NOY HING IS GAINED WITHOUT CRIT, Ronert GRrAY, There's nothing that's gained without grit, — Remember that always, m Ambition will solemnly sit, And energy, mayhap, go mad. Unless grit push them To the goal preme, Your life's but a son Your struggle Ah, then, if Be sure that you do it For, until you do, You will find 1t quite true lad, = along reigns su 11 will where success molent SON, dream i 134 vou would hit, vith grit; wearisome nail My lad, That nothing You struggle until you i with a sigh, * Yr i hen say, Oh, didn't some one take hold ng are old. Nothing won, why Ir me itil sometin was arive 0g NIGH UNTO DEATH. A TRUE STORY OF THE PHILIPPINES. awaken y RenRkrierreen BUPPEIRPERPR PE RPIREREPYPR WHIT QOLLYN RAGLE, POWELL, Us 3. A, ut 1 : ugint my country had need of me of he and aurecle of a prospective ng me with hero on, I enlisted. 1 was only a with bitter experience of ng left a comfortable home, a fond mother, a pretty sweetheart, and a good position, to go far away across the water, to | for my country. 1 found de- Light not ing <cumit nor do Hi : ine fail to do my duty beneath the bur sun of the tropics. I did not to the deadly mias maof the jungles, was | ever effected by the wnpour of of rain that those far away Philippine Islands. After two or three successful contacts with the Filipinos, we had settled down into a hum-drum kind of camp life, and were lying Capas, in northern Luzon. 1 had tired of the everlasting ration. and so, one day, im Novémber, 1809, I, in company with Privates B, C and L, armed with our rifles and car- tridge belts, left camp and proceeded to : the sheet near t2c southeast, for the purpose of elab- orating our diet by the purchase of some chickens from the natives, As it was not altogether safe to travel any great distance from our command, We kept our eyes open as to our sur- roundings. We had not gone very far, however, when we discovered a party of armed men in the edge of the wood near us, and at about the same moment we were fired on by them. Did you ever hiear a lot of bullets whistle as they flew by you? No? Well, take my word for it, the music is not pleasant to the ear. 1 have often heard music that was more agreeable on the vaudeville stage, We returned the fire of our neighbors and started to retreat. Then we suddenly perceived that our retreat had been cut off by another party, while the enemy, fifty or sixty in number, began closing in on us from all sides, firing as they came. We returned in kind the compliments they extended to us until they came guite close, when Private B fell to the ground with a shot in his breast, ap. parently mortally wounded. In the mean. j time the enemy had suffered from our i fire, Three of their number had been | killed and four wounded. i them and they rushed upon us furiously, evidently with the determination of kill. that further we surrendered. our ing us at once. Seeing resistance was hopeless, nots nding which one of withists caps strike approach d close enoungh to of Be i the head 4 nrobabliv WOuld proba { had not party forcing him to {ors i blow gan, our nvmber a crashing butt finish officer desist, 1 the away toward of the road leading to Con i one of a with We { then hurried river in | the direction had to leave ing mie ception, but we { wounded comrade ly vet dead, with ¢ surrounding He fi und boloed Arriving i¢ reed ACT OSS, the the subsequently ground, enemy on not of Was were rapidly captors heing fired t of American sol But they at the river, we our upon by a detachmen diers that appeared in view. ww on account of our jungle faint tra oward ned ) the ils 4 mau messengers mark, and the pd or dead 0 us with their hing touch to their dastardly work. 1 saw them cutting up the other fellow: and feigned death, al though I had a great hole in my chest. Therefore, they bolo me much, Ameri were getting quite Then our murderers made a pre- the murderers rushed up bolos, and put a fins 1 did not | for the near. ans ipitous flight Dark, shadowy | power me, and [ struggled as with a foe. Indeed, | fighting with Death, after the was only unty the wings seemed to over- vith myself felt murderers left us, arrival on the ground of Lieu- tenant S. and Dr. CG. troops. Their voices were like those of angels to our ears. They found Private L. shot quite dead. Private C. was mor. tally wounded, being shot and then bo- loed in the back of the neck, by which Ins head was nearly severed from his spinal column, He was rational and lived for about an hour, giving directions as to what should be written to his peo- ple. He had asked the doctor if he was going to die, and upon being told that it was impossible for a man, wounded as hie was, to live but a short time, he said, “Tell father about it, and tell him § died like a soldier.” Poor fellow, he and L. were buried with military honors and as the bugle sounded “taps” over their graves, those beautiful words of Bret Harte came to my mind: Fades the light, cometh night, And a star leadeth all, speedeth all to their rest, Love, good night; must thou go, when the day and the night Leave me s0? Fare thee well! Day is done, Night is on! The remaining three of us were car. ried to the hospital and tenderly cared and afar goeth day, for, and from the wi isperings that took | place about our cots, I know they thought we could not live. But, thanks | to good constitutions and excellent nurs. | ng. we lived alided and thus 1 am delight the how it feels and were im home | describe to life, and ol nigh unto death! able to you i af a soldier’ to he They Have Hourly Collect ions and De | liveries in London, service the and that is any point | letter in : answer the off he can | depending, | mpiness of the | addressed within | her de busi of the public ahead of us From write a morning and get an and if not far in the country, vpon the pre ¢ letter is anywhere feat far deliveries In one ure British are their mail in the London a man can day, too i H He do the same COUurse, 0 rule whom th will {his 100 11% apply Ban} k of E ngland, hourly les of the ollections and parts of the city, the as the hourly « in all s as well residence quarters average ities O61 Over number liveries in inhabitants 1s fo Himts 10,000 ure | a d iy WwW teen letter if a magi cnstomary t write ALPHABET ON A PIN'S HEAD, Done in Less Than Two Hours by a Bal timors Engraver. engraver, has €1 Av * RB ng pinhead is inch, and it can letters mt the small one-fourth the size lett i's Prayer en on a dollar hour and afternoon he work occupied 1alf, and was done Houseal attend to cus was done with engraver's tool, “I had heard of man who done this,” said Mr. Houseal, in exp ing Ms design yesterday, “but I did could be done, and determi rubbed graved during casionally leaving it the store. It an ordinary Some hae jain no’ pec | i eac obtain g | the cemen | to try myself. 1 first the \ to surface. Then 1 heated stich small articles. When the cement cooled I screwed the disk tightly to the stand. The most difficult part of the | matter to me was in keeping track of | I used a four-inch lens on the | job, but 1 am not accustomed to wsivg 5 | the pin and go digging around like 3 man in the dark. But 1 managed to keeg | pretty well on its track.” The regularity of the letters as thes | are seen under the glass testifies to this Mr. Houseal says he will keep the pir as a curiosity ~Baltimore American, — Viceroy of ireland. It is not all “champagne and cheese tartlets” being Viceroy of Ireland, ane one of Lord Cadogan's minor but con. stant worries has been the obligation tc precede his wife. At first he constantly forgot, and Lady Cadogan was obliges to remind him in a hurried whisper that he must enter the carriage first 0 lead the way, and it is said His Lord ship obeyed with a peculiarly miserable expression of countenance. It is re freshing in these days, when there i tendency to regard lightly the sacred tie of husband and wife, to see a couple s¢ devoted to each other as Lord and Lady Cadogan, Her portrait hangs above hey husband's writing table, and His Ex cellency has been heard to sey that i inspires him to persevere in ‘he mos | tiresome task~The King. THE COMMON HOUSE FLY. a STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LITTLE PEST. He is an Agent of Infection He Has Many Piratical Traits and is Quickly Drawn by Scents Cousing-Cerman That Are Vir. ulent and Bloody-Minded, The common house fly is an agent infection, But that not his here. Albeit no sucker, he has every other piratical char- Like Macbeth, he murders sleep with his dorning, buzzing or crawl- mg. He ment of ROSSIDS, ¢ 15 claim to blood- acteristic, 1s as inquisitive as a whole regi- He is as determined to the earth and the fulness thereof, excuse or explanation of such acqui- itiveness he can plead his eyes. They rubies, faceted several thousand image 1 hus himself Cony - POSSESS In like forming a perfect every of the facets, before, behind, nd Naturally, it is to the sense of property and pro- | and materi i Mai and rough one aro sanie timid be thus of all fur ' ai, to | hese out insect's isioned eyes, yortion to the are, ited that they can be pushed of when occas They are so big, indeed, he head, fly size, 50 MOL out socket, 101 and one may pag ks aw ay ided 3 ey may be driven to run away unbearable pain of the stinging sucking hig across the spread of the win though suck voraciously and bite hard, are not to be named in the same breath with flies, It is rare to see a dozen true horseflies at once. With opportunity, they bite anything that has but are shy of attacking human beings. They have beaks as ng apd make wounds that sometimes bleed after they have been driven away or killed. They have fur- ther the stock fly's malicious knack of settling and sucking in the most inaces- sible spots. But since they offer fair tar. gets for an expert with the whip it is jubberly horse-flies, two inches 1 {hey the swarming stock blood, big as darn. needles, lash, York swish of the about.=N ew to kill them with a as they hover buzzing Sunn, Florida an Odd Corner. The State of Florida is an odd corner of our domain. It has many peculiar and interesting geological aswell as phy. It is well known to geologists that beneath the orange and sweet potato fields, indeed, un- der the entire sandy surface stratum of this peninsula, at a depth varying from a few to a hundred or more feet, is an immense bed of erocene limestone, the solid foundation upon which Florida surface material rests, This is known to be very impervious to water, and in many places to be honeycombed by cawi. ties, caverns, and varicus other charac teristics of the eroding action, In evidence of this Florida well dig- gers inform us that in sinking wells into this rock their drills frequently make sudden drops, falling at a single drop from a few inches to several feet, These eroded places must contain Jakes, wells, and streams innumerable-—streams that vary in magnitude from tiny rills of wandering water to small rivers follow. ing courses many miles through the dark passages. It is obvious there- fore that conditions very favorable to the formation ot sink depressions exist in and they are found all over the State.~New York Tima CANINE _ENDURANCE. Remarkable Speed at Which Many Dogs realize } f f ’ capal London Mai Some 1 m eimnark LICH have been gathered by SCientisg After pointing ot durance hown | Dy . : 4 follow their mas while the teri latter are riding on bicycle in carrrages, that even cert he Sd YS greater endurance is that 1 to dogs. Thus a wolf can run between 50 anc 060 miles night, and an can do well, if not y of these than shown by ain wild a mals are akn in one quite as better. ansen met one foxes on pomt more 70 miles north the Sannibow les from the et of the main prison mall trick building itively plain in appearince as This structure contains the ham an apartment which ever ean than He goes into it with life thril- very pulse, He leavesita perrons—all men have been put to death fe prim possible death ¢ ber, no prisoner ters more once ling e corpse, except in this Twenty #1X one room Ihe aparin ent is as The walls oae ood are a dozen Fl officials occupy when the At t wich the capital pen alty of the law 1s At is the death chair. A visible. Every other justice is ¢ plain as are bare. 4 stools exterio being executed the other end few w are ires accessory of homocidal mn i ie prisoner sits in the chair. trical head piece is adjusted. fastened to one of the legs. and in less be eo cealed The ele ge is Silently a signal is given time than the thought can life has been ended on- ed a Weekly. eely The Modest of Chil dhood half ith Maze I must not you ask me to, out y 3 is rieraig A Lotion For Tan, A generous supply of witch should go into the outing outht, larly if one's destination is shore. Its nse for the sunburn that comes from sea bathing is especially valuable. Bathe the face and arms free. ly with it, its properties bemg not only to relieve the first burn, but to harden the skin. making it less sensitive future similar mflictions, A lotion recommended for ordinary use is made from a pint of rose-water, half an ounce of pulverized borax and an ounce of strained lemon juice. With this mix. ture the skin may be freely bathed after exposure to the sun, . -harel particu- the sea- ¥ 10 it Was Beyond Her Ken. “All that I am,” he said, looking proudiy at her, “I owe to my wife. She loved him more at that moment than she ever had before. It was so no- Lle of him to give her this high praise. She wanted to go right over to him and throw her arms around his neck. Then fie raiecd his hat and rubbed the palm of one of his hands over his bald head. An hour later she was still wondering what “those ly fools” had suddenly commenced to leh at. and why they looked at her as if were the cause of the joke.Chicago Record-Herald. Butterflies are said to be very sleepy headed. Twilight sends them to bed, and they are still drowsy at sunrise, Even a train of shought may be behing PENNSYLVAN IA NEWS, The Latest Happenings Glecaned From All Over the State, BURGLARS CUT A MAN'S THROAT. Two Men Attacked Alexandria Kermichae! and His Wife in Their Bedroom at Springfield-- Eobber Band Alarms Lebanon--Churches, Stores and Railroad Stations Broken late and Looted--Place of Worship Burned Down. Jacol Jol n Clendennan lia A, Lowe, Ney { 1 Opiey raner burg, AS YY AT TIOrs Ninter, Somer imprisoned mpany perm hemical state | Mua, on resident of the engine to tl {ictober 2 latter ermsson firemen s the not the granted to take company will line of parade with nless cngmne the in the ville department the en- trainmen injured by collision of two Reading Railway gines at the south mouth of the Maha- 30y tunnel. The injured are: Baggage- master Harry Kieinhart, Brakeman Howard Estinger, Engineer Harry E. Smith and Brakeman Fred Shugart. The men live at Tamaqua. Both en- gines were derailed, but only slightly damaged Mrs. David C, Zink, of Harrisburg. wife of the State organizer of the Or- der of Woodmen, tried to kill herself. She secured his revolver and shot her- self in the right temple. She was un- conscious when found Should Mrs. Zink survive she will be totally blind Nervous trouble 1s the cause assigned for her deed. William H. Good had his arm man- gled and narrowly escaped death at the American Iron and Steel Works, Le- banon. His coat caught in the cog wheels of a machine and in order to save his life Good kept his body from the cogs with his arm. The flesh was ripped off the arm to the shoulder. William Carney died at Norristown of a fractured skull sustained by bei struck by a train and hurled from a ha bridge over Ston; JAavk. A dividend of about 16 per cent, it is A will be paid to Sepasitors of the defunct Chester County Guaran- tee Trust & Safe Deposit Company. The regular quarterly meeti of Pennsylvania Grange, Patrons of Hus. bandry, of Chester and Delaware coun- ties, was held at Lincoln University The corrupt politics of the State was condemned and farm crops discussed. John Kitchruw, of Avoca, was run down and killed by a passenger trair on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. He had just drawn his pay at the But ler mines and it was throu cash envelope that he was identified. : The 2-year-old child of Lewis Perry. Yiving near fell into a pail af boiling water and was scalded to were
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