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if ft 1 W & V. iwT & "9 #2 IGNORANCE When first Love passed, he left a bud ding rose To bo my charge. Ah! had I only known That iu his very heart its root was grown, I should have treasured it from star veling woes, Let no harsh wind have dealt it care less blows. Nor bruised its leaves I would have made no moan If Life had made me for it3 trust atono With any penancc which her pleasure chose. came again and bade But when L*v mo hear What flower his gift had been begged to sec If I had kept his guerdon faithfully— I sought niy garden, trembling sore with foar, And strove to find thera what my heart belied— Ah me! Love's unblown ro3e had drooped and died! F" "I once had a round up with Sitting Bull," said Kelly, the trader, one day, when he was in a reminiscent mood. "It was in 1880, or thereabouts, as nearly as I recollect. Our Sioux had all been penned on their reservations or chased into Canada, and white* skinned men had coralled the last big herds of buffalo in Montana and North Wyoming. I was having hard work to make expenses. "I was fooling particularly blue when somo Assiniboine hunters came down from the north with the report that Sitting Bull had pitched his camp on Milk River, just across the line, and that his Indians had killed a whole herd of buffalo which the whites had run up there. 1 The Assiniboines said there ware no traders near Sitting Bull's village, and that the Sioux had heaps of robes to swap. Of course I wanted those skins, for Indian tans' were high market, and were going higher. So I gathered five trusty Canucks and a Sioux half-breed and loaded five wag ons with Indian game and pulled out to find Sitting Bull before another trader should get to him. "The A3siniboines had left him but flva or six days before they came in at my post. So we pushed up Milk River as fast as possible, until we came to a big cairn wliicn marked the United States boundary line. Beyond the line I could not safely carry mv goods. I left the Canucks camped on our side, and with Jim Sawpit, the Sioux half-breed, I rode on to Sit ting Bull's village. A little after noon we roached it—sixty or seventy tee pees sheltered by a fringe of timber. ''As soon as wo reached these tee pees I saw that tne Assiniboine hunt* ers had told me the truth. Every- rocks, out of reach of the dogs, 'hung strip3 of meat, and circles of bulls' heads ornamented the front vards of the teepee-dwellers. A hundred worn ..en, I should think, were at work dressing and tanning buffalo skins. "I had expected to find Owl Bon met, a sub-chief, and a number of Sioux whom I knew well, at this vll lage but up inquiry I learned that only Sitting Bulls clan band were -here, and that I knew none ot mem. "So I made a little camp by mvself, and Bccured the services of a crier, •:who went about announcing my prc3 ence and purpose. "It lacked something of sunset when an old Indian came to mv camp and remarked that Silting Bull would .like to see mo at lus teepee. This was cheering. Aside from the ques tion of trade, I really wanted to meet the man. My old gentleman showed the wav. and In a brief time I was stooping into the presence of a stout man of middle age, who was reclining upon a robe. "He rose to a sitting position and reached out a hand. "'How!' lis said. So you have come to trade with me?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'if we can agree on prices.' 'Where arc your goods?' "I told hun. "'Why didn't you bring your train to my village?' "I answered, as I thought with judg ement, that my good3 were liable to seizure by the Canadian authorities should I bring tliom across tho line, and that naturally I preferred to trade under the protection of my own government. 'This conversation was carried on in the Sioux tongue. A3 I spoke the chief's face darKcned. and at tho end he Harcd out angrily: 'You white people have ruined this country—my country! What good are your silly laws, which prevent honest men from going and trading where thev please?' 'Well,' I answered, 'I did not make our laws, and at anv rate, vou as an Indian are at liberty to buy my goods and bring them to your camp.' "He seemed to ponder on this for a time. Then he spoke. 'Good!' he said. '1 will talk with vou in the morning.' I returned to my little camp. Saw pit was not there, and I presumed he was engaged with friends. I rolled in for the night, and the next morning waited with patience for some word from Sitting Bull. About the middle of the forenoon he came to mv camp, apparently 'n the best of humor. 'Some nf us will go with vou,' he sa$rt» Ovr "horses arc ready, and we wlu take some robes along and sarm what yrm will do for us.' "Thiw looked like business, and I made ready for the start in a leis urely way. to show that I was_indif ferent in the matter of trade. It was nearly noon when wo got off. Otir party as made up of Sitting Bull, mvself. some two dozen Indians and a liftlc string of ponins packed with robes. That tho chief should go wa3 quite in order, for ho would, of course, expect mo to make him somd handsome present before the trading should begin. "We started down tho river valley, Sitting Bull and I riding abreast in an amicable manner, though for the most part in silence. Wo traveled fifteen miles or so when we came plump upon my train pushing up the valley! ^Much astonished, I spurred for ward, calling out to my men to know jrhat they meant by this. pie$e of hqs- iness. They halted their teams with blank faces as came up 'What do you mean? Why ere voU here? I cried to Louto frfryelieUe the wagon boss* 'Sawpit/ he said, blankly, 'Sawpit* he comc las night ah tell us to come on.' 'I stared at him hi frngry amaze ment, and he then hurriedly ex plained that tho half-breed had ouoCtl them about midnight and told them that I had sent orders for the wagons to move on to Sittihg Butl'S village that there were no Canad ians or police within ten davs* ride, and that all was safe for trading. I was quite prepared at the ehd of this recital for the coup which fol lowed. Sitting Bull and his men came up, and his rascals grinned at us. The chief looked -fnv outfit over with gravity. That he had bribed or fiightehed Sawpit into bearing that false message I had not the slightest doubt, and I waited to hear what had to say. and Charlotte Becker in Puck. Tit For Tat. Tale of Sitting Bull's -j*- Comp. Bt Franklin tVEi/-ns Calkins. It came soon enough. 'I am sorry^ he said, preseutly, 'that your yoiirtg men have broken tlve big queers la\v. I am ono of her generals now. and I shall have to take vour goods.' 'The old villain! Ho had me falrlv trapped. He could not have robbed mc on my side of the boundary litte without getting into trouble at hom& As it waa, 1 had t.o recourse that I could avail myself of without more trouble than the goods were worths In fact, I could make my plaint Id the winds when tho Canadian authori ties should be informed that I had crossed their line to trade, unlicensed^ with their Indians. I got off my horse and sat oil the ground, a victim of superior strategy. Sitting Bull had the grace to leave me one pony—the one I roa£—and enough provisions to grub-stake us back to the Missouri. Then he aitd his barelegged and befeathered cav1 airy took charge of my wagon train in the name of Queen Victoria^ My Canucks chewed grass stalks, while I ^at and meditated, tn the end we made a solemn compact, and marched down the vailey imies enough to quiet the suspicion of anv linger ing spy of Sitting Bull's band. Wo camped in a coiuee for a week, where we shot several deer and manufactured ropes and bridles of their skins. Then one evening, taking with mc Frcychette and Armand Tatro, who could speak Sioux like natives, I set out on foot up "Milk River. We tramped some thirty miles, and toward sunset took to hiding in thlckct of willows. On the following night we waded a dozen mile3 up Milk River—foot-freezing work in Oc tober. Before daylight we crawled out of the river over somo drift stuff, and again hid in a deep thicket of willows. When daylight came we could see the lower teepees of Sitting Bull's camp, less than a mile away. We spent a perilous day in hiding and watching. Boys were out all around us. huting rabbits and birds. A duck hunter passed within thirty feet of where we lay. Yet wc found inter vals in which to lcoft about for tho pony herds. We knew pretty well where they wcro when darkness cama on. _. "\Vd.Acit our covor noo\$V'un hour after sunset. It was quite dark, al though a little twilight lingered in tho north. We straggled toward the village in Indian file. We wera dressed in the half-civillzcd gcj: which many I —most, in fact—of the Indians wore, and we had stuck hawks' feathers in our slouch hats. Stopping to talk now and then, we shuttled along. We passed the near est teepees within hailing distance, and then skirted the timberline until we had made a half-circuit of the vil lage. We then turned out on the praine toward where we had seen-a big herd of ponies grazing. 4 Presently a mounted Indian loomed in front of us. We veered a little to avoid meeting him, but when opposite, the man saw us and halted. Ho. brothers! ho called. 'Where are you going? I thought our time bad come, but Armand Tatro saved us. He shouted back impatiently, perfect in his Sioux "Wny. we re looking for some horse, "iou had better attend to your own business!' The man passed on, going toward the village. I heard my comrades chuckling at my elbow as we moved into the midst of a pony herd. This herd was well scattered over the fiat bottom land, picking at the coarse grass. We moved about as well as wo could in the darkness?, inspecting the animals and slowly gathering a bunch lor driving. As we moved Orese horses leisurely along, we shouted at each other in Sioux: I think I have found threo of my horses!' "•Yes, I'm sure somo of mine are here!' 'Ile-e-e! Leave those horses alone! They don't belong with ours!' "If there was a herder within hear ing. his mind must have been set at ease. Hunters aften went among the herds before bedtime to round up and nicket their horses. In tho course of half an hour we had bunched as manv ponies as we dared drive together. As wo had ap proached each animal separately, we had managed to capture docile ones for our riding. We now worked our bunch along leisurely, going toward the village until wc came close to the timber. Then we edged them on downstream. "In the course of an hour we had our little herd out of sight and sound of Sitting Bull 3 camp. Tho night was before us, and we made the best of it. Morning must have found us sixty miles from the village. "Tho day that followed was an anxious one, especially as we had need lo rest and graze out herd often. But when night came, with no signs of pursuit, wo knew the Indians had not discovered the loss until morning, and that we had made a safe though small reprisal. Wo had taken thirtv ninc fairly good riding ponies. At the rata ponies were selling at for actual cash, I had recovered but a small part of mv loss. ''But a Sioux ponies are precious possessions to him. and I counted on nothing less than a mst return of my goods. "We covered-the two hundred miles to our post on the Missouri as quickly as the drive could be made, and I at once engaged an Assiniboine runner to go to Sitting Bull's village and tell blm that his ponies were held In Beau mont that they would be delivered to him upon payment of one hundred and fifty robe3 for the goods and the horses he had tftUep from me, and a that I would make him a present ot tnjr Wagdns-. "We!\v in ten days the robes came, arid Sitting Bull sent his compliments. 'Tell that American trader, he said, 'that his people ought to make him a general-.* "•—Youth's Companion. THE PLOTTERS OF SIBERIA. Even in Exile the Russian Revolution ist Is Conspirator Siberia is not Exempt from the spirit of insubordination so strongly mani fested throughout Russia. The e*lles as well as the general population, are striving to organize resistance against the authorities. The number of es capes and attempted efccapeb i3 ill creasing. Helping hands arc extended on all sides. In England and other countries money is collected and -sent to Siberia so as to facilitate the es cape of political prisoners: The jailers themselves and the troops or police are sometimes pur posely careless in the execution of their duties. That some persons in authority sympathize with the revo lutionists Is further demonstrated by the fMt that a recent circular, though headed absolutely secret. has nev ertheless fallen into revolutionist hands. It is entitled: 'Instructions given to the Governor of the province by his Excellency the Governor-Gen oral of the town of Inkutsk, Count Koutayssofl. in 1003.'' This document is worded as follows* and It givea a picture of what this high official him self thinks of the present situation: According to tho reports concern ing the surveillance of the political exiles who have reached the place of their exile and who are there submit ted to public control, I remark that their frequent escapes and the unau thorized journeys they make, going even beyond Siberia, are due to the lack of proper watchfulness. The au thorities content themselves with sending official reports. According to the information supplied, taking as a basis the reports of the Department of Police of Aug. 1 and Sep:. 14 last, which are numbered 7.201 and 8.205, it 13 easy to see that the exiles have direct relations with the revolution ary league. They take an active part in the criminal work done in Siberia by the league committees. The ob ject, therefore, for whicu these per sons were exiled has not been at tained. The lack of proper walchfulnes3 is more particularly evident in the districts of Minusinsk and Atchinsk, which are within the government. At Enissetek not onlv do the exiles often cscaoe or travel to other places with out being authorized to do so. but it has been clearly sho.vn that the exiles Ivracikofi. Dr. Heycine. Pokrovskv, Arkhanguel3kv and others enter tained direct relations with labor groups. In order to put an end to the crim inal action of the political exiles, I recommend all the police agents in the country who are under mv author ity to watch continually the private life of tho exiles. For this purpose a police must be organized for the survcillanca of all places to which exiles are sent. This police must draw up a daily report on each exile according to tho accompanying for a in iv id a I 1 1 1 It is absolutely necessary to read the entire correspondence of the po litical exiles. Individuals who are suspccted of bad political intentions must not be allowed to live in the same houses as the exiles, but should be sent away from the exiles quar ters."—London Times. A Martyr to Duty. George Maxcn was onlv & railroad cnglncar who died a victim to his own devotion to duty. No red lights flare on his caraer. No painter or poet will make him a theme of immor tal epic or picture. For he died as thousands of men have died—never dreaming that thay are heroe3. let this man was a martvr in the words very highest meaning. For twenty-three years he had been faith ful at his post. For months he had suffered excruciating pain from rheu matism. but because he was needed he worked on. At last tho day came when he was scarcely able to drag himself from bed. But there was no other man to make his run: so his wife dressed him and l&.ccd his shoes, pleading with him not to go but go he did. He made his run, and on his return to Cleveland was taken from Ills cab to a hospital, wh*re ho died. His sacrifice wa3 too great. Per haps it was. But it is precisely such sacrifice to duty that has made Amer icans masters of the commerce of the world. We have paans of glory for the men who fall in the ranks of armies. A thought now and then for the more numerous heroes who die in the ranks of industry may not be amls3. The heroes who simply do their duty in the everyday things of life make up the most magnificent of all armies, not with weapons to deal death, but with tools of labor to de velop life, which marches, rank upon rank, triumphant across the earth, leaving not desolation in its tracks, but peace. pro3»erlty and happiness for the human race. Let us not bo deceived. It is to the hcroic soldiers of peace that the world owes its progress. A Shocking Crime. The daughter of a widow living at Potsdam has just been tried for Inciting soldiers against an officer In the following clrcuin3t^pces: One Sunday last year she was walking with her sweetheart, a soldier, when she met a young cadet. Ho stopped the soldier on the ground that he had not saluted him. The soldier and the girl maintained that the salute had been giveu, whereupon tne cadet or dered the man to follow him to the barracks, llic girl upon this called to a number of artillerymen, bidding them not to allow such a young offi cer to arrest an honest man. The sol dier who followed the cadet as order ed, wa3 sentenced to five months' im prisonment in a fortress. The charge against the girl was dismissed, but she was fined 30 marks for insulting the cadet. •••.r.- Only one out of every 1,000 mar ried couples live to celebrate their golden wedding. =. Fish are upusuplly scarce in Lake Erie. vr ME SCOURGED CITY. BALTIMORE A MODERN AMERI CAN MUNICIPALITY, sr.** Fmuons na Shlpjiluc, Raitroatl nnd Mnnufnclurnis Ccu.ci—1* ms Streets, Noted iltmldlttcs nnd Jns:itutiona L'oitragcou-ily 1-ncc* the 1-iiturc* 1 E a S crushed Balti or O chaos and debris the Ma ryland is up her head coui'ag eously. She does not fear lo look about. Desolation con fronts her wher ever her gaze is re A after acre In the very heart of the city, where Com 1 merce had reared its splendid temples, is burned over, hjgnlv eit.v blocks are In ruins and buiullngs arc de stroyed. Where Wealth and its work shops, where Industry found reward, where Thrift brought its savings and Plenty reared its structures of stone, brick and steel, where the great en gines of Hnaneo maintained an ac titIty which sent hfi? and potver through the commercial arteries of the town—there is a scene that tho man of sober mind dreads to look upon Onlj once before has there been pre sented on the American continent a scene so expressive of the horror, the consuming power of tlanie that was when Chicago fell under the fiery blast in 1871. llien there were no relics of the disaster like those which Balti more contains. Hulldine had not vet become an art in the metropolis of the West and the structures which the flfiiucs attacked were burned to the ground. Here it is different All through the burned district the mas sive skeletons of architectural giants remain. Hundreds of ugly-looking frames of steel, with blackened bricks clinging to them, make a forbidding VIEW 'bo sug. plclon inal groups should be subjected with out warning to examination. The commissioner of police of the district should give orders for these -examina tlons, indicating at the same time their motive. The examinations should be made frcquentfy. sight. A ftcr*1 progress of the lire liud been, those lookout like great eo*0 0 Baltimore was the theater of stirring events Revolutionary days. In its history are recorded the bombardment of Fort Mellcnrv bv the British and the battle of North Point, where the citizens of Baltimore repelled tho ad vance of tho British In the wjir of 1S12. During Ttre-Clv*UWar tho city was torn by different seutiments—lovalty to tho North and svinpathv for the South. Ihe Sixth Massachusetts Regi ment was attached by a mob in its streets and blood was shed. The citl y.^is of Baltimore atoned for tho treat ment of this command during the Spanish-American war. when the Sixth Massachusetts was going south, by ten denng the soldiers a magnificent dem onstration. LOMBARD STitEEI MORE of u^m "leaping rrufn them. JUe wTilitT had the color of coke. For dnvs there after clouds of smoke hung over them. At the saino time tangled masses of wire crossed and recrossed tho streets. These the wind blew hither and thither, just as it did the sheets of tin aud huge timbers while tho Haines were sweeping the town. Crumbling walls still swayed in tho bivez".\ en dangering tlm lives of those who ven tured too near. Bv dav the scene was one of chaos. At night It was weird. No citv in the United States has a greater diversity of manufactures. Its foreign trade aggregates frlOO.OOO.OUO. •l 3 eftr. jT"Tius lumnjittja, ri Courntrcon* nnd Hnpctut. Baltimore has cause to shudder. The loss approximates SjSO.OUO.OOO. of which 80 per cent Is covered bv insur ance. ilie loss sustained bv the ces sation of business will add much more. JU'il OF 'HIE MKSSlAII. There arc ftu.OJO persons out of work. It is blow such as noue but Ameri can fortitude could endure. \et Baltimore courageously fronts the future.. She foresees a new era. She is planuing lor a new city to bo built on tho rulus of the old. and it is to lie a better one. There will be wider streets, better sanitary conditions aud improved lire protection. Out of the ashes of the old will come forth a new Baltimore, more splendid than that whose Buildings' aroused the world's sympathy. 1 he StricKcti City. 'J he stnckeii cily Is one of the most picturesque municipalities in the Uni ted States. It has manv claims lor dis tinction other than its vast commercial Interests, whose various ramifications extend all over the world. It Is fa mous for its ornamental streets, mag nificent buildings, noted institutions of learning, handsome monuments, and as the seat of the Catholic hierarchy in the western hemisphere. It is known as tho ••Monumental City'' from the state ly shafts that grace several or us pub lic streets and squares. The most nota ble of these are the Washington mon ument and the Battle monument. Its streets are broad and level, the main thoroughfares being magnificent ave nues. ilicy are mostly laid out at right angles to one another and generally liavo a width ot sixty feet ho resi dential sections are exiremciv hand some, while the business district, now a sccno of utter ruin, showed proud and artistic architecture. As an im portant art and scientific center the city holds high rank. In the matter of population Baltimore is the sixth citv in the 1 nited Siates. 5 0.000 souls find ing habitation within its corporate limits. 2'Oiiuded by Lord Ilaltitu-re. Tlio city was laid out in 17:n. Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, after»whom the town Is named, was given a grant of land by King Charles J. pf England, comprising the territory fomii^u.n'rviiJid machine shops, while in the clothing and tobacco Industries thousands oi its inhabitants bud employment. It loads the world in the oyster trade and also in the fruit-canning industry. There are over forty establishments in the city for packing oysters and fruit, at wineii 10,000 hands are ompfoved. Up ward of slxtv carloads of oysters are shipped daily to the citv from Chesa peake "Bay while the season is on. lie total number of manufactories in tho city before the fire was u.300, and SO,000 persons found employment in them, in grain export it ranks second only to New lork. From its harbor more than a dozen steamship lines ra diate to important foreign and domes tic ports. There arc 800 miles of paved streets and 300 miles of cable and elec tric railway traverse the city and con ncet with suburbs within a range of twenty-five miles. Ah an Kdiicatiounl Cent Bnltimorcs plnccs of learning are among the foremost in tho land. The Johns Hopkins University Is known throughout the universe. In its differ ent appointments it equals any insti tution of its character in Ihe countrv llie Pcabody institute, which was tho recipient of over $1,000,000 from the late George Peabody, who was in busi ness for several years In Baltimore, also i^anks high as an educational in stitution. The Lovola College, which is under the supervision of tho Jesuits, and tho Seminary of St. Sulplce. are nourishing Catholic institutions, while tne University of Maryland occupies a conspicuous position in educational ranks. In 1S73 Enoch Pratt, a success ful merchant of Baltimore, established a free circulating library which now comprises a handsome central building and four branches scattered through tho town. Several other valuable li braries are to be found in the city. The Catholic cathedral and the residence of Cardinal Gibbons are objects of inter est to tho visitor. Among its superb public buildlngsis the City Hall, which is built of white marble at a cost of §3.000,000. It occupies an entire square. The white marble, brick and gran ite used In the construction of a large number of tho buildings com« from quarries and clay beds adjacent to the city. The water supply of Baltimore was first taken from Jones' l-ahs, about seven miles above the citv. but In-18bl a further supply was brought seven miles through a twelve-foot tun nel from Gunpowder River, entailing an expense of §4.0(10.(aK. ihe aoue ducts leading from the storage reser voirs have a capacity for delivering 2.0CO.COO irallons dally great railroad center and has great 1 & i.M g, St KUINS OK THE GREAT EQUITABLE BUILDING. now included in tli? States of Delaware and Maryland. CccIl never visited the territory himself, but governed it by deputies and with manifest fairness. Baltimore was laid out In half-acre lots on the Patapsco River, an arm of Ches apeake Bav. Twenty-five years after Its founding it contained only twent.v ilve houses and 200 persons, but from tins on Its growtn was more rapid. In December. 1770. the Continental Con gress transferred Its sittings from Phil adelphia to Baltimore, where it met for two months. The population of the citv during the next 100 years roso to aoo.qoo. freight and passenger stations. Many public squares and parks dot the clty one of them, the Druid Hill, containing 704 acreS. LABOR LEGISLATION. Provisions for Benefit of WorklneiH«n Adopted iii Some States. Of the 45 States 33 have burtiaus tl! labor statistics. The 12 that have ndne are Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Geor gia, Mississippi, Nevada, South Caro lina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah( Ver mont atid Wyoming, Of the 45 States 24 have established rules and adopted statutes for the hy gienic and sanitary inspection of fac tories. The 21 States which have not arc Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Flor ida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mary land, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina^ Nofth Dakota, South Carolina, Sbuth Dakottt, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, ftiid Wyoming. Of the 45 Statets 1(» have boards of arbitration and 24 have inspection of mines. The 21 which haven't such in spection are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada. North Carolina, Xorlh Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Fourteen States have free employ ment bureaus of labor: New York, Ohio, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis souri, Montana, Nebraska, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Of the 45 States 31 have laws re quiring seats to be furnished to wom en working iii stores or factories, and 27 have laws regulating the amount of work which may be done by women. The IS States which have not such laws are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Miss issippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wy oming, which was the first State to adopt, when a territory, and to ratify as a State, woman suffrage.—New Vork Sun. 805,000 Worth of rtabtoits. Babbits, which have been tho pest of Australia aud New Zealand for many years, have now become a source of largo revenue. Frozen rabbits to tho value of over $S05,gg0 were export ed from Victorlj^^eW^Zealaiid, last to $7«^00p worth of Casting tho First Vdtc, Young men', who will cast their first vote at the coming national election, should investigate the fundamental doctrines that divide the two great political parties and the Issues upon which the campaign will be decided. Iu this way they can arrive at the proper way to perform the highest prerogative of an American citlsen. The greatest right in a Democratic Republic like ours, is the ballot. The poor man or the rich one, the first voter, or the accomplished statesman In the land arc all equal before the law a ltd are sovereign voters. Not only is the act ot voting the highest polit ical function, but it involves the great est responsibility. A few votes often turn the scale In close States and po litical districts, so no voter murft Im agine that his ballot Is not of con sequence, as he mny deckle issues of transcendent importance and elect can didates for the highest offices who will have the executive power placed in their hands* After the election Is over the voters have transferred their power to those who they have elected to represent them atld the individual voter is powerless until the next elec tion occurs. Amongst the great issues that will be decided at the coming national elec tion is one that should appeal to young voters with irresistible force. The question of the protective tariff and the control of the trusts affects the pocket book of every voter and must be de cided as Interest dictates. Other Issues may be settled upon patriotic or hu manitarian grounds, but the indirect taxatLon of the tariff and its acknowl edged fostering of trusts is fast break ing down that good' old Democratic doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." If the young voter Is the son of a trust magnate or one who has, through some special privilege, become a mo nopoly, he may be expected to follow In his futber's footsteps and vote to continue a system that allows enor mous fortunes to be created at the ex pense of the great majority. But where there is one such child of fortune, there are thousands who are children of the poor and the young voter who has nothing, or but little, but Ills own exertions to provide a living for himself aud those dependent upon him, must view with dismay trust prices and increased cost of liviug. How much more must it set him think ing If he finds the avenues of employ ment lessening and the standard of wages decreasing in proportion to the increased cost of living. Does any well informed young man doubt that the trust and mouopoly breeding tarlii* Is an i-sue that is of the utmost interest for him to investigate and sec how it affQets Ills prospects in life? Does he sec a fair share of the vast wealth of the country flowing to those who create It, or does he notice enormous prosperity to corporations preserves rabbits. TliU Ja. pruhiieriu turporauouB ilnllv infi-fflsinir. Xmv th„f ti.» it.,, ""nd the comparatively few Individuals dally Increasing. Now that .the trap ping Industry is mich an important one, employing as it docs several thousand hands, and Is largely effective In keep ing the rabbit pest in check, the chances are that the methods of com pulsory suppression now enforced on landholders will at least be moderated by the government. The rabbits In Australia and New Zealand were originally shipped from England, and it is almost impossible to keep them out of tlio cattle ranches. Fences have been built around these vast stations with a wire netting sunk eighteen inches below the surface to prevent the rabbits from getting inside, but as soon as grass becomes short ou the outside "Mr. Bunnle" will burrow under the wire uetting and eat up the grass on the inside. Babbits in this country rarely bur row, but arc to be found in stumps of trees and under fallen timber. In and about Chicago, where land is divided for building purposes, rabbits make their homes under the wooden side walks, and can be easily turned out by a good tog. Such, however, is not the habit of the Australian pest—Chicago Uecord-IIcrald. Zebra Is. Easily Tamed. Among the advantages promised to the people of South Africa by the Brit ish government is the .utilization as a domestic animal of the zebra, which is indigenous to that region. An attempt is to be made to domesticate the zebra for us in the recently acquired posses sions. it Is proposed to catch large numbers of wild zebras and allow them to breed In captivity training tho young as draught animals. No atteifipt apparently will be made to tame and train the captured auimals themselves, although this has often been accom plished with selected Individuals. The zebra proper Is very difficult to taiue, but allied varieties, such as the South African quagga, are more easily domesticated. At tlio Cape twenty years since these were ofteu seen work ing with draught horses. We are always wondering that some one lias not compiled statistics show ing that the preponderance of divorce cases is reported from boarding houses. We have noticed that after the wool wears off a tenuis ilanuel gown, tvhnt is left wears so well that a man never has an excuse for needing a new one. When a woman boasts among other women of her husband's goodness, the Baltimore Is a desire to find out how he really treats her, readies a fever pitch. ltUUNS ON FAl'-ETTIS STKHflX. BALTXMOEE, who control them? The position of the two great parties ou economic questions, must be an Issue aud perhaps paramount, in the absence of war, or other great events that so stir men's souls thnt they for get their pocket books. The young voter miiRt, to vote with Intelligence, investigate the evidenco on both aides and decide who will represent him most effectually In securing "equal rights" and prevent the favored few from obtaining or keeping "special privileges." There must be.no objectlou to riches, or the rich man, if his riches have been obtained equitably. Neither must dives be worshiped and above all the young voter must keep at a safe distance the vote buyer. Your vote is as val uable as that of Rockefeller, it counts for as much aud no money value can be placed upon it, its value is beyond computation. 1 and and Other Fraud*. An epidemic of land frauds per vades all the Western States and would doubtless be just as prevalent in the other parts of the United States, if thero was government land to gobble. These fraud3 are distinct and are manipulated by a different set of men from tliose discovered In the Indian land section. For some occult reason, the prosecu tion of those charged with swindling the Indians out of their lands has lag. ged nnd no one has been punished. But In the former cases indictments have been found against several per sons iu the United States Court of the District of Columbia and the Indict, ments show that these frauds have been In active progress for six or seven years. According to the evidence pro duced by the government these frauds have put thousands of dollars Into the pockets of the principal conspirators. The revelations as to tho extent of the frauds, made before the grand Jury, and the numlief-of officers of the government Involved, are report ed to have shocked the members of the grand jury. The evidence must have been bud, indeed, If a Washing ton grand Jury was "shocked" by it, and It will lie interesting to note who arc the high officials caught ill the net for the grand July would hardly be electrified by evidence against min or culprits. The land frauds are only a small mnttcr compared with other frauds against the government that have been partially exposed. The postofflce frauds, the sill: frauds, the armor plate frauds, the rice frauds in the Philip pines, the Nellls seed frquds In the Agricultural Department, the Dis trict of Columbia defalcations and frauds, the Navy Department frauds, the Philippine defalcations and em bezzlements—these are some of the more conspicuous frauds that have been discovered. Then there Is the ,Wood scandal the Dietrich and Bur ton .Senatorial scandals the I.ittauer army glove scandals and the Delaware and other postofflce scandals In con nection with the clvH servlcfc- The list might be prolonged, for the last two or three years have been most prolific of frauds and scandals. The efforts of the administration to enforce the criminal laws against the. lesser rascals, while allowing the "greater ones to escape, either by virtue of the statue of limitation or for-lack of ac tivity upon the part of the law offi cers of the government, |s the great est scandal of all. This may hi a reform administra tion anxious to stop rascality and frafting, but it has been signally un- SSBSSEESEBSEEBt POLITICS or THE DAY fortunate In securing convictions and In punishing the thieves, and there would appear to be but sorry prospect of reform. Unless the voters decide to "turn the rascals out" SiySsa. .. .v. Canada Disturbed by Onr fiteel Kill*. So many American goods nro now pouring Into Cnnnda thnt tbc manufac turers there are ugltntlng for higher tariff duties to keep out tho cheap American goods. A letter from Toronto appears in tlie Iron Age of February IStli on this subject. On the.steel rail question it says: The recent sales of American rail* in Canada at prices $5 to 50 below those maintained In the United States lias been commented upon In many Canadian newspapers. Wer» the (proposed) duty now in force, it would not suffice to save the home miirkot for home rail manufacturers, should there be such, for the prescribed rate Is ?7 a ton, and that amount is only about equal to the difference between what the American rail makers are getting In the United States and what they are getting here." Query: Whom does protection benefit? WAI8T8 THAT CL08E tti BACK Th®jr Are Toutbfnt In A'ppcarance* tmt Troublesome to Iiuttom There Is no denying the fact that the majority of waists will close In the back. The youthful appearance of the long, plain, straight front Is a thing that is beyond argument, and where Is there a tvomau who will neg lect that which is a certain guaranty of youthfulncss? Nine out of ten of tbc finer grades of white waists close up the back and fully one-half of the llneu and crash waists are closed in the same manner. The unhandiness of the waist which buttons behind cannot be disputed. A woman who lived In a hotel will tell you that it costs her 10 cents every time she puts on her waist, for the maid must hook it, auu those who are traveling will assure you that the waist which hooks up the back la an unmitigated nuisance. Yet, after one look at herself, nnd after one Btudy of her youthful lines, the woman who has seen herself in ono of these smooth-froittcd waists will rush off to buy another, for she knows that in nothing else does she look half so well. All waists are to be worn looser, aud this will be good news for the woman who Is tugging at her back buttons, and the buttons will be larger and the buttonholes more pronounced. Instead of being hidden under a slat they will stand out bold and pretty and the waist will button frankly by means of buttons and buttouholes and not by the little Invisible loops and the eva sive hooks which were such a trouble last season. There Is a French shirt waist which buttons invisibly frout and back. The method is by means of the ir."---' seam and the shoulder seam. a dlflleuJi thin# to WJiifii*** is another French waist which doe. not button at all, neither does it hgdk,*" nor Is It caught together with iffris. Tills mysterious waist, which neither buttons nor hooks, is made of lace. The entrance is through tho back. The panels of lace arc then brought to gether and an obliging frleud sews the waist In place, it is stitchcd together with long white thread stitches which shut it and keep it in s'*ape.—Kansas City Journal. liow Indians Cure Snake Blto. Kot-oli-pce, a venerable, red-blanket* cd patriarch of the Euchse Creek woods, tVho was reared at the feet of several Ozaukee medicine men, having been asked hotv the Indians cure snake bite, spoke substantially as follows: "No snake ever killed a Zaukee Zau kce always kills the bad, biting Mutchee-Mahn-ee-toli. My squaw was oue night bite by big rattler. Medicine man cut snake's head off and cooked him In kettle all night. lie hung snake over wigwam fire smoked and fried him till morning. Doctor cook some snake root In kettle with snake head. Squaw sit near kettle all night medicine man cut little near squaw's heart bad poison blood all run out doctor wash squaw's foot from kettle uext day noon squaw feel good cook corn for Kot-oh-pce. Mutehee-ifahn ce-toh big, bad snake, maybe so kill makaymah (white man). Indian kill snake." Mat Duhr, who Is authority for thfl above story, states that Indian phy sicians and surgeons simply perform a quick surgical operation ou the biting serpent by cutting its head off aud boll' ing It with snake root, which grows plentifully on most rocky places In this section. They require the bitten per son to look at the snake, which is hung over the fire all night, and also advlsq the patient to pray to the &reat Spirit to remove the swelling by next morn ing. Most Indians persist In saying that no snake ever killed oue of their race. —Kansas City Journal. An Kye to l*a»lttee«* 1 "So you are going to send his letter back, are you?" asked the blond. "Yes," replied the brunette, wll tears in her eyes. "But not until! have copied them all. They will ma| a splendid book, aud 1 have, a Iov« title for them already—'The Letters! a Lazy Lover.'"—Cincinnati Tlmj Star. HU ICxperience. "A carrier pigeon on the wlgg," si the fancier, 4ie the very poetry of tion." "You mean," remarked the cessful rhymester, "that it has the tion of poetry, don't you? No mat how often it goes out, it always back again."—Philadelphia Ledger. uns Pui Bparlniz the Doctor. Complalner—How nro you feeli now, after your long siege of sicknes. Explainer—Oh, I'm entirely \yo now. "And -you've reported the good new to.your doctor, I suppose?" "No, I hnven't." Hate to bother him you know." Absent-Minded Pops. "I want ta get a camera," said Ml' Kupop, "one'that will do good woe' quickly." .if-. "5Ces, sir," said the clerk, "wK size?"- 7 "0, six months' size, I guess. E only two months old, but big foty age."—Philadelphia Pros?, IOEJ,