| TALES OF PLUCK I 1 AND ADVENTURE. | How Cruse Saved the Trooper. THOMAS CRUSE, quartermas ter's department, United States army, got another step the other day and once more changed the little image in his shoul der strap. Colonel Cruse lias been a long time in the staff department ■which has to do with army mules, tents, canteens and haversacks. When he first left the line for the staff friends said he couldn't stand it, but when a | man has fought more than most and licked all that he fought, it's not over hard to urge him to take the soft side of a pillow. They say in the army to day that Tom Cruse can't pick up a sample shovel that some contractor has submitted for inspection without coming to an "advance carbine" with it and later trying to cock the thing. Cruse for years was an officer in the / Sixth Cavalry. Out at Fort Sheridan the other day a retired enlisted man who had served under Cruse some years ago told the story of how the quartermaster officer won the little hit of bronze which on certain occasions he wears pinned to ids blouse. In the early summer of 1882 Cruse was a second lieutenant in "K" Troop of the Sixth Cavalry. He was out scouting after Apaches down in the very hottest part of Arizona. The command had trailed along till it came to the rocky basin known as the Big Dry Wash. Cruse had something less than a corporal's guard with him. The little band had not seen a sign of r.-j Indian since it set out, but then ■ Apaches are not given to making signs, t nor do they wait for formal introduc tions before extending warm greetings to those who would cross the thresh old of their rock desert fastnesses. Be yond the basin of the Big Dry Wash was a natural fortification of rocks. Cruse sent a man to the right fiank to take a peep behind the bowlders before crossing. The trooper returned and reported there was uothingthere. Then the little command pushed down into the basin and fury opened from behind the rocks to their front. The fire was concentrated and terrific. Two of the six saddles were emptied and the mounted command gave way and sought the shelter of the rocks to the rear. Under the thumping hail of bul lets Cruse lifted a wounded trooper to his saddle and bore him back to shel ter, where the men dismounted and took what count they could of their hidden enemy across the basin. It was supposed that the second trooper who had fallen In the open was dead. While looking out across the j waste between him and the ambushed ■ savages Cruse saw the fallen trooper * move. Then there happened one of those things which a single line in the medal of honor list tells about, but to which a whole volume cannot do jus tice. Cruse, carbine in hand, stood straight up, a fair and easy mark for a bullet. A tawny face showed beyond and an eye glanced along a rifle bar rel. Itefore the weapon spoke Crusc's carbine sent a bullet straight through the Apache's head. Then he rounded the rock In front and strode across the open toward the wounded soldier. At every third stride he fired. He was one of the crack shots of the army, and the bullets scarred the rocks close to the heads of the lurking reds. Tli y had seen their comrade's head split clean at 150 yards. They dared not expose themselves enough to take care ful aim, but they answered the officer's carbine challenge with a scattering volley. He reached the moaning troop , cr. Behind him had come two of his rmen. "Pick him tip, boys;" and I'll cover the retreat." He stood there facing the enemy's lurking place. A savage braver than the rest stood up and fired. The bullet scratched Crusc's arm, but an ounce of lend crashed into the Apache's head. Cruse walked backward, while behind him his two devoted men bore their strick en fellow. Bullets tore up the sand, but the magnificent nerve and courage of the soldier who cent back true a shot for every volley palsied the Apaches' aim. Back to their breastworks the sol diers went with their burden, Cruse standing erect and sending one last shot before sinking to cover. Then re enforcements came and eighteen sav , ages were put to flight. To-day it is nothing but two cents' worth of bronze | and a hit of ribbon that reminds one ' of the gallantry on that July day in ' . the basin of the Big Dry Wash.—Ed jL ward B. Clark, in the Chicago Record >^ierald. Sinn Defeat* Dog, Awakened from his sleep by the '■ maddened beast, Dr. Robert J. liings • ton had a terrific encounter lasting for I more than an hour, at his home in Newburg, N. Y.. with Bruno, Ills St. Bernard dog, weighing more than 200 pounds. He overcame the brute, chok ing him to death, hut at no light cost. Dr. Kingston had reared the dog from a puppy It was left at home at night to protect the household when professional business called the head ! at the family away. He was out one Sight on a case and in the morning was resting, and the children were playing with the dog. Suddenly the animal was seized with j convulsions, and, running out of the dining room, ascended to the bed chamber of the doctor, sprang on the sleeping physician, and the fight for I followed. Dr. Kingston realized /fk'that the animal was wholly uneontrol- I lable, and that there was grave danger ft for other members of the family if It n Should escape and get down stairs again. Under this thought he lost sight of his own peril, and devoted himself to preventing the beast from so doing. He succeeded in driving the ' frenzied animal into the bathroom ad- ' joining his apartment and then closed ' the door. But in the act Dr. Kings- 1 ton was forced to lock himself in as ' well, for the brute fouglu fiercely every step of the way. Once the door was locked Dr. Kings- 1 ton began the battle for his own safe- ' ty, fighting with grim desperation, for 1 he knew that only by winning a com- j plcte victory would lie be spared a fearful death. The physician is wiry, ] but not apparently a man of great strength, and for a time the struggle was an unequal one. ' Time after time the dog buried its teeth iD the fleshy part of the lower ! nrm, which the doctor used as a guard : for his neck and face. Finally the ani mal was forced into a position whence ' it could not escape. With both hands clutching its wind- ! 1 pipe, Dr. Kingston choked the breath out of the animal's body, and then, i with the assistance of a neighbor, who : 1 had arrived, threw the huge carcass from the window. Dr. Kingston sank to the floor, not j unconscious, but weak from the exer- I ( tlon and the excitement. Dr. F. M. j Phillips was summoned, and the in jured arm, bitten through aud through | in many places, was cauterized and bandaged. | While the fight was on the noise was heard by neighbors, and among thoso who came to the rescue were Bryant Young and the son of Governor Odell, 1 who lives directly opposite Dr. Kings- ' ton. He wanted to shoot the dog, but 1 the expedient threatened danger to the ' physician, who at that time had al- I most mastered the beast. Much Might Have Happened. When tigers are really at large In England, says the London Chronicle, . there are no newspaper paragraphs ; about the fact. The secret is firmly , held. At Clifton there is a delight ful zoo. It was discovered one morning that ; a tiger had escaped from his cage ; during the night. It was the day of a children's fete at the zoo. A hasty search of the grounds was instituted, ] but no tiger was found. Then the su- ] perlntendent decided to keep his own counsel and trust to luck; for it seemed as if the tiger had scaled the walls and was in the open country. 1 Thousands of children romped in the gardens during the day, and cried "Oh!" and "Ah!" as the fireworks ] gleamed in the night. All the evening i they played and sauntered about , among the trees and in shaded alleys , aud dark coiners, and then everybody j went home, tired and happy. In the early dawn there was anoth- | cr search for the tiger; and in the ; corner of a disused monkey house was ( found the "monarch of the Jungle, ' , still trembling from freedom and fire- | works. I His keepers threw a handkerchief , about his neck, and he meekly allowed , himself to be led back to the grateful ( safety of his cage. But many things { might have happened during that fete , day. , Wife Killed Wildcat and Saved Ilusbana ' "I never want to sec another wild- ' cat," said Mrs. John Green. ' Mrs. Green had saved the life of hei husband, but is not boasting of her prowess. Mr. Green had fired at the wildcat with a shotgun, but missed. Before lie had discharged the second barrel the animal had sprang from the limb of a tree and fastened teeth and claws in the man's shoulder. The family dog attacked the wildcat, but would have been killed had not Mrs. Green taken part in the battle. She seized the shotgun from her hus band's hands aud struck the cat a blow on the head. That ended the an imal's life and the battle. Green Is a sawyer, living on Canaan Mountain, in Connecticut. He and his wife were aroused by the barking of the dog. Going outside the man discovered a large wildcat and a young one crouched in a tree near the house. After he had fired and missed his wife came to his rescue. A Lineman's Remarkable Escape. There have been many remarkable escapes from death, but Oliver Ladou eer, a St. Paul lineman, had an expe rience lately that is hard to beat. He was testing a wire that extent's from the store of Hurley Brothers, in i Robert street, to the store of William j It. Burlthard, directly across the street. ' Ladoucer was hanging on to the wire I with hoth hands and was slowly crawl ing out, hand over hand, toward the middle of the street He had got but I a few lengths when he felt the wire ' giving way. He jumped toward the street, a dis tance of thirty feet. In falling he made a grasp for the electric feed wire of the street far line. It held him with out his feet touching the ground, aud this saved his life. Had his feet touched anything he would have been j instantly killed.—Minneapolis Tribune, j Whales Attack Men in a Canoe. | While -tying to fight enraged whales from canoes two members of tho | Charleston telegraph line construction j party at Fort Simpson were hurt so seriously that they barely escaped I with their lives, says a special from Vancouver, B. C. Sixty men are at work stringing Government wires on ! the Skeena River. Lart Friday three whales came tweuly miles up tho river ! and a dozen men turned out to chase ! them. The whales turned on the light J canoes, nnd the river was soon in a foam with the splashing of the ani mals and the efforts of the canoemen to escape. One of the boats was smashed by a glancing blow of one of the whales. One man's arm was bro ken, while a second was knocked un conscious.—Chicago Tribune. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A writer in Le Mouvement Geo graphique describes a cave in East Africa, near Tauga, in which one chamber rises to a height of 250 feet, while another covers an area of uOUO square yards. India is rapidly becoming an import ant factor in the coal marker. The output last year was nearly forty per cent, in excess of that of the year be fore, and a still further increase will be seen this year. Exportation of coal from India has already begun. The coal Is found over wide areas. t The largest statiouary engine ever built in the. United States has just been turned out at East Pittsburg, renn. Though nominally of COOU horse-power, when occasion demands, it can deliver 10.500 horse-power. The whole engine weighs more than 1,500,- 000 pounds nnd stands twenty-seven feet high. The fly-wheel is twenty three feet in diameter, and the main shaft, measuring from twenty-six to twenty-nine and a half inches in di ameter, weighs 136,000 pounds. Cosmos tells of a recent experiment by some Frenchmen in using a kite instead of sails to propel a boat. A Malay kite less than seven feet high when well aloft, it was found, had power enough to tow a boat loaded with six persons. It is obvious that it would be impossible to go against tho wind, but it was found possible to take a course forty-five degrees off in either direction by using the rudder. It is suggested that the steady and strong currents of air some distance above the surface of the earth might he thus utilized to assist navigation in come cases. According to the geologist of the Antarctic expedition in tho steamer Belgica there is a remarkable differ ence in the distribution of ice around the two poles of the earth. Going to wards the South Pole perpotual snow Is encountered at the sixty-fifth de gree or latitude, and he thinks that the floating ice of that region comes from a layer covering tho whole po lar crown. The floating ice of the north, cn the contrary, comes from true glaciers, which are pushed down through valleys until tlrey reach the water. Up there the glacial caps du cot reach the sea. Trofcssor Woodward, of Columbia University, believes that the height of the earth's atmosphere varies with the distance from the equator. The fig ures that he gives are so enormously in excess of these formerly taught, that they will he received with aston ishment by the average reader. About 2C3 m:io3 is the height that the scien tists used to tell us, only forty-five miles of which, comprising the belt immediately around the earth, had ap preciable density. Professor Wood ward, however, shows reasons for thinking that tho height above the equator is fully 26,000 miles, which gradually diminishes to about 17,000 milea above the polos. At tho same time, ho cays that above a few hun dred miles from the earth, it has no li -rsity, or so little, at least, that it 3 cficcts are imperceptible. Hand Sweeping machines. ttand sweeping machines have been used with much success ou tho Wash ington streets, says the Engineering Record, according to Mr. Warner Stut ter, superintendent of tho Street Cleaning Department, who recently trade tho following report on the ap paratus. "The advantages to be at tained by the use cf this machine over tho present method are as follows; The work ia better done for the reason that no dust is raised by the machine c.rd scattered by tho wind, and much more of the fine dust in taken up. Ko sprinkling is necessary, as the dust is carried into the machine, the opera tion of which Is very much like that of a carpet sweeper. The sprinkling of a street in advance of sweeping pre vents tho machine or broom from tak ing up tho fine dust. Instead, it is plastered to tho street by the broom to became dust again as soon as dry. Yv'itb tho use of this machine one man can caro for one-third inoro area of streets cud keep them cleaner than he can with the hand broom. For the foregoing reasons an 1 the further fact that this machine is superior to all others tried by me, I would respect fully rcctmmend Rs adoption in this city." . Auta untie Flagman For Trains. With a view to preventing accidents ft level crossings aud collisions in the neighborhood of railway statiens a very ingenious mechanism lias recent ly been tried In France. It consists essentially of a huge hook, or eatc.'i, made of iron, which is counected with a lever ct the station by means of a wire, through which a current of elec tricity passes. When it is lying in its place the train passes over it quite easily, but as soon as it is raised it catches a lever which is attached to the engine. The lever thus caught causes an air valve on the engine to open automatically and applies the brakes at once so that the whole train Is brought to a standstill within a very short distance. In foggy weather the use'of such au apparatus cannot bo overestimated, as it is calculated to prevent a train running Into an other which happens to be delayed at a station.-—Pearson's Weekly. The Discovert of Felt. Tradition gives the discovery of felt to an early English monarch. A3 a comfort for his cold feet it is told that he put wool into his boots, and the combination of heat, pressure and pioisture produced feltin, a primitive state from which the modern kind grew. Your Hair "Two ye*rs ago jny hair wil falling out badly. I purchased a bottle of Ayer's Hair and soon my hair stopped coming out." Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111. Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half starved hair. If you want long, thick hair, feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, and heavy. SI.GO o bottle. All druggists. 8 If your druggist cannot supply you, 1 send us ono dollar and we will express Q you a bottle. He euro and give the name I of your nearest express office. Address, fl J.C.AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. | Your Tongue If it's coated, your stomach is bad, your liver is out of order. Ayer's Pills will clean your tongue,cure your dys pepsia, make your liver right. Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c. All druggists. Want your moustache or heard a boautlful brown or rich black ? Thru use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Whiskers j It has been calculated that some thing like 1,250,000,000 pints of tea are imbibed yearly by Londoners, and that the teapot necessary to contain that amount, if properly shaped, would comfortably take in the whole of St. Paul's Cathedral. The only building at Spitzhergen is a tourists' hut about live hundred miles from civilization. Each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYB colore either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. Bold by all druggists. Virtue is its own reward, but some few people arc good because they really like to be. Dealers say that the hammock contin ues to hold its own. Arc. You Using Allen's Fool-Unse ? It is tho only curo for Swollon. Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Foot, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to bo shakon into tho shoos. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shos Stores, 25c. Bsmplo sent FIUSE. Address, Allen B. Olmsted, L*Hoy, N. Y. The Bank of France compels customers checking out money to accept at least one lifth in gold coin. Frey's Vermifuge by flail. Bond 25c. to E. A S. FIIEY. BALTIMORE, Mn., If not for sale at your Druggist or store. Lots of people make their calls over the telephone. Vleat For ilic Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will nover get well until your bowels aro put right. CAHCARF.TS help nature, cure you without a gripo or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start gotting your health back. CAH CAHETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablot has C. C. C. stampod on it. Beware of imitations. The coal miner generally finds himself in a hole. FITS permanently cured. No fits orncrvous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Roatorer. $2 trial bottleand treatise froo Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., l'hilu. Pa There may be plenty of room at the top, but some people prefer to get at the bot tom of things. A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL. j|/ " A H ' GH 010 T ' ME ,N VIEW '" \ \ \ j I To tell you all to pay the best attention Unto the date that he herein will mention. For 'tis important you remember \ on * rom car ' s now proclaiming ~CQ **r I His newest Premium List, which will be naming, H Attractive presents, dozen after dozen. /0 The List comprises gifts most wisely blended From balloon the Lion makes suggestion^ -phe U p.to-date one, others superseding, Af\ Ct/ And if your grocer is not one possessing, Don't hesitate, because your need is pressing, Watch our next advertisement. Just write to us,—a two-cent stamp inclosing, We'll send the List, no further work imposing. Just try a packago of LION COFFEE an( l y° u will understand the reason of its popularity. WOOLSON SPICE CO., TOLEDO. OHIO. A Ileal Funny Story. Old Tfm Link ins, tho barber of Wabash Ave nue, Chicago, is a great student of proverbial philosophy, and he sometimes entertains his customers, in tho interval of a "scrapo" or " halreut," by his apt applications of the well known proverbs of tho past to the conditions or requirements of tho present, llis regular customers know his strong point, and many a man who apparently goes in for a shave, is really in search of a rent in a cosy chair, and has a desire to hear "Tim" hold forth pro verbially. One day last week a stranger came in for a shave, and as ho stretched himsell j wearily in the chair, Tim prepared to lather him. Tho man incidentlv remarked that he had Intended coming in earlier in the day but had been prevented. "Woll, it's better lato than never," said Tim, smilingly. "Not al ways," replied the stranger, slowly. "How about losing your pocketbooK- ? I never lost one until yesterday— never did, but I would sooner have kept it. Now, why was it better for mo to lO3C it lato than not at all ? " Tim aoknowledged that ho was wrong and tho man continued: "Don't know what I would have dono in my predicament, only an old acquain tance of mine on the Lako front let me havo twenty to go on with." "All," chipped In Tim, "that was goodl A friend in noed is a friend indeed." "No, he isn't," snapped tho man who was being shaved. "There you're dead wrong again. How can a friend In noed bo a friend indeed? I have a good many friends who arc always in need and thev are a nuisance to me. Always on the borrow." Tim thought the problem over in his miud and reluctantly ad mitted that tho man was right. He had al most made up his mind not to speak again when the stranger continued, "Yes sir, they are nuisances. Why, one of them fellows has been calling on mo for the past year and threatens to got even with mc Homo way if I do not loan him fifty dollars. Ho threatens mo at every visit." "Oh, I wouldn't mind that," replied Tim unconsciously, "you know tho old adago *A barking dog never bitei.' " "Thoro you are again," gaid the "shavee " as he wiped a littlo lather from tho corner of his mouth. "Say, what do you know about clogs, anyway, that you talk in such a silly Btruin ? Have you over ventured to go too close to a barking dog,—and if you did, what did bo do to you V Did you over know a bark ing dog that didn't bite if he got the chance?" Tim said ho couldn't exactly call to mind any caniue acquaintance that strictly fulfilled tho claim iu the proverb, and there was a silence for a few minutes while his razor was gliding over the man's face. Thon tho barber smiled to himself as he bethought him of a good joke, "I suppose," he said, as ho applied the bny rum, "I cuppoae you don't believe in tho bar bers' proverb at all?" "What's that ?" asked the stranger, rising. "Two heads uro better than one," answered Tim. "Of course you can understand why they are. in my business, but 1 know you would like to say they would be bad for a man with tho headache or—" "Nothing of the kind," put in the other, smil ing. "Ono of your proverbs, at least, is right. I happen to know that two heads are betoer than ono." "Then you don't objoct to that old adago ?" "Not at all. It is (lend right. And I would thank you very much if you havo | any stray Lion heads at hand—ttioso taken | from tho Lion CofTeo wrappers. My wife is collecting them and sho is about six pliv of j tho number required to got a Lady's Gold j Watch. You see in this case "two heads an I better than one, and twenty are bettor than I ten." "Just so," added Tim, cheerfully, "but ! you soo, my wife is doing the samo thing, and expocts a premium in a low weeks. So to her j also,'two heads arc better than ono.' " "Well, ! in that case," said the Htranger, as ho paid j Tim for tho f.havo and prepared to depart, "you had better tell your wife to do 11x3 name as mine is doing. Save up tho Lion hcad | until after September Ist next, when tho new ! Premium List is issued. Thon if she send-. I them to thi Woolson Spicj Co..Toledo, Ohio, she can havo her pick of some very choice presents." The coral roads of Bermuda are the lincst iu the world for cycling. They are as smooth as a dancing floor and are never dirty. Conductor E. D. L< omis, Detroit, Mi h., pays : "Tho effect of Hairs Catarrh Curo is I wonderful." Write him aLout it. Sold by i Druggists, 75c. I Some people seem to think they fa.l into I luck when they fall into debt. ' Mr->. Window's Southing Svrup forehil lren i teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, euros wind colie. 26c a bottlx ! The chronic kicker deserves to stub liu I toe. i Ido not believe rise's Cure for Coniump ; tion has an equal for Coughs and colds.—JoilK F. BOYEII, Trinity Springs, lint., Teb. 15, T.'O'J. ! It's a good thing to swallow your pride, j provided you can digest it. : Gnrflold Headache Powders deserve your , consideration and confidence; they aro a posi tive cure for headaches and nave much suf fering ; they do not derange tho system and are absolutely harmless. Even the men who die may feel that i thev have much to live for. The Oangor f rom Flics. A number of investigators recently hh've ceiled attention to the important role ployed by insects in disseminating disease. Because of their great num bers and active habits. Hies are no doubt the most dangerous insects in this respect. After feeding on thq expectoration of the tuberculous, on the feces of typhoid patients or other infective material, they carry disease germs into innumerable places and de posit tliem not only by direct con tact with their tilthy little bodies, but by their excreta and the dust formed by the crumbling of their dead bodies. Restaurants infested with Hies are special abominations. The danger from this source is not small, and as the summer will now soon be on us in good earnest with hordes of those pests is seems desira ble that everything possible shall bo done to limit the amount of mischief done by them. More effective meas ures are needed for destroying their multiplication. The war 011 mosqui tos by our sanitary department in Cuba ha<s shown what can be done in several exterminating insects, and the preparations which are already being made in several different places in our country to carry out the Cuban motif oils show that the people are willing to act if they are shown the best ways. Until some successful method has been devised for exterminating tlies special care should be taken to prevent their access to sputum, pus, or other infectious material; fruits and foodstuffs should be thoroughly cooked; or washed if ilies have been allowed to come in contact with them, and: should be protected from tlies after preparation for use. Great Comain He Rules. It may surprise most persons to know that the British possessions in North America and West Indies are larger than the territory of the United States in America, even including Por ' to Rico and Alaska. On the North American continent alone King Ed ward's possessions are nearly 100.000 square miles larger than those of the United States, and taking in tlie West Indies and Newfoundland more than 200,000 square miles larger. No man ever before reigned over an empire so great as King Edward's. The empire to which Victoria acceded in 1837 covered one-sixth of the land surface of the globe; the empire to which King Edward has acceded cov ers nearly one-fourth. It is 53 times as big as France, 52 times as big as Germany, three and a half times as big as the United States without Alas ka and the Island possessions and throe times as big as continental Eu rope. People who Huffor from hcadachoa, general de prog don, weak nerves and Hcsploßtmcss will bo greatly benefited by hiking Garfield Headache Fowdcrp. Hond to GArlicld 'lc* Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for namplea. The judge may deliver a very long sen tence in a very few word l '. The population of China is nearly 400,000,000—nroiti than the combined population of Great Britain, France, i Russia, Germany and Japan. When plants are grown in dry air their stems and leaves have a more |complicated structure than when the air is moist. 3iirin \tl w .11. l.'i atl] iiilical r!.i iin r. , M.C U DROPSY e *S. BtK.k of tMtimonlals ond I<> <ln v' ticMinu| Free. Dr. H. E. GREEN 8 80MB, Box B Atlanta. Ua. "Tlie Smirp I liar mnrie Went Point fnmotig.'* McILHENNY'S TASASCOj
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