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I IS (Continued from 1st page.) of the land from which came victims of the flames. If play houses which are intended to be institutions of mirth and merriment are in reality to be chambers of horror, where shall we turn for that recreation for which the mind craves f Now that the awful holocaust has taken place, it is easy for the layman to offer suggestions as to how it might have been avoided, but does that bring back to the homes made desolate, loved ones? Does it fill vacant chairs? No! No! a hundred times no! How to avoid future occurrences of this nature is today occupying the minds of some of the greatest architects and if the outcome of their deliberations does not bring about a state of affairs that shall at least, in a measure, surround us with a feel ing of safety, then their time shall indeed have been wasted. In looking over the details of the calamity, the hand of gratt is evidenced from .the laying of the foun dation of the Iroquois building to tne raising of the curtaia 0,1 ths fatal - it i dav. City ordinances say u 11 - structure of this kind shall be bmil according to certain plans and specifications laid down. But "grafters" say "for a consideration we win . 11 nlace n "rmiiriietion on the orciinance which will permit you to build as per the dimensions of your pocketbook, with the "rake-off" added. The closing of all theaters in hica- . i-i 1 1 1 , A a norf "o is a nisxericai anemJi -" i-. of the "powers' that be" to shelter themselves from the wrath that is to ml 1 il,tnfai "I a n I'Ocome. anai every mcat-ci trap is acknowledged, and omcially so, by the issuing ot the oraer 10 cW 'them. Had this order been is sued on the 29th day of December, how many homes would have been 1 A - . ,1 rfriof Tn llOW saved. ioru sorrow auu hj... tnany homes would peace and happiness be reigning instead of desolation being in evidence. If the Chicago theaters are unsafe now, were they not just as much so then? The price paid for this knowledge is great. To some it seems greater than can be borne, but who shall say if the lives sacrificed on that fateful day are the means of bringing out conditions which shall make places of public meetings safe, shall have been sacrificed in vain. C. A. Fitzgibbons. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The uniform success of this remedy has made it the most popular preparation in use for bowel complaints. It is everywhere recognized as the one remedy that can always be depended upon and that is pleasant to take. For sale by A. G. Luken & Co., W. H. Sudhoff, fifth and Main street. Christmas and New Years have come and gone accompanied by the usual festivities of the holiday season. liiley Chamness, aged 77 years, died on the 29th ult. and was buried on the 31st ult. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mahlon Chamness of Nettle Creek Friends' church. He was one of the best citizens of this community and will be missed very much by Lis relatives, neighbors and friends. Wilson Dennis, who is 89 years old on the decline and will probably not survive many weeks. The Friends in and abc.it West River are holding a meeting at that church. Rev. Hiatt of Grant county is the minister in charge and there is much interest manifested. No political movement has appear ed in Dal ton township yet. Not even a candidate for township office has had the courage to announce himself. This condition, however, will not continue lonjr, as some local nolitix cians will soon put up their rods hop ing and trusting that lightning will strike them. There. is always considerable enthusiasm here in local politics and this year promises to be no exception. Elijah Aldred made a ten days' trip to Carolina. R. S. Beekwith is there now and will, remain until spring. iotel Rates St. Louis World's Fair. For copy of World's Fair offi.-Ial pamphlet, nnming Hotel aeeomumda10ns and rates-during; Universal Fxnation of 1904, address E. A. Ford. ieneral Passenger Atrent Pennavlv lia-Vandalia lines, Pittsburg, Pa.

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JtrRAYALsfi iNFIDENCE. ....By Howard fielding X Copyright, 1903, by Charles W. ITooke 4ft"t-t' '$ i -if i"$ 1 T was the sound of my own voice that waked me from the state of semiconscious wretchedness which I call sleep. The hour was uncer tain, but the night seemed on the wane. The room had the gray gloom of a dim cell under ground, and the four walls lurked in shadows like four dark robed inquisitors watching some tortured victim on the rack. I sat upon a pillow with my back against the brazen grille at the head of the bed. The bars were as cold as an Eskimo's idea of perdition, and no doubt they printed their pattern on me as I cronched there for two minutes gibbering like a scared monkey. Having attained full consciousness through this pleasant process, which has beman with a lax-teen leads jje to a LITTLE LKN. tome quite usual with ine, I began to repeat the phrase that I bad uttered automatically before waking: "As her husband is a citizen of Rhode Island" Could it be possible that I bad put those words into a letter addressed to the one person in the world who mustn't know that the young woman in Question has a husband? I knew myself too well to doubt, that I had done it. My memory, for all useful purposes, is gone. I meet my friends and do not know their names; I talk with them and forget the subject which is under discussion even while I am in the very act of discussing it. But when I am asleep or sunk In that purgatory of mental stress through which I never can quite win my way into the heaven of sleep I am liable to remember anything minute details of my boyhood, the exact turn of a phrase or glance of an eye that marked a scene of youth, but chiefly my own faults and errors. These, whether of long ago or of the day just , done, come into my mind with startling suddenness and always with absolute accuracy, so far as I am able to determine. Sometimes I repeat aloud my own words or those of others; sometimes I utter vain protests against the recurrence of such thoughts, but the end is always the same I pass through purgatory in the wrong direction and am cast into the torment of Wideawake. The way in which this memory had come to me stamped it as genuine. Moreover, I have a rule for such matters, and I rely upon it with a sad certaintythat which is good is a dream, that which is bad is true. I arose, shivering, and huddled some clothes upon me, with a heavy hooded bath robe over them. Then I made a fire of sea coal in the parlor and sat down before it to meditate upon a state of affairs which, briefly stated, was this: An old gentleman named Christopher Hooper, who lives In Sayville, on the Maine coast, a pretty little town where I tmve sptnt a summer or two, bad written to me for a legal opinion upon the status of certain property. lie particularly desired to know what would become of it in case he should die without a Will, ne did not say why he wished to die without a will, but I was of the opinion that he might do worse. Indeed, I was considerably relieved to find that such was his intention. If he should not change his mind upon this point his granddaughter. Gertrude Ellis, would inherit about a quarter of a million dollars, to the best of my knowledge and belief.' In regard to the property mentioned in his letter asking my advice there might be a squabble over the matter of partition, and if litigation should arise the situation would be complicated by the fact that Gertrude was no longer a minor, with a legal residence in Maine, but was secretly married to Robert N. Ellis of Rhode Island. Ellis ris a young man who had had a little liirney and had lost it through neglect i:icr the advice of Christopher Hooper. This was a serious offense, but he bnd cut himself o!T from pardon by taking n position on a newspaper. Mr. Hooper despised all newspapers as a result of having been abused by one of them in the course of a political campaign In 1SGS. Ellis had met fTl.Aif 1111 a " In onmmt rfi na f f nna na 1

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had. lie was still in bis youth and with a sunny view of life. It was better that he should win her. I had never striven against himk nor said one word In my own cause. I had no exalted notions of self abnegation. I thought that this would be like other sorrows, but somehow it Isn't. They made a great friend of me, and when it cae to their childish folly of a secret marriage I was their sole confidant. I tried to dissuade them, selfishly, generously, I don't know which. Perhaps the meeting of those storms of different considerations iu my brain

may have had something to do with the condition of it. At any rate, if it hurt me it benefited no one else. They were married as a guarantee to Ellis that old Christopher Hooper's opposition should not wreck his hopes. The ceremony occurred In New York, where Gertrude spends her winters with an aunt who is so dull of wit that I think the wedding might have taken place in her own parlor and she have been none the wiser. I was the only accomplice. It was some months later that I had my letter from Mr. Hooper. As I sat down to answer it I said to myself: 'I must be careful. I don't know what I'm about." I had done my best with it. and my best had been as bad as possible, for those words bad crept in: "As her husband is a citizen of Rhode Island" , TLe name of the state would Identify the man, and as Hooper had once- been led to fear a secret marriage no lies, though backed by all the resources of perjury that are known to a New York lawyer, could repair the mischief. Beyond doubt I had arranged matters so that Mr. Hooper would not die with out a will. No direct advice upon the point could have been half so effective. If he lived long enough to find a bottle of ink after reading my letter Gertrude would be disinherited. What was to be done? Upon this point I tried to think clearly. There must be a way out of It. I said to myself that if I could have ten minutes of real sleep nay., but five I could think my way through this difficulty. With deliberation' f laid my heavy .head against the cushioned chair and closed my eyes despite the force of the springs that held them onen SDrincrs that pressed incessantly so that the orbits of the eyes were sore. - I saw many vi sions the old days at Sayville; Ger trude, seventeen years old, upon a ten nis field shaking down the masses of her hair disordered in the game, the picture of youth; the first time I ever saw her. But this has nothing to do with the letter. I must think of that. Mailed about half past 10 of the evening, it had not yet started on its way to Boston. Only one mail a day at Sayville. I wrote a letter to Gertrude once and beatit to Sayville by a full day's time. If I take the fast express at 10 o'clock this morning I may be there in time. In that case I'll find some way to intercept the letter. I'll bribe a. servant. So that's all settled and off my mind, and I may sit here in this chair and dream of things that aren't true. All that is good is a dream. It is a comfort to ride in a railroad train. The engineer knows his way, and the conductor, for a consideration, will put an absent minded passenger off at the proper station. If he happens to forget to render this service why should the absent minded passenger make trouble? Rather let bim be comforted by the thought that some one else has lost his memory. However, Boston is a terminal, so there is no risk. In Boston it is raining to a degree that Noah never saw the like of. The roof of the cab in which I cross the city roars with the flood that is descending upon it. Beyond Boston the train seems like a submarine boat. Night closes in, and the rain still falls. We are late at Portland, later yet at the junction where I must change to the little branch road. A man with a lantern leads me to a little inn that looms in an ocean, of rain. He takes it for granted that I want to go to bed. Probably he has never seen a man who did not have that natural inclination at such an hour of the morning. Next day the weather had cleared The sun shone brightl5 , but the whole "HAS HE BEEN TO THE MAIL?" I DEMANDED. region seemed to be a lake. I had many misgivings, yet the branch train started confidently on time. It ran about ten miles and then stopped while the track ahead was tested and repaired. A few miles farther along the same process was repeated, and so we crept down to Relfast. arriving too late for the bont across the baj , Mails reach Sayville about 2 o'clock In the afternoon, coming down by stage along the east bank of the Penobscot. By the best calculation that I could

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OUR FIRST REPUBLIC. It Was 2Vot the United Stnte. but tb iiifliunu Itejmblfc. The first republic In this hemisphere to succeed iu compelling recognition of its Independence was, of course, the republic wLo.se proud'capital is Washington. But there was an earlier one which died soon after its birth, of which little or nothing is said in our Anerican histories. When France, in 17G4, ceded Louisiana to Spain, the subjects of King Louis XV. objected to the transfer without their consent. The local gov ernment submitted the question to tho council, which, under the lead of Nicholas Chauvin de Lafreniere, rose In revolt. Lafrenire called a convention of the people at Sew Orleans, while the new Spanish governor was on his way to the colony, and the convention selected a delegate to go to Paris to dissuade the French king from bis course. Louis XV., however, rebuffed the delegate and sent back word that the people must recognize the authority of Spain. ' It was then that the people of Louisiana resolved on a radical course. On -the night of Oct. 28, 17C8, the rebels took possession of the French forts and the gates of the town In the name of the republic of Louisiana. The old French governor offered no resistance, while the new Spanish governor took refuge on a ship and sailed for Havana. On Oct. 2. 1708, the council at New Orleans adopted a formal declaration of Independence1, officially named itself the republic of Louisiana, elected Lefreniere "protector" and prepared a written constitution. This interesting government lasted from October. lTt "3, to July, 1700, when a Spanish squad rr 1 of twenty-four vessels, with an army f 2.C00 men, arrived at New Orleans. The new republican state was destroyed and five republican leaders, includ- . ing Lafreniere, were put to death. Then all the republic's official papers, including its declaration of independence and constitution, were burned in the public square Springfield Republican. - A BOWERY INCIDENT. The Invited Gneit Who Wai Called IJefore the Feait. The missionary had finished his talk to the crowd of derelicts in a Bowery mission-and went around the room to shake them by the hand. There was one man sitting on a bench whose face was so utterly loathsome that the missionary's gorge rose in his throat, and he was compelled to pass bim by. The man's duiled rye marked the look of disgust, and in a torrs of mingled dejection and resentment he cried out: "Say. mister, why den't you shake hands wid me?" The young missionary, turned, conscience stricken, looked into the sin scarred features and grasped the man's hand. 'Tieally, brother, you must forgive me," he stammered. "I I couldn't help it when I saw you your face. But I'll make amends. Y'ou must take, dinner with me tomorrow night." The broken man glanced at his rags in confusion, blushed like a girl and gasped: "Wot! Me take dinner wid you! Me go to your house! Me!" "Yes. I mean it I'll come tomorrow night and get you." True to his word, the missionary presented himself at the lodging house the next evening and inquired for the man. A corpse was lying on the table", a handkerchief spread over its facei The clerk jerked his thumb in the direction of the body. "That's Wilson," he said. "He had fixed himself up and was waitin' for yon: dropped dead half an hour ago." New York Press. Embarrasilug. The Squire's Pretty Daughter (examining the village school) Now, children, can you tell me what a miracle is? The children looked at one ganother, but remained silent. "Can no one ..answer this question?" the new curate asked, who was standing behind the squire's daughter. A. little girl was suddenly struck with a brilliant idea. She held up her hand excitedly. - "Well, Nellie?" the squire's daughter asked, smiling approvingly. "Please, miss," the small child replied breathlessly, "mother says. 'twill be a miracle if you don't marry the new curate." London Globe., . ' Hfcogniscd It. ' .Vhis," smiled the fond young wife as she passed a plate of dessert to her husband, " is cottage pudding. I made it myself." ' , The man tasted of it. "I'd have known it wag cottage pudding." he asserted. "You would?" she asked, delighted. "YTes. I can taste the plaster and the wall paper. : What did you do with the shingles and the bricks ot the chim- -ney ?" Judge. The Sweet GIrla. Klttie Paul told me last evening I was the prettiest girl he ever saw. Bessie Oh, that's nothing. He said the same to me last year. Kittie I know, dear, but his taste may have Improved since then, you know. Boston Transcript. Ileflned. Mrs. Nuritch I think I'll take thia bracelet. Are you sure It's made of refined gold ? Jeweler Oh, yes. ' Mrs. Nuritch Because I do detest anything that isn't refined. Philadelphia Ledger. Work is the soup, fame the entree fortune the roast and oblivion the dessert of most lives. There is no cordial-

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