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TUESDAY, JULY 6. 1897.
The Northwestern railway is
about to put upon tlie market refunding-
bonds to tbe amount of
one hundred million dollars,
drawing- three per cent interest.
These bonds are issued for the pur
pose of taking1 up other bonds
drawing interest at the rate of 5.68
per cent. These three per cent
bonds have already been contracted
for, which is evidence that there is
plenty of ready money in this and
other countries.
Senator Allen introduced in
the senate a few days ago a bill
prepared by the war department to
provide for the instruction of the
militia, attaching a section calling
upon the secretary of war to con
centrate at Omaha between June
and November, 189S. 30 per cent of
the militia of the United States and
30 per cent of the regular army for
the purpose of drill and instruction,
and to defray the expenses of this
mobilization he asks congress to
appropriate 53,500,684.
That long expected drop in the
price of high grade bicycles has at
last arrived, and 'OU can now buy
for 575 a wheel which has hereto
fore cost an even hundred. The
drop in the price of standard wheels
will cause the manufacturers of
cheaper wheels to also reduce their
prices, and later in the season a
pretty good wheel can be bought
for thirty dollars. It is believed
that next year the high-grade wheel
will be of the chainless order, and
this probably accounts for the drop
in the price of the 1S97 standard.
In last week's issue of his people's
party paper Thos. E. Watson
charges that the fusiouists have
entered into a compact to deliver
the populist vote to the democrats
in 1900, and that the $1,500 recent
ly contributed to the populist fund
by Mr. Bryan out of the proceeds
of his "book sales is the first instal
ment of the purchase money. His
editorial concludes as follows: "We
could wish that Mr. Bryan had
kept his money in his pocket. He
.has made a mistake just as he
made a mistake when he joyously
rushed a telegram ot congratula
tion to McKinley. How such a de
voted champion of the people could
find it in his heart to rejoice at the
election of the representative of the
goldbugs and corporations we have
not yet been able to comprehend.
But having thrown out these re
marks we recur to our question,
Why have the fusion pops taken
Bryan's money if they are not under
obligation to deliver him the popu
list vote in 1900.?"
STEBBINS OPPOSED TO FUSION.
Kearney Daily Hub.
A political party without a valid
cause for action had better keep out
of the court of public opinion. No
fusion party can have any other ex
cuse for existence than that of a
desire to capture the offices. No
good nor permauent results can
ever accrue from continued fusion.
Pusionists can not fight for prin
ciple. It is impossible to fuse prin
ciples opposed to each other.'
Such were the words of Lucien
Stebbius to a Hub man FridaT, in
.reply to a question as to whether
he favored fusion in Nebraska be
tween populists and democrats.
Mr. Stebbins is the populist repre
sentative from North Platte, and
he was in the city enroute to Kan
sas City. Mr. Stebbins is a popu
list of the old school.and perhaps did
as much or more to organize the
party iu western Nebraska than
any other one man. He was a pop
ulist before such a party was ever
thought of, and correct historians
in hisown home call him the4,father
of populism." Strange to say,
however, the party up there has on
different occasions refused to recog
nize the person almost individually
responsible for its being. A year
ago he desired the nomination for
representative. The party wanted
some body to lead a forlorn hope
and they concluded to offer Mr.
Stebbins as a sacrifice. He got out
and made the campaign alone, driv
ing over the country with an old
gray horse and rickety buggy talk
ing to the farmers everywhere he
met them.
He went down to Lincoln expect
ing to be able to accomplish some
thing for his district. He was a
straight out populist and he found
himself the center of one of the
smallest minorities on record. He
accomplished nothing and when he
returned home 'this spring he con
fided a secret to a North Platte
paper. The secret was that he
feared one-half of the populist party
would be in the penitentiary before
the next election.
Mr. Stebbins is opposed to fusion
anl says the only way the populists
can win is to put up a straight
ticket and fight the campaign on
the issues laid down in the Omaha
platform.
He says there are undoubtedly
good men in all parties, but he
finds that the good men elected to
office are in the minority. He
thinks it impossible tor the masses
of the people to control a party's
organization, and thinks the ring
sters and disreputable will continue
to sneak into office in spite ot all
precautions that can be used. t
NOTES ABOUT EUROPE.
Facta Political, Medical, Military, WsSl,
Financial and Otherwise
Italy is apparently doomed to linsc
fortune in connection with everything1
that sho undertakes in Africa. Two eSw
peditions recently dispatched info the
interior from the northeast coast of the
dark continent have been massacred by
the natives, and now there is a fresh
deadlock between Italy and Abyssinia
in conseqnenco of a dispnto withTregetra
to the correct interpretation of the stip
ulations of the recent treaty of peace
which couclnded the war between the
two countries. Tho Abyssiuiaus insi'si
on one meaning and the Italians upoji
another, and inasmuch as the recent
conflict between the two nations origi
nated precisely in a disptfto of this char
acter tho outlook is regarded at Ronio
with a considerable amount of anxiety.
An international conference on lep
rosy will take place in Berlin in Octo
ber and will remain in session at tho
offices of the imperial health depart
ment from Oct. 11 to Oct. 16. The prin
cipal purpose of the congress is to bring
about an international agreement for
the scientific treatment of leprosy and
it will be attended by tho leading ex
perts and specialists of Great Britain,
Prance, Russia, India, Japan antS Italy.
Tho plaguo which has receutly been
raging with so much virulence in In
dia, and especially at Bombay, has
now reached Jiddah, which is tho sea
port and landing placo of pilgrimg from
all parts of the world for Mecca and
Medina, tho holy places of Islam. This
is very serious, as it is now almost cer
tain that the plague wiM bo spread iy
the returning pilgrims to the four quar
ters of the gloho. True, tho Ottoman
authorities are stated to have increased,
and elaborated tho quarantine precau
tious at Jiddah, hut orientals 'are so
careless about such matters and eo in
different even to tho most elementary
rules and regulations of sanitation that
no reliance can be attached to anything
that the sultan's medical authorities
may do or not do in the matter.
No more striking illustration of tho
relatively bloodless character of the re
cent Turco-Grcciau war can bo given
than that afforded by the official returns
recently issued, according to which the
number of prisoners taken by the rival
armies amounted to 200 men each., while
in the Greek hospitals there has through
out the campaign not been a single
Greek soldier treated for a saber, bayo
net or lauco wound, tho only injuries
being those inflicted by rifle bullets or
by the explosion of shells. This is equiv
alent to a demonstration that there was
no hand to hand fighting aud thathe
troops never really came to close quar
ters throughout the struggle.
A letter ha3 just reached thegov.arncr
general at Algeria from the governor of,
the French colony of Senegal byay of
Timbuktu. The dispatch was casrr&I
by Arab couriers on dromedaries, nn&ft
constitutes the first known instance o
record of Europe and official comHinwr
cations having traversed the great Sa-V
hara desert.
According to news received in Eu
rope, the Japanese seem bent on ruining
all trade aud industry iu Pormesa, for
they have applied to the island tbesauio
barbarous and uncivilized law that pre
vails iu Japan prohibiting foreigner
from living anywhere in the interior,
restricting them to certain seaports on
the coast. Iu Formosa the whole of the
trade aud industry is in the hand? of
tho Chinese, who number nearly 4,000,
000 and who are now being expelled as
fast as possible from tho interior.
A great sensation has been created at
Odessa, and, indeed, throughout south
ern Russia, by tho announcement that
the Rev. D. V. Ford, the well known
ohaplaiu of tho Anglo-American church
at Odessa, has committed suicide for no
known cause by hanging himself in the
sacred building, which is not to be used
for divine service again until it has
been solemnly reconsecrated by a bishop
sent out from England for tho purpose.
The discussion in connection with
the renewal of tho charter of the Bank
of France, which has just been prolong
ed by tbe national legislature until the
end of 1920, has brought to light tho
measures that wcro adopted during the
war of 1870 for tho preservation of the
specie and valuables confided to tho
care of tho institution to the extent of
over $100,000,000. It Eeems that tho
whole of this treasure was packed into
some 25,000 cases, marked ' 'explosive
projectiles," and was shipped by rail
to Brest, where it was "cached" in such
a manner in the arsenal that, had even
the Germans captured the port, the;
would never havo discovered the hiding
place. Indeed, so elaborate were the
precautions adopted that neither Un
people who shipped the cases from Par
is nor those who concealed thorn a
Brest had any idea of the contents o'
the boxes.
A female tramp strode into South
Sioux City the other day. She had
a passport which set forth that she
was on her way'from Iowa to the bed
side of her sick sister at Ainsworth.
Her tale of woe lured several sub
sidiary coins from their hiding
places in the capacious pockets of
the villagers. She had her hotel
board paid and when she started
away next morning she stole sev
eral articles of value from the hotel.
She was overhauled and made to
disgorge.
VICTIM 0JT HASHEESH
PITIABLE "PLIGHT OF A ST. LOUIS
GIRL FROM ITS USE.
Sho Acquired tho Habit Whilo Ylsltinff an
Indian Camp and Is Now a Physical
Wreck Medical Men Deeply Interested.
Two years ago a blithe young girl,
vivacious, refined and healthy, now a
startling specimen of wrecked woman
hood prematurely aged, careworn and
feeblo.
Such is a brief synopsis of tho unfor
tunate transformation experienced by
tho daughter of an old and aristocratic
St. Louis family. Tho story of this
blighted life reads like a talo of fiction.
Interwoven in the sad mcital is a thread
ef romance.
For somo time past members of the
gfe. Louis medical fraternity havo been
discussing this young woman's peculiar
case. It is of rare interest from a med
ical standpoint.
The victim is a slave to Indian hemp,
a herbal drug.
Dr. Ed F. Randall, the physician in
charge of City dispensary No. 1, has
undertaken to euro tho unfortunate girl
for, notwithstanding her haggard ap
pearance, she is but a girl. Only mem
bers of tho family and interested phy
sicians know tho wholo truth. Tho
young woman's friends members of
her social set observe her debilitated
condition, but they have never known
that she is tho victim of a strangely fas
cinating drug.
Indian hemp is an herb that grows
luxuriously in Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Texas, Indian Territory and other por
tions of tho southwest. It has been in
use by the red men for many genera
tions. A'bont 18 months ago the young wom
an, whoso namo Dr. Randall declines
to divulge, went to Oklahoma to visit
relatives. She had been reared in St.
Louis, and for 18 years had known
nothing but city life. A cousin living
on a ranch near Perry, O. T., asked tho
young woman to make her a visit. Tho
invitation was accepted. Riding habits
aHd other outdoor apparel wero packed
in a big trunk. Only a few weeks pre
vious tho light hearted girl had grad
uated from school. Tho summer outing
in Oklahoma was a pleasant prospect.
"I am going to havo a grand time
will see Indians, buffalo and other wild
west sights," tho happy young girl said
to her friends who called to say goodby.
At last tho St. Louis girl found
an opportunity to see tho red men.
Frontier towns in this advanced ago
aro not really frontier towns, and
tho Indians at Perry wero very much
liko tho average white citizen in man
ner and action. This was too tame for
tho city visitor. She wanted to sec tho
Indian on his native heath, surrounded
by his own primitive environments.
Anxious to gratify her whim, tho
Epnug woman's relatives took an out
ing for a week or two. In a farm wag
on they drove abont tho country, search
ing for tho wildest spots. Crossing the
boundary lino of Oklahoma, they trav
eled into tho Indian country proper.
Thero they found scenes that were eu
ehauting to the young schoolgirl.
Ono day the tourists visited a camp
where several noted chiefs had congre
gated. The young woman complained
of headache. Ono of tho "big Injuns"
hastened to give her somo medicine. It
was Indian hemp in its native state,
just as tho Indians had gathered and
prepared it. Tho amount taken was
rather large. Immediately the headache
ceased, and tho girl experienced a de
lightful exhilaration.
Tho young woman commented upon
tfja pleasant effects of tho wonderful
medicine. Thus flattered, the Indians
gave her a large quantity to carry away
&ilh her. Sho asked for information
ncerniug tho herb and was told that
ft was Indian hemp. During the re
mainder of her stay in Oklahoma sho
lpt herself happy by this artificial
method. When tho visitor returned to
St. Louis she still had some of the med
icine. At last the stock was exhausted.
Then she made a druggist understand
what sho wanted by showing him a
sample the last remaining allowance.
The druggist procured the weed in pre-
! pared form.
From that time forward the step to
ruin was easy. Gradnally the doses be
came larger aud larger. A greater quan
tity was required to produce the pleas
ant effect Health rapidly declining,
something had to be done. Dr. Randall
was consulted.
It was tho first case of the kind he
had ever encountered. He was interest-
1 ed, and at once made a special study of
Cannabis indica. The young woman is
now under treatment, and Dr. Randall
i hopes to restore her to health. This can
f only bo accomplished, however, b- total
I ohi-fiiiaiinn from tlir. nllnrilirr IiptIi.
Dr. Randall says that in the entire
medical history of this country there are
Twit -Tow? r-nt-pt! nf similar PTCPKS. Ill the
; orient the use of the herb is more com-
mon than morphine eating in America.
It is estimated that iu India alone thero
' aro over 3,000,000 victims of tho hash
1 cesh habit A small portion of the prep
aration produces increase of appetite
and cheerfulness. Larger doses produce
hallucinations, delirium and sometimes
' catalepsy. Tho properties of the drug
were known to the assassins, n set of
military and religious fanatics who
! flourished in Persia and Syria during
the eleventh century. When the leaders
wanted an enemy removed they intoxi
i cated a devotee with hasheesh, a prep
aration of Cauuabis indica, tho botanic
al name of the plant known there as In-
J dian hemp, while that grown hero is
known as Apccyuum canuabinum. From
the name of the drug so employed the
'. English term assassin is derived.
J The excessive use of the Indian herb
destroys the sensibility of the lungs,
stomach and other vital organs, and if
the habit is persistently followed the
j victim soon becomes an absolute phys
ical wreck. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Third Time Married at Ninety.
j Considerable interest was created in
Kankakee, Ills., by the marriago lately
of Joseph Dupnis, a wealthy French-
, Canadian, 90 years old, to Miss Joseph
ine Huucau, a comely maidenof 38.
! Mr. Dupuis has teen a familiar figure
iu Kankakco many years, where ho is
known by the French equivalent of Tom
. Thumb, cn account of his diminutive
stature. He is only 4 feet tall, his wife
standing a head and a half above him.
j This is the third marriago for Mr.
Dupuis. His second wife has enly been
. dead two months, tho present Mrs. Du-
' puis having been her servant
" Six sons and a daughter of Mr. Du
" 1 - i it Al-
puis odjccc iu mu maiuu.
Mri Dupuis was born near St John's,
Canada. His parents and three brothers
were of usual, staturo and lived to be
very old. Ir his youth the short French
man was a horse jockey and rode some
years in France and England. His sav
ings enabled him to purchase valuable
farming land in Bourbonnais, where he
settled in 1854. His fortune is estimated
at $50,000. A good share of it has been
settled upon the new Mrs. Dupuis.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
He Was Attacked by a Python.
Walter Fox, aged 19, is an attendant
in a Tremont row (Boston) museum.
Recently bo started to help tho keeper
of a python givo the snako a bath.
The snake was in an ugly humor and
seemed ready for a fight.
In spite of their care the python reared
his head, made a spring at Fox, his jaws
wide open, and his teeth sank into the
youth's arm at the bleeps.
Tho keeper attracted tho snake's at
tention for a second, when it relaxed its
grip, and Fox made a leap from the
cage.
The snake soon quieted down and
crawled to a corner of tho cage.
Fox's arm was badly lacerated. At
the hospital the arm was found to con
tain two of tho serpent's teeth, that had
been set into .the bone and had bean
broken off when tho young man
wrenched his arm away. Exchange
Gcncrons Treatment of Employees.
A largo Loudon firm has secured for
tho eutiro season a commodious and
well furnished detached house at Wal-ton-on-the-Naze,
where every one of its
hundreds of factory hands and ware
house staff will bo accommodated in
batches of 30 at a time with a fort
night's free- board and lodging, in addi
tion to receiving a present of three
weeks' wages. Moreover, on June 21
and 22 the works. wero closed, and to
each of tho workers was presented
three days' pay.
HERE AND THERE.
Insanity is increasing in Ireland.
English statisticians say that ono seri
ous cause cf lunacy is the abuse of tea,
another an ovcrindulgenco in alcohol, a
third the disappointment of having tried
emigration and failed.
Daughters ct the American Revolu
tion in Maine are endeavoring to col
lect Revolutionary arms which Massa
chusetts gave to Maine when she became
a state, in 1820, and were sold by the
state in tho sixties.
Lady Aberdeen presided at the con
vention of the national council of wom
en of Canada recently held-in Halifax.
A- company of men and some officers
of the British ship Intrepid were taken
recently from Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexico by tho English colony of the
capital city, at an expense of 3,000,
and gav5 concerts there which captured
the town.
Tamworth castle, the homo of tho
Marmion?, hereditary champions of
England, offered by its latest possessor,
the Marquis Towushend, at,auction, was
bid in receutly by the corporation of tho
town for $15,000.
According to a calculation which
ought to Le well informed. Dr. Nansen
will make about 150,000 out of his
arctic book. So far editions have ap
peared iu England, America and Ger
many. Miss Mary Angola Dickens, a grand
daughter of the famous novelist, has
written a new stor" and called it "The
Lovo That Wins."
Inquest on a Small Dead Dog:.
An inquest was held recently before
Judge Stiner in New York to determine
the cause of the death of Cliqnot, a
blue and tan terrier which perished un
der suspicions circumstances on Feb. 7
at the ago of 4 mouths. Tho proceed
ing took the form of a suit for 99 dam
ages, brought by Burton Harley, Cli
quot's owner, against Samuel K. John
son, tho proprietor of tho New York
Veterinary hospital.
Mr. Harley, who was onco a min
strel, but now raises dogs, said that
Cliquot's appetite fell off in February
and an eruption broke out on .him. He
took him to the hospital, where Dr. Ro
senkranz gave him a prescription con
taining arsenic, opium and two ounces
of uux vomica. He was directed to give
the pup three spoonfuls a day of the
mixture. The druggist advised him to
givo only half a dose. He administered
half a spoonful. Cliqnot was seized
with tremors, and in one minute was
dead. Harley thinks the mediciuo did
it. The defense contended that distem
per caused death. New York Herald.
Cannot Drive Him From Blnshrooms.
Representative Updegraff of Iowa no
longer wears boots. Since tho paragraph
about his footgear appeared recently he
has been so pestered with funny remarks
that in self defense he has taken to
wearing shoes. But nothing could drive
Mr. Updegraff to relinquishing his de
votion to the mushroom. Out in Iowa
he is known as "Toadstool Tom." He
knows every variety of mushroom from
the plain black and white variety to the
gorgeous orauge colored beauty that
springs up in a night in tho dark, dank
woods. As for distinguishing between
the edible mushroom and the poiEonons
toadstool, which is so difficult to incs
people, Mr. fjpdcgraff can tell tho dif
ference with his eyes shut. Exchange.
Into Fntnrity.
lis an era of achievement. Wc have had the
telephone.
In spite of nil the doubt and the derision that
were shown
The genius of progression plodded on without
dismay
And mechanic, linked with lightning, took
control and came to stay.
Twes the lifting of a kettle lid that showed
the power of steam
And mucin ; the locomotive more substantial
than a dream,
And who shall say what mighty things may
not be swept in reach
When the member from Hawaii takes the floor
to make a speech?
There arc problems which we've handled up
to date with scant success.
If tho' new state docs no more with them, it
scarcely can do less.
'Tis said a distant view oft makes relation
ships moie clear
Than a microscopic study through a glass
that's held tco near.
Perhaps these niyst'ries of "hard times" liko
"clouds will clear away
When the mr.ii from Honolulu takes the case
in hand tome day.
New hope, at all events, will hang on what he
has to Kach
When the member Tr cm Hawaii takes tho floor
to irate a speech. ,
Washington Star.
MET MANY DANGEKS.
1XCITING ADVENTURES OF TWO BI
CYCLISTS IN THE MOHAVE DESERT.
Chased bjr a Bui,!, Menaced by Battle
snakes and Gila Monsters Narrowly
Escaped Death at the Hands of Banditti.
J. D. Maxfield of Los Angeles, cross
ing tho continent on a bicycle, reached
Denver recently. He plugged across tho
Arizona deserts and through the New
Mexican mountains, taking the railroad
tracks for nearly tho entiro distance.
When he started from Los Angeles, he
was accompanied by D. V. Hearn, hut
the latter stopped at Trinidad to go on
down into Kansas and work. Maxfield
is a nephew of President Bates, tho
well known writer of hicycle stories.
He left Los Angeles April 19 and has
taken his time to the trip. He crossed
tho Mohave desert from end to end on
his wheel. When holeft Los Angeles,
ho had claimed records of four men who
said they had ridden across the desert,
but when ho got out in the sands at ev
ery section house they told him the oth
er fellows had crossed it in the cars. Ho
then provided himself with a little book
and took the affidavits of every section
man he passed that he had ridden the
whole way.
The bane of the ride was rattlesnakes
and Gilaymonsters. One night tho two
tried to go after dark, and, whilo work
ing along the track, heard the ominous
rattle of a snako ahead. They came to a
dead halt and peered into the darkness.
The rattle could bo heard, but the source
whence it came could only bo con
jectured. The boys slipped down tho
hank and around where he lay, listen
ing intently at every step for another
warning signal from another direction,
but that was tho last night they tried
to ride after dark.
Another tremor was sent through
their frames when in another camp two
hoboea who had been sleeping on the
ground awoke in the morning to find
their blankets shared by a Gila monster.
Thereafter the boys would take their
blankets in the recesses beneath water
tanks, in outbuildings and anywhere
but tho hot ground.
Three weeks were occupied in cross
ing the desert, meals being taken at sec
tion houses. Not many years ago sec
tion house people in tho desert refused
to feed travelers, but orders were issued
compelling thrm to do eo. Sinco that
time a high tariff has prevailed, but it
has been possible to procure meals. Tho
usual price is 50 cents, and in some in
stances $1 is demanded. Near the bound
ary lino between Arizona and New
Mexico tho travelers espied a large
mountain 1:on sneaking along a hill.
He was in pursuit of several cows and
paid no attention to tho bicyclists. Sev
eral wildcats were seen in rocky places,
but they always sneaked out of sight.
Tho terrors cf the ride were varied in
New Mexico. Near San Jose, at a littlo
placo called Rio Pcrco, on a river cf
tho samo oiame, a largo herd of cattle
were spread out on both sides of the
track. The ordinary cow or steer would
eyo the travelers for a timo and then
bolt as if shot out of n gun. Tho only
danger was when tho herd was on both
sides of the track. The minuto ono
started all started, and they ran in the
same direction. If the cattlo on tho
wrong side of tho track did not havo
proper room to get by tho wheels, thero
might bo damage.
But at this particular placo a mon
strous old bull was willing to stand for
hi3 rights. Tho boys bad been chased
several times by bulls cf a liko temper,
but had each time sprinted from dan
ger. Here they were caught on a rough
track with a long way lo a safe place.
Mr. Eull scraped several limes in tho
dirt to work up his mad and then
charged. He was about 800 yards away
when ho. started, and half vauished in
a littlo draw on the way over, but he
camo out of that on the jump, his eyes
rolling aud his tail lashing. Half the
distance done, he fell to a trot and
threw up his head to take another view
of his prey. Then ho ducked his head
and started on a business drive. Max
field met him as he came tho last 50
yards with a bullet square iu the head.
The old fellow stopped, staggered and
fell. The boys mounted their wheels
and resumed their ride without ascer
taining the extent of his wounds.
In the Glcrirttn canyon thoy met an
other species of danger. It is the conn
try infested by a gang of Mexican ban
ditti, who rob aud then kill that tho
robbery may not be traced to them. The
boys noticed two Mexicans on horseback
following them, who were afterward
joined by two others. The Mexicans
then rode cn ahead and camo down by
the railroad. The boys avoided them by
a detour and a "duck" past somo low
hills to the next station. They slept in
a little station house and piled up t very
available article of furniture against the
door. Neither slept during the night, and
near midnight they heard some one try
ing to push the door open. In the morn
ing they made haste to get out of tho
country. In ihe Jest year or two eight
men have been robbed and murdered in
the San Miguel canyon near Glorietta
pass, and the boys firmly believe tho
gang were after them.
Mr. Maxfield, after remaining in Den
ver a few days, proceeded to Michigan,
his old home. Denver Daily News.
Found a Miser's Secret Treasure.
Amelia Voight, an aged widow, died
recently alone and without medical at
tendance in a shanty in Jersey City.
Mrs. Voight was GO years old. She
had been a resident of Jersey City 34
years and had lived a decade in the
shanty In which sho died. She was gen
erally supposed to be very poor, and
when shotlied only 13 cents was found
in her pocketbook.
Her brothers, Frank Hellringle of
Griggstown and Theodore Hellringle of
New York, searched the shanty after
her burial aud found two bankbooks
showing bank deposits of over $15,000.
Tho money will go to her brothers.
Trappist mouks of a monastery in
Dubuque county, la., who havo hereto
fore had a prior sent to them from
Mount Meleray abbey in Ireland, havo
acquired the right to elect an abbot and
have chosen the Rev Father Alberic.
Three Berlin artists, Max Lieber
mann, the head of tho naturalistic
school; Richard Friese, the animal
painter, and Peter Breuer, the sculptor,
wcro recently the recipients of the large
gold medal for distinction in art con
ferred by Kaiser Wilhelm this year.
HE WAS REAL NICE.
This Telegraph Clerk, and Sho Intends to
Patronize Illm Inclusively.
She sailed into the telegraph office at
Fonrtb aud Vine streets, Cincinnati,
recently and rapped on tho receiving
clerk's window. Tho receiving clerk
remembered that she had been there
about teu minutes beforo as ho camo
forward to meet her. Ho wondered
what sho wanted this timo.
"Oh," sho said, "let mo havo that
telegram I wrote just now. I forgot
something very importaut. I wanted to
underscore tho words 'perfectly lovely'
in acknowledging tho receipt of that
bracelet. Will it cost anything extra?"
"No, ma'am," said the clerk as he
handed her the message.
The young lady drew two heavy lines
beneath tho words and said :
"It's awfully good of you to let mo
do that. It will please Charlio so much. "
"Don't mention it," said tho clerk,
"If you would like, I will put a f efw
drops of nico violet extract on the tele
gram at the same rates."
"Ob, thank you, sir. You don't
know how much I would appreciate it.
I'm going to send all my telegrams
through this office, you are so obliging."
And tho smile she gave him would
have dono any one good to havo seen,
with the possible exception of Charlie.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Sculptor Returns to America.
Mr. Thomas Ball, tho sculptor, who
has resided in Florence, Italy, for tho
last 30 years, returned lately to Ameri
ca aud intends to spend the rest of
his life in Now York. Mr. Ball, al
though in his seventy ninth year, is
still full cf vigor and enthusiasm and
does not consider his career finished by
any means. He is a native of Boston,
where several of his works may be
seen, notably his bronzo figures of
Charles Sumner and Josiah Qnincy, his
marble statno of John A. Andrew and
his equestriau statue of Washington.
Ho is represented here in Central park
by hi3 colossal bronzo of Webster. Wash
ington has his "Lincoln Freeing tho
Slave." Ho also made tho bronze fig
uro of P. T. Baruum for Bridgeport
and that of Edwin Forrest for tho For
rest home, near Philadelphia.
During tho last seven years Mr. Ball
has been at work on a Washington mon
ument for Mr. Edward F. Searles, who
intends to present it to Methueu, Mass.,
his nativo town. It is to be put iu placo
some time this year. New York Her
aid.
Overexertion In Bicycling-.
Dr. Albn recently made an interest
ing communication to the Berlin Med
ical society on certain effects produced
on the heart aud other internal organs
by overexertion in cycle races. His con
clusions were based on the condition of
12 professional cyclists whom ho had
examined both before and af tar races
lasting from 5 to 30 minutes. The strain
thrown on the heart was shown by well
marked dyspucca and by tho strong pul
satiou of the heart aud arteries, but tho
most remarkable fact was an acute dila
tation of the heart, especially of tbe left
ventricle. This dilatation is of course
temporary, disappearing when rest has
been taken and returning cn the occa
sion of the next race. When overexer
tion is frequent, this dilatation may be
come permanent, and in a heart that
was previously weak an irreparable iu
jnry may occur. Ai:orh?r symptom was
the presence of albumen and casts in the
urine, caused by tho kidneys being irri
tated by the effort of cycling.
A Flemish George Washington.
Thero was recently in New York a
young man who bears the illustrious
name of George Washington. He hailed
from Ernssel?, the capital cf Belgium.
He is fair complexioued, good looking
and intelligent and is yet on the sunny
side cf SO. "Yes." Eaid he to an in
quiry, "my namo is George Washing
ton, and I am of tho samo stock and
family as the illustrious man who is
looked up to in the United States as tho
greatest cf all Americans. My great
grandfather was John Washington, a
half brother of General Washington. My
grandfather and father wero born in
England, and my father married a Bel
gian lady. This is my second visit to
America. I am a great lover cf this
country and hope some day to become a
citizen of tho United States."
Want to Smelt IlrJtisli Columbia Ores.
It is the intention of Otto Mears and
SimouGugg nheim, the prominent rail
road and smelter men of Colorado, to at
tempt to bring the mineral output of the
northwest to tho smelters of that state.
For this purpose Mr. Mears left recently
for British Columbia, and he will 13
joined at Spokane by Mr. Guggenheim.
The two capitalists will then proceed to
the Kootenai and other districts of the
northwest and afterward travel through
Washington, Montana and Idaho, with
the intenticn of turning ihe ores in the
direction of Colorado.
Bicycle and lloss.
I saw 'em goin up the read lilccilashin streaks
o' light,
An I didn't blamo my good olo bay fur shyin
at tho sight,
An in the distance rainglin
Bells an laughter hep' a jinglin
Till, tcr tell the truth, I felt a heap more en
vious than polite.
The bay, lie tried ter ketch 'em, but a wreath
o dusty cloud
Was all that in the distance told tho presenco
o' the crowd,
An I says ter him, "Olefcller, 'tain't nouso o'
arguing;
The boss is a back number an the bicycle's tho
thing."
'Twus jes' a bit 'foro twilight when thorn
people come along.
They wus goin home on foot. 'Twus plain tbet
suthin liad gone wrong.
The broken bottle scattered
By some tramps their hopes had shattered.
I never see a more dejected, weary lookin
throng.
They all sung "Home, Sweet Horns." I har
nessod up an took 'em there.
An when they gladly paid two dollars each by
way o' faro
The ole hay winked one car at mo an tried his
l)est to say,
"Tho bicycle ain't in it, an the boss is hero ter
stay." r
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SHE CAME OUT AHEAD.
Woman Excels Her Male Rival For Office
Under Secretary Gage.
Woman doesn't always get tho worst
of it in tho government departments.
Miss Lillian Pike of Arkansas, a clerk
in tho offico of tho coast and geodetio
aurvey, has just distinguished herself
by defeating tho brightest young man
in the office in a difficult mathematical
examination.
Recently Secretary Gage needed an
expert mathematician To perform cer
tain duties in tho treasury. A young
man in tho ccast survey applied for tho
place, and so did a young woman from
the same office. Secretary Gage asked
tho chief of the survey to recommend
ono or the other of tho applicants, but
ho refused to do so on the ground that
both were equally proficient and capa
ble. The secretary then decided to ex
amine tho two clerks to determine
which should havo tho place.
The civil service commission was di
rected to conduct the examination aud
to make it as difficult as possible. Tho
young man pulled through with a per
centage cf 84, but Miss Pike got a per
centage cf 94. Sho was accordingly
given the place.
An interesting feature of this case is
that the young woman had very few in
fluential friends, but tho young man
knew several senators and congressmen,
and they all urged Secretary Gage to
give him the place. Chicago Times
Herald. Colonel Mosby and tho Virginians.
Said a Virginia politician recently:
"Poetry may be losing its hold on somo
people, but it is still pretty strong in
Virginia. A happy quotation from Byron
recently made capital for Colonel John
S. Mosby all over tho state. When it
was announced that Colonel" Mcsby
would apply to President McKinley for
an office, somo of his old opponents
opened firo on him again for going over
to tho Bepublicaus after the war aud
particularly for his always cordially ex
pressed admiration for General Grant.
It was rather poor business, and for a
time Colonel Mosby paid no attention to
it, but finally, when the hope was ex
pressed that if appointed he would not
be credited to Virginia, the colonel pre
pared a card in reply, and it appeared in
the newspapers. He reviewed briefly his
career as soldier and citizen, stood by
his guns aud remindeel his opponents
that he was no longer a. citizen of the
state. He would abide by the record, ho
said. He had done his dnty, and if "Vir
ginia chose to reject him let her, Eaid
he, quoting from 'Childe Harold:'
"Lift the laurels on a loftier brow
And bo the Spartan epitaph on me.
Sparta hath many a worthier son than he.
"Do you kuow, the colonel's grit and
his poetry caught the popular feeling,
and tho attacks on him ceased. A short
time after that came tho accident to
Colonel Mosby at Charlottesville, which
cost him an eye, and sympathy was er
pressed for him in every qnarter. The
Virginians like sentiment, anel that bit
from Byron, grittily applieel, did tho
work for Mosby 's enemies." New
York Tribune.
Holland's new franchise laws, under
which elections have just been held,
have resulted in an overwhelming vic
tory for tho Catholic party. Tho Catho
lics, it may be added, are committed to
a protectionist policy and are strongly
opposed to the attempts which are be
ing made by the government just de
feated at tho polls to introduce iuto tho
kingdom obligatory military service.
The Russian minister of the interior,
acting under instructions from the czar,
has alleviated the severity of tho press
laws in all tho larger towns and cities
of the empiro in fact, wherever tho
population is over 100,000 by exempt
ing the newspapers from tho obligation
of submitting all articles on political
subjccis to the censor before publica-
:im Hifhurfrn nultr n fnt rf fha hm.
jijal papeTrs at St. Petersburg, Moscow,
Warsaw and Odessa havo enjoyed this
mmtrnity. New York Tribune.
They Were Patriotic Paupers.
The paupers in the city cf Cork
workhouse declined to eat a special
meat dinner provided for them in cele
bration of the jubilee. Ordinarily work
house faro rarely includes meat, but tho
patriotic feelings of theso poor people
prevented them from participating even
iu that way in commemoration of tho
queen's record reign. To remove their
objections they wcro assured that tho
meat had been sent from New Zealaud
nnd Australia by their own kith and
kin, but the Cork paupers only replied
that they would have no part iu honor
ing Queen Victoria in any way what
ever as long as Ireland is ruled as it
now i.
The harmony of n
"woman's life depends
upon the perfect ac
cordance of her mental
with her physical
beingj. All the
emotions of love
anel marriage and
motherhood have
correspond t hp;
physical attributes
in the delicate
special organism
of her sex. If
these intricate
functions are dis
turbed by weak
ness and disease
her whole nature
is
,if of timf More women's lives aro
made discordant and full of suffering
v. nnp cause than there is nnv
tiuui b
need of. These delicate complaints are
not a necessity of womanhood, nor 13 it
necessary for modest women lo undergo
the repugnant and general!' useless
methods of treatment so common with
physicians.
All lormi, 01 "lemaie conrpiainc- are
cured in the only natural, scientific way
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