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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-21
sWEARs VENGEANCE.

Tilted Lover OF Tickle Young Kan
sns woman.
WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 2O.-Jack Nor
rissy came here Wednesday night from
Oklahoma with the intention of marrying
Ella Anderson the next day. He stopped
at Topeka Avenue hotel, and the next
morning he found the health department
had Guaranteed the building, making him
a prisoner He sent word to his sweet
heart, but she answered him not. Today
Henry Adams, railroad brakeman, came
along and took her to Arkansas City,
where they were married this afternoon.
Morrissy was told tonight Of his hard
luck. He swears vengeance on Adams.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-21
Florida, West Indies and Central
America.

The facilities of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad for handling tourists and
travellers destined for all points In Flor
ida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America,
or for Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double
daily lines of steering cars are run from
Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago and st.
Florida points, and to Miami, Tampa and
New Orleans, the ports of enabarkation
for the countries mentioned. For folders,
ETC., write Geo. B. Homer, d. p. A., st.
Louis, Mo.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-21
HOME LIFE OF THE CAR.


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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
 Strange Story of a Watch.

A strange experience recently befen George pietz, formerly a resident of Chester, Pa, but at the present time in the iewe.ry business in Honolulu. MT. Dietz has recovered a watch which he lost over thirty years ago at Gettys- burg. He was fighting for the north on that bloody battlefield when he dropped it. The watch was recently brought into the jewellers shop by Harry Ellis of the Kansas volunteers. The soldier, who was bound to Manila, wanted to sell it. On being asked where he got it Ee said his father who had found it on the battlefield of Get tysburg, had given it to him. The jew eler opened it and saw his name scratched on it. He lost no time In making trade with the soldier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
stoeple On Dogs 1omb.

Joseph H. Vaill, commissioner from Connecticut at the Worlds Fair at Chicago, and whom Gov. Lounsbury will probably appoint as commissioner from Connecticut to the Paris and Buff. falo expositions, has purchased the steeple of the Second Congregational church of Wlnsted, Conn, and will have it erected as 3 monument over the grave of his dog Snyder, which died over a year ago. The steeple, which has already been taken off the old church in sections, is about sixty feet high, says the New York Journal. Mir. Vaill was formerly editor of the Winsted Herald, and Snyder was known by nearly every state news- paper man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
MYSTERY OF TANGANYIKA.
Lake Whose Waters Are 'ee Feet Lower
 Than 20 Years Ago.

Father Daull, a Roman Catholic missionary at Lake Tanganyika. one of the large lakes of central africa, writes that since 1897 the level of the lake has fallen about twenty-six feet. The natives are now eultivating ba- mana patches for about a half mile lakeward on land that twenty years ago was covered by the lake. In other words, the width of the lake has been diminished about mile throughout Its length of 400 miles. Fort karema was built on a hill whose base was lapped by the waves of Tanganyika, but now gently sloping, cultivated plain stretches between the fort and the lake. At present the level of the lake appears to be stationary, for there has been no perceptible change within a year or more. All the evidence tends to show that Tanganyika is subject to periodical rise and fall of level due to meteorological causes that are not fully understood. For a period of years the water receipts of the lake are steadily less than it's outflow and the evaporation from it's surface, and then the lake recedes, the head of the Lukuga becomes ehoked with vegeta
 tion, no water enters the river from the lake and It partly dries up, as it receives only the drainage of it's val ley. This was the condition of things when Stanley visited the Lukuga in 1876. But the lake had been rising then for a number of years. The suc- ceeding cycle was in progress when the water receipts were steadily great CT than the evaporation. Stanley said that if the lake continued to rise, in two or three years more it would burst through the vegetable barrier at the head of the Lukuga and once more contribute it's waters to the Congo. This actually happened, as Missionary Gore and the explorer Thomson dis covered. and almost simultaneously, the succeeding period of deficient water supply came in and the lake has been falling ever since. It seems to have reached the. turning point again and we may soon expect to hear that the level of Tanganyika is rising New York Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
FISHING WITH STONES.
Device Used bs Scottish Teachers ln
 Capturing Salmon.

Devlee Used by Scottish Poaehers ia
 Capturing Salmon.
 It Is astonishing what tiny brooks large salmon will ascend in obedience to the instinct which teaches them to seek Q nursery where their young will be comparatively secure from the at tacks of their numerous enemies. In one small pool of q little burn in the highlands half a dozen yards i9hg and but q few feet bread, I have seen, rather late in tie year, eight or ten salmon, some of which must have weighed between twenty and thirty pounds. They ascend these small streams during heed-time, and it fre- quently happens that they are caught on fa4nng water, and unable to escape from their confined quarters until the rivers are again ill spate, it may be not for many weeks. In such circumstances they are accessible to the devices of poachers, and although as rule the Scottish rivers are efii- ciently guarded during the breeding time, they are of course ratded Occa- slonally, and large numbers of grayish secured. A common method is to se- feet long holding" pool where sal mon are known to be plentiful, and where the water is moderately deep at the sides. At such place the poach CTS, their faces blackened, and per haps a dozen or so in number, time their arrival an hour or two before dawn and stone the pool vigorously until there is light enough for the next stage of the proceedings. Frightened and confused by the constant splash ing of the water and the descent of big stones all around them, the salmon seek refuge by the banks, where in the meantime the poaehers are careful to leave them Hndisturbed. When daylight appears the men creep eau tiously upstream along the banks armed with long-handled gaffs. where with to snatch the salmon, which lie quietly as though dazed in three Or four feet of water. A cartload cf heavy fish is sometimes secured dur ing one of these matutinal forays.- London Telegraph
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
 THE KING OF PALI.
Surrounded by His Followers, Truly
 .,. - -

Surrounded by His Followers, a Truly
 Medieval Picture Wns Presented.
 My first sight of the king of Pall was most imposing. says the Geographical Journal. Having heard of the approach of my party, he came out to meet Us We had stopped the night before at the small village Of Jepiroh, beautifully situated on high ground and chiefly re- markable for the numbers of small green and red parrots that swarmed in the guinea cornfelds all round it. It was the only place where I saw them in any quantities. We started off about 6:30, while the heavy dew was still sparkling on the grass and soon met the head of the Pali contingent. First came 150 bowmen carrying nothing but their weapons and wearing only the smallest of loin cloths At regular in- teryals among them were mounted of- fieers. Next came a bodyguard of twenty picked men dressed in red gowns with white plalts down the back and armed with every imaginable kind of gun, the locks of which were incased in leather. After passing these men I came on q really beautiful sight The king had drawn Up under the trees on one side of the path, and some forty or fifty mounted followers had arranged themselves all around and behind him. They were dressed for the most part in white gowns, but generally with either n colored lining CT another colored gown underneath. Voluminous white or blue turbans covered their heads, and some of them wore very handsome riding boots, though the majority were baFefooted. The high-peaked saddles were covered with brightly eolored saddle cloths and the horses heads were almost hidden by enormous bri. dies, covered with tin ornaments, which kept Up perpetual iingling as they tossed their heads about to keep off the flies. On my approach they waved their spears over their heads with the butt to the front in token of friendship This, with the king in the center wear ing cap of chain mail under his tur= ban, and lowing with courtly grace. made a truly medieval picture.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
TWO ANCIENT ARABIAN WELLS They Furnish Drink to the Thirsty Tray.
 eIers Through Desert Sands.
eIers Through Desert

In northwestern Arabia there is a well of the purest water, perpetual in its supply, that has existed for ages. The Arabs claim it was dug by the early Islamites. Whoever dug it must have expended great labor upon it, fo1 it Is five feet in diameter at the top and gradually enlarges until it reaches the water, at depth Of nearly 200 feet. It is lined with hewn stone throughout. However, the Lost re- markable well in the world is Joseph's well, at Cairo, Egypt Its shaft was excavated through solid rock to a depth of 165 feet, at which depth it was enlarged on one side to form a chamber, in the bottom of which 8 reservoir was made immediately un- der the shaft. At one side of this reservoir another shaft was excayated through rock to a bed of gravel, where water was found. The lower shaft was 130 feet deep, making the total depth 295 feet. The upper shaft was rectangular, 24x1S feet. The lower shaft was 15x9 feet Winding around the well a spiral passageHay feet t inches wide by feet inches high was cut with great care from the sur face of the ground down to the cham Der. Between the well and the pas sage#ay wall of rock was left. Horses and =exen descended the pas sageWay to the chamber, where they propelled machinery to raise the water in pets attached to a chain from the lower shaft to the reservoir in the chamber, and it was again raised by machinery operated by power on the surface. Tn the lower shaft a path was cut in it's side so that descent could be made to the water. There was no wall between the path and the we'll. This work is said to have been constructed by saladin, who lived in the years 1137 10 1193. Some writers do not mention this. and say that the date of the construction is lost in an- tiquity
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
Chased by a Bail of Ire.

A member of a Swiss scientific so- ciety thus tells how he was chased by a ball of fire: "At 6:30 o'clock I drove from Versoix to Genthoud. On the Malagny road the coaehman's eyes be- came so much fatigued by intense lightning that he couldn't, even in the intervals, see the road. I stepped onto the box and took the reins We had barely passed the gate of Dr. Marcel when I became conscious of a bright and lasting luminosity behind me I turned around and saw at distance of 800 yards ball of fire of about sixteen inches diameter. Just as the ball was about seventyfive feet to our right it burst with a terrific noise, and 1t seemed as if lines of fire started from it. We felt violent shaking and re- mained blinded few seconds. Then I saw that the horses had turned at a right angle to the carriage, with their chests in the hedge, with dropping ears and signs os great terror
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
QUEER EOS SIL..
Jaw of Huge Uncias sined Animal
 Found in New Mexico.

Jaw of Huge Unciassihed Animal
 Found in New Mexico.
 Santa Fe= New Mexican: The fossil remains of a strange prehistoric animal were discovered recently at Postmaster Nusbaum.s ranch, at Teseuque. Al phonso DoekWeiler. who has charge or digging ditch through q ridge on the ranch, picked up piece of petrtfied bone the shape of large tongue, but with roY of twelve teeth along what seemed to be the tip Of the tongue. He dug little further and found the re- mainder of what seemed to be the jaw q an animal that was part ichthyosau- rus and part plesiosaurus, with some of the characteristics of the pterodactyl, perhaps. The jaw consisted of about twenty layers of bone in the shape of a tongue, and each layer was armed with a dozen teeth, which showed that the animal was herbiyorous and not car nivorous. These twenty layers were evidently the upper jaw of the animal. MT. Doekweiler expects to find the low
 - JNAN tt44d EO1 iiSI t1t1 VI CAIC iS41AetAAiS of the strange animal As much as he has found he will bring to this city and from here ship it to the Smithson- ian institution in Washington. Two layers of the jaw were brought to the city by J. c. SchumanE and shown to friends, who were all puzzled by their unusual shape. It is well known that 6he surroundings of Santa Fe abou2a with submarine fossil remains, which seem to prove that in long-gone-by ages the site of the city was covered by a sea. Only half a mile up the ar royo and canyon that branch off Pal ace avenue, near the old brewery, pret- ty petrified seashells are to be found At many other places there are unmis- takable signs of the erosion of the waves and footprints of gigantic pre- historic amphibians, who made their home both in the water and on the land in the days when the highest peaks of the Rocky mountain range were only islands in a vast ocean.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
Fatel.

The Reposeful 0ne-"My dear,I visa you would not be so energetic. Will you never rest?' The Pussy One "I never expect to be able to rest till I get to my grave. and then it will be just my luck that the next day will be the resurrection. life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
JUDGING A NATION.
By the Advertisements Which Are
 Printed in the Newspapers

Printed in the Newspapers.
 How easily one can tell the country in which a paper is printed just by a glance at the advertisements" said a woman deliver at the library the other day to the New York Commercial Ad- yertiser man. ssHere's an Italian paper nothing but ads or restaurants and things to eat; and here are some French papers, every one of them hon. eycombed with eulogies of Dr. B. s recipe pour maigrir, or Dr. Z's lotion pour embellir Ia peau,' or ito render bright the eyes And so many medi- cines! For coughs and colds and spinal diseases and smallpox! Talk about Lourdes, why, NJ. Zola need only to have glanced at the advertisements of the papers of his native land to have got copy for chapter of horrors. And here is a German paper-obesity and beer ard books; isn't that eharaeteris- tie2 But the most typical of all are the English ads, all about travel, false hair, carriages, tea, cocoa, hotels and bicycles-jewelry, complexion lotions and tailors figure prominently in some papers, lit travel and tea and hotels and false hair fill pages in all the papers. Listen to this, opened at ran- dom in one of the smaller English magazines: TO the Continent on a Crack Liner A Holiday Trip to the Canaries,' TO the Fjords and Baltic on a Yacht Cheap Trip to Weymouth, Quick Line to Scandinavia and then pages and pages of hotels. The Ames8 ican papers are more eosmopolitsssss than any of the foreign papers, and so in their way just as characteristic of the land of emigrants. suppose One typical Yankee trait their advertise ments have is that nearly everything is patented. Baby swings, chairs, beds, eorsets, soups. four, biscuits soap. fur niture and shoes. Nearly everything Is made by machinery and almost ey- erything is patented
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-30
It is Impossible
 10 Get Away

from the fact thar Tn l9G0 While other butchers cnanged their
 shops, And the name Of other meat firms
 Hops, Peddlers haul their stuff thro' mud
 and stop. Still tie people know That to the old reliable They ve always got to go, To get the meat that is desirable.
 tIFY NEAT MARk EFT
 2l0 West Second, R. P. Holmes, Prop.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
NEW LEADER OF
THE KKA!!!!SSER'S ARMY
Interesting Pen Picture of Count
WalderSee and His Amer
lean Wife at Court.

Germany's fate in China depends on one
army.
This man, General Count Waldersee,
though no stranger to the world, has SO
held himself aloof in an accumulation of
duties that he is probably less known to
the Germans than he Is to Americans. Far
from being man of the people, he is a
man of the nation; yet, when he comes in
contact with the people he is affability it
self.
If I had to compare Alfred Count WAL
dersee with an English soldier I should
name the late General Gordon; If l had to
mention his approximate double among
either living or dead Frenchmen I should
point to the late General Trochu.
This comparison would, however, only ap-
ply to the mans moral character. OF his
military capabilities l am not called upon
to judge here, although by an almost COM
mon consent of the German General Grand
Staff they are estimated very highly; SO
highly indeed, as to have led more than
once to the unanimously expressed opin-
ion that in the event of any European war
in which Germany should be called upon
to play a part Waldersee would take the
place of Moltke.
That opinion has not only found credence
in Germany since Moltkes death, but was
rife during the latter years of his life, and
| the great strategist himself considerably
contributed to It's propagation There are
some who have persstently pinned their
faith in the matter of Moltke's successor
on General Count Won Haeseler, the chief
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

a characteristic scene occurred. At one OF
the inns was a burly fellow who ordered
loudly carriage to be driven to Castel-
lanes country seat. Being in furious
mood the man took everybody present into
his confidence. He said he was Paris con-
tractor who had last year effected impor-
tant alterations in the Cha teau du Marans.
He had been unable to obtain any money
whatsoever of the large sum due him. He
had just learned that the count had per-
mitted several creditors to be left out of
share in the sale, and he was now going to
get some money himself or break Bonrs
bones.
Two hours later he returned, triumph
antly waving a considerable check upon q
Paris bank. He said he had at first been
denied admttance, but forced his way, de-
spite the funkeys, finding the Count and
Countess Boni de Castelane amid more
than twenty aristocratic guests assembled
for the opening of the shooting season. At
first Boni attempted to dismiss his cred
itor loftiy, but an awful row ensued, and
the contractor, being enraged, muscular and
fluent, finally got check which consti-
tuted decent installment upon the total
sum due.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
"Looting Ia Proceeding"

Considering the vivid fears expressed at
different times during the past few years
that the inferior races would loot their
own cities, and the stern necessity for pre-
venting such a calamity, the detailed stQ-
ries that are coming of the loot of Tieh
Tsin and the terse but ma,tter-of-faet dig
patch from Pekin that footing is proceed
ing systematically" are calculated to make
an honest white man tingle with shame.
The bitter sarcasm of 1t Is that the err
rand of the powers In China Is alleged to
be one of civilization and good order. Is 1t
a lesson in good order to show the yellow
man an examle of plunderf Is 1t demon
stra ton In civilization to exhibit the ai>
legedly civilized soldiery just as hungry
for the goods of others as his Monaghan
brother? Or Is 1t desired to impress on the
inferior race that ooting is an EXCLUSIVES
privilege of the white man?
The fact is that certain amount Of
plundering Is an inevitable and ugly ac-
compartment of war. But the wholesale
scale on which it seems to be prosecuted
in China is grotesque irony on the mis-
sion of spreading civilization and Christian.
ity there.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
A NICE APPOINTMENT

From the Huntsville Mercury.
1t is generally believed throughout the
State that Governor Sanford will appoint
Hon. John V. Smith, recently chairman of
the campaign committee, to the honorable
and lucrative position of president of the
Alabama Railroad Commission. Thus far
the matter has not been discussed except
among Mr.. Smiths friends and those who
believe his close personal relations with
and earnest work for the governor-elect
entities him to the position
ITO the victors belong the spoils" is q
principle as old as government by parties.
1t would be strange, indeed, for Governor
Sanford to ignore the candidacy of his
most tireless worker and his closest per-
sonal friend, and 1t would be equally
strange for Mr.. Smith to decline to allow
the use of his name for the position.
If Governor Sanford appoints as good
men to all the prominent offices as John v.
Smith has proved himself to be there will
be no complaints He deserves the presi-
dency of the railroad commission, and
should have IT,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

This marriage was contracted in 1864 when
the prince was GA years old and his beauti-
full American bride a. Mary Lea's father
had come to New York from Connecticut
in 1910, established business as a whole
sale grocer In that city, died and left his
widow fortune so small that she was
Obliged to find chs22p living for herself and
daughters in Stuttgart.
After Mary LEAFS marriage she and her
aged husband went to the Holy Land,
where he died within a year, leaving her
his immense fortune. She returned to Vi
emma, where she met and was welded to
the Count Won Waldersee, the scion of an
ancient Prussian family and a favorite of
old Emperor William and Bismarck
The Countess influence in the present
German court, where she is often spoken or
as 1.-The power behind the throne, came
about through the marriage of the Kaiser,
then Prince William of Prussia, which she
is credited with having brought about In
the face of the angry opposition OF the
Princes mother.
The bride was the Countess grandniece
by her first marriage, the Princess Augusta
Victoria. Colby treated by her royal
| mother-in-law, the Princess found refuge
in the arms of the American aunt for
| whom the present Emperor also conceived
deep regard
| Meantime the affairs of the Count Won
Waldersee had prospered so greatly that
nohng but the influence of the American
| aunt seemed to account for 1t all.
| Born in 1882, he had entered the army in
| 1850, and though he served with distinction
| through the war with Austria In 1866 and
| that with France In 107o-n, 1t was not un-
! til his wife's influence began to be felt that
! he succeeded the aged field marshal, Count
| Won Motke, a schief of the general staff.
| The Countess Won Weldersee is still a
| beautiful woman, with snowy hair and
| queenly bearing She has never returned to
| America since she left it more than forty
| years ago.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09
Duke of klanch ester bankrupt

London Letter in the Chicago Tribune.
The young Duke of Manchester provided
the gossips with a new morsel yesterday
not matrimonial engagement this time,
but petition in bankruptcy. The Duke
has contemplated the step for some time.
Left only small income by his father.
scarcely $1,000 year, the Duke had hard
time making ends meet. Several times he
Ventured into theatrical and other specu-
lations in an attempt to recoup the family
fortunes, but each attempt proved disas-
trous. He also made numerous overtures
to heiresses In the hope of securing good
living through matrimony, but these like
wise proved failures. The Dukes solicitors
claim that acceptances of his for large
amounts, for which he has received no con-
sideration, are In the hands of unknown
persons. The claims under these, they
state, will be resisted.