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The following casualties occurred
among the rank and file:
Fifth Lancers. - Three troopers
wounded. two sergeants and four troop
ers killed and thirty-five non-commis-
stoned officers and men wounded: one
man missing.
Twenty-first Field Battery.-Three
gunners wounded.
Forty-second Field Battery.-Two
gunners and driver, wounded.
First Devonshire Regiment.
nine non-commissioned officers and
men wounded.
First Manchester Regiment.-Eleven
non-commissioned officers and men
killed and twenty-six wounded.
Gordon Highlanders.-Five non-com-
missioned officers and fifteen men killed
and fifteen on-commissioned officers
and sixteen men wounded.
An amended list of the British cas-
ualties at the battle of Elandslaagte
places the number of officers killed at
five and wounded thirty. and the num-
Der of non-commissioned officers and
men killed at thitry-seven and wounded
at 173, the total number of casualties
being 247. Ten men are missing.
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proselytize them, beyond teachin

proselytize them, beyond teaching
them to be moral and honest.
To better understand the terrible
condition Of the peasants OF Cuba,
who are the ones now being benefited,
a few quotations from the report of
one of the American Commission sets
the facts more plainly before the pub
lie. He says:
"Cuba was not suffering from q
commercial or financial panic. 1t was
in a state of utter prostration and col
lapse. Business and agricultural life
had long ceased. The whole island
was dead.
"Even now the result OF Weyler's
order of Recommendation is not under
stood OF appreciated in this country.
Should the commanding general in the
American Army issue ap order the re-
suit of which would be that one could
travel from New York to Rochester
and not see one COW, not one chicken,
not one farm house, not one man
working in the fields, it would be
something similar to the result OF
General Weyler's RECOMMENDATION or
der in Cuba.
"The whole rural life of three great
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Fatter Jonathan, Thinner John.

The cartoon Yankee, lean, lank and
slab.sided, is vanishing with the CEN
tury. So is the cartoon Englishman,
big, burly and obese.
The tailors of the country report an
increased girth of one and quarter;
inches in the American man of to-day
over the American man of 1889. Waist
coats and trou ,ers in the ready-made
clothing stores are now made in that.
much larger sizes. The figures col
lected blythe Anthropometrical De-
partment at Washington confirm the
story told by the tailors.
The average American of the middle
of the coming century will be tall,
broad, fat and heavy in the scales. He
will probobly be nearly six feet high,
fifty inches around the chest, fifty -four
around the abdomen and weigh any
where from 200 to 225 pounds.
Meantime the average Englishman
has been growing thinner, probably
because he is not so we'll fed as his an
cestor, from whom the cartoonist Of.
the eighteenth century drew the fami-
lar fat figure of John Bull. The aver
age Englishman of 1899, according to-
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the women are thoroughly installed
in their new home. The boys of the
town have come in quite large mum.
bers, requesting instruction, and sew.
eral women have been in to ask if they
might be taught to sew and clean and
work according to our American
methods. The little children simply
swarm around the house. The Mayor,
General Boze, of the Cuban army,
will have a tract OF municipal land
plowed up for them with the town
oxen, and Miss Levy is going to give
them seeds and simple little tools and
arrange for a man to advise them about
simple crops, hoping that in this way
she may come to influence their diet
and, to some extent, their housekeep-
ing ideas"
It has been urged by many that the
directors of the Cuban Orphan Fund
are wasting an unnecessary amount of
money on their plant. e., the pur-
chase of buildings for homes, orphan
asylums and schools. This is not the
case, as the buildings which are set.
tied and used for this purpose are prac.
tically given for the purpose.
The pictures here presented were
all taken on the spot, and show the
practical good which is being done by
the representatives OF the fund.
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The Truth About Vaccination.

Inarecent lecture delivered at Rome
and reported in the London Lancet.
DR.. Bizzozzero made deep impress.
sion by his summing up Of the argu.
ment for vaccination. He said:
Germany stands alone in fulfilling
in great measure the demands of hy-
giene, having in consequence OF the
calamitous smallpox epidemic OF 1870
II enacted the law of 1894 which
"makes vaccination obligatory in the
first year of life and revaccination also
obligatory at the tenth year" What
was the result? With population of
50, 600, 900, having in 1871 lost l43, 600
lives by smallpox, she found by hor
law of 1874 the mortality diminished
so rapidly that to-day the disease num-
bers only 116 victims year. These
cases, moreover, occur almost ezclu.
siyely in towns on her frontier. If it
were true, continued Professor Biz
zozzero, that q good vaccination does
not protect from smallpox We ought to
find in smallpox cpidcm:ca that the
disease diifuses itself ia toe wcil-vac-
cinated no less than il the nol.vsccip-
atel countries. Eut il ia net SO. In
1901, during tho Franco-Gernan
war, the two pconlcs intclpenetrased
each other, the German having lis
civil population vaeciGated opt:onally,
but its army completely levaccinstcd,
while the Fl ench population and army
alike) ware vaccinated l.cri7nctoEily.
10th ware attacked By smallpox: hut
the French army numbered %, 600
det.ths by it while the German army
had only 27S, and in the same lent,
breaking tho sam. Ar, tho Ffeneh
| wounded were heavily v,'ited b. tho
disease, While the German woTrIed,
having been revaccinsted, had not q
! single case.
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, WHAT NOBLE MEN And
! WOMEN ARE DOING FOR
!, The CUBAN REPUBLIC.

The Cuban Orphan Fund, which is
now fully started and doing good
work among the orphaned children OF
the "reconcentrados" of Cuba, is
really the outcome of the American
Commission to Cuba last fall, prior to
the raising of the American flag over
the island.
The organization is entirely nom
sectarian; the children are cared for
physically and mentally, entirely ir-
respective of any religious sect. Their
condition is pitiable, and the neces-
sity for bettering it is imperative.
The men at the head of the fund are
men who have personally come in
contact with the misery, poverty and
utter destitution of the children OF
Cuba.
These men are intelligent, farsee-
ing, and fully appreciative of the
benefit which must eventually accrue
to the United States If these orphans
are properly educated and trained.
There is to be no attempt made to
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a few broken.spirited men; and the
dreadful odor of every place occupied
by Spanish soldiers. There was no
decency, there was no sanitation; in
our sense of the word, indeed, there
was no discipline. It was wanton
and prohigate devastation in the time
of peace.
Amid all this misery, and herding
together like cattle, were the little
children, the future citizens of Cuba,
whether as arepublic or rs part of
the United States. And it was for the
upbringing and developing of the
future generation of the island that
the Cuban Orphan Relief Fund was
started.
Mr.. Charles W. Gould, who is very
prominently connected with the fund,
made remark few days ago which
corroborates a statement made by q
Catholic priest, who had just returned
from Havana, as to the patriarchal
system in Cuba. Mr.. Gould said:
81 never saw anything to equal the
love and sacrifice of the Cuban
parents. The men died first, the
women followed, and it is the children
who are left"
These remarks give an idea of what
the Cuban Orphan Fund started out
to do. Miss Laura D. Gill was
selected as best fitted to represent
the trustees of the fund in Cuba. She
has two assistants, Miss Levy and
Miss Wilson, and these three brave
women, to use the words of one of the
prominent members of the fund, "are
doing as true missionary work as any
ever did,"
Miss Gill writes:
"In Sancti Spiritus We found o
condition of suffering which is much
more serious than anything which we
have seen before. There are over four
hundred children who need to be
taken care OF right away, and the
town has only been able to provide
for twenty-five little girls, who were
selected because they were physically
worse off than anybody else IN town.
Although they have now been cared Tor
nearly six weeks, they are, still mere
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Angling in Lap!and.

Enthusiasts in the gentle art Of
angling will be interested in the rec
ords of recent expedition to Lapland.
It is al uncomfortable and expensive
voyage, and the entire absence of any
proper food in the country renders it
necessary to take everything which
the ordinary civilized being may re-
ouire. But in these days of condensed
nourishment of all kinds that is not
o very formidable matter. On arriv-
ing at their destination the party of
two rods and their followers found
the river frozen so that they had to sit
down patiently on the banks and wait
for a thaw. When that came there
was too much water, and fishing was
oil impossibility. But when the river
got into condition they had grand
sport. They fshed for eleven days,
and during that time the two rods got
a total of 2S2 salmon and l55 grilse,
in all weighing nearly 5000 pounds.
The best days catch for one rod was
thirty-three salmon and twenty-five
grilse, weighing $50 pounds in all.-
London Telegraph.
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SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED GIRLS.

and Doctor Rogers has been greatly
interested in this work for many
years. The Doctor is tall, impress
sive, eloquent man, and has entered
earnestly into his new labors. But
he has always been earnest, and as a
boy he wes something of an investi-
gator, too. An old playmate tells the
following story of him:
Their schoolmaster was once talk
irg to them of literature. In the
course of his talk he said: "There are
sermons in the stones, the running
brooks"
The future Doctor interrupted with
"Well, if there are sermons in the
running brook, I should think they'd
let US swim on Sundays instead OF
listening to the dry old stuff we have
to-"
But, then-that was years ago.
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
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Raising Reindeer For Canning.

At Telemarken, in Eastern Norway,
q company has just secured tract Ct
mountain land fifty miles square for
breeding and raising reindeer. As a
start 2400 head OF deer have been
bon eht, ard it is intended that the
number shall be increased by births
and buying to something like 1000
head, 1000 of which will be killed
every year. In addition to the send
ing ont of yenison in the carcass re-
frigerstor cars and chambers on ves-
sells quantity will be put up in tins
to prevent Cutting of the markets in
the winter.
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little skeletons, and almost make one
doubt whether it was any kindness to
help them to live few years longer. !"
Miss Gill's last report gives most
encouraging news:
owe may now count that the Santa
Maria del Rosario work is established.
1t is, as you know, of purely settle
ment character, with headquarters in
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orders issued from the War Depart
nent He will carry q baton wound

orders issued from the War Depart
ment. He will carry a baton wound
with silken cords and tassels, and the
color will designate the arm of service.
Cavalry, yellow; artillery, scarlet; in
fantry, blue and white intermixed.
The mounted drum majors will carry
swords instead of batons. 5
The shake; which has always been
the headdress of the drum major, has
been prescribed by the new regula-
ton, which describes this Important
article of dress in these words.
"Black lynx skin shake, with plume
and tassels OF the color Of the arm Of
service, and leather chin straps with
brass scales and side buttons"
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A Popular Fruit.

The banana, like the peanut.eating
habit, seems to increase in this coun-
try annually. Ten years ago 9,OOO,-
600 punches of bananas would satisfy
the American demand for the fruit.
but last year the twenty or more i'm
porters of bananas sold as many as
16, 900, 900 punches. Ofthat quantity
about 100000 lunches, chiefly of
the yellow.sk skinned variety, were alone
consumed in New York City.
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ton the country should be desert,
for no sign of human life appeared.
"On the contrary, every town and
city visited was thronged with beg
gars, many of them emaciated and
gaunt; women, children, cripples and
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provinces-Havana, Matanzas and
Santa Clara-was absolutely blotted
out. Occasionally clump of banana
trees. whose roots had escaped the
fire, or scarlet creeper, would show
where farm house had stood; but
tie tropical growth quickly covered
the ruins. It was inconceivable that
in the midst of this teeming yegeta-
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often been said that the late Cornelius the best OF
the
generous hearted the public spirited and the most ovable OF the
rich family which that Though the
wealth, Vanderbilt
school education and underwent useful training
though simposble to know the exact amount The total tax
the Vanderbilt estate has been est
msted att to
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A New Way Of Hearing q Sermon.

President Henry Wade Rogers, OF
the Northwestern University, and his
wife have moved into the slums Of
Chicago and have taken up their resi-
dence there. Mrs. Rogers is the
President of the Settlement Society,
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Chicago's experiment in employing
housemen instead of housemaids will
be watched with interest. 1t does
seem as if an improvement might be
possible.
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RECOGNIZING THE DRUM MAJOR
he VIII Have New Uniform, But Less
Decorated Finery.

-.
The drum major, the highly deco.
rated show piece of the military band
and the delight of the small boy, has
received official recognition. For sew
eral years the drum major has been
sighted, and it was considered good
form to speak of him as unnecessary.
The National Guard bands took their
cue from the army, and the drum ma
jors of the regimental bands became
less conspicuous, their uniforms less
elaborate, and in some instances the
bands dispensed with the services Of
the man with the gold lace embroidered
red coat. But it seems that the army
has recognized the fact that the drum
major is necessary, and new style of
dress has been prescribed for him in
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the Fortnightly Review is five feet
seven inches high. thirty.six inches
around the chest and weighs only $50
pounds. The British Prime Ministers
of the last forty years have been
shorter, less stout and less heavy in
the scales by about forty pounds apiece
on the average than their contemporary
American Presidents.
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house rented from ex-Governc,
Mora, in which Miss Levy and Mrs.
Barsaga, her Cuban assistant, reside
and in which the kindergarten will be
held for the present.
"The house has been furnished, and
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Pet and Tame Crows,

From the franklin (Tenn.) Review-Appeal'
Henry Potts relates story which
is somewhat queer. Last week, while
sitting on the front porch, he put his
false teeth on the water stand, and, on
missing them, be supposed that a pet
crow which was on the place had
taken them off, He called in one of
the farmhands to look up the crow.
He was seen to fly from a point just
out in the cornfield, and on going to
this place the teeth were found covered
in the dirt.
From the Abingdon Qll.) Enterprise Herald.
Wes Riner has a tame crow that
spends most OF its time in the shade
near Levi Bradbury's store talking
politics and criticising the millinery
worn by the ladies' who pass
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The Custom ICLsc wHs established
in New Eolk Cl.5 il I11G3.
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INTHE CHINA SEA
A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.
X
BY SEWARD HOPKINS.
"~ tcopYH1eH1 z soSs)
A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.
Nv SEWARD w..HOPKINS.

'~ oopYn1cHr BoSSEns soys) && l.
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A BALLOON ASCENSION.
a Highly Successful Event at the
LdmbertOn Fair.

Have you ever seen a balloon as
cension on a clear, still afternoon?
Those were the conditions at Lam
berton about five o'clock last Fri
day afternoon, when Prof. Schem-
erhorn, after spending half an hour
in initiating with smoke and heat
from kerosene oil and barrel slaves,
his big bag, went skywards a dis
tance of between 5000 and 1000
feet until the balloon and the pro-
fessor looked like a small atom way
up in the neighborhood of the con-
stellations.
The balloon shot up through space
like a sky rocket. It went straight
as an arrow and only when it struck
the light, varying winds many feet
above the ground, was there the
least sign of culver of the big in
fiated bag. On the ground what
wind there was came from the north.
Up where the aeronaut was the
light zephyrs seemed to come from
the southeast, but only a slight i'm
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graph Office, and can direct matters
fully as we'll as at Beaver Falls.
They were in Redwood Falls Mon
day morning. Both gentlemen
stated that they expected to be
through grading between the
Minnesota and the new townsite of
Beaver Falls this week, and that
they would then have the grading
crew at work on this side of the
river. The latter was increased by
the addition of large number of
teams and men Monday morning,
and assumed a more business-like
attitude.
The sale of town lots in the town.
site OF Beaver Falls is booked to
occur next Saturday. The officials
OF the townsite company claim that
they are receiving inquiries regard
ing town lots almost daily.
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Jail break became known. At that
time Mr.. Byram passed from his
Office into the corridor to make the

Jail break became known. At that
time Mr.. Byram passed from his
Office into the corridor, to make the
usual morning inspection of the cor
ridors, and also to give the prison
ers the usual liberty. Arriving at
the south side Of the Jail he observed
the blankets over the chair, and
was about to remove them when one
of the prisoners said:
Don't remove them please; we
have been washing our blankets
and are letting them dry out at that
place.
But Doc. thought it was funny
that the blankets should be washed
there, particularly inasmuch as
they had been washed at the laun-
dry only a short time before. He no
ticed about this time a chip of a
brick on the floor, and then removed
the chair to discover the hole.
''Gee whiz," said Doc, as he saw
the big hole. He turned white and
then rushed up stairs and pulled
Sheriff Pease out of bed, who came
down stairs and asked him whether
he had been struck by lightning.
"Worse than that said Doc, as
he took Mr.. Pease around and
showed him the hole, and Ed. COM
menced to turn white. But close
inspection found all of the prisoners
in their cells, and that the outer
bricks had not been removed. The
prisoners were kept in the cell
lobby during the remainder of the
day, and will be kept there until
the break in the wall is repaired.
The attempted break proves the
statement of Ex-Secretary Hart that
any prisoner with jack-knife, and
plenty of time, can make his escape
from the Jail, owing to the fact that
no iron has been placed in the walls.
The prisoners are all liable to in
dictment by the grand jury of Red
wood county for attempted Jail
breaking.
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preston was made on the balloon.
Arriving at the highest point the
professor pulled the string that cut
the rope that severed the parachute
from the balloon. Gee, what sud
den drop for 100 feet or more, by
which time the parachute had caught
the air, and then commenced giving
the areonaut a splendid sail. Slowly
the professor opened the gate at the
top of the parachute, and rapidly
and more rapidly he came down. A
few minutes after he went up he
struck ground safely within four
rods from where he went up, so
perfect was the air. He barely es-
capped lighting on a wood pile, and
when he struck ground he fell for
ward on to his face, but quickly
arose and stated that he was not in
jured.
AS soon as the parachute was cut
from the balloon the latter turned
upside down. The gas escaped in
one huge volume and then the rag
descended, and before the areonaut
and his parachute struck the ground
the rag came down with dull
thud, just about rod from where
it was inflated.
No ascension was made on Satur-
day on account of the heavy wind.
The $50 Parry buggy offered as a
premium by Gebhard & Roth to the
party making the largest display of
blooded cattle at the fair, went to
Lars Anderson of Cottonwood coun-
ty, who exhibited Is head of Gallo
ways. The cultivator went to Mr..
Lauer of Lamberton, who exhibited
five head of Jerseys.
The Second Regimentband of New
Ulm appeared Saturday morning,
and while they furnished some fine
music, the Lamberton boys are en-
titled to the most credit for furnish
ing more music and entertaining
the crowd better the day previous.
The Lamberton boys knew what the
crowd wanted and gave it to them.
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FIRE At 7. D. BARRIERS.

The farm residence of Thos. D.
Barber, town clerk of Vesta, was
totally destroyed by fire at about
four o'clock last Saturday afternoon.
The loss was about $1,000, covered
by 81, 900 insurance in the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Of Red
wood Falls township, of which con-
Germ Mr.. Barber was treasurer for
many years.
The fire originated in the second
story of the building. Itappears
to have originated from match. A
little girl of Mr.. Barber went up
stairs to light lamp. She did so,
and threw the match to the floor,
and over this a pillow fell. The
little girl went down stairs, and five
minutes later smoke was seen to be
issuing from the window of the
room where the little girl lit the
match. An attempt was made to
put out the flames, but without
success, and then Mr.. Barber's
family went to work getting the
articles out down stairs. In this
they succeeded, getting about every
article of any use out OF the rooms,
and also taking a number of doors.
off, before they were compelled to
stop the work of salvage by the
flames.
AS the flames spread the neigh
bors put in an appearance, and
while cinders fell all over the resi-
dence and farm buildings plot they
were extinguished without setting
fire to the numerous outbuildings of
Mr.. Barber.
Mr.. Barber lost his barn and
several head of horses, and was
himself badly burned, by fire
several years ago, and the second
fire gives rise to the story that Mr..
Barber is followed by the flames.