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Show When the mlrt t on th river, and the huge le on the hill. , And the imunlae of the springtime all the ample heaven fill; TVhen the hy things In the wood haunt am! the hardy on th plains. il feel a leaping life Catch up heart veins; through winter aiuggl-il- I I Then the summon of the morning a bugle move the hlood. Then the soul of man grows larger, a flower from the hud; For the hope of high KncSuavor la a dint half divine, And the banner cry of Onward cull laggards Into line. ), Filibusters. nY FRANK II. SWEET. (Copyright, 1902. by Dally Story Hub. Co.) A group of Spaulsh officers were startling In front of the mean quarters at Bahia Honda. The; had Just tome In from Havana and on tlio morrow were to start across the mountains toward Cristobal on apodal service. It had been a long, hard march, and they were hugry and tired. In spite of all that was behind and of what n tght be ahead, their one thought was IJ, y j ; i j i ' v if F I 7 I I I 'I I i 1 t , ' 1 I like cor the GRADYS FEAST OF POSSUM. Rival Ruined His Chance fo the Colored Vote by a Mean Trick. During a heated campaign in Geortripped Jose, and when we recovered gia some years ago the late Henry F. there were no meats, no breads, no Grady was opposed by an editorial fruits. Oh, sonors! oh, senors!" asnociate, Captain Evan Howell. They Two or three of the officers rushed were warm personal friends, but on Into tho mess room. Wncn they re- the issue at stake were diametricalturned their fares were blank. ly opposed to each other. Recalling "Garcia's right," they said, "the that campaign, Representative Livingplace Is stripped as clean as though ston tells a funny story. visited by locusts. The result of the election depended Then they stopped abruptly, as largely upon a certain ward in which and there was a very large negro populathough making a discovery, giant ed at tho captive. "You ore re- tion. Grady bethought himself of a sponsible for this, one of them de- scheme to capture these colored votclared. ers, and, securing a vast number of The boy grinned. "SI, senor, he possums, provided a great supper, at said composedly, why not?" which they could eat. It was a master stroke and Howell knew nothing of It until the right the supper occurred. Then he was at his wits end until an Inspiration came to him. He sent for some of his negro supporters, gave them Instructions and waited for the result. An hour later while the colored tarbors were having a great feastirg time one of Howell's supporters cried "Meow. Another man repeated the cry. A third man was apparently taken sick and the fourth man exclaimed: "Deed boys, 1 think we are eating cats! That broke up the supper and Grady never did quite convince the possum eaters that they had been imposed upon. of the meal whose savory odors were Issuing from tho hastily Improvised mess quarters. The sun was not yet down, but tho shadows of the date palms lay thick about their feet They watched them listlessly, waiting for the mess call, and then ready to seek the low thatched building where they wore to sleep. From the shadows of the game date pulnm a group of rarged, emadated boys watched them keenly. They, too, were mindful of the odors that came from the mess quarters, for they sniffed eagerly, and from timo to time they whispered to one another and pointed toward the building or tho olllcers. Presently a boy of nine or ten, with keen, snapping black eyes, stole to a palm tree that was but a few yards from where the olllcers food. In tho shadow of this be waited until bis companions had circled round to the shelter of a clump of bamboos on the other side, and very near to the entrance of the mess quarters. There they paused, as though for a slgt al. And It was not long coming. With a sudden wild whoop tho hoy with the "I.ct this be a lesson." snapping eyes sprang forward Into the very midst of the officers, swing' They stared at him and at each Ing bis arms and dancing about as other. Was the boy mad? If so, It though he were mud. In an Instant al was a madness thut must be punished. "Shooting Is too easy for a thing most, and beforo they had recovered like that, scowled the one who had from the surprise of tho unexpected onslaught bo had snatched a sword lost his sword. "Its a case for hanging." from one of the scabbards and bound"No; hanging! too easy," declared ed away. At the same moment a cry of consternation came from the mess another, gloomily. "You dont know how hungry I am. But there goes the quarters. But the officers did not notice that pursuit," as they saw soldiers scatPerhaps They were too amazed, too angry at tering among the palms. the audacity of this ragamuffin, who the supper will be recaptured." The boy sniffed. "Five minutes' had stopped a few yards away and was now brandishing the eword defiantly start," he grinned significantly. "A thousand men couldn't find the boys in their very faces. With exclamations of anger they sprang forward do now. They know hiding places your a man, and the ragamuffin, Instead of soldiers never dreamed of." The ofllcer in command looked at trying to escape, dodged this way and that under the outstretched arms of him curiously. "There is something behind this," one, behind another and almost the legs of a third, all the time he said thoughtfully. "You are old taunting them and daring them on. enough to understand the conselie was like an eel that squirmed out quence of such an act. and too wise of their hands even after they caught to throw away your life for a little him; or a flea that was anywhere ex- meat and a few loaves of bread." The boy's eyea began to flash and cept where they thought It. Five mlnutee passed In exasperating dodg- for the first time bis face lost Us ing and doubling before they succeed- grinning derlfdon. "I have risked my life for a little ed In dragging him back, struggling and grinning to the mess quarters. meat and a few loaves of bread," be And it was not until afterward that declared quickly, "and I do understand It occurred to them that he nad made just what the consequences are. But what Is life when my mother Is sick io real effort to escape. As the excitement of the chase and and starving, and when my sisters and capture began to subside they noticed grandfather and grandmother are all starvirg. I would risk It, and lose It, too, a hundred times. The boys have food enough now to last them a " r; month," his voice ringing with exultation. "You may kill me If you want to. But you haven't soldiers enough to get tho food b.vk. And It wasn't if stolen, either. You have destroyed our crops and taken our cattle and fruits, and they would pay for this a thousand times over." & i A v He threw his head hack and looked squarely Into their eyes. "There Is another thing I don't mind telling you." ho went on sturdily; "my father's away flghtlrg, and I would be away fighting too. If I were old enough. As it is, we boys look after the family." Here the grinning derision returned to his face. "The horde of 'wild creatures' your cook tells about were Just my three brothers and two of my cousins, the oldest only thirteen. They'll look after the family row. and when this food Is gone, they'll find some way to get more. Now kill me If you want to. I'm not afraid," Snatched a sword from one of the A curious expression had been comscabbards ami bounded away, ing into their eyes. Above all things for tho first time that their mess cook a soldier resjects I ravery. "Gome, gentlemen," said tho officer and his hoy assistant were shufflng In command gruffly, "we must settle about wringing their hands, "What are you doing here, Garcia?" this at once. Camp will be broken one of the officers demanded Impa- early, and there will be no time thrn. tiently. (lo hack and hurry up sup-- ' Tho rase is a flagrant ono, and rolls for severe punishment But I will jer. Garda continued to But wring his leave the sentence to yon. He Guise," to the oPdeer whoso aword had been liar !. "There Is none." he walled. "No taken; "as tho most aggrieved of us; meats, no breads, no fruits. Oh, the first vote belongs to you. What setters! oh, aenors! What shall we do? punishment la adequate to the Me and my boy Jose were finishing a Tho officer scowled. "I would conbeautiful supper oh, so beautiful! and a horde of wild creatures rushed demn him to perpetual banishment In and threw flour Into my face and from us," be answered harshly. Brought the Bishop's Boots. A humorous story is related In connection with the visit of an English bishop to a Virginia family. Everybody was directed to address the bishop as "my lord, and a man servant about the place was especially told off to attend him. The Wshoy like every other Englishman, set his boots outside Ids door when he went to lied at night. Ills temporary body servant was Instructed to take them, blacken them and return them before their owner should be ready to put them on in the morning. The boy did as ho was told. The bishop was dressing when he knocked on the door In the morning, with his carefully taught response, "It'a i.o boy, my lord, with your boots," on the tip of his tongue. The sound of the bishop's voice confused him. "Whos there?" the bishop called out. The boy forgot his speech utterly. "Whos there? the bishop called again. "Its the Lord, with your boots, my boy," said he. rev-eran- d Ml J I .1 , ( M l I i It f.-- n i i '.l r t A r. i t 1 i L m Doing His Best somehow seems little enough when you say That a follow Is "doing his bent. It means that he tolls and he hopes day by day That Heaven will attend to the rest. He is Jostled aside by the hurrying crowd, Unsought by tn lonely; forgot by the , proud. He earns what he gets, and no more la allowed To the fellow who's "doing hi best." But whenever a crisis arises, we look To the man who Is doing his best. The prince with hi splendor, the sage with his book. Full oft fail to unswrr the test. And when there's a home or a country to erc. We turn to the man with the heurt and v Hollow Many In "Cod's Acre" o1 Sleepy Men Arc Buried Tombs Now 1,1 Prominent Crass' Grown and Neglected. . n . : like There la glamour of the moonlight when the star rain penes below. Hut the stir and smell of morning I a belter tiling to know; Wlillo the night lx hushed and holder. and tranaplereed by dreamy tong, l,o, the dawn brings dew and (Ire and the rapture of tho strong! HU hard Horton in the Atlantic. ,3 4- "I consider the sentence Just, ant! retommend It," said one. "And I, "and I," said others. "With perhaps a Hi tie more added to the burden," fin In bed the last Judiciously. 'A pri toner of this kind should be ''rushed. "Very well, gentlemen," said tho officer In command, "you will see that the sentence Is carried out to the letter. And you," turning severely to tho wondering boy, "let this bo a les son. Never do a thing unless you are ready to do It with your whole heart. If you had shown a white spot, I would S;ave had you shot, i r j cCcc-is- Wanted Him to Worn h7 Thomas A. Edison, the fan ventor. says Success has a keen01' of humor, and never faii3 jg when an occasion presort. Is For Instance, Just before he Itjp, a recent trip to Florida, h calli1 taani ger to h'is room and said' "I always notice that yon joo'c well when you work hard." The manager looked up, what Mr. Edison would say next'1 "Now, I am going away u t I hope you will Myer. enj0. health while I am gone." Grave Washington Irving's you, Bounnont," to the etneo. who hl.d carfessed be was hungry. "He Guise is too mild, too mild, this officer said, scowling also. "I would add that In addition to his sentence the condemned be made to carry away a ra"k of flour as large as him uidf as large as a man ran lift." "And you, "and you," to the otLei A (Special Correspondence.) a memthe person commemorated waB NY one who may be passing trace no is There ber of the family. along the main road between and neglect that ruin the of In nere cemTarrytown and Ossining :R''V the northern part of Tarrytown mark all the older parts of tho sees the old Sleepy Hol- etery. In another part of the churchyard extending forty or low cemetery of the graves of the Badeau family: are side east fifty rods along the most conspicuous member was Its the quaint with the thoroughfare, Badeau whose record in little church at the south end Gen. Adam and connection with war of it. The remetery may be entered the civil him well known. male Grant Gen. along or anywhere at the church gate is rather more the tombstone His the low stone wall tnat separates but none of the others, than road. the graveyard from of his relaor graves forty The long, narrow cemetery, climb- the thirty that attention hns any it shows tives is ing tho steep hill rora the church, the of solitary the from scythe beautiful in situation, but unkempt. 6ave cutter. the cut grass to A workman has a contract older Curioe.3iy enough one of the gra3 twice In the season; and except is spot Interesting this of tombstones his has he piled for a short time after be may Its and Inscription erect still scythe among the grumbling gravewltn difficulty. It restones, the thick and matted grass read, though that the man buried fact hide cords toe lies in tangles that completely and left befrom view the broken stones which there outlived a Century descendants 210 dirert him hind once marked the last resting places this notof farmers and their families who died Time hns dealt kindly with in brownstone; record able more graven repreago, two centuries and sentatives of the first generations of and surely the memory of a man who Dutch settlers who lived in the val- had so conspicuous a part In populating the country deserves perpetuley of the Hudson. ation. Tho church society has little money with which to keep this ancient cemMAN IN THE MAJORITY. etery in repair; and so, as the bones here have of the burghers hurled crumbled into dust, the little brown-ston- e Latest Census Shows Large Proportion of Males Over Females. monuments that marked their G. Saxe long ago wrote a poem reJohn who lived as as any long graves membered them have fallen Into setting forth the failure of its pro- 5 V -W ,y'J ' 1 VV' - ,.'1 ' ; "7 s - -V- V " ' V ;v 'Vh.vv:.v.v'-.V ',5 ' " V. f,1 - J, 8 Buffered "Having from The Bed of the Ocean, At the oceans bottom at the cf two miles there Is absolute y tt ?! . v: v; ' 'f v t ,' if f , .,. f,w :.f rett-n- j i; ;''v BUSINESS ' at the Templeton i' avr , t - t s' j. v , f j ; ! lo:, OF i ns - YJ:- . W. Ilfci An WASHINGTON IRVING. ruins ; If any still stand, the effacing storms and decay of many years have left In most cases only a trace of the lettering, some fragments of which may still be read. A little way Inside the wall is a narrow path steep.y climbing the hill, passing straignt. over scores of j raves that are marked by no upheaval of the soil but only by fragments of gravestones whose bases, still rooted in the earth, are likely to trip the unwary pedestrian. There could be no more forcible reminder of toe futility of trying to perpetuate at least a name and the record of the beginning and the end of an earthly pi.grimage. Climbing north along this path through the grass that overhangs aud over the tombstones that encumber it. the visitor reaches at last a broad er walk running east and west. Turning to the right on this pata he soon observes a little cemetery within a cemetery a square enclosure made by a thick hedge and trees which surround the burial plot of t.ie Irving family. The entrant Is through a gate locked against Intruders, but tills gateway Is perhaps the only point M. 2 ; , V-- t tv. . j vj' ?! f & . 1 r a posed subject to wed because he was a superfluous man, says a wiiter ic Harper's Weekly. He put into rhyme w hat the United States census of 190(1 shows to be a cold statistical fact except that instead of a single superfluous man there are in this country, to be exact. 2.331,333 of these unfortunates. Here is reassurance for the disturbed who object to the recent order of the War Department that no married men can be commissioned aa second lieutenants, but that it can be equipped out of the supply of superfluous men with a full complement of line and staff, as well as with all the privat-- s the country will pay for. Even then material for a celibate navy will remain. To recur to the census figures, they show that in the United states. Including so much of our new possessions as Hawaii, there are 6,726,-77- 9 bachelors of 2b yeats oM or more, while there are 4.195,410 spinsters. t ip:nt and fsbenefi ferunt month' but I n that I 1. Peru I sei .m lexi FOR !AN I BEAS iL 3 ( ' thF RT h ht If you rritti ( w e. It' a mistake to imagine that etoiafw be cured; a nii-tday longer than you ran help. Iloan'.UJt' ment bring instant relief aud t no t pile a cur. At any drug etore, 50 emu. M'KInley Monument for 'Frisco. Robert I. Aitkena design has bt accepted by the McKinley memor.il monument committee of San Fraud! co. On the monument Is a colossi figure of the republic, with a bust of McKinley In has relief of stone. Too In' to cure a cold aftr con'nwp"01 faau-na- l it timidly grip on ft l'ni Tali Dr. Wool' Norway Riu byrup yet there is time. ba Egg Consumption in England. Eggs consumed In England durlt! the past twelve months would, It computed, fill upward of 40,000 w r way trutks. Of these only were English, "and tn consequence s enormous aum of money was sent w' of the country that might be KP" home had those engaged In rural dustrles been alive to tbelr opport"11 ties, says Pearson's Magazine. Tolstoi to Visit Roumania. Count Leo Tolstoi Is about to pay his lot.g promised visit to the queen of Roumania. for whose character and writings he lias a warm appreciation .mint Tolstoi win, t a expected, arrive at Sinaia, the summer residence In the Karpathinm of the Raumonian kings aud queens, some time thlx The inhabitants of murth. Jassy Honnianin. are organizing an impres'-shdi'iuiiustiation la honor of If Russian author. tlmt & one-th.- & 8100 Howard SIOIS K J. TO tiuif ... r. tilt H V UUIIi it ('ur in tho only pohltivo cury row knooo,trtU Foolish Custom Spreading. rnUfTiiliy, oi trrh lHirur Fo prevalet t tioiml Uisi asa, v.'j n r.H t ie ptMol U (..m.tltu! Hall Nt'nturrh nr Is taken lnu habit become in 'demohla thatcarrying 'ting illr.etlyuimn tlm IiIimmI n.t n"'11!', Judge Moss, presiding in on- - f tho .ires 1( the kv.lcm. iherehv tlesin'i local fmiiiilutton nt tliH(!,eaMi,!iilgivliii',1"'9' conns has instructed the I v bmUUiu fctrt'HLMi Knnj jury it tho mu! o Inquiry n it.s work, riatun. nslstmg carding the evil prletoi-- have so Inimnlinin'! h f.titli In of the r.cwspai.ers iw Huti'lrcd v poaorn tlmt thi niter One j)ne (ltrnrpj nv hem f that one in sixt;Te rntn that il tutla to euro. tw uJ ,or ' i,t the male ZV!Ktlmihll , n adults tames a resolver. The AililreH k. J. CIKCNKY & CO.,Tolc(i' habit has grown especially bold t. v ilru.rglfciH Tii. among negroes Bad I'ainuy i'UU arc tlie best h0 an b rave abandoned the la.or and t.tkrn to the First Aid to tho Injured- ,n A novel apparatus to asdfitaccM-ha-A' Mrs. Carrie Nation. dering first aid in caae of Gallic Nat bin Is been tried in rails. It is ,ik' pcamhulatin,. ret elv ( :iJ,,t ho pillar letter box, and contain8 aittuilon that she might at well medicine8. have leg stretcher, a ft aiodxiee avr presidential M enm Oi. UH"'0 -li'hf " r Bo.no 1' Pecessary to hrenk the glass, a H'i ,L:;;ir"E: yrorbu., calling" a fire engine. In ( In Kansas City the key of the cnee and acre8 w telephone inside communlcatl" by tbs ambulance Mot km aro eh,8lc ' no more, and ss' merely talks i I'J the 1 r. Tuition Assaults on Female Character. there bo no law to prevent a me: ciies3 public assault on tho character of ones mother, wife, daughter, slate sweetheart, how is the Ll.gkting bin to be legally neutralized? A wtmac: reputation is net merchandise r mcney, to be divided or adjusted a Ecme potty court. It is not a thing L bo handled about, decided by a jr? analyzed by attorneys or rebabilia-ithe press. Such attacks as pruv.X the San Francisco tragedy should k impos-iblThe trouble U that ti5 are not And so long as they confin and husbands, fathers, brothers have red blood In their run there will be tragedies. e V d mv 11 ' ' , Wi.rt. -- .a HOME fv ", . VVf v 4 A' , f v ' , V tv. st the aatiin a of t) J. I COLLEGE. Business College. - ' $ V ot enough to destroy tt( most delicate organisms, not currn: enough to mix with them a rai of the finest sand In the depths the sea there are no abrading prow ses at work. Prof. Maury compare! these still and silent waters to i "great cushion to protect and d? fend the bed of the ocean from i continual weiring. School Year, 840, We control the Ellis Cabinet systei of bookkeeping and the Gregg of shorthand. They are the best. ViM us at the Templeton and make inquir les about us from the business, prole, sional aud educational men of the cb We lead, others follow. Salt Lut 2 ' L City, !rieve' doji sy-t- t " Kate a! the L a letti motion Now Open , , of . - "A muscuk. rheumatism for years, and not renew ing any benefit from various remedy I used SL Jacobs Oil; pain and jcrf ness removed at once; no return St. Jacobs Oil it lc;; rheumatism." in 25 eta. and CO cts. sizes by an djJ Cists. nrvl'i'UF I s 5 j : t ; . ' V Lv f s s She was Persuaded to Try st Oil, and A! Pain Disappeared'"1 Immediately. It is undoubtedly a fact beyond pute that tho strongest adverti-imedium the proprietors have is that! people who recommend others to St. Jacobs Oil. People who have tw selvrs experienced a happy resa;, which invariably follows tho tn J this great remedy, show their gj I tude by recommending it to thou whom they know are similarly ed. This Is the case of Margaret I of 71 Brightfleid road, Lee Green, U'lt ts tho nerve. The man whom adversity's touch could not swerve. The man who kept doing his h. st. Washington Star. His Best Investment. "When I know old Hunks, years ago," raid tho returned traveler, "ha hadnt a soul above dollars and cents. 1 And him now the best read man. especially In history and the works of tho standard novelists. I ever met. 1 can't understand the change In him." "Tho explanation Is easy." replied the old citizen, "lie lent f 1.000 to a man who wantl to start a high-clascirculating library. After a year or two tho man failed, leaving nothing as his assets, old but tho Hunks had to take them for tho debt, and as nobody wanted to buy a lot of second hand books, he started In and rend all of them to get his money back." 0,1 sP W ' .3 M-- A iW ;vv'T: r1' -'- - x . i.t -'-ch'ig King Edward's Pull. To tho 1 tench people of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier Is tho greatest if not the only great person living. Sume time ago a "habitant" arriving n the city of Quebec met an old friend and fell to talking politics. In the course of conversation ho happened to mention the name of Queen Victoria and him that tho tho friend Informed queen had been dead for a year, "Head!" exclaimed tho countryman, and who. then, rules In England?" When It was explained to him that the Irlnco of Wales had succeeded to the throne he shook his head windy. "Mon Hleu!" he said, "but be must have a pull with Laurier." . Washington Irving's Grave, where the visitor may huve a view of the tiers of graves within above one another on the hillside.rising A little northe. st o. the renter of this enclosure i til(, pravp 0f wash-IngtoIrving. It Is distinguished from the others only by the r.ict that tlm white marble tombstone i a 1(l. tie broader one higher and has rounded and slightly ornate top. It bears simply the name, me age and the dates of the birth and dean of the distinguished author. Around his grave are fifty or sixty other tombstones each biarlng the name of Irv-leor showing by Its Inscription that n g heri:z,;rxis: "hyks ruTNAM-fadele- Carries Cwn Water Supply Tl endure (. Bites. himptts n,,t a little in -1- ,., --.1. h, Hh him .' , f e - 7'r- n,,.,;1,; - The water is from a spot where took Indian massa,,.. history of Mas-mh- , pi;ii-terri- Liking leads to love mkeness. .7 t to gouijH wr ftiun Women at German UniverfiIe' 533 There art at pres-- nl students at tho German s against 737 last nummer. Berlin ha 270, Bonn 84. Hl'lJ r 70, Breslau, 65, Leipzig, 53. frol5" j 3. 88, Gottingen fl Strasburg 29. Halle 28, Mim''1' Usually the number cf rger during the winter ,e3'fr , than In summer. Thus, the 3.332 "hearers" lsst winter " Ou th winter half-yeaof 1300 0 I: 'Off |