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skirted the lake on the west Close to the bank how
ever, I came upon the trail Of mink, so followed
hat 1t did not show the individual footprints, which
may be seen after mink has walked light snow,
it gutter, such this animal makes when
struggling its short legs through very deep snow
1t consisted Of succession of neat squarish holes,
occurring at regular Intervals, and had been made
by the mink while leaping along with arched back,
hind coming down close its front ones, all
four feet having had share the making of each
hole The trail followed the shore closely for perhaps
quarter of a mile deviating here and there, where
the animal had stopped sniff at burrow
the bank. and then it across the lake in
slightly wavy line. led VI. the opposite bank
through strip of woodland, across country
road, another lake where again it followed the
shore. Then it turned into the woods again showing
the individual footprints where the 1.-THE creature
had walked through clumps of bushes because it
impossible to proceed at the leapng gait. Suddenly
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snow leaving deep irregular burrows in the form Of
loops the ends of which into the buTrow the
hank. In few places the mUsarats had ploughed
through without disturbing the surface, these
points small tunnels had been made, and added in
terest to the appearance Of the tran.
Not far away, the ice-bound brook joined an ice
bound lake, and to this Across the great field
Of snow which stretched before there just
trail-that of some large d3g-which extended in
regular zig-zag as far the eye could follow it.
The footprints seen alternately right and left
e imaginary median line. This arrangement
showed that the animal had been bounding along
and the footmarks too far part have been
made at a walk. the dog which mad t1em mus
have been travelling at tr0t a quarter Of mile
further the tracks were nearer together. showing
where he had slowed down to q walk that ne might
better examine and sniff at old boat which had
been frozen the ice. Then I walked toward the
shore. with the intention entering which
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and one for themselves The contractors would draw
money every fifteen days, and their rolls would
be padded with the Of many men " no were not
employed at all The system of measurement was
corrupt also The company engineers and the engi-
neers of the contractors would combine TO swindle.
They would in approved reports FOR much more
work thar had really been accomplished and then
divide the derived from their cheating between
themselves DO you not agree that II all very
shameful?
Private SPECTATORS grew rich night
member wen the firm of Isaacs G Ash, in Colon. Who
it said-and ] believe was the truth-cleared
s25 an hour for a whole year Before the boom began
they leased about 100 choice lots from the Panama
Railroad company for prices ranging from So $3.50
per lot Many of these they afterward sub-let
much $4,000 the year Wasn't that glorious profit
realize from a business venture2 And, mind you,
that not all. Those fellows had everything to
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ever. this IS toned and tempered for
Broadway. Dustin Farnam and Frank
Csmpeau characterize the belligerents
very quietly. Guy Bates Post has done
the same with the cattle stealer. None
OF them is permitted TO be noisy with
a single word. If they were to raise
their voices. or become demonsratve,
the play would be sent to the BOwery
in a jiffy. It viii set there eventu-
ally. / think, and then its blood viii
BE- accompanied by thunder. For the
present it is artistic naturaIism.
While that deadly game Of hide and
seek is going on, good ana bad cow
boys go into and come out OF two
saioona drunken with each visit. and
the bride. with her non alcoholic
friends. appear and disappear as often
at the adjacent inn. The revelers are
very profane-ribald, almost, with q
song aboU. g son of a gun. consi2-
eTing that gun isn't tie word Wister
would have liked to write for tipsy
cowboys to Uze-yet not one of the
young girls in row near me WINGED.
Some Of the barroom and gaming he'll
jests were beyond their comprehension,
though they smiled knowingly at ref
erenGss to points in poker and they
laughed merriIy when a. chap, becom-
ing incoherent IN an attempt 90 make
a speech to the bride from staid New
England. was interrupted BY a dis
gustsd comrade with a loud. 20 hell.'
At length Trampas, skulking in a
shadow. fired at the moOnlit back of
his antagonist but missed the broad
mark, being unsteady with drink, and
was shot dead. Whereupon shy Yer
moat threw herself on the bosom OF
brave Virginia. and Wyoming shouted
rHurrehi" The feminine audience was
glad the Nirginian- came cut Of his adj
9entuFes alive and was going To get
fhe gfrl, bat did not quite forgive him
fer having hanged steve.
The token Of truth in In the Cotton
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SELL from carpet tack TO linen collar, and always
prices that spienddbeiieve me- sir at prices
that simply splendid And yet this firm lest all
in the end. assure YOU that of old Panama VIII
never again have the geld rain in our laps it did
then
As ne finished this pfss5hetsc speech the did man
up his glass drank silent toast TO the glory
of departed days. For some time he sat communng
with the thoughts of lost opportunities mendicant
stopped TO hold out his beseeching hands; pigeons
futtered in the street; the heavy twO-wheeIed
carts Of the tropics trundled noisily the
bling cObbe stones; parrots screamed from their
perches the balconies, and 1 in silence, waiting
for nay venerable friend TO connect the threads of his
thought and them into words for Finally
he lit another black cigar, and with the inevitable
gesture said:
A JOURNEY TO DEATH.
May never know of another case so sad as that
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it ran into another trail different character, The
latter had been made by rabbit and the depressions
in the snow were IN groups of three, one small one
behind. made by the fore paws coming down close
together and two large ones, one either side, IN
front, made by the hind feet, which thrown QUIZ
side beyond the front feet when rabbit is going
any speed Thereafter the two trails took the same
direction. and often of them covered other.
Over the rocks and between the trees they to-
ward pile of brush which had been left by the
Iumbermen And here the rabbit tracks ended, and
beyond the brush pile, for leap two the tracks
Of the mink bloody The spaces between them
shorter too. here the animal had been tTav-
cling q full stomach
On my way home I the tracks of red squirrel.
similar the rabbits, but smaller extending
from in straight lines. forming ell manner
Of geOmetric figures upon the ground Here and there
there break in the line showing where the
squirrel had stopped to scratch for hidden
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By Franklin EyIeS.

prizes the class sings about these rec
ord frills, each member in turn snow
ing her Petticoat register of merit. That
is done da.ntily; and. indeed. there is
nothing gross in ali the fooiery, which
runs from delicate comedy down to
sucn depth Of farce al Powers crawl
ing off on MS hands and knees with
sword between mis- teeth. TO assa ssinate
a man in the woods. Powers may know.
but 7 don't, how many times he has
fallen into the hands Of bandits. been
initiated against his VIII dis a member
and assigned to some dangerous decd
OF ASSASSINATION. Once more his
sdueaks CT terror. with eyes rolling
and legs antic, make US laush in spite
of ourselves.
The teacher takes her pupils on a
vacation trip to Greece. ard there they
are captured BY brigands. quite IN the
same old manner. bu- their durance is
neither vile nor dgll. one OF their ex-
pi0its makes tac funniest novelty in
the show. Up to thic time they have
been froeked attractively. Now they
come on with all but their faces Gov
cred. from wrisss 10 ankles. BIZ one
piece cults of rough brown cloth. They
squat AID hop Ike monkeys, lie nat
and rol over, and snuggle and caress in
pairs. while Miss Carus Sings a ditty
about The loves CT the chinpanzees in
Zanzibar That gambol fixes the sue
cess OF the ten little chow girls.
Owen Wister's play. ike the novel
from which he has made It, Is mis-
leading in title. its Xirginian by birth
being typical wyoming COW boy
throughout the story. I knew that one
OF the acts set forth a lynehing that
another was given up to gunplay. that
the men. from hero TO villain. hadn't
a white shirt among them. save one
on person. and that politeness@ was
as scarce as 1t had been on the
ranges Of the Rockies quarter of a
century ago. So / decided TO see a
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OF the girl Mathilde, who all the way from
Paris to surprise her sweetheart He was an employee
en- the works The day she landed they took his
shrunken 1eVer-eaten body TO the buTying ground
Monkey hill, No one had the heart tell her. For a
day she went about her bright eyes shining with sup
pressed Joy, and her plump iittfe just aching
TO around his neck. In the evening the band
playing in the plaza. and the pat0is crowded
with registering gesticuating Frenchmen slipping alb
sinthe and smoking perfumed cigarettes. ] well
member. 1t the evening of the day when the
grand drawing in the lottery occurred consequently
there the jingle of much coin in the pockets of
the spendthrifts. Finally Father Amanda kind old
priest took her gently by the and led her to the
house prayer, where you know. it is good to be
when your heart is heavy. He told her gently
he could. May the saints preserve what did she
do? She slipped away from him, sank to her knees
for moment before the shrine mutteFed pitiful
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matinee performance. at which the
house was occupied by women and
girls in a ratio of ten to one msn or
toy. Therefore I was able 10 watch
out for signs in front Of the footlights
o. how a feminine assemblage would
regard the other sex in its toughest
aspects.
Wen, when some cattle thieves had
been traled to their hidden camp BY
vigilantes, and the Virginian, as boss
of the pursuers. WAS in duty bound
90 hang his ranch chum steve. as one
OF the thieves there were signs and
exclamaficns of interest all around me.
And when Steve. good fellow gone
wrong. went calmly TO his moose. the
sympathy passed from the exeeutioner
to the culprit The audiencs was SO
husned that the outlaws Footsteps
were heard after he had gone out OF
sight CA his way to his % lows tree.
TEen "a woman in 2 box s0bbed hys-
terically and the flew of tears bscame
general Two minutes later Steve came
before the curtain, alive and well. with
bows and smiles. and the dramatic ef-
iect was gone In an instant. Why VIII
stage managers permit an Illusion to
be spoiled in that way2
IA rs materials and the handling Of
them The NirginiaH' is g faulty play
The lynchiDg occupies all of the Third
act, during which the charming school
mistress from Vermont is not seen nor
heard of, and the love between her
and the ranehman from Virginia is not
So much as mentioned. The. sentiment
tai element. which has been nicely nur-
tured into a vigorous growth, which
spells Of racy humor and staiwart pas
sion- IS thus thrown aside; and It IS
not taken up again efeetuaIly in the
final act, wherein, on the evening be-
fore the wedding, the vengefal Trans
pas and the valiant bridegroom ljatfof
the street Of Medicine Bow WITH pis-
tolls ready to pun on each other. F3ow-
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the stage dcor and freshened vivacity
in ne midnight restaurants. And what
viii tne disc arded ones do then. poor
tn.nss? Where vi the 500 survivors
Of the rOginaI 'Florodora' sextette"
fiLd refuge in their plight? Well, some
have already advanced TO speaking
roles. some have retired into pecunicus
wediOck. some have kept IN view IS
parties to divorce suits and the rest
VIII cCntrive, no doubt 80 live on beer
and oysters If they can't set wine and
birds. This IS drifting away from pro-
fes&0nal prOpriety, / know IL, AID my
excuse is that, in the grade OF taeatFic-
a life under notice, personality has be
GO me a matter of Sc f-obtrus.oa. Hay
be 81 IS kind to let the show girl alone
when she IS eff the sage. buf she
doesn't think So. she dotes on pablici-
ty
Shrewdness and ingenuity are 1aown
in the Introduction 81 the school girls
il The Medal and the Maid. They are
led by an eleventh stranger, who has
been brought from London for the pur-
Dcse. Ruth Vincent plays one of the
maids whose welfare IS mixed up. in
ways not worth the space. TO describe.
with TIE loss and recovery Ct q war
medal Ruth Is a nice example Of the
smooth smiling ingra Uatory English
type that s. scarce IN this Amer
lea Of pert, smart. thoroughly in
formed maidens. She sings and dances
vel, and-4she is new here. She makes
such acquaintance Of ours as jeanette
L0werse and Emma Carus give way to
her JUS as the ten chorus girls do The
SIX. and If anything could crowd Jim
my Powers from the center Of the stage
which ne h6lds with his familiar fun
she would do that. too SO desir0usly
apDrecia1iEe ere we of anything new
under the calcium sun. The school
mistress hono3s the pupils with fg.lls
on their psttictats according 10 their
deserts. from che with none to one
with ten and at an annual award OF
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IT, the fall, and in place sprinkng of dark par
t:cles on the snow indicated the branch which
the little nut-cracker had eaten his breakfast.
Between two tiny holes, under a stone wall and
the other beneath the roots tee, distinct
trails showing where. for some purpose, white
footed mouse had gone and returned These trails
were fac-simes those of the red squirrel excepting
that the mouse being so light had not sunk deep
enough to oberate the delicate outlines of its toes
Yes there was another difference too, for here and
there along the trails between the footprints there
was fine line, though made with pencil point,
where the tail of the mouse had occasionally touched
the
And nearer home I saw the tracks Of tree sparrows
amongst the weed stalks in meadow and the round
holes made by which had been stalking the birds
But they had escaped unframed. for pussy's tracks
never reached theirs; doubtless they had flown
leaving her to pick her way home in disapDoint-
Dent
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- NE morning last week there lay upon the
ground some three and half inches of
ly-fallen Snow, and I went out early to
~ what my Wild neighbors had been doing dur
ing night The first record I saw had been made
by some crows, which had been walking about in my
neighbors barnyaTd. Each footprint looked Ike the
track of some pigmy snow-shoer. for the snow
too soft and too deep 10 show the individual toe
marks. And could where each bird had stood
at the moment he flew away for the imprints of his
primary feathers showed where ne had struck the
snow with his wings at the first downward stroke.
In the next field there a brook and from a
large hole near the hank, two muskrats wandered
TO the group OF apple trees though / could not
that they had found anything 10 eat The tracks
OF the rats were not well defined. they did not show
the well known bi-symmetrical trail the footprints
OF either side separated by sharp line made by the
tail The little animals had poughed through the
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SHORT Girls ARE Now IN FAVOR ON THE STAGE
By Franklin hS

AZ EW YORK Jen. 15.-Life down
N south. out west and over I'm Eng
land is shown In "On the Planta-
ton THE Virginian and The
Medal and the Maid" The play last
named is fancifui. however. and we are
not asked to take its representations in
good faith. This rs a musical comedy
such as they make nowadays in Lon
don. and it is principally a show Of
feminine beauty. Since six carefully
selected models of the modish belle.
tall. slim and nonchalant. were fash
ionably gOwned for "FiOrod0ra' and
exhibited with a beau apiece in the
foubie seXtette which made the foe-
Cune of that entertainment. an imits-
zion haif-dozen OF cOquettes have saun-
tered behind the fOotlights. nirted with
tssir partners and nodded knowingly
at audiences. Here they are again ln
Owen Halls composition as young Ia
dies in society, and their escorts are
polo players. But they are no longer
novelty. and we regard them with
sut lifting an eye or cooking an ear.
They are not quite by-gOne. but have
become common. and the shoWmen
strive 10 make different displays Of
loneliness. The time has barely passed
when the competitor for o place in the
front line had 10 be no less than five
feet eight or she would be rejected at
sight, no matter how pretty her face
might be: but the fve-footer has her
chance now. and she numbers two score
in this production.
Ten Of these shorties are the show
girls at the front in The Medal and
the Maid while the six lengthles are
Telegated TO the rear. The ten are very
active as pupils al a boarding school
while the SIX are almost inert as casual
visitors. All. now tickle we are in our
fondueiss. We wave aside the stately
big ones Of yesterday and extend our
hands TO the frisky little ones Of today
The new favOrites are a choice lot too
chorus. There viii be cemmOtion at
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Fields as a half hour of the new
Dockstader minstrel show is called. is
a live 'p0ssum. Could anything else
than a coon have stood with equal
authority for negroism in the south? A
darkey with shiftless arms. sbambling
feet and sagging clothes leads the little
Oeastie on the scene. Few in a New
York audience know which il is, coon
or a 'possum, till the man mentions
him by name. Good Lawd, how that
nan can dance-and his brother, too.
The BIN says they are Ed and Max
Ford, but doesn't tell what part of the
country they come from. It seems as
If they must nave been born and bred
to wing and buck dancing. II such legs
aa theirs grow wild ] would like to
find ont where, because fortune
might be made by gathering them for
the theatrical market. And if those two
fellows could put their steps into foot
races with no less of skipping, strad-
ding velocity. all the records in pedes-
tr,aDism would be broken. I think the
new record would be a mile q minute
The fastest feet hitherto developed on
the New York stage have been the neat
little toetsies Of WebernieIds girls, but
they are slow by contrast with the
s. ap-soles and clatter-heels that make
the Fords look like Microscopic figures
gore crazy. Talk of dramatic art Ed
win Booth began in an amateur min
strel company, but his Hamlet eouldn' {
dance like that. Edwin Forrest started
as a circus athlete, bot his Gladiator
wasn't in the same class with the
ForGs for gymnastic vim.
The activity of these imitation ne
groes was unlike the slow and lazy
real things but there was the pos
sum 10 give color and atmosphere to
the plantation scene. Broadway au-
diences stare at the creature and
with a few black exceptions in the gal
IeTy-are uncertain whether It ism
that other vaunted Wand Of The daT-
kiee, a coon. TIL it is mentioned by
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-06-25
Thursdays War News.

News from the front indicates that
ina important battle OF a series Of bat
ties ara being waged for supremacy in
the southern part Of Manchuria. Lon
don experts believe the advantage Is on
the side Of the Russians.
The Russian VIadivostok fleet ia
igyen Joyous welcome at home. The
torpedo boat fiotilla has been threaten
ing the northern ooast Of Japan, where
it has been preying upon small craft OF
the japanese.
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Seattle, Wash. June 23. - Secret
Service Agent W. B Bell and Deputy
United States Marshal Lathe raided a
big counterfeit money plant in a cabin
on the tide flats and arrested b. Lyons
and Monroe 7. Brown in the act Of
manufacturing bogus Is aud $40 gold
pieces. Several thousand dollars face
value in these coins was represented in
the material captured, and first class
plant for turning out oOuntsrfeits on q
large scale was secured.
All the coins are made with excep-
tional skill Both the men are from
Sc. Louis
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Minneapolis. MINI jane %. LA a
notrly wFUup u swaFhy foreigners az
th1 UHi1u station today were fivv Rus-
sian PEASANTS In characteristics peasant
dra@. bound. with eghsis who cAms la
on morning trains from tbn east. for
North Dakota. Monana aud CanadalAn
plotna
Recent taina hFuuRht In many pouF
Foreigners. all of Ehoa, wsrp hfusht 90
The United stairs ON rates made cheap
By the pEuscut Atlantic steamship war.
Tho northern EurupcAn countries
seem ~ have Furnished a majority 81
thu newcomers. Thnse DO arrived ia
~, Paul are u ths ps-aTrst CLASSES. PR
hapa NOS ~ pUnF a. oh0Fs in their own
lands, bat much morp povuFtysttick On
than even the average run Of foreign
settlers who come shFunRh tha Sc. Psul
gateway.
Thousands Of such people have BEN
damFed into New York By tho steam
ship lines. having been brought over
ike cattle 81 $40 OF loss = head. 30
sink or swim in the nav world. Here
and there was one who could spaak q
word Of English. The remainder re-
lied solely upon the depot immigrant
agent ~ interpreter and guide % carr
for them In = strange country whore
there are few 81 thaiF ike.
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WEDNESDAY.

Report Of the credentials committee
seating the SpOoner delegates from
Wisconsin and giving to each wing Of
the Louisiana rival delegations seats
ON the floor, with half vote to each
delegate. is adopted. Hawaii is given
six delegates in this convention, but in
future convention the representati tons
will be materially reduced.
Speaker Cannon, ON mounting the
platform as permanent chairman, Is
given a rousing demonstration. His
speech ar1Oses the convention to enthu-
siasm and injects vigor into the pro-
eeedings.
The platform is adopted as it comes
from the COMMITTEES. without the change
of word. IL ignores the Iowa idea
Thursday the convention will nominate
Theodore Roosevelt for president and
in all probability Senator Fairbanks
for vice president.
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soBalkoFF MURDERED.
Was Governor o. Finland--sL Peters
burg Excited.

Was Governor 81 Finland-sL Peters.
burg Excited.
HeIsingfora. Finland General Bob.
Fikoff. governor general Of Finland
who was shot At tho entrance to the
senate. died later The people are
calm and there IN 10 excitement
81 Interchangeable assassination
of General Bobrikof has stirred up a
great sensation and Ia temporarily alb.
sorbinE interest from the war. The
papers are filled with extended bio
graphies OF the deceased. detailing the
difficulties Of his ONCE, editorials do
mandatory OF the crime. and com
ments on the conditions In Finland
The Novoe Yremya says that BobTik
on. IS the representative OF supreme
authority in Finland. proved himself q
be a stout. honest defender Of Ruasia'i
policy.
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Bede and Secretary Shaw were ae-
corded an ovation. Secretary Shaw
defended the practice Of American
manufacturers who sell abroad cheaper
than Al home, Some Of the articles
thus sold are protected in the foreign
countries, Further, tho manufacturer
is allowed a rebate ON imported raw
matreial when he exports the finished
article, and this permits reduction OF
price. Nearly every class OF goods inn
ported into this country said Secretary
Shaw, is obtainable below the regular
foreign market, showing that foreign
manufacturers do the same thing that
is complained of by critics of the Am
eriean tariff.