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does not depend on whether one man owns
the capital stock of "A railway or another
whether the capital stock Is owned by ten
men or 1900. by persons or by corpora
tions.
THE capital stock of a railway company
is personal property, TO be sold, TO be
transferred from one man TO another, and
any one may purchase and hold all that
he has means to buy and pay for. The
capital stock of the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern will be held by some
body. persons or corporations, IL not by
the present owners, by other owners. Sup
pose by death Of present owners the stock
should be scattered and a majority of il
finds its way into the hands OF those inter
ested in competing lines serving the coun-
try TO the north Of or the south of the
territory served by the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific Would the peo-
pie along the lines Of those railways be
benefited? If the present owners of
majority of the stock of the two COM
panies could be compelled to sell it or dis
pose OF IL on the markets, would ii fall into
hands more interested in the development
and in the prosperity of the Northwest
than its present owners? How is ii that
the lines have been extended and i'm
proved? What brought about the present
condition OF prosperity of the two COM
panies? What has enabled them to serve
the people along the lines as they have
the ability Of those controlling large in
terests of the stock of the company, who
found IL TO their advantage TO build up
the territory tributary to it ard who will
continue it,
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
Mr.. Hill called attention to the former
high rates on the great lakes and how
Northwestern interests had established new
lines and forced reductions in rates from
the East, and by means of new elevators
had compelled lower rates there also. At
ter further touching on rate reductions he
said: THE situation of the general rail-
road conditions in the United States at the
present time are hardly understood. For
the year ending June 80 1890. the number
or tons carried one mile by all the rail-
roads was 76,207 900. 900 tons In 1900 it was
l4l,6OOUOO,O0O, as shown by the interstate
commerce reports. In 1901 a safe estimate
will bring this to leo. 900 600 900 tons carried
one mile, an Increase of 120 per cent. in
eleven years. During this time the mileage
of the railroads in the United States in
creased eighteen per cent. While the tons
moved show an increase of 120 per cent,
the earnings show an increase of less than
forty per cent. During this time the rates
have been reduced TO the extent of that
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. g.
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ST. VINCENT ERUPTION.
A Curious Feature Observed by Prof.
Russell After the Volcanoes
UpheaVaI,

In Century Prof, Russell prints
the following bit of personal obser-
walton among his conclusions concern
inc the West Indian eruptions:
1.-THE distribution of hot material
discharged from La Soufriere in belt
across the island Of st. Vincent, in
stead of over a V-shaped area as at
Martinique, seemed to have an init
mate connection with the position of
the crater near the summit of La Sou
friere and the influence of the trade
winds on the distribution of the mate
rial discharged from it. AS is well
known, the depth of the layer of the
atmosphere affected by the trade
winds is comparatively shallow, and
above it the air is moving from west
TO east. The stones and dust shot
upward from La Soufriere rose
through the trade-wind layer, and
were carried eastward by the upper
air-current. On falling, however,
they again met the influence of the
westward blowing trades and were
given slant in a westward direction
sufficient to allow them to pass
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have since graduated to New York.
The change came most rapidly
when. about four or five years ago,
spectators began putting small fam
ily hotels on the choice corners of
the Heights. Then the places Gin be-
tween had to become boarding
houses Some of the new boarders
were thus, by the changes of time,
thrown into luxurious surroundings,
as when a Bohemian newspaper man
was enabled to thrust his legs out
to an open fire in what had been
Bishop Littlejohn's great library on
Joralemon street. The nearness Of
the region to Wall street and to the
big business buildings of downtown
make it favorite with fairly well
paid clerks and the newly married
people who have not yet tackled
housekeeping. L suppose it is the
greatest clearinghouse center in the
world, except Bloomsbury, London.
in the shadow of the British museum
What a 100000 trust can do in
the business of boarding l fail to see
1t can run prices up, of course
They're high enough now. In the
typical boarding house the landlady
figures upon paying her rent with
what she gets from the 'sstar
boarder" who occupies the, ''sec-
ond floor 'front.' This puts upon
the occupant the necessity of
putting up for himself and
his wife, if he be married, from $50 to
$50 per week. Hall bedroom board"
for less than ten dollars per week is
not to be had in anything like a con-
venient or choice locality. In summer.
apartments are sublet for half their
usual cost. Many are then occupied
by people from the country. who take
this opportunity of seeing city life
when it is lived mostly out of doors.
This summer the weather has made
that course especially enjoyable.
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in any man which can compensate a
woman for the endurance of these
aforesaid domestic troubles. When I
am bored and ideas will not come, can
put on my hat and look in at my club;
but if anything is worrying my bet
ter half she cannot do likewise. She
has to stay and see it through; and
when [ come back and it is all over,
T expect her to be at her brightest
and prettiest, to tell me that life has
been dull without me. But just think
of the appalling monotony of the life
of woman who, either from the limi-
tations of income, or other reasons,
spends most of her day in the house
worrying over details of domestic adj
ministrationi No one can leave things
to servants nowadays; they remain
left, and the servants leave also. But
a woman has to attend to this, to ar
that the butcher is not trying to slim
ulate her interest in the colonies by
always leaving New Zealand meat and
charging for the genuine article, and
a thousand other little things of that
kind She has to endure all the local
callers, be bothered by this, that and
the other, keep the Saturday Review
out of her husbands reach when his
new novel appears, soothe his vanity,
see his shirt cuffs are presentable, in
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Powder Mas FatnI.

Charles w. Roberts, a former we'll
known newspaper man of this state,
was found dead at his home in RAJ
cine by his. wife on her return from
church. The day previous 1875 grains
of acetanilde were purchased for
Roberts, who was troubled with head
aches, and when search was made for
the powder but so grains were found,
and it is supposed that he took an
overdose, which resulted in death.
Roberts was 40 years of age, and
for years was connected with the
Racine Journal, Manitowoc News and
Milwaukee Free Press.
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that England annexed the Transvaal,
an incident which later brought about
the war between the English and the
Beers that began and ended at Ma
iuba Hill, with the independence of
the Transvaal again acknowledged by
the English government. The trouble
with Cetewayo was the beginning of
the Zulu war, which was not entirely
ended until 1889, though there were
several periods of tranquility.
It was during this war, on June l.,
1879, that Prince Louis Napoleon, at
tached to the British army in South
Africa, was killed.
The Matabeles, another tribe of So
called Kaffirs, whose territory lies to
the north of the Transyaal, and is now
comprised within the boundaries of
Rhodesia, have given both the Beers
and the English considerable trouble
dating back as far as 1886. The latest
trouble with this tribe came after the
establishment of the English protec-
torate over Rhodesia, and the coup of
Mr.. Rhodes, which secured that great
territory for England instead of Por-
tugal or the Transvaal Lobengula
was the leader of the tribe, and it was
with him that Mr.. Rhodes made the
treaties which opened up the terri
tory to settlement. With the estab-
lishment of settlements came disputes
between the whites and the natives,
and these eventually resulted in the
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as an irreparable misfortune. Even
now that Mr.. Cleveland is a resident
of New Jersey the democrats of this
state say that the greatest thing that
has happened for their party in years
was when the two former rivals APP
peared upon the same platform in this
city and addressed the people in har-
mony. This was one good result, for
the democratic party as we'll as for
the city of New York, of turning out
the outrageous gang that controlled
Tammany last fall. If candidate of
the type of Edward NJ. Shepard or Bird
S. Golfer or Lewis Nixon is named for
governor he may win; and he
may not; but the democrats
will feel easier about the fu-
ture of their party in state that has
decided good many presidential cleo
tions.
Hugh Mclaughlin, famous old
leader of Brooklyn democracy, has al
ways been a friend of Hill. They are
working together famously now. Shep-
ard and Coler are Brooklyn men,
friends, and to some extent discover
ers of Mclaughlin. That may mean
nothing. 1t may be better politics to
select a man from sup state" and en-
phasize the fact that the cleaner rural
element that has always stood ready
to help city democrats out of the Tam
many mud are in full control again.
OWEN LANGDON.
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English authorities display the great
est energy the Kaffirs are likely to
cause great trouble"
Since that statement was made the
signs of impending trouble, have. in
creased, and to, if possible, guard
against and suppress any raising of
the blacks England has been massing
considerable bodies of troops along
the western borders of the Transvaal
where the greatest danger lies. An au-
thority on the subject of affairs in
South Africa said in discussing the
present situation a few days ago:
among the immediate dangers in
the Transvaal, native attacks on Beers
returning to their farms and other as
saults are threatening to lead to seri-
Gus conflicts between Beers and blacks.
A great number of the blacks in the
country have managed to secure arms.
There is, therefore, the anomalous sit
uation of unarmed whites and armed
blacks in proximity on outlying
farms"
If war with the Kaffirs becomes
reality it will not be EngIand's first
experience of the kind with her black
subjects in South Africa. Trouble
from that source of a serious nature
dates back to 1919, when the Kaffir
chief Mokanna attacked Grahamstown,
and was only defeated after severe
fighting. The territory claimed by
this chief at that time extended from
fhr then northern boundaries of Cape
Colony to the Orange river, and while
to-day practically all the blacks of
South Africa are termed Kaffirs, the
term really belongs only to the mem
beers of this one tribe, whose country
was then called Kaffaria. Now, in
cluded in the term Kaffirs are the Zu-
1us. the Matabeles, the Swazis, the
Basutos and other lesser tribes. They
have become so mixed by migration
from one part of the country to the
other and by intermarriage that it is
hard to distinguish one from the
other.
Trouble with the Kaffirs occurred
again in 1884, then in 1850, 81, '52 and
'53. after which came time of peace
until 1878, when Langahballe made
trouble for the advancing settlements
of whites. Again in 1877 and rs came
troublous times. and it was during the
latter year that the famous raids of
Cetewayo made it necessary to dis
patch considerable numbers of Eng
lish soldiers to the affected districts.
Tt was during this time, also, that the
Beers were forced to call upon Eng
land for protection, and it was then
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After several years agitation and
much litigation Judge Webb has
handed down a decision in Marsh
field whereby $50 square miles of
unproductive cranberry swamp lands
are about to be put on productive
basis by means of drainage system.
The lands are in the counties of
Wood, Monroe, Jackson and Clark.
A decade ago the tract was one of
the greatest cranberry producing dis
tricts in the state. 1t began drying
up and each year saw the cranberry
crop diminish in its yield till finally
the greater portion of the industry
was given up. Since then the land
has laid a waste.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Used WEES Money.

That she furnished the money
which allowed her husband to elope
with his former stenographer, Miss
Ella Jansen, is the sensational charge
made to the police in Milwaukee by
Mrs. William Bremen. Recently Mrs.
Bremen furnished her husband with
about $3.50, she told Chief Jannsen,
with which to furnish bonds as de-
manded by Kenosha brass company
by which he was to be employed, but
she learned that her husband never
applied for work to the Kenosha firm
Chief Jannsen told Mrs. Bremen the
local police could do nothing until
she had located her husband. Mrs.
Bremen declared she would find him
and prosecute.
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w w does not need taking
about. because when she is
present no one else can get a word in
edgeways. But, at some time or an
other, we have all had mother. Some
times she was domest icated; some
times she was not; but when she was
domesticated she was always availa-
BILE, and that gave one a feeling of re-
liability in any sudden stress or trou-
BILE. In my next state of reincarna-
ton I do not want to be like the little
Lord Fauntleroy boy-a boy with a
giddy mother who was not reliable.
Sometimes, they met occasionally on
the stairs. One day the boys mother
went to children's party, just to save
her reputation. There she began to
reflect on her heartlessness, and fell
into conversation with a handsome
boy who was, sitting on a sofa, and
rather wistfully regarding the other
children. 81 wish" she 81 ID, the ma
ternal instinct suddenly awakening, Il
had lovely little boy like you" "You
have!" he said, modestly. "You are
the beautiful lady l sometimes meet
on the stairs of our house"
The average unmarried man gener-
ally associates the domesticated wom-
an with the kind of person who spends
most of her days and nights in a gar
ment probably known as wrapper"
"a nondescript, etherealized kind of
smock which does not fit, and never
by any possibility could fit, anyone.
He seems to think that she starts life
in a wrapper, and only changes it for
a shroud; but then, of course, the
ideas of the unmarried man on so sa-
cred a subject are generally f1ippant,
not worthy of this Important theme,
and utterly untrustworthy. He has
only TO get married in order to re-
model his ideas. I met young bride
of two months standing yesterday,
and [ asked her how she liked do
mesticated life. cit is SO sweet" she
sighed $50 sweet, but" ''Surely
there isn't but already" inquired,
| with respectful sympathy. "No," she
said. ''No. Not exactly a but; but"
She blushed celestially, then, seeing
my bald brow, took courage. 'Looll
upon me as a parent" I murmured,
gazing the other way. eff there is any
thing I can do to bring the brute to
| his senses, let me know" 'He isn't a
BRUTE" she said, Indignantly. Hes
dear; but it must be such a shock
| to a man to see you in" ''In what"
I asked, still averting my gaze. "With
your hair done up in pins and things"
she said. L comforted her with the
| hot Of ho 4oc 10
| of true love to stand such shocks. That
was why [ had purposely grown bald
myself, so that, on my part, my APP
pearance in ''pins and things" would
never help to dissipate my wife's rev.
erential admiration for me.
1t is always these hapless unmar-
| ried men who wax facetious about do
mestic troubles. Now, | am "going
back" on my own sex by frankly con-
| Tossing I do not know what there Is
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Pleasing Qualities Of the
DOmesticated Woman ~
AS G. B. Burgin, the Noted English Novelist,
Would Her Be.

vent nice little things that people
ought to have said about his novels,
and generally to imply that because,
by some objectionable oversight, his
name is not in the list of coronation
honors, that said list has no longer
any interest for her. 1t is time that
men awoke to their own selfshness in
this respect; for nothing so surely
kills loves young dream as to smother
it up in a moss of household worries
and veXations which the domesticated
woman has to bear alone. l can re-
member agreat and good but nameless
man who awoke one bitter winters
morning and found his wife and two
servants down with the influenza. Sud-
denly realizing his domestic response
bilities, he girded up his loins with
dressing-gown, made the invalids
some tea, and plunged into the snowy.
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Attacked by n Benr.

Assessor II. B. Peterson, of the
town of Atlanta, had an encounter
with large female black bear that
presented herself and three cubs at
the home of Mr.. Peterson and was
in the act of taking possession of
his beehives when they were noticed.
But Mr.. Peterson fired upon the bear,
when she made a fierce fight. He
fired again, this time wounding her.
She then disappeared in the woods.
He killed the cubs. They weighed 90
pounds apiece.
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bay and from the Jersey hills, blue
in the distant sight, blows over them.
Naturally they early attracted dis
corning men of wealth.
When Brooklyn was more like New
England than New England itself you
could see famous men at Fulton fer
nv, or at the later Wall street ferry.
Henry B. Clafin, the merchant prince
of all the world, came that way,
a plain, low-spoken, STRENGTHENING
man of piety and upright life
Thomas B. Shearman, whose emo
tional temperament won him the
title of fearful Tommy at the
Beecher trial, was man of great abil-
ity, went thus to his New York office.
Deacon White" the broker, and AL
fred T. White, the philanthroplst,
were seen there rain or shine. A. A.
Low, father of Seth Low, and owner
of the fastest clipper ships in the
world, winners three years out OF
four of the race around Cape Horn
with the first of the new crop of tea,
walked down the steep slope,
round, jolly little man, whose round
ness and iollity have descended to his
famous son.
Later in the day Beecher might
pass, figure of power with his short
legs and his lion-like head and chest.
Or DR.. Storrs might stroll down
from the rooms of the Long Island
Historical society, clerical-looking
contrast to his great rival, with his
tall, ascetic frame, his STOPPING
shoulders and gentle, absent gaze.
Or Bishop Littlejohn might emerge
from his seclusion and cross the river
to round up some of the affairs of his
diocese. On Sundays every visitor OF
note in the city would be apt to
cross the FERRIES to attend Plymouth
church, or DR.. Storrs' Church of the
Pilgrims or DR.. Cuyler's-and Of
them all he alone remains, slen-
der man of more than 90 years. Five
great Brooklyn pulpits, four of them
Episcopalian, are now vacant, and
hardly a man of frst-class ability
speaks in those that are filled.
Authors were less notably repre-
scented on the Heights, but Will Garlic
ton. Hamilton Gibson, Olive Thorne
Miller, John W. Chadwick, more ia
nous as writer than as preacher,
were residents there; and about the
Eagle and Brooklyn Times hung the
memory of Walt Whitman.
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Mr.. Hill in the most amusing fashion.
Through many disadvantages Mr.
Hill has risen to leadership. He is like
Tilden a bachelor, recluse, book
lover, a man of cool personality. He
appeals always to reason, never to pas
sions or prejudices. No one slaps him
on the back and says: ''Hello, Dave!"
Yet he has and values intellectual
friendships.
It is part of Mr.. Hills personality
that he has none, so far S peculiarities
go. He has no pronounced features
or ways that can be caricatured. On
the street he is seldom recognized. He
looks much like other middle-aged
men with bald heads and grayish mus
taches. He dresses like other men
except that in New York many ten
dollar-a-week clerk has a natter APP
pearance. Tilden also was careless of
his apparel.
Hill never drinks or smokes. His life
is most correct. Tilden liked a glass
of fine wine. On one occasion he enter
tanned a statesman of some influence
whom he wished much to propitiate.
To this man, heavy, beefy, black-mus-
tached, the slight-framed, smooth
shaver sage of Greystone offered a
tiny glass of rarest Scloss Johannis-
berger.
"Here's looking at you, Mr.. Tilden,'
said the politician, as he tossed off
the wine at a gulp, oblivious to it's
flavor.
damn him!" whined Mr.. Tilden, in
that high, nasal tone which so many
famous New York men have had.
''Next time he comes I'll give him beer
in tin pail
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murder of a number of Mashona Ia
borers employed by prospecting
party. When called upon to disavow
the act of his followers and punish
the guilty Lobengula refused to do
either, and open war followed.
The Matabeles proved themselves
both arrant towards and poor strate-
gists, and the forces of the South At
rican company and the volunteers of
which the English force was composed,
found easy victories awaiting them I'M
til in December, 1891, when an advance
party, under command of Maj. Allan
Wilson, was cut off from the main
force, and being greatly outnumbered,
were all slaughtered before assistance
could reach them.
The last stand of Maj. Wilson and
his small force savors much of the sort
of heroism displayed by our own gal
liant Custer and his little band of fol-
lowers in the northwest. Maj. Will
sons party occupied the top of large
ant hill, and there awaited the coming
of the black hordes that were to swal-
low them up. It was known that the
blacks would not give quarter and
none was asked. Every man fought
until he was cut down. Their fallen
horses served as a barricade between
them and the foe, and behind this they
fought until overwhelmed by num-
bers. During the last few minutes of
the fight the wounded survivors at that
time joined in ''God Save the Queen .
IN Hnin L =
men in our own history, displayed the
qualities of which the Anglo-Saxon
race is made.
While this fight was a victory of the
blacks, it was virtually the last of this
conflict, but the war was followed by
another that came just after the
Jameson raid into the Transyaal. The
English forces of the South African
company had been withdrawn to par
ticipate in this raid, at the foundation
of which were Cecil Rhodes and his
followers, and while they were away
both the Mashonas and the Malta beles
attempted another rising. which for
a time was of considerable moment,
and resulted in a number of deaths
among the white settlers, and was not
put down until England had sent
number of her troops to the rescue
of her subjects.
This was the last of the Kaffir wars.
but conditions, as outlined by the
South African authority quoted above.
seem ripe for another outbreak, and
England is seemingly taking care to
prepare for it. DANIEL CLEVERTON