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( Burton H. Barnes, a wealthy American
louring: Corsica, rescues the young Eng
lish lieutenant. Edward Gerard Anstruth
er and his Corsican bride. Marina,
daughter of the Paoiis. from the mur
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
loves. Enid Anstruther. sister of the Eng
lish lieutenant. The four fly from AJac
cio to Marseilles on board tlte French
steamer Constantine. The vendetta pur
vrx and as the quartet are about to
board the train for London at Marseilles.
Marina is handed a mysterious note
vrhich causes her to collapse and necessi
tate jt -postponement, of .the journey.
Barnes gets part of the mysterious note
and rr-ceives letters which Inform him
that he is marked by the vendetta. He
employs an American detective and plans
to beat the vendetta at their own game.
For the purpose of securing the safety
of the women Barnes arranges to have
tady Chartris lease a secluded villa at
Xice to which the party is to be taken
in a yacht. Suspicion is- created that
Marina Is in league with the Corslcans.
A man. believed to be Corregio Danella,
Is seen passing the house and Marina is
thought to have given him a sign. Ma
rina refuses to explain to Barnes which
fact adds to his latent suspicions. Barnes'
plans for the safety of the party are
learned by the Corslcans. The carriage
carrying their party to the local landing
is followed by two men. One of the
horsemen is supposed to be Corregio.
They try to murder the American. The
ook on the yacht a Frenchman is sus
pected of complicity in the plot. The
party anchors at St. Tropez. The yacht
is followed by a small toat. The cook is
detected Riving signals to the boat.
Barnes attempts to throw him overboard,
hut is prevented by Marina and Enid.
The cook is found to be Innocent of the
supposed plot and is forgiven. The party
arrive at Nice and find tady Chartrls
And her daughter Maud domiciled in the
iila rented with Barnes money. Barnes
is i mazed to find that Count Corregio is
at Nice and is acting the role of admirer
to I.ady Chartris. Barnes and Enid
make arrangements for their marriage.
The net tightens alout Barnes. He re
ceives a note from La Belle Blackwood,
the American adventuress
CHAPTER VII. Continued.
"Yes, the day after you left, the
jtoor fellow called to ask if I knew the
particulars of his dear brother's death.
You. having lately come from Corsica,
he thought, might tell him. Under the
melancholy circumstances, 1 deemed
it advisable to say to him that you
would be at my villa in Villefranche
&oon and would, of course, give him
the facts you might know in regard
to poor Musso! He was killed by
borne bandit or other in Corsica, I un
derstand. Hut after the gallant Cipri
unu met me here on the des Anglais
three days ag., ho he didn't seem
able to talk about anyone else but
me." The widow blushes slightly,
looks eagerly at the clock and flut
ters: "The only other subject Count
Cipriano mentioned was was wed
dings." Barnes plunges his fork disgustedly
into his salad and curses his half con
fidences to Lady Chartris. The re
traxit he had so carefully arranged for
Enid and Marina while he and Edwin
should hunt down the demons who
threatened their 3'oung lives, was now
by his hostess babbling tongue be
come known to their pursuers.
He glances moodily at his sweet
heart. Miss Anstrnther's eyes and
her cheeks are both aflame. As if to
defy the dangers that are gathering
about her wedding day, she says in
resolute tones: "You know. Lady
Chartris, I marry Mr. Barnes to-morrow,"
and turns the conversation on
her coming nuptials, discussing with
her hostess the necessary preparations
for the ceremony the next evening.
With the dessert. Miss Maud enters
to give life and vivacity to the feast.
She has been put by her governess in
evening infant dress, prattles merrily
of the approaching nuptials, suggests
that her youthful ears have heard some
of the dinner table conversation
through the curtains that separate the
dining-room from the parlor. Once or
twice, when her mother's head is
turned, obeying a nod surreptitiously
given her by Mr. Barnes, she bolts a
glass of champagne, that is generally
forbidden her.
Inspired by the stimulating bever
age. Miss Maud suddenly ejaculates:
'"Isn't it a pity you're going to be mar
ried on the sneak. Barnes? When I
get spliced, as you say. Cousin Edwin,
I'm going to church with sis brides
maids and a train ten feet long."
Soon after the party rises, and Enid,
drawing her betrothed into the pri
vacy of the parlor, whispers: "My
own. remember one of the Danellas is
here. Be careful for my sake." She
puts her fair arms entreatingly about
his neck.
"I have my pistols." answers Burton,
sententiously, and administers a sooth
ing kiss.
Stepping to Edwin, he whispers:
"Keep a sharper lookout than ever."
"Yes, it's yardarm to yardarm now."
answers the sailor.
Lady Chartris carriage is an
nounced. ""Help me with my wraps. Cousin
Burton." cries the widow, eagerly, and
seems anxious to be gone.
As Barnes is cloaking Prunella, Enid
entreats, nervously: "You will come
back sooa?"
"Oh yes. by to-morrow morning."
laughs Anstruther, trying to make light
of her fears. "Jack's last cruise
ashore, you know."
"No ward-room jokes about my com
ing husband!" commands his sister,
indignantly.
"Yes. but I I can't bring Burton
home very early," says Lady Chartris.
in- embarrassed tone. "You see I I
promised to go to the Casino with
with Count Cipriaao Danella," adding
eagerly: "Couldn't I invite him to the
wedding?"
"Yes, bring him, please I want to
see the gentleman," returns Barnes,
quietly, his eyes growing steely.
Anstruther looks astounded and
Enid seems amazed, but the most star
tling effect is produced upon Marina.
Her delicate face grows of a deathly
pallor, her slight fingers work nervous
ly, but her dark eyes begin to flame.
"Gee," remarks Maud, the cham
pagne making her reckless, "you need
n't look as if yoa were goiag to execu
tion. Marina. Cip isn't your beau."
"Maud, don't 'talk that way and go
to bed!
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steps Into her victoria reflects with
delighted horror: These foreign
brides are awful. Here's a two weeks'
one jealous of that fascinating Count
Danella, who's now' devoted to me."
Barnes immediately follows his host
ess and the carriage drives away rap
idly. Lady Chartris calling to the driver
to hurry.
Miss Anstruther gazes after it till
it disappears in the shrubbery leading
to the entrance .of the grounds. Then
with a sigh she languidly remarks that
she is tired and will go to bed. Leav
ing Edwin and Marina in some honey
moon conference in the parlor she
steps up. to her chamber and.glves her
maid a few directions about her com
ing wedding, when there comes a
sharp, sudden rapping on the door.
"What is it?" cries Miss Anstruther,
and grasps a pistol Barnes has given
her, as they sailed into the Ville
franche harbor, with the suggestion:
"It may be useful some day."
In answer, Maud's excited voice
through the panel makes Miss An
struther laugh. "Enid. I can't go to
sleep till you let ane be your maid of
honor at the wedding."
"If it will please you, dear," remarks
Enid affably.
"That's bully," cries Maud; "they
give bridesmaids presents, don't they?"
This last very eagerly.
Then she suddenly breaks out:
"Didn't Marina get on a high horse
Barnes Alights, and as He Glances
He Recollects This Had Been the
'when ma said she was going in to
meet Cip Danella? She's jealous of
him. I reckon."
"Hush!" commands Enid. "You have
the most extraordinary ideas for a
child."
"Child? I'm 16!" cries Maud, de
fiantly. Then repressed in one direc
tion, the champagne that is coursing
through Miss Chartris brain breaks
out in another. "Anyway." she hints
roguishly, "Barnes might find an old
sweetheart this evening if he stepped
into the Hotel St. Petersburg."
"Who?" The coming bride's Voice
is excited.
"Oh, a little girl isn't permitted to
speak the name of such a lady," re
plies Maud, innocently, "but it com
mences with a 'Belle' and it ends with
a 'Blackwood." "
"My heavens, is she here?"
"Gee, and Blackie's in great shape,
too. I was on the Promenade des An
glais with Marston yesterday. Not a
woman to touch her for beauty. Dia
monds to beat Starr & Mortimer's, and
that Mr. Ruggles running after her
with an open checkbook in his hand,
everybody said."
"Then we'll leave her to Mr. Bug
gies." says Enid, coldly, though her
heart is beating wildly.
"Oh, but she won't stick to Mr. Rug
gles. So I thought I'd just give you a
hint, so that if she cuts in after you're
married you'll know how to fix her.
Of course, this evening you are
blocked."
"Blocked, this evening?"
"1 want to tell you something that
happened!"
"Don't dare to."
"But I will, for your sake. A note
came to Barnsey from her."
"A note from that infamous crea
ture? Impossible!"
"Impossible? I slipped it into Bur
ton's hand just before he went in to
dinner, and he slipped it into his
pocket. I saw the address; it was" in
her handwriting."
"Liar, how do you know La Black
wood's handwriting," cries the tor
tured one.
"Blackie's autograph facsimile was
published in an advertisement of
Lily's Soap, in the London Gossip last
loath. 'I recommend yoar soap for
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Enid, and not giggle "hysterically, as
you Ire now. .
"Very well. I will," says the young
lady, whose face has become that of a
marble statse, llgh4ed.br two burning,
tortured eyen. "Now fcfbeaVyon med
dler, and not a word of this to anyone
on earth, of yoa know what I know
and will tell year mother.? ,
And Maud retires subdued, bit she
leaves convulsed features, clenched
hands and a dizzy brain behind-her.
Miss' Anstruther ifcha: "Oh, If he
dares to see her!" then m'umurs, "No,
no.' impossible! He's, gone'tb get 'the
minister for to-morrowto wed -me."
Tet several burning tears ran down
the fair cheeks of the coming bride as
she tosses herself iato bed,and.cannot
go to sleep. .
CHAPTER VIII.
A Night in Nice.
The drive to Nice is.not only a short
but pleasant one. Mr. Barnes, seated
by Lady Chartris, though chatting
alertly, keeps both his eyes and his
ears open.
Once or twice the American listens
intently, he thinks he hears pursuing
hoofs. But these blend into the noises
of general traffic as they reach and
pass through the old town. Crossing
the river by the Pont Neuf and turning
down the Qua! St Jean, they drive
along the Avenue Massena nearly to
the sea.
Though visitors have for the last
month been leavirfg the great watering
place by the Mediterranean, there are
still enough sojourners to comfortably
fill the public gardens. The band is
playing, the night is only pleasantly
warm, and Lady Chartris seems in
high spirits as Barnes says to her:
"You can drop me anywhere now.
Only, where shall I meet' you?"
"At the Hotel de la Mediterranee.
There Count Danella is doubtless -waiting
for me," replies the hostess. "Call
for me at 11 and I'll drive you back."
Barnes alights and,, as he glances at
a t the Neighboring Hotel des Anglais,
Scene of His First Call Upon Enid.
the neighboring Hotel des Anglais, he
recollects this had been the scene of
his first call upon Enid when Lady
Chartris had invited him to accom
pany her and her charge to Monte
Carlo. He can scarce believe it is only
a month ago since' he had looked in
her face. His step grows light 'With
happiness.
Suddenly somebody in the passing
throng mentions the name of the fas
cinating American -adventuress. A
Parisiau countess- is saying to a lady
friend: "That La Blackwood crushes
us with her toilettes. Did you ever
see such a robe as the wretch sported
to-day?"
"By Jove, that reminds me. . I won
der what Sally has to say to me?"
thinks Burton, and pulls out an almost
forgotten note from his pocket.
A big arc light, which was the great
illuminating medium of that epoch,
permits him to read:
"Mon. Cher Barnes:
"Don't hold -your- horses, -but come
to me at the St. Petersburg like a shot.
I want to warn you of a very imminent
danger. I have just discovered your
location here by accident. Don't think
I hate yod, though 1 ought to.
Yours sincerely,
1SALLY SPOTTS."
(TO. BE CONTTNUED.)
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On the Death of Balzac -,
There can be but austere and seri
ous thoughts in all hearts when a
sublime spirit makes its majestic en
trance into another life, when one of
those beings who have long soared
above the crowd on the visible wings
of genius, spreading all at
once other wings , which we
did not see, plunges swiftly
into the unknown. No, it is not the
unknown; no. It is not night, it is light,
it is not the end, it is the beginning!
It is not extinction, it is eternity. Is it
not true, such tombs as this demon
strate immortality? In the' presence
we call man. Victor Hugo. j
of the illustrious dead we feel more
distinctly the divine destiny of (that
intelligence which traverses the earth
to suffer and to purify itself which
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PLAN TO STOP LOGROLLING.
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Proposal That New Method Be Adept
ed for 8ecuriigApprooriatiea.. ,
Lincoln It is not Improbable that in
hia message to the" next legislaiareT
Governor Sheldon may ! make certain
recommendations1 that if acted ,unon
will forever end the present system
of securing appropriations for the
maintenance of state institutions.' The
plan under consideration is for the
governor to visit in turn each state
institution and confer with the head
of It and withi(the various boards
which have control; over thetmstlU
tion. When an agreement is reached
regarding the improvements needed
attthe Institution and the amount of
the appropriation which should be
made for its' maintnace, the gov
ernor will make the recommendation
to the legislature. The appropriation
bill would then have the backing of
the administration and doubtless
would be passed with little or no
trouble. v '
FAIRBURY TO GET LIBRARY.
Carnegie Will Contribute $1000
if
City Will Donate Site.
' Falrbury According to a letter re
ceived in Falrbury from James Ber
tram of New York city, Andrew Car
negie contemplates giving Falrbury a
donation of $10,000 to build a public
library building. Last August a let
ter was addressed to Mr. Carnegie
by the Commercial club asking for a
donation for a library building. Noth
ing was heard from the request until
about a month ago, when a letter was
received here stating that Carnegie
had just returned from abroad and
was ready to act upon the request
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cody.
North Platte There seems to he a
well circulated rumor here that a rec
onciliation between Colonel and Mrs.
W. F. Cody is about to be consum
mated through the mediation, It is
said of Mrs. Clarence Stott whose
husband. Lieutenant Stott. died a few
days ago. Colonel Cody attended the
funeral of his son-in-law -in Des
Moines and there, it is said, he was
urged by his daughter to accompany
her to North Platte. If the colonel
was here it was not generally known,
but there seemed to be an impression
here that a reconciliation between the
colonel and Mrs. Cody is within the
possibilities within a few weeks.
Old Contract Will Stand.
An informal meeting of the state
board of public lands and buildings
was held to consider the suggestion
of Superintendent Young of the Nor
folk asylum for a change in the pro
posed new buildings at that place.
The changes were explained to the
board by Architect George Berlinghof.
The proposed change would have cost
between $4,000 and $5,000 and the
board concluded to leave the contract
and specifications in their original
form.
Registering Cattle Brands.
Lincoln If any person in the state
fails to register his cattle brands by
January 1 he loses the right to the
same brand and must trust to luck
to get it back should he make a new
application. The fee for registering
an old brand is only 50 cents, and
when a new registration, is made it
costs $1.50. Recorder Smith says that
it looks now as'if nearly half the old
brands would be open to registration.
Dairy and Apiary Business.
Statistics in regard to the dairy and
apiary business in Nebraska will be
compiled by Labor Commissioner
Ryder during the coming year. No
such statistics are now on file. Be
fore beginning the work, Mr. Ryder
plans to go to Kansas to look into the
methods employed by the famous Mr.
Coburn.
Improving Nebraska Roads.
York Farmers and those who do
considerable driving 'are rejoicing over
the good work already done on York
county roads under the new law. It
is estimated that more good work has
been done this fall on roads in York
county than in any two years hereto
fore. Zimri Dwiggins Dead.
Lincoln Zimri Dwiggins. state
agent for the Aetna Life Insurance
company, and a well known citizen,
died at his home following a stroke of
apoplexy.
Bound Over to District Court.
At Fremont Alfred Peltwell was
bound over to the district court in the
sum of $1,000 to answer to the charge
of shooting Village Marshal Matou
seek of Uehling.
GUARD COMPANY IS TO DISBAND.
Beatrice Finds the State Appropria
tion Is Insufficient.
Beatrice Captain Penrod of Com
pany C. Nebraska National Guard, an
nounced that 'the company, compris
ing forty-four men, would be mustered
out in a few days. The reason given
for the company disbanding is that
the appropriations from the state are
not sufficient to' pay the running ex
penses of the company.
Gathering Dairy Statistics.
Colonel John J. Ryder, deputy labor,
commissioner, is preparing schedules
to be sent out for the purpose of gath
ering statistics relating to the dairy
industry of the state. Some years ago
the state farm got up a map showing
the number of milch cows in the state
and the number of band separators in
use. but since that time no statistics
have been 'gathered by the state. The
board of regents does not now per
mit the heads of departments to
gather statistics, so Mr. Ryder will in
clude such in his next report.
Found Dead in Barn.
Benedict Isaac Michs -was fonnd
dead in his cattle barn by his son
and daughter, who had been to York
shopping. Heart disease was the
cause of his death. He was an old
settler of York coanty. '
A Fatal Draught,
Lincoln Henry Kelkenberg, an
aged German, employed by the sewer
department, mistook a bottle of car
bolic acid for a bottle of whisky. He
died a few moments after swallowing
1 the dose. ' .
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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOHGrfEO UPON
ReHfieue, Scclat, Agricultural. PelhV
leal' and Other Matters Given
Due ConeWerztien.
Falrbury did about $200,000 worth
of building in 1907.
A fire in Edgar destroyed $10,000
to $12,900 worth of property.
Evangelist Scofleld is conducting a
series of meetings in Beatrice.
All Hastings stores, by mutual
agreement, now close at 6 o'clock; '
During 1907 there was collected in
Platte county $156 for hunters'
licenses.
Afteraeven years' work, Dennis Fie-harty,-
deputy city attorney of Lin
coln, has resigned.
J. H. Albers of Beatrice has left
town suddenly, and a lot of creditors
would like to know of his where
abouts. George D. Kerns, an old soldier, who
for many years lived in Pawnee coun
ty, died at the Soldiers' home in Leav
enworth. The Citizens' State bank of Shubert
has received a charter from the state
banking board. It has a paid-up cap
ital stock of $10,000.
State Treasurer Brian has bought
$10,000 of Kearney county bonds bear
ing 4 per cent interest, optional after
ten years. The bonds are the last of
an issue of $80,000.
I. B. Nelson, one of the oldest set
tlers of Garfield county and one of
the 'owners and platters of the origi
nal town of Burwell, dropped dead on
the streets at Burwell.
The office of assistant division su
perintendent for the district from
Grand Island to North Platte has been
abolished, and Superintendent Austin
Taylor is legislated out of office, as it
were.
The merchants of Falrbury all re
port one of the most 'successful busi
ness years during 1907 in their experi
ence. It is impossible to find a single
instance where there is not an ad
vance over last year's trade reported.
Deputy County Clerk Carrig of
Platte county has been employed late
ly in checking up the unpaid taxes for
the twenty-four years up to 1904 an
has found, that the taxes unpaid for
those years amount to the little sum
of $212.28.
West Point and the surrounding
country has experienced a remarkable
growth in new buildings of the best
class -during the year 1907. In the
business portion of the city many
new, solidly constructed buildings of
brick and stone have been erected.
The body of a man found hanging to
a haystack four miles north of Hast
ings has been Identified as that of
John Ambrose of Tamora, and the
theory of murder is held by his
friends. The remains were identified
by Steve Walters of Doniphan, who
fomerly knew Ambrose when he
worked on a farm near Doniphan.
' Judge H. D. Travis, who succeeds
Judge Paul Jessen of Nebraska City
on the bench of the Second judicial
district, will hold court during the
year 1908 as follows: Plattsmoutb,
February 24; jury, March 2; equity.
May 4, September 8. and jury, Octo
ber 5. Nebraska City, March 30; jury.
April 6; equity, June 1; jury, Novem
ber 16.
The total deposits of the Custer
county banks is almost $1,500,000 and
the cash reserve of these banks is
more than $500,000. The exact figures
show 41.4 per cent of the total de
posits to be held in cash at the time
the statements were made. There are
twenty banks in Custer county, of
which seventeen are state banks and
three are national banks.
George Brierton. a farmer living in
Spring Branch, Stanton county, called
at the home of his neighbor. D. W.
Lycan. and proposed a rabbit hunt.
Mr. Lycan assented, and he and his
son equipped themselves and joined
him. In the course of the hunt Brier
ton's gun was exploded, the shot tak
ing effect In the body at the waist.
He died in fifteen minutes.
A bold attempt was made to steal a
team of horses belonging to Charles
Korff, a drayman of Nebraska City.
About 8 a. m. Thornton Lee, who Is in
the employ of. Mr. Korff, stepped out
of his door and saw a man leading a
team of horses out of KorfTs barn.
He yelled to him, asking him what he
was doing with the horses. The man
dropped the bridles and ran, making
good his escape.
The work on the deep well being
sunk by the Otoe Development com
pany is progressing rapidly and the
big drill is being sunk deeper into the
earth each day. Several times of
late traces of oil have been shown
and now the well being down where
it is dry and everything shows up in
the cores being taken out, evidence of
oil is visible and the stockholders are
jubilant over the outlook.
Stuart, the son ofLRev. and Mrs. O.
L. Sarber of the Baptist church. Grand
Island, lies in a critical condition, the
result of being thrown from the farn
ily horse, his head striking a tekv
phone pole and his right leg being
broken.
One of the most elaborate social
events of the season took place at
Minden, when forty plates were laid
by the Minden, Bar association in
honor of the retirement from the
bench of Judge Ed L. Adams. Speeches
were made by all the members of the
local bar.
W. L. Gettle, who is in the United
States navy, being an electrician on
the president's yacht, the Mayflower,
was in Table Rock on a ten days' fur
lough. He came home to visit his
parents.
After receiving a telegram from
Captain Nichols of the battleship Ne
braska that the presentation ceremony
of , the silver service could be held at
any time after January 12, Governor
SheMon announced that he would at
tend if possible and that he would be
accompanied by his staff. No date
for the ceremony has been named.
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WASHINGTON.
If there ever lived
a man whose ap
pearance would
saggest that the
'blood had become
tame and ready to
wait on the judg
ment that man is
David A. De Ar
mond, representa
tive in congress
from Missouri, yet
it was the self-contained,
apparently
absolutely impas
sive David De Ar-
mond who walked over to the desk of
John Sharp Williams not long ago.
called him a liar, received the retort
courteous in the way of a blow and
then returned in kind.
At a distance the Missouri repre
sentative looks like a man of 25; at
close range he looks like a man of
75. Most people see him at a dis
tance the gallery distance and
Opportunity for
SPECIFICA-
tions for the con
struction of a dirig
ible balloon for the
use of the army
and for which the
signal service of
the war depart
ment asked pro
posals, were issued
the other day by
Gen. Allen, the
chief signal officer.
The specifications
are quite elaborate,
and are framed
with the view of securing the best
poscible balloon which the latest de
velopments in aerial navigation can
produce. The balloon is to be of silk,
inflated with hydrogen capable of
carrying two people weighing 350
pounds, with 100 pounds of ballast,
must be capable of making a speed of
20 miles per hour in still air, though
a lower speed may be proposed at re
duced cost, down to 16 miles, or a
higher speed up to 24 miles at an en
hanced cost. It must make an endur-
Says Soldiers
THE abolition of
the canteen has
made it impossible
for the United
States army recruit
ing station to keep
the army and naVy
supplied with able
bodied men.
This is the drift
of the report made
by Capt. Johnson
Hagood of the coast
artillery service,
who was detailed a
year ago to look
'into the reason why
it is so difficult to induce men to enter
the army and navy.
' The publication makes a volume of
100 printed pages, profusely illus
trated. The illustrations convey in
the most graphic manner an idea of
the slender proportions to which Uncle
Sam's regular army is now reduced in
point of numbers. A full page frontis
piece depicts a company of infantry
starting from Fort Niagara on a 21
day practice march, with nine men in
the ranks, although the authorized
strength was 65 men, and some of the
other pictures show an even worse
Sr
l RECRUITING j
STATION I
Why Candler Was Turned Down
THE one Demo
crat in the house
of representatives
who has a thorough
right to growl at
Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon is Repre
sentative Ezekiel
Samuel Candler.
Jr., of Mississippi,
representing Ita
wamba, Noxubee.
Oktibbeha, Tisho
mingo and some
other counties of
the good old south
ern state. In theMast congress Eze
kiel Samuel made a' speech in favor of
a bill appropriating a large sum of
money for the improvement of the
Tombigbee river. Mr. Candler came
within an ace of making the Tombig
bee as famous, temporarily at least,
as Private John Allen, a fellow Missis
slpplaa, made the town Tupelo.
There were prose and song in equal
measure in. the Mlssissipplan's plea
for the Tombigbee. He wanted a
huge sum ot money, but prose and
song failed of their purpose, notwith
standing the fact that the house had
a light and an agreeable time of it for
several hours while 'the loyal Missis
sippian held forth in his pleadings.
Now as for Mr. Candler's right to
growl at Speaker Cannon. The Re
publican chieftain wants to keep down
the appropriations this winter. For
some reason or other he has an idea
that the agricultural department is
likely to have some special pleaders
for money before the committee on ag
riculture. Representative Caadler was
a member of this committee in the
last congress, and he wanted to be a
member of it In this congress. Mr.
Cannon, however, remembered the
plea for the millions for the Improve
ment of the Tombigbee river that the
Mtoslsaippian had made last year
wits a perfect face and a perfect faith.
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sir
these loag-range bhaervera read. withv
absolute amazement, the statement
that the Mlssoariaa to C3 years old.
To account for the act of the seeming
ly self-contained one In calliag Us
colleague a liarthere are people to
declare that it was not De Armond
who used "the shorter and uglier
word." it was Missouri. There to
something in this, doubtless.
David A. De Armond is a lawyer,
one of the best, so it is said. In the
congress. He was appointed one of
the managers on the part of the house
in the impeachment proceedings
against .Judge Swayne, of Florida.
Everything that De Armond says
apparently is measured, hut neverthe
less there is no halting in his speech,
and what he says is well worth lis
tening to, and, what's more, it is lis
tened to. De Armond is the last man
In the house of representatives who
would be named as one likely to be
engaged in a brawl. let alone to bring
on the brawl by a heated word out of
his own mouth.
Airihip Inventors
ance flight of two hours at an aver
age speed of 70 per cent, of the trial
requirements, and must maintain its
equilibrium without change of posi
tion by the aeronaut
One of the features of the specifica
tions that will appeal particularly to
inventors of limited financial means is
that relative to the silk to be used in
the construction of the balloon. This
is one of the most expensive items in
the machine, and it is stated that tho
material for the gas bag will be fur
nished by the government. The sig
nal office has procured some samples
of silk of great strength, pliability and
closeness of texture. It weighs 5,842
ounces per square yard and has a
minimum breaking strength of 62
pounds per inch width. This mate
rial requires no varnish, but is to be
covered with an aluminum prepara
tion, which will not only make it gas
tight, but will, by reflecting the rays
of the sun. prevent a considerable loss
of hydrogen, such as occurs when an
ordinary balloon is suddenly exposed
to the increased .temperature of the
sunlight upon emerging from a cloud.
Want Canteen
state of affairs. Capt Hagood's re
port is based upon a large number of
reports secured by him from the dif
ferent army posts.
The report also undertakes to show
why soldiers will not stay in the army,
some of the answers being based on
'demands for restoration of the can
teen, less frequent change of station,
fewer court-martials, building gymna
siums and increased pay.
It is shown that the only other great
nation maintaining an army of any
size by voluntary enlistment Great
Britain pays her soldiers more than
the United States, although the cost
of living is much less in the case of
the British soldier.
The report shows the changes that
have occurred in recent years in the
expense of living at the army posts;
how the value of the allowances has
shrunken, how traveling expenses of
officers with families have increased
through abolition of passes and re
duced rates of fare; bow more fre
quent changes of post involve heavy
household expenses, and Capt Hagood
points out that unprecedentedly it is
now very difficult to obtain suitable
material to fill the numerous vacan
cies at West Point.
and came to the conclusion that a man
who could ask for millions as another
man might ask for hundreds would be
teo easy a mark for the beguiling 'ones
of the agricultural department
Mr. Cannon therefore refused to
give Mr. Candler the place on the ag
ricultural committee and gave him ter
ritories instead. In refusing the agri
cultural committee berth to the Missis
slpplan the speaker made the only re
fusal exception to the rule of granting
requests for committee places made
on behalf of the Democrats by John
Sharp Williams. Candler alone was
singled out for denial, and to-day he
refuses to be comforted.
"The Song of the Shirt"
The select committee of the Brit
ish house of commons, in taking
testimony recently in regard to the
control and regulation of the con
ditions under which home work is
carried on. heard the evidence of the
president of the Women's Trade
Union league.
She said that the difficulty in or
ganizing home workers was due to
the fact that they were too poor to
help themselves. This witness men
tioned the case of a woman known
to her who could earn only 75 cents
a week by shirt making. She men
tioned the case of another shlrtmaker
who received only 31 cents a dozen
1 for making shirts.
The witness produced blue cotton
shirts which were made for 13 cents
a dozen. She said that without char
itable subsidies or poor law relief
the persons who accepted these low
wages could not exist
What He Wanted.
Captain of the Regiment Men, I
want a man of nerve for a hazardous
piece of work. A man who cannot be
repulsed and a man afraid of no one.
Volunteer Captain. I'm yoar man.
I need to be a book agent Detroit,
Free Press.
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