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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06

loom Paul Kruger, Of tho Trans
vaal, has certain grim humor which
reminds one Of Irving's Knickerbock.
ers. According to q visitor from Capo
Town, he was speaking recently 10
some foreigners Of the issue between
his country and England. and closed
his talk with o quaint metaphor:
We Beers have hunted the African
lion too long TO fear The British one.
It's one thing to meet the beast in his
hunting veldt; it's very different when
he comes IN font Of your window
where you are standing with O loaded
rifle. Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06
Lawton'- Midnight Episode.

An officer who formerly served with
Major General Lawton in the Fourth
Cavalry recalled when the death of
that brave soldier was announced in
Washington, an Incident OF his service
IN the West that was interesting. He
was under the famous Mackenzie, one
of the men who achieved high repu.
tation and command at an early age,
and died miserably in Washington III
an asylum. Lawton had been out on
some scouting trip, and return ed to
his quarters at Rosebud Agency be-.
tween midnight and morning. On
reaching his bed in the dark he found
that it was occupied. He shook the
occupant, but received no response.
Then selling the intruder by the leg,
he pulled him out Of bed and left him
on the floor, getting into bed without
further Formally. Next morning he
was placed under arrest for disrespect
to his commanding officer, and then
learned that it was Colonel Mackenzie
whom he had flung upon the floor with
so little ceremony. This incident did
not hurt the brave fighter, but it kept
up GOODNESS between the commander
and his subordinate for n time. Law.
ton was not without a sense of humor,
and he came to enjoy references to the
cause of his temporary humiliation.
Mackenzie did not cherish any grudgc
against Lawton on this score.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06

A young lady was acting temporarily
as hostess, aud her time was much oc-
cupied. Ono of her admirers. ncr.
vous and absent minded lover. por-
ceived that this would be the case
and to facilitate matters he deter
mined TO bring affairs TO a point Ho
didn't get a chance.
"Afterward, said the object Of his
iil-starred devotion, 81 found this
memorandum on the floor, where he
had dropped it in his agitation. 1t
reads thus.
Mention rise i'm salary. Mention
loneliness. Mention pleasure i'm her
society. Mention prospects from
Uncle jim. Never loved before, Pro.
pose, "-Collier's Weekly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06
The First Break For Modern Lib

me EiIst BREAK FOR Modern Liberty
The whole history of the movement
which resulted in the establishments
OF tho Commonwealth of England
will be misread and misunderstood if
we fail to appreciate that it was the
first modern, and not the last medic
val, movement; il we fail to under
stand that the men who figured in 1t,
and the principles for which they
contended are strictly akin to those
men and those principles which have
appeared in all similar great move
ments since the English Revolution of
1858; in the American Revolution of
l77G, and the American Civil War of
1861. We must keep ever in mind the
essentially modern character of tho
movement if we are TO appreciate its
true inwardness, its true significance.
Fundamentally il was the first strug-
gle for religious, political and social
freedom, as we now understand the
terms As was inevitable in such n
first struggle, there remained even
among the forces of reform much of
what properly belonged to previous
generations. In addition TO the mod
ern side there was n medieval side,
too Just so fbr as this medieval ele.
ment obtained, the movement failed.
All that there was of good and OF
permanent in 10 was due to the new
olements.-Theodoro Roosevelt, in
Scribner's.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06

5 Ion s as Screta
could remember
there had always
been yellow lilies
at the end of the
garden walk, and
as long as the Ill
les could remem
ber there had al
ways been ;Sereta
blowing down the
walk.
Here they are
ag in, Samuel, 81
she cried every
sIDrinU md III n
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06

Canada lacks only 237, 600 square
miles TO be as large as the whole con-
tinent OF Europe. TO is nearly thirty
times as large as Great Britain and
Ireland and is 800, 600 square miles
larger than the United States
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-03-06

Poymnsters and commissariat Of
hciols Of The German army receive
special training in examining the oual.
ity Of food supplied to the army.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-24


Of the taftetas that promised to be
80 popular earlier in the season.
They are made high in the neck, with
q little point behind. When made OF
. military red or blue silk, and
trimmed with gold buttons and
little gold braid, they look decidedly
smart when worn with the summer
muslins. T. r.ss>>
Aside from the tailor-made gowns
there is no simplicity in the summer
styles. Last year we saw embroider.
les, stitchings, tuckings and shirrings
seemingly without end, but these
were humble examples of decora-
ton when compared with the elabo-
rateness Of the present season. In
fact everything in sight points to the
tendency Of the greatest extravar
gance in dress. Lace is used lavish
~, but even lace, to meet the require.
ments of the extravagant season,
must have some superimposed dec
Grafton. see it embroidered in
various ways, one of which is the
application of artificial flower pet
ais, roses being by far the favorite.
For this the petals are detached from
the center SO that they lie fat, and
the deficiency, with leaves and stem.
il supplied with embroidery done
with silk, gold thread and fine Sc
quins. Another method used in fine
laces is to have the design outlined
with silver or gold thread, while, to
the heavier varieties little ruching.
Of chiffon are sometimes applied.
But I cannot say that the lace is i'm.
proved by these processes of decora-
ton It, seems to me that, especially
in the finer qualities, prefer it in
it's natural state, and without the
elaborate decorations that are being
appended.
Fashions in sleeves are without end
this season, and the gowns which the
late arrivals from Paris have brought
with them seemingly show every
variety. This variety is seen princi-
pally in the sleeves to the pretty
muslin gowns, but of them all tho
under sleeve or the divided sleeve
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here, at Trouville, at Deauville and all
the other fashionable watering
places, and are displaying to advan-
tage the latest products of the Pa
risian dressmaking establishments.
Among all these gowns nothing is
more prominent than the thin tailor
mades. For beach costumes, aside
from the piques, linens and ducks,
the thin materials made up in tailor
fashion are about all that one sees,
and they are far in the lead in point
of numbers.
These summer tailor-mades hardly
follow the exact tailor lines, for the
jacket generally tucks into the belt
in blouse fashion, but they all have
the stitched trimmings. OF the ma
terials those of cotton with the fash
tonable silk or satin surface are to
= large extent the most modish. ~-vs~-
One of these tailor-made gowns
that was decidedly smart was of
ducks egg frieze, delicate color
that is very fashionable at the pres
ent moment. The skirt was plated,
and the fullness was just below the
knees where under there are finish
ing touches OF silk miters that
opened out into unfettered freedom.
Eight small fancy buttons were on
each plat. The smart little jacket
was prettily shaped, and had a collar
of white satin, with embroidery in
fine silver braid, and three large
fancy buttons on each side.
Another sof these tailor-mades was
of shrimp pink frieze. The skirt Of
this had a circular founce around the
bottom, with strapped pieces down
each gore, and forming shallow seal
Tops: for a heading of the hounce.
The coat was tight-fitting, with seal
lops around the bottom, and a turn
over collar and revers of cloth, with
detachable collar and revers of white
satin, covered with string-colored
lace: .i' p
One that was more striking was of
ecru pongee silk. OF this the skirt
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the newspaper. syndicate now SO COM
mon-the plan by which number of
newspapers in different parts of the
country combine in the purchase of ex-
pensive matter. He was the originate or,
also, of the now common idea of using
syndicate pictures in advertising. He
has invented and improved some impor-
tant photo-engraving processes.
The man has always wanted t. devote
his entire time to writing. 1t is the
dream of men of action. I once knew
New York newspaper editor whose
ambition was to knock off work and
study Russian; Bachelors is to go
into the woods somewhere and write
poems and stories. Every man has an
instinct of preference for what he can
do best.
Bachelor was raised" in northern
New York-worked on farms there, at
tended district schools, talked with the
old knotty-muscled farmers. He was
like a monograph, though he didn't
know it then. He remembered the
quaint phrases; 20 years after he
reached the city, with a few dollars in
his pocket to seek his fortune, he re-
membered with love the good, homely
old-country talk, and set it down. But
this book was in his mind, and partly in
writing, before 'David Harum" was
ever heard of.
There are few men in the ecountry so
we'll known to newspaper makers as
Bachelor, though newspaper readers
know less of him. He has travelled the
continent from San Francisco to Bos-
ton many times; and as he has sunny
smile, and big broad shoulders, and a
fine skull, and hair the color of pale
molasses candy; and as he tells good
stories and likes good things to eat,
nobody who ever sees him forgets him
Stranger things have happened than
that this hustling business man should
write successful novel. Busy men
seem to do this best. DR.. Weir Mitch.
ell is one of the busiest physicians
in the country, Robert Grant is judge
of high Massachusetts, court. Duff
field Osborne is an employe of Brook
Ign city department-by the way, his
name does not appear on its pay-rolls
and upon his title pages in precisely
the same form. John Kendrick Bangs
is an editor, Julian Hawthorne, Kip
ling, R. H. Davis, the late G. w. Stevens
Julian Ralph and many other successful
book writer's are also journalists.
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year.

tipping W. ny the T o u u =
exchange. Under the same roof will a
man be able to take a flyer in wheat
Or in railroad stocks.
The main entrance to the exchange
10 and will be from a little narrow al
ley which would do in a country viii
lage for a driveway for a man who
doesn't drink and can drive straight.
There is side entrance only on Wall
street. The alley is practically full of
men and boys and pretty girl type
writer's all day long. This tiny strip
OF land centers the most valuable real
estate in the world. Office room about
it is reckoned at the square foot. Land
is bought on the same basis. Land
here is probably worth $4,000, 900 an
acre; say probably" No one knows
what it is worth. There is none for
sale; has been none for sac for long
time.
The Stock exchange can afford to
build extensively. 1t has considerable
revenues from privileges, rents, fines.
A seat is worth about $4,000. Usual
ly but one member of firm has q
seat on Change. The word "seat"
sounds rather funny, seeing that no
one sits there. Everyone dances about,
bowling cheerfully, and resorting to
sign language to make himself under
stood.
The brokers work very short hours.
Go down the street at half-past five
and you find the janitors' children
chasing up and down Exchange court
on bicycles and roller skates.
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49,
sBingle tells me he had two horses
killed under him ii one of the battles
|of the civil war; That's right. The
railway car AZ was riding IN backed
into : drove Of them."'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer. go {. ss,:< s.
Quericua How II II that your
death rate is lower than that Of any
other hospital in the city" Medicus
I'VE us4Hpatent shutters. that keep
the delirious patients from jumping
out Of the windows. Town Topics.
Brown Gray is in ! bad way. I
fear. They say the doctor has given
him up. Black Il shouldn't have
thought he would do that. In case Of
Gray's death his family would have
paid his doctors bill. Boston Tran
script. sE..ss;ss s.Es @ss:sAa 1.
Her Objection. II am told, -
said Miss Kedick to Miss Fos-
dick, that you have dismissed
Mr.. iTrivvet." Eyes, I told him
to ring on '.Whyr' because he
manifested no intention of putting
the ring n.'-Detroit Free Press. "
/ sPianist-''O, when I dance with you,
fraulein, 1t SENS 70 me a. if I was
seated at . piano and was playing a
love fantasy" Partner-"Yes, I no
ticed it," Pianist" Indeed?" Part
ner-''Yes, you treating my feet
all the while as if they were the ped
als!"-Unsere Gesellschaft. .s..
t'''This is about the slimmest bill of
fare + ever sat down to-" grumbled
the excursionist who had stopped at
the summer hotel. Its: about half
what I'd get at home" 'sWell, you
got half fare on the railroads, too,
didn't you?" said the waiter did
+ you kick about t?"-Bubbles.
Mr.. Newliwed- Goodness, where
did you get these peaches?" Mrs.
Newliwed- ''Why, dear?'' Mr.. Newli-
wed .'They don't taste very good.
Are they the best you could get?''
Mrs. Newliwed-'I picked them out
myself. The picture on the can was
much prettier than those on any OF
the Others. '-Philadelphia Press.
At the Country Post Ofice.-Sum-
mer Visitor-''Is it true that the post.
master: is supposed to read all the
postal cards that come through the
of6ce?' Postmaster-'I s'pose so;
but it's mighty hard to read some OF
'em. City folks are glib enough at
talkin', but when it comes to writin'
they can't come up to the boys in the
lowest class in our country schools
Boston Transcript.
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had three side plaits, and double
box: plait in the back Dark olive.
green embroidery At the foot of the
skirt. The bodice was cut round,
with deep-pointed revers that were
covered with the embroidery. A deep
yoke and stock Of guipure lace, with
. vest effect of white muslin.
One of batiste was IN pale
green, stitched with white. The
stitching was on the little tucks that
graduated from the waist to Just be
low the hips, and around the bot
tom ton Of the skirt, and also ' DECREASING
b But e leave the tailor;mada for
: time We will 60 to the noticeable
decline Of the bolero. One seldom
sees these once popular garments
now, but IN theh splace has mime
ths mess jacket. These are made
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.AN CHINA pay in the coin Of the

~ y world for the damage she has
= done during the past few weeks
A wise man would scarcely undertake
to estimate the demands that will be
made upon the empire by the foreign
powers should financial settlement
be desired. Even the present debt of
China, large as it seems to the i'm
poverished empire, would be but .
tride of the sum that would be de.
manded as compensation by the pow
ers for the damage done them and
theirs.
China is to-day in debt to the
amount of about $3.50, 900, OCO. To any
of the world powers of the west that
would seem comparatively small, but
to China it is more Of load than she
can conveniently carry. Among the
empires liabilities there are loans
raised in England, Germany, France
and Russia. There was 10000, 900 taels
borrowed Of England in 1894 which
China undertook to pay in 20 years,
and which il drawing seven per cent.
interest. In 1895 another $4,000, GOO
was raised in London, to be paid in
20 years, and this is drawing interest
at the rate of six. per cent. During
the same year there was Russo
French loan raised of 6 ZIG, 1000, 900, to
be paid in 36 years, ana which bears
four per cent. interest. In 1896 an
Anglo German loan was raised OF
e 16,ooo,ooo, to be paid in 36 years, and
which bears five per cent. interest. In
1898 another Anglo-German loan was
raised of $4,000, 900, to be paid in
Is years, and which bears ~ per cent
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Hozy Gun the Chinese
Pay far Their lyl,l II
Her Revenues Are Either Pi1ered Or Mortgaged,
4 s9 s But She Has Valuable Assets .5s1a s.

Iectlng II Tor China. The resources
are there, but it will take q thorough
overhauling Of the system Of govern
ment to produce results. The mineral
rights alone would in time pay prac-
tically all that the powers could rea-
sonably ask. These are now the prop
erty of the government, and from
them the government has in the past
secured practically nothing. ss4ss5t :.
But whatever method China takes
of raising the money to pay her in
debtedness, provided, Of course, that
the powers levy q money indemnity,
which is doubtful, she will have to
have outside help if she is to succeed.
The nation should not need a stronger
object lesson than that which Sir
Robert Hart has given them in his
administration of the maritime GUS
toms, but it is quite probable that it
will take threat of force to compel
China to yield to the inevitable and
accept outside assistance in the man
agement of the collection of her. rev.
enues.
Until something Of this kind hap
pens the Chinese government, as q
government, will hardly be able to
raise another loan based upon her
present revenues for security. In fact,
should the nation succeed in placing
another loan; it would but result in
financial embarrassment, and would
but put of the day Of outside inter.
ference for q short time.
Should any of the European nations
advance China the money with which
to pay the heavy indemnity she will
be called upon to pay, if she is given
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Startling Death.

warner Anderson, labOrer at
Lakewood cemetery, Minneapolis, met
q sudden and unusual death while
riding bicycle.
He was on the street outside the
cemetery, riding fast, and turned to
avoid heavy wagon. In SO doing he
ran into buggy, and shaft struck
him square in the throat, breaking
the cartilage rings. He died in four
hours.
The name of the woman who was
driving in the buggy could not be
learned, but it is not thought that
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10 the one that prevails to the great
est extent. What I consider tho
homeliest sleeve of all the lot that I
have seen-and it seems that must
have seen all that there are-is
tucked in vertical lines q short space
below the puff at the shoulder, then
swells out into puff above the ell
bow and is tucked closely in up and
down lines from there to the wrist.
Stitched bands of silk or velvet rib
bon outline the puff around the arm.
The prettiest sleeve, when properly
made, is the little under one which
spreads out into puff just at the
wristband, but the upper sleeve must
fit rather closely to give the pun
due prominence. SADIE MERRITT.
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. Topsitc :ss 1 Of ia. Summers Day
in NEW YORK CITY

Their north. and you come to the Wal
dorf-Astoria, the biggest hotel in the
country, and the most heavily taxed.
A mile west of this is another Astor ho-
tel going up at cost of So, GOT. 900. This
is the property of w. w. Astor, who has
tried so hard, and 50 Egnally failed, to
get into British society. 1t is at Long
acre square, the heart of the new ten
d'erloin, the center for theaters and
midnight activity-five miles from the
Battery.
Go five miles farther-ten in all-and
you will find Mr.. Astor putting up still
another hotel, costing more than mil
lion, with the city stretching still
many miles beyond that.
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Interest. IN aQO1LlOQ TO sQeSe there
are two small loans for $1,000, 900
each. Al of these loans are guaran-
teed by the imperial customs, the only
really reliable revenue that China has.
The revenue of China amounts to
but about $4,000, 600 annually. OF
this more than SIS, oo0,0 co is needed to
pay the interest on the present in
debtedness, to say nothing of accum-
ulating a surplus with which to pay
the principal as it falls due. With
such conditions it would seem to be
impossible for China to load herself
with any further financial burden if
she ever expects to pay it.
But while these figures give an idea
of China's financial condition to-day,
they do not represent possibilities.
There are many sources of revenue
open to the imperial government from
which it is drawing practically moth
ing. Among these are the likin and
land tax. In fact, it is estimated that
not more than one-fifth of the legit-
innate taxation of the country ever
reaches the imperial Golfers, and that
so per cent. of The revenues are eaten
up by the machinery of collection, or
in American slang, doodle"
The people of China are not heavily
taxed. Figuring the tax per capita,
they are not nearly so badly treated
by the government as are many of the
impoverished people of Europe, and
could the taxes they pay reach the
government it would pay all the in
demnity that the powers could rea-
sonably ask.
Sir Robert Hart and his CORDS of
English and American assistants have
demonstrated what is possible with
the revenues of China, just as English
officials in Egypt have demonstrated
the possibilities of financial rejuvena-
ton of that country. Twenty years
ago China had not an asset upon
which she could borrow, and TO-DAY
her only available one is her marine
customs under the able administration
of Sir Robert Hart.
For centuries China has been bled
by her officials. She pays these off,
cials but the barest pittance for SAL
aries and then demands of them that
they must keep up appearances and
ceremonies that are extremely costly.
Besides this it costs money to secure
Office in China and this, together with
their expenditures while in Office, and
retiring allowance when their pc
Rod of Office holding is over, must all
come. out of the government funds.
It il believed that every official, from
the great viceroys down to the lowest
ofathe government Official employees,
has . hand in the game Of robbery
that IL going on constantly which de-
pEives the government Of that which
+ has right TO expect. So. ssss5s4ss
e the powers levy : money inden-
nifty on China for the nisehief and
damage Of the past few weeks, they
NJ have 70 provide the means az col
bAp