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It looks as if S*y Weyler ,migbt have about as many friends as Grover Cleveland.

Mr. Joe Bailey's Jeadersbip is chiefly remarkable in the respect tba.1 it hardly ever leads.

Governor

Mount's

occasional speeches are

a credit to him and the high position he bolds.

Just as soon as the tariff is out of tfte way the monetary commission will be strictly in ordeh

Spain is long on pacification talk and apparently short on everything suggested by

the term.

General Campos is probably remarking to some of his intimate friends nowadays tbdt

he "told 'em so."

If Weyler is forced to leave Cuba he is Jiable to pack up his accumulated peace anJ

take it with him.

If Mr. Bryan does not want to get himself Cisliked among the "plain people Le shoiw-i quit dining with millionaires.

That this administration is able to handle itself and work out its will is explained by Jthe facl that it is Republican.

Democracy is divided not alone on the money question. It is daily growing harder for the party to agree on the tariff.

Mixed up in a crowd of psople that is •about to defy the guns of authority and law Ip a bad place for "innocent spectators" to bo.

Tom Watson says if Bryan is a Populist *ie should boldly declare himself such. And lhat is what a vast multitude of other people think.

The French canoe of state almost capsized the other day. It ran into something like a wandering gale of Democratic harmony.

Professor Libby of Princeton university Is going to hunt for an extinct race. He has not decided just what ho will do with it if he finds it.

The mercantile reports are making more eloquent and more patriotic speeches at present than Willie Bryan will ever be able to make.

The Queen "Regent of Spain has reaffirmed tier confidence in Premier Canovas. However, she is not sure that she thinks so much of Weyler.

Secretary Gage used to work for $2 a week. Many great men have starred in at that salary or less likewise many men who are not great.

Mr. Bryan scorns compromise. He might have been expected to profit by Mr. Cleveland's experience in the role of a man bigger than his party. J.

Senor Sagasta sayfe he does not belief in Weyler's methods. It is rather hard to see how anybody can believe in them in view of the returns.

One thing that the country seriously needs is a levee system of sufficient power of insistence to keep the Boy Orator of the Platte inside Nebraska.

Senators Morgan and Tillman have done what they could to delay action on the tariff bill, but it is being hurried along very satisfactorily in spite of them.

It was the acme of wisdom in the Republicans at Washington to take up the tariff question first. It solved, the solution of the financial problem will be easier.

Judge Baker of Indianapolis will make hundreds of friends by his effectual rebuke of those attorneys who were to grab about ten-tenths of a good-sized judgment.

Mr. Bryan says "events" are making silver speeches—a statement further confirming the fairly well established fact that if Mr. Bryan says it it probably isn't so.

Tf'he gold and ail-er Democrats in Kentucky are going tw fight to a finish. The gold men will witness the triumph of their theory in the victory of the Republican party.

The victim of the nesro rapist Mitchell Bays the men w4io were shot by the Urbana militia "died like old heroes." This hardly accords with the "innocent spectator" theory.

The question is not What shall we do with our ex-presidents?- It is rather What shall we do with ^our-ex-candidates for the presidency, especially when they act as Bryan does?

Certain iewspaper correspondents at Washington have undertaken the difficult task of convincing the public that President MeKinley is Senator Morgan on the Cuban question.

It is understood that the Universal Postal "j Congress th&Tks'lniiana is an exceptionally fine place in which to live notwithstanding the somewhat general impression in the east '.hat we are barbarians.

Guatamala is one of those countries that can easily have a dictator. The leading citizen of Princeton can attest that in the respect mentioned Guatamala is very considerably unlike the United States.

REFRESHING GALL.

This is supposed to be a Republican administration and in spite of the strange sayings and doings of some people the suppomon is correct. On the 3d day of last November the people voted for William McKinley and many other Republicans as

liberately. They did it after a hard-fought campaign. By their votes they expressed confidence in the Republican party and declared that they wanted the Republican party to run the government.

This is a plain statement of a most manifest and indisputable fact. But the truth presented either has no force with the free traders or else they have forgotten it. They are wailing because President McKinley saw fit to urge the tariff question as entitled to precedence over everything else. They reiterate the false and senseless assertion that he Is "acting in bad faith." They attack the president's poiicy and that of congress for securing the most prompt action on the tariff bill. They want all sorts of subjects brought up for discussion at this special session called to transact special business and nothing else. Because the' house, in furtherance of its policy of emphasizing the great importance of the revenue measure, insits upon appointing no committees and taking up no new business these talkative intruders resort to highly bellicose language and the sockless buffoon from Kansas makes a daily spectacle of himself on the floor of the house. ceived by the onlooker, even though they

it to you?" Neither Popocrat nor Populist is at the helm in the national government at present. Majority rule goes In this country, barring some exceptions in the senate, and the Republicans are in the majority. The people have commissioned them to conduct affairs and they purpose to do so. When they need any information or advice from the Popocrats or Populists they will call them into their councils. Until that time the gentlemen with free silver and free trade infirmites should lieeji W** £r&3«s

through the five ballots in a manner credit-

able to him. His vote was between 60 and 65, only a few short of a majority, in all of'the ballots. Illinois voted solid for him throughout.

Nothing was said about sectional.sm in the contest but the sentiment was there. Wallerstein was strong on himself, too, and 1

should be done to build up the association in the Atlantic states. There is some

strength in Pennsylvania but in the coast states the association is weak. allersteira lives in Richmond and it is expected that the farm3 good work he may do in the East as an 01 ganizer will offset the disadvantages of his distant location from national headquarters at St. Louis. As vice president he has presided over several national conventions and made a favorable impression. He is one of the comparatively few men who have the "bump" for parliamentary law and the delegates were entertained by the, dexterity with which he enforced parliamentary rules, though be made President John A. Lee take his seat, as he did at Nashville because he was not speaking to a point of order he had raised. It is a peculiar fact, by the way. that some of the more famous men in the history of the nationtl house of representatives could not comprehend parliamentary law. Instead of a "bump" there was a "hollow." They could not develop the "bump however assidious were their efforts to do so. Thad. Stevens, the great "commoner," and perhaps the greatest of all party leaders, used to say that only men who could see the fly on a barn door but not the barn door itself could master the intricacies and apparent inconsistencies oG parliamentary law.

The Terre Haute clubs were well represented at the Union of Literary clubs at Warsaw last week. _Five of them are members of the state federation, as follows Women's club, Saturday Circle, Tuesday club, Terre Haute Literary club and Young Women's club, all, with the exception of the Terre Haute Literary club being women clubs. Two delegates from each club were present and the Terre Haute delegates upheld the town's reputation for intellectual ability. Moreover, a Terre Haute man was elected president. Prof. J. B. Wisely of the state Normal school, who defeated Prof. Moran of Purdue. It was the eighth annual meeting of the state organization. The first was held in this city. ©loomington is the place for next year. Muncie wanted it, Jaut there was a strong desire to use the annual meeting for missionary purposes in the southern part of the state.

There is evidence that the fight between the state and non-state schools did not come to an end with the adjournment of the legislature. On the contrary it is to be a fight to a finish. The friends of the denominational schools who last winter led in the effort to deprive the three state supported institutions from obtaining any advantage or special privilege through the enactment of laws, have organized for a campaign which will continue from now until the meeting of the legislature in 1899. Whereas the nonstate schools have heretofore tried only to deprive the state schools of special privileges in connection with the public school system the effort from this time on will be to deprive the three institutions of any support by the state.

Indiana is not the only state where this struggle has been on between the state supported schools and the church and private colleges. Missouri and Nebraska went through it last winter and the state schols won the fight. There are only four states in the country which do not support schools, some states having more than one. Ohio is one of the states that has no state school, but in Ohio they have city Normal schools where teachers are trained for teaching in the public schools. Akron, Ohio, is one of these cities snd President Parsons has been asked to deliver an address at the commencement exercises on June IS. Speaking of the new commencement day programme, President Parsons says all the High schools in the state have done away with the reading of essays and have an address and some music and the presentation of diplomas. And. too. they don't want an address unless it is delivered without manuscript. President Parsons says he is in doubt if the change (and it is one that was made at the Normal a few years ago) is a good one. He is in doubt if a mistake was not made in permitting the graduates to escape displaying their ability to prepare an essay and to read it.

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who will deliver an address at the commencement exercises at the Normal, is at the head of the department of philosophy and pedagogy at Columbia college. New York, and is the editor and manager of the EducaMon&l Review. tb« accepted highest authority among magsr-

ag&inet Mr. Bryan and many other Pqpo«r*t» and Populists. Tife people did this de-^ziaes devoted to educational affairs. Like

TEBJi.E HAUTE F.XPKKS&.TU ESDAY MOKMiSti, JUNE 8,189T.

most of the latter day heads of departments in the great educational institutions 9! the country. Dr. Butter is comparatively a young man, not more than thirty-five years of age. Elder Sweeney of Columbia will deliver the baccalaureate address on Sunday, June 20. Elder Sweeney is a state fish commissioner, a position he accepted when he retired from his church a few months ago. 3

Mr. H. W. Foltz, a graduate of Rose Polytechnic of the class of 1886, will deliver the address at the commencement exercises of the class of this year. Two years ago an innovation was made at the "Poly" by which a member of the alumni is selected to deliver the commencement day address each year. The first was Mr. John B. Aiken of this city and last year Mr. Frank Hord of Indianapolis was the "orator of the day." Mr. Foltz is a lawyer of Indianapolis.

WHS IE HIE hMLROADS SAv^.

Much Profit Comes to the Roads Through the Weighing Bureau. If it were not for the weighing bureau the railroads would find themselves many thousand dollars short at the end of their year's business. This great amount of saving is done in such a quiet and unassumng manner that it advantages are not at once per-

To all these rampant' malcontents the exist to a very great degree. This saving question may pertinently be put, "What's.! appreciated very much both by the cus

tomers of the road and the officers themselves. The customers l.'ke it because it keeps their competitors from gaining an advantage ov*r the honest ones and the officials like the system because it is money in their pockets.

The report submitted by Mr. Fred B. Jones, chief inspector of the local bu:«uu, for the month of May shows the following figures: Gains account of weighing carload freight—Vandalia, $2,078.03 E. & T. .II., $1,306.95 Big Four, $1,074.12 C. &E. I., $685.82. Gains account of weighing of platform freight—Vandalia, $1 T5.06: E. & T. H., $53.64 Big Four, $1522.92 C. & E. I., $21.05. Gains account of changing of rate anld classification—Vandalia. $361.13 E. & T. H., $47.27 Big Four, $80.56 C. E. I., $75.55. Giaiul toal cf saving to 'ill the reads, $6,112.12, This is considered a very good report.

Duffln's defeat for national president of the Travelers' Protective Association was accomplished by the "Solid South vote. On the other hand it may be said that he was supported by a practically "Solid North." When the Missouri delegatesmore than those of any other state—sawthat their state candidate, Wickard, could not be elected they went to Wallerstein, the Virginia man who had been receiving ^y a few votes, after Missouri went the South- Nothing has as yet been definitely decided west. Duffln's strength was maintained by the trustees of the Hirsch fund as to the

FOR NEW YORK'S POOR.

How the $1,000,000 in'the Hirsch Fund Will •Be Used. v,t

New York, June 7.—Myer S. Isaacs, president of the Baron Hirsch fund, has received a draft for $250,000, the first installments of the $1,000,000 given by the Baroness Hirsch for the benefit of the poor of'this

manner in which this additional million dollars will be used. Mr.. Isaacs said that the money would be used to improve the conditions of the poor of New York in any way experience should dictate. The work now being done with the funds Baron Hirsch will be extended and an effort made to better the condition of the tenement house

strong on nimse dwellers in the crowded section of the city a feeling that something

cettlnR many of thera to migra

te into

the country, and the trustees will probably devote a large portion of the money to developing the work they have already begun, of enabling those disposed to agriculture to

P.EM ARK ABLE OIL WELL,

Second Stratum of Gas Found Eighty Feet Below Trenton Rock. Special to the Indianapolis News.

Alexandria, lnd., June 7.—The-'-^Free & Calloway well, which is being drilled for oil, is a wonderful well, a second stratum of gas having been found eighty feet bplow Trenton rock. The flow is much stronger than that of the gas found in the first strata. The owners of the well not finding any sign of oil in Trenton rock, decided to continue drilling until they did, with the above rethere

sults-

This is the first attenlpt of lhe kind

made in the gas belt and goes to show that the gas in this field is almost inexhaustible, As far as oil is concerned the well on the Jordan farm is a failure, a strong flow of gas being the only result. The well was shot Saturday afternoon.

WOLVES AND COYOTES.

Cattlemen of Western Kansas Offer a Reward for Them.

Topeka, Kan., June 7.—The cattlemen of western Kansas have found it necessary to raise a fund and offer heavy rewards for the scalps of wolves and coyotes. Hundreds of calves and sheep have been killed by these pests. A bounty of $12 for grown wolves, $5 for whelps and $1 for. coyote scalps will be paid by the association. Sportsmen are required to present the scalp and the right front foot of all animals and an affidavit that the person claiming the bounty was the actual slayer thereof.

Several packs of greyhounds are en route to the cattle country, and will be turned loose today. The sportsmen expect to make a big haul both in wolves and bounty.

Don't Waste Money. Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup is an excellent carminative for babies suflering from flatulency, wind-colic and griping. "I have used Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup in my family for a number of years and can cheerfully recommend it as being the best soothing syrup for children that I have ever used. Lawrence Iloran, Fairmont. W. Va." Mothers, don't waste money on substitutes. Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup costs but 25 cents see that 30U get it.

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Wm. Jennings Xeukom. 648 Lafayette avenue. Geo. Reiss. Second street and Wabash, avenue. Carl Krietenstein. Fourth and Cherry streets.

Sorjj Want* to Be Senator.

Cincinnati. June 7.—The Times-Star publishes an interview today with Congressman Paul J. Sorg, in which he officially announces his candidacy for Unoted States senator in the event that the Democrats secure a mapority of the members of the legislature to be elected next November. While other names have been mentioned the only announced candidate is John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who is now in this city conducting his canvass.

A Hoasehold Neccsslty

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Natur*lly.

"Yes," admitted the landlord of the village hotel, where the traveler from Georgia was stopping, "it's a pretty cold climate we have here, but then it's dry." "Yes, sah," replied the Georgian, found out early this morning, sah, that this is a prohibition town."—Chicago Tribune.

The public is invited to visit Pat Breen's tomorrow night, where returns of the Ma-ftare-8harkey fighv will be received, beginning at S o'clock. *'c'"'

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SCIENCE IN SCHOOL.

EXPERIMENT ON PDriLS IN TfiRBE HAUTE SCHOOLS.

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Efforts Being Hade to Locate the Grades In Whlfch Different Science! Sheuld fie Started.

Some interesting experiments are at present being made in the grades of the city schools under the direction of Professor Howard Sandieon of the school board. The experiments are being made by seventeen students from the child study class at the State Normal School and are for the purpose of determining what sciences should be taught the pupils on entering school and the order in which they should follow during the succeeding grades.

The reason for these experiments is very apparent with the following explanation Up to recent years the literary department in the public school system has been the more prominent and has received nearly all the attention of the teachers. For that was supposed to be the line of work most needed by the students along in the world. The literary department includes such studies as reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic and geography.

This idea is rapidly giving way to the more advanced systems of teaching the sciences in the schools. The principal cause for this change is that the universities over the country are making a special study of the sciences and are thus requiring more of this work from the graduates front the public schools. The literary subjects are not being dropped by any means. The idea is simply to commence teaching the scholars in the natural sciences as soon as they begin to show any interest in the principle involved.

The sciences have been taught in the schools, but the order of teaching has been rather haphazard. That is, the pupils have been given the ones seemingly the more simple. This has resulted in botany being the principal scientific subject taught in the primary grades, when as a matter of fact botany is considered among the difficult scientific subjects. According to all acknowledged authorities the subjects should be studied by the pupils in the following order, so that they will commence with the lowest forms and progress to the most difficult Physics, chemistry, geology, botany, zoology and physiology.

The experiments now being made among the pupils in this city are the first of ft series to be made on the public within the next two years. The experiments are on. what is known as the third law of motion. Action and reaction are equal, but in the opposite direction. For the purpose of making this experiment a curved grooved surface was used. In this groove ten large giass marbles of different colors were used. The marbles when at rest would naturally be at the center of the curved surface. One of the balls would be taken away and allowed to roll down one side of the apparatus striking the row of stationary balls, sending the ball at the opposite end rolling up Lhtf plane if two balls are used, two lalls will be sent off at the opposite end, the numbers aways being equal.

This simple experiment was performed before the scholars in the different grades of the ward schools. The apparatus was placed in such a position that every pupil in the room could see it. They were told to watch the experiment and then to ask any question they wanted to after it had been finished. The object was to see how many of the pupils would ask a question regarding the scientific problem involved. The following remarks made by the pupiis will tend to show in a measure the effects of the expirement.

Grade No. 1—"I think it looks pretty wWn it rolls. It looks like a little rock rolling." "I don't know what makes it do that. "How many marbles are there?" "I like to see it." "I want to know what is inside of the marbles there is something which causes them to move, is there not?" "I like to see the marbles roll." "The marble at the end rolls up and down." "What makes them roll?" "That was a nice play."

Examples from the fourth grate are the following: "Why are the different kinds of marbles?" "Have you seen the lion?" "Why did they roll those marbles?"

Fifth Grade—"What made the ball roll when hit on the other end?" This boy. as will be noted, wanted to know the scientific reason.

Sixth Grade—"When the marble knocks against the restj why does it not knock all of them up?"

Seventh Grade—Did the first marble make the others go up?" "Is that because the board curved?"

Eighth Grade—"Why do not all the balls

move when the end ball bits the second. The variety of remarks is caused from the fact that after the simple experiment had been performed the pupils were told to ask any question they desired. The 2,000 answers received to the above will be classified and an effort will be made to determine ip what grade the scSetntific principle nvolved was most asked abput and in that wal it will be determined in what grade it should be taught, or rather in what grade to begin its study. This same method will be pursued in other scientific subjects and an effort made to find out where their study should be commenced.

The results of the experiments Just closed have not. been classified as yet. As soon as this is done the result will be given to the public.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. The alleged horsewhipping of Henry Labouchere, M. P.. on Friday last by the son of the lAn Brookes whom he exposed as a fraud in the courts and In the columns of his weekly paper, Truth, has culminated, as have all previous attempts to horsewhip this amusing and brilliant nephew of the late Lord Taunton, in the ridicule and obloquy of his assailant, writes Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. This is at least the fourth time on which he has been thus attacked in the street, the last occasion being in front of the well known Beefsteak Club, when a ludicrous attempt to thrash him with a stick was made by Sir Edward Levi Lawson. the proprietor of the London Daily Telegraph.

During the commemoration festivities Queen Victoria will not wear, either the royal crown which she was wont tto don during the first twenty years of her married life, nor yet the small diadem which appears on the present postage and coinage issues, but a tiara which was made for her personal convenience at the death of the prince consort when it became necessary to take into account the presence in her coiffure of the veil of widowhood. This purse, comprises no jewels of historic interest and has been worn by her majesty at the various drawing rooms, and at some of the family festivities. The small diadem which adorns the head of the queen on the stamps and on the coins of the realm is not her private property, but is a crown jewel. It is, however, keju in the personal possession of the cueen.

The sttfe $fown which she wore on grand occasions during the first quarter eeoniry

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her reyjii remains itehimi ibe steel bars

of the glass-lined cage la which the crown jewels, including the scepter, the orb1 and other insignia of royalty are preserved in the Tower of London. During the royai procession through the streets of London the queen will wear a mere bonnet without any crown. Indeed everything is being done 10 diminy&h the discomfort and the fatigue to which she necessarily will be subejcted by that royal progress through the streets of the metropolis.

One of the unique features of the jubilee festivities will be the visit on masse of the two houses of parliament to the queen at Buckingham palace for the purpose of presenting addresses of loyal congratulation. No such progress as this of parliament through the streets of London has taken place since the year 1854, at the time of the declaration of war with Russia. On that occasion the speaker, attired in his state robes and atended by his entire household, comprising mace-bearer, chaplain, sergeant-at-arms, purse bearer, secretaries and gentlemen-in-waiting, proceeded in his state equipages to Buckingham palace, followed by all the members of the house of commons In their private carriages.

In those days the house was oomposed in the main of country gentlemen and wealthy manufacturers, who could afford

... ...u^ to keep their private carriages, but it is to order to get

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feared that the procession of the house to Buckingham palace during the forthcoming jubilee week will present a very bedraggled appearance, sincc by far the larger number of legislators, being too poor to keep carriages of their own, will be forced to follow in the wake of the speaker, either in ordinary hacks or else on foot. The house of lords, headed by the lord high chancellor of the realm, probably will make a better showing in this particular than the "faithful commons" of her majesty.

Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who is now on his way to London as ambassador extraordinary of the United States to the .queen in connection with the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of her reign, will find himself in distingushed company, as far as the special envoys of the other powers are concerned. Leaving aside the royal princes, who have been chosen to represent many of the reigning families, Spain, France and China have selected their most eminent dignitaries for the office of ambassador extraordinary. France will be represented at the ceremonies by a special mission headed by General Davoust, duke of Auerstadt and grand chancellor of the national order of the Legion of Honor. He is not a son, but a nephew of the famous marshal of the first Napoleon, who won his^ dukedon of Auerstadt and his princedom' of Eckinuhl on bloody fields of battle in Germany. His name remains to this day execrated in the dominions of Emperor William, owing to the extortions and cruelty to which he subjected the vanquished, including the looting of the entire bank of Hamburg, which in those day6 occupied in Germany much the same position as the Bank of England does today in Great Britain. •,«

The marshal left only one chikt. a daughter. who dia.i tht-re three years ago. and his title, therefore, became extinct at his death. But it was rewved by Napoleon III in favor of the son of the marshal's elder brother, a young officer who had already rendered himself conspicuous by his gallautry in the Algerian campaigns and 'n the Crimean war. During the siege of Met* he commanded the last sortie made bj the beleaguered garrisou, a sortie which would have succeeded had he been properly supported by Bazine. During the war of 1870 he repeated as a colonel anf1 as a geneial the feats which he had pertbrmed eleven years previously as a captain at the battle of Solferino—namely, the capture of cannon from the enemy. After the declaration of peace he tendered his'sword to the republic, took part in the suppression of the commune and then, in spite of his being a general, beset himself to study the various branches of the army with which he was unacquainted.

Realizing the immense importance of artillery and the predominant, part played by it in giving the Germans the victory, he asked and obtained the connnund of a brigade of artillery and refuse.! all promition and offers of transfer until he felt that he had thoroughly mastered .that particulir branch of service. So it was with the calvary and with the staff, of which he was for a time the chief. He holds his tireser appointment of grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor for life.

The special ambassador of Spain -s the duke of Sotomayor. the grand chamberlain of the colurt of Madrid, and one of the grandest of all the graindees of Spain. Twentyfive years ago, previous to his succeeding to the dukedom, he was secretary of the Spanish mission in London, where he wa a general favorite. One of his colleigues at the embassy had the misfortune to bocome involved in a quarrel which led to a duel on the continent, the conflict resulting in the death of the young diplomat. In accordance with the custom of the Roman Catholic Church he was refused burial in consecrated ground. But the duke never rested till he at length secured froni the pope in person an ecclesiastical pardon for his dead friend, and the tardy burial of his remains with the full rites of the churc.n in consecrated ground.

These special ambassadors, that is to say, the French and Spanish dukes just mentioned, the great Chinese dignitary, Chang Yen Huen. and Mr. Whitelaw Reid, will have the "pass" over all other diplomatic representatives, and will be accorded at all the state banquets places at the table of the sovereign, whereas ordinary ambassadors will take their seats among the great dignitaries and officials considerably lower down. It is probable that the four special ambassadors in question will be housed during their stay in London as the queen's guest in one of the principal hotels, royal servants and equipages being placed at their disposal, as well as military sentinels at their doors. Indeed, Queen Victoria and her government may be relied upon to accord in particular to the special ambassadors of the United States and of France, the two great republics of the world, such honors as never before have been accorded to any diplomatic representatives.

Dishonored Draft*. ...

When the stomach dishonors the drafts made upon it by the rest of the system, it is necessarily because its fund of strength is very low. Toned with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It soon begins to pay out vigor in the shape of pure, rich blood, containing the elements of muscle, bone and brain. As a sequence of the new vigor afforded the stomach, the bowels perform their functions regularly, and the liver works like clock work. Malaria bas no effect upon a system thus reinforced.

He Is at It Again.

Summit of Pike's Peak, Colo.. June 7.—By reciting "Casey at the Bat," on the summit of Pike's Peak yesterday. In the presence of a large crowd, De Wolf Hopper has established 'beyond question his reputation of being the "highest and most wonderful actor in the world." He sent the following telegram to the Lambs* Club of New ^ork "Am up here at St. Peter's gate. Have fixed admittance for all true Lambs."

Diamond Medal Arrived.

There arrived at Leeds' jewelry store yesterday a jewel that is destined to make the heart of some one of Terre Halite's young orators swell with gladness to several times its normal size. The jewel referred to is the $100 diamond medal lhat is to be awarded by the Wills School of Oratory. It is a, rare beauty and will be a prize of whfch the winner may be justly proud all the day* of bis life.

W A E W I N S A I

The dry cornstalks stood closc to the eaves on three sides of the little house on the fourth was an open space by oouTtesy titled "the jard." It was but a bare patch of black earth, so dry that it was cracked and fissured in a geometric design. The1 low stable was .opposite the house, and be~. tween them stood a farm wagon and a cnl^t ttvator, under which a few chickens huddied, trying to find shelter from the sweep of the wind. fh

A woman stood in the doCfr of the house, looking at a distant tendril of smoke that trailed in the sky—the smoke of the east bound passenger train. She was young __ and rather' pretty, bnt her red hair was twisted into a hard, defiant little knot, her mouth drooped at the corner and her eyeswere heavy and brooding. She listened to the harsh creaking of the corn and her face grew sot and intent. "Rick had no right to bring me to such a*place," she thought, forgetting how willingly she bad come. *'Ho will bo late tonight, but I will make up the fire and have the supper re*dy." As she turned to go in she glanoed down the wagon track that led out through the corn to the main read. She could see the shiny top of a buggy and in another moment a sorrel horse driven by a man in light overcoat. Probably the real estate agent coming to see Rick about the mortgage.

The man drove into the yard, tied his horse to the wheel of the wagon and came toward the house. "Don't you know me, Kate?" he called loudly, to be heard above the wind. "Why, George Gilbert, is it you?" she exclaimed. She held out her hand. "How did you ever happen to get here? Come right into the house. Rick's gone to town for ooal."

The man followed her into the main room of the house, which served the double purpose of parlor and kitchen. In one corner stood the stove above it a Ions shelf covered with neatly scalloped papers, on which stood the lamps and tinware. A safe with perforated tin doors was in another cornet'. A bit of ingrain carpet, a rocking chair and a round table with red cover made the parlor. "You see. I'm traveling for a grocery house," the man said, sitting clown, "and I make Houston now, and your folks said I musD bo sure and como out and see yon. How aro you doing?"

Doing!'' Kate cried, scornfully looking around the room. "Can't you see? Making just enough to keep soul and body together—oorn 14 cents and we're nine miles from market." "Why don't you come back home?" ho asked, leuning forward in his cHair and noticing how much Kate hud age^since she came west.

Dick never seems to think of it besides, I don't think we've got money enough to take one of us, let alone both. I just long to go—sometimes it seems like I'd go wild staying here. A man can get along, bet-, ter'n a woman." "Are you coining?" he asked.

She stood a moment straightening the eover

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the table. "Yes, I'll go, she

said decisively. "There area few things I must take, but I can be ready in .half hour." "It's 4:30," George called.

She laid her hat and cloak on the bed. "I'm glad I baked the bread and dried apple pies this morning,'' shethought ''men are so helpless about housework. I must leave some word of where I'm gone. I guess he has tried to be good to me, but he has no right to keep me here."

She found a sheet of the thin blue lined paper on which she had so often written to her folks. She sat down on the bed with the ink bottle on a chair near by. "Dear Kick," she wrote, then hastily crossed it out and

began

"Rick." Then

she was motionless for a time, her eye# fixed on the coiling. "At last she wrote: "George Gilbert is hero and is going to lend me money to go home on. I cannot stand it here any longer. I hope you will forgive me, for I know you have tried) tp^,. be good to me and"—

She threw down her pen and ran into the kitchen. George stood in the doorway, smoking and looking down the road. "Ready?" he asked without turning. "Oh, I can't go!" she cried huskily. "I can't go! He has done his best. It would be wicked when he has worked so hard. Poor Rick!" Sf.e sat down and covered her face with her hands. "All right," Georgo answered. I was willing to take you, but if you think you better not, that's all right. I don't want to interfere, as I said before."

She watched him out of sight. Then she went into the house and laid her clothing back in the trunk. Her letter lay on the floor. She picked it up and threw it into the fire, as if it had been something unclean. Slio watched it blaze and turn to a white ghost, which she crumbled with the poker. When the house had taken on its ordinary look, she put the teakettle 011 the stove and set the table for 6uppcr. As she cut one of her pies she smiled. She was to eat them, after all.

The wind had gone with the sun, and it was dusk when, she heard the sound of wheels. She took the lantern from the high 9belf, lit it and 6et out for the barn. "Is that you, Rick?" she called.

Kate held tho lantern While her husband unhitched and fed his horses. Then they walked together to the house. Through the open door a block of light fell on the ground and within the red tablecloth and white dishes shone pleasant and cheerful. "I've got some good news, sis," Rick said across the table as he helped himsell to a third cut of pie. "Old man Shutz wants to buy this farm. Says he don't like the way my land gouges out the corner of his section. He will take up the mortgage and give me jiiiOO clear. It ain much, but we can go baok home and begin over again—begin over again in a country where a man gets a decent living for his sweat and labor."

Kate laid her head on the table and.began to cry. "Why, sis, ain't you tickled?" he asked. "I did "it because I thought this was ne place for you." "I am awful pleased," she answered "but I was so tired I thought mebbe you didn't care."

In the aight the wind came up and set tb« oarnntalks creaking and rustling with a thousand whispers, but they said to Kate, "Years fly, years fly—good by. goodby." Now the whisper of the wind was sweet to her as she lay listening. "Years fly, yea:

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