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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1900)
I fc I5L w ar w CHAPTER XXI Yes they were all at it again the net and robin the mavis and merle the cuckoo telling us of his whereabouts in the heart of the thicket the larks filling all the wide spaces of the sky with their silver song But for this universal twit tering and clear caroling and fluttering of wings the world was still enough and silent enough The red kine hardly mov ed in the meadows golden with butter- 1 cups The olive green masses of the elm rising far into the pale blue of the ens did not stir a leaf The warm sun light seemed to draw forth a hundred scents from herbs and flowers that hung fn the motionless air As one is idly gazing at all these things and speculating as to how far a certain white butterfly that has started early on his travels will wander before the heat of noon causes him to close his wings on a head of clover there is a quiet stirring of the willow branches and then a footfall on the gang board con- necting the boat with tne shore Turning forthwith one finds that it is Miss Peggy who has come down through those yel Jowed meadows and it is Sir Ewen Cam eron who is steadying the plank for her She has been abroad thus early to gather flowers for the breakfast table and in each hand she has a great cluster of but tercups As for the June roses in her cheeks where did sht get them on so extremely still a morning And as for the speedwell blue of her eyes But she passes hastily into the saloon for the Sower glasses have to be filled -Then this long sandy haired Highland officer has he anything to say He ob serves that the morning is beautiful which is no secret He thinks he saw a trout rise a little bit further along Pres ently lie puts this question Shall you have any neqd of Murdochs jrvices this autumn - I fear not i He is an exceedingly handy fellow dont you think so I do Yj And very willing isnt he fHe is - Well now dont you consider that a young fellow like that would be better in a settled situation than in doing odd jobs about Tobermory with an occasional month or twos yachting in the summer I dare say he would if it was any- - thing of a situation i Do you think he would come to me at Inverfask 4 Inverfask x - iJ Yes I would give him a fair wage 11 1 11 AK l - - nQf wouia aave eminuyuiuui uu mf t iu round and he might look forward to - - some increase of pay if lie deserved it A permanent place at Inverfask is that what you mean Yes Well when you put that offer before hinr Murdoch will be a proud lad jAnd you are sure you dont want him -this autumn Almost certain besides that could not be allowed to interfere I will go and ask him at once said he and he too disappeared into the sa loon Well now the Nameless Barge seemed to be just filled with secrets and mysteries on this busy morning but of course one had no time to pay heed to such trumpery things for we had to make an early start in- order to get through the chain of locks outside Devizes Afteiyleaving Devizes tktre are fifteen miles of plain sailing without the inter ruption pf a single lock so that we made good progress this afternoon The canal which is here so little used that it Abounds with all kinds of water plants the white buttercup conspicuous among them winds along a high plateau which affords extensive views over the neigh boring landscape Not that we saw this somewhat lonely stretch of country un der iiiost favorable conditions As we stole along by Bishops Cannings and All Cannings and Stanton Fitzwarren the still air seemed to be threatening thun 1 der the skies were of a cloudy milky white and the hills that rose to the hori zon line both on north and south Rough x bridge Hill Easton Hill St Anns Hill Etchilhampton Hill Wivelsford Hill and the like were slowly deepening in gloom Then came rain and forthwith these idle people fled into the saloon to books and writing and tea and what not All but the faithful Peggy that is to say Miss Peggy not only went and fetched the jteersman his waterproof but she also brought out her own and having drawn ihe hood over her pretty brown hair and fastened it securely under her chin she took up her position on the steering thwart Was she still anxious then to show her gratitude in some vague tive way At all events her companion--ship on this somber afternoon was suffi ciently welcome - But one soon began to discover what had brought Miss Peggy out into the i rain her remarks about the weather were X cpeedily over - v Has Col Cameron she asks ently with a very becoming hesitation has Col Cameron said anything any thing particular to you Nothing very particular No 1 suppose not she continues with the same pretty hesitation I hod to ask him not to say anything because because I dont wish Mr Duncombe to know But you ought to know yes you ought to know Do you think I dont know What And this is the way they keep a young ladys secret making it as plain as the nose on a mans face or a weathercock on a steeple And you are especially anx lous to conceal it from Jack Duncombe are you Dont you think it possible Mr Dancombe may have hfs own little af fairs to attend tol Well welL youve done it at last I suppose and if s very UttJe you know of the fate you are rush- J JT 3ns upon -you poor fluttering timid sol - HrMvAi i jfifflfeAi2 J -O - J ItfilMl RifoiiilM IftA J Y WILLIAM LACKV itary creature Banishment to the re- 1 gions of perpetual ice that is a pretty future for you Think of the gales howl ing down from the North Sea the glens blocked up with snow o communication with the rest of the wordl the rivers and lakes hard frozen hail changing to sleet and sleet changing to hail a Polar bear prowling round the riofts a wal rus And a carpenter you mustnt forget the carpenter said this young lady who isnt as easily frightened as you might imagine Does he wear his decorations when he goes to a levee at Buckingham Palace Havent the least idea The Victoria Cross anyway He must wear the Victoria Cross at any state cer emony where the queen is present sure ly Is it true that when the queen pre sents the Victoria Cross to any one she pins it on his breast with her own hands I believe so I should like to see that done she observed absently There was a long protracted ramble and the curiosity of our young American friend about everything relating to the Highlands and the modes of life there proved to be quite insatiable just as it was simple honest and ingenuous When we got back to the boat the dusk had come down and all the little red windows were aglow but Mrs Threepenny bit did not go on board Col Cameron did and we guessed that she had sent him to sum mon Mr Duncombe away from his books Your servant colonel says Miss Peggy as we come up What do you mean the smaller womer woman answers Have you changed services Peggy Youve been a sailor all the way through are you go ing to leave the navy fpr the army Yes says Miss Peggy lightly 1 have enlisted And whats more Ive got my marching orders Where for This tall young recruit brings up the palm of her hand to her forehead and makes a very fair imitation of a military salute For Inverfask colonel she says and the night conceals the laughing shyness of her cheeks CHAPTER XXII Early on this fair morning the welcome sunlight ris all around us touching here and there on the red roofs half hidden riniong the willows and elms making the old fashioned inn and the ivied bridge quite picturesque and striking into the clear water so that we can see shoals of small fish darting this way and that over the beds of green weed And here is Miss Peggy herself as radiant as the iawn her eyes shining and without mal ice a placid content upon her tranquil lips So this is the last day of our voy age she says The last full day We shall leave a few miles to do to morrow so as to get JVo Reading about noon rVVhen one looks back she says rath er pensively all those places we have seem appear to be very far away now Doesnt it seem ages since we saw Wind sor Castle with the royal standard high up in the pale blue sky Do you remem ber the fearful rain at Oxford and the floods And Mr ABecket yes Tell me did you ever answer the letter he was so kind as to send you about the antiqui ties of Gloucester Well I did not slid says hastily Dont you think your wife will do that for me She ought The information was for the whole party At breakfast there was clearly a fore shadowing of the end for already these good people were beginning to talk of the chief impressions produced by this long water ramble of ours Miss Peggys fixed ideas seemed to be the remoteness and the silence of those solitudes through which we had passed nd the profusion i of wild flowers Mrs Threepenny bit on the other hand had some fancy that in these rural wanderings you got to under stand something of the hold that the Church of England has on the national mind the prominence of it even in the landscape the small venerable strong square towered building dominating the tiniest village the great cathedral the principal feature and the proudest pos session of the town As we glided along through the hawthorn-scented air our chief difficulty was to tell whether we were on a river or a canal for the Kennet and Avon canal and the river Kennet intertwist themselves in a remarkable manner and seem to have all their chief characteristics in common About midday we came in sight of Newbury the pink houses of which look ed very pleasant among the golden mead ows and the various greenr of poplar and maple We had a delightful stroll in the after noon along the banks of the winding wat erway that is sometimes the canal and sometimes the Kennet and sometimes both combined That night was our last on board and yet it cannot be said we greater ease can now produce 4- were a particularly mourmui company To morrow we should be back in the Thames again at Reading Should we take her down to Kingston whence we had started and find her quarters there Or should we send her up the river to Henley with a view to the forthcoming regatta I will settle that matter for you said Col Cameron as we sat at dinner Or rather I have settled it for you I am going to buy this boat Really says one of us who seems to think he might have been consulted I I will explain says this tall High a hundred things lander with great equanimity Just beV low the belt of wood at Inverfask there c is a duiet little bay very fairly protect- ed by rocks in fact close to the shore it is perfectly sheltered I propose to an chor aiwoy seme way out and have a wire ropdvconnecting it with the land then you perceive by means of a travel er yon couldrun this boat along when 7 give your visitor afternoon tea Or yon mfght haie a little dinner party in the saloon for the fun of the thing I have secured Murdoch he will be captain cook and steward Or you migh be quite by yourselves and if it was a hot even g and the midges troubling you on shore you just step on board and haul yourselves out to sea Or again suppos ing Mr Duncombe were coming round that way I hope he will and wanted a quiet days work done wouldnt that be a secure retreat for him There could be no better isolation surely or more per fect silence That would be a place to write It sounds tempting certainly young Shakspeare made answer perhaps with mistful visions of not absolute isolation floating before his mind Of course you would have to ask per mission Inverfask continued and not from me It is not for myself I propose to make the purchase It s to be a lit tle present Why was it that all this tiihe our pret ty Peggy had been sitting with eyes downcast Did she know of this auda cious scheme and could it concern her in any way Then said he wfien I have got pos session of the boat then she will no long er be known as the Nameless Barge Oh no when she is at her new moorings in the North we must find a proper name for her He looked across the table and Peggys eyes were still downcast And do you know what I propose to call her Well I have been thinking I could not do bet ter than call her Rosalinds Bower The end PAPER COLLARS STILL IN STYLE Larjje Quantities Are Still Manufac tured for Western Trade It may surprise you to know that paper collars are coining into demand again said a traveling salesman who handles mens furnishing goods and it may also surprise you to know that the demand right along for years and years back has been large enough to keep three or four good sized factories going continually at full capacity I used to wonder what became of the output for I never saw anybody wear ing the things and finally I made it my particular business to ascertain I was astonished at the extent of the trade It reaches all over the West and South west and along the entire Northern frontier from Seattle to Bangor Wher ever the towfis or camps are widely scattered implying I suppose that where laundries are scarce and poor there is a demand for paper collars The largest shipments however go into the lumber districts of Minnesota and Wisconsin where the men wear an outlandish costume peculiar to the re gion and not to be found elsewhere on the continent Their Sunday trousers for instance are generally plaids seven or eight inches square in the brightest colors imaginable their hats are in solid red blue green or purple and a paper collar on a fancy flannel shirt is considered a very effective combina tion 4 Thousands of gross go to dealers in the small towns throughout the timber belt up there and almost as many are sent into the Adirondack counties of Northern New York Vermont New Hampshire and Maine I noticed that there was an especially large and steady demand from the maple sugar district in fact there seems to be some sort of mysterious affinity between pa per collars and forests leading people who earn their livelihood in the great woods to yearn for paper collars when they dress up It would be a nice problem for students Still another sec tion where the sales have been enor mous is in the northern end of Nebras ka where the country is settled up al most entirely by Swedes and Norwe gians I was amused in looking over the order book of one of the big facto ries to note that the collars sent to Nebraswa were all of one pattern a pe culiarly hideous narrow little turned over the design of which must have been imported from Europe I have seen pictures of Baltic peasants wear ing such chokers but have never en countered one in the life To return to the point in reference to an increase in the demand I know positively that it has almost doubled since the 1st of August and that several new factories are now in course of equipment Where the new trade comes froml havent the least idea New Orleans erat vv HIS LAST WORK A Mersrentjlaler Perfects Baslcet THTaking Maclljine Just Before lie Dies In the summer of 1S9S Ottinar Mer genthaler the inventor of the linotype machine who died in Baltimore recent ly spent two clays at Painesville Ohio studying the working of a basket ma chine which he afterward modified and improved and which was the last work completed just before his death The machine as completed is as much a rev olution in basket making as the lino type has proved to be in typesetting Where an expert operator formerly pro duced 300 grape baskets daily by hand the same operator with the machine 000 baskets daily and these machine- made baskets are said to be superior in every way to the hand made article The machine is of one horse power and can easily be attended by a girl its capacity being the same as that of twelveJiand operators It is practicably a self feeding machine iis the supplies of bottoms strips for the sides and bands are placed in stocks near enough for the wonderful iron hands to reach out and wize aud while one watche3 these wonderful hands reach out for the material the basket is finished and the machine as it were holds Its breath or rather its hands for a sec ond -while the basket is delivered when it luxuieuittUMy uegiuH iigudu us wuu derf ul performance Philadelphia jord I It is figured that the wealtn pos ever wisnro ana oe ouc yem you wouw third of th at sea safe anBksecurer a small fioatingi zj rt CUtt one i ir - -I United States senators amounts t IXWiAAt kUUh tT VUU UU lfClJ lUU CAlfTUi AV m i NYou misrht want tol moe than 100000000 METHODISTS AT WOEK QUADRfENNIAL CONFERENCE IS BEING HELD IN CHICAGO A Xiarxe and Notable Asaeniblace of Christian Workers Much Important Business to Be Transncted MeaBwrea Which May Mark Innovations One of the largest and most notable gatherings of Christian workers ever held assembled in Chicago Wednesday when the twenty third delegated general confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church began its session which will continue throughout the month About 050 dele gates are in attendance and there is a large representation of laymen Dele gates have come from all parts- of the world including four from Germany two from Italy two from Norway two frorii Sweden two from Switzerland two froin Liberia six from India four fitom China two from Japan two from Mexico and two from South America and the list of laymen embraces many Methodist leaders of distinction and eminence The general conference whudi is the highest legislative and administrative body of the church acts on behalf of a constituency of nearly- 3000000 and an organization embracing nearly 1S000 ministers and 14000 local preachers The delegates at the conference naturalry in clude the most able and experienced of church workers and they came from widely remote regions from all parts of this country and Canada from Germany from Europe and eyen from the orient The work which this body must per form is arduous and includes besides the consideration of questions affecting the general policy of the church the elec tion of bishops and the administration of the immense business involved in tlie con duct of church finances and the various enterprises in which the church is engag ed This year moreover seTeral ques tions of vital importance and unusual in terest will come up for settlement Some of these contemplate measures which would mark an innovation upon the ac cepted policy of the church A new con stitution will be considered the question of lay equality lias been brought for ward much time and attention probably will be given to the subject of the time limit now placed upon the pastoral term And among other things the conference is expected to witness a wrarm debate between the conservative and the liberal elements upon the question of amuse ments and the advisability of abolishing certain restrictions regarding card play ing dancing and other similar pastimes Both on account of the character of the work to be performed and the eminence of the representatives assembled the ses sions of the conference will be of wide general interest by no means confined to the church constituency The business to be done is as formidably complicated in variety and derail as that transacted in an ordinary session of Congress Bishop Merrill Presides Bishop Thomas Bowman called the con ference to order in the great Auditorium and presided over the half hour religious service Then he laid down the gavel and Bishop Merrill the senior effective bishop tookhis place and announced the opening of the business session David S Mon roe who has been secretary of four con ferences then called the roll of districts and delegates in alphabetical order The provisional delegates were admit ted without a contest There were 157 provisional delegates elected to fill up the disparity in their proportional repre sentation Only eighty five however re sponded to the roll call following their admission The limited lay representa tion gave the pews 215 votes Four min isterial delegates were absent As the roll was made up on the opening day there are 3G5 preachers and 23G laymen on the regular list Without a dissenting vote the confer ence at its first session ratified the action of the annual conference in extending equdl representation to the laity The pulpit and the pew share equally in the highest governmental body of the Meth odist Church The ministers were more enthusiastic over the loss of their au thority than the laymen over their addi tional powers The victory was celebrat ed by singing the doxology The Old Hundred is the battle hymn of the Meth odists It announces the conversion of the penitent at the revival It is the pean of rejoicing when a church debt has been raised It is the safety valve of pent up enthusiasm It rang through the vaulted chamber of the Chicago Auditorium in a roar that drowned the roll of the organ The step taken makes the Methodist Church a democratic body the rule of the preacher passes with the century The episcopacy in the church long since has been restricted to a superintendence without any authority beyond the placing of ministers and suggestions to the gen eral and annual conferences The bishops address was read to the conference Thursday It deals with the state of the church and the progress of the past four years The committees were announced and organized All the proposed revisions of the book of disci pline especially those relating to amuse ments and dress and creation of bishops with limited powers were initiated Thurs day by resolutions that were referred to committees Neivs of Minor Note Newport is expecting a crush of noble lords of high degree this summer Gertrude Ddspaines 25 of Chicago died from ptomaine poisoning in New York Homicides in South Carolina have aver aged over 200 a year for the last five years Republicans at Boston indorsed Secre tary of the Navy Long for the Vice Pres idency The plague has appeared in the Tava rood district of Persia 195 deaths being reported Fifty thousand dollars worth of auto mobiles have been shipped to Havana recently The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut will make its first real sea cruise- from San Francisco to San Diego Because girls devote too much time to gossip men will replace thvem as operators in Paris telephone stations Atlantic liners leaving New York are by no means crowded despite predictions of a rush to the Paris exposition M Coquelin and Mme Bernhardt will tour America after the Paris exposi tion with Cyrano de Bergerac CROP8 HURT BY RAIN Wet Weather Does Considerable Dam age in Many States The most unfavorable features of last tveek asgiven by the crop division of the Weather bureau were the excessive rains in the Southern States and the unseason able iovr temperatures over the central and southern plateau and Pacific coast re gions A large part of Texas Inchiding the region of the great Hood of June July 1899r has received from two to more than seven inches of rain washing out and inundating crops to a great ex tent over the central aud southern por tions of the State Too much rain has generally retarded farm work in the States of the Missouri valley and middle Rocky Monntain slope Eastward of the Mississippi river corn planting and preparrions therefor have progressed rapidly planting being in pro gress as far north as the central portions of Illinois Indiana and Ohio and in West Virginia and Maryland Some corn has beca planted in southern Jowaand plant ing will be general the coming week On account of wet weather little ccyrn was planted in Nebraska and planting has been retarded in Missouri and Kansas In Kansas and Texas and portions of Mississippi Arkansas and Alabama much replanting will be necessary as a result of orerllows Further improvement is generally re ported in the condition of winter wheat although in Michigan and Wisconsin farmers are continuing to plow up wheat fields for other crops The crop is now heading- as far north as Tennessee Ar kansas and Oklahoma In central and northern California high winds have been unfavorable but the crop has been im proved by rains in the southern part of the State All reports indicate that spring Avheat is coming up finely and making excellent growth Seeding is now prac tically completed except in North Da kota TWO HUNDRED REBELS KILLED Filipinos Twenty Victims at Catubijr Avenjjeu by Comrades Further details of the fighting at Catu bug Island of Samar in which twenty Americans were killed and two wounded have been received The American gar rison of Catubig Island of Samar con sisting of thirty men belonging to the Forty third regiment was attacked by rebels Twenty of the Americans were killed The remainder were rescued The Americans were quartered in the Ctitubig Church which the enemy num bering several hundred men surrounded and fiercely attacked The Americans fought for two days and then the rebels managed to ignite the roof of the church and it burned away and finally fell upon those inside the edifice The walls re mained intact however and were used as a shelter by the besieged Americans for three days longer the enemy attacking the building on all sides at once The Americans continued firing from the win dows and doors of the church and did great execution among the Filipinos It is estimated that over 200 of the latter were killed many dead bodies being re moved from the scene of the fighting After five days resistance by the Amer icans a lieutenant and eight men arrived from Laoan and engaged the besiegers who thereupon retired The fortunate ar rival of these re enforcements prevented the annihilation of the American force in trenched in the church who hau repeated ly declined to surrender when ordered to do so by the Filipinos The ten surviv ors were without food had little ammuni tion and were physically exhausted when relieved CANAL BILL IS PASSED House Adopts Measure by a Vote of 225 to 35 After a stormy debate which developed much bad blood and nearly provoked sev eral physicalencounters the Nicaraguan canal bill passed the House late Wednes day afternoon by the remarkable vote of 225 to 35 Democrats and Republicans vied with each other in an effort to get on record in favor of the waterway that is to connect the Atlantic with the Pa cific The only party division during the two days debate was over the committee amendments substituting the word de fense for iortifications The Demo crats voted almost solidly for fortifica tions claiming that the Clayton Bulwer treaty was dead The Republicans stood by the committee on interstate and for eign commerce A motion to recommit the bill with instructions to report back another bill leaving the selection of the route to the President was buried under an adverse majority of 52 to 171 The passage of the Niciragua canal bill by the House does not mean that the bill will become a law A Washington corre spondent declares that the Senate will not pass it at this session and may not con sider it 0- I- The severe strain of university duties has compelled President Hadley of Yale to take a rest of a month in the South Mrs Caroline S Tilden of New Or leans has given 50000 to Tulane Uni versity of Louisiana for a library build ing The School of Political Science at Co lumbia has opened a course to fit young men for the Government service particu larly in the new colonies At the University of Nebraska a tabu lation of the churches represented among 2005 students was made recently There were found 155 Baptists 60 Catholics 220 Congregationalists 102 Episcopa lians 70 Lutherans 458 Methodists 302 Presbyterians and smaller numbers rep resenting other denominations Two hundred and fifty gave no information regarding their church relationship and seventy were- not adherents to any church Dr John Guiteras has been appointed to the chair of intertropical pathology which has just been created in the Uni versity of Havana Cuba Prof Edward Everett Hale Jr of Union College is to take the place of Prof Frank H Stoddard in the historical department of the New York University summer school this year President Sierra of Honduras has con ceded to Harvard University the charge of the ruins of Copan and its islands for a period of ten years with the Tight to make excavations and remove any inter esting things discovered to Cambridge SI Hnnu One of the most prominent figures in the political life of the national capital is Senator James K Jones of Arkansas chairman of the fiKr raSv J K JOES sentntives in 1SS1 Democratic jiation al committee Mr Jones is regarded by his colleagues as a man of sound ideas and great po litical sagacity He is one of the vet erans of Congress lnvinr none to Washington as- a member of the House of He served two terms in tho lower house and then was ad vanced to the Senate of which he has been a member fourteen years Senator Jones is a Mississippian by birth but since boyhood has lived at Washington Hempstead County Ark He served as a private in the Confederate army throughout the war and at its close went back to the humble life of a planter At the age of 34 he began the practice of law and at the same time entered politics being elected to the State Senate in 1873 He was president of that body during one term He has long beenregarfied as the most influential man in Arkansas poli tics Four widows of revolutionary veterans are still on the pension roll although the war of the revolution ended 120 years ago They range in age from S3 to 90 Seven daughters of revolutionary soldiers are still drawing pensions Of the G9 000000 which has been paid in revolu tionary pensions 20000000 was drawn by widows One pensioned survivor of the war of 1S12 remains He is Hiram Cronk 99 years old and his home is in northwestern New York The last pen sioned soldier of the revolution did not die until 1S09 He was 109 years G months and S days old He lived in Free dom N Y More widows than soldiers of the war of 1812 were pensioned In that war 290916 soldiers served sixty days or more The pensioned were 30 000 soldiers and 35000 widows To the sole survivor of the war of 1812 the Gov ernment is now paying 193 a year and to widows of that war 293097 To Mex ican veterans the payments now are 1- 107594 and to widows of Mexican war soldiers 818067 On the Union side the enlistments for the civil war were 2778 394 Of these there died in service 349- 944 The pensions paid on account of the civil war amount to 2300000000 and there are now on the pension rolls 991519 veterans and widows The pen sioners who died last year numbered 14- 066 At the rate the veterans are dying it is estimated there will be reduction of the pensions to S0000000 in the net fifteen years a little mote than one half of the present annual appropriation Since the present system of money was adopted in 1866 the United States has is sued a grand total of 8152621108 in United States notes treasury notes gold silver and currency certificates and other forms of paper currency of which 7 2506S34S9 has been presented for re demption leaving outstanding 901937 619 How much of this money is actually in circulation and what proportion of if has been permanently lost worn out or destroyed can only be conjectured United States notes or greenbacks have been is sued to the amount of 2997189808 and 265050S792 has been presented for re demption leaving 346GS1016 outstand ing The latter sum is daily reported to be the amount of greenbacks in circula tion but striking an average in the opin ions Nof the treasury experts as to the amount lost and destroyed the actual value of greenbacks outstanding is not more than 332000000 and is growing smaller evory year i Speaker Henderson wears a wooden leg and uses a heavy walking stick He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and the injuired lug was cut off on the battlefield to save his life Thcrsurgeons made a bad job of it the wound never healed ahdt the Speaker has been subjected to four operations upon the Stump since the last about two years ago On that occasion he declined to take ether and sat upon the operating table directing the sur geons As the three former operations had been unsuccessful he was determin ed that the fourth attempt should not fail and his supervision did not bring bad e sults because the stump has troubled him less since the operation was perforin ed V At the close of the last fiscal year tfie e were 2617 railway iriaif routes ofa fStal length of 17672095- miles ov Qr whfch the mail cars traveled that year 2S759l 26921 miles The Government iTaid for the railway postoffice cars 41757246 and for the transportation of the mails 31942150S8jr a total to the railroads of 3611787574 which was an average of 12i cents per mile- for transportation and jpostal cars combined li cents a mile for the cars alone - - - - Congressman King the successor of Brigham H Roberts of Utah who was not permitted to take his seat in Con gress on the ground that he was a big amist has undertaken to convince his col leagues that his predecessor should be recompensed for certain of his disburse- ments made in the endeavor to obtaini his seat T The labor bureau has completed a very cv important investigation bearing upon the subject of trusts and the effect of the- consolidation of industries upon wages The results will be published in the July bulletin Detailed and accurate informa tion has been obtained of the variation in wages paid to the different trades from to the 1st of January 1900 The report will be a very interesting and valu able contribution to the discussionnow going on - Dont get Ktlght becnse monty ta - ft4 1 y s