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I-WILLIE IN CAWING TRIE iWhen ma busy cannin' things about this imio f<' year 'And leaves tut w.th the baby ier to wfctnii the lit lie dear, Pirst thing you know it falls some ".ray and getn an aw tut bump 'An' jna rom?s tr;u:n up the stairs, r.bont 8ix at a jump. -She sends me down *? watch the stuff lliat'u boihn' in the pot. 'And oh. the sm?!l th<vt from here is good. 1 KlI \ou what! But pretty *oen, njmehnw, it get? to bubblm' from the top And ma fc.mev {ailing' over chairs and things to make it stop. Shf gei* the ran* all set in row?. and when it's boiled enough Ir splasher n her hands and burns while sh?' pours in the stuff. And just because I'm lookin' on there's something slip* somehow And down the fan kocs on the floor, and gee! but there's a row. When ma get* busy cannin' things I wish that I eoultl go Far. far awav Jrom home?about a thousand milts <.? so? And then eonm l>a?-k along about the time the table's set Ana ma's got out a can or two of good stuff to be rt. ? Chicago Raeord-IIerald. I HE CAME TO HIS OWN. Herbert Vinton passed his hand oaressingly over his rather grayish, though still luxurious. locks, and studied the picture before him. It was the photograph of a girl, or rather cf one who had been a girl the day before. Around him were many evidences of wealth. In spite of his bachelorhood he had all the cares and comforts of a splendid and well ordered house. He was not a clubman; he had little waste for society; he had traveled all he cared to; he had grown weary of plays, and at fifty, atill as vigorous as he had been at thirty, he preferred to spend his leisure moments in his library. "Yes,'' be said to himself, still lonkinir at thr nieture. '"if her mother I could be as she was twenty-five years ago they might pass for twins." He drew a Jong sigh. Twenty-five years ago her mother had said no to him and mavried a man who was -fifty-five. "1 was poor then," Vinton mused, "and he was liob. Now I'm rich and he?well. I forgive him. He's dead. And they are poor, and she is still ready to give?not her soul this time, but her daughter, 'for money.' " The letter that lay on the desk was from her. It was the first she had written to him since their parting. She had at least been loyal to the man sho had chosen. Why, he asked himself, had she sent him the picture of her daughter, if not for the purpose that had first suggested itself to him? Why had she not sent her own? Her letter, coming so soon after the beginning of her widowhood 'and the loss of her fortune, meant but one iliing. When he entered his library the I next morning his eyes at once sought the picture of the fair-faced girl. "I'll go." he said to himself, after taking up the portrait again and gviog at it for a long time. "Why shouldn't 1? There will be no unfairness about it?not, at least, on my part. 'hey?both of them?owe it to me. I've waited twenty-five years. Y/hy shouldn't 1 be rewarded now? It will only be a case of turn about. He took her in the glory and freshness of her youth, when she rightfully belonged to me. But here"? lie looked earnestly at the picture again?"she has returned just as she was when they robbed me of her. 1 will have her. She is my own. Fate has given her back to me."' He found them in plain little quarters, and Eleanor?they had given her her mother's name?placed her hands in his and looked up with a look that awoke a thousand memories in him. If wrt the look that he had so often, waking and dreaming, seen I* ueiorc. ij*ri lingers seemeu to give j 1 the old. glad, thrilling touch. Her j voice war? ilie voice that had been calling him through all the lonely j years, lie had found his love again ?fair, undefiled, just as she was when ho had lost her. Tlii other looked upon them and was silent. Youth was no longer hers. Gladness >-as not in her eyes. . Her smile was not the eager smile of hope. Much of her beauty she retained. but it was not the beauty that iaspiies love. It was such beauty as rnighi be chiseled out of marble. : In the days that came and went Vinton's joy was boundless. There had been dark years, in which he had been juhc that ho would never taste | the sweets of love again lie laughed I at himscll for having harbored such ; dolehil thought?. And always he kept assuring his conscience that he was preparing to claim only what was i? 1^ "She is mine; she has been returned to nit b> them that did me wrong,be declared. "I hava won k iier by waiting. I will have my own.'' Eleanor did not dread his coming. Often she sat at the window looking eagerly for him. She had learned from ho- mother why he had been living ii< loneliness. She had heard from her inothe? of the wrong that he had Buffered. She had learned that it was their duty to make reparation. One. in a moment of depression, she had asked: "If ho we 10 still poor, would you think I ought tu give myself to liim to right the uM wrong?" Her mothci had turned from her and foiled to answer. '*hey returned to something akin to luxuiy. The doubts conccrning the manner in which they were to get along had been cleared away. In the mother's tycsj there was a look that was now and strange. Xot a look of joy, not a look of content. Perhaps the look ol tho lioness that has eaten her wh?:!|; to satisfy her own hunger. Perhons. Eat Kicat- jr discovered in good j time tri:it ijiir wa? ;ic?t to be r.acrificcd. f?j. Vis.ton had found its vay inio breast She did not weei- for sbana1 vi the .iiing siie was to do. She forgot that through her a debt was to be paid, and that through her they were to be insured against poverty. She forgot all save that Vinton was estimable and kind, and that it made her glad to know that he was happy. One day when shp was away buy- I ing things for the wedding, her mother and Vinton sat alone to- { gether. { ' You are soins to be very happy j ?after all," she said. "Yes,'' he answered?''after all. ! My glad old dream is to come true? j after all. You are good to let it i happen so; bu;, I shall have only what | is mine?after all, you know. The I years I have lost can never be given ; hack; they are gone forever. Still, f i gladly give them for the joy that is j returned to me. Only those who have j been robbed as I have been robbed t ^^M-rtn f-Vmir- (poactirps ! illlU Wiiu liavc nvu iu\.u v? , back cau know the gladness that i comes with the returning of what is J my own. Only they who have been j loved and lost can know how deep ; ant', how dark is the valley which love 1 has come to call me out of. Forgive \ me for saying these things to you. I i know you cannot understand them, j It is my present joy that makes me j look back with pity for the hopeless thing I was down there in the darkness where it was so lonely and so cold. I have waited so long, I have denied s> long, that I am intoxicated by the sweet aroma even before the cup touches my lips. You have not?" With a pitiful cry she put h-2r hands to her face, and for a moment, while she sobbed, he stood looking at her. Then h. lifted her up, saying: "God help me! " I had forgotten that all I havo been denied you also j have been denied, and that if I return | to claim my love where it was taken j from me you must go on through the darkness alone.'' Eleanor drew back from the half- I opened door r.r.? went away softly. I leaving her mother in his arms.?S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. ELECTRIC SLEEP IN" SURGERY. Professor Leduc Says He Has Discov- : ercd a Pcrfect Anaesthesia. j Stephane Leaue, the eminent professor of the School of Medicine at Nantes, France, has discovered a method of causing electric sleep, which, it is declared, will replaco chloroform and other anaesthetics in all surgical operations. The discovery proceeded from study of the effects of intermittent currents and from the knowledge that the skull i and brain offer but little resistance to the current. Vnr n human hpine' a. current of thirty-five volts is applied intermittently in its full strength for minute fractions of a second. Two electrodes aro applied to the skull in a special manner, thi points of application being first carefully shaved. Professor Leduc made scores of experim .nts on dogs and on himself. All wcr; successful. The application of the current on the head is not dangerous, and no ill effects follow, even when the experiment lasts for hours. The advantages of the electric sleep are said to be numerous. Anaesthesia by chloroform, morphine or ether is disagreeable, always dangerous, and has often proved fatal, while the awakening is painful. During the electric sleep the patient is perfectly quiet and the awakening occurs i.s soon as the electrodes are withdrawn. The sensations after the operation arc quite agreeable. The mind appears to work more clearly and more rapid, and there is a sense of increased physical vigor* This last circumstance led Professor Leduc to use his brain elec- ! trJooHnn fnr ricM nf nopvnna ovhniu- I tion, and even ordinary fatigue and j moral depression, with wonderful re- | suits. Incidentally the scientist assert'; [ that the application in a certain man- | ner of his special current will electro- j cute a subject in an absolutely painless mr.nner, gentle sleep being followed by gradual but certain death. ?New York Times. I Wireless Money Lending. One of the most interesting type- ( on the American track is the profes- j sional money lender. Money lending j is absolutely forbidden, and so the I entire transaction must be conducted j sub rosa, but if a person who is "on ' ' goes broke, and he has some article ! of jewelry of value with him, it is ! easy for him to realize money on it. J The lender is an irreproachably f dressed person who sits in the grand- j stand with the rest of the crowd, and j is known in his true colors only to ! the habitues of the trac*. A man j who wants some capital makes an un- j obtrusive sign to him, and twirls a j ring he may be wearing at the time. Shortly afterward both will proceed to a restaurant, where, for the benefit t of onlookers, they will greet each 1 other as ordinary acquaintances. The | exchange is then made over the drink j they order; the loan broker has the ring and the better his capital. If the latter cashes in on the next race, he will return the money and the agreed upon premium, and will receive back hi3 ring.?From "The People and the Ponies," by C. F. Peters, in The Bohemian. When the Sea Smokes. Explorers tell of the peculiarity ot I the Arctic regions. When it is very cold a steam as if from a boiling kettle arises from the water. At forty degrees below zero snow and humau bodies emit this vapor. It appears that the colder the temperature the more numerous are the deceptive signs of heat. When the tempera ture is lower than forty degrees the trees burst open with a loud report, and there is a cloud of vapor as if the thing had been done with powder. When it is still colder the earth cracks open with loud noise?, vocks break and streams o? smoking water pour from the cracks in the earth Fire on the end a cigar will go out, but the cigar will omit smoke from the whole mivface as if it were burning uuU'"' tee wrapper.?Philadelphia Grit. 1*0r Pinthot advises* people vj usie the I)jave the ..<-05tU, A Prehistor THE DIPLODOCUS SKELETON IN PITTSBURG?MR. CARNEGIE RI LICA TO THE GERM A] Pie Cutter. A California man thinks that the common method of dissecting pics by i the aid of the ordinary knife is too slow and also too inaccurate for these i dajs of hustle and bustle. He came i to the conclusion that a specially de- < signed pie cutter was necessary for Ihe purpose, and consequently con- ] nna thp rpsillf of { tiUUt'U IVJ UCVIOC VUV, v.?v - Ws work being shown in the illus- 1 tration. This pie cutter comprises a base adapted to support a pie of the f common size and shape.. Hinged 1 [7/ ; v =^'. ; t to the back of the box is the cutter i proper, consisting of a lever and the i knife blades. The latter are suspended from the lever dircctly over ; the place designated for the pie, and are arranged to divide the pic into six or more nieces at one operation of the lever. Families containing 1 many children would find this novel 1 pie cutter invaluable. As the pie would be divided into pieces of ex- s actly equal size, there would be no possibility of showing partiality, and petty quarrels over who was to got the biggest piece would be eliminated. A Judge's Sharp Tongue. Many .nint sayings of Lord Young, a famous Scotch lawyer who has just died, are being recalled by the English press. Once a iittle advocate ~>ho was slightly misshapen .heckled tht great lawyer beyond j what his patience would stand, ani finally pinnod him on the exact meaning of a mark of interrogation. "I would called it," said Lord Young, fixing his eyeglass in his eye, ' a little crooked thing tha? asks questions." It -as not long ago that, looking across the table at a public dinner at the over-rubicund cheeks and fishy eyes of his opposite neighbor, he inquired who the owner of the vinous countenance mig'.it be and was told he was the president of a water trust. "Aye," said Lord Young, "well, he looks like a man that could be trusted with any amount of water!" < Some one told Lord Young that the 1 House of Lords had on appeal affirmed a decision of his. "It may t be right, after all," was his lordship's 1 reply.?Bellman. * i HOW MODERN PROGRESS BREAKS .. . ; ' ' ^ . . '> v/-r- wVJ'TW. ' . . - ! ; - v A RAILROAD ENTERING PE K To Make Pencil Sharpener. How can I make a simple pencil point sharpener??-B. K. I Take a paper dip, A, and a piece of emery cloth, B. Fold the edges 1 over as shown. The pencil point is c r w-xQr ; Pencil Sharpener in Use. _ C placed in the crevice and moved up ( and down, resulting in a point as fine t as may be desired. If the pencil Is c revolved between the fingers while s sharpening a round point will be the : result.?Technical World Magazine. 1 It has been calculated that the ' 1 rost of a muddy day in London is 11 something like $25,00') n ic Reptile. ! THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM AT \ 2CENTLY PRESENTED A REP- ' SI GOVERNMENT. Too Hasty. Governor Harris, of Ohio, said in , in after dinner speech in Columbus: , '"This matter is a serious matter, J ind it must be taken seriously. Haste j s a bad thing. ' It surely always . :auscs error. v . "I used to know a manufacturer. ( KEe was a good, honest man, but rath?r strict, rather clo.se. Furthermore, ( le was Inclined to be a little hasty. '"He had instituted in his mill a l system of finos?fines for lateness, t ^ ">noo fnr snoilprt I ivork, and so on. "VVeli, in the rush season, happen- , ng to awake one morning very early, J le wer.. to the mill a little after, starting time. As he got out of his ( lutomobile he saw a pale, haggard, ^ lollow-eyed man walk wearily hrough the gate. " 'Aha, Joe Harris,' he shouted an- [ irilv, "ten minutes late, eh? Well, => ( you're fined fifteen cents. Not a word ( low. That's Ihe rule.' " 'Take you're time, bo3s,' Harris inswered. '1 ain't knocked off from J resterday, yet.' "?Washington Star. Tlu> Happy Reign. Happy, it has been said, is the people that has no history. Yet mors iappy the kings who are in the same :ase. Recently Oscar II. of Swedea risited a Stockholm school. He quesioned a pupil, the best of the class, hoy had lold the King. "Mv little friend." said Oscar, "tell I no sonic remarkable fact of ray ^ eisn." The child reflected, hesitated, T.-as ;reatly puzzled, then broke into sobs. "Why do you cry?'' said the King , sently. : "It is?it is, tire, be-cause I do not know any remarkable fact?of >\,ui reign.'" "No more do I," responded the de- ' scendant of Bernadotte.?Le Cri de Paris. Too Late! i (VtrAi IllA f w, ; // \ \ \ I \ 1/ p/j ^ : i The Needy One?"I say, old chap. ] :ould you lend me five for a day or j two?" The Other One?"My dear ftLow, i :he five I lend is out at present, and t I've several names down for it when t comes back."?From the Tatler. { DOWN THE CHINESE WALL. f UN" NEAR THE SOUTH GATE. 1 r ?W. Burnham. r __ 0 Proof of Character. A laborer was charged with a jetty offence. "Have you any one in court who Mil vouch for your good character?" ? jueried the Judge. '"Yes, sir; there is the chief con- * stable yonder," was the reply. The 11 :hief constable was amazed. a "Why, your honor, 1 don't jven ^ {now the man," protested he. 5 "Now, sir," broke in the accused, S '1 have lived in the borough for a learly twenty years, and if the chief .il nonstable doesn't know me yer. isn't f p hat a character for you?"?Tit-Bits, j .? Permanent and Movable Lawn Seats. While the movable lawn seat hrd p some advantage, because it can b-i * ,'aslly carricd l'rom place to place, ta ? aj roe seat has a look of permanency; a jf really being a part of a sen era I ichenie to give ihe place 'he appear* ? ir.ee of genuine and < <?utii?;;i:tcom,. , ort, which the other do--s not have. _ fho movable lawn seat, too often ol rail construction, naturally suggests .he artificial aud the transitory pleas* j .ires. || Good Roads. |f " ' E/fcct on Tax Rates. Some otherwise well informed men seem to imagine that it would be absurd to hope that an outlay of $5000 to $10,000 per mile to make roads 3ry and hard and durable could reluce the rate of taxation, even iu Li?ckly peoled districts. As a single fact is very often more convincing, to some people, than any amount of reasoning from theory, we cite the case of Mercer County, S'ew Jersey, pioneer fti road improvement in the State, which was first to use State funds to pay part of the :ost of a thorough betterment of its public highways. This use of public moneys was earnestly opposed by many who, arguing from theory ilone, without doubt quite honestly believed that farmers along the roads so improved would have to mortgage :heir lands to get money to pay their ncreased road taxes. Such fears were expressed in one small township of Mercer County two )r three years ago. The annual road ;ax of that township had been $1800, - - -3 Tiro a auu 1UD I uaud uu vruitn Luat ouui w ?a spent for yearly repairs were sadly in seed of Improvement. Since a numser of miles in that township were mproved properly its yearly appropriation for road repairs has been anly 5600. He.re is an apparent reSuction of 66.67 per cent, in road :axes. This is a direct and clear result of making good county roads. A like result, with other benefits, has been seen in other States; as where in one :ase betterment of a road leading to i county seat brought new manufactories and people to work iu them. Others came to serve these, merchants increased their orders to meet the larger demand, new dwellings were put up to shelter the additional population, and property rose in renting and in selling values, and consequently in assessment value also. As there were more people to share the taxation the part eacn had to pay was less than it was under the old conditions. In effect there was a reduction of the rate of taxation, accompanying ill the other benefits that camc from the improvement of the highways. In the report of the Commissionei at Public Koacs or New jersey, ior 1904, it is said that the population of New Jersey has grown more rapidly in the last three census periods than had that ot any State east of the Mississippi. Its increase between 1890 and 1900 was, in round numbers, over thirty per ceut., or 439,000. rvhich exceeded that of most of the Western States. Its valuation of taxable property increased $55,502,072.70 in the year 11)03, and $47,186,SSI in 1904, not including the valuation of railroad and of canal properties. Much of this increase in population and in wealth is. justly ascribed to the improvement of hundreds of miles o 1 her public roads. "Many persons, attracted by our improved highways,' says the report, "'and by the pleasure or traveling over tncm in auiomomies and other vehicles, are transformed from visitors into home seekers and buyers, thus adding to our wealth and population." Aside from all the gains the farmer sets from the cutting down of steep , grades, the filling of hollows, the pre- J venticn of mud and the heavy, losses j resulting from hauling his products | through or over these, there comes an actual increase in the price for which he can sell these products on the farm, and the land itself, should ha wish to sell. Inquiries made in States along the line of the Southern Railway are said to have elicited statements of such rise equal to $5 to $25 per acre. Practically a like increase was observed in Wisconsin, where. Professor W. 0. Hotchkiss, State Geologist, has ?.?.id: "The average I'alue of ihis time saved wa3 estimated by the farmers at 34 2 for the heavy teams and 336 for light driv* ng?a total of $78 for each farmer.' At six per cent, per annum this $78 would pay interest on $1300, and :hat would equal $11.11 per acre for L17 acres, which the census of 1900 ;ave as tho average acreage of Wisconsin farms. These deductions are from known 'acts, and do not rest on hypothetical jases. nor are they unreasonable in J n v ivnv iVn hr.rni muv r?r>rno from luotiug Proftssor Hotrhkiss further )n the subject. He said: "When you remember that Wisconsin has 170,000 farms, you can ap>reciate that this loss each year, ac'ording to the estimates of the farm:rs themselves, totals the enormous ium of $13,000,000?over $200 lor jvery mile of road in the State. >Vhen, in addition to this, it is renemberud that half the present road ax of $2,000,000 Is wasted?again >n the estimates of the farmers;?a airly correct idea is obtained of what rVisconsin's poor roads are costing he people in cash. * * * * The luestion was asked as to what the ncreasj in value per acre of their arms would be if they had good oads to town. The average of the eplies was $8 per acre. This estinate seems to be a very reasonable me."?Good Roads Magazine. I Frogress in Ontario, Canada. About 3000 miles of highways have ieen improved since the establish- i aent of the Good lloads Act in Hie 'rovincs of Ontario. The depart- , aent was organized ten years ago, | nd during that time the townships | fnr avnon/litlil'US (in mails ! V C 1 aiocu i s w w.. . 10,500,000, in addition to connty rants i^id exclusive of cities, towns nd \illages. Fourteen counties have dopted the county systems.?liood loads Magazine. The Highest Hog. Several years ago a rivalrj in Hie roduction of large hogs sprang up mong the farmers in Kansas. A [gn that seldom failed to attract the t lent ion of nasser.^-hy read: "Any one wishing to see the I;igcsi hog In Kaunas call at my farm rul inquire for nie. SILAS liOU'L'.'1 -From Judge's Library. There is $215,000 invested every ay in New York city apartment ouaea. LYNCH NEGRO WHO SHOT POLICEMAN Mob Batters Its Way Into Jail at Cumberland, Md. OFFICERS THOUGHT THREAT IDLE Members of His Own Race Help in the Lynching of Williams Burns, Colored Shot and Kicked to Death. Cumberland, Md.?William Burns, e negro, who shot Policeman August Baker, causing his death, was taken from jail here by an infuriated mob and kicked and shot to death. A.s there has never before b*en a lynching here the authorities paid no attention to threats of lynching in this case, and when a mob of fifty men approached the Jail early they found only one deputy sheriff. Adam Hendley. to oppose thorn. When he refused to give up the keys they battered the door in with a telegraph pole. Burns shot the policeman to prevent being arrested, and the latter's death was followed by threats against the negro, these coming as much from those of his own race as from the whites. When the mob broke into the jail otker negroes than Burns, who were in neighboring cells, were careful to guide the lynchers to that of Burns, and here again the battering ram was used. The lynchers found their victim crouched behind his cot, and seizing him by the feet dragged him up and dowH stairs and into the street, where within a few yards of the entrance to the jail he was killed. The Rev. W. Cleveland Hicks, au Episcopal clergyman, did his best to save the negro, and afterward protected the body until the arrival on the scene of Judge" A. Hunter Boyd and the police. Judge Boyd called upon the crowd to disperse and was promptly obeyed. The body was removed to an undertaking establishment, and 10,000 persons are estimated to have viewed it. 24 MEN SHRIVEL IN HOT METAL. Four Workmen Dead and Twenty Dying "When 5000 Tons Explode. | Butler, Fa.?An explosion caused by the upsetting of the metal pot. in the No. 1 cupola of the Standard Steel ! Company here resulted in jthe death of four men, fatally injuring twenty and seriously injuring ten others. Almost all the men were foreigners. The large wheel plant, 150 by 100 feet, was demolished, causing a loss estimated at $100,000. The condition of the thirty men injured is pitiable. Although still alive, the features of most of them are mutilated beyond recognition, j The hot metal was showered over I them, causing horrible injuries. , Arms, fingers and ears were torn off, while many of the men lost their [ eyes. At midnight the physicians acI tending the injured said at least twenty would die. I Buildings in the city, from the I force of the explosion, shivered as if i shaken by an earthquake, and thousands rushed from their homes panic I stricken. ROWLANDS FREED. ! Jury Finds Doctor and Wife Didn't Poison the First Husband. [ Raleigh, N. C.?Dr. and Mrs. Daffld I Rowland were acquitted of the charge I J > T-? 1 I | 01 muraenug xviro. nuwiuuu ? mot i husband, Charles R. Strange. The [ jury in the Superior Court had heed given the case at midnight, and was out nearly ten hours. The crowd at court cheered the verdict. The couple were driven to Rowland's office, where another demonstration took place. Frieuds i crowded in to congratulate them, and ! a wagonload of flowers wa3 sent in The doctor will resume his practice. The prosecution was brought about tersely by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. When Charles R. Strange, C member, died suddenly, his fellow-workers declared his wife and Dr. Rowland had been meeting clandestinely and wished to get rid of Strange so a3 to marry. INCREASE IX EARNINGS. Gain Shown by Ohio Railroads Dc? spite Two-Cent Fare Law. Columbus, Ohio.?The reports of thirty-nine railroads operating in Ohio, just submitted to the State Hallway Commission, show that the two-cent passenger fare law has in the main operated to the railroads' advantage. The reports for the fiscal year endA r\r\ Tnno OA 1 O A7 oli aw on q aoro Hate net gain on passenger receipts for these roads of $1,3C2,2S2, compared with earnings for 1906, which year included three months' operation under the two-cent fare. Only ten of the thirty-nine lines reporting show a decrease in passenger earnings, aud this aggregates only $55,645. Mrs. Mary J- Holmes Dead. Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, well known authoress and contributor to many magazines, died at hen home in Brockport, Monroe County, N. Y. Mrs. Holmes had been visiting near her birthplace, at Brookfield, Mass., and was taken ill at Albany on her way home. Small Hills Scarce. In spite of all the efforts which have been made by the Treasury Department to inoreasfi the supply of ..MA 1 I 11? 4 Vi rlAivinn <1 t'nt" en c?K AH V. MIliUI UIIJD, UlC uciiiaiiu ivi ^uvii vu4 - j rency is again urgent. Advance in Mackerel. Advice from Gloucester. Mass.. reported a sale of new pack sait mackerel there at $2-1 per barrel for uiHi 100 count fish. This figure, it is >aid, represents a rise of 31 per barrel. ; | Foreign Vessels Carry Coal. At(orney-Cienoral Bonaparte decided that foreign vessels can be employed in carrying coal to the Pacific roi the battleship fleet. Higher Wages Demanded. Seventy thousand employes of tiio Northwestern and State Railways in Austria have begun a passive resistance strike for higher wages. ' Tablet to Grant. A memorial tablet was unveil-, d at the birthplace of President Grant in Voiut Pleasant, Oblo. fcs: . - Wio _ -2 ???<?m'i mini?? % Brief News BY WIRE WASHINGTON. The Bishop of London told the Brotherhood of St. Andrew that President Roosevelt is "absolutely straight." The Navy Department has no plana for the battleship cruise further than the visit to the Pacific coast, including Alaska. Every discoverable defect in ihe battleships will be remedied before the fleet starts for the Pacific. "Shimos.-?," a high explosive usfcd by the Japanese navy in the war with Russia, has been mado a subject of study by the Navy Department. The old fighting frigate Constitution will be anchored in the Potomac River in plain xiew from the White House. United States war and naval ofi: cials pointed out the importance as a naval base of Pratas Island, near the Philippines, over which the Japanese flag has been hoisted. State Department officials believe that the anti-Asiatic rioting in British Columbia will convince the Japanese Government that it must inevitably consent to an exclusion treaty. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Porto Rican forest reserves have been invaded by thieves, who have sold 5100,000 worth of lumber. Havana's courts indicted seven men for conspiring for a revolt in Cuba. Census takers began work in Cuba, and their work will reveal a much larger population than has heretofore been credited to the island. Governor Magoon was told that Spaniards in Cuba were anxious for the right to become citizens of the United States. Uncertainty as to when United State9 protection will be withdrawn from Cuba is causing commercial stagnation on the island. Governor Solf, of German Samoa, will purchase the former home of Robert Louis Stevenson, at Vailima, for a government residence. DOMESTIC. Women of the Episcopal Church presented $222,000 to the Board of Missions at the triennial convention of the church. The fiftieth festival'of the Worcester County Musical Association closed at Worcester, Mass. On suspicion that he is the man who burned a child to death near Oquawna, Hi., Jt1 ranit vv imams, * wiored tramp, was arrested at Monmouth, 111. Governor B. B. Comer has sold hla plantations in Alabama, consisting of 18,000 acres, to Booker T. Washington. who, it is said, will establish negro colonies on the land. G. L. Peabody, well known in Boston as a financier, filed a suit for dt? vorce against hiswife in Salem, Mass Mrs. Sallie Waples Ponder, widow of James Ponder, a former Governoi of Delaware, died at Milton, Del., aged seventy-three. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, at Newport, R. I., announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Count Ladislas Szechenyi, of Hungary. The National Wholesale Druggists Association, in convention at Denver elected Edgar D. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., president. President Roosevelt in a speech at St. Louis asked for a greater navy.. and said the Atlantic neet woujq oe brought back from the Pacific. James M. Barr, director-general oi the Jamestown Exposition, has re< signed. J Mae C. Wood has again brought suit in New York City against Sena? tor T. C. Piatt, this time for absolute divorce. The Bishop of London delivered a sermon against "The New Theology' at the Protestant Episcopal Convention in Richmond, Va. i Southern Methodist laymen in conference at Knoxville decided to or? ganize a militant body of 10,000 la? members of that denomination. A. J. Whiteman, ex-Mayor of Duluth, and convicted forger, was declared insane. Fines aggregating Sl.SdO.OOO were imposed on the Gulf Compress Com? pany by a Mississippi court and it was ordered to wind up its affairs and leave the State. ? * - ? ? ttr. n_ TT Kear-Aamirai .tonn u. wamer, u S. N.f retired, died suddenly of liearf disease at York Beach, Me. The Chicago City Railway has paid over $278,218 as fifty-five per cent, of Its net profit to the city. Bills aggregating ?23,000 were presented to New York City alienists engaged by District Attorney Jerome in the Thaw trial. FOREIGN*. Abu-el-Aziz has been warmly wel* coined by the inhabitants of Rabat. The divorce decree granted in Paris to Mine. Anna Gould from Count Boni de Castellane was mad<? absolute. The Royal Swedish Yacht Club has sent an inquiry to the New York Yacht Club regarding a challenge for the America's Cup. The movement for periodic meetings of the peace conference at The Hague failed, and the right of convocation will remain with the Russian Emperor. Bosero destroyed a Catholic mission and the China Inland Mission at Kauchowfu, killing a French priest but all Americans escaped without harm. M. Tazi, Moorish envoy In Paris, iliot ihu <inlfan cofks to co-QDer* ate with France and gives suggestions for organizing the international police. Chinese officials are resisting the Japanese demands regarding Manch una. The Japanese object to negotiations with Canada looking to a limitation of Japanese immigration. Cholera has spread to twelve Russian provinces. Thousands of persons have died and the scourge in certain sections is said to be beyond control. At San Jose, Costa Rica, on account of the bubonic plague Quarantine reg* u kit ions are enforced against Sau Franciscj. President Cabrera, of Guatemala, announced his intention to send a delegate to the Central American )eaee conference at Washington. One death from plague has been eported on an Italian staamer which reached Marseilles Jrem porta in. &.sia Mfaort .?. . -jj, :