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i. THE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN THE PHILIPPINES.
WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF CHARACTER ON
THE BATTLEFIELD,
Transformations Wrought in Chronic OrumbIers---Heroistn of the
Wounded and the Noncombatants, as Well as the Fighters*- 1
instances Noted by an Eye-WJtneSS at Malabon.
r - Philippine La LgMA, Islands. j
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The American soldier is
In his characteristics, but it is in bat¬
tle and in the hospital afterwards
when the strength of his character is
the best in evidence. He growls at
Iris food, even when better than he
was accustomed to at home. He
growls when it comes time to go to
bed at night aud again at reveille. On
the march he growls when ordered to
put on his accoutrements and get
ready to move, aud I have even heard
him growl when ordered to tRlce them
off again. All his downsittings and
uprisings aro accompanied by com¬
ments upon the reason why. In all
my observation of him I am free to
Bay that the only time when I have
seen him move with alacrity and in
apparent mental accord with the au
thority directing the movement is on
the firing line when the order comes
to advance. That seems to be the
one particular thing that best suitB
everybody, All complaints and
criticisms are hushed when there is a
chance to get at the enemy, and the
greatest difficulty the army has is to
keep men away from tho front who do
not belong there.
^ At all other times, wherever a group
of men is found, there also is found a
debating society, and the very air is
impregnated with military wisdom.
There is not a soldier in the ranks
who is not- prepared at auy time to
give the commanding General advice,
nnd if one wants to learn all about
what never happened, all he needs to
do is to walk about tho camp aud hear
the gossip and the “hops” that go
from man to man and group to group.
But it is about tho courage, the forti¬
tude, the self-sacrifice, and the ten¬
derness of feeling one to another dis¬
played on the battlefield ami in the
field hospitals that I want to write,
and I wish I could write it iu letters
of gold. Iucidonts of the battle of
Malabon bring these
out with the brilliancy of au electric
light. will
Rumors aud camp stories I not
repeat, though they are many, and
most of thorn doubtless founded on
actual occurrences, but I will write
only of what I saw and know. The
names of some of these heroes J know,
but because of the many heroic deeds
of others whose names are unknown
and who are entitled to as fall meed
of praise as those whose acts come
under my own observation, I will give
no names, and let the credit go to the
American soldier as a whole, foi; lie in an
arrny of heroes no one should sin
gled out for special praise.
As the troops jumped over, their
breastworks aud charged against the
magnificent defences of Malabon, a
sergeant who had become famous in
his regiment as a chronic growler re
ceived a severe wound, Two of his
comrades stopped to help him, and
bound up his wound with a fir3t-aid
The sergeant grieved at
eiug hit so soon, and begged the
men to hold him up long enough to
give him just one shot at the enemy,
aud as they were in the rear of our
own line this could not be done. Bo,
telling him to lie still uutil the hos¬
pital corps reached him to take him to
the rear, they hastened on to Fifteen over¬
take the advancing line.
minutes later the hospital men came
upon him, and found him crawling
slowly towards the front, dragging his
gun with him, determined to get that
one shot before his streugth gave out.
They pat him on a litter, in spite of
his protests, and carried him back to
the field hospital, and in a few hours
he died, still mourning his failure to
do the work he had waited so long to
do. His company had been ou special
duty until that day, and this was his
first fight.
Not far from him a man of another
company was 3hot through the breast.
When those beside him stopped to
give him attention he objected and
said he was all right and for them to
go on and keep up the fight. In
spite of this they banuaged his wound
'and helped him a little to the rear,
but he protested that he could go
alone, and finally they left him aud
hastened back to the firing line. He
was only a boy of twenty, and had
been joked by his comrades many
times about “cold feet,” but now they
knew better. He struggled along a
little farther aud came upon a man
wounded in the leg, aud when found
by the hospital corps he was doing
the best he could to bind up the other
man’s wound. “Don’t mind me,” he
said to those who found him, “but
take my gun and belt and help lick
those cowards behind the trenches in
front. 1 ” But they did mind him.
They placed him tenderly on a
stretcher and carried him to the rear,
but before they reached the field
hospital the young hero was dead.
On the extreme left au officer with
twenty men advanced up a road cov¬
ered by heavy intreao'hments fr om
‘To thine own self be true, and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’t not then oe false to any man.
1/INCOLNTON, GrA.. THURSDAY, JUDY 70. 1800.
which a flank fire was being poured
upon the line storming the breast¬
works in front. This fire was 9P
swerecl by this little hand uutil three
of them were killed and five wound¬
ed, For half au hour they stayed
there, drawing this fire away from the
main line, until, with the loss of those
hurt and those who had taken the
wounded to the rear, the platoon was
reduced to eight men, two of them
wounded. The insurrectos saw they
were cut off aud began advancing on
them, screened by the brush on both
sides of the road, and the officer saw
that he must withdraw or lose all of
his men. The road was a piko five
feet high and flanked on both sides
by a bayou too deep to be crossed.
One of the wounded men was shot
through the thigh, but could walk a
little, hut the other, shot in the arm
and neck, had lost so much blood he
could not stand up. The first one,
pulled in front by one man and pushed
from behind by another, worked his
way slowly along the edge of the pike,
up to his knees in mud, the officer
bringing up the rear and encouraging
him at every step. As for the other
man, two of his comrades stood him
on his feet, aud with one supporting
him on each side, they walked slowly
and deliberately down the road, fully
exposed to the hail of bullets show¬
ered upon them, for a distance of 200
yards, until a little turn in the road
took them out of range. It was tho
bravest act I ever saw.
Just after tho first trench was cap¬
tured a wounded Filipino lying on the
ground raised his Mauser and shot
two toes off a man’s foot. The crip¬
pled man dashed his assailant’s brains
out with the butt of his piece, and
then tried to follow the lino, which
was pushing on towards tho next
trench, but he had to give it up and
mako his way slowly to the rear. Attlie
next trench another wounded Filipino
was raising his gun to shoot a soldier
just passed him, when and another had
nfiiu who had reached him
his gun at a ready, and was putting it
to his shoulder to shoot, threw the
butt to the rear against the native’s
head and keeled him over, aud with
the next motion brought the gun to au
aim and tired without looking back to
note the result of his double motion,
aud pushed on with the charge,
When tho line reached tho Malabon
River, where a stone-arch bridge
crosses it, one span of the bridge was
found to be destroyed, and the iusur
gents were behind breastworks and
stone barricades, sweeping the ap
proach to the bridgo with their fire. A
small squad of engineers advanced
with plauks aud bamboo matting, aud
while the bullets rained about them,
repaired the bridge. Then a column
rushed across, and the natives fled to
a safer place,
I saw a member of the signal corps
stand up boldly on the top of a cap
tnred trench, in plain view of the
enemy, who made him a special tai'
get, and wave his flag signals as de¬
liberately as if on signal drill, notify¬
ing the artillery of the position of our
lines and the location of insurgent
trenches that should be shelled. This
i 3 not the first time I have noticed the
fearless work of these unarmed men
in the heat of battle. Others who
risked their lives as boldl j as the men
on the firing line, without the excite¬
ment of the coutest to nerve them up,
were the devoted members of the hos
pital corps. Everywhere they followed
the lines closely, on their errand of
mercy, giving the wounded such aid
as wa3 possible on the field, and carry¬
ing them back to the field hospitals to
receive further attention. Nor was
this done without loss to themselves,
for several were wounded. A hundred
yards in the rear of the firiug line is
as dangerous a place as the most ad¬
vanced line, and it requires a high or¬
der of courage for a man to go into
that hell of bullets, without a chance
to fight back, and dress the wounds of
crippled and dying men. well illustrates
A case that I saw
the situation. A hospital attendant
had reached a man wounded in the
leg. He bandaged the hurt, and
fixed the injured man as comfortable
as possible, to await the coming of a
stretcher. Then, as a last ministra¬
tion before going on to the aid of
others, he placed his hand under the
man’s back and raised him up enough
to give him a drink, and at that in¬
stant oue of the many bullets that
were flying all around them struck the
wounded man in the stomach, and he
died instantly, in the arms of his sup¬
porter. and deliberation under fire
Coolness
are as much responsible for the suc¬
cess of the Americau arms as the re¬
sistless impulse of the charge when
the advance is ordered. A small party
was advancing up a road swept by
Manser and Remington bullets from
half a dozen barricades and short
trenches. The party was too small to
advance further and so, at 400 yards
range, they continued the fight from
the open against the protected enemy.
Two of the men calmly seated them
selves in the road, crossed their legs, ;
and began sharpshooting constantly at the appeared scores
of heads that
abdvc the fottififiatidns hs bullets tverd ■
tained UpiM theih; There they sat)
disciiSsiiig with each other the range ,
and the effect of their shots as de
liberately as at target practice, and I
am happy to say that neither of these :
men was hit. I
In front of Malabon the general I
field hospital established in the ‘
was
waiting-room of the Caloocan depot, !
and as fast as the wounded were at- 1
tended to, or the they bodies of placed the dead j
were train brought and in, Were Manila, on
the sent at once to
In less than an hour after the battle
began the first wounded men were
being tenderly cared for at the general
hospital. The scenes at the (.aloocau ;
station were pitiful aud heartrending, of
and yet they made onb feel proud .
his countrymen, Not A complaint, I
and hardly a groan, was heard from a
man, no matter how badly he was
wounded or how much pain he suf
fered from the necessary handling,
and even cutting, of Ins wound by the
surgeon. On the other hand, those
not exhausted from loss of blood j
joked and laughed about their hurts, j
and each was ready cheerfully to tell |
the bystanders how it happened and (
what he saw of the battle before he
was hit, Not a few mingled with
fcheil* stories praises of the wwk o
the hospital corps on the field, and hi
the heroism of their comrades, the
roar of whose guns was becoming
fainter and fainter as they pushed on
in pursuit of the 1 'etreatiug insurgents.
Some came hobbling up, using a rifle
for a crutch, others holding' one
roughly bandaged arm with the umn
jured other. Some crawled painfully
along, shot in the I«g or body, until
they were observed and men went out ,
to bring them in, while others were '
carried in on litters or the arms ot ;
their comrades, or walked slowly
aud painfully, their arms about the
necks of those assisting them. Patiently
they all waited for their turn on
tho surgeon’s table, the more slightly !
wounded refusing to take their turn
when others more severely injured
had been had brought waited in io'ffe; later. time Cjueman, in this
who a
on'the way, and at last had taken his place
table, all others having been
attended to, insisted iWa upon badly getting wound¬ up
again to give''place
ed man just then brought in. A man
with a painful but not immediately
disabling wound in the side joked ;
with the surgeon and others as the
knifo and bandage were busy iio in get¬
ting him into shape to go the hos¬
pital. When he was ready, he low¬
ered himself painfully to the floor, re¬
marking: “That’s a good job, Doe.
Where’s my gun?” gun?’’
* i What do you want with your
asked the surgeon.
“Why, L’m going to the ©out again
and help the boys out.”
But this tho surgeon refused to per¬
mit, and the disappointed man was
soon on his way to the hospital at
Manila. These are but marked inci
dents of scenes that were general,
The desire to go to the front again in
spired all the slightly wounded, as
well as some who were too severely
hurt to stand up. They all made
light of their injuries, seemed anxious
not to give any trouble, and thanked
everybody who did anything for them.
A number of Englishman, Germans
and Spaniards were present, and tney
all expressed unbounded astonish
meat, not only at the bravery of the
a revelation to them, these two traits
of the American soldier, which won
their admiration and made them re
spect more fully the military poten
tiality of 70,000,000 of such people as
these. This war has certainly been
an educator. It has not only taught
us better to know ourselves, but it
has done much to open tlie-eyes of
foreign nations to the true character
of the American people.
As I said in the beginning, these
things I saw and know, and it one
man can observe these on one small
portion or a line six or seven miles
long, what must have been the sum
total , , . of r A,. the deeds 7 i of ex heroism, ■ forti- *
tude, , t self-sacrifice, and , uncomplam- . .
mg endurance frdm one end of that
line to the other? Not in tjm ^lone, Philip
pines alone, nor in Cuba but
wherever the Americau soldier goes to
battle, are there unknown heroes by
the thousand.— New York Post.
Hornets as Murderers.
Canadian hornets will tackle almost
anything that flies in their quest for
food, in illustration an Ontario gar¬
dener tells of a singular observation
he recently made in his gardens. He
found a nightingale nest in one of the
hedgeAand watched it daily until four
younguirds were hatched out. A day
later he was driven away from the
nest by a swarm of hornets, which
hovered about it, and finally settled
upon it like a solid cover of black and
gold. Presently the hornets arose
and disappeared as suddenly as -hey
had come The gardener found the
r„,„ pool little bodies nightingales being masses djri of ,. ugly I j
stings. His discovery 111 “ I
measure, me growing scarcity ot,
nightingales in Canada. - -
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Pr«_-minc <>»« Goose.
In preparing a goose for the oven a
thorough bath in hot soapsuds is not
only expedient,but necessary. The skin
of a goose is so exceedingly oily that
heroic measures aro necessary to ob¬
tairi good tesdlts, Indeed, many par
ticular housekeepers take soapsuds
and a small Scrubbing-brush, fowls, claiming kept for
that purpose, to all
that the skin is more or less exposed
to all sorts of dust, penetrating through
the feathers. Certain it is that there
is a marked difference m the com
plexion of any fowl before and after
the scrubbing. Of course, a good
fusing mUBt follow the soaping pro
cess,
Cofiee Fritters.
q- r ; m a { oa{ G f Ht ale bread free from
cl . ugt aml cut into fingers one inch
are aud fmir inolies j n length,
jj eati we u together three eggs, add to
tbem one cnpful 0 f milk, one and one
balf cupfulR 0 f moderately strong cof
fe0 flml (l pineb of sa i t , Dip eac h
f; /01< ^ la y on tt platter and
m . oyer tbem tbe remainder of the
mixhu . e turning them at intervals
untjl aH is absorbe d. Have ready in
a sauoer one well-beaten egg and a
j plataful of stale bread crumbs,
p eacli finger into the egg then roll
jn t , J0 crumbs prop two or three at
fl t une into a deep saucepan partly
with smoking-hot fat and cook
until golc - en brown all over. Drain
on upglazed paper for a moment, dust
powdered sugar and serve,
now to coou Quail,
Theve are inany ways of cooking
bitt to the epicure there are only
two; Split) season with pepper, salt
onil butter, and broil; or season in the
8ame way, mixing a trace of flour with
tbfl butter, with the little bodies filled
^ that tlle backbone is well covered,
un(l then roast, laying apiece of thinly
cul pork over each breast to prevent
b niug n , K ] to lard. A little gravy
lu;lile iu tbe pan w ith browned flour
aM tbe uatura l juices of the birds,
fttb |j U gwkatlittlewatermaybeneces- Chef Fillipini
gai ’ is admissible.
u „ e(l to tako s j x quail, singe, draw,
truss them, cover the breasts
tvith thiii layers of lard, . , place , m . a
sautoire with . a piece of pork rind,
half a carrot, halt au onion, both cut
up, and let them remain on the hie
ri: jstsfz P o?«.« »»d
r>l, e ia the oven for twenty minutes,
Make a celery sauce by washing suf
ficient celery, adding two pinches of
salt ami half an ounce of butter; cook
for twenty-five minutes, drain and
place in a saucepan, A second sauce
is made of a half pint of chicken
broth, poured slowly on two beaten
egg yolks, two ounces of good butter,
the jnice of half a lemon and three
spoonfuls of flour to thicken; place
the celery in this and toss for a few
minutes, serving hot poured epicure, over the is
quail—but this, to tho
vandalism; as well stew canvasbaek3
with onions. —New York Sun,
H«u*eitoi< in ».
When sprouts come on potatoes or
other vegetables they should be care
fully cut ofi.
In making a salad hear in mind
that the different parts should not be
mixed together or with the dressing
uutil serving time,
T bc resistance of glass jars that re.
fq ae to open can be overcome by set.
t ; n „ them, top downward, in an inch
or tw0 Q f bot wa ter,
To1vMt , n the kitchen table: Spread
jt all over with r. thin paste of chloride
of * hot wat leave it on a ll
-“f • •*
To grind old scissors at home saw
the blade on the neck of a glass hot
tie, as if you were trying to saw that
P ai 't off. Iu a short time the scissors
will be quite sharp,
To keep eheese from moulding cover
it with vinegar. The cheese will keep
as fresh as when first cut, aud
vinegar will in no wise impair tho
flavor of the cheese,
Where butter is preferred to oil
sft ] ad dre aslng it is added, melted,
Jrop by dropj as the oil would be.
is best me i tedi too, by setting the cup
containing it in hot water,
When basting . take . , ry shore .
a „ v
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stitch ... , the ,, side t from ana
on ____ : ou „ a
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m ^ e a , stral f‘ er sea m han
makln stllohe8 flhke . both , Slde8 t
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Cut flowers may be preserved for a
number of days if every night the
vas e containing them is set in a cool
place, while a paper is closely twisted
about the blossoms to exclude the
air.
In dining rooms and libraries, say
the upholsterers, the curtain mater¬
ials most used are plain velours with
figured borders of tapestry or the vel¬
ours. Wool tapestries and heavy
linen velours with borders worked_jn
metallic threads are also much in ie
mand for the fine trade.
*he small ,, stone , crocks , used , , by
^, J 7 */ 8 J 3 for ? wo11 folding w ^ ec ] butter ^ should freshened al
before being refilled The best way
? LV U tbem wGk ^ k boiling ’l ammonia 17asbla 8> or t0
5
h0 atel . remam ai i q ay mill au q tben qjj
the crock with sweet * and * let ft
, sand over night.
TO FUNSTON.
Thy name, oil gallant Kansan, is a terror
And a nightmare to the beseemingly poetaster.
It doth not lend itself
To the vagrant rbymster. It trippetn not
Along the bosky dells of poesy,
Chased by the eager muse.
Funston! Tis a name
To grasp at either end and swing in air
To club some boasting enemy to death!
Funston! It lias a Kansas sort of sound,
That well bents a Kansas hurricane
Begun in fun and ending with a stun
That spreads all over half a dozen counties.
'This not a thing of beauty nor a joy
To the Filipinos. It means trouble,
Thunder, lightning and woe, and sudden
death. and knock-out drops
And ground torn up,
and biood,
And whirling terrors, and black destruc¬
tion, cellar!
And no tornado
Go it, oli mighty Funston, lighting Fun¬
ston!
What though thy weight be hardly more
than one-stun?
Not size, but quality it is that counts;
It is the mind, and not the moat, that
mounts.
There's nothing in the make-up of a name,
“Funston” shall (ill the sounding trump of
fame.
Yea, beat fame's drum with loud resound¬
ing thud, shall be Jiudl
Aud evermore thy foe's name
—Chicago Tribune.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Maid—“Bachelorhood must bo an
ideal state.” Bachelor—"I suppose
so; it is notin the union.”—Judge.
“Good heavens. Willie! you have¬
n’t swallowed all the pills, have you?’’
“No, ma’am, J gave half of ’em to
the baby.”—Life.
Talkative Lady (to crusty old table
companion)—“How do you like to
eat chicken?” Crusty O. T C.—“In
silence, thank you.”
“Bobby, what did you do with your
peauut sheila ou the street ear?” “I
put them in th’ overcoat, pocket o’ that
man I was a-sittin’ by.”--Detroit Fre.j
Press.
Mistress—“Did,n’t the ladies who
called leave cards?” Bridget—“They
wanted to, ma’am, but I told the; i
you had plenty of your own, and bet¬
ter, too.”—Every Where.
“Why do you call Jimpson a confi¬
dence man?” JfBecause he’s always
taking people aside and telling them
his private affairs under pledge of sc*
ereey.”—Sau Fraucisco Examiner,
‘
a , , eL/^mg . # , ir ,
,
“ gr Solomon
.3 pa . e thc to d and spoil Ihe
Bobby butlie did
JL'Trofessor .v ..j »»«;>« Fiske »* says that as man
0 gres3e?C;mt wilMapsehte
memory.” “Humph! In time ma t
might forget his simq out the ueig i
bors never would.”—Chicago Record.
Alice—“Ob, I wish I could tell yen
how foolish Fred looked when he b. -
gan to propose to mo last night.
Myrtle—“Eeally, did he begin? It’
a wonder you gave him a chance. —
Chicago News.
One half doesn't know how the other halt
live; scarcely don lit,
Of this there is a
And were it tutor business, we d Ireeiy for¬
give Hud onU
The persistent attempts to ^
Bull—“It would ba a groat mistake
to allow women in tho Stock Ex¬
change.” Bear—“Why so?”. Bull—
“Well, just to think of us paying
from twenty to thirty thousand for a
seat, and then haying to giyn it up tg
a woman,”—Brooklyn Life,
In a hamlet on the banks of the River
Ayr, one of her Majesty’s inspectors
was examining a glass ou Sgottish his¬
tory, aud wishing to ©licit the fact of
James V,’s quarrel with hU t^ueenj
Mary of Lorraine, asked the question!
“Why was Mary Queen of Boots born
at Linlithgow?” when up starts a lit¬
tle fellow and shouts; “Because her
mitker was there.”—Tit-Bits,
Man's Feminine Phlloiopliy.
Very frequently circumstances alter
kisses.
A word to the wise is the root of all
evil.
What a second lover chiefly
is that it was not ho who hrst
his loved one to love,
If you wish to learn ihe truth
a woman, do not go to another woman.
You will learn more than tho truth.
In the presence of a man woman s
thoughts are seldom far from the
ject—man.
A woman asks a womau ques'.ionsfo
discover something. She asks a man
questions to discover the man.
True love makes all things lovable,
except perhaps tho chaperon.
Man calls woman capricious comprehend
because he is too stupid to is swayed.
the laws by which she
Woman does not call man capricious •
The inference is obvious.—Life.
IJirds Caught in Fish Net.
The other night, while Mousehole
men were pulling in their
nets in Mount’s Bay seas, they
very much surprised to find, instead
maokerel, a large number of
meshed. These winged
which are of the “Mir” species,
a little way below the surface iu search
of small fish. It is not unusual
three or four of these birds to get
entangled in the macker*l nets
a night’s drift, but on this occasion
oue boat had fifty-one,
twenty-two and most of the fleet a
j ot share.’ birds Many has say that such been a
sea never
pr§yioggly.—The Cornishmau. -
INO. 7.
a
REMAR VC ABLE JOURNEY
Ala<le from the Klondike to Seattle l»y
a llllnd Man on Foot,
Seattle Spec. New York Journal;
One of the most remarkable trips ft*
the history of Alaskan travel has just
been finished by Shubert Nirhols, a
blind man, who walked all the way
from the middle fork of the Koyokuk
river, north of the Yukon, 1,605 miles
to the coast, crossing five ranges of
mountains. He has arrived attSealMe
after an absence of several years. He
has been mining along the Y ukon
river and its tributaries and the .glare
of the sun upon the fields of ice and
snow during last spring came nearly
ending his eyesight. Each day of the
past summer found him hoping for the
return of his sight, and as late as the
first snow in the fall he was still hop¬
ing to “see his way” again. The v 'li¬
ter came on, and his eyes becoming n >’
better he determined to cross the five
ranges of mountain to the Yukon from
his home on the middle fork of the
ICoyokuk river, tiamp it out to wag
waj', and to reach Seattle fps treat- ,
rnent. The story of the trip was' given
by Mr. Nichols at follows: “My com¬
panion, W. T. Phillips, and I,, con¬
cluded to secure all the mail we could
and carry it out at SI per letter, fo as¬
sist in expense money. We had good
placer ground, but little ready cas.'.
We secured sixty-five pay letters and
about as many more ‘thanl# letters. •
We left the North American Trans¬
portation and Trading headquarters oil
the Koyokuk river at Peary trading
post, some 800 mi'.cs up the KoYaku.c
river, and struck up the south, fork or.
the Koyokuk to Jim river; tljcn up
the latter for 60 miles, when we struck
across country, going right up over
the south extension of ihe Davidsos
range of mountains and down ‘agan, vo
Fish Creek valley; then across this
level valley to Bonanza creek and up
Bonanza to its headwaters; when We
struck across Old Man Mountains, an¬
other level valley, then Old Woman ■
Mountains to Old Woman’s valley;
then on to tho valley of the Old Man
to Old Man creek. ’ Continuing
journey, we came over the
range and struck the Yukon riv»7
......
about 200 miles below the Porcupimf
river. We then came up the Yukon to
Dawson. While on the Yukon, a wtrK
took one of our dogs away from the
sled at night, A t" Dawson I-1 ~gt one
of my dogs, and this left ui with but.
four dogs, that had then traveled over
I.OOCTniites.' Mr. Fttiilips- hit.
dogs and ran ahead of tho North
American Transportation and Trad
ing Company’s mail team out, and 1
helped along. YVe came from Dawson
in 19 days’ running time to Skagway.
The trip, although it covers nearly 100
days of travel through the snow and
over the ice, was void of accident or
great inconvenience, There is nothing
remarkable about making the trip. We
were laid up three weeks, all told, by
wind and water and resting the dogs.
Dur total walk was 1,605 miles. The
-oldest day was 59 degrees below zero.
We had three weeks of an average of
!8 below, day and night-”
The artists with word and brush
that write and draw our advertise
meots will have to hire au astute copy
render to revise their productions
when we I'jinir to expert extensively
to Turkey, Tho si nr i;ml ctvseeut, for
example, were recently sbor nut by
the custom house censor tlHT® 1)6
cause that emblem is sacred to Tur
key, Some British soap with Hindi
needed illrccliops for use. in careful
Turkish, was sect buck out of the
country because “her majesty the
queen” had reeommended, or used or
in some way approved of, the soap.
There is only one majesty, It appears,
and that is the Sultan, and the men
tion of another, even on the wrapper
of a cake of soap, was a tacit insult tu
him. Even a cargo of hymn books
once fared badly because one of .he
| contained an invitation to
^ th( , rlvu -„ 0 onstnmd as ft
I j ssil)1( , ; allyinR ,. ry for revdution.
lt seGnls as if William the Sensitive
nii „ ]lt cet; pointers from his brother
potentate.
| GEORGIA RAILROAD.
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Connections.
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J —ules and Rates*
> and Freighl
i Passenger
Write to either of the undersigned.
Yon will rece've prompt reply an*
reliable information. .
JOE. W. WHITE, A. G. JACKSON
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Atlanta.
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