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1^^ THE MAN OF THE HOUR. > / 'A magic lamp, unlovely for the lack Of legendry in gem and carven scroll, Burned in a dusky chamber of the world. With untrimmed wick a-shoulder in the i bowl. Then timid chance?the chamberlain of IA-stumble in the dark, with groping liana Scattered the crust of ashes from the wick? ' And lighted every corner of the land! ?Aloyjius' Coll.. in Everybody's Magazine. . * * * * * * * * .*?*?* JLJL.S THE 60LD STREAK v By S. R. WEISS. P? * # * * TV* 7* * * * T Tf TV JtOJC ES, Robert. I kuow it's a ; _1V poor place, but I don't feel O o willing to give it up. It's ' if K beea my homo?as it was | f my father's before me; and I did hope"?with a sigh? ? "that you'd ha' taken to it, and made it as good as 'twas ha his time. Peril haps if you'd marry and settle down here, with a good managing wife to lieip you, you'd do better and be bettor satisfied; and if it weren't for old \ David Gardner's obstinacy, you and Letty?" "Enough, mother!" interrupted Robert Langly, flushing all over his hand< some, sunburnt face; "it's no use say log anything more on that subject. - I'll never ask any woman to marry me so long as I know that I cannot afford / her a scrvaut, or so long as there's a : mortgage hanging over the roof that I'd bring' her to." His mother looked at him anxiously over her spectacles. "It it wasn't for the mortgage," she ? said, slowly, "we might get along. 'Twas that worried your father into his grave?that, and not finding the gold-streak " Her son made an impatient move rnent, and she added: "Don't you think you could get a lit| tie more time allowed us, Robert? Maybe when the crop's sold, and the v apples and cider "Mr. Davis won't hear of it. mother. I saw him yesterday and talked it over, but he insists it must all be paid by the first of August. Ah. here he comes aow." And Robert went out to meet the w^ll-dressed, . sharp-eyed man in a handsome trap, while his mother remained in the back porch, with sleeves rolled up, mixing food for the poultry. ' There ain't many of 'em to feed now," she said, talking aloud to herself, as she had been accustomed with KiieKonrl "Than thftPA'c ftlfl * Speck missing?the best layer of 'em all. and Gold-streak';: fit for nothing since her leg's broke. Ah. mel I'm mighty afeared <that she's the only gold-streak wc'ii ever know at this place!" "What's, that about a gold-streak, Mrs. Langly?" exclaimed a clear, f oung voice. And a girl with a sweet face and bright brown eyes and a blue-striped chintz dress, fitting perfectly to her trim figure, stood smiling before her. Mrs. Langly's face frightened immediately. "Why, Letty, how do'you always manage to take one by surprise, as if pou'd tfsen out o' the earth or dropped down from the clouds! Well, you're welcome. I'll tell you about the goldBtreak if vou care to listen." ' You see," she continued, "the Lang(ys come of Scotch stock, and it's been aaid that Rob's great-grandfather Langly, over in Scotland, had the gift o' second sight?that is; seeing and knowing things that are going to happen. But I never did think-much of it. [ though my husband?poor departed ? Jeems!?believed in it as firmly as he \ l>elleved~ln summer and winter. WeH, about eleven years ago old Atick Langly paid us a visit. I hadn't seen him but once before in my life?for he lived ft long way from here. Him and Jeems, they walked all over the farm, and it was a far better cultivated place then than it is now, though nothing compared to what it was in my father's t-imo. .Tppttis' TTnplp Alink didn't sppm to think much of it, though. "The day he -went away," she went on, "he "was standing and looking all around him on the farm. All of a sudden he says, 'Jeii-my?Jemmy and Mary'?turning to me?'I've one thing to say before I go. Stick to your farm, for there's a streak of golden luck in It.' Of course. I asked what he meant; but all he would say was, 'I've seen it ?I've seen it by the power that's given us to look into the future. I've seen a streak of gold-luck running through pour laud that's to better your fortunes In good time. Don't part with it until pour luck's found.' And that same day he went away, and the first we heard of him after he got home was that he was dead." ... There was another pause, and Letty said: "And vou think there is really a vein of sold to be found on your farm?" "Jeems thought so. To hi3 dying day ho believed in it.". 'And -what does Robert think about ft?" inquired the girl, with a faint flush on her cheeks. *0b. he thinks it all nonsense?about the gold, and the second sight, and all." , Just at this moment they heard Mr. Davis' trap roll away, and Robert came around the corner of the house. He looked a little eScited. but that might be from finding Letty there. He walked home with her across the fields to the next farm. When he returned, he said, quite abruptly: '"Mother, Mr. Davis wants to buy the farm. He's offered more for it than I ever dreamed it would bring. H.<? seems quite anxious to get it; and when t told him that you objected to pait with it. he actually offered to let- ns off with the balance of the mortgage. provided the business is settled at once." "Why, Robert, what can be mean?" "I don't know. There's something in It I dou't understand; but, if you've no objection, I'll go to-morrow and see Lawyer Pannell about it." Robert had expected to bj only one day from home: but he stayed three. And. meantime, the odd boy. going to bring the cows from the meadow, reported that there were a number of men passing through the farm, looking about, examining the ground, and act-, ing iu a very strange and unaccountable manner. "Good gracious!"' thought Mrs. Langly. "They surely can't be looking for j the gold-streak!" She "was very anxious for her son's return. When he did come, she noticed ! c the bright glance and the brisk manner j c in which he dismounted from his horse j t ? ~* liar n <: cllf) I G ana came suuigui, ivw.uu *.*.?, . stood at the steps to welcome him. v "Well Rob, I see you've got good jfl news." j 1 "The best news, mother," he an- | s swered, cheerfully. j c Tears came into her eyes. i a "I shall hate to give up the.old home, j . after all." "You needn't give it up. mother. We I won't sell the farm. Mr. Davis was . sharp," he added, contemptuously, "but fortunately we escaped the trap he I baited so nicely." "Why, what is the matter, Robert?" "Why, only this, mother. They are going to run a new railway through our farm, which will increase its value tenfold." His mother's first words showed how much she had the happiness of her son at her motherly heart, when she said, with moistening eyes: N H'ou and Letty can marry now, Robert!" y A few months afterward Mr. Robert Lanelv stood with his mother on one side, and his wife leaning on his arm, on the meadow slope, watching from a distance the busy laborers throwing up a clay embankment, where the new railway was to be laid. The sun was slowly sinking on the horizon, and its almost level rays shone redly on the yellow clay, freshly turned up and gleaming in a long bright line against the green of the fields beyond. "Dear me!" said MrS1. Laugly. "I never knew there was so much clay on the land; for all father's talk about a clay substratum over there, and his plowing in'clover and marl. How red and yellow it locks! and how that long liner of wet clay shines in the sunlight B like a streak of gold." At this, Letty turned with bright i ' eyes, full of a sudden surprise. "A streak of gold? O Robert, how P strange! Can this be the streak of j' gold-luck that your father's Uncle Alick J foretold?" i a Mrs. Langly sank on the grassy bank, j * quite "shaken." as she declared, with 5 this realization of the fulfillment of " the prophecy.?New York News. * _______ Fveak Periodical Puzzles Reader*. A peculiar periodical named the Bru- , talitarian has appeared in London, and Us readers are puzzled over the f3 true meaning of its frankly ^rutal ut- 's terances. They are not sure whether j tne euiror is a wag oi a i-iuna, jet uc i concluding paragraph of the following extract from its pages would seem to indicate that the Brutalitarian is animated by the spirit of irony: n "It is full time, in this age of deca- i S dent humanitarianism. that some j o trumpet tongued protest were raised j ii against the prevalent sentimentality, n and that there should be an attempt : a to organize and consolidate the forces | v * * * that make for manliness and | (3 patriotism. ; ii "If we are fools enough to allow the u use the lash to die out, good-by to c all the sterling traits of an English- a man's character! ? s "What could be more pitiful than the j r plea put forward by the naval Iordfs. j \ for instance, that boys iu the Royal Navy are not 'flogged,' but 'birched,', t in spite of the fact that every public s school man in the country knows that j t the terms are identical? t 1 "The Brutalitarian will at least ; make it impossible for our friends to j I repeat these errors, for it will frankly, I | fully and consistently uphold flogging I (under that name), whether with birch ' or cane or 'cat,' or any other ihutru-' I ment, as the maijt^ay of British edu- i cation. { "War and sport, flesh eating and vivisection are all kindred ' practices which must stand or fall together."? New York Mail. Ktiuberley "Siege" Babies. y During Lord Roberts' tour iu South i Africa he chanced to be in Kimberley ] on his seventy-second birthday and 1 the people of that city presented him : . with a. pair of diamonds. One of the \ "siege babies." a boy of four years, : made the presentation speech. Dur- J ing the siege of Kimberley by the Boei*s about fifty babies were born. * Lord Roberts had his photograph J taken in the midst of the "siege babies" on the steps of the town Hall. Most j of the "siege babies" bear names re- | calling the war. Thus, while "French." { "Bailer," "Metliuen." "Bobs" and "Kekewich" occur. "Rhodes." is even more frequently used and "Siege"' seems most popular of all. Algiers as a Coaling Station. For many years Algiers has been one ' of the principal ports iu the Mediter- J ranean as a coaling station. The coal- 1 ing trade at Algiers has steadily in- I creased from the year 1SS5 to 1000. during which period it successfully rose from 5000 tons in 1800 to 244,000 tons in 1895, and 290.000 tons in 1000. I During the same time the coal trade j ' at Gibraltar, which had risfii to 562,000 ' tons in 1880. gradually decreased to i 272,000 tons in 1895, to rise to 303.000 I tons in 1900. Algiers supplied in 1902 i for ships' bunkers 297,000 tons, aud in 1903 Hlie supplied 339.000 tons, where- j as the amount supplied by Gibraltar j fell to 167,000 tons, and finally to 12".000 tons. . frirl*. Ciin You Curve? Oae of the minor accomplishments to be acquired by every girl is the science or art of carving. Let her learn to cook by all means, if she has any gift for that divine art, but to understand the graceful dissection of a joint of a fowl is still more important if she intends being at the head of an establishment. Generally this duty falls to the man of the house, who. though" he may not be skillful, is yet strong of wrist, and whose right is to hack and slash without reproof from the other end of the board. But when a lady can easily and dexterously perform this share of a man's prerogative it has a very pretty appearance. An Oriental Answer. It was in a Maine Sunday-school that a teacher recently asked a Chinese punil e1>rv ttto e taooliinrr fn if 1111 LJll CU17 w 1*0 IWVUUJH IV?U *? -" derstood the meaning of the words '"an old cow.'' 'Been cow a 'our time " was th? prompt auswer.-Lippiucott's. " ?J t HORRIBLE MAN-TRAPS. . spikes Which Frequently Maimed Poachers For Life. Great Britain has passed a law rc ently against pole-trapw, but the acompanying illustration, reproduced rom English Country Life, shows an ven more horrible form of trap, which ras employed not so very many years go to deter human poachers from inerfering with the rights of game preervers. It is true that the law deoanded that a notice should be posted t the church door before the traps TWO VIEWS 01 Traj ' fk I ' Trap ( ? 'am ftmninvpii! hut as these notices rere practically permanent, whether lie traps were set or not, they gave ttle or no warning to the miserable oaclier. It is marvelous that anyone ould have been found daring enough or the sake of a few pheasants or ares to run the risk of falling into ne of these traps; he was not only ure of severe punishment after being aught, but in most cases the cruel pikes did hi?-leg such an injury that e was more or less maimed for life. Ve have reason to be thankful that tie spirit of humanity has abolished liis horrible invention, though it has een in use within the memory of ome still living.?Philadelphia Record. / NEW CABTRIt G 3 TO AWE MOBS. The new cartridge for riot duty is early ready for the National Guard, 1-?i, if ;a nf ti,a Iiaie ol nevv xuin.. io ui re of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, wlUcb j .30, and will be used by the guardsaen in that rifle. Until a few weeks go the State soldiers were equipped Fith the Springfield only, except for ifty Ivrags, which the expert riflemen q each regiment were permitted to ise iu Creedmoor practice. Now, how>ver, the Krag is to be issued generilly, and', by the opening of the drill eason in a few weeks the entire nilltia probably will be using the weapons o'f .the regulars. The new 'riot ammunition is called he "multiball" cartridge, because initead of having only one bullet it: has wo, a trifle larger than buck3hot. i NBW RIOT SHOT CARTRIDGE FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD. >Vhen flred they will scatter, and a olley of tlieni will make a mob think t is facing shrapnel. The range of these riot cartridges s only about 300 yards, as against 2000 yards and more of the regular jullet. It is practically the range of he old musket of the Revolutionary Inys. The adaptation of this cartridge is entirely in Iine-with the larger lumanity warfare.?New York Press. He'd Seen 'Em. "What business is papa iu, mamma?" isked little Robbie. "Why, he's in the hardware business, ny boy." "And. does ue sen wcuiwicuc.-*, wmuna?" "Why, Robbie! Wliat a question! 3f course be doesn't." "Well, he's got a sign on the store ivindow which reads, 'We sell everything to be found in the kitchen.' iTonkers Statesman. The mystery of the Roentgen rays ippears to be deepening. Several instances in which it caused cancer iri; operations are now on record, and the iloctors are wondering why it should [11 some cases cure that disease and iu others cause it. BATTLESHIP GEORGIA, RECEN Displacement, 14.94S tons. Speed, 19 k mor: Belt, 11 inches to 4 iuches; tur barbettes, 10 inches and G inches; d ..innment: Four 12-inch 40-caliber B. 6-inch 50-callber It. F.; twelve 3-inc pounders; two 3-inch field guns; six Torpedo tubes 2 submersed. f!om HP* ? TO RESIST A COLLISION. Collapsible Car Frame to Take Up Shock. T k -.r, ? I.nATTTr fnni- t h 11 XI .o a nuruuvnu I . | of their positions at the head of the I train the baggage and mail cars are ; subjected to the greatest amount of I liard usage. The life of a railway poa- ; tal clerk for this reason is regarded J as a most hazardous one. In a col- j lision the baggage car, which is often also the mail car,'is generally smashed ' to splinters, and. often by consuming j 7 A MAN-TRAP. > Set Hosed. tbe shock is the means of saving the | remainder of the train from a like j fate. A car which is designed almost as> especially for collision as for mail and ' baggage carrying purposes , is the invention of J. D. Barber, of Cleveland, , Ohio, and in a few words consists of a ; construction which win consume the 1 shock of a collision and save not only the car thus equipped, but also pre vent any damage to tbe other cars of the train. In this, design the unden frame of the car is combined with a series,, of j springs and a telescopic framewqrk j which permits the springs to act as' a cushioned absorbent of concussion, I P" ' : CTTT Cut Showing Tnuck coiltyiH. L__ ' ; J COLLAPSIBLE CAR FRAME. x the severity of collision will be relieved, and other cars in the train protected against destruction. ( The platforms of this car are of especial construction, which permits of thfem sliding under the car in case of-, the accident withput damage to the body of the cpach,?Philadelphia Rec" / V I utu. Loudon's Unemployed. The Popular Borough Council yesterday decided to call town's meetings at Poplar and Bow to consider what steps can be taken to alleviate the dis- , tress in the borough caused by the ( large number of unemployed, who are estimated at over GOOO, and instructed j the town vlerk to prepare a petition to the king and a memorial to the prime minister asking that a special | session,of Parliament might be called to devise measures for copirjg with the distress. The returns of pauperism issued by the various East London | hoard-s of guardians show a great Increase in the amount of pauperism in the several unions. In Poplar over. 8000 are chargeable to the ratesi while | 1 iu Mile End, a much smaller union, i. no Jess than 3053 are chargeable, an increase in the two unions of over < 1000 against the corresponding week of J last year. In the Mile End alone last ! * ? ^ .liafrihnforf I ' week 110 less man n-t> m.<. , , in outdoor relief, a record Sgure.?New i , York Globe. i Two old portraits of Nelson, in good ' i condition, liuve, it is announced, been j discovered in Dresden, dating from the great admiral's visit there in 1801. Tift? one is a large pastel, the other a miniature in oil. v i < i if, ! ' irtv" . * 'Jtl TLY LAUNCHED AT BATH,.ME. ? nots. Banker capacity, 1704 tons. Arrets, 12 to S inches anil GVi to 0 inches; t I a-i 11/ !??l, ?| !nliao Ar. I r Wtt, IIUl, X72 %J tif.uwo. **.?. 1 L.; eight 8-inch 45-caIiber B. L.; twelve h R. F.; twelve 3-pounders; eight 1automatic guns; two machine j;uu8. oiemeut, 812, J. ! V. ; / ?S TREASURY REPORT !l B( Summary of Receiots and Exp^ndi- I t . . ? ? ? ? L iL a r^Au/Mtn ivi Anr iutps ui me uuvcinMicnii k TWENTY-TWO MILLIONS DEFICIT | Cause* of the Falling; Off?Parc<ii*e ol tli? Panama Blghti Colt #50,000,000?Decrease of *9,000,000 in Cnttomi ^ Receipt* and Payment ot, 10,000,000 to World'* Fair. p? Iv Washington. D. C. ? The Treasury w Department gave?out a summary of the receipts' and expenditures of the Government during 1904. The statement follows: 2; "The Treasury receipts for the cal- 0 endar year Trere $540,000,000 aad the expenditures (excluding Panama pay j0 ment) $562,000,000^ a deficit for^the n< year of $22,000,000. As compared with ? the previous calendar year, the re- ^ ceipts show a falling off of $3,000,000 jj* and the expenditures an increase of ,j. $50,000,000. The decrease in the receipts ia accounted f^. by a decrease of $9,000,000 in the "customs revenues. 14 "The increase in expenditures is sub- |0 divided as follows: Civil aud miscella- fC neous Expenditures. $15,000,000; ex- p penditures of the War Department, n( $9,000,000; expenditures of the Navy n{ Department, $23,000,000: pensions, $2,- jj 000,000; interest, $1,000,000. g; "The increase in interest is due to 2! the fact that a portion of the interest t of 1903 was anticipated in 1902. The figures do not include the postal re- j. ceipts and expenditures, except thai tj, the postal deficit ft included in the civil jn and miscellaneous expenditures. jt "The summary of foreign commerce. te published- by the Bureau of Statistics, throws light on the cause of the de- Pr crease iu customs revenues. The fig- w ures of the bureau cover the first m eleven montns or tne caienaar year ?<5 1904:, aj Imports for the eleven months, fr 1904 $939,000,000 p( Imports for the same period, , n( 1903 917*,000,000 Increase .$22,000,000 "Imports free of duty for the same period increased $42,000,000. while du; c tiable imports decreased $20,000,000. In 1903, 43^ per cent, of the imports,.-, were free of duty, while in 1904?. 47 per cent, were free of duty, and in No- ' vember, 1904, 49 per cent, were free of duty. Practically the entire in- ^ crease in free'imports was in three, ar- ft tides: coffee. India rubber and raw ^ silk. Although dutiable* imports de- ai creased $20,000,000. raw sugar and cr wool show increases aggregating $28,- pi 000,600. All other dutiable imports de- 3c creased nearly $50,000,000. Of this decrease $20,000,000 was in iron and ^ steel. ' Other noteworthy features of the |)3 Treasury transactions in 1904 were the, payment out of accumulated surplus of $50,000,000 for the right of way of the co Pannma Canal: the redemDtion of the outstanding 5 per cent bonds, due February 1. 1904. and the various calls 0I on the national bank depositories for return of a portion of their public de- /j( posits. _ The redemption of fives dur- ^ ing the calendar year was approxi- |)( mately $6,000,000. Public funds ou deposit -with the banks were reduce3 $5 from $106,000,000 on January 1, 1904, je to $113,000,000 at the close of the year. ar The calls on the banks, to mature early 23 in 1903 will further reduce these deposits and replenish the cash in the l; general fund of the Treasury to the extent of about $23,000,000. q, "The cash in the Treasury, exclusive of the gold reserve a?d gold coin held against outstanding csrtificates, was $320,000,000 on January 1, 1904. At sa the close of the year it was $240,000,- th 000, a decrease of $80,000,000 for the w year. The Panama payment accounts m for '$50,000,0d6yof this decrease. The redemption of the fives of 190i .und na- sc tional bank note redemption acdount Co f<wj, $10,000,000 more. .JTlie balance is ar due to the deficit incurred in carrying th on the ordinary operations of the Gov- Fi ernment. J w "For tlie first six months of the cur- tv rent fiscal year the deficit is approxi- w mateiy $22,000,000. The balance of the ly year will probably reduce rather thaD w increase the deficit. Receipts show o w tendency to increase. The greater pari st of the postal deficiency for this fiscal* ' year has already been met. and the ex- si penditure for various kinds of public, fo works will be less for the next six at months than for the six months just ax closed. Nearly $10,000,000 was disbursed in the last half of the last fiscal P Fear on account of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ? an expenditure Ai which will not be repeated 'durins the present year." EIGHT BELLS BY WIRELESS. ^ st Signals to Be Sent Frori* Norfolk Navy ^ Yard to Warships Near By. or Norfolk, Va. ? The commandant's ie nffice of the naval station was connectPV^ -rc-i+ii Tvlrolocc faloornnh SVStPIH- el< This will mark the first actunl connec- fo Hon between the direct wired lines of or the mainland and the wireless system bs teaching the vessels at sea. The sys- fa tem has been installed so-that the m noon hour may be flashed aboard ships [ \t Hampton Roads or aboard any of pi the s^ips in reach of this wiredess sta- I tio'D. ' of < P< Eleven Lives Lost. fr Eleven lives were lost when the- bark E; Marpesia was blown up by the explosion of her cargo of naphtha. Seren survivors arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, on the steamship Gallia. B< , * Troubles in Morocco. Conditions in Morocco were said to be such that anarchy reigned, and ''e British subjects# have been requested to remove from the outskirts of Tan- tr ?ier to the city in order to secure protho Moorish (Jovornment /oafesscd its inability to control tlie i situation. ri; j tn Dismissed by Commission. The Civil Service Commission tried md dismissed David H. Ray, exauiiu?r, who criticised the board. s? Pardoned by Governor. S. Fender, a convicted bucket-shop ceeper, was pardoned by Governor Ddell, of New* York, before he sot to irison. " Enthusiasm in Tokio. Admirals Togo andKamimura awoke he wildest enthusiasm on their jour- ^ ley to and in Tokio, where they report- , k! to the Mikado. Dynamite Does Damage. An overcharge of dynamite sent [tones through the windows of two ipartment houses in New York City. * YNCHING HAS'DECREASE jcords For 1934 Show Mob Violent in Evidence Least Since 1885: \ !~al and Illegal Executions In the Se eral States and Territories For the Year Jnst Fast* Chicago. III.?The Iyncliings in 10i ere only 80 in number, the smalle ! any year sine*? 1885. None was r >rted in November, the first time : renty years that a month pass< ithout a lynching. By States tl nchings were: Alabama, 5: Arkansa California, 2; Florida, 3; Georgi Idaho, 1; Kentucky, 4; Louisian Mississippi, 18; North Carolina, hio, 1; South Carolina, 5; Tennesse Texas. 4: Virsrinin. 4; Wyoming. 1, The lynchihgs were divided as f< ws:,82 in Sduth, 5 in North; 83 we igroes, 4 whifls and 2 women. ,T1 luses were: Murder, 36; race prej ice. 1&; awirtlta on women, 20; mt ?rous' assault* 4? conspiracy to mu ?r, 2: unknown, 2; insults, 2; threat robbery, 1. There were 116 legal executions >04. compared with 123 in 1903 nr H fa 1902. divided by States as f< ws: Alabama. 6; Arkansas, 7; Ca rnia, 5; Connecticut, 2; Delaware, lorida. 1; Georgia, 2; Idaho. 1; II )is, 5; Indiana. 2; Kentucky, 1; Mi ?sota, 1: Mississippi, 3; Missouri, ontana, 2; New Jersey. 2: New Yor North Carolina, 7; Ohio, 10; Orego Pennsylvania. 19; South Carolina, ennes.see, 3; Texas, 5; Utah. 1; Vi nia, G; West Virginia, 1; Washingto District of Columbia, 1. The exec 3ns were divided: 02 in North and I South; 69 M[ere white, 45 negroes, ipanese, 1 Chinese.' t)ne hundred ai n execution^were for murder. Embezzlements in 1904 showed a d ease, being $4,742,507, compar< ith $6,562,165 in 1903. The embezzl ents were: Stolen by public oJScial 138,794; from banks, $2,424,374; I fents. $758,879; forgeries. $193,49 om loan associations. $311,000: I >stal employes, $14,500; miscell ?ous stealings, $637,970. The# number of homicides Includii iA+f*c> 1 \*r T7taIqtiaa nf arorv flnrt" w.1 82, compared with 8976 in 1903. OUNTRY'S GIFTS OP. A YEAI otal For-.1904 $46,296,960. thb Lea Sum Since 1901. t' Chicago, 111.?While the donations < >04,'-by a",,','l gift and bequest iarity, reli^a, - ?>ud educational ins itions, librpr.. museums, galleri id municipal betterments, show a d ease, being but $46,296,960, as coi tred with $76,934,978 in 1903. $71 >7,167 in 1902, and $128,888,732 01?the record breaking year?,st ie total amount remains large. The decrea'se is partly accounted f< r the much-smaller amounts contri ed by multi-millionaires. The tot ated of course does not represei mtributions to charity in the gener nse, or church contributions, or sm.i ims. It includes only such donatloi bequests as have been published. Of the total amount for the year, tl matlong are $20,609,807 and * the b lests $25,660,173. These sums Jiai ten divided as follows: To charltie ^ TFtO O7ft f/\ ral{(ylAnq ontopnriap i.842.800: to Tnuseums and art gnlle s. $898,000; to libraries, $1,541.36 id to educational institutions, $2] 5,452. [FE SAVERS SAVE COMRADE ik Island Crew Take Fire Islande Off Stranded Schooner. Eastport. L. I.?The Oak Island !i .ving crew had to go to the rescue < ie members of the Fire Island ere hen the situation of the Fire Islaj en,was desperate. A week .previously the Iumber-lad< hooner Frank'tV. McCullough, boui r Patchogue^ grounded on Fire Is id bar a short dsfonce from wbe: e steamer Qrumelzler grounded. TI ire Island crew went out to tl reck of the McCullough to take o vo men who while engaged in salvaj ork had'been caught aboard, Whi Ing alr.lgside the Fire Island bo: as dashed a'galnst the side of tl reck of thje schooner and her sidt ove iu. The Fire Island men took to the ri ng of the McCullough and siguaU r help. The Oak Island men put o once and brought the Fire Islande: jd.the two. men ashore. RESIDENT TO PARIS, TEXAS ccepts Confederate Vets' Invitatiop Kinsmen on Both SidesPads, Texas.?Replying to an invit jii extended by Albert Sidney Job on Camp U. C. V., extended throug 3 commander, J. W. Hardison, Pres ;nt Roosevelt promises to visit Par i bis Southern trip, if possible. H tter says in part: "Personally. I had kinsmen on bol lea. Two of my mother's brothe: ugbt in the Confederate service fe, by the way, served on the A1 ima under Admiral Semmes, tl ther of the wife of that gallant fo er Confederate, Luke Wright, who have made Governor of the Phili; nes. It was only the other day tin designated the sole living grandst Stonewall Jackson a cadet at We >int, and have just made 'Jeb' Stuai United States Marshal for tl astern District of 'Virginia." . Russian Securities Stand. Russian securities in the Beii oerse stood the shock without loss. Russian Destroyers Disarm. The four Russian destroyers whit ached Chefoo disarmed, while Ja lese warships guarded the harbor e auce. v Tut Burglar to Flight, Pliiiip Towner, ticket agent at Mo stown, N, J., drove three robbe vay with a revolver. Big Fire at Long Branch. A $200,000 threatened a lar: of Long Branch, N. J. Baltic Fleet Anchors. Rojestvensky's squadron of five ba cchina nnd thrpp cruisers with tran )rt and smaller era ft, anchored ia tl \rbor at Sainte-Marie, Madagascar. American Jans Hear News. Dispatches were received by Bar< aneko and Consul-General Ucbida, ew York City, telling of the surre ?r of Port Arthur. Perjury Charges Dismissed. The perjury charges against ex- Ji ce E. L. Fursman were dismissed toy, N. Y. ' . "Jiimraisofwra . i , v M ' WASHINGTON. Some of the important diplomatic appointments President Roosevelt has decided to make were announced. Two Ho'land submarines have been v contracted for by Secretary ,of tbe Natfy M6rton. President Roosevelt appointed J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, Pa.,. Chief of the Bureau of Manufactures in 'the..Deonrtment of Commerce and M Laboi^': st Mr. North, Director of the Census, ise sued a statement defending the bu- f reau's cotton reports against attacks made on them by Southern ginnery ie OUR ADOPTED ISLANDSs? Advices from Honolulu, Hawaiian a. Islands, said that the United States a. Government is to fortify Midway Isl-. , 1; and and Guam. The cruiser New Or>e( leans, which has been ordered from , Manila to Bremerton, will leave the )|. large guns of her armament at the is!- , re andsj'.Jo be mounted there. Mu?4 comment was heard throughu out -tift Philippine Islands, especially t- arouna; Manila,-over the appointment i'* of Captain Howze, formerly stationed s. in the islands, as commandant of the West Point Military Academy. in _ id >1. DOMESTIC* Thomas D. Robinson, of New York City, aged eighty-one, and his wJfe? "* seventy, were charged with burglary* The cruiser Chattahooga was tested r: for speed off Newport, R. I., exceeding the contract speed on a four hours' > ? run. - ' [rl The body of Leonard Mandeville, a' 'jS n clerk, nineteen years old. was found in , U1 a trench in Newark, N. J. ,. ,u .r^ 54 It w^ announced that part, of; the 1 O^th-e^ral of St. John the Divine, in' . .'1 id New York City, would be finished in * three yeacs. e- Governor Frank W. Higgins was inh1 augurated in the Assembly Chamber at e- the Capitol at Albany, N1 Y? in, the s. presence of a distinguished gathering. Andrew Cafnegle has given $268,000 0; to the'Maryland Institute of Art and )y Design. a" The annual report of F. D. Kiiburn, ' 1C New York State Superintendent of N\ ,';i .g' Banking, was made public in Albaay. Many changes in the banking laws,of the State were recommended. ; v > t. Agents of the chief Chicago (III.) paekers were arrested in Montana. aKamma/I ?rri f i\ fiAnanSi*n av tn Av maof . _ f-'-i ?#. tuaiS^u. >Y4iu v.vuo|iuavj w u* vuvwb -t prices, ; ' U I Dr. Leroy S. Chadwrek,, husband of > ~V ?f the alleged) swindler, arrived in Oleveto1 land, Ohio, and had a pathetic cpnferti ence toth liis wife in the Jail. es The refusal of the village of Leame" ington, Ont., to furnish water for loco- '?M J?" motives on the Pere Marquette road 4tS stalled several of them at tb<rt!place. . [jl After a barroom row at Fall Biver, Mass., where they had both been on jjr strike twenty-two wee^s, Fred. Booth u late $tt night killed John Parkinson in * aI a fist fight. ^ Qt The body of the girl murdered in . ai Riverside Drive, New York 6ity, was At til identified as that of Mary Elizabeth ia Mangan/of the Bronx. ' Mayor Mulvihill, of Bridgeport, t le Conn., rescued from drowning a little , e- girl who nearly perished in a, futile at- , -^8 re tempt to save two little boys who lost v (8,' their lives ,us$er the ice. |S- Clergymen, judges and ^officials-favored a movement"to establish the | whipping post for wife beaters in the L" "niafttirtf A# pAlilmhlA JL/lOUlbl. VI WUIUiUlW. | Worshipers in North Plainfleld, NS J., , g tried to lynch negroes who fataUj, stabbed policemen. rg Several wealthy men in Ohio were .0 "Indicted for arson committed twenty- ?M four years ago. v\ ' fe Wanted at McKeesport, Pa., uu ?. . forgery charge, Harry Linn was arrestw ed at New Orleans, La. ' , 7 ^ The quarterly statement of the New York State banks, published at AIilJ bany, showed an increase qf over $65., 000,000 in the amount due depositors in 1 three months. rc XQ The Pall, River boat Puritan was dis]ft abled by breaking her paddle vrtieel off $ Pleasant View, R. I. She was towed ?e to New London, Conn. ^ le Dr. Chadwick, husband of Cassie at L. Chadwick, with his daughter arie rived in New York City from Europe, 23 and he voluntarily started for Cleveland, Ohio, where he was arrested. ? FOREIGN. Great damage has been done in Gen. rs eva by a recent blizzard. rnuA aU'aP fK/v Pnhan IToalfh T*lrt. A Ht? llliCl UL luc VUUrtll U.VHUU A/v partment declared absurd Dr. Nelson'g report that information concerning yel_ low fever at ^Santiago bad been sup- ' i.H pressed?' ' "* A disaster caused by a bog slide over- " whelmed a village in Roscommon, Ire- >. ' * ^ndJj. The Duke and . Duche'ss of Connaught, with .their daughters, are to is make a tour of Spain. The Australian Minister of *Trade Is th considering the advisability of giving rs state bonuses to encourage the grow? ing of cotton.' 'r a- Dispatches to Panama declared that " ie a projected revolution in Colombia had , r- been put down, and the generals who m planned it imprisoned. . * p" For the first time in the history of 11 United Italy clerical aldermen attend^ ed the reception at the QuiriiiaT. Kaiser Wilhelm, ^t tfee New Year's ie reception to the American Ambassador, sent greetings to thet President amK\ the American peoplft " ' . " Cardinal Langenieux', Archbishop of \ i:1 Rheims, has just died at the age of eighty. _ v , j Vilbrun Guillaume. former Haitian Minister of War, was sentenced to >li j penal servjiude for life, and national p. bank officials and two sons of ex-Presi>. ident Sam received terms of imprisonment for implication in the fraudulent issue of bonds. Admiral Kaynakoff, whose Iiealtb Is r given way, will be succeeded by AdL's? miral Denbassoff in the commission to inquire into the Dogger Bank incident. It was stated in Vienna that the r^v Ignatlon of Premier von Korber wa.\ jp forced by his failure to secure sanction far extraordinary Austrian credits. The United States gunboat Wasp ran aground on a mudbank in the harboi of Kingston. Jamaica. s- Lord Roberts, in an article in a Lon10 don monthly, declared that Great Bri- ? tain ttrjrentlv needed a great reserve of trained soldiers. Warships showing Japanese color? )ii were sighted in the Sunda Strait at through which the Baltic fleet seemed n- likely tapass. me crisis in Morocco grew more seI ?!aiip, ""/I n onartlol T-> nnriof GloriafnF l iuu? aau a o?icv.mi xuugivi vnupM shu? the^town of Alcazar was again heis steged by tribesmen, who demanded s at large sum. or, if refused, the surrender to ttiera of sevcal for ten residents. : i.. |