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H JANcTTc'S HAIR.
?y~" CHAuLE^ O. IIALPINE.
M nv i n. i ,1.., T-.
|.vii, luuseu tue biio-ju tuo-t y<ju wou, ?? *
' nette,
ILct me tangle a h-ini in your hair, my
i pat,
!For the world to rn? !: :d no daintier sight
ITh^n your brown l::iir veiling your shoulders
white.
! !As 1 tanzled a hand in your 'hair, my
j pet.
It was brown with a golden pr'.oss, Janette,
Jt was finer than xi!k of the floss, my pet,
*Twas a beautiful mist falling down your
waist,
Twas a thins to be braided, and jeweled,
". and kissed.
I 'Tw.is the lovelio--.: ii.iir in the world, my
* pet.
r~
Ms m was th? arm of a clown. Janette.
a cinou'V hricHati ;?r>H hrftwn. mv net. I
But \varmly and softly it loved to caress
lYour round, white neck and your wealth
t : of tress.
t iTour beautiful plenty of hair, my pet.
* I
lYour eyes had a swimming: glory. .Janette.
Stevealing the o'J, de.ir !t:ory, my pet.
Jlbey were gray, with lhat chastened tinge
of the sky,
5Vhen the trout lean? <iuiekest to snap the
fly1
And they match with your golden hair,
/? my pet.
TYour lips?but I have no words, Janette?
...?A frtA f tho Hirrla
wcit? ncau a? uiv ?ni?w* v*. v.?v
'i my pet,
{when the spring is voung and the roses are
L wet
|VVi th the dewdrop* ir. each red bosom .?s.t, I
And they suited your gold-brown hair,
^ my pet.
jOh, you tangled my life in your hair. Janette,
Twas a silken and go'.den snare, my pet,
put, so pentle the bondage, my soul did
^ JThe right to continue your slave evermore,
.Wita my fingers enmeshed m your hair,
^KThus ever I dream what you were, Ja^ iWith
your lips, and your eyes, and your
Hg| hair, my pet;
^Btn the darkness of desolate years I moan,
jMlAnd my tears fairbitterly over the stone
That covers your golden hair, my pet.
Iff a SKETCH. ||
Ihis price for
|g his soul. |
I By F. M. Newland. jjj|
Hil ONEY. money, money!"
gBa w-jf )( hummed the electric wires
to ]\/| O overhead.
^ "Money, money, money!"
sang the sleigh bells in
iB'' :Ao Stonhon Rnnn trnrl hoflrilr nlnnc
I he snowy pavemenc. his very footall
seemed to shout?"Good?hardrash;
Good?hard?cash!"
He gazed into the cold, night sky
tnd saw what seemed to him a great
thining, silver dollar, sailing serenely
n the heavens.
As he paused a moment before a
wtker's shop, he saw the baker's boy
n cap and apron placing a plate of
lomething that looked to him like imnense
copper pennies, brown ami
emntine. in the* window.
I Turn whichever way he would.
Itephen could see nothing but money.
iear nothing but money, think or talk
f nothing but money. His was a
aoney-cursed life. And yet it was
ot the possession of money that had
uined him, for he was a poor man.
loney had cursed him because he
>ved It, longed for it. dreamed of it
y day and night, envied those who
ossessed it in abundance and deposed
those who did not.
I "Money, money, money! shouted a
tranger standing on the street corer.
"Money to sell, money to give
way, money to throw away for the
lati who wants it! Money, money,
Stephen stopped and gazed at the
lan in sheer amazempnt and then
ounded forward, his heart beating
rildly. In his fearful haste he knocked
own women and children, nor paused
> see what hurt he had done. He
Iras not tne oniy one in uie nurrying
rowd who hastened to the side of
tie strange magician who shouted the
trange cry. But no sooner had Stehen
reached uim than the magician
miled as though he recognized him,
nd gazed into his eyes as if to read
is inmost soul.
Stephen bore this scrutiny with the
reatest impatience. Presently, a
leigh dashed by and the bells rang
I at ? a perfect avalanche of silver!
it this Stephen could restrain himelf
no longer and timidly reminded
be magician of hi< lavish offers.
"Oho!*' laughed he. "you want
loney. do you? How much do you
rant?" Stephen hesitated. Visions
f great wealth danced before his
yes. A sudden ambition for unmitcd
possessions mounted large in
is brain.
*'I want all I can gr>t," he finnlly
asped out. "I want hundreds of thouands?millions!"
II "How earnestly do you desire it?"
[sked the magician.
''More than anything else in the
forld," replied Stephen, eagerly, his
roice trembling with excitement.
The magician smiled and his voice
eas sweet as music when he spoke
gain:
"You can have your wish. You will
Ind money everywhere. It will lie
a your path as you walk along, yours
or the taking. You can begin gatherQg
it to-night and before you reach
fiome you may have every pocket
^lled?all this oa one condition."
"What is the condition?" demanded
Itephen impatiently.
"I will only ask you for a little of
our time. You must give me one
ear?a mere nothing to one so youug
nd strong."
"A year of my life?" cried Stephen,
huddering.
/'You may call it that if you like."
1 ~*3 tli/y rvi.> irioi'l 11 "hilt ftthpfS h?VP I
ItpilCU mc UiUt,iv?%%?,
willingly given much more and have
eceived less than I have promised
ou." As he spoke he produced an
ccount book which he opened, showag
Stephen page after page. Ou
ach was the form of an agreement
uly signed and sealed. Some of the
tames were familiar to him.
"Here's Judge Bribes," said the maIciaD.
'"He has signed five years
jray *b<1 receives 5fty thousand."- _
"Yes. I know him well. Ho is an
older man than I." murmured stepuen.
"Here is Bond, the broker." continued
the magician. "He has signed
away ten years and I have givcu him
a million."
Stephen wanted to hear no more,
but reached for the book with trembling
fingers. "I am young and strong."
he cried. "I have every prospect of a
long life. My father Is an old man.
My grandfather lived a hundred years.
I'll sign away one year, just one year."
He wrote his name with fingers that
shook with a wild joy mingled with a
nameless dread.
"I will hold you to your part of the
bargain." he began haughtily, looking
up. But the sentence died on his lips.
for the magician had disappeared. In
his surprise and bewilderment he was
tempted to imagine the experience of
the last hour nothing but a dream.
However, as he started he stumbled
and reaching down he found his foot
had struck a bag bursting with gold
and sliver coin.
Laughing with delight at this evidence
of the magician's sincerity he
quickly gathered up the treasure aud
hurried on. This was but the beginning
of his good luck. Again and
agian on his way home he found
money till his brain grew dizzy as he
tried to calculate the wealth of that
one night's gathering.
At last he stood on his own doorstep.
"The last night in this miserable
cottage." he said haughtily to
himself. "To-morrow a palace! The
last night of meanness and obscurity!
To-morrow I will be known and envied
as a rich man."
"The last night, indeed!" n sad but
stern voice spoke out of the darkness.
"Who are you?" demanded Stephen
proudly.
"I am the Angel of Death. You
must come with me."
"But I have signed only a year, only
a year," cried Stephen, gazing into
the darkness with horror-stricken
eyes.
"It was the only year you had to
live, though you knew it not You
lnnst nsv the nrice?a year of life for
a handful of gold."?Ram's Horn. ?
Octopus-Fishing.
The octopus is so repulsive a creature
that one would hardly think of
its being edible. Italians, however,
have a liking: for it, and with them oc?
topus fishing is a considerable industry.
In a report by a United States
Consul on the trade in Southern Italy,
there is an interesting account of the
method of capturing the eight-armed
monster.
At the end of a long bamboo pole is
hung a line baited with a piece of red
tag; and this, dangling in front of the
rocky hiding places of the octopus, is
sufficient to tempt him from his lair.
In his efforts to get near the bait the
creature is enticed toward the boat, in
which the fisherman awaits him armed
with a^rident. and at the right moment
the octopus is impaled in its
spikes.
At night a bright light is used to attract
the prey, and this in past times
would take the form of an iron cradle
full of resinous pine, which was carried
at the head of the boat. Now science
has stepped in. and the fishermen
employ an acetylene lamp, which
seems to be as attractive to the octopus
as a red rag. Unusually large
catches have been made since this
form of light was adopted, and although
its pioneers tried to keep it secret,
they did not succeed in doing so,
and now so many octopi are being
caught that there is thought to be
some danger that the coast will be
overfished. That, however, is not likely
to be the case, for the octopus
comes of a very prolific race. tr^
An Ideal Trapper.
Among Iredell's game trappers Is
Mr. W. H. Boovey, who operates along
the banks of Third Creek. Mr. Boovey
was in town Saturday and sold to
Messrs. Brawley & Henry nine mink
hides, receiving $18.90 for them, or
$2.10 each. Since the season opened
in December Mr. Boovey has worked
forty-two hides. The season for trapping
minks is during the three months
of December. January and February.
Owing to such cold weather this winter,
hides will be good until the middle
of March. Mr. Boovey uses a smooth
jawed steel trap for his business, and
says during all his trapping experi
truLtr utr unj uut twauwu uut uuu uiuiu.
to gnaw off its foot and thereby release
itself. It is not necessary to bait the
trap at all. The trap is set in a mink
path and is covered over with a shallow
coat of sand so as to deceive the
mink. Mr. Boovey scatters his traps
about and some mornings it means a
fifteen mile walk to go around to all oJ
them. He sometimes starts out in the
morning, sets traps along his route,
and by the time he locates the last one,
he is so far from home ttat he spends
the night at the ether end of the line
and returns home nest morning, bagging
the night's catch as he goes.
When a neighbor is bothered with
minks, he sends for Mr. Boovey as he
would for the thresherman in harvest
time. Mr. Boovey moves his traps to
his neighbor's place and is generally
several mink hides to the good when
he leaves.?Statesvilie (N. C.) Landmark.
Living No Longer Cheap iii Asia.
During a recent tour in Asia of nearly
sixteen months, from February,
ltHJl, to June, l!n)2, in which I visited
Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines,
Cochin China. Siam anil Laos, the
Straits Settlements, Burmah, India, Syria
and Palestine. I found everywhere
a deep interest in the changing economic
conditions. The common people
in Asia care little for politics, but the
price of* food and raiment touches
every man, woman and child at a sensitive
point.
Almost everywhere the old days of
rhpnn living ai'ii rvjcvinor .uvut Stmim.
v"vl"f " * *"C3 ^
ers, railways, telegraphs, newspapers,
labor saving machinery and the introduction
of Western ideas are slowly
but surely revolutionizing the Orient.
Shantung wheat, which formerly had
no market beyond a radius of a few.
dozen miles from the wheat field, can
now be shipped by railway and steamship
to any part of the world, and in
consequence every Chinese buyer has
to pay more for it. In like manner new
facilities for export have doubled,
trebled, and in some places quadrupled
the price of rice in China, Siam and
Japan.?Century Magazine,
j TIMBER SUNK IN RIVER BEDS. j
Forttioo AvwaitA the Inventor of & Bfctliod
to Recover It.
1 "If some scheme could be devised." j
;aid George VV. Noble, of Stillwater. at j
the Plaukinton, "by which the sunken j
i togs which fill the beds ol" rivers and ;
:-reeks iu tlie logging sections of this
country could only be recovered, iui- (
aiense fortunes would be made. Along
'.he St. Croix waters it is estimated I
'.hat logs enough are embedded iu the <
s.md of river bottoms to keep the mills
rimlpi- nresent con
it!iiimi? i-v^i - - 4 _
litions the loss is total, for no success- [
fu! method has ever beeu devised to
jfifect this saving.
I "Occasionally logs cut years a so are
forced by the washings ot' floods from
' their sand beds and driven upon the ;
j shores, where the action of sun and J
i wind dries them out sufficiently so
that they will float down stream, but j
the precentage of logs recovered is j
' small, and millions of dollars' worth |
i of property is lost beyond recovery uui
fil some enterprising genius invents a ,
' machine or process to recover the tim- I
ber.
j "At Stillwater logs occasionally come I
i to the sorting booms bearing marks in j
i use half a century ago. and when they
appear the old lumbermen grow reminiscent
of men who have long been
? nrOI.^ imnortant I
. (.WgULLCU, vui.
! operators In the pioneer logging days
of Wisconsin and Minnesota. ,
I "Xo possible estimate can be made
. of the amount of timber thus lost, but i
lumbermen estimate that the rivers
, of Wisconsin, in the value of the logs |
, buried iu their sands, have fortunes of
J millions of dollars if the logs could be i
recovered. Of the billions of feet of
: logs floated down your principal
streams year after year, a percentage |
are lost annually, finding graves in the
sand. Wisconsin has been one of the
big pine States, and your Chippewa,
Wisconsin. St. Croix and Menominee
( rivers and their tributaries contain forj
tunes in sunken timber.
"Strange as it may appear, the value
of the timber is not lessened, even
; after it has been submerged for half
: or quarter of a century. Efforts have
been occasionally made to recover
sunken logs. At otie time a company
was organized at Stillwater to dredge
streams and thus recover some of the
i timber, but the plan did not work with
any great degree of success, this
j IDGtDOQ oeiri? luuiiu iw caiicuoitt.
Some one will come along some day
with a plan, and this immensely valu|
able product, now lost, will be reI
covered."?Milwaukee Sentinel.
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A Wonderful Motor.
Details are published of a wonder}
ful new motor, iuvented by Peter
j Thornley, an English engineer. This
! invention is considered of such importance
that its development may result
j in express railway engines running at
j twice their present speed at only half
the cost and in Atlantic liners crossing
! from Liverpool to New York in three
days.
j It is almost smnU enough to be car
ried in a typewriter case. The new
I motor is capable of developing fifteen
. hundred revolutions a minute, giving
i fifteen horsepower under a boiler pres|
sure of 200 pounds to the square inch
j In even the best railway locomotive
; the steam is admitted after the piston
j has moved from five to eight inches
| along the cylinder. Mr. Thornley has
j devised a valve which will admit a
i given quantity of steam at every comj
mencement of the stroke, and so nicely
j adjusted that the expansive force of
| the steam admitted is just sufficient
! to drive the piston at the end of its
I journey. :
j By the most modest estimate the saving
in coal is twenty-five per cent.,
while the simplicity of the motor is
such that the initial cost is much
cheaper than existing types.?New
I York commercial.
ITalclng It Upon Horaelf.
I A young woman of resolute appearI
ance from one of the back townships
i presented herself at the County Clerk's
office in the town of M . "Is this
where they take out licenses for gittin'
married?" she inquired.
"Yes, ma'am," replied the clerk.
"Well, I want one."
"For yourself?"
"Course. My name's Mandy Sikes.
j His is Rufus Millsap. I'm twenty-three
1 and he's twenty-seven, lioth of us
i lives in Hick'ry Holler."
The blank was properly filled out
and handed to her.
"How much?" she asked.
j "Two dollars."
She took two silver dollars oat of a
i pocket in lier dress.
"That's what I told him it'd be." she
remarked, passing the money to the
j clerk through the little window. "It
ain't me that's payin' for this. It's
j him. He was too bashful to come and
git the license himself, and I wasn't
going to let 110 man's foolishness spile
: a weddin'."
Carefully folding th? document, she
j placed it in her pocket and took her
departure..?Youth's Companion.
The Mirror Never IlatteM.
Be happy, girls, you are prettier than
you think!
Every girl who is dissatisfled with
! herself should remember that she is
! better looking than the kindest of looking
glasses bids her believe.
A mirror cannot flatter a face that
is iu its natural state?that is. not
i "made up." Even the very best plate
j glass has a pale green tinge, which
! reflects a color a trifle less clear than
1 the original.
Hair also has always a more glossy
i sheen than the glass shows. If it is
! wavy, the glass never shows the best
of the waves, and if it is straight, the
' glass increases the straight appear
j ance. v
More important and still better to be
J remembered and carefully treasured,
i no one ever looks at the face so closely
or so critically as the owner of it
looks at the reflection in the glass.
Blemishes that are a grief to a girl
may pass quite unnoticed by her
friends.?Pittsburg Dispatch.
800,000 Worth of Cocaine.
The United States is buying 30.000
ounces of cocaine a year, at about $3
an ounce. Of this only a small proportion
is used legitimately. Some
States have forbidden its promiscuous
sale, but the laws have not been enforced.
It robs tlYe victim of his mental
faculties and destroys his moral responsibility
in briefer time and in
greater degree thaa f-ay ?ther drug.
i mm n I'll' * 1 1? -' g*
New York City.?Short coats are the
'avorites of the season for handsome
suits and promise to still further in?niid
c-/i flrnln ifA(Tim ThSo ft T .? *t Vf.intrm
.icaou l. UT; 1L VUgUU. X li IO lUUJ J1UUIVU
BLOUSE ETOtf.
>ne is peculiarly smart and includes
ttoth a novel yoke collar and wide
ileeves finished with flare cuffs and
falls of lace. The model is made of
mixed gray cheviot, with threads of
white and of blue, and is trimmed
svith white cloth and blue velvet to
;ive an exceedingly handsome as well
i?"-/>vel effect, but all suiting materials
are appropriate and trimming can
be varied again and again. Braid of
all sorts is in style and numberless
oandings are shown. The flat neck
is specially desirable and the box pleat
jffect at the back, produced by the
elongated yoke, is as becoming r.s it
Is new, inasmuch as it does away
with the broad back apt to result from
i plain blouse.
The Eton is made with fronts and
back and is fitted by means 01 suuui3er
and underarm seams. Over it is
arranged the yoke collar, which droops
aver the shoulders, and both neck and
front edges are finished with a shaped
band overlaid with pointed tabs. The
belt is full and arranged over the lowA
Late Design 1
.^wsaaeaei
er edge, closing with the coat at the
front. The sleeves are made in one
piece each, are tucked above the wrists
aud are held by the cuffs, the pointed
bands concealing the seams.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is four and one-half
yards twenty-one inches wide, three
and seven-eight yards twenty-seven
inches wide, or two and ono-eighth
yards forty-four inches wide.
The Fad For Laces.
The fad for gold lace is shown in
- ** * ? 'J? ^
many or tue trimmings, n. wiue gum.
ribbon has a band in the centre of
solid embroidery ia pastel green. The
same with violet, blue, red, etc, is
also shown. An eighteen-inch imitation
crochet lace, for yokes, or other
trimming for waists, is inset over its
surface with open medallions worked
with colored silks, showy, but beauti*
ful. Bands to match are to be had.
A. kind of Spanish lace flouncing ia
very effective, the white flounce being
'' 1 ? ? ?^1 * larfro nro r_
appuqueu uyy?iau..Y ?n,u
lands and knots of line black laco. As
a matter of fact, the white and black
are woven together.
Something: New in Apronfl.
Pretty things in the way of aprons
are to be seen in the shops. One of
them is made of wide sash ribbons in
pretty flower designs, joined by insertions
of lace, and with a lace edging
across the bottom to match. There is
a little round bib, trimmed with the
? i-~ ?
ia.ce auu wiut' nuvuu. iu jluul^u iuc
color of the flowers in the ribbon, to
fasten around the waist
Inexpensive Trimming.
A new and most inexpensive as well
as effective way of trimming undergarments,
shirt waists, sofa pillows
and children's clothing is the brier
ditching, which can be easily, accom
' /
jff> '$>/ # i ,
plished by tL-e woman who has deft
tingera. The garment should first
have' a pattern traced lightly on it
with a pencil, then tiie worker may
proceed to feather stitch with lustre '
rioss or any ot' the wash silks. 1
Feminine Waistcoats. ]
Crossed waistco.' fronts of ermine ]
represent a novelty which is winning j \
a good deal of favor at present. The I (
bodice is cut away to srhow the wnole | ,
front, the fur being confined to the ,
waistcoat alone, and it is a point to
be noted that this particular style of
garment is in the form of a complete 1
dress and not a removable coat and >
waistcoat. A dark blue velvet gown
with white spots was treated in this
fashion, the sleeves being finished
with shirred frills of batiste edged (
with Valenciennes.
Wa3hable Glares. ,
In the matter of small but important
accessories of dress, the new
washable gloves are cordially indorsed.
Mohair Shirt Waists.
Mohair makes up well in shirt
waists. This material has almost taken
the place of the flannel waist so
long a favorite.
Crepe Gowns.
Crepe gowns are considered very
smart for indoor purposes when
trimmed with deep silk fringe.
Misses' Military Coat.
All things that suggest the military
are dear to the girl's heart and certain
to find favor In her sight. This smart
little coat, designed by May Manton,
includes a novel cape, that is laid in
pleats over the shoulders, and the severe
standing collar that is characteristic
of the style. As shown it is made
of military blue cheviot, with bands of
black braid and gold buttons, and is
--* W..4. I
single breasted witn iuu sieeve?, uui
various cloaking materials are appropriate
and the cape can be omitted in
favor of shoulder straps, and the coat
>y May Manton.
j
caa be made double breasted with !
plain sleeves substituted for tlie fuil ;
ones when desirable.
The coat is made with fronts and
backs and is fitted by means of shoui""J"".!""!
on/1 nanfl?a hficlf RPfllllS.
UCI, UUUCIULUI auu v^guuv. ?
the underarm seams being left open
for a short distance at the lower edge
to provide flare. The cape Is circular
and is rendered specially graceful by
the pleats which are stitched for a'part
of their length only. The full sleeves
are made in one piece each, gathered
and held by the cuffs, but the plain
ones are made in regulation coat style.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four yards
twenty-seven inches wide, two and
seven-eighth yards forty-four inches
wide, or two and one-half yards fiftytwo
inches wide when cape is used;
misses' military coat.
three yards twenty-seveu, t;vo and
one-eighth yards forty-four, or one
and three-quarter yards flfty-tm)
inches .wide when cape is omitted.
'
SMALLPOX KILLS INDIANS
tribes of Natives Have Spread ths
Scourge Bioadcast.
Sixty Deaths Reported in the I*le De
Cross District Froin the Di Hease??
ICelief Expedition Sent Out
At
Winnipeg, Manitoba. ? It has been
known all winter that the Indians in &
the far North have been suffering from [
smallpox, but it was not considered seAi
rious until a message arrived at the
Indian Department stating that during
the last few weeks more than sixty
deaths have occurred in the Isle de
Cross district from smallpox, aided by
starvation. w
The Catholic mission at that point,
under the Rev. Father Simonin. has
been making heroic efforts to stop the g,
spread of the disease, but has met with
but poor succAs. The mission is usually
well stocked with medicines and
provisions, but owing to the severe .
winter had run short at the time the
disease broke out. I>
The disease has extended on all sides
of the settlement, owing to the flight H
of the natives, who spread the smallpox
everywhere they went. Dr. Mc- A.
Culloch will remain in the district uutil
the smallpox is entirely wiped out. and
he has been given orders to vaccinate
every person he meets while away. A
Antoine Marcelin, a well-known trader.
has arrived in Winnipeg, and also A
gives information of the seriousness of
the outbreak. "This is a revival of T
an outbreak they had several years ^
ago, only this is on a far larger scale,
and has nearly wiped out the entire
settlement." he said. "These people
are a branch of the Crees and call
themselves Chipewyans, but in French
we call the tribe Montaenais. The set
tlement was getting very short of food
when I was there a few months ago. b
Owing to the severe winter the Indians ?
have been unable to get'-oat and attend V
to their hunting and fishing, and I can "
quite believe the reports that they are ?
starving. Symptoms of the smallpox c
have never left the district since the b
outbreak there several years ago." ji
Commissioner Laird, of the Indian ?
Department, announced that an expe- ^
dition provided with medical comforts *
and guarded by a detachment of North. ?
west mounted police has left for the y
scene. Dr. McCulloch, of Battleford, c
accompanies the expedition, and soon y
after he started a message was re- *
ppivprt from him statine that every one I
on the way north is talking of the dis?
ease, which is far worse than was at '
first supposed. He considered-that Jhig
stock of vaccine was not nearly, sufficient,
so sent for more.
DIED FROM POISONED CANDY.
Iowa's Governpr Refuses Extradition
of Woman Suspected of Crime.
Pierre, S. D.?After a week of intense
suffering Miss Rena Nelson,-the victim
of poisoned candy sent from Boone,
Iowa, is dead at her home, six miles
from Pierre. From the first the at?
tending physician held out no hope.
Des Moines, Iowa. ? Mrs. Sherman
Dye. of Boone, accused of sending
nnisnn^d randv to Miss Rena Nelson,
at Pierre, S. D., of whom she was said j
to be jealous, cannot be extradited for
the crime. Neither can she be tried
for murder in Iowa.
Governor Cnmmins say: "The ruling
I am compelled to make upon this application
exhibits a grave defect in the
law.
"The holdings in this opinion are i
clear and explicit to the effect that to ,
warrant extradition the persons accused
must have been personally in the
State where the crime was committed,
and must have fled therefrom after the
commission of the crime. [
"Mrs. Dye was not in South Dakota, i
and therefore could not have fled from )
that State."
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SENATE INCREASE'POR' FORTS. 1
Bill Reported With Appropriations of
$500,000 More Than Provided.
Washington, D. C?Senator Perkins,
from the Committee on Appropriations,
reported the Fortification bill with a
net increase of $506,000 over the bill as
passed by the House, and making the
total of the bill as reported to the Senate
$7,637,192.
The principal increases are: For
purchase of submarine torpedo boat
for use of school of submarine defenses,
$250,000; for ammunition for
machine and automatic guns. $100,000;
for ammunition for seacoast cannon,
$150,000; for construction of seacoast
batteries in the insular possessions,
$200,000.
The appropriation in the House of
$200,000 for sites and defenses of the
Hnwaiifln Islands is eliminated.
BULLET MISSES STATE SENATOR
Leader of Bate's Canvass in Tennessee
Has a Narrow Escape.
Knoxville, Tenn.?An attempt to assassinate
State Senator W. L. Ledger- ,
wood, leader of the advocates of United t
States Senator William B. Bate for re- t
election in this county, was made as he *
was coming to this city on the dummy c
train from his suburban home.
The dummy was crossing Anderson c
street, in the northern part of the city, v
when a bullet was fired from the out- i
side and crashed through the window v
where Senator Ledgerwood was sitting, I
within a few inches of his head. His '
hat and clothing were showered with ?
bits of glass. There were only two
? ** ?I? 4-Krv /iaaaH an/1 flmv
OUUBr [Jiisseugers in cut- tumu, ?uu
were seated in the opposite end of the
car.
Mining Expert Arrested.
The Hon. Martin Buckley, former ]
member of the Montana Legislature, <
.was arrested at Butte on a charge of <
'criminal libel preferred against him by 1
the Hon. Marcus L. Hewitt, general 1
(manager of the Cataract Copper Min- j
5ng Company.
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Berlin Eanker a Suicide.
Hugo Brendel, a partner in the bank- |
ing firm of Brendel & Co.. at Bremen, .
Germany, which suspended a few days j
ago, committed suicide.
Sporting Brevities.The
St. Louis Nationals have picked 1
Houston, Texas, for their training ]
.ground. j
Jim Jeffries is training industriously s
in New York in anticipation of a battle ?
with Jack Munroe.
"Young Griffo" wants to go to Aus- j
tralia, and friends of the once great .j
boxer may raise a purse to send him <
back to the Antipodes.
President Tebeau. of the Louisville
Club, has announced that he will carry .
ouly sixteen men this season. Tweuty- ^
Ave are under contract
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Tlie Lovo of Go4. !
; first I prayed far light;, could I but see
the way, i
)w gladly would I walk to everlasting
asked the world's deep law before my.
eyes to ope,
id let me see my prayer fulfilled, and ' . 3
realize my hope.
But God was kinder than my prayer, jj
And darkness veiled me everywhere. I
aa next I asKea ior etreiiguu, mat, *
might tread the road
rith firm, unfaltering pace to heaven'?
serene abode; #
iat I might never know a faltering, failing
heart, # .
it manfully go on and reach the highest
part. ^
But God was hinder than my prayer, i
And weakness checked me everywhere. | *
nd then I asked for faith; could I bat
trust my God,
d live in heavenly peace, though foe?
were .aIt<abroad.
'is light thus shining round, no faltering
should I know;
nd faith in heaven above would make A ~/i,
heaven below. 1
But God was kinder than my prayer, ?
And doubts beset me everywhere. j
nd now I pray for love, deep love to God
and man?
. love that will not fail, however dark
His plan;
hat sees all life in Him, rejoicing in Hi*
power,
.nd faithful, though the darkest clouds of
gloom and doubt may lower.
And uod is Kinder tnan my prayer, , ?
Love fills and blesses everywhere. 7
?Ednah D. Cheney, in Christian Work*
Criticism and Work.
It is both natural and easy to criticise,
ut as George Eliot used to say: "It is
isier to criticise'.than to be correct.". The
indency to? coti&pe is always strong with1
ns, but never is it stronger than in the
ears when our eyes are keen and fresh,
ays Wellspring. As time goes on we beome
accustomed to stains and blotches, to
lemishes and blunders, and they do not
ir upon us as they do when yet unspoiled v
r calloused; we measure all things by the
igh ideals which God plants in hearts
raich are young. It is not wise for young
eople to suppress entirely their critical
acuities or to smother the hot indignation
vhich they feel in the presence of suffering
>r wrong. The world is never so fine aa
oung folks expect it to be, and the church
tever turns out to be so good as young
>eople first dream that it is. The disap ointments
of the disillusioning years, the
mperfections of men, the defectti of mati
utions, .?aa tne out-or-jointness or tilings
a general sometimes drive the critic from
tne mood to another until he becomes
)oth sour and' skeptical, and takes his
)lace in the seat of the scornful. A man _ ..p.
vho sits down in; his scorn is known as a
:ynic?about the' most useless and moat
xitiable of all the descendants of Adam. ' s
Do not allow yourselves to become blind
;o defects, or to be satisfied with things
is they are. Alas for the man or woman
who submits so completely to the world
Iaaab <-hA /loaiM 4-a molrn l1- VtaffAi*!
l/Uats liU iuoca bUC uc^iiu w uiua^ iv uvwek *
[n the words of a wise Scotchman: "The
irst open look of young eyes on the condi*
tion of the world is one of the principal
regenerative forces of humanity. Keep
pour keen eyes and your exacting con*
science, but be careful to work as well as
A critic who degenerates into a chronvo /
Fault finder is a nuisance aud a curse,
Criticism is never sane unless accompanied
by honest work. The old I^atin poet
Lucretius spoke truly when ho said: "It if
x pleasant thing to stand upon the shore
find see ships tossed upon the sea, to stand
in the window of a castle and watch a bat*
tie on the plain below." It may be plea*- ant,
but it is base to hold one's self aloof
from the Christian church, criticising ita
blunders, but doing nothing to settle it#
problems or .lighten its burdens. . . /
? J
Oar Bellcion. J
% iris
A reader of the Old Testament moat be
impressed, if he be a thoughtful student
of what he reads, with the fascination
which novelty in religion always possesses,
jays the Chicago Interior. It is difficult
for us to conceive what charm the cults ol
Egypt and Assyria possessed, b?it thft
faithful in Israel had. continually to lift up
their voices agaiostjyie priests of Apis, tha
{jropirets of Bs^l, ajnd ev*n tne votarlST&I
the still- grosser tqrms of idolatry practiced
by the Canaanit^s. The same spiritual
phenomenon exhibited itself at Rome,
tvhere the worship of the Egyptian Isis at
one time threatened to replace that o|
Jove, and later, the mysteries of Mithra,
From Persia, drew after them practically
cue WDOlt? paujuiau uieuus. xw uia&co au vuv
difference in the-world whether our rel*
rion is a home or a habit, a roof tree that
oas sheltered us or a costume that has
merely pleased our fancy. We resent'
change in what is dear to us as much '
we hate aamene^ in what is simply a con- .
mention. A religion which is merely for*
anal, external, becomes as tiresome as an
jut-of-date garment, but for a religion v '
which goes down by its roots into the heart
jf life, men will eo to the stake. A new
Faith, or an old'iaith, revamped, will oft*
times spread like wildfire, just as a new
:ut of a gown will, and for the same reason:
because we possessed the former, but
it never possessed us. But a religion
which enters into all our ways, continuing
>ur aims, sanctifying our affections anq
iominating imagination itself, is ours till
leath. No strange god can be set up in the
;emple which the Shekinah of His presence
:ompletely "fills" with its glory.
The Crime of Complacency. . *
No man has a right to be satisfied witb
vhat he has done. A famous artist wai
iflce found by a friend gloomily contemdating
his last painting. "I see nothing
vronz with it," said the friend. "Neithel
lo I. replied the artist. "I'm satisfied,
ind?I shall never paint another great pic*
ure." The same truth was in the mmd
if a grand old veteran in Christ's causa,
vho said, when congratulated on the manfold
achievement of his life: "It is not
vhat I've done that I think of, but what
,'ve left undone." As .Robert Browning
vTote:
'Life has no place for satisfaction in well*
doing.
On the earth the broken arcs; only ut
heaven a perfect round." ,
Finding: the Gold.
How fond we are of thinking about what
re have not, instead of about what we have!
[t has b^en well said that "some people's
:ast-ou napmneas, uue tueir ctui-uu
:lothea, woufd make some other people
rery happy." The cheeriest lives are not
:hose that have the most, but those that
appreciate the most. Every one of us bu
i gold mine of unworked joy close at hand.
But gold needs searching for?are you findng
yours??Sunday-School Times.
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Poverty.
To many a test of character ? lodged in.
poverty. ? Rev. Dr. Adams, MethoaVst,
rooklyn, N. Y.
A Useless liurdea.
It has been well said that no man ever
iank under the burden of the day. It u
,vhen to-morrow's burden is adde* to the
burden of to-day that the weight is more
:han a man can bear. Never load yourselves
so, my friends. If you find yourselves
so loaded, at least remember thi*:|
t is your doings, not God's. He begs you
:o leave the future to Him and mind the
aresent. What more or what else could
fte do to take the burden off you?-*
Jeorge MacDonald. ,/
Forsctfulness of God.
Forgetfuluesa of God is the path that
eads to manifold evila.?United Pre*by:erian.
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