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Naval School for Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 2o.-President
Diaz has issued a decree establishing
a naval school at Vera Cruz, to be
opened July next. Youths desiring to
enter the navy or adopt careers as
gilOts or marine engineerf will be ad-
mitted.
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Tho Kaw River Booming.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 26,-The Raw
river at this point is higher than it has
been for the past eight years. and it
is still rising at the rate of two inches
an hour. Reports from Central Kan
sas indicate that the rise will continue
for twenty-four hours or perhaps
longer.
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Funeral OF ". 8. Holman.

AURORA, Ind. April .6.-The funeral
of Hon. William S. Holman. who has
represented the Fourth district in
Congress many years. was very largely
attended here yesterday. Judge Hol-
man was born here seventy-four years
ago and always lived here. Every
BODY knew him
The Globe-republican., 1897-04-29

KANSAS CITY,. No., April e6 &C.
Hurst, sculptor for tho Griffith Marble
company At Carthage, Mo-, fell thirty
feet at o'clock this morning from =
third story window Of Captain Chester
O'Neiil's saloon and lodging house at
BIZ West Fifth street. His skull and
right arm and leg were fractured and
10 was instantly killed
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irALY.s KING IN PERIL.
s....,. A....p.. to ss.s H,.. with i.

1oo0tto Att0np0 20 Seo6 HUI With Q
Daggoe.
ROME, April s3.-At ::ao yesterday
afternoon, while King Humbert was
on his way to the races, q man named
Pietro Acciriato. an iron worker out of
employment, attempted to stab his
majesty with q dagger. The man was
seized before he could carry out his
purpose, and the king proceeded to
the Campanelle race course, seemingly
unmoved.
Acciriato appears to DO . political
fanatic. He says he had no accom-
pliceS
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Iowa viii Make Liquor Again.
DIES MONIES. Iowa, April 23.-Yes-
terday the House concurrcd in the
Senate amendment to the mulct law
to allow the manufacture of liquor in
the state
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Short in His Accounts.

DAVENPORT, Iowa. April 23.-Louis
H. Riecls. treasurer of Davenport for
thirty years. has admitted to the FL
nance committee of the new council
taking possession last night that he is
short S. 600 IN his cash.
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BY direction of the President. the
military post near the city Of Little
Rock, Ark, will hereafter be known
Is Fort Logan 81. Roots, in honor Of
the late brevet lieutenant aud colonel
q volunteers of that mama
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F.nou. Nor. Claim Man Dead.

New YORK. April a6.-Antonio Max
limo Nora, whose property in Cuba was
confiscated twenty-five years ago and
whose claim against Spain was finally
settled in 1895 by the payment BY
Spain of nearly 81, 100. 900, died at the
Hotel Grenoble yesterday, aged 20
wears
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Wheat Cut by q Sand Storm.

WICHITA, Kau.. April 24.-Reports
from Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
indicate the destruction Of thousands
of acres of fine wheat by yesterdays
wind storm. Wherever there was
sand it cut the wheat as effectively as
if a moving machine had been run
over it.
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Triple rr.x edy In cov,nxton, Ky.

Triple Trax edy In Covington. Ky.
CONVICTION. Ky. April 26.-In fight
over Matte Turner last night, George
Washington was killed by Charles
Clark in the latter's saloon. The
woman was also shot while trying to
protect Washington. Clark and his
wife are mcrtally shot and not ex-
pected to live.
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PersIa's Shah Critically Sick.

LONDON, April GA dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Paris says the shah of Persia, Muzafer
Ed Din. is alarmingly ILL He was
born March -, 1858. and succeeded
his father, who was assassinated May
l. 1896,
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Tho New Agreement

CHICAGO. April 24.-The general pas
senger agents of the Western roads,
at their meeting here to-day. adopted
the new agreement recognizing their
association. 1t will become effective
Anril 2S
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DETROIT. Mich, April e6.-Charles
MahOney, government detective from
Windsor. Ontrrio. was shot and fatally
wounded while attempting to capture
. pair of negro robbers at Bell River,
Ontario
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LONDON, April ed-The Duchess a
York was safely delivered Of . dauGh-
ter 1t York cottage, Sandringhan. a
$40 O'Clock yesterday afternooa.
Mother and child ere both we'll
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NEw HAvEx, April e6-A bill has
passed the House By . large majority
vote peohibiting al Sunday labor aad
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DEFEAT FOR GREEKS.
RETREAT FROM LARlSSA
AFTER HARD FIGHTING.

Turks Capture the Headquarters Of the
Grscian Army Powers Negotiating
for Hfiaglng the War to N End-Aa
Armlstice Proposed to the Two Nations.
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ATHENS. April :6.-Larissa, the head
quarters of the Greek army in This
sally. has been completely evacuated
by the Greeks, who spiked their guns
in position and carried away all the
movable cannon and munitions OF
war.
After desperate battle at Matt the
Greeks were outnumbered, retreated
with heavy loss, abandoning Tyrnavos
and Larissa and removing their head
quarters to Pharsalos. q town on the
right bank of the Phersalitis and at
the north foot of spur of the Chas-
sidiari mountains. Pharsalos is about
twenty miles due south of Larissa-
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w. B. Somerville, for the past twenty
years in charge of all the Western
Union Telegraph com,.any's pIs ss bust
uess, is dead, ageS Is years
Unusually heavy rains i" i]-b-aaka
and Iowa did considerable damage.
Charles James ct Washington is
writing . history .: the war, intended
TO show Stanton-Seward conspiracy
against President Lincoln.
Father Thomas Sherman. son Of
General William !: Sherman. is seri-
ously i'll from nervous prostration.
Samuel Colgate, New York million
aire, philanthropist, Baptist mission
ary worker and soap manufacturer,
lead.
Harold NJ Sewall. son of Arthur
SewaIl of Maine. Democratic candi-
late for vice president. has been ap-
pointed minister to Hawaii.
Sash, door and bind trust has been
dissolved.
Two more Minneapolis municipal
officers have been indicted for boodling.
Convicts in San Quentin prison carv-
ID each other with kniveA One Is
dead; the other dying.
Frank Moss. counsel Of the Park
hurst society. has been appointed New
York police commissioner, to succeed
Roosevelt
Parson Davies, in behalf Of Choynski,
has challenged E1tzsimm0nS to . match
for g. 900 . side.
Fierce rain about Manhattan. Kan.
a;ss hled two railroads and done other
lsmage
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-12-25

poor little place. She's pretty and the
roses are, but there's-it's stuffy little
store. I'm afraid Minnie's forgotten her
Its been SO long since they were girls,
and can't recollect hearing Minnie
speak of her, but I'll send her word.
That little woman shall have a good
time. Why, Jack. old fellow?"
Jacks hand was on his friends shoul-
der. Don't Tom. It's going to be
pretty tough for me, old boy. Can't
you let me Off"
"Let you of, with Minnie expecting
you? Not il know it," and Tom looked
very grave and earnest. "You are not q
coward, are you. Jack? What's the
matter?"
I'm afraid nm, Tom, but il must
60, help me all you cnn."
ITO keep out OF the poor little crea-
ture's way? She looks harmless enough.
I'd be more afraid of Minnie's town
friends"
"You don't understand. Tom"
"Then suppose you enlighten met"
I'll used to know her in the old
days. She was everything to me. I
reckon / was fool, but l couldn't tell
her So"
THAT you were a fool? Don't blame
you."
"No; that I-that-she-tha we"
"Exactly," Tom nodded.
$50 I sent her bunch Of Christmas
roses like these" He touched one Of
the nodding white flowers tendcrly.
Like that in your buttonhole?'
Eyes. sent them ON Christmas eve
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'But mine : 60 tender, Miss Ro.e
and. honor bright. it's = sure thing
they ch4ge ewful; 50 that's all right.
Maybe II would be better II you'd throw
in button HOLE"
Yest let me. You've been too gen.
erouss Il feel that I cannot"
I'm take violets aud 4 sprie Of nut
meg!
"Aod your friend. Won't you take
one for him7" She flushed again.
To Jack7" glancing outside. .Ye..
but he's surly old fellow, and l doubt
il he'll wear Il. It's Jack Allen. YOU
know. Remenber he went west five
yeprs ago. lstumbled upon him at the
Z s9:e1just got back"
Tom notieed how the girls white
I1ands hutoered as she tied up his vio-
ITS, aud then how she hesitated, and
II last bsoke on white rose bud and a
scented eaf for bis friend. He pinned
on his towers, and waited while she
deftly trapped up the pot that held
the ChSistmas rose.
"Yo4 hardly miss it from your pretty
windeg." be said.
IL hoped to sell all these" she re-
pliee little break in her voice. ''but
its 1etting late now. Tomorrow is
Christmas day."
Il is. Rose, come spend it with
Minnie is always so glad to see old
1rtendx. It's only a two-hour run.
Can't you -come?"
why, I'd like to. Christmas is 50
sad, nowadays; so sad and dull"
Yes. Well, you see. Minnie has the
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dumb friend as though for confidence.
he whispered. hoarsely:
'.Guvner, what did she tell you Ter
me? What did my old fiddle tell you?
The governor waited for moment.
perhaps to steady his voice; then. lay
ing both hands on the shoulders OF the
other, his eyes reading with fathers
tenderness the piteous. expectant face.
he said:
"Abner, she say-the old fiddle says
that you can 60 back to the noun
ta:ns. And. my man. may God 60 with
you'll"
The convict stood for moment like
one struck dumb. . womanish paiior
overspreading his cheek; then. with q
cry which his listener never forgot. he
threw his arms around his liberator and
sobbed like heartbroken child.
And the governor was not ashamed TO
admit that something frightened in his
throat and broke out at his eyes. too
Nora C. Franklin. in Lippincott's Maga-
zine
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IT'S TRUE SPIRIT.


Christmas the Festival - Ch1la.
Aooa.
Christmas is the festival of childhood.
Whose would enjoy it truly must be in
heart even as a little child. Its ecstasies
are in self-forgetfulness, in the better
ment of others. Its highest celebration
is in helping our neighbors to be happy
and thus sharing our happiness with
them. There is no happiness compar-
able to love. and the happiness grows
greater as the love embraces more and
more our fellow-b beings. That is the
best Christmas time in which one feels
most acutely the actuality of kinship
with all the world. 1t is the child that
is the real democrat, for, as Emerson
has it, he makes children Of all the
adults that gather around him, levels
them to his own simplicity. The man
who has the chilG-heart is the man
whose interest in himself is most
merged into interest for his fellow
creatures. Though one may have felt
sin and shame and sorrow he may as-
suage them all in the promotion Of the
happiness of others. Love is the only
anodyne. and giving it out it returns
| upon us as manifold as the objects upon
which it is bestowed. That man who
awakens the Christmas spirit in the
hearts about him will find it subtly
stealing from them to his own, and
will, almost unknowing. find bitter dis
possessed by sweet. and warmth
usurping cold therein. This world j.
very fair and charity makes it all thu
fairer when its glow reminds US of ''th<
long. long night that death shall last.
Christmas feeling makes the most oil
the now. It atones for the after-th,
deluge or the dark. 1t is real life Il
live, If but for week, day. a moment
in full sympathy of helping with oul
fellows. II we can make others forge
the past we may forget our own. l
we can but give to others little of tn,
antidote Of kindliness for the poison o
the present we shall find our own to-day
less hopeless. And the future is formes
of the spirit that animates to-day. Th'
real feeling of Christmas must blossom
into acts.-Detroit Free Press.
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season was a busy and responsible one
with him, for he chose that time 10
investigate thoroughly the criminal rec
ords of the state and pardon such pris-
oners as good conduct or extenuafing
circumstances placed within the pale
of executive clemency.
If questioned as to his selection OF
the holiday season for the exercise OF
the "benign prerogative" he was wont
to answer: "Oh. may be helping to
turn the tide in the soul of some Paul,
and have a fancy to do it when peace
and good will are most likely to be at
the flood; that is ALL"
Whether this were all, and II were not
n response to some deeper sentiment
those who knew him best alone could
say.
Tonight, as he looked at the piles OF
mail matter on his desk yet to be dis
posed Of, he pushed back his chair with
a smothered groan and started to the
door. moved by wild impulse to get
outside and turn the key on il all.
An obstruction in his path caused him
to stumble, and he saw curious-look-
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That's ALL its TUX me ; weeks II rite
this letter. Goodby. God 90 with the old
Fiddle and help her tel i strate.
When the governor turned away from
the window there wns q look on his
face that few had ever seen there except
his wife.
He lifted the violin carefully from
the floor. tore away its wrappings and
looked at it long and curiously. II was
roughly made Of native pine and maple
and vanished with the homemade var
nish of the mountains, but the strings
gave back the true viol tone. clear and
ringing.
Bringing his chair closer to the CRATE,
he placed the instrument in position.
drew the bow, and there 'in the still
Of the evening let her talk to him"
He was a mountain boy himself, and
as the first soft notes fell on the air.
plaintive and piercing like the cry OF
the whippoorwill in early spring, he
felt the youth stir in him and heard
again the far call Of the hills.
He saw the log cabin high up against
the side of the mountain. where the
laurel and the sumac grew and the
c.h made bright the scene with its dark
fruit; where the breeze came laden with
the odor Of pine from the forest. and
the birds touched the highest notes in
their sh.ill treble.
He saw the boy with his sturdy limbs,
his bold blue eyes and his waving hair,
barefoot and scantily clad. searching
for the earliest berries in summer ard
the first nuts in the fall-free, joyous.
innocent, happy.
He followed him in the "long. long
thoughts" of a lad across the distant
crest Of the "Devil's Backbone" and
wove with him mystic dramas amid the
shades of the haunted ravine.
lie sat with him at the feet Of the
mountain lass and listened while he
poured the crude poetry Of his awak.
| .ned soul into the sensitive instrument
which alone could interpret the mys'
terry within him.
He stood beside him and watched ths
blazing pine knots roar up the cabir
chimney. while the old folks in the cor
ner looked at each other across the boy
with that surreptitious tenderness o.
the eyes which takes place in thos'
grown gray, and sure Of each other. o
the more open demonstration.
He saw the whole q years OF clean
humble living; the unaspiring. pastora
life of the southern mountaineer. com
panioned of nature; simple, fearless
brave; scornful of the false, reverent o
the true; tender to weakness. fierce Il
wrong; and, alas! uncontrolled as tn
elements around him; crushing. = SOM
mad output of strength, the obstacle il
his way, to stand afterwards in awfu
recoil before the unknown potential
ties of his own organism.
Full and swelling were the strain
that issued from the throat of the violil
as it told this idyl of the hills; passion
ate harmonies pulsating like tie over
charged heart; long, tender. yearninI
notes; sweet. caressing adantes; tn
very spirit of love in the gnise Of sound
But now the music changes. "outh'
glad symphony is lost in the wild majo
chords of passion. Note dashes agains
] note like hail against pane. All tn
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A PRESENT FOR "HlM."
She In C0nvfnced That Man In Hard &

She n Convinced That Man In Hard 20
Please.
"What can show you:" asked the sales
lady of a pcrp!exed-looking woman who
had been wandering aimlessiy from counter
to ocounter in onecf the big downtown stores.
"Well, hardly know" was the reply.
'l'm looking for something for my hus-
band for Christmas gift and don't know
just what to get"
."IIow would you like nice box OF hand
kerchiefss"
"Oh, he has dozens Of handkerchiefs
now"
Perhaps he'd like one of these elegant
new neckties."
ooh, I wouldn't dare select necktie for
him. He's dreadfully fussy about his ties.
There are some beautiful things in the
way of slippers in our shoe department"
"Yes, I've been looking at them, but
gave him slippers last Christmas"
"How would a box Of gloves do!
'Oh, he's just as fussy about his gloves
an he is about his ties. ] wouldn't dare
select gloves for him. don't know what
to get"
"Have you looked at the house coats in
our gentlemen's furnishing goods depart
ments"
Eyes, but / gave him a house jacket on
his birthday and he hardly ever wears it..
It is Sc hard to get anything for man..
eyes, SO it is. Wouldn't he like pretty
scarfpin!"
"No, for be never wears jewelry OF any
Kind. If he only did there are dozens OF
things could get him. don't know what
to get"
..Why not Try aalf dozen shirts for
him:"
'Well. shirts and socks and such things
don't seem very Christmasy. Anyhow. he
has ell of his shirts made to order"
Here are some beautiful gold and ivory
toothpicks."
"Oh, he wouldn't use one il bought it
for him. He prefers a bit of broom straw
or d common wooden toothpick. I've lain
awake nights trying to think of something
for him, but can't"
Heres lovely little smoking cap"
"He wouldn't wear it if ] got him a
dozen. got him n box of cigars once and
| if he didn't give them away to kind OF a
second or third cousin of mine whom he
never liked. Men are queer. You never
know how they'll act il you give them any
thing and when it comes to buying them
Christmas presents it's enough to bring OF
| nervous prostration.
'Did you ever get him hat for pres
ent."
"Yes, once, and I'll never do it again for
good and sufficient reasons. I'D get him
books, but he isn't much of reader. Ono
year bought him a cane and never knew
him to carry it even once. I'd get him 4
nice silk umbrella, but he'd lose it the first
time he carried it. I'm sure. don't know
what to get for him"
HAS he a shaving set:"
Eyes, and he shaves downtown right
along l declare it's such task trying t.
get anything for him that sometimes
wish Christmas had never been heard Of
Well, don't know what to get. II he wer.
woman now, Id select something in fiv,
minutes, but-well, I've got to get some
thing. l guess LII go down to the novelty
store and see if any human being has ye
invented suitable Christmas gift for !
man. Detroit Free frcss.
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HUMOROUS

-He-.Ny friend is opposed to ever:-
thing English" She-"Yes; l noticed
that in his conversation. ."-Yonkers
Statesman.
So 1t s.-Smith-"Seeing 10 be-
lieving." Jones-"Not always. 1t often
depends upon what paper you see it in"
Chicago News.
Can you tell me what has become
Of old Capt. Saltwater? Hes light
housekeepin'." I'm Harlem?" mo. in
the lower Brooklyn Life.
-Mitigation.-First Citizen-"They
saw the snow is often 20 feet deep in
the Klondike." Second Citizen
~Heavens! But Of course, there are no
sidewalks. Journal.
Had the Facts.-Wickwire-'' Real
IL. now. you don't believe the poor arc
growing poorer" Nudge know
they are. Look ut me. / haven't half
the money had on pay day.-Indian-
apolis Journal.
A Wixh.-"My youth" said the Pc
nurions man, was spent as sailor"
I'D like to have known you then"
.Why?" 'sIt would have been a pleas
ure to see you pay out something. even
if it was only a cable."-Washingtoh
Star.
Papa" said Tommy. little broth
er is a week old tomorrow, isn't hep
YES" Lets you and me give him =
birthday present" "very well. What
shall it be?'' Lets buy him wig.
He needs that more than anything.
|-Tit-Bits.
NO." said the impecunious gentle
man. 81 don't think should like to be
publisher. The little paper issue
among my friends is an awful nuisance
| to me. What must be your trouble with
the reams of paper you send outT'-
Boston Transcript.
She Appeals.-"John." said the
wife Of the citizen who had just settled
his freak election bet like little man,
.the next time you want to bet on an
election, just agree that, in case you
lose, you won't make fool Of yourself
for three months. Il win be quite as
difficult as anything else you could ur-
dertake, and it will spare the feelings
Of your relatives"
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CHRISTMAS OBsERvANceS.

CRstOms Handed Down to Os from
BygOnc Ages.
It is an interesting fact that nearly
all of the present observances of the
sweet Christmas time which have been
handed down to us from bygone ages
are relics Of heathenish barbarism.
The practice of decorating with ever
greens has been ascribed to various
sources. Decorating with flowers and
evergreens was pagan manifesto
ton. of rejoicing and worship. This
custom was also observed among na-
tions both of Gothic and Celtic origin.
A superstition among the votaries Of
Druidism was that houses decked with
evergreens i'm December would be Wis
tied by sylvan spirits and that the in
mates would be unnipped by the frost
and cold winds.
The mistletoe bough was held in ven-
Grafton by the pagans. as it was like
wise respected by the Gothic and Celtic
nations. Among Celtic nations it is
known to have been an object of great
veneration. The ceremony Of collect
ing it by the Druids was one of the
highest solemnity. 1t is said that the
oaks on which it grew were sacred to
them. The reverence il inspired was
based upon the wonderful healing pow
ers il was believed to possess.
If hung up in the house it was consid
cred a guard against evil spirits.
Its introduction into Christmas fes-
tivals might be appropriate as
emblematic OF oonquests obtained
over the spirits Of evil and dark
ness. The reverence of the mistle-
toe among the ancient Britons APP
pears, however, to have been limited
only to that which grew on an oak,
whereas, the pearly berries, which
bring blush to the cheek Of the mod
ern maiden, may be gathered besides
from the hawthorne, lime and old ap-
pie trees as well as the Scotch and sill
yer fir. There existed tradition tha:
the maid not. kissed under the mistle-
toe at Christmas would not wed within
a year.
The Yule log was considered by the
ancient Druids a protection against evil
spirits. There were various supers.:-
tions mingled with the ceremony of
lighting it. 1t had to be lighted with
clean hands in order to extract its vir-
tues. 1t was deemed an evil omen IL the
light went out during the night. The
Yule log is stili kindled on Christmas
eve in various parts Of England
Louisville Courier Journal.
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She meets me at the door
Each evening with q smile that's sweet
and mellow:
'Your supper's waiting: come right in. you
poor.
Dear, tired fellow!'
(But know just what this means.
For we've struck the Christmas scenes:
A new red hat.
And the likes o. that
That's just what the dear one means)
She marks my frowning brow
cts sweet to have q woman to adore
ycuD
And says: II know your head must ache.
and now
I'm going to rub II for your
(But I know just what that means.
For we've struck the Christmas scenes:
dress. Q hat.
And the likes o. that
That's just what the dear one meansy
ATLANTA Constitulioas