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CHAPTER II Continued
Here Esme laughed hysterically and
Et once brought the whole storm upon her
anluckv head and acted as a kind of
lightning conductor to Mrs Brabazons
wrath
You laugh You dare to laugh miss
But it is only what I could expect from
you I believe you were in his confidence
and knew all about it Im sure you en
couraged him in his abominable conduct
You and he have always been a heavy
trial to me You had a letter this morn
ing be so good as to hand it over
Jl cannot Mrs Brabazon replied
Esme tremulpusly it it is private
glancing appealingly at her stepmother
And full of abuse of rac no doubt
Well youmay keep it making virtue of
necessity and make much of it for it
is the last you will receive Every other
I find in the post bag I shall burn Mark
mv words into the fire it goes
Florian and Gussie said Esme tim
idly glancing from her brother to her
sister are neither of you going to say
anything Wont you speak for Teddy i
she asked piteously or is it to be left
tn mp Mrs Brabazon surely you can
not forget that Teddy is our brother and
will always be so as long as he lives He
is not dead to us at least he is not dead
to me and I hope he will be spared for
the next fifty years I think it only riglit
and honorable to tell you that I will nev
er give him up that I shall write to him
and receive his letters and meet him
and speak to him whenever I get the
chance His being a soldier makes no
difference whatever he is my brother all
the same It was not his fault he could
not pass he did try and he wanted so
much to be a soldier
What do you say to this tirade Au
gusta demanded Mrs Brabazon turn
ingon Gussie with a portentous frown
I think it is all very dreadful about
Ted of course she stammered but he
is my brother looking hard at Esme
as though endeavoring to borrow some of
her spirit
And you Florian demanded Mrs
Brabazon in an awful hollow voice
Oh if you want my opinion returned
that gentleman carefully stirring his tea
I think Ted is a confounded ass and
has made a regular fool of himself and
all that sort of thing and if s no end of a
bore I would pass him now if I met him
In the street pulling up his collar as he
spoke and feeling that he was a very
important dignified illustrious young
man
Oh Flo exclaimed his youngest sis
ter renroachfullv
Now you have your brothers opinion
Esme the opinion of the head of the
house I hope you are satisfied said
Mrs Brabazon with malicious triumph
You see he is as usual quite of my way
of thinking If Teddy had behaved re
spectfully I know that Florian would
have done something for him and used
his interest with his influential friends
he has always been such a good generous
brother
Thus Teddy fell into disgrace with his
people his name was erased from the
family roll and written down instead in
nearly everyones black book
Two years passed by and during these
two years there have been some little
changes even at Baronsford Esme was
now nineteen prettier than ever but stiff
and shy in general society Gussie on
the contrary seemed born for the social
circle was always the center of a little
knot of swains on these occasions and
had played havoc -with the affections of
several susceptible young men Mrs
Brabazon still frequented stately houses
and stately dinner tables and had saved
a sum of money that would have made
Miss Jane exclaim most unaccountable
had she seen her bankers book Time
las not stood still with Teddy Here
is his last letter It lies on the school
room table beside Esme
From Troop Sergeant Brown York to
Miss E Brabazon
My Dear Esme Always the culprit
you need not tell me that Ive written
to you at least ten times in imagination
long letters too but I suppose that does
not count I have news for you good
news You know that for a long time I
was instructor in the riding school and
now I am promoted to be troop sergeant
which by the way I suppose is Greek
to you old lady but I dare say your
mind can grasp the word promotion I
am getting pp the ladder at last The
colonel hinted to me the other day that
if I went on as I had commenced he
would be happy to recommend me for a
commission so we begin to see daylight
I hope to see you early in the autumn
before we embark for foreign service we
are next on the roster I shall come
down and lie perdue at Mother Swoffers
it would 2ver do for you to be sen
parading aDcoit in public with a sergeant
of lancers It will be a case of meet
me by moonlight alone but that will be
better than nothing Only fancy Esme
Ive not spoken to a lady for two years
Give my love to Gussie and Aunt Jane
Do you know that she sent me 23 lately
in a very crabbed little letter Never
mind she shall be proud of me yet
Your affectionate brother
TEDDY B
CHAPTER III
fcihe hasnt been here has she pant
fcd Gussie thrusting an eager red face
insido the school room door No with
a gesture of relief I see she has not
now introducing her whole person in
walking costume tossing off her hat as
Bhe subsided into the nearest chair and
altogether presenting an aspect of the
wildest excitement I thought Id be the
first I ran putting her hand to her
side Such news
Upon my word Gussie said her sis
ter gazing at her with calm dispassion
ate eyes you onlywant a personal at
tendant and a few straws in your hair
to look a complete lunatic
But you havent heard my news You
dont Imow what I have to tell you re
turned Miss Brabazon exultingly
Your news contemptuously I know
fc cfirio cr woll Mrs Bell has got a
new bonnet and all Maxtou is shaken to
its center You are about to inform me
that Lady Louisa has had a fit or or
could it be that Mr Vashon has again
made you an offer of his hand and
heart
You are getting quite hot I declare
quite hot cried Gussie rubbing her
hands ecstatically its a weauing iu
the family but I am not to be the vic
tim
No in an accent of surprise then
it must be Flo
No no no each no louder than its
predecessor
You dont mean to say that Mrs Bra
bazon with a gesture of horror
Not Mrs Brabazon laughing and still
rubbing her hands though I would not
mind if it were I would give her away
with pleasure Try again
Then theres no mie left but Aunt
Jane said Esme looking at her Sister
dubiously
And pray what do you call yourself
my dear impressively it is you you
who areisoing to be married Now then
folding her arms putting out her under
lip and shaking her fringe with a ges
ture of decision
I pausing and surveying her sister
with bewildered eyes her mouth slightly
parted After a silence of a clear sixty
seconds she found speech Only that I
know that vou are almost a teetotaller
your whole appearance and conversation
Come and let us nave a dance of jubi
lee humming a waltz and seizing her
stupefied sister around her waist and
beginning to whirl her about the room
Stop stop stop Gussie she cried
breathlessly are you in your right
senses holding her fast and gazing in
to her flushed face and sparkling eyes
Are you serious Just let me look at
you drawing her toward the window
Perfectly serious she panted and
nearly out of my mind with joy You
will have a nice little bourse in town a
victoria for the park lots of dances and
dinners at which your elder sister
charming Miss Brabazon will be the
piece de resistance
Poor old gentleman 1 always thought
he was odd very queer indeed re
turned her sister slowly
Miles is in Burmah I believe said
Gussie I wonder what he will think
of this legacy
Think what every one must think
returned Esme decidedly that Uncle
George was mad
Not a bit of it my dear I grant you
he was odd eccentric Mrs B once
wanted Aunt Jane and Flo to have him
looked after and locked up but it would
Tin Vioon nffor Tinnnnp UnrflllRf n
8 man wears queer clothes and devours hot
curries and Arabian and Persian love
tales it does not naturally follow that he
is a lunatic He was perfectly well able
to manage his affairs and was very sharp
about money
Well its no business of mine said
Esme shrugging her snoulders only Im
sorry he made such a fdolish will
Foolish will cried Gussie What
do you mean Its a beautiful will Dont
tell me that you are not going to marry
Miles Brabazon not going to jump at
him and the legacy
I certainly am not What a way you
talk Jump indeed getting rather red
and stooping to pick up her scattered
work I would not marry him on any
account nor he me we are not crazy We
have not as the French say Spiders in
our garrets like poor old Uncle George
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He will marry you fast exough once
ke sees you observed Gussie decisively
I dont know anyone as pretty any
where though you are my own sister and
I say it as shouldnt Everybody thinka
you are the prettiest girl in Thornshire
boastfully
The prettiest girl in Thornshire took
not the least notice of this brilliant com
pliment but began to shake out fold up
and put away her unfortunate work evi
dently incapacitated for any further In
dustry that afternoon
CHAPTER IV
Let us now adjourn to British Burirah
and nay a visit to the other legatee Cap
tain Miles Brabazon A single flight of
imagiuatioa will land us in Rangoon
without undergoing forty days torture
on the high seas
I only wish I had your luck thats all
But I always knew you were born with
a silver spoon in your mouth and that
Dame Fortune had her eye on you
The speaker a young man in polo eos
tume long boots and dangerous looking
spurs was sitting on a teak wood table
in an easy degage attitude with his cap
set on the side of his close cropped sandy
heada polo stick in one hand
The gentleman upon whom Dame For
tune was supposed to have her eye
also in polo garb was suuk iu the depths
of a Bombay chair an expression of
growing dissatisfaction upon his naturallj
gay and good looking countenance He
held a large blue letter in his hand and
the ground arouud him was littered with
papers and envelopes evidently the Eu
ropean mail had just come in The young
man with the boots ami spurs is Air
Gee the other Captain Brabazon both
oflicers in the Royal Marchers at present
luxuriating in the climate of British
Burmah They are friends and partners
in the straggling wooden bungalow in
which we find them
Luck indeed growled Captain Bra
bazon angrily crumpling up the letter
and thrusting it into his breast pocket I
see no luck in it quite the other way
Will ye listen to him cried Mr Gee
Have you not always had enough foi
your modest wants
Thats because they were modest re
turned the other promptly
Have you not had the best of health
even in this beastly climate which is
enough to undermine the constitution of
a rhinoceros Have you not had speedy
promotion Havent you youth -
would warrant the suspicion that you had Ting a second for breath
boon visitinsr the Barley Mow
Barley Mow or not you are going to
be married Miss Esme Brabazon
Well if I am it is certainly the first
I have heard of it ironically which is
curious not to say unusual And pray
who is to be the happy bridegroom Have
I the pleasure of knowing him even by
sight
No vou have not exultantly Yes
yes hurriedly in answer to the expres
sion of her companions face Im quite
sane and perfectly serious although it
sounds quite too unaccountable as Aunt
Jane would say but clearing her throat
you are aware that Uncle George is
dead
Well considering that Ive known that
fact for quite three weeks and that 1 am
at present making our mourning your
news is something astonishing sarcas
tically Uncle George is dead Im go
ing to be married Do try and think of
something else or is it a new game
Be quiet Esme you are just as bad
as Teddy The will has been found after
a long search in a coat pocket of all
places and particulars have come by the
afternoon post Mr Bell has been over
to Byford and brought our letters
But to the point my good girl if there
is one
- The point is that he has left two hun
dred a year to Sopp and the parrot twen
ty pounds to each of us for a mourning
ring
And this has turned your head broke
in her sister How I wjsh he had left
us the money instead
Do let me finish cried Gussie with
an angry little stamp I want to be the
first to tell you Ive kept the last as a
kind of plum listen gesticulating ex
citedly All his money in the funds
forty thousand pounds goes to you and
Miles Brabazon and here is the cream of
the whole thing provided you marry
each other within six months of nis de
cease Now is not that news for you
What do you call that but a wedding in
the family she demanded triumphantly
of her sister who stood staring at her
with pale wide eyed astonishment
It is not true I dontrbelieve it Its
a joke she said at last in a faint voice
gazing at Gussie with a look of horrified
incredulity
Its quite quite true beautifully de
lightfully true returned the young lady
Go on dont shirk it Why not say
beauty at once suggested his compan
ion encouragingly
Well Ill even go as far as that
generously though that was not what
I was going to remark but everyone
knows yourself included that youre a
good looking fellow and quite one of our
show men And you have actually the
cheek to sit there calmly and tell me to
my face that you are not a lucky fellow
when bank on the top of all this comes
a thumping legacy of forty thousand
pounds I only wish I had half your com
plaint thats all
I wish to goodness you had return
ed the other sulkily You seem to for
get my clever and very sanguine friend
that Ive only a half share in the booty
a half share and a better half Sounds
like a pun eh You have overlooked one
little detail matrimony aud that if I
dont marry this girl within six months
all the coin iroes to a college in Calcutta
Did you ever know such an old hunks
Now standing up walking to the doorway
and -leaning against one of the posts
Why the mischief could he not divide
the money and leave us each half he
demanded angrily of his friend
Ay why indeed rejoined Mr Gee
It all came of my tipping him a ten
pound note
Your grandmother ejaculated Mr
Gee with a laugh of tb rudest incred
dulity
Great grandmother if you like but
its a fact When the old chap came
home from India with pots of money he
was awfully afraid of being set upon by
hordes of needy relations A bright idea
struck him He hastily retired to a shady
suburb in London and set up as a pauper
In other words sent round a begging let
ter for a little help to keep him from
want in his old age Rather grim kind of
joke eh
Rather returned Mr Gee admiring
ly and not a bad idea
Any old fellow who was capable of
that would be capable of anything this
will inclusive exclaimed his nephew
emphatically However to go on with
my story Mrs Adrian Brabazon my fu
ture stepmother-in-law pleaded poverty
Aunt Jane made no excuse of any kind
doubtless she smelled a rat and 1 being
just then rather flush of coin sent him
a tenner with a promise to do what 1
could for after all he was my fathers
brother and I could not let the old beg
gar starve apologetically
To be continued
The Gift that Fritz Sent
When good natured easy going Fritz
asked his American wife to go down
town and pick out some little present
for his sister in Germany he sighed
He had squandered his fortune but his
sister still had hers which careful Teu
tonic management had aided and swell
ed to a beautiful degree The Ameri
can wife knew nothiug of her sister-in-law
but she fully appreciated the lim
itations of her own finances as well as
the difficulty of sending a gift so far
as Germany so she went to repository
for womans work and discovered there
a dainty bag of chamois leather em
broidered with wreaths of
and emblazoned with the onG
word Money to indicate its use as a
secret purse to be worn about the neck
for safety in traveling
It semed an innocuous little gift but
Fritz nearly went into hysterics of de
light when he beheld it Acb the
very thing he gasped I would not
write and ask her no but Money
and forget-me-not ach it is the most
beautiful reminder
At that the American wife protested
and would fain have withheld the pres
ent but Fritz was firm It was sent
to Germany at Christmas Last week
a lovely substantial check came in ac
knowledgment The old lady had appre
ciated and understood the gentle hint
and hereby hangs a fruitful sugges
tion
The Adams homestead at Quiney
Mass has been restored nuder the di
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MEETING OF PRESBYTERIANS
One Hundred and Twelfth Annual As
sembly Held in St Louis
The Presbvterian general assembly the
lawmaking body of that churdh began its
pne liundred and twelfth annual meeting
Ehursday at the Washington and Comp
on Avenue Presbyterian Church in St
Louis Nearly 1000 commissioners and
Jolegates representing all the Northern
and Western States and territories and
many of those in the South with the
synods of Central and South China
North China and India were in attend
ance at the opening session Among them
vere many eminent divines and promi
nent laymen
Washington and Compfon Avenue
Pre5byterian Church in which the nain
deliberations of the body were to be held
had been decorated and fitted withev
srything that would minister to the com
fort and convenience or tnose in uLieiiu
ance In the lecture room there was a
Presbyterian book stOTe a pestoffice a
telegraph station telephone connections
writing tables and stationery Matters
of great importance were slated for con
sideration during the gathering and it
was thought it would probably be two
weeks before final adjournment
The Rev Dr Charles A Dickey of
Philadelphia was elected moderator His
principal competitors wore Dr McKibbin
of Cincinnati and Dr D W Fisher of
Hanover College The new moderator
is opposed to the revision of the creed
and his election is considered a victory
for the conservatives Dr Dickey said
he was inclined to regard the agitation as
much ado about nothing that the men
wiho bob up here and there throughout
the country with a tirade against the
Westminster confession were seeking no
toriety or else failed to comprehend the
relation between that confession and the
presbyterian church
The Westminster confession he
said is now and always has been mere
ly a system of doctrine and as such is
subscribed to by every minister of the
oliiirrTi when he takes his vows There
are many things in the confession of
faith that are not subscribed to by min
isters at the time of taking their vows
and the various presbyteries have allow
ed great latitude of individual thought
and ordained many men holding views
apparently at variance with the logical
significance of certain clauses yet in per
fect accord with the general doctrinal
system it reveals
The question of revision of the West
minster confession is not a new one
Eleven years ago certain doctrines of
the creed notably those concerning elec
tion and preterition were thought too
strong and a committee was appointed
to act on their revision but in 1893 only
sixty seven out of 220 presbyteries ap
proved any amendments
THE BOER PEACE ENVOYS
Are Welcomed in New York and Given
a Formal Reception in Washington
Thursday afternoon the Boer envoys
were officially welcomed by Mayor Yan
Wyck of New York The Mayor gave
the envoys the freedom of the city pre
sented to them copies of a resolution
passed by the nrinioipil assembly and in
cidentally voiced the hope that it would
be followed by the preservation of their
freedom in their far distant homes
The congressional and citizens commit
tee which escorted the peace commission
ers from New York to Washington in
cluded Senators Allen Mason Heitfeld
and Wellington Representatives Sulzer
Ridgely Rhea Ky Clark Mo Daly
De Armond Robinson Neb Miers
Ind and Little and Messrs C T Bride
and S S Yoder On their arrival in
Washington the envoys were met by the
reception committee and taken to the Ar
lington Hotel where an informal recep
tion was given in their honor
DEWEY GIVES UP CANDI DACY
His Wife and He Agree that He Will
Not Make the Bace
A Washington dispatch says that Mrs
DeweyTias decided that the admiral shall
not be a candidate for the presidency
She has arrived at this decision after
noting their reception on the recent
KTvinsr around the country The admiral
is of like opinion He has admitted to
some of his friends that he does not un
derstand how he ever came to get the
idea that he would like to be President
In Germany 105793S acres were seed
ed to sugar beets last year The yield
was about eleven and a quarter tons to
he acre and the sugar results 127 per
cent
Germany has found last year the most
prosperous in hex history and her surplus
over the estimates will be about 15-
000000
Ex Senator Sherman contemplated a
visit to the Paris exposition but on his
physicians advice he will spend the sum
mer quietly at his old nome in aiansneiu
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BRITISH TAKE BOTHA
Boer Commandant Surprised and Cap
tured Near Kroonstad
It has been officially announced by the
London war office that Gen Methuen en
tered Hoopstad Thursday unopposed
that Gens Duprey and Daniels and forty
men surrendered and that Gen Broad
wood occupies Lindley It is further an
nounced that Huttons mounted infantry
GENERAL BOXnA
surprised and captured Commandant
Botha and twenty three others thirty
miles northwest of Kroonstad There
were no casualties on the British side
Gen Buller entered Dannhauser Thurs
day morning The houses in the town
were found to be not much damaged
owing to the sympathies of the Boer In
habitants The railway is little dam
agad The Boers north of Newcastle are
falling back on Amajuba Gen Buller
received a message from the Queen con
gratulating him upon the taking of Dun
dee and expressing appreciation of the
work of the troops
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The Chicago and Alton has ordered
twenty additional passenger cars
Net earnings of the Lake Shore for
quarter ending March 31 were 2591225
Central Passenger Association lines are
trying to regulate the half rate ticket
evil
East bound shipments from Chicago
are falling off Statement for last week
shows a decrease of 2S743 tons over the
week previous
Gross earnings of the Illinois Central
system for the first week in May were
597951 an increase of S5G 14 over the
corresponding period of last year
The Peoria Decatur and Evansville
road which was recently sold at Spring
field will probably pass to the Illinois
Central It crosses the I C line six
times
A cleverly written little booklet rogard
ing the fishing grounds of northern Wis
consin and Michigan has been issued by
the passenger department of the Milwau
kee and St Paul company
By advice of the attorneys of the
Southern Pacific and other Western
roads which pooled to compel the Govern
ment to pay higher rates for transpor
tation of soldiers than accorded theatrical
and other parties the scheme has been
abandoned
The Union Pacific road owns more land
than any other railway in the world
When its line was run through the unde
veloped lands of the West a right of way
forty miles in width was granted which
extended west from both Kansas City
and Omaha almost to the Pacific coast
So great was the acreage given that to
day the road having sold thousands of
tracts still owns and has for sale almost
all the land along the line from Laramie
to Green river on the main line 272 miles
of land forty miles in width and 2U0
miles of equal width on the Kansas di
vision This means practically a forty
mile strip through the whole of Kansas
Nevada Colorado Wyoming and a part
of Utah an acreage of S000000 acres
Sir William C Van Homes scheme
for developing Cuban railroads seems to
have prospered amazingly The Cuban
company has been organized under the
laws of New Jersey with a capital stock
of 8000000 and some of the best
known American capitalists and railroad
magnates are said to be interested in the
movement
There is talk of the Canadian Pacific
securing terminals at New Whatcom
Wash
The Illinois Central has appropriated
1530000 for additional equipment Thir
ty new locomotives are in the order
1L FEKING IS VBm
AFTER MONTHS
SIEGE IS RAISED
OF PERIL
of Brf
Garrison
Baden Powells
the Boer Cordon
Soldiers Freed from
Them Since
Surrounded
Which Has
the Opening of the War
Advices reached Sydney S
of MM
announcing the relief
Friday received with cn
The news was
king and the uo
thusiastic demonstrations
eminent proclaimed a A specg
dispatch from Lorenzo SJf
arrived there aereu
last 500 refugee who
not exceed iOO wnac il uu
lb con
is purely a matter of conjecture
parison London fears it is a mere handful
and the reports of the various battles
and skirmishes give color to this appro
hension Bulletins of British vc ones
accompanied ith U t
have always been
of casualties more or less large
A sample of the British sorties was the
one on the day after Christmas Under
the soldiers
Vernon
the leadership of Captain
diers fought their way up to the entrance
to the Boer trenches True they were
repulsed and their loss was disastrously
small but the
heavy to a garrison so
courage displayed in the daring charge
to the defenders
was alike an inspiration
of the city and an object lesson to the
besiegers
Attacks in force prior to the final unr
availing attempt May 12 were made by
the Boers on Oct 31 Feb 17 and March
30 The first one was of only one day s
duration but the other two each contin
ued for two days The most disastrous
one for the garrison was the battle in the
closing days of March when according
to advices from British sources nearly
everv officer in the city was wounueu
The defense of Mafeking by the heroic
Britisn garrison under Col Baden PowelL
will live in history Individual valor was
even more markedly displayed than
Ieotive bravery Courage in battle was
coupled with endurance under privation
which it has been said has as a parallel
in the annals of the British army only
the indomitable resistance at theSiege
of Lucknow Fever and famine were
foes even more persistent than were the
Afrikanders
Under almost continuous bombardment
and frequently called upon to repel at
tacks in forqe the garrison was never
surprised The soldiers slept beside their
arms and in this case the expression is
literally correct Night alarms were fre
quent and the response was as prompt
as if the men had already been lined up
in expectation of battle Strengthening
of courage was the only sequel to grad
ual weakening of numbers from the lire
of the enemy without or the ravages of
disease within
BOOMING THE WEST
Railroads Expect to Build 200 New
Towns in the Near Future
Railroads centering in Chicago are
booming the territory between Lake
Michigan and the Kocky Mountains and
it is expected that 200000 will be added
to the population in the next eighteen
months Pamphlets stating plainly the
resources and advantages of the West are
being distributed throughout Europe as
well as in our own New England and At
lantic coast States at the expense of the
transportation companies New towns
are being staked out along the lines of all
the railroad extensions The number of
aew towns that will appear on the maps
of the West within the next year or
those to which from COO to GOO new popu
lation is to be added already number 173
Before 1902 it is believed this number
will exceed 200 Areas neglected in the
past while trunk lines were building are
receiving the closest attention from rail
road land commissioners and traffic man
agers
The railroads know that with new set
tlements there will be increased freight
business and the carrying of passengers
between local points will add immensely
to their revenues Where the companies
own the land on which they locate a town
they are giving away free of charge a
site for a public school and another for
a church The Northwestern road has
40000 acres of unsold land in South Da
kota and 70000 acres in soutnwestern
Minnesota This ranges in value from 4
to 15 per acre In Wisconsin and Mich
igan the Chicago Milwaukee and St
Paul road has between G00O0O and 700
000 acres of what was once classified as
worthless land which it claims now is ex
ceedingly rich and well suited for timothy
hay celery and sheep raising The lanVl
sells for about 750 an acre The Santa
Fe is booming the southwest and the
opening up of new lines has already re
sulted in the location or development of
eighty new towns representing an in
crease in population of fully 25000 The
Northwestern Pacific is doing similar
work in the far northwest It has opened
up twenty new towns with a population
exceeding 10000 The Great Northern
is developing the unsettled portions of
northern Dakota and is about to open
fifteen new towns with a population of
8000
Telegraphic Brevities
Business part of Hartsville Tenn
burned Loss 100000
Nortons fertilizing plant Washington
was damaged 00000 by fire
A Chicago company will buy 300 acres
of timber land in the Philippines
Little Eock Ark Traction Company
has been placed in the hands of a re
ceiver
Chicago police are looking for the acid
thrower who throws the liquid on wom
ens dresseg as they pass along the
streets -
The villa of Mr and Mrs W S
Wells of New York in Newport was
destroyed by fire The loss will reach
200000
Mrs Potter Palmer will entertain dur
ing the Paris exposition in the house of
the Marquis de Montgomery near the
Trocadero paying for it 4000 a month
rental
Gen French is known as Silent
French The now famous cavalry lead
er started his career on the deck of a
man-of-war abandoned it for the infan
try and on leaving this entered the cav
airy branch of the service
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