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Show GRAVITY OF EASTERN CRISIS NOW GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD M, tlousness and cruelty The Albanian inflic tod upon th .r captives by North, Woee tlan deat Moslems, who are brlgaids by nature American IndUr and training, prey on the Christian Istbe ticatm. nt of tl.e Bulgaria Macedonians from the western bound- wives and daughters b the brutal The Unitarians, o from Asia, Tuiklsh soldl.-- v ary, while Turkish whose idea of soldiering is comprised their part do not stare the Turk government. The first condition was In murder and plunder, ini! let ail sorts when the latter fa in.o their hand that the weapons should be delivered of outrages on the ret 'ied inhabl and massacre t 01 bi !e or the other " expeditiously. Moreover, the orders tantf whom the are tiijpposed to pro- is the usual tiiniraiin of a t were accompanied by financial assur-ance- tect. Violence has provoked violence, S tuation Summed Up. which la rather unusual In the until the Macedonia s regard revenge A writer ho ha- - lo l, (u iiedjthq case of contracts with Macedonia and as the only means of redrs for Turku tins turns up the Other eastern countries, but which was ish enmes, and if Msc.doiia is pot in Fastern continual revolution it is only he Mtuatlon ft sufficient stimulus to induce the accause the winter m i on is too severe rta t v id fined "There dr ceptance of the conditions. for active hostllm tl a tin n k n an of Europe The orreepondrnt of the fit. The The horrors of Turkish warfare is about to thro a Dally Mall, who has arrived at Vienna, i d to say r is a fir. a- - i! Himau penin S. ot'and out m sular, and Rouiran a and I' ogarla and names who- the other pro no sound he new va n ti - of old cheese, on the are about lo tevoit Russia on the one tide of the tnvali other, are mobilizing tiuir troops and cata-daspreparing to ds end upon the M.anwhilo the patient sits The Birmingham (Eng i Post says from A rehable source that the Creusot S)nJ r firm, well known Carman armament manufacturers, has received orders for arms during the past four months Dora the Bulgarian ft learns lies Con-filct- s. v ,ii.-tio- -- a'tr Vu-t'- Fowler Chase of Lafayette, since, before, and after he wa left $1, 000,000 by bis mother has been It various Insane asylums In the Ufiit.-States and abroad, and once by his aunt, arrived wig Ildnaped hone It Lafayette last week from Marts, where he went with his uncle Moses Itl, fho l EXPENSES TOO HEAVY. HIS Why Ohio Man' Resigned Good Gov - - eminent Position. It is sixteen years ago since Milton E. A ties of Ohio secured a minor posltioa In the treasury department at He rose steadily and Washington, finally became assistant secretary, discharging the duties of that position with ability and scrupulous care. Now it fat announced that he has resigned his office to become vice president of the Rlggt National bank of Washington. Tint bank Is the largest institution of its kind at the national cap- ital I am quitting the government service because I cannot afford to be an aisistant secretary of the treas- ury is the way Mr. Allea states the case, I was better off as an $1,800 clerk thu I am as an assistant secretary, store my pay la $4,000. The "ttennmoa we Such in a social way that a young man without Independent mesa cannot be entirely comfortable, and h certainly cannot get ahead as . he would like." - J cn hl return from Servla, telegraphs In Belgtsde he waa 4 in aadisure by King Alexander. He quotes tbs king as saying: 'The Macedonian question Is sot nearly as serious as ths Albanian questlop, .Tbs latter Is ths ml dangtr to ths penes of the Balkans, qnd ths murder of M. etcherblna, tbs Russian consul at UltrovRxa, has mads tbs situation mors critical When Ibrahim, ths Albanian soldier who shot Stcherblna, Is executed for his crime, the vendetta Will fall on ths sultan and the Christians who forced him to execute ths murderer. The present seeming quiet a temporary lull, as ths are merely waiting to see Sonly will be taken against them, trouble Is certain to come, Albanians In Deadly Earnest ; A man's life In Albania Is worth las peony Just the price of a cart-liI CLAIM! that while d ge, an educated Albanian once Dncleely said. He referred, however, lo times when the Albanians were Amply amusing themselves, and bla Wing must not be given too much Just as present the height Albanians are serious. They have led a red a truce to their blood feuds, abandoning the ordinary pastime of hlbanlan life, and they are turning I elr trank and open countenances expectantly toward Constantinople. No bonder Europe ji Alarmed, and no bonder the King of Servla fs reported as saying that the Albanian question has become much more serious than tie 'Macedonian question. ' The other day the ambassadors of Russia and Austria did Abdul Hamid the honor of a Joint visit to urge upon llm the necessity of suppressing the Albanian disorders. Unfortunately for the sultan bis envoys to bis Albanian subjects were even then ng held as hostages at ipek, What gnawer he made to the ambassadors luder the circumstances nobody has had the temerity to make public, - Abdul Hamid la moving large detachments of his Kurd troops Into the Balkan provinces. The Kurds did the sultan's work of expert butchery In Armenia. They can, however, expect no meek necks stretched to the knife In Albania. If the worst comes to the worst the world is as apt to be as the pitying the poor Kurds" M poor Albanians." T Conditions are Unbearable. .A returned missionary, writing in the Christian Herald, thus describes the situation in Macedonia: The anarchy. Insecurity and Intolerance of all creeds' calling themselves Christian, jWhleh prevail wherever the Turk has full away, sufficiently accounts for conditions la Mace- donla. There la no foreign influence tie re to restrain. Turkish greed, llecn--; to-da- A HE WAS MISQUOTED, Gen. Baldwin Denies Speaking Disparagingly of Negro Soldiers. Go. Franklin D. Baldwin, Commander of the department of Colorado, who Us been asked by the war de- parts tht Washington to explain an Bulgarian Minister of War, Who Hat Gone to Frontier to Check Invasion of Turkey by Insurgent Banda, end Scenes in the Disturbed Area of the Balkans. are too well known to need depleting, and there la abundance evidence that the Macedonians are suffering the worst forms of savage cruelty known to the Asiatic horde which the sultan has poured Into that hapless Euroof pean dominion. The descriptions these cruelties recall the barbarities GEN. HAEZELERS SERVICE ENDS. Celebrated German Officer Hat Sent in Hie Resignation. Gen. Count Von Haexeler, commander of the Sixteenth ArmyjCwpa of Germany, who has Just sent in his resignation to Emperor Villlam, haa been known for year as the watchdog of th German army," and was the military tutor of the kaiBer when the latter was an aspiring young officer. For halt a century the count haa been an ardent soldier, and. although 75 years old, It is only of late that be has tight, refuses to take any medicines In the way of reforms, and sets his attendants to sharpening up the sclmater. When the aurgeens actually arrive we shall see what we shall see, of coarse, but Judging from past experiences there promises to be many dead, and something doing at the wake. If the unspeakable Turk really elects to fight the unpronounceable Russian It will be far more than a shattering of syllables. The Turk may be tottering aa they say, but If past experiences are any criterion he will no sooner be actually attacked than he will show an astonishing liveliness. Europe has been about to eat up the sultan and his domain for a good many years, but it hasnt happened yet. Turkey is an ungobled new-fangle- d gobbler, Interview In which he waa quoted as spealiag disparagingly of the negro as a solved saya that his statements were alfunderstood. Gen. Baldwin is credited 'with the following state- ment.' i Tk inference .from the interview In question by which I am made to appew as disregarding the lives of the negro and Filipino la ridiculous, as my pt record will sustain. As to the jetton of the Interview relative to th( Filipino and negro soldier being daparaged. I waa entirely" misquoted,' What I Intended to say was to exgesa an entirety opposite senti- ment I - &gg - both as second only to the still" Began Life as s Blacksmith. Congressman Tawney of Minnesota Is the son of one blacksmith, grandson of another, and learned the same trade himself In Mount Pleasant township, near Gettysburg, where he was born in 1855. At the age of twenty-tw- o he went by boat to Winona, his present home, where he landed with Just twenty-fiv- e cents In his pocket Two hours later he was at work as blacksmith and machinist. He remained In the same shop four years, meantime studying law. He practiced for some time after being admitted to the bar and waa then elected to Congress, where he has been for nearly twelve years. " Thought He Knew Too- Much. Secretary Shaw, Speaker Cannon and some others were discussing weighty matters in the treasury when a senator came In and shifted the conversation to poker. Mr. Shaw was reminded of a poker story and in telling It spoke of bluffs, antes, draws and raise.-Thats a good OLV KJVMC2!ZZap story, Shaw, said Mr. Cannon, but shown the slightest inclination to In- seems- - to me It aint quite the thing church deacon to activity. For twenty-fiv- e years he bae for a steady-goinsubsisted on one meal and tour or five know quite so much about the technihours sleep a day. He ia said to re cal terms of auch a slnrul game as draw poker." eemblw ths great Von Moltke. g Sl'ZhaSMSAAALDWZV USA I soldier, and I would venture any ntjmry enterprise with either one ' of thou Rationalities. " b i - St Rarp on Race Suicide. Maj Robert A. Smith of SL Paul, was da, trained that President Roosevelt A, old know that what he has termet yace suicide" is not one of Minnethe ftategs of the people-o- f sota. ,a old friend of the mayors was p,;y with The proofs what might le called the human documents of the (acL And when the president vu fa city the mayor presented to hlq photograph of J. P. Rhein, a proqeious farmer af Wood berry county, and his towuftp' Washingtonforty-eight grandwife, aQe children, child grandchildren, two great gnd which taken especially for th prealdtat Amerix HARD TO BEAR. When the back aches and pains so badly, cant work, cant rest cant sleep, cant eat It Is bard to bear. Thousand of aching backs have been relieved and cured People are learning that backache palna come from disordered kidneys, that Doan's Kidney Pills cure every Kidney 111, cure Bladder troubles, urinary derangements. Dropsy, Dlabetea, Brigbt's Disea'e. Read this testimony to the merit of the greatest of Kidney Specifics. of J. W. Walls, superintendent streets of Lebanon, Ky , living on East Mam street In that city, says: With my nightly rest broken, owing to lrregulant.es of the kidneys, Buffering Intensely from severe paine In the small of my batk and through the kidneys, and annoyed by painful passages of abuormal secretions, life was anything but pleasant for me. No amount of doctoring relieved this condition and for the reason that nothing seemed to give me even temporary relief, I became about discouraged. Oneday I noticed in the newspapers the case of a man who was afflicted as I was and waa cured by the use of Doan's Kidney Pills. His words of praise for this remedy were so sincere that on the strength of his statement I wert to the Hugh Murray Drug Co.s store end got a box. I found that the medicine was exactly as powerful a kidney remedy as repI experienced quick and resented. and aunt, where he several times dis- lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove a blessing to ail Bufferera appeared. He has variously been dewho will give clared insane and sane. At Lafayette from kidney disorders " a them fair trial he protested that he was sane and A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney that be desired to go to his aunt Hs was .accompanied by his father. The medicine which cured Mr Walls will estate left him is in the bands of a be mailed to any part of the United States on application Address trust company. For Co., Buffalo N. Y. sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents TRAVELS WITH THE PRESIDENT. per box. The One That Was Mad. Secretary Cortelyou Has Record of A German, who recently landed In Fifty-eigTrips upon the Secretary Corteljou Is pleased with this city, was attacked his new position at the head of the street and bitten by a vicious dog A department of commerce and labor few bystanders rushed to the mans chiefly because it will enable him to assistance, who was apparently mors spend some of his leisure hours at frightened than Injured, and asked If home. While private secretary to the dog was mad. The German exPresidents McKinley and Roosevelt he claimed, "Vot, der dog mad? Mine be mad? tla me vot Is participated In fifty-eigJourneys Got, vy he similar to the present tour of the pres- mad!" Philadelphia Ledger. ident. This statement was made by PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not Mr. Cortelyou himself In answer to stain the hands or spot the kettle, exa query as to whether he did not feel cept green and purple. lonesome not be of the party accomUnited States a Good Customer. panying Mr. Roosevelt. .These fifty-eign Russia, hitherto a Import trips prove in a striking manner to America this country, Ing exported that the presidents of the United States are not so tied to the capital year over 82,000 tons of pig Iron; Geras would be lmaglned"Wtth this rec- many sent her lminense quantities of ord Mr. Cortelyou say that It is a pi Iron and manufactured rtcet ev contributed supplies and Clevegreat relief to him not to be respon- France west coast hematite and Scottish sible for any of the details of the land, owe all their advances and their present excursion of the president In pigs present stability entirely to America. his fifty-eigwith trips presidents To Germany this unexpected demand Mr. Cortelyou traveled more than 0 must have proved an unmixed blessmiles. ing. rescuing her from what was fast a commercial crisis, says approaching Whan Whistler Slept Scotsman. the Edinburgh There is told a good story of SarBE CURED DEAFNESS CANNOT gent, the portrait painter, which la reby Weal applications as tbay cannot react tha dur ported to be circulated by his friend, eased portion of the ear. There m only one way W. M. Chase, a great admirer of Sarto cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed cow gent, whom he visits when in England. ditioaof themocous luungof the Eustachian Tube. It la related that on one occasion When this tube is inflamed yon have a rumbhne Chase and Sargent were calling on sound or imperfectia bearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness the result and unless the in Whistler, and that during the visit flammauoa can be taken out and this tube restored its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed Whistler fell asleep. With all of his to forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by caeccentricity Whistler seemed perfectly tarrh. which is nothing but an inflamed condition tha mucous surfaces. aware that a sleeping man, when be of We will One Hundred Dollars for any case naa arrived in the period of .the six- of Deafnessgive(caused by catarrh) th cannot be cured Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, Hall's by ties, does not form an Interesting sub- free, F. J. CHENEY & CO Toledo, D. Sold by Druggists. 75c. ject for a picture, and when he awoke Hall's Family Pills are the best and found that Sargent had taken adThe Movement ot Ethergrame. vantage of the brief nap to make a A plausible exianatlon of the fact hasty sketch illustrating the manner In which Whistler entertained his disnoted by Marconi that ethergrama travel farther by night than by day is tinguished guests, it Is said that Whistler came as near losing his temper as that of M. Joly quoted by La Nature he could afford to, and still retain his The waves constituting the message reputation of unconcern for what the were sent .from west to east, and public might think of him. In spite of would, therefore, be traveling during his urgent request Sargent refused the day, against the earth current from to deliver the sketch to Whistler, or to England, while by night they wonld destroy It, and In Sargents possession be traveling with that current In conthis unpublished and unconventional ditions similar to sounds carried by a portrait of Whistler still remains as a strong gale. souvenir of the eccentric American arI do not believe Pirns Cure for Consumption tist St Louis Star. has an equal tor coughs and soldi Jobs F. Boras, Trinity Springs, Ind , Feb. 1&, 190ft., Senator Platt la Grateful To Publish Civil War Document Senator Orville H. Platt who haa A volume of civil war stories, just served Connecticut in the United In San Franyears coming from the press States senate for . wenty-fou- r Is a remarkable to contain said cisco, term another for and has been elected of six years, has written a letter letter addressed by the (then) Pope io the president of the Southern Conthattking the governor and other state federacy. reofficers and the legislature for the ception extended to him and Mrs., The Klran, Kool, Kitchen Kind is the Platt March 20 upon their return to trade mark on stoves which enable you to To be cook in comfort in a cool kitchen. Hartford from Washington. honored by the representatives of the Compliment but NojCash. good state of Connecticut and by Its Mrs. Julia OToole of Boston bas the people with so much unanimity, heart- satisfaction of knowing that her beauiness and sincerity," he says, touched la a matter of court record. She my heart as nothing else could. have ty done. It seemed to evidence the fact had been awarded a verdict of $20,000 that by years of service I had suc- against theonOld Colony ofStreet Railroad account Injuries' susceeded in winning the confidence, re- company tained. This verdict was set aside on citiesteem fellow and of my spect the Supreme Court holding zens, than which nothing could more appeal that the' jury In th: court trial had fully satisfy or please me." been "carried off their feet" through their admiration for the plaintiff. Mrs. Origin of Famous Name. OToole wlH carry the case stil) The Damrosch family, not unknown In music and matrimony, higher. to fame came-b- y their name in a singular Stvpe the Cough and Worti Off the Cold manner. Years ago in Germany when the government waa supplying . the Laxative Bronx) Quinine Tablets. Pries 25a Jews with German cognomens the anMany Centenarians In America. cestor of Walter and Frank appeared. Joaeph H. Perkins of Syracuse, N. The Official was at a loes what to call will soon publish a work containhim at first but noticing that said ing the biographies of nearly 80,000 ancestor had fiery red hair, he wrote centenarians. If he can show ' any him down at BTtttKopf, or' Red means of living so as to reach ths 100-yeHead." The descendants objected to mark, his book ought to have a the name and changed It to the lit- wide circulation.' There are 4,000 peoeral Hebrew namely. Dam," which ple now living In the United States means blood, and Rosh," head. who are 100 years old or more. ht pig-iro- ' 60,-00- L ar |