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Resourceful Miser.

ter, biting cold and ran his bony fingers
through the heap of shining gold: His
end was close upon him, and he planned
to take his wad to his new but narrow
quarters down below the frozen sod. He
sewed it in the lining and fooled the vul-
gar crowd which had neer believed the
saying, There's no pocket in the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

Criticism hurts some people SO much
that the only thing that sustains them is
the absolute knowledge that they are al
ways right.-Puck
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

Solomon declared that there was moth
ing new under the sun, but Nahum, the
Eikoshite, evidently foresaw the auto
mobile when he wrote: "Chariots shall
rage in the streets; they shall jostle one
against another in the broad ways;. they
shall seem like torches; they shall run
like the lightnings Boston Globe.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF
as cough cure.-J. w. O'Brien, 322 Third
Ave-, N, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. Q. 1900.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

People who never fiatter themselves are
in little danger of being spoiled by fiat.
tery.-Puck.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

A number OF water-wagon passengers
are already using their transfers.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18
To Florida Through Old Battlefields.

Dixie Flyer" leaves Chicago over c. &
Z. /. at 700 p. M. and arrives jackson
vile $40 second morning. Through
Sleepers. Daylight ride through the most
picturesque and historic section of the
South. Chicago and Florida Limited
leaves Chicago over G. & E. l. l:,S p. M.
tine OPS the next evening. Solid Train
with Dining and Observation Cars. Both
trains use the Nashville. Chattanooga and
st. Louis Railway between Nashville, Chat
tanooga and Atlanta, the famous Battle
fields Route" For folders and interest
ing literature call on or write to BRIARD
+. HILL, Northern Pass. Agent, N. c. &
st. L. Ry., Marquette Bldg, Chicago, Ill.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

Life 10 not so short but there is always
time for courtesy.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

A man often elbows his wisdom by keep.
ing his wit to himself. Chicago Tribune.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

There are men who finally consent to go
to work when they can't make living
in any other way.-Philadeiph Record.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18

When a footpad approaches you seize
him by the center of the arm and press
your thumb violently against nerve in
the inner elbow joint. The footpad will
then probably shoot FIVE bullet-holes in
lin ;itsu.~St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching, Blind Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
Your druggist will refund money IL PAzo
OINTMENT fails to cure In O TO IA days. 5Oc.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-02-18
HAPPENINGS OF
A WEEK IN BRIEF
SUMMARY OF MOST INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF PAST
SEVEN DAYS.
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING

Progress Of the Russo-Japanese War
In the Far East-News from All
Parts Of the Union and the Latest
Foreign Intslligence.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
POPE NAY UPSET
OLD TRADITIONS
OF THE VATICAN
Believed That He Will Spend a
Few Weeks of the Summer
at Outside Villa.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

ROME, March 1.-THE Pope has
recently expressed his firm determina-
ton to spend a few weeks next sum-
mer at the Papal villa at Castel
Grandolfo, and the general opinion here
is that Plus X is so far independent of
traditions and precedents as to carry
out mis- point. If he should insist the
whole question of temporal power,
which has for many years shaped the
policy followed by the Vatican author
tiles toward the Italian Government,
would Immediately find practical
solution by demonstrating that even
with Rome in the possession of the
Italian Government the Pope is free
to come out of the Vatican without
any loss of dignity or prestige.
Naturally there would be much op-
position to the Pope taking such an
important step. The more .conserva-
tive Cardinals certainly would protest
against such an extraordinary proceed
ing on the part of the Pope, but those
who, know Plus X we'll and have OBJ
served the increasing independence OF
his character entertain no doubt that
if the Pope makes up his mind to
throw some traditions TO the winds he
will certainly carry out his plans inde-
pendent of what his close advisers may
suggest.
COSTLY REPAIRS ON VILLA.
Soon after his election the Pope spent
a large sum in repairing the Papal
villa in the Albano hills, and 1t was
repeatedly asserted that 1t was Plus
KS intention TO use the villa several
weeks during the summer. Such plan
could not be carried out last year and
the villa was turned over TO the per-
sonal use of his cardinal secretary of
state. who spent August and Septem-
Der there coming to Rome only once a
week for a fewfho conference with
the Pope.
There is no doubt that the extensive
repairs made in the summer abode Of
former Popes are not justified by the
for a few weeks. and that Plus KS
intentions are to transfer the whole
papal court there during the summer
months 1t has been noticed that Plus
X has never given up his yearning for
more liberty and that the increasing
pallor of his countenance, which has
now lost the ruddiness of former years
is by him attributed to his long con-
1nement within the walls of the Va
tican. No one will therefore be sur
prised il Plus X carries out his plan
and leaves the Vatican for aifew weeks
in the country.
CHANGE IN HIS HABITS.
Every one here is surprised at the
wonderful change which has taken
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

place in the methods of life Of Plus x
within. the last few months. change
which was expected after his election,
but which was a long time in coming
On the occasion of the conservation as
Bishop of Bergamo of Monsignore Ra-
dini Tedeschi. who was a warm per-
sonal friend of the Pope. Plus x gave
a luncheon in honor of the new Bishop.
to which he invited all the cardinals
present at the conservation and many
prelates of the curia, including an ItaI-
ian deputy, MIR. PucinelH.
Contrary TO his custom of taking his
meals at the same table with his
guests, Plus Y insisted for the first
time since his election that a special
table be set aside for his own use and
took part in the festivities in the same
large han where the tables had been
placed, sitting in solitary grandeur at a
small table and waited upon by the
pontificaI scalco.
YIELDS TO A TRADITION.
Those present were wondering at the
fact that at last even Plus x, the
democratic pope, had given in TO one
of the most respected customs Of the
Vatican court, where, even when hav-
ing a reigning sovereign as an honored
guest, no pope was ever known TO par
take of a meal at the same table with
him. The late pope. who was a stickler
for the conventionalities of the curia
during the twenty-five and more years
of his pontificate. never had a meal at
the same table with any one. no matter
in how high a position his guest hap
pened to be.
In fact, the late pope seldom par
took of meal in the presence. of any
one excepting his private scalcO, who
has to be present and taste OF the food
when requested before the pope tastes
any of il. 1t is not known what
prompted Plus Y 70 insist on the OBJ
servance of the immemorial custom.
but the idea prevails that the pope has
at last become thoroughly accustomed
to his new dignity and surroundings
and will from now on inaugurate a
new era in which his democratic ten
denotes will no longer prevail over the
dignified ceremonial of his predecessor.
This was confirmed on the same oc-
casion when after luncheon Plus Y
held a reception for the preIates in at
tendance Instead of sitting Familiarity
among them in his private library, as
he had done many times before on sim
liar occasions, he led his guests to the
throneroom and. sitting on the throne.
entertained them in conversation. pay
ing particular attention. as the Occa-
sion demanded, 10 the newly conse-
Grated bishop
To describe the astOnishment Of the
seven or eight cardinals present is alb
solutely impossibla
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
NEW RECRUITS
FOR SOCIETY
AMERICANS ENTER
Special Cable to The Call.

Special CaDie 10 Inc Call.
LONDON. March 1.-THE activity of
the American colony in London in
American women who hitherto have
preferred the quietness of their own
homes to the glamor and excitement of
the London season to take a livelier
share in what is going on. Lady Falk-
land, formerly Miss Mary Beade of
New York, is one of these, and Lady
Ross, who as Miss Burnley was a ia
nous Louisville belle before her mar
riage, IS another.
Lady Falkland until recently has
shown far more interest in charitable
projects than in the diversions of the
drawing-rooms of Mayfair or Bel
gravia. Her pretty house in Eaton
Square was always open to her per-
sonal friends, but she studiously avoid
ed entertaining on scale that would
attract public attention.
She is on terms of personal intimacy
with Queen Alexandra and, in fact,
with every member of the royal fam
ily She and her husband are admit
ted into the society of the most exclu-
sive set in England but they seldom
figure in the chronicles of fashionable
society Lack of means cannot have
prevented her from going In for a
good time in the popular fashion. be-
cause apart from her own fortune her
husband is a wealthy man. She has
preferred, however, to give whatever
she could spare to charity, especially
to institutions devoted to the care of
the old and infirm. There is some fear
now that all this will be changed, as
1t is seen that the mansion in Eaton
Square has been undergoing extensive
alterations in preparation of a busy
London season.
Lady Ross has shown similar aver
sion to the frivolities of the London
season. Her home in the Highlands of
Scotland, where her. husband owns
nearly 100000 acres of land. has been
chiefly the scene of her social activi-
ties. 1t was said that she disliked Lon
don on account of the late hours de-
manded by its society functions and
entertainments and for this reason she
had no town house. Now she is look
ing out for one for the season.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

will Henry VIII limited the success
sion, failing issue of his daughters
Mary and Elizabeth, to the issue of his
sister Mary by Charles Brandon, Duke
of Suffolk, passing over the claims OF
the family of his eldest sister, Mar
garet, Queen of Scotland.
For reasons probably not uncon-
nected with a desire to avoid all need
less risk of getting his head chopped
off, Edward Seymour, Lord Beau
champ then the representative of the
Suffolk line, swore allegiance to the
Scottish line nominated by Elizabeth
on her death bed and waived the claims
of his own family, of which Lady Kin
loss is now the heir general But
she is not an ambitious woman; she
has always led a quiet and retired life
and probably would not change places
with the King if she had the chance.
She is the oldest daughter of the late
and last Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos, at whose death the dual
dukedom expired, but she became Ba-
roness Kinloss in her own right
Stowe is an enormous house-once
one of the great show places of the
country-with a Corinthian portico over
which "Ichabod" might well be in
scribed, for its glory departed in 1S4S,
when long years of extravaganza cul-
minated in sensational smash and
its art treasures were sold and dis
persed. 1t was occupied for many years
by the Comte de Paris, and long be-
fore that, in 1908 it sheltered Louis
XVIII and the Bourbon exiles. In
fact, it is said that 1t was the ruinous
cost of entertaining the French refu-
gees which plunged the family into
bankruptcy.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
PARIS MILLINERS DECIDE
FOR SMALL EASTER HAT.
Feathers to Be Worn Costing Fifty
Times More Than Their Weight
in Gold

PARIS. March 1.-THE fashion fad
dists this week are preoccupied with
the trimmings for Easter hats, which
milliners already have decided must be
small Whether it is a Louis XVI toque
or crown variety, technically 1t is
dubbed plateau. according to the Rue
de la Paix autocrats Floral adorn-
ments must give way to plumage, such
as pheasant. condor or white peacock
The latter. owing to it's rarity. costs
fifty times more than ITS weight in
gold, but the limitations are abundant
MANY new feathers have narrow bands
of ribbon twisted across, and others
have narrow edging of chinchiIla or
other fur.
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ton officials and natives and to in
J spect documents at her own sweet
viii.
! Considering that she went out to
discover it, it is not surprising that
/ Mrs. Sheldon's first business upon her
| return from Congoland has been to
tell the world what she is convinced
. is the truth regarding conditions
there.
While not pretending that all is rose
! colored in the Free State, she has
! come back convinced that an uncom-
monty hard job is being handled there
rather we'll and that the Belgian ad-
missionaries with a taste for polem-
ics," as she says. Almost nothing has
been said about the things that hap
( pened to this plucky American dur
ing the fourteen months that she
( spent in travelling, without any white
companion, from one end to the other
of about the least civilized region on
earth.
TRAVELS MUCH ON FOOT.
Mrs. Sheldon has exposed her life
so many times in different parts of the
globe that she is accustomed to dam
gers and it proved rather difficult to
make her dwell on the perils of one
kind and another that accompanied
almost every step of her journey
through the Congo State. With the
possible exception Of her own expe-
dition through East Africa, however
1t was probably the most hazardous
as well as about the most difficult
journey ever attempted by a woman
Begun in October. 1903, Mrs. Sheldon's
investigating expedition did not come
10 an end until the last day of last De-
cember, and it wouldn't have been fin
ished then had not the explorer met
with an accident while crossing some
rapids in the Congoland. the conse-
quence of which forced her to return
TO England. There was. however.
hardly a corner of the Free State which
she left unvisited. Whenever possible.
she Travelled by the State steamers
which go up the Congo once in two or
three weeks, and one Oi the privileges
granted her by King Leopold was the
right of having these steamers stopped
at any port for two hours. but. Of
course, her visits TO the interior of the
country had to be made on foot. In
this way she covered hundreds of miles
and it speaks we'll for her constitution
that she never lost single day and
was never attacked by fever or any
other of the ills that ordinarily beset
travellers in Africa.
BODYGUARD OF CANNIBAIS.
A lot Of her travelling had to be done
through swampy districts. and for
days together she and her native car
riers marched through water that was
often waist deep While on her march
Mrs. Sheldon was clad in white duck
and she says that except at such times
as she was wading through the swamps
she kept herself as immaculate as Cap
tain Kettle himself Her caravan
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
MRS. FRENCH SHELDON THROWS
NEW LIGHT ON COUNTRY.
Has Escort of CdnnibdlS, but Real
Trouble Comes From Ants.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

LONDON, March Il-Mrs French
Sheldon has consented TO tell some
thing about the adventures that befell
her on the remarkable expedition in
the Congo Free State, from which she
has just returned
AS most people know, the motive
that took this intrepid American wom-
an explorer off TO the Dark Continent
for the second time was entirely diff
ferent from those which have inspired
most Of her other expeditions. The
three exciting trips around the world
made by Mrs. Sheldon, like the famous
journey through savage East Africa
which earned her the friendship of
Henry NJ Stanley and Paul du Chaillu.
not 10 mention a fellowship in the
Royal Geographical Society. were un-
dertaken partly for the sake of adven-
ture, partly through a love of research.
But the painstaking journey Mrs.
Sheldon made through the Congo Free
State at her own expense. 10 see for
herself whether things there were as
black as they were painted, was quite
another affair.
Mrs. Sheldon says that at first she
simply thought she'd like to go TO the
Congo to catch butterflies. The Free
State is a famous place for butterflies.
and Mrs. Sheldon, besides being an ex-
plorer, a physician, a novelist. sculp-
tor, a playwright and a few other
things, is an ardent entomologist.
Once set thinking about the Free
State, It struck this venturesome
American that she would like TO know.
# only for her own satisfaction
whether all the stories Of atrocities
practiced on the natives thereof some
being hogged to death and the hands Of
others cut of because they didn't bring
in rubber enough-were true. and if so.
whether these things really were done,
as has been asserted so often. at the
command Of Belgian administrators.
She was curious to know. in short,
whether there was justification for all
the outcry that has been made against
the administration Of the Free State
under the King Of the Belgians.
AID FROM LEOPOLD.
Perhaps the fact that Mrs. sheldon
was presented to King Leopold four
or five years ago. just after the peril
Gus trip through the Nasal country
which she described in her book. Sui
tan TO sultan, had something to do
with the facilities that he placed at
her disposal as soon as he heard Of
her errand. The King Of the Bel
gians had word sent to every part of
the Congo Free State that this fearless
feminine Investigator was TO be the
''freest person IN the country; that
she vas to go where she pleased, and
see what she wanted 10 see, TO ques-
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
MIGHT HAVE
BEEN QUEEN
OF ENGLAND
Lady KinlOSS Of
a Historic
Family.
ENTEKTHINS HING
Special Gable to The Call.

LONDON, March 1.-THE British
peerage abounds in romance, but few
are more startling than that which is
recalled by the recent visit of the King
to a woman who, If she had retained
her hereditary rights, would now be
firmly seated on the British throne. 1t
is somewhat singular that in chroni-
cling the Kings reception by Lady
Kinloss at Stowe House in Bucking-
hamshire society journals omitted all
mention of this interesting fact
1t is undoubtedly true that if the
will of that merry and much-married
monarch, King Henry VIII, had been
observed Lady Kinloss would be to-
day "by the grace of God" Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of
India and all the rest of it. BY his
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
CHANGE IN HIS HABITS.

Every one here is surprised at the
wonderful change which has taken
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12

usually numbered about hundred. in
Guiding four or five native soldiers.
and with the exception of their leader.
every member of the expedition was a
cannibal. Whenever she was in the
neighborhood of a Government post,
Mrs. Sheldon, of course, accepted the
Administrator hospitality, but when
in the wilds she slept in her tent with
only two of the native soldiers keeping
guard Mrs. Sheldon was armed with
a Lee Enfield rife and an American re-
volver, with both of which she is a
dead shot
On one of the nights she came within
an ace of being eaten by ants. Toward
midnight she was awakened by what
she thought was the pattering of rain
on the walls of her tent. 1t didn't take
her long, however, to discover what
really had happened. Her sleeping
place had been captured by an enor-
nous caravan" of ants, thousands
upon thousands of them. The floor of
the tent was black with them. and in
a few minutes they began swarming
upon the bed and attacked Mrs. Shell
don on all parts of her body. biting
furiously. Things of this sort have
ended tragically in Africa before to-
day, but Mrs Sheldon managed to get
off with a few bad bites. though the
whole camp had to be aroused to settle
the ans.
Only a few days afterward she had
the liveliest kind of fight with a
wildcat or leopard cat as it is called
in the Congo.
RESPECTED BY NATIVES.
In spite of the fact that she pene-
trated into the most savage parts of
the Congo district, especially those on
the old caravan routes where the
blacks have been made degenerates
and british by the drink supplied
them by the traders, she never was
molested. She seems to have made
a really extraordinary impression on
the natives, the more so as there are
practically no white women in the
Congo, and the blacks regard their
own women merely as chattels.
Mrs. Sheldon, however. they dubbed
''Bibi Baana Penba,'' which means
white woman master" and in some
district she was given the title "Bibi
Bula Matari,' which the natives apply
to all officials of state and which
means rock breaker
Mrs. Sheldon mentioned the SIM
plicity of divorce proceedings among
the Congo natives. The Belgian adj
ministrators insist on their being le-
gally married and certificate is Civ
en- in every case. But when man and
wife decide to separate they just tear
up the certificate and that constitutes
the divorce.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-18
PORTLAND
PRINTERS
STRIKE

Portland, Me. Dec. 1s-The strike OF
compostors in Portland job printing offi-
ces today, ordered by the international
Typographical Union for all it's members
affected four firms and involved IL men
who decline to resume work until the de-
mand for an eight-hour day Is granted.
Union men were allowed TO remain I'm
several shops employing only one man
and where the demand has not been
granted. The firms affected are the
Tucker printing house, the Lakeside
Press, the r. f. Bacon Manifold com
pany, and Smith and Sale. Work is not
ntirely suspended although there is
very limited number Of non-unlon print
ers I'm this city, Advertisements are pub.
llshed today in Maine papers for men TO
hll the vacancies
The strike was not expected before the
first OF next year, and the proprietors
were not hardly prepared 10 meet the diff
ficuties arising from It. They have con-
tracts with the pressmen and do not ex-
pect them TO participate. The present
day OF labor is nine hours
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-18
STRIKERS
APPEAL. TO
CHURCH

Chicago. Dec. is-For the first time in
Chicago labor history church was ap-
pealed 20 yesterday 10 grant the demands
of Il body OF strikers The prayer was
raised TO the Methodist Episcopal church
which Is experiencing a strike OF printers
in It's local publishing department
The Federation of Labor framed the ap-
peal az the instance OF Typographical
union No. IS IL also complied with a re-
quest OF tho union 10 declare a boycott on
Methodist publications until the labor dis
pute is adjusted.
Specific directions were issued I'm this
connection TO the trade unionsts, who
are members of the Methodist church.
asking them TO be guided by their union
rather than their church affiliations.
The Western Methodist book concern
was the direct object OF the labor resolu-
tions. The ownership OF the establish
ment Is said to be vested IN the Methodist
church
Three months ago n strike OF com
-positors was ordered because the concern
allied itself with the Chicago Typothatae
and refused 10 grant the demands OF the
printers for an eight-huur day. The strike
still is in progress.
In the resolutions which tho federation
adopted IL was pointed out that the Rock
River conference on Oct. 10 at Freeport.
Ills. went on record as favorlng arbitra-
tion OF all disputes between capital and
labor on this ground the responsibility
was laid at the door OF the Methodist
church.