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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-15
STATE DEBT.
State and County Tax Rates.

State and County Tax Rates.
JACKSON, MISS. April 8, 1899.
Hon. A. H. Langston, Estes Mill, Miss:
My Dear Sir-l am in receipt OF your favor
asking Tor certain Information relating to State
finances: FL
!. Amount Of bond issues for last ten years.
2. The tax rate for State from 1879 to 1890.
3. The tax rate for each of the rs counties for
1898.
4. The total State debt. All to be 50 stated
and itemized as to be easily understood, etc.
The report Of State Treasurer May for the
year 1897 shows, in bis statement Of payable
debt, the bond issues for the period named-ten
years.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-15

NOn-TNyaDIc Uebt.
unterest alone is to be paid)
Chckagaw school fund ..........,..$ Sj6, 3O0Sl
Seminary fund. University of Misss-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5H,OGl 90
Agricultural land script per cent
bonds due Jan. J. 1895 ............ 2l2,ijOOO
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1899-04-15

The penitentiary board of control
HIS to it's credit in the State treasury a
surplus of nearly $4,000, with enough
cotton on hand to make the total sur
plus about $4,000. The mississippi
Pan" liz this as in other matters, is
the hest
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

endured so much. But the words were
spoken before my judgment would let
me restrain them, as it often had done
in the first sweet, sad days Of our ac-
quaintance.
Forgive me-" l said weakly. I'm
a brute You've been such an angel TO
me-and l oughtn't to have told you
now"
"Oughtn't your" she answered softly.
do you remember my saying one ev-
ening at the Savoy Hotel that there
was only one thing in the world which
might even keep me from making a
marriage that was horrible to me?'
II remember WELL" | returned. 81
remember everything you ever said to
me. VIII you tell me what that one
thing was?"
Il meant, if you had loved me.
Sometimes Thought you did, but you
would never say so. You only asked
to be my friend"
"Oh, if 7 had but kA1wn-if had
but dared" | exclaimed. 81 was per-
ishing Of love for you from the first
night | ever saw your face. Is 1t too
late now? l don't ask to be your
friend, l ask to be everything your
lover, and your husband"
'And | give you everything" she
said. So it came about that the sun
shine Of happiness drove forth the
black shadows which would fain have
fingered to haunt us like ghosts from
the House by the Lock.
(The End)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
THE HOUSE BY THE LOCK
Bv MRS. C. L. WILLIAMSON,
Ban-somers "The Grey" fortunes
Sport "Lady Mary of the Dark House" &c., &c.,

Copyright.
Continued from Last Weekly

alton, that it might not fall when bur-
dened with my weight, and then
scrambled up, not venturing to pause
for an instant at the top, for | could
feel that the thing was slowly begin
ming to slide from under me.
With a leap I caught the ledge OF
stone that ran round the roof, and set
ting my knee against the WALL helped
myself up. 1t may read simple enough
when written down in black and white.
but it was rather difficult task in the
accomplishment, and l felt that l had
reason to congratulate myself on my
own success when it was done.
Framed in a margin of dark roof
eight to ten feet in width was the sky
light, through which penetrated sub
dued radiance.
Cautiously, noiselessly, l crawled to
the round bubble of glass and looked
down. A curtain of embroidered In
dian silk was drawn half across, but
through the open space that was left
| could see something of the interior.
The jeweled lamp which l had pre-
viously observed hanging from the
centre alone illumined the octagonal
room Now that | was on the roof
was able to appreciate more than ever
the smallness of the studio. There
was a space for a wide passage running
all the way round, between the inner
walls and the outer walls. | suspected
method in this design-a secret which
Wildred had cleverly contrived to hide,
and which, in conjunction with the
mystery of the tower, might account
for much that had been dark before.
AS l looked figure passed into my
line of vision. 1t was MILDRED, walk
ing restlessly up and down with his
hands behind him. l could hear the
murmur of his voice, through the glass
of the skylight the words were not dis
tinguishable. Suddenly there came a
sharp exclamation in a WOman's voice
and my heart gave a responsive bound
Mildred was talking to karine, and it
was she who had answered him with
a cry.
l had not expected, when l decided
upon trying to enter like a burglar
through the skylight, that Karine
would be in the studio. 1t would,
doubtless, brighten her very much if I
should suddenly make my appearance
beside her amid a shower of broken
glass, and | hesitated so to alarm her,
unless the man down there was al
ready commencing to use his power to
torment her. If she would only go out
and leave me to give Mildred sur
prise | should have been thankful; but
as | could not hope for her to do that,
[ determined to know what her COM
panion was saying to her, which had
caused her to eXclaim in establishment,
or perhaps in fear.
took out my pocket knife, and with
great care to avoid all noise I began
to loosen one of the small diamond
shaped Danes from its leaden setting.
AS soon as it was released at one end
[ slipped the point of the knife under
meath and SO raised it that there
might be no danger of its falling
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
CHAPTER xxx.
CONCLUSION.

0ONCLUOlOIN.
Whether it was Karine whom I be-
lieved | had heard weeping or not, l
could not be sure. | could not even
nave taken my oath that there had
Zen sound at all, but l was NOR
ally certain of it.
| ran all round the house, trying in
vain to batter in a side door, and was
met everywhere by silence and dark
ness. At the side. however. | came
at last upon the extension, with the
tower from whence | had seen the su5-
picious smoke and fame pouring on
that memorable Christmas afternoon.
Over the roof of the low studio"
which possessed no windows, | could
see faint yellow glow, like lumin-
GUS halo or crown, and suddenly, as l
stood regarding it in some bewilder-
ment, l recollected the skylight which
l had observed from within.
If / could in some way climb to the
top, break through the glass and let
myself down, the problem as to how
l should get into the house would be
effectually solved.
1t now struck me that the studio
was disproportionately large compar-
ed with the room inside, as | remem-
bered 1t. There had been only the
one, which apparently constituted the
sole purpose of the building, and yet
it appeared to me that there might
have been room for two of the same
small size.
Low as the erection was it was too
high for me to climb, and [ began
hastily looking about for some means
Of assistance in carrying out my
plan. In the coach-house. l thought,
there might be a ladder, and thither
l repaired without delay. But the
doors were padlocked, and try them
as might | could not open them.
What was I to do? The more diff
culties which encountered my path, the
more did | determine to surmount
them. Returning towards the house |
noticed a large rustic seat placed under
an ancient apple tree, and it occurred to
me that if | could balance the article
against the projection of the building
| might by standing it on end, use it as
an improvsed ladder. If l could only
mount for a certain distance [ could
pull myself up the edge of the fat roof.
The light which apparently filtered
through the skylight had warned me to
be cautious in my movements. Who
ever was in the house must have known
long ago that someone was determined
upon forcing an entrance, but, judging
by the laughing taunts of the servant,
it would be believed that the boast had
been vain one.
If anyone was in the studio it might
be as well if, for a few moments at
least, l could see without being seen
Or heard. I therefore went about my
Preparations as quickly as possible.
l dragged the rustic seat across the
grass and set it in an angle between the
lower and the lO~ building of the stu
dio, I gave it certain slanting inclin-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

nat holland lacks land Cufa lacks In there are few
towns or villages the weI or
is
IN summer time of mis-
distance
u" oA is not an uncommon
OF the Uopc sun beating down on them
uVes make business
peddle as one would vegetables
the demand Ii
~ 80 oentS
Is
which to quench their thirst To be
houses one can
@ soda or something stronger There however places where on
~ hte necessary
Along the roads are TO be found coconut Their
always be found in N NV eOunu'
In these nature has certainly been
MILK IN them is delicious and refreshing
Island with little
al ground The
Nady for The water the
who drink large quantities o. : ~ 1 - W naAses'
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
rHR nAcKsL1n1Na RRorHER.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
De screeeh-owl screech fun de ole be
lof:
you drinked yo' dram sence you dc
swore Off,
I'm you gwine de way
Whar dc sinners stay,
En- Satan gwine ter git you at do 1et
ment day!'
En- de old liant call fun do old chuI
wall:
"You des so trinin' dat you had ter q
I'm YOU gwine de way
Whar de brimStQ~e stay,
En- Sataa. g~f~~~ TO ~ you at 90 te5
flleflt dayH"
I'm I shake en- shiver,
En- / hunt fer kiver
En- 1 say: Good Lawd, 80 -
please deliveri
Kaze my hopes is vain.
En- ! tells you plain, ~
l drinked my dram fer ter Sssy
pain"
Den de screech-owl screech fanl Do n
You drinked dat dram, en- youl sma
you mouth
En- you gwine de way
Whar de birthstone stay,
En- Satan gwine to roaS ydu az
Judgment dayI'
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

for his opinion on certain question.
II don't want to give It," was the
ply.
Aren't yau surs-se %our grouAAnli
Il guess am. but know my (
"And what is that?"
''Why, 1 never git to talkin' n
that / don't run off to religion and
that It was true that the whale swalN
ed joiner. The other Teller don't belle
1t, and purity soon we call each other Id
and git up a fight. If L ever come out
top 1T would be all right, but Two be
licked twenty-seven times, and you j.
go ahead and leave me out OF the discu
sion!"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS.
SPEAK OUT,

Publicity is what the people want.
Let the public speak the subject.
There has been too much claim-too little proof
Claims made by strangers not proof
Claims endorsed by strangers are not proof
There is only kind of proof for Wheeling citizen
The experience of people we know.
When friends and neghbors endorse,
Make public statements of their case
There can be question about such evidence
This is the proof we have,
Which backs every box of DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS
No other kidney pis-no other kidney remedy
Can produce such proof
Here is one of the many have:
g
o. which
become
y
Team
Kidney Pills for all 2
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS are sold for 80 cents
box six boxes for $3.50 For sale ty all Dealers or
mail on receipt Of price by Foster Milbarn Co.. Buff
\. Sole agents for the United States. Reme1
nane--DOAN'S--an take no other
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
HAD A FAILING

We had been discussing the political Sit
uation for an hour or so, when the Colo
mel turned to an old man OF intelligent
looks on the seat in the rear and asked
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05


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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
A SKATING TOURNAMENT
Fifty Sprinters Will Be in AT.
tendance.
FAST WORK is EXPECTED
The Composition for Medal Honors Will
Be Sharp and Lively During the
Three Days-The State
Championship.

The three days skating tournament,
for which all the fast skaters of the
state have been in training for some
time past, opens this evening at the
Butte ice rink. 1t is expected that
about so sprinters and long distance
men will be in attendance to compete
for medal honors, and if the hopes of
the promoters of the tournament are
realized some exciting contests will be
witnessed.
The events of the three days tourna-
ments are to include races of all dis
tances from half a mile up, for each of
which a state championship medal will
be hung up and there will be, besides,
free-f or-a lls, for which two crack east
ern skaters are already entered. Among
the events which are expected to prove
the most interesting are series of
handicaps in which Dick McCloy, the
great backward skater of Winnipeg
will go against men skating forward
and others in which J. F. Conway. the
local fast man who has never been
beaten in the West. and who made the
far-famed terrible Swede' Olson look
like slow one when they met in Butte
last winter, will even up matters with
some of the less speedy by handicaps.
Thf eastern entries thus far an
bounced include M. G. Webster of South
Bend and Dick McCloy of. Winnipeg.
The state entries are Charles Peterson
of Anaconda, J. H. Carmichael. A. De-
laney Alex Shannahan, Walter Ems
worth, Louis Raymond, Louis Rosen-
stein, AL. Godbout, Robert F. LIE Beau,
]. Dunstan and j. T. Conway of Butte,
and Frank Brown of Great Falls.
There are, besides, numerous others
from different parts of the country who
have signified their intention of taking
part in the tournament, but who have
not yet sent in their entries. AS stated,
it is expected the full number of skat-
ers who will participate will be about
so, the majority of whom will appear in
the handicaps, which will be chiefly
overnight entries and which will be
announced daily.
The tournament begins at 9 o'clock
this evening, when the first race is
scheduled to start. The first race is for
amateurs and will be half-mile dash
for state amateur championship
medal The entries for the event are
Walter Ellsworth and E. E. Clayborn
of Butte, Clyde Brown of Bozeman and
Vincent Cleary, formerly of Escanaba,
Mich, who has recently located in Mon
tana.
The second event will be half-mile
dash for professionals. The entries are
A. Deloney, ]. A. Carmichael Robert F.
LeBeau and J. Il. Conway of Butte
and M G. Webster of South Bend, Ind.
The third race is a half-mile dash for
a purse, in which Dick McCloy of Win
nipeg will skate backward against
| Jack Dunston of Butte, both starting
from scratch.
The fourth event is mile race for a
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
TWO HEWERS OF WOOD
Quarreled About the Right Way
Home.
ONE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
The Sad Result of Celebration in Butte
Kennedy Accused Gang of
Gamblers of Cutting
Him Up.

Andrew Erickson and Joe Gornduc, as
the latters name was given to the po-
lice, quarreled Saturday night over
which was the right road home, and as
a result Erickson is nursing a serious
wound in his face and seeks warrant
for his assailant's arrest.
Erickson and Gornduc are hewers and
haulers of wood. Erickson is employed
by w f. McAllister, the commission
man, and chops wood in the vicinity
of Homestake. The other man was
employed to help him. Saturday the
two brought load of wood to town.
By way of diversion, they celebrated
little in the evening. 1t was late when
they started for Homestake, and &C
cording to all accounts they were pref
ty groggy, so much 50 that they d1d
not realize till they had ridden long
enough to have been home, that their
team had lost the road. An argument
followed the discovery as to what road
was the proper one to take. Each
thought he knew better than the other
and the result was a fight in which Ell
ickson got much the worst of 1t.
Erickson told the police that when
he and his partner got to mixing it, the
team ran away and came back to town.
In the fight, he said. his partner struck
him with shovel or pitchfork, he
couldn't tell which. and from his APP
pearance it is no wonder, for he must
have been pretty well used up. Erick-
son followed the team back to town and
on the outskirts ran across police
man, who took him to the city Jail to
be patched up.
Below the right eye he had a great
cash couple of inches long semi
circular in shape. which was cut in sc
deep that it laid the cheek bone bare
DR.. Renick was called and sewed uI
and dressed the wound. and Erickson
left in search of some official who could
issue warrant.
A miner who gave he name of Ken
nedy and said he waa formerly in the
saloon business in East Park street
appeared at the city Jail at an early
hour yesterday morning with a three
cornered cut in his forehead, which he
said he received at the hands of q
gang of gamblers in the Combination
house. Kennedy said he went into the
gambling house and encountered g
gambler, whose name he could not re-
call. who owed him. They had some
words about the matter and the gam
bier called him vile name. Kennedy
resented the epithet and struck the
gambler. In a minute half a dczer
were on top of him at once and WheI
he got away he found he had beer
cut but he did not know how. Jailel
Levy, who is a graduate from the Ho
dunk school of surgery, put couple
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
INSTlNCTIVELY O1EYS ORDERS.
Former Soldiers Singular Mistake in n
Downtown Eating House.

From the Chicago Chronicle
He has served under the flag in a regi-
ment of infantry. The late war served
also to refresh his memory concerning
the drill regulations and the orders given
when desired movement is to be exc
cuted. He was with a friend. also of
military experience, when he entered a
dairy lunch house in the business dis
trict yesterday. Long counters run along
each side of the room, with a third curved
in front of the center. Guests were seat
ed at each end of the counters busily dis
posing of food.
The two friends moved down to the
counter to the east, fronted by the piano
stool accompaniment. They were about
to take seats when a sound smote their
ears which caused the soldier to perform
like a trick monkey. One of the walters
shouted out instructions to the cook in
the rear. The words jumbed and this
is what they sounded to the solder
"Guides-posts!'
Hearing this the soldier backed from the
counter, faced to the right and walked
rapidly to the end nearest the door.
Here he took position and carefully
gazed along the line of feeders. His
friend. realizing that an instructive mill
tary sense had moved the man, went
after him.
What the dickens are you doing,
Bill?" asked the friend. This is no bar
racks nor parade: it's a hash foundry.
Don't make spectacle of yourself. Back
with you
Didn't that fellow yell 'Guides-posts?"
queried the man in a dazed manner.
Queer how you soldiers think every
thing is for YOU" was the reply. Gle
yelled Dry toast if you must know
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13

Lathrop Helm. discusses important sci
entific truths for the children.
Another book of the same series is The
Earth and Sky; a Primer of Astronomy
for Young Readers" by Professor Edward
S. Holden, who has also contributed an
even more interesting volume TO the series
with the title "Our Country's Flag and the
Flags of Other Countries
F. NJ. Holmes has given us useful and
important book called marvel of Mar
vels: Stories of Metal Workers and Their
Victories 1t treats of the discovery,
the extraction and the treatment of met
ais.
For our very youngest readers the
First Year Nature Reader" by Rather
inc Beebe and Nellie F. Kingsley. is just
the right book. 1t is illustrated with col
o1ed plates
There are many among our patrons who
will remember the delights experienced
in the perusal of tenants of An Old
Farm" a book for young people of all
ages, published several years ago. The
same author, Henry Christopher McCook,
has recently given us another book,
equally rich in scientific lore and equally
fascinating in style: In "Old Farm Fancies:
Summer Campaign in Brownieland
Against King Cobweaver's Pixies; a Story
for Young People the Pixies are spiders
under King Cobweaver, and the story OF
their war against the Brownies, or rather
the war of the Brownies against them, is
made the opportunity of conveying a
great deal of knowledge of spider lore.
The interesting STORY of Edison and the
Wonders of Electricity is the theme of
a small wel-written volume by Frank
Mundeil.
A similar contribution on ''The Heroes
of the Telegraph is compiled by J.
Munro.
Vincent T. Murche has compiled Sc
ries of Science Readers in six volumes,
wlich are carefully arranged for progress
sive use in the different school grades.
Edward Stratemeyer is known to our
young people by his stories of the recent
war with Spain. His Minute Boys of
Lexington is a story of like nature on
the opening conflict of the Revolution.
One of the most attractive books before
us this week is wild Animals l Have
KNOWN by Ernest Seton Thompson. the
official zoologist of Manitoba. The book
does not treat of families Of animals, but
of individuals who have been favorites of
the author and whose many dongs and
qualities are sympathetically described
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-13
BUTTE NEWS.
butte PUBLIC LIBRARY
Some Interesting Books for
Young People.
"A CATALOGUE PREPARED
A List of Three Thousand Books of In
terest to Both Young and Old.
Comments on Historical
Works

Librarian Davies of the Butte free pub
slic library talks Interestingly to the young
people in the following lines:
In the absence of a printed catalogue
which seems to be too expensive an enter
prise to be undertaken ny the library at
present, the trustees are doing what is
possible to meet the needs of our patrons
Sby having compiled typewriter lists of
those books which seem to be of most i'm
mediate Importance.
In accordance with this policy a COM
plete list of books for young people, which
may be drawn on standard cards. has
been compiled. The titles are grouped by
classes and an alphabetical list of classes
has been prefixed. AS in general a book
of this class is written more carefully
and in consequence becomes more inter-
esting, than are books designed primarily
for adults. this list of 5000 books will be
very useful, not only to the children, but
also to many of our older patrons. Sew
eral copies of this young peoples cata-
logue have been bound, some of which
have been placed on the tables in front
of the issue desk for consultation, while
others are issued for the home use of card
holders like any other book. Nineteen
copies which remain have been placed in
paper covers and will be sold to the first
persons who apply for them at 50 cents
a copy.
The next lists to be prepared in this
manner are those embracing the library's
collection of fiction. There will be two
of these lists, one containing adult fiction
and one juvenile fiction. In the press of
work al the library it will be long before
these lists will be complete, but in tina
meantime portions will be disposed of if
patrons so desire. The part of the adult
ready. Under these two letters are about
400 books, and the pages devoted to them
are for sale at 10 cents a copy.
The books to be mentioned in our article
this week are those added within the
last six or eight weeks, which are designed
particularly for young people and are is
suable on standard cards. Most of them
will also be attractive to all our patrons.
The boys and girls who are interested in
different literary organiza lions will be
glad to use Briefs for Debate on Current
Political, Economic and Social Topics"
by w. Dubois Brookings and Ralph Cur
tbs Ringwat. The book has been care
fully compiled and gives evidence of a
large amount of conscientious work.
Among the books before us this week are
for the most part, must be dismissed with