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SELF-RELIANCE.
Myself lid make my yesterdays,
And ihis I truly know.
To all my morrows I shall bring
. Their store of joy or woe.
Each oup these lips of nune shall drink, !
It shall be tilled bv me:
For every door that t ~.vnuld pass. I
These hands must mould the key.
If e'en on yonder shining height
A larger life I own,
Thouph throb mv brain, though ache mv
Its slope I climb alone.
No more alone a darkened way
I. doubting, blindly grope:
No^more I shame my soul with fear,
Xor yet with yearning hope.
But knowing this that I do know,
And seeing what I see.
I rest in this great certainty?
All may be well with me.
?Janet Yale, in Harper's Bazar.
IA PAYMASTER'S FLIGHT. 1
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3 By ALEXANDER ELT. UJ
.. <5iSHSH5aSESHSH5H5H5ESaSHi?
When I was a sergeant in the United
States cavalry in the Far West I
was detailed one day to command
eight men acting as a guard to Major
B., who had paid off the force at our
post and was going to pay those at
the next. He was a small, baldheaded,
lean man, except a round stomach,
which begins to protrude upon some
people after they pass forty, with a
crafty eye and a silent tongue. The
only words he spoke were directions
as to handling his safe, a small affair
that could easily be lifted by two
men and for which a place was ar- j
ranged on a buckboard wagon which
the major always used to transport |
the treasure. His clerk drove the
horse, while the paymaster sac Deside
him, the safe between his legs.
The country through which we escorted
the paymaster contained a
wild and lawless people. I thought
at .the time that eight men, though
drilled soldiers and well armed, were
a small guard for such a purpose.
Whether the major thought so or not
I didn't know at the time, for he
said nothing about it. I learned afterward
that the colonel commanding
wouldn't give him any more, and the
paymaster entered on the trip under
protest.
We were crossing a part of what is
called the Great American desert or
alkali plains, with nothing there
higher than a man's waist. I rode
a couple of hundred yards in advance,
keeping a sharp lookout in every direction.
For more than half a day
not a living thing except the mem
uers 01 our party ctuu gupueis \>aa
in sight. But suddenly in turning
look to our right and rear I saw on a
rise far in the distance a mounted
figure looking at us. I judged from
the general outline of horse and man
that he was an Indian. After what
appeared to be a careful survey of us
he disappeared on the other side of
the rise.
I felt a bit uneasy. Turning, I directed
each man to see that his arms
and ammunition Were in order and
notified the paymaster of what I had
seen. It didn't seem to trouble him
much. We joggea on for a few miles
and when emerging from low ground
suddenly heard a mingling of yells
and saw on our right a motley crew
.several times as large as our own
coming down on us. They were evidently
a mixture of road agents and
cowboys, with a sprinkling of Indians.
Their leader rode in advance, a
revolver in each hand, the only one
of the lot who was not yelling.
I had just time to draw my men up
In line between the oncomers and the
buckbcard before they came within
close range, and I told cach man to
pick one in front of him as nearly as
he could estimate. My men were
armed with repeating rifles, while the
attacking party had some guns, but
mostly revolvers. I waited till they
came within 300 yards before I gave
the order to fire. Nearly evary one
of my troops brought down his man.
The gang hesitated, and I gave a second
order to fire. This halted them;
but rallied by their leader, they came
on, bringing us within range of their
revolvers, and my men began to get
11 ul l l vi owui^ uuuuivo g nu?i u
continued firing on both sides, several
of my men being put out of the fight,
though but one was killed. My effective
force was reduced to four
men besides myself, Major B.. and his
clerk. It began to look as though
the robbers were going to get the
'safe.
Suddenly I was astonished to see
Major B., who had stood in the buckboard
using a rifle, jump down from
the wagon, cut the traces, spring on
the horse's back, and away he went
Jike an arrow. The act demoralized
my force so that they broke. I failed
to rally them, and we were all soon
| tumbling after the paymaster. His
clerk mounted the horse of the man
who had been killed and joined in
the flight.
Never have I 1)een so incensed In
my life. The paymaster, a commissioned
officer, by his cowardly act had
cast discredit on me and my men. I
had the mortification to oee the bandits
ride down on the safe and caper
joyfully about it. All I could do was
to help the wounded men of ray command
along, supporting them by turn
in their saddles.
But what surprised me was the
fleetness of the major's horse. I am
no judge of horseflesh, and I had mistaken
the animal that drew the buckboard
for a mere beast of burden.
| Looking ahead. I could see the paymaster
miles in advance, fleeing as
lor dear life, and in time he disap|
peared altogether. For once in my
life I placed money before human
life and wished he were in the safe
and the funds were on his horse. I
thought with some satisfaction how
I would prefer charges of cowardice
against him as soon as we reached
the post we were making for.
The bandits, having secured the
safe, paid no further attention to us,
and we rode on to our destination.
What was my astonishment on riding
into the garrison to see .Major a. sitting
coolly smoking before an extemporized
desk with heaps of bills before
him paying off the enlisted men
His belly was goue. It was plair
that he had taken it off and placed
it?a heap of money?on his desk.
"Thanks, sergeant," he said, "foi
?
I
your fine defense. I have reported
you for gallantry, and you'll hear
from it. The robbers got the safe
with nothing in it. I'd rather rely
any time on that mare of mine than
a safe. Sorry any of your men got
hurt. Next!" And, having paid off
the man before him. he devoted himself
to the next in line.?New Haven
Register.
2000 ACRES OF FLOWER GARDEN
Something About the Town Which !
Ships Beans to Boston.
Writing from Weimar. Consul William
L. Lowrie says that Erfurt, a
thriving commercial city of Southern
.Prussia, wun more xnau ivu,uvu mhabitants,
is known throughout German}'
as the "flower dity." ' It has.
a world-wide reputation for flower
and farm seeds and plants, the trade
in which the Consul portrays as follows:
"The declared exports of these pro- :
ducts to the United States in the last
ten years amounted to $561,741, last
year's shipments being worth $53,SS8.
"The origin of the industry dates
from the tenth century, and it wa9
developed by the monks of the Peters
monastery. The growth to the present
large proportions is of much more
recent date. Since 1SS0 the business
of raising flowers and garden seeds
and plants in Erfurt has increased
rapidly, until it is now five times as
large as it was a quarter of a century
ago. When the land failed to produce
good wine grapes the people
turned their attention to the seed industry
as a mean of saving their j
waning fortunes. In former years j
the hills about Erfurt and Jena were
famous for their vineyards. The
wine was sold mostly at Weimar,
about half way of the distance between
those two cities, giving this
place its original name of Weinmarkt,
which was changed later to
Weimar.
"The soil about Erfurt is especially
adapted to the culture of vegetables
and plants. It is deep, rich and well
watered. The annual rainfall is
heavy, and the surrounding hills
afford good protection from the cool,
winds which sometimes sweep down
from the Thuringerwald. There are
108 concerns engaged in the seed industry,
also thirty-five seed exporters J
and twenty-four florists. An idea of
the extent of this business may be j
gained from the area of gl^ss em- I
ployed. The total is 113,735 square |
| rreters (square meter equals 10.764 I
Square feet), of which 30,867 squarct
meters cover propagating houses, an&
S2,S5S square meters are used over
specially fertilized beds. Nearly
3000 people are employed in various i
capacities.
"While there are no statistics
available in regard to the total annual
output of the Erfurt seed and
plant concerns, a single firm produces
each year 70,000 to SO,000 cyclamen,
400.000 lilies of the valley, 60,000
apple sprouts (in pots), 20,000 pear
sprouts, 10,000 plum, apricot, peach
and quince sprouts, 30,000 strawberry
plants, 300,000 short stemmed
and 40,000 long stemmed roses.
"About 2000 acres of land in the
-city and the immediate vicinity are
devoted to gardens. This land is
owned by the Crown, the city and
private individuals. It is leased to
the various concerns at rentals depending
on the location and on the
productiveness of the soil. Owing to
the rapid growth of the city, which
rivals the percentage of a Western
boom town in the United States, quite
an area of the best garden land has
been plotted into city lots and is fast !
being covered with fine villas and ]
houses.
"The cultivation of the gilly flower
in Erfurt dates from 1S10. It first
appeared in the window of a citizen,
and from this one pot hundreds of
thousands of these flowers have been
promulgated. The estimated annual
production is 680,000 plants. To the j
same extent, or nearly so, is the cul- .
tivation of the calceolaria, verbena, J
petunia, gloxinia, zinnia, pansy, car- j
nation, balsam, phlos, hollyhock, pe- j
largonium, fuchsia, azalia, etc., in j
almost endless variety. It is estimated
that the annual output of '
flower seeds is not much under
1,000,000 marks (?23S,000).
"Vegetable and farm seeds are cul- i
tivated in large quantities and in !
great variety. Among them are in- ;
eluded 101 kinds of peas, 168 of I
beans (700 bushels shipped this year I
to Boston to help make up the deficit
in its staple food), 2 69 varieties of j
j kitchen herbs, thirty-four of onions, j
etc., sixty-five of grass for fodder,
thirty of clover, 320 species of pota- |
toes. There are 1542 varieties of !
vegetable seed cultivated in Erfurt, i
?Washington Correspondence Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Saw a Red Sea Serpent.
Long Lake has a serpent. Upon
the authority of four women and nne
man the word has gone forth that the
placid little lake is the home of a
monster about as long as a good-sized
street is wide, with the head of an j
alligator, the neck of a turtle and a !
dark red skin.
The serpent made its first appear- !
ance at the lake a week ago, when it I
was seen by William Delevan. of this I
city, a fisherman. As Delevan re- ;
turned to the city minus his bait after i
seeing the sea monster, his story was
scoffed at until Sunday afternoon,
when the monster made its appearance
again.
This time four women?Mrs. Clara
Wheatley and her daughter, Elise, of
No. 702 Grace street, and Alma and
Ellen Arnold, of No. 704 Grace street,
had an experience on the lake.
According to the women, the serpent
appeared less than five feet from
their boat, raised its head above the
water, blinked at them two or three
times, and then, apparently frightened
by the screams of the women,
1- ~ ~ InU /ISttA
LUUtt. a 4UIV-IV unc iu 111c uunuiu
' the lake. It has not been seen since.
?Kalamazoo (Mich.) Correspondence
New York World.
Try It on the Dog.
'Cultivate a pleasant tone of voice
by practicing on the dog," says a
[ Kansas man. "He doesn't care so
[ much what you say, but he is very
particular how /ou say it."?Kansas
City Journal.
Clean the Chimney.
Where wood is much used as a fuel,
according to Suburban Life, consid- j
erable soot collects in the chimneys,
and it is a source of many fires. The |
chimney should be burnt out once a i
year, at least, and the work done on
a damp day?or it may be swept out.
A chimney is burnt out by placing a
bundle of straw or similar material j
in the bottom of the flue and firing it. i
To sweep out a chimney, a small met- i
al ball, about four inches in diameter,
is hung on a thin rope and pulled
up and down in the chimney until
it is cle^n. When it too high, the
chimney can be cleaned by a brush
on a jointed pole.
TlniraM Vallc
To have pretty finger nails it is
necessary to keep them properly manicured.
The nails should be filed in a
curve which follows the shape of the
end of the finger. After the nails
have been filed the finger tips should
be held in hot, soapy water until the
cuticle is soft, when it may be easily
pushed back from the nail by means
of an orangewood stick. To give the
nails a delicate rose tint they should
be polished by applying some good
ointment or powder. In the interest
of pretty nails it ia a good habit to
rub cold cream into the cuticle every
night, always rubbing the cuticle
away from the nails. Another little
habit is to always, when drying the
hands, rub the cuticle back with the
towel. These little habits help materially
to keep the nails in order and
greatly lighten the weekly manicuring
process.?Indianapolis News.
Varnished Floors.
When varnished floors have become
blackened in spots and there
arc numerous heel marks, they need
a standing finish, and must be treated
with extreme measures. The old finish
must be first removed, and when
the floor is revarnished see that the
liquid is of good quality, and that
several coats are given. A waxed floor
needs only another coat of wax and a
thorough polishing. Grease spots
can often be removed with turpentine.
It is best to remove spots from rugs
or carpets as soon as they are made.
Spots made by sticky substances may
be removed by sponging them wi<;h
alcohol and salt, a pint of alcohol to
a teaspoonful of salt. Grease or oil
spots should be covered with wet fy>
ler's earth, and allowed to stand for
two days and then brushed off.
French chalk will remove fresh grease
spots. Cover the spots well, then
spread a brown paper over them and
apply a moderately hot iron.?New
York Evening Post.
M /
Mahogany Furniture.
When mahogany furniture is in a
.very bad condition the only method
of restoring it Is that of first removing
the old finish, and the old method
of scraping and sandpapering is
the best one. After this is done, elth,
.er wax, varnish, or oil may be applied.
Dents in hard wood may be
filled in with colored wax. White
enamelled furniture may be cleaned
with a cloth dampened in warm water
and a little whiting if necessary.
At the end it should be thoroughly
rubbed dry with a soft cloth. Gilt
furniture and gilt frames may be
cleaned with a paste made of whiting
and alcohol. This should be rubbed
, off before it hardens. Natural-colored
wicker furniture can be scrubbed
with a brush and warm soap suds.
Painted and enamelled wicker should
be treated like white enamelled furniture.
This sort of ware, however,
is quite unsatisfactory because the
enamel chips and the paint wears off.
i?New York Evening Post.
CI S5 laS^
*? ?Steamed
Steak.?Take about two j
pounds of round steak and cover with
a dressing as for a chicken, then roll
the steak up and tie it with a good
string. Put it in a lard pail and cover
tightly. Set this pail in a kettle
of water and steam for about three
hours. Take from pail and thicken
Very little the, gravy in bottom of
pail.
Japanese Sandwich.?This is made
of any kind of left-over fish, baked
or boiled. Pick out every bit of skin
or bone and flake in small pieces. Put
into a saucepan with a little milk or
r*room fr? mnisten. add a little butter
and dusting of pepper. Work to a |
paste while it is heating, then cool
and spread on thin slices of buttered
bread.
Salad Dressing.?One egg, one teaspoonful
of mustard, one teaspoonful
of salt, two teaspoonfuls of pastry
I Hour or cornstarch, one-half cup of
sugar, piece of butter the size of a
i walnut. Add these to a cup of boiling
milk, then add one cup of scalded
viuegar. When stirring in vinegar
stir in gradually. If lumpy, beat with
part? bpater. Add a pinch of cayenne
pepper.
Stuffed Peaches.?Wash and stone
[ medium sized peaches, cover with
; salt, and water, let stand over night;
; fill each centre with grated horse;
radish, celery seed and ginger root. J
! Tie two halves together with a string, |
j pack in jars. Turn over them a syr|
up made of one quart vinegar, one
j pound sugar and two teaspoons each
of whole cloves, cinnamon and all
i spice (in cheese cloth bags).
Uaked Apple Tapioca.?One-halt
: cup (granulated or farina) tapioca,
one quart boiling water cocked in a
j double boiler about fifteen minutes,
j Add one cup sugar, one tablespoon
butter, little grated nutmeg; butter
an earthen pudding dish; pare, core
and quarter six or eight tart apples,
put in dish; pour the cooked tapioca
over them and bake in oven until the
apples can be pierced with a straw,
when cool, eat with sugar or crsam.
mcioiiDr nnat tui
nuouiil uu/ti hi/
THE DOWAGER EMPRESS C
In a lake in the Summer Palace i
form of a ship. The vessel is built o
pleasure junk. It belongs to the Dow;
HARNESSING THE WINDS.
The utilization of the wind for doing,
a portion of man's work is as
.old, figuratively, as the hills. At
least, the ancient Dutch windmill,
with its four great sweeps, carries
one back as far as it is necessary to
go.. Windmills were used in France
and Italy in the twelfth century for >
grindfng corn and in Holland in the
fifteenth century for pumping water
over the dykes into the sea.
In the United States the windmill
has had several seasons .or spells of
prosperity, when it looked as though
everybody was getting a windmill,
and likewise several periods of depression
whed it seemed as though
everybody was down on and discarding
the windmill. Americans are
apt to go to extremes. When a thing
Homemade Windmill.
becomes popular, it becomes awfully
popular. It is in danger of being
looked upon a3 an actual revolutionizer.
As a matter of fact, the
windmill has a great deal of worth
in many locations and its use is constantly
increasing. If the old Dutch
mill was, and for that matter is today,
effective, certainly the high type
of American article is a power generator
on the farm of great value, if
the conditions are right for its use.
It is foolish, yet it has been done in
countless cases, to order an expensive
windmill plant for puinping, before
finding out that the watQf supply is
a good one.
The difference between supplying a
house and farm stock with water,
nowadays, to say nothing of watering
the grounds on the garden, and that
ul uarryiug waier uurn me ui&
spring" in buckets, as in the old days,
is as great as is the difference between
the civilization of to-day and
that of one hundred years ago. The
"big spring" undoubtedly did have a
country-wide reputation for never going
dry?in fact, in several years of
great drought, when ail the other
wells and springs dried up, all the
. k$BBBCSK$1RS
j OPPOR
Alarm For Fire Escapes.
It is usual for fire escapes to terminate
in a ladder, which is hinged
I Alarm For Fire Escapes,
IT DOES NOT SAIL !
)F CHINA'S MARBLE SHIP.
at Pekln is a garden house in the
f marble and resembles an elaborate
ager Empress.
neighbors got their water from thd
blue ' depths of the fine old "big ,
spring." Nevertheless, the "big
spring" would likely last about sixty
minutes if its waters were pumped
to supply a good-sized tank. So that
the first thing in considering a wind?
mill for pumping is, have you"fc good,
water supply to pump? A fine water
supply should certainly be recognized
as a most valuable asset, and the
question then arises as to its. fullest
utilization. In many cases nothing
more economical than a windmill can
be found for getting the water to the
surface and forcing it into a' tank
high above the surroundings. Of
course, there are power windmills for
grinding, etc., as welLas those rigged
for pumping, and an immense amount
of hard work can be accomplished by
these former.
It is an inspiring sight to travel
through portions of Kansas and Nebraska,
and see the thousands of
windmills, all spinning merrily in the
crisp western wind. Many a farmer
in the western part of these States,
through his few acres irrigated by
wind pumped water, has bridged over
periods of drought on his new farm ]
and been able to stick it out until he
could get more thoroughly established.
Some of the mills improvised
by the early settlers are.crude enough j
but picturesque, nevertheless serviceable
under the strong prairie winds.
They may have been constructed -en*
tlrely of dry goods boxes, resembling
the paddle wheels of old stern wheeler
river steamers. Others look like big
pin wheels, and some have sails of old
kerosene cans hammered out flat. In
the Arkansas Valley in Kansas, one
private pumping plant erected about
five years ago at a coat of $8000, supplied
water from the overflow of the
Arkansas River for one thousand
acres, and paid for Itself the first
year.
The writer has a small, eight-foot
windmill on his Virginia place, and
this, under a good head of wind, fills
a nine hundred gallon tank in the
attic of the house in from two to three
hours. Continuous pumping does not
lower the water in the well, and with
the average run of wind this tank
could be pumped full daily. With a
clay or other retaining reservoir of
sufficient size to take all the waterfrom
the windmill, enough storage'
could be provided by this small plant
for the irrigation of from three to
four acres.?Guy Elliott Mitchell, in
the American Cultivator.
Churches of the Christian denomination
throughout the country are
making unusual efforts to liquidate
all their indebtedness before next
year, which will be the centennial of ,i
the church.
FUNITY.
to the lowest landing and which Is
normally raised clear of the ground,
so as to prevent unauthorized persons
from mounting the fire escape. A recent
invention provides an alarm de
vice which is attached to the hinged
ladder in such manner that should it
be lowered,the alarm would be sound!
ed. The device comprises a cable atj
tached to one end of the hinged lad- j
| der, which passes over a pulley secured
to the second landing of the
fire escape, and terminates in a counter-weight.
The pulley is mounted
between a pair of bells, and the pulley
shaft carries a clapper, so that as the
pulley is rotated when lowering the
ladder, the clapper will turn with it.
In one of the bells a number of projections
are provided, and these contacting
with the clapper serve to vibrate
the latter and sound the bells.
?Scientific American.
Some of the hotel keepers In Switzerland?presumably
not the best?
are making war on the stars of commendation
in the Btfedeker guide
books.
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HUM I SUICIDE RESBRT
State Authorities Alarmed by Frequency
of Self-Slaughter There.
Eleven Known Deaths in the Falls or
by Shooting on the Islands
Since July 1.
Violent Deaths at
Niagara Since Jnly 1.
Women. Men.
Plunged into cataract... 3 * 2
! Found drowned in gorge ? 3
| Found shot on islands... ? 3
| Total known deaths by suicide
| or accident, 11.
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Niagara Falls, N. Y.?To the grave
alarm of the Reservation Commissioners
and the horror of the people
of both the American and Canadian
cities, Niagara Falls has gained notoriety
as a suicide resort more rapidly
this season than'its fame as a
nionn /->f nioaourd has grown in vears.
Vx Vt pivMWW* v ? ?? Q. .
Eleven violent deaths since July
have caused the State authorities to
consider seriously what further measures
may be adopted to prevent despondent
persons throwing themselves
into the fascinating whirlpool
or seeking the entrancing beauties of
the isle-dotted cataract as the scene
for taking their lives by bullet or
poison.
The suicide of Mrs. L. D. Draper,
of Saginaw, Mich., by eluding the
vigilance of the guards and throwing
herself headlong over the rail into
the river above the American Falls,
impressed the growing problem on
Superintendent Perry and the commissioners.
The woman's strange actions j
caused the guards to suspect that she
was contemplating suicide, and when
she started to cross the bridge to
Goat .Island at 7 o'clock a. m., an
officer turned her back, giving as excuse
that the reservation was not yet
open to the public. Other officers
were warned of the woman's peculiar
actions, and she was watched closely,
although none was impressed with
her grim determination to throw herself
into the river.
Throwing off suspicion by hiring a
carriage, she returned to the reserva
tion after the guards had directed ner
toward the city. She concealed her
long bltfck cloak and was able to drive
past the guards without being recognized.
Near the river's edge she told
the driver to stop. Leaving the black
cloak in the seat she started to walk
around toward Prospect Point. Five
officers were within sight, but-none
recognized Mrs. Draper as the woman
of the long black cloak until she
started to run toward the protecting
railing. Then an officer shouted to
her and started in pursuit.
He was too late. At a point where
the railing is at the cataract's edge
she threw herself headforemost into
the river and in an instant was carried
over the precipice. Relatives in
Saginaw telegraphed a reward for;
finding of the body, but no sight of it
had been obtained by nightfall.
Since July 1 five persons, three
women and two men, have been seen
in their death plunge, and three other
men, whose suicide was unobserved,
have been found drowned in the
gorge.
SLA. MUKti U111U uuunxuio win.
Only One County in Seven Voting on
i Prohibition Geres Wet.
Columbus, Ohio.j-The Prohibition
forces carried six of seven county
option contests in Ohio.
The liquor element won out in
Defiance County. This is their only
victory in twenty-nine county elections
held thus far.
In the city of Defiance the vote
against the drys was almost three to
one. There are in the city two large
factories making steel casts for beer
bottles, employing several hundred
people. The wets saved twenty-four
saloons by this election.
The drys easily carried the six
other counties in which elections were
held. The majorities and the number
of saloons voted out were as follows:
Union, 1803, eighteen saloons; Champaign,
2000, twenty-five saloons;
Madison, 3177, twenty-seven saloons;
Pickaway, 199. twenty-seven saloons;
Wood, 1600, fifty saloons, and Losan,
IS47, eighteen saloons.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Alan Kills His Brothcr-in-Lnw, Tries
to Kill Wife and Hangs Himself.
Johnson City, Tenn.?L. A. Bayless.
a magistrate, attacked his broth
er-in-law, Berny Bayless, while tlie
latter was sleeping in bed at his home
in this city and almost chopped his
head (off with an axe.
He then attacked Bayless' wife
with the weapon, latally wounding
her.
He then turned upon his own wife,
who was in the house, and struck her
several blows, breaking her arm and
probably fatally wounding her.
He was arrested and half an hour
later was found dead, having hanged
himself in his cell at the jail.
MADE FOUR ORPHANS.
Mother Love Causes Wife Murder
and Suicide.
Scranton, Pa. ? Enraged upon
learning from his wife that she was
preparing to sue for a divorce. Andrew
Zadura, a hotel keeper, of Jes?
3 t 1 e T> ~ +
sup, snot ner a.na mm sen., jduiu
died. Several weeks ago Mrs. Zadura
left her husband, but was unable
to take her four children with
her, and returned to her home in
Jessup a few days ago, love for her
children being the main reason for
her returning.
Austria Annexes Bosnia.
Tfca Emperor of Austria-Hungary
assumed sovereignty over Bosnia and
Herzegovina, following Bulgaria's
declaration of independence of Turkey.
An international conference
will consider these violations of the
Berlin treaty.
"Woman Dies of Rabies.
Mrs. Harvey M. Day. of
X. J., died of rabies, but two other
persons bitten by the same do? have
not shown symptoms of the disease;.
About mnreu rcupic.
A life of Sir Henry Irving shortly
will be published.
Andrew D. White is visiting Berlin
for the first time since his retirement
as Ambassador to Germany.
Lord Northcote, Governor-General
of the Commonwoalth of Australia,
who is en route from Sydney to
China, arrived at Manila, P. I.
Btigadier Scott uirara, neaa 01 iue
Iowa Anti-Suicide Bureau of the Volunteers
of America, who had dissuaded
many from ending their lives,
attempted to commit suicide with
strychnine taken from one of them.
T.4TOST MF.WS
" a .a. uw jb ai>ui?v
BY WIRE. ,
To Prosecute After Twenty Years. . jfin
Boston.?Carrying "with, him the ' - $
necessary requisition papers and'a
copy of a dust covered indictment
twenty years old, Inspector Waite, of
the local police, left here for Columbus,
Ohio, ^o reclaim John H. Thorpe,
who is wanted here for a number of '
larcenies, anegea 10 nave oeen committed
in 1888, of property valued at
several hundred dollars. ,
Thousand Shbe Operatives Strike.* \ fgi
Lynn, Mass.?Between one thou- , 'y' fl
sand and twelve hundred lasters in
local shoe factories struck because of
an alleged violation of a contract by
the Joseph Caunt Company in discharging
fifteen union members. The
company officials assert that the installation
of machines made the em- ployment
of the fifteen men unnecesKnapp
Approve Bill of Lading.
. i Chicago.?The Traffic Bulletin has
a tetter from Chairman Martin A.
Knapp of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to C. C. McCain, chairman
of the uniform bill of lading
committee, approving the draft of the
new uniform bill of lading, which is
to go into effect November 1.
Raise Quarantine Against Cnba. *
Austin, Texas.?The State Health ' '
Department, through J. H. Florence,' ,' v*la
acting State health officer, raised the '
yellow fever quarantine against Ha*
vana and other Cuban ports. i . Y''rj3js?|
Auto Accident Kills Two.
Detroit, Mich.?Paul B. Feys, a
commission merchant, who was inlured
in the automobile accident i*
which Mrs. Albert Bemer, of Kalamazoo,
was killed, died in a1 hospital. ^
Feys and Mrs. Bemer wer<- driving OSS
down Jefferson avenue in an automobile
with L. H. Turnbull antf Mrs.
Emma Emeterio, of Kalamazoo, When
the machine came in collision with a
street car. Turnbull and Mrs. Emc * A' '
terio escaped with bruises.
Robbers Take Victim's Hat.
Pottsville, Pa.?James Malloy, of
Blackwood, was held up in broad daylight
by three foreigners wearing
masks at a point between York Farm
and West Woods, en' route to Potts- ,
ville. They relieved him of $18 and
jewelry at the point of a revolver,
and even took his hat. _ .
Roosevelt Removes Two,
N Washington, D. C.?As the result
of a report made by the Civil Service #
Commission, President Roosevelt removed
Lincoln Avery, Collector of the
Port, of Port Huron, Mien., ana aiso Y?t'?
directed the removal of Charles H.
Dailey, Special Agent of the Treasury
at that place, on charges of "pernicious
activity in .politics,* , , "
Admiral Evans' Son Accused.
Washington, D* C.?Lieutenant
Frank Taylor Evans, who, according
to a dispatch from Manila, is to he
court-martialed on various charges,
is the son of Admiral Robley Evans,
who took the battleship fleet from ( V
'Hampton Roads to the Pacific Coast.
No report of the charges- affecting
young Evans has reached the Navy,
Department
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. Plague Now in Morocco.
Paris.?The Tangier correspondent J
of the Matin telegraphs that an epiJ
demic of what is supposed to be the > \ *
; bubonic plague has broken out at
Rabat. Thirty deaths from the disease
were reported and a large number
were ill.
Discharge Leper as Cured.
Wellington, New Zealand.?A great i 1
degree of interest has been aroused
here by the discharge of a Maori
patient from the leper station with a
clean bill of health. The man was - -h
at the station for only eleven months.
The chief health officer, Dr. Mason,
I declares that the patient was cured
; by injections of cultures of the leprosy
bacillus.
Plowed Up Grecian Coin.
Rome, Italy.?While plowing av
Monteleone, Calabria, a peasant found
recently a Grecian gold coin weighing
two grammes. On one side of the
| coin is a female head, it is supposeu
I to be the rarest and best specimen
j known. ::MI
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j Ail Pious Men, Says Shah. *
London.?The Foreign Office has yV
received the text of ,the rescript of
| the Shah of Persia convoking ParliaI
ment. The date of convocation is
j fixed for November 14. "The assemI
bly shall be composed of pious, up|
right men," says the rescript. "It
shall once for all remove all vestige
of the disorder produced by the political
club."
Hyderabad a Vast Graveyard.
Bombay, India.?The correspond!
ent of a newspaper who reached Hyderabad,
the capital of the flooded
district, describes that city as a vast
grave. The streets and bazaars have
. been transformed into a grewsome
| mass of stone and mud and decomj
posed flesh. Six hundred corpses
I were taken out of the mud at one
j spot. The funeral pyres burned day
i and night. The damage is estimated
! oaa aaa nnn mhlps.
! Lord Dudley Boycotted.
j Sydney, N. S. W.?The last levee * ^
; held by the Governor General, Lord
; Dudley, was boycotted by all the for!
eign Consuls. The reason for this
I was the withdrawal of the right of
! private entree to such functions.
Captain of Craft Condemned.
I Kingston, Jamaica.?The owner
' and the captain of a small coaster
j were heaviiy fined in the lower court
j here for a breach of the Marine Board
' law in having smuggled nine Chinese
I 1I1.U V^uua icv^cuu;.
j Congo Exonerates Leopold.
I Erussels, Eelgium.?The Congo
Independent State, in an official docu|
ment replying to the attacks upon
! the administration of the State, says
that the charges that King Leopold
j enriched himself in the Congo are
; untrue, and deprecates and protests
! against the '"falsehoods and legends"
i circulated in England and the United
I States with regard to cruelty and
abase in the Congo.
Brazil Signs Treaty With Argentina. ,
J TDrtnno hoo
Kio Janeiro.?rresmcui * cuuu.
signed the general arbitration treaty.,
with the Argentine Republic. 1