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LARAMIE LODGE NO. so4, FRA.
TERNAL UNION OF AMERICA.
Meets third Thursday Of sacA moAth
In @. A. R. hail.
May Baird canpssli. =. n.
ines Mccutchsoa. Nssrstsgy.
, 1900-12-19

The Weekly Republican only 81 .
year when paid In advance.
, 1900-12-19

JEWEL OF SO LODGE NO. So, L. A.
to B. Of l.. F. Meets second and fourth
Wednesdays at 2:30 p. m, in @. A. r.
hall. Mrs. Emma Smart, President.
Mrs. Olive Harnish, Secretary,
, 1900-12-19

W. f. CHAPLIN. Editor.
E. "A. BINGHAM. City EDITOR
, 1900-12-19

WYOMING CIRCLE NO. 261, wo.
MEN OF wOoDCRAFT. Meets first
and third Friday evenings in 1. o. O..
r. hall. Mrs. H. Langheldt, W. q.
Janet Crawford. Clerk.
, 1900-12-19

Examinations have been given all
this week. Today the last ones will be
given and the students will then be
free to enjoy themselves for two
weeks.
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on TOT om people ~
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a. hsriship today. II IL Mrs Rorers con-
tention. and she thoroughly maintains her
point that ID is no more difficult to secure
efficient employees In the home than IT Is
for any other kind of work. But the point
Of view of mistress and maid must be-
materially changed first
Ainslecs Magazine for May contains an
interesting article by e ID. Cowan upon
the subject OF James Hamilton Lewis as
a politician.
In McClure's Magazine for May. Ray
Stannard Baker will tell the fairly ro-
mantle story of The New Prosperity"
that has burst like miracle upon the
world. and particularly upon the United
states. within less than two years.
rba London Globe records an extraord-
mary instance of absence OF mind con-
corning a popular book. A certain per-
SON needing copy OF Mr.. Whiteings
.No. 5 John Street" Is said TO have taken
a cab to John street. Adelphi, 10 have
rung the bell of No. and astonished the
maid servant by asking for one whiting.
This sounds like fiction. bait Is declared TO
be a fact.
Little, Brown & Co announce the imrne-
date publication of The Parsonage
Porch: Seven stories from the Notebook
OF a Clergyman" by Bradley Gilman:
and also Tales for Christmas and Other
Seasons" by Francois Coppee. volume
OF stories not before translated and now
done into English by Myrta IeonorA
Jones.
The Century Company announces for
publication on April Is a new novel by DIR.
william Barry. author OF The Two stand
ards" This romance Is said 70 he wholly
asas E~ut pa rrpytQtS
work In characters ~ enc and plot 1t 10
named for Its hero. Arden Massiter.'
The most expensive city In the world
that Is the one that costs the mosf 20 run
and spends the most money every year
Is New York. Why 4 Is so. how much 1t
annually spends and how this vast sum
might and should be reduced. Ia told by
the present city comptroller. Bird $. Coler.
in a most important article. which Is pub
lLshed In tho May number or Appletons
Popular Science Monthly.
Just how far the publication OF 60
rial story can AFFECT the circulation OF
magazine is uncertain. and opinions on
this subject are apt to be varied and con-
filcting In some Instances the most sue
cessful stories that have sold In book form
upward az one hundred thousand have
produced an effect upon magazine eircu-
iAtIon during their serial publication so
slight as to be hardly traceahe IL ~ a
matter OF rather special interest there
fore when we find a story making itself
felt In magazine circulation almost imne-
diately upon the commencement Of Its
serial publication The first iastaIlrAent
OF J. NJ Barrie's Tommy and Grizef
was published In the January scrihners ..
Within two months a distinct gain In the
circulation OF the magazine was apparent
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might be made from 1t. The opportunity
for gorgeous costuming and scenic effects
would be unlimited and there seems every
reason TO believe that It might be made
both a spectacular and an artistic success.
Harpers Bazaar. for more than thirty
years the recognized authority on the
fashions and domestic matters, will ap-
pear AFTER May IN a new form, as a
weekly magazine for women. The
new Bazaar win be published In
handsome ornamental covers, and will be
printed on highly finished SUPERB alendered
paper. with wide margins. While the
Bazaar win continue to maintain its posi-
ton as the leading authority on the
fashions. many new features OF dis
tinctly literary and artistic character will
be introduced. Among the contribu-
tors already secured for the COM
Ing months are Mrs Humphry
Ward, DIR. Van Dyke. stephen Crane.
Madame Marchesi. w. ID. Howells and
Mary f. Wilkins The illustrations viii
be by the leading artists OF the day.
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ing whether II Is q happy accident-one of
those literary felicities that are rooted in
some real incident-or whether the author
can do II again and yet again If he tries.
1t describes a chance encounter between
an Indian girl--say. rather. child-belong-
ing to the oldest profession in the world"
against whom the policeman of her village
has preferred false charges through malice.
and the Collector Sahib who judges such
cases and to whom she comes to plead her
cause before the trial She steals into his
tent and plays with his belongings like a
child, and from watching her with curl
osity. he comes to friendliness and then at
last they looked into each others eyes
for full minute. and at the end Of II they
were smiling STILL While the seconds were
slipping swiftly past, they had both gone
through a world of strange feelings The
collector had wildly realized for the first
time In his life. the throbbing life OF an
other human being outside himself. Under
the magnetism Of her eyes he felt that she
was real. that he had been following all her
emotions as II they had been his own.
Through her great, dark eyes he was look
ing into the myriad eyes of the Indian
world-eyes that CLEANED. full Of impene-
babie hyStctys eyes tndt SiOWtu With efflo-
tons like his own. yet different. eyes that
looked on the same green earth and over
arching sky and saw them transformed and
haunted; endless myriads of eyes seemed to
be looking into his through hers: all full
Of life. fun Of recognition; and behind them
were others, of the dead who yet live. going
back generation on generation, for my
Rad years. full of the awful light that
49,.
before him. from It's twilight dawn, glowing
before him out of those myriad eyes. And
ne felt the eternal mystery and might that
lay behind them. The soul in those eyes
had glowed for ever and ever, from the
beginningless beginning to the endless end.
A veil was lifted, and he had beheld the
vast ocean of the soul Of men,
And there was an answering vision In
the wild heart of Kela-BaL
AT first she had looked at the collector
smiling dreamily. with the feeling of
little child who was crying and has been
comforted Then she felt great restful-
ness, a reaction from all the strong feel
ings she had gone through since dawn;
and for a while she nestled in that feel
ing Of comfort and quiet. desiring MOTH
ing further. But her imagination was too
active. her will too strong to remain
quiet long. In her turn she felt the mag
netism Of her new friend and IL was
strange OF her and disquieting. she felt
herself touching rev sides of life, I'M
dreamed-of before. but palpably present
in this stranger who was vet so clearly
akin; who had comforted her so wonder
fully In her distress. so easily over-ruling
all the powers that had menaced her. She
began to dream of hidden lands, of distant
peoples. of wide prospects. of unseen cities
Her old life grew suddenly narrow. 1t
would not tit her any more. Not that she
felt any sudden moral tevulsion, for she
had never regarded tho question of morals,
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s. s. IS THE IDEAL TONIC AND BLooD puR,r,ns -.
OLD PEOPLE. -
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of Benjamin Swift Is perceptibly less than
the literary world has heretofore supposed
II to be.
On the other hand, Mr.. Robert Hichens.
who has Just been making similar test
Of his genius, energies from the trial sum-
clear and diamond-bright. To be sure, Mr..
Hichens has attempted the fantastic in
several forms before. and usually with q
greater or less degree Of success, but he
never has done anything 20 coherent. I'M
presive and well-rounded in this line as
''The Slave" his latest novel Its heroine
Is young and beautiful woman. the vic
tim of an absorbing passion for precious
stones. She puts herself beyond the reach
Of salvation by refusing the nice lad. Au-
brey Herrick. whose wholesome and single
minded affection might well have redeem
ed her from her inhuman fate. and mar
ries instead the elderly Sir Reuben ALA
brath. son of an Egyptian pasha and a
French dancer who Is . person Of In
sight. and knows when he sees her first
as she stands in front of the diamonds
in Bond street jewelers. window that
she is dreaming Of a jeweIed life. This
life ne gives to her. until giving becomes
material so skillfuliy that Caryll's abnor-
NAL passion for jewels Is accepted as alb
soluteiy by the reader as by the woman
herself. 1t Is compelling, unacceptable as
fate. When one tries TO analyze the
method which has produced this powerful
hypnotic result 1t escapes one. and only
a series of negative conclusions is reached.
Mr.. Hichens has avoided the error of
making Caryll iovable to the reader, and
so reduced the mental opposition in the
minds of his audience to her uncanny des-
tiny; he has also avoided involving any
ethical struggle or moral issue. He has
let down al the bars and removed all the
stones from the path along which the
current OF the story carries the unresist-
ing reader. II Is not only easy to believe
the tale as II Ii told but difficult to dis
believe 1t. There are some wonderful pass
ages In the book. passages that seem
quite hewitehed. They magnetic the
reader while his eyes are on them. until
he would almost declare that Mr.. Kitchens
knew how to make words shine and CLEAN
and glitter with all the alluring radiance
of Lady Carvlrs jewels.
Mr.. Hichens' admirers have always
claimed since he wrote that brilliant trifie
THE Green carnation,' that he was really
going to DO something one of theseo days,
He came near to fuailling their faith in
Planes" but that srewsome tale did not
convince. 'srhs Slave" does. and so, wheth-
cr you like II or not. you must psrforcs
admire.
t''Dartneil." BY BENJAMIN Swift. S1.25.
THE slave" By Robert Hichens $L50.
II. & Stone q Co. For sale by Isowman &
Hanford)
= = =
Thsre are two new issues in the Double
day q Mcclure series of Short Novels IAN
Eventfll Night" 10 a most amusing extrav-
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There are two new issues in the Double
day q Mcclure series of Short Novels. AN
Eventfsl Night" 10 a most amusing extrav-
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the collector would have been greatly as
tonished II he could have OWNED her feel
ing and understood that the vision came
through him. The tide Of courage rose
yelling in his heart, and she felt the over
shadowfng Peace answer and uphold her
so these two had their revelations in
tho queerest possible way; and they real
lied that as they smiled at each other"
There Is more insight. delicacy and
imagination put into this brief story than
goes to the making OF three average
novels.
can Eventful Night" By Clara Par
ker. so cent "Kela-Bai" BY Charles
Johnston. 80 cents. Doubleday q Nc
Clure. For sale By Lowman & Hanford)
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MOVING TIME.

Now the furniture Ia hustled
pown the narrow. winding stsirs,
Ripping burrows IN the plaster.
Giving paper ugly tears
Painting. shutting, to ths doorway
Husky iuTden-bearers 10.
Bump against tho waiting wagon,
And in it their load they throw.
Bedsseads, mattresses and drs~ssry,
Sofas. chairs and shif1oniers.
Are eommingied in coafnSioa
While the housewife looks and fosrs
Boxes, barrels. pictures. carpets.
Ger them all her sharp glance roves,
And she sees her fms piano
TANNED tight up against the stoves.
But the men who do tho hauling
Have no time 10 fool away,
And they pay but slight attention
To expressions q disnsy
1hss are oosdinr things toxether
la the wagons far too snail
Aud resent all iHtimatioas
That had mas chance 70 fan
By and hy tho house Is empty.
And the wagons overflow.
There's a stirring up q hoses,
And swaY tho BAG loads go.
Hete and there q chair u broken,
Here aud there table dropped,
But such ifiiies o.. NOT noticed.
Ana the teams are Dessr stopped
A thes Gear the destination
Eager eyss through curtains rear.
All the furniture tnspsctins.
Than GENE Comments uft serere
And the people vho Il be neighbour
Al the yisse n new abode
watch til tscrything Ia tak~n
FROM the last taz Wagon load
Thea the woman who Is mistress
Of the harss isist ccetipisd
Taks Der turn. snd mskas iaspscfloa
OF each room ftom Ads TO ssas
Ard she'll make this deeiAFation
whea the neishlsoFs on her cal:
I've scrn many eirss houses.
Hat found this ons wsrs ~ all
-Pii,shars resxrAsi
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eMe that there were 50 many other hort
sons and that her viii was strsinsng TO
so forth and mako them her own Ana
sAs was no; VIII, ahashsd BY SO Big a
weird. She had suddenly gained such
comfort from so strange ard unexpected a
source that she OWNED that there is com
Tort everywhere II ono could only End n
She felt that she was already provided for
from OF cd. and Sanskrit verse cana
back to her. that her old BrAhman friend
had taught her in by-gone days:
Who gave the swan his whlteuess ana
parrot wings Of green,
VINO painted bright the peacock, viii n.
not care for thee"
sSas was repeating It 10 herself now, and
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and there was a very material increase
in the English edition. A further indica-
ton of the interest aroused by Mr.. Bar
rie's story was the immediate effect
noticeable in the sales OF Mr.. Barrie's
former story. Sentimental Tommy" OF
which 10000 copies have already been
sold. To meet the increased demand q
new edition. in paper, OF 5000 copies, has
just been published The increase OF IN
terest in the Barrie story, Tommy and
Grizel," is apparent In the desire OF new
subscribers to obtain the numbers contain
ing the first instruments of the story. and
in order to meet this desire the publishers
have adopted the rather novel plan OF
printing the first three tnstallments or
Tommy and Grizel" in pamphlet form
and presenting it to new subscribers. In
order that they may have the serial from
the beginning.
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The recent sucs essful dramatisation Of
Ben Hur'' has started the dramatists on
a hunt for new material for plays of the
classical period. and as a result II seems
probable that DIR. J. NJ. Ludlow's histor-
cal story. The Captain OF the Janixaries,"
will soon be presented on the New York
stage. Several managers have already
made application for the dramatic rights,
and the author has the matter under con-
sideration. Like 'Ben-Hur," DR.. Ludlow's
novel has been before the public a number
of years. but has lost nothing of It's pop
ularity. The story Is laid In the stirring
times Of Scanderbeg and the fall OF Con-
stantinople. and II is easy to see how. in
slullfu hands, strong dramatic play
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agansa Ia which the hero, having a swollen
face, soes 10 4 doctor with MS head sw&th-
ed In bandaSes 10 have his gum lanerd
and bosore be gets home ands himself
committed 20 all kinds n Wild. romantic
and hair-ra.sing adventures including an
slopeaent with heretofore unknown pref
~ girl. a Wild ride to clade her pursaeFs
and finally a midnight marriage. The
eyeas follow each other as easily as tho
rabbits eofne out OF g coniGrer's hat. and
have the same false air OF bang exactly
what an Intelligent person would look Cor
under the circumstances
"Keia- Raj. an Anglo Indian rdyi' is n
little story that has all kinds OF exquisite
Guall,.es and IL ssis the reader to Nelasr-
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AeQIlN Old Hoe SIS

The majority OF persons upon r.acn,nr 49,.
past ma their blood becomes weak ana thin s - sat
that were easily controlled In earlier nfe s.,, :,
constitution o sesln 70 AFFECT n
Those predisposed 20 scrofula Cameo, -
ma other hereditary troubles may escape tn 49, osss
they age the blood long and weskenss e =
seu vase mat'ers Is no longer able to prcperIv 49,.
the pody, ana II becomes easy mars a. 49,, "susA
TINS critical periodo Of life the blood must Be- r,sns A
fore II can perform Its legitimate fs,nct,ons -" ~ -
system OF these poisons and nothing surely Ana - 20
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pArIY ExCURsIONs

DAILY EXCURSIONS
For Port orchard Dry Dock and Navy
Yard by steamer 'Dode." from Yesier
wharf, st $50 a m. and : .. m. Italian
string orchestra en- al trtps. Round trip
fare 50 cents
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NOTES AND NEWS.

One Of the striking features Of Brush
and PENCIL for April is a fully Illus
trated article upon Charles Herbert Wood
bury and his work, from which We re-
produce striking pencil drawing. Other
things OF interest in the magazine are
an article descriptive Of the Newt omb
pottery and an account of the Society of
American Miniature Painters. with eight
illustrations.
Mrs. Rorer's solution of the servant-girl
problem wifi be presented in the May La
dies Home Journal. She viii tell How to
Treat and Keep Servant fixing the re-
sponsibiiity for the unsatisfactory domes-
tic service that makes housekeeping such
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-18
WOMAN's SIDE OF WAR.
Mrs. Fischer, Wife of the Boer Envoy,
Speaks For Her Sisters

New York. May 1S.-Mrs. Abraham
Fischer, wife Of the Orange Free State
delegate, accompanies her husband to
this country. She is a Scotch woman.
Speaking of the war. she said that many
stories sent out from English sources
We're wholly false.
TT was outrageous she said. that
eport which was sent out a while ago
that women were being enlisted into
the Boer army, or would be- They
would go willingly, but their services
would not be accepted. The Beers are
-barbarians to send women into war.
If some few a been found it IS BE-
cause they were disguised as men, and
thus entered the ranks
1T would be easier for them Il they
might fight. As it is, the stay at
home trying to keep the great farms
n that he- country may not be
devastated, and it is heart breaking
work Our farms cover large tracts of
country, and the work is done by the
natives, negroes. OF whom there are al
ways many. and they are difficult to
manage
They are lazy and shiftless and need
the management Of a man to keep them
going, but there is many a plucky Boer
woman quite alone in her home look
ing after a force which before the war
took all the time of her husband and
sons"
Life is hard" she continued. "Our
women struggle with the fortitude Of
uCEOltES- 44eE never despair 4uE11
are fighting for their homes, and right
must triumph in the end
Here we want 10 enlist the sympa-
thies of the American government; if
we could only do that our cause would
be won, for all Europe would follow
Americas example
do not want America to fight
that is not necessary-a mere declara-
ton Of sympathy would be sufficient to
throw the balance of favor our way.
Err-~.-Z - aE-arz - 10 ~ ST Er-%
America IS a powerful ally, whose sup
port would bring others. We wan the
help CT the American women to bring
that about. We women of other u
tries hear that those here are power
full. If ever their help was needed it
is now, and We South African women
are putting our faith in them
we find here such sympathy from in
dividuals that it makes US very happy
The weeks before our coming here have
beer so hard and trying that we are
appreciative Of joy"
Mr. and Mrs Fischer left their home
at Bloemfontein ten days before the ar
rival Of General Roberts
Mrs. Fischer said further: we put
our things into warehouses quite in
methodical fashion. but il was terribly
hard and depressing 10 handle things
which had made my home for nearly
thirty years. and not know when. If
| ever, if I shOuld have them again
MANY a woman in Bloemfontein went
/ through the same thing in those days,
but we tried very hard to be hopeful
and trust in the time when we should
! come back. We did not believe hat the
British would wantOnly injure oul
houses. but we do not like now to thinA
of the changes which must always bE
made in war
One of Mrs. Fischer's sons IS fighting
with the Boer army, the other is a
! Cambridge. England, studying law
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ALL 0 rs.
Immense Possibilities Opening Up in
Siberia


Chicago. NAY S-The Tribune says:
Prince Alexis Dalgaroukon Of St Pc
tersburg has been staying quietly at the
Auditorium hotel for the last three
days. He has hidden his ank careful
IL, registering under the name OF NJ.
Dslgaroukof. n denying himself to
all callers except Baron Schlippenbaeh,
the Russian consul: J. n. Flynn of San
Francisco. and one or two others who
are associated in an enterprise which is
the cause of his visit to this country.
He IS here as h representative both
Of the Russian government and of prt-
Vate interests III that country, to con-
sGlt with the Americans interested in
the Russian Commercial company, or
ganized for the purpose of operating
along the line of the t~raus-Siberian rail-
road The prince left Chicago last-night
for San Francisco where he viii meet
several California and Montana men
who are interested in the enterprise.
The company, which IS capitalized II
$1,000, 600, c~ontemplates a broad field Of
business, including the operation Of
steamship lines between the ports Of
China and American Pacific coast
points, fur sealing. fishing, mining,
numbering inc general merchandising.
including the erection Of warehouses,
etc The prince, when approached,
would>no discuss the matter, U Mr..
Flynn said.
Within Is months the last spike on
have been driven and a vast field will
be opened to American enterprise and
capital Under Russia's tariff regula-
lions a territory larger in area than this
country has been placed at the free dis
pOSal of American manufacturers"