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MY BANDI When in the dusk ot evening, I o< Three little faces at the window 1< And hear the shout of "Papa." an And find myself a prisoner ere 1 e The robbers seize my parcel and s And bear me to their castle iti spil There the queen of this banditti g And asks how many kisses it will Ob, is there any pleasure iu all th That's quite as sweet us listening Helen thinks a hundred'kisses ar< If I'll ehaDge them all for pennie: Wliilo Henry claims that "Papa is And so the raseal confiscates my < Hut tender-hearted Josephine ma "We'll let you go, dear papa, for j ^ When I've paid my ransom duly, t r' Escorts me to the table with a gu fr.r- U hour I flincr II And grow younger as I listen to v >b&De8ieteeeaeae i My Matrimo MY scheme was that a marriage should he arranged between Uncle James and Miss Stubbs. ; Not that it was my business in the least but that did not hinder me from interfering, nor II jl that I thought the chief parties 9 concerned were j at all smtea to i each otlier I never troubled my head ; about such minor details. "We met Miss Stubbs -while we were ' traveling in Switzerland. She was a little, timid, washed-out old maid. "My dear," she said to me one day ! when we had become intimate with j each, "don't say you want to see life i seeing is dreary work. I never ! wanted to see life, I wanted to live j life; but I have never done oiiher." I took her thin little hand in mine and stroked it. "Were you unhappy when you were young?" I usked. "Oh, no, not unhappy, my dear; but not happy, either. I am not complaining, for everyone was very kind to me, and ready to give me little scraps of their lives to share; but no one seemed to realize that I wanted a life of my own." "Poor Miss Stubbs!" I whispered. "It is very kind of you to be sorry for me, my dear Madge, but really I am not complaining. I have- bad a very peaceful lot compared with many women!" "But did you never fall in love?" I asked, with extreme bolduess. The pale blue eyes filled with tears. "Yes, uear Madge. And I should like to tell you about it, only there is nothing to tell." k "Do tell me what happened?" I \ 1^-. urged. ' "' J3ft?t^?;!f?^--ppened. I once met ! some one whom I loved very much, J and I think he loved me; but I am J not even sure of that. I sometimes ! feel I'd give everything I have if I j could only bo sure of tliat, but I'm J not. Ho -w as a young man who had his way to make in the world; but mv j dear father?as I have told you before j ?thought a great deal of our family I and position, and considered the man I loved was not good enough for me. * So he just put a stop to our friend- j ship.'' / "And you tamely submitted?" "What else could I do? My dear father was a very stern man, and I dared not disobey him." And as I gazed into the timid face I realized that poor Miss Stubb3 had not needed much coercion to make her give up her day-dream at her stern father's command. "What was your lover like?" I asked. "Oh, my dear, he was the handsomest mau I ever saw, with such at?? 1- 1" - J tractive maimers, sue repneu. "Was he tall?" I asked. (Being fivefoot-nine myself, I had a. profound contempt for little men.) "Yes, dear, and such a fino figure; nice broad shoulders, you know, and a splendid carriage." not help wondering how a fine ha^*o?a ew-u could have fallen in with such a odorless nonentity of ? -.oman, but?as I have frequenly " noticed?there is no accounting for naoivo* I was filled with pity for poor Miss I Stubbe; it seemed so sad to go through life without ever really living, as she had done; and thus it was that my J great scheme occurred to me. What a good thing it would be if Uncle James would marry Miss _ Stubbs, and so give her some comfort at the end of her life. k Uncle James was a worthy, middleaged bachelor?rather short and increasingly stout?and was the apotheosis of commonplace respectability. He possessed a kind heart and a dogmatic manner; and he lived chiefly at his club, and thought a great deal too much about things to eat. I divulged my scheme to mother. If - il . _ 1 1 3 iuoiaer laugneu. "I should bo very glad for your | nncle to marry," she said, "as it wor- ! ries me to think of him all aloue, es- j pecinlly when he is gouty. But how could you expect him. or nay other ; man, to fall in love with that laded i old maid?'1 "Oh, I don't expect hitu to fall in ; /*| love," I replied; "he is far too old. | J But I should like to see Miss Stubbs comfortably settled, and I aai sure she would be a good peaceful little wife. Besides, Uncle James isn't exactly the sort of a person to win a beautiful princess for his bride." "Poor James! And yet be had his j beautiful princess once, like other ! men." "Tell me about it, mother. You j don't mean that that prosaic old uncle of mine was ever in love?" T BAND. Ja imp to whore I see 11 ooking down nt me. s d the sound of scampering feet, i; an beat retreat: I earch mv pockets through, to of all that I cau do. ; 1 ently chides their boist'rous glee, 11 take to ransom me. ? o busy day . then, to what the children say? > enough to ransom me, "j ; bright as soon as I am free; s moro valuable than that;" i J jvercoat and hat. kos terms for my release; ust one kiss apiece." ' j :his valiant robber band ard on either hand, j " ly cares away. mat tue cnuaren say. j 2 Answers. nial Agency. ? "I do, though; he was dreadfully iu love once, years and years ago. He used to tell me a lot about the girl,and how happy he would be if only he could win her, though he hardly dared to hope she would ever look at him. I never knew exactly what happened; but ^ he wrote to me, saying that the thing was finally at an end, aud begging me never to mention Annie Lorimer's name . to him again. And 1 have never done so." "What a pretty name! And was she pretty, too?" , "I never saw her," replied mother, * "but James used to say she was lovely: a dainty, exquisite, fairy-like girl, * -I Uli trifle rvnl/lnn us iragne us u uiiui tuiu^miu bu.^u j hair and blue eyes an-l a lovely complexion. She danced beautifully, and was just the type to attract James,who had always been accustomed to big, strong women." (Mother is quite as tall as I am, and my grandmother was even taller.) "Poor Uncle James!" I said. "It j is funny to imagine his caring for anything except pork chops and safe investments." j "He cared enough for Annie Lorimer five and twenty years ago," replied mother. When our Swiss trip was over and ! we were settled at home again, I in duced mother to invite Uncle James and Miss Stubbs to pay us a visit at same time. She said it was an absurd arrange- j ment and would lead to nothing, but she sent the invitations, nevertheless. Father and mother always let me do as I like and have the things I want, because I am the only daughter. Girls with a shoal of sisters don't get nearly as much of their own way j as I do. People always think more of an odd cup and saucer than of a wholo tea set; and yet I sometimes think it must be jollier to be one of a j tea-set, after all. "You are too fond of acting as an amateur Providence, Madge," mother said; "but I don't mind helping you , this once." ( Mother always says "this once" , about kind things she had done every f day in the past, and will do every day ? in the future; but she seems to think \ that the expression protects her from ( the well-founded charge of over-iudul- , geuce. < So Uncle James and Miss Stubbs j came to stay with us. My uncle ' arrived first; aud as' he sat with , mother and me in the morning-room, , he asked: ( "Is anyone else staying with you. j Jaue?" |, "Only Miss Stubbs," rcplie<l mother: , "anil she arrives this afternoon. We ( met her at Lucerne, you know." , "Oh, some girl that Madge took a , great fancy to, isn't she?" , "I took a great fancy to her," I an- ] swered; "but she isn't a girl. She is . quite old. ' I "What a nuisance!" said Uncle ; James, in his sharp manner. "I , hato old women, and old maids, ^ especially." I "You won't hate her, James," said , mother, soothingly; "she is so quiet j and unobtrusive that you'll hardly , know she is in tho house." Then j she smiled slyly at me, and I felt ^ my matrimonial plans foredoomed to , failure. , At that moment Miss Stubbs arrived, , and mother and I ran into the hall to ] meet her. She looked as faded and \ washed-out as ever, and as I followed , her and mother into the morning-room ( I sighed over the futility of my well- j meant scheme. ] "Let me introduce my brother to ( you," mother began. "James, this , is " 1 But before she could finish her sentence Uncle James jumped up and seized Miss Stubbs by both hands, crying: 1 "Why, Annie! you don't mean to < say that it is you, come back to me ! after all these years?" And there was a look on his face that the ten- ! derest pork chops and the safest in- 1 vestments had never been able to call ; forth. Miss Stubbs was quite flushed, and ! trembling all over. I "And it is really you, James? I i never dreamed that I should see you i again." 1 "This is Annie Lorimer that I used < to tell you about, Jane," exclaimed ; Cucle James, turning to mother, but 1 still keeping Miss Stubbs's hands in i his, "but why on earth did you call i her Miss Stubbs?" 1 ATioo GlnKKo onawflrad fm* mntliAr "Tliey only knew me as Miss Stubbs, 1 Jaoie3. When my father came into i that estate which proved such a (lis- 1 appointment to him, he had to give ; up the name of Lorimer and take that 1 of Stubbs; aucl I suppose I never men- 1 tioned that my name had once been < Lorimer." I i As we all sat at tea together I medi- 1 tated deeply on the romantic situation, < and thought how sad it must be to be , 1 rarted from a tine, haudsome man. ' : t ncli as Miss Stubbs hail described to ' ae, anil from a golden-haired fairy neh us; uncle used to talk about to aotherjaudthea'to meet them live-andwenty years afterward, transformed uto a f.it old bachelor and a faded old naid. But my cup of amazement was all when I hear.1. Uncle Jaiues say: "What have you been doing to keen , our.-elf so young, Annie? You hardly ook a day older than when I last saw rou." And Miss Stubbs replied: "You also are scarcely altered a bit, lames. I should have known you 1 inywhere." This fairly knocked me over. It is ibsuriltosay that Love is blind. Love lot only sees beauties no one else | ipps lint what it has once seen it sees ! ilways. h is very fanny and interring. The next day I said to Miss Stubbs: "Whatever made you say Uncle Tames was tall when you described j lim to rneV" "Because he is tall. Don't you think ' rour uncle is a very tine man, my lear?" "J don't know; he always seemed atber short to me, somehow," Istamnered awkwardly. Miss Stubbs smiled. "To you, yes; but you are so exeepionallv tall, you know." Whereby I learned that height is, ifter all, only a question of proporion. Not long after this Uncle James isked me, in his sharp, masterful way: "What possessed you, Madge, when rou told me that Annie was old? Why, she is no more old than I am." T felt confused. "rfhe seemed rather old to me, somehow," I stammered. My uncle smiled. "You, yes; but you aro so absurdly fouug, you know." Whereby 1 learned that age is also i question of proportion. ' n a .1 n tt n f T'nol a Tftm ao o ,1 Vii lUD uaj (iuan cutic i/amuo it>uvi Aunt Annie were married mother said to me: "1 think that Providence helped my managing little girl with her plans this time."' '"No, mother," I answered. "Provilence took it out of my hands altogether and finished the business alone, ind did it a million times better than [ could have imagined." Mother smiled. "You see," I continued, "my scheme was to bring two rather unin:eresting, middle-aged people together md insure a dull and comfortable old ige for them; but Providence's plan vas to reunite two old lovers, who had vnited for each other for a quarter of i century, aud make them young again ind happy with the highest sort of happiness. The ways of Providence ire better than our ways, after all; iren't they, mother?" "As the heavens are higher than the jartb," said mother, softly. The IVclrd Indian Dances. Iii an Indian dance the performers j ire usually arranged in a single or j louble row or in small groups, and j cither maintain their positions ;hronghont or vary it by moving doyrly around in a circle. The paricular movement by which this is accomplished is uu alternate stamping )f the feet or prancing, which not even the most enthusiastic admirer of kings Indian would call graceful. The movemeut is almost invariably iccompanied aud timed by a chant, sometimes weird, but always monotonous, aud the music which often lends ts aid is evolved from a drum or by rubbing one stick over another in ivhich notches have been cat, or, more commonly, by wbat boys call a "bull roarer," au instrument consisting of i tint piece of wood to the middle of >vhich a string is attached. By rapidv whirling the wood about the head i loud purring or subdued roaring is rtroduced. This is supposed to havo i powerful influence in exorcising evil spirits or in notifying good spirits ;bat attention is desired. In addition :o inese lusirumeuxs me ituuc 10 iiuch in evidence in many dances and is an important part of the paraphernalia. Rattles are often made of shells of gourds, partly filled with pebbles, sometimes of a frame or cirilet of wood about half an inch deep, covered with tightly stretched skin md mounted on a suitable handle, [n many of the dances additional rattles are used, consisting of turtle shells bound on the legs of the danc3rs at the knee and having attached to them a bunch of deer or sheep aoofs, which give out a rhythmical nlank as the performers stamp in unison. Xew York Commercial Advertiser. Was It Telepathy? A startling psychological experience ivas coincident with the fatal dynamite jxplosion in the Coney mine, near ikykomish, early one recent morning. One of the two men killed was R. W. Robinson. At precisely the time he tvas stunned by the concussion his , poungwife, sleeping in Ronton, had a : vivid dream of her husband being tilled in an explosion. She awoke in jreat agitation, and was 30 sensibly impressed by the vision that she ironsed her mother, Mrs. Jones, and told her of the occurrence. In spite af all assurance to the contrary, the jroung wife insisted that her husband bad been killed, and it was in the midst of her lamentations tnat a message was brought from Skykomish telling briefly of the accident. Mrs. Robinson reached here bat last Sunday from Pittsburg, Tenn., uul was staying a few days in Rentou tvith her mother, Mrs. Jones, before joining her husband at the mine. He lived three hours before internal hemorrhage caused death, and a part sf that time his mind was deliriously active. It was then, undoubtedly, that the vigorous horror and imagery Df his own mind was transmitted to the sensitive brain of his wife.?Seattle (Wish.) Post-Intelligencer. I TALES OF MCI f I AM) ADVENTURE. 1 .- - fx *X & >'i X '. ;'J":'U3IG;^OIOfOi0(?!8fc-;OK*3Kz3?i;;%?;'t'S!# l?o> -l'renchrr and l'anther. A venerable presiding elder of the Methodist Chureh, Rev. Frank A. Hardin, now of the Rockford (111.) district, began his ministerial career at the age of sixteen as a "junior preacher" in Indiana, when the region that he served was for the ?nost part an unbroken wilderness. He spent must of his time on horseback, and used bis saddle-bags at night for pillows. On one occasion, the story of which was told by Rev. Mr. Hardin at a recent conference, the boy-preacher found the settlement of Millersville in a high state of excitement over the ravages of a great panther amongst the live stock. At a wayside cabin Hardin was warned not to go on, as the panther had been seen on the road, aud it was necessary for him to travel at night in order to meet an appointment for the next day. But the servant of the church had no notion of being turned from his duty by the presence of a wild beast in the woods. Moreover, ho had no fear, for the moon was shining and his "claybank" mare was a spirited auimal. The trail led through a dense piece of woods known as the Sugar Flats. Hardin had not gone far into them before the forest of maples, then in lull leaf, quite stmt out tne moon. "A gooil place this to meet tho panther," tho boy-preacher said to himself. Almost at that moment his mare seemed to drop to the earth, or to crouch close to the ground. Ho knew well enough that she had seen something that he had not, and that that something was highly dangerous to them both. Ho knew that her next move would be a jump, and on the instant he prepared himself for a possible parting of the saddle-girth by gripping the mare's mane. He had no sooner done this, and leaned as far forward as the horn of the saddle would permit, than the mare made a leap, and went hounding along the dark trail like lightning. *? - a i. -- At rue very instant 111 wua-u ?uu leaped Hardiu beard the most terrible scream that ever smote bis ears. It seemed to come from directly over bis bead; and in less than one second after the screech and the leap of his innre, Hardin beard a heavy body strike the ground in the very spot where the mare had been standing while she crouched preparatory to the spring. She had plunged forward just in time to avoid the claws of the panther, which had dropped from the tree at horse and rider. Now the mare was flying through the woods to escape possible pursuit. Probably Hardin could not have held her if he had tried and he did not fry. He had all he could do to cling to her back on the uneven ground, with trce-braucues brushing him. Not until she had reached u large open space on the crest of a ridge did the mare slacken her pace. Then she stopped and drew a deep, shivering sigh, as if to say, "That was a narrow escape lor uoiu 01 us: The rnaro went on now at an easy I irot, as if she had put the whole episode behind her. The young preacher could not say as much, for the terrible scream of the animal haunted him for weeks. His destination was the cabin of a doctor. "When he reached there and told his story, the doctor said: 'Nonsense! You must have heard an owl." Hardin knew better, but he made no reply. He was not surprised when, a little later, the doctor took him aside and said: "That was undoubtedly the big panther that you encountered, but you know, I often have to ride at night through the sugar flats, and my wife would be in constant terror if she knew there was a pauther there." In a few days two young boys went into the same woods in quest of wild turkeys. Iteconnoitering a brushheap, they saw under it a huge ani?? 1 ...aIaIm'm/w lit Am nvonf lv n a o oof IllftI, tucai CAOV/HJ ibj ? \J19V watches a mouse when preparing to spring. One of the boys took aiui at the creature's head, losing no time in doing it, and tired. The panther gave one kick and died in his lair. The lads pulled him out and ran for home, and brought their father and neighbors. The panther turned out to be one of the largest ever killed in Indiana. Attac!. '<t l?y a Venezuelan Tiger. "To try to hunt the panther-tiger of Veuezu writes a correspondent of the Ne .* York Sun, "as the lowland jaguar is hunted with tiger hounds, is next .j useless. In the rough, rocky country in which he makes his home he will travel away at a speed which k.tves the hunters hopelessly behind, : nd it is rarely that the dogs can com; up with them. If they do, it mean ? some dogs killed, with the panther* usually gone before the iniuter c :u arrive on the scene. Sometimes ; . ranchmen trap cr poison the panthr tiger :o .slop his ravages among their s or!:, a thing, despite his cunning, 1. >t so difficult to do, owing to his ra. er.ousness. 'An Englishman named Turnbull, who had a ranch east of Merida, being hot!: red by a panther-tiger which ki'tle I his stock, thought that he would linnl him after the method often em] Ua rd-in India with tigers and leop-! ard-. Taking with him two of his I he. .ers and a goat, lie Av<*nt at night- j fa', to a woodland which the creature j w. . accustomed to visit. There he J t; ' the goa: to a stake and took his j ] tiun behind a blind, fifty yards * > away, to wait for the iiger to come for [ the goat. The ranchmen he sent a j Jjttle distance hack with instructions to.await his summons. "Surely enough, the tiger came, but j * after reconnoitring the ground unseen, i j1 a? was shown by his tracks next day, < instead of tackling the goat, he made t a circuit and pouueed upon one of the I hunters lyingon the ground behind his blind. A heavy overcoat that he wore, j ? the season being winter, when the ( nights are cold in the mountains,saved s the hunter for the moment from the 1 tiger's teeth and claws, and his shouts ^ brought the ranchmen to the rescue. \ They attacked the tiger pluckily with their machetes. The beast was loath I to give up his prey. He drove the P ranchmen back twice, returning to the v Englishman each time and standing guard above him, with his forepaws on his body. At last one of the ranchmen threw a lasso over the tiger's nock and jerked it tight. The animal charged him at once, but the men got a turn of the rope rouud a small tree, e and both pulling hard together, drew o the tiger's head close to the trunk, j Then, as the tiger snapped at the rope with his teeth, one of the ranchmen f severed his spine with his machete. C The Englishman was badly shaken up t by the unexpected outcome of his j: hunting scheme, but was not much in- , jured otherwise. He finished the v beast, which now, of course, was n helpless, with a shot in the head, and ? he always claimed the glory of killing him. But it was never heard that he t tried East Indian hunting methods * again with Venezuelan pather-tigers." n A lirave Deed. p Few readers are aware that our ~ warships carry boiler makers, who ? are often called upon to perform peril- t ous repairs, and,in cases of emergency, these men go inside of the boiler or furnace, which but a few minutes before had been tilled with boiling water c or red hot coal. There is no task too 1 dangerous for these men to do. One of them undoubtedly saved, tho Cas- f tine from destruction iD the harbor of i San Juan. The Castine went into i action under full speed. The furnaces were heated to the highest degree, * forced draught boing used. Without j warning, a fierce hissing noise was 1 hoard inside one of the furnaces. A socket bolt in a back connection at the < farthest interior extremity of the fur- * nace had become loose, springing a f leak. The steam was pouring in upon < the tire, threatening in a few minutes } to put it out and stop the progress of ( the vessel, if it did not cause a terrific , explosion. All in the boiler room ] knew that, unless this hole was J stopped, disaster was at hand. One ' of the boiler makers, named Huntley, ordered the forced draught turned off j -_a xL . C. 1 ?lonl- , ami iut) ures uuuivcu. j. uaiug <* he threw it into the furnace on the top of the wet, black cool with which the fire hail been banked and then climbed far back to the place where the steam was rushing from the loosened socket. l'or three minutes he remained insido the furnace. His friends drew him out of the door, the forced draught was turned on,and in a few minutes the ship was proceeding on her way as though nothing had happened. In view of such deeds as this, there is little wonder that the engineering corps in our navy is receiving the highest praise on every side. Scientific American. | Excitinz Ilycna IItint. j A thrilling hyena hunt is roported ! from Verviers, Belgium. Toward I midnight two hyenas, recently bought from the Zoological Gardens, at Bras- : scls, managed to escape from the traveling menagerie of M. Camillus, which had been exhibited during the week at Verviers. When the news spread through tho tbwn there was intense excitement and alarm. Camillus, aided by his negro manager,Edward Wilson,at once went in pursuit of the beasts, and a few of the citizens volunteered to accompany them. One of the animals was found crouching near a large monument in ' the public square. Wilson at ones i seized the animal by the throat. The : negro is very powerful, and his grasp . was like a vice, me rest or me party , helped him put the animal in a cage. Then they started in pursuit of its mate. In three hours the second hy- i ena was located in the Bois do Dar- !] denelles on the outskirts of the city, ; one of the dogs with the party having discovered the beast. Hero again the jj negro Wilson astounded the onlookers j] by his courage and his strength. He j1 choked the hyena into insensibility, T and the burgers of Verviers wore once more willing to go to their slumbers. ;] A Hero at ?1 Caney. Captain A. H. Lee, R. A., British J Military Attache, with Shatter's army in Cuba, writes as follows in Scribner's Magazine: Close in front of me I, a slight and boyish lieutenant compelled my attention by his persistent ;] and reckless gallantry. Whenever a man was hit ho would dash to his as- , sistauce regardless of the tire that this ji exposure invariably drew. Suddenly ' he sprang to his feet, gazing intently , jj +ho rr~. I] a era hilt, wilftt he SSW WO 1 !( never knew, for he was instantly shot through the heart and fell over backward, clutching at the air. I followed the men who carried him to the road , and asked them his name. "Second < Lieutenant Wansboro, sir, of the Seventh Infantry, and you will never j see his better. He fought like a little tiger." A few convulsive gasps and , the poor boy was dead, and as we laid !j him in a shady spot by the side of the < road, the sergeant drew a handker- 1 chief over his face aud said: "Good- ^ by, Lieutenant, you were a brave lit- t tie officer, and you died like a true j :i soldier." "Who would wish a better j; end? ? j ! In the towns of Chile nio3t shops j ;] are open till midnight, and during the j hot afternoons, when everybody takes j : a siesta- tbey are locked up. ;< I ? - . % ? lVa?liin;ton lt?m?. The QuartermaMer'sDopnrtment will ask lew bids for 50,000 khaki uniforms for the irmj\ Proposals were submitted some ? irre ago, but the bids were unsatisfactory. iuartennaster Kimball, of New York, has een instructed to advertise for short time , roposals, only five days belnc given. The naval court of inquiry that investigated the cause of the cruiser Buffalo"* deention absolved Commnnder Hemphill and 'hief Engineer Beig from blame. Three ubordinute mechanics were dropped from he service. President MeKinley receive 1 the new apanese Minister to the United States a ew days ago. ' u I * A nr.l.flnnii nctas Ylflnneol Icath In lils annual report showed that the teneral busiuess'of the Department inTeased over $6,000,000. Samuel J. Gompers, resident ot the American Federation ot Labor, had an nterview with President McKinley a few lays ago for the purpose of securing, if >ossibie, the President's indorsement in his nessage of labor measures pending in Congress. It is considered probable that the preset free lists in the tariff nets of Canadv ind the United States will bo incorporated! n 8dv reciprocity agreement reached bjl he joint commission. Secretary Alger received a cable message; rom Major-General Wade, President of th? }uban Evacuation Commission, informing dm thnt General Carpenter and the first xpeditloa destined for Porto Principal irovince arrived at Xuevitas November 15. The Navy Department signe I contracts! rith the W. It. Trigi? Company, of Rich-' aond, Va., for the construction ot two toredo boat destroyers and three torpedo oats. Surgeon-General Sternberg's report on he service of the Medical Corps during the rar has been submitted to Secretary Alger.; No more of the big fighting ships ot the avy will be laid up for repairs until the eace negotiations in Paris have been eonluded. A number of vessels are in need f minor repairs, >nit those will be icept in ervice. None of them is in such ?ondlion that it cannot do effective work. Domestic. Louis Dahlmann, a well-to-do resident f Dyea, Alaska, has been frozen to death n Chilkoot Pass. He is the first victim of he Arctic winter in the Klondike. Colonel 0. V. Hard refused to resign rom tne Eighth Ohio Volunteers, "The 'resident's Owd," when requested to do so n writing by all the officers. William Miller shot and killed hfs wife at he residence of William Stiles, in Dyberry township, a few miles from Honesdale, 'enn., and then committed suicide, Jea- , ousy prompted the crime. Mrs. John L. Anderson, a colored woman >f Ansonia, Conn., was arrested charged vitli murdering her husbunnd. Suspicious dreuinstances attending the death led the ittondlng physician to report the <jase to toroner Mix, of New Haven. He examined Anderson's remains and found that his leath was caused by arsenic poisoning. Charles Niklrk and Henry Lemon, fornerly privates in tho Second Kentucky ' ieglment, were killed near Middleborougb, ?y., by the prematuro explosion of dynnnite at limestone quarries. Several others ,vore injured. August Pews of New York City, attempted' ;o kill his wife, LIzzio, a few nights ago, ind then shot htmsalf in the month and iled ten minutes later. He was thirty-six ? fears old and had three children. Several , fours ago he was a cashier in a hotel and jy frugality saved S20CO. Six months ago le began to drink and did not stop until he rad spent nil of his money. Edward Crozler, fireman of the switcher it tho Naugatuok yards. Connecticut, was tilled la u collision with a freight train, rnd Timothy l'lyun, of the 'swltoh arew, was fatully Injured. Tho onglneer, George Vndorsou, una Robert Newcomb, a swltohuan, were both seriously Injured, but may roe over, Thomas 31. Leoman, lineman,was shocked :o death oa the cross arm of an eleotrio Ight polo In St. Louis, 3Io., a few days igo, In full view of thousands of pedesriaas, who were powerless to aid him. It was found that Leomnn's rubber gloves wore In tho pockets of his jacket, while he xad on a pair of buckskin gloves. 3Ilss Jossie Schley, of 3Iilwaukce, Wis. ssued a statement to the American press, a which she declares she tutluonoed Spain .0 sue for peace, and says she Is mortified uul chagrined "to find that we are trying :o grab all we can." 31!ohaol Egan, lifty-slx years old, of Hojoken, N. J., was shot and instantly killed jy his wife, Mary Egan, fifty-four years old. Ihe was placed uuder arrest. The police wlleve the shooting was unintentional, but ittrlbuto It to erimtnal carelessness. Tho Union Paolfi), Denver and Gulf Railroad system was bought by tho Reorganisation'Committee for $0,250,000. Eight persons were injured in a wreck on :he Big Four Railroad near Alton, III., a few lays ago. The train was a special, and was lorailed by a cow. Tho holler of a freight locomotive exoloded near Lima. Ohio, killing David Lit tie, the fireman, and probably fatally Injuring Walter Shlrtleff, the engineer; Edward Qulok, the conductor, and Frank Smith, a brakeman. About twenty-live ears were wrecked. 4 Annie Delnr, four years old, of New York City, was bitten by a dog and died of hydrophobia a tew days ago. The long drought which alarmed farmers throughout California was broken a few days ugo by a h*ivy rain in many jQUQtles. The ralnfalfwlll be of immense benefit to grain growers, who are just putting in wheat, and to fruit growers. It win also start up grass and give feed to jtook, which has suffered severely. The cruiser Topeka started from League Island, Philadelphia, for Koy West, on her way to Havana, where she will relieve the scorpion from duty in connection with the American Evacuation Commission. G, W. Rogers,of Camden, N, J., and H. 3. Rue, railroad tnea, were killed at ltahiray, N, J,, a few days ago. They had sompleted their run for the day and were walking to the station to take a train for lome when they were run down by the Ubicago limited. 4 Antonio Hubbatelli, of Hoboken, N. J., was shot dead by Antonio Amedoo, who 41SU wuuuueu uuiivuu, unuumu, :wice ia tho right arm, The shooting oo* ;urred at a wedding feast at Sabbatellihi iOuae-?that of Olovanul Gulsto, also a Iruit dealer. Forelen. Two Amerloan naval officers have just jompleted a six weeks' tour of the interior >f Luzon Island, Philippines. The remains cf Chrtstophor Columbus, jn their arrival in Spain, will be deposited in a speolal monument at SeYilla. Severe snowstorms, the first of the sea- . son, prevailed over the Midlands and sforth Britain. Heavy gales swept the joast, and several casualties were reported. A spy said to be in the service of the French Intelligence Department was sen;onced at Lelpsic, Germauy, to six years' mprisonment. The American, British and Japanese Hinisiera ai oeoui aavu proiosicii n^aiu. ;he action of the Korean Government in jreventiug foreigners from trading In the nterior. It is announced in London that Slj rhomas J, Lipton will convert UU tea* joffee and provision business in the United itatns into a stock company in February i