A SONC OF DUTY. Whate'er betide, man must toil on; He may not pause too long to smile; He must toil on with brain or brawn, For life is such a little while. When joy too strongly may beguile, "Tis written, joy must be denied; We may not pause too long to smile, We must toil on, whate'er betide. And when a sorrow comes to him Man may not pause too long to weep, Grief chastens, tasted at the brim, But it destroys when quafied deep. The onward march we still must keep Howe'er the spirit may be tried, We may not pause too long to weep, We must toil on, whate'er betide, Washington Star. WaaRMAnat tata aagtanana AN ADVENTURE WITH WILD DOGS. N nEERERERERRRERRERRRRERERER Ranging along the border where the territories of New Mexico and Arizona join are bands of wild dogs. They are commonly wild doi 1 and rERreRRenR spoken of as the are so bol 1 ranchers and of Arizona, and they troublesome that boys in the vicinity of their COW raids some- times organize to destroy the These animals { cies, no naturalist havi history as to their origin. S ever, think a combination of the Siberian hound and bulldog stock the larger timber wolf of Arizona. About seventeen years ago ident cattlemen of New Mexico duced for the first ti me dogs on their ranches. later the now creating much appearance. Hence to their origin. For a time limited commi sligh I noticeably sheep, a calf, or taken by them { no form peculiar a cross betweer hioo them to b with re SOIC me s« Ol present specie pec S ¢1 regular effor residents was put the raiders. the presen hundred pounds. a half to f is round-sl and they three + or Ig fin f ding hunting f these brutes munting of these brutes no small degree of 4 I nail Gegree ol a: rbi is attended with { Ince at- sry rer AiNger. tacked they are quick nake a fero- cious defense. Hal Howard, a whose home is to young ranchman, in an isolated canyon search of He had ri the ranch howling the canyon in that had a colt. a few m from when wild barking and an joining arroyo attracted his attention. Galloping swiftly away in the direc- tion of the sounds he presently came in sight of the mare and colt running at full speed. They were coming his direction, tiie mare snorting terror and quivering in every limb, Pursuing her along the steep bank of the arroyo were a half-dozen wild dogs. foe es 1 up in a and it was evidently their purpose to kill the colt to satisfy a craving for food. The mare and colt were in the bed of the arroyo, whose walls at that point, and for a considerable distance, were too perpendicular to allow even those daring brutes in hot pursuit a safe descent, by delay, they hurried along the high, every time their victim darted beyond their sight behind a sharp turn in the arroyo's course. With a quick movement Hal Howard turned the mare and calt down the canyon toward the ranch. Then he galloped back to where the arroyo opened to leave the canyon. The brutes were still pressing forward with hot speed. Just as the leader sprang from an overhanging ledge to scent the course of their suddenly vanished prey, the young ranchman took aim with his Winchester and fired. With a how! of pain the wounded brute now turned in rage towad Hal. It dashed savagely up the bank to where a rugged slope steeply descend ed into the canyon. Hal galloped for. ward to oppose this movement. Just as the rest of the band came barking after their wounded leader, he fired again, This time the ball sped home, the animal with great commotion fall- ing back upon the rocks dead. Uttering yelps of rage, the others undaunted, sprang upon their fallen comrade and began licking up the blood as it flowed from the wounds. were soon joined by several others that came howling out of the brush near by and began regaling themselves on the blood of the slain, They made no effort to eat the car- cass as wolves, when very hungry, are known to do. The taste of blood, how- ever, rendered them nore fierce, and they soon manifested signs of renew- ing the chase. Hal had succeeded in getting their attention transfered from the mare and colt, but he now saw it would be nec- essary for him to give them another check, so his pony could get a good start of the woli-dogs down the can- Two more charges of his Winchester another of the angry such a wild uproar them that Flash dashing madly band. Instantly broke loose fright among and went from the ranch. The wild dogs de- scended into the and pursuit. did not curb He merely canyon sped of his lightly the drew Hal pony. mal’s steps as 1 f he rocky bed of the canyon. An oc- | over his shoulder con- | casional gl d pursuing brutes vinced him that the were gain Just bef pass 1 deep the oppo the mounta a chasn p, and Hal's sas went head er up and of the ve an made fearfully. Hal realized that the tree could not looked around discover endure the strain. and he him frymg vainly to some means of escape. There was absolutely | ri When the tree he would be hurled down the almost perpendicn- | the none. went lar slope into below. The wild pass 0 understand and braced | ras loko FOCKY dogs seemed t 1 s his hopeless situation doom There was a quiver all through the decaying juniper. then a sudden crack- ing in all its parts, and Hal felt himself going. The dogs renewed their hideous barking, sprang back out of the dan- ger. and waited. In that moment of peril Hal did not lose his courage. He resolved to meet death bravely. As the tree toppled over, the branch to to witness his rested for a second on a point of the It was just long enough, however, to enable him to scramble from the branch to a place on the narrow shelf of rocks. Then the tree went crashing downward into the pass, a distance of more than two hun- dred fect. The baifled dogs sprang high into the air in a vain effort to fling them. selves upon the ledge where Hal was. They struck against the rocks, then fell back with a thud. emitting howls of disappointment. Hal's foot dislodged a fragment of the shelving ledge, which fell into the midst of the gang below, causing a temporary stampede. It was a dangerous position in which Hal found himself on a narrow ledge overlooking a wild mountain gorge. There was no way to ¢limb down, and there was nothing else for him to do, except to lie as close to the mountain as he could and hope for deliverance, All day the dogs kept up the siege, watching the slightest movement on the part of the man. ! Weary and exhausted Hal lay watch ing the sun set beyond the riountains, He was wondering how much longer he could lie on that shelf of rock with- out rolling off in the rocky gorge be- fow him, The occasional yelping of the 5 Sogs seemed to mock his despair. He looked over the ledge into the yawning pass far below him. He drew back with a shudder. Then a series of shouts from up the canyon reached him. The next min- ute a party of cowboys, leading Flash, dashed into view. The wild dogs were speedily routed, and after considerable exertion the young ranchman was res- cued from the perilous ledge.—~Cali- fornia News. TESTING NEW THEORIES, Very Simple Sort of Apparatus Will Often Serve the Purpose, make the mis- an elaborate money are the sound- a finished Inventors sometimes that of test While take of supposing workshop and a lot in to of their necessary order ideas. sive thing, the v'tal and essential feat- crude impor- small scale with the most tried apparatus, tant on a Some experiments navig: tion 1 kknife, a lit- Tt some glue, a rubber t i FOooaq tle paper, a i instead apparatus crude. The proceeded to » produce a current 5 iu 1 urres whose gradual de- ctro-magnetism, teleg- 1d the electric the 5 for these.” chinery of A Bottomless Lake. ami hills, lake renowned in that its fabulous depth. A pro- be in that part of and started out $s Sligo, the County Ng small fessor happened to last day for a ramble among summer, the climbed Pat asked him if he this lake, “for it's ” SOT. would like to see no bottom at all, “But how do you know that. Pat?" asked the professor. “Well, sorr, I'll tell ye; me own i who looked do, tieman one «¢ sorr, ine and me couldn't understand it for him to doubt his worrd, sorr, and so he said, ‘Begorra, I'll prove the truth of ay. in he jumped.” The professor's face wore an amazed and quizzical expression. come up again, at all, at all” by recklessly drowning himself” “Sure, sorr, it wasn't drowned at ail he was. on his clothes.” —Tit-Bits, a A Man of Metal The “Iron Chancellor” has disap- peared, says the Westminster Gazette, but there iz still a Teuton very much alive who is "a man of iron” in an al- most literal sense of the term. This came out a few days ago when a young German porter bragged at a public house that he was a man of iron, since a sportsman had discharged at least ninety grains of shot into his back, He would have nothing to do with sur- geons wherefore his brother had re- moved about half of the “load” by the simple expedient of cutting the shots out with a knife. The story was pres ently brought before the authorities and the porter was medically examined with the result that his story proved absolutely true. His back and arms were “larded” with lead balls, which he carried about without any discom- fort whatever, The reason for his re- Mictance to approach a surgeon seems had this marked him was a gamekeep- er, and it was while he was on a poaching expedition that ill-luck thus befc!l him tooms Become Tainted and Transmit tha Disease, The theory that the disease of cancer nay, through certain media, prove it- self infectious is one which is meeting ~ith considerable attention in non- nedical well as in medical circles, ind the conviction is gradually spread- ng that houses, and more particular- y individual rooms, may become in- ected with the germs of this fearful nalady. Specific instances are constantly be- ng cited in support of such an assump- tion, and one of the most telling which it present has came before our notice is that of two women contracting the lisease after occupying a house where- in four or five years previously a can- patient had The remarkable part of this story is hat a third lady had in house between these two tenancies ! also developed the illness after an in- as er died. who resided terval of close upon two years. such instances are in the medical they are which no par- attached an representative visited sev- To le arn whether rec | commonly wgnized professi whether mere- to importance may be ny own that a inat cancer, Neverthe- asserting passed ~ 3 4 t iside resort comes a re- of a family who stayed for a few weeks at had previ- a house where a woman d from can a year A girl the pa- tient's bedroom devel- er about who occupied subsequently oped cancer, not a trace of which had hitherto existed in the family.—Lon- don Express, A Strone Peonle. It now scems probable that not all | the Innuits of Alaska are so small as has Indeed, if one is to travelers who visited south of Behring must be classed among the tallest people in the world. The travelers’ story is given in Pop- ular Science News, been supposed. believe the tales of an Sea, these On King's Island Indians were found who by their physical characteristics belong to the Innuit or Eskimo fam- tly, having small black eyes, high cheek-bones and full brown beards which conceal their lips. The majority of the men are over six feet high and the women are usually as tall as and often taller than the men. These women are also wonderfully strong. One of them carried off in her birch-bark canoe an Boo-pound stone, for use as an anchor to a whale-boat. When it reached the deck of the vessel 1t required two strong men to lift it, but the Innuit woman had managed it | alone, Another woman carried on fer { head a box containing 280 pounds of | lead. Both men and women are also en- | dowed with remarkable agility. They {will outrun and outjump compefitors , of any other race who may be pitted | against them, Their strength is gained from very i poor food, and they frequently travel i thirty or forty miles without eating | anything. They live on carrion fish and seal oil. The fish, generally sal- mon, are buried when caught, to be kept through the winter and dug up as consumption requires, When | brought to the air they have the ap- | pearance of sound fish, but the stench i from them is unbearable. In the matter of dwellings these Es- kimos are peculiar, Their houses are j excavated in the sides of a hill, the . chambers being pierced some feet into {the rise, and walled up with stones on “three sides. Across the top of the | stone walls poles of driftwood are laid and covered with hides and grass, and lastly with a layer of earth. These odd dwellings rise one above another, the highest overlooking per- haps forty lower ones. Two hundred seople live in the village. The Oldest Type of Domestic Doe. Greyhounds are pictured on Egypt- ian monuments carved 3,000 B. C. The domestic dog at present existing. ; mer is caught napping on a sieeper. COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions. R. G. Dun & Co.’s "Weekly Rexiew of Trade” says: Ithough the latest railway returns indicate that trans- porting facilities have greatly improv- ed, the nation's business has expanded more rapidly. Car shortage has in fact become the chief retarding influend “From all sections of many lines of industry complaints heard regarding the yility to goods. Probably the delay has most aggravating in unseasonably high temperature preventing serious inconvenience only are domestic requirements mous, but coal is becoming an import ant article of export, partly owing to labor controversies in France and Great iritain and also to the British export tax “Speculators secured cline from the unusually recently attained by while at the same time further advance. Shipme lantic ports for the 408.405 bushels, week and 3. 1€ country at the case of aione 4% O01 Cnor Week 1,194,000 Inter were against iast a 3.838 020 } jarket more { amounting 0,182,393 ities y thi week, nited Keates 3188 United States por aipments were igamst 3.085821 last year ane in 1809." dradstreet’ Grade $£290a1.10 Wheat- Philadelphia N more, 703 Corr-—New York adelphia N 2, No. 2, sBaboc Oats—New er basket 15a30¢; ets, per brl, N¢ New York, ch—Nati String * a fe green, shore, Joa 15¢C, Potatoes ~ ennsylvania, per seconds 7037 5¢C Maryland, market stock, 45assc, White — Maryland and Goa bs per 40a i bn 1 40a 50C ~ Eastern ck brl, $1.3081.40 ginda, per brl, No. 1, $1 Dairy Products —Butte 24c; separator, extras, 22a23c; do, firsts, 20az21c; do, gathered cream, 20a2i1c; do, smitation, 17a18c; ladie, extra, 15a17c¢c; ladles, first, 14a15¢; choice Western rolls, 18a16¢; fair to good, 13a14¢; hali- sound creamery, Maryland, Virgini nd Pennsylvania, 21a23c; do, rolls, 2-ib do, 20c¢. Eggs—Choice fresh nearby, per doz, {oss off, —a20c; do do, Western, do do, 19Va20; do do, st Vireinia, do do, 10a10V;; do do, thern, do do, 18i4a 19: guinea do do, gato; cold-storage do do, 172194. Jobbing prices 1 to 2 cents higher Live Poultry—Chickens—Hens, per Ib, gaglic; do old roosters cach 25a30; do spring, large, per 1b, —aro}s; do do, small fat, do do, poor and stagry. 040%. Ducks—Puddle, large, toat0'%: do do, small, gato; do, mus- covy and mongrel, ga1o; do do, drakes each, 30a35¢; do spring, 3 Ibs and over, 1oa10Vs; do do, small and poor, —aQ Geese—Western and Southern, each, goaboc. Turkeys—Young, 8 lbs and over, per 1b, —atoc. Cheese New cheese, large 60 Ibs, 10% to 10%c: do flats, 37 Ibs, 10)5 to 10%4c; picnics, 23 Ibs, 11 to 11}4c Hides Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill, 60 ibs and up, close se- lection, 11a12V4¢c; cows and hight steers, glgatoc. We Sou Live Stock. Chicago—~Cattle—Good to rime steers $6ab6Ro; poor to medium $3.80a 5.90; stockers and feeders $2a4.25; cows $1.2524.50; bulls $2a4.50; calves $3a6.25; mixed and butchers $5026.15; good to choice heavy $5.73a6.170: rough heavy $5.40as.70; light $5.50a5.80; bulk of sales $s5.70a8.8% Sheep—-Good to choice wethers $3.50a4.25; Western sheep $313.75; native lambs $2.50a4.65; Western lambs $3a4.40. East Liberty—Cattle steady; choice £5. 70a0.00; prime $5.00a5.00: good $200 as.25. Hogs lower; prime heavy $6.10 ab.20; heavy mediums $6,056.10; light do $5056.00; pigs $5.50a300; heavy Yorkers $585a5.00; light do, $5.70a5.80" London (By Cable).— Andrew Carne- gie was formally nominated for the lord rectorship of St. Andrew's University. There were no other nominations. My. Carnegic’s clection will be declared by the vice-chancellor on November 8. Horrible Fate, London (By Cable).—A special dis- that a detach- black troops Ee oh anti are Balingis, in ‘was captured. LATEST HAPPENINGS ALL OVER THE STATE. Reading Man Probably Killed His Sweets heart and Then Himself, Pensions Granted New Charters Issued by the State Department— Prof. £, D, Fess Strongly Advocates the Use of Newspapers in Public Schools General Fund at the Close of Busi ness for October Amouanted fo $4,754,051.23, Pensions granted Pennsylvanians: Mi- chael McCaffery, Allegheny, $6; An- drew J. Vanatta, Erie, $8; Frank Cli- menberg, Johnstown, $8; Abraham Swank West Newton, $10: William Mahler, North Clarendon, $6: Frederick Setzler, Mattawanna, $12; Michael Rear- don, West Bridgewater, $12; Aaron Ran- dals, Canonsburg, $10; William H Barnes, Greenwood Furnace, $8; George Walker, Neshannock Falls, $10; Nancy J. Montgomery, Neffs Mills, $8: Fannie Indiana, $8; Ellen Jane Love, Beaver Falls, $8; Malvina O. Vought, Rome, $12. Stear, Charters were | d by the State Department to following corpora- ions: The Forest City Sewage & ainage Company, Forest City; cap- , $100000. The Olmstead Art & corative Company, Titusville; eap- , $16,500. The Conway Water Com- Economy Township, Beaver r: capital, $1000 The Shine Brewing Compa Washi capital, $20,000 ! Manufac- turing Company, Cano capital, $12,000 : Trust $125,000, overs ndy newspapers the g studied for reat iefly each ry be thus wh get in in the world y in contact the world bs of those me Po i oO their temples a side He was she 21 Tt together, woman and State ey in t am ng fort bile tl} TT Eee Eup; Os¢eqQ The loss is $2000 U. Hensel, attorney for George of Philadelphia, issued execu- tions aggregating $44.000 against Eman- uel Kern also of Philadelphia. The pro- perty to be levied on is at Safe Harbor and was formerly a portion of the big iron works at that place. Henry J. Sherman, of Lewistown, for- rerly assistant doorkeeper of the Senate at Harrisburg, has been appointed mail Snyder, tablished between Lewistown and Mec- Veytown. Jhe route is twenty-six miles long. Simon Juries was fatal njured in Gilberton Colliery, Mahanoy City. He had gone back into the breast to learn why a shot had not exploded and re- ceived the blast in the fact and breast Over 100 delegates attended the annual Foreign Missionary Society of the Nor- ristown Lutheran Conference in St. Pe- John Marzilin, a carpenter, was killed by a stick of timber which fell upon him William Stutchell, the 14-year-old son the flesh The puddling department of the Al- toona Iron Company, which was compell- of cars to supply coal, is now running A large barn belonging to Benjamin McCord, in East Fallowheld Township, was burned. Three horses perished and much produce was destroyed. The Temple Iron & Coal Company of Wilkes-Barre has ordered out of its mines the workers who were strikers at the Maltby Colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's medical inspectors vaccinated all the train men running between Pottsville and Philadelphia. Acting Mine Inspector Downing re- ported for October in the eighth anthra- cite district sixteen accidents. Of this number eight were fatal, While playing with a bonfire, the 3- year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Maloney of Titusville was burned so badly that it died. While hunting near Duncannon, John Scholtz’s gun burst and injured one so badly that amputation may be neces- sary. While hunting near New Wilmot, in Lawrence County, William Ripper was fatally shot by Sheets. oseph Kochzinski was caught under fale coal at Tunnel Ridge Colliery, Mahanoy City, and instantly killed. Duncannon capitalists will start a knit- ting factory which will give fifty or more people employment. the 4-year-old daughter of sustained ' “of blazing
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