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CLOVER PERFUME. * .There's a thrilling, tugging feeling On each heartstring tliat 1 know, (There's a perfume in my nostriU From the fields of long ago. [There's a vision in my mem'ry faking all the world grow dim. (Taking me away back yonder tWhere us fellows used to swim. 'And the vision's central picture ? Is a laughing blue-eyed maid Standing in the rippling shallows I can see her pink toes gleaming l In the rippling stream where she, ' (With her skirts held safe from wetting. Laughs across the years at me. X can see trees we climbed in. I can see the streams we lished, II can see the log we sat on In tiiose old (fays, when we wished ffhat we two were grown up people. Gone out in the world and far; Now?the greatest grief I know of Is in knowing that we are. I would rather be back yonder. Back 'neath childhood's skies of blue ?(Than to count my wealth in millions; If I could go dancing through ITbat wee stream we loved to wade in, Climo the trees we used to climb, I would never wish to grow up, I'd be happy all the time. Comes the thrill along my heartstrings, When the clover is in bloom, {Then my nostrils catch the far-blown Tantalizing sweet perturne ffirom the fields 1 used to romp in, And I hear a lilt of glee, lAnd a maid, barefooted, blue-eyed, . Laughs across the years at me. L ' ?J. M. Lewis, in Houston Tost. Ii I $ \V \li * %4 | Two Meetings | J ' A railway station?filled with a <orowd of folk, some laughing, some iCrying, some pretending?some not. , Victoria?at 11 o'clock, and the iboat train for Dover. "Good-by, Jim, take care of yourself!" The tall girl gathered her ,"worn cloak closer round her?the Bady who held the do.or handle of the next compartment, a first-class, was xobed in sables. "I wish I were coming too!" "So do I, old lady." A handsome /man bent forward on the seat of the jthird-class carriage, and his hand Closed over her slim ungloved fingers (with a tender pressure. His blue eyes looked most suspiciously moist?but what of that? It Is not every one who can afford to be icallous. " "It seems such a long time?three (years, Jim!" the girl said again, and jthere was a break in her voice. "And It's such a chance, a mere '' "A mere chance?yes," the man jechoed; "but we must just trust to ichance, Monica; it's the only thing ko be done, dear. Keep up a good peart, because I shall be coming back in three years' time. Think of that, ittle one. Three years, perhaps tolay, this very day, you may be standng at this very station, waiting for ay train to come in; and I shall dash (out?I shall be hungering for the jsight and feel of you, darling, and {you will throw your arms around my aieck " "Jim!" the tears so bravely withheld up till now overflowed at last, <and fell on to the neat but worn Jcloak. i The lady in the furs turned at the v sound of the pain-filled tones, and Jher own voice grew a little husky as Jthe trains steamed off. I "Good-bye, Monica, my darling!" 'A moment Jater Monica Ward was standing on an empty platform, with an empty, aching heart. ? A hand touched her shoulder. ! "Can I take you anywhere?" a jpleasant, sympathetic voice said. It jwas the lady in furs. "I always think jthe first few moments are the worst afterward " "Afterward," repeated Monica ia idull tones. "Oh! afterward one gets accustomed to it," returned the other lightly, "and one wonders why one ^fclt so much. Come, will you let me flust drop you anywhere?" . It seemed all one to Monica Ward jtfhat she did, and where she went, fehe nodded, and tried to smile. "Thank you." she said, "it is very good of you to trouble yourself about a stranger " "After all?we are sisters," the other said a little dryly. "Come!" And for the next half hour Monica jbowled along in the lady's carriage, jbehind a pair of prancing chestnut Worses. She did not remember till she Btood once more in the little room iwhich looked so deserted now thai T JJim had gone, that she had nevei jfound out tho name of her friend in jneed. Ana tne nays, siippea into weeks and the weeks into months, and ai: jthe while Jim Ward, in a distanl Jcountry, was trying to court the fortune which had failed to smile on ihim in England. ?'?***? "It's due now, miss, quite due, anc I don't think it's more than a few minutes late." Monica Ward, tall and slim, witt Hhe pretty color coming and going ii (her soft cheeks, stood once more 01 .the platform awaiting the train. Suddenly there was a noise?r (puffing, panting sound, and the -trail ,was in. Monica's heart beat fast, and she ,was so excited that she could hardl: see anything in front of her. Jin ;was coming home?home . Was this Jim??this man comin? toward her with Jim's face, and ye not his face?with a rolling gait anc jineteady eyes? She shuddered; her color forsool flier cheeks, her eyes looketl fright ,ened?her feet shook so that sh< -could hardly stand. r After all, as the other woman hai said, one gets accustomed to it. Bet ,ter?far better?if he had stave* away altogether than return to he like this! Involuntarily she took a step back jward; the advancing man noticed i jU.UU net. "My pretty dear!" he cried thick 1; ?and Monica was just recoiling ii jliorrur when a man laid his arm o: [hers. "Monica!" a well-known voic paid.. __ iiiie turned?Jim. the re?l Jim 'was standing behind her smiling and ; holding out his hands. J "Monica!" he cried, 'surely you : haven t torgouen me: i And then, somehow or another, she found herself in his arms?sobbing ' and laughing in one breath out of sheer joy and relief. ' That other man!" she cried a little incoherently, "he was so like you ?that I thought it was you, Jim?" ! '"Monica!" returned her husband reproachfully, 'and that fellow was drunk! Never mind, darling," slipping her hand through his arm, '"come home?somebody has come to claim him?somebody?some poor devil of a somebody." Monica looked half fearfully across the platform. Not far away stood the man whom she had mistaken tor Jim, standing surrounded by porters, and a small crowd of gapers?a footman was urging, imploring. By his side, bravely facing them all, stood some one whom she recollected as in a dream. "Afterward, one gets accustomed to it." The words cleared Monica's brain, they echoed in her ears?the bright, panting engine throbbed to the same refrain. Ah! she remembered. It was her friend of that black day three years ago, whom she had not seen since. What chance?what irony of fate had brought them together again. "Jim," she said, suddenly. "That man over there?he won't move? ] they can't do anything with him. 11 Can't you, won't you. go over and see ! if you can get him away from those 11 gaping crowds? That's his wife? \ she was kind to me?the day you left. Ah! Jim. if it had been you!" ,1 Jim Ward needed no second bidding. With a few steady strides he reached the little group. The lady I in furs was pleading.scolding, threat' ening, but all to no purpose. | What she could not accomplish, ' Jim's strong voice and steady, auj thoritative manner did. In a few ! minutes he had escorted the traveler ' to the waiting carriage and left him , there. i Monica stood just outside the door, , and he linked her arm in his once more as they walked to the cat). | "How could I have thought it was I you, Jim?" she said in a softly happy j voice. "I'm so glad?and yet?that I day, that miserable day?I envied j her!" | They were in ths cab, and he took j her in his arms and kissed her. "But you don't, now?" he asked ! passionately. I "No, I don't, now," she answered "in tones of deep content; "I almost think?it was worth letting you go? ' to have you back again. Jim!" | And for the moment he thought so too.?Black and White. Grumbling Husbands. As the grumbling husband is practically unknown in the United States the letters which appear daily in the columns of your paper are most interesting and illuminating to an American woman. With us the man who marries takes a wife to be the partner of his joys and sorrows. Furthermore, the American wife is quite as fastidious about her food as is her husband, and would as soon resent "stewed bacon and burnt eggs," the result being that while she may not actually prepare it, she can at least direct her servants in the preparation of the meals. To the young and "Unhappy Wife," whose letter appeared in Friday's issue and whose eyes "fill with tears," I would say that tears and crinolines went out of style at about the same period in the United States, and that an American woman would feel that she was taking a mean advantage of her husband should she take refuge in tears. Don't feed your husband on delicate entrees; give him roast beef, boiled potatoes and stewed fruit. It is the menu most appreciated by the average Englishman, and it sure' ly requires no very high order ol ini telligence to cook it. Be your hus' band's equal, not his dependent, and above all things con't whine.?j . "American Woman," in London Telegraph. Misplaced Pride. "The late General Joseph Wheelev," said a Southerner, "was one of 1 the bravest men who ever lived. He was wounded three times during the Civil War and sixteen horses were ' shot dead under him. "Yet it was not his military, but his literary achievements that he ! took most pride in. He knew this ; was foolish, but he could not help itj " He said once to me, apologetically, that he was not the only man whose 1 pride was misplaced. 'He said that, in a certain engage' ment in his youth, he once heard a | private swearing and cursing most * frightfully. "Lieutenant Wheeler, as he was 1 then, went up to the private and said sternly: "Where did You learn to swear like | that?" "The private at this question Qmilofi mnHoctlv 1 " 'Ye can't learn it,' he answered. 1 'It's a gift.' " How to Tell a Horse's Character, j Horse phrenology is a recent discovery of the Royal College of Vetj erinary Surgeons of England. According to Harold Leeney, a member j of the college, it is easy to tell a horse's character by the shape of his r nose. If there is a gentle curve to t the profile and at the same time the j ears are pointed and sensitive, it is safe to depend on the animal as c gentle and at the same time high. spirited. If. on the other hand, the ^ horse has a dent in the middle of his nose, it is equally safe to set him j down as treacherous and vicious. The Roman-nosed horse is sure to be I a gooa annum lor nara worn anu r safe to drive, but he is apt to be slow. A horse with a slight concavity in the profile will be scary and ( need coaxing. A horse that droops his ears is apt ro be lazy as well as vicious. 3 ' a Under the workman's sickness in1 n + ?Q r.flfl A A A wna | duiauvc iav? ctuuui yv ,uvv,uvv u ac e i spent in the treatment of tuberculoJ sis patients iu the years 1901 to i 1900. ! The New Christian Science i t , ' j ;; 'Wi' ;vy.' *,> ..C-'"-' v-^ ' :,:S- -Ar$?- y :.m swim ' C:, Jf-1?'M } ? 5 _ ftjg ARCTIC MOTOR CYCLE SLED. George W. Wells, a a automobile expert and a man of much originality of thought, has built the machine which Walter Wellman, the Arctic Explorer, will use as a motor bicycle ; sied. I The motor and tri-car frame used j were sccured from a motor bicycle I maker, but everything else was constructed by hand under Mr. Wells. The motor is iY> horse-power. It is intended for towing solely and not for sped and therefore is geared : low. The machine can travel from two to thirty miles an hour over smooth iceThe runners used are of two pairs of Norwegian "ski," both having i seen actual service in the north on Wellman's two former trips and having been worn by Wellman him - ' // ': , ,/ ; ^fflte V:Jv? v'>i- ' # WELLMAN'S MOTOI self. The wood is therefore sea-1 soned and can be relied upon. They are reinforced, however, with sheet-' iron, underneath which are steel runners or skates. The front "ski" j are the guides; the rear ones are used to take some of the weight from the tractive or driving wheel when soft snow is encountered. Quick Way to Add (Figures. An invention of recent date is an adding device, which was designed to J assist a person in adding one or more columns of figures. It consists of a disk, which registers the tens in the columns, the latter being quickly and accurately added, without unnecessarily burdening or taxing the memory with a multiplicity of figures. Printed on the face of the disk is a series of numerals representing tens 7 1 A A? ^ y ' For Adding Columns of Figures. in consecutive order from one to twenty-six, the disk being held in the hand and rotated. In use the disk is held in the left hand, with the forefinger resting in the notch or depression represented by the nigner numeral iwemy-six m me present instance. In addino a column of figures the; tens are registered on the disk by moving the finger from one notch to the next as they appear in the process of adding, the units only being carried from one figure or group of figures to the next. For instance, if it is desired to add "eighty-nine," "ninety-seven," "six- J ty-eight" and "forty-six" one would Germany's Colonizing Business. In the last two years Germany's Southwest Africa has cost the German Government $150,000,000 and some thousands of lives lost by massacres and in course of operations to subdue the natives. It seems a good ( deal to pay for imperfect pacification [ of a territory which contains no more than 5000 European residents ana or which the combined exports amount I to no more than $2,500,000 a year. ' If the nations of the world ever become sane enough to consider modern colonization as a business proposition there will lo an international" auction at which there will be bargains for buyers.?Harper's Weekly. Terra Incognita. To begin with, said Professor H. p Mm. in his St. Louis address on the "Problems of Geography," the ground should ho cleared by wiping off the globe the words terra incognita. Such unknown parts of the earth now cling about the poles alone, and that they should do even :y. / i "Mather ClsurcSs," Boston. : 1 :v wife-a-- ' U',!' y* proceed as follows for the first column: Six and eight are fourteen; the tea Is registered on the disk by moving the finger in the first notcb and the four units carried. Four and seven are eleven; move the finger to the reccad notch and carry one. One and nine are ten; move the finger to the third notch and put down "cipher." Now, by looking at the registered three tens, so we have three to carry to the next column, and so on. Any number of columns of an/ length may be added in like manner, not more than eighteen units being {*-? fof nno flmo Gla^s 3roken by tlie Voice. It is scarcely credible, but it is a fact, that a glass can be broken by the voice. IE you'strike a thin wine glas3 while you hold it by the stern " ' i * : ' , , . .y : * * BICYCLE SLED. it will emit a certain note?in most cases a pretty deep one. On approachiug the glars r-pidly to your mouth aud shouting into it the same note as loudly as possible, the vibrations of the glass being thereby extended, it will be shivered into fragments. This used to be a favorite experiment of Lablache, the renowned singer, who would thu3 break, one after the other, as many glasses as were handed to him. IN PURSUIT OF PULAJANES. Filipino Constabulary Type. this is something of a disgrace. Many explorers would have reached thr poles long ago had it not been for want of money. Most of the leaders, if they had had more powerful ships, more coal, more stores, more dogs? ana sometimes n me/ ua.ii no.u iew*;r men?could have solved the polar problems. A million dollars judiciously spent would open the way to the North Pole; a few millions would reach the South Pole. The map oE the world ought, to be completed. Unsurveyed and unmapped territory is a danger as well as a disgracc to the country possessing it. When a map of the whole surface of the earth on the scale of one one-millionth i3 completed we may consider the residual problems as solved. ? New York Globe. Hunted Man. If a man is considered eligible and vmniff enoueh to retain anv resources of simplicity he soon finds that in the feminine society of his own class he must always be on his defense.? Vanity Fair. f -? . vf-' y liflillTE WRECKED TENNESSEE TOWN Half of Jellico Wiped Out as if Swept by a Cyclone. BODIES BURIED IN THE RUINS Exploding Car Kills Twelve and In* jures More Than 200?Damage to Property Estimated at a Million Dollars. Knoxville, Tenn.?The town of Jellico, which lies partly in Tennessee and partly in Kentucky, was all but wiped off the map at 8 o'clock a. m. by the explosion of a carload of dynamite. At least twelve persons are dead, fifty are seriously injured and more than 150 are slightly injured. The property loss will exceed $1,AAA AAA ?t/vnn1tr 1 AAA noAnlo o rj uuu,uyv/| UCrtI IJ X V V V PV/V piv U( homeless and practically every business house and factory in the town was demolished. A great hole, fifty feet deep and 100 feet across, marks the spot where the railroad car which contained the 420 cases of dynamite stood. Buildings a mile away from the explosion were shaken and some were demolished. The dead may reach twenty-five. The telegraph offices were destroyed, and but for the fact that the long distance telephone office was far from the explosion, the town would have been completely shut off from the outside world. The news was telephoned to this city within ten minutes after the explosion, which was heard for forty miles, and a special train with a score of physicians and newspaper men made a quick run to the seen?. Relief was also sent from nearby towns. The work of rescuing victims buried under fallen buildings was begun at once. Flying debris, pieces of timber and iron, seem to have been most disastrous to life and limb, a number of those killed being distant from the scene of the explosion. The car of dynamite was standing on a Louisville and Nashville Rail way siding, having just arrived, consigned to John L. O'Connor, a railroad contractor, at Clearfield, Ky. Cars were being switched, and a car loaded with pig iron was backed into the dynamite car, causing the explosion. .. While this is the story generally believed, the official report sent out by the Southern Railway officials says that several men were shooting at a target fastened to the dynamite car, and that the bullets set off the dynamite. The list of known dead Comprises i George Atkins, thirty years old, line! man for the East Tennessee Telei phone Company; John Cook, fifty i years old, car inspector for the Southern Railway;. Walter Rodgers, twenty-eight yean old, clerk for the United Cold Storage Warehouse, cut to pieces and almost unrecognizable, and John Gordon, colored, thirty years old. Five other dead bodies have been ; found, but they are so badly disfigured that they cannot be identified. The Armour Packing Company's warehouse, the Jung Brewing Company's warehouse, the Pinnacle Brewing Company's warehouse, the Kentucky Consumers' Oil Company's tanks and warehouse, the Standard Oil Company's warehouse and the H. T. Hackney Company's grocery warehouse were completely demolished. Twenty-five other business houses on the Kentucky side were so badly damaged that they will have to be re[ built. On the Tennessee side, which includes the larger part of the town, the damage was more extended. Business houses were badly disfigured and the stocks of goods ruined, while residences suffered severely. windows and doors being blown out in houses a mile away. ROBERT R. HITT DEAD. End Comes at Summer Home at Narragansett Pier. Narragansett Pier, R. I. ? Congressman Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois, died at his summer home here. Heart failure following a long period of increasing physical weakness was the final cause of death. Mrs. Hitt and two sons, W. S. Hitt and R. H. Hitt, were at the bedside. WheinCongressman Hitt, accompanied by his wife, arrived at Kinney Lodee. their summer home here, in June, it was understood that the Congressman was not in good health. Robert Roberts Hitt, for many years a Representative from Illinois, was born at Urbana, Ohio, January 16, 1834. He was the second son of the Rev. Thomas S. Hitt. When he was three years old the family moved to Mount M<prris, 111., which place was his home for the remainder of his life. He nad been chairman of the House Committee, on Foreign Affairs for many years. He was a friend of many. Presidents and for forty-five yearn helped to shape the policy of this country, especially in foreign affairs. He started as a reporter and made stenographic records of the Lincoln-Douglass debates. Direct Wire For President. Direct communication was established by wire between Oyster,Bay and Havana, Chicago's New Court House. The cornerstone of Chicago's new county building, which will be the largest court house in the world, has been laid. Vice-President Fairbanks was the orator and addresses were also made by Governor Deneen and Mayor Dunne. Russell Sage's Will Probated. Russell Sage's heir agreed to accept double the amount of their legacies and the will was admitted to probate. $1,000,000 Loss From Rains. Reports received from various points in northeast Nebraska show that the losses from the heavy rains may reach $1,000,000. Cattle and hogs were drowned, buildings swept away, railroad tracks washed out and mucn oilier ua.iua.gt: uuue. Explosion Kills Five Workmen. A dynamite explosion occurred on the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, near Finmark, New Ontario, in which five workmen were killed and six injured, one probably fatally. - ?? I - r ?.'\ .' ' ' -V' * ' . ' ' , BITS I NEWS: WASHINGTON. | The combination of powder manu, facturer3 who sell their product to the Government for use by the Army and Navy is in imminent danger of being prosecuted as a Trust. The Department of Justice iG investigating the charge. The General Land Office has pub Ii3hed a greatly condensed synopsis of the laws relating to the entry of public lands by homestead. The Bureau, of Yards and Docks has awarded to the Westinghouse Company the Norfolk Navy Yard electrical equipment contract for $91,- < 995. The Geological Survey will for ^ year make a daily analysis of the water of the Potomac at Cumberland and the Lehifch at Bethlehem to learn its adaptability for manufacturing purposes. The first case involving the application of the meat inspection law tc foreign products arose when counsel for the Maggi Company, of Switzerland. appeared to show why it should not be subject to the law. Secretary Taft's mission.to Havana i3 the indefinite postponoment of a trip of inspection of Western forts which he intended to make with General Bell, chief of staff. John G. A. Leishman, recently appointed American Ambassador to Turkey, has been received cordially by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The officers and men of the army in the Philippines demand that dates be placed on the labels of canned goods bought for the army. Public meetings are being hen", at Manila in keeping with the movement to obtain an agricultural bank for the Philippines. A prominent Manila firm hopes to obtain a minimum capitalization of 20,000,000 pesos. The Republican Territorial convention, held on the Island of Maui, unanimously nominated Jonah K. Kalanianaole foij re-election as Delegate to Congress. Puerto Rican shipments to the United States were more than $19,000,000 against $15,500,000 in 1905, the incrcasd being chiefly in sugar j and cigars. I DOMESTIC. Ground ^ias been broken at the Jamestown Exposition grounds for f.he Missouri and Maryland State buildings and the cornerstone of the Virginia building was laid. The largest fine writing paper factory in the world is to be located at Holyoke, Mass. After killing his wife at Excelsior Springs, Mo., James Curry, of Topeka, Kan., killed himself. General Adam E. King, former Consul-General at Paris, is critically ill at his home in Baltimore. It is believed at Windsor Locks, Conn., that Fred Lerner, whose body was found in the Connecticut River, was murdered for his money. Already charged with one murder, AI. Herman, at Winton, W. Va.,shot and killed Frank and Kenner Finley, who were trying to arrest him. Defeated by a vote of 6 to 1906 votes, Alfred Bills has started court proceedings to prevent Wilbur G. Voliva from becoming the head of Zion City. New York tailors denied the charge of a Chicago dressmaker that Nev? York men wore'corsets. Bold automobile thieves robbed nine different houses in Hempstead Long Island, in one night. , The cornerstone of the Verdi monument, at Broadway and Seventythird street, New York City, was laid The steamer City of Seattle, from Seattle for Alaska, went ashore on Trial Island, near Victoria; the passengers were landed. Justice MacLean, in an opinion handed down in the. Supreme Court, New York City, criticised adversely the "John Doe" method of obtaining witnesses planned by the Thaw prosecution. Mrs. Henry J. Tilford/ of Louisville, Ky., while visiting Mayor and Mrs. Johnson, of Cleveland, slipped while in a bathtub and was seriously injured. The boiler of the gunboat Bennington, which exploded in the harj bor of San Diego, Is to be sent to the. I Naval Academy at Annapolis for ilj lustrativo purposes. I The statement was made at the i | pure food hearing that "New York | is the dumping ground for all sorts of foods barred by other States." The Y. M. C. A., of San Francisco, tvill erect a seven or eight-story building to "-plfcce the structure destroyed by fire. FOREIGN. Three mammoth ships were launched in the United Kingdom, the Cunard liner Mauretania, the White Star liner Adriatic and' the British cruiser Shannon. A dispatch from Madrid says thac fears are expressed of a serious Carlist rebellion. Orders for maneuvres j have been countermanded. The Bates National Bank, of Butler, Mo., was closed by the board of directors for the purpose of going into liquidation. A telegram of condolence to the I widow of General Min, after his as- J sassination at Peterhof, signed with | the name of King- Edward, was a | i forgeryt Hongkong's Governor accepted the offer of the American squadron to assist in the work of relief after the typhoon. Miss Chrrlotte Schmidlapp, daughi ter of a Cincinnati millionaire, was I killed in Franee while riding in Chas. j M. Schwab's automobile. J ' The Dutch Government has brought In a bill providing that all meat for expo.t from Holland shall bear an official stamp a3 a guarantee of quality. Stern measures are dcius ia.H.cu tu suppress a Carlist revolt in Catalonia. Russian rebels issued a manifesto declaring t'.iat "one thing remains? to annihilate mercilessly all enemies of the people." New laws are promulgated in Russia assuring religious freedom to persons not C" nected with the Orthodox Greek Church. Eighteen scuooners havo been wrecked recently at Belle Isle and on the Labrador coast. Dresden eats 2500 dogs in threej ' months. The Duke of the Abruzzi is rre-1 paring, with the aid of King Victorj Emmanuel, a:i expedition to the Him-/ alayas, to ascend Mount Everest. V in u five Durs beside dead mother :i Found Gasping Near Body When Door Was Broken Open. INFANT BRAVELY FIGHTS DEATH 3| Mrs. Catherine' Denham, a Lone Woman and a Fonrteen-MonthsOld Foundling Discovered in Brooklyn Alter Many Days. ,7 rl ? V ' i Brooklyn, N. Y.?Struggling for life with all the resoluteness of a prehistoric child and with the intelli- v. ^J| gence of a civilized one, John Boyle, y.'lljjm fourteen months old, through five ../|P terrible days kept himself from death, though alone In a little flat in No. 4201 Third avenue, with the body of Mrs. Catherine Denham, his mother by adoption. He was found there ,%|1 by the dead woman's aunt, who, obtaining no answer to repeated calls, ^ got a patrolman to break in the door ml me licit iui uei . jyiru. jljuuiuiiu t> body lay in the middle of the kitchen ^ floor, close to the stove. Apparently, she had died of heart disease when about to light the fire five days before, for in her stiffened fingers a T,i match was clutched, and the Coroner . $ and ambulance surgeon said she had been dead at least that long. Beside " J the body little John was close to his last hour. He had eaten everything his strong young jaws could nibble,' edible or inedible, and had come to. the^end of his strength. Yet so great y-A was his vitality, medical men said he ;i4| would pull through. * Little John's tongue was black and swollen with thirst when they fonnd mm. nia vukb uh.ii uwmuieu lu ix ' gasping whisper. tOne would have 'ty said his eyes were falling out of hla .- ^ head. The once rosy cheeks were sunken. His wrists and ankles had ? gone down to nothing. From top to toe he was as emaciated as children in the horror pictures of Indian famines. The fatal bloating of the atom- / ach from prolonged starvation had not occurred, but it would have happened in a day or two?had the child ' . ^ survived his experience that, much , ~'3 longer. Guessing was all Mrs. Denham's sister, the policeman and the doctors. could do when they, gazed about the : tiny flat and tried to imagine what had taken place there. Itwas enoughy ' . ^ On all sides were strewn crusts the . baby had gnawed until they became 5 too hard even for his rare pluck to ' conquer. He had broken a milk bottle to get at the contents?at any rate, he had dragged the bottle off a low table and evidently had lapped 'rvs up the milk off the floor when the glass was shivered. How he avoided swallowing splinters from the bottle was a mystery, yet the physicians found no symptoms that he had done ' so. The little chap, not old enough ;; to toddle stoutly, nevertheless had ' ?2S| swept the bottom shelf of the pantry :|m bare in a hunt for food, and a chair ' placed near showed that the baby must have tried to climb up to reach | the higher ones. A small pail which had contained lard was empty, licked v empty by the starving baby, the neighbors believed. He had eaten flour from a broken bag until the agony of thirst made him stop. Enough injurious substances went ji into that small stomach to kill an ordinary child. Physiciaxuj^aid a Fifth v* ' avenue bahy would have succumbed < ' In two days. Little John, beln& a waif?Mrs. Denham had adopted him . ] from the Guardian Angel Home, -Twelfth avenue and Sixty-fifth street '.y? ?fought it out for five. Instinct led. him to food as long as tnere was any, to be had. When there was no more, he gnawed a little cloth horse stuffed with sawdust?gnawed it until his * / sharp little teeth worked through the cloth, and doubtless he swallowed a good deal of the stuffing. '.A rubber teething ring was found beside him, gnawed to shreds. t Small John evidently slept wher/s sleep overtook him. There were signs that he had inhabited each of the three rooms. Fortunately, he was 9 too young to think. A child a few years older, if not clever enough to ' ? unlock the door, might have died of fright at being shut in with a corpse. The baby had pulled at the old worn- , Q an's hair?Mrs. Denham, was close to ^ Bixty year3?and tugged at her dress- % J ing sack in efforts to arouse her from the sleep of death. Failing that, he perhaps ceased to notice the bqply4 gj Yet?whether by chance or instinct ,.i y ?he had fallen beside it when at last *-*- iarra ctavo tvflv under iiim. illb lllllO ICgO |)U t V < __ and his hand, shrunk to the seeming of a bird's claw, was stretched toward the dead woman. Neighbors said they did not recall hearing the baby's cries. They hardly noticed the fact that Mrs;. Denham V was not in evidence in the first few days, and when at last they did, they assumed she had gone away on a visifl > | Mrs. Denham became lonesome a year ago when her husband, William 4 J. Denham, a civil engineer, died, and from, the sisters of the Hom^ of the Guardian Angel she obtained an qrphan. In such ^ case a foster mother Is allowed $8 a month for the care of the child,, and this she accepted, as her husband*K;^death had left her impoverished. Johnnie Boyle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, had died within a few weeks of each other soon after the death of Mr. , .'J Denham, and he had been ,'in1 the home onljf a month when Mrs. Denham adopted him. .. '-m ? %. Vj 10,000 DEAD AT HONGKONG. Six Hundred Fishing Junks Lost in the Great Typhoon. Hongkong. ? Six hundred fishing junks, the entire fleet, were lost i,n the typhoon. This increases the mortality to 10,000 persons. The dead here are being carried off in carloads. A relief subscription of $10,-,' 000 has been received from the Chinese of San Francisco. / fsfi CHINA REPUDIATES OPIUM. vg t St Edict Issued Ordering Abolition of Its Use Within Ten Years. Pekin.?As a result of the combined recommendations of the Chinese commissioners who recently. x , made a tour of the United States and! Europe, Yuan Shi-Kai, commanderin-chief of the forces, and Tang-. * 1 -1 - C T> An ?/)|' Shao-Ki, vice-presiaeui 01 me of Foreign Affairs, an edict has been1 issued ordering the abolition of tbe! use of opium, both foreign and na-. live, within a decade. * ^ \ ^3 v 1 - .... ..-LSjlVSfv