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IS IT YOU? Some one's selfish, some one's lazy; la it you? ... } Some one's sense of right is nazy; .i Is it you? Some one lives a life of ease, Doin^ largely as he please? Drifting ialv with the breeze: * Is it you? -*** Some one hopes success will find h^m; Is it you? Some one proudly looks behind him; Is it you? Some one full of good advice Seems to think it rather nice In a has-been's paradise? Is it you? Some one trusts to luck for winning la it you? Some one craves a new beginning; Is it you? Some one says: "I never had Such a chance as Jones' lad." Some one's likewise quite a cadis it you? Some one's terribly mistaken; Is it you? Some one sadly will awaken; Is it you? Some one's working on the plan That a masterful "I can" Doesn't help to make the man? Is it you? Some one yet may ''make a killing;" And it's you. Some one needs but to be willing, And it's you. Some one better set his jaw, Cease to be a man of straw, liet some sana into ms craw? And it's you. i ?Baltimore American. I BREAKING I IT I GENTLY. - vn<^ HE messencer boy waited J while Jack Powers wrote O ^ O bis answer to her note, jf |t She might have telegraphed, but it was her ;way to send messengers with her missives. "Very well, Kathleen," wrote Jack: Til be there. You say foi the last time. I wonder why?" He sent the boy with this note and an order on a florist for a box of vioJets as the message's accompaniment, and then he turned to his work again. But his eyes failed to do more than stare at the figures before him. His brain could not grasp their meaning. 'Kathleen's face persisted in dancing about the inkwell, in a twostep that ? played havoc with business. 'Tm a beastly cad," cogitated Jack, ""and that's what. But It must be done. For the last time, she said. Perhaps she's heard. It would help things a lot if she had." He looked meditatively at a photograph -which he fished from a dark pigeonhole in his desk. "She's a mighty nice little thing," he said to himself, "but " . And tlien he took another photograph from an Inner pocket of his coat, and kissed it tenderly. i ? "Violets!" Kathleen buried her nez retrousse !n the purple fragrance and sniffed [with satisfaction. "Jack always sends violets," she eaid, to no one in particular, though her maid sat near by sewing some lace on the dinner frock her mistress had U1.. A..i 1 nmut; iitfr lay uut lur iiei iu we<ir. Kathleen looked gloomily upon a tall Tase of long-stemmed American beauties that stood on the table. "That's the difference in men. Lawrence sends big Beauties, because they cost money, and Jack sends violets because they're my favorite flower. Poor Jack! How can I break his heart? for I suppose it will? 'You say for the last time. I wonder why? Heigho! iWe must take our medicine, Marie. Because I prefer millions to love in a cottage?that's why. Hurry with the ivaist, Marie. I must not be late with my last dinner with Jack. "No. I didn't think we needed a chaperon to-night, Jack." i "Why not to-nisht?" i, "Because, well? ^ " 'Life is too short to quarrel. f Life is too short to sigh?'' 1 MTMI *-,11 1, 9 I T 1. ,?i.. i ji icu juu uy iiuu jath.?atitfi the fish, perhaps." "I. too, have something to tell you, Kathleen." For the space of ten minutes, while the garcon placed the soup before them, Jack felt uncomfortable. Everybody hates to attack a disagreeable duty. When the duty involves a pretty woman, It is doubly distasteful. However, he took a surreptitious peep at the photograph in his breast pocket and it nerved him to his task. Nevertheless, there was no hurry about it. "Isn't it absurd, Jack, to say that love makes the world go round?" asked Kathleen. In her diplomatic feminine way, she had wished to lead up to the subject she had come to discuss. "Of course it is." he answered, "when champagne?if one has enough of it?will do the same thing." They both laughed, and then both attacked their glasses with assumed enthusiasm. "Salmon?oh. Jack, do you remember how we trolled for salmon at Del Monte last summer?" Dirt hp rpmpnihpp' FTp hfl<? to nat thp photograph in his pocket to forget. "I read the other day," Kathleen was saying, "that a girl who couldn't make up her mind between two lovers ba-sn't a mind worth making up." She looked at him from the corners of her eyes. Jack's face lighted up. She knew, ihe^, and that was th<^ meaning of her desire for a farewell dinner. How easy it would be now to explain. But Kathleen was not waiting for an answer. ' They say there's no skill in winning a game where one holds all the trumps. .But in the game of hearts, Jack, suppose one held just two? Don't you think it would be hard to know which to discard?" Bravo! thought Jack. What a clever little diplomat Kathleen is! But she veered to the other side. ^ "Isn't it nice, Jack, just w? two sit tisg here like this?" oh, so tenderly. "Isn't it like old times?" He really couldn't help it?one little kiss was nothing:. There was a pause of some minutes, aad then Kathleen sprang to her feet. "Don't, Jack, or I won't be able to brace myself to the ordeal. Don't look like that." He put his hand in his coat pocket. Yes. the photograph was there. Had he been untrue to her?" "I'm engaged?engaged, Jack." said Kathleen, excitedly. "I'm going to marry Lawrence Smith, the millionaire. Oh, Jack, I never really thought you cared?why didn't you ask me years ago?when I was a bud? It's too late, now?too late. It's going to be a grand church wedding. He wanted it to be a quiet affair, but I " "Thought it would be the last quift day he'd have, no doubt." "Why. Jack, I never knew you to make such a wretched joke before. High uoon?at St. Luke's?June 8th. You'll be there?" "I'm afraid not, Kathleen?I " "Oh, we can still be friends. This is the twentieth century, you know, and jealousy is out Of date." "I know, but " "Oh, say we can still be friends still, Jack. I never could bear those stuffy little apartments, the modern love in a cottage. It's much better this way, dear." "I know, Kathleen. But " "Oh. don't think I meant anything horrid. I'm not that kind of u woman. Jack. But Lawrence lik?s you?I thinks he wants you to be best man. | Will you?" "I'm awfully sorry, but I couldn't, | really." The tension, drawn so tight a moment since, was ready to snap. Had it done so, the man would have laughed, the relief was so great. But his duty was still undone, and doubly repugnant after her confession. "Oh. you must," pleaded Kathleen, "else you know what people will say." She looked at her watch. "I must go now," she said, "for we are going to a ball to-night. Promise me. Jack, that if Lawrence asks you, you will be his best man at our wedding. Do it for me, dear, won't you?" She gave him a good-by kiss, to make her plea more profound. "Oh. the mischief, I can't Kathleen," he said, squeezing her little hands warmly. "I would if I could, but it's impossible." % . "Why, dear?" The words were warm, but the tone1 was cold. "Well, I'll tell you?I've tried to tell you all the evening, but you didn't give me a chance. I'm going to be married myself that same day."?Sarah Williamsou, 'in San Francisco Town ' Talk. Italian Peasants in a New-Law Tenement The conservative spirit of the Italian women is never more clearly shown than in the doing of laundry work. The clothes are wet in hot or cold water, no matter which. Each piece is wrung out of the water and piled on one side. When the tub is empty the washboard is laid flat across the top and mHi nippA soaned in turn, and kneaded as bread is kneaded. When each piece has passed through this process. all are put In the tub, rinsed, and hung to dry at the convenience of the washer, in the room or out of doors, as the case may be. Before this stage is reached four or five days may have elapsed. If a piece of clothing is needed it is sorted out of the pile of colored and white, cotton and woolen, and dried by the stove. Often each step is taken at night after sewing ten hours or more on trousers or coats, cooking and caring for a family of children; the floor space is larger then, and the worker has more room to move. Starching results in clothes that crackle, and only starched clothes are ironed. A little Italian girl in white dress and petticoats is for several hours an object of pity. She cannot walk, stand or sit in comfort. The little boys in starched shirt waists are rebels until the stiffness is gone. Flour is used instead of starch in laundering. ?Lillian Betts, in Harper's Bazar. Poison Sumac. There are several species of sumac, and most of them are harmless, but if we do not know one from the other we are apt to feel uncomfortable in the presence of any of them. The poisonous species may be readily distinguished from either the smooth sumac or the stag-horn sumac by reason of the fact that the leaflets of these species are saw-edged, while those of the poison sumac are "entire;" that is, without teeth or lobes. The one other species which may be confused is the mountain sumac; but as in this shrub the leaf stems are widened out into socalled "wings." it need not be mistaken for its dangerous relative, whose stems are wingless. The poison ivy, a near relative of the poison sumac, though usually a creeper, is classed with the shrubs, and sometimes becomes one when it happens to grow in a spot where there are no supports for its aerial rootlets. This plant has compound leaves with three leaflets, a fact which enables us to distinguish it at once from the Virginia creeper, which has five leaflets, and from the bittersweet, which has from seven to nine.?Woman's Home Companion. A Goat St*rj. A well-known suburbanite, who had been greatly troubled by the depredations of a neighbor's goat, was driven to desperation one day when he learned that the animal had consumed a favorite red flannel golf coat of his. Determined, on the goat's destruction, he employed an unscrupulous small hoy who lived in the neighborhood to secure him to the railroad track just before the daily express was due. Some days afterward a friend inquired with interest of the goat had been effectually disposed of. "Not on your life,"' was the disgusted answer; '"that goat has a charmed life. He coughed up that red golf coat of mine and flagged the train."? Harper's Weekly. Treatment of Consumption. In consequence o. the discovery by Professor Schroen that the bacillus of consumption is fiot the same as that of tuberculosis, it is held in German medical circles that the present treatment of consumption wiH be radicaJlj. changed. JAPANESE CRUISER SUNKE s Fight Off Po-t Arthur Ends Badly For Mikado. 8 TROOPS IN NORTH CLO'JNG IN The Armored Cruiser Cheyeda Sunk and the Itsukuthiina Injured?.Tap* Lost Heavily in Taking Wolf Hill?Russian ^ Observers Tell of Knemies' Ships Outt1 side Harbor?Karokl Reports Success. St. Petersburg. Russia.?A dispatch a from Admiral Aiexieflf. dated Mukden, p says : t( "Telegrams received from Port Ar- ^ thnr stni-P th.it the cruisers Bayan. As- | ^ kold, Tallada, and Jfovik and some gun- j 0 boats steamed from the harbor for the o purpose of bombarding the enemy's A positions. They were attacked by the battleship Chin Yen, tho armored 8. cruiser Cheveda, the protected cruisers 9 Itsukushima and Matsushima, two sec- n ond-elass cruisers, and thirty torpedo " boats. '"Ail eight-inch shell from the Bayan P burst in the stern of the Itsukushima, ^ placing her out of action. Thereupon all the Japanese steered for the open n sea. At the same time the Cheyeda 11 was damaged by a Russian mine. As she was sinking by +he head she was e. steered toward Tallenwan Bay. A shot from Battery 22 also damaged a Jap- . nnese cunboat. ^ ' In view of the Japanese having ? taken the general offensive against our J land positions, the Bayan. Retvizan, Pallada, Askold and Novik. the coast ' defense ships Gremiastchy and Otva- _ jug. the gunboat Giljak. and twelve . gunboats were ordered to support our right flank. Our ships, preceded by v nine dredgers, steamed towards Lun- ? gantan, whence they bombarded the Japanese positions until 3 p. m. "On their return, which was effected with the same precautions, a mine exploded underneath one of the dredgers. Admiral Withoeft estimated the en- j: emy's naval forces off Port Arthur oa July 30 at five battleships, four ar- E mored cruisers, ten other cruisers and forty light torpedo craft." ji Chefoo.?Two French correspondents, . who attempted to reach Port Arthur in a junk, were observed by the Japanese. . They were twice arrested and turned back. They heard nothing of the aVleged loss of a Japanese cruiser. They counted twenty;four vessels of the Jap- ^ anese fleet, which were ranged in a I double row of semicircular formation J AW - I " aruunu mtr uuiuvi. ^ The Japanese are busy endeavoring to work their trenches closer to the ^ fortress. The Russian resistance is confined to artillery fire, with which ? they ceaselessly harass the diggers. The Japanese are said to have sixty sruns in position on Wolf's Hill and in : that neighborhood. a General Ivuroki's Headquarters in the Field, via Fusan (delayed in trans- ^ mission).?The Russian forces in front. 0 of General Kuroki's army are reported g retreating northward, A part of it has encamped at Anping, twelve miles g, from Liao Yang. Guns were heard on ' the Japanese right, meaning that po3si- ^ bly the Japanese are following the Russian retirement. e In connection with the death of Lieutenant-General Count Keller, killed by i shrapnel, while watching the battle at ? Yangtse Pass from a battery position above Maowan, the Chinese living j there say that the Russians removed two coffins from that place with great j{ ceremony. EXPRESS WRECKED AND BURNS. J Four Cars Overturned, But None of the Passengers is Killed. Plainfleld, Ind.?Running at the rate E of sixty miles an hour, Vandalia, a through train from St. Louis, with 300 passengers aboard, struck a broken rail near the station here. Five ears were si turned over and destroyed by fire c caused by the explosion of a gas stor- t* age tank. None of the passengers was ^ killed and only one, Mrs. E. X. Widger- E son, of Antigo, Wis., was severely injured. e The fire which destroyed the coaches also consumed a grain elevator and a Sl string of freight cars. ^ MANUA CEDED TO US. y tr-? n..i? ?e tt? ? vnn* a ran liuic ui 1ULLUA vuvca a .UMI Group of Islands. ^ Tutuila.?The Manua group of isl- tl ands have been ceded to the United States by the King of ManuJi and his chiefs. This is the result of the fair rule of Tutuila by the American naval commandant. The Manua chiefs re- J fused to cede the islands when the ^ group was divided among the three d Powers. p The Manua group are small islands, about seventy-five miles eastof Tutuila. The population is less than 1500. ? c England Holds Its Opinion. t Mr. Balfour said in the House of ii Commons. London, England, that the I British Government had in no wise modified its contention that the sinking of the Knight Commander was unjustifiable. ? j America to Rule Seas. Captain T. A. Brassey, of England, jj predicted that in ten years Great Britain's control of the seas would pass to the United States. ^ Colonbia's New President. * General Rafael Reyes has ass'imed $ the office as President of Colombia. New Hule For Autos. After a hearing before Secretary j Metcalf in Washington, D. C., the rule t compelling automobilists to shut off motive power by extinguishing the clcctric spark that generates the power was not modified. ^ To Settle New York Stride. President Weinseimer, of the Building Trades Alliance, of Now York City, called on Contractot McDonald with ^ ethers to discuss a settlement cf the t subway strike. The Field of Sports. John Flanagan threw the sixteenpound hammer 170 feet at Celtic Park, ? making a world's record. Five women won twenty-six of the e fifty-one classes judged at the Long I Branch (N. J.) horse show. The Monmouth County (i\. J.) Horse t Show Association opened it'- eleventh t annual exhibition at Long Branch. < The Country Club of Westchester team beat Great Neck by 23V> goals to i 17 In the first oatcb of the tournament ^ of the Rumson Polo Club at Seabright, i M T ? i * , 10MB HURLED IN CROWD ? .? n oore of Persons Injured at an Italian Outing. aioon Keeper*' Fend in Upper New York City Results ia a Free FightBomb Thrower is Arrested ^ New York City.?Wliile an Italian 4, Icnic was being held in a lot in East >ne Hundred and Fifty-first street, besveen Park and Morris avenues, a omb was thrown into the crowd, and ccording to the police, about twenty ersons were injured. The man said j have thrown the bomb escaped, but . ras arrested at his home and sent to I ie Lincoln Hospital a prisoner. A bar bad been set up in the centre fcv f the lot, in charge of Pfrter Dimerio, ol f 415 East One Hundred and Fifty-1 rst street. Dimerio later told the po- j ce that Vincenzio Donnetto of 476 ,0 !ast One Hundred and Fifty-second U treet, stepped up to bis stand about Hi o'clock and demanded money. Di- 0l lerio refused to give him any, where- R pon Donnetto moved back about ten set, and, drawing a bomb from a j ocket, threw it at a barrel in front of I *i ie stand. w A terriflc explosion followed, and len, women and children ran screaralg in every direction. d< "What are you trying to do, kill Jc verybody here?" Dimerio says he Cf bouted at Donnetto. ol Donnetto made no reply. He had CJ een thrown down by the explosion, a/ nd, so far as is known, was more [ P1 jverely injured than any one else. I Vi " * - - ? J I TV Le picKea nimsen up, uowuver, ?uu f in as rapidly as he could. Though he tr ras injured himself, Dimerio pursued >onnetto as far as Park avenue, where a! e lost sight of him. w The bomb throwing is said to have c< rown out of a dispute between two tr iiloonkeepers. Giovanni Finelli conucted a saloon at 469 East One Hun- tl red and Fifty-first street until August g1 , when the rent was raised from $50 > $75 a month. Finelli refused to hi ay the additional $25 asked and rt loved out. Giovanni Belelo promptly aid the $75 and reopened the saloon, <--1 'inelli then began to erect a building j ^ cross the street at 476 East One Hun- i f* red and Fifty-first street. The foun- N ation had. been laid ami the flooring t? ailed down, but the walls had not c< een erected, nor was there a roof of is ny kind over the place, which was ttle more than a platform. P1 Notwithstanding his limited facilities d e ordered several barrels of beer, a: Inch were tapped on the platform, is nd everybody who passed by was e< sked to partake of free beer. Many e: ccepted the invitation, and in a short * rhile there were at least 2000 persons ol athered around Finelli's improvised ar. e< Not to be outdone, 3eIelo sent his tl gents across the street, and every tl ne was invited to come to his saloon r< nd get free beer. It About GOO Italians were in the imme- T iate vicinity, about half being frienfc ci f Belelo and half friends of Finelli. L everal fights occurred between the si pro factions. About 9 o'clock, it is lid. Donnetto approached Dimerio, s< rho was acting as a sort of guard, st emanded money and threw the bomb. A Acting Chief Magan of the Morris d< tation, with Detectives Murtba and c< lern, went to Donnetto's home. w The police were refused admission, c< >onnetto shouting that he would com* el lit suicide if they came near him. B he door was forced, however, and he s< *as placed under arrest. His left S: ?g was torn from the hip to the ankle, fi 3 he was sent to Lincoln Hospital, he police think that he is a member m ? the "Black Hand" society. rt bi THE BRITISH AT LHASA. ' P' st >alai Lama Shut3 Himself in Monastery?Gifts to the Soldiers. Lhasa, Tibet (delayed in trans-mis* lon).?The British expedition is en* R amped a mile from the sacred mounxin of Potala, on which is situated the T 1~ 1 J n 'dill! b puiaut?, aim fiuac lu mc >alai Lama's private gardens. *r The Dalai Lama fled to a monastery r( ighteen miles distant. It is reported ** tiat he has shut himself up in strict b; eclusion, refusing to see even the P1 ighest State officials and declaring hat he will remain secluded for three bi ears. PJ Colonel Younghusband has received P1 ceremonial visit from the Amban, A' rho promised to assist in arriving at settlement and made gifts of food to 11 tie British troops. ai r Steamer Runs Down Skiff. While the steamboats Perseus and . S. Warden were racing to their piers t Coney Island, L. I., the former ran lr own a fishing skiff, and its two occu- I< ants had to swim for their lives. ru re To Build the Canal. The Panama Canal Commission reeived many offers of cheap labor for he construction of the canal, involv- ti ag the hiring of Chinese, Japanese, b; "ilipinos or Puerto Ricans. R Attempted Lone: Swim. Two men, who started to swim from | Jrooklyn (N. Y.) Bridge to Coney Isl- . nd, were taken from the water at Noron's Point, about balf .way, in a de- c< irious condition. 01 The Rev. Dr. Donald Dead. The Rev. Dr. E. Winchester Don.;Id. ector of Trinity Church, Boston, Mass, tl /here he succeeded Phillips Brooks. g] lied at Ipswich, Mass. b To Aid Meat Strikers. The Chicago Federation of Labor, laving nearly 300,000 members, voted w o aid financially the meat strikers. y Trolley Strike is Avoided. As a result of a compromise, the tc hreatened strike on the New Haven, ronn., trolley lines was avoided. Women Chase Burglars. Three young women of Monroe. ?onn? armed with shotguns, chasei1 ^ wo burglars through the woods. 51 Labor News Notes. Vic-ksburg (Miss.) carpenters are ou t strike. 'J - - ? ?* ..--i i i fans (*rancej uoch.eia uuve \ strike for higher wages and shortci P lours of labor. b During the past Jiree months sixty- e( iree new local unions have been es- k ablished by the United Brotherhood (( >r Carpenters and Joiners. p Last year 2929 railroad men were silled in the United States and 50,524 n were injured. The figures for all eoai e mines for 1903 show 1467 tilled and . c j<H3 iDinred. WING SENT TO THE* /ash'n?ton Loses Patience in Negotiations With Porte. 'ARSHIPS ORDERED TO SMYRNA dinlral Jewell With the Olyinpia, Cleveland and Baltimore U Ordered to Proceed to Smyrna From Vlllefranche and There to Await OrdftM From Naval Department at Washington. Washington, D. C.?It is evidently ie intention of this Government to akc it known to the Sublime Porte tat the United States ha3 become eary of the persistent evasions and >structlon in connection with the efirts that have been pending for a j a:f/\i* r\(?\r?c?ria i\f fho I JLI?? HUiC IV OCVUIU JLV1 VACAAJWAAU v a. m*v nited States the same rights and priveges that are accorded to those of :her nations. The promises of the ultan have been repeatedly broken, id upon the report and recommendaon of Minister Leishman American ar vessels will drop their anchors i the harbor of Smyrna. Americans do not have the same free- ; 3m in traveling in Turkey that is en- | iyed by the citizens of European I mntries, and this is especially true | ! professional men. American eduitional institutions are discriminated jainst, American scientists are not ermitted to engage in making exca- | itions, a privilege enjoyed by their rofessional brethren of other counies; American missionaries are hin erea in me piosev;uuuii ul vuch riui&, c ad facilities for doing business are ithheld from Americans that are ac>rded to business men of other counies. In addition to these general matters lere are individual cases of transression on the part of the Turkish ofcials through which suffering and loss are been imposed on Americans. With ;ference to these our Minister has not een able to reach satisfactory con- j usions, and in several instances 'here the Minister for Foreign Aflirs had entered into agreement with [r. Leishman the Grand Vizier has in'rfered, nullified the agreements and juntermanded the orders of the Mintt\r nf irnrpiGrn Affairs. Two years ago Mr. Leishman npcaled to the Sultan against the conuct of the Grand Vizier in nullifying gveements made by the Foreign Miniter. The Grand Vizier refused to rejive Mr. Leishman wlien he called for iplanations, a courtesy that is alays extended, even to the dragomans f the embassies. Recently Mr. Leishman was instructI by Secretary Hay urgently to insist lat the Sultan should take action on ie request of the United States for the ;moval of all restrictions placed upon s citizens residing or traveling in urkey that were not imposed on the tizens of other countries, but Mr. eishman has not been able to get any itisfaction. It has now been decided that war vesils shall be sent to Turkish waters to .rengthen the demands made by the merican Minister. Accordingly orers have been sent to Admiral Jewell, jmmanding the European Squadron, hich is now at Vinnefranche, to pro- . ?ed at once to Smyrna. Admiral Jew,1's squadron consists of the Olympia, altimore, and Cleveland. These vesils will sail from Villefranche. At myrna the Admiral will receive orders om the Secretary of the Navy. The battleship squadron, under comiand of Admiral Barker, is due at Gibtltar, and it is understood that it will & held in the Mediterranean for the resent awaiting the outcome of inructions sent to Minister, Leishman. AMERICANS ARE FIRED ON. eckless Custom House Guards at Port Limon. New Orleans, La.?An international icident may devolep from an occurence at Port Limon, Costa Rica, when iree American citizens were fired on y the Custom House guards without rovocation or warning. News of this lair came to New Orleans, being rought to the city by the returning issengers on the United Fruit Commy's steamer Brattle. The persons red on were Dr. Allen J. Jumel, son f former Adjutant General Allen Juicl; Dr. J. O. Rush, of Mobile, Ala., ad Duke Schweppe, of Boston ana ort Limon. Must Face Murder Trial. After six years in a hospital for the isane, John W. Stone, of Des Moines, >wa, awoke to find he had killed a inn and must face trial on a charge of lurder. Collision Sinks Steamer. It is reported in Detroit. Mich., that le freighter City of Berlin was struck y an unknown vessel in the Detroit iver, off Belle Isle, and that she sank. Russia Refuses R. R. Offer. The Russian Minister of Railroads is declined favorable offers of foreign jmpanies to lay another line of rails r* fHrt. Qiharinn liflf*. .X IUC UiWv,iiw?* ??. His Ear Bitten Off. During at attack made upon him by j iree passengers, in New York City, a elevated railroad guard's ear was itten off. Killed by Fall From Window. Having fallen from a window while alking in his sleep, a Brooklyn (N. .) man, with both legs broken, at acted aid by crawling to a stone and urling it through a window, but af;rward died from his injuries. To Extend Our Commerce. The State Department, at Washing* >n, D. C., is considering a plan to ex?ncl American foreign commerce by j-operation of the diplomatic and eoualar service. Personal Mention. Seventy-five thousand dollars for a lim'ole seems something of an extrav gance, but tins was me cusi ui uuc resented to the Queen ot" Siam by her usband. Rear-Admiral Goodrich, the new jminander of the Pacific Squadron, as mr.de a specialty of torpedo and irtification work. He was born i? ennsylvania. Senator Hoar, one of the toost active lembers of the Senate, is seveatyIg&t. Another active Senator, Moran, of Alabama, is eighty, and S^naPettus is etehty-tlHree. 1 I DEMOCRATSINFORMPARKER Rainy Day Somewhat Mars the Ceremonies. EX-JUDGE NOTIFIED AT ESOPUS The Notification Committee Sailed Front New York City on the Steamboat Sagamore-?Chairman Champ Clark MaVefl the Formal Speech and Sir. Parke* Kepllen at Some length. Esopus, N. Y.?Alton B. Parker was formally notified at his home here of his nomination by the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis as the party's candidate for President of the United States. The ceremony of notification was witnessed by many distinguished Democrats, besides the members of the notification committee, and by m6?t of Mr. Parker's near relatives and a number of intimate friends. The exercises were somewhat marred by bad weather, but the rain of the morning held up sufficiently to permit the delivery of the speeches upon the lawn, as planned. Aftet Champ Clark, of Missouri, chairman of the notification commithor? rmuila a plnQinif with CCC? UUU UIUUU U V?vw*ug .. - V? the announcement of the committee's mission to Rosemount, Mr. Parker replied in a speech of some length, accepting the nomination and declaring his stand on the issues involved in the present canvass. Notification day arrived with a pouring rain, which set in just after daylight. Judge Parker did not let th? rain interfere with his swim in the Hudson at 6.30 o'clock in the mornang, but after breakfast he appeared on the veranda of his house and took 'i a survey of the weather. The steamer Sagamore, bearing the notification committee of the Democratic National Convention, reached Rosemount wharf at 1.15. The trip of the committee from the New York City was attended with much discomfort to the passengers, due to continuous rain. On the Sagamore's arrival at Rosemount wharf, the members of the notification committee were formed in line on the landing, and marched up tbe hill path to Mr. Parker's house. The guests of the committee and tbe other passengers disembarked five minutes later, and arrived immediately after the reception of the notification committee. Cord Meyer headed the procession of the committee which was met by Mr. Parker at the south entrance of his home. After all members of the committee had been introduced they passed around the veraDda to the grounds where the ceremonies were held. Before the ceremonies were begun the Seventh Regiment Band, which was stationed on the grounds north of tiie house, played several selections. There was no wait in the formalities. As soon as the little parly reached the stand Mr. Clark began his address. He was enthusiastically cheered throughout, and at its conclusion was jiprwriprt an ovation, which was ! merged info the reception extended to i Judge Parker. Other speeches were made, and then | the candidate was presented with the formal letter of notification, signed by all the members of the committee. Handshaking followed, and the notlfiers and their guests were taken across the river on the Sagamore to ; a special train awaiting them ou the. New York Central. BLOW UP A BOARDING HOUSE. Three. Men Light Charge of Giant ! Powder in a Closet. Butte, Mont.?The residence of Mrs. i Belle Powers was almost demolished I by three unknown men, who placed a ! charge of giant powder in a closet, ; lighted the fuse and fled. Several per- i sons who boarded with Mrs. Powers ; were slightly injured. There is no clew to the perpetrators ! or their motive for blowing up the i house. ?____ JAPAN HAS SPENT $100,000,000. j War Expenses Up to the End of July ! Foot Up That Amount. Tokio, Japan.?The Finance Depart- : nient states that the war expenses up 1 to the end of July were 200,000,000 yen, j seventy per cent of which remains in ' the country. This means in American money ap- i proximately $100,000,000. Autoists to Go Armed. Members of the Automobile Club of ; America, it was said, have determined J to go armed hereafter, to protect them- ! selves against highwaymen and deputy | sheriffs who use their firearms. Has Discovered Forgeries. New York State Superintendent of , Elections Morgan has unearthed whole- [ sale forgeries in citizenship papers and expects to make many arrests. i To Christen the Dubuque. Miss Annette Hull, daughter of Representative Hull, of Des Moines, Iowa, has been selected as sponsor for the cruiser Dubuque. M. Waldeck-Rousseau Dead. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the former French Premier, died soon after a long operation at Corbeil, near Paris. France. Hog Market Good. There is a general shortage of fat J hogs, but it is doubtful whether there j has ever been such a big crop of spring ! pigs farrowed as that of this year. J Cholera has been less prevalent than in ! most other years and the swine :ndua- ' try as a whole is in excellent condition, i Russian Ships Escape. The Russian fleet, battleships, eruis- ! ors and half the torpedo boats, escaped I from Port Arthur. The Japanese pur- [ sued them. j . I From the Seat of War. Trains loaded with Russian wounded ! are arriving at Irkutsk, Siberia. General Ivurokl telegraphed thai his j losses in the battles of Yang-Tse'-Rass j and Yushulikzu were 072 officers and i men. A Liaoyang dispatch to a Berlin paper says the western Russian forces north of Haicheng suffered a heavy attack. Field Marshal Oyama. commanderin-chief of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, te now in the field with the army. ' 1J COlilir KILLS FOUR Two Score Hurt bv tlie Cras!i!<ig Together of Trains. GRADt CROSSING ACCIDENT Bur*. Sclivr&rtx and rier Three CIiiMren, of Chicago, 111.. Ara Killed and H ?. Husband is Badly Injured ? Nearby House* Turned Into Temporary Hotpltals? l'absunger Cars (Hit by Freight Chicago, III. - A woman and- her \ tTn-tx? lit Mo rhiMriMi worp lrillpd hprp in a grade crossing horror. Nearly tw? score persons wer* injured, but death smote just one little group, the family, of C. C. Schwartz, of this city. Of five lie is the only one alive, and he is injured prohably fatally. There were nearly 200 passengers alward the trs.in. At the dangerous Brighton Park crossing, at Western avenue and Thir* ty-ninth street, a Chicago and' Erie freight train crashed into a local westbound Baltimore and Ohio passenger train, overturning two coaches, one of which was smashed. The accident occurred at a point where many tracks Intersect. flie collision followed a frantic effort on the part of the crossing flagman to change the course of the freight train, which was on thqflPanhandle tracks, . and to the crew o^fthlch he had given a signal that all clear for them to back over the ^ timore and Ohio tracks. H HIUA H .MS MAW- H ing rapidly, was. st^tk by the freight 59 cars squarely iu tile middle. One of BE the freight cars '-rashed turoygh the H woodwork of the coach, just where the H Schwartzes were son ted. {B The crash that followed the collision 08 could be beard for blocks, as could the H cries and screams of the injured, min- Jj pled with the hissing of steam from the H broken and battered freight engine, MB jthat lay sidewise upon the wreckage of H a coach. h| The bodier of some >' the victim# m were frightfully bruised and burned. M Ambulances and patrol wagons from MB a number of police stations, including B Brighton Park. Thirty-fifth street, Deering street. Hiniuan and New City, SH were hurried to the scene of the wreck as quickly as possible. Policemen by, ^9 the dozens, assisted by scores of volun teer.. carried out tue bodies-and cared for the injured. Homes in the neighborhood were BH turned into temporary hospitals nending the arrival of the ambulances and j^B patrol wagons. wB An investigation wiil be made to de? BH termine who was responsible for the jjf[j accident. The officials of the Chicago H| and Errand the Cnltimore and Ohio m road seflhgents to th > scene, and de- JH clare tlBBtiltY will be nunished. i US hu:?rm)s slain in armexia", h Tti-ics D<S|roy Villages and Rebels At- Bjj tack Garrisons in Revenge. MB London, England.?A correspondent of the Daily News at Tabriz. Persia, In jSn a dispatch dated August 6, says: |BH "On July 13 a band of Armenian rev* Hi olutionists appeared near Outchkilissa. SB| Turkish soldiers and Kurds, finding an raw excuse, attacked and destroyed the vil- BBH lages of Outchkilissa, Koomlouboujak, 3KE Gougan, Karabazar and Say to, butch- Hn cring men and assauUir women. MM /'Two large Armenian bands, marc. BBS ing to Sassun to help the insurgent 13flH leader Antr^nik. a!tacked the garrison; at Mossuuzory and Goutchagh for re- BBS veuge. At dawn bombs were thrown into these places, killing many, and se- HI vere fighting ensued. Bum "A majority of the soidiers t wero H6 killed, and the garrisons resembled' graveyards. One band forced its way, A.i 1. iurr i.v.i. i&iruugu iue -lvuluisu lhucs iuuhlu ^1 jess. aBB "The number of soldiers killed mH amounted to several hundred." SMj TWO EARTHQUAKES. ' 89 Slight Shock Felt at Lisbon and New; Zealand. * Sfiufi Lisbon, Spain.?A -slight earth shock was felt here and in this vicinity, bnt H| no damage was done. The earthquake felt at Lisbon was KB nearly simultaneous with the shock re- KB ported from Wellington, New Zealand, jBB under the same date, taking into atcount the difference in time, j 8Bm The Wellington dispatch said that the heaviest earthquake that New Zea- Hffl land bad experienced in many year? -^^B had occurred. , BH ENTIRE .TRAIN CREW L0S1. j IB freight Runs Through an Open Bridffd RsB at Spottsville, Ky. j B9 Henderson, Ky.?A fast freight oa the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis HB Railroad went through an open bridge at Spottsville, Ky.. and the crew of HU eight were drowned. The bridge is swung on a pivot in the centre ana naa been turned to admit the passage of a steamer. HB Auto Tears Off Scalp. As Miss M. Dougherty, of Rochester, BRH X. Y., was stepping out of a large auto?H|^H mobile at the Casiuo in Central Park.^^H New York City, she slipped and fell,HMB her hail* being caught in the cranlc shaft of the engine, which was still motion. The crank r.naft wound upHHB the hair till it pulled the woman'a^EK| head to the end of tiie shaft and then^^^J it ripped ,off the scalp. ?n Might Withdraw Our Minister. Secretary Hay told the Cabinet, Washington, D. C., about the Turkish^Hfl situation, and said in the event of^^H| failure of new negotiations with the^^^H Porte (he American Minister might^R^H be withdrawn to the flagship Smyrna. iftKfigH Magistrate Saves Life. Magistrate Moss saved the life f Miss Alice .Taflfee. of New York ( ;l> who wntured beyond her depth iu surf ai Koekaway Beach, L. I. Martial Law ir. Paraguay. MM The Paraguayan Government dtsccvME^H ered a p!ot to proclaim a revoIutiorHflflfl made many arrests, and proc'iaituei^BSSj martial law. gBHSfl Suicide of Stenographer. 198IB Lillian Read, a stenographer, com^HH mitted suicide by poison in the offiee her employer, F. Schmidt, iu New Voi'l^HBS George G. Vest Dead. Goorge G. Vest, former United Sir.' ~H9km[ Senator from Missouri, Oied at lu>we af Sweet Springs, Mo.