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MISS FRANCES wOODS-A NEBRASKA
CITY GIRL WHO SERVED AS NURSE
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
her self sacrificing patriotism is recognized
and appreciated.
The mere mention Of that gamest OF all
game fish Involuntary associates 1t in the
imagination with pineclad, rock ribbed hills
and noisy, snowfed mountain brooks.
Driving across northern Holt county,
where the landscape is OF magnificent dis
tances and inspiring vastness, the unin
formed would not suspect that the many
gravel -bedded streams that hurry away to
the north are the homes and breeding places
of untold thousands of those speckled beau
ties that so delighted the heart OF Walton
and cause so many to disregard the moral
taught in the story of a certain cherrytree
and a little hatchet, They were first planted
in these streams in the early sos and
have multiplied so rapidly and grown to such
a size that there Is no possible danger OF
determination at the hands of the angler,
be he a true sportsman or a genuine game
hog"
The stream in which they are most numer-
GUS heads In some unassuming hills about
twelve miles northwest of O'Neill, whence
1t flows in a uortheasterly direction under
latticework Of nodding Willows and clinging
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terrible sum and when
the workmen invited
him up among the scaf-
folding he was so giddy
that he did not enjoy
the view one bit.
.
John Garland Price,
who will represent
Alaska in congress, is a
lawyer of Skagway. He
was born in Iowa twen-
ty-nine years ago and is
an enthusiast on the
subject of Alaska. He
believes that a territory
should be made of
southeastern Alaska. He
desires to secure from
congress appropriation
for adequate court ar
rangements and to ar
range so that a greater
percentage of the taxes
collected in the terri
tory shall be expendei
in building up the coun-
try. He also wants to
secure the passage of a
good municipal law for
the government of the
new cities of the Klon-
dixie. He settled in
Skagway in August,
1897, and is conse-
quently one of the old
est pioneers of the
town, as well as one Of
it's most prominent citi-
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of the west have rendered possible an in
innate acquaintance with the dominant
spirit of our life. In every story thus far
written there has been an avoidance Ct
the note of despair so much affected by those
who have sought to interpret the middle
west Upon the other hand, there has been
a consistent effort to give sane and ra-
tional renderingof the unconquerable courage
and self-reliance that nodded the twin com
monwealths of Kansas and Nebraska. The
work I am now doing includes a series of
pioneer stories of Nebraska, a biography
of John Brown, and a novel of the Massa
chusetts Bay colony, which deals partcu-
larly with the conflict between the Puritans
and the Quakers"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-10

Sir Maurice O'Rorrke, who has come into
prominence in connection with the subject
of federation in New Zealand, is a gradu-
ate of Trinity college, Dublin, and msm-
ber of the bar at Auckland. He has never
been known to do any work and enjoys
the singular reputation of being the LATEST
man and ablest parliamentarian in New
Zealand. For thirty-seven years he has rep
resented the same constituency, which is
"a sleepy pensioner settlement near Auck-
land where nobody ever does anything at
all except eat peaches and catch snapper,
and where politics is actually unknown"
For such constituency the champion of
federation made an ideal representative.
On two or three occasions only has he ever
shown any energy, but on these he exhbi ed
surprising power.
General Lord Paul Sanford Methuen,
commander of the British forces advancing
to the relief Of Kimberley, is a descendant
Of the noted John Methuen, once lord chan
cellor Of Ireland and a diplomat of promi-
rence. The general began his army career
as lieutenant in the Scots Guards in 1864
and as early as 1873 he was assigned to
duty on the Gold Coast. year later he
was a brigade major at Ashanti. In 1877
he was military secretary to the commander
n-chief in Ireland and for four years there
after military attache at Berlin. In 1882
he was transferred to Egypt He was next
commander of Methuen's Light Horse and
the field force in Bechuanaland and deputy
adjutant general in South Africa. Lord
Methuen was given his present rank OF
major general in 1890 and was until re-
Gently in command of the home district
and in service on the Indian frontier
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said: 'In making these recommended
tions l am fully alive to the RESPONSE
bilities incurred and keenly realize all
the consequences that may follow
The congress responded periodically
to the presidents message, and a com
mission to determine the boundary in
dispute was appointed, consisting of
Justice Brewer, Andrew d. White,
Frederic Il. Coudert, d. c. Gilman and
r. III. Alvey. For a short time war be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain seemed inevitable, but eventually
the London jingo element subsidized,
and the American commission con-
tinued its labors until February 81,
1897, when, through the instrumental
ity of the United States, treaty was
concluded between Great Britain and
Venezuela for arbitrating the subject
in dispute. This treaty stipulated that
the arbitration tribunal should consist
of five members-two to be selected by
Great Britain; one by the president of
the United States of Venezuela and one
by the justices of the supreme court of
the United States, the four to select a
fifth member who should be the presi-
dent of the tribunal. The British rep
resentatives are Chief Justice Russell
and Sir Richard Hem Collins; the pres
ident of Venezuela chose Chief Justice
Melville w. Fuller. and the justices OF
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the supreme court appointed Justice
David Josiah Brewer. The fifth jurist,
selected by the four already mentioned,
is Prof. Maertens, Russian scholar
whose reputation as an authority on
international law is world wide. He is
an official of the Russian foreign office,
professor of international law at the
University of ST. Petersburg and author
of ''Maertens' Treatise" the standard
book of reference on all the treaties of
the world. Among the counsel for
Venezuela before the tribunal are ex-
President Benjamin Harrison and ex-
Secretary of the Navy B. +. Tracy.
Whatever the tribunal may decide is
final, and must be considered definite
settlement of all the questions referred
to it by both sides.
The following is brief outline of the
history of Guiana, the claims of Great
Britain and the arguments of Vene-
zuela:
Sir Walter Raleigh landed in Guiana
near the close of the sixteenth CEN
tury, and soon afterward the Neither
lands and France divided with Great
Britain the control of the country. The
English did not succeed in holding
their own in the newly-opened coun-
try, and when Raleigh arrived with an
expedition in 1916 to reassert British
power his forces met with disaster
Upon his return to England the in
trepid explorer and colonizer was i'm
prisoned and executed. During the war
between England, Holland and France
in the seventeenth century Guiana was
taken and retaken several times. What
| is now Dutch Guiana was seized by
| Great Britain in 1869, but was ceded
back to Holland in exchange for the
Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam
now New York. In 1903 the province
of British Guiana was acquired by Eng,
land, but was not formally ceded by
Holland until 1914. The territory given
up by the Dutch government included
the provinces of Demarara, Berbice
and Esequibo, the river of the latter
name being claimed as the correct
boundary by Venezuela. However, the
boundary between Guiana and Vene
zuela and between Guiana and Brazi
was never accurately established, ane
this fact was the ostensible cause o.
the dispute which is now being settled
| by the Paris tribunal. incidentally i
might be mentioned that similar mis-
understanding, based ON the same
cause, is now awaiting settlement be
tween France and Brazil.
Nenezuela's claim that the EsequibC
is the legal boundary has been re
peatedly acknowledged by England
notably in 1S41, when a British ccur'
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Great Britain returned an impertinent
reply, stating that all territory within
the so-called Schomburg line was abso-
lutely hers and that she had nothing
to arbitrate" there. Claims west of that
line she was willing to submit to an in
ternational tribunal for adjudication.
Venezuela, on the other hand, insisted
that the Esequibo river was the recog-
nized boundary and that the Pumeron
river was, at all events, the extreme
limit of disputed territory. Secretary
Gresham's sudden death delayed the
American answer to the British note
declining arbitration, but when Secre-
tary Olney assumed the state portfolio
one of his first acts was the transmits
sion of this now historic document
which, together with Lord Salisbury's
answer, constituted the basis of Presi-
dent Cleveland's message of December
II, 1895.
In it the president declared the
claims urged by Great Britain to be a
direct violation of the Monroe doctrine,
which he designated as an unwritten
disavowed all intention of wishing to
interfere with British rights in her
South American colonies, but at the
same time protested against the extern
sion of England's political system. In
order to avoid clash he asked congress
to appoint commission to investigate
and determine the true boundary line
Int D,;t 10
and then went on to say that when that
commission had made it's report the
United States should resist by every
means in its power, as willful aggres-
sion upon its rights and interests, the
appropriation of any lands or the eNer-
else of governmental jurisdiction over
any territory which, after investiga-
ton, we have determined of right be-
long to Venezuela" Continuing, he
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A Modern soIomon,s Judgment,

The Greek ecclesiastical authorities
at Aleppo have been called upon to de-
eide a case watch strongly recalls Solo
mons famous judgment. By a strange
coincidence d woman and her daugh-
ter both ga:e birth to female child at
the same time. But the babies got
mixed, and as one of them was ugly
and the other pretty and healthy both
mothers claimed the latter. The elder
woman maintained that, as all her 9TH
er children were handsome, the ugly
child could not be hers, while her daugh-
ter claimed that, being young, hand
some and strong, she could not be the
mother of a weak and ugly baby. The
religious chief of the town settled the
affair in summary way. He adjudged
the beautiful child to the daughter on
the ground that, it being her first, the
occasion was not to be made one of hui
initiation and disappointment, while
the elder mother could afford to forego
her claim, since she had already had
several handsome children.-Constan-
tinople Malumat.
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THE PARIS TRIBUNAL
It Will Decide the British-VeneZue.
Ian Dispute.
The Greatest Triumph of American
Diplomacy Events Which Led
Up to the Formation of the
Commission.
Jspe eial Correspondence

The British-Venezuela commission
now in session at Paris, France, is one
of the most important international
bodies which has ever been con-
vened for the purpose of arrang-
ing amicably dispute which once
threatened to lead to war between
two great nations. In 1895 Great Britain
laid claims to vast tract of territory be-
longing to the South American republic
of Venezuela. and was about to take
forcible possession of the same, in de-
fance of all precedent and the protests
of the Venezuelan government. Presi-
dent Cleveland, through Mr.. Gresham,
his secretary of state, protested against
the proposed robbery, and suggested
that the points at issue between the two
countries be submitted to arbitration.
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in Demarara recognized the South
American republics jurisdiction over
the Maraca river, which is located but
short distance west of the Esequibo
river; and again in 1874, when a similar
ruling was made by the authorities of
British Guiana.
In 1871 the British government sent
Robert Hermann Schomburgk, a Ger
man geographer and botanist, to the
South American continent to survey a
boundary line between British Guiana
and Venezuela. Without even the SEM
blance of authority, Schomburgk took
the mouth of the Orinoco as starting
point, instead of the Esequibo, and ran
an uncertain line in southerly direc-
ton, giving to the British colony 10000
or more square miles of territory and
the right bank of the Orinoco delta.
Venezuela declined to recognize the
survey made by the German botanist,
and protested vigorously against it. In
1914 new British line was run from a
point on the coast east of Schom-
burgk's line, leaving the mouth of the
Orinoco in Venezuela, but DETECTING
far to the westward in the interior, so
that the new claim covered really more
territory than the old.
The boundary established after
Schomburgk's survey is known as the
Aberdeen line. 1t started on the west
bank of the Maraca river and embraced
large tracts of mining country in the
southeastern section of Venezuela. An
other survey, made in 1881, created the
Granville line" 1t added over 100
miles of coast line to the British claims.
Afterward, and until 1887, new claims
were filed by Great Britain, until, at
the beginning of 1898, England includ-
ed all the territory on the right bank of
the Orinoco near its mouth and it's
course southerly for nearly 300 miles
in her demands. This strip of land in
cludes the famous Yuruari gold mines,
whose riches, according to the reports
of prospectors, are incalculable. There
is no doubt that it was the discovery of
these mines which determined Great
Britain to demand of Venezuela a re-
linquishment of territorial claims
whose justice had never been seriously
disputed. G. w. WEIPPIERT.
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DOWNFALL OF LITTLE WILLIE.

Being an exposition of the fact that sci
G ce, though excellent in its way and
perhaps Indispensable, may not be a gooG
thing all around. after all.
Little Willie's ways are dreary.
He is sick at heart and sore;
Once he cheered us with his laughter,
He is doing so no more.
Little Willie has sister
Who is fair and twenty-three:
Never was a gentle maiden
Sweeter, daintier than she.
willie's sister has a fellow
Whom she loved with all her might,
And he comes to see her with the
Regularity of night.
Willie's sisters fellows father
Is millionaire whose one
Wish appears to be to pamper
The desires Of his son.
Willie's sisters fellow used to
Ride behind blooded pair
That could do a mile in '20''
Without moistening hair.
Willie used to hold those charges
While their owner was inside
Asking Willie's happy sister
To get ready for ride.
And it used to seem to take her
Long to make her toilet, too:
Or. perhaps, twas not her toilet
Willie didn't care a sou.
Oft he sat there in the carriage
While the hours dragged along.
Holding firmly to the ribbons.
Pouring out his soul in song.
And his pretty sisters fellow
Gladdened him with many fee
All, the way that child spent money
Was astonishing to see!
Nearly all he ate was candy,
He had friends to turn away;
All the boys were out for Willie
Everywhere and every day.
His opinion was their gospel,
They were all on Willie's side:
Willie was their saint and leader,
Willie's heart was full Of pride.
Gone, alas, is Willie's prestige!
And his friends, oh, where are they?
One of them gave little Willie
A sad beating yesterday!
Little girls make faces at him,
Who had only smiles before:
Willie doesn't carry candy
In his pockets any more.
Little willie's heart is heavy,
There's shadow on his brow
Little Willie's sisters fellow
Has a horseless carriage now!
IS. Z. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Herald.
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The American Plan.

Smith-Are you going to allow your
daughter to marry that worthless
young dude?
Brown haven't decided yet. In
fact, don't know whether my daugh-
ter is going to allow me to have any
thing TO say about it--N. Y. Journal.
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+ |{tzaazg;j 4; J
His Idea off.

"The idea of sending children to bed
early to punish 'em!" exclaimed Mrs.
Cossel, who was discussing her rela-
tives. "That isn't any way to erect
them"
"Of course it isn't answered her
husband. IF you want to convince 'em
that you mean business make 'em get
up an hour or so earlier in the morn
ing."-St. Louis Republic.
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Habit.

''Isn't there something the matter
with the feet in this poem?" asked the
critical friend. 81 don't believe some
of the lines have enough"
Every likely you're right" answered
Miss Cayenne. 'It was written by a
young man in store where they don't
treat people right. He can't get over
giving short measure to save his life"
Washington Star.
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HaFd to Tell,

Mrs. Wabash-Which did you con-
slider the happiest day of your life?
Mrs. Dearborn-Weil, I'm not quite
sure whether it was the day l became
engaged, the day l was married or the
one on which 1 procured my divorce.
-Yonkers Statesman.
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NhR KNEW

"Ah," he cried, kneeling at her feet,
"say you will marry me, and 1 will be
your devoted slave for life"
"Arise, Henry" she answered, "you
will not do. That was what my first
husband said, and before we had got
fairly out of the church he began tell
ing me how he wanted me to wear my
hair. '-Cincinnati Inquirer.
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Complaining Woman.

Down in the madding throng's ignoble
strife
1t is his lot to labor day by day;
He's sending all he earns unto his wife,
Who's closed the house and hied herself
away.
Chicago Times-Herald
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Heard at the Parsnnn-e

Mrs. Fijjit-What is the noise in the
next room?
The Housemaid-Oh, it's the parson
rehearsing his sermon for tomorrow.
Mrs. Fijjit-Oh, l see; practicing
what he preaches.-Tit-Bits.
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ADelicate Compliment.

Little Johnny-Mrs. Talkemdown
paid big compliment to me to-day.
Mother-Did she really? Well, there's
no denying that woman has sense.
What did she say?
Little Johnny-She said she didn't
see how you came to have such nice
little boy as 1 was.-Tit-Bits.
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Met His SuDeriOr.

Hardened Scoundrel = How'd you
make out at Robin the train?
Desperate Villain lin disgust)-Done
first rate till l got into the Pullman
sleeper. Then the porter held me up!
Harlem Life
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PuzzI,pu Even to an Expert

jewelers. Son-Papa, how do you
just a watch?
Jeweler-Ad-just, my boy; not just
just.
jewelers. Son-Well, papa, if you add
just to just, it's just just, isn't it?-
jewelers. Weekly.
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A Fraud.

Jimmie-Say, mister, have yer got
Dead Shot Dick, er de Terror of
Bloody Gulch?"
Librarian-No, my boy. We do not
keep that class of books.
Jimmie-Aw, say, fought dis wuz
ibery fer de people.-N. Y. Journal.
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Not Up to the Times.

Amy-Why have you dropped Miss
Elders acquaintance?
Mabel-O, was compelled to. She's
beyond redemption.
Amy-What is the trouble?
Mabel-She persists in saying ''well-
dressed instead of "smartly gowned."
Harlem Life.
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An Exclamation.

Mae-Miss. Oldgirl says she has seen
only % winters.
Ethel presume she is troubled with
blindness in the winter time
n. y. Journal.
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Aunt Jane-Ihat is very aecorous
and modest bathing suit, Louise, and
I quite approve of it.
Louise am glad you think it so
proper aunty; but it's my bicycle suit,
you know.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Reminded Her.

'You remind me so much of my first
husband" said the angry wife, as the
family quarrel grew fiercer.
do I?'' sneered the angry husband.
eyes. You've got so many of his bad
qualities and so few of his good ones!"
Chicago Tribune.
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PranerIY Treated.

"You didn't even pay the minister
who married us!" cried Mrs. Peck
HE deserved to be hung up!" shouted
Henry, Observation-Disclosures North
American.
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The Time.

Upholsterer-Are you in hurry for
this sofa, miss?
She-Oh, would like it before eight
to-night.-Detroit Free Press.
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Worth Worshin.

Chicago Belle fear you do not real
ly and truly love me.
Ardent Suitor-I worship the very
ground you walk on.
Chicago Belle-Of course. It's worth
5000 front foot.-N. Y. Weekly
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Woes of the POetess.

She wrote some verse she thought would
pass,
On the blthe crckets in the grass;
And then she swooned total wreck,
Because one crawled up on her neck.
Chicago Daily Record.
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Facts VS.. Fiction.

Now doth the angling amateur,
Sit on log and wish
lie was as lucky as the man
OF whom he buys his fish.
Chicago Daily News.
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An Observation.
&c A c h1iY

GAS blind as bat,' is saying
OF antediluvian date,
But a bats not as blind as the average man
In church when they're passing the
plate.
N. Y. World.
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A Love Lyric.

Dear, in the darkened west the sunset
fades away.
Soon from the rose-tipped hills will sink
the dying day;
need you, my love! Why tarry thus
afar?
You know mosquitoes fly the scent of your
cigar.
-Chicaoo Daily Record
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Very Rare.

Stubb--She showed me some rare
paintings.
Penn-What did you think of them ?
Stubb-Well, they reminded me of a
rare beefsteak.
Penn-In what way?
Stubb-Not very well done.-Chicago
Daily News.
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Force of Mind.

I'm union is strength" says the proverb,
But speaks not of various strifes
That are caused by the dominant question
If the strength is the husbands or wifes.
-Indoa
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Easily GueSsed.

Little Helen-Boo-hoo! 1 don't want
to take that nasty, bitter stuff.
Her Mamma-But how do you know
it's nasty and bitter? You haven't
tasted it.
Little Helen-You said it would be
good for me.-Chicago Times-Herald
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Maud (pettishly)-Oh, how do wish
were man! I'd love nothing better
than to be soldier and fight for my
country.
Ethel-No doubt you'd make a good
one. You're well used to powder, you
know.-Black and White.
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documentary Caution,

Write it with care and read it through,
Oh, youth, who would a-wooing go,
Lest you may find your "billy-doo"
AS deadly as bordereau.
Washington Star.
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Born Fighter.

Pieface Johnson = Mormon Jake
would ruther fight than eat, do be-
lieve.
Rubberneck Bill-Pardner, that amt
half of it. He'd druther fight than
drink.-Indianapo Journal.
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THAT lady going along there is my
mother-in-law."
Great Scott! you don't say so? 1
thought she was walking advertise
ment for new lamp shade" = Ally
Sloper.
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Can't he Curtailed.
While dog with tea-kettle tied to h
a

Is a sad sight, you'll agree,
It's an evil that everywhere must prevail,
For it's bound to a cur, you see.
L. A W. Bulletin:
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AN EXCEPTION.

The Bear-They say first impressions
are not to be trusted, but I'm sure I'll
like you.-N. Y. Evening Journal.