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Show 7 FLOGGING IN CR1TISH it WY. Ac- Stilt In Practice, as the toiloKikf count Show. On Sept- 23 Thomas MeGeehan, late pecond-ciass leading stoker of her majesty's ship Pot is. was flogged at j Simon's Town for the offense of ma- ; lingering. -ays !..! Truth. The re- j a a Or port of Ui- fiv peared in slit- of Oct. 21. is I.;..; er from it that Dlac? wbi!' the 9. sentence of In:; : i Penelope for strik: "medical n :rv -y" . , accused, whi'h jii'f: ' - a finding that h(- i t-ickness. ()n tl.is fleers ffntf-m-wl t!n-Iashes. t!n-Iashes. "Aft-r pc-ivi i.ri:-tr;i-!i, which ap-estein ap-estein Morning News ry :n id. but I gath-Hi' gath-Hi' malingering tooc f.:an v. as undergoing tiprijsor.: .;nt on th a chi f stoker. A ". t h i'l on the " !.!y resulted In , be.-n shammin? oarl of three or-mnn or-mnn to eighteen c ( 1' v. n lashes." As eweme n letters. Tommy Atkins' haul the report, "the insensible, and tl.e present t --ratf .-vr i. . Ii; f II" ' : a' 'i th: C-ii. to be t. ex- y " i. 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News, in ' ; r. pff-.-t.fS: T lj hi, J fioscgiiig in the navy eiV- it possible Ih.t of ordinary human join us in this ho sirat.i'ity of corp whether in the i:a certain p-t li.i.u iy crime, opii.ion m.: idea of t!o..'.'ir:t' a FiK-ti a nun:; tended .-h ka pline id p-v tary f,--liru-The read--r wret h as -co mman.linK with rhr- .-.: in-chif i.!' eighteen la tin nt won!-carried won!-carried out fact that th" n less from pain had to ;ntf':f-:i the si lit- :im hail ha-il result i c.-.i with the paitry !; 'crinif " for win'- h ti i alty was iirip.i-.ed. .s'ioii d convince anyone any-one of the utter 1 1 1 1 : i f i : c-- of many of our naval other-:-, to he ir' rus: e.l with such p wars ),; th. ir s-ubordina-.c-s. prisoner b-atn i;. - ileal olticer i t'i i:', of the Mon-c: Mon-c: proceeding, in v.-as borne ' ; S to las ;r, t !.'-: fore I - i ma V.V.-f.-in M t ;. i.- i ! id- t ;t u:y had to H ..- ti e a boii lion of ! I can hardlv con- ' ::ny oil" possessed i '-i-l.rig will fail to As to the de- ; ral i)-!Tiis:irn nt. or where, for rat i! !a-si s of i:.ff-r. Hut the 1 sen:-e;es.j lor i s 'hat .f pre- i pris an i:is:-i- j nio.-t eh-men- ! md tiurnanity. .at tlti- poor ( 1) v t h: i e o'ii'i-i s (London letter.) trat? after identifying body War la beginning to come Ho home ceased." :ri.i.i.-s of ti e -, - '!; v. . base pjc.t; in iv i- j- :n hj a y's ships, and ) to r. c i ve t ; !i it p'iiii-h-:. had it been i1 from tlie i i.r.-ofii'- s.'-nse- nu-'li'-al oiin-er to the English people, and it is the personal news that brings it so near. On the strength of the dispatches and the press correspondence it was possi- I tie to talk iofti'y about right and j wrong and to tritkd.-ie the movements I of the troops. Thut was war in g"-' g"-' eral. But the real war, the war in par-I par-I tlcular, the stories of individual strug-j strug-j gles, the madness of hatchery, the last j cries of the dying aud the hf-art-break-! ing y hit res of the dead ail that is 1 Just beginning to come in family let- : ! ters from th'' privates who are ij the thick of it. aud, in con? queries, the ' fighting has csu.ied to be ui.-taut and impersonal. And the tr;'.?die,s at home, where the women ra i.-.t weep, sre no less bitter bit-ter than thoe at the front, wh'-i- th'? men must work. Probably no army surgeon has witnessed more pitiful scenes that has the dooi keeper of th-two th-two small rooms of the British war office, of-fice, in Pal! Mai!, wh're the buiUtins are ported up and h' nir's of the dead and wounded given out. Til.- I Jnorkefiifr' Stury. The procession of relaliws, chums and sweethearts torn by doubt, arid anxiety is never endinst. "Yes." said the doorkeeper thv other day, "it's just like this all day io:.s. Sad; yes, sir, it's mighty sad and inigaly hard to see right along. The (.tfic? notifies no-tifies the friends of them v. !io.-,e a !-dres.s !-dres.s thoy knows, but they're only a few. after all, and mauv find out here . of de- I shot or not. It changes a fellow com pletely; all he seems to think about is getting up to the enemy and making mak-ing a hand-to-hand fight of it. But the Boers won't face the bayonet they turn and run. It is after tbe fighting is over that a fellow feels It, when he looks round and sees the dead and wounded. I can tell you It makes you feel a bit solemn, and wi3h there was no sucdi thing as war." And here is another picture from a participant in the battle of Eland-laagte, Eland-laagte, and it indicates pretty clearly what you may have suspected from tbe statements already made, that many of the Boers who begged for mercy found it not, even though they individually indi-vidually laid down their arms: "I tejl you," says a private at Klandslaaer "it was a great but terrible J&,$VM see those horsemen hew tbi-e. through the Boers with their bws. Three times they rode right through ' II f- 1 .O. I A.iitinff plnr.U.n came to bayonet and laiiMr--,K- " -"mo- Bayonat Scares th BNri. The scenes at home when the private letters and fatal official telegrams are received are such as should not be dwelt upon, but from these letters we get the real new from behind the scenes of the war. I have gathered as many as possible of these letters, and a careful comparison of them brings to light a fact of which the full significance sig-nificance has not even begun to be realized a fact that may have a great deal of weight In preparations for future wars. It is that the bayonet, and not the bullet or the shell, will whip the Boers In the Transvaal. Of course many of the letters coming in from the participants in the struggle are colored by prejudice or enthusiasm. After going through a great mass of them it can be affirmed positively that ?!i the matter of facing shot and shell the Boers have been just as courageous and dopged as their opponents. But when it they clariy were overmatched and ofren frightened. A Boer soldier, writing writ-ing home after the charge of Elands-laagt", Elands-laagt", says: "M-:ii on horses, carrying sticks with spikes on top, came galloping gal-loping at us. They picked us up on the spikes like bundles of hay." No Mercy. Some extracts from the letters written writ-ten by British soldiers give more vivid and blood-curdling glimpses of the actual uses of the bayonet and of the the suspense. Tuesday came along and about noon the door was filled wltli the mammoth form of the father, and the druggist was so glad to see him that he said afterward he could have kissed him. "The farmer said: 'Joel, what was that there stuff you gave me Saturday? It was so darned strong that it was all I could do to keep awake until I got home, and when I did go to sleep I didn't wake up again until the next afternoon. It cured that all-fired toothache all right.'. It was that walk home with his oxen that undoubtedly un-doubtedly saved his life, but think of a physique that could stand such a dose! " IK THE COAL KEGIONS STORY OF EXPLOSION I PENNSYLVANIA COLLIERY. N One of the Worst Mine Disasters In the History of the Stata Dolled tbe Glad-deulng Glad-deulng Xuletlde Twenty Lire Lost Many Injured. PREVENTION OF DISEASE. We- had suffered pretty severely, and 1 suppose we got our backs up a bit. Anyhow, we got even with Joubert's men. I saw several Boers whose hads had been cut right off by our cavalrymen's cavalry-men's swords. It is ghastly, isn't it'.' But it's the plain truth. Some of the Boers had died in praying attitudes. Many, I was told by a friend in the Fifth Lancers, flung down their arms as soon as they saw the flash of the lances, and, clasping their hands above their heads, begged for mercy. ' Physicians Should Mi ulster to the Healthy Rather Than the Sick. From Self Culture: The cure of disease dis-ease will always be an important element ele-ment in the physician's work, and the care of the incurable sick, the alleviation allevia-tion of pain and suffering and the prolongation pro-longation of life are priceless beneficences, benefi-cences, but the most valuable service which scientific medicine is capable of rendering lies in the direction of the prevention of disease in the family, in the state and in the nation. Indeed we cannot fail to realize that this is the great era of preventive medicine. Today To-day it is known that nearly every disease dis-ease has its own specific germ origin, and the laws that govern and control this germ in its every form are becoming be-coming known. Herein lies our greatest great-est hope, for the ounce of prevention will ever remain better than the pound of cure. Even though medicine has made marvelous strides in the recent past, it must be acknowledged that our resources are still wanting in view of the severity of many maladies. Therefore it behooves us to us our best efforts to prevent the development develop-ment of disease. The efficiency of the (Special Letter.) The Christmas season of. 1899 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of Fayette county, Pa., as one of sorrow sor-row and horror, for it ushered in one of the most appalling colliery disasters disas-ters in the history of that section of the state. Not since the Mammoth mine disaster in the neighboring county coun-ty of Westmoreland several years ago, when 110 miners perished by an explosion, ex-plosion, has such a tragedy visited that portion of Pennsylvania as that of Saturday at the Braznell mine of the Stockdale Coal Company, near Brownsville. Without the slightest warning an explosion of gas occurred in the Braznell mine and almost in a twinkle 20 perished and 17 were in- I a nu-'ii'-al otin-er : i I; ."ri e...itfd. r'uch j '7"" ' """ " t-lf"' nn '.j; !J-rZ' " ' Ml , 1 GAVE COY A TONIC CAPSULE. : 5 Z in the lobby of -he hotel. ' u'was" ' " ' 75 n n d - lett EiVdav" s. ! rW hai from lh.u !;.n 1 of won- l.J-fW XvA xnrt,S:5::a3V" yt W Try WM NO TfTPPV A ar'TT'ViT' nt'HTMfl A nATTIP txt cai.th . inin. v- "i' ,Tr iTif upon certain 1 i rena ::;-.!. :'v-r re x -ha: incs wiMi the i it rk, "1'vi Hirai'iiuw to b.s' my new br limb!- ilit. Hae anv of vo a tiiiu'; lying :iround the oiiiet.'" A fjui'-k-wi: t d bellboy heard the r;i;es-tion r;i;es-tion and, ghicin art)"nl. saw the missing miss-ing arid.- Landing within a foot of his head, t-uppo.-iijg it b;ol been theie for only a few nuiiaents. bo promptly grasped the fei ruie 'ls tin's the orie?" he inquired. l;;cisfsnfd the traveler, .Po-iOc !. "and I must say I'm surpri-il n-dio-iv has uipurl it!" "Aw. they eouMn't tv:ar." rf pl'ed the bell boy. ' 1 v,. ii r . ; i ti (ui to it ft r y' ever str.-e y bun? it ua." The dru drun'.m.T s:o: .! ith bis hand half way down hi- ; i kf t an..', a !;unsi.'al smile ov. r.-p:t a-! his coiinteiiam-e. "Well," h- said s!:-wiy, ' I was intend ing o give t i n a:: ;i you've ?,:: hu'dina tb.-.i threw con - u n ilays y need of a tonie. fb-re : quinine i;nd ir.-n." The settb tl down v. -n ih" have be n I; ov n v;'h ;iii Origin of tlit. F.ri'S'ioM Ttioii.siii-.! Vinrs The '.;.:. :.: ip s--;:. on is now at 1 and with tbe d -iuge of da;nty date re-rtiindt re-rtiindt 's i e:ii'. -oi.Piig the busirass iiiaa in eat li in(Kt!ir.;; s ta-ii! it is difficult eVf tio'st tiiO p.)SSeS::101i i ! ii-r tLite-toliing d"- a pi ivilege t -o;iii:ied iy waithy. Nevenhf-"l Nevenhf-"l iie oldest almanac in fcir him t of almanacs . vices w;i3 i: only to th.- U-ss it is a f i existera e flers. am years tf ;i tion to th i! is crowd ol rel'eiiui ing to sai snasniueti as ion with notices i correftiit in.: -varnii!?s ;:s to upon certain ..' s t!ie rHi!-t extraort'oiiary however, is furnishet! bv its mi.tiner of recording lucky and unlucky un-lucky days, the former being written in black ami the latter in red ink, making mak-ing it clear t ti it t "red-letter days" are by no means the modern invention that moist pr-e-pie think them. unhic fates vdays. iai'i):"jill Valun of J'irturc. Pictures io more toward furnishing a ho-jff. and determining the status of its inmates than anything el.se. If you have a suspicion that you are wise in choosing and hanging pictn;-es, get advice from sometaie hose ttCe need not be questioned, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, t'hiap pictures are not necessarily nec-essarily poor, but a poor picture is usually cheap. To be able to discern the difference is a quality with which every one is not Messed. A good plan for the first time that their husbands and fathers and brothers is dead. It's a grim business. "Ona day a tall, dark-eyed girl, nicely nice-ly dressed and with plumes on her hat, came in with a little shaver of a boy by the hand. He was a pretty littie chap; nicely got up. too. Well, thy came in together, and the pirl began to read the bulletin that was up. and the little chap siici. quick like. 'You'll e gdad. won't you. Miss Mabel, when my brother gets honi:" "Well, she said something to him, a ad then began readin again, and suddenly sud-denly she began to shiver, and she turned and looked at the little chap as if lightning had struck her and him, amd then she just dragged him away from there, and as they walked down the atreet I could see that she was mad fury of the charge and of the merciless horror of war in general than will appear in any history of ffcis war that comes to be written. For example: exam-ple: "When we charged the' Boers with our bayonets, those who did not get away went on their knees for mercy, mer-cy, and I can teil you they got it with a long hook. I had a narro escape from being captured by three of them, but I laid down and shot the three within fifty yards of me." A fireman on one of the armored trains who was in the midst of the battle of Elandslaagte says: "The Devons and the Gordons lost very heavily. The greatest number were killed while descending a slope under a murderous rifle fire, but once at the foot of the hill they charged the Boers ith fixed bayonets. The Dutchmen could not stand aga'nst this, and fled MAINE MAN TELLS A STORY. Withstand a Knew mighty well what she'd i precipitately. Meanwhile-. Xancers ! had been creeping up behind, aiid a: the Boers reached the bottom the Lan A Physique Which Could Deadly Dose. "The present poison murder , trial in New York reminds me of a mistake a druggist made once upon a time in my native town in Maine, says the Lewis-ton Lewis-ton Journal. There used to be a family fam-ily living on a farm about four miles out, the head of which was known throughout the countryside on account of his prodigious size and remarkable physical strength. I can just remem-Jber remem-Jber seeing him as a small boy, and so enormous was he that he scared me almost to death.. All sorts of stories of his feats of strength survive there to this day; how unaided he pulled a young horse out of a ten-foot hole into which he had fallen; how he held up a heavily loaded wagon on his back while a broken wheel was replaced, u.tu uc-tii opms up ociuna. ana as i and manv others On Safn-riov nfter- is to Durchas.. conies of f:,m n. o,iuS .-, wnoai? wita every stepsiie t-- 1 took tures. etchings and engravings. These j are almost sioe to be good. In fram- ' ing pictures renumber that gold) "r"i;. , 1"u:u uonom me wn- noon about dusk he came into the frames are for oil paintings and dark j The news that awaits Sergeant rers charged on them at full gallop, j druggist's, and, complaining of a tooth-pictures, tooth-pictures, white frames for water col- ; Archer is yet more pathetic. He is ne of the Devons told me that he had j ache, asked for something to ease the ors. and thick enamel or Flemish oak j "oun?. and his wife took it hard when ! never seen such, a sight, although he : pain. The druggist fixed him up a and modern oak for etchings and ! he ws ordered to the front the other ha(i Passed through several severe en- dose of what he sunnosert was nare- photographs medical man will be immensely increased in-creased when his relation to the family fam-ily is more constant instead of being intermittent and irregular. The doctor doc-tor should come and go like the clergyman clergy-man or priest instead of being looked upon as a necessary evil, whose visits are avoided as long as possible and are at all times a source of uneasiness. The eradication of inherited tendencies tenden-cies to disease; the direct improvement improve-ment of the physical and mental measures meas-ures o stocks; the "development of a hardy constitution in weak children; the stoppage of many fatal orgajiic diseases dis-eases in their incipiency; the arrest of acute inflammations at a time when this is possible; the insuring of longevity and a sound old age these are some of the things which the physician phy-sician of today is able, but which he is not often permitted, to do. many ,y'5- IIit -Selection. le Fine Here's my new bon- world that it danusg? Cn!y $2Sl Mr. men and women togetnUis! Tou said bon-cluding bon-cluding one monopolist of tafkl. S3 up. Mrs. the worst kind of monopolist. Whi.of the euch a monopolist Is a woman, her sex does not make her more attractive. Such a person 19 a "weariness, a fever and a fret." The host, however, is responsible re-sponsible If such be included at a small dinner. The large dinner is the place for such a person; then only two persons, per-sons, the one on either side, can be made miserable. There is an idea In that a fiendish one. however. If it te desirable to punish two of your tatb. high day. The night he sailed she and the i gagements elsewhere. Paaicstricken at : goric, which the farmer swallowed on three children sat up all night in their ; tneir terrible reverse, the Boers threw j the spot and departed. An hour or so room m the sergeant's quarters, the ; aowD lneir rmes aoa piea to es- , iater the druggist discovered that his assistant had changed the bottles about on the shelf and that in the gloaming he had mistaken the laudanum lauda-num for the paregoric bottle, with the result that he had given the farmer a dose of that deadly drug sufficient to 'kill three ord innrv man it was tno 4nd her. While she was j MHd or captured, and among them j jate to rect!fy h3g error and faow ne children, in their nightshirts keenins ! rape, but it was utterly useless, for. awake to see the last of their father. ith shouts of 'Majuba! the Lancers At 5 in the morning the bugle sounded! j T'ere "P011 them, and the awful work and the sergeant hugged them all and ' commenced. Very few Boers escaped, tore hfmself away. But his distracted i &nA the greatest number gave them-wife them-wife ran after him and followed the ' selves up as prisoners. All the head - . "jaunt Up the street leavipir the ' men belonging to the Boers were either ooaru Knew What It Was. Kindergarten Instructress Now, Marie, you know what it is, I'm sure. It has a round face and two little hands that go round and round all the time. Marie I dess it's the new baby. hunter lures the wolwf the little boy cf"3 I was a large number of Germans and Tl 1 -a . me rui-Ks ana Drusn, Inv,-bbors heard the furnish gloomy dense, in wind put out the of young wolves are born, tCmether returned ly reward the wolf farmer ftig. He breathed he scatters about for them.f-n. The official - ("at followed con-Lamp con-Lamp chimneys are better?qest somewhat with alcohol instead of soap 8Vr falling pros- I Hollanders.' Private Pritchard of the mounted infantry company. First King's Liverpool Liver-pool regiment, has this observation to malce after one of the fights at Lady-?mith: Lady-?mith: "War is all right so long as the actual fighting is on. A man doesn't seem to care whether ne gets got through that night and the follow ing day the druggist could never remember. re-member. Nothing happening, however, how-ever, he began to breathe mere freely by Monday, although every time the store door opened be expected the sheriff to enter and arrest him for murder.. He didn't dare to make any inquiries, though, and this added to Punishment for Bigamists. Bigamists In Hungary are compelled to submit to a queer punishment. The man who has been foolish enough to marry two wives is obliged by law to live with both of them in the same house. Tunnel Under the Hoogfty- Plans are being made for the construction con-struction of a tunnel under the Hoogly river at Calcutta. A PATHETIC INCIDENT. (A young girl identifies the body of her brother and kisses his mute lips. Then, overcome by the strain, she becomes insane.) jured. The Braznell colliery has been running less than a year, having been opened up on Washington's birthday, 1897, last. The mine is reached by a shaft, 107 feet deep, in which a double cage, or elevator, works, so that when one cage is ascending the other is descending. de-scending. North of the main shaft and distant 150 feet is the air shaft, also 107 feet deep. Some 50 miners and their helpers descended by the cages in the mine. They had not been long at work in the gloomy chambers beneath be-neath when there came a terrific explosion ex-plosion that shook the ground for miles and spread ruin and ueath within with-in the mine. The cages in the main shaft were reversed, the bottom one being shot to the top of the shaft, where it lodged, and the other one crashing to the bottom, where it also became wedged. The iron roofs on the cages were ripped off and blown over 200 feet. The tipple, which extended ex-tended from the top of the shaft, was damaged in places and the air shaft was literally torn to pieces, not one timber being left on another. Wreckage of all kinds was blown out of the main shaft. Dinner pails, miners' lamps and pieces of timber and coal were shot upward to the surface. The bottom of the shaft was choked with wreckage which the explosion had hurled before it There were splintered coal cars and mangled mules and twisted iron rails. The whole interior of the mine was transformed trans-formed into a ruin. The shock of the explosion was sufficient suf-ficient evidence to the miners scattered over a wide territory that a disaster had occurred, and soon the mouth of the shaft was surrounded by a tearful, distracted crowd the friends and relatives rela-tives of the imprisoned men. Rescue parties were at onct organized and preparations made to enter the colliery. col-liery. The first person to descend into the mine was the pit boss, William Jones, who slid down a rope in the air shaft. He found the interior a mass of wreckage, with here and there the bodies of the injured strewn around. Volunteers soon joined him and despite de-spite the after-damp, which filled the mine and almost suffocated the rescuers, res-cuers, the brave men worked on and succeeded in sending to the surface 17 men, some in the last stages of exhaustion. ex-haustion. One of the rescued was a young lad, Albert Meese; but relief came to him too late. Hardly had he reached the surface when he gave a gasp or two and then fell over dead. His father, too, perished. Having rescued all those who could Jieahed through the air shaft entrance, en-trance, the rescuersThcil ?ypjied them selves to fitting up the main shaft $o rescued through the air shaft, had a peculiar experience. He had bees pulled through the mine by Pit Boat Jones and Michael Dukman and fainted on their hands. At the bottom of th shaft one man had to bold hlrp whil the othertied a rope about hk wrist It was felt that the sufferer might los a limb and it was reasoned that oni arm gone would not amount to so much as his life. The men at the toj were given the signal and the Slaj was hauledn the 107 feet, his body dangling fr Hde to side of the shaft. He reeover4Sl .s sense when he struck the pure air, to find himself dangling at the end of the rope, and weakly whispered: "For God's sake, get me out of this." The men had to balance the body before they could catch hold and drag him safely across the brink. This man's arm was powerless when he was set free. The explosion was caused by a miner's min-er's naked lamp, which experience has shown time and again to be one of the greatest perils in coal mining. The miners carry them in 'preference to safety lamps because they show more light. Up to last week Tuesday safety lamps were used in the Braznell colliery, col-liery, but on that day Pit Boss Jones issued instructions to the effect that the miners could use naked lights. These instructions were given although al-though it was a well-known fact that there was much gas in the Braznell mine. The night before the explosion Fire Boss Radcliffe spent the greater part of the time trying to locate the presence of gas. Notwithstanding this the men were allowed to carry naked lamps into the mine, with the awful result noted. PORTUGAL'S QUEEN. Goes Among the Plasue-Strlcken at Doctor and Narse. Letters in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Queen Amelie, of Portugal, th only crowned head who has acquirec by study and bona fide examinations the right to add the letters M. D. tc her name, is showing so much courage and sympathy for suffering in connec tion with the outbreak of the Asiatic plague at Lisbon and Oporto that it is amazing that so little public attention atten-tion should have been accorded the matter. Most people who have followed follow-ed the course of this pestilence in Europe Eu-rope are aware that Dr. Pestana, one of the leading physicians of Portugal, succumbed to the disease while engaged engag-ed in attending to the wants of those afflicted therewith. But what is not known is that this eminent scientist and brilliant physician was nursed tc the very last by his Queen in person; by that handsome young Queen who, since the outbreak, had been his principal prin-cipal assistant and lieutenant in combating com-bating the plague. The moment that Dr. Pestana discovered that he had caught the malady he devoted himself with preternatural courage and forc6 o' -will to the duty of recording his own symptoms. How important this was may be gathered from the fact that panic was believed to play a considerable con-siderable role in bringing about the fatal result. Had this been the case Dr. Pestana would have survived. For he retained the fullest use of his faculties facul-ties and the utmost composure to the very last, dictating to the Queen a minute min-ute diagnosis of his condition, and of his agonizing pains, a diagnosis stated to be of the utmost scientific value. Hia last words to the Queen, who was weeping by his bedside, were as follows: fol-lows: "I have now only five minutes to live. The tetanic spasms have returned. return-ed. Adieu, Madame; I deeply thank your majesty for having honored my deathbed by your presence. Do not approach me, as my breath is dangerous." danger-ous." He then breathed his last in a sort of convulsion. The civilized world, in time gone by, has gone wild with enthusiasm over the courage displayed display-ed by Empress Eugenie, by King Humbert, Hum-bert, by the late Czar and his wife, and by the late King Alfonso of Spain, in merely visiting the wards occupied by patients suffering from Asiatic cholera. But it seems to have no words of commendation left for a Queen, who, not content with mere visiting hospitals, actually takes up her position there beside the bedside of the dying, as physician and as nurse, the disease with which the patients pa-tients thus cared for are afflicted being be-ing of an infinitely more repulsive and contagious character than the Asiatic cholera. Strange Fountain. A fountain of mercury is the most interesting sight of a big exhibition held in London, and it attracts large crowds every day. Mercury, or quick silver, is nearly fourteen times heavier than water, and it must seem strange to see flat irons and large chunks of rock floating around upon its surface in the lower basin. The mercury falls 'In a constant shower of silver spray from a basin seven foot above the one invWhich these heavy objects are float-in float-in g7&34-dt.s raised back up into this uppr' basin " by -arr"'Tidless chain," upoi I which are fastened TiT&nty-eight tin buckets, which dip into taj?6sjner- cary and carry it up one after the other. The entire fountain is painted black, and when it is lit up at night the silver rain sparkling in the electric light against a black background is very pretty. Two and a half tons of -mercury, costing $.2,970, is the amount used in this remarkable fountain. "What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who meet men with smartness of speech for the most part procure for themselves hatred." THE TIPPLE TOWER. (After Explosion.) the work could be carried on through it. After reaching the bottom of this shaft the rescuers found piles of wreckage, which it was necessary to remove before further progress could be made. By this time it became a ;ertainty that all the imprisoned men were dead, as no one could long survive sur-vive in the deadly after-damp that filled the mine and frequently forced ;he rescuers back to the surface. When one shift of rescuers was exhausted another an-other took its place and thu3 hour ifter hour and day after day the work of reaching the dead and recovering the bodies wa3 continued. The bodies found near the foot of the shaft were fearfully mangled. One body had been decapitated; several bodies were almost torn in two; many were minus a leg or an arm; one was twisted around one of the timbers of the mine. In one case a foot and an arm had been blown up the main shaft and was found on the ground 60 feet from the entrance to the mine. While this sorrowful sor-rowful work of rescue was going on within the mine, there were other sorrowful scenes witnessed as body after body was being carried to a little blacksmith shop that was used as a morgue. Here the relatives of the dead miners gathered to identify the bodies as they were carried in. Mike Grovok. a Hungarian, who was I'attl 8 Parrots. Patti has two wonderful parrots.one of which talks all day long and imitates imi-tates its mistress' trills and staccati in an amusing fashion, and who (believe me, for I have heard him) can even compose the most elaborate melodies. The other parrot Jumbo by name is an oddity. Patti bought him for 200 in New York, where he was reputed re-puted to be the finest talking parrot alive. Once in her possession he became be-came dumb. In vain they tried to coax him to converse. Months went by, until one morning the prima donna awoke with a bad sore throat. "Send for the doctor," she cried, "for I have to sing tonight." The doctor duly arrived. As he entered the room the parrot uttered his first and last words. "Oh, doctor," he exclaimed, in a strong Yankee accent, "I'm so sick." And since that day, now several years ago, he has not uttered a word. M. A. P. Letting Well Knoa;h Alone. From the Baltimore American. Bobbs 1 see that a man has invented a typewriter that you just sit down and talk to and it writes out everything every-thing you say. Dobbs I guess I'll keep mine. She doesn't write everything every-thing I say, and I'm glad of it. Willie's Little Banco liame, Wiliie (who has eaten his apple) i Mabel, let's play Adam and Eve. You be Eve and I'll be Adam. Mabel All right. Well? Willie Now you tempt me to eat your apple, and I'll succumb. Stray Stories. OUR BUDGET OF FUN. SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. j A Variety of Quips, Gibes and Ironies, . to Cause a Smile Flotxam and Jetsam from the Tide of Humor Witty Sayinxs. The Bashful Man. I care not whether she be short or tail. Lithe, plump, blonde or brunette, If only she will love me, that U all I'll ask, dear girls and yet With these concessions promised In advance. ad-vance. And this, that I'll be good, All womankind still looks at me askance In my lone bachelorhood. I wonder why? I'd love to ask, but Ol My courage oozes out; My heart beats fast, I squirm and puff and blow, When nice girls axe about. My feet are pious, so I cannot waltx; I'm not a man for style; I try to talk, my voice sounds harsh and false; I surfer much from bile. It really makes me sad." I tire of life I was not born to roam I'd give most all I've got to have a wife, A living place a home. But, hang it all! my nerve is out of joint. My head is In a whirl; Somehow I cannot work 'round to the point Of popping to a girl. Philadelchia North American. Hit Sudden Belief. "George," she said, and her brilliant eyes sought the glowing embers, "I don't believe you love me as you used to." "Why, Fanny!" he exclaimed, slipping slip-ping on his dragoon embroidered slippers, "you are my idol." "But you don't show it; you don't worship me a tiny bit." "Fanny!" and his voice rang with all that Is empyreal, "only the wicked worship idols." And with a gaze of uncertainty she again sought the embers. Chicago News. An Rye to Business. Collector I can't keep coming here every day after this bill. Landlady I'll rent you a room for ten dollars a week. The Ran-Off. "Once," said the dreamy tragedian, "I toured the great state of Illinois in less than a week." "Who was your backer?" inquired the press agent. "Beg pardon?" "I say who backed you on this tour?" "I really do not grasp your meaning." mean-ing." "Who was behind you on this meteoric me-teoric tour?" "Oh! The sheriff." Chicago News. Impressed on Ills Memory. "You don't know wot you're talkln' about," said Tuffold Knutt, as the two wayfarers came to the forks of the road. "Yere's where we turn to the left." "How do you know so blame much, about it?" sulkily inquired Goodman Gonrong. "I'd ort to know," rejoined Tuffold Knutt. "I was rode on a rail all over this neighborhood wunst about fifteen years ago." Chicago Tribune. Both Satisfied. "Papa, if you will not buy me that diamond ring I will run away with the coachman." "My dearest child, let me embrace you." "I am to get the ring, then?" "Heaven forbid. You get the coachman. coach-man. I have owed him his wages for eight months." New York World. Society. Osmond "After all, there are but two things which makes the society woman truly happy." Desmond "What are they?" "Doing what other society people do, and doing what other society people have never done." Life. His Wondrous Faith, Hix. Weeks seems to have a lot of faith in homeopathy, doesn't he? Dix Never saw anything to equal it. Why last summer when he had an at tack of hay fever hA--trr!rrrieff''eras3 widow. Chicago-News. licag How He Got Even. Brown Robinson claims that he could have cut me out and married you himself if he ha"d wanted to. His wifc5 Why didn't he do it, then? Brown He owed me a grudge. Tit-Bits. A Mean Advantage. Very voluble man (to invalid ditto) Ah, dear boy! I heard you had quite lost your voice, so I just took the opportunity op-portunity of looking in to have a chat. Punch. A Man of Breeding. She "You are the most exasperating man on earth. Here I scold you for half an hour, and you won't answer. Why don't you talk?" He "I never use strong language in the presence of a lady." Indianapolis Indianap-olis Press. . His Status. "JDorothy," said the mistress of tht, establishment, happening in just as the gardener went out, "who is that man?" "Only a hoe beau, ma'am," replied the kitchen maid, blushing rosily.. Chicago Tribune. - jT w I i |