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WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN; FRIDAY, MARCH 9,; 1900. Are Rapidly Gathering on Genera Lord Roberts' front. 1 TKE BRITISH ARMY IS WAITING livktcal Itraltoa of th CoafttMUr I to tiatbtr All EacinlM and Crusb Then Tbcn. LOXDON. March 7. (Wednesday. 4:10 a. m).- Lcrd! Roberts still pauses ia the neighborhood of Osfontein, while stores, Remounts and fresh troops - . . .! . stream toward mm Irom tne ape. The B.itish position a'so continues to t improve m the minor spheres 01 ine camoa'en. Natal is char cf Boers, an ! Cape Colony is nearly so. j The Boers are p.irsu ng a course roinmtndcd bv stra esris's. and are concentrating to resist the British main .irrry. Varut s iressa-ies, ,rrom corres-:-.n ients wth Lord Roberts, report that the enemy are increasing contin.u otu'y on his front, extending, as one correspondent w res, eight miies' ana as another savs. eighteen miles, i The lowest estimate of their numbers gives the Boers from 8000 to 10.000 men, with smaller bodies moving north and south of the British lines. Each army ;is on both sides jof the Plodder river. Although the Boers have mounted eight guns on the tops of, kopjes; they ap pear to be too far away -for inspection. British scouts report that they are dil igently using thej pick and shoireL The best military opinion is that their pres ent position merely screens more eas ily defended ones deeper in the region. Jsone of the military experts endeav or to fathom Lord Roberts plans, but it is suggested that he is quite willing to give the Boers time to assemble all their men in order to deliver a smash ing blow more j effectively. j The round robin in favor of the an nexation of the' Transvaal an l the Free State, which isbeing promo'.ed among the supporters of the government in the house of commons, continues to re , reive signatures The signatures j of a memorial to Mr. Balfour affirm that the time has arrived for piain speaking inside and outskle of parliament; and that Lord Salisbury's1 wonh are ! con strued into a pledge against-1 annexa tion. 1 DUTCH REBELS. ' v Cape Town. March 6. Nearly the whole of the Dutch population of Pricska'and Kenhardt d stric s. re in rebellion. Marry of the Dutch from the neighboring districts are reported to have joined them, notably Pet-Iool, the man who will lead the rebels.: MOST PECULIAR CASF. A SAN FRANCISCO IRL DIED YESTERDAY s After Lying in a State of Torpor, for Two Years Escaping Gas Was the Cause. SAN FRANSCISCO. Cal , March - After two yar of unconsciousness, .Miss E!ida Wilbur d cd tolay. i In Prhniary, 1898. Miss Wilbur was found ;n her rom. unconscious, with the gas mined on. She was lying on a sofa wih a novel in her hand, ar.d it was at firt supposed that she had committed suicide, but investigaron disproved th s supposition, and it be-a-re known !h-t hc had faMen asleep while read:ng air! 'hat a JTUSt of wind had extincriiUli- v.! iV i'ht.;. leaving the g, to escape j ;. rom and to rob, the young i,t i .; her senses, '-. ; s . - Mi. t..et phvsieian in the ity iwere ining trial of Harlan Whittaker, on the I charge of assassinating Governor Goe bet. AH the witnesses were those par tiopatmg in Whittakers arrest, mclud ing the detectives. At the conclusion of the evidence of the state, Whittaker' s- attorneys submitted the case. Judge mm m lacse into social chaos.; No i ideals- ' of anv kind are realized in life, trot many of us manage to be happy notwith standing. .It is equally o "wrtn mar riage. It may not measure in every respect up to our expectations, and yet it will, if properly understood and to the April grand jury without bai Moore decided that Whittaker be held SlITIflll DCfilCS CuZTDtS Of CCITUD- I cherished, make men and women hap I . pier, better and more use tut than any other institution winch- could be de vised. Baltimore Sun. i; ( People marry, expecting to be made happy. Their experience teaches them. it they are wise enough to j be taught MILLER CONFIRMED. tloa Against Ccrbett. Washington, March 6. The senate tooaycomirmea tne nomination ot 11. If inTFD'C CTATFMFUTC WADPFft L " CllZT. a" Bv Miller, Of s Oregon, to be consul - ainii.iiii.in uy cxcurutc, mai irire iujiuhs at Chung JCing, China. DIED LAST NIGHT. Philadelphia, March 6. Congress man Alfred C Harmon, (the father of the house) from fhe fifth Pennsylvania district, died tonight, aged 75. THE PRESIDENT'S YIEW. Orctoa Senator Makes a Point M Rwmon of Corruption la Montana Politic ? Their Big ric" to be had not by being made happy, but by making others r happy in the family, rounded and made complete by childhood or1 not. If this lesson , is learned life is happy and marriage suc cessful, be the outer, circumstances what they may. Philadelphia Press. ABYSSINIAN FEAST OF FLIES. WASHINGTON. March 6. At the conclusion of the morning business ifl HE DISCUSSES THE PUERTO the senate today. Senator Simon, df . " . iitiu unnsn trnvernment sent an exue- .The tne Beaung ot wuay. tic aaaressep V 7"" fr ; - -a t Din redrcss the senate, m answer to a speech qi w (H,!n vrnnr, nnPtrM(d uoon Once Offered to a British Army Of ficer, Who Tackled It. Btavely. It happened that several ,years ago in the British museum. ! Cpncerninj; this work, which aooeared to be sort of Dooms'day (Book and i constitution of Jhe United States merged into one. fiere j was only the single copy n ex vi.sabJe, at the earliest moment, to se cure a decision of the supreme court Df Corbett. on the constitutional question involved HUMES IS ELECTED. ELECTION IN SEATTLE A PUBLICAN LANDSLIDE. RE- WASHINGTON, March Post tomorrow will say: tae senate, m answer to a speecn 01 f certain wrongs -perpetrated upon President McKmlev. in conversation Carter, delivered yesterday, m. the the queen's subjects. i v with callers at the White House yes- course of which the Montana senator Without the loss of a mart, the chief terday, riiterated his belief that the adverted to the reasons which induced c;ty 0 MagdaJa'was taken, the state people of Puerto Rico were entitled to htm to -ote against Corbett who ws Qf affairs in the country upset, gener free trade with the United States. He the appomtee of the governor of Or- ally, and the only existing statute work made it clear that this view had on- rron ; He said Carter made the distinc- u- te nA 4rltinn vf the dergone no change since he wrote his tive charge that Corbett had corrupted Abvssinians carried away as a souvenir mtjsanc iu iuuKic55. "'"-itne icgisiarure ana ueicaicu me mcmicjqj their .visit, beings nnaiiy aeposuea nme. ne saia. ne was unauie 10 siw 0 the pecple ot Uregon. tie couia scribe to the theory that the constitu- not, he said, permit this "unjust and tion followed the flag; that the Puerto untrue" charge to go unchallenged- Ricans must have free trade as a nec- Simon said he was a nitn.it?r of t6e essary legal right. When he found lOrenn legislature at tnat time, art d that the house deemed it the part of he declared that Corbett was m no way jVence, s6 that in its absence the legal wisdom, th present exiplainSed. to responsiMe for the failure of the leg- affairs of the country drifted into such impose a small tariff upon the condition islature to elect a senator, nor for the a iwvoelea tate of confusion that the that the revenues so collected be re-thou to rptranize. The failure oft. au.o itc ... - I -v n j I d U LSI Vi (V .UU I. va j 1 ib ka.9 w -kj turned -to tne isiana. ne naa Deen con- .1,, Oretron house to oreanize. he said. strained to yield to the judgment of the was due to ' former Senator Mitchelt, petition the.'British government for house. Moreover, he believed , it ad- and to him alone, and he denied the its return, whkh request,! being at imputation ot corruption on ine pan length acceded to, a copy was struck oft corDeit- i f for the museum, and the original re- Simon then directed attention to ttie turned in the charge of a mission, with fact that Quay, as a member of the a miiitary officer at its head.! senate, was paired against Corbett apd Great was the joy in Abyssinia when saad. on principles of justice Quty the mission bearing their ipnly book should he stopped by his paired voie was announced. The lineal descendant against Corbett. of the queen of Sheba put oh all his Carter replied to Simon s statemeift fathers, and went forth tot greet the He said? ie had not spoken with a vie?w British envoy, whom he received with of making a personal assault on CoV- every mark of respect, and in honor of belt, and continued: J the event ordered a banquet' to be pre- 'I j assigned as, a for vo.tm5 pared, the like of which, for Hhe variety against Corbett the belief I entertained m n . awuvsw n -mm ' - 0-Wm ' . t I I llf II SIMI W III 1 11 I M 1 Tl rill TI Infill I 11.11 I . J 11. . A I MiAULt, Alarch O. ine City Ciec- V. vr V iorc-graccu me ruyai lame, i tinn hr rnltA in , .wmiiie proceeuing in inc urcgon icg Mi-i .Bravely the British officer attacked victory for the republican ticket. While ure C JEtT 7 Z ' V" each unsavory mess as it appeared, in at miJnight complete return, are not aJ f letier di. S tatT".t" ffit. available, there is every indicat.on that th. .itnatin trnm r.r C ?on 'orX ,ut hf f iasfl mt f?as- Mayor Thomas J. Humes has been re- n" "ir " J rw jr?TOn?c -r ameer run oeiore ine grana elected bv a maioritv of from 1200 to J triumph at the Abyssiiwan chef, an ex- 00, and that 'the'erftire republican 'iSf" "f and, .Toubtless costly ticket: with the exception, perhaps, of --,v- a.sn. 01 ms, prooao y. ot tne . locust two councilmen. has eone in by a vote r " C X A-tZ Ar:rCniV 1 sPc.,e? tnat was partaken ot with great of nr1v a Urve- Th. wa.-rUar LU""V"" ' . Zlt-.T"t"'t"' sh y ihei Abyssinians present ..r.. j --- 1 dui 10 eieci LorDeir. ine laner s en-1 !.. : i 1 .t .j . . 1. . sh ofheer attempted this subsequently declared to turope. assuredly in In rent v Simon said, he was induced I 1 j . . . - non-partisan league, and ran on a tick- tft KW iat Mr rirt .tatemrint, r,"n" 1CS ,OT . me ,ncls " in et headed democratic. He had a strong were somewhat warped and exaggerat-J "A' an a" un"'?e"n f-n II C fl li 1 n it. 1. if what had k.. 1.1- t . and. restrict the sale of liquor and th, been heard about the capital case dur- ; -- oanque sonal .fvil m iimns drrirpl that ho f i - . ,f..r I ifc-T. tL r . . tj j .A..M ,1; ,mw; .-i .,1 .t.r . i -.. .l. .s llre unnsn to fun, under police superv- restrict the fallen women to ?er of the city. The result was a landslide in favor of Humes. The Saloon Quesiion a Factor in the Municipal Contest Yesterday The Issues! ' "NURSE, PLEASE CUDDLE ME," PATHETIC INCIDENT OF CITY HOSPITAL! LIFE If one visited the wards of a city hos pital he would witness a I strange con trast of employment, - -condition and emotion, says the Montreal Witness. Doctors are hurrying about; the nurses are active, -prompt and intelligent -serene and cheerful under the most lace rating experiences. In a full ward, life will be at the ebb to many a patient, and in thd case of him who is appoint ed to die it needs the careful and ( sym pathetic ear to catch the failing', ac cents which would fain convey a mes sage to those left behind, .or attest the triumph of faith. The clergyman kneels by the bedside of; the - dying, while the convalescent patients laugh and chat with one another sn the im mediate vicinity of death.) The pathos of these scenes is indescribable "and there! is ah added poignancy in the buff tie and activity which are seemingly indifferent to the tremendous fact' f death. Not that there is real indiffer ence, i but the needs of the living are ino perative, and it is found to be fatal tjo usefulness to waste the sympathies over every case whose ending is death. ) Doctors and nurses are grandly hu mane. There may be among the fonri er those who would say (with j rciet- pital; died there. As the supreme mo ment drew near, the motherj asked for her son. Dehcacy and love p!aced a screen about the dying bed; a piercing cry of "mither, mither," announced! the end. :, '' Harry was taken back to the chil dren's ward, where he tofobel and cried for a long time, saying to the nurse,. "Ohi nurse, cuddle me; oh, nurse" cuddle me like my mither." ! j I The child's grief spent itstlf, and" he was heard to sing, after some days; I am .far irae my hame, an' I'm weary ' aften whiles, " 'j -f For the langed-ir hame brjingin Ian ' my Faither's welcome smiles; An I'll ne'er be fu content until my een can see . . ; - The gowden gates o heaven an my ain countries ' His prime favorite." however, was "The Palace o' the King." and both doctors and nurses paused to listen; as the childish voice rose in the words:? Nae nicht shall be in heaven; an nae de- solatia' sea; ! - s An' riae tyrant hoof shall trample in . , ' the. city o'-the free; ' ' Tliere's an tverlastin, daylight an' a never fading spring, , J Where the Limb is a' glory in the oal- -1 tr - ate o tne jving ence to the spiritual domain), with the materialistic surgeon in Tennyson; s 1 . T 1 1 1 i -" , 1,, ir. - -1 poem mai jus uas naa nis uayj fc sec uor incus awaii us ower yon- but there is hardly , one of the latter I ner at the gate; j who Would not answer, with her who Then let its a be ready, for ye ken it's replied to the sceptic (brought up. as gettin' late; " T they nave. been, in country homes, Let oor lamp be brightly burnin'; letw' where faith is simple and doubts uri- raise oor voice an' sine-: known.) . j L For sune we'll meet to pairt uia mair in Had? Has it come? It has hardly dawned. It will come bv and bv. Oh, how could I serve in the wards f cut oeiween Aiavor names. reDreseni- 1 -ct . u. ins what he. terms a liberal oohev on c it. - I .! V,c DTIl tfli nn c!H unA r..r,r(ro Prtftri!1 whi , .1 .A , . ., 4 . I U1MI . aiSO. as ITe uS Zir AttuZZ :; ' aer rnatw,ie m,ni secure ine PPO- oh his return 9 a vpuiih an V4 ii wuiuiiiutiioi, tv i (fit ' I t h ' 1 - i inc iihhi.' fi was uic venrrai ura ucc lifii (w i i'. ision.and usemoneyjn big figure. - ; . 'XhA and STcome hi. one quar- 4In fact, said he. it has keen iaidl : -u- V. . limner 1 fV in-antlomin in M amihi ! I - r J " J 1 uiivai i iiuii v. k. v t iii viiiaii .iiuiriana,, . m i A NATURAL TENDENCY. "I guess Binx has just had a raise in salary," said the confirmed cynic. Has anybody told you so? "No; but he goes about saying he thinks the world is getting better, and that the dangerfrom trusts is greatly candidate for an honorable office. 5has separated nmself from about $8po,- wv.. . ... He did not attempt to assert fthe trwth of the case, but he felt that Car- ' cer might have obtained his ideas about the corrupt use of money nearer hdrae, than, was the state of Oregon. an extra inducement the promise of tor.ty of his handsomest l. je.. black est wives. But that, of course, has nothing to do with strange! dishes. London Mail. I RECENT INVENTIONS. To do away with the necessity of tv- ing knots in shoestrings a new device is attached to cne -dze of the upper. ! and'.every known means of re- -i -: tr rosciorne5s. were appl ,:t:"'i'! tf-uf;. Her rien .s and w re nw..rdeI by- I ricf. very 'K'l t'tlU til i..HI. AMO - ' - y i- . ii is inn tier ii- : "So one loves me ! w ; li v. iir- MINE HORROR f. W. Va Tarch 6 -The rt-nor: of in exp oon; today, at t' m nes. nere p-reat . i .ie latest reports since ;;i-,;n!..': were tht there wre ionly 4. r m. . . .... - - . ' ! ' cn;onne;i instel oF seven r;-fne. Ttn bodies have ben taken o'M. ,-f. . far. i-stead of thirty-seven, as fi."f Au:y np-r ed. bi:t it is believed i:.a n.-nr f f the, forty thit a-ef still in t ie i-t.re w H ever be fornd a!ie. j The exj..o;;fn happened as the men wcre o.nr n-o the mine in groups and in couples, in some instances, and i they were strung along in this manner for oyer a mi:e. so that the work of rescue Will ..am!.. 1 . ' m.. "... .vSi...t 4.iuuK time, infre were more men near the entrance, who es caped. than wer?. lost. ' i 1 THE CORBIN INVESTIGATION. ADJUTANT GENERAL IS READY , 1U BEGIN. res- WASHINGTON. March fi. A olution. adopted by the senate, calling lor the complete record of the court martial which tried Adjutant-General i-oroio. when lieutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth colored mantrv nn i charge1 of cowardice, and other inform ation as to his military career, called -for a mass of papers that will .require a week to copy. General Corbin to day addressed, to Senator Davis, of Minnesota, an appeal for an immediate examination - his soldir!y record. from the day he entered the service of the United States army as a io-year-old boyv 38 years ago, until . now. Moreover, he authorizes the senator to present his (Corbin's) resignation to tne president, if the search reveals a suggestion of umvorthiness. The let ter includes the findings of the court martial which .most honorable acquit ted Lieutenant-Colonel Corbin of the eharge against him. A KENTUCKY SUSPECT. Preliminary Hearing of a Man Charged - with Killing GoebeL Frankfort, Ky., March 6. The court house was packed today at the exam- THE BILL PASSED. Washington. March 6. Not prob-H magnified, and that human natujse isn't ablv in fche, history of the senate was having a clamping jaw actuated by a J so bad after all. That 1 the way a man Ine cer snown so mne interest in sun spring, wnicn grips the Hoops and nearly always talks just after he, has 'he final vote on a great measure as ends after they are folded to imitate a had a raise in salfcry. Washington was maniiestea toaay in the votej on knot. Star. the conference report of the financial I A Pennsyivani'in has patented a bill. The report was before the senate I strangling device for rnnirnit;nr r,n,. 1 11,. I ; 1.... . r. it 1 V " . . r" ! AN ANCIENT LON DON CHURCH l"':" 7-'a y ? your way norses, navmg a strari to pass . , n-nnn. wnt uiuiiiiu i"i n. luumi-iaiounu ine tnroat, witn the ends con- and -"Vu cx"a"Y" tn cnanges nectea by a.rope pulley, the rope of of as much sunshine as she ckn get. out companions, standing at the edge made her apiptarance V' inc crwa near tne road along which handsome, itranoine !the troops were passing. How she took th be her B" l"rc. ncaven Knows ana fliolding bv X 'Ttl . u lv "V? SCM,lc f.tlu.- " 3 new ooramo game the ends of grandson, occupied them w ith her. cn ot flowers in her lian.l. Dunstan himself. Sin.e Dun- the oalacc o the.Kintri 1 1 arry suggested that tie children , or such of them as ' were able miVhr ' the hope of -the world were deadi? give a concert in the ward, to uhtVh How icould I bear with the sights and 'the officials would be invited. !Thr iir. loathsome smells of disease. crcstion was accented bv 4hn' in -. But that He said, Ye do it to Me, fhority, and a touching scene was wit when ye do it to these!' " ' j nessed as each boy started his little Professionalism, however, yields to song 'or recited his little "piece." . ine drawings 01 me cnuctren, and it p arry, nowever. with 1ns Scotch in the children's wards that one mav "burr." his wistful face, already v-hn.T witness a full measure of love subsist- ing the inroads Or disease, and his pa- ing between doctors, nurse? and thosie thetic life history (known to all) wrs tender creatures who have been all too the general, favorite, and he was called early made acquainted with the "sad upon for several efforts. Harry will astrology of pain." hardly live to see his. earthly father tlere, for instance, is "Harry," the but. with pinched face, he still sings of pet of the ward a boy of 12. dying of seeing the "King" in his beauty," and cjpsumption. The full tragedy of the he never says to the nurse "Please cud simplest life is only known to God.. A die me," in vain. , for none can help lov husband and father out in. British Co- in'g him, and it is remembered by more lumbia sent to Scotland for his wife and than one., with a lump in the throat, boy. The mother reached Montreal; th3t Jesus said "Of such is the king took ill; was conveyed to the city hos4 dom of heaven." TME OLDtUNTFORM. Between the sparsely leaved branches uniform, which she shook and brushed, of the cypress tree that grows: in the; her manner of doing it seeming to be yard I can look across to the1 backs of; come more and more, tender. Some a row of tenement houses, and through; times "she stroked and patted-the coat, their uncurtained ' windows see i the in-i as she might have stroked and patted mates of the shabby rooms j beyond, it if the owner had been inside. And Often and often have I been the unseen once I saw her lift the riddled sleeve witness of bits of domestic drama en- and lay hercheek against.it. i acted amid the bare settings of these ' ,. poor rooms, bpying upon my neigh- yxirai uxira: ine newsooys were bers! Weir. I suppose so. .But it is ; snneicing m tne streets. AH. tiie a kina ot spying tnat does tnem noi'fwii was wucreu 10 lampai 1 harm and furnishes me with some "S'at down in my room when I got home sound moral lessons. i and looked across the narrow strip For months after I began this prac-i ot gloom, that intervened between me tice the windows of the rooms most anU n,y o'd neigthbor. Her windows diirectly opposite mine were elbsed and were dark, lit in.the room below a shuttered; but one day cirly last wiwn was laugning ooisterousiy . over r v. Uil3.ll 3 -as ail HiiiiiatiiiK i i u m,- f.: 1 - iin ui mc iuimh- 1 wuicn leaas' nart in ih nrnura -.i l i'i,, .h , . .1 ,taiil.V,lil lliUllil. A tic Ul l . 1 1 1 i lll II. I . I ' .; . I . . aiiui , . itv.i n n i i . s erected in 14-irbut it stands on Vm f'f UT" ZTL-, f. P.U ,eion wUh hand to in the rooms, a , ' r v !f Uu: and is -buiit Dari.y on the foun- c Jif. "IV " . 7t.- l."v "limc" w,c ""P: , young ffUow. whom 1 unci. .!., .. .r .1 1. l. UIl III Al U.UCI IUUII I C CliCU March thev were thrown wide 1 open something she was reading to her bus and I saw an old woman with broom from the evening paper, j and brush and pail making a great ; Two days later 1 stood and, watched clearance and cleaning. regiment march away from She looked 70. at least, but was still j yanip to tne music of hie and active and hopped easily up ofa a little i u'- inere were. teartui faces and r adi.tit 3 ,aJr nf Klin.lc curious faces, and . faces stirred i-ih which from the moment she put them 'Jdeep excitement or enthusiasm ; among up. until this day. have ncter leen the crowd, but the one that impressed drawn down, except at night. The old i.me mft was the lace of my old neigh- woman is evidently fond of light and cre sne- wras. apparently witn- S.-i-i in minis-erea in iai3 t k'w.er than sixty-two parish l iri.u i hiirchei h3e been !iici'i' h'f a ha now hei-nme a b shopric; Within the memory of per sons si-ili lining the parish had a non resident pluralist rector and an aver-) 6:1 rogation of thirty. Newcas-i :5c t IZngland) Chronicle. AUTOMOBILES VS. RAILWAYS. t anu I hv a vnri a 4 fr tVi DUUt m Mia. Iflnr -1 rnoiAritv iwf tft Cnire4 f- Bride and Simon, of Oregon, ioted with the majority. . f The senate has passed the following bi?Is: For the erection of a pu-blic building at Spokane, Wash., cost $500. coo: for the erection of a public build ing at Tacoma, Wash., cost $7) 000. ine senate committee on hnane to- uiii we tui.MucraMon oi n?inor i the dommos are cut to lie at' an angle They seemed very fond of one another iler tace ' very grave, but there narith V." J w" ..V. '--"-" vW..uC w,tn eacn other, in order that! the com- and I often saw them embrace: some- was.no suggestion ot tears in her faded. r , . i i ne comerence report was aereed o hUn i ,;n t Li.. I .-.. .u t.r. u' r.itrpr .v.c nA .1. c 1.. a vote 44 to 20, the report thus 1 htnr t. u j-i 0 I . i. - i. J. set on each end of the dominoes until the 'a'tip light, casting thefr shadcjws upflto ' As. Company Bj came marching up circie is completed. ; the drawn blinds; made a grotesque L laminar lace and figure caught .my 10 securely Hold a fish when hooked siinoutte 01 the talt youth, beiliding af- lcJT-, . ncX were tnose ot my young a H:w device has an auxiliarv hook tectionately over the little wobian. , , speignuor, strong and handsome and pivo'ed to the shank of the bait-holder ne night I came home out of the iT'S"11 ,n spek and span war trapT the latter' depending from the end of ld'a and clamor of the streets, inhere the ,,"gs- A iuick light flashed into the ihe line, and the former . btine con- crowds were gathered about the news- ,0151 woman eyes as she saw him. and troiicd -oy a spring catch, to i fall and! dav aut-horired a fav-ora.hl.. r,r,rtlrn T"' e nsn wnen It takes tlie bait. the nomination of Hon. W- DVBlnum.r'110 cws' STREET There is little danger cf the automo- appraiser of mleTcJjandise at the :e becoming a dangerous competitor Iwvrt of New York. The eoTntnittr of electric railways, says i the : Philadel- divided on party lines, the republicans ILLITERACY IN RUSSIA. ph;a Record. To transport any con siderab.e number of people the car riages must be of large size, and with the necessary storage battery, of con siderable weight. The heavier these become the greater the disparity ; be tween the auto with its wheels resting support in-g and the democrats oppos ing ine ccnnrmation. paper bulletin boards like, flits about w,tn a smiVt on her fcrave old face she' a honey pot, and the newsboys were Presscd forward and thrust heir .little crying "Uxtra! Uxtra!" fit to drive' one nosegay into his hand. The youth mad. There was one distinct, impres- fasPed t and smiled fondly back at sion in my mind. The regiment nr ad the company marched ; on up was ordered intr -am.r T the hill. . i - i - " -" " I" AUI IC . .,.. . . ' . . t . .. " . ! a nainiu 1IILU IIIV I I tl 1TTI A Tl ri : - niuuun aftaiai. vai ine illiteracy ot Kussia Exceeds that my old neighbor's lamp was lighted mofnnfr, hard at work on the old uni of any other country claiming to have but he had evidently forgotten to draw orm- her 'ace steady and cheerful. I a civilized government. The Human- her blinds . and I rrM c k.., . Could even hear the notes of a sonar I . . . w-v. v i a lj 3i - . ; . - . - - ea cr P5 j '.".' X j ,i-i in u.uw puidges oinmg aoout prepanne sunner ?uc was crooning in her biKh. crack j iQ x. I aie vast empire there is not! a school P-scntfy in comes the ! strapping YotSe' S"Idenly she paused. I H r.r c . v , . . f "V " ; W " ccni young man. gathers her in I his arms wrinjcieo cheeks quivered and her Ii , ( - 1 . - . - v- anu tuaacs lirr ipnnrr v Vh ratiiMi hvhimuu.. tiri if aLfnrriiiir inc woi 11 u u A .1. . - - i I . . on pavement ana ine sircci car. wnicn tfId th vmnr rlac nnt runs ttpon rails. The atitc, possibly, I Ninety per cent of all marriaceis. he n5 school leducation. to marrv. quired even the rudiments of a com- hhe kU nat ,1, l. j I uniform in hr irmi'iSn t a and riao-c mon school .education. ft! ;ha .'twn h- 1 cnumes u,. A. ,w t. .: : .1 1 . ri- .4 . .. if-. . 1 v '-""""i icrauons. Alter ner- "- nnn Jk" "v.- i; ; . X J .-lL a,mrms. ?re nnaPPy Jhe learned gen- ngureujuu inai 11 cne czar Woutd dis- forming his ablutions at a sink in the 1 mX window. the car, when built to ca-ry. say two tleman has been. add.cted or Tnfanv hand ,00.000 Wn of the astv "be 'r? VflJ" th.e to ior people- but such a service can years to the study and elaboration ten times the usual street car fare, J I , . , --- j - - - . . , x 1 ihic I UU 1 1 1 rl wrai!l fnr,hv m n . t . . J . . . . not, be rendered for less than five to tariff and finance, in which hislview. Provide a school for each A these vil- th y ae .71- Ml: cornoleted by Grant . . : . 1 1 . . r r . .. - 1, - - i i , . . .. . . 1 ' " uumh , I r ri , nm a mt Dv.r.A 1... . i l l . . . . . - . 1 tll Uliinc 1113 UC.11II IS- iUHIUL Any person who has observed he calls -"plugs." What is a plug? A ; to be Hilda young . .1 ... . 1 ... a. t, . f I fiirf e I r t c font e,t e. . 1 I . 11iiiiiiAiiu : wiuc rrirri amnntr i tntc " " . ,ui-iii91uk ijiiti inr ryar ivrMnv n t n ... l. .. . : . . . .... -- -who believe that the ta hw,f tZX should desire to reach some'i arrant - fV Lr5"2.3 oi , twiblished; ander -the title the nriva indnrtri. 7 mefrt with the other ! natJmi. n"r'. '"""3"'?. .,n.e -n. Wade." It is the story rapid and ceaseless outout of books th, n,. P,r c.. " LAV" would permit him to iiarti MKtt' I ,u'u wner-.wisirouy about, woman who studies medicine for the wUl not be surprised to learn that the a w 3"" 1 i ' i Ina.1 sKirests a purpose of freeing her father from the - - . 1 w -- nui d uutsui 1 n 1 1 o v-f 111 k. Liiiine 1 111 1 1 m inn m n w av 1 - - . . . booksellers most perplexing; problem by reason nor approved by history lilt- SHELDON NEWSPAPER, yet dreads to tell K nputatton of crime and Of bringing 1$ to know what to do with those which I Chicairo Chronicle i I i i i . I ;, ; 4t.. .t.t- i , . . to justice the true criminal. It is also n ia ..:ki. 1 . Kisn 01 amisfrintinne n aiii.l. , . . " uu iusiuic itwn ior oe-1 r T f n inc 1 wo sit aown to eat iL fc. yr 1 . r ia. imjok ior wnicn. ior jome reason r hevtnc thit n n-,ntHa f t, other, there is no longer a demand. It riages are unhappy, or six-tent3is or Previous Records, i Tcpeka Kans. March 6.rThe frfsh knTJ and fork. d? hS l-5i."or-:lSh5W?n acrSi at him in i terrif woman to lay down her among old bachelors and eld maids ed,t'?,n thJ Tofka Capital has brok- way. The youmr a great deal more, whatever pessimis- .' '."t,slZ' i", crnice. the table and takes hold of one rvf her aa mrd rny Id han:'and then he rises, niaru 01 1 goes around o her Of I Anmmrrt I -1...- . ? - ' . . aw and look terrified,! helpless man reaches across as had a greater or less vogue, but the four-tenthsj More real hanmne ;s public has suddenly ceased to tie irt- 1 found amnnu rr-.r:-i l I o fifv t1ia Imnlr ' . ' .... " : I O " - M-iMwii,, nii,iivii IJIT!N1TT1I - I . r - ' - tnat particular stock. It is 'appaDmg tic professors may say to ihe contrary.! tu7i ii cnptions recetred in bony old hand uic yvyuiAi MfunLcs uccome i ransas Kity jcurnau J I ill Vj K HFfru oiijroes around - - wvvm avuuj Mai uu i ur iiiiii iinni rimne a. i . -r rrwu i in i w 1 1 ; - vv . n a , i . snrfdrntir if .,rtr.n, ff -.i, l " " " r,"-''",lVi,B uul eers. Near r everviimnnrfdn r;r!L " ronng w vft-'f v vm. iii an ajl. i LUiiiiii m ciil in in ii rn t nn m - w - t -. - " r vwuii- avsintr np ttt n m . -. new muiuc is inline ncia. iac to tner are on the 4rait nf nrc . . iicu m inciaont P. v aw vy'J Vivian w irv.iv bi i i the young man says thing that ." ence aeStryed ,nteres ,n pure causes the old woman to lav down h-r e cheek -I see any more, because my heart A new favorite is in the field. What to the- ih, ' " try in. me -world is repi . . . a i j wm .a&3 .j i : - nvrn a r do with the old stock?tHow gratified character. He who finds ricthmg bu tZrMJltAt9uw Vr H touched and my mstincts of delicacy the bookseller would be to whoever io in l.f ,n ih. .Cn a11 ad territories of the Union, revft ""l"ael,aC3r would devise a way to rid him of it his own sweet, or perhaps careless dis- WlthOUt lOSS. ' I nntifmn tn ihirtlr .U- t. iL. , ; . uApipicsa iic uiiu noi ricnes. tame WILL REMAIN. FAME'S PATHWAY. or an is i ideal , wife. Whatcom Reveille, f , --, ... - I ass iiic iacIlCSit SIT II & Henry i. fincn, the author of sev- condition rarely attained inth;l w,f I - r v v i era well known books on evolution, is But surely more than io7 pel cent making a study of the iort stories and among married cocoes et oh well popular tales of Japan. .. enough together not to be called un- Carolus Durer always smokes while happy, however feeble the flameT of ro- pwntmg a portrait, except of course, mantic devotion may become with the a Klf " thc 51tter- .H.wys that passage of years.ProvidCnce JournaL he finds the greatest inspiration in a Without the institution f mAZZ ntrta lit' v. iiiiMKiuuill v I and laws to nricrv i in ,vT -t u w iu WUU1U icvn against lunner spying. ily neighbor stood at .her window next mornincr brushimr a shafAv, WasWngton. March P,.. I . lsie. ras wtons on fete today received a eahWm "!LC" tne stone P- f: l.-" . , . ,"t "iuuuw sin. ana one siranee- j Colonel Loyd. D. S. O., who is talk- ing out to the Boer war the West Rid ing regiment, from England, is the . wearer; of a wonderful array of medals, won in many campaigns; indeed, he i': one of the most decorated men in the armjv ' i i " ; Dr. Edwin Lewis Stephens, recently appointed as the first president of the . newly created Louisiana state industri al school, was graduated at the Louisi ana state rniversity in 1892, and subse quently received the degree of Phi D. at New York, university. ! i . t a c--i- 1 .., . " uuiujmg mm tnat he Iv a;nH iaai-a ,i- "j ' : S -. - -- 011 Llll IT11 "1. m ! Ai-Aiirneim, on tne Knmc, a nrm o rope . manufacturers makes steel wire tion i she folded the mrmpnit ..arf.ti! towing ropes five and a half .inches in Italian agents who tui- t- Pi laia tnem away in a receptacle ."V ,n -nc co"imu" " r. v f. r " iinai : stooa in tne depths of th rirm. ncany iu mi:es ana weiening i" fM ,L!r7" l?ast ha.vel 'That night only the old woman-, tons. r .j v. - , k J17V- "T. "l ""'''voriani tor a moment on the hreere. Wh 1 trill 11 11 it 1 r m-mt - m : -a. .i ieast: "'c piestni, at the task .was finished to her satisfa- ..ii , - - - iJiii ntKiJi oniy ine 01a woman s -- mnt S fT forihe.r shadow appeared on the windblnS 1 T . Kdinrif f K?2lyJizdi m the Aftcr this- for weeks- sh came to the ! Ingratitude-, leading cities of Northern Italy. window every morning with the old tors' arms. more strong than trai- Shakespeare.