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.TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1900 TOPEKA STATE MTJilL ET FRANK P. MAC LEWUH. PLUME XXVII No. 310 TBHMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered ov carrier, M. ents a ween to fin part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the sime prlca In any Kan sas town where the paper Baa a carrier fvstfra. By mail, ens year on Py mail, tiree months r" Weekly ed.tion. one year ... PERMANENT HOME. Topeka Slate Journal building. SW and S02 Kansas avenue, corner or Eighth. !?KW TOPIC OFFTCK. Temple Court Blflft. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. Stock Exchange 3ldg. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 1! Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. rto-1ne?s OfTic-.'.-.r Bell 'PhoT' 111 Reporters" Room Bell "Phone 677 Perhaps Mr. Sells -will charge the cost of his divorce suit to the advertising ac count of the show. Santa Claus behaved this year In a n ay to set aside all doubts as to his ex istence for a loni? time to come. The United States treasury will have a chance to recuperate to some extent w hile congress is taking its holiday re cess. Bank robbers, railroad bandits and kidnapers appear to be taking a holiday along with the remainder of the world's workers. It seems strange that the British con tlnue to hunt the Boers when every time they find them the queen's soldiers pay dearly for their success. The main point of similarity between the ligeslature of Porto Rico and those of many states of the Union, appears to be that in both nothing is accomplished. Mr. Bryan is a wise financier. Be fore starting a newspaper he secured a farm on which probably he hopes to make enough money to keep the news paper going. Since vaccination is being brought in to use to prevent so many afflictions, perhaps it might be tried effectually by the government on West Point cadets as a means of warding oft hazing. Something like 200,000 Englishmen fail ed to get the plum pudding to which they are accustomed at Christmas time by reason of the fact that they were rlaying hide and seek with, the Boers in South Africa. Mr. Cleveland has divulged another secret which would have been more wel come to Democrats before election. He now declares that he did not vote for McKinley. What his party wanted was that he should say two months ago that he would not vote for the Republican candidate. Chicago Chronicle: There Is some reason to doubt whether the enda of Justice will be furthered by Mr. Cud ahy's offer of $25,000 reward for the ar rest of the men who kidnaped his son. Already there are indications that per fectly innocent men may be railroaded to the penitentiary or lynched in order that unscrupulous detectives may claim the reward. The thing has been done before and the temptation offered by the heavy reward is a strong one. One of the Philadelphia sugar refiners, who formerly sold out to the sugar trust, is to build a big independent plant. A new sheet steel competitor is announced almost daily. The United States Rubber company declares that it Is tired of "holding up the umbrella" for rival concerns, and has found them so numerous that it will declare war. A $3,000,000 rival to the glucose combina tion is announced, and so on. This leads the Pittsburg Dispatch to ask: "If the purpose of the trusts is to make prices cheaper by superior economy and or ganization why should that invite new capital Into the business? " How can the United States Rubber company be hold ing the umbrella, much more getting tired of doing so, if its trust organiza tion makes Its cost of production and handling cheaper than in the case of any of these misguided persons who in sist on going into the business?" SOME SUBSIDY HISTORY. From the Philadelphia Record. A great many years ago (in 1872) a question of steamship subsidy had a very interesting connection with the men who then guided the councils of the Republican party. That matter has an intimate relation to the present con troversy, and for this reason it deserves to be well considered, especially by those who have been persuaded that the Re publican party is committed to the pol icy of ship bounties. The Pacific Mail company was then making strong ef forts to secure a renewal of its subsidy; and with these efforts there mingled some scandalous revelations of corrup tion. As a result of the scandal the sub sidy bill was defeated in the house with out much consideration of lta character and intent. But In the senate the whole question of subsidy then underwent a thorough discussion. No less distinguished a Re publican than Senator Morrill, of Ver mont, the "Father of the Tariff of 1S61," declared that he was opposed to grant ing a dollar of subsidy to the Pacific Mail company. He said that the true policy was to give shipbuilders a rebate of duties on materials of construction; and under his counsels shipbuilding ma terial have been admitted free for many years. But now, in the revolution of commerce, the most Important ma terials of shipbuilding are exported.and a rebate of duties Is of no further con sequence. Senator Sherman, the pre decessor of Senator Hanna, also opposed eteamship subsidy as a chimera and a delusion. He argued that in free ships was the only practicable way of restor ing the American merchant marine. If Ehip3 could be built in England thirty per cent cheaper than they could be built In this country, he asked, why not admit free ships? He predicted that if such a course should be pursued half the steamship lines between the United States and England would be American within sixty days. However this may have been in 1872, there is no doubt that if the navigation laws should now be repealed the American flag would rise as by magic over a great merchant marine on the high seas. But Senators Morrill and Sherman were not the only distinguished Repub- lican statesmen who opposed the re newal of the Pacific Mall contract In particular, and the whole steamship subsidy in general. Senator Morton, of Indiana, the most sagacious of party leaders, expressed his opposition to sub sidy In strong terms. Senator Harlan, of Iowa, declared that the granting of subsidies of bounties to stimulate in vestments of capital In any branch of business would not be desirable legisla tion. Last, but not least. Senator Zachary Chandler, of Michigan (for long time chairman of the Republican national committee,) declared that he hoped to see the day when the country's merchant marine would be again in the lead; but he did not believe It could be attained by subsidy even at the expen diture of $10,000,000 a year. This seemed to the senator from Michigan a pre posterous sum for steamship subsidy and yet the Frye-Hanna scheme comes within a million of it. , GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. A "Quit Roasting Tour Friends" soci ety has been organized in Atcmson. The air isn't let entirely out of the Christmas balloon until the New Year's bill3 begin to come in. Most of you, in exchanging Christmas presents, will reel teat you are entitled to boot. There never was a woman's resolution to work hard that could resist etoppine to eat peanuts or look at a love story A woman should insist upon a church marriage, for she then has the satisrac tion of knowing that once in her life she got her husband to go to church. This is the season when a woman with a superior, contented air, suddenly screams and fails in a fit: she has just remembered soma one she forgot to buy a present for. "The Boston people," says a corres pondent, "are the most conceited peopl' in the world about their native place.' We wonder if the correspondent ever knew any Pennsylvanians It is related that a man awoke one morning with a terrible bust head, af ter a night of carousal. Having a cur iosity to see how tough he looked, he reached out for a hand mirror, but se curtd Instead a hair brush. Thinking he had the hand mirror in his hand he gazed at the bristle side, and eaid:"Gosli; but I need a shave!" Milan Herald: The remains of the late John Good was the most beautiful adult corpse It has been our lot to see. Just in the prime of life, a full high fore head, face smooth shaven, upper Up shaded with a neat mustache, a fine broadcloth suit, a white collar and black necktie, adjusted neatly to a shirt bos om. It was as one in a sweet slumber on a bed of down. The editor of the Globe yesterday dined on the Duke of Burgundy, son of Harold the Mighty, a Belgian hare sent by William Gurwell, postmaster of Fan ning. A good many Belgian hares have been sold in this section at high prices, but so far as we know, this is the first one eaten. Belgian hare meat is very much like plain rabbit, and no one eats rabbit except the boys who kill them. The Duke of Burgundy was young and fat, but not very much superior to ordi nary cotton tail, except that he was not shot up. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Some actors acnear at their ba&t in a dying scene. But for prejudice more opinions would become universal. Unless people swallow flattery It Is apt to make them sick. Little sins are the eggs from which great sorrows are hatched. Some female fools and their fathers' money acquire foreign titles. A miser is never contented until he ia put to bed with a shovel. A Cincinnati policeman recently ar rested a legless man because he had no visible means of support. With the single exception of being un able to decline marriage many a girls grammar is absolutely faultless. It has been said that speech was given man to enable him to conceal his thoughts, but it was a needless precau tion to many cases. QUAKES REFLECTION'S. TFrom the Philadelphia Record. Glue should be sold by the stick. It's only natural for a bright man to refiect. One way to get rid of creditors Is to pay them. The man who owns an oil well has the fat of the land. Trimming the Christmas many a man's pocketbook. tree trims It's funny if the flight of time can't be arrested that anybody can stop a min ute. "The man who thinks he can do it all," says the Manayunk Philosopher, "gen erally never tries to do any of it." "Were you thinking of suicide when I saw you on the slot machine today?" queried the Simple Mug. "Suicide?" re peated the Wise Guy. "Yes, doing a weigh with yourself." The new boarder had been three weeks in the house. "It is usual," said the landlady, with great delicacv, "for mv lodgers to pay as -they go." "Oh, that's all right," he replied affably, "I'm not going for a long time." "It would be better If you'd hold still sir," suggested the barber. "Ain't you afraid of me cutting your throat?""No," answered the victim, with another lurch, "not as long as you use that razor." A certain love-stricken young Mr. Caught a girl 'neath the holly and kr. And then he got mad It was really too bad When he found it was only his sr. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE On the Grand. Canon of Arizona. The Ladles' Music club has secured Mr. N. M. Brigham, the celebrated lec turer, for the evening of January 4, when he will deliver his illustrated lecture on the "Grand Canon." It will be given at toe First Christian church. LN HOTEL CORRIDORS "Few people appreciate the way bus! ness was done in the western counties during the boom days," said a gentle man at the Copeland. "I lived in Stev ens county and in Scott county while he wild rush to get land was on, and I lived there some time afterward when every, man was trying to make a living by going into politics because the land would not raise enough to support them and the money brought in by the settlers had all been spent. The thing that caught the western Kansan more than anything else was the fact that he could vote bonds and sell them. It seemed such an easy way of making money that no western county overlooked the op portunity, and mighty few eastern coun ties avoided the evil. But everybody in the west understands about the bonds. What I intended telling you was an In stance in the bond issuing business which I have never heard equaled, al though about all the fool bond issues have been written about until tney are tiresome. The issue that I speak of was made for the purpose of starting a sugar factory, the sugar to be made of sugar beets. After the bonds were issued it was impossible to sell them, for the eastern buyers were getting scared about the western bonds, so the county officials decided to trade the bonds for windmills, which were to be put up all over the county to pump water to be used in irrigating. It was the flightiest schema ever proposed, but anything seemed feasible to a western Kansas man in those days, and the deal went through. The windmill men backed out of their bargain, and that was the only reason the county is not dotted witn windmills. The bonds are not worth the paper they are printed upon, for they were repudiated or annulled or some thing of that kind. I have in my pos session the original contract oetween the windmill company and the county commissioners agreeing to trade the bonds for windmills, but I have not seen one of the bonds for some time. A man who was anxious to see one of the bonds called with myself upon one of the men who had been a county commissioner, and asked him to show us one of the bonds. He looked at us in an injured way, and then holding up his coat that we might see tne patches on nis trous ers, said: 'Do I look like a bondholder?" That was all we got out of him in re gard to the bonds. I suppose some one knows w-here the bonds are, but they would be mighty hard to find, for bust ness was done in a very slack way in the western counties in those days, and it would be difficult to find them." I got my head bumped In a very beautiful manner when I was reporting on a paper In southern Kansas, said a newspaper man. it was a scoop tnat cost nie a great many cigars, and It is still thrown up to me when I go to tne town. I had a very good friend who was principal of one of the schools and was also quite prominent in society circles. as society circles go in small towns. He was engaged to a young lady, but that was known only to the intimate friends and the people the intimate friends told. The marriage was expected and looked forward to by all the town gossips, and goodness knows the town was blessed with its share of them. There was an other little daily published in the town. It was a morning sheet, while the paper I worked on was supposed to come out in the afternoon. If I missed a personal and the morning paper got it, every one n the town knew I had been scooped, and I was told about It at least a dozen times during the day. The teacher had confided in me that he was to be mar ried and had asked me to engage the wedding ring for him, as he did not want the jeweler to give the thing away as he would be sure to do if he pur chased the ring personally. I bit at the bait like a fish and told him that I would get the ring when he wanted it. He was to tell me the afternoon be fore the evening of the wedding. I thought it was a snap, as he could not possibly get married without first tell- ng me, and I would have it In the paper in the afternoon. One afternoon about twenty minutes before press time was called up at the telephone, and a woman's voice asked me if we had in the paper that the 'professor' would be married that evening. I answered that we did not have it because the marriage would not take place that night. The female at the other end of the line as sured me that she knew they would be married, and that if I did not have it in I -would be laughed at in the morn ing for losing the item. I thought I had a cinch on the business, and gave her the laugh. Well, that night the teacher did get married, and I had lost a great piece of news for that town. He had simply put up a job on me, the wed ding ring business being a bluff. He was not afraid of the jeweler but he was afraid of me, and he took about the only possible way to keep me from publishing the fact that the marriage would take place when it did. His ob ject was to avoid the crowd that would Burely congregate to throw rice and old shoes. They got off on the train that night without more than a dozen people knowing about it. If I had got the item in there would have been at least a hundred, and I would have headed the crowd. The next day it cost me at least two boxes of cigars, which is a terrible strain on a ten dollar salary." This Is the city where the chief of police came from who was robbed when It Hangs On We are talking about your cough. One cold no sooner passes off before another comes. But it's the same old cough all the time. And it's the same old story, too. There is first the cold, then the cough, then pneumonia or consumption, with the lone sickness and life trembling in the balance. Cherry IPectqrsl loosens the grasp of your cough. The congestion of the throat and lungs is removed ; all in flammation is subdued ; the parts are put perfectly at rest, and the cough drops away. Three sizes: 2 sc., wc- fi.oo. All drug- , gists. J. C Ays. st Co, Lowell, Mass. j er's he came to our town," said a traveling man from Kansas City at the National. "Didn't you ever hear the story? Well, I have heard the old policemen in my town tell about It several times. It was during some kind of a blowout. I don remember now just what the occasion was, but people from all the adjoining towns were pouring in to see the fun- ana tne crow-a and among tnem was tne chief of police from Topeka, He did not intend to stay long, and did not take me irouDie to cnange his doming De fore going down. He was dressed in his uniform and had his badge pinned on his breast. He had got off the train and was walking up Union avenue when ne saw two men fighting m an aney. The policeman's instinct was too strong for him, so he rushed ur to them ana succeeded In parting them before they nao none eacn other mucn aamage. it took quite a struggle to quiet the men, and then he told them that he was really not a member of the Kansas City force and had no right to arrest them, and that If they would promise to be good he would not call a policeman. He looked very severe, and gave them a sharp talk. They promised that they would go quietly about their business if he would say nothing about their little disagreement, so he let them go and they were auickly out of sight The chief was feeling good over his first adventure of the day. and he was think ing that it would not be a bad incident to relate when he got home, and maybe he might tell the chief of the Kansas City, police about it, just to show him that he was not afraid of the Kansas City toughs. It occurred to him that it was- about time to go up town, so he felt for his watch and found It missing. It was a valuable gold watch and high ly prized as It was a present, but it was gone, and it flashed in the chief's mind that the fighters had touched him. He told of the affair to the Kansas City police, but it was not in the spirit that he had Intended telling of the adventure. The watch was never found, and the Kansas City police still tell about it." BIG TIME COMING. Arrangements Por Twentieth Century Ball Nearly Completed. The arrangements are all completed for the Twentieth Century Inaugural fete next Monday night. No expense haa been spared In working out every detail of the great social and historical event of the season. The entertainment from 8 o'clock until 9:30; the refreshments, the decora tions, the music, the midnight ceremony, the dancing and all the little details for the evening have been worked out and the close or the. nineteenth century will witness the grandest event ever under taken in the west. . . , Tickets are now on sale to those hold ing invitations at Stans-field's, Woolver ton's. Moore's. Kellam's and Arnold's. Parties who have been overlooked in the matter of invitations should not hesitate to call for them. They ought to realize that the invitation committee has had vast amount of work to do and has una voidably missed some names. The bal cony tickets can be secured in advance at the above places at 25 cents. Single tickets entitling the holder to all the privileges or the nrst noor are on sale at $1 each. The names of all those who at tend will be handsomely engrossed in al phabetical order and placed in the State Historical society for the inspection of tuture generations. A. canopy from the sidewalk to the front entrance will be placed for the -accommodation of ruests. i ne entertainment portion or tne pro gramme will commence promptly at 8 o ciock ana me nrst notes or cna n-ann marca win ne sounaea at :3U. NEED LAND INFORMATION. State Auditor Cole Has a Plan to Help Immigration. State Auditor Cole'will ask the legisla ture to enact a law providing for reports from county clerks to the auditor showing the amount of land still owned by the state. The necesstiv of such a law was dis covered todav. K. M. J. Heina, New York city, wrote to Governor Stanley ask ing ror information as to tne location and price of land now obtainable in the state. The purpose is to establish a colony of Finlanders in the state, direct from the grand duchy on the north of Russia. In the years past the Finlanders enjoyed a separate government, but Russia ex tended her domains and absorbed the country. There was much trouble there at ter, ending in an edict tnat the Fin landers might enjoy their own religion. Now it seems that a new edict has ffone out which deprives the Finlanders of the opportunity to continue as Protestants, which is responsible for what Dr. Heina says '"will be a general exodus from that country to this." me county clerks have the information which the governor desired the auditor to furnish. In the absence of renorts from them the state departments cannot furnish such information as Is asked for In this case. AN INSURANCE CHANGE. John C. Stanton Resigns as State Manager For Equitable. John C. Stanton. 1r.. state manager for the Equitable Life Insurance association, has resigned. Two managers have been appointed to succeed him in charge of the Kansas branch. They are Daniel F. Cobb and Thos. H. McDeamoa of St. Louis. The change becomes effective January Messrs. Cobb and McDeamon are ex pected to arrive and take charge of the office in the Stormont building in a few davs. Mr. Stanton left the citv lust be fore Christmas, going to New Tork city. MR. ROBY PROMOTED. Topeka Man Becomes Manager of Omaha Linseed Oil Plant. L. L. Robv has gone to Omaha to be come manager for the linseed oil works at that place. Mr. itoDy has ror many years Deen in charge of the Topeka works and even after the trust absorbed the Topeka plant ne was retained, duc spent part or tne time traveling. His new position enlarges his field. HOLIDAY RATES Via "Rock Island Route." One fare for the round trip to points within 200 miles, west of Missouri river. Tickets sold Dec. 22. 23, 24, 25, and 31. 1900, and Jan. 1, 1901. Return limit, Jan. 2, 1901. Pneumonia Prevented. Among the tens of thousands who have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds and la grippe during the past few years, to our knowledge, not a single case has resulted in pneumonia. Thos. Whit field & Go., 240 Wabash avenue. Chicago, one of the most prominent retail druggists in that citv, in speaking of this, says; "We recommencr Chamberlain's Cough Remedv for la grippe in many cases, as it not only gives prompt and complete re covery, but also counteracts any tendency of la grippe to result in pneumonia." For sale by ail druggists. HOLIDAY RATES Via "Rock. Island Route. " One fare for the round trip to points within 200 miles, west of Missouri river. Tickets sold Dec. 22, 23, 24, 25, and 31, 1900. and Jan. 1, 1901. Return limit, Jan. 2, 1901. Sciatic Rheumatism Cured. I,. Wagner, wholesale druggist, Rich mond, Va.. savs: "I had a fearful attack .f Sciatic Rheumatism, was laid up al most two months; was fortunate enough to get Mvstic Cure for Rheumatism. This cured me after doctor's prescriptions had failed to have anv effect. I have also heard of fine results from others who have used it." Sold by Swift & Holllday, 523 Kansas avenue, druggists, Topeka. TALKED OUr OF IT. Topeka Conple Decided to Get Married bat Did Not. That the course of true love never did run smooth a pair of Topeka youngsters are willing to believe. They went away Christmas to be married, the Journey being made to the home of the young man's parents at Ottawa. John Anthony, a clerk In the Santa Fe offices, is the young man In the case. Santa Walker is the bride that was to have been. When young Anthony and little Miss Walker, full of hopes and plans for their future happiness, arrived at the home of the expectant groom's father, George Anthony, the expected paternal blessing was denied. The young people were talked to and argued with. They were prevailed upon to abandon their pro posed marriage and return to Topeka. At last they consented, being talked out out ox tne notion, it la said, ana re turned to this city. Mr. Anthony, father of one of the principals, is In Topeka today to get to the bottom of the affair. His con cern now is to learn whether the young people may not have stolen a march and are already married. Miss Walker be longs to a well known and highly re spected family. DEFENDS THE TURKS. Sr. Angell Discusses the Failure to Get a Treaty. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 27. Immediately after Peter White, of Marquette, Mich had called the first meeting of the six teenth annual session of the American Historical association to order today in the absence of President Eggleston, dis cussion of "The Crusades and tjie east," was taken up. Prof. George L. Burr of Cornell university was the first speaker with a paper on "The year one thousand and antecedents of tne cru sade." He was followed by Prof. Oliver J. Thatcher of the University of Chicago, on "Critical work on the sources of the first crusade." President James B. Angell of the Uni versity of Michigan, ex-minister to Tur key, read a paper on "The Capitulation in Turkey. Dr. Angell reviewed the history of the capitulations of Turkey to foreign pow ers, from 1453 to the present time, dur ing which, he said, France had an ex ceptional advantage there. Referring to the trouble between the United States and Turkey in getting a proper treaty signed. Dr. Angell said the Turks claim ed that while four treaties had been submitted, an authentic translation of none of them had been submitted. Dr. Angell said he believed there was much truth in the claims of the Turks. REFORM OF THE ARMY. It la Begun in a Sensational Manner in England. London. Dec. 27. The war office has begun the promised reform of the army in a sensational manner. It has de manded the resignation of Major Gen eral Sir Henry Colville, commanding an infantry brigade at Gibraltar, and re cently commanding the Ninth division of the South Africa field force. General Colville refuses to resign and is now on his way to England. The news is all the more startling as. the question of General Colville's responsibility for the yeomanry disaster at Lindlay last May was fully investigated by the authori ties when General Coville returned from South Africa last summer. After the in quiry General Colville was reinstated in his command at Gibraltar in Septem ber last. The attitude of the war office indicates that a new regime in Pall Mall will re verse the decisions of Lord Lansdowne and Lord Wolseley in regard to some of the recent commanders in South Af rica. General Colville, like General Methuen, has always been a great so cial personage in London, and a promi nent club man. He has had a most dis tinguished military career, has been re peatedly mentioned in dispatches, and is familiarily known a3 "Gdgers." He also a well known author, and on the occasion of his marriage created a stir by going on his honeymoon in a balloon. Disclaims Responsibility. The Hague, Dec 27. On the reassem bling of the senate today.Senator Regens disclaimed, on behalf of the house, all responsibility for the letter of the pres ident of the senate to Mr. Kruger, De cember 7. In so doing the senator point ed out that the senate merely authorized the president to express sympathy with Sir. Kruger. In the letter alluded to above the president of the senate of The Netherlands, expressed approval of "the noble purpose of Mr. Kruger in at tempting to put a stop to the unjust war forced on him in such a barbarous manner," and expressing the hope "that it will result in the independence of the republics being assured forever." American Physical Society Meets. New York. Dec. 27. The second Quarter ly meeting of the American Physical so ciety began in this city today. President Henrv A. Rowland presided. This so ciety embraces nearly all of the professors of physics in the leading universities of the country and other scientific men. British Move Against Boxers, Tien Tsin, Dec. 27. A force of 1,100 Brit ish troops, with two guns and a Maxim, haa gone to Tang Tsun to attack the box ers in tnat vicinity ana protect tne rail way. The Germans and Japanese are clearing the river of pirates from Taku to Tien Tsin. County Clerks Coming. The County Clerks' association of Kati- as will meet in Topeka Ja.nuary 16 and 17. This will be .the eighteenth annual meet ing of the association. The object of the meeting is to secure legislation along lines artectmg county cierxs. tounty ierK Wright, who is president of the associa tion, is sending out the notices of the meeting today. LOCAL MENTION. Fred and Will Cooper, the colored boy 4 convicted of burglary, were sent to th-j Reformatory in Hutchinson this morn ing. C. H.Thompson and Belle Godard were married by Judge Dolman this morninsr W. E. Wiltse, probate judge of Os borne county, is in the city. The probate Judges of the state will meet tomorrow in Judge Dolman' office to organize a state association. The Kansas Hotel Keepers associa tion will meet in Kansas City January 2. They will reorganize the association and will take in all the hotel keepers in Missouri who desire to join. The hotel men of Kansas City will entertain the association and a good time is expected by the members. "Harry, yesterday was our wedding anniversary, and you never said a word about it." "Well, my dear, I felt It In my bones that it waa some sort of a big day, but I couldn't remember what it was." In dianapolis Journal. PLAGUE CLAIMS. Gov. Dole Will Recommend That They Be Paid. Washington, Dec. 27. It is expected that Governor Dole of Hawaii will make a recommendation to the Hawaiian leg islature which meets in February for the settlement of the claims of Chinese and Japanese, growing out of the destruc tion of their property at Honolulu at the tim" of the bubonic plague outbreak. It appears that the Chinese claims are less than was at first estimated and that the tota' of Japanese and Chinese claims is approximately $1,800,000. The Chinese government has not been in a condition of late to exert pressure In behalf of the claims of its citizens, but the Japanese authorities have been actively looking out for the losses sus tained by their countrymen and now seems to be in a fair way of securing partial or entire remuneration. Governor Dole suggested a short time ugo that the matter be referred to the Hawaiian leg islature and this was approved by the officials here as the best means of ad justment. It is probable however, that Governor Dole's recommendation will be considerably below the face value or the claims. There appears to be little doubt that the legislature will authorize a settlement. FAITH IN CONGRESS. Chairman Hull Thinks Army Bill Will Go Through. Washington, Dec. 27. Representative Hull, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, apparently does not share the fear expressed in some quarters that the army reorganization bill will fail at this session of congress and that a makeshift temporarily continuing the present provisional army will have to be resorted to. He was at the White house today in conference with the president and Senator Allen regarding some Iowa appointments ana slated nis pertect con fidence in the speedy enactment of the army bill. "I have canvassed the situation in the senate," said he. "and I believe that the differences between the parties on the measure win De adjusted within a week alter tne bin goes to conference." KILLED BY A DEAD MAN. A. G. Hales, in the London News.1 Kt our dead lay, and grinned at those otner aeaa, and the fierce sun dried flesh and blood on Briton and on Boer, for notn remained unburied for a while: ana so it came to pass that a Boer com mando retook the lines where those who died for us were lying, and as they marched among our dead they saw a sergeant lying at full length, shot through the brain, yet even in death the man looked like some fighting machine suddenly gone out of order. His rifle- was pressed against his shoulder, his left hand grasped the barrel on the un der side, the forefingers of the right hand pressed the trigger lightly, the oarrei rested out upon a rock, and his death dulled eye still glared along the sights, for dissolution had come to him Just as he bent his head to fire at those who shot him, and now his hands had stiffened in the unbendable stiffness of eternal sleep. A Boer soldier saw the sergeant as he lay, and with rude hands grasped the rifle by the barrel and tried to jerk it from the dead man's grip, but as he pulled he brought the rifle In line with his own breast and the unyielding finger on the trigger did the rest, the rifle spoke from the dead man's hand. and the bullet passing through the Boer's heart laid him beside the Briton. Sounds like a Journalistic lie, does it not? Read it in a novel, and you would laugh, would you not? But it is the eternal truth, all the same, for the com rade of the Boer who died that day, killed by a dead man, told me the tale himself, and he was one of those who planted the dead Dutchman on the slope of Spion Kop. An Albatross's Lease of Life. From the London Globe. A writer in "Nature" says Sir William Corry told him some time ago that on one of his steamships coming from New Zealand an albatross, supposed to have been choked dead, kept in an ice box at a temperature which was always much below freezing point, was found to be alive at the end of 14 days. Captain Reed, in command of the vessel in ques tion, supplements the story with the statement that the bird was supposed to be killed by being strangled with twine tied as tightly as possible round the neck. This twine was not removed. The beak was closed and tied and the legs crossed behind the tail and tied. It was then wrapped in an old meat cloth and put with three other birds in the return box at the end of the port snow trunk. It remained there for certainly not less than ten days. On the snow bny complaining that the bird "grunted" when he went near it, the albatross Wms taken out, when it was found that lr could move its neck about and open its beak, and the eyes were open and life like. The lower half of the body and the legs were frozen hard. The fasten ing on the beak had come off. It was alive for two hours after being taken ! out, and was then strangled and put in tne snow pox. Complications in Caserta's Marriage. From the London News.1 The Count and Countess Caserta look forward to the wedding of their second son, Prince Charles, with the Princess of Asturias taking place toward the end of January. Their eldest son, who was also brought up in Spain, married not long ago the Princess Marie of Bavaria, granddaughter of the Grand Duchess KMzabeth, mother of Queen Christina, and daughter of the Este Modena Prin cess whom English Jacobites call Mary III. The father of Prince Charles claims to be king of Naples. Should he go to the wedding the Italian ambassador cannot, our Paris correspondent says, attend it, unless the count meanwhile formally waives his claim. There is an example in his own family of renuncia tion on the basis of a pension from the Italian government. The duke of Aquila accepted King Humbert both as de Jure and de facto sovereign of Naples In re turn for a pension of 400 a year. In following this example the count of Ca serta would free the Spanish govern ment from an embarrassing situation in regard to Victor Emmanuel III. Welcoming- the Soldiers. Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 27. Thousands of citizens stood in the chilly b ts two hours today awaiting the arrival of sol diers from South-Africa. The welcome at the railroad station was most enthusias tic. An immense procession was formed to Holy Trinity church, where brief serv. ices were conducted. Luncheon followed at the drill hall, during whic h the mayor. Sir Charles Tupper, Hon. Hugh John Mc Donald. Chief Justice Killam and others delivered addresses. Tonight a grand ball and concert will be held. Place Had Been Given Out. Washington. Dec. 27. Representative Southard (O.) called upon the president today to urge the selection of a man from the western division of the northern district of Ohio for the judgeship created by an act of congress, passed just pr1r to the adjournment of congress for the holiday recess. It is understood, however, that the president has offered the position to a Cleveland lawyer. The latter, it Is said, has not yet either accepted or de clined the proffer. Death of Lieut. Slack. Washington. Dec. 27. A cablegram from General MacArthur, dated Manila, received at the war department today, announces the death of First Lieut Walter T. Slack, Forty-seventh volun teer infantry, from dysentery. i7 i .11 In - L' V1 GIVES STRENOTH TO THB 8TOEIACII, PURITY TO Tim DLGOD, LJFB TO THE LUNQS. FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. From the Philadelphia Press He is a quaint, old-fashioned gent!t man in a high collar and a quaint, olJ fashioned cravat, and he dines four times a week in a centrally located reci aurant, where waiters in evening drejs serve fingerbowls with your checks Whenever the old gentleman appears in the palm-veiled doorway a certain waiter detaches himself from the grou: of ebony-hued servitors in the back t the room and hurries to help him shed his overcoat and to get svttled comfor tably at a table. The old gentleman scorns the bill of fare. The waiter seems to know In stinctively what things to bring for tha white-haired guect's .delectation. Witn an tlmt!8t fostering care he tiptoes about the table throughout the meal, antici pating the diner's slightest wish, even t'j the extent of salting the puree and carv ing the meats Into mouth-Hi' pott ten". The ruler of seven prinrlpallttn at 111 royal meal could not be better attended. Dinner over, the waiter brings the oUl gentleman's hat, helps him on with lilN overcoat, places the gold-headed cane in his hand and bows him out. For months the patrons of the restau rant have watched the pretty formality that always attends the old gentleman n visits. And in all of tlv-se months they have seen no tip pass from the gnet to the dusky waiter, end no indication that the waiter noticed the omission. "Jim," said a patron to the waiter one day, "who is the old gentleman?" "Just an old mend of da fambly, h." said Jim. The pretty cashier knows all about Jim and his family friend. One day, about a year Bgo, two gen tlemen took seats at Jim's table. All through the meal Jim listened to their conversation. "Ain't you gemmen from de Souf ?" h asked as he held the match for his guests' cigars. The older man at the table nodded. "I thought so." said Jim. "I'm from de Souf, too. Mout you gemmen com-j from Car'liny?" Yes. The gentlemen came from Caro lina South Carolina, to be exact. Dar s whar I waa born," said Jim. Down below Spartanburg 'bout a mlie." "Indeed," said the old gentleman. b- coming interested. ies, sah. My mother used to b'long to ole Mr. Langdon. Her an' me an' mv brother came North when de wah brokj out." "What was your mother's name?"ask- ed the old gentleman. Mary Liza, sah." 'H'm," mused the old gentleman. ' I used to own a Mary Eliza down there. She had two boys, I think. One named Alex, otner named Jim. Big yaller wo man, she was, and the bst cook on the far side of Richmond." The waiter nearly dropped a decanter In his excitement. "What's the matter, you black hound" asked the old gentleman, with more kindness in his voice than in his words. "Nuffin's de mattah, sah," said the waiter. "Only I'se Jim." ONE REWARD OF CURIOSITY (From the Chicago Journal.) Near the town cf Baku. In the Fluii Rian Caucasus, are several traet of land whereon no cattle would feed, al though they were covered with Unusual ly rich herbage. The superstitious peasantry declared that aji evil spirit had bt-witched the meadows in ques tion. By and by there happened along a practical, mattfr-of-fnet Englishman, who started to investigate the phenome non. He quickly discovered fiat, al though the grass waa undoubtedly rich and succulent, it tasted otrongly of par affin, a substance the flavor of which Is intensely repugnant to nearly all ani mals, but especially so to cattle. Bu fe was the origtn of the discovery of th Baku petroleum derxmits deposits which have already yielded millions of pounds' worth of oil, and which show' no signs of becoming exhauated. Holiday Excursions via. Santa Pe Route. Tickets on sale to points within H"1) miles west of Missouri river. On fare for round trip. Tickets on sale Deo. 22, 23. 24. 26 and 31, 1800. Jan. 1, final limit Jan. Z. Ten thousand demons rnawlng awav at one's vitals couldn't be much worn than the tortures of Itching piles. Yet there's a cure, lxran's O.ntment never fails. Holiday Rates. The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets December 22. 23. 24, 23. 31 and January 1, between all points within 200 milts dis tance, at rate of one fare for th round trip, with minimum of 60 cents, chil dren between b and 12 years half fare. Tickets limited for return to January 2. "Little Colds" neglected thousands r.f lives sacrificed every year. Dr. Wood s Norway FiuC Syrup cures lilt; rr-lds cures big colds, too. down to the veiy verge of consumption. ill:" m mm m ky DEST AMD B10Qd