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Show w ujpp. I d A GALLANT BRILLIANT RECORD OP DAKOTA VOLUNTEER. Win til IW Vaeaaatar Ch t 4u MoOal Tw with Rard. under the body of the native who waa first killed, and this was also presented to him as a memento of the encounter. Smith parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Smith, live on a farm near Lak Preston, S. D., and are naturally very proud of their heroic son. SOILIER. liMHlailf r Houi rtllplao Him A HI Wh WOULD-B- E Brlag (Siom Falls. S. D Letter.) Among the gallant United State now upholding the honor of their country at Manila who have performed deed ahith ill win for them the coveted medal of honor is Thomas Smith, a private of Company E. South Dakota volunteers. To him was also accorded the honor of being personally congratulated by Gen. Oil. In an encounter with two Filipinos, who sought to assassinate him while on picket duty, Smith, after being badly wounded, shot and instantly killed one of his assailants and wounded the other so severely that he died a short time later. Sergeant Ricker, Corporal Wheeler and three privates, among them Private Smith, were assigned to outpost duty at Blockhouse No. 2, north of Manila. At 6 30 in the evening Private Smith went on picket duty. Hib beat was one of the most dangerous patrolled by American soldiers, passing along a narrow road thickly fringed with trees and bamboo thickets. Shortly after 7 o'clock, the sun having set. Private Smith discerned two Filipinos approuchlng him, apparently on their way to Manila. They were dressed. An white and walked In single file, one about six feet behind the other. He challenged them and they answered promptly, the flrst greeting him with the words Bueno noches, amego" (good evening, friend). The second repeated the greeting and accompanied it with aXmllitary salute. Smith replied in English, and shouldering his Spripgdeld rifle turned to resume his beat" Just as they passed he carelessly turned his bead to look after them. This fortunate circumstance sated his life, for immediately after pasftihg him the second Filipino drew ft machete, sprang at the sentry and aimed a terrific blow at his head. The stroke would practically have severed Private Smith's head from his body had he not caught sight of the descending knife In time to dodge slightly, causing the blade to miss Its mark. As it was, the blow was sufficient to cut his left cheek open to the bone from the temple to the Jaw. With the blood pouring forth 4a a stream he whirled to. face the natives, who instantly took to thplr heels In their effort to escape. Smith raised his rifle and shot one of the fleeing natives through the heart before he had gone twenty feet. By this time he was so weak from pain and loss of blood that he was forced to drop to his knees, and while in this position he reloaded his rifle and fired a shot at ths other Filipino, .who was. Just disappearing in' the edge of the t hicker At the sWoTthe road.' This shot also took effect. TOTThe dead body of the native was found next morning In the thicket, he having evidently crawled as far as possible before expiring, for the body was discovered some distance from the point where he disappeared In the underbrush as Smith fired at him. Comrades, attracted by the firing, rushed to the aid of the brave soldier, and procuring a horse placed him upon the animal and conveyed him three miles to the companys quarters, where his wound was dressed by the surgeons. Smith bled so profusely lhat In going the three miles to th company quarters his clothing became thoroughly saturated, his shoes aol-'d.- . - REVOLUTIONIST. (Purls Letter) Paul Deroulede. the founder of th League of Patriots, who has bee a arrested for ini iting revolts against the civic authorities, is a fiery aglmtor, whose ehamptonship of (he army has been conducted in literature as well a In politics. His ability to write in verse comes to him naturally enough PIT AT? AfRT Uurtous. The building my )ato tiio port ions ttorechambere. be divided ESCAPED THE the town nethe lmmedlatetyad)0(n. . PYRE. PURSUED BY HIB CONSCIENCE Maa tittttt ROMANCE !ng the outer wall are a series of six- A THRILLING OF teen chambers forming a gallery round H1NDOOSTAN. the Inner chamber. ,, These rooms, on being explored, were found to be filled U Atra Woman with a Wild HUtorj with all kinds oyprov islons. furniture, Ah Wm Doomed to Ho Huraed mm etc., for the deceased. The inner porth fuaoral of liar Afttaaood of five consisted tion or tomb proper iadtaa Lovr. In corridor chambers, arranged again form, with doors communicating from There recently anlved in this coua-t- rj the northwest entrance. The center from India, U Yokohama, a wochamber of this group was the large-- t, nd evidently the royal burial ihamber, man whose history reads like a robut no portion of thl strange edifice mance, The woman is Mrs. Mammle Lalro Her husband Is a Eurasian thowed any trace of painting or decoration of any kind In this we have a fiem Lahore, and a Christian, but the resemblance to the cold, crude bihk woman, although she dresse in European fashion, is a staunch tnuuoo. ork of Chaldea. who refuses to be converted, rnd has brought with her from her native DIDNT DISCONCERT ORATOR. Benares a copper statuette at the godHaa dess Sblta, which she worships at Speaker Who Qel Bark leisure, while her husband may be attVia IaUnaM4 Btae- said ending services In the nearest Episart. lost not a Is "Oratory now in copal church They tolerate each othMajor Newman of Tennessee, er and live happily together with Chicago on business; at leasL it's still their three beautiful daughters, two a power In my state. One of the most h of their fathers creed. e orators In southern famous hik he third, the youngest. 1 a universally vout Tennessee was William, worshiper of Shiva amlGageesba. as Bill Crowe. He waa law Mrs Virus' history Is thrilling. She yer of derided ability, though his was about to become a victim to the acfrom him habits prevented the terrible suttee of her caste when res- - f - 8iazctta( Ml-- Tif Has Trip. GREAT ROYAL SEPULCHER JS t: From the New Orleans FOUND AT NAKADiC 1 was never mixed up with a smuggling transaction but once In my Fill with abject Wh Milan War life, said a New Orleans business man whose name may as well be left out, fnoM ( Caltar ConilraeOa of "and my experience was so painful th MaaxiUuua Waa la Chal4aa )re that I swore off then and thera t Klfl. bad a deal In west Texas on ban at the time, antT had made r short Trip" From the London Chronicle: in over Mexican frontier, during which I the fascinating study of anthropology picked up a handful of very fine opals. there has arisen no mote interesting wicked friend showed me how easy problem than that of the beginning of it w as' to carry them over the lin civilization. Year by year - Juri'ent without paying tribute to Uncle Sam, delving In the dust heaps of Chaldea and I was weak enough to yield to the and of the Nile valley hah' Carried our temptation. When I got on the cars y the knowledge backward till at El Paso, however, to come east to records of the first of the Pharaohs Dallas 1 was haunted by a gullfy conand the prod) nastlT age of Egypt have science and had a horrible . premonibeen rescued from the oblivion of cention that some secret service officer turies. was on my track. Presently my atThe irut triumph in this great field tention became attracted by a maa waa won by Prof. Petrie, who, guided with a black beard, who kept looking at me furtively from a seat across th by the traditional antiquity of Koptos, as one of the early settlements in the I tried to persuade myself that way. Jvile valley, commenced explorations it was all Imagination, but a number on the site of that city. Koptos waa of things occurred during that ride not, however, the only prehistoric setthat satisfied me 1 was really being tlement in middle Egypt, where th watched. I went Into the smoker, for Instance, and before long caught a early empire grew up. The discoveries at Jlplas and Kakada, on the edge of chap glimpse of the black-beardthe Lybian desert, opposite Koptos, cumulating any property. Before peering through the end of the window refrom the platform. It was' the same and at Abydos, together with those war. Lincoln county, where Crowe In the dining car, and, to make a Jong made last year at Hlerakonopolts by sided, was decidedly democratic, the short, I reached pkllaa thoroughstory Mr. Quibell, show that we can assign enthusiastic whig. an lawyer being ly unstrung. That Evening I begtn to a fairly definite area to the predynastie Like Hie great majority of hi party. think I had shaken the fellow off my settlements of the Nile valley. They Bill was opposed to secession, but track, when I happened to stroll out of extend from the Fayum In the north to finally yielded to sectional prejudice the hotel, and there he was standing Kumel-Abmor Hlerakonopolts In the and enlisted In the confederate service behind the pillar. Needless to say S distinction considerable south, and, with the exception of Kopserving with didnt sleep a wink, and when tos, are chiefly found on the fringe of for four years. After the close of the bumpfed Into the sleuth next morning the Lybian desert. The most impor- war BUI became a Democrat, but many and saw that he had shaved off hi had he tant discoveries in this field have been never forgot that beard I gave myself up for lost. Howthose of Mr. De Morgan, the director been a whig and lost no opportunity that was the last of him, and tor ever, of the Glzeh museum at Nakada.jWhere of Irritating the old lawyer. A few the balance of my stay I was unmohe has uncovered the great royal tomb, lested and gradually regained my jears ago the surviving confederate with Its buried treasures, which has soldiers of southern Tennessee held a equanimity.; That the man had been been identified by Mr Maspero and grand reunion. Bill Crowe being the shadowing mp was , undenlshls, but most Egyptologists as the burial place orator of the day. The opera house what his purpose could bav been and of Mena, or Menes. "the first of the was crowded and Bill was doing honor why h dropped the game so abruptly Pharaohs. It would seem that when to himself and his section in delivering were mysteries which I was forced to once this leave unsolved. It was two years beage had begun a masterly and telling address, when, to yield up Its secrets It did so In a while speaking of the outbreak of the fore I found out' Then I ran across most ungrudging manner, for the work war, an old democrat In the rear of th man one day by accident lo.a 8L MRS. LALROS. of Mr. Amellneau at Abydos has re- the room, hoping to embarrass the oraLouis restaurant and h tpwnsd 4ip. It eued by the man who afterward besulted in the discovery of several royal tor, shouted out: seems that he had been a public ofWhere were you came her husband. As i the custom ficial in tombs of members of the first and sec- then, Bill? The face of the old lawa,amall Texas town kxt got -ond dynasties, and these of an age, at yer blushed, but he waa a real orator, In India, Ramee Khud, while still a mixed up Jir his accounts.. ,11 swore the latest, of some 5,000 years before and had evidently no Intention of toddling child, was affianced to the to me that It was pnty bsd bookkeepon of a friend and neighbor. At the the Christian era. ing. but the grand Jury Indicted him period that spoiling the th chil for embezzlement ind'h Dripped natn j The discovery of the great royal came next in order or losing th 0P 4flfen 0f tomb at Nakada marks now the thres- portunlty of making a grand climax, wa s marriage, the youth of 13, who thing calmed down. 1 'ha'ppefied to to be the bridegroom, died, rnd, coincide with n description be had of hold of Egyptian history, many cenfor be never looked at the man who to the irrevocable laws of a detective, and alt his strange moves turies prior to the age of Senefru, and had sought to confuse him, but bided according her was doomed to be burnshe caste, were actuated by exactly the aame mo we have numerous and forci- his time and continued In ringing yet here ed on hi funeral pyre on the banka tlve that prompted me to run namely, ble indications of a vast antiquity, be- tones: That little stream of blood of the sacred river Jumna, over from to see whether he was being watered. hind even this remote age, which canwhich first began to trickle down the the city of Benares. A Lalro had We were both fooled b our fears, Hls not In reason be placed later than .ue nations side at Fort Sumter rolled much to do with what followed. It la affairs had since been settled up' ant) fifth or sixth millennia before the on, widening, deepening, Burgtng, un- just a well he should tell the story. we enjoyed a good laugh and a coll Christian era. Already the Nile valley til It became a vast deluge a deluge I, the sou of a European father, bottle together. Bu.t I am a Reformed was populated by mixed races, and waa guiding a detachment of the First smuggler for Ufe. upon whose red bosom rolled and rockThe northern, and- - southern provinces . , ed thr fratl ark of southern national Bengal cavalry Through the Jungle to t 1, j r r gave to the Pharaohs the double crown. Jtare4ark.:- y pa concealed fa Whfl the bush Benares; whtohAaew.nArrLf A CHILD. RISKED LIFE FOR The tomb of Menes and Its treasures but, wrecked and ruined, sank beneath we saw for sunrise dead ths waiting are not the work of a primitive race the flood deeper than plum lad,' Willie Brooker,, an youth carried down to the waters or & community Just emerging from met engulfing ever sounded; carrying with it the edge on a bamboo stretcher, and, living In Jeffersonville, Ind. wap resdark ages of savagery. H is the work noblest ship and the boldest crew that from the sort of crowd that cued from a watery grave thy. oher of a people long used to building con- ever floated upon the sea of time I Judging had assembled, we concluded that we day by the heroic and daring efforts struction and to the employment of the was there, you fatherless reprobaate! were about to witness a suttee. The of CapL Matt Dugan, engineer of th fine arts, and not by any means iso- Where were you?1 " body was covered over with a green ferryboat City of JefTersonvllIe. The lated from the outer world. From an silk robe for be was a high-caboy. In company with some friends, anthropological point of view the disBrahmin and placed on a pile of res- had been playing on an old wharf boat Had Llttl Lamb. Mary covery cannot be too highly estimated. Then th Atlanta Constitution: A friend asks inous sandalwood logs. at the foot of Wall street, when he The building for It U not a rock cut cloth was removed, the bier placed on either fell or waa thrown into the the One for of this poem. origin story or excavated, but a royal dwelling place the pyre, with the feet toward the water,- - Hi companions at once set up of the dead Is a parallelogram meas- has It that the story was written bf Jumna, six logs were laid on the body, a cry for help, and a number of perMrs. In Sarah Hale 1827, and set to uring 54 by 27 meters, or exactly 100 music by Dr. Lowell Mason, who had and all wag ready for the widow, ' sona were attracted to the spot The rubits by 50 of Egyptian measurement Led by a relative, Ramee walked little fellow was struggling heroically classes for children in th a proportion we shall see of consid- singing alowly down the hank to play her In the waves; but none dared risk the Boston public schools. The incident ocerable importance. The orientation Is curred to tragic part In the ceremony, covered plunging' into the Icy cold water to her when a child. The othalso remarkable, the angles, not the er with a flowing robe of white. A Bra-mi- n save him. The City of Jeffersonville story makes Sawyer, of Somsides, being turned to the cardinal erville, Mass., theMary priest stood at the head of the was just landing at the ferry, a short heroine of the poem, points. To the students of Egyptian and the poet a young man named Roul-stobody the scene Is before me now as distance from where the lad fell Into arch ae logy the structure presents at or Rowlston. The lamb of this If it were but yesterday and he di- the river. Melvin Skaggs, an emonce a character. The story was killed by a cow one Thanksrected the proceedings in the coolest ploy of the ferry company, waa the outer walls are embattled at regular giving day. manner possible. Taking the rod pre- first to venture to the boys assistance. Intervals by buttresses, the whole besented her by the Brahmin in her He had, however, swam only' a short ing constructed of crude tbr!ck. The right hand, Ramee walked three times distance when he waa seized, with bvlag Batwoea Byoat Char, around thy bier and waved It over cramps and waa, compelled to return resemblance to the massive brick A barber was doing a rushing busiher head. The Brahmin next handed buildings of South Chaldea, as shown ness in the Kansas trenches Sunday. her a torch, which, though to all In the temples of Tello and Nippur, apTbs barber solicited custom from one Is most apparent. ,Tb!a Chaldean connot lighted, contained a soldier who preferred to wear lilacs, pearance of fire within. Very soon th nection is considerably confirmed when and was greeted with the cheerful re- spark of the torch caught a current we consider the proportions of the waving shave and ply: "No, I had a close Ignited. I could not see the girls building which are those almost In- yesterday coming Into enough Caloocan, face all this time, but I could tee that In variable Babylonia, while the orien- Manila American. her form shook like an aspen leaf. tation Is that of the Chaldean builder, The Brahmin now, amid profound and not that of the Egyptians, as Tex Cotta Seed In Moalln. silence, having ordered her to apply shown by 11 buildings except the Enterprising Texas planters have the torch, Ramee advanced toward the stepped pyramid at Sakkara. which be5.000 pounds of cotton need to pile with tottering steps, and in a molongs probably to the predynastie age. shipped ment the pile was ablaze. Now came The Interior arrangements are most Manila. Ramees time to sacrifice herself, to perish then and there In the fierce ' flames that were already stretching out their tongue toward her Jjtmsy robe "She hesitated, she trembled, ahd Ty command of the priest two men were A report has come from New York of qnlres a current of from seventeen to about to throw her on the blazing volte in case of electrocution, and pyre, when the officer eleetrie a man . having - received-- commanding the detachment, a young mas with a CAPT. MATT DUGAN. t shock sufficient to run four lines of If the report of Joseph Hampel be rect I then of oft to hundreds Till furnish and say many persons having men to charge. tor his own safety. By this time 11 heart, ordered lights, and yet he lived to tell of 1L been electrocuted and declared sclen-Th- ls They obeyed the order with alacrity, wag excitement, and being conscious UflcaHy dead 'hare been buried alive. and not a moment too soon, Is the story: dispersthat some swift action wxa necessary, New York special: Joseph Hampel, And no current of 2,000 volts could ing the suttee party, which fled to lta Capt Dugan, as soon as h landed hla an employe of the Lexington avenue burn a hole in a floor large enough for boats, leaving Ramee fainting on th boat, seized a Ufe preserver, and, ran- to fall through. river banks. Ih taking this step the nlng to the river's edge, plunged Into cable power house, while working at a his Switchboard received and survived . City Electrician Edward B. Elllcoti officer really disobeyed orders. For- the water. Just a he reached the ' an electric shock of about 2,000 volts, said on the subject: It Is Impossible tunately we found what we had come drowning boys slde ths latter began ' The mans body was burned black from for the man to have received so great for. We saw that the rebels ware to sink for the third and last .Um. 4: head to foot; every stitch of clothing a shock In a power house, for no street fortifying Benares. At for Ramee, the Capt. Dugan aaized th almost lfftles was torn from him and he fell sense- - etr line in the United States uses a colonels wife took her under her pro- body, and, placing It on the lify pre-'- J lest through a hole - Instantaneously greater current than 500 volts. Again tection, and she became my wife. server, swam to abort, amid the shouts of ths witnesses on the hank.' - Had burned In the floor by the terrific elec-- If the mans body was burned black It for Maria of . irrU4 trical power. The doctor who at- - was not from the electrical shock, for Dallas (Texas) Cor. Chicago Inter not the little fellow been fuU of deter- ' tended him say there is no case on roc-- tt Is not reported as forceful enough Oceans The sheriff of Austin county mination he would hav surly drown- hjra to turn color, but must last night arrested Captain John Mc- ed. Ail the tlm h battled With' th ord of a man withstanding a similar to The accident was caused have bee caused by the burning of his Donald. for two yeirs a resident of waves, managing to keep above th shock. through Hampel trying to tighten a clothe, it u possible for a man to that county, on a warrant charging water, but bis strength waa ft it fadhim with murder committed ln-.ing gway when he was rescued. i loos acrew on the switchboard and in survive a shock of 2,000 volts, provld-soThe ed It did not strike him on a tiui Patricio county forty years ago. Capway creating a circuit T t, t. enormous power of the shock may b spoL One of the city electricians was tain McDonald secured his release on a Maanfal Caatnut. ' The-faet that-unt- il no last la injured There the doubt from habeas writ of year about after corpus his arrest by 'current of 4,000 Judged it, recircuits were readjusted all the can of volts force, and no hole were made In for the killing of Jim Moyet in 1859. marked . Willie Wlahlngton, with a ' the road were brought to a standstill th door, nor did his clothing catch His bond was fixed at 55,000. He dis- algh, som girt are fickle. Yea, ' but he discredited Miss la la answered lived. was fir, from soon Th report Chicago, The blow came on appeared Cayenne, It la posithere, lost One of the leading electricians of the bis arm. between the hand and elbow. sight of la the war between th state, tively depressing to see how aoma of Edison company said: Such a thing Hi M Jn a hospital for tlx months! and was not fully Identified until yes- them hav stopped kissing heroes and ' could not occur, and 1 regard the dls- - sad after that seemed to be all right. terday aS the man wanted unde the gone calmly back to pug dogs. Wash- It re-- Chicago Chronicle, old indictment. lsgton Star. patch purely a 'a 'fairy tale. to-da- M Tlmes-Demo-cr- if old-tim- con-Tlvi- al PAUL DEROULEDE. Inheritance, since he Is the nephew of France's celebrated dramatic poet, Emile Augier. It was said ten years ago, during the Boulanglst excitement, that Deroulede's "Songs of the Soldier (Chants du Soldat") had the largest sale of any book in France, It Is a little volume of stirring patriotic verses, which appealed powerfully to the popular sentimeut when it was Issued, just after the Franco-Prussla- n war, and its literary merit was recognised when it was "crowned by the French Academy. As a soldier himself. Deroulede was qualified to write of military affairs In the true spirit of the camp. At the very outbreak of the war with Prussia he and his brother enlisted as privates In an infantry regiment. They fought In the terrible battle of Sedan, on September 1, 1870, when Paul Deroulede distinguished himself by saving his brothers life. He had received severe wounds of his own at the time. He was among the prisoners taken by the enemy, and was placed by them In a hospital at Breslau to recover from hl From here, however, he Injuries. managed to escape, and, making his way back to France, rejoined the army, and fought with bravery through th campaigns of the Loire and of the East. After the' capitulation of Paris he jcok.sis.rt la. th. second siege of that city ggalnst thtr Commune. He had reached the rank of lieutenant, and had been decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor, when; on account of a severe fall from a horse, his health was so much Impaired that he was obliged to quit the service. In the year following the war he published the "Chants du Soldat. and three year later a second volume, entitled Nonveaux Chants da Soldat Two more books of poems of the same nature were "Marches et Sonnerles, pablished by him In 1881,and "Refrains Militalres. in 1888. He has done other literary work, but thestf are his chief productions relating solely to military life. b jr Daakar Can tom. The Dunkards, of whom several thousand are on their way to new homes In North Dakota, are one of the most peculiar religious sects In the country. Their name Is properly Tunk-er- s, and Is derived from the German word "tunken, to dip. They are also called (Tumblers from their method of baptism, which Is to put the person, while kneeling, head first under the water. The sect gas fouhtfed in Germany In the seventeenth century, but Its member were persecuted, and 1,725 accepted an invitation from William Penn to settle in Pennsylvania. They live largely In communities, and follow somewhat closely thy customs of the Quakers in regard to dress. They never engage in lawsuits, take no oaths and no active part in politics. They do not believe in war, find divorce Is unknown among them. Twice , a jear each congregation has a love feast, in mem bers ,wash each otuera which, the feet and salute each other with the kiss of fellowship, men kissing men and women kissing women. Until re WfiOy the taking of Interest for money loaned was not allowed among them. They are an agricultural people, and a Pennsylvania and the other eastern states have become more thickly settled the Dunkards have gradually removed to more western states, where land Is still cheap and plentiful. ly 01? MM Carlow PRIVATE THOMAS SMITH, full and the horse covered with blood. to the hosii was afterward taken pital. That a man- after being mjw-verewounded should have the pluck, not only to face hi foe and fight, but to kill one of his assailants on the spot and mortally wound the other, excited the admiration of all the soldiers at Manila. He was congratulated on his plucky fight' by practically the whole army, even Gen. Otis calling upon him while In the hospital and shaking hand with him and commending him for hi bravery. A fund was raised among the soldiers and-- officers, with which they purchased an elegant gold "watch and presented It To the 'hero. The machete, a very fine one with an Inlaid gold handle,- - which eama o near being the means of ending his life, was found on the ground TOAfR etal of ipalib Trad. United States Consular Agent Merten. at Orao, has submitted figures relative to the Spanish trade last year, showing that, notwithstanding her dewar and her distressed econofeat mic condition, Spain was able' to show a balance of trade in her favor for 1898. The total exports were 1 132.401,. 038 and the imports 881,772,450. ar I' rs well-round- ' Had tutfk. Deacon Goode PhlllppUns, chapter (arising and making for the dpor) , Sorry fo toe cause talk, but I hears dls Philippines question six days In de week, an' I doan sit fo to hear It on Sunday nohow. 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