell, of Clarion, port gunner of the Brooklyn, who has been iu the navy six years, went through Pittsburg on his way {uome Gunner Campbell sald it was under $200d In paval circles that the rumored ourt of inquiry on the battie with Cervera's fleet has siready been appointed, and was sald to be at work in order to shift confiiet. | ing statements. Gunner Campbell added: — ‘Every man who saw the battle will admit { that it was Bebley's fight and that Sampson | bad nothiog to do with the actual fighting, | Our battery was the first to let go atthe { Spaniards as they came dashing out of Bap- { tiago harbor, After the Cristobal © sur- rendered to the Brooklyn and Moers were being conveyed olion the to a New York intercepted the t former's the Ameri. from san battiesbip as prisoners the cutter carrying 1Sey were Lakon 0 oat the Bpanish officers and the flagship Fastor As Army X arse. George H. Meliotte, «x East Nautmeal Baptist Church, bas received rders to report to Colonel W. H. Forwood, | surgeon in charge of the general hospital at Rev pastor of ' os { Montauk, R, L, to assume the duties of army {uurse. Atl the beginniog of the present war | Mr. Mellotte offered his services to the Uni- tod Blates Goveroment as a obapiain and ister on as a nurses He is a veteran of the | inte war, 4 member of Company A, Tenth { New York Heavy Artillery, and is Chaplain »f the Union Veteran Legion No. 22, of Pottaviile, Large Flag Finng wrut. A large American flag | swung across the great { Ridge, at Inwood, on the Division, Philadelphia Ballway, under the auspices Patriotic Order Sons is suspended ' and ‘1 | auQ joel 50 Ly 80 feet, was gap in the Blue Lebanvon & Pioe & Reading f Camp 428, f Americon, The flag oable 1000 wards long Six tho Grove oO from a sustained on twelve wire puileys. halysrds made by E and present of are Speeches were Protessor fumuel | great crowd !iustily, Groh was Mardered by Tramps. | Peter iaborers i home ob Gorkee and August Smith, both ou the Piolet farms Towanda, left Saturday and Saturday evenlug, jumped an Erle coal train at Waverly Five mlies from Waverly they were set { upon by tramps who killed Gorkee, robbed | him of his watoh and money snd threw his { body from the traln. Smith was also thrown from the trala apd is thought fatally in. jured. The police were promptiy at work ! on’ the case, but have not yet secured the | murderers. Boy's Dangerous Injuries While Miller Clark, the 14-year-old son of Mra Samuel Clarke, of Sharkespeare, was descending from a plum tree, where he was pleking fruit, he lost his bold. In sliding down was caught by a clothes hook fast vo the tree, just between the left eye and front. al bone, where he hung until a selghbor at- tracted by his awiful cries, released him, The flesh was horribly tora about the eye, but the sight, It is believed, can be saved, Suicide for Lave. Miss Carrie Smith, an inmate of the Wil. liamsport jall, attempted suicide by throw. ing herself Irom the banunister of the second tier of oells to the floor of the corridor, eighteen feet below Her skull was [rac tured and she will die, She had pinned this letter to her clothing: “IMJoehad loved me as I loved Lim." it said, “and would bave laid Jown his life forme as] bave mine for him, we could both bave been happy.” Leaped From Flying Car. A colored woman attempted to jomp from a car on the Neversink Mountain, Reading, while it was rusning at full speed. She ex. claimed: “I'se dun gone to kill myself be. fore de night if de good Lord doa't kill me, Sho was restrained, but a little later, when unobserved, she gave a leap and landed fil. teen feot away, She was not seriously hurt, It 1s sald the woman was discharged (rom a mountain hotel and was grieving over her fate, Baffled Highwaymen, While William Robloson and Fred Weaver, two young men from Spring City, were driv. ing home from Phoenixvilie, they were bold up bytwo highwaymen in & lonely spot, known as Spooks’. Holiow, near the Phos nixviile Beservolr, but luckily made their asscape before the fellows could perpetrate a robbery. Drowned in the Sehayikill John Chapman, 25 years, residing at the Seaman's Home, while working on a dredge, belonging to the American Dredging Com- pany, iyiog at the moath of the Schaylkill River, toil overboard and was drowand, The body was not recovered. se ns ds Out West the other day a young far mer killed a girl berause she refused to go to singing school with fim. He must have bad queer ideas about the best way to secure harmony.
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