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ment by its action is leading up to it.
Year by year the length of the dark
spaces on the coast are lessened or ex-
plunged entirely, and the day will come
when the whole coast line from Passa-
maquoddy Bay to the Rio Glande on the
Atlantic, and from San Diego to Point
Barrow on the Pacific, will be distin-
guished by bands of light by night and
BY well-marked beacons by day.
The cost of maintaining the light
house system has nearly reached 81, 4,OO0,-
600 year. This is a free gift Of the
American people to the commerce of the
world, and for the benefit OF the whole
human race. The cost is borne by the
National Treasury. No foreign ship en-
tering our water has to pay penny for
the benefit it derives. The United States
Government IS alone of all the nations
of the earth in this grand bene6cent
work. Every other nation charges
lighthouse tolls on its foreign commerce,
and levics other taxes upon foreign ship
owners for the support of its lighthouse
system. :,
The oldest lighthouse in the United
States was built at the er trance to Bos-
ton Harbor, on Little Brewster Island in
1715, sixty years before the battle OF
Bunker Hill. 1t cost 22S5 pounds
sterling. 1t was erected by the order
and at the expense of the general court
of the Province of Massachusetts, Bay,
and it was supported by light dues OF
one penny per ton upon all incoming
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day. It is now an immense bureau, and
while nominally under the Treasury De-
partment. is controlled by board con-
sisting of army and navy officers of the
highest rank, with an equal number of
civilians distinguished for their scientific
attainments. It is impossible within
the limits of this article to give anything
like history of the system by which
this important establishment of the Gov
ernment is maintained. The importance
of its work is known to all the world.
Some little idea, however, of its cost may
be had from the fact that from 1871 un-
til 1890 it has been maintained at an
expense of $93.23s. 1925. There are
some lighthouses that have cost nearly
100000.
The finest Lighthouse now completed
is that at Minot's Ledge, Boston Harbor.
Though this was built more than thirty
years ago, it stands to-day as one of the
most expensive structures of its kind in
the country. The original Minot's Ledge
light, which, by the way, is built in the
open sea, was destroyed in 1851. 1t was
based on solid rock, and was built up to
height of seventy feet In that year,
in a violent storm, it was carried away;
light, structure, supply house and three
keepers we're all swept into the seeshing
ocean. The new Minot's Ledge light
was started in 1855 and took six years to
complete. This was the most important
engineering work ever undertaken by
the Board of Army Engineers. The
famous General Barnard has said OF it:
at ranks, by the engineering difficulties
surrounding its erection, and by the skill
and science shown in the details of its
construction, among the chief of the
great sea rock lighthouses Of the world
A careful survey of the rock was made
under the orders of the Lighthouse
Board by Major Ogden, U. S. A. Gen.
eral Totten, then chief Of engineers:
planned the masonry tower, and B. s.
Alexander, then lieutenant of engineers
and afterward chief of engineers in the
army, slperintended its construction.
This great tower still stands as monu-
ment to the engineering abilities OF those
distinguished 0ncers. ine last stone of
this immense structure was laid June ~.
1860, and its whole cost was $500, 900.
Another of the great lighouSes of the
Atlantic coast is that at St. Augustine,
Fla. This is known throughout maritime
circles the world over as the American
candystick. 1t is built of brick and
iron, and is located on Anastasia Island,
off St. Augustine. The structure is $50
feet high from base to light, and at 165
feet above the level of the sea shows a
frst-order light. 1t cost more than
100000. 1t takes its name from its
spiral stripes of black and white, by
which it is distinguishable in daytime
from other lights in the vicinity.
But perhaps the most weird and alto
gether picturesque lighthouse under
American control is that on Tillamook
Rock, Ore. This is built upon a wave
swept rock about twenty miles south OF
the mouth of the Columbia River and one
mile from the main land. 1t is perhaps
the most inaccessible piece of Gods
footstool on the whole earth. Though
the waves sweep over it in period of
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passage was filled up with dust and rub.
,ish, and there was nothing to prevent
erress of the animals by the way they
nad entered except the disclination OF
the cat to leave its prey. The skeletons
when found were more than than hall
covered with dust from the floor above
them, and have probably been many
years in the position they were found, III
which position Mr.. Redmayne, Secretary
,f the Goldsmiths' Institute, has had
them carefully mounted and photo
graphcl. A curious coincidence is that
.xactly the same discovery OF the skeie-
tons OF a cat and rat together under a
4oor occurred while pulling down some
Did buildings to construct the Peoples
Palace, which is the immediate prede-
lessor of the Goldsniths' Institute.
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The Ruling Passion Strong in Death.

While extending and repairing the old
buildings Of the late Royal Navy School
at New Cross, London, which is shortly
to be opened by the Goldsmitbs Company
as their Technical and Recreatiye 1nsti-
tutc, it became necessary TO remove the
floor of the old gymnasium. In doing
so the workmen discovered the skeleton
of cat in close juxtaposition to that of
. rat, exactly as shown in the picture.
The bodies Of the animals were not quite
two inches apart in a sort of wedged-
shaped cul-de.sac, which was wider at
the top than the bottom, and so prevent
ng the cat from quite reaching the rat.
When found the entrance to the hole or
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nirnificd BnlI Fighters.

One has to see it to understand the
science of these superb men, the bull
fighters. They walk with the dignity
that princes are supposed to have, in and
out OF the Jaws of death-a leap not any
biohcr or less calm than just enough to
keen them this side Of eternity. The
little scarlet cloak, their only defensive
weapon, and with this alone they lead
tbc infuriatcd animal to the exact spot
where they wish to kill him and then
kill him, not at any haphazard moment
TO save their own lives. but only at the
signal given by the President. .-BaHi'
more Sun.
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LIGHTHOUSES.
BEHCONs THAT DOT THE SHORES
,OFTHE REPUBLIC.
Interesting Historical and Other
Information About the Light
houses ofthe United States
Our Lights Free.

Does any considerable portion OF the
65, 1000, 900 of American people realize
what an immense establishment the light
house system of the United States isl
ANY person who has been abroad and
who returns home will recall with what
peculiar Joy the cry, Light ho!" as il
sounds from the masthead of his ship
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A MEMBER OF the British aristocrac!
who has spent his fortune iD riotous
living is now driving cab in London
to make living. If he is anxious to
replenish his empty Golfers in hurry
he should come over and drive cab
In Chicago.
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A popular dog, of Warsaw, Ind, en-
joyed funeral attended by fifty people,
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her in her chair, In which she was DOW
leaning back, white 'andwith half-closed
-eye6
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CHAPTER xNXvIL.
It vas bordering upon the same mid:
NIGHT hour at which the guided teast OF
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wheeling furlously upon she captain.
do you mean to say that you knew OF
this-that you prepared this scene, this
humiliation for me, and-for that miser-
able woman?"
Not altogether, was the somewhat
Numbering reply, for the Captain seemed
to have been growing dazed and dull
from the moment OF his entrance into
the room.
You'll find that I spoke the truth
concerning the juggler, and that Bon
court, alias De Mauleon, yonder, has
your lost manuscript in his posses sion.
However, / knew that this revelation
or, rather, this disenchnntmert - must
ensue rs a natural consequence.
Thereupon Noel, white with rage. dealt
him singing blow in the face with his
open palm.
You are an utterly debased curl" be
exclaimed Il blush 10 think that have
admitted YOU to my society,""
so must We all Think echoed Lord
Squanterall, indignantly, and the rest Of
NoeIs friends directed menacing looks
toward the discounted blackleg.
The latter, who seemed Low to move
with some difficulty, did Eot, however,
manifest any fear.
Whatever / may be now, Sir, SAID ne,
ccmposedly. &C TO Noel. i have leen an
officer and gentleman; and, when l am
physically in condition to do so. you will
find me willing and eager 10 resent that
blow which YOU have just given me.
You have proved yourself both a fool
and an migrate. You owed lie, the di-
vorccd husband of tia; wom"n-to: such
!. .am"-and he pointed contemporary
toward the covering Adele nothing but
gratitude for exposing her true chara Ter,
ne a lifelong swindler's accomplice, and
for having s,ved you from her Infamous
clutches. Instead of that. you have repaid
me with blow. trust that we shall meet
again.
And. stammering ont the latter part of
these words Int half inteilig;b Y, lie
staggered Gu. of the door, and was then
hearI stumb ng bis way down the stairs.
Adele's maid had before this been sum
maueS g. hAr assistance. Ind bad placed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-09
GENERAL.

NJ. OCTAVE FEUILLET, the distinguished
French novelist and dramatiSt, is dead,
in the seventy-second year of his age.
He was a member of the Academy and
an officer of the Legion of Honor.
THE Bureau of the American Repub-
lies has information that the President
of Mexico has approved the bill recent
ly passed by the Mexican Congress adj
hitting corn from the United States
free of duty. This is very large con-
cession as the duty heretofore has been
one cent per kilogramme, or about one
half cent per pound.
The Spanish Cortes has dissolved.
Elections for members will be held in
February and the new Cortes will open
March 2.
THE Christian natives of Uganda have
again defeated the Moslems.
The soldiers quartered in Berlin have
been ordered to keep away from ninety
seven restaurants conducted by Social
lists.
A SERIOUS fire broke out in London
on the 3Oth near Blackfriars bridge
About 81, 600, 900 worth of property was
destroyed.
A SPECIAL dispatch from London says:
sit is rumored that large demands have
been made from the Bank of England
of gold for shipment to New York. Ger
many continues its demand. The bank
charges per cent. for loans"
The death is announced of Lady
Dacres at a very advanced age. She
danced at the famous and historical
ball at Brussels on the eve of the battle
of Waterloo.
AT meeting of the Pontifcal Acad-
envy of Archaeology, Rome, it was an
nounced that a basilicon in the church
of st. Sylvester had been discovered
containing the tombs of six persons in
Guiding that of Sylvester J., who occu
pied the Papal chair from 321 to 326.
ALEXANDER KINGLAKE, the historian
of the Crimean war, was reported
dying. He was 20 years old.
EMIN PAsHA has had several fights
with natives in East Africa.
THIRTEEN buildings in Pugwash, near
Halifax, n. s., have been destroyed by
fire, involving loss of $4,000.
THE schooner Mort Light, of Calais,
from Portland for Calais, Me-, with a
cargo of grain, left Portland December
q, and as she has not been heard from
since, she has probably been lost. The
vessel carried crew of six besides the
captain.
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THE SOUTH.

ISAAC MURPHY, the well known
jockey. is seriously i'll at his home in
Lexington, KY, having taken a violent
cold while skating. He has never been
a well man since his peculiar sickness
the day he rode the notorious Firenzi
race.
Four prisoners tunneled out of the
Jail at Newport, Ky, while the jailer
was on a drunk.
AT a meeting of the directors Paul
Conrad was elected president of the
Louisiana Lottery Company, vice NJ. A.
Dauphin, deceased.
LA GRIPPE is causing many deaths in
New Orleans.
GENERAL T. E. SPINNER. eX-Treasurer
of the United States, died at Jackson
vile, Fla, on the S1st at an advanced
age.
The steamboat E. W. Cole has been
wrecked on a snag in the Lower Missis-
sippi. No lives were lost.
ADvICEs from Centertown, La, SAYS
a cyclone struck that place and de-
stroyed the post-office, Masonic temple
and a number of smaller buildings.
Fortunately no one was seriously in
jured. The loss will aggregate S25. 1000.
SEVEN colored children were burned
in a house near Bayboro, n. C. The
parents had locked the children in hen
going to church, the house in some way
taking fire and burning them to death.
A TERRIFIC wind did great damage to
buildings and other property at 4 bilene,
Tex, recently. The roof and one end
of the Episcopal Church were blown
away; a number of houses were un-
rooted and others were blown off their
foundations.
THE British bark Topsy went ashore
on Grand Cayman beach, Ala. Five
men were drowned.
THE floods were extremely threaten
ing in West Virginia on the I'd.
Two men, woman and a boy per-
ished in the flames that destroyed the
Avenue Hotel, Corsicana, Tex.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
CONGRESS-.

WHEN the Senate met on the 18th the Gre
dentials OF George L Shoup and William j.
Mcconnell, Senators elect from Idaho, were
presented and Mr.. Shoup being present was
sworn in, but after some discussion the
credentials were referred Mr.. Aldrich pre-
scented the resolution for a change of rules
which went over. The elections bill was
taken up and Mr.. Hiscock spoke at length in
favor of the bill. Mr. Hoar also took the
floor in favor of the bill and pending his re-
marks the Senate adjourned. The House
was not in session.
WHEN the Senate met on the 30th IT was an
hour before a quorum could be secured in
order to approve the journal. The elections
bill was then taken up and Senator Hoar re-
sumed his speech in favor of the bill. Sen
ator wolcott (Col) then took the floor and
spoke against the bill. The elections bill
was laid aside informally and the financial
bill taken up and Senator Stewart addressed
the Senate in its favor. Senator Teller (Col)
then spoke against the cloture rule and upon
the rights of minorities. Adjourned. The
House met, approved the journal and ad
journed until Friday.
IN the Senate on the slst Mr.. Henderson
offered a resolution, which was agreed to,
directing as early a report of the census by
Congressional districts as possible. A sharp
debate ensued on Mr.. Morgan's request to
have his resolution placed before the Senate
directing the Elections Committee to
report as to the contents and mean
ing of the elections bill, but the
motion went over. Mr.. George then
spoke against the elections bill and the Sen
ate adjourned until Friday noon, with the
understanding that it should then adjourn
until Monday The House was not in SEES
sion.
THE Senate and House met informally on
the ID and after the reading of the journal
adjourned until Monday.
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Syrup"

Here is something from Mr.. Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost
father and several brothers and sis
tiers from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
ConSumptionhis stomach. When
ever he has taken a
cold of this kind he uses Boschee's
German Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Listen Il
use nothing but Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
more than hundred different per-
sons to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
in the market" o
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THE WEST.

THE Union League Club of Chicago
has appointed committee to take steps
TO have the city put in order for the
Worlds Fair.
REPORTS received from Eastern Col
orado tell of awful restitution and
famine among settlers owing to lack of
rain. Many are dying of starvation and
hundreds will follow if assistance is not
soon rendered.
THE Cleveland express on the Cleve-
land & Pittsburgh railroad was thrown
from the track at Alliance, O., but no
one was injured.
The Chicago city council was instruct
ed by vote of the aldermen to take steps
toward quo warranto proceedings
against the several gas companies that
have gone into the Chicago gas trust.
The order empowers the council to con-
fer with the Attorney-General of the
State and act with him in the matter.
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THREE men held up crowded car on
the Chicago & Louisville at Columbus,
Ind, recently. The robbers got $500
and escaped.
A BANK robbery is reported to have
occurred at Abba, Ia. The robbers
escaped with their booty.
THOMAS GREEN & Sons, old packers
of Council Bluffs, Ia, have assigned,
with $4,000 liabilities and $4,000 as
sets.
THE State Prohibition League of In
diana has been disbanded.
The Minnesota Farmers Alliance has
elected Ignatius Donnelly for president.
CHICAGO is to have 81, 10000 Y. NJ.
A. hall in the near future. 1t will be
thirteen stories high.
THE shops of the Illinois steel works
at Chicago have closed down.
COLORADO mines produced last year
$40, 259, 900 silver, 81, 512, 1876 gold, S4,749,-
$50 lead and 1853, 40 copper. Total, S29,-
SS1,SS4.
IT is almost certain that Chicago car
penters will strike again next spring.
News has been received from Fort
Sully of the drowning of Mrs. Lieuten-
ant z. C. Carnahan while crossing the
Missouri river in closed army ambu-
lance. The ice over the main channel
broke and the entire conveyance was
drawn under.
On the Iowa Central, three miles from
0skaloosa, a passenger train crashed
into n standing freight train. Engineer
Wright was fatally injured and several
passengers seriously hurt. The two en-
gines, express and passenger cars We're
totally demolished.
JUSTIN PETTIGREw, a brother of
United States Senator Pettigrew, died
at Sioux Falls, S. d., the other night.
Senator Pettigrew was much incensed
at the Christian scientists, who attended
the sick man.
JOHN T. MILLER has been arrested
near Pittsburgh, Preble County, o.,
for making and passing SIS gold pieces.
THE Ohio buggy works at Columbus,
O., have been destroyed by fire.
THE Armours deny the alleged deal
for the purchase of the st. Louis and
East st. Louis stock yards.
AT the bottom of the trouble with the
Northwest Indians. according to Father
Crafts and others. are the frauds perpe-
trated by Indian agents.
The towboat Anna Roberts exploded
her boilers near Portsmouth, O., on the
ID Five men were killed.
IN the habeas corpus original package
crse from Vinton Judge Preston, of
Cedar Rapids has decided that the Iowa
law relating to original packages was
not made effective by the passage of the
Wilson bill.
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HUNS IN A RIOT.
Strikers at Bradford, Pa, Engage in a Riot
-Four Men Seriously Beaten.

Strikers at Bradford, Pa, Engage in a Riot
-Four Men Seriously Beaten.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE strike
of the Hungarian furnace men at the
Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad
dock, Pa, resulted in serious riot yes
terday afternoon in which four men
were seriously injured and a dozen
others battered and bruised.
The Hungarians We're at work at
midnight and the plant was partially
idle, only about 100 men being at work
repairing the furnaces. About o'clock
a crowd of 200 strikers, armed with
clubs, picks, shovels, revolvers, bars of
iron and every other conceivable weap-
on, made an attack on the furnace. The
men at work were wholly unprepared
for the assault, but they bravely stood
their ground and bloody riot was the
result.
The bowling mob of Hungarians
used their weapons freely and men were
knocked down, dubbed, bruised and
numerically beaten. The fight lasted
nearly half hour and when the Hun
garians were put to fight it was found
that Michael Quinn, Andrew Kramer,
John Neason and Patrick Broggs, all
workmen, had been seriously wounded
and at least dozen others more or less
injured. Quinn's injuries may result
fatally, but the others are not danger
ously hurt.
Five of the rioters were arrested and
lodged in jail in default of $1,000 bail
each
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ClipDingS.

A man while digging well on the
farm of c. II. Moore, west of Deland,
Ill, came to a strata of clay so hard
that he was compelled to use dynamite
for fifteen feet to remove it. After dig
ging down sixty-fve feet and boring
twenty-five feet he struck a lake of
water, which forced him to get out of
the way of the rushing current, which
rose fifty feet in thirty minutes.
A caulifiower measuring fifteen inches
across the top and weighing seventeen
and a-half pounds is the latest inn
portant farm product in Multnomah
County, Ore.
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The Papal Succession.

PARIS, Jan. 2.-Dispatches from
Rome to the newspapers of this city
discuss the possibilities of the Papal
succession. The opinion seems that the
successor of Pope Leo XIII. will not be
Frenchman, as it is understood that
Cardinal Lavignere's colleagues do not
feel inclined to support him in his can
didacy. 1t is thought that if foreign
er is elected he will be either an Amer
lean or Cardinal Mermillod, of Switzer-
land. Should an Italian be selected it
is considered probable that Cardinal
Guglielmo San Felice di Acquil, at pres
ent Archbishop of Naples, may be
chosen.