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The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01
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1--WE Shai! Find Il Out Some Cay"
About the beginning of the month of
frfil,' 1884, the family OF Mr.. Silas Bur
ritt observed certain alteration in
that gentleman's habits and demeancr
1t appeared to those who studied
rim that he became imbued with an
air of anticipation--that he started
when knock was heard at the door
and that the advent of the postman
was awaited by him, if not with anx
iety, at any rate with an amount of
eager expectancy which was. in gen
eral way, quite foreign to him.
1t was also observed that the nearer
they drew to the end of the month,
the more these symptoms became ex-
asgerated; and, as day after day
went by unmarked by an unusual oc-
currence, he was observed to shake
his head with half-smile and a half
sigh, and mutter, as he thought to
himself, Dead or forgotten?" After
which, he remained plunged in refec-
ton for considerable time.
1t was his son Edward-more gen.
orally known as "Ted'-who happened
10 overhead these words. and they
caused him no small amount of be-
wiidcrment.
He stood with his sister May in the
hall of Mr.. Burritts large. old.fash-
ioned house at Dulwich 1t was about
seven O'Clock in the evening that, as
the brother and sister were talking in
low voices. the former was interrupted
by the sound of an abrupt, loud, double
knock.
There's the seven O'Clock post"
said the girl Il wonder if there's any
thing for father this time? If there
is. I'll-"
But as she turned towards the direc-
ton of the letter box the study door
was thrown hurriedly open and an
elderly gentleman rushed across the
hall, and extricated from its receptacle
one letter in a thin, foreign looking en-
veiope, the direction on which was
written in a large. scrawling hand,
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01

which barely left room for the stamp.
There was a singular look upon his
face, on which astonishment seemed
struggling with some other emotion.
Then he drew a long breath. After
all these years." he said to himself
So he has kept his word, after all"
He recrossed the II, re-entered his
study and closed the door. AS he did
so both the young people heard the
key turn in the lock. Evidently their
father was anxious not to be disturbed
in the perusal of the mysterious mis-
sive, whatever it might be, Neither
of them said any more on the subject
at the time, but their minds were full
of it as they each turned to go their
different ways; the one to the billiard
room for a little private practice the
other to the drawing room to try over
the last new song.
II wonder what it was?" soliloquized
the former, "and what made the
guy SO queer and unlike himself
at the sight of it? However, it's no
good troubling myself about it,"
Mr.. Silas Burritt remained shut up
in his study all the remainder of the
Aevening. and only encountered his
'soa and daughter at breakfast the
next morning-being Thursday-when
he appeared to have regained his or.
dinary manner: Notwithstanding to
two pairs of inquisitive young eyes
there still seemed to be a certain alb.
sent expression-the expression of
man mot that they described it to
themselves in any such words) who
has been reviewing the past, and
whose thoughts still linger behind him
among the years that have gone by.
There was also slight suspicion of
nervousness about him. and Several
times he seemed on the point of saying
something, which he put off from one
moment 10 another. At last he made
UP his mind to speak.
My dear" he said addressing his
wife. Il am thinking-that ISL have
made up my mind-at any rate, am
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01

years standing David Meekison.
DR.. Hartman. one of the best known
physicians and surgeons in the United
States. was the first man to formulate
Peruna. 1t was through his genius and
perseverance that it was introduced to tho
medical profession of this country.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman. giving .
full statement of your case and he will be
pleased to give you his valuable advice
gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman. President of Tha
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01
CHAPTER II.
after All These Years"

Mr.. Burritt arrived at his destination
between six and seven. Alightng
he gave hasty and comprehensive
glance round: as though he thought it
half possible that he might be met by
someone. Then he left the station and
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01

Men are guided less by conscience
than by glory, and yet the surest way
to glory is to be guided by conscience.
Henry EOme.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01

Gentlemen: Il
have used several
bottles of Peruna
and feel greatly
benefited there
by from my Ca
tarrh of the head.
and feelrencour-
aged to believe
I h at its con-
tinued use will
fully eradicate a
f1tca,ca nF th;rty
The Holly chieftain., 1904-01-01

The following letter is from Congressman
Meekison. of Napoleon. Ohio:
The Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus. O.:
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Representative Charles w. Thomp-
son, of the Fifth Alabama district, died
in Washington of pneumonia, aged A
years.
California democrats will hold their
state convention at Santa Cruz May 16
Former President Cleveland quietly
observed his sixty-seventh birthday at
his home in Princeton, N. J.
DR.. w. G. Mckinney, editor of the
Havana Qll) Republican, died at the
age of So years.
Judge David S. Gooding died at Green
field, Ind, aged 80. He was United States
marshal for the District of Columbia
under President Andrew Johnson.
r ExMayor William r. Grace, of New
York city, died of pneumonia, aged 72
years. He was noted as philanthropst.
Mayor David S. Rose has been for a
fourth time nominated to head the Mil
waukee democratic city ticket.
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in Columbus May II.
Missouri republicans in convention at
Kansas City instructed their delegates
at large for Roosevelt
Chapman Freeman who represented
the First district of Philadelphia in con-
gress from 1874 to 1878, died in Strafford,
Pa, aged IA years.
Republicans of the Fourteenth Illi-
nois district renominated Benjamin T.
Marsh, of Hancock, for congress.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Moses B. Clements of Portland. Me-.
left his entire fortune, 100000, tc
charity.
Ruel H. Fletcher, master of the
|Thorndike school, Cambridge, Mass,
has just celebrated his fiftieth ami
versary as a teacher.
DR.. P. T. Hale, of Owensboro, KY,
has been elected president of the
Southwestern Baptist college, of Jack
son, Tenn.
R. S. Long, of Pittsburg. is one of
the 36 survivors Of the GIG delegates
to the Philadelphia convention which
nominated Fremont in 1856.
The battleship Illinois arrived at
New York with brick and cement
wall built in her stern to keep the wa
ter from entering through hole in
her hull
Benjamin Wood Davis, of Cincin-
natl, willed S140,000 to various insti-
Itutions, but as the will was made less
than year ago the bequests are void.
The newspaper libel law enacted by
the legislature of Kansas of 1901 has
been declared unconstitutional by the
Estate supreme court.
Japan is not in need of any foreign
loan for the time being, home SUBJ
Iscriptions and raise in taxes being
Sufficient to prosecute the war for the
present.
Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and
|Episcopalian clergymen in Chicago de-
|clare ST. Patrick quite as much men,
ber of their churches as of the Ro-
man Catholic.
On the steamer Lowther Castle,
which arrived in Boston from the far
least with million-dollar cargo, were
two wild animals. young lion and a
hyena, for President Roosevelt from
king Menelik. of Abyssinia.
Marvin Shearer, a one-armed man
in Akron, O., has made a clock which
records hours in different cities, regis
ters changes in temperature and hui
Imidity, and shows historical pictures.
The previous high record of a win
ter's snowfall in Chicago has been sur
passed by nearly three inches for the
present winter. Total fall for this sea-
son is 594 inches.
Right Rev. Louis Maria Fink, bishop
of Leavenworth diocese of the Catno-
lie church. died at his holne at KAN
sas City. Kan.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
LATER.


The senate on the 23d further cOnsid
cred the Indian appropriation bill. Chas
Dick, successor to the late Senator Ean
ma, of Ohio, took the oath of Office. IL
the house the post Office appropriation
bill was further discussed.
Three negroes were killed in battle
between blacks and whites at st
Charles, Ark.
Gen. Thomas A. Morris, of Indianap
Point, died in San Diego, CAL, aged 9.
years.
Up to date 1874 delegates pledged tt
Roosevelt have been chosen to attend the
national convention in Chicago.
Andrew Isgrigg, Arthur Everhart ant
Edward Hert, young men of Jefferson
vile, Ind, were drowned in the Ohio
river.
A state good; roads convention will be
held in Springfield, ILL.,, May 3.
Aften ten days of civil control Sar
Miguel county, COL, has been placed
under martial law again to prevent armed
bands of strikers from destroying prop.
erty.
Thirty-three shoe manufacturers in
Lynn, Mass, locked out their men be-
cause of proposed strike.
The Fourth Nebraska district republi-
cans have renominated E. H. HinshaW
for congress.
Robert Allison, aged IA, pioneer type
founder dropped dead at his home in
Cincinnati
A. J. Colborn, Jr, former national
president of the Patriotic Order of Sons
of America, died at his home in Scran-
ton. Pa, aged AZ years.
The national bank of Holdenville, I.
T., capitalized at $50 900, has suspended.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles wants the ma
tional prohibition convention, set for
June 29 at Indianapolis, postponed un-
til conventions have been held by the
republican and democratic parties.
Prairie fires near Holdrege, Neb., did
great damage to property and caused the
loss of three lives.
Fifty-eight freshmen at Ann Arbor,
Mich, have formed an organization to
secure revenge upon sOphomores who
caught and sheared them.
The republicans of the Twelfth Indiana
district nominated Lieut.. Gov. Newton
W. Gilbert for congress.
A report from Nagasaki says that great
japanese forces are maSsed for landing
at the mouth of the Tumen river for an
invasion of Manchuria and an advance
on the Russian base at Harbin. At the
same time the columns north of Ping
Yang will attack the Yalu river line.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
IA WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
n CONGRESS AT WORK.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

Daily Proceedings OF the Senate ana
House Briefly Told.
u The senate on the 18th confirmed Brig.
Gen. Woods nomination by vote of As
to 16. In the house the post office ap-
preparation bill was further discussed
and a resolution was introduced pro-
viding for an investigation of the trust
question by committee of five house
members.
In the senate on the 21st bill pro-
viding for the purchase of site and
the erection of building for the de-
partments of state, justice and COM
merce and labor was discussed. A bill
was introduced to create colonization
bureau and to provide for advances to
actual settlers on the public domain.
In the house the committee on judi
ciary voted to impeach Charles
Swayne, United States judge for the
district of Florida, and the charges
will go to the senate.
4 The senate spent the greater part OF
the time on the 22d on the Indian appro-
priation bill. In the house outside of a
few routine matters the entire day was
devoted to further discussion of the
post office appropriation bill.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
The house Of commons rejected vote

The house Of commons rejected voto
of censure on the British ministry by a
vote of 299 to 224.
Russians fear that China will join
forces with Japan if the latter wins the
first big land engagement.
A report comes from Paris that Japan,
China and Korea have signed treaty
forming triple alliance against Russia.
The Japanese stopped Brig. Gen. Henry
T. Allen, United States military observer
with the Japanese army at Ping Yang, re-
questing him not to proceed nearer their
outposts.
The japanese squadron, of about 20
ships, made double attack on Port Ar
thur, finally retiring without any
material damage being done on either
side. The Japanese army is reported
to be strongly intrenched at Anju and
across the entire Korean peninsula.
Former President Bonilla, of Hondoras
has been sentenced to be shot to death
for taking part in a plot against the
present government of that conutry.
The London cancer hospital has aban-
doned entirely the radium treatment, an
nouncing that it has no curative proper
ties.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
FOREIGN.

The Mikado opened the diet at Toxic
and in his speech from the throne ap-
pealed for the aid Of all his subjects in
the war with Russia.
The Russian squadron was reported
| to have dynamited way out of Vladi-
vostok harbor and put to sea, it's desti-
nation a mystery. The Port Arthur
fleet, in an effort to join its northern
ally, sighted Admiral Togo's vessels and
returned to the harbor. Reports that
the Russians had crossed the Yalu river
on raid of Manchuria were confirmed
A British submarine boat was run
down by an ocean liner off Portsmouth
and it's crew of II men We're drowned.
A German force was routed in bat
tie with the Herreros in German South
west Africa and seven officers and
19 privates were killed.
The destination of the Russian Vlad-
ivostok squadron is still a secret, but
it is believed the intention is to join
the Port Arthur fleet. A Japanese at
tempt to land troops at Helena bay,
north of Port Arthur, was delayed by
bad weather.
American and British engineers in
Bolivia discovered buried treasure
valued at s16,000,0O0.
The English ship Lady Cairns was
sunk in collision in Dublin harbor and
% persons we're drowned.
A report was published in Toxic that
the japanese now occupy Port Arthur,
having attacked the town by land and
sea. Six hundred Russians were reported
killed and wounded in an engagement
at Chyong Syong.
Henry Norman, London journalist and
member of parliament declares the pres
ent war is the beginning of struggle to
control China.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
SatisfactOr

A report of the FEBRUARY logging op.
erations on the Chippewa reservation,
under the provisions of the Morris law,
has been made by Supt. O'Neil. There
was collected for the benefit of the In
dians from the logging operations OF
the month the sum of $1O2, 124.32.
Logging is progressing in satisfac-
tory manner. The tops are being tax
en- care of, and the other rules are be-
ing enforced unsparingly.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
IL No Day,


In the eyes of the Minnesota state tax
law legal holiday is no day at all, ac-
cording to a ruling made by Judge
| Cray.
The court in it's decision holds that
the time for redemption cannot expire
on legal holiday, and that a property
owner who offers to redeem on the six
ty-frst day of the redemption period,
when the sixtieth day falls on legal
holiday, is entitled to settlement and
can become the legal owner of the pro
perty.
The decision was rendered in the
case of c. W. Case against Marcus p.
Hobart and others, and the point TAX
en- is that the law provides for Sundays
but not for holidays. In the case in
question notice of redemption was
served by the plaintiff and the sixtieth
day fell upon Sept. 7, Labor day. The
Ramsey county auditor held that the
plaintiff had right to redeem on the
following day and acted accordingly
and was upheld by the court.
Wants St. Paul to Pay.
- -hihhooE1oAAS AA"y 1oSC Aco SooA'
house and city hall, St. Paul may be
stuck for $27, 900 worth of interest on
So, 900 debt, running since the year OF
1863
G. T. Smith of Montreal, Canada.
claims that he holds six unpaid street
commissioners certificates against the
city of St. Paul which were issued in
1858 and bear interest at the rate of &c
per cent per annum.
The total face value of the certifi.
Gates is 1,937.76. They have been run.
ming forty-six years and the accuma.
lated interest amounts to nearly $27,.
900. MIR. Smith wants his principal
and interest and has placed the matte,
in the hands of a Cornwell (Ont.) law
firm.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31

Receivers have been appointed for the
Miners and Merchants savings bank OF
| Homecoming Nd, which had $500, 900 on
| deposit
The supreme court of the United States
has adjourned for two weeks. Ks
At Higginsville, Mo-, so buildings were
! partly wrecked, one man was mortally
wounded and several others hurt by a
tornado
The United States supreme court has
again decided that persons travelling on
in case of accident.
Hobart S. Bird, who tried to run a re-
form newspaper in Porto Rico, returned
to New York after 62 arrests on charges
Of libel 5fss
Assistant Postmaster General Britsow
denied personal knowledge Of alleged
violations of postal laws by members of
congress. ....ar
At Temple, Tex, w. E. Chandler killed
Ibis. wife and the manager of the telephone
exchange where the woman was en-
ployed.
Christian Kirschoffler, boarding
house keeper in Brooklyn, N Y, shot
and killed his four-year-old son, fatally
wounded his wife and then committed
suicide. Jealousy was the cause.
A piece of iron cornice fell from the
top of a building at Indianapolis, Ind,
and killed Worth Wright, real estate
man.
United States Senator Burton, of Kan
sas, was placed on trial at st. Louis,
charged with unlawfully receiving money
from the Rialto company.
The new plan for the Northern Sc
curities company is sannounced as stock
dividend of 80 per cent. through the dis
tribution of the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern stocks held by the
merger.
Eugene Cary, a prominent insurance
man of Chicago, dropped dead while at
banquet in St. Louis.
Martial law has been declared in the
Trinidad coal mining district in COL
orado as a consequence of the miners
strike.
The cashier having embezzled $105,-
600, the Orange Growers national bank
closed it's doors at Riverside, Cal.
At Beloit, Wis.,, damage of more than
$3.50 900 has been done by Rock river
overlooking its banks.
Secretary Hitchcock announces that
relentless war will be carried on against
all persons guilty of land frauds.
Three boys, none 10 years old, con-
fessed to burning the Holden school in
Chicago because they disliked physical
culture study after classes.
Seven hundred bindery girls in Chicago
went on a strike and every bookbinding
office in the city may be tied up.
President Roosevelt, in a letter Of in
struction to the Panama canal commits
sioners, directs that the work be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible and with
all the economy consistent with thor
oughness.
Receivers for the business of D. J, Sui
ly, the fallen cotton king, were appoint
ed in New York.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
DOMESTIC.

The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
\ seven days ended on the 18th aggregated
Il 81, ,S47 ,073,258, the decrease over the same
lltime last year being 1913.
Y After experimenting many years, a
7 grower at Grand Junction, Col, has de-
/. veloped method of growing seedless ap-
pies.
Edward S. Caldwell, an influential and
wealthy farmer, died at Laporte, Ind.
after four days of continuous hiccough-
ing.
# Gov. Warfield, Of Maryland, has signed
q bill requiring railway companies to pro-
vide separate coaches for colored pas
sengers except on express trains.
The department of commerce and Ia
Dor has begun an investigation Of
charges made against the alleged beef
trust.
Chauncey Dewey, a millionaire, and
his two cowboys, Clyde Wilson and
William J. Mcbride, we're acquitted OF
the murder of Burchard Berry at
Norton, Kan.
Fayette Sawyer and Burke Harris,
two negroes, charged with the murder
of Sid Killum, a negro porter, were
hanged by a mob at Cleveland, Miss.
Mrs. Edward Willingham and Seph
Crook (white) and Jake Dyer (colore6
were killed and Newt. Clements fatal
ly wounded in race war at Bessemer,
Ala.
A severe earthquake shock in portions
80 ~1s, IJovo h irn q n a.
chusetts caused damage to buildings
and their contents.
On request of Minister Takahira the
United States will ask Russia to use
clemency toward noncombatant Japa-
nese in that country.
4 Henry G. Payne may retire as post
master general, his health being such
as to give his relatives and friends alarm
Louis H. Mott, wife murderer, was
hanged at Missoula, Mont.
Robert Hooker, the man who initiated
The Prince of Wales, now King Edward,
into the third degree of masonry, died
at San Bernardino, Cal.
Z Internal revenue collections in Feb
ruary amounted to 17,403,363, an in
crease of 81 ,O52 1863 over the same month
3 in 1903.
4 A report of the state board of arbitra-
tion shows that strikes in New York
state the last year cost the workingmen
s4,OO0,OOO.
Mrs. Langtry finished her American
tour in New York and said she had had
most pleasant and successful visit.
According to the calculations of cot
ton market experts. Daniel J. Sully lost
about s1,7O0,0O0 by his failure in New
York.
A new treaty regulating the admis-
sion of Chinese into the United States
I is in preparation.
John Maynard, a negro, was hanged to
telegraph pole at Montgomery sta
/ tion, Tex, by a mob. He was charged
with robbery.
At Cambridge, Mass, the Harvard uni
yersity students observed the seventeen
birthday of President Charles w. Eliot.
The committee of the senate appointed
to Investigate the charges against Sen
ator Dietrich has concluded taking Of
lsestimonv.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31
MIR. AND MRS. ]. o. ATKINSON, INDEPENDENCE, MO.

In a letter dated January /, 1900, Mr..
Atkinson says, after five years expe-
rience with Peruna:
."I wiHever continue to speak q good
word for Peruna. In my rounds as q
travelling man am q walking adver-
fisement for Peruna and have Induced
many people during the past year to-
use Peruna with the most satisfactory
results. lam still cured of catarrh. -
John o. Atkinson,
Box 2z2, independence, Mo-
When old age comes on, catarrh al dis
eases come also. Systemic catarrh is al
most universal in old people.
This explains why Peruna has become
so indispensable to old people. Peruna
is their safeguard. Peruna is the only
remedy yet devised that meets these
cases exactly.
Such cases cannot be treated locally;
nothing but an effective systemic rem
edy could cure them. This is exactly
what Perunais.
If you do not receive prompt and sat-
isfactory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, Preside of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Colum bus, o.
The Tomahawk., 1904-03-31

I1NDER date of January 10, 1897, DR..
- Hartman received the following
letter:
my wife had been suffering from a
complication of diseases for the past rs
years.
"Her case had bafled the skill of some
of the most noted physicians. One of
her worst troubles was chronic consti-
patton of several years standing.
''She also was passing through that
most critical period in the life of a
woman-change of life. In June, 1895,
1 wrote to you about her case. You ad-
vised course of Peruna and Manalin,
which we at once commenced, and have
to say it completely cured her. She
firmly believes that shewould have been
dead only for these wonderful remedies,
"About the same time I wrote you
about my own case of catarrh, which
had been of 25 years standing. Attimes
was almost past going. I commenced
touse Peruna according G to your instruc-
tions and continued it's use for about a
year, and it has completely cured me.
''Yourremedies do all that you claim
for them, and even more. Catarrh
cannot exist where Peruna Is taken
according to directions. Success to
you and your remedies.
John D. Atkinson.