tHE OLD HOME DAYS. Old stone doorstep! Blessings on you! 1'd have known you if I'd met you anywhere! Greetings! Blessings! You have suffered no “repair.” Sixty years and more have faded since you anchored by the door Where the wide back porch was shaded by the ancient sycamore, Waving soft, through Memory’s haze, In the dear home days! Old stone doorstep! I recall you! And he said ‘‘By George! Father found you on the hill, I'll haul you where you'll make a noble sill Summat rough, but wight be rougher; 'nough sight smoothern me, I guess; All of us that toil and suffer must be wrinkled more or less.” That was just like father's ways in the old home days! 80 he hitched the oxen to you in the path the water wore, Slowly slew you round and grew you to the open kitchen door, Where the crowbar made you worry.and the heavy iron mace— And I laughed to see you hurry as you wrigglec into place: And he said: “I'll bet it stays!” . In the far home days! And you stayed, O stair of granite! of our home and life a part; Not a throne upon the planet touches so the truant heart. As fond memory backward glances through the labyrinth of years Round thee troop the pictured fancies ‘mid the laughter and the tears, And we thread the tangled maze To the old home days! Oh, .the orchard and the garden, and the elms arrayed in state! .8till one giant, like a warden, towers beside the open gate! How le ciptured us and swung us—oh, the mad and merry wight!— Through the tangled branches flung us till we shouted with delight! Ob, the joyance ef the plays In the long home days! Peaceful hours! The twilight shadows ofthe harvest evening gray Brought the blossoms of the meadows in the odors of the hay, i “And the cows from out the clover tinkied that the day was done, And the bees went droning over with their golden armor on Through the sunset’s fading rays In the sweet home days! - : “Hung above you ‘on the'trellis were the Concords in the'dew, : : ' Grilving swee tr for the chalice as the jodund Summer flew, = © ++. And yosrheard the water4umble where the river breaks in twain 8 _ And the rum' = and the grumble of the grinding of the grain, And you witched éach changing phase «x Of the oii home days! ' Dear old doo step! Oh, the prances of the children on the grass, -3 <“+And the gam-i3ls ani the danees of the laughin iad and lass, And the songs we sang and chan‘ed as the hours of evening sped! Oh, thd Sacred Spot i haunted with the :aes of the dead «+. And the echees of the lays Sung in the old home days! Memories throng: The heart is swelling till the pain has found relief; .Holy sorrow’s pearls are welling froin the blessed fount of grief : For the music hushed and vanished, for the voices round the door And the footprints that have vanished from the path forevermore, As through blinding mists we gaze ‘Loward the old home days! 8 —W. A. Croffut, in Springfield Republican. x 38 3c xf af 28 xP fc i 28 + 28 fix ax 38 + 2 30 2B 8c 3c x8 3 3B Bx Bs g Two Warriors and Their Last Charge. By JOHN W. HARDING, Pp Author of “The Gate of .the Kiss.” 4 a Be i kk “Heard the latest from the Philip- pines?” queried young Lieut. Gay at the Raconteurs’ club, as he glanced up from his newspaper at a number of the members who, cigar in mouth, were enjoying the post-prandial hour of dclce far niente, utterly indifferent, in their contentment and comfortable surroundings, to the wind that rat- tled and the rain that beat against the windows of their Fifth Avenue clubhouse. “Here's a single Filipino who has the sand to charge a whole American column!” “Wow!” chorused his listeners, in- credulously. “And what happened to the gentle Tagalog?” “He isn’t, or I suppose it is safe to say wasn’t a Tagalog, but a Moro,” re- plied the lieutenant, ‘though I sup- pose all Filipinos are alike to us here. As to what happened to him, the dis- patch leaves it to the ‘imagination. This is all it says: “Manila, Sept.‘ 27—Three compa- nies of infantry, commanded by Capt. Eli A. Helmnick of the 10th regiment, left Camp Vicars, Island ¢i Mindanao, Thursday, to reconnoitre the Moro forts and recover stolen arms. They encountered only slight opposition. The column captured and destroyed the Butig forts. A few Moros were killed. ‘The American troops had no casualties. A fanatical ‘Moro, armed with a bolo, charged the column alone.” ‘ There was silence for a moment, as: each man, impressed by the dispatch writers’ laconic reference to the in- cident, mentally paid his tribute of pity and respect to the battle-frenzied patriot of the distant isle who thus su- perbly had defied fate and the might of his country’s conquerors and, armed with a useless sword, had courted a warrior’s ‘death from half a thousand lightning bolts. Then a slight, elegant man of medium height, with clean-cut features and a gray pointed beard re- marked quietly: “That recalls a similar and very ex- traordinary incident which I witnessed in the Soudan in 1885.” The speaker was Stanford Hylish, a visiting English journalist and ex- war correspondent. to whom the cour- tesies of the club had been extended. The entire company was attention im- mediately, and Mr. Hylish, on being pressed, continued: “It was during the operations, begun too late, alas! for the rescue of Gor- don at Khartoum. I was with the col- umn commanded ty Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, which made that famous dash across the desert to Metemneh when 1500 Tommies and bluejackets at Abu Klea fought off 10,000 tribesmen whose valor is immortalized in Xipling's barrack-rcom ballad ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’: ‘“‘An’ ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your ’ayrick ’ead of ’air— big black boundin’ beggar—for you broke a British square.’ “The column was made up of tae Sussex regiment, mounted infantry, a camel corps of guardsmen, and a detachment of men-o’-war’s men, with a troop of the Nineteenth Hussars acting as scouts. We hurried along with us four screw guns and a couple of gatlings. Big Col. Fred Burnaby, of ‘The Ride to Khiva’ fame, was of the expedition, and rejoicing mightily thereat, caring nothing (if he had any premonition of his fate) that it was to mark the close of his adventurous ca- reer. Not having been able to get himself sent to the front, he had se- cured several months’ leave of ab- gence, and, armed with a shotgun, had overtaken the army on the Nile, hav- ing dodged, by avoiding the Egyptian towns, imperative orders to return You interception by the war office authori- ties, who had learned of his departure. “We had made a forced march of 18 hours and were nearing the wells at Abu Klea, Not a man had had a mor- sel to eat or a drop to drink during all that time. Most of us were on the verge of prostration from fatigue and the torture caused by the sand and fine dust which clogged our mouths, ears, and noscrils, causing an intolerable thirst, ‘and penetrated our worn and in many cases ragged clothing. [he scouts dashing in at breakneck speed apprised us of danger, ‘and we barely had time to form a square about our baggage and animals when two mighty, surging torrents of black swept upon us. “Three minutes after the first horde got within range we ‘could scarcely see each other, owing to the smoke from the rifles. There was no wind.” The atmosphere, heavy with the terrible heat, as it seemed to us, appeared to concentrate :the powder smoke in 2a dense, acrid, choking” pall which it was impossible to see the on- rushing tribesmen. . The screw guns had to be cleared of sand before they could be put into action. As for the Gatlings, they had to be taken to pieces and cleaned. Bluejackets in- side the square were doing this ex- peditiously, but with the utmost calm- ness, amid pandemonium, for the men hayirg the tussle of their lives. Some of the. camels and horses had been wounded, and were _ squealing and plunging madly. Meanwhile officers were rushing along the rear of the lines of the square, shouting amid the din into the ears of the men to aim low at their invisible foes. “Suddenly, on the left rear of the square, where the heavy cavalry and camel corps men had formed, an im- mense black mass which had broken through the terrible circle of fire ilcomed through the smoke cloud at the very barrels of the rifles, and, hurling itself upon the square with the irresistible force of an avalanche, broke through the lines. Some of the cavalrymen, true to their instincts, and lacking the infantrymen’s train- ing to meet such an emergency, broke ranks and rushed at the enemy. The others and the infantry stood their ground, and by dint of terrific fighting closed the gap. Many of the hapless cavalrymen thus shut out fell, pierced by the bullets of their comrades. Tae tribesmen who had broken through were quickly cut down, though not before Coi. Burnaby and many othcr gallant fellows had been killed. Bur- naby, you may recall, received a spear thrust in the throat. Gen. Stewart himself had a narrow escape, his horse being slain under him. “Meanwhile one of the fiercest and bldodiest hand-to-hand fights in the annals of warfare was in progress all along the line. Every man, handi- capped from the first by exhaustion through he was, knew that not only his own existence, but the lives of the entire command, depended’ upon the square being kept intact. Tommies and tars fought like demons, and for the first time I ‘understood how the expression ‘to swear like a trooper’ probably had its origin, for while they fought they swore continuously and horribly, and the curses of the wound- ed would in any other circumstances have been frightful to hear. What they were ‘up against,’ as you Ameri- cans say, will be better understood when I tell you that those gigantic and absolutely fearless blacks hurled themselves upon the bayonets and de- telegraphed to every point of possible liberately impaled themselves in order to reach and enable other warriors behind them to attain, with their spears and long swords the men hold- ing the square. “All this took place in a few min- utes. Then the gatlings and other guns got to work and the black mass withered away in their fire and the leaden hail from the rifies. “The result is matter of history. Our casualties were nine officers and 65 non-commissioned officers and men killed and 85 wounded. The tribes- men left about 2000 killed and wound- ed on the field. “It was then that the incident re- called by the lone Filipino with his bolo occurred. Nearly an hour after it was all over and the black host had vanished, the men not engaged in at- tending to the wounded and the ani- mals were drawn up awaiting orders. Théy were in. loose lines, propping themselves om. their rifles and discuss- ing the battle. A. thousand yards away. a superb Fuzzy-Wuzzy rose amid the hillocks of slain and looked wildly upon the scene of carnage about him. He was of uncommon stature and proportions,. even for these big ath- letic men of the desert, and evidently a chief. His actions attracted imme- diate attention. grim ranks of ‘the conquerors from the north who were blazing the way for the advance of civilization .into the wild fastnesses.. of his ‘ancestors; scanned the horizon on. every side in vain for a trace of the Mahdi’s mighty and reputed invincible cohorts; looked once more upon the bodies heaped and strewn around him, then picked up a shield and spear, and: with a scream of defiance and despair. charged upon the army at full speed! . “The Tommies who had supposed he was wounded as he doubtless was, unless he had been simply stunned by a bullet-were astonished beyond meas- ure. Not quite knowing whether to take him seriously they were reluctant to kill him. Besides, perhaps they felt a little sympathetic admiration for him. But the warrior was out for blood, and evidently not disposed to listen to argument. His poised spear meant death to some one, and amid cries of ‘Don’t shoot; ‘it ’im a toss with the butt!’ ‘Look out; ’e’s as mad as a March hare!” and ‘Give it to the poor beggar; it can’t be helped!’ a doz- en men raised their rifles, there was a crackling fire, and the warrior pitched forward and lay about 100 yards from the detachment of guards. “That night, while soldiers and sail- ors, exhausted as men rarely are, were dreaming the battle over again, or of those they had left behind in the peaceful towns and villages of England, 1 lay slepless from nervous excitement, watching the sentries silhouetted in the violet night and the great bright | stars that twinkled seemingly so near humanity | to earth as to be almost within reach. The vision of that .solitary warrior, such was the impression he made upon me, recurred with depressing persist- ence, and, though I have seen many | terrible scenes of suffering and hero- | ism in war, as it frequently-has done since, and probably will continue to do when 1 am alone with my thoughts, | until at my last bivouac I fall into the i | ‘slumber that knows no dreaming.’”’— | New through | York Tribune. QUAINT AND. CURIOUS. It is stated that the largest steel plate ever rolled was one recently turned out by the Parkgate Worss, England; it is 30 feet long, 10 feet six inches wide and 7-8 of an inch thick. - !. In Egypt nets are spread along the told off to look after the animals were | iw cqast, in which hundreds of thousands of ‘the birds which come from Europe, all worn out from the long flight across the ocean, are caught, slaugh- tered, and sold for two cents apiece. Among the material used in the con- struction of the new Christ's Hospital at Horsham, England, were 40 miles of hot water pipes, 98 miles of electric wire, 20,000,000 bricks, 1,500,- 000 tiles, five acres of wood fiooring, 100,000 cubic feet of stone and 56,000 tons of cement, sand and breeze, An American inventor of infinite re- sources and sagacity has utilized rats to lay the telephone cables through the conduits. Several rats were turned loose in the conduit with a ferret af- ter them, to which was attached a cord. Through 700 feet of the conduit the merry chase was carried, and the rats emerged into daylight at the other end just a few feet ahead of the ferret, which was probably impeded some- what by the cord. Snakes in menageries often fast many months. Cases were recorded at the Paris Museum of a rattlesnake which refused food 26 months and a python which fasted 29 months. But the record belongs to a Japanese py- thon which arrived in Paris in Novem- ber, 1899. It died in April, 1902, after having refused food for two years five months and three days. During that time its weight had decreased from 75 kilogrammes to 27. A telegram from Marseilles relates a terrible accident which caused the death of a young man of 18, in the em- ployment of the electric tramway com- pany, says the Paris Messenger. His duty was to examine the working of the lamps in a number of carriages at the depot, and in order to facilitate his task he placed several coils of wire round his neck. He went from car to car in this way, when, while crossing the tram lines, he stumbled and fell. The ground being damp, a connection was established and the unfortunate youth was killed outright. When picked up his head was found to be completely carbonized. He gazed at the thin, | UTILIZING OF WASTE. PROGRESS IN BY-PRODUCTS’ MANU- FACTURE IN RECENT YEARS, The World’s Increment of Wealth De- pendent Upon Finding Economical Uses for Industrial substances — Ways in Which Kefuse Is Made Productive. The following extracts are taken from a report by Henry T. Kittredge of Boston to the director of the cen- sus upon the utilization of wastes and by-products’ in manufactures. Mr. Kit- tredge is & weil-known expert in man- ufacturing proc¢esses: “Nothing in the arts of manufae- ture is more’ indicative of ‘economic efficiencies thah.the utilization of pro- ducts that have:been rejected as waste or residues inithe industrial processes. “The acme of industrial economy is the profitable employment! of every atom of materialy in whatever’ form it may ‘be ; Presented or however obtained. Every particle of an organic or inor- ganic substance has a useful part to play in contributing to human necessi- ties or pleasures, and When it per- forms no function toward some useful end, or remains dormant, it shows that the ingenuity and enterprise of man have not reached their’ fullest devel- opment, or that the arts of the labora- tory haye not revealed all the secrets of nature; :" hd : “For nearly a century the world’s main supply of soap depended on soda, which was obtained as a product of the sulphuric-acid industry. Notwith- standing soap was known to the an- cients, it was regarded ‘even in the middle ages as a luxury, and when it was not readily obtained, the lack of cleanliness was concealed by fine clothes and by perfumes. The soda industry being brought to a standstill in France during the French revolu- tion, the national convention of that country appealed to the chemists to discover some metnod for making soda from common salt, which had been shown by Du Hamel, in 1736, to con- tain the same base as soda. About 40 years thereafter, Scheele found that caustic soda could be obtained from salt by the action of lead oxide; but the production of soda by chemical processes was unimportant from an industrial standpoint until Le Blanc secured results that gave to the world one of its principal industries. His discovery was based upon the treat- ment of chloride of sodium with sul- phuric acid, forming hydrochloric acid and sulphate of soda. The hydro- chloric acid was regarded as a by- product of so little value that it was allowed to pass off into the air, to the great detriment of wegetation in the neighborhood. To remedy this evil the English government took action against the soda works to compel them to condense the acid and keep it ‘out of the way, and this led in- directly to the discovery that hydro- chloric ‘acid could be used as a valua- ble agent in the bleaching industry, which, however, was at that time far from having attained its present height of ‘development. “The. choicest perfumes that are placed upon the market are no doubt obtainédd from oils and ethers extract- ed from flowers; but there are many others which are artificially made, many out of bed-smelling elements. The fusel oil obtained in the distilla- tion;.of spirits has an odor that is peculiarly disagreeable, yet it is used, after treatment with proper acids and oxidizing agents, in making the oil of apples and. the oil of pears; and the oil of grapes and the oil of cognac are little more than fusel' oil diluted. Oil cf pineapple is best made by the action of putrid cheese om sugar, or by distiling rancid butter with alcohol and sulphuric acid. One of the most popular perfumes may be obtained from one of the products of gas tar, out of which is also obtained the oil of bitter almonds, so largely cousumed in the manufacture of perfumed soap and confectionery. - The refuse of cities throughout the civilized world is now generally col- lected and disposed of for sanitary reasons, though ‘in many . instances £ industrial purposes. The collection of this refuse has been made only within a comparatively few years, but is now carried on systematically, being more or less self-supporting and ad- vantageous from an industrial point of view. Formerly this refuse was simply accumulated and disposed of by burning, or casting into streams or onto waste land. Now, bones, glass, rags, iron, paper, and other articles are separately collected and sold. “The food wastes of New York City are disposed of by what is known as the Arnold utilization process, which is, briefly, steam digestion and a sep- aration or the cooked product into greases and fertilizer fillers. The greases are all, or nearly all, shipped abroad and, it is believed, refined and separated into several grades, such as ‘glycerine, red oil, lard oil, and inferior grades.” It ig not known tnat refineries in this country are as yet able to handle what is known as garb- age grease, as the secret of the trade seems to be held abroad. The solids after being dried and screened are sold to the various manufacturers of ‘complete fertilizers,” and by them made up into grades which seem to be particularly adapted for use in the cotton belt. “The economic uses of furnace slag have been greatly developed within the last few years. Formerly slag was carted away from the furnace and dis- posed of in the most available place, as so much refuse material, hardly worth the cost of carting. A consid- erable portion of this waste is now put to some profitable use as a sub- stitute fofr artificial porphyry in the construction of buildings and for it is utilized to good advantage for. ‘ pioneer relics in the Central States, street pavements. Paving stones are are made from it for the streets of Metz, Brussels, and Paris, of a quality sufficiently durable to stand heavy trafiic. “A very important innovation in the metallurgical industry in Germany is the utiiizing of the waste gases of blast furnaces for working gas en gines. “Gas machines for utiiizing these gases were introduced into Germany about 1898. Good results were report- ed from all quarters, which lead to the belief that this is a material advance in the development of an important gas-machine industry. “Nearly all of the formerly waste products of lumber and timber are now turned to scme utility, and some of the new products thus formed are of considerable value. Of this later class may be mentioned saw- dust, which was formerly considered an absolute waste material, and was allowed to float down the stream or was thrown into a heap where it could be most cenveniently disposed of. French cabinetmakers . have found a way of preparing this mat- erial which gives it a value far above that of solid timber by a process that has been in vogue for at least 25 or 30 years, combining the use of hyli- raulic press and the application of intense heat. oF “The production bf acetic, wood naphta, and tar from sawdust is one of ‘the latest enterprises in Norway.” THE AMERICAN W. FZ. Is This a True Picture of Her Attitude Toward Her Hushand? z But the ' American wife? Henry James has summed up the American wife in just one sentence. He says: “The American .wife knows nothing of her husband’s affairs——except that they are of not the slightest conse- quence.” This is both epigrammatic and ex- actly true. The American wife has quite a genuine affection for her hus- band. Even after years of marriage have gone by, she thinks of him with unaffected friendliness, He is so use- ful. She credits him with almost all the virtues, except perhaps the virtue of being interesting and she overlooks that one defect of his with charitable tcleration. She sees him come and go each day with clock-like regularity. She vaguely knows what his profes- sion or vocation is. She thinks bet- ter of him if it is a profession or vo- cation that is generally rezarded as quite creditable; but this is practical- ly all she knows or cares about it. She sees him rising early and hurrying to his office. She hears him sitting late into the night in the rcom overhead; and she is probably aware that he is immersed in a great sea of papers and documents of some kind or other— tiresome and stupid things that he will persist in bringing home and fussing over. / : She finds that he must sometimes stay in town all through the summer when the thermometer is in the nine- ties and when the sickly heat sweats on the very walls or sizzles on the pavement. She thinks it very incon- siderate of him to do this. She would really rather have him go with her to the cool, wind-swept nook that she se- lects for her own summer's outing. Just why he does not go, she cannot possibly imagine. It is onc of the curious, irrational traits which he possesses and which prevents her fren taking him quite seriously. Perhaps he will run up there for a day or two; and when he does come she is very nice to him, apart from scolding hima a little for getting so hideously thin and sallow. But he is not particularly comfortable taere. e follows her meekly into the dining room three times a day for a while, and then he has to go back to what- ever it is-that he does in town. Just what it is she doesn’t know. The household bills are paid; the checks come to her rcgularly. She does the things she likes to do, and sometimes dimly recognizes the fact that it is pleasant to have somebody to see that her various projects and arrange- ments all come out so nicely. Her hus- band is really quite what a husband ought to be. He does his duty perfectly, and she has a very accurate notion of what. that duty is. To provide what- ever she requires, to fetch and carry out her bidding, to leave her absolute- ly free from care, responsibility or worry—such is the whole duty of the American husband. And then, she is so very sure of him! It never enters her head that he has anything to wish for, that he can j possibly be conscious of a void some- where in life, or experience even the faintest stirring of dissatisfaction; that he could ever imagine anything different from what he has; that he might ever dream of an existence where he should be something better than the household banker, a glorified butler, a ‘superior maitre d’hotel. She is absolutely satisfied with herself and absolutely sure of him. She does not want another kind of husband, so why should he desire a different sort of wife?—Ainslee’s Magazine, An Historic Church, The Church of St. Germain I'Auxer- rois is one of the finest in Paris, says the Paris Messenger. It was from the tower of this church that was run the bell which gave the signal for the celebrated Huguenot massacre. The tower of this church that was rung the now possesses a set of chimes, the only one in Paris so provided. It was built in the 12th century, and the portico, of which the paintings arz to be restored, was built in 1435. Elwell Hoyt of Ea uClaire, Mich., has the most complete collection of and keeps inem in a log cabin built at his home for the purpose. HEYSTONE STATE NES GONDENSED PENSIONS GRANTED. New Freight Railroad—Will Issue Bonds—$15,000 Church—Gover- nor Stone Files Protest. The following new names were added to the pension list during the past week: Lewis J. Rosenbloom, Towanda, $6; James W. Nelson, Vo- dant, $12; Hiram Qualk, Ccal Center, $12; August Kall, Allegheny, $3; Thomas Sonach, Bellefonte, $10; Samuel H. Williams, Bellfonte, $10: Benjamin F. Yinglign, Huntingdon, $8; William Dunean, Indiana, $24; Benjamin F. Siple, Leechburg, $%: George W. Baisor. Waddle. $12; Wil liam L. Garrett, Altoona, $12: Irvine Stone, Johnstcwn, © $§; I.orenzu Krieger, Entiriken, $12; John Wire, Elliotson, $8; Robert H. Owens, Braddock, $10; Matilda Jones, Har- risburg, $i2; Jeorge P. HopKins, Whralusing, $12; Florence J. Parker, Allegheny, $8: Johm 1D. Landis, Johnstown, $14; Sidney Caldwell, Irish Ripple, $10; Harrisburg, 38. Governor Stone has taken prompt action ‘to raise tne quarantine which has been ordered by Governor Yates of Illinois against Pennsylvania cattle on aecount of the foot ana Mary ‘M. George, mouth disease which exists among cattle in the New Eng'and states. Governor Stone wrote a letter. to Governor Yates, protesting against his action and advising him that there has been no such disease; in this state since 1882; that there has been none in New York and there is none and has been none in New Jersey. E A charter has been issued to the York Haven & Rowenna Railroad Company to build a line from York Haven, York county, to the. mouth of the Codorus creck, thence across the Susquchanna river to Rowenna, Lancaster ccunfy. The line will be six mijles long and will serve as con- necting link for the new line to be built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Ccmpany, for through freight be- tween Pittsburg and Philadelphia. The handsome residence erected by John I.anzendcrfer, in North Punxsutawney, ready for occupancy, was completely ruined by an ex plosion of gas. When in search of a leak under the kitchen floor Mr. Lan- zendorfer used a lighted match, and the explosion, which followed, wreck- ed the windows and walls and blew oft the roof. Factory Inspector James Campbell in his annwal report says Penasyl- vania stands first in the many diver- sified industries, and in the employ- ment of