'I
DISLOYALTY
OF
DUTCH.
SWEPT BY 8TORM8.
Stumer
A Largs Fores In Caps Colony Surrendered
Al-Ki
Arrives
From Alaskan Ports
•nd Reports Heavy Gales.
to the Boers With Slight Resistance.
Port Townsend, Wash., Nov. 15.—
The coast of Southeastern Alaska con
tinues to be swept by storm, accord
ing to reports brought by the steamer
Al-Ki early tonight, 10 days from
Skagway.
Strong winds and snow
storms have prevailed almost contin-
. uously during the past two weeks,
and considerable floating ice is in
the channels.
The Al-Ki, in at-
tepmting to cross Queen Charlotte
Washington,
Nov.
18.
—
It
was
an
Boars Nearing Capa Town.
sound, was forced to turn back, ow
New York, Nov. 18.—The corres nounced at the War Department to ing to the fury of the gale and high
Her decks were swept with
pondent of the London Times and the day that the names of the officers se I seas.
New York Times, wiring from Middle lected to Uli the vacancies in the grade immense waves, and Pilot Bradley,
burg, Cape Colony, says that within of Bngadier-Generai will not be an who has been continuously on the
until Congress meets, as it Alaska route during the past 13
the last two days the Boers have ap bounced
is hot deemed desirable to ad interim years, says the storm on Queen Char
proached still nearer to Cape Town. appointments.
. in addition - to Uns lotte
iV vu sound
ois mi was
n the
l lie 111
U3V llllliJllS
most
furious 11
he Ü
Sixty men of the commando last seen siatemeut, and ■ in
view ot the great i .j
• *. __ .> ,
..
. .
pressure
that
haa
heen hrought to I1“1 wltn®88e^ during that period.
at Hopefield bare penetrated south of
Ice floes, he says, are much larger
Darling (48 miles north of Cape bear, It has been deemed proper to than ever known before, and he ac
make
the
lollowiug
official
declara
Town), but the raid must not be taken tion:
counts for it as being the result of
too seriously, as the British columns
"The Secretary ot War and the I the severe earthquake of two years
are already in a position to cope with President have mid informal discus ago, which shattered various gla
1L The Boers have made the dash sions on army matters on several oc ciers, and since that time sloughing
aither to obtain fresh horses or to re casions and it is understood that tire . of icebergs from glaciers has been
venge themselves on the Dutch far President has expressed himselt most very great and channels are filled
mers who have not supported them as positively on the use of political and i with them, which renders naviga
they were expected to do.
social influence by officers tor the
In the northeast district Comman purpose of obtaining changes of sta-1 tion hazardous during the long, dark
dant Fouche and six men, leaving the Hons, leaves of absence, modifica nights of winter.
______ ot ______
____________
The Al-Ki brought down a remark-
main body, made a raid last Saturday tions
orders, b _ etc.
Of course, it is
to Midburg Siding. They blew up a understood that officers often deem it »bly big cargo, consisting of 600
-few yards of track and shot in cold necessary to bars attention ca'ied to ’ tons of concentrate from the Tread-
blood a Cape Policeman who had sui- j their cases by pontic«! friends, es- well mine on Douglas Island and 700
rendered. Fouche has since returned peclally in case of young volunteer tons
*■
-* salmon
—’----- * from various fishing
" * ’
of
to the neighborhood of Jamestown. A officers who recently have been ap stations, and this cargo practically
patrol of district mounted troops were pointed. It is safe to say, however, cleans up the pack along the lower
worsted on Monday by an insignifi that at no period in the history oi our coast of Alaska. The Al-Ki brought
cant force of the enemy.
Government has the matter ot rec
ord been used to such good purpose us 80 passengers, most of whom were
She
during the present reorganisation of from fishing stations.
Two Recent Engagements.
brought $80,000 in treasure.
tbe
army,
when
the
greatest
possible
London, Nov. 18.—A dispatch from care has been taken in the selection
Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, today, ot persons for appointment to the re
BUREAU OF FORESTRY.
nays that a strong patrol of yeomanry, organized sriny.
while reconnoitering, November 3, at
"The President has not hesitated to
Brakspruit (in the Transvaal Colony, inform Senators and others who have Created by an Order of the Secretary of the
Interior—Department'« Policy.
about 140 miles west of Pretoria), was applied to him that no officer will im
his chance by sending his
surrounded by 300 Boers and lost six prove
Washington, Nov. 15.—The secre
friends to annoy the President in his
men killed and 16 wounded. Some of behalf. On the contrary, the effect tary of the interior today issued an
the troopers were captured, but subse which will be produced probably will
order creating a bureau of forestry,
quently released.
be directly opposite to that which the
The rear guard of Colonel Byng’s candidate hopes for. Several Senators under the interior department to be
column was attacked near Hilbrun, and Representatives have been disap in charge of Filiburt Roth, of New
' Orange River Colony, November 14. pointed because the persons in whom York, Edward T. Allen, of Washing
by 400 Boers, said to be under the thy are Interested have not received
command of General Dewet.
After appointments and stations applied for ton, being appointed forest inspector.
two hours’ of fighting, the Boers re by them, but the administration, as a In his letter of instructions to the
tired, leaving eight dead on the field. whole, is evidently of the opinion that new bureau the secretary outlines the
Of Colonel Byng’s column, Lieutenan* the good sense and judgment of pub department’s forestry policy.
He
Hughes and one man were killed, and lic men will lead to the same conclu
favors
the
immediate
creation
of
ad
sion
us
that
arrived
at
by
the
Presi
three officers and nine men were
woundad.
dent and Secretary of War; that is, ditional reserves designed to liberate
if a system of records be thoroughly the smallest possible amount of scrip.
established at the War Department, ‘‘The wide extension of the forest re
FIFTY VESSELS WRECKED.
showing the progressive work of offi serve area is, in my judgment,” he
Recent Gale« on the British Coast Have Cost cers from year to year, it will be fai says, ‘‘the most vital need of our
better for th« officers and men, as well
Over 189 Lives.
as public officials, that such a register Western forests, and of the vast inter
ests which depend upon them. The
London, Nov. 15.—It is still im- be made the guide for selections, de
use of real agricultural land within
poesible to estimate with any exacti tails, etc., rather than Influence.
"The appeals of individuals to theli forest reserves for agricultural pur
tude the total loss of life and proper
ty resulting from the protracted gale, Congressman for their personal as poses should be encouraged, and every
sistance In the matters above enumer
and probably the full extent of the ated necesltates public men giving up other reserve or reserves should be
damage will never be known. Much a great deal of their time in locating made available foi conservative use.
w'.-eskage of unidentified vessels is still the proper office at which to apply Each reserve should be dealt with
being thrown up. Altogether, it is for Information and the filing of ap on it» own merits. The present sys
known that some 50 vessels have been peals. This takes them away from tem of rules for diverse conditions is
wrecked along the British coasts. their legitimate dutlee while Congress simply destructive.”
Thirty-fou.- of these have been abso Is In session, and also Interferes great
DELAY IN NEGOTIATIONS.
lutely wrecked, involving, it is be ly with public administration of the
lieved, a loss of more than 180 departments. It Is fully recognized
public officials that the proper men Danish West Indies Treaty May Not Come
drowned.
The Yarmouth lifeboat by
In the first Instance to establish the
Before Next Congress.
-disaster alone leaves 44 fatherless chil character of an applicant for office are
dren. The lifeboat was on its way the Senators and Representatives
Washington, Nov. 14.—It is doubt
to the rescue of a distressed vessel from their own home, and it Is emi
when it was struck by a great wave nently Just and proper that their In ful whether the projected treaty of
capsized. The crew was impris- fluence should be respected and they cession of the Danish West Indies to
ttn.d only three men succeeded should be responsible for the charae.- the United States will be completed
ter of the persons recommended for in time to submit to congress when it
i?fc^f king their escape.
Innumerable causalties continue to office; but once in the public service reassembles next month. The delay
be reported on all the coasts of the It is only fair to the administration appears to have arisen through the
that not only army officers, but all oth
United Kingdom, marking the storm er
classes of public officeholders last change in the ministry at Copen
.as the most disastrous that has oc should rely upon their own merits and
curred in many years.
The Nor not upon the further use ot political hagen, with the state department,
practically having reached an agree
wegian bark Erratic, of Christiania, influence.”
ment with the Danish government
has been wrecked in the vicinity of
on the treaty when the entry into
Saltburn and eight of her crew
TRANSPORT RAN ASHORE.
power of a new ministry not well dis
drowned.
posed toward the treaty made it nec
A winter snap has succeeded the Third Accident to an American Vessel
in essary to begin the work all over
gale, wnich has subsided, while a bliz
again. The issues do not touch the
Japanese Waters.
zard which is raging over Scandinavia
is expected to strike the shores of
Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 18.—The price to be paid so much as the con
Oreat Britain tomorrow.
Today United States transport Hancock is ditions as to the future of the citizen
there is a heavy snow storm in Scot ashore on the south side of the Straits ship of the Danish West Indies,
land and a fall of snow generally of Shimonoeski. A German gunboat sought to be imposed by Denmark.
throughout the United Kingdom, is assisting her. The transport ground
on a sandy bottom.
Demand Reduction of Hours.
•especially in the hilly districts, where ed The
Hancock is the third United
Appleton,
Wis., Nov. 15.—Between
several shepherds lost their lives.
States transport to meet with a mis
5,000 and 8,000 employes of the 50 to
hap
in
Japanese
waters
recently.
First
Panic at Chicago Fire.
the Sheridan, having on board a num 60 paper mills located in the Fox and
Chicago, Nov. 15.—Fire tonight ber of returning troops and the Con Wisconsin river valleys, represented
cleaned out the five story building at gressional party which has been visit by the Paper Mill Employes’ Union,
254 Madison street, indicting a total ing tbe Philippine Islands, was de today united in a demand upon the
loss of about $50,000, divided among tained at Nagasaki by a broken tail manufacturers to close the mills from
Her passengers were trans Saturday evening to Monday morn
ha'f a dozen small firms. Five hun shaft.
dred girls working overtime in the ferred to the Warren, which sailed ing, instead, as at present, from Sun
Two day morning until Monday morning.
Schultz pajier box factory were thrown from Nagasaki November 3.
in a panic by the fire. In the scram days later the Warren sustained dam This means a reduction of the work
in the Inland Sea, which made it
ble that followed a score or more were age
necessary to return and dock at Naga ing hours 10 pier cent without a re
trampled on and severely bruised, but saki. The Hancock was ordered to duction of pay. The manufacturers
«11 were finally taken out of the build proceed from Manila to Nagasaki and are given until December 10 to answer
ing without serious injury.
take on board the delayed passengers. the demand.
Middleburg, Cape Colony, Friday. Will Be Recognized in Making
Oct. 25.—One hundred and eighty dis
Army Promotions.
trict mounted troops, composed large
ly of Dutchmen, with their horses and
arms, surendered to Smuts' comman PRESIDENT MAKES A POSITIVE STAND
do October 13. The district troops
fired most of their ammunition at long The War Department'! Records Will Have
range, and then refused to fight fur
ther.
Captain Thornton, their com More Influence Than Political and Social
mander, believes their surrender to
Friends of the Candidates.
have been prearranged.
Gunboats for the Philippines.
Washington, Nov. 15.—The report
from Japan that the United 8tates
government had placed an order for,
six gunboats with the Urga Boat
Company is not strictly accurate.
Some time ago, the secretary of war
authorized the Philippine commis
sion to purchase 30 or 40 gunboats,
to be used among the islands for
revenue and police patrol purposes.
They were to be bought at Hong
Kong and other places where they
could be obtained at the best advan
tage.
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Americans Control German Line.
Cabinet Crisis in Chile.
Chicago Translation of Bible.
A
Bot, ah! 1 long for . pumpkin
.
_ pia
I.lke mother used to make.
Now will the lordly turkey fall
To grace tbe festal board.
And In the glided banquet hall.
Where sparkling wine Is poured,
I may, with boou eompaulons nigh.
Thanksgiving dinner take—
But there I'll find no pumpkin pie
Like mother used to make.
What boots It that the city’s best
Is waiting at my ‘ hand?
That I, forsooth, may be the guest
At dinners swell and grand?
Alas: no epicure am
The whole thing I would shake
To get one piece of pumpkin pie
Like mother used to make.
Not Dives' feast could tempt me now
This bleak Thanksgiving day.
I’ll dine alone, with thoughts of how
The years have passed away
Since first I watched with eager eye
To see her fix and bake
That matchless, peerless pumpkin pie
My mother used to make.
—Chicago Post.
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A Tramp’s TiianksaiviBi.
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BY WELDON J. COBB.
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r—5 HANKSGIVING cheer was In the
air; it spoke In the crisp activity
of the village butcher, grocer and
baker, in the appetising odors of home
kitchens, in the eager faces ot school
children, elated and excited over “no
studies for the rest of the week!”
Hobo Bill, gentleman of leisure, came
down the winding country road with an
eagle eye for the occasion. Ilia rollick
ing glance took in the pretty town caleu-
Mrs. Daintry thought a good deal over
her strange gift Thanksgiving morning.
She finally concluded she had better cook
the turkey, hoping her erratic benefac
tor would be along during the day to par
take of It.
She tried to be cheerful and thankful
—but many a tear fell by the time the
turkey was cooked.
There came a tap at the rear door about
1 o'clock. The cook from the big house
stood on the step.
"Oh, Mrs. Daintry, excuse me, ma’am,”
she said, "but could you loan me a little
cinnamon. They've ruu out, and
Aagalnst an annual outrage which
Brings sorrow to the nest.
We
A
But
It
think it most becoming for
nation to give thanks,
we object In firm tones when
cuts Into our ranks.
Think of the widowed ones. and think
Of orphans In the flock.
Who must this year with sadness view
The cruel chopping block.
So now, good people, we request,
Our pleadings may be heurd.
And If you must give thanks and feast
Please kill some other bird.
A Thanksgiving Cinch.
She (after “yea” has been said)—What
did you wish when you pulled the wish-
THANKSGIVING DAY IN THE WOODS
Kitchener Has Located Dewet
New York, Nor. 18.—The Valpar
London, Nov. 14.—Lord Kitchener,
aiso, Chile, correspondent of the Her I in a dispatch from Pretoria, presents
ald sends the following report: A«
the result of adverse voting in the Sen his weelky report and incidentally
ate, the Chilean Cabinet has tendered locates General Dewet in the north
its resignation, but everything Indi eastern part of the Orange River
cates that the crisis will be only par
He says the Boer» have re
tial, affecting only one portfolio, and j Colony.
cently been collecting under hia lead
will be of short duration.
ership, and that the British are now
moving to disperse him.
Lord
Columbian Reinforcameme.
Colon, N ot . 18.—The Colombian Kitchener gives the Boer casualties
gunboat General Pinzon is expected since November 4 as 63 killed, 105
to arrive here shortly from Savanllla wounded, 104 captured and 45 aur-
endered.
with additional reinforcement«.
London, Nov. 15.—An American
London, Nov. 18.—Extracts from the
syndicate has purchased 10,000 shares Chicago translation of the Bible were
of tbe Mock of a Hamburg steamship published here today.
The Evening
line through a Vienna bank, says a News comments on the work as fol
Berlin correspondent of the Daily lows:
Mail. The purchaser is thus enabled
“In Chicago even the masterpiece
to demand at the next meeting a re I of literature is not sacred.
Twenty
vision of the articles of association in l misguided Inhabitants have Just is-
its own favor.
There is a general ! sued a translation of the New Testa
'feeling here that the American danger ment Into modern American. Such an
7 to German shipping is more serious atrocity almost makes one sigh for a
few hours of the Inquisition."
a. than has been supposed.
Another year baa .lipped away
Into tbe dim beyond,
And once again Thanksgiving day
Is here, with memories fond;
What dinners at my call have 1!
Wbat headaches la tbelr wake!
I smiling, despite herself, at the quaint
blockaded path ran to
rear door.
“Wonder what kind of a raise I kin happenings of this queer Thanksgiving
expect?” murmured Bill. "Hard-heart day.
ed old nob, that! Ah! there'a the lady.
She's all right! I’ll tackle her.”
There came a knock at the door about
Bill affected his uioet prim demeanor, two hours later—the front door thia time.
Mrs. Daintry drew back with a tremor
approaching a sweet-faced, motherly
aa she answered the summons; her visitor
woman.
“Lady,” he said, “might I intrude so was the iron-gray, stern-souled old own
fur as to Inquire If there was any chanct er of the great house adjoining.
"Eunice,” he said, extending his hand.
of getting a bite to eat-----”
“Certainly; come in,
“I want you to come home with me.”
"Brother!” panted the widow.
“Hey?”
Bill stared. With a welcome smile the
“Yes, Eunice, haven't we had enough
lady opened the door and graciously of animosities for the psst two years, you
waved him to a chair, Rill doffed his hat. and I?”
and hid his ragged shoes and gave his
"Edward, I have cherished none.”
wiry hair a smoothing toss.
“Then, my ridiculous temper is to
She folded a snowy tablecloth over one blame,” said Mr. Aylmer in a rapid,
end of the table. She set out a delicate shamefaced way. "When I heard the
china plate, a silver fork and a napkin.
story of that turkey—when I once more
"Ginger!" gasped Bill, "when I tell this sat down to a meal remindful of the old
to the gang, they'll say I dreamed it!”
days—ah, sister! you were always the
And then the gentleman in Bill came cook of cooks!” he said, trying to pass off
to the surface. He could see, through an a really serious occasion with a smile.
open doorway, the pantry, and what It “I say. let it all end! I’ve been thinking
held, one piece of pie, one piece of cake. it over. I was in the wrong; I was too
"All she's got, and she’s getting it for harsh to you. Your boy misbehaved, and
me!” breathed the spying Bill. "Mebbe I chided. You clung to him, and I put
her to-morrow’s feast. Nixy!” aspirated up that fence, and shut you out of sight
Bill, his heart swelling up, and he felt and heart, and—forgive me, Eunice!
more of a man than ever.
Come over to the old home, and give it
“Lady,” he said, as she set the food a rightful mistress!”
before him—and he was as solemn as
“And if Wilbur should ever return----- ”
an owl—"the last thing my doctor says
“Repentant? Reformed? I'll go back
to me afore I took this here tower for on my word and try him once more,”
me healt', was to avoid rich vittals. I’m promised the old squire, but with a
obliged, but---- ”
wince.
"There's plain bread and butter, sir,
“ ’Scuse both—but here's where I had
then?” suggested Mrs. Daintry, with an better come In!” spoke the voice of Hobo
amused smile.
Bill.
"I've—I’ve got a toothache! Thankee,
Both turned. The doer had been left
ma'am, but I've mistook my capacity, open. There stood the cause of this
and-----”
strange reunion.
Bill bolted. The widow stood looking
“Who is this?” demanded the squire,
curiously after him till his tattered figure brusquely.
disappeared beyond the fence.
“Well, gent,” answered the tramp.
"Perhaps—perhaps," she murmured "I’m the feller wot stole yer turk—to
sadly, “my boy is like that to-day!”
give it to a more worthy cause, see? It’s
At 9 o’clock that night Mrs, Daintry come out all right, so I takes back me
heard a noise at the rear of the house. first bad opinion of you, but leiume say
She went to the kitchen door. A man something. I came down here, squire,
was prying up the pantry window. It and you, lady, as a spy on the prom
was her tramp visitor of the afternoon.
ised land.”
“Have you come to rob?" exclaimed
“What’s he talkiug about?” muttered
she.
the squire.
"No, ma’am, I have not!” promptly re
“The best pal I ever had, squire, is a
sponded Hobo Bill. “I came to bring pa rd lying sick in the hospital in the
you a present—for your kindness to me city, longing fer home—and mother!"
this p. in.
I saw you had no tur
Mrs. Daintry clasped her ha lids, and
key for Thanksgiving, ma'am, so I’ve uttered a quick moan.
brought you one.”
It is my son—my Wilbur!” she breath-
Aud, sure enough. Hobo Bill swung his ed.
left hand around, holding as plump a fowl
“Yes. ma’am: that’s right,” nodded
as ever graced a king's larder.
Hobo Bill. “Squire, the boy’s not my
Mrs. Daintry was speechless. This sort. He ran wild, but now he's eatin’
was more singular than the man’s be the huskiest sort of husks! He’s brave,
havior of the afternoon.
he’s true to a frieud, he’s got over drink
"I was trying to sneak it into yer pan ing. I came spying the land for him.
try as a surprise, ma'am,” suggested Bill, Squire, what do you say?”
persuasively.
“Brother!”
"But I cannot accept it!” declared the
“Yes, let him come back," ■aid the
widow; “that is, without paying for it, squire in a broken tone.
and I have not the money to do that.”
Hobo Bill asked a chance to work out
“Madam," said Bill, with dignity; "this the good dinner they gave him—the squire
is a gift.”
set him at knocking down the fence that
“But bow did you, a poor man, get it?” hail been a barrier between brother and
“Worked for it, msrm," lied Bill, un- sister for two years.
The next mornong Hobo Bill proudly
blushingly; “cut two cords ot wood for a
farmer. Had no money; paid me in left, supplied with money to send back
turks. Four of ’em. Gave the rest away. the prodigal son from the city.
“And when he comes," murmured the
This is the last. There you are! Good
fond, longing mother, "we'll keep a sec
evening, mann.”
Hobo Bill flashed away like a spirit. ond Thanksgiving day!”
leaving the astonished widow lost in mors
A Proclamation.
consternation and bewilderment than
Know all men by these presents that
ever.
We turkeys do protest
latfngly, and settled upon its most pre
tentious mansion with conviction and
hope.
“Day before Thankagl? Ing,” he solilo
quised. "Most likely to have the fullest
pantry in the biggest house. Here goes!”
Bill observed a path cutting across a
yard. It was somewhat overgrown, but
he kept on, to come not to a gate, but
a solid board fence. He clambered to ita
top, to be halted by a sharp mandate)
Fired at United State» Minuter.
"Hey! get down there!”
New York, Nov. 14.—A Bogota,
Bill, astride the fence, confronted a
Colombia, correspondent of the Her fine-looking but angry-eyed old gentJemaa.
ald cables as follows: A sentinel at
“All right," he said.
Tequendama Falls October 25, de
“And stay down!”
clined to honor the passport of
“Yes, sir.”
“What yon after, anyway?”
United States Minister Charles B.
“Well, sir,” answered Bill, “I wae aim
Hart, and fired one shot at the di
plomat. The minister was not hit by ing for your kitchen and grub.”
“Don't bother nsel” gruffly growled the
the bullet.
The government has
severely punished the sentinel and is otbet. “Try the bouse there. They raise
there ”
seeing that the minister is fully pro tramps
Bill took this auspiciously, viewing a
tected.
I Beat cottage near at hand. The aama(
She stared at the handsomely browned
fowl, done to a turn, for she knew the
widow’s hard-scraping experience of the
last year or two.
“Certainly,” assented Mrs. Daintry, al
ways accommodating, although she bad
no reason to favor the big house, or any
of Its inmates.
“What a nice tnrkey you've got,” pa
sued the cook. "We have none to-dsy.
“Indeed?" observed Mrs. Daintry, In
surprise.
“Yes, ma’am—It was stolen.”
"Stolen!’’ echoed the widow, with a
■tart.
And then she guessed all, aa the cook
went on to tell bow the discovery of the
theft had come too late that morning to
admit of securing another fowl.
Mrs. Daintry acted a Just and honest
part—she Insisted that the cook transfer
the roasted fowl to tbs table of the big
house.
Thea she sat down to her humble meal,
bone with me?
He—I wished that you would accept
me. And you?
She—Oh, I wished that you would pro
pose.—New York World.
The Day After.
Mr. Gobbler—Are yon n»e teUew that
bad my wife tor dinner yesterday Î
( Truth.