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THINGS KQT DONE.
There come? <*a hour of eadiieas
With the setting of the sua,
For, not the sins committed.
But the things 1 have not done.
I ought to have been stronger.
But the crisis found me weak;
'And now I am regretting
The word I did not -peak.
i
'3- cause, a neighbor languished,
And now.wnue etui x live
I must regret forever
The help I did not (five
I gee an arm outatretchine.
And vain its empty grasp;
And I must still remember
The hand I did not clasp.
I saw beside life's highway
A helpless outcast lie;
I might, but did not, comfort
The fallen I passed by.
A great cause, lacking helpers.
Was weak because unheard:
I might nave been its champion,
But did not say the word
Attacked by stupid malice,
I heard a man maligned;
I stood in coward silence, j
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jEIUU UiU nyw oycua mj
And so. as night is falling,
How bitterly I rue t
The words I have not spoken.
The things I did not do.
: ?M. J. Savage.
. iThe Fallacy SP
of a Face
' A NOVELTY IN COURTSHIP.
irXXXXa^RANFIELD holds that the
iff beginning of his court6hip ,
w i | f was unique, but that may
J L > be Cranfield's one-sided ]
view. It was the sight of (
the hunt ball, and be leant against a (
pillar in the dancing room. At no time
a dancing man, on ibis occasion he
iwas excessively bored; be was out of ^
?orts; the band was too loud; the crush
Was too great. He thought regretfully ;
of his library fire and shiveringly of ;
the long drive home. ]
\ After five minutes of abstraction a
man touched him on the shoulder. I
"Hullo, Cranfield," he said. "Been j
looking for you. Counting on you to }
?ee that Lady Marche dances." 1
i The speaker darted into the crowd :
and Cranfield returned to his thoughts.
He fixed his eyeglass into his eye and i
glanced slowly around.
"Some men are so beastly optimis- .
tic." he said in his own mind. ?
At the end of the room he had caught ]
ft distorted glimpse of Lady Marche. <
He gazed at her for a space; then his
(eyes wandered, and his ideas came to j
a sudden halt. Round about him he
saw preoccupation settle upon groups .
of men; he saw heads turned toward j
the door., Following a very human impulse,
he turned his own in the same .
direction. He was inquisitive, but the
desire to know is quite as infectious as 1
a disease. ]
In a brief space the crowd about the i
entrance parted, and his curiosity melt; 1
?d before another feeling?a feeling as j
rapid, If infinitely more strong. He
closed his eyes; then he readjusted his
glass. \
> It was Creighton?Tommy Creighton <
and hin wife. He watched them move i
slowly up the room, and as they moved
he felt, rather than heard, the admira- <
don that hummed iu their wake. He
took a long look; then he leant back l
uguui&c lue piuar, TOwug iw
exactly where he stood. 1
He had seen her before-once before, t
OThat point alone wrought self-distrust
He had callcd on^ 4ay with Bisher- ]
thorpe, and she had given them tea.
His verdict had been, "Extremely pretty.
sarcastic and a trifle cold." He re- I
called the criticism with a guilty pang,
and wondered whether it could be the
dress. . But he had never guessed a i
% riddle in his life. , i
He screwed in his eyeglass and leant i
still further back. .He saw Crcigliton i
Introduce four men. Then his control j
gave way. He forced an opening in t
the crowd, but when be reached her t
Bide and scope his voice had a tone that
even to nira was new.
. ( "May I have the pleasure?"
1 She looked up with just the faintest
surprise. Then her eyes fell on the
facings of his red coat, and she smiled !
?the friendliest and most perfect smile
be had ever seen. He realized with
Bhame that he had never known till
then that hazel eyes had shadows and
reflections, and positively shoae with
light.
"I She hesitated and glanced
round for Creighton. but Creighton
had disappeared. She smiled again,
and held out her card. "I can give you
number 5," she said. "Will you put
down your name?"
He took the card and scrawled his
Initials. Then he looked at the obviously
waiting men.
"Number 6 is also free??" he said.
PJHay I ?"
I "You may."
Tha TTArrl c eonmArl f H rv f??ftnlrA??f n nd
xuc " viuo ?.ur iiauacou auu
fciost delightful he had ever heard.
I ***** * *
1 There is nothing in the world so vivi?*ying
as hope. Cranfieki gave the next 1
three dances to Lady Marche. His las- :
situde was gone. In a single moment i
the shifting crowd bad become the uni- i
Verse, and he had found its core. Like
a wonderfully deferred dream the fifth <
dance came round, and waiting was at 1
jn end. 1
.' ''Mine, I think," he said. i
' She folded her fan, smiled at the man <
be side her, then laid her hand on Cranfield's
arm. <
i "Shall we dance?" he asked.
"Oh, please!"
' He hid his disappointment, though
his ideas were curiously upset. She 1
seemed so enthusiastic?so buoyantly
young. He had never believed that
married women came to dances just to
dance.
She glanced up at him, unconsciously
answering his thought.
"I think dancing is the loveliest
thing on earth?or nearly. Don't you?"
Tt? nn wl l\Tlf Kft 01 i Vl 5 r?
iJlC dcliU vui uc on^^uu uid
arm about her. In a moment they had
drifted into the circle of whirling feet.
The music had quickened to its end
It/hen he swung her out of the crush.
His brain was still swaying to the beat
" of the tune as he drew her down a
passage to a distant seat In ten naia
r
utes of companiooship she had growl
straight into hia life.
The carpet of the passage was very
enPi-- tha Tif?hf r\f tho hnncrirte' lamn was
very dim. It seemed to him that he
had only existed until now. He arranged
the cushions ou. the divan, and
she sat down.
"Do you believe in infatuation!" he
asked. suddenly. *T suppose infatuation
is the word."
He felt afraid of what he was going
to say. He felt that his principles, his
honor?he used the word boldly?all
staple things were drifting from htm
like a mirage. He sat down beside her
and strove to call the thought of
Or-eighton to his mind.
"Have yoa ever heard of a man
going off his head in a single night?"
he asked afresh.
With a rush the music came to aD
end.
She looked up at him, and behind the
uneasiness in her eyes he felt that she
was measuring him inch by inch.
"I'd like to ask you something," she
said, "if you don't mind."
Some women ignore difficulties; the
method, if unscientific, is concise.
He felt rebuffed, and bent bis head.
She glanccd down, then once more
glanced up.
"I want you to tell me your name."
u.6 met uer yaze m uiau& suipiwc
It wa? hard to be rebuked; it was inhuman
to be forgotten?wiped off hei
memory in six weeks.
She unbuttoned and buttoned her
glove.
"You've been puzzling me the whole
night," she said. "Of course, I know
that you're some friend of Tommy's,
buc what friend ?and where I mel
you " She broke off suddenly and
looked at him once more. "Please do
enlighten me. I'm just dying to
know."
He had a vague idea that she was
talking against time. Desperation
seized him.
"I suppose you're laughing at me,"
he said. "I suppose you think that be.
:ause you're so?so horribly pretty you
:an turn a man's head just for sport.
But it isn't sport; at least, not to me.
t'm handicapped every way." He came
to a sharp stop.
The music of the next dance began,
ft appeared distant and much subdued.
His balance and his nerve seemed lost.
rncft cIattIit
LAV tVUV V* * J
"At least," he said, grasping at a
thread, "at least, say that you remember
giving me tea ? Bisherthorpe and
me, one day soon after you'd come
back from your honeymoon. Don't
make me. feel quite an outsider."
His tone was ludicrous, but his face
svas woefully perplexed.
She watched him curiously. Then
in expression?just the dawning of a
smile?stole into her eyes. She clasped
tier hands, and the smile crept very
slowly from her eyes to her mouth.
"How delicious!" she said. "How;
perfectly delicious! But how absurd!"
Cranfield was fidgeting with his program.
At her words he suddenly tore
it in two.
She glanced at him, and there was a
;low like firelight in her eyes.
"I don't think," she said deliberately,
'that I ever gave you any tea. I'm
aot Daisy, you know, I'm Daisy's sister.
We are horribly alike, and I always
keep forgetting. Please forgive
me?it's been all my fault."
Her glance suddenly fell.
The swish of the dancers and the
:hrob of the waltz came to Cranfield;
:hey were the accompaniment to his
:angling thoughts.
"But you came with Tommy," he said
>bstinately.
"Of course, in Daisy's place. Daisy
lad a headache."
He passed his hand across his eyes,
>rushing away many things. Then for
:he first time that night he smiled.
"Might I??" He halted. "Might
[ y
Their eyes met
Ua cfiirl/l/vr*ltr Kanf nno t* ar\ nooT fh n f
A.AC7 O UUUt Ali J UtUl U^Ul ) OV IU"W j
lis breath touched her cheek.
"Might I ? Just to level things." J
Her head drooped, and the color I
ushed into her face. Her answer, when
t came, was a whisper?one of those
naudible mysteries that are never
eally placed. To this day Cranfield insists
that it was "yes," but Mrs. Cranield
is quite persistently determined
;hat it was "no."?New York News.
The Great Thing.
The great thing-in journalism, as in
mything else, is for the individual
nan to maintain his self-respect, his
ligh personal standards and his determination
to do the best work he
:an, even at a small salary, rather than
3o work of a kind that he secretly
oathes for the sake of a larger salary.
[ have known a good many men in
netropolltan journalism whose positions
were not congenial to them and
(vho longed to be doing journalistic
tvork of a kind better suited to their
tastes and ideals. But they consider
:he present r&ther than the future and
ire allured by a large salary. I do
lot think that this is more necessary
n journalism than for a lawyer to
take an objectionable line of practice,
xs some lawyers do, merely because
t pays well.?Dr. Albert Shaw, in The
Cosmopolitan.
treland'rf Lout Population.
Ireland is a ecuiftry which still loses
:housands of its natural increase of
population by emigration: in which
more boys are born than girls, and the
nost fatal epidemic is influenza.
The population of Ireland in 1902, according
to the Registrar General's return,
was 4,432.274. The marrioges,
numbering 22,940, and the births 101,*
363, show a slight increase on the av?
i?rage of ten years; the deaths, 77,67t>.
were a trifle below the average. The
excess of births over deaths being 24,1ST,
and the loss by emigration amounting
to 40.T90, there wa? a decrease in
the population during the year of ltJ.003,
less whatever immigration there
was. of which no record is kept,
Municipal Ownership Kxperimenta.
President George Wallace, of the
Board of Aldermen of. New Haven,
Cwnn.. says that in the course of a
brief conversation in that city Presi*
dent Kooseveit toui mm tnai ue oaa
been much interested in the story hehad
heard of his efforts for muuicipal
reform, and added that he expected
that in the near future reforms will
be effected in the District of Columbia
in the nature of municipal ownership
that will be an object lesson to the
titles af She country
f A MILLION-DOLLAR ]
I n n?K !
Iukvnii.
.n ii.
By B. I. OEARE.
V ^
FFtbe stan(iPoiQt' Df
"ASj| uniqueness the Hawailar
I F 1 war cIoa,t slK>wn in tiie ac
| _j| companying illustration,
vi#" ?J which is valued at $1,000,
uvo, aud is now on exhibition in the
National Museum, can hardly be surpassed.
It is certainly without a su
perior in ethnologic interesc and excellence
of workmanship. In 1839 this
remarkable object (technically called
"Mamo") was in the possession of His
Majesty, Kanikeaouli, who inherited
It from his father, the celebrated Kamehameha,
iu whose reign it was com
pleted.
At one time it belonged to Kekua-skalani,
one of the highest chieftains of
the Sandwich Islands. After the abolition
of idolatry in 1819, he rebelled
against the King and attempted to reestablish
the ancient religions. In a
bloody battle the chieftain was slain
and this cloak, which he was then
HAWAIIAN ^
wearing, fell into the hands of the conquerors
and thus passed into the pos ession
of King Ivameliameha III. (The
Solitary or Lonely), by whom It was
presented to Captain J. H. Aulick, of
the United States Navy.
Some idea of the amount of work expended
in making this war cloak may
be gathered from the fact that the
Hrrif* rAmiirort fr>r Ifa or.
tended through the eight reigns preceding
that of King Kamehameha. It
(s four feet long, and ha3 a spread of
eleven and a half feet. The ground
work is coarse netting, made of olona,
a native hemp from the fibre of the
bau tree, and to this the feathers,
rhich are exceedingly delicate and
rery small, are skillfully attached,
sverlapping each other and forming a
perfectly smooth surface. The feathers
around the border are reverted,
tnd the whole presents a bright and
beautiful appearance, as of a mantle or
ffold. The upper and lateral borders
3f the cloak, which are corded with a
string of the olona. are decorated with
alternate tufts of red, black and yellow
feathers. The body is decorated
with alternate figures, generally cres;ent
shaped, composed of either red
5r yellow feathers. The inner'surface
Is without lining and shows the olona
letwork and the quill ends of the feathers.
The rnrrl of the unnpp nuircrin is
prolonged to form a fastening at the
throat
The yellow feathers are%those of the
rare bird Oo, or Uho, Mohoa nobilis,
while the red feathers are taken from
the body and neck of the Drepanis coccinea,
one of the most abundant birds
Inhabiting these islands. It is the yellow
feathers, however, that are of
such great value. They were at one
time used by the natives in payment
of a poll tax to the King. Only two of
these yellow feathers are obtained
from under the wings of ench bird, so
that the number of birds captured
from which sufficient feathers could
bi obtained to make this cloak must
have been very great.
The capture of these birds is effected
with great care and toil. Long poles,
smeared with some adhesive substance
and well baited, are,placed in the vicinity
of their haunts. The bird alights
on the pole, and, being unable to disengage
itself, is caught. The two so
much desired feathers are plucked,
and the bird is then set at liberty. At
Dne time three of these feathers were
worth seven and a half francs, and it
Is upon this basis that the value of thrs
particular cloak has been estimated.
Lntil recent years cloaks of this kind
PROFESSOR AND MADAME TIE
RADIUM, IN TIIEI
?From the J
It ls reassuring to know that any one
who wishes to buy radium can now
procure it at a cost of $0000 per gram.
All radium of higher activity than
7000 has until recently been retailed
for the experiments of Professor and
Madaxe Ourle and their associates.
I
were counted among the most preclon
of the royal treasures of the kings o
the Sandwich Islands, but since Eurt
pean dress has been adopted, they ar
now rarely or never seen.
The cloak which forms the subjec
of this article has been deposited i
the United States National Museur
[ t>y Mr. Kicnmona Ugston Aulict, o
New York City.
The Girl and the Sweater.
> Indiana schoof girls may wea
v "sweaters" to school, provided the;
tuck the garment inside the skirt, ac
cording to a decision of the school trus
1 tees of Jeffersonville. It is encourag
, ing to see this grave educational prob
. lem grappled and roped and tied a
. last. The sweater has flaunted itsel
. too long In the face of intelleetua
, progress. No girl can master the mya
[ teries of quadratic equations of elucl
i date the biasness of the pons asinorun
L when her mind is struggling with th<
. question of whether she shall wear he:
. sweater habitbacked, or gathered a
the waist with two rows of pleats an(
. a shirr at the collar, or wherever thej
put shirrs. If this ruling, that sweat
. ers shall be tucked into the skirt, doef
not at once result in a tremendous
advance in the intellectuality of In
diana womanhood, the school author
ities should meet again and come to i
final conclusion as to whether th<
'AR CLOAK OF FEATHERS. VAI
sweater shall go over the head or be
stepped into.?Chicago Tribune.
An Ice Locomotive.
8PIKF8 IN THE LABGE WHEEL GIVE 1HI
EN3INE A GBIP ON THE ICE.
?From the World's Work.
Five Yards of Rain.
The Cray watershed, in Wales, whicb
?:ives Swansea its water, must come
very near to being the wettest spot or
the globe. Exactly 175.54 inches ol
rain, or nearly five yards, were regis
tered there between January 1 last and
October 24. In October alone twenty
seven inches fell on the watershed.
battle snake head, showing fangs
?From the Scientific American.
The first importation of live cattle
to England from America took place
in 1861, but the regular trade did not
bigin until 1876. v
RRE CURIE, THE DISCOVERERS 0*
R GARDEN AT PARIS.
American Monthly Review of Reviews.
( says a writer in Harper's Weekly, bu!
information Las now been received
from Director Boulay, of the Societ(
t Centrale, that they expect shortly tt
t put upon the market a preparation ol
I radium, chemically pure, or nearly so
, at the cost Der srram mentioned above.
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;; How to Proted |
, | the Bluebirds. |
? oooooooooooo o ooooooooocoo
f A few years ago there was general
lamentation over what seemed to be
THX CATS CAN NOT BEACH IT.
5 a total disappearance of our bluebird,
3 writes Julian Burroughs, in Country
< Life in America. Since then they have
- regained something like their former
t numbers. But we do not have half
i enough! It is impossible to have too
,UE $1,000,000.
. many. From every point of view the
bluebird is most desiruble. He has no
faults; he does not even take toll of
our fruit. But he needs protection..
Nearly every nest is robbed. Not one
egg in four hatches and produces a
mature bluebird.
The way to protect bluebirds is to
provide a nesting place that is safe
from cats, mice and squirrels. T-ije
red squirrel is the worst offender. In
May and June he scours every tree in
the woodsrand even comes around the
houses. The bluebirds are hard pressed
to find any kiitd of nesting place at
all, and when they do the chances are
against them. The bird-house shown
here is perfectly safe, and within two
hours after I made it the bluebirds
were making their nest in it. _
It is a very simple matter. Get a
hollow limb or make a box of weather5
beaten boards, close both ends, raintight,
and make a two-inch opening
near the top. The cavity inside should
be about three inches across and four
or five inches deep. Nail or wire the
box to a post set securely in the open
1 where no squirrel or cat can jurhp
f down on it from above. Then stop
| everything from coming up the post
by a sheet of tin or an old pan that
encircles the post. This result is best
' accomplished by cutting an "X" in the
tin and shoving the post through; then
nail down the flaps of the "X" to the
post.
Old English Gag.
The old English gug. many of which
are still preserved in the museums, was
an important instrument of justice in
its day. From the accompanying il-,
lustration ona may gain some idea of
the cruelty with which sentences were
carried out a century or more ago.
It is well known that the Walls of
torture chambers were made to project
and recede in such a manner as
to cause the cries or groans of tbe tortured
to be thrown back from wall to
wall, that the sounds mignt not uc
heard without. In addition to this humane
precaution gags were brought
int'- use to prevent the victims from
m?King any noise which might annoy
their jailers. These gags were made
of steel, with leather straps. The gag
illustrated herewith bears the date
1G7G.?Mirror-Farmer.
The Height of the Krreie.
The breeze that daily sweeps landward
from the ocean has only a moderate
height. A Brithh meteorologist
notes that very few measurements,
have been made, and that a captive
balloon used at Coney Island some
' years ago passed from the cool inward
current to the warm outward one at
a height of 50G feet, and that at Toulon,
in 1893, the sea breeze was found
t up to about law reei, uie onsuure tut[
rent being distinct at 1000 to 2000 feet.
? Last yefcr, on the west coast of Srot>
land, Dines found that kites would
f not rise abore 1500 feet on sunny af,
ternoons. wnen the onshore breeze was
blowing.
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FATAL MM ACCIOEHT
Collision on the Pere Marquette
Maii* H-onr! Rinirlc MJnU
ncai uiuiiu iiupiujj iviiuiii
HOLIDAY VISITORS THE VICTIMS
Crowded Can Crashed Together at High
Speed ? Misunderstanding of Order*
the Canse of a Dlsastrons .Wreck in
Michigan ? Tracks Heaped With a
Mass of Tangled Steel.
Grand Rapids, Mich.?An east-bound
ar i a west-bound passenger train on
t'" ''ere Marquette .Railroad met in a
beau w . collision six miles east of this
city, just west of East Paris. Twentytwo
persons lost their lives and thirty
were injured.
It was the most disastrous wreck In
the history of the Pcre Marquette system,
and is charged to the high wind
which extinguished the red signal light
in the order board at McCofd's. Station,
where the west-bound train was expected
to stop and receive new orders.
The trains, which were two of the
tinest on tne system, were reuuceo. 10 a
pile of broken and twisted timber and
metal, with dead and injured pin- J
down and crushed by the fragments
of the heavy cars. Five cars aud two
locomotives were jammed into a space
ordinarily occupied by three coaches,
and the wreckage was strewn across
the railroad's right of way from fence
to fence.
The two trains were running at full
speed, and the engines were smashed
to tangled bits of wreckage. The tlrst
cars were also demolished, and both
trains left the track except the last
coach on each, so great was the force
3f the collision.
The east-bound train for Detroit was
a little late. The west-bound train
from Detroit is? cupposed to be in
Grand Rapids before the other leaves
this city, but as the west-bound was
late the east-bound was sent out before
It arrived. The wreck is said to be due
to a misunderstanding of orders.
The east-bound train was crowded
with passengers when it left Grand
Rapids. It carried scores of Christmas
visitors, returning to their homes along
the Pere Marquette Line, after spending
the holiday here. The train was
much heavier than udual on account of
this extra rush. It is reported that the
Incoming train was also heavily loaded.
It, too, bore a holiday crowd, as well
as the regular Saturday rush of passed
gers.
At usual the smokers were damaged
more than any of the other coaches,
and in these cars every seat was occupied.
Where the wreck took place
there is a curve and a long grade extends
from half a mile east of East
fans neany to we scene or tne wrecK.
The west-bound train had just descended
this grade when the collision oc-,
curred. The speed of the train must
have been very high' because of the
grade, and the fact that the train was
trying to make up time.
The distance of the scene of the disaster
from East Paris delayed the
Bending in of the first report to this
city. The first news was meagre, but
a rush call was sent out for doctors
and a relief train was dispatched at
once, a second train being made up to
go out as soon as the relief train returned
FIERCE WIND IN INDIANA.
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Five-Storv Building Blowa Down in
Washington.
Indianapolis, Ind.?A severe windstorm
swept over Daviess, Pike, Jackson
and other Southern Indiana counties
and did great damage.
At Washington the five-story building
of the Cincinnati Seating Company
was blown down and twenty or thirty
persons who had just left the building
escaped injury from the flying debris
only by fleeing to the protection
of other houses. Houses were unroofed,
smokestacks blown down and
many barns and stables destroyed.
Petersburg, Pike County, was visited
by the same wind, which was almost
a hurricane, and much damage was
done to property. Seymour, Jackson
County, and a part of Johnson and
Bartholomew counties had a storm, and
telephone and telegraph poles were
blown down.
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CITIZENS FIGHT ROBBERS.
Bank in Indian Territory Loses $28,000
Through Thieves' Operations.
Fort Worth, Texas.?A bold bank
robbery, attended by a desperate battle
between a posse of citizens and robbers,
occured at Kiowa, a small town
sixteen miles south of this city. The
robbers secured and 'destroyed about
$28,000 which was in the bank.
The men gained entrance to the bauk
building through a rear window.
It required three discharges to force
the door. The third explosion was
terrific and almost demolished the safe,
as well as the Interior of the bank.
Paper money was blown into shreds,
large quantities of mutilated bills being
left by the bandits. After looting the
safe the robbers left the building from
the front and backed off into the darkness,
keeping up a fire on the poa^e.
Robbers Get Small Booty.
Robbers made an unsuccessful attempt
to blow open and rob the vault
of the .Wakefield, Surry and Sussex
Bank, at Wakefield, Va., on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad. They succedeed
in blowing open the front door
of the vault, but their efforts to get
through the inner door fuiled. All they
got was about $G, which had been left
in a drawer.
African Revolt Against German*.
An insnrrection has broken out
among the Bondelzwarts tribes in
Great Namaqualand, German Sonthwest
Africa. The insurrectionists have
collected in the Kara Mountains iu the
southeastern part of Great Namaqualand.
City Marshal Shot.
L. E. Ferguson, city marshal of Ringwood.
Okla., was shot dead iu the
street of that place by Clinton Fox. A
posse captured Fox and shot him to
death.
Miscellaneous News Notes.
The coming election In Colombia has
fniispri sprions nartv rii^SpnsimiK
Shoe factory workers, at Rochester.
N. Y.. have been graDteil a voluntary
reduction iu working hours fcoui ten
to nine.
' Consul-General John Goodriow, who
has reached San Francisco, Cal.. from
Shanghai, does not look for a war iu
the Orient.
Charlos W. French, a wealthy re*}- j
dent of Mansfield, 0., has applied to
life insurance agents In Cleveland tor \
a polU-y for $1,000,000,
I CLYDE LINER RUN DOWN
The Kiowa Sunk by the Admiral
Dewey at Boston.
- Steamer
Goes to the Bottom After Collision
in Blinding snow Storm?
Passenger* All Saved.
Boston, Mass.?Iu a bliudin^ snowstorm
which swept Boston Harbor th&
new Clyde Line steamship Kio.,a, in- ^ *
ward bound from Jacksonville, Fla.,
and Charleston. S. C.. was rammed*
and sunk by tbc steamship Admiral
Dewey, of the United Fruit Company's
line, outward bound for Port Antonio
and Jamaica. A tug rescued Captain
Chichester and the entire crew of th>
Kiowa, numbering thirty men. from
the vessel before she went down. The
Admital Dewey sustained- practically
no damage, and after. lying to for the
purpose of assisting in the work of
rescue in case of need, she proceeded
on her voyage.
With several passengers and a big*
cargo of gensral freight,'the Admiral /
Dewey sailed from Long Wharf. A?
navigation in the driving, snowstorm - :
was hazardous, the Admiral Dewey,
made her way out at reduced speed. >>"
As she was creeping along a few
milne l\AfAni1 Dnc-frtn T ?rrV*f o UOCQO?
LI JIICO UCJ UIKA. JUV/OkUII CI VWOVI
suddenly-appeared through the murk,
directly ahead and only a few feet
away.
Before she could be stopped the Admiral
Dewey .struck the other vessel
a powerful Mow on the port side, fust
abaft the raaia rigging, tne sharp bow
of the fruiter cutting In for a considerable
distance. The damaged craft,
which proved to be the Kiowa, began
to fill at once. The tug Cormoyant wa?
near enotigh to be of use, and her Captain
ran alongsidt the Kiow* and took
off her master and crew. L the gale
and sea which prevailed the work of
rescue was not easy, and in attempting ?
to make the leap from their own vessel ' / -J
to the tug some cf the Kiowa's men feU
into the water. They were pulled oat
by those on the Cormorant and were?
? ? . i . * ? .. ii. _ mt. _ rri
s.ireiy lauaea la me cuy. xne muwa
soon sank.
The Kiowa, which had a biff cargo
of lumber, cotton, naval stores, iron,
and general merchandise, was the latest
addition to the Clyde Line fleet;
having been built at Philadelphia early
in the present year. She was 300 feet
long and had twenty-two feet depth *
of hold, a net tonnage of 2254, and a
gross tonnage of ?949. She was a
steel, two-mausted, schooner-rigged
vessel with three decks.
MOB- (LYNCHES A NEGRO.
lie Had Shot and Killed a Deputy
Marshal in Saucier, Miss.
New Orleans, La.?Jim Carr, a negro, . , f
who killed Deputy Marshal Cobb in
Saucier, Hancocks County, Miss., wA^
lynched by a mob at MHIview. Carr
was disturbing the peace when the
(toputy marshal attempted to arrest , ; v
him. whereupon Carr shot at Cobb, ,
killing him instantly. The marshal 6t '
Saucier then fired, wounding the ne- . '
whn roc than fnnlfflrt lin ?M tllff
town jail.
The marshal hurried the prisoner
away in the night, intending to take
him to the county jail at McHenry, ,i
which is safe against attacks, but was
waylaid in the pine woods, and the, \
prisoner taken from him and hanged.
MAYO'R ACCUSED CfF CORRUPTION
. .
City Official Charged With Extortion V,
and Maladministration. ^
Council Bluffs, Iowa?Mayor Del G.
Morgan has been cited to answer to a
suit Instituted in the District Court, to
oust him from office on a charge of corruption,
maladministration in office,'
und of having a compact with gambling
houses to afford them police protection.
The suit Is brought In the
name of S. R. Wadsworth, an attorney.
There are four counts against the
Mayor, as follows: Neglect of duty in
failing to suppress gambling, extortion
in forcing proprietors or garaonnB
houses to pay $200 per month for police
protection, entering into a compact
with the gamblers and maladministra* , \
tion. '/fc,
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ENGLISH DERVISHES FIGHT.
The Enemy's Casualties Were Eighty
Killed, One Hundred Wounded.
London, England?The War Office
has received a cable dispatch from
Major - General Sir Charles Egerton, ' '*>
dated Kerrit, Somaliland, December 21,
saying 700 British and native troopa
had surprised 2000 Dervishes at Jidballl,
near Badweln. > ^
The engagement lasted three hours.
The enemy's casualties were eighty
killed and 100 wounded. The British
loss was two men killed, four wounded
and one missing. i
Three Perish in Sinking Scow.
Three men were drowned in Broad
Sound, near Boston, by the sinking of
the big dredging scow, General Poe.
They are George W. Coombs, Governinenopfor'
William O'Neill, a.
blacksmith, employed on the dredger,
ami T. Jones, a deckhand.
Confessed to Murder.
Frank Rose walked Into the police
station at Salt Lake City, Utah, and
asked to be arrested, declaring that he
had murdered his wife. Investigation
proved that on Christmas Day Rose
had shot his wife behind the riglit ear.
Their home is within a block of the
Court House.
Cruiser Dixie Sails.
The cruiser Dixie sailed from Philadelphia
for Colon, Colombia, with UOO
marines.
Boiler Explosion Kills Two.
Walter Hartley, of Cleveland, Ohio,
a fireman, and an unidentified foreigner,
were instantly killed, and Frank K.
Scott, of Canton, a brakeman, was fatally
injured by an explosion of the
boiler on a fast Baltimore and Ohio
freight train about five mile# from
Akron. *
Explosion Wrecks Building.
The First National Bank building,
the tinest in Marietta, Ohio, was destroyed
by fire which started from a.
gas explosion.
Sporting Brevities.
It lias not been a Harvard year on
the gridiron.
The National League has decided 1
upon a schedule of 134 contests.
Six head of trotting horses were purchased
in Kentucky recently for use in
New Zealand.
Ned Hanlou may secure his deserting
pitchers. Doc Newton and Jay
Hughes, for the Brooklyn club n?xt
season.
Work has baen begun on Harvard'*
hockey rink on Holmes Field. Therink
will be ISO feet long by elgtity
feet tvUlp
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