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gg ,enate Passed Hav-Pauncefote Asrree
ESBfipijf ment by a Vote of 72 to 6.
WATERWAYWILL BE HURRIEDNOW
With tlie Main Obstacle Removed All Efj
forts Will Be Directed Toward Bejin
|HgW g j] nine the Construction of thelsthmiai
HMH 26 Canal ?. The Treaty Passed Withou"
SSBH^h _ir- Any Amendment?The Negative Yotei
>ts
0Qe Washington. D. C.?The second Hay
HgSMttiing Pauncefote canal treaty has been rati
of fied by the Senate ?yeas, 72; nays, G.
Iff that -iue opposition voies were casi u.v st-U'
first ators Bacon, Blackburn, Culberson.
V i best Mallory, Teller and Tillman. Twc
I e- other Democratic Senators, Bailey and
' Rawlins, were paired against th
collars treaty, while four Senators, Daniel,
'is made Jones, of Nevada; Patterson and Quay,
ion to a were absent and unpaired.
ots done As the treaty now stands, unchanged
esign in from the text to which Secretary Hay
hat may and Lord Pauncefote attached their
eat help signatures, it assures the United States
complete control of the canal. Great
Britain asked this Government not to
discriminate in the matter of tolls and
. to guarantee the neutrality of the cafea?7
?* nal as against belligerents, both of
te black which requests were granted.
decayed The United States, on the other hand,
| be ex- secured the abrogation of the Clayton
Iiecayeu Duiner uriiij lumuui uuj wijijiuci?unmis
tion therefor, and the elimination of
0 bring ihe c^auses prohibiting t'ortiflcations
anil requiring the assent of other nations
to the treaty. In short, Great
Britain secured what it asked and the
, United States got all it wanted, so that
^ there was no chance of friction.
ply of rphe ratification of the treaty paves
b great the wav for the consideration of the
pe are Canal bill. Senator Morgan, who will
rell as retain his position as Chairman, of the
[ Is in Committee on Isthmian Canals, is preles
are paved to bring this important legislate
tion to the attention of the Senate at
| s once. He already has reported and
1 has had placed upon the calendar of
| the Senate a measure which has been
I iecided upon as the next step toward
tie 01 beginning the work of construction,
wear- This bill provides for acquiring the
Kh the rights necessary for securing and eonfcer
a trolling the territory through which
Bmart the canal will pass, and reads as fol shops
lows:
otnon "That the President of the United
States is hereby authorized to conclude
igreemeuts with the republics, of
Costa Rica and Nicaragua, or either of
them, for and in behalf of the Tutted
States for the acquiring and full con*
trol of such portion of territory now
hite belonging to Costa Rica and Nicaral
or ?ua as may be desirable and necesfin
sary on which to locate, construct.
,a(3e maintain, govern, regulate, police and
protect a canal of such depth and capacity
as will be sufficient for the
movement of ships of the greatest tonnage
and draft from a point near
Greytown, on the Caribbean Sea. via
hite Lake Nicaragua, to Brito, on the PaI
eific Ocean, and such sum as may be
necessary to secure such necessary
rights, privileges and control is hereby
| appropriated out of any money in the
I TVonoiiri* nnf otliovTvisp nnnrnnrifl tpfl."
I BIG STORM VISITS MAINE.
Logs Swept Awr*y, House* Flooded and
Bridges Crnslied.
Portland, Me.?This State has suffered
from one of the most severe
storms in its history, reports telling of
disaster tbat adds thousands of dollars
to the aggregate damage. The
three principal rivers and innumerable
smaller streams have overflowed their
banks, submerging vast areas, -washing
away bridges, buildings and great
quantities of logs and lumber and
flooding factories, mills and dwellings.
Tbe Maine Central Railroad were unable
to move trains, and the eastern
section was entirely cut off from the
western oart. With a few exceptions
ilbe great mills on the Androscoggin,
Kennebec and Penobscot rivers "were
unable to start their machinery because
of high water, and thousands of
oien are temporarily without work.
Madison, on the upper Kennebec
River, suffered the greatest damage
of any place, with a money loss of
fully $500,000.
Four bridges over the Kennebec, between
Fairfield and Clinton, were
tvashed away. At Waterville and
Winslow the inmates of fifty houses
were taken from their homes in boats.
Eastern Maine suffered severely from
i he storm. A steel trestle at Clinton
Las carried out. Eisht thousand logs
l ent down the Penobscot with the ice
,\\d 2.000.000 feet of the West Branch
|live broke away.
The new steel bridge at Henderson,
fust finished, has cone out. and eight
I box cars loaded with grain were
washed into the river at Brownville
village.
Reports from that section of Maineeast
of Bansor indicate that the property
loss will be tremendous. On the
upper Penobscot alone tbe loss of
logs, estimated at 7,000.000 feet, will
reach from $80,000 to $100,000.
The Senate Confirms Knox.
, The United States Senate Committee
on the Judiciary unanimously voted
pat the charges against the confirmalion
of Philander C. Knox as Attorneygeneral
of the United States, whict
jrere filed by the Anti-Trust League
Irere not definite enough to warrant
|onsideratiou, and the former action of
Iie coniuimee rccuiuuicuuiu^ iu mc
enate favorable action on the nominaon
was affirmed. The Se.iate conrmed
the nomination.
Schle.v's Friends Appeal to Cougratk.
The Maryland friends in Congress
f Rear-Admiral Schley have deler
ined to bring his case to the atten
mi of Congress and seek there th<
Indication they claim is due him
Lis action was determined upon ai
[dinner given by General Felix Ag
Is and attended by Senator McCo
Is, the Maryland members of the
tuse and a feiv other friends. Sectary
Long allowed the counsel o!
Irniral Schley time in which to fib
lections to the verdict of the Court
Inquiry.
N A Disclaimer by Germany.
?he Berlin Foreign Office official
Ite that Germany has not the re
Best idea of seizing a Venezuelar
It in order to obtain satisfaction foi
M claims. Germany has not an\
ernment claims, and those connect
Kith the ill-treatment of sailors ant
mans resident in Venezuela art
Ktantially settled.
9 Drummer's Wholesale Crime.
ward Hollis, a drummer, residine
lima, S. C., shot and killed his wifi
sister-in-law. flred at his mother
Hw and son, but missed them, an/
shot himself.
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Wrarles e. smith out
President Accepts the Resignation
of the Postmaster-General.
Pressure of Privatw Business the Keason
?Henry C. Payne-of "Wisconsin,
Named ?s His Successor.
Washington, D. C.?Postmaster-General
Smith has resigned his office, and
the* announcement was made that
Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, would
snrwed him. There is not the slight
est question that Mr. Smith's resignation
was purely a personal matter.
There was no question of polities in it.
It has long been an open secret that
the Postmaster-General did not like
his work. He conscientiously and
honestly endeavored to fulfill the duties
of the office, and made an enviable
record. Nevertheless it was not
the kind of work that he preferred or
felt himself best fitted for.
Following is the text of Mr. Smith's
letter of resignation:
"My Dear Mr. President:
"Following my verbal communication
of some time ago, I beg to tender my
resignation of the office of PostmasterGeneral.
to take effect at your earliest
convenience on the appointment ana
qualification of my successor.
'"This step is taken in fulfillment of
a plan long since formed, for purely
personal reasons, the execution of
which has been delayed until it could
CHARLES EMORY SMITH.
(The first member of President Roosevelt's
Cabinet to resign.) /
be carried out -without embarrassing
your declared policy and until the department
measures in which I am
deeply interested could be satisfactorily
advanced and assured.
"In laying down the trust committed
to my hands I want to thank you most
sincerely for the confidence you have
vonncod in mr> nnrl fnr thp ffrpflf- nlp/lS
ure I have found in an association
which has deepened my esteem for
you personally and my admiration for
the spirit and aims of your Administration.
"With my best wishes that you may
have the largest measure of success,
I remain, faithfully yours.
"CHARLES EMORY SMITH."
Postmaster-General Smith, in an interview,
spoke as follows about his action:
"As indicated in my letter of resignation,
this step has been taken in conformity
-with a plan formed many
months ago. I communicated my pur
j.- r?? 4.
puse iu lutr rrcmueui i?m ujuuui, wnu
the accompanying statement that 1
wished to consult his convenience as
to the time when I should go out. The
President was exceedingly gracious
and strongly urged mo to, stay, but
finally accepted my reasons as conclusive
of my duty to myself.
"My relations with the President
have been of the most cordial character,
and have strengthened as we have
worked together. We have been in
thorough accord in all matters of policy.
I have formed the highest estimate
of his lofty and patriotic standard
of administration, and it has been
a great pleasure to co-operate with
him. My resignation has been delayed
beyond my original purpose for two
reasons, which have harmonized.
"First, to consult the President's
wishes and not to embarrass his declared
policy as to his Cabinet, and
second, to carry forward department
nnlif>ips in which T nm frnntlv inter. I
ested to a point where their success is
assured.
"M.v successor. Mr. Payne, is a man
who, by ability, experience and knowledge
of public affairs, is admirably
fitted for the place, and I am glad to
surrender the trust to such excellent
hands."
Marconi May Be Sued.
Papers have been served on Signor
Marconi at St. John's, N. F., by the
Anglo-American Telegraph Company,
claiming a monopoly of the telegraph
business in the island for the company
and demanding that he cease his experiments
and take away his apparatus,
failing which an appeal for an injunction
will be made to the courts.
A Boer LeudAr Captured.
A dispatch from General Kitchener,
dated Belfast. South Africa, announced
tnat Commandant Kruitzinger, the famous
Boer leader who has figured so
prominently in connection with the invasion
of Cnpe Colony, has been captured1;
badly wounded, by General
French.
For Royalty's Entertainment.
Senator Frye has introduced a joint
resolution authorizing the President to
invite the King of Siam to visit the
United States. An appropriation for
His Majesty's suitable entertainment
is provided, but the sum is left blank
for the present.
Carnegie Library For Redwing, Minn.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Red?
wing, Minn., $15,000 for a public library
building, provided the city furnishes
a site and $1500 annually for
maintenance. The offer will be accepted.
Sword For Manila Hero.
Rear-Admiral Frank Wildes, U. 9.
X., who commanded the cruiser Boston
at the battle of Manila, was the recipient
of a handsome sword from his
many friends in the rooms of the
Chamber o? Commerce at Boston.
Asks Congress Tor More Power.
The Philippine Commission has
asked Congress to confer on it the
power to grant all franchises in the
Philippines, to issue bonds for purcuase
of friar property, to fix qualifications
for voters and make land laws.
Negotiation* For Danish West Indies.
A treaty for the cession of the Danish
West Indies to the United Scates
has been completed by Secretary Hay
and the Danish Minister in Washington.
I
AMERICA'S WILD RICE.
Furnished Wholesome Support For Trad*
erg and Hunters Years Ago.
In the early days the extension of
the fur trade in a territory unsurpassed
for richness in pelts was actually
made practicable by the wild rice,
which furnished a wholesome support
for the traders and hunters. Pike, the
explorer, in 1S45, described the fort of
the Northwest company at Leech Lake
as stored with large quantities of the
grain, 500 bushels of which were put
away in a loft over the trading room.
Employes of the company depended
on it chiefly for food, buying it from
the savages at the average price of
about $1.50 a bushel.
At the present time white people in
the neighborhood of all the reservations
in Wisconsin and Minnesota are
very fond of wild rice, which is commonly
offered for sale in the towns.
Charles C. Oppel, a produce dealer of
Duluth, states that he handles from
one to two tons of it every season.
"Most of the cruisers, explorers and
homesteaders take it into the woods
with them," he says, "and they claim
that it is better than tame rice, because
it does not take so long to pre
pare." It is largely consumed in lumber
camps in the region where it
grows.
The wild rice that comes to market
in this way is all of it gathered by the
Indians, the work of harvesting and
preparing the grain performed almost
entirely by the women.
Wild rice is more nutritious than
any of our common cereals, such as
wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats and ordinary
rice. It is richer in starch and
sugar than any of these, and contains
more of the stuff that makes muscle
and blood. The freshly gathered seeds
may be cooked oy simpiy pouring
water over them, but the parched
graiu requires half an hour's cooking
and the fire-cured a full hour. It
swells like the Southern rice, a single
coffee cupful of the dry kernels furnishing
an ample meal for two Indians,
or sufficient breakfast food for
eight or ten persons. It is especially
wholesome for breakfast, served with
sugar and cream.
If it could be cultivated with any
certainty, wild rice would long have
become a staple for the white populaA1?*
Uawovov TI A
liUJLi. UaiUllUUUlCi,), MW
method has been found whereby regular
and satisfactory crops can be insured.?Pearson's
Magazine.
Caught the Erc Thief.
A Long Island doctor who has been
missing eggs from his poultry yard
for some time is happy at last, for he
has discovered the thief. For months
every effort and every device to detect
the culprit failed, but, finally, the doctor
hit upon a scheme that was worthy
of Sherlock Holmes.
He took a dozen or more eggs and
bored the tiniest of holes in the shell
of each. Then through these holes he
introduced into the eggs a piece of
very line wire. The holes were then
filled with white wax and the eggs
returned to the nest.
A few days afterward the doctor
was called in to see the child of a
woman in the village near him. After
attending to the child he talked about
one thing and another until the lady
told him of such a strange thing that
had happened to her. A few days
before she had bought a half dozen
eggs from the village grocer, and in
four of them she had found short
pieces of wire.
These were produced and shown to
the doctor, who took possession of
them and told the lady how they had
had come to be in the eggs. He then
interviewed the grocer, who finally
admitted that he had been buying eggs
for some time from a man employed
by the doctor. The man is now working
elsewhere and the doctor no longer
patronizes that particular grocer.?New
York Times.
* Ridding Lisbon of fiats.
t ichnn ima vpfpntlv been subiectea
to an unprecedented invasion of rats,
which has disordered the domestic
economy of every household, and made
life miserable. Cats were powerless
to check the invaders; poison seemed
to act as a stimulant to their appetites,
and traps only served to demonstrate
the helplessness of man's ingenuity to
cope with the pest. At length the aid
of the bacillus was invoked, and the
"""Wnoi iinftnrc wprr? fnmmissioned
LUUUlVlput w
to inoculate some rats with an infectious
disease. A suitable virus, harmless
to man. was found, a few rats
captured and inoculated, and then let
loose. The bacillus triumphed. The
rats sickened and died with wonderful
rapidity, and to-day Lisbon is celebrating
the conquest of the voracious
rodent.
It is now proposed to use the virus
on board ships, where rats are known
to be the carriers of infection fatal to
man?notably plague.?London Ex
press.
Relics of a Lost Tribe.
A valuable archaeological find has
just been made near the ancient town
of Novgorod, on the banks of Lake II
men. The articles found include hundreds
of flint arrowheads, spearheads,
axheads of slate, flint, fishhooks and
an enormous mass of crockery and
similar fragments, ornamented in the
same style as those found previously
in other parts of the same province.
Archaeologists ^onsider the discovery
proof of the existence in the neighborhood
of Lake Ilmen of a numerous
population during the stone age. The
articles found are all of one class and
date, indicating the existence of a considerable
tribe, which must have either
been wiped out of. have migrated to
other regions befoh^ attaining any
higher stage of culture^han that of the
stone age.?London Staihjard.
Fresli Air In a Kubber Factory.
At a rubber factory on the Comment,
says the Scientific American, a constant
flow of fresh air is maintained
in the wpreading-room with the aid of
an exhauster fixed near the floor. The
vulcanizing room is especially constructed
for the purpose, and has the
vulcanizers on a lattice support raised
three or four feet from the ground.
Below the platform, and right down to
the floor, the brickwork of the structure
is provided on all sides with numerous
airholes. The laborers are only
slightly inconvenienced by the carbon
bisulphide vapors. Formerly they
were obliged to work with respirators,
but they do not now require ithem.
A
Uimentlmental LI Hunjf Chang.
LI had, beyond all doubt, nil iron -.vlll
i nna a verj* uiisecuiueuuu m-uu, jj
when he was Viceroy of Chi-Li, a man
who had tampered with a telegraph n
wire was brought before him. The ?
man wrung his hands and begged lor ?
mercy, saying that he would never n
touch the wire again. "Don't be vexed, "
my good fellow," said Li. "nor trouble e;
yourself any further about the matter. S(
I shall take care that it does not hap- ^
pen again." Then he turned to the a
.-Jailers and gave the order, "Cut off J*
his head!"?The World's Work.
Cost and Value of "Ads."
It costs money to advertise in the
newspapers, but the returns amount to
a great deal more than the cost in the
long run. Advertising, too, is a necessary
means of protection against competitors.
As a rule the concern which
does not persistently keep its name befsmrs
4-1 \r\ nnKlin T*rlll Inoo tho VilliIt nf itfi
J.U1C IJJC puwuv. H1U iuv MU.4. V* %?
trade to more enterprising establishments.
The lionse which advertises
most will have the largest trade in its
line.
Be?t For the Boweli.
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cascakets
Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has (J. C. C.
stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
The little German university town of
Jena has no fewer than seven free reading
rooms.
Wish All a Merry Christmast
And tell them of Garfield Tea, which cures
indigestion and liver disorders and insures the
return of many happy Christmas Dinners by
removihg the cause of dyspepsia and ill health.
Norway, Servia, Greece and Bulgaria
are the only European nations which nave
but one house of Parliament.
Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used t
for all affections of throat and lungs.?Wm. I
0. Endbley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10,1903. "
Japanese are now producing about 40,000,000
pounds of tea annually.
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Making Llngnliti of Railroad Men.
That Russia's relations with the clvized
world are becoraeing more intirnte
is suggested by the fact that in
iromberg and Danzic the Prussian
tate Railroads have established semi
aries for teaching railroad employes s
tie Russian language. Men of sevral
different ranks and classes in the
*rvlce selected for this acquirement
rill be excused from duty for nine
nd one-half months to enable them
) follow the instruction in these semlaries.
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" About a year ago my hair wa3
coming out ver/ fast, so I bough*
a hnttl* a# Av#?r'n Hair Vlof?r_
sioppe * the falling and made my 2 '
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Hair hunger, for instance. ,
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