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A Gang Of Train Robbers Surprised in Camp.

Kansas City Special to the Globe-Democrat
About noon to-day word was received at
the headquarters of the Kansas Pacific
railway, in this city, that an organized
band of train robbers had been captured
and killed while attempting to rob an ex-
press car on train No. 2, bound west. The
rumor was founded on the following facts :
Last Thursday night a detective gained in
formation that an attempt would be made
to rob the express car of the Kansas Pa
cific on Saturday morning, at Rock Spring,
small station 204 miles west of this city.
The information was obtained from one of
the gang, who came into Brookfield and
gave his pards away, claiming that they
had " done him dirt" Acting on this in
formation, the Sheriffs of Rice, Hays and
Saline counties organized a band of picked
men and started for the rendezvous of the
robbers. It was known just where they
were, and descent was made about day
light, and terrible fight took place. The
robbers were armed with Sharp's shooters
and seemed to know of the attack. Mike
Rourke, known as Big Mike, and the leader
of the gang who robbed the Kansas City,
St. Joe and Council Bluffs train at
Winthrop, and the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe at Kinsley, was captured. Dan
Dement,, another of the gang, was wound
ed, and escaped into the brush, while the
| remaining three fled in the darkness. A
| posse of men are now chasing them in a
southerly direction, and it is thought that
fight will take place near Fort Dodge, as
a telegram has been sent to that point for
aid. A reward of $3, 600 has been offered for
Rourke's capture and he is now en- route to
junction City on a special train, chained
and guarded by four resolute men. It has
been known for two weeks that this rob-
berry has been intended, and Superintend-
ent Cakes has had all train men heavily
armed. The capture of the leader will
break up one of the most powerful gangs OF
| train robbers in the country.
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1'he Industrial West.
Scientific American.

Scientific American.
With the oversupply of labor and capt. al
in the East it is natural to look to the great
teeming Vest for an outlet for surplus labor
and for tie employment Of capital in great
enterprises and achievements. The West
holds a variety of resources and offers an
opportunity for industrial employment not
found elsewhere in the world.
Bound by ties of blood in a common
brotherhood, connected by the iron path
ways, and associated in trade and commerce
and political and social emulation, the
East looks Westward for her provisions and
raw material, and for a market for her sur
plus and the employment Of the overflow.
How far is the world justified in it's expect
atiuns of the West, and how much of hope
is there of its industrial future ?
What is to be the future of the West and
pr osperty IS bs tlRT 5G tPs
TALLY nominated. The fist principle is the
value to be derived from and the depend
ence to be placed upon her broad, unob-.
stlucted agricultural advantages. No other
nation or locality has such resources and
and advantageous opportunities 10 begin
with, and we are satisfied that the leaven
OF scientific cultivation DOW slowly working
is soon to produce astonishing results in the
great West Not one-half the fertile land
of Ohio Indiana and Illinois is under culti-
yation, while but half the returns from the
soil are received Of which the land is capa-
BILE. More labor will soon be given to
ten acres than one hundred now receive,
and the profits will be proportionately high.
Next after the agriculture the mineral
resources of the West will yet be scientific
ally developed, and that to a proportionate
profit. All other things upon the earth
and in and under it are for tho service of
the farmers pursuit, and in no part of the
world is it SO apparent as in the central
Western States. No people can have more
than they produce, and we are satisfied that
no part of the world will take more interest
or more pride in the development of their
home resources to their utmest than the
West. We are satisfied, too. that the
central West is to be the great inland in
dustrial empire of the world.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.
arents, school your issues !--Rochester

Parents, school your issues !-HocAeste,
| Chronicle.
France does't need any Rhine, because she
has her Rhone. Boston Post.
Eight Or ten different humorous books
are promised this fall, each one containing
as many as two pages of original matter
probably advertisements, says the Free
Press.
Backward, turn backward, o Time, in
your flight, let me remember when last
was tight. Wife at the window, her ma at
the door; you all know how it is who have
been there before.
Scarcely had the Raccon of Swat been
laid among his fathers before the Ameer of
Afghanistan appears to test the Atlantic
cable with his ill-timed performances and
this, too, while General Phillipopovich is
bombarding the Bosnians at senkovics, and
Janovich is whooping them up at Kiobuk.
Some ideas of the terrors of British
shindy on the Punjaub border may be gath
cred from the fact that such names as Bar
rookullen, Ghuznee, Kounegoorum Moot
akhaila and Muzulfarad are likely TO be ac-
tiUAly ~ inVnlued day after day.-Bastimore
Gazette.
Ii it takes one hog to make u ham how
many hogs will it take to make hammer? |
Whitehall Times. If it takes one egg to |
make nogg how many eggs will it take to
make an augur ?-St. Louis Dispatch. If it
takes one horse shoe to make pitch how
many shoes will it take to make pitcher?
THE People. If it takes one baby to make I
q waif how many babies will it take to
make wafer 9-Des Moines Leader. If it
5akes one boy to make a din, how many
boys will it take to make a dinner ?-Ke-
'kuk Constitution. If it takes three feet
20 make yard how many feet will it take
20 make a garden? i-.'1l&siti- ss'@
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TE2as Paa-7asla i27ariahly ia advan.o.
EVE-ANGELIcAL CORNER

|
Plain and fiat trimmings are to be worn
most on fall and winter dresses.
| Marabout feather bands are among the
most fashionable fall trimmings.
A Parting Glass-1he maiden's final
look In the mirror at her new hat:
The latest fancy is to trim black silk
dresses with bands Of colored velvet.
Short costumes take only eight ymds of
medium width stuff for full dress.
Humming birds, birds of paradise, and,
in fact, all sorts of birds are worn ON the
fall hats.
"Duck's breast" is the novel cognomen
ofone new shade of blue, and ''gendarmes
the name of another shade.
Gold braids and ornaments are. beautiful
on garnet velvet hat or bonnet. MS the
two colors harmonize most beautifully.
In ear rings one of the latest monstrosi-
ties is a silver arrow, which, when worn,
looks as if it we're thrust through the ear.
Fancy buttons and fiat gilt buttons are
s.sed nrninsely on the clan tarletan and
fancy plaid suits so fash1onautr at- .r,v
ment.
A Georgia man changed his residence
eight times in eleven months, and the last
time his wife said she didn't even care to 60
to heaven, for about the time she got fixed
up and learned where the water was and
u
move.
Mrs. Jonas Hay, of Jameston, N. Y. =
who had her scalp torn off by machinery,
has had it replaced by grating pieces OF.
skin kindly furnished by her friends, no
less than thirteen hundred and seventy
eight sections being engrafted on her era
mum. 1t looks like a flower garden in full
bloom.
Some people can say or do humorous
things under all circumstances. A lady
who was rescued at the time of the disas-
ter to the Princess Alice on the Thames,
where SO many persons were drowned,
that the water was bitter and
that it was unfit to drink She was drown
ng when she was rescued.
1t is given cut that ladies will wear
vests precisely like the gentlemen's this
winter When a married man goes to bed
ne will have to put chalk mark on his
vest, or next morning he may slip on his
wlfe's and not discover his mistake until
ne inserts his thumb and re-fnger IN tho
tight hand vest pocket for pinch of fine-
tut and finds nothing but a piece of chew
ng gum and the stub of soft o.ack lead.
pencil Then ne will suddenly remember
nat there was roll of ten dollar green
'acks in the lef5 hand p ck>t O. his vest
hat is, if he is an editor, he will rush back
lome in RAJ us time.
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UNSUCCESSFUL CONSOLATION clergy
man said that he once visited lady of his
parish, who had just lost her husband, in
order to offer consolation and upon her
earnest inquiries as to the reunion of fami-
lies in heaven he strongly asserted his be-
lief in that fact, and when she asked with
anxiety whether any time must elapse
before friends would be able to find each
other in the next world he emphatically
said, g No they viii be united at once. =
He was thinking OF the happiness of being
able to offer the relief of such faith, when
she broke in upon his meditations by ex-
claiming sadly, & Well, his first wife has
got him, then, BY this time - Fagitise
Issas.
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A Country Where Everything is Finished

New England Corr. Cincinnati Commercial
Many things strike me as being peculiar
to New England. The roads are as GOOD
as our pixies in the west, being naturally
hard and smooth. Toli-gates are unknown
Men do not ride on horseback. Eyerybod,
goes In bnggies OF carriagts, drawn by ore
horse. There are no farm wagons, haycarts
with two wheels, drawn by oxen. serving
all farm purposes. Everything looks neat
and smooth. There are no rough edges, NJ
fence-corners full of weeds, no unsiyhlly
plowed ground, no rotten rails. but has
oVeTRgrowu wIvn
the powders which crn,, uu5 here aud there
in pastures and orchards cover themselves
decorously with lichens. Nothing is bare.
new, crude or raw. Everything seems to
have been finished, and the order of life
settled for several generations. There are
no new buildings, no Improvements or in
noyations, but the same buildings grow
grey with age and gather lichens on them,
and the people walk in the ruts that their
fathers walked in and never do anything
striking Or original. Farming is done in a
careful, frugal manner, and nothing is al
lowed to 60 to waste There is no specula-
ton. real estate agent would starve
here; so would a surveyor. Every one in
vests in slow-going concerns that pay mod
crate interest, and, when Que of them fails,
tits as if the granite of tteir hills had been
rivep, and the old established order of
things dissolved into chaos If any one is
enterprising or original he goes out West,
or to the cities, and the country is left with
a conservative orthodox population who
have respect for ancient traditions. To
upset established customs, and disregard
the traditions of their forefathers, would
seem to them like pulling down the pillars
of the universe upon themselves, and top
pling all together in a crash of dust and
confusion. 1t is interesting to be specta-
tor and look on, but should kick against
the pricks if had to live in this orthodox
dullness. | should want to do some unpre-
eedented thing to startle the inhabitants of
this mill-pond existence, just as used to
have desire to talk out loud in a Quaker
meeting, or throw book across the house
and startle the elders on the topnost
snats
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A FAMOUS CAPTAIN DEAD,
JuDKENs AND HIS 400 VOYAGES Across
THE ATLANTIC.

Captain Charles n. E. Judkips. Cnrme,ly
Commodore of the Cunard line d;aa =, -.
residence on SIosIey Hill, near Livernoo,
England, on Monday night. He was in
the service of the Cunard line for over 40
years, having worked himself up from a
subordinate position. He first commanded
the old Caledonia, and afterward flew his
pennant as commodore on the Arabia
rersia and Scotia. During the Mason and
oiideil trouble, when war with Eno1and
was thought to be imminent the Persia
was chartered by the British governmunt
10 convey troops to Quebec. With the
sixteenth regiment, 1000 strong. detach-
inent OF Royal Engineers, and large force
OF commissary officers and men. Csnta;,
Judkins sailed the Persia up the St. Law
renee liver until the ice rendered further
progress impossible. He then safs1u
landed all the troops in the ships boats at
BIC. Two of the boats were frozen j.,
while landing the last of the men. and thew
were able to walk ashore on the ice The
rersia was obliged to leave them and 90
aown the river to7more epen water R1r
his Raliant conduct in taking the troons 60
near TO Quebec the BRUSH goyeYIiF,,.-r w
suitably rewarded the captain.
Over 400 voyages across the Atlantic
TO and from New York, were made bv Can.
tain Judkins, without the loss of \ single
me- ana without material injury to the
vessels he commanded. So great yos lie
popularity that it was common thing for
passengers to wait over until the vessel he
commanded was ready to sail. Ladies and
chlloren travelling alone were ALWAYS nlaced
under his protection, and were we'll cared
ior. His life when in New York was one
continued round of visits to the houses of
those who had made passages with him.
on his quarterback he was as great an
autocrat as the Gar of Russia. The pas
engers who asked questions as to latitude,
longitude or how soon the ship wonld be at
ner dock, was referred to the cook in Ian
guage otherwise than pleasant. Tn the
cabin, however, when off duty, the CAPTAIN
was genial social and polite. Gout attack
sd MIN and IN about seven years it COM
peiied him to resign his ship, the Scotia.
and live on land. At Mosley Hill he had a
room filed With the presents given him by
als company, passengers and friends, and
'hese he was never tired of showing to
nose who visited him. His sight failed
1im OF late, but those who saw him on}v
'"o weeks ago thought there was little
Hanger of his death for many years. He
caves a wife and grandson. He was about
70 years of age
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PACE IMPLoRA.

Better it were to SIT still by the sea,
Loving somebody and satisfied
Better 1t were to grow babes on the knee,
10 anchor yon down for all your days,
Than wander and wander in all these ways,
Land forgotten and love denied,
Better sit still where born, say,
We'd one sweet woman and love her we'll
Laugh with your neighbors, live in their way,
BE 1t ever so simple. The humber the home,
The nob!er, indeed, to bear your part
Love and be loved with all your heart,
Drink sweet waters and live in a spell.
Share Your delights and divide your tears
Love and be loved in the old east way,
Ere men knew madness and came to roam
From the west to the east and the whole world
wide
When they lived where their fathers lived and
died
Lived and SO loved for a thousand years.
Better it were for the world, l say
Better, indeed, for mans own good
That he should sit down where he was born,
Be it land of sands Or of oil and corn,
Valley of poppies or bleak northland,
White sea border or great black wood,
Or bleak white winter or bland sweet May,
Or city of smoke or plain of the sun,
Than wander the world as l haye done,
Breaking the heart into bits OF clay
And leaving it scattered on every hand.
Joaquin HITLER.
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P ct RZ
SEPARATION.

wall grown up between the two
strong, thick wall, though all unseen;
None knew when the first stones were laid,
Nor how the wall was built, ween.
And so their lives were wide apart,
Although they shared one board, ore bed;
A careless eye saw naught amiss,
Yet each was to the other dead.
He' much absorbed in wolk and gain,
Grew soon unmlndful of his loss:
A hard Indifference worse than hate
Changed loves pure gold to worthless dross.
She suffered tortures all untold
Too proud to mourn, too strong to die;
The wall pressed heavily ON her heart
Her white face showed her misery.
suc', walls are growing day by day
'Iwixt man and Wife, 'twixt friend and friend
would they could know, wholightly build,
How sad and bitter is the end
A careless "crd an unkind thought,
A slight neglect, taunting tone
Such things as these, before we know,
Have laid the wallis foundation stone.
Springfield ReD1tlbicdn.
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AN ELABORATE ORAToR.--The fine
speeches of Lold Dufferiu, which read as
if they were delivered extemporaneously,
are really prepared and committed to mem
ory with the greatest care. He works out
a speech generally in the morning and die
tates it to his shorthand writer, who then
transcribes his notes upon large sheets of
foolscap, writing upon every second line
and leaving margin of half the page. The
extended manuscript is then returned to
Lord Dufferin, who improves his compost
ton until sometimes scarcely word of the
original conception remains. The amend
ed copy is then returned to the secretary,
who makes fresh transcription. This, in
turn, undergoes transcription, and third,
and often fourth transcription will be or
dered until Lord Dufferin is satisfied.
Then he reads and repeats his periods over
slowly, walking up and down and reciting
paragraph by paragraph. A reply in Greek
which he made to the professors of McGill
University, when he was given degree,
took him more than week in its compo-
sition. It excited wonder and admiration
In English and Canadian learned circles as
a piece of off-hand scholarship.
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ELErHANTINE.- Nine feet ten inches at
the shoulder was the highest elephant Mr.
SandersoD, an expert in such fffairs, ever
measured. A thoroughbred elephant is
Worth $40, Goo on more. In 1885 the price
of elephants was 1895 head; now none
can be had for less than $3.50. and ttsslers
Of any pretensiops are held at from i,000
to $500. At25 years The elephant is full
grown, and it viii live from SO u 1ao, or
even 100 peais. The government load il
1Gs0 pounds. exclusive Of chains and at
tendants, and The daily rstionis 500 pounds
Of fiddler
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Blanks for Sale.

IF an assortment is ordered lesser guam
titles than one hundred will be furnished at
same rates. Cash must accompany order.
Postage will be prepaid. Address,
NEW NORTH-WES
DEER LODGE.
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Ths Ideal Congressman and the Real.

OF all the mundane things rendered en-
chanting by distance, Congress bears off
| the palm. Fancy paints an NJ G. clean,
well-shaven, substantial, solid gentleman,
IN sufficient flesh to speak generous feeding,
urbane, genial and wonderfully clever
larger stockholder in patience than Job, of
Uz; wearer of immaculate linen, ard
cloth not only broad but fine and well-made:
great-souled man unswervingly devoted
to the interests of his district and proud to
represent it; an unselfish being primed to
commit hGrs-kari any moment for princi-
pie, and anxious to die daily for every indi-
vidual constituent an exalted mortal, with
pockets stuffed with postoffices, consulships
pension agencies and other good things;
whose very breath is fragrant with the
choice perfume of place-in the army.
navy, revenue, marine and civil service;
benefcent creature whose wink has force
enough to jerk one into judgeship or
snatch from your dalliance soft surveyor
ship; an august parsonage that dares to
gauge gauger or inspect an inspector
whose utterances cleave the ocean and Cir
die the earth !; a statesman who, whenin the
throes of cramp collie, sends gold up two
and a-half, and whose death makes corner
in mourning material. This is our ideal law
maker. Look on that picture and then on
this. Beholding our Solons from the gal
leries and listening day after dry to their
ouias / I; s1> nd IN rlsino is awfully monotoa
men, no better, and let us hope, no worse,
than the constituency that sent them here.
Some are well-dressed and have the port of
gentlemen-one wears a grimy-colored
flannel shirt, topped around his neck by
a foul paper collar. He carries enough real
estate under his finger nails to make him
rich man in flush times.
I have observed this popularity about
Congressmen: Those who had to do the
work of Hercules to get here, usually rest
from their labors after their arrival, while
those who won easily, through popular will,
work like beayers-early and late. 1t is
not all rose-color to even the most common
place M. c., after the wearying effort of
placing his own and wife's relatives in Of
flee. He has private calendar of cases of
his constituents to look after. The double
dealing and downright deceit he is forced
to practice, is somsihing appalling to an
honorable man. once saw in the House
reception room three beautiful young ladies
exhaust a pack of visiting cards in their
vain efforts to bring out the members of q
committee having in charge certain legisla-
ton. After these haffled demoiselles had
departed, asked il it was really true
whole committee was non est. They
were hidden in cloak room and they told
me TO lie by the cube foot or they would
have me dismissed"
noticed afterward that the particular
measure which these ladies came to plead
for was defeated.
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About s67 newspapers viii remark tliat
the Afghanistan trouble il Ameer tFlfis.
Philadelphia Bs.lletSt.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-23
SOPHIA.

Sophia, although at the present time
only the capital of sandjak and of
upper Bulgaria, was formerly the chief
town of the whole of Bulgaria. In the
year 1874 celebrated council assembled
there, and subsequently the town was
rebuilt by the Emperor Justinian. In
800 it was captured by the Bulgarians,
and named by them Triaditza--a name
which was converted by the Crusaders
into Stralitz or 6tirnitz. In 1882 the
town fell into the hands of the Turks,
and after that time began to decline in
Importance. According to the Cologne
Gazette, Sophia has now population of
only $4,000, one half of whom are Otto
mans; but other authorities give the
number of its inhabitants at about 3d.
900. The surrounding country is ex-
ceedingly fertile, producing corn, rice,
tobacco, fax and wine, while it's pas
lures feed large droves of cattle and
sheep. Two good roads lead from the
valley of the Isker, in which Sophia is
situated, into the valley of the Martha,
the one running through the Ichtiman
Pass, the other making detour to the
south, by way of Samokou, to Tatar-
Bazardjik.
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A Subterranean River.
-tNerrhc mo Jenri,al.I

How many of the readers of the Jour
nature may be seen four miles west Of
Swans prairie and one mile in the In
dian Territory Here you will find a
cave which is perfect wonder to the
brave adventurer who will provide HIM
self with the necessary outfit for explor-
ing the subterranean cavern of darkness,
inhabited by wild animals and bats in
countless thousands. The necessary out
fit consists of good lights and boat in
which to navigate a subterranean river,
which, so far as we know of, has never
been traced to its source. The entrance
to the cave is a grove of tall trees under
the jutting rocks of a small mountain.
Long before you enter the wood you can
hear the roaring of the falling waters,
which rush forth in crystal pureness, far
excelling the noted springs of Neosho.
A short distance from the cave stands a
single Indian cabin, inhabited by Alex
ander Zane, of the Wyandotte tribe of
Indians. To the east, south, and west
of his dwelling stretches out one of those
beautiful valleys, which would be a for
tune to many a man if he could have
the control of it. Here, in their original
grandeur, is water-power sufficient to
run Touring mill, valley large and
rich enough to produce the grain to keep
the mill going. For full knowledge of
this region you must see it to appreciate
the importance of this wonder of won
DerR