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PITHY PERSONALS.

Frum the Cleveland Leader.
J. p. Morgan is spending large sums
OF money digging up an ancient Egyp-
tian cemetery. Can't he find dead ones
enough in this country.
From the Buffalo Times
The oni of Meko is looking, for a smart
young chap to run a store. Hope W.
Morgan Shuster sees this ad.
Frum the Boston Herald.
With so many full states OF Taft dele
gates, Mr.. Mckinley should look about
for a blackboard.
From the OKLAHOMA City Times.
Rev. Father Keating, of Brockton.
Mass. thinks the widows should stand
back aud give the maids a chance He
is evidently an observing priest. when
a young widow is about the maids don't
get a fair deal.
From the Houston Post.
Lillian Russell says there is more hon
est love in a handshake than there is IN
a kiss. As dear Miss Russell was born
in 1860, she has reached the stage of life
at which the kiss cools. She didn't talk
that way thirty years ago.
From the Ohio State Journal
1t would be just like those seven gov
ernors to start a movement to present
Col Roosevelt with a mousse ana IuI m
the name Of a grateful people.
From the New Britain Daily Herald.
Lady Warwick cables back that the
American pace is too fast. That's the
one thing English visitors seem agreed
upon.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Col Goethals and the KAISER do not
seem to have the same recollection OF
what the Emperor said about tortity,nr
the canal Is Wilhelm at last to have an
Ananias club, toog
From the Milwaukee Sentinel
Champ Clark once was a college presi-
dent, but nobody ever heard OF the toot-
ball team that represented hrs institu-
ton. t|
From the kansas City Star.
Lena Cavalier declares she will never
visit America again, a blow under which
the Chanler family will try to bear up
grimly.
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NEW ORLEANS
EysGEoRGE FITCH
{uthor of at Good Old Sipnsh"

New Orleans Is a foreign city which
was left behind when the French and
Spanish evacuated America. and which
remained ina petrihed and most attrac-
tive State until the wave OF modern
progress rolled over 1t few years ago.
New Orleans is the metropolis of the
South and has been owned by five ma
tons since 1t was founded something
over 200 years ago. The French and
Spanish fought for II. the English cap
tured II. the Americans bought IL, and
the Confederate States gave IL up to
the United States fifty years ago. or
late the city has been absorbing Ameri-
canism rapidly, having adopted sky
scrapers. ward politics. baseball. and
department stores with great enthusiasm.
New Orleans lies on the broad fiat
Louisiana IowIands, a few feet below
the Mississippi River. which flows past
its front door. and has to be kept out
of the city by means OF levees which
are so tall that no one who is not a
good climber can fall into the giver. Its
low situation has complicated life in
New Orleans and has caused the ele-
waited cisterns and tombs for which the
city is famous. II Is possible to tell
the wealth OF a New Orleans citizen by
the number OF cisterns he has piled one
above the other IN his back yard. and
a man with a four-story cistern is re-
Earded with awe. New Orleans citizens
are not extravagant while living. but
are rather ostentatious when dead. A
New Orleans man will live contently for
seventy years in an unpainted frame
dwelling In order to save up money for
a magnificent twO-story tomb in Me-
taire Cemetery.
New Orleans is the center OF South
ern wealth. fashion, industry. and COM
merce. and has its own Individual steam
ship lines TO Europe and South America.
It is a substantially built city whose old
streets are a forest of green iron work
porches, and whose street cars viii not
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spoken fuently, while on the other side
the Inhabitants still talk with their
shoulders and eyebrows. and the scatter
ed remnant OF an eighteenth century.
French arfstocracy still maintains a
French opera house and a little cemetery
so exclusive that the only way to get
into II is to edge in beside the bones Of
a great-great grandparent
The climate OF New Orleans is fine in
March. The city has $1,000 people and
Is waiting for the Panama Canal with
the eagerness Of a place which is tired
OF history and tourists and wants to
dabble IN corner lots and building rec
ords for a change.
(CopgdEht. Isia By George Matthew Adama)
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04
The Last straw.
The Cleveland Pl.In pealer

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The man stood with his hands up while
the brisk highwayman went through him.
Thank you," said the knight of the
sun as he slipped the loot into his pock-
cts. Your patience during this ordeal
deserves the highest praise
rs that alp inquired the victim.
The highwayman suddenly started.
That reminds me-" he said 'I'm-tak-
ing a straw vote of Presidential prefer
ences. What's yours?"
whereupon the patient citizen fell upon
the ruflah With tremendous fury and
beat him up, and took his gun away from
him, ana flung him down. and cleaned
out his pockets. and left him lying help
less in the gutter. -
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BY ALFRED b. lies.

While the greatest need Of Alaska is
Transportation. 10 which the coal ques-
tion is OF secondary importance. and al
though AIaskans appreciate Secretary
Fishers efforts in this direction. they de-
sire that the President should give fur
ther consideration to the feasibility OF
the route proposed, from commercial.
economical, and stragetic standpoint be-
fore deciding upon Seward as the termi-
nus OF government-owned railroad.
Prince William Sound is inducted by
many inlets, bays, and fiords. and offers
choice Of several routes to the in
terior. OF these routes that leading from
valdez was chosen by Maj, Aber-
crombie's expedition as the most adapta-
bic for the military trail which was built
from Valdez to Eagle on the Yukon
River. The Alaska road commission also
selected the Valdez route for the govern
ment wagon road, which extends 10 F'aif-
banks
Greeley, In his report to the Secretary
OF the Interior in 1900, designated the
harbor OF Valdez as the most northeriy
oren all. the year round port in the
world. and these facts were indorsed by
the United States Senate committee
which visited Alaska In 1904.
Resurrection Bay, at the head of which
hes seward. is also a fine harbor and has
splendid town site, should the govern
ment desire to inaugurate a real estate
boom. Long before the existence Of the
Matanuska coal fields was suspected, the
railroad was started by the Seward town
site boomers, and on the discovery OF
coal the rid was extended across the
Renal peninsula, where 1t again emerges
on uoewater at the head of Cook Inlet.
AS a great point has been made of the
strageuc strength Of Resurrection Bay,
the fact of the defenseless position Of its
rear may have escaped observation. The
Seward railroad has been partially COM
pieted for seventy-one miles at an ex-
pense OF $4,000 a mile. To put Il in con-
uluon Tor a train Of coal to run over II
would cost $1,000 mile more, as much
OF II viii have to be rebuilt making a
total OF s13,00o a mile. At this rate the
road to the coal fields, IS miles ap-
proxinately, would cost Sl3,5Oo 600
whereas by the Valdez route TO the coal.
lS miles, the cost as estimated by COM
petent engineers would be $1,000 a mile.
or $4,000.
Valdez 10 Fairbanks.
The same comparison is shown when
estimating the cost Of general trunk
line to open up the interior Of Alaska.
The distance from Seward TO Fairbanks.
which would probably be the objective
point of the road, is 40 miles, through
comparatively unknown territory, while
the distance from Valdez TO the same
point Is $40 miles over a well-bullt wagon
road, along which the mail is carried I'm
tour-horse stages, and Is settled more or
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Valdez 10 Fairbanks.
DOGS BARK SAVES LIFE.
widow of Capitol Contractor Asleep
when Fire Starts.

From the Philadelphia Pres
The barking OF pet dog last night
saved the life OF Mrs. George F. Payne,
widow OF the Capitol contractor. when
her home. SIS North Twelfth street, took
fire. This building and the house at 6Sl
were damaged to the extent OF S,OOO.
The fire started at s54, the ground floor
Of which is used as a -storeroom by ].
Slime. The two upper floors are occupied
by Morris Andrew and r. Rendlemen
and his wife, who have a tvo-year-old
son.
Mira Rendlemen smeIIed smoke. ana
opening door was met by flames and
smoke. This overcame her, and she
tainted and dropped her baby. Sixteen
year-old Morris Peritiski ran into the
house and saved the woman and child.
Mrs. Payne and her sister-in-law. Eliza
Payne. eighty-nve years old, were asleep
in their library when the flames reached
their house. Wrinkle, the dog. barked
and aroused the women and they got out
without injury.
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only take a man out to the suburbs.
but will retrieve him for the same nickel.
1t Is divided into to-day and yesterday
by Canal street, which Is 50 wide that
four car tracks. and an automobile race
on either side are accommodated. on
one side of Canal street English is
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He Tells the Truth.

Mr.. wombat, l wish to marry your
daughter"
We'll, young man. can you support
my daughter in good style?''
'Tn do my best, sir. / must admit.
however. that we shall have TO buy the
furniture upon the installment plan"
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Worked Well.

Il think I'll fix up a cozy corner"
"A good idea. did that once, and
the cat never came into the house
again."
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MRS. LYDIA BERKLEY TAGUE.

Red Cliff Cola. April s.-Probably the only
woman judse in the cUsIntry Is Mrs. Lydia BerkleJ
Taguc who is thg first and rIly member cf the fair
TO oorpy that position in the State Of Col0ado
She elected TO succeCd her husband when hs
died about a year ago Mrs. TaEue is about forty
FIVE years Of She is mOdeSt and POPULAR and b
very well TerSed I'm the intncacies q law, having
begun her studies when a girl.
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wifey's Way.

What is the trouble. wifey?"
Nothing"
Yes. there is. What are you crying
about-something that happened at home
or something that happened in a novel?"
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A Diplomat.

From Smplicissimus.
she-what do you mean by saying that
Elsa Is more or less pretty?'
He-Weli. she's more pretty than most
girls. and less pretty than yol
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
SPRING ITEMS,

The tender vines that cling
Make springtime glad;
But prefer to sing
About the shad.
love the robin blue
For its own sake;
Yet there is fomething due
The berry cake.
The daffodils are nice,
Serene, and shy.
But what can beat q slice
OF rhubarb pie?
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Spring Arrives.

The buds are coming out;
The gay lamb chop
Begins TO frisk about
The butcher shop.
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often the Case.

"I feel sorry for that girl"
why so?"
''she seems to have only one present.
able gown. Wears It everywhere
'Spare your sympathy. She's saving
her other gowns TO go to Europe. She
has eight trunks packed"
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APRIL q I'm History.

April 4, 15Ss-odeen Elizabeth goes out
to hunt for srbutus and gets her feet
wet.
April 4, I722-Peter the Great goes fish,
ing and catches a small perch.
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A Wise Precaution.

"I'll call up my wife and tell her I'm
detained at the Office"
BE sure you shut the door Of the tele-
phone booth. Last time i called up my
wife from this cafe rhe heard the orches-
ira playing"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04
Uncle Pennywise saysi

The early robin is again in our midst
and ready TO be interviewed by enter
prising journalists.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04

. ETum boSloh
With so many Lull states of Taft dele
gates, Mr.. Mckinley should look about
for a blackboard.
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T nom Inc HunaIO I1fnet.
The Oni of Meko is looking, for smart
young chap to run store. Hope W.
Morgan Shuster sees this ad.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04

Frnm the Cleveland Leader.
J. p. Morgan is spending large sums
OF money digging up an ancient Egyp-
tian cemetery. Can't he find dead ones
enough in this country,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04

When former Congressman Gernt J..
Diekema. manager Of the Tat eaHpaign.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-04

Lena Cavalier declares she will never
visit America again, blow under which
the Chanler family will try TO bear up
grimly.
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weakness / lost consciousness, and
when l woke it was daybreak.
dreaded the coming of night, but
it came, and with it the frigntful roars
that were maddening me-
Except for this sound there was 8
silence as of death on the camp. |
stepped out into the moonlight and
stood in the shadow OF mimosa. A
moving object caught my eye. A
troop OF natives in single file crept
into camp with the sinuous stealth of
python in the grass. The leader
opened the flap of tent and entered
with three followers. A moment later
the four carried out a helpless sick
man, and the band slid away noise
lessly with its captive.
| followed at little distance, rag
ing at heart, but knowing that an
alarm would excite a raid that would
kill us all hopelessly AS we ad-
vanced into the forest. the roars grew
fiercer and clearer. Soon the natives
halted. Torches were lighted and the
troop danced around their victim as
before. Then. taking up the body,
they carried it to heap of boulders,
from whence came the mighty roar.
and hurled 1t into the midst of the
rocks.
The roaring died away and the wild
laughter OF the blacks rang out
shrilly. In moment the band has
tened away toward our camp, leaving
their smoldering torches among the
rocks. Mystified, / crept to the place
where l had seen the body thrown.
A peculiar low growl greeted me as |
reached the rocks. l seized one of
the torches and shook it into life,
drawing my revolver for instant use.
A dark blot amid the boulders dis
closed an opening to my straining
eyes. Holding the torch at arms
length, fell on my knees and peered
into the hole. Down among the Jagged
rocks OF vast den, white with the
bones Of animals, / saw the green
! phosphorescent eyes of pack of
/ lions.
1t was maddening sight, and /
could hardly suppress scream of
horror as ran back into the dark
woods and CROPPED through the under
brush toward the camp. felt that we
were powerless to escape these fiends
and their idols, the man-eaters OF
MWembi.
That night, far down to the south
west. ! saw half dozen fires like the
sparks of glowworm in the dark.
Had some heavenly hand held ont
hope It could not have given me more
cheer. for / knew that the fires were
kindled by white men, as the natives
in the district made none after sun
set My mind was made up. Using
the lights as guiding stars 1 set out
tc reach the distant camp. All night
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charge in force, and the screens of
the swamp made an attack from them
on the TANKS and rear hard to resist.
Still, it was impossible to retreat, and
bold front was the only resource.
leveied my rife at the chief who
headed the natives. He opened his
arms, bearing his shield on the left
and lifting his spear at full stretch
in his right hand, so that his brawny,
glistening body was fully exposed.
His action meant: Il am a friend
lowered my rife. and our troop
was soon in friendly touch with the
natives. The chief asked what we
were seeking in the swamps and we
| told him that we were looking for the
missing Boer trekkers He told me
that he had heard of Their settlement
! in the country to the northwest be-
yond the swamps and would put us on
the way to them. After resting for a
| few hours. the chief and his follow.
ers led us across the marshes by
paths which we travelled for little
more than week until we came out
into an open country where the
kopjes were sticking up stifly like the
horns of a young koodoo.
We had hardly reached arm land
when our soldiers fell sick. The only
one of the company of mistaken spirit
was the priest of the troop, little
gray-headed man who was constantly
praying, with undimmed faith in Gods
help. while the men groaned and raved
In the delirium of fever. We made
hammocks of grass and bamboo poles
and natives of the country agreed to
carry our sick men for a few of our
cartridges.
From the day that we left the
swamps a string of graves stretched
behind us. One after another of the
little troopers fell out OF the ranks.
At length we passed the ridge
which was pointed out to us as the
last to be crossed before reaching the
wellwatered country called M'Wembi.
where the missing party was most
likely to be found.
With every passing day our troop
dwindled away Colonel Andreas had
been Frustrated by fever In the course
of our march and was carried In a
hammock to our hating place, where
he lay for days too sick to take any
charge of the camp
AS usual left my tent about mid.
night to relieve the watch which the
priest was keeping. He was praying
before the f1ickerlng campfire and |
stood beside him for moment silent
". Suddenly q heart-shaking sound
like the roar Of lions, but with strange
muffled tones. seemed to spring out
OF the earth beneath us. II rose and
fell in swells. now loud and hoarse.
now low and muttering.
took sextant from its box and
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The Man-Eaters OF M'Wembi
Copyright by Ridgway Co.

went out little way from camp to
a clear space where l could get our
bearings. AS was finding my stars
| saw 2. party of natives coming away
from our tents, bearing a soldier in
a hammock. | supposed that they
were taking the body away to bury
it. The experience was too common
for me to question what they were
doing. Once more, after little time,
the mysterious roars arose. and then
they stopped and the night was still
The next night was aroused again
by the strange roars took my
arms and, half unknowing what
was doing, wandered off from the
camp.
In a clump of bush not far away !
heard noise which grew more dis
tinet as l approached. 1t was the
peculiar weird chant of the natives
crept through the bush and reached
an open space where the natives were
clustered. There. swung in a ham,
mock, tied hand and foot, was one
of our sick soldiers who could see
was still living, and around him
danced half a hundred negroes. When
the dance was over the blacks took
the hammock and went off into the
forest. | tried to follow, but my legs
trembled and ] fell to the ground.
Again the mysterious roars re-
sounded through the darkness. In my
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~ Captain Fritz Duquesne

marching men to the uttermost, the
lances were broken up and thrown
away and the troopers carried nothing
in their packs but stinted rations for
week The horses were shot and
our men tramped of to the marshes.
We expected that the natives with us
would be able to keep us supplied
with game, and all who were not
needed to carry our tents and cooking
outfit were sent out to hunt for meat,
but 1t seemed that they we're unwilling
to take the risks of hostile country,
for the hunters almost always return
ed empty-handed. We were forced to
cut our rations to eight ounces a day,
and, at length, to few morsels Of
food, for we had misjudged the dis
lance that lay between us and the
swamps
Finally, after a wearisome tramp
for two weeks, our furnishing troop
came upon long declivity stretching
for miles before US The horizon,
yelled in blue haze, was blotted by a
black jungle, the margin of the dread
full marshes of Mozambique.
After some search we found new
ly made path and followed its narrow
way into the swamps.
l was leading the troop when saw
ahead company of armed natives
blocking the way The path was so
narrow that our troop could not
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GREWS0ME BATTLE MEMORIAL
CHASTITY Reminder of the Defeat Of the
Badjok Hordes on West Al
RIGA Plains.

London.-On the plains of West
Central Africa stands the ghostly
memorial Of the battle of Diola, shown
in the accompanying illustration. OF
it Norman Hardy, a recent English
traveller in that region, says:
'Tbe Badjok are the greatest war
riors of West Central Africa, Intrepid
hunters, their expeditions in pursuit
of game take them many hundred
miles from their home. If on his jour
ney Badjok is offered an insult by a
man of some other race, the whole
tribe will rise to revenge him. From
the west coast to the Great lakes no
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subject of the suit. The pearls we
imported as "unstrung' by Bernar.
Citroen in 1906. He therefore paid
10 per cent. of their value. The gov
eminent alleged that the pearls were
really set or strung" and that it IS
entitled to the higher duty. In its
brief the government says the neck.
lace was purchased in Paris in 1906.
About week after the stones were
imported and after a duty of 10 Der
cent. had been collected the govern
ment made a demand for an add.
tic lal duty of so per cent. amounting
to $4,000. Ci.roen came to Wash
fngton, it is said, protested against
the additional duty and asked for
refund of the duty already paid and
that he be permitted to return the
pearls to France. The request was
not granted The additional duty was
paid and the pearls turned over to
Mrs Leeds.
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the
second circuit held that the pearls
were dutiable at only 10 per cent. In
its brief in the case the government
quotes Mrs. Leeds as saying she wore
the pearls great deal in Paris in
1906; that the purchase was made
there, but they were to be delivered
in America. She placed the purchase
price at $4,000 and explained that
she turned over in Paris as part pay
ment another necklace of pearls fol-
which she had paid $4,000.
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NECKLACE IN THE LlMELIeu1
Famous String Of Leeds Pearls Co...
Before the United States su.
Preme Court,

Washington.-The famous s22o m,
pearl necklace of Mrs. Williar0 s''VV
Leeds OF New York and Newport - =
IN the limelight the other dav ~ . ~ a.
Supreme Court of the United St :, me
a case to determine whether tS
United States was entitled to only I 10
per cent duty on the gems. copsidorS
as pearls in their natural state NOV t
strung or set or whether the govars W.
ment was entitled to 50 per cent ~
them as pearls set or strung wac
UP for argument vas
Mrs William B. Leeds Of New yorh
and Newport, is shown here wearir~
her famous necklace, which was tbe
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Comb Teeth Fracture skuII.

Hornell, N. Y.-Miss Emma Charles
worth, "a, is dead from pec''llal
cause. In passing out of drug stolS
she slipped on a cement step ana lei,
backward. She sustained fracture {.
skull and the teeth of I COMB sIs
was wearing in her hair pene'Ta-,,ssSs
the wound and entered her brain CIV
died shortly afterward
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tribe could resist them. Finally me
people of the XVIII valley Ioso
against their domination. The natiNes'
only armed With bows and arrows ue
feated, under the leadership OF Henso'
the Badjok hordes, armed with nlI'
lock, in the great battle of Diloa. va
the battlefield a memorial OF Skulls
was erected"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-23

Superstitious persons who look upon
thirteen as an unlucky number over
look the fact that there were thirteen
stars in the original flag
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-23

A man convicted of deceiving his
wife about money has been sent to
jail In Los Angeles. This precedent Is
enough to send scare throughout tho
whole of these United States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-23

A convention hall in Atlantic City
was picked up and carried away by a
recent cyclone. Usually, convention
nall Is magnet for all wandering air
currents
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-23

For every man killed in flying a doz-
en- die boating and swimming. 1t is
In the number who survive that avia-
ton makes poor Showing.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-23

Doctor in Boston tells us that the
american nation is becoming fat
footed. Probably due to the vast
amount of gum-shoe work in politics.