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Constantinop!e, With its dramatic past
and it's problematic future, is very inter
esting study at the present time, wnen
war has Just broken out between Moslems
and Christians, with the not remote pos
sibility that the great powers may become
involved in the struggle. Should the con-
cert OF Europe be broken up, then the rule
of the Sultan at the Golden Horn, whlc
rests solely on the diplomacy or the leal-
ousy of the leading nations, would soon
come to an end. ami Constantinople would
pass into the possession of great civilized
power, with the almost certain prospect
that it would become the leading capital
of the world, perhaps as great In proper
ton to our advanced times as old Rome
was in the height of her glory.
Some of the leading facts of its past and
prophetic intimations of its future can
now be opportunely called to memory.
One of tue most interesting of these pro-
phetic intimations of the probable great
ness of its destiny is in the story of the at
tempted bargain between Alexander of
Russia and Napoleon Bonaparte as to the
partition of the world. The estimate Of
the value of S.amboui both by the clear
brain OF the wouid-be world conqueror
effectual barrier to the French Emperor's
Vaulting ambition, is strikingly illus
trated by the offered bargain and its re-
fusal. The Gar promised the Corsican
that he would oppose no hindrance to his
European schemes of aggrandizement
provided only he would let Alexander
have Constantinople. The pros and cons
of the proposition were weighed by one of
the keenest military brains the world has
ever known, and the answer was an en-
phatic no. To the conqueror, who wanted
the most powerful dominion in the world
and who had the capacity to so nearly al
tain it, the possession of this strategic
point from which to administer universal
empire promised an advantage to Russia
which outweighed dominion over all the
balance of Europe.
Another in tim alton of the probability of
;ts being selected as the capital of one of
the greatest of future EN- pires is that it
has been said by high authority in military
science in recent times that the first line
of defense of the Turkish capital, stretch
ing from Lake Derkos to the Sea of Mar
mora, far exceeds that of any capital in
the world. In fact, it is said that this line
of defense, supplemented with a frst-class
feet to guard the Black Sea, would make
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tips 1t forward and drains the cup. 1t
will not leave the head OF mint until each
flower has been visited, and it will make
no such blunder as to poke it's proboscis
twice into the same cup. The butterfly
like the honey-bee fits cautiously from
flower to flower. 1t does not contine its
visits to any one variety, however, but
futters airily from cream cup to iris, from
iris to mallow or thistle, or even to your
finger if you wet it and hold it I'D when a
butterfly comes near.
Different from any OF these is the
method of that other honey-hunter the
wasp, a sort of wildcat among insects.
He attacks blossom as he seems to do
everything in life, with certain fierce,
earnest vindictiveness, as though life was
too brief and full of hardship to ad NIT of
any gentleness or pleasure or beauty. 1t
Is hard to imagine the wasp loving honey,
or knowing that it is sweet. 1t seems as
though his natural food was gail and Bit
terness. Yet what a marvellous thing it
is-the intelligence and consciousness,
the recognition that runs through all
these lowly forms of life. l knelt to ex-
anime bum ble- bees nest the other day,
and the insect came buzzing up at once to
inquire my business, and only few hours
ago came upon honey-bee with sticky
legs. 1t could not free itself from the
bark of the tree upon which it had
alighted. l pried the little struggler off
with my pencil and put it on the ledge of
the hive. In less than minute two other
bees came to its assistance and presently
escorted it within the hive. Could human
fellowship and kindly consciousness do
more than that for brother who had
fallen upon hard fate and been bruised?
ADELINE KNAPP.
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beauty of the siie now occupied by the
sublime Porte would aud much to its at
tractiveness for the building Of the grand
est capital tho earth has ever seen, and
the glamour Of its historic record would
be another reason. Many travellers pro-
nounce the grandeur OF the scene here to
be beyond any elsewhere to be seen on
the earth's surface, and they say it marks
an epoch in ones life to witness it for the
first time.
The glamour of the historic record of
Constantinople comes largely from the
persistence of the empire there. No other
city, ancient or modern. any where near
equals ii Ill the far stretch of the centuries
during which it has been the capital of an
empire. Fifteen centuries and sixty
seven years is the immense measure. For
more than ten centuries it was Christian
empire, and the Ottoman empire will
have held sway there on the 29th of this
mon th for 444 years. Old Rome was not an
empires capital for one-third OF this time.
twenty-five cen nturies is Cons.antinople's
age as city. For five centuries it was the
most populous and wealthy city in the
world. For eight centuries it successfully
repelled the assaults of immense armies of
every IuCe Vi peOple II, duQ
conquerors, elsewhere irresistible, with
drew, baffled by its power. For fifteen GEN.
turies it was great maritime world mis-
tress and the record of such famous COM
mercial cities as Venice. Tyre, Carthage.
Alexandria, Genoa and. in TACT, all others
is but brief and little by comparison. For
five centuries she was the center of learn
ing. art and general civilization, and it
was because of her heroic resistance to the
attacks of barbarian hordes during so
many centuries that so many priceless
heritages have been safely handed down to
modern civilization. Since the Emperor
Constantine made 1.-THE capital of the
Roman pire in $50 A. D. it has endured
twenty great sieges and only yielded
twice-to the Venetian and Crusaders in
1904 and to Mohsmmed II in 1853. Alto
gether the famous city has record Of
hsroism, intellectual energy, skill and
perseverance that counts up an aggregate
surprising that of any other.
One of the notable things about Con-
stantinople historically is that one Ian.
guage, the Greek, has been continuously
used there for twenty centuries. 1t has
varied slightly a. distant periods, but has
possessed an inherent power to return to
its original purity unknown to other
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fr m the top of the bluff where buck was
hidden behind a rock. / fterward
learned that this was the cousin OF Chief
Cochise and he had been sent up there to
pick me off.
"The blood poured out of my wrist and
it felt numb like. / had two six-shooters
and / began to fire them on the crowd be-
low, trying to keep out of sight myself by
crouching in the tall brush. But tho buck
on top of the bluff could see me and he
kept up his fire. One bail went into my
left breast. but that didn't seem to hurt
me at the time. kept edging away. but
kept on firing all the time. guess I had
when something pricked my left elbow.
"Then it was time TO quit. The re-
volver fell Out of my hand, but my gun
was slung over my shoulder by strap. 1
couldn't use it. however, for both arms
hung helpless.
''By this time the fort had heard the
firing and was getting into action. Boots
and saddles was sounded, but the cavalry
was out for rifle practice. and it took
them some time to reach their horses.
There was an infantry company at the
post under Colonel Evans and be got hi,
men started way ahead of the cavalry.
They came up to me just after crossed
the arroyo. 1 crossed this within tiftv
feet of where Jack Williams lay. and the
Indians dancing all around him and tear.
ing off his clothes and hacking up his
body with their knives. They could have
done what they liked with me then. but
they just stood and stared at me a. I
sham bied by them, the blood spouting
out OF both arms and streaming down my
breast. The buck on the bluff Quit firing
as soon as did ana no one offered to
touch me.
well. when saw the infantry coming,
just fell in heap, and they packed me
OIL on stretcher and set the doctors 10
work trying to stop the bleeding. I lost
SO mucn blood that my wounds could not
be dressed and the bones adjusted for six
months. and it was not till the following
November that got out OF tho Tucson
hospital.
But I forgot to tell you about that
shepherd dog of Jack Williams He
fought like tiger, and tore the breech
clouts off four of the bucks and cut big
gashcs in their legs with his teeth before
they could club him to death. The bucks
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I nailed a knot of bale rope to a shed
roof yesterday and seated myself by an
open window overlooking the roof to
watch results. 1t was windy day and
the ends of rope tapped in the air and
beat softly against the shingles. 1 waited
o long time with no reward for my pa
thence, but at last wee lady goldfinch
alighted upon the roof and began hopping
about the rope. Another bird, whom |
took to be her mate, perched upon the
ridgepole close beside her and watched
operations with apparently as much in
terest as felt. After a careful survey the
little hen took hold of one end of the rope
and began to pull at it. 1t was only by
dint of much pecking and working with
bill and claws that she succeeded i'll sep
arating a single thread of the tow from
the rest, and then she set to work to
break this. Such a pulling and tugging
and hopping about to get better grip!
Once or twice she slipped. lost her hold
and fluttered up into the air to avoid fall
ing heels over head.
During the whole performance the male
bird sat upon the ridgepole and sang
blithely, but offered 10 assistance. Evil
dentIy he was the ornamental member of
the domestic firm. The little ben seemed
to expect no aid from him. Indeed she
never once looked in his direction. but
when at last she had broken off her bit of
thread from the rope she gave triumph
ant little "cheep" and the two few away.
Either they returned again and again or
several pairs of goldfinches visited the
rope. think there were at least two pairs,
but in each instance the programme was
very much what have outlined, the male
bird perching sometimes on the ridge,
again upon a willow branch, and enter
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said Colonel Sumner, 4 want you to 60
down to Doubtful Canyon and bring In
John Reddy, Tom Donovan and Cabias.
They've ben dead since last night. but 1
d dat hear of it till an hour ago. I'll
give you AL escort of twenty-five men,
We'll, that was twenty-four hours more
OF riding without sleep, but We went at it.
l was going to tell you what we found
when we got 10 Doubtful Canyon, but I
can't put the thing in words dreadful ard
horrible enough to bring it out like it
really was. Reddy, Cabias and Donovan
were maiI.drivers. Five men on the same
runs had just been killed before them,
but they were plucky boys and had staid
on just one day too long. The Apaches
had hacked their bodies in an awful man.
ner and had then burnt off their 10 wer
limbs in big brush fire. One mans
head was split wide open by tomahawk
and another was emboweled. The
buckboards were a mass of ruins and all
the mailbass had been slit into ribbons
and the letters torn to fragments. 1t was
The worst scene of butchery and desola-
ton that l ever viewed, and l had seen
some years of Indian fighting in the
country.
by the time we cot back to Bowie l
had made up my mind to quit the job and
Colonel Sumner hadn't a word to say
against 1t. Every time a man went
through Doubtful Canyon his life was
worth no moro than a toss-up. was a
young man then, about %, and wanted to
stay around on earth n few years longer.
Well, drove through that canyon few
times more until they could get a man to
take my place and then l went to herding
cattle for the fort. This was tickiish
business, but man had some fighting
show in it. Jack Williams and me took
the contract to bring in the beef About
the 18th OF January, 1872, we started in at
this.
I'VE went out and bought the cattle
from Hooker and other cartIemen and
then drove them to the fort. We had to
make all our drives at night, and during
the day We lay hidden. for that part of the
country was just swarming with Apaches.
I'VE made several successful drives, and
tell you that each drive we made gave
The troops food that was absolutely
needed. They could not Lave secured
fresh meat in any other way.
"On the morning of the 26.h OF Febru-
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Kossuth as an Orator.

ain appearance Kossuth was taller than
Americans had been led to suppose. His
face had an expression of penetrating In
telIigence," writes Parke Goodwin, recall
ing the American visit in 1851, OF the
great Hungarian patriot, in paper OF the
''Great Personal Events" series in the
Ladies' Home Journal. at was long, the
forehead broad, but not excessively high,
though q slight badness m ade it seem so.
and the chin narrow, but square in form.
His hair was thin in front and dark brown,
as was his beard. which was quite long,
but not very thick, and arranged with
neatness and taste.
His mustache was heavy and rather
long. His eyes were very large and OF
light blue; his com piexioR was pale. As
a speaker his manner was at once incom-
Parably dignified and graceful. His pos
ture and appearance in repose was impos-
ing, not only from the essential grace and
dignity, but from a sense of power they
impressed upon the beholder.
He spoke as if with but little prepara-
tion, and with that peculiar freshness
which belongs to extemporaneous speak
ing, and the wonderful compactness and
art of his argument were not felt until
yon reflected upon it afterward. He ees-
ticulated freely, equally well with both
arms. Nothing could be more beautiful
in its way than was the sweep of his rIEht
hand as it was raised to heaven when he
spoke of the Deity nothing sweeter than
the smile which at times mantled his face.
Beyond doubt he was the greatest of
orators then living"
When the Queen of Italy enters shop
to do some shopping the doors are closed
and the public excluded until she has left.
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mothers sit e1pectantly upon their eggs,
and here and there beneath tho trees tell
tale bits of shell evidence the presence Of
young broods high up in the branches.
The season is at its height, and hilltop
and canyo on have their hands full of beauti-
full things for their lovers. 1 found the
first Mariposa lilies few days ago. futter-
ing, like butterflies. in the breeze on 8
rocky windswept eminence. The soil there
is sparse and stony, but the dainty, fairy
like white blossoms flourish in it as though
it were the richest garden loan. Lower
down, where the trail descends into the
wooded canyon, the ceanothis is mass of
blue bIossomlng, and the wild colum bine
invites the clim ber to almost inaccessible
thickets, where its eerie flowers hang Just
beyond his reach. The trillium is passing.
but the Solomon's seal is still in
it's glory, and the big humble bees
are gathering rich haryests from the
mints.
There is as much individuality about
insects as there is about birds, and among
none is this more marked than among the
bees. Sit down quietly any day among
the thickly poisoning mints and clover
and watch the bees at work. The honey
bee gathers from but one sort of flower at
time, but beyond this she seems to have
no Systematic plan in her industry. She
fits from flower to flower slipping daintily
here and there, often returning to flower
she has Just left. But the big bum ble- bee
is more sparing of effort. She settles upon
a plant of the mint and makes a circuit of
the minute cups. drinking a sweet drop
from each. 1t is delightful to watch this
creature feeding. There is something
wholesome ana hearty in the way it
grasps q blossom in its strong forefeet,
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tongues and modern Greek is more like
Homer's than modern English is like
Cnaucer's. So in the permanence OF its
cultured language Constan tinople is as
remarkable as in the persistence OF en-
pire there.
The Turk can only be considered as
temporarily encamped in Europe. He is
too sick now to hold his conquest by
force, and the nicely balanced Jealousy OF
the great nations which suffers him to
stay may any day suddenly lose its equi-
hbrium. Then will come change in the
great political affairs OF the world that
will probably make Constantinople again
the chiefest capital of the earth.
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ary we ended another
head of cattle into
Just before sunrise
we turned them into
tn Q post corral.
About 8 o'clock in
the morning we took
them out to Bare
Springs to let them
browse and water.
This is not m ore than
half a mile from tho
post and We thought
we were safe enough.
We hadn't been in
the arroyo long, how
ever, before 1 noticed
that the cattle kept
wagging their ears in
a peculiar way and
they refused to feed.
l said to Jack:
old man, there's
Injuns about here
He only laug he'd
and asked me what
put that crazy notion
into my head.
" See them CATTLE
l said.
ON, you're super
stitious, Johnnie he
answered, and he laid
back on the sand and
began cutting plug
tobacco foT his pipe.
w e IL, h e never
smoked that pipe
load. Jack was fresh
out from Chicago
and / told him:
" Jack, I've fought
these people and l
know SO m Q t b i ng
q ut them. You
never sec ono OIL tncm
till he hits you. I'm
going to look around
a bit, and you better
get your gun in
shape
But Jack only
laughed and said /
wns going by signs
instead of common
sense. He had a rat
Ting big shepherd
dog, the best l ever
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ose to tho wind and
he cattle were headed
the other way and the
red devils were clos
ing in on MS against
the wind. OF course
! wasn't dead sure
there were any In
dians about-I hardly
thought they would
dare so near the fort
but I didn't like the
way those cattle act
ed. l had seen them
act sthat way before
when there had been
trouble, and it's pref
ty safe to bank on
something serious in
the wind when cattle
that kave been on the
road all night won't
browse in the morn
ing. So l went up
the side of the cliff
cautiously and kept
both eyes open for the
barrel of q gun peep
ing out from q rock.
II hadn't got fifty
feet from where Jack
lay when crack. crack,
crack! went a volIey
and five buckApaches
sprang out of the
brush and were d anc-
ing around Jack Will
liams before l could
fire.
"If I had known
that Jack was killed
by the first volley 1
would have hidden
myself and crawled
q back to the post un-
der cover. But what
/ did was to open fire
on the gang at once
and / winged a couple
OF them. / had some
nerve in those days
and was as good a
hand with tho rifle as
any bodyin the neigh
borhood. / fired iour
shots and then some
thing struck my left
wrist. 1t canned own
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[HE ONLY PENSI0hER OF WHICH ARIZONA CAN BOAS-

@ @ @ @ s .nns " 3
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When the Queen OF Italy enters shop
to do some shopping the doors are closed
and the public excluded until she has left
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-01-14
ABUSES IN ALASKA.
l Russian Correspondent Points Out
Things That Should He Remedisd.

A Russian Correspondent Points Out
Things That Should be Remedisd.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA dispatch to
The Herald from Paris says the St.
Petersburg correspondent Of The Euro
pean Evrald writes that serious COM
plant against the existing state of
affairs are brought by the Svet. 1t is
alleged hat the handful of Russians
remaining i'll the territory suffer under
all sorts of vexatious and even oppressive
acts on the part of the American trad.
ers, who run" Alaska. 1t is claimed
that a number of the company's agents
entered a Greek orthodox church dur
ing service with firearms in their hands
to drive the congregation out to work,
and that the Russian teacher. having
refused to give his lessons in English,
Americans threatened to burn down
his school. General condemnation ia
brought on the government Of Wash.
ington for leaving the administration
Of Alaska too much in the hands of a
trading company which it is claimed
finds its interest in debauching the
natives.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-01-14
uuntiuE the Wild Goat.

The White Goat or Rocky Mountain
Goat AZ It indiscriminatsly called, II q
species Of big IN rarely hunted by
sportsmen. This is not go much because
Of the difficulty OF killing 1.-THE
animal, nor because OF It's actual
rarity. 1t is a stupid animal, easily shot
when once found. 1t ia not, however,
found in the usual hunting grounds, as
are bear, deer, elk, etc. 1t is remote from
the common localities, but where found
is in goodly numbers. 1t ranges very
high up in the mountains, above timber
line usually. among rocks and cliffs.
This requires great labor to get to it, but
once there the hunter will get his game
nine times out OF ten.
II you care to read of a goat hunt
made in the Bitter Root Range in Mon
tana, in the fall Of 1895, send six cents 10
Chas. S. Fee, General Passenger Agent,
Nertherd Pacific Railway. ST. Paul,
Mlnp., for Wonderland '06, which re
counts such a hunting expedition
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-01-14

Express Companies Take Steps which
May Make the Occupation Dangerous.
CHICAGO. Jan. l4.-Express and rail-
road managers have sent to messengers
and train guards q letter. which, IL the
offers made are carried into effect, may
cause train robbers to hesitate before
they determine to hold up a train.
These letters instruct the men to shoot
to kill in each and every case where
robbery is clearly the intent Of any one
who interferes with the running Of. q
train, and q cash reward of $500 il held
out for each robber shot but not killed,
and 81 900 for a Jesse James emulator,
who is made to bite the dust. A gen.
eral changing Of shooting irons has
been going on for some time. The
most improved patterns Of repeating
rifles and shotguns have taken the
place OF arms of less deadly and rapid
execution. Cars are also being built
with an eye to more resistance against
the onslaught Of train robbers. Floors
and sides are reinforced with iron
plates and doors made heavier with
stronger fastenings. The gang that
successfully holds up a train during the
present year must risk considerably
more than heretofore.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-01-14
SACKED BY INSURGENTS.
Town Within Ten Miles Of Havana Car
tured and Partly Destroyed.

Town Within Ten Miles Of Havana Cap
tured and Partly Destroyed.
KEY WEST, Jan. l4.-Reports from
Havana are that the insurgents Satur-
day sacked Cavalrous, less than 10
miles from the city, drove out the
Spanish garrison Of 700. burned nearly
half the place, seized a large amount Of
supplies, destroyed all they could not
carry Of and spiked two ~fnes1ield
pieces that they could not take sway.
These two guns had just been received
by Weyler only last week. They bore
Weyler's name and the inscription,
ITO Aid Weyler's Glorious Deeds"
The retiring Cubans defaced the in.
scription and placed q placard on it
reading, Butchers Need Only Cleav-
ers." Two hundred wounded soldiers
came into Havana Friday and Satur-
day. All information regarding them
was refused and they were hastily sent
to the hospitals.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-01-14
The True Remedy.

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eau take its place in our home, as in
1t we have a certain and sure cure for
Coughs Co.ds. Whooping Cough, efS,
1t is idle to experiment with other remN
dies, even if they are urged on you as
just a god as DR.. Kings New Dis
covery Tn ey are not as good, because
this remedy has a record Of cures and
besides Is guaranteed. 1t never fails 10
satisfy. Trial bottles free at G. II,
Wood'sd rug store.