THE COMPASS. i that os * J>ota. Th. n“eTur.« tmm!. with her tool of O'er |wtbl>«a neu from port to port will

To guide the ladea soul to port* of r^ hod, Uke eoapaae, point It to the »ky? —The Junior Munaer. rmmm.1 » — J \ bt htbol roann. ^ Perhap* U would never have happened bad a comrade given him a word of encouragement. But the men were too Intent on the grim work before them. so. In the hall of lead, when Private Cory dropped to the ground. It was general))' understood that a bullet had knocked him over. Such, however, was not the case, as the ambulance -corps following In the rear soon discovered. He had merely fainted from fright. The doctor turned over the shivering bit of humanity to look for the wound, found none, and smiled. Cases of this kind were not unknown to him. “Poor fellow." he murmured, "let him remain with the rest" “No. he Is not hurt at all,” he said to one of his assistants. “His wound will come afterwards when he recovers from that faint, and God help him then. There Is no bullet wound that .will give him the agony that Is before him." "Shall I throw a buckst of water over him. slrr’ asked .a man with a blood stained bandage round his head, but sufficient of his face left uncov-

oomrade. “No. you must not disturb him." was the curt answer, and he turned to'give his attention to the burdens which the stretchers were nbw quickly depositing In the improvised hospital “Poor lad," he mused, as he bent over his work. "1 must^glve him a word of encouragement whin he comes

staggered to his feet, the kindly doctor .was too busy to notice Mm. -He looked wonderingly round the tent Then the remembrance of what he had done seemed to rise up and strike him full In the face. He -gapk down with a choking sob. He clutched the earth with bis hands, as men do when struck down In battle with a mortal wound. It was a burning hot day—the wounded _jpere edlfering terribly from the Intense heat—but he shivered with cold. Outside the shells were screaming, while now and again came the subdued but harsh growl of the smaller ft seemed as if a thousand a ting ir Ms i voice joined In the wild

•They seem to have got range of us For a fsw seconds there was sllsncs as the men realized their danger. The angry,growl of me quick fires was every now and then punctured by the long, deep mouthed baying of «be Boers' Long Tom. •They are aiming at us," shou'ed a man, running Into tbs tent with his

in; the air filled with ■

smell, and the tent lit

with a tom

three or four men sprang forward and

with a tongue of flame. In an Instant

menu

canvas and a shell dropped right Into the middle of the tent. The wounded ducked under their

tor, wjth another, rushed forward; but Private Cory was before them. "Not you. doctor." he shouted, as he seized the bomb. "Quick, man. Into the bucket with It." said the doctor. "No. there’s no water. Merciful powers!" But Cory tad dashed through tbs opening, and was running Use a hare. They were all dumfounded for a moment. Then a cheer broke from them whea they realized what he was doing —a cheer In which dylng'men Joined. Throw It away! Now! Throw It!" yelled the doctor after hlml SUU he ran. The music of what ha knew was their applause rang In hla ears. Nothing had ever sounded so sweet to Mm as this. He smiled. It reminded him faintly of hla achievement* in the football field when tbs crowd roared their approval The ball he carried now was heavier, but the

voices were shouting at him and reproaching him for his cowardice. Then

"You bloomin' cur. CaU yourself It was the stern sergeant of his company who had been brought In wounded in three places before he had given

- up. HU face was gray with the pain

he was enduring, but he must needs •nt to Ms disgust at such pusl-

Ianlmlty.*A o

give vent

nHy.*J

it his bloodless Ups.

contemptuous smile pUycd

“I call It g

• money under false

1 and fCuffod

loaey TcJu'rc clothed

with the best o' everything the' try can send out. Includi^ a briar pipe pahl” and he broke off. X "1 couldn't hev believed It o‘ any mania the whole

bloomin' company.

lend out. Includi*’ a cy. 'and then yW id he broke off. V

o' any man Is any.” ' /

because the ptf n of

J becaine_too.'great, and he he piece of Civendlsh he 1

had but

hard the

In bis mouth to stifle a groan,

other men took up the cue.

•No* agony of the battlefield* could equal what Private Cory was now enduring. He quivered as If acted upon by some powerful electric current, but he made no answer to their taunts, and continued to lie with Ms face turned to the ground. He tried to reconstruct the wreck of Ms manhood, but his brain was still In a whirl

and those shrieking shells o

a a miserable c<

fpod. and Uj* savory odor can*sd a craving hunger to take poeseeslon of —A pannikin full was being pasted from which men took a drink, their ex-

* looking on with res. Cory raised hi* i -turn had come, but

to him. and missis Uke a child hugging a doll He felt Inclined to kiss It If he lived he would be a man and a comrade again. If not—but he ran on. Some one had wisely said that it requires often bnt the turn of a straw to make a coward a hero, or a hero a coward. Cory was a man again. Tbs paralysis of panic toil had seized hla a few hours ago and had frozen his heart existed now only as a hideou* dream. Another - 10 yards—hq, was quite 50 from the tent. He beard them urging him to throw K. A few mors yards, then with a tremendous effort he hurled it from Mm. Instantly there was an explosion, and Cory fell on hla face. "Poor chap. He Is done for, I doubt," said the docto'r, as several raced forward, followed by a number of wounded, who limped In pain. They knelt by the poor shattered body- The sergeant, bis old tormentor, regardless of his own wounds, had besa among the first w.uo'nuhed to Ms assistance. 1 Cory raised the only hand left him, which the sergeant clasped, murmuring something about forgiveness. A smile zultatlon played about bis face for oment. then the film of death gathered over his eyes. He tried to speak, but no words came In. obedience to the moving of his Ups, for his soul had taken its flight to that 'land where brave spirits are at rest—The World'* Events.

AN ASTONISHING LAND. la Caalamala SI Will Bur M abd Railroads Hava Mahogany Tlaa. An American railroad man landing ih Gautomata (Port Barios) encounters urprisea, the first one of conbeing. pextiaps, the answer of the ticket agent to Ms Inqul

•et to the railroad terminus—140 —is $14. .or 10 cents a mile. Bell tennlned, however, to comply wivu iblo requirements, you hand out ^ American money, and O" •™‘- your chaiige. receive (he surprise, as the agent bands bai $10 United States note and $16 (n temala money beside* Ypu noV learn that one American dollar will buy $G in Guatemala. . < You find the passenger train a very good one. Everything Is In excellent condition and the engine is one. The train la equipped with air brake*. The track is very poor. The rails are heavy.for a road, but the track is

Una The ties are

and ebony, bnt even ebony lasts only about two yean. The train runs at 10 miles kn hour and makes

The' road h

» box

pect H. He might have known. "Give Cory aom* of that soup. Hold

up." '

At that moment the doctor came up. "My lad." he said not unkindly, -you may make a soldier yet Drink this," sad he banded him the tin vest el ' Tie Is'the broth of a boy." shouted a man. and this poor Joke was greeted with laughter, even by those who --.know that they had but a few boars to Cory sat up. The soup seemed to put Ufs into him. and se ceased to shiver. He was barely out of htoteeas bat hla (see In Its arty grayaaas looked ■ore Uke tkat of n man who kad •Mart Up prime. Trtlhg a hit hatter aowr begaa tar M m mm m ha to'

10 of which are-

cars and 20 Cats. , locomotive engineers get $8 a day for a run of 80 miles; conductor* $7 a day, wlth.no overtime: brakeoien $75 a month and negro firemen the same, its get from $100 to $250 a month. l of them receiving about $200. The ators are all natives. The chief steber get# $300. which be It r*ibered U equivalent tt> only $56 ol trienn money. An American cannot live here for bms than $150 n

month. I find that the other t ir. this country P*r'gbout the this one. except that on one engine wen mt $10* day. Any railroad man in the UnH«l States w ho has even the poorest kind,of a poaitioa on a

T&Z'

THE FEMALE WORKERS. Statistic* In Relation to tht Many Wo. •nan In Ibo llapnrttnonu. "Nearly every c.iy is more or less famous foe one or more types of It* women," said a Washington globe r to a star man, "and the capital not be excluded from the list

ores „ _ 11. _ i with gray 1

a age. They are mostly young girls. In the departments probably 85 percent of the female employes are past; middle Ufe, and 26 percent are over 50 year* of age. Ttiere are hundreds of women In the depsrtits over 70 years of age, earning $900 to $1400 and $1600 a year. In no other field of labor are positions paying such very high salaries opened to be filled by women of 70, grand-

mothers, In fact

"According to some late figures compiled by the United States civil service commission some extremely Inter•sting analyses, comparisons and deduction* may be drawn. “Of these 8000 salaried queens nearly one in every eight receives $1000 n year, and over, or to %e exact 903 diRW salaries ranging from $1000 to $1800 a year, three ladles sailing around the top notch of salaries paid by the government for clerk hire, getting $1800 a year. In no other employment for women on a salary are $19.21 to $34.61 a week paid to one out of eight of the wage earners. Of this special class 300 receive $1000 a year. 450 receive $1200, 100 receive $1400. and 50 receive $1600 per In the bureau of engraving and printing, there are 1260 female printers' assistants, who receive $1.25 a day, who are not included In the above estimate. In the census there are over 1500 women, draw $14.61 a week, or and the aggregate total of our rises, therefore, to considerably over 8000 who earn over $2 a day. or more than a large proportion of

in si

suits. NSiursuy, ui comfortable as they ride to work every morning In the O"-" car* X “During the pastTi

means of the competitive examinations of the civil service alone. In the clvU service there are no leas than 57 different examinations which are open to women. One-third of the entire force of the government In Washington Is iposed of woman, and they are boappolnted through the classified service channels at a proportion of about one-sixth to the total number of all clerks .appointed by this means. In the unclassified service this proportion, I.should estimate at not lees than rcent and perhaps nearer 40 peras In the rural mall delivery servfcse, for instance, the percentage Is not far from 80 peresnt If not aoove ist figure "The percentage of woman appolntlenta tbrougn the classified service vaes In thb different year*, as It does in the unclassified positions. For Inflrst the highest percentage was In 1898. when it was 13 percent of the total. In the temporary positions it wss highest during the Spanish war and immediately thereaf-

ter.”

Th* PrealdrnU of tb* L'nllcJ Kt*tt>. ha* had 1G president^ and

, most of or $75 a

t nine. Th* e a occupied by noi

l This Is based on the supp Rooeovelt will fill out his

present term.

Only two of the southern states have furnished president*—Virginia lessee. Of the northern pi dents, three have come .from the New England-state# and six from the die states and seven from what is

ailed the middle west lo president has ever been elected rnThe territory west of the Mississippi river and only two men havs been nominated by. the great political parties from that territory—Fremont from ■Missouri by the Republicans In 1856., and Bryan of Nebraska by the. Democrats ip 1896 and 1*90. / Divided politically, nine Democra^.

four

two Federalist*.

Whigs andjrfght

dentlai office. In the ahAve 1 do not Include Washtogtflk' .the first president It 1* unjust to assign the first snd only realW-partlsan president of the countrf to any political party.— Oahrestpa Dally News. ^ Ho LI*. After JUC jfhey were telling fish stories, snd at Mist the tall, lank man on the cracker barrel said; ‘I went down to the river this ■ng. and although the river was high -•--ist to a flood I took a 10-foot top there.” exclaimed the fat with the corpcob pipe. Tell us you took an 8-pouad trout and I’ll *11 Idly by. But>40-foot pike," never. A nia* died for lea* than that." took, a 10-foot pike pole." aal the unruffled, tall, tank man on the ter barrel, “aad to less than fir. rtea I htoked out a 15-foot fcasa—“ "Seo here! Be®hare!?yelled the man who pwart tha grererr- -You’ll hare lo go ’way from here to ftniwh that lie.

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THE HISTORY Cape May County The Aboriginal Times. LEWIS TOWNSEND STEVENS. dh*pter. CONTENTS: i. —The lodiaas and the Dutch Explorers. а. —Pioneer* and Whaling. j. —The Settler* and Their New Home*. 4. —Life Barly in the Eighteenth Century. 5. —Development of Religious Denominaб. —Maritime Tendencies and Cattle Own-

ing.

j.—Ancient Loans and Taxes.

4.—The Religions Controversies. 11.—Aaron Learning and 111* Time*.

U—John Hatton, thc:Tory. 13.—Preparation* for War. it-Tbe Revolution Btgins.

«l.—The Decade Before the RebeUiet r*.—Opening of the Civil War. a^ssBfig&aa!^ S-SSa-rrar 31.—The Boroogh*. Appendix A—Vembrr* of tl B-Board of Fret

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