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jl StwV 1 - 9J i a 1 j IV li J Tlio Czar Is Bio dent Practically the czar has the power to convert to his own uses any portion of the state revenues that suits his fancy But Russia has not In vain been called an autocracy tempered by assassina tion If tho little father assumed too much his aefllstants In the govern ing business might get jealous and bat ter his brains out as they did with Paul or poison or stab him to death as they did with tho various Petere Alexanders Annas and Catherines Assuming that the Petersburg Statesmans Year Book can be relied upon Nicholas takes 44 cents annual ly from each of his subjects but though ho has nearly 107000000 of them tho official excuse maker figures his incomo from tho empire at 5000 000 per annum only while other sources state it to be twice as much It should be added though that the state places 1000000 square miles of cultivated land at Nicholas disposal besides gold and silver mines yielding a fortune every day in the year It doesnt do a man any good to be close mouthed when he is in the den tists chair Concentrated Pain Rheumatism Concentrated Medicine Hamlins Wiz ard Oil The pickpocket keeps In close touch with the public 820 A WEEK AND EXPENSES to men with rlc to Introduce our Poultry goods faendstp JuvcllcMfBCoDeitDPursonsKna It Is hard to find a truth without an error in its shadow Mrs Whislowa Soothing Syrnp For children teething toftcni the gums reduces in flauiuiatluu ullayb pain cures wind colic 20c a bottle A Puzzled Patiensrcr At the table on an Incoming liner on a recent trip one of the first cabin pas sengers found in an oyster one of the tiny seed pearls which look almost ex actly like bird shot Apparently the formation of pearls was a mystery to him for he examined the thing curi ously picked it up gingerly and laid it on the tablecloth for further investiga tion Now it is a habit of cooks at sea to carry fish hooks in their pockets and on this trip by a curious coinci dence part of a small hook got caught in a piece of beefsteak that wrs served to this particular passenger As soon as his knife encountered the hard ob ject he started picked it out carefully and laid it beside his other find on the cloth Then he beckoned to the wait er and confidentially whispered in his ear I dont want to be impertinent he said but would you mind telling me where you shoot your oysters and why you catch your steaks with a hook and line New York Post Reciprocity Insisted On Rev Alferd Waller a clergyman whose church is located in Southend a few miles down the river from Lon don is an enthusiastic temperance worker He offered a local saloon keeper 10 for the privilege of hang ing up behind the bar a temperance placard The salon keeper is a bit of a wag and he replied Certainly par son let me ang up on the pulpit an advertisement of my bottled ale A 40000000 Station for Chicago All the railroads with four excep tions centering in that city have ac cepted the proposed terms of a move ment to build a 40000000 union rail road station It is to combine both passenger and freight facilities and will be equipped to make it the finest structure of its kind in the world There has always been a great desire pmong railroad men to Chicago to bring the Eastern and Western roads together in the same structure and this union station will accomplish the object Second Kings Fourth Cuaplor Tenth Verse If you read this verse you will find the basis for the little story printed in The Four Track News for May which is entitled The Prophets Chamber The Four Track News will be sent free to any address in the United states for one year for 50 cents single copies 5 cents Address Geo H Dan iels Publisher Grand Central Station New York The need of an excuse is the step mother of invention To Cure a Cold in Orc day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Ail druggists refund money if it fails to cure 2oa Nine times out of ten when a man does get justice he doesnt like it PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle ex cept green and purple Sold by drug gists 10c per package Charity sometimes begins at home but frequently nowhere IKONING A SIIIUT WAIST Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundryman or the home ser vant cannot do it Hence these direc tions for ironing the waist To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth to be laid away two or three hours When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the iron ing board Have your iron hot but not sufficiently so to scorch and abso lutely clean Begin by ironing the back then the front sides and the sleeves followed by the neckband and the cuffs When wrinkles appear ap ply the damp cloth and remove them Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom If there are plaits in the front iron them downward after first raising each cne with a blunt knife and with the edge of the Iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness After the shirt waist is Ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it is folded and put away says the Philadelphia Inquirer HOW CHEAP DAKING FOWDER 13 MADE The Health Department of New York has seized a quantity of so called cheap baking powder which it found in that city Attention was attracted to It by the lov price at which It was being sold In the department stores Samples were taken and the cheml3t of the Health Department reported the stuff to be an alum powder which analysis showed to be compos ed chiefly of alum and pulverized rock Tho powder was declared to be dan gerous to health and several thou sand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed It Is unsafe to experiment with these so called cheap articles of food They are sure to be made from alum rock or other injurious matter In baking powders the high class cream of tar tar brands are the most economical because they go farther in use and aro healthful beyond question False Alarm While up to their ears in mud at Carlsbad one morning last summer some Americans were startled bv a loud scream relates the New York Sun Good American lungs those they remarked to each other A sec ond later came the cry Snakes Such a commotions as there was The air reverberated with nearly every language you ever heard of some that you hadnt Suddenly tho hubbub ceased It was learned that an Amer ican woman bather had seen what she supposed was a snake wriggling in the mud around her only to discover that it was her own switch Good Prices for Some Pictures Eighty pictures from the Matthies sen collection were sold in New York at auction last week for ii505 and several prices were noteworthy the highest sum 13000 was for Arabs Crossing a Stream by A Schreyer The Awakening of Love by Diaz brought 10000 Rosa Eonheurs A Normandy Horse 7200 A Gypsy Mother by L Knaus 7200 Offi cer Ordering an Advance by Detaille 7100 Castle and Forest Lombardy by Corot G200 and paintings by Ren ouf Vibert de Neuville Henner Du pre Troyon Gerome Mauve Muller and Lessi received fair prices A por trait of the pope by Lenbach went for only 600 A Soldiers Narrow Escape Watts Flats N Y May 5th George Manhart of this place a hale and hearty old soldier of SO years of age tells a thrilling story of a narrow es cape from death Four years ago he says the doc tors who were attending me during a serious illness called my wife aside and told her that I could not live two weeks as I had Brights Disease which meant certain death As a last resort we thought we would try Dodds Kidney Pills and accordingly sent to Mr Clarks drug store and got a box This remedy worked wonders in my case I noticed the improvement at once and discharged the doctor I kept on improving until every symptom of illness had gone and I was strong and well I feel like a boy and to day I am cnopping wood as well at eighty as at twenty Dodds Kidney Pills did it Made a Professor at 84 At the age of 84 the German novel ist Max Ring has been honored with the title of professor It had been his ambition as a young man to become a professor but the death of his father and the lack of means prevented him from taking a university course Do Yonr Feet Aclio and IJurn Shake into your shoes Allens Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Ilot and Sweating Feet At all Druggists and Shoe Stores 2oc Sample sent FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Lelloy N Y Its folly to preach future punish ment to the man whose mother-in-law boards with him If you wish beautiful clear white clothes use Reel Cross Ball Blue Large 2 oz package 5 cent We often hear of the sweet simplic ity of childhood yet every mother considers her baby cunning The world needs kindness of heart more than keenness cf head A Hoarding House 2 70S Years Old is the motif of the story of Tho Prophets Chamber in the Four Track News for May This little story will prove intensely interesting to every farmer and par ticularly to every farmers wife in New York and New England The Four Track News will be mailed free to any address in the United States on receipt of 5 cents in stamps or it will be mailed for a year for 50 cents by Geo H Daniels General Passenger Agent Grand Central Sta tion New York It is said that the ladies of Egypt stained their cheeks with alcohol 1000 years ago It is now used as a nose tint by some men in this country Try One Package If Defiance Starch does not please you return it to your dealer If it does you get one third more for the same money It will give you satis faction and will not stick to the iron Anything that is mighty enough to prevail is mighty enough to set itself up as the truth anyway inonc nEXiuLn and lasting wont shahe out or blow out by using Defiance starch you obtain better result3 than possible with any otht r brand and one third more for same money The man who is long on wheat may be short on dough The man who makes the best of everything should have no trouble in disposing of his wares When one borrows trouble the in terest is usually pretty heavy j t Ik1 AFFA1RSJN CUBA TESTIMONY PRESENTED BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE DONNER GOES ON THE STAND He Denies Holdings in the Island by the American Sugar Refining Com pany Says the Trusts Make No Advances to Cuban Planters WASHINGTON May 3 Arthur Donner treasurer of the American Sugar Refining company testified be fore the senate committee on Cuban relations concerning American hold ings of Cuban sugar He said that Mr Havemeyers state ment yesterday to the effect that his company had purchased 93000 tons of sugar since the first of January last was correct No more Cuban su gar could have been bought as none could have been purchased without his knowledge as the treasurer of the company He promised Senator Piatt to send to the committee a memo randa showing the purchases made and giving dates All the sugar which had been purchased had he said been paid for Senator Piatt called attention to the discrepancy between Mr Havemeyers statement as to purchases amounting to 93000 tons and the returns made by the War department placing the American companys option at 3285 tons up to March 25 but Mr Donner was net able to explain it Responding to questions by Senator Teller Mr Donner confirmed Mr Havemeyers statement that of the trusts purchases of Cuban sugar 45 000 tons still remain in Cuba He also said that his company dealt entirely with brokers principally with Zaldo Co Francke Co and Czamokow Co of Havana and New York and did not know the names of the pro ducers The American company had made no advances to the Cuban plant ers and had not advanced any money to the Cuban banks for the planters While he did not know he said he presumed there were other purchasers of Cuban sugar besides his own com pany in the field Asked as to realty holdings in Cuba he said that the trust had none there He knew noth ing of the private holdings of stock holders of the trust You have taken some interest in securing a reduction of sugar duties by congress have you not asked Mr Teller I have not was the reply Senator Piatt asked So far as you know has the Amer ican Sugar Refining company taken any interest whatever in forwarding or opposing the reduction of the duty on Cuban sugar No sir I dont think so Senator Teller You spoke of it as a corporation Yes Do you know whether the rtock holders have taken any interest as such in the reduction I do not I know nothing about it Henry C Mott purchaser of raw sugar for the trust was the next wit ness He said he had acted in that capacity for the last five years and that he buys all the raw sugar for the company except the Louisiana su gars He confirmed previous state ments that the trust had bought 93 000 tons of Cuban sugar since January 1 He said that in the course of the year the American company pur chases 50 per cent of the Cuban sugar product and that he supposed the other 50 per cent is secured by other sugar refiners in the United States ST LOUIS FAIR POSTPONED Secretary Hay Sends Letter to Senate Stating Necessity for Delay WASHINGTON May 3 Secretary Hay today sent to the senate a letter stating the necessity for postponing the Louisiana Purchase exposition from 1903 to 1904 Enclosed with it was a letter from Chairman Carter of the government commission and a telegram from Pres ident Francis of the exposition com pany showing the necessity for the postponement Senator Cockrell had the letter read in the senate and then offered an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bili now pending in the senate providing for the postpone ment of the exposition in accordance with the request Ten Million Dollar Road PORTLAND Ore May 3 Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Great Central Railroad company with a capital stock of 10000000 The in corporators are J Thoburn Ross John K Kolock and John E Atchison all of Portland but it is understood that eastern capital is back of the move ment The articles of incorporation state that the proposed railroad will run through Idaho Utah and Oregon to the Pacific coast ORDERS TO MERRITT STRICT United States Not Committed by Ac tion of Troops to Any Policy WASHINGTON May 2 Major Gen era MacArthur yesterday continued his testimony before the senate com mittee on the Philippines Answering a question by Senator Culbertson the general stated that Aguinaldo and the Filipino people were justified In con cluding that the actions of the United States army are sympathetic flhe Filipinos he said were in a re sentful and vindictive opposition to Spain and any active force on their part against Spain naturally helped the United States and vice versa but he said there was a distinct purpose through the intercourse between the Americans and the Filipinos to re pudiate the idea of direct co operation which in any way committed the United States to a policy General Merrit he said was under Ihe strictest orders not to commit the government but Aguinaldo was anxi ous to make an artificial record which would oblige General Merritt to do something he did not want to do The Filipino said General MacArthur has quite a comprehensive knowledge of Latin diplomacy Aguinaldo was landed at Manila aboard an American warship because he was a useful individual who could be employed in a manner that would contribute to American success TORNADO AT BAYARD SOWA Depot and Several Dwellings Demol ished and Other Damage Done DES MOINES la May 2 A torna do struck Bayard la at 730 last night Two elevators the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul depot and a number of dwelling houses were de stroyed The agent of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul is missing and is supposed to have been killed or injured Telegraphic communications with Bayard were paralyzed by the storm Details of the disaster are dif ficult to obtain At Vanwert a funnel shaped cloud dropped down on the town The high wind blew down houses and barns and uprooted large trees Several people were reported injured but none killed At Weldon a farmhouse was blown down and three children were Injured The tornado was seen from the town of Leroy hut that town was not in its path All these towns except Bayard are in Decatur county MOODY TAKES THE OATH Former Congressman Now the Secre tary of the Navy WASHINGTON May 2 Wm Henry Moody the new secretary of the navy took the oath of office at the navy de partment yesterday morning The oath was administered by E P Han na solicitor of the department Those present besides the retiring secretary Mr Long were Assistant Secretary Darling former Assistant Secretary Hackett and Representatives Roberts McCall Lawrence and Green of Massachusetts The entire personnel of the depart ment was then presented to Mr Moody the clerks at the same time bidding Mr Long farewell Army of Consuls for Cuba WASHINGTON May 2 The house committee on foreign affairs today of fered a favorable report on the bill of Representative Hitt of Illinois es tablishing a United States diplomatic and consular service in Cuba with a United States minister at 10000 secretary at 2000 second secretary 1500 consul general at Havana 5 000 consuls at Cienfuegos and Santi ago 3000 each The bill differs from the plan proposed in the sen ate which allows the minister a sal ary of 12000 and adds a consulate at Matanzas Mar Soon Get Together WASHINGTON May 2 Senator Hanna chairman of the conciliatory committee of the national civic feder ation said tonight that he had not yet received the report of the meeting of the representatives of the operators and the United Mine Workers which has just been held in New York Pending its receipt the senator is un able to say when a meeting of the conciliation committee will be held Extension of the Katy SPRINGFIELD 111 May 2 Con tractors of Chicago and Terre Haute signed a contract to construct 265 miles of railroad in Oklahoma an ex tension of the Missouri Kansas Texas Budget in British Columbia VANCOUVER B C May 2 The debate on the budget in the provincial legislature was continued until 10 oclock Wednesday the members cf the opposition talking against time to prevent the house from going into committee of supply They were suc cessful in defeating the object of the government which was to rush through the debate The debate had not been completed when the house adjourned for executive work MORTONAT REST THOUSANDS FOLLOW REMAINS TO THE GRAVE COMING FROM ALL SECTIONS A Day of Mourning at Nebraska City Business Suspended Childrens Touching Tribute to the Distin guished Dead NEBRASKA CITY Neb May 1 Yesterday was a day of sorrow and mourning among the people of this city as the remains of the late J Sterling Morton tho founder of many industries of this city and the father of Arbor day arrived here and the people testified their respect for the memory of one whom they held doar and had learned to dearly love in the forty eight years that he had made this his home Everywhere the building were draped In mourning and the peoples faces told the story of the loss of a true and noble friend The remains arrived on a special train at 740 one hour ahead of sched uled time over the Burlington road consisting of a number of coaches and the funeral car in which the remains lay in a casket covered with floral offerings from friends and relatives There was a monster crowd of peo ple representing every vocation in life to pay tribute to the memory and assist in the removal of the remains from Hie train to the public library building where they lay in state for over three hours They were viewed by thousands The school children came in line under the directions of their teachers and passed to review the remains of the father of Arbor day and the advo cate of timbering the treeless prai ries There was a military escort from Company C N N G This with the Commercial clu city council fire de partment and factory employes all formed in line and escorted the re mains After lying in state at the library building which was a present to the city from Mr Mortons oldest son Joy Morton the remains were escorted to Arbor Lodge the family home and there they lay in state for three hours until the hour of the funeral In each place the floral offerings which were profuse were banked about the casket and so great was the supply of flow ers that many of them were banked up in the ends of the room making a very imposing sight The funeral services were conducted by Revs Eason and Knickerbocker of the Episcopal church and were main ly ritualistic The remains lay in the room where those of his beloved wife who died twenty one years ago and where also lay those of his favorite son Carl a year ago last January when they were brought here from Waukyegan 111 he having died very suddenly from pneumonia Special trains bearing friends from Omaha and Lincoln arrived at noon and these people joined with the throng here in the cortege that escort ed the remains to their last resting place at the cemeteiy where they were laid by the side of those of his wife and son At noon all of the banks business houses and industries closed and the schools were closed early in the day LIVES LOST IN PANIC Eight Factory Girls Killed in Stam pede Caused by Their Own Fright PHILADELPHIA May 1 An un fortunate accident to a deaf and dumb boy Isador Baccus Avas today directly responsible for the death of eight girls and young women the fatal injury of three others and tho serious injury of more than two score of girls em ployed in the cigar factory of Harbur ger Homan Co a branch of the American Tobacco company located at Tenth street and Washington ave nue The building in which the disaster occurrred is a five story bricic struc ture and reaches an entire block Twelve hundred persons were at work at the time of the accident 90 per cent of whom were girls whose ages range from 12 years upward Wilhelmina Doing Well THE HAGUE May 1 Queen Wil helmina passed a quiet night and the feverless periods were more frequent The bulletins issued by her majestys physicians will hereafter be limited to one daily Thinning Out Supply Bills WASHINGTON May 1 The house has passed the agricultural appropria tion bill and began consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill the last but two of the regular supply measures By the terms of a special rule adopted before the dis trict bill was taken up it will be in order to attach a rider to it to make operative the existing personal tax law of the district which has been a dead letter for twenty years OM NIBUG BILL IS PASSED Appropriates Over 517000000 for Pu lie Buildings WASHINGTON April 30 Under a special order which allowed three hours debate but which cut off all opportunity of amendment the house passed an omnibus public building bill which will distribute 17105450 among 174 cities As tho bill deliv ers into tho treasury 1585000 tho total amount carried by the bill Is re duced to that extent The bill provides for seventy seven new buildings and sites six bulldlng3 on donated sltea and fifty eight in creases In approp Iatlons for build ings already authorized It also provides for the purchase of sixteen sites The majority for the bill was so overwhelming that only nine members backed a demand for the aye3 and noe3 on the passage of the bill There was some criticism of the method by which it was proposed to pass the bill without opportunity for amendment which Mr Mercer chairman of the committee answered by stating that if the bill had been subject to amendment the appropria tions carried by it would have been increased to 07000000 MAKES PLACE FOR EVANS Vacant Place May Be Offered to Com missioner of Pensions WASHINGTON April 30 There is a probability that Commissioner of Pensions Evans will be offered tho position of consul general to London to succeed William McKInley Osborne whose death has been announced White House officials are reticent in regard to the matter as is also Mr Evans but there is reason to believe that the president would very much like to have him accept it and the chances are decidedly in lavor of its being offered him Mr Osbornes death was not a sur prise to his frlend3 He had beer confined to his home since November last suffering from Brights disease and dropsy which latterly affected his heart He was conscious until near the end The deceased never had been absolutely well since he ar rlvd in England TREATY NOT YET RATIFIED Sale of Danish West Indies May Be Left to Inhabitants COPENHAGEN April 30 The bill providing for the sale of the Danish West India Islands to the United States amended by the Landsthlng came up for discussion in the Folke thing today with the result that the party in the majority submitted a pro posal as follows The Rigsdag Diet composed of both houses approves the cession on condition that the inhabitants of the ilsands declare in favor thereof by a plebiscite similar to the one taken in 1807 The Folkething by a vote of 98 to 7 adopted the majority proposal sub mitted today Millions in Gold Dust PORTLAND Ore April 30 Ac cording to the Nome Nugget of Feb ruary 11 which has arrived from the north coming by registered mail via Dawson a very important discovery has been made there A New York syndicate at the head of which is a well known mining man of the Pacif ic coast has been for eighteen months quietly prospecting the Tundra be tween Nome and Penny rivers The result of the work accomplished the paper declares is startling It shows that million of gold dust are deposit ed in the vast Tundra plains which skirt the Bering sea coast List Reaches Forty four CAIRO April 30 The body of an other of the Burke boys was taken out of the river just above Cairo and the body of a colored roustabout was recovered just below the city The body of William R Bolinger of Cin cinnati steward of the Pittsburg was recovered near the wreck Forty four bodies have so far been recovered and it is believed others are yet to be found Dentist Convicted of Assault OTTUMWA la April 30 Doctor Mark Vance a dentist of this city was found guilty of the charge of assaulting a little girl who came to his office to have some dental work done Wilhelmina Improving THE HAGUE April 30 Queen Wil helmina passed a quiet night and all her symptoms indicate improvement Smelter Closes at Helena HELENA Mont April 30 The works of the American Smelting and Reduction company were closed today because of a strike order issued late last night by Mill and Smeltermens union No 14G which affiliates with tho Western Federation of Miners The strike was called because the company will not recognize the union There is no question of wages hours of la bor or other grievance involved in the difficulty J
