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THE BO' The bovheart! The bovhcart! It ;;es within your breast. 'All ready :n go leaping when your soul is at :est When on the street there comes to you a whistle or a call, - Or bu: the echo of a song whose happy mea3sures fall Upon the chords of memory, and rouse :hem into life Until they send a surgiag thrill as rich as drum or fife: The boyheart! The boyher-t! It may be but a rose That nods in' areless glee at one as idly on Ile goes: But instantly he sees a street that wanders up and down Between the sleepy fences of the quiet li:tle town; Or maybe 'tis a country road where sway m:n rranches spread And buid an arching canopy of branches on.rhead. Ow Jan Lost e-;. ByM. SI ~I VV W :Al:.:,et, asubmitting to tie rt r !t.tnent readers of S ilie New 1York Weekly the followiing spicy ineidelit, cmzing under the writer's in~imediate observation, is not so much to set forth gaming in an allurir g form as to show the incon Sisteney of some in evading all moral responsibility in matters of this kind whenever they imagine the advantages securely in their favor. While traveling through the State of New York a few years ago I halted in SsmaMl viliage, comprising, perhaps, some two or three thousand inhab itants. It was a gala day which marked my arrivail there. for a traveling circus company had arrived in town that morning, to the great delight of the -villagers and people from the surround ing country. who were flocking in squads in the direction of the enchant ed ground. dressed out. with the ex -ception of some few shabby specimens. in theit Sunday best. With ditliculty I had my horse prov endered. and afterward elbowed my way into the "Pavilion," as it was -called bv the noisy vender of tickets. I succeeded in securing a seat at the feet of what I considered to be a freshly married couple. into which I contrived to wedge myself in a very .mncomfortable manner just as the band struck up "Yankee Doodle." "Oh. my: Ain't that splendid?" cried the young wife. with a sudden burst of enthusiasm. It ought, with justice. have been pronounced little short of execrable. the young farmer, as his appearance indicated, made no reply, but looked straight toward the entrance whence he expected the troop to emerg.. The young wife looked vexed at his indifference to her appeni. "I don't b'lieve you've got a mite of -an ear for music, Albert:" she at gth said, petulantly. . Jane." he replied, with stolid sure: "I never had much of a in' fur it. I'd rather see the and them other carcis chaps, I w the inference from appear hat the wife laid greater pre sto intelligence, taste and re t than her liege lord, and I be mediately more interested in tic young couple-the one with acious black eyes, pretty face uacious'tongue, and the other 's generally unruffled stolidity, when some stereotyped wit ropped from the lips of the hen he would open with a uffaw.' which showved there -ist no dlisease, constitutional -isC, in his robust, expansive . in all the spangles and tra of the circus troop or thel stale ses of the incorrigible merry man. The fe ts of horsemanship, of ground and loft.s tumblingz. seemed particu larly ;o a. tonish and delight Albert, 'who had t nquestionably never it Lnessed a sin 'lar exhibition in all his life; while .Jan infinitely preferred the comic songs an the pantomime that concluded the p rformiance, declaring emphatically that she didn't like to sgthem ride hors back standing up. nor tumbling over itheir heads back ward and forward, \as though they idn't know which en'd they belonged onto. It made her so dizzy like. Interested in the unsophisticated pair. I kept my eye on them as they made theIr way out of the tent in close proximity to a small side show, on the canvas of which w'as daubed in coarse. flaring colors half a dozen monkeys .and a m'amnmoth snake, not omitting a very rude likeness of what they were pleased to call "the famous Australen children." where a sharky-looking. glib tonguedt individual, in plaid vest and pants, with unbecomingly long hair and a knowing twirl to his mustache, stood moumned on ai barrel. haranguing the gaping and ,.i-~ hig crowd with a graphic' alcount of' the wonderful cil en. who had doubtless n'ever se'en 'stralia, and the sevei'al other re 'able objects of human interest .nd there on exhibition: the whole clh. the greatest and most un Itraction in the world. might -sed by tihe admirinmt beholder eager trifle of tvwenty-ive l .lane--I wvas never able to irsurnames-wvere stanud Uront of mue. listening. with ed wonder, to the pwr alsehoodis of the fellow on the i the crowd begaln to hand up r quaurers. one after another, and drop i::. whean I hea:'d the w~'fe whlisperi, excitedly: "Do let us go in. Albert. before every body gets in and the lac:e is tilled ump. You'v.' got live dolars :and a half, and five wvill btuy myv new drIess and trim minZs." The argument was not to 'oe resisted.1 ud the more prudent but iess decided Ibert camne dowvn wvith the dust--a ight,. nevw fifty-cent piece. which lie ied at twice with affectiomnte re 1et:nce before iiandi~ng it up to the ;wi'ly shar::i'. whio still occupied his posit in p tt 'ahe barrel. I (Ld not feo~v them in. for I knew ;they wonid both eCCQe out disgusted LHEART. The bovheart! The boyheart! The embers in the grate May paint for one the picture that will ring the thoughts elate A picture of the neadow ands which reach beside the h:ook, And blend into a forest where there's many a leafy nook. Where everv tree that waves its arms, and swings and sweeps and sways Is wai.- shouts and laughter from the bytime summer days! The botheart! The hovheart! Prav that You have it vet! A-many times its turiring thrills will leave vour eveils wot; A-many times its sudden beats will set your fblood aflame WVhen out or all the other years will come a whi.%ered name; A-many timles vou'll walk the ways you wandered wvhen a lad. If God has but been good to you and left the heart you had. -W. D. Nesbit, in The Reader. HerNew Dress ,INGSBY. nevertheless, I determined to wait near the entrance and watch the result. As the dissatisfied spectators began to steal out, mostly with indifference or disgust, antd sometimes angry disap pointment depicted in their faces, to the cracked tones of a barrel organ. the long-haired orator descended from his temporary rostrum and dexterously drew three cards from his pocket. "Gentlemen and ladies," he ex claimed, patronizingly, holding up the three cards to view-a queen, knave and ace-"I am about showing you a nice little game, where, if you are so inclined, any one of you. or every one of you, might make your fortunes in an hour, providing your eyes are sharp enough. Here it is." And he opened his little game of three-card monte by first exhibiting a card, and then laying it carefully, face down. on the bar- . head, with a corner slightly bent, so that only a very keen observer would notice it. It was the queen of diamonds. He next showed up the knave of clubs, and, laying that down by the queen. followed the same formula with the ace of spades. He then adroitly commenced the pro cess of changing the positions of the cards in a most rapid and tantalizing manner for a brief space, when he ab ruptly inquired if anyone could guess which was the queen*? The sharp eyes of the young farmer's wife were upon him, and she had close ly kept track of the queen from the turned-up corner she had at first no ticed. "I can!" she cried, confidently, put ting herself forward among the crowd of masculine lookers on, much to the annoyance of the less demonstrative Albert. "Well," returned the sharper with great urbanity. "here is an opportunity to win money if you are sure. There is five dollars," he added, laying a note representing the sum specified on the barrel head, "that not one of the company present can point out the queen among those cards." The young woman stood fidgeting. but I could tell by the expression in her countenance that she still enter ind unshaken confidence in her de tective isowers. No one, however, offered to accept the wager. "Well," said the sharper, after an eloquent pause, "I think you must all be in independent circumstances in this place, as'none of you care to make money." His restless eye roved from face to face, as though he were taking a brief inventory of their thoughts, and finally rested on the eager, excited features of the young farmer's wife. "Do you think you can pick out the queen, young woman?" "Yes. I do," she ansv'ored, promptly, and with nervous confidence. "Well, then, if you are quite sure why do you not accept th3 wager ?" She turned and whispered a few ager words to Albert, but the stolid fellow shook his head dubiously, as though .a aguely impressed with a faint conception of something wrong. "Albert thinks I'd better not," she replied, with a disappointed look; "but I can tell you which card it is." "Be kind enough, then, to oblige us by telling," said the sharper, blandly. The young woman touched a card at the suggestion, and the gambler turned It up. It was the queen of diamonds, sure enough. "There," he said, with cool indiffer ence, "you perceive how easily you could have won" The young wife threw a swift glance at Albert. half indignation, half tri unph, as much as to say: "There, you stupid' Didn't I tell you so?" The adroit angler saw that his hook was baited, and lie commenced manipu lating the cards, seeming not to have noticed the corner that was so slightly bent. IHI went through the same proceed' ing as before, leaving the fiv'e-dollar note where he had first iaid it, and, turning toward his watchful but still cotident victim: "Do you think that y~u can point it out tils time':" The conient young woman, who saw the s1mel ('orner turnied up as be fore, :answeredi uis question quickly in the affirmnativ'. "Well, then. the offer is still open to whoever chooses to closce with it." Tihe~ younig woman tur'ned to her hus hand and whispered something in his ear. I could not q3ite make it out, except from guesswork. Albert sho~ok his head. She expos tula ted. lHe shook it again, and she grew im ~at ient-even angry-nt the restraint. "I know which is the queen," she at length said, with angry vehemence; "and if you don't bet now. when you are sure to wvin,. I won't never-" "But I never did bet." e'xpostulated Albert. in seeming trepidation at the half-expressed threat of his indignant better half. "Well, then. there is the money you can get. if you've got the spunk cof a chicken left in you." stupidIly. "I never did, and. I dont want to." "Well. then, give me the money and let me do it," she answered, with an air of feminine bravado. Albert hesitated, as if reluctant to yield the point. "If you don't give me that money, Albert, I won't stir a step home with you to-night:" and she stamped her little foot with angry impatience at Al bert's nbstinacy. I suppose the poor fellow could not bear the thought of so unhappy a ter mination to a day so pleasantly be gun, and he reluctantly surrendered his purse. With nervous fingers the young wife opened the purse. while the vanquished Albert stood riefully regardin.: her. and, removing a five-doilar note-the only one it contained-she laid it with an air of triumph beside the other. "Please draw your card, marm!" said the sharper. with a cool indifference, apparently, as to the result. She had kept: a sharp eye all the while. as she supposed, on the one t with the slightly turned corner, and n made her selection accordingly. Im- r agine her astonishment on turning the chosen card to find, instead of the r queen of dinmonds, the knave of c clubs e For a moment she gazed at it like V one demented. Then she looked up t with an expression of angry inquiry 17 into the smiling face of the sharper, tl and as some of the bystanders began t to titter she turned toward her hus- ri hand with a half-humiliated, half-in- h dignant expression, and, seizing him by the armi. exclaimed: C "Come, Albert, let's go right straight S home!" And as they started hurriedly off to- t< gether, she hurled scornful glances h back upon the unsympathizing crowd. NV I followed on a few steps behind to r the place where I had stabled my horse, u and the last words I heard the dis- P comfited young wife say were: "Albert. I know I have made a fool of myself, and I hope you will forgive me. I feel so angry with that sharper e that I could wring his neck with de- n light. Ard, only think of it, I can't e get my new dress:" a It was indeed a severe lesson to the 0 unsophisticated young couple, as well as a timely rebuke upon the depravity of gambling, which will undoubtedly a serve them as a warning through life.- I New York Weekly. a ti . lENTI1C NDWJTRJ a~ i n e .--- V At Doornklocf, in the Witwatersrand gold field of the Transvaal. a bore hole r has been drilled down 5500 feet, thus making oie of the few perforations of e: the earth's outer crust which exceed a r mile. t e Softenirg of the brain, brought about by lack of mental exercise, causes the death of one-third of the rural laborers of Enigland, was the remarkable state-p meu.~ made in a court in London by ct Dr. Duke. Cremation 'makes remarkably slow progress in England, partly because of A the decision of the court In 1894, that, unless express instructions had been d left by the deceased, an executor could n not cremate the remains. r The largest electrical sign in the P world is on the North River, in Newe York Harbor, the individual letters be-0 ing sixty-eight feet high, yet its opera tion for five hours a day only costs $3 i for power. The lamps of which it is d composed are of four-candle power. 8: A German physician has discovered that the air of the Egyptian desert is about as free from bacterial life as the polar regions on the high seas. c Tubercle bacilli are killed when ex- t~ posed six hours in the sunlight. He a considers the desert especially suitable s1 for rheumatics and patients suffering U from kidney diseases and tuberculosis. P It is stated that Emile Wenz, of Reims, France, has recently applied kite photography with success to geo logical pictures, and it is predicted that the field geologist of the future will find a kite and its camera essential to re his outfit. M. Wenz succeeded in tak- e: ing good photographs from a height of 'tI 6-50 feet, and found them very valuable el in the production of maps. t K Electric wa'ies measured by Hertz and named after him-were found by P the great scientist to be 150 feet from G th top of one wave to the top of the VW next. The waves used by Marconi in G teegraphing across the Atlantic are much longer. They are said to be 600 feet or more. They travel at the same speed as ligh':, 1S45000 miles a second. But the light wave measures only a few millionths of an inch. Vegetable spongres. at The vegetable sponges that are com- U monly sold iin drug stores and used in a: the hathroom are produced by a vinet like a cucumber. which any one may grow in his garden. In tropical coun tries these vegetable sponges are of ten used f'or dish rags, being par'ticu arly useful for scouring pans andc kettles: and it has been suggested thatw housewives in the North should "grew c: their own dish rags." since a clean. sponge could be used for each dish washing performance and then thrown away, thus relegating to history the G rubbing out of greasy cloth.-Garden A Magazine-.t Valuable Feather's. The splendid snow-white heron known as the American egret, onle of the few~ kinds whinch beaCr tihe aigrette plumes of miliinery and conneree, is 5 among the waning species of Amern- c ca - a victim to inexorable fashion, says Herbert K. Job, in Country Life I in America. In 190Q3 the price for plumes offered to hunters was .$.'3 pe~ ounce. which miakes the plumes worth twice their weight in gold. There will always be men who would break ci any lawv for such profit. No rookery n of these herons can long exist. unless li it be guarded by force of arms day P and night. t More than one-third of all the Amen it ican exp'ort trade has beeni in the two $ )PPOSE REGULATION southern Manufacturers On Record As Unfavorable to Interfereace ESOLUTIONS OF ATLANTA BODY lew Hampshire Man Leads a Losing Fight in Comrrrittee For President Roosevelt's Programmre, and the Convention Unanimously Stood Pat on the Existing Laws, Supplemented by Examination of Railroad Books. Atlanta. Ga.. Special.-The National [anufacturers' Association on Wedneis ay passed resolutions upholding the and taken by President Parry, against ie exercise by the national govern tent of rate-making power for the rail )ads. An intercsting fight on the railroad ite quest-on has been waged behind osed docrs and in the hotel corridors ver since the convention bezan, and 'as not settled until Wednesday after oon. Beth the executive and resdlu ons committees held lengthy meet igs for the consideration supported e positIon of President Parry, against ie exercise by the government of the ite-making power, taken by him in is annual address. & B. Pike, of New :ampshire. chairman of the standing mmittee of the organization on inter tate commerce, led the fight in behalf 7 the exercise of the rate-makin: wer, presenting lengthy resolutions that effect. This afternoon the reso itions committee refused to endorse [r. Pike's position and presented a ,solution to the convention which was nanimously adopted with much ap lause, the advocates of the pending 'gislation before Congress not press ig their position in the open conven on. The resolutions follow: Resolved. That we favor the active forcement by the legislative depart tent of the general government of all isting laws to prevent the giving or :ceptance or rebates or special fav rs (through whatever device) to or by tvored shippers, and we call upon the ter-State commerce commission to pply all the remedies at their disposal provided by the original inter-State )mmerce act and the Elkins act ending the same Rseolved, TL', if the existing laws >r the detection and punishment of ie giving or acceptance of such re tes are insufficient, or defective in ay resDect, we favor the enactment such further legislation as may be cessary adequately to deal with the il and to secure this complete pre ntion. Resolved, That in order to carry into fect the provisions of the foregoing solutions, Congress be asked that rovisions be made for the necessjty camination of *:he books of the rail )ads and corporations something af r the manner of the national bank caminations. for the purpose of de ~cting and elin-.inating special favors ad discriminations against the small id less favoraed shippehs~and also that rovision for adequate punishment be rovided for improper disclosure of >nfidential information so gained. Manufacturers Meet. Atlanta, Ga.. Special.-More than 300 Ethe 3.000 members of the National ssociation of Manufacturers, accom anled by 1001 ladies, assembled Tues ly at the opening of the tenth an ual meeting of the association. Rep sentatives from almost every section the country were present. The im rtance of the gathering was indicat by the fact that the membership rep asents a large majority of the $13, )0,000,000 of invested capital of the nited States, and by the additional Lt that among the questions to be Iscussed during the three days' ses on are inter-State commerce and re procity. Statue to General Forest. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-To the ac >mpaniment of martial music and in e presence of thousands of citizens ad visitors, the equestrian bronze atue of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest was aveiled Tuesday afternoon in the irk that bears th~e Confederate gen al's name. The statue is the work Sthe Sculptor Niehus. It was cast in ais. Declares Reports False. Berlin, By Cable-The Foreign Office, plying to an inquiry regarding the citement at Tokio over the report Lat German troops had occupied Hai iou, in the southern part of the Shan ing Pensinula, says the report is holly incorrect and one of several re >rts designed to make it appear that ermany . is attempting in Shantung hat Russia did in Manchuria. The erman government is doing nothIng Shantung outside ot fulfilling her eaty agreement with China, which t has been communicated to both e Washington and Tokio govern ents. Big Telephone Merger. Indianapolis, Special.-Five thous d telephones controlled by the nted Telephone Company will here 'ter be operated in connection with ose of the Central 'Union Telephone ompany. terms of agreement be. veen the two companies the U'nited mpanies secures connection not on with ,he toll lines of the Central nion. but with those of the Ameri m Telephone and Telegraph Co., hich covers practically all the States ist of the Rocky Mountains. Two Touch Live Wires. Newport News, Va., Special.--Earl ilcrist, a telephone lineman, and shley Harris were accidentally elec 'ocuted. Gilchrist was workin~g on a :a when wires in his hand came in ntact with a live wire and he swung omn the Dolo diead. Harris was walk ig on H-uutington avenue when he 'leed up the 'end of a broken electric ght wire, ecing instantly killed. Gil airist was a Lynchbur'g man. Harris 'as a son of former State Senator arrs, ol. Amerieus, Ga. Both men -ere unmarried. Charged With Perjury. Covington, Ga. Special.-No little ex tement was created Tuesday after on over the arrest of Chief of Po e Bradford Bohannon and policeman W. Skelton, on warrants charging e with perjury in connection with e recent sensationa.l gambling caid this city. They were placed under 0 bonds. Both have been on the >lice force for a number of years and MANUFACTURERS ELECT UFICERS Former President Parry Again Unani mously Elected. Atlanta, Special.-The tenth annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers ce.me to a close shortly after noon Thursday. after so lecting New York as the place for the convention for 1906, re-electing D. M. Parry, of Indiana. as president. and ordering that the Association shall be incorporated under the laws of New York State. Vice presidents, one from each State represented. were named by the States, the vice-presi dents from the 12 States having the largest membership in the association constituting, with the president and secretary, the executive oommittee. After re-electing F. 1-. Stillman, of New York. treasurer, the roll of States for vice-presidents resulted as follows: Alabama, G. B. McCormick; Cali fornia, H1. D. Morton; Connecticut, A. H.. Bullard; Delvware, G. R. Hoffech er; Georgia, David Woodward; Illi nois, Elliott Durand; Indiana, E. H. Dean; Kenticky,. M. C. McNemicher; Louisiana. R. J. Words: Mississippi, G. C. Draper; Michigan, B. T. Skinner; Missouri, M. J* Cleave; New Hamp shire, E. P. Pike; New Jersey, R. j. Jinkinson; New York, Ludwig Nissen; North Carolina, D. A. Tompkins; Ohio, John Kirby, Jr.; Pennsylvania, D. C. Ripley; Rhode Island, P. E. Hays; South Carolina, E. A. Smith; Tennes see, H. L. Chamberlain; Wisconsin, H. S. Smith; Iowa, G. R. Eastabrook. The vice-presidents who will consti tute the exective committee will be those from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michi gan, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecti cut, Wisconsin, Missouri and Tennes see. Cry of "Thieves" in Council. Philadelphia. Special.-Amid scenes of disorder unprecedented in the an nals of Philadelphia's legislative body, the city council voted to lease the city's gas works to the United Gas Improvement Company, for a term of 75 years, or the total sum of $25,000, 000, the money to be paid in various amounts before the end of 1907. Council Chambers and committco rooms were crowded with excited citi zens, pro!:sting against the lease. The climax was reached when the vote in common council was announced after three hours of debate. The moment President Geo. McCurdy announced the vQte, a great uproar was started in the gallery, which .as crowded to the door. From all over the gallery came hisses and cries of "Thieves!" The outburst was som-what startling to the presiding officer, who made a vain effort to quell it. Depends on Rojestvcnsky. Tokio. By Cable.-The reported de parture of Vice Admiral Rojestven sky from Hon-Koe Bay northward re news the popular expectation of a naval action in the near future. It is believed that Admiral Rojestvensky, having filled his coal bunkers and re supplied his fleet Is now in a condition to assume the aggressive, If he so desires. It is the opinion of some that Rojestvensky may make a demon stration In the vicinity of the Islands of Formosa and the Pescadores and then enter the Pacific en route for Vladvostock. This is, however, pure ly speculative. Everything depends upon Admiral Rojestvensky's plans. which, while as yet undisclosed, may include an extended stay In Southern waters. The General Assembly. Winona, Ind., Special.-Two meet ings were hcld preliminary to the for mal opening of the General Assembly f the Presbyterian Church. In the audience were Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, and Wmn. Jennings Bryan. Justice Harlan is here to urge the construction of a Presbyterian cathedral at Washington. Mr. Bryan is here to attend the meet ing of the presidents of Presbyterian colleges. He spoke at the foreign mission conference. Dr. Plunkett Moderator. Fort Worth, Tex., Special.-Dr. J. E. Plunkett, of Augusta. Ga., was elected moderator by the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States. S. M. Neel, D. D., the retiring moderator, delivered his farewell sermon at the morning session. The afternoon session was devoted to committee reports and other routine work. The question of union or closer relations with other Presbyterian oodies will come up at this meeting, and it is expected that an interesting debate will take place. Sudden Death From Drinking. Columbia. Special.-A white man about 28 years of age named Charles Christmas died very suddenly at 1408 Wayne street between 5 and 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Death is sup posed to have been due to alchohol poisoning, as the man was a hard drinker and was seen to drink a half pint of whiskey just before entering the house where he lived and where his death occurred. He walked into the house and in a few minutes fell in a fit, and before medical aid could reach him he was dead. Coroner Walker was notified and after view ing the remains had the body removed to the undertaking establishment of J. M. VanMetre. Burglar Captured. Chillicothe, Ohio, Special-When Officers Weigand and Maughmer at tempted to arrest a colored burglar, the robber fatally shot Weigand and escaped, although Maughmer fired five shots without effect. A posse finally captured the man, who appears to be a half breed Indian and gives his name as Oscar Evans from Georgia. Teleg~aphic Briefs. The executive committee of the Pana ma Canal Commission has decided to buy ships as material for the canal in Europe if they can be purchased abroad more cheaply than in the United States. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will meet in Washington on Thursday. Secretary of War Taft is conducting the inQuiry into the charges made by Minister Bowen and Assistant Secre tary Lemis -against meh other. MUCH IN MONOPOLY Fruit Traffic Thoroughly Under the Control of One Organization ARMOUR MAN ADMIIS CHARGES Entire South Atlantic Coast and Parts of the West Are "Exclusive" Terri tory For the Armours-Under Con tracts With the Railroads. 0 Washington, Special.-Before the Senate committe on inter-State com merce, which is investigating railroad rates, President George R. Robbins, of the Armour Car Lines Company, ad mitted that the company had twenty or thirty exclusive contracts with rail roads for fruit transportation business, and acknowledge a monopoly of that traffic in parts of the West and South. Wherever these exclusive contracts ap plied, he admitted, the producers and shippers of fruit had to accept the rates laid down by the Armours. He claimed that his company was a private one, and therefore not subject to the inter State commerce laws. The Armours, be said, had exclusive contracts with all the South Atlantic coast railways. and exclusive contracts in East Tennessee. Fruit producers and shippers on these exclusive lines had to accept the rates of the Armour Company. but Mr. Robbins said they satisfied 80 per cent. of the shippers. C. W. Robinson, representing the New Orleans board of trade and the Central Yellow Pine Lumber Associa tion, testified that Eastern trunk lines should be restrained from diverting the grain of the Northwest from its natural outlet at New Orleans. He advocated enlarged powers for the inter-State commerce commission. Mr. Robinson said that the railroads operating in the South had advanced yellow pine lum ber rates, and charged that there were indirect rebates or discriminations by manipulation of rates. He referred to practices of billing lumber to small towns and then re-billing to destina tions, by which a cheaper rate for a long haul Is granted. This, he said, is discrimination against shippers. Hearing in Car Shortage. Washington, Special. - Testimony given Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Inter-State Commere had much to do with the inadequate supply of private cars that resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars to North Carolina strawberry growers. Most important of all was the admis sion of George P. Robbins, president of the Armour Car Line, which has an exclusive contract with the Atlantic Coast Line, that the company had failed to deliver a sufficient number of cars in North Carolina, and that it is now adjusting claims that will ?.mount to $75,000. Mr. Robbins said the loss to the company would be more than it had made and would make in many years from the Carolina berry business 'Race to England On. New York, Special.-A splendid fleet of sailing yachts swept across a start ng line at Sandy Hook light ship at 12:15 p. m. Wednesday, and with the Queenly American schooner Atlantic leading the way headed out into the broad Atlantic Ocean on a r-ace of 3,000 miles to the English coast for a $5,000 up offered by Emperor William of Ger many. When last seen as they vanish ed into the mist they were strung out in a line six miles long, heading south eastward and pointing as nearly as pos sible to. a wind that was dead ahead. A quarter of a mile astern of the At lantic was the 90-foot American yawl Aisla, which was having a hot brush with the German schooner Hamburg, while all three of the leaders were slowly dropping the Philadelphia schooner Hildegarde. Next was the Endymion. holder of the trans-Atlan tic yachting record. Almost a mile astern of the Atlantic and more tnan balf mile astern of the Endymion were the Thistle and Fleur de Lys. Strung out behind were the Amerlctn bark Apache, the British topsail schooner unbeam, and five miles astern the leader was the American three-masted schooner Utowana. Bringing up the rear was the British clipper ship Val alla. These two had been delayed by a bad start. Don't Lower Abaama Rates. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-The Al tama railroad commission adjourned fter a thorough Investigation of the ailroad rates in this State and after eclining to make any reductions or al owing any advance in the tariffs now >revailing. This does not represent he attitude of President B. B. Coiner, f the comnmission,~however, who offer d three motions in quick succession, which called for reductions in the ferti izer rates and the rates on numerous articles of common use, are produced in Alabama. Buying Refrigerator Cars. Chicago. Special.-The Rock Island Railroad Company has contracted for eeteen hundred refrigarator carb. The recent inquiry into priVate refrig rator car lines by the inters'-ate com erce commission and the coaditions revealed are said to be responsible. which will inaugurate its own refrig rator service in the fruit and prchiee rade of the West and South. an Patterson Signs Stage Contract. Philadelphia, Special.-The Inquirer says that Nan Patterson was in the -ity and signed a contract to appear in a New York music hall. It is said she arrived here in the afternoon and returned to Washington immediately after the negotiations had been clos Killed by His Son. Norfolk. Special.--James Jenkins, the Gilmerton, Norfolk county, man who was shot by his 16-year old son Sunday, while the father was beating tie wife, is dead. The boy has not been arrested. Getting Ready For Industrial Parlia ment. Washington. Special.-District Com mssioner Henry L. West, who has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Industi ial Parliament; Acting Secretary of Agri culture Willit N. Hays, and Dr. Walter C. Murphy, of this city. wvere in con ference arranging the programme of speakers for the parliament, which be gis here May 23. Acceptanccs have been receivcd from prominent men of L,,th,.n -a inorthrn States. THE COMMON HROUSE FLY . Whence He Comes and '')J Whither He Coes. BY HAr%3LD SOMERS, M. A. tttz po UIE commlon house fly (3us c:i Do:nestical is a creature o s0eh secretive habits, that although from the "OW very earliest times he has been wilth us. and the most ancient writers have mentioned and described him. still very little was known of his origin and history. It remained for the eminent Bo-ton biologist. Dr. A. 8. Packard, in 1S73, to make known its origin. habits and transformations from the egg through the larva state with its two changes to pulp state. then to the perfect fly. Near the lirst of August the female lays about 120 eggs of a dull gray color. selecting fresh horse manure in which to deposit her eggs. and so se cretes them that they are rarely seen; it takes only twenty-four hours for theum to hateh into the first form of larva. a white worm one-quarter of an inch in length and one-tenth in diame ter. They feed on the decaying matter of their environment, and two changes or casting of skins occur before they, turn into the pupa state: this change comes very suddenly. The entire per iod from the egg to the pupa state is from three to four days. If moist food is wanting when in this condition they. will eat each other and thus decrease their number. Heat and humidity. greatly assist their development. as upon careful computation each pound of manure around stables and out houses develops under favorable condi tions over 1000 flies. It is no wonder that where these conditions exist we have such a veritable harvest of the fly pest. In the pupa state when the fly Is about to emerge. the end of the pupx case splits off. making a hole throughr which the fly pushes a portion of its head, but here it seems to encounter a difficulty: the pupa case is too stiff and hard to pass through. but nature comes to its assistance. and a sort of bladder like substance forms behind the head. which swells ont apparenty filled with air: it acto as a means of pushing away the pupa case and releases the tiy. When the fly first emerges it runs around with its wings soft. small and baggy: it is pale and the colors are not set: its head rapidly expand. and the bladder formation passes away within a few hours the wings grow and hard.:r., it Is now a perfect fly. Tie wlcle time fro'n the depcsiting of the egg to the pcrfect fly is not over ten days in luration. Many persons who observe small tlies in midsummer suppose they are the younz, but such is not the case; they are ilies that are imperfectly nourished in the larvae and pupa states. and do not attain full size. in fact, they are the dwarfs of their race. The male fly differs from the female in the front of the head between the eyes. being at least one-third narrower, though in size the female is rather smaller. . In the pupa state they are often fed upon by the larvae of some of the beetles, notably that of the carpet bee tie, whose pupa. the dreaded buffalo "moth," will attack the young fly in the pupa case and eating it possess the case for Itself. Adult fies like most other creatures have parasites or minute size that prey upon them; these can often be seenx as presenting small red specks over the bxdy of thle fiy. The fly hibernates in winter. but with his usual secretive habit it is very difticult to find him in his winter quar ters. Withl thec first chill of autumn tile flies feeling the c'old. seek tempor :ry wairmnth in houses, and clustering togetiher form bunches in the corners of walls and other places. They are then sluggishl and not so active as in. the warmi weather. Ihowever, they do not make a permanent stay indoors, but on the first miid, sunny day, seeik t be win~dows to get out and find their permarceut winter hiding place; mani prefer to make the'ir homes in the roots of grass on lawns where they. hide themselves so effectually that the ice and snow of winter does not de stroy thlemn in their hibernating state. If ill tile first warm days of spring when thme snow is gone and the grass on thme lawns becomes dry and warm, long before the yellow dandelion shows its hie:il, a close observer may see num bers of ies crawling upl on theC grass , to get the welcome sunlshine, their wings standing out stiff and useless, but they soon acquire tile power of lighmt in thle warmf rays of theC sun. A great many days. however, elapse be fore they appear in the holles of men, where they are such unwelcome visit o:rs. In recenlt yeatrs the medical profes sion have- demonstrated that while the fly itself (lors not propagate disease it is one of the most industrious carriers of disease germns whlichl by contact ad here to his teet, hair~y legs and body, dis:rihOetingZ them to inniocenlt victims. If es cry houtsckeeper could knlow all thmese intercting facts which have netver before b eenl brou;g:ht to their at ,,i, he wanbtli rea:lize, thme ipor mo:n~ ,f seuim hevry best fly es .7 :ap Steanmship Company. Tii:Vn nu:h1 of steamers owned by Royval M,:1il stliamship Companiily. is wah i ::her st.eme of 7209' grcss to: : bui:n. The proi. fur the ha f year' ended Septem'beir 30. 190O4. eria:- :edesin fly for depxre2ciation. i! l::sranc andi rceairs. wer'le ST1>.400( net. .X ijividend of 800.oi00 was5 paid on S11.';n;fl "Ni phal.i Tihe value of Gein Even. T;T. -: 'ret p (I and gainst mutch Igoik lhe stl'dei' s of Caiforii ..g- in ca,7 e )in ')ne of the hilis tha:t overl .; ib " unversity; But one mV:-ing it was~1 5 'n to be a deep ('rim I ::.hai- been rrntedl with' the Stahi :v.'wn to enormnous propor n!:s nearly ::.000,n00 ba rreis of :xppies j *L-:- t1 a O.ad last year