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stirring episodes among enemies in the face of the gbbet The
author while youth sent by the great Secretary
first Capital of the then budding Southern Conedeacy
Montgomery to learn what the traitors doing IN their
innermost retreats where rebellion being Matched From
there he went to Pensacola and disguised Texan under
the delicate task of frustrating the plans of the enemy to
Fort Pckens In this he successful IS related IN
the graphic language After accomplishing this task he
escaped the Union fleet and in due time he made his way
back to Headquarters at Washington and at once was dis
patched back again into the rebel lines to Richmond
Here in the midst of constant peril he watched the dons OF
Jeff Davis and his Cabinet and the Confederate Congress
by of correspondence in cypher sent forward
day day the at Washington the reports OF his
OBJ rvaos His experiences varied and trying AT times
he in the conf ene of those high in authority IN the Con-
fedeacy and again object of suspicion Finally by stress
circumstances he compelled to enlist and become Con-
areyman and being ordered with the command TO
Gap deserted from the rebel army an escaped into
ucky find ny way to the protection OF the
Union flag had he reported at Washington however,
tha az lin sent perilous expedition within the Con-
fredericksburg and more found himself
chon Every day aided to his jeopardy he was now
not only Union spy, but rebel deserteE
of all his pcri however ourauthor found time
passages aantry among the Southern bellies and Incl
enay given vivid gmpseso Of social life ut Richmond
fredericksburg that might we'll grace the pages OF novel
den the Of love rather than the cruelties of war
i ali these desperate chances and saved his neck
W generation after the scenes have past gives
to u, linz story rich with dea wherein he tells what he
,aw aud how the fate which he dared day after day.
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of heroes diving in prison was lost No from
the men heed like cattle beyond of the South
The Nation horrors behind the Sockade
The author of Andersonye has told thrilling story III 1t
has horrors they of his invention.
The book however, will lie found treat only of prison
life but abound in incidents of the camp the march, and the
battlefield In fact there better narrative exan OF the
stirring experiences of cavalry than there TO be found in
this story The reader of these pages will go with the author
into his life and how the boy transformed into SOLDIER
march with him mountains and rivers will camp
the hillside and stand guard the moonlight and in the
Storm will he with him videt in the lonely forest and
again the wild charge when in the mountain passes he
came face to face with the horsemen Of the South.
The humorous the pathetic the preposteou the extrava-
CANT phases all told with the pen of
Finally grim battle, defeat the surrender the travelling
through the South prisoner of the experiences in
Richmond prisons and CHASTITY Belle Isc then the
climax prison socade Anersonyille ITSELF with its
men, poverty, its starvation, lis death. All these
things told with the dramatic power of TRUTH and they
gold as ony they be told by one who there
Address
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FarraEut and the Torpedoes.


Because of their destructive character,
nothing is more demoralizing to an enemy
than torpedoes, and the moral effect of being
equipped for this kind Of warfare is not to be
despised, especially where the object OF
navy is, as it should be, to keep peace. Fear
of torpedoes was all that prevented the
French from entering the Prussian harbors
during the Franco-Prussian war, and the
japanese from going up the river at Yalu.
There was, perhaps, no cooler act of courage
during our late war than at Mobile, where
Farragut only a moment after the "Tecum-
sch" had struck a torpedo and gone down
before his eyes, shot forward with his flagship
directly over the course where he knew the
torpedoes had been planted for the destruc-
ton of his fleet.
Capt. Mahan, in his life of Farragut, writ
ing of this passage of the Hartford over these
torpedoes, says: The cases of the torpedoes
were heard by many on board knocking
against the copper of the bottom, and many
of the primers snapped aulibiy, out no tor
pcdo exploded" Farragut's prompt action
Iestored confidence to tho wavering line, but
had any one of the torpedoes exploded all
would have been over
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THE BOY SPY IN DIXIE.
Service Under the Shadow
Of the SCaffO1d.
BY J. O. KERBEY.
Fully Illustrated by the Surprising Skill of Coffin.
Large type; 3S4 pages.

He MYSTERY WHICH
enshrouds the life Of a spy
is one of the never-fading
charms of the stories of war.
The experiences of the men
who take their lives in their
hands when they enter the
contest of subterfuee, risk
ing death in the battle of
wit and deceit, fall upon
ears that never tire. Stories
of such adventures have the
same fascination which at
tend the exploits of free
hooters, the daring of navi-
caters in unknown seas and
the doings of hunters in I'M
trodden wilds.
Such n narrative is the
one told by the Boy Spy in
DIXIE If is n relation of
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he graduated in the grand school of actual
No of these experiences has approached the wide
spread popular extended to ST Kegg and Shorty
published The NATIONAL TRIBUNE a dozen years ago.
The sketches written by who hoy had actually
gone through fullest of the experience either for
himself his immediate comrades He described them well
and wildly that every veteran in the country at
them his faithful portrayal of the ordeal through
which he had himself gone They told exactly what he under
becoming real soldier better than he could do it him
self They revived thousand fading memories of the
the battle-ground, the march and the battlefield They took
him through changing experience from the feelings with
which he signed his to the enlistment roll and started
from his dear old home, his bulaons in learning the drill
and regulations in accustoming himself to the Government
tons and sumbering the soft side of rail- to the tgues
| of the march and the awful strain of battle
These sketches have been laughed at and cried in
homes of veterans Post campfres and wherever the
of the have gathered together thees
by hundreds There has been the oudcst cali from part
and this TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has now done.
Not the least interesting part of the book the pictures in
which the artist has caught the spirit of the narration in most
realistic way He gone hence but his pictures live
to make soldering days vivid reality
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THE FIELD, DUNGEON,
AND ESCAPE,
By ALBERT D. RICHARDSON,
The wel-known correspondent
SnloadidlAx uIlIctra hod Carno DadRc.
SPlqpdidy Illustrated. Cargo oyPe. 5i2 PAGES
Every Page of This Great Book is of Thrill
ing Interest.

cry FEW, IF ANY, OF
the romantic histories of
any episode in the war of
the rebellion have enjoyed
greater favor than Richard
sons account of The Field,
the Dungeon, and the Es-
cape. The author was a
war correspondent sent,
with an associate, Junius
Henri Brown, first to OBJ
serve the uprising of the
South against the Govern
ment, and, finally, to join
the army at the front His
first service was in the
West, where he observed
the fighting in Missouri.
and the attempted revolu-
ton in that State, which
was checked by Gen. Ma
thaniel Lyon. Then he
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JPoN THE LUCKLEsS HUNTERS.
a familiar strain according to the fashion of
good Hindus.
"Hunt up your shikari, wherever he is,
and be gone" cried the Captain, rising
threaseningly, at which Bodice vanished.
Towards evening the shikari came and
made his salaams. This worthy had been
following the tigers trail on his own &C
count, and knew where he was likely to be.
So he and Nuzzur Ali, our own head tracker,
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HE TRANSFOR-
nation of more
than 100000
young, brave, en-
tn u siastic but
wholly undisciplin-
ed American boys,
into hardy, season.
ed veterans, the
equals of which the
world never saw, is
always a story OF
the most fascinat-
ing interest.
1t was a process
full OF the most
terrible earnestness
to every boy who
underwent it, yet
its most trying in
cidents frequently
abounded in the
most ludicrous fea-
lures, at which no
one laughed more
heartily than the
boy himself after
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ing Hindus, we naturally feared that he lied.
But Capt Mason and found out all about
it that afternoon while coming back to the
camp from the rear side.
cYelis Of distress broke upon our ears from
the bushes behind our elephants, and these
wefe accompanied with vigorous reproaches
and fhe whacks of sharp castigation. "Ai
.budmash, dacoo, dhea," shouted Bodice
patel, the village huntsman, to his offspring
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ANDERSONVILLE:
LIFE I'M REBEL PRISONS.
A Private Soldiers Experience During Fifteen
Months in Richmond Andersonvie,
Savannah, MiIlen, Blackshear,
and Florence.
BY JOHN McELROY, Late of Co. L, 10th III. Cav.
Hundreds Of illustrations. large type, $40 pages.

HAVE READY VOL. /. OF AN
dersonville, the most graphic story of
life in rebel prisons ever written. 1t
is large volume, and its appearance
is peculiarly opportune at this time,
because this volume brings the story
up to the point reached by the work
now running as a serial in weekly
instalments in THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE. New subscribers, therefore, who
receive this volume may Ieaj it and
continue the story in the paper week
by week.
1t is impossible, briefly, TO give an
adequate description of the scope and
character of this immortal chapter in
the history of the civil war. 1t deals
with great subject, and one little UNI
derstood. because IL was tragedy
enacted behind the scenes, obscured
by the smoke Of battle in front.
While the pablo was kept daily in
formed Of march and siege and des'
perate attack and repulse, fixing the
attention upon the eyer-changins
l.
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THE CApITOk
AT WASHINGTON
Halls and Corridors of Legisla
tive "Reminiscences.

Tho United States Supreme Courf-Distin-
guished ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oil S"stlcs
Elsld-His Successor.
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ST KLEGG.
His Transformation from a Raw Re-
cruit to a Veteran.
Most Entertaining Book Every Printed. Large
Type, $40 Pages.

Prousey the Inimitable Coffin whose Pictures
vividly Portray Every Changing Scene Of the Text
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-29
GOLD HOSS'' is DEAD.
He was Delirious to the End and Re
fused Food.

New York, June 29.-william H. Hoey,
"Old Hoss' died today at the home of
his mother-in-law, in this city. He was
still delirious to the last and refused to
eat.
Mr.. Hoey was known throughout the
United States by the character he has
created in the farce "A Parlor Match
Previous to his business and professional
connection with Charles Evans, Hoey and
Bryant constituted a musical comedy pair
at vaudeville shows Evans and Hoey
married sisters, Minnie and Lena French.
respectively and all four played for a
number of years in "A ParlOr Match
About two years ago brain disease de-
veloped in the famous comedian, which
medical science could not check and last
week he was brought from the sanitarium
at Mt. Clemens, Mich, to the home of
his wife's mother, Mrs. French. where he
died.
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GOV. LEEDY GETS A SHOCK.
Discovers That Republicans are In
creasing at an Alarming Rate.

Governor Leedy today received, with
a request for a donation, from Lon Mil
Ter of Wichita, photograph OF Miller
and his wife and their trlDlets, two
bows and a girl, born June 21.
The photograph created a sensation
at the state house and 1t is being cir
cuIated among the various officers and
employees, who inspect It with as much
curiosity as would be bestowed upon a
circus parade. The picture is some
thing of a sensation itself. 1t is ap-
parently a f1ashlight.
Miller the father of this promising
family, sits at the right of the head of
the bed, the shaggy heads of the three
pickaninnieS protruding from under the
coverlet Mrs. Miller lies on the left
of the children, her face Wreathed in
smiles as she gazes with pride upon
the triplets.
The letter accompanying the photo
graph is signed by the county clerk
and the official seal of Sedgwick county
is attached. Mr. Miller says that he
has no property of his own and sug-
gests that what is earned by hard work
on the part of himself and wife is
hardly sufficient to maintain his large
family, consequently a donation from the
governor would be very acceptable.
The letter was being read by the gov
ernOr with not little amusement, but
when he reached the following he stop
ped short:
zone of the boys has been named
William Mckinley in honor of the
president; the other will answer to the
name of Allison Mckinley in honor of
the presidents mother, while the little
girl has been named Ida SaxtOn Mil
Ter, Mrs. McKinley's maiden name
why, Why" exclaimed the governor,
''this letter has been sent to the wrong
place. This isn't a Mckinley crowd up
here"
Miller further says in his letter that
he weighs 185 pounds and is 45 years
of age. His wife is 80 years old and
weighs 165 pounds.
Various suggestions have been made
as to the disposal of the communica-
tiOn, the governor finally deciding that
it would be wise to refer 1t to Cy Le-
land or Chairman Simpson of the Re
publican state committee. THE Re
publicans, have been told" said the
governor, have some money which re-
mains unexpended and they might be
able to apply it towards helping sus-
tain these prospective Republican vot-
ers. If the Republican population in
Kansas increases at this rate during
the next two years, the Pops won't have
any show at all at the next cleo
ton"
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the legislature of Ohio in favor of the
Cuban patriots
I'VE depIore the inability of the pres
ent government to uphold the civil
arraign Governor Bushnell before the
people for his failure to sustain the law
and afford protection to all persons, re-
gardless of race or color.
Previous to the district meetings at
4:30 p. m, the fight against r. T. HOugh
for governor became 50 bitter that
there was much talk of ex-Congress-
man D. D. Donovan for the head of the
ticket. WeIty, Chapman,an some 9TH
ers showed gains but 1t was generally
believed that Donovan would be slated
If necessary for the controlling elements
to drop Hough. On all sides it was
held that no standard bearer should be
selected who had any gold streak in
While it was conceded that Hough
was an original Bryan man at
Chicago even before the nomination
was made and that he had advoca ted
a free silver plank in the state platform
three years ago when Senator Brice
controlled the state convention against
him, yet the fact that Mr.. Hough wore
a Carlisle button one day in Washing
ton was used as DANA ging evidence
against him. The Mclean men were
all anxious for q clean out silver man
for governor as no objection was made
to Mr.. McLean's record on that issue
and they felt that Mclean was suffer-
ing some on account of his friends sup
porting MI. E1OuSn against whose silver
record some found objection.
The Mclean men held that the re-
ports against HOugh were untrue and
that they were circulated by the man
ayers of other candidates for governor
but it was evident that the Mclean
1ieutenants today considered the sit
uatiOn serious enough to have another
man ready for the slate in the event
that they could not control their forces
for Hough. Those who favor Mclean
for senator became involved in such
bitter contests against each other over
the head of the state ticket that it be-
came doubtful whether McCOnville, Will
kinS and other Mclean managers could
control the convention on the nomina-
ton for governor, which involved the
support of the state administra ton for
Mclean in securing the senatorship.
Effects were made again today to get
Mclean to come from Cincinnati to Co
Iumbus, but no assurances were re-
ceiVed. Mclean leaders held several
conferences during the day. While they
did not want to antagOniZe the friends
of the other candidates, they could not
be induced to drop Hough.
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BIG STORY.
Denver Alarmed at Something
That Kansas Hadn't Heard Of.

Special Dispatch to the Globe-Demo-
crat.
Denver, Col, June 2S.-An army of
5000 tramps is moving westward. AT
present it is in Kansas. It is APPROACH
ing in four divisions, following the var
ious lines of railways, and so trouble
some has it become that the people
have petitioned the railroads to carry
them to the coast. The tramps forage
upon the country until there is nothing
left. They beg everything in the way
of old clothes, money and meals, and
the inhabitants have begun to look up
on the movement as a serious matter.
The Union Pacific and the Missouri Pa
cific have placed shotguns and guards
on their trains.
Last week a. tramp named Bailey was
killed at Salina by brakeman named
Callahan. He was riding on the brake
beam. The brakeman descended, and,
it is said, kicked Bailey with such vio-
lence that he fell and was ground to
pulp under the wheels, the train leav-
ing a trail of blood a mile in length.
The trampS infest the wheat and corn
fields at night. Such is the story told
by James Wright of Topeka, a promi
nent railway and express officers, who
is now stopping at the Windsor. There
is no need of denying the story.
The tramps will pass through Colo
radO on their way to the Pacific coast
in the wake of the Christian Endeavor
convention excursionists. They state
that they are endeavOring to secure
work in the irrigated valleys of the
west. What they will do when they
reach the coast is question. They have
no means and are menace. Some of
them say they are making tracks for
Debs' new haven in Washington, where
they expect a Utopia.
1.-THE above, as will be seen, is a spe-
cial to today's Globe-Democrat No
news has been received that there are
any more than the usual number of
tramps in Kansas. The so-called
tramp who was killed at Salina re-
sided at Waverly, Kan, and was mere
ly a young man seeking work His re-
mains were sent home for burial and
the brutal brakeman who caused his
death is under arrest
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A MAN CUTIN TWO.
The Discovered Portions of the Body
Found Eight Miles Apart.

New York, June 29.-The lower part
of the trunk of man was found by
two boys in the woods at One Hundred
and Seventy Sixth street and Under
cliffe avenue, this city. today. 1t was
terribly mutilated and shows plainly
that a murder has beer committed. It
was wrapped in oilcIoth and manila
paper, exactly as was the upper part
of trunk found in East river off
Eleventh street Saturday. The two
are parts of the same body. The two
pieces were found more than eight miles
apart, one in the water and the other
on land. The part found today COM
priSed the lower part of the trunk from
the fifth rib to the hips the legs haV-
ing been severed from the body at the
hip Joints. 1t was trapped in three
folds of Oilcloth. The oilclOth was evil
IDENTIFY cut from the same piece as that
which inclOsed the upper part of the
trunk 1t was new and of a cheap
pattern. bright red, with gilt figures
on it. It is like that commonly used
for table cloths in tenement houses.
1t was sent to the morgue, where it
exactly fitted the part found Saturday.
Deputy Coroner O'HanlOn performed an
autopsy on the upper part of the trunk
today before the other had been found
He discovered two stab wounds, one
between the fifth and sixth ribs and one
between the sixth and seventh, in the
region of the heart.
There was also a stab wound back Of
the left collar bone that extended down
to the apex of the left lung. DR.. O'Han-
lon found, too, a bruise on the left fore
arm and under the right forearm was a.
confusion showing the imprint of a heel
with hObnails like those in heavy boots
He found an incised wound in the palm
of the right hand which, he said, was
probably caused by the victim seizing
the weapon with which he was attack
ed. There was no water or serum in
the lungs, which were filled with air
There was a knife wound two inches
long in the apex of the heart, CORE
spending to the wound beneath the ribs
Numerous cOntusiOns were also found
on the body, which wounds, DR.. O'Han-
Ion thinks, could not have been inflicted
after death.
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SPAIN IS AGITATED.
Appointment of General Woodford is
Viewed With Great Uneasiness.

London, June 29.-The Pail Mall Ca
zette this afternoon prints the following
dispatch from its correspondent at Mad
rid:
Public attention is engrossed by the
appointment of Gen. Stewart l. Wood
ford as United States minister to Spain.
w While the government continues to re-
pudiate the intention of recalling Gen.
WeyIer, / am in position to reiterate
that his recall will be an accomplished
fact at no distant date I learn that iii
Macias viii proceed to the island and
divide the supreme command, and I
nave good reason to believe that coin
ctdent with the arrival here of General
Woodford Marshal Martinez CampOs
VIII proceed upon a separate mission to
Cuba
In accordance with the wishes of
PRESIDENT Mckinley, Martinez CampOs
6houId be the executor of any arran ge-
nents possibly reached between Spain
ana the United States. Indications do
not point to any arrangements being
reached with the United States and in
innate friends of Senior CanoTas del
Castillo declare the premier will siren
uously oppose autonomy. CASTELAR,. the
liberal leader is also opposed to anv-
thing of the kind They both consider
that such a concession would render if
very difficult to maintain Spanish SOW
ereignty.
The report that the United States
Will insist upon autonomy and the
withdrawal of the Spanish troops and
that otherwise it viii intervene by force
If necessary, does not make for a peace
ed throughout Spain with considerable
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