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