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CLEAR WATER FOR SOLDIERS:
A Pocket Filter Designed For Use In
Warfare. ~

A Pocket Filter Designed For Use in
Warfare. a.
Below is q sketch of the Hamilton
pocket filter, after the name of the
patentee, says the London Mail. The
Bushmen's Corps, of whom every man
was a specially selected volunteer,
trained to all the hardships Of Aus
tralian up-country life, was supplied
with 500 of these little filters.
Leading medical authorities Of Aus
traffa, where the evils Of drinking bad
water and the difficulty Sf obtaining
,goood are most apparent pronounce
This to be the best filter known to
them. Inside the fat white metal box
q carbon disc that has been chemically
treated is fixed. By an ingenious ar
rangement this can at any time be
removed and boiled, when 81 Is again
ready as O preventive cf such awful
scourges among soldiers enterfc and
dysentery.
AS witness Of its yalUe 1t may be
noted that not single man In the
Bushmen's Corps is reported to hare
died Of disease while In South Africa.
The long tube is for insertion in the
receptacle containing the water, while
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taken, sir, yourself. That face-thas
scar-that man, from head to foot
that villain, when his mask slipped
aside"
The melodramatic almost hysterical
excitement of Fairfax contrasted curl
ously with the perfectly cool and even
deprecatory manner of Mr.. Vernon
and of Colonel Loring; and yet Fair
fax was very steady-rigid, indeed
and his look was dangerous. The
apparition of Pierre Rameau could
not be counterfeit, and for the mo.
ment he felt that Mr.. Vernon could
not help being aware of it, 30 dis I
tinct and complete was the identified
tion to himself. He felt so intensely.
under the sudden strain OF recog
milton, that his bearing was awkward
and stacy in comparison with the
grace and ease of the waving figures
seen through the flower -draped door
way giving into the parlors where the
dancers were in full career.
It was at this moment that Fairfax
saw Pauline pass across the field of
his vision. She was dancing with
Lieutenant Ballanche, and her face
was illuminated with pleasure.
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industry, and an entire village Is en-
Gagged in crystalizing the salt out OF
the earth. The process is the exceed
ingly simple one of scraping tie salt
soaked land Of the low coast coun-
try with wooden harrow and allow
ing the sun to eyaporate the moisture
until the ground takes on a condition
OF dry powder. This almost impalpa-
BILE dust is scraped up in baskets and
packed into. narrow bamboo splint-
woven trough, some six feet long,
plastered with clay. Water is then
poured, upon the dry salt earth by
tho jarful, and teaches through, pass
ing out by small tube at the bot
tom. The clear water with salt in
solution Is then boiled down until it
crystalises in an iron kettle built in
the top of Q clay oven, as seen in the
foreground of the picture, which Is
reproduced from Harpers Weekly.
In the south, among the Tagalogs Of
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A Hint to Any Man,

Education is seldom the controlling
factor in success. What! Must we
belittle education after all our furore
about the value of education? BY no
means. The secret of success is 4
mans disposition. The man who is
willing to and able to take RESPONSE
bilities will beat him who is unwilling
or unable. The man who has the dis
position to lift the burden of trivial
matters from his superior's consider
alton is the man who will be looked
for when promotions are to be made.
The question is not, Have you done
your duty? but, Do you rise to greater
RESPONSIBILITIES? The opportunities for
rising to greater responsibilities are
ever present.-The Manufacturer. -
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Cavite province. the process varies
somewhat. Every family living on the
coast has its own salt-ponds, which.
skirted by beautiful bamboo clumps
and great mango-trees, make very pic
turesque artificial lakes. These ponds
are shallow basins, sometimes more
than an acre in extent, walled in with
a low mud dixie, and provided with
an entrance sluice, through which the
tidal waters may overflow the ground
and be penned in. Over the entire
surface of these flats are raised cir
cular beds, ten to twelve feet in diam
eter, flat OH top and a foot in height.
The salt water of the ocean is allowed
TO come in till it reaches just to the
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Sure OF Himself.

Most men are quite convinced that
in q moment of sudden danger, such
as has lately demoralized some friend,
they should be perfectly cool and de.
liberate. Some would be, but that
this is not true of all, the following
incident bears witness.
There is in Chicago business man
who, above oil things, prides himself
on being level-headed. He makes it
q point never to Ego off at half-cock, !"
under any circumstances. His offic,
is in the top story OF q rather tall
building, and when, one afternoon,
the alarm of "ire" was given, he felt
instantly and naturally quite uncom.
Portable.
His first thought was thst the Office
books must be carefully locked up in
the safe, but just then q number Of
people rushed through the entry past
his door, and the methodical man had
q confused impression Of having sought
in vain for the books for very long
time.
Tue smoke was rising slowly
through the elevator we'll as he dashed
into the hall and down the stairs. AT
the foot he met his partner.
"It's all out said the partner,
where ere the books?"
81 looked everywhere for them,'
said the methodical man, "but they
were:.'t to be found"
They went back to his private Office,
and there the books were lying open
on his desk. Strangely enough, the
methodical man never fully under
stood how it happened.
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taken without a shot, and that our
troops occupied in turn all the prov
inces of the north with fewer than 4
dozen fights Of any consequence. From
that time on it became foot race
after the demoralized bands that were
leaving the Tarlac lowlands. There
was no established capital, no machln-
cry Of government, no grand army and
half the. cabinet surrendered or were
captured.
Officially the revolution was crushed.
but General Conception, Aguinaldos
chief Of staff, uttered a dissenting
opinion which, as since proved, was
prophetic.
you think it is over, but it isn't.
You have now disrupted the army and
scattered it far and wide. You have
some of the leaders in prison and your
troops occupy the whole north coun-
try. But how many rifles have you
captured? When you've got the arms,
then and only then, will the revolution
be over"
They have a curious custom at the
Filipino balls. All the girls sit in a
row on one side of the room and all
the men on the other. When man
wants to dance he goes over across
the dead line, selects his girl, and, af-
ter dancing, delivers her back to Eer
chair. He returns to his own side.
There is no chance for any Irritation.
The Filipino girls are not flirtatious.
On great occasions they always seem
to be overwhelmed with q sense of
rigid propriety. There are no soft
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,Tff6 Potion wv Evil.


The, efforts of Evanstonians to e1s
terminate poison ivy are to be COM
msnded, for it is high time that this
weedy enemy was removed from the
path of man. PA danger for which
man is responsible that threatens
health wiHybe complained of speedily,
but natural forces are more lightly
regarded. Perhaps the reason for this
is found in the fact that some people
are impervious to the ivy evil, can
pick it with impunity. and are rather
inclined to scoff at the susceptible suf-
ferers. But to those who have mem
cries of the hours Of misery that came
unmerited after so innocent pastime
rs picking leaves the subject is serious
and these victims feel that the possi-
bility of others enduring the same kind
If suffering ought to be removed. -.
Of course the chief danger Is for
those who are unfamiliar with the
foe and whose love of nature Is un-
mixed with fear. For such people to
discover that Wordsworths doctrine
that nature never did betray the
neart that loved her. is untrue, brings
the same shock that comes to the
country man when lie learns Of the
poison ivies that grow upon city walls.
t will he some time before this vicious
vine can be completely exterminated.
but like moral evils 1t will finally
yield to brave and worthy Efforts
Chicago Tribune.
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THE coNTeNTEo cow.

The placid beeve, to contemplation we'd
Moves lazily along the sunny slope;
Unanchored by CALLING chain or rope, y
She swings her tail of soft Venetian red
Until she knocks the hungry horse fly head.
Over-heels, and, unannoyed, proceeds "a
NOPE 4.
And MUNICH the mead, or suddenly 70
lope -,
Around the green, by fairy fancy fed,
And kick her hinder members hlgh' JOY:
fraught, ..,.
As brief as that which scoops or seada
and scoots, II
fer lotus dream will crumble into naught,t
Fen while her shell shall rise to heights
sublime,
In stews, roasts, buttons, gelatine ane
r. z. Munkittrick, in Puck
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nently as the subject of many Of their
whispered Visayan remarks. BY eX-
hibiting industry in passing things I
finally won their friendship and re-
stored confidence.
Everybody his own salt-maker, so
the Ilocanoes and Pangasinans Of
Northern Luzon believe, and they fol-
low out the theory in practice, for
nearly every family living on the coast
sof the great Lingayen Gulf manufac-
stures salt for home consumption, and
SELLS the surplus to tn villages Of the
interior.
In one settlement near Dagupan the
occupation reaches the dignity Of an
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lNVENTS A SELF.AcTlNc TRAP.
8. Ruckersberg Thinks He Can Make
Rats Annihilute Themselves.

8. Ruckersberg Thinks He Can Make
Rats Annihilate Themselves.
A Milwaukee avenue inventor thinks
lie has solved the problem Of how to
induce rats and mice to exterminate
themselves and assist in the annihila-i
tion of those that come after them.
He is S. Ruckersburg, and his annihi-
lator is 4 self-acting trap.
The first night the trap is in action
it is tightly closed and loaded with
4 table d'hotc dinner. The second
night the hearts of the hungry rodents
are made glad by the sight of an open
door at one end. AS it advances the
rats weight overDalances sheet
iron false floor, the door falls with
q click and his ratship is doomed. In
spection discloses> but one way of es-
cape - up boxlike tlue - and this he
accepts. Once again an automatic door
closes. The way leads into a large
funnel. The rat walks on until the
funnel tips and it is precipitated into
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5 THE PHILIPPINES IN WAR AND TN PEACE. S
D .Luzon Method of Salt Making.
Observation-Disclosures QQ0QQQQ0QQQQQQQQ@l

John T. McCutcheon, Philippine cor
respondent of the Chicago Record,
writes rs follows: 1t is very difficult,
even here in Manila, to get q compre-
Xensivc idea of "the situation in the
Philippines" The most we know is
that our troops are scattered over
every lI,eovince in Luzon, as we'll as
in ~ Chief cities Of the other islands,
and-aat in, Luzon alone there are
ZIG s1arate garrisons holding cities
and villages and strategic points In
the twenty,seven provinces of the ISL
and.
The Filipino method of warfare has
changed from their old, defiant meth
DDS to a new and more insidious one,
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a Stranpe Amusement.

There is to he new amusement at
Earl's Court next year. says the Lon
don Express.
Somebody has obtained the consent
of the authorities there to erect gi-
gantic pendulum. at the end of which
will be suspended car for the pnr.
pose of swinging people from one sta
tion to another and back aga!..
The pendulum will do all that Is re-
quired of it. by reason "of its own
momentum" with. perhaps, little
electricity to elevate people to the sta
ton and dcpreSS them to the ground.
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seraped off by the owner. In this

seraped off by the owner. In this
way they become practically self-feed.
ing salt-machines Of an exceedingly
novel character, though the output of
salt per diem from each bed is very
small.
The native music of the Philippine
misunderstanding to Harper's Week
ly, is rendered almost exclusively on
homemade instruments. These are
built of bamboo, the big horns having
but one note each, while the reed lat
the left in the picture) carries the air.
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to grace and symmetry and completely
forgets those dainty little coQuetries
which every maiden is entitled by an
cient deere to use.
There was an cxtemporized supper.
All the girls sat at one end of the
table and all the men at the other.
All the chairs at the man end were
taken when I weut in to the feast,
and, contrary to all precedents, I was
consigned to the heart Of the enemy's
country.
On each side was mestiza. Across
the table was q row of dark girls who
were evidently overwhelmed by the
radical departure from an old custom,
and 1 suspect that figured promi-
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to the shorter tube may be attached
a flexible pipe through which the pur-
fled liquid may be drawn.
The great advantages of the Hamil-
ton filter are it's shape and lightness.
In aluminium the entire thing could
be made to weigh less than two ounces.
The invention, which is both dura-
BILE and cheap, should commend itself
to the military authorities, and all in
terested in our soldiers.
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q can of water. The tipping of the
funnel raises the door to the first en-
trance and things are in readiness for
the next adventurer. In four nights
113 rats were captured and disposed
of in one Of the big clubhouses.-Chi-
ca1o Record,
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brown eyes coyly glancing, or little
hands gently pressing. When Miss
Filipino treads the stately national
auadrille or whirls lightly.to the stir
ring measures of a quick-nayed waltz
she dedicates her Thoughts and soul
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A crane having q span of l5S feet
has just been installed in the erecting
shop of certain locomotive works.
1t will lift l96, 900 pound locomotive
forty feet in the air, carry it 1886 feet,
and set it down again in three mln-
utes and thirtY.six seconds. l.-.-.-........
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DeIIrhtfui Growl OF Wild Cs,..

Among the fauna of the British Isles
in danger of exterminaticn are the
wild cats Of Scotland. They have.
however. found gallant champion
in Scottish minister, the Rev. John
MenzieS, Of Ferdoun. Wild cats, he
declares, are Joy to look at, and their
growl is delightful when Yen tease
them bit Q little.-The Londoner. -
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tops of these circular beds, soaking
them through and through. The sun
does the rest of the work by rapidly
cvaporating the moisture from them,
and the salt appears as a white effior-
escence at the surface, to be carefully
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PITH AND POINT.
"Yes; I've got some money invested
in O flying machine; but it's notnlne
merely fly spec" q

IN O nylnS macnlue, uue ~
merely fly spec" q
The telephone damsel a.
Remarks, in low tone,
That ring on the fingers
Worth two on the phone. II
Ostend-"Is the world round, name !
mar Mamma-"Certainly, my son.
Ostend-"Then how can there be an
end to it," &
what A strong face that Mr.
Mimmsley has" "Yes. He used to be
the strong-jawed man in a circus.
Washington Star.
Little Willie-"Say, paw Pa-"Well,
what is it now, Willie?" Little VII.
lie-"Does grape-shot gxpY on am
bushesT- Chicago Newal q
Cholly-.Yaas, Gussie an i have "a =
Scided to waise mustachl Miss Il
tique Good ideal How are you
ting along with your All 2. u s.s!sSs :sSss,
If love is bind, may ne not riss q
With confidence and say, A 5
It is the scales upon his eyes tS Il Il K K
That helps him. lind the weie ri:
..3a Philadelphia Rrte4
tfrs. Hix-"Is your daug ghter hal
bily marriedip Mrs. Dix Indeed el
ilis. Her husband shales IN his boot
every very aps she speaks, New YORK
Weehjy.
II want some sort Of d presenfs
fbrs asyoung lady," "SweetheaFt or sis-
why74she hasn't said
lel she WIN be YETI Plttsburg
t4wag (sfoYing Bjones through
l1 nav house That do yoik xtink
s6 y IL fftezeg Bjones g Iine voks
ppgh III might have been H6e by
e Sefe ARE ss many; barks zle
SSe6 remaf kef the girl ,#ho Wss
inc 6Ser tile rail y Perhaps they
ffoH HE ocean greyhound =, yentlEe g.
hsf fall companion. saa s'ss Ss'a
Ge6rgy ION The warpatlD b
.d1 Harry hit you ddt E
& Geosgy Well, if
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ssodfi0e 2 llieago News
h II @ ~ ls M u u B
Ga Ijaj 81 RiSIsng lsG;li &
isns 81 s.: Sss Encw! i! 81 u # 6
out jpb Ie world " ii 81 aid / syour own
livinx ia shoald hare given you 81
heIping hand gave me a helping
5a Plain Dealer. q
VINE les pu; think the place
is unheaIfh sled the real estate
man. There are ak doctors signs in Z
the block we Just passed" remarked
the prospective purchaser, sadly. Z,
Horatius was holding the bridge
"Why so quiet e inqhired a friend. Il
am thiHkilg he responded. "Of
what?" hlHkins whether l can at
tain more farne by Keeping the bridge
or diving oG
"E1 the general that never wins
a battle b can sbeat sometimes" re-
marked sBeechwooE "What are you
driving atTf asked Homewood. He
can beat d retreat. ."-Pittsburg Chron-5
icle Telegraph .S
"That fellow Bumhleton is deep
cne. "sWhat has he been doing
"Why, heSgot the new boarder into
a brisk controversy with the landlady
over theYreasons for woman's mental
inferiority, and under cover Of it
sneaked second piece of 'huckleberry
"-Cleveiand Plain Dealer. -
Evening journal., 1900-04-16
DOWN BY THE SEA

NEW BUILDING STARTED AT RE-
HOBOTH - ABOUT STURGEON
FISHING.
Rehoboth. Del, April 14.-Several
new buildings were started here this
week Contractor Collins is erecting at
No. Is Delaware avenue a cottage for
e. c. Hardesty. and Contractor GOtee
is erecting at No. II Delaware avenue
a cottage for Dr. +. +. Cast, of Norris
town, Pa. III. c.. Beebe will have cot
tage erected on Surf avenue.
An order has been served on George
w. Mccullough. OF Wilmington, re-
straining him from erecting a cottage
ON Lake avenue. adjoining the Hotel
llenlOpen. IL is said that the commits
sionners. by special act Of the Legisla-
ture. decided n portion of Lake avenue
to the Hotel Henlopen Company, said
tract to be used for hotel purposes. Mr.
Mccullough, having secured all the
hotel stock, IL is added, thinks he owns
the ground in question. The commits
siCners. however, dispute his claim.
Applications for sites for three
merry -go-rounds have been received.
The sturgeon fishing season began
April 2, and already some good catches
have been made. Sturgeon roe sells al
$3.50 per keg. and a good fish will yield
half a keg of roe. The flesh sells at 1,
to 20 cents per pound.
Evening journal., 1900-04-16
DIED.

BURTON.-In this city, on April H.
1900, Margaret e., daughter OF Mar
garet and the late Burris Burton,
aged % years.
CURRY.-On April Il, 1900 Margaret
A.. wife OF William IL. Curry.
GAM.-In this city, on April 10, 1900,
BENJAMIN @. Cam, in his 42d year.
Relatives ana friends and the mem
bers of Wilmington Lodge, No. !, A.
o. u. W.; Wilmington Conclave, No.
~. A. o. A. NJ; Delaware Conclaye,
No. 430, of Heptasophs; Minqua Tribe,
No. s, Imp'd o. r. NJ; Lincoln Lodge
No. 8, X. of p; Wilmington Council,
No. /, Uniformed Rank, K. of p, are
respectively invited to attend the fu-
neral, at his late residence, No. 11O
North Franklin street. on Monday af-
ternOon, April 16, at o'clock. Inter-
ment at Riverview Cemetery.
GREEN. this city, on April 12
1900, Edward Green.
HILLSLEY. I'm this city, on April IL
1900, George Hillsley, aged So years
Evening journal., 1900-04-16
ACCIDENT AVERTED

YOUNG SUSSEX GIRL IN A RUN
AWAY-NOTES FROM STOCK
LEY.
Stockley, Del, April 14.-Mrs. N. w.
Prettyman and son, Master Willie,
visited Glendale this week
Charles Stoeckles, of near here, who
has been quite sick, is convalescent
The Stockley school will close next
Monday, and in the evening of the
same day an entertainment will be
given in the schOOlhouse.
A little boy came to brighten the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph West re-
Gently
While returning from Georgetown
on Wednesday afternoon, Miss Lizzie
Johnston came near having what
might have been a serious accident
near the residence OF Hiram Smith
The shaft iron of the carriage broke
and the horse became unmanageable
ran some distance, when some men
came to her assistance.
Miss Annie Short visited her sister
Mrs. William McIlvaine, recently.
The Providence Aid Society met al
the residence of Peter Marvel this
evening.
AS this is the season for arbutus, tn,
young folk are taking advantage o
their opportunities for gathering this
fragrant flower.
r. 5. Johnston, proprietor of th'
Sussex Nurseries, is busily engaged il
shipping trees.
Evening journal., 1900-04-16
DANCE AT WILLOW GROVE
GIVEN BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
HAPPENINGS OF THE VILLAGE.

GIVEN BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE
HAPPENINGS OF THE VILLAGE.
Willow Grove, Del. April 14.-Mrs
Anna b. Gooden has been on the sick
list
The young folks will give a dance in
GoOden's Hall this evening.
Miss Ida Frazer is visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Smith.
Mrs. C. w. Smith. of Camden, spent
last week visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Moore.
Mrs. Dolly Abbott, of Dover, spent a
few days last week with her brother
Ernest Stamford.
Mrs. Tennessee GOoden is in vii
mington and will visit Chester ant
Philadelphia before she returns.
The Mite Society meets the first sat
urday in May at Mrs. w. T. Gooden s
where full attendance is desired.
Harry Swain. while in FELTON, las
Saturday lest his pOcketbCok contain
ing some papers and money.
Mrs. j. W. Smith. of Harrington. ant
Mrs. Thomas Longfellow and Miss Net
tie, of Greensboro, Nd, spent a few
days last week with Mr.. and Mrs
Cove S. Gooden.
John Lingo, who has been makinl
his home in PittstOn for the past tw,
years, and who has been sick in tn,
German Hospital, Philadelphia, wher,
the doctors have been treating him To-
appendicitis. has returned to his hom,
mere where he is still very weak.