——————— 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
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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.