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Dutch Church. In fact, this is the es'
tablished church of the State. Even
the tiniest village has it's devout con-
gregation, and the Government con-
tributes each year $4,000 for the
support of its Dutch religious insti-
tutions.
The climate of the Orange Free
State is perhaps the most healthful in
all South Africa. 1t is both drier and
colder than that of the neighboring
colonies, due to the fact that the veldt
of the Free Staters is so high above
the sea level.
The constitution of the Orange
Free State is founded upon that of
the United States. This constitution
was adopted on April 10, 1854, and gave
to everyone living in the country be-
fore the date of its adoption the right
to vote for president and members
of the new legislature. The COM
mando law is unique. This law, which
was put into successful operation at
the opening Of the campaign for the
raising of Orange Free State troops,
regulates the calling out of burghers at
all times of; danger. Every male in
Eabitant Of the State between sixteen
and sixty years of age is, under this
law, subject to the coll of the field
cornet.' The number II = were found
available for the last call to arms is
said to have been $4,000.
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be his own little Republic, the Orange
Free State. Furthermore, the atwo
Republics were bound by aatreaty
made in 1897, after the Jameson raid,
which provided that if either State
were attacked the other was to, come
to it's assistance with Its full fighting
force, which at that time meant q COM
bined army of about q, 600 men
$1,000 Transyaalers and l7s 600 Free
Skaters. sFs e 4
SO the Orange Free State snd the
Transvaal joined hands. That the
Free Staters were not:the first to ,suf-
fer by;this racial coalition was due to
onesof those mere accidents Of war or
caprices of fate that can never be
anticipated. Ladysmith and Colenso,
Kimberley and Mafeking chanced to
be the points where the storm burst.
The Free Staters, while descended
from the same Dutch settlers in South
Africa as the Transvaal burghers, form
what might be termed another branch
of the Boer family. They settled in
Natal after the exodus from the Cape,
but as that became a British colony,
they fell back and established them
selves in the country lying between
the two great branches Of the Orange
River, known to the colonists as the
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Vaal and the Orange Rivers, and sepa-
rated from the coast by the Drachen-
berg Mountains. The Orange River
Free State, to give it its full name,
forms connecting link between Cape
Colony, the Transvaal and Natal, and
was for years called the Buffer State.
1t is a vast plateau, 5000 to 5000 feet
above sea level. It's undulating plains
slope from the Maluti Mountains to
the Vaal River. In the south they are
dotted with rocky hills, which the Beers
call ''kopjes." In the northern part,
however, one can travel hundreds Of
miles without seeing break IN the
horizon. When the Natal Beers took
possession of the country it was in
habited by different tribes. All ez-
cept the powerful Basutos have dis
persed. =. :,
The Free State is divided into the
following districts Bloemfontein,
Winburg, 'Southfeld, Herrismith and
Fauresmith. The capital is Bloem-
fontein {of which we give several IL.
lustrations), situated on tributary OF
the Modder River and about 800
miles from Cape Town. The Orange
Free State was annexed by Great
Britain in the forties, and continued a
colony of the empire until 1854, when
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Havthorne's Sofa at Brook Farm.

There was O comfortable sofa under
the stairs in the hall, says Mrs. Ora
Gannett Sedgwick, in the Atlantic, Oh
which Nathaniel Hawthorne, who then
occupied the front room ct the right,
used to sit for hours at n time, with a
book in his hand. not turning leaf.
but listening with sharp ears to the
young peoples talk, which he seemed
to enjoy immensely, perhaps with the
satisfaction of Burns's "Chiel amans
ye takin' notes." 1t is, however, but
just to Mr.. Hawthorne to say that,
whatever use he made in Blithedalc
Romance Of the scenery and "roman-
tic atmosphere" of Book Farm, he
cannot be accused of violating the
sanctities Of the home and holding up
to public observation exaggerated
likenesses of his as rciates there.
spent some delightful! hours with him
the winter before he died, when he
assured me that Zenobia represented
no one person there e.
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mers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon, made the survey and ran the
line which estab1ished the boundary
between Pennsylyanis and Maryland.
The work cost Sill 90 but itasettled
all trouble from thst time to this. :,
The line runs along the southern
border of Franklin County, and for
1872 miles every Hse miles is, or was.
planted stone 1aring On the Penn
sylvania side tbs arms of Thomas
and Richard Penn 6SSsYed thereon, and
on the Maryland side the arms Of Lord.
Baltimore. s. The intermediate miles
were marked by stores, upon which
were cut St6 9tess sRs on the north
side and npon the southern
A very feM 81 these old milestones
are now standing. The one shown in
the cut is now at its old position ct
Highfeld, along the Western Mary
land Railroad. Most of them have
been destroyed, and even stolen. A
farmer in Washington County, Mary
land, has two of them in use as door
steps at his house.
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mountain ranges in the State are the,
Stall Mountains, which lie in the east.
ern portion of the republic Practi-
cally all of the plains are veil adapted
for pastoral purposes On t1e Basu;SI 5t.sg +
toland border there is q golden strip
OF land, thirty miles broad and :l9o =
miles long, which is copside dered g 5s M
the best bit of grain prod long soil lnj al|
the world. Z! ssse ,s 81 sc :S:s
Think of land that, without ittigAs;
ton, and with scarcely any calt ltiyasss
ton, will raise seventy to seighty
bushels of grain to theacrel SW WbeAts;
oats, maize, barley and Kaf6r cD l7s
can all be grown, while herdsSof scass:
tie, horses, Angora goats, rl0hes|
and sheep can hyeSand and flourish g tes ss
yeldt, 49, B -
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from the south into the town and again
starting north. Unlike Kimberley and
johannesburg, the visitor gets no i'm
preston of mushroom growth from
Bloemfontein, for the city is rich in
statuary and public monuments and
possesses a national museum and a
we'll l. stocked public library. The
BIoemfontein radical, or council
chamber of the legislature, is hand
some edifce, designed in the Greek
style and costing almost quarter Of
O. million dollars. The buildings in
the city are substantial and prepossess-
ing, for near by are great beds Of free.
stone, admirable for building pur-
poses. The presidency where Prssi-
dent Steyn resides, is also 2 very pa
latial building. - =
The Orange Free State p not q for
est country, for, like the. Transyaai, i {
is very sparsely wooded Ehe only.
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A Queer Church.

AT Santa Clara, Cal, there is a Bap.
list church which was built of lumber
made from q single giant oak tree.
Under it's branches the first Baptist
service ,in fkst 4 region was held, p
1858. When it Was decided to build
"a church edf6ee it WAS thought best to
,1se, ths ite ofs the original meeting
splace. With appropriate ceremonies
stl6ise,s great tree, Whose shade covered
al 5Sacre 3ofi ground, was consecrated for
it'll new purpose Workmen then cut
off the tree twenty feet from the
9ound. This big stamp was partially
hollow, and Rss allowed to stand for
the church tower. a Iapering steeple
was built on top of it.
The upper part of the tree trunk
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SCENES IN BLOEMF0NTEIN,
CAPITAL OF ORANGE FREE STATE,

final struggle with the British has
been we'll demonstrated by the thor
ougbness of the preparations for war
which the Government of the crafty
Dom Paul has been making for some
time past. The same might be said of
the doughty burghers of the Orange
Free State, for Bloemfontein, the cap
ital of the little republic, was careful
ly fortified and garrisoned for many
months before the actual outbreak of
hostilities. The accompanying illus.
tration will give very good idea of
the Boer fort at Bloemfontein, spot
which, in view of recent events, has
an especial interest to all followers of
the present struggle between the Boer
and the British,
The Orange Free State is like and
vet unlike the Transvaal. Its people.
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Equally IYearisorne, Z

A former teacher at Wellesley Col.
lege had as her CUES. for few days q
nephew, aged three. He was . de-
lishtful little man, and having 10 rival
there, seemed quite in dsnget of be-
irg spoiled by his many admirers
among the students. When. however,
ono of tho young ladies asked him if
be would not like TO live there alW ays,
he shool, his curly hea | i'll q most de-
ci,led negative, aud exclaimed, with a
sigh: "Such 'ots Of 'omans sp' slsirs!"
New York Tribune.
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS.

THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS.
During the half hour that Clarence
Stanley passed with Polly Hamilton,
and while her hand lay clasped in his
and her eyes and ears drank in his
looks and words, he had followed out
q course of reasoning somewhat as
follows:
80 long as Polly is satisfied by my
devotion, I can come and 60 as !
please, which will give ms time to
study Dolores and to gain power over
her so essential to the success of my
plans; and when that IS accomplished
and it becomes necessary to break
with Polly, the quarrel can be made
to originate with her by rousing her
jealousy toward her friend. Should
it ever become necessary to return
to Polly, it will be easy for me to make
my peace, and should other and more
agreeable plans turn out Satisfactorily,
have simply to keep away from her
and refuse oil overtures of friendly
characte: Il such should be made"
As he returned to his hotel, Stanley
felt that his day had been we'll spent;
and when he reached his room, he
placed the cryrtograph before him
with his translation of it, and by the
light of the story he had 80 recently
heard, he felt that it was all clear to
him.
The Gold Flower" he thought
"that was the name of the princess,
and this picture of the Indian woman
represents her. Anacaona, with the
Indian arrow through the word; again
the Flower OF Gold. I see that Dol
ores is superstitious and full of spirit
ralistic fancies, though she doesn't
know it. I must affect to sympathize
and to believe in the guardian-spirit
business and all the rest of it; that
will give me an influence over her.
Then the mesmeric power;I I must not
forget that. There is really something
in IT. and If I can but use it.on her
with the same effect as on old Van, my
fortune IS made and the girl is mine,
to do with as / please. What a beauty
she is; aid already she regards me in
quite different way from what she
did at first. She knows nothing of
OF men and little enough of women,
least of all, oFherseli. Wrapt in pow
'erty, sorrow and devotion Of her
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MASON AND aDmoN's LINE.
Relics of the Famous Boundary Between
-Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Relics oi the Famous Boundary Between
Pennsyivania and Maryland.
The bill introduced in the Maryland
Assembly by Senator Moses, of Balti-
more, appropriatingS $4,000 with which
to restore Mason and Dixon's Line, is
awakening much interest. The State
of Pennsylvania has already voted a
like smount for the purpose.
The line between the property of
Lord Baitimore and the Penns aroused
many disputes and much bad feeling
in early times and the King and his
counselors il England could find no
way Of stopping the quarrels, which
frequently ended in bloodshed. Final
ly, in 1T67, tMo famous English astrono.
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it was granted independence. The in
habitants then established govern
ment of their OVID and had progressed
satisfactorily until their President,
Mr., Steyn, was led by President
Kruger into an offensive and defen-
sive alliance against England. 'f|T
That the Beers have for months and
even for years been anticipating some
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There are threo kinds of regular
Government schools. One is the
town school, another the ward school
and the third the paripatetic school.
At Bloemfontein there is very fine
college, known as Grey College, where
higher education is carried on.
The vast majority of the Free
Staters are members of the Reformed
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like'those north of the Vaal River, are
simple, bucolic and sincere. An 'lntu-
sion of Huguenot blood makes them a
slightly more active and progressive
people than the Transvaelers. The
republic has an area of about 80, 600
square miles, It's present population
is estimateikto be $4,000 whites and
some lao, blacks of the Basuto and
Barololg tabes. The capital, Bloem-
fontein, ,is & curious, old world look
ing little, city, with railway leading
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ASsoua,h That Lifted 5000 Pounds.

"a Asquash That Litteo "ooo
b An interesting agricultural expert
iment is relatedin in Success, from which
;this picture is taken. A harness or
basket of strap iron was placed over
the squash in such manner that. in
order to grow, 1t would be compelled
.totlift any weight that might be placed
onit Harnessed in this manner, on
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August 81 the squash lifted sixty
pounds; August 81, 500 pounds; Sep
tember II, 100; September 81, 2Ol5;
October IS, 312o, and October 81,
5000 pounds.
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.HE Orange Free State had no
quarrel with Great Britain.
The Transvaal's quarrel was

& not her quarrel. She was
free and independent State, living her
own life and worshiping her own
legislative and administrative gods.
Her people, however, spoke the same
tongue as the Transvaaler. 4 shadow
of the Anglophobia that lurked on the
north of the Vaal was also to be found
north of the Orange, and Martinus
Th. Steyn, the ar-seeing and courage
ous President of the Free State, firmly
believed that if the South African
Republic were wrested from Dutch
control, either by armed force or by
awe of Great Britain's prowess, the
next victim Of the slogan British
re-eminence in South Africa" would
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It is a misdemeanor to knowingly
pass plugged money or to destroy
United States cur""""u :" 9"v w"V
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The upper part Of the tree trunk

q sbss we're sawed up
;l5 IL q; f5i 3 81 n 81 sAss main body of the
sesf3f & y she churchst COM
4 i & M tiaI building, thirty
4 faS Ssnty feet deep, 1900
Eer Sgsmained unused. A
D "a 6fdy building could notbe i'm
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A. NOVEL,.
@p 10rs. elizabeth G. Wi=:ter.
CHAPTER XIII.
isabella CASTELAR.}

,copvr.ibt 1892 and 1885. by ROBERT EosSEAs soNs)
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Cokeyille. Wyo.. Feb. 10th 1000. :
A New Store.

M. Lewis, of Montpelier, Idaho,
arrived i'll our town on Monday, of
this week, and after surveying the
prospects for q first-class clothing
store, rented the old building which
heretofore has been used as q store
house for p. o. Christensen, and
will on the goth of this month open
to the public frst-clasa clothing
store. Mr.. Lewis is well known as
a thorough clothing man, and he
will certainly succeed in pleasing
you in his line if you give him a
fair trial. The business will be
conducted by Edward Lewis, broth
err of Mr.. Lewis and Joseph Fuller,
who will ever be ready to wait upon
the wants of the people in their line.
The store building is now being
newly papered and painted, and will
be in ship shape by the appointed
tune. Green River Star.
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A Prominent Visitor.

Chas. w. Maier, vice grand mas
ter Of the B. of Z. F., was in Mont
pelier last Friday and Saturday, in
the interests Of the Firemen. While
here a large number of new appli-
cations were received and candidates
initiated. As result Re Echo lodge
is again in good shape with a large
membership. Mr.. Maier gave a
pubiio~leetufe in the opera house
Saturday evening, illustrating his
speech with stereoptician views. 1t
was most admirable address. Sun
day morning he left for Denver.
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Mrs. Barkdull presented Riley with q

4 Mrs. Barkdull presented Riley with a
fine boy last night.
Six cases of smallpox are reported
near American Falls.
If you want to buy fruit trees write
O. +. Smith, the Blackfoot Nursery,
Black foot, Idaho. so
Chas. Hotf, the coal man. is now in a
position to furnish either Diamondville
or Rock Springs coal Leave orders at
Livery Stable. IS
Rev Stoddard. of Green River, will
hold morning and evening services in
the Episcopal church next Sunday. All
are cordially invited to attend.
A good stock of Ceinetary work, head
stones, etc, to pick from at the Bear
Lake Marble works, opposite Ritter Bros,
Come along with your orders SO
Parties wishing to buy farm in the
Snake river valley. will do we'll to COR
respond with o, F. Smith the Black
foot Nursery man at Blackfoot idaho
Delinquent taxes can be paid At Sid.
ney Stevens Imp. Go. The books con-
tanning the names for the east side of
the valley are at the above named place.
The Logan Dramatic Co, win play
in this city on Feb 9th and 28th.
Also in Paris on March fst and End,
The company comes highly recon-
4 xhended.
4 G. Fl. Collipriest and family expect to
depart for Des Moines, Ia next Monday
for an extended visit pending his recov-
I>ery from sprained wrist - Camera.
ROSES Carpenter shop oppositeSH 8
Livery stable, Contracting and build
ing in all its branches. Specification
furnished and job work promptly at
tended to- F. w. Rose. "a
FOR sALE-I will sell my place in
Marlboro cheap. 105 acres so acres
under cultivation. House, good barn
and corrals For particulars apply to
Jake Jones or this office IS
A young son of Mr.. Willis Of St.
| SA@AASo DlOh~ llo Willis WTG5IEflS
last week DR. Aulguire set the tract
ure and the boy is now rapidly recover
ing.
You may talk of your pet shoe stores
and of buying shoes cheap. Call on
Nose Lewis, The Leader; he will sell
you stylish, good wearing shoes cheaper
than any other store in town. AZ
The people of Georgetown will give
an old folks party in that little city to
night. All those over go years of age
will be presented with printed badge
in honor of the event.
Get your dancing clothes ready foI
the Eastern Star ball Thursday night,
the 22nd A general invitation is ex
} tended to everyone to be present. and 8
J good time is assured Tickets 81. Sup
per 25 cents plate extra. Good music
: has been secured for the occasion.
Besides mems clothing we carry {
handsome new line of boys and child
, rens suits. They will be open for in
) spection in day or two. Call in an6
see these nobby suits They are within
reach of all pocket books. Nedel &
! Hansen. s!
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NOTICE.

The Montpelier Orchestra has been
re,organized and is now prepared to
furnish first-class music for dances and
other occasions. The following is the
makeup of the new organization:
LIST violins, R. A. Birch, Carl Spong-
berg.
Cornet H Short.
Trambone, Pete Hauck.
Piano, Miss b. Hoff.
Prompter, James Dunn.
Anyone desiring our services can ap-
ply to I'll. Short. Rates reasonable. So
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The Ole Eiagberg Fund.

The Ole Hagberg fund is grow
ing rapidly, but SO far no effort has
been made in Bear Lake to contri.
butte to it. In many parts of the
state the public schools have taken
the matter up, and sent in good sized
subscriptions, by having each child
contribute nickel dime or some
such an amount. Why not the
schools of Bear Lake follow this ex-
ample, and thus be represented in
this most worthy object. Full par
ticulars were published in the Ex-
AMINER some time ago, but they can
be had again by addressing Pres.
Blanton of the state University. at
Moscow. Idaho.
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Killed Near Willard

a telegram W
city Sunday by Y
that George ID. c. zlllg
near Willard, Utah, that morning.
The Salt Lake papers which came
this morning give detailed accounts
of the accident. 1t seems Gray,
who was a conductor on freight,
started back over his train from the
engine. That was the last seen of
him alive. When the train reached
Ogden he was missed and an engine
was sent back to look for him. Ills
body was found near Willard, with
the head bruised and left leg crush
ed. He had evidently fallen be-
tween two cars while on his way to
the caboose.
Mr.. Gray will be remembered by
everyone in Montpelier. lie was
yardmaster in this city for many
years. He was a good railroad man
and known to be very careful.
He leaves a wife to whom the
sympathy of this community is
extended.
George was a X. of P. and the
members of that order in Salt Lake
took Charge of the funeral arrange
ments.
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Notice to the Public.

Vim. and Arthur Broadhead are field
agents for the Portland Glassa Picture
Go and are both authorized to make
collections They will spend the next
week or longer in Star valley ANA then
return to Bear Lake County. IS
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A Frlglntfnl I,Innaler

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Id, Cut or Bruise. Bucklen's Arniea
salye, will kill the pain and promptly
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Boils, Corns, all Skin Eruptions Bess
Pile cure on earth. Only 25ets. box.
Cure guaranteed: SOLD BY RtteT-. Bros,
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Lost, or strayed.

A white faced Herfard Bull five years
old, horns cut off short. Branded on
right side with circle with perpen-
dicular bar across the center. Any in
formation that may lead to its recovery
or whereabouts will be suitably re.
warded by the undersigned.