OCR Text |
Show AiHiilitimiminnuiuuimumumunmiuumiuiiminumimiiminiiiuimillillllA. I R. M. EDMUNDS. r CHICAGOPANAMACHIEF OFENGINEERS KSTANLEY MAN Prop. Hbc fIMtcbener Ibouse. .1 Tirst-Claa- t3 far. 9999) s tu this Sad is a. Beat I NEXT TO POSTOrriCE. 3 HAD HIGH PLACE AMONG WORLD'S GREAT MEN CANAL I M. Stanley, the African at ljiudon May 10. Stanley's Place In History. There are in Africa four great rivers. In connection with the explorations of the Nile the world will remember Ilruce, and Burton, and Speke, and Baker, and Grant. In connection with tin explorations of the Niger it mlicr Mungo Bark. In will r with the explorations of the Zambesi ;t will remember Livingstone. In connection with the explorations of the Congo it will remember Henry M. Stanley. As long as the discovery of the earth by its inhabitants it studied STOCKTON. iMinfHinHnnnnnRRRRnnnnRRRRRHRnnnnnRnmi 'mnrfTfTtmiT Henry expU rer, died con-noctl- 3fl& a Complete LIST but aa a politic diplomatic rer' tative, making treaties and le foundations of sovereignty. Congo he went, fortified by h rivaled skill in rough travel an his equally unrivaled acquaint . with native manners and customs. The reports which he sent back of the resources of the country and of the stealings and butcherlngs committed by the Arab slave traders convinced an avaricious and humanity rlan Europe both characteristics being genuine thut Africa could no longer he allowed to go Its own way to the everlasting bonfire. The result waa the Berlin conference of 18S4. At this conference the nntiona of Euniie drew up rules for the game of scramble which was about to begin. Stanley had traversed the unexplored center of Africa which separated the belter known regions of (he south from the still better known regions of the north. He had brought the period of curious, investigatory exploration to an end. He had taken service under Leopold. He had n the liiicniutionul Congo into a sovereign landed estate. Sir Francis de Winlon had been sent out ns territorial governor. The United States had recognized the blue fielded and guld starrrd flag of tho Interant inuni Congo association aa "that of a friendly government." If the other nations of Europe were not to be left on the cold edge of conquest it was time for intervention. The Berlin conference, rendered Inevitable by Stanley, meant intervention. The lulcriiulinnat Congo association became the Congo Free State, with Its territory roughly definod and with its sovereignty lodged in the person of the king of thu Belgians. The rest of Africa was manifestly destined to lie gradually rounded up into spheres of Influence, the centers of gravity of which would he at London, laris, Berlin, Lisbon and llomo. The laws giiveriniig this process were const ructed in skeleton and were left to lie provided with flesh and blood by subsequent conventions between the governments particularly concerned. The year 1884 must, therefore, bo taken as the epoch of the modern partition of Africa ami Stanley must be taken as a compelling figure In that trails-torine- GROCERIES AND MEATS SSSttg&SStf 6) OSTStreet, StocklCL 1 M d1 to tjTEfld Largest Tooele I Meat $25,-00- 0. .Ffesh Meats , I c) e) $200,-000,00- PORK, VEAL! to 1 CARDINAL 0 0 tii tii tit tii tit tit tii tit tit tit tii 4i DRY GOODS m ft ft COMPANY.... ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft m ft ft DRY GOODS STORE OF MERCUR 0 tii tit WE ARE SELLING5 tit tii ia tii tii tii tii tii tit AS CHEAP AS ANY CATALOGUE tii IN THE COUNTRY. tii tit tii tii tii Mail and Telephone tii Orders Filled the TELEPPONES 24 tii as Res TRY US. Same Day tii ceived. tii tii tii tii tii GET THE HABIT AND TRADE AT tii tii tii Clothing, Diy Goods & Shoes OF TRAGEDY WALKING. Head of Roman Catholic See of Baltimore a Pedestrian. Though far from being a robust man Cardinal Gibbons is a great walker. Not only is he known as such In his home city of Baltimore, but he bee acquired that reputation among his fellow prelates at Rome. The cardinals and archbishlpa there with whom he has made friends say laughingly that to start out on a morning's walk with their American brother Is like doing a severe stunt of penance. The cardinal Is too dellrate In frame and health to make anything of a show as a pulpit orator. Knowing his physical limitations, be is very retiring In manner, and when he does appear before a congregation he is quiet and unassuming In his delivery, not trying to be Impressive, He wisely husbands all his strength for his administrative HIS LABORS AT AN END. & 25 ft ft tf ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft smpjff.vrMV?r Bishop J. H. Vincent, founder of the Chautauqua society, wlio will lie retired for ago by the Methodist conference at I.os Angeles. Long East Indian Names. Mercantile clerks wiili many letters to write to India tradesfolk are to b pitied. The following, picked at random from the books of a London linn doing business in India, are not nt all a bad specimen of the general rim of names throughout the empire: Joga-vajalSepthasamarlirndruilii: Mautliri Pragada Snryanaruyana. Van gar Vljayaraghavaeharriar, Mud-liaMutinkiiniaraswnmy Poonamalie Slitiiimugasundsram Mudllar, Kediiraniangalam Subramuti-ls- t Chidembcra Iyer. 1'ernvaytd y FURNISHINGS. HATS AND SHOES CALL AT" BGLDEK GJITE GBSI STORE. His Murder a Blot on Our DEATH Present Day Civilization. With all the associations that sling around the name of Virginia, that state seems to furnish a strange set ting for such a tragedy as that of Edward I Wentz, whose lxidy has Just bVn found near Big Slone Gap in Wise county. And yet the mountain country In the western part of Virginia la as full of the mystery of moonshiners and feuds and other lawlessness as the adjacent districts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Wents had Inherited an interest in a great estate of mountain lands that had never been subdivided for sale. There were many sqna'ter inhabitants, and all of them raged against the young man who came In to develop the country, as if he were some usurper or tyrant Oct 14 last year he and though hia death has long been assumed not till now has bis fate really been known. For seven months his body has been lying on open ground, undiscovered. Searchers by the thousands had sought for weeks to find him, and some of them must have passed within a very short space; of his body Now the place of hia death Is feuiuel by accident within a mile of where ho was lnt seen alive. He had evidently been killed by his squatter enemies. This is a tale of wilderness and di solution, fitter for the early davs of colonization than for the prime of tiie greatest of nations, litter for the far West than for the hoary East. It gives us at least a sense of the long, long time it will yet take before the growing people will have occupied iV.e whole land for Its own before the whole land will he really The Late Henry Morton Stanley. Stanley and the Congo will go together In the human mind. But Stanley's work was even greater than this. He labored at a time when exploration had como to have a political aa well as a geographical value. Ilruce and Bark and the rest have their place in the history of adventure and of science. For Stanley was reserved llio distinction of Indiig the first of the Afrirun explorers whose travels led directly to general and whose personal exploitation career Is Itself entwined with the partition of African territory aiming European lowers. J. Scott Keltic, the great English authority on the colonization of Africa, Is sustained liy the fiicts when he says that In ihu descent of Europe ilium the newest, us well us the oiliest, of coni iiients, Stanley's memorable Journi y across Africa and especially his discovery of the great waterway of the Bongo may be regarded as the initiatory episode." While Stanley was atill In Africa on the journey which took him through undergrowth and dwarfs from the headwaters to the estuary of the Congo, King I ,co paid of Belgium, lila Imagination fired by the pruxiicct of a new continent split down the middle and exjsised to the view of civilized mankind,- had convened the Brussels confep'iici; of ISiii. I lore the International African Associution was organized for tin aggrandizement of science. So iridescent had this Kclence heroine that subsidiary African associations were organized even among the mountains of Switzer land and along the plains of Hungary, far from the European coast line ami equally fur from maritime ambition. Aa soon as Stanley landed al Mar on his return from Afrieu he was saluted by King I,oupold's emissaries. Then rami' the establishment under Belgian auspices of the for tin1 exploration of the upper Congo. Shortly afterwards came the reincarnation of tins committee as the International Congo association, still controlled by the head of the Belgian government, and largely by his private purse. Stanley was ahoul to assist in the unique enterprise of creating an empire on of an ambitions royal millionaire and thereby drawing lit'1 wolf pack of Europe Into combined lint mutually hostile attack upon tin- - regions by which that empire was surrounded. In 1S79 Stanley was back in the basin of the Congo, this time not as correnn adventurous newspuiM-spondent. reaping lhriils ami stories, eMieli. This is the reason why only an inadequate conception of Stanley'! work Is secured when hit is studied only as a member of the glorious fellowship of African explorers. Ho ranks with lllnz and Vasco da Gama and Livingstone, and his affinity is mainly with them. Hut circumstances gave him a right to be couuted with also an- - - s coin-mltte- o sup-sirti-- il bo-ha- lf Widow of the Late H. Ssyonne Women in Euchre Clubs Because Hubbies Dislike Them. Some time ago a number of men in '.lyonne, N. J.. formed an 'Clety, declaring that their wives re devoting altogether too much uch attention to tin game named. ' opropriatf-lenough. Joviab Kicks ts elected president The nrenuiza-has struck a nasty mag in the ' club started by ape of an 5 wives, who declare that if 'hey ty judge from tin- midnigl.t stories ' Id by their husbands Bayonne t. list ve a remarkably large number of ek lodge members. They even ir.- -' nate that draw iii'ht is the most "valent disease. More euchre par's than ever are given and tbs which heretofore stopped play-- t g in the spring sill hold weekly etings all dtirit g Im- summer "Just Show those fresh married men that oy cannot lsiss ns. anti-euchr- j n anti-lodg- Judge Parker's Red Hair. Judge Alt n It Barker, in omugi-.My lair wasn't years, had rod Hair. quite a pronounced rod but it was un- as saving ileniiiidy red. he is to a reporter. ''That, iiair brought me when a many moments of into a iicM." youngster and grit "Yes? Vhe lsiys ra'ic! ym brick top' ; f s'?" . "Yes. and all those rude I darker 'atcr got them nil. It gn-ill life, hut it was still decidedly uu-hum before i turned tray." j j Khrul-'S- Main Street, Mircnr. Wm. BILLINGS, Prop. Articles Served Goo I Purpose. t'lillnm ilropivd in lo see an editor fii'i.'l of his and whilo they chatting llio iiinn who knows h a pap-- ought to In- - run made his ar.it.e--- . complained that soiiy" articles from Ills pen bad not hr-cpublished, though tliev had been ent in vecks hcfuie. Tiie editor il'il sa lly. "Bim hoMiier them," ho replied. "And tln- servo u very good inn. Now and lien I get to Miinl.ine that pt'rhupii we ar! nut offering Hu public as good a paper as we uue.ht to. At sum limes I look up your articles and sec how much wurse Hie shirt might lie. So I heroine real don't take them rkrrrfui again. from me! u'-r-- I!-- - ai-p- i i - . - , Bh-as- - Wants Soldiers Taught to Swim. Gen. Leonard Wood is pushing a in the army. He wants all soldiers taught to swim. There are sonu-thirlike fifty deaths a year in the enlisted strength of the army from drowning. This is in Mine of peace. Gen. Worn regards it as ridiculous for soldiers, who are liable to bo ordered to ford rivers or disembark frem transports through surf during war lime, not to be able to tako ran cf themselves under these circumThe responses from the stance. army to his suggestion that swlmmin,-be made a part of the private soldier's education have been all along the one Hue of hearty approval. ro-for- g . Hlnm1 riothl.s SappllM, Bash as Ovaralla. Jaspers. Boots, Uaanhlrta, Bio. . Si t.ii i or Gen. Miles at Kansas Celebration. has been inGen. Nelson A. Mil-- vited to attend the Kansas sem: centenary enlrhration in 1'm.eka ami take part in the exercises and pnrud on May ::t. H- - saw a good deal Tuesday. there when Kansas Kajaruthna .Mood-liar- . of military The plans for the was a territory. celebration .ire increasing in magniNaval Veteran to Retire. Unique Memorial of Kaiser. tude, and it is now promised that What seems tin instance of almost something will he "going on" every Chief Master at Arms Timothy Mur entire week. ray, and the only one of the 15.000 excessive hero worship, even in the day for participants in the battle of Mobile subjects of the kaiser, is reported Status of Married Men. bay still In aetive service in the navy from Herlin. A memorial stom is has applied for his retirement. For now being eroded in Scliortloldr-- . near The . if- - Miss Frances Bower Cnhhe. some years Murray has been station- Zehdenick. on the ssit on which the the ai'tii'T- was tremendously in earned on the cob dock at ths Brooklyn emperor stood when he killed his rsn est li lnr humanitarian views. While in her presence on one navy yard and Is a familiar figure at thousandth stag. The stone, wl"h rlmC'-ui'aul said something the local station. He has shipped in weighs some fifty Ions, hears the inK'gan I lie lover animals." Miss every vessel but one in the old navy, scription: "Our most illustrious mar- abon1 has touched at every port of any im- grave and lord. Emperor Wiil.e'n: II. Cob'-- exclaimed indignantly : Txjwor portance in the world anil Is person- stood here or the ?i'h of September, aui!uai!! I acknowledge no such disally acquainted with more officers and Anno Domini 18.'X. when slaying his tinction. Mr. Baul. unless you refer to men in the navy than any one else. tine thousandth stag of twenty tines. Stanley. cupies a minor lint indubitable place among the organ:.' rs of Africa along with Kitchener and Cromer and n- e M. other group of men. He is included in the history of politics as well as in the history of exploration, llo oc- r r. GENTS WENTZ'S PLAY TO SPITE HUSBANDS. .f'on-Jcevera- For the Cheapest Line of Good OF M'ttled." ft ft INMAN tii FOND labors. ! LEADING 0 will be expended, and 60,000 men will he employed, besides skilled labor. )ft'52sSS'3V2'2!? SS3&&388S'S8 ti appointee was born at Fall Rlv er, Mass., and graduated as a civil nt Monmouth university, Mon mouth, 111., of which his father was the founder, lie entered railway service In I SUP as rod nmn and ten years later berame chief englner of the Peoria and Farmington railway, the construction of which he supervised. In 1887 he became bridge engineer for the Santa Fe, and in 1892 waa appointed chief engineer of the Illinois Central. During seven years he held this position, in 1898 became assistant second vice president, in 1901 assistant general manager, and in Septein her, 1902, general manager of the system. John Findley Wallace of Chicago, general manager of the Illinois Central railroad, has notified the Panama canal commission at Washington of hia acceptance of the post of chief engineer In charge of the construction of the isthmian waterway. Mr. Wallace will take up hia work on June 1, at an annual salary of Ilia headquarters for some time will be at the national capital. It probably will take two years for preliminary work, and then the engineer will go to the isthmus, to remain until the canal la completed. Nearly County. 1 jy&r : miiAo: The D to to il aaso-elatio- ? I |