AS TO BULGARIA
WILL WAIT TWO DAYS AND
THEN TAKE ACTION.
A CONFLICT SEEMS AT HAND
Little Nation, at Whatever Cost, Will
Cast Lot with Persecuted Chris
tians of Macedonia—Will Protect
the Women and Children.
LONDON—Disquieting rumors come
from Vienna and elsewhere regarding
teh Balkan crisis and whilst it is im
possible to confirm the more sensa
tional statements, here is accumula
tion of evidence that some violent so
lution cannot long be delayed.
The Sofia correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph sends, under Satur
day's date, another long dispatch
warmly defending Bulgaria’s patient
and quixotic attitude of loyalty toward
the porte and the powers denouncing
Europe's indifferences to the wiping
out of a large Christian community.
He says: "Bulgaria has displayed
unexemapled moderation. Her last
urgent request to the powers was that
they should compel Turkey to suppress
the uprising by legitimate methods of
warfare, but to spare women and chil
dren from indignities and massacres.
But even this, Christian Europe has
refused and Prince Ferdinand's gov
ernment, having fully considered the
question and aware of the disastrous
consequences with which the powers
threaten Bulgaria if she Intervenes,
has decided that she cannot longer
neglect her sacred duty to prevent the
Christian population being done to
death. In a couple of days more the
die will he cast and Bulgaria will do
her duty. An official communication
will be made to the powers in the
above indicated time, and forthwith
me necessary measures will ne taken
and only countermanded If the pow
ers Immediately intervene. This is
Bulgaria's last word. The moral re
sponsibility will fall upon Christian
Europe, even if the material conse
quences have to be endured by Bul
garia."
A dispatch from Constantinople to
the Standard says large forces are be
ing collected to the north and north
west of Constantnople, where, in the
event of war, tho first fighting is ex
pected to occur, and, though allusions
to any plan of compalgn is strictly
censured, It may be assumed that Ger
man advice during recent years had
not left Turkey unprepared this time.
From Vienna comes the semi-official
statement that Austria has again pro
posed to the powers to admonish Bul
garia, but that so far nothing has
come of the proposition.
LEAK FROM THE GRAND JURY.
Indictments in the Pastal Cases Were
Tipped Off.
WASHINGTON — Information has
come to light which seems to Indi
cate that Issac S. McGiehan and Jo
seph S. Huntington, members of the
Columbia Supply company, were giv
en advanco information of the indict
ments returned against them by the
federal grand jury here last Tuesday,
and have temporarily gotten out of
the way.
It was said that word was received
here early Friday morning, six hours
before the indictments were made
public, that these men were wanted
lo this city to answer charges of brib
ery. It Is said that both these men
disappeared from New York before
the warrants could be served on them.
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Tornado Strikes Oklahoma.
GUTHRIE, Okla.—A tornado struck
tho vicinity of Bloomington, in south
western Oklahoma, Sunday, doing ex
tensive damage. The residence of
Mrs. Sarah Carter was destroyed, the
woman and her eldest daughter being
injured. Two children were blown i
across a barb wire fence into a pas
ture. Buildings on the farms of
Frank Allen, John Push and William
Herndon were also completely de
stroyed.
Heavy Snow in Yellowstone Park.
YELLOWSTONE PARK — Six
inches of snow on the level have fall
en throughout Yellowstone Park dur
ing the last forty-eight hours.
Well Known German Dead.
MILWAUKEE—Dr. Ernest Nantke,
aged 40 years, professor of chemistry
and conductor of a brewers’ school
in this city, died suddenly of penu
monia.
Killed with Empty Beer Kegs.
PITTSBURG, Pa.—Late Sunday af
ternoon. at Traiford City, Tony Blier
was so badly battered up with beer
kegs that he died Id a few hours.
Blier had gone for a rest under a
cliff Just under the camp of some
Italians. The Italians took offense
at the intrusion and hurled three
empty eighth-barrel beer kegs down
on Blier’s head, crushing his skull.
Ho arrests have as yet been made.
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ATROCITIES BEYOND BELIEF.
Turks Dig Flesh from Living Woman
with Pocket Knives.
LONDON—The Daily Mail's corre
spondent at Monastlr, In a dispatch
dated September 6, claims that him
self, the British vice consul, MacGreg
or, and an American missionary nam
ed Bond, are the Intended victims
of Turkish revenge because they re
ported the Turkish atrocities. If their
murder could be compassed, It would
be fathered upon the Bulgarians.
The correspondent describes further
atrocities by soldiers. In one case
they flayed a little girl’s head, while
in another they dug the flesh from
under a woman’s arms with pocket
knives in order to see tho working of
her lungs.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
Daily Mail, dated September 10, says
the porte telegraphed to Washington
asking to have the American squad
ron recalled from Beirut, but the re
quest wab refused. Minister Leish
man declared that it. would remain un
til the departure of the late vail, Res
hid Pasha.
8T. LOUIS FAIR THREATENED.
Westinghouse Strike May Tie Up Im
portant Work.
PITTSBURG, Pa.—The strike at the
Kast Pittsburg plant of the Westing
house Machine company threatens to
tie up Important work on the St.
Louis fair buildings.
President O'Connell of the Interna
tional Association of Machinists has
taken the matter up with President
rompers of the American Federation
of Labor. It is claimed that the sup
port of that body has been assureu
and that a meeting of the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor has been called to meet at
Washington on September 21, when
the question of calling out all union
men employed on Westinghouse con
tracts on the fair grounds will receive
consideration, providing an appeal to
be made to the Westinghouse people
in the meantime by President Gompors
is not satisfactorily answered.
FIRST DOCUMENT OF PIUS X.
Addresses Letter to Certain Cardinals
Confirming Appointments.
ROME—It has been announced that
Pius X would announce Tuesday his
first encyclical addressed to the Cath
olic hierarchy and people throughout
the world, but this was incorrect.
The pontiff published his first offi
cial document, consisting of a letter
addressed to Cardinals Vannutelll,
Rampolla, Ferrata and Yves y Tuto,
confirming their appointment by Pope
Leo, as a celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the dogma of the Im
maculate Conception. The letter,
which is brief, is followed by a prayer
to the Virgin Mary, which will ac
quire importance as being the first to
bear the signature of Plus X.
HEAVY DAMAGE TO GRAIN.
Wheat and Hay Badly Injured in
Washington.
PORTLAND, Ore.—A special to the
Oregonian from Spokane says: Re
ports of damage to the grain and hay
crops are coming in from all sections
of eastern Washington except in the
Big Bend. Few districts have not
materially suffered from rains. For
the past two weeks rain has fallen in
heavy showers nearly all day, the
drenched expanse extending from
Walla Walla county north to the in
ternational boundary and into north
Idaho. A fair estimate of the wheat
harvest is that two-thirds has been
cut. Much of this is stacked in the
fields and Is swelling from the heavy
downpour.
Plague Condition is oerlous.
MARSEILLES.—The unofficial re
ports make the plague sRuatiou seri
ous. The dead, it appears, includes
four women and one man whose
bodies were covered with bubos, leav
ing little doubt as to the nature of the
disease.
Drop Hints of Abdication.
LONDON—The Vienna correspond
ent of the Daily Mail declares that
the Hungarian political crisis has be
come so acute that the abdication of
Emperor Francis Joseph as king of
Hungary is freely discussed in the
latter country, and although no party
leader is willing to openly discuss the
probability, there is a strong feeling
in favor of Hungary’s right to choose
its own king, the candidate favored
being the German emperor’s second
spn, Prince Eitel.
To Guard Frontier Carefully.
SALONICA—Palace authorities, act
ing upon advices received here from
the Turkish minister at Belgrade
have telegraphed to the vali of Kos
siao, instructing him to guard th<
Servian frontier more carefully, be
cause the Servian revolutionary com
mittee is said to be holding meetings
at many places, and is organizinj
bands, distributing bombs and explain
ing the use of them to their follow
ers.
ACTS ONDEMAND
TURKEY REMOVE THE GOVERNOR
WHO WAS OBJECTIONABLE.
IRISHMANS PRESITCE LARCER
Cheklb Bey Says that Peace Has Beef
Established at Beyroot—City is Now
Quiet and the People Are Resuming
Business.
WASHINGTON—The following buf
letin was posted at the Navy depart
ment Friday:
"Admiral Cotton telegraphs from
Beyroot, September 10, that the gov
ernor general of Damascus has been
appointed acting governor general at
Beyroot and has expressed a desire tc
settle the case of the American vice
consul satisfactory to the United
States government. Beyroot quiet,
business improving, confidence in
creasing.”
The State department had authentic
advices that Governor General Nazim
Pasha of Damascus, who has been ap
pointed acting governor of Beyroot,
is a trustworthy and broad-minded
man, and Minister Leishman has been
instructed to advise the sublime ports
that the Washington government is
greatly pleased at the immediate
granting of its request for the removal
of the governor of Beyroot and the ap
pointment in his stead of a responsi
ble person and one favorable to for
eigners.
A long cablegram reached the State
department from Minister Leishman
on the general Turkish situation,
which has not yet been made public.
The prestige of Minister Leishman
at Constantinople has greatly in
creased since the appearance of the
European squadron off Beyroot, and
the scope of his representations to the
porte has also increased in the last
few days. It is understood our gov
ernment will push to an early conclu
sion all its pending claims against
Turkey.
c-ueaiu oey, me xuraisn minister,
was a caller at the State department
Friday, bringing further reassuring
advices that a “condition of absolute
peace has been established at Bey
root.”
CONSTANTINOPLE—The American
consul at Beyroot reports that the sit
uation there is improving, thanks to
the confidence inspired by Nazim
Pasha, who has succeeded Reshid
Pasna. Rumors of fresh outrages con
tinue t£> reach Constantinople, but
these reports are deliberately spread,
with the object of creating the impres
sion that the present situation at Bey
root was caused by the arrival there
of the United States warships.
As a matter of fact the general state
of affairs is chronic at Beyroot. In
security has prevailed there for
months.
CHARGES NOW PUBLIC.
United States Attorney Gives Names
of Men Indicted.
WASHINGTON—United States Dis
trict Attorney Beach on Friday an
nounced that the six persons named
in the seven indictments returned by
the grand jury last Tuesday are:
George W. Beavers, former chief of
the division of salaries and allowances)
postofflce department; August Machen,
former general superintendent of the
free delivery system postofflce de
partment; James W. Erwin, former
postofflce inspector, with headquarters
in San Francisco; George H. Hunting
ton and Isaac A. McGeihan, both of
New York City, owners of the Colum
bia Supply company of that city, and
Eugene D. Seheble of Toledo, O., a
dentist and interested in the firm of
Mayhury & Ellis of Detroit, Mich., let
ter box manufacturers.
Nebraska at St. Louis.
LINCOLN, Neb.—At a meeting of
the Nebraska commission for the St.
Louis exposition arrangements were
discussed with prominent exhibitors to
have entries ready for the Nebraska
exhibit at the exposition. October 18
will be Nebraska day at the fair, that
being the anniversary of the day the
first territorial governor of Nebraska
took the oth of office.
Condition of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON—Tuesday’s state
ment of the treasury balances in the
general fund, exclusive of the $150,
000,000 gold reserve in the division of
redemption, shows: Available cash
balance, $235,284,092; gold, $106,738,
142.
Spends Money in Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—General
Superintendent J. P. Young of the
Rio Grande & Western railway on
Thursday announced that the city
council of Salt Lake would be pre
sented at its next meeting with a pe
tition for necessary franchises for im
provements for the Denver & Ric
Grande system in this city, aggregat
lng nearly $1,000,000. This will in
elude the erection of a new station
to cost at least $200,000.
PENSION LIST GROWING LESS.
Beneficiaries Drop Below the Mlilion
Mark.
WASHINGTON—The annual report
of Commissioner of Pensions Ware
places the total number of pension
ers now on the rolls at 996,545, of
which 725,356 are soldiers and 267,
185 are widows and dependents. Mr.
Ware announces that it is not prob;
able that the pension roll will again
cross the million line, the high water
mark having been reached a year
ago.
Five of the pensions are on the roll
on account of the war of the revolu
tion; 1,116 of the war of 1812; 4,784
on account of Indian wars, and 13,874
on account of the Mexican war. The
average annual value of each pension
is now $133. The total annual value
of the Spanish war pension roll has
reached $1,765,310.
Commissioner Ware makes the fol
lowing recommendations: Laws for
feiting the pension or right to pension
of any man convicted in court of an
infamous crime; prohibiting the giv
ing of pensions to women who marry
soldiers after the soldiers become old
pensioners; a different method of ex
amining applicants for pensions, Mr.
Ware stamping the present system as
uncertain, unsatisfactory and of an
enormous amount of political friction.
Mr. Ware says the bureau has gain
ed on the current work 100,000 cases
during the last two years.
MONEY TO RECLAIM LAND. '
Commissioner of General Land Office
Makes Report of Cash on Hand.
WASHINGTON—W. A. Richards',
commissioner of the general land of
fice, has made public a statement
showing the amounts to the credit of
the reclamation fund from sales of
public lands in the several states and
territories during the fiscal years oi
1901, 1902 and 1903 under the provi
sions of the act of congress approv
ed June 17, 1902. It is shown that
during the present year there has
been covered into the treasury from
the proceeds of the sale of public
lands in sixteen states and territories
the sum of $8,401,493, making an ag
gregate of $16,191,836 as the total
thus far received and on deposit in
the United States treasury to the
credit of the reclamation fund. Of
this amount Nebraska contributed
during the present year $118,838, and
a total since 1901 of $354,036. Dur
ing the year 1903 South Dakota sold
lands credited to the reclamation fund
valued at $239,420, making the total
received from that state $546,982. In
Wyoming lands were sold which
brought $272,923, during the current
year, making an aggregate of $658,686
during the last three years.
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TO ENFORCE PURE FOOD LAW.
Some Foreign Goods Are to Be Shut
Out.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The agri
cultural department is making strong
efforts to keep out of the country
all imported goods, the entry of which
is prohibited under the pure food act.
Since August 1, when the act went
into effect, approximately 600 ship
ments of meats, wine, olive oil, etc.,
have been held up pending an exam
ination as to the determination of the
question whether their use Is prohib
ited in the country whence they are
imported into the United States. Up
to this time only one shipment, con
sisting of white wine, has been re
fused entry.
The special agents and consuls
abroad keep the department advised
by cable of all shipments of goods
which may come within the prohibi
tions of the law, and instructions are
sent at once to the collectors at the
ports where they are to arrive to hold
them in warehouses and send sam
ples to Washington for analysis.
TAUL MORTON AT OYSTER BAY.
President Also Hears Report on Al
leged Indian Frauds.
OYSTER BAY, L. I.—The president
entertained at luncheon Paul Morton
of Chicago, vice president of the San
ta Fe railroad sy"tem; Francis E.
Leupp of Washington, and Lieuten
ant Gordon Johnston of the army,
who was a member of the president's
regiment of Rough Riders.
Mr. Leupp, who is a Washington
newspaper correspondent, was ap
pointed by the president several
months ago as a commissioner to
make an investigation of alleged In
dian frauds in the Oklahoma territory.
He has completed his work and mad<
his report to the president.
Omaha Steer is Dead.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—A prized
shorthorn steer belonging to W. F.
Christian of Omaha passed to the hap
py hunting grounds Wednesday morn
ing. He had brought it from Omaha,
where it captured the red ribbon. A
string of red and blue ones floated
over its quar‘ers. It was taken ill
with bladder and kidney trouble in
Omaha, but appeared to have recov
ered. Tuesday night is suffered a re
lapse and died.
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:: THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. |
) I Latest Quotations Trom South T
Omaha and Kansas City. I
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SOUTH OMAHA.
CATTLE—There was a moderate supply
of cattle In sight and about the usual
conditions prevailed. Neither packers
nor feeder buyers seemed to be very anx
ious for supplies, but still they bought
up about everything offered at right
around steady prices. The few corn fed
steers that arrived sold without much
trouble at steady prices, but there was
nothing strictly choice offered. Good to
choice corn feds have been In good de
mand all the week and If anything art
a little stronger. The cow market did
not exhibit any ere at amount of life, but
prices held about steady. The feeling
seemed to be a littel better, but there
was not the strength that characterized
yesterday's market. For the week cows
are much over a dime lower as part of
the loss of the early part of the week
has been regained. Bulls, veal calves and
stags sold In just about the same notches
they have all the week. There were very
few stockers and feeders offered and
not many were wanted. The few that
did arrive sold at not far from steady
prices. Strictly choice feeders are not
much lower for the week but aside from
a few sales of that kind the general mar
ket Is safely quoted 15@25c lower. There
ware only a few western grass beef steers
offered and they sold about steady. For
the week choice stuff could safely be
quoted strong, but common grades have
shown no improvement. Range cows
held steady.
HOGS—There was not a hevy run of
hogs, but reports from other points were
not very favorable to the selling interests
and as a result the market was rather
weak. The heavy hogs sold largely from
$5.50 to $5.60, medium weights from $5.6<
to $5.75 and lightweights sold from $5.78
up to $6, the top price being paid for a
very fancy load weighing 147 pounds. This
is the first load of this kind that has'
been received this year, all the othei
fancy lightweights averaging around 200
pounds.
SHEEP—Quotations for grass stock:
Good to choice lambs, $4.65®4.85; fair tc
good lambs, $4.25@4.65; good to choice
yearlings, $3.3o(®3.50; fair to good year
lings, $3.35@3.50; good to choice wethers,
$3.25@3.40; fair to good wethers, $3.15®
3.25; good to choice ewes, $2.75®3.00; fair
to good ewes, $2.35@2.65; feeder lambs,
$3.75@4.35; feeder yearlings, $3.25®3.50;
feeder wethers, $3.00@3.25: feeder ewes,
$1.50® 2.50.
KANSAS CITY.
CATTLE—Steady to strong; native
steers, $4.4005.55; Texas and Indian steers,
$2.9003.60; Texas cows, $1.5002.45; native
cows and heifers, $1.4004.10; stockers and
feeders, $2.9004.45; bulls, $2.0003.40; calves,
$2.0005.50; western steers, $3.750 4.70; west
ern cows, $1.6002.75.
HOGS—Steady; bulk of sales, $5.9006.10;
heavy, $5.8006.00; puckers, $5.8006.10; me
dium, $6.1006.15; light, $5.9506.15; york
ers, $6.1006.15: pigs, $5.8006.10.
SHEEP—Strong; muttons, $2.6004.00;
lambs, $2.900 5.25; range wethers, $2,400
3.90; ewes, $2.3003.75.
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HOPE TO EXTRADITE HIM.
Proceedings Begun to Bring Back Leo
pold J. Stern.
WASHINGTON—This government
has instituted proceedings for the ex-,
tradition of Leopold J. Stern, the Bal
timore contractor who disappeared
when indicted by the grand jury in
this city for conspiracy in a postal con
tract and who was located recently
at Toronto, Canada. Postoffice Inspec
tor Walter S. Mayer of Chicago left
here Friday night for Toronto, where
he will confer immediately with the
crown’s attorney and the American
consul there.
The state department also tele
graphed the consul to request the au
thorities at Toronto to hold Stern un
der the provision in the extradition
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain that a fugitive can be
held by either country at the instance
>f the other for forty days. Mayer
carried certified copies of the papers
In the Stern case and other documents
“ssential.
MUST PAY THEIR FULL SHARE.
Railroads to Abolish Rates for Mer
chants’ Meetings.
CHICAGO — Railroads composing
the Central Passenger association
have practically decided to discontinue
:he practice of granting reduced
rates for merchants’ meetings, which
are now held in nearly every large cen
ter of the country. Territory covered
by the lines extends from Chicago
to Pittsburg and Buffalo on the east
and north of the Ohio river. A reso
lution, which was passed at the month
ly meeting of the association Friday,
is to the effect that in granting re
duced rates the railroads are discrim
inating against small cities and in fa
vor of the large distributing centers.
Enters on Routine Work.
SOUTHPORT, England—The Brit
ish Association for the Advancement
of Science has entered upon its regu
lar work with a large attendance.
Will Abolish Direct Taxes.
COPENHAGEN—The report of the
West Indian commission has been pub
lished. It practically coincides with
the forecast of the Associated Press'
from Berlin, August 31. The abolition
of the majority of the direct taxes and
the export duty on rum, sugar and mo
lasses are recommended. One colo
nial council for all the Danish West
Indian islands, with three represents
tives in the Danish parliament, is also
suggested.
SEA ISLAND QUEEN ,
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CLEVER WOMAN HAS ONE HUM
DRED THOUSAND SUBJECTS. ,
Through Her Own Efforts Mrs. Paul
Kolbe Has Acquired an Immense
Fortune and Civilized Fierce Tribei
of Cannibals.
One of the richest women in the
world is Mrs. Paul Kolbe, who is ft
virtual queen over 100,000 South Sea
islanders, who only a score of years
ago were among the fiercest cannibals
on earth. To her subjects she is
Known as Queen Emma, and by her
own intelligent efforts she has accum
ulated within twenty years the vast
sum of $20,000,000.
Twenty years ago Queen Emma,
upon the death of her first husband,
Edward E. Forsayth, an Englishman,
found herself not only poor but heav
ily in debt, but even then her knowf
edge of trade conditions in the west*
ern Pacific was quoted as authorita
tive, and by making use of this knowl
edge and taking advantage of her op
portunities she quickly paid off heii
indebtedness and laid the foundations i
of her present large fortune. X.
At that time what have been known
since they became a dependency of
Germany, in 1884, as the Bismarck
archipelago, a group of islands lying
northwest of New Guinea, were almost;
unknown. The largest of these islands
were formerly known as New Britain,
New Ireland and the Duke of York
group, but now appear on the map as
New Pomerania, New Mecklenberg,
and New Lauenberg respectively!!
Their area is about 18,200 square miles1
and the population is estimated at
188,000.
Queen Emma was the first person to
recognize the fertility of the group,
and for comparatively small sums
acquire title to many thousands of
acres. She established plantations and!
as her business increased put on a!
line of vessels of her own that now'
ply between the islands and Austra
lia.
At first her position on the islands
was not only uncomfortable, but ex
tremely dangerous. The cannibalistic
natives were hostile and suspicious,
but she gradually acquired such influ
ence over them that of nearly the
entire population she is now the vir
tual ruler. She gives them their laws,
marries and divorces them, and is «
looked upon as the final arbiter in all m
matters of dispute. $
&ne nas gradually civilized many of
her dependents during the years of
her supremacy over them and it is
now seldom that they appear in public
without at least a girdle around their
loins. On one plantation alone of’
120,000 acres in New Pomerania she
employs 1,500 natives and fifty Eng
lishmen and Germans as overseers.
One of the smaller plantations is de
voted to the South Sea island cotton
and comprises 15,000 acres. Other
products of her plantation are rice,
coffee, tea, bananas, copra, bread fruit
and betel nute.
Although a Samoan princess the
United States have almost as much £,
claim to Queen Emma as the South 4Mb,
seas. Her father was Jonas M. Coe,
for twenty-five years American con
sul at Samoa, who married there a
princess of the reigning house. She
was his eldest daughter and was edu
cated in Australia and San Francisco.
At the time of her marriage to Mr.
Forsayth she was considered the most
beautiful woman in Samoa. Her' pres
ent husband is Lieut. Paul Kolbe, for
merly of the German army.
THE CHANGES OF HISTORY.
Napoleon’s Coup d’Etat Compared
With That in Servia.
An English writer says: “It is now
stated that the number of those who
have fallen victims to the coup d’etat
at Belgrade is fifty-four. The massa
cre has aroused the disgust and indig
nation of all Europe, which cannot
find a parallel for such a butchery in
modern annals, but the world would
appear to have forgotten Louis Na
poleon’s coup d’etat of Dec. 2, by
which he extinguished in blood the
French republic and raised himself to
what was practically the imperial
tnrone. On that occasion the usurper
scrupled not to deluge Paris with the
blood of its citizens, hundreds of whom
lost their lives, so that, as far as
murderous results were concerned, the
crime of ‘Napoleon the Little’ was
even more flagitious and unjustifiable
than that of the conspirators who have
now abolished the Obrenovitch dynas
ty. Yet within five years Queen Vic
toria, on the steps of Windsor castle,
presented her cheek to the perpetrator
of the coup d’etat.”
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What They Were Good For.
Sir Thomas Upton and Nikola Tes
la were discussing the future of Ire
land, over a companionable glass and
a good cigar, in the Waldorf-Astoria
last week. The baronet was not in
clined to share the inventor’s opinion,
and finally, with a little impatience,,
be asked: :
“Well, Mr. Tesla, what do you think'
Irishmen are good for, anyway?" ’j
“They're good for what might be!
made out of them,” was the quickie
ply, and Sir Thomas smiled and tslfet
silence.—New York Times.
Stump Speaking and Poker. ,
After William Hepburn Russell had)
made a political speech to a rather!
undemonstrative audience he said to
a companion:
“Stump speaking is a great deal:
'ike poker, after all.”
“How’s that?” his companion re-i
turned. .
“Oh. you know, one often feels the
need of 4 good hand.”—New York
Times.
