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•y.T f jprv-r \fr - jr * ' | ». - <*" A2#" ~ V- * ' T» 1 , ~ p*'_ t H mmm S~. n.VCTfM;, A>_1 _j.d " RAILROADS SEE TRAFFIC BOOM. Expect Big Business Revival This Fall and Prepare for Rush Sultan to Hie 1 lid ecapitate Astrologer our By WILLARD W. GARRISON Soothsayer Gets In Bad with the Stars and Is Now in Jail ise Sage Will Offer Up His Head as New Year's Gift to Turkey's Highest Potentate--Recital of the Country's Trials and Tribulations-- Some High Officials Flee--Others Are Jailed Before They Can Escape -- How His Majesty Feels 2 A b o u t t h e R e g a l I Distress. j V / X C O U R T A S ­ TROLOGER AB­ DUL HTDA'S New Years of­ fering to the sultan of Tin- key will be the former's head. This is the latest bit of wireless news from the im­ perial palace at Con stantinople. and it is vouched lor by Lord High Guardian of His Maj jesty's Wearing Apparel Mafid Mo hammed, who whispered the words across the plaza to a tall blonde lady who was interested in stars before they t&rust Huda into jail. It all came about in this manner: At a recent star chamber session between his majesty and the court astrologer. Huda informed the sultan that as far as he could discern by daylight the orbs of the universe were :«• their correct positions, thus lending security to the monarch. A few days later the Young Turks started revolution. A few days after that the sultan was compelled to proclaim that the equal- rigtrts constitution of 1876 would again be in force. This he did with one > KlfSSi •V <»••>-• I Sr.*"-:-* i» t M Yhtm mm PALACE OF THE SULTAN CONSTANTINOPLE. ABDUL HUDA. eye pinned upon the threat that the empire would be disrupted by the mal­ contents. Then he fired the cabinet. And appointed a new one. Finally a minor palace official at­ tempted to locate his majesty's vitals between the ruffles of the latter"s coat of mall. ISach day as his majesty smoked his long pipe, dismissed these disturbances by a new shifting motion, the impres­ sion began to gain strength with him that all was not serene. The use of the word serene in his thoughts immediately recalled the star predictions of Abdul Huda, but then no better star-gazer was to be found in the empire, for had not the imperial guardian of the Turkish empire tested him many times and found that Ab­ dul's predictions were always true"' He had. Then mentally the sultan went over what his astrologer had told him only the Friday previous. Mars, the star which portended for war, was gradually fading away, and Huda had also said that within a few weeks there would probably be no Mars. The big dipper, suggestive of the horn of plenty, was brighter than ever. It wa's true, for had not Huda in all his wise raving said it? Mercury, the swift one, whose ex­ istence was a memory of work, was soon to go into a perpetual total eclipse, so had Abdul said. Htida's inside reasoning had also de­ picted the eventual union between Jupiter and Venus, which, of course, augured well for friends of the sultan. Surely, then, there was no cause for trouble, the ruler soliloquized to him­ self. He paused and pondered and • then lit up with a new kind of to­ bacco. Fifteen minute* elapsed. "Ha, I see It all," he whispered to the royal fox terrier. "Huda's in bad with the stars." Then in a loud voice: "Corporal of the Imperial guard, front!" In came the trusty band, weapons in hand. "Hunt up Abdul Huda, royal astrolo­ ger, and bring him hence," ordered his majesty. Within a few minutes, Huda, his trunk packed for bis vacation, was ushered into the regal presence, well knowing that the signs had been switched under his eyes. "Off with his head!" shouted the sultan, rising from the divan. Fifteen brown forearms pulled 15 shining sabers and were ready to de­ liver the fatal stroke with the same regularity that governs up-to-date mel­ odrama. "Stay, slaves," quoth his highness, "I would fain give him a worse pun­ ishment before I am ready to deprive him of what little gray matter there may be beneath that bald pate. To the dungeon with him." The day's routine over, the sultan re-seated himself upon the divan and thought of what had best be done. Finally he decided that there could be no place just like jail as a punish­ ment, and so Huda remained there. However, the story goes, the former student of the stars will offer up his head on New Year's day as his sacri­ fice for getting into the evil graces of the stars. Previously everything had' looked splendid to the monarch. The Young Turks had not objected to his harem until Huda got in bad with the planets and many of that party had promised to leave ihe country rather than be called to purgatory by decapitation. Now all was changed. It certainly must have been the star expert, the ruler mused to himself. His staunch- est regiments were constantly desert­ ing him, the Young Turks were coming closer to his palace In a menacing manner, despite the fact that the con­ stitution had been granted. Would they never be satisfied with what was due any respectable slave? They were getting control of nearly every branclf of the government and now it was necessary to discharge his own ministry because they were polluted with ideas of the party which he wished had never been devised by his enemies. As each step in this fearful condi­ tion of things came to his mind his royal highness decided that it looked darker for Abdul Hilda's head and also rather dark for Abdul Second's safety, the latter being the sultan himself. There was no one else to blame it on except the astrologer. Had not his plea of sickness when other nations pressed him for the return of their loans, always been sufficient to quell them? It had, and he could see no other reason for the status than by re­ turning to his original reason. If things went wrong in this man­ ner Huda must have been in league with the palace camarilla. A double tap at a secret bell, an order shouted down the speaking tube and the officials of the palace camaril­ la were pinched. This retinue included Riza Pasha, the former minister of war, and Rag- hib Pasha, one of the justly exalted and highly honored court chamber­ lains. Because he -considered the dig­ nity of his position Raghib barricaded himself within his cyclone cellar a few plazas from the royal mansion and prepared to sell his life as dearly as possible. He opened fire on the police, but his ammunition soon gave out and the minions of the law es­ corted him into the royal presence, who meted out 30 days and costs in the royal dungeon. Because the court soothsayer's re­ port had been doctored, the sultan set about to corral the entire body of hangers-on, who daily loafed about the court. This done he issued notice that parliament, representing the people, would be held in the fall. He had to issue the notice himself, for the former power behind the throne--Achmed Izzet Pasha, his sec­ retary--smelling the trouble by a far better method than that which the astrologer possessed, skipped the coun­ try and a few days later was reported in the United States. Then in view of the new order of things within his realm, Abdul II de­ cided to call home his ambassadors at foreign capitals. Hence not long ago we read in press dispatches that Mehmed All Bey had been recalled from Washington and a successor ap­ pointed. The Turk recalled from the national capital is no other than the father of the missing secretary, and as a consequence it was expected that the pair would connive together as to the best mode of procedure in the present case, for both might be made a part of the consignment of corpses which the sultan had billed for tHe morgue on New Year's day. Thus by the foregoing will be seen that things are in a bad way in Turkey, and despite the fact that they cheer the sultan outside of the palace until he has to empty the court water pitch- E "Power Behind the Throne" Gone and the Monarch IsCom- elled to Dictate is Own "Copy"-- Cheering of the Mul­ titude Outside the Royal Palace Greatly Disturbs the Ruler- Granting of Constitu­ tion of 1876 Is Great Victory for Young Turks Party--Other Events in Revolution of Form of Government er upon them so that he may sleep in peace, many of the tall Turkish minds have announced that they "are going away from here, never again to re­ turn." Achmed Izzet Pasha's absence was told by cable from Constantinople, but the source would not be divulged,, by the wise heads which gleaned the news. A cable stated that Izzet Pasha, as he is more familia|ly known, went on board of a steamship near Constantinople and did not return. It was believed by those who have had the news from the Turkish capital that Izzet Pasha took passage for this country, where it was possible to find a safe asylum while political affairs in Turkey are adjusting themselves. For the last year at least Izzet Pasha had been a power at the palace of the sultan. And the cause of all this trouble, ac­ cording to those who sympathize with his majesty, is none other than Huda himself. Therefore he is pining away the idle hours in the jail's solitary con­ finement pen, playing solitaire with the covers from Turkish cigarette boxes, which the guard shoves to­ ward him with his manna and water twice a day. The only solace which he had on first entering the jail was that within two months he would have a full pack of cstrds for they furnished ft Western railroads hare their equip* ment in perfect order for the handling of business and the general managers of the roads west of the Missouri river are all expecting a heavy traffic this fall, says an Omaha dispatch to the New York Herald. Business is stead­ ily progressing In both freight and passenger lines, and from every indi­ cation this fall will be oHe of the busiest seasons the western road* have ever had. "Let the business come, and come with a rush. The western roads are ready for it and expect it," is the com­ bined expression of the general man­ agers of Union Pacific, Burlington and Northwestern railroads. General Manager Mohler of the Uni(Jn Pacific says: "We are antici­ pating an increase in business and we are prepared to handle it. We have our equipment in such shape that we are prepared for the fall rush. We have maintained a large force of men in the shops and have been working on our equipment until everything is in first-class order. The tremendous crops which are »pw maturing in Union Pacific territory guarantee our road a business to its capacity for the coming fall and winter." George W. Holdrege, general mana­ ger of the Burlington lines west of the Missouri river, says: "This talk about letting the rolling stock Ton down in order to save expenses is all bosh. We have maintained a large force of otir repairers all the time, and our equip­ ment is in first-class shape. The Bur­ lington has a few bad order cars, but we are in shape to turn them out as fast as wewwant them, and we expect to need them soon, every one of them. "Stock shipments are already heavy and will be heavier from our territory. The heavy crops of corn, wheat and oats which everything indicates will be raised in Nebraska and our terri­ tory this year gives us the promise of all the business we can haudle." General Manager Walter of the Northwestern lines west of the Mis­ souri, says: "Instead of the North- i western line retrenching in the matter of car equipment, we have done just ' the opposite. We have added to our j rolling stock and we have taken ad- j vantage of the dull times to get our | cars, both freight and passenger, in \ the very best possible condition in | anticipation of the time when they j would all be needed, just as we always I need them when crops are good." ACCOUNTS OP HAPPENINGS ILLINOIS FOR A WEEK. ARRESTS PASTOR; WAR ON Alleged Wife Beater Accuses Peace maker--Town of Worden Di­ vides Over Fight Against Minister. Worden.--The town of Worden was [ bitterly divided over the recent ar- | rest of Rev. Curwein Henley, pastor i of the Worden Methodist church, on a charge of disturbing the peace, and I over a damage suit filed against him at the same time. The disturbance case ended in the pastor's discharge and the suit, in which George Vesper, one of the minister's neighbors, charged defamation of character, was | withdrawn about the same time. But • the controversy growing out of the case raged in the town. Rev. Mr. Henley has been a leader in the fight, thus far an unsuccessful fight, on the ' saloons. He considers this the true explanation of his recent troubles, ! which caused him seriously to consid- ' er requesting a transfer to some other | field. While on the lawn in front of • his home the minister heard sounds | from Vesper's home which caused him to think that Mrs. Vesper needed help. Several men were standing at a near- by corner and Pastor Henley called to j them: "Get a policeman. George Ves­ per is beating his wife." The sounds next door ceased, no policeman came, and the neighbors did not venture upon Vesper's premises. But the next day a policeman did call on the min­ ister and arrested him on Vesper's complaint for disturbing the peace. BARS WIDOW FROM BIER. READY FOR ALL CONTINGENCIES. English Organization Will Against Anything. Insure m Insurance against all sorts of pos­ sible contingencies is common in Eng­ land. London merchants who expected to do a large trade during the cele­ bration of Queen Victoria's jubilee took out policies on her life to save them from loss in case she died be­ fore the celebration, and in the same way they insured the life of King Ed­ ward in anticipation of his corona­ tion, for which they had provided. The London Lloyd's, which issued the poli­ cies, will insure against the birth of twins, and not long ago they insured a money-fender against loss which would arise if one of his clients mo­ lested his mother-in-law. The woman had willed $100,000 to her son-in-law, on condition that he let her alone. The man wished to anticipate the woman's death, and asked the money-lender to advance him $80,000 on his interest in the will. He agreed to do it, and took out the policy to protect himself from loss.--Youth's Companion. Law Aids Peoria Dentist's Parents In Keeping Woman from Funeral. • Peoria.--Because they thought she was not the legal wife of their son, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Covington had two policemen an<l Sheriff Hines guard the funeral services and grave of Dr. Charles Covington, a dentist, who died several days ago from tuberculosis, to keep Mrs. Alice Covington from placing flowers on his casket and grave. The young widow, who is a cultured southern girl, claims she married the doctor three years ago in a small Kentucky town, but de­ clines to state what place. She came here recently to be near Iter husband during his illness. When he died the parents got possession of the body and, with the aid of the law, forced Mrs. Covington to keep away from the services. Double Funeral Held. Edinburg.--Two thousand persons gathered here to attend the double funeral of Elmer E. and Ben F. Wola- ver, who carried out a suicide pact by ending their lives in the Sangamon river. So great was the cortege that fully 800 could not find room in the M. E. church, where the simple fu­ neral rites were held. Try to Blow Up Thresher. Sterling.--Indignant farmers investi­ gated an attempt to blow up Chris. Barth's thresher, an infernal machine being found in a bundle of oats which was just about to be fed into the sep­ arator. Twenty men w^re working around the machine when the startling discovery was made. IZZETT PASHA. him a box of cigarettes with each meal. That is, his friends did. For they provide his luxuries, while the actual bodily necessities are given by the ruler himself. However, let it be said that the as­ trologer does not know of his fate, and he probably will not until the time comes for him to be led out to sac­ rifice his star filled cranium to the art which he has studied throughout his 49 years. As Turks go he is a young man still, and being unmarried there probablj will be few who mourn him. His only acquaintances were court officials, and they had little love for him for the reason that he would at every oppor­ tunity take their predictions from their mouths and turning them into magic Turkish words return them to the sultan as sayings from the Zodiac. Put Blame in Right Place. Bachelors are fond of talking about the extravagance of women and giving that as the excuse tor their not mar­ rying while they know in their hearts that there are lots of women whom they might marry who are not extrav­ agant, as regards clothes at least. But these women they look upon as dowdies, and don't want them for life partners, which goes to show that it is the extravagance of the bachelor that reacts and makes extravagant women.--Exchange. The Official Mind. The government requires 43,925 quarts of writing fluid (recent sta­ tistics) simply because when fhe gov­ ernment wants to tell a man--say, an examination candidate--to sit down at his desk, it says not "Pray be seated," but "The candidate (or candidates) is (or are) requested and commanded to take (or adopt) his (or her) seat (or seats) at the table (or tables) with his (or her) pen (or pens) la his (or her) hand (or hands)."--The London Daily Mirror. ABDUL HAMID, II. Sultan of Turkey. Large Chinese Import. England sends to China every year 6,000,000 pounds of condensed milk and 6,000,000 pounds of biscuits. Diving for a Locomotive. Sometimes a diversion in the cus­ tomary work of recovering sunken property would occur. It was a Ipco- motive on one occasion; she had at­ tempted to cross a trestle and had toppled over in 30 feet of water bot­ tomed by mud. "Get her up?" said Capt. Scott. "Certainly. Where'll I put her?" "Back on the rails,-' said the man­ ager, with a laugh at the impossibility of the task. "All right; she'll be there in the mornin' "--and she was. It was but the work of half a day for Capt. Scott to rig up a pair of sheer poles, drop beside in his diving dress, pass some heavy chains under the boiler and between her axles, hook a block into a ring, take a turn on a hoisting engine aboard his wrecking tug, open a steam cylinder--and up she came. To lower her gently to the rails and wash her clean of the mud with a nozzle ^attached to the hose of his steam pump was the last service. "There," he said, when she was scrubbed clean, "now git a fire under her and pull her out; she's in my way."--F. Hopkinson Smith, Every^ body's Magazine. j Boy Convicted of Murder. Metropolis.--Ernest Rushing, aged i 18 years, was found guilty in the cir- [ cuit court of the murder of Bert Mc- Henry last""*Christmas, and was given | 14 years in the penitentiary. This is j the second trial of this cast, the jury i disagreeing in the first. Oil Find at Sandoval. Sandoval.--In the Junction City mine, south of here, a drip is flowing ten gallons of a good quality of pe­ troleum daily. A company will put down a well. Options for oil are be­ ing rapidly made in the surrounding territory. Long Fast May Kill. Belleville.--Dr. Irving J. Ealgg, who gained fame by fasting 31 day* lasi winter, lay at the point of death at his home in Belleville, a marytr to science in his determination to prove his theory that fasting is a panacea for all human ills. Lincoln College Board Meets. Lincoln.--All old officers were re­ elected at a meeting of the board of managers of Lincoln college. Reports show the present endowment fund of the college to be $102,000, with an ad­ ditional $10,000 to be added in a year. Peculiar Accident Befalls Engineer. With Engineer Charles Strang lying injured alongside the track and the fireman busy on the back of the tender, the Grand Trunk flyer, east bound, ran for miles with no guiding hand at the throttle and with the 300 passengers in the coaches calmly gaz­ ing out of the windows ignorant of the fact that they were riding on a run­ away train, says a Battle Creek (Mich.) correspondent. ' Finishing his work on the tender the fireman returned to the cab to find the engineer's seat vacant. He brought the train to a stop and backed It up until the engineer was found, ly­ ing beside the track with his left arm and left leg broken, one shoulder crushed, and his skull fractured. It is supposed the engineer lost his balance in leaning from the window or gangway to look for a hot box. He was taken to Nichols' hospital here, where it was said there was a chance that he might recover. Scarlet Fever; Schools Don't Open. Abingdon.---On account of scarlet fever the board of health ordered the public schools of the city not to open. Only one death, that of Jennie Mc- Masters, has been reported up to date. Death-Bed Romance. San Jose.--A romance that had® its inception when John G. Diers lay near death in Brokaw hospital at Bloom- lngton culminated here when, in a double ceremony, Mr. Diers and M|ss Alice M. Hopping of Bloomington were married. Canada's Railroad Building. For the first decade of the twentieth century one of Canada's greatest ac­ complishments will be the completion of the dominion's second transcon­ tinental railway. The Grand Trunk has finished Its prairie section from "Winnipeg to Edmonton. From Ed­ monton to the coast, 700 miles, through the mountains, three years more will be needed. The work is ex­ ceedingly difficult and expecstfe. Hurts Kill Daum Man. Daum.--Injuries suffered when a bridge near Athensville, over which he was driving a threshing machine, collapsed, resulted in the death here of A. J. Kelley. Youth Dies While Visiting. Taylorville.--Eugene, the 16-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. I.awrence Pon- ting of Stonington, died at Nashville of inflammatory rheumatism. Eugene and his mother went to Nashville to visit and while there he took ill i<ad died. Jacksonville Asks 200 Seats. Peoria.--Two hundred Jacksonv\llo residents applied to Mayor O'Connor, to reserve seats for the delegation from that city that will attend the big Democratic meeting here. Thousands of American women m our homes are daily sacrificinjc their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neafc ana pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they ? iiifer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought, to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. It is to these faithful women that VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, ot Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say: *'I was not able to do my own work, owing to the female trouble from which I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound helped me wonderfully, and I am so wc^i that I can do as big a day's work a* I ever did. I wish every sick woraau vouid try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty yer.rs Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of •women who have been troubled with displacements, infls mmation, ulcera­ tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear­ ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges­ tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has ^raided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Danger in New York Roads. There is an average of seven car collisions a day on the steam, subway, elevated and surface railways of New York. Lewis' Single Binder cigar--richest, most satisfying smoke on the market. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria. 111. Pretty teeth are responsible for • good many smiles. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup. 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