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THEIR BACKBONES HBEDS STIFFENING UP AND CHEEKS MORE BRASS. RURAL REPUBLICAN EDITORS FIND IT HARD TO DEAL OUT THE OLD G. O. P. STUFF. Tho 811k StqoklnK Bossos of tho Party Trying to GotThoIr Country NowBpaporsIn FlghtlnK Trim For the Fnll Campaign. Omaha, July Jl-Thc rcpubllcnn party workers nre doing nil that they can to get the 400 republican country nowspnper In good fighting trim for the fall campaign. They are astute politicians ana have long since learned the power of the country press. During the past few years the work of the allied reform forces In Ne braska hns almost thrown the coun try republican editors out of an occu pation. Republicanism has been so disfigured by the uncovering of the disgraceful conditions obtaining every where a republican officeholder was found that the courage of the men running republican country paperB has been sorely tried. Something has got to be done to bolster up the country republican editors their partylsm must be strengthened. Their cheek to withstand the gaze of the people In their community, when tho aforesaid republican country editor begins to publish cdltorlalB on the "Grand Old Party," "The Farmer's Friend," "Pro tect the Credit of the State," "Splen did ltecord of Republican Officials," "Nominate Honest Republicans," "We "Will Redeem tho State," "Popocratlc Misrule." "Down With Senator Al len." "Brynn'a Grand Stnud Play," "The Popocrnts Are Dead," etc. To meet this emergency n llbernl supply of Mnrk Hanna ducats, appro priated for the purpose of debauching the coming Nebraska election has been set aside to bolster up the republican country editors. In Sunday's Bee the fololwlng an nouncement Is made: The republican editors of the state of Nebraska will be the guests of honor nt a banquet to be given by the U. S. Grnn Republican club at the Commer cial Republican club on Friday even ing of this week. A large number of the republican editors of the stn'e have already accepted President Ca det Taylor's Invitation to be present, and the keynote of the republican press for the gubernatorial campaign will be sounded on thlB occasion. A reception, from 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock, will precede the banquet. Hon. G. M. Lnmbertson of Lincoln will act ns toastmaster and will call the following toasts: President's Introduction; Hon. John I Webster. "Republican Advance;" Hon. E. Rosewater, "Our Guests;" Judge M. L. Hayward, "The Party;" Hon. Ross Hammond, "Tho Country PresB as the Advance Guard;" W. K. Peebles, "Republicans Don't Fear;" Hon. T. J. Majors. '"The Old Soldier In Politics;" Hon. W. F. Gurley. "The Young Man;" Hon. Charles J. Greene, "Stalwart Republicanism;" Judge is. S. Baker, "Shoulder to Shoulder In Pol. Itlcs;" Hon. M. A. Brown, "The Issues of Today as Ssen Through Newspaper Spectacles;" E. A. WIltBe, Pender, "The Flag;" Rev. S. Wright Butler, "RoastB and Toasts." PRESS CEN80RS AT WORK. Public Journals "Bottled Up" In Spain. Madrid, July 26. Tho government has Instructed the military censors !n Mndrld and the provinces to prohibit papers publishing the declarations of any general or officer. The authori ties had to do so because In military circles several generals, including "Weyler, Polavleja. Lachambre, Lopez, Domlnguez and Carleja publicly cen sured Cervera and Toral for not hav ing properly used the forces under them both to prolong resistance and Inflict more losses and difficulties upon the enemy, which was In anything but jiny easy position near Santiago. Sagasta and the liberals are much annoyed to see the people and authori ties of Barcelona, Saragossa and Ma drid make so much of Polavleja on his way to Madrid. Partisans of the government believe an Intrigue 1b on foot In court und military circles to form a coalition cnblnet under Pola vleja, on whom the ministerial press n challenge to play his cards on tho table. His advent Into office would displease Weyler as much as Azcar raga, Campos and the other marshals, but Is supposed to be the pet scheme of the regent herself, who dreads un popular peace negotiations. GEN. SHAFTER HEARD FROM All his Spanish Prlsonersare Walk ing the Chalk Line. Washington, July 25. The war de partment has received the following from General Shatter: "Santiago de Cuba, July 23.-6:25 p. m. Headquarters Fifth Army Corps, Santiago de Cuba, July 23. Adjutant General, Washington: Colonel of en gineers of the Spanish army has Just arrived from Guantanamo. He heard from the French consul there that Santiago had surrendered nnd they had been Included. Not crediting it he was sent here to verify the fact. They will be very glad to acecpt terms of surrender; very short of rations and I shall have to begin feeding them at once. He tells me there are 6.000 men at that place. Am now feeding 6,000 well prisoners here and 1.000 sick In hospital. Expect 2,000 men In to morrow from San Luis and Pal mas. Will send an officer tomorrow or next day .with one of General Toral's, to receive surrender at Guantanamo and then go to Sagua and Baracoa to re ceive surrender there. Think number of prisoners will be fully up to esti mate 22.000 or 23,000. SHAFTER, Gibraltar, British Spain, July 26. Admiral Camera's squadron has ar rlvevd at Cartagena, Spain's stronghold on the Mediterranean. It is now re ported that the British first-class bat tleship Illustrious has been ordered to Tangier, at the Atlantic entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar, where It will await the British Mediterranean fleet. The Spanish transport General Valdez has arrived at Algeclras with supplies for the Spanish troops In that dis trict. A tramp called nt an Elm street resi dence this morning nnd wanted some breakfast. He was set to work sawing wood to pay for it. He ate first and then sawed, and sawed and suwed. The housewife actually hud to go out and A VOICE IN NEW YORK. Refreshingly Plain Talk From tho Greatest Dally Newspaper. The representative of the United States In New Jersey dropB the suit of this country against the thieving Lead trust WhyT Because, to prove that the trust has swindled the gov ernment. It would be necessary to make the trust produce Its books to make the trust produce Its books for such a purpose would be equivalent to compelling them to Incriminate them selves, and that Is against the law. Flno law, we should say. The Lead trust and its fellows buy laws or have them made over. They ought to get a few more like this. The Lead trust cannot be compelled to show Its books, but the poor tramp arrested for drunk enness can be compelled to show his books quickly enough; and no Judge has any hesitation about making him incriminate himself by asking him Just how drunk he was. It makes a great deal of difference In the land of the free whether you happen to be a trust or a tramp. The Lead trust will now proceed to sue the United States for rebates, and has already claims amounting to $75,000 carefully prepar ed. Note this: No representative of the Lead trust will see any reason for giving up the fight against the gov ernment. There nre laws to keep ths country from getting at the trust barrels of them but none to enable tho country to get at the trust. When wo finish fighting Spain we will still have some fighting left to do. This country needB trust managers In Jail Just as badly ns It needs Spaniards on the bot tom of the Bea. Don't let tho war make you forget that. Here Is an announcement: "Tho Charity Organization society appeals for $100 toward, the support of a widow and her four children, the eldest, a boy of 4; who Ib now HI. The woman Is Blck nnd requires a long rest. Sho bears an excellent reputation, nnd Bho Is Industrious nnd competent; sho will earn her support when well ngaln. Any money for this case sent to the Char ity Organization society, No. 105 Enst Twenty-second street, will be promptly and publicly acknowledged." We cheer fully publish this appeal, and In re turn for the vnluable space thus donat ed, request answers to a few ques tions that seem pertinent, To the Charity Organization of New York: How much money do you col lect annually In the name of charity? What do you do with the money? How much do you spend hiring men and women to "Investigate" the poor? How much do you sprnd for rent? Whnt Is the highest salary you pay out of tho funds collected In the name of char ity? How much of the money you col lect actually goes Into the pockets of the poor? And, considering this par ticular caao of the Hick widow and four children, how much money have you given her thus far7 How Important do you consider the fact that she "bears an excellent reputation, with four chllren" happened not to convlco your Investigators that her reputation was satisfactory, what would be your attitude to her? Should the public fall to respond to your request for $100, what becomes of the widow? We should be glad to print satisfactory answers to these questions. It Is Bald on very good nuthorlty that Mr. W. K. Vanderbllt has added to the family property by various manip ulations, $45,000,000 within the past year. The nuthorlty quoted Is so good that we suppose Mr. Vanderbllt really has ns much as $25,000,000. This Ib an Interesting fact, even in war times, Isn't It? In this country so many peo ple hnppen to need $25,000,000 that the man who does not need the sum named and still gets It Is Interesting. We could write a good many lines here about the way of getting the money that would not be dull. But we nre Blck of criticising and nre more given to friendly advice and analysis. So. Mr. vuiiuuiuiu nun iiuiuc ujr iiiiiiuniiH I stocks nnd bonds In queer ways say I twenty-five millions of dollars. He is quite a young man, with a smooth, pleasant face and cape coat. What does this Interesting youngish man get out of his original one hundred millions and the recently acquired twenty-five millions? In that money there Is latent power enough to make this whole world sit up and think. Anything the human brnln could suggest could be araguan canal and be the man who tied together the two oceans. That would not be bad. He could turn the deserts of North Africa by a system of Irri gation into a fertile empire, and leave as his monument a garden in place of a plague spot on the globe. That would not be bad. He could put in this city a dozen huge baths, pump fresh salt water Into them nnd invite every rug- ed little boy t.o take a owlm every hot ay, and In winter the baths could be changed to gymnasiums and boys' clubs. That would not be so very bad. He could make an honest, lifelong fight with hlB millions against privileges In this country. He could say: "I'll figrt with my money to make the Declara tion of Independence less of a hlstorlct.1 Joke and more of an actual fact. He could take a greqt place In politics by making himself the greatest democrat, He could build up from the thouBandt of men who work for him a great army of devoted followers, make It worth the while of great lawyers to fight for Instead of against the laws, pay legis lators, If necessary, to vote, and leg islate honestly for a change, die an old man, leaving a cheerful, happy face In his coffin, nnd a funeral procession as long as Broadway. At present he goes to Weber & Field's, laughs heart. Uy when a German comedian says "ex blanashun vot you mean." waves his handkerchief when the band plays "Yankee Doodle" between the acts, and eats afterwards six oysters that cost 25 cents. That's what we calling miss ing an opportunity. It was raining cats and dogs outsde and the Columbus avenue car was crowded. A young woman stood look ing from one seated man to another, but the men would not budge. She looked timidly, then appealtngly, then daggers, but they dlA not care. Finally the worst-dressed and roughest-looking man in the car got up. "Here is a seat for you, mum," ho said suavely. "Oh. thank you ever bo much," said the young lady, shooting glances at the other men which said: "You are gentlemen, but this uneducated laborer could give you a lesson In manners." Presently she was shifting about on her seat, shielding now her face, now her white stand-up collar and looking, with a troubled face, ot a point In the celling from which the water came down at Irregular Intervals, In splashes as big as a cent. The well-dressed men burled their smiles In their newspapers. The laborer now ensconced In a corner near tho driver gave his vis-a-vis wink. The heaviest projectile thrown by a first-class battleship Is from a 13-inch gun, and weighs 1,150 pounds. The Gatllng guns throw bullets weighing about three-tenths of an ounce. A shower from the Gatllng guns soon clears the deck ot an enemy's vessel. WHAT HE SAIDi WHAT HE DID I am the ngent of the government And by common tax am paid To keep the peace or break it Now, this Is whnt he said, Cuba, little Cuba, come lay your pretty head Upon the broad, strong bosom Of uncle Bam, he said. We will feed nnd nurse you tenderly, And give you softest bed, And make you free, dear Cuba Now, this Is what he Bald. The Spanish bonds were trembling, And so he sent the Maine To harbor at Havana And give a chance to Spain. Into Havnna harbor He sent our great ship Maine, To wntch the starving Cubans While we fixed the bonds again. And while they watched nnd waited For relief that never came, A Spanish mine exploded And destroyed our great ship Maine. Still the starving Cubans Held beseeching hands In vain While we sought a cause of action For destroying our great ship Maine No fault of Spanish nation Was the loss of our ship Maine. So we turn to starving Cuba With our banners once again. And now, the ports blockaded, All Buccor Is In vain While we with starving Cubans Are remembering the Maine. While Dewey holds Manila And our warships plough the main, They starve and die In Cuba, And they laugh and shout In Spain. S. J. Parker. Two Kinds of Americans. At the time when Lieutenant Hobson nnd his men were sailing Into Santi ago harbor, thinking only of how the brief moments of life that seemed left to them could best be used In their country's service, some other Amer' cana were also feeling that the war was making large demands on them. Mr. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil company and Mr. Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust were tossing on restless pillows, thinking how they could evade even the smallest percentage of their gigantic Incomes going toward defray Inp the expense of the struggle. Mr. Hobson nnd his brother heroes csrnped death, and if the experience of the past Is any guide, Havemeyer and Rockefeller will escape taxation. To think otherwise would be to deny that peace liatli her victories no less renowned than war. New York Jour nal. The Journal Is unreasonable. It ex pects too much. Its sarcasm is mis applied. These men pay out millions of dollars for campaign purposes, mil lions more In lobbying their schemes through congress, nnd when they have acquired more millions than they real ly know what to do wltN they make a donation to some church, charity or college. The latter Is made the more noble and exalted some times, by the conditions attached that the professor of political economy shall teach no monetary doctrine but the supreme ex cellence of the gold standard. Not only this, but they are equally ready to buy bonds as an Investment, In order to help the government through a war emergency. They have even been known to buy bonds when there was no war. Are not these things enough to prove their patriotism? To demand that they shall also risk their lives or pay taxes Is cold-blooded and heartless oppression. The Journal ought to be ashamed of Itself. The War Taxes. Probably many druggists will have to be content to make smaller profits and so also will the deales In tobacco. The duty on tea will be wholly borne by the consumer. The tax on sugar refineries and oil refining can also be shifted onto the consume'r, and the banks will probably charge their cus tomers for the checks used. The class least affected bj the new law are the landlords who live upon Interest and those who live off the profits of others' toll. They will pay but little more than the day laborer. Such schemes of taxation are unjust and are therefore" unpopular. The best provision of the bill Is that which provides for the coin age of the silver bullion In the treas ury. This Injures no one and adds to the volume of currency. Santa Clara News. Theft. Q What is theft? A Taking what does not belong to us. done with that. He could dig the Nlc- Q How comes It that things do not belong to us? A The law Is responsible. Q Do many people steal? A Yes. Q-Who? A Generally the rich. Q What Is done to them? A Some are In the senate, others en dow churches, and others get their Indictments quashed. Q But do not the poor steal 7 A-Yes. Q What Is done to them If they are found out? A They go to prison. Twentieth Century. Wntch the Treasury. Another peculiarity of the war rer er.uc 1 that It makes no mention for what purr"se the bonds are to be is sued. It is not provided that they shall be It-sued to prosecute the war. It au thorizes the issuance of the $600,000,000 of bonds, or so much thereof as mny be necessary, and the secretary of the treasury Is made the sole Judge of the necessity. Mr. Gage has often declared that It Is necescory to retire the green backs and tieosuiy notes. and It would not be unieusonnble to suppose that with such views Mr. Gage would Issue the bonds to provide a basis for bank circulation In order that the greenbacks might be retired. Mr. Gape Is a banker, and has repeatedly de clared that national bank calculation is necessary to a sound flnaclal sys tem, and the bunds provided for in the bill would go a long way to meet that pecestity. East Oregonlan. Corporations In the Saddle. The administration is entirely indif ferent to criticism of its friendliness to corporations. The war has made that much plain. It ! led to be callous by two considerations One of them Is that the enemy Is contemptible and consequently no blunder or misman agement can have a very serious re sult. The other in that when election day rolls around the corporation will remember thi k who saved them so roa!ly. It Is too much to expect that the people will be powerful enough to prevuil In a mntter of this kind Twentieth Century. HE NEVER FALTERED. Thomas J. Hlgglns, of Hannibal, Mo., a veteran of the war of the rebellion, has received a "congressional medal of honor," sent him by General R, A. Alger, secretary of war, for "moBt dis tinguished gallantry In nctlon."' The medal wns sent nnd presented to Com rade Hlgvtns by the direction of tho president and under the provisions of the act of congress approved March 3, 1863. Mr. Hlgglns wbb a sergeant in the Ninety-ninth Illinois infantry. In tho general assault of the union army on the confeedrate works at Vlckaburg, May 22, 1&63, Sergeant Hlgglns was appointed color bearer for the day, and told not to turn back until the stars rand stripes had been placed on the works of the enemy. The assault Ing column on that part of the works occupied by the Second Texns was com posed of the Eighth and the Eighteenth Indiana, First United States regulars and the Thirty-third and Ninety-ninth Illinois, In the order named. After a most terrific cannonading of two hours, during which the very earth rocked and pulsated ns a thing of life, the head of the attacking column ap peared above the brow of the hill about 100 yards In front of the breastworks, and as line after line of blue came In sight over the hill It presented the grandest spectacle the eye of a soldier ever beheld. The Texans were pre pared to meet It with five smooth-bore muBkets each, charged with buck and ball, which had been distributed along the trenches the night before; these in addition to their Springfield rifles. When the first line was within forty steps of the works the order to fire, ran along the trenches, and was re- sponded to as If by one gun. As fast ns practiced hands could gather them up, one after another, the muskets , were brought to bear. The blue lines vanished amid fearful . slaughter; there was cessation In the firing, and through the pall of Bmoke which enshrouded the field could be, discerned a union flag. As the smoke I was slightly lifted by the gentle breeze of May, a solitary man wns seen np proachlng, bearing the flag bravely to- ' ward the breastworks. At least 100 men took deliberate aim at him and fired nt point blank range, but he nev er faltered; stumbling over the bodies of his fallen comrades, he continued to advance. Suddenly, as If with one Impulse, every confederate soldier within sight of the union color bearer seemed to be seized with the Idea that the man ought not to be shot down like a dog. A hundred men dropped their guns at the same time, each ot them seized his nearest neighbor byi the arm and yelled to hlm:"Don't shoot at that man again; he is too brave a ma nto be killed that way!" when he Instantly discovered that his neighbor was yelling the same thing at him. As soon as they all understood each other, 100 odd hats and caps went up Into the air, their wearers yelling at the top of their voices: "Come on, you brave Yank, come on!" He did come, and wns taken by the hand nnd pulled over the breast works, and when it was discovered that he was not even scratched a hun dred Texans wrung his hand and con gratulated him upon his mlracultfus escape from death. The hero of this occasion was Thos. J. Hlgglns, temporary color bearer of the Ninety-ninth Illinois. Judge Charles I. Evans delivered an nddress at Dallas. Tex., last year, and In his speech told the story of Com rade Hlgglns" bravery. Soon after ward Mr. Hlgglns saw a comment on the speech, and wrote to Judge Evans, who, of his own volition, wrote to the war department, relating the Btory as one of the Texans who grasped the hand of Hlgglns as he was pulled over the breastworks at Vlcksburg. He asked that some recognition of this, one of the crowning acts of bravery of the great rebellion, be made by the government. The matter was taken up by sollders who wore the blue as well as the gray, and the result Is that Comrade Hlgglns Is the proud possess or of the bronze medal of honor. An African King. A king Is on the eve of visiting Paris. It must be confessed he Is not a great sovereign. One must even acknowledge that he Is a negro, and answers to the somewhat undignified name of Taffa. But a king's a king for a' that and a that. And Taffa, king of tr- Nagots, Ib one of the very llllputlan potentates who reign In Africa. He has been a staunch friend of France for a quarter, of a century. His kingdom borders Dahomey. HIb capital, Porto-Uoce, boasts of 25,000 Inhabitants. And in addition to his very respectable posi tion, he has the good quality of being a cordial hater of perfidious Albion. Those who know It tell us that Porto- Novo Is a beautiful town with all the , appearance, when you approach It, ot a pretty European city, bathed In tho waters of the rived Orteme and shaded , jy lofty trees. There one may find Eng- J llsh, German and French factories and a general air of civilization and pros perity. ' As late even as 1894 Taffo marked the limit of his kingdom by a long row of stakes, each of which was decorated with a human skeleton. True, the French president begged the king to remove thlB odious spectacle, ana ins majesty graciously consented. The pale, however, is. still the punishment of criminals among the Nagots. it is aid to be not much more painful than th'e guillotine. But the question can never be settled, for no man, as human nature Is at present constituted, can make trial of both. The method of guillotining is well known. Impalement Is managed In the following manner: The executioner first of all makes the culprit drunk with brandy, and then leads him to the pale. Crowds of peo ple gather on the spot, and laugh and Blng as if they were at a feast. Sud denly the executor advances and strikes the condemned man on the head with a heavy truncheon. He falls insensi ble and the executor seizes noid or him and rips him open with a kind of carving knife. The body, after being emptied, is filled with salt and then hoisted on to a high pale, that all may see It and take warning thereby. Whatever he might think of their method of execution, I am somewhat inclined to doubt whether M. Faure would take kindly to the domestic hab its of the Nagots. The French presi dent Is extremely fastidious and de spite his love of royalty, he might shrink from King Taffa's native home habits. The expldYer, M. Paul Minande, thus describes the place: "Every house posses a courtyard surrounded by a wall, where the children grovel In the midst of cattle and poultry, and where the women, with pipes in their mouths, work, Borne in crushing almonds, and mi.org in curlnc fish. Filth !s to be seen everywhere. When a member of the family dies the body Is burled n the house itself. The grave Is dug only half a yard deep, so mat me uu am barely separated from the living. I " Codfishes weighing twenty-six pounds have been caught lately In the Penob scot river, whence their species dis appeared fifty years ago, driven away by sawdust from the lumber mills. A FICKLE GIRL. Here Is n story told of a recent court ship and marriage, the point of which Is that woman will always exercise her established right to be caprlclou'. under any and nil circumstances and lr. every community, no matter how se questered and remote from the world't, beaten path: Scott Robinson and Joseph Davis Btalwart young Rocky Forklans, loved their neighbor, Agatha Hewitt, a younp woman with some pretensions to beauty, but of great Indecision of mind The men were sworn chums, physically equal and sturdy and gcod-natured. Both were denr to Agatha's heart. But Scott was reputed to be better off In land, marketable Indian relics and cur rency than his friend Joseph, and the inhabitants of the volley were certain Scott would carry Agatha In the end Agatha was not so certain. Being young she wbb In no hurry to express a preference. MonthB flew by. Agatha distributed her shy favors with impartiality. Scott at last requested Joseph to vamoose and leave the field to him. Joseph ex pressed his unbounded admiration of Scott's Impudence, and made a similar request of him. Both declined peremp torily to retire. It thereupon occurred to them to put their cases In Agatha's fair, If somewhat ample, hands. She was much surprised, perplexed and embarrassed when they presented themselves nnd bluntly demanded that she should make a selection there and then. She retorted that she wouldn't Jnarry either one of them If he were the last man In Rocky Fork, a remark subsequently amended to read, "Be cause she liked them both pretty well, but didn't know which one she was willing to take for a life partner." "Ain't you ever goln to decide?" asked the suitors. Agatha shook her head. "Decide for yourselves," she said with n blush. The suitors eyed each other. 'We can't fight, Scott?" began Joseph, doubtfully. "Hardly." returned Scott, positively; "we're friends." "I'll tell you what we can do," cried the fertile Joseph, "les rassle, the win ner of the first fall to have Agatha." "Suits me," returned Scott. "Agatha, will you agree?" At first she was Indignant. She wouldn't be wrestled for like o pig or cow at the Sablna fair, she stormed. But the suitors argued they knew of no other way of solving the quandary. So, In a calmer mood she hesitated, drew cabalistic figures in the road dust with her prehensile toes, and finally consented. In a twinkllt'g Scott and Joseph were nt it. cntch-as-catch-can. Up nnd down the road they squirmed and twisted, panting like exhaust pipes. Agatha sat on the grassy road bank und ut her ease watched the momentous struggle. Once Joseph was nearly flung to the ground, "Don't fall, Joe!" she cried, and it braced him up instantly. Next Scott was on the verge of an up set. "Look out. Scottl" warned Agatha. That braced Scott, who exerted himself so mightily that Joseph was sent spin ning and sprawling In the dust. There he remained for a moment, dazed by the fall and grief at the loss of Agatha. Scott, flushed with exertion and tri umph, advanced toward the young woman. "I've won. Agatha." said he awk wardly. But Agatha heard him not. Her eyes were fastened upon the van quished, lying sullen and heart sick In the dust. "You're goln' to marry me now, ain't you?" continued the vlctorlus Scott, growing bolder. "I suppose so," she replied. Joseph rose to his feet, brushed the dust from his clothes, and started down the road with never a backward glance at the victor or his prize. Agatha left her grassy seat. "Joe." she called, feebly. The vanquished paused, but did not look toward her. "Scott Robinson." she burst forth. "It was a shame for you to throw Joe that way. and I hate you for It. so I do I hate you! hate you! 1 won't marry you. so I won't! Come back here. Joe! I love you and I'll marry you. If you want me lo. I didn't know who I loved till I saw Scott throw you. Joe, but I know now." The lately vanquished, but now tri umphant. Joe was at her side In a flash and smiling mockingly upon the aston ished, red-faced Scott, who could only ?asp and pant at this extraordinary turn of events, "But you agreed to take the winner, Agatha." he feebly remonstrated. Agatha brazened It out. "Don't care If 1 did," she retorted; "I won't, so there!" And she didn't. A Famous Bell. "The living to the church I call. And to the grave I summon all." 1798. This Is the couplet that nearly en :lrcles the old bell that has rung the lall to worship qnd the funeral knell In Petersham, Mass., since soon after It was cast by Paul Revere. Its 100th innlversary was observed Sunday, that day being selected by reason of Its long service to Bacreu ubch, uuu, in me absence oft knowledge of the exact late of casting, the national mid-year holiday time being consistent and avail able. Neither record nor tradition gives any Information as to the precise year In which the bell was brought here, but there Is no reason to disbelieve that It was soon after it wbb cast, for the building that is still part of the pres ent church was erected In 1784 on the village common, where It stood till ICiO ..ilton It waa rahinvoil in n Int a hundred feet away, thus giving tne common iana up io me iutku mm level green It has continued to be since that year. Tha la BVopv renitnn whv ft church holt nnar hv Pnttl TJpVPTP tVlP DfltrlOt and brass founder of Boston, should have found its way to tniB town, wim.ii was imbued with the revolutionary spirit to an unsually large degree. The people made tne nie oi ivev. namu Whitney, the first settled mlslter In the town church, anything but agreeable, for he was a man of his own convic tions, with ample courage to defend them, for he was pastor from 1738 to 1780, the longest pastorate In the town's history. 'The town was settled In 1734. and Incorporated In 1754. It was settled under the name of Nichewoag. which was retained till the Incorporation. There is a very considerate Judge In Leavenworth. Kas. A Juror whispered In Judge Meyer's ear that he would like to go home to welcome a baby who had Just nrrlved In his family. The Judge adjourned court for forty minutes. In thirty-five minutes the happy father was back, and the court proceedings were resumed. i Contrary to a widespread belief that hard woods give more heat In burinlng than soft varieties, It has been shown that the greatest power Is possessed by the wood of the linden tree, which Is very soft. Fir stands next to linden, and almost equal to It. FARMING IN ALASKA. About a month ngo congress appro priated $10,000 to be Bpent In ascer taining the agricultural resources ol Alaska, and Secretary Wilson at once appointed Prof. C. C. Georgeson ol Kansns a special agent to conduct thf Investigation. The professor nrrlved nt Portland a few days ago direct from Washington, and after making ar rangements to have some experimental farming nnd meteorological observa tions carried on In that vicinity, went to Sitka, where he will have hlB head quarters. He will work In conjunction with Observer Ball, recently appointed chief of the Alaska signal service. Prof. Georgeson's Instructions are to learn what food products can be grown In the various parts of this big terri tory, and to what extent their cultiva tion can be depended upon as factors In Its development. He proposes to do this by establishing experimental farms In the Vnrlous sections. One of these will be located somewhere on the south ern coast, one nt Cook Inlet, one on Kadlak Island and one in the neigh borhood of Circle City. Each will be devoted to the culture of cereals and vegetables that are known to thrive in similar boII and climate elsewhere, and the professor's collection of seeds Includes samples from Scandinavia, Canada, Finland, Minnesota and Wy oming. From these farm stations he hopes to ascertain the agricultural pos sibilities of the country. He has al ready made arrangements to exchange Information with an ngent of the Do minion government, who Is going to plant about forty acres near Fort -w" Selkirk In potatoes. " In some parts of Alaska almost any kind of vegetation will' thrive that grows In the far northern states. On the Teller reindeer reservation, near Behrlng strait, potatoes as large as hen's eggs are raised every summer, and on the Yukon not far from Circle City a colony of Roman Catholic fe male missionaries has successfully cul tivated all the hardy cereals and va ilous kinds of vegetables. The garden nnd farm of these good women Is one of the curiosities of Alaska. Not the least Interesting of the ex periments which Prof. Georgeson con templates making is a practical test to discover the depth to which the earth Is frozen. His paraphernalia Includes a boring apparatus, which Is warrant ed to penetrate terra firma to a depth, where It Ib kept from freezing by In ternal heat. The professor opines that in Northern Alaska the frost extends clear down to where the prehistoric glacial age left It. The ground up there never thaws deeper than eighteen Inch es, but on the lower Yukon, where the sun gets a better show, the earth Is softened to a depth of three feet. It Is a strange thing that while vegeta tion In Oregon Is dead so long as tho ground Is frozen, It not only grows, but matures, atop of Ice in Alaska. On the farm near Circle City the plow that prepared the ground for potato, planting scrapes the top ot the Ice, and nt .no time does the thaw go deeper than two feet. The sun Bhlnes so con tinuously and fiercely up there the thermometer In midsummer nrverages 96 degrees in the shade that plant life is forced to maturity mucn more rap idly than in the states. m m A New Poker Story. Talking about strange experiences, I have had a few myself. Poker? Well, yes. I suppose I might as well admit V it. Once 1 was playing in a little game nothing but penny ante with five others, including two ladies. There had been some remarkable hands out that night. A full house did nut amount to much and a flush or straight Eimply wasn't in It. Then; was a jackpot. Eacn or us ticwl "riMtpit ahlilt Hftnon llmf nnri Hill nobody could open It. Finally the . ,. jj. ttm ... I. piayer on my ngni mu; ror nvc. I looked at my nana and wonaerea whnt he could have. I held three Jacks, a queen and a nine. I thought that was not so bad and raised it live to stay. Everybody staged nnd drew cards. The gentleman who opened the pot tvna tho first from tho rtfnlpr. I watch. o,i him elnuplv. Hp drew one card. I Blzed him up either for three of a kind or two pairs. I discarded tne nine ana iook one xn.-l Honuonu' II una n lark. That made four. 1 thought 1 had that pot cincnea. The opener made a bet of 5 cents ana T nnimntlv mlspil It flVP. All the ftBt stayed for that amount and so It went around again to the opener. He raised tne Dei sun nve more, mm of course 1 didn't do a thing but see him and go him Ave better. Two of the plnyers dropped out that round nn tivn h npxt. Thev "couldn't stand the works." That left only the opener and myseii to conienu ior me prize. Then commenced such a lively lot ot betting as you never saw, even In a small game. The most that we could do was to bet 5 cents and raise It 6, ,,. .,. liunf tin nn thnt rntp Until thnrd were two $5 bills, a pocketful of change! and a hatful of chips on the table. and the otner piayers wno nau uruppcu out were having a spasm apiece every minute. ., A I wonedred what the deuce that man could have. There I was. smiling be hind four Jacks. Only Ave hands could beat them four queens, four kings, four aces, a straight flush or a royal. That he had anything higher than four Jacks never entered my mind. Fi nally, at the earnest request of one of the ladles, who was on the verge of hysteria, and also because It was only a parlor game and not for money, per se, I called him. And what do you think that man did? He Just smiled a little and laid down four kings. ... Well. I still had the buck left. That was one consolation. But 1 got even .with him at another time. The same crowd was present. The cards had been running badly, and a flush or full house was mighty hard to get. There was a nice little Jackpot, and he open- ed.' I stayed anu arew io u pmr m nines. I did not better the hand, but concluded to try a little game of bluff. The opener drew only one card. He made a bet. I studied awnwe, as u ri doubt, but Anally saw him and raised Ul Via InnUpri lin cautiously. SOW the raise and raised me right back. I saw I was in ior it. uui vrem i and bet with Buch an artful conAdence that he actually refused to see me fur ther and laid down a full hand three queens and a pair of nines. No wonder I could not better my one pair. . . . . A good Mexican cook relieves the mistress of the house of worry and responsibility In a manner that Is al most unknown in the United States. The cook is given so much a day, and with this amount she will purchase each morning all the provisions for the day, Including even the staples that are V usually bought In large quantities In other countries. On a dollar a day a cook will provide a very good table for a family of three or four, and get enough beans and tortillas and chllo to set the servants' table besides. I i .1