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9 WHEN THE CHiLDREN CO TO BED. ~ i Oh, mothers, so weary, discouraged. > Worn cat with tbe care* of the day, iTou often grow cross and impatient, ' Complain of the noise and the play, for le day brings so many vexations, I So many things (rowing amiss; But. mothers, whatever may vet you, . Send the children to bed with a kiss! The ear little feet wander often, Pcrhups, from tbe pathway of right, (The ear little hands find new mist-hiel To try yon from morning till night. I But think of the desolate Mothers Whn'd criv* all the world for vour bliss. !And. u thanks for your infinite blowing* 8cad the children to bed with a kiss! ] For lome day their noise will not rex you, The silence will hurt you far more. Szou will long for the aweet children'* voices. For a aweet childish voice at the door. { JAnd to preas a child's face to your botom, You'd give all the world for just this: Wor the comfort 'twill bt-ing you in sorrow. Send the children to bed with a kiss! g THE BLUE || : ?? By Id* PtttcrMi. ^ JESSIE OALE wu ambitions, | immoderately so. Jack Gale was ambitious, but , temperately so. ( It was because of the varying degrees of their ambition that this story ! came about. Jessie coald sing. Jack could not. Be coald only listen with a rare appreciation and adore this particular singer beyond an bounds of her deserts. For lack was as gifted in the rare art of loving truly as Jessie was In the art Of singing. Bather more, I should say. All this had much to do with the blue skirt for It was these physchologlc conditions that brought about , the incident of the blue skirt. Jack had always extravagantly admired the gown of which the blue skirt was a component part. He bad told ber so often, but Jessie had answered rather fretfully that It was "such a almple little affair." Pale blue cham?*ay, made with a blouse effect and trimmed with ruffles edged with narrow torchon. So a woman would have described It, but to sturdy, honest, lorlag Jack It was a blue cloud flecked jrith white, from which the black eyes and curling black hair, the red Hps aad creamy skin of bis wife gleamed forth brilliantly. Jack never forgot the day she tossed It aside. MIT1 never wear that old thing she said. "I do hale to wear things when they're grown shabby." There was a little tremor of sensitiveness In Jack's face as the words | track cruelly upon his ear. but be Blade a manful effort to conquer It , His Income was small, but be was doing his best to increase it. and the , Income was sure to come If It was a bit ( tow. tie naa 101a jes*ie so orieo. anu , had explained that there was some dis- ( position to keep the young engineers , down. "The other fellows naturally want to , keep the best positions.** he said. "Try , to be patient, Jessie. I am doing iny , beat, dear." And Jessie was silent She had the , Introspective nature that matches . beary-lidded eyes, habitually cast , down. And the habits of alienee and j Introspection were growing. , It waa on the evening or the day that ] Jessie said she had thrown away "the ; old blue dress" that the great change , came. Jessie heard that a theatrical man- | ager was reorganizing a company for a , eason of comic oper. A neighbor bad , told her he needed girls for the com- | pany?"girls with looks, and with voices. If possible, bnt looks anyway." And Jessie had been to town and been engaged and had come back and told 1 Jack. QK? . lltil. ?._ 1.1. I our Tt an u iuuc ni^uu ucu vy uu atrange silence. MI did It to help yon along?because the money will help us both." sbe said la defense. Then she burst oat Into a storm against the manner of their living. ' MI hate the solitude here." she said. * "Sometimes I feel afraid of the hills. It seems as though they will fall over ' tad crush me. And the silence here is awful. I want to bear human voices. I want to hear people laugh and sing. I want color and movement aod sound Instead of these walls of green making a living tomb for us." Jack had talked with her very gently, and sbe had answered every argument With a bitter protest He answered her sadly then: "You are young, dear. I might have known that love would not fill your life now. When you are as old as I am you will know that it is all that really matter*, besides working and doing one's duty. I will girt my consent to yonr going, for all I live for la to make you happy." Jessie Joined the opera company, slnjrIng a small part In a pretty, uncultivated voice. 8he dressed with half a down other girls who smoked and used dang, and In the guise of friendliness . "made her up" to dlatort the beauty of her dark, brooding face. She learned fhe disciplinary Talue of the stage, and he learned the real hldeousness of selfishness. But she told Jack none of pais. One season passed?two?she was 000 to begin her third. She was petHas on, but slowly. One evening she Was moved by one of those impulses that seem to come from without rather than within, to run home and pay Jack a visit. The rehearsals were over. There waa no reason why she should aot go home for a week. She would . surprise him. She drove out from town in the early morning. The mist veils were rising from the hill tops, melted by the burn tag kisses of the bud. Tbe evergreen I forests on tbe bill sides were so cool, the great walls of earth so restful. She grondercd why she was not afraid they Kald topple upon her now. Was It t she was beginning to yearn for fir bat tbey typified, strength and fidelity. tbe greatest and best things in I life? Tbe little bouse had been done up. Bbe noticed as sbe drove up, and Jack had coaxed tbe rose vines quite to tbe ( of by now. The door was open. There was no fear of tramp* In that region, and sbe peered right Into the house. Sbe gpid the threshold softly. Someone V FWt ? ; / was stirring within, bnt bp vrns too absorbed to note her soft footfalls. Her old blue skirt bung upon the wall, and her husband. looking older and sadder. but still with that vast strength of patiencc in bis face, stood looking at it. She wrote the rest to her one friend in the company. "I walked over quietly and stood beside him. He was still so busy looking it that foolish skirt that he didn't know I was there. But after awhile he turned toward me. and when he saw me the look that came into his eyes made me cry. "Well. I've resigned. When I saw poor old Jack worshipiug that blue skirt of mine that I had thrown away as worthless. I made up my mind that there are only a few things that are really living for. and stage life isn't one of them, and the companionship of a stanch, splendid soul like Jack is. And so I've left and I'm going to wait and work with Jack for the better days that I know are coming. uHe is getting on in his profession nn.i ?h??Hid I mil them better??the other day* are nearer. But I wonder If tbey will be better, tbe dayg when Jack and I are rlcb. and so many people wlil know us and make demands upon our time, and so separate us after n manner? We were botb wondering to-day. but we are going to enjoy tbe time before tbat, and meanwhile that old bine skirt still hangs upon tbe wall. Jack insists upon it. He calls It his 'restorer.' "?New York News. Up* and Down* of Bird Life. Are birds really happy as they seem? Or have they tbe verj human trait of Just making believe for pride's sake, or to outdo some envious neighbor bird on the lookout for any signs of misery ?marital or otherwise?on the picture of apparent peace In tbe next tree? The man who wrote "How happy the life of a bird must her" and rhapsodized through several stanzas about the Joyous freedom of the feathered denizens of the upper air must not have looked much below the surface. Watch a flock of birds alwnit the fountain In Madison square and be remiuded of a lot of boys in swimming. such gay tossing* of water over eacn other, such chattering and saucy pranks and gleeful enjoyment of life are there among them. But you come a yard closer, and whnt a scattering ensue?! Each one Is on the alert for a foe every moment?they must be ready at any Instant to fly. shrieking, for their lives. One would think they would die of nervous prostration, with their nerves so continually on the jump, like live wires on which life depends. m And. eternal vigilance being the price of safety, the electric current is liable to be cut off at any time. And think of the tragedies that occur nightly during the migrating season! Fif .n hundred birds, killed in one ">?< ? 'aihiH thn fnnt of T.Ih UljkUl, n CI C 1VUUU H V ?MV v. erty light one morning! And Fire Island light was the death of 230 birds of ?ne species ? black poll warblers ? In nne night. What a lot of music was silenced there! The Washington Monument. even though not lighted, is the tragic end of thousands of birds annu* illy. Taking Into consideration the known Tact that only a very small percentage -of the smaller birds, especially?ever reach old or middle age. the rest meeting a violent death at the bands, or daws, rather, of preying animals or larger birds or remorseless bird wearing humnna?one might just as well, cn the whole, be a dweller In Manhattan ?Instead of above It?and cope with the usual trials of coal soot, trusts and serenading cats, as to gaze enviously skyward and sing "Would I were a bird!"?New York Herald. Aa Unanng Hero. . Pictures of Nelson on the Victory 'nil Vnt-Miontf In of tllP Hartford occupy conspicuous places on hoard the German imperial yacht Hobenzollern. But while every schoolboy in every lnnd Is familiar with that thrilling chapter in Farragut's history when the intrepid Admiral had himself lashed to the rigging of bis flagship, the better to direct the battle af Mobile Bay. very few people have ever heard the name of the equally fearless sailor who bound him firmly In place under a withering fire of shot and shell Tet he died at a comparatively recent date, passing away at Annapolis. April 9. 1805. after having served hi* country for nearly half a century. John Hazard Knowles was born at South Kingston. R. I.. August 10, 1830. null wus iwruij'uic juuib uiu nuru uc first enlisted in the navy, serving until 1858, on the historic Constitution, then cruising as one of the Mediterranean squadrons. At the time of the battle of Mobile Bay he was chief quartermaster on the Hartford.?New York Herald. X?wly Married. She was newly married, and did not know a little bit about either houoekeeping or shopping, and she was giv< lng her very first order. It was a crusher; but the grocer was a clevet man. and was used to all kinds of orders. and could Interpret them easily. "I want two pounds of paralyzed sugar," she began. "Yes'm. Anything else?" "Two cans of condemned milk.'* "Yes'm." He set down pulverized sugar and condensed milk. "A bag of fresh salt. Be sure it ii fresh." -Yea rn. What next?" "A pound of desecrated codfish." He wrote, glibly, "deanlcated cod." "Nothing more, ma'am? We bav( some nice horseradish just in." "No," she said, "It would be of no use to us: we don't keep a horse." Then the grocer sat down nnd fanned himself with a wat?h-l>oard. althousl the temperaiure was freezing.?Worn an's Home Companion. Do Flihti Heir? Did any one ever see a fish's ears' Ui-? <?n1 If Imi hocn nn>f i/V uauvo u??u ? ??w ? tT veil nrovon that ther hear. Scl entists have made up a list of a!>ou 100 fishes that make sounds. Whj snould they make sounds unless thej expect to l?e heard? The drum drum* The puffer croaks. Even the weakfls] complains with an interual voice whei the cruel fisherman leaves it to di< in the bottom of the boat Possibl; fishes hear through their teeth.?Nei York Presa. i Chinese Press * S in America. ? 113 By Charict F. HoMer. jj IN roamiiig through the famous Chinatown of San Francisco, Its lanes and alleys, the stroller will perhaps observe over a narrow f nrnrmit I" I " ?, ?tk ^ M MM MAKltca WtM'. t - - T ~ ~ Hi SSLITJ t~m m o * # n ^"im * *. tt * ? * " ~xzl m i t - s A ? < * * * BIKII K X gp^| A SAN FRANCISCO door a mystical sijrn. nod beneath it the words Chunc-sai-Yat-Po. the dally newspaper; and if curious he may ascend the narrow stair and reach the editorial and other rooms of one of the several Chinese papers published In thl* Chinese-American city. Little Can ton, as it Is sometimes cnlied. This paper was first started as a weekly, but was changed to a daily, and Ik now an influential organ of what might be termed the Americanized Chinese, or the New Chinaman, as the editor Is a Chinese minister of the Presbyterian Church, a man of high cultivation from the American standpoint. He Is the lie v. Ng Poon Chew, and one of his literary advisers and aids Is John Fryer. LL.D.. who fills the chair of Chinese literature at the University of California: but the typesetters, the clerks. In fact all the employes, are Chinamen, some of whom are graduates of American schools. In the business office and editorial room there is little to attract the attention. American desks and chairs and telephone are the appliances of the workers: but when the visitor enters the composing room, a high, cheerless brick-wall-lnclosed room, he is confronted with the I fact that here as well ax elsewhere in China things are upside down. In a word, the typesetter is quite as important a factor as tbe editor; at least ruch Is tbe impression Rained by tbe observer who faces the extraordinary cases of the Chinese compositor. The American typesetter Is obllRed to be familiar with twenty-six letters, ten figures and a few sIrus and symbols. as periods, dollar marks, etc.. but tbe Chinese compositor must be familiar with 11.000 characters of this archaic lanRuaRc. (.bout which Professor R. K. DouRlas says: "Every root Is a word, every word is a root. It is irltbout Inflexion or even aRRlutination; Its substantives are indeclinable, and Its verbs are not to be conjugated; it Is destitute of an alphabet, and finds Its expression on paper in thousand* of distinct symbols." It is needless to go into a description of this marvelous language to explain the difficulties of tbe Chinese compositor; but one illustration is sufficient. Certain sounds often stand for several hundred words, the difference, often vital to an Intelligent presentation of an Idea, depending on certnln diacritical marks accotnpanyn? each word. There are thousands of these symbols which ure engraved, each one representing a type, but a well-regulated newspaper will iequlre but 11.000 characters; If others are needed they are made In the office. A font of type in tbe Chinese language requires 11,(100 spaces, aud in tbe large and spacious racks here shown tacb word Instead of each letter, as in English, has a place for itself. There is also a peculiar grouping or classification of irmhoia into prouns to further facill I ?. tate tbe mental labors of the typesetters. Thus in tbe immediate vicinity of tbe symbol for fisn would be found tbe symbols for scales, net. fins. tail, j gills. This simplifies tbe labor, which , In any event must be so strenuous that It is evident that tbe compositor's end of tbe Chinese newspaper should. If perfect justice ruled, be the highest paid. Tbe compositor is a staid and dignified individual, and as he slowly walks from symbol to symbol, picking " np those *~hleh ne requires with proroklng catmness, tbe American compositor might well wonder when .the work would be completed; and to set up tbe limited type required for a 1 I v ^ -P 8l93Rw3' V" VnVffrr flfflyW j^HB A^ER^W|Hu^P^ < x iSgJjjfcj I H& ^MfckM 1 INTERIOR OF CHINESE COMPOS r SIZE OF Til r , mall four-pajje daily paper the eonI stunt laltor* of eight or nine skilled , Chinamen are required for twelve or r thirteen hours, the entire work In evf ery department being the antipodes of the rush and whirl tnd marvelous \ celerity of tbe modern American pubii 1 cation. Wben tbe paper is net up it is prlntec on an American press, but tbe type tne symbols, are all made In ( ilna. Tbere are tbree otber newspaper! published In San Francisco besides tin one descrli>ed?tbe Chinese WorJd, tb< Oriental News and the Commercial | News. Nearly all nave some specia object io view. Thus tbe World is t reform paper, virtually the organ 01 ' tbe Empire Reform Association, a clut ( or society which is very Influential it j St 80Otli?. ::: I : ' A ? ? I vat ' iiMIHM IMDIUU* (KMlVll. I wr U* rw^to ? S y _ ? i w I- H M A tf i i Ijii 1 J?JLA_J_r_I_JL i||i i w * iu * m <1 st * \ jjjjjj ||||jf|ip CHINESE NEWSPAPER. Chinese circles Id San Francisco and snld to include a fourth of the entire population. The World opposed tin Boxers, Is pro-American in its ideas; It* editor Is Ton? Cbong, a friend of the late missionary. Mr. Masters; a man of high culture and many attainments, who has. by ;he aid of the society, of which be Is Secretary, attempted to reform the entire Chinese Nation.?Sclentitlc American. TRACES OF A TRAGEDY. Grewsotn* Reminder of Ravag* Days on Eotilih Church Door. A ghastly relic of bygone days Is to be seen on the church door at Pernbridge. England. The handle is fastened b;- some elaborate Ironwork to the stout oak boards ituu ruuuu lue ru^ca ui tmo, iu? Queen, may still be seen fragment THE TRACK OF TRAGEDY. that look like coarse yellow parch* ment. The casual visitor passes them l?y unobserved, and with little idea that ho is on the tracks of a tragedy, fur the parchment serums are not portions of the notices of prehistoric church wardens, hut the actual fragments of tbe skin of some bygone malefactor, caaght red-banded in robbing the church, bis bide being nailed to the doors as a peri>etual warning to evildoers. Tradition reports that he was a Dane, hut more o.i*ohably be was some Welsh marauder of the mountains, and at any rate tv this day the ghastly memor!al of bis crimes la still visible. Vfddlnc ftuperotltlona. It Is unlucky for tbe bride to enter tbe church before tbe ceremony at one door and leave after tbe ceremony by another door. The bride should always cut tbe firat piece of her wedding cake. It is said to be unlucky to tie shoes to any part of tbe carriage in which the bride and bridegroom go away. In leaving tbe church tbe bride will I do well to ptace her right fcot foremost if she wishes to be nappy, healthy, etc.. in the future, and she should always be the first to call her husband by name. After the wedding breakfast and re ccptlon the bride should be carerul to throw away and lose all the pins, If there are any about her. The brides* run id* should uot keep the pins themselves, or they will retard their chancea of marriage.?New York News. People who are governed by their good Impulses can govern themselves IS 1". 1. \; ING ROOM, SHOWING ENORMOUS IE FONTS. Mnr?ler?d llomin Emperors. Of ninety-three emperors who havt governed the whole or a large part of the Roman empire sixty-two were murtiered or died under suspicious circumstances. [HE OLD TUBS PBISON, Hi THE HEW. j /~y SEAT interest centres In the I / disappearance of the old-time VuTT wall about the original structure of the Tombs Prison in S'ow York Citj, and the substitution >f the new granite inclosure. The ,'hange attracts daily attention from the little crowds of loungers who hang ibout the neighborhood of the Crlmnal Court building. The process of change from the old to the new Is so $niuuai, jei w) sure, iuhi me uncieui regime will be merged Into the new ilmost witbont anybody knowing it rhe removal of the administrative de- partments of tbe city prison Into the b aew commodious quarters on the Cen- f tre sv-eet side has already taken place, t The change from the semi-darkness a ind musty, long out-worn conditions to t! spacious and modern quarters brings b # / iV 1 V ' .; ^ jjil | ipl'T S^&g,v^ s A. GENEHAL VIEW OF THE TOMBS NEW YORK CITY FC nrith It a contrast which for the mo- t caent make* even a prison seem a very , zbeerful and pleasant place. When one entered tbe old prison one teas admitted by a lowering gate heavily barred with iron Into a low-cellInged room where many activities seemed to be crowded into small space and where the tile or visitors waiting to see the prisoners always tended to overflow Into tbe warden's room and iown tbe dnrk corridors leading to the celli. i A splendid suite of offices has now * been provided for tbe wardens and J :lerks, several sizeable rooms where t prisoners can be searched and where they may see their counsel, and still others where their frlcnda^may be searched before visiting them In their i cells. la the old Tombs tbe conven- ] lences were of tbe slightest, and inadequate to bear tbe burdea laid upon them. Tbe old tub aad showers were inadequate. Under tbe aew rules prisoners will be compelled to take two hot baths a week. There are two <hower baths at the ead of each corridor, aad besides this are special batb rooms in whlcb aew prisoner* will be compelled to submit to a good scruboiug with soap aad water before belag placed la a cell. Aaotber excellent feature that is a great adrance on tbe CITY PRISON. THE SUCCESSOR old conditions Is tbe roof garden, where tbe prisoners will take tbe air, instead of dismally filing around tbe narrow corridors as they do at present, getting their only healthful draughts of ozone through tbe narrow, heavily barred corridors. Tbe roof garden is ^ f ha OH me iup uuur, uncvu; uuu<-i ?? steep pitched roof. Tbe completion of tbe city prison baa been delayed far beyond tbe time spec!tied In tbe contract Tbe building was begun Ave years ago?during tbe administration of tbe late Mayor Strong. Warden Van de Carr is delighted over getting Into tbe new building. Since be resumed bis duties several months ago tbe contractors have made nrpld progress toward tbe completion ol' the building. It is expected tbat tbe present administration will provide a detached bouse in tbe prison yard for tbe use of tbe Warden. Tbe Warden's family now occupies dismal quart era. The rennval of the west wall along Elm street by the rapid transit contractors marKK tbe beginning of tbe destruction of that portlorf of the Jail yard where tbe old-time Sheriffs of New York County banged their condemned prisoners. Vniranle KrnDtlam Niar Mexico Cllr. According to the traditions of the , Indians, there were eruptions of the volcanoes surrouuding tills valley as follows: Ajusco. most violent. In 76 A. D. Also in 1114. Popocatepetl, 1353, terrifying the In- i habitants of the Aztec city on whose 1 site this capital Is built. Houses were damaged and the people were terrified by the falling ashes and stones. Iztaccibuatl was in violent eruption In US), three years before Colutnbus discovered the New World. Xlco. near Ijike Cbalco, burst into eruption in 1170.?Mexican Herald. From a twenty-year-old mulberry tree 218 pounds of leaves have been picked In a year. ' '' f .". Lock om m BottU. j | Many safety poison phials bare been j levised, bat It Is doubtful If any one i so secure as tbe simply locked topper Illustrated herewith. No one , o the dark, or sunlight, no matter LOCK OW TH> P0I80K BOTTLS. I I ow preoccupied or deranged by suf* , erlng, could possibly- accidentally | ike a draught of poison from sueh ' ???- i. ?in v.? ? k. ?,_ .k.t.k uua*. ab win uc enru vj iuv oa^ivu be lock 1? opened bj a small kej, at it automatically locks Itself when ?From a Photograph bj W. F. Sibley. I BUILDING AS IT STOOD IN >R MANY YEAR&. he cover Is closed down. Any de ired method of closing bottles or tasks may be employed In conjunclon with the lock. Not a less wide leld for the use of such a device la o prevent unauthorized persons as, or instance, servants, from meddllnf vlth liquors, perfumes, etc. * miij bkujsw nnra. The loftiest steamboat route in the rorld is doubtless that Just opened beween Puno and Chilaya, Peru, on Jike Tlticaca, 12,372 feet blgb or twice he altitude of Mt Washington. A Pacallai Pmt DImim. In an article which appeared Is American Agriculturist September 27. L902, Professor F. C. Stewart of the S'ew York Experiment Station, called ittention to the spotting and cracking >f fruit, and particularly that of tbe Flemish Beauty pear. The specimens eeel red from W. H. Phillips, of Onoulaga County, New York, were subuitted to Professor Stewart for examnation, who reports that the difficulty Is the same as that described in his previous article. Very often it Is Impossible to determine the variety of fruit on account of its diseased condition. OF THE HISTORIC "TOMBS." i A specimen of the pear infested with this disease is shown in the accom? panylng illustration, furnished us bj Professor 8tewsrt This disease 11 caused by a fungus and can be prevented to a large extent by thorough' 'is W^Sf^H PbK -;>}? BtfmK^ ..vW^^^HrcuV . v jyiB BHH^|MIav\ -Tlffi V^K BMWF^i^^lK^ ?T \&i<' >? . ' ?- v^" '. ? ?" , DISEASED PI AH. ly spraying with bordeaux mixture. However, where the fruit on the trees tracks regularly each season. It would perhaps be best to graft the top with some other variety. The Widow's Cap. The widow's cap Is as old as the days of Julius Caesar. An edict of Tiberiusj commanded all widows to wear the cap under penalty of a heavy fine and imprisonment. England'* Yellow Tmrmr Record. Only live outbreaks of yellow fever In English ports are known to have occurred In the last century. The trouble about the people who know bow everything ought to be doala that they can't do them. _ ' fBE cms IK session lpproDriations of* $589,189,112 Asked For the Next Fiscal Year. DECREASE IN ARMY EXPENSES Beth lb* Imlt aad lb* Roim ImM Lib* a flower Ov4h at lb* Ofnliff -Adjnia*) la Ktmavr ' lb* Dm4 ?Tbe PrMldcai ' XtMif* Rwd-Many BUU I a trod Dead. Washington. D. C.?Coogren has reassembled for the short term. The reading or President Roosevelt's message was deferred until the second day. as both bouses bad lost members by death, and it is customary for adjournment to be taken out of respect to the memory of the dead. The Senate at the hour of opening presented a' gay picture, for the desks of nearly every Senator were covered with flowers. Huge bunches of roaea, chrysanthemums and other showy flowers 'covered half the chamber and added to the beauty of the scene, set off. as it was. by a gallery full of brightly dressed women. After the morning prayer Senator Burrows, of Michigan, announced the /loath nf hie former colleaaue. Senator McMillan, and tbe Senate adjourned for tbe day. Tbe House also looked like a flower garden when tbe Speaker called it together. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, who will be the next Speaker of tbe House, found his desk literally swamped with bouquets. There wait tbe usual crowd in tb? galleries, and Mrs. Rooserelt and Miss Rooserelt were spectators. Tbe House was only in session a very short time and adjourned In memory of the late Representative Charles A. Russell, of Connecticut. A number of bills were Introduced bearing on the trust and tariff questions. Washington, D. C.?Tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury has transmitted to Congross tbe estimates of the appropriations required for tbe Government ser> vice for tbe fiscal year ending June 30. 1004. The total*appropriations asked for are *589.130.112. which is $21,638.57G lens than tbe estimates for 1908, and 133,000,014 less than the appropriations for that year. Following la a recapitulation of the estimates by departments, cents omitted: Legislative ........ ..... $11,608,483 Executive v 319.800 State Department 2,676.825 Treasury Department .... 172.313.526 War Department 130.886,606 Navy Department 84,726,788 Interior Department 163,018.616 Postofllce Department .... 10.363.486 Department of Agriculture 5,680,160 Department of Labor 181.220 Department of Justice.... 7.43UM0 Total $586,180,112 Following are the principal items under the several departments which show increases or decreases as compared with the appropriations for the year ending June 30. 1908: Legislative?Salary and expenses increase. 6393,913, Executive proper?Salaries and expenses increase. $13,000. State Department ? Foreign Inter coarse increase. $211,000. > Treasury Department?Public works, increase. $7,000,000; miscellaneous. Innrefl?p Jwonoonn: District of Oolum bin, increase, $2,700,000; permanent annual appropriations, decrease. $3,000,000. War Department ? Military estabUsbment decrease. S14.000.000; public works, decrease. $4,083,000. Navy Department?Naval establishment Increase. $6,000,000. ^ TEN BOILERS EXPLODE. i IU?T Killed ??<! I Dj arc! at Swift S Ca.\ -A Cblcato ritit. 8 Chicago. ? Fourteen persons were B killed and thirty others were Injured, 1 some fatally, by the simultaneous ex* \ ?I?hoilM. IH Bvlft K. Cn *C J JJlUBIt/U VI ICU WVMVi D iM ?*V w? vvf w refrigerating plant. No. 3. a two-story i building, at tbe stock yards. Parts of the exploded boilers wer? blown through tbe roof, and continued 100 yards or more in their flight. Other J fragments tore out tbe front of the -4 building and crashed Into a car shed across the street, almost demolishing i the structure. Fire, Which added bor- fi ror to the disaster, was quickly ex tin- I guished. and tbe work of rescuing tbe ? living and removing the dead was car* S ried on by hundreds of willing hands. J The rapidity with which the rescuerf m worked In removing tbe debris was markable. Tbe cause of the explosion Is a mys- fl levy, M lie DOllRrs uau nor own iiiH|m-i> m ed recently. The low I* estimated at $150,000. M EipImIm KilU Ttir*t. '8 Kenton. Oblo.?Three men were k tiled H in a boiler explosion in a sawmill at H Alger. A part of the building col lapsed and the three men were hurled a considerable distance. Their bodies fl were terribly scalded and mangled. H Tha Colombia* Xlilittr Kwtlltd. m8 The outlook for a Panama canal jgj! treaty was improved by the action of the Colombian Government In rellev- H ing 8onor Concha as its Minister in HH| Washington and placing the negotiations in the hands of Dr. Herran, who SjES will probably be appointed Minister. KtBtrarti of 130 Tears. VHR Harvey Logan, the alleged Montana IgBj train robber. ws?, at Knoxville, Term.. Riven ten sentences, aggregating 180 HU years. Some are to be aerved concur*n^Gn rently. thus reducing his time in prlson to twenty years. Kgra Robbers Kill a Bank Clark. Wesley Reynolds. aged sixteen. ployed as clerk In the bank at West*^Hn V?a nn.| l.m.wl hr MkJHHI vuir, tiiu.. >ms ???i "? """ "j >vv~^Bni berg who had broken into the plaot^^HH nnd were about to blow open the ?nfe. MB Tbe meu escaped iu d stolen rig. SflKBB MlllUa For m CramUon. The $1,000,000 offer of Senator Clark,HHB of Kutto. Mon., for the hrat grandtoaHgjgH lias been won. me wue 01 um ban presented him an heir, and thoHnBS amount will )>e pai<l. It has been dearest wish of tbe Senator. l|M9 Prominent People. jgflHHB Premier Balfour is not only a fi[JK8B| musician, but also a golfer ami an afl9B9 tomobiiist. eSShH Tiic Crown Prince of Germany IftflsSaB clever automohilist and undenitan^^^^H liow to repair all accidents to the qHBBm BH&U The Shnh of Persia owns the diamond in the world, while the of Turkey is the possessor of the ruby. The German Emperor has taken AfwBfiR now hobby. He is very much fas^B^K9| I atcd just now with the collec'ic^^^^^^J tc.- ulatcf. ? fl|