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right, but managed to keep a straight
face and be polite.
ssfHave you got it with yous' he
asked.
Garland opened his valise and pro-
duced the greasy manuscript. The edi-
tor smiled curiously and wondered what
sort Of lunatic he had to deal with.
He asked what the story was about and
Garland told him everything The great
man was interested, but shook his head
and, leading the way to large vault,
pointed to innumerable pigeon holes,
each containing a roll Of paper.
- Do you see these9, he asked.
Every one Of those papers is manu-
script that has been accepted and paid
for There are enough to fill our maya
zine for two years.
Garland was impressed, but mot
discouraged and swift came his reply:
8 Yes, but you haven t got my
manuscript there!
That answer, so unexpected and so
expressive Of confidence, struck the edi-
tor forcibly, and a lively curiosity to
go over the strange westernerss manu-
script seized him. He requested Mr..
Garland to leave the manuscript for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Ho,u Han1Lin Garland, the Novelist,

$50, in the fall, when he had
threshed his grain, he gathered up all
his money, put on his best clothes,
packed the greasy manuscript into an
old valise and started for New York,
where, he felt sure, fame was awaiting
him. u
"The day after his arrival in Gotham
he appeared in the editorial rooms Of
the Century magazine. Sunburned and
dusty, awkward and addressed, he
looked the typical 1hayseed. He had
never seen the east before and knew
but little Of the ways Of the cities.
stThe editors looked bewildered and
their stenographers Winked at each
other and Uttered. Never had SO
strange a sight met their eyes IN the
editorial sanctum Of the Century.
But Garland was not disconnected
and, stepping boldly forward, he asked:
g Is the editor inq
s. A moment later he stood face to
face with the chief editor.
What can I do for youq' said he,
smiling.
! have e, 9 story ! want to sell you, I
announced Garland. II
The editor felt like laughing out
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the Hungarians and the throne, the EN-.
peror, less than ten days ago, consented
to receive the delegation from the ma
lority In the Hungarian diet with Kos
suth at their head-always the newt
able kossuth, upon whose fathers head
the decree of death had been placed by
the relgning Hapsburg.
In the course of an angry interview
the leaders of the independence party
We're Informed by the king that the
royal purpose had sustained no change
the command in the army must re-
main German. The departure of the
Hungarians from the palace in Vienna
after half hours stormy interview
was the result of a curt dismissal The
Kossuth had spoken. So had the Haps-
burg.
Turnout Hungary the unyielding at
angry protest. The name of Kossuth
more than ever, became the motto of
Hungarian national existence. The
question of the language of command in
the army became more than ever the
immediate and dominant issue of the
spreading in every. direction from the
storm center at Budapest. The old man
in the palace in Vienna is more deter
mined than ever that the word of a
Hapsburg shall be law Meanwhile it
is apparent that Europe is preparing
for repetition of the struggle of '48.
In such an event the Austrian empire
would find itself without single senti-
ment Of LOYALTY or cohesion. The cry
of CLOS Won ROM in German Austria
has sufficiently indicated the trend to-
ward annexation to protestant Germany
to render futile any hopes of unanimous
and patriotic support of the empire by
its German subjects. The revival of
national sentiment in Warsaw furnishes
a sufficient indication of the unwilling
ness of the Poles to support the house
Of Hapsburg. The rise of the young
czech movement in Bohemia is a strik-
ing proof Of Bohemian disaffection.
+ + +
The conflicting races of the empire
are not held together even by the arti-
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Some the Thrills and Hunors Matanzas Cuba

Latin was not shown when the whips
and swords and households beat upon
them, tho | was ready to show it when
whip just missed my face. A more
tractable crowd there could not be and
more taciturn one never was. How
still they were.
Out in the street, over the arid hose,
stood an absurd bugler, one of the bonn.
beros, not only booted, but spurred and
over his shoulder. The Spanish race
has a national prediction for capes.
Striking picturesque attitude, raising
his elbow Electrically, he blew call
after call up at the stars. That might
well have been his intent, to notify the
slightest attention to him. No one was
giving him any orders. Of his. own
sweet will be blew now one kind of tan
tara and now another, apparently none
OF them having any significance. All
thru the progress of the fire he footed
and looked pretty and sounded well and
did no harm.
When we arrived near the fire at
twenty-five minutes of Z, hose had
already been Laid. 7. was taken UP and
relaid few times and at five minutes
of 7-ffty-fve minutes after the
stream SO feeble that what with the
heat, the nozzle men could not get near
enough the fire to do anything. But
that made no difference anyway. The
building was already tottering, gone
beyond possibility of saving. So the
stream was turned on some stone build
ings near, and on the pavement.
~ bet not a single bombero goes
home before midnight, - said my friend.
HThey IL swell around town and look
pretty in their fine Clothes"
Sure enough, his prediction was pref
ty nearly verified. To the bomberos.
a fire was simply a social function, a
gala occasion, an excuse to dress up
in an outfit that hampers their move
ments, whose. donning takes them a
longer time than an American fire de-
partment would consume in going to
three fires.
Next morning, Ell Mundo, of Havana,
morning daily. told Of the extreme
gallantry of the fremen, how some mar
nowly escaped suffocating. I can well
believe that. But it was not suffoca-
tion from the fire. w. A. Curtis.
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fire, which was now no longer pillar
of smoke, but pillar of flame, red
against the sky which was already dark
with the swift-falling tropical night.
Those bomberos had gone up the
street without coats or collars. It was
too hot for coats on this summer night
and they belonged to station of So
ciety where they did not have to wear
coats to Indicate their social standing.
If you have social pretentions, you GER
tainly do penance in summer in Cuba.
No such thing as a shirt-waist there.
The hidalgoes would as soon go bare
footed as wear a shirt-waist. If you
can afford constant succession Of
white clothes, you can endure life. But
white clothes get dirty quickly, you are
you would be with no coat, and the
lowest linen duck suit to be had costs
$40. During the American occupation,
tailors charged $35 for them. If you do
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Presently we saw smoke, down near
the harbor, across the San Juan in a
district where there were some lumber
yards. But nobody began to run to-
ward it. People gathered on the side
or four small III boys, no one budged in
any direction.
|'Of all thingsl Why don't they
run toward the fire. said I. Indeed,
the only reason that I had not started
was because I did not like to appear
si ST f5 , doing TING apparently not
Some bare-headed, coatless men be-
gan to run by, in the opposite direction
from the fire. Time, 6:05. The crowd
stood. The smoke grew in volume,
leaped into an immense black pillar.
Five. ten, fifteen minutes-and at 6:29,
there went by the first fireman going to-
ward the fire, If you please, riding in a
hackl
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The onlookers applauded and well
they might. He had on a patent leather
helmet, patent leather boots, a white
enamel leather belt, white Isle thread
gloves, q blue broadcloth uniform, frock
coat with stand-up collar, collar and
cuffs trimmed with red braid, red stripe
on trousers! LII
!. + !.
The crowd on our street now moved
slowly, very slowly toward the bridge
and stuck there. More bomberos =
the Spanish call fremen "bomberos,'
which means bumpers yet to
come, but the crowd had to tag along
after the one who had gone by and 50
it got to the bridge, where it stopped
our side Of the river. Whiting seven
minutes after the appearance of the
first, twelve more had gone by and the
crowd moved off the bridge toward the
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upon the attempts Of the Magyars to
denationalize the Slavic element in
what is enthusiastically known as Hun
gary On the Transylvanian border of
Hungary is the kindgom of Rumania,
keeping equally close tab on the Hun
garian campaign for the Reorganization
of 1000 900 Rumanians in Pennsylvania
With eagerness Italy is watching de-
mate destinies Of what italian states
men regard as the italian element on
the Austrian littoral Of the Adriatic.
Furthermore, the house Of Savoy and
the Italian people have not forgotten
the war for the unifcation of Italy.
Nor have they forgotten the reign Of
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not wear duck, you can linger on the
edge Of society in a shapeless alpaca
or black brilliantine, perhaps wearing
full cutaway suit of brilliantine and
looking like the old scratch in it. The
choice is between duck and our ordi-
nary woolens.
i. j. !.
To get back to the bomberos. They
had gone up the street as noted and
now returned dressed as for ball. I
will not depose that any stopped to
shave, tho / do suspect it. It is enough
to take oath that these walters and
clerks, coatless and collarless about
their regular employment, put on col
lars, neckties, and cuffs to go to fight a
fire.
Exactly thirty-fve minutes after the
first alarm, the first engine got out. The
crowd then hurried toward the fire. The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Doctors in a Race

An attraction of the last north
Georgia fair was Hdoctors race The
physicians who took part in the contest
had their horses stabbed and were them
selves undressed and in bed when the
call for them was made. When the
bell rang they had to dress and hitch
their horses and drive one mile to a GER
tain place.
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.zl RaSmuS IS. ANDERSON, the
Morse scholar and author, of Madison,
Wis. Receiving q negative reply. he
continued:
sfWell he told me himself some years
ago, SO you know this is reliable. Years
ago, before the world had heard of him,
Hamlin Garland held down claim in
one Of the Dakotas. He was poor
bachelor and lived all alone in rude
shanty. His nearest neighbors were a
Norwegian couple, who had beautiful
little fair-haired, blue-eyed girl. Gar.
land watched the little one grow and
became very fond of her.
8 He was an imaginative fellow and
took it into his head to write story.
It's title was A Little Norsk. and the
heroine was his neighbors little dangh-
ter. He wrote the story with a pencil
on coarse, greasy paper in which his
groceries had been wrapped. He wrote
with inspiration and felt that he had
produced a masterpiece. He was sure
any magazine editor would be eager to
publish it. q
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fetal bond Of common military glory.
An empire which has been SUCCESSFULLY
and disastrously beaten by Prussia and
Italy, and saved from humiliation by
the Hungarians only thru the interven-
ton of Russia, is i'll calculated to rally
united army to it's standards. The
suflen Hapsburg, twice afflicted, once
by the mysterious tragedy of the Crown
of the Empress Elizabeth at the hand
Of an assassin, sits in angry silence
upon tottering throne-the most pitt
able man in all Europe-while the world
is holding its breath in expectation of
the inevitable catastrophe.-NewY York
Press. 1T
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<1~ I'D you ever hear how Hamlin
&kHh Garland, the novelist, got his
III first story into print ~
N The speaker was Professor
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
Actor Jefferson,s Estate.

Real estate and mortgages to the
amount of $25O,000 were held in Chi.
cago by Joseph Jefferson.
He had an island in Louisiana upon
which is salt mine of great value.
The island includes 5000 acres. 5000
of which is used as pasture lands. the
rest surrounding a fine old villa he
used to spend his vacations in. and
is laid out in a park. A price of ST.
OOO'oOO has been offered for this.
Jeferson's estate now controls the
whole business center of West Palm
bearch, Florida, and the electric light
plant OF the town. This property is
estimated to be worth close to 81 0OO-
900. Other property consists of a fine
home in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. consid-
cradle property in New York city and
mortgages and bonds in different cit
les of the country.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
GATES AND WHEAT DEAL.
He Follows in the Footsteps of other
Wheat Kings.

John w. Gates has met the fate of
the illustrious line of predecessors
who have tried to corner wheat. The
Gates corner went to smash in Chi
cago recently. Gates, the erstwhile
invincible gambler in the realms of
high finance, is invincible no longer.
A kings ransom would look like a
beggarly pittance alongside the losses
he meets through going against the
Chicago wheat crowd.
1t is the first serious reverse in the
meteoric speculative career of Mr..
Gates, who stepped forth from the
suddenly achieved fame of great or
ganizer and captain of industry a few
years ago to startle the financial world
with his exploits in the stock mar
ket. He went from Chicago and rig
ged markets that relieved the wise
men of Wall street of millions, and he
returned whence he emanated to meet
defeat at the wheat game.
Keene, "Old Hutch" Deacon"
White, Letter, and now Gates. have
contributed to the symposium that re-
cords the disaster thai comes to those
who seek to corner the staples of life.
The man who is shrewd enough to
come out a winner has yet to try the
game. 1t has proved too much even for
Gates luck, which mad come to be
proverbial in everything from draw
poker to railroads
May wheat broke liz cents on the
22nd of April and the days close left
the Gates holdings turned over to the
Armours for liquidation, and the ro-
tund manipulation out OF pocket there
on something like $2,500,000.
That represented only a part of his
prospective losses, however, for Gates
was long" on several millions of
bushels still to be delivered, purchas-
ed when the price was way above $1.10I
per bushel. This line would make
more than enough bread to supply the
wants of Gates and his friends of the
bull clique if they lived for several
to come, and the only thing
he can do with it will be sell it to the
millers for what they will give.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
MANY BEeeARs IN LONDON.
London Society Is Daily Adding More
to the Lists.

London Society Is Daily Adding More
to the Lists.
At meeting this week of the Lon
don Mendicity association, an organ
ization formed for the purpose of
counteracting the efforts of the pro-
fessional beggar, many interesting rev.
Citations as to the methods employed
by the begging fraternity were made.
During the last year the society ex-
tended its lists of street beggars to
10000 and in order to keep this ex-
traordinary record completely up to
date the chief commissioner of police
has directed that full particulars of
every street begging case that comes
before the London police courts will
be sent to Sir Eric Buchanan, the So
ciety's secretary.
The society's experts investigated
1869 begging letters last year. They
have now collection of $4,000 such
appeals in their possession. Tbrea
trained Investigators were employed
to ascertain whether the writer's of
begging letters deserved help. Analy-
Sis showed that out of every 100 25
were sent by absolute impostors. so
were not deserving of help. and of
the remainder from five to seven were
very deserving. The society's secre-
tary estimates that at least $500 600
Is given in haphazard aims annually.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
Diplomats Chanoed.

Secretary Taft has received instruc-
tons from the president to call Min.
lister Bowen, now at Caracas, to Wash.
ington; Minister Russell, minister to
Colombia, to Caracas, and Mr.. Barrett,
now minister at Panama, to Colombia.
II is stated that If Mr.. Bowen's action
relative to the charges affecting AS.
sis;ant Secretary Loomis are not sub
ject to criticism, it is the presidents
purpose to send him as minister to
Chile and then probably as ambassa-
dor to Brazil.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05

Twin Falls, Idaho, May 2.--Dau
kingsley, the ferryman at Shoshone
Falls, went over the falls Sunday
night. The oars and pieces of the skiff
in which he started across the river
were found below the falls, but no
trace Of the man.
Kingsley was seen alive the last time
by M. Sullivan. who has been stopping
at the Falls hotel Sullivan tells con.
tiicting stories about the trip over the
falls. One Of these tales is that when
the boat had gone 80 or 40 yards from
the shore he (Sullivan) jumped out.
Kingsley came here from Spokane two
weeks ago.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
SPOKANE ELECTION.

Spokane, Wash. May S.-The demo-
Gratis made aclean sweep on the city
ticket, electing mayor, treasurer and
and also carried a major
ity Of the counoilmanic ticket.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
SUES MURDERER FOR $4,000.
Father Asks Damages of Man Who
Killed His Son.

A remarkable suit was filed in the
superior court at san Francisco, when
murderer, Joseph Smith, was sued
for $4,000 damages for commission
OF the crime. Mathew MCGOWAN.
whose son, Joseph e. MCGOWAN, was
killed by Smith on November 26, 1904.
brings the action. Smith was found
guilty few days ago Of murder in the
second degree for killing MCGOWAN. He
is now awaiting sentence. Smith is
supposed to be worm about 100000.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05

Great Falls, Mont, May 3.-Several
hunrded square miles of range in Val
ley county have been devasted by pra-
RE fires in the last few days. A large
number of stockmen have lost all their
range and a number of range build
ings and about 1000 tons of hay have
gone up in smoke. Some of the fires
are still burning slowly, but they are
still confined to the river valley.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
FITzHUeH LEE is DEAD.
Was Noted southerner and Gallant
Soldier.

OOiOitTs
Brigadier Fitzhugh Lee. U. S. A.,
retired, died at the national capital
recently, aged GO years, from an at.
tack Of apoplexy which he suffered on
train while en- route from Boston to
Washington. The end was peaceful
and without pain, the general remain
ing conscious until within five minutes
of the end. Half an hour before his
death he recognized his brother, Dan.
lei Lee. who came into the room for
a moment.
A pathetic feature of the case is that
although General Lee was blessed with
family consisting OF a wife and five
children, not one of them was with
him at the time of his death.
His Family.
A widow and five children survive
General Lee. Two of the boys are
army officers and two of the girls are
wives of army officers, while the re-
naming child is young woman still
in her teens.
Career Of General Lee.
Fitzhugh Lee was born in Clermont,
Fairfax county, Va, November 10,
1885. He was a nephew of General
Robert E. Lee and was graduated from
West Point in 1856. He was commits
stoned second lieutenant of cavalry
and while in service in the west was
wounded by Indians. He was later in
structor at West Point, and after the
breaking out of the civil war was ad-
jutant general in Elwells brigade. c..
s. A., until September, 1861. He was
subsequently lieutenant colonel and
colonel in the First Virginia cavalry.
in all the battles of the
army Of northern Virginia in 1S61-62
He was made a brigadier general July
20, 1852, and major general Septem-
Der 3, 1868. Three horses were shot
under him and he was severely wound
ed at Winchester, va, September 10,
1864. He commanded the whole cay
airy corps of the army of northern
Virginia in 1865 until he surrendered
10 General Meade at Farmville.
General Lee was governor of Vir-
sinia from 1886 to 1890 and United
States consul to Havana from 1893
until the declaration of war with
Spain. In May. 1898. he was appoint
I'D a major general of volunteers and
vas placed in command of the Seventh
lrmy corps. After the war he became
governor of Havana, January
J, 1893, and later was placed in COM
nand of the department of Missouri.
Burial at Richmond.
1t has been decided to bury General
lee in Richmond.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-05
CAPTAIN RAIBOURN|
SHOOTS LIEUTENANT POINT And
THEN COMMITS SUICIDE.
Both Were Officers Of Twenty-ninth
infantry, Stationed Fort Douglas
Raibourn Had Been Drinking Heav-
lily and Was Arrested-Polnt Was
Shot Twice In the Legs.

Salt Lake, May captain w. A..
Raibourn, Twenty-ninth infantry, U. s.
A., committed suicide at Fort Douglas
early Sunday after making a murder
GUS assault on Lieutenant William H..
Point, also of the Twenty-ninth infan-
try. Point was shot twice by his SUI
perior officer, one bullet penetrating
his left thigh and another infiicting a
deep flesh wound in his right leg. After
Lieutenant Point had fallen, Captain
Raibourn turned his revolver upon
himself, sending bullet into his head
about three inches behind his right
ear. He died almost instantly.
Captain Raibourn had been drinking
heavily and the tragedy was an out
growth of his arrest on Tuesday last
on charge of drunkenness.
On Tuesday of last week Captain
Raibourn was appointed officer of the
day at Fort Douglas, but failed to re-
port for duty and was absent in the
city for "a hours without leave. He
was arrested the following day, but
was given the privileges of the fort,
under orders not TO leave the grounds.
On Saturday evening Captain Raibourn
broke the parole and came to the city.
Lieutenant Point, who was sent after
him with an ambulance, found him in
a Main street saloon and he was re-
turned to Fort Douglas under arrest.
He was ordered to remain in his quar-
tiers.
Lieutenant Points quarters are but
two doors from those which Captain
Raibourn occupied. The lieutenant had
just stepped out of doors early Sunday,
when Captain Raibourn appeared, car
rying a heavy 3S caliber revolver. HIS
manner was threatening and Point
said, Nov, captain, don't do anything
foolish" Raibourn made no reply, but |
Immediately began shooting.
When other officers and soldiers ran
out, after hearing the shots, Captain
Raibourn lay dead and Lieutenant
Point lay in front of his quarters. Lieu
tenant Point was taken to his quar- !
tiers. He is said to be resting well.
Raibourn's body was embalmed and
will be shipped to Oakland City, Ind,
where his mother and two sisters re-
side. He has a brother in Chicago.
Captain kaibourn had sought to
avoid courtmartial and had forward
ed to Washington his resignation from
the army. 1t had not been accepted
and 1t was supposed that trial by court
martial awaited him. Worry over the
of dishonorable discharge
from the army ana dissipation are be-
lieved to have unbalanced his mind.
Captain Raibourn, who was 80 years
Of age, and unmarried, enlisted In the
army in 1891, as private, and had
worked his way up from the ranks
Captain Raibourn and Lieutenant
Point had served together in the
and were firm friends.
Lieutenant Point entered the army
rs captain Of the Fifty-first Iowa vol
and later was appointed to
he regular service. He has passed
he examination ana qualified for pro- ,
notion to captalncy.
Captain Raibourn formerly was re-
sarded as an efficient officer but re-
'ently he had been drinking hard and !
'ould not be relied on for duty.