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GET man orce down and Repub-
lican daily will never let him up. OF
Pool Grinstead, who is again in Jail be-
cause he has the honesty and bravery
to say and do what he believes to b.
right, Lawrence Daily says spool
Grinstead is about the meanest cuss
that has ever lived He is 80 d.
praved that he no sooner gets out of
trouble in one place tha he begins
making it for himself in another. 1t
must be trying on the friends who
have so loyalty stood by him. He
has kept up his malicious fight on
Cy Leland and the result Is that he
is again in the tolls as he ought to be. :"
The fact that he opposes Cy Leland
is pre- of that what he has done is ex-
acily right.
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THE FAUNA OF CHINA.
Different Kinds o Animals Found N
the Csle.ttal Empire.

Di6efent Kinds OF Animals Found In
the Csle.ttal Empire.
There Is a general impression ahout
Chinest animals, % about the Chineee
people. that they are quaint, ineffect.
naa, and Of NO particular use eDcep*
to Chiniamen- Whether the Chinass
pug dogs, their holaow-backed pirs,
or dwarfed trees, or the absence Of
almost any good books ON spout in
the Forbidden Empire have given rise
to this idea, and it is a very mistakes
one In Northern Asia the species in.
crease not only in numbers but I'm size,
the further east the region, and In
Northern China their numbers are
greatest and their size most remark.
able. Take, for Instance, the deer.
The big red stag of the Caucasus =
surpa s,sed by those of Eastern Siberia,
and i'm the Altai and Thiam-Shan
mountains it has become either q
giant red deer, or, as is now believed
its place is taken by am AsiaItic wapiti,
which, if not quite so large as The
monsters of the Rocky mountains, han
the largest antfers of any existing
deer. Besides these, roebuck are
common, as wen as several species Of
smaller deer, among them one re-
sembfng the Japanese Stag now In.
troduced into our parks. Swinhoe'9
deer in Formosa, hprnless waber deer,
and in the hunting park Of the em
peror at Picking a. deer whose native
home is NOT certainty known ana
which was discovered by Pere David
when taking peep into the forbidden
precinct over the park WALL
The largest tigers in the world ere
found in Manchuria, and wild boara
leopards, tigercaits; while qynxes. with
brown bears in the north and black
bears in the south, make up large
faunn of sufficient distinction for Q
Chinese censor to be proud of. In the
Tartar camel the empire owns the
best BEAST of burden in the world; II
produces the best Of all ponies, and
though sma1a. it is good and prolific
a very even cross. as It would seem
between the bumped cattle pf India
and the Bos itauras Of Europe. Ths
distinguished Chinese naturaliShs whs
described the indigenous animals In
the Taiwamfoo Gazetteer notes thu
Formoaan BEARS have such thick
bristles that arrows cannot pierce
bodies, that they climb trees and sif
ON the top cross-legged. and that theii
bellies contain much suet, and thai
their paws as delicacies are "amous
the eight pearls:"
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managed to fix up things, but now
he keeps his hands in his pockets"

ndHdSou W Tx up tulnSs, Out now
he keeps his hands in his pockets :"
A Wamego young lady stepped
into a popul-r dry goods store in that
town the other day and approaching
the counter, put her elbow on what
she supposed was a pile of dress
goods. She finally threw her arm
around it, which was little too much
for the alleged dress goods. which
Strengthened up and inqnired if there
was anything he could do for her.
The young lady was of course very
much shocked when the goods came
to life, and excused herself by put
ting the blame of the oversight on
the heavy veil she was wearing,
The remaining clerks i'll the store say
further actions of that kind are
"barred' unless they are in on the
play.
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FIom The Lincoln Ia lv Ptst.
The official vote of Nebraska gave
Bryan 1l4,0l3 and POINTER 113,0lS
votes, SO that it shows that the presi-
dental candidate ran considerably
ahead of the state ticket.
Attention is called to this fact be-
cause of the we'll known weakness of
the republican press to misrepresent
everything concerning Mr.. Bryan.
Already republicans are trying te
show that Mr.. Bryan is not popular
at home by stating that he ran be
hind the ticket The official record
thoroughly disproves such an as
sertion.
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MASKED ROBBERS.
Ebay Secure Eight Hundred Dollars Frol
Peet Bros. at Armeurdale.

Peet Bros. at Armsurdale.
Kansas City, No., December g.
Three masked and heavy armY4 men
entered the Office of tkS Peet
Bros. Manufacturing Company, soap
makers in Armomdaae, at $3.50 last
night and compeiBed the two mem in
$500 which lay in envelopes on the
desk i'm readiness to pay out TO the
men as their weekly wages. Two Of
the men were about six feet in height
and 1.-THE third was quite short.
The two tail ones entered the Office
with revolvers extended and with
rough and peremptory commands or
dered w. j. Schenck, the superintend-
emit, and w. o. Adams, the cashier. to
throw up their hands. At a glance
they saw there WAS no alternative but
probable death, and their hands went
up. They were THE ouay ones i'm the
Office and there was no others near.
The $500 lazy in small envelopes back
of a screen. The third man had no
difficulty in reaching lit. The money
tn fhedr possession and the three men
quietly and swiftly disappeared in the
dark. There is MO good clue to their
identify. They We're alttired in CON-
mon and dark clothes and wore black
masks over their faces.
1t is supposed the three men were
Familiar with the office and knew just
when the men were to be uaid. The
company works two sets of men, a
night and day shift, and the hour to
shift dn the evening rs at z o'clock.
Ah of THE weeks wages for the day
shift was on the desk. just ait the
right time the robbers entered the
office, as had they come little sooner
there would in all probability have
been others about, and had they come
a little baIter the employees themselves
would have been coming i'm. The Office
of the company is at Usage and Adams
streets, in a dark and secluded local
lty, and as far as could be learned no
me saw the mem as they approached
or left the Office.
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A submarine Passenger Line.

New York, Dec. Sd. L. Holland,
inventor of the submarine boat, gave,
before a large gathering of students
and friends of Manhattan college last
night, the introductory lecture to
course in naval architecture In tha4
institution. Speaking of the sub
merged boat, he expressed confidence
th,aIt tits day has come. Six OF his
submarine boats had been ordered by
the government and, though made.
uuate in number for the protection Of
She long coast line, they would
promptly and efficiently deal with any
attacking fleet.
Besides it's utility dn defense and at
tack, Mr. Holland affirmed that the
submarine boat ds emdnently fitted for
passenger traffic. For transoceanae
traya, however, 1T would be CONNER
dal failure, but for short passages It
would be Invaluable. The rough seas
usually prevailing between Dover and
Calais, or between Holyhead and
bear of tourists, for the boat would
keep steadily on its way unaffected by
the storms and waves that rage at TIE
surface.
Kruger Crosses TO Germany.
Hkris, Dec. 1.-Mr. Kruger left the
Hotel Scribe at I: 10 O'Clock this after
NOON lin "a closed carriage, surrounded
by a squadron of mounted municipal
guards. The crowd which gathered
about the hotel was decidedly small
compared with the size of those which
greeted Mt. Kruger a week ago. TLa
Boer leader was cheeredas he drove
away, swinging h6s ha from the Ian
dau window in reply. The Boer com.
m61tee which accompanied Mr.. KrugQ
TO the statEon wall go as lar ais the
French border. The special tradn
" tn Mr.. Kruger ON board .gta1red fo7
Cologne, Germany, at lao o'clock.
Berkn, Dac. IAN official of the for.
elgn Office informed the correspondent
o4 the Associated Press today THAT II
was notified ahite yesterday evening
k1EE Mr. Kruger will arrive here Tues.
dhy. The Official admitted that EN-
perUr Williams travelling plans maj
prevent him from seeingMr Kruger.
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INDIANS HAVE NO CLAIM.
The Supreme Court Decides the Wichits
Reservation Case

Reservation Case.
Washington, d. c., Dec. 1O.-Th1
United States supreme court TO-DAY
rendered am opinion dn the claim Of
the Wichita, Chof NV and Chickasav
Indians in CONF ctdom with the old
Wichita reservation, Justice Harlan
handing down the opinion.
In 1861 the Indians made a treaty
with the United States government
cedfng the Wichita reservation end
agreeing to take 100 acres of land IN
severalty.. They then claimed thai
they were entitled to the proceeds q
the SADIE of the surplus land. Ths
court OF claims sustained the coutten.
tlon OF the Indians. but today's opin
eom reverses that position the suprema
court holding that in the treaty oi
1861 the Choctaws had made an abso.
lutte cesiom of the aanGs included iu
the reservation
Inc court Also remanded the caee
30 the court of claims with ddpeetdons
10 dismiss the Chains of the Choctaws
end the Chicloasaws and to fix H,ch
compensation to the Wichitas as q
consistent with ] W. The reseryatAon
= a part of the old leased district n
100000 acres lying between the Red
RIVER and the Canadian river and -
nfnety y-eghth and 10Odth degree ~
west longitude.
Regarding the opinion of the nm
Pgeme court today referring to fhe
ChocoaIw and Chfckasaw Indians. n
was learned upon good authority thai
The court dn Wichita construed ths
aFmcfe OF 1866, and ceded the ddstraoa
e am absolute cessdon, and held ths6
q any hardship was worked on thI
Caoctaws and CMckasaws by thas
Hzealty the proper place for ret1ress
was before. congress and not beforr
the Judicial department of the govern
ment This is the exact position tax
o0 by the Choctaws and Chickasav.
when they first presented the mataer
% congress. and congress did afSord
mem relief as to that portion -
leased district.
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Legtacdes, charitable, etc. 100000
The bill provides discount of 20
per cent ON the tax of cents per bar
rel on beer, in lieu of the present IN
per cent reduction, making the new
rate SLIGO per barrel.
The sections of the war revenue act
taxing commercial brokers, custom
house brokers, circuSes, theaters and
other exhibitions are stricken out.
The rate ON cigars is made So in
Stead of $3.50 per 1000, weighing more
than three pounds per 1000.
Schedule A retains the stamp tax on
corporate stocks, bonds, etc., sales,
etc., alt exchanges OF boards or trade,
freight receipts, certificates of profit.
entry of goods at custom house, and
entry for withdrawal of goods from
customs bonded warehouses. With
these exceptions, the stamp taxes un.
der schedule A are struck out. Chair.
man Payne's statement gives in detail
the stamp taxes omitted under sched-
ule A.
Schedule B, which required stamps
ON proprietary medicines and prepara-
6ons, perfumery and cosmetics, chew.
ing gum, ETC., is amended so that
sparkling or other wines are the only
products requiring stamps.
Section 20 of the war revenue aot,
relating ITO taxes on legacies, is amend.
ed by adding to the end of said section
the following.
provided, that nothing in this Sec
tAons, perfumery and cosmetics, chew
quests or legacies for uses of relig-
Eous, Mterary, charitable or education
al character, including works of art."
Section 80 of the act is amended as
10 administrative features, and sec
toms 10, II, 1s, 10 and 30 are repealed.
az they relate to administrative Tea
tures no longer necessary.
The bill provides for redeemang
revenue stamps heretofore issued end
not used.
The concluding section provides
that the act shall take effect thirty
days after it's passage.
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a Oueer Sentence.

A queer decision was, on Septembe1
9, delivered by Judge uawler at San
Francisco, whereby James Burns wae
sentenced to imprisonment for "haaa
his life" Burns was tried on Q
charge of robbery, and the jury cons
victed him of 'tam aittempt to commA
robbery" The prisoner had sever
prior convictions against him, and
had he been convicted of the chars
of robbery he would have been sen
fenced ITO Imprisonment for life. On
der the California staitutes "a man con-
v5cted of an attempt TO commit rob
victed for am attempt TO commit .
crdme cannot be imprisoned for more
than half the longest term prescrabed
for successful perpetration OF ths
offense. Judge Laiwler called for th1
mcrtalaty tables used by the insuranca
companies and figured out that the
prisoner was entiuled Ito thirty eight
years of life. By the simple process
OF dividing this by two the conciu-
sion that the prisoner should spend
nineteen years in prison was reached,
and 1T was so ordered The case viii
be taken to the Supreme Court.-LaN
Notes. =
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A Republican exchange says that
an estate of less than $500, his
family would be forevet truined. You
notice that our Republican brothers
give credit to the man that rakes off
the millions, however he obtains
them and have little respect for the
poor, honest, humble citiz.n.
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Diplomatic John.ny

"Johnny," said his mother, ''do YEA
know who ate thnss uarts I left In III.
pantry?"
81 do. mamma" replied the nobk
boy. his eyes hlnng with tears, 'sbui
q would not be gentlemanly for me 4
tell"
And that 1t how 81 came that John,
uy's brother received two undeserye&
spankings, one for the cakes he did
not steal and another for his truthful
den6aL-Lohdon Tft-Bits.
0A - Eo-1fA
Besrs shs The Kind yoi Haa AIwsE Bouris
ss'.'''' I>eAzEu
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Kept His secreI


Carrying with him his secret q
peltnfylng a corpse and giving 10 4
for AN eternity the flesh color Of Life
DIR. Abarilni, the Italian. Is dead. Hil
secret can be kept no more surely
now that he has taken it with him.
than he kept it In his lifetime. Hs
lived only with his daughter, and he
did NOT allow her to know the slight
est about the wonderful process
Like all inventors, he Impoverished
himself and what there was Of hs
family dn his devotion TO the one OBJ
ject of his life. His death In Nhp10
was of that terrible disease, cancer o1
the dntelstdnes, and the slow agony
drew out ITS attenuated length Of ax
months. He died only with IL
daughter, for he refused to see the
few friends that he had. He Let 70
his daughter nothing Whatever, M
less the name OF rank" can be ocGr
sfdered that good uame which IL bGtr
ter than silver and gold.
DIR. Marim was born m SardinGn.
For forty yeas he had given day and
ukghn to this single purpose Of d.
covering how to preserve human
bodies in the flesh 90 that they shah
be ais hard as statuary and yet retrain
the lifetime color. Nor was this a11.
He aimed to retain the softness am4
the fexibility of flesh i'm fife, and +
IL reported that he succeeded 6n paze,
for i'm his studio, among the hard and
STONY buSts, heads, arms, feet and en-
tire figures that once were fun e
life, he had several heads of women
which seemed as fresh and flexible
as in life, and he was confdent that
he had learned the secret OF convert
ing the whole human body into that
condition.
So careful was he of hds procean
that he bought the various materfa1B
which he used In different towns, and
wrapped them I'M camphor cloths TO-
disguise if1eir odor, so that not even
q guess could be made as to what ~
carried He had among the spec1-:
mems of his work the petrffied Statues
of Benedeito CalroM and Cardinal
Sanfelice OF Naples.
Besides his discovery proper 1s
had lust one other ambition IA h.
He wanted Ito hold q chair in on 81
the universities where he could IN
part In a su1tabae manner SOM o1
his information TO his fellows. WS
friends tried to get for him a profo9-
aorship in a university, but failed
To provide bread for himself and
daughter DIR. Marind offered to take
q much inferior pot In the uuavor-
Efty. but even fh1D he could mt GGk
Saddemed by his poverty and his Ill
ure in having his work appreolatn1.
he shut himself up, and grew =
white as his petrifed bodies. So q
passed the SIX a&oniznR
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An All.round Fake.

From the Ellsworth Messenger"
Last summer a stianger drifte d
into the Sherman ranch, this county.
He had the appearance Of a tramp,
and subsequent events have proved
that he was, although a clever one.
He asked for work and got job.
Soon he became confidential with
several Of the~boys, and teld them he
was in the west mping simply for
rest ard for his health, which had
become impaired by too close appli-
cation to business in ST. Louis. He
was smooth customer, told his
stories in a connected and logical
way, and soon succeeded in making
the boys on the ranch believe he was
just what he represented himself to
be-a business man from st. Lou s
in quest of heath.
after working a month or two he
confidentially told one Of the boys
that he had to return to St. Louis
soon to take up the duties of super
intendent of an extension of a certain
system of street railway; that he
would guarantee him and few of his
friends good jobs on this exten sion !;
all that was necessary was that he
should send their names to St. Louis,
together with 500 each as guarantee
that they would report on a certain
date for work. Eigh5 or ten OF the
boys put up their money, and about
the first OF November quit work on
the ranch. In the meantime Mr..
Sharpley such we understand Is his
name, formed the acquaintance of q
young lady, whom he married about
three or four weeks ago. The we'd
ding, which took pace at the home
of the bride in Reno county, was an
elaborate affair, for which the BRIDES
father is said to have expended about
$500.
Among the presents was check
for $500, payable to the groom. al
purportipg to come from his father.
Another was check for $3.50, pay
able to the bIide, from sister of the
groom. These checks were, of course
bogus and not worth a cent; but at
the time this was not known, so the
brides parents thought the new SON.
in-law was all right, of good family.
with plenty Of money.
A few days after the marriage the
groom was callei east, and has Lot
been seen since.
s'One of the boys who went to st
Louis upon the representations OF
this sharper, after telling his story to
some of the street car officials, was
told where he could find Sharpley e
st. Louis wife. He called on her,
and learned that she was not the
only wife he had She told MIN that
Sharpiey had another wife living
within twenty miles OF s.. Louis. and
another in Oklahoma, making, with
his Kansas wife. four in all. The ST.
Louis wife has two children.
eSharpley is said to have gone to
Missouri from Reno county, and to
have recently succeeded in working
a scheme whereby he beat someone
Tout OF five or six hundred dollars.
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WAR TAXES REDUCED
Bin Pending in Congress- Win Out
Them Down.
FORTY MILLION OF WAR REVENUES
The Ways and Means COMMITTEES Agree On
Articles to Receive Benefit of Reduction
win Pass the House Before Ad.
j0urnment.

Washington, D. c., Dec. s.-Chaar-
man Payne of the ways and means
committee has introduced bill re-
ducing the taxation under the war
revenue act, after the republican MEM
bers of the committee haG agreed on
the form of THE measure and the ar
ticleS to receive the reduction of tax.
LIT us intended to have the full COM
miutee act on THE bill tomorrow and
put dt through the house before
Christmas. The bill provides am ag-
gregate reduction estimated ait EJ1e
over $40,OOO,00.
The estimated reductions in detail,
as given out by Nj. Payne, are as
frsN
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Here it is Again.

Republican papers Of Lawrence are
ridiculing Webster Davis for his noble
effort in behalf of the Beers. Nc
Kinley and his party worship the
British lion.
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You will notice the republican pa
pers condemning Kruger and sympa-
thizing with Great Btitain Theirs
is not the party to sympathize with
the oppressed
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A man can always be on time with
Jut wearing stockings with clocks in
them.
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" hen fellow IT feJs 10 a girl as q
peach, the marrying clergy man may
be justified in looking for pair.
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No, Maude, dear; your are mixed
is seldom a student of the Bible.
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Minds arc not like streams. A
broad minded man is seldom shallow
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Strike of Telegraph Operators.

The telegraph operators on the Ell :
tire system of the A. T. & s. F. went
on strike Dec. g.
The Santa Fe railway system it
cludes the following roads and mile
age:
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ,7ss. SO
The Southern Kansas and Texas .. 129i7
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe ......1 ,127 81
Santa Fe Pacific. ............... S75 30
Southern California ..............---.... 4s7. 81
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley. 372 81
Total.........................-....7,7S2.2e Total 7,7S2. &c
The re ,son for the strike is con-
tanned in the following statement
made by Santa Fe officers:
THE operators made a demand
for an increase in wages and for
changes in rules and regulations gov
erning their service on November 1s
last, in the absence Of the general
manager. A meeting with com
mittee of the or orators was had
November 26, when the compar y
made the proposition 10 tie commit
tee to allow operators employed on
the Gulf lines the same rules and
regulations as were in vogue on the
Santa Fe lines west If Albuquerque.
November Is, which. rules and regu-
lations are the same as were adopted
aud applied on the Atchison road
proper, July !, last. and to pay the
same wage rates as were commonly
paid by other roads in Texas, and in
the event of the committee and com.
pany failing to agree as to wage rates
they were to be determined by arbi.
tration. In other words the rule:
and regulations governing the en-
ployment of operators in force be &C
cepted by operators on the Atchisor
proper and on lines of the Santa Fe
system west of Albuquerque were tc
be applied to operators employed or
the Gulf lines, and. If the telegraph
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Isn't it funny that the bride never
marries the best man?
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The girl who just puts on airs is
usually cold
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What j. the difference between
pig and a pug?" asked the funny
boarder Just the difference be-
tween u ard j." replied the ungram
matical bluBt-nosed man, who always
came in late to his meals.
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Quaker Reflections.

From the Philadelphia Record.
It's all up with the balloonist.