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THE CREAT UNSATISFIED.
The men who are not satisfied
Are they who set the pace?
Th? men who do not meet defeat
With calm, contented face;
The men who labor on and on.
With minds and fingers skilled?
Trey are the great unsatisfied
Who plan, and fight, and bui!d.
The men who are not satisfied?
They are the ones who lead;
They force humanity ahead
P.v cfrirlpn!. word and deed:
They bring u:s out of bygone ways;
They guide Ua through the dark
To where some man. unsatisfied.
Has set a shining mark.
The men who are not satisfied?
They gird the world with wires:
v They belt the laud with rails of steel,
And pierce the air with spires;
They loose the leash of sweet content
With which mankind is tied.
We'll never pay the debt we owe
Tho men unsatisfied.
?W. D. Nesbit, in Baltimore American.
?3??S"
IT'S oncer howsome of those brightest,
best college fellows fail to
"laud" when the real struggle begins.
Take Ingham, for instance:
he was the star of every year from
freshman to graduating, a football hero
and a man among the many men of bis
year. And yet when he left collegc
and started in "on his own hook." so
to speak, he didn't seem to be appreciated.
His mother said he was too
modest; his father said he was a
dreamer, and Marie Franz, who had
worshiped him at school, said: "Give
him time; he's a bit slow, but he'll get
there."
She went to Chicago to study music
the same week that saw Ingham installed
as a clerk in the Bank of Creston.
A clerkship in a country bank
isn't calculated to emblazon the genius
of any man, but the job looked alluring
to Ingham, who was poor, and he took
it because he loved his mother and
wanted to nurture her old age. He
wrote queer, rambling letters to Marie
every week and in answer got words
of cheer, praise and encouragement.
She told him that Chicago was "the
place." and that naif tne succcssrui
meu might go to school to him with
' profit.
When Ingham's mother died he had
a few hundred dollars saved up and
the funeral expenses left him enough
to pay his way to the city. It took him
three weeks to find employment, and
then he was a hit ashamed of his position.
Bill clerk in a soap factory Is
not the situation calculated to thrill
the vanity of a college graduate, but
Ingham could have borne his humiliation
better if a visit to Marie had not
' WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, JOE?"
SUE ASKED.
toon a necessity to bis life. He concealed
from her the fact of bis presence
until be bad found work, and
then, with a swelling heart and a sense
of his degradation he called at her address
in Woodlawn.
He found her a woman and remembered
her as a co-ed. She was glad to
see him. and therefore he was sorry he
had come. He intended to bare his
confidence to the girl who had been
his chum at college, but to the radiant
woman whom he saw and who called
him ' Joe" with an odd mixture of familiarity
and reserve, he could say
nothing at all. So he sat dull and hectic
while she chaltcred away about
her successes, her hopes, her friends,
memories. Then:
"What are you going to do?Joe?"
she asked.
"I don't know exactly." he said,
flushing with the memory of bis soap
factory. "You know. Miss Franz,
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"Miss Franz!" she ejaculated: "since
when pray? Here I am calling you
Joe and you come back with 'Miss
Franz.' Now. don't do that. Joe."
"Well, then, Marie." he resumed,
the pallor of hope whitening his good
face: "well, von know I haven't mneh
choice. It's a cast1 of work with me.
I haven't a sou. you know, and whatever
I do?at first, anyway?must bo
for the money there is in it. I've got
a place "
Good for you." she laughed. "Good
boy. And you just came. I told you it
was only a question of nerve."
"I think I have that," he was saying,
but she rattled ahead:
' Look at Charley Hughes. He's
here, already a rising?some say a brilliant?young
lawyer. Why. you always
excelled him at college, didn't
you. Joe? Of course, he's a lovely fellow
(Ingham winced again) and I
like him ever so much, but the point is.
he's no smarter than you. is he?"
"Why. I didn't know Hughes was
here," said the diffident Joe. his gorse
rising at the thought that perhaps Marie
had already seen so much of his
old classmate that her interest in himself
was secondary; "'do you see much
of him?"
"Yes: we're great friends, you know:
that Is?weil, he calls about twice a
week," and her big blue eyes studied
the carpet till she felt that Joe was
looking at the clock. Then she resumed:
"By the way, can't you come out to
our Browning Club meet Thursday.
Char?Mr. Hughes is to be there, and
you ought to begin to 'mix* a little, as
they call it. He's going to give a reading
of some sort. You and I can go?"
"Will you go with me?" Joe was
alert now.
"You may be sure I will."
So they agreed to go to the Browning
symposium, and Inghaui went home
with a new hope and an indomitable
determination in his guileless heart.
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They were in the west-bound cars,
j radiant, expectant and happy, soing to
file club, and sure of the old cameradorie.
-when Ingham, seeking for a
topic, said:
"By the way. Miss Marie "
"Just Mario will do," she corrected.
"All right. Marie; but talking or
Hughes?you said he was on to-night's
program?do you remember the medal
ho got for that essay junior year?"
"Yes. indeed; it was about woman,
wasn't it?"
"Well, yes; about mothers?the title
was 'The Christian Mother.' Kow did
you like thai':"
"It was grand! Don't you remember
how everybody carried on over it?
Why. I never did take any interest in
Char?Mr. Hughes ? till he delivered
that oration. Don't you know how
mamma cried over It? It was a glorious
thing! I never suspected he had
so much soul, did you?"
"Well, he never had, as a matter of
fact." whispered Joe Ingham, handing
the conductor a dime. "Fact is, I wrote
that oration myself, wrote it for him
because he was eaten up with a desire
to set a medal. You know he never
had much ability, and his father was
everlastingly nagging him to distinguish
himself. He did distinguish himself
that night?with my oration. I
don't begrudge him the honor, but he
never showed me any gratitude. On
the contrary, he always boasted that
no man of '99 could have written such
a masterpiece."
"Why. .Toe." said Marie, coming
closer, and with her face drawn and
her eyes abroad. ".Toe. you don't mean
it? Why. It wasn't honest; it was a
fraud; surely Charley Hughes wouldn't
have stooped "
**01i! It was all right to palm off the
oration. Marie, hut it was the way he
acted afterward that hurt me. You
know the last time he was at Creston
he never so much as called to see roe."
And little Marie, wondering and fluttered.
waited till they were off the car
before she said:
"Joe. I'm sorry I didn't know you
and Mr. Hughes were on had terms.
I've promised to let him escort me
home to-night, and "
"Why didn't he take you to the entertainment
alsoV" Mr. Ingham was
nettled.
"He said he'd be too busy?a lawsuit
or something. Oh. he's dreadfully
busy, Joe. But I told him I'd go to
supper with him afterward and?and?
I hope you'll not be offended."
"Not at all, Marie." he said coldly.
"Go ahead. I'm accustomed to getting
left."
And poor Marie was most unhappy
-when they entered the crowded hall.
The usher could not find two chairs too-.+lmi.
llinm en \Torio cat In th<?
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front row and Joe Ingham. in a sullen
mood, sat three rows behind her. When
the time came for Charles Hughes to
appear the chairman of the meeting
stepped forward and said:
'The next number on the program is,
a paper by Mr. Charles Hughes, the
eminent youns lawyer. Is Mr. Hughes
in the house?"
There was" a bustle about the doors
and directly Mr. Hughes?"Stupidity"
Hughes, as the college boys used to 1
call him. entered and rushed forward
with a great show of bustle. He
mounted the stage, took a sip of water
and said:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the Brown- j
ing Club, friends and fellow citizens: j
I have been so busy with numerous i
new and old law cases within the past
few days that I've been unable to prepare
a set address. However, in a few
moments of leisure this afternoon I
dashed off a little paper, entitled 'The
Christnai Mother.'"
At the words Marie Franz looked
around and her blue eyes blazed when
Joe Ingham smiled a knowing smile.
Then Mr. Hughes, "the eminent young
lawyer," launched into the resonant
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auu iUUUUCU ptiiVVJO VI Uic uucuvu V**
address.
Joe and Marie met in- the crush nt
the door when the show was over. Mr.
Hughes was yet the lion of the dissolving
audience. Women were weeping
as they shook his hand.
"Well, good-night. Marie," said Joe
with a quizzical look in his eyes.
"Was it your oration?" she whispered,
looking resentfully at the crowd
about Hughes.
"Word for word," answered Joe.
"Let's go home, Joe, dear," she murmured.
And when the orator of the evening
came for the praise that was to be the
breath of his nosrrils the hall was
very empty.?John H. Raftery, in the
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Extent of Onr Kallroads.
From a little wooden-track line along
the Lac-kawaxen Creek, where the first
locomotive in the country had its trial
in 1S29, the railroad systems of the
United States have grown in seventythree
years to a network of rails which,
straightened out. would make a single
track extending eight times around the
world. Visualize this eight-fold girdle.
Beside it a new track is processing
twelve miles a day ou the ninth circuit.
On every five-mile stretch is a
locomotive with a train of eight cars.
T!<?re are five men at work for every
mile and 240 new men coming to work
every day. The road carries more tonnage
than all the ships on all the sea
together with the railroads of the
busiest half of Europe. From the lines
that make up the imaginary manifold
hplr oiip w:i<ro earner out of everv
fifteen iu the country, directly or indirectly.
secures a living for himself and
his dependents, if not as a fireman or
a conductor or a superintendent, then
as a locomotive builder or a steel worker.
or even one of the lumbermen engaged
In hewing down the 30()0 square
miles of timber employed every year
for ties.?M. G. Cuuciff, in the World's
Work.
Korce of a Cyclone.
Careful estimates of the force of a
cyclone and the energy required to
keep the full-fledged hurricane in active
operation reveal the presence of
a power that makes the mightiest efforts
of man appear as nothing in comparison.
A force fully equal to over
400,000,000 horse power -was estimated
as developed in a West Indian cyclone.
This is about fifteen times the power
that can be developed by all the means
> within the range of man's capabilities
during the same time.
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? STORY OF THE PLOW. ?
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q The Origin of the Familiar Farm q
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Who used the first plow cannot oe
known. At all events, there was but
little difference in the shape of the
plow and the hoe in early times, save
in size. Cut off the handle from the
plow and there was the hoe.
After a time some mechanical genius
saw that the plow would operate more
easily if the point that runs in the
ground were flattened and the beam
were more nearly parallel with the
bottom of the share, and so he became
more particular about the shape of
the forced stick than his ancestors
had been. By degrees the cutting surface
was flattened, and it took such
various forms as the makers thought
best adapted to their needs, or as the
forked stick would allow cutting. Soon
two sticks were fastened together with
NATIVE PLOW OF JAPAN'.
epikes, and plow-making made a distinct
eain. since by this method of
making the plow a better shape could
be secured than by depending on the
fastened together branch of a tree.
Plows made of wood, either from a
forked limb or fastened together with
spikes, are in use now, not only in the
remote parts of Asia, but in civilized
Europe. In parts of Southern France,
parts of Austria. Poland, Sweden.
Spain, Norway, Russia, Greece and
possibly in some other European counj
tries may be found plows in use toi
day, or could have been a few years
i ago, practically the same as those used
j by the ancient Egyptians to turn tho
loose soil of the valley of the Nile at
the time when Joseph was gathering
the wheat into the storehouse of the
King in seven years of abundant crops.
The origin of the use of iron plows
is involved in as much obscurity as tne
invention of the plow itself. When Saul
was yet a young King, 1100 years before
the birth of Christ, the Israelites,
who were not skilled in the use of tools
for working iron, "went down to the
Philistines to sharpen every man his
6hare and his colrer and his ax and
JAVANESE "SINGKAL."
I his mattock." Evidently these were
| Iron tools which were made by the
i Philistines, and which they alone could
I repair. An old picture of a wheeled
| plow dates back 2000 years, and to the
Greek nation.
The modern plow had its origin in
Holland and Flanders. Two hundred
and fifty years ago England imported
plows from those countries, and fifty
years before that an English work on
agriculture alluded to the improved
picws or nouanu. in me latter pun
of the eighteenth century cast iron
mold boards and wrought iron shares
were made in England, and soon after
the cast iron share was made. From
that time until the present there has
CHINESE STIRRING PLOW.
been constant improvement in plows.
One of the great improvements of the
last century was the use of steel by
John Deere. He beat his tirst share
Into shape over a block of wood in his
shop in Grand Detour. Even in America
the wooden plow has been used at
a much later date than most would
think.
During the colonial period '.t was
made ot wood, the mold-board being
covered with sheet iron or wrought!
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bow their heads
her pass. J.
i I, dare 1 own (T1
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this little maid y*
?Harper's Bazar.
iron hammered very thin. A few olc
horseshoes were often used for thif
purpose. The proper form of the mold
board was the subject of much though
among the advanced farmers or tnosf
and later times. President Jeffersoi
wrote on the subject, and said it shouU
be a lifting and upsetting wedge, witl
an easy connecting curve. This theon
has been acted on in all the plows thai
have been made since.
In the early settlement of this coun
try the wooden plow was used, anc
even to a late date plows were mad<
that had no iron except the share.
The steel plow is now making iti
"BBOODJOELS" OP JAVA.
ir-ntr nil iivpr wnrld. Tfcpi'p is
scarcely a country where the plows
made in America are not known, and
they are taking the place of the primi
tive instruments.
Fully one-half the wheat raised li
the world is raised on land plowed witl
these primitive instruments. The greai
possibilities of the plow industry cai
be seen when it is known that in the
not far distant future all these plowi
will be supplanted by the steel plow.
Wind Pockets In the Sail.
In the construction of sails for boat:
it is desirable to provide for a giver
space a maximum amount of canvas
area to be presented to the action ol
the wind, whereby in tacking or wearing
the dead wind may be easily anc
quickly spilled from the sail, to effeel
the change with the least possible de
lay. The accomplishment of these ob
jecls is among the important features
of the sail recently designed by Georgt
A. Lowry, an illustration of the im
/)tk
increases the area presented to
the wind.
nrovement being shown herewith. Ie
carrying out the invention the sails em
ployed are made up in sections, which
when spread occupy the same general
dimensions as an ordinary sail, bul
which, by arranging the sections tc
overlap each other, presents a greatei
effective area of canvas to the wind,
The method of attaching the sail tc
the lower boom is such that a
pull on certain ropes turns the pockel
wrong side out when the ship takes a
new tack, allowing the wind to fill out
the loose canvas in the pockets long
before the boom could be swung across
the boat and presented broadside to the
wind. In reefing the sail It is onlj
necessary to take in one or more of the
sections by hauling on the ropes, whicli
draw it toward the mast.
Didn't Work.
"I would give a good deal if I wasn'\
absent minded," said a well known
business man with a sigh. "I bavt
tried all the so-called cures withoul
success, and 1 suppose I must rnakt
the best of the situation, although it is
awfully aggravating to have such a
poor memory. The other day 1 read
of a man, wno from his account, often
in tho snmo prnharrassinc
position that 1 tied myself so rnanj
time, through a poor memory. Iu hit
case he solved the difficulty by writing
himself a postal card, thus jogging his
memory.
"It struck me as being a mighty gooc
idea, and I resolved to try it myself
It s) happened that 1 had an impor
taut engagement to keep the day fol
lowing, so I wrote a postal card: "Don'l
forget engagement with Blauk.' Thei
I addressed it to myself and though!
no more about it.
"The next day passed, and I failed
to keep the appointment. I had forgot
ten to mail the postal."?Detroit Fre<
Pre 3d.
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|The Lobby. |
I in ConeressI
The "Third House of Congress." that
heterogeneous body made up of attorneys,
promoters, lobbyists and other
classes of workers who seek to influence
legislation in the National lawmaking
body, has been growing larger,
stronger and more resourceful year by
year, but it is practically certain that
the Congressional session of 1901-1902
will go down into history as one of the
most active during the life of the
"lobby." The issues which will claim
attention and the men in whose hands
their fate will lie will of themselves
make necessary unusual activity on the
part of the schemers whose ambition
is to facilitate or retard legislation.
In the first place, a new President
is in control of the destinies of the
Nation, and, in addition to that, the
Arsiipa- almost without exceDtion. are
important in the extreme.
The "Third House" has gained some
very distinguished recruits of late
years, for it has become quite the
proper thing for a Congressman whose
term has expired and who is desirous
of remaining in Washington, to undertake
to further the interests of some
organization or corporation which is
willing to pay well for the service.
"The Lobby" i
I ' 0* N COMTMil .
1 SCENE IN THE CORRIDOR OUR
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t
As a rule these ex-Congressmen re*
gard themselves simply as attorneys
- acting for clients and would be indignant
if classed with the ordinary lob3
byists who are supposed to be ever
ready to accomplish things by $jiy
possible hook or crook.
A number of representatives of corporations
are paid large salaries and
live in elegant style, year in and year
out, in the most fashionable section
. of the National capital. Even the "free
5 lance" promoters sometimes make fabi
ulous sums, as, for instance, Major
I Stahlman, of Nashville, Tenn., who is
understood to have received some time
since the sum of $100,800 for getting
i through Cougress a claim for $288,000.
i Women do not play as important a
i- nnrt in lobbvinz oDerations as tbey
i did before Speaker Reed ordered the
?. closing of a reception room of which
i they held almost sole possession, and
where it was always convenient for
them to meet Congressmen. However,
a number of attractive women who
j have an acquaintance with many Con,
gressmen are regularly employed by
, the professional lobbyists, the usual
I luse employed being to have them
. call at the Capitol and each send in
[ a card requesting a brief interview
I with some one Representative just at
. the time when an important bill is
. to be voted on, and when the absence
j of one or two members may change
; the result.
[ New members are the particular prey
of the unscrupulous lobbyists. They
analyze a newcomer with the skill born
of long experience and govern- themselves
accordingly. Very seldom does
one of these adroit manipulators of
men risk alarming his quarry with the
suggestion of a downright bribe.?
Waldon Fawcett, in Collier's Weekly.
There is as much real nourishment in
one bushel of beans as in five bushels
of potatoes.
THE NEW CHIEFTAIN
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i LEWIS i
I Lewis Nixon is now the leader of N<
tlon, known all over the civilized wor
many Hall;" for, in his favor, Richard
from the leadership of the organizati<
t burg, Virginia, in 18G1. He graduated f
i emy at Annapolis in issi2, aim some uv
t Government post in the construction
States battleships "Oregon," "Indiana"
I by him. He founded and operated upc
- the Cresceut Shipyard, at Elizabethpor
j shipyard is credited with the output of
t>ubniarine torpedo beat "Holland" and
Borneo's Kew Stamp*.
Two new stamps have been issued
by North Borneo. The stamps are of
ten cents and sixteen cents value. The
^
ten-cent stamp, which is here 'repro*
duced, hears a representation of a
honey bear, while on the sixteen-cent
a picture of a train illustrates the
march of civilization in that corner of
the world.
Got His Wheel on Time.
"It does not always follow that a
man is a Die to detect oecausu ub is
officially known as a detective,"1 was
the remark made at the headquarters
of the police department the other day.
"There are many people, however,
who think that such should be the case.
A man who had evidently had no experience
in detective matters, called
one day and reported the theft of a
bicycle. His manner of making the
report amused those who heard what
he had to say. ?
" 'I want to get my wheel by next
Thursday,' he said, 'because I'm going
away on the 3.40 train.'
n Washington,
ING A SESSION OF CONGRESS
?Collier's Weekly.
." 'Can't give a guarantee In sue)
matters,' lie was told.
" 'Don't forget,' said the owner of thi
wheel, as he started to leave the office
'I'm going away Thursday, and I'd liki
to take the wheel with me.'
"His complaint was given the usua'
attention, and, strfcnge as it may seem
his wheel was recovered the day W
wanted and in time for him to take 1f
away on the train.
" 'Who said Sherlock?' inquired th?
detective, after the wheel had beei
turned over to its owner."?Washing
ton Star.
To Reduce Fire Hazard!.
A thorough investigation of the st:>
bility of steel frame buildings is be
ing made by the underwriting interests
of New York City. This is a step itf
the effort to reduce fire hazards. Ex
perts in this country and Europe hav<
long been impressed with a lack oJ
protection afforded by so-called fire
proof coverings, and other material
used to protect steel girders and floor
ing in structures of the "skyscrapei
type." Questions have been sent t(
every expert in the United States witt
the intention of making arrangements
for an exhaustive study of the subject
and for such tests as may be posslbli
of 'ach and all the various .coverings
now upon the market for protecting
or>^ otflol' tlio r>nnnrptbs. thp flrp
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proof floors and all other matters ii
which corrosion from any cause maj
be a source of danger. It is k-.owi
that in some cases corrosion han se
in very rapidly in gaspipes anoi 01
cribs of rails intended for foundations
owing to corrosive qualities in the con ,
crete in which they were imbedded, i
In Italy there are more theatres fl>
proportion to the population than ii ,
any other country.
Marriage is often the result of t j
maiden effort I
OF TAMMANY HALL ;
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?w York's famous political organiza- ?
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Id unaer me geuein; uuluc ui m-. j
Croker announced his retirement v
>n. Mr. Nixon was born at Leesrom
the United States Naval Acad- j
o years latsr was given a responsible I
department of the Navy. The United t
and "Massachusetts" were designed a
>n his own account, six years ago,
t, New Jersey. His New Jersey r
a hundred vessels, among them the *
the monitor "Florida." J
1IN0B EVEMSOFTHtWEEf J
WASHIXGTUN ITIM8.
President Roosevelt a&radone# M* V;
proposed trip to Charleston on acaoxml ^
nf hla ?nn'd IllnpSS. . i'.- ' rT'"-'^UlftiW
Two hundred and eighty clerks la the y
Census Bureau were dismissed on ao? ^
count of the gradual completion of thi
work.
The Navy Department accepted the
torpedo boat destroyers Stockton and
Shubrlck. >
New members National Republican
Committee: Montana, E. L. Bonner^.
New Hampshire, Senator Gallinger. . |
The Senate passed the bill approiprH %
ating $2,500,000 for a new postoffice
New York City.
Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Secrefary ot
the Treasury, gave her first reception ^
and won friendship of her 1500 caller*
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
General Chaffee Is drawing up elab* S
orate plans for the establishment of a |
permanent military post In Manila.
Women are active managers of Fill- ? *
pino affairs and every Filipino a muslcian,
Governor Taft Baid.
The police closed the gamhiiug/fcorae#
In San Juan, Porto Rico. '
DOMESTIC.
During tbe absence of her motheii 'v^Ji
Mrs. Levin A. Catts, at Mfllboro, DeL,
her five-year-old daughter was burned r?|j?
to death.
The upper Ohio River was entirely '<
closed to navigation by heavy ice.
Rather than face charges . against J '
him, Bartholomew P. Clnne, a New .York
City policeman, killed himself.
A discharged employe, William 8yl*
vester, killed Master Mechanic Burton/ -;,B
of the Seaboard Air Line shops, ai :;v|ji
Fernandlna, Fla.
The town of Wapella, HI., Was almost"
wiped out by Are. The greater part of ;-j>4?
the business district and many
dences were destroyed. The loss
estimated at- $800,000.
A Lehigh Valley pier at Jersey City, :'M
N. J.r caught fire, its contents andnear
by shipping being damaged $600,000. ' : |
Nora Fuller, aged sixteen, who an- >'$
swered "ad." for girl to mind a baby, 7)^
was mysteriously murdered in Saa r; W
Francisco, CaL
Dr. Marshall, of State Reformatory, .
at Pontiac, 111., will be triedon charge?
of cruelty.
Two men were killed and four
hurt from a powder explosion at Japaxr -J'^ Tunnel,
Teiluride. CoL
Governor Van Sant, of Minnesota la fe'afflj
his message to the State Legislature,
called attention to his fight against the
so-called railroad merger, and, asked
for an appropriation to pay legal ex- , v ;
penses.
The Michigan Courts declared
State law prohibiting the sale of colored
oleomargarine unconstitutional.
France officially accepted the Invttatlon
to participate In the St. Louis JUXf "
position next year:
To escape an embezzlement charg?
Charles Welrzlng, of New York City; '
hanged himself. i
A fast mail aud a rock-laden freight .
train crashed Into each other at I4m- A
erick, Ga? killing only a mall clerk. .
The postofflce at Canal Winchester* ~
Ohio, was robbed of $400 In stamps and} f .:
money.
Two negroes were lynched by mctaj
In Tennessee and Kentucky. v . i ;\ ^
The New York Cham|>er of Com.-' '
merce adopted a strong memorial to '
Congress in favor of reduction of dutle* "J
on Cuban products.
Deputy Tax Commissioner Ford waaj " ' ;
arrested at New York City, charged
with accepting a bribe.
His wife havlne threatened divorce . ' Til
proceedings, John Kay, of Topeka^ < 1
Kan., beat her to death with a flat3 3
Iron. f
Dr. James E. Russell, of Brooklyn, a
reputably physician, offered himself for ,'.;'M
vivisection, experiments to continue! /-!
until he collapses or dies. BusliWickj
Hospital practically accepted bis offerJ :; ,;-y
FOREIGN. 1
The Great Britain Railways Devel-i - 'M
opment Corporation, a New Jersey con-'
cern, will buy and build electric lines}
in London. ; ^
Onslow Ford's memorial tablet tof
Ruskin was unveiled In the Poets' Oor4 ?'
ner, Westminster Abbey. . m
Charters will be sougnt at the forth-j
coming session of the Dominion Parliament
for a number of railways in)
the Yukon region. [
A concession was granted 4)y Peru to(
1 group of American capitalists, who! '
nay spend millions in developing thef
mining resources of that country. ' / A
An accident in the Church of Horen-;
:itos, in Chlrl<iui, Colombia, resulted:
LI I lie UfUlU UL lliiiiccu ^aovuo uuu tucj V
severe wounding of thirty others.
The Chinese Government dismissed -J
ill the European professors from the
Imperial University.
During a debate in the lower house t
)f the Prussian Diet on the estimates ?
)f the Mining Department, Dr. Moller . .
mnounced that the bill would probibly
be submitted authorizing a liberal)
:rcdit for the purchase of- the West-I
)halian eoal fields. Jj ' /;
The Berlin Kreuz-Zeitung said Lord
:'aunceiote proposed mat toe rowers
leclare American Intervention in Cuba
injustifiable. The German Foreign
)ffic2 confirmed, but British authorities
leuied the report. - *_i?!
Royalist women in Paris called upon
heir friends to save money for the
nonarchistic cause by stopping balls
ind entertainments. ,
An attempt by Liberals to capture
he city of Barranquilla, on the Magdaena
River, Colombia, failed.
For killing his- common law wife
Frederick Shultz was hanged at Sault
>te. Marie, Ontario.
President Charles H. Cramp flatly delied
a story 'published in the Berlin
jokalanzeiger to the effect that the
tramps were about to establish ship- : 1
ards at Kiel and Stettin.
Cecil Rhodes reached Cape Town
/> rtnrlif < !?,? noon oomlncf him liunlvlnir
lotes for $115,000 drawn iu favor of
'riucess Catharine Badziwill.
The British Chamber of Shipping
ulvoeated changes in maritime reguations
in the United States.
Spain's instructions to its Ministers
t'oroad iu effort to avert war with
Jnitod States in 1S98 and their replies
vere made public. t .
The Sultan's brother-in-law, Damadilahmud
Pacha, who is a fugitive ira^ ?
'aris, was condemned to deatn Dy a
rlbunal in Constantinople for conspiricy
against tlie Sultan.
The Unionist candidate for Parllanent
in the County Down, Bast DI'ision,
Ireland, was defeated by the
..and Purchase candidate, losing the .
Jovernment a seat
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