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Show --a-aaimpa-ss-' WSSSngS'iaBafJ'jlWlWT! I JyV-li wPrsfmtts'fi 35i I V 1 V SnV rotutr Write a Letter, The sentence -of llfo Imprisonment hanging over Caleb Powers, who was convicted of complicity in tho murder of William (loebel, does not seem to weigh heavily upon the prlaoner'a spirits lie has hopo ct a relcaio from confinement or a mitigation of his sentence through a now trial or an appeal to the higher courts on a writ of error Towers still maintains that he la Innocentof the charge against blm and has made public tho following statement state-ment ' To tho Public 1 am asked my opinion concerning my trial and the t verdict of the Jury. Could I have but one opinion? Can any fair-minded man or woman of this state, havo but ono? That one of the greatest Judicial Judi-cial farces known to history linn been I enacted hero In my trial, under tbe Caleb Powers ,or1m1 ' n0 well Informed msn can doubt Innocence Is no shield with 11 DO 000 and the methods of Campbelllam against you The recti-tudo recti-tudo of ones past life counts for naught. They any Taylor It guilty becauao be was at his office, and that I am guilty becauao I was away from mine. 1 hnvo nover bad and I now hnve no apology to mako for being truo to tbe trust Imposed upon mo by a majority of tho voters of this state. History will draw Its dark lines around thorn who have outraged me and dlagraced thu Judiciary nnd blackened black-ened the history of the state " ' Vtalderjee'j Wife. Countess Von Waldersee, tho wlfo of the famous Oormnn field marshal (whom tbe emperor will probibly send to China as commander In chief of tbe forces there). Is an American princess not by marriage but In ber own right. Hho Is one ot thn , OMiaaW-'W-w-i.i women of America wlTbhave marr o I abroad Her first husband was Trlnce Frederick of Scbleswlg-Holsteln. To marry her on terms of equality tho prince sacrificed his tltlo and royal rights Then the emperor of Austria msde him Prince of Noer and bis wife Princess of Noer Tho princess was Miss Iteado of Now York, daughter of a wholesale grocer Her husband was fAatt. COUNTEod VON WALDEIISK15 very old at llio tlmo of the marriage nnd died daring tho honeymoon, leav In&VjIa Immenso fortune to tho widow who at tho end of two ycara' mourning mourn-ing married the Count Von Waldor sco, then a young officer Counteu Walderaeo Is one of tbo moat brilliant courtiers In I.urope The Ancient Fifth. Tho Fifth United 8tates Infantry 111 Just about to sail from San Frnncitco for service In China Tho I Iflh lal one ot ths oldest and best regiments In tho regular service and It has ono of tho best records for nctlvo servboi In tho entlro army Tho Mfth was oi I ganlled on July 10, 1798 and after hi v I cral consolidations with other com I mands again became the Fifth In IH - - and has so re f malned over sin e (j h Colonel Kb bard I rX r -"i r-4" Coraua ,ue rom I ft CV'KSJj mander of the ret, i ?i AxAkfll meilt. "" t""1 ,n l JHEJHlv ,no ,ervl,:e long, r 1 "w than any other ot I V"8S. "C8r uow cn""l'!ul -Jfj entered the arm In 1865 and ha Copt Hacknoy. been In It ot r since Notwltl standing that he la moro than 6 years old nnd that be will bo retired next year, ho la as anxious as any of tbe young men of the regiment to g-i to tho stene of the conflict in the orl cnt Capt. Hakni) will have charge of tho Fifth ufttr It lauds In Cblyu He has been In the service for J5 years I ,, 1Wr Library 4.000 ytorj Old. I'rofuMir Herman HllpreeJit ot H-" Inlverslty of Pennsylvania has '" iddel another to his many dtt 'ot let In the arrhaeology of Ilahy-' Ilahy-' lie Ink dug up a library ot 17,030 li lets wnlch belonged to the great t'mple of Mppur ISot ono of these 'I ts Is of n dnto later than JM0 II C Professor llllpieeht says that "e ears will w consumed In un ' 'thing the remetnlng treasures ot the temple For leu years tho Unl Vir-ity of PennsyH,inln has been ex '.! lug tho ruins of ancient lhtbylon and Us collection of those antiquities la the nneat of Its kind In the worll Mnpur was one of the oldeal seats of tellglon and clvllltallon In Ilabylonla. ? 8- PJIOF HII.PIti:CHT lla great temple, upon whole library Dr Hllprrcht haa Just come was co eval with Ile beginning of Chaldean hlatnry This temple wss sacred to Del, the god of which the Ilel, more generally known was a later modlfl cation Tho dato of the founding ot this old temple Is now conceded to bo 7000 II C or earlier by 3 000 years than the time fixed as tho beginning ot the world according to tbe biblical translators of Genesis Hut long before tha building of this tcmplo clvlllutlou ruled In llabylon Acrordlng to Pro feasor Siyee for the beginning of llabylonlan writing wo will havo to eeirch among tho relics ot centuries that lie far behind tho foundation ot the Templo of Mppur" ChlnutttQtrrs n "--V Mr NabeahlmaTor toe Jap'aneaele? gallon, who Is a eloso obaerver of Chinese Chi-nese tactics In the war between China ant Japan tayt that the reported lota of 1 200 at the bittle ot Plctsang Is probably an oercatlmate, or elsa shows that the Chinese havo adopted tht mcthodi they employed during the war with Japan of ualng undergrounl mines. The Japanese found these CM-neae CM-neae mlnca one of tho dangeroua meth-odt meth-odt of destruction, as they were sd unusual un-usual and so adroitly concealed , At one tlmo tho explosion of such a mine In a freo lountry suppose 1 to bo free from the enemy caused widespread destruction. de-struction. At winter advanced, however, how-ever, the snow on the ground permitted permit-ted the Japanese scouts to trace tbo footprints ot Chinese parties tent out to lay tntnet, and they were csrcfullr avoided At prcaent there la no such meant of detecting the mines They are characteristic of Chinese love ot gunpowder and fireworks, although much moro deadly than any othor military mil-itary contrlvnnco used In that country young and Tira-Oe. Major Waller, luo commander ot th American marines In tha fighting before be-fore Tientsin, Cbl- --- jr-p-L na, whose report CaS(A, was made ublloSJ3,,lCu by ths war do- -, M- partment Aug 17, YW WJ sRS recommends Lieut I, bo A Hugenellardlng VjHr" of tbe marine corps vl rjCy. for promotion for ATVv'W conspicuous gal fytT lantry In action 2itS 1. 1 e u t. Harding 'pfft waa born and I J raited In Qulney A 1. Harding Ha was n captain In tin Illinois na tlonal guard, but tcslgned about u year 1 before the Spanish war broko out. When war was declared ths troopi were called for Harding enlisted as a prlvato In tho Mh Illinois Col Culver made him n captain, nnd ho was given the command of the Taylorvlllo company com-pany of that regiment Ho torved through tho Spanish war and In 18SJ i was appointed by the president a lieu ' tenant In tho marine corps I The Hard WorK. Cure. Hr, I'yo-flinllb, tu an address before tbo llrltlth Medical luuocUtlon, pro tiibsxl hard work as a remedy for . many Ills. He declared that regular ' and Heady work Is tno best euro for a thousand nonoua anments, and that this Is (rue Is shown b tbe fact that the harij working people are not those who are nlteoted by these Ilia He ds dared that nervous prostration, worry, , and brain cntlon are too often synonyms syn-onyms for tho etteet ot gambling and drink, 'litre can be no question that I turd work It healthy, for It It thote who work hardest that live longest, and the laxjr die young. One adran-ut adran-ut of Dr. Pye-Smlth'a prescription It that It Is enally followed and thai tho remedy It cheap I |
