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Show r tK f m I , J v-- ., 4 "v -- 4 The Increase of population of for the past three years Is Tort IIFE A Political Situation Hat Become Almost Unbearable Armed forces from Russia are causing the sultan of Turkey much un (Special Correspondence.) easiness. The In Santo Do- each meal, is the difficulty In keep condition political The big strike in the lumber district Is In Haiti. lng anything over a few hours on acsame much as the mingo of northern California, lntohlng 600 each The an They provide example of a hat count of the a arm weather. men, has been deciaied off is known as a country." greatest care must be exercised by Tale students last week droe wag Mr. Vasquez, the vice president, got the house wife in the purchase of hei ocs In New Haven, Conn, in an en- angry with Mr. Jimlnez, the president provisions. While the soli here is very fertile They locked horns and now Mr deavor to break up a strike s is numbeied among the absent and a ill raise almost anything, In Xlibsouri the court of appeals has Mr. of the kinds of vegetables Vasquez is filling out the scarcity decided that a preacher cannot sue term of the executive he chased groan in the United States Is' very bis congregation to recover his salary. President Roosevelt will recommend to Secretary Root that the at San Franclsto, be renovated. jr S 'k 'vfj'Vjone-ma- Jim-ine- z unex-pire- d , Pre-sldi- - Miss Margaret Crane of Waterbury, Conn, was waylaid by tramps and so badly beaten that her life is despaired t. ; 1 -- . I 'a. , i, Of riCUnW DOYJLEb w' .I'T Bd But If her conduct and appearsnee i" had already somVwhat Jarred upon their ?W Bhort1 7nllhd limited and precise sens of the fitness . of things, what were they to think of 'f1 ,Ifu hl the next little act In this . tableaux ' , t- .-. . t w. a s Uentlon tur 'bant? The cabman, red and heavy- - 1? ,'rof,l' fowled, had come back from his labors. JTJt 7UfC Prf,hU had a greater always and held out his band for his fare for u rhrm wor Prwci l,l" The ladv passed him a coin, there was '"mrelal ,thn a moment of mumbling and gestlculat- - j aspect To thla end he hou ln Weymouth J11 lng, and suddenly .aha had him with l and l"a taken lh, opportunity JNTEmrtOML PRSS ASSOCJAWX both hands by the red era' at which girt . of himsw-r,n Ms sctentlfic inatrU Is neck, and waa shaking Mm as a ; hU ,wo oharmlng daughter CHAPTER I. terrier would a rat. Right across the ?n1U mMower onM ptvement she thrust .him. and pushing h? ',to th m,,r isceful atmosphere of THE .him up against the wheel, she banged a,M, I11" three severni times against Thr' whs thus but one villa unoc- rLEASE, th(, Ms own TPnicle mum, said the nl U waa no wonder that the ..cn , be wf Rny u (o yoUi un- f- pted. voice of a domestic , Hgk,d maiden ladles watched with a keen ,argp ,he jomh trgmlll( hjlm,f from omewher,r dire (Interest, which deepened into open doorway. round the angla of , apprehension, the curious Incident Not th(, the panted number III tbe door, rs Kt,fj lsdy. There, you low black- - whlch heralded the coming of the . three la moving In "nts- - They had already learned will teach you to be imper- - 'lew that guard, w lairrt.fV J tWo Httle old from the agent that the family consist- Uncut to a lady." sitdles, who were The cabman looked helplessly about nnly' Mr Westmacott. n ' wldow "1 hrf nephew, Charles West-Eas- e, ting at either side him with a bewildered, questioning of a table, sprang aa one to whom alone of all men Howalmple and how select t to their feet with this unheard-o- f and extraordinary thing i had sounded! Who could have foreseen Inof from ejaculations ' tl,e!,e fearful portents which had terest, and rushed to the window of the he happened. Then, rubbing tils hea t. i seemed to threaten violence and dismounted slowly on to the box, and sitting-roowith an uptossed hand ap cord among the dwellers in The WilderTake are, Monk a dear," said one, drove away Tbe , lady ness? Again these two old maids cried pealing to the universe. shrouding herself In the lace curtain; smoothed down her dress, pushed back In heartfelt chorua that they wished "don't let them see us. her hair felt hat. and they had not sold their field. "No, no, Bertha. We must not give strode in under her little Well, at least, Monica, hall-doo- r, remarked which the through reason them to say that their neighaa they eat over their teacups Bertha, she closed behind her. Aa a with whisk bors are inquisitive. But 1 think that her that afternoon, "however strange these short skirts vanished into the w art safe if we stand like thla " the two spectators ills people may be, it is our duty to be as The opes window looked out upon a darkness, bertha and Miss Monica William sat polite (o them aa to the others ( sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleas- looking at each other la speechless ter,Most certainly, acquiesced her sta-, ant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star- amazement. For fifty years they had shaped bed of sweet william. It was peeped Sloe ws have called upon Mrs, Hay through that little window and bounded by a low wooden fence, which across that trim garden, but never yet Denver and upon the Misses Walker, screened K off from a broad, modern, had such a sight aa this come to con- we must call upon this Mrs. Weetma-cci- tt new metaled road. At the other side found , also, them, of this road were three large detached dear. As long as they are , I Certainly, Monica said wish, at .that last, deep-bo- d led villas with peaky eaves living upon our land I feel aa If they and small wooden balconies, each we had kept the field." "I ant sure I wish we bad," anBwered were in a sense our guests, and that it Handing in Its own little square of grata her sister. 1 our duty to welcome them." , . and of flowers. All three were equally Then we shall call tomorrow, said new, but numbers ene and two were Bertha, with decision. . CHAT ,TR IL curtained and sedate, with a human, Yea, dear, we shall. But, oh, I wish f sociable look to them; while number it waa over! THE ICK. BBEAKIKQ with three, yawning dooe and unkempt At 4 oclock on the next day, the two garden, had apparently only just reCOTTAGE maiden ladlea set off upon their hospitIIE ceived Us furniture and made itself from the window of able errand. In their stiff, crackling ready for ita occupants A which the Misses dresses of Mack silk, with bad driven up to the gate, and It was Williams had Jackets, and mile row a of at this that the old ladies, peeping out looked out stands, cylindrical grey curls drooping down blrd-lik- e from behind their eurtalns, diand haa stood for on either side of their black bonnets, rected an eager and questioning gaze. many a year, in they looked like two old fashion, plates The cabman had descended, and the that pleasant su-- b which had wandered off Into the wrong were passengers within handing out u r b a n district decade. Half curious and half fearful, . the articles which they desired him to which Ilea between they knocked at the door of number carry up to the house. He stood redNorwood, Anerley. three, which was Instantly opened by a faced and blinking, with hla crooked and Forest Hill, page boy arms outstretched. While a male hand, Long before there Yes, Mrs Westmacott was at home. protruding from tbe window, kept pil- had been a thought of a township there, He ushered them Into the front room, ing vp upon him a series of articles when the Metropolis was still quite a furnished as a drawing room, where ln the siyt t of which filled the curious old distant thing, old Mr. Williams had In- -, the fine of Wf a other large spite spring laituvi , iU Wrilderznent habited -- Tbe Jxntenl .4 re ww horsing io 4t Tt e boy-to- ok cried Monica, the house was called, and had ownedbale l, "Hf gaodnetd me! all their Cards, and then, aa thty sat smaller, the drier, and the more wlz tbe Adds about It, Bix or eight such down together upon a m ttre he act their ened of the pair. "What do you call cottage scattered over a countrynerve In a thrill by darting behind a rolling looks to me like four -side that, Bertha? It were all the houses to be found curtain with a shrill cry, snd prodding batter puddings, there in the day when the century at something with his foot. The bull pup Those are what young men bo each wa young.' From afar, when the which they had seen upon the day beother with, said Bertha, with a conbreeze came from the north, the dull, fore bolted from its hiding place and , scious air of superior worldly knowllow roar of the great city might be scuttled from the room. snarling edge. heard, like the breaking of the tide of And those?" life, while along the horizon might be (to sz COSTIXLXn ) Two great bottle-shape- d pieces of yel- Seen the dim curtain of smoke, the grim low shining wood bad been. imaged upspray which that tide threw up. Grad' w on the cabman. ually, however, aa the year passed, the CONQUESTOFTHE NORTHWEST Oh, I dont know what those are, city had thrown out a long brick-feele- r confessed Bertha. Indian clubs had here and there, curving, extending, and It Waa Acquired from the British by never before obtruded themselves up- coalescing, until at last the little cotFare of Arms, on her peaceful and very feminine extages had been gripped round by these In 1778, when independence waa denee. ists red tentacles, and had been absorbed clared. th United States Included only These mysterious aritcles were fol- to make room for the modern villa. the thirteen original state 0 tbe With the exception or a lew lowed, however, by others which were Field by field the estate of old Mr. Williams had been sold to the speculative hunters, there were no white men west more within their range of comprehension by a pair of dwib-bel- l, a purple builder, and had borne rich crops of of the Alleghany mountains, and there cricket-haa set of golf clubs, and a snug suburban dwellings, arranged in waa not even an American hunter In ave the great country out of which we have tennis racket. Finally, when the cab- curving concents and tree-line- d y man. all and bristling, had nues. The father had passed away be- since made th states of Illinois, Inwas fore hla Cottage staggered up off the garden path, there entirety bricked diana, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. emerged in a very leisurely way from round, but his two daughters, to whom All thla region north of the Ohio river the cab a big, powerfully built young the property had descended, lived to see then formed a part of the Province of man, with a bull pup under one arm the last vestige f country taken from Quebec, It was a wilderness of forests and a pink sporting paper In his hand. them. For years they had clung to the and prairies, teeming with game, and The paper he crammed Into the pocket one field which faced their Windows, inhabited by many warlike tribes of Inof his light yellow dust-coa- t, and ex- and it was only after much argument dians, Here and there through it were thst they dotted quaint little towns of French tended hia hand as If to assist some one and many heartburnings, else from the vehicle. To the surprise bad at last consented that It should Creoles, th most important being Defate of the others. A broad troit, Vincennes on the Wabash, and of tbe twh old ladles, however, the only Share the thing Which hia open olm received was road was driven through their quiet Kaskaakla and Kahokla on the Illinois. waa a violent slap, and a tall lady bounded domain, tbe quarter These French were ruled by The Wilderness," and three square, British officers villages unassisted out of the fab. With a resmall bodcommanding began ies of regular soldiers or Tory rangers gal wavs she motioned the young man staring, uncompromising villa on to aide. the other With up sprout towards the door, and then with one nd Creole partisans. The towns were hand Upon her hip she stood ln a care-- , sore hearts, the two shy iittie old maids completely ln th power of the Brittheir watched and progress, steady ish government; none of the American less, lounging attitude by the gals, states had actual possession of a foot kicking her toe against the wall and peculated as to what fashion of neighwould into bors chance the little bring of ln th northwestern terriswatting (he return of the nook which had always been their own. tory,property The nor west wa acquired at were finall three And at last they the time of the revolution only by arm-- d t. ahe turned slowly round, and the Wooden balconies and overhangand If had not been so acsunshine struck upon her face, the two ished. eaves had been added to them, so conquest,it would it have remained a part watchers were amazed to see that this ing quired, in the language of the advertisethat, th British Dominion of Canada. The very active and energetic lady was far there were vacant three eligible man to whom this from being in her first youth, so far ment, conquest was due Bwiss-bul- ll rooma sixteen with villas (hat "She had certainly come of age no basement, electric bells, hot and cold was a famous backwoods leader, a again since she first passed that land- water, and every modern convenience, mighty hunter, a noted Indian fighter mark in life's journey. Her finely chls-!eGeorge Rogers Clark. He was a Very including a common tennis lawn, to be clean-cface, with something let at J104 year, or 1,600 purchase. strong man, with light hair and blue of a good Virginian family, who, fed Indian about the firm mouth and So tempting an offer did not long re- eyes, in his youth, embarked on the strongly marked cheek bones, showed early even at that distance traces of the fric- main open. Within a few weeks the card adventurous career of a backwoods surone. vanished number from had and it tion of the passing years. And yet veyor, exactly as Washington and so he was very handsome. Her features was known that Admiral Hay Denver, many other young Virginians of spirit C. Denver V. and with Mr. B., C., Hay were as firm in repose as those of a did at that period. He traveled out to aon, were about to move into their Greek bust, and her Kentucky soon after It was opened up dark eyes It. Theonly great to news hearts the brought peace were arched over by two brows so Boone, and lived there for a year, by lived had Williams sisters. of the They blckv thick, and so,., delicately with a settled- convict ktn that some wild either at the .stations or camping by himself lh the woods, survey lng,' hunt curved, that the eye turned away from the harsher details of the face to mar- impossible colony, some spouting, Sing- lng and making war against the Ining family of madcaps, would break In dians like any other settler; but all the vel at their grace md strength. Her figure, too, was straight as a dart, a upon their peace. This establishment at time hla mind was bent on vaster little portly, perhaps, but curving Into least was irreproachable. A reference to schemes than were dreamed of by the showed them thst men around him. He had bis out magnificent outlines, which were half "Men of the Time Admiral Hay Denver waa a most dis- in the northwestern territory, spies and becostume the at",usted by strange who hla bad begun officer, which she wore Her came convinced that with a smalt hair, black but tinguished career at Bomarsund, and bad of reaolute backwoodsmen be could force conplentifully Bhot Uh gTry brushed active manIt for the United States, When plainly ,8ck frm )ier high forehead. ended it at Alexandria, having quer to see between these two episodes 8,1 he went back to Virginia Gov, Patrick gathered under a small round aged felt hat. bke that of a man. with one as much service as any man of hla Henry entered heartily Into Clarks years. From the Taku Fort and the schemes and gave him authority to fit epng pf feather jq the hand a a off out a force for his Shannon hrtgsde, to to her aex A double-breaste- d purpose. there wa no vsrlety of naval material Zanathar, If a 01 "me dark frleze-Uk-e did not appear ln his recwhich work Snored anil If n Opiums,. rl,ely to her figure, while her stmighl blue eklrt, untrlmmed and nc ord; while the Victoria Cross and the Clarendon attributed success Lord life vouched medal for saving games waR CIJt m hort tt,t the Albert war his cour- and happiness In life to associating with H that in peace at for lower enree of her finely turned-logs -than a age was still of the name true temper. persona more learned and virtucus PUlriy ibie beneath it, terminatClearly a very eligible neighbor thla, ourselves. ing m a pair 0f broad, flat, d so as they had been confident-l- y an 'fuare-toe- d shoes Such was the the more Utah has 1 0'W miles of canals, her estatt agent that Mr. ladv ho jounjred at the assured'by gate of num- Harold 'Den'-Jp- Je the son. was ft most Irrigated lands producing oxer 4.0'0.00 ber three, un ter the curious eyes of her IWO 0) quiet youngg ntjema'n, and that he bushtjs of grain annually. potte lit Ighbors ! ' ' T" I , w ,r F-T- , , in-th- , , , The Plaza. sway and building up his fences to have himself regularly elected" when the proper time comes. The sober-mindeIntelligent, thinking people know that there must be an end to present political practices before there is any show of the country being developed. When they refer to the subject they hare to speak In a whisper, but they are hoping and praying to happen that will guarantee more stable conditions. When an American woman begins housekeeping here her domestic affairs undergo a radical change. To begin with, she cannot have any carpets on the floors of her dwelling and she must live in the same house with the horses. This is not so bad as it sounds. On account of the warm climate the the most of the floors are made of stone or marble, and carpets are not needed. The plan of most of the larger and finer houses provides for the stable quarters on 5 the first floor, while the kitchen is on the roof, and this arrangement is not at ail unsatisfactory when one becomes accustomed to the novelty of it The troubles of the housewife begin in earnest when she employs her servants. I say - servants, - because there must . be a number of them. The and the man servant do not abound in these parts. The domestics here are specialists. Each one insists on performing his or her own kind of work alone and are exceedingly careful not to encroach on the rights of others, A social distinction is drawn between those who wear shoes and those who go barefooted. Her help noticeable. During the winter months a variety can be purchased in the market, but during the summer season the extreme heat serves ,to restrict their growth. The natives are very fond of lettuce and cultivate it constantly. The significance of the growth of American trade in the West Indies, and the gradual adoption of American customs, is not fully comprehended by the native. . He fears our soldiers hut pays po attention to our men of affairs. One is really as formidable as the other. In Havana duriag the recent strike the politicians were running among the rioters and shouting to them for Gods sake, atop or you Will have the Americans up on us!" The fact is the Americans are already closing In upon the West Indies. Our men and women of affairs are caving our soldiers power. The bloodless will campaign they are conducting end eventually Ip victory as pro nounced as any ever won at the point of the bayonet. When they finally assert their authority In a commercial way there can be no revolting from their mandate. One of the greatest truths ever spoken was the statement that all fighting is not done with guns. k Conduct to the charter ol Greater, New York, introduced in the legislature at Albany the other day, provides that school teachers may be removed from their positions for unbecoming conduct" The object of the amendment according to its sponsor. Is to enable the school board to re- "Unbecoming d An amendment four-wheel- er red-head- ed . eea-boa- rd. m: 'Hi -- u. s - 1 g, f top-heav- i n Ma-bin- STORYO, J , war..,- , In spite of the fact that he died of cholerk, the authorities permitted the Filipino political leader, to be given a public funerai Eight thousand natives marched from Mablnls house to the grave in La Loma cemew tery. Continued southerly winds are causing an alarming drouth In Porto Rico. The orange blossoms are, dropping, the new cane crop has been seriously delayed, and cattle are suffering from a disease due to lack of food and waa busy from morning to night On the 8te-- Exchange. 1 Hay Denvers had hardly moved In before number two also stock its placard, and again the ladles found that they had no reason to be dlcont-e- d with their neighbors. Doctor Balthazar Walker was a very well known name in the medical world. Did not hie qualifications, hit membership, and the recot d of hia writings fili a long half column In the "Medical Directory" from his first tittle paper en the Gouty Diathesis in 1SS to his exhaustive treatise upon "Affections of the Vaao-a- w Motor System in 1KS4T A successful medic. career which promised to end Domestic Problems a Trial to the Housewife Used to American Methods Rapid Growth of Our Trcdi. key. -- v ISLE OF SANTO DOMINGO Indications .point to a settlement o! the trouble between Bulgaria and Tar. h ;X t 300,-OO- Fifty-sevent- v IN THE TROPICAL New of. Charles Greene, a baseball player, was killed at Wiiberforce, Iowa, colliding with another player, his skull being fractured. Russian frontier guards ran Into an ambush of roblters last week, with the result that one captain antTTWo men were killed. Samuel Fox, a wealthy farmer, was Sored to death In Tils pasture near 'Wellington, Kans., by a bull. His body was crushed and mangled badly. The state department has received word from the German government that there will be no interference in the expulaion of Mormon elders, The total appropriations made by h the congress amount to 31,553,683,002, an Increase over the fifty-sixtcongress of fllS, 193.667. Edward DeRosa, 6 years of age, is dead at his home in New Tork City, from injuries received by being knocked down and trampled oa by "tough boys in the street According to ad .ces that hare reached Viennarn i'urklsh forces are advancing u - . k, in European wrecked three vilTurkey, and h lages with antev-- strrrk the Methodist Lightning church at Rockton, Ills,, while services were In progress Sunday,, and three persons were seriously burned, though il will recover. The announcement Is made that Joseph Leiter, who figured in the wheat corner In 189? and 1898, has made a proposition to his creditors to settle their claims against him for 20 cents on the dollar, Mra Sarah J. Fancher committed suicide by jumping into a well on her farm near New Era, Ore. She had been demented for some time, and her family had contemplated sending her to the asylum. ( The Episcopal diocesan convention for the Ix Angeles diocese took so definite action on the proposed change of the church name, the matter being referred to a committee to report to the next convention. For stealing fifty-on- e pounds of two farmers of white chicken, Kent county, Delaware, , James A. Powell and Thomas Q. Smith, will receive ten lashes each at the whipping poet in the jail yard. Owing to the trouble in Morocco, Spain has thrown up defenses at Ceuta (a seaport, la Morocco belonging to Spain), and will ship thither six heavy guns, which have been lying at Algeclras since the Spanlsh-America- ' I - NEWS SUMMARY. , j ' t i n I ' 4 ! , - , h r t 1 ' ..:M r. i ? a i itU-- i t rij M ti H , Ilst'-SK- ly it water. Three thousand people attendeJ a d, meeting in the Academy of Music at 8anto Domingo Cathed'al. Baltimore, Sunday, in behalf of the victims of the outrages constitutes the problem which trie move a teacher if ahe marry, U la Russia. Several thousand dollars the soul of the American woman and courts having held that under the was subscribed for relief of the suffer- proves the quality of her religion. present charter such removal would Economy is a stranger with whom no be Illegal. It, therefore, appears that ing Jew. can be had. Sufficient un- marriage is "unbecoming conduct" on Laborers digging an artesian well reckoning to each hour are the teeds thereof is the part of a teacher. . . at Boustetd, S. D., have unearthed a the substance of "native reasoning. human skeleton fifty feet beneath the Nothing is saved from the preparation Maeterlinck Coming to America. surface. The skeleton was in an ex- of a meal. A separate trip must be It Is announced that Maurice Mae cellent state of preservation and is be- made to market for provisions for terlinck, the gifted Belgian author, It is use- will visit the United States lieved by scientists to be that of a breakfast and for dinner. during the less to buy more than is needed at one coming summer, man. accompanied by bis prehistoric time, for the cook will certainly con- almost equally celebrated bride. - Mrs. J. L. Kline, aged 61 years, wife If a protest Is Georgette Leblanc, the fiscate the surplus. and acof the town marshal at Medical lake, made against this confiscation, the tress. Maeterlinck doessinger not confine committed suicide in the Cottage ho- rook will smile and explain that there bis study to literature. He is a'gobd tel in Spokane Saturday afternoon, are hungry mouths at home which deal of a philosopher, knowing Eraer-Bur- e must be Jed. Unless the concession about as iBoroughly as any other "and 'Julius FerklnsT'eon of' a Deer is granted there is an Immediate va- living man, and has devoted a great Park farmer, shot the top of his head cancy in the kitchen. Te exasperated deal of attention to bee life and the off Sunday morning. " American accepts the only management of apiaries. The war department has received BUerra'lre left to hoy--she surrenadvice from Manila that Miss Floy ders to another cus'bm cf the counIcebergs in the Open Ocean. On her way from Newport News, Gilmore has been appointed assistant try acd employs her tartee wits in the surplus to a mirimlirii. Ya., to England, the steamship Lord attorney general for the government teducirg The cause wv!c'i doubtless origin- I.atisdowre met She is the first with sixty In the Philippines. ated and tic continuance of Icebergs and had recently to steer thirty miles woman ever appoinled to such an im- the cusom r Vm ire provLions for out of her covrse to circr them. portant legal position, antl-Jewls- h fioii'-ewlf- ut dnow-harryini- low-heele- ' jf |