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rs NOT UNHAPPY.

"And you are not unhappy here?"
NO" he replied. with queer little,
wrinkled smile. nothing makes me un-
happy but a tight boot. Every one is
kind to me and / have all need
m pretty low down. and l shouldn't
like any old friends to know just where
you found me. But it's better than the
poor house. I couldn't stand charity.
won't owe the world a dollar I have
enough laid by for bread and bed as long
as L need them, and something over to
bury me, and one thing that no one can
ever take away, and that Is my God"
AT the door he turned and extended
a friendly hand.
I'm glad you came'' he said. "It
does me good to talk. I don't suppose
shall be here long, it's almost time for
my last run, but If you ever visit the
Smithsonian institution in Washington,
and see there the old John Bull, perhaps
you will give a kindly thought to the
old engineer"
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W0man Sold df NNenom

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Galveston, Tex. Is shocked and out
ragged that white woman has been ac-
tually put up at public auction and sold.
sold like slave into the most terrible
form of slavery. The story of the sale
as CLEANED from the police authorities
is as follows:
One night recently there gathered a.
number Of men for the express purpose
Of attending the sale of a human being.
An ex-bartender had been selected as
the auctioneer, and he was on hand
promptly at the hour and ready for the
performance 1t Is stated that the bidding
commenced lively. and the first bid was
for So Two or three bidders bid sharply
until the price reached $40, and there the
auctioneer fingered long and entreatingIy
IN an effort to raise the price q few dol
lars.
THE PAPERS SIGNED.
In vain he attempted to push the fig
ures up few marks, and falling he
called out the sale in the regulation style
as closed. The papers were drawn up
and duly signed and the goods and
chattels' in the form of the woman we:e
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delivered to the purchaser. After the
sale the woman cried piteously and be-
moaned her fate, saying she did not want
TO be under contract or bond to the man
VINO bought her. but after a short in
terView with her purchaser she seemed
TO accept the situation. The man who
purchased the unfortunate woman was
well known in Galveston
IS A FOREIGNER.
Inc woman Is a foreigner. speaks very
Iittle English and is we'll known i'm her
circles. The man who sold her and
claimed to be her husband, after recefv-
ing the AO less the auctioneer's com
mission. cody put the money IN his
pocket, signed the bill of sale and re-
gaTdless Of the piteous appeals of the
woman who had been a wife to him. Ieft
the room. He Is now reported to be In
New Orleans 1t has developed, in course
or police investigation. that a practice
mas been made Of this kind OF thing.
The woman was known as Margaret
Conner.
The woman IS said TO have been i'm
ported from Belgium. together with lot
or other Belgian and French women. and
was under contract to the American who
sold her.
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The Smoking

And card rooms on the Observation cars
Of the Northern Pacific's North Coast
Limited" are proving a great attraction.
These rooms-of which there are two on
each observation car-provide nice little
retreats where, undisturbing and undis-
turbed, a group Of congenial spirits may
smoke and enjoy a quiet game of whist
the car engage in conversation, read the
current periodicals found on the table Of
the ladies' parlor. or books taken from
the car library, or enjoy the scenery from
the observation platform.
On hot days the electric fans keep up a
current of cool air throughout the car.
and u hot or cold water bath can be taken.
and a shave, shampoo or haircut be had
at any time.
All the comforts of home are indeed
found on this crack train OF the Martin
west
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THERE CAN BE NO EXTERNAL 4
WITHOUT AM INTERNAL e.
smoke or chew, and don't mix with those

smoke or chew. and don't mix with those
men,"
My eyes followed his through the big
cheerless hall to the groups Of unkempt.
tramp-like beings, absorbing all the
warmth and comfort they could find for
the meager price Of a nights lodging,
and then returned to rest on the quiet.
patient figure of this wonderful old man
He read my thought and answered:
III tell you what has kept me from
being one of then-a good wife God
bless her! l had her with me for over
fifty years, and there's never a day that
can't feel her with me now. I want
to tell you that there's nothing on earth
to keep man straight like a good wom-
anp
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time I'd have cut and run If It hadn't
been for having my mother. After
awhile she saw how I felt and told m6
to go. She said if / kept straight and
there was anything in me 1t would find
a way to get out. And I did, for
worked my passage to England on
freight ship and when there the first
thing 1 started in to see was a loco
motive.
For days and nights I didn't see much
Of anything else. There were two roads
In operation over there then, and I just
lived on them by hook and crook until
learned the business. Finally l wa
taken on, first as fireman. then as en-
gineer, and then when the old John Bun
was built to be sent 10 America it was
that came over with it and my hand
that held the throttle on its maiden run"
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Empress of India, To all to whom

Empress OF Indla- 10 al TO WnOm
these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas. we, taking into our royal con-
sideration that there do not exist ade-
quate means whereby we can reward i'm
portant and useful services rendered to
US in our India Empire in the adv ance-
ment Of the public interest Of cur said
empire, and taking also into cOnsidera-
ton the expediency OF distinguishing
Such services by some mark OF our royal
favor now for the purpose Of attaining
an end so desirable as that OF thus dis
tinguiShing such services aforesaid we
have Instituted and created, and by these
presents for US, our heirs and successors,
90 Institute and create a new dScOrd ton
Ito be designated as hereinafter describ-
: ed-and we are gFacio1Sly pleased to
| make, ordain and establish the following
| rules and ordinances for the government
| of the same which shall from henceforth
| be inViolably observed and kept.
! Firstly-It is ordained that this decoEa-
| tiou shall henceforth be styled and desig-
mated THE Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Pub
| lie Service in India.
! Secondly-It is ordained that any person
\ without distinction of race, occupation.
1 position, or sex, shall be eligible for this
| decoration who shall have distinguished
| himself Tor herseIf) by important and use
| ful service in the advancement Of the
| public interest in India
| Thirdly-It is ordained that there shall
| be two classes OF the decoration to be
| STYLED respectively THE KaiSar-i-Hind
Medal for Public Service in India" of
the first class and the ''Kaisar-i-Hind
Medal for Public Service In India of the
! second class.
| Fourthly-It Is ordained that awards of
! the medal of the first class shall be made
| by US, our heirs and successors. by war
rant under our sign manual and counter
| signed by one of our principal secretaries
| of state, and such awards shall only be
made on a recommendation to US by our
secretary of state for India
| Fifthly-It is ordained that awards of
| the medal of the second class shall be
made by our governor general OF India
| for the time being
| Sixthly-It is ordained that the medal
| shall consist of an ovaI-shaped badge or
| decoration-in gold for the first class and
| in silver for the second class-with our
royal cipher in the center on one side
and on the reverse the words ''Kaisar-i-
| Hind, for Public Service in India" and
| that 1t shall be suspended on the left
| breast by a dark blue ribbon.
| Seventhly-It Is ordained that the names
The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-03
WAS THE FIRST ENGINEER
WOOD HENSON HELD THE THROT-
TIE OF AMERICAS FIRST LOCO
MOTIVE ON IT'S MAIDEN TRIP
STILL FRESH IN THE MEMORY
Tells of the Run May Fl, 1920, with
ThurIow Weed and Conn
mOdoFe VRnder-
biIt.

Wood Benson is man of history, and
yet to history unknown, and he lives in
big East side lodging house for men,
says the New York Mail and Express.
The manager introduced him as a CHAR
acter." and as he came forward to shake
hands his looks did not belle the title.
A straight, iank, vigorous old man,
with cleanly shaven face, composed of
innunnerabIe little wrinkles and sur
mounted by a wig Of bright brown hair.
carefully oiled and brushed into smooth,
shining waves; his eyes blue and clear,
and holding q whimsical smile as he
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GET ON THE BAND WAGON
And Follow the Crowd to Nati0nn
Political Conventions

6, o. Ry) has made especially low rates
to the three big National Political Con-
ventions:
Witness:
The Republican National Convention
Philadelphia. June 18th. Round-trip rate
$780, tickets on sale June H. Is and 16.
Democratic National Convention, Kan
sas City, July 4th. Round-trip rate $I5.55;
tickets on sale July 2, 3 and 4.
Prohibition National Convention, CL'-
cago, June q and g. Round-trip rate
$11 so; tickets on sale June %. 26 and q.
For time of trains and particulars about
the famous wide vestibuled, brilliantly
lighted trains of the North Western
Line" apply to II. G. Cowling. C. T. A.,
$50 Robert street, st. Paul, MINI.
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BY QUEEN VICTORIA.
Text of Her Proclamation Institut-
Ing "a New Indian Order.

In the United States, where the funda-
mental principle is that all men are Gre
ated equal and endowed by their Creator
with the unalienable rights of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness and
other citizens, royal orders seem pecul-
lar to the verge of humorous. Hence It
is a curiosity that the following from
the London Gazette, of the 11th, inst,
is reproduced
India Office, May II, 1900
Victoria, r. l.
Victoria, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland Queen, Defender Of the Faith.
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NIGHT TRAIN TO CHICAGO
Via "rhe milwaukee,"

Effective Sunday May 27th, the c.. NJ
8, St 2. Ry. will start a train from Min
neapOIis every night at 1850 and ST. Paul
l1:25. arriving Portage Gas a. m, Milwau-
kee 10:45 a. m. and Chicago 100 D. m.
Through sleeping car and coach serV-
ice from St. Paul and Minneapolis to
Milwa ukee and Chicago.
Connections made at Chicago with all
trains for the East and South.
This train also furnishes direct service
for Oshkosh. Fond du Lac. Madison.
GAINESVILLE aud Rockford.
Lowest rates to all points.
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My mothers headaches of the that people cali sick
headache They always way result of disturbed
tomach She would have them than week
and then she might having Generally
attack would only spoil day. but sometimes she would be sick
three days When she learned about Rpans bu she
found that they always relieved her decidedly and her attacks
much less frequent than they used to be She continues make
Of the Tabue when but that
will produce the effect they did in the beginning She keeps
supply of them the house all the time and believe she would
take them according directions they would her entirely You
know her life that of farmers wife suppose her experience
mat OF thousands OF others who stay pretty closely home and de-
pend for food mainly those things which the farm produces
Under such conditions the stomach will upset and then
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CoMMoDoRE vANbERB1LTs GIFT.

He paused, forgetfu-of the present, and
l waited while he lived again his youth,
his ambitions and his 4triumphs. Slipping
a trembling hand beneath his coat he
drew forth a worn and gellowed paper,
bearing, as ghostly Endorsement of his
story, the autographs Of men whose
names have been framed for almost
century as the hnancieTs of the first rail-
roading on this continent.
With a pride plainly showing 1t to have
been to him the crownjng glory Of his ca
reer, he told Of the gfft presented by
Commodore Vanderbilt Set of false
teeth fearfulIy and wonderfully made at a
cost of $3.50 tEaes
You must be much older than you
look,' said. Now, if thes1aan lives above
thirty who does not enjoy being told that
he looks younger than he is that man is
certainly not Wood Benson. had touch
ed his little weakness and the same self
respecting vanity that supplied the
brown wig and braced the bending back
made ready response
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NOT Like THE. OTHERS.

Why, ma am. I'm wonder. l really
am ninety-three years old and sound as
nut; never wore glasses in my life,
shave every day. read and write and
feel spry as did at sixty. ! don't drink.
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If You Are Coin q
To st. Louis.
Peoria.
Davenport,
Rock Island.
DubuUtIc

fake 1.-THE Flying Dutchman" via Chi
cago. Milwaukee & St Paul Railway.
From Minneapolis every day at 1850 a. m.
and St Paul 800 a. m, arriving ST. Louis
early next morning. Beautiful river bank
route.
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Unfortunate Happenings.

Unfortunate Happenings.
Fire at Cherokee, Iowa, caused
So, 900 loss.
Nels Larson Of Eau Claire, Wis. wa
killed by a falling tree.
At least thirty lives were lost by {
fire in a Mexican mine.
"a. r. Taylor, an old resident of Font
du Lac, Wis, was killed by a train.
J.. H. Kissell, a brakeman, wa
killed by the cars at Bonneville. Ind. 7
r. Kuhns & Co.'s dry goods store a
Vincennes, Ind, was burned. Loss
$50. 900.
The schooner ]. S. Richards sank il
the Detroit river and two sailors were
drowned.
Two men and n woma were re
Gently drowned in Muskegon lake
Michigan.
Joseph Origer, a farm hand at Ii
Mars, Iowa, was poisoned by eating
toad stools.
Patrick King, just released from Jail
was killed by a train lear Brecken'
ridge, MINI.
An unknown man, evidently
tramp, was killed by a Wabash trair
at Raymond, Ill.
Three men were killed while thresh'
ing at Pana, ILL.,, by the explosion Of
the engine boiler.
Anton Pertaska, aged nine, was acct
dentally killed while playing with a re-
volver at La Sale, Ill.
A cigarette started a fire in a tallyhc
at Milwaukee, and the passengers hao
to jump from their lives.
Patrick O'Day, track foreman of the
| Illinois Steel company Of Joliet, was
i killed by a Santa Fe train.
, Louis Waite was killed in the Ogles-
by Cement works at La Sale, ILL.,, be-
ing caught in the machinery.
A fire which started in a laundry on
lower Main street, Grass Valley, Cal,
| burned over two business blocks, caus'
ing a loss of $4,000.
Toadstools, which they took for
mushrooms, poisoned six members OF
the family Of John Norris, near Har
| vey, ILL., One of the children is dead.
Two members of Battery A, l. N. g.,
fatally wounded a score Of militiamen
| and bystanders at Camp Lincoln, in
Springfield, ILL.,, by an explosion while
loading a sunset gun. An unidentified
man tossed a lighted cigarette stub into
the powder charge.
The premature explosion of a blast
at Ducktown, Tenn, killed Will Paris
and James Harkniss, blowing the nine
ty feet and tearing them int unrecog-
nizable masses of flesh. Wilkens Vest
suffered a crushed skull, while G. J.
Mckinney received painful flesh
wounds.
Albert Fowler of st. Louis, Mo-, an6
Victor H. Chase of Chicago were
drowned in Spring lake. The boys
were about eighteen years of age and
were spending their vacation at the
Blakeslee resort, near Grand Haven.
| Mich, They were in swimming and
got beyond their depth.
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Scientific research has just destroyed
an interesting piece Of ancient history.
For centuries Pharsala,. in Southern
Thessaly. has been regarded as the
scene Of the famous defeat of Pompey,
which gave the dominion Of the world
into the hands of Caesar. According,
however, to the Messenger" and the
Journal d'Athenes," Capt. Dousmais,
of the Greek Engineers, after an ex-
haustive study of the ancient battle
fields Of Thessaly, afirms that beyond
question the battle between Pompey
and Caesar was not fought at Phar-
sala, but neal the modern Karditza,
which is about so miles to the north.
west.
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Sins and Sinners.

Two Italians fought with revolvers at
Marshalltown, Iowa. Tony Conrado, a
bystander, was shot and killed.
Mrs. Nora P. Phillips shot and-k killed
David Mcnamara, her brother, at
Worcester, Mass, in s~elf-defense.
A letter found at Tonawanda, N. T..
indicates a new plot to destroy the
Welland canal locks. It may be a
hoax.
John O'Grady struck Charles Brown
over the head with a billiard u at
Grand Forks, N. D.. Brown will prob
ably die.
Thirteen saloonkeepers Of West su-
perior, Wis, have been ordered before
the municipal court for keeping open
on Sunday.
Alexander Jester, charged with the
murder of Gilbert w. Gates twenty
nine years ago. was acquitted by a
jury at New London, Mo.
Mrs. Mary Faiferlick Of Fort Dodge.
Iowa, has asked for divorce on the
grounds Of adultery Of her husband
with her twelve-year-old sister.
A warrant charging intent to de-
fraud, was issued for Edward L. Swa-
zey, a Kansas City cattle broker. His
irregularities are said to approximate
$40, 1000. Swazey is said to be en- route
to Buenos Ayres.
On account Of domestic troubles, the
wife of Albert Kipp. a Cincinnati
brakeman, left him and returned to her
parents. Kipp got notice Of divorce
proceedings and took the papers to his
wife, and, telling her there would be no
necessity Of the proceedings, called for
a glass of water, swallowed W ounces
of carbolic acid, and died soon in great
agony.
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The writer of a short story in the
Century Magazine has invented two
phrases that may find a permanent
place in political slang. Party plat
forms do not always express the real
sentiments or the intentions of those
who subscribe to them. 1t is easier
to promise than to perform the prom
Use. This writer speaks Of a weasel
word" as one that sucks the meaning
out of another which is beside it, just
as a weasel sucks an egg, leaving only
the shell. "Weaseling," he says, is
highly %expedient because one class of
voters will like the weasel. and the
other the word that has been weaseled
the egg. The other phrase is 1.-The
stained glass plank" CHANGING through
the window at point a dog looks
yellow, while at another he is green,
and not until the window is thrown
open can you actually see what the
dog Is like. OF course windows are
not made Of "planks" which n can
look throughput lot that pass.
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Otherwise.

Al A0S
Dowie's "Zion'' elders were forced to
leave Mansfield. Ohio.
The miners strike at Georges Creek.
Nd, has been settled.
The Tintic mining district, in Utah,
| was shaken up by an earthquake.
The consolidation Of the Chicago &:
| Northwestern and the Union Pacific is
| again talked of.
The Iowa auditors report shows an
increase in bank deposits and assets OF
about $4,000. 900 each.
Gov. Beckham will call an extra ses-
sion Of the Kentucky legislature to
amend the eGoebel election law.
Fred Roberts, a st. Louis tailor, has
gone crazy as the result of squander-
ing a large fortune at the race track.
The Tameseal ranch of IA. 900 acres in
| Los Angeles county has been bought by
a syndicate of Los Angeles oil men.
Negro laborers started a riot with
policemen at Tampico, Texas. Two ne
groes were killed and twenty wounded.
John Nelson defeated Jimmie Mi
chael by five yards in the twenty-mile
!! paced race at Charles River Park, Bos-
ton,
, Gov. Roosevelt has decided not to
| speak during August, but to begin his
campaign in the West early in Septem-
Der.
Walter E. Mitchell, a hotelkeeper at
! Ellenville. N. T., has filed a petition in
bankruptcy. Liabilities. 6 0.s12; as
| sets, 800.
~ok,n~n - Cl~o{~~o$ n
have been made public. showing a pop
ulation Of 325, s02. q gain Of 9.7 per cent
from 1890 to 1900.
Miners in the Davy coal fields Of
! Huntington, W. Va, will have an In
crease of 10 per cent in wages. COM
mencing at n
The American Linseed Oil company
has issued at Chicago. its first annual
| statement. For the fiscal year ending
March 1, 1900. the net earnings were
s .02s. 400.
Another effort to revise the iron and
steel market is to be made by the lead
ing steel interests and the Bessemel
Furnace association.
Harry Calderwell Of Boston defeated
Charles Miller Of Chicago. at Spring
field, Mass, by o laps IN q nfteen-
mile, motor-paced race. at the Colise-
UNI track.
The directors Of the Union Pacific
railroad company declared q semi-an.
nual dividend on the common stock Of
2 per cent. The last dividend was 9
semt-annual one Of 1 Ia per cent.
over 1900 ironworkers, employed al
the local works of the American 'IroE
and Steel Manufacturing company al
Lebanon, Pa, struck because the pay
Of puddlers was reduced from s. to 8
per ton.
In the United States circuit court Of
the Northwestern District Of Ohio
Judge Thompson discharged samue
Hunt from the receivership Of the To.
ledo. ct. Louis q Kansas City railway
after commanding him for his manage.
ment Of the roaS during hisl terrn5s q
receiver. %
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When prosperity and philanthropy
go hand in hand, the progress of a
country is beyond question. Germany
is advancing in a business way. He1
trade operations show increasing ca
pacity for planning and fuller scope
in performance. But with the devel-
opment in material things is noted an
increase in gifts for the benefit OF
schools, libraries, charitable institu-
tons and other objects. The provision
of corporations and private manufac-
turers in aid of employees is a further
token Of a keener sense of response.
bility for the proper use of wealth
The world abounds with articles
marked, Made in Germany" Let not
the world forget the good deeds which
may be labeled-"Done in Germany.
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From Warrington.


r. L. Henry vas renominated for
congress by the Democratic conven
ton Of the District of Marlin, Tex.
The postofice department has estab-
lished rural free delivery service to be
gin Aug. is at Winnebago City, Mimi.
The postof1ce department has estab-
lished rural free delivery service. to
begin Aug. Is, at Black River Falls,
Wis.
Hon. Harry I. Flood was nominated
for congress by the Democrats Of the
Tenth Virginia district at Buena
Vista.
Consul Fee, at Bombay, has advised
the state department that the govern
ment Of India desires to contract a
3 10 per cent loan to the amount of
SO, 900. 900.
treasury department from Lieut..
Jarvis, at Cape Nome, Alaska, which
indicates that the situation there is
improving.
The secretary Of the interior has re-
versed the decision of the general land
commissioner in the case of John
Beacon against George Temple, in
volving land in O'Brien county, Iowa.
Patent to land will issue to Beacon.
The forthcoming annual report of
Commissioner Of Pensions Evans will
show a grand total Of 993, 55S pensioners
on the rolls July / last. The figures on
which the report will be based are now
complete and ready for incorporation
in the report.
The treasury department delivered
to the private secretary Of the gov
ernor of Michigan a warrant for $247,-
474, being the amount due the state
for army stores and munitions of war
furnished by the state. during the
Spanish war.
The state department has been adj
vised by United States Minister Bowen
of Teheran that owing to illness the
new Persian minister to Washington,
Mofakamed Dowleh, will be obliged to
defer the assumption of his duties at
Washington until next fall.
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A Chicago physician has invented
for himself a house which he claims
to be absolutely n~oise-proof, that is
protected thoroughly against the in
trusion Of street dins, which persist in
spite Of the existence Of an anti-noise
ordinance. He has stuffed all the
cracks about the doors and windows
with strips Of rubber, and in order to
admit the air has perforated these
with zigzag holes. The sound waves
ere said 70 DIG 9Yt By repeated reaec'
lions in the crooked passages.