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THE KANSAS niTY' GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1898 err. trfflDrrea ot D-rink-. wftrt rne PEN, PASTE AND SCISSORS. tray while he went through his pocket for three sous more. He put twe francs in the dish, and gallantly summoned the waiter to mmister to hei wants.

As an international courtes? Cables and cable stations are not con- stitutiorral, and even if cable stations were constitutional Wake Island could not be taken save with a dis- SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Kansas, Twenty-ninth Judicial District, County of Wyandotte, ss. No. 13,270. May A.

Kirby, plaintiff, vs. Martha Hale, Alonzo Hale and his wiife, Lizzie Hale, Ethel Hale, 'Augmst Hale end Wilhelmina. CaroKnai Voss, Under and by virtue of an order of sale issued by the- Clerk of the District Court in-and for said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in eadd wu, iruniibered. 13,270, WTherein the-parties above named were respectively prainitoiff and defendants, and tome, the undersigned, Sheriff of sadd' county directed, I will offer for without aipprafeemeat, mt public auction, amd sell to -the highest for cash in hand, at the front door of the Court House in the CSty of Kanea City, in said county, on Monday, the 23d day of January, A. ID.

1899, at 10 o'clock m. of seid day, the following described real estate situate in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, towit: Lots numbered forty-three (43) and forty-four (44) ia block (numbered, seventy-seven (77), in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, as shown on the recorded plat thereto f. J. W. LONGFELLOW, Sheriff of Wyandotte County, Kansas.

(First published Dec. 21, 1898.) STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of The Inter-State Na tional Bank, of Kansas City, Kansas, for the election of directors to far the ensuing year and for theu transaction of such other business as may come before 'the meeting, will be held at the banking house of said bank in Kansas City, on Tuesday, January 17th, 1899 (being; the third Tuesday of said month of January), between the hours of 10 a. m. and 2 p.

m. of said day. J. D. ROBERTSON, President.

WM. C. HENRICI, Cashier. Kansas City, Kansas, Dec. 14th, 1898.

(First published December 14. 1S98. PUBLICATION NOTICE. No. 3676.

In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. Fred Davis, plaamtiff, vs. Edwin Connor, defendant. To the defendant, Edwin C. Connor: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff in 'the above entitled action, in the above entitled court, and that you must answer the petition of the plaintiff in said action filed, on or before the 3rd day of February, 1899, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered against you quieting the title in the plaintiff of the following descrlbed real estate situated in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, towit: Lots twenty-five (25) and -twenty-six (26), in block thirty-four (34), Armourd'ale, and for the costs of this action.

FRED DAVIS, Plaintiff. Witness my hand and seal of this court this 21st day of December, 189S. C. W. LITCHFIELD, Clerk Court of Common Pleas.

(First published Dec. 22, 1898.) BTTHB GAZETTE FUBL1SHIKG ASD PRINTING CO DAELT AND WXXXX.T, Corner Fifth Street and Mlnnesoia Avenue. Tkuethoxm ffr So. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: By Mail. In Advance, Postage prepaid.

Dally, Four Months Dally. One Weekly, One Tear lw THE DAILY GAZETTE will be delivered to any address in Kansas City, Kawas, or vicinity at cests per week. The Kansas City, Mo office on the Third floor, Lyeenm building, 104 West Ninth Street. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER. Organized labor hasn't any rigbte as against unorganized labor, which outnumbers it 14 to 1.

Russia, with a population of has only 743 newspapers; but iiittle more tfra'n Kansas. The; reciprocity nrotiaitioms with Germany came to a halt some months ago, but now the governments are renewing- 'the n-eg-ot i a tion s. Porto Rico has been good English usage for several centuries. Don't say "Puerto Rico" just because the Spaniards do, at least not until Uncle Sain savs so. It now turns out that for six months there has not 'been a complaint of any kind made against the railroads of Kansas before the board of railroad commissioners.

That is the kind of a "crying demand" there was for a special session to regulate the roads. Will advertisers ever learn to tell the ft ruth? Exaggeration is excused as "advertiser's license." A deliberate perversion of facts is an outrage only too common, and altogether honest advertisements, which in the long run make fortunes for dealers are the exceptions. The manageers of the Populist party have sent word all through the state to have delegations of Populists in Topeka to whip the Populist legislators into line, and get the railroad bill passed. A gigantic effort will be made to get it through, making it effective April 1. Orders were issued by the war department yesterday assigning- the famous Sixth cavalry to this department.

Four troops will be stationed all Fort Leavenworth and four troops will be stationed at Fort Riley, where the regimental headquarters will be. Port Sill and Fort lieno each get two troops. "'I'uth Ashmore," Mrs. Isabel All-derdice Mo-ulton, known also by the nom de plume iVab," died at her home in York yesterday. Children knew her best by her famous "Bab's Babble" and "Side Talks With Girls." She eloped at 16, and, after a hard struggle for a living, began writing for papers at $10 a week.

Induced by the John Collins atrocity, a bill will be introduced at the extra session requiring the governor to sign the death warrant of all prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary who have been sentenced to be banged, but if such a bill could be passed it would be am ex post facto law, and therefore unconstitutional, besides unsonstitutionially limiting the gov ernor's pardoning1 and power. commuting "With possibly the exception of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech I regard the three speeches made by President McKinley in the South as the oratorical masterpieces of the present century," said Representative Edwin Taylor, of Wyandotte county, to Frank Montgomery. "I don't mean that they had the most eloquence, but that, considered in connection with the occasion of their delivery and the audiences to which they were delivered, they were simply superb." All of which forms a rather unexpected tribute from a Populist. The building permit ordinance of Kansas City, Kansas, is practically worthless, and as a result we have very indefinite figures in this respect. The -building- permits of Kansas City, will aggregate $3,000,000 by December 31.

The report of the city engineer's department shows that from April 18 to JDecembetr 21, 19.14 miles of pavement were laid in that city, an increase of seven miles over 1S97. Kansas City, 'Missouri, now has 158.15 miles of paved street, of which 27.3S miles are vitrifiedt briek, 11.15 cedar block, 2.12 stone or gTam-ite block, 31.35 macadam and the rest as-jflialt. The 1898 pavement cost more than, that of 1897. I Dr. HENDERSON A that he gave more than he got.

And so the lady consoled herself, eh? And the consolation was worth waiting ten Tears for harvtiet wit.li tho 'freehold of a manufacturing firm is a oener paru than a squire with an uiu uuuse, or a poet with a new book eh, Bisset?" "You are Waveney," said Bisset sadly; "you have a.n echo of his voice if you've lost his face and. walk." Richard Wa veney roused himseli from his own thoughts to gird at him again. "There seems to be a parliamentary election going on in England," he "I suppose you would have stood for the county, like your father before you? By this time the Blues would have been cheering for you in Asarby market-place, and she would be dressed in your colors, to sit beside you while they dragged your carriage up to the hallf unless one of your sons Wareney paused; he bad spoken slowly and deliberately, and seemed to Hck his lips as he spoke. The other man turned upon hit companion with the scream of an angry child. "You you beast!" he cried; "it's all gone.

I ve lost it all. life, and and it's all gone!" And he rushed at the professor of English as at one who had suddenly robbed him. Waveney tottered behind his table and pushed it forward, the tea-cue rolling off to smash itself on the hearthstone. "Keep off, you old Sal. he.

tel1 -von keeP off-" "I'd like tO have vnnr BiSSet. "I'd like to bite your throat," said Waveney, from the shelter of the table and he said it convincingly. Keep your blood warm till to-morrow morning, if you can." The very early morning was coming in over a sad, slate-colored sea. A trim little gendarme pacing under the trees beyond the quay heard from far away over the sands the twice-repeated bang of a pistol. With a sigh for his lacquered shoes, he pattered down over the pebbles and ran scurrying over the wet beach, still ruled in wavy lines by the retreating sea.

No one was in sight, but he made for the black ribs of the English bark grinning out of the sand To the westward. Another bang sounded as he ran the suicide was decidedly a bad marksman. As he skirted the wreck lie came upon a scene, which pained and astonished him an old man, who groaned feebly in the puddle of salt water which had collected under him as he was lying, writhiag in his agony. Five paces' away another man. old, too.

looking strangely out of place in his rusty black coat, was crawling on his knee toward the prostrate man. A duel, without seconds, without medical assistance, without journalists? A duel? Say rather a barbarous conflict, a breach of the peace! A step nearer, and jhe gendarme could see the kneeling- man's white, drawn face, and the red trail where he had crawled. Revolver in hand the professor had struggled up to his enemy, nerved by his purpose, when Bisset ceased to groan and his limbs to tremble. Seeing this, the professor let fall the pMol from his bony fingers, and as he laid himself quietly dow-n a great g-out of blood spurted from his breast. "It would appear, my dear" said Sir Edmund Krockmorion.

returning to his wife, who was sitting in the sun on the pebble slope, impatiently slapping her. brown boots with the handle of her parasol "it would appear that two poor unfortunate creatures, at some unearthly hour this morning, while we were all safe in bed and asleep, actually went and shot each other behind the wreck out there." "You don't mean to say that they've left the bodies there?" said the lady, nervously. "Yes." "Do they know who the poor creatures were?" questioned the lady, pityingly. "One of them bad cards on his person, and would seem 1o have been a er commercial traveler of some description." "I didn't know that persons of that class fought duels." said Lady Frock morton; "but 1 dare say it was some gambling quarrel. I am' more than ever glad.

Edmund, that 1 forbade your playing at that sinful chemin de fer betting game in the Casino yesterday. I hope you see now what comes of it. The wind is blowing out to sea now. so if you want to smoke cigars jou must move your camp-stool on to the sands." The white-whitkered old gentleman moved dutifully away. Lady Froek-morton watched the neat little figure until it was out of sight, and then hastened to the scene of the duel.

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XT. T. A SENILE TEAGEDY. A Story of CurelenUng Jealousy Wblck Age Conld IV ot ICttare. It was very hot.

The evening had brougbt relief only to the pebbles the harbor-side, which hissed as the tMe came smoothly up to cover them, and to the little greeu crabs, who had lain- 'torpid umler the amd, a ad who how staggered up in. rapture la greet the cool ripple overhead. Bu-. no breeze came in with the tide, and the quay and the tall, white houses still red mi the sunset, were bakinj. in rhe afterg'Iow and thrawiug on slitting waves of the heat gathered in the long hours of blazing sunshine.

Passing the end of the quav went the 'cheerful rataplan of the bant: brin-ging back the o-ne hundred and second regiment of the line. Women in blue skirts and white caps sat or. the doorsteps knitting long, black stockings. The museum gate had closed against- the pa.iriing American faiiuily, and outside its bars the eldest daughter graduate of Vassar stood ticking off in her guide-book the ob jects of interest that day visited. Hei father, stupefied with sunshine and sight-seeing, a Pork King, in exile was spitting sadly on the hot flagstones.

The cafes and esaminets were glowing with gas. The brightest, hottest glare streamied across the road from the Palais de "4'Orien't, a large room, open at one end to the street and lit by two flaring gas-chan deliers. There was a piano in a cor ner at the far end jangling an accompaniment to the care-worn artist irr a black dress-coat. Who supported h's hat at the end of his cane, which ht carried on his shoulder at the slope. The -song was of a certain Leocadie, and directed attention to the vivacity rather than to the domestic qualities of that young person.

The blue and black eottoa blouses seated around the room, and the sous-officiers standing by the door, joined in the final chorus as if it were a ritual response. The tweed-clad Englishman, seated alone, and listening patiently at marble-topped table in the middle had recognized a phrase in the pre ceding verse, and applauded his linguistic success by stamping with his feet; but at the chorus, which sounded in his ears as "Et si zing enfin bala bonne ta-ra," he sank back in his chair with an air of disappointment- anid defeat. The singer resumed his chair on the dais, placing his hat and stick carefully beside him, and the young lady hi the Swiss dress, who sat near hinv rose and tripped forwiard to the front of the platform. She smiled to the Englishman, even when her eyes showed her anger at the scanty audience, pigs that they were, had no, appreciation of art in their pro vineial souls. She stood forward in the giare of the gas, singing of the mountains, and the cows, and the chalets where Love lives.

Two men, alone at a corner table, w-atcthed the Englishman absorbed ly as he received the change for a Napoleon. They were sitting in shade and One of them, lean and shrunken bad planted his threadbare elbows beside hrs glass of Hollands, w-ifh his fingers among his scattered gray nalrs. "There was a time," he said, suddenly, without looking round, I used to change a gold piece from my pocket when I paid for my drink." His companion, an old man, too. surveyed the tourist enviously from the soft gray cap to the stout, English-make watking-boots. "Ah, mousieur," he said, "that yoiimg man's stupid, fresh face reminds me that 1, too, if you will credit me, was once an 'Englishman." The Other turned his sunken eyes from the contemplation of the stranger to regard the man beside him wfth a poJite elevation of the eyebrows.

"Vraiment, monsieur?" he said. "But, yes I who speak to you I was English, I tell you. English proprietor, with fifty thousand francs of rentes, and he pulled a black card-case from his pocket and selected a very shiny card, engraved with many flourishes 'Lefevre repre-sentamt of the house Veuve Picot et fils, fabricators at Grasse, of the renowned Orange Flower Soap a poor commercial traveler, you see, who has almost forgotten his own tongue." "Mousieur has my sympathies the most profound," returned the shabby figure beside him. "I could speak the English language to him myself, but as a professor of that tongue, I hope for pardon if I do not speak it. The associations are not gay," and the speaker turned again to his.

glass. The yellow-haired woman in the dingy skirt and Swiss bodice was singing another lay which had little in it of mountain simplicity; she winked brazenly and mechanically. I have nothing that I should keep from any man now," went on the commercial traveler, "even in the cursed town, the gate of my long exile. You know the town well, eh monsieur?" The other nodded. "You know the sand beach to the west, where the musselbeds begin.

Thirty years ago I came there one early morning in the rain, hurrying there from England England that I've never seen sinee. The packet that brought us seemed to crawl across the water. I came there to rtioot an old friend for the supplanting dog. that he was. All for a woman's sake, who loved roe long before be came to fawn on her with his poetry and his bavardage about pictures.

Yes, thirty years ago we lay there together, and bis witnesses carried biro away, and mine left me fhere. the hounds, for he police to bring in to the hospitaJ over there." VAnd monsieur was restored there to his health?" inqnired the professor of English. I lay tSiere till on? fine morning when hki ballet sloughed out of my shoulder, said the coniiriereial trar eler soap. shr der Tiolewtfly, "and tiheo I made ovei the border. Could I face ttis mot he who petted us as boys togefher.

oi her, who loved And so we'ri both been dead this many year." There was chinking of corns, and i the Swiss girl stood before them, stil smiling as she extended a -little meia. tray which might have held sonu two francs in copper. The speakei twirled his mustache and dropped it half a "franc, with the ghost of faded- swagger. The professor drop ped in the penny be had been fidget in bis haod. and detained thf i S.

M. Arter is the name of an Atchison man. Smoking is in the post office at Beloit. lola is to have one of its quarterly bond elections next week. Kansas railroads caried 24,652,991 passengers during the past year.

The State Horticultural Society is holding its annual meeting at Topeka. During the year there were 19 passengers killed by railroads in Kansas. "Corporation influence in our legislature as increasing," remarks a Kansas fusion paper. The bill' to repeal the prohibitory law ought to be referred to some kind of a joint committee. The Presbyterian a of Buraingume had a Ferris wheel in place of the old fashioned Christmas tree.

Three candidates for manager to run the K. U. football team are Le-land, Rodgers and Field. It requires over 8,000,000 tons of coal to keep the Kansas railway trains in operation a year. The Hiawatha World office, which is hard to beat, will soon be in better shape than ever with new machinery.

If the Populists pass their laws, the railroad commissioners in 1900 will be elected by a direct vote of the people. Eldorado js going to have a fair next year. The- bought 33 acres of land at $61 per acre and have organized a company. The Stockton Record says that within the past year five fraternal insurance orders have established lodges in that town. An Ellsworth stockman was displaying on the streets the other day an eighteen months old bull that weighed 1,365 pounds.

A prominent Mason of Topeka. name not given, says that the members of the order are highly gratified at the conviction of John Collins. lBaldwin University received from Judge Nelson Case of Oswego a Christmas gift in the shape of papers for $615 towards a new library building. A Wichita man, Elmer Beach, has refused an office. He was asked to be superintendent of the Hutchinson reformatory bv Stan-lev and refused it.

Beloit Gazette: One couldn't pick up a western Kansas paper last week that didn't tell about two or three carloads of dressed turkeys bei.nsr shipped out. The old sport of the Ellsworth Re porter notes as another evidence of prosperity that the ante in Kansas poker games is higher this year than for a long time. Probably the present legislature wil be the last in Kansas to have the jai! to transfer from a university or other school fund monies to defray a special session of 'the legislature. A. W.

Winn, the Missouri Pacific agent at Aliceville, became suddenly demented Monday morning, -locked up the depot and walked to Burlington. He and his accounts are supposed to be straight. Kansas Citv Star: In Kansas the jury in a.n absorbing criminal case is left to go to and fro on its honor. In Missouri it is kept under lock and key -and its newspapers censored. Why is that nothing 3s saiid of Jury fixing iu Kansas, where the opportunity is free to all.

while no big criminal trial take place in Missouri without suspicions of bribery. "Do you remember old Billy Lewis, who used to live south of Mound City?" Well, he's dead; he was a confirmed infidel aaid had the word 'Infidel in large letters inscribed on the tombstone which he intended would be used for himself. His sister down east, heard what the old man had I uone, ana xne onner pay receiveti a letter from her requesting me to erase the Objectionable word, and you bet your sweet life I will; I'll chisel it off and polish it up in good style," said the marble man to the Pleas-an'ton Herald last week. TOPEKA TALK. The State Horticultural Society's meeting is largely attended, and will be of unusual interest.

The expense of the Collins trial to the county will reach about $5,000, including- the preliminary. iV. P. Emery, a well konwn Tope-kan died yesterday at his home. 1271 Lane street, of pneumonia.

Already they are flitting. T. W. Caffey of the state auditor's office has purchased an interest in a drug business at Pittsburg and will manage it. There shortly will be a field day in the house on the subject of prohibition.

Speaker Street having- referred Representative Marks bill repealing the Murray law to the committee of the whole. Although he bad a right to the title of brigadier Joe Hudson says that he is and -will continue to be Major 'Hudson 'the rank that be secured 'through hard service during the civil war. He does take any great stock in the titles of those who served an what he calls the "comic opera" service. THY SAY AGUINALDO HAS FLED. Fear of Assassination Drives Him Into Hiding.

'Manila. Dec. 27. It is rumored that Aguinaldo has fled to an inaccessible region back of Cavite With a few lowers, fearing assassination. The report, is denied, but his sudden chaugt in.

base is nor explained. AGED KANSAS PIONEER DEAD. Ba ld wen, -Dec. 27. Mrs; Miary Cav-aness, mother of A.

A. CaTaness, of this city, and M. Cavaness, editor of the Chettopai Adramoe, died this afternoon, aged 92 years. She oa me here jn- 1854, and has been 'one of the mothers of Baker university. MATRIMONIAL MttRKET IS DULL.

Only one marriage license was is sued by Probate Judge Herr, ester day. a'nd hats was to Judsoai Riller, aged 26, and -Maud V. Payee, aged 19 twth of Wyandcirte county. The Cli ristjr.a boom is over. MERCEDES GARCIA iEAD.

ThomasviDe, Gav December 27. Misa rMercedes Garcia, damghter of the 3ate General Garcia, the Cn bam leader, died ait the Masniry Hotel in this city this evening of consumption; iv 1 1 she drank English portaires," a dark mixture sered in a tumbler at the cost of a franc. The professor drained his glass asl lit the cigar-end which he had allow ed to die out. "This place is very warm." he said; "the gas is indeed If 1 could indu--e -monsieur, whose conversation fills me with interest, to allow me tc offer him such hospitality as my mean lodging will afford?" "Monsieur is too amiable." The commercial traveler threw away his cgarette-end and followed the pro fessor, who shuffled out into th street. It began to ram; the leaden gutter begatn to drip, and the great drop; from the sky rebounded from the ledges into the abysmal depths of the old Flemish street below.

The com mercial traveler buttoned over his chest the feeble defense of the thread bare frock-coat and strode after his retreating guide. A corner, turning- into a still nar rower by-way, hid the professor from sight, and his guest found him cow ering tinder the drip-stone of doorway of a majestic old house ic its decay. The professor pulled again and again at t-he creaking bell-wire A lesser door opened in the side qf the greater one, and, with a grave bow to his guest, the professor led the way up the great staircase, instinctively avoiding a broken step. At the foot of the great carved rail of the balustrade squatted a little wooden lion. M.

Lefevre laid a kindly hand upon the head as he mounted the stairs, patting it as if it were a stray-dog. "Poor beast," he murmured 'lost in a strange century." They were mounting by a dark and narrow back staircase, past liooi after floor of closed doorways "Many of these rooms have no lodgers." said the professor, "because the dry-rot has been there so long, and one would not desire to disap pear suddenly through the floor ol one's room like Arlequin through the trapdoor." The professor chuckled grimly as he inserted a large key and pushed open the door of a room. They were in the tallest gable of the house, and after stumbling up the dark stair the room seemed very light. The guest sat down in the chair hj the window, and the host pulled aside the white curtain of the alcove and seated himself on the edge of rhe bed; the walls were bare, but for the place wiiere the professor 'had nailed up a penciled scheme of the hours of hi? classes and pupils. The floor was bare of carpet, in one corner was pile of newspapers the Independent Beige, the Petit Journal and in thii strange company a heap of the Eng.

rlish Times, its stout, respectable pa per and clear type protesting agamsi the association. Besides these was a tattered assemblage of novels, manj of them having been re-bound by the simple expedient of a piece of string tied round their bodies. A squad ol empty jars ranged themselves ir double file in the shadow of the oppo site corner; a blackened inkbottb lurked by the fire-place in ambus behind a number of oid boots, now in the last stages of An old walnut table, with a tea cup and a tobaeco-'ar. completed thf furniture of the chamber Absolut? ly noth'png more, save what might li in rhe recesses of a large cupboard And a man had lived here thirty years. "One obtains quiet here," said the professor, "a silence which encour ages meditation.

No one else on th'i floor, which you wil! have noticed to your cost, is the seventh No one bul the wind." "The view from the window is in deed charming," said the guest, po litely, turning in his chair. "If monsieur will stand at thii side." said ihe professor, coming forward to the light, "he will see the patch of sands uncovered beyond the harbor." M. Lefevre stood up and gazed at the distant sea, and the black speck with a long trail of smoke, which waj a steamer that would lie to-morrow morning in the London docks. When he saw that he sighed a little. Old M.

Durand was hobbling back from the cupboard, with a yellow and well-tihumbed number of the Times. "There is something here," he said, indicating, with a trembling fore firager, a paragraph surrounded by ink-lines. The other took it; his curiosity was excited by the evident agitation of Durand. "Why, this is a Times 01 seventy," he said, "with the news ol Sedan!" and his eye fell on the mark ed paragraph. It related the detail! of a society wedding the wedding ol a certain Sir Edmund Frockmortor with Chris-tine Mountjoy.

He threw the paper suddenly to the floor and turned to the professor with white lips: "That was the wo man I but who are you to give me again this cursed newspaper, that 1 read and wept over twenty years He was speaking English now, and when the processor spoke, he. too used that tongue, speaking slowly with a foreign accent. "I thought it might be news tr you," he said; "it is not every one abroad who has his English paperr regularly. And you don't know me? And he struck a match suddenly, and righted tiro eadles he had placed on the table. The other looked long at him, and said- "I do not know you, put before I gj I shall know who.

has used mask of hospitality that he might in-, suit a wretched old man with that newspaper." "We parted on the sand out there, said the professor, "thirty years ago and my features hare changed sinc ttoen; my hair" and he ran his hand over the bio. gray crop at the back of his head "my hair is not chestnut-colored now, nor do I wear it long. He g-lanced at his frayed trousers and greasy coat-sleeves "And bis taste in apparel has altered since Mr; Richard Wa veney left Bal-liol." "I shot Richard Wa veney; I killed him years ago, said the commercial traveler in a hollow voice. "I will not attempt to contradict you the other wen on; "I my sell recall that you shot him in the shoulder, but, though Wa veney died tbey extracted the bullet from Durand and patched him up, the wretches, to face thirtv rears' mis- timet proviso that it shall be either a territory or a state. Even if it is pretended that wee little Wake Island is fit for a coaling station, that doesn't go down with Vest.

There is no steam in the constitution. The use of coal for heating- houses as they intended didn't require even1 the smallest island for its storage. Wake Island has no inhabitants, and the seizure should not be made until it has, for without their consent it cannot be governed constitutionally. Islainds are unconstitutional anyhow. The only island concerned when the constitution was adopted was Rhode Island, and that is not altogether an island; if ever it was, most of it has been moved over on to the main land.

The occupation of Wake Island for a cable station is no new assertion of sovereignty. It was discovered by Captain Wilkes in 1840, who also discovered the Antarctic continent, and never has leen wen pied by amy na-tian. Xo title to it is superior to the American. It is said to be useless ex cept for a cable station, and has lain idle It ill needed for that purpose. Now we want it for a relay between Honolulu a'nd Guam.

OUR NEW ASTATIC MARKETS. Far south Singapore is 'the first clearing bouse for a large part of East India, in. other words, the collecting place for freight to be shipped to or from that great region. Hong Kong performs the same service for South China. Shanghai is the clearing house for the densely peopled Yang-tse Valley and for North China.

The whole of these three can be exploited to advantage from Manila, besides the enormous exports of the Philippines, of which it is the emporium. No artificial means can ever impair the vast superiority in shortness of routes which our Pacific coast ports possess in their trade with eastern Asia andl Australasia. The wheat, lumber and manufactures of the Pacific States will reach the Orient by sea one-half more expeditiously than the products of Europe by the Suez canal, and our packing houses and mi'Jls will soon have the choice of routes via Nicaragua and San Diego, which discounts San Francisco by 500 miles. The Suez Canal, as compared with the Oape of Good Hope route, shortened the distance from London and Liveriool to India by 4,800 nautical miles, to Singapore by 3,680 -miles, but the Nicaragua Canal will shorten the distance from Sabine Pass or New Orleans to China by over 8,000 miles, and we shall trade more readily with China's nearly 400.000,000 than with Genua 's 50,000,000 people. Ex-Governor II.

15. Bullock was a Georgia slaveholder, has been an active and wealthy business man in that state since the period before the civil war, during which he did full service for the Confederacy, accepted reeanstructtion, took part in the forming of the constitution of that state ini 1867, was elected the first governor under it, insisted that negroes should have their rights of membership of the legislature, and was really driven to resign his office by the determination that, the negro should be suppressed-' He has lived in Georgia ever since, and has out lived the bitter hatred with which he was honored. In a letter to the Sun of this city, he declares that "ac harm was ever done to Georgia from the negro voter," that the offi cials under that constitution were the peers of any before or since, and the expenses of and the taxes less, and that colored men of character ought to be supported when ap pointed to local offices by the presi dent. (He affirms that "there is recorded hisltory of any race having equaled the progress of the negro from slavery to the present day," and that the instatnces of barbarous treatment of them are sporadic and few compared with the total number of the negroes. THE FILIPINOS TOOK ILOILO.

(Manila, December 28. The insurgents under Lopez practically completed the conquest of the Philippines Monday. They occupied Hoilo before the of the American expedition sent by Admiral Dewey and General Otis. The Spaniards were compelled to evacuate Hoilo and retired to Zan-boanga. GILLETT IS IN OLD 'MEXICO.

Denver, December 28. Grant G. Gillett, the Kansas cattle -plunger and fugitive, is at present making his headquarters at Jiminez, a small town, 180 miles southeast of Chiaihu-hua. OHiaVGO GRAIN 'MARKET. May wheat closed, Tuesday, 70 opened, today, 7171c? at 11 o'clock, 70 70c.

May com closed, Tuesdeyr 39 39c; opened, today, 3939c; at o'clock, 38 c. SHOT HER LOVER. Duhtth, December 27. Mrs. H.

L. Berglwnd today shot and killed her lover, Peter Haaison. a itailor, and then out her own throat, but wfll probably recover. Captain S-gsl ee of the "Maine now returns to th- harbor of Havana in comma.nd of he battleship "Texas." Gen. Fitrfmgl Lee is said have re marked when be departed from Ha vara that 4 uvould i re turn- at the he-if -an artv.

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North and South, at one fare round trip, Mini mum rate fifty cents. Tickets on sale December 25th 26th amd 31t, 1898, end January 1st and 2nd, 1899, with final return limit to January th, 1899. Holiday tick- eta on sale at Union depot, 1032 Union 8 venue, Grand Avenue depot, and City Ticket Office, No. 800 Main street. E.

S. JEWETT, ffcssenger and Tieke. A geat. v. 1 AWAKE OVER WAKE ISLAND.

Those expounders of the constitution, Senators Vest and Caffery, have not thrown away their efforts, even if ithe must be ours Against the purposed seizure of Wake by the government there are constitutional objections as grave-, as ny yet presented by them. If Wake Island, which has never been occupied by anybody, can be conquered by the Uni ted States, there is no limit to the possibilities of expansion. And there are new objections to this acquisition. Our forefathers never contemplated the possession by Xhe United States of cable station. mnrn BEcoiro yeail Day moA Nlht Gchoola.

EPILEPSY I wtnh very parson tn the V. 8. soffertng wltb -OIT Ktf AO VIVO.