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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
Object 70 Increased Tariffs.

Rio de Janeiro. Aug. s.-The cham
ber of deputies having passed on Its
first reading bill raising the customs
tariffs to a Drohibitive rate without
consulting the budget committee, the
representatives here of the United
states, Great Britain. Germany. AUS
tria, Belgium. France and Italy have
simultaneously approached the gov
ernment asking 1t to use its influence
with congress for the maintenance OF
the old tariffs.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
LAST RoRsER is CAUGHT.
Another Of Men Implicated il Bear
mouth Holdup Is Jailed.

st. Paul. Aug. s.--Northern Pacific
secret service officers today arrested
John Christie. at Hope, N. D. Christie
was implicated with George Hammond
in the Bearmouth (Mont.) train rob-
berry.
Christie, according to the officers.
confessed his part in the holdup. and
when captured had $500 or $500 and
some diamonds taken from the express
messengers safe. Christie was tracked
from place to place over the noun
tain ranges to Wallace and then to
Spokane, and finally reached Hope.
where he was captured
The officers say they now have all
the men concerned in the Bearmouth
robbery.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
TAccART NAMES HIS MEN.
Chooses National Executive committse
for Coming Campaign.

Chooses National Executive Committee
for Coming Campaign.
indianapolis. Aug. s.-Thomas Tag
gart chairman Of the national demo-
cratic committee. tonight announced
the following officers of the committee
and the following members or the ma
tional executive committee:
vice-chaIrman. Delaney NIcoiI. OF
New York; treasurer. George Foster
Peabody. Of New York: executive com
mittee. w. F. sheehan. chairman, Of
New York; August Belmont. of New
York; John R. Mclean. United States
Senator Thomas S. Martin. OF vir-
ginla; J. III. Guffey. OF Pennsylvania;
former United States Senator James
Smith, Jr.. OF New Jersey: Timothy Il.
Ryan, OF wisconsin.
Added to the announcements OF az
pointment, Chairman Taggart made
the following statement:
THE campaign executive committee
win have the advice Of Senator Cor
mans judgment and experience in the
he agreeing to keep in close
touch with the management at all
times. The executive committee win
meet in the Hoffman house. New York
city, August g.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
Cmincus Silence Prevails and St. Pet
ersburg Believes Situation Must Be
Most Serious at Front.
Report Comes Of Sinking Of japanese Cruiser Kasuga but IS
Not Verified Officers 81 vIadvostok Squadron Are
Indignant Because Of Criticism Which has
Resulted From Recent Raid.

Mccormick has cabled the state de-
partment from st. Petersburg that in
reply to inquiries relative to the seiz-
ure OF the Hamburg-American line
steamer Arabia the Russian minister
for foreign affairs has said:
"The Arabia was taken to Vladlvo-
stok and the cause Of her seizure laid
before the local authorities. Upon the
decision or this court viii rest the
question as to whether or not the
Arabia viii be released or treated as
"a prize"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
FUSED WITH popuLlsTs.

Topeka. KAN. Aug. 4.-The state
democratic convention adjourned at
2SO this morning after nominating a
set Of Parker and Davis electors. Half
the state ticket was chosen by the
populists. The popalists adjourned at
/ o'clock, having nominated Watson
and Tibbets electors and half the state
ticket.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
oHer Rewsrd for RObbers.

Ell Paso. Aug. s.-The Rock Island
railroad and the United States Express
comnanies have offered a reward nf
$1,000 for the capture Of the robbers
who held up the Rock Island train near
Tucumcari on Saturday night.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
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BRYAN WILL BE LOYAL,
Sends Word to Parker That He Will
Assist the Party.

Esopus, Aug s.-Mr and Mrs Ed
ward c. wall. Of wisconsin, reached
Rosemounth today. remained to lunch
con and spent the afternoon with Judge
Parker. Wall brought message direct
from William ]. Bryan. assuring Park
er that Bryan viii place himself at the
disposal Of the national democratic
committee to do everything in his
power to insure the party's success this
fall.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
Russian cunboat Blown Up.

London. Aug. 4.-Ths Daily Mall this
morning has the following from New
chwang: THE Russian gunboat
siyoch has been deserted and blown
up near sancha. and the crew. with
the vessels guns. have started for Lao
Yang"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04
Fish Fan From Sky.

Bialystok, Russia, Aug, s.-During a
downpour of rain there was a regular
shower Of small fish here.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04

oregon, washington and Idaho
fair and continued warm.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-04

ington; J. O. A. Bowiby. Of Astoria;
secretary and treasurer, Thomas Rich
aTdson. OF Portland
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31

favor. Will you do me the kindness
to look at what bring In my hand?"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
CHAPTER Nv.

From the back yard Of more than
one New Salem home, where soap-mak-
ing and gardening were going forward,
azure smoke rose over pink Goals OF
wood and old vines The whole world
was getting ready to be new. AIMS
cwn winter linsey was laid aside. She
wore something which made her look
like blossom to the eyes of the boy.
Antywine gave her the parcel and
stood abashed while it was unrolled,
revealing yards of dark red and yellow
calico, the colors alternating In tiny
fecks which globed themselves to
pomegranates. Ann had noticed 1t In
the store as a most daring attempt In
cotton printing. Seine balls of thread
fell out and Antywine picked them
up.
IT'S for Peggy. isn't it,"
"Yes. mam'selle.'
did you buy 1t yourself, Anty-
wine?"
Il have some money that make in
Belleville.' he apologized. "Shick-
shack and the woman have not got
some tas'e in clothes for young girls.
You. mam'selle. have that tas'e."
IF you think | really have, Anty-
wine, you must let me help Peggy
make this dress"
"Oh. mam'selle! 1t is what would
ask. but dare not"
Il would love to do 1t. and Peggy
will be so glad to have new dress"
Peggy was glad when Ann waylaid
her in the evening. Her face quivered
and she said, "Goody!" She talked
the great event quite out with Anty-
wine, standing beside their cabin, bee
cause they seldom spoke to each other
in the presence of Shickshack's wife.
Then there was the JOY of going to the
tavern and learning neat stitches while
Ann cut and basted and fitted. The
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l','o BE Continued
Ancient MIlllonnIres.

In this connection II Is interesting to
take the monetary measures of some
Of the rich ancients. says the New
Yorker. 1t is known that Tiberias at his
death left The equivalent ofS11S, 125, 0C0.
Caligula squandered 1t all in less than
ten months. Julius Caesar was good
deal OF a money-getter. He was worth
nearly 81 100000 before he got Office
and a good deal more afterwards.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious"
Croesus is held up even to this day as
q fabulously rich man, and yet $S,O00,-
COO would cover his fortune in landed
property. In addition to this, how
ever. he had large sum Of money and
many slaves. Antony was high
roller, and no doubt would have made
lis mark in Wall street. He owed ST.
100000 in the middle of March, hus-
tied and got enough money to pay off
all his debts by the last Of April. He
squandered more than s73,000,O00 Of
the public money. The sum of 81
100000 was paid for his house. Sem
eca, the philosopher, turned his phil
csophy into cash at a rapid rate. His
fortune was upward Of s12,000,0O0. Not
& bad philosophy. Then there was the
soothsayer. Lentulus. Soothsaying
was a profitable business in those
days. At least he managed to accumu-
late a fortune of $16,5O0,000. The big
caters of early times made the money
fly when they got their legs under a
well-laden table. For example: Api-
cius expended in gluttony 100000;
Esopis paid for a single dish 100000;
Caligua spent for one supper $780,
600: Heliogabalus spent for one meal
500, 900; Lucullus usually paid $780,
900 for a repast. If many Of us ate
like this we wouldn't know where
the next meal was coming from" or
how the check was to be settled.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31

them. They swung their feet from
tall benches and whispered behind
their books while Peggy nercely
studied. When the Testament class
stood up she was at the head. Her
progress through the simple course was
so rapid that Minter Grayham calcu-
lated she would know in q year al!
that he was able to teach her.
Antywine, whose stepmother had
never sent him to school. was nine.
teen years old, and could not read
Peggy began to teach him dur.
long spring twilights. There was a
large stone halfway across the valley,
sheltered as the sun slipped north Of
afternoons. under which Peggy hid her
outgrown lesson book for Antywine
Whatever direction his days hunt led
him, he made detour to arrive at the
stone. and II he arrived first. sat down
to study If Peggy, carrying her dinner
reticule home from school, reached
1t first, she waited.
They sat and held their book to-
gether. English spelling provoked
Canadian ordinations; but he had
to spur him not only Peggy. but the
powerful example Of Sieur Abe Lin
coin. studying every spare minute.
Antywine knew where the best SWIM
ming places were in the Sangamon.
Sometimes he came TO his lesson. his
blond hair separated into dark clinging
tendrils, which, as they dried. became
a powder of gold-dust curls around his
face and temples. II Peggy could not
keep her fingers from touching this
fleece, Antywine pretended he did not
know 1t. His hands and shoulders
worked as hard as his mind. With
shrugs and gesticulating fingers he
flung English spelling all around.
When he encountered a terrific word he
would throw down his book and jump
on it. But Antywines moccasins
were light; he did not damage the
learning under his feet. His RACES
were RACES of laughter. Whatever he
did so delighted Peggy that she said:
1T makes me almost laugh out in
school to think how you dance on your
speller!"
AS month followed month and Pc
dro Lorimer neither showed himself
again in New Salem nor made any
other attempt TO kidnap the Indians
adopted daughter, her guardians anx-
iety relaxed TO ease. He thought:
These white men in this vilalge are
my friends; they will take my part.
The young chief Abe is as strong
as three Pedro Lorimers, and his hand
is with me-"
ITO Be Continued
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On Shrewsbury battlefield.

But one of the most interesting
things connected with the whole cpl
sode Is the existence Of the church
which was erected four years afterward
on the site Of the pits where the
mass of undistinguished dead upon
both sides were buried after the bat
tie. Though its patron was Henry w.,
whose battered effigy still looks out
from above the east window toward
Haughmond Ridge, 1t was actually
built and endowed by the then rector
Of Albright Hussey, the parish in
which the battle was fought. This was
Roger I've, priest Of Leaton, a strong
Lancastrian and or an old burgher
family in Shrewsbury. The site was
given by Richard Hussey. squire. to
use a modern word, Of Albright Hus-
sey. A college of priests was also
erected and endowed to serve the
church, which was in no way q parish
church, but erected distinctly and en-
phatically as a commemoration and
thanksgiving offering by grateful and
plus Lancastrians for the victory OF
1403.-Macmillan' Magazine.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
THE PARTING WAYS.

I'D Ike to see that old cliff path
Which lovers feet have made.
Just where II leaves the travelled road.
And dips down IN the shade
or the w!Gtspreadng overhang
OF naples and Of birch;
The where the hidden thrush once sang
And peeAtd out from his perch.
I'd like to wander ~. alone
Down 10 the parting vc~s,
All, MI, alone with thoughts OF you,
As once IN other days
wandered where the old road lies
My thoUShis-dear. YOU were fair
My thoughts were all III your true eyes
And OF your truant hair!
And. where the elf path dipped and
branched
Away from the ola trail.
heard the catbird cali. and CALL
And watched bDevn Leaf sail
From OF II tossing w'ndblown limb
Straight down the pa:h It flew.
watched its dwindlinS fight and dim.
And-sweetheart! there was you.
You sat beside the dipping way.
And watched the fading CLEAN
or dying day down IN the vale,
Reflected in the stream
That wound It's crooked way along:
Ny day had been 30 sad
But then Il bubbled into song.
And, sweetheart. | WAS glad!
u. NJ. Lewis. in Houston Post.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
AN EASTER
MESSAGE

Agnes Norwood sat alone in her room
where, indeed, she sat always, now
her face buried in her hands. She was
not weeping. 1t had been long-oh, so
long-since she had shed tears. She
only strove to shut out from her mind
the vision of a happy world that Knocked
her grief. What was Easter to her,
Easter with its joys, its glad songs and
beautiful flowers? II those who called
themselves her friends could understand
how they probed the unhealed wound
of her aching heart. would they be so
thoughtless as to urge her to sing. How
could she sing, she whose song had been
so sudden and ruthlessly hushed months
ago? Can the woodland songster flutter-
ing among the dead leaves, its breast
pierced by an arrow, tune its little throat
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31

to melody? No more could she sing with
heart that throbbed only to pain.
A ray of spring sunshine crept In
between the folds Of the window cur
tain. She arose and drew the shade.
Agnes Norwood had once been a
part of that world of brightness and
beauty to which she seemed to belong;
but her Gethsemane had come at the
supreme hour of her life-at O time
when she was radiantly happy-and
its dark shadows had wrapped them
selves so closely about her that
she had not since been able to pene-
trate their gloom. 1t was in May that
she had promised to be Arthur Came
ron's wife. Before the June roses were
gone death had claimed him. There
had been a short illness. a sudden
alarm, and then the end. The brilliant
young life had gone out.
When Agnes strove to recall what
had taken place in those awful days
of darkness and hopelessness she had
a confused sense Of the solemn hush,
the sorrowful faces, and kind voice
that tried to point her to the stars
shining through the cypress trees"
The only reality was the great wave
of desolation that had settled down into
her heart when that which represented
all that life had for her was carried out
Of her sight.
Since then the days had come and
gone alike, as one long painful dream.
In vain had the anxious parents and SYM
pathetic friends tried every expedient
to waken within her the old passion
for music. In those other days Agnes
sweet voice had thrilled large audiences.
The congregation Of the First church had
not forgotten the Easter solo Of last
year. They were eager to secure the
same singer for the coming Easter. But
Agnes refused to see any one. and in an
swer to all entreating letters on the sub
feet wrote a firm refusal-it was impos-
sible for her 10 sing.
When the church bells rang on Easter
morning there was no music In the
chimes to the heavy-hearted girl. Their
notes Jared upon her sorrow. The per-
tune Of the Easter lilies In the sunny
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31

slow process of hand sewing went on
a part of every day, as the two girls
had time. until Peggy. by accident OF
Antywines choice. stood at last I'M
consciously arrayed in the colors OF
Spain. The garment was gathered to
escaping fullness hung as low as her
ankles. This short-waisted look. and
the gorgeous setting OF colors for her
pale olive skin. and her hair cut in
the fashion of the middle ages
suddenly developed in her a charm.
People noticed her. and said that she
was not exactly growing pretty, but
there was something to her. The con-
fdence of knowing how to do things
appeared in her face. For, having be-
gun with the needle, Ann Rutledge
went on to knitting and spinning.
Ann had pretty clothes, for her father
never rode to Springfield without
bringing her a gift, and her mother
even INDUCED her with a cashmere
pelisse modelled after one worn by the
doctors wife, who came bride to
New Salem. Viane saw with some re-
sentiment her elder sister take things
which had usually fallen to her and
cut them over for the Indians adopted
daughter. Thus Peggy became trans
formed in every garment except her
moccasins. To these heelless, quill
embroidered shoes she chung with the
instinct of wilderness lover. They
were light and soft and small, hamper
ing her no more than her own muscles.
Antywine made them for her when he
made his own. In return she knitted
wooden stockings to keep him and her
foster father warm in winter.
When Peggy first learned to knit
she pulled the yarn so tight that the
stocking leg stood above the needles
as stiff as a board triangle and had
to be raveled and done over.
You're not building stake-and-
riderei fences for your men folks"
laughed Ann.
Shickshack's wife gave Peggy many
tasks to do, but in house where there
was no home-making, strewn with the
appointments of dirty camp, the
tasks were sordid and often useless.
Sally let pots and kettles litter the
hearth, her cob pipe dropped ashes
into a dinner hanging on the crane;
joists were grimy. and dust stood thic,;
on the pewter she got with her first
husband and was too stingy to use.
But her splint-bottomed chairs had to
be secured with soap and sand every
week, and she made the lame girl, In
deerskin dress, creep inch by inch over
the puncheon floor, cleaning 1t by the
same hard process. When the weather
was bad Peggy's tasks were doubled,
and her struggle with marks OF New
Salem clay became hopeless.
Shickshack's wife never seemed to
look up; plodding along the street, her
sullen eyes fixed on the ground, she ex-
changed no word with a neighbor.
Shickshack's disgust was extreme with
sordid housekeeping he had nowhere
encountered In an Indian village.
The changes In Peggy Shickshack
were not without influence on her
schoolmates, but the Spaniard, with
pride Of her own. held sioof from
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
In Austria and Hungary.

In the Austrian Tyrol Easter FRANKS
like our April fool day jokes, are perpe-
trated. Hospitality is universal at this
time and nobody asking for shelter IL
refused. A Hungarian Easter custom
In the Kalaka. 1t consists in the farm
ers gathering together the corn or hay
and doing a day or two of labor gratia
for their poorer neighbors who cannot
employ hands. The wife of the peasant
for whom the work has been done await,
them with an excellent supper. This is
generally followed by a dance, and the
festivities are kept up until morning.
Albany Argus.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
Story of Carlyle.

A recently published volume by the
late Anthony Froude, the historian,
tells this story Of Carlyle and his wife,
who lived on VIGOROUSLY bad terms.
the latter dying first: Carlyle found a
remembrance in her iiary Of the blue
marks which in a Mt Of passion he
had inflicted on her arms. AS soon as
he could collect himself he put to-
gether a memoir Of her. In which with
deliberate courage he Inserted the in
eliminating passages Of her diary,
the note of the blue marks among
them, and he added an injunction ct
his own that, however rtern and tragic
that record might be. Il was never 70
be destroyed - :
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
Hunting Easter Eggs in Germany

Easter is very important day In Ger
many. 1t is looked forward to by ihe
children with almost as much pleasrre
as Christmas. After breakfast the hunt
ing for eggs begins and It generally takes
a long time to find them, for hares are
shy little creatures, and the nests are
always hidden away in the queerea
places.
The children usually find the eggs IL
pretty baskets or boxes. and sometimes
they will come upon beautiful whits
sugar hare. sitting on NOISY nest filled
with colored eggs.-Union Signal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
Ita Uaes.

The April sunshine battles the Apr,
hill. the Easter bonnets and the Eastee
bilis.-Atlanta Constitution.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24
LAW BY THE WHOLESALE
bles Governor aud Others
Sued for Heavy Damages.

Denver. June 1S.-Papers in the
100000 damage suit Of the Portland
Gold Mining company against Cover
nor james ii. Peabody, Adjutant- Gen
eral sherman NJ. Bell, c. {. Hamlin,
secretary of the Mine Owners asso-
citation ana others connected with that
body as well as Sheriff Edward Bel
of Teller county and his deputies, who
assisted i'm the closing down of the
Portland mine have been served on
Governor Peabody.
Governor Peabody has also received
notice that on June 22 application will
be made TO United States Circuit Judge
Thayer, at st. Louis. for an injunc-
ton to restrain the governor, the mill
tary. and all other persons from in
terfering with the operation of the
Portland mine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24
GOT SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND
Loot Captured by Gang of Thugs That
Held Up the North Coast Limited
on the Northern Pacific.

Butte, Mont, June 1S.-The men
who held up the North Coast LiIH
tied Thursday night near Bearmouth
secured S65.0 600 from the Northern Pa
citc Express company's safe, when
they dynamited. The scene of this
hold-up was the same as that of a
hold-up that occurred year ago, and
the train was the same. But year ago
the thugs killed the engineer 1t was
reported Thursday night that the en-
gineer had been killed this time, but
this is mistake.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24

The country residence Of Rudyard
Kipling near Brattleboro. VT. has
been sold at last. Mr.. Kipling offered
II many years ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24
Was Wasting Away.

The following letter from Robert r.
Watts of Salem, Mo-, is instructive: II
have been troubled with kidney disease
for the last five years. | lost flesh and
never felt we'll and doctored with lead
ing physicians and tried all remedies
suggested without relief. Finally / tried
Foley's Kidney Cure and less than two
bottles completely cured me and ] am
now sound and we'll" At +. b. Long
wells drug store. IN
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24

the court of general sessions. charged
with the murder of Caesar" Young,
the bOokmaker At the same time
counsel for Mrs. Patterson served no.
tice on the district attorney that a
motion would be made for the court TO
He said that the physical condition
of Mrs. Patterson was such that il
was hardship to keep her in prison.
and said he would like 10 have the
trial held in July. Judge Newburger
said he was not going TO sit next
month and that it would hardly be fair
to ask another judge to hear the case.
He suggested that counsel confer and
arrange for an early trial.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-24

During the summer kidney irregular
tiles are often caused by excessive drink
ing or being overheated. Attend to the
kidneys at once by using Foley's Kidney
Cure. At f.. B. Longwell's. M