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THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT TO OUR READERS. We are sorry to say that as our paper forms have been "pied" as they were on the way to press, our usual news cannot be run. On that account we will get out our regular next Wednesday or Thursday. W. N. MILLER. Editor. Ross Bros' Seed House Sell all kinds of SEEDS Garden, Field and Flower Seeds- of the reli Ross Bros. Wichita Trade At FULTON'S -- IT Seed House, lands of SEEDS. Seeds- of the reliable kind Wichita, Kan ON'S -- IT PAYS. Garden, Field and Flower Seeds- of the reliable kind Ross Bros. Wichita, Kan Trade At FULTON'S -- IT PAYS. Easter Neckdressing Our new line of Real Swell Neckwear is here. The new and patterns are a "dream" of beautiful tints, shap smart patterns; a photograph couldn't do the styles and justice, unless it reproduced the bright colors. The paper do that for us, so we'll just give you an idea what the new styles are like. WINDSOR CLUBS, very handsome, wide flaring in "Frosted Traver" and "Velvo Chamelon," also the backwear is here. The new styles of beautiful tints, shapes and couldn't do the styles and patterns bright colors. The papers won't you an idea what the new smart handsome, wide flaring ends; two Chamelon, "also the and NDA [ A tiely Tie tied ] are bright and gay. The real green is the " Sportsman's " Tie black, red, green, blue, tan, ten is rack and pointer head walks in small figures on the Tie. 50c but we've a line at 25c, better priced ones. We venture the well and up - to - date line else-come in and look yourself to ap-ended for any dissatisfaction. BULTON, Clothing Store. Our new line of Real Swell Neckwear is here. The new styles and patterns are a "dream" of beautiful tints, shapes and smart patterns; a photograph couldn't do the styles and patterns justice, unless it reproduced the bright colors. The papers won't do that for us, so we'll just give you an idea what the new smart styles are like. WINDSOR CLUBS, very handsome, wide flaring ends; in "Frosted Traver" and "Velvo Chamelon," also the ENGLISH RUMCHUNDA [ A tiely Tie tie cool and dressy. The new colors are bright and gay. The swell Easter Neckdressing for men is the "Sportsman they are in white and all colors, black, red, green, blu with golf club, the golfer, jockey, ten is rack and point worked in contrasting colored silks in small figures on Our strongest line is priced at 50c but we've a line and a splendid selection of higher priced ones. We've assertion that you'll not see as swell and up - to - date where; but you'll really have to come in and look yours preciate them. Your money refunded for any dissatisfied C. R. FULTON Wichita's Greatest Clothing St ENGLISH RUMCHUNDA [ A tiely Tie tied ] Cool and dressy. The new colors are bright and gay. The real swell Easter Neckdressing for men is the "Sportsman's" Tie they are in white and all colors, black, red, green, blue, tan, with golf club, the golfer, jockey, tennis rack and pointer head worked in contrasting colored silks in small figures on the Tie. Our strongest line is priced at 50c but we've a line at 25c, and a splendid selection of higher priced ones. We venture the assertion that you'll not see as swell and up to-date line elsewhere; but you'll really have to come in and look yourself to appreciate them. Your money refunded for any dissatisfaction. C.R.FULTON, Wichita's Greatest Clothing Store. former Boston newspaper man told never seen before. She could not account for it, but it was carefully preserved in a specimen book. Not long after she was a passenger on one of the ocean liners. Among her fellow-passengers was a professor in one of the English universities, and an acquaintance was formed between the two. The professor shared to a certain extent her interest in seaweeds, and one day she was turning over the leaves of her specimen book in his company. Coming to the specimen so strangely acquired the professor uttered an exclamation. "How did you come by that?" he asked, with a manifest show of interest. She told him as well as could be. "It is strange," said the professor. "That is the second specimen of that variety that I have seen. The only other one that I know of is preserved in the British Museum and was found at a seldom visited point in the Indian ocean." Then the young woman remembered her dream—Boston Herald. Of Millinery nd Saturday rtieth Semi-Annual Millinery Opening Of Spring Millin Friaday and Saturday We invite you to our Thirtieth Semi-Annual Mi Opening Of Spring Millinery Friaday and Saturday We invite you to our Thirtieth Semi-Annual Millinery Opening. An opportunity to see what the great milliners of the world have evolved for the spring and summer of 1902. Pattern Hats from Paris and London, besides hundreds of our own creations. Come and admire with us. MUSIC AFTERNOONS AND SATURDAY EVENING WALLENSTEIN & COIN NARROW CLUBS and A former Boston newspaper man told a story not long ago of an experience of a young woman of his acquaintance, which, while it has not yet been embodied in any work of fiction, at least gives evidence of imaginative powers and may be considered later. The young woman spent her summers at an old Marshfield farmhouse, the windows of which had an outlook on the ocean. She had a lad, of course, and it was the collection of various kinds of seawed. According to the story, she had a dream one night of a storm-tossed mariner who came and stood by her side and implored her aid in going on a search for treasure lost at a certain point in the Indian ocean. The dream passed and the morning came. The young woman was about to leave her room when she noticed a small pool of water which might have been caused by a dripping umbrella, near the fireplace. In the pool floated a small piece of seawater of a variety which she bad WICHITA, KANSAS, MARCH 22, 1902. Were Never Defeated Victorious Generals Who Conducted Campaigns Without Reverses. Trivial Disputes That Sometimes Lead to Great Loss of Life. It is curious and interesting in reading the lives of great military commanders to observe among the large number of generals who have held independent commands how few have careers of uninterrupted success. A man who can go through a campaign and fight many battles and never suffer a reverse must, indeed, be a commander of the first order. The Duke of Alva, one of the most eminent soldiers of the sixteenth century, never, throughout his long and eventful career, lost a battle. The archbishop of Cologne was struck by his efforts to avoid a conflict, having on one occasion urged him to engage the Dutch. "The object of a general," replied Alva, "is not to fight, but to conquer; he fights enough who obtains the victory." Oliver Cromwell, throughout his military career, never lost a battle, though he very nearly sustained a reverse at Dunbar. The Duke of Marlborough affords an excellent example of a successful soldier. He combined all the qualities necessary for a great commander, and although he fought several battles against the most experienced generals Chinese C Trivial Disputes That Someti Americans in the region around Swatow, China, have been brought face to face unexpectedly with a curious hindrance to trade in the form of constant fights between clans over the most trivial things. As nearly every Chinese laborer is a member of a clan in that district, the commerce of the twentieth century is stopped every little while by the survivals of a past so ancient that the American commonwealth is an absurdly young infant compared with it. The clans are all formed of blood relatives and are added to systematically by intermarriage so that all the members are bound together by ties of relationship. Each member pays all he can to the headman of his clan, and the sums obtained in this way are enormous. Thus the Ur clan recently fought for six months and the total cost of the war was only 13 cents a man, certainly as low a war budget as there is on record. A few months ago two men from two different clans met in a village in the province. One mentioned the other's clan in a disrespectful way. A pretty A DREAM And a Very Good One for A former Boston newspaper man told a story not long ago of an experience of a young woman of his acquaintance, which, while it has not yet been embodied in any work of fiction, at least gives evidence of imaginative powers and may be considered later. The young woman spent her summers at an old Marshfield farmhouse, the windows of which had an outlook on the ocean. She had a fad, of course, and it was the collection of various kinds of seaweed. According to the story, she had a dream one night of a storm-tossed mariner who came and stood by her side and implored her aid in going on a search for treasure lost at a certain point in the Indian ocean. The dream passed and the morning came. The young woman was about to leave her room when she noticed a small pool of water which might have been caused by a dripping umbrella, near the fireplace. In the pool floated a small piece of seaweed of a variety which she had Senator Quay's speech was the longest ever printed. It occupied over 100 pages, and included a complete history of the manufacture of iron and glass from the earliest dawn of history to the present day. Everybody remembers that speech and its purpose. It was prepared for Mr. Quay when the Democrats, were engaged in revising the tariff. Every time they proposed a reduction in the iron and steel sched- in Europe, he was never once defeated. The famous Russian general, Suwaroff, was another commander destined never to suffer defeat. He gained several victories against the Turks and against the Poles, and in Italy he was opposed by Moreau. Being completely outnumbered, he effected a brilliant retreat over the mountains of Switzerland, through Germany, into Russia. He was held in great respect by his soldiers, and although he showed himself to be an exceedingly able tactician, he used to say that the whole of his system was comprised in the words, "Advance and strike." The Duke of Wellington, throughout his brilliant campaigns, both in India and in the Peninsula, has preserved to himself a remarkable record of uninterrupted successes from the first battle in which he was vested with supreme command throughout the Peninsular war, in which he defeated the ablest of Napoleon's marshals, until the eventful day of Waterioo, when he defeated the greatest soldier of modern times. Don't bounce the baby when he cries. Look for the pln. Plans Fight Times Lead to Great Loss of Life. battle was fought in consequence by the clans. Several hundred men were on each side. About fifty were killed. It was a satisfactory affair. In Chao Peng two men of the Ur-Chang clan went out frog-catching and passed through one of the villages with less clothes on than the law allows. It was late at night and only one villager saw it. But the indignity was not to be borne, and war was declared. It involved 16,000 men on one side and 20,000 on the other. Another battle in which property valued at $10,000 was destroyed was caused by a dispute between men of rival clans over a gambling debt. The amount at issue in the quarrel was 0028 cent. At present there is more or less desutory fighting between the Chow Yang and the Jao Peng clans. No one knows what they are fighting about, but the rate of deaths is estimated as being ten or twelve a day, which is pretty good for mere blickering. It is hard to be poor, of course. But then, it isn't easy to be rich. M STORY Those Who Can Believe It. never seen before. She could not account for it, but it was carefully preserved in a specimen book. Not long after she was a passenger on one of the ocean liners. Among her fellow-passengers was a professor in one of the English universities, and an acquaintance was formed between the two. The professor shared to a certain extent her interest in seaweeds, and one day she was turning over the leaves of her specimen book in his company. Coming to the specimen so strangely acquired the professor uttered an exclamation. "How did you come by that?" he asked, with a manifest show of interest. She told him as well as could be. "It is strange," said the professor. "That is the second specimen of that variety that I have seen. The only other one that I know of is preserved in the British Museum and was found at a seldom visited point in the Indian ocean." Then the young woman remembered her dream.—Boston Herald. ule Mr. Quay would take from underneath his desk a pile of manuscript about three feet high and begin to read. After he had kept this up for two or three days and had made no apparent inroad into the mountain of typewritten sheets the Democrats would succumb and suggest a compromise. At the close of the session the speech was printed. It ought to have been placed in the state Library of Pennsylvania, and labeled "The Bulwark of our Protected Interesta." Grand Easter Monday Program 1. “Our Offering” W. N. Miller 2. “The Young Man” Hon. E. Thaddeus Summitt. 3. Oration “Is the Soul Black?” † Miss Blanche Alexander. 6. Address "America's Achievements" Hon. Geoff 7. Baritone Solo Mr. John Edgerton. 8. Address "Our Progress" Hon. Thomas Glover 9. Paper "Why We Should Support Our Paper" Sarah 10. Duett Miss Fannie Collins and E. K. Knox This was Miss Alexander's grrduating Oration. Its fi This will, indeed, be rare Literary treats of the is the above program show Admission Only 15 Cents every One Invited. Plenty Reasons and More Reasons Why It pays to Invite To investigate my prices and examine my san Reason No. 1- Your order is taken with the distinct at the goods will fit and please you. Otherwise, you are on to accept them. Reason No. 2- You can have your garments made in ire, made just the way you would like to have them m efined to any one pattern or style. You are the one to be you are not pleased, you are under no obligation to tak Reason 3- Because you can get Suits from $9.50 users from $2.50 to $9.00. 6. Address " America's Achievements " Hon. Geo. H. Alexander 7. Baritone Solo Mr. John Edgerton. 8. Address " Our Progress " Hon. Thomas Glover This was Miss Alexander's grduating Oration. Its fine. Hear It. This will, indeed, be one the rare Literary treats of the Season; as the above program show. Every One Invited. Plenty Seats. To investigate my prices and examine my samples Reason No. 1- Your order is taken with the distinct understanding that the goods will fit and please you. Otherwise, you are under no obligation to accept them. Reason No. 2- You can have your garments made in any style you desire, made just the way you would like to have them made. You are not confined to any one pattern or style. You are the one to be satisfied, and if you are not pleased, you are under no obligation to take the goods. Reason No. 3- Because you can get Suits from $9.50 to $30.00 Trousers from $2.50 to $9.00. James A. Robinson. Greenfield B WICHITA, KA5 Greenfield Brc's WICHITA, KAS to our furnishings. All we ask is a call. erwear, ask to see our new tan Agents for hats. PROGRAM 5. Recitation Mrs. F. E. Moten Spring Goods Are Here Our Store is in Spring attire. In men, Green and Brown's seems to predominate All in Scotch effects. Goods arriving every day. In children's, the Norfolks are quite popular. Also the Vistrees. Our line of Boys' Suits is now complete. Ask to see our line of top and long Spring use to mention in regards NO.43 My Program Hall RIGHT 31. ammitt. anche Alexander. on. Geo. H. Alexander lover er" Sam'l Walker x Its fine. Hear It. be one the one Season; show. Cents enty Seats. Seasons-- Investigate my samples distinct understanding you are under no obli- made in any style you them made. You are not ne to be satisfied, and to take the goods. $9.50 to $30.00 on, BICKSON HOUSE. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE SEARCHLIGHT KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Kansas university has received machinery with which to produce liquid air. Secretary Coburn's reports show that buffalo grass grows in 69 counties of Kansas. Glasco, a Cloud county town with a population of 500, has a city park five acres in extent. Governor Stanley has appointed E. C. Ellet as a member of the penitentiary board for a term of three years. The State Agricultural college is to hold school for judging horses March 19 to 22. Owners of good horses are invited to bring them. Insurance rates at Olathe have been reduced 10 per cent because of more satisfactory arrangements, concerning the city fire department. Henry S. Hall, who was at Ripon college, Wisconsin, and died there of pneumonia, was brought back to Kansas for interment. He attended Washburn college for five years. Parties who sold the land to the Bourbon county socialist colony, and are members of the colony, have brought suit for the purchase money due and asked for the appointment of a receiver. A third man has been taken in, charged with the murder of Geo. C. Montgomery at Winfield, Ed Colby, of Enid, formerly employed on the Miller ranch. The other two are O. W. Coffelt and W. C. Johnson. Kansas has the largest state normal and the largest state agricultural college in the world, and a state university with 80 professors and 1,200 students; also 10 county high schools with 60 teachers and 1,788 students. In some northwestern towns of Kansas there exist branches of an association called the Kansas Utopia club. Its chief feature is plenty of strong drink on tap. At Inman and at Smith Center their Utopian scheme has been interfered with in the way of confiscation and fines. At Empire City two children were burned to death. They were not together but each had been left in their respective homes, while their mothers were absent. At John Allen's house were two children, one of whom was rescued, but a baby four months old perished. Frank Weatherby's house caught fire and a baby one year old was burned. The Royal Arch Masons of Wellington have filed a suit in the district court to recover $321.02, from E. Hayes, the former treasurer of the lodge. The petition states that on January 1, 1900, Hayes, as treasurer, received the sum of $973.79 of the lodge's funds, and that during the term he received an additional sum of $333.25 lodge funds; that he paid out for lodge purposes $886.02, and retained the sum of $321.02 which he appropriated to his own use. In the eleven months that the state railroad commission has been doing business 142 cases or complaints have been brought before the board, of which 114 have been disposed of. The railroads have complied with every order of the board, resisting none. In two cases the Missouri Pacific has ignored recommendations in elevator site cases. The only appeal taken from the rulings of the board was the Topeka millers' case in the matter of differential rates; this has been appealed to the district court. Ottawa university, in its decision against football will have the moral support of all the mothers of Kansas—and most of the fathers too. Jerry Simpson has 480 acres near Roswell, N. M., and has left Wichita with his family to make his home on the land where he will handle blooded stock. Major H. B. Merrill, for 30 years a prominent citizen of Saline county, and owner of the Hope stucco mills, died last week at Watertown, N. Y., aged 70 years. The negroes of Miami county are to hold a mass meeting at Paola on March 22, to discuss the industrial, moral and political conditions of their race. M. L. Riddle, of Chetopa, Kansas, whose three children were killed in a railroad wreck in Texas, has settled with the railroad company for $10,000. Joe Remiette, of the Salina Gun club, made a score of 46 hits out of a possible 50 and has received a $50 gold medal from Kansas City, which is to be the champion medal club trophy. The school districts of Rockville township, Rice county, have taken steps to consolidate all the schools in one building in the center of the township. The other school houses will be sold. Barton county is about completing arrangements to build a jail to cost $21,000. It is to be of stone and to be fire proof. The Rev. Julian E. Yates, pastor of the Baptist church at Olathe, has been appointed as a chaplain in the regular army at $1,800 a year. A municipal ownership league has been organized in Salina. Kansas school districts built 156 school buildings last year. The authorities of Ottawa university have cut out foot ball this year. North Lawrence has 2,500 people and not one doctor on that side of the Kaw. Wholesalers say that more snuff is sold in Lindsborg than in any other town in the state. Western Kausas school districts and towns are clamoring to pay off their bonds that are not due. The Wyandotte Coal company while drilling for coal in Kansas City, Kas., struck a strong flow of gas. John R. Hamilton, of Illinois, has sold to S. S. Findley, of Wichita, 300 acres of land east of Wichita for $13,635. A Lawrence banker says that there are twice as many notes paid before they are due as there are renewals asked for. Concordia has in use a revival tent with a capacity for 16,000 people, and it is regularly filled; so a dispatch from there asserts. The Fort Scott Y. M. C. A. received from New York a few days ago thirty-six phonograph records; a gift from Miss Helen Gould. John B. Kell, who was a lumber dealer and stock shipper at Clearwater, died at Phoenix, Ariz., where he went in the hope of regaining his health. The register of deeds of Sedgwick county says that 80 per cent of the more valuable property sold in the county in the past ten years was bought by home people. Editor Hanna, of the Salina Republican, has started a movement for the construction of an auditorium at Salina. His plan is to raise funds by popular subscription. Former Lieut. Gov. A. J. Felt has been given a pension of $24 a month, and Geo. H. Evans, the Topeka contractor now at the soldiers' home, gets a $30 a month pension. A Rock Island conductor recently took up a pass which belonged to Sheriff Smith and which he carried when he was killed at Lawton. It was presented by a U. S. deputy marshal. Dr. and Mrs. Inglis, of Osage City, are going back to Pekin to re-enter the missionary service of the Presbyterian church and will resume charge of the hospital which was destroyed by the Boxers. Nemaha county has seven independent telephone lines in operation. A meeting to be held March 24 will likely form a communion of interests in these lines, so as to cover the whole county without relays. Elias Lamb, of Concordia, expects to cut 40,000 feet of lumber with the saw mill he has put up. All the timber which he is now working has grown since 1871, in which year everything that would make a plank was worked up. Suburban and rural grocers about Atchison have been buying packing house fresh meats from Kansas City packers and the town butchers knocked and threatened until the small grocers were cut out by the packers. Now the small grocers refuse to buy lard, salt meats and canned goods of any Kansas City packer. John T. Giles, of Wichita, has bought a 3,000 acre ranch in Comanche county from Andrew H. Baker, for $15,000. With the conveyance of the 3,000 acres, the lease on 2,000 acres additional was also conveyed, giving Mr. Giles the use of 5,000 acres of land. The land is fenced and improved. Three hundred acres is sown in wheat and the rest is covered with a fine growth of buffalo grass. Mr. Giles will stock the ranch with cattle and sheep. A Clearwater doctor wanted a skull and secured a human head from a medical college at St. Louis. The doctor buried the head in a manure heap to effect its decomposition, where it was forked out by a man who was hauling out the manure. A sensation resulted. A Topeka truss manufacturing company now has 6,000 agencies in the United States and last year shipped their goods to Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the Philippine Islands. Their trade covers every state and territory in the union. Phillips county assessors report the acreage of wheat larger than ever before and that all of it is in fine shape except the volunteer wheat. They say the prospects for a large yield were never better in March. Western Kansas is handicapped in the production of sugar beets by the lack of labor. It keeps a man on his knees practically all summer for each five acres and men cannot stand it. Over the line in Colorado the work is done by Germans and Russians and the children work long hours. A windmill company has been organized at Salina to make windmills patented by G. S. Lowell, of that place. The capital stock is $15,000. Prof. Bartz, of Kansas University, has analyzed water taken from a well at Abilene at a depth of 1,260 feet. It contains 11,000 grains of mineral matter in comparison to 13,000 grains in the Dead Sea water, while ocean water carries only about 2,000 grains. It is the only strong muriatic acid water in the state, and also contains one and one fourth pounds of salt per gallon. MOZART AND THE MAJOR. Music and liquor! The Major loved them both; was something of a connoisseur in both; and was keenly susceptible to the influence of both. So, when he actually resolve, to adopt a small colored boy, his friends were outraged, but not surprised; they only felt unable to decide whether the proceeding was to be attributed to the Major's pocketflask or to the boy's banjo, while the Major cursed the whole neighborhood in good, set terms, and went after his protege. "What's the boy's name?" he demanded when all other particulars had been settled to the mutual satisfaction of himself and the child's father. "Well, Majah," was the somewhat astonishing response, "I don' jes 'zackly know." The Major's temper uncertain, and his vocabulary ready. "Then you're a durn fool," he replied with promptness and irritation. "Well, Majah, you see, 'twuz is way. Wen dat chile wuz bawn, me n' M'rier 'lowed we wuz gwine to call him fo' you; an' we wuz gwine to haab a great big crusenin', soon's it got so's he cud war a frock 'dout nalk nerk sleeves, dat yo' ma gin him. But w'ile we wuz a-waltin' M'rier, she up an' jine de Baptis', an' one day, w'en I sez, 'M'rier, ain' it mos' warm 'nuff fo' de crusenin'? M'rier, she say, sorter short-lak, dat 'dee ain' gwine be no crusenin'. Dat crusenin's infum baptizum, 'n dee ain' no sech t'ing ez infum baptizum. 'Dee ain', sez I: 'how'n the name o' Gord dat chile gwine to get named, den? An M'rier say, We jess gwine call him Moses right elong. Dat bein's how he'd bin kinder drawed out'n de water by bein' kep' infum babtizum, de preacher 'lowed he mus' be call Moses. Well, su, I jess plentedly d'n pitched. I sutney skered M'rier. I 'lowed dat boy wuzn't gwine to be named no sech t'ing; an' he ain', mun, he ain' M'rier, she call him Mose, jess fo' pure owdaciousness; but me an' d'res jess call him sonny. An' dat's hucome I don' jess 'zackly know his name." At the termination of this remarkable narrative, the man stolidly awaited the usual string of expletives. But the Major stood silent, deep in meditation. A happy conceit had occurred to him and he was lost in admiration of its neatness and his cleverness. "The boy's name shall be Mozart Mendelssohn," he said, with an unctuous relish of his own good thing; "Mozart Mendels-sohn," he repeated, adapting the pronunciation to the slow mind of his hearer; "then Maria can keep on calling him Mose, and you can keep on calling him sony, and by the Lord Harry! Adam himself couldn't do better than that." So Mozart Mendelssohn it was; and if ever a small boy deserved a great name, this one did. Pitially crippled and misshapen the little follow was; but genius looked out of his dark, bright eyes, and spoke through his slender, ebony fingers. After a few preliminary trials, he could handle any instrument with a skill and expression rarely attained by months of practice; and, along this line, the limit of the Major's generosity was the limit of his purse Seated on the wide stone step of the west veranda, while the Major rocked to and fro above him, with a mint julep or a toddy at his side. Mozart would fill the air with soothing melody, until his watchful eye took note that the last drop had disappeared down the Major's capacious throat. Then, and not till then, with clasped hands around his crooked knee, and eyes fixed firmly on the distant landscape, would Mozart say, "I b'leve I cud play a fiddle." "Well, blank my eyes!" the Major would roar, "a fiddle! and it's just like your derned impudence to think I ought to get you one. A fiddle! Get up off that rock and go to the kitchen before I break every bone in your body." And the Major would stalk in the house, raging; while Mozart would A "His name shall be Mozart Mendelssohn." he said. "His name shall be Mozart Mendelssohn," he said. walk off around the corner. "I b'feve I cud play it," he would say as he disappeared. And, in less than a month, he would be playing thereon, to the Major's intense delight and the neighborhood's intense disapproval. There was but one drawback to the Major's enjoyment; Mozart could not play before strangers. In vain was he brought before expectant guests; flute, violin, cornet or banjo, it was all the same; his trembling fingers refused their office, and his frightened appeal, "I cyarn't play, Majah; I see skewed," never failed to bring a speedy release. But he could always play for the Major. And, as the years went by, the bond of protection and of loyalty, of care and fidelity, of mutual love and tenderness, cemented these hearts in a friendship that was unalterable. And when, at last, the shadow of disgraceful poverty fell across the Major's life; when, leaving home and friends, he wandered, a degraded man, from place to place; when time, and name, and life's best gifts were sacrificed to his shameful, all-absorbing appetite; he was never friendless or alone, for there was always Mozart. The Major's stalwart form was no better known in his favorite haunts than was the distorted figure of the little negro. Awaiting the end of the Major's carousals, watching over his drunken slumers, hungry and cold unless supplied with food and warmth by bar-room charity; his love and patience were sublime. If only he' could have played for the crowds who, fired by the Major's boasts, made nightly requests for an M. M. "Out into the raging night." exhibition of his skill, money and plenty would be his; his and the Major's. So, night after night, he tried; but night after night he failed, until one bleak December evening, the boisterous crowd, moved by a common impulse of compassion and disappointment, called out to the Major, after one of Mozart's ineffectual attempts: "Licker the nigger up, Major; licker him up." It was done, and then he played. How he played as the subtle glow flew from mouth to brain, and waked his heart and fingers to a new, strange power! It was only a second-rate violin, played by a hunch-back negro; but the scent of the harvest field blew over the hot, close room, and a stream plashed gently under bending trees. Only a second-rate violin, but its spell was mighty. Men saw afresh life's beauty and its gladness. Old dreams awakened, of fame and love; and hope began to sing of what might be. He was only a hunch-back negro, but men dropped their heads and forgot their glasses on the bar as they listened. Within their hearts there stole sweet thoughts; within their eyes there crept hot tears; and no man smiled as the Major walked unsteadily down the room, until he stood before the player. "Le's go home, Mozart," he cried, with trembling lips; "le's go home. We'll keep our Christmas there, please God! You and I—at home." Out into the night, through a raging blizzard; buffeted by angry gusts of wind and volleys of snowflakes that obliterated the way; but the Major knew it not, until, at his feet, his companion stumbled and fell, exhausted with cold and weariness. But he knew it well, when, with Mozart in his arms, he plodded along over the road whose stretching white miles seemed endless to his tired feet. Dissipation had weakened the Major's frame, and Mozart's inert form was heavy, but still he walked, fighting against the fate that threatened them, until his eyes discovered, through the snow-lit darkness, a well-known gate. And then he paused. "We'll get a little rest here, Mozart." he said, with a thick and halting utterance; "we'll rest a bit, and then we'll go on in; we'll both go in—we'll both go home together." And when the sun climbed the golden ladder of morning, and lighted up the snow-clad earth, it seemed as if the mantle of heavenly charity was cast on two recumbent, half-hidden figures that had gone home together. Choice Lamb and Fish. Senator Foster of Washington, and Mr. Loud of California, live under the same hotel roof. A few weks ago when one of his constituents had forwarded him a fine lamb, which was served on the Californian's table, he sent a choice cut over to the senator. "Give him my compliments," quoth Mr. Loud to the waiter, "and tell the senator that this lamb never tasted anything but milk." The days of the session flew by and not long ago a waiter appeared at Mr. Loud's elbow one evening, bearing a cut of magnificent salmon. It was sent by Senator Foster. "But I want to know whether this salmon came from Washington or Oregon," asserted Mr. Loud with the bearing of a conniosseur. Soon the wafter returned with the reply: "The senator says it is a Puget Sound salmon, and it has never tasted anything but cream." This satisfied the legislative epicurea from California.—Washington Post. What peculiar dishes we partake of uder the inspiration of good fellowship? Mrs. P. D. Armour, Jr., Married TRE, P.D. ARTHOUD P.A. VALENTINE Differences in Population Officer Charged With Cruelty In the presence of a small gathering, mostly relatives, Mrs. May Lester Armour, widow of Philip D. Armour, Jr., of Chicago, was married to Patrick A. Valentine at the Hotel Netherland, New York. The wedding, which was as simple and quiet as possible, took place in one of the private parlorors of the hotel. The Rev. Dr. Stires officiated at the ceremony. Mrs. Armour entered the room with the bridegroom, and there were no attendants. The bridal gown of blue chiffon over satin was elaborately trimmed with lace, and the bridal bouquet was of pink roses. A unique feature of the ceremony Differences in The three big states of Washington, Oregon and California occupy 317,420 square miles, but they contain only 2,416,692 people. The one little state of Massachusetts occupies only 8,040 square miles, but it contains 2,805,346 people. The Countess Tolstol. The Countess Tolstoi, in her way, is almost as wonderful as her famous husband, whose severe illness is at present causing such grave anxiety. Her individuality and her theories are as marked and distinct as are his. Nor does she always agree with him in his views. In fact, she most strenuously opposed his tirade against the copyright system. Neither is she a blind admirer of the count's style and stories, but often freely and somewhat warmly attacks both, the result being a rather heated argument. The countess is a woman of broad training and ripe education. Strong in her character and great in her ability, she is the type of woman who would best understand a man of her husband's knia, and who would be able to further the best in his and both their lives. Prince Henry Highly Honored. It has always been an unwritten law in the New York navy yard that no salute shall be fired on Sunday. Even when President McKinley died the minute guns were not fired until the next day, yet the long established rule was violated when Trince Henry arrived. Area of Africa. The area of Africa including Madagascar and the adjacent islands is estimated at 11,950,000 square miles, or about 4,000,000 less than the area of America (North and South). The Officer Charge Major L. W. T. Waller of the United States Marines, and Lieut. Day of his force, are to be court-martialed for torturing and executing without a trial was the presence of Mrs. Valentine two little sons, the children of Philip D. Armour, Jr., who gave their mother away at the altar. In their eagerness the little fellows forced her to hurry faster than she wished toward the waiting bridegroom. The marriage is set down by society gossips as purely a love match, as though Mrs. Valentine inherited the bulk of her late husband's fortune amounting to several million dollars. Mr. Valentine is himself a very rich man. He has been in charge of Philip D. Armour's interests in Chicago for many years, is a well-known society man and a general favorite. WASHINGTON OREGO CALIFORNIA area of Cape Colony is 277,077 square miles; Transvaal Colony, 120,000 square miles; Orange River Colony, 50,000 square miles; Natal, 29,200 square miles, making a total of 476,272 square miles. The area of the province of British Columbia is 383,900 square miles. Lilies Will Be in Demand: In Lincolnshire huge quantities of lilies of the valley are being planted in view of the demand for these blooms as the coronation flower. One dealer has already received an order for 14,000,000 of them. With Cruelty natives of the Island of Samar. Friends of Major Waller, who has a distinguished record of service in Cuba and Tientsin, China, where he commanded the United States marines, attribute his actions to temporary insanity due to experiences on the terrible march through Samar, in which he and his men nearly died from the privations suffered. Some of the circumstances in the case are peculiarly atrocious. One native was tied to a tree and publicly shot in the arms. The third day he was shot in the body, and the fourth day he was killed. Sailing Vessels Constructed. Only five sailing ships of over 100 tons were built in the United Kingdom last year. All the vessels were constructed on the Clyde and were registered in London. Easy Way to Exterminate Rats. Ship rats, which are propagators of plague, have been thoroughly examined at Marselles by the use of acid carbonic acid. Many Watches Massachusetts Lady Massage, the composer of "Cav- aria Rusticana," has a positive way for watches, of which he is said to carry three in his pockets. he is of gold, with his monogram in mounds, another is of silver, and the third, which is of huge propor- ces is of nickel. Americans in Rome Americans in Rome. There is a large American colony in Europe, not only students, artists and persons who come to spend the winter, but many permanent residents. Several Roman princes and other members of the nobility have married american women. Many of the most prominent ladies in the court circle are Americans, including the wife of the minister of the royal household. Consalderate of the Thief The following advertisement recent- appeared in a London paper: "Milk if the individual who stole the milk my doorstep this morning will be good enough to knock at the door on the occasion of his next professional act I will give him a drop of rum to put in. Milk taken neat on cold mornings and an empty stomach is easy to injure the internal economy of outdoor workers. Address, etc." Empress Frederick Now a Memory. The households and establishments of the late Empress Frederick of Germany, at Cronberg and at Berlin, have been broken up. The members of her household and her old servants have been pensioned from Jan. 1. Her palace near the opera house in Berlin reverts to her grandson, the crown prince, and will be thoroughly re-required and redecorated during the next year. Paradise for Travelers Switzerland is surely the earthly paradise of the commercial traveler. at all of the principal stations "commercial season tickets" are issued to properly accredited commercial travellers, enabling them to travel as often as they please over all of the Swiss railway lines. The charges for such unlimited service are absurdly low—$250 for first-class, $15 for second-class for a period of 30 days. Austria's Colnage for Brazil. Austria's casks for brazil. The Vienna mint has undertaken the production of the new money for brazil, and has already commenced the delivery of a part of the coinage. The money, consisting of 100-reis and 100-reis pieces, was packed in bags, even of such bags being inclosed in cases lined with sheet iron, secured at the top and bottom with lead-sealed crews. Six wagons were necessary for the conveyance of these casks en route to Rio de Janeiro. Hot Lunch for School Pupils In the high school in Sioux City, Iowa, the school board has undertaken that is proving to be a very successful experiment in serving hot lunch to the pupils at cheap prices. A lunch-room has been fitted up, and there the pupils can purchase many dishes at low prices. Everything is sold for checks, which can be obtained in lots of 10 and 25 cents' worth. Much time is saved in this way, and it is possible to serve ninety girls and girls in ten minutes. This is Simply Wonderful. Champion, Mich., March 17th, Mrs. A. Wellett, wife of a local photographer, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mrs. Wellett tells the story this way: "I could not sleep, my feet were cold, my limbs cramped. I had an awful hard pain across my back. I had to get up three or four times every night. I was very nervous and fearfully despondent. I had very little appetite." "After I had suffered in this way for five years, I began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. When I had taken a few pills you ought to have seen what came from my kidneys. It looked like a spilled egg only darker." "I kept on using Dodd's Kidney Pills if I was cured. Now I can sleep well and do not have to get up in the night, I have no pain in my back or limbs and I feel better than I have for years." Most of the shadows that cross a man's path in life are caused by his standing in his own way. THE INDIAN IN MODERN AUDIENTI ING. Along the line of the Santa Fe through Oklahoma, Indian Territory, New Mexico and Arizona are found many tribes of peaceful Indians, whose strange costumes and unique mode of life are very interesting to tourists. The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, including the roving Navajos, are perhaps the best known and most frequently visited. The Moki Shake Dances and the various feasts of the Indians along the Rio Grande river have a national reputation. In fact, the Indian is now somewhat of a fad, and of late years his blankets, pottery, baskets and silver ornaments have been eagerly sought after by collectors. Recognizing the advertising value of the Indian, the Santa Fe has recently placed in the windows of its offices at Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta, some very fine collections of Indian curios. It is also decorating many of its offices with paintings of Indian subjects. All this in the belief that announcements in newspapers and magazines can be strengthened by the pictorial art and by attractive window dressing. It is is expected that by mid-winter arrangements will be perfected for the voyages of Navajo and Moki Indian dances at a point on the Santa Fe line in Arizona, the through trains being stopped so that passengers may have an opportunity to witness these dances. CLAIM AGENTS SUPPRESSED. Pension Bill Shuts Off Fees For Getting Bills Passed. FOR RELIEF OF CONGRESSMEN. Washington, March 18.—Senators and members of congress are very much interested in the fact that the pension appropriation bill soon will become a law, because they hope to obtain from it some relief from the pressure on them to secure private pension legislation. The bill contains a provision making it "a criminal offense for attorneys, claim agents or other persons to receive compensation for services rendered in connection with the passage through congress of private pension bills." They say there are many times as many bills before congress as possibly can receive attention during the congress and the number is increasing daily. They recognize that many of the bills represent just claims, but they also feel that claim attorneys have been more active than they were called upon to be. It is also declared that claimants have been imposed on in many cases and persuaded to pay money for the introduction of bills which stand no show of becoming laws. The bill is now in the hands of the president, The Example of Aristocracy London, March 20.—The select committee of the House of Lords appointed to investigate the evils of betting and the remedies therefor heard some plain talk from Rev. J. W. Horsley, who as former chaplain of Cierkenwell prison, has been in contact with 100,000 criminals. The Rev. Mr. Horsley had traced many of the crimes he had investigated to betting which he declared was due to the example of the aristocracy. "If," he said, "the King would say to-morrow: 'I will never again go to a race course where betting is practiced,' the evil would entirely disappear." Separate Prison For Women. Topeka, March 17.—Warden Jewett of the Lansing penitentiary, while here, stated that in his forthcoming report he would recommend the erection of a separate penitentiary for women. He claims that the prisons for men and women should be in different towns. There are now thirty-three women in prison. The warden says the new prison should have accommodations for at least seventy-five women. Vatican Hears From Ireland. London, March 19.—The vatican has received confidential news, says the Rome correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, of a serious situation in Ireland. The Fenians have for some months been engaged in an active propaganda with a view of organizing for a general uprising. It is believed the vatican will instruct the Irish clergy to hold aloof from the revolutionary agitation. Pay Advanced—Strike Off. Cleveland, March 18. —The five hundred moulders who went on strike last Tuesday for a minimum wage scale of $3, have compromised with their employers and agreed to work for $2.90 per day. This is an advance of 15 cents and is granted to all the moulders irrespective of their present pay. The strike has been declared off. New Discovery in Cancers. New York, Marck 17.—A young Berlin physician, Dr. Ludwig Fenbergh, has made an important discovery of independent animal organisms in cancer growths, says the Tribune's London correspondent. This discovery, he says, means a diagnosis of cancer. H. P.'s Route to Thunder Mountain Omaba, Neb., March 20.—The Union Pacific is preparing an entrance to the Thunder mountain mining country in Idaho and is sending several surveying parties to select the best route. Five routes will be surveyed from points on the Oregon Short Line from Red Rock to Weiser, Idaho. It is stated that the travel to that country has already become large and preparations are making for the moving of several thousand people to Thunder mountain during the spring. Nicaragua Route Chosen. Washington, March 14.—The senate committee on isthmian canals has decided by a vote of 7 to 4 to report the Hepburn bill providing for the construction of an isthmian canal via the Nicaraguan route. Some of the members of the committee were absent, but as their positions were understood their votes were counted. The vote for the Hepburn bill stood: Yeas, Morgan, Mitchell, Hawley, Platt (N. Y.) Harris, Turner, Foster, (La.) Nays—Hanna, Pritehard, Millard, Kittedge. Business Mapped Out Washington, March 20.—The War revenue bill, and appropriation bills have the right of way. The steering committee of the senate gives first place to the oleomargarine bill, to be followed by immigration bill. The Nicaraguan canal bill will be pressed for the next place, but as the oleo and Chinese bills will consume some time, and the privileged bills may be taken up, this was not finally settled upon. The canal bill changes will be carefully guarded, however. THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. 73RD DAY The subsidy bill still has the field in the senate. Senator McCumber (N, D) presented the interests of the agricultural states. He favored the billion the ground of its protective features. Senator Depew (N, Y.) analyzed the arguments of the shipping industry, picturing in glowing language what he thought would result from the operation of the bill to American labor and American commerce. Building one for the redemption of Hawaiian coins and the substitution thereof of American silver coins. Also a to allow each major general to have three sides, the distinctive two sides, to be selected from captains or lieutenants. A joint resolution was passed to allow army and navy officers in the Chinese campaigns of the most distinctive badges on all occasions of ceremonies. 74TH DAY The credentials of Arthur Pue Gorman, elected to the senate from Maryland were presented. His term of six years is to begin on March 4, 1907. The senate agreed to the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill without comment. Mr. Crumpacker (Ind.) introduced a resolution looking to the appointment of a special committee of thirteen members to investigate state suffrage laws, and whether the right of suffrage is abridged or denied in any way. As usual, when the postoffice appropriation bill was before the house, the items for fast mail service were attacked. The amount of these appropriations was reduced in the present bill from $106,000 to $107,000 because of the abandonment of the subsidy between New York and Washington. The item for the service between Kansas City and Newton remains in the bill. Mr. Shaforth (Colo.) has a bill which has been favorably reported, providing for the adoption, gradually, of the metric system of weights and measures. 75TH DAY. The senate in executive session ratified the agreement, which grew out of the Hague peace conference relating to practices in the conduct of war. The agreement is Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, United States, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Montpellier, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Servia, Sweden, Norway, Turkey and Bulgaria. Senator Penrose introduced an amendment to the resolution induction of senators which would give each state a vote and one more for each half million people. A bill is before the house of representatives providing private boxes in the post offices of small towns on the payment of the first cost of town with no further payments, time not limited. Mr. Gillett, (Mass.) introduced a bill to prohibit telegraph dispatches to small towns and making and all kinds of interstate gambling. The house passed the postoffice bill after adding the provisions of the bill to the free delivery service, which had been passed. 76TH DAY. The pension appropriation bill now in the hands of the president contains a provision making the office of offense a morally compensatory or other penalty to receive compensation for their services rendered in connection with the passage through congress of the pension bill. Senator Simmons (N. C) offered an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill providing for terms of U. S. courts at Tishomingo and Ada in the Chickasaw country. The house adopted the report conference on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The house again beat the record by passing 229 private pension bills and cleaning all such from the calendar. A resolution was adopted concerning government transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines. 77TH DAY After voting upon numerous amendments to the ship subsidy bill the senate passed the bill by a vote of 12 to 11. Of the amendments none of the amendments which did not meet the approval of the promoters of the bill. The resolution for a board to investigate the Durden canal project was indefinitely postponed. A number of bills were passed, among them one appropriating $8,000 for the purchase of a manuscript history register of the army from 1890 to 1891. The house commenced discussion of the river and harbor bill. It opened with sectional complaint and neglected in the apportionment of appropriation. Mr. Jackson (Kan) introduced a bill to allot the lands of the Osage and Kaw Indians; along the lines of the agreement recently entered 78TH DAY. A likely debate occurred in the senate over an effort by Senator Rawlins (Utah) to have a pub. doc. some Philippine correspondence. The senate for three hours debated the bill for the protection of the president and for punishing the president for making assaults upon him. Senator Bacon (Ga.) opposed the bill and Senator Mason (Ill.) opposed the bill and Senator Hawley of the United States to protect itself against assault through the president. The first of President Roosevelt's vetoes were reintroduced to honorable discharge from the military service to Hawley, and for the relief of Jas. W. Howell. --- Mr. Jenkins (Wis.) introduced a resource on directing the judiciary committee to report on a number of questions relating to the political status of Cuba. The gist of his queries is that Cuba is now under the sovereignty of the United States and has been since the treaty with France that was enacted to be told in what manner the sovereignty is to be transferred to a Cuban government. The Indian Office Approves. Washington, March 20.—The Indian office has strongly recommended to congress the passage of Representative Bowersock's bill providing that the statutes of limitation shall apply as a defense to actions brought for the recovery of lands patented under the treaty of May 10, 1854, between the United States and the Shawnee tribe of Indians, and the interior department concurs in the commissioner's recommendations. Senate Passes Subsidy Bill. Washington, March 19.—The senate passed the ship subsidy bill, the final vote on the measure being 42 to 31. The voting upon amendments began at 3 o'clock, and a final vote upon the bill as amended was reached just before 6 o'clock. Amendments by Mr. Vest of Missouri for the application of the provisions of the anti-trust law to the shipping industry were rejected, as was the amendment by Patterson of Colorado, that no Chinese person should be a member of a crew of a subsidized vessel. Striker Gets Two Years Norfolk, Va. March 20. Because he threw a large plank directly across the track in front of a car during the first days of the strike of the street railway men, J. W. Jenkins was sentenced to serve two years at hard labor in the penitentiary. Several torpedo explosives have occurred on the tracks, but the officers were unable to make any arrests. Strikers are returning to work. The strike breakers, as the non-union men were called, are leaving. RECIPROCITY VICTORICUS Opponents of the Principle Were Willing to Refund Duties. MUST STILL PASS THE HOUSE. Washington, March 20. The advocates of Cuban reciprocity scored a decisive victory at the conference of Republican members of the house of representatives, the proposition of Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee for a 20 per cent reduction of duty with the Sibley amendment, limiting the duration of the reduced rates to December 1, 1903, being adopted by a vote of 85 yeas to 31 nays. The element in the caucus opposed to the principle of reciprocity struggled hard and long to win with their proposition to refund to the government of Cuba 20 per cent of duties collected, in consideration of the reduction of Cuban duties upon its imports from the United States, but the principle upheld by the ways and means committee, as first championed by Mr. Long of Kansas, won the final result in caucus. The Payne resolution as adopted gives the general form of a bill authorizing the president to negotiate a commercial agreement with Cuba for reciprocal and equivalent concessions by which the rates of duties shall be reduced at least 20 per cent advalorem on all articles imported from Cuba into the United States. It also provides that the United States immigration and exclusion laws shall be enacted by the government of Cuba as a preliminary to reciprocity. This closes the controversy over reciprocity with Cuba as far as the republican caucus is concerned, although it remains to be dealt with in the house. Woman Suffrage Defeated. Des Moines, March 15.—The woman suffrage amendment was given its final death blow by the legislature when the house by a vote of 56 to 38 adopted the report of the committee recommending it for indefinite postponement. After it had passed the senate the suffragists believed the most serious obstacle had been passed. Dr. Gray on Trial. Chicago, March 15.—Dr. Robert E. Gray, of Garden City, Kans., appeared in Judge Hall's court to answer to the charge of being responsible for the death of Miss Irma Brown. When court adjourned not a juror had been sworn to try the case. More than a score of men have been excused, the greater number by the defense. Anarchist Assassins. Elizabeth, N. J., March 19.—An attempt was made to kill the Rev. Mr. House, pastor of the German Lutheran church of this place. The police believe that the would be assassins were anarchists. After the shooting of President McKinley, Mr. House proche a sermon in which he denounced the anarchists. Greece Losing Young People. Athens, March 19.—The increase in Grecian emigration is serious, alarming the government. During the last few weeks 1,600 young people have gone to seek their fortunes in the United States. The press is calling on the government to introduce a measure to check this exodus. Action on Treaty in Denmark. Copenhagen, Denmark, March 17.—The folklothing (or lower house of parliament) by 88 to 7 votes approved the treats providing for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The treaty now goes to the landsthing (or the upper house.) Gen. Otis Before Senate Committee. Washington, March 20.—Major General Otis again appeared before the senate committee on the Philippines. Answering a question by Senator Culberson, he said he never trusted native officers because they were too cruel to their men. He said he could trust their loyalty, but they treated their natives with too much cruelty. "They were as bad as the insurgents," he said. When he left the Philippines he said, 'the war as war' had ceased. The troops of the United States, he said, had treated the Filipinos with the greatest kindness. Every statement of harsh treatment he heard of had been investigated. "In fact," said he, "we were laughed at by the Spaniards and the European army officers for the humanity we exercised." Cyclone at Bellville, Kas. Belleville, March 18.—A cyclone visited Scotia Plains, a Dunkard settlement near here and did much damage. A number of houses were blown down and the Dunkard church completely demolished. No lives were lost. A Prominent Young Man Filley, Neb., March 20.—Willie Smith, a prominent young man, was killed while grabbing a package of money left in a spot designated by him in a threatening letter to one of the leading merchants of this town. His father declared he would shoot the slayer. At the suggestion of the sheriff four men watched the place where the deposit was made at the appointed time and when Smith attempted to grab the package a shot fired by Frank Shadley killed him. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Conditions in Russia Are Becoming Quite Serious. St. Petersburg, March 20.—The students, during the course of the day, managed to distribute a mass of incendiary literature from the tops of street cars, while the police were busy fighting below. Some of these tracts were couched in the most revolutionary language ever sent abroad in Russia. The following is an extract from leaflet: "Citizens of Russia, awake, awake from that nightmare of harsh despotism which oppresses every man in Russia, under which it is impossible for three men to meet together. Where in Russia is that freedom of speech and press which is found in every civilized country? Under the heel of the autocrat. Is it not strange that one man, with insignificant mental faculties, should rule over 140 millions of people?" Took State's Dynamite. Leavenworth, Kas, March 19.—It is learned that the powder house of the Kansas penitentiary was broken into and ten sticks of dynamite stolen last Friday night. This is the same night dynamite was placed on the electric car track in two places. The penitentiary powder house is away off from the prison on the farm and a door was torn off to gain entrance. It is the belief that the dynamite used in the city was stolen from the prison powder house. The prison officials have been maintaining a close watch since the dynamite was stolen for fear some ex-convict might have broken in and had the explosive for convicts to get hold of to make trouble inside the penitentiary. Want Chillean Soda Mines. Berlin, March 20.—The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a letter from Darmstadt which says that the Hessian ministry of agriculture is negotiating for the purchase of several nitrate of soda mines in Chili for the Agricultural Cooperative Society of the Duchy of Hesse. One mine has already been bought for 1,700,000 marks and the purchase of another is intended for 1,500,000 marks. London Poor to Feat London, March 20.—Half a million of London's poor will be the guests of King Edward during coronation week. His majesty has notified the mayors of the metropolis that the sum of 30,000 pounds was placed at their disposal and he invited them to make the necessary arrangements to entertain the very poor to the number of 500,000 at a dinner in celebration of his coronation. Open Season is Ended. Topeka, March 19—The open season for Southern cattle closed on March 15 and from now on cattle from south of the line will not be admitted to Kansas for any purpose except for immediate slaughter. The open season was extended a month this year on account of a shortage of feed in Kansas. To Investigate Southern Elections. Washington, March 19.—The house committee on rules, by a divided vote on party lines, decided to report the result of Representative Crumppacker of Indiana, for a special committee of thirteen members to investigate and report on the alleged disfranchisement of voters in the south. River Steamer Upset Vicksburg, Miss., March 14. The steamer Providence plying between this port and Lake Palmyra, was overturned at 2 o'clock in the morning by a sudden squall, at Lone Landing and twenty-one of her passengers and crew were drowned. Dick T. Morgan Wants it. Guthrie, Okla., March 20.—Dick T. Morgan, of El Reno, has formally announced his candidacy for the nomination of congress. Mr. Morgan is the first man in his party to openly announce his candidacy so far. Mr. Morgan came here from Garden City, Kansas, at the first opening, settling in Guthrie. He practiced law here until the opening of the Strip and then located in Perry, where he has resided until moving to El Reno last year. He is 47 years of age and is a native of Indiana. In 1880 he was a member of the Indiana legislature. Kansas Children Give $2,800 Topeka, March 15.—The McKinley monument fund raised in this state now amounts to $3,100. Of this amount $2,900 was contributed by the school children of the state. Governor Stanley received a check for $126.99 from Bennett Grove, county superintendent of Harvey county. Mr. Grove stated that this amount was raised for the fund in the district schools of his county. Y. M. C. A. Report Topeka, March 20.—The annual report of the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. shows that the association has a membership of 765. Of this number 300 were church members. The number of professional men, merchants and business men was 146; office men and clerks, 267; artisans and laboring men, 131; students, 93; juniors and intermediates, 128. The attendance at the rooms during the year was over 100,000; the number using the reading rooms and correspondence table about 35,000. 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PTACEK. drenched, a severe cold has followed which it seemed impossible to throw until all one of them tried Perunga. re cold has followed impossible to throw them tried Peruna, and found the fin- ing for a cold that for a man would want. "Since then we have used it for colds, catarrh, influenza and other complaints following in the wake of inclement weather, and we all feel well!" pleased with Peruna." MICHAEL O'HALLERAN. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. The. BEST starch is Defiance. The BIGGEST package is Defiance. Quality and quantity mean Defiance Starch. 16 ounces for 10 cents. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. Man's Mission on Earth. Medical Book Free. 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PRINCE HENRY WAS TIRED. PRINCE HENRY WAS TIRED. Slept Most of the First 48 Hours After Boarding Ship. CHEERFUL, ORDERLY, CROWDS. Cherbourg, France, Mar. 19.—Prince Henry says he was so tired when he finally boarded the Duetschland at New York that he slept almost continuously for forty-eight hours, except for the time he appeared for his meals or to take short walks on the bridge. He says he never worked so hard in his life as when he was in the United States; that he never changed his uniform so many times a day or faced a succession of situations requiring such alertness and a certain initiative on his own part. There were situations which could not be met with merely formal behavior or the mechanical execution of a routine program. While conversing with members of his suite Prince Henry has alluded to many things in connection with his trip. He has mentioned nothing more frequently than that no single unpleasant incident occurred in the United States. Ideas, scenes and impressions were crowded upon him too rapid for proper appreciation at the moment, perhaps, but, as Prince Henry himself said: "We have accumulated material to think about for months to come." When one of his party inquired what had impressed him most, the prince replied that the great orderly and cheerful crowds had been his most continuous impression and would probably always be one of his most vivid impressions. The prince said he saw crowds out of doors and indoors—faces of men and women, with here and there a powerful, a beautiful, or a spiritual face. He said his regret, if he dared to say he had any, was that he could not know some of those people better. Losses by Bligzard. St. Paul, Minn., March 20.—At latest advices neither of the transcontinental lines had succeeded in clearing its road of the great heaps of snow under which the tracks were buried by the blizzard. The canadian Pacific has not been definitely heard from. Its line was blocked for several hundred miles. The loss of life and property caused by the storm, is still largely a matter of conjecture. But five authenticated cases of loss of human life have so far been reported. There are rumors that there have been lives lost among the new settlers, but these lack confirmation. Estimates of loss of livestock range from 20 to 60 per cent, and it will take time to secure accurate figures. The loss of the transcontinental railways will reach a half million dollars, in damage to perishable freight and the cost of clearing the roads; without considering their loss of traffic. Cattle Coming to Graze. Fort Worth, Tex., March 17.—At the conclusion of the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association it transpired that, the greater part of the trading done was for cattle above the quarantine lines, which brought good prices, 2-year-olds selling at $22.50 to $24 per head. The indications are that there will be sent to Indian Territory and Oklahoma for grazing in the neighborhood of 125,000 head of cattle. Held for Murder. Topeka, March 20—Roy Daniels, a Topeka jointist, charged with killing Frank Devlin in a saloon row recently, was held for murder by the city court of Topeka. His bond was fixed at $8,000. Being unable to give it he was sent to jail. Secretary Hitchcock's Successor. Washington, March 20. —Judge Vandeventer, who has been attorney general for the interior department, in that capacity giving vast assistance to Secretary Hitchcock, has been decided upon to succeed the secretary. He was for years a judge of the supreme court of Wyoming and is looked upon as one of the ablest men in Washington, and his selection is generally commended, as his long experience in the practical workings of all the bureaus will fit him better than any one else for the place. Orphan Asylum Burned Denver, Colo., March 18.—St. Vincent's orphan asylum, situated in the northern part of this city, was destroyed by fire. There were 200 orphans in the institution. All were rescued unharmed. The asylum is conducted by the Catholic Sisters of Charity. The orphanage was built 27 years ago, at a cost of $45,000, and an addition was made two years ago which cost $23,-000. There is $25,000 insurance on the furniture. Funston Succeeds McArthur. Washington, March 20.—The statutory retirement of Major General E. S. Otis, on the 25th, will vacate the commands of the military departments of the lakes at Chicago and Dakota at St. Paul. General MacArthur, now at Denver, in command of the department of the Colorado will be transferred to Chicago, and Brigadier General Frederick Funston, now in this city on leave of absence, will succeed General MacArthur in command of the department of the Colorado. DEEER AND SQUIRRELS WANTED Chas. 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Dr. Caldwell's (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin acts gently on the liver, increasing its activity in its formation of the blood, giving a bright, clear complexion, dispelling cold, headache, fever and all ills caused by a torpid liver. It is for sale by most druggists, in 50c and $1 bottles. Sample bottle and booklet free. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, Ill. Many a man's word is like an echo—merely a hollow mockery. --- Men of Affairs One may sail the seas and that men of affairs, who nor the inclination, whether medicines which cause excess organs in a constipated condition. It acts naturally, acts on the internal organs and leaves If in need of a laxative fever when anything more than a lax is to consult a competent physician which claim to cure all manner The California Flg Syrup Co. w which would give satisfaction to sanction and one friend recommend exceed all other laxatives combine One may sall the seas and visit every land and everywhere will find, that men of affairs, who are well informed, have neither the time nor the inclination, whether on pleasure bent or business, to use those medicines which cause excessive purgation and then leave the internal organs in a constipated condition. Syrup of Figs is not built on those lines. It acts naturally, acts effectively, cleanses, sweetens and strengthens the internal organs and leaves them in a healthy condition. If in need of a laxative remedy the most excellent is Syrup of Figs, but when anything more than a laxative is required the safe and scientific plan is to consult a competent physician and not to resort to those medicines which claim to cure all manner of diseases. The California Fig Syrup Co. was the first to manufacture a laxative remedy which would give satisfaction to all; a laxative which physicians could sanction and one friend recommend to another; so that today its sales probably exceed all other laxatives combined. In some places considerable quantities of old-time cathartics and modern imitations are still sold, but with the general diffusion of knowledge, as to the best medicinal agents, Syrup of Figs has come into general use with the well-informed, because it is a remedy of known value and ever beneficial action. The quality of Syrup of Figs is due not only to the excellent combination of the laxative and carminative principles of plants, known to act most beneficially on the system, with agreeable and refreshing aromatic liquids, but also to the original method of manufacture. In order to get the genuine and its beneficial effects one should always note the full name of the Company - California Fig Syrup Co. - printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP $100 Reward $100. Hall's Family Pills are the best. THE LIVER. Social cast frequently turns out to be a very wild throw. I am sure Elise's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago. Mrs. TROS. R. BREINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Some people undo with their tongues all the good they do with their hands. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. A fool may be funny, but that doesn't indicate that he is possessed of wit. MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. "Let me take your check." is the most popular form of after-dinner speech. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigially prolific millet. 5 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay Per Acre. Price 50 lbs. $1.90; 100 lbs. $3. Low freights. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. W A marriage license is a receipt in full for the promises a man makes during courtship. Ignorance Blows out the gas and furnishes the newspapers with a jest and an obituary notice. "Didn't know it was loaded" may be an honest plea, but it never brought a victim back to life. Those who let a cough run on, in ignorance of the danger, find no escape from the consequences when the cough develops into lung trouble. The best time to kill a snake is in the egg. The best time to cure a cough is when it starts. Ordinarily, a few doses of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will cure a cough at the beginning. But even when the cough is deep-seated, the lungs bleed and the body is wasted by emaciation, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred effect a perfect and permanent cure. “My husband had been coughing for years and people frankly told me that he would go into consumption,” writes Mrs. John Shireman, of No. 265 25th Place, Chicago, Ill. “He had such terrifying coughs, he was so on a new munch癖ed but looked for the bursting of a blood-vessel or a hemorrhage at most any time. After three days’ coughing he was too weak to cross theற the cough, he was so so-much so much as he had been a douglist, who ended me a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. My husbands recovery was remarkable. In three days after he began using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery he was up and around, and two two days he went to work. 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