M MB Kl. More About the Black Prince's Cannibal Instincts. WHITE WIFE LEAVES HIM Shs Captured and Petted Him But His Cruel Nature Wae Not Subdued— Reeeued From the Hande of a Brutal Savage. The untamed demon within Loben gula, the black "Prince" from Africa, has been aroußed. It has thrust out its claws and bared Its yellow fangs. And thereby has it proven the Prince to be worse than the brute that hu manity at Its lowest alwayß Is. Dis patches have told how this man. who for months has been the centre of attraction for amusement-loving Lon don society and the pet of fatr ladies, has horrified his patrons and admir ers by an exemplification of barbaric manners not provided for In the con tract between himself and the man agers of the great British exhibition In which he has been the star per former. The beautiful wife who deserted her family and friends and defied all the traditions and conventions of the fashionable world In which she held social Bway, In order to marry the dusky chieftain whose fascinations proved to her stronger than all other ties, has fallen a victim to her hus band's hereditary but long-repressed thirst for human blood. He proceeded to beat his pretty white wife with energy and frequency, and even more energetically and fre quently as he realized that she was estranged from all her friends, and was too proud and too ashamed to complain of him to strangers and seek their protection. What Kate Jewell has suffered be cause of her own unjustifiable and Inexcusable folly no mortal save her self will ever know. She haß schooled herself to silence and endured what came to her w|tb the stoicism of an Indian at the stake. Having taken her life In her own hands and ruined It, she hs& been brave enough to suf fer the consequences and make no sign. But at last the end has come. Lo bengula, the handsome and fascinat ing Prince, the passionate lover, the devoted husband, has become meta morphosed into Lobengula the savage and the cannibal, whose horrid crav ing for human blood has manifested Itself In a murderous attack upon his loving and defenceless wife, the scars of which she will carry to her grave. Shut away from the rest of the world with the man whom she bad chosen from all others to be her hus band, Kate Jewell found herself face to face with death In Its most cruel and brutal form. As the tiger springs from the jungle upon Its unsuspect ing prey, so sprang upon her this hu man tiger, whom she had captured and petted, but not subdued. His strong hands grasped her like bands of steel; his bloodshot eyes glared Into her very soul. For one moAient he held her powerless, gloating over her helplessness, and then deep Into the white flesh of her arm he sank his teeth, biting and tearing and snarling like the wild beast that he Is, while the warm red blood of his victim dyed his savage Hps and drip ped down In the soft folds of her silk en robe. The one shriek of mortal terror and despair which came from the tortured woman's Hps before a black hand Btlfled her utterance brought some passers-by to the res cue. Civilization conquered savagery for the time being, and the black de mon was overpowered. The Prince Is a handsome fellow In his own peculiar way. He combines the sinuous groce of a creeping pan ther with the physical perfection of a human creature to whom nature on His own account has been more than kind. But he han lost his white wife. THE VEILED PRINCEBS. King Oscar of Sweden and Norway Saw Her. Oen. Cherif Pasha Is Turkey's dip lomatic representative at the court of his Majesty King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. The General Is one of the few Turks allowed to take his wife with him when serving at a foreign court. She Is a princess, being the daughter of a former ruler of Egypt. Princess Ermine—such Is her name must, however, observe all the rules of the Koran and the Phophet while away from the land of mosques. No gentleman has ever had the pleasure of meeting her, and at all dinners given by the General to his colleagues he Is compelled to "borrow" the wife of some other ambassador to "do the honors." King Oscar, It is said, has always been curious to gze upon the face of the renowned Princess, for she is said to be beautiful, witty and talent ed. At a bazaar rcently held for the benefit of the English church the Princess was given a private view of the rooms. The Pour at which she was to pay her visit became known to the Jolly King, who hastily made his way to the building. They met. The Prlncesß, seeing King Oscar, has tily concealed her face beh|nd her veil. The King expressed a hope that his chance renco-tre might not be considered a brer-h of the rules of etiquette. No reply came from the Princess, as she supposed not to speak to any man. but It Is said that the King was act rded a glimpse of the fair lady's coo 'fenaoce. NEW YORK NOTES. Sliding Elevator*—Gotham's Pride—* Why the Tax Roll is Low, Etc. (New York Correspondence.) The general manager of the Man hattan "L" haa asked for an estimate of the cost of 100 Inclined elevators to l>e substituted for the stairways which now lead to the stations of the Manhattan road. Plans, specifications and an estimate of the cost of this Im provement are now before the officials of the road. The estimated cost Is about $2,10,000. Each of the proposed elevators will have a carrying capacity of 3,000 pas sengers an hour. The Inclined elevat ors will be run on the endless chain principle, and the power will be fur nished by small electric motors placed 111 the stations. New Yorkers have already begun to pick the bnscball pennant winners. Of coiirye they name the home team. Thus far In the season they are hap py with Amos Rusle, the great pitch er, In the box. But the game Is young yet. The attendance at the home games Is phenomenally large. But why should it not be, with 3,000,000 to draw from? • '• The low state tax rate for 1000, 1.06 mills—the lowest since 1856 Is largely due to the Increase In the collateral Inheritance tax collected. To this In crease the estate of tisatge Smith, for merly of New York Of) Chicago, but late of London, contributed largely. Mr. Smith had securities In New York State valued at $12,006,070, and on this the state collected a tax of $2,036,- 582. By paying the tax within a speet (Amos Kusie just as he has delivered the ball.) fled time the estate procured a reduc tion, and so the tax paid amounted to $1,034,753. The Smith estate In this state consisted principally of railroad holdings and Industrials. Rome Idea of the enormous wealth of Mr. Smith may be bud not only from the large tax his estate paid here, but from the tax collected on his holdings in England. The English Government collected from the estate over $5,000,000. Bpeuklug of the tax, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, said In the House of Commons on March 3: * "This person, however unwilling, hns contributed to the exchequer more than the cost of an lronelnd." The Smith estate tax Is the largest ever pnld Into the treasury of New York. On the disposition of some thirty odd million dollars by direct bequest In the will of Cornellns Van derbllt the state received $320,000. The tax paid in this state by the Smith estate Is net the only money that tho country wid receive from It. It has been estimated that the estate will make the Ifn ; !ed States Govern ment $5,000,000 richer. There Is a special war tax, framed In 1808, after the outbreak of the war with Spain, that applies to the trans fer of estates. lindcr Its provisions, where there are no children left by the dccensed, hut children of a broth er or sister who come Into possession, and the total value of the estate Is more than $1,000,000, the government has a clear right to collect $4.00 for each SIOO of the clear value of such Interest. The people's singing classes, under the leadership of Fruuk Dararosch, hove set a movement on foot to erect a |2,000,000 temple of music. The first step was the incorporation of the American lußtltutc of Music. Tho building will be designed especially for singing. It will hold 8,000 per sons. Members of the classes will contribute ten cents a week each for the building fund, and a number of wealthy men have assured them of $20,000. Public subscriptions are to be called for. fltc fund for the widow of General Guy V. Henry grows, but not half as rapidly as It should. I knew General Henry well In Porto Rico. There, al though a sick man, be stuck to duty and to justice, and the natives held him In the highest esteem. If the widow of General latwton deserved SIOO,OOO as a gift of the people—and she did—the widow of the gallant General Henry should bare an equal ■urn. THE SCRAP BAG. Cotton soaked In peppermint oil ha# been found to be effective In getting rid of mice. New contracts with the United States Government allow army Bur geons pay during authorized absences. The Paris exposition has the largest theatre in the world, accommodating 12,000 to 10,000 persona. In no other country a century ago were women more completely on an equality with men than In South Af rica. The family of the late General Gor don protest in a London paper against the collection of money for their sup port. The British Empire Is forty time# larger than the German Empire, and sixteen times larger than all the French dominions. Special bells are now being made for automobiles. They can be attached to the footboard and can be reached by the foot of the operator. Lady Georgian# Grey, daughter of the Reform Minister, Earl Grey, en tered on her one-hundredth year not long ago, apparently In good health. Physicians are not In great demand In Brazil. They are well paid, but their life is a hard one, as they often have to ride all day to reach a patient. The English speaking people num ber at the present time 116,000,000, while those speaking French total 58,- 000,000, or exactly half the English Bpeaking people. Dr. Martlneau said, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday: "I have so many friends In both worlds that I know not whether to wish to stay or depart." The ninety Senators of the United Sta-tes, whose salaries aggregate $460.. 000, are Waited upon by a force of 300 employees, with aggregate salaries of $510,000. The next Vermont Legislature will be asked to appropriate money for a statute of Justin 8. Morrill, to be placed in the statuary hail of the Cap itol at Washington. A picture by Slsley, " The Flood," which was sold by the artist in 1876 for $8 and resold at a public sale in Bordeaux In 1880 for $lB, was sold once more In Paris recently for $8,600. Mr. Stratton, of Cripple Creek, Colo., thinks he has made the mistake of his life in selling his gold mine for $10,000,- 000. Still, at those figures. It is hardly the thing to give one pain. Rev. A. B. Church, pastor of the Unlversallst Church at Akron, 0., urges the doing away with coffins, and says the dead should be Interred with only a shroud wrapped around them. An agent for the American Bible So ciety says that the first book printed In Minnesota was a Bible. It was printed In 1836, about thirteen years before the first issue of a newspaper at St. Paul. Helen M. Francis, three years and eight months old, has arrived safely at Stroud, Okla. T.. after having trav eled from New York city without es cort other than the trainmen to whose care she had been committed. For fancy dress gayeties In England young women are adopting as novel ties, in hotror of soldiers at the front, what are known as " kahki" and "Union Jack" costumes, which are said to be picturesue, if not graceful. Several new ten-inch guns, mounted on disappearing carriages, have been placed in the psrf.ncatlons guarding San Francisco harbor. Experts say the harbor is now proof against any thing that may try to steam into it. Henry T. Oxnard, the Sugar Trust millionaire, who is credited with hav ing succeeded In forcing congressmen to enact a bill Imposing a tariff on im ports from Porto Rico, Is one of the shrewdest lobbyists ever seen in Wash ington. SOME PEOPLE. Vj' Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister at Washington, is strictly up to date. He has long been an ewpert wheelman, and now he has ordered an automo bile. Ex-Senator Washburne, of Minne sota, has made a handsome fortune in North Dakota land. He was pre viously worth about $8,000,000, which may account for the fact that his lat est success has not turned his head. Consul Thomas E. Heenan, who has been stationed at Odessa, Russia, for a number of years, Is on his way to his old home In Philadelphia, on leave of absence. Mr Heenan Is recognized as one of the most efficient consuls In the United States service, and has held his place under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Like Prof. Agasslz, the late Congress man Rland, of Missouri, was "always too busy to make money." It is un derstood that the sole hope his widow has of properly curing for her family resta in the profits to be made on a book on his life, which is now being prepared. At the time of his death Mr. Bland owned a fruit farm, but several years Will elapse before It can be made productive. Thatcher R. C. Croweii, who removed from Boston to North Dakota a few years ago, has taught the farmers of that state a valuable lesson. He has established flax mills in various parts of the state and shown the farmers that straw which they formerly burned in the field is worth $3 a ton at the flax mill. WIT OR WIBDOM. Learning and wisdom don't always travel hand in hand. A man of wealth Is never a crank he's merely eccentric, Some people should take mors pains to conceal what they know. The only kind of fruit Noah had in the ark was preserved pairs. Brains is the lawyer's Btock In trade, apd he sells them by the case. Many of the words that burn are taken from the editor's waste basket. About two-thirds of a man's so called friends would fall to stand the tsst. When a man Jumps at conclusions he doesn't always light where he ex pected to. The only material difference between a cold and the grip Is In the doctor's bill. There is a period In every boy's life prior to which he can't be put to sleep at night, and after which It's difficult to get him up in the morning.—Chi cago News. MI pill He Makes the Quickest Finan cial Recovery on Record, GOOD TRUST ORGANIZER William H. Moore Pay* $5,000,000 In Debts and Wlna a Fortune of $lO,- 000,000 In Five Years—Wall Street Wonders What He Will Do Next. -W. H. Moore Is the necromancer of corporations. The Match Trust, the "Cracker" Trust, the Strawboard Trust, the Steel Trust, the Tin Plate Trust, and other trustß were the crea tions of his brain, and he has before blm a country full of trust possibil ities. Men In Wall street are now waiting to hear that another trust and a groat one is under way. As an organizer and financial di rector of great industrial combina tions Judge Moore, who 1b one of the latest additions to New York's colony of Chicago millionaires, will probably always be better known than as a lawyer, but it was due to his knowl edge of the corporation laws of many States that he was able to coalesce millions of dollars of the capital of great industries Into great trade and manufacturing combinations. Added to his knowledge of corporation law he possesses the merchant sense to a marvellous degree. He Juggles with millions of dollars as other men do with thosuands. All his undertakings have reached Into the millions, and his profits are numbered In like sums. He has had the rare distinction of failing for $5,000,000. But that was nothing to this wizard of money, for before four years bad passed he was out of debt and $10,000,000 ahead of the game. It takes a financier to do that.. And through it all not a smirch has been put upon hlB good name. One of the first industries to attract bis attention was match manufactur ing, In which, while the Diamond Match Company was the leader, there was great competition. In 1889 he suc ceeded in consolidating nearly all of the match interests under a single control, which was run on Standard Oil principles as nearly as possible and which opposed competition wher ever It found It. It was through speculating In the stock of the Dia mond Match Company that the Moore brothers lost $5,000,000 and went Into debt for $5,000,000 more. Besides the Diamond Match Com pany Judge Moore succeeded in or ganizing what was known as the Cracker Trust, or the New York Blß cult Company, the American Straw board Company and the National Steel Company. The latter, his greatest achievement, was completed February 7, 1889. It embraces tho National Steel Company, the American Tin Plate Company, the American Steel Hoop Company and the American Sheet Steel Company. This organiza tion took In the leading steel mills of the country except the Carnegie In terests, and represents capitalization of many millions of dollars. In 1898 the Moores had promoted the National Biscuit Company, which brought them a net profit of $2,000,000,%nd after the organisation of the steel companies their fees for their services had amounted to $10,000,000. These cor porations, With the Strawboard Trust, which was not as successful as the others, are known as the "Moore group," and represent an aggregate capitalisation of $225,000,000. In November, 1899, William H. Moore went to New York, and a month later bought the house then being built by W. E. D. Stokes at No. 4 East Fifty-fourth street, adjoining Fifth avenue, and the residence of Henry M. Flagler, Thl* was evidence of his permanent residence In New Fork, and something startling was looked for In the Interests that he represented. The Stokes house cost him $325,000. Until the house was finished, In March, he lived at the Holland House, and was one of its most Inconspicuous guests. His fifty fourth street house Is a five story Am erican basement structure, on ground S feet front and 100 feet deep. It has a cut stone front, solid marble stair ways, and Is well lighted and ven tilated, having windows on three sides. Manner*. The Boßton mamma was thoroughly out of patience. "Thoreau," she exclaimed, shaking her three-year-old son until his out side pair or glasses fell off, "how often must I tell you not to devour books w(th your elbows on the table!" To have a child who is deficient In manners, Is, In some towns, as sharp, U not sharper, than* a serpent's tooth. MARKS AT GETTYSBURG. The Finest Arranged Military Ceme tery In the World. (Gettysburg Correspondence.) Since the first organized effort was made to preserve the Gettysburg battlefield, almost $2,000,000 has been expended in the object by the govern ment and the various military organi zations. Of this amount the national government has contributed $361,- 910.70, and a large part of the re mainder was appropriated for the pur pose of erecting monuments and markers by the various states whose troops were engaged In the battle. The work has been admirably carried on until now the scene of the " High Water Mark of the Rebellion" Is Judged to be the finest marked battle field in the world. Its many miles of fine roads add greatly to the visitor's comfort while studying the details of the fight. A number of new avenues have been laid out, but not finished, which will increase the value of the field to the student of history, so that the request of the National Military Pork Commission for an appropriation from Congress of not less than SIOO,- 000 does not seem excessive. Briefly gumming tt up, the work Of the Battlefield Eommlsslon during the last year consisted In the building of Telford avenue, one and one-tbird miles long, nlong the battle lines of the First Army Corps on the Held of the first day's battle; the addition of 1,100 feet of Sickles avenue; the par tial construction of an avenue from Spangler's Spring around the south western slope and base of Culp's Hill; the placing of a large number of guns and markers showing the position of the Union and Confederate batteries and the walling and marking of sev eral small springs which were used by both armies during the battle. Be sides this, the commission linda force of incn at work all summer caring for the different parts of the field keeping the grass cut around the monuments, the underbrush cleared from the woodland, rebuilding the stone walls ÜBed as brcnstworkg, sod ding the embankments along the ave nues and in other ways keeping the field in first-class condition. Of the money appropriated by the {ovemment since the Battlefield Com mission has been In charge, the fol lowing amounts were received in the various years: 1887, $2,802.17; 1893, $25,000; 1804, $50,000; 1895, $75,000; In 1800, 1807 and 1898, $50,000 was ap propriated, and In 1809, $00,922.50. The total amount of $361,916.79, which Includes Incidental moneys received by the commission, was expended as follows: Compensation of commission ers, $55,193.65; mileage of commis sioners, $5,072.65; cost of lands icqulrcd by purchase, $21,657.52; cost jf roadways, supplies, lalior, rent, etc., $263,025; unexpended balance, $16,- 962.70. According to the anminl report ot the commission, the average cost ot the avenues was $8,582.08 per mile, which, In view of the durable manner In which they are built, Is considered moderate. The 517.08 acres of land bought since the commission has been In control cost on an average of $41.83 an acre. In a number of iustauces the price paid was as high as $l2O an acre, while In some cases small por tions of land were donated or sold at a nominal num. The commission has experienced little trouble In securing most of the land, but a portion to be used for construction of the Confed erate avenue has been In litigation for several years. Concerning this the commission's report says: "The proceedings begun by us three yearn ago by the direction of the Sec retary of War, In the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to acquire by condemnation five tracts of land on Seminary Ridge, embracing two miles of the Confederate battle line of the second and third days, is not yet concluded. The Jury of view made their awnrd two and one-half years ago. The defendants appealed to court In term, where, after much delay caused by them. It was tried and a verdict rendered last December very liberal for them. They availed themselves of the six months allowed for appeal, and then carried the case to the United States Court of Appeals. The completion of this avenue will open up an entirely new part of the field." A much approved work of the com mission Is the marking of the position of the regular Union and Confederate batteries, usually by two guns of the same calibre and class as those which constituted the battery, and also by large Iron tablets supported on Iron pillars nnd bearing appropriate In scriptions. The commission has al ready mounted 207 guns. The Union lines have nearly all been marked with monuments showing the posi tions of the various brigades, divisions nnd regiments engaged, but there are only two monuments on the entire field showing where Confederate regi ments fought. Others will be placed as soon as the land Is secured, Macaulay the Wit. During the time when Dord Disraeli was startling sober Englishmen by his eccentricities of dress, Lord Macau lay, that was do be, was electrifying his dull-witted contsltuents by bis witty sallies and repartee. Having been defeated In 1847, he ran again for Parliament In 1852. For a change he was she popular candidate. One dny, while standing on the hustings, side by side with his opponent, he wns violently struck by a dead cat. The man who threw It Immediately apologized, saying be had meant the cat for bis opponent. " Indeed," said Macaulay, " then I wish you bad meant It for roe and struck him."— Collier's Weefclfc L . . ~ The Tribune Is The Leading Newspaper In Freeland! At the subscrip tion price of $1.50 per year the Tribune costs its readers less than one cent a copy. Think of that! Less than one cent a copy! And for that you get all the local news, truthfully reported and carefully written up. Besides all the local news, the Tri bune gives the news of the world in a con densed form. Thus the busy workman can keep in formed as to what is going on in the world without buying any other paper. The Tribune- is essentially a newspa per for the home cir cle. You can read it yourself and then turn it over to your chil dren without fear of putting anything ob jectionable into their hands. Order It from The Carriers or from The Office.
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