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x t fc i yk t k t ii i fc'- LOST ON THE.... VELDT 41 fi,.mmm..mmmmmmmM..Wm..m, i ? 7f W W T W W t J W M CHAPTER III. (Continued.) "And to leave him behind? No, that I could nover do!" cried Bluebell. She turned and looked Rtralght Into his face, 'If. that waoswuat you wished to nay to mo, Mr. Moore, let me tell you nt once, you need say no moro. As long ns my father Is In New Kelso I will Btay with him. I am not in the least nfrald. Why should a woman neces sarily bo a coward?" "A coward? No! No one would ac cubo you of being that!" cried Moore. Ho turned his horse's head toward hers, so closo that he was able to lay his hand on hers. Bluebell started mid Instantly withdrew her hand. Mooro went on In a lower tone: "But you aro ono of thoso women to save whom from danger or hurt men would glvo .up.thelr.llves. Bluebell, llston to me. I am going out of the country, and have only been waiting horo until I should daro to ask you to accompany mo. Your father Is anxious you should consent." Sho was still uncomprehending. "You may lcavo tho country," she answered coldly. "You aro not of it; I am. I havo been brought up in It, and I love it. Am I going to run away because wo aro going to bo In vaded by tho UoerB from tho Trans vaal? Do you think I havo so Httlo confidence In our British rolntlons aa that? -Besides, whero should I go? 1 havo no relations In the world, bo far as I know, but my father." "You will not understand mo," said Moore. His brow began to darken, but Blueboll did not notlco that. "Mis3 Leslio Bluebell, I love you with all my soul! I wish you to bo my wife." If tho kopjo they wore ascending had suddenly been cleft asunder, and Bwal lowcd up rider and horse beforo her eyes, Bluebell could uot have boon moro astonished. Bluobcll looked at tho man for a minute, to see if ho wero really in earnest; then, as onco more he tried to layhls'liand'on hers," sho shook it off and drew her horse aside. "Mr. Moore, you havo taken mo by surprise I never for a moment dreamt of such a thing. Why, you'vo only seen mo two or three times! But though wo had known each othor for a lifetime It would bo all tho samp. Thank ycu for tho honor you havo dono mo, but it la qulto out of tho question. I do not lovo you, and could never bo your wife. It was aa well sho did not seo tho expression of his face now. Ho did not speak for a few minutes. Perhaps ho was trying to conquer himself. ;I will. not. tako thnt as my answer, Miss Leslie," ho satd at last, In the oamo tono as before. "I havo spoken too suddenly; you wero not preparod for It. I will wait until you have seen your fathor, until ho has spoken to you. Perhaps your answer then will bo different." "It cannot bo different!" tho girl re torted. "What could my father say to change my feelings? You may ns woll tako your answer now, Mr. Moore; nnd please don't think It Is because I did not expect what you havo just said that I havo made such an answer. I nm very sorry it I havo hurt your feel ings, but I can't help it. Now I am going to put Rover to a gallop; wo aro getting near homo." Sho put the. words into action, nnd tho 'next- moment tho gallant Httlo .voldt pony was flying over tho level plain, tho girl keeping her seat like ono to tho manner born, her slight figure erect, her reins hold with tho negligent yet firm hand of a thorough horsewoman. It was a pretty sight to seo horso and rider lit up by tho red blazo of sunset, the'glrl'a whole figure simply outlined In tho crimson light, her ruddy hair touched with the gold of tho setting sun. Moore followed, Thero was n look on ills faco that would have given Bluebell a thrill of indefinite fear and vague foreboding had she seen It. Onco his lips moved, as If he wero mutter ,ing to himself; but no articulate Bound came from them. Bluebell did not pause- until thoy wero otoso to the avcuuo of blue-gum and nettlo; then sho half turned her ,hcad to say: "Aro you coming up, Mr, Moore? "It you havo no objection, Miss Lcs Ho," ho answered in his usual tones Bluobcl) made no.rcHpanso, and a fow seconds brought them to tho door of tho house. Tho gaunt flguro of Miss Elizabeth appeared at tho entrance, brought thlthor by the sound of horses' boots. Her thin, hlgh-chcck-boncd faco was grey with anxious fear. "Thank Qod, you're safe homo, my balm!" sho exclaimed, using tho tu miliar Scotch word, as sho was apt to do iu moments of excitement. I havo not been able to do a stroko of work for ovor-anxloty'nbout you. They say tho Boers have entered tho conn try." "I didn't seo thorn, anyway, auntie; and I'vo turned up nil safe and sound, you ace;" said tho girl with a Httlo laugh; -ns sho laid an affectionate- arm round -MIbs Elizabeth's scraggy shoul dera. "Hero, Bam" to tho Zulu boy whd appeared from the stables "tako tho horses, boy." "Yah, inlsaio," answered the Zulu, bowing his teeth In a grin. He was au Intelligent looking specimen of hla race, with a frank and pleasant ex pression on hla bi own visage, As Blue bell and her aunt disappeared, Moore li fc k l4 t4 14 l4 514 ! ft A STORY OF THE BOER CAMPAIGN IN natal a: a: Dy H, B. Mackenzie ft ft f. 3ft ? WW W W W W W W W I I f? dismounted, but somehow his foot caught awkwardly In tho stirrup, and ho fell. Ab he rose, he saw a broad grin on the face of Sam. His rage, long at tho smoldering point, burst forth, and, lifting his riding whip, he struck the boy severely across the faco with It. "Take thnt, you black nigger!" ho said, with an oath, "nnd learn not to laugh at your betters!" A great weal roso on the boy's brown face, as ho uttered an Involuntary ex clamation. It reached BluebcllV cars, and sho ran out quickly. A glanco nt tho two revealed everything, nnd she turned on Moore white with scorn and anger. "You struck my boy? How dared you, coward?" sho cried, her voice full of ringing scorn and Indignation. "And you dared to say to me what you did a few minutes ago! If I wero my father, I would never let you cross New Kelso again! Don't touch the boy again! I daro you!" She turned from him with Inex pressible contempt, nnd walked with Sam to the stables. Gerald Mooro looked after her, an ugly lino of anger along his Hps. Dared?'" ho repeated to hlmsolf. "You shall pay for this yet, my lady! Oh, you shall pay for It with your very heart- blood!" Ho smiled a smilo that had some thing fiendish In it. Mooro remained to supper. It was rather n gloomy meal. Mr. Lcsllo looked downcast, perhaps sulky. Miss Elizabeth was agitated and anxious. Only Moore talked and Jested rather more than usual. As for Bluebell, sho never onco looked nt or spoke to him. Sho went to her own room after sup per and did not know when Moore left. About nine o'clock Miss Eliza beth knocked at her door. "Your father wants to speak to you downstairs, Bluebell." "Now forlt." thought the girl; She opdficd the" door. "Well, auntie, I'll. go down. I suppose Mr. Mooro is away?" "Yes," said Miss Elizabeth. "I won- der why ho comes so much to New Kelso, Bluebell? I don't like him, las sie." Nor I," Bluebell answered; "but he's a millionaire, auntie, and that goes a long way with some. Well, I'll go down anyhow, and see what dad has to say." CHAPTER IV. Adam Leslie was standing by tho nrcpiaco wnen uiucuell entered, a heavy frown on his forehead, his face looking dark and determined. Blue bell did not like this mood In her fa thcr; but she had Inherited her -fa tlicr's determination, and was quite ready to oppose her will to his. "Tako a seat, Bluebell," he said In a tono of hoarseness In his voice. Sho did so, and he went on: "Mr. Moore hns been speaking about you to me." "Indeed," said tho girl coldly. "Yes. Ho asks for you as his wife, nnd I havo given him his answer. "Indeed!" said Blueboll again. "1 supposo you didn't think, then, that I had a say in tho matter, dad?" "A say in it?" retorted her father, breaking suddenly into a fury. "What say could you have but that you would do as I wanted? You shall marry Gor nld Moore this day week, and bo safe ly out of tho country before tho trou ble begins. The man la a millionaire, rolling in money! You will go to England, where money Is able to do anything, and be Introduced lnto the highest socloty in tho land, where you havo a better right than many that aro there. It all had their rights I should bo Laird of Tlnlavcrstock, as you know. You will wear a diamond tiara, and drive In your carriage and bo pre semen to tier Majesty, what moro should a girl want?" Hla fury had blazed up and gono out tho yext moment, like n luclfcr match, aid his tono now was that of ono who summons all the persuasion and argument ho is master of to bring about a deslro he Is previously nux- ious for yet tries to conceal. "And leavo you and Aunt EHzebeth nt Now Kelso, to be attacked perhaps by tho Boera?" said the girl Indignant ly. "No, Indeed, dnd, I shall do no such thing. Do you think the things you speak of aro any temptation to mo? What can a girl like mo, who has been brought up among buffaloes and ostriches, with all tho freedom of tho veldt and tho mountains about her, care for a glided cago in an Eng lish city, even with a diamond tiara and a cnrrlage? But, at any rato, ovon if that wero a temptation, I wouldn't marry Mr. Mooro, not for anything he could give. I don't like him nor trust him." "But I tell you you shall marry him, girl! You must!" cxclnlmod her fa thor again furiously. He started from his position nnd faced her, hla faco almost purple with passion and ex cltemeut, his veins standing out like knottqd cords, his Hps unsteady Thero s no choice In tho matter you'vo got to do Itl I havo sworn to Mooro you will bo his wife this day week, and you shall!" "You had no right to promise ouch a thing!" retorted tho girl indignant ly, Bluebell Leslie was no mllk-and water, woak-wlllod girl, to bo bullied Into such a course by hor father or any one else. She had been brought up la too hardy and Independent a life tct thnt. "I shall not marry him, father, tha is certain. You don't need to try to urge me. xou nre- my rattier, and l owe you affection and obedlenco; but not In such a matter as that of selling myself to a man I despise and dis trust. Yea, that Is what I do. I didn't think 'why you brought him to Now Kelso. It you had seen him strike Sam tdJIay But there, what Is the use of 3peaklng?' she added quickly. "I have given you my answer, dad, as I gavo It to Mr. Mooro hlmsolf to- day. Did he not tell you?" Instead of answering directly, her father strode to her side, seized her arm and, holding It in such a grasp of iron that It almost wrung a cry from her lips, whispered In her car: You'll havo to marry him, or see your rather ruined and uisgraccu: Blueboll, I tell you I'm In Gerald Moore's power. At any moment he can sell me up, take every stick I'vo got, and turn us out on the veldt home less and penniless." Bluebell turned her faco toward him. It hnd grown very pale, and her eyea glowed. Words of Adair Rothes kept ringing In her cars: "Beware of that man, ho is dangerous!" "You mean," she said, slowly, in a changed voice, all the girlish defiance and brightness gono out of It, "that you are In that man's power." "I I'vo been foolish lately, Bluo- bell, I confean It. I've been speculat ing and lost. I got Into Moore's power up at Maritzburg. There's worse than I'vo told you. Moore hold3 a bill a bill that would disgrace mo forever, would" hla volco sank "put ma In prison." Bluebell gavo a low cry, shrinking from her father's touch, and covered her face with her hands. "It was I was not quite accountable for It," said Mr. Leslie In a lioarso whis per. "I I had been taking too much. But It's dono, Bluebell, and can't bo undone. You must save me. On tho day that you marry him Gerald Mooro will give that paper over into my hands to bo destroyed. . Bluebell's hands dropped from her face and she looked up at him. So, to save you from the conse quences of your crime," sho said slow ly, "you would make mo glvo myselt up to this unscrupulous vll- Han a villlan even according to your own showing! You will be saved, but what .of me? I am to bo sacrificed- to a life1 worse -than death, life with a man I fear and des pise and dishonor, who yes, I am sure of it does not love me, but wishes tor some purpose to get me, as well as you, into his clutches. Did it never strike you as bolng rather a cowardly thing to do, dad?" There was a strange bitterness in her volco a bltterncis that had novor been heard in Bluebell Leslie's blithe, clear young voice in all her Hfo before. The wretched man felt it and winced; but the next moment ho seized her arm again. "I am your father, and I have a right to demand this of you!" ho cxclalmod hoarsely. "Will you see your father dragged to prison and your aunt and yourself turned out on tho veldt, ruin ed and disgraced, to be shot by the Boors, or to die ot starvation? Answer me that!" "I cannot answer you now. Let mo go to my room," aald Bluebell In a low voice. "I beg your pardon, dad, for having spoken to you as I did Just now. I should not havo done it. But I do not think anything would Justify me in marrying him." Before he could stop her sho had slipped from the room and gono up to her own. MUs Elizabeth had been waiting for her, and now came to thG door. (To be Continued.) A Frank Advertiser. The advertising man was telling about queer breaks made by his fel lowmcn, and he remarked: "Phlla- delphla merchants are mighty candid advertisers. I've always known that fact, but I never saw It so strikingly Illustrated ns I did In tho Philadelphia papers Tuesday. I picked up ono 6? the leading papers there and read over tho bargains the big stores had to offer, and In tho middle ot one ad vertlsement, under tho head ot hats, I found this: "'What do you get when you buy a $4 hat at other stores? Stuck. Same here, $3.50.' Of courso, I thought It was a break, but I got the other papers and I found tho same thing In ovory ono of them. Just sup pose a New Yorker was as frank ar that In his advertising announcements, wouldn't ho do a trade, though?" Now York Sun. Jack IIhiI Kicaped. A gaunt, muscular woman ot fierce moln entered a city hall In a Utah county seat and asked tho county clerk to find out it ono Jack Peters was ma rled. Search developed tho name of John Peters, for whoso marriage a 11 conso had boon Issued two years bo fore. "I thought so," said tho worn an. "Married 'Llzo Waters, didn't he?" "Tho marriage license Is Issued for a marriage with Miss Eliza Waters.1 "Yep. Well. I'm 'Llze. I thought I'd ought to come In nnd tell you that Jack Poters has escaped." San Fran clsco Wavo. ltnoin for Such Work. "Now York theatrical agents nre scouring torolgn markets tor new dra matic attractions." "Thoy are? Woll, thoy would better stay at homo and scour some ot the plays they have al ready secured." Puck. A womau who Is too near sighted to boo when tho buttons aro off hor hus band's macintosh can often read migh ty Que print bargain advertisement GUILTY MOST -SURER Determination of the Administration Punish Postal Embezzlers. to Tilt PRESIDENT IS SHOCKED Direct tha Prosecution of All Guilty of FrnutU Iu Cuba Iutructlon Aro Olreu llrlstow Govornor General Wood to llo Fully Informed of De velopment. WASHINGTON, May 24. In a Bpccch in tho senate Piatt of Connec ticut read tho following letter of In structions from the postmastor genera' to Brlstow: May 16, 1900. Hon. Joseph L. Brls tow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eralSir: Supplementing my letter of May 12, dlroctlng you to proceed nt once to Cuba, the following further Instructions aro given for your guid ance. You will Immediately on your ar rival at Havana confer freely nnd fully with General Wood, military gov ernor, and will keep In constant com munication with him In the work ou which you enter. You will cooperate with the military governor, both in tho Investigation of ull Irregularities in tho portal service or Cuba and in any measures for the reorganization of tho system that may be undertaken. Tho examination by the insepctors, already provided for, will havo begun beforo your arrival. You will assume general supervision of this examina tion and will enforce tho Instructions heretofore given that it thall be ot the most searching and thorough charac ter. It you find that you need a still larger forco for tho promp. and com ploto performance of this duty, you will call for It T.ho Investigation must be comprehensive end minute, covering every branch of tho service and all Classen of officials. Its prosecution must be governed solely by the purpose of ascertaining the truth nnd the whole truth and It must be uncompromising nnd unsparing. Besides supervising the investiga tion in co-operation with tho military governor, it will be your duty to ex amine tho organization of the postal Bsrvlce, with its system of checks and balances, and roport what greater or additional safeguards can be provided Under the system established at the .beginning of tho American occupation of Cuba tho administrative side of tho servico was placed under the control ot this department and the auditing or chocking side under tho control of an other. This Is the system ot the United States government. The irregularities and peculations which havo been brought to light wero apparently accomplished because officers apoplnted and responslblo to different departments and who should havo been a check upon each other ontored Into collusion and conspiracy to perpetrato theso wrongu on the on3 Bldo and to pass and covor them up on tho other. You will carefully In vestigate uy what detects of super vision or- defenso they were consum mated and what further measures ot protection in the passing and in au diting of accounts and in the handling of public funds nnd property may be needed. It Is desired also that the central organization of tho postal sorv ice In Cuba shall receive your special attention. You will examine as to whether it is framed in the best man ner for efficient administration. You will seo whether, compatibly with a good mall service for the people, any retrenchments can oe mado and whether econornlos enn be effected by a consolidation and reduction of bu reaus. It Is desired to bring the postal expenditures within the postal reve nues so far as may bo consistent with the obligation of providing a satlsfac tory-mall service. Your presence In Cuba, as tho rep re3entatlve of tho department, with these Instructions, makes you the rank ing officer of tho postal administration You will consider and advise what re raovals or other action may bo re quired in tho cause of Justice, for the Interest of the government and the pooplo of Cuba, and for the welfare of the service. You are chosen for this duty with tho approval of tho president, who Is deeply shocked at the shameful be trayal of trust on tho part of the offl clals In whom confidence had been re posed nnd who directs that In dealing with all Irregularities which have been or may be disclosed the sole rule of Action shall be thorough and complete Investigation, the rigorous and unspar ing projvcutlon of nil guilty persons nnd their swift and certain punish ment. You will communlcato theso Instruc tions to General Wood, kooplng him fully Informed as you proceed and re porting regularly to the department Respectfully yours, CHARLES EMORY SMITH, Postmastor General. No Dettlm From Yellow Fever. WASHINGTON, May 21. Surgeon Goneral Sternberg has received a ro port from Mnjor W. C. Gorgas of the medical corps, chief sanitary officer ot Havann, in which ho snys that while the death rnte for April was 482, there wero no deaths from yellow fever, the first month so favoreil since Mny, 1899, and tho only month when thore were no deaths from this disease during tho Inst ten years, with two exceptions, February nnd Mny, 1899. Norly's Atturaty Pleads. WASHINGTON, May 24. John D. Llndscy, attorney for Charles P. Neely, appeared ueroro tno uouso ju diciary committee today and submit ted nn argument against tho proposed extradition bill. He also presented n voluminous brlof. Tho proposition to nubject an American citizen to trial In a country whero n Spanish system of laws aro In vogue, ho contondetl, was utterly opposed to American tra ditions. Tho fundamental theory at '.tie baso of our system, ho salil, as- nmeu a mnn placed m Neeiys posi tion to bo Innocent until competent and legal evidence was adduced. FORTY MILES OF MEN. Lord Robert Sweeping Tonrnrd tlie Vaat With a Wltlo Front. LONDON, Way 24. Lord Itoborts is drawing near to tho frontier ot the Transvaal. His Infantry masses are thirty-three miles north of Kroon stadt, at tho Rhonosters river. Somo thousand of cavalry aro already across the river. General French and General Ham ilton nre separated from each other by about forty miles, wmle Lord Rob erts is within twclvo miles ot Gen eral French and thirty miles of Gen eral Hamilton. Tho Boers aro retiring toward tho Vail with their heavy baggage. They aro reported from Pretoria as already across that river. Twclvo thousand men and fourteen guns composo the retreating army. Trains continue to run from Veronnlnglng, nt tho Vaal, to Pretoria. A dispatch from Lord Roberts says: "Ian Hamilton reached Hetlbron this morning after n series of engagements with a Boer force under Dewet, who Is retiring before him. Broadwood has captured fifteen Boer wagons. Thero havo been seventy-five cnsunl- tles In Hamilton s forco to yesterday evening." Dispatches to the Associated Press from Hellbron say that tno Boer 'gen eral, DeWct, had 4,000 men posted on nn ndjacont hill, but that ne retired when General Hamilton approached. I-oreign engineers assert that Pre toria is ablo to stand a year's siege. According to ndvlces from Lourenzo Marquez tho Pretoria fottlflcatlons nre described as complete, hut Johan nesburg has not yet been placed en tirely in a state of defense. Tho Transvaal government papers nnd the wnr chest have been removed to Ly denburg. Foreigners continue to leavo tho re publics. Dutch steamers arc coming to Delagoa bay, it la claimed, to fur nish an asylum to fleeing Hollanders. Hie Boer forces continue to dwin dle. Somo of the correspondents assert that probably only about 24,000 of the hardest fighters yet remain, although there are detached parties in various parts of the Transvaal. One .curious piece of gossip sent from Lourenzo Marquez is that sev eral women tried to ajumbok Presi dent Kruger, who was rescued by hla bodyguard. He rarely leaves the pres idency now, but works Incessantly, holding councils at daybreak and dur ing tho night. It is announced at Pretoria that on Sunday tho govern ment proposed removing the British prisoners" frdm Pretoria. FUNKING PIT THE BOERS. Koberts Keeps Up tho Tactics that Were So Sicc'emful In the Past. HONINGSPRUIT, Orange Free State, Tuesday Evening, May 22. General French has crossed the Rhe- nosters river, northwest ot here. This movement, combined with General lan Hamilton's occupuuen at Hell bron renders the Boer position twenty miles in tho British front untenable. The latest reports, however, received says the burghers aro prepared to make a strong resistance and possess fifteen guns. Fifteen prisoners were taken today. ESCAPING SOLDIERS SHOT. Fort ltlley Prisoners Wounded While At tempting to Escape. FURT RILEY, Kan., May 24. Two military prisoners, John Arnold and George A. Fryman, serving sentences of ono year each, were Bhot at by a aentry whlla attempting to escape. Tho prisoners made a daring rush upon the sentry and disarmed him, taking his Krag-Jorgensen with them nnd ran for the hills. A sergeant ot artillery heard tho disturbance and shot the fleeing prisoners. Arnold Is shot through the abdomen, his injury being critical. Fryman was Bhot in tho arm. Would Hell Nebraska Liml. ATCHISON, Kan., May 24. It has- been discovered that 18,000 acres of land in Atchison, Brown, Jackson and Marshall counties, Knnsas, and Pawneo county, Nebraska, recently advertised for sale at auction at tho court house In Atchison, by tho receivers of tho Central branch of the Union Pacific railroad, aro claimed by private Indi vidual". They did not know tho litis to their property could bo questioned until it was advortiscd for sale. it Is believed that when Ollvor W. Mink and Thomas P. Wilson wore ap pointed recelvors of tho Central branch thoy found tho records ot a lot of Central branch land, nnd, supposing It still belonged to the company, ad vertised It for sale. Germany ami Commercial Kuueauon. WASHINGTON. May 24. "Germany hns led and is still leading the world in commercial education," says Consu lar Agent Hnrrls at Elbenstock, In a recent uispa.icn to uio ao,o depart ment. Tho various commercial schools, ho says, annually send forth largo numbers of qualified young men to tnke up lucrative and Important po sitions In tho business world. TIicho young men. ho continued, nre soiling In distant countries products or tno German omplro rnnging from n loco motive to a clothespin, Invariably hav ing tho ndvanlage over their Ameii can and English competitors of being ablo to speak fluently the language ot tho country In which they attempt to sell their goods. Uerm:tit.v Adopts Stent Hill. BERLIN, May 21. Tho Riechstag today, voting by roll call, adopted tho meat bill by 163 to 123 votes. As It has passed the relchstng, In addition to prohibiting tho Importa tlon of ennner or sausage meat the bill provides that until December 31, 1903, tho Importation of fresh meat shall only bo allowed in whole, or. In certain cases, lit half carcasses, and that tho Importation of propared meat shall only bo permitted when It Is proved to be InnocuouB, which Is rc guided as being Impossible proof in tho case of consignments of salt meat under four kilograms in weight. State Treasuror Meserve Divides Up Pour Hundred Thovnand DoMars. THE BIGGEST DIVIDEND EVER MADE Sam Iteatlziil by Permanent (School Fund lleyond the Kzperlence of Any Former Amount From the Source Motion He fore Supreme Court Miscellaneous Ne braska Matters. LINCOLN, May 24. State Treasurer Meservo certified to tho superintend ent of public Instruction tho amount of money apportioned for tho support of tho public schools of tho state for tho next half year. Tho apportion ment is, with ono exception, the high est mado for several years, being $ 400, 321.99. Treasurer Meservo's certificate showa that the money was derived from tho following sources From state school tax, $8Y,241.7G; from Interest on school lands leased, 56,938.88; from Interest on school land ouid, $159,705, 76; from interest on saline land sold, $5,703.30; from interest on saline land leased, $3,166.66; from interest on United States consols, $300; from In terest on state funding bonds, $2,266. 66; from interest on county bonds, $81,370.07; from interest on school dis trict bonds, $752.04; from Interest on state warrants, $2,847.18; from ped dler's licenses, $29.70. All money re ceived for tho temporary school fund from December 1, 1899, to tho third Monday In Mny, 1900, is included In the apportionment. City Attornoy Conncll of Omaha has filed' a motion in the supreme court asking permission to file n brief in the Omaha fire and police commission caso to take the place of the one stricken from the files of the last sitting. Ho assures the court that nothing con temptuous or disrespectful was in tended in his brief. Mr. Connell's let ter to tho court follows: And now comes W. J. Connell, at torney for respondents in the abovo entitled cause, and expreslng his re grot that any portion ot his brief here tofore filed herein should bo considered by the court as disrespectful to the court, and stating that it was not his intention or purpose to state any thing in his, brief that would in any manner reflect on tho court or any member thereof, but that the state ments contained in his brief to which objections arc made were intended merely as a historical statement ot facts and as meeting and answorlng the contentions of opposing counsel and withdraws voluntarily all such statements and asks leave of this hon orable court to file new briefs, which are herewith submitted and from which are eliminated all such objec tionable statements, and further re quests this honorable court to read and consider such new briefs. Re spectfully submitted. W. J. CONNELL, Attorney for Respondents. Crushed Under the Cars. WYMORE, Neb., May 24. E. Mill- hauson, a German farmer, 81 years of age, whose home Is in Island Grovo township, six miles northeast of here, was thrown under the wheels of a Burlington ennglne by nn unmanage able team of horses and had his right arm and loft leg taken off and sus tained other injuries which proved fatal. Ho was carried to a hotel, whero surgeons amputated the arm at the shoulder and the lctr between tho knee and ankle. Tho patient, how ever, did not rally. The old gentle man had come to town to meet his grandson, who was returning from Missouri with n bride, and both of tho young people tnessed the acci dent aa well as many others. Table Itork Votes Bon lis. TABLE ROCK, Neb., May 24. At the school bond electon held here to Vote on the question of "bonding this district for $10,000 to build a new brick school house, 279 votes wero cast for the proposition nnd 133 against It, giving It a necessary majority of one vote. The closeness ot the vote and the feeling engenedcrd in this, the sec ond contest within forty days, render a contest quite probable and legal tal ent Is already being Invoked In the matter. Smallpox In Precept. BEAVER CITY, Neb., May 24. Smallpox has broke out at Precept, a small postofnee ten miles south of Beaver City. Thero Is but on patient at present, a Mrs. Clason, who con tracted the disease through the medi um of n letter received from relatives In Indian Territory, where smallpox was prevalent. An Appeal to Senator Thurston. LINCOLN, May 21. Adjutant Gen oral Barry telegraphed Senator Thurs ton begging 'him to interest himself in house roll No. 9510. Judge Stark's bill, appropriating $1,000,000 for arm ing nnd equipping the national guard, which has passed the houso and is now beforo the senate. Safe lllowrers In Depot. ULYSSES, Neb., May 24. The safe In tho B. & M. depot ai this place was blown open. The robbers secured forty-seven one-cent revenue stamps and no money. Card and book tickets and express money orders In the safe wero found Intact. Hutu for Convention, OMAHA, May 24. For the democrat ic national convention at Kansas City July 4 the Burlington offers ono fare for the round trip, good ror roturn up to and including July 9, but it from a distance greater than 250 miles the tickets may be deposited at Kansas City for a fee ot 50 cents, nnd upon presentation of a round trip ticket from Knnsns City and return to some other point, the return halt of the ticket will bo extended to a dato as late as tho return portion ot tho new round trip ticket, provided it be not later than September 30.