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