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f Yhy Spain Is Fighting Wf In Moroccc By Thomas J. Vivian, Foreign Editor of The American. ^HETHER Spain succeeds in crushing completely its anarchical ai <^Ay ti-milltarlst revolution by the simple method of shrapnel at shot Ww range, the war in Morocco remains an unsolved problem. Tb mmSmmatrn causes for that war are these: 59^85 It is a commercial war, as are all wars of aggrandlzcmenl 'lSmmmJ one of those wars founded on the proposition: "You have som thing that we want; we will give you for it either an old "brai .ton or a new steel bullet." The "something" which Spain in the present case wants is the riches, tl neral riches that lie in the sun-roasted hills twelve miles to the southea Melilla, the p-.incipal port of the Spanish "sphere of influence" in Moroec A group of Spanish financiers has spent much money in digging out the! nerals, and has succeeded in interesting the Spanish Government in tl ploitathon of the mines of Beni Bn Fruor. The mines are rich, but nlmo ..accessible, and It was decided to run a railroad down to them from Meltll Now, a railroad to the Moors?and. Indeed, to most Mohammedans?Is i iggravating as a red cloak to a bull. It means Interfering with their nomad habits, the seir;re of some Sheik's right of way and a check on predatory prl lieges. The proposed railway, at Casablanca, it will be remembered, was tl beginning of all the bloody trouble thereabouts. The Riffs and tbe Kabvles, fierce tribesmen of the hills, blocked the pr posed railroad with their flocks of armed horsemen; the Sultan of Moroc< refused to interfere to protect foreigners, whom he considered interloper Melilla was invested, and the old feud between Moor and Iberian that begs hundreds of years ago is once more being fought out. & m .m The Hole In the Ground. By W. J. Lamt>. AM glad to note that Camille Flammarlon favors digging a p . ^ J into the the bosom of the earth and finding out what lies betwef I |^| Bunai-e ana ine towesi auainaoie nepiu, ana 1 nope ue w kaJkaMHU have better luck in the fruit-on of his hopes than I have had. ISSSBPl Twenty years or so ago I began to talk and write about tl %SLmv same subject, and later, when our millionaires began pouring tl foods of their wealth into the lap of education, 1 bobbed up aga with a suggestion that they would better pour some of it into the bowels the earth. But they would not respond, nor have they done so yet. Just wl I have never been able to discover, because more education along certain lin could be got out of a hole In the ground for less money than by any oth means I know of. Just what it would cost to sink a shaft twenty feet squa Into the earth as far ns interior conditions would permit I am not prepared state, not being an engineer or contractor, but if it cost as much as $100,000 mile. $1,000,000 would shove it down as far as ten miles, and it is a pret Pt ?afe guess that at ..at depth an appropriation for ice would be iu order for t' y comfort of the diggers. But who knows what? Who knows anything about what a shaft wou \ bring fort? from those mysterious inner recesses? Mines have been sunk such depths in the Rocky Mountains that the heat drove the miners out, hut a straight shaft downward, where cold air could be constantly forced in frc the surface?>who knows how far down the work might be extended? V Rockefeller and Mr. Carnegie have got their wealth out of the depths of t * earth; why should they quit at that? Why shouldn't they put some of th money back there and see what riches of knowledge for the whole world mis \ be produced? Who will start the hole in the ground? If Mr. R. or Mr. C. will not p down their money, why will not some vonng fellow with too many inherit ml'lions to be of any other value to himself or the world tumble to his pot< ^ tialities and make a famous name for himself and his family by sinking t shaft? Even if he should fall into the hole that he has digged ho will ha done n-?->re than If he had never digged at all. m m m Don't Be An Imitator. !Ry Orison Swett Marden. HE imitator ruins his capacity for originality; for Initiative; ^ loses his creative 'power; his inventiveness and resourcefulne are never developed. In fact, his executive ability?the ability originate, to do things?is seriously crippled, if not utterly d stroyed by his efforts to imitate some one else. Vn human hointr ovou vofr m.oHa a miao/ioo frvltior fa Ka enm body else, no matter how great or successful that person mig be. Success can not be successfully copied; It Is original; It Is sclf-expresslo A man Is a failure just In proportion as he gets away from himself. When Henry Ward Beecher and Phillips Brooks were at the height their fame, hundreds of young clergymen tried to copy their style, their ma nerisms, their mode of expression, gestures, habits, but they fell as far sho of the power of either of these giants as the common cliromo falls short of tl masterpiece. Not one of these imitators ever amounted to anything until 1 stopped copying, imitating, and began to build on his own foundations. A great many clergymen to-day merely echo other preachers' sermoi which they have read and absorbed. The majority of the books published a imitations of previous books, echoes of the authors whose style and plots tl writers have copied. But these copied sermons and books lack vitality, fore naturalness. They do not stir the blood or touch the heart of the hearer i reader. They are cold, lifeless. All Nature Is Perfect. By W. S. Maciclen. mTE Dehy never made a mistake. All nature is perfect, and thei would be no earthquakes If man did not destroy the effects 1 nature's resources. 'ISRS9S5I The Creator stored vast reservoirs of gas and oil in the ce 1 tre ?* parlh which was intended to keep this great hail aflo iSsSmbJ in space, circulate in its orbit and on its axis, hut man in h greed for m-oney is burning the gas, using up the oil, and destro ing as fast as possible the power that gives the earth its buoyancy, therel changing the orbit, as any person can notice by the great change of tl ^ weather conditions during the lsst fifty years. You may remember fifty years ago we had five months of sleighing eve W year, a regular spring, a regular fall, autumn. In rotation. How Is It nov There Is nothing regular about the weather, the Weather Bureau cannot a count for It. Why? I will tell you 'Why. It Is because of tapping of the earth or its gas ai oil, thereby throwing the globe out of its equilibrium. Just as a balloon wou collapse by tapping its gas, 30 will the earth collapse, only It will take a litt longer time. THIS DOG AN EXPLORER. i ari'fl no from Hio oo ? is-'*"- ^? ..v? call!\j lai u?*r. i!<ttc ? night he slept In Dr. Stein's tent, nr Fox Terrier Covert 20,000 Milts in on occasions proved himself a ve Asia in Three Years. useful watchdog. On the high Tibet.! A wonderful record as a traveler uplands his chief recreation wi has been achieved by Da3h, tho chasing wild doukeys, yaks, and tli smooth haired fox terrier which ac- Ifke. He managed to kill seven companied Hr. M. A. Stein, the arch- hares and bring them in to suppl< aeologlcal explorer, throughout his ment the store of food, great Journey of 10,000 miles, under- Upon many journeys along the Ii taken on behalf of the Indian gov- dlan northwest fron'ier Dash ha rnment, through Central Asia info also been the comrado cf his r.tasiei cmna and back. and he has probably seen far mor Though the aggregate of the of the world than most people. H marches amounted roughly to 10,000 has true British terrier blood in hi miles in two years and eight months, veins, although India was his blrtf Che actual distance covered by Dash, place. The dog is now iu qu.iruntin taking Into account his canine habits after having come from India.?Lot of progression, may be estimated at don Daily Mall. well over 20,000 miles. Dash made that Journey on foot practically the Not His Fault, whole way, except when he went Irate Woman?These photograph "pony back" for short distances at you made of myself and husband ar times of great heat. When In the not at ail satisfactory and I refus Taklamakan Desert Dash, like the to accept them. vast of the party, had his water al- Photogfapher?What's wronsr wit Imwance strictly limited. It came them? from the supply carried on camels Ir*to Woman?What's wrong! Wh; ta the form of lea. ">7 husband looks like a baboon. ' Bash want r-er mountain passes Photographer?Well. that's no faul as high as 16,000 feat shore sea level, of mine, madam. Yon should bar TBimlml the Journey the dog kept thought of that before you had hla well, sad Ms men was rah up of takeu.?Chicago Mows. 11.200 ARE DROWNED ) Great Loss of Life By .Flood in Mexico. ? MEXICAN RIVER ON A RAMPAGE 10 _ Deluge of Rain, Descending For Fcrty-Eight Hours, Causes Overflow of ?* the Santa Catarina River, and Poss" sibly Three Hundred Livc3 Aro ie Sacrificed. st o. Monterey, Mexico, Special?Twelve J? hundred persons drowned, 15,000 st homeless and property damage to the * extent of $12,000,000, is the result of tc a flood which struck this city between v- 1 and 2 o'clock Saturday morning, ie Word from Laredo, Texas, renehed this city late in the afternoon of one 'J** of the most disastrous floods that has ever been experienced in northern ^ Mexico caused by the overflow of the Santa Catarina river. According lo rumors there has been great loss of life, estimated at 100 to 200. and the financial damage is estimated at anvwhere from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. For the past 9li hours a varitable deluge of rain fell, which together w*th the flow ef water from the adjacent mountains into the Santa Catarina ;n river, so swelled the stream that it ill reached a width of a mile and a half and completely overflowed certain ie portions of the city of Monterey, and ie wrecking houses, and causing loss of in life as it rampaged on its mad course. I oi Keports state that tlie current "in the *y river was so swift that it appeared | e9 to the stricken families who lived in er the vicinity to be a miniature rc Niagara. ' Information reaching here through ty relinhle sources states that so severe tie was the flood that the inhabitants in the vicinity of the flooded stream Id barely had time to flee for their lives; t0 that the onrush of waters carried in away their homes and (battles and in j"' many cnses drowned the occupants the Jaeales or small huts used by the at natives. It is said that a chaotic conht dition exists and that the plazas are crowded with the poor homeless 11aut tives who were providentially allowed ed | to escape with their lives. ;n" Saturday night every effort was he 1 I... ?1.~ l.:...i i ve "? ?.? Kiiiu-iitiinrd ciuznns 10 shelter the women and children. Their homes were thrown open to the sufferers: the police station, many of the hotels and private clubs as well as the rooms of several orjraniz.ations were placed at the disposition of the authorities and for the greater part the women and children were cared he for. However, many of the men were 83 compelled to sleep in the op?n in the various plazas. Many women had le. l,een separated from their husbands, mothers from their children, without 1 knowledge of the whereabouts of one '?' another, and scenes of ti e most profound grief are witnessed on all n" hands. } While as yet there is no scarcity of n. food and the city is amply able to ! care for its destitute, there is fear He of a shortagle in the near future. There have been several washouts J along the line of the National Rail- ' as way between Laredo and Saltillo. ' re Mcx., and not a train has entered the 1 city of Monterery for the past 72 1 :ei hours. ' nr rpi i-- ii ? 4 mere mis in us iar neen no attempt ) to inter the dead. Thev are being 4 placed alone: the hanks of the river, 1 where an impoverished morgue has been constructed, and tliere await ' identification. The bodies are guard- ' ed by soldiers. * < Automobile Party Killed. 1 re . ot St. Lotus. Special.?Five persons ^ were killed Sunday when an automo- \ n- bile in which they were riding was ^ at struck by a fast passenger train of ; is I the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific y- I R.iU... trz * I ...una; Hem ??i v lgrtes siaiion, or. 1 | ,1 Louis county. All were residents of ? I St. Louis. The dead: Theodore F. . rv Witte, Theodore F. Witte, Jr.. aired ^ v? 3 years. Mrs. Carl Klinge, Miss Hal- j ifr evon Campbell, Frederick O. Witte. ^ The men were brothers nnd officials ^ m *'ie Hardware Company, j I Mrs. Klinge was their sister-in-law. ^ The party had been at Creve Coeur ^ lake, a resort 12 miles west of the ^ city and were speeding homeward , h when killed. ^ ul rv Dynamite Explosion Fatal. j in Key West, Fla., Special.?As a reis suit of the explosion of 700 pounds io of dynamite at Bocachiea, 12 miles al from Key West on the Florida East * c* Coast Railway, ten men are dead and ? ten others probably fatally wounded, t i- The explosion was caused bv a mem- _ is her o ft he railroad construction force r, carelessly throwing a liyhted ci^are ette into a box of fuses. Nine of the ^ f* tvnrlr mor* mof inelo?4 ??-?-1 ? .. w. m?vi> mm urn ucttill (1IIU till* is tenth died while being brought to the . ? hospital here. The men were hurled ? <3 high into the air and the bodies of t > the dead were almost beyond recognition. America Has Lion's Share Rheims, By Cable.?A twilight vise ion of I'aulhan's graceful monoplane, so high that it seemed to rise above h the yellow harvest moon just rising above the distant hills, and the fleet- ' _ ing "goldi* flyer" as the Curtiss ma' chine has been dubbed, smashing ant other world's record of the Pris dc, la Vitesse were the closing glories of aviation week gives the United Btates a lions' share of the honors of the meeting. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP Nearly S3,060,000 Church Memlx in the U. 8.?61.6 Per Orot. Pi tMtant. Washington, Special.?That t church members in the United Stat numbered nearly thirty-three millio in 1906; that there were a billion a a quatrer dollars invested in chur edifices; that every day eight n< churches sent their spires skywar that males formed considerably If than half the total church membf ship; that a larger percentage CatboTTe males than Protestant mal were members; that in 16 States t majority of the total church mei bership were Roman Catholic; b that of the grand total of chur members reported for the Unit States 61. 6 per cent were Prott tants and 36.7 per cent Roman Cat olios; these are the salient and co spicuous facts appearing in the pro sheets of a United States Cens Bureau bulletin, prepared by Chi Statistician William C. Hunt of tl division of population, of the Unit States Census Bureau. The bulletin will be issued th month. It is in the nature of an a stract of the comprehensive repoi now in press, giving the results the fifth census of religious bodies the United States. It is stated that United States Ce sus statistics of church membersh by sex were collected for the fir time in iyuo. Ul" the total number i members reported by the various r li^ious bodies and classified by se 43.1 per cent were males and .16 per cent females. Among the Pr testants the difference was greatc only 39.3 per cent being males. ] the Roman Catholic churches th? were relatively more males, the nut ber forming 49.3 per cent of the tot membership. Of the total estimated populatit of continental United States in 190 the church members formed 39.1 pi cent as against 32.7 per cent for 189 amounting to 6.4 per cent more i 1906 than in 1890. Of this 6.4 p? cent increase, the Roman Cathol church is credited with 4.4 per cen and the Protestants with 1.8 per cen the remainder Kninir ? wvtu^ \<ir iucu auiui all other denominations. It is stated in the bulletin that tl total number of members reported I the various religious bodies for 19( was 32,936,445, of which number tl Protestants were credited with 2C 287.74, and the Roman Catholic wil 12.079,142. Of the Protestant bodit the Methodist numbreed 5,749,831 the Baptists 5,662,234; the Lutherai 2,112,494; the Presbyterians 1.83C 555; and the Disciples of Christian 1,142,359. Of the total of 32-936.445 chur< members, 61.6 per cent were Prote tants; 36.7 per cent Roman Cath lie; and 1.7 per cent, members < other religious organizations. Tl rate of increase shown for the Roms Catholic Church is 93.5 per ccn which is more than twice that for a the Protestant bodies combined. Tl Methodists reported 17.5 per cent < all Protestant church members; tl Baptists, 17.2 per cent. The total number of local religioi organizations in 1906 is given i 212,230, an increase since 1890 of 47 tvrn oo r * ^ i/ia, ui &o.<) per cent, xne irotestanl are credited with an increase in th particular artiounting to 27.8 p< cent; the Roman Catholic, 21.9 j* cent; the Jewish congregation 231.9 per cent; and the Latter-da Saints, 38.3 per cent. The Methodists reported the larj est number of local organiaztion 54,701; the Baptists reported 54,88( Lhe Presbyterians, 15,306; the LuU ?rans. 12,703; and the Roman Cath< lies. 12,482. Other interesting features of tl bulletin are those showing that tl total seating capacity of churche ivas 58,536,830, an increase over tl 1890 Unite/1 States Census figures c 54.4 per cent; that the rate of ir srease was practically the same fc >oth Protestants and Roman Cath< ics, and kept pace with the increas n population; and that $1,257,575 567 was invested in church edific.* n 1906. The total amo-nt of del vas $108,050,946, of 8.6 ^er cent c he total value; of this total the Pre estant bodies owned $53,301,254 an he Roman Catholics, $49,488,055. I 16 States a majority of the churc nembers were Roman Catholic; i 59 States, Pi distant; and in : [Itah, Latter-day Saints. five Killed and Twelve Rijured b Explosion at Gasworks. Geneva, Switzerland, By Cable "ive persons were killed and 12 dar rerously injured by an explosion a he city gasworks Monday The ex )losion occurred in the purifyin ihamber, between the two prineips rasometres. A large number of doc ors answered the call to attend th rounded, who, later, were conveye o the city hospital in ambulance! Thousands of spectators were at racted by the explosion and it wa ann*tA<l *UA* ?? ? ? ? ?? ? * * * vpui wu iubi uiuuy persons aia Dee Locomotive Runs Over Auto. Kankakee, TIL, Special. ? Mrt Teorge Granger, wife of a retire Cankakee merchant, end Miss Gene ieve Rabig, an elocution teacher o Chicago, were instantly killed am Ive oeeupants of a touring ear wer erioualy injured Monday when tb oachine waa run ever by a Big Fou oeomotive and caboose in Kankakee [he party was on tbe way to Mourn hrove Cemetery at tbe time of tb eeideat. | WASHINGTON NOTES | |j m ro- David S. Tbornburg is appointed postmaster at Cherryville, Gaston I he county, vioe T. J. Summer, removed. M Henry Farman, an English aviator, broke all previous records at Reims, { ch France, on the 27th by staying in bw the air three hours, 4 minutes and 56 j seconds. He went 111.78 miles. President Taft's determination to ?rof have a nonpolitical census is worker ing havoc in party organizations, h? especially since he has ruled that no ^ census supervisor may hold member- ^ eli ship on a political committee or hold j, ed any partisan office. Beyond admitting that instructions d had been given to the United States a ?" Attorney at Pittsburg to maintain a ?* close observation of affairs at the * u* plant of Pressed Steel Car Company a at McKees Rocks, near Pittsburg, of- ? "? ficials of the Department of Justice would not discuss the strike conditions. n us . The President has commuted to sn months the term of imprisonment im- * 0f posed upon W. S. Hurlan, S. F. Huggins and C. C. Hilton, but lias denied u commutation of pardon to Robert n. Galligher and Walter Grace, all of t jp whom were convicted at Pensocola. S Fla., of conspiracy to commit pconof age. They were sentenced December c e. 14 Inst as follows: Harlan, It d months at hard labor and $500 fine; '< <j Gallagher, 15 months at hard laboi h q. and $1,000 fine: Huggins, Hilton and v ,r Grace, 13 months at hard labor and h [?' $1,000 fine. o ra Henry Lane Wilson, American s ? .Minister to Belgium, will be appointal ed to succeed David E. Thompson as ^ Ambassador to Mexico within the in next few weeks. Mr. Wilson has been notified of his appointment by e' the State Department and is clearing Of up his business at the legation in jj in Brussels preparatory to departing for his new post. The Mexican Gov- q io ernment, while regretting to see Mr. jThompson sever his connection as Ambassador, is agreeable to the apig pointment of Mr. Wilson and has so Ln-i? 11 UUlIUt'U Hie UIlllCU OlUlt'S. 16 )V Five of the ten census supervisors ri for Virginia will he Democrats. The A a names of nine of the supervisors were announced Friday as follows: o , jj W. W. Woodward, first district; R. c P. Bulking, second; C. Ridgeway Moore, third; Win. A. Land, fourth; m ia S. Floyd Landreth, fifth; Edward r I _ C. Burks, sixth; E. D. Ott, seventh; g John C. Smith, nineth; Warren L. h ' Hyde, tenth. The appointment foi n the eighth district has not been made, f g. but it has been decided that he shall n 0. be a Democrat. Of the nine designat- tl ed, Messrs. Woodward, Land, Burks ie and Hyde are Democrats, and the h in other five Republicans. It is esti- h j mated that about 1,500 enumerators jj will be necessary to make the count \ ie in Virginia, as agninst 1,110 in 1900. o if The public will be permitted to ie view the airship contests on the new 1 field at College Park, Md. Major j' is George C. Squier, acting chief of the " is Signal Corps, stated Thursday aft<4?? noon that no attempt would be made " ts during the aeroplane instructions to fj is prevent the public from witnessing 1 the flights. So the people of Wash- " ?r ington and Baltimore can go to Col- $ s, lege Park and witness the experi y menis. ine rules unaer wmcn nit " flying will be conducted will be the " ?- same as those in effect during the offis, eial flights at Fort Myer. All that * I", the army officers insist upon is that *' l- the spectators keep off the field dur > ing the actual process of flying. At " such a time it would be dangerous for " ie persons to wander about tho field, e If the aeroplane should take a sud- a. s den swoop downward when going 40 C1 miles an hour, a crowded field would CI >' result in fatalities. No trouble was i- experienced during the flights in Vir- et >*" ginia. 81 >- le ;e Two Die in Collision. Glenwood, Mo., Special.?Two per- 81 sons are dead and a score are injured, m * six dangerously, as the result of a 81 head-on collision between' a heavily- ** *7 loaded Wabash passenger trail, No. 515, and a freight train one mile J1 south of here Saturday. The dead: Henry I.odwk-. Queen fit v. Mo.: R. 1( n T. Tl-oir.p: on. Moberly. Mo., freight ! ? train fireman. The seriously injured: th X. W. Warnirke. CentreHlle. Ia: J. G< W. Zeiglcr, mail <Urk: V. 11. CappPr. J T. I.. Camay, Grove Clark, Mrs. Ida Ir F? Tl.oirp-on. p< in Curtiss Divides Honors, . Rheims, France, By Cable.?Glenn th H. Curtiss, the American aviator, sii r~ and M. Paulham, representing wi g France, divided the honors Monday p? il of the second day of aviation week, !- the former with a thrilling flight just lie e before dusk in whie<i?he lowered the so d speed record for the course, which wi ?. measures 6 1-5 miles to 8 minutes, 35 Jc 2-5 seconds; the latter making two 15 s impressive high altitude flights of 49 nc n ' 1-2 and 56 kilometers respectively in it the endurance test for the Prix de la tit I Ch*mo??m? ""~Z! lei ?. ai; d OCXNSTTVTPTION OF BOOS. ft is estimated that the people ot 05 f New York <Clty consume an average da d of three million dozen eggs every i week. Conservatively placing the ba e average price of eggs -in that city at an T 26 cents per dozen, we find that the mt , people of New York City contribute thi d to chicken raisers every week the pr 0 j enormous sum of 175,000.?Farmers' ^ ' Home Journal. th SNAPPY AND BRIff terns Gathered and Told While You Hold Your Breath. ;0ME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS drsly and Crisp as They Are Garnered From the Fields of Action at Home and Abroad. Ex-President Roosevelt is still sucessful in downing rare ga " in kfrica. With a single shot 1 led a charging hippopotamus ntf. A program is arranged fo > 'rcsient Taft and President Diaz > h ;i t El Paso, Texas, on Oct II' v. re banquet will be given then The, fill then proceed to Cuidj' cross tAe river in Mexico, wueic au ther banquet wil be held. They will hen part for their own ways. Not discouraged from the late lishan Walter Wellman is going to ave another balloon built with rhifh he hopes to reach the North 'ole. Much confidence is felt in the ltimate outcome. It is said that President Taft was oo busy with national cares last >undav to go to church. Mrs. M. A. McFaul, aged sixtyiglit years, was killed and a grandaughter. Miss Williams, was ser>usly injured late Sunday afternoon y being struck by a Southern I?ailray passenger train just east of Lnoxville, Tenn. They were walking n the track. That tunnel at Lynchburg, Va., is mu 10 oe on nre again. At Rheims, Frai.oe, airships are ying around like monster sea pulls. Six men are reported tc be dead nd a number dying as a result of trike rioting nt the Pressed Steel 'ar Company's works in McKee's lock, Pa., Saturday night. Scores of houses burned and $1,00,000 financial loss was suffered by tecatnr, 111., last Sunday. Washington's headquarters in Sufolk before the Revolution are beig torn down. Edward H. Harrirr.an was given a pmarkable reception on his return to imerica. The benzoate of soda war broke ut anew at the Denver pure-food onvention Thursday. W. J. Hicks, a Norfolk huckster, rho preferred pockets to banks, was obbed of $078 last week. The Federal Court at Chicago anded down an opinion making per laneiu tne injunction against the enorcement by the Interstate Comlerce Commission of n reduced 1 liroujrh rate to the Missouri river. Evidences of a hiirhly civilized preistoric race on the Aleutian Islands ave recently been found. Paulan, the French aviator, on Wednesday broke all previous recrds at flying. He stayed in the air hours 53 minutes and 20 seconds, hen caiae down only because his uel was exhausted. Part, of the time e was in a storm of rain and wind. William Taggart, of Philadelphia, itended to fret married but has abanoned the idea to conform to the eonitions of his brother's will and he ow comes into the possession of a 15,000 ranch in Texas. The first reunion of the Red Shirts f South Carolina was held at Anerson, S. C., on the 25th. At the Lapaz mine at Mataehula, lexico, on Thursday the cable to elevator parted ami 12 men feiJ ith the elevator 1,500 feet. Their odies were such a crushd mass that lev could not be recognized. Mexico is in fear of infection from vessel proceeding from San Fran sco o*" which it is said there is a ise of bubonic pleague. The big boxes of specimens receiv1 from Africa by tlie Smithsonian re marked "T. R.," in huge white tters. Cholera at St. Petersburg:, Russia, id Rotterdam, Holland, has excited uch fear of a scourge. Preeautionry measures are being taken by all le port* against vessels arriving , om the infected points. Postmagtap&eneral Hitchcock has jcided to nuc the registry fee to ) cents. The Army Signal Corps has begun le erection of its aeroplane shed at ollege Park, Md. President Taft has called upon the iterior Department for a full re>rt upon the coal lands in dispute Alaska. Mr. Ta/t seems to favor i e Interstate Commerce C on a judicial body, transferri ork of investigation to irtments. Miss Anna Jones, in a Parke ?ir >spital, had a premonition mi" . mething was wrong at hon <1 as finally told her father, Dr. ft. >nes, had died at Ellenboro tb. It vns feared that she i?>,ild it bear the shock of the new.- i ' seemed necessary 'to meet << <ii>ns by telling her. The Government has signed the ise and is getting in shape the large rship field at College Park, Md. Trans-Atlantic ships brought 11,,1 passengers to New York in two y? la.-A week. At Dalton, Ga., **?;.? <' y a nd of masked 'n? .. i in town * d left a menu . rv mea irked for their leaa sy desist from -.mil oral actiees, illegal 1., <>? suling 1 ling ominent; It is .. .i:n <.. ?f ^ Ku Kluz.