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*> ?? ? RISE VP AXD RUN." 1 I 3Lf you wants to reach de riches s \\ hat somers waits fer you, _ t IW'en de bright sun say._"(Jood mawnin'," You must tell ini "Movvay-do! ' Dis livin' ain't no fun? j s De race is ter be run! s ^ 'W'en de bright sun saj\ ' Good mavrnin'," Rise up, en run! 1 d Ef you wants ter reach de hilltop c To de stars come out ter de night, Be ready fer de runnin' At de breakin' er de light! s u Hear me talk, my son? p De race is ter be run! Wen de bright sun say, "Good mawnin'," Rise up, en run! P # ?Atlanta Constitution. p ; ? I; S liSliHi H5ESa5a5H5HHSHSSHSa5H5HSE3 si For ten years Mr. G. Heming ^ Magnus had been a writer for the v lesser magazines. He wrote short stories and essays and sent them to *1 the editors in the hope they would S be accepted. His stamp bill was {l yery large. b Still, perseverance, a mild inten- a . tion, and knowledge dug from the ri encyclopedias will tell in time. His accepted manuscripts increased in ^ number. This perked him up. He h started a bank account of moderate s dimensions. Nothing makes a man a so brave as a bank account. t] And he joined two or three "lit>erary clubs." wherein he was a ^ "lion." Pale, bespectacled ladies with k yearnings assured him that they had I: read his articles in the Ladies' Fire- E side Instructor on "Every Woman L Her Own Sandow," and it was "love- ^ ly." This pleased Mr. Magnus al- Si most as much as did the editor's ^ -check. f He was a slender man, with drooping shoulders, mild blue eyes and a sandy Vandyke beard. When "'lionized" he used to twist this P heard into a sharp point and stab ^ himself upon his shirt front. Though * his legs were wobbly and his feet n large, his "heart was in the right T place." This he knew from the fact ? that when startled by a sudden noise it "beat thick and quick, like ^ a madman on a drum." Sl A boisterous doctor came up be- n hind him, slapped him on the shoul-der and howled: - - - 11 * XT "Maggy, old man, now re tne Drutal editor men?" ? The heart, which was in the right S: T>lace, began thumping. Magnus o wheeled and faced him, wrath in his N pale eyes. b "I do so hate to be called 'Maggy,' 1( he snapped. "It really is not my name." s Then his thin delicate hand went Si to his left side. "It's all right, Magnus," the doc- 1 tor said. "Beg pardon. You look I overworked. Take a bit of free ad- n vice?go away somewhere and rest." 8 It was early summer and the mem- 11 ber3 of the literary clubs, the fashlonables and the preachers were flit- s Unrr V <4* The bank account was healthy. < Magnus looked over the papers. ? Among a thousand advertisements of places "with all the comforts of a home," his eye was caught by the 3 - mention of Matfleld. 0 He asked about it and was told it b was in a good country, with pure s air, farm foods, trout fishing and i( I cheapness. ' That seemed to suit. Next afternoon he alighted from a ? dilapidated cart in front of "Grass- b jdene" farmhouse. A river rolled grandly to the 1 south. The hills were blue, save t upon their summits, which were 1: % crimsoned by the dying sun. From a afar came the drowsy tinkle of a 1 cowbell. A slow wind brought the a scent of fresh fields and flowers, s Looking from his window over the t sweeping river Magnus said: "Here is rest. I do not want hu- to man companionship?a cultivated e mind needs only itself. Surrounded by these eternal hills, amid which dwell a simple people, solitude * ?hniiid hrln? haoniness. Their ways i arv? not my ways, their souls are * half-developed, but we need not I clash." t He fell readily into the habits of the household. It consisted of Mrs. Loudoun, a silver-haired widow, her grand-daughter, Elfreda Loundoun, a a brown-eyed girl of eighteen, with s w a delicious figure, a mass of brown ? hair, and a frank smile, and a man- t of-all-work, who ate enormously and ^ never said a word. ( The tv/o women gave him no con- t fidences, for which he was grateful. A He was forced to admit that their ( manners were perfect, but set this ? down to innate female refinement. ^ They made no effort at all to enter- ^ tain Him. He paia nis moderate dius ? and kept to himself. ^ He discovered a boat in a small house which stood by the river, and used to pull laboriously a half-mile up the stream of evenings, then float lazily down. The heart which was ^ in the right place began to show some disposition to stay steady when sudden noises came. In two weeks, however, he realized that a cultivated mind needs something more than itself. He was bored. Furthermore, his conscience oppressed him. He told himself that he was ungenerous in withholding himself from these two lonely wom, ?n, who knew nothing of books, so- t ciety, cities, or the great world with- s 'out. ! He was not conscious of a dosire ( to alleviate the loneliness of Mrs. 1 Loundoun, but he thought the girl i ,-would improve mightily by converse 1 ,-with a man of his cultivated abili- i '(ties and experience. She was plump, ' and her weight in the boat made the j rowing more difficult, but he endured i the extra labor for the pleasure of ] .watching her intellect expand like 1 a flower. 1 , He noticed that in the half-light ; of the evenings she was a singularly ] * pretty girl, nor could he see that ahe < lost any of her attractiveness in the 1 full light of day. i She listened to his talk of hooks . .. :..V" V vith every appearance of interest, -le found all lier comments apt, and iome of them shrewd. He felt the mconcious charm cf her innocence, j ^ rr (hr-OO TCOOI'I: fl ftfir I VUB cvcmus, lu.w he beginning of their friendship, he assumed guidance of the converation. It was done in a spirit of nischief, but the eyes of Magnus lid not see it. He lacked the pereptive faculty. She astonished him much by a ound, if not brilliant, monologue pon the Elizabethan poets as comared with those of the earlier era, nd, in a mild discussion of the reuted authorship of the Shakesearean plays, she worsted him bady. She said they were the work of ir Walter Raleigh during his eighten years of confinement in the 'ower of London. Next day she invited him into a art of the house he had not visited, utroduced him to a sitting-room, urnished plainly but in perfect aste, seated herself at an old but uneful piano, and played for him, rith feeling and force, selections rom Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelsohn, Chopin, Verdi, Donnizetti, Vaguer, De Koven, Millard, Sullian, "Dave" Braham. The town man dimly recognized hat he might possibly have been uilty of underestimating the simple arming family. A little later he egan to hold her in his thoughts nd to speak of her, when on hi3 ambles, as a "Devon rose." This was a bad sign. In all his iirty years he had seen no one like er?so simple, so unaffected, so ympathetlc, so beautiful. This was worse sign. He measured mentally ae height of his bank account, and aund it sufficient. This was the rorst sign of all. He laid his approaches with what e conceived to be consummate art. a his story "Heart to Heart at Iventide," published in the Beacon light, there was a scene in which iord Ranald do Cholmondeley had aid to Lady Blanche de Courtney? "I love you wildly, madly, paslonately. Your being has entered lto my being. As the dewdrop rembles in the flower chalice, so rembles my soul in your beauteous resence. Be mine?be mine?and tiere shall be no sun, nor stars, nor tie opal-tinted heights of heaven, nr the crimson abysses of hades. 'here shall be in the wide universe nly you." He thought this rather fine, and rondered how it would sound if Dftly, yet intensely, spoken amid the lurmur of the river down-rolling to tie sea. It was late in September. There 'as a slight chill in the air. The irl, wrapped in fleecy light stuff, at, as was her custom, in the stern f the boat, which made no sound as : drifted. In the moonlight her rown eyes shone like jewels. Be)w them shone the windows of the armhouse. Not a word had been poken for half an hour. Then he aid: "Miss Loudoun, when I came here thought you ignorant country folkknow now what a fool I was. I lust go to-morrow, and It makes me ad. I can't bear to think I may ever see you again. I have never Did you that I love you, but I do incerely. You must have seen it. Vill you marry me?" She did not answer. She ha'd rown suddenly pale, and was starig intently at the landing-place not hundred yards away. Suddenly he clasped her hands, and a wave f crimson rose tn her face. A appy smile curved her lips. Then he gazed earnestly at her compan5n. "I have not noticed," she said, ravely. "Forgive me, Mr. Magnus, ut I cannot marry you." In silence he pricked up his ears, 'he prow of the boat grated upon he shore. As the girl stepped lighty to land she was taken into the rms of a tall, young fellow in ;haki uniform. She stayed there . full five minutes, while Magnus tood akwardly by. Then she urnea, saying: "This is Mr. Landorf. He has een to South Africa. We have been ngaged for two years." * * * * * ? Next spring the great author, G. leming Magnus, wrote a book which s in its 150th thousand. His heart tas gone into it; its name is "Queen lose of a Devon Garden."?Illusrated Bits. Gladstone Took the Wrong Hat. By assuming a paper cap in raising i point of order, Mr. O'Hare has creited a Parliamentary precedent and idded to the gayety of the national alk-shop. This hat question is alvays a puzzle to new members, and iven au old Parliamentary hand like he late Mr. Gladstone could not invariably remember when he should :over or not. On one occasion he deiired to address the Chair, as a division was imminent, and rose to his eet with bare head. "Hat! Hat!" :>inntoH th.-> mpmhprs. hut Mr. Glad stone's hat was not available, and he jladly borrowed a neighbor's. Now, tfr. Gladstone, big in most things, ,vas also big in the head; he took i's in hats, and the borrowed article, lot being an 8, perched on his crown nuch as the negro at the Derby, vears his tiny "topper." The Hous9 oared, and the habitual dignity of ;he G. O. M. was at a discount until le completed his remarks.?Pall Mall Gazette. ,L. British Patriotism vs. Trade. Until much less than a century ago here were no potteries of any consequence in this country, and our grandmothers and great-grandmoth?rs ussd tableware made in England, With an eye on this growing trade vith the young States, certain pot:ers of Staffordshire began decoratng dishes with American scenes, rhe jdea "took," and historical and political subjects followed. It is 1 ? ? ovfoll f* lLUUSlllg IU 11UIC iu rr uat wa.wwaav lust for trade swallowed up the political animosities of those British potters. I have seen a pitcher bearing a print of the surrender of Cornwallis, an event that even to-day is treated by some British historians as a mere incident of a somewhat unfor-. tunate period. ? Country, Life in America. / MATING THE FLAGS OF OUR WARSHIPS. Br WALTER L. BEASLEY. Through the courtesy of the Commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard and Commander A. Ward, chief equipment officer, the writer was given special opportunities for obtaining pictures showing an interesting and comparatively little-known department in which the flags of our warships are made. The flag room is under the supervision of Mr. Thomas Malloy, officially rated as master flagmaker, and Miss M. A. Woods, quarter-woman flagmaker. Mr. Malloy favored the writer with all the main details of the flag department, which are outlined in the present narrative. To furnish the many hundreds of naval vessels in commission, ranging frnm f lortr^ flocrohin nnrl hottlo. i.t vm lUU lUi UUgOUt^ UUU UUtllV/ ships and the numerous smaller class, with their regular quota of flags, the government is required to maintain an extensive plant. Few, however, realize the number of flags carried by a warship, nor the cost of all the gay bunting which flutters from mast to mast at holiday time. In addition to fleet communication, necessary during all forms of maneuvers in home waters, the ship must be equipped with an extensive array of flags stored on board for various forms of ceremonial and official occasions. This "dress suit" outfit of bunting, therefore, consists of 250 different flags, the material and making of which costs Uncle Sam just $2500. Each ship is entitled to a THE FLAG OUTFIT FOR THE U. S COSTING THE HAND SEWERS WHO EXEC L SILr I new flag equipment every three years, though a flagship will often require a new set of signals, owing to their constant use and handling, in about a year. A striking idea of the number of flags carried by a single ship may be gleaned from one of the accompanying illustrations, showing a pile fifteen feet long and nearlv waist high just finished for the new battleship Connecticut. About one-half, of the lot is composed of foreign flags, incased in thick paper bags, with the name of the country stenciled on the bottom. The remainder, including those for ordinary use, signal sets, . and the international code, etc., are not wrapped, but merely tied in round bundles. To cut out the varied patterns and complete all these miscellaneous flags, some thirty-five skilled machine sewers and needlewomen and three men are employed. With the bright-colored, fantastic flags of all nations dangling from their machines, the long row of flag makers present a picturesque scene. The long spacious room is literally n Vvlo tcv aP nnl nr Anr i n fy f a 1 An rr a or. a uia<.c \jl wiut . vice, the labor has become highly specialized, and the women are kept at work on the particular flags which they can make the best. Some excel in sewing in the stars, others in finishihg certain othsrs parts of the flag. Nearly all have been in the establishment for years. Their pay averages from $1.20 to $2 per day. A great deal more time and labor is required to finish certain of these flags than is generally supposed. For instance, the President's flag requires the longest time of any to make, as it takes one woman a whole month to complete it. The flag consists of a blue ground with the coat of arms of the United States in the centre. The life-sized eagle, with Sad Irons For Traveling. The. accompanying, illustrations show a valuable German traveling companion, which smoothes out clothes without the application of external sources of heat, and without , / A? f L fjt'* * calling In servants where one may be staying. A small alcohol lamp, which can be removed whon the Iron la not in iinn ran h? nriltiatpd bv thfi turn of a scrw, A match, a few socondB of flame, and the necessary work can be Quickly done. . f long outstretched wings and other emblems, are all hand-sewed and involve the most patient work. The flag is made in two sizes, ten feet by fourteen feet and three feet by five feet. The silk used on this and othor designs costs a pounu. iub largest flag made is the United States ensign No. 1, thirty-six feet long by nineteen feet wide, which costs $40. The most difficult, expensive, and likewise consuming the longest time to make, are the foreign flags. This is especially true of the South American and certain others. These, in most cases, average five feet in diam* eter. The work is done by a half- 1 dozen specially skilled hand device sewers, each having acquired the knack of making certain of the cen- 1 tre designs to perfection, and continually kept on these respective flags. Every battleship carries fortythree foreign flags, twenty-five feet by thirteen wide. A smaller size is also made. The weakest in point of power and smallest of the Latin nations have the most gorgeous and. picture-bedecked ensigns. The many thousands of stars are cut out by an ingenious machine; specially devised for this purpose, operated by a four-horse power electric motor. Only a few years back the stars were cut out by hand. The machine has a plunger fitted with steel knives, the shape and size of the star. A single down stroke cuts out from fifty to one hundred at a time. Pressing the foot on a pedal operates the machine. In all, eight different sizes of stars are used, each having a special die.?Scientific American. 1. S. CONNECTICUT, 250 FLAGS $2500. y/.)'''t/'$j-^HBHSttHByKSHKniwy^ ITE THE MORE DIFFICULT DE*S. Sprays Automatically. Y/hen sweeping the floor the housewife is just as careful to dampen the carpet in some way to prevent the dust from flying about an the street cleaner is to sprinkle the street before sweeping it. The old-fashioned method consisted in scattering old tea leaves over the carpet to gather up the dust. Modern methods demand a simpler method, some thing I^IF 1 ': Wv limiiminiiiimi'i1 v Sprays the Carpet. similar to the apparatus shown here, tho lnirontinn nf nn Inwft man It is called a dustless attachment for brooms. It consists of a water reservoir, which is attached to the handle of the broom above the bristles. Embedded among the fibres of the broom i3 a sprayer, connected to the reservoirs by a feed pipe, the flow of liquid being regulated by a stop-cock. ?Philadelphia Record. Lcse-Majesty. James the First of England, and Sixth of Scotland, was, as every one knows, deficient in vigor and steadiness. Having heard of a famous preacher who was very witty in his sermons and peculiarly so in his choice of texts, he ordered this clergyman to preach before him. With all suitable gravity the learned divine ara-ira r>tif hia tovt in thp fnllnwinff words: "James, first and sixth, in the latter part of the verse, 'He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.' " "Ods-chickens! he's at me already," exclaimed the king.?Scrap Book. A Prince's Wooing. More than 100 girls of high prominent families in Korea have just been taken to the Imperial Palace, to select from among them a consort for the Crown Prince of Korea. "Ten candidates will bo selected first, and then three will be selected next from the ten, and finally one will be chosen i from the three.?Korea Daily News. *v- .. . ;i4 _ *; . y , ' \ The New Hampshire Senate-elect has but one lawyer in its mem bership. Californians buy more bas9 balls and bats, proportionately, than the people of any other State. Of the twelve members of the new French Cabinet, eight have been regular writers for the Paris press. More than 90,000,000 ties were bought by railroads in the United States last year, involving 3,000,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 feet of sound timber. It will require 3,500,000 feet of lumber to build the wheat warehouses and sheds on the new dock of the Great Northern Railway Company at Everett, Wash. The authorities of Clacton, a leading British seaside resort, grant licenses for donkey riding only on the stipulation that the owners of the donkeys don't beat the animals or use any bad language. flormanv'c rovioinn nf ltd rnitnrnr tariff involves a multiplication of tickets. It is said that a traveler with a small family going from Mulhausen to Basle?not a long journey, by any means?is furnished with sixty tickets, in addition to numerous . luggage checks for his impedimenta. The oyster i3 the most valuable of the fishery products. The crop for 1905 was 32,000,000 bushels, valued at $15,700,000. The high sea fisheries for cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel and herring brought $7,500,000. The Great Lakes yielded over $2,700,000. The Swedish city of Orsa, in the course of a generation, has sold $5,750,000 worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting has provided for a similar income every thirty or forty years. In consequence of the development of this commercial wealth there are no taxes. Railways and telephones are free and so are the school houses, icauuiug auu uiaiijr uiuci c 1111150. When leaving their old home each bee fills her honey sack so as to be provided for the journey. When the cells are finished and nearly filled with honey, they are allowed to remain open a few days that the extra water may evaporate and the honey be properly cured. They are then sealed or capped over with wax and the work is done. The wonderful regularity of the honey-comb is a beautiful tribute to the skill, of the tiny worker, while its slight irregularities show it to be the work of intelligence rather than an unreasoning machine. TOWN BUYS WOMAN A HAT. " How City Attorney of Indianapolis Forestalled a Suit For Damages. The city of Indianapolis, as a municipal corporation, bought a woman a hat the other day. Merely for convenience she may be called Mrs. Smith, because for the sake of her feelings James D. Pierce, the Assistant City Attorney, who made the deal, would not divulge her name. A contractor who was at work on a street improvement left some bricks in the street. Mrs. Smith, with her husband, was on her way to tho theatre and as luck would have it she stumbled over those bricks and fell quite heavily. Her husband helped her to her feet and half carried her back home. The next day a report of the accident reached the office of the City Attor-' ney. No claim had been filed for damages, but the lawyers who look after the city's legal business believed that there would be one. so Pierce decided to see Mrs. Smith. That noon, which was the first of last week. Pierce hurried out to the North Side flat where the woman and her husband and her mother live. The young woman fame to the door. He was ushered in and after being informed that the woman before him was Mrs. Smiih he began to talk. Mrs. Smith did not want to go to court. She did not want to sue the city and have all the papers say that she stumbled and rolled over and over in the street. She did not want to face a jury and have a dozen lawyers firing questions at her. "The city will buy you a nice new hat of your own selection and we will call the thing square," said Pierce. "But I had better see my husband," said the young woman. "He would not wear the hat," said Peirce. "No, that's so," she said and she smiled. "Well, we'll do that," she s;aid. She signed a release. Her husband came a moment later. He signed, too. That afternoon tne young woman bougfit her hat and paid for it with a ten dollar bill Pierce had given her. ?Indianapolis Star. "What "[Laughter]" Means. Is Irish wit completely dying out? We ask because of the extraordinary banalities which seem to be regarded as gems of humor on the Nationalist benches. Yesterday, for instance, Mr. Flavin, desiring to retort upon an opponent who had raised his ire, shouted out, "Go and get your hair cut!" That Mr. Flavin should scintillate after this fashion will be no surprise to his acquaintances. What is astonishing, and, in a sense, really melanic tVmt rpmarlt. which even a genuine guttersnipe would regard as too devoid of originality and point for use in a street brawl, should have been received with shouts of laughter 1 from the Nationalists. Do they really think that kind of thing funay??* London Globe. ' NEW YORK LIFE IN itmiPTcn rno cnonrov ihuiu i lu run i uiiuliii Six Bills Found Against G. W. Perkins and C. S. Fairchild. BASED ON A DEAL IN BONDS In Presentment Jury Say They Are Led to Believe Accused Acted in the Interest of Policyholders. New York City.--The Grand Jury handed down six indictments against George W. Perkins, of the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., forme; > Vice-President of the New York Life Insurance Company, and six indictments against Charles S. Fairchild, fnrmorlv Procl^onf nf fVaro VnrTr Security and Trust Company and a member of the Finance Committee of the New York Life. The indict- j ments charge forgery in the thin* ? degree. Mr. Fairchild is in Europ. ( Mr. Perkins was in court with his counsel and gave bond of $10,000. A presentment which the Grand \ Jury handed in, following the indict- ( ments, was virtually an apology for , the action taken by the body. The Grand Jurors?or some of them? . held that neither Perkins nor Fairchild profited pecuniarily by the transaction upon which the indictments are based, but that it re- f dounded to the benefit of the policy- 1 holders. Five years ago the Prussian Gov- | ernment passed a law prohibiting i American life insurance companies ! doing .business in that country from ; holding as assets the stocks of railroad companies in the United States. The New York Life Insurance Company was doing business in Prussia | and held railroad stocks. Books and records of the company show that, in order to deceive the Prussian Government, 10,000 shares of the stock of the Chicago & North- J western Railroad and 3500 shares of ( stock of the Chicago, Milwaukee & , St. Paul Railroad were transferred to the New York Security & Trust Co., a subsidiary corporation of the New York Life. On the books of the company the transaction was so disguised as to appear to be bona fide. As a matter; of fact, the stocks never changed hands. A colored porter named Marshall and a clerk named Mattison gave notes for them. The deal was engineered by Mr. Perkins and Mr. Fairchild. N . From testimony gathered by the Armstrong Committee this and other similar transactions were exposed. The law is specific in stating that any falsification of the books of a corporation constitutes forgery in the third degree. When the Grand Jury made its presentment, Recorder Goff told the members they had done their work faithfully and thanked them for their efficiency. District-Attorney Jerome followed the Recorder, calling the attention of the court to the fact that one of the indicted men was already in court, referring to Mr. Perkins. He asked that the man be brought forward and arraigned, and this was done. , Then Mr. Jerome remarked that six indictments had been brought j against Mr. Perkins, each charging , forgery in the third degree, and he suggested to the court that a reasonable bail would be $2000 in each case. ' , ( Mr. Perkins was then lined up at the bar. The clerk arose and in formal manner told him that he ' stood charged with forgery in the 1 third degree in six indictments, and 1 asked him if he had any plea to 1 make. Mr. Delafield answered, say- ] ing that his client would plead not guilty. i Recorder Goff then fixed the bail i at $10,000, which was Immediately ! given. i A. J. CASSATT FALLS DEAD. J Sudden End of President of Penn- j crlronio Ph^Ipaq/1 Philadelphia.?Alexander J. Cas- ' sett, President of the Pennsylvania ] Railroad Company, died suddenly at ] his home in thiu city. The announcement of his death was made from his ( office in the following bulletin: ? "Mr. A. J. Ca3satt, president of < the Pennsylvania Railroad, died suddenly of heart disease at 1 p. m. . The symptoms were those known to the profession as the fetokes-Adams J syncope, and a.s is often the case under these clrcumstanccs, death was instantaneous." Mr. Cassatt i'ell dead, surrounded by the members of his family, who 1 were at home at the time. i Mr. Cassatt's illness, which cul- < minated in his death, dates from the i Pennsylvania Railroad scandal last < summer. Alexander J. Cassatt was born In ] Pittsburg, December 8, 1839, was ' educated in Germany and at the 1 Troy Polytechnic Institute. He entered the service of the Pennsyl- ' vania Railroad in 1861 as a rodman. fn 1S67 he became superintendent of motive power and machinery, and > In 1S70 he became general superin-'. ' tendent of the Pennsylvania system. 1 From this time on his rise was rapid, 1 and in 1880 he had become first vice-president. In 1882 he resigned ] and did not again hold an official i position in the company until he was ] elected to the presidency in 1889. COLORADO MURDERER LYNCHED j Forty Masked Men Break Into the ' Jail to Take Lawrence Lebcrg. , "r A ? - T.ourmnnft T A - i Lifts AUIIliaS, V/Ul. uomv/uvv AJV , berg was lynched by masked men, for the murder of Henry Laven- ^ meyer. About forty men entered the ( jail and easily overpowered the sheriff, the under-sheriff, and two other officers, and locked them in a ; room of the building. His captors 1 formed a procession and hanged Leberg to a telegraph pole. The con- < fessed murderer made no resistance Japanese Invading Mexico. i Warren Garrett, General Agent of the Transoceanic Emigration Company of Tokio, has placed 1200 Ja 1 r*P4- Tnn?n o4 puuest? CllilSiauio ?uu A^J.c ua{jau laoi month for Mexico. Among them were fifty-seven women. It is believed that the men will be more contented in Mexico if they have their wives with them. Pledge From Insurance Companies. Insurance Commissioner Folk, of Tennessee, has been assured by the ' New York insurance companies that any money spent for the election of trustees will be refunded. Y-ll 3 1 ' WASHINGTON. {,' Postmaster-General Cortetyou, Izx lis annual report, suggests a pernanent deputy postmaster-general. The Treasury Department refused "m-akuna 1?*a? +V*<\ r???(rta Vi n trin of V puituosc DllVCI p 1>11*3 jyi XV/C UOHUft isen to 70.065 cents an ounce. President Roosevelt Informed the British Government that the appoint-' nent of James Bryce as Ambassador o the United States will be entirely icceptable. Senator Foraker attacked Presilent Roosevelt for his order dia:harging the negro troops without} lonor and Senator Scott seconded lim, while Senator Lodge defended he President. Rear Admiral Converse advises Jie revival of the grade of Vice Adniral. The distillers .pf the United States ire about to be made the subject of nvestigation by officers of the Govsrnment. It is generally agreed in Washingion that Viscount Siuzu Aoki, Amjassador from Japan to the United States, is the spunkiest diplomat jver seen. Edwin T. Sanford, of Knoxville, renn., has been selected as Assistant Attorney-General in the Department )f Justice to succeed J. C. McRey-? lolds. Senor Enrique Creel, the new Mexican Ambassador, will arrive at ;he capital about January 25. The Ambassador of Austria-Hungary at Washington has been raised * :o the rank of a Baron. The Chief of the Bureau of Navigation recommended in his annual . report that the navy be divided into ;wo great fleets, one each *n the Pa:lflc and Atlantic oceans. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The Hawaiian Medical Association lias proposed legislation requiring ill applicants for licenses to practice medicine to pass the necessary eliminations in English. Many Japanese applicants have insisted on their examinations being conducted* !n the Japanese language. The present law on the subject is indefinite. The Supreme Court of Porto Rico decided against the Government in the case of the ownership of Catholic Church property. Wealthy Cuban interests declared they would blow up the English rail-* way to force Americans to stay In. Cuba if the Liberals won the election. For the first time since last An- % gust Cuba is now free from yellow fever, the last case which was in Havana having been discharged. $ Swift & Company have bought land in Porto Rico. The latest act of the Philippine Commission creates the Insular office In the Department of Commerce and' Police of Supervising Railway Expert, at a yearly salary of $24,000, Philippine currency, or $12,000 in the money of the United States. 1 ' :#M Japanese soldiers, it was persis-, , tently reported in- Honolulu, arei flooding the Hawaiian Islands. . DOMESTIC. Imperfect condensing is one of; the defects in the new battleship.' . * Connecticut. It is not known, hcrw-S ever, that the defective condensorsj bad anything to do with the reported i failure of the ship to go through her! speed test. . " $ Judge Cutting, of Chicago, over-, powered a disappointed suitor who< tried to shoot him in the Criminal; Court Building. ! Mayor McClellan, of New York,4 find Vice-President Rea, of the Penn-j cylvanla Railroad, agreed on terms] for the New York Connecting Railroad. The road yielded on most dis-i puted points. Governor Godlng, of Idaho, in a, letter to the Interstate Commerce! Commission, puts the entire blamej for the coal dearth on the Oregon' flhort Line Railroad. The Attorney-General of Minne-: ?ota brought suit in St. Paul for an: Injunction to prevent the proposed; issue or ^ou,uuu,uuu scock ay 1110 [Jreat Northern. Telephoning from a moving train, was successfully tried with a device, invented by Dr. A. D. Jones, of Louisville, Ky. J. Pierpont Morgan gave a $600,300 mansion, at Madison avenue and' thirty-seventh street, New York City, to his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. H. C. Frick was elected to the Board of Directors of the Pennsyl-: fania Railroad at the annual meeting in Philadelphia. FOREIGN. The Vatican has issued a note to [he Powers formally protesting' against the methods of 'the French' Government in its enforcement of the laws of separation of Church and state. TIire.e hundred and ninety-three lives were saved by the heroism of the crew of the steamer Strathcona, from Halifax for East Nova Scotian points; the men stuck to their posts after the fire broke out, beached the vessel ana lanaea an tne passengers. Anti-clerical and Socialist clubs V; it Rome are making plans for great iemonstrations all over Italy to express rejoicing at the French separation of Church and State. In St. Petersburg a profound impression has been created by the assassination of General Count Alexis [gnatieff. Full details of the death of Nelson Fairchild, United States Vice-Consul at Mukden, China, show it to have been accident. Many Jews were injured in a riot following an attack on the Zionist Congress at Craiova, Rumania. Premier Theotokis, of Greece, intimated that the union of Greece and Crete might soon be accomplished. King- Peter was hotly denounced In the Servian National Assembly; and a riot ensued. Persia's Crown Prince favors a constitution. A hundred actors marched before Paulus, a famous music hall singec of Paris, who has just retired. A dispatch from Santiago de Chili said that half of the town o? Arica had been destroyed by an earthquake. With influenza epidemic in London the Practitioner devotes a whole issue to discussion of the disease by; leading doctors. Disorderly scenes marked the pas-'" sage of loan and armament bills by; the Servian Assembly. ; The French Chamber of Deputies( nassed the amended Separation Lawi by a vote of 413 against 166. J i A f