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stools and music stools, luxurious chairs lounges
Of bamboo. There are chests OF cedar. and toilet
tables Of rosewood and trunks Of fine stamped
leather stored with precious apparel There
objets de luxe innumerabe. There chill
dTen's playthingS. French dolls in marvellous
toilets, and toy carts and wooden horses and
wooden spades and brave little wooden ships
that rode out the gale in which tha great Nau-
titus went down. There is money in notes and
in coin-in purses. in pocketbooks and in pock-
cts: plenty Of it! There silks satins. laces
and fine linen TO be stripped from the bodies Of
the dTOWned-and necklaces bracelets. watches
finger rings and fine chains, brooches and trim
kets. chi bidizZa-Oh, chi bcdda
mughier, Eccu. la bidizza:' That ball dress
made in Paris by . But you never
heard Of him. Sican Nicenzu. che bella
sposinaw Her betrotha ring will not come OFF
Giuseppe; but the delicate bone snaps easily
"Guardate! eli bedda picciota" over her heart
you will find il, Nalentinn-the lOcket held by
that fine Swiss chain Of woven hair-'Caya
manan,' And it is not your quadrOon bonds
roughly; those Malay hands are less deft than
ners-but she slumbcrS very far away from you
ana may not be aroused from her sleep. Ma
qUita mo, dalaga,-na quita maganda!"
Juan, the fastenings Of those diamond eardrOps
are much too complicated for your peOn fingers
tear them Out,-"DspenSe, chulita,'
Suddenly long, mighty silver trilng
fills the ears Of all; there is wild hurrying and
sCUuyinS; swiftly. one after another, the over
tUrdened lug gGeTs spread wings and futter away
the gray air and over the green sea and over
the far flooded shell reefs. where the huge white
flashes are-sheet-lightning of breakers and
the weird wash OF corpsos coming in.
1t is the steam call Of the relief boat, hasten
ing to rescue the living, to gather in the dead.
The tremendous tragedy is over,-(From
"ChIta: a Memory of Last Island" Copyright
1889 10y Harper & Bros.
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emulation OF hot surface water at the western
limit OF the ocean in low latitudes, and out OF
this steamng caldron. whose temperature
ranges from 90 to % degrees. are generated
storms like that which has just almost annihi-
lated Galveston.
These hurricanes show disposition To follow
a certain typical track. At first their move
mcnt is nearly westward. under the influence OF
the trade winds, but they seek TO push north
ward. and. having done so, they ar" caught by
the great eastward upper current of atmosphere
and turned in almost the opposite direction. The
curve described is a gentl" one. and is sharpest
in about latitude - or 80 degrees. Sometimes
the storm continues on its westward way until
it reaches the Gulf OF Mexico but more often
it ''recurvrs' 50 as to follow the Atlantic Coast
from Florida to Hattcraa. Thence, as a rule it
swings away toward Northern Europe, follow
ing the Gulf Stream very closely.
ALONG NEW-JERSEY AND Long ISLAND
In exceptional cases these tropical hurricanes
diverted 10 the left hand sufficiently to be
felt seriously the New-JcIscy and Long
Island coasts Sometimes the centre keeps just
inside the coast line. Again, the recurvature
may occur so far to the eastward that the Hcr-
mudas suffer and the United States is entirely
exempt. What was known as the Nova Scotia
cyclone" and what Greedy described as the
most destructive storm Of this type known to
America, occurred in 1870, and did practically
no damage on la ID, but it destroyed no less
than 1,.23 vessels Of different kinds and caused
the deaths of GOO people
The chief characteristic Of tropical hurricanes
is their high wind velocity No storm of tenn
perate attitudes ever develops such appalling
fury. There are few places in the interior Of
the United States where the wind ever blows
more than forty or fifty miles an hour: but in a
West Indian cyclone veloCities of eighty. ninety
and hundred miles are not uncommon, and
in 1897 at Cape Lookout, y. c.. the thermometer
registered l:iS. At this means the destruc-
tion OF small vessels and often proves fatal to
large ones on land it means the demolition of
weak edihces and damage to crops and where
the contour Of the shore favors such an opera
ton continued gales of exceptional force bank
up the sea five, ten and even fifteen feet higher
than usual.
This last phenomenon should he distinguished
from the mysterious tidal wave that sometimes
accompanies a hurricane. but which is a mo-
mentary affair surge rising from ten to
fifty feet will sometimes rush in toward land
when a tropical storm is prevailing. working
fnconce.vable disaster within few minutes.
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waltzes tonight. with the Sea for his part
the stupendous vaIse-Tourbillon, O the
mighty Dancer! One-two-three! From north
east to east, from east to southeast, from south
east to south: then from the south he came.
whrling the Sea IN his arms.
Some one shrieked in the midst Of the
revels; some girl who found her pretty slippers
wet What could ii be? Thin streams Of water
were spreading the level planking-curI-
ing about the feet of the dancers. What
could il be? All the land had begun to quake,
trembling to the pressure of circling steps;
all the building shook now; every beam uttered
its grOan. What could il be?
There was clamor a panic, rush to the
windy night. Infinite darkness above and be
over an unbroken circle Of heaving and swirling
black water. Stealthily swiftly, the measure
less sea food rising.
''MeSSieurS, meSdameS, ce nest rien. Nothing
serious, ladies, / assure you Mais nous
en- avOns VI bien souyent, les inondations
CONNIE celle-ci; ca passe vite! The water Will
go down. in a few hours, ladies; it never rises
higher than this: il ny pas le mondre danger
je vOus dis! Allonsi il ny My God! what
is that?"
For moment there was a CHASTITY hush of
voices. And through that hush there burst upon
the ears Of all fearful and unfamiliar sound,
as Of a colossal cannonade-r rolling up from the
south. with vOlleying Hghtnings. Vastly and
swiftly nearer and nearer it came-a pOnderOus
and unbroken thunder roll terrible the long
muttering Of earthquake.
The nearest manland-across mad Caillou Bay
to the sea maTshes-lay twelve miles north
west by the Gulf, the nearest solid ground was
twenty miles distant. There were boats. yes
but the stoutest swimmer might never reach
them now
Then rose a frishtful cry-the hoarse. hideous
indescribable cry Of hopeless fear-the despair
ing animal cry utters when suddenly
brought face 70 face with Nothingness, without
preparatlOn. without consolation, without pos
sfbility Of respite. Sauye qui peut!
Some wrenched down the doors, some clung to
the heavy banquet tables to the sofas, to the
billiard tables:-during one terrible instant
against fruitless heroisms, against futile gen
erosties-raged all the frenzy of scllfshness, all
the brltalities Of panic. And then-then came
laundering through the blackness, the giant
swells boom BOOM r.. One crash!-the
huge frame building rocks like a cradle, Seesaws
crackles What human shrieks nOw2-the
tornado is shrieking! Another,-chandeliers
splinter: lights are dashed out; a sweeping
cataract hurIs in: the immense hall rises. Oscil-
Iates twirls upon pivot, crepitates
crumbIes into ruin. Crash again,-the swirng
wreck dissolves into the wallowing Of another
monster billoW; and a hundred cottages over
turn, spin in sudden eddies, culver, disjoint and
melt into the seething.
So the hurricane passed tearing off
the heads of the prOdigious waves, to hurl them
a hundred feet in air-heaping up the ocean
against the land-upturnng the woods. Bays
and passes were swollen to abysses; rivers re-
eorged; the sea marshes were changed to raging
wastes OF water. Before New-Orleans the flood
OF the mile broad Mississippi rose six feet above
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highest watermark One hundred and ten miles
away Donalds0nville trembled at the towering
II e OF the Lafourche Lakes stroVe to burst
their boundaries. Far off river steamers tugged
wildly at their cables, shivering like tethered
creatures that hear by night the approaching
hoWi OF destroyers. Smokestacks were hurled
overheard, pilot houses torn away. cabins blown
to fragments.
ANA over roaring kaimbuCk Passover the
agony Of CaiIlou Bay-the biIIowing tide rushed
uhres!sted from the Gulf-tearing and swallow
ing the land in its course-ploughing out deep
sea channeiS where sleek herds had been graz
ing but a few hours before -rending islands in
tWain-and ever bearing with it, through the
night enormous vortex Of wreck and vast wan
Crift Of cOrUseS.
There is plunder for all-birds and men. There
are drowned sheep in multitude, heaped car
cases Of kline. There are casks of claret and
kegs of brandy and legions of bottles bObbing
in the surf. There are billiard tables overturned
upon the sand; there sofas, pianos foot
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ss1pitated to the feet Of the dancers; still the
pasnoforte pealed. and still the violins sang
0no the sound Of their singing shrilled through
ne Darkness, in gasps of the gale, to the ears
@ Captaln Smith, as he strOve to keep his foot
H9 on lhe spray drenched deck of the Star
Christ" he muttered "a dance! If that
WIND whips round south. thereH be another
oance! But l guess the Star viii
Ea1f an hour might have passed: still the
Essnts hamed calmly, and the violins trilled and
tne perfumed whir went on. And sU5
denly the wind veered.
Again the Star reeled, and shudderad and
9I1feo' anc began to drag all her anchors Rut
sfaf now dragged away from the great huiIdiny
sho lis Ilghts-away from the yoluDtuouS
hhnneT OF the grand piano-even at thar mo-
It'll 5 oulpourlng the great joy Of Weber's mol
80 VI .tS heSlrateu by BeilioZ rInvitatior la
faLSe-Hlth It's marvellous musical sv-ipg,
q. W altzing!" cried the Captain COD holm
tneml God help all nowi Tba VIZ
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D0Gs SUFFERING FROM WORRY.


From The Chicago Tribune
The Grand Army reunion and the Labor Day
parade have left some sad remembranCes along
Michigan ave. in the form Of 4 regular epidemic
Of canine nervous proStratiOn. The pet and toy
dogs which have been lordinS ii over the COM
mon kind along the Lake Front Park now
many Of them under the of veterinary sur
geons for most aggravated cases of snappish-
ness and nerves. Following upon the excite
mcnt and crowds of the reunion and paradeS
came the hot spell Of Monday and Tuesday and
then the dogs betrayed symptoms which We're
feared by many To be hydrOphoba. Their usual
ly kind and placid dispositions were decidedly
SuurcI and they became really dangerous.
At one time three pet dogs from one block
were under the of the doctors, with their
feminine owners weeping nearby and begging
their lives be spared. Had they been ordinary,
plain dogs their deaths would have been decreed
forthwith.
The veterinary in charge said that he had had
at least a dozen cases of the kind in the space
of a few days, and found that in every instance
the patients suffering from OvereXcitement
oVerf"cding and heat.
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LANDS without OFrIcI1L POSTAGE.

From The London Globe.
Many persons are under the impression that
the Val DAndoTra strip of no-man's Iand be
tween Spain and France is the only portion OF
Europe which boast the absence Of an
official postage stamp. AS matter Of fact, a
piece Of country known as "Moresnet Calamine,'
which lies where the Belgian province OF lheSe
meets the Prussan Regency Of Aix-la- Chapelle,
Is in a like position AS it has been found i'm
possible to agree as to the frontier delimita-
ton German and Belgian stamps are used in
discriminatory. Further. this piece Of country
has no coinage Of its own, and uses that Of
the Latin Union.
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TROPICAL HURRICANES.
THEIR ORIGIN, FURY AND OTHER
MARKED CHARACTERISTICS.
SEA BORN NEAR THE EQUATOR AT THE CTOsD
OF sUMMER-TYPHoONs OF THE CHINA
SEA AND SOUTH PACIFIC

The most terrible tempests known to man are
those which develop in greater less abun-
dance near the Equator Immediately after the
hottest season Of the year. Those with which
Americans are most familiar generally occur in
August, September or October. and make their
first appearance in or near the West Indies At
this period the trade winds have caused an ac-
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ONE or MANY.

From The Philadelphia Press.
Miss Manning" said the serious young man,
Il believe you are not utterly Indifferent to me-
therefore / am emboldened to offer you my
heart and hand"
Really, Mr.. Meanwell." replied the summer
girl your offer Is most flattering. May have
an option on 1t until the end Of the seasonr
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THE EDITORS DAUGHTER.

From The Philadelphia Press.
Her beau had called Her heart beat warm.
She chose her prettiest dress,
And then with care made up her form
Before she went to preSs
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Ships are torn from their anchorages and hurled
ashore. to remain high. if not dry hundreds Of
yards from the water. Small vessels have thus
been landed in tree tops in the Bahamas
storm wave that swept the Ganges delta in
1864 drowned forty-five thousand persons, and
another in 1876 no less than one hundred thou
sand
SLOW ADVANCE OF THE STORM CENTRE.
During the early stages of their history tropi
cal cyclones rarely advance more than eight or
ten miles an hour. At that time their diameter
is small, generally between one hundred and two
hundred miles. After reaching higher Iatitudes
ana recurring, they expand somewhat and their
progress Is more rapid Eight full DAYS ELAPSED
aIter the recent hurricane was detected to the
south OF Porto Rico before Galveston felt it.
Another popularity OF this class of disturbances
is the remarkable fall in the barometer that ac-
companies them From the outside to the
centre, or calm eye of the storm the distance
may not be more than fifty miles, and vet the
barometer may fall during the passage Of the
hurricane over given spot from the vicinity
OF 0o inches to 21.J. Greedy mentions a case
In which the barometer at GuadaIoupe fell from
296 to 2I9 in seventy minutes Much lower
readings than this have been observed, how
ever Few storms of temperate latitudes ever
dhect the barometer to a greater extent than
nan an inch, and even this change is far more
IMAM WIN hurricane, owing to the
-iuo" 6ieater Dreadth OF northern depressions.
''ie's VI Ialh OFTEN amounting to three or
four inches a day. and sometimes even more.
uu0IIy IAN Whlle a tropical storm is prevailing.
- H''n hurricane IS circular in form
-, aPpileu 10 them the name
'iFeu Iloih the same root as that
" SNie' oone herce discussions
- O'iiuucled over the direction of the
Wlnd with reference to the centre Piddington
anu ieuiieIu lhou6ht that the wind blew in cir
" "touiiu the latter' Espy held that it aimed
1T ioi 'le centre The truth lies between
" "' 'uHPoSI'ioiS' Inc air moves in an in
wan 'piia' ana IFS course forms considerable
'7''' WIN tangent 10 the circle. Eliot. who
' '''e'uIIS Sluu'ed the storms Of the Indian
oe'"', ana I"yhbee' OF the British naval ser
vice. nave made very careful computations of
'ilS angie.
i"e question Is one Of immense practical i'm
I'' ''',e 10 'ne mariner who finds himself en-
'"'7''N i" ''e outer cages Of such whirL With
- ''l''' N"o"'euSe or the anatomy of hurri-
~ ''' d" "''e'I"Ihe the position Of its centre
i'o'' '"' ut'cIi"h oil The wind From the lati-
'uN' II. "a" conjecture The course which the
S.''',' ~ i'io"lAS' lie can then so navigate
ms snip as 10 get out oi the destroyers path
7"oH ~ possible
IN THE EASTERN SEAS.
the West India cvclone II is oororatod ~ lou,
iautudes late in the summer or early in the
a HIFFFfr
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
THE IOWA PHOTOGRAPHERS.
Prizes Awarded the on icers Elected
Close OF fConvenfion.

Des Moines. May 49, The tenth annu-.
al 1conventiono of the photographers AS.
sociation of Iowa came to a close yes,
9terday afternoon with the election and
Installation of the new officers and the
awarding OF prizes.
8 The new officers: j. H. Reuvers. Pei
la, president; a. II. Brown. Denison.5
first vice president; H. G. Wilcox, Os-
kaloosa. second vice president: w. c..
3Edinger. Des Aloines. secretary; +. W.
Medlar. Spencer, treasurer.
The awards were made by Professor
a. H. Grifflths, of the Detroit Academy
of Arts, the other members of the COM
mittee on awards resigning in his favor
Theodore A. Brown, of Marshalltown,
cup for the best exhibit and the gold
medal in the prize winner class. One
of his photos was also favorably men
toned for place in the association
salon. q collection made up of one pic
Iture selected from the exhibits at each
convention. For two years the cup has
been held by F. w. Medlar. of Spencer,
and THIS year he and Mr.. Brown were
the only competitors for i.
Other awards We're as follows:
H. Lancaster, Of Omaha, was
awarded the gold medal in the special
class open only to professional photo
| graphers outside of Iowa.
Glass A-Open to all members except
| those eligible to prize winners class
First. gold medal. F. w. Spur, of De-
corah: second. silver medal, C. ID. Ag-
] new. Of Creston. Honorable mention
1 Eglemyn's studio, Cedar Rapids.
/ Glass B-Open to members from
ltowns of 5000 or less First
gold medal, Kirk Hartman, of Knox
yille; second, silver medal, c. B. Proc.
4 tor. Of Indianola; third. bronze medal
l5T. r. Bennett, of Cherokee.
Glass C.-Open TO members from
Itowns Of $500 or lessinhabitants-Fi First
gold medal. J. S. Specht. Of Marengoi
second, silver medal, NJ. q. Maxwell, ol
Mount Ayr: third, bronze medal. "A
Jensen, of Dysart.
4 Glass ID y Open to members from
Itowns Of $500 or less inhabtants-Flrst
/ gold medal, j. G. Scoles. of Dexter; sec
ond. silver medal. J. r. Hall. of Mon
4 Iroe; third bronze medal. G. u. Jacoby
of Sioux Rapids
Miniatures-Open to all--First, golt
slsmedal. w. C. Edinger, of Des Moines
second. silver medal, A. Grosheim, Q
Muscatine; third. bronze medal L. w
ISpurr. OF Decorah.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
MANY New National Bank $.

Washington. May 1s-Tha report of
the comptroller of the currency shows
that from March 4, the date on which
the new rinnacial bill became a law, to
May IL, 229 applications have been re-
3ceived for authority to organize ma
3tional banks with a capital5of less than
$4,000 each, making a total capital Of
s5,9O5. 1000.
During the same period sixty-ones ap-
plications have been received where the
capital will be more than 100000 each.
or total of s7.20a.000
Since March 10 fifty-nine banks have
been organized With less than $4,000
capital and twenty-siX have been or
ganized with s50000 capital or over.
These eighty-five banks have deposited
bonds to secure circulation aggregating
81, $50 900.
The amount of bonds so far ex-
changed at the treasury for new per
cent bonds is s272,91O, $50, of which s5S,-
66s, 400 were received from individual
and institutions other than national
banks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
PASTORAL Tine LINT
Methodist Conference Takes Rsport
Recommending Removal Of Five
Year Limit
Amended to Mako the Number q
Years Ten Instead Of
Five.
Eighth Ballot For Bishop without
Result-Presby terian Assembly
Routine

Chicago, May 1S.-The result OF the
sixth ballot for two additional bishops
was read this morning before the Meth
Iodist general conference, Immediately
after the the reading Of the journal.
The vote: spellmeyer. 300; Berry, 2s4 s;
Moore, 259; Hamilton, 2s2;; Kelley, 16e;
Bowen, So Neely, 16. Others gathering.
A buzz OF excitement came from the
delegates when the heavy increase in
Spellmeyer's vote was noted, putting the
Newark, n. j., pastor for the first time
far ahead in the race for the episcopa-
cy. Buckley, as chairman Of the New
York east delegation, then arose and
Withdrew Kelley's name from the con-
Iltest, saying that for family reasons the
editor of the Methodist Review had re-
quested his friends no longer to vote for
him. The seventh ballot was then ta-
ken, after which the question of electing
two additional missionary bishops to
Asia was resumed.
After Neely closed the debate the
committee report was adopted unant-s
mously. This provides for two addition
al missionary bishops for Asia, the same
4 to be coordinate in authority. The re-
suit of the seventh ballot was then read:
Spellmeyer, 372; Berry, 2s4; Moore. 376:
Hamilton, 255; Bowen, Al; Neely, rs.
| The eighth ballot was then taken, after
which DIR. S. F. Upham, from the COM
mittee on itinerary. read the recon-
mendation of the committee regarding
/ the much disputed question OF time linz
i it on pastorates. The report recom-
/ mended that section three, paragraph
| 1Ts of the book Of discipline be amend
4 ed by striking out subsection three, and
4 inserting in lieu thereof who shall ap-
4 point preachers to the several pastoral
y lchargea annually The effect OF this is
Ito abolish the rule Of the Methodiss .
i church that no pastor shall occupy one
pulpit for period Of more than Ave
y years. A lively discussion ensued. A
minority report was also read provid-
!, ing that a fve-year pastorate shall only
r be extended by request Of three-1curth.
!; iof the membership OF the quarterly sccp-
! ference, and that the paRtorate In a
: case be extended for more than g 1ec;
i ond term of five years.
s Eight ballot: Spellmeyer, 327;s berry
f S35: Moore. 2S3; Hamilton, 24S. s
t After the announcement of the result
: of the eighth ballot Assistant Secre-
$ tary Penn. of the Epworth League,
t withdrew the name of DR.. Bowen, coll
!, 'ored candidate for the episcopacy. The
ninth ballot was taken and the cons
: ference adjourned for the day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
BARKER CALLS ON M'KINLEY.
Declares Bryan Will Not Be Nomin-
ated at kansas City.e

Washington, May 1s.-Wharton Bar
ker, the nominee for president of the.
middle Of -the-road populists. called on
President Mckinley yesterday to pay
his respects. These gentlemen have.
known each other ever since the latter
entered public life.
Later on Barker said to the Associated
Press that his nomination at Cincinnati
makes the nomination of Bryan by the
democrats impossible.
I'm the last presidential election" he
said Bryan received about 6.5OO,000
votes. OF this number at least 100000
were populists. This year will get
100, 600 of that number. This will cut
tBryan's vote to 5000. 900 or less. Where
is he going to get the other votes to elect
him? 1t is estimated Mckinley received
/, SOC, 900 votes from the democratic
ranks four years ago. These will not go
to Bryan this year to make up his loss
of the populistsvote. The fight this year
vii not be made on the money question.
Transportation, expansion and other
live subjects viii make up the issues. "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18
TRIED SUICIDE.
A. Il. GIeudy. of.Buriington, Cut His.
Throat In Omaha.

A. Il. Gleudy, ofBuriington, Cut His
Throat In Omaha.
Omaha, May 1s.-Under the impress
sion that he had mortally wounded
himself, A. r. Gleudy, a would be sui
eide, lay down in o patch of woods on
the prairie aear this city, dipped a
stem OF jai:t grass in the blood that
gushed from his wrist and wrote the
following in a small pocket account
book:
II am sick and out Of work. was a
X Of L. man at Burlington, Iowa, and
a stranger here Notify Henry Andre.
of Burlington. He is a boot and shoe
man and will have my remains shipped
there"
Then the writer rolled over upon mis-
stomach. pillowed his forehead upon
his arms and resigned himself to die.
1T was lying thus dazed and weak from
loss Of blood that the police found him
a few minutes later. He was lifted tens
derly into an ambulance, but with a
desperate cry he thrust hand down his
throat in desperate attempt to shut
off his breath. From this point on until
the ambulance stopped at the Presby-
terian hospital, where a doctor gave him
sedatiye, three strong smen had all
they could do to restrain his mad efforts
to- destroy himself. His condition al
present is precarious.