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ascertaining how much. sonntax, or

H.
Wilson, knew.
He cast upon me one of his whimsical
looks, and after a pause replied: AT
first it seemed quite certain there was
some one sonnected with Jackson In the
affair. But now find there was not"
Here Skinner, who had been listening
to our conversation, glanced quickly up
at Wilson, and / saw some signal
flashed between the two.
'And. what may your name be? Are
you a detective, too" asked of Skin
ner.
EYES," he replied, simply, II am a
detective and Skinner is my name"
why did you try to shoot me-"
II didn't. I fired in the air. Still,
did want you to think 1 did. It was
for two purposes: One, to brighten you
away until this affair was settled; an
other, to make you really down on me.
You sec, Jackson at last seemed to
suspect me, and l thought if l could
show him you were terribly down on
me it would put me all the closer in
his confidence"
"Oh, you succeeded in making him
marked. worked the pal racket on
him, eh?"
Gas much as could"
"Then you really were not treacher-
Gus to your contract with Miss Nor
ley?"
Good God. no. Who could play false
| to hcr?" Skinner exclaimed, in such
convincing tones that 1 was satisfied.
Here Mr.. Perry broke in. "Your
name will come out respondent. Mel
son. when the whole truth is known,
| and We will take care that it be known
that you allowed yourself to be made
q martyr Of, by enduring the suspicion
for the sake of aiding the search for
the real robbers. Now then, come, gen.
tlemcn. Let us 60 into the other place."
TO BE Continued
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The Cook Was Innocent.

The polite agent for the new parlor pho
nograph who knocked at the door insisted
that the old lady who opened it place the
tubes in her ears, and listen to one song.
She need not buy-a pleasure to exhibit it,
lust try it once, madam" etc. "This song
you will hear, madam" he said, as he held
the tube doubtfully to her ears, is MY Oar
ling, Pluck a Daisy From My Crave as sung
by Leopold Moriarity, the famous New
York tenor" The agent started the ma
chine up, but the old lady dropped the tubes
and said: Jest hold on minute till come
back. That drafted cooks openin' another
can Of tomatoes in the kitchen with table
knife" -Detroit Free Press.
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ne TEMPLE IN THE 1w,L,cur.

3ne lyric Of the timid thrush
Chat fills the star-gemmed are
hymn is. after which the hush
VI dusk. and then the dark.
me fragrant garden blossoms bright.
mat waver to and fro,
Are censers from which, through the
night. >"0
The winds sweet incense blow.
The moon. the sister Of the sun.
Who lifts face so pale
In worship. Is a patient nun,
Half hidden in her veil.
And Ia wanderer ami,
Who. turning from my way.
have entered in this Temple by
The bright door Of the day.
Alone and free ce every care,
1 linger here. and long
MY lips move In sweet words of PRAYER
After the evening song.
Frederic F. Sherman, in n. Y Tndenecd.
ent.
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Surprised.

Throggins. q notoriously lazy man,
met his friend Hoppendyke on the
street.
"Glad to see you, old fellow" seid
Hoppendyke. "but you are looking
thin"
Yes replied Throggins. ut is the
result of overwork."
..Of overwork." echoed the aston
ished Hoppendyke. ''Whose? "-1outh's
Companion.
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Mutually U0pleasaae.

There was once an Irishman who had
face that, as one Of his friends once re,
marked, was IAN ofiense to the landscape
Next to his LONELINESS, his poverty was the
most conspicuous thing about him. Hence
the unsympathetic comment OF aeighbor.
''How are We. Pat?" he said.
"Mightly bad" was the reply: "surc It's
starvation that's starin' me in the face"
is that so?" rejoined his friend. "Sure
it can't be very pleasant for ayther of yez"
-Binehamton N. ~ Leader.
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.Ax II Was.

Jack-So after you satisfied her father
that you were stakeholder, she consented
to be your wife?
Mack-Yes. First he viewed my shares
and then she shared my views.-N. Y. Jour
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ss&OPER ACRE yearly. become . settler In
"estern Canada. 0ood Crops. Good Prieess
's"roadss schools, churches fuel h abusa"
'eee. For illustrated Pamphlets. Maps and low
n ,a.i'oad rates. apply to Department Interior.
""awa' Canada. or II W. II. ROGERS. Water
Owls. D.: BEN. DAVIES. l5l East Third st., Saint
raul Mimi; W. RICHIE. Grafton. N. d.; T. o.
oCkRlE. Stevens Point WIS.,
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Paar Indictment.

| Obslow-What do you think OF Smuggin's
views on the great questions Of the day:
like this necktie i'm wearing at aIl-Rox-
bury Gazette
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-02-25
Unfallfble.

Miss Firsttrip-Doctor. do you know
any sure preventive of seasicknesss
DR.. Pi,lbox-Yes; stay on land
Town Topics.
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Adding to the Horror.

Knowall Nero fddled while Rome was
burning.
Flatdweller (shuddcring)-And I'll bet
he was just learning to play, too.N. Y.
World
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The Next Step.

Hojack-They have a telescope at
Chicago which rings the moon within
200 miles.
Tomkid-1 suppose that the next step
will be to annex the planet.-Town
Topics.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn effectually, dispels colds. head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects. prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA fze SNRuP CO.
saw FRANCISCO. CAL
LOUISVILLE. kK NEW YORK H.
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Nothing surprises women MOT 'n.n
to see q mans children treat 40 -
ond wife web.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-02-25
CANADIAN CREAMERIEs.
How They Are Operated and Made to
Pay the Farmer.

A CORE
spondent Of
q B r o W n
City, Mich
lgan, paper
w ri t es as
follows:
"A n i n
ID u q t r Y
IN, I, i. oh =.
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hoods SarsapariIle
..o-,,s pile cure all liver ills. % cen
Inst a scheme, Of Course.

Inst q Scheme, of Course.
renpcnny-Here is an account in the
amer of a man who was shipwrecked in
sEE.ocean and cast away on desert island
IN another mans wife.
Mrs Tupenny-The wretch! hope his
~; M oot a divorce from him!-Town Topics.
In Vienna.
First Citizen-And is Herr Won Pom.
o,ler a proper candidate for the reichs-
second Citizen (imprcssively)--M friend,
RI, should see him punch the bag.-Puck.
peop1e whose children can't talk plain
Lont care as long as older ones can do no
6rtter.-Washington Democrat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20

WASHINGTON, March 19.-Lieutenants
Holman and Blow, of the Maine called on
the President about 1880 and were cordially
received, the President remarking that he
was pleased to meet any of the survivors
of the Maine catastrophe. Lieut.. Holman
remained only few minutes. leaving Lieut..
Blow to have a more extended conference.
He conveysed with the President for about
twenty minutes, discussing the general sit
uation in Cuba and relating some of the
more prominent events connected with the
Maine disaster. The identity of the visitors
was not made known to the atteches of the
White House until some time after they
were gone, nor were visitors made acquaint-
ed with the fact of their connection with
the i,ost vessel. Only Lieut.. Holman placed
his name on the visitors register at the
Navy Department, and all the officials of
the department generally professed igno
rance as to their stopping places in the city.
1t was stated in a general way that they
we-e route to their homes in the North
and would remain in the city only few
hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
secretary Cages views.

CLEVELAND, March 19-Secretary Gage
frankly declares that he does not believe
our present complications with Spain will
lead 20 a war. He says: The people of the
country are getting used to this talk of war.
and they understand that it means little or
nothing. There is, of course, a possibility
of war, and if it comes the financial re-
sources of the government are equal to any
emergency which may confront US. Presi-
dent Mckinley would doubtless ask for and
get any appropriation he wanted. Our
credit abroad is of the best, as evidenced
by the standing of our bonds. The price
quotations on government securities is the
best sign of the excellent condition of the
government. The business in this has not
as yet been seriously affected by the posi-
bilties of war"
PITsTSBURG. March 19-Secretary Of the
Treasury Gage arrived In Pittsburg this
afternoon. In an interview he said that II
it was shown conclusvely that the Spanish
government was responsible for the blow
ing up of the Maine the United States
would declare war within fifteen minutes.
So far as the people are concerned he was
Of the opinion that 80 per cent. believed the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
Mnde His own Conn.

Philadelphia Press.
Edwin Jones, an inmate of the Methodist
Home Thirteenth street and Lehigh ave-
nue., who made his own coffin according to
a design said to have been furnished in a
heavenly vision, died on Sunday, and it is
now found that the coffin is too small and
a new one will have to be provided at the
expense of the institution.
Jones was eighty-siX years old, and one
of the oldest inmates of the home Nearly
a year ago he told his friends that he had
dreamed about beautiful coffin made of
two kinds of wood. and inlaid with most
beautiful designs. While he dreamt, he
says, he also received a message that he
was to make coffin after the pattern of
the one shown him in the dream, and that
at the conclusion of the task he was to die
and be buried in the coffin he had made
The old man considered the dream pre-
saying his coming dissolution and he set
about obeying the instructions he received
He procured wood 10 correspond with that
of the coffin seen in his dream. and with
the consent of the managers he built cof-
fin, finishing it in the highest style of the
cabinet makers art 1t now lies in the
cellar of the institution, and Jones will be
buried in the Knights of Pythias Cemetery
to-day in a casket provided by the home.
Jones and his wife were members of
Scott Methodist Episcopal Church. which
got them admitted to the home. The wife
is so critically i'll that she may not survive
her husbands funeral.
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making desperate signs to their wives from
the doorways, signals of distress that rarely
produce any effect.
And yet it is the rebellious husband who
IS admired and courted. A curious trait of
human nature compels our admiration for
whatever Is harmful and forces us in spite
Of our better judgment, to value lightly
Whatever is beneficent and of service to
mankind. The coats-of-arns of all coun-
tries are crowded with eagles and lions. who
never yet did any good. living dead; but
orators enlarge on the fine qualities of these
birds and beasts, and hold them up mod
els, Whlle using as terms OF reproach the
name of the goose or the COW, creatures
which minister in a hundred ways 70 our
wants II must be some SUI spirit that
mas brought the helpful, productive better
half" to the humble place he now occupies
in the eyes of our people.
As long as men passed their time in fight
ing and carousing they were heroes. but
since they became patient breadwinners all
the romance has evaporated from Ihelc at
mosphere. The Jewish Sandow had his e-
venge in the end and made things disagree
able for his tormentors. So far however,
there are no signs of d revolt among ire
~ bend their necks to the collar-the lpG-
est most loving and devoted helpmates tl.at
ever plodded under the matrimonial yoke.
When In the East l have wa cbed tn
admiration the role a donkey plays in the
economy OF those primitive lands. Al the
NAL, while but little play falls To MS share.
The camel is always bad tempered, and.
when overladen, lies down, refusing to move
lazy and selfish; the native women pass
their time apparently in chattering and
giggling; the children play and squabble;
the ubiquitous dogs sleep in the sun, but
from daybreak to midnight the little mousse
colored donkeys toll increasingly. All bur
dens too bulky or too cumbersome for man
or the big beasts are put OF their backs;
the provender horses and camels have re-
fused becomes their portion; they are the
first to begin the days labor and the last
to turn in. 1t is impossible to live long in
the Orient or the south of France without
becoming attached to those gentle. willing
animals The role the kindly, honest
Bourlco" fills SO well abroad is played on
this side of the Atlantic by the American
husband
In saying this mean no disrespect to my
married compatriots; quite the contrary. L
admire them as ! do all docile, wel-mean-
ing beings. 1t is well for our women, how
ever, that their lords. like the little ORR
entail donkeys, do not know their strength,
but are content to toll on to the end of their
days, expecting neither praise nor thanks
in return. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
MAY ACT SPEEDILY.
President May Intervene in Cuban Al
fairs Sooner than Expected.

President May Intervene in Cuban Az
fairs Sooner than Expected.
CHICAGO. March ia dispatch to the
Times-Herald from Washington says: In
Prevention next week Is among the posi-
biIities. Much depends upon the degree OF
responsibility fixed upon Spain by the YER
dict of tho court of inquiry. If the negl-
gence of Spanish officials is demonstrated
to have contributed materially to the disas-
ter. the President will probably demand
that the war in Cuba be stopped by May l,
or by June l at the latest. If Spain refuses
the United States will take possession of
Cuban ports, which Spain will doubtless re-
gard as an act of war. If, on the other
hand the report of the court charges only
general Spanish negligence, without specific
proof the President will, for the present,
demand only an indemnity from Spain. AT
any rate the demand for stopping the war
by June l at the latest-intervention by
force, if diplomatic Intervention does not
avail-will not be long delayed. 1t will fol-
low close upon the demand FOR reparation
for the Maine disaster, if it does not ac-
company it. This is the decision Of the
President, as made known to his Cabinet
advisers to-day. The Cuban horror must be
abated this spring. The President will not
wait till next fall.
All reports that President Mckinley is
disposed to pursue a milder course toward
Spain-that the administration is weaken
ing"-are untrue. If anything. the attitude
of this government toward Spain and the
Cuban question is now firmer than ever be-
fore. In the minds of the President and his
advisers the question of reparaton for the
Maine is being rapidly mnimized, and the
great question, the problem worthy the best
and mos. heroic efforts OF the Nation for its
solution, looms up in the Cuban horror. l
am informed the President has almost
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A bill prohibiting the distribution and sale
in Canada of newspapers issued or purport-
second reading in the Dominion House or
Commons
The damage by frost in California during
the last forty-eight hours has been seri-
$3.50, 900 and in Vaca valley at $25O,O00
BY the breaking of a guy rope of der
rick at the new south terminal station in
Boston Friday j. F. Mayell was killed,
Anthony Naruni fatally injured and Charles
Hawkins severely hurt.
The ninth week Of the struggle between
capital and labor in New Bedford finds the
situation practically unchanged, except that
the operatives have conceded that they
might be willing to go back to work under
reduction of per cent instead OF III.
The government of Newfoundland has
introduced a pension bill retiring Chief JUS
tice Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Car
ter, of the Supreme Court of the colony,
now entering his eightieth year, with sal
airy of $1,000.
c. NJ. Crawford, cashier of the collapsed
Merchants Bank, of Lincoln, Neb, was ar
rested last night on a grand jury indictment
he knew the bank was insolvent and about
to close. He furnished bail.
The steamer Illinois, which sailed from
Philadelphia. on Wednesday for San Fran
CISCO and which grounded in the Delaware
river, got off at high tide yesterday. 1t
will probably be necessary to place her in
the dry dock to examine her bottom.
AT SIdT6InOTe, i. L., fT1udy, deputy
United States Marshal Arnold and Deputy
Bussey attempted to arrest a man named
Johnson. Johnson resisted and shot Ar
mold dead. Deputy Bussey thereupon fired
two bullets into Johnsons body killing
him.
The Central Pennsylvania Methodist
Episcopal Conference yesterday voted
against the propositions from the Rock
River Qll) Conference and the Maine Con-
ference which provides for equal lay and
ministerial representation in the General
Conference.
At Trenton. N. j.. yesterday. Vice Chan
application of the Trenton Pottery Com
Oliphant and others from engaging in the
manufacture of sanitary pottery ware. The
case has been in the courts for three years.
In Appomattox county, Virginia, yester-
day, Emmett Marshall, son of the late
Douglass Marshall, shot and instantly
killed his brothers wife, Mrs. w. B. Mar
shall. He then fired at his brother Doug
lass, wounding him in the arm, and at
tempted to shoot his other brother, the
husband of the lady he had shot
In the United States Court at Covington,
KY, Judge Taft on the bench the jury in
the case of TIE United States against Thos.
b. Youtsey, ex-cashier of the First National
Bank of Newport, KY, charged with misap-
propriating the banks funds, and variously
otherwise violating the federal banking
laws, found the defendant guilty to-day on
thirty of the thirty-tWo counts in the indict-
mentS against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20
AMMUNITION intact.
Alleged Proof that the Maine Was
Blown Up from the Outside.

NEW YORK, March 19.-Harry S. Full
ton. in a copyright cable dispatch from Ha-
vana to the Journal, SAYS: The damning
material evidence of the fact that the Maine
was blown up from the outside will be
taken to Key West en- bloc. and perhaps
to Washington. if war holds off long enough
to make 1t possible. The American divers
those of the navy and those of the wreck
ing communicative located and are cut
ting out the great section of the Names
hull which shows the point of impact of the
explosive force. The full cross-section of
the vessel, twenty feet lineal measurement
will. if possible, be raised by the mighty
derrick Chieftain, loaded upon a lighter and
towed under the shelter of the guns AT Key
West or Tortugas for the careful investiga-
ton of the members of the board of IN
quiry and such experts in naval architec-
ture and high explosives as the members
of the board may see fit to call on.
The Spanish divers, reinforced by three
experts who have been working on the new
dry dock, have not yet located the great
cash in the Names plating which marks
the point at which the stupendous eXplo-
sion occurred But with the American
divers once out of the way Spain would
see to it that another charge of nitro
glycerin destroyed all such evidence.
The recovery of a few guns and much
unexploded ammunition from the wreck of
the Maine to-day was mere incident, but
the finding of one Of its starboard frames
bent nearly fiat across the keel was some
thing which may or may not neceSSitate the
return of the board of inquiry to Havana.
One of the Merritt divers stumbled across
the telltale piece of STEEL and at once came
to the surface and reported his find. 1t is
but another bit of cumulative evidence to
prove that the Maine was blown up. Per-
haps the diver will be sent to Key West. 5
The board already knows that the de-
struction of the Maine resulted from an out
side explosion. The Spanish divers worked
a little while to-day. They discovered moth
ing, which is not to be wondered at since
they seldom descend more than ten feet.
The Spanish divers work in truly Spanish
style-as little work as possible for the
money.
Divers opened the after magazines of the
Maine to-day. They found cases upon cases
of ammunition as good as when it left the
factory. From the forward magazine many
rapid-fire cartridges were recovered. Such
as were opened showed the powder dry
and in good condition. Much of this valua-
bic ammunition and most of the Names
lighter gum will be saved. Several Of the
latter ere already upon the Wrecking lighter
Sharpe. One is mounted as 1t was aboard
the man-of-war, and points pugnaciouSly at
the Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo.
The Fern and the Wrecking vessels are
the only American ships in The harbor to-
night. If the ultra Spanish mob should at
suits to the honor of Spain,' which they
daily enumerate in abusive hand bills there
is nothing to prevent their carrying it to
successful conclusion