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I'll. JACK. Stranger, you ask accommodation. Sav,? I ain t no grouch, but then it's jest tnis iYou come a-steamin' up in thet big car O'yourn?dod blast trie thing. You've traveled far, 'Got far to go, an' ask me for the niaht To put you up. It ain't my style?not quite!? To grudee a traveler a bed an' snack, 1 But?well, stranger, say: I hain't icrgit Tack! VVho'9 Jack? Oh, ieat a leetle yailer cur? But my gal loved him, an' we both loved ( her. t , iVVe shore did, stranger! Mary died at seven, Jest sort o' went to find her ma in hoaven, i An' that left me an' Jack?jest hiin an' , me. Jack?cutest little pup you ever see, Bright as a button, busy as a bee. An even-thin* I'd left in God's good ] world? Come limnin' in one arternoon an' curled ' Up in my arms?you never see seeh eves! l I done the best I knowed how, doctorwise. j Bandaged the bleedin' paw?big tourin' j car ?one it?an' then, jest prayed an' waited. ' Far Inter the night I held him. Then T saw ( I*oor Jack was swellin'?for 'twa'nt jest the paw. Like I'd be'en hopin'?Jack was hurt inside. 1 Injured internal like. Midnight, he died, j But I'm keepin' you. Stranger, I?shot * Jack! i Then, somehow, suthin" hit me; things ? went black. Nest day?right over there by yender ' tree? - 1 I dug another grave; (here?don't you see. ] """Three graves arow? An' this vere cabin's mine. Folks call me Crazy BilK an' I opine They ain't so fur off. Mighty out o' date. Thinkin' dogs has souls! Well, it's gittin' late, An' I don't b'lieve there's no use sloppin' < here, Stranger. It sort o' seems like I don't keer For company, for somehow?I'm sort o' queer! j ?T., in New York Sun. <s> 6 j A MISUNDERSTANDING, i j Helen's Forethought Almost I Shipwrecked Engagement. I took in the situation at a glance. Helen had two fellows on the string. It war: pretty hard to come 200 TT> ? lac tA finrl f mif Acnoniollir JLA.1 * ?v o iw xiuu iuai, vuu I when, a month before, I had bid Helen good-by at the station in town, and there was a look in her eyes?well, that seemed to be for me alone. It had given me a comfortable feeling all along, and especially as Helen's letters seemed to exhale a certain atmosphere of dis consolateness?just as if sh? really missed me. We came into the inn from the station on the buckboard. It was a two-mile drive. The road was the kind called corduroy?and we got some heavy jolts. Still, I managed to take Helen's hand, and she didn't seem to mind. After all, at that moment it seemed quite worth while to have come all that distance. There t was the first embarrassment that always comes to lovers long separated?but our eyes told volumes. I was glad also that we were surrounded by forests. There would be chances for me to have Helen all to myself In such a wilderness. I had scarcely registered, however, before, as I turned around, I overheard a buzz of conversation. The two had come up. Helen introduced them rapidly. "Mr. Pollard, Mr. Castleton, Mr. Bertrand, Mr. Castleton." . They nodded cheerfully. I could feel myself growing uneasy. "Say, Miss Helen," said Mr. Pollard, "can I have the first dance tonight?" "And," broke In Mr. Bertrand, "I claim the second." These two chaps were immacu lately dressed in white flannel suits. t They were apparently cast in the same mould. I didn't dance myself?I hated it. j Her answer made me desperate. "I suppose so," said Helen. She looked at me as if to get my sanction, or as if she had really done something of which she expected me to approve. At any rate. I didn't approve. I could feel myself growing warm with rage. To think that I had come two hundred miles only \to find that the girl I counted on was as fickle as that. "I must see about my room," I said, and broke away and went upstairs. When I came back they were all three sitting together. It was in the front hall. Helen got up. "Shall we go for a row?" she said. I want to show you the surroundings." , "Let's," said Mr. Pollard. "Let's," said Mr. Bertrand. "How jolly!" exclaimed the voice j of Mr. Pollard. "Delightful!" cried Mr. Bertrand. ^ "Let's make up a party," said , Helen. "Come Jack; take us all. ( You row so splendidly!" ( They piled in, and. there being no ( help for it; I went along. Next day the affair progressed in about the same fashion. We all went on a tiresome picnic and I cooked the dinner. ] That night we were all tired and t went to bed early. But I woke up ( at midnight. and. thinkinz it all over. ; and Helen's cruelty, I made up my i mind to give the affair up. The t next morning I made my arrange- i raents to leave on the first train. < I took an early breakfast; then I I started down to the lake for a last i look. On the way back I came face I to face with Helen. She betrayed 1 anxiety. I "I've been looking for you everywhere," she cried. "Surely this is 1 not true?you are not going? The i clerk told me." ; "Yps T am " : There was a rustic seat in a bypath, and we both sat down. "You've been horrid to me," said Helesu "ever since you came. You haven't " "I haven't been any worse to you than you have been to me." I re- < plied. Helen began to cry softly. ] "You told me once," she said, ] "that?that you loved me." "I do," J replied. I was beginning ] to feel rather queer myself. _"Of i , t SffiSfin&tiSL . ... t . course I lovt? you. Helen." I said. } had to put my arm around her then It seemed the most natural thing to do. "Haven't I told you I loved you?" I went on. ''Haven't I said that you were the only girl I eve* thought about? Didn't I come 20C miles so I could be with you? And whun I got here what did I find? That I couldn't even get near you?'Helen looked up and smiled through her tears. "Don't you understand, Jack, 3ear?" she said. 'I wanted to tell you before, but " She blushed. "No," I replied, bluntly; "I don't understand. What is it? Why do rou tolerate those?those??" Words failed me. "Why, because they are so smartlooking and handsome, and have such perfect manners. Only, Jack, dear, :rom the way you have been treating me. I was almost afraid that it really wasn't going to be necessary :o cultivate them." "Necessary!" I repeated. "What lo you mean? Explain yourself." "Why, Jack," replied Helen, 'have, you, or can you have, the faintest, remotest idea of how hard t is to get good-looking ushers nowadays? Look at Bessie Billings' vedding. What awful-looking things she had. And don't you see, Jack, iear, why I want to keep on good :erms with Mr. Pollard and Mr. Bertrand?" Then T understood.?Judee. ROOSEVELT TO EDITORS. 5ays No Other Body of His Countrymen Wield Such Influence. Editors from all parts of the Uni:ed States assembled in the Auditorium Building at the Jamestown Exposition. They were members of the National Editorial Association, which leld its annual convention there. The :hief feature was the address of President Roosevelt, who spoke as tallows: "It is of course a mere truism to ;ay that no other body of our coun;rymen wield as extensive an influence as those who write for the daily jress and for the periodicals. It is ilso a truism to say that such power mplies the gravest' responsibility, ind the man exercising it should hold limself accountable, and should be leld by others accountable, precisely as if he occupied any )ther position of public trust. do not intend to dwell upon mur ^nfioe +/*%_/! n v V* r\ rt* nror cova hat 1 shall permit myself to point >ut one matter where it seems to me bat the need of our people is vital, t is essential that the man in public ife and the man who writes in the mblic press shall both of them, if hey are really good servants of the jeople, be prompt to assail wrongdong and wickedness. But in thus as;ailing wrongdoing and wickedness here are two conditions to be fultlled, because if unfulfilled harm and lot good will result. In the first dace, be sure of your facts and avoid iverything like hysteria or exaggeraion; for to assail a decent man for omething of which he is innocent is o give aid and comfort to every icoundrel, while indulgence in hyserical exaggeration serves to weaktn, not strengthen, the statement of ruth. In the second place, be sure hat you base your judgment on conluct, and not on the social or ecolomic position of the individual with vhom you are dealing. There are food and bad men in every walk of ife, and their being good or bad does lot depend upon whether they have ir do not have large bank accounts, fet this elemental fact, this fact vhich we all accept as self-evident, phen we think each of us of the peo>le whom he himself knows in his msiness and social relations, is often ompletely ignored by certain public nen and certain public writers. The nen who thus ignore it and who atack wickedness only when found in i particular class are always unsafe ind are sometimes very dangerous eaders. Distrust equally the man vho is never able to discover any dees of rich men to attack and the nan who confines himself to attackng the sins and shortcomings of rich nen. It is a sure sign of moral and nental dishonesty in any man ? in his public assaults upon niquity he is never able to see any niquity save that of a particular :lass; and this whether he is able to >ee the crimes of arrogance and oppression in the rich or the crimes of ;nvy and violence in the poor. He is 10 true American if he is a respecter )? persons where right and wrong are concerned, and if he fails to delounce the demagogue no less than he corruptionist, to denounce alike :rimes of organized greed and crimes )f brutal violence. There is equal leed to denounce the wealthy man vho swindles investors or buys legisatures or oppresses wage workers, md the needy man who inflames :!ass hatred or incites mob violence. iVe need to hold the scales of justice ?ven, and to weigh them down on )ne side is as bad as to weigh them lown oil the other." White Sands in New Mexico. Tho white sands of New Mexico lave at last been put to practical lse. Experiments prove that when Iry it is almost pure plaster of paris. cement made from the substance s equal in strength to the best made, md has twenty-five per cent, less iveight. Bricks of half the weight )f the ordinary Philadelphia pressed jrick and an equally fine appearance lave recently been manufactured from the avDsum. These bricks withstand a pressure of 1000 pounds to the square inch. Various artificial products have been made?a close imitation of vory, a cleverly colored meerschaum ind a waterproof tiling resembling i fine imported glaze. All sorts of :halk products may be readily manufactured, and many pretty pieces of pottery and souvenir trinkets of trifling value have been made in the irial experiment. A recently organized company has come into control of most of the 70,000 acres of white sand hills. It proposes to erect a mill and to manufacture products of this wonderful white pile. The brick and plaster aave already found a market.?Sunset Magazine. i First Automobile That The automobile is not a modern was running in the streets of New Y< vented by Robert Dudgeon, who buill called, to carry him to and from bus: church. It was a noisy apparatus ani nearly a hogshead of water on each 1 years, when the city authorities for' chine is still in existence at the inv< lar automobile, built by Mr. Dudgeon, Londorj. New Woman of Japan. fiS&i&nx ;' g* I <&&&?*"'"" MTSS AKURI INOKUCHI. Professor of Physical Training in the Women's Higher Normal School of Tokio. After the Feast. A recent church notice in Manchester read: "A potato pie supper Will be held on Saturday evening. Subject for Sunday evening, 'A Night of Agony.' "?London Daily Mail. Thousands For One Flower. For an orchid of the OdontoglosBum Crispum Leonr.rd Perfect variety $3675 was paid at a sale at CheapBide.?London Daily Mail. UNFORTUNATE _ Future Father-in-Law (who refe splendid cow, Seppl, when you marry The President Has Reserved All Coal Lands on the Public Domaia From Further* Sale. ?From the Post-Intelligencer (Seattle.) Was Ron in New York, product, as most people think. One 5rk a half century ago. It was ln: the "Steam Road Wagon," as It was iness and to convey his family to i consumed two bushels of coal and trip. Mr. Dudgeon rode In It for ten bade his further use of It. The masntor's Long Island home. A slml ? f fV?A Prvefol Polo^n wa.3 t?i.LLIU ilCU CX L LUC vt j Mwuk Am Miuvw| Useful Kitchen Implement. In the illustration below Is shown an implement for general use In kitchens, embodying means for opening cans, squeezing lemons, mashing potatoes and similar operations. Tho base of this utensil has a fiat lower surface to be used as a potato-mashing head and a slotted squeezing cone extending upward from the base. The cone enters a cavity In a conicalshaped portion above carried by the shank of the implement. Extandlng G|?P 7//J ft entirely around the cone are a number of openings, the juice squeezed from the lemons being thus discharged. Pivotally connected to the shank is a hand lever, by means of I which the implement is manipi^ated I for mashine uotatoes and squeezing lemons. At the side of the implement is an attachment for opening cans, consisting of a centre pin and an adjustable cutter. The pin ie inserted in the centre of the can to be opened and tho cutter adjusted to extend close to the edge of the can. When in position the implement ^as a whole is turned upon the can, the can being thus cut adjacent to the edge.?Washington Star. Ex-President Cleveland has evidently abandoned his former summer home, on Buzzard's Bay, for that home in Tarnworth, N. H., where he has spent the last two summers with his family. LY PHRASED. A -iSj^ I ^ a.'- > rs to the dowry)?"You will have a Dorotea."?Meggeadorfer Blaetter. I Brains. Famous brains are of four sorts. The lowest group contains the minds that are stimulated greatly by alco- i hoi, tea and other drugs, and by im- I pressious' derived from the senses; the second group contains the infant prodigies, whose intellectual powers wane in middle age; the third group ^contains the pathological cases usually terminating ia insanity; the fourth and highest group is that of true geniuses, whoso powers remain unimpaired un'.il old age. This is Hausemann's classification. Spitzka has come to the conclusion that men eminent in exact sciences like astronomy and mathematics have the greatest average brain weight. Next come the men or action, including statesmen and artists, and after these come the biologists, geologists and other representatives or the descriptive sciences.?Chicago Tribune. A college o? foreign languages has been opened in Canton, China, the port from which most emigrants sail to distant parts of the globe. : ? i\?S ' ' The most important of the essential oils produced in India is geranium or palma rosa oil. The distilla- ( tion method is the same as it was eighty years ago. By the use of X-ray3 and the cinematograph, an apparatus for repeatedly photographing moving ob- j jects at very brief intervals, scientists have succeeded in DhotocraDh ing movements of internal organs '' like the heart and lungs. These mov- v ing pictures when reproduced on a ( screen are of great assistance to < medical men. i An ingenious device has been in- ; vented by an employe of the street ; railway in a Western city and is j being tested. Whenever a passenger ] stands on the lower step a buzzer ? sounds in the motorman's compart-, i ment and warns him not to start the ; car until the passenger reaches the platform or the ground. Contact 1 points are placed in the step which are brought together by the weight \ of the passenger. , 1 The raveling of State highways in j Massachusetts during dry weather i has generally been prevented in the i past by spreading a thin coat of sand over the surface. Puring last year, J however, there were two quite pro- ' tracted dry spells which disturbed j the bond of the road and caused , loose stone to stand up on the sur- | face. Although sand was spread I thinly as before, it did not prevent cue raveling in all instances.?Engi neer. _____ i The high price of copper has J caused many engineers to believe , that the time is ripe for the use ot steel instead of copper for electric railway and power feeders. Juliua Alsburg, an American engineer, recently had occasion to make con- ( ductivity tests of various steel rail?, 1 both for third rail and surface use. The conductivity of these various ( rails was found to yary from 1-7 to , 1-13.8 that of copper. The servico i rails had an average conductivity 1-9 that of copper, while some intended for third rail were as low as i 1-72. ARAB STEED SANS SPOTS. Man Fresh From Desert Shatters | Fond Tradition of Circus. Homer Davenport, who is described ( in the Woman's Home Companion as < "fresh from the Arabian desert," de- i clares there is no such thing as a 1 spotted or piebald Arabian steed. "Circuses are perhaps more to blame for the misrepresentation of the Arab horse than, any other source," says he. "A friend of mine owns a circus, and I saw hi3 posters \ a few years ago, claiming to exhibit eighteen or twenty of the only Arabian horses brought to America. j "He said they were captured with j great difficulty, and were brought to New York by a special permit of the ; CitUnn + Vi o f fV?av Ttrnra a f V* ck foVill V kjuivau, luau iuc; nuio ui. tut lumn,/ known in history as the Eagle Feath- ' er horses, so xnuch prized in the Queen of Sheba's days; that they ] were snow white, with big markings < in tlnir spots of the tip of eagle < feathers. ] 'We don't have to believe every- f thing we read on the circus posters. 1 In this case I am mighty certain these 'spotted Arabians' were bought at Albany, Ore. ( "The most peculiar part of this spotted horse business is this, and it I is not a very strange reason when you i know it, that spotted anything is created by a mixture of different races, or different breeds, and that likely ac- . counts for the fact that the Arabian desert in all its history ha3 never produced a spotted or piebald horse; possibly i'rom the fact that there is never anv mixture of blood." , Not Vanify After All. It is usually pure vanity that i causes a man to gaze at himself in * every mirror he happens to pass, but * with women the case is different, according to one observer. A man has j really very little use for a mirror. 1 He could dress in the dark, and part his hair successfully even if he were < blind. But there is hardly an article ] that a woman can put on without the 1 aid of a mirror and without a whole armory of looking glasses. She can- * not be sure when the various articles of her toilet have been well and truly adjusted that the ensemble is satis-' factory. And even when the work is complete she has no assurance that j a pin may not surreptitiously slide from its place or a lock of hair es- j cape from its moorings, thereby mar- 1 ring totally the effect which she has ] labored so painfully to produce. 1 What wonder, therefore, that she , glances anxiously into every avail- i able mirror to assure nerseit tnat j all is well? And why should man, who peers into those same mirrors merely to gratify hi3 vanity, presume to jeer at her? ] . 1 Diphtheria in Birds. A Frenchman, named Eattier, who Is both a physician and a bird fancier, had a large collection of birds < in an aviary attached to his home. ' A few months ago they were beset ! with a malady which proved to be ! diphtheria. Most of his pets sue- ] cumbed to it, but at length it oc- j curred to him to try the antitoxin of the disease so successfully employed nrlfV* V?nmon rxoHonts Wo arlminic tered the remedy by injecting it under the skin, and followed up this treatment. by washing the birds' throats with antiseptic fluids. Those which still survived all recovered. London's Matinee Girls. < I have heard people marvel at the number of women and girls who find 1 time to attend the matinees at the 1 London theatres, and even wait out- , side the doors for hours to obtain '{ [ good seats in the cheaper parts. I must confess that the phenomenon , "gives furiously to think" in these 3trenuous times, when so many women make such a point of taking lifa i ''aeriously."?Lady's Pictorial. i *- -v ? . 1CKFELLERSJUBP0ENJIE0" ludge Landis, of Chicago, Demands Cflnfe A limit +ho Oil i aoia nuuui uib tfianuaiu uii. Court's Action is the Result of a Refusal of Attorneys to Supply Financial Information Requested. Chicago.?Subpoenas were issued n the United States District Court "or the leading officers of the Standird Oil Company of New Jersey. Subpoenas were also issued for the jfflcers of the Standard Oil Company ot Indiana. The officials of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, for whom 3ummons were issued, are John D. Rockefeller, president; William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold and Henry H. Rogers, vice-presidents; W. H. Tilford, treasurer; C. M. Pratt, secretary; William P..Howe, assistint treasurer, and Charles T. White, issistant secretary. me louowing omciais oi iae ouiu* lard Oil Company of Indiana were ilso summoned: J. A. Moffett, presiient; W. P. Cowan, vice-president, and G. W. Stahl, secretary and treasurer. H. E. Felton, president of the Union Tank Line, and F. A. Wan, former general freight agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, were also served with subpoenas. The issuance of the subpoenas was :he direct result of the refusal of the attorneys of the Standard Oil Company to supply Judge Landis of the 3durt with information he requested regarding the financial condition of :he company. The attorneys declared that the information should have been sought at the time of the trial, and declared that the request of Judge Landis was extra-judicial and unwarranted. The Judge replied that he was entitled to the information and intended to have it, and directed District Attorney Sims to prepare subpoenas for such officials of the 3tandard Oil Company of Indiana, or for any of the officers of the controlling corporation of the Standard Oil Company who might, in the opinion of the District Attorney, have the information desired by the Court. The Standard on company was indicted in the Federal court on the charge of using illegal freight rates tendered to it by the Chicago and Alton road, and after a long trial was i found guilty on 1462 counts of the Indictment. A maiimum fine of $20,000 is allowed on each count of the indictment, making a total possible fine against the company of $29,240,000. Before passing sentence on the company Judge Landis announced that it was his custom .to proportion the fine according to the financial condition of the person or corporation convictad, and asked for specific information regarding the financial condition of the Standard Oil Company. This information he has beefi unable to obtain, and the subpoenas Issued were the consequence. DYNAMITE KILLS EIGHT. Fwo Americans and Six Italians Are Blown to Pieces by Explosion. Houston, Va.?As the result of the premature explosion of a box of dynamite, near Tola, eight persons were killed and six others seriously inlured. Two American? killed were Edward Clarke, of Charlotte County, fireman of a donkey engine, and Coraelius Sullivan, of Lamont, 111., foreman of the McDermott Construction H!nmr>?nv. of Chicazo. which has the contract for the construction of a part of the Tidewater Railway. The 3lx others killed were Italian workmen. The accident happened in a deep railroad cut where about fifteen men were engaged. About fifty pounds of dynamite exploded. The explosion was heard for miles around and nearby houses were damaged by the terrific shock. AUTOMOBILE WRECK AT YALE. D. L. Oliver, of Pittsburg, Was Killed Instantly. New Haven, Conn.?His head and body crushed together, D. Leet Dliver, twenty-one years old, a Yale undergraduate, and who a few years igo inherited several millions from tils father, J. B. Oliver, a Pittsburg -nr^o inoHnflv IHlIoH 11T1 II UUULiasiei , rr Cfco moiuuu; . ier his racing automobile, which shot aver the low side rail of an iron bridge four miles from here and landed bottom up on the bank of a iittle creek. Two other undergraduates, W. Strothers Jones, of Red Bank, N. J., and John A. C. Colston. 5f Baltimore, were badly hurt. Ernest Hudson, a former Yale man, and ivho was Oliver's guest for the commencement, escaped with a few slight ;uts and bruises. Judge Aids Lovings. Basing his opinion upon the ruling 5f Justice Fitzgerald in the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, Judge Barksdale, at Houston, Va.. refused to permit the introduction of a word of evidence tending to disprove the story of Mis? Elizabeth Loving, whose testimony ia Lhe mainstay in the defense of her father, former Judge William G. Loving, manager of Thomas F. Ryan'? Virginia estate, on trial for the shooting of Theodore Estes. Oklahoma Congressman Named. The Democrats of the Fifth Oklaniafrinf nominated Scott Ferris uuuia uiobi iv/w ? _ tor Congress on the 296th ballot. Swamped With Business. Men who have traveled from one 2nd of the country to the other report :hat there is nowhere apparent rea3on for the falling off in railroad stock values, as the railroads have more business than they can handle, md the industrial output is increas- \ ing steadily. , Wisconsin Kills Two-Cent Bill. At Madison, Wis., the Senate b3' a I'ote of 5 to 2 L killed the Two-Cent Railway Faro bill. Newsy Gleanings. Germany nas zi.vt o auiua. Ben Stephenson is the next captain Df the Harvard track team. Advices from Shanghai say that Chinese distrust of Japan is increasing , American boxing bids fair to dis place savate in France, says a special :able dispatch. 1 Mayor Mahool, of Baltimore, asked the Appeal Tax- Court to put a tax ol ?1000 a year on bachelors. Daniel's comet will be only 70,- < A /V /V AAA il ? ?~ 4-Ua AOffh fV*? uuu,uuu muea irum cue co^u, astronomers say, oil July 25. I I tO .'xv3 WASHINGTON. The President signed the Dominican treaty. secretary laic returned irom am trip in the West. The Government concluded its case in the trial of Statistician Holmes for selling cotton crop reports. Chief Justice Frear cabled President Roosevelt his acceptance of the Governorship of Hawaii. Advices received by the State Department say that an attack by Nicaragua on Guatemala and Salvador is apprehended. Many navy officers believe submersion of the armor belt is a serious defect in the design of the new 20,000 ton battleships. The forestry service has appointed % "i J. M. Moody to kill wolves and cougars in the. Dixie National Forest in Utah. The Postoffice Department has issued s. fraud order against Aktiebolaget Obligationskontoret and A. B. Obligationskintoret, of Stockholm, Sweden. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Secretary Taft's announcement that American occupation would continue in Cuba for eighteen months was received with few marks of in leresc in tiavana. In a fierce fight between the con-. stabulary and Moros, in the Lake* Lanao District, P. I., several of the " S constabulary and many Moros were killed. * The coat of recruiting and bringing the 5000 Porto Ricans to Hawaii was * $564,191, or $112 per capita. Governor-General Smith, of Manila, declares that Pulajajji^m Is ended in the Islands of Leyte and Samai'. The stockholders of the Hilo .Railroad, of Hawaii, have authorized a bond issue of $4,500,000, of which $1,000,000 will oe used for refunding purposes, $2,000,000 for the exten- , M sion of the road to Hamakua and the remainder for further extensions. DOMESTIC. Formal announcement was made of the proposal to build a four-track elevated monorail road between Newark and Jersey City. The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill permitting policy holders of mutual life insurance companies to vote for directors by mail, proxy or. in person. * . ,'jjdl r, * T UiyAn aSvtv-ofcrht wurge A. VUU Uiuggu, 0utv/-v?OM?r years old, German Consul at Balti- t i ?3 more since 1S76, Is dead. He was head of a shipping firm. One of the best known bookmakers In the country, William M. Ayres, * was killed by an electric car as he was leaving the race track at Seattle. Subpoenas were issued by Federal Judge Landis, at Chicago, to compal the officials of the Standard Oil Company to testify as to the Trust's financial condition. Charged with participating in the murder of Georgo W. Mabust, Lee Clifton and Clinton Fallaw and Isaac Taylor have been arrested at Batesburg, S. C. Wall Street was greatly cheered by a reassuring interview given out ? 1 by William Rockefeller, in which he said he saw no signs of business reaction in the near future. 1 a Harvard College held her 271st commencement exercises at Cambridge, Mass. Much damage to property was done by a windstorm at Cleveland, Okla., and Tulsa, I. T. Telephone girls at Butte, Mont., struck in sympathy with the linemen. Burglars robbed the postoffice at Chiltonville, Mass., of $260 in money and stamps. The new scout cruiser i;nester,( with a contract speed of twenty-four knots, was launched at Bath, Me. Governor Comer, of Alabama, has signed the commission of John H. Bankhead as United States Senator, succeeding John T. Morgan. FOREIGN. M. von Schwanebach, Controller of the Empire, has resigned from the yi0 Russian Cabinet. A bomb was thrown at a wagon of the Russian Imperial Bank in Erlvan Square, Tiflis; two employes of the bank were killed and $125,000 is missing. Richard Croker's Orby won the Irish Derby. Andrew Carnegie, having approved the site and plans for the Palace of ; Peace building, left The Hague for Scotland. A royal commission has been appointed at The Hague, with Prince Henry of the Netherlands as presi dent, 10 inquire iulu cue pi^rcuuvu oi loss of life by 3hipwreck and generally to study methods of saving life at sea. | A torpedo was fired at Admiral Wiren's cutter at Sebastopol, Russia. Much damage was done in Mexico by an overflow of the lower Rio Grande. ' Socialist and Labor members o! , the Duma issued manifestoes charging the Czar with breach of faith. M. Marcellin Albert, leader of the ; ?? wine growers in France, surrendered to the authorities, and is in jail at Montpellier. The city of Hamburg has voted $14,375,000 for the extension of the port, which includes the development of the harbor of Harburg. M. Pichon, the Foreign Minister, communicating to tne ujiamoer 01 Deputies the text of the Franco-Japanese agreement, said that a similar treaty between Russia and Japan might be expected soon. Lord Alverstone held in the case of Guerin, who escaped from Devil's Island, that a British subject convicted of crime in a foreign country and escaping to British territory, was not amenable to the extradition act. Prince Henry of Prussia was banished from Germany by Emperor William for his complicity in the Eulenberg scandal. The second peace conference at The Hague was opened by the Dutcn Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Neli?doff was chosen president, and hia speech was a blow to the advocates of universal peace, which he characterized as purely chimerical. The Social Revolutionists and Group of Toil Deputies in the former Russian Parliament issued appeals to the people to continue by force the struggle against the Government. It 13 officially announced at Lisbon. Portugal, that the King and Premier Franco are in complete accord and *-* ~ iruifl. inai mere is no prus]iov;i. ui a uuuiatarial crisis. *?ia| "'^3h