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young American who distinguished
himself at Spion Kop is the identical
person. Lieut.. Brown remembers To-
bin as bright lad and good soldier.
The following extract from a letter
written from the seat of war to the
Mail was accompanied by q photograph
of the hero. ''The first position taken
by our troops during the assault upon
Spion Kop was won by the F squadron
of South African light horse, and the
first man to gain the summit of the
hill was Corporal Tobin, an American.
When he reached the crest some dis
tance in front of his comrades he found
the enemy had already fed, and, turn
ing, shouted to the men climbing the
ascent: Come on, there is no one here
Almost Immediately the advance swept
the brow of the hill, which was then
occupied by them until subsequently
relieved by the men of the queens -
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TX" Gts twin) would at once know
something was wrong, and signal ere
peat"
Au obvious improvement to our sig
mailing system would be the more gen.
eral use of code words and their subst;-
tuition for numerals. A single numeral
involves at least five motions of the flag
Or Morse key. With the combinations
of four letters each there could be
enough code words formed to send all
possible messages, let alone such
thingsc as mems regimental numbers.
If every man on enlisting was assigned
a code word as well as a regimental
number the saving of time and expense
in telegraphing would be enormous.
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LAMr:sIoN ALIlsao s'BT DAY.


A suggestion was once made to the
war Office that as flag signaling often
involved mems exposing themselves on
the sky line, thereby risking loss of
life and CHANGING the communication
of messages to foes as well as friends,
it would be well to encourage lamp
signaling in the daylight, says the Lon
don Telegraph. An ordinary signal
lamp at the back of barrel is in suf-
ftcient darkness for its flashes to be
perfectly visible on an ordinary day,
and they are fairly we'll shuttered from
the enemy. An acetylene lantern shut
tered-off and rooted with black canvas
can be seen for miles on the brightest
day, and its messages can be kept abso.
lutely private. Maj. Ernest Rhodes, D.
S. O., Royal Berkshire regiment, has a
dual alphabet" for insuring accuracy
of messages. Thus instead of "a b. it
should be "A KBX." A man receiving
"A" followed by any other letter than
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EVIL Of Fried Food. .

No one who has taken the trouble ia
scan the average American bill of fare
can fail to recognize the Importance
of the frying pan with us; fried ham
or bacon and eggs, fried oysters, fried
potatoes, fried steaks, and so on, nd
nausenm. seem to be staple articles OF
food. What can be done to lessen the
fried-food nuisance? Perhaps moth.
ing so long as present conditions exist !;
so long as the highest ideal of the peo.
pie is to accumulate dollars rathe,
than to develop and preserve healthy
bodies which shall be the servants OF
healthy minds. Yet if those who teach
physiology in our public and other
schools understood their subject and
it's practical applications as they
should; if there were more schools in
which wholesome, economical cookery
were taught as it should be; if physi.
clans took every opportunity to i'm.
press such facts of practical hygicnic
Importance as they should, there can
be no doubt that by some sensible
and well-informed people the fried
abominations would be avoided.-Phil.
adelphia Medical journal.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Birmingham, Ala. has = cooperative
clothing mill.
A factory is to be built at San Quen-
tin, CAL, to make sacks of fax and
hemp. s>s.
Aluminium tubing used in the sci
ences is made so fine that 1000 feet
Of it weighs but single pound. .
Chicago fruit merchants are pre-
pairing to establish enormous fruit
packing establishments in California.
: During the first IL months of 1899
Galveston shipped 1886 head of cat
tle-three times as many as in 1898.
This put Galveston fourth in the list
Of cattle exporting ports.
Paris possesses $4,000 trees in the
streets and public places. There are
"a, 900 plane trees, 1,70O chestnut trees
and $4,000. elms, the remainedr con-
sisting of sycamores, naples, ~lindens,
etc.
There is brisk demand for sailing
vessels to handle Atlantic and gulf
coast traffic. Within the last few
JSUAS $AAC tOAAu6O" AAoo AdAACA OA OV
per cent, owing to numerous wrecks,
while the business increased fully so
per cent. last year.
In Virginia a company has, been
formed for the manufacture of an arti-
fetal marble, which closely resembles
the genuine and can readily be carved,
the ingredients being milk of lime,
glycerin, silicate of soda, soap, salt
and marshmallow root, together
with cement which thickens and
combines the components.
Prof. Dewar and other sci entitic
men have been testing the power of
extreme cold ON the microbes of ty-
Phoid fever, diphtheria, cholera and
other diseases. The temperature of
liquid air-19o degrees centigrade= :
had no effect on bacteria subjected to
it for 20 hours. The light-giving bac-
terra lost their luminosity in the cold,
but recovered it on being thawed out.
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not 50 yards ahead, we saw the spotless
white of the long-looked-for snowfielh
With q feeble shout we pushed for
ward, but when we reached its edge
our worst fears were realized. It was
terribly steep, being at an angle o:
about 40 degrees, and the crust was
a coating of hard, slippery ice, the
thickness of pasteboard. Through i.
break in the clouds we saw that it ex-
tended downward to timber-line, fully
1,5O0 feet, as steep as the roof of u
house and smoother than the smooth
est glass. How broad it was we could
only conjecture.
AS we came up, Kellogg struck the
crust with the butt of his gun, and
threw a rock upon the surface, which
went Sliding and bounding down the
steep face with terrific velocity.
We looked at each other in despair.
Its no use," said.
Not bit," was the answer.
We sat down and talked it over. To
retrace our steps was out of the ques-
tion. and we could not climb to the top
of the field, probably thousand feet,
in our weakened condition.
Suddenly Kellogg leaped to his feet
and rushed toward the slippery mass,
crying o:lt: 'Come on; we've got to
do it. II! take mine this way" With
out a second thought, in my hopeless
desperation I followed. By using his
gun as brace Kellogg kept his feet;
but slipped and fell on all fours and
began sliding down. In q wild frenzy
1 tried to drive my bare fingers through
the crust, but only succeeded in tear
ing the skin of them.
Luckily. had retained my rifle, and
by a frantic effort drove it muzzle first
through the hard crust and came to
a stop, having gone about 20 feet. Had
it not been for this fortunate move
my body would have been hurled to
the bottom of the gorge, more than
q thousand feet below, and mangled
beyond all semblance of human form.
Looking up ut my companion saw
that he had turned away his head,
unwilling to be a witness to my hor-
rible fate; but as I called out to him
he looked around, and I saw face
so white and horror-stricken that
can never forget it. Cold beads of
sweat stood on my forehead, and felt
that my courage was all gone. The
experience of that awful moment al
most unnerved me, and I was weak
and helpless as little child.
Lying on my face I held on tightly
to the rifle driven deep through the
crust. How to regain my footing was
a puzzle. Kellogg started to come
down to me, and it was with difficulty
that persuaded him to desist.
At last ! hit on a plan. Holding on
to the rifle with one hand, with the
other I drew my pocketknife, and,
opening it with my teeth, cut two holes
in the crust for my feet, and after
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Wounded ..Unbekaovvn.t.,, ,,

One of the colonial war correspond.
ents narrates curious incident that
came under his 11otice at the Rietfon.
tein engagement. A private of the
Natal mounted rifles had his horse
shot, and immediately cried out: ''I'm
hit" ''Nonsense, man; it's only your
horse" cried a comrade, and the man,
accepting the assurance, went on fight
ing. He returned to camp with his
corps, strolled- about in the evening,
suffered during the night from what
he called spasms, and only next morn
ing discovered that q Mauser bullet
had gone clean through his body.
Then he collapsed, and was taken to
the hospital. The moral would seem
to be that ignorance is bliss ON the
battlefield as elsewhere, and that The
consequences Of being perforated by q
Mauser bullet are not worse than in
the case Of Lee-Metford performing
the operation,-London Chronicle.
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AN AMERICAN BOY.
Corporal T0bin Who Was the First
- One to Reach the Top OF
Spi0n: Kop.

The ubiquitous American has come
to the front again. According to the
Illustrated Mail of London Corporal
Tobin, an American boy, was the first
soldier to reach the summit of Spion
Kop. Lieut.. Preston Brown, of the
Second infantry, now stationed at
Fort Thomas, says that there was a
young private of the name of Hugh
Tobin in the Fifth artillery while he
was a member of that organization,
and he has reasons to believe that the
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Armor Against Guns.

The recent trials at Indian Head. on
the Potomac, of the armor made for
the Russian battleship Retvizan, build
ing in this country, seemed to show
that armor-plate of the Krupp form
made in America has the advantage
in the endless contest between guns
and armor. Five-inch projectiles with
striking velocity of more than 1000
feet per second failed to penetrate
more than two inches of five-inch plate,
and the projectiles were broken in
pieces, while the plate was not cracked.
Youths Companion. i.
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TO CURE NERVOUSNESS.
Self Restraint in Women q Mark OF
Gentility and Good Train-
ing.

An obvious remedy for the nervous.
ness born of hurry may be trite and
commonplace, but it is sensible not
withstanding. Haste inevitably makes
waste in human experience. Delightful
as is the last nap on the drowsy
pillow, difficult as it seems to waken
little earlier, to get the bath and the
dressing and the little interval for
quiet thought which should be the
prelude to every ones day, small sac
ritice, a trifiing degree of resolution
will enable any person in normal
health to secure an extra half-hour in
the morning. The extra time, so easily
secured, so precious in the gifts it bears
in it's hand, will make you and me the
worldwide difference between dignity
and irritation, between composure and
fussiness, writes Margaret Sangster in
Harper's Bazar.
A woman should face the situation.
whatever it be; discover, if there is
any flaw, what has caused it, and then
calmly and gently, as her province is,
see about setting it right. Half ou1
worries spring from some occultocca.
sion which we may overcome, and much
of our so-called nervousness, it is &C.
knowledged, is born in worry. Some OF
it comes from subtle springs which are
located deep in the fountain of our be.
ing, and these are often so incompre.
hensible to our friends that they sur.
vey our weakness with little patience.
Generations of us, from. Mother Eve
down, have shrieked in every note OF
the gamut at such of our pet aversions
as have crossed our pathway, and the
woman of the twentieth century has
in her brain the wayworn tracks made
for her by her forebears. From know
ing that a course of action is unwisc
and inconsiderate to seeing what may
be done to rectify it is often the step
which costs most and counts for most
Every time when we remain silent,
though the desire to speak beats in.
sistently at the door of our lips; every
time when, though ready to rush or
to fly or to exclaim with vehemence,
we are simply quiet, holding ourselves
in with bit and rein, we make real
gain in self-restraint.
And self-restraint in women marks
the line of divergence between the un-
trained person and the thoroughbred,
between the gentlewoman and her low
estate. Voluble self-pity, emphasized
dislike, exaggerated edstatements of emo.
tion, unreasoning terror, all help to de.
moralize the nerves end make the WON.
an a sort of nervous degenerate, and
her power to control herself-her pow
er to shut off steam, to sidetrack an
annoyance or conquer a fright-grows
as she practices it. BY every act of
calmness she gains in the essentials
which keep her spirit calm and free
from agitation.
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, Can Aats H&ar1

Naturalists have generally accepted
the opinion that ants are not able to
perceive any sounds that are audible
to human ears. Prof. Weld, Of the
Iowa state university, controveFts this
opinion. He describes inzScience. care
full experiments made by him with four
species of American ants, from which
he deduces the conclusion that these
species, at least, are able to perceive
sounds, but whether they do it by
means of organs of hearing, or through
the sense Of touch being excited by at
mospheric vibrations. he is unable to-
say with certainty. He inclines to the
opinion that they do really hear, as
some individuals showed q perception
of the direction of the sound, such as
that of shrill whistle, and others.
which were not disturbed when yio-
lently shaken in their glass prisons.
seemed to be ':driven nearly frantic BY
shrill sounds" 50. z'.%
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

There are . great many caves ard
prehistoric mounds in Iowa.
Winter suspends the activity of GER
tain microbes, but does not DESTROY
their life. y -.
In suit to recover the price Of a
bicycle sold on the installment plan.
an Albany court has decided that a
bicycle is not necessity to girl un-
der age working out as q domestic.
Britannia ware is still on the mar
ket, but Sheffield plate is an old-fash-
ioned ware of silver plated on copper.
If you have piece of it, it is valua.
BILE, even if much worn, and should by
no means be plated again.
In Santiago in the better class Of
houses the bedsteads are surrounded
with close kind of netting, begin
ming at the floor and gathered at the
top. This is intended as q protection
against tarantulas.
Brooklyn spends annually 1888, ,7s0
for kindling wood. In addition to this
$135, 900 is expended each year for oak
and hickory stove wood, making the
total annual expenditure for this old
fashioned fuel $1,728,75O.
Descendants of Lord Baltimore still
live in Maryland, and among their
most valued possessions is portion OF
o rosary which formerly belonged to
Lord Baltimore himself. The wood OF
which the beds are carved came from
the Mount of Olives.
The sweet bay tree, Or laurel, was
sacred to Apollo, and in both Egypt
and Rome it's leaves were used to
decorate the victors in games in the
war: These leaves are much used now
in the culinary art, the practice hav-
ing been borrowed from the French.
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much effort stood upright. But we
were still in = bad fix. Kellogg called
to me to break holes through the
crust for my feet with the butt of the
gun. Although not more than 20 feet
distant hc could hardly make him.
self heard above the roar of the storm.
But the suggestion was a good one
and proved our salvation. We moved
slowly forward, breaking hole in the
ice for each step. 1t was severe treat.
ment to give valuable guns, but they
had to suffer in the best interests of
their owners.
Slowly and carefully we moved for.
ward, occasionally stopping to rest
and speak words of encouragement to
each other, for now we had the first
CLEAN of hope for five long, terrible
hours.
Although very weak physically, our
minds were much clearer than an
hour before, and we even went so far
as to chatf each other little. But we
had plenty of fears yet. Once my
heart leaped as Kellogg slipped and
came down on both knees, clawing
frantically at the air; but he regained
his feet without difficulty, and we
pushed on. Would we ever get across
Every minute seemed an hour.
Kellogg said that, as nearly as he
could calculate, we had been founder.
ing about on that man-trap for a
week!
But we kept going; the end must
come some time, and sure enough it
did; and at six o'clock we stepped on
the granite powders again, having
been just one hour and ten minutes
on that terribly inclined snow-feld.
Neither cf us was much given to DEM
onstration, but there was q hearty
handshake and few things said which
sounded all right up there, but might
look little foolish in print.
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A "Graun' Invention. -

A Scottish paper tells us an anecdote
in connection with the new electric
system just opened in Aberdeen. Two
farm servants came to Aberdeen to
spend New Years day. Arriving by
train they Immediately made their
way to the terminus of the electric
tramway circuit, where, after looking
at the new creation with much wonder
they decided upon having ride. Get
ting on the top of the car and after
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No Milk or Berries.

An American woman living in Ma
nila writes that the two greatest dep
rivations that she and her American
friends have to undergo are fresh fruit
and sweet milk. There is no berry of
any sort to be had and no small fruit.
There are plenty of bananas, but they
have an insipid taste. Condensed milk
is used exclusively by the American
colony. Most of the vegetables that
they use are canned. -
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hours and 43 minutes, or at the rate
of 52.2 miles an hour, and from Eus.
ton to Liverpool, 193H miles, in three
hours and three-quarters, or at the
rate of SIG miles an hour. It is in.
teresting to compare with these fig.
ures the running time of the Empire
State express. This train covers 444
miles in eight hours and quarter,
which represents an average speed of
1913 miles an hour.
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getting well along George street,
''Wull," said man Jock, this is graun'
invention. In Edinburgh I saw them
drive the cars wi an iron rape aneth
street, in Dundee the pu' them wi an
engine, but, MIGHTY man, wha wad n
thoucht they could ca them wi a fish,
ing rod!'
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4 Sly Fox.

A fox hard pressed by the hounds
dsring hunt on Long Island lately
ran across pond covered by a sheet
OF ice SO thin that when the hounds
came on it, 1t broke, precipitating them
into the water and breaking up the
chase. q
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Had Ita EReef-

: 80 = = HUW- 1t8 Eject.
. Jack-Did the lecture you gave your
wife on economy make any impression
on her?
Tom-Well, yes; she's economical
with her smiles -Philadelphis
Press. >EN 5.
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1t Probablyswo

''The. inclinations are,'' remarked
the man who was looking at the sky
with an expression of great wisdom,
The man who has had trouble with
the servant girl problem meekly in
quired:
''The weather or dinner o. STRAY
Stories. s@.' :
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A Safe Precaution,

In saloon in Glasgow. is the follow
ing notice pasted on the wall: Discus
sions of the war and the twentieth CEN
tury will not be allowed till the close
Of both" !, u.
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NakAa Ea- EpA.-

l. .~S -. Makes Hin Grassy, -
Mrs. Nextdore Docs your husband
like music.
Mrs. Peppery-Yes, he's quite fond of
IT, sss, s.. s:@. q. z ! 7 +
Il suppose he has,heard my daughter
playing. s. =s-7 g.,
Yes, and he just raves over her play.
ing. ~ Philadelphis Press, S.
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caster st. se by
Flying
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4 Storm Above the Clouds
BY Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-01
THE GRAND JURY.

One of the judges of a Philadelphia
court recently took occasion, in dis
missing a grand jury, to suggest the
| ACCESSIBILITY of abolishing that insti-
! tuition. He maintained that it was
| cumbersome, expensive, and adapted
to facilitate the escape of criminals.
| Originally, he observed, it was of
preston by officers of government.
Nowadays, no such danger exists, and
indictments may be prepared at once by
the district attorney. This latter sug-
gestion is enough to condemn Judge
Bregy's proposal. We know what a
sink of corruption the Office of the dis
trict attorney of any large city may
become under our party system We
know how the office is administered in
New York. and the people of Phila
delphia have lately seen their direct
or of public safety" accused of an at
tempt at blackmail. AS for the es-
cape of criminals from justice, matters
are bad enough even with a grand jury
to find indictments If there were no
grand jury III New York, what with
Tammany magistrates, a Tammany
district attorney, and Tammany
commissioner Of jurors, there would
be little hope of justice. Very few
criminals who had any political in
fluence would then have any fear of
Sing Sing, while the persecution Of
honest people would become a safe
and lucrative occupation. The grand
jury is, it is true, a cumbrous institu-
ton; but it is almost the only bulwark
Of liberty which the ordinary citizen
possesses. 1t may allow some crimi-
nails to escape punishment but it
causes some to suffer it would other
wise escape, and it protects good
many innocent people from persecu-
tion-New York Evening Post.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-01

che tarantula, but whether it was on
account of the loss OF limbs or not will
never be known. Each stood facing
the other some seconds as though
seeking an, advantage. During the
arnistice the ants set about inf1icting
a few wounds on the fiat stomach OF
the tarantula and the toad. Neither
seemed to care now for the bites of the
ants, but eyed each other with fierce
ness more than human. In an I'M
guarded moment the tarantula leaped
forward and inflicted wound upon
the lip Of the toad.
1.-THE struggle continued. Half Of
the legs were cut from the body Of the
tarantula. The poor cripple seemed
lost, but somehow he closed in on the
toad and seized it's underlip and killed
him"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-01

has managed to escape the peniten-
tiary She has been arrested for
drunkenness and vagrancy, and now
is fat, fair and forty.
She lives at Thirteenth and Market
streets, Denver, and lately has talked OF
riding a wheel to preserve her sy1ph-
like figure" She 1aughingly tells the
police that she knows the end she will
inevitably reach if she does not re
form. Consequently it is now sur
missed that she is about to set straight
the tangled skein Of her life in the
form OF an autobiography, or narrative
to Jailer Lawson of Denver.