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victim Of the terrible disaster which over
came the Highland brigade. They march
ed in quarter column to their doom. Gen.
Wauchope's last words: For Gods sake,
men, do not blame me for this, VIII
gladden. the hearts Of his numberless
friends. There was no accord between
Gen. Methuen and Gen. Wauchope IN
regard to the best methods of attack
Gen. Methuen's plan prevailed, and the
mistake lost 700 men,"
A private Of the Irish Rifles who
fought at Stormberg, in letter to his
home, says that when Gen. Gatacre saw
the position the guide had led the troops
into he shot the guide dead with his own
revolver.
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bama and New York and two each from
Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee.
In deaths from disease among enlist
cd men New York had $50 out of about
10000 enlisted, Illinois had 274 out Of
about 1900, Massachusetts 265 out of
about $500, Ohio 219 out of less than
$4,000, Pennsylvania ZIG QUE of less than
1900 and Michigan 200 out Of less than
5000.
In desertions from the ranks New York
is charged with 514, or about PA per
cent, while North Dakota and the Dis
trict Of Columbia had none and Utah had
but one. Tennessee had 249 out of a
total Of about 5000, about 4 per cent.
One desertion is charged to general Of
fcers and staff"
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ART OF SNOW SHOEING.
No Man Is Born to 1t, and Only Faithful
Practice Makes Perfect.


Practice Makes Perfect.
When Capt. Glenn of our army was
sent with a detachment of soldiers to
carry out some extensive explorations
in Alaska last year he found that snow
shoes would have to play an important
part in the work. An incident occurred
one day that proved to him it was high
time to break in all the men who had
not learned the art of snowshoe travel.
The spectacle he and his party witness
sed was amusing to all except the I'M
fortunate person who supplied the fun.
1t was before the party had started
inland. The hospital steward was in
structed to cross certain glaZier and
report to Lieut.. Learnard. 1t was neces-
sary to wear snow shoes, as the wealth
er was not cold enough to form crust
that would bear the weight of man.
So he put on the toys, and Capt. Glenn
AYERS in his report, which the War
Department has just published, that no
one was ever seen who was so utterly
helpless with such footgear attached to
him as this hospital steward.
He persisted in sticking the toe of his
shoes into the snow, and this error kept
him in trouble Then about every third
pace he would step on one shoe with the
other and keel headlong over into the
snow. In this situation he was mere
mass of helplessness, and, do what he
might, he couldn't arise until somebody
came and boosted him to his feet. 1t
took him eight hours to travel two
miles, and before he got back to camp
he had given up snow shoeing. He
came in waddling through the snow up
to his hips and dragging his shoes.
This convinced the captain that it was
absolutely necessary for every member
of the detachment to know how to use
snow shoes, and SO the edict went forth
that the steward and every other man
who had not previously acquired this
knowledge should use snow shoes for
were proficient.
All of which calls to mind that in the
very winter that John Milton entered
Cambridge University, 1925, there was
a tremendous fall of snow in England,
the like Of which had not been seen by
the Oldest inhabitants, and history re-
cords that it kept deep and soft for
weeks. The English had heard Of snow
shoeing in Norway and the arctic re-
gions, and so some of them, who had to
get about somehow. took to making
snow shoes, and learned the guile that
was in them. A modern novelist who
tells story Of that period, has his hero
describe his experience with this foot
wear:
81 built myself pair of strong and
light snow shoes, framed with ash and
ribbed of witty, with half-tanned calf
skin stretched across, and an inner sole
to support my feet. At first could not
walk at all, but foundered about most
piteously, catching one shoe in the
other, and both of them in the snow
drifts. to the great amusement of the
girls who were come to look at me.
But after awhile | grew more expert
and crossed the farm yard and came
back again Though turning was the
worst thing Of alb without so much as
falling once
All arctic explorers have testified that
snow shoeing is not easy to learn, and
that 1t is still more difficult to master
the Norwegian ski.-New York Sun.
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The Part the Audience Plays.
ian Nordica. in Harper's Bazaar,

Lillian Nordica, in Harper's Bazaar.
/ shall never forget an experience that
1 once had when the deadly hiss fell on
my ears as i was singing. 1t was in No
vara, and the opera was Robert lie Dia-
BILE" Everything had gone smoothly, until
a certain passage vas reached In one Of
my songs, when 1 heard the ominous
sound which makes a singers blood run
cold, arising from various parts Of the
house. 1 paused involuntarily and nearly
lost my self-command. The dreadful hiss
was not repeated, and the opera proceeded
to its close with every mark of approval
modification. and could not imagine what
mitted. The hiss acted as a spur, however,
and, [ remember, / quite 0utdid myself dur
ing the remainder of the performance. At
terward 1 went home and practised that
phrase over and over again, criticising and
altering my manner of singing it. as L
hoped, for the better. The next night the
same experience was repeated! All went
we'll until that fatal song. / approached
1T with outward bravado but inward sink
ing of the heart. My ears. you may be
sure, were alert for the. faintest suspicion
of a hiss. 1 did not have to wait long. 1t
came. accompanied by some good-natured
laughter. l felt broken-hearted and thor
oughly bewildered. The next day I called
upon a noted singing teacher and asked
him to %enlighten me as to my fault.
my dear child" he said. after / had sung
for him the disputed phrase, there is
nothing wrong In the way you sing IL. 1t
is beautiful. The trouble is in one word
which you do not pronounce in a correct
manner. The good audience was simply
calling your attention to that fact"
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Indiana Obituary..

FORT WAYNE, Ind, April 14.-Mrs. Ag-
mes Monning. aged seventy years, died of
pneumonia this morning. She was the
widow of the late Henry Monning and the
mother of H. B. Monning, city clerk. She
had lived here since 1851.
Mrs. George Pressler died of shock at
the death of her husband. Last Sunday
morning Mr.. Pressler, a well-to-do con-
dropped dead. Mrs. Pressler was
FRUSTRATED. and since then had been in a
comatose condition. Medical aid failed to
rally her, and she died without regainlng
consciousness.
wINDFALL, Ind, April 14.-John Rowe,
sixty years DID,. a wealthy farmer, who
lived north of Windfall, died yesterday as
the result of injuries received last week.
when he was kicked by a horse. MIR. Rowe
lived more than forty years in southeast
ern Howard county, and left a large fam
lily of grown children.
Bernard McIntee. aged eighty, a resident
of Raleigh for fifty years. died to-day of
paralysis in his eiglitieth year. Five sons
survive him-James. Joseph and Philip Nc
Intee, of Upton: John McIntee. of Rush.
Vile, and Thomas McIntee, of Raleigh.
PRINCETON, Ind, April 14.-Aaron
Hyneman. a pioneer of southern Indiana,
and one of the largest landholders in Gibson
county. fell dead on his doorstep this even
ing. Heart failure caused his death. He
was seventy-two years old.
RUSHVILLE. Ind. April 14.-Andrew Y.
Miller, "A pioneer of Anderson township,
died yesterday of paralysis aged eighty
four years. He was a native OF PennSyl-
vania and left three sons and two daugh-
tiers.
William Holbrook, aged eighty-three. one
OF the well-known oldtime citizens of
Marietta, is dead. He fell from his chair
at the breakfast table. and died immedi-
ately.
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Indiana Notes.

Mrs. Caroline j. McCulloch has given to
Grace Episcopal Church of Muncie, a pipe
organ. 1t will be erected at once at a cost
of $500.
Senator Jacob d. Early. of Terre Haute,
who suffered a severe stroke of paralysis
recently, has so far recovered as to be up
about the house.
l.. A. Clark, Monon agent al Crawfords-
Vile, has resigned TO enter in business
with the Ball Brothers Manufacturing
Company, of Muncie.
The Fountain County Druggists Associa-
ton held its annual meeting at Veeders-
burg Friday. closing the session with a
banquet Friday night.
Nearly the required number OF recruits
for the proposed Richmond military COM
pany has been secured. and the muster-in
is expected to take place very soon.
Representative C. z. Towne. of Mime
sofa. is visiting his uncle. H. s. Fargo. of
Hartford City, candidate for the Demo-
cratic congressional nomination in the
Eighth district.
The Terre Haute Ball Club will play its
first game of the season to-day with the
indianapolis Reserves. Swain or Bigelow
and link and B~raughton and Dooley will
hold down the points.
May : has been set for the big celebra-
ton being range by the
Druids. Indiana and Ohio will be we'll rep
resented. Mayor Taggart. of indianapolis
will be one of the speakers.
Carey Taylor. postmaster at New Lon
don. the oldest town in Howard county.
has resigned owing TO the inroads made on
the office receipts by the recently estab-
lished rural free-delivery route.
The stockholders OF the Cooperative Tel
ephone Company of Rushville. met Friday
night and elected directors as follows: j. II.
Power. A. Il. Irwin. j. =. Frazee. Thomas
Nj. Green. II. +. Barrett. John A. W
and John Kelley. The directors met and
elected Il. NJ. Green. president: John A.
Ellsworth. treasurer. and w. NJ. Frazee,
secretary and manager.
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to find a new guest at a moments notice.
The serenity In question, confronted by a
crisis of this kind. solved IL by deciding
that the thirteen, to be malefic, must be
thirteen of a kind. He Is in the habit of
giving very choice little suppers to MEM
bers of his own intimate circle, and. being
i'm an especially hospitable mood the other
evening, invited, at the last moment, one
OF his Cabinet Council TO join the party.
AS the minister. beaming with gratifica-
ton at the honor conferred upon him, was
about TO take his seat, there was a cry from
one of the ladies. Gracious heavens, There
are thirteen of US" Great commotion fol-
lowed, but the steadfast mint OF the host
was undismayed He. at least, even at his
own table. was no believer in the equality
of man, or in the possibility Of making
somebody out OF nobody. BE calm" said
he with reassuring gesture; Herr -"
indicating the embarrassed minister, els
not one of US; he belongs to a burgher
family" Supper then proceeded. The min
ister had lost his entity. but not his APP
petite.
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Liquid Air Utilized.
Washington Post.

Liquid air is to be the means used I'm
operating a railroad line between Detroit
and Toledo" said Mr.. w. j. lie Moin, of
Toledo, last night. The right of way has
been secured, the capital is all, arranged,
and the organization of the company is
about complete. The promoters of this
project kept the matter quiet until they
had secured all the concessions needed as
to the right of way, and said nothing
about 1t until the preliminaries had been
developed. Now they are talking the
scheme pretty loudly, and are promising
some startling revelations. The line will be
an experiment, and the people of my sec
ton of the country are watching it's de-
velopment with a great deal of interest.
possibilities of liquid air, and this practi-
cal demonstration will prove whether this
faith is well founded. Detroit, Toledo and
project"
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No Available Democratic Timber.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, April 14--David w.
Mckee. an attorney. was here to-day from
Connersville. ~canvassing the outlook for
the Democratic nomination for Congress.
But one candidate is talked of in opposi-
ton to Mr.. Mckee. the Rev. j. ID. Thomas,
who lives near B~entOnville. 1t is thought
Mckee can secure the nomination without
much trouble. Democratic county chair
men meet at Cambridge City next Tues
day to set a date and select a place for the
congressional convention. The Democratic
county central committee to-day postponed
the county conventions from April Il to
June 2 Lack of timber to fill the nominal
lions is believed to have caused the post
nnnamenf
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received by the Board
the auditors office In the city of Princeton, In
diana, until II o'clock noon OF the
nth DAY OF LAY 1900.
and not thereafter, for the construction OF the
ten separate roads. comprising % miles and 3.457
Robert Mitchell ct al. in accordance with the
maps, profiles and specifications nled by the
engineers and viewers in said matter and APP
proved by the Board OF Commissioners OF said
Gibson county, and now on file in the auditors
Office of said county. Proposals shall be made
separately upon each road. Bidders shall speci-
~ in their proposals the time In which they
will construct and complete the roads proposed
10 be constructed. All proposals must be ac-
companied with a bond in double the sum Of
with at least two resident freehold sureties Of
the State of Indiana. and satisfactory proof Of
the solvency and sufhcfency OF such surety must
he made TO the Board OF commissioners All
BY the auditor OF Gibson county. Indiana. Maps
and profles may be seen in the office OF the
auditor OF Gibson county. and copies OF the
Specifications and estimates and blank forms of
proposais and bonds may be had OF Samuel X.
Adams. auditor. Princeton, Indiana
The proceedings for the construction OF said
roads are had under the provisions OF an act Of
the General Assembly OF the State of Indiana.
entitled An act concerning the construction of
free gravel, gtone or macadamized roads" etc.
Approved March 3. 1898, and acts amendatory
thereto The board reserves the right to reject
EMBREE c. FARMER,
JOSEPH MOORE.
PHILIP MARTIN.
Board of Commissioners Gibson County. Indiana.
Attest: SAMUEL II. ADAMS. Auditor Gibson
Princeton. Indiana, April 10. 100.
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CANINE AURIE.


New York Tribune.
1t must nave come with a shock of sur
prise TO read of the death. only a few days
ago, of the composer of the melody of
Annie Laurie" Not only the words of the
song, but the melody also. have so much of
the genuine folk song ring and Tilt that one
felt they must have grown up among the
Scottish people in the long ago. Besides,
there are none of us so. old as to remember
the time when annie Laurie was any
less a household word than ii is now, and
the time when the British soldiers re-
freshed themselves with ii in the weary
siege of Sebastopol we recall that that was
nearly half a century ago.
'"They sang of love. and not of fame:
Forgot was Britain's glory:
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Laurie"
No wonder that IL seems strange to think
that a woman, who was closely related TO
the late General Wauchope." killed in the
war still raging in South Africa, wrote the
ingratiating tune. There has been some
controversy about the melody. of course
Uhere generally is a quarrel about every
song taken up In the inmost heart of the
people,, but there seems TO be no good rea-
son for questioning the statement of the
lady, whose maiden name was Alicia Anne
Spottiswoode. who married Lord John
Ruccleuch. in 1886. But, though the music
of "Annie Laurie belongs TO the early
decades of this century Lady John Scott
vas hihciS -OhC YEARS DC Wncn she Qle0l.
the words are nearly two hundred wears
old. Says Mrs. Helen Kendrick johnson i'm
her admirable book, Our Familiar
Songs
annie laurie mas come to mean the uni
versal soldiers sweetheart. the girl he left
behind him. and il is pleasant TO know
that there really was an Annie Laurie once.
Two centuries 9 she was a blooming
lassie. Here is the record. exactly as it
was made In a trustworthy old Ballad
Book collected by Charles Kirkpatrick
Sharpe. of Hoddam: Sir Robert Laurie.
first baronet Of the Maxwelton family (cre-
ated 9th March, 1850. by his second wife.
a daughter OF Ridello, Mimic. had three
sons and four daughters, of whom Anne
was much celebrated for her beauty. and
made a conquest OF Mr.. Douglas. of Fling
land, who composed the following verses
under an unlucky star-for the lady mar
ried Mr.. Ferguson. of Craigdarroch.'"
Then follow two OF the familiar stanxas
Annie Laurie was born on Dec. is. 1859. and
was twenty-eight years old when she mar.
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Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind. April Thames Alkire,
a veteran of the Soldiers Home at Marion.
has been mystifying his comrades with a
watch that talks or gives the time Of day
By sound instead of sight. Mr.. Alkire, who
is blind. holds his watch to his ear. then
tells the time TO a fraction Of a minute
The mystery was explained to a physician
here yesterday by whom AIkire was exam
ined for an increase of pension. The
watch, of Swiss mechanism. sounded the
hours and minutes regularly as IL pro-
ceeded, the markings being in cipher which
no one not in possession of the key could
understand. The talking watch" was
sent TO Alkire by a friend in Switzerland
and cost $500.
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MUNCIE STRIKE ENDED.


special TO the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, April 14-W. L. Simon
ton. district manager for the Republic Iron
and Steel Company. has been promoted to
the position OF assistant general superin-
tendent of the company and soon viii leave
Muncie for Chicago. JOIN l.. Smith will be
IN charge of the two big plants OF the COM
pany here. and the other Indiana mills will
be In direct charge OF the former super
fntendents. with "A few changes I'm some of
them. The big Indiana mill. which has
been closed this week. will resume OPERA
lions In full force Monday morning with
eight hundred hands.
The striking scrap-iron puddlers at the
MIL have been ordered back TO work by
President Shaifer. OF the Amalgamated
Association in Pittsburg. and the men are
angry, but must obey. They claimed that
the compsy was paying them for one class
OF work and compelling them 70 work an
other grade or iron. President hafrer had
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ried Mr.. Ferguson, instead of the poet TO
whom she had given her promise true.
BY the way, Lady Scott, or some other edi-
tor. changed the first stanza, which we
think much more winsome in the form In
which Ii was repeated by the "granddaugn-
ter of Douglas of Fingland in the very year
that the soldiers were singing the song and
thinking of their sweethearts In Russia.
Here Is the record, as set down In Mr..
Fitz-Gerald's Stories of Famous Songs:
"In 1854 there lived an old lady who, hear
ing Annie Laurie sung. declared the words
were not the ones her grandfather had
written. She stated afterward that her
grandfather, Douglas of Fingland, was des-
perately in love with Annie Laurie when
he wrote the song. But, she added, he
did ma get her, after ALL Asked as TO the
authenticity of the lines, she said: oh. 1
mind them fine. I have them
a my life. My father often repeated them
to me- And here is the stanza, signed
with her name: Nrs3
Marvellous banks are bonnie,
They're a clad owre wi dew.
Where / an Annie Laurie
Made up the bargain true.
Made up the bargain true,
Which ne'er forgot sail be,
An for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me down an dee
IT mind ma mair.
"(Signed) CLARK DOUGLAS.
"Aug. 80, 1854"
Al suns at present the first four lines Of
the second StanZa were taken from an ola
version of John Anderson. my 10, john
originally, however, they ran:
"She's backit like the peacock.
She's breistft like the swan,
She's imp around the middle,
Her waist We weel MIGHT span."
Lady Scott. though she wrote the tune,
which is now likely to live as long as the
words Of Annie Laurie never seems to.
have troubled herself about the authorship
of the latter: she declared they were writ
ten by Allan Cunningham, author Of "A
Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea-" The dis
patch which brought the news of Lady
SCOTS death gave also this interesting
description of her:
she was ninety-one years of age and
aunt of the Duke of Buccleuch and closely
related to the late General Wauchope. She
had a very strong character, and was a
great upholder of old manners and GUS
toms. When travelling she rode in a car
riage, always had postillions, and encour-
aged the observance of old customs. She
was a liberal benefactor of the poor, and
maintained a meal mill as a relic of old
times, and she preferred thatch on roofs
and peat for fires. She was an indefati-
gable collector of antiquities"
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company's Demurrer overruIed.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, April 14.-Judge Henry
c. Fox. of the Wayne Circuit Court. to-
day overruled the demurrer fled by the
Panhandle Railroad Company in the dam
age suit brought by Catherine Walsh and
Bridget Stanton. They ask damages for
the nuisance OF smoke, cinders and noise
that has existed for ten years past at their
homes near the tracks. The company
alleged In its demurrer that there was not
sufficient ground for action.
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PORTER REPUBLICANS
They Nominate "a Ticket and Indorse
Republican Administration.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
VALPARAISO. Ind, April lt.-Porter
Republicans held their county convention
to-day and nominated: L. E. Small. repre-
sentative: Henry Black. treasurer; Charles
r. Lacount. sheriff; w. l.. Freeman. as
SCISSOR; DR.. ]. c. Carson, coroner; Henry
Rankin, surveyor; S. w, Benton and John
Bornholt. commissioners, and a full set of
county councilmen.
Resolutions indorsing Representative
C~rumpacker, Senators Beveridge and Fair
banks and the administrations of President
Mckinley and Governor Mount were
adopted.
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CHEEK TORN TO SHREDS
BLAcKFoRD COUNTY CHILD Sc
RIoUsLY BY y n
Philippine War Veteran Killed by n
T-ree-Porter County Republicans
sheep shearers to Meet.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. April 14.-Yes-
terday afternoon. while feeding hay to a
family horse. the four-year-old daughter Of
". H. Clark. who lives eight miles south
west Of this city, was badly injured. a dog
barking and swapping at the horse enraged
1t. and 1t caught the little girl by the cheek.
biting it so that the flesh hung only in
shreds. The child is not expected 10 live.
John Lucas, who lived between this city
and Dunkirk, was killed last evening by
the fall OF a tree. which p%inioned him to
the earth. Lucas had but recently returned
from the Philippines, where he was a pri-
waite in the First Tennessee Regiment. He
left a widow and three children.
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satisfactory Financial Results.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, April 1.-THE bust
ness meeting of the Indiana High school
Oratorical Association was held to-day and
ii was found that the financial results were
most satisfactory. After all expenses were
paid. including the prizes. amounting to
$50. there was 81 for each school. with
nearly $40 left in the treasury. The place
for the next contest will be decided later.
1t probably will be Indianapolis.