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The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
Huldy Ann
written For the Washington Star,
BY <. Louise Liddell.
T was Hubby AIMS eleventh birth

TT was Hubby AIMS eleventh birth
day, and she had a secret She
was dreadfully afraid Aunt Jane
would find out about 1.-THE secret,
| mean. She was sure the birthday
would never be thought Of. The little
girls father and mother were dead,
and she had lived with her splnster
aunt for nearly a year. She thought
Aunt Jane didn't care whether she had
a good time or not, but possibly she
was mistaken. She had slipped out of
the kitchen now, on the sly, for fear
she would be told to sew patchwork
Or do "stent" on the hateful stocking
she was knitting She had other plans.
She was looking anxiously down the
road that led to the village. 1t wasn't
ong before she saw what she was look
ing for They're comingw she said
excitedly. She had been half afraid
they wouldn't come, and the other half
afraid that they would. And now there
they were!
She made sure that no one was
watching before she ran to meet them
or it-for it was her party that she
was expecting. That was Huldy AIMS
secret; she was to have n party, and
Aunt Jane didn't know the first thing
about It,
1t wasn't a very big party, to be sure,
only Hattie Larkln and her little sister
Fannie and the Foster twins. Hattie
was n sedatc miss of twelve, with blue
eyes and faXen bralds. Little Fan was
bluer.eyed. and her hair was flaXener,
and hung in ringlets over her chubby
neck. Fan always reminded Huldy
Ann Of an angel Though Of course she
had never seen one). The Foster sis
ters, Kate and Lizzie. were rosy
checked. black-eyed damsels of ten,
with closely cropped brown heads.
They (the twins were not in the least
angelic
I'm most 'fraid we're too early"
remarked Hattie, with a s-elong
glance at Hubby AIMS brown calico
dress and sunbonnet.
The four visitors wore splck-and-
span light prints, so stiffly starched
that they fairly cracked when their
wearers moved.
Huldy Ann noticed the glance and
blushed. "No, you aint a mite too
early" she replied 81 didn't dress up
II thought p'raps We might like to
dig in the sand heap"
The visitors looked at thelr clean
gowns and at each other. Il didn't
s'pose folks dug in sand heaps at par
ties" spoke up Lizzie Foster. II
s'posed they played games in the
house"
"There are differentkinds of parties
said Huldy Ann. with dignity. you
see she hadn't planned for a house
party. Lets sit down under the big
elm and rest a SPELL, she went on.
How she did wish she knew what to do
next! To tell the truth she had never
been to a party in all her life
81 don't fink thith party ith much
fun" lisped little Fan. after the girls
had been sitting in awkward silence
for a few moments.
"The party hasn't begun yet" an
swered Huldy Ann, nearly distracted
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

roots that look like small streams CT
pitch flowing down around the tree
trunk. When they reach tho ground
they begin to harden and spread wider
and wider, throwing out side branches,
which run together and unite, until
the whole tree is bound with a series
Of irregular living bands. The bark
between them bulges out and tries to
overlap, but the clusia prevents this
by making its roots more numerous
and wide.
AS the tree becomes more tightly
bound it's leaves begin to fall, and
finally 1t is strangled to death. After
a few years it rots to the ground
leaving only the clusla's column Of
tangled roots to mark the place where
1t stood. od.-Cincinnati Commercial Trl-
bun0.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
The Vegetable Python.

Such is the clusia Of tropical forests,
which, instead of growing up from
the ground, grows down to 1t from
the tops Of other trees.
Its seed is provided with pulp
very pleasant to the taste of many
birds, and it is carried from tree to
tree by them and deposited on the
branches. There it commences to grow
by putting out innumerable delicate
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

Professor Charles Wilson has an
.ounced to the Royal Society a new de-
termination of the temperature of the
sun, which, with due allowance for
slight unavoidable errors, is placed at
G200 degrees centigrade Q1,192 Fahr).
If the probable absorption OF the suns
radiated heat by its own atmosphere is
allowed for the mean temperature of
the suns body Is placed at 66OO de-
grees centigrade. Professor Wilson
started his calculations almost ten
years ago.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

In the construction of a municipal
electrical generating plant for the city
Of Geneva the engineers found them
selves confronted with great difficult
" in the constantly varying water level
of the River Rhone. In order to over
come the INCONSISTENCY of the water
supply a two-storled station was con-
structed, with two turbines built one
above the other on the dynamo shaft.
The plant comprises eighteen sets of
these turbines. The total capacity of
the plant is $4,000 horse power.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

A portable street light Of great lllu-
minating power is the device Of the
Westminster County Council for les
senlng accidents from London fogs A
cylindrical tank eighteen inches in dl-
ameter and two feet high is charged
with twenty-five gallons Of petroleum
and compressed air forces vapor from
the oil into standpipe provided with
a burner. On igniting the torch flares
up eighteen inches to two feet, with a
,wer of 1000 candies.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

The Field Columbian Museum, Chi
cago has recently received a meteorite
seen to fall in Saline Township, Sher.
idan County, Kan. 1t has the form of
an irregular, somewhat tabular poly
hebron, bounded by eight approximate.
~ plane surfaces. 1t weighs sixty.
eight pounds ten ounces. 1t is covered,
except where a few small fragments
have been broken off, with a thick
black coat in strong contrast with the
gray hue of the interior A brief chem.
lcal and microscopic examination
shows the chief constituent minerals
to be chrysolite, bronZeite and nickel
iron.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

chat although IL was growing late in
the afternoon the party showed no
signs of peacefully disbanding. She
began to have dreadful misglvings that
it-or they-would insist on going home
with her.
Sure enough before long the Foster
girls began to wonder if there would
be "ice cream for supper" Then Hat
tie inquired, Don't you think it's time
were getting back to the house? It'll
be dark pretty soon."
Huldy Ann dreaded the dark. But
still more she dreaded the sight of
Aunt Jane. "Oh. 1 don't know" she
said. Il guess 'tlsn't so very late"
While she was speaking big drop
Of rain fell plump on her nose, and q
low peal of thunder rumbled in the dis
tarce.
Dear mel I'm scared to death Of
thunder!' cried Hattie, turning pale.
Pooh" said Huldy Ann. nobody
was ever killed by thunder"
But a sharp fash of lightning and
fast-falling raindrops proved too much
even for Huldy AIMS courage, and she
scampered down the hill with the other
children, almost running against a GOV.
cred wagon and an old white horse
that stood at the foot Of the lane.
why, Joel, is that you?" cried the
little girl.
"Wall, l guess 'tis," answered Joel
"Your aunt sent me to fetch you home
We kinder thought you'd be up in the
lane
The shower was soon over, bur
Huldy Ann was very thoughtful all the
way home. When the farmhouse was
in sight she put her mouth close tc
Joers ear and whispered: Does Aunt
Jane know there's anybody with me?"
Certain" answered Joel, his eyes
twlnkling. "The Larkin girls ma and
The Foster girls ma both came over tc
: AXE 'em home from the party"
Anyway, she can't mOre'n kill me-
thought Hubby Ann.
But when they drove up to the door
| there stood Aunt Jane looking real
pleasant And when they got into the
big, cool kitchen, with its yellow paint
| ed floor and vine covered windows
there was the supper table spread with
cold meat, hot biscuit, cake pie, pre-
serves, cheese, pickles and dear knows
how many other indigestible goodies.
Nobody thought Of ice cream, ana
| everybody enjoyed the feast, excepting
-perhaps-Huldy Ann; her conscience
was troubling her. She felt very
proud, though, when Aunt Jane set be
fore her big, frosted cake with clever
pink peppermints on top, and told hel
10 cut the birthday cake.
1t was a very quiet little girl thai
stood beside her aunt an hour later
watching the visitors out OF sight
Aunt Jane" she said shyly, as they
turned to go into the house. you're
awful good. I'm sorry l acted So"
Aunt Jane pursed up her lips in q
queer smile. "Never mind" she said
"only the next time you think Of givln
a party, / guess you'd better let me
know beforehand"
"Yes'm," said Huldy Ann meekly.
|
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

poisoned implement will probably
cause death.
The poison is generally obtained
from a plant or tree, such as the
deadly upaS tree of Java, The Ameri.
can Indian has used the venom of
snakes. In order to procure it he tied
a small piece of meat to the end of
stick and then went in search of a
rattlesnake or viper. Upon finding
one, he induced it to strike the meat
as often as possible by getting it into
an angry mood. This was repeated
with other snakes until the meat was
filed with venom. To poison the ar
rows the points were jabbed several
times into the meat, after which n
wound from one Of them was as deadly
as the bite Of the snake itself.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
A RIch Find.

The richest gold and silver strike
ever made in the famous Parral dis.
trict in Mexico has been made in the
San Juanica property of the Hidalgo
Mining Company, AT depth OF 200
feet an Independent and unexplored,
vein was discovered carrying $500
ton in gold and silver
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
Curious Phenomenon of psIoo Erupne

While the fiery tornado, passing to-
ward the south and west, wldened the
sweep Of its destructive power in or
der to extend its devastatiOns farther,
another remarkable phenomenon came
to stop it in its course. Two strong
atmospheric currents, laden with rain,
moving, one from the southeast, the
other from the north, fell of sudden
upon the sides Of the fiery spout, and,
enclrcling it along distinctly marked
line, cooled it TO such a point that
have seen persons who, finding them
selves precisely upon this line of de.
marcatiOn. were struck on one side by
fiery missiles, while on the other. and
only a few feet away. nothing was
falling but the rain of mud. cinders
and stones which descended on the
countryside everywhere the de-
scription by the Vcar-General of Mar
Unique in the Century.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
Poisoned Arrows.

1t Is a practice of savage tribes in
most all parts of the world to put
poison on the points of their spears and
arrows that they may be more effect
i've against their enemies, for a wound
which under ordinary circumstances
would heal quickly If made with
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
OFFICERS:

President, Chas c. Lancaster; 1st
Vice President, Jas. l.. Tate; 2nd Vice
President, Col Robert l, Fleming; Bird
Vice President, A. E. Shoemaker; 4th
Vice President, DR.. A. M. Ray; 9th Vice
President, Prof. Louis L. Hooper; Secre-
tary, DR.. j. W. Chapel; Treasurer,
Chas. r. Morgan; Sergeant.ut-Arms,
Andrew j. Berga; Chairman Executive
Copmittee, Louis p Shoemaker.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

A few years hence an elopement h
high life may be accomplished with thf
aid VI an airship.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
Citizens Northwest Suburban
Association.

Meetings are held tho First Fri
day Evening in Each Month in
the Town HnIl. renleytown, DC.
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30

swordhsh Kills Fisherman.
The drowning Of man by sword
The suburban citizen., 1902-08-30
BrightWO0d Park Citizens
Association.
Meetings are held the Third
Tuesday Evening I'm each month
in Thomas Hall.
OFFICERS:

OFFICERS:
President, W. Mex. Clayton; Vice.
President, Chas w. Parker; Secretary,
Frank j. Metcalf; Treasurer, w. 5.
Detwiler.
gay- Total membership about rs
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
ROBBERY WAS DARING.
Details of the Bank. Robbery In Iowa
Town, Where Bandits Held
Citizens at Bay.
Five Charges of Dynamite Necessary
to Blow Open the Bank Safe
by the Robbers.
General Alarm Is S.unded and Posse
with Pack of Hounds Is
Now in Pursuit.

Des Moines, Oct. 29.-The boldest
bank robbery occurring in Iowa in re.
cent years took place at Prairie City
early Tuesday morning. The robbers
dynamited the safe of the Iowa State
bank and secured an amount approx
ilnating $4,000. They exchanged a
fusilade of shots with local officers
and escaped.
Night Watchman Erskine discovered
four men approaching the bank at l
o'clock. One of the men cornered him
and kept him covered with a rifle for
three hours while another broke open
the bank door and worked on the safe.
The other two men patrolled the street
and by system of signals were able
to hold at bay dentist, physician
and two or three other citizens who
were attracted to the scene Five dy.
Mantle shots were fired by the man
in the bank before he succeeded in
getting at the cash box.
The sum secured was mostly silver
although it included quantity of cur
rency. At 4 o'clock the four men left
the bank and disappeared in an easter
ly direction, after firing number OF
shots to terrify those who had seen
them and shooting through door in
an effort to hit Erskine, who had
opened fire A general alarm was
given and posse is now on their trail
| with a pack of hounds.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
OFFICIALS STILL HOPEFUL.
Expect to Have Cuban Treaty Ready
for Congress.

for Congress.
Washington, Oct. 29.-The fact re-
corded in the news dispatches from
Havana that President Palma has re-
turned to Washington the draft of the
reciprocity treaty without his approval
has not shaken the belief of the Of
ficials here that they will have treaty
ready to submit to congress by the
date of it's next meeting. AS soon as
Mr.. Quesada, the Cuban minister here,
receives the document he will submit
1T to Secretary Hay. The latter al
ready has knowledge of the general
nature of the objection found by the
Cuban government. Then negotiations
will be continued on the basis of the
original draft For it is explicitly
stated that the proposition submitted
by the state department was in no
sense an ultimatum and the matter. is
still open to adjustment. Generally
stated the Cuban objections are based
on belief that the United States has
demanded undue concessions in the
remissions of duties on United States
products entering Cuba, ranging all
the way from 10 per cent to 80 per
cent, in return for 20 per cent cut
on Cuban sugar and tobacco coming
into the United States. AS the diff
ference is one strictly of figures and
not OF principle it is the opinion at the
state department that it can be set
tied amicably
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY,
AMENABLE IN CIVIL COURTS.
important Decision Regarding the
Trial of an Army Officer.

San Francisco, Oct. pa decision
of more than usual interest was rem
dered in the United States circuit
court of appeals during the day when
it decided that the members of the
United States army are amenable in
the civil courts of the country for Of
lenses other than those committed
solely in violation of army rules The
decision was delivered in the case o.
Lieutenant John N. Neall a Preside
officer, convicted of forgery in 1898
before jury and sentenced to serve
two years in prison.
NealPs attorneys appealed from the
lower courts findings and the jury S
verdict, claiming that, as Neall and
all the parties concerned in his al.
legged offense were members of the
United States army, Neall's trial
should have been a courtmartial un
der the articles of war;
The higher court will not grant that
error occurred in this particular.
After an exhaustive argument, deal
ing with the Constitutions utterances
on the subject, the court of appeals
denied the petition for a reversal ot
the decision and upholds completely
the Judgment of the lower court.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29

Washington, Oct 29.-The last
Colombian note respecting the canal
treaty, which arrived in Washington
several days ago, has not yet been de-
livered to the state department and
there is some reason to fear that a
serious hitch is impending.
This note was framed at Bogota,
Sept. IA last, a day prior to the ar
rival of Admiral Casey in Isthmian
waters, and his checking Of the pas
sage of troops across the isthmus by
rail. Since that date the admiral has
had several occasions to exercise a po.
lice power over the Panama railroad
and in the harbors at either end.
There is reason to believe that these
assertions of power, though in the
view of the state department exer.
cised strictly within the limit of the
treaty between the United States and
Colombia by which the former guar.
antees freedom of traffic across the
isthmus, is viewed by Colombia with
growing apprehension and suspicion
Such an event as that recorded Mon.
day, for instance. in which Admiral
Casey challenged the papers of the
Colombian warship Bogota, boat ac
Quired in the United States for use by
the Colombian government, is regarded
by the Co1ombians as direct asser
ton of United States sovereignty
which they cannot allow to go with
out protest Therefore there is reason
to believe that this last Colombian
note, which might in itself have af
forded the necessary means for com
plete agreement between the two
countries, is being delayed in presenta
tion in order that the Colombian gov
ernment at Bogota may have an op
portunity to qualify it or withhol
entirely in view of the recent events
which have been SO distasteful tt
them.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.
Russian Officials Study Its Causes and
Propose Remedies.

ST. Petersburg, Oct. 29.-The reports
OF the local committees on the agr:cul
tural depression are receiving wide
publication here, whole pages Of the
newspapers being filled with them.
The Russkyia Veddomosti, one Of
The ablest newspapers in &ussia, has
carefully followed the work of the To-
cal committees and now prints gen
eral review.
The view has prevailed in most of
the committees" says this Liberal or
gan, that the inquiry into the causes
of the agricultural depression rem
dered it indispensable to study the
fundamental laws of the country.
They undertook this task in all sir
cerity and with all seriousness. 1t has
been found that the aim in view, agri-
cultural improvement, can be at
tained through no agrenomic, technical
measures or special measures for the
benefit of special branches of produc-
ton.
According to the majority of the
committees no improvement in agri-
cultural or in the economic life of the
agricultural portion of the population
are possible without the removal OF
the main hindrances to progress. Such
hindrances are the low plane Of civili-
cation and the legal status of the pop
ulation on the one hand, and land
hangers, inequitable taxation and ex-
cessive protection of manufactures on
the other.
MANY committees have made uni
versal education their basic demand
and have directed attention to the in
suf1ciencies of existing schools. Many
have laid equal emphasis upon the
necessity of a change in the legal po-
sition of the peasants, of the emanci.
patton of the villagers from bureau.
cratic tutelage and of a thorough
change in the local court organiza
ton"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
BOUNDARY LINE LOCATED.
Monuments Set by Russian Govern
ment Discovered.


Seattle, Wash, Oct 29.-Advices
were received from J.:reau on the
steamer Dolphin that i,e missing
Russian boundary monuments which
have been SO energetically searched
Cor by Lieutenant Emmons for the past
two seasons had been discovered by
prospector OF the Porcupine district
named James H. de Blondeau He is
native of Marseilles, France. but has
interested himself in the Porcupine
district anG the modus vivendi strip
for several years. Through his friend
ship with the Chilkat Indians he
gained information which gave him
clew to the position of the first mon
ument. From this start he followed
along and discovered several more of
the old landmarks put up years ago
by the czar's followers. The line
marked by these monuments is about
hive miles inland from Pleasant camp,
Which is seventeen miles from, Kluk-
won. The latter is five miles
from tldewater on the Chilkat
river. This makes the Russian
survey line approximately twenty
seven miles inland to the sum-
mit-less than ten marine leagues and
just where it was expected to be from
the language used in the Anglo-Rus-
sian treaty of 1925 The Rainy Hol-
low district is within American terri
tory.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
CHOLERA KILLS THOUSANDS.
Cholera and Plague Are Causing Fear
full Havoc in Several ORR
entail Countries.
Several Islands in the Philippine Group
Are Badly Infected With
the Plague. e..
Epidemic Also Continues to Claim Nu.
merous Victims in the Egyp-
tian Countries.

Washington, Oct. 29.-The fearful
ravages of plague and cholera in the
Old World are set forth in mail ad-
vices received by the marine hospital
service. From Manila Chief Quaran-
tine Officer Perry makes a conserva-
tive estimate that the cases of cholera
that have actually occurred in the
Philippine islands since March 80 last
aggregate $4,000, with mortality of
75 per cent. He says, under date of
Sept. 10, that the disease has practi-
cally disappeared from those provinces
first infected, but those most recently
affected are suffering. The province
of Iloilo and the adjacent island Of
Negros are badly infected and the sit
uation is alarming. Some of the towns
in these provinces have lost 10 per
cent of their population and the cpl
demic continue severe. In Japan the
latest advices show that there have
been 1929 cases and 1850 deaths from
cholera. The cholera situation in Chi
ma is summed up as follows,
In the province of Human and Shansi
the cities report as follows: Nanking,
epidemic, 10000 deaths; Fo Choy, ep-
idemic; Shou Kan Haien, epidemic.
5000 per day; Hsinchou, epidemic;
Tai Yuan Flu, epidemic; Hsiatoahent-
ze, epidemic; Shou Yang, epidemic:
Shihlich, epidemic; Cheng Chen, ep-
idemic B."
In Hong Kong since the beginning
of the outbreak there have been 459
cases and 396 deaths. Notwithstanding
this the local authorities declare the
colony free from plague infection.
According to a representative of the
director general of the Egyptian de-
partment of health the cholera cpl
demic continues to claim large num-
ber of victims. The number of in
fected places increased to 1857. The
number of cases registered during the
week ended Sept. Is amounted to
99,467 with S,27S deaths.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-10-29
VICTIMS DAUGHTER TEsTIFIEe.
Mrs. FIorenc. Rogers Gives Evidence
in MoIineux Murder T rial.

New York. Oct. 29.-Mrs. Florence
Rogers, daughter of Mrs. Katherine J.
Adams, OF whose murder Roland B.
Molineux is accused was the most
conspicuous witness on the stand at
the trial during the day. Her appear
ance attracted an unusual crowd Of
women, who followed, the examination
of the witness with the keenest atten-
tion. Mrs. Rogers was subjected to
a close examination regarding her re-
lations with Harry Cornish, suit little
that was significant was eliciSed In
this line Of inquiry. Mrs. Rogers re.
lated the circumstances of her
mothers death Immediately after talk,
ing the poison and identified the glass
in which the fatal draught was ad.
ministered, and from which, she said.
she afterWard saw Cornish drink. The
greater part OF the session was de.
voted to the examination OF handwrit.
ing experts. who testified to the iden.
ftity of specimens of Molineux's ad.
mitted handwriting with the address
on the poison package and that of the
disputed letters.