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the enid echo.
J. K. DBTWILER, Kd. tod Pro .
*NID. " • • OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA AM) INDIAN TERRITORY
The Cimarron river is said to hare
never been dry.
Heavy showers fell all over Logan
county on July 35.
Logan county has not been short in
its stock water supply,
Late peaches, some of them, are
withering on the trees.
Corn east and south of Guthrie prom-
ises better than half a crop.
The Choctaw road is to build an ex-
tension of its shops at Shawnee.
Some farmers in lx>?an county have
Commenced to feed wheat to stock.
Samantha Rupert. « :, years old. came
to El Keno to register from Eminence,
Mo.
There are more wells being dug in
the territory than at any previous
time.
A one inch rain has blessed Wood-
ward. reviving the pastures as well as
the genus homo.
The city election at Lawton prom-
ises to be on the basis of for Texaosand
against Tex ana.
Willis Stanley, of Perry became a
maniac while attending the regiatra-
y The new townsite commissioner is in
'Ardmore waiting for instructions from
Washington.
The encampment of ex-Confederates
at Sulphur brought a great number of
people together.
Reports from Chickasha state that J
all crops in that region are in good
condition, including corn and fruit.
Ardmore feels badly because Secre-
tary Hitchcock has gone to Maine
without approving the plat of that
city.
The Choctaw railroad made a pond
at South McAlester coveriug 30 lots
nd now another party is claiming the
Susie:
A Character
Sketch
By Philip V arr I II M I « h • I
lion at El Kcno.
lota
The resilience of W. H. Hill at Caddo
was burned with its contents, the tire
starting from an exploded lamp. Loss,
$1,400.
The Arkansas and Choctaw has lo-
cated ita line through Ardmore s best
residence districts and there are loud
protests.
The Kiowa Coal, Stone and Timber
association has incorporated to devel-
op stone, timber, oil and mineral lands
in southwest Oklahoma.
A Woodman picnic at Iterwln was
guessed to have 1,800 people in attend-
ance but the gucsscr does not claim
that anyone counted them.
A man has brought specimens to
Chickasha from the Wichita mountains
which have l>een assayed and are said
to show iao in gold to the ton.
One store was broken into at Wakita
i„r . , nd $150 worth of atock taken. An-
Asa C. Shsrpe, the convicted agent other store w;
at the Otoe and Missouri Indians ha
made an appeal bond.
After filling the Ponca City elevators
with wheat unloading directly into
the cars was the next go.
During the registration at El Reno,
twenty general delivery clerks were
kept busy at the postoflice.
Oovernor Jenkins has ordered tho
officials of the new counties to sink
wells at the county seats at once.
There never has been on opening of
new lands where there was so much
money in the hands of the homeseek-
ers.
Registration at El Reno on July SO
was 7,975 and at Lawton 1,677 making
a total at that date for both places
of 102,271.
The new counties will have Ambi-
tious towns and the old list of candi-
dates for the location of territorial in-
stitutions will be a good bit longer.
The value of threshing machinery
destroyed by tire in Kansas this year
has already reached 8*0.000 and more
according to eatimates made by deal-
vas entered on the same
deo. Thompson, of Weatherford, was
killed by his pistol dropping. The
hammer struck something and dis-
charged the pistol, the ball entering
Thompson's breast.
The hot weather is said to be the
cause of the increase of patients at the
territory insane asylum. Among tho
recent victims is A. T. Nail, former
county attorney of I'ayne county.
The offices occupied by Oklahoma
oomity are wanted by tho owner for
other occupauts and an action of for-
cible entry and declaimer was brorght
to oust the county from possession.
The Osage Indian traders aroto have
a part of tho money due them from tho
Indians by way of tho interior depart-
ment which is to pay grass money due
the Usages on their accounts with the
traders.
Woods county marketed r>.ft09,0()0
bushels of wlient in l'.lOO and it is be-
lieved that this year It will reach (!,-
OOCI.OOO bushels. Tho farmers are
stacking their straw to make sure of a
feed supply to supplemont wheat pas-
ture and the alfalfa crop.
J. W. Weightman. formerly cashier
at the Rock Island station Ht Enid, is
named as cashier of that road's freight
department at Lawton.
General Passenger Agent Thompson,
of the ltoek island has been in El Reno
since the registration began and makes
a full bund in taking care of the busi-
ness
The contracting stone mason on < he
Masonic Temple at Pawnee has left
the place. lie has not paid his men
their full wages and there is trouble
over the situation, lie may return.
A $3,500 outfit to boro for oil has
been procured by tho Phoenix Oil com-
pany of Oklahoma t ity. Experimental
borings will cotnmcncc at once.
A negro desperado slugged I.eonard
1 rainer at Shawnee and he may die.
Trainer Is a rough rider and
night but nothing was missed.
Heavy rains fell at Antlers, Musko-
gee and Ardmore July 25. At Ard-
more the water fell in sheets for two
hours. A big cotton crop is expected.
The Choctews and Chickasaws com-
plain that appraising parties fcave
been taken from their work in their
country to Creek and Cherokee lands.
It is announced from Ardmore that
town lots on the O. C. & Gulf road will
be sold soon. Blue, a new town in a
tine farming region has been located.
Professor St Cyr Tucker, of Lang
ston university, was discharged at the
preliminary hearing of the charge
against him of assault upon two young
women of the college.
The corn crop in the section around
Claremore is reported as an entire fail-
ure. Local showers havo been valu-
able in the northeastern and western
parts of Cherokee nation.
Lawyers have been thick among the
registering crowds. They come most-
ly from eastern and northern states
and expect to enter the practice of
their profession in new tow ns soon to
appear as by magic.
liy August 0 it is expected that the
Blackwell, Enid A Southwestern rail-
road will have rails laid to the borders
of the new country, sontwest from
Enid and northeast from Vernon,
Texas, lloth tracks will then be ex-
tended so as to meet somewhere near
the center of the promised land.
Wealthy Indians, a great many of
them, claim to own thousands of acres
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands,
having them fenced and stocked with
herds. These men constitute the op-
position to the closing of the tribal
rolls. They would have to submit to
an equal allotment with the poorer
classes.
Many Choctaws and Chickasaws
have laid claim to certain tracts as
their allotments aud then given quit
claim deeds to them: expecting to take
other allotments when the work of al-
loting reaches them. These quit claim
deeds are worthless but will cause
much complication and litigation, of
course these Indians will not secure
the benefit of two allotments.
The Okmulgee commercial club has
invited delegates from all other com-
mercial clubs in the territory to meet
In Okmulgee August 27 to secure con-
certed action for an Indian Ter-
ritory exhibit at the St. Louis Expo.
i a rough rider and came to
Shawneo to take part in a roping ecu-
test.
Prospective investors in county seat
towns seem to be booming tho town
they do not expect to Invest in and
slurring the one where they mean to
place their money.
The track laying on the Rock Island
has reached Lawton. This extension
branches from the Chickasha-Mangum
line at Anadarko. Tho track passes
near the barracks at Fort Sill where a
depot will accomodate the business of
the fort.
Herbert Crosby, who has been ap-
pointed attorney of Caddo county, was
for many years private secretary to M.
A. Low, general attorney for the Rock
Island. It is understood that he will
be the Rock Island attorney in that
section of Oklahoma.
Conductor O'Dowd, of the Santa Fe
was severely injured betwecu Okla-
homa City aud Norman by a gang of
fellows who refused to pay fare.
Iowa and Nebraska parties are try.
ing to pick up cheap cattle in Oklaho-
ma, but the experience of shipping
. .. , thin stock to Kansas City at the on.,n
r " • penitentiary. They, at least, j ing of the ho, spell cause,I ho,do,s o,
■attic to stop selling to anyone
There are many people registering
as homescekers who have no right to a
homestead. They ore liable to tlnd
ItKat they have registered as candidates
sition.
The interior department proposes to
canvass the subject of collecting taxes
on personal property, occupations and
franchises in Indian Territory for the
support of a system of free schools.
This is done under authority given by
an act of congress.
The commercial club of Vinita is
stimulating tho making of better
country roads, and desires to aid land
owners in getting first class farmers
as tenants.
Women from many states have reg-
istered applications to file on a home-
stead. They aro of all classes and of
all ages. Most of them have made long
journeys alone In hot, crowded trains.
They usually take their novel experi-
ences good-naturedly, but there is a
scattering of vixens and scolds amolg
them.
Cantelonpe growers aim,it Chandler
expect to realize from $40 to $75 an
acre on their crop, with less work and
expense than required by a crop of
either corn or cotton. llig shipments
are being made.
Ardmore proposes to place a big cis-
tern to collect water from all the big
lumber sheds for use in putting o'jt
fires.
CHAPTER II.—(Continued.)
The sun went down, the daylight
waned. Exhaustion told the mail be-
low to cease and go to his cabin. Hav-
ing loaded the bucket he labored slow-
ly up the vertical climb on the ladder.
The Indian glided nearer to the edge.
He could hear every step on the rungs
of the ladder, could ever detect the
sound of the roughened hands grasp-
ing the wood. Leaning far over, he
saw the candle, fastened on the miner's
hat. Nearer, nearer It slowly came,
filckerlng, throwing goblin shadows
against the somber walls, contending
faintly against tho encompassing
gloom.
The shaft was now alive with hollow
echoes of the labors of the man. On
came the light, it was 10 feet tway
II was five feet—two. The head and
the light emerged above the yawning
chasm.
With a movement swift, strong,
snake-like, Mingo thrust out his pow-
erful hand. It came across the min-
er's eyes and nose; then the head was
wrenched quickly, violently backward.
The hands, surprised, tried to cling,
liut failed. They loosened, waved wild-
ly, clutched at the air, and then, with
the body and head, were overtoppled.
Headlong, twisting, turning, tho man
was hurled to the swallowing abyss.
1 he light on the hat gave forth the
sound of a flame in the wind and was
gone plucked off by the rushing dark-
ness! A shriek issued forth from the
mouth of the tomb.
"Susie! little Susie!" was the cry.
Sounds of a striking—a bounding
back nnd forth, dully, against the
Jagged sides—a crash at the bottom
—and silence deeper than stillness en-
sued.
The door swung open and Mingo, the
Washoe, gilded forth and away In the
twilight. Into the sage brush; and a
rabbit would havo made a greater
rustle.
Tho stillness of midnight, a seeming
attribute of masses of shadows that
crouched from the waning moon, be-
hind the rocks, the brush and every
salient thing, was timidly broken. Tho
creak in the hinges of the mine cabin
door sounded weirdly clear—a wall,
an omen, thought the Indian girl. An
awesome darkness filled the silent
shed. Susie, on her knees, went creep-
ing. feeling with her hands for tho
edge of the shaft There she clutched
the windlass post, and leaned her
breast against it
"Frank," she cooed. In a low, sweet
tone that wavered with the effort made
to keep it cheerful, "Frank, my sun-
shine—Frank."
No sound save that a piece of rock,
somewhere down along the pick-
scarred walls of the shaft, loosened and
fell, down and down, striking the sides
with diminishing sounds, till a ghostly
echo announced its bottom rest. Then
deeper silence.
' Dear one, are you there?" she called
again, but the sound of her voice, re-
bounding on herself, made her fright-
ened and awed.
Pressing her heart against the post
again, to still Its audible thumping, she
sat a moment in dread. Suddenly
then, strengthened by the thought that
he might, be there, wounded, perhaps
and needing her sadly, down In the
gloom of the yawning mine, she
groped her way to the ladder. Moan-
ing of Instinct, there In the darkness,
she slowly descended, down and down
in the mocking, echoing tomb.
In the utter blackness her hands
discovered his face, and she cried
aloud, till the shaft was full of an
gulsh.
A boneless mass. Inert and fitted to
the Jagged surface of tho loaded buck-
et of ore, Into which he had fallen
found. Ills head hung limply athwart
the bucket's edge; the eyes, which her
fingers sought, were closed.
Beside him, kneeling, she sank
moan and croon, combing tho dark
curling hair with her fingers, kissing
tho face—and seeing nothing. She
fancied that a beat, slight and feebl
lived In his breast. Calling his name'
alio coaxed and wooed, and then de-
spairing, stood up a«d prayed for
help.
will not be allowed to hold claims
The law of the territory makes it a
misdemeanor for any person other than
a lessee to use or occupy any of the
kchocl lands.
When a train reaches El Reno and
the passengers commence getting out
their places are tanen by others who
crawl Into the windows.
The townsites of Mannsville, Blue
and Wapanucka have been located
along the line of the Choctaw railroad.
The road has no interest in the towns;
tins is evident from the fact that the
plats hare been approved at Washing-
ton after being satisfied that the road
does not own them.
"Hod. If the Indians, too, nave souls "
she said, "give my aching soul to him
let him live! Olve me something
hope Dal Sp'''lt—"somethlng of
W ith an esoteric summoning of n
marvelous strength, she liftej the
drooping form; the arms and head fell
listlessly across her shoulders Then
to the ladder! And with all the pow-
er of arms aud limbs, thewed by d s
peratlon against the giant task she
started toiling up and up, like one who
shoulders up a crushing weight, to
gain the air and freedom. Her palms
were burning, her knees shook and
trembled, her breath came In gasping
lung clutches painful to bear; the
darkness swam thickly about—she was
stifling, smothered, congested with
blood, yet she forced her way aloft.
Across the floor of the cabin at last
she fell with the burden. The limpish
arms went dangling at random about
her neck in a ghastly embrace that
thrilled her keenly with Joy. Exhaust-
ed she lay. fondling the hands and
face, trying to rub hint back to life,
till the chill of long-dead clay was
come, and the face seemed carved In
stone.
Through the night, bending above
him. she poured out a fountain of hrr
love and grief alternately with ail the
softness of her Indian rooings and
cadence of her mellowed Enfclish syl-
lables. Grey morning tound her woo
iiiR still the smile on the dead man s
lips, striving, yearning to warm tho
cold, white features.
The small, broad miner, passing the
cabin when noon was high, delayed for
a second. "Letter for Henley," he
stolidly announced: but tossing It In
beheld the girl, beheld the miner, and
fled the hill to spread the news of the
sight he had seen, and to fetch away
the coroner.
CHAPTER III.
In the sage brush wigwam the sum-
mer waned to autumn with dreary
stillness. Grey already, tho stretch of
brush, relieved alone by the willow
fringe of the wandering creek, was
cheerless, dreary and oppressive to the
girl. She sat alone, while the chilling
wind was wantonly ripping the leaves
from the branches, her head drooped
low In hopeless despair.
A shadow, thrown by the setting
«un, betrayed a presence. Durably she
raised her eyes to look.
Ugh," said a tall, grunting Washoo
buck.
She turned away her head again.
"Mahala, do you wait for Mingo?"
taid the man. "Johnny Shag is big-
ger chief. Mingo shall never come."
She looked In sllencc on the ashes of
the wood burned the day before.
Mahala," he added, "one, two moons
Jonny Shag come to take you the trail
to my wigwam. Why not any talk?
Too long, you sabbee? Mahala waits
for Mingo. Better look out Mahala,
Jonny Shag is warrior. To-day you
better talk."
"One moon, let me think," she
wearily answered. "Let me wait one
moon."
"One moon, yet. Jonny Shag will
wait. Many things come before the
moon again." He glided away, and
again her head sank wearily down.
Mingo, the Washoe. stealthily re-
turning to Chloride hill, kept cautious
ears and eyes awide, to learn the re-
suit of the murder at the mine. Susie,
he rightly conjectured, would have
guessed the truth. He avoided the
wiklup. but remained in the town. Pa-
tience with many an Indian Is a virtue.
On a crisp, cool day, while Mingo
talked with a group of bucks on a cor-
ner, Shag, on a pony and armed with
rifle, rode up behind. Raising his
gun, he deliberately shot Mingo
through the body, and escaped to the
hills. ,
The thoroughly astounded camp of-
ficials promptly gave pursuit, but all
In vain. Friends and relations of tho
dead man assisting, the country wa3
scoured, skillfully,cunningly. Canyons,
valleys, the shoulders of the moun-
tains, were traversed and searched,
but nothing availed. Shag enjoyed ev-
ery advantage.
Three Indian trailers, mounted, came
at length to where the fugitive was
lj ing in ambush. One of these escaped
with his life and rode like a demon
to tell of the two, lying grisly and
stark, struck in the back by the bul-
lets of Shag, their faces now twisted
in the sun. *
A stooping, stricken Washoe, the old
Red Wolf, whose boys they were that
bad died in the sand, departed in sil-
ence, alone, on the path of war. The
fued was his. In the night he found
tho man he sought, found him asleep
—left him asleep his knife standing
firm, erect, buried to the hilt in tho
breast of Shag the warrior.
The year grew old; its days, like
the hours of waking of an old and
passing man, were dim and short its
nights long sleeps, that made It none
the stronger.
And yet there carfle a day that was
like an echo of what had been before
the year began to age. Susie, wan but
wistful of face, went from the hope-
less wigwam and hurried awav up tho
moaning creek. She went to a copse
of alder trees, entered and was lost to
view.
An hour later she slowly emerged
and in her arms she carried a child a
little boy with fairest hair and the
bluest of eyes. She seated herself in
the sunlight and shivered as she -ies-
tled the infant and cooed it softly with
Indian words. She was faint and
weary, but strangely happy. Her baby
resembled Its father, young as it was
Her heart went leaping to lt-embrac-
ed it owned It! Her pain, her suffer-
ing. everything was forgotten.
All the afternoon she sat by tie
stream nursing her baby, cudllng it
closely, warming it ever in her throb-
bing breast. As the twilight approach-
ed, the air was the balm of the Indian
summer.
Rising, she placed her baby in the
rustling grass; deftly she bent the
subtle willows down—masses of willow
and throwing the grass, leaves and
twigs over all, made a roof to catch
the frost. Into this with her child she
crept, nestling it gently as before.
Night came down. Quite lato the
babe awoke and feebly cried. She
smothered it and sang, in her sad-
sweet voice, a lullaby.
I hear the crickets sing In the long
grasses;
Many camp-fires of the braves shine
in the sky—
They shine again in the little river;
The wind is small and gentle when it
plays In ytfur hair.
Lie in my heart as the pebbles lie In
the little river;
As the crickets lie in the long grasses;
Shine in my heart as the camp-fires
shine in the sky;
Sleep, little Fawn, till the sun conies
over the mountain.
The little Fawn slept, but never to
wake till a greater sun shouH top the
mountains of darituess, misery and
despair.
Singing and cooing. Susie weaved In
the darkness—unconscious of the flight
—with the birds, toward the summer
-of the new little soul. At midnight,
bending forward to kiss the downy
cheek, she was startled at its coldness.
Hurriedly feeling the wee soft hands,
the pulseless feet, the tiny body, she
sounded the utmost depths of agony.
She rushed from the shelter, the cold
little body in her arms. By the light
of the stars, the "fires of the braves,"
she saw tho touch of the grim visitor.
Then on the air of night arose a pain-
ing out of a heart rudely broken
She sank unconscious to the earth
Away off hillward a gaunt coyote
howled an answer back, dismal, long,
forlorn.
The sun gilded the path to the heav-
ens. and rose in purple mists uf ma-
jesty; the beam-fingers played in the
night-dark hair of the mother, and
touched with gold the hair of the child.
Dreaming the present far out of
vision, dreaming the past into present
again, the wan mother smiled and
nodded in her sleep. Awakening, she
shivered; a sigh that had rested was
also aroused. Yet peace and patience
were come in her heart.
Kneeling, she v# arnJnKlv extended
her hands to the shimmering sun. "O
God, O Great Eternal Spirit," she said
"they told me of the Christ who died
—who died for sins—for souls in trou-
ble! But oh, my God, He never knew
of Indian souls—and so. Great Spirit
let Susie die for all the sins—the love
—the happiness!"
Still with her look to the mighty sun
still with a murmur of passionate ap
peal on her quivering lips, she took
up her baby, pressed it iu eagerness
close to her bosom, and jlided ahead
to a pool of the stream, sobbing and
sobbing, and was curtained from sight
of the crystal waters.
When the body of the slender young
Indian woman, clinging to a falr-haired
baby, was found, a few wives and
mothers said it was "pitiful," nnd
other persons said she was "only an
Injun."
(The End.)
Two Kinds of Independence.
We have all met the girl with the
independent air, who is apt to show a
rebellious spirit when things do not
go her own way. Not infrequently she
is well educated and comes from a re-
fined home, says a writer in the Week-
ly Bouquet. But this fact does not
make her manner the less offensive. It
is a good thing to have self confidenc
and courage for these qualities are es-
sential to success. But independence is
a trait that is contrary to agreeable-
ness and robs its possessor of that
sweet amiability which is born from
the virtue, obedience. Every law of
God, and every law of nature, is de-
pendent on another law for support.
The girl who thinks she can get along
without cultivating the graces of gen
tieness, courtesy and kindness to oth-
ers, is making a sad mistake, and will
be anything but a success. Who knows
how to obey well will rule equally well.
Whether in the business or social
world, the girl, or woman who influ-,
ences things for the best is the one
whose bright disposition deems inde-
pendence out of place where progress
is desired.
Home-Made Gondolier*.
How many citizens of Buffalo who
have watched the imported gondoliers
on the exposition canals realize that
we have developed a race of gondoliers
of our own right here in Buffalo? The
dirty old skiffs down iu the harbor are
not so pleasing to the eye as the smart
Venetian gondolas at the fair. The
grimy ferry boys who propel them
don't look so foreign or so picturesque
as their fellow-craftsmen from abroad.
But when it comes to skill in handling
a boat with a single stern oar, dodg-
ing around between steamers and tugs,
through narrow passages and over the
swells made by the big ships, the Buf-
falo boys have no need to fear com-
parison.
It would be an interesting and popu-
lar exhibition if the Pan-American
authorities some day would take three
or four of the best of the ferry boys
from Buffalo harbor up to the exposi-
tion grounds, put them on the canals in
their old skiffs and match them in a
contest of speed and skill against the
imported gondoliers. I'd bet my money
on the Buffalo boys.—Buffalo Express.
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
The telegraph line to Dawson will
be completed on August 1.
The uniform temperature in Mam-
moth cave is ">:> degrees. Think of it.
The congressional delegation to the
hilippines arrived at Gibraltar July
Mcteorito* and the Centnry.
Among the great scientific advances '
of the century just passed there is one
which is seldom mentioned, although
it is or remarkable interest. It is the
demonstration of the fact that stones
and metallic masses fall from the sky.
I)r. O. C. Farrington reminds us that
up to the beginning of the nineteenth
century the attitude of scientific men
toward the accounts of stones reported
to have fallen from tho sky was in
general "one of scorn and incredulity."
He quotes a remark of President Jef-
ferson when told that Professors Silli-
man and Kingsley had described a
shower of stones at Weston, Connec-
ticut, in 1807: "It is easier to believe
that two Yankee professors will lie
than to believe that stones will fall
from heaven." it was only after a
great shower of meteoric stone£ at
1-iigle. in France, in 1803. had been
carefully investigated by the French
Academy that men of science finally
became convinced
really occurred.
that such things
l> nclnt; for Health.
I>ong ago some ingenious arith-
metician discovered the exact amount
of ground covered by the average dan-
cei in the copr.se of an evening, and
tho votaries of the dance are now sug-
gesting that dancing should be re-
vived as a hygienic exercise. Now-
adays men nnd girls show great eag-
erness to take up any pastime or sport
which gives them exercise, and as we
all know dancing has somewhat lost
its vogue, which, from a social point j deaths an<* '•"> prostrations from heat
There were in Kansas City on July
2, eight deaths from heat and 13 pros-
trations.
Six deaths and nineteen prostrations
from heat occurred in Kansas City on
July 24.
Politics in Hawaii now centers on
the proposition to annex the islands to
California.
The strike of the steel workers has
raised the price of the plate from 20 to
30 per cent.
A heavy general rain fell in the Mis-
sissippi valley in Minnesota and re-
lieved the heated spell.
The Orient grading gang which has
been at work in Emporia is now at
ork in Chase county.
During a heavy rainstorm at Chilli-
cothe, Mo., several buildings were
damaged by lightning.
The heat on Saturday, July 20, beat
the record in nearly all the states ex-
pt on the Pacific coast.
Fruit and produce dealers of Phil-v
delphia receive many orders from sec-
tions of the middle west.
A big dry goods store in Sioux City,
°wa, was burned by a fire started by
the sun in a show window. There
were several people injured.
In the U. S. court at Omaha the city
of Beatrice is held for the payment of
bonds which were issued in excess of
the statutory percentage limit.
The striking machinists and car
builders of railroad shops in New Jer-
sey want to return to work in a body
but are told that they must apply as
individuals.
The appelate division of the New
York supreme court declares the law
invalid which forbids parties other
than authorized agents to buy and soli
railroad tickets.
A water spout at Cisco, Texas,
washed away ten miles of the Texas
Central railroad. An engine went
through a bridge and engineer Thos.
tteene was killed.
London streets were flooded by rain
and hail with incessant lightning. The
water entered buildings over sidewalks
and the underground railroad trains
were stopped by water.
The Chicago and Alton has been un-
able to secure sufficient water for its
engines and much freight has accumu-
lated in its yards.
A Tennessee friend of Pension com-
missioner Evans says that Evans would
be glad to give up his office but will
not leave it in the face of tho fight be-
ing made against him.
Ottawa university is to have a new
•15,000 building to contain a chapel
room, four recitation rooms and three
society halls. This 4s in addition to
the new college building.
In St. Louis there was reported 40
There i6 no man so deep but that he
'jma at least one shallow spot.
Do not forget that DEFIANCE
STARCH has no equal either in qual-
ity or quantity; 10 ounces for ten
cents.
Most people seek sympathy when
they ask advice.
The greatest of professional athletes
use Wizard Oil for a "nib-down." it
softens the muscles and prevents sore-
ness.
Ever notice how long some men stand
at the same street corner and "talk?"
YELLOW CLOTHES AKE CN8IGHTLY.
Keep tbem white with Red Cross Hall Mine.
All grocers sell large a oz. package, 5 cents.
A baseball pitcher is a power behind
the thrown.
Arr You l*«lng Allen'* Foot Eaar?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting. Dinning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress. Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y.
Our grandmothers never played golf,
but they had their tea caddies.
The Magnetic Starch Mfg. Co. man-
ufactures the DEFIANCE STARCH,
put up "2 packages in a case, each
package containing 10 ounces. % more
starch than is put up by any other
manufacturer. If your wholesale house
does not keep it, send your order to us
and we will see that they deliver you
the goods.
BEYOND THE HEAT BELT.
Mn
IJr.
nlnli
A vuil title
t Sport*
Would
id M
loae Wh
MdOitpe the Slzz lng Heat.
Out beyond the plains of Kansas,
where the snow capped peaks raise
their heads, in Colorado, is the Mecca
for sweltering residents of the Hot
Belt. There has not been such a sea-
sen of torridlty for inore than a third
of a century, and it is beginning to
tell upon the powers of the people.
Their minds are less active, and their
bodies are tired, and their systems de-
bilitated. The best remedy is close ac-
quaintance with nature, fair, and
robed in cool greens, and swept by in-
vigorating breezes and fortunately
the opportunities are at hand and may
be taken advantage of by everybody.
The Missouri Pacific Railway with its
system resembling a net work of lines
in the great southwest, runs fine trains
of palatial cars by a direct and agree-
able route to Pueblo, and there con-
nections are made with America's
most popular scenic route, the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway, in whose
cars the pullic are carried into the
very heart of the great mountain
range, through canyons of dizzy depth
and along the busy sparkling waters
which came from Snowland and
brought its coolness with them. Tbero
are very many delightful places in the
Rockies and plenty of sport for the
hunter and fisher. He displays excel-
lent judgment who steals some time
from his business and uses it in the
pursuit of a favorite sport and for the
benefit of his health. The Rio Grande
Western Is a natural connection of
these two systems already mentioned,
carrying their passengers still further
toward the western outposts, into still
more remote sporting country, and
where forest and canyon wear their
natural beauty the longer, and so, to
the Desert City by the Great Salt Lake.
There is no more delightful short tour
and it can be accomplished with com-
paratively small expense. Sizzling
over a desk in the heat of summer is
unprofitable and unremunerative self
sacrifice and should not be endured
^ hen coolness and health are so near
I hese railway systems make
pleasure, and nature, ever
kind, is the great restorer. If you
have not yet decided to taKe a summer
trip, decide now to do so, and get out
of the heat into the coolness of Colo-
rado and Ctah.
at hand,
travel
of view, is much to be regretted. Let
some of the fashionable doctors recom-
mend their dyspeptic, anaemic patients
of both sexes to waltz as much as pos-
sible, giving themselves on an aver-
age the equivalent In terpsichorean
exercise of at least 30 miles* walk a
week, and we shall see a wonderful re-
vival in dancing.
A Huge I. the.
A huge lathe has been built express-
ly to turn out the great granite col-
umns for the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine, New York. These columns, as
finished, will be 50 feet long and six
feet in diameter. The lathe that turns
them weighs 135 tons. The eight cut-
lers of the lathe take each a three
inch cut, reducing the column 2*
inches at one cut. The "blanks," oi
uncut slabs of granite, come from
Vinalhaven, Me. Each of the
granite columns designed for the choir
will weigh two-thirds as much as the
t cntral Park obelisk (Cleopatra's
Needle). Six weeks are required to
dress and polish each stone, even with
these ponderuus and improved appli
auces.
Silk In t lie t'nlteil M te«.
The United States seem disposed to
take the lead among the 8ilk producers
of the world. During the last three
years the consumption of raw silk in
the I nited States has exceeded that of
France.
A man who lives iu indifference is
apt to be one who has never seen the
woman he could lov*.
To be without enemies is to bt un-
worthy of having friends.
during the 24 hours ending at 11 p.
of duly 24.
An Egyptian boat, supposed to bo
4,M>0 years old, was dug out of tho
bottom of the Nile and shipped by ex-
press to New York, whence it went by
rail to the Carnegie institute at Pitts-
burg. It is about 20 feet long.
Secretary of State Caleb Powers, of
Kentucky, will have a new trial by
order of the court of appeals. The
trial will probably occur in October.
Riceville, Iowa, has been practically
wiped out by fire.
Pettis county, Denton county and
the cities of larrollton and Kansas
tity, Mo , report good rains on Mon-
day, .Inly On Sunday all Missouri
observed the governor's proclamation
to pray for rain.
Oencral" Jacob s. Coxey. apostle of
Thompson'# Cye Water
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