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CIRCUMSTANCES,
. It's a hard world to abide in
With fts many jolts and jars.
There are better planets, maybe,
¥ "Way up yon among the stars;
Put there’s no road buiitto reach "em;
We must keep this mundany groove,
Trying still to make it smoother,
r we can’t pack up and move,
Don’t let it be a storehouse
Of trouble and of care,
But give it your attention
And help keep it in repair.
This earth has many features
Which the thoughtful Sisspprovs,
Put we may as well be cheerful,
For we can't pack up and move,
ont's fort,
thich lay between
Graham's Town and |
King William's
Town, was in my
time as dull and sun-
baked a residence
as ever tested the
patience and sob- |
ered toe spirits of
the soldiers of the
Queen, There was
plenty of diversion
and excitement dur-
jag he Eafir War,
pon a peace
2h sreanged we
e ss Mrs. Malaprop says,
bored with ennui and do-noth
sas,” for the boundless veldt wrapt
ound in the dreary folds of its
solitnde. Visitors were scarce;
8—in our distrist—were more
than humans; these mischiev- |
neighbors, ' ever resenting
e in their oonatry, roam
rage, and as
lady | 0 ,
Tapes. Pr Mardo stared with |
ineredulons eyes at
terrified,
empty
sobbing girl
perambulator, the
and the penitent
and bewildered Jones. In hot haste,
armed search parties were started off
on the spoor of the baboons, but the
darkness was gathering, their” traces
soon became indistinguishable, even
their direction was lost, and after a
few hours the bafiled pursuers began
| to straggle back to the fort, bitterly
lamenting their failures.
It had fallen to my lot to remain be-
hind, and in the absence of her hus.
band, perform the painful duty of com-
forter to Mra, Murdo. Her agony of
mind was pitiable; she stcod hour af-
ter hour-at the gate—a slim, girlish
figure in her white dress— watching in
dry-eyed, stony grief for the returs of
the rescuers. As the men came in,
one after another, and Boffles was re.
lnctantly abandoned for the night to
the gruesome perils of the bush and
the baboons, she paced up and down,
wringing her hands in an inconsolable
anguish of tears,
“My darling baby, my darling boy;
what will Jeff say? Ob! what will
Jeff say?
The arrival of Captain Murdo was
hourly expectedgthe kraal he bad gone
to visit on a diplomatio mission to the
chief was fifteen miles distant; he
would be certain to wait for the cool
peas of the night and the rise of a wan-
ing moon before returning. It was
near mi t, the search parties had
all returned, elaborate plans for sys-
tematioall Scouting the wilderness at
the frst glum of daylight were being
-disen and srranged, and I was de-
to ride off to the nearest kraals
and obtain the valuable assistance of
the Kaffirs. TI hoped to mest Mardo
on the way, and be able to break the
tidings to him, My orderly brought
round my horse, and I rode away ata
band gallop, making for a fountain, a
lsndmark about half-way on my pro-
posed journey. I reached it without
seeing or hearing a livieg thing, and
dismounted for a few moments to
slacken the girths and let my good
animal regain his wind and dip his
muzzle in the water. The fountain
was in the centre of a dark clamp of
trees; outside, the veldt was lit up by
a pale moonlight; the loneliness of the
pisce was weird, the silence of the
solitade guite awe-inspiring.
A oreepy fesling. almost of fear,
came over me when I saw a man on
| foot, and in his shirt-sleeves, carry-
ing a dark bundle and advancing
stealthily towards the clamp. He
walked around it in a cirele, peering
apwards among the trees apparently
in search of something. To my utter
astonishment, I recognised the man
ss Captain Murdo. Presently he
) beneath a branch, pulied it
downwards by the twigs, then care.
folly deposited his burden in the fork,
let the branch rise again, and started
running swiftly back in the direction
{from which he had come.
I was momentarily too astonished
and hesitant to call after him or make
my presence known; so impatiently
awaited events. There was soon the
sound of pounding hoofs, and he
rode up, his bay stallion Sultan fight-
ing for his head and bounding about
in a great sfste of excitement or
fright. His rider urged him toward the
clamp, the big horse snorting with
1 y under the
oh Mardo, who was a splendid
testrian, rose fu his stirraps, clev-
snatched the bundle from the
gave Sultan his head, and sped
away at a streteh
I was after him like » shot, buts mile
or two of veldt swept under us before
«| my shoute arrested his attention, snd
. | be reined o
ap. :
“Jeff” I gasped out, “Jeff--bad
wial y, old man ~Baflles
one everything we
fores | conld—1 was on my way to put the
{ Kaflirs to work when [ saw you per-
| forming feats of
ship st the clamp of trees. Whatever
‘| were you up to?”
t{peered in—it was Bufles, Baffles
d| thousand. I kissed bis little drowsy:
In reply Le opened the bauadie
wrapped #0 tenderly in his jacket. I
sleeping like a bumming-top! I
should our baby among twenty
felt inclined to sslite his
¥
of the creatures, who
pi their peculiar, horrid
| night-ealls, I noted that the biggest
the table, to find the men hastily
bling in obedience to the eali,
were informed by one, Private
with all the asperity of a blighted
ce, **That while Sergeant Jones
fooling with that deceitful
: baboons had swooped
npeet the perambulator, and
{ off the neglected baby!”
This was horrible! Our baby—-our
pet Bufies—at the mergy of brute
{ one was carrying a white bandle, aad
I thought I heard a little ery—a
strangely familiar sound that made
my heart jump with apprehension.
“I spurred Saltac into a charge
among the apes, scattering them in all
directions, The big one with the.
buaadle took a bee-line of its own along
‘the path. I rode it down, when it
. dropped the bundle and made of into
the bush. I dismounted, and, to my
intense amazement, found the white
buadie was my own little son. Of
conrse, there is no mistaking Bufas
~he is the only white baby for fifty
miles around. Recognizing me, he
beamed with geniality, and his smiles
were proof that the young begaar was
sound. Sultan gave me a very warm
time of it; he obstinately connected
{| Builes with the baboons, soorted,
rearad, planged, and refused to let
{me mount with the chill, =o I pat
down Builles, tethered the horse to a
| stamp, and was preparing to foot it
home whea I thought of the Fountain
Clamp and the forked-brasch dodge.
iwions horseman- |
That was a suecess; and now, Colting.
wood, my good fellow, ride on ahead,
strung.”
at a racing pace, yelling with exuita-
in her white dress, As I galloped
headlong towards them I puiled ont
my revolver, and at every shot in
the air shouted an accompanying
“Harrah.”
signal, and began cheering like mad,
tled again and again over the veldt.
erowd
parents until the door of their quar.
md
BEST TIME TO KICK A MAN.
Boots Into Him."
Perk and Quirk were walking along
in front of a cable car which was
rounding the corner. Of course, the
car had no fender on it. Nearly
everybody in the vicinity yelled, and
naturally the bewildered mau looked
in the wrong divection. .
jaomped to the side of the track,
Quirk roared:
when you are on the street.”
Then he said:
kick him for it.”
The Drift of a Dexelict.
silent freaboofers cannot be sunk un-
with the Fannie E. Woolston, an
of Virginia 4nd Hastaras.
| she drifted sc
| she was drifting toward the Bahamas.
east of
Nicholas.
A SAAN ETI KB 0
Restoring the Drowned,
Dr. Labordette, the supervising snr-
France, appears
and the semi-contraction of the lagers,
remaining vitality, After pamevcus
| experiments with apparently drowned
persons and also with animals he con-
slades that these are only signe accom-
{ panying the first stage of snffocation
rowning, the jaws and hands be- |
| oc relaxed when death ensues
‘This © #0 the mere clinching of
the and semi-contraction of the |
hands must not be accepted as reasons |
for the discontinuance of efforts to
save life, but should serve as » |
stimulant to vigoroas and prolonged
efforts to quicken vitality. Ina num-
firmly elinched that, to aid respiration,
iron instruments.
Kaew His Habits.
The following anecdote is given mae
by an Indian officer as illastrative of
A 0 TI I
| Pathan, A esrtain general aad bia
i stall, while wending their way through
i one of the narrowest valleys of Tirab,
“wera aunoyved by the attentions of a
| solitary marksman, who from time to
: time sent a bullet unpleasantly elose,
At last the general turned to his or-
| derly—~a Pathan sowar—and told him
to dismennt, to take his carbine, and
try sndysialk the moantaineer, The
‘ sowar started off, and presently thers
‘was a crack, and a gray-bearded old
Afridi tambled headlong down the
'monntain side. The sowar rejoined
‘and fell, into his piace,
gone!” said the general. ‘But how
‘on earth did you manage it so easily?”
**Oh,” replied the sowar, “'I knew Lis |
babits, He was wy iisther "—Lon- |
i don Truth.
Quirk dnin't yell, though. He snd is included in the neck seam with
ul the man by the collar and | :
yanked him clear of the tracks and al- |
most out of bis shoes. Then he gave |
him another ferocious jerk to get him
out of the way of an express wagon,
and getting bim at proper rangest the |
fame time, he gave the poor man a |
kick that must have driven his spine
up into his hat. And with the kick
geou of the hospital at Lisienx, |
A to bave established |
the fact that the clinching of the jaws |
8 of death, are in fact, evidences
ber of cases Dr. L dett
be eas Labordette restored | brown and chamois shades showing
a silk thread of pale blue woven in
with the line of darker brown tha'
to life persons whose jaws were so |
their teeth had to be forced apart with
the manners and eastoms of the wily
“Well |
and tell the wife—relieve her mind |
and prepare her for the joyful sar. | (G8
prise. I am utterly nervous and uo. |
I shook ap my monnt and went along |
tion like a cowboy. The fort soon
loomed close up. I conld distinguish |
the anxious throng still in the gateway
looking out for the captains return,
Mra. Murdo a very conspicuous figure |
| ean exceed in comfort a pretty morn.
Far Cold Mornings.
For cold winter mornings nothing
ing jacket of soft wool eiderdown, As
. here represented, pale blue was the
3 panes rads
The men heard me, understood the |
As I reined up amongst them, impale.
sively roaring, “‘Buflles is found—
Buflles is safe!” a volley of cheers rat. |
A few moments later our baby nestled
in his mother's arms, and an emotional |
surged around the lappy
ters closed upon thew and the restored |
Builes. The Wide World Magazine,
Save His Life Pirst and Then “Thraw the
the crowded street, feeling very kind. |
Jy toward themselves and the rest of |
humanity. Just as they reahed the |
middle of a erossing one of those ag- |
gravating individuals who walk one |
way and look another stepped directly |
WOMAN'S HOUR Jad
polor chosen, the edges being neatly
: finished with a bias binding of satin
"in the same shade, which i» machine
| stitohed on its inside and upper ed;
, The gracefully pointed collar is a
| picturesque feature of the garment,
“‘Confound you, keep your eyes open
Quirk looked nputterably savage,
but Perk tottersd to the curb, sat
down and laughed until the tears came, |
“Yon are the only big enough idiot |
on earth to save a man's life avd they
If & derelict is fall of lumber she is
like 8 rock. If waterlogged, these
less broken in such a manner that the
cargo is released. Fire has been
found effective in destroying dereliots.
It was successful in all but four cases |
in forty-five. One of the failures was |
American schooner, one of the most |
remarkable dereliots of which we |
bave record. She was abandoned
October 15, 1891, between the gapes
across the Atlantio
ydrographic office received
numerous reports of her), her course
veering to the south, until she was
about } Madeira. Thers she
Febraary, 1893. Then
3 until May of that
year. From May until early in 1894
February 1 she was about north of |
Nassau. On the pilot obart for June, |
1894, she is located on the eastern
border of the gulf stream anl sonth- |
| pe Hattoras, Tn June, |
1804, she bad been a derelict 050
days, and had drifted over 7000 miles, |
the longest track of the kind on ree- |
ord, to find herhelf within a few miles, |
somparatively speaking, of the point
"at which she was abandoned. —St |
_ pleten the neck,
The shaping is very simply accom-
| plished by side seams, that end jast
below the waist line, underarm goves
and shoulder seams, the fronts basing
; nader
: . small decorative bows of satin ribbon. |
which have hitherto been convidered |
closed invisibly in centre,
The sleaves are two-seamed, in
regular coat shape, the becoming ful-
i ness gathered at the top, and the
wrists bound with satin. Although
especially designed for eiderdown, any
woolen fabric may be chosen to de-
velop this neat and trim house jacket,
flannel, camel's hair, ladies’ cloth or
eashmeres being pretty when trimmed
with ribbon, lace or insertion.
To make this jacket for a woman of
mediam size will require three and
one-half yards of material twenty-seven
“inches wide.
A FPetehing Suit.
Checked novelty wool suiting ia
forms the check is the material chosen
for the fetching suit showa in the
i large engraving.
Brown ribbon velvgl is used for
trimming, the revers of piece velvetto
mateh being overlaid with creamy
point de Venice lace. Three hand.
some steal buttons decorats the front,
a steel buskls being used to clasp the
belt of velvet ut the waist line,
Hat of brown feit faced with shirred |
chamois, colored satin and ernshed |
cream roses ander the brim at the left
side, Handsome brown shaded tips,
roll and loop of satin ribbon.
Tue yoke and collar are of finely
tucked eream culorad
pose.
The yoke may be at both front and
Yack or in front only, and the revers
taay extend in Bertha fashion on tue
hack or be oat off at the shoulders, |
The closing may be in front or at cen.
tre-back, and the box plait ean be
. omitted as shown in outline sketch. A
{| body lining fitted by single buat darts,
FOR A MIBS OF FOURTEEN.
taffeta that
comes already tacked for this pur
i
: A Cowboy Plouristies a Revolver and Passesger
i
:
$
gives a trim effect,
vet.
trimming of parror and wide riblon
lower edge extending all around the
foot. The top is fitted closely wnd
below the hips it flares fashiouably to
the lower edge.
in any of the season's new {abries iu
plain or mixed weaves.
Velvet, silk or moasseling can be
used for the yoke and collar, or lace
may be applied over some construst-
ing bright color.
The revers may be of the dress
goods decorated with braid, gimp,
velvet, passementer’s, insertion or
applique trimming sud various come.
binstions may be charmingly de
veloped in this style
- Ladies' Nlseves,
A sleeve that is exceedingly prony
made up in the heaviest material is
here given. The sleeve cap may be
used over either sleeve or dispensed
with altogether, as preference dictates,
No. 1 hus a full upper and under
portion, gathered in spaced shirrings
and arranged over smooth linings, the
wrists ave finshed by frills of laos or
elitffon. If a transparent affect is des |
sired it is Dest for the smuteur to |
make the slesvs over a cheap huing
the sleeve ix finished. Thin gives
ander-arm gores aud centre-bnek ssam | noyna
The sleeves are two seamed iu ate
| ent ent, gathered at the top und some |
pleted at the wrists by bands of vels |
A COACH TO HIMSELF.
On a Moving Train Disprrse to Another
{Zar Pisced in the Lock-up.
When through express No. 6, ecast-
reached Greensburg a few
rights ag, a man who had
briny terrorizing th pass gers
was taken off and the police escorted
Bim to the jockup Snon after the
train had aft Pitsburg he pointed a
revolver nt the nassengers and threat-
The skirt comprives five gores; the eried to shoot He spesdily empti=d the
coseh. the passengers as well as the
i brakemen ard condor being Tome
velvet outlines the front gore to the | Pelled to fly for their dves into the
next car. He bad the copel all to hime
Cael whens the tral reached Groense
burg, With some trouble he was taken
Cfrem the train, disarmed and taken 19
C the lockup. His name or home i¥ une
_ The mode is characterized by astyl. |
ish air which will hold when fashioned |
known, hut he carried a tekit for New
York City. He is a typleal cowboy.
The paspengers wore panie-stricken,
The fratn wus deigyod 15 minates
{last weel
ford, $5; Lucius Adams, Beaver Cens
Cte. Crawford, $8: Hobert Adbsr, Pille-
The following pensions were limyed
Harper (3. Andrews, rads
| burg, $8 Joseph RB Stretch, Mechan-
clesburg, $6. Hugh MoGreevy, Port
| Perey, $l to $12 James Armstrong. Ei-
| derton, IR to $12: Almerian D. Biddle,
| Canton, $30 to 356; Henry Fraley, Ei-
; derton, B12 te $17. Walter |, Owens,
{ Granville, Min, $16 10 51: John Dies
ter. Brie, $12: David J. Armstrong, Eb-
Lgneger. B65 to $5: John L. Lewis Alles
| gheny, 36 to $%: minor of Henry Getee,
C Repove, $160 Mary RBumbls, Greens
boro, $5 Mary M. Gates, Knox, Uiare
(ian, BY Wiliam Mollhatten, Helles
: { fonte, #0: Torrence Casey, Frise, 36; Ir-
for thin fabries snd one that can be
vin T. Andrews, Lewistown, $3. Wile
{Ham J. Carry, dead Sennett, $3
| Joseph Phillips, Allegheny, $6: Harris
wan Collins, Uranesville, Erte county,
I 8%: David Mehaffy, Sunbeam, Frank-
i Hin, 36 td $5: Obed FE. Fox Callensburg,
I Clarion, 36 10 3%. Marion Clark. Mas.
Lontown, 3 oto 38. Jarrah 1. Shank,
; Pern Ron, Indiana, $16 ta $12. Mary
LA Carry, Bennett, 3: Rarah Lester,
| Oakdale 1%: Catherine Davis, Altoona,
PB: John WP. Blair, Marissvilie, $6;
Miles ¥. Newberry, Hesumont, RI;
| William HB. Huffinan, Beaver Falla
C33 Barab J McAienr Bradford, 8
| Hannah Kaney, Tarontum, 3%: Marthe
Jape Renff, Pittsbaryy $85: Charlotte HH.
Wald, MeKoan, $18 Fernando © Hare
per, Cotineaut Lake 35;
Geargs W,
Mack. Whites Corners, Potter, §&;
Reet Taper, Pittsburg. 38: Samuel
Henderson, Bolivar, $8 5 3% Theodore
Dn Quicht, Garland, Warren, IX to #3;
: Benjamin Timmins, Banksvilie, Alle-
| gheny, $10 to $44
Muthew PP. Andemion, a student at
CL Weaming Seminary, Kingston, and a
member of the seminary football team,
| died the other night from injuries re-
revel while playing football. Anderson
played with the seminary team against
Felines at Carlisle fast Saturday
and war injured,
He complained of
ping in the head and his mind ap.
peared tn be affected When he re.
C turned 16 the seminary he was much
Fbetter, aml went out to practice. While
Cat play he became unconscious and had
tn be carried to his room. Doctors
ceonld afford no relief and the patient
slowly sank until death came,
Jonsthan Farley, 3 sheep raiser of
CMaxus, vas arrested on oa. Pennsyle
Povania train atl Grespesburg the other
{ plght for shooting at a Pullman pore
ter. Farley was release 3 fram suse
| tody, He said he had seid a carload of
| #heep in Texax for $1.79 in cash and
was on his way to Massachusetts to
Dogen Bie Rinefolk, whorn he had not seen
in twenty years He sys that while in
Pittsburg Thursday he met several
sive loking chaps began drinking and
Cowan relieved of $8
For twenty-five year the record of
| Hg punipkins Rept by Jacob Hoos a
| grocer of Rutier., hax stood at 138
| pounds. Last week Mrs Maggie Dor-
wey, of Middlesex township brought a
{pumpkin to town that sends all former
records to everiastitie smash The
; pompkin welghs 138 pounds and meas-
Cyres T fier 7 inches at (ts greatest oir
rumferenes. It was all two stout men
eogid do 1 uniosd the monster from
| the wagon
A second attempt was recently made
{by some unknown sheimy to murder J
iN Beartoss. a prominent miller resid-
ing about a mile north of Shippens-
| burg. As he was uniecking his offcs
| deor a phot was fired at him. and the
| bullet, striking cliwe to his head, drep-
{ pd to the floor. Fame time ago he was
struck on the head with a hatchet, and
Cat the time was thought to be fatally
injured
Hon, Harry W. Williams, of Wells
Phere, Tioga county, a jidge of the mie
| preme court of Pennsyvivania, has ene
Po ferast Fahl Hospital far tpeikiment fur
and cut it away from undernsath after i
Armuess to the seams and retains the
CL omnare.
proper shape aod set of the sleeve.
| No. 2 has only slight fulness at the |
i top and the lining is shapad exactly
(like sleeve. It is illustrated in gray
| brocade, trimmed with embroidered
' chiffon and silk applique,
!
i
The bsek |
Mount Pleasant, Pa. wan robbed ves.
i Lees : } Sa + | pervenn paralysis brought on by overs
| a comfortable rolling collar, that com: row of shirring being covered by |
bands of insertion or gimp. The
exertion, Judge Williams is 8% vears
af are. He on impmving and will be
alle fo return home 0 about two
weeks
An sxplosion of palyrid gas wrecked
the satoen butldieg of Jacob Duden
hee Mer this evening and his wife will
Likely dle of her burns. She went up-
stairs with a lighted lamp and the gas
whieh was collected in two bedrooms
exploded. Windows were blown half a
The Bellevernon Cemetery associa.
tion has instructed a commitiss fa ene
tor suit against the J. H. Somers Fuel
, Company for removing the coal from
beneath the burying ground. The ase
sociation clatme the entire cemetery is
iable to fail In,
The drug firm of MM 2 Kuhn at
terday morning of $6 in cash snd
| bonds aggregating 32.508 in value. The
| explosion which shattered the safe
DC was verrific, shaking the adioining
{ bulidingms.
The United Presbyterian church at
| Palrview was destroved by fire Wed.
§
{
i
| nesday night. The building was srect-
| ed in 1384 at a cost of $1200 and was
I ehe finest country church in the county.
The insurance is very small
Thomas . Speece of Altoona, a
Penneyivania raliroad freight brake-
man, was missed on the arrival of his
| train here. It was found he had fallen
from the train near Kittanning Point
and been ground to pleces
Colllertes Now § and § operated by
| the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Compa~
HEAYY MATERIAL SLEENVEY.
{ py at Tamaqua. will resume on Toes.
| day newt after an idleness of over nine
omaonths Employment will De given to
Cover 5 boys and men,
Senoitenl Gitary, aged I. and Val-
| entine (olesh, aged 38 Poles, were
| crushed to death by a heavy fall of coal
| ssam is opened for two inches at tho |
wrist to allow the frill of chiffon to fall |
| gracefully through. The
‘shaped sleeve cap 18 borderad 10
pretty |
3 i
match gathers grouped at the slioni=
der. easing the becoming {nines
one-eighth yardsof thirty-mix-inch ma.
To make No. 1 will require one anil
of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regis
terial. To make No, 2 will require oliw |
aad one-fourth yards of same widtl |
goods,
Lace Insertinn For Decoration,
Lace insertion and tiny silver bui-|
tons used to decorate linen gowns are
most effective.
| and rok in Na 2 shafl of the Susque~
hana Coal Company at Nanticoke a
few days ago
By mistake Augustus and Willlam
Zolers, two voung butchers of Jack-
sonville, each swallowed a large dose
af horse medicine and their lives were
saved with difeulty
A Sysar-ald Porto Riean Wow,
brought to New Custie by Cimpany B,
ment, 8 stok in the Bospital thers with
typhotd fever
Lancaster county teachers will hold
{ thelr annual Institute at Lancaster
from November 11 ta 18 inciosive
Crippled Henry Hart, ob Liberty,
Tioga County, jumped into a stream
last wiek and drowned himself,