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Show ' 4 It W Pack Train 13 i . to the JPtkomt Viiititioa Hungry Troop ot Alphcaoo. XJ t m J C starting Infantry, paH of Inga In some of these plow. they will tell you, and villainous whisky in all. two valuator battalion, were sprawlSlowly ed shout in the dusty moonlit plaza of Alpbonro that night. A small group Of farced and famished war scribes were among them, and these men commented seriously upon the ugly and thankica proposition which life ts. Now and then a commissioned officer wore loudly at his men, alternately derlls aai criUlng them blood-thirst- y d young ladies. The enlisted men earned back In half audible growls, la the air waa that queer murmuring undertone, which can always be beard In the midst of American troops, just after a brush with the And straight above the nlggeis foul and ancient town a hot white midnight moon atared down tauntingly. nerve-shattere- Is that last Jan- uary night at Alphonco, way down in One of the lower provlncet of Lusju dark for 10 rainless days; feed It at rare and Irregjlar Intervals upoi bacon and hardtack; charge ft uioat live, smoking rebel trenches once or twice every 18 hours, and on the tenth day keep up the program, except for k at the bacon and hardtack then the battalion If you are Interested at all in devtllah moods or the cause-- of crime. You will understand then the necessity of a perdition hereafter, and the likelihood of Ita being crow lei The service la Luzon tecchcs tnat It Is a place of fathomless mud dur.ng the rains, and of terrorising heat w'..ea the rains are not. It also terches a man to truly sweat and to look at tragedy without squinting. Hut morj and most of all In Luzon a mail lea; na, too, what a gaunt, kelpie-- . animal he ts learns It from the hitting lesBon Which a craving stomach teaches. And a lesson which kills pride, pure this thoughts and dreams of home. The men in the plnza of dirty Alphon-alearned this lesson that day, and that night it waa Impressed upon them. Suddenly the sentry on duty at tae north end of the town shbuted. Toe tea In the plaza Jumped to their feat End listened. Then taint and tar oil could be heard the tinkle ot a pack e. The rations were trains coming! Never In profane history of the world did such a yell ascend as from the plaza of Alphnnso. The nearest thing to ms was a vicious sun-ced pony which had Joued me shabbily lor ten hours that day. I hugged the pony and the ugly' beast, bereft of alt fine sentiments, kicked la the front of a bamboo aback, to which 1 had tethered him. The soldiers slapped each other facetiously and were men with human hearts once more, feed n dog 4f yoe would have him follow you, for there is something of the man la him, Not long after that there pounded Into the plaaa a train ot the hardest toners, man and beset. In' Uncle Sams pay. They were marvelous to look at niulra. gaunt, shaggy, unklllsbl each (landing up under 291 odd pounds at government straights a dozen tanned, haggard and just a unklllable packers, handling the big train with aa Intense but whispered profanity, for the day and the trail and the mllas had killed the voices In their throats. The mules pushed the soldiers out of .the plaza, swung Into line and smelled the necks ot their neighbors, at the same time wiping clear the foam from their mouths. They eeemed to be passing through the herd now, a gene al Inquiry as to bqw each other had tired through the prolonged hellishness of the hyke. Meanwhile the packers asbut neverthesisted by spirit-willinless gutters! profanity, unloaded and lUndncbed; and the pile ot provisions grew high In the plaza. The soldiers crowded near, and one olherwLe one spoiled the whole system by getting Into the boss packers way. Get back, you d Infanta Youve Tne grubbed twice since we have. voice ot the pack train's chief would have been a roar naturally, but Its strength had gone from him that night. With towering Irony he finishfor Mamma'll have dinney ed. babies In a little while." honestly the love boads which elst between packers gnd Inf.tntrynei would be easily severed. And this. I strange, too, for few are the packers who hsve-nq- j "soldiered" at one time In Uncle Sktng service. As a matter of fart what have these strong, strange .rough men not don at on time In tbefr'Jlrest Old Tad will tell you of the days in Unci Rams cavalry when ft eras the brawn of arm and the graalte of ones fists which beat It way late the superiority of s non-costripes the days when troopers role In the bomewest. hunted Geronlmo and tb Apache Kid rode long, lived hard and shot true. Scar Face, the greteer, will tell you how he smuggled gallons of Mexican mesial arrows the Rio Grande, when nobody was watching but. tba man in the moon, and abourthrwrads ot money be ma - out of the whit soldier bn pay days. Dirty Ike., the cook of the train, went eriUt Renow when the squadrons ot the unlucky Seventh here separated to corral Sitting Dull In the 70s, Dirty Ike will tell you how he helped to bury the dead ot Casters command In the dfcllng shadows of vulture wings, and hbw the dead men looked way out In Motrtsea that hot --June day. Broken Foot Bill, in y best of friends in pack train It, win ten you how p pit an iceberg, while rounding Cape Horn in a whaler and last bis personal profits of three years toll 819.000 worth ot perm oil He tells of dealing faro la the Mack reek of crime of Fort Said on the Soea. i Ah, the Broken-Fohas ... been a wanderer. t, Ten, la a pack train you .will see men whose nature have led them In all the dark places on the surface of the earth. They ha va found gold pick- 1 1 o bell-mar- ur g, ot In the desirable lungs of civilization in the soft wiled qf fair women, they are as little rhlldrenbut If you ar- - a white man and need a friend, a dolar a square meal, or all three, Jhese packers will growl at you. glveTtto you. and tell you to call again Ahd you who would write books, procure iJu? of good whisky if possible, hut whisky at all events, strll-- ? pa kers ramp at night, when the mules are quiet over Jhe.r forage, and you will hear tales with the color of all lands, and the heart beats of rugg 1 manhood Anl do not forgft to tak the Jug out to the lonely fellow whose trick It Is to guard the herd that night for he will not forget you If you fall to remember him Ilut I was writing about that nlrht As ea h heavy pai k wx3 at Alphousi removed from the back of a mule, t ie swearing animal moved out of l.ne. shook himself with many grunts, and then sankdown noisily upon the turf of the plaza to scratch b s numb and lit hlcg bai k In the only way he knew I his process was performed with many grunts of intense pleasure, and even after the killing day under the packs, there was a g title col tsh kicking in the herd when the ro'l ng was over, .liter rolling the mules gathered together about the of the srldiert Tbe little camp-fire- s were ember pow, and beside them the men from the Slates were lying la the moonlight rapturously rolling about la big sod general sympathy which Is an adjunct of tobarro and strong coffee. At last the paikers came Is The animals had from the mules. been watered and fed and only the herd guard was left with them now. Come and get It while It's hot, you savage." ordered the rook. Then he made me swell up until I wa giddy by observing "Here's an extra mess-tiAnd by way if you haven't got one that lntrodrtioq, thlsjs ont Wh-- Are weary now. most B And time has set the teal of care Upon her brow. Broken of the fellows we-- e Foot Hill went out to the heriUto tftk his trick at the guard wentwlth him B6ken Listen to the word Foot said to me that night and yotf will see his big heart: brute with ft bole See that big ro In his side?" he asked. Well,, thats dro-Vs- 1 drad ringer for Manklller. the And, though no other eyes I read my history In the lines Of her dear face. old And 'mid His gems, who showers gifts As shining sands, 1 count her days as pearls that fall From His kind hands. Christian Register. re re kicks and squeals Impartially toward all, the great stupid burden bearer follow whither she leads. "Beat a woman," observed the packers. with the large wisdom of single Pack Train Thirteen." 1 promised. And after that there was no sound in the plaxs save the crunching of the mules at tbetr forage and an occasional coquettish squeal And the moon from the swung over to the northeast, and hung low and waited for the dawn. And the next morning I started te hyke with the pack train, and during the next eight days I learned to be proud of my strong lew friends In Train Thirteen. And I w wonderful things watching General Schwan's big campaign In tne lower provinces of r. Luzon from the back of the ell-mare. bell-ma- - WINKING HAS USES. things feminine her love you! such heights of know mules and bell-mare- s. The lady of the herd carries no loads The packer In the advance leads hen and by virtue of her beartlessneas she keeps the whole herd In her train. If it were not for her the packers could not keep the mules together, for their heads are free from halter or bridle when on the trail. A bell Is strapped around her neck, and In the dark tne mules of a train follow the sound anl are satisfied. Where the bell Is there Is also peace In the herd; when the bell Is silent, the mules undertake t learn the reason, ami In a frenzied search they cover vasts tracts of territory in all directions, which la naturally bothersome for the packers. My bead was full of the marvel of all these things that night In Alphon so. I saw one of the big beasts tm4 careless fit of affection, place his hea i too near the heels of the belle. She used her heels as usual and landed heavily. For a second the mule was blinded, staggered, then (oh, the shame, the crime of It!) he', forgot himself and kicked back at the tady!l I believe he waa bruised for life by the rest, before he got out of the herd. ' Tiny fire dotted the outskirts of the plaza now, and the glorious smell of bacon and hardtack was In the air It as a glorious smell, but It maddened mb. I waa quite a stranger to the Infantry battallops, having hykeJ for the first time with them that day. And 1 had no rations! You who have never been in a similar condition, are wholly strangers to the keen, ragged edge of the word suffering. Suddenly a brilliants thought came to me, 1 went over to the cook of the pack train, who had q big fire started. Please, sir," 1 said eagerly, cant 1 ge( jrou another pall of water T" He sited me up for a moment, feeling the edge of n butcher knife Then he kicked an empty bucket In my direction and said: "Bust yourself!" with the water and became . I tunie very busy poking theflre, wishing the mffee-pand keeping out of the cook's way. Suddenly h seemed to warm to tne. "Who In h art you? be askel kindly. 1 exclaimed briefly and added ' deeming It wise to be honest, that 1 bad lost ft pony the day before, that I didnt know the Infantry outfit la town,' that I waa hungrier than the lf at the Scriptures, la eoa- elusion I asked hastily: "Will get some more water?" ot she-wo- Wkst the Twitching ot the Eyelid MeenS to a Hea of Science. No satisfactory determination has been made ot the reason we wink. Some suppose that the descent and return of the lid over the eje serves to sweep or wash It off; others that covering of the eye gives It a rest from the labor of vision, if only for an Inappreciable instant This view borrows some force from the fact that the record of winking Is considerably used: by experimental physiologists to hlp! measure the fatigue which the eye iuf- fers In another line of investigation 3. Garten j(ps attempted to measure the length of time occupied by the different phases of a wink He used ft specially arranged pho'ographic apparatus and affixed a plete of white paper to the edge of the eyelid for a mark. He found that the hd descends quickly and rests a little at the bottom of Its movement, after wh h It rDes, but more slowly than It fell The mean duration of the downward movement was from seventy-fh- e to ninety-on- e thousandths of a second, the rest with the eye shut lasted variously, 'the shortest durations being fifteen hundredths of a second with one subject and seventeen hundredths with another. and the third phase of the wink, the rising of the ltd. took seventeen hundredths of a second mme. making the entire duration of the w nk about of ft forty hundredths, or second. Tne Interruption is not long enough to Interfere with distinct vision. V. Henri says, in LAune . four-tent- that different person Psychologfque. wink difft rently some often, other rarely; some In groups of ten or to at i time, when they test a while, and others regularly, once only at a time. The movement Is modified by the degree of attention, Period torest, when we wink hard y at all, may be foPowed bv a speedy maklqg up tor lost time by rapid winking Then tha tension la relieved. t w or Torpedo-Hota. Recent experiments with torpedo-boat-s off Portsmouth, England, have tended to confirm the general opinion in naval' cleele That- - ? Vhfthtr i lass would be of little practical sg la a great oaval engagement, whatever thetr value in scouting and skirtiisb ing. It was found Impossible t approach a fortified post nearer tha t mile without discovery, rvta whe speed waa so reduced that no emofcg unconsumed from escaped the funnels of the torpedo-boatAt this rang ny uaarmored craft would be lly shot to pieces by an enemy Ing e rapid-fir- e battery. s. i - Cquirri Family. of chatSeveral yea., ago a ii ter. ng red squirreu set up g in our barn and soon became very fiiei.diy. On fine win.er days , t ey wo .Id come into the yard to sea if Dm tor Pug had left any thing for them to eat, and as Doctor had ft iaily hous-keep-- j bell-mar- men and exllea from if you would have Those men achieve wisdom because they than mine Their meaning trace, tn bell-ma- Agolm. 't short-hande- light at dirty Alphonso Dm er FelMy Mot hea. he concluded, 6b gave the beat years of her life d of them WKh Joy for me. ettys, as wrVres for the papers. Hj lost bis mouth, and is out of grub.Tbe And robbed herself, with loving heart, L'nstlntingly. oftjy good thing alaiut him I know Is thaf'Tie Isnt one of them d soldier. mhe tolled Thedxl met Old Dad and S ar Face For me with willing bands From to a man made day day; Foot and Broken They out of me iKJh coffee and bacon, and For me she grayed when headstrong youth treated me ss iff had hi cn one alwav. Would have Its way. tale and they to'd rftf wonderful Ah, that which I have yet toreneat was a night, in the moon Her gentle arms, my cradle of ler vrst Tit-Bit- s. n, Moon Eye. who killed herself ft!?-Don- t go near that brute; he wicked Old Moon Eye was the shape of that brute, only be was a gentleman. H hsil a hole In his side. We havent and raised their volets In mighty mag packed him for three days. Th's nltude to the moon, demanding tile trsirnlng he was stiff and couldn't folthe herd water and forage for which they had low. He lost bl self oiked hard all day. Ob, the din of about noon and I saw him wav m on that midnight chorus' One would top of a cliff He was a pet of mine think that a big chain of mount tint and I called to hm H s front fee were were dying with sins unforgiven. And right on the edee He looked at me e In the midst of her n l.y kind of sorrow 'ul and then pushed the out there adorers, kept up a ouett:sb and in- himself over. Hes cessant kicking and biting. This Is now In one of them i aeons. hO't 10 I liked Old Moon why she Is loved so and sought after, miles from here Eye decent feller." the packers will tell you. we were etlll An hour afterward This lady of the herd is very Important, and her knowledge of the fact is standing together watrhng the herd to apparent. She must have the temper Broken Foot and I. He seemed o and want to more, Philsay something soul a of of a Jezebel and the icy 1 waited. At last It came ippine female to bold her ascendency. Say. Ive got an old mother back In Should she warm a little toward some great shaggy bead, which bends near SL Louis. I send her something every her adoringly, there would be scandal nay day. but I halnt heard Dorn her and her for six months. Will you find out In the herd, and the favored one1 would be kicked out o' about her, an write me when yon get business promptly. Hut so long as she back. Kid? Broken Foot BUI Burd-eel- l bell-ma- WUllmoa A From Lundon good' story is told of a man called William,1 a ho is engaged as a window-cleana certain big hotel in Londom One morning William. Instead of doing his work, was reading th paper, and. as bad luck would have It tbs' manager looked In. What s this?" he said. William was dumb ' Pack up your things and go," said the manager. So William went to the office, drew the money which was owing to him, and then eent upstairs and put on nio Sunday clothes Coming down to say Good-bto the other servants, he happened to run across the manager, who did not reiognize him in his best coat. Do you want a job? asked th somewhat fastidious j appetite, they seldom found the basin empty. We rarely saw them oa the ground except close by a tree trunk, up waich they would dart when in any way dis- turbed. When going abroad they made use of the air line." Coming out of the barn by a convenient bole under the eaves, they ran to the roof, and from there made a flying leap to the nearest tree, a tall. branching chestnut, Running along on the slender branches, they leaped to a mulberry tree, (hen to the swaying branches of a grapevine, which clung to ft black cherry tree, up which they would run to the very top. From tbia dlszy height they would leap and catch to lithe branched of an elm, and frees there to a maple, then to an appls tree; end mo on. around the orchard and home again, without touching the t ground. In the middle of our orchard Is an old apple tree with the branches speeding wide - from ft low, stocky trunk. In- this tree, reached by ft abort flight of steps, we have a seat, a. cool and delightful retreat when the trees are In bloom, or later, when the apples are turning ruddy In the autumn sun. As we sit there quietly with our books birds fly fearlessly among the branches over our beads, and the with chatter and many squirrels, pranks, go over the air line with never an accident, transacting what is evidently very Important business. Those squirrels come out for a play in the trees near the house at the same hour every evening, and It has become a habit for us to sit on the piazza anl watch them. One evening there waa an unusual commotion among them, and with the aid of an opera glass we discovered that the baby squirrels had grown big enough to leave the nest, and were being conducted over the aerial railway for the first time. Such a chattering and chirping I never heard! The parents exhibited deep concern, and besides vigorous scolding, an occasional cuff was administered. Finally ft Start was made, Father Squlr.el leading the way from the roof to the Chestnut tree, followed by children, UsotheT and friends. But the little legs had not strength for long leaps, and now and then one would hang for a moment by his claws, aeemlBgly about to drop, but cheered oat by the old squirrels, which hastened to his relief. So they passed out of alght into the orchard. We heard them returning as the stars were come was after this the ing ont. andnee. ronaunt In the nuts showed signs of ripenk A squirrels were unusually busy, the ing Inspecting each tree, if not each nut, many times dally. The chestnut burs were so prickly that they could not made a regular Open them, hut they business or gathering the butternuts before they were ripe enough to fall. One squirrel would run up the tree, Hoe nut. would gnaw ftnd selecting the item till It fell to the ground, where hie watchful mate would seize It end carry It to the ctorehouse. While willing that the squirrels should have e share of the ' nu Donna wanted ft few for herself. Those that she gathered b spread to dry oa a table In, the shed. Closely as . sbs watched Vftd turned tbefc she .found that they were fast disappearing, no n eeqld tell how; but the mystery was strived one day when Donna entered the ehqd and saw five squirrels disappearing through a broken pane, eachwith a aut lalts mouthy After this wa saw them' In the ahed every day, and nuts and apples disapshy, pearing by wholesale.andThough Instead of not were afraid, they lum-- W running, would Jump Into some there from and stored overhead, chatter and- scold aad watt for na to , leave. , These squirrel stayed with ns three . we enjoyed their merry yMra gd and guarded them from hxrtn pranks, -- n Mottiit wavs, la the late - air-lln- mer our houee was closed for a few weeks, and when we returned th squirrels were gone, and have never come back. Tte neighbors told ua that boys with guns had been roaming about our orchard, and aa we found box-tra- p set there, whlrh were Immediately dee molished, we knew wh the was no longer used. air-lln- Do AaU Talk? To watch the way in which a colony of ante Will find a bit of sweet left about In summer, and the short time which it takes them to form a brigade of goers and comers, makes one tn.na that they have some metnod of communication. An observer of the little creaturea of Gods woud tells us he once saw a drove of small blark ants moving. The distance was 700 feet, and each one carried a portion of household goods; some had eggs, some food, some one thing or another. I watchtd them for over an hour," he says, y maragpr Yes, Blr," said William Can you clean windows?" Yes. sir ; You look a handy sort of ebap. 1 only gave the la.-- man 22 shillings, buf TU gfve you 23 Thank you, sir, said William; and in half an hour he was backi again in the same old room cleaning the window this time, and not read- ing the paper. and every time two met la tae A TOUCH OF SYMPATHY, way they would hold their heads close together as If giectlng each other, an J this occurred no matter how often they met, as if for a short chat. To prove it, the man killed one of the little travelers Other;, which were near hurried on, and with every ant that it met tjie talking wtnt on as before, and they suiely told the sad news, for every ant the itusseng-'- r met turned back and fled another way. Ants In some countries a e litte murderers, as you will see by the following story of an Australian .dray- man who had to make a trip into the country. By some accident his heavy cart was ovei turned and he was pinned under the load. He was not greatly alarmed at first, thinking some passerby would soon free him. An hour passed and no one came that way, but a host of tiny ants visited him, and presently, to the mans horror, he found they were actually eating him alive. They swarmed upon him In thousands and with their t ny nibbles tore his flesh. Fortunately the man had his good dog with him, hut it was some time before he could make it understand what was the matter. When the brave fellow did understand, he fought with all four feet; he would scratch and dig at th streams of ants coming to the attack and sweep them from his . masters face and arms with his tongue, and he kept them away until his master - waa rescued. , - Another Australian being Injured and caught in a small landslide, war found by a colony of ants and so terribly bitten In an hour that though rescued in that time, be died in a few minutes. Jack's Letter. We fellows have found a daisy way to stop saying bad words. We all agree to take a slap from any or all the members of our club every tlm any one of us says a bad word. 1 tell you its doing us lots of good and 1U great fun, too, trying to catch the ethers and trying not to he th one to deserve the slap. 1 had a grand time the other afternoon. 1 was downtown on my bicycle when the fire alafm rang in. I put my bicycle in the Gym. in a jiffy and went over to the engine house with the other boys. The chief sang out, Come along, boys, get a broom and jump In. Its a brush fire up in the woods and you might aa well make yourselves useful. How we felloes did hurry, and In less than a minute we were all In the wagon and each one shouldered a broom. We had shovels, too, so while sox dug a ditch, others beat the Some with the brooms. It wasn't long before we had ths upper hand of it, and had a Jolly time hollering and whistling as we galloped back to the hose house. Mother said my clothes would have to -- ang outdoors for a week to get the smell of fire out. 1 hurried home to play ball. Weve got a dandy team and sometime Ill tell you about what fun we have. Jack. Rooster Say, old mant lets kick. I'm getting tired of being benpeckedi myself.. ) Equal to tba Oemloft Hubby, dear 1 can't wait to what Im going to buy you!" ; Darling wife, what la it?" Well, Im going to get a silver card) tray, a bronze Hercules for the man-- ? telplece, and n new Persian rug tot put in the front ot my dressing table.-Wha- t are you going to do for mV Tootsey? I've been thinking, Jane, and have made np my mind to get yon n new shaving brush. tn i Badly Mind. or "Well either have to get ft ow ft new ce man, George. Let It be a new 1c Whats the trouble?" im girt then.' This Ice man Is so good looking that he makes Maggie nervous. Ye- -' terday morning she got so mixed np that she tried to get him to pat th -- in the stovePlain Dealer. Ice - oven. Cleveland Fatting Off Dana Ella The gentleman who lodges above appears very attentive to you., Bella Ah, yes; I am even engaged to him. But yet I am tortured with doubt Would that I knew whether he loved me for myself nlonel Ella But why In the world should be marry you otherwise? Bella Well, to tell the truth, he owes my mother six month rent. Cara for Ughtwatghla. can recommend the traction cars as health restorers, said the left man. "I got on one this afternoon and In a half hour's ride Increased my How' do yo weight considerably." account for It? Well, for one thing, I tendered the conductor a bill and received a bushel of coin In exchange. Philadelphia North I two-doll- ar BvrlBiqot'i Opportonlty. The theater owes a great deal to the Shakespearean drama," said the girl with the dark glasses and th pensive expression. "Yes, answered the young man with wide ears; some of the best burlesques I ever' saw were on Hamlet and - Romeo ftftd Juliet. Washington Star. Not Haodqaarten, "What did her father say? He said he couldnt understand why I came to biro all his property was In. his wifes name. Cleveland Plain Dealer. They Develop Into Bela. In the course of a series of lectures recently delivered by Prof. Ray FAMILIES SUPPLIED. at the Royal Institution, London, particulars not generally known were given concerning the breeding habits of the e'eh It is qnite erroneous to believe that these creatures breed anywhere except in the sen, where eggs are laid And hatched at great depths often 509 fathoms. A dozen years ago tome fishes called leptocepbal! were regarded aa a distinct species, but at length one ot them, kept In an aquarium, developed Into n conger eel. Later on the innafor mattes Of vartous kinds - of leptocephall was followed, and they were found all to change Into eels, on species being recognised as the common eel, Immense number of these most exist at grekt depth In the sea, and they subsequently ascend th'"'rU(eri Bliss Hayrick Wall, by gam, lAeso and win sometimes push their way fellows do beat the wbrld. 1 wonacross wst grass te ponds which havs city der what theyll charge for a wit na , no direct communication' with th children. Chicago Inter.' about Chambers Journal. Ocean. Lan-kest- . Mr er |
