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THE FIELDS OF TOIL;
The hills arc all a-aea with yellow grain
That meets each merry impulse of the
wind
/ jWith danccs light an dearest wish can
find,
'And laughter like the mellow rush of rain.
The ripening corn Haunts far across the
plain.
. Its glorious abundance scarce confined,
| / And through the lowlands sunny livers
It wind.
1 riu.- n 1 v,.. * k?
w luuiv UUHiVril'U kJJ mc unuu^ 3 auiuci
" stain.
Prom this, the loftiest height, the long
road runs
Far down the golden hillsides toward the
t west,
Follows the raptured journeys of the suns.
And seeks, with them, the purple realms
Vot rest.
But I love best the bright and windy hill
iWhere joyous labor holds her empire still.
?Mildred I. McNeal, in Suecesa.
Ci?i i?i i?i r?i i?i i?i
?i i?i i?i i?i i i i I?i
I-HZ1?
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1' ISS ItUTH WALKER had
\ 4 made a find. (.Joing through
1 ? 1VI ? tbo contents of the 1m^
^ mcnso old-time escritoire
^ ^fOTT which had held the minor
treastlros of a few generations of the
(Walters. she had found in the bottom
of p. so-called secret drawer a little
scrap of paper which, tbroupjh some
chance, had for years escaped examination.
It was what, man.7 years ago when it
was written, slie had believed to be a
poem, and possibly she believed so still.
But it was nearly forty years since he
for whom those linos were penned went
^ away from her, and met with his death
not long afterward in India, and just
thirty years ago her mother had died,
iand ?he. Kutli Walker, the last of the
family, had remained to prow old alone
In Sunoroft, the old family home. But
now, as she pondered over all this, and
Conjured up a hundred thoughts of
which we knew nothing, nor have a
> Tight to. she found that -the markings
of nervous fingers on the tear-stained
scrap of paper had done it irreparable
injury, so she produced from a drawer
a clean sheet of fan?y paper, chose a
pen with a great show of fastidiousness,
and, adjusting her spectacles,
Commeuced to copy out the poem in
her antique, prim. Italian cnligraphy.
Miss Walker replaced in her escritoire
the relic of her long-buried romance,
together with one of the two
copies she had made. The other she
put into her pocket, just to have it by
her. then she tidied her hair with a few
k pats of her hand, adjusted her mob
a cap, wiped her spectacles and left her
W room.
Arrived downstairs she had a temp
xauoa ? jiossiuiy iuu uuhduji; ui nraroused
sentiment?to walk into the
garden. From the sitting room the oldfashioned
garden looked inviting in the
waning beauty of a perfect summer's
day. She was just about to stpp
through the French window when
some one entered the room.
"Ah! Rose." she said, "I am going
t Juio the garden to enjoy the last moI
ments of the exquisite evening. Come
With me. child."
The breaking in upon Miss Walker's
meditations had evidently been accidental,
fertile intruder made as though
to retreat hastily. She was a pretty
girl of about twenty-live, brownhaired
and frank-looking, but there
was an expression of trouble clouding
her usually sunny face, and she shrank
^ back as she said quickly:
"No. no?do please excuse mr: I am
not feeling very well, and shall go rc
v my worn to lie down for a shert time."
And then she vanished.
The lines of Miss Walker's bensvo!ent
countenance hardened, and she
pursed up her lips and puckered her
brows in perturbed thought. Was romance.
when it came to Suncroft, always
to turn to Dead Sea fruit? The
world had taught even her. quiet and
uneventful though her life h:id been,
many bitter lessons of the unfulfillment
Ot hearts' desires, aud yet she had at
Lthe same time appreciated those lessons,
and kept intact the tender faith
that most men and women should love
and be the happier and better for it.
And this belief had made her take a
special interest in. and do everything
to encourage, the sentiments she had
seen arise between Rose \Varden and
her nephew, John Walker. Rose was
the daughter of a long since dead
friend, and John was the only child of
Miss Walker's younger brother.
I As the "wish had been father to the
r thought it chanced that Miss Walker's
friends rn London, where Rose was a
governess and John a rising engineer,
had, acting on gentle promptings, put
these people in one.another's way as
rmuch as possi'-'-e. The result was what
had been foreseen and hoped for. and
Mi^s Walker was inwardly much rejoiced.
She had now made Rose spend
a long vacation with her in the pleasant
old Surrey home, and John had
more than once come to stay a week
or so, ostensibly with an acquaintance
In the neighboring village. Rut something
had gone wrong. There had come
the little rift within the lute. On the
pt^vious afternoon her nephew had
left the house suddenly, he having bp
lore laai oeen wuu Kose in iue garden,
and lie liad not since called. Ami
Close's sudden change of manner from
L light heartedneas to utter dejection,
k ?with other evidences of her secret sorrow,
told its own slory. Miss Walker
.Wondered what exactly had occurred,
and indulged In a dozeu anxious conjectures.
i She paced the garden uutil the advancing
evening brought the breath of
chilliness, which Miss Walker at her
age did not like. Then, with a last
look at the window of Rose's room and
a deprecatory shake of her handkerchief
at the retreat of that presumably
pining young lady, Miss Walker turned
^ uer iace lowara mc uuuse. .ium ub sut*
stepped into the sitting room her
nephew -was shown into the other door.
"Well. well," said Miss Walker,
cheerily?for she saw reconciliation in
( the visit?"why have you deserted us
k for a -whole day, you negligent young
man?"
"Very sorry, nVint. but it wasn't quite
njp fault," he returned, speaking rather
gloomily. Then he added, with some
show of embarrassment, "but my visit
.Will he very short now. The fact Is. I
V /
have decided to go back to town by
this evening's train."
. "Dear, dear!" exclaimed Miss Walker.
in open dismay. She had not imag1
ined that things were quite so bad, and
at the moment she was flurried, and did
. not know what to say. Then, after regarding
him with a faraway look of
dtamal abstraction for a few seconds,
she said, somewhat., agitatedly: "But
you really must not go away like thatl
It would not be kind to?to me. No.
. no: you must not go off so discourteously.
There is something wrong. I see it
?in fact, I know It. I want to think
a while?and so, I am sure, do you.
, There, like a pood boy. so and walk in
the garden for half an hour or so."
And she demonstrated the imperative
nature of her advice by gently but firmly
shoving him toward the window,
through which he passed out into the
garden in silent obedience.
i The quaint old garden soothed him,
yet it arousrd many tender recollections
which made him all the more sorrowful
now to harbor. He had come
with a grim determination to merely
say au revoir to his aunt, as duty aud
inclination prompted, but not to see
Rose: or, if he could not help seeing
| her. then to bid nor a formal farewell.
Rose and he had differed bitterly, ar.d.
he decided, finally. When he mentally
re-enacted the scene, as he had done a
score of times since tnat angry paruu^.
ho said to himself each time that he
had been right in every word he uttered.
and fully justified. He said this
to himself with suspicious emphasis,
for he knew in his heart that he had
been a great deal other than right.
His thoughts gradually became more
gentle as he walked through the old
garden, and sweet memories came to
him to chase away anger and bittfrness.
It was, perhaps, not quite involuntarily
that he turned toward the side
of the house from which Rose's lattice
looked. He raised his eyes to it somewhat
wistfully. He felt convinced
somehow that she was there, behind
that lattice, but she showed no sign,
and he dared not make advances.
He sighed and turued away. Just
then he saw something white on the
grass border. Stooping he picked it
up. It was a neatly folded piece of stiff
paper, and on opening it out he saw by
the twilight it contained writingverse
of some sort, as far as he could
Stepping aside lie got into the shelter
! of a bush, and by the light of a couple
of vestas he with some difficulty read
the lines. They were addressed "To
John," and signed "R. W." In the bad
light the individuality of the handwriting
escaped him. and his heart
throbbed with mingled happy emotions
as the meaning dawned on him. Sublimely
indifferent to the technical merits
of the verses, he thought them perfect
in every respect, and their sentiments
fired his heart. Dear, sweet
Rose. That was doubtless her loving
overture for peace, he said to himself
with rapture.
He retraced his steps to the path beneath
her window, and gently called
her name, but when he had called her
three times she appeared at the lattice
with a timid response. A few minutes,
after a tender reconciliation, John Wal- |
kcr left the garden to have a further
:ind immediate interview in the draw- J
:ag room with his lady love.
When lie came into the house. sin<r- |
ins; to himself and looking radiant, his
aunt, encouraging him. immediately
and intuitively understood that all was
well once more. She smiled and ppoke
a kindly word. Then she added suddenly:
'"By the way. John, I have just
missed a small?er?piece of wrltin?
that wag in my pocket. To be quite
candid, it was a trifling old poem I had
just copied, and I think I lost it when
taking out my handkerchief in the garden.
Do you recollect having seen a
piece of paper on any of the paths?
At any x-ate, I must seek it now, as
rea'.Iy?"
"By Jove, aunt?so that was yours!"
oxclaimcd the young man with a look
of dismayed bewilderment that quickly.
however, turned into a laugh.
'"Well, I thought it was somebody
tsf s. iu laei, us sm'u u. uas aireauy
played a good part and worked a little
miracle."
"Dear, dear! I am bo glad." said
Miss Walker, with rapid comprehension.
And then she added anxiously:
"But now that you know your mistake
"
He went up to her and kissed her.
"Tl.at doesn't matter at all now,
Aunt Ruth. You have dene by chance
what you would have endeavored to
do with intention, and I am now too
happy to say any more. Here comes
Hose."?New York American.
The TVelRht of the Children.
With regard to the standard of
weight for growing children, that usually
given by authorities in the matter
i-s that at five years of age a child
should weigh about as many pounds as
it is inches high. As a rule, this will
not be much over or under forty
pounds. Children who come of large
families should weigh something more
than that. The rate of increase should
about two pounds for every inch
of growth, with a tendency for the
weight to exceed this standard proportionately
rather than to fall below it.
When a child is rather heavier in proportion
to its height than this standard.
it is a sign of good health. If the
child is growing rapidly it should not
be allowed to fall much below it without
being made to r*st more than hae
Ven the custom before. A deficiency
of weight in proportion to height is always
an unfavorable sign. Any interruption
in the progress of increase of
weight, especially during the continuance
of growth, must be a danger signal
that should not be neglected by
those interested in the patient.?Westminster
Review.
Plaint of the British Fiddler.
The annual complaint of English
musicians comes from London. It is
that an English musician has no
chance to get work in competition with
foreigners. There are 300 orchestral
bands in London during the season,
and practically all of them are made up
of aliens. The one chance an Englishman
has of steady employment 4s to
disguise himself and pretend to be a
German or a Belgian. One band of
sixteen wears foreign uniforms, trims
beards in foreign style and speaks only
in foreign monosyllables, but every
one is an Englishman, forced to the
subterfuge by the necessity of Biaktn*
a Itvia*
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BUTTERFLY FflRJT
i ZHZZIN FR/JNCEIHI
i
BYJACQUES BOYCR.
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I Up to within a year or two, tuc ou
terfly farm established at Ea3tbouri
England, by William Watkins, an ei
! tomologist, was the only one of ii
| kind. To-day. however, there exli
! several such farms in France, amor
j which we desire to call special attei
j tion to those of M. Andre at Macoi
! Department Saone-et-Loire; M. de Li
j bonuefon, at Cerconx, Departmei
j Charente-inferleure: and Doctor Hi
I gues. at Chomerac, Department A
j iJeche.
j These gentlemen practically confiii
their efforts to the rearing of the rare:
genera of the family bombycidae c
v' ^ ^ ^
FIG. r. ?COCOONS OP SEVEBAX. YAIAETIE
OF SILKWORM.
silkworms; and by fortunate crossing
they have obtained some new variety
for which the collectors and the mi
seums of natural history contend wit
weapons of gold. Moreover, they ai
endeavoring to acclimate in France tl:
silkworms indigeiious to other coui
tries. The silk-producing larvae "wi
live and reproduce in a wild state i
the forests of B'rance, and it is on]
necessary to collect the cocoons, froi
which the silk threads are easily o
tained.
These attempts at acclimation ha\
in some cases been attended with ei
couraging results. The ailanthus sill
worm, Attacus Cynthia, so called b
cause its caterpillar feeds upon tt
leaves of the ailanthus tree, is a nath
of Japan; the Antheraea Yama-Mai,
native of India, and a most beautif
butterfly whose caterpillar thriv<
well upon the elm and the chestnu
the Antheraea Pernyi, better know
under the popular name of the on
silkworms; the Antheraea Mylitt
which because of its late hatching <
breaking forth is more difficult to raisi
and the Attacus Atlas, the large
known of the bombycidae and whic
produces very large cocoons, have a
been successfully domesticated <
acclimated. Fig. 1 shows the cocooi
of the exotic silkworms which a:
Lteing introduced in France. 1 is th
of the Attacus Cynthia; 2. Anthers*
Penryi, one having broken out of ar
one being still concealed in an 01
leaf; 3 13 the full ovoid cocoon of tl
Antheraea Mylitta; and 4 is the Att
cua Atlas carefully wrapped tip in tl
leaf. The requisites for tlie successf
FIG. II.?A BKOODEK.
j culture of the buttertly are a garde
j of greater or less extent in which u:
[ oaks, ailanthus trees, pines, plum tree
| ricinus or castor-oil plants, and otln
i i?i? ii? i???p n.i,ini. ,
Ulisin's iijc leaves ui n uii.u ocivc
nourish (lie larvae or caterpillars. Dl
posed here ?nd there about the gardf
are various appliances of the most sit
pie kind. Ordinarily the eggs a:
i placed in a brooder such as is show
| in Fig. 2. Tills is altogether a hom
| made contrivance for preserving tl
: larvae from destruction and at tl
| same time affording them a means <
| nourishment after they are hatched.
Branches of the trees with the c
coons still clinging to them are pluck?
and arranged so that their woody sten
may be Inserted in a vase of water, tl
whole upper part being enveloped t
gauze or mosquito netting. In tl
lower part of the netting, where
comes in coutact with the stems,
placed a lot of crumpled paper to pr
vent the wandering Insect from takln
I un Involuntary bath. Notwlthstandln
j all these precautions, sometimes tl
| Imprudent little beasts fall Into tl
I water, and if an attendant with h
| pincers does not come promptly to the
aid, they suffer the same penalty t
other mortals who cannot swim. 0
; the other hand, these caterpillars 1km
: a most fastidious taste.
They need pure air, offensive odoi
j are detrimental to their health; abo\
' all, their food must be sound, succulei
and plentiful. They are ravenous feci
ers, incessant eaters, and consort
much more in proportion to their sb
1 thao aa ox. Accordingly, as soon e
)> the leaves ia a brooder have bee:
- nearly devoured, another one is prt
. pared, placed in a vessel of water, am
j brought sufficiently close to the tire
iHbJeS9?M
3t PIG. III.?PLACJ.NG THE SLEEVES AN I
,r THEIR CONTENTS ON THE BUSHES.
one to allow the insects to change theii
habitation without great disturbance
Should it be the desire of the breede
to mount the butterflies fur the ran
seum. he first asphyxiates them In j
vial containing potassium cyanide
Once dead, they arc mounted on standi
I with wings carefully and completely
distended. To prepare the caterpullari
for the entomologist's cabinet is qult<
another thing. The best process foi
preserving them is by inflation, i
manipulation which required no llttli
dexterity and patience. Fig. 4 show
M. Andre in the act of inflating i
caterpillar. Before this can be dom
the insect must, first be prepared b;
pressing it between sheets of paper
and. after all the soft parts of th<
body are expelled through the posterio
opening, by making an incision with i
scalpel in the large intestine two o
:s three centimetres from the end of th?
body, the latter is threaded, so t<
- speak, upon the flue point of a thii
s glass tube, which is connected by it
5S other end to an ordinary rubber spray
ing bulb, or any bulb provided witl
b valves for the admission and ejectioi
e
i- it- rg]
o;
st FIO. IV.?INFLATI^O A CATEBPILLAB.
jj of air. The one shown in Fig. 4 i3
3r combination of two bulbs and an ide
33 of M. Andre, the naturalist.
Moreover, during the inflating proi
lt ess, the subject is placed in a littl
?a stove or oven heated by an alcoholi
lamp, shown in the figure just in fror
[k of the operator. After a few minute
ie the caterpillar begins to assume 'tb
a. appearance of life, and it is then read
J0 to be placed in au entomologist's co
uj lection.
Various other openings of an iiiilu;
trial or artistic nature are availabl
to the French "bombyculturist." Tb
butterflies are worked into brooclu
or oven into highly ornamental cath<
dral windows by placing, for exampl
some Actias Mimosae and other insecl
together with some desiccated flower
and leaves, between panes of glas
Our elegant dames also affect a go
geous decoration of their hats wit
butterflies, for which purpose the ir
sects must undergo a certain extensiv
preparation. After the wings hav
been covered with a transparent al'c<
hoi varnish, the butterfly is glued upo
a piece of satlnette which is afterwar
cut out to conform exactly to thei
contour. A steel or silver wire is ru
through the thorax, forming a skeleto
at once rigid and light. Mounted 1
this manner, the butterflies become
very attractive and graceful ornamen
?Scientific American.
Trick* of the Trade.
"There are tricks, of course, in al
trades," said the man about towr
thorn nro imturnllv morp in til
trade of beggars than in most others
but yesterday I noticed a new one. 1
sympathetic-looking woman was walli
ing down Twelfth street toward Wal
nut when she was apparently horror
stricken to see a ragged man eagerl;
snatch a crust out of the gutter am
devour it voraciously. She drew ou
- licr purse immediately, gave the mai
a dollar and hurried away to avoii
te further harrowing of her feelings. He
|S* destination was a Walnut street cai
and while waiting for that she oL
0 served the ragged man still lolteriuj
on the sidewalk below. He glancei
furtively about and then drew anothe
crust from his pocket and cast it int
!? the gutter."?Philadelphia Press.
e" Whence Coinc* Volcanic Dnst?
10 Dr. E. O. Ilorey, of the Americai
ie Museum of Natural History, Nov
^ York, writes from Kingston that th
Soufriere in St. Vincent is still in ;
state of agitation. Outbursts issu
from time to time from the centre o
18 the lake in the crater. The most im
ie pressive changes which have takei
y place are in the erasion of the lately
ie erupted volcanic material, and he esti
** mates that 25,000,000 tons have beei
ia carried to the sea from the valley o
P* tha Wnlliton alone!
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Ig Reversible Signature.
iC The signature illustrated herewith ii
ie the most remarkable autograph on rec
:
(! i ' ' '
ord. Mr. Hill perfected it after manj
rs experiments. To appreciate its unique
-e nesa turn it upside down.
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J- Large numbers of ladybirds an
ie looked upon with superstitious dread
:e and the owl and raven are birds of evi
is omen without good reason.
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^ FREAKS OF AN AVALANCHE
MOWS DOWN A PINE FOKKST AND
i FILLS A VALLEY? FORMATION OF
THE AVALANCHE FLOOK.
The tremendous force and strange
vagaries of the Alpine avalanches are
illustrated in an article in the Wide
World Magazine (London) by John
Swnffhain. The avalanche to which
particular reference i3 made by Mr.
SwafTlnun was seen by him in the valley
of the Dischmathal in the Eugadlne
a year ago. "The Dischmathal is
o (*r% ?r?11' Krna/I vallntr mUK ?*?a11
U lilli LJ K/LVtAK*. TUIICJ, VTilll ?YCU WUUUCU
and not very steep sides. It lies, however,
between mountains on many of
which there are large glaciers, and
it was from one of these that the immense
mass of snow which caused
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e IBSBK idJpjsSS?"
B THE FLOOR OP AN
a
8 such ruin originally fell. Gathering
impetus as it went, the avalanche pro[j
jected its thousands of tons of snow
a on the pine woods, through which it
cut a road as clean as though every
tree had been felled flush with the
ground by the axe of a miraculous
woodman.
"The chief glacier above the woods
is the famous one called the Scaletta,
but it was from a smaller field on the
Jatzhoru that the trouble came. It had
beeu snowing for about a week and
the depth of new snow in the valley
was about ten or twelve feet, much
more on the high peaks. Next came a
warm spell of true April weather. The
new snow settled?i. e., grew . compressed
by its own weight and the
softening influence of the sun. You
are to remember that this new snow
did not lie upon the earth nor yet upon
a bare rocky bed. It lay as it had
fallen, a separate mass superimposed
upon the hard frozen crust of the last
winter's falls. As it contracted from
above it naturally began to expand
slightly on its unstable base. The
movement begun continued, and the
whole mass commenced to ?hift. Via
nally it came away, leaving a gash of
u over a mile long on the side of the
Jatzhorn where it had parted from
"" the main mass. This gash was upe
Wards of fifteen feet deep and was
plainly visible miles away from the
bottom of the valley.
"The fall was on such a scale that
0 it swept everything before it down
J the valley sides. Acres of pines of
unknown age went down as easily as
skittles, and the giant moved down
3' the valley with a roar heard for miles
lC away, and under a cloud of snow-dust
l so thick as to become a veritable fog,
>s through which nothing could be seen
s* for many minutes. For weeks after
every tre^ and rock within a large
_s radius was shrouded with a dirty cov"s
ering of wet snow mingled with all
3 manner of dust taken up by the fierce
??11 \TAtt* ar? Inrtrir
Uiail?Ul yJL l lie Lail. iiun, uu v>4 u>uui/
-well-behaved avalanche is content to
*' roll its troubled masses down into the
e bed of a valley. there to stay until the
e sun has effaced its last relics from
the summer landscape. Not so this
n one, the force and weight of which
d carried it right across the valley so
ir that it partly mounted the opposite
n hillside?a thins? almost unprecedented
n
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1 STHI.'OTiON. NO. il?SKCT1QN
I I'lON OF THE WALL.
in the history of avalanches In the
Alps or anywhere else.
"This same impetus and weight, acting
on snow already packing under the
heat of a week of spring sun. compressed
the moving masses Into a consistency
little short of the fa^miliar asphalt.
Moreover, the masses naturally
split up, and it was the side pressure
of the later parts which threw up the
extraordinary bevels or mouldings of
snow shown in the photograph. At
the same time Ave successive falls occurred
from the same-mountain on its
other side in the Zuge gorge, which is
un me uuacu ruuu irom lnivos 10 me
Upper Engadine. The .noise of these
Jolued forces with that of the Dischmathal,
and the combined result was
very curious. First,there arose a loud,
dull roar, -which soon changed into a
deafening thunder of ever-increasing
volume, which again rose in a weird
sort of chromatic scale, mingled at last
with a wild sighing, almost a moan,
as of a thousand storm-wraiths wailing
1
AVALANCHE SLIDE.
for some dread disaster. This curious
phenomenon was doubtless due to the
great displacement of atmosphere
cqiivoH in to/a vallntra tlia air frnrn
which rushed upwards only to meet a
similar wall of ejected air. As the
great avalanche rushed down the valley
It flung ^ip walls or ramparts on
either side to a height of over thirty
feet."
It will he seen from the illufltralMon
that, the motion of the avalanche;has
rolled the snow. Into innumerable balls
and cylindrical masses.
A Novelty In Steering: Wheel*.
The type of steering wheel generally
used on automobiles allows very little
room for the operator In getting Into
and leaving his seat. The wheel shown
iu the accompanying Illustration, reproduced
from the Motor Age, remedies
s
TO/
NOVEL eXEEBlNO WHEEL.
this defect in a measure. It also dispenses
with the break joint in the
steering post, which is in some cars
absolutely necessary on account of the
location of the steering wheel. If this
wheel be set perfectly parallel- with
the front axle it will have the advantage
of assisting the driver in making
a straight course.
Uncle Reuben Says:
A man may announce his own value,
but nine times outer ten he will And
dat odder men's Aggers don't agree
with his.?Detroit Free Frcs.
Fire Fatalities.
There were in i^ngmna iasc year iikm
inquests on children who were burnt
to death. In 1425 of these cases there
were no fireguards.
I-WALL FOR THE PROVESTON,
TEXAS.
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KNOB EVENTS OF THE
WASHINGTON ITCH8. .M
The Navy Department denied that
the European squadron is to go td ,V - ^
Chinese or Japanese waters.
The end of the postal inquiry i* vaaid
to.be in sight, although further ;
indictments and tlie dismissal of at
large number of employes are expected.
Secretary Shaw-appointed James E?
Gerry, chief of the. customs division
of .the. Treasury. Department, to sue- j
ceed John R.' Garrison, recently appointed
auditor for the District of
ijuiuutum. '
Secretary Root ordered additional"
testimony taken as to the connection
of Representative Littauer with tha
Lyon glove contract.
Exports to Russia doubled since 1901,
reaching a total of $17,606,812 for thefr
year ending June 30, 1903.
Report of internal commerce for first - |a
six months of 1903 is satisfactory.
A radical reform in the method of
auditing Government accounts is expected
to result from the postofflce investigation.
'
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Several lawyers at Honolulu, Hawaii,
were disbarred for extortion.
Mr. Barrows, formerly principal of
the Normal School at Manila, was appointed
to succeed Mr. Bryan, Gen- . $&
eral Superintendent of Edacation,
who resigned because of ill health. |
Governor Taft approved of the
pending bill regulating the sale of
opium in the Philippines.
It was reported that resignations of
school teachers in the Philippines were ,
disarranging the educational system' .raH
there.
Government officials*. were satisfied
with the reports of conditions In Porto
Rico.
Hawaii is being much benefited by
the newly laid Pacific cable.
DOHK9TIC.
Meat cutters ana uutcaers aeipers ws
New York. City met recently for the
purpose of forming Into a labor union.
The steamer Davidson, for the export
grain trade was launched at Detroit,
Mich.
Suspected of betraying the location
of illicit distilleries Simon Booker an?
his wife were murdered in their cabin^
near Winchester, k*. m
The enemy io thenar game off Maine
surrendered to the fleet defending the
coast
Tho TYroairionrvir rTrJnlfv fJollpcre^
Hartford, Conn.' was'-flccepted by the
Rev. Anson-Phei]ps Stokes, Jr.
Rumors that A. W. Machen, the iadieted
ex-postal chief, had fled were
emphatically denied by his counsel.
W. S. Stone, of Alnsworth, Iowa, wa? '
elected Grand Chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.^ '
The shortage of the absconding cash~
ier of the Farmers* and Merchants'
Bank, of Newbern, N. C., is $125,000; , ' vM
this is said to be the largest embezzle*
ment in the history of the State. J. '
Baron Speck von Sternberg, the re- vSEi
cently appointed German Ambassador . - SaM
to the United States, printed his ere.1
dentials to President Roosevelt at Oya
ter Bay. .
The negro member of the gang that
escaped from the Folsom, Cal., penitentiary
was captured in Auburn, Cal..
being wounded twice before he wa?
taken. v
Rufus Cantrell'g confession of murder
and grave robbing will be presented
to a Grand Jury in Indianapo-,
lis, Ind., and the arrest of prominent
physicians for complicity is predicted. (
The trolley strike in Waterbury,
Conn., which began months ago, and
made it necessary to call. out the
militia, has been settled.
One of the witnesses for the defense
In the Jett and White trial at Cynth- Jh
lana, Ky., burned his houae near Jackeon,
Ky., and shot at every one wha
tried to put out the flames.
Professor Langley's airship was
tested at Wide Water, Va., and al- .^8
though the machine fell into the Potomac
and sank the experiment wa*
considered successful by those in
charge of It . *
A heavy wind and rain storm which ?
swept over several counties of Kansas v
killed one man, Injured several other?
and caused much property loss.
Four men escaped from the Jail at
Columbus, Ohio, in broad daylight;
^three were recaptured in a short time,;
-liut the fourth, who wae with them ati
the time, gor away again.
FOBEXGX.
The assailants of '/M. Combes at
Marseilles, France, were identified a?
anarchists by the Italian Government.
George Rowley, the defaulting manager
of the Elgin Loan Company, at <3
St. Thomas, Ontario, who pleaded
guilty to three charges, was sentenced
to twelve years in the penitentiary.
A severe earth shock, having for it*
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occurred. It affected Southern Italy
and islands in the Mediterranean.
Advices from Bogota said th?t theopposition
to the ratification of the?
Panama Canal treaty Lad Increased.
The Macedonian Committee at Sofia.
announced that the revolt had spreatf
to two more districts.
Several prominent Finns were expelled
from their country by the Ru??
slan Government.
Cuban owners of land within tha .3k
area of the coaling station at Guantauamo
raised prices.
Another encounter between French
and Moorish troops took place on the
Moroccan border.
The House of Lords passed the lhir<fc
reading of the Irish Land bill. 1
Two shots were fired at M. Combea.'
the French Premier, as lie was driving*
through the streets of Marseilles,;
neither of which hit any one. The'
would-be assassin, an Italian fisher*
man, was arrested.
AHwipoq from Constantinonle are
the effect that the revolution in Macedonia-is
spreading, the insurgents at-:
tacking several villages and many ot|
the- inhabitants beingfcill&l. The Rev-j
olutionary Committee says the rfrugglfr
will be carried on indefinitely. j
Opposition of the permanent officials
of the British Board of Trade and oC
the Treasury to Mr. Chamberlain'*
scheme of preferential duties is considered
to mean its failure.
Tramcars wcro reported to be running
at Kleff. The streets were stllF
patrolled by a strong military force.
Another gale caused waves to sweej*
over the Tuamotu group of islands iiu
the Pacific, causing loss of life and?
property.
The Hungarian Cabinet resigned^
owintr to the failure of Count Heder
vary'g program and the desertion of
many from the ranks of the Kossuth*
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