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Eh! To Get Goods Promptly. r One West Side woman .who get3 purchases delivered from tlie shops IB tialf the time it takes t3 get her nei 9^P jfoors' goods ujtown -vras asked secret of her hurry-up methods, jj^t' "I have everything sent C. O. I [she said. "I don't know whether 'stores need the money or whether tl !^p>- are afraid I will countermand the or ^BF if they keep me waiting; but it ii sBF 'fact that C. O. D. goods are delivr Em juuch more promptly than the thii mb you pay spot cash for."?New 1' S !!Press. I PAINFUL Suggestions How to ';' (' While no woman is entirely free frc beriodical suffering, it does not seem be the plan of nature that worn should suffer so severely. Menstru ,tion is a severe strain on a womai (Vitality. If it is painful or irregul something' is wrong whicL" should ?et right or it will lead to a serious ( rangement of the whole female orgc ism. More than fifty thousand worn ifcave testified in grateful letters to M Pinkhana that Lydia E. Pinkhao fc_ Vegetable Compound overcomes pa; ful and irregular menstruation. It provides a safe and sure way of < eape from distressing and dangero i Weaknesses and diseases. i fc The two following letters tell so cc incingly what Liydia n;. finkhan . Vegetable Compound will do 1 n 'women, they cannot fail to bring ho to thousands of sufferers. ? ?_ I Miss Nellie Holmes of 540 N. Da . " aion Street, Buffalo, N. Y., writes: > ' Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? > " Your medicine is indeed an ideal medici tor women. I suffered misery for years w, [ painful periods, headaches, and bearing-doi pains. I consulted two different physicia 4 pat failed to get any relief. A friend frc jthe East advised me to try Lydia E. Pit ham's Vegetable Compound. I did so, a !no longer suffer a31 did before.. My peric * are natural: every ache and pain is gone, a my general health is much improved, c - advise all women who suffer to take Lyt iS. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." " i Mrs. Tillie Hart, of Larimore, N. I writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? j* . "I might have have been spared ma mouths of suffering and pain had I ot known of the efficacy of Lydia E. Pinkhai ' [Ask .Mrs. Pinkham's Adrlce-A W ? ./ That Famouit Lxncli. Wlien Brother Dickey heard th Mr. Carhegie had paid $1000 for plain lunch on a railroad train, he claimed: j t "Lawd, Lawd! I wonder what h< SyV gimme fer a baked 'possum."?Atlac i:. Constitution. iV . BOX OF WAFERS FREE-NO DRU -CURES BY ABSORPTION. Cures- Belch In* or Uaf>? Bail it ream a Bad (Stomach?Short Breath? BIoaMng?Sour Eructations? Irregular Heart, Ktc. ^Take a Mull's Wafer any time of the c r~S or night, and note the immediate good * feet on your stomach. It absorbs the g disinfects the stomach, kills the poi.< germs and cures the disease. Catarrh the head and throat, unwholesome fc and overeating make bad stomac Scarcely any stomach is entirely free fr taint of some kind. 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"Send this coupon with your nam ana name of a druggit wfio does not sell it for a free sauipl box of Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers to Mull's Ciape Tonio Co., 328 Thir Ave., Rock Island, III. Give Full Address and Write Plainly Sold by all druggiat3, 50c. per box, 6ent by mail. . Lumlnnua Mutton. . A phenomenon of a remarkable Jture has been observed at Cbr charch,- Aukland, New Zealand. Consumers of mutton have b moved to alarm on going to their ra safes at nlsbt and discovering the terior bright with a phosphoresc glow, which appeared to be exud 5rom the meat. Scores of household ' Sbave noticed this strange appeara ' (t>n the day on which the7 had I chased the meat. Expert authorities who have quired into the matter declare t *he phosphorescence is of bacte origin. It Is stated, however, that injurious effects have been found arise from consuming the aflfec meat.?London Express. The First Cloud Over Eden, Adam was making his avowal Eve. "No powor shall ever take you f my side," he declared fervently. "That's a pretty rash promise, i it?" inquired Eve, winking, "since know I was taken from your side first thins after you arrived here?" Perceiving that the woman was ing him a rib roast, Adam went eulking in the apple orchard.?Ivai Skillfully Carred Carlo. her Among some interesting curios In i in possession of one of the young pro?h fessars of the University of Pennsylthe vania is a unique specimen of skill in whittling, made by an old seaman out of a piece of* wood. At first view il the looks like some weapon of defence, tiey but on a second inspection proves to der be a long and delicately carved cgg? a beater, with beautiful tracerieB on the red handle. A number of tiny balls seen ugs in the interior of the'handle are perurk feet in shape and roll around like a rattle when the spoon is shaken. PERIODS > Find Relief from Such ffering. >m Vegetable Compound sooner; for I have tried to so many remedies without help. e_ " I dreaded the approach or my menstrual period every month, as it meant so much pain 1, and suffering for me, but after I bad used the 1 8 Compound two months X became regular and ar natural and am now perfectly well and free be from pain at my monthly periods. I am very ie- grateful for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me." Such testimony should be accepted en by all women as convincing evidence P3 that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable x?a Compound stands without a peer as a , ia. remedy for all the distressing ills of women. ?s. The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's "us Vegetable Compound rests upon the well-earned gratitude of American (n. 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Saddle Worth 970,000. at "The costliest saddle in the world bea longs to the Khedive of Egypt," said a s* fashionable saddler. "It is made of black leather, though there is more '& gold than leather visible, and it cost l*a $70,000. ft is really four saddles in one. It is a four-horse saddle, and the 22 royal grooms sit in it to guide the four horses of the royal coach on state occasions. >nd "The lightest saddle in the world belongs to Archer, the jockey. It was made in London, and it weighs sixteen ounces. The pigskin had to be scraped 'eY with glass down to the thickness of ra3" one-eighth of an inch to give such a inn Jicht weisrht as this. The saddle ? a or fine, strong one, and it cost $250. hs "We accasionally get orders for Mexom' ican saddles from South American genlch erals and from Indian rajahs. Such hy saddles are often mounted with gold 1? and silver and-even jewels. They cost to .ill the way from $100 to $1000."?New ric York Press. ro )ps On the lioad. on The manager rushed into the prop* . erty room excitedly. ?ri- "Where is the apple to put on Tell's )le. son's head?" lie cried. "The audience ,ot* is waiting. There's not a miuute to en" lose." . rill The property man put down bin newspaper and too? his pipe from his , ?; mouth. e'^j "Tell ate it." he said calmly. "You ipt didu't pay him yesterday, and he stewed it for hi* supper."?New York _ Press. ?! A BRAIN WORKER Mast Have cne ivumi 01 rooa urni ngucirfhen Krain. le "I am a literary man whose nervous energy Is a great part of my stock in d trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But or I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grape-Nuts food. na_ "I discovered long ago that the very i5t. bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a ^lear head. cen the power of sustained, accurate tliiukieat ing. I always felt heavy and sluggish jn_ in mind as well as body after eating ,ent the ordinary meal, which diverted the . iin(r blood from the braiu to t)>e digestive [ers apparatus. nCp '*1 tried foods easy of digestion, but . found them usually deficient in nutriT ovnavimontAfl YL'itli mnnr , breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, til! I reached GrapeNuts. And then the problem was no sol d- , [ t0 "Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfoet>ted from the beginning, .satisfying My hunger and supplyiug the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. to "I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out rom an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated sn't to my entire satisfaction that Grapeyou Nuts food contains all the elements the needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writgiv er." Name given by Postum Co., Batoft tie Creek, Mich. isas There's a reason. Read' the Tittle book, "The Road to Wellville,^ in pkgs. RESCUED JI1STJ TIME Liehtship Went Down, But All the Crew Were Saved, USED WIRELESS TO SUMMON AID Thirteen Hen on Nantaclcet South Bhoal Teasel Vailed Oat Water by Hand For Twenty-Tour Hoars ? Tender Azalea Started to Tow tbe Inirhtifhip to New UoclforJ, But the Latter Foundered. New Bedford, Mass.?Persistent bailin? by band for twenty-four weary iiours, wmie waiting tue arrival or lielp summoned by wireless telegraphy, saved the lives of tlic thirteen men on board the Nantucket South Shoal relief lightship No. 58, but the .vessel wen| down a few minutes after the crew had tumbled over the side into theii lifeboat. For sir hours the lighthouse tendet Azalea, which had answered the call for help, lay alongside the waterloggea. lightship, unable to render assistance* owing to the fearful sea. At lengtfc the weather moderated, and then at effort was made to tow the lightshij to New Bedford. But, after eighteen miles had been covered, the water which had been coming in steadilj through a leak in the fireroom com? partment, gained rapidly on the al? ready exhausted crew, and the distress signal was hoisted. Without stopping for any of their be*. i i ~ x i lUIl?JUgS, IUB LTKVV tuuuuueu IJIUH boat and jumped into it. They had rowed only a short distance when No; 58 plunged- beneatfh the waves. Th* men were pulled on board the Azalea, which had steamed back to rescue them, and. they .were brought here saf( and sound. N Relief lightship No. 58, commanded by Capt. Jorgenson, of Dennis, took tht place of No. 72 on December 5. The vessel was equipped with wireless telegraphy, and constaut conjmunlca. tion coula be kept up with Newport At two o'clock the other morning t jeak was discovered just above 1 h* fire-room plates in the midship corm partmcnt of the vessel. For several hours the vessel was kept free by ait of her steam pumps, but at eiglf o'clock it was apparent that the wate was gaining, and a message was sea to Newport for aid. During the next few hours theVatei rose vrapidly, until the fires under th<. boilers bad been quenched and pump ing by mechauical means ceased. Sev eral messages were sent after the dyna mos stopped/by means of storage bat teries, all urging that some vessel b? sent as soon as possible. During all this time the little light ship had been tumbled about iu on> of the severest storms of the season Realizing that hand-bailing might pos sibly keep the vessel afloat until lielj arrived, the th'irteen men started tin tedious work of hoisting the wate) from the flooded hold by buckets, th? hand-pumps being of little use. With out stopping for food or sleep, thej managed to hold their own for twentyfour hours. At two o'clock in the morning, om of the naval wireless operators waj able to send out one more message stating that the lightship was in distress, and urging that help be sent "from anywhere." The power gavi out before he could sign the messaga Two hours later the Azalea, which has been the'tender for-the lightships or this station for many years, was sight ed by the light of the setting moon. At ten o'clock the sea. under the in* fluence of the northwester which hai followed the easterly storm, calmec down to a moderate roll, and a lint was sent to the lightship from th? Azalea. Capt. Jorgensen hailed Capt Gibbs on the tender, and said hs thought his men could keep the vesse* UI1U61L until dUtf I CiiLiiCU n c rr wcuium although the middle compartment wai nearly full of water. The line frou the Azalea was made fast. Still thi crew continued to bail, although great' ly exhausted by their hard labors. It was about noon when, after eight een miles had been covered, Capt. Jor genson hoisted the distress signals ot the lightship, and the towing stopped The Azalea ran back toward the sink ing vessel, while the crew of the light ship pushed their lifeboat over th* side. Capt. .Torgenson was the las* to leave his ship. Ten minutes Iat? No. 58 plunged beneath the waves. The crew rowed around on the lee ward sido of the Azalea and wen dragged aboard, almost too exhausted to stand. They were sent below; warmed, fed, and then put to bedv. The wireless outfit on the ligtitshii was valued at 52500. KILLED IN THEATRE RIOT. Audience Turns on Claque For Ap plauding Unpopular Actor. Madrid,. Spain. ? The persistence 01 the claque iu applauding an unpopulai actor at the Royal Opera House, Seville, led from hissing by the rest o1 the audience to the throwing of mis* sites. A fight with canes, chairs and bottles followed. Finally armed, gendarmes cleared the theatre. Two persons, whose skulls were fractured, died in the hospital. The members ol the claque were arrested. Housp Passes Canal Bill. Secretary Taft's request for an emergency appropriation of $10,500,000 foi Panama Canal work was cut to $11/ 000,000 by the House, at Washington, D. C., and passed. Kidnaped His Son. To prevent his marriage to a Washington girl. Alphonso, con of President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, was kidnaped and hustled off for Centra! America. Russian 'Refugees Land. A* l\e llUUULm UU^IIUU ICIU^CW IU11Ued at Ellis Island, New York City, the oflier day. Boston Elccts ulayor. & I|x-Congressman John F. FitzsflVd, Democrat, was elected Mayor^^^ston, Mass., by 8380 pluralit^^^^^^ The Empress of ately fond of 0owe^H|^^^H^H|V Countess de for the The Queen of EnlH|j^^HHHHr she does look organizer the in the United StatHB^^^^BBBHr has been winning^? in shooting tourn^H HHHBBHH John F. I Marion C^actv, MH^BHOD - daughter of a r 9 SIX LOSE LIV?S IN FIRE j Mother and Five Children Burned in New York City. [ Father Returns Home to Pind QIk Eutir* Family Wijiorf Ont by lilazo iu a Tenement New York City.?A mother ami her. five children were burned to death. at night in a fire in a tenement house at the southeast corner of Columbus avenue and 100th street. Every other one of the tenants had narrow escapes, and there were many thrilling rescues. ' The house in which the fire occurred, 1 815 Columbus avenue, is a compara- < tively old structure. The lower floor is occupied by a saloon, and the entrance to the apartments is at 74 West 100th ! street. An air shaft divides the building from SI?> Columbus avenue, and It j was through this air . shaft that the flames spread. Tlin ffimilv whinh wnc w'norl wna tliftt of Jobn H. Thomasou, a bricklayer. Thomason left bis home at 7 o'clock and went to a meeting of his uiiion, promising to be home early. He hurried away from his comrades i when the business of the evening was , over and reached his corner shortly j after 9 o'clock. , He noticed a big crowd around the coruer and saw several fire engines , standing about. When he looked at . his house he saw that something was < wrong, and tried to reach the door. , A. policeman stopped him. A neighbor, < who recognized him, told him that the place had been burned out. The neigh- , bor didn't knoAv that his family had ( been burned, or if he did lacked the ( courage to tell him. "Where's Annie aud the children?" , asked Thomason. J "They must be around somewhere," the neighbor replied. Thomason- set out .to hunt for his wife and children. From one house to another he raii, growing more and more alarmed as he could find no trace \ of them. Finally a man who knew him and who knew the fate of the ( family advised him to go to the police station, half a block away, on West 100th street. He did so. "My name's Thomason," he said. "I'm hunting for my wife and babies." ! Sergt. Devery left his place and came out from behind the railing. "They're here," he said. "But you must bo brave." Then the sergeant told him that the bodies of his wife and children were in the section room. J The sliock so unnerved him that he had to be led away by friends. Mrs. Thomason was thirty years old. The children who were burned;with her were William, aged nine; Thomas, seven: John H.. Jr.. and Annre. twins, three years old, and Samuel, tlie baby, seven mouths old. The fire did $40,000 damage. It was caused by the explosion of a lamp in the apartment of Francis Ho3;ey,.on ! the second floor. Mrs. Holley was not J in the room at the time, and the burning oil, flying in every direction, had ignited the room in a dozen places, when she ran in to see what the trouble \ was. The window leading to the air shaft was up and the flames, fanned by the draught, soon found their way J out. . Mrs. Holley ran into the hallway and screamed "Fh-e!" James Radden, ' a ten-year-old boy who lived with his mother and father and two brothers , on the same floor, heard her cries and, ,! without stopping to ask any questions, stuck Lis brad in Lis door, gave tne.. , warniug, and tLcn raced downstairs and to tLe fire alarm bor on the cor- , ner. Policeman McLoughlin was standing 1 by the box, and when tLe boy, all Intent on Lis taalc, grabbed for the handle, stopped him. TLe policeman was informed of tlie situation, turned ] in tLe alarm, and, with the boy, hurried to the burning building. The Raddens and Mrs. Holley had already escaped when McLoughlin t reached the place. He kept on to the < third floor, where he gave the alarm, i and then,mounted to the fourth and J fifth. While he was on the fourth floor he was joined by Toliceman Fisher. 1 When the tenants on the third floor < and from the third floor up started to ; escape they found the stairways cut 1 oft' by the flames. On the third floor i there were Mr. and Mrs. Ira Vatt Nest J and two children and Mr. and Mrs. ] John J. Hynes and their brother-in- ' law. On the fourth floor were Patrick i Owens, his wife and four children, i and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill and seven 1 children. O'Neill was away from home. On the top floor were the Thorn- 1 asons in one flRt ana ueorge iNogie, ms wife, their daughter, Mrs. Annie Mc- 1 Grath, their son Frederick. ? All the occupants of these three < floors, with the exception of the Thorn- 1 asons, gathered at the fourth-story, t landing. The two policemen wont into the O'Neill apartments and opened the window leading to the fire escape in the rear of the hoijae. The fire escape ] leads down to the roof of a cobbler's shop. In the excitement aud amid the swirling smoke nobody noticed the absence of the Thomason .family. ( Killed by Bullet Wound. ] With a bullet hole in his righi ?iilr J W. D. Johnson was fr ind dead in ( North Birmingham, Ala., with nothi.'ijr 1 to show who fired the shot. * Garrison's Anniversary." ( The 100th anniversary of the birlli of William Lloyd Garrison was oh- J served in Boston, Mass., and New York . City. 1 Takahira Off For Japan. Mr. Takahira, the Japanese Minister [ left Washington, D. C., Cor Toliio. / Statue Falls and Breaks. While being raised into position on ' the Hall of Records, in New York 1 City, a four and one-half ton granite J statue of Abrara S. Hevritt fell 10<! feet to Chambers street and was shattered. Nobel Teace Prize Awarded. ' The Nobel Peace Trize was awarded at Christians to Baroness von Suttuer of Austria. The awards in chemistry, medicine, physics and literature v.?'rr 1 made at Stockholm. , Sporting Brevities. A. N. Brady paid $10,500 for Horning Star. Creamer, a jockey, had a miraculous escape from death at the Bennings i track. By a single point Pennsylvania defeated Cornell at football, the score being 0 to 5. Karl Brill, for two years Harvard's big star tackle, says he will not play kfootball any more. I Chicago upset calculations by deKeating Michigan for the championship nf the West by a score of 2 to 0. 1 1 ' LITHUANIAN^ NOWREBEL Russian Troops Aid InsurgentsRiga Fort in Their Hands. \ REPUBLIC HAS BEEN FORMED General Peasant Uprising?Many Officials and Landlords Slain?Provisional Gor? eminent Formed ? Rebels in Fu?l Possession of Slllau, id Courland? lteign oT Terror at Riga. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Two messengers who arrived here from Riga, having walked about 130 miles to cntch a train at Plock, not only confirm the report that a Provisional Government has been 3et up in Livonia, but say that maqy of the troops have gone over to the insurgents. Dvina Fort, commanding Riga bar bor. is in possession or itne reoeis, auu the,Governor and other Russian officials are prisoners. There is a reign -of terror at Riga. Women and children are liviu? in the upper stories of houses and foreign merchants are winding up their business or abandoning everything in orJer to escape. The Provisional Government exer?ises authority throughout Livonia ind part of Courland. The new Government has declared the separation of the Lithuanian people from the Russian Empire. The- Russian officials are being expelled from the provinces, and many 3f them have been killed in the streets of the towns. The people .have chosen new officials md have decreed the cloaing of the spirit shops and breweries and the annulment of contracts between the peasants and the "landowners. There is a general uprising of the aaHvft npusnnts -who are trav?:liae in armed bands, attacking the estates and driving off or killing their owne/u. Twelve thousand troops have been dispatched to the Baltic provinces. Some of the landowners have organized volunteer l?ttalions to protect their property, as the authorities are powerless to afford aid, but the majority are fleeing in terror. The peasants forbid the owners to sell grain or lumber and formally declare that the forests and estates of those who have departed will be confiscated. The position of the peasants in these provinces has been the most deplorable of any in the entire empire. Conditions almost approaching those of the. feudal system have been continued down to the present time. The peasants have practically been kept in a state of vassalage at the mercy of the German barons, from whom they rent land and purchase the right to cut rf/irvH on/1 fich in wfl tors nf tll<? Clllf. An Imperial ukase orders the convocation of representatives of the various classes of the' Baltic provinces, including the peasants, to work out a scheme for the crention of a zemstvo to control local affairs. It is doubtful, however, whether 'the promise of local self-government contained in the ukase will have much effect at least for the present, but it furnishes ample proof lhat the Government realizes that It is helpless to restore order v/ithout granting heavy concessions. The .partial concessions granted to the people of the Baltic provinces are bound to encourage the Poles, Georgians and other border peoples. Little is known of General Sollogub. who, it is reported, will be appointed. Governor-General of the Baltic ,provinces, but he is said to be a man of energy with fairly liberal ideas. . TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS. May Be Turned Over to the National Government. Washington, D. u.?national iegisiaion for the preservation of the beautieB )f Niagara Falls may result from President Roosevelt's reference to this subject in his message to Congress. Members of the New York delegation, some of whom heretofore had not considered tbe destruction of the Falls is- a vital question, have been Impressed by the President's words, and measures to preserve the Falls unharmed will have their warm support Representative William S. Bennett, who served two terms in the State Legislature, expressed views indicating that he was willing to lead in working for whatever legislation may 3e necessary. "I am willing to support any measure that will preserve the Falls," he said. 'Just what lines it would be necessary .'or such a measure to take I have not studied out, but if it cannot be done in xny other way I am even in favor of :he State of New York turning over :he Falls to the National Government." ANTELOPE INVADE RANCH. Herd of GOO Driven From Montana Hills by Heavy Snows. Lewiston, Mont.?A herd of at least 500 antelope driven from the mounains bv snow visited the Seventy-nine Ranch in a body. This is the largest lerd seen in Montana since pioneer lays. The animals were so thick that nen rode through them as they would :hrougli- a bunch of cattle. The snow was crusted, and this had mt the legs of the antelopes so badly Jiat they showed not the slightest dis>osition to move oq. The State Game Warden estimates that the lives of 10,000 deer and elk have been saved hrough the absence of snow until the >pen season closed on December 1, since which time antelopes may not be killed. Penalties For Slave Trade. The French Minister of the Colonies las signed a measure providing heavy jsnalties for slave traders in West ifrica. London's Unemployed- Protest. Britain's new Prime Minister, with lohn Burns at his side, receivpd a deputation of London's unemployed. New President of Mutual. Charles A. Peabody was elected President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Minor Mention. Only 819,220 children were born in France last year. The British War Office has announced that it can not give official recognition to polo. .Several artists in London are now executing portraits in wax of wellknown and fushtanable people. There are thirteen King streets in the county of London, thret* of whici are in the city of Westminister.' Photographs of 25,704 criminals are pigeonhole# at the central Berlin police office, an increase of 5000 since 3900. . ' BITSi NEWS WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt is said, to have, told friends that he will tor- th.-> world after his term expires. ' The committees lit the House o? Representatives were announced bj Speaker Cannon. The Panama Canal bill wzs referred to the Committee on Appropriations it the House. The introduction of a railroad rat* bill by Mr. Tillman precipitated a lively debate in tht Senate. . The Secretary of the Interior gave the pension roll as 998,441. Secretary Taft reported that thi ,nrmy numbers 59,814 and the militia 121,908. Senator Tillman at the Navy De* partment objected to the proposition to make the old frigate Constitution a target for sailors to shoot at He believes ,.t;hfc vessel should be kept intact as a lesson in history. Senator Piatt, of New York, had art extended conference with the Presi' dent at the White House. A compromise is being arranged by which Arizona and Ne*.7' fciexicp trill be admitted as one State and Oklahoma and the Indian Territory as another: OUR ADOPTED - ISLANDS. As a result of the widespread agitation by the American press for corporal punishment since the murder at Ormoc of Principal Clarence Allen by a fifteen-year-old Filipino pupil of the school there, the Legislative Council Af A vr/V*A Dt*AtrinArv Imn A II4KA?SiiAI1 VL iiic iuviu x luriuuc liaaN&uuiviiACUiB disciplinary whipping In the publicl schools. B General Jbukj B. Wright, Governor? of the Philippines, said the islands were prosperous. K The Sugar Planters' Association "fl HohQlulu, P. I., decided.to send, to th<B Azores for 1000 families to labor ofl the plantations. Secretary Atkinsofl will personally superintend the trans? fer of the laborers. The Japanese borers are leaving and Chinese canjfl be imported. DOMESTIC. .Tust after completing a work on iH ligious and political economy, Willi; Henry Reid killed himself by shoot at Cincinnati, Ohio. v JB Yale University has received irora two anonymous donors vrh^HHB at no time been connected witt^fl^^Bj stitution, hh On' account of ill health Judl^MHB Chandler, has resigned a.' AhsocI^H Justice of the Georgia Supreme Coi^H Counsel for William R. liearst jMH applied in New York City for perr^B Kion to opeii seventeen more ba^H boxes. . IKH The battleship Louisiana sailed Newport News, Va., for ita trial off the Maine coast. flK Misunderstanding of orders caJHfl a collision on the Santa Fe road Caddoa, Col, which smashed gines and eleven passenger and cars without badly hurting anyboi^^H The Kennebec Spinning Mill.^Rf Richmond, Me., have been sold at^M| closure for $33,000 to P. J. Chapl^^H the first mortgage bondholders' mittee. . - ^^9 An overdose of morphine takcJHH cause she was tired of life killed line Vicky, at Norfolk, Va. The National Gamers' A3soc^^W ronnrhs !i rnMon rrnn of 0.fi23.00ft^^^Vi I growing discontent witl^Hunt Witte's Ministry, and there are^Hiy calls for his removal. JH M. Krnstaleff, head^Mthe Workmen's Alliance, has i^^Harrested in St. Petersburg, P.ussh^^B Paul Meurice, the f^H'r and dramatist, (lied at Paris,) ^Hce. A large Persian for^Hireatened t& r.pize a disputed sectio^V the Turkish frontier. . Italy has taken steforce Vene-zuela to agree to sstti^Hlian claims. Lord Rosebery, in ^Speech before the Council of the I^^Bil League, in London, England, rt^Hd support to ilome ltule, and urt^Hhe new CabtiAf in i-nli/ nn rich for support Kebellious troops reported as killing their oliic*-s^^ftarbin, which was set oa lire. SmK mutinies unci strikes are reported^nfc Kus-sia. S.r Alfred CliarleHjfiruisvrorth was rlevateil to the jioeraye with the rank <>1 viseoum$|| Mr. Joseph (. IiainSgglain, discussing the Kritisb crisis, snjiBtiie country 1ms, passed into the haij^B^LLouK and Little .l'Jii?land?^H|^Af|^^ " with 8,486,000 ginned up to An apparent shortage of $97G jutarit General John R. Wari^^Bu -jountn has caused hia . resij^^Boi/Crorn the Indiana miiitia. HC A canvass of tbe holding by Arnericau banking inst^^Vn* shows that 4000 of them have^B^O,. 900,000 exclusive of Gov^Weu bonds. . A monument has been unv^^T,Hs, the cemetery at Terence Bay^H S. to the 400 lives lost by the^^finf of the White Star Liner Atl^B )i 1873. sBB The. Arctic explorer, Anfhoi^Bala was, married at Nashville, r^H, b Miss Claire Purvear. of ou^H Uu oldest families of that State. A new record of 11 minut^HL l-? seconds for counting 500 chec^Hn ai adding, machine was< made l^Mtarr; Reynolds, 18 years old, at C^H^o ii competition. Robert IT. McCurdy, son o^K.fot mer President of the Mutual^H;, ha/ resigned as General Mauagei^H ' FOREIGN. H The Pope ha3 appointed^?? nev Cardinals, three of them bei^ftreign CH'S. A ??1HI*K1A mnnnc<rti>in(> a vttluuluc ujuuuouhh the record of the impria^Weiit ci Pius VII. at Fontaiueblea^Bs beet stolen from the Vatican .^Hivea ir Rome, Italy. j^B The new British Cabi^B having i taken over the seals, was ^Hally in stalled in office. Germany, it wa3 stated, ^Billy pr?-J-1 pared to make all amends^Hthe seln ure of a deserter in Brazil.^B Captain Bronitzky, Ch^B of ths Fourth Department of Russian Navy, and 230 electrical s^Hnta were arrested for conspiring a^B^t a very high personage. Russian troops refused Be on men of another regiment para^B Warsaw streets singing rebel soi^Band their commander fled. SB Captain Amundsen, A;^B esploror, decided to continue his v^Be uut'l he has circled the polar a feat' . never yet attempted. BP Special cable dispatch^B from St. Petersburg and Mosco^Beflect the jffl IMSlMfflmS^ Postmaster-General Cortelyou IssuesN ^ Hi* First Annual Report. HfiS Pt^NS FOR NEW YORK CITY .2 ? . TP* Pl*qinjc of the Operating Scheme of the Eyntire Department Upon a Flratr Basli is the Keynote of lira 'Mestxxe ? Ad?oc?te? Governmental ' Control of the Xltll Tube*. IWashington; D. C.?'The ruling purpose ot Postmaster-General Cortelyoo, ti? centralize the control of the great department over which he presides appears in his first annual report Haying organized the Department of Gotnjtoerce and Labor from the ground up <m thii principle the task which he has '(during the last eight months essayed jhaa bjeen easier for him th'an-it would ihavejbeen for any of his predecessors, j Th^ Posteffice Department, embnu? ling nearly ,300,000 employes, had for 1 many years been managed under a heterogenous and accretive process of adv miMjtrative growth until by Its- unwTjliness and manifold repetition of r< Mite forms of business the condit m were absolutely intolerable to ft l In cut business man like Mr. Cot-r jBVlth the first of the present month department, under a genera! orusr Hi the Postmaster-General, realign** j^Hlf on a logical distribution of the Hious bureaus. The divisions and ^H-eaus that were akin in- their fnnc* j and subject matter were ftssemtftootlmr nndw the omitml at thft ^ stmaster-General/awI bis (our a#- < tants. Hfr. Cortelyou outlines to hi* report acute.need now of comprehenaiTe I Hganization bo that there vebott be ^fnple an^ direct control from Wash- . Hgton of the whole postal service of ^ e country. He proposes that there Bial! be a sharp field supervision from ere of the whole service-. The plan uder which he hopes to accomplish Bhi? is not perfected, and beaaya it i? till nnder consideration. He sajs that while a self-sustaining Condition of the PostofSce Department w'ould^ be gratifying, he A? leas concerned about the deficit than the effeclency of adminlatration. I For the fiscal year 1905 the- total refcelpts from all sources were $152,826,1685, and total expenditures. $107,181,1959, leaving a deficit of $14?72?&L [in connection with; these figures the [ PPostmaater-General ' directs' attention j to the increased amount of free matter J I hflnriiMi. wliich he savs averaeed 12.5ft I per cent, of the eutire weight carried, fl or a loss In revenue of $19,822,000. As a remedy for the franking evil off I which he complains, the Postmaster- I General suggests that there are- sound I administrative reasons why it wouia li be better business policy for each de- /] partment to pay postage upon mall 1 matter according to its class than I return to the practiced requiring Gov- M ernment free matter to be prepaid by H postage stamps in the same way as similar matter mailed by the public. ' M Mr. Corteiyou speaks of. New York: jH i City as the metropolis of tibe- country" fl [ and the great distributing point for the H I international mail service. ' H j "With its rapid increase in popalit-H tion and extension of business," ireH ' ? ? ltl ~ .????.. a.! i4 Atvtn.n/lft | 11 lUatkCB uuuouai ucingawy [ the postat service, furnishing at tireH| same time a proportionately IargoM share of receipts. |S "Several months tfgo there- was sub-^B mitted to me for approval a draft ofjj^H proposed deed for the acquisition b^Bj the Government for Postofflce pu^HH | poses, in accordance with tfierecoi^^H mendation of a commission appointd^H by Congress, of certain ground a^joi^^H ing the site of the new terminal stati<jHH to be erected by tbe.PennsylvaoIa Rai^HH road Company in New York City. ;7vJbais~Jthiifcfar mnAeld my r:oval of ihe propped deed for toH| property, for the aequift^w of whi^^Hj an appropriation was inadeNrlshing^^H familiarize myself more folly^frith t^^H postal problem presented atid ^to?^^Hj sider the advisability of certain fications of the original plan with object of providing in the best possifl H manner for the future needs of York's postal service. A definite pfl H is now being devised for the soIu^^^H of this problem, and It is hoped the matter can be satisfactorily set^HHH in the near future." I Mr. Cortelyou takes ground aga^^^H putting Postoffices in Federal bi^HH ings. flflflg The work of purifying the maii^^^v not confined to the suppression^fl^Hj frauds and lotteries, but include^f^N well the exclusion therefrom of^E^H scene, indecent, and scurrilous rnaflHHS and the punishment of those foun^H^H have deposited such matter for mission. The work of the Postoffice is praised. fl Government control of the yneu^BBH tube service and mail wagon serv^HHHj recommended. fl H He thinks worthy of serious cc^H^HI eration a suggestion that a substfl H saving would be effected in ra^^^^S mail > transprJ Jon by forwa^HHH /bulky period .t^is and mailable^^HH chandise by fast freight. ???????????? Kills Wife and Her Mother. Albert L. FreJigli, a druggist, Brooklyn, N. Y., out of employm^^^B shot and killed his wife and mollfl in-law and then-?afr^ him self up. j H T>1~- .13 n I A -' - Edward Milan, accused bribery of voters in Br a.iVtftL, SRI forfeited $11,000 bail wheVeal&ji^^^H tO ? - +** John JJ. KojcKere I engineering as a re* The Khedive of smoke an Ejjyr' William E. T Irttyi in f ElUf; _^r5. -' ?..., ? : MH