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C.TY LIGHTS.
It'a a sn!r*did, luring city, and its myriad
of lights,
Show ,i glow upon th? heavens to the country
boy o' nights.
"Come." they beckon o'tr the valley,
"come to wealth aad powei ?nd
praise
It's for you the world is waiting," and
the country boy obeys.
Now the lizhts are thick about him. blinking.
daring everywhere,
T. mng gloomy night the blacker, shedding
down a sickly glare
On the hunted, haunted r.u.vs. on the folly
and the pride,
Raising miles of dismal shadow walls
where fear and failure hide.
Twas a spiendid. luring city when its host
of gleaming frights
.<* A K ue in anywise uinereui
l S?0)T from the rest of the world.
Only Aunt Picklebury was different.
She had. as it were, a vein of originality
running t'irough lier. She liked to
.wear her broehe shawl wrong side out.
and to tie her ribbons askew, and to
put the tiowers on the right hand side
of her bonnet, while all the world was
gearing theirs ou the left hand side.
And she could afford to cultivate as
large a crop of peculiarities as she
pleased, for Aunt Picklebury had
money. It had been part of her peculiarity
to emigrate West and buy lands
just when all her relatives were located
in a. snug little Eastern town.
"Are you crazy. Melissa?" her mar
tied sister had plaintively demanded.
"No," Miss Picklebury l\ad answered,
'but I want breathing rocyn."
! The lands had risen in value with
almost fabulous rapidity; the Western
settlement had grown' into a young
city, and Miss Melissa Picklebury was
rich.
She sat knitting, with a magazine
Open on her lap. one bright October
morning, when Harry Hayden came
In, the junior member of the firm of
Hoyt & Hayden. who transacted Miss
Jtfelissa's legal business.
"Crying, Miss Picklebury?" he exclaimed,
cheerily. "Why, what on
earth is the mattar?"
jjj 1 "Was I crying?" asked Miss Picklebury.
somewhat shamefacedly.
"Well, you couldn't help it yourself.
Harry, if you had been reading this
story. It's by my literary niece?the
prettiest little thing you ever saw.''
, "The story, or the niece?"
! "The story, of course. I never s.ity
my literary niece, but I dare say she
is rawboned and sallow, with holes in
the elbows of her frock and grease
spots on her apron. But she writes
Well; there's no denying that. I read
all her papers, and I almost always
laugh and cry over them. It's a great
talent, Harry." .
"So it is," assented the young man,
Carelessly.
i "I have written East for one of my
Bister's girls to come and stay with
me," said Aunt Picklebury; "I told
them to forward her by express. She'll
here this afternoon. I want you
to go to the office and meet her."
I "The literary niece?" said Harry,
laughing.
' "Goodness forbid!" said Aunt Picklebury.
with a grimace. "I want no
ink spots on my chintz bedroom furniture,
and fine frenzies about sunsets
and autumn leaves and things. I wrote
Polly to send me a homespun, senile
girl, that would be a companion
Hto me; not a full-fledged fashionable
young lady."
IT "All right," said Mr. Hayden.
Miss Picklebury looked after the
young man as he strode away over the
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Iiieau uiius ui vfi.un leaves UlUl
In the road.
"A nice young fellow, that," said
Bhe to herself, "with no airs and graces
about him. I like him. Perhaps"?
Miss Picklebury was by no means free
from the feminine trait of castle-building?"he
will fall in love with my senBible
niece. If he does, he shall have
my blessing."
| The niece by express arrived that
night just as Miss Picklebury was :itting
down to tea. She was slight and
graceful and dark eyed, with a clover
pink complexion, and a laughing, dimbled
mouth. Aunt Picklebury liked
the looks of her.
| "What is your name, my dear?" she
[ "Clara." said the newcomer.
["You are very pretty," said Miss
picklebury. "I think I shall like
[ "And I know I shall like you, Aunt
fMelly." said Clara with a great hug of
(the old lady's plump, cushiony form.
I "Let me see," said Miss Picklebury;
rthere are three of you?the literary
pne, the school teaching one. and the
sensible one."
I "I hope we are all spnsible, aunt,"
Bald Clara, coloring a little.
I "I hope so, too." said the old lady;
I'but I have my doubts on the subject.
K am afraid of literary folks, and I
won't like schooluia'ams. you
"Oh, yes. aunt dear."
"Ami darn stockings, and put on
icat patches, and mend linens?"
"Of course I can.''
"Can 3'ou cook?"
"I'll show you to-morrow, Aunt Mely."
"Oh," said Miss Picklebury, "I've
tn idea that the literary one and the
school teaching one are rather inefleient.:'
"Indeed, aunt, you are quite niistakm.
I?"
" Oh, well, never mind ail that." said
Hiss Picklebury. til}* I m glad your
naumia sent ino the sensible one o:'
;he family."
Clara Courtenay plunged into the
lomestie details of Miss Pieklebury's
iStallli?J)moi?t llto a haa intn o Iiakop
ky .
"Cast a glow upon the heavens for the country
boy o' nisjhts;
But its heart is like a cavern, and its face
is seared with scars.
rAnd its sky so til's with gaslight that ho
cannot see the stars.
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r The
Literary Niece.
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rot* UNT riCKLEBURY was
an old maid. Not that, old
? l\ O maids need, of necessity to
suckle boll. She made preserve5. co:v ' ==
cocteil cake and reveled in je lies: *h?i
cleaned the house after a s'yie that j
made Aunt Picklebury opea her eyes > -wp
in admiration; she repapeted the best j J
room, and was discovered by Harry |
Hayden on the top of a step ladder, i
with her chestnut braids tied up in i
a towel, whitewashing. 1
"Isn't she charming, tlarry?" Aunt i """
Picklebury demanded confidentially. ! ^
' Delicious!" the young h.wyer au- H
swered with niphasis. O
And so he came autumn evening*, j
while Aunt .Melissa hustled away in I ?
the corner and took shrewd a::d not i ,u
unsatisfactory note of things ia sen
era I. j
"Tell me about your sister." he said i 01
one evening. i rar
"Which sister?" said Clara, who was 8an<
skillfully putting together a marvel- J*
ous mathematical silk quilt of her
aunt's. flatl
"The authoress?" wai
"Oh." said Clara. "We!?, she is a cangood
deal like me." *?
"As young?"
"Oh, yes."
"As pretty?"
"Now. that's nonsense." sa.a Clara,
seriously. "Of course, both my sisters .
nrri n cnvi f- d:>al better looking tliau 1 i
am." i
' I have rend her writings, same of
them." said Hurry, "and if I wasn't !
afraid she was spectacled and iuky I
should almost be tempted to fall in
love with her. Would she love me, j
do you think?"
Clara colored and bent closer over ;
her work.
"X?I don't know whether she would .
or not." said she.
"Well. I shall not try." said Hayden, ;
laughing. "To tell you the truth. Clara,
I have always had a holy horror of
authoresses."
"Very complimentary to my sister." j
said Clara, pouting a little.
And of course Harry had to pacify i
her. and just then Bridget called Miss !
Pieklebury into the kitchen, and when j
she came back the young' people bail j
great news to toll her. They were eu- !
gaged!
' Ah!" said Miss Pickle'oury. rubbing |
ber nose with ber knitting needle, "I'm :
glad to bear it. I knew my sensible i
niece would be appreciated here in
tbe West."
Mrs. Squire Seaberry came to tbe j
office of Hoyt & Ilayden the next 1
morning.
"Ob, Mr. Hayden," said she, ''such : ?
a star as I hope to secure for my re- j T1
ception to-night! A real, live author- imp
ess. And to think that she has been I of i
living incognito among us for so long!" | shoi
"Whom are you alluding to?" asked j dow
tbe puzzled lawyer. ban
"Miss Courtenay, of course. Annie ! are
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uourtenay, uie aumuitrss. I
'"Oh, you are mistaken," said our he- ! take
ro. "This young lady is Clara Cour- j >
tenay." | into
' Annie Clara Couftenay." distinctly five
enunciated Mrs. Sea berry, wisely nod- j ^ve
ding ter head. "Don't you see? An- flQd
nie C. Courtenay?that's her invariable ! evei
signature." i se^
Harry Hayden went to the Pickle- j tunl
berry mansion as soon as he could
decently get rid of Mrs. Squire Sea- < P?*E
berry. cra^
"Clara." said he, "what is your first ^
name?" i ^ e
Miss Courtenay colorcd scarlet. i ?ort
"Annie." she answered. "Why?"
"Because," said he, dryly, "I have enn
just discovered that Miss Picklel^ury's i caM!
sensible niece is also her literary ;
niece." ; s"n]
hnmr flown hf?r bead. i
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"Harry, are you very angry with ^
me?" ! the
"Not a bit. Didn't I tell you I was flaa
almost tempted to fall In love with j Kof
Annie Courtenay?" | jyjn
"You see," pleaded Clara. "Susie has an(^
just commenced a course of German, fgjj(
and Marian couldn't leave her school,
and?there seemed no one but me to i jun]
come. And I thought aunt would for- ; gaw
sive me even if I did write stories for ( tim|
the papers." j g00(
"I'll answer for her pardon." said an
Harry Hayden. laughing. I mat
Miss Picklebury was a little aston- j woc
ished at tirst, but with Clara's arms j imp
around hor neck, she could only for- j est
?ive the sly little diplomatist. tain
"Who would have suspected you of . will
being literary." said she.?Stirling Ob. ; it i
server. j Bur
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Exchange* Opened by Queens. j p^j;]
When Queen Victoria opened the : q,
Itoyal Exchange, in 1844, it was uot j
the first time that a Queen had per- J ]
formed this office, says the London j gr'e:
Chronicle. Queen Elizabeth opened ; m3i
the first exchange, founded by Gres- | t^al
, ham in 1570; and very quaint in com- j (jier
parisou with any modern account of J ge
the Victorian ceremony is Stow's old j scei
description: '"The Queen's Majesty, i fror
j attended with her nobility," he writes, nor
"came from her house at the Strand ext<
called Somerset House * * * to Sir one
Thomas Gresham's house in Bishops- is b
gate street, where she dined. After i ten<
dinner. Her Majesty entered the burse j one
on the south side, and after that she j ma:
had viewed every part thereof above < easi
the ground, especially the pawu * * j
she caused the same burse, by a her- j
aid and trumpet, to be proclaimed from J
thenceforth, and not otherwise." The 10*
word ''pawn," of course, is the German co
"bahn," the Dutch "baau," meaning
"pathway." "Burse." of course, is the j ^ '
French ' Bourse" and German "Borse." V*
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AVhrtt Golil Centers Chd Uo. j
Gold beaters, by hammering, can re- i
duce gold leaves so thin that 232,000 j
must be laid upon each other to pro- j
duce the thickness of an inch; yet j
each leaf is so perfect and free from |
holes that one of them laid upon any |
surface, as in gilding, gives the ap
pearauce of solid gold, ihey are so
lltin tliat if formed iuto a book loO'J |
woitfd only occupy the space of a single
leaf of common paper, and an octavo
volume of an inch thick would
have as many pages as the books of
ti well stocked library of 1D00 voIuimw
with 200 pages each.
Dinner After tlifi JfMitj*.
Some one complained to Pinero, the !
London dramatist, that in the case of
his latest success the curtain rose too
early for those who dine at the usual
fashionable hour. "Then postpone dinner
until after tin* play." said Pinero.
"Sit down ro a square meal about 11.
What dreams may come will be
dreams of the play, and even nightmare
may prove an advertisement for
urn.''
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THE
'ALU RIVER
kiri. *
BY CYRUS C. /DAMS.
IIE hostile armies have first
TW confronted oue another
O along the shores of Korea j
K Bay. Much history has!
row been written 011 those coast j
is between ring Yang and the Yaiu
er. and other chapters are to be
ed.
t>serv<? the Yaiu River in this picThe
Russians have moved thou3s
of troops across the Mauchuriau
ii to tui> west uanii or lue nvei,
c taken them across iu junks and
joats, and marched them southd
on Korean soil to thwart, if they
a Japanese invasion of Manchuria. |
\-y, ::
Russi
le lower Yaiu is likely to be very
ortant in the war. A photograph
t in time of peace would probably
v a number of tog rafts floating
n the wide stream; for along its
lis are the forests whose products
carried southward by the Yaiu
ent to the sea-going junks which
i them to market.
?ar its mouth the Yaiu broadens
a lake-like expanse, about twentymiles
in length and from four to
miles wide. The heavy tides raise
lower its level by several feet at
y flow and ebb. Steamers have
om ruffled these waters above An?,
but sea-going junks ply up and
n for thirty miles, beyond which
it the river is navigable by smailer
t for about 130 miles.
ni-rt ?>/"? norf rAO/ie /*fACCin<T thf*
iClC flic IIU V.OI t 1 VUU>7 Viv/w.^i??0 V-V
r where it narrows toward the
h, but paths here and there come
n to the banks. Most of the rive
territory is little developed, bese
it is the domain of almost imitrable
forests through which the
light scarcely reaches the waters
he river.
lese Korean forests helped to fan
quarrel between the Japanese and.
Russians, which finally burst into
le. Several years ago the King of
ea conceded the part of the forests
g along the river to the Russians;
their Manchurian woodsmen have
?d a large quantity of the finest
s and floated the logs down to the
is that have carried them to the
mills of Southern Manchuria. The
>er is mostly pine, and nearly as
1 as our white pine. There is also
abundance of -walnut, beech, oak,
>le and other varieties, making the
id trade of the Yalu River very
ortant in Eastern Asia. This forconcession
helped to assure the certy
of war, but the wooded region
not figure iu the conflict, because 1
s no place for marching armies,
opeans who have visited it say that
ilf dozen yards on each side of the
is are the limits of vision.
nly the narrow river lands along
Yalu are settled, and that sparsebut
the ilver has for ages been the
it water highway between upper
icburia and the southern end of
t country, where the Russian sol's
have been massing.
(tting foot in Korea, a very "different
ie is spread before the Russians
n that of the dense forests to the
tb. They are looking over a plain
?nding far south, very fertile, and
of the be3t firming regions. It
roken by mountain spurs, which exIs
to or nearly to the sea, but it is
of the few parts of Korea that
7 be traversed with comparative
Collier's Weekly.
The World's Coffee Pot.
I Cafetal, a coffee trade publicai,
declares that the quantity of
ee yearly bought and sold In the
Id's trade Is worth $255,000,000,
ich probably corresponds to a net
d from over 1,800,000 full-bearing
is.
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THE WA1
Photograpt
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| The jz? I
15 Largest i
Cantilever
Bridge in the I
United States |
3AIN Pittsburg comes to
the front in the engineerO
Zl O i"g world. This time it is
^ ^ the completion of the larg"VOW
est cantilever suspension
bridge in the United States, and the
second largest in the world, the largest
being over the Firth of Forth, in
Scotland. The American bridge i3
^ vi/
ans on the Yalu f
tbat of the Wabasii Railroad, which
spans the Monongahela River at Pittsburg.
After two corps of engineers
bad figured out tbe measurements of
the centre span with only the difference
of lo-O-ith of an ingh, work was
at once begun upon the two large
stone piers located on either side of
the river. In order to provide for the
great force to be placed upon the
shore piers, two anchors, strong
enough to support the centre span,
were placed under ground at a depth
of sixty feet, the arms being conected
by solid steel frame. On top of each
pier is a huge tower.
Extending from the top of the towers
is the top chord, which has a
rounded appearance, while the lower
chord extends in a straight line from
pier to pier. The struts, batter posts,
eye beams, uprights, braces and the
other structural steel shapes are connected
with these, the top chord holding
the bridge up. The work was
performed simultaneously from both
piers, thirty-foot sections being built
at a time. So carefully had the shore
linonaa Koon nlaror! thnf it W!1S n sim
pie matter for the shore piers to hold
the immense weight of the steel
frames. When sufficient steel shapes
had been placed in position, travelers,
higher than the towers, - were erected
at either end of the bridge. These travelers
performed the same work as a
derrick, the dozens of ropes suspending
from them being kept busy lifting
the steel frames from barges in the
river to their proper places on the
structure. Sometimes it would be necessary
to hold one of these frames iu
position for several days until the
proper bolts or connections could be
made. This, of course, made it necessary
to have a jib upon the top of the
travelers, thus facilitating the handling
of the frames beyond those being
held in place. It was the breaking of
one of these travelers that caused the
death of eight workers, the crane,
bridge iron and men being precipitated
into the water beneath.
Day by day this work continued, the
travelers being advanced with tiie progress
of the bridge until the last span
was raised in place and found to tit
exactly. It was a wonderful sight to
witness these two long outstretched
aruis bavins practically notmiig 10
hold tbem up.
The centre span is 812 f^.et long and
contains 7000 tons of steel, the total
cost when completed being $1,000,000.
There is about 15.000 tons of steel in
the entire bridge. Although the Firth
of Forth of Scotland contains two
channel spans 700 feet long, and two
anchors GSo feet each, and is the largest
bridge in the world, that of the Wabash
is regarded as one of the finest
specimens of its kind in the world.
FlAliinu Down Stream.
The fish always lie with their noses
up-stream and their eyes looking for
what the water brings down. Therefore
be natural and send the lure down,
as the real fly would come.?Outing.
SASH BRIDGE AT P
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SUBMARINE PLEASURE BOAT.
Craft Designed For the Entertainment
of Pleasure Seekers.
m
Feeling that there is a craving on the
part of the general public for the sensation
to be experienced in a trip under
the water, an inventor has designed to
gratify this desire by building a perfectly
safe craft in which the most
timid may trust himself without fear.
The vessel is to be furnished with the
needed supply of air by means of a
unique arrangement which will serve a
dual purpose, as will be explained.
The boat is not intended to make extensive
trips, but merely to carry its
passengers beneath the water, and in
a comparatively sbort passage give j
them all the sensations of speeding
along at an immense rate.
Though the boat is to be drawn by a
cable on a railway laid at the bottom
of a lake or pond, a propellor revolving
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Liver.
?From Collier's Weekly.
at a high rate of speed and an enormous
column of bubbles blowu into tbe
tjo-(irop fmm tlm n ir chnmhw will pause
the passengers looking through the
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THE SUBMARINE PLEASURE CHAFT.
little glass-covered portholes to imagine
that they are making a record run.
Radium For Kent.
The Londou Truth vouches for this:
When one reads of the considerable
use that is already being made medicinally
of radium it seems hardly credible
that so much cau have been made
of so little. I see the Pharmaceutical !
~~ sr
Journal estimates that the amount procurable
in London to-day is considerably
less than a grain. Consequently,
as only- a limited number of medical
men can have an opportunity of utilizing
this weird chemical, the Journal
suggests that its readers, who, of
course, are mostly chemists, should
follow the example of one of their
number, who has obtained a small tube
containing live milligrammes of radium
bromide, and hires it out at half
a crown an hour. This is surely the |
very strangest development of modern j
pharmacy.
Autoiuobilo Stagre Line.
A joint stock company has just been j
formed to carry on an automobile service
between Ilochheim. a village of'
1473 inhabitants, and the city of Erfurt,
which is a short distance away.
At first efforts were made to induce
the Erfurt Electric Street Railway j
Company to extend its tracks to Hoch |
heim, but, the company refusing, it j
lifts Doeil aeciueu lo I'siaunnu iuis a
mobile service.?Report ol' Consul Warner
from Leinsie.
Each Clty'H Odor.
A European writer lias discovered
that eacli city has its own peculiar 1
odor. Paris is pervaded by a faint j
odor of charcoal. London smells ol j
i soot. The aroma of garlic greets the '
new arrival at Calais. Moscow has &
perfume of its own. cranberries of pe
culiar pungency. St. Petersburg sug
gests old leather boots.
ITTSBURG.
lo.i P'ttsl)urg.
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HPS CAPTURE KINCHAU
Russians Fall Back From Their Defenses
Under Heavy Fire.
FINAL SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
Japanese Take the Hills East and West, i
Driving the Enemy to the Neck of
l'ort Arthur Under a Sharp Bombard*
ment? Big Losses on Both Sides From
the Artillery Fire.
TrtL-in ?Tf ics e+<if or? -nrilh nrrnvrr nn.
penrance of truth that the Japanese
carried Iviuchau by storm, after several
hours' assault, and that after the
assault they advanced to attack the
Russians holding the hills to the
south of the town.
Shanghai.?Reports of the capture of
Kinchau received here say that the
Japanese opened the attack "with
heavy artillery, which they had placed
in commanding positions.
The main assault was delivered at
midday. The walled town was occupied
in the afternoon. The losses on
either side are not known. It has
been reported that the Russians had
thirty heavy guns defending Kinchau,
besides mines and wire entanglements, i
Their main position was at Nankialing,
at the narrowest point of the
isthmus.
This position, It Is now said, the Japanese
began bombarding at dawn.
They finally drove out the defenders,
suffering little themselves. The main
assault followed nexf day.
The Russians retired in good order to
the southern heights. The Japanese
followed and stormed these, also
carrying them after a stubborn resistance.
London.?The Tokio correspondent of
the Chronicle says that the Japanese
had been fighting stubbornly for eight
days around Klnchau, making little
progress against the Russians, who
occupicd strong positions on the
heights, until the final assault.
Shan Hai Kwan.?No accurate report
can be sent of the losses of the Japanese
or the Russians in the two dayp
of fighting, but careful estimates put
the number of troops engaged at 12,000
by the invaders and 8000 by the defending
force. There is no doubt that
the Japanese won a victory.
The fighting was severe in the villages
northeast of Dalny and on the
western side of the peninsula, ranging
between thirty and forty miles north of
Port Arthur. The Japanese, whatever
their losses may have been, which
must have been heavy in taking a
series of smali hills" well protected,
succeeded in advancing and a general
engagement took place on both sides
Df Kin Chow. The Japanese sea batterles
assisted In silencing the Russian
guns on the .westerly slope north of
the Port Arthur neck. There was
heavy firing on the easterly side of the
fight ion years if necessary."
Sir Ilenry M. Stanley spent bis early :
years in a-British poorhouse, but ho
died one of the aaost famous and honored
of men.
Adrian [selin, the New York financier,
yachtsman and society man. liaa
taken out an accident policy for $300,000.
Count Mensdoiff. the newly appointed
Austrian Ambassador to Great
Britain, has been more or less closely
associated with the post sir.ce ISS'J.
penmsuia on tne nuis.north or Dalny
during the afternoon, and it could be
noticed from the gulf that the Japanese
had advanced perceptibly at
aightfall. At sunrise the fighting was
continued, and it evidently is the purpose
of the Japanese to surround Pore
Arthur from Dalny Bay to Toepentz
Bay, thus completely isolating the
fortress preparatory to tbe siege.
Specially constructed tracks have
been laid from Kin Chow Bay running
northerly for the heavy artillery which
the Japanese intend to use in attempting
to reduce the fortifications of Port
Arthur. From the Dalny side of Port
Arthur other guns are being carried
forward and there is no longer any
loubt that without delay tbe Japanese
will make a determined assault on the
fortress.
Tbe Japanese soldiers are said to
compose the Twenty-fifth and Twentysixth
regiments of the Thirteenth
brigade, under tbe command of Lleutenant-General
Baron Osako. They are
all infantry, which is regarded as sure
proof that tbe investment of Port
Arthur will be carried on the moment
the range of hills south of Mansansselipo
is taken. If the Japanese were
successful in the recent fighting on
the northerly side of Dalny. they will
be able to command the hills in and
about Mansanszellpo, and then, with
their siege guns in position, will be
able to bring the outer fortifications of
Port Arthur under d.rect fire. Accurate
estimates place their force now
on the peninsula at not less than 40,000,
of which number there is only a
division of cavalry, estimated at 1200.
Among the infantry landed at Pi-TsuYVo
are the Twentieth and Fortieth
!*Q<vJmonfc linHnr Hia r?r?mmonrl nf I'.ion.
ivft.uiuuiu, uuuv,* CMV vr-. J ?V?tenant-General
Baron Kawamira.
The men in these regiments saw serv- j
Ice in the Chinese War and were foremost
in the attack on Pekin.
TWO SISTERS DROWNED.
Boat in Which a Party Went On a
Pleasure Trip Capsized.
South bridge, Mass.?Miss Marion
Senecal, aged twenty, and Florida
Senecal, aged sixteen, daughters
;>f Narcisse Senecal, were drowned
in the big pond at Globe Village, fifty
yards from the southern shore and
opposite Sandy Bottom.
Blanche Senecal. aged eighteen, a
sister of the drowned girls; Albert
Proulx, aged twenty-one, son of Henry
Proulx, and wife and Isaac Mathiux,
Jr., and the two who were drowned
went for a pleasure trip in a large,
flat bottomed boat.
Proulx got up to change seats with
Mathiux, who was rowing, and capsized
the boat Rescuers were too
late to save the drowning girls.
Big Production of Eggs.
Rfcoent Government reports place lhe
average output of eggs in the United
States at 00.000,000,000 a year, and the
average value between eleveu and
twelve cents a dozen, or about $7,000,OUO.OOO
for the total value. Iowa leads
as an egg-proiluciug State with au output
of 101,000,000 dozen a year.
Packing Combine to Dissolve.
The big fruit-packing and shipping
combine at Los Angeles will dissolve
in September.
Personal Mention.
Prince Ouktomsky says Russia "'will
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WASHINGTON" ITEMS.
It was d?cid?d .it a Cabinet meeting
that no mors appeals from applicants
for admission to the Naval Academy
from the decision 01' the medical examining
board will be entertained.
Aaron Stern, a messengir in the
Record and Pension Bureau, shot and
killed himself in the War Department.
All the films taken in Washington
showinff a fictitious President Roosevelt
aiding au injured negro were de- '"'M
stroyeil. i
The names decided upon for the
warships authorized at the last session
of Congress were announced at
the Navy Department.
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OUR ADOPTED INLANDS.
Ricarte. the former Filipino leader,
has hm>n rvint-nrrvt hv the ponstahnlnrv>
of Manila and sent to Guam in exile.
A midnight massacre by Moros of
families of Filipinos in Government
employ is reported from Mindanao.
In the last two years the United
States has obtained only 23.7 per cenU
of the Philippine trade.
The Philippine Constabulary has
captured at Cavite. Ciriaco Contrezas, y-js
formerly a notorious P?ulacan outlaw.
The Insular Legislature of Porto
Rico adjourned, but immediately reopened
for the first day of the extra;
ordinary session.
DOMESTIC.
A tornado wiped out the town of
New Liberty, 111.
An armed man robbed the money
tray of the Placer County Bank, Auburn.
Cal., of ali the gold it contained
nnH /acpn narl
Representatives of fifty New York
! trust companies organized a State association
and elected officers.
The blast furnace at Emaus, Pa., fa
shipping large quantities of pig-iron
to Scotland.
The Government has decided to own
and operate all wireless telegraph stations
established for oversea service.
Alabama Democrats elected twenty
two delegates to St. Louis favorable
to Parker. Both Alabama and Ohio
adopted the unit rule. * ;.t|
One hundred and forty-nine Angora
goats, valued at $40,000. were brought ?
to New York from South Africa in the
steamship Susquehar ir.
Under sentence of death for wife
murder, Verona Fleenor killed himself
at Morgantown, Ivy.
The extreme penalty?twenty years
?was given J. F. Callahan at
Montgomery. Ala., for safe-blowing.
Fire has destroyed the Los Ahgeled,
Cal.. branch packing house of the
Cudahy Packing Company, near the
Los Angeles River bottoms.
James A. Condron, fifteen years old,
who shot and killed his father, who .
was _beating Ms mother, was discharged
by Judge Kellogg, in the
Westfield (Mass.) Court. ' <
Robert H. Patton, of Springfield,
was nominated for Governor by the , =
Illinois State Prohibition Convention.
An unknown negro was lynched at
Vance. Miss., for the murder of Robert
Logan, a sawmill owner .
Thousauds of acres of growing
crops in Weste- x^ansas were ruined
by a heavy hf..u>torm, followed by a
drenching rain.
Sylvester Schonmaker, and his
eighteen-year-old son, Ralph, of Alligerville,
N. Y., were killed by light
Ding.
The Now Haven Railroad has bought
ail the Boston property of the Boston
and Providence road. \
Mrs. Herman Leroy .Tones again left , > :
her home in New York, but was followed
by servants and soon returned.
Daniel J. Sully, "the cotton king," of
New York, turned the tables on his
creditors ny demanding that they deliver
to him 190,000 bajles ol! May
cotton.
FOREIGN.
The Venezuelan Government has
published a decree reopeninjj the Orinoco
Ri\v?r to foreign trade.
The President of France is to receive *
a gold medallion in honor of his recent
visit to Italy. A French sculptress,
Marcella Laacelot-Groce, is the artist
chosen.
rn, T-? *?- I /^Annnll V. o?
X110 ITHfJlie Jiuiliuipui v/uuuhi una
prohibited the trailing of dresses in
public squares, places and streets, under
penalty of a heavy fine.
The British Royal Commission vir
tually recommends conscription as the
only means of providing a home defense
army.
Measures are being taken by the
German Government to exploit the
now dormant water powers of the
country on a large scale.
Great irritation in Vienna. Austria,
hnu Iioaii nnnspri hv tfli? obstructions
placed in the way of repatriation of
Macedonian fugitives. The authorities
are turning back numbers who
have applied for the reinvestment of
citizen rights.
The Norwegian Adelstbing has
passed a bill prohibiting the sale or
export abroad of ancient national relics.
such as old Norse coins, arms, runic
inscriptions, remaius of Viking
ships, etc.
The treaty by which Chinese labor
is allowed to be imported into South
Africa went into actual operation and
the steamer Tweedale sailed for the
Transvaal with 1GOO Jhinese aboard.
The German negotiations for a commercial
treaty are approaching a close,
Russia accepting the minimum scale
of cereal duties proposed by Germany.
A deputation from the Jewish Board
of Deputies visited the British Home
Office, at London. England, to offer objection
to some of tiie clauses in the
Alien Immigration bill, which many
.Tews believe had its origin in antiSemitism.
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The Swedish Government bill extending
suffrage an.I ordering a redistribution
of seats in the Chamber was
rejected in the Lower House, at Stockholm.
France made the recall of her Ambassador
from tb? Vatican absolute
and will withdraw her Minister too.
Senor Quievru. the Venezuelan ViceConsul.
was asphyxiated as the result
of an explosion iy his apartment
in the Rue Ville-.Tust, Paris.
i 111* niCVMUIl X.\* lil JJtTi l/l V.UIS JlrtJIJ
ceived the new British Ambassador,
Sir Charles Hardinge.
A committee has been formed in
Dublin tor the purpose of erecting a
monument to the po*t Thomas Moore.
The German Government lias undertaken
to extend H e T'sumbara railway.
in East Africa, to Mount Kilmanjero.
rrince Jauiestjee Tata, a widely
known i'arsee merchant, of Bombay^
died at. Bad XunUelm, Germany.
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