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KING POTT OF AFRICA, FRISCO LINE. A Wpmnn lstfe, niP IP ran DENTIST Office Jn Lay Pyii.Dir; VYicik CTv Kant, ance due $2.50 when the policy arrives. Ladies can alsp become members of this society, por particulars ajl and see G. F.pAple- gale. Livery.

Feed, -TRADS. -Sale Stable Special Attention to citizens p.u i the traveling public, Bp.f-n 204 Main Street. l. J. ST- Cigars, Tebacci, ei Co i actio Laucr) Served B.

F. Smith CALL AND SEE HI jvO. 431 J. p. in 1'epait (j.432 I'ittsburg uccm.

12.25 a- no. 431 St. bouU' express. ,3 30 p. o.

431 train iron St. direct to Hreir No. 433-432 Local Ham bejwfdi V3i1 City anil i'lttsbqrg. No, '434 st. Louis express via of Gjrard vittsdurg and Carl Jnnctiou.

pacific at Pittsburg. ornh bound passenger .7.05 p. m. Accoiuuiadation 2.25 p. ni.

bound passenger. a- 8. 1 5 a. .111 S. Shaw, Afffut.

C1IEHOKKE, West no. o6. 5 P. l)) "SO 98.33 a. in Local freigl)ta carry passngers also no.

325 at 1 .15 a. ni. aiid No. 327 at 10,05 a. ID.

305 306 connoct with Eastern and Kansas City linpted trainsat Arcadia and Ft. Scott and at Et. Seal with K- 6c T.flyer 4fc st- Louis, A. C. Ilird, Agen Locals.

Albert Harris and Clarence Gla ss of Parsons paased through, the City Wednesday enroute to Joplin, Mo, Soma of the members of Spwe's uncle Tom's Cabin Co, in company with. S.O. Clayton were very pleas intly entertained-M the Mc Croft Hotel Tuesday afterno-m. When it coins to entertainir gtjest rs. Mc Croft is strictly up to date, Business at irm ol the minus seems to be at low tide and as a natural conse of the niiuvrs are losing Jots bf time, S.O.

Clayton imde a run over to Parsons Wednesday evening. G. W. Hart was 1 11 Galena this week on business. Judging from a tter that lie has in hi.

posession we- conclude th it the Hon, Milton Reed is in direct corespoudence with this Satanic Little Pete Dorcas accompanied Mrs. Pratt home Monday evening. Albert Cavanaugh passed through the City Tuesday morning enroute to Joplin, Mo. Albert is looking well. Pvev.

Frank Wilson C. G. M.of the K. T. lodge was in the City this week and made our office a very Pleasent call.

Rev. J.S. King returned home from Pitt -burg Tuesday. Some of our hoys wantud to join Uncle Tom's cabin troup that was here Tuesday and all the compensation they asked for their labor was to court the pretty drummer girls. Every body is guessing who tile suc- Mr T.G Lomax contemplates moving his place of business in the near futuie.

W. P. Akers says he. will not leave; any stones unturned in the. political field, Prof S.W.

Fourd was. a pleasent caller of the Eagle Monday. There were 26 men arrested Sunday in rniug at Mineral Kan. The sheriff is doing a wholesale Imsines Mrs. I.i.zie lean made a business trip to Pittsburg this week.

Well the Eagle has a sharp eye bu cannot see you aP when you come town hea? Mrs Knowles desires to know why the ig does not mention the 1 id es in it; to town well Mr Knowles was town Monday; shoping. Mrs Rhoda Pratt ol arrived in the city Sunday the guest of Mr, and Mr Rob-bin. The baptising that was to have been fiom St. John P.aptist chimb last Sunday did not materialize on cc unit of the severe cold and the meeting oeing continued by request Miss Ilaltie Walker who has betn Vasing boks in the city and who was the guest of Mi. and Mrs.

A. IX fcas f. 1 returned to her home at Gr.i 1'), last Sunday. Rev. G.

W. Hart preached at No seven Sunday. The Baptist choii has begun a valuable The nlnsicaie and literary given under the auspictsof tlr Eagle company, promise-' to be a hum mei. The music will be 1111 ier the direction of Prof S. W.

Fourd. Nationa protective Soc'e'y. Friends I am now at the post of duty as agent of the National Protective Society. The ad mission fee is S5.00-S1.00 per month. This society has power within it self.

A grand success. Members can be reinstated for Those desiring- to become .1. UV7. members of this society can jom now for $2.50 and pay bat- 4 Boer' Lender Wbp Occupies alted PoslMpn In Transvaal. The town of Lonrepco Marques for sonje time past has been chosen a the head center pf the Transvaal secret service.

The spies and informer of that notorious gars jr. says the Cape Times, come and JTO with all the lib-frty. fcwnjrg'er and self-assurance, as It they wer in the suburios of Pretoria. Delagoa bay is. a so-called neutral port, with a ijaily train and posta) service direct to Pretoria and nesburg.

'1'herti is also a telegraphJ service, which apparently Vp at the command of Mr I'ott. tjie TransvaaJ consul general and consul for the and Free State. It has een said that, th Transvaal consul geieral has a secret service wire tli-rectly coituccfihi Kourenco Marques with Komati I'tiort. and it it wel noHii in Dehtgna May that Mr. I'ott i ossessed of th jhoi rolhj'du information of Jioer "succcb.scs" mqnj-lioijrs eflier thap any man 'ui Africa Thi ii extremely detrimental to Brit-lh interests ip Hojith.

Africa. Mr I'ott is tht direst intermediary between Or lfvd at Tlit Hague and the Uoer-ciup-ilollande'r regime in Preto-iu. This worthy llfilhipdcr per-f i't know ledge a( Portuguese. French and (icrman. He is comptroller of Transvaal cistoms and tail way.

director of the Transvaal 1X3-tiopad batik and head of the Dutch F.ast African company. My virtue of long residence in Dejagoa May. Mr. Pott is persona grata in all Portuguese oflieir, i circles Some two years buck the Portuguese iiewttpapejr. Fij-tnrO.

published in Marques, dedicated a pec i ft I article to Mr. Pott, in which he wit euUjg-iyed as "King ott of Africa." SAVED TWO THAIN3. The Hepolt IJee-1 of a Woilesi Watch-tusi oh the Cnnudiaa Pao cl tie Itailvvaj. It does not take heroics to make a a hero; it only takes a man bent, on doing his duty in the face of odds. Such a man is among the employes of the Canadian Pacific railway in British Columbia.

He is a watchman, and he puts duty Hist and life second. The Michigan Christian Advocate tells the story of his devotion: Not long ago a bridge on his secMon ot road caught fire und tumbled into the raging: mountain river. It was midnight, and the watchman was alone in the mountains. Coining toward that yawning gap was the limited express from the east, while from the west ar. excursion train containing 400 American journalists also drew near.

The excursion train wis due first, and it was coming from the side opposite that on which the watchman stood. "riffeliraTi'dtnirot Ire-si tirt e. He plunged into the swollen stream, reached the other shore, ran to the ling station and signaled the excursion train. Then he disappeared in the darkness. Back to the river he ran without a moment's pause, cast himself in and crossed again.

Another rapid run to the station on that side, and the exhausted watchman, ready to sinh with fatigue, stood by the Pacific flyer thax had, been brought to a stop at the flag station east of the br'dge. Is i had saved Iv.o trains, and perhaps a thousand lies. His own comment on the occurrence was that he had done his duly. MCUin IB QUEER PLACE. The Is Well fitted i fur lii yitci on Si issK a.

No doubt the shark's mouth is placed so much bentatii lie jed iuy muzzle, under which also ihe lie, that it may cre its proper purpose in the best. way. In ai.i records of the habits of the lish. a tiie C'incintrati Kuijuircr, we arc told that it can and does bile out larjje of flesh from the dead bodies of bales and even from living victims of ii attack; and it is easily seen that if its mouth was like that of other fihes the necessary average would be A furl her secin to be that the shark by tills peculiar position of its mouth is compelled turn upon its back to strike and is thus able to deliver its on-et from below with more deadly efl'ect. This formidable strength of jriw is backed up by a most terrible array of teeth, of which in some species there are as many as six rows all round.

I'ach tooth is saw-edged and pointed, and some of the largest are as much as two inches in breadth at their bae. These lie flat against ihe jaws antl can be raised by separate muscles at will, so that, as the shark darts upon its prey, they sping oil end. as a claws are stuck out from its paws. This arrangement will not allow anything once bolted to return, so that a shark's mouth i fl veritable trap. Ttip Holy is now holding but a shnd-of maj tiifis-ent city of ancif-nt It is nlmni three miles cir-r-nr Jerf-rn-e and i Kiliraicd on a rtxky mountain.

Or.e of the grimmest leg-ends of fcqble Island dates from the wreck of tin Amelia; anil js enough evidenc jf truth i'OJitucted with ij. writes tins-lav Kobbe in Aiu.slee's, to ihow uhai deeds were added on that occasion lo the terrors of sljipw reuk. Capi Torrens, who commanded the gun boat which Ha dispatched to sable Island after Ihe wreck of the Amelia, iva? one pf the survivors of the second disaster. A passenger on the lost transport was Lady Copeland. on her va to jqin her husband.

The captain ol the gunboat had b'een told that sh a ore on her fortinger a ring of peculiar artifice. The story has it that Capt. Torrens. wandering over the island one night in search of possible survivors, was attracted b.v the piteous whining of his dog in front of a smpll, open shelter, known to have existed at that time, bqt long since toppled to pieces. Approaching the shelter, he was started to see the figure of a woman all in white and holding toward him the st limp of a forefinger.

While he was gazing at the apparition, it rose, silently gjided past hini and dove into the sea. But lime and again thereafter the wljife woman with bleeding forefinger was seen wandering over the sandhills. It is probably only part of the weird legend that Capt. Torrens. feeling sure that a shocking crime had been committed, tracked the gniltv pirate until he discovered his family cn the const of Lnbrador, and learned that the ring had been sold in Halifax.

It is a. fact, however, that mqny years after the disaster Bady Copeland's ring was discovered in a jewelry store in Halifax ond was returned to her family. From that hour her ghost has ceased to haunt the island. T0RPLD0 BOAT DESTROYERS. The Dnnfiernim Craft to Operate of Any in le Fleet.

The demands ttpon the officers and men of a torpedo boat destroyer are enormous, says Black-wood. Comfort as it is understood in a big ship is quite unknown. Bven in what is known as moderate weather cooking almost an impossibility, though this is less to be regretted, for the dura ilia of the most inured seafarer often give way. and he feels a certain dis-tasle lor food when, besides the extremely lively motion given by the waves, the whole structure vibrates and trembles under the strokes of the engines and the kick of the propellers. The duties which torpedo boat destroyers would be called upon to undertake in "war time are desperate in Jtheir risks The Tittle ships are the enfants per-dns of the fleet.

Even if they can carry their deadly assault to a successful issue, it will only be by the greatest chance that they themselves escape destruction. The torpedo boat destroyer oflicers look coolly upon death as their more than probable fate in action, but each thinks that eery-tiiing himself, his ship and crew will be well lost if he can only plant one deadly slroke which sends a battleship to the bottom. It is a comparison between a few thousand pounds worth of structure, its armament and a crew of less thaa 50. all told, against a. floating which represents than a million of money and carries 700 or SOU of an enemv's seamen.

DEATH FROM BURNING. Cansied h- I'oImoii by Action of tlent I ion the Tissues. An Italian physician. Dr. Azzarello.

tells us tlrat barns cause death by poisons formed in the tissues by the action of the heat. According to Modern Medicine, he "divides the theories of the causes of death from bjirns into the following classes: 1. Death from shock or extreme pain. 2. lumbo'istrt.

thrombosis and destruction of blood elements. 3. I'yemic infection through the burned surface. 4. IV.isnns formed by the action of heat on the tissue, or autointoxication from deficient excretion by the skin.

The author has shown by experimenting upon dtgs and rabbits that the intoxication the ory is flip correct one. A chloroformed i animnf died in the same time and with the same symptoms as one not anesthetized. Section of the nerves' supplying the burned part no alteration in the effect of the burns. Ilodies of animals burned to death lailed to show any embolism, thrum- bois or great destruction of I cor puscles The rapidity of dath was too great for the action of bacteria to be the cause. On the other, hind, blood from burned animals and extracts of burned tissues were toxic to other animals, and caused death with symptoms similar to those of the burned anhmil." i-iti'i tieeie dura Oniniinii Itltllnc.

etiqiM'ttc prevents Trcticfj jmlges auil judicial oHiccrs Trooi riding in wiunlbueb. Mr. Walter Rargden of Yale was in the 1 City Wedpesday Mr. Bardepwijl interest himself jn the I'JagJe ayguud Yaje. Rev Sir Frank Wilspfi of Kansas City Kans, held a roeyptjpg with the daughter 0f Tabornacje, Wednesday, R.

llccktell.pf Macksville, Kans. has discovered that Kansas is being discriminated against by their c.wii authorities and he wants to know why it is. 'How is it, he asks in a letter to the attorney general, "that a men can come heie from Kausas City, and run all over town selling whiskey while a man who liyes here is not alloweb to do i The attorney general replied; you find a Mlssourian selling liquor in your town go a- 1 make oom plaint a-gainsthim a have him persecut cd-Alissourians huc- rights in Kansas than Kansas. A whiskey peddler from Missouri is just an out-lawass Kansas Joiijtest and can be persecuted, NOTICE To all member of the exeucutive cam, mittee of the 3rd congressional district council of cole. red men of Kat Whei-; the political struggle between parties 11 involving the interest of the whole ouutry and its people alike It has become the duty of your seivant to call you together and devise such methods to the interest an lweltare of oqraelv a and rom-mmiity.

The meeting will take plaee at Kans, in the Odd el lows Hall. Feb -7, 1900, at 1 1 A. M. Matthews, A Moris Labette Co' Rev Wm Moore, Kitrel, Jessie Giles, James Davis, nev King, Rev W. Hart, Richard Anderson, Milton Reed, Rev J.

Lacy, Rev, Geo. Auston Jack Stewart, Cherokie Co, Pr G. Gray, Montgomery Co. Yaidiook, Gralten, Hon. J.S.

Lewis, Hon.W.-W, Miller, P. Akers, Chairman. STRANG THINGS WILL A PPEN Friday afternoon while the train was standingon the side track, Pan Sut ton thought it a good time for him to make his, get away with a tew Inm ps of nice coal So he got about two sheets in the wind on some bust eve and attempted to fill his Titivate order but the mar-shall asked im to go with him where he would not have to carrv coal bnt w.iuld be furnished coal, a place to sleep and something to eat. Pab piead but the marahall took him just the same CLEVER LITTLE CHINESE. Wu Xln FDint'n Son Hud an An.

Mii-r for Verj I'axxliuB L.S.. 44vvW- Tht ChinPFe minister to the fjpitect States. Mr. W'n Ting I'ang. has a little son who evinces a wonderful interest Jn the deeper subjects of life, say: the Washington I'o'st.

long ago he was tniking to some of hi little play fellows? and they were discussing Hit Sunday school. One hoy was indig nant over a text his teacher had given him to explain. "It's a Chinese puzzle, anyway." said he hoy to the Chinese minister's von "In that ease," said the Inile orient al. "1 I can fell you nil it. What is the question, anyway?" The school student, the sou of a naval oflicer.

looked at the little Chinaman and answered: "This is it: What the meaning of the Itlhl'e cpiestion: "In my Fuihei's house there fire many The naval otlior's son felt confident that he had "stumped" the minister son. he reckoned without hiv host. The little Chinaman looked with contempt at the American. "Why. don't von know what that tneHns? ln mv Father's house there are many That is an i apartment house." I.nckiiiK no I mlirplla.

An uuihrella that is nseiess to any one except lis riirhtfti: ownet may well he considered valuable. 'I he Orleans Tinies-Democrsi! say that a lawyer in that 'iiy possesses sin an arti--ie, v.hn fi he describes as foiiows: "I bought it in (iermany ear betote last, and ticjbody -an iipen it eeepi myself. Do you notice that little keyho.e ir. the side? Here is the key or. ihe end of my watch chain, and until is inserted ai.d turned, the thing is absolutely immovable.

Anybody else would find it harder to raise than a mortgage. On at least a dozen occasions the umbrella has been stolen or taken away by accident, if you prefer that term, but it has always found its way home. nii ee. my name is cut on the handle, and the umbrella itself is well known mail the attaches of the building. When they see a st ranger si niggling with it in the door on a rainy day.

they promptly confiscate it and bring it hack. I wonder that such umbrellas are nut made iD this country." ICIeclrli Dreilu hied ricaUy operated dredg-f- are now used on rivers and haibms. where! i immense ipianth.ies ol material have to be Laud it ii qcichiy. Mr. Solomon Poynter was in the city Sl.

uday visitii family, Mr, Wm, Whjte. of Gkwa v.s in the city visiting friends, Rev; Brooks, of the A M. cjuuch closed thrir revival with st-- evl coi verfs. Any m4 cjsiflns ts drqs -makjng cali at CfilS Main St, Mrs. A.

J- Jamiiifcon, "Mrs- Kancy MiJlgfr Joplin-, Mo was in the city visiting- Mrs, S. Hurt, S- C. Hurt arrived in the city last Svinday aud is the wa of J. Ja iur.on. Johnson is in the oily assisting ma revival.

Mis, Lytle and' son made a' vit-it tQ JopAii this w.eiv. Mrs. Coffey, daughter and niece made a 'visit Joplin. I Votk For tffttrrff Of 9. As Thj? Most Potoak Cut This Out And Send To This Office, FiH Out UUriK.

HOW KAFFIRS UANii. I'll I'tMMil In i ii 1 nu 11iiy A uf iii tirii'iui The ot lUht pari ot Snnth Afrua lo exietii i in hutuifu b.v SuSit)ifij uuil have it ei.u'.;)r ut I.ui.Kj- baiikiiig. Tlife KiilTir. a.V 'I'M auniiig whom tin furiou sv.ii-m lnr tibia ins, livt lit-yr KatTr iu in outh of th Colony The natives I'ume (lt)vu sfujtli fioin lteir uoutilry to truoe in ine rfl viliiiffe tind towns in jijige niiinlierx. vvitu the l'o'rs for a Mine, then return to KarTiaria.

I'heir banking facilities are very primitive, und consist entir'elv of hanka of deposit alone, without banks ot discount or i.vsue, and they have no jecksr 'enjoy banferg" privileges, such as bey are. From those who trade of their own number, they select one. who for ihe occasion is to be their banker. lie is converted into a hank of deposit liv putting all he money of those banker lie is into a bag. and then they forth 10 the stores to buy whatever 'hey want.

When an article purchased hv any of those who are in this hanking arrangement the price ot the article is taken by the bar ker rom deposit money hag. counted several then paid to the seller of the artieie, after which all the bank depositors erv out to the banker in tne presence of the two wit nesses selected "Yon owe me so much!" Thisis then repeated by the witnesses Theoetjeral accounting comes between the banker and his several depositors, when all desired purchases hate been mane. aft-r I the natives depart for then uort hern wilds. WINTER IN SWITZERLAND. I Hlter AHiiuilf Wc Arc T0I1I There Are An Miiriny liny There is no doubt that the plan of taking a winter holiday 'm Switzerland is being- more largely adopted of late years, for all who try it discover the country is more lovely in winter than in summer.

During December, and February in the high Swiss altitudes, says the Chicago there are never any storm) days, and winter -ports, such as tobogganing, skating ickvy on ice and sleighing, ail oiler ample lor fun AM this fxnyety h.vs developed within a few years. Fifteen years ago a shrewd man opened a big hole! at Orindelwahr in inter, and ttie inhabitants around about were filled with a ir.ent at the wild hNvi. fur 'nobody ever imagined it would be anything but a brg failure. Yet hist winter gutsts had to be turned away. roads are being btjiit.

new ho els are springing up for the express aeeommodal ion of the winter Hkatmg and tobogganing on the Kngndine have become famous am! the grow tii in popularity of St. Moritz w.i: rve.ous. Anything- more il iiJii han lire lake there alter the first before the has fa-lien oan-enr be aire the ice tobo-tfciujifi is tie fastest hi the world. M. Cc mpl 3 ATTORNEY ATLAY NOTA5V Weir Building Weir City, J.

W. Gray, M. 0. of Cflffeyville, Catisas, will Monday and TucUvy of week in Weir City; Office. East 3rd street SEE HIM.

Dr W. King. Fhvsicn And Suk( Oifice haurs 12 a. m. to 2 p.

i and 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. Officb in Weir Dr.

C' A.clairj. tr PENTIS-. Does oil lirpa of Dun; work; ex scjecieilt Gocd Fillxng-s Crown and JRri'J: Work. J.Ticc in city ill FOR PICTURES MASTERS GALLERY. WGirCity, Kancui, PAYMENT OF PRIZE What the Law of tle In It eel SUN.i Provider- In the "Hatter cf Distribution.

The pending dispute as to amounts of prize money to which nnr.il Dewey and his men are eni: for hi- destruction of the Bpanih in Manila bay has led to an as to the scope of the law applyii such matters. It has learned tha: revised statutes provide that if a vessel was cf a superior or eonal 1 to the captor, all the prize money to the captor; if it was inferior, only goes to the captor and ha: the government. The money is ed thus: To the fleet or squadron manner, one-twentieth; to the fct in command, one-fiftieth, this to taken from the government's there is such a share, and to be tional to his share as commander i. ship making capture. To the I's captain, one per except the vessel on which he is actually nu! the capture; in that case he other officers.

To the com nun of a single vessel, one-tenth if the se! was attached to a fleet or twentieths if It was operating Ail the rest is distributed oflicers and men in proportion to pay. For a naval victory the ment gi-es a bounty of otlicer and man Inferior force capi if the force was is $2tm a head. i a divided as the 1 1 ha been i not i es of I i.m-s scedso: these piant have been tljousatids tif milt- from their habitat. Often tliey flourish amid new surroundings. a nd gradually sp over the surroundmp country.

the rsiilroatls carry unsuspected grants, which travel to aud front point of he compass. In the Mis.i -pi valley are to be plants wl within a few vears jutst. have been bronchi loretj.er. from the l.initc seal(iaitl. some from the ion.

and -me from the oilier s.u ol Hue" jtict.