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"Where, sure enough! Why" Mr..
March gazed at the old janitor with a
comical mixture of amazement and
friendly contempt. "Why-you old
fool!"
Mike stood quietly with a broad grin
on his face.
do you mean to say" went on the
gentleman, that you're going to give
such amounts out of the two thousand
dollars you got as damages from the
street railway for injuries which have
made you a cripple for life?''
"Such amounts" seemed little be-
wildering to Mike.
would We be thinkin' ought to :
dividin' aiquil wild 'em, bein' they're
me own brothers, sur?'' he began.
go long with you'll" said Mr.. March,
with laugh and a stamp of his foot.
mike" he continued, seriously If you
do mean such a crazy thing, 1 hope you
will hear me when advise you against
It, Why, man, you are getting old.
Your two thousand dollars is almost all
your dependence for your old age-for
you and your wife"
airnin' this many year yit, sur, phase
the Lord"
"But, Mike, think of the difference
this money will make in your comfort.
With your simple ways 1t will make
years of ease in your life. You can sit
by your fire in your own snug hired
room, instead of working hard-you
with your crippled limb"
The old man set his lips slightly to-
gether as he gazed at his employer.
Mr.. March had once or twice noticed the
mildness of the insignificant gray eyes
looking out from under lids REDEEMED
by exposure; now the mildness was in
tensified by smile of rare sweetness.
"Musther March," he said, II know it
all, none betther nor mesif. know
| list how much aisier 1t is to sit by the
| fire nor to go out in the perishin' cold
wild the ache in me ould bones. But
We see, sur, they're me own flesh an
blood-Pat and Dennis. They feel the
pinch and the hardness jist like mesilf.
| Would it be mesilf 'u'd sit by me fire
takin' me aise KNOWN things was
harder for thin nor for me? Be me
sowl. Musther March, I'm thinkin' it's
the stingy ould rascal I'm bein' not to
| give thin more"
mike, you're a fool!" repeated Mr..
March, but more quietly than before,
and simply to fill in the pause.
It'll be raichin' 'em the mornin' of
the blissid Christmas day." Mike took
a few imping steps in growing excite
ment. Think of it, sur! It'll be
maxim 'em feel rich! It'll bring the
shmile to their faces, and the laugh to
'em, God bless 'em! on His own birth
day! It'll aise the ache that no one
but the blissid Lord an thimsilves
knows of"
Yes, there was radiance added to
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AN INsURGENr MANIFESTO.
The Cuban Revolutionary Party Issue a
Document About Their Cause.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party Issue a
Document About Their Cause.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1s.-The mani
festo of the Cuban revolutionary party
to the people of the United States was
made public yesterday. 1t is long
document, prepared by Enrique Jose
Varona, ex-deputy in the Spanish
cortes, and reviews the history of revo-
lutionary agitation in Cuba and pres
emit conditions on the island. 1t is set
out that no people could bear the
wrongs endured by the Cubans without
protest, without degrading and con-
demning itself to anihilation. The
manifesto concludes: 1.-The Cubans.
not in anger, but in despair, have ap-
pealed to arms to defend their rights
and vindicate an eternal principle,
without which every community is in
danger-the principle of justice. We
may find ruin and death few steps
ahead. So be it. We do our duty. If
the world is Indifferent to our cause,
so much the worse for all. A new
iniquity shall have been consummated.
The principle of human solidarity shall
have suffered defeat
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SENATE COMMITTEES.

The Republican Caucus Committee Com.
pletes the Assignment Of Chairman
ships.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE repub-
lican causus committee of the senate
completed its work of assigning the
majority membership of the senate
committees yesterday, and will be pre-
pared to report to the republican eau.
Gus to-day. The assignment of chair
manships is as follows:
Agriculture, Proctor; appropriations,
Allison; audit contingent expenses,
Jones of Nevada; census. Chandler;
civil service, Pritchard; claims, Teller;
coast defense, Squire: commerce, Frye;
District of Columbia McMillan; edu
rolled bills, Sewell; examination
of branches civil service. PETER; fin
nance, Morrill,; fisheries, Perkins; for.
eign relations, Sherman; immigration,
Lodge; improvement Mississippi river,
Nelson; Indian affairs, Pettigrew, In.
dian depredations. Wilson; inter
state commerce, Cullom; irrigation,
Warren; judiciary, Hoar; library,
Hansbrough: manufactures, Wetmore;
military affairs, Hawley: mines and
mining, Stewart; naval affairs, Cam
eron; organization executive depart
ment, Butler; Pacific railroads, Gear;
patents, Platt; pensions, Gallinger;
post offices, Wolcott; printing, Hale;
privileges and elections, Mitchell of
Oregon: public buildings, Quay; public
lands, Dubois; railroads, Clarke; rela-
tions with Canada, Carter; revision of
the laws, Burrows; rules, Aldrich;
territories, Davis: transportation
routes to seaboard, Nc Bride; university
of the United States, Kyle; interna-
tional expositions, Thurston; to inves-
tigate the geological survey, ElSins;
national banks, Mantle; forest reserva-
tions, Allen; trespassers upon Indian
lands, Baker; Ford theater disaster,
to be filled when the Utah senators
come in.
This disposes of the chairmanships
of all but II committees The commit
tees undisposed of are known as the
minority committees
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is plain REQUIREMENTS and to deal with it ac-

It's plain requirements ana 70 oeai VIII IL ac-
cordingly.
Great Britain's present proposition has
never thus far been regarded as admissible by
Venezuela. though any adjustment OF the
boundary which that country may deem for
her advantage and may enter Into for her own
free will cannot Of course, be objected to by
the United States Assuming. however, that the
attitude Of Venezuela will remain unchanged,
the dispute has reached such stage as to
make 1t now incumbent upon the United states
to take measures to determine with SUFFICIENT
certainty for its Justification what Is the true
divisional line between the republic of Vene-
zula and British Guiana. The inquiry to that
end should Of course be conducted carefully
and judicially. and due weight should be given
to all available evidence, records and facts In
support Of the claims Of both parties.
In order that such an examination should be
prosecuted in q thorough and satisfactory
manner, suggest that congress make
adequate appropriation for the expenses
of commission to be appointed by the
executive, who shall make the neces-
sary investigation and report upon the
matter with the least possible delay. When
such report is made and accepted, 1t Will,
in my opinion. be the duty OF the United States
to resist by every means in its power as o
willful aggression upon its rights and inter-
ests, the appropriation by Great Britain Of
any lands or the exercise Of governmental
Jurisdiction over any territory which, after
inveStiga cation, We have determined OF right be-
longing to Venezuela.
In making these commentators, am fully
alive to the responsibility incurred and keenly
realize all the consequences that may follow.
am, nevertheless, firm in my conviction that
while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the
two great English speaking peoples Of the
world as being otherwise than friendly COM
petitors in the onward march of civilization and
strenuous and worthy rivals in all the arts OF
peace. there is no calamity which great ma
lion can invite which equals that which follows
supine submission TO wrong and injustice
Ind the consequent loss Of national self respect
and honor. beneath which is shielded and de-
tended a peoples safety and greatness.
GROVER CLEVELAND
Executive Mansion December IL, 1895.
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occasional Chances at Mr..

room with occasional glances at Mr..
March.
''Thatu do, Nike" ut length said the
gentleman, somewhat annoyed by the
rattle of shovel and tongs, which seemed
to show unusual excitement in Mike.
He came slowly toward Mr.. MARKHAM
understood figure Of an oldish man with
a painful limp.
IF might be thrubblin' ye jist q
minnit, sur"
"Goon, Mike; no more lawsuits, hey?''
mo more O. thin. It's the funny
man ye are, sor." Mike shook his head,
his whole insignificant face beaming
with delight. Its only that bein' it's
the blessed sayson comm so near
Christmas eve tomorrow, glory be to
God!-that I'm akin q bit O. help o. ye,
Musther March, to sind n bit of a prisint
"Oh! So you have relatives too, have
your"
Thanks to the blissid saints have,
sor. An SO I'm comm to We to fix up
the bits O. paper that1 carry some
money to thin two-the leetle mite of
scrap that names SO much" Mike
laughed aloud as if in great relish of
the subject.
"Check, hey? Well, here" Mr.. March
again opened his check-book and again
began rapidly filling a blank. ITO the
order of-what's the name?"
Patrick O'Toole, Mike paused q
moment as the name was written. then
proceeded-"five hun'erd dollars"
"Hey?" Mr.. March gave his chair a
little jerk and gazed into the thin,
freckled face surrounded with its
fringe of ill-kept red hair strcaked with
gray.
Five hun'erd dollars to Patrick
O'Toole," repeated Mike in the DELHI
crate tone of one taking special pains
to make himself understood.
"What do you mean, Mike?"
"Jist phat I'm afther sayin', sur.
Five hun'erd dollars to Patrick O'Toole,
an five hun'erd dollars to Dennis
O'Toole.'
"Out of your damage money!" Mr..
March asked, between two short
breaths of establishment.
"That'd be it, sur. Where else would
the likes O. me be gettin' five hun'erd
dollars?"
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the gentleness In the faded eyes-a
radiance written by joy of which few
in this self-seeking world know the
taste.
Without saying more Mr.. March
wrote the checks, to which the old man
added his tremulous signature. AS the
sound Of the imping footsteps died
away in the hall, Mr.. March turned
again to the five checks on his desk.
"They look small-yes, they do"
Mechanically he added a cipher to the
one nearest him. "That looks better"
A cipher WIS added to each check.
Zone hundred. Two hundred and fifty.
They'll oil have to be written over"
Mr.. March leaned his head on his
hands, less il hurry to get home
than he had thought. The glorified
face of the old servitor was still before
his minds eye. Mr.. March doubted
if ever in his life he had looked into O
happier one.
Cutting down his bit of q nest-egg
so-the poor old simpleton! Likely
enough to end his days in the poorhouse
yet"
But it was with n softened smile that
the rich merchant thought it. Then
his mind ran over his own affairs.
Prospered from his first beginnings he
he'd, during these few later years, taken
huge strides towards a colossal fortune.
Seven figures it would take, he we'll
knew. to express what he was worth.
and the initial figure would not be one
of the smaller ones, either. His own
family lived well, but not extravagant.
ly; his yearly expenses were but small
proportion of his rapidly increasing
yearly income
"And I've never made anyone feel
rich. Old Mikes ahead of me there"
With shrug of his shoulders he drew
towards him one of the checks and
added to it another cipher.
Rich? There was not one of these
families to whom such a check would
not come as an angels gift, with stares
and catches of breath, tears of Joy from
care-burdened elder ones, shouts of de-
light from youngsters. He knew it all.
for he had been poor himself, long ago.
Zone thousand dollars. Twenty-Five
hundred dollars"
There was little excitement about
it. Mr.. March left his chair and walked
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FOREIGN NOTES.

The duchess Of Somerset was thrown
from her horse while hunting recently
and very seriously hurt
Manchester Quakers intend to apply
the closure rule to the spirit. At their
coming conference a time limit will be
imposed on the speakers.
They had a prize fight in Sydney.
New South Wales recently, where q
man of six foot eleven punished one Of
six foot six SO severely that he had to
be sent to the hospital.
Pope Leo XIII. is said to have his
name in the Index Expurgatorius for
book on the Virgin which he wrote
when he was Cardinal Pecci- hnt Of
which Plus TX. disapproved
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AFTER ANOTHER ONE.

st. Louis willing to Entertain the Demo.
cratic National Convention.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. ia meeting was
held at the Office of the Business
Mems league at which it was finally
determined to make a special effort to
obtain the democratic national con-
vention in 1895 Signed pledges from
five national committeeman were read
and oral promises were reported from
four others. Several letters were
also produced, non -committal as to
voting, but very friendly in character.
Arrangements will be made in the
course of a few days for a delegation
TO be sent to Washington to be present
at the meeting of the national commit
tee, and there is confident feeling
that both the nominating conventions
will be held in St. Louis next year.
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CITY OFFICERS CONCUR.
Kansas Municipal Associations Annua
Meeting in Progress at Wichita.

Kansas Municipal Associations Annual
Meeting in Progress at Wichita.
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 1s.-The Kan
sas Municipal association met here to-
day with city officers of Kansas City,
Kan, Leavenworth, Atchison, Fort
Scott, Topeka and Wichita in attend
ance. Mayor Fellows, of Topeka, is
the presiding officer and S. S. Davis,
city clerk of Fort Scott, is secre-
tary. Ex-Attorney-Gener Bradford.
of Topeka, spoke on the desirable.
ity of law providing for the
taxing of water companies, electric
light and gas plants in the city
when the plants are outside of the cor.
porations
It is understood that resolutions
favoring resubmission of the prohibi.
tory amendment will be passed by the
association. The matter of compel
ling city assessors to assess property al
its full cash value and to make returns
to the county clerk on that basis is be-
ing considered.
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South American Cattle.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Secretary
Morton has directed rigid quarantine
for all cattle, sheep and other rumi-
nants and swine, entering this coun-
try from any part of South America
The action is the result of the exist
ence of foot and mouth diseases in
South America All meat cattle i'm
ported from there hereafter will be
quarantined for 90 days. All sheep
and other ruminants and swine will be
quarantined for Is days. Persons con-
templating importation Of animals will
be required to secure permit from the
secretary of agriculture.
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ReAprocity.

Mrs. Twickenham-I want to show
you what my dear, good husband gave
me for a Christmas present There,
what do you think of that for sealskin
cloak? 1t didn't cost less than $500.
Miss Summit j How lovely! And
what did you give him?
Mrs. Twickenham-Oh, the loveliest
little penwiper you ever saw.-N. Y
World.
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Shot nv CbI.f Jn.t,c..

Justice T. L. Snodgrass, of the Ten
nessee supreme court, fred two shots
at John R Beasely, a lawyer of this
city, one of which took effect in the
arm Mr.. Beasely is seriously hurt,
but not fatally.
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wultcucSSs
And jeweled sprays Of frost and rtme
To forest boughs are clingtng;
And sweet the anthem and sublime
The Christmas bells are ringing.
It wakes old memories again;
The vanished past is nigh us;
We feel anew old bliss, old pain.
And long-lost friends are by US
Friends who have reached the better land
Friends who have never faltered
In friendship cen around US stand
With friends estranged and altered
And voices silent long we hear
Sweet words of pardon speaking;
And other voices reach our ear,
Our words Of pardon seeking:
The wrongs we met too trivial seem
To merit angry feeling;
The wrongs We did we greater deem
While Christmas bells are pealing.
And we forget to scheme and plan
While Christmas bells are telling
Of him who came in guiSe of man
On earth to claim dwelling.
The sweet bells sounding near and far
Calm, holy thoughts are bringing,
And Heaven and earth the nearer are
While Christmas bells are ringing.
Chambers Journal.
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 1s.-There was a
meeting of business men yesterday for
the purpose of outlining plan by
which to secure the national demo-
cratic convention for this city. A
fund was raised to send a committee
to Washington, and they will leave
Immediately for Washington to confer
with Senator Calvin Brice and secure
his views in regard to the matter. II
Brice favors Cincinnati as the conven.
ton city the committee will work
might and main to secure the conven.
fi0u
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Intemperanco.

Everett Wrest-Wot is ticklin' you
20?
C. Garrett Butta-This here tract
the old dame handed me at the mission
feed It's on the evils of drinkin'
wine. An wine is five q bottle. Winel
Mel-Cincinnati Tribune.
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Fatal Train Mech

DENVER, Col, Dec. IA train on
the Gulf road coming into Denver ran
into the University park electric car,
instantly killing the motorman, named
WILDER. Two passengers were hurt,
but not seriously.
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Judge West Going to Kansas City.

Fort SCOTT, Kan, Dec. IS -Judge j.
S West, who has just resigned as judge
of the Sixth judicial district of Kansas
and secured the appointment of his
successor, Judge Walter L. Simons, &c
gil his unexpired term, will move to
Kansas City, No, and engage in the
practice of law. He is the youngest
tnan ever elected district judge in Kan.
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Gen. Campos Has Resigned.

PARIS, Dec IA dispatch from
Madrid says that Gen. Martinez Cam
pos has resigned his commission of the
Spanish army in Cuba and will be sue
ceeded by Gen. Weyler, at present COM
handing the Fourth corps of the Span
ish army, with headquarters at BARGE
Iona
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strnck W,th a nru,.rd cn..

PITTSBURGH. Pa, Dec. 17.-In a quar-
rel over a game of billiards, William
Parker, colored, was struck over the
head with q billiard cue in the hands
of man named Porter and almost in
stantly killed. Porter made his escape.
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Thew Murdered Each DINER.

STEPHENvILLE, Tex, Dec. 16-In an
alteration between Billy Kay and T.
]. Wilson. Kay was stabbed. and while
bleeding to death he threw Wilson to
the ground and stamped his head to a
pulp. Kay is dead. Wilso cannot
live. Wilson is Kay's uncle.
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Simply Impossible.

mo. Victor, said Atalanta, pensive-
ly; How can I be yours when our
cycle club, The Bloomers.' has just
taken for its motto, Divided we stand
united we fallT Life
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1. frorn %h. ser..,

Niagara IL from the Seneca word,
neagara, across the neck" The In-
dams called the falls ~Datacoro Ko-
zaza, 1.-The thunder of waters" Sixteen
different spellinRs are given to the
name of the river.
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-Johnnie-Mother, Adam and Eve
lived in Paradise. What was it like
thereP Mother-Like what it is here.
dear, when you Eve children are all e
school
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-19
Seven Lives Are lost

st. Cloud, Mimi, Sept. ia train
crew which has been working at the
Melby wreck on the Great Northern
returned to st. Cloud this morning.
They report that last night men clear
ing up the debris from the disaster
found the bodies of two tramps who
had been killed In the terrible collision.
The identity of the men could not be
established. 1t is supposed that they
were stealing a ride on the blind bag
gage. This makes the total of the
dead seven. A track has been built
around the wreck and trains are run
ming as usual. Miss Margaret Allison
OF Madison, Wis, who was with the
party going to Portland, and who was
more seriously hurt than any other
passenger, is still at Ashhy with a
number OF Others who were injured.
The verdict Of the coroner's inquest
was as follows: "We find that the di-
rect u OF the accident Is to be laid
against Engineer Haines In acting on
wrong orders. We further niume the
company for ordering passenger trains
to meet at blind sidings where no
agent Is and no lights are kept, also In
allowing a conductor to send two
orders to the engineer when only one
was needed"
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Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live stock Centers.

Chicago, Sept. 17.-Wheat-Septem-
Der, 30 1-Sc; October. IS 1-4c; Deem
Der, 81 5-Sc; May, 81 5-Sc. O~ats-Sept-
tember, 10 1-4c; October, Is 5-Sc; De-
cember, IS 7-Sc. Corn September,
81 1-Sc; October, 80 lie; November,
20 3-4c; December, 81 Sac: May. 29c.
Pork - September, SS.12: October,
SS.17; January, $40. Lard-Septem-
Der, $5.7T; October, $3.50; January.
S5.75; May, $500. Ribs-September.
$5.2T; October, $3.50; January, $3.50.
Barley-September, 44c. Rye-cash,
SIC; September, 37c: October. 3Sc; De-
cember, 80 3-4c. Flax-Cash North
west, 03a95 1-2c: September, 81 lie;
December, 95c; May, 9ScaS1. Timothy
Cash and September, S4.15; October,
1895.
Chicago, Sept. 17.-Hogs-Market ac-
tive; best grades stronger; common to
heavy a shade lower; light, S3.95a4.60;
mixed, $3.9Oa4.60; heavy, $3.SOa4.55;
rough, S3.S0a4. Cattle-Market quiet
and nominally unchanged.
Minneapolis, Sept. 17.-Wheat-Sep>
TENDER opened at "a 5-Sa54 3-4c and
closed at 80 Sc; December opened at
55a55 1-Sc and closed at SO 7-Sa54c;
May opened at IS 7-Sc and closed at
81 SAC. On track-No. 1 hard, 81 SAC;
No. l Northern, 54c; No. 2 Northern,
50 1-2c.
Milwaukee, Sept. 1T.-Flour firmer.
Wheat weak; No. 2 spring, 55 3-4c; No.
/ Northern, soc; December, 81 1-2c.
Corn very dull; No. 3, 80 lac. Oats
steady; No. 2 white, % 1-2c; No. 3
white, 81 1-2a22c. Barley dull; No. 2,
41c; sample, 35ai2c. Rye firm and
higher: No. /, 40c. Provisions lower;
pork, $50; lard, 1913.
st. Paul. Sept. II. - Hogs steady;
quality only fair for the bulk; a choice
sorted load sold at 81. Cattle steady;
not much offered and business quiet;
good demand for all grades, especially
good stockers and heavy feeders.