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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

of passengers and porters, the platform
thronged with people waiting for the
train, but there was no Eugene Vansit-
tart Once or twice he sprang up and
ran to the booking-office, then he strobe
back to the place of appointment, fear
full that he had missed her by so doing.
Finally he dropped into his seat again,
took off his hat and passed a white
pocket handkerchief across his fore
head. The train whirled at last from
the Midlands; there was wait of five
minutes for refreshments. and the
throng Of humanity was increased by
the passengers who came leaping out
of the train. Robert White stood on
the seat to get a clearer survey of the
platform, and then his his big dark
eyes took stock of me for the first
time. He turned very pale, his lower
jaw dropped. and he got slowly down
and subsidized into his seat. l went up
to him.
white, what are you doing here?"
waiting for a friend, sir"
did you expect anyone by this train?
1 don't remember your telling me any
thing about it,
mo, sir" he answered, hoarsely, Il
did not
He was not boy who could tell a
lie readily, and he did not attempt to
deceive me by hastily concocting
story. He sat and stared gloomily be-
fore him, but 1 saw that he was alive
to all the hustle and movement around
him, to the people focking into the
train, to the hurry and scurry of belat-
ed travellers, to the porters with their
heavily laden barrows, to the man in
corduroys with the raurous voice and
the big changing bell. Had Eugene
Vansittart appeared upon the platform
at that juncture / am sure he would
have defed me: but she came not. The
bell ceased. the guards whistle sound
ed, the resonant shrek of the engine
responded, and the train glided out of
the station. and all the faces in the
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mistress, sis that your handwriting?
l ask that question as a mere form, and
for the satisfaction of this gentlemen,
but did you write that letter."
Poor Eugene, with the color still
burnt into her face, took up the letter
with a hand that trembled very much,
glanced at it, laid it down upon the
table, looked at me with tears in her
eyes, looked away from the principal
and said in low voice:
Eyes"
"And would you have carried out all
that that shameful epistle implies?'
A painful silence; then the answer
came again:
Eyes"
at is an abnormal precocity," ex-
claimed Miss Craig-Alpine. Go to
your room and prepare to accompany
me at once to your parents! Do you
hear Miss Vansittart?-a once!"
Yes. Miss vansittart was impulsive,
hot-headed, hot-hearted.
ooh. don't send me home-don't take
me home!' she cried. Il love Bob SO
much. He is so fond of me. Ill
will promise anything, Miss Craig-Al-
pine, but don't take me home, For
mercy's sake let me stop! l won't see
him again-won't speak to him again,
however much l love him-witf.out your
permission-but don't let me go all this
long, long distance away from him.
Pray don't! / can't go-I won't go-I
WON'T
"If I might be allowed to suggest I
began.
81 think, sir, / need not detain you
any longer from your duty in this mat
ter, too said Miss Craig-Alpine coldly,
and / bowed stifly in return and went
away 1 took Eugenie's letter with
me. I quietly secured it for the girls
sake. perhaps for young Whites, for it
was surreptitiously stitched back into
his vest when ! got home.
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sir. to her parents and herself.' she
said. fourishing the letter rather Wild
~ over her head. 1T is no question of
confidence. Have these two imprudent
and impertinent young persons shown
any confidence in us, do you think?"
shrugged my shoulders; / had no
reply that was handy or appropriate
to the question. had one or two sug-
gestions to make, but knew that she
would not listen to any suggestions of
mine. They are unworthy of consid-
Grafton, she thought. All, well, possibly
they were.
Miss Vansfttart, unconscious Of the
storm impending over her fair head,
presently came smiling into the room.
When she caught a glimpse of me
who was evidently well known to her
by sight-the delicate face flushed
bright crimson and the blue eyes
seemed popping out of her pretty head.
| felt all of a tremble as though l had
stolen something-felt IKE the culprit,
too, and an awful sneak, and yet it
was my duty-I maintain to this day
that it was my duty. Had ever mar
ried and been blessed with a SON or
daughter I should have been glad and
grateful for any information that
would have helpedxme to save and shell
ter any child of mine from SO dangerous
an impulse.
Eugene Vansittart was very pretty
l had expected that-and was in ap-
pearance quite young woman already,
a month or two older than Bob, knew
afterward; weak, vain, loving, impul-
sive, thoughtless.
Miss Vansfttart," said the school
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/ did not say anything to young
White on that day, or the next; ] had
not the courage of the heart 1t was
an over, and there was an end OF it
Miss Craig-Alpine had kept her word
and whirled away Eugene from the
sphere of temptation, and thought that
it might be as well-being weak
minded sort of man, as the reader
has already been able to discover for
himself-for younf White to find out
the sequel by degrees. was not in his
confidence. l did not want a scene. I
was fond of the boy-I even felt for
the boy-and l had averted all the mis-
chief, all the scandal which might have
followed his insane project.
But when on Saturday afternoon at
3:45 o'clock / saw him at the station
whittier I had gone ostensibly to pur-
chase an early edition of an evening
paper-the tears came into my old FOOLS
eyes. There he was at the place of ap
pointment under the clock, looking
flushed and wild. with a grave stare
ahead of him. He did not see me at
first, and I did not force myself on his
attention. The lad bought a paper, too.
but it was crumpled up in his nervous
hand. At his feet was small port
manteau which be longed to him, and
was puzzled to think how he had con-
trived to smuggle it out of the school,
house. When the great clock was close
upon the stroke of 4-the train started
at 4:05-he looked ahead Of him with
a very wild expression indeed, and his
glances wandered right and left in a
hopeless and maniacal kind of a way.
There was a great hustle now, crowd
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

very strange"
He walks away from me with an ugly
crease In his big broad forehead. and I
wonder again. for the second tinra, that
night how 1t would have turned out II
had not interfered, or II had interfered
in another kind of way, and whether 10
would have been any better than this. for
this has turned out so very badly, and
leaves the story without any moral that
my old eyes can perceive.
A story with q grim sequel. with tho sun
going down. red as blood, upon the far
away sea, stern faced man walking up
the gap In the cliff toward the little
French village at the summit, and young
White lying alone on the sands shot down
like a dog-Windsor Magazine.
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LADYSMITIL

The janitor knew just enough Of the
Boer situation to- be mixed.
The cook didn't even know that
much.
The janitor sat on the back porch
spelling out the headlines of the moru-
ing paper.
The cook was over by the sink wtp-
ing the dish pan.
The door between them was open.
"Ut's jist as I've alters SID" remark
ed the ianitor.
'Phwats that?" inquired the cook.
1--WE alters sid thot whin two min
gifts t. scrappin' We kin bit yer bottom
tin-cint piece thot thayre's gurril in
tn case sommers."
rs thot so?" sneered the cook, who
for over a week had had designs upon
the janitor, her man having been killed
on derrick three years ago.
'Yis. It's alters SO. Look at thin
Doors"
"Phwat iv they got Z do wild tn
case?"
Its jist tn same as tn others. TIL
paypers is full iv things about Smith
woman. Ye cd bit they'd bay wan in
1t sommers. Detroit Free Press.
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HIS OPINION OF sHAkEsPEARR


There Is a story going about town
just now concerning famous man Of
letters who visited Washington recent
1y. He appeared at but ono dinner
party. There he sat next the young
daughter Of noted naval officer. Her
vocabulary Is of kind peculiar 20 very
young girls, but she ratified away at
the famous man without moments
respite. 1t was during a pause in the
general conversation that she said to
him:
"I'm awfully struck on Shakespeare.
Don't you think he's terribly interest-
ing?"
Everybody listened to hear the great
mans brilliant reply, for as a Shako-
spearean scholar he has few peers.
eyes," he said solemnly, Il do think
ha Is interesting / think no 10 more
than that. l think Shakespeare Is
lust simply too cute for anything
Washington Post.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-16

ZEE tstssss.~ss sskr sefe7s Fssss ae
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-16
TRIMMING YARDS.

ANY "shellback." whether &batt or
before the mast will recognize the
value OF a machine which. particularly
in time OF need as well as ordinarily.
will brace or square the yards in ave
MINUTES in a gale of wind. This Is
Captain Jarvss's patent bTacc-Winch.
Captain Jarvis was out tn sydney "a
the Earl OF Dalhousle. After leaving
the Dalhousie he made n trip 90 Port
land as master OF the British ship Dun
trune. and then forsooS the sea %
teaGh navigation and perfect his brace
winch. \ year ago one OF the winchcs
was affixed to- the NoTma's foremost.
There are three purchases on the ma
chine. and with IL they can handle the
ship lsSe toy. The mate of the Norma
thus spea<s ot It's working: In the
old days when II was blowing OF the
Horn and We came TO wear ship. dida'i
We catch IL. One minute We -NouId Dc
rolling In the scuppCrs. the next our
win flying rope. and then the end o.
the braces would persist IN getting ou'
through some OF the holes. and then
there would be the devil TO pay. Final
~. when We got the ship around. and
i Il was n very dark night. wOusd
have to- go aioft TO see that the yards
were braccd up sharp. Now three met
can go to- the winch, and. lifting tn
brake. can swing the yards around il
Ave minutes. No matter how th'
winds blow or how heavy the sea. q
makes no difference. All three yard
are trimmed az the same moment with
out any fuss or danger
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betwes1 trained and UNFRAMED Volu1-
tcers. What credit &C have for Inn
dy's lane during the War % iSie. vas
won o. General Sco;t With hts brigade
.. Regulars. trained and drilled most
carefully by the General "a person.
The story - our experiences on Land
during THAI war as q whole. w!th in
competent officers. and undssc!puned
and mutinOus militia. could oaiy. a.
Cuban g Verpiaack once said. make
one "he1r.s!ck % his colntry's shame. %
Hul.'s surrender. the surprise Ct Chand-
Ter a. stony CTcsS: the eap,urc of
BOerstler az the Beaver Dams: the
abandonment OF Fort George. by Nc.
Clure: the disaster a. Chrys;crS. are
part ot this shameful record. a. t.
also the surrender and burning Of the
capital AZ Washington.
II We have hitherto cscaped over
Shelming disaster in spite of our re-
lance upon unframed troops. and IN
disciplined valor. 70 Is because Ne have
had In every war at leaS; nucleus OF
skilled soldiers.
Il was the sturdy veteran Miles
Stand!sh. fresh from his service In
European wars. who saved the intan;
colony OF Plymouth from the open and
secret hostility OF the Indians. ]; was
Washington and the soldiers of the
French and Indian wars and men train
Ell IN frontier life who formed the back
bone OF the armies % the Revolution.
1t was the soldiers trained in similar
school who won our honors in Mexico.
II was the soldiers OF the Mexican
war who were the chief reliance os
both North and South during the Civil
War and finally. u was n corps com
posed almos; entirely OF such soldiers
and OF the well trained regiments Of
the Regular Army who brushed aside
the Spanish defences az san Juan and
gave Us the signal victory which ended
the Spanish war.
And certainly when we come TO the
Navy. no one can doubt that u was
Dewey and men like him. trained IN
the school OF Farragut and Porter. Who
swept the Spanlard from the seas and
gave us victories at which the world
has not yet ceased to wonder.
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

~ NE of this mornings press dis
patches under Washington date
is to the effect that, in enforc-
ing Chinese exclusion laws in the Phil
ippines. General Otis is acting not I'M
der instructions from the government
at Washington, but by his authority as
governor general of the islands.
The fact appears to be that Otis has
ordered the exclusion of these China
men but that, apparently the admin
istration does not want to admit to the
Chinese diplomatic representative that
it sustains Otis in this action. Per-
haps the presidents leutenants can
fool the Cinnamon into believing that
as governor general of the Philippine
islands, Otis can presume to do things
which the administration at Washing
ton does not approve.
Odd enough is the paragraph in this
mornings Washington dispatch that
deals with this item. 1t quotes the
former American consul, who is still
retained at Manila In confidential rela-
tions, as saying that the native Fill
pinos strongly oppose Chinese labor,
and that the exclusion of the Cinnamon
would materially aid in bringing the
war to a close"
This is described as an important
letter" Yet the state department has
been giving out assurances that it has
got through with trying to coddle these
Filipinos and that now we are going
to whip them good and hard. Does
this vigorous campaigning include a
policy that would offend China for the
sake of doing precisely what the Fill
pinos would like to have done?
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tity. That she is exceptionally fast is
admitted. The latest news from the
other side of the Atlantic is that ex-
perts consider her the swiftest boat
ever constructed by a British builder,
and that there is a wave of enthusi-
assn all through England, Scotland and
Ireland over the belief that she will
wrest the famous America cup from
America. The feeling of enthusiasm is
SO high over there that hundreds of
yachtsmen are organizing syndicates
and chartering special steamers to
carry them to the scene of the races.
There is complaint that in some of
her trial races the Columbia was not
handled in a way that would bring out
her highest speed. This was more no.
ticeabe in her earlier races than in her
later ones. The result of the interna
tional contest will depend largely on
the sailors. AS at the battles of Ma
Mia and Santiago the men behind the
guns" rather than the ships. decided
the victory. Great Britain claims to
produce the best sailors in the world-a
claim that the United States has re-
peatedly refuted, and purposes again to
refute in the coming race.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
THURSDAY. AUGUST "a, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
To-Day's Vote.
~HE trustees in the sch

rHE trustees in the school dis
trict which includes Carroll
and the city of Anaconda are
well entitled to favorable response to
their request for special levy of four
mills. This matter is entirely within
the hands of the people. The money,
IL granted, must be formally voted, and
a special election for that purpose will
be held to-day. This fund, if the vote
taken to-day is favorable, has no re-
lation to the public-school fund for the
rest of the county of Deer Lodge-it
is exclusively for the use of the district
included within the territory we have
named. The levy will keep the total
well within the limit permitted by law;
the four mills are, as the Standard re-
members, not quite so high a figure as
the amount voted at the special cleo
Hion held last year. There can be no
question as to the merits in this case.
In addition to the levy made by the
county commissioners, it has been
found necessary, in recent years, to
make a special levy in order to pro-
vide for the operating of the Anaconda
schools. No new building projects are
involved, the funds required are for
the current maintenance of the public
schools. Refusal to vote in the affirm
ative would simply mean that the
city's schools cannot be run.
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Cosmos, June II, notes that we may OBJ
tain an even better realization, in this
way, of what a reversed world would be
than by reversing the kaleidoscope, as
has sometimes been DONE After noting
some of the curious speculations regard
ing such a world-bewitched he goes on
to say:
I'VE now have two instruments that
can transport us to this new
world-this world moving backwards.
They are the cinematograph and the pho
nograph.
THE first aids us very easily in getting
a view of backward moving scene. I'm
fortunately, the scenes that can be re-
produced on the instrument are too lin
tied to give us a general idea of what the
whole world would be under these con-
ditions. In the instrument the aspect of
a person approaching evidently resembles.
when the machine is reversed, that of
one who as retiring by walking back
wards. This is nothing new. 1t gives no
idea of world where effects precede
causes
'rhe photograph, on the contrary
positively introduces US into a
new world, gives us a new language and
a new music / wish to call the atten-
ton of musicians to this fact. 1t is said
that Wagner, to get new musical ideas,
used to put his piano out of tune, and
then play upon it the most beautiful
pieces of Mozart or Beethoven. Thus, by
chance. unexpected effects would be re-
vealed to his ears Chance Is sometimes
artistic. Children throw big ink blots
on a bit of paper, fold it up, press 1t
down and then admire the odd forms
produced. Who has not wondered, dur
ing a thunderstorm, at the fantastic and
grand forms of the clouds. and in winter
at the elegant decorations made by the
frost on our window panes?'
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suddenly offered TO give it contract
for supplying the city with water at
a remuneration of IS, OO0, 900 year. The
city comptroller, by what was almost
an accident, succeeded in delaying &C
ton on the matter for two weeks.
To say the least, the thing savors
strongly of a Job" The stealthy man
ner in which it was brought before the
board of public works-some of the
commissioners having no previous
knowledge of it's decidedly suspic-
ious. But they do such things and
they say such things in several places
in New York other than the Bowery.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24
A Farce and a Tragedy.

~ EOPLE who have followed the
story of the Dreyfus trial have
been struck by two remarkable
features, the fiimsy evidence against
the defendant and the maligpity of
the prosecution. The reiteratiOns of
officers that the prisoner is guilty.
without a scrap of evidence to back up
their statements. is comical in one way
and decidedly serious in another.
There has ben no trial on either hem
isphere since that of Guiteau that has
afforded such fine opportunities for
burlesque-opportun that several
clever writers on the American press
are greedily embracing. 1t is easy
enough to make sport of the Dreyfus
court martial; much of the proceedings
appeals forcibly to the sense of humor
so strongly developed in the American
mind. But let no man forget the SER
ious side of 1t all. The staggering
officers who take the stand to assert,
without evidence, that Dreyfus is gull
ty, and that that is all Their els about
it, apparently have the ear of the
court; while testimony such as that of
Colonel Picquart, while il has great
weight with intelligent and dispassion-
ate people on the outside. seems to
have none whatever with Colonel Jou-
saust.
Picquart, it will be remembered, was
the original witness on whom the pros
ecution chiefly depended to make its
case. Picquart. as an honest, consci
entious man, began to investigate mat
tiers on his own account and speedily
was convinced that conspiracy of eN-
ceptional enormity had been organized
against an innocent man. The French
army cannot be utterly bad when it
has in it such noble fellows as this
man Picquart.
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HOW THE FARMERS
STAND ON EXPANSION
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
straw vote of unusual extent and
significance has been taken by Farm
and Home of this city among the farm
ers of the United States on the ques-
ton of Americanism against imper-
ialism. Some 10000 legal voters express
their views. They are located in all
sections and belong to all classes of po-
litical opinion, though it is safe to say
that the large majority are republicans.
They must thus be considered as fairly
representative of the great agricultural
class. Most of the postal card ballots
were mailed to Farm and Home in May
and June, when the Philippine situation
appeared to be far less serious than las
since developed, and no effort has been
made in the columns of the paper to in
fluence the vote either way.
What, then, was the attitude of farm
ers in May and June respecting the
course of the administration? Here is
one of the questions and the vote upon
it by sections: Should the Filipinos be
held in subsection to the United States,
or should they be allowed to form an
independent government?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-24

~ Kings are done on big scale ir
New York city, but the worlC

~ Kings are done on big scale in
New York city, but the world
was hardly prepared for the CO.
lossal deal that was sprung on that
city last week, a deal whereby it was
proposed to saddle on the tax payers
5000 O00, 900 to be paid to a private com
pany for additional water. The prop
osition was laid before the board of
public works and came within an ace
of adoption. 1t is not Tammany deal
either. 1t is promoted by Gen. B. F.
Tracy, the Plat candidate in 1897 for
mayor of New York. and several other
prominent republicans. The Ramapo
Water company organized in 1890 and
obtained an option on certain water
rights of a large watershed in the val
ley Of the Hudson. The company never
showed any signs of activity until
few days ago when a resolution was