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NEWS OF
THE WORLD.
What is Taking Place in this Coun
try and in Foreign Lands.
Mrs. Carrie Natirn was last Friday
sentenced to thirty days in prison at
Topeka and to pay a SIOO fine by Judge
Hazen in the distric; court for smash
ing bar fixtures stored in a vacant barn
in this city in February, 1901. She will
not appeal the case, and lias gone to
jail.
The gigantic boodle deal in St. Louis
to pass the suburban franchise bill was
laid b're during the perjury trial of ex-
Ald. Julius Lehmann Friday afternoon.
Millionaire Charles H. Turner, presi
dent of the street car company, took the
stand and confessed that he had raised
the $185,000 which was placed in two
safe deposit boxes for the aldermen who
voted for the bill. He went into details
and willingly told all about the bribery
deal. Turner was followed on the stand
by Cashier Hospes of the German-Amer
ican bank, who swore that the bribe
money was raised on notes signed by
Millionaires Ellis Wainright and Henry
Nicholaus, both of whom are under in
dictment.
E. F. Hall of the Lincoln Trust com
pany identified the $75,000 in cash which
the grand jury had found in one of his
company's safe deposit boxes.
Phil Stock implicated Aid. John K.
Murrell, who has since fled to escape
prosecution. Stock testified that the
$75,000 was to be divided among mem
bers of the house of delegates who voted
for the bill.
The London Foreign office officials
say there is no truth in the report,
circulated in the United States, that
Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambassa
dor at Washington, has requested that,
on account of the state of his health,
his resignation be immediately accept
ed.
Finley Peter Dunne, who is in Lon
don, will sail for New York May 21.
He will collaborate with Edward the
rights of which have l>een secured by
Mr. Frohman.
United States Consul Ayme, at Fort
de France, lest Saturday, notified the.
State department that the relief sup
plies now afloat are sufficient to meet
the needs of the volcano sufferers on the
Island of Martinique.
In his cable message to Secretary Hay
the consul suggests that the public sub
scriptions in the United States should
cease at once.
A dispatch from St. Lucia says that
the supplies donated by the American
government will be returned.
Consul Ayme’s message was corro
borated by a message to the secretary
of the navy from Commander T. S.
McLean of the cruiser Cincinnati, who
cabled from the island of St. Lucia Sat
urday as follows:
"Excitement at Martinique calming
down. Many refugees not destitute or
starving, but frightened by appalling
disaster at St. Pierre and grave but less
serious damages in more northern por
tion of island, were leaving estates and
sections which had not suffered. Many
cases of pillaging in those districts.
Government taking action to stop it.
In some northern districts many cattle
may die because volcanic dust over
vegetation. A few good rains would
cure much of this condition.
"Today visited and explored ruins of
United States and British consulates at
St- Pierre. Found some itortions
charred remains of bodies.
“Potomac has returned to De France.
Reports disaster St. Vincent serious. I
1 relieve volcanic conditions are worse,
and in some respects conditions of liv
ing as bad or wdrse than Martinique.”
From the tone of Consul Ayme’s dis
patch it is assumed that the other
people on the island, including the
negro population, were more frightened
than hurt, and that there is danger of
pauperizing the people there by too
great an influx of supplies generously
donated by the outside world.
For the present at least the consul's
advice will be followed and no more
appropriations will be made by con
gress. nor will there be any additional
subscriptions especially asked for un
less the situation in the West Indian
Islands changes materially.
The Buffalo is now lying in reserve
at New York, partially laden with
stores, but it was stated at the navy
department that in all probability it
will not be sent to the devastated
islands. At least, this will be the plan
followed out at Washington unless later
reports of the army and navy officers
on the islands as to the needs of their
inhabitants are at hand.
A question now arises as to the dis
position of the private contributions al
ready at hand, in the event that the
money is not needed to buy more sup
plies. However, it is thought here that
there will be many other avenues of
relief other that that of supplying food
to the people, to which this money can
be diverted.
Officials here are particularly pleased
with thj general work of Consul Ayme.
They sty he has been extraordinary
prompt and efficient and they are ac
cordingly disposed to give especial
credit to his dispatch Saturday, advising
that no more relief subscript ions be
made for the present.
The disorder in the negro settlement
of Pittsburg, Ga., Inis abated. Capt.
McCurdy of the central police station
was shot at by a negro this morning,
who escaped. The cadets dispersed
about daylight and only the presence of
the militia marked the disturbances of
yesterday.
Esther Dowie, daughter of “Dr.”
Alexander Dowie, proprietor of "Zion”,
died last week of burns, having suffered
for hours while "Elijah IT' prayed over
her.
Miss Dowie was 28 years old and a
student at the University of Chicago.
Saturday morning her hair caught fire
from a gas jet and her head and face
were horribly burned. Nurses placed
salve on the patient’s wounds, as the
Dowie doctrine allows of the use of
medicine externally. Meanwhile the
“divine healer” was hurrying to the
bedside from his now city of Zion, near
Waukegan. Upon his arrival the at
tendants were excluded from the room
and Dowie sank to his knees in prayer.
His supplications lasted all day. He
refused to cease even to take the nour
ishment which his followers would
have passed upon him. The patient
was unconscious much of the time, and
died at 9 o’clock in great agony, having
returned to consciousness a short time
before.
At the coroner’s iftvestigation "Dr.”
Dowie made the statement:
"She told me she knew God had
called her home because she disobeyed
my orders. I had told her never to use
an alcohol lamp of any description in
my house.
"I called in Dr. A. W. Campbell, 184
East Madison street.
"They talked the matter over and
Dr. Campbell said everything that
could be done for her relief had been
dene.”
With this virtual acknowledgment of
lack of faith in his own doctrines, "Dr. ”
Dowie broke down in a convulsion of
sobs.
“I ask you again, ‘Dr.’ Dowie,' said
Coroner Senff, "did your daughter make
any request whatever for medical as
sistance V”
"I repeat that she did not and that I
knew at 2-o'clock unless God worked a
series of miracles she could never re
cover.”
On the second ballot at the Presby
terian General Assembly being held in
New York the Rev. Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, professor of literature at Prince
ton university, was elected moderator.
He received 298 votes. Of this number
287 were necessary to elect. For the
Rev. Dr. Jafnes D. Moffatt, president
of Washington and Jefferson college,
223 votes were cast.
The sessions will continue for fifteen
days. The report of the committee on
revision of the confessian of faith pro
bably will be debated on May 28.
A bitter agitation in Durban, South
Africa has been begun here against col
ored preachers sent by American mis
sionary societies who, it is alleged, have
been tilling the minds of the natives
with incendiary ideas as to their politi
cal equality with the whites. The
British government has leen urged by
the local authorities to order the ex
pulsion of the preachers in order to
prevent a negro insurrection.
It was stated in Wall street on Sat
urday that the formation of the Am
erican Steel Foundries company, the
corporation that will combine the lead
ing steel casting companies of the coun
try, has been practically accomplished.
The couqMiny is to have an authorized
capital stock of SB4, (KMI,OOO, of which
$30,000,000 is to preferred and the
remainder common stock. The com
pany will bo incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey.
Harry Gervier Seeley, the eminent
geologist of King's college, London,
thinks it highly probable that serious
1 eruptions will occur in Dominica,
Guadeloupe and elsewhere, and that
the inhabitants of all the volcanic
islands in the neighborhood should
take warning, as should also those of
Central America.
A private telegram received here via
La Quaira. Venezuela, says Fort de
France, Martinique, is seriously
threatened by the volcanic disturban
ces.
Several small islands near Martinique
have been entirely swallowed up by the
sea since the great eruption of Mont
Peleeon May 8. Martinique is daily
shaken by earthquake rumblings. There
was a landslide near Le Prechenr Sat
turday which engulfed plantations and
several houses. Scientists here predict
greater disasters. The greatest un
easiness prevails.
Professor Friedrich Hirth, of Berlin,
who holds the chair of Chinese philo
logy at the University of Munich, has
received a call to the new Chinese pro
fessorship at Columbia university, New
York. It is understood that Professor
Hirth cannot immediately accept, be
cause he has already accepted a com
mission from the Russian government,
to go to St. Petersburg to catalogue a
collection of Chinese books and manu
scripts.
The engagement of M. Santos-Du
mont, the Brazilian aeronaut, to the
daughter of a distinguished native of ,
his country is announced in Paris.
J. Pierpont Morgan’s victory in the
prolonged fight before Loul Windsor’s j
committeeln London, is admitted to be ,
an event of enormous significance in the J
history of London locomotion. The great i
feature of Morgan's tube scheme is his i
proposal to charge extraordinarily cheap j
fares, notably one penny from Hammer
smith to Charing Cross, a distance of
over five miles. It was therefore op
posed by all the other railway compan
ies, who are alarmed at this prospect
of vigorous competition. The Yerkes
group will get its line from Piccadilly
Circus to Holborn, to join the up tube
from Brompton to Piccadilly with that
from Holborn to Finsbury Park, which
has already been sanctioned, but they
will have to face serious competition
with the new line. The decision of the
committee involves the construction of
four tubes under Piccadilly.
The wholesale purchase of Missouri
mules by the British government for
service in South Africa has ceased at
St. Joseph, Mo., according to a tele
gram received Tuesday by a British
agent. Large purchases were made
during the past week and orders were
received that they lie shipped to
the remount station at Lathrop, Mo.,
whence they will he prepared for ship
ment to some British possession. The
Lathrop station will be closed. The
telegram in effect said:
"The war in South Africa will close
at an early date and no use can be
found for more horses and mules”.
It is stated on good authority, says
the Tokio correspondent of the London
Times, that the new programme of
naval expansion for the six years be
ginning 1904, will comprise four battle
ships of 15,000 tons each, *two armored
cruisers of 9,900 tons each, four second
class cruisers of 5.000 tons each, fifteen
destroyers and fifty torpedo boats.
The correspondent says the Japanese
fiatiou is evidently prepared to indorse
the naval expansion policy.
The Tokio correspondent of the Times
says that Gen. Fukushima, who was
commander in Pe Chi-Li province,
China, in the early part of the campaign
of 1900, will represent the Japanese
army at the coronation of King Edward.
The King of Spain, Alphonse XIII
was crowned ruler of the Castilian peo
ple last Saturday in Madrid. He took
the oath before the Cortes.
In the Swedish parliament the leader (
of the agrarians offered an amendment j
to the effect that the government should i
introduce a bill for universal suffrage i
in 1904. The amendment was carried
by a vote of 117 to 107. The labor lead
ers have decided that the strike shall '
end. This action was taken because of j
the action of the Rigsdag in passing a
vote that universal suffrage should Ire
granted. This vote is regarded by the ,
labor leaders as satisfactory.
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Whooping Cough.
A woman who lias had experience
with this disease, tells how to prevent
any dangerous consequences from it.
She says: Our three children took
whooping cough last summer, ourbftby
boy being only three months old, and
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their plumpness and came out in much
lietter health than other children whose
parents did not use this remedy. Our
oldest little girl would call lustily for
cough syrup between whoops. Jessie
Pinkey Hall, Hpringville, Ala. This
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A PRIMROSE.
Before the earliest cuckoo calls,
Or build beneath the eurea.
Or children dream of cow-slip balls,
Tou shine among your crlnglnl leaves
An If, from yon bright heaven afar,
Some angel hand had dropped a star.
How faint and yet how sweet your breath.
God’s little messenger of hope!
That tells how Ufa has vanquished death
In budful wood, on verdant slope;
Your glistening salver seems to hold
The year’s first gilt of sunlight gold.
A beauteous flower! to all hearts dear,
Because all hearts with gladness thrill
To know that lovelier days are near;
For, though gray Winter lingers still,
Hts wrath Is spent, his storms are few,
And Spring begins her reign with you.
—E. Matheson, In Chambers' Journal.
I: fl JVIISSOORI ;;
:: COJfIPROIVIISE ::
! I By EDWARD B. CLARK. |1
<* . >
OLD Bud Jackson lived near the
source of the “Big Black" in the
Ozark mountains of Missouri. Hud
hud lived there for 65 years. That was
just Tils age. His habitation was rude
but comfortable and his daughter Hess
tended it with housewifely ca re. Hess
was Bud’s only child. She was a coy
mountain maid of 20, and as pretty as
one of the wild flowers that peep from
the ground in the Big Black valley in
■March.
Bud had a neighbor, Si Withers. Si
lived down the stream a way s, and the
holdings of the two men joined. Si
had a son Bill. Between the two
mountain farms over in a corner lay
a triangular piece of ground not more
than two acres in extent. Outside of
the woodland this was the only piece
of land on the Jackson-Witiiers hold
ings that was not cultivated. It was
weed-grown, and though it would
have supported a goodly crop of grain,
no seed sown by the hand of man ever
fell there. It was known for miles
around as the Debatable Ground. Bud
and Si both claimed the piece, and had
wrangled over It for years before the
feud became deadly. At the present
status of things if either one set his
foot on the strip the other would have
shot him.
Bud Jackson had a hobby. He was a
collector of birds. Scientists from St.
Louis and from the western state col
leges came to his place every summer
to look at his collection. He never
would add a bird to the lot unless it
had been killed in the state of Mis
souri, provided always of course that
the bird was known to have been seen
in the state. Bud didn’t expect to get
any flamingoes in Missouri, hut if he
should have heard an Indian tradition
that 500 years before a flamingo had
been seen on the Big Black, he would
not have added the bird to his collec
tion until someone had sent him one
with the proper attestation thatithad
been killed inside the limits of his
native state.
What a collection that was! There
was pretty near everything in it from
the ruby-throated hummingbird to
the big bronze wild turkey. Bud had
to build an addition to his house to
store his birds. Some people said that
Bud cared more for the birds than he
did for Bess, which was a lie. For
years Bud had scoured the woods of
the Ozarks, extending his trips to the
adjoining counties for the purpose of
getting one bird, the Ivory-billed
woodpecker. He knew that the ivory
bill was a dweller of the southeast
United States, but he also knew that
straggling birds had been seen In the
deep woods of the mountains of Mis
souri, and so ho kept up his search
with his shotgun over his shoulder
year after year. He could have pur
chased an ivory-billed woodpecker,
killed Somewhere else, for something
like S2O, but he would have a Missouri
bird or none. He slept out nights In
the woods and starved and thirsted on
the trail of reports that the big bird
had been seen. Generally it turned
out that those who told of the apjiear
ance of the woodpecker, not knowing
much about birds, had seen the big
“log cock” and had taken him for his
still bigger brother.
One day In the summer Bud noticed
that Bess had something on her mind.
She started suddenly whenever he
spoke to her and more than once
blushed vividly. Tiie old man didn't
say much, but just thoughthe’d let tha
thing come out by itself. But It didn’t
come out. Bess just kept on acting as
though she were way off somewhere
iu the clouds. One day as the old man/
was coming back from a collecting trip
be could have sworn lie saw Bill With
ers, old Si’s son, making off across the
brook from the direction of the Jack
son home. Bud gripped his gun tightly
and felt a lump come up in his throat.
He thought he knew now how to ac
count for Bess’ blushing. He kept his
own counsel, however. He knew That
if old Withers knew of It he would be
just as hot about St as he was. Hud
eyed Bessie curiously when he entered
the house and casually asked if there
had been any visitors while he had
been away.
“No,” stammered the girl, and fell
to blushing directly.
“Humph!” said her father.
Two days later Bessie went out to
pick blackberries. Half an hour after
her father followed in her trail, Tiie
blackberry patch lay in the direction
of tho Debatable Ground. Bud catncta
a rise in the land and looked off toward
the trinagular bit of ground In dispute.
By the great Auk, what was that he
saw? There in the center of the De
batable Ground were Bill Withers and
Bess Jackson holding hands, and Hess’
sunbormet was pushed way hack
When Bud recovered sufficiently he
looked beyond the patch and there
stood old,Si Withers grasping u gun and
Liking at the pair of-lovers. Thera
couldn’t be any shooting that day on
either side, and both old fellows turned
and went home. Ii was not a pleasant
evening that was spent that night in
either the Jackson or the Withers
households. Bud stormed and fumed
and told Bess that she was bringing
everlasting disgrace on him by taking
up with the son of that old thief,
Withers.
Si Withers said a good deal of the
same sort to his son Bill, but Bill, be
ing a fellow who thought for himself,
held the old fellow pretty well in hand.
About a week after this a negro ap
peared at the Jackson home and re
ported ivory-billed woodpeckers in the
big woods. Bessie had been forbidden
to leave the house. Bud seized his gun
and made for the big patch of timber.
The negro had described the bird ac
curately. Bud reached the edge of the
woods, plunged in and had not gone
ten yards before he heard a strange
rattling cry. He knew it from the de
scription he had heard. He went in
its direction. In a minute he saw
a great big ivory-billed woodpeck
er scuttle round the bole of a
beech. Bud’s heart jumped into his
throat. It was the first living ivory
lulled woodpecker he had ever seen.
The tree trunk was between him and
tiie bird. He rounded it cautiously.
The woodpecker left the tree with a
cry. Bud's shotgun went to bis shoul
der. There was a report and the bird
wavered. Another report, and the
woodpecker, flying another few yards,
fell limp to the ground behind some
bushes. Hud dashed forward with a
great hurrah in his heart. He reached
the spot where the bird bud fallen.
He knew from the way it went down
it was dead—but where was it? Not
a feather could he find. Two little
drops of blood stained the fallen leaves
and that was all. Hud searched for
three hours and then went home with
a sorrow in his heart such as lie had
not known since his wife died.
The morning of that woodpecker
episode Bill Withers was skirting the
woods in the hope of gettinga glimpsa
of Bessie. He had a retriever dog
with him that was thrashing about in
the woods and fields by turns in the
nervous way that such dogs have when
their owners are out on hunting bent.
All at once the retriever hurst from
the woods and dropped something at
his master’s feet. Hill picked it up.
He knew it was an ivory-hilled wood
pecker, for he had seen one in a glass
case at the capital in Jefferson t'ity.
He knew of Hud Jackson's almost in
sane desire to get hold of a Missouri
killed ivory hill. He hud heard tiie two
shotgun reports that immediately pre
ceded the bringing of the bird to him
by his retriever. Heputtwoand two
together and smiled.
Everyone Knows something of the
mania of the true collector. The story
THE THEE TRUNK WAS BETWEEN
HIM AND THE BIRD.
of the confirmed old bachelor who
pot married to a sour-visuged old maii|
because she hud u china teacup that
would complete his set, unquestiona
bly is true. The stamp collector gives
the tenth of his fortune to get a can
celed two-cent stamp that happens to
be of a color-shade peculiar to itself.
The true birfk collector Is perhaps
more of an enthusiast than any of the
others.
Bill Withers managed to get word
to Bud Jackson that he would like
to meet him at the Debatable Ground
the next morning. Bud might come
with an armed escort if he chose. Bill
would have one. They met the next
morning. Two mountaineers with
rifles were behind each party to the
conference. Bill howled an invitation
to Bud to drop his gun and to come
to the center of the disputed laud
for a conference. Bud agreed. They
met.
“Mr. Jackson,” said Bill, “I want to
marry Bessie and she wants to marry
me. I'll tend to my old man. He's
got. so he does pretty much ns I say,
and he’ll even shake hands with you.”
"None of your breed can have Bess,”
said Hud, sour like.
"But Bess wants me.”
“You can’t have her” This in n
growl, and the two men turned and
separated. When he had gone about
three yards Bill Withers turned and
called out: "Bud, look hero."
Old Bud wheeled about. Bill was
standing there with one hand uplift
ed and holding by one foot the finest
specimen of an ivory-billed woodpeck
er that Ibid had over seen or heard of.
"Do you want it. Bud?" said Bill.
"It’s in the flesh and I'll swear it’s Mis
souri killed."
Bud’s eyes popped. Ills frame shook.
In his face was a great joy.
“Bill,” he said, and his voice trem
bled, “Bess is yourn."—Chicago 800
ord-llerald.
The Vtr r Cream.
Friend—You had a very fashion
able audience, didn't you?
Pianist—Yes; at one time there
was not a single person in the room
who was listening.—Somerville Jour
nal.
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