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died there. after laboring in the salt and coal mines of an inhospitable climate.
 Not only has exile to Siberia been abol- ished in Russia, but all exile as punish ment has also been abolished. Siberia is given over to emigration, now that it has been opened by steam travel; and exile has become impossible Hereafter convicts will serve terms of imprisonment, as they do in other countries, and a sentence will not carry with it civil and social death. Un- der the sentences of exile property passed at once to heirs, and all family relations were at once dissolved. The wife became free to marry again. The exile was consld- cred dead. All this has been abolished by the recent edict and Russia in this re- spect falls into line with the humanity of the world.
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Assassination of Kinq Humbert.

The assassination of the King of Italy is a new fact of profound import in what was already a most grave international situation. It is not of instant concern to know the circumstances of the monstrous crime; whether the assassin was one of few or many conspirators, cunning mur- derer alone in his deviltry, or an irrespon- sible madman. He has slain the head of one of the worlds great powers at a mo- ment when the world is in travail, and the country of the crime is more than ever troubled by political dssensions, revolu- tionary conspiracies, and anarchistic ma chinations.
 There hasn't been week within ten years when Italy wasn't in danger of revo- lution; and it has been largely the personal force and prestige of King Humbert which has restrained the revolutionary forces from disastrous rebellion against con- stituted authority. Many wise men have looked forward with gravest apprehension to the possible death of the King Now that he dies by violence their worst fears may be realized; most especially as he is succeeded in the kingdom by his son, the physically a weaking, and is believed to be not strong intellectually.
 What course the papacy shall see proper to pursue can at the moment be nothing more than conjecture; but, whilst counsel ing. peace, the aged and universally re- vered Pope cannot be expected to use the full powers of his sacred office to prop the tottering house of Savoy, which in the tion of the head of the Catholic church as Catholics view their history, battered down the walls of Rome and has for thirty years held the Pope virtually a prisoner in the Vatican.
 King Humbert was one of the wisest and best rulers of Europe, and personally the most popular, save only the Queen of Eng land and possibly the Austrian Emperor. He was the only one of the old-world rulers who ever led in battle. In the Aus trian and Bourbon wars, under his famous father, Victor Immanuel he proved him. self to be a great general and hero of dauntless courage. In the wild Italian poli- tics the person of King Humbert has ever been held in deepest respect; and in his- tory he will be accounted a good man and great king.
The age-herald., 1900-07-30
IHE osLY DAllY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Alaskan Boundary Lines.

Provisional boundary lines are sure to bob up where least expected for resettle- ment, and the line agreed upon temporari- ly about the head of Lynn canal in south- eastern Alaska is case in point. The sur veyors are now locating the provisional line, and that line is unsatisfactory to those Americans who have been developing god-bearing territory on the British side of it. They had been led to think they were on the American side of the provis- ional line, but the survey puts them on the other side. They therefore appeal 10 the administration to save them from British rule.
 There are no grounds for the appeal, for the provisional line must stand until a final settlement of the boundary question can be arrived at. Under the modus vi- vendi neither side gets what it wants. Canada wanted above all else port or tidewater, but she did not secure it, and every pound of goods going to Dawson City must pay American duties which are heavy enough to say the least. The Canadian government is willing to give up all the territory claimed by Americans if it can gain port on tidewater.
 The true and final boundary line will be arrived at in satisfactory way when per- haps there is no pressure on account of gold claims or gold finds. The placer min ing of Alaska will soon be worked out, and the quartz mining period will not be apt to interfere with orderly negotiations. The entire question is relieved of friction by the provisional treaty, and both sides should respect it on that account
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Siberian Exile Abolished.

Slowly but steadily Russian cruelty and Middle-Age barbarism are melting away under the lights of humanity and civiliza- ton in the western world. TIA custom 200 years old was abolished when an edict was issued putting an end to exile in Sibc ria. The penal colony in that once dis tant land has been abolished and ali con- vots political or criminal, will be kept in prison near their homes. The leopard has not lost his spots, but he will not hereafter have a Siberian spot.
 The first exile to Sbera was a priest Who would not bend the knee to intolerant Russia He was sent away In chains. His name was Avvakum, and he died in that land, a martyr to the principle of religious liberty and after him followed an annual ly increasing number of victims, rising at times to 10000 year. It has been stated officially that 6OO,OOO persons were trans ported to Siberia between 1928 and 1877. The total number carried there must therefore y-~"eed a million souls. As rule convicts
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Two More Islands,

At first sight it might appear that we region than we need. We have so many at any rate that no one knows whether the number of them is nearer one thousand or two thousand but few hundreds more or less is not considered material The ad- ministraton blunderingly left two islands in the possession of Spain and these two have been purchased at an expense of $1O0,- 600 provided Congress Is willing. Treaties, Senate, and appropriations, except in the case of China, must be originated in the House.
 The islands, Cibitu and Cakayen, are not within the boundary lines that the Paris commission named, and Spains rights to them stood beyond successful dispute. Cibitu is about fourteen miles long and two miles wide while Cagayen is five miles in
 
 are tropical. producing sugar. tobacco and other tropical crops. Neither is very desir- able, but either is large enough to afford a naval station near Borneo for a naval power. Hence the purchase.
 The capacity of the administration for blundering is we'll illustrated by this treaty. These islands are on all good maps of Ori- ental waters. Their position was we'll known to students of those waters, yet the Paris commission was permitted to draw lines that excluded them. Spain would have been content to describe the entire lot of islands as "The Philippine archipelago" but the smart members of the commission preferred definite lines of description. and the bill of the blunder then committed is just $10O,0O0 no more. no less. It might have been much more.
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She Thought War a Blessing

Some persons look at the effects of the South African campaign in one way-some another, says London correspondent. One of the oldest is surely that of the widow of a certain gallant Tommy who fell at Colenso. A lady visitor went to condole with her. when she looked up with a smile and said, with an air of mingled deferenee and condolences:
 ''Oh, Mum, do you trouble about i'm? E was allays a bad 'un. I've got nice lot of money from the noosepapers and other kind Ffriends-enough to keep me comfortable Oh, Mum, this ere wars made a lot of 'appy 'omes, it has,
 But, alas! they are not all so easily con- soled as was this philosophic person.
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CHARLES II. HOYT IN AN ASYLUM

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Few men have been the inspira ton of so much hearty laughter as Charles H. Hoyt. He was the founder of practically a new school of dramatic humor, for the Hoyt farces are in a class by themselves. While Hoyt has been writing farces how ever, 1t appears that he has been living a tragedy. More than two years ago he was called upon to mourn the death of his beautiful wife, who was known on the stage as Caroline Miskel. The dramatist and the actress were devoted to each oth- CT, and after her death MT. Hoyt plunged into his work with redoubled energy. Hard work seemed to him the only possible ano- dyne for the sorrow which overcame him whenever he gave himself time to think about it. In spite of the courage and reso- lution with which he faced the facts he was not able to keep the loss of his wife from preying upon his mind. His friends, who knew him in happier days as the brightest of wits and the most agreeable of companions, say that never since Car oline Miskel died has he been himself. The intense application with which he threw himself into his york; together with the constant breeding over her death, has proved too much for him, and he has been sent for treatment to an insane asylum at Hartford, Conn. It Is said that MT. Hoyt fully realizes how serious Is his condition. and that he willingly places himself under expert treatment. The doctors who have the case in charge are reported as being hopeful that perfect quiet and careful at- tention may effect a permanent cure. In this hope the public, which is indebted <to Hoyt for much innocent merriment, will sincerely join.
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nEELECrI0Ns OF A DACHELoR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 It isn't where charity begins that we need worry about, but here it ends.
 After matrimony came into fashion the devil put new wings and extensions on hell.
 Ideals are the flowers in the garden of sentiment, and they are watered daily with womens tears.
 The average woman won't worry a bit about her next door neighbor who is dying from consumption. and she can't sleep nights fretting about a missionary she never saw who is lost in China.
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SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
Must Have Been an Imposter

Senator Thomas M. Carter of Montana and Senator Beveridge of Indiana are probably the two most illustrious book agents in the world, says the Saturday Evening Post. Each man at one stage in his early life sold books for living. Sem ator Carter managed the National Repub lican campaign in 1892, and was a promi- nent figure at the recent Philadelphia con- vention.
 Since his election as senator, MT. Carter has acquired and maintained the reputation of being one of the best story-tellers in Congress. His anecdotes are true to life and generally refer to some incident that has come within his own observation. In appearance the senator looks more and more like Uncle Sam brought up to date. His stalwart frame, ruddy face, smooth lips and pointed beard would do fors an artists model
 Not long ago a stranger in Washington who had heard much about Senator Carter said to an employe of the Senate: "I heard Carter tell his famous 'hold-up story at my hotel last night. I didn't think much of it'
 Are you sure it was Carter?" asked the employe somewhat dubiously.
 Certain. He loked as if he had stepped out of a political cartoon You couldn't mistake him, and I know the story by heart"
 What did the crowd do?"
 Nothing. There wasn't even a smile"
 My friend, said the Senate man pity ingly, you've been deceived by some vulgar impostor. Winch Tom Carter tells his hold-up' story the crowd has got to laugh"
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From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
 General J. B. Heiskell, Memphis, Tenn, referring to letter from L. F. A. MauIs- by in the Saturday Review of June g, call ing attention to the similarity in plot of '"To Have and to Hold and "The Head of Hundred" by Maud Wilder Goodwin, published in 1897, writes: "Now it is fur ther worth noting that the similarity of both these books in plot to A Jamestown Romance,' by Mrs. Sarah Beaumont Ken nedy, is very striking, and that the James, town Romance appeared in Outing of De- cember 1894, and ran through the early part of 1895 as serial. This was two years before the issue of The Head of a Hun dred,' and some five years before the ap- pearance of To Have and to Hold The love story of the last-named book and the Jamestown Romance is exactly the same the hero purchases the girl out of pity, and, after marrying her, falls in love with her, and wins her love in the time that fol- lowed Mrs. Kennedy's story is not, how ever, a bloodand-thunder tale, but, as a Boston critic said of it: Tt is an idyl, ex- quisitely beautiful in conception and exc cution.'
 "'The Jamestown Romance has been made the foundation of an opera, and was recently produced for week in the ball. room of the Waldorf-Astoria under the auspices of some of the most brilliant mu- sicians and society folk of your city. Mo- tices of 1t appeared in the Dramatic Mir TOT Justice to Mrs. Kennedy requires that attention be called to the priority of her publication to both of the productions of the plot of her story.'
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Close and Doubtful.

ering thirty states as politically deter mined, leaving fifteen states in the list of "doubtfulS,' as follows:
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Kentucky and Maryland of this list will certainly go Democratic. Both have Demo- cratic Governors. Fusion of the most cor dial sort, together with State pride, will again give Nebraska to Bryan. New York and the Pacific slope states are doubtful states in every sense of f\the word. They are fickle and they should be left one and all in the list of doubtful states Kansas is another doubtful state. South Dakota and Wyoming are claimed by both sides. Indiana is a normally Democratic state, and the belief gains ground that Bryan will carry it. It and West Virginia will be stubbornly contested and the Demo- cratic party should carry both. Delaware will go Democratic this year.
 The new colonial policy of the adminis- tration and the Chinese war. and the man. ner of it, will be judged at the polls in November, and the independent voter will go into the stalls in unusually large num- bers, and no man is wise enough to say which way the scale will be inclined by fifteen million voters. contest of rare independence and closeness is before us.
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Could Not Lose Himself

In the lately issued memorials of Charles Henry Pearson, once one of Australia's S chief men of affairs an amusing story of his student life at Oxford deals with a wayward genius, whom he styles "L." 'It was one of his troubles that he was affiict- ed with self-consciousness. One day he confided to a friend that he had determined to try getting drunk as a possible cure The friend argued against the plan, but attached no particular importance and presently forgot all about it. Late that night, as he was at work, he was startled by noise as of some one stumbling up- stairs and falling against his door. He opened his oak and L. staggered in and threw himself on chair, frightfully intox- icated, and muttering
 " 'Self-conscious still; self-conscious stiu!"
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that an army of 100000 strong is really small army In Democratic days an army of 25 900 men was more than big enough.
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When Depew Was "Rattied''

When Chauncey Depew made a trip to South Carolina not long ago it was up to- the people of Charleston to vary their en- tertainment formula, says the New York Commercial. So, among other functions, Mother Goose party, where he danced the cake-walk with Little Red Ridinghood. There for the first time in my life," says the New York Senator, q was actually 'rattled' while making a speech"
 Everybody at the party except Dr. De- pew was dressed in the costume of a Mother Goose child. The hostess asked him to make a speech to the children" He consented at once, and stood up on a little platform at the far end where the orchestra was stationed. He admits that he began without qualms. He spoke for about five minutes without creating applause or com- ment. Then he used word of four sylla- bles. Suddenly the great audience of chill dren ran toward him and prese>d in on him, clapping their hands together, looking into his eyes beseechingly, the more ven- turesome pulling his coat-tails, and all cry ing out:
 "oh, MT. Depew, what does that word mean! fieaSe spell II TOT us. we uont know any word like that down here"
 The Senator laughed and kept on with his speech, but the grown-up children" wouldn't have it. They stamped the floor and cried aloud for him to spell the word for them. Then he was allowed to go on with his speech. This performance was re- peated five times in the next ten minutes.
 'I had to give up and apologize" he said. q was completely rattled' for the first time in my public career."s
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WORTHY OF JIG TIME

From the St. Louis Republic.
 Contracts have been signed for the dram- aItization of Mir. Dooley." All that remains now is to set ''Mr. Dooley'' to music.
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The big eorporations in New York have said that Odell is "it," and he has there fore been slated by MT. Platt as the Re publican candidate for Governor
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Chauncey M. Depew is the only living person who can solve the Chinese problem and yet no one cables an interview grac- iously vouchsafed by him.
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The young Emperor of China was mur- dered in the reports many times, and ne IS alive, and so may the Legationers be.
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Ambassador Choate should borrow Ted dy's hat if he wants to distinguish him. self from the walters.
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Mckinley and Roosevelt campaign hats are not selling. This is a straw that sho%s which way the wind is blowing.
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The shirtwaist man has not yet appeared in these attitudes, and he should break himself to the public gradually.
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If to know savagery China has added shamless duplicity, the rest of the world will punish her severely.
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The American sea serpent has appeared off the coasts of Sweden where there are no summer hotels.
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Chairman Hannas attention is respect fully called to Ii Hung Chang and his $500, 000 900 fortune.
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While Tim Woodruff is out of the coun- try a movement has been started to do away with vests.
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Abdul Hamid is trusting to the Chinese distraction in his desire to avoid bill col lectOrS.
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Senator Hoar walks a mile or more be fore breakfast in honor of Aguinaldo, tht sprinter.
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The strenuous life of the golfer is an ex- ample or a warning to the young.
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Smoke of tar and feathers has become famous as new weapon in lynching bees. Minister Wu has a nose for news, and he cannot therefore become a journalist.
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The esteemed MT. Stead has nightmares at night, and when he wakes he puts them paper.
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 He was aSgreat good hearted barbarian that same great Amurerkin of ours known to wide fame as Larry Jerome. Whilst he and John R. Fellows of New York were staying in the Isle of Wight many years ago, they managed to enter the Queen S private grounds at Osborne. The Queen was in residence at the time, and Jerome and COWS were extremely anxious to get a look at her. They were wandering about the beautiful private walks, hoping that in some way they might catch glimpse of the venerable and venerated majesty of England; and whilst lettering along a secluded narrow avenue of oyer-archng trees in fear of being shot by an imaginary guard, they came face to face with a little old lady in black with widows cap, walk ing very slowly with a stick, and unac- companied except by jolly little Irish ter Tier. She was not in the least excited by their presence, though glance assured her that the men wern't her subjects. They touched their hats awkwardly, not knowing low to act otherwise, and at that a re- assuring smile slowly spread over the in- fnitely sad and infinitely sweet old face.
 What wish you, friends? she asked gently, looking at their eyes.
 "'Wen I tell you, my good woman," an-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-15
ARITHMETIC AND FOOD.
school cnildren Must BE Better r

school children Must Be Better Fed.
A young girl In Newport. Ind, Miss
Ethel Thornton, says no one has bet
ter right to speak of Grape Nuts food
than she II was in school, but IN poor
health, until mamma began to give ME
Grape Nuts food. I began to improve
at once both mentally and physically,
and improved so in my work at
school that / got 100 in arithmetic. and
during that time 1 gained three or four
pounds in weight and am still gaining.
There is no one has right to com
mend the food more highly than l.
Mamma neglected to supply it for about
three weeks and began to fail in
health again, so commenced the use
OF the food over and now don't intend
to do without Grape-Nuts on the ta-
Bile
1t Is we'll for parents to know that
Grape Nuts food contains selected ele-
ments from the grains, prepared and
cooked In such a way as TO present
these food elements SO that they can be
quickly digested and assimilated: the
phosphate OF potash obtained from the
field grains and contained in Grape
Nuts unites with the albumen of food
to quickly rebuild the gray matter In
the nerve centers and brain.
1t is of the greatest Importance that
growing children and students be given
food that sustains both brain and
nerves.