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300 GROWN Immigrant Vessel Goes to Bottom. WRECM ROCKS Awful and Pitiful Scenes Occurred as Unfortunate Men, Women and Children Met Their Doom. A special from Cartagena, Spain, says: A terrible marine disaster occurred Saturday evening off Cape Palos. The Italian steamship Sirlo, from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Montevideo, and Buenos Ayres, with about eight hundred persons on board, was wrecked off Hormigas Island. Three hundred- immigrants, most of them Italian and Spaniards, were drowned. The captain of the steamer committed suicide. The remainder of the passengers and the officers and crew got away in the ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to tnem irom the shore. A number of fishermen, who made attempts at rescue, were drowned. Those rescued from the vessel are now at Cape Palos in a pitiable condition, being without food or clothing. The Sirio struck a rocky reef known as Bajor Hormigas and sank soon after, stern first. Hormigas Island lies about 2 1-2 miles to the eastward of Cape Palos. Before he committed suicide, the captain declared the steamer had 645 passengers on board and that her crew numbered 127 men. The Sirio had 570 passengers when leaving Genoa, but additional Spanish passengers were taken on board at Barcelona, where the vessel touched a few hours before. r The disaster occurred at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The steamer was threading a difficult passage through the Hormigas group, where the Bajos Hormigas reef is a continual menace to navigation. The vessel began to settle rapidly immediately she had struck and a i terrible scene of confusion and panic ensued on board. The fishermen along the coast sought to render every assistance in their power and set out in boats, which brought many survivors l ashore. Most of the officers and crew of the Sirio.are among the saved. The condition of the survivors is most deplorable. They have lost everything and are without money, food or clothing. The maritime authorities of Cartagena have dispatched a tug to the scene carrying relief supplies. The buildings of a circus and the poorhouse are being used as temporary quarters for the survivors. From the broken narratives of the terror-stricken survivors it would appear that it was the intention of the captain of the Sirio, leaving Barcelona, to call at Cadiz before proceeding to Brazil. The captain, in order to shorten the route and gain time, purposed to pass as close as possible to the dangerous rocky ledges surrounding the Hormigas Islands. Without any warn.-ig and while running at full speed the Sirio crashed j upon the rocks with terrific force, j A few minutes later the stern of j the vessel, sank beneath the wav\*s. j The passengers were in a state of j horror and panic. Crowds rushed for- j ward, pushing each other and fight* j Ing for places in the bow of the boat, j Many fell and were trampled to j death. Dozens of men and women threw themselves into the sea. SHIP IS FEVER-LADEN. Steamer Held in Indefinite Quarantine on the Mississippi. * xr^-nr r?rieans snecial says: The A iicn _r steamer Whitehall, from Colon, has J fceen declared a menace to the health of all ports, and orders were given by the state board of health to hold her indefinitely at Mississippi quarantine station. The Whitehall has one of the worst fever epidemics on shipboard in the records of tropical shiping, having arrived off New Orleans with an outbreak of Chagres fever. JTURKEY AND FRANCE QUARREL. Relations Between Them Strained | Over Tripoli Frontier Question. Strained relations have axisen between France and Turkey over the frontier of Tripoli adjacent to the French Sahara. Turkish troops recently occupied the disputed territory on the ground of Turkey's suzerainty over Tripoli. France's prqtest was Ineffective, the Turkish ambassador at Paris receiving instructions to maintain the Turkish claims. TWO ARE CONDEMNED. Finding of Investigation Committee of the Southern Cotton Association. No Recommendations. The committee of the Southern Cotton Association, which met in Atlanta to investigate charges against officers of the association, made its findings Thursday and submitted it to President Harvie Jordan, who will lay it before the executive committee at the national association at an early a day as possible. The finding of the special committee s Iron el v condemns the act of Sec retaiy Richard Cheatham in speculating, even if it was for another person, as Mr. Cheatham contended. It also states that it can find no reasonable excuse for Mr. Cheatham using the word "secretary" in. signing individual checks, as he did when making payments to the bucket shops. This, it is stated, meets with the strongest condemnation by the committee. The same findings are made in reference to A. A. Fairchild, manager of the publicity bureau, who admitted that he owned stock in a bucket shop. The committee makes no recommendation, believing that a simple finding was all that was within its power. By far the spiciest part of the whole investigation was developed when star witness Holland Curran was called upon to testily before the committee. Curran is bookkeeper for R? Siedenburg, who had a brokerage office m Atlanta. When tola to tell all he knew that could help the investigation, Mr. Curran said: 1 "I will do so with Cheatham's con- ' sent.", Mr. Cheatham jumped up from his chair and shaking his finger at the witness ho exclaimed angrily: ' You are just here for a trick. This | thing has been tried on me before, and I am tired of it. You are just trying to play at the wrong game, do you understand?" Mr. Curran flushed up angrily, and said: "Then I take Mr. Cheatham's si* : lence as consent and I will tell all I ' ^now." "I haven't given my consent," said Cheatham. Mr. Curran proceeded to'tell what he claimed he knew, and it was that ! Mr. Cheatham had bought cotton tit j tures three times at his office. "He came to the office," stated the j witness, "and said he wanted to open J an acount. He did so, and in a few i days we asked in what name to put j the account, and he said: "Oh, Mike ; will do.' 'Mike who?' he was asked, j and he said Jones was a good name, ! and s6 the account now stands on ! our books as Mike Jones. I did not ! intend to testify' in this case until I read the editorials Mr. Cheatham | had writen about the men in my business, calling them 'low down.' I knew lie was low down himself if he said we were, for he has been deal ing in a double-face'd manner. I don't let people throw mud at me without throwing some myself." Dr. J. M. Crawford took the stand He said he was a stockholder in the Piedmont exchange and he was ai ways positive that Mr. Cheatham owned stock, although he had never said so directly. One of the most interesting statements made by Dr. Crawford, and which caused some amusement, was: "Mr. Cheatham told me one day that his association and paper were one o! the greatest drawing cards of the age, and that only that morning he had received a flile of orders from the farmers." The witness said he thought the secretary was acting in a double-faced manner and ought to be exposed. CASH FOR SOUTHERN COLLEGES General Educational Board Distributes Donation of Rockefeller. A New York dispatch says: The! general education board has recently made conditional appropriation from the income of the John D. Rockefeller foundation of $10,000,000 for higher education to nine colleges in different parts of the TTnited States, amounting to $312,500. The gifts are conditional on the colleges j and univeisities raising three times > as much from other sources. i Among the institutions and tne; amounts they will receive are: Tulane : University, New Orleans,$75,000; Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C., $25,000; Furman University, Greenville, S. C., $25,000; Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C., $37,500; Howard College, Birmingham, Ala., $25,000; i Southwestern University, Jackson, , Tenn., $25,000, and Mississipi College, ; AAA i CliDton, Miss., $zo,wv. I BOOKKEEPER GOES WRONG. Hixton Made Way With $125,000 of Company's Cash. Clifford S. Hixton, 2S years old, a bookkeeper for the Union Trust company cf Pittsburg, is in jail, charged with embezzlement, and bail is fixed at $20,000. Hixton is said to have made a confession, in which he says his shortage will amount to about $125,000. He says he speculated DEATH VALLEY TRAMPS. THEiR SEARCH FOR FOOD, DRINK AND SHELTER. Strange Life of These Chronic Hoboes?Prey Upon Ranchmen?Revenge ouf One Who Was Ordered to Leave?Crimes They Commit? The Tramp Prospector. What would you who feed an occasional hobo from your bae.v doorstep and wonder at his feet worn from tramping over a few miles cf well laid roads, his clothes grass strewn from sleeping in haymows, think of a tramp who covers hundreds of miles a year, wnose ieemng places are irom iweuiyfive to fifty miles apart, whose watering places are equally distant from each ether?in short, whose bed and beat, so to speak, are the vast floor of the desert? Yet there is exactly such a class, real tramps, yet as different from the tramps of cities as day is from night, tramps with nothing to do but eat. They do not have to beg; food comes to them through fear. They do not have to search out sheltering barn# at nightfall; a greasewood bush is their shelter, the sands of the desert their conch. In spite of its arid wastes, in spite of the discomforts and the positive dangers to which even well equipped travellers on the desert are subjected, says the San Francisco Chronicle, the great sandy plain is come to have a species of tramp all its own, not an outgrowth from civilized places, but an /Npt'crinctiniTi n f itc mvn 5?n i n t PTPKt 5 D <* as well as novel branch of a worthless tribe. Even Death Valley, the most barren and dangerous cf all deserts known to civilized man, has its hoboes who wander up and down its dismal length through all seasons of the year save the very hottest part cC the summer. The headquarters of all desert tramps are in some small town on the borders of the region over which they wander. Daggett has more than its share of them. So also has Randsburg, Johannesburg, Ivanpah, and all the rest of the scattered settlements that dot the level plain. They are not numerous, these foot travellers, yet in proportion to the population they are probably ac plentiful as their brethren of the Coast are around San Francisco and Los Angeles. Their methods of operation are vastly different from these of the Coast hoboes. Leaving Daggett, Ivanpah or whatever little town they have cumbered during the months of greatest heat, some time in late September or October they strike out alone across the desert. One peculiarity of this class of tramps is that they . never Inflood nnp I IUOYe SDUUL ill Oti'-ilipauico. muwu, vu? desert hobo is usually the sworn enemy of all the rest of his kind. For clothing they have such things as they can beg, possibly a few earn a little money during their months of ''idleness" in the town and spend that for clothing, but as a rule they are garbed in more different colors than was Joseph, though of more subdued hue. Over his back the desert tramp slings a gunnysack, in which are a couple of empty tin cans, a beer bottle or two of water and such food as he can beg or steal. Thus equipped, usually without a weapon of any sort, he invades a country which has brought more men to death than any other equal area in the world outside the great battlefields. Usu^ly his first stop will be some twenty-five miles out at a desert ranch or a solitary mining camp. On the way he travels as slowly as his food supply will let him. The cactus fruit is ripening about the time of year in which he reaches the cactus fields, and this helps him a bit on his way, and there are huge chuckawallahs (lizards of two feet in length or more with edible tails) to be had for the killing, and ?^v r*on ik'o far some time W X 1>U LJLLCSC iiC VstArUk A* ? V *wa on a small actual ration. Where night overtakes him he sleeps and by dear experience he knows which water holes he can depend on yet to contain the life giving fluid. Should one of these "tanks" fail him in time of exceptional drought he must push on to the next one or retreat to the settlement whence he came. If either of these is too far for him to reach he dies, as many of his kind have died in the years that are gone, uncared for by man or beast, for not even the dogs of the desert will accompany these tramps on their journeys. Teamsters and prospectors do not stop to bury the tramp when his body is found, which is not often; the sun and the storms of the boundless space take care of him when he dies, as, indeed, they did in life. But if the water hole toward which he tramps does contain plenty of water he will sometimes camp near it for several days. To these springs, too, come occasional prospectors, alone save for their faithful burros. When one of these whose "grubstake" was extra large disappears, his taking off is usually charged to the Piutes. More often, so I am told by old desert men, some tramp has felled him with a stone __j TTvhhine- his saddlebags auu Lildi, aii.v.1 ?0 _ or the pack on his burro, pushes on into the heart of the desert. It is days before the dead miner is discovered, sometimes the days run into w?eks, and then all trace of the murderer has been covered up and he is somewhere far out on the winding white trail, living on the food he committed an awful crime to get. The circuit of the desert tramps who start out from Daggett frequently runs entirely around Death Valley. From Daggett they go out to the China Ranch 1 or to Resting Springs^ thence on ! across low lava hills into the Furnace i Creek country and down to the' old j borax works at the north end of the | valley. From there it is a short and comparatively safe hike of a couple j of hundred miles into some one of j the mining camps, so that their tramp, i all told, reaches very close to three j and sometimes four hundred miles. On this journey water holes are far apart and very uncertain, ranches are scattered and the network of trails so interwoven by the feet of prospectors and of burros that they become a veritable maze to the man who does not Keep eiose waicn on inem year uy i year. To make this circuit requires | at least nine months of the year?from late September or October to the last of May. For the remainder of the year as has been said, the tramp loafs around some border town, where he has to behave himself; ropes and telegraph poles and willing men are too near at hand for the committing of crimes. It is the lonely ranches on the desert that suffer most from this class of wanderers. Coming to the ranch house they insolently demand food and clothing, and they get it, too. If they do not the haystack is burned that night, or even the house is set on fire. If the family depends on a spring of water, as likely as not the water hole will be filled with stones and earth; frequently springs along the trail are so treated when the tramp thinks that one of his enemies is likely to pass that way in the near future and depend on the presence of water in the tank for himself and his stock. One incident of this kind may be told to illustrate the devilish schemes these fellows concoct. A new manager was sent to the borax plant on the northern rim of Death Valley. He was a most excellent man for the work in | hand, but he knew nothing of the peo- I pie with whom he was to deal, and the j first tramp who came along was rough- j Iv ordered to "aet out and stav out." ' Now the road over which the borate I from this particular plant was hauled to the refinery was long and dry, and the company had placed wooden tanks at necessary intervals, keeping them filled with water and depending on them for the use of the wagon teams and their drivers. The tramp, angered and revengeful at his treatment, set out along this road and for one hundred miles emptied every tank. The result can better be imagined than described; the next wagon train out, two huge desert wagons, drawn by twenty mules and handled by two men coming to the first tank and finding no water pushed on to the next; by the time they reached that the men were well nigh crazed with thirst, but no water awaited them there, and on they dragged their weary bodies, until it is presumed, abandoning the team, they wandered away and died. The wagons and the mules, the latter quite dead, were found two weeks later, but not even the skeletons of the men were ever seen. The desert keeps its secrets better than the sea, and this was one of them. Men followed the tramp, some say he was caught. The men who followed him still live on the desert; I have seen one of them, but none can remember whether they caught this particular tramp or not. Possibly a pile of bones could tell if it could speak, for short shrift is meted to the man, be he tramp or mine owner, who meddles with water on the desert. More valuable than gold it is, and worth m$,ny human lives when thrown in the balance. On the desert, too, there is another kind of tramp, by no means a criminal, and yet one of the most interesting characters of the whole west?the tramp prospector. He makes the easiest living of any man in the world, not excepting the promoter of wild-cat mines. And, like the promoter, he lives by fleecing the credulous. The tramp prospector is forever discover- * ing a fabulously rich prospect. Back from the heart of the desert he comes, laden with samples, supposedly from his new discovery, but really picked up on the dump of some, established mine. Armed with these it is little trouble for him to enlist the help of some man with more money than knowledge of the desert to develop the "mine." His first demand is, of course, a I "grub-stake. This will consist of a burro, or two, if the man can be talked out of them, a sack of beans, bacon, flour, molasses and cooking utensils, as well as other things needful in the work he says he is going to undertake. Thus provided, the prospector sets out, camps at some well hidden water hole and there spends his time until the grub-stake gives out. Clever Mother Wood-Duck. How does the mother wood-duck get her brood of twelve to eighteen ducklings from her hollow tree to the creek? Hunters, fishermen, and nature students have tried to answer this question, and many are the guesses at the riddle. Mr. William Brewster watched an American golden-eye that had a nest in the hollow tree overhanging the water, until he heard her, after she had made an inspection of the surroundings, utter a "quack" that brought her brood pell-mell out of the tree and tumbling down into the water. A recent magazine writer says he has seen the young ducks climb out cf the hollow down the tree and walk to the water, which was near-by. Others believe that the mother carries them in her bill, takin{? them hv their wintrs: others, that she carries them on her back.?Coun| try Life in America. Too Busy. Senior Partner ? The new man doesn't seem to have developed any good points yet. Junior Partner?No, he hasn't had time. Senior Partner?Hasn't had time? Junior Partner?No, he spends most of his time explaining his mistakes ?Philadelphia Ledger. JpI i Sill w?n?AE Decoration for Dining Room. The small Japanese umbrellas afford the foundation for a very pretty floral decoration in the dining room. Suspend the umbrella from the chandelier over the table, fill it with daisies or other wild flowers so they will hang over the edge and also partly conceal the handle. Have tiny bouquets of the same flowers about the table. This is an exceedingly pretty decoration when the table is set for j luncheon with doilies and no cloth, | permitting the flowers to be reflected in the polished surface. For Cooling the Room. A woman who has travelled in India suggests that one of the daintiest ways of keeping a room cool in summer is by hanging curtains of an Eastern grass which is now procurable here in the windows. These curtains are in TUa air r?a<?sin?? UitUVUtU 1U TTUCV/&. XUV r ^ through the moist grass, is not only cooled but also slightly perfumed with an Oriental odor which is peculiarly refreshing. In lieu of the grass, a piece of flannel dipped and wrung out of cold water may be hung over the* window screen.?New York Sun. Furnishing the Kitchen. Kitchens are frequently overstocked. Early learn that this department should contain only what is in actual use. Never acquire the habit of buying from peddlers, or your room will be clogged with seldom-used articles. Before buying, know why you are spending. On the othei?hand, do not forswear the extras which simplify labor," such as vegetable cutters, potato slicers, etc., says the Boston Herald. Keep your eyes open for anything new that will perform a task better than you can now do it. The kitchen?like the mind?should be a growing one, be willing to incorporate new ideas and to take advantage of all that the progress of science and skill make possible. A New Treatment of Shelves. The wide shelves at the back of deep closets may be turned into wonderfully convenient affairs if other shelves be inserted betweep the two of three shelves which are usually considered enough. If the shelves are run all the way from floor to ceiling, the closet may be made even more satisfactory. Have shallow drawers made to fit the shelf spaces, letting them be light in weight, so that lifting drawer and its contents out of the closet need not necessarily be a burden. To do this, wire netting?the strong kind ?is sometimes used in a framework of wood, the front made entirely of wood, to keep dust out. Even a home carpenter can build this stationary cabinet, and the comfort of such an arrangement cannot be overestimated. The top drawers, which are hard to get at, may serve as receptacles for the things you need to disturb but seldom?a party frock, for instance, of the type that should not be hung up. But their arrangement will work out according to individual need. Warmed Over Dishes. The careful housekeeper never wastes any left-overs, but utilizes them in the preparation of appetizing side dishes. In a majority of cases, such dishes a good sauce as a basis. Dark foods usually require brown sauce, light-colored meats or vegeta Dies a wnne sauue. ncic aic mu which will serve as the basis of manysauces: Brown sauce.?Heat half a pint of good soup stock or gravy; when neither are on hand use water, though the result is naturally not quite so good. In another saucepan melt and slowly brown one tablespoonful of butter or clarified fat. Add one slightly heaping tablespoonful of flour and stir until browned. Gradually add the hot liquid, stirring continuously until smoothly thickened. Season according to the left-overs, which are to be used with salt, pepper, onion juice, herbs or spices. White sauce.?Heat a half pint of milk. Melt a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan; without browning, add one tablespoonful of flour, stir for two minutes without coloring. Gradually add the hot milk, stirring until smooth and thick. Season and simmer for five minutes. Shepherd Pie.?Chop some cold cooked mutton quite fine. Measure, and for each pint add salt and pepper to taste, a half teaspoonful of onion juice, a dash of curry powder and a half pint of brown sauce. Mix and spread in a greased dish. Cover with a thick layer of hot mashed potato, dabbling the top with a little beaten egg yolk. Brown in a quick oven. Italian fritters.?Take one cupful of sifted flour, the yolk of one egg, one teaspoonful of vinegar, one teaspoonful of olive oil or melted butter and enough cold water to mix to a batter that will pour from a spoon. Add the stiffly whipped white and set away for two hours. Into this dip pieces of cooked meat or vegetables and fry brown in deep smoking hot fat?Cornelia C. Bedford, in the New York MaiL Georgia Philosophy. Misery is so sociable he'll never let you travel alone if you'll just give him room on the road. Misfortune can make the humblest of us see more stars in a minute than the best astronomers can Hnd in ^ a mile. It seems hard to live without Hope; but, since we know Hope to be a deceiver, why can't we pull through >. without him??Atlanta Constitution. >. 1 "? DAZED WITH PAIX. # The Sufferings of a Citizen of OIym? pia, Wash. r n n?r,.! Of ?J. O. VjTUi iiaLLi, VI VXV UOOW -XVU Olympia, Wash., says: "Six years ago I got wet and took cold, and was soon tflat in bed, suffering ^ tortures with my back. Every movement caused an ago- ? nizing pain, and the persistency of it ex- ^ hausted me, so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On the advice of a friend I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon noticed a change for the better. The kidney secretions had been disordered and Irregular, and contained a heavy sediment, but in a week'f time the urine was clear and natural again and the passages regular. Gradually the aching and soreneat left my back and then the lameness. I used six boxes to make sure of a f cure, and the trouble has never returned." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Most people who are satisfied with themselves don't want much. 1 HEAD COVERED WITH HUMOR. vt# Bothered With I telling For a Long Tim* ?Kentucky Lady Now Completely "Well?Cured l$y Cuticura. "After using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, * and Pills, I am very glad to say I am ? entirely relieved of that itching humor of ... * the head and scalp which I was bothered with quite a length of time. 1 did not use the Cuticura Remedies more than three times before I began to get better, and now I am completely well. 1 suffered with that humor on my head, and found no relief until I took the Cuticura\ v' fi Remedies. I think I used several cakes of Cuticura Soap, three boxes of Oint: ment, and two vials of Pills. 1 am doing , all I can to publish the Cuticura Heme- ; - 'j dies, for . ?ey have done me good, and ?, ^ know they will do others the same. Mrs. ' Mattie Jackson, Mortonsville, Ky., June 12, 1905." Korean Laws. Corea must be a nice place to live .< m 1? TT ? 15o+ rvf nOTIflltipa for *!zb?3n m. nere is a. various crimes, according to Corean /law. ' j Treason, Man?Decapitated, togeth- ;r. er with male relatives to the fifth de- f gree. Mother, wife and daughter poisoned or reduced to slavery. Treason, Woman?Poisoned. ' Murder, Man?Decapitated. Wife , poisoned. , Murder, Woman ? Strangled or poisoned. Arson, Man?Strangled or poisoned* 'M Wife* poisoned. Arson, Woman?Poisoned. Theft, Man?Strangled, decapitated / orbaniehed. Wife reduced to slavery; confiscation of all property. Desecration of Graves?Decapitated, . J together with male relatives to the fifth degree. Mother, wife and daughter poisoned. Counterfeiting ? Strangulation or decapitation. Wife poisoned.?Liven pool Post A New Way to Europe. A route across the Atlantic which would greatly shorten the ocean voyage is being discussed in England. It is proposed to utilize the harbor of Gal way, situated on the western coast of Ireland, and run a line of express steamers betweten ^ there and St. John's, on the coast of Newfoundland, a distance of 1816 miles, while the rest of the journey "? *- 1J moat to Mew XOrK CUU-iu uc luauE JtVi of the way by fast trains. It is believed that the trip from London to the American metropolis could thus be shortened by at least a day. Prom New York to Southhampton Is almost twice as far as from Gal way to St. ? 2 John's?3116 miles; while the dis- . | tance from New York to Liverpool if 3095 miles. "NO TROUBLE" f To Change From Coffee to Postnm. ' :'m "Postum has done a world of good for me," writes an Ills. man. "I've had indigestion nearly all my life, but never dreamed coffee was the cause of my trouble until last ^ spring I got so bad I was in misery '' all the time. "A coffee drinker for 30 years, it irritated my stomach and nerves, yet ' I was just crazy for it. Alter anna- . ing it with my meals, I would leave ?' the table, go out and lose my meal and the coffee, too. Then I'd be aa % hungry as ever. ,v| "A friend advised me to quit coffee and use Postum?said it .cured v him. Since taking his advice I retain my food and get all the good out of it, and don't have those awful hungry spells. "I changed from coffee to Postum without any trouble whatever, felt better from the first day I drank I am well now and give the credit to Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville/' in pkgs. "There's a reason." "Ill i.i