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The revolution create I by Mergen
thaler in the development of printing
was fully equul to that of Guttenberg
iu inventing it.
When wireless telegraphy becomes
universal, what will become of tho
poor liuetnen. Well, possibly he can
find employment in keeping the mes
sages from scattering.
A new association lias been formed
in Gem any for the cultivation of
closer relatious with Brazil, aud as a
result German enterprise in South
America will surely be stimulated.
From Alabama comes the report of
the death of a distinguished lawyer
caused by over exertion at golf. This
may be regarded as the exception that
proves the rule that golf ip a game in
which one has enough and nut too
much work to do.
The automobile will not prove less
interesting or less vivacious than the
horse. It will never kick tho dash
board into the ntmosphere or shy at a
wind-blown newspaper, but it can got
its lever jammed, run away, blow up
its gasoline tank and catch fire' with
bewilderiug cheerfulness on occasion.
Views of men everywhere differ in
many respe -ts as to extent aid the
direction that public education should
take, but all, or nearly all, will agree
that if public education is to proceed
further than providing facilities for a
rudimentary English education it
should be iu the direction of manual
training. With a trade or a to.*huical
knowledge iu some special line a man
is always self-supporting, ami in near
ly every case is sure of lucrative em
ployment. There is a great or greater
field for the achievements of fame or
wealth in the mechanic arts as in the
overcrowded, so-called learned pro
fessions.
A remarkable applicitiou of the
principles of the telephone and the
phonograph jointly is cluime 1 for a
Danish engineer by Engineering. Ho
has invented what is practically a
phonograph which will take t lephono
messages. Unlike the phonograph
now in use, it has no wax plates, the
impression being recorded on a steel
baud which m iy be used an indefinite
number of times, as tho records can
be wiped off like writing off a slate.
If this invention is practicable it will
be a boon to the busy ollice man to
whom there is no greater pest than his
<elerk's constant cry, "You aro wanted
at the 'phone, sir."
Figures are sometimes impressive
Bimply by being so stupendous that
the human mind grasps them with
difficulty. An English physicist in a
receM lecture, in order to bring to
tue comprehension of his hearers the
idea of ultimate particles of water,said
that if lie were to empty a tumbler
contui uing half a pint of water, letting
outeaoli second a number equal to one
thousand times the population of the
earth, it would require somewhere
between 7,000,000 and 47,000,000
years to empty the tumbler. Lord
Kelvin says that if a drop of water
were magnified to the size of the earth
the particles would be between the
size of cricket balls and that of foot
balls. If that statement is correct,
the drops of water in nil the oceans
are not mauy times as numerous as
the particles, or molecules, in a single
drop.
Overworked "Very."
Writers should save the time ol
readers by abandoning "very" and giv
ing an overworked word a rest of a
few years. It has earned that rest.
That word, as an adverb, is found less
than twenty times in the King James
translation of the Bible. The rarity
of its use makes it count for all the
more when utilized When it Is said
that the man Moses was very meek,"
one understands that ho was meek be
yond the custom of the Israelites of
Jiis clay. When St. James says "the
Lord is very pitiful" the "very" Is full
of significance. But if the good and
the bad deeds, the cruel and the heroic
acts recorded in the Bible were to he
described by most writers of the day
there would be a "very" In almost
I In D —f.hlejiflm Tribune
THE NUMBERED STONES.
This is the ground of glory.
This is the Held of fumn—
And the*e —begrimed aud gory,
Burued with the battlo llutno—
Thcso are tho vague immortals,
The nameless of tho fray.
Deep thronged around the port a 111,
Of Death's eternal dayl
Bard of the flowing phrases,
Muse oT tho silver lute,
Wliv do you stin; your praises,
Why dj your chords hang mute?
Can wo aver yon blameless.
Who sing but of the proud
And nigh forget tho nameless,
Euwrapt with earthly shroud?
For them no laurelled wroathiugs,
No proud, triumphant trains-
No cheers, no c-owd't* deep breathing*,
No boastful, br.izou stratus.
With wind-kissod banners playing.
With wild regardless shout.
Their joy was in the slaying,
Their triumph in tho rout;
Sons springing frcm tho masses,
Tho homeland to defend—
Their blood has wot its grasses,
Thoir dust with it will blend!
Dead to the aoclamalions
Dead when the light Is done!
Tho po dost ills of nations
Rest on thegroun I they won.
Their valor ours for buying?
Tho price wo blush to own—
Their recompense for dying
Was but a numbered stone!
—Boston rilot.
§ A Rejected Manuscript |
By C. -A.. Sliaw.
f VUL KING, the editor, was
kind enough to explain to
me why my contribution
was not acceptable. His
reasons were excellent, and
I felt that they were what
I know to be true; but I
was not payiug particular
attention to his words. I
have tho fatal gift of second sight in
regard to length of life, and I saw
that ho would pass from this world
witiiin two years. As to tho cause of
death I could not say. He seemed in
excellent health now, though not of
robust constitution; few men who do
office work exhibit tho quality of
ruggedness which is associated with
length of life, yet many live to good
old age. I was filled with a strange
pity for the man before me, so fair
minded; generous, and, iu bis way,
so attractive. Yet I could not say u
word of his short career.
This gift is difficult to describe. I
only know that I possess it. By ex
perience I have learned to gness how
neat any person is to dissolution and
to avoid his society, for I dread a
dying person, man or woman.
"Yonr stories, Aloott," the editor
was saying, "lack moral purpose,
patriotism, a belief iu high motives,
in affection. Tho people who read
stories want that sort of thing. They
read for amusement, for omotional ex
citement, to be flattered by approba
tion of a sort of cheap generosity
which they feel they could easily in
dulge in themselves if rich. 'The
mission of all art,' it has been said,
'is to create aiid foster agreoable illu
sions.' "
"Y'es," I responded, rousing myself
to answer. "I have heard that, but I
despise that sort of cheap art. It is
work for a valot, not a' philosopher."
"People don't want philosophy,
Alcott. Most persons accept their re
ligion, their politics, and their philos
ophy, from the current talk. 'lf I
were rich I should be happy.' That
is the unspoken conviction. Mean
while, let somebody tell mo how vir
tuous I am and how much I deserve.
You don't do that. Just as likely as
not your hero robs a bank or wins
money on a horse race or kills an
enemy and has never a qualm of con
science afterwards. That isn't
proper. You want to make dishonest
people suffer for their sins aud show
that Americans beat the world."
"In what? In knavery? Is there
any nation at the top?"
"I have tried to point out tho way
you might succeed, but if it seems
only a jest to you, if you don't care to
profit by my experience, why let it
go."
The editor was wounded by my
flippancy, and I could only pity him
and Ihiuk: "Too bad! Only two
years longer to live!"
"You want me to imitate Kipling?"
I said.
"No, Kipling's merits belong solely
to him, But if you'd change this end
ing and make the man reform, it
might go."
"Fix it up for me, that's a good
fellow," 1 said. "You can't imagine
how I hate to touch a thing I have
written, even t > read it over aguin,
after I have grown cold."
"You will never make a success of
literature unless you get over that,
Alcott. AYiiat would a lawyer amount
toil' lie could not tiro out a jury by
repetition, or an actor, or, iu fact, any
pro.cssiunal man? But authors seem
to think tlu v can say a tiling once aud
have tho win Id at their foot."
I was glad to get away. The very
thought of death disturbs me. It
makes 1110 ask myself how long am I
to live, and as I cannot seo myself, I
torture my.i-if iu futile questionings
of tile future.
About a year later t mot Mr. King,
the editor, on the street.
"i had a strange dream, last night,"
ho said. "J thought I was dead, aud
that you said you had known about it
long ago. What do yon think of it?"
He tried to smile, but I saw lie was
scared. Death daunts all when looked
at face to face.
"I don't have much fnith in
dreams," was my reply. "If you had
failed in as mauy things as I have
yon would welcome death as a
change."
One says these things to others but
| they are falsehoods. I fear death.
"I tried to s\>t you oil tho right
road to succeed iu literature, but you
wouldn't follow my advice."
"How could I? Am Ito go on kill,
ing people in fiction, and finding
corpses behind doors, und marrying
poor girls to rich men, and all that
sort of hprror, just to amuse a lot of
idle or weary mortals, and earn per
haps two dollars a weekiu money? It's
all very well for you editors, who have
a regular salary, but for us outsiders,
it's rough riding."
"You little know of tho trials of an
editor's life if you think you have all
the bitterness of a literary career,"
retorted King, gloomily. "Between
the practical joker who wants to get
up a quarrel with any one, and the
crank who is driven by a strange mad
ness to 'pitch iu' to somebody all tho
time, there is less peace and less sat
isfaction iu editing than in any other
profession in modern days. lam think
ing of taking a sea voyage."
I wished to warn him of the danger
of snch a change, bnt could I say
that his fate might bo escaped on land
any better than at sea?
"I've a good mind to go with you,"
I remarked.
"Come on," he replied with alert
ness. "As a writer you have your
defects, a too caustio pen, but as a
oompagnon do voyage I would choose
none more desirable."
It was somo months before wo
started upon our travels, first to
Mouth Africa, then to Australia. Mr,
King enjoyed the best of health. I
tried to believo I had deceivod my
self. I resisted tho temptation to fly
from his presence, to forsake hira, in
spite of the dread which a coming
death always excites in me.
Wo reached San Francisco in safe
ty. We started east across the con
tinent.
One evening as wo sat at dinner in
tho dining car a gentleman ap
proached us and asked me politely:
"Is this Mr. King?"
I pointed 'to my companion and
reached for tho salad dish.
"You are the editor of King's
Monthly."
"I am," replied Mr. King, with
dignity, "the oditor-iu-ohief. We
have a number of departments and
each has its special editor."
"Perhaps you can tell me why this
story was declined?"
He drew a rather bulky package
from his coat pocket and oponod it
beside the oditor's plate.
"I have been away frcm the olfioe
•marly r. year," began Mr. King,
i'hen he stopped and looked at the
manuscript more attentively. "Why,
this is one of Mr. Kipling's stories."
"It's a lie! I wrote it myhelf," ex
claimed the stranger, suddenly dis
playing great excitement.
"You may have copied it. Yes, that
is tho way of it."
Mr. King tried to assume an air of
genial humor, at the same time sig
naling to mo to got assistance. We
both recognized the crank whose in
sanity takes the form of believing
himself somo famous writer or of try
ing to dispose of copies of published
stories of celebrated authors as his
own.
But the madman suspected tho ed
itor's intention and sprang Upon him,
bending his head backward and aim
ing at his throat with tho first knife
his hand could got hold of. Before I
could come to my friend's assistance
all was over, aud tho assassin had es
caped to tho oud of tho car. A chasm
several hundred foot iu depth was be
side the track hero, but into this he
leaped with a cry of triumph at hav
ing revenged himself upon his fancied
enemy.
WISE WORDS.
Love constrains to consecration.
Tact is not another name for trick
ery.
True love is the seoret of full conse
cration.
Death is darkness, because it leads
to dawn.
What yon are within, that you will
bo without.
The world-spoiler has no use for the
steady toiler.
Most men begin to snve after they
have spent all.
Practico what yon pray—particular
ly at the ballot-box,
Tho first thing you see in boiling
water, is tho scum.
Caro-not is a greater hiudranoe to
success than cannot.
Self forgetfulness is only acquired
by remembering others.
Songs of triumph are possible only
to the sons of tribulation.
Wo nro wielded by our wishes,
rather than by our wisdom.
The world is a vessel in whose hold
tho fire is already burning.
Some graves are move potent to por
suude men than mauy pulpits.
Your life will strike no higher note
in public than it is keyod to in pri
vate.
When a man shows his goodness in
his home, the chances are that good
ness has it 3 homo in him.
The worldly nro spending tho win
ter of life in collecting scow-balls,
forgetting that the summer comes.—
Barn's Horn.
Wonderful lutellectiinl Orat-p.
"It is a constant wonder to me,"
said tho student of human nature, "to
SGQ how quickly the minds of some
men act. I mot a man the other even
ing who had an intellectual grasp that
was astounding. I mot him in ;lie
hall just as lie was reaching for an
umbrella. 'ls that your umbrella?*
ho inquired. 'No,' I replied. 'ln
that case,'£he answored, 'it's mine.'"
—Argonaut. ;
Not Up to the Times.
This is such a fast ago that even the
meteors are charged with being slow.
—Sioux City (Iowa) Journal.
| N EWS AND NOTES 1
H FOR WOMEN. I
xete?;?* sotcsoieteioKstetoieteK
l'iifihnrnto Ornsimen tntion.
The evolution of style from severity
to extreme elaboration and back again
to plaiuuess can always be described
in a wave-like motion. Starting somo
two years ago with most severe tailor
made plain costumes, we have ascend
ed the acclivity until to-day the heap
ing 011 of handicraft and trimmiugs
has seemingly reached the uppermost
limit.
The New Skirt.
The sheathlike skirt which fits the
figure liko a glove is one which should
be avoided by every woman with the
slightest tendency to embonpoint.
But the poor stout woman cries out in
her perplexity, "What am I to do?"
There is something else, a style
which will just suit her, and which
seem? to have \pjjen modelled es
pecially for her. The modistes are
clever enough to know that the stout
woman is as much to be considered as
the slim one, and with this object iu
view has been designed a skirt which
is built upon lines certain to appeal
to the woman who continues taking on
fiesk.
This new and probably permanent
wrinkle in skirt topography is intend
ed for women whose form is such that
a certain amount of drapery is essen
tial. It is a skirt with a triple box
plait, folded narrowly at the placket
and flowing out wide and gracefully
into the train, and promises to be a
boon which will be eagerly welcomed
by women of ample build.—New York
Herald.
Mr?. AlcKiiilcy'g Aversion to Yellow.
Each mistress of the White House
has had her favorite flower, except
Mrs. who expresses little
preference, except an aversion to yel
low flowers and a great love for blue
ones, iu which the President joins
her. A largo bunch of flowers is cut
from the conservatory every morning
and sent to adorn the President's
table, while others go to Mrs. MeKin
ley's apartments. The plants that
adorn the domestic part of the White
House are frequently changed, to
give her the benefit of the rare and
beautiful variety that Alls the great
conservatories. All of tho finest plants
share her admiration, each for as long
a time as it can stand to be kept from
real hothouse atmosphere.
Neither Mrs. MoKinley nor the
President visits tho conservatories
regularly, though before the busy
days of the war v. ere thrust upon him
they both loved tho care aud cultiva
tion of plant life. Now the President
has no time to watch the gentle un
folding of nature placed for his pleas
ure under the vast area under glass to
the west of tho White House. —Wash-
ington Slar.
Pay of tin Army Nurse.
For service in the United States a
nurse receives S4O a month, which is
$lO more than is paid by tho hospi
tals which employ graduate nurses.
The pay of a graduate serving iu tho
operating rooms of a city hospital
ranges from $25 to SOO per month,
out of which she must, like the army
nurse, supply her own wardrobe.
The chief nurse in au army hospi
tal corresponds to the superintendent
of nurses in a civil hospital. Where
leas than five nurses are serving un
der tho chief nurse, she receives the
same allowance as they. Where from
fivo to ton are serving the chief nurse
receives $lO a mouth more than the
other nurses; where ten or more are
serving, she receives $25 more than
the others per month. For service iu
Porto Itico, Cuba, the Hawaiian Is
lands or the Philippines, nurses re
ceive SSO per mouth instead of S4O,
aud transportation to and from the
United States when on leave of ab
sence. The total leave of absence,
with pay, does not exceed one month
during the year—the time spent in
traveling to aud from the United
States not being counted.
The hours of ward duty are usually
twelve iu army service, aud, if the
climate requires, the chief nurse may,
with tho approval of the medical offi
cer in charge, amend these to ton or
eight hours.—Boston Budget.
Linion? F or Former*' Daughter*.
The girls on a farm should learn to
miln as well as the boys, even if they
are not expected to take a full share
iu such work. In many countries
milking is thought to bo essentially a
woman's work, not only because it
requires little physical strength when
one is accustomed to it, but because
girls generally are quieter, and do
not got angry with the cow, aud be
cause they are naturally neater and
tho milk is cleaner. We believe tho
farmer's daughters should know how
to milk, and to harness and drive a
horse. Occasions frequently come,
perhaps iu cases of an accident,when
it is very importaut that a woman
should ride or drive a horse perhaps
to the village for a physician, and to
find her ignorant and helpless at
such a time may cause the loss of a
life, and a lifelong regret to her and
to others. Wo know on many farms
their education goes much farther
than this, and that many girls aud
young women can drive the team and
manage the mowing machine, horse
rake, seed drill, or other machinery
on the farm as well as their brothers
if they have any, and we know no
good reason why they should not do
so, as well as to ride a bicycle, if tliey
will learn, though we do not care to
advocate tho regular employment of
women iu farm labor. But we have
seen a woman, New England born and
bred, who couul handle the scythe
and pitchfork in the hay field, or the
plow or hoe in cultivated fields,better
than most men, and do it all day, too.
Yet sho was as capable of doing good
work in the houee or dairy room as
she was out of fioora. We knmr a
Germau iu western New York whose
"boys were all girls," as he said.
There were some half dozen of them,
well educated, graduates of a high
school in a neighboring city, accomp
lished musicians, reCuedand ladylike,
and yet any one of them could go into
the harvest field and do a day's work
that would compare iu amount or
neatness with the best of farm hands.
And they were also skilled in house
work and dairy work.—American Cul
tivator.
Women Here und There.
There are over 300 women dentists
iu America.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born
at Manchester, England, in 1819.
Mrs. Dewey, the wife of our gallant
Admiral, is about forty-three years
old.
Not six per cent, of all the women
in America spend as much money as
SSO per year on their clothes.
Mrs. Ei Hung Chang has a more
extensive wardrobe than any other
woman. Her dresses number three
thousand.
It is announced that Miss Maud
Gcmne, the Irish agitator, will soon
return to the United States to work
and speak for the Boers,
John D. Kockefeller's private sec
retary is a woman, Miss Harfis. She
is said to be very clever, and she must
be, for she can keep a secret.
Dowager Queen Emma of Holland
has contributed five hundred dollars
to the Amsterdam Red Cross fund
intended for the relief of wounded
Boers.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a good
Greek scholar and her favorite read
ing is among the classics of that lan
guage, a volume of which she has al
ways at hand.
Miss Helen Gould's present attitude
toward Mormonism is no new thing
with her. Eevoral years ago she was
a warm supporter of Kate Field iu a
similar movement.
The first woman doctor admitted to
general practice in Germany by the
authorities is a Berlin girl, Agues
Nncker. It has taken the Prussian
Cabinet two years to deoide her case.
Mrs. John M. Thurston, the bride
of the Nebraska Senator, is described
as of medium height, graceful, with
changeful dark gray eyes, occasionally
Hashed with blue, perfect figure and
mobile features.
Rev. Bessie Velvick i 3 a young
woman of about twenty-five and is iu
charge of a Wesleyan chapel in
Bethersden, England. She is very
successful in her ministry, preaching
weekly to largo crowds.
It is said that the widow of General
"Stonewall" Jackson is in sore
straits financially and that [her
health is very poor. She is now old
and nearly blind. Her home is near
the towh of Charlotte, N. 0.
Some Englishwomen, grieved at the
lack of rational amusements among
the children of the present day, have
formed themselves into t. body for
visiting board school playgrounds iu
order to teach children how to play.
Tama, the Japanese wife of Sir
Edwin Arnold, is said to look like a
Parisienne. She speaks English
fluently, but with a slight accent.
Her letters show that she has been
easily able to adapt Herself to Eng
lish modes of thought aud expression.
Now Fashion Fancies.
Untrimmed dresses are now limited
almost altogether to street gowns for
morning wear.
So mauy cheap imitation furs are
used for the fur toaues that their career
may be a short one.
Adjustable guimpes, yokes, plas
trons, rovers, and collars are made of
guipure in Honitou, Venetian, or
Flemish designs.
It is quite the thing this season to
have the underskirt of a costume made
of lighter iuoteadof darker fabrio than
the long overdress or rediugotc.
One of the fads of youthful women
this winter is that of wearing a very
long round bou of cinnamon-bear fur,
with a huge direct oire muff to match.
Violets are very much worn, both
real and artificial, and the latter
sprayed with the perfume of Rhine
violets are quite as sweet as the genu
ine.
The new variety of taffeta silk has
the pilablo qualities of a soft foulard,
while it is much heavier und more
suitable for gowns than tho thinner
kind.
Tiny tucks Have taken a fresh lease
of life, and upon the newest waists
they are used diagonally, meeting in
a point down tho middle of tho back
and front.
A rather striking costume worn by
a young woman of fashion, is a black
cloth skirt, a bright but rather a rose
red cloth jaoket aud u white cloth
waistcoat.
The real Persian lamb, the beautiful
and most lasting of all rich furs, the
otter, and the oiunainon bear are ac
counted the most fashionable of all the
fnrs of the winter. T
Graduated friuge is one of tho nov
elties, and far more graceful than tho
straight-around variety. It is long
and short, formin ;■ broad jioints, and
has a kuotted beading.
A pretty shirt waist has three nar
row box plaits on either side of the
front, eueh covered with embroidery,
and small tucks fill in tho centre of
the back. A yoke in tho back is no
longer considered indispensable and
the prettiest are made without this ugly
feature.
A striking new girdle is in the form
of a gold serpent, which is pinned a(
tho waist and extends from one side
to the other. A row of diamonds down
the serpent's back and two large
rubies for the eyes make tho ornament
a brilliant sight.
! TALES DF PLDCK !
: AND ADVENTURE. |
FIIIIIUKII Lee's Arrow Wound.
IT his often been noticed that
whenever General Fitzhugh Lee
visits the White Honse he stops
to have a chat with Captain Loef
fler, who stauds guard at the Presi
dent's private olfieo and the Cabinet
room. This is geuerally attributed
to Lee's pleasant way of treating eve
ryone, but it hu3 another origin.
Before tho Civil War Leo was a
Lieutenant in the old Second Cavalry,
afterward reorganized as the Fifth.
Laelller was a trooper in this regi
ment aud later a non-commissioned
officer. His compauy was one of the
two which were engaged in a sharp
light with the Kiowa and Comanche
ludians in the Cimmaron country in
Texas in 1350. The Indians had
taken refuge in a narrow cauon which
could be entered only from one end,
and there had tjiroivu up a fortifica
tion of logs, Iroiu behind which they
poured a hot lira into the troops. The
character of the cauon was such
that the horses of the cavalry were
useless, aud they were left outside,
the men advancing on foot. Only a
few of the Indians had firearms, the
rest had bows aud arrows. Had the
the Indians been as well armed as they
have been iu later wars, the loss of
the whites would have been very
large; as it was only four or five sol
diers wore killed, though the Indian
loss amounted to nearly fifty.
A charge was made on the log fort,
lud Lee, who was a dashing officer
find a wonderful favorite with his men,
was the first to scale the breastwork.
The arrows were whizzing all about
him, and one struck him in the breast,
inflicting a very ugly wound. As he
(ell the confusion was so great about
Uim that tho arrow was pulled out of
his flesh aud thrown to the ground
among other arrows, whole aud bro
ken, so that no ona could tell after
ward whether the head had remained
iu the wound or been drawn out with
the stick. It was impossible, there
fore, to say how seriously he had been
hurt, and he was carried at once to
tho rear, where a litter was impro
vised of saplings aud boughs. He
was laid upon this, whioh was swung
between two horses, aud thus he was
carried back to the wagon traiu, a
distance of more than 150 miles
through a rough country. Probing
showed that the head of tho arrow
had fortunately beeu drawn out, aud
iu due time good nursing put the
Lieutenaut on his feet again.
This is an incident ic Lee's career
which is apparently known to very
few. It is of interest to know that
the old .Second Cavalry had for its
Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston aud
for its Lieutenant Colonel Bobert E.
Lee, and that Hardee,'of "tactics"
fame, and George H. Thomas were
two of its Majors. Tho Captain of the
company iu which Fitzhugh Lee was
First Lieutenant was Kirby Smith.
Loeffler served with great credit in
the Union Army during the Civil War,
was given his White House detail by
Prosident Grant, aud was appointed
by President McKinley as "military
storekeeper" iu the regular army, with
the rank of Captain,
The Gordon IllKhlanderH' DIIRII.
The war correspondent of the Lon
don Standard writes as follows of the
last battle with the Boers; The air
seemed thick with bullets, while
above our heads the shriek of the
shells aud tho thunderclaps of the
bursting shrapnel made a din that
was appalling to those who had not
had previous experience of the modern
projectiles. So keen were the rank
and file of the Devoushires that more
than one man exposed himself lo the
deadly aim of the Boers merely in
order to satisfy himself as to the
progress of the fight. I heard one
Boldier invite his comrade to put up
his head and see how the Boors were
getting ou. "1 will as soon as there
is room for it," was the reply—a very
natural one, considering that the ail
seemed to consist of flying lead.
The Gordon Highlanders wort
especially anxious to treat the enemy
a lesson. Their regimeut was repre
sented at Majuba Hill, aud the Boers
had afterward roferred to them iu de
lisou as "Kaffirs clothed iu kilts."
The men were keen iu wiping out the
insult, aud to this end bore them
selves with tho most reckless courage.
Nor wore the Mauckestors one whit
less ardent or determined.
It was a magniheeut and soul stir
ring spactaclo as our gallant fellows
dashed straight at the enemy, driving
them irresistibly trom point to point.
The Boers stood their ground to the j
last with the courage of despair. But J
they were no match for our men in '
personal combat, aud were driven ]
back in hopeless coufusiou. Fitly or '
sixty of them, mounting their horses, I
made oft'at full speed over the hills'
toward the east. Another fifteen j
minutes of deadly work aud the last
shot had been fired.
With a loud cheer aud a shout from ;
the Gordon Highlanders of "What !
priue Majuba?" our men dashed down j
the opposite incline right into the i
■ heart of the Boer position, with bayo- ■
nets fixed. But the white flag, stuck j
into the muzzle of a Mauser, was al
ready llyiug in the laager aud the
officers checked their men in mid- j
career. i
No praise cau be too high for the I
courage aud self-saoriflce of our offi
cers. Their behavior was worthy of
the finest traditions of the British
Irmy.
Their courage was not mere reck
lessness, but deliberately calculated
Vitli the object of eucouraging aud
directing the men who followed them. !
Yet it is only just to the rank and file
to say that they would have advanced
as steadily on their own initiative.
Kan n Have With Death.
A high trestle bridge more than a
quarter of a mile long, supporting the
single track of the Nickel Plate Rail
road, spans the valley of Grand River,
east of Painesville, Ohio. The bridge
is little wider than the distance be
tween the rails, and the ties are
placed eight or ten inches apart, the
space between being open to the river
below.
A young man who crossed recently
had a thrilling experience ou tue
bridge. He had just passed the centre
when a fast train rounded the curve
behind him. As die engine whistled
ho quickened his pace. With every
step tho train was rushing nearer and
there was not a moment to lose.
Onoe the young man stumbled and
seemed about to fall, but quickly re
gained his balance and hurried ou.
As he reached the place for which he
had started tho train was close behind
and he had just time to swing himself
over the side of the bridge ns tho lo
comotive thundered by. The ends of
the ties were slippery with grease
from dripping axle boxes and his foot
slipped wide as he left the track. His
right hand, stretched blindly out be
fore him, touched a round iron by,
bracing two parts of the bridge, and
with a grip like that of a drowning
man his fingers clasped arouud it.
For a moment he swung in empty air.
j In another his left hand had found a
place beside his right and his feet
touoked tne welcome edge of a brace
below. With bleeding fingers clutch
ing the slender iron bar that vibrated
widely from side to tide moments
seemed hours. v
At last the train passed, and the
youug man was able to climb slowly
to the track above. Unnerved by the
trying experience, he lay for a mo
ment stretched acioss the rails, and
then rising to his feet, with blanched
faoo and unsteady limbs, made his
way to firm ground.
Two Tumles With lirirtcren.
Alfred Pilkington owes his life to
the strength of the fabric of which his
coat is made. Pilkington is a carpen
ter employed in the Pennsylvania
Railroad's repair department. He
was sent to do some work on the high
bridge which spans the Schuylkill
River at Manayunk.
Late in the afternoon, as he wa3
hammering away, with no fear for his
safety, a shifting engiue backed rap
idly down the track and started across
the bridge, with hardly any noise to
give warning of its approach. Pilk
ington saw it, but too late. As he
hurried to get off tho track, it struck
him a glancing blow, which lifted him
off his feet and sent him toward the
side of the bridge. A hundred foot
below flowed the turbid waters, a fall
into which meant almost certain death.
On the engine was a shifting orew,
and as soon as possible the moinbers
hurried back to pick up what they
supposed would be a dead body, for
the bridge is guarded by a picket fence
on each sido, aud they never thought
of the mau being hurled over it.
But he was. The engine had lifted
him over the fence, and he began to
fall, with one hundred feet of space
between him and the water. But
here a strange thiug saved his life.
His coat caught on a picket of the
fence, and there he hung suspended,
fearing to move lest tho garment give
way and allow him to take the fatal
plunge.
There the shifting crew found him
calmly facing whatever might be in
store for him. They brought him
back to safety and hurried him to St.
Timothy's Hospital. The physicians
found that tho engiuo had bruised
I him, but that he was suffering more
from shock than from nuything else.
Pilkington resides at Norristown,
Peun., and is thirty-eight years old.
Eighteen mouths ago he fell through
the Pencoyd trestle bridge at West
Manayunk aud was severely injured.
AHcriheA IIU Kscikpo to Prayer.
0. H. Amberman is suffering from a
badly strained neck ns the result of
hanging iu the belfry of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Hempstead, Long
Island. Mr. Amberman, who is sex
ton, went to the belfry to make some
repairs, and when he started to de
scend lie slipped and would have fallen
to the lower floor had not tho trap
'door fallen with him and caught him
by the neck aud wedged him against
tho hatchway. Amberman's hands
wore below the trapdoor, his feet
were dangling in the air and his
breath' was cut off. He prayed to
heaven for help, and as he was about
to give up in despair one of his feet
found a resting plaoe and hope
revived. He set his foot firmly,
managed to summon strength
to force his head up a little, and open
j the trapdoor again. He believed that
| his prayer was answered, and he
I bowed his head aud gave thanks to
I God for sparing his life.
Over Hie Falls.
i A Wisconsin paper reports an In
diau's remarkable escape from death.
!He was one of a driving crew that
j broke a big jam above Sturgeon Falls.
I Ho attempted to oross the river on a
| log, and, to the horror of the specta
tors, was carried over the falls,
j The falls are forty feet high, and
| consist of two pitches and the rapids,
j Of course the man was given up for
dead, aud the driving crew thought it
J useless to search the river for his
; body, as the logs were piling over the
j falls at a rapid rate.
The next morning, however, the
Indian walked into camp for break
fast. He had been swept down the
river and up against the bank, where
he mauaged to crawl out. Finding
only a few scratohes and bruises, but
being, as he remarked, "rather tired,"
he lay down and slept until day
light, and was none the worse for his
adventure.