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I. lAVEN'T YOU FELT THAT WAY? bv Maurice smiley. [avcn't you often worn goggles of blue. And seeing life's sham anil it.* shame, elt it all was a b;g scramble, and you Might as well get into the same? hat nothing much mattered but a big bunch of cash, And the man who was good was a jay. lid the whole blooming country was going to smash: Haven't you. haven't you felt that way? ^ Haven t you felt i: was liaruiy wortn wtuie Hp? To try to live up to your best? Ej^B\nd haven't you smiled a cynical smile? SgH And something way down in your breast j^BrVhispered life had a prize that was higher affSj than gold j^H\nd sweeter than fame or display? [|H!\.nd the faith that had slipped took a . brand-new hold: flpj Haven't you, haven't you felt that way? ^H\nd didn't a peace come near tfaat was far g?j And urge you to strive toward it still? ^H^nd didn't you turn your face to a star, And didn't you say: "I will!" |H&Qd weren't you stronger, and didn't you ^ The world was better, and didn't it pay jgHTo be^brave and patient and cheery and Haven't you, haven't you felt that way? jgfcj ?Collier's Weekly. Si Uncrowned Queen. By Lucile Lovell. HE two women sat face to ^ face in the green shade of ^ O Mrs. Martin's side porch, k. their feet on the same ^ wooden footstool. They sewing on a long, straight gray nt. nebody's always had to bring up Anne Leach's sewing," Mrs. as remarked, a smile broadening ce. , j couldn't expect a woman to ?ew on ner own snroua, .\iary Aiarun observed. pensively. "Not afterwards," Mrs. Thomas returned. dryly. '"Still, there ain't many that wouldn't have had something laid by besides a magenta barege and a (flowered muslin. But not Jane Anne!" "She spoke to me about it that last afternoon." said Mrs. Martin, mildly. "Said she'd been meaning for some time to sort of plan it*out; that she had* a plenty to do with, only hadn't got about it." Mrs. Thomas smiled again, underfctandingly, but not disagreeably. "Oh, yes." she said. "Jane Anne always bad 'a plenty'?plenty of everything." "After all, what we're making up twas her own cloth!" , Mrs. Martin spoke with gentle heat. 1 "You needn't snap me up so," Mrs. u.nomas saia, coouy. i oaa a son spot for Jane Anne, same's you had. DBftt you know as well as you want to that she was all airs?on nothing." "I don't know as I'd call it airy," Mrs. Martin said, with wavering defiance. "That's what I call it," retorted Mrs. fThomas. "Now take that night ten years ago. when I went over to Jane 'Anne's and .found her rocking and Booking on while Louisa Morse was putting her poor old duds into a trunk. < 44 'Louisa,' she says, 'I wouldn't put that light delaine on the bottom: it musses awful easy. It's seen its best flays, but it looks nice by lamplight, and I may want to dress up some evenings.' " 'You spea* 's if you were going nway, l says. " 'I am,' s'she. but didn't tell where. I "I bind o' wondered, same's anybody flrould, for I.knew she'd no money for traveling, and that none of her folks Lad any to give her. so finally I asked her. She didn't answer right off, and her head went down. Then she perked up. " 'My medical adviser has been telling me for a long time that I needed a change, and I've decided to take one,' 8*she. ? " 'Where are you going?' I asked. ' "She sort o' hesitated. 'I'm going to the poorhouse to-morrow,' she says, then- brightened up. 'I do hope you'll rome and see me soon,' she says. 'You'll mostj always find me, and I'd be bo glad to see you. Lucy.' m "If that wasn't airy!" challenged Mrs. Thomas. "Do you suppose anybody el3e would call going to the poor I bouse 'a change?' " ' Jane Anne could have gone to her Cousin Heraan's." Mrs. Martin said, quickly, "but." with unconscious irony, 'she preferred the poor house." "I don't blame her: Heman's wife always was a terror." Mrs. Thomas hastened to say. "I never felt above Jane 'Anne. We went to school together, and her folks were as good as anybody once. It wasn't that. But somehow she always hit my funny-bone." "She didn't hit mine." said Mrs. Martin. reddening. "What!" Mrs. Thomas' lively countenance expressed amusement and surprise. "Not when we called at the noorhonse to see her and she asked if * 7 ( we wouldn't like 'to meet* Mrs. Peterson. who had 'just arrived?' " j "Xo." "Xor that time when she said she thought a little music "would be pleasant. and had in old Joe Jennings to play 'Ye Banks aud Braes' on his mouth organ?" j "No." ' 4,Xor that afternoon when Louisa took over the blanc mange, and Jane 'Anne sent some up to that weak mindled.Seott girl, that they always kept in itbe garrec when there was visitors, with Miss Leach's compliments?' Miss <Scott was not feeling o.uite as well as . usual, she said. Now. don't you call ihat a little mite airy?" , "I call it fine manners." ^ '"So do I: too fine!" s Mary Martin raised her fine, womanly eyes to her companion's face, then Crooned them friehtened. "I admired Jane Anne?and enried her,'' sbe said, softly. "Envied her? With all you've got:" "I've sot things, but I ain't ? endowed. Jane Anno was. I'd give , <>vorytbi?g I possess if I could stand out on my front steps and ask people tn the way sbe could!" "She did make you feel kind of pleased witb yourself and everybody else." Mrs. Thomas admitted. ! They stitched on silently for a while, then Mary Martin spoke with the authority of a sby woman roused. ''If Jaiie Anno seemed airy to you." she said, "it was because you couldn't | see her without her mean surroundings. I could.'' "I never claimed to have a fancy imagination!" Mrs. Thomas retorted. "And I never knew you had." "Jane Anne was never where she'd ought to have been." Mary continued. .'Tve*always tiiougnt mat uKe as noi her rightful place in the world was filied by some woman without a single pretty way or lively thought. And she must have known all her life how much better she could have done than that other?for a woman isn't gifted with agreeableness. like hers without realizing it and longing to have it well set off. Yet she wasn't bitter or envious, but just went on as if the poorhouse was her own home and those feeble, wretched creatures the pick of the country!" Mary's voice died away in a sobbing whisper, but presently she said, "There!" in an even tone, and relinquished her hold on the gray garment. Lucy Thomas drew all its soft length into her lap and folded her hands across it. "I don't see Jan? Aune in just your colors," she said, "but I know now why 6he never touched your funnybone. And if it is as you think, and she couldn't find her way here, it's all straightened out by this time, and Jane Anne's stepped into the place she was meant to fill." "Oh. I hope so!" said Mary Martin, with tender fervor.?Youth's Companion. Mr. Meari' Bull Pup. On one particular topic a great and lasting silence has com? over W. A. Mears. The subject iu question is hi3 bull terrier. There was a time, not so very long ago, when Mr. Mears thought his particular terrier was the-most perfect specimen of canine in existence. He may think so yet. You can never tell what one is thinking when he is silent. The terrier had taken *a number of prizes at dog shows. It had also taken various and sundry vagrants by the bosom of the trousers and ushered them from Mr. Mears' premises. For alertness the dog seemed absolutely without parallel. This fact was appreciated by Mr. Mears. who had the terrier sleep at the foot of his bed to watch for unscrupulous prowler3 who might chance into the house in search of plunder. One night recently a prowler came. He got in through a window. Cautiously he stepped through the dark hallways and rooms, ransacking bureaus, nooks and crannies. Finally he came to Mr. Mears' sleeping room. Little thought he of the danger, of the alert and ferocious terrier guarding Its master and ready to sink its fangs in any one who might seek to trespass upon the sacred domain. Cautiously the burglar crept into the room and flashed his dark lantern about in the darkness until he located a pair of ample trousers, and not wishing to disturb the sleeping dog, which looked so deliciously comfortable on its master's feet, went into a near-by bathroom and extracted Mr. Mears' coin therefrom. After which the intruder left the place by the way he had entered. Thus Mr. Mears lost his confidence in his dog and his pocketbook at one fell swoop. And while he still thinks it is a pretty tolerable sort of a pup he is not in the least averse to nailing down the windows, bolting the doors and taking other precautions against burglars.?Portland Oregonian. Welcome, Nora, Jr. Miss Nora Lake, Jr., arrived in the home of the editor of the News last Saturday morning at 2.40 o'clock. Her mother's name is Nora, and we have wanted to name one of the girls, after their mother, but she has objected. For fear that we might not have another chance we this time insisted and now we have Nora Lake. Jr., and W. F1 T.nk-f* .Tr nnmpd nff-pr the liMd of the house and one after the mother. And the new arrival is one of the prettiest little girl babies that one ever saw in a week's travel, and she resembles her mother very much. Well, how time flies. If this little speck of humanity that has come into our home shall live to be twenty years old the editor of'the News will be a little over sixty years of age?an old man?and she will be the one to remain with the old folks and take c?ce of them as they sit in the chimney corner and contemplate the years that shall have made up their lives. If the new girl is as good as our other girls we shall have no regrets and will come down to the end of life with no complaints as far as our family is concerned. Children are the greatest blessings given to men and women, and we do not know what we should have done in every way? financially as well as otherwise?had this blessing been withheld from us. The mother and baby are doing nicely under the care of Mrs. Boyer, aud the little boys are just beginning to come, too. Dr. McDaiyiell attended.?Arlington (la.) News. The Inefficient Mi^rea*. The domestic employe as she is today is in part the product of inefficient, inconsiderate and indifferent employers. I have experienced all three, and* may have a choice as to which I should prefer, but the question here is not one of personal choice, but what sort of domestic employes will these differ eni sort oi employers piuuuce. Take the inefficient first, and let the girls themselves answer the question. "She don't know anything about keeping hous^: what's the use of trying to do it right?" "The idea of her givin' us orders when I know it all, and she don't know no more than a baby." "Mrs. B. thinks she can cook, but she says, 'Ann, take a little of this, an' a pinch of that, you know how; I want it to taste right!' and I don't know what she means." Under such' employers maids grow careless, contemptuous and impertinent. three very unpleasant characteristics. for which they are not wholly to blame.?Atlantic. The Finn*' Barometer. A small stone has been lodged In the British Museum; it is somewh:*t of T ?. t. 1-V .-v fl*.X a mystery. it. um> uccu uuujtru. semakuir. It Is a native oC Finland, and the Finns tell the weather by it. The explanation is that the stone changes its appearance through absorbing the moisture in the air precedic; rain, turning It black.?Chic. J ' A GIANT ELECTS This generator, one of a large numl houses in New York, develops 2700 hors of fifty-four subway cars at a speed of CAN WITHJ^DOUBLE LID. Constant Disinfection of the Garbage Receptacle. The newest thing in the way of garbage cans is one which has been designed by a Philadelphia inventor, supplied with several novel features by *1*a Ak/lyvv* /\f tha nutfit is rip >Y Ul^Xl IUC UUVl uA. vuv W??v**v ? stroyed and the germs arising from it, DISINFECTION OP THE GARBAGE OAN. which, are generally poisonous, are purified by the action of disinfectants. The can is, first of all, fitted with a double lid, one resting on the top of the can and the other on a flange a few inches below the top. While this makes it doubly difficult for the odors to escape. the entire interior of the box is constantly undergoing disinfection. The space between the two lids is utilj ized for the storage of a couple of small | tanks, designed to contain any one of the many disinfectants which are suit! able for this purpose. The tanks are [ lined with zinc, which resists the acI tion of any of these arlicles. They ' are readily filled by unscrewing a cap } and if the receptacle is about half filled | there is no possibility of the contents j being spilled. One of these tanks has | an opening leading out into the bucket | and has a direct action 011 the contents ; of the can, while the other one opens ; into the space between the two lids I aiia acts upon me air wnicn may pos! sibly Lave escaped through the first lid. | By this arrangement the only two j spaces where the elements of danger can possibly lurk are treated separateI ly, with the result that the can is abj solutely sanitary throughout. The Modern Novel. CHAPTER I. The prettiest girl you ever saw. CHAPTER II. The young man interviews her pa. CHAPTER III. A wedding grand without a flaw. CHAPTER IV. An oath?a tear?a lot of jaw. CHAPTER V. 'Tm going back home to my ma!" CHAPTER .VI. T1 ar* mo Irion ntimp rM fnrcwl hir low ?Tire Editor. I ^ ; 'v,. '"7 . " - ' " ; ' '' ~ 1' Jj ^ [ UNIQUE TROLLEY CAlt TIIAT RUI tic GENERATOR. . : )er used in the new subway power >o i>ower, or enough to propel a train forty-five miles an hour. All the Tran>rer? She Had. As a bevy of laughing girls rose to get off a street car the other day at a point where transfers are given, they were followed by a demure young woman who had been absorbed in a novel. Just before she alighted she asked tlfe conductor for a transfer, and hei thinking all the girls were of one party, gave her six. which she took without noticing and held in her hand as she stood on the corner waiting for her car. the other girls having gone on walking. When the reader got her car she took a seat and was soon iost again I in her novel. Then the conductor came up and she held out the pink slips. He took them, counted them, and then looked around with a puzzled expression. "Where are the others?" he asked. "Oh,'' replied the young woman, looking up a moment trom her book, "that's all he gave me?"?Philadelphia Record. He Diitnmted Oratory. "The late 'Jimmy' Michael," said a i Chic-agoan, "met me abroad last autumn, and we talked together about a young Welsh orator who was arousing almost incredible emotions among the Welsh people with his preaching. " 'I never heard this man preach,' I said Michael, 'but I have heard men like him. The enthusiasm they create is almost too powerful. I once listened to a passionate addrecs on charity that one of these inspired orators made, and at the address' end an old lady, with whom I was slightly acquainted, turned and borrowed $3 from me to put in the poor collection. " 'I lot her have the money, and, as it turned out afterward, she forgot both to put it in the plate and to repay !lt-' " T Pads on th? Rocking Clialr. In these days of the most up-to-date comforts and conveniences there seems to be recognition and reward awaiting for any one who can add to the gr<?at number of devices which have been already devised for the purpose of adding to our material comfort. The rocking chair was thought to be one of these, complete and thorough in itself, but now some one has discovered PAD3 OF THE CHAIR BOCEBS9. that this is not all that might be desired, and a little innovation has been made in ijts construction which may, be soon regarded.as an essential. This is a cushion tire on the rocker which has been recently made the subject of a patent granted by the Government The cushion consists of a strip of rubhnr ftimuYar in ciw>Hf\ri fin/1 aiinnlfori with two balls on each end. The rocker is groove! on its bottom surface and at each end of the groove are pockets. The balls fit into these pockets in such a maimer as to hoi'l the-rubber firmly in place. On a burglar arrested in Paris the police found a beautifully executed picture in water colors of the house he liad robbed. # srs WITHOUT TRACKS IN BERLIN. 1 ' : ; ' " ,-vv, Vi *./ The Prowling Doc* 'A dog that is seen prowling "around the sheep pasture needs rest. Nature has provided several cozy nooks about the field where its body might quietly repose, unseen and unsung. What Careful Milking TVonld Do. Careless milking is something that should not bo put up with, by any means wherever cows are kept. It has been figured out, and we have not the least doubt but what the figures are fairly accurate, that careless milking in the United States is responsible for the loss of one pound of milk and onetenth of a pound of fat per day for each cow. This was the average gained by testing 142 cow3. In commenting on this a dairy paper says that thorough milking and udder man;iulation would increase the value of the milk given by the 18,000,000 cows in the United States over present production by $100,000,000 a year. This is equal to five per cent on $2,000,000,000. That is, careful milking would increase the dairy capitalization of the country by that amount. Good Drag and Harrow. -Every farmer knows a barrow and drag are two useful farm implements. Here you will find a harrow and drag combined which has proven very useful in both sod and loose ground, and which pulverizes and levels at the same time. The one I made is to be used with^Jiree horses. It consists of three pieces 4 in. by 4 in. by 10 ft., three pieces iy> in. by 6 in. by 3 ft., two pieces 1 Yi in. by 6 in. by 3^ ft, and 31 !# ' ? ? ? i Harrow teetli. In spaciDg, put the -eeth one foot apart. In the second team begin 4 in. further In than on the first and in the third 8 in. further in than the first The harrow teeth should be placed a little backward, so that if anything catches fast it will pqll off. Give this a trial and see what it will do.?W. A. Crites, in The Epltomist. Bristles. A neighbor's way of weaning pigs is to take them away in detachments, beginning first with two or three of the plumpest, largest and strongest, then the next strongest batch, leaving the poorest ones of the litter to complete the drying off. The cases are complete and decisive. The boar ought always to be kept in a pen by himself, preferably away^from the other hogs. He should have a goodsized yard in which he can exercise. If allowed to run with the other hogs he is very likely to injure them badly. Keep him thrifty, but not too fat, or his get will be puny. /Treat him kindly, but never trust him. If well trained, he will be reasonably safe to handle, but always do this with care. Keep both yard and pen clean and dry. Be sure that he always has a warm, clean bed. Good pigs are not grown and fattened on wind and water. Good breeding and good feeding are so closely allied that they must go together. One is useless without the other. If pigs stop growing for one month or two months, you have lost all their feed for that length of time. They will have been stunted to a certain extent, and you can never regain U-i. 1A?4 wuai iii?? ueeu iuai. A sow should never have pigs before she is one year old. k Be sure that the brood sows are having enough laxative food to keep them from becoming constipated. If constipated at farrowing time, there will be cases of frenzy and consequent loss. I have had cases of fever and frenzy with sows farrowing in the early spring.?Farm Journal. Tacts About Alfalfa. Alfalfa seed weighs about sixty pounds to ibe bushel. For a hay crop, sow twenty to thirty pounds of seed per acre. For a crop of seed, sow fourteen to eighteen pounds per acre. Sow clean seed. Sow alone, without any nurse crop. The latter is often just as harmful as the weeds. Screen alfalfa seed before sowing to separate the dodder and other weed seeds. Dodder is the worst enemy of alfalfa. North of liie latitude of Washington. D. C.. sow alfalfa in the spring, as soon as the ground is warm?from the middle of April to the middle of May. Sow in drills or broadcast. i In the South and Southwest and in California sow alfalfa in spring or afctumn. Sow in drills. Do not cover the seed too deep. Alfalfa does not attain maturity until the third or fourth year: therefore, do not sow it expecting to get the best results in less time. Alfalfa grows best on a deep, sandy loam, underlaid by a loose and- permeable subsoil. It will not grow if there is an excess of water in the soil. The land must be well drained. | Alfalfa is a deep feeder. Plow land deeply. Cut for bay when the first flowers appear. If cut in full bloom, the hay will 'be woody and less nutritious. Cut for seed when th* middle clusters of seed pods are dark brown. To make alfalfa hay. cut in the forenoon and let it wilt: then rake into windrows. It should be cured in windrows and cocks, and stacked or put in barns with as little handling as possible. before the valuable leaves become too dry and brittle. It is not safe to pasture either cattle or sheep on alfalfa, as they are liable to bloat when it is fed greeu. Feed them tlie hay, or practice soiling. There is no better or cheaper way of arrowing hoes, thau to pasture them on alfalfa. One acre will furnish pasturage for from ten to twenty hogs per season. Horses can be pastured on alfalfa. Alfalfa is a perennial, a clover-like plant, with oblong-shaped leaves, and a tap root which ofteu extends elsht farTP^ I or more feet downward. The plan I grows to a height of from two to five feet, and its blossoms are purpie in color, borne in long, loose clusters. Alfalfa hay is not a complete ration. The best results are got by feeding it with corn fodder, ensilage, wheat or oat straw, or roots. Alfalfa contains large amounts of protein. Do not cut alfalfa too late in the season. It can be cut from three or four to seven or eight times in a season, and yields from a ton to a ton and a half or more at a cutting. Six to ten bushels of seed is the usual yield per acre. Keep the weeds mowed and raked off the first season, or they -will choke out the crop.?Farm Journal. . How to Care For the Sows*. I always aim to have my brood sows in fair condition at time of breedingstrong and vigorous, but not by any means too fat. The time to breed depends on each one's ability to handle the young. If you have things so arranged, I think you can have two litters a year produced profitably. In handling the brood sow I would prefer a rangy pasture, with plenty of green forage. Blue grass, timothy and clover mixed will furnish green feed the year around, except in deep snow. Sleeping quarters should be dry, well bedded and well ventilated?not too warm nor too cold. The breeder should make these sleeping quarters so no draft of wind will be on the young, for they will chill quickly. A good feed is whole oats fed on floor, a swill of shorts and low grade flour in the morning, corn and the same kind of swill in the evening. The swill should be mixed with warm wafer during the winter. Taking the gilt as a prospective brood sow, her growth should be steady and uninterrupted, with r.lways enough meat on her to make her look smooth but never fat. Then after maturity she as well as the matured sow should be kept in a steady gaining condition until farrowing time, when she should be in good flesh, but yet active, vigorous and robust?not fat, lazy and sluggish. Here is wher? the importance of exercise reveals itself, in working down the useless, harmful fat, and building up instead the muscle, bone and sinew which are the real essence. As the sow is at farrowing time so will her litter be.* See that the sow has plenty of exercise. In colder days, when snow is deep and they cannot range with profit in search of a bit of grass, give them a couple of hours daily in the cattle yardd (or their corn ration, or haul the barn manure in a pile in the far corner of the pasture, or spread it on the grass to let them work over it. Work is what they need. Another way is to give them their corn ration as far from sleeping quarters as possible. Give them a corn stalk field to range in, or let them run out of their lots about the yards. Do anything you like, but give them exercise. About three weeks before farrowing, begin to feed a little oil meal in their swill. Begin with a tablespoonful, and gradually increase until one;haIf teacupful daily for each sow is fed. It is a good feed, and besides it keeps the bowels free and easy. It also helps to make farrowing easy. By following this rule one will not require the use of the forceps or other means of assistance. But remember that overfeeding of oil meal will cause abortion. Always handle the sow carefully and quietly. Never allow her to fear a kick or a cufl at your approach. Gain her confidence, ana Keep n, 07 genue treatment. It will enable you to handle her and her pigs quietly and pleasantly. The hurdle has taken the place of the pitchfork or club. Always use the hurdle when separating the sows, and keep your temper. Never get a sow excited or wild. Keep cool, and keep the sow cool nt the same time. A little patience is worth much, and the next time you handle her it will be much sasier. Never allow the pregnant sows to bunch up in their sleeping quarters. Never allow too many sows to pile or crowd up together. Three or four is better than a dozen or two. Do not allow them to drag over a high sill in 1 the door, or have to jump up and down 1 a high place to get into and out of their house. Farrowing dead pigs often results from these little things. Give her good care and she will be a mortgage lifter for you.?W. M. C., in Indiana Farmer. Farm Notes. A little kerosene will brighten a rusry plow. It is the solids in a cow's milk tlial determine her value. ' A good time to prune trees is jusf after they have leaved out. The value of the manure depends more upon the f?ed than upon the anitr/il. Plapt eflriy garden truck only in ground in first-class condition and well fertilized. Spring cleaning should apply to the barn and cellar as well as the rooms of the house. Give house plants as much light as possible during the day and darkness with a lower temperature at night. Scatter wood ashes in the orchard: they contain the properties most needed to make healthy trees and good fruit. Any attempt to ?rrow something thai is not well adapted to the soil increases the cost of production and lessens th( profit. Tree roots extend as far as the limbs I extend and sometimes further. On this account manure suouiu oe swuan broadcast. The greater the variety of gooe grasses in the pasture, the better foi the thrift of the stock that feeds there As especial advantage with mixed grasses is that they give a longer sea son of pasture. In order to grow small fruits sue cessfully, it is essential to have a fer tile soil. There is little danger of its being too rich. Secure healthy anc! vigorous plants. Be careful not to at low the roots to become dry in trans planting. Give clean, thorough culti vation. The preseut fashion of shoes was introduced into Euglaud iu 1633. .-(-vv t.-'- vp . r IINOit RENTS OF THE WASHINGTON. The United States Supreme Courl " A1 - + h4 amrmeu me consuiuuuuuiii,y vi hit peonage laws and declared the Thin teenth Amendment applied to acts oi individuals as well as States. . The President sent to the Senate thd nomination for United States District Judge in the District of New Jersej of Joseph Cross. The Senate in executive session confirmed the nomination of Frank H< Hitchcock, Massachusetts, to be First Assistant Postmaster-General. ^ Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has issued a warrant for $750,000 hi favor of Mansfield. McMurray & Cornish, lrwyers, residing in the Indian Territory. as fees for services rendered by , them to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. The Secretary of the Interior declined to approve the claim on the ground that it was excessive. Congress, however, directed the payment on the showing ihat it was in accordance" with the contact with the Indians. Two submarine torpedo' boats, otae x- l i.(irn *1.^ CWMk flAU ' Ill l'U3L 0?OU,UW, jlUTj vuici ?p?vv,vw? were ordered from tbe Electric Boat Company by tbe-Navy Department. v Vespasian Warner took charge of tbe Pension Office. Contracts are about to be let for tbe construction of two magnificent office buildiugs for Senators and Represent tatives. OCR ADOPTED ISLANDS. After a long discussion and several conferences tbe House of Delegates of Porto Rico insisted upon a provision in tbe civil service bill compelling all tbe present employ. : to take examinations wltb outsiders. Thhr killed tbe bill, as tbe Council steadfastly opposed tbe insertion of tbe ; provisio \. Tbe coroner's jury in Honolulu found a verdict tbat. Mrs. Stanford died from goison. administered with felonious intent1 'by some unknown person or persons. DOMESTIC. ' Counsel for Anna Valentina, now imprisoned at Hackensack, N. J., aod condemned to deatb for murder, have sought tbe intervention of the Italian I Ambassador. Led by Schwarzschiid & Sulzberger, who are said to have broken away? from the Beef Trust, independent packers .have raised a large fund to tight the trust. Sidney Adams, ?hief clerk of the gen oral delivery division qt the Baltimore (Md.> Postoffice, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to the charge of robbing the mails, and was sentenced by Judge Morris to serve three years in the Maryland Penitentiary . ' ' ? Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the murder of William M. Rice, went from Siug Sing prison to Albany, N. Y., anil was present at the session of the Court of Appeals, where argument for a reversal of judgment against him. was begun. The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill to force all companies doing a lire insurance business in tuat State to , * ^ adopt the mutual s??tem. , A plan by which the policy holders are to elect twenfy&lght of the ttftytwo directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society was adopted at a meeting of the committer ot' seven of the corporation in New York City. j Pacific Coast fishermen reported toj Washington, D. 0.. that Japanese -are poacliiug-salmon in the Bering Sea. ? The headless body of a man and tbe body of a woman, evideutly murdered, have been found in a rock fissure uear Pocatello. Idaho. The funeral service of the late A. if. Palmer, the theatrical manager, was held in New York City. The Erie Railroad announced a change in route, doing away with llie awkward curves and grade on, the . western division. Secretary Metcaif will attend theAmerican Manufacturers' Association Convention, at Atlanta, Ca., May 115. The late James C. Carter left $1,500.000, of which $200,000 was, bequeathed to Harvard university. The will of William i. Milton, of . New York, was made public at Pittsfield. Mass. The estate of $1.00p.00(> , . , V will so to Harvard University after the death of the widow. > ;" Whitelaw Reid announced his retirement as editor-iu-chief of the New York Tribuue. .i .1 T ifo. nnllnv J. en IUOUMU1U CiljUimuic uilc infill/ holders in this State were called upon L" the Crimmins committee to petition the Legislature to compel actualization of tlie society'.. The Dame of Grand Chief Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Kiiginoers. was hissed at a Central federated Union meeting in New i'ork City j when the Interborough strike was disJ cussed. A committee of bankers and business ! men has prepared a protest to Governor Higgins and the New York State Legislature against the passage of tb? proposed tax on stock transfers. ' . ' V FOREIGN. A>?i>rdliig to advices received *t Jibuti from Adis Abeba, capital of Abyssinia. Emperor Menelek has granted to the National Bank of Egypt a charter 4 1. - e ? D.tni? tor nre esraousumeni ui n ounr nana. of Abyssinia. The capital of ?2.400,000 will be contributed by llie Bank of Egypt and French and Italian bank* ers. \ Sir Purdon Clarke, in an interview specially cabled from London. Eugland. advocates studios and exhibition rooms of modern art work at museums. Another palace intrigue in Constantinople has resulted in the sudden flight of three high Ottoman officials. (.Jeus. j Ahmet Pasha and Riza Pasha, aidesj de-cauip of the Sultan, ami Arif Bey, his chamberlain. - . ' v'? The estate of the late Grand Duke Sorgius, in the Dmitrove district, near .% . Vl.wmvn' lirtt; linnii mlhtowl hv UPAS urns, ami a factory in Hip same distriet lias been burned down. The Marquis of Anglesy died at .Monte Carlo. A cousin inherits tne e? tares. which are said lo be exempt from creditors. The city of Yenij* has appointed an international committee composed o? artists and including Carl Melchers. the American painter, tor the organization of the foreign exhibits at the I :irt (.'Xlllliniou 10 lie iu;uifcui;ucu mi-n: I l>y Iviiis Vi'-'ior Eium::?i:rl on April J KivdcIi bankers derided to postpone indefinitely the issue of Use proposed ltu.vsian loan. It was reported from Caracas that President Castro hart postponed the asphalt case to uinko way for a suit t'> Annul the concession & the French Cable Company, and thai die La Guayr*. liup had been cut. % - > - - - - .... r