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liver, Kidneys, bowels. blood and
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lIomcseckers Excursion Tickets.
To nearly all points In the United States
on sale at all ticket Offices of the Chi
3cago Great Western ailway on the first
and third Tuesdays Of May and june.
at the very low nomeseekers rate OF
one fare plus So for the round trip.
Tickets good for return within twenty
one days from date Of sale. Persons
contemplating trip will save money by
calling on any agent of the Chicago.
Great Western railway and obtaining
detail information regarding the home
seekers' rates. or addressing F. H. Lord,
G. p. & Il. a., llS Adams street. Chica-
go.
The Sheldon edition for the Topeka
Capital was a success for one week,
but r. r. Andrews. OF Newton, Kas.,
says Reggs Blood Purifier has been
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In a recent talk Director Merriam of
the census bureau in Washington is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-27

900 school children OF the northwest. II
is a gift that viii be greatly priced.
It is limited that Gen. Joseph Wheeler
will marry widow-Mrs. George w.
.childs, Of Philadelphia. When the lat
ter was asked for confirmation or de-
NAL of the rumor she smiled and re-
|iferred the questioner to Gen. Wheeler.
The example of Dewey seems to be
l"catchingN other national heroes.
Washington Post. 25th: Governor
Shaw, OF Iowa, arrived in Washington
last evening, but was obliged to take a
train for New York on important bust
ness. He expects to return to Wash
Iington on Friday morning to attend the
first hearing on the st. Louis world
fair bill before the special committee
of congress. The ST. Louis worlds fair
bill was introduced in congress- by Rep
Preventative Lane, of Iowa, and Iowa 10
taking considerable interest in the pro
posed celebration OF the Louisiana pur-
chase.
The bubonic plague has appeared at
several Red sea ports. Its invasion OF
new places seems to be constant fea-
ture.
The monster telescope at the Paris
exposition, which will bring the moon
within thirty-six miles. ID three times
1.-THE length OF the largest OF Its prede-
lcessors, the Yerkes telescope ct Che
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-11
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN 4
NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST

Mrs W X Clifford the English nov
elist- and Sydney Grundy. the dramatist,
are the principals in remarkable con-
troversy which is attracting wide atter-
ton in London. Mrs Clifford has writ
ten play. a powerful one. somewhat
after the manner OF The Second Mrs
Tanqueray.- with Ibsenite touches
which was published in the Anglo Saxon
Review in March Of this year. Its main
idea. however, was already contained in
a short story by Mrs Clifford published
in Temple Bar fifteen years ago When
Mr. Grundy's new play. "A Debt OF
Honor was produced in London a few
weeks ago. Mrs Clifford wrote at once
to the papers. calling attention to the
fact fhsf there were many points Of re-
sembIance in motive, situation and
treatment between the two pieces, add
ing: Mr.. Grundy's piece is virtually
though of course quite accidentally
ar adaptation of my play to WHIST a
careful manager might possibly think the
scrupies of the public and the modern
stage require. The coincidence even ex-
tends to close verbal similarity in some
of the lines of the dialogue"
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broken brick pillars to mark where life
and beauty had died such a death. For
weeks patrol boats along the mainland
shore found nothing but dead bodies. In
one case the corpse of a lady in the last
putrescent stages was identified by nearly
$4,000 worth of diamonds she had worn
that fateful night. Think of the ghastli
ness of it. The only two survivors were
a strong. powerful negress, who blindly
caught on a door that was floating by
and was carried in to the mainland; and
the other was a tiny baby girl, not more
than IS months old. She had been
placed upon billiard table. which floated,
and there she was found on the La
fourche shore forty Eight hours after the
storm. Nearly every hotAehold in south
ern Louisiana was in mourning. for 400
adults were lost.
How helpless we are when Old Nature
looses her awful mystic force and turns
upon man.
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MONSTER-MAKING.
Horrible Transformation in HUI
man Beings by Expert Chinese.
fFron the Morning Oregonian]

From time to time the Chinese authori
people of the country against child
thieves. In Europe children are often
stolen by strolling mountebanks, who.
by disjointing process, make them sup
pie and expert In China monsters are
often made of them
To transfer q man into a beast would
at first seem impossible. 1t is accom-
plished. however. by the Chinese, to
whom nothing seems TO be unknown. The
skin is removed in small particles from
the entire surface of the body and to the
bleeding parts bits of the hide of living
animals. bears and dogs are usually APP
piled. The operation requires years for
its full accomplishment. After the per-
son has had his skin completely changed
and becomes a man-bear or man-tios.
he is made mute to complete the illusion
and also to deprive him of the means Of
informing the public he is intended to
amuse OF his long torture.
\ Chinese journal. the Hupao. prints
a description OF one of these human
animals exhibited at the Kiangsi. His
entire body was covered with dogskin
He stood erect. although sometimes the
feet are 50 mutilated that the beast is
forced to walk on all fours: could utter
articuIate sounds. rise and sit DOWN
short. make VIE gestures of any human
being.
A mandarin who heard of this mon
strosity had him brought to his palace.
where his hairy skin and bestiai appear
ance caused quite as much terror as
surprise. Upon being asked If be was
man the creature replied with an affirm
alive nod He also sixniied in the same
manner that be could write A pencil
was given to him. but be could not u.s.
il. his hands were 80 deformed- Ashes
were then placed on the ground in front
of him. when the nan-dog. leaning over.
traced in them five characters. indicating
his name and country.
Investigation showed that he had been
stolen. imprisoned for years and sub
jected to long tortures- His master. who
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was condemned to death, testified during
the trial that barely one in five failed to
endure the process of skin changing. lie
practiced it according to traditional
and doubtless old formula.
The Chinese have another still more
horrible method of monstermaking.
They know how to graft child on m
adult in imitation of natural teratology.
The operation is on the same principle
as that of skin grating. The circula
tory systems are brought into close con-
tact by means of deep wounds. Accord
ing to a note of Consul Cinatti the Chi
nese are skillful in performing such ex-
periments on animals. They delight in
giving chickens the feet of ducks and in
putting cocks combs on the heads of
ducks
Darkness alone, it seems. is sufficient
to make a curious specimen of a child,
especially if certain kind of food is Civ
en- to it and its vocal cords are made
useless A living Buddha was made in
this way and exhibited by the BONES to
their congregations. This child. after
years passed in absolute darkness. had be-
come as white as wax. He had been
obliged to remain motionless in the pos
ture of Buddha until his muscles had be-
come rigid. No one had ever spoken to
him. and he had grown in his cellar as a
fungus would have done. Brought out to
the light. this mute. blinking living statue
was eagerly worshiped by the credulous.
At Shanghai. shortly after the opening
of the port there was on exhibition a
monster whose enormous head. with its
long hair and mustache was that of per-
son of thirty. while the body was as small
as that of a child of two. This marvel
Gus result had been obtained by placing
the victim. when child. in jar from
which the head alone protruded. This
grew abnormally large. while the body e.
manned stationary in its narrow prison
house.
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occupied high dais that extended across
the end of the ballroom. The buildings
were lighted with gas. So much in the
way of description.
Toward noon of the 18th the sun
shone out for an hour, but it was dull,
orange-hued orb. surrounded by yellow,
misty haze that changed constantly. As
night came on the sky was covered with
cloud of deepest blackness. There w2s
a renewal of the vivid sheet lightning,
but no thunder. The sea was in such
a-iiat:na as tie 'dest p esent had never
before seen. Great, brilliant lights burst
from the waves as they were rolled in by
the tremendous southwest wind. Deep.
phosphorescent fires. incandescent in ser
pentine forms, were seen rising from the
waves Likes shadowy monsters. And, most
terrible of all. there was distinctly audi
bic at intervals in the blackness and
gloom an unearthly moan from the
depths of the sea.
Panic Among the Women.
The women became seriously fright
ened and the men realized that nature
was in one of her most unusual and mar
velous moods. Still, no one anticipated
any real danger. There had been great
storms before This was but the begin
ming of the equinoctial blow. The ball
room was lighted. There was nothing
else TO do but go to the dance. Women
clothed themselves for the evenings ball.
aided by the deft-handed maids, but with
hearts i'll at ease. Other thoughts than
those of conouests were filling their souls
with dread of what might come. But
they would go; perhaps the gay dresses.
the brilliant lights, the soft sweet dance
music might drive away the vague fears
that oppressed their souls.
At 10 o'clock the dance was at its
height Outside the storm was raging.
The intense blackpess of darkness was
broken by the constant broad flashes of
lightning and phosphorescent blaze OF the
sea. A terrible wind blew. with torrents
of slanting rain that was as warm as
newly drawn blood The band was play
ing one of Gottschalk's sweetest dreamy
W4ltZeS ne WIZ Ip1tsistuAau- tou
/ know. Creole Eyes" when girl
screamed Her white satin bootine had
| been wetted by water coming up through
I the floor.
/ Terror then beset all. A rush was made
I for the hotel. but the covered way was
gone. 1t had been carried of by ire
mendous wave of the raging sea Mothers
/ had left their little children asleep in the
other house. How should they get 10
them: 1t was utterly impossible unless
one had wings TO pass over the tossing,
| boiling food of maddened sea that rolled
between them OF the horrors that fol-
| lowed no living tongue could ever tell
But about midnight strange sea moan
that became a roar grew nearer and
louder until il was like 10000 laundering
NiaSaras. 1t Vas a tidal vaye. 1000
miles long. ten miles wide and sixty feet
high, And as it rolled resistiess. hotel,
ballroom. alI-ail was swallowed up IN
the nav of the pitiless sea- Men. women
| and little ones were parted never again
to NEE, until that 6nai day, when the
sea shall give up It's dead.
Such . tragedy had never been Known
before in the nations history Nothing
was left Of the lovely isle but few
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-11
An Inves.men. Not an Expense.
IF,om the PhIadeIphis Rscora.l

IFyom the PhiigdeIphia Record
A large and suecessful advertiser says
that when he first went into business be
regarded newspaper advertising as an ex-
pense which was important, but not es-
sentiai to success but little experience
taught him to view regular and system
attic advertising in the most widely circu-
lated newspapers as an investment or a
necessary part of the capital put into
his establishment. Like any other safe
investment he says. the newspaper
'ad brings in profits. and without it an
enterprise falls short of its possibilities
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The terrible cyclone that destroyed Gal
weston island Is not the first calamity of
the kind that has occurred in the Mexi-
can gulf. 1t wildly recalls an incident
that will ever live in memory. Over forty
years ago there was a similar calamity in
the destruction Of Last island, off the
Louisiana coast. by cyclone. September
u. 1856
Last island was long. low streak of
green. bound around the edge with a line
of intensely white sand. Seen in those
days from the Louisiana mainland tiff
teen miles away. the lower end of the
parish of Lafourchel. and part of the
parish Of ST Mary's tthe garden of Lou
isiauaD. it seemed but a slender bit of
green floating upon the bosom of the
summer sea. As YOU drew nearer the
land displayed its charms The island
proper was about seven miles wide by
about twenty-five long The soil was very
rich and highly cultivated. Propinquity
brought out as in a delicate photograph
all It's lines of radiant beauty. OF forest
So deep and dense in the far south there
was none. hut q few enormous live-oak
trees had grown upon the island. and in
1he world of light % the Semi-;ropical
moon. covered from crown 10 lowest
boush with long gray moss of the lati-
tude. they seem like great giants wrap
ped in their funeral robes. waving their
arms aloft as they led from a coming
dies irae. Beyond these there were no
forest trees. as has been said. The island
was hut one long sand spit tonly q few
fc,t a),ovc the highest tide level of the
seaA. covered with everything green. But
it was n very Eden Of flowers. The
fallen leaves Of the live-oak for centuries
had created In their decay bed of rich
aunviurn. which artificial means had
greatly increased The everwarm air
from the further south seas had given
TO the shrub growth an extraordinary
richness Of verduue. The orange and
lemon trees. the olive. the oleander
(Which in I.ouisiana Is tree thirty feet
hirhl all OF the tribe Of japonicss. and
the SCENTED summer flower. ieSsamine
yellow and cape. and hundreds ef Others
unknown outside the tropics. made the
island corruscsnt with brilliant eoiored
blossoms. IL seemed that all that was
rich and lovely and beautiful in the vese-
tation of the seuii-tropics here found Is
most congenial home.
Resort of Southern Fashion,
In the evening when the sum wen;
down and the warm south wind drew II
from the sea. the sir would be heavy NTH
sweet but unfamiliar flower doors You
would be enveloped in a very cares o.
perfume. direct from the heart OF ths
great white Persian iessamine. An. the
dreamy. happy life Of that wonderful isls
in the days of long ago, True ], was
watering place. with most spei.iid surf
bathing on the side dext TIE oren sea.
But it had none of the earishness OF sea-
coast places Of later DAYS IL could never
have been like Long Branch or Cape May.
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Fate of Last Island,

To gamblers and games of the half-world
Last island was as difficult as paradise.
Ii was impossible to pass the argus eyes
of the doyen who watched the gangway
of the boat as the passengers came on
board for the enchanted isle. as for Adam
to return to Eden when it was guarded
by the angel with the flaming sword. The
men who gathered there were not strang
ers to each other. for in Louisiana then
everybody who was anybody knew of his
Quaintance. no matter in what region he
lived So there was spot. not very much
known to the outer world. where could
gather, when summer days became long
and the dog star ragged. the great cotton
planting magnates of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Alabama or the rich, courtly
Creole sugar growers from the Bayou
I.afourche country. or the Cote dor. on
the Mississippi river. and their congeners,
the American sugar planters from the
Felicianas and wealthy. aristocratic RAJ
pides
Once year the very cream of the
country side gentry from the states
named. with sprinkling of wealthy ''city
men,. merchants and factors from New
Orleans. few bankers, popular clergy
men from the rich city parishes, with
their wives and daughters. would oongre-
gate 81 Last island and eat of the divin-
est combinations of the French cuisine,
produced by cordons hleus, drink-spar-
ingly. generally-of the good red wines
OF France for your old-time planter. es-
pecially if he was of Creole blood, never
abused Gods good things''-take daily
plunges into the warm surf, and thus
oecSrously enjoy a month of dolce far
nieate Never We're men more courtly.
Never were women lovelier. 1t was the
very paradise OF gentle, graceful. courte-
Gus attention to beautiful women.
Brilliant Season of 1896.
The season of 1886 at Last island was
one OF the most charming ever known
since the famous watering place had been
established. Never did brave men and
charming women cougresate st this
f charming rendezvous in greater num-
bers or in s fuller, finer spirit of happi-
ness aud hopeful expectation. The sea-
son was at its height. Not only was the
hotel proper fiIled. bnt the dozen or 50 #
COTTAGES generally known as the bach
elors' quarters--were all occupied by as
high bred. as gallant and gay a company
of gentlemen as the entire south could
show.
The morning Of September 10. 1865,
was one Of almost unearthly loyellness.
4 The sea was sometimes as smooth As
translucent glass, now as green as an en-
erald. then sapphire-hued. Its surface
was covered with faintish. misty haze
Its loneliness was supernal. The fishing
boats in sight seemed like great white
sea binds. trailing their wings as they
hasked in the morning sunbeaHs- As
the sun rose higher the sea mist van.
ished. But such day as il was. The
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Mr. Grundy has replied 10 this that
he was quite ignorant of the fact that
Mrs Clifford had written this play and
that ne had never seen the story on
which it is based in Temple Bar, or the
printed drama itself in the Anglo-Saxon
Review. lie adds: My play was writ
ten and in Mr.. Alexander's possession
two years before l heard of the existence
of Mrs. Cliford's play and story. My
contract with Mr.. Alexander, made after
the acceptance of the manuscript. bears
date of July ., 1885 What is still
more remarkable is that Mrs. Clifford
submitted her play TO Mr.. Alexander 81
a much earlier date, but the manager
actor evidently had forgotten all about
it when he read Mr.. Grundy's drama;
he certainly did not mention the SINH
larity. But, then. he probably sees too
many plays to remember the ones he re
fuses The discussion has been carried
on with exemplary courtesy. Mrs. Cliff
ford making it plain that she does not
suspect Mr. Grundy of plagiarism. u
is likely that her play. too. viii be pro-
duced ere long, when the verdict OF the
public may be expected. The differences
between the two are said to be as stris-
ing as the similarities.
Mrs. Corinne Churchill does not need
the reflected glory given by her stepson's
literary reputation as the author #
Richard Carvel" to make her famous.
She Is a woman OF versatile talents and
her accomplishments include music.
both vocal and instrumental. and that
other gentle art So dear 10 the diet
tante-painting Mrs Churchill Is
native of New York. Her husband Ed
ward SpauIding Churchill. belongs to the
titled English branch of that name. Her
work as an artist includes both animal
and marine painting and examples OF
each class OF her wors have brought high
prices. Mrs. Churchill excels as mu-
stefan in the mastery OF the organ and
harp. and as composer and song
writer Her Richard Caryel" march :
becoming widely known. Her latest ef-
fort Is the Sunshine Waltz" dedicated
10 Mrs Cynthia Westover Alden, presi-
dent OF the International Sunshine .ocie-
ty. An opera entitled ~Ougrita." pro-
dueed in Brussels some years ago. at
tracted much attention and general COM
mendation. Mrs Churchill is now az
work on another opera. TO be produced
in New York this winter. She is often
the leading figure at entertainments given
for charity and is lavish with her talents
for the benefit Of Others.
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RON THE OLD NORTH STATE AND IT'S CAPITAL. Is

ored man by the name of Groom. While
the weapon was being examined by
Groom 1t was accidentally discharged,
the ball, a No. SO. entered the left side
of Brooks face. between the nose and
the cheek bone. Brooks ran into the
laundry room and told Mr.. Dayberry
he was shot, and as the negro came in
behind Brooks with the pistol in his
hand, Mr.. Dalyberry naturally thought
he was pursuing Brooks in the hope of
getting another shot at him, and
seized club and made for the negro.
but hasty explanation from Brooks
probably saved the negroes life.
DR.. Street was called in Immediately,
and as Brooks was bleeding very pro-
fusely from the wound and from the
mouth and nose. 1t was thought he was
fatally hurt. After some time the doc
tor succeeded In stopping the flow Of
blood. but thought 1t unwise to probe
for the ball until Brooks recovered
from the loss of blood
Saturday night DR.. Duguid, Of this
city. and DR.. Taylor, of Aurora, eX-
amined the wound and located the ball,
which was lodged in the cheek bone
about two inches from where it en-
tered the face. They thought it I'M
practicable to extract the ball at pres
ent. Sunday afternoon the young man
was resting very we'll under the cir
cumstances.
After the shooting at the laundry
Groom was arrested, but as the father
OF young Brooks was satisfied that 1t
was purely an accident he recommend
ed the release of Groom. which was
accepted by Mayor Patterson, and the
Mortified negro was allowed to go in
peace.
A cutting ARRAY took place in a bar
on lower Middle street Saturday night
about 10:30 O'clock. in which a man by
the name of Pollock was very seriously
cut in the neck and face by another
man by the name of Buck Buck made
good his escape and up to this writing
had not been arrested. Both parties
to the ARRAY were negroes.
Duck shooting is the sport of the day
IN the rivers and sounds below this
city. The Blades hunting party, COM
posed OF some Of our most prominent
citizens, accompanied by some New
York sportsmen. arc off on n hunting
tour. Grover Cleveland IS not in the
gang, but Bill Ellis is, and Grover NAV
look to his laurels.