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Show m Ta ALL IN THE RANKS 9 Boy and Women m Soldiers I 'i (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) of the drum calls patriotic citizens to arms In the United States and other highly civilized countries the girls are left behind. Husbands and fathers, sweethearts and brothers, go to the front and the women and children have nothing to do but wait and weep. It Is not so everywhere. In Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, San Domingo, Bolivia, Nicaragua and some of the other less advanced countries the entire family sometimes goes to war. It happens this way: One of the civil wars, which are the normal features of politics In these countries, Is in progress and there Is an urgent demand for troops by government and i evolutionists alike. Both sides stick at nothing In order to get soldiers. They nre not particular. Anybody who can carry a gun man, woman or boy will do. A group of Indians are tilling their fields or listening to a When the Latln-Amerlca- n half-civilize- Jesuit priest In a little mission church In the heart of the jungle. A baud of Boldlers comes along, surrounds them and marches them all oft to fight for a cause about which they know and care absolutely nothing. But my wife, my boys, senor! walls the peon to the commandants, who has captured him. What Is to become of them?" The family troops up, weeping and shrieking, and begs the officer to let the mAn go. The officer looks at them thoughtfully and sees that the boys are strapping lads of 12 and 14 and that the wife Is a fine, strong woman. No, 1 must take your man, he tells her, but if you like, you and the boys can come, too. They are strong enough to march and carry rifles, and you can help do the cooking for us and look after the wounded." So it comes about that the entire family marches off to the front, happy and cheerful again. They make light of the hazard of war and the hardships of the campaign. There are no hardier people In the world than the Indians of Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. Even the women think nothing of marching thirty miles a day for weeks at a stretch over rough mountain tracks, carrying a rifle, a heavy cartridge belt, a machete, and a pack load of miscellaneous baggage. Sometimes a guerrilla band will enlist all the members of a family, from the youngest boy of 10 to the grandfather of 70. And they will march and light side by side husband and wlfo, mother and daughter, father and son, uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents. During the recent civil war In Colombia, when the government was very hard pressed for troops, It was a common practlco to surround country churches on Sunday and forcibly enlist the entire congregation, except old people and Infants unable to the army swung round the corner and marched up the street past my hotel. First came the fife and bugle band, of half a dozen ragged composed hndlan boys, blowing a triumphal march for all they were worth. Behind them, riding proudly on a stolen mule, a copper-coloregeneral carried a huge Venezuelan flag, its gaudy strips of red, blue and yellow flaunting proudly In the sunlight. He was dressed In a pair of tattered red pants, with a broad gold stripe, a blue service blouse like that of the United States army, an old palmleaf hat with ribbon of the Venezuelan colors twisted round it, and a pair of alpargattas the native canvas sandal, which exposes the toes and heels. A Mauser rifle was slung over his shoulder, an Andlno machete with a guyly colored scabbard hung on ore side and a brasa-bllteregulation sword on the other whi'a the belt creund his waist contain? 1 a hcao" Smith & Wesson revolver and enough cartridges for a Maxim gun. PET7TR 'ihe army followed in single file generals and colonels marching along CLOY on the flanks In generous profusion. There was a field officer to every half ZUOT . dozen men, but you could hardly tell the field officers from the rank and file. It would be impossible to find a worse collection of scarecrows anywhere. The men looked as if they had been dragged through a cactus hedge, feet first, and then rolled in a mangrove swamp. The officers were Peter Olson Elliott, who fought with officers at the white house In dressed In odds and ends of uniform an attempt to see the president, Is well known at Minneapolis as a visionfrom nearly every army In the world. and erratic character. He had the addition Elliott taken on to his ary The rank and file made no pretense name under the Impression that the change would help him to office. proper at uniform, but wore anything they He has said at various times that his countrymen were oonsplrlng also to have picked up. happened him. Elliott Is of Danish birth and 35 years of age. against Each man carried a Mauser, a belt full of cartridges, a machete or sword STEEPLE-CLIMBEand perhaps a blanket, a mess-kettlHAS NERVE. PETTIGREW TO AID BOERS. and a tlnpan. The Venezuelan Boldler has to be hts own commissariat ser- Former South Dakota Senator Booms Eats and Is Photographed 200 Feet vice or go without. Above Ground. Colony In Mexico John F. Hassler of Philadelphia, R. F. Pettigrew, the one a The fortune of war often brings men ' to the front with surprising rapidity time ropullst senator from South Da- steeple-climbestartled the residents In these turbulent republics. The famkota, has made a fortune In mining of this town by calmly standing on ily which goes to war ragged and shoe- since the expiration of his term, Is the top of the cross of St. Ignatius less may, In a few short weeks or head of a movement which has been church, 200 feet above the ground, months, become one of the greatest Incorporated In South Dakota to col- and eating a generous slice of waterIn the land. Promotion Is rapid for onize Boers in Mexico. melon, which he had carried up with The name of the organization is the him, says a dispatch from Kingston, the good fighter. A man may be a Pa. ragged Indian peasant one year and "Boer Colonization and Improvement and It Is capitalized at After completing this feat he stood a distinguished general the next. Company, When President Castro fought his $1,000,000, with Its headquarters at upright on the cross and had his picSioux falls, the home of the ture taken In that position by a phoway to supreme power In Venezuela la Senator him with Associated tographer on the ground below. men of no account went up on many Marlon Butler of South Carolina, G. D. Hassler ascended by throwing and Joubert of the City of Mexico and lo- binding a series of ropes about the cal parties at Sioux Falls. The pur- spire, and. working them up, one ported object of the organization Is above the other. In his perilous Jouracres to colonize and Improve 500,000 ney, until he had gained the He of land In the state of Tamaulpls, Is a young man and has beentop.In the Mexico. business several years and never had While the purposes are generally an accident. stated, it Is understood that the colPeople consider it a dangerous oconization Is to be that of Boers who cupation." said but if one are not willing to accept British rule exercises care It Hassler, Is not dangerous.' If In South Africa and who are willing a man Is easily frightened he should to emigrate. A number of such col- never to climb a steeple, onists have arranged to take up their but If attempt he feels that he Is quite as much at home standing on the top ot a cross with a foothold ot six Inches as he is on the ground, then he will make a success. It requires a cool head, elastic muscles and steady d d habits." Sailor Saw How It Was Done. Tsgua Palm (Vegetable Ivory) on the Magdalena River, the crest of the wave with him. One of them, Gen. Olalora, used to be the village barber at Castro's home in the AmhV He still shaves the president as an addition to his military duties. These family troops are sometimes guilty of terrible atrocities and the boys and the women are often worse than the men. It Is not unusual for a lad of 14 or 16 to be made an ofllcer march. If ho has distinguished himself lu batThe armies with which President Castro has made his great fight tle, or happens to be related to the One of the most noted against the Matos revolutionists In president In Venezuela is unguerrilla generals Venezuela comprise a largo proportion 17 and colonels and captains may of mere boys, w hose ages range as der be found even younger. Sandglass Again in Vogue. The sandglass is again to be found as a picturesque table equipment, and the old world timekeepers look quite at home with the antique furnishings oow In vogue. Three-minutsandglasses accompany the bronze egg boilers now so popular for breakfast table use. These glasses are employed by many housewives at table when the cooking of dainty viands runs the risk of being spoiled by a fraction of a second under or over doing." They are also elaborately mounted and adorn desks and even cabinets. e They Dont Speak Now. see you have a new bonnet." said the president of the I.adles Literary club to the secretary of the same. Yes." cooed the secretary, "dont you think It a poem? Humph!" sniffed tho president "If I am to judge by the materials used, and the general stylo of the plot, 1 should say It was a historical novel. And then they glared and glared and Rlared. Cleveland Plain Dealer. I low as and 9, and every company of bla soldiers has front a dozen to twenty women attnrhed to It. They are generally Indians or mulattos and tboy inarch with the baggago train, .armed to the teeth, when tbo troops British India Tea Industry, are campaigning. The number of persons employed When 1 was In Caracas last January Castni'a army marched borne In In tho tea Industry throughout British triumph hfter defeating the revolution-lu- s India ns. In l!'fl2. GO't "!0 permanentIt Is anld ly. and flop in a few days before Chrltmns. There was n Mare of trumpets, a that a cniltnl of men- than IlOO.tMH),-OeIs Invested In the Indlnn tea discordant rattle of kettle drums, an piercing shriek from the fifes and ! er CRANK ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUSE IS WELL KNOWN IN MINNEAPOLIS fmpjm Pettigrew, residence In this location, which has one of their former leaders as a part of the organization In the person of G. D. Joubert. Feeding Chinamens Spirits. The spirits of all the dead Chinamen resting in the old Philadelphia cemestreet and Pass-yun- k tery, at Twenty-firs- t avenue, were recently banqueted. Every six months Chinatown feeds the spirits of Its departed ones. Steaming dishes of rice, roast duck, chop suey, chow main, bird's nest and other delicacies, with bottles of Chinese wines, were taken to the cemetery and placed at the heads of the graves. Incense was burned, and the little column of blue smoke was supposed to carry the best of the food to heaven. Alter the service the Chinamen gathered up the food. In the evening they ate the repast prepared for the dead and drank the wine. The battle ship Texas, now berthed In the Brooklyn Navy yard, has been equipped with a fine shower bath for the officers. Mr. Quimby. the executive officer of the ship, ttnik one of the blue Jackets to Instruct him how to operate the new acquisition. After a Mr. Quimby thorough explanation, stepped under the faucets, not knowing that the water connection had been made. Ho was soaked to the skin In a moment. The sailor remarked gravely: "I think I can work it Mr. Quimby looked at him now. sir. sharply, but tbe man never cracked a smile until be had rejolued his messmates. Rich Find of Ancient Coins. Workmen engaged In raising an enormous slab of stone In an old house in Audlerne, France, came upon over 2,000 ancient coins the other day, A few weighing about 120 pounds. of the coins are of the time of Louis XIII. The most ancient piece bears the date 1643, and the most recent 1709. In the latter year, In consequence of the terrible famine which was raging, a royal order was Issued that the rich were to surrender their silver and forward it to the mint to be melted down. The king himself set the example, but certain provincial noblemen hbl their fortunes. Suffers for His Convictions. For manufacturing and tacking up signs bearing socialistic expressions Betting on New York Election. Present Indications are that betting Benjamin Adams, thirty-eigh- t years on tho New York city campaign will old. was sent to Jail for fifteen days be the heaviest ever known there. by Judge Kimball of a Washington Fred H. Brooks, the Wall street bet- police court. Several friends volunting commissioner, says he has $175,-00- 0 teered to pBy Adams flue of $5, but to bet on McClellan at even he refused to let them do It. He premoney, Timothy D. Sullivan says ferred to go to jail. The offender Is a he Is willing to risk $10,000 the same direct descendant of President John way. A good many observers express Quincy Adams. surprise that the backers of lan do not ask odds. McClel- 8couts Microbe Theory of Love. Lorln Farr, a Mormon who Is head ot the largest family In tho world he has six wives, thirty-ninchildren, 231 grandchildren and fifty six pu scouts tho microbe theory of love as prepisterotnt. There Is no such thing. bo insists, and thinks his wide experience eutliku his opinion to some weight. e "Nevrspaperiety" Is a New One. At a political meeting In New York last week a man named Delaney was ono of the orators. Speaking of certain men whose names nre often seen In print, lie was about to say that they were- fond f newspaper notoriety, but, Instead, said newspaper-leiy.- " The new word has "r aught on aild OU several urudniH lias been used to convey the iuma Idea. Called Into Being by the Pope Leo. The death of the pope has enn u the argot of Paris with a new er y b o d y kidA policeman Is a "camerlengo the taxes first constable who heard the himi, 14' neys. Waen dressed by that epithet was Jr overare kidneys nonplussed, quite as much as tlu worked they fall darme who was called "cenhT.. to perform the But the motto of the Paris Pfrl has duties nature When In doubt, arrest T for y0 provided and in this case the innovator do. to them a few hours at the police sutk When the kidfore being released. According to rilml neys fall dangerauthority, the connection between ous diseases policeman and a camerlengo I. t! follow, quickly found In the silver hammer usS a urinary disorders, s thrice strike the deceased popes rheumatism, Bright diabetes, dropsy, A policeman Is a cogne,- - j. . disease. Doans Kidney Pills cure all Jaunt ills. Read the fol- who strikes and this furnishes a bladder and kidney Af link. However connecting that , lowing case: tfieeffi fact the remains that the Veteran Joshua Heller, of 706 South be, jligbte In now In common use, and in ,TJ! Walnut street, Urbana, 111., says: street squabble at present some peared the fall of 1899 after, getting Doans Bros. Is sure to shout, Eh, va dono. cam! here Kidney Pills at Cunningham New York Tribune. lingue!" St and taking In store Champaign drug a course of treatment I told the readperuni 6HIPPING RULE OF VALUE. ers qf the paper that they had rethe qi disposed trouble, lieved me of kidney could Wit Regulation Enforced by the of a lame back with pain across my tbau Zealand Authorities. loins and beneath the shoulder blades. it is. new sot of A shipping regulation During the interval which had elapsed formulated in New Zealmj I have had occasion to resort to Doans recently proof of the maternal care with Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings gives which the government looks after tb of attack. On each and every occawelfare of the people. Every sej as were Just sion the results obtained Ing vessel that can be controlled bj were the as when pills satisfactory local authority must for the fntura the 1 as Just first brought to my notice. a boat or raft fully fitted up wjty carry the endorse preparation emphatically for use In case of sect provisions two as I did over years ago. Provision is made for a supply A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney dent water and of beef, biscuit medicine which cured Mr. Heller will of fresh be mailed on application to any part chocolate, tabloids and lime juice, of fishing lines and hooks sal cf the United States. Medical advice also matches. So many despersu safety Address confidential. strictly free; occurred have tragedies around the Y. N. Foster-MllburBuffalo, Co., Zealand coast from time to tlm For sale by all druggists, price SO New after shipwrecks, through the dlfflni cents per box. ty of getting living necessaries Inu Leaves. the boats in the rush and excitement ' Thou hut been blowing leaves. O wind ot of escaping, that the new regutatlc strife! in this regard seems to be a wise pr Wan, curled, boatllke leaves that raa caution. It Is noteworthy that itbf and fled; Unreetlng yet though folded up from life; rum nor tobacco Is included is tU Sleepless, though caet among the Items of this novel manifest" dead. Out to the ocean fleet aad float; Still Anether Caae. Blew, blow, my little leaflike boat THE Franksville, Wis., Oct 12th. Buy CHA O wind of strife! to us a wedding wind! remarkable curea are being reports! O eover me with kleiee ot her mouths Blew thou our soul together, heart an4 from all over tbo country but thsn is one right here in Franksville whi mind; To narrowing Nortnern lines, Mow froa is certainly worth publishing, ul the South. which bat not as yet been given to Out to the ocean fleet and float: tbe public. Blow, blow, ray Uttle leaflike boat Mrs. Louis Marklson of this plus Thou beet been blowing many a drifting had been a sick woman for quits i thing From circling cove down to the unshel- long time and could not find anything to give her any help. She suffered il tered tea; Thou blowest to tho tea my Muo oalli the painful symptoms of what is g wing. erally known aa female weakness Us to a new lovellt futurity. Out to the ocean fleet and float; Every woman who reads her itory Blow, blow, my Httlo leaflike boat will understand these distressing ooe George MacDonald. ditlons which combine to make (hi lives of many women one long bi THE CURE OF 8TING3. den of weakness and suffering. Mrs. Marklson chanced one day to Many Remedloe That Can Be Applied Vi hear of a new remedy ealied Dodd'i te Relieve Suffering. c All torts of stings whether from Kidney Pills, that was said to bt n w weak medicine for splendid women! 1 waspe, bees, hornets or bumblebees should be tucked to remove ea much ness. She determined to try sons i 7 poison as possible; than have a slice and soon found herself getting better. tin ot acid fruit, apple, tomato or peach, She kept on with the pills and ww tog or a crushed berry or grape, either cured. Speaking of her caae, him to ripe or green, bound lightly to tbe Marklson says: Do I can and do praise Dodd'a Kidney wound. If the pali la very severe fin after a minute take off the fruit, wash Pills as a remedy for female weakness all the etlng In warm water and bathe They are the best medicine I hav It well in alcoboL Then wet a folded ever known, and have done me I L linen rag In either aloohol or vinegar great deal of good. V and bind on tbe sting. If neither alA YOUNG ENGLISH PEER. coboL vinegar or fruit of any sort la at hand, try a bruised plantain leaf. Change the application, whatever it Duke of Leinster, Premier of Irelssi la IS Years Old. It, every ten minutes until the pals tubsldes. Good Housekeeping. The duke of Leinster Is one of ttf youngest peers In King Edwtrft $100 Reward, $100. realm. He Is 16 years old and Is M Tbe refers of thtt win bo p u4 total premier peer of the kingdom of bv that therft 1$ allaaatoaappr 4rada 4i$aaa tbl clout. ! beffft able lo eiira hi ail lit land and head of the great Irisn boa tb$i auirea, Catarrb. Ha1i'$ Caurrli Curt 1$ iba on'y iktiUvt curt now loown to tbo mtliral fraiaraitr. Laurrti cf Fitzgerald, which for hundredi d 0 Bg ft eontliuUonl dtipwo, ft ennaUto years bos played so conspicuous onal traitmant. JUU'a Caurroraquiraa Curt la Ukso Iih lornali?, acdtiK dlratly upon ibt Muot aod tuucvnji role la the history of the emtnli urfaoM of tha aynm. tliaraby doatmying th Isle. He Is a great grandnephew d t lv'n lb P'l.-DMlULVhlT.fcV!! ' np ui fnimiwtl.-n.l ea.Uitne ftaiura Iq Mng lla work. Tba pro(irtator hava ao the patriot. Lore Edward, the horouf tnon faith la ita ettratha power, that tbr offer martyr of the 98 rebellion. During lh Ona Hundred Hollar fr nay cue ibat II falla u cura. school days the young peer wan on Swu4 for UatoT taat.nmaUJa. AA Jre-- e J. CUKSET 4 CO.. Toledo. a of the leading boys at Eton In 1 i bT Fold dramlptp.Wf. lUU'l kuuU l'i;ii pro tho boat. sorts of athletics, but be develop signs of consumption, the malady thd HOW LONG MOSQUITOES LIVE. carried off both bis father and moth, and left him the duke In tM Scientist Asserts ths Pants Exist English peerage youngest when barely 6 yJ Through the Winter. old, and now every precaution Is being ' It Is not known Just how long mos- taken to preserve him for the great quitoes can live, hut their average life things that may be expectod from on Is much longer than 1 ordinarily sup of bis brilliant ancestry. Thousands posed. of them live Invented the Revolver. through the winter, hibernating or revolver was the Invention of The In dark asleep places In barns or Shirk, whose home wss in La house cellars. IB Joieph sparsely settled where they can not find such raster county, Pennsylvania. f?r ,h,lter thr Hr through fv40. winter la hollow trees, and, even though tbe temperature may fall far t winter f5etl!nr h9J on the approach of warm killed, weather become active again. Moequk toe are frequently seen flying about dk The weary, worn feelout. evto come ings all-tire- d At J, A 1 to-da- y ( n 11 T, JhoHv iIT?!! Wor hw to ground.-Will- iam man Underwood 8c!ence Monthly. Tbe In Ly. the Popular Plna lid Goose sevan miles long, from Nome railway to Anvil Creek earned Its total first cost within days of Us opening, and showsthirty Id ersased earnings sach ,. Long Island CemsUrlee. Men of farming minds are Ing to wonder what win th. rast fields on ben.. are rsservsd as tbs shod. of th, now in thr (fc Nw riss. and Into the., Tork and lu vicinity their last tens 0f .? 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