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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
CHAPTER III.

At the end of the cedar-walk 1 took
up my position, lighted a cigar, and
| tried to- wait as patiently as 1 could.
1t was lovely evening in late June,
and the drowsy hum Of the bees,
mingled with the breath of roses and
syringas, coming from the old English
garden behind the walk, sent my
thoughts wandering back to another
evening in June, just year ago, when
l had sat on the same bench, burning
| with love and suspense, waiting to
ask the fair lady who had given me
tryst today to be my wife. We had
known each other from childhood, and
during my sisters lifetime little Edith
had lived almost as much with us as
At the Hall. 1 remember 1 had pro-
posed to her at the early age of four
teen and had been favorably answered.
Yes, Paul. the young lady had
said, lifting up her rosy lips for my
sheepish kiss. 81 will marry you, as
you are the eldest, and have asked me
hrst-and then, when you're dead TlI
marry Arty, if he's good"
To which arrangement Arty-at the
time being hopelessly in love with
Edith's French governess, a black-eyed
vivacious damsel of twenty-nine-
cheerfully agreed.
After that 1 saw nothing of her for
many years. My sister beginning to
all and being ordered to the South of
France, I spent my holidays for some
years with her and my father
at Riviera; then I passed into Sand
hurst, and, after that, 1 had five years
with my regiment in India.
In the meantime matters had not
gone smoothly at home. My handsome
brother Arthur, destined for the bar,
and who was supposed to have all the
brains of the family, turned out to
be a desperate scamp and an unmiti-
gated fool. He disgraced himself at
Oxford; then, throwing aside all sense
of restraint and decency, sowed the
most prolific crop of wild oats ever
chronicled in the sober and respectable
annals Of the Dennyses of Colworth.
Before he had reached his twenty-sec-
ond year he had squandered two con-
siderable fortunes-one left him by his
mother. whose favorite child he was
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CHAPTER ".
With an imprecation sprang to my
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CHAPTER v.

CaAf Eli v.
tried re- follow ar the ->erl
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Continued next Saturday.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14
MESSAGE GDY.P|NGREE
Delivered at the Opening of the
Michigan State Legislature in
the Capital City.
4 GREAT VARIETY OF TOPICS DISCUSSED
Combines Arc Severely Scored
believes In Government owner
ship Of RatIroads-Part Taken in
the Spanish War.

To the Honorable the Senate and House OF
Representatives:
IL Ii my duty and privilege to address
you. by message. as the chief executive OF
this state. upon such matters OF state poll
cy and state government as AFFECT the gen.
eral welfare. The needs OF a great COM
monweaith like ours are many. Its nece3-
stiles are varied Its interests are the In
terests OF over two and one-half mil
lions OF people. We live in an age
or rapid changes. and more rapid de-
velopment. Our state may be justly
proud OF It's position In the union. None
has greater possibilities. Our agricultural
resources are constantly growing In mag
nitude: the wealth OF our forests IL fast
disappearing. but yet a source OF PRIDE
our minerals In extent and quality stand
first In the union. Michigan Is In a better
position to take advantage OF the great in
land merchant marine than any other
state. IL possesses an educational system
unsurpassed by that OF any other state or
county, which Is fully designed TO develop
the highest type of American citizenship.
Its university. the pride of It's own citizens.
Is also the pride of the country at large.
and constitutes a lasting monument TO the
states devotion to learning, to art. and
the sciences. Its citizens are Intelligent
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14

In the interest OF brevity have not at
this time made such recommendations In
detail as the importance OF many OF our
state Institutions requires. reserving the
right 10 communicate to you at greater
length as the occasion may require.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14

In my message to the Thrty-ninth legis-
lature urged the Importance Of changing
the tax law so that tax titles could not be
acquired by individuals. and so that lands
sold for taxes should become state prop
crty. There are few occupations more de-
splcnble than that of the professional pur-
chaser and dealer In tax titles, When a
federal official, occupying one of the high
est judicial positions In the state, pur-
chases tax titles 1t is time to take effective
measures to put a stop to the business. The
decisions OF the supreme court OF the state
have mado IL more difficult than ever for
owners OF land to relieve their property
from the lien of tax titles. do not desire
to protect the negligent owner CT real es-
tate. but there is no reason why the unfor-
tunate should be made the victims of the
INSCRIPTIONS and close-6sted tax title
dealer.
would strongly recommend that per-
sonal notice TO real estate owners whose
taxes are unpaid be substituted In the
place OF notice by advertisement In the
newspapers The newspaper notices rarely
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
BRIEF SCIENCE NOTES.

The microphone is being utilized for
the education Of deaf mutes, and such
persons can actually hear sounds pro-
ceeding from The microph ophonograph,
and soon learn 10 utter them. 1t ap-
pears to he an officacious method. even
with persons Who have passed middle
life
Recent observations among Indians
show that in South America. as wei as
in North America, the red woman lives
longer than the red 1uan. But the av-
erage duration Of life is only II years
for both sexes in the south, and &c
per cent. of the Indians die during the
first year OF life.
Recent Investigations have shown
that the principal source of the guilt
stream is not the Florida channel. bur
the region between and beside The is
lands Of the West Indies. At Binion
the volume Of this warm water is Ct
times as great as the combined vol
ume of all the rivers in the world a
their mouths.
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a speedy upbuildiug of fresh energy and
strength.
A prominent nd venerable Illinois physician,
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
Piute War Claims

Not Included in the Omnibus bill, have
upon the motion and action of Senator
Stewart, been referred by the o.. Senate
to the U. s.. Court of Claims for settle
ment.
All persons in any wise iutere ted in
any of said claims are requested to write
In reference thereto to the undersigned
who fully understands same, and has had
much to do with them during many
years last past JOHN MULLEN,
Attorney at law.
No. 1910 Connecticut Avenue, Wash
IN ton City, d. c.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
YOUNG MOTHERS.

Group is the terror of thousands Of young
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frequently fatal Shiloh's Cough and Consump-
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never been known TO fail The worst cases re-
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
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on receipt of price. La France Drug Co.
importers, 3O6 Turk St., San Francisco.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that on or
after August l, 1899, the office, or
room, occupied by the County Assessor
situated IN the county building, next
door to tie store now occupied by
Joseph Platt, will be for rent. For
particulars apply TO
GEO. w. CowING,
Clerk of Board Of County Com mission
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
Notice.

The Improvement Club will sell a
800 scholarship for $50, good for a ten
months's course in the Commercial,
Shorthand and Typewriting, or Acad-
emic Depai tment of the Nevada Busi.
ness College, to the first person who
will secure ten pupils for full course
at the Nevada Business College,
For particulars apply to
Ed. WALSH
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
a Great lininent.

DR.. Benton's liniment. which affects
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world. You have but to use it once and
you will never use auyother. If
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iCaI IceI Ice

Dr.. Benton is now ready TO serve Old
aud new customers with pure, clear ice
frozen from running water and no frog
ponds. Leave your orders at the Benton
stable.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27

outck Growth of Guinea Pigs.
The guinea pig grows more quickis
than any other quadruped- II is fully
GROWN when six weeks old, and begins
20 bear youug attwO months.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-27
C1g~ N5 Dry7
-rN-

When q man
GRO : ing some
difficult place in
his wOrkin o
career; squirting
all his energies to
accomplish some
critical passage in
his business jour
ney, IL d d e n Y
finds his health
giving way and
fe c Is him S elf
swept out of the
S a & dl e by the
sw ft-ruuuing
current of dis
ease-thcn is the
time when the
The times., 1899-03-09
MR.. HEPBURN NOT SATISFIED.
Status OF The Canal
Project nchHnged.

Representative Hepburn of Iowa was at
the War Department yesterday morning on
some small Iowan business. He has been
suffering from sciatica and intends 10 go
to California soon for a month or two.
thus avoiding the March winds of his own
State Speaking of the Nicaragua Canal,
ne said that he had not yet had chance
to discuss il with the President. but
thought that it would be hard TO find bet
ter material for the board 10 do the investi-
eating required by Congress than the mem
bers of the Walker Commission.
Two OF the Commission" he said. are
the peers of any engineers in the world.
and Admiral Walker is leysl-headed man,
who possesses enormous powers Of detail
and who inspires universal confidence in
every character OF work.
Mr.. Hepburn is not at all satisfied with
the provision for the canal in the River and
Harbor bill He says that it in no way
commits the Government to the work or
alters the parliamentary status OF the
project a particle.
Points of order car be made against
the canal as well next year as they could
this. and maintained with as much reason. -
he said But we had to take that or moth
ing The members who had home inter
ests in the bill became justly alarmed lest
it should fail. The threat Was made that
il should never come out of committee il
the canal amendment was not modified,
and that threat would undoubtedly havs
been made good. We had to yield"
The times., 1899-03-09
Th. Consolidation T.ua.uc,

The consolidation of all the great East
ern coal roads under one management is
simply one more instance of the present
tendency of the age. All business is
slowly but surely gravitating toward some
such condition. Combinations of vast in
terests are made possible by the perfection
of means of communication, which makes
il extremely difficult for any part of the
country to develop a separate system. The
big railroad men are coming nearer and
nearer to literal kingship over whole COM
munities.
Such combinations are facilitated by the
condition once expressed in the phrase "A
corporation has no soul" When men of
immense and varied interests are closely
associated. they cease in measure TO be
the masters OF circumstances. and become
subject to sort OF fatalistic law This
may seem like a strange assertion in
view OF the tremendous power which these
men. individually and collectively. WELD
over masses OF our population. but it is
nevertheless true In such combination
one man cannot be absolute master. He
must get the consent of the others in
what he wishes TO do and what is more,
he must obey great economic laws of de-
mand ana supply. II four out of the five
capitalists thus associated decide on a Ger
tain course, the fifth must join them, or
run the risk of being frozen out and
wrecking not only his own future but the
fortunes Of those dependent on him. In
a literal sense his soul is not his own
Thus it comes to pass that a man who in
his private life is kindly and honorable.
even lavisbly generous, becomes business
buccaneer, and is responsible in a measure
for untold misery in the lower grades of
society.
The present combination is reported TO
be about TO take over all the mines and re-
lieve the railroads of the management of
the coal business. This an entirely nat
ural move. In some places 1t will i'm
prove the condition of the laboring classes
in others it will grind them little deeper
into the mud. There is certain amount
of personal power allowed to every man
concerned in the management of such a
huge business; IL he is really anxious 10
make his eSployes as comfortable as pos
sible they wili of course. be better off
than II he were determined TO accumulate
dollars, regardless of anything else But
in the great measures which determine the
price OF labor and the cost of living the
combination is everything. the individ-
ual nothing.
The logical result OF this slow moving
The times., 1899-03-09
Reduced Rank for Generals.

Among the unpleasant things connected
with the aftermath of Congress. it de-
velops that General Wheeler, who com
manded the fighting line at Santiago, will
have to be reduced in rank from a major
general to a brigadier general. or get out
of the army The same condition confronts
Generals Fitzhugh Lee and J. H. Wilson.
hut the case is exceptionally hard one IN
the case of General Wheeler. because.
while he must be a brgadier or nothing.
General Shafter, who. it is said. was on
the point of ordering a retreat at Santiago,
and took as much active part in the mill
tary operations there as Sampson did in
the naval battle nearby. has been given
one of the new major generals commits
sions. The facts are not calculated TO
increase the enthusiasm of the American
people for the war administration of Sec
retary Alger, and it is quite evident that
President Mckinley has been forced into
doing what he must know is an unpopular
thing.
Still, there is considerable excuse for
the Commander-inC Chief and if the Alger
and Shafter personalities could be elimi
mated from the problem the public might
be satisfied that he has acted in the only
way he could.
Under the new army law, as matters
stand today it appears that but two yolun-
teer major generals could be appointed.
One of the commissions naturally went to
Otis, in command at Manila. and the other
one might be said to be due TO Shafter, IN
the contrary. No such reasons happen to
be available. On the face of the returns
Shafter. who commanded the land forces
at Santiago. has not been found guilty of
any shortcoming. In the eye of the mill
tary law, his absence from the firing line,
his hammock, soft drinks, panic, and al
legged desire to cut and run, are but the
figments of evidence never passed upon
by relief commission, court of enquiry,
whitewash board, or court martial. When
10 these considerations we add the i'm
portant truth that he is from Michigan,
and the favorite officer of that man of
peace and beef. Russell A. Alger. it is easy
TO see that Mr.. Mckinley could hardly act
otherwise than he has.
Men like Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee will be the same in the
estimation of their fellow countrymen
whether their shoulders be decorated with
single or double stars and all the stars in
the Milky Way might deck the coats of
some other people without changing pub
lie opinion to their dement's. 1t is said
that when Shafter reaches the time for his
retirement as a brigadier general in the
regular army, next autumn, he will be al
lowed 10 drop out of the volunteer service
also. and that then General Wheeler will
again be made a major general. Probably
a good deal in that connection may de-
pend upon the person who happens at the
time TO be at the head of the War Depart
ment We shall see
The times., 1899-03-09

wave of concentration will be exactly what
the result of the same causes has been in
the past England began with king; the
mobiles gradually grew more powerful
under the protection of the feudal system,
which was made necessary by the constant
wars of the period. The country which al
lowed its noblemen certain rights and priv
ileges gained strength from their individ-
ual force of character The noblemen pres
entity grew strong enough 10 dictate to the
king. and the Great Charter was the re-
suit. Then the feudal system wore itself
out, and the working classes began to grow
powerful. Now it looks as if England
were tending toward government which
shall be in fact, if not in name, purely
representative The plutocratic system
will have to do its work in this country,
just as the feudal system did in England.
When by the process of concentration all
the varied business interests are in the
hands of a few big monopolies. there will
be a reaction. and a great many things will
be thrown into the hands of the people,
which now are considered purely private
affairs. If a knight of King Johns time
had been told that men of English stock
would ever establish a government under
which every free man would have a vote.
and every man would be free. he would
have considered his informant insane.
The subyersion of great commercial inter-
ests to the good of the people is not so
far from us as republican government
was from King John.
The times., 1899-03-09
OIi.rt.SS.
LErnm thc Kansas CiLr SIN

tfi"m the hanslS tliy >tII.1
In theory Congress is the voice ot the p,opIc.
In fact. it is the majority and minority keep
ing up the fight. The United States Government.
in theory Is grand smooth machinery In
fact, it is intricate OF wheel, that do
not run the same way. and which are difficult To-
control. The ideal nf Congress in the mind ot 4
schoolbuy who has been taught all the tine act>
and deeds and principles of the republican form
of government will never bc realized 1t i i'm
possible. lie would he shocked Were he able To
comprehend and know the truth. From an ideal
standpoint the Fiity.ffth Congress di,ap-
pontmcnt. From 4 standpoint al what whirl
pool Of conflict Congress is, how it Is an in
stitution of national pickering instead oi national
unison the Fifty NTH Congress was not decadent
hut an improvement. 1t il customary to regard
past American times ior their el0qucnces. sacri
fees. and heroSns and to overlook their mean
nesses jealpusies. blunders and delays. After
reading the Gaked truth OF the past, it may lie
said, with confidence and satisfaction. that the
nitcd States of ls9s-99, in every way, is lar
ahead of l776, OF 1872, and ls6I,6j, for which
God he praised.
The times., 1899-03-09
ANOTHER COAL COMBINE.
The Temple Iron Company Ab-orbs
Numerous Other Concerns.

Wilkesbarre Pa. March S.-The firm Of
Simpson & Watkins. one of the largest
individual coal operators in the Wyoming
companies they control will be operated by
the Temple Iron Company. The properties
secured axe: Forty Fort Coal Company
capital S100, goo: Babylon Coal Company
capital 100000: Edgerton Coal Company.
capital 100000; Mount Lookout Coal Com
pany capital S120,000; Northwest Coal
Company. capital 100000: Sterrick Creek
Coal Company, capital 100000; Lacka-
wanne Coal Company, capital $40, ,O9o.
Mr. Watkins. when asked in regard tc the
rumOr that the firm had sold its coal in
terests to a New York syndicate headed by
]. T.. Morgan & Co. for $4,000. .000 stated
that the rumor was incorrect. He said that
the sum for which the Temple Iron Com
pany secured the control of the properties
was something less than $4,000 Mr..
Watkins added that the company had un-
der consideration options on two or three
other properties. As to what effect this
consolidation would nave upon the pro-
posed new coal carrying road from Scran-
ton to New York, he continued: we nat
uraily have no further interests in the
building of tine New York. Wyoming and
Western road. With the disposition ON
the part of the larger companies TO handle
the anthracite business on basis fair TO
all concerned, there does not appear to be
a necessity for putting in any additional
capital in new railroads
The .coal properties thus consolidated
mine about 100000 tons OF anthracite
year This has been shipped over the
Lehigh Valley. Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western and Erie roads.