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By HALL CAINE
CHAPTER VIII Continued
Tinking so in tue mad tangle of his
joor disordered brain yet with a great
awe upon him as of one laden with
a mission from on high Jason went
back to his lodging threw himseu
down without undressing upon the
bed and fell into a heavy sleep
When he awoke rext morning the
bells in the turret overhead were jang
ling in his ears and his deaf old land
lady was leaning over him and calling
to him
Get up love get up its late love
youll miss it all love its time to go
in love she was saying and a lit
tle later she led him by a side door
into the Cathedral
He took a seat where he had decided
to take it in a corner of the pew be
fore the altar rail and all seemed the
same as he had pictured The throngs
of people were behind him and he
could hear their wMspering and light
laughter while they waited There
was the door at which the venerable
Bishop would soon enter carrying his
big book and there was the path kept
free and strewn with flowers down
which the bride and her train would
pass on to the red form before him
Ah J the flowers blood red and purple
how sweetly they trailed over altar
rail and pulpit and the tablet of the
ten commandments Following them
with his eyes while with his hands he
fumbled his belt for that which he
had concluded to carry there suddenly
he was smitten with an awful diead
One line of the printed words belore
him seemed to come floating through
the air down to his face in a vapor
of the same blood red
Thou shalt do no murder
Jason started to his feet Why was
he there What had he come to do
He must go The place was stifling
him In another moment he was
crushing his way out of the Cathedral
He felt like a man sentenced to death
Being in the free air again he re
gained self control What madness
It is no murder he thought But be
could not get back to his seat and so
he turned to where the crowd was
thickest outside That was down the
line of the path to the wide west en
trance As he approached this point
he saw that the people were in high
commotion He hurried up to them
and inquired the cause The bridal
party has just passed through At that
moment the full swell of the organ
came out through the open doors The
marriage service had begun
After a while Jason had so far re
covered his composure as to look about
him Deep as the year had sunk to
wards winter the day was brilliant
The air was so bright that it seemed
to ring The sea in front of the town
smiled under the sunlight the bread
stretch of lava behind it glistened the
glaciers in the distance sparkled and
the black jokulls far beyond showed
their snowy domes aginst the blue sky
Oh it was one of Gods own mornings
when all His earth looics glad And
the Cathedral yard for all it slept so
full of dead mens bones was that day
a bright and busy place Troops of
happy girls were there in their jackets
of gray braided with gold and silver
-and with belts of filigree troops of
young men too in their knee breeches
-with bows of red ribbon their dark
gray stockings and sealskin shoes old
men as well in their coats of home
spun and old women in their long
blue cloaks children in their plaintea
kirtles and here and there a traveler
with his leather wallet for his snuff
and money At the entrance gate
there was a triumphal arch of ribbons
and evergreens and under its shadow
there were six men with horns and
guns ready for a salute when the bride
appeared and in the street outside
there was a stall laden with food and
drink for all who should that day
come and ask
Only to Jason was the happy place
a Gethsemane and standing in the
thick of the crowd on a grave with
a sunken roof under the shadow of
the Cathedral he listened with a dull
ear to the buzz of talk between two
old gossips behind him He noticed
that they were women vith prominent
eyeballs which produced a dreamy
serious half stupid half humorous
look like that of the dogs in the pic
ture that sit in the judgment seat
Shes English said one No
Irish No Manx whatever that
means Anyway shes foreign and
cant speak a word tnat anybody can
understand So Mother Helda says
and shes a worthy woman you know
and cleans the floor at the Palace
But they say shes a sweet lady for
all that said the other and just then
a young student at their back pushed
his laughing face between their shoul
ders and said
Who Old Mother Helda
Mother Helda be bothered The
from the last one Why he doesnt
mind speaking to anyone Just think
only yesterday he stopped me and said
Good morning he said your son
wont be long away now quite humble
and homelike
Well God bless him and her too
foreign or net and may they live long
And have a good dozen added the
laughing voice behind them
And then all three laugned together
By this time the organ which jhad
been silent for a little while had burst
forth afresh and thought its strains
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were loud and jubilant yet to Jason
they seemed to tell the story of nis r
sorrow and all the trouble oi his days
He tried not to listen and to pass the
wouiu try iu restrain miu iium using
So when she was gone he stumbled
to his feet feeling very weak and
dazed and with infinite struggle and
1 sweat tugged on his clothes ior they
had been taken off and staggered
out into the streets
I It was night and the clouds hung
low as if the snow might be coming
but the town seemed very light as
with bonfires round about it and rock
ets shot in their air and very noisy
too as with guns fired and music
piayed so that Jasons watery eyes
ielt dazzled and his singing ears were
stunned But he walked on hardiy
moments m idly watcmng the swaying knowing wliich way he was
going
tnrong whose heads beneath his own j and hearing only as sounds at sea
rose and fell like a uroKen sea But his the voices that called to mm from the
mind would be active and the broad
swell of tne music floated into his soul
and consumed it Can it be possible
he thought that I intend to smite him
aown wnen he comes through tnat
doorway by her side And yet I love
her and he is my brother
Still the organ rang out over grave
yard and people and only by an ef
fort of will could Jason hold back his
ters Man man he cried in his
heart call it by its true name not
judgment but murder Yes murder
for jealous love murder for love des
pised
A new and awful light had then il
lumined his gloomy mind and his
face betokened his suttenngs for
though no tears fell down his hard
cheeks his eyes were bloodshot In
complete self forgetfulness he pressed
forward until his way -was stopped
by a little iron cross that stood at
the- head of a grave My mothers
he thoughtSo hers is next
The organ broke into yet another
strain at that moment a proud tri
umphant peal of song which in the
frenzy of Jasons mind seemed either
to reach up to heavens gate or to go
down to the brink of hell There was
a movement among the people a buzz
of voices a hush and a whispered
ciy They are coming they are com
ing
God bless them said one
Heaven protect them said an
other
And every blessing fell on Jason like
a curse Murder let it be he
thought and turned his eyes where
other eyes were looking Then pass
ing under the broad arch stepping out
or the blue shadow into the white
sunshine all radiant in her grace and
lovely sweetness meek and tender
with tears in her soft brown eyes it
was she it was she it was Greeba
Greeba Greeba
Jason felt his strength exhausted
A strange dizziness seized him He
looked down to avoid the light His
eyes fell on the iron cross before him
and he read the name graven upon it
The name was his own
Then everything seemed to whirl
around him He remembered no
more save a shuffling of feet a dull
hum over his head like the noise of
water in the ears of a drowning man
and a sense of being lifted and car
ried
But another consciousness came to
him and it was very sweet though
uncertain He was floating up up
up to where the mountains were
green and the sea was tranquill and
the trees made music in the quiet air
And Greeba was there and she was
laying her cool hand on his hot fore
head and he was looking at the trou
bled heaving of her round bosom
Arent you very proud of yourself
Jason she was whispering softly
and then he was clasping the beauti
ful girl in his arms and kissing her
and she was springing away blushing
deeply and he was holding down his
head and laughing in his heart
Lie still love lie yoli still fell
on his ear and he opened his eyes He
was in his room at the little cottage
of the caretakers The old woman
was bending over him ami bathing
his forehead with one hand while
with the other hand she was holding
her apron to her eyes
Hes coming around nicely praise
the Lord she said cheerily
1 remember said Jason in a weak
voice Did I faint
Faint love said the good soul
putting her deaf ear close to his lips
Why its fever love brain fever
What time is it said Jason
Time love Lord help us what
does the boy want with the time
But its just the way with all of them
Mid evening love
What day is it Sunday
Sunday love No but Tuesday
It was on Sunday you fell senseless
poor boy
Where was that
Where Why where but in the
Cathedral yard just at the very min
ute the weddiners were coming out
at the door
had bled him he smiled and was sat
isfied
Lord bless me how he mends
said the hearty old woman and she
rgave mm tne iook or an aiteetionate
dog
And now good soul I am hungry
and must make up for all this fasting
said Jason
Ay ay and that you must lad
said the old woman and off she went
to cook him something to eat
But his talk of hunger had beenso
more than a device to get rid of her
doors of the drinking shops until he
came out at the briuge to rningveiur
road And there in the sombre dark
ness he was overtaken Dy tne tiiree
Danes who had spoken to him before
So your courage failed you at the
last moment I watched jou and saw
how it was Ah dont be afraid we
are your friends and you are one of
us Let us play at hide-and-seek no
longer
They say he is going down the
fiord in search of his wifes father
Take care he does not slip away Old
Jorgen is coming back Good night
So saying without once turning their
faces towards Jasons face they strode
past him with an indifferent air Then
Jason became conscious that Govern
ment House was ablaze with lights
that some of its windows were half
down the sounds of music and danc
ing came from within and that on
the grass plat in front which was lit
by torches men and women in gay
costumes were strolling to and fro in
pairs
And turning from the bridge towards-
the house he saw a man go by
on horseback in the direction of the
sea and remembered in a dull way
that just there and at that hour he
had seen Michael Sunlocks ride past
him in the dusk
To be Continued
ASIA IS WONDERFUL
That Continent the Stne for Prominent
Historical Figures
Writing of his travels in the Orient
Lord Curzon the present viceroy of
India has the following good word to
say for Asia in general Asia has al
ways appeared to me to possess a fas
cination which no country or empire
in Europe still less any part of the
western hemisphere can claim It is
believed by many to have been the
cradle of our race and the birthplace
of our language just as it certainly has
been the hearthstone of our religion
and the fountain head of the best of
our ideas Wide as is the chasm that
now severs us with its philosophy our
thought is still interpenetrated The
Asian continent has supplied a scene
for the principal events and a stage
for the most prominent figures in his
tory Of Asian parentage is that force
which more than any other influence
has transformed and glorified man
kind viz the belief in a single Deity
Five of the six greatest moral teachers
that the world has seen Moses Bud
dha Confucius Jesus and Matiommed
were fccn of Asian parents and
lived upon Asian soil Roughly speak
ing their creeds may be said to have
divided the conquest of the universe
The mot famous or the wisest of
kings Solomon Nebuchadnezzar Cy
rus Timur Baber Akbar have sat
upon tfrfe Asian thrones Thither the
great conqueror of the Old World
turned aside for the sole theater be
fitting so enormous an ambition The
three most populous existing empires
Great Britain Russia and China are
Asian e vjpires and it is because they
are net merely European but Asian
that tb two former are included in
the catesr To Asia we owe the
noblest product of all literature in the
Old Testament of the Hebrew Scrip
tures the sweetest of lyrics in the
epithalamium of a Jewish king the
embryos of modern knowledge in the
empiricism of Arabian geometers and
metaphysicians In Asia the drama was
born There the greatest writer of an
tiquity chose a scene for his immortal
epic There too the mariners com
pass Unit guided men over the pathless
watere In our own times alone it is
with her aid that we have arrived at
the evolution of thre new sciences
comparative mythology comparative
jurisprudence and philology From
Asia we have received the architecture
of the Moslem that most spiritual and
refined of human conceptions the por
celain of China thp faienrp of Persia
this Jasons face broke
And hearing
RhodeSf and Damascus the infinitely
Silifant ienious art of Japan
On her soil
it 1 -- wag reare1 the mQ3t astonishing
of
cities Babylon the ost princely
r
But while an angel of hope seemed
him of of Peaces Persopolis the stateliest of
to bring good tidings a great
norii nvPrtPd and evpn as a nravpr temples Angkor Wat the loveliest of
lady And her father has been wrecked gushea from his torn heart he tombs the Taj Mahal There too may
m coming to her wedding too Poori bered the vision of his delirium and be found the most wonderful of Na
old man what a pity The Governor
sent my son Oscar with twenty of Loe
gas men to Stapen to rook for me
That was a fortnight ago I expect
him back soon
They might have waited until he
came Why didnt they
Oscar said the laughing face be
tween them
The father gcose Poor lady how
lonely she must feel But then the old
Bishop is so good to everybody
Well he deserves a good wife
The old Bishop said the student
shaking his sides
The young governor Im -talking of
and dont be so quick in snapping folks
up Jon Arnason Hes the best
knew that he was forever a bereaved
and broken man At that his face
which had been red as his hair grew
tures productions the loftiest moun
tains on the surface of the globe the
most renowned if not the largest of
pale as ashes and a low cunning came J rivers the most entrancing of land-
over mm ana ne vonaereu u ne nau I
in
scapeg the heart of Asia lies to
betrayed himself m his unconscious- i r1o nQ
ness
Have I been delirious he asked
Delirious love Oh no love only
distraught a little and cursing some
times the Saints preserve us said
the old landlady in her shrill treble
Jason remembered that the old wo
man was deaf and gathering that she
alone had nursed him and that no
one else had seen him since his at
tack except her deaf husband and a
ernor we ever had And i what a change druggist rom the High street who
LHiO utlj IUG UUC XilJOtClJT MfUlUXl LUC
nineteenth century has still left for
the twentieth to explore viz the Tib
etan oracle of Lhasa
Sonator Towrnes Wit
Senator Towne of Minnesota appear
ed in Washington one afternoon re
cently with his neck swathed in band
ages What is the matter inquired
a solicitous acquaintance Boils was
the reply and they come from one cf
two causes bad blood working out or
an ingrowing excess of senatorial dig
nity
Cats and Pa ters on Jaslicc
A citizen of Paterson N J killed a
cat that had disturbed his slumbers
He was fined 5 and costs but has now
appealed claiming he had a right to
murder the serenader and that even
if he hadnt the right- 5 is tco much
to pay for the life of a mere cat
MARK BANNA ORATES
WriAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID
ON SUBSIDY BILL
If He Had Givn the Senate a Piece of
His Mind The Open Door for Cheap
abor a Pendant and Purpose of the
Proposed Steal
Mark Hanna has blossomed out as a
great orator and statesman His first
set speech since his advent in the sen
ate was made in advocacy of the ship
subsidy bill He spoke with great au
thoritythe authority of a million
majority and patronage galore Of
course the senators flocked around him
with congratulations He painted with
Artistic hand rosy pictures of material
prosperity that would flow from the
adoption of his pet measure As to the
principle involved or the power of
congress to squander away the public
money in this fashion he was dumb
Nature did not build him that way He
is the representative and type of the
gross materialistic statesmenwho ride
rough shod over sentiments of public
morality
His theme was the coming greatness
and glory of our commerce We are to
capture the markets of the world and
hold our domestic markets immune
from foreign competition behind tariff
walls We will start up such immense
production at home that every man
and every dollar will be constantly em
ployed and the full dinner pail will
swing high
But his great argument was incom
plete or not fully reported If it had
been I assume that it would have been
about as follows There is another
industry senators which will receive
encouragement and impetus from this
measure to which I will now allude
It is well known to all the great cap
tains of industry in the United States
that the country is famishing from a
lack of cheap labor We will have
created by this measure such an in
creased demand for it that it will be
come imperative that we break into
the great cheap labor markets of the
world to get it We must go to Asia
Japan to the shores of the Mediterra
nean and to Eastern Europe for it Our
subsidized steamships tramps and oth
ers will pour into our exhausted fields
of industry the docile Chinaman the
lively Jap and the degenerates from
the effete civilizations of the old world
We must throw the doors wide open to
them all
Mr Bacon of Georgia What kind
of citizens will they make
Mr Hanna of Ohio You wander
from the question
You know senators what injuries
have been inflicted upon us by the an
archistic conduct of our haughty Am
erican workingmen They not only
want a voice in the terms on which
they will work for us but they are li
able to take away from us all political
power The subsidized steamships and
tramps will aid us materially in sub
duing the spirit of independence and
insubordination of these men No
freight is so profitable as this live
freight especially when they can load
their ships down to the guards with
it They will not need any subsidies
but we must maintain the system be
cause we will contrive to put the bonus
into our own pockets
I will say to the gentleman from
Georgia that we propose to make citi
zens of our importations and work
them against our labor unions and
vote them against your Democratic
party Business is business and it
goes before sentiment The better sort
of white men thus thrown out of em
ployment will be made superintendents
and foremen and the others will be
made regular soldiers to defend our
power and privileges
Hanna is too shrewd a man to blurt
out all this in open senate but he has
no doubt sounded something very like
it in the ears of the faithful party men
who cannot be easily shocked by any
proposition however startling It was
wellsaid by Senator Jones of Nevada
when anti Chinese measures were be
fore the senate I have observed that
our lordly manufacturers are clamor
ous for protection against the compe
tition of the lordly capitalists of Eu
rope but when it comes to protection
of American workingmen by exclud
ing foreign cheap labor the only real
protection you can give them that is
a horse of another color And so I
say that it is part and parcel end and
aim of our new fangled policies to re
sume in a wholesale way the importa
tion of cheap labor into the United
States What do these plutocrats care
about the welfare of American work
ingmen or the preservation of our Am
erican institutions
When the eyes of the American
workingmen are fully opened to the
dangers that are threatening them the
duration of the Republican party in
power will be brief Clitus Barbour
CURE FOR THESE HARD CON
DITIONS
The strike of the telephone girls in
San Antonio Tex develops the fact
that they received 18 per month for
working eleven hours per day on the
day shift and thirteen hours on the
night shift every day in the year ex
cept Christmas when a half holiday
was given to one shiftand New Years
when a half holiday was givr n to the
other shift The officers of the cor
poration say they will spend 100000
to defeat the strike not because of the
pitiful increase of wages which the
girls ask but because the moral ef
fect of their success would be bad
They also announce that they will if
necessary call upon the city state
or even the nation to help them
City state and national ownership of
public utilities is only cure for such j
abuses as those to which the telephone
girls are subjected and every strike
like this will speed its coming
PASTE THESE IN YOUR HAT
Pew people have anything like a
correct idea of the great saving in la
bor ancf the great increase in produc
tive power resulting from the use of
mshinery in manufacturing The fol
lowing items are compiled from reli
able statistics
Spinning machines tended by one
operator and two girls turn out more
yarn than 11000 old time hand spin
ners could do
In weaving one man does as much
work now as 95 could do with the old
hand loom
One man tending a nail machine
turns out as many nails as 1000 men
formerly did by hand
Formerly it required a good work
man to gin five pounds of cotton a
day Now two men with a machine
turn out 4000 pounds
Two machines operated by two girls
will now turn out 240000 screws a day
while a few years ago 20000 screws
was the most that 20 skilled workmen
could make
It used to take a quick worker to
sew six pairs of shoes a day Now one
man will sew 1000 pairs a day with a
machine
With a match machine 300 girls will
turn out as many matches as 8000 men
could formerly do
In making wall paper one man does
the work which formerly required 100
men Zanesville Labor Journal
THE REAL AMERICA
Ye say We are Anglo Saxon
And ye strut in the pride of birth
Ye are drunk on a lie and waxen
So mean that ye covet the earth
The Saxons are old time yeomen
And they lust like worms for the
ground
We are nobles each man and foeman
To tyrants the wide world round
We are nobles and freeman and broth
ers
We have left oppression behind
For -we drank with the milk of our
mothers
The thirst to be noble and kind
We are Saxon and Slav no longer
Nor Teuton nor Latin nor Kelt
For the chains that wed us are stronger
Than the slaves of the world have
felt
Our sires in Europe were smitten
For a thousand years were undone
Our fathers repulsed the Briton
As Boston and Lexington
We are kin to the souls of Grattan
And of Emmett- who dared the
noose
We claim Garibaldi the Latin
Kosciusko and Kruger and Bruce
We have done with the old transgres
sion
We have learned our lesson well
And the hate that we feel for oppres
sion
Is as hot as the coals of hell
Neither slaves are we nor despoilers
And when others dies to be free
A wind blows our plain men and toil
ers
All one way like waves of the sea
FACTS FOR FARMERS
In one of the most valuable and
thickly built parts of Boston the value
of the bare land is 3192000 per acre
while the value of the buildings is
only 438000 per acre So the Boston
palaces are worth less than 14 per
cent of the land underneath them
How about the farm lands Taking
again rural Berkshire as defined by Mr
Hill the value of its land is 15 per
acre while the value of its buildings
is 1750 per acre So the Berkshire
farm houses are worth 117 per cent of
the Berkshire land In other word
the taxation of buildings hears mora
than eight times as heavily upon the
Berkshire farmer as it does upon the
Boston banker Thomas G Shearman
IN PRIVATE LIFE
Attorney General Monett of Ohio in
stituted suits against the Sandard Oil
company and also against the Conti
nental Tobacco trust He was relegat
ed to private life by the state Repub
lican convention and a subservient
tool of the corporations was selected
to fill his place Last week the suc
cessor of Monett went before the court
and dismissed every action against a
trust Nebraska is going to follow in
the footsteps of Ohio Attorney Gen
eral Smythe instituted many suits
against illegal trusts and his Republic
an successor will dismiss them all at
the first convenient opportunity
FORGOTTENI
Congressman J J Lentz of Ohio
took a prominent part in investigating
the Idaho outrages and showed that
the state and national authorities were
united with the Standard Oil trust in
breaking up the miners union In the
recent election Lentz was beaten by
eight votes Labor evidently forgot
him but the Standard Oil crowd
didnt
A 20 per cent cut of the wages of
trackmen and freight handlers on the
Santa Fe a big cut at the steel works
a 28 per cent reduction of the wages
of the workers in the Pennsylvania
iron mills with other reductions in
wagesall over the country prove that
prosperity has arrived Look out for
the panic Get in out of the wet and
sell your old dinner pail for what it
may fetch says H 0 Morris inPueblo1
Courier
CUTTING DOE RATES
Bills Before the Senate to Seduce the
Cost of Public Service
fOUR MEASURES ARE INTRODUCED
Some of the Provisions of the Maximum
Freight Kate 11111 of Senator Weber
Miscellaneous Matters in Nebraska
Here and There
LINCOLN Neb Jan 2S Railroads
and telephones are the burdens of four
bills introduced in the state secate
Senator Weber is father of three of
them His telephone bill would re
duce rates 25 per cent from those fixed
published charged demanded or re
ceived January 1 1901 under penalty
of not less than 100 nor more than
200 for the first offense the limit be
ing 5000 for the third offense or any
oiio thereafter
Senator Paschal would fix rates at
150 per month for each telephone
used in private residences and 2 for
each in a business house or office
The maximum freight rate bill of
Senator Weber contains the following
provisions
The maximum rate for the trans
portation of hard and soft lumber
laths shingles doors sash and blinds
salt lime cement and stucco shall be
85 per cent of the rate which the rail
road or railway companies carrying
the commodities gcods or merchan
dise published on the first day of De
cember 1899 as its charge for the
transportation of like commodities
gcods or merchandise as shown by its
printed sheet of rates or tariff sheets
The maximum rate for the trans
portation of horses mules and cattle
shall be 85 per cent of the rate which
the railroad or railway company car
rying the commodities goods or mer
chandise published on the first day of
December 1899 as its charge for the
transportation of like commodities
goods or merchandise as shown by its
printed sheet of rates or tariff sheets
The maximum rate lor the trans
portation of hogs and sheep shall b3
85 per cent of the rate which the rail
road or railway company carrying the
commodities goods or merchandise
published on the first day of Decem
ber 1889 as its charge for the trans
portation of like commodities goods
or merchandise as shown by its print
ed sheet of rates or tariff sheets
Section 3 No railroad or railway
company shall grant or alio wto any
person company or association upon
the transportation of freight either di
rectly or indirectly any secret rate
rebate drawback unreasonable allow
ance for use of cars or undue advan
tage whatever or directly or indirect
ly charge to or receive from any per
son or persons or association or cor
poration any greater or less sum com
pensation or reward than is charged
to or received from any other person
or persons association or corporation
for like service in the receiving trans
porting storing delivering or hauling
of freights
Section 4 No railroad or railway
company shall give or promise to give
any privilege favor or right to any
shipper of freight over its line which It
denies refuses or withholds from any
other shipper of freight over its line
Section 5 Any railroad or railway
company which shall violate any of
the provisions of this act shall pay to
the state a sum not less than 100 nor
more than 1000 for the first viola
tion for the second violation not less
than 1000 nor more than 5000 for
the third violation not less than 5000
nor more than 10000 and for every
subsequent violation the sum of 10
000 to be recovered by the state in a
civil suit and a recovery may be had
in one action for as many violations of
this act as the defendant company was
guilty of when the action was com
menced
Section 6 It is hereby made the
duty of the attorney general to insti
tute in the supreme court and of each
county attorney to institute in the
county or district court of his county
such yction as may be proper and
necessary to enforce the provision of
and collect the penalties imposed by
this act
Section 7 Whenever an action is
brought against any railroad or rail
way company for having charged de
manded or received either directly or
indirectly a higher or greater rate for
transporting any of the commodities
goods or merchandise named herein
than that fixed by this act the defend
ant company shall have the right to
prove if it can upon proper allega
tions first made in its answer the un
reasonableness of such rate and such
proof shall constitute a complete de
fense to the action
Child Accidentally Shot
OSCEOLA Neb Jan 28 Word has
just been brought to town of an acci
dent that occurred at the home of Mr
and Mrs Nels Christianson a few
miles from town the other day The
children were out playing with an air
gun and did not know it was leaded
It exploded and a little six-year-old
boy got the charge In the face and it
is sure that the left eye will be de
stroyed and may be the right one
Smallpox at Angns
EDGAR Neb Jan 28 At Angus
a little town six mile3 south of here
tnere are several families ill with the
smallpox With exception of two per
sons the cases are of the mild type No
cases have developed here since mora
than a month ago
Helping the Indians
WASHINGTON Jan 28 Congress
man Robinson of Nebraska appeared
before the committee on Indian affairs
and in behalf of a bill which he intro
duced for the relief of Joseph M
Campbell and Stephen Blacksmith
members of the Santee Sioux tribe ot
Indians residing on the agency in
Knox county Nebraska The bill gives
the Indians the right to purchase tl3
land occupied by their homes on the
agency The committee unanimously
agreed to report the bill favoraoly
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