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so that it's points might be read easily
 in darkness, and explained to him the
 probable position of the British forces. |
 Half an hour later Bugler Simmons
 was crawling quietly among dense crowd of Boer horses. Armed with a
 penknife, he cut hobble after hobble
 till in the darkness, he came to a bridled and saddled horse, who attempt ed to bite him affectionately.
 He felt the brute's knees. There was no doubt about it. He had happened upon an old friend Corporal Hawkey's Ginger, late of the Pink dragoons now serving in a Boer remount. | For reasons best known to himself, Ginger always bit at a trumpeter but 1 he allowed Simmons to climb on to his back without resenting. | Some Boers on the outside of the crowd of horses moved backward and | forward suspiciously, and Bugler Sim mons lay low on Ginger's neck as he inflated his lungs and placed his trum- pet to his lips.
 The Boers and the besieged on the hill above heard a sharp succession of cavalry calls sounding from the midst of the horses.
 They were answered by the tramp of disciplined hoofs as the horses of the squadron galloped toward the sound of the trumpet In another second the whole mass of horses was in motion, surging round Ginger on whose back was Bugler Simmons, giving call after i. c.I4 spending, bringing their Boer brothers with them.
 "F>orward!'
 "Charge!'
 The calls rang out in quick success sion.
 The dragoons horses set example, while the Boer steeds stampeded in sympathy Picket ropes and hobbies snapped like pack threads and there was thunder of hoofs on the plain In vain the Boers shouted and tried to head them off. The mass had started, and from the center rang out the charge" which kept the leaven in state of wild excitement. In a few min utes Bugler Simmons was surrounded by a racing crowd of 800 horses, against which nothing could stand.
 They charged over Boer encamp- ment, and the twenty men who occu- pied it were found the next day beaten into a pulp benath the laundering hoofs.
 The pace slowed after six miles, when an English patrol hove in sight. The trumpet from the middle of the mob of horses sounded a signal of distress, and the patrol bore down.
 Are you a circus?" called the officer in charge.
 He rode in and cut the bugler's horse out of the snorting, stampeding mob.
 'If you please, I've come for a little help for the Tyrone fusiliers," answered Bugler Simmons faintly, but with a tone of rodent sarcasm. You can tell those blooming reinforcements that we couldn't send cabs for them, but I've brought them few horses" !"-Pctorial Magazine.
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| I grew excited. I had made a ridicu- lous blunder and she was a lovely wo-
 man! Suddenly I took desperate re- solve.
 "If you do not take this I shall throw myself off the train," l said, and laying my railway rug beside her, raised the window, put out my hand and opened the door from the outside.
 Was I in earnest? Between you and me, reader, l do not think l was. But I looked 1t, evidently, for my nearer ex- claimed in voice of alarm: You are crazy!'
 Take rug or I jump!" I said.
 She took it, put it round her, and re- marked in a softened tone, as I closed l the door and window:
 You will die of cold"
 Tt would be but a fit punishment l for my unpardonable stupidity" l an swered.
 You were not stupid, but hasty" she said, and as you told me, your inten- ton was good; but how could you mis- take that lady for me?"
 "She was so charming I explained, and my listener smiled. The ice was broken-that is, as far as the conversa- ton went-literally I was nearly frog en. However I soon forgot the cold, for my companion was delightful, piquant, fascinating. She talked well, though with charming simplicity. She had been in Italy; so had l. She longed for Egypt; exactly what l did. In lit erature, in music-in fact in everything it was the same. We had precisely the same tastes. What was more, we soon discoverde that we had several mutual acquaintances; we had proba ply. attended the same receptions more than once And I had never ob- served her; great heavens! where were my eyes?
 After a time although I was su- premely happy, l became conscious of the penetrating cold. I did my best to conceal that fact, but when we reached Dijon, at half-past o'clock, my right foot was numb. Here we telegraphed to Tonnerre for the satchels and rugs.
 At Macon my left foot was numb. Here we learned that the luggage would be sent to Marseilles the next day.
 At Lyon-Perrache it was my left hands turn to be stiff; observed also that my fair companion forgot to claim her private compartment
 At Valence my right hand followed suit, but I learned that she was widow without children.
 At Avignon my nose was blue, yet divined that she had not cared much for her first husband.
 Marseiles, alas! I sneezed violently, and with gracious smile she handed me my rug, and whispered, "Au revoir." Then we parted and I went to the hotel and dreamed all night of her last words, and woke next day with the worst cold I had ever known hardly dared to show myself to my friends, who had asked me to dinner, but at last I decided to go. and what was my ecstacy to find among the guests my charmer of the express train! A hardly pereeptible smile played round her lips when I was presented to her, and in a whisper I asked
 "Tonnerre?"
 T have received them," she said in the same tone.
 As we sat down to dinner the host said to me: You have terrible cold. Did you catch it on the train?"
 Probably" I said, but I do not regret it.'' He did not understand this strange remark, but I caught the swift, tender glance which my fellow-traveler shot toward me across the table. Two weeks from to-day will be my day.-Penny Pictorial Maga- zine.
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THE COLOR CHARM IN PARIS.


 In our American towns and cities variety Of color is one of the most conspicuous features The other day in Chicago I occupied room on the eighth floor Of big hotel, overlooking the city From my window I counted twenty distinct shades, gray, brown red and green, not to speak of one brilliant yellow building This experi- ence might be repeated in almost ev- cry American city excepting Washing ton; happily, there the prevailing red brick relieved by the marble of the public buildings, is as harmonious as unusual. In Paris there is no such va riety; from wall to wall gray is the prevailing tone; dwellings,, churches, palaces, stores, arches, bridges, quays, walls everything is gray. Nature or dered it so ill the first place, for the quarries of this portion of France are very rich and gray in stone; art has seen the wisdom e it since. and if other material has been employed, 1t has been painted some shade of gray. I do not mean to say that there are no exceptions to the rule. There are; for examples, there is a little red brick in one of the old quarters, but not much, and many of the ancient brick facades put up in Henry TVS day have in later years been painted to harmonize with the stone. This may strike one who has not seen it as of questionable taste, and perhaps as tiresome, but the effect on one who lives in it is restful and harmonious. Indeed, there is dignity and good taste about the color ing of Paris which makes the fantastic coloring which prevails in most cities irritating and yulgar.-Ida M. Tarbell in Scribner's.
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so that it's points might be read easily in darkness, and explained to him the probable position of the British forces.
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AN EASTER OUTING.
Three Days Personally Conducted Tour to Washington via Pennsylvania Railroad

Three Days Personally Conducted Tour
 to Washington via Pennsylvania
 Railroad.
 On April 10 the Pennsylvania Rail- road company will run it's annual East CT tour to Washington, affording an excellent opportunity to see the nation al capital in all it's early spring attrac- tiveness. Tourist agent and chaperon will accompany the party.
 Round. trip rate, covering railroad transportation for the round trip, hotel accommodations, and transfer in Wash ington, station to hotel $14.50 from New York, $1300 from Trenton, and $11.50 from Philadelphia. These rates include accommodations for two days at the Arlington, Normandie, Riggs, or Eb- bitt house. For accommodations at Willards Regent, Metropolitan, or Ma tional hotel, $2.50 less. Side trips to Mt Vernon, Richmond, Old Point Comfort, and Norfolk at greatly reduced rates.
 All tickets godo for ten days, with special hotel rates after expira ton of hotel coupons.
 For itineraries and full information apply to ticket agents; tourist agent 1196 Broadway, New York; Court street, Brooklyn, or address George w. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent, Broad street station, Philadel- phia
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

break of pestilence is being neg
Iected. This morningit wasfound
that large numbers of bodies
hal been previously thrown into
the bay were washed back upon
the shore aud the situation was
thus rendered worse than before
they we're taken in barges and
thrown into the water.
1t will now never be known how
many have lost thoir lives in this
awful catastrophe. Mayor Jones
of Galveston thinks the dead will
amount to 5000 and others whose
opportunities for Judging are less
than that of the Mayor place it as
high as 10, 600.
Robbing and rioting are going
on, and as the towns in darkness
the efforts of the military to con.
troll the lawless element are not
very successful. Big bonfres
were built at various points, made
from the heaps of rubbish to ena-
bic troops to see where watch 'ul-
ness was needed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
Death List Grows.
Houston, Sept 10.

Special.
The mayors of Galveston and
Houston concur in the statement
that largely increased mortality is
shown. Each report showing
situation gcowing worse from
hour TO hour More militia has
been ordered to Galveston TO help
preserve order and bury the dead
Relief funds TO the amount of one
hundred thousand dollers have
been received. Idlers forced to
work at the point of the bayonet.
Bodies are burned in the wreck
age.
Bulletin received here every
hour says the situation grows
worse every hour. water aud ice
are needed. People are frenzied
from suffering, from these causes
scores have died since last night,
and numbers have gone insane
from suffering.
CnoosoI
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

Galveston Sept. 12.-(sp M,
Via Houston, midnight. All
attempts at burying the dead have
utterly been abandoned and bodies
are now being disposed of in the
swiftest manner possible. Scores
of them have been buried today
and hundreds we're taken out Of
the sea and thrown overheard.
The safety of the living is now The
paramount question AID nothing
that will tend to prevent the out
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
Numbers Increase.
AS Reports Come in the List of Flood
Victims Grows Mayor and Other /
p Notables Tell Of the Horrors
and the Burial Of Victims.

ginia Point and nothing could be
seen in all that country but death
and desolation. The prairles are
covered With water, and | do not
think ! exaggerate when | say that
not less than 5000 horses and
cattle, dead, are to be found along
the line of tracks south of Hitch
cock. The little towns along the
railroad are all swept away, and
the sight is the most horrible ]
ever witnessed. when | reached
a point about two north of Virs
ginia Point | saw some bodies
floating on the prairie, and from
that point to Virginia Point d cad
bodies could be seen from the
railroad track floating about tie
prairie. At Virginia Point moth
is left. About 100 cars of mer.
chandise that reached Virginia
Point on the International rail-
road on the night of the storm are
scattered about over the prairie,
and their contents viii no doubt
be total loss.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
London, Sept. -. (Spccial(-All
correspondents in China arc sending

correspondents In China arc sending
terrible stories of wholesale slaugh-
ter OF missionaries and native Chris
tians. II is asserted that during
July between 10000 and 10000
converts we're massacred in the
northern provinces. Large num-
bers of missionaries are still unac-
counted for, and small hope is en-
tertained for their escape. Women
were subjected to unspeakable bar
barIties and tortures, being stripped
and slowly dubbed TO death. This
was one OF The mlldest methods used
by the Boxers in their iiendish
work.
Germany and England have de-
clined Russia's proposition to evacu-
ate Pekin. Italy and Austria have
decided to be guided by Germany.
Minister Conger advises The
Americans TO leave Pckin ifpossIblc
and is favor of the punitive expe-
dltion to Pau Tung Flu.
Washington, Sep. l3.-The ques-
ton of Withdrawing the American
troops from Pekin at once is now
before the president and speedy
decision is expected aud required.
General ChaiTee MAS made acquaint-
ed with the attitude Of the govern
ment and asked TO hold himself in
readiness to withdraw his troops.
Meanwhile the state department is
trying to force the Chimes govern
ment to restore pefc..
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
Corpses on the Prairie.
Houston. Tex, Sept. 70.

Houston. Tex, Sept. IL
J ID Dillon commercial agent Of
the Santa Fe has returned from a
trip to Virginia Point. He made
the trip from Hitchcock to vir-
ginia Point On foot and gives a
graphic description of his jour
ney. Twelve miles of track and
bridges are gone south of Hitch
cock, said he. | walked, waded
and swan from Hitchcock to yir-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

W. o. W.-Ball meeting No
dce: ALI members of Chickasha
camp No, 64requested to meet al
hail Friday night Sept. "a, prom
pity att p m for purpose of rails
ing contributions for Galveston
Flood sufferers.
John Wantland c,
@. James, elk.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

E, S. Dougan, will put in a
feed store on the corner of 4th
and Chickasha Avenue.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
Attention Confederate Veterans.

There will be a Smoking Fest.
val and meeting of Joe Shelby
Camp 975 at the Mayors office in
the town of Chickrsha, on Satur-
day, September % at 3 o'clock D.
N. All confederates are cordial
ly invited 10 attend. BY order,
j. G. BUCHANAN,
Com. Joe Shelby Camp 975.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13
BeIated Locals

Miss Lizzie Copeland has re-
turned from st. Louis.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-13

Reserved seat tickets for s'Brezy
Point, . now on sale at z o drug
store.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10
The rlost Effective Way.
= HE MOVEMENT undertake,

HE MOVEMENT undertaken
by the Holy Name society
Il Of st. Peters cathedral par
ish to bring influences to
bear for the cleansing of the theatrical
purpose most laudable and will un-
doubtedly accomplish good. The
strongest force in our government Is
the force Of aroused public sentiment
and when this is put forth in any di.
rection 1t is irresistible.
The best way to cleanse the theater
is to cleanse the citizen who attends
1t and thus cause him to require Of
those who purvey amusements that
vicious or degrading influences shall
be eliminated. The manager Of a thea
ter is In much the same relationship
toward the public as the manager Of
a bookstore or hotel: he Ats his wares
to the public demand. The suppression
here and there of a vicious book, peri
odical or play is a gain for public
morals only SO far as 1t tends to limit
the corruption Of the public taste. But
1t Is only one means to an end. The
end is to create such standard of
individual character as will resist the
temptations Of vice and enable men
and women to 60 through life un-
spotted.
During the tender period Of youth
parental watchfulness must be strict
and jealous. and it is chiefly on ac-
count of the danger of contamination
which suggestive plays and books and
pictures intlict upon the young that
they should be banned. 1t is proper
part of the police work Of government
to cooperate with parental watchful-
ness in removing these snares from
the pathway of youth. When we come
to adults, however, the need for pater-
nal government diminishes. The man
or woman who can be kept good only
in a negative way, by the keeping
away of temptations, is not of much
account to the welfare Of society.
Character which is not upbuilt to re-
sist vicious influences is imperfectly
developed; and in no direction can re-
formatory energy be better employed
than in the culture of the personal vir-
tues-a truth which it sometimes
seems to us is not sufficiently appre-
ciated.
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The Great Objective.

~ ENATOR DAVIS has offered
- and the foreign relations COM
mittee of the senate has ac-
cepted an amendment to the
pending trans-isthmian canal treaty
setting forth that nothing contained In
the treaty shall interfere with meas
ures which the United states might
find it necessary to take for securing
by it's forces the defense of the United
States and the maintenance Of public
order" The language quoted is an ex-
act copy, save as to names, of one of
the articles governing the Suez canal.
Great Britain, 1t is argued by the ad-
vocates Of this amendment, cannot
consistently refuse to grant to the
United States the same provisions
which she exacted from Germany, Aus
tria, Spain, France, Italy, Russia, Tur-
key and the other European powers
when the Suez convention was nego-
tiated. If the amendment shall be .ac-
cepted by the senate and by Great Bril-
will be left with a free hand to do as
she may please with the canal in case
she shall become engaged in war with
a foreign power. She can close 1t or
not, as she may elect.
If England will accept this amend
ment, we see no objection to it; but
the fact is that it's importance is chief
ly imaginary. The treaty as drafted
left the United States free to close the
canal to an enemy's ships by the one
method which is feasible in war, name
ly, arresting the enemy's advance by
the interposition of a superior force.
That. in any event. would be the one
way in which we could close the canal
and keep it closed. Fortifications would
not keep it closed unless our forces
back of the Notifications sufficed to
overpower the attacking forces. The
whole problem is question of strength
and the putting forth of strength in
the most economical and effective
manner. The ADMINISTRATORS opinion
that the proper place to protect Ameri-
can interests against foreign attack is
on the high seas has the Endorsement
of the foremost fighter of the time;
and, on such a subject, we accept Ad-
miral Dewey's verdict in preference to
the verdict Of mere academicians like
the foreign relations editor Of the New
York Sun.
/ Hypercriticism in the senate should
not defeat the great objective in this
matter. The American people will not
tolerate a longer potponemene of ac-
tual construction work on the Mica
ragua canal.
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"but," he adds. II am a member Of a
political party which Ia charged with
great responsibility, and It Is only
through party harmony and cohesion
that results can be secured. hope
my party will decide to settle this mat
ter in accordance with my views. But
II It does not. and adopts some other
course. shall feel It to be my duty to
stand by my party" This is very good
and timely advice to the Republican
brethren who. under a misapprehen-
sion of the facts are breathing threats
Of party demolition.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10
THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Quarterly dividends are most readily
earned, In regular business operations.
where the people are satisfied with and
loyal to their government. There are no
men more desirous OF promoting social
progress than the intelligent capitalists
of the United States. They found and en-
dow institutions of learning, libraries,
art galleries, and hospitals. They cheer
fully pay taxes for the support of the
free schools. for which they have little
direct use. II all this Is not true. un-
selfish benevolenoe, 1t must, In part at
least, be accredited to sound. long-sight-
ed business sense. Capital may be. and
sometimes Is, heartless. but 1t Is use-
full. In fact. Indispensable. The money
makers must precede the money -spenders.
The Girards. Peabodys, and Hopkinses
had shrewd eye to the main chance
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

The National Boer Relief Fund as
sociation. whose purpose is to raise a
million dollars for the benefit Of the
widows and orphans OF the 'Transvaal
has been organized under the presi.
dency of Bourke Cochran and with a
general committee comprising a hun
dred or more names of national promi-
nence. Contributions may be ad.
dressed to the association, st. James
building. Broadway and Twenty.sixth
streets, New York.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

Rev. DR.. Wilbur +. Crafts Is now
cunning for the presidents political
scalp and beseeching the Republican
leaders to substitute some other man
as the presidential candidate because,
among other reasons. Mr.. Mckinley
did not overthrow his attorney gen.
erals Interpretation o. the army can-
teen law nor snub the hundreds OF re-
putable army officers who testified that
the total abolition of the army canteen
would thrust the common soldier from
the frying pan into the fire. We sus-
pect that to be entirely happy in this
country DR.. Crafts will have to be-
come a candidate for president him.
self,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

After silence of months the Ger
man agrarians are again showing a
disposition to pitch into the United
States. As the agrarians occupy about
the same position In Germany that is
held by English-haters in this country,
their face-making need cause no
anxiety
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

Lovers OF forestry will be glad tc
know that congress has Just authorized
the purchase by the federal govern.
ment of a tract of land in California
containing the finest big redwood trees
in existence. The land is to be made
into a public park in order that these
magnificent trees may be properly
protected and preserved.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

The New Haven Register occupies a
column in describing it's contempt OF
President Mckinley because OF his
complete incapacity to grasp the
problems arising from new conditions" I"
Our contemporary should not be too
sure that the incapacity is not located
nearer its own office.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

The modesty Of the Topeka minister
In proclaiming his ability to run daily
paper "as Jesus would" is fully par
alleled by his fidelity to the doctrine Of
not letting his right hand know what
his left hand doeth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

When actor Charles l.. Davis died al
Pittsburg the other day it was an.
nounced that he had not a relative or
earth. Now the claimants to his es-
tate are springing up on all sides like
applicants at a civil service examina.
tion. There's nothing like a snug for.
tune to cause one to be remembered
BY distant relatives after death.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-10

A number Of councilmen at Shamo-
kin are to be arrested on charges of
conspiracy and bribery. and an audi
tor at Allentown is under bail for al
legged irregularity and embezzlement.
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