Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — Page 2

Woman The Mystery

CHAPTER XIII. Tbe two men walked on in silence, and It prored a long joilrney, all through the western suburbs of Richmond into sfee town itself, through the town and along Main street, out at the Rocketts. There the pickets on duty challenged them, but Walter, being a field officer, had both the password and the countersign, and they were immediately allowed to proceed without question. Denon had not spoken a word on the way. Walter turned down the Williamsburg atage road and passed camp after oamp among the pines, being only allowed to proceed after satisfying the sentinels at each place. “May I ask,” said Denon, on a sudden, “what you propose to do with me?” “Ton dhall be dealt by fairly,” replied Walter, sternly, but without emotion. “You shall be shown all the leniency you can expect, and a great deal more than yon bare the right to expect.” Denon saw that it would be useless to eontinne the conversation, and strode along without another wort!. When they arrived at the angle of the Williamsburg stage road and of the Charles City road, Walter took the direction of the latter, and followed it for a couple of miles or more. At last he arrived at a part where several rows Of small shelter tents shone white in the moonlight between the great Bines by the side of the roan. It was the (tap of the Louisianians. Here the •entry saluted, and the officer of the guard came to meet his major. “The battalion is away on picket •uty," said the officer of the guard. ‘‘There is nobody In the camp but the guard and a few of the sick. An order same late in the evening from Gen. Hill. The Fourth Alabama were to have £utglsbed picket to-night, but they were so lhadly ent up last Saturday that they aould not have found men enough. We were the next troops, and so we got the erder.” Walter walked through the rows of small tents into a larger one at the end of • line. A big, square-headed and hugefooted negro servant met him, and opened his eyes wide with amazement when he saw the imitation man of color in the *on»pany of his master. “Don't mind him, Joe,” said Walter. “Yon will find his color will wash off, uzsd he will turn out only white after all. Fetch two or three buckets of water and some soap.” With that he beckoned Denon to come Into the tent, and pointed to a camp •tool. Denon seated himself without further ado, and said: “I suppose you wish me to take these idlings off. Rut I have no other elothhig” “I will supply that,” answered Walter, and taking a suit of civilian’s homespun from a bag, threw it on the heap of - Mankets which served as a bed. “My servant will assist you,” he said; “and in the meantime I am going to consider how to settle this business with fairness to both of us.” With that he sat himself down on a ump stool outside the tent, seeking a Sight amid the nebulous turmoil which cloudfd his thoughts. Denon, in the meantime, aided by Joe, had resumed Ais own appearance in a suit of drab homespun. “I will now tell you- what I propose to do.” said Waiter, when he had sent 4he negro away. “I have been thinking aver the matter as we walked along, and, since I have been here, I have just learned that my battalion is on picket duty, *nd this has given me an idea which ieadß me to what I think a fair settlement. You are a spy, or something very Ske h. Of that I have no doubt. My yUin duty as an officer of the Confederacy is to hand you over to the provost guard. At the same time, I know that Miss liCmure endeavored to save you, hy hiding you in her own room, and by Wptng you to the disguise you wore a Bttle time ago. I owe a duty to her as vrelL If I can, I will satisfy both obligations.” He was speaking slowly and without tba least trace of excitement, and he passed for a moment to look at the man apposite him, who sat there in somber silence.

“W« are going to fight," said Walter, •e a sudden, “and either I will kill you •r yon will kill me.” Denon shrank back with a barely perceptible movement, but raised himself again with a sigh of relief. “Very well,” he said, "certainly, if that is the way oubof the difficulty. How •r* we to fight? Where are we to fight?” “I have provided for that,” said Wai*er. "We will fight with revolvers. I Will supply you with a weapon loaded Yith six chambers. I will have another •t exactly the same kind—a Colt's army BStohrer. I will take you outside our picket line, so that, if you kill me or so ••reset j wound me that I am left on the ground, you shall not be prevented from eaeaplng toward the Union lines. If I kQI you. of course, there Is an end of it; •nd If I disable you, you will have to take your chances if you are taken back knrto the Confederate lines.” “Tbs* meaue,” said Denon, slowly, ridmt I am to take my chances of death Cmbb your bullet, and through hanging kg your people, both.” “I think the offer a very fair one," •aid W«Her, "and it will have to be that, •r the courie which plain duty demands drum me, and which I yield to you, risktag my fife.” “I •ceept,” said Denon. “Do I understand you rightly? Lot us settle all jpotnta first of all. How are we to fire? Wbam «v* we to fire?” I “We will walk together beyond our •leket lines,” replied Walter, “until I till cry ‘Hah!’ Then we will turn back back. and each of us will march fifteen •arts, ws will face round again, and ■mb fire, and continue firing until the and la attained. I think you are a man «f honor, nnd I will trust you. I hope r; yon will trust me. We will be betwfitkout aeoonds.” t Dastn held out his hand and Walter It warmly. A momentary gasp Jg—rsinl tba Englishman’s handsome (tag* wad ha breathed a deep sigh. “1 HMdtnrtnnd you,” said Denon, “and P (tank yon. I am res'dy.” Tk» strange duel was fought as srand at the second fire both fall,

By HENRY HERMAN

nirnost mortally wonnded, to the ground. Their shots seemed to have aroused both the Union and Confederate troops, each side taking the reports ns the signal of an attack from the other side. A sharp skirmish ensued, and when it was over the Union troops were in orderly retreat, As qhey passed the scone of the duel Denon raised himself on one arm, and called to one of the federal officers by name. “Don’t you know me, Frasier?” he cried. "I am Denon. Don’t leave me here.” “It’s Denon,” exclaimed the Federal officer, “Cnpt. Denon! Here, two of you! Pick him up and carry him along with you. Gently! Gently does it.” “And that man over there,” whispered Denon, as two of the Union soldiers took him on their arms between them. “Don’t leave him here. Bring him with you. I particularly ask you,”— “Certainly,” said the Federal captain. “You have a reason for it, 1 suppose. Come along, some of you! Let us take that-rebel with us as well. I don’t think lie is worth taking, though,” he added, as two of his men raised the limp figure. "I think it’s all over with the poor follow. He is shot in the head. Iyook, there is a lump ct of his skull.” “Bring him!” g-jped Denon, and at that moment the stretcher bearers came along, and took charge of the two wounded men. - —! i

CHAPTER XIV. The Federal field hospital adjoining the depot at Savage Station on the Richmond and York River Railroad was a far from unpleasant spot even in the fierce June heat of the Virginian summer sun. -Walter and Denon lay side by side in a huge tent near the palings with which the railway station was fenced. Denon’s wounds, though severe, had proved to be not dangerous, and the doctor pronounced him fairly on the road to recovery. Walter’s ease, however, was a very serious one. The bullet had struck the unfortunate man on the side of the forehead, and had smashed clean awny a portion of the skull. Fortune, however, was kind, and the brain itself had not been injured except by a scratch or two from the splintered bone. The surgeon who had the case in hand was surprised when lie saw the young man, for he found that there was a previous fracture of the skull on the spot .where the new wound supervened. Walter, of course, was totally unconscious, and remained so for days, the attendants being compelled to keep him alive by liquid food poured between his lips, and nearly a week elapsed before he gave signs of recovering consciousness. Denon improved rapidly, and showed the most assiduous attention to his former opponent. Had Walter been his brother or his father, he could not have devoted more care to him or expressed greater grief for his stricken state. One morning, as the surgeon was bathing and bandaging his wounds, Walter opened his eyes and looked about him with a vacant stare. At last he raised bis feeble hand to his eyes, but dropped it again in a moment and shook his head wearily. “Is De Bardinot alive?” he asked, in a faint whisper; “is De Bardinot alive? Surely you know him. He is captain in the second battalion of the Nationals, and he was with me when that villain blew us up’.”

Denon looked at the doctor, and the doctor looked at Denon. “I am afraid he is slightly delirious,” said Denon. “He is miring up something with his present case.” "He is feverish still,” said the man of science, “but he is not delirious. The wound in his head may account for his speech, but we shall know more about that as we go on.” Walter, finding that he received no answer to his question, looked around again with an expression of piteous pain in his eyes. The objects which met his gaze were strange and unaccountable to him evidently, for again he shook his head as if the task of fathoming the mystery were too great for him, and then he dozed off to sleep. Another day passed like that, and another night. On the following morning Denon was surprised to find Walter halfseated on his straw bed, supporting himself painfully with one arm. Denon jumped up, and finding an old knapsack, covered it with his own blanket, and thus formed a support for Walter to lean against. “Thank you,” said Walter, weakly. “I am so much obliged to you. Where am I?” “You are In the field hospital at Savage Station,” replied Denon. "Savage Station? Savage Station?” questioned Walter to himself. “I don’t know such a place—and—can you perhaps tell me what has become of my friend, De Bardinot?” “De Bardinot?” asked Denon. “Who is he?” , “Don’t you know?” exclaimed Walter, with febrile excitement. “He commands a company of the Second National Guards of the Seine. He was blown up with me in the Rue St. Jacques.” “I am afraid you are not clear in your mind,” said Denon, shaking his head In pity. “Oh. I am perfectly clear,” said Walter. “We stormed the barricade, and we took the house in which that villain, Rustropie l’arlowe lived. I had got into his very room, and had just seen that Helene was not there, and I \vn9 asking him where she was, when the whole thing blew up, aud sent us sky-high, and I remember no more.” Denon sat there 'for a moment or two iu a pained silence. “I don’t understand you,” he eaid. “You are speaking of some French place. We are In America— in Virginia." ‘T also don’t understand you,” said Walter. "I am the Honorable Walter Glaydes, son of Lord Yorley, and I was hurt In the Hu# 8t Jacques. All I want to know la. If my friend De Bardinot is alive, and if that villain, Rustrome Parlowe, la deed?” The surgeon had entered In the meantime, and stooping over Walter, felt his pulse. M I must forbid all further converse

tlon,” he said. “You have bo»n exdt* ing yourself, major.” “Major!” exclaimed Walter, in seaming astonishment. “Yea,” interposed Denon. “Surely yon know who you are. You are Major Jack Adams, of the First Louisiana Battalion of the Rebel army.” “I am Walter Glaydes,” said Walter, pitifully, and the doctor again interposed. “Now, this will do,” he said. “Further we must not g<>. You must try to not think, else we shall have you laid up with brain fever.” A week passed, during which Walter improved rapidly in health of mind and body. He could rise from his bed and walk, and the surgeon allowed him to sit in the shade of a couple of great beech trees which stood in the depot yard. And the wounded soldiers, who had heard the strange case of the rebel who had a piece of his head shot away and still lived, came and looked at the man, who had had such a wonderful escape. The sight of their uniforms and a dozen wounded Confederates who were'kept as prisoners in the hospital helped much to restore the equilibrium of his mind. He soon remembered how he came to be there. He remembered Helene’s protection of Denon and bis fight with the latter. Then, tracing back incident by incident and scene by scene, a light dawned upon him through the darkness which had shrouded his past from him for years, and be saw the sequence of events clearly-

“Yes, he was Walter Glaydes, Lord Yorley’s son, and he had been wounded in Paris trying to drag his cousin Helene out of the clutches of that villain, Rustrome Parlowe, whom men knew as Jean Lemure. lie remembered it all as he thought over it, and it flashed upon him that his wound there must have r- -n®>hed his memory out of his mind. ...i he remembered himself again as Jack Adams, and he remembered Helene —Helene Lemure—growing from lovable girlhood to majestic womanhood, and himself loving her with all his heart and soul. Surely Helene Lemure was his cousin Helene, whom he had striven so hard to find and restore to her friends. Her very name Lemure proved that, If it required a proof. His wounds healed rapidly, and the surgeon expressed every hope that, very shortly, he would be able to fit the mental cover over the wound in the head. But memory was not to be restrained. It welled up in a limpid flood, and left the mind clear.

Walter knew all about his past, and though he would have given his heart’s blood to be able to whisper a word into Helene’s ears, she was as far away from him as if for the moment she had been dead. He was a prisoner of war, and Helene was in Richmond. Between them lay the contending forces in flieir myriads, a barrier of iron and death. (To be continued.)

THIS IS THE NAVAL WAY.

Treasury Pays Expenses of Recruiting Officer in a Peculiar Fashion. Officers of the navy who have charge of the recruiting for that service have devised a means of extracting money from the federal treasury. According to a decision recently made by Comptroller Tracewell it is unlawful to pay the cxpences Incurred by officers detailed for recruiting duty. He holds that all they are entitled to receive is their mileage, amounting to 8 cents for each mile actually traveled. Mileage will not cover the expenses, because most of the journeys are short and the stays in a particular city rather long.

The plan Is to send the officers arotind Robin Hood’s barn,. When it Is desired that an officer shall open a recruiting office in Baltimore for a week or ten days he is to be ordered to St. Louis and then to Baltimore. His stay In St. Louis is to be limited to about five minutes. By the operation the officer comes into possession of about SIOO, out of which he has to pay about SGO for railroad fare. The remainder will pay his expenses for a two weeks’ stay in Baltimore. After he has “done” Baltimore Fittsburg may be his next stopping place. Instead of going there from Baltimore and getting about $24 he, under the new plan, will journey to Denver and return before beginning operations in Pittsburg, and so on to the end of the recruiting Itinerary. It Is believed that the comptroller will not dare question the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy to send an officer wheresoever he thinks his services are required and that the scheme will work. If It will not, then recruiting will have to come to an end until Congress can act. That would be a calamity, as the navy needs 1,500 men to man the ships In commission. The* seaboard cities are not good recruitikg grounds, because there the satisfactory men know too much about the life of an enlisted man In the navy to be persuaded to enlist, except as a last resort or as ft means of bracing up. As there is no way for an enlisted man to get a commission so he can become a “gentleman,” there Is no such incentive for an ambitious boy to enlist In the navy ns there Is in the army, where, after two years’ service, he is eligible to be ordered up for an examination, which, If successfully passed, means a commission and a life Job at good pay and a pension for hla wldov and minor children.

Positive Proof.

Smithby—l know I need glasses. Oculist —How do you know? Smithby—Because last night I was reading a newspaper and I couldn't tell whether or not a certain word was "building" or “blinding.” Oculist —Which did it turn out to be? Smithby —lt turned out to be "bulldog.”—Judge.

Disappointed.

Nell— Yes, she refused him, but It almost broke her heart Belle —Really? Nell —Yea, when she discovered that It hadn’t broken hla.— Philadelphia Ledger. - .u

LOCATION OF 203-METER HILL WHICH THE JAPS HAVE CAPTURED.

The location of 203 Meter Hill at Port Arthur, which the Japanese are reported to have captured, is indicated in the map. It is one of the most important positions thus far taken, aa its summit commands the harbor and its occupation will permit the besiegert to shell the Russian fleet at will. The other forts, of which frequent mention is made in the dispatches, are indicated by numbers, as follows: 1, Antzshan; 2, Etzeshan or Itzshan; 3, Wangtaio (these are frequently mentioned under the name of the Chair Hill group of forts); 4, Shungshu (Pine Tree Ilill); 5, Rihiung or Eriung; 6, Keekwan group; 7, Kinkeeshan, north group; 8, Kinkeeshan, south group; 9, Peiloushan; 10, Peiyushan or Cairn Hill; 11, Feiyushan east forts; 12. Makiatien forts; 13, Laolulehl; 14, Shaugtingwei fort; 15, Hwangschinshan or Golden Hill fort; IG, electric battery and coast battery; 17, Panlungslian or Crouching Dragon Hill; 18, Kuropatkin Fort, on Division Hill. The location of the forts here given is according to a map recently published in the London Times. The dark lines east and north represent the outer works that protect the regular fortifications.

HOLD BANK OFFICIALS.

President Beckwith and Cashier Spear of Oberlin Arrested. A new and sensational turn has been given the Chadwick case with the arrest of President C. G. Beckwith and Cashier Spear of the Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio. They are charged with violating the federal banking laws. The bank loaned Mrs. Chadwick $240,000, While its capital is only $60,000. Such a loan therefore is said to be in defiance of the federal banking laws. The failure of the bank ’threatens a loss of $475,000 to the depositors. The citizens of Oberlin place most of the blame, upon President Beckwith. The feeling against him is bitter in spite of his advanced age and his illness. It is rumored, a dispatch says, that Beckwith did not actually loan Mrs. Chadwick $102,000 from his private fortune, as he has claimed, but that ho loaned her $240,000 of the bank’s funds and in addition took her note for $102,000 payable to himself personally. This note for $102,000, it is rumored, represented the bonus Mrs. Chadwick paid in order to secure the $240?000. In this connection it is recalled that Mrs. Chadwick’s lawyers asserted Newton, the Brookline, Mass., banker, was to receive a bonus of S6S,O<X) for the loan of $190,000, which has caused the suit. Beckwith, it is reported, loaned the $240,000 of • e C’tizens’ National Bank funds to Mrs. Chadwick without the knowledge of any of the bank’s directors. He has asserted all along that he had unquestioned security. It has been understood that the security consisted of two notes, one for $500,000 and the other for $200,000, both signed by Andrew Carnegie. Attorney Albaugh of Canton declares that the signature by Andrew Carnegie on the notes is genuine, and two directors of Canton bunks aver they have seen the notes in question. Beckwith has declared that the two notes, said to be signed by Carnegie, are locked up in a safety deposit vault.

GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES.

Appropriations Required for Next Fiscal Year Stated to Congress. Estimate of appropriations required for the support of the government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, were transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury. These estimates aggregate $019,009,852, against $014,548,937, the amount of the appropriations for the current fiscal year. Following is a recapitulation of the estimates by departments: 1900. 190.1. Legislative $ 12,314,015 $12,108,487 Kxecuttvc 383,540 313,367 State Department.. 3,028,842 3,107,970 Treasury Department 170,547,000 170,486,050 War Department .. 100,019,300 110,490,574 Navy Department .. 117,549,348 106,273,002 Interior Department 102,024,425 171,970,808 Postofflce Department 15,439,900 2,211,127 Department of Agriculture 0,419,810 5,812,870 Department of Commerce and Labor. 13,795,980 10,9^9,083 Department of Justice 8,248. iSO 8.024,927 Grand total $610,000,832 $014,348,937 The estimates for 1900, which are over $5,000,000 more than those for 1905, include $140,830,320 permanent annual appropriations already provided for by law.

Medium Ended Trance.

A case that is attracting considerable attention among medical men has occurred nt Berkley, Cal. \VhiJe talking t« friends Miss Bertha Young fell asleep. A doctor was called and made repeated efforts to arouse her but failed. As a last resort n spiritualist was summoned and after making incantations and passes she commanded Miss Young to awake, which she did.

Thousands in Want in London.

The number of persons who are fa want in the city of Loudon at present Is larger than it has been in a dozen years past. The coming of winter has alarmed the authorities, who fear that' the army of unemployed,' starving men will grow desperate and break out from all raatralnt. The police force has been kept busy lately dispersing crowds of the unemployed who congregate in groups in various quarters of the dty. Tbs United States has granted 8,600 ••tents to women.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORDOF £VENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. Driven to Death by Church Gossip-* Fatal Shootings Between Boys—Two . Young Men to Become M lsslonarigs— Man Freezes to Death. Driven to desperation by slanderous stories, Miss Burley McGowan. 16 years old and prominent in Indianapolis church circles, chose death to prove their falsity. She committed suicide after listening to the report of a negihbor, who repeated the gossips’ tales when confronted l y the distracted girl. Before swallowing poison she left a note asking that an autopsy l>e held. This was done and the girl’s reputation was vindicated. Miss McGowan has worked zealously in the church for the last two years and was regarded highly. Some weeks ago scandalous stories began to circulate among the congregation. They did not reach her ears until the other evening. When she had hoard all she stopped at a drug store and purchased n quantity of strychnine, which she swallowed just as she entered her home. She died in convulsions. Before leaving the drug store site had written the brief, pathetic note, asking that the autopsy be held to confound her accusers. A loYe affair also is thought to have entered into the girl's determination to end her life. Because of the stories dwelt upon by the church gossips, a young man of the congregation, who had been very attentive, suddenly ceased lus visits to her home. It was his action that Miss McGfpwan first had an intimation of the reports.

Accident Kills Brother. George Smiley, aged 10 years, of Marshall County, was accidentally killed by his brother, Logan Smiley. The two boys were hunting when the discharge of the gun caused a load of shot to strike the 10-year-old victim in the back of the head, death resulting almost instantly. Hersul Spitler, aged 15 years, also a resident of Marshall County, went hunting with Charles Davis. The boys got into a quarrel which resulted in Davis shooting Spitler in the back with his shotgun. Spitler is in a dying condition. Take Up Missionary Work. With a view to joining their brother, Bov. Fred Fisher, who is now a minionary In India, Charles and Alfred Fisher are preparing to qualify. All the brothers are young men. Their parents are dead and they desire to work in the missionary field together the remainder of their lives. Arrangements -ore being made whereby they will be assisted. It is expected that within another year they willsail for India. All are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Munch?, and exemplary young men. —r r First Death by Freezing. The first case- this season of death by freezing occurred at Marion, when Orville Vangunder perished in an oil field. Vangurider was an inmate of the national military home, lie went to Jonesboro to visit a niece. He is supposed to have lost Ins way while returning in the night and was frozen to death. Minor State Matters. John Swanner of Richmond escaped from jail at Knoxville, Teun. Ada Shepherd, aged 3. of Carlisle, choked to death on a chicken bone at the dinner table. Vance Johnson of Terre Ilauto, 16 years old, died from lockjaw caused by a wound from a toy pistol. in Milan Clifford --Darling shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide by poisoning. It is believed that Darling, who lias been arrested, will recover. Officers Summitt. and Hughes of Vincennes arrested a. walking arsenal in the person of George Henley, who was relieved of a razor, gun, revolver, brass knuckles and .several knives. Bentley is wanted at On naif. Daniel Murphy, aged 0”, an inmate of the soldiers’ home nt Marion, was robbed and murdered by footpads and his body placed on the interurban tracks, where it was discovered by a lnotorinan In time to stop his car. Another murder is believed to have been added to the long list of sensational crimes which have been committed in Blackford county within the past two months by the disappearance of Daniel C. Dewitt, a wealthy farmer and speculator in oil lands. The Secretary of State lias issued the official vote of Indiana on t'lio President. First elector, Republican, 368,289; first elector, Democrat, 274,543; Prohibitionist, 23.496: People’s. 2.444; Socialist, 12,013; Social Labor, 1.598; total, 682,185; Republican plurality, 93,944. At the State convention of the Master Bakers’ Association a letter .was read from President Stone of Purdue University regretting that lie could not lie present, but promising to use his influence to have established nt the university a course in scientific* baking. Major General James It. Carnahan has been declared by the Knights of Pythias court of inquiry of Indianapolis innocent of any and all charges made against him. The accusation was that lie showed favoritism in awarding drill prizes at the conclave held at Louisville last August.

Witli most of the smaller streams of (lie State and hundreds of wells and cisterns dry, pastures parched and one-half of tin* 1 wheat crop ruined by a drouth that lias continued for over six weeks, the farmers of Indiana are facing n serious proposition. Water is being sold at a premium in many places nnd stockraisers who are away from the large streams are being furred to sell their rattle at a sacrifice. Not for thiKfy''><jrs lias such a serious drouth been experP diced in Indiana, and it is causing prices of dairy products to soar. An attempt to rob the Farmers’ Hank of <}oF|Mirt was made the other day. Dr. Pritchard was grabbed by live men, bound nud gagged in the bark part of the building. The robbers blew the outer door of the safe o(T, but they were frightened away. Herman Snyder, a wealthy Indianapolis restaurant iiiuu, has performed the unpleasant duty of sending his brother to the northern prison to serve n term of from two to fourteeu years/ Snyder was uwakened by a noise in his place of business and called the police. The burglar turned out to be his own brother.

PULSE of the PRESS

The prices of the new winter hats almost make them deserve the name of millionery.—Ohio State Journal. No more fights now for John L. Sullivan. He has disabled his right arm signing temperance pledges. —New York Mail. Another New York woman has lost a $100,600 necklace. They all seem to have* them to losp down there.—Chicago Record-Hera id. Business in Wall street is picking up. That is, part of the participants are picking up what the others are dropping.—Chicago News. It looks as if the final charge against the officers of the Baltic fleet would be tin* familiar one, “drunk and disorderly.”—New York Evening Sun. We know an excellent old lady who is a good mother, womanly and deserving in every way. But she lies ten years about her age.—Atchison Globe. Germany is spending $40,000,000 to put down an insurrection in German Southwest Africa. And still Emperor William covets more colonies! —Kansas City Star. - —— ' »-1— Somebody defines a true- American as one who works his way up from the bottom. This would appear to bar the late George Washington.—'Cleveland Plain Dealer.

It is difficult to imagine the extent of the disaster which would ensue if one-half of the Russian navy should unexpectedly meet the other half on a dark night.—New York Sun. Russia is very sensitive about her prestige, hut there is nothing that will send it zeroward faster than a panicky fleet on the high seas, with all the world watching.—Boston Transcript. There are some very economical people in North Carolina. The Kinston Free Press tells of a man who has been wearing the same shirt for twenty years.—Raleigh News and Observer. The dispatches tell us that a man with a beard a yard long was hung in Indiana the other day. Then men with - beards a yard long should get shaved. No use to run any unnecessary risks. — Raleigh (N. C.) Post. “Has the cost of living increased?” is a question that stares one in the face from many different directions, but it is not half so Important to a lot of people as “Is the hired girl satisfied?”—Syracuse Herald. The terrible slaughter of soldiers in Manchuria is causing a revolt against war among all civilized people. The telegraphic accounts, far short of realistic description, are enough to dismay readers.—Louisville Herald. Reformists are hunting a “cure” for divorces. We know of no cure, but a good preventive might be discovered in raising boys and girls with less tamper, higher ideals and aspirations that look beyond having “a good time.”— Wilmington (N .C.) Star. Regardless of the loudest canon of bishops or laymen, the New York divorce mill turns faster and faster. One judge's grist in three days was fiftysix cases. But one trouble in New York is it’s so easy to get married in haste. —Boston Transcript. And now comes the edict that bowlegged men must be barred from the navy. If this harsh rule had been enforced in "the rare old, fair old, golden days” many of the names that have made us famous tvould be missing from our roll of nautical heroes. —New York Herald. Out in South Dakota the farmers are selling their best beef to the Beef Trust for 2 cents a pound—a record low price. In New York the trust has so fixed prices that you must pay from 20 to 27 cents for yonr beef. Beef was never lower when the farmer has it to sell, and never higher to the man who pays the retail butcher bill.—New York American.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Emperor William’s throat is reported all right. Olga N’ethersolc was hooted in her new play in London. Russia fnvprs a commercial treaty with tile United States. A mutiny in the liluck Sea fleet was suppressed by force. The recent election in Italy indicates more power for the Pope. The Irish Nationalist party has been split into warring factious. An attempt is being made to estnbHvu 4Yomau suffrage in Finland. Turkey is ordering modern butteries of artillery to cost 810,000,000. There has been n riot of students at the Royal University of Ireland. An earthquake shook several Mexican cities, but did no Berious damage. Suffering is reported at Adrianople, In Macedonia, and many people will starve. The German consular agent at Ursa was severely beaten by Turkish soldiers. Socialists have been arrested in Rome for distributing pamphlets in th* army. Russian deserters are to be sent to America with free passes from Austria. The revolutionary movement in Bulgaria is spreading at an alarming rat*.