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Shots at the Rum Evil.

Many man cannot see the devil because
lie Is hiding him down his throat.
The devil scores point whenever good
man opposes good cause.
man who dislikes to be in a minority
that is right does not know how delightful
it IL to be right.
Saloon keepers are the Governments re-.
cruiting officers for the great army OF
American drunkards.
The German Association Against the Mis-
Use OF Spirisuous Drinks has issued cir
cular to the students OF Germany asking
that the compulsioa in the corps ana
vereins to drink bee. be done away with.
The Kayan Tartars, who abstain from al
cohol. have death rate OF only twenty-one
per thousand, while the Enssians, who ara
great drinkers, have a denth-ratc OF forty.
It is reported from st. Petersburg that
the plau OF Government control oil the II.
uuor traffic has already substituted the ot'
iIcial ba. for $4,000 private liquor shops 10
TINT cnpitai At the Government oar
liuuor Is sold only In small sealed bottles,
and the rule is that only sober men can
buy.
The Rhode Island Anti-Saloon League
has issued partia! report OF Its work. It
appears that more than 400, 900 pages OF
literature have been distributed aud 100
audiences addressed. Liberal financial
support has been received. The league will
devote l.se!i largely to law endorsements.
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Strangest Country In the World.

Sumshere Jung is the name of the
young King of Nepal, one of the
strangest governments and countries
in the world. It lies between Tibet
and India, and contains the loftiest OF
the earth's ranges, the Himalayas.
This little king has 100000 of the
best warriors in the continent of Asia
at his back, and it is therefore easy
for him to command the respect of ell
the neighboring tribes and govern
ments.
The people OF Nepal are a strange
mixture of races. The ruling tribes
are the Ghoorkhas, whose prowess
has given them the supremacy. The
capital city is Kathmandu, where the
rajah, or King. lives in queer palace
made up of large number of small
pagodas surrounded by shrines erected
to the Hindu gods. These are often
smeared with the blood Of the sacri-
fees brought to the gods.
This rajah is too young now to
do the actual ruling, which is in
the hands OF his chief Minister; but
the power of the ruler is absolute,
and he can order life or death for any
one who displeases him.
The people are SO afraid of foreign
influences that they will not permit
Europeans to even enter their domin-
ions, so it has been impossible. to
survey the country and ascertain the
height of the mountains, which tower
thousands of feet in the dir.
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PRESIDENT KRUGER AND HIS ESCORT.

tie. General Joubert is an American,
having been born in Uniontown,
Penn, in 1S41, and few men have had
more picturesque career or know as
much about the relation of the Trans.
vaal to the Swaizes. When fourteen
years of age he left this country and
went to Holland. His taste for war
was always keen, and when the rebel.
lion broke out he came to this country
and served in the navy under Admir-
al Dupont. Later he became captain
of colored company under General
Weitzel. After the war he returned
to Holland, and later went to South
Africa. When the rule of the Eng
lish became intolerant to the Dutch at
Cape Colony and Cape of Cool Hope,
and many OF them went north to the
Transvaal, General Joubet went
with them. After he had assisted
them materially in driving out the
wild beasts, conquering the savages,
settling the country, discovering an!
developing the diamond fields, the
English suddenly discovered that they
had a claim to this far away country.
He was only plain Boer, or farmer,
when his fellow subjects determined
to resist the British. In 1881, at the
head of handful of Dutch farmers,
he met the British army at A1aiuba
Hill and put it to flight after great
slaughter. This secured liberty for
the Beers, and they accordingly look
upon General Joubert, now Vice
President of the South African Re.
public, as the Washington Of their
country. General Joubert visited
this country in the latter part of 1890
for the purpose of arranging an ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair for South
African products. While in New
York the Holland Society arranged
many receptions and dinners in his
honor.
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THE CAR CNFOLDED.

baggage car. When the stopping place
is reached and the travellers wish to
camp for the night, the sides of the
car are let down by means Of series
OF levers.
The rooms are to be fitted up in the
modern style, with all conveniences,
including electric light, electric bells
and electric cooking apparatus.
The furniture designed for the car
is, OF course, mostly of the folding
variety, and can be slowed away in a
very small compass when not in use.
When the stopping place is reached
the car is to be detached from the
train and taken to convenient siding,
where there is ample room for the
spreading Of the sides and the elera-
ton Of the roof that form the hotel. 1t
is a matter of only an hours work.
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maintained that the agreement be-
tween the two nations, as arranged at
a London convention in 1881, gave to
England only the power of supervis-
ing international treaties. President
Kruger, who was member of the
London commission, has asserted,
with characteristic vehemence on sew
eral occasions, that England has no
right to interfere in the Transvaal's
private affairs, and that such inter-
ference will not be tolerated.
The British Colonial Secretary,
spurred on by Cecil J. Rhodes, Eng
lands empire-maker in South Africa,
has been persistently trying to extend
his authority so that the eutire law
making power of the Boer Volksraad
should be under his Jurisdiction and
control. He has demanded that all
laws and treaties, whether relating to
the internal or external interests of
the republic, shall be referred to him
for his approval before operative, and
he has asked that old laws which are
not favorable to English interests in
the Transvaal shall be repealed. This
interference has naturally been pro-
vocative of much ill-feeling not only
between the heads of the two Govern
ments, but between the individuals as
we'll.
To understand the Transvaal sltua-
ton thoroughly one must know that
every British subject in the TransTaal
considers that every inch of Transvaal
soil is rightfully the property of the
British nation, and that the Beers are
merely. interlopers, with no rights
that are deserving the respect of an
Englishman. They regard the Beers
as so many ignorant, uncleanly saw
ages, who do not know how to govern
themselves, much less others. Every
Englishman in the gold-felds, or in
any other part of the republic, still
smarts under the sting of the Jameson
failure, and nothing will wipe out that
score but the sight of the British flag
flying over the whole of the Trans
vaal. Everything that ingenuity can
devise is done to embarrass the Gov
ernment.
The amazing part OF the situation is
that none of the American, German,
Dutch and French residents of the
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ELDNAPPERS SENTENCED.
An Aged Couple Sent to Prison For
Stealing a Chicago Child.
KEPT HIM FOR TEN MONTHS.

Mrs. Ingersoll and John p. Collins Re
ceIved Indeterminate Sentences For
AbductinG Little Gerald Lapiner-
Woman Picked Up the Child In Front
of His Home and Carried Him to Ohio.
CHICAGO, Ill. (SpeciaD.-Pasalng sentence
1pon the aged kidnappers OF little Gerald
LapiDer was solemn ceremony. Gerald
was stolen from in front OF his parents
nome, No. 1889 Prairie avenue, on May 80,
1898, by Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ingersoll, OF
Painesville, Ohio. who was accompanied by
John G. Collins.
Both are white haired, and they have
been living together. They had been to
California and were returning home. Hap
pening to pass the Lapiner house Mrs. In.
zersoll was attracted by the beauty OF
Gerald, who was only two and talf years
Did, and picking him up she took him to an
electric car in Forty-seventh street, went
to the Lake Shore station and departed for
Painesville. Collins, 1t Is asserted, was
merely an apathetic spectator and did not
realize what was going on.
Judge Waterman, after the verdict OF
guilty was rendered against the aged
Couple, had no recourse but to sentence
them, and he did so, although, according
to the law of Illinois the term OF impris-
onment is indeterminate, and even the
Judge Is not aware what it will be, this
being regulated by the State Board Of
Pardons. Nrs. Ingersoll and Collins are
liable to serve Imprisonment from one year
to fourteen years.
When Mrs. Ingersoll was taken back to
the County Jail she tore her hair and NUT
tered. Close watch was kept to prevent
her from doing herself bodily harm.
"l've had the worst of 1t all my lie, 1"
Collins said, land nothing that can hap
pen to me now will surprise me. But I am
innocent OF this charge
When the jury was out the sanity OF Mrs.
Ingersoll was the first consideration. The
defence had not denied that she took the
child, but made its plea for her acQuittal
On the ground Of insanity. She was de-
clared sane on the sixth ballot.
Since the sentence Mrs. Ingersoll has
oeen heartbroken. Collins is a complete
wreck, mentally and physically.
Gerald Lapiner was gone ten months,
and was finally found In the possession Of
Mrs. Ingersoll and Collins in Painesville.
Miss Olive Ferriss, school teacher, and
her brother, Frank C. Ferrlss, neighbors OF
The couple, became suspicious ofthe child
.ast August, but 1t was not until March
:hat the Chicago police were notified. The
return OF the child to it's parents and the
arrest Of the pair followed.
Mr. Lapiner had offered S2500 for the
discovery Of the child, and Miss Ferrlss
now proposes to sue him for the amount.
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mass of valuable information regard
ing the armament and equipment OF
the Boer Government. According to
the data at hand it is learned that the
Transvaal authorities within the last
four years have equipped the artillery
branch of the army entirely with
Krupp guns. The pieces embrace
standard field guns of 2.95-inch cali
bre, and in addition, mountain guns
of 2. 36-inch ca!ibre and bush guns of
1.4G-inch calibre. The field guns are
mostly of the lighter Krupp variety of
twenty-eight calibres length. 1t is
this type of weapon which the Chilean
army used in the late war in Chile,
and for rough country work the
Krupps declare it to be the best
piece of ordnance turned out in Eu-
rope.
The 2.36-inch mountain gun is
capable Of being transported on the
backs of three mules; one mule car
ries the barrel, second the carriage,
and a third the wheels and shafts.
The normal weight for each animal
amounts to about 1919 pounds. 10
this must be added the weight of the
saddle and equipment, making total
of 2S7 pounds per animal. In the
United States 800 pounds is deemed
maximum pack-weisht for a strong
mule. The Krupp bush-gun in the
possession of the Beers consists of a
piece of very light weight, and one
capable of being transported in all
places, even over the most difficult
ground. This type of gun has been
used in O number of punitive African
expeditions.
The Boer infantry is now armed
with the latest type of Mauser rife, the
handiwork OF the Loewe works of
Berlin. The cavalry carry German
regulation revolvers and sabres.
According 10 the military attaches
reports, the TraIsvaal forces are
essentially German in equipment and
drill, and the fact is also noted that
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Elaborate Preparations For
War Made by the Trans
vaal Republic.
PRESIDENT KRUGER'S STAND
General P. J. Joubert, an American,
is the Commander of the Boer
Army Consisting of $4,000
WeII.Armed Warriors.

In a little whitewashed cottage in
South Africa sits ''Oom" Paul Kruger.
defying the whole British nation. 1t
is one of the strangest spectacles OF
the age to witness this seventy-year-
old Boer, the head OF one of earth's
weakest nations, raising himself against
the aggression OF its strongest power.
1t is like fawr pitting its strength
against that OF Ion.
The present differences between the
British Colonial Secretary and the
South African Republic are but con-
tinuation of the old troubles with the
addition of new phase. For fifty years
England has asserted that the Trans
vaal is a mere dependency, with no
right to make laws for herself, unless
they are sanctioned by the Imperial
Government. The Beers have steadily
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many commissioned officers in the
Boer service learned the art of war
fare in the German army. There is
good reason to believe that there are,
even now, many German officers with
the Boer troops, who are simply
absent from their regiments in Ger
many, on leave. The fact that the
German Government permitted,
openly, German officers to take service
with the Turks in the war between
Turkey and Greece lends additional
confirmation to the report.
In the opinion of many well-posted
American officers, the Beers are in
far better shape, to-day, for war than
is generally supposed. A war be-
tween the Beers aud English will
mean, it is said in official circles here,
much stouter affair than Great
Britain has had to deal with in the
last thirty-tive years. The Beers, at
the present time, are in much better
shape, and are more ably oficered
than they were in the last struggle
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Transvaal-and there are many thou
sands OF these IN business in the
country-joins with the Englishmen in
protesting against the laws of the
Beers. Their sympathy with the
Beers was shown at the time of the
Raid, when all of them ranged thcm-
selves on the side of the Kruger CO.
horts.
The War Department Intelligence
Bureau in Washington has collected q
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Cuba as a Future Winter Resort.

The entire island of Cuba is great
park that needs no artificial training
to enhance it's beauty, and it is destined
to become the winter resort of all the
Eastern States. But great admins
trative improvements in the ports, be-
sides the police and material ones
noted, will be necessary before this
can happen. For instance, it would
do much for the island if the port of
Havana could be freed from the high
pilot fees, anchorage fees, docking
fees, and fees of all sorts that make it
impossible for small craft to enter.
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tions in case any of the trains had to
stop in hurry.
The projecting oil pipes are so ar
ranged that they can be drawn in
alongside of the car in case of obstru-
lions along the route. The oil train
runs at the rate of four miles al hour.
1t is claimed on behalf of the oil
that it saves wear and tear on the
running parts of the rolling stock!
protects the draperies in cars and the
contents of freight cars from destruc'
tion by dust; prevents vegetation from
growing on the roadbed and saves
track labor.
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An Aluminium Hotel on Wheels.

One of the most remarkable of the
recent inventions upon which the
Patent Office authorities have been
called to pass judgment is travelling
hotel, the designer Of which thinks he
has filled a long felt want by construct
ing O portable habitation for travelling
circuses or camping parties.
The hotel on wheels is made OF
aluminium and is 80 constructed as to
fold up like railroad car and to ap
pear when closed to he an ordinary
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A Speech From tho Gallovs.

Freeman Cochran was hanged at Beth
any, No., for the murder Of George Stan
borough. Cochran professed religion last
light and was baptized. He made q
speech on the gallows, saying that he was
saved and advising all to abstain from
strong drink. 1t was his undoing. He
said many crimes were committed while
men were under the influence OF drink,
and that the law makes no distinction be-
:ween man drunk and man sober. Then,
stepping back to the centre OF the scat
.old, Cochran took hold OF the moose
dangling from the crossbeam and, raising
it aloft, dramatically said:
"Whenever you turn up glass OF
whisky, look In the bottom and you Will
see the shadow OF this rope"
It was the most effective temperance
lecture ever delivered In the State. At the
conclusion OF his remarks the cap was ad-
lusted and the trap sprung.
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Perhaps there is very little differ
ence in your eyes. Take sight as
before, but with both eyes open, Now
close the left eye. How far out OF
line is the right eye?
Whichever is the farther out in
these two tests is the weaker eye. It
you are strongly right-eyed the right
one will hold firmly to the objective
point which has been focused by
both eyes together when it is left
to view the object alone. If you are
strongly left-eyed, vice versa.
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OIL ON DUSTY RAILROADS,
Travel More Agreeable When the Road
bed is Sprinkled With Petroleum.

Railroad officials are enthusiastic
over the new system of sprinkling the
roadbed with crude petroleum to lay
the dust.
The principle is similar by which
streets are sprinkled with water. A
large oil tank filled with the resi-
dunn of crude petroleum is hauled on
fiat car as a basis of supply. An
other flat car is fitted up with
sprinkling apparatus. The oiling
pipes or sprinklers are three. Two
project eight feet on either side OF the
car, oiling the roadbed for that dis
tance, while the other oils the space
between the two tracks. A hood
comes down and completely protects
the tracks themselves from receiving
any of the oil. The oiliag of the
track would make awkward complica-
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The Labor World.

A large garment workers union has beer
organized in Cincinnati.
The bricalaysrs OF BiaShan:on, \. T.,
have organized union.
Tho city Of Lowell, Mass, has voted :fO(
toward the Labor Day celebration IN the
city.
Labor unions in Canada complain tina.
owing 10 better times landlords have raised
rents.
The street la5orsr5' strike at Rochester,
NY, /. over. Tue mon will receive 5l.51
q day for eight hours.
The strike o; $4,000 textile workers at
Bruun, Moravia, after lasting two months,
has been settled by compromise. -
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with the English. 1t is estimated by
the various reports that the Beers are
able to put into the field $4,000 we'll
equipped and well-oficered men.
General P. J. Joubert is one of the
few men who ever "broke British
square" in South Africa, and he is
confident that he can do it again. AS
commander-in-c chief of the Beers he is
the man who may have the task of try
ing to whip the English forces in BAT
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SaIycylic Acid In Beer.

Much of our beer Is no1ious chemical
compound in which salycylic acid, poison
ous ilshberries and other drugs replace
hops and malt.
As to our wines, the story OF their sophis-
tication would fill volumes, while with re-
gard to distilled liquors. chemical analysis
has proved that the finest are those most
obno1iously adulterated, and, indeed. that
the only tolerably pure" kinds are those
fiery and maddsning stuffs sold In low
oarrooms at 'three cents for a large
,lass 4"
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Big Fire In Memphis.

MEMez;s, Tenn. (SpeciaD. Fire broke
out In the establishment OF tho Memphis
Paper Company, at the corner Of Gayoso
and Front streets, n few days ago, and
caused the loss OF one lie, fatal injuries to
e1-Fire CHIEF Cleary and serious injuries to
Assistant Fire Chief James Ryan, besides a
property loss OF about $3.50, 900. The Gay
$50 Hotel, one OF the Oldest landmarks OF
Memphis, was one Of the buildings totally
destroyed. An unknown negro was caugh:
lnder the falling walls aud crushed to
dontb
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A LARGE Australian Goat Farm.

A Mr.. Cox, an enterprising English
man, has started a new industry in
Australia. He has bought $40 square
miles of land on which he proposes to
breed goats for the value of the skins
in glove-making. Some idea of the
magnitude of the enterprise can be
gained from the fact that his goat farm
will be larger than the area of Greater
New York.
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KILLED BY FALLING WALLS.
Four Persons Lose Their Lives in Fire
at Chicago,

CHICAGO (spsciaD.-Four people were
silled by the falling OF tine walls OF the
Western Paper Stock Company's plant on
Indiana avenue, which was burned few
lays ago. The dead are Bartholomew
Sparklewtz, fifty years old; julius Ostow-
sky, fifty years old; Mrs. Josie Doyle,
:wsnty-oae years old, and Stellna Bigdtes.
Courageous work resulted in the rescue
of large proportion OF the 120 persons
Employed in the building, but eight OF the
more irsnziel ones were badly hurt in es.
Gaping.
The fire is thought to have started from
spontaneous combustion among old rags
n the basement
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DOWN EM8ANKMENT IN A CAR.
Forty Passengers in Wreck on the
Raritan River Railroad.

Forty Passengers in . Wreck on the
Raritan River Railroad.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. (speciaD.-Thers
was a bad wreck on the Rarltan River
Railroad q few days ago. Forty persons
rolled Gown twenty-foot embankment in
q car. No one was killed, and only one
person was seriously injured, The railroad
runs from Perth Amboy to this place.
The train to which the accident hap.
pened left Perth Amboy shortly before 6
p. N. 1t consisted ofan engine and two
cars. The forward car was the passenger
coach. The other contained express mat.
ter and baggage. Three miles from Perth
Amboy the road makes sharp bend while
on an embankment, At the curve Is u
switch. and at this point the engine left
the rails without any apparent cause. It
rolled down the embankment and rested
In, tho swamp below. All OF tho passen.
gers were rescued without dificulty.
Jome OF them received minor cuts and
bruises, and they all went to their homes.
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CHILD TRAIN W7EcKERS.
Three Urchins Arrested For Causing tho
Death of a Fireman In q Wreck.

Death of a Fireman In Wreck.
sHAMoK1N, Penn. (speciaD.-Levl Korb.
ish, aged nine years; his brother. Michael
uged seven years, and John zamblock'
also seven years, were committed to jail
on tho charge OF manslaushter, because OF
the death OF Fireman Rollin Morgan, ol
Reading express train No. 8, which vas
wrecked at Buck Ridge few days ago, O
nut having been placed on the track.
Michael Korbsh confessed to Coal and Iron
Policeman Frank Smith, when arrested
that Handbook found the nut as the boy;
were returning from swimming pool and
that shortly before the train was wrecked
Zamblock put the nut on the track. Before
Justice Rowe, the boys said they were not
uufity