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Show J V fr . - i DICK RODNEY; ip Or, The Adventures of t BY JAMES GRAINT. i i tuiprlt OH API Hallo'" Ell XIX -- (Continued.) Bald Tom I ombourn. sud- denly looking aloft, as the topsails flapped and shivered, "shes yawning or fleering wild, what is that Spaniard about! But where Is he? added Carlton, aa we now missed AntoDto from the wheel; Antonio, where are you?" Gone overboard, I hope, exclaimed the second mate, with something more that need not be repeated, as he ruhd to the wheel, and, after making it re- TOlve a few times rapi.il v. he filled the sails and steadied Ute brig This was done Just in tim, for the Kugenle had a press of rants ou hr r, and, had the conseshe been taken quences might have been serious Look about for the skulking lubber, said Lanibouine, in great wrath, t; and souse him well with a another moment and the craft would have been broached to! He must hate crept behind the longboat and got Into the forecastle, suggested Cailton. Til bring him up with a round turn for playing this trick, grumbled ab-ik- , slush-bucke- Lam-bourn- e. Hush," eald I, as a strange sound fell upon my ear. What Is It? asked the others, listening. A cry did you not hear It?" No nonsense! jiald they, together. It was a cry that came from somewhere. I did hear something," said Will , White; 'but It was a sheave creaking in a block aloft, I think. "No, no," said I, pausing by the capstan, as a terrible foreboding seized me; it came from the cabin. There is no one there but the Captain, Hlslop, and 'the boy BlIT. who sleeps in the steerage, and they are all three sound enough by this time, said Lambourne. But the found was from the cabin, I persisted, hastening aft, - At that moment another cry, loud and piteous a cry that sank into a hoarse moan, echoed through the brig, piercing the' nights dull ear," and ringing high above the welter of the sea alongside, the bubble at the stem and stern, or the hum ot the wind through the taut rigging. We all ruehed aft to the companion, and at that instant Antonio sprang up the cabin stair. By the clear splendor of the tropical moqnllght we could see that his usually swarthy visage was pale ae death, while his black eyes, blazsd like two burning coala He .grasped his unsheathed knife.the blade f which, as well as his hands and clothes, were covered . with blood! My heart grew sick with vague apprehension, and my first thought was for a weapon; but none was near. What have you been about, you rascally picaroon and why did you leave the wheel ? shouted Lambourne, becoming greatly excited; the masts might have gone by the board what devils work have you been after below? Then the dark Spanish creole grinned, ae the blood dripped from his hands on the white and moonlit deck. Knock him down with a handspike, Carlton, added Lambourne, who could not leave the wheel; knock him down the ebark-face- d swab! On hearing this, Antonio drew from bis breast a revolver pistol, one of n pair which we knew always hunr loaded in Weston's cabin, and fired straight at the head of Carlton who dodged the shot, which killed the seaman named Will White, who stood behind him. ball pierced the brain of the 'poor Teliovf, Wtsa bounded convulsive' ly nearly three feet from the deck; he fell heavtiy oS his face and never moved again, for .he was dead dead as a stone. In its suddenness this terrible deed paralyzed us with horror, not unmixed with fear, as we were all unarmed And completely In the power of this Spanish demon, the report of whoss pistol brought all the Btartled crew tumbling over eaclf other out of the forecastle. Aha, malditaf Santos y Angeles! , said the Spaniard, waving the pistol; the muzzle of which yet smoked, toward ue in a half circle, ae a warning for all to stand back; did you think to run your rigl upon me? I am Antonio el Cubauo, and don't value you or a rotten castsno, all a rope's-en- d as you shall And. I am now the captain of thie ship, and shall force you all to obey me, or else here he swore one of those sonorous and blasphemous oaths which run so glibly from a wlQ shoot you slj Spanish tongue-- ! in successlon.tni I am the last man left on board; and when I am tired ot the ship I can burn or scuttle her. Do , understand all this? jouDead silence folio Wed thfe strange address, the half of which was scarcely understood by our men, as It wag said In Spanish. . Basts! (avast) I see thet you do 6nderstand, heresumed; and now begin by obedience, Throw this car-rionthis bestla rauertai overboard." But perceiving box?' we all shrank . ' "lack he added, (rutally kicking the inanimate body f poof Will White; or demonlo, ,1 ihall rnd the first who disobeys me r k keep him company." He grasped me by the hand hie tateful clutch was Arm as a smiths -- Vktkever goe- - 'gh hun In the eilber bv tie door or the skycet.iu, Vlk and then he leMded I. Is pMo. at ri Is being stablxd or shot, light the head il Ned C.rltou must go to For a moment the latter stood Itp,-o'ut- said Tat iced Ict., co ie and some woik othr shipmates, and then seti'.g the b!a k mui-xl- e ' wj. he considered." must that other way of the revolver within a foot of sky-- I his head, he muliej.d a fleip nialedie- - j "We might cljie and batten the then and and u mpa.ilocway, light stamped hi ft ot with rage on the starve or smoke him out," suggested deck, and one of the crew, Francis Probart, our Mr Hodrey. bear a hand with me carpenter to lauath th niurdred man-t- ins Smoke himoiit" ethoed Tom. fellow overboard Yes, ns we do rats Cbey! thund. red Antonio, By what Lik one in a dr('n bpt ovpr tbs Fill a bucket with pun yarn and dfad man- ,n le face, glazed flax, with sulphur and bilge-wat- er greased and relax'd lhe Miht nioon? that the medhal comaint light was xliliilng and .. my exfor rat-- . citement and b' .vi'lermeut 1 nearly pound "Nonsense, said Tom; you would shppeu and till who the pool of blood bum the sh'p xvhith Dotted li.. death wound. As he has often threatened to do, 1 had never tomhed a Lefore, cpse and an irreprere hit sh adder ran said Carlton and may do yet A most extraoidtnary scheme waa through all m? veins But, that emoone man that we should by proposed 1 tion onie over, eoul have handled a dozen with perhaps ludifit fence; and launch the longboat, thiow Into her s of theie are few who, aft'" tout ting the some bays of bread and gang-cask- doublethe water, unship compiss, dead, have not expeih nied this change bank Ge oars, and shove off for the of feeling. Ned Carlton, with a sound like a sob coast of South America, after scuttling to his In bis houest breest a sob of mingled the brig and leaving Anionlo raided the fate. rage and eoinml-at!o- a We were In a horrible state of peryet warm body; I took the feet, and plexity, and 1 seemed to see constantly through one of the quarter-boardwhich was open, we launched it Into before me tl e gashed bodies of my the great deep, and as the brig flew two kind, brave and hospitable friends Captain Weston and Marc Hlslop on. rolling before the early morning In their bertha dead and unlying no there remained wind, tiace of poor with their destroyer beside avenged, Will White, but h s bood, a dark pool upon the deck, aad the crew stood them! and with We had the capstan-barstaring at it and at each other with these it was him to assail proposed blank Irresolution, horror and dtsinxy when next he came on deck Then we In all their faces. expressed Empty-hande- d and defenseless aa had the carpenters tools, among band-saan a which auger, an adse we ail were, eaehwas afraid to speak or act, lest he might be the next vic- and a hatchet, made very available tim whom the merciless Cubano would weapons, and these, with the old cutlass and harpoons which figured on shoot down With a growl of defiance Antonio the night we crossed the line, were I was armed now turned away, and, brandishing speedily appropriated. and, vowthe revolver In token of the obedience with a heavy ing firmly to stand by each other, we he meant to exact, he descended slowto lynch Antonio the moly into the cabin, where we soon heard resolved him smashing open the lockers, and ment be came out of hie den. While we were thus employed In in the stewbusy with the ard's loeker, or Billy the cabin boys devising the means ot punishment; the e, j j Pr i r-- - j -- 1 s, s, claw-hamm- case-bottles -- dark pantry. His departure seemed a relief to all, but in half a minute after he was gone below little Billy, or Boy Bill, as he waa usually termed, whose Bleeping place was the steerage, rushed Jip the cabin stair In bis shirt and ran among us, sobbing with fear and dis, may. . CHAPTER XX. Conference of the Crew. Some time elapsed before the poor boy became sufficiently coherent to be understood, but it would seem that on hearing the first -- cry,, which had alarmed me, he sprang out of his berth, which was at the foot of the companionway, and on looking iuto the cabin, be saw by the night light which ewung In the skylight, the Cubano, armed with a broody knife, rush from the captains state-roointo that of the mate, which was opposite. Another choking cry acquainted him that Antonio had atabbed Hlslop in his sleep; and fearing that his own turn would come next, he tad crept Into an empty cask which lay below the companion-ladder, and remained there, trembling with dread, until he took an opportunity of rushing on deck and Joining us. This terrible revelation added to our dismay. , We were now in a desperate predicament, without a captain or mate to navigate the brig, and at the nercy of a well-armdesperado, to whom homicide was a pastime; thus, all, who . tag bandied iitq so severely on the night we crossed the fine Tie ganT3 feel no small degree of alarm, for their own safety, being certain that' mnr blood would be Shed the moment he came on deck. All dressed themselves with the utmost expedition, and it waa resolved to hold a eonncil of war. Lambourne was still at the wheel; and to be prepared for any emergency, he resolved to reduce the canvas on the brig. So the royals were taken down, all studding-sails taken in, and the topsails were handed; all this was done as quietly aa possible, lest any sound might arouse the fiend who seemed now to possess the Eugehle. i Lambourne, .ventured to peep down the skylight, when he saw Antonio drinking brandy from a case bottle, without troubling himself with a glass. Then the Spaniard proceeded to attire himself In the best clothes of Captain Weston: be forced open several lockfast places. end took from them money Scd 'Jewelry, which he concealed about his person. - Wbat his Ultimate object could be in performing these seta of plunder a the open ear we could . neither con.celve.inar. divine, but on chancing to glance upward, he caught a glimpse of Tom's eyes peering down.- There was an explosion, a crashing of. glass and a ball from a revolver, fired upward, grazed TomY left'ear and pierced the rim of his aa a hint that our Cubano had no intention of being over looked la his op.1 erations below. We heard him close thq cabin door with c bang, and after locking . it, throw himself on the floor behind it. with the intention of sleeping, proba bly. but with the fult resolution that ko one should enter without dlstorb- m sou-west- er -- Overboard with him! - : An Eton Boy... : , lag him; aiul Is tr.1 xvy. after sluicing his pistols, be repoeed every night afterward while on board. By Jingo! thought the killing f then; birds aould lead to bad luck grid Henry Warren, an old fortmast uan. wfh a reproachful glanie ct ne, as he threw the two albatrosses overboard. We uow held a solrm conference to meet the emergency, w hit h was certain to come anon and to con Kler the best nears of siibdulng and dunrmlng the - i ITt .i " ,t V 4. Bhadowe ef night parsed awsy ; UB in his Tropical splendor, and the blue waves of the southern sea rolled around ns la light, but not a sail waa vlaibla on their vast expanse. Thecrew Seemed pale and excited, as they might well be, and with buckets of water we cieeed the deck from the blood that etalned it The morning advanced Intoe . and the vessel was steered her doe course, lor the wind was still fair. Net Carlton was at the wheel, and the roei were all grouped forward, when suddenly Antonio appeared on deck witk a knife In hls sash and a revolver la each hand. He was so pale that his olive faoe and s seemed almost a black crust upon his cruel lips showed the extent of his potations In the cabin. He glanced Into the binnacle, and perceiving that the brig was still being steered her old course, he cried, la a hoarse voice: Hombres, allegsrse a la cuesta!" (men, bear toward the land) aad pointing to the direction in which he knew the vast continent of South America from which we were probably four or five hundred miles distant-m- ust be, be added orders in English to shape the brigs course due west, sad stamped his right foot on the deck to give his words additional force. (To be continued.) the morning sun came pea-gree- n, MAIL NUISANCE That Thrmlrnad t taaadale tha Taatily of a New Father. hi rrat residence the servant aent to the door met" a psr spiring snd scowling letter carrier, and s took In a basketful or mail. ft the third such lot of the day, and thers had been a like delivery for a week. "Dump It Into the furnace, roared, th young man who is at the head ot ths r, family. "Im going to see thw write the head of the department at Washington, and get out an Injunction. . Ill see if there Is not some way to abate this nuisance." But there may be some other mall; something that we want to read," Interposed a gentler and feebler voice. "I don't care If there Is. I dont care If theres a draft or a postal order In every other envelope. Chuck the whole outfit into the furnace and dont lose nay, time doing if. Whoever working this rig on me may think hee smart good and plenty. Its the meanest, smallest, most Impost-maste- pertinent thing Fever heard of.' "But Joke Its only a joke, ay dear.-"'em. Do you know that weve received ever a car lot of catalogues, prospectuses. and all that sort of thing from fern tie 'e mTnartes In the country? There were over 200 in the first batch and that was the smallest one received. Dump 'the whole batch Into the furnace, I say. ' Nice thing! I guess not, ending up those female seminary advertisements and our little, girl not two weeks old yet. JCou.can bet that XU stop thethlng or know the reason Til why. Detroit Eree Press. t It Is an excellent rule to be observed thst we should give soft words sad hard arguments that we In aQ disputes should not eo much strive to vex ae to eonvlnce an enemy, Bishop Wilkins. HIGH PltlCE OF PAPEB. W MINING MENTION. TO BE A BANNtR YEAR etL The iross-eut- s More Compel SobrlUer te The for Their Coantrj Kevspeper Cry for Ue InUnl Repeal la Vary LoaS- Paper Trut Robbery. iat j ot prodmi.on th.tu It i at feet umhrgtotiud. The average depth Icereii-and if ttn re Is not a tin tvfore f the floor of the steontl lev Jhe present ,llue j Is 7tR feet Itelow the surface, aud single sate r u single tn w shipper developed during the jtiu. the woik done to this ihpth Is Uow added .'SUO feet by In January, vv hit h - nsu.illj rhe lowest the third level. The magnitude of the workings almonth of the jear -- hows that ihe gold the comproduction will imnase'mu less than ready praitlcally oiened by tweuty-tH'per nut., sajs the ltoimr pletion of the thud level Is somewhat startling. The vein Is somewhat trreg-Republican Lead v die takes the lead lu tonnage, ular in width, HouietimOM uarrowlng fre-as it ha always done T In extraordi ' dow u to w three or four feet, utul feet.I ideuitig out to fourteen nary Increase lu tonnage during istiii 1 Uinily rom the average depth of 1,000 feet will be beaten lu Its aud Here is ev- ou the vein, tin otily ore that 1ms been ery reason for the Itelief tl u the new lextratted is such ns lias been Taken ore bodies now being open d In ha ill out lu running the drifts, an average where it. ( will ist known ate they jkj lu the second result lu a daily output of npt h s than of foity feet of sioH-west, a small stoe In the first i,00d tons befote the end of the yt.ti hvel level and two or three small slopes In to say nothing of whtt may te-t- lt front the numerous cm it at oil tut v the setond level east, amt from this small amount of ground prUes that have nveiiHy Uin iu:iur,-rated- . eomparativt ly lrolwtbly the heaviest Inet ,! ; nj ward of W.tsto.otKi have been taken will come from the vhinity of Little 'nut. The entire vein therefme prao thally remains uutou bed, the only Ellen hill, where several large unnp.t being the height of thu long ides are now sinking tor the great me , second level and the forty shoots that have nlteady been develop t ed In the present workings of the mines feet of sloping In the east branch of level. The mine, therefore has not The lit sutrci-uo, llpt already lit la sinking a new shaft whieh when a tulle on the vein averaging l.tMki- feet completed will more than double the i f l'Mlng ground end there Hre- five further of this great vein traced output of this gnat pi opei ty, the For- tune cotniMuiy ht now In ore aud is 0,1 thp suifaoe. The further plans of steadily IhereasTtg Its piod union, the Mr. Walsh have mot yet tieon deterDiamond has located the ore body for mined. It lias been practically decided which it ia aiukiug tmd w ill he a heavy to add twenty stnmps to the mill. This shipptr In a tew months ami several may lx Increased to forty stamps thus other properties on the hill which have doubling the prt tent capacity. The lead made a good roeoid during the ymr mill Is also to lie completed, as besides are opening tip the veins vv ith tin view tlie Camp Bird vein, the property Inof tn reasing production. In the down- cludes a number of lead veins which town district the developments of thf vv til le devehied this season. The elec-triHome company have greatly stimulatplant is to be Increased to a capaced effort. Thu trends of several dis- ity of 400 horse power to operate the tinct ore shoots have been deiinihdy plant, and the work of the coming sscet tallied and n number of uow com- summer Is to be heavily Increased In panies have already commenced oper- every department, x - .i i. ations to reach these ore bodies 111 new In the shipping mines of this ground. UNION SHIPS HIGH GRADE. section of the camp new bodies are constantly twin opened up, and the Starr, the Bon Air, the Weldon, and a Cripple (reek Property lie Bl,4SO Ore '' Free Coinage Showing. number of other mines will make very decided advances in the amount of Returns front the last shipment ot The Iron mine Is thirty-si- x tbelr shipments. sacks ot high grade ore mads e maintaining n large dally output, and from the Murphy shaft Orjibs the new work In the section uouth of May owned by the Union company, California gulch is confidently expected went 11,420 a ton. This ore ws taken t to bring a large Increase In the area of out at the level where the vein Is four feet wide and all pay. Tbs production. Jo Cripple Creek the tonnage for Jan- lease on this block of ground was reuary was upwards of 50,000 tons and cently cancelled aud tlw Company Will new begin operations In the shaft at once, even work msrbs Tho advent nrea qfroductlqnTTnrtlmr south Sfldwest J. Es Maekln "drippers, whlte-t- he being steadily widened, showing that Is In great ore aud Hltlpplng weekiy ' limitations of the early theorists about lot) tons that runs from 200 to f been set at naught by the practi-- . (TOO per ton. Thin quantity Is taken ul work of the miner. In the older out In sinking, the eutlye shaft being ftttuee, virgin ground is being steadily in ore. . When stoplng is eommeucetl opened up with good results and a in this ore body the Union W 111 become number of remarkable discoveries one of the llg shippers of .the district have been made which point to the From the Porcupine shaft a carload of e largest percentage of Increase tn the ore wns marketed HUxiory orvhe'ntmwi - Tit erection ot The Free Coinage Company, on Hull several new reduction plants is practi- hill, produced last month 504 tone that cally assured, and from this source was worth a trifle more than K,ooo alone it is believed that ttefore the end gross. The controlling interest In the of the year an addition of not less than company Is held by Sam Strong. There 1,000 tons will be made to the daily hi sufficient ore opened up to keep this i - ' . output. - a standard for many production The copper district near Port Collins months to come. - The shaft, which is will commence regular shipments In a 550 feet, is to be put down to A depth short time and present developments of 1,000 feet in the near fulure. The point lo the conclusion that the coming Free Coinage Is a close corporation, summer will make this section of the and the investing public regrets that state an important factor la the In- there is no chance to buy Free Coinage creased output of Colorado. stock, as It is the general belief that Gilpin county will make a decided it will be a dividend payer before the ' More work end of the year. improvement in tonnage. will be done this year than ever before Moore and Hanson,' leasirg on the In Its history. The shipments for Jan- Del Monlco, owned by the Union comaary showed a healthy increase In pro- pany, will send out their first carlosd duction notwithstanding the fact that The ore came from a drift several heavy shippers were temporar- run At the depth ef 120 feet where the ily idle, and a largo number of old pay Htreak Is eighteen Inches wide. The properties that have been closed for quarts assays from 40 to flOO a ton. years have been reopened and will add materially to tlie output. In Gunnison eounty the ore product La4vtU Blamtk Or. 1 will be more than double that of last The bismuth ore of the ramp is year. Several important strikes were repeect, snys the Lead-villmade last year and the developments unique in one t, It, has associalready made guarantee a heavy In- ated with it five other metals In apprecrease. The completion of the Crystal ltlver railroad to Marble will bring Into ciable quantities. These are gold, sillead, copper and tin. The bismuth production several properties which ver, In other portions of the world seldom developed large ore bodies but were has any other metal In association with unable to ship on account of the heavy It. The tin occurs in appreciable quanfor charges transportation, in almost every ton of 1enn ore, in the (Jan Juan counties there will tities I a marked Increase. Ill OurdyiES but of course no account is made of It in the assays. Hahuger Sullivan lm gold output will be very near double bismuth at the assay office, that of DJftft, while the sliver end lead a pig of im ninety per cent pure, the rest production will be put far In advance which gold, stiver and tin. of last year. In San Miguel and San being Mr. Sullivan has found by trial runs Juan the erection of new mills and the concentrates very opening of new ore ltod'es will add n that the bismuth ore ore is of about the large percentage to the records of law. lilcely. The bismuth same specific gravity ss lead, and hence A considerable amount of tew capital has come Into both of these counties, a very rich concentrate can be saved, snd the plans of work already made the tailings being sufficiently valuable In gold and silver to be shipped to the ire substantial guaranties for the fu- smelter. Tlie importance of concenture. Three practically new districts will trating bismuth ore Is obvious if It he It to Europe or to the necessary to be thoroughly prospected this year seaboard forship treatment. If the crude that lying between the snd t0 concentrate Pm headwaters of the Gunnison." that or cnn lxt between thecopperirwestof rori farryn and the base of Longs and tbst between Georgetown andpeak, the headwaters of the Swan river.- - lB all of the ettfons preliminary InTesitea-non- s made last year have shown that Aa Importtat Bullaf. all are heavily mineralized, and several A recent ruling of the secretary of parties have already made arrange- Hie Interior to regard to airplieatton for ments for a thorough prospecting tour mining patents Is of considerable through these sections. to miners. It hae heretofore been held that where a corner of aa adjoining agricultural claim cots Into WALSH'S BtG BONANZA. a mining claim, patent for the latter CowpJetlo f Tlitrd Tunnel la (amp could not be secured In It entirety Bird Min. where a portion had previously been AT a" distance of 2KX) uraLIhls has been feel 'from W patented ae agri-culmouth the cross cut on the third level reversed ,by the secretary, who holds of the famous tainp Bird mine of the that the Agricultural claimant makes dlRrlcLhns reached the vein affidavit that the ground ts non-mlana drifting, both' ways from the tun-m- wiiL Under these circumstances the has been commenced. United States could sueceruUy mainThe Tidflitton TtiHi hag heen made to tain a fiiit to vacate an agricultural t ,value, cf this great property by patent on mineral giouixl, of ihe ground In conflict with a prating tlie existence of the vein at this depth, can be best appreciated by mineral claim. The matter will tie of giving a statement of the distance of considerable from the surface.- - The where mineral loodtffins and agricul ,tr;?vorkt,,K tuna trJ'iS cut, just completed, iivrlap. The laps ihe rural lorattou la frqivfcu:ly ran t s ivcrttial depth of 820 nm!e that if mineral feet, point might ,eTC, l0,n a 200, the second (.liould Im faun.1 to aprluHuwil land third 300 feet below. here a suit might be suceesMTuBy main, ad.Ul But distance does not represent ail mined tc r cure the vacating of Jh the sloping grouud that has been open- - patent. 1 1 1 ' j s ( e on-th- 120-foo- jf to-da- i e Herald-Democra- 1 1 t n. -l tr 1hl-sm- '(7, the-exten- rr Ur ou the differed levtin at a point enl ally lx-l- -- A COSTLY ONE. els nncli the x A' Tl( ( oluratlu Villi Hsk v a deep sag 111 the ntouutalti tit Output In I Hot) range, from whit It sag the surface rises and west at an angle of a little While the fiifttii ul i i.imjin that liavc attacked lnuM - m tin Laxi have ' less than forty degrees. In the second bad the effect o( -- topping a uutnber of level drifting has progressed about half deals tor the pH -- cut, Colo- - a tulle lu Iwitb directions and the breast luirtaHt never m Utn i shape for nu I f eat h dttft Is now upward of l.OiKi ratio was ItHUceB" - TARIFF TAX ON WOOD PULP There are very conclusive reasons why the present tariff tax on wood pulp and printing paper should he repealed, and there is no reason in the Interest of American Industry that pleads for the continuance of these taxes. They are now simply an element of robbery under color of law, nd they should be effaced from oar statutes. Ths paper trust la now taxing tht newspaper and book publishers of the country many millions, not because of any such actual Increase in the cost of producing paper, but because the trm has the power to extort from the pur chasers of paper up to the extent thst would make tariff-taxe- d foreign paper snd pulp cheaper than the prices demanded here. This trust has played its scheme of extortion to the uttermost, snd congress should at once remove the tax that protects no American industry snd that has become only an agent to rob the consumers. Two-thirof the wood pulp used in the manufacture of paper tor Amerlesa consumption should come from Can Sda. but it Is excluded by s tariff tax, snd we are now 'rushing headlong la the destruction ot our forests, while Canada, with its Almost limitless supply ot timber, cannot reach our mar kets because ot the tax Imposed by ds the tariff, The two conclusive reasons which should make congress set promptly ar first, that the psper trust should b at once halted In Its rapid destruction of our American forests by the admission of free wood pulp from Canada; Snd, second, thst the present extortion practiced by the paper truBt upon publishers of newspapers snd books shall cease to have the protection of the gov- ernment The time has come when any trust that makes arbitrary profits by tariff duties must cease to be protected by Vhere American Inthe government needs protection It la reasondustry able to permit it, hut where alleged protectlonJ used only tor systerastle robbery, it must be overthrown. We can now manufacture paper cheaply ae any country In the world. There Is no excuse whatever for a tax upon the manufactured artlcles, and lal should K ,.AA ' the ra the because general principle is only correct, but because if It shall not brf done promptly our forests will be practically destroyed within A few years by tariff taxes excluding the lumber ! Canada from our markets. Paper and pulp must be made free the paper trust has demot all tax onstrated that these taxes serfs only a robSlagle purpose that is to Invite bery under color ot . Times, -- Death From Flag la Manila. Out of A total of fifty-o- ne cases of Suspected bubonic plague reported in Manila forty-tw- o proved genuine and thirty-tw- o deaths resulted, bait of them being Chinamen. A hundred Inspectors under the superintendence ot A health officer, Major Ed Is, are reinforcing the sanitary regulations. Thirty of the inspectors are Chinamen who .have beott furnished by the Chinese merchants. The local health department census shows the population of Manila! about 190,000, including 1 . 11,000 Chinese. Another FwUwuUi Oor Wrong. G. Simmons, postmaster Frank at Seward, Nebraska, lias been arretted, charged with a shortage of 13,830. Simmons, who has long been prominent In state politics, admitted his shortage. David Figard, one of Simmons bondsmen, when informed of the shortage and asked to take charge of Jbe.Office, dropped deed. r .iWii.aineekiiiiuiiD Mji 'V DMpMdMt Vlfa Bam Hmlf t la gL Raturday, Mrs . Dtk lynlr Julia Caiaer, wife of a foundry workman and mother of five children, poured oil over her clothing and deliberately set fire to herself in the presence of e drunken husband and will probably die of her injuries , - - , Reciprocity Treaties Delayed. Before proceeding further with the construction of new reciprocity treaties the state department , will await the action of the senate upon the pendiog French treaty ...Should this fall all efforts to effect the reciprocity scheme as contaiued in the Dingley act will ' , be abandoned. , - Killed la Aaowellde. Gold Atthe King mine, Silverton, Colo., George Foster,. Louis Avl and Antoni Tam were caught in a snow-slid- e.' Antoni Tara, by running, saved -his life. Foster and Avi are still in the slide and the men from the Gold King min and mill Are Taking ertry effort to-recover the bodies, but with no hope of them alive. , , saving -1 t -- PaclOc Cable BilL ... was introduced in the Senate Saturday by SenatorFosferof Washing ton providing for the cou&trucUon of the- 'tj0veratnent cable ine-from United States to the Philippines. The distinguishing feature of the bill is that it requires that the cable shall be laid from tome point on the coast of Washington. , AJj111 |