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III TOWER OF BABEL Occupants of Topeka Mansion Talk in Many Queer Jargons. CLAIM AN ODD GIFT Members of Religions Sect Tell of Latter-Day Miracle. )eeapaat of "Steae'e Felly Deelar Pnrtr EaaklM Taeaa Saealc la 1'ilutwi Toaaaea. t. 'pedal Correspondence et Ths Inlar Oomk.

TOPKKA. Jan. S3. Follower of the Rev. Charles F.

Parbam. leader of a peculiar aeet that has ealabllihed lUelt In Stone's Folly, an Impoains mansion near this city, declare that as an answer to their fervent prayers they hare been made the recipients the miraculous power of a peaking- with ''new tongues." The constant prayer of the members of the strange community has been for the fulfillment of the promise found In Mark 7. which is: "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my nam shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with lew tongues." The Parhamltes, who are preparing for if X' a AN "INSPIRED" COMMUNICATION BT MISS. OZMAN. missionary, work, have concentrated their petitions upon the Utter part of the promise, making no attempt to-cast out devils.

"The Lord's manifestation of his special blessing has-been vouchsafed to us." declared Mr. Parham, when a reporter for The Sunday Inter Ocean asked him concerning a report that he and his followers had found at Stone's Folly a new tower of Babel. For the first time In 1.800 years Is granted to man the gift A group of his faithful disciples MISS ACNES I OZMAN. around him nodded their heads and murmured "Amen" and "Praise be to Ood." "For weeks we prayed for this." continued Mr. Parham.

"We prayed without ceasla? that the Lord's promise might be fulfilled and that we might be able to speak the languages of the earth and go out as missionaries without wasting years In study. As I said, we stormed heaven with our prayers, and on New Tear's eve a wonderful thing happened. One of our number received the gift and began to speak an unknown tongue. Since then more than one-half our people have been blessed, and we now have nearly every knewn tongue In the school." In September of last year the Rev. Charles F.

Parham established the Bethel Bible mU-ton In Topeka. No one seemed know whence he came or anything about him. He had about thirty convert, which number has since grown to forty-five men. women, and children. The majority of these persons are from Kansas City.

Mo. Only twelve are from Kansas. Mr. Parham established himself and hta colony in the old mansion, known as "Stone's Folly." about two miles west of the city. This house," by the way.

is one of the handsomest In Kansas. It is built after the plans of an old English mansion, and Is a labyrinth of passages and staircases connecting spacious apartments. The Parhamltes are strictly communistic In their theory and practices. When the adherents to the faith go to the mission they take with them all their money and other possessions. These they turn Into THE REV.

CHAKLEd F. PARHAM. the common fund, of which Mr. Parham is toward. The fund so obtained has been almost entirely absorbed by living expenses.

Hut this fact does not disturb Mr. Parham. Ka Coaeern Aaoat Meaey. The main tenet of this faith Is the efficacy prayer, and he follows the scriptural injunction, literally taking no thought for the morrow. This apostollo faith, aa Mr.

Parbam calls It. prohibits its adherents from asking for contributions except through God himself. They pray unceasingly for what they want, and the strangest part of It Is that they usually get It. For weeks the Parhamltes prayed for the power to speak In unknown tongues. Miss Agnes I Ozmao, one of the moat sealous of hi I i i the converts, was the first to receive the "gift" At midnight on New Year's eve, after several hours of Incessant prayer by the whole sect, she suddenly began to speak In aa an intelligible Jargon.

Mr. Parham and the others were amaied, and thought the girl was in a trance, but she acted naturally, while queer words fell from her tongue. "In a few moments we realised what it was. and we fell on our knees and gave thanks to God." said Mr. Parbam.

when he told of the incident. Within a few days ten or twelve others In the mission had received the "gift," and were speaking unknown tongues. No two talked the same language, and no one could understand himself or any one else. Mr. Parham himself wss among the first to receive the "gift" He now speaks German, French, Italian, Swedish.

Bulgarian, and several other languages which he has not yet been able to name. The only gifted one who has yet beea able to interpret her utterances is Miss Luella ThlsUewalte. Mr. Parham's sister In-law. Miss ThlsUewalte Is an English woman or exceedingly prepossessing appear- an re, and she talks Intelligently of her new power, title speaka more tongues than any otner or toe converts.

The convert say they are not able to control this gift. They cannot speak a foreign tongue at will, bo The Sunday Inter Ocean re porter was not given an Illustration of their linguistic attainments. However. Mr. Par ham asserts that he and several others of the mission have conversed Intelligently with na tive Frenchmen.

Germans, and Swedes. Soon after these people received the "gift of tongues" they say they also received an In api ration to write the same languages they spoke. At nrst the characters were weak and -wavering, like those a little child would trace. Then, later, they grew firm and regular and were usually in lines or columns. It Is a noticeable fact that those who speak French and German and the better-known languages have not yet had any inspiration to write.

The mtn who speaks Zulu Is toe most proficient writer in the mission. Mr. Parham Is arranging to take a party from Stone's Folly to visit the other mls- rions of the faith, located in Iowa, Ohio, and Maine-. He will select hi most accomplished linguists and take them around to prove to his dierlples' and to the world the wonderful possibilities of prayer. The heaven-storming campaign has not been abated in the leatt since the "gift of tongues" cam to the mlesion.

There is not an hour la the day or r.lght when prayer is not going on in the old mansion. One cf the many quaint towers that surmount the building has been christened the "prayer tower." Unceasing prayers ascend from this tower. The men are assigned to the night hours and the women to the day, but at no time Is the tower without Its devout occupant. At night, a lamp with a strong reflector Is placed In one of the windows, whence It sends out a stream of light that can be seen for miles. Topeka people have known little of Mr.

Parham and his teachings until recently, when they were brought to public notice by S. J. Rlggms, who came from Kansas City In October to enter the mission. Rtgglns remained at tree's Folly until Jan. 6.

when he lost faith in Mr. Parham and his methods and left the place. Many persons think Mr. Parbam 1s an adventurer, but an Interview with him Is almost certain to change the conviction of his most severe critics. He ts a small man with sim pie.

unassuming manners and an air of earnestness and strength. His followers have Implicit confidence -in him and accept his word unquestlonlngly on all subjects. LIKES HIS COUNTrTpAPER. RtMlalieeaeea SaucaTestesI to aa Oltt'' Mas by the Hews of I'aloavllle. "It 13 a fashion, I know, anion city Xolk to ridicule the country se.ys a re-farmed traveling man, "but I fceve been regular subscriber to tb-j Cnicnvlllo Banner for over thirty years.

There's one evening In the week that I look foi warl to with zest. Monday night, when I light my old plue, put on my sllppors, and lie back lu the battered rocker for a musing and a dreaming over my copy of the Banner. "Tea, there It Is. Hasn't changed a font of type, I guess, in forty years. Same old.

queer Job type. Same old Washington press still grinds It out. I'll bet, as it did I was a freckled boy and used to bang around the front door of the tumbling rookery where snowy-haired Editor Moore used to be pick ing up the tpe or methodically scratching down the fact that Mls May Smith Is visit-tng friends In our neighboring or 'John Ltftus la preparing to build a new barn. Most of the lumber is already pn the "I turn to the front page first, of course, and here. In my 'Local News' I ascertain that 'Miss Ella Stuart has quite a class of miulc pupils herj In town and also conducts a class In Pattonsburg.

Miss Stuart has a gcod quality of muHical Why, dear nie, dear me! don't it beat ail how things do move! Why, I used to go to the high school In Vnlocville with Ella Stuart's mother. And many a time have I bung May baskets with her and then hung over the old paling gate and held her hand until an omlncus lalslng of an upper window indicated that a parent of Ella's mother desired the daughter's presence within. "And. let's see? Why." hero's something: Walter Thomas has been to the city this week, laying in a new stock fgoods. Peter Figel Is helping out in the Emporium during Walter's Well, It Is surprising how some boys'll come up in the world in spite of poverty and distress.

Know who that Walter Thomas 1st" sir, he's the grandson of old Pap Thomas, as we used to call him. who used to live away down there by the railroad In that little hut of a place, and had a cabbage patch all around the house. Desolate a looking place as you ever saw. "Pap was sort of half-witted and bad a son who I should say was fully three-quarters witted. A peaceable, law-abiding well digger he came to be.

Married a real bright girl, really considerably above the average, and here's their son's become the leading merchant In Cnlonvllle! This Peter Flgel Is a relation son, maybe of an old foreigner who settled down In I'nlonvllle and earned a living at cobbling. Said to be of noble birth he was, and mysterious generally. "1 shouldn't know the faces that would greet me on Main street, I suppose, now. Most of 'em come up since I was a boy. I wonder who really has made the truest success, the boys who stsyed at home or thoss who were going to conquer the great world outside.

There were my schoolmates who married and settled dewn In Unlonville. and their sons and daughters are today's young men and women. I was going to do such big things when I struck the city that I couldn't exactly make up my mind to take time to come back and court Susie Williams. I kept putting it off and putting It off until I should get a little better and a little better position, until, the first thing I knew. Phil Kerns up and married her and I was left.

So that's how it Is, and bless me If I don't wonder sometimes as I muse over the old Banner It the boys who stsyed to home have made such a miserable failure of It after all. "So, I read along to ponder over the memories that those quaint Items la the 'Local News' call forth. Well, you may poke fun at the country weekly as you will, but I fail to see why the fact that 'a resident of Unlonville has lately bought the place of another resident of Unlonville, aad Intends to move Into may not he as well worth chronicling In the local paper of Unlonville as the fact that a. dog of.a famous actress died on the steamer is worth two-column pictures and a half-column description In city dailies. Blamed'f 1 can see much difference In merit between a poodle dog editorial In a city dally and 'a big cabbage Just laid on the desk of ye editor' of a country weekly." THE SUNDAY IUTER OF THE D.

T. One Reason Why There Is Less Hard Drinking Nowadays. IN DREAD OF SHAKES Attack of Delirium Tremens Is Conducire to Temperance. allaelaatloas of Aleonel Are Far More Dread fail tka Thoae af Aay Otker Kaana Draiar. Humorists have succeeded In- convincing the general publie that there Is something distinctly funny about delirium tremens, but there 1 one man who always speaks of delirium tremens with rerpect.

He is the man who has had an attack of It. Even the strongest sense of humor falls to find the experience funny retrospectively, an. If a confirmed drinker who has been through It talks Jocularly of the queer things he saw and the queer thing he dtd be Is bluffing. after the fashion of one Ma it re Francois VII Ion. who wrote an edifying humorous poem to the gallows on which he expected to finish hie career.

Snakes may be funny, to the man who hasn't seen them, save in sooa. and th may be side-splitting amusement In bats and red mice, viewed from a distant piaiacle of sobriety, but when the snake trit around on's -throat, and the bats fly against one' head, and' the red, mice run up one's legs, one' viewpoint changes rad ically. Doctor say that a case of delirium tremens Is- often a disguised blessing to the hard) drinker, provided he survives the attack. The disguise is of a perfection that would win the grand prise at any masquerade ball, but the doctors are probably right. If such an attack will not convince a man of the error of his ways and sober him up nothing will.

A good deal depends, however, on the prologue to. the play. There are two ways of cultivating delirium tremens. man. not an habitual hard drinker may bring on an attack bv one big debauch, and a steady, hard drink er may gradually poison his system until.

without any extra excess, he goes to pieces and brings up in maniac Inebriety, called for short. D. Daasrr lax the O. In the first case the man may die, but If he doesn't, he has had a forcible- warning. and not being thoroughly saturated with alcoholic poison.

Is possible for him tr swear off and stick to the good resolution. That Is where delirium tremens acta as blessing in snake's clothing. The man who has poisoned himself by long and steady drinking may be Just as much horrified by an experience with D. aa the man of the occasional debauch, but the chances against Its sobering him permanently are much greater. He has the habit of years to firnt against- His system has become dependent upon alcoholic stimulant and craves it madly.

He will prcbably go back to drink, and will as probably have repetitions of the maniacal alcoholism. Still, even in his case, the D. may work a cure. In indirect way. The man who drinks steadily Is the man In danger, but he can never be made to believe 1U Because he has what he proudly calls a hard head, and never gets drunk, he contend that drinking doesn bum him.

and no amount of argument can convince him of the contrary, until delirium tremens takes up the debate. That makes mm doubt, and ee does some dark blue and heavy thinking, if alcohol has left him any intellect, he de cides that he must do something to prevent his going Into the soo business as a profes sion; and If be cannot stop crinK unaiaea he quietly goes somewhere and takes a course of treatment to get the poison out of his system. Physicians who treat private cases of alcoholism, or are connected with sanitariums for such treatment, oay that bv far the largest percentage of their pa tients are driven to them by first attacks of delirium tremens. Nothing else is able to show a man the folly and danger of the drink habit and scare him into reform. At the Academy of Medicine in New Tork recently the statement was made by eminent men.

who usually know whereof they speak. that Inebriety is decreasing in tnls country. There was considerably dissent from th proposition, however. A reporter called upon a number of prominent pnyslclans win-have studied the subject of alcoholism closely and asked their opinion as to the increase or decrease In Inebriety. Almost unanimously they agreed that acute alcoholism la slightly on the decline.

Evil ef Aatalterated Llaan. "I have had so many alcoholic patients within the last said one of the physicians Interviewed, "that It seems to me sometimes that the whole world Is drunk. Vet. as a matter of fact. I believe there are fewer cases of the dangerous forms of alcoholism than there were twenty years ago.

That Is odd, too. In view of the fact that the adulteration of liquor has -Increased phenomenally. Do you know how the ordinary whisky, brandy, sold at cheap saloons, and many saloons not cbesp, are made I do. I've been through experiments with the health board, and I've made them on my own account. A man buys a hogshead of spirits.

Then he goes to a certain well-known dealer in essences and buys, from him chemically prepared whisky essence, brandy essence, or whatever he wants. The manufacturer publishes a small pamphlet, giving directions for the preparation of liquors. For 3 a saloon-keeper can buy enough whisky essence to make 120 gallons of the common variety of whisky cold over the bar. The spirits cost little. These are cold, hard facts that have been proved.

Moreover, there have been other Interesting experiments In which I have assisted. We got samples of the fusel-oll whisky and other liquors from various low saloons. Then we went to restaurants and bars of unimpeachable reputation, in so far as the quality of their drinks goes, and got samples of their best liquors. We called In experts, men who pretended to be connoisseurs of the quality of whisky an! brandy, and let them try our different samples. With few exceptions they couldn't distinguish the pure from the adulterated liquor.

"Now. what I'm. trying to get at Is thlsr Pure alcoholic drinks will bring a man to D. In course of time, if persistently used In excess but fusel-oll drinks will bring him to the point much more quickly. It Is estimated that the poisoning capacity of the latter Is fifteen times that of the former that is, a man will develop acute cellular poisoning or maniacal Inebrletv fifteen times as quickly lrom adulterated whisky as from the genuine article.

Now, since the bad whisky has become so universal you'd think acute alcoholism would have Increased. It hasn't. That proves that aome restraining influence ts at work." "What it the Influence?" asked the reporter. The doctor looked puzzled. Heasoa for Less Aleohellsaa.

"I'll not tell you." he said sternly, then added, with a grin, "because I don't know. I've an -Idea there are a good many reasons Involved. The medical aspects of alcoholism are commonly known, as they were not years ago. and the medical profession is giving more serious study to the disease. You see, In old days, alcoholism was only a vice.

Today It is a vice, but It is a disease also, and Is recognized as such. -Men who find that they're gone almost to the limit of their tether, don't wait for the climax nowadays. They take treatment In time to escape collapse. They go to a sanitarium, or to a private physician or they pack off to the Hot Springs and have the poison boiled out of them. In all human probability they go back to drinking again, but they've escaped a crisis, and can go on a while longer with In the end th drink.

If persevered fa. kills them, but they probably die TERHOR OCEAN, jai; IT ART 27, 1001, from some organic disease brought on. hj excess, not from D. Another physician who has had charge of an alcoholic ward, and has made an exhaustive study of alcoholism, admitted that there are fewer cases of acute alcoholism In proportion to the population than there were fifty mu. "But." he added, "given a certain of drinks today, and there will be a bigger proportion oi maniacal ease delirium tremens among them, than there would have been twenty-five years ago.

I don't know whether that- ts the result of bad whisky or of the general nervous tension of modern life and the Increasingly nervous temperament of our American man. iae oia good-natured drunk Is growing scarcer every year, and the ugiy, quarrelsome, nomiciaai drunk is Increasing. "What ts delirium tremens, doctor?" In quired the reporter, humbly. "You'll never know until youv had it." said the doctor. "But I can tell you as much about It as anybody on the outside can.

Delirium tremens Is a nervous expression of alcoholic brain poisoning. Only a few habit ual drinkers escape D. T. The attack may be due to accumulation of poison through long-continued steady drinking, or It may follow the sudden accumulation of an excessive quantity of brain poison drutng a big debauch. The cases difficult to treat, and doctors dlfcagreo radically in gard to methods.

Some, physicians keep the patient under the effects of strong opiates for a time. On the other hand, a man of wide experience In alooholio treatment told the members of the Academy of M-vllcIne the other day that keeping a quiet D. T. ward meant fattening a graveyard. He believed the nervous mania had to work Itself off.

Meanwhile it is customary to give bromide or chloral for quieting effect. Sometimes morphine is necessary, but I fight shy of It wnen possible Treatatrat sf D. T. Patleat, "If all stimulants are: withdrawn there is Imminent danger of heart failure and oedema of brain and lungs. So many doctors remove liquor gradually, substituting medical stim ulants that wJl.lnsrer so Heart action.

and support the system. One of the most im portant features of the treatment Is the forcing of nourishment 4ipon the patient, who usualy resists viroroosiv'- 'He must be made to take eggs and milk and a lot of both. Hot baths- are excellent foe the delirium, and cold packs are used a great deiL too. The traitjacket was Indlaponmble a few years ago. It Is rarely used now.

The patient wrlrts are fastened to the bed, and the rest of his body left free for squirming. He does squirm, I tell you. Every young man ought as a part, of bis education to spend a lew days and nights lo D. T. ward not as a nalient.

however. "There are no Hallucinations so norriDte as those that come from alcoholic poison. You know different llnda of poleon produce different fornis of dementia There are cer tain poisons that seem to fill even the purest minds with vllo iiuarea and will make the purest and moct refined, woman utter the most horrible obscenities. Aiconoi poisoning seems to produce images more loathsome than tboe known to any otner form or insanity. "Creeping and crawling thing are the most frequent visions, because intense loathing and) horror are.

the keynote or tne mental state, and. for some reason, latin back to Eve. perhaps, man has a greater norror cr crawling things than of else. If I coulc tell you of the tortures my dTlnk oatient have undergone, tne story wouiaout do any roe tale evtr written, ion cant even faintly Imagine the delusions In those drlnk-cresed brains. Snakes are only one Item in the catalogue of horror.

Bats tear at the drunken man's Devils grin at him from every aid. Worms and vermin swarm -over him. wild sees peer at him through all the windows and shriek to bin. for help. Dancing bacchantes, roving de mons shapeless horrors, around tne room' and run at him.

Raving, curirft. weening, nravlng. shrieking, he watches it all, until a blood vessel bursts In his crsced brain or his heart csa stand the strain no longer, and he dies llkeama4dg. Sounds spectacular and exaggerated, does -it? It can be iso' sane Drain can evtn tfo.it lust Ice: and yet men will de liberately walk into that aort of hell court it. Homicidal Mania In Snfforers.

"Even when a D. T. natient Is kept in a stupor, he doesn't usually get any benefit from the condition. 'and I believe the delusions torment him in his unnatural sleep. Au ditory Insanity Is as much a part of ceiirium tremens as visional delusion.

The patient hears voices. Usually these voices are call- ins: him vile names, abusing him, taunting him. He often fixes these voices ss coming from certain persons, and develcps nomi-cldal mania In regard to those persons. If he were not retralced. he would kill.

Def inite suicidal mania is rare la delirium tre mens. A patient wbo escapes restraint may Jump from a window or do something cf that sort, but It is apparently irom a aesire to escsne whatever i pursuing him, not from a desire to commit suicide. Homicidal desire. however, is very frequent, and that makes the cave xrf a D. T.ipatlewVdangeroua.

I am often surprised that women nurses have the courage and endurance that they sometimes show In such cases. "There seem to be few cases of D. amonar women. Of course, the percentsge of women drunkards is'emsn compared with that of the men, and then? women appear to ro to nieces In other ways before they ever get to delirium tremens. don't ordi narily Jive to nave lu.xne aeams in me throes of delirium tremens amount to about SO per cent of the cases' and if there is a more horrible death, I hope 111 never see it.

AN INSANE Took Him Three Yean to Make Key. tt II Wm a Geod Oae. Curing the recent visit of the legislative Inquiry committee to the" Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane. Superintendent Smith pointed out the only patient In the Institu tion who is wearing a pafr of leather gloves chained to a "Such. Is this man's ingenuity that, if.hls hands, were not fastened the institution, would be In constant trouble, because of his skill la picking locks.

He came from Cleveland, and was committed because of homicidal Three times he notwithstanding the vigilance of the attendants, each time going direct to Fort Wayne.where he was recaptured. After his third recapture the "riot act" was read to the attendants, but a fourth time he got away leaving, no trace of mischief behind. Again he to Fort Wayne, ani there the hospital authorities found him. After his return the superintendent began quizzing him as to the manner of escape, and tht patient laughingly asserted that it was by means of a pass key. -The patient was so elated over the discomfiture of the atUndanU that he was willing to- describe the process.

Every attendant has a pass key of peculiar tucks, and he flattered the attendant to br-Jcvo that he could make a perfect picture of lils key. The attendant humored him and the patient made two sketches, one of which he concealed, while he aurrsndered the other. Some time before he had found a piece of a caseknife in the yard attached to the hospital, and he stole a small piece of a three-cornered file In the engine-room, It was part of his duty to assist in carrying feod to the patients, and upon entering the kitchen be always complained of feeling cold, and while warming himself behind the range he placed the knife blade to the heated surface. took two years to heat it sufficiently to dra the temper cut, and he spent another year filing the knife so that it could be used as a key. Meanwhile the attendants had become suspicious that he contemplated an escape, and tightly his clothing was.

taken away and placed In two different rooma The guard passed his bed every half hour during the night, but he watched his opportunity and Dually got all hla clothing in hand, and the guard had made his first round he un-lotked the doors and walked away, refasten-Ing them a he The key Is now preserved among the curios of the institution. A peculiar feature is that the patient was unaccustomed to the use of tools before admission to the hoepltal. and ntver displayed any mechanical Ingenuity en til he began conspiring for his own escape. A Koa-Ilrdrophubio Dojr. A baker appeared in -a Paris court to have a woman fined for keeping a rabid dog, which he claimed had bit him.

Inoculating him with rabies. When be was through with his complaint the woman put the dog on the Judge desk and removed from it mouth a tet of Halie teeth. 1 WORK OFTIPSY GEESE Their Antics Caused an Iowa Man to Lose an Election. ELDER WAS SHOCKED Visit to the Demoralized Flock Caused Great Scandal. Cwele Blljy'a Sclaesae Cae Pmsnpkl Bee as Iwatrwaaeata ef Reveatsxe SaeecBsfwI.

"A flock of geese may have saved Rome," said the old granger reflectively "that was before my time and I wouldn't want to swear to It but I'll take my oath It was the antic of a flock of drunken geese that lost Amos Hosklns hi election aa sheriff of an Iowa county. of course, the conning of Uncle BlUy Wilson had a good deal to do with the result. "Amos was a good farmer In some ways, but live stock and especially the failings of fat geese were not his long suit. When it came to local politics though, the old man was there with the glad hand and an energetic hustle. Iowa was a Prohibition state in those day and the county In which Am on lived was drier than a lime kiln.

as It drew near election, Amos' enthusiastic hur rah in favor ot cold water grew Jonder and more continued. "A tew weeks before election Uncle Billy Wilson dropped over to-Amos' place. Uncle Billy didn't have strong views on the tem perance question, but he was at all times and In all places an ardent advocate of Billy Wilson's right to: anything which wasn't r. after you-are said Uncle Billy, persuasive like, in the course of the conversation, 'don't you' think you will be able. to.

see 'your way clear to appointing me a neputyTrsl ve always been. good friend of youraA V. "Well Amos didn't see it that way at all. Uncle Billy might be a friend of his all right. but he hadn't done any strong hustling for the benefit of Amoa Hosklns.

This was the truth, for within a few days Uncle Billy had thought the other side stood the best chance of winning. Anyhow, Amos said, all the places for deputy sheriffs had already been promised, raele Billy Meditated. "Uncle Billy didn't say much to this, but it was plain he was doing a heavy stunt of thinking. Ho kept his temper, though, and by little brought the talk around to the subject of geese, of which Amos had a big fleck. It was.

the first season Amoa had raised geese, and, while he thought the world ot his flock, he had a good deal to learn about tht ir habits. And Uncle Billy was right thers to teach "'Those are. likely, looking geese. sail Lncle Billy reflectively; 'but somehow It don't seem to me that they are as fat as they might be. Have you ever tried feeding them on- pumpkin aeeds? If there is any one thing that gladdens the heart of the average Iowa goose It is pumpkin seeds." "Amos said that he had never thought of pumpkin seeds a gcose food.

Is fact, he hdn't raised any pumpkins that year, and it would 1 quite an expense to buy. them so te in the season. "Why. that, will he all right answered Uncle Billy cheerfully I've got lots of them on my farm, and they're no use tome. I'll sr-nd my boy over with a load In the Somewhere in an old book, sontinued the old granger reralniscently.

"I once read about fearing the Greeks, even when they were bringing gifts. Not that there was any Greek blood In Uncle Billy WatEon, but that saying arpHed in this case-all right. If Amoa had hLd any common sense he would have knowa THE PASSING OF MM i t' 5 A i i 'V' 4 A I -O Uat Uacle Billy wasn't offering pumpkin seeds to the Hosklns geese out of pure loving ktsdneea, and he Just-having been turned down la hi application for deputy sheriff. Aad If Amos had known anything about goose nature he would have known that while geese dote on pumpkin seed the effect Is the same as of good whisky on a man an entangling of the feet and a subsequent enlargement of the head. But Amos, being Ignorant on both these points.

Just thanked Uncle Billy anJ said If he sent over' the pumpkin seeds both Amos and the geese would look on him as a public benefactor. Waraed Kites- Beatoat. "Uncle BlUy having laid the foundations for hla goose-Jag plot piked right back to the village and hunted up Elder Benton. The elder was a warm supporter of Amos, but the chief end and aim of the elder's life was the suppression of boose-made hilarity. 'It's too bad.

about Amos Hosklns, Isn't ttr said Uncle Billy In- sorrowful tone. "The elder didn't particularly approve, of Uncle Billy, so at first he replied, sort of tart-llke. that he didn't know anything out of the way with Amoa Hosklns; In fsct his life was more to be approved of than that of some, other persons who weren't so very far awsy at the present time. Then, his curiosity being aroused, he inquired ot Uncle BlUy the particular reason why there waa any condolence coming to Amos Hoskins. I always considered him a good and worthy man added the elder firmly.

1 was told yesterday replied Uncle Billy In his most doleful tones, "that Amos had so much whisky In the house that he couldn't nse It up, and had to feed it to his geese. I wouldn't have believed it. though, if I hadn't seen It with my own eyes. Wasting good whisky and corrupting Innocent rfeese, and he a candidate on the Prohibition added Uncle BlUy Indignantly. "The elder said that It must be a slander, some campaign lie.

that be couldn't believe such a thing of Amoa Hoskins. Uncle Billy was mighty Indignant at having bis word doubted. 'I wouldn't slander any man. not even a Prohibitionist, he said in hurt tones. 'You can go down to Amos' house tomorrow morning, elder, and If the degrading and disgusting sight don't make you close your eyes, you will see that flock of geeee rolling about in bland "The next morning shortly after daybreak Uncle- BlUy sent over his boy to Amos Hoskins' place with a couple of bushels of pumpkin seeds.

He told the boy to tell Amos to feed the seed to the geese as soon as possible, as geete liked them for an early breakfast. So Amos hurried out to the barnyard, called all his geese together, and scattered nearly a bushel of the seeds on the Geese Liked Paatakla Seeds, i "Well, pumpkin seeds were Just what those had been vainly longing for. They piled right into their new feed-. Being full-grown geese, in good condition. It waa tome time before the pumpkin seeds began to show results.

But after they got their work in there was no complaint about lack of results coming cither from Amos, Uncle Billy, or the geese. a respectable goose, the mother of a large family, tried to dance the goose equivalent for tbo can-can. Her condition beinar too wabbly for this, she fell over in the. dust, waving her wet bed feet and squawking dismally. The head gander looked at her for a minutes in solemn and then a sudden Impulso to try and dy over the tarn seized him.

Wl-cn he made the attempt be fell on his head, and after trying to stand on it sub3iJcd into a bibulous slumber. Every member of the once respectatle flock was in a more or Ios, principally more, intoxicated condition. It was a regular goose orgy. "While Amos was looking in perplexed amazement at the geese a delegation of the principal Prohibitionists of the county, head ed by Elder Benton, entered the yard. The slant wbich met their shocked and grieved eyes almost dazed them.

'To think that I should to see the day when the candidate for sheriff on' my ticket should have so much whisky thai he has' to feed it to his exclaimed' the oiacrJjj pious norror. 7 "Auxjs swore that he hadn't given the geese any whjRky. But the condition of hi pets was against ria statement. 'If it wasn't whisky. It was rum or gin Insisted the elder.

'I've observed the actions of wicked men too often not to know that these geese, have been putting stuff In their niouthft that mixes their brains and tangles their feet Is a man who will lead a goose astray a person worthy of our votes for the high office of sheriff? If you were elected HANDSOME ELK. if irl HANDSOME ELK. Two weeks ago Handsome Indisja, who lived on the Lower Brule reservation In South liakota, beat his wife, Sticks-to, and threatened to kUl her and also hi second wife. Stood-Twice. The matter wa reported to the agent, who lsr-ued an order I to the police to bring Elk in for The order was Intrusted to Lieutenant of Spotted Horse, and six assistants.

Handsome Elk made a trip to the Rosebud reservation, returning home Sunday. Spotted Horse with his men were on watch, and after the Elk had placed his horse In the barn they secreted themselves In the stable and an adjoining hay stack. Soon afterward the Elk, unaware of their presence, started to the stable to feed his horse, when the entire squad of police suddenly opened fire on him and killed Handsome Elk begun his career as a bad Indian thirteen year ago, when he killed Watch Dog for giving hi daughter to Charley Tomkln when the Elk was a rival suitor. Shortly afterward the Elk married Sticks-to. and a few years later, being desirous of taking another wife, he killed One- Eye, and the following week' married his widow, Stood-Twice.

He has since gotten along very with hi two wive up to the past year, when he began beating them. In 1S97 Elk wss violently opposed to the removal of the Brule Sioux to the Rosebud. The agent issued an order for bis arrest, and sent two policemen, Bear-Shield and Boy-Elk to bring him In. The Elk opened fire on the policemen, and sent both back to the agency with Winchester bullets in their persons. After resisting every attempt of the Indian police to capture him, and remaining out for six weeks, he went to the home of the agency farmer and surrendered.

He was given a year and a day in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls for this act. Elk was always a friend of the whites, and believed In educa-' tion. He was a graduate of Carlisle or Hampton. During Harrison's administration he was captain of the Indian police at Lower Brule, a position which he filled with distinction. In Cleveland's second term he waa removed, and at once conceived a violent hatred and contempt for the police.

The friends of Elk say the manner in which he was killed Is murder, and not the discharge of official duty. Amos Hosklns, you would probably want tart saloon in the Jail "If Amo had kept hla wits about him and' told the story- of the pumpaln seeds and the) treachery of Uncle Billy Wilson be might have redeemed hi reputation In the face of. the scandalous actions of the geeje. But he was a little purxled himself, and, of Innocence, he lost his temper at the attack made on him by Elder Benton. Instead of explaining matters, he Insinuated In pretty, strong terms that the elder waa a gray betrded prevaricator.

In the end the elder and hi party left the yard in avrage, vowing they would ven things up with Amos out election day. ''And they did. When election came the) hilariously Inclined, led by Uncle Billy Wilson, voted agilnst Amoa. while the truly good were od hand with their knives and btm Bier. Amoa didn't get enough vote to start lee with.

waa the maddest man in tha state of Iowa. "I have lost my office and the respect of my geese he said bitterly. 'But after I meet Uncle BlUy Wilson an inquest will be, the only thing he longs for ardently JANITOR FOUGHT THE FIREMEN" Pallare at George Waafclastaa Rab. laisa'i Kfferta to Protect Teaaata. George Washington Robinson, Janitor of the.

large apartment-house at the corner of California avenue and Lake street, de fled the fixe department last. week. For fifteen minutes he held the building of which he Is custodian; against the onslaught of the city's paid minions, who were attacking It with hose, hock, and ladder. While he stood at the burn Ing basement, whence all but him had fled, he dared the firemen to enter. The flames, which wait no man.

multiplied, tenant creamod, and emphatic words were exchanged. In the end the Janitor waa vanquished, but his defeat was one of the kind more glorious than victory, for he made gallant fight. When George Washington discovered tha fixe smoke waa Issuing from the basement end there was a smell of burning wood that would have Alarmed any but a Janitor wha prided himself upon his self-possession. George Washington, leaned tor a moment on tho broom that he happened to have in his band. He did not cry "Fire!" and run to tha nearest alarm box.

He took time to conaider that the second floor front had a new plana and the second floor back a new carpet, both ot which might be rulaed by water if tha lire department was called. On the third floor there was a pretty girl who had an olaliorate trousseau for her approaching wedding. The Janitor thought of the welfare of his tenants and resolved that he would put' cut the fire without any one' assistance Ex-Alderman Swigert is the owner of the building and George Wsshlng-Vro felt r- special pride In smothering the flames without putting the city, which his employer served, to the least expense. The Janitor pro cured ill the scrub pails on the back porches and descended into th laundry to fill them. The smoke had Increased and it attracted tha attention of an officious passer-by, who turned in an alarm.

Before George Washington had a ch.nca to throw a single pail of water on the burn- ing rafters that had taken fire from the furnace there were two hose carts and an engine -at the corner and he rushed out of the basement to be confronted by a dozen flrtmen. "There ain't nothln for you todoheahT, declared George Washington. Am he spoke a little tongue of flame darted out of the basement window. The firemen; paid no attention to the Janitor. Instead, they attached the hose to the nesrest water plus; and then sought entrance to the basement.

"You don' have no budness In- sail George Washington, standing In the entrance and waving an empty pail. There waa a- red light at the basement window and the tongue of flame Increased in "Get out of our way said the captain-of tho fire company! By thlavtlmea great crowd bad gathered. Women put their heads out of the windows and screamed. The Janitor held his ground, although the tenants began to throw their movable property from the upper windows. Bundles of clothing, rugs, and pillows were strewn around him, and Mill he refused to surrender to the fire departmert.

By this time the whole basement appeared to be burning. The firemen held a council of war and two were detailed to remove George Washington Robinson by force. The attack: was made, hut the Janitor proved to be a stub- born foe. While he fought he appealed to tha tenants to save their furniture from a soaking by coming to his relief and aiding him la resisting whet he called an attempt to spoil "all de plundah In de place." But no one heeded his cries. The owner of the piano fled with 20 cent' worth of cooking; utensils.

The man who bad a new carpetf seized a doormat and, with hi family, sought the street. The pretty girl was so frightened that she forgot ail about her wedding clothes. wnen ueorge Washington saw that his effort were unappreciated he fourbt with waning strength, and then a third fireman gave him a knock-out blow. The siege by tb- Ore departmert. the gallant defense, and the final surrender did not occupy mora than fifteen minutes, but when George Wash ington Robinson rose from the ground and, looked up at the apartment building ha turned reproachfully to the crowd and said In regretful-tones: "Dar ain no doubt 'bout the firemen being needed now." The fire was extinguished before any seri ous damage waa done, although the firemen.

worked several hours, while George Wash ington, with torn clothes and scratched faces-looked on from a distance. Leas of Royal rsreaaaei. Menv of the purchases made by tbe Shaki of Persia last summer In Europe, as well af comer of the presents made to mm, went tai the bof.om of the Caspian sea by the finking i of the steamship Vera In a storm. Among: them were the eighteen rarriagea bought in Paris. hDistillerro Consumer .20 FOUR Pnll Ouartx.

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and a of costom-k era in every state and want moist we therefore 1 make the ol. rsr.A. I i (l.uvettiw aM I We wm ad yea foor fall f. quart -bottle ot Hayaer's Saves I 1 Year Old Doable Cooper Distilled Rye for Ij.so, Express Prsooia. We ship I I la plata packsgee ae aaarks to Indicate contest.

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