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The B.ySnst in Iodern Warfare.

The FIRE Of the defense becomes
more destructive every moment, while
that of the assailants is shaken by
their losses, but at last sufficiently
thick firing line of the latter get with.
in point blank of the defenders, and
The latter see many more soldiers
:crowding up behind. The defenders
do not feel themselves beaten yet, but
they know that their assallants' fire is
again growing equal, and more than
equal, TO their own. Suddenlya the
enemy fixes bayonets and his bugles
sound the charge; the defenders have
stood still beneath his fire all day,
they have seen. their comrades scat
tered on all sides by the deadly but
invisible tap of the rife bullet, they
have been strengthened by the merry
riot of their, own guns against thesap.
palling blast OF the shrapnel, but now
the enemy haA ceased his noise. He
is great bully; they were: not AFRAID
of his muskets and guns, they have
not so far shrpnk from him, but now
he is coming tosknife them where they
stand. They are but stricken game
awaiting tho coup de grace. A few
among the, defenders will not finch
even now; they. too, fix their bayonets
prepared with the bitter heroism OF
the lost to fight it out. But most men
fear certain; death worse than ques.
tionable dishonor, their nerves crack,
and they fly. The fight is over, and
the bayonet, IL it has not drunk q drop
of blood, has not the less directly
ended it. - From "How Soldiers
Fight, /" by +. Norreys Connell.
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The tenacity with which Europeans
ching to ancient ways is seen in q Curl
GUS custom which prevailsat the pres
ent day in Basel, Switzerland, q city
of nearly 100000 inhabitants. Horses
being very expensive in this country,
the middle classes cannot afford the
luxury, and when a young man be-
comes engaged to be married he levies
on one of his rich neighbors for a
span. Though he may not know the
rich man even by sight, he notifies
him that he wishes his carriage and
footman to call at his home at q speci-
fed time. He then uses the convey
ance to call with his fanceeS eSupon
everybody of their acquaintance. At
the marriage the same thing takes
place again. 1t is expected that the
groom will give a tip from 81 to 81
each coachman so employed. Core
spondence Chicago Record.
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rhoa..nd ofssi,Sii B

0yer I'D Germany there are 5000
eh;I is one district alone who are
enspldysd 10 dress oils and help in
'thsI sanf ctare OF yarions kinds Of
toyss Nll the children who do this
work stennder twelve YearsSof age.
JTeiS fs taught the art Of dressing 9
az hestender age of four. AT the
j sme, according to the compul-
aucation law, they are obliged to
Kindergarten school forat least
sone ysar, and that termFis devoted to
suchSthings as making dolls and dress.
ing them, doing everything, in fact,
except molding the heads, which is
done by men expert at the business.
b After that the German children
have three or four years Of study,
when they are allowed to 60 into the
doll or toy factories to add to The
daily income of the family to the eI-
tent OF few cents day. The chill
dren who go to the kindergarten have
lots of fun making clothes for the
dollies, and so fond do they get OF the
little wazen- faced creatures thG. they
are often sore at heart when the ma
tron comes around to collect them al
to be sent abroad.
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ysry steep behind the little village
The climb was so steep that but for
tie profusion OF saplings, shrubs, and
climbing plants that hedgad in the the
narrow path we should hardly hare
managed it. When stiast resehed
the top we found ourselves at q ight
of perhaps eight or nine hundfed feet
above the sea, on the top.of ss long.
ridge that seemed to run ,the whole
length of the island.
The land. slopes downward fromsthe;
central ridge onst the northernA side in
a succession Of spurs, with deep gIene
and watercourses, between; but on the
southern coast, especially near the
eastern end of the island, the slppes
end abruptly in cliffs and pSecip pitous
banks that descend TO the 6cesg u
is here that Pago-Pago lies, md from
the top of the ridgeit can Pc seen like
a nearly circular basin Of perfectfy
smooth water, shadpwed by the sur
rounding mountS, and ith only
one narrow entranceway k5sh winds
between two lofty woode "a bluffs The
island is not more thar miles
long, and nowhere, a should jadge,
much more than fve milessb broad
From what I Isawof the; nasi9ss of
Tutuila, I should suppose them TO be
we'll disposed TO Europ AZ long as
they are not much interfs ID ith.'
There have been gspest ted ! ana somes
what sanguinary Wars alEone them
during the last tWenty years
There is certainly no. TO be
extracted from ,1ittn Ven the
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only drawback wss that twas almost
wholly inaccessible on the laDdward
side. Now and then, but at long
intervals, an American man.of-war
has called at this harbor, but it may
be doubted whether any; Of the crews
ever attempted to- climb the almost
PERCEPTIONS hills that wall in the
placid sheet of flandioek ijwster which
the natives call. Pago, Page. The isl
and of Tutuila is BY far ths least known
of the three main islands that torn,
the group Of Samoa. II liss about
thirty miles south of the ebthetsswo, on
which alone Europeans or americans
have settled, either as planters or
traders, and excepting the harbor of
Pago- -Pago on the southeast, and a
small bay known as Leone, near the
northwest corner, it possesses no place
of anchorage or shelter even for the
smallest trading vessels.
The general appearance OF Tntuila,
like that of all the volcanic islands of
the South Pacific, is very beautiful.
As we entered the passage, from
twenty to thirty-fve miles broad, be-
tween the islands, every eye scanned
the shores, under the impression that
the schooner would be found lying at
some point under the lee of the land.
There was, however, no sign of sail
On either side the land rose high and
broken, clothed from shore to sum-
nit in the luxuriant vegetation of the
tropical islands, and as we proceeded
at half-speed through the passage it
became more and more evident that
for some reason our tender had not
arrived. We had reached the eastern
end and cleared both islands before
al solution of the difficulty presented
itself, but then very small cutter
was discovered lying close inshore, at
point where native village could
be seen among the palm trees that
formed a background to the silver
white coral beach.
The cutter turned out to be trader
engaged in collecting cargo of copra
(sun- dried cocoanut) to be taken to
Apia to the German company's stores
We were told we could stay on board
if we liked, but the cutler must 60 to
Leone Bay, at the western end of the
island. before 1t would return to Apia.
The prospect of staying on board was
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trees grow to the dimensions of forest

trees grow to the dimensions of forest
trees; there are nutmeg-trees in the
forest that clothes the slopes; and ar
rowroot, ginger and pineapples abound
everywhere. All these things go to
make Americas South Sea island o
delightful fairy spot, but they are, and
must always be, on too minute scale to
hold out any temptation to the planter
and the trader. Perhaps, for the sake
of the natives at least, it is well.
The Navy Department has decided
to assign Commander B. F. Tilley, of
the collier Abarenda, as the command
ant of the Pago.Pago, coaling station,
which will place him in charge of the
administrative affairs of the Samoan
territory of the United States. Com
paander Tilley is now at Pago-Pago.
The naval officers who have been on
the Island of Tutuila recently in con-
nection with the work of building the
wharf and establishing a coaling sta
ton in the harbor of Pago-Pago state
that there are at present about 1900
people on the Island Of Tutuila, ow-
ing allegiance to about three chiefs
The principal chief is named Man.
gum. The people are differeut from
the inhabitants of the other SamosA
Islands, being particularly peaceful in
disposition.
The population is unique in the fact
that every soulisreputed to be a de-
vout Christian. They are so orthodox
that not one person. could be induced
to come aboard. one of the American
ships on Sunday, while all of them go
TO church. This condition is ascrib-
able largelyto the influence Of French
missionaries.
Nothing has been positively settled
as yet as to the government Of the isl
ands beyond the fact that the princi-
pal official will bea naval officer. The
general purposeiis TO have him inter-
fere as little as possible with the ma
tives SO long sas they csntinueFin their
present peaceful manner to govern
Themselves WI thout friction.
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Under the new Samoan treaty the
United States becomes the possessor
of small island in the South Pacific
Ocean. situated about $50 miles south
of the equator. For some fifteen
years past we have had more or less
sentimental regard for this island, be-
cause it was here that our Govern.
ment had acquired from native chief
lease of part OF the shore of a harbor
on which to establish coaling station.
The harbor was the only one in the
Samoan group in which vessels could
lie safely during a hurricane, such as
occasionally visits the group, and its
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HE DEATH CUP.
The Yea1lY vlsttns u the i Poisonou,
q sMus6r06asa An M any.

The Yearlvs HiTtsms n the Poisonous
. xus1Sosasa Az Many.
It Is probsDl e hat not many people
ever heard :ot AlIi1 nos only one Of
th, .ost renatk / bIe tlibstances in the
worla, but one ef $h 4 n1est terrible pois-
ons. And it i'll 80 Sva55 common that
it can BID found in S6ss every field
and swamp in the 1 c6RHtry, for phal-
lin is the poiaonou Iement in The
deadly musttooms "deAth cupsR
as it has been ma] propriatelS
called. Not tsonly thl when phs}ini
was first discovered WIS found That
it was almost identicaI with the poison
of the rattlesnake, SOD Hat death from
mushroom poisoning d very similarto
death from q serpent bites 8nt still
more wonderful. sItsis Known that
various bacteria prodl Ice nearly the
same poison-the hsteria, fer insg,
stance, of diphthes And typhoid
fever. Itseemsb bdd 961ng deAth
from the poisonous 81 5QIa p
rsttlesnake bite,and t16fiae
should result frs Heal & The aa',
same cause. >f sfatSi
1t is said thai dvs ple are
killed every yeal Unitsd States
by eating the der mig king It
for the edibleH requires
only bit af ~ egp kills a
piece the ID q do i. 02e'
case is cited ic boy ate only q
third of s;smsl u INC 3ksa cup of the
deadlynas shr6on hJ Il was enough
to cause Ills a dssSft Ifsaesd 30 bane-,
full is The phalii posson that even the
handling;of the death Scnp aud the
breathing Of the spores may prodncel
serious illness. S $45 8. Z ,5i
The "death cup" is only one of 9
number of poisonous plants in America
although there are not many in this
country orSin Europe. The common.
est OF all isthe familiar poison iyy ot,
our fields and roadsides. Contrarytot
almost general belize, poison ivy is not
injurious unless ,actually y touched. Its
irritating power il dpe;toas non-yols-
tile oil Contained iins sthss leaves, tire ef-
deots Of who'll tiile distressing. are
not deadly. yeSy good represents
5tion Of the poison iSy leaves and fruit
IS shown inthe bid lure Once familiar
y With i, one need nedVer mis- take it for
anything else: Poison iyy us much
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Foreirn Game in American Market.

a correspondent. inquiries as to the
effect upon our domestic game supply
of the sale, of foreign game. The
effect ofthe sale of game actually I'M
ported would, of course, not effect the
domestic supply in any way whatever,
unless it might be possibly if the i'm
ported stock were 50 plentiful and so
cheap as to lessen the demand for ma
tive species. That is something
which is not likely to happen. The
actual conditions are these-that
while there is in the market some
actually imported foreign game, by
far the greater proportion of the
game labelled as foreign is American,
and is sold illicitly under foreign
rame. Brazil birds are American
quail; French pheasants are Americap
ruffed rouse.-Forest and Stream.
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Antediluyian EoneYard.

Phosphate rock is mined in South
Carolina aud converted into e -four.
In the mines have been found many
queer substances which give evidence
Of life before the deluge. These
antediluvian relics have attracted the
attention of scientists OF two worlds.
There are monster tusks, teeth of all
sizes and shapes, fish bones in great
quantity, all of which is ground up
and made to produce the great South
ern staple-cotton.
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watcK Unearthed From an Indian Mound

"QCCh Cneartneu II rom All 1n0l8n MOunO
Near. the village Of, Delton, Wis,
was recently unearthed from an In
dian mound a box which contained
some flint arrow heads, and brads and
a watch. It is not unusual to find
arrow heads, patterns and skulls in
these mounds, but the finding of 8
watch is something Lew. The watch
bears no date. The only lettering is
N. H. G. Co. The works are in a
brass open face case with a heavy
crystal. It is nearly three inches in
diameter and three-fourths of an inch
in thickness. It seems to be In good
condition, and when wound shortly
after it was found it began to tick off
the seconds, and has been running
ever since. There is a locust tree on
themound fourteen inchesin diameter,
indicating that the tree might be at,
least forty or fifty years old. The
watch is evidently Of recent manufsc-
ture. .: =.
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on the floor of which we were accom-
modated with mats of woven grass,
while two girls prepared a bowl of
kava Juice for our special. entertain
ment. Personally, I had heard enough
about this famous liquor of the islands
to decline it, and though my com.
panions tasted it, they were wise
enough to leave it to our hosts to
paralyze themselves with the strange
narcotic. In the meantime we had
contrived to make it understood that
we wanted guide to show US the
native path over the hills to Leone
Bay, Where the missionary lived, and
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the offer Of dollar readily secured a
guide, in theperson of a young man
81 magnifcsntsbuild and appearance.
The bargain once made, we lostsno
time in starting. Our guide, whowas
dressed in full native costume, which
consisted Of very large and finely
powdered head of hair, and a very
small cincture of some kind of native
cloth round, his loins, led US along the
beach for q sshort distance, and then
faeed the AilIwhich rose abrupt and
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pAgo TUrUILA SHOWING

within q hundreAyards of the village,
which now showed among the trees
like group of overgrown beehives Of
the old straw material and conical
shape, The natives we're most friendly.
They invited us into the largest hut,
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Good Coffee in Boerdoin.

The coffee is always good in the
Transvaal, but usually over-sweetenedY
When any guest is i'll Dutch house
wife's good books she shows her ap'
probation of him by loading his clip
of coffee with sugar, which he must
drink. unless he desires to upset he1
easily aroused susceptibilities.
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primitive agriculture of the island
could hardly be much extended, as
there is scarcely an acre of level land
to be found there. Cocoanuts, indeed,
grow along the shore everywhere. and
even to some extent inland; orange.
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When He is at Rest.

A clever man always likes to sit next
to clever woman at dinner, because
a clever woman never expects a map
to be.-New York Press
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so disagreeable that several OF the
party determined to try the alterna-
tive plan of walking overland to Leone
and there awaiting the arrival of the
cutter. Leaving all our luggage on
board. we were landed on the beach
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Professor Beal, in paper to tho
American Society for Promoting AGr1-
cultural Science, reports that seeds OF
q large number of important plants
will germinate after being kap. 5fteen~
but not after twenty, years.
An analysis has been made by NJ.
Demoussy, of Paris, OF the little shaw
ings of clay that are baked on bricks
and eaten by natives in some parts OF
Toxin. The material is like kaolln
in appearance and composition, and
contains NO nutritious substance what
ever.
A patent was issued to Walther
Wolff, of Charlottenberg, Germany,
on an apparatus for measuring the
velocity of sound waves, and more
especially the velocity of propagation
of single shock or conclusion OF air
such as is caused by the report OF a
Grearm or other explosions. The ap-
paratus consists of hollow box or re-
ceptacle closed on all sides and pro-
vided with a hole in its cover; this
hole is closed by a rigid lid held down
by a spring, which lid when suddenly
raised by the action of the sound
wave causes the interruption OF elec'
trical current.
A life-saving device which was
tested recently on Lake Michigan ls
gasoline engine propelled lifebost.
The self-righting properties OF the
boat were not affected by the addition
of the engine, which is placed in the
after air.tight compartment. The en-
CINE is geared to twin-screws, 80 that
either screw may be started. stopped
or reversed Independent OF the other,
and it is possible to turn the boat IN
q very small space. Seventy'hve gal
Ions of gasoline, sufficient for run
Of 2SO miles at the maximum speed or
seven and one-half miles per hour,
can be carried in a reservoir locateo
IN forward compartment.
e.; The Medical Record says that excel
lent results are beirg had with surgl-
sal dressings of common wood pulp,
such as issused as base in the manu-
facture ssof paper. When macerated
in water it swells up and absorbs four
u five times its weight of liquid. 1t
tetains heat for long time and makes
better poultice than faxseed or
bread and milk. It can be infused
with emollient oils or with antiseptics
for special purposes; and it is we'll
adapted as q substitute for splint
Ebandages for it dries hard and rigid:
Ordinary clean paper, boiled and
soaked in water till reduced to a per-
fes pulp, or paper mache, would
doubtless answer the same purpose
where crude wood pulp is not obtain
able.
A marvel of ingenuity is the me-
|schanical. perpetual. calendar con.
Estructed in leisure hours by NJ. Albert
.Jagot, .of Mans. 1t consists OF but
Five wheels-with a total of ninety-six
nine levers or catches, yet
tit is designed to indicate the day OF
the week, the date and the month,
! ! automatically, for centuries, and to
show the 29th day of February in &C.
cordance with our calendars-that is,
every fourth year except the three
century years in every four centuries
that are not leap years. The mechan.
ism is operated by three weights, Of
| which one requires winding every
fifteen days, the second ie to be
wound once a year, while the third
acts as q connterweight to bring the
principal wheelsto its starting poln'
L nnna a nnnth
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Wheat Grown In the United states. ~
Nearly quarter of the wheat raised
in the world is grown in the United
States.
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Complaints of the scarcity OF coal
are made all over Europe.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Professor Beal, in a paper to tho
American Society for Promoting Agr1-
cultural Science, reports that seeds OF
q large number of important plants
will germinate after being kep! 5fteen~
but not after twenty, years.
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An analysis has been made by NJ.
Demoussy, of Paris, of the little shaw
ings of clay that are baked on bricks
and eaten by natives in some parts OF
Toxin. The material is like kaolln'
in appearance and composition, and
contains NO nutritious substance what
ouor
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anythilg else. Poison Ivy as much
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A Curious Swiss Custom

TO BE CONTINUED.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-30
AN HoNoRAsLE sHowmAa.
b. E. WALLACE LIVES UP TO HIS
PROMISES.

1t is so rare an occurrence to see n
big show pursue an absolutely honora-
BILE course in advertising. especially as
to its size. that we heartily commend
the manner in which the Great WAL
lace Shows advance corps are doing in
this city, particularly as it applies to
the press. Articles are not falsely writ
ten up and then quoted as coming from
responsible journals where the show
has appeared, but the bona fide elm
pings taken just as cut from the col
urnns of the newspapers ahead. and the
local reporters deal with them as they
deem proper. This is what the San
Francisco Examiner says of this big
show. coming to Norfolk on Monday.
October s.:
I'VE have been reading lately many
complimentary comments on the great
ly increased size and unquestionable
merit of the newly equipped Great
Wallace Shows now touring the West.
but We're agreeably surprised o-dav.
first by the magnitude OF the show as
a whole. as 1t came in sections on its
elegantly constructed trains, and again
by it's stupendous, clean and novel
parade. A show never. presented a
more gorgeous pageant. We visited
the grounds later on n business errand
and again met a surprise. The show is
absolutely new throughout. and covers
not only the entire show lots. but all
the streets surrounding them. The
tents at the afternoon performance
We're packed with visitors. and the cir
Gus program for novelty, great fea-
lures. comedy and real refinement cx-
cells anything San Francisco has seen
in many years. The Examiner en-
dorses the Great Wallace Shows to
the world in general as the most meri-
mn
real fashion plate show IL ever there
was one"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-30
NOTED mANDoLIn,sr HERE.

ALBERT KININfONs PRINCIPLE IS
ON A LONG TOUR OF AMERICA.
Mr.. Albert Kimmons Prince. q popu-
lar mandolinist and whistler. who is
now on a long tour. reached Norfolk
yesterday morning from Newport
News. where last night he delighted n
large audience of Elks at a social sos
sion. Mr.. Prince is an interchangeable
traveller. as he has during the past
three years travelled through twenty
two States. With him is his accompa-
mist. Mr.. Frank Voght. Mr.. Prince has
a repertoire of over 200 pieces, ranging
from the strictly classic down to the
latest hits of ragtime melody. Where
ever he has appeared he has delighted
large audiences with his mandolin
playing and his whistling.
In this latter art he is as skillful as
he is on the mandolin. Norfolk is the
557th considerable place that Mr..
Prince has stopped at in his present
tour, that began at Kansas City. Mo-,
August 10th. 1897. In the intervening
time he has travelled 24.o16 miles and