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Show THE TRANSCRIPT THIS HEW mi FREE SEEDS NOT BENEFICIAL. CRANK National Gca'-g- i Convention Condemns Distribution by Government. SMS Mission C.ffii Denver. The National Grange UTAH TOOELE convention adopted "resolutions reported by the committee on agriculture Somewhat disconcerting. the num- Fire Bug of Gotham Dec'ares That He condemning free heed distribution by ber of ice men who deal in coal. the got eminent as being of no beneWas Commanded by the Lord to fit, oppi sing a national fertilizer law Cleanse and Chasten by Fire. The strand dukes must have got a and favoring amendment of tlie coiner on all the bombs in Russia. JAMES DUNN, Publisher HE HAS debts Count Boni de Castellano's stick closer than his fanjlv. New Yoik. Waller K. Finney. 23 old. who, the police declared, has informed them that lie has a mis- sears Fiaulein Krupp was not particularIn fact, she didnt have to sion chasten ly comely. he Wonder how long it will take u to become used to the pine food when we finally get it? Kansas will gladly avail itself of any kind of help in harvesting itsorn crop so long as it Is husky. that hive According to Dr. iarklmrst, a man can be wicked without being rich. Yes, but it doesn't pay to be. anti-spittin- Now that eggs are suspected of harboring disease germs, it seems to be up to the pure food comniissiou to label them. King Edward's fame is not diminishing. Following up the hotel and cigar idea, somebody has named a necktie after him. As a world power Japan should not be surprised at the information that we ba.ve in this coun'-ra considerable number of boxers. y Alfred G. Vanderbilt says that rich men love their wives just as poor men do. Some rich men love other men's wives just as poor men dont. A Brazilian count astonished his guests by leaping into a den of lions. The effect upon the lions must also have been stunning, for the lions ook the count. Gen. Kuropatkin has written a history of the war between Russia and Japan. None of the Japanese generals apparently thinks it is necessary to do any writing on the subject. Burbank has produced an apple that is red and sweet on one side and yellow and sour on the other. What a popular apple this will be writh the schoolboy of the future, whose best girl may like sweet while he Mkes sour. Lon- with brass buttons. That will be the real Daniel Webster coat, which Curtis' father used to wear, and it is to he hoped that the buff wais coat will go with it. swallow-tai- l A story comes from Kansas that a negro is turning into a watermelon, but we canit help thinking there is something twisted about this steiy. If the turning into" were turned the Other way around it would sound more convincing. An Oklahoma woman has fires which created consternation and din considerable damage in the vicinity of Twenty-thirstreet and Eighth avenue early Friday. The police say that Finney has confessed that he set one of the fires and that he was present when several of the other houses were hurning, and also at numerous fires in ibe upper west sid- - within the past few weeks. Finney was arrested in the hallwav of a tenement house in Seventeenth street near Eighth avenue. GIVES NOTICE OF ABROGATION. So Huston has a new ordinance. Ilut who would have thought that Boston needs such a law The new evening dress coat in and d lieu automobile and balloon racing become too tame there remains the submarine boat. W don will he a blue the Lord to 'cleanse by fire, was arreslej Friday charged wiib setting the series of vowed that she will never eat again until her husband is converted. As the man when last heard from was still holding out he must he a miserly wretch who plans to save the food his wife would otherwise eat. At Vniontown, Pa., a man who was charged with bigamy begged that the authorities would put him in jail without a trial because he was afraid to meet his wives in court. It is difficult to understand how a man with as much wisdom as that could make the mistake of committing bigamy. Such are the uncertainties of fame. Not many years ago Sir Redverg Postal Convention With Canada Will Terminate May 7. Washington. As the result of the friction over publishers privileges in the two countries, the Canadian government has notified this government that the postal convention between the two countries will be abrogated on May 7 next. The notice is accompanied by a statement that it is only in so far as it relates to second class matter that this action is desired to extend, and that if by legislation or departmental action new regulations are framed for the guidance of the United States postoffice department regarding second class matter, Canada will be prepared to enter upon negotiations for another convention relating to this class of matter. CARUSO FOUND GUILTY. Famous Italian Tenor Let Off With a Small Fine. New York. Enrico Caruso, the famous Italian tenor, on Friday was found guilty of annoying women in the Central park zoological garden. A fine of $10 was imposed. The verdict was rendered by Magistrate Baker in the Yorkville police court, .after a hearing which extended more than three days. Judge Dittenhoefer, in commenting on the verdict, said: We consider the decision unjust and unwarranted by the evidence. And at the earliest possible moment CarIt would uso will take an appeal. have made no difference if Caruso had been fined 5 cents. $500 or tj.OOO. If Caruso was a guilty man he ought to have been more severely punished. If innocent, he ought not to have been fined at all. PEARY RETUNRS NORTH. FROM Atempt to Reach North Pole Was Not Successful. Sydney, C. B. Flying the flag of the United States, which has been placed nearer the pole than any other national standard, and weather-beateand disabled, the Peary Arctic steamer Roosevelt arrived here Friday under sail and steam aftcr sixteen months vain effort to reach the pole. Though not entirely successful, the expedition nevertheless got to 87 degrees 6 minutes north latitude, or within 203 miles of the pole. Commander Peary came ashore al most immediately after the steamer came to anchor and joined Mrs. Peary who has been here for two weeks waiting for her husband's return. Buying American Wood Products. Washington. Practically the whole was regarded as one of the greatworld is asking for American w'ood est soldiers in the British army. But and its says the bureau products. the manner in which Sir Redvers conf statistics of the department of com-rc- e ducted the campaign for the relief of' and labor in a statement issued Ladysmith during the Boer war The exports of this char Friday. brought him into disfavor- with the acter have increased 33 per cent durwar office in London and he was sideing the nine months of the present tracked His complete disappearance over last year. During this nine from active service, rental ks the Troy year months the value of these exports (N. Y.) Times, is now effected by was $59,000,000. This total is raised to $61,000,000 by adding to shipments placing him cm the retired list. from American ports to contiguous The post office department's idea territory. of printing special stamps foi the 26 largest post offices, with Die names Boys Imprisoned for Life. of the cities far which the stamps are San Francisco. Waiter II. West-wooissued, rtiuttipg across the face, and of William H. Mears and Fredordinary stamps for the erick A. J. Peterson, the three youths offices of the three remaining lost who were implicated in the murder about 5.900 offices highest c!as.-.e-s and robbery of Fred Mullinix at the with the name of the place and abbreviate i state name, will give phi- Ocean Beach seveial months ago, were latelists a new field of enterpii.se, if on Friday morning sentenced to spend they care to enter it. A complete colthe remainder of their lives in prison. lection of lp i ted States stamps then The three young criminals at the last would bo a big one and almost as moment withdrew their pleas of not admitted the crime with interesting as a complete collection of guilty, w hich they were charged, and threw United States postmarks. themselves on the mercy of the court. Before long the students of geogTragedy in High Life in Chicago. raphy will have to add a new river to the list of streams In Africa. The duke Chicago. James F. Delaney, vice of Abruzzi, wli-- has been exploring president of the American Shipping the region of the Mountains of the Company, was on Friday shot and Moon, has found a river that is killed by his wife, who immediately marked on no existing maps. afterward committed suicide. DelaSir Thomas Lipton will take a cup ney was found on the bed with a bulcf kindness yet for e.uld lang syne, let wound in the back of the head. even if he declines to make a chalThe body of Mrs. Delaney was lying lenge. close by, a bullet having been fire into her brain through the mouth. Yes. this i3 a prosperous year, if we The revolver was still clutched In the do have to crack our eggs at 40 cents hand of Mrs. Delaney when the room was entered. per dozen or thereabouts Bui-le- r over-printin- g ' ' , I V , t U'opvnght. IV!, HUS' CHAPTER XIV. Isle Rugen. Trans-Mississip- s Trans-Mississip- tern Follow me! in her hand, from which wheeling lights gleamed through a score of variously colored little plates of horn. Standing still on a little wooden Three Men Perish in Texas Blizzard. pier she held the lantern high, so that El Paso, Texas. Three men are the light fell on those in the boat, dead as a result of the storm which and their faces looked strangely white raged Thursday in Pecos valley, and in that illuminated circle, surrounded others are missing and friends fear as it was by a pent house of tense The body of Jack for their safety. blackness, black pines, black water, Kemp, a mail carrier, who perished in the blizzard, was found buried in the black sky. Follow me! said the woman. In a and Antonio snow. Edward Santiago, cattle rounders, died from deep, rich voice a voice whose tones exposure, their bodies being recov- drilled those who heard them to ered in the Guadalonpe mountains. A. their hearts, bo rich and low were M. Fireman, of Carlsbad, a former some of the notes. judge of the federal court, is reported Joan of the Sword Hand rose to her ns one of the persons missing since feet. ! ,orm "I am the Duchess of Hohenstnin, : ' ' L. Iliwkcti ) and do not leave thi-- i final till I t.ow in what place I am, and who this may fie tliai cries Follow! lo the daughter of Ilemy the Lion! The tall woman turned without bowing and looked at the girl. "i am the mother of Maurice von I nar. and this is the Isle Rugen! she said siutil.,, as if the answer wet". 1 striking Explosion in Comb Factory. New Ymk. By an ex illusion of celluloid in the plant of the Bouffard Comb company, the owner of the business, Charles Bouffaid, his wife and a boy employ il by him were blown through the window to the street beThe woman was instantly low. Bouffard was dying tonight killed. and the boy is seriously injured. The explosion wrecked the third floor and fire that followed badly burned several employees of adjoining plants. In S 1 At eventide of the third day of their journeying the party cauie to a great morass. The horses picked their way warily through this tangle, the rotten sticks yielding as readily as wet mud beneath their hoofs Pools of stagnant black water had to le evadt d. name, the committee reported the treacherous sands tested, yellow reference of the matter to the various bridges constructed of the firmer logs, state granges with a recommendation till all suddenly they came out upon that they endeavor to secure proteca fairylike little half moon of sand and tive legislation in their respective tiny shells. states. The reiiort was adopted Here was a large flat bottomed boat, drawn up against the shore. In SYMPATHY FOR SOLDIERS. the stern a strange figure was seated, a man, tall and angular, clad in jerkin Work Will Be Found for Colored Men and truuks of brown tanned leather, Discharged From Army. cross gartered hose of grey cloth, and New York. The three com home made slioon of hide with the scull panies of negroe tnxtps discharged hair tvutside. He wore a black unthe had strange head his and cap, order from the United Slates army by canny look of a wi.d animat, it was of President Roosevelt, will be taken nor yet at the and New not at the first glauee to Chicago. Philadelphia and Jorian found Boris that second York, according to a plan anotmeed out the cause of this curious appearhere. The movement is said to have ance. been started by the citizens of the Meanwhile, Werner von Orseln was three cities. According to this plan putting into his hand some pledge or the former soldiers will be clothed aud sign which he scrutinized carefully, cared for by committees and employwhen Jorian gripped his companion s ment eventually found, aud plans arm. Look, he whispered, hes got no have been so arranged that any citizen who is interested in the case and ears! Nor any tongue'. responded Boris, who desire to hear the soldiers side of with all his eyes at the prodistaring the story will have access to the men. gyAt present the soldiers are at Fort And, indeed, the strange man was Reno, Okla. pointing to his mouth with the index VICTORY FOR BRYAN. finger of his right hand and signing that they were to follow him into the Resolutions of Nebraskan Adopted by boat which had been waiting for them. The Duchess leapt from her horse Congress. and stepped from the little pier of H. Kansas City, Mo. After electing stone beside which the boat lay, and D. Loveland, of San Francisco, presifirmly from seat to seat she walking dent for the ensuing year, adopting reached the stern, where she sat down two resolutions by V. J. Bryan, after without seeming to have so much as they had been voted down by the com glanced at any of the company. mitlees oil resolutions, and after adoptWerner von Orseln then motioned ing a set of resolutions, including an Captains Boris and Jorian to take their places in the bow, and having indorsement of the propositions subbemitted bv Secretary of State Elihu bared his head he seated himself ear-lesThe wordless, mistress. his side Root for encouraging our merchant man took the oars and pusued marine and for increasing our interoff. The ten men left on the shore course with South America by adeset about building a fire aud making quate mail facilities, the shelters of brushwood, as if they exCommercial congress adjourned pected to stay there some time- Musko1907 in late Friday to meet in The boat passed almost noiselessly gee, TTT. along, the strange man rowing strongTAMS BIXBY REVERSED. , ly and the boat, drawing steadily away across the widest part of the still inNegro Freedmen of Choctaw Nation land sea. As they thus coasted along the gloomy shores the sun went Given Place on the Rolls. down and darkness came upon them Muskogee, I. T. The reversal of at a bound. the interior department of a decision After a space tall trees again shot of Commissioner Tams Bixby of the up overhead, and with a quick turn five civilized tribes entitles all nethe boat passed between walls of tremgroes in the Choctaw nation who are bling reeds that rustled against the known as freedmen, under the age of oars like silk, emerged on a black circle of water, and then, gliding 21, who are living March 4th, 1900, took ground in the to a place on the rolls. Between three smoothly forward, dark. blank and four thousand people are affected. As the broad keel grated on the Each individual will receive the sand, the Wordless Man left out, and, equivalent of 40 acres of land, comstanding on the shore, put his hands mercially worth $15 per acre. to his mouth and emitted a long shout 'like a blast blown on a conch shell. INNOCENT MAN RELEASED. It had obviously a meaning for someWas Convicted of Robbery and Sent one and to put the matter beyond a doubt it was answered by three shrill to Prison for Fifty Years. whistles from behind the rampart of Cal. James Dowdall, San Queintin, trees. who was sent to the state penitenJoan sat still In the boat where she tiary here for a term of fifty years on bad placed herself. She had asked the charge of having robbed Dr. T. no question, and even these strange B. W. Leland, in San Francisco, a experiences did not alter her resolucrime which was later confessed to tion. Presently a light gleamed uncerby Siemsen and Dabner, who are murder on through the trees, now lost held three charges, tainly being was released from prison Thursday behind brushwood and again breakby authority of a pardon from Goving out. ernor Pardee. At the time of his A tall figure moved forward with a trial Dowall refused to make any de- step quick and firm. It was that of fense. a woman who carried a swinging Ian- Roosevelt English Paper Declares Keeps in Touch With Emperor William. GaWestminster London. The zette urges the government to select i man of supreme ability for British ambassador at Washington. The paper declares that Great Britain's former influence and prestige at Washington have been usurped by the German embassy, adding that Mr. Roosevelt is in more close and more conEmwilh fidential communication peror William than with any other ruler or statesman in Europe. . , S R; CROCKETT. Aufftor o Hio out the wo'-to the end that "knowingly convictions may be secured for violation of the law. On the resolution asking for a national law to protect farmers against the sale of nursery stock not true to law by seem to Milliners will rejoii e to hear 35.000 songbirds and parrots been imported from Europe. A sufficient. The woman in the crimson clonk waited tor Joan lo be assisted from the boat, and then, without a word of greeting, led the way up a little sanded path to a gate which opened in a high stone wall. Through this she admitted her guests, whereupon they found themselves in an enclosure with towers and battlement rising dimly all round. Then came a long, grey building, another door, low aud creaking heavily on unaecustiimt il hinges, a sudden Imrst of light, and lo! the tound themselves within a lighted hall, vvher in were many stands of aims and armor, mingled with skins ot wild animals, many-lineantlers, and other records of the chase. The woman who had been their guide now set down her lantern and allowed the hood of her cloak to slide from her head. Werner and his two male companions, the captains of fell back a little at the apparition. They had expected to see some hag or crone, fit companion of their wordless guide. lustead, a woman stood before them, not girlish certainly, nor jet in the first blixim of her youth, but glorious even among fair women by reason of the ripeness of her beauty. The mother of that young paladin, their Sparhawk? It seemed impossible. This woman was too youthful, too fair, too bountiful in her gracious beauty to be the mother of such a ttnse young yew-boas Maurice von Ljnar. My lady Joan, she said, in (he same thrilling voice, my son has scut me word that till a certain great danger is overpast you are to abide with me here on the Isle Rugen. I live alone, save for this one man, dumb Max Ulrich, long since cruelly maimed at the hands of h!s enemies. I can offer you no suite ot attendants beyond those you bring with you. Our safety depends on the secrecy of our abode, as for many years my own life has done. I ask you, therefore, to respect our privacy', as also to Impose the same upon your soldiers. The Duchess Joan bowed slightly. As you doubtless know, I have not come hither of my own free will, she answered haughtily; but I thank you, madam, for jour hospitality. Rest assured that the secrecy of your dwelling shall not be endangered by u might be to those whom she really loved. He keeps the Castle, Indeed In M mistress's absence and' mine, said Werner. "He will make a good soldier. Our lady has already made him Count von l.oeti, that he may be the equal of those who care for such titles A strange flash of remembrance and emotion passed over the face of their hostess, And vour own title, my kird? she asked after a little pause. 1 am plain Werner von Orseln. free ritler and faithful senant of my mistress the Duchess Joan, as I was also of her father, Henry the Lion of Hohenstein. I hae now no faithful servants," said the j on tig Duchess at last, breaking her cold silence; I have ouly traitors and jailers alxmt me. With that she became ouce more silent. A painful restraint fell upon the vv me! The secrecy of your dwelling shall not be endangered by me. three who sat at table, and though their hostess and Werner von Orseln partook of the fish and brawn and fruit w hich their three servitors Bet before them in silver platters, it was but sparingly and without appetite. All were glad when the meal was over and they could rise from the table. As soon as possible Boris and Jorian got outside into the long passage which led to the kitchen. '"Jorian, taid Boris, solemnly low. ering his voice to a whisper, if that Courtland fellow had known what we know, he would have been none bo eager to get her home to bed and board!" Ice will melt even Baltic lee! said Jorian sententlously. Yes, but greybeard Ixmls of Court-lanIs not the man to do the meltretorted Boris. ing! d But know 1 who could," said Jorian. nodding his head with an air of immense sagacity. Who? said Boris, shortly. The door of the kitchen opened slightly and the tall woman stood a moment with the latch in her hanu, ready to enter. Our Sparhawk could melt the Bab said Jorian, and winked at tic ice! Boris with his left eye in a sly man-ne- Then with a large gesture the elder indicated the way up the broad staircase, and throwing her own cloak completely off she caught it across her arm as it dropped and so folWhereupon Boris dropped his knife lowed Joan out of sight. and, seizing Jorian by the shoulders he thrust hint down upou a broad Instinct was so strong that, as soon stool. as the women had withdrawn themThen he dragged the platter of selves upstairs, the three captains brawn before hint and dumped the started towards the door to make the mustard pot beside it upon the deal round of the defences. The Wordless table with a resounding clap. Man accompanied them unasked. The There! he cried, fill your silly Tis all square enclosure in which they found mouth with that, Fatsides! themselves seemed likeran old fortified you are good for. I have stood a deal farmhouse of grange than a regular of flue larded ignorance from you la castle, though the walls were thick my time, but nothing like this. You as those of any fortress, being will be saying next that my Lady for musketry, and (in those Duchess might take a faucy to you! She might do worse! said Jorian days of bombards few and heavy) capable of standing a siege in good ear- philosophically, as he stirred the musnest against a small army. tard with his knife and looked about The three captains returned through for the ale tankard. the hall into a long dining room vault(To be continued.) ed above with beams of solid oak. Curtains were drawn close all about TOO MUCH TEA HARMFUL. the walls. In the recesses were many stands of arms of good and recent English Physician Classes Beverage With Alcohol. construction, and opening a cupboard with the freedom of a man at arms, As England is a nation of tea drinkBoris saw ramrods, powder, and shot ers, some vigorous words on the tee arranged in order, as neatly as though habit lately spoken by Dr. John H. he had done it himself, than which Clarke, a London physician, have a no better could be said. It would uttracted much attention. In a little while the sound of footmost seem, says Dr. Clarke. Liat steps descending the nearer staircase the human animal Is determine to was heard. The Wordless Man moved assert his superiority over al. the to the door and held it open, as Joan rest of creation by the ingenu.ty he came in with a proud, high look on displays In discovering or m inufac-turin- g her face Von Lvnars mother enpleasant poisons ior himself. tered immediately after her guest, The great majority of mankind are and it needed nothing more subtle the slaves of one or more poisoa than Werner von Orselns masculine habits. Of these habits fhe tea habit acumen to discern that no word had is one of the most subtle, insinuating been spoken between them while they and injurious. were alone. It is a mooted print whether tea With a queenly gesture the hostess mo- does not do more ha rat in this country tioned her guest to the place of honor, than alcohol. It oes not make itfl and Indicating that the three soldiers victims drunk aim incapable. but it were to take their places at the other certainly does mpse them drunk. To side of the table. Werner von Orseln be saturated v. ith tea, to be conmoved automatically to obey, but stantly under its influence, to be Jorian and Boris were already at the on it, is to be tea drunk. sideboard, dusting platters and making them ready to serve the meal. English as She is Japanesed." I thank you, madam, said Jorian. Often the Japanese imitator proWere we here as envoys of our mas- duces latt hable labels that are worthy ter. Prince Hugo of Plassenburg, we of noting as specimens of English as would gladly and proudly sit at meat she is Japanesed. Take, for instance, with you. But we are volunteers, and a labe1 on a bottle in southern Japan have all our lives been men at arms. when the boy brought some St. Julien. We will therefore assist this ood The label on the bottle he brought gentleman to serve, an it please you readto permit us! Fogren County Wines Little Seal The lady' bowed slightly and for the St. Julien, bottled by Bordeaux. first time smiled. A label placed on some alleged EngMy son remains in Castle Kerns-berg- ? lish beer declared: she asked, with an upward inThe efficacy of this beer is to give flection, an indescribable toftness at the health and especially the strength the same time overspreading her face, for stomach. The flavor Is so sweet and a warmth coming into her grey and simple that not injure for much Worlds Work. eyes which showed what this woman drink r. loop-hole- d -- 1 -- - - S- - xV V. tr r ( V |