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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

snakes and centipedes. They are all
pretty bad.
go to town every time / can get
pass. like to go to see what / can
see. A Cuban took Us through the
prison here, and it was fine one.
every thing was as clean AS pin
and it was painted nicely. The
flowers inside were In bloom and
every thing looked like spring time,
They had IA good many prisoners.
1t Is better prison than the one at
Frankfort.
There are lots of places here for
amusement and pleasure. have no
stamps but I will get some pay. day.
signed the payroll last Thursday.
We will get paid as soon as pay
master gets here.
/ have not seen sign of post
office. When we mail letter we
give il to one of the men of the COM
pany and he mails it.
Everything you buy over here is
very high. Coal oil one dollar gal
Ion, bread ten cents a loaf, fresh beef
eighty cents u pound, and every
thing else is high. 1 have not seen
any butter or eggs, but they have
some very fine Jersey cattle here.
The horses are smaller than the
American horses and are good work.
ers.
do guard duty about three times
IA week and fatigue duty about three
times week. 1 just came of Of
fatigue duty.
Has Willie Kincaid got back to
Frankfort yet? What did he have to
say? Have they finished the brick
streets yet? When you answer this
tell me all the news, and send me
papers about two times a week. 1t
makes soldier as ignorant as a dog
over here. We can't understand the
Cubans, and can not keep up with
the times in the United States be-
cause we have nothing to read.
will now, close this letter as 1 am
tired and trying to get some rest, SO
kiss papa for me and all the children.
Tell them l will bring them some
thing waen l get back. Answer
this soon. Love and kisses to you.
From your far away son,
AUGUST.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Dr.. Bulls
s 3: ~. ' wy s CO ss.s .s 3 Cough
risk Consumptionf This
famous remedy will cure Svfu0.
you. Doctors recommend
h. Price IS cents. Sold by an druggists.
Fabio ROmani.

Alden Benedict" Fabio ROmani, :"
which will be presented at the Cap
ital Opera House, Thursday night,
Feb. %, surpasses "Monte Cristo' in
its intensity of action, in its subtlety
of plot and i'm its cause and effect.
There are no chasms of sequence
that must be bridged by the imagi-
nation. 1t steps Immediately upon
high level of intense, active inter-
est, and keeps that level up to the
terrific emotional climax which is
the submerging of the expiring
bodies of the principal characters in
the rolling waters of the Bay of
Naples amid the crashing thunder of
an earthquake and the weird light of
an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and is
tale OF the dead, founded first and
last upon the Judas-like duplicity of
Il woman.
Mr.. Benedict, who enacts the role
OF Fabio, the wronged husband, is
praised by the "press" everywhere
the company have appeared, and he
has surrounded himself with a COM
pany of more than usual merit. Miss
Martha Beauford, who impersonates
NINA" the woman who bartered
her all for love of gold, is an excep-
ti0nally fine actress. The remainder
of the cast is strong and even. The
costumes are rich, and the stage set
tings are beautiful paintingsof Naples
and vicinity. Miss Grace Hunter,
who introduces her Serpentine, Fire
and Stereopticon dances between acts
2 and 3, is the finest artist who has
ever attempted the difficult evolu-
tions demanded by those intricate
dances.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Hoists a Bill.

One j. II. Clark was arrested at
Eminence, on Tuesday, for passing a
81 bill, which had been raised to $40
bill, on a merchant in that town.
The man was arrested by the City
Marshal, warrant sworn out and
Deputy U. s. Marshal Con McCarty
brought him here on Wednesday
night. He was tried before U, S.
Commissioner Chapman yesterday
morning and held over to the U. S.
Court.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Kentucky Historical Society.

Kentucky Historical Society met
as announced at their rooms on Sat-
uiday, 18th of February.
The officers were reelected by the
Executive Committee. Mr.. John F.
Green was elected to fill the place of
Hon. Grant Green, deceased-Vice
President.
Hon. John A. Steele, lst Vice
President, delivered fine address,
which has been published.
DR.. J. d. Bryan not being able to
be present, his paper, the pre-piOneer
history of the Boones and organs, was
read by Mrs. Jennie &. Morton, Sec.
retary of the Society, who also read
the report showing not only the in
terest felt in the Society at home,
but substantial recognition of it as
the State Society, both in Europe and
America. Also a letter from the
Missouri Historical Society, asking
that this society take steps to be rep
resented at the anticipated centennial
of st. Louis, in 1908, the commem-
Grafton of the purchase of that State
in 1903. The letter was considered
and filed.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Forks Of ElkhOrn.

Finest sleighing weather that has
been since Feb, 1895.
Mr.. Will South spent Sunday with
his parents, Mr.. Barry South and
wife.
Miss Matte Lucas spent part of the
week with Miss Roberta Moore.
Miss Carrie Brock spent this week
at Peaks Mill.
Master Albert Smith, of Duckers,
IL visiting his aunt, Mrs. Melvin
Helm.
Mumps, which have been raging
in our village, have abscOnded.
Mr.. Calvin HOckensmith, of EN-
inence, was the guest of his brother
and family last week, Mr.. Albert
Hockensmith.
Monday, Feb. 18th, the themom-
eter registered 20 degrees below zero.
Mr.. Joseph l.. HOltOn has posi-
ton at the Jail. He fills the place
lately occupied by Mr.. Tom South.
Mrs. DR.. Pinder was called to Yer
sailles last week to the bedside of her
father.
Many vale ntines were received i'm
Hnr village Tuesday, both comic and
handsome.
Mr.. Tom Baker has moved into
the house of Mrs. Triplett, on Bunker
nm. ONLY Me.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Another Letter From Cuba.

Below we give another interesting
letter from our young friend, Private
August Szymanski. Third Kentucky
Volunteer Infantry, who Is now
stationed at MatanaaS, Cuba:
MATANZAS, CUBA, sunday,
February 3, 1899.
Dear Mother:
l received your letter yesterday.
You ought to see how glad was to
get it. / thought you had not re-
ceived my last letter. Myself and
all the Frankfort boys are well and
enjoying themselves. How is every
thing in Frankfort by this time? We
are camped ON the side of the fort
vet, but will move upon a hill side
in few days. The town where we
were to move Is in no condition for
the American soldiers. There i,
smallpox and yellow lever there.
They say we are to stay here awhile
and then we arc tU so to Colon.
The first battalion Of the Third
Kentucky is at Cardenas, the second
battalion is at Union, and our bat.
TALON here at Matanza-. The pop
ulation of this town Is lightweight
thousand. There are four regiments
here besides out battalion. The
place where we were to go has four
thousand inhabitants, and there have
been no soldiers there.
There is talk here that we are, com
ing back to the United States and be
mustered out in about three weeks.
The weather is fine here.
/ took a walk Oter the hills few
days ago and came to a garden. 1t
was worth going miles to see. All
kinds of vegetables were growing
and every thing green. The Cuban~
say it is this way all tine year round.
l went to an orange grove and got
some oranges that were not quite
ripe and made some lemonade out OF
them and it was very good. 1 went
in the MatanzAs bay and got some OF
the prettiest Shells you ever saw
Some OF them are the size of an egg
and some are smaller. They are
beautiful. II 1 live and get back
home / am going to bring some tc
the children.
H. Every soldier has cot to himself
and there are six To ii tent, they are
very large tents and have floors. The
reason we have mis- Is because il will
keep the fever away and keep tn, in.
sects from getting on the cots. The
insects are very dangerous. The
worst one j. the rarantula. S me.
times they ace with buncI Ol
bananas; and tae,e are scorpion
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
CHARITY ORGANIZATION.
The Suffering Poor to be Cared for
Systematically.

In accordance with previous notice,
meeting of the pastors of the dffer-
ent churches and representatives of
the fraternal organizations Of the city
was held at the office of Mr.. Ben Il.
Farmer, On Ann street, Tuesday
evening, for the purpose of eflecting
an organization, the object Of which
is to look after the suffering poor Of
the city. Rev. NJ. b. Adams, of the
Baptist Church, presided and Mr..
Ben T.. Farmer acted as Secretary.
There were present the pastors of
the Baptist and Southern Presby-
terian Churches, representatives of
the City Council, the Masonic, odd
Fellows, knights of Honor, Y. M.
l., knights and Ladies of Honor,
Maccabees, Ancient Order of United
Workmen Lodges, Y. M. G. A.,
German Benevolent Society and
Others interested in the work. 1t was
determined to give a concert on
Monday night to raise charity fund
and DR.. w. f. Baxter was appointed
chairman of the Programme Com
mittee, and, together with Prof.
Wayland Graham, will have charge
of the entertainment. A large COM
mittee was then raised to take charge
of the sale of tickets, and future
meeting arranged for.
AS the company present was an
earnest and enthusiastic one 1t was
thought best to effect permanent
organization to look after the poor in
future in systematic way, and the
following were elected officers of the
Charity Organization of the city:
Ex-Mayor Lewis Mangan, Presi-
dent.
Mayor w. s. Dehoney, Vice Pres
ident.
Ben T. Farmer, Secretary.
A. w. Overton, Treasurer.
An Executive Committee was also
appointed composed of all the pas
tors of the city, Secretary of the Y.
M. e. A., Captain of the Salvation
Army and the presiding officers OF all
the fraternal organizations, who will
look up and investigate the condition
of all the worthy poor and admins
ter to their wants, at the same time
trying to shut off the impostors and
unworthy applicants for charity.
1t is hoped that our merchants and
others, who have been harassed by
frequent calls. will send all appli-.
cants to some officer of the Organiza-
ton, so that their cases may be in
vestigated and wants supplied.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Outrageous.

The conduct of the returning
Fourth Kentucky Volunteers from
Admission, Ala, where they were
mustered out, is disgrace and q
shame to the State. 1t makes those
of US who have been proud of our
State and its brave soldiers, hang
our heads in shame.
Thank God there were other and a
different class of soldiers from Ken
lucky.
These hoOdlums should be pun
ished to the full extent of the law.
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girl Sunday last.

Many thanks to you, John, for the
kind invitation to your valentine
party last Tuesday night. Will ever
remember our Old friend.
Mrs. DR.. a. VI. Miles and daugh-
ter are visiting relatives in Shelby
county this week.
Boys, keep your boots BACKED and
collars stiff, for there is going to be t,
wedding soon, but faint me.
Messrs. John Coins, Willie Rob.
erts and James Lewis and their best
girls were seen out In their ley
sieighs Sunday last.
Mr.. Joe Peifer was the charming
guest of Miss Meta Smith Sunday
last.
Take the ROUNDABOUT and get it
all. PAPA's ONLY CHILD
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

February 9th to 18th the Frank
fort d Cincinnati railway will sell
tickets to New Orleans and return,
limited to February 2S, and Febru.
AIRY 18th and 18th to Birmingham
and return, limited to February IL,
at one fare for the round trip. Ac-
count of Mardi Gras.
j. r. NEWTON,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

having a fine time sleighing this
week. You can hear the merry
jingle Of the sleigh bells at all hours.
Hoping all the readers of the
ROUNDABOUT are enjoying the pleas
ures, as well as the wintry blasts, /
will say good bye for another week.
JUST Us.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

For frost bites, burns, indolent
sores, eczema, skin disease, and es-
pecially Piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Sdlve stands first and best. L,ok
out for dishonest people who try to
initiate and counterfeit 1t. Its their
endorsement of a good article.
Worthless goods are not initiated.
Get DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Tyler q Hemphill and w. Mckee
Hardie.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

Happy Is the man or woman who
can eat good hearty meal without
suffering after ard. If you can not
do it take KODOL DYSPEPSIA CURE.
1t digests what you eat, and cures all
forms of Dyspepsia and Indigestion.
Tyler u Hemphill and w. Mckee
Hardie.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Exchange Opens.

The Ladies' Exchange will be open
to-day at the same place, next to
Mrs. Kate Welch's, on Main street.
They will have for sale cakes, pies,
salad, &C., and will be glad to have
the patronage of their friends.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
SCOTS
EMULSION

looks like cream; it nour.
ishes the wasted body of
the baby. child or adult
better than cream or. any
other food in existence. Il !
bears about the same reIa.
ton to other emuIsions that I
cream does to milk. If you !
have had any experience ;
with other so.caIIed lust as /
good" preparations. you ;
will find that this is a fact. !
The hypophosphites that are !
combined with the cod.liver oil }
give additional value to II because
they tone up the nervous system :
and impart strength to the whole {
body. /
soc. and o. 90, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York. ;
10N0AAAA<AA<A
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For Sale.

As agent for the Methodist Church,
South, of this city, will sell the
PEWS now in said church. They
will be sold cheap. Apply to
22-tf. II. ROGERS.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
Pocket Book Lost.

Light tan pocket-book, gold
mounted corners. Contained small
SUN of money and gold pencil.
Liberal reward If returned to this
Office. 25-lt.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18
H0VeYO(I|
Heard !
OF II !? !

You may have heard
about SCOTS EMULSION !
and have a vague notion
that it is cod.Iiver oil with
its bad taste and smell and
all its other repuIsive fea. t,
lures. II is cod.liver oil. the /
purest and the best in the !
world, but made so palata. t;
bic that almost everybody /
can take it. Nearly all ;
children like II and ask for |,
more. (
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

"Daily except Sunday. A. & @,
connec0s with l.. &. N. B. connec.
with Q, & O.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-02-18

The II. II Q. Railway, IN connection with Queen
4 Crescent Route, forms the quickest route from
Frankfort and Paris TO the South. and via Cincin-
natl. direct line TO the East and West.
GEO b. HARPER. JOSEPH r. NEWTON,
Gen'l Supt. A. Il. p. A.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-10
Legality of Equalization Boards
Action in Doubt.
QUESTION OF NOTICE RAISED.
May Have to Refund Taxes
On Thousands OF Dollars Worth
of Personal Pr0Pcrty-Assess-
ments Claimed to Have Been
Taxpayers-Paid Under Protest.

A suit involving the legality OF taxes on
over s9o.na worth OF personal property
taxes assessed by King county for the year
l>ss was commenced in the superior court
yesterday, Attorney Morris h. Sachs is
the plaintiff ard sues the county and Coan-
~ Treasurer Charles r. Whttiesey 10 re
cCver si.5e personal property taxes paid by
aim under protest on March {.
Although the actual amour; of money in
VOWED is but tr.fiing. the suit will test IN
the courts the legality of the action OF the
county board Of equalization. which met
last August, in raising the valuation OF
personal property in the county over $780,
ua above the figures turned in by the AS
SCISSOR. Ii VIII be remembered that the
board spent three weeks in going through
the assessment rolls checking the assess
ors work and result, summoniag
many taxpayers TO appear and show cause
why their personal property should not be
assessed higher
The point upon which Attorney Sachs and
Attorney Julius L. Hale. his counsel. rely
to commence the suit, is that the notices
sent by the county auditor to property
owners. requiring then, 10 appear and show
cause why their assessments should not be
raised. was not legal notice under re-
cent decision of the supreme court and
that consequently all acts OF the board Of
equalization under the notice were void II
this is held 10 be the case upon a trial of
the suit, the county Will be obliged in hun
dreds of cases 10 refund or cancel personal
property taxes levied on valuations ex-
ceeding these made by the assessor.
Sachs alleges that his assessment was
originally $3.50 and that the board. Illegally
and without legal notice, raised it to $3.50,
upon which assessment the county treas
urer proceeded 10 levy and collect tax OF
S30s2. Sachs alleges that when he came to
pay his taxes he rendered the treasurer
Sl6.4S, the amount that would have bsen
cue had the assessment not been ratssd,
but that the treasurer refused the money
and demanded $3.50 additional. which the
plaintiff paid under protest.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-10
A Systematic Plan to Induce
immigration to the State.
Large Land Owners I'm Active Conn
People ON Their Immense Hold
jngs-A New Book on the Re-
.ourees Of the State-Hasf Million
Have Already Been Given Away.

The two great railroads OF Washington
are making and will continue to make
during the coming spring and summer
extraordinary efforts To induce immlgTa-
ton To this state Circumstances have
greatly aided these efforts. For the past
Two years farmers IN the East and North
beyond the Rockies have had hard time
Of IL and the past winter which threat
ems 10 Finger in the lap OF spring in
these sections until aext June. has been
the most severe ever known in what IS
usually called out West 1.-The East the
expression comprehending ali the states
north and south and east OF the Missis-
sipps river.
ing its grants which comprise the odd
sections Of land in a strip forty miles in
width on each side of that companys
main Line throughout the state. II VIII
be readily understood that these grants
thus distributed give the railroad every
sort of land To be found on the face of
the earth In this wonderfully favored
Northwestern country - timber claims,
mining claims, frul. grazing and farming
lands. etc. And the beauty about Ii is
that the even sections IN this strip eighty
miles wide along the railroad are, except
where already taken UP by settlers. the
property of Uncle Sam, and hence open
TO settlement by homestead or other pro-
cess. Thus the settler with little money
can buy of the raiirt ad his ITO acres of
land and homestead another lin acres ad-
joining il, but in the even-numbered sec
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-10
STATION For BURROWS ISLAND.
Coed Prospects for Light and Fog
signal There.

Attorney John T. Hartman. jr. has re-
cekv*d the following letter from United
States Senator George Turner written
under date Of Washington March >:
Referring 10 the matter of the pro-
posed light aaa fog signal at burrows
island. secured the adoption nj an
amendment 20 he Sundry civil bill IN he
senate. appr0prtsIng the money necessary
20 establish the signal station and hope
- have he house aCquleSce Ia The amend
msHf
This IL ueNs that will be received with
uiTrn satisfaction by the nav gators OF
PUGET sound HBrf opS island IS TN Ro-
saTie straits. ON she rnltfe to Mhatcnrn.
Blaine. AnaCoEtes. Vancouver and other
ports IN that vicinity, and although il
IS one 81 fhe most dangerous passages ia
these waters, l. without protection. Capt.
RuWaen fso wears ave- circulated j -. tie
tion tu have fog stat'or located there.
which was u1,Iveruiisly signed and ssrt 90
Washington THE lighthouse board WAS
in evtir" accord WITH ths pre- sect ard
only waited for che congressional upBro-
priatipn ~ g9 ahvad with the work THE
matter MAS put ia the hauds Of Attorney
Hartman. Who took IL up With senator
Turner. 1sth the result stated
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-10

Tive Sailors ON the Wheeling Conn
PEELED by Their Captain 10 Med.

While the United States gunboat waeei-
z0g waz ~ Vancouver recently ~ route
fer Mania TWO sailors named Lssn ard
Porter, both San Francisco mes. deserted
the vessel.
TIE mere fact Of the DISCRETION 90 two
sailors Is nothing uncommon. fssas y fas
story told ~ RE Easse08ser Province o.
March . ls true tAe 2dse Of the deS@rst0a
o. Ire two men WIS n1o<t unst<uat Gre
The Province claims II aase tas story from
prdersy Hr0wr. sven after Commander
BurreiS Of she Wheeling. tad calieG al.
haE3z on 8ect and announced thai he
ssoH.d severely punish sayoae who saouid
dsSI4Ks The sacts In ff1e case.
According 20 Brown. Ffe sailors deserted
because. Thile ia Alaska. they rad been
forced 10 marry g@a native women. Nnsie
the Wheeling was cruising In Alaskan wa
terra q cali was made AT fakutAt- Here
Commander BurreIi learned thai a. a near
hy ranrfserit there were TAO indian muir
derers w4o had committed most rexoat-
srg crime. Landing party % marines
the commander marched 10 the Tsnchef1e
and demanded th~ rnardsreTs- that they
might be taken fo sitsa for rial The
cfEief had about fifty armed In3Ians at
the raBcheTfe. ard hs said he would fight
before he would surrender TIRE men, but
wosiid agree 10 let Comma nder Burrel, Try
them on the spot. This was done and i1e
men were acquitted
Through this trial the sailors became
very friendly with the Indians, often visit
feil I'D love with Dur and Porter. who
were I'VE strapping fellows ard Rad
repnta ton for bravery. The sailors we're
willing to be admired. and spent much
OF their rFore time with the Indians
The morning OF the day the Wheeling
VAS Ia sail the chief suddenly rowesi along
side the gunDoat with his armed bodyguard
and the two women. Once on board he
explained 10 Commander BuFrel tA2t two
Of his sailors had made love 10 the NO.
men. and the circumstances We're such
fhae he demanded the men marry them.
The crew WAS haed up on deck and the
women told To pick cut their lovers. They
lost no time in picking out Duff and Porter,
VIC acknow lodged the love AFFAIR. but posi-
lively refused ~ marry the women. They
Offered TO give them two months pay, and
even Commander Burreil tried 10 get the
chief 10 compromise. But he was stub
born, refusing 10 leave the vessel without
a fight unless the TWO men married his
relatives In white mans fashion.
And now comes the strange part Of the
story Orderly brown says Commander
Birfeli. IN order To avoid bloodshed. sent
for the chaplain OF the Wheeling and COM
pelied the TWO men 10 marry the women
This done. the chief left the ship. taking
the women. their husbands being left on
the ship without protest. Having married
the women in white mans fashion, the