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must go without ice cream and re-
ligion for a few days. Forward,
forward in the name of st Popcorn
is now the cry and we readily re-
spond, royalists as we'll as Doleists.
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1t is an open secret that the pro-
prietor has intimated to the en-
ployees of the Bulletin Office that
they are expected to march to the
annexation headquarters and sign
the roll for annexation. In other
to words bulldozing is to be resorted
to secure signatures. The INDEPEND-
ENT desiring a peaceful solution of
the questions vexing the people of
Hawaii suggests that original annex
ationists do something to cool the
zeal Of its eleventh hour conveIts.
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One of our "Diokey Birds" in
forms us that very useful, promi-
nent and popular Government Off
cial, who recently took trip to the
United States-on official business
spends the YEARLY passing hours in
obtaining the signatures of Govern.
ment employees, or of those to
whom there is possibility Of a position
being offered to them by the Gov
ernment, to the Annexation Club
rolls. Perfectly correct; to the vic
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Headquarters for Holiday Goods
at N. S. Sachs.
Ladies Black Kid Gloves $l,35 at
B. L. Ehlers e. Co.
Thirty.six inches Percales reduced
to l0c. yard, at B. F. Ehlers u 20.
A Coupon given, for the Big Doll
with every ST purchased at N. S.
Sachs.
Lap Robes enough to supply all
demands about at all prices at
Kerr'e.
Ladies Cotton, Merino, and silk
and Wool under vests in all grades
at Kerrs.
Everything is going, going, going
at the Rising Sun Store. Call and
be convinced.
Silk Dress Goods in all patterns
at the Rising Sun Store, from 40
cents up per yard.
A great stock of ribbons OF all
colors, just arrived by the Australia,
at The Temple of Fashion.
The great reduction of prices is
what is surprising purchasers at The
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In . chair by the table to await their re.
turn. First, however, he unbuckled his
belt, and, after removing a big re.
volver from the holster, threw it on the
table beside him. Inspector Henderson
WAS not much beyond IS, tall, gaunt
and square-shouldered, with arms OF
phenomenal length and hands that
could grip like a wise. His brother off.
GERS at the post were fond of calling
him the "uncanny" Scot, because there
war an air of taciturnity and mystery
about him that baf1ed inquiry into his
antecedents. He was known, however.
to have been q Sandhurst man and to
have held q commission in a Goorkha
regiment that got badly cut up in one
Of the several Afghan expeditions.
When, after six years Of service in her
majesty's Anglo-Indian army, he sent
IN his resignation on account Of some
liver trouble and sailed home on the
Jumna, it was with the intention of
again taking service in some semi
military organization ID q more tenn
perate section of the empire. So he
Joined the Cape mounted rifles six
months after landing at Portsmouth
and was knocked out by fever while
engaged IN Q small raid upon the mn
healthy territory of some miserable
Little African chief. Then he left the
ssps saa went e Canada, where family
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Speed Corned Beet.

Ask your butcher to place a good
round of beef in pickle for 4s hours
Take it out, wipe dry, and rub it oyer
with brown sugar and allspice, adding
a little cinnamon. Oct in a cool place
turn it every morning, whenever -
looks dry add norehugar and allspice.
but if It appears mist rub it with the
pickle which has dI4ined from it. This
should be continued for a fortnight
Then put It in q tin or jar in which j,
will fit tightly with o very little cold
water. This is placed in a large auce-
pan of water which is made to boil very
fast, and left on the fire five or six
hours; it need not boil oil the time
Leave it in the jar until cold. When
taken out scrape it, as the spice turns
II black.-Good Housekeeping.
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interest and his Sandhurst training

interest and his anu training
combined to secure him a l~ieutenant's
commission in the Northwest mounted
police. Thereafter his rise to the post
of inspector came as reward for good
service, particularly in the second Riel
rebellion. He was a determined man,
and when any hard Or difficult work
was to be done Commissioner Lawrence
always sen for. Inspector Henderson,
and the trust was never misplaced.
Henderson invariably fulfilled his mis-
sion to the utmost, and that was why
in the present instance he chose to con
slider his raid a failure because the
prime outlaw of the lot had eluded his
clutches.
IF I could catch Martini" he said to
himself, sit would round out the job in
shipshape style"
Half an hour later Sergt. Warren re-
ported to the inspector that a thorough
search of the premises had failed to dis
cl2e any trace of Big Martin. Awatcit
was set on the prisoners and Inspector
Henderson threw himself On a long,
hard settee with the intention of taking
IL nap. 1t must haSe been midnight
when he awoke with the startled feel
ing of a man who has seen a horrible
vision in his sleep. The wind was
whistling around the house in the mad
dest fashion and as Henderson raised
himself on his elbow scmc fine particles
of snow sifted in through the crevices
of a nearby window and fell upon his
face. The floor creaked in the next
20 and through the half open door
Henderson saw, or thought he saw, a
huge shadow glide past. He was on his
feet in al instant and gave the alarm.
a moment later there was a clicking OF
carbine locks as Warren and Harvey
answered the inspectors signal. Then
came a crash of glass from the next
room and a gust blew q cloud of snow in
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the faces of the three men who sprang
to the shattered window. A man was
floundering along through the drift a
good hundred yards from the house. A
sharp tongue of fire shot out into the
darkness and a Remington bullet sung
PAST the fugitive's head. But he never
paused for an instant,
A moment later the entire establish
lnent was gathered arouh"Inspector
Henderson, who stood with his hand on
the door latch.
ut amt safe, sir, to go after hiin
such a night as this" demonstrated
Sergt, Warren in his usual respectful
fashion; its ablowin' hard from the
ror'west and a man nd freeze to death
on the prairie"
Eat is So" promptly ~interposed
Simon the Crane, AN beside re groun'
dreeft--he is drefful bad"
you rascal" snapped Henderson.
turning upon the last speaker, you had
him hidden here all the time waiting to
let him loose when WE left. No, Warren,
I'll do this thing myself. THERE'S no
HSNN Aioh II IN SiSC anu L IL CdlCIl
Big Martin, ground drift or no ground
drift" and with a last glance at the
cylinder of his pistol he passed out into
the night.
He was as good aA hts word. He
caught Big Martin half a mile along the
edge OF the trail that led from Simon
Michaud's house and here, two days
later, Capt. Jackson, with a squad Of
six troopers, found a little hilleck OF
drifted nov from which a gaunt white
hand protruded. When they dug In
spectpr Henderson out his other hand
wastfastened on Big Martins throat
and the half breeds face lecked tp at
the winter skies with an expression of
unutterable agony frozen upon it's dis
torted features.
II thought Henderson had more n
than to try and face a ground drift al
midnight" was Capt. Jackson's com
ment as he escorted the bodies back to
the post.
"Ze groun' dreeft," morelized Simon
the Crane, "he ees tree times as bad as
re snowstornl."--Brooklyn Eagle.
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A Trick with Surar.

Get some Jumps of sugar and dip
them for just a moment into a weak
collodson solution, such as photographs
ers use. Then expose them to the all
for a feW4days, SO that all the ether in
the mi[dre will evaporate, leaving
only the thin envelope of collodion be.
hind. Now give your friends at table
some Jumps of this sugar for their iced
tea. They will drop them into the
cups, and, to their CONSERVATION. the
Jumps will rise to the surface in a few
moments, refusing to be coaxed down
again with taps of the teaspoons. Tho
secret is that the real sugar is melted
n only the envelope OF collodion re-
mains, which filled the interstices of
the Jumps. Being much lighter than
was the sugar, this "ghost" Of the lu1,;n
floats on top Of the tea. The Illusion
the eye is perfect; but if the spectral
lump is taken up between the fingers
a slight pressure will destroy it's form
and leave only a gelatinous mass
Popular Science News.
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Little Steve Was Dead.

1t takes a whole passle-of n stuff
and another-to make ME sorry about
anything. 1 am SO tremendous glad
and light an trashy in the general sur
roundins of my natural-born self, till
it is mighty hard for me to find any
thing in this green and bloomin old
world to feel sorry for.
But the old lady Watsot-*bith the
Watsons they have been livin down
there III the forks of Long Creek for
year and years-she come by our
house one day last week and made me
sorry. l was sorry when she come,
end sorry when she went away, and
am sorry till yet. l doubt mighty Sc
lious if 1 could tell you what | am sorry
ubout aud who I anu sorry for. But, at
any rates, 1 aih sorry.
"A pore old broken-heartcd, God-for-
saken woman, with her gray head
bowed down in sackcloth and ashes,
has come to mix her tears and share
her sorrers with you," says Misses
Watson when she first driv up to the
HORSEBACK, and hit a rninin. Then me
and mother we went out and told the
cid lady to light and conc in and take
a chair and make herself at home till
the shower passed over. And she went
with rs.
went on to say betweeIer sobs and
tears. Little Steve is dead md gone"
and with that she broke dawn Stiff
turned 1soss ahd cried and cried as if
her heart was split wide open. By
this time mother she had been hit il.
a soft spot, and the tears rolled down
her pretty checks as fast and free ss
the rain drops from that April shower.
But she bracsa herself tip es best sft
could and put her arms around the
tremblin md troubled old scul-soft
ond tender like and soothin as she
could-ard quoted some familious
Scripture and told her it would all
turn out for the best sonewheres aewtl
the line. II maybe thought not look
that way at onct, but some of these
days she could see wherein it was
all for the right and all for the best.
Finally ut last, il hef flervious, jerky
~sss, The old lady told us about the sad
and student death Of her little Steve,
and the general facts Of which we had
heard before.
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A LITTLE SONG FOR TWO.

A song from me to you, ycu say,
A tender song for every day,
A little song for two?
Why, dearest heart. M note or word
Which l ave sung and you have heard
But sings to you, to you.
To you, my love, to you. to you.
My every song is ever true,
And gladly, gladly yields its due,
As does my heart-to you!
And were there but one theme to choose,
One motive evermore to use,
1t were no task to do.
I'd sing all songs of life in one,
And hen the gallant strain were done
'Twould be a song to you
To you, my love. to you, to you,
The tender strain were fully true,
And gladly, gladly sings it's due,
AS does my heart-to you!
j. Edmund V. Cooke. in N. Y. Sun.
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H ARCTIC WOLF.
Courage, Strength and Endurance of Thi
EEatlSsE Animal

Courage, Strength and Endurance of This
Fsaflsse ApinsaL
The wh~ite-skinned, large-1iiilDed
wolf is the most %ravenous, untiring and
dangerous OF all arctic animals. Its
tireless gallop, sharp teeth. snappish
bites and powers OF a concerted action
with it's own kind make it possible for
this ~predacious animal to live wherever
game of any considerable size is to be
found. In Grinne1l Land he subsists
almost entirely on the musk-oxen,
who find their only safety by travelling
In bands. When attacked they form a
circle, and, placing their calves and
feeble members In the center, by op-
posing horns and desperate bellowings
stand off the encircling wolves. Woe,
however, to the struggling OK who falls
/ n with wolves, for he w escapes.
In his widely-read narrative, Kane
most unjustly ~disparages the strength
and proves of the arctic wolf. He
says: THE Eskimo dogs of Smith
sound encounter the wolf fearlessly
and with success" There is absolutely
no foundation for this statement.
Kane never saw . wolf either in south
ern Greenland or in the Smith sound
region, for this animal is unknown in
Greenland, save one drifted from the
American coast and killed at Omenak
in the winter of 1869.
In truth the arctic wolf is relatively
the strongest, as he is in fact the most
courageous and enduring of arctic ami
mails, and these qualities are supple
mented by unusual craft and caution.
They average some 20 pounds greater
weight than the dog, which animal
views their appearance with terror.
realizing his small chance of safety in
an encounter.-Harper's Round Table.
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So Handy and So Peart.

"He was SO handy and SO peart, Rufus
but you all knowea little Etetss," saAs
she, and then il seems like she broke
out in a fresh place and would jest nat.
urally weep herself away. at never
was SO la9se or so soon, so hot or so cold
but what could call on little Steve and
he was light thets," She went on.
wfihBii Ter hands and rockin to and
fro. He was SIGH a help and comfort
and blessin to his poor old widdered
mother.
my other boy Bob-hs is still with
me in the flesh: But even when he was
the right size Bob was never so peart
and handy and ready and willin as little
Steve. And then as to Bob-he has
now come up te that pint in life where
he eiht iltten for nothin much but
to loafer and swell and swash around
durin the day and go gallin every
night the good Lord sends. If Bob amt
a man-with a few seattsfih whiskeFs
on his face and woman OH his brain, he
is fool enough to feel like one, which
amounts to the SAME thing with his old
mother:
"Eut little Steve-he was SO nimble
and SO quick, SO handy and so peart,
Rufus. He could stay up later and git
up sooner, and go faster and come
quicker, and turn off more odds end
jobs In less time than any boy that
ever come to light amongst the Wat
sons. If in his love and wisdom the
good Lord had but only took Bob l
could stand it a whole heap better.
rsBut to see little Btete-my oniyest little
Steve-put in his coffin and toted out
and hauled off and laid away to rest
it was too much for his pore old
widdered mother to bear"
And with that the old lady let loose
onct more, and wept and went Oh at
such a tremendous rate till + thought in
my soul she would faint on the spot.
But mother she made a rush for TIN,
camphor bottle and her last years
turkey tail fan, and Between the two
we brung the old soul to her senses.
"How can | forget my little Steve.
and how can I ever give him up? He
was SO handy and so peart. In Summer
heat or winter cold he could git up at
the break Of day and split the kindlin
and fetch in the wood and make the
fires and feed the stock, and draw the
water and tote out the Stops and drive
up the cows and rope off the calves and
churn the milk, and sweep the yard
and hoe the garden and tend to the
chickens and rock the cradle and nurse
the baby. I reckon no doubts our lit.
tie Steve is better off where he is-be-
yond this vale Of sufferin and of sin.
But he was the apple OF his pore old
widdered mothers heart, and I will
never see the like of him no more. He
was SO handy, Rufus-so handy and SO
peart."
By this time that April shower hail
passed over. Then presently old Misses
Watson she braced up sufficient to say
good-by and driv on back home. And
from that sad day till this blessed
hour l have been rale sorry about some
thin or other. To save my life I
couldn't tell you for certain what +
am sorry about Or who ] am sorry for. |
But | am sorry.
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Purify
Your Blood

Now, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air is
gone, your weak, thin, impure blood
will not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling, loss of appetite, will
open the way for serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking out of humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hoods S%arsaparilla stands I'm.
equalled. Thousands testify to its
merits. Millions take it as their
Spring Medicine. Get Hoods, because
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country b . :;
and the only
est boy on the
place at that?
If you don't
know, all the
preachers and
poets and phi:
%losophefs and
politicians in
in the whole
disco v e r e d
world can't tell
YOU. But | re-
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CAUGHT IN THE DRIFT.

unsuccessful. With two troopers and
Sergt. Warren he had rounded up six
of the worst lawbreakers on the Cana.
dian side of the line, but, nevertheless
from his standpoint, at any rate, he
had failed. The commissioner had sug-
gested that he take at least n dozen men
when he set out on his expedition, but
Henderson only laughed.
"Giye me Harvey and Fields and War,
ren," he said, land I'll arrest every half
q breed between here and Battleford."
And SO he rode away from the post on
a crisp January morning with his little
squadron jogging through the snow be-
hind. 1t was q long ride, 80 good miles
over the not toe we'll broken trail along
the river bottom, and it was dusk be-
fore the troopers halted within carbine
shot of q long, low, rambling building.
which stood in the middle of the
prairies, surrounded by several other
structures that served as barns and
wagon sheds. Lights shown in the low
err windows of theehouse and as Hender-
paused to reconnoiter a door opened
and a man with a muff1er round his
throat and his coat buttoned up to his
ears stepped ont with a lantern in his
hand. As he did SO he raised his head,
and his eyes rested on the little knot of
mounted men halted over on the crest
of the hill not more than 300 yards
away. Then bounding back to the door
he lifted the latch and disappeared
within the patch of light beyond.
Two minutes later Henderson's fur
the rude panels of the door. Sergt.
Warren was right behind him, and
Troopers Harvey and Fields stood on
either side with their wicked-looking
carbines full cooked.
Vat ees it?" came in cracked half
breed accents from behind the still
quivering wood.
"Open the door or I'll kick it in" said
Henderson, decisively. "You know who
! am and voc know what I want"
Slowly the door swung back On it's
hinges and the inspector and his men
entered together. There was no trouble.
The men they wanted, smugglers and
~ a l1kNulSNlfCS up WIFI
out SO much as an effort at defense.
"Michel Rene, John Fidele, Joe Snake,
Dominick Levine, Angus Mclean and
Philip Leseur," said Henderson, half
to himself, as he ran over the names,
keeping tally by short mods in the di-
rection of each man mentioned.
six in ALL" he repeated slowly, and
then wheeling sharply on his heel SO
that his spurs jingled as he turned, he
faced the owner of the house.
And Big Martin 2" he queried, where
Is he"
Old Simon Michaud, whom his half
breed friends had nicknamed Simon the
Crane, because of his long, thin legs
and great, bony nose, wriggled under
the question and shifted ~uneasily from
one foot to the other.
HE ees not in re house, sair, He haf
not pass zis way since Christmas. We
hat"
THAT will do" interrupted Hender-
son. Il know you're the biggest liar
In the northwest, and I believe you're
lying to me now. Sergt. Warren, take
Harvey and search the place, barns AMI
all; Fields, you stay with me and mount
guard over the prisoners"
The sergeant and trooper did as they
were bid, aid Henderson settled himself
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Loves Young Dream.

Little Girl tat school)-What did til.
teacher send you here for?
Little Boy-She said I was bad, and
must come over and sit with the girls.
i like you. Can you stay 1ong?"
"Guess not. wasn't very bad"
"Well, you be Bladder next time."-
N, Y. Weekly.
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Spring
Medicine

-FOUR blood III Spring is almost certain to
be full of impurities-the accumulation
of the winter months. Bad ventilation
of sleeping rooms, impure air in dwell
ings, factories and shops, over-eating,
heavy. improper foods, failure of the
kidneys and liver properly to do extra
work thus thrust upon them, are the
prime causes Of this condition. 1t is OF
the utmost Importance that you
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Literary Note.

Mrs, Rrown-You dress is a perfect
poem.
Mrs. Jenes-My husband used blank
verse when he saw ths bill.-Tewt
Topics.
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During 1895 there were in the
United States over 1900 murders and
homicides, 1ls legal executions and 100
lyachings,
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In 1862 o dog at Metz was by acct.
dent locked up for 40 days without
food or water and recovered from tilt
long fast
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member-by lingo, I remember like il
was yesterday-how internal handy {"
cottor-headed, hatchet-faceted, shire
tail boy is around a farm.
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A Stranger. To the Lord.

In the springtime, gentle Annie,
when the dagssaod blooms, are bloomin
when Ton think about them cd
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MGA Sad and Funny SirnI.

$3.50
T'A Sad and Funny Signt.
From the way in which Bunk Wealth
erford tells the news, it must of been
sad and funny sight to see old mar
Jeems w. stagsers snyin his prayers
for tie first time down there in Murde,
Greek swamp.
when l come up to where l coult
see Jeems w." says Bunk, "he was lay,
in there on the ground fiat of his back
waslh lis hands Oh high ahd gesturif
at d fast and furious lick. And to the
best Of my recollection, this is what ]
heard him say i'll Il loud voicei
"'Oh Lord, / reckon you don't know
me. But l am snake bit. My name il
Jeems w. Staggers. I am the wild anG
wicked son of old Parson Ebeneze1
Staggers, which l reckon you knowec
him. lie was a preacher of the WORD
aceordih to the old sch6o1 Baptists
and a mighty good man. t ain his
5nlyest son; and snake bit at that
Oh. Lord, hive mercy on my lost ahd
ruint soul. Yours truly, Jeems W
Staggers.'"
That was a day of terror and OF
trouble, and no doubt Jeems W
thought his time had come. But by the
blessins ef Him with whom a thou.
sand years are as a watch in tie night
the old man still fingers yet a little
while in the border land. The doctors
say he will recover and git well, and
7 H1 hnro ha will, Co,,1,o, - In1.z.
a heap to bring a man to his senses, bill
it really looks to me like Jeems w
Staggers has now come up to the forh
of the road.
For why? Well, the other day on my
return back home from a trip down 10
the stump hill country t rid around by
there to see how Jeems w. was cotnir
on. In the general Capitalization which
followed, he went on to tell fne how
thankful he ought to be, and how he
loved the name and recollections of his
good, old father.
"And I never will feel plum
natural." he went on, lookin lovinl,
down upon his snakebit leg. Il never
will feel plum natural and right, RUFF
till I can git up from here and slip oil
down to the lot and sing a few stanzas
from that good and familiar old song:
" 'Amazin grace! how sweet the sound,
Which saved q wretch like me-"
Man, bern Of woman, is of few day,
and sorry teeth, and full Of fool notions
But yesterday he was too big for his
breeches. To-day he is small potatoes
and few in the hill, with the rows six
feet wide. To-morrow-the good Lord
knows what not.
Some people have sense, and some
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w. L. DOUGLAS, Rrockton. Mae,

SHINING EXAMPLE of what
may be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion to a single purpose is
seen in the history of the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For Is years they have simply been
building grain and g~rass-cutting ma
chlnery, and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it IS
safe to say that the McCormick
Company builds one-third of all
the binders, reapers and mowers used
throughout the entire world.