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THE THREE GREAT CREDITORS.
Came a ghost athwart rr.r dreams:
"Pay me what tiici owest!
Slow ait tlion ! pay. nteseems.
Debtor, whiihtr tr<>t-st"'"
*"Who art thou''" I rried in fear.
"What i.s it I owe thee'"
"I'm the Cast.'" eaine answer eleai.
"Well thai thou shouldcst know me."
Scare '.he fast had spoken so.
When another hailed me:
''Debtor, debtor, dost thou know
^ ^ How long thou hast tailed me?"
"What is it 1 owe thee?"
"I'm the I'lesont, low and high.
Surely all should know me.**
Came a third across my xvav,
I'ast and Present waited:
*'Debtor. mind the reckoning day
Else tr. ill thou rt lated."
4:Who art thou?" my heart beat last.
"What is it 1 owe thee?"
**1 am neither Inst nor last?
Future I ?do?t know me?"
t ?Eredeiuk Allison Tapper.
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Swords of
Lose,_
By CATULLE MENDES
J.
ONCE upon a time a very
crviol fairy, pretty as the
-v Howers. 'jut wicked as
4 the serpents who hide in
the urass ready to spring
upon you, resolved to
avenge herself upon all the people of a
great country. Where was this country
situated? In tbe mountain or in
. the plain, at the shore of a river or by
the sea? This the story docs not tell.
'Perhaps it was near the kingdom
.where the dressmakers were very
tdcillful in adorning the robes of the
princesses with moons and with stars.
And what was the offense from which
the fairy had suffered? With regard
to this also the story is silent. Per^
faaps they had omitted to offer up
prayers to her at the baptism of the
Icing's daughter. However this might
4>e. it is certain enough that the fairy
was in a gr^at rage.
She asKed herself at first whether
fihe should"'devastate the country by
sending out the thousands of spirits
that served lier to set fire to all the
palaces and all (he cottagers, or whfeth.
?r she should cause all the lilacs and
all the roces to fade, or whether she
should turn all the young girls into
ugly old women. She could have let
loose all the four winds upon the
streets, and laid low the houses and
trees. At her command fire-spitting
mountains would have buried the entire
laud with burning lava, and the
sun would have turned from its path
6o as not to sliine upon the accursed
city. But sue uui sun worse. i>iKe
a thief, who leisurely chooses the most
precious jewels in a rase, she removed
from the memory of men aud women
the three divine words:
. "I Jcve you!"
W And haying brought this affliction,
she removed herself-with a light smiie
on her lips that would have been more
hideous than the church of th6 devil
if she had not had the most beautiful
rosy lips in ail creation.
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At first the men and women only
. half perceived the wrong that was
^ done ihein. It seemed to them that
they lacked something, but they did
not kuow what. The sweethearts that
met iu the evening in the eglantine
lonae f lift moiuiiml i>nur\!oc trhn folbail
lau^o, niai r n u vwujMtJ ?^v iuiav/u
confidingly to each olher behind closed
. windows and drawn curtains, suddenly
interrupted themselves and looked at
eacli other or embraced; ihey felt that
they wanted to pronounce a certain
customary phrase, but they did not
even have an idea of what that phrase
fwas. They were astonished, uneasy,
for they did not ask each other any
questions, fcr thej did not know what
question to ask, so complete was their
I. forget fulness* of the precious word.
But they did not suffer Tery much
as yet, for tliey had the consolation of
possessing so many other words that
tfcey could whisper to each other, and
of so many caresses.
Alas! .'t was not long before they
.were seized with a profound melancholy.
It was in vain that they
: adored each other, thai they called each
! other by the tenderest names, and
J talked the sweetest language. It was
not enough to declare that all the
fbliss lay in tlieir kisses; to swear that
they were ready to die, he for her and
she for him; or call each other, "My
soul! my tin me! my dream!" They inBtinctively
felt the need of saying and
bearing another word, more exquisitt
ithan all other words, and with tne
.bitter memory of the ecstasy that wo*
contained this word- cane the an
h gujsu 01 never ueing auie to uuer or
9 to hear it any ruore.
j?| Quarrels followed in the wake of
this distress. Judging his lmppiuess
incomplete on account of the avowal
that was henceforth denied to the
most ardent lips, the lover demanded
L from her anu she from him just the
.thing which neither th:> cue nor the
other couJd give, without either know
ing what or being ahle to name it.
V They accused eacii other of coldness,
a of perfidy, not believing in tlie tenderI
ness which was not expressed as they
1 desired.
I Thus Wie sweethearts soon ceased to
| iiave their rendezvous in the lanes
jgf (where the eglantines grew, and even
.'.if' wiiiilnwe worn flflcitrf tlio
r conjugal chambers hoanl onl.v dry con- '
versatiou in easy chairs that were
never brought near each other. Can
there-be joy without love? If the
country which had Incurred the hatred
of^tlie fairy had been ruined by war,
or devastated l?y pestilence, it could
uot have been as desolate, as mournful,
as forlorn, as it had become on
account ol the three forgotten words,
ill.
The>e lived in this country a poet
Whose plight was even more pitifui
than that ot' the rest. It was not because,
having a beautiful sweetheart,
ije was in despair for uot being able
4o say and to hear the stolen word.
f
He had no sweetheart, for lie was loo
much in love with the muse. But it
was because he was unable to finish
a poem which he had begun Hie day
before the wicked fairy had accomplished
her vengeance. And why?
Because it just happened that the
poem was to vind up with "I love
you!" and it was impossible to end
it in any oilier way.
The poet struck his brow, took his
head between his hands, and asked
himself: "Have I gone mad?" He was
certaii.. however, lhat he had found
the words that were to precede the
last point of exclamation before he
had commenced t? write the stanza.
The proof that he hn1 found these
words was that the rhyire with which
they were to go. and which was already
written, waited for them?nay.
called aloud for them, and did not want
any ofhers, like lips that wait for sister
lips to kiss them. And this indispensable,
fatal phrase he had for
gotten; hp did not even rjcall tnat ue
had ever known it! Surely there was
some mystery in this, mused the poet
unceasingly, with ? bitter melancholy
?Oh. the pang of interrupted poems!
?sitting at the edge of the forest
no;Tr the limpid fountains where the
fairies have the habit of dancing of an
evening in the light of the stars.
IV.
Now as he sat once musing under
the boughs of a tree, the wicked, thieving
fairy saw him and loved him.
One is not a fairy for nothing, and a
fairy does not stand on ceremony.
Swifter than a butterfly kisses a rose
she put her lips upon his lips, aud the
poet, greatly occupied though he was
with his ode, could not help but feci
the heavenlinass of her career. Blue
aud rose diamond grottoes opened up
in the depths of the earth, gardens of
lilies .spread out there, luminous as
the stars; thither th3 poet and the
fairy were drawn in a chariot of gold
in their flight; and ,for a very long
time they loved each other, forgetful of
all but their kisses and smiles.
Gnomes dressed in violet satip. elves
nttired in a misty haze, performed
dances before them that fell in rhythm
with the mnsic of unseen orchestras,
while fitting hands (hat had no ai'ms
brought them ruby baskets of snow
white fruit, perfumed like a white
rose and like a virgin bosom. Or. to
please the fairy more, the poet recited,
while the cords of a theorbo, the most
beautiful verse? his fancy could conceive.
Fairy that she was, she had never
known joy comparable to this of being
snug to by a Deautifui young man
wno iuvented new songs every day,
and when he grew'silent and she felt
the breath of his mouth very near her,
passing through her hair, she melted
away with tenderness.
Their happiness seemed to be without
end. Days passed by, many,
many, days, but nothing occurred to
disturb their joy. Nevertheless, she
had moments of gloom, when she
would sit musing, with her cheek on
her hand and her hair falling down in
streams to her hips.
."O queen!" he cried, :'what is it
that makes you sad. and what more
can you desire, seeing that we are so
happy in the midst of all our pleasures,
you who are all powerful, you
who are so beautiful?" She did not
answer at first, but when he insisted
she sighed and said: "Alas! one always
ends by suffering the evil that
one has inflicted on others. Alas! I am
sad because you have never told me;
'I love you!' "
He did not pronounce the words,
bat he uttered a cry of joy at having
t'ouud again the eud of his poem. In:
vain the fairy attempted to retain'
Iwui in the blue aud rose-diamond grot-]
toes, in the gardens of lilies that were;
as luminous as the stars. He returned!
to earth, completed, wrote and pub-f
lished his ode, iu which the men and
women of the afflicted country found
again the divine words that they had
lost.
Now there were rendezvouses again
in the lanes, and warm, loving cont'ni.Pft^Ane
of fho nAniimnl u'indnxi'S 1
) VI CU HUilO ?W lliv II *uv*v >. ? ,
It is because of poetry that the
kisses are sweet, and lovers say nothing
tliat tlie poets have not sung.
Caste nnd tlie Army.
At Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, sis
non-commissioned officers have been
reduced to the raiiks for running what
is technically known as "a bind pig."
or "unlawful canteen. When the men
grumbled that they were doing no
more than the commissioned officers
did, Colonel Whitehall, it seems, disclosed
with some emphasis that what
was meet for officers in the post clubhouse
was not necessarily proper for
privates in quarters. The papers say
that he said: "To put the private on
the same footing as the commissioned
officer would be ruinous to discipline.
We must have* cacte in the army just
as there is caste in outside society.We
have the same class distinctions.,
and without them we could have no
discipline."
Colonel Whitehall's sentiments are
sound enough, but if he was quoted ac
curately, lie was not fortunate in his i
method of expressing them. Military
law gives officers privileges which privates
do not share. It creates an artificial
caste for military purposes,
though whether it formally gives officers
larger liquor privileges than it
gives to privates is arguable. But in
outside society American law recognizes
no caste and no class distinctions.
?Harper's Weekly.
Coif at Sea.
Few of the older sports are now indulged
iu at sea. The exceptions are
mioit nitcliiri?,' and shuffleboard. Sea
golf is fast driving shudleboard from
(he list, and athletes at sea view the
suggestioa of ring pitching with about
as much contempt as old-time poker
players accord the idea of playing
oassino. (.lolf at sea is more or less
011 the shulllebonrd order, except that
flu* ",i? K 5 (nrfli* ? twl fha nncfimd ninro
Ulv J1U IVl lO UiW v
exciting.
Nee<l ef K<Ineat ion.
Dr. M. V. O'Shea, of Wisconsin University:
created :i sensation by saying
iu an address to the County Teachers'
Institute at Seattle, the other day:
"There ought to he just as many men
as women in the schools. How much
more would the children be benefited
did they come in contact more with,
strong, vigorous men? I think this is
the crying need of education to-day.
The profession is too much monopolized
by women.1'
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"household j
Matters!
To Clean Painted Wnlln.
Put live tablespoons of saiaratus In 1
a pail of warm water aud wash with a |
soft cloth; rinse with another pail of j
clear water and the walls will look as
if just painted.
To Keep Bain.
To prevent ham from moulding after
It has been cut, rub it with dry corn
1 meal. When wanted, simply vud on
[ the meal and the ham will be as
| fresh as when first out.
'For Cleaning Wlndoirf.
Take one cup of whiting, one tablespoon
ammonia, one and one-half cups
of water; take soft rag and rub on
glass; let stand fifteen luinules; then
rub off with soft flannel; will leave
glass clear and remove all spots.
UkIde: Cold Meats.
"What to do with cold roast meats i3
often a problem. Cold iamb is excellent
when served iu aspic jelly.
Make tbe jelly?or .buy it, which is
easier and nearly as good every way?
and pour a little in the bottom of a
mould. Cut the-lamb in thin slices of
uniform size, and trim them neatly.
When the* layer'of jelly is hard, arrange
the slices with layers of jelly,
and pour jelly in last of all. When the
dish is quite firm, unmould and decorate
with small olives, truffles, capers,
! or nimentoes. and ararnish with water*
cresses.
Care of Cellulnlrt Article*.
A mauufaeturer of celluloid articles
says that the danger of these articles
exploding into flame when near a fire
Is greatly exaggerated. Nevertheless,
he adds this long list of "Don'ts":
"Don't place hct curling irons near
your celluloid hair coinb; don't drop
a match on the celluloid back of a
hair brush or handglass after you
have lighted the gas in your dressingroom;
dou't use the celluloid handle of
your paper-cutter to press down the
tobacco in your lighted pipe; dou't
put your celluloid beads near a light;
don't hang a celluloid bead curtain
where thel-e is an unprotected light;
I'Aftn IrtAf A m r? frtii A c ? n Cfltll Ck
U.V/IX k accj; IUUOC UltUVU^O iu IIIC ?uuiv
pocket with your celluloid card case
or diary." It would be simpler not to
use celluloid at all, as a matter of fact.
Cunning Note*.
Label your cans with name and date.
Do not allow draft of cold nir to blow
across the hot cans. Wash and dry
cans thoroughly after the contents are
used and then put away each with Its
own cover on. Light and warmth are
enemies of ail canned goods, preserves
and jellies.
The rubber ring is the most danger
ous part of the can. See that the
ring is in perfect condition before
using.
Sugar is sometimes omitted in fruit
canned for pies.
Cans should be examined two or
three days after filling. If syrup leaks
out around the rim, they should be
unsealed and heated again.
A bos of sand is excellent to set jars
of fruit in, as it keeps them dark. The
light will spoil some varieties of fruit,
strawberries and tomatoes being very
' sensitive to it.
Ng^irtpf
Sauce For~~(JoId" Meats^Pour sufficient
water over three heaping teaspoonfuls
of grouiul mustard to form
a paste, rub smooth, then add half a
cupful of vinegar, a pinch of salt and
the beaten yolk of two eggs. Stand
' the vessel containing the mixture in
a pan of boiling water and stir constantly
until the dressing thickens1,
then add a generous lump of butter
and stir until it is dissolved.
Sauce For Boiled Meats and Stews
?Brown two tablespoonfuls of butter;
heat one cupful of meat liquor to a
boil, skim and season with salt and
pepper; stir in one tablespoonful of
browned flour, wet up with cold water,
and, as it thickens add the browned
butter,- also one teaspoonful mixed
parsley and sweet marjoram, a few
drops of onion juiee and one tablespoonful
of vinegar. Boil up once
and serve. I
+1iq lint. 1
;UillOULU?UlUU vuac *uuav IUW uuw
ter after any good white cake recipe,
and bake in layers. For the filling,
boil one cup of sugar and four tablespoonfuls
of water until it "ropes,"
then add a half pound of marshmallows
torn into bits, and stir until they
dissolve. Whip the whites of throe
eggs until very stiff; add three tablespoonfuls
of sugar aud stir iuto the
syrup, Jbeating hard all the time.
Spread between the layers while warm,
as it stiffens very quickly.
Lobster Farcie?Cut up a pound
I of canned lobster; put a cupful of
milk ou to boil; rub a tablespoonful
of butter and Hour together, and stir
into the milk; take from the tire, mix
in half a cupful of stale bread crumbs,
a tablespoonful of chopped parsley,
thp mashed volk of four liai'd-boilcd
eggs with the lobster meat; salt and | j
pepper to season. Put the mixture in : 1
a baking dish, brush the top over with ' 1
beaten egg, sprinkle over with bread ,
crumbs, set in a quick over tor fifteen ,
minutes to brown. Serve hot, gar- '
nished with parsley. ,
An English Pudding?Bakewell pud- ,
ding is an English desert. Make ]
enough puff paste to line the rim and j
sides of a good-sized, deep pie plate ]
of either earthen or enamel ware. Butter
the bottom of the plate and spread (
the pastry over the sides. Spread over
the bottom a layer of jam: scatter over i
it small pieces of candied orange or 1
lemon peel. Make a custaril of a pint i
of milk, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls
of sugar, a half saJtspoonful of 1
salt, two tablespoonfuls of melted but- 1
ter and a heaping tablespoonful of
sweet, almonds ground to a powder.
Pour this custard in the pie dish and 1
bake the pudding for one hour. Serve
Wbeu cold.
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LEPERS' LOT IMPROVES.
s
Panama, Colombia and Hawaii to ^
Build Lazarettos For These a
Wretches. p
HE excellent influence of
__ American sanitary methods b
O J o newly introduced into tbe s
K Panama Canal zone is al- e
ready apparent in the re-, t
solution of the republics of Panama o
?nd Colombia to take better care of
their lepers than bas been the custom j
down there.
A recent report from Dr. Claude C. a
Pierce, assistant surgeon of the hos- s
pital service, says that in the city of
Panama there are twenty-two known n
cases of leprosy. The only thing in *1
the least resembling a lazaretta about r
Panama is a collection of most dilapi- o
'Jated huts on the outskirts of the city, s
where lepers may go if they choose, c
They are supported in a half-hearted
miserable fashion by unorganized j
charity. There never has been any i
attempt to force their isolation in q
GRAVE OF FATH
The Famous "Leper Priest" of th
these huts and cases can be found all
aver the city.
At one point along the line of the
railroad a Chinaman in the last stages b
of the terrible disease has set up his miserable
hut in a corner of the cemetery,
where he s living out the dregs
of his existence in a most pitiable fashion.
His shack consists of a lean-to
against a tree?a thatched roof supported
by four posts in the ground. The
walls are of discarded bits of . sheet
Iron obtained from structures built by /
French canal workers, which have J
since tumbled down. It has no floor f
and is bare of furniture. The China- V
man cooks the food which is brought \
to him over the open fire, and sleeps
on a pile of dirty matting. A few feet
away is a picket fence surrounding a
grave, while all about him are tombstones.
Part of his food allowance
comes in tin cans, and the empty cans
are spread about his corner of the
vard of death.
But the Republic of Panama has recently
instructed the National Board
of Health to lay out and establish a
lazaretto capable of isolating all of
the lepers in the Republic. It is to _
be divided into two parts, one for men ii
and one for women, at a considerable v
distance apart. The act provides for p
HUT OF A CHINESE
tlie examination of suspected lepers v<
md enforces their confinement at the ri
lazaretto if the doctors find that they ta
are suffering from the disease. A w
physician is to visit each patient at ai
least four times a mouth, and an un- to
iergraduate physician is to maintain bj
1 residence at the lazaretto. lo
Colombia also realizes the grave danjer
which is in store for the country sr
if leprosy is not checked, and the a
United States Minister at Bogota has cm
forwarded the Marine Hospital Service cc
1 copy of a new law establishing lazar- dt
sttos in each department of Ihe Re- jn
public. One is already being operated
in the Department of Antioquia at an
?xpense, so far, of more than 3,000,000
pesos. A
Surgeon-General Wyman of the t
United States Marine Hospital Service
bas selected an area approximately a u]
tnile square as the leper settlement on
the island of Molokai as the site of n<
the hospital for lepers authorized at
the last session of Congress. This
hospital is declared by the act io be
for the treatment of such lepers as .
may be legally committed to it by the in
Territory of Hawaii, and for the sci- ?r
entiGc study of the disease. If this
purpose is carried out, there will be,
for the first time in the forty years' **
history of segregation in the Hawaiian
islands, continuity of study of the r0
disease from a scientific standpoint.
Tlfe life in th> settlement is that of h(
the ordinary Hawaiian community. ro
1'he lepers live in cottages provided
for them by the Board of Health, *e
which has charge of the settlement.
They are provided with rations of poi,
Bsb, meat and tea.?New York Tribune. ^
bi
The fastest and most sumptuously
equipped ocean steamships in tbe "
world are now built 1 . Germany. la
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A ?Tnry of Wumen,
For the first time ic. the history of
>hoshone County a jury composed enirely
of women heard the evidence in
. case, says a Wardner (Idaho) disiatch
to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mrs. Fannie Vancuren was charged
y her neighbor, Mrs. Sarah Flint, with
triking her with her fist. Both wornn
told the court that they preferred
o have a jury composed of members
f their own sex.
The array of women subpoenaed as
urors was young and good looking.
Mrs. Flint, after many interruptions
nd objections, related the following
tory of the difficulty:
"Last Sunday afternoon I heard a
loise, and looking out from my house
snw Mrs. vancuren tearing down a
ock pile I had built. I went out and
rdered her t > stop. She answered by
triking me in the stomach with her
losed fist"
The jury was locked up in the
udge's office for fifteen or twenty min
ites, and then brought in a verdict ac[ultting
Mrs. Vancuren.
ER DAM I EN.
e Leper Settlement at Molokal.
DRIVING BIT.
It will be of interest to a large numer
of people to learn that a Seattle
sT '
Controls the Horse.
lventor has devised a driving bit
?hich places the horse-under the comlete
control of the driver, and, if uni?
LEPER IN PANAMA. .
jrsally used, there would be no more
inaway horses. This driving-bit cotiins
the ordinary jointed mouthpioce,
ith rein rings attached, the rings
id mouthpiece being pivoted together
' a curbed r.naffle bar. The snaffle
trs meet at the centre under the
wer jaw of the horse, and are hinged
i a rivet, the overlapping ends of the
inffle bars being recessed to form
smooth, joint. An overjaw check
jard, consisting of a curved chin bar,
>nnects to the snaffle bars. An over aw
check bit passes through slots
the upper end of the check guard.
Candidate For the F>ar.
A man from Texas adventured Into
rkansas on a business errand. The
wn was strange to him, says a wrir
in the Washington POst, and he was
^acquainted with the man, a lawyer,
hom he had come to see. There was
> carriage at the station when he arved,
so he asked his way to the house
' Mr. Dash, and set out to walk.
The directions he received were so
definite thnt he found himself at last
i the edge of the town, without hav
Z come to tne nouse lie sought. Then
; met an okl man, and asketl the way
?ain. Mr. Dash's house, he learned,
y about a quarter of a mile down the
ad.
"The man I want to see Is a )awyer,"
i said. "Is this Mr. Dash down the
ad a lawyer?"
"He ain't no lawyer thai I ever heard
11 of," answered the old man.
"You're sure?"
The man scratched his head in deep
ought. Then a gleam of remem ance
lighted his eye.
"Nov/ I think of it, boss." he said,
'pears like I do rieollect he raa for
wver one time."
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KILLED BY EARTHQUAKES
Great Loss of Life is Reported in
Colombia, South America.
Cnn?r Towns Derustateri l>y Cinnt Tidal
tV>ive. Following tli? Shock*, and
ilio l'eople Flee in Terror.
????Buena
Ventura, Colomlia, via Galveston.?An
earthquake occurred at
twenty-five minntes to 11 on tbe mornins
of tile 21st, lasting about seven
minutes, tbe movement being from tbe
uorth to tbe soutb.
Tbe town "was considerably shaken.
The daniagfc, however, was small, but
the people were thrown into a panic,
kneeling, weeping and praying in the
streets. All the. clocks in - the town
were stopped, while tbe cables were
broken in many places.
Following tbe eartbquakethere was
a tidal wave, which was of no consequence
here, but tbe reports from the
:oast, including an area of fifty leagues
to the soutb. state that 2000 were killed
by falling bouses or drowned by tbe
wave, whole families having been lost.
Sailing vessels report having encountered
hundreds of corpses and quantities
of dead fish, and many small settlements
were completely swept away.
The damage done hy the earthquake
and tidal wave at Tumnco vras greater
than here, and a few" lives were lost.
Ihe shock was felt in the interior, and
five people were killed at Tuquerresin.
At Popayan the people resorted to
tents, and thanksgiving services were
held on February 21 and 22. Twelve
flistinct shocks were felt, but it is believed
that all danger is over now.
DAVID B. HENDERSON DIES.
Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives
Had Been III For Months.
Dubuque, Iowa.?David B. Henderson,
formerly Speaker of the National
House of Representatives, died at
Mercy Hospital of paresis, which attacked
him nine months ago. All of
his family except a son, in California,
were at the bedside, but Colonel Henderson
was unable to recognize any.
The funeral was scheduled to be
held with services in the Episcooal
Church under the auspices of the
Grand Army. Ex-Congressman Geo.
D. Perkins, of Sioux City, was chosen
to deliver a eulogy.
David Brenner Henderson was born
at Old Deer. Scotland. March 14. 1840.
He was six years old when lie was
taken to .Illinois. Tbree years latgr, in
1849. his parents moved to lowa. 'the
State that was to be his home for the
rest of his life. Colonel Henderson
was educated in the common schools
3f Iowa, and at the Upper Iowa University,
and when tbe war between
tbe States began he was among the
first to offer his services to the Union
and was enlisted as a private in Company
C of the Twelfth Iowa Regiment.
He was soon elected a lieutenant and
served with the regimeut until his discharge
from the army, owing to the
loss of a leg, in February. 18(53.
Immediately after his discharge
Colonel Henderson was appointed
^ t f 4-Ua PtiwAll.
UUIULLlIBSlUlieL UL luc uuaiu ui uuivir
meat for the Third District of Iowa,
which post he retained until June,
IS64, when he re-entered the army as
Colonel of the Forty-sixth Regiment
of Iowa Infantry. He served in that
capacity until the close of the war. In
1865 he was admitted to the bar, and
then began the political career that
was to terminate as Speaker of the
House of Representatives at Washington.
Colonel Henderson served as Collector
of Internal Revenue for the Third
District of Iowa from 1865 to 1869.
when he resigned to be appointed soon
ifterward Assistant United States
District Attorney for the District of
[owa, which latter place he resigned in
1871.
In 1881 Colonel Henderson was
elected a member of the Forty-eighth
Congress, and was re-elected by great
majorities at each Congressional election
for the next twenty years. He
was renominated for the Fifty-eighth
fnniri'Qoo hnf rioptinoit Ho TCrtS
elected Speaker of the Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh, Congresses, having sue:eeded
Speaker Reed.
FEAR CHINESE UPRISING.
Extraordinary Precautions Being
Taken in the Imperial City.
Pekin, China.?Although, outwardly
the city is quiet, there is intense fear
among the foreign legations of an .uprising,
and the Empress Dowager is
said to be alarmed for her own safety,
suspecting even the loyalty of her
personal guards. The most alarming
in s\ i r/in! n + inn nrm hoi n ff
Lqiuita ui in \.iicuiuiivj?)
that on the first sigh of a revolutionary
outbreak the outire new army, which
was highly praised for its efficiency
by the foreign observers of the maneuvres
held a few ^months ago, will
throw its strength against the Government.
'
Guards have been doubled all around
the Forbidden City. This precaution
has been taken at the express command
of the Dowager Empress. The
Chief of Police was summoned to her
palace and was instructed to make
regular reports at short intervals by
telephone to the Empress Dowager's
closest advisers. No sooner had the
Chief reached his office from the palace
than he sent out orders which resulted
in a great display of force. All
the police were marched through the
streets and several regiments-of infantry
were turned out.
Rifles have been distributed to the
police, which hitherto have been armed
only with batons.
FIVE KILLED BY BOMBS.
Desperate l''ight Follows Raid by the
Odessa Police.
Odessa, Russia. ? Police and Cossacks
raided a Jewish house in Triugolnyi
Lane, where it was suspected a
bomb factory was located. The inmates
resisted desperately. Several
bombs were exploded and live persons
were killed, including the police commissary.
Twenty-three were injured.
Forty arrests were made.
Fatal Riots in Poland.
One man was killed and fifteen were
wounded in an attack made by Socialists
on a cauipaig 'eeting at Warsaw,
Poland.
The Kaiser lias Wedding Anniversary.
The German Emperor and Empress
received deputations at Berlin, who
congratulated them ou their silver
.wedding anniversary.
Genera) Jrosvetior Defeated.
General C. H. Grosvenor, of Ohio,
was Jefeated by 78 to 1!0 for renomination
as a candidate for Coneress.
BITS I NEWS I
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WASHINGTON. 1
The famous "citrus fruit" injunctions %
against nil the railroads of Southern . 3? I
California were decided unanimously
in favor of the railroads by the Sn- -jj9
prame Court of the United States, the .
opinion being by, Justice Peckliaw. 1
The case involved thr right of the raiT- XzM |
road companies to designate the ronte I
for fruit shipped East after leaving' -/jSJ
their own lines. 1
The President s?nt to the Senate the I
following nomination's: To be Seconft 3 I
Secretary of the Legation at Constan-v
tinople, Turkey, Lewis Einstein, of' I
New York; to be Third Secretary of the 'ajB
Embassy at Mexico, Joseph C. Grew,. " ' vBi
of Massachusetts. I
During a thunder-storm liphtninir '1
struck the five-year-old sou of William J||
H. Hessner, at Seat Pleasant, Md. - Jl
Hearings on the Philippine bill
were closed by the Senate Committee 1
on the Philippines. J
The H(fcse Interstate and Foreign .. gfl
Commerce Committee took ?p,.tlie Till- $81
man and Gillespie resolutions for railway
investigations. ,
The State Department has- h># d that ,?M
an attempt has been made to assassinate
the President of the. Republic ? >J21
of Colombia. r J
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. j
In Manila, in 1905. there were 254 "j
cases and 225 deaths from cholera; for- .> I
ty-flve cases and forty-three (death*
from plague and twenty-seven cases *3
and. two deaths from smallpop. ' j
Major-General Leonard Wood has <^9
sailed for the Island of Mindanao on at^ . "
two weeks' trip of inspectlop. The 1
Filipinos are anxious to organize ? . Jal
volunteer regiment to assl&~Atnerlca'>''
In China. j
Bishop Blenk. of Porto ?Rico, was se- ,-S
iected by the Congregation of the Pro- j
paganda to succeed the late Archbishop J8H
Chapel le.
DOMESTIC.
Secretary of the Xavy Bonaparte ar- rived
in Annapolis, Md., to confer with
Governor Warfleld, General Porter and
Admiral Sands as to the program for. ' '.Ja
the ceremonies incident to the final! .
interment of the body of Admiral* '
Paul Jones in April
Attired in a bridal gown of whit?, %
satin, the body of a woman who had, &
passed as the wife of William HJ 'J
Ward, of New York City, was found! 3
in her room at 517 Lenox avenue, wlthj
gas pouring from a tube fastened In
her mouth. * 1
. Nine-year-old George Kill, son ?f? r<$m
the captain of the cana>boat William
Henninger, lying at Erie Basio, Brook-; .
lyn. N. Y., was drowned off tfie root
of Columbia street. He bad been play4 /'iffl
ing along the wbarf and slipped fromf - jm
the strlngplece.
Four insurance companies notified; ' .JM
W. D. Vandlver, the Missouri Ipsur- ^
ance Commissioner, that they tfoukl
-withdraw from the State ou March 1.
when their present licenses expire.
Captain Steve B. Gibbs, said to 1>av6
been the oldest whaling captain in this -s?f
country, died at Mlddleboro, Mass., at
the age of ninety-five years.
The battleship Rhode Island .went -1
into commission at Boston, Mass., with;
Captain Perry Garst as her com
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few hours after being found in his celtj
with his throat cut. Limp and almost'
unconscious, Conley was dragged tol
the gallows and slipped through thoj
trap, death resulting ?rom straugu!a-l
tion.
A 100-pound snapping turtle was.r
found in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. j
Attacked by Indians in the Mexican
mountains, Henry Albert Bourdoir, am:
instructor in the Normal School at
. Puebla, was killed and three otbet^..
teachers fatally wounded
In a rear-end collision of trolley car* ,:-- 5jS
near Lima, O., Assistant Auditor Mor- '
lis Stein, of the Western Ohio Railway,
was killed. /
' Twelve men, all.ot^them rail\nyL
employes,- were hurt "at Cnroudeiefcl.
Mo., when aJ?t?_Louls, Iron Mountator \$|
and Southern tralu'was derailed,
* The explosion of a keg of powder on M
Stfow Bird Valley. Railroad, near An- ,<J1
drew?, N. C., killed Joseph Queen and
Mitchell Howard, contractors. , *':??
Three men held up a St. Paul freight -tj|
train just outside Chicago, IU., forced .
the engineer and fireman to give up &3B
their watches, beat them and fled. ;$|
Lying across his bed. with his head ^
nrmost severed, former Sheriff John B.{
Traynham.", of Roanoke City, vraa]
found dead, in Roanoke, Va.r with no
clew to the slayer. ,
Domestic troubles led James Dree*,. /M
owner of a small traveling show, toj "
kill his wife and then slash .his ownj
neck at Zanesville, Ohio. .
Andrew D. White, talking to Cornellj '
students, at Ithaca, N. Y., said there
were more murders committed in th?
United States and fewer punished than , M
in any other country, and expressed a
qualified approval of lynch law.
FOREIGN.
The UniteU States cruiser Tacoma. J*
has arrived at Gibraltar from Naples,
with machinery, etc., for the dry-dock
Dewey, now at Las Palmas, Canary
Islands, to replace the parts damage#
during the voyage across the Atlantic.' 1 ' &
M. A. de Speyer, the Russian Minis-'
ter at Teheran, Persia, has been re-, * "3
Heved of his post on the ground of ill - $
health. - \
M. Waddington, son of the Chilean
Charge d'Affaires at Brussels, whof
shot Senor Balmaceda, the Secretary!
' ~e ~ lHllincr him instnntlvj
U1 LUC uuuouiait, ?? --? ?
lias decided to submit to the authori-j *
ties and stand trial before a Belgian*
tribunal. r
Bids from both New York and London
bankers have been received in)
Mexico City, Mexico, for anotlier million
dollars silver money in pursuance*'
of the policy of exchanging silver for
gold to expedite the work of placing1
the country on a gold basis.
Officials at St. Petersburg, Russia,
denied alarming reports of the national .
tiuances, aud said that the situation'
had greatly improved.
Wu-Tinc-Fansr. formerly Chinese,
Minister to tbe United States, justified)
the boycott, and said there was noj
serious anti-foreign feeling in the country
. *
A more hopeful feeling seems to pre-'
vail at Algeciras regarding an agreement
on the Moroccan questions.
Mont Pelee, Martinique, "was againin
violent eruption, according to a spe-1
cial cable dispatch from Barbados. t -'^3
The Rechstag, at Berlin, Germany,
by a huge majority passed tbe billgranting
conventional tariff rates to tho
United States.
John Conley, a miner, who, on January
1C, 1U04, killed James Reddingj
and Charles Purdy at the Guad<5ioup?
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