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[' ' . k MASTER RAKf. i Striding, striding over the sen. Calming the rage ot the waves goes he, Lulling the moan ot' the mighty main, Assauginy: Master Rain! Marching, n-.archin^ over the land. Scattering wide. with a lavish hand, 'Draughts for tfcs thirsting seed or the grain. Bountiful Master Rain! Never, never a wanderer lone: Ever, ever a-brim with son?? A plaintive, pleading. pleasuring strain? Musical Master Rain! Welcome thou when the shadows sleep! "Welcome thou when the dreams are deep! Bearing Peace to Penance and Pain, Merciful Master Rain! Old as the host of the hills of earth, Yet as voting as the sou! of mirth, Fain are we of thee all of us. fain, Brotherly Master Rain! ?Clinton Seolhrd. in New Orleans TimesDemccrat. (n ni (n iHS==rESH5Z5HSHSE5 jjl HOW MURDOCH | FOUND OUT | SHSZ5H5HSH5ESZ...2 Cj "I don't know why I am walking down this street," said young Murdoch to himself at 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. "I am not going .0 Dulcie's. I've done everything except put the proposal in plain words, and she has taken pains to show me at everv turn that my case is hope less. There's no use causing her the distress of actually refusing me. The thing for me to do is to keep away. "Look how she acted when I was bragging up Alice Harvey's domestic ability the other night?testing her to see if she'd care. She chimed in as if it were a positive relief to have me notice some other girl. Ah!" A gleam lighted his eyes as he glanced at a window in Dulcie's house, but his face hardenec; as he tramped on. "What could a merry little creature like Dulcie want with a big. clumsy fellow like me, anyway?" he demanded of himself. "That dream is over. I'm not going in." Having arrived at this decision, he turned and mounted the steps to Dulcie's house. It seemed an unreasonable time "before the door opened. Then, to his iiiTsnse surprise, appeared Dulcie herself, covered from neck to toe by a long-sleeved pink gingham apron. "She seemed to be out of breath, and there was an ostentatious trail of flour across one of her pink cheeks. "Oh, how do you do?" she cried. "Excuse my appearance, please. It's Thursday, you know, and the maid Is out. Just step into the library, and I'll go and make myself presentable." "Presentable!" Murdoch blocked her way and smiled down at her with an elated expression hard to trans late. "iou never looKea so cnarming to me in your life before. What's in the oven, anyway? Bread or pies? Let me come out into the kitchen and help." ' Dulcie gave a cry that suggested dismay. "Oh, no, I couldn't! That is, everything's done. I'll just go and?" "No, don't go! And don't take off that apron, please. I had decided never to say this, but?" Then, without waiting to take the chair she offered him, he manfully asked the great question. From the onnosite side of the li brary table Dulcie listened, with eyes downcast. "You had decided nevsr to say this," she murmured without looking up. "What changed you?" A twinkle relieved Murdoch's solemnity. "That kitchen apron and the flour on your cheek," he confessed. Dulcie's eyes blazed at him. "There! Just what I've thought since you talked about Alice Harvey the other night. Your idea of getting married is to secure a cook." "My idea of getting married," MurN -doch returned stoutly, "is to secure you." Suiting the action to the word, he started around the library table, but Dulcie sidled swiftly along and the barrier still intervened. "Wait! Listen to me!" she commanded imperiously. "You're making ?. mistake. I don't know how to cook. I've been too busy with my music. I began to suspect, from the queer way you acted, that you were afraid T hadn't nil fhp np^pccnrv nnaHfim. ? * j Xiuuwuv" tions for a wife and I ran and put on this apron and dabbed this flour on my chesk after I ?.... you coming just to?to see if?" "To land me for the fun of throwing me back into the water," Murdoch finished for her with sudden grimness. "No! Not that at all! Oh, dear, I can't explain just why I did it. Wait! Wait! Didn't you hear me tell you that I can't cook?" she pro. tested, wondering what in the world had suddenly become of the large library table. "Who cares if you can't?" was his blissful answer. 'But. you said it was the kitchen apron made you ask me." "Good reason why. Didn't I see you at the window in that light blue silk thing as I came up the steps and when you opened the door all in this other rig didn't it give me courage to think?what I'd never dared think "before?that you cared what I thought? It wasn't the cooking that made me speak?it was the caring! " i mnik i can learn, jl>uicm<? wiuspered. "To care?" "No, to cook." "Hang the cooking! I'd live on Tarnished chicken from a delicatessen shop all my life if I could look up at you now and then while I carved it. 'Necessary qualifications!' Great Scott, Dulcie! Does a man stop to ?sk an angel whether she can make buckwheat cakes? Does he?'' "Oil, let me go! Somebody's coming in." Dulcie cried, as a latch key clicked. "Help me off with this apron, quick! I never could explain it so that any one else would understand. Tuck it under that pillow. There! And the flour on my face?" "That's nearly all rubbed off." MurI doch assured her, complacentl; "Let me see! Yes, there's a little b right down here close to your lipi There! It's all-right now." An instant later, when Dulcie's ot servant orotner warned into iae 1 brary the only unusual thing he n< tired was that Murdoch seemed to 1) napping -with his handkerchief at hi own coat lapels.?Chicago News. A Useful College. By JOHN" CORRIX. Eastern educators were surprise lour years ago when a memuer 01 in British Parliament who had come t this country on the Mosely edncatior al commission, the Hon. Williar Henry Jones, placed ihe Universit of Wisconsin in a list of our five leac ing institutions of learning and e> eluded from the list Yale, Princetoi Columbia, Pennsylvania ?nd John Hopkins. Surprise changed to skepticisi when he proceeded to state his opir ion that Wisconsin stood above eve the four other institutions which h named as of the first order?Hai vard, Cornell. Michigan and Califoi nia ? being, in fact, the foremos university of the land. Many of the reasons he. gave fo this opinion were vague and uncor vincing. Wisconsin has no schools c architecture, medicine or theologj But he was on firm ground when h said: "The University of Wisconsi is a wholesome product of a commor wealth of three millions of people sane, industrial and progressive. 1 knits together the professions and la bors; it makes the fine arts and th anvil one." This judgment touche the bedrock of fact?highly charac teristic fact. Of all the great Stat? universitie Wisconsin is still the poorest in inde I pendent income. Living on the bouc | ty of the State Legislature, it earl learned the policy of producing r? suits of such immediate utility a were most likely to impress the rura mind. In the phrase of a local satir ist, its ideal became not culture, bu agriculture. Its first great achievement was milk test invented by Professor Ste phen M. Babcock, of the Agricultura School. This device enables farme and dairyman to measure easily am accurately the proportion of butte fat contained in the yield of eaci cow, and thus to pursue the breeding of cattle on a scientific basis and th manufacture of butter and cheesi with accuracy and speed. Togethe with the method of instantly separat ing the cream from each day's yieli by means of centrifugal force, invent ed by Dr. De Laval, of Sweden, th Babcock test forms the basis of th immense co-operative industry o modern dairying. It was estimatei in 1900 that it saved the cheese fac tories, dairymen and farmers of Wis consin alone $S00,000 a year, o twice the current expenses of tne uni versity for all departments, and it i of proportionate value to every Stat of the Union, to every agricultura country of the world, from Switzer land to Australia. Another Wiscon sin invention, a curd test for detect ing milk unsuitable for the manufac ture of cheese, is said to save the peo pie of the State each year more thai the cost of the School of Agriculture Unseasonable Menus. J "I believe this bill of fare is copy righted," said a patron of a popula ! A ? A ~ ~ V. ? ? resiauraui us liu iuuiv^u wiauuiij a his neighbor's plate. "I have bee: dining in restaurants since I brok up housekeeping and they offer th ! very same class of food to-day whei j the temperature is ninety as si I months ago when it was twentj i Pork chops, beefsteak, boiled ham j there they are. i "The inhabitants of tropical coun tries use rice and fruits and not con diments. These people ought to kno\ what sort of food is most suitabl for the hot weather, but with us i | makes no difference, hot or cold, we j or dry, there is the same old menu. "Another remarkable thing would like to mention is this: Abou cv month ago I went to a seaside sum mer hotel in the hope that I woul get fresh fish and plenty of it. wanted a change from the meat die of an inland town; but judge my sui prise when I found that fish was th scarcest article to be had in the sea side hotel. Next year I intend to bu a tent and get up a party of four o five who will camp out on the hank of some lake or river."?Birminghar Age-Herald. Thumb Bells. The thimble was orginally called thumb bell by the English, becaus worn on the thumb, then a thumbh and finally its present name. It wa a Dutch invention, and was first glas and pearl. In China beautiful carve pearls thimbles are seen, brought t England in 1695. Thimbles were formerly made onl of iron and brass, but in comparative ly late years they have been made c gold, silver, steel, horn, ivory, an even glass and pearl thimbles ar seen, bound with gold and with th end of gold. The first thimble introduced int Siam was a bridal gift from the kin to the queen. It is shaped like lotus bud, made of gold, and thickl studded with diamonds arranged t spell the queen's name.?Churc Eclectic. Sure to Be Promoted. A grizzled old colonel, who ha seen hard active service iu seven campaigns, did not view with plea: ure the recent promotions of youngc i and almost unknown officers wh ' wero jumped over his head. Strol i ing about camp one day, he cam ! upon an officer fondling a monkey. "Colonel," said the officer, "this : tbe uiosc remarKaoie raonKey i eve saw. Why, he can take a stick an go through the manual of arms a most as well as one of the soldiers." 'Sh!" cautioned the colonel, glan< ing about in great alarm. "Don tell anybody. Supposing the Ws Office heard of it? They'd make hii a brigadier-general!"?Pick-Me-Up. In the churchyard of Grimstoi Norfolk, an anvil may be seen at tli head of the grave of a local blacl smith. New York City.?Fancy waists i ! in demand and each new design (I | therefore certain to find its pla e This one is singularly attractive a 0 graceful while it can be made frc i- almost any seasonable materi n ! There are draperies which give grai y | ful and becoming lines and whi 1 ! v 1 appropriately can be made of n lace or anything of a similar sort, a t the rather deep chemisette is becoi ing and in the height of style. A1 a the sleeves are novel. As illustrat crepe de Chine is made with a chen 1 sette of tucked aud drapery of pla r net with trimming of lace and ban 3 : ' Jrjpl ! ^ ; d i I : Ing of heavy embroidered filet, whi it ! a crush girdle of messaline sati - finishes the lower edge. e The waist i3 made with the fltte L- lining and itself consists of the fron y the backs and the chemisette. It r laid in pleats that provide becomir s fulness and the drapery is arrange n over the fronts, the upper edges beir Included in the shoulder seams whi the inner edges are concealed und< the tucks. The waist proper extent a only slightly below the upper edge < e the girdle and this latter is arrange ; over the lining, so that the entii g garment is put on at one time. Tt |s sleeves are made over fitted linin: h which are faced to form the cuffs c q I under sleeves. The quantity of material require y for the medium size is three yarc twenty-one, two and one-half yarc twenty-seven or one and three-qua (j ! ter yards forty-four inches wide, fivi e aighths yard of tucked net for tl: e chemisette, one and one-quarter yarc of banding two and one-quartc 0 Inches wide, three-eighth yard c g net for the drapery and three an a Dne-half yards of lace four inch< y wide for edging the drapery, trin 0 ming the chemisette and making th lj luffs, flve-eighth yard of silk for t!i J girdle. About New Belts. s | The belts of the season! Or I pauses to contemplate, but to paus 5_ | coo long is to become uewnaerea r ,r j the variety and winsomeness of tt 0 I ;lesigns and styles offered. A narro j. i belt of black patent leather claspo 0 | with a modest pearl or brass buck j is quite as modish as the wider an js | more expensive belt of steel equippe ,r | with gold buckle, or the wide ste< ! studded belt of black elastic, tli j. ! adoption of which by smart dressy promises to insure an elastic be c_ furore. 't ir The Elizabethan Ruff. m A veritable Elizabethan ruff, a outstanding affair made of closel Seated net and finished with a knc i, >f ribbon at the back, is one of th ii. nt le | lewcuuiers. vv ueuier it win nuu i- j flace in this ag-e of tailoring and o I luffy neck fixings remains to be seer e SMonrvw\f 5 ire | Watteau Colorings. is The Watteau colorings, with dov6 I ce* for the groundwork and spriggetf nd azure and pink designs upon It, are )m for girlish millinery schemes extremely lovely. le Block Cuff Facings. v Quite the latest thing la toi have e facings and cuffs in black and white ^ striped linen to a tailor-made cos- v tume; it is original and at onca(ele- t gant and striking. g Lessen the Hips. The hips must be lessened, and c some one has discovered that to expand the waist a trifle is a quick and easy method of making the great c difference between hips and waist b \ disappear. * i 1 For a Stringy Throat. 3 Anv movement of the head, regu- n I larl3r and repeatedly done, that j v stretches the throat muscles, will helf t to keep them in good condition, ii Cream of some kind is necessary tc ' feed the tissues. a t Colors. j. There has never been a season n when light colors were so fashionable, c Every day a new color or a combina- S tion of two or more shades makes ^ its appearance, and it is really difficult j. to keep up with the names of both colors and materials. In addition tc n the familmr pastel tints are leaf and j malachite green, topaz, dafTodil and c et orchard yellow, coral and crevettei "w n(j pink; an exquisite shade of old-rose t] m_ known as pomino and a very brighl ? ohnrlo nf tan known as blond. g0 ed ??? r 3j. Girl's Over Dress. .in Every variation of the guimp< fi d- dress is being worn by school girls t le and some very pretty and novel Q] in effects are shown. Here is one that a( is trimmed to give the princesse lines w ;d and which is charmingly attractive sc it, while It is absolutely simple and is youthful. As illustrated it is made cc ig of buff linen with trimming of brown ui >d but it is appropriate for linen in all s* ig the prevailing colors. le The dress is made with the blouse 3r and skirt. The blouse consists of j^. Is the fronts and backs and the narrow it jf Mandarin sleeves. It is tucked be- of ;d comingly and is gathered at the low- be re er edge and joined to a belt. The w ie skirt is straight and laid in back;s ward turning pleats, the closing being >r made invisibly at the back. In The quantity of material required id for the medium size (twelve years) K J^- *IIxt : 2'" i is five and three-quarter yards Jo >t twenty-four, four and one-quarter L< e yards thirty-two or three and onea half vnrHe fnrfv-frmr in oh ps wide witJ? >f one yard thirty-two Inches wide far j i. trimming. ' ' fii 'hesiht denies if anon m ciets c Statement Savs He Neither An proved Nor Disapproved. e VRIGHT'S DIFFERENT STORY ^rom Oyster Eay Mr. Roosevelt Issued tv .1 Correction in Which He Said n He Had Taken Absolutely No u Action in the Hazing Cases. P P Oyster Bay, L. I.?President Rooseelt reversed himself again in the ^ natter of the dismissal of the eight ^ Vest Point cadets. In a statement ir rhich is considered remarkable here, s< he President takes issue with both ? lecretary Loeb and General Luke E. Vright, the Secretary of War, in say- a ng he has taken no action in the d ase whatever, but is waiting on Sec- ^ etary Wright to come to some de- ^ ision. The statement was given out r< y Assistant Secretary Forster, Secre- fi ary Loeb being away on his vacation. ? t is as follows: c "No action whatever has been aken by the President in the cases y f the cadets, the statements that they ^ /prp nricinallv nrrfprnd riifsmiscori ami tJ hat they had been ordered kept, be- & tig equally erroneous. An appeal M ras originally made to the President ei o interfere. He declined to take any ir ction or to interfere in any way until he Secretary of War had expressed " :is opinion, the view of the depart- ? aent then being, seemingly, that the tl adets should be turned out, but the lecretary not having come to any nal decision. "The Secretary then notified the j* 'resident that instead of making any n' eport he would like to discuss the s latter with the President in person. p' le accordingly came on and the disussion was held, but no final decision a 'as reached, the Secretary stating ? hat he was not able to make a final jr nd definite recommendation as to all tie cases, and preferred to make none ~ s regards any until he could do it as ~ egards all. u "The President has not yet heard ^ nally from the Secretary, and thers- j re, ot course, nas come 10 no nnai ecision. This is the first announcelent that the President has made in " he matter at all, and he has never t any time come to any decision one C ^ay or the other, excepting to state hat he -would probably follow the lews of the department." jr Contradicts Loeb and Wright. C The President's statement is in dl- R ect contradiction to the statements li f both Secretary Loeb and General ci Vright, the chronological record of tc rhich is: "On July 25 Secretary Loeb was lc sked by the newspaper men if the s< 'resident had approved the recorn- C lendation of the military board at ci Vest Point that the cadets accused of sc azing be dismissed. Mr. Loeb was tl ery emphatic in his reply. He said li a substance: tl " 'The President has already signed w he report. He is strongly opposed 0 hazing in the army and navy, and tl e is going to put his foot down hard cc 1 an effprt to stamp it out.' " | tl On July 28, after the cadets had j rst gone to Washington to plead . n heir cause before Secretary Wright, I nd later had come to Oyster Bay in a ' (j ain effort to obtain an audienca with he President, Mr. Loeb was again sked if the President had taken any ction in the matter, and he one? Iji lore said to the newspaper men:* [ fc "The President has signed the gi rder recommending the dismissal, la nd the matter is now up to Congress, ic s only a special act of Congress can 1 m ring about their reinstatement." J< On July 31 Secretary Wright ar- B [ved at Oyster Bay, and was asked sr ' he had come to discuss the cadet 0 tiestion with the President. He re- cr lisd that such was the case, and that l the morning, on his return, he lo ould have something to say about ai h( On the morning of August 1, after fo lending a night at Sagamore Hiil vi d after a long conference in which ssistant Secretary of State Eacon lined, Secretary Wright voluntarily iformed the newspaper men that the q( uestion had been settled: that both e and the President had decided that : _ ~ i 1 v. ^ i L&iui&Sfii wuuiu ue iuu severe puuisuient for the cadets, and that al- S( lough the President had signed the at :der before he (the Secre.ary) had he itually promulgated it, the matter th as now settled and the cadets would gi >on return to West Point. ce Secretary Wright went on to pay a at >mnliment to the cadets and ended ra |) by savir.g that after their rein-1 in atement they would be properly dis- j co plined according to the methods of le Military Academy. After Secretary Wright's statement j id reached the Executive office here. I _ was given out there that the action ! Jl1 ! the President in signing the order | ;fore it had even bsen promulgated as done merely as a joke to frighten 1 ^ ip vniinfr mpn. i:' ? * o . JK s I N, isiirance Company Sale Questioned. m; State Superintendent of Insurance an elsey went to New York City to in- w' sstigate the proposed sale of ?. marity interest in the Provident Life mi S3uranco Society to the Inter-Sc:ith- ab n Insurance Company. I Edison Stops Work. ' It was announced that Thomas A. ' an :lison had abandoned commercial th ientific work. an City Officials Bundled. , Corporation Counsel Pendleton ue-! [led that the New York City officials j Ld so bungled the Saxe law, reqtiir- I wl g tho tracks of the New York Cen- i Co al Road to be removed from E'.ev- j re: ith avenue, that the city will have ] de 3tart all over again. Ch I ha Full Liberty For Turkey. ; ar The imperial hatt, published !n i jnstantinople, Turkey, promises full | jerty and equality to all subjects ol" j e Sultan; a naw Cabi-nei., which is! ilieved to be temporarj, ^vas an- ph mnced. "Ci Women in the Day's News. Washington was visited during ! ine b.v 2 400 newly married couples . 101 om ail over the country. Mrs. John B. Stetson was married ! Philadelphia to Count Santa Eula- j i, Portuguese Consul at Chicago. ! cci Dr. W. T. Power, of New York, and j W iss Esther Redmond, daughter of I ihn E. Redmond, were married in W. jndon. un in filing her petition of bankrupt- lie Miss Sophia Kluber, of Trenton, N. , included in her list of property Wj ine gold engagement ring on the tin er of her netitioner. value S5." str I DIE CTJIO PLUNGE 'or finirlarl hu o lA/nmon I sane ui uuiuwu u) u ovuiiiuii Over 2 High Embankment irnkes Fail to Work For Young Driver, and Machine Jumped jjown 3o-*ooi car. San Francisco, Cal.?Five persons ere killed and two were injured ear Burlingame, a fashionable subrb, when a huge automobile, occuied by five women and two children, lunged down a steep embankment s the result of the snapping of the rakes. The dead are: Mrs. Th~ma3 .. McCormick, Miss Clara McCorlick, eighteen; Robert T. O'Brien, an of Mrs. Ira G. O'Brien; Ira G. 'Brien, Jr., three years; Mrs. Ira G. 'Brien. Mrs. McCauley's arms were broken nd Miss Ethel McCormick's shoulers sprained. The party had been on a visit to le home of Prince Ponlatowski, in le hills near Burlingame, and was Bturning to San Mateo, where both imilies have their summer homes, loming down a steep grade near rystal Lake Miss Ethel McCormick, ho was at the wheel, endeavored to heck the speed of the car by applylg the foot brake. It failed to hold ie automobile, which was rapidly aining a dangerous headway, and [iss McCormick hastily threw on the mergency brakes. They snapped alioat instantly. Fearing that she could not guide le huge car in safety to the bottom ? the grade on account of the sharp lrns in the road, the young woman ndeavored to steer it against the igh bank on the right, believing that ae friction on the wheels would ring it to a stop. The front wheel, owever, struck a large rock, swerved aarply and the next moment the car lunged down the steep embankment, :riking thirty-five feet below against tree. The occupants were shot out E the car as from a catapault, landlg on another road twenty feet beiw. Mrs. McCormick, her daughter lara and the infant son of Mrs. 'Brien struck on their heads and ere killed instantly. Mrs. Ira 'Brien and her three-year-old son, a, died three hours later. O LIQUOR "ADS." IN GEORGIA. onrt of Appeals Affirms Conviction of Chattanooga Dealer. Atlanta, Ga. ? Of wide reaching woo flA/>iai'nn nf tVlO u^ui laux^c tt ao iuu uvviotv^ v* v*?v ourt of Appeals in the case of R. M. ose, proprietor of a Chattanooga quor house, against the State. The ise came up on appeal from the Bar>w County Court. In affirming the decision of the wer court, finding Rose guilty of )licitlng through the mails, the ourt of Appeals held that it \?as a ime in Georgia for liquor houses to Jllcit trade through the mails, and lat sending letters was as much sociting as personal request, and that le crime was committed at tha point here the latter was received. The court held that this barring of le mails to liquor advertisements >uld not be considered infringing on le United States prerogatives. CDICT RACETRACK MANAGERS. rand Jury Condemn Them and the Police. Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Grand Jury iJBrooklyn, which has been occupied ir the last seven weeks in investiiting the working of the anti-betting ,w on the local racetracks, returned liietments against William Engean, Christopher J. Fitzgerald and )hn G. Cavanagh and the Brighton each Racing Association for con>iracy in aiding Joseph Vendig and rlando Jones in engaging in the ime of bookmaking. The Grand Jury also submitted a ng presentment attacking the police id the management oi! the Sheeps-' ;ad Bay and Brighton Beach tracks r their failure to put a stop to the olations of the law. AN EMPIRE-WIDE LOCKOUT. srman Ironmasters Tin-eaten to Close Down All Their Works. Stettin, Germany.?The lockout of )00 ship riveters, which is in effect the Vulcan Shipbuilding Yard ire, threatens to spread throughout e country. The trouble had its orin in the refusal of the men to acpt the terms of their employers relive to the payment of overtime tes, and in their objection to workg extra hours in the completion of utracts. KILLED OX CAMPAIGN TOUR. idge Vanderveer's Auto Struck by Rock Island Train. i-iutcmnson, iian.?juu;je Vanderveer, candidate for R^pub an nomination for Judge of the nth Judicial District before the priaries, was killed when a Rock Isld train struck the automobile in lich he was finishing his campaign. Rowel Taylor, who was driving the achine, was injured, but will probly recover. Venezuela Defies the Dutch. The Dutch cruiser Gelderland ra- | rned from La Guayra to Caracas j d reported that the Venezuela au- | orities refused to allow any com- i anications to be sent ashore. Marshal Kills Alleged Deserter. At Doniphan, Mo., W. E. Whitwell, 10 kept a country store in Ripley mnty, was shot and killed while j listing arrest by W. G. Smich, a j puty United States marshal from j iloago. Whitwell was alleged to ve deserted from the United States : my two or three years ago. Aaft Hogins Canned Speeches. After hearing one of Mr. Bryan's j onogianh speeches Mr. Taft i.vgan i Mining" ten oi his own. Among the Workers. Chicago has a school of instruction railway trainmen. Cigar makers at Mayagues, Porto I co, have formed a union. A Women's Label League has re- ' itly been organized at La Crosse, j is. r^._ f _ _ c tt * t 1: I 1 nn insurance usj(-*ui& ui w uewiug, i , Va., propose to organize a labor j Ion for their self-protection in the j ar future. Trade unionists at Walla Walla, i ash., have placed the president of ' 2 Trades Council as a candidate for eet commissioner. . ' : v " v * . - . / ' " 'Jf.; I SENATOR W, B, ALLISON DEAD Spent More Than Half His Life in National Service. Dean of the Upper House of Con- . gress Victim of Kidney Trouble at Dubuque (Iowa) Home, i - Dubuque, Iowa.?United states Senator W. B. Allison died at his home here after suffering for two weeks from a prostatic enlargement complicated with a disease of the kidney. He died In a period of unconsciousness. i He went to Congress in 1863, having been elected for the first time in the "preceding fall. For forty-three of the succeeding forty-five years he has been a man to be reckoned with at Washington, D. C. He was born in a logcabin in Perry, Wayne County, Ohio, on March 2, 1829. The son of a pioneer farmer, he had a hard struggle for an education, earning himself the money ? uiVil IVUA 1111X1 LUl^UgU ^ll^guuu; and Western Reserve Colleges, employing the familiar method of teaching school which has enabled so many members of Congress to get their start in life. He was admitted to the bar in 1S51 and soon afterward went to Iowa and settled at Dubuque, ever afterward his home. He had been In politics in Ohio, and kept in them in I Iowa. An Ohio birth and an Iowa | training give a man an exceptional ' . advantage in the game of politics. CUMMINS A CANDIDATE. i Cuts Short His Vacation and Will Confer With Political Friends. Lake Forest, 111.?"I shall certainI ly make an effort to succeed Senator Allison," said Governor Cummins, { when he was told of the Senator's : death and asked concerning his nolit ical intentions. He refused, however, to say what he would do regarding the Senatorship during the unexpired portion of Senator Allison's term, which ends on March 4, 1909. Governor Cummins will cut short his vacation and return to Des Moines. The death of Allison is a hard blow to the "Old Guard," which had already begun to lose its dominating influence in the Senate. Allison's place will undoubtedly be filled first by the appointment and / then by the election of Governor Cummins, who is another radical, and opposed to much if not all that the other remaining members of the "Old Guard" stand for. It is the beginning of the greatest change that has taken place in the Senate in many years. . 30 BELOW ZERO 6 MILES IN SKY. ______. Balloon Roaches Highest Altitude Attained in New England. Readville, Mass. ? The Blue Hill Observatory has received from Silvernails, N. Y., the "sounder" balloon, * which was sent up from Pittsfleld. Mass., by H. H. Clayton, and while the records, which were received intact, have not been worked out in detail, it was asserted that 'the "sounder" reached a height of six miles and sxpenencea a lemyeiiiLurc ui mure than thirty degrees below zero. The "sounder's" height was the greatest so far reached by those balloons in New England, although in similar experiments at St. Louis last year a souther reached the height of ten miles. The "sounders" are small balloons weighing only a few ounces and carrying an alumnium box containing various meteorological instruments for recording the temperature and wind velocity of the upper air aijd the altitude attained. * ' CANCER KILLS PETTIBONE. ? ? . * Death of Miners' Lender Follows a? Operation in Denver. Denver, Col. ? George Pettibone, for years prominent in the councils of the Western Federation of Miners, ? and charged with President Mover and former Secretary Haywood with complicity in the murder of former Governor Stuenenberg, of Idaho, died In St. Joseph's Hospital after an operation for cancer. Pettibone had been ill ever since his confinement in the Idaho penitentiary, which lasted more than a year, before the trial at Boise. A widow survives him. Pettibone was tried and acquitted (n Boise after the acquittal of Haywood. Moyer was discharged. j C. X. ELLIOTT DROWNED. j Wife and Child Saved When Canoe Upsets in Connecticut River. Turners Falls, Mass.?While shoot(ng the rapids in a canoe in the Connecticut River, just below Turners Falls, C. N. Elliott, of Nutley. N. J., an architect with McKira, Mead & White, of New York, was drowned. \ Mr. and Mrs. George Rea and the Dlder Elliott boy were in the first :anoe, which shot the rapids without incident. The second canoe struck the current and overturned. Mr. Rea beached his canoe and managed to rescue Mrs. Elliott and the younger Elliott boy, but Mr. Elliott sank -* r* oV. ueiure ueip i.umu imv,u mai, If Credit's Poor Doctor Won't Coiue. Atlanta (Ga.) physicians have Torined an association, the purpose of which is to have a report made on the :redit of a person summoning medical aid before a doctor responds to f.he call. High Quality For Ric^. New crop rice samples indicate high quality. About 2700 sacks of aew crop rough have been received it New Orleans and sold at firm prices. There will be no old crop :his year to carry over and supplies Iron) now on must be drawn, entirely from the new crop. Hultmun & Co. to Assign. With liabilities that may exceod $300,000, Bultman & Co., brokers, of Cincinnati. Ohio, announced that an assignment would be made for the benefit oi creditors. ENDS LIFE IN BANK. Assistant Bookkeeper of New York Concern Shoots Himself in Vault. -- ?^ ? * - - \XT TV Isow lone uicy.?cnanvs ?t. nwterfeld, assistant bookkeeper of the S'ew York Produce Exchange Bank, at 10 Broadway, committed suicide in a vault in tfie basement of the bank by shooting himself in the head rather than face exposure for having drawn two checks for $20 each against a fictitious account. He was twenty-one years old and lived with his parents and two sisters at 20L East Seventy-seventh street.