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Show SPADE AS MIGHTY AS THE RIFLE How Defenses Are Made Difficult of Attack by Men Who Know How to Dig as Well as How to Shoot. If at this moment one could wander various ways, one of which is shown at largo over the Russian position above the Yalu river, there would doubtless be astonishing evidence on all sides of the power of the spade In Entrenchments works. defensive would be everywhere. In modern warfare the spade Is as mighty as the rifle, and woe be to the army that cannot handle both with equal ease. It Is because of the effectiveness of shrapnel, and because of the long Be Wise. Be. wine, and adverting your good, But never adverting your heart. Whatever else on earth you do. Just learn to keep your passions dark. Be wine, and advertise yourself. But write no letters all I'm told, It happens frequently, That warm love letters play one hobt Be wise, and advertise your love In fervent, lurid, sighing tone; Just tell your love from eve til twelve But leave the pen and Ink alontl j j j . j j ' A the Illustration. Another way of making gun pits Is by a blindage," which consists of a tree or something of the kind In front of a shelter trench that conceals the position of the piece. When shelter trenches assume large dimensions they are known by the name of earthworks, and In the defense of a position every Ingenuity of the soldier is brought into play. In front of the trenches a deep ditch is sunk, and in this ditch may In i be placed crows feet Iron balls with three spikes bo arranged that at least one spike must be perpendicular. These crows feet, by the way, are Intended mainly for cavalry, but Little Willie. Little Willie was busily engaged In jumping on the sofa when bis mother arrived. 'Willie! she shrieked, dont you know you will ruin those springs walking on the sofa like thatT Qet down this Instant!" Willie looped another loop and then, having satisfied himself there might be something to investigate In the package his mamma had just brought in, be tumbled off the sola and began to tear a hole in the paper to aee what was insidev This won him a vigorous slap from mother, and he ran crying Into the , where he found the cat Just disappearing under the table. She was all under but her tail, which was sticking upright. Willie grabbed this nnd the cat yowled. When the maid had settled him for this overt act. In the settling of which he had grabbed the eoruer of the tablecloth and pulled the cut glass water decanter onto an uncompromisingly hard been passed without much opposition Bouck came down from Oshkosh In a rage and He asked hunted up the member. him of he had not received his letter and why he had paid no attention to It. The member explained the facts and told him he had found out what he wanted only after he had called in the services of the entire legislature. But even then he said there were a couple of words at the end of the letter which no one could make out. So he took out the letter and asked fool! You what they were? roared Bouck, that Is Strictly confidential. Milwaukee Sentinel. a day or two before. Invited to Ducal Wedding. Recently when the Duke of Norfolk was married the ceremony had a In London. commemoration pleasant Some time ago a lady who Is a near kinswoman of the duke organized two restaurants at which the great surrounding population of shop girls can obtain a luncheon at cost price and free service at the hands of a bevy of ladies. On the duke's wedding day the clients of the restaurant came In A Gun Blindage. as usual in their hundreds, but the dining-roomclink of coins the music accustomed t eutangie-menused with be of small the caliber military they may wire range or chevaux de frise for the de- to which these maidens march forth rifle, that entrenchments In some refreshed to complete the days busiform or other are absolutely essential fense of trenches. Chevaux de frise may be made of ness was silenced by the simple anto troops In the open. The The man who In the face of the anything sharp broken blades or nouncement made to them: enemy can burrow the quickest, and sharp Iron spikes stuck in a block of Duke and Duchess of Norfolk beg at the Bame time Is prepared to spring wood and bristling outward like the you to be of the number of their wedforward and seize the opportunity quills in a porcupines back. A large ding guests. that Is afforded, Is the best modern-da- y tree, or a tree of hardwood, stripped of Its leaves and with all its branches soldier. Japans Way. floor, Wlllio was feeling somewhat The absolute Japan of late has attracted many abused. He sniffled for ten minutes, necessity for the pointed sharply toward the enemy, then seeing a door ajar, slipped spade ou the Held of battle was first makes a very effective chevaux de Indian students to her schools and Is showing a desire to cultivate a good through Into the yard, thence Into the clearly demonstrated In the Rus30-Turkis- h frise. But after all it is the spade work feeling between the two countries. An war, when modern rifles were street, and ran away. club established at Toklo that tells; and it la the spade tnat Down at the corner was the "dago-mabrought Into play. n So great, Indeed, was the necessity makes the fougass or land torpedo, an has been reorganized as the of whom papa bought peanuts Association. Its object !b to and taffy for Willie. With a shout of that the Russian general, Skoboletf, illustration of which we give. The relations between good encourage Joy, the youngster headed for the provided every man In his command fougass Is simply a kind of mine. A deep hole is dug in front of the Japan and India In the matters of litItalians stock and made two grabs be- with a spade, and when bis men fore bln onslaught was stopped. One reached the outskirts of Constanti- trench, a charge of guncotton or dyna erature, religion and business. Japan fat little hand was filled with peanuts nople it was found that they had disand the other with rock candy, when carded every article except their the big policeman got him and shout- spades, belts and rifles. They had Indo-Japa- n, Indo-Japa- ed: Ye young rascal; whats yer nameT i Willie, meekly answered the now much affrighted child. "Willie?" laughed the cop, waving his club In mock anger; Willie what? , learned a bitter and an unexpected lesson. At the entrenchments of Plevna they discovered to their coBt the havoc that could be created by determined men with plenty of ammunition behind earthworks. The Turks had used thetr spades with a right good will, and In addition to their fighting trenches, had erected bombproof works that were afterward the admiration of the world. At Plevna the Turks lived entirely within their bombproofs during the bombardment by the heavy artillery, and when the assaulting columns pushed to the front the Turks sallied out and, lining their fighting trenches, drove the Russians back with terible slaughter. The spade made their earthworks Impregnable, but starvation eventually undid what the spade had done. Bombproofs are usually made ot logs placed against the side of a hill r embankment, and the whole covered with earth turf and sand for - WILLIE. Vanderbilt? Morgan er, er Tubbs? Which Is It, me bye? "Willie, reeped the truant again, faintly, Willie. "Where d ye live? Willie pointed. And ten minutes later the lost boy was safely at home again. Ma, lisped the minion exultantly, "Ise been down town an got 'rested, rested by the p ceman papa scans me wif, an he's jes th bestest man I know. After an unprecedented reign of quiet, during which time he was entlr-l- y lost In thought, Willie asked: Ma, why Is a p'ceman? To eat bad little boys that run away, unbluahingly answered his fond but weary parent. He didn't even bite me like pussy does, mamma, persisted the youngster. Mamma, where does 'at It tie toot come from 'at la In the dago mans mite la placed at the bottom, and the bole la filled with stones, the ground being carefully arranged on top so as not to create suspicion. At the proper moment the fougass Is exploded, either by electricity or by contact. There Is always reason for apprehension when entrenchments arc first thrown up that the fresh turned soil will not disclose the position to the enemy, but by skilfull manipulation the spade work may be effectively concealed by the spade. Indeed, for modern warfare on land the spade Is quite as necessary as any other military implement used In the preference. has the ambition to become the cenmovement of ter of a progress and learning and has already Chinese gone far In that direction. and Indian students are being attracted to her universities and are warmly welcomed, and the establishment of clubs and associations will help considerably toward developing her c and power. From the EngBombproofs can also be made by riraply tunneling Into the side of a lishman, Calcutta, India. hill, the Idea of a bombproof being protection against shrapnel shell. Bergh and a Balky Horae. These shrapnel shell, filled with There is one story about the late innumerable bullets, burst, as a rule, Henry Bergh which. It Is believed. Is some 30 yards short of the enemy's now for tbe first time tn print While position and above it. The small shot, walking about the streets of New York city ono morning, he saw a together with the steel filings, etc., field. are hurled on the top of the defenders It Is the modest adjunct of big guns, teamster whipping a balky horse. in the open shelter trenches, search- for It throwa up earthworks to conhe exStop that, )ou brute! ceal their presenco, without which claimed, or I'll have you locked up ing the cavity from end to end. Against this high angle fire a bomb- - they would be useless. The engl- - Inside of five minutes! Why don't peanuts? Oh, I don't know, don't bother me? Mamma, none of my peanuts ever make a noise like 'at. Can 'oo make a noise like a peanut, mama? Willie, do go out In the Kitchen and play, Im Just too tired to talk with you. Mama? No answer. Mama? Silence. Mama, they aint no rock candy like this In our stone pile, be they? Maria, why dont papa Keep a dago 'Ith the rock candy In our qulrom? Willie, bo still. 'Mama, what makes a speckled ion? No reply, Vania? Oh, mama, Bridget says Is got. 'Ins Is a hltlln In our attic. they? Nothing from mama but a cold glit- ter steCs Into her eye. Ma.un, Frankie says oxens Is the same thing as a Kindlin' spilttor. is they?" It was at this Juncture that Willie's papa came home and found his belter half diligently engaged In warming WtlMe. Diagram of a Shelter Trench, of Which the Russians Have Probably Dug 8eoret Along the Yatu River. proof Is the only resource. In one of neers and sappers of a great army you try kindnoBson the animal? Don't ' our illustrations wo show a three-tiehave enormous responsibilities de you suppose a horse can bo rcuched sholter trench and a bombproof. voicing upon them. Unfortunately, by a kind word, tbe same as a human Theso three-tie- r shelter trenches are besides having almost all the bard being? vt ry effective, and it Is quite and dangerous work to do, they all "I believe yore right, sor," replied to say that they give three too seldom receive any of tho glory the teamster, a Irishman, times the rifie power. that should he attenduut upon It. who, with all bis faults r temper, Boston Globe. was not a bad man at heart; an if a Of shelter trendies H ero are variharso has feelln's, nor, don't ye s'pose ous kinds, from the hnsty shelter ONE MORE BOUCK STORY. th dhrlver has. too? Thry a kolnd trench thrown up in a f w minutes by wor-ron th' dhrlver, If ye plane." a skirmisher to the deep gun eputilo-- ! Strictly Confidential" Letter That The stern fneo of Mr. Itergh relaxed menu for artillery. Wat Widely Read. Into a smile, and In tbe better underThe greatest rare Is taken In Is a story I once heard shout Here standing that followed tho horse forthose trenches from the Gabo Houck's handwriting. said Hengot that it was balking and started the earth thrown up In front for ry M. Davis of Superior at the Hotel off In a trot. Youths Companion. a parapet being cunningly screened I'flRter: "During a session of tho legisby leaves, brushwood, grass or anyIn Madison a hill was presentHe Did. lature In thing but the color of the ground ed which Houck was very anxious to "One said RepresenlaUve day," tho vicinity to prevent detection. A have Killed. Fo he wrote a letter to Clayton of Alabama, I started out In mIs d of the puiapet thus screen' his member from Oshkosh, and stated the country for a village In my dismost service to the marksman. his objections to the bill sad asked trict, and walked quite a distance In Another effective method used by him to have It killed. The member tho wrong direction. I met a track shuts Is a rifle pit. This Is saw that the letter was from Houck, negro driving a mangyFinally mule bitched simply a large circular hole, with hut that was as far ns ho could go. to a wagon. the loose earth thrown up around conHe sat up nearly all night trying to Til, there, Rastus! I said; how cealed either by turf or brushwood. make it out. and In tho morning far is It to the hotel?' Tho rifles of the marksmen are prac- lie was In a 'statu of mind. Ha had '"Well, boss, it am dls er tically level with the ground, ami for! horn able to make out only two or said tho negro; If a poor white way,' man i party to advance against a line of three words. war to walk it, tt Is bout fo miles, loniKri-iewould mean rifle in pti He took one aftnr another Into hla but if a man like youse war ter monlh'lutlon. confidence until he had consulted It, why, it wouldn't be more'n l t'.ie same manner gun pits are nearly every of the legists-tuie- . half a mile and hJf a dollar behind a 'm: f r field guns, tlo-lAfter about a week, with tbe real spry muio; .n' dat Is tout as ugly black m. 'its lying parallel wlih the ground aid of ex printers and natural ex near aa I cr.n c in- - to It. boas. ree (id ill most tnut'iiiug It. A bomb- peris, lio found out to hla horror that you think you tmed a lift, r ; r y unne--pessar- quick-witte- d con-dealin- g eno-m- y. j - -- Women don't seem to have much patience with toys." he grumbled, as L accepted the better part of valor and went off to the library where only the echoes of the storm could le heard now and then, as Willie ho led bis displeasure at being put to bed fore dusk. MoiaVFpeak gently to the moth era; they need calm and sympathetic words to sweeten their Irascible uruof gVQscrucn l. three-tie- trob-be- l a r - con erected In Houck wanted tho bill killed. It had Clayton decided that b !? did. LOVE FOR THE HE HONORED HIS OLD FLAG. It was never made public why Eggleston, an George Washington American, abandoned bis own country. Ho died the other day at Castle, Eardsley, England, where he had lived many years. He left a fortune, a large family and an order that no portion of hlB estate be ever taken to England. The concluding paragraph of bis will reads: "My family are free to live in America and may God grant that as Americans they may do honorable and noble deeds. Love of country! It shines in those concluding words of George Washington Eggleston's will. He could not have left, his children a choicer heritage than the hope that they may do their full duty as Americans. There isnt enough patriotism in this country. Wise men have believed that pleasure and happiness come too easily here. We are spared the ills of war and of famine. We make presidents of poor men, and care not for their pedigree. We honor intelligence as well as wealth. We wage unceasing war In the cause of women. We spend uncounted millions for progressive education. We tolerate great abuses, sooner than molest personal liberty. There are so many blessings attached to American citizenship that only those who have suffered, who have been denied the protection of the grandest flag that was ever stirred by passing breeze, can appreciate them. And bere we have a man who lived In a castle. He had wealth and servants and standing. He lived in a beautiful land, under the rule of a wise king. Men are noble and women beautiful in England. The fields are green, the air balmy and the birds sing as sweetly there as they do in America. But It was not bis home. The flag was a strange flag. The people wdre a strange people. And years of effort could not mold this man, who was a patriot in his heart, into anything but an American. If you are ever able to travel, do so, if for no greater reason than to stimulate love of your own country. You may taste the delights of Russia, bask in the sunshine of Italy, clasp hands with the aristocracy of Germany, or be the guest of royalty in England, and all the while your heart throbs for home. And when your ship nears her destination, and far away you see the stars and stripes waving, youll cry. Just as millions of men and women have cried, because of a nameless Joy that abides in your Kin-nersle- y FRIEnd.1 J Capt John Swenson, owner dry dock In South cove. Jersey c had a St. Bernard dog which he c raised from a pup. During hie. sence last week some one,poiHonftk dog. Capt. Swenson was greatly B! ed and resolved to give his fonr-ffriend a funeral expressive of hli fection and regret. So he provided a coffin and hit hand and gave his forty wort half holiday with full pay. La day he and ms employes gait-- ! about the coffin, on which wai per plate bearing the inscription; I WAT, A GOOD DOG. 2 YEARS OLD. c t; i jt iwi The coffin was closed and a pr tli slon was formed, headed by the se to the grave. In a quiet comer of ; dock yard. There Capt. Swenson! bt livered a eulogy, .mong other eo said that no robber had everdt Vi' visit the yard while Wat was one and that If there were a dog r would certainly go th re. tl Ily most persons Captain Swenr funeral for his dog will doubtless'' Si vr regarded as a highly eccentric e heai-W- ceeding. No man, however, who had a good dog and who Iearnti value its affection and fidelity wl' in the least inclined to smile John Swensons grief or his efforj' honor the memory of his four-fofriend. Chicago Inter Ocean. m t: r o si II tl ANOTHER PACIFIC ROAD. Jo There Is to be another traw tinental railroad which will be, r. tt built, and probably will continue tc!' w t tbe northernmost of them all. fears and doubts of the British it! t holders of the Grand Trunk haveii 1. overcome and they have consent, V. commit that line to a $125,OhQ,OM tension. That is the sum which t S estimated will be required to If from Quebec to Port Simpson ot fi Pacific, with the exception of a ter, ! Ir. between North bay on Georgian and Winnipeg, which the Dorn;: government will take care or. f Whether the sum mentioned wt sufflcient.and whether, if it Is, the lay will be profitable are matters vt the future must determine. When Northern Pacific was begun tt were many conservative Ament-- ' who admitted ti.at the road could built, but contended that y would he much business for it tr They said it was altogether too have north. They of the construction of farther to the north. But th breast. Perhaps that very love was In the came when the Canadian Pacific heart of George Washington Eggles- built. That road has been ah!1' ton when he penned those words; My get along during the winters wik f family are free to live in America, much difficulty. and may God grant that as Americans The business of tbe American t they may do honorable and noblt will be little affected by the ne deeds. That of the Canadian Pacific, I Chicago Journal. doubt, will be. for which reason A TURNING POINT IN HISTORY. been fighting the Grand Trunk It dominion parliament, but without The present war Is likely to be a cess. Parliament lias approved 4 turning point In history. Many ttmes plan of construction, and now th. before has tbe immemorial fight be- Grand Trunk has accepted It no': tween the east and the west reached remains but to sell bonds and f the Japa- rails. Chicago Tribune. t such a climax, and nese may feel that they are associated with the great defenders of history. THE WAY TO WALK. They fight today as the Greeks A friend who leads a very actlrb fought the Persians, the Franks the Moors, the Magyars the Turks. Since has a theory that the preservatr the Turks were stopped at the Dan- a good figure depends to some er ube the larger history of the world on the manner of walking. Many has written tbe slow conquest of the pie. she says, as they advance toy, east by the west. Tho process has allow themselves to walk Itearlijr known no stay. It has been subject without elasticity, so that the to no such checks as for a thousand w eight rests on the lower part o' years earlier the great Invasions from limbs at every step, tho only r the east had invariably met. Hut the of exercise being weariness of the aggression of Europe was all the and feet. Instead of this the It more formidable that It was largely should he held erect and poised Manchester prints and to have a perfect balance; In tWtf peaceful. HnutimBReni ware, articles made in the muscles are braced and atrr Germany, and American cottons have ened throughout, the lungs B" been much better battle tries than necessity be well expanded, rj "The Koran or the sword. Aud graduseems quite reasonable to nr. ally most of Asia has come to live that the tendency to Incrw-- j subject to the will of Europe and on weight may he cheeked. At all'; condition of buying European goods. a lighter step and a brisker and All of Asia except China and enjoyable manner of walking o? Japan, Is pretty definitely marked out kept up, and that in Itself ln for ultimate occupation by some Eu- grent gain. Philadelphia Iuquin' ropean power. If Japan Is humiliated and China partitioned, the process will RESOURCES OF MANCHUR I be completed; the east as a political Manehnrla corresjionds In 1', entity will have been destroyed, the east as a peculiar civilization w ill have to Manitoba, North Dakota, Sotfbeen profoundly Impaired. New York kota, Minnesota and NchranH Post area of !i(i2.3to square miles & 10,000 square miles less than tl' FRUIT CRAFTING. blnod area of these great grain F, times The grafting of fruit trees has to- It Is two and one-halWf fi, ns is than and California, day become such a common operation ns. Alabama and foifj that there la no need to present the In the northern part of the Pf. ordinary methods, tint what Is less are thousands of square mile9'1 well know n Is that one may take young land entirely untoiirhcAj wheat fruits of certain species and graft hHK a possible wheat', them on the branches of other trees. churla ns that of the United 8!,s great La Nature, Paris, publishes a phoNational Gcogtaphic Maganln tograph showing how a pear or one variety was glutted on branrh not NO PERFECT HEALTH Its parent. Tho bark wus slit at the end of a brunch, and into this silt the Sir Michael Foster deliver stem of thu fruit was Inserted, tho terest'inc lecture on Henllli ' fruit ripening as though it had ncvei Health to the members of 1W j ( been disturbed from the orlglnul pliie j Ingmen'a club on Saturday of growth. In the course of his remark I' This method seems to open up a thut L health, like happiness, Wide field as well an from the scien1st. They hud a goal or Utn tific a from the practical point of wlille seeming attainable elu': view, it la easy to see all the advanThe body c" feet possession. tages that could he derived from tho of a number of mechanism , method for the purpose of transportthe closest and most exact ing fruit from trees too heavily load- As they approximated to "J ed to those which hn few fruits there was health, hut when upon them. Public Opinion. came 111 health. 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