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CHARITY. Rod me the penny you gave u> me, brother, For you pave with a smile, as a friend to another. (Jod eurae<J me the dollar you gav?. for you chid, 'And you made me to know what it was that you did. With charitv for me you gave me the first, Iftfo with charity to me the second you cursed. ?Edaiund Vance Cooke, in The Century. VIVAV.'.V.'.V.V.WAW.W THE PIIJESJH'JJIIIIE! By Dallas Lore Sharp. W.W.V.'.V.'.V.WW.%V|V.S HAD been sure for a long time that there was a story O I O connected withithe panther, 31 X hut the 0,tl professor, for some reason, never seemed to fee! the bearing of ray Jiiuts concerning it. The panther was a uiagnizficent male specimen, mounted in the central case of the museum, a crouching, crawling figure, so terribly realistic that I had to school myself to go past it at night without a shiver. ' You certainly saw that beast when St was alive, professor," I remarked one dav. as we were rearranging some of the smaller specimens iu the case. "That's a study from life. Look at the curve of his back! Aud those shoulders! I can almost see theui work beneath the skin." "I can see them work." the old professor replied, pausing .a moment to look at the beast; "and I'm likely to. as long as I can see anything," he added. I kept discreetly silent, and he went Ou: ' It is a study from life, as you have guessed, and the best mount. I think, in the collection, though the study was made in Florida and the mounting done Lere. ' That was a peculiarly vivid lesson I had there, quite sufficient in a taxidermical way, for the rest of my life. "I was collecting along the Indian (River, near where Micco stands now, ftaking specimens of everything, from jtlie largest alligators down. It was a rich country there then, as crowded jwith wild beasts as a menagerie. (Panthers were by no means rare, and I !tad taken two when I came upon the (traces, of tbis fellow in the sand along Ithe river. "Tbe print of his. foot measured twice ftbat of the specimens I had taken, and tny ambition was stirred. I wanted Ithac big panther?for the very spot (where you see him now. But he was ?s wjirv as hp was bier. I never could get sight of him?perhaps because I (was afraid of his getting sight of me terst. "I trailed him up and down the river, land finally found a beaten path that I thought the big fellow used, running In through the brake to ft heavily timbered crest. The grass about the end pf the path vras so h,eavy and the run jway so hard-packed that no footprint Showed: but out along the river the aigns of his coming and going in this yiclaity were so numerous that I determined to risk my chances in the path. "The surest, quickest way to have taken him, if this were the runway Of the beast, would have been to lie in /svait at some good place along the path nnd shoot him?provided, of course, that the wind, the light and the aim .Were alJ just right. "But this was asking too much; besides. I was constantly busy collecting, hnd couldn't spare the time It might Itake to wait. So I took tlie two big t>ear traps that I had at camp, and set them in the path, trusting that the panther, in an absent-minded' moment, Blight walk into one of them. "It is seldom that a wild animal, especially a panther, has an absent- j fcninded moment. Human beings are much moi-e liable to them, according to my experience, though up to this time I had not known it. "I selected a narrow, wal!ed-in plate Along the path, where the bushes were po thick on each Bide that the beast [would not be likely to leave tne trail. Here, too, was a sharp rise of ground for about twenty fret. "At the bottom of this I set one trap, Bnd twenty feet away, on the very 'crown of the ridge, I set the other. He could hardly go up and down that bill without stepping Into one of those trsps. "But he did, even 1 hough I had concealed thr? traps so skilfully that no eye could easily have detected them. That Very night, a small manatee that I iivl caught late in the afternoon was dragged from near the tent and halfeaten in the hushes alongshore, the marks in ibe sand tolling plainly that the thief was the big panther. "A visit to the' traps showed them Undisturbed. Perhaps the beast had Come out by some othecpatb. "To make sure, I Sixed four slender sticks across thr> run,/so that nothing could pass without brushing them aside. "The nest day I found the sticks flown. Something had been through Khe path, and something large, too; but the traps had not been touched. "Hoping that the crcature might become used- to their presence, and so gTOw careless, I left them several days ih'inr?inc Tvhcvro?n T in Allowed my ignorance of wild animals. ''It was folly to imagine that so keen a creature as a panther would walk abroad in his sloop and catch himself. (Nevertheless. 1 went down the river late one afternoon and into the path, intending to make a last attempt with the be- r traps. '"The one at the crest of the ridge I moved down about live feet, replacing 6ts former cover and all the surroundfings precisely as tliey were, so that to all appearances the trap was in its old place. Then with infinite pains I hid at in the new spot, laying back npon it every tiny leaf that I had stirred. "It was as neat as nature; but so intent bad I been upon the work that I Iliad utterly forgotten about time, anil looked up to see the dusk falling rapidly The other trap still remained to be Bet. "Hastening back down the ridge, 1 pulled up the heavy chaio, ?nd in doing >o. bit the plate so sharply -thai1 Uie jaws came to with a snap. "I had scooped out a place for it In the path, and was pressing the stiff spring down with my knee and the jaws with my hands, when I felt something touching my foot behind. "The strain upon my arms was so great that I dared not risk loosing the spring with my knee, for fear the longtoothed jaws would close on my liands. So without pausing, I spread the jaws on down and open and held them there. "And I continued to liold them there, for crawling up slowly between my knees came the head and neck of a great snake. A second look was not needed to show me that it was a watermoccasin, as vicious and as deadly a reptile as the rattlesnake. "The thick, heavy-jawed head siid up along my left wrist and curved out directly across the open trap. There it lay. All depended upon my keeping ing perfectly quiet, for the beast was not alarmed, though I could see that the light in its eyes only ha if-smold ered. Its dull wits were aware of something unusual here, and so it had paused, suspicious. "Fortunately, the trap wns fully open now and not hard to hold. But my body was cramped into an unnatural posture with the effort to set the spring, and this, together with the terrible nervous strain of having that deadly, scaly head against my hand, soon began to tell upon my strength. "If I could only get my knee off Ihe spring without arousing the snake, and still hold the trap open with my hands, I might be able to release the jaws quickly enough to cut the muddy, horrid head clean off. "I would risk it while I had tho power: but instantly that power left me. Whether I had half-conscionsly heard a twig break, or by some mysterious telepathy felt the gaze of the panther fixed upon me, I do not know; but without looking , up I knew that the beast lay in the path at the top of the ridge above me. "I had scarcely to move my head in order to see him. There in the deepening twilight lie stood motionless, his front paws on the ridge, his head lifted high, looking in*surprise at me. "Then the head was slowly lowered, the bitr Daws reached down, and the long body flattened itself to tue ground. My flesh might have been of stone, so far as any trace of feeling went. I was frozen to the spot and to the open trap. But trap and snake were forgotten while I glared back into the blazing eyes that glared down into mine, as the great cat began its stealthy crawl over the ridge for a footing to spring. "I could see only the blaze of the eyes, the hump of the working shoulders and the twitch, twitch of the slowly swaying tail, so quickly had the darkness settled. But I knew every motion the brute made. ''He had come entirely over the ridge when the hump of his shoulders sank. He had flattened. Then it began to rise slowly, and I knew the moment of crisis had come. The creature was gathering himself together for the leap. "ftuaueniy, witu a scream mat wns half-snarl, lie sprang, snapped short in the air, turned heels over, aud was jerked head down into the path before ^ me. "I was standing, with the moccasin's scaly tail lashing my boots. "The panther.had crept one step too close, and had planted his paw in the open trap near the top of the hill. "In my excitement and fright I had entirely forgotten that it was there, and the brute as he had crawled down upon me had been too eager to notice it "The moccasin was squirming in the trap I had been holding, its head nearly severed. But how I did it, how I got off the trap to my feet. I have never known at all."?Youth's Companion. Abandoned Faring Pay. The great mass of conservaflve opinion seems to be firmly set against advising the public to buy cheap lands. "Ten dollar an acre land is no good for farming," the experts say. "Farming requires more capital than formerly, and the day of general farmiug in the East is past. A thousand dollars, at least, is necessary. The bfest 'abandoned farms' have b?en transformed into summer homes; the others should never have been attempted." , In the hope that there might be some exceptions to these pessimistic state ments, Country Life in America be- ( gan an investigation which has brought to light the following hopeful facts: (1) Many people have succeeded at i general farming within the last ten j years on land costing to $10 an < acre. (2) General farming Is often , better than special farming for the beginner without experience?at least for the first year. (3) There is plenty j of suitable land in New England and the South that can be bonght for $10 ( an acre or less. (4) Much of this land ] is not abandoned; it is still Avorked for ^ profit. It can be had at bargain prices 1 for three perfectly legitimate reasons? , old age, ill health, the settlement of an , estate. (3) People do not know how i trv fiiul rmt wliprp Ihfsp nhpan l.mil.t arc --Country Life in America. Polgon Plants With Purple Blossom*. The colors of flowers and leaves offer numbers of interesting problems. No one quite knows wliy the prevailing tint of eariy spring flowers is either white or yellow. Yellow, indeed, holds its own to some extent all through tlie mi nun or, bnt the typical color of summer blooms is pink, while as the autumn advances richer crimsons and all the rii-h, glowing hues of dahlias and i lnyssuithemums are seen. Horticulturists have produced poppies of nearly every shade under the snn, and with many other flowers they seem airle to alter the colors almost as they please. Yet the blue rose, the black tuiin and the green carnation seem as far off as ever they were in spite of constant efforts to arrive at them. Nearly three centuries ago Dutch gardeners imagined themselves , cn the very of inventing a black tulip. The colors of the blossoms of fruit trees are limited to white, pink, bright scarlet and purple. The reason no one knows. Nor is it clear why nearly all plants with purple blossoms have pois> onous properties. The deadly night| shade is an instance which will bo ' ; j familiar to all country readers.?Tear- j ; i son's Weekly. AN AERIAL RQWBOAT. BT E. 0. SAW7EB. A late feature of tlie attempts to navigate tbe air Is an aerial rowboat which lias been constructed by Alva L. Reynolds, of Los Angeles, Cal. It is composed of a gas bag whose equator is much nearer the front of the bag than usual, and a light framework which AN AERIAL ij-;^, 'i; .j-P'S 1^ j-lj ^ ^ ': /,j?Vi^^I?}?l|-j!;,''li' fe/.-r -ai"^ J. ^ ' ^^W:';THE CAP. AND THE WING-LI AERIAL ROWBOA supports tbe occupant. It is raised aud lowered, propelled forward and backward by the use of a pair of wing-like oars. By the use of weights the bag can be made to raise'just a half pound less than the weight of the occupant Then,gravity is overcome by the use of the oars. Any one who understands how to row can operate the aerlaL rowboat So far no experienced aeronaut has ridden in the machine, although several hundred people have tried their hand at rowing up and down the park where the machine is fleing tested. The bag is thirty-seven feet long and fifteen feet in diameter at the equator. To raise the car and an occupant weighing 150 pounds, 2500 cubic feet of gas is sufficient One of the features of the new airboat is that the cost of building a car J ~ niffiAtAiif f/v norrxr nna nAfROTl uuu va& cjuuiuiciit iv vukij vuv l'-* la but a trifle over one hundred dollars. A speed of from four, to six miles an hour has been attained by good oarsineu. There is always the drawback, characteristic aiso of the ordinary rowboat, that it is difficult to row against the current, or rather against the wind In this case.?Scientific American. MODERN WHALING. New Bedford Has Season Which Recalls Old Tlmea. New Bedford, Mass., has experienced something very like a revival in the whaling industry this year. The ships this season have been more fortunate tlxan usual, although the wiseacres say that the best catches of te-day -would have been considered slim in days gone by. Be tills as it may, there is nn activity r 1 ? Pymamste Cum ^ & OUNmON gaMgaasasaga Pierces dartimg g i ss^ssasss^s 1 f "> j"? " ^ , -n ii i MODERN WHALI ibout New Bedford which is unusual. J Actually only forty-three American vessels, with a tonnage of 9378, are low engaged in whaling, as against GT?5 vessels, with a tonnage of 204,209 in 1857: and of these New Bedford's &eet numbers only twenty-five, with ?t tonnage of 5205. Every one of the Atlantic vessels, furthermore, with the exception of the schooner John R. Manto, of Provincetown, now four months nt sea on her maiden voyage, is at least twenty-two years old. It is thought that the importations of Dil and whalebone will be considerably larger in 1905 than in 1904, when the pounds of bone brought in amounted to 123?300; barrels of sperm oil, 17,005, and barrels of whale oil, 2750.?Philadelphia Record. Industrial Knglnoer* Now. The latest acquisition of professional- j sm is the industrial engineer. His j principal function is to instruct help j n factories how to behave in orderly manner in case of emergency, to the j Mid that exit from a burning building, .'or example, may be made without inlury. A. Manhattan mechanical engineer las organized a staff composed of a lumber of retired numbers of the r? ffirft rwuiflrl When TICUU|JUmui* * ?v. ^V|... . irrangements* are made with firms to nstruct workp?X)ple an export. repr'1ienting this man puts the foive through .he required "tactics" for 'he preserratJon of life and limb. Tlx* serv:i.*es )f this mechanical industr?;i) engineer ire said to tin in big demand with wholesale house*. Among the ether specialties of this novel school are :eaching system formation Jn business tad promoting of plan arrangements ooklng toward economy ?n finpiojng labor.?New York Pros*. ttadlicil Hi in. 1 Pearl?"They say that manage be:ween Miss Olde and Heggy Sapp was ove at first sight." Ruby?"Yes, she didn't g'fvehlm time to resort to 'second sight' before she made him marry her. lie xvas going :o a medium to lied out Lcr age."? Chllaeo News. SORES A SQUARE HOLE. Everybody lias beanl of the aug( wbicb bores a square bole; there is or of these in nearly every railroad woo< working shop in the country. TL usual way in which these augers mal! square boles, says Railway and Loci motive Engineering, Is that the b bores the circular bole and a squai ROWBOAT. KE OARS WITH WHICH THE T IS PROPELLED. chisel surrounding the auger cuts 01 the corners. In one sense it does in "bore" a square hole at all. There Is a new tool now on the ma Itet which actually bores a square hel AUOEE WHICH BORB3 SQTJARB HOLBS. and the proof of this is that the squar hole can be driven through iron as we as wood. It can make a circular hol< n square hole and a combination of th two, which is a hole like the openin of a tunnel, flat-on the bottom, wit two square corners and an arched top ? =S1 ** DON gg UN 3 GLANCES i masai m'sax* k. . ?. 3 ffi5BSS5 ?| NG IMPLEMENTS. The bit itself has cutters suitable fo wood and iron, but the principle upo which it operates is the same, no inal tor what kind of material it 1s goini through. There is the ordinary auge bit, the face of which is set at righ angles to the centre line of the spin die, just like any other boring bit, bu the square hole is formed by two mill ing cutters, which revolve parallel t each other just back of the principa cutter and in a plane at right angle to it. Our illustration shows the ar rangement. The milling cutters hav fnnoo hrnnfi nnoutrh to take out the CO! ners cleanly. A sharp square hole i the result. Taking off both uiillinj cutters will give a round hole, and tak ing off one will make the funnel-shapes hole. A spiral or twist of metal on th outside of the spindle conveys the chip out of the mortise. Why He Stayed Heme. He was one of the happiest "kids" li (own. lie stood in front of his horn and grinned enthusiastically as he sax the others unwillingly wending tliei way toward school. "Come on, Harold," shouted severa of the boys. "Not on your life," answered the re jolcing Harold. "No school for me to day. I'm going to stay home." "What's the matter, sick?" "No." "Your ma sick?" I "Well, why?" "Oil, 'cause. You sec my gran'ma' come to spend the day with mamm: and gran'ma she's awful hard o' hear in'. Mamma's got a cold on her chest and in her neck, and she can't talk loui j enough for gran'ma to hear what sh< f ays, so I've got to stay home to tel gran'ma what mamma says. See?"j Indianapolis News. Overshot the Mark. Mrs. Housekecp?"I don't believe yor I ever went to work." Weary Willie ? "Oh, honest, lady I many'8 the time. Put I'm sich a stren j nous feller dat every time I start tei j go ter work I go clean past It."?Phils, adelphia Press. DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE { Some Strange Stories* In (he Annali ot i ir of Crime. ie Some of the strangest stories in the i- annuls of crime are those which tell ot -r ie the part dreams huve played in the dis:e covery of criminals. One spring day in ? 1S30 a farm laborer, when passing a it lonely mountain lake in Sutherland e shire, saw in the waters a dead body, [" which, when rescued, proved to be that of a well-known peddler who bad mysteriously vanished about a month 1 earlier. The body bore marks of vioj lence, the pockets were empty, and it I was clear that the poor fellow had been brutally murdered and robbed?but by whom? That was a mystery which for many a week completely defied elucidation. * One night, however, Kenneth Fraser, ' a tailor's assistant, saw in a dream t Ihe cottage of a man named Hugh Mac- a leod, and heard- a voice say in Gaelic, c "the peddler's pack in lying'in a cairn ^ of stones in a hole near this house." j He told the story of his singular dream to the authorities, who accompanied' him to Macleod's house: and there, sure enough, beneath a heap of stones, c the murdered man's property was I iounil. uai'ltuu waa ancsicu, wu- ?. fessed, and was executed. c Another very remarkable story ia t told of a tragedy in Ireland. One s evening two grangers presented themselves at a wayside inn near Portland, (and after taking refreshment continued their tramp in the direction of Carrick- c I on-Suir. The incident was common- ^ place enough, but it led to startling de- f _ velopments, for in the wayfarers the j j landlady of the inn recognized two t men of whom she had dreamed a very t strange dream the night before. In her 1 dream she had seen one of them kill ' e the other with a coward's blow from 1 _1 behind, rifle, the pockets of the dead ^ man, and stealthiljf bury him -beneath j a hedge. So impressed was her hus- , band when this dream was told-him i that he made his way to the spot in- i dicated and there discovered tbe body ( of the buried man. The assassin was I pursued and arrested, and at the ensuing assizes was sentenced to death. ' There has seldom been a more mys- j tarious crime than the murder of Mr. ( Stockden, a London victualler, a great i many years ago; and- the mystery l would have remained unsolved to this i day had it not been for the interven- t tion of Mrs. Greenwood, who came forward with the statement that the mur- f dered man had appeared to her in a ' dream and conducted her to a house j in Thames street, where one of his as- ( sassins was.to be found; while in an- i other dream Stockden appeared and showed her the likeness of the man. i On the strength of this dream clcw the indicated man was arrested, and not only confessed his guilt, but betrayed 1 his accomplices?three criminals being 0 [ brought to the scaffold as the result of c I these visions of the night. s Some years ago a Mrs. Rutherford e dreamed that her aged relative, Lady c Leslie, was about to be murdered by ^ a man whom she clearly saw. She im- * mediately set out ou a visit to Lady ? - Leslie and asked permission to sleep e In the lady's room. In the middle of r 'I the night Mrs. Rutherford heard some c one trying to open the bedroom door, t e She raised an alarm and flung open r g the door, when Lady Leslie's two sons s 11 rushed out and in a moment had seized the man of her dream. ^ The following story is, perhaps, tho ? strangest of all. One night the Rev. e Herbert Powys, a Church of England t clergyman, dreamed that the daughter n of one of his parishioners had gone out p into the darkness to meet her lover, c who, at the time, was waiting for her r in a secluded spot and spending the f time in digging a grave for her. Jump- ^ ing out of bed, Mr. Powys rushed to the place indicated in his dream and j arrived there just as the man had r hurled the girl to the ground by tho r Bide of the open grave and was about to kill her with his spade.?Tit-Bits. Hia Devotion Saved Him. The prosecution of a "strict member oC the caurch and a man of most o exemplary deportment" for disturbing t the congregation while engaged in di- 11 vine worship, by his siuging, was the . subject with which the court had to 1: wrestle in the case of State vs. Link- f haw, G9 N. C. 214. The report shows c that the effect of the singing "was to o make one part of the congregation 5 - laugh and the othe^- mafi; that the ir- I r religious and frivolous enjoyed it as t a fun, while the serious and .devout * t- were Indignant" It was shown that g the disturbance was &o great that the r preacher in one Instance declined to t sing the hymn announced, that the / l- presiding elder had refused to preach t in the churcu on account of such dis- I [. turbance, and that, after a sermon of 9 especial solemnity, a leading member ^ I of the church had on one occasion gone g to the defendant and specially re- ? - quested him not to sing at that time, / Q and in this instance ho refrained. But - that, althought the church members C g and authorities had on many occasions 5 expostulated with him, he persisted in > sinking, ana declared tnat "ne wouju i worship his God, and that as a part e of hi9 worship it was his duty to-sing." C g He was found guilty. But the case went to the Supreme Court of tie State, where it was held that, as he r had no intention or purpose to disturb j p a the congregation, but was conseien- v e tiously taking part in the religious ser- ! v ^ vices, he was not guilty, notwith- u r standing the fact that a disturbance resulted. Thus, again, was religious freedom established.?Case and Comment. ^ >- A Matter of Status. The street was the football ground, | '' the goals were marked with old tins, j 0 and the teams were six little ragamuf- j fins a-side. They were all keen, but one little chap towered head and slioul. r ders above the test in point of athletic s prowess, and it was not long before he ? i succeeded in shooting a very clever j j - goal. ;f One of those genuine sportsmen wlio | i Jove to encourage talent wherever they b may find it called the ragged little feA- i 1 low over. "You played very well, my lad," be said. "Which will you have?this bo2 of sweets or sixpence?" Ruefully the disheveled hero eyed the 1 silver coin?it would have meant a good r deal to him; but he manfully turned ' from it I "Let's 'ave the toffee, guv-nor," he J r said. If I take the tanner I shall be " a professional, and that won't suit me <; yet awhile."?Answers. i STANDARD OIL INQUIRY" iie State of Missouri Bpffins to Gather Evidence in New York City. IENHY H.ROGERS ON THE STAND >lrector of the Big Oil CorporAtlon K?ftues to Answer Questions Pat by Attorney-General Il&dley, of Mlssoarl ?riasliliglit Photoemph Endi Session of the Inqairy. New York City.?The hearing before Commissioner Sanborn in this city, n the quo warranto proceedings irought by tiie State of Missouri gainst the Standard Oil Company and. :ertain. of fts subsidiary companies vas transferred from the small law ibrary of Henry Wollman to the room >f the Law Reporting Company, at' so. G7 Wall Street, which was large snough to hold comfortably all the awyers, witnesses and reporters. In he new place "was a lightning operator >n the typewriter, who took down all he testimony as fast a^ given, thus aving the exertions of Mr. Sanborn nil hastening the taking of testimony vithout violating the rule against the 'mployment of stenographers. Henry H. Rogers was twice in the vitness chair, and both times he was i disappointment to Attorney-General liiaiey, or Missouri, yvvuo conuucieu t be examinations. A short time before | lie adjournment for luncheon Mr. Rogers gave some testimony he had >een asked to give on Saturday, and le was proceeding to give the names of ifflcers of the Standard Oil Company, >f Indiana,jvhen his answer to a quesion was cut short bv the flashlight vhich a camera man set off. Everybody . jumped, - including Mr. ' Rogers, ind before the room could be cleared >f smoke the camera man had disap)eared. Commissioner Sanborn said that, on iccount of the abuse of a privilege, all lewspaper men with cameras would )e excluded- from the room. Mr. Rogers complained of the effect of the smoke n the room, and an adjournment for uncheon was taken without cornjelling him to answer more questions hen. Mr. Rogers was in the witness chair igain late in the afternoon, and was isked by Mr. Hadley to explain a statement that he knew of no committee at S'o. 2G Broadway having charge of the derations of the Standard Oil Com >any of Indiana. To all questions along this line he eplied that he did not know. Mr. Hadley repeated the question. "Do you want it for personal inforuation?" asked Mr. Rogers. "You understand my question, without evasion, and I ask the Commission-, r k> direct the witness to answer," aid Mr. Hadley. At the Commission's suggestion Mr. Hadley changed the [uestion to: "Do you not know, as a [irector, where the general offices of he Standard Oil Company of Indiana ire located? I do not want your opinon." "I do not know as a fact, but I suplose they are in Indiana, where the ompany is incorporated, and I prefer o trust to records, it being a matter of ecord, rather than to my memory," aid Mr. Rogers. "It is charged in this case that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Valters-Pierce Oil Company and the tepublic Oil Company are in a confedration and agreement in violation of he trust laws of Missouri. Do you, iot know that the Standard Oil Comiany of New Jersey-.owns or controls ither through itself or other party, a najority of the stock in all these coralanies?" Mr. Hadley asked. "By ad-1 rice of counsel, I decline to answer," eplied Mr. Rogers. Before adjourning the hearing Mr. Iadl?y asked Mr. Rogers if he had any eason other than advice of counsel for efusing to answer. "I have not," replied Mr. Rogers. Standard Oil Now Has Glacoie Trait;. Standard Oil interests are in contror f a new glucose combination which is o take over the entire glucose busitess of the country. This new company has been organzed under the laws of New Jersey. It rill be known as the Corn Products Reining Company. It has an authorized apital of $>80,000,000, of which $50,00,090 will be in preferred stock and 30,000,000 >in common stock. E. T. Jedford, President of the New York Jlucose Company, will be the head of he combination. Trnatt Controlled by the Standard Oil. Capital. amalgamated Copper Company .-...$155,000,000 Jnited States Steel Corporation 868,799,300 National Lead Company... 30,000,000 imerican Sugar Refilling Company 90,000,000 Jentral Leather Company. 57,000,000 unerican Tobacco Company 118,931,550 Jorn Products Refining Company SO,000,000 EXECUTIONS AT MOSCOW. )wner of Furniture Factory in Presna District Reported Among Killed. London, England.?The Moscow corespondent of (he Times says it is reorted that eighteen revolutionists I/pro nnri that anions them irns Mr. Schmidt, the owner of the furiture factory in the Presna district. Harmsworth to Be Lord NorthcIifTe. . r'ii' Alfred IIarmswortli, the newsaper proprietor, who was created a '"isi-omit ou flip retirement of the Bnlnur Ministry, takes ..he title of Visonnt Northctiffe, from Nortiicliffe, Isle f Thanct, where he has an estate. Suicide on Steamer. <'h.'irle< .Meier, who was indicted for iiibrz%li>mp)it of $-5,000 in San Franisco, Cal., killed himself on the Caruania as he arrived in New York City rout Ivornloii a captive. investigation of Morris Case. A resolution was introduced in the louse at Washington, D. 0., for a oininittee to iuvestijratc tJie forcible jeetion of Mrs. Morris from the Yhite House. Stabbed in Duel. In a street duel near Now York City Cicholas Cardito and Thomas Sn uter vere fatally stabbed. Moscow Rebels Kill Officer. Moscow rebels killed an officer of Iragoons And raided the manufactnrng district of Fresna. ffllSSIM CREDIT miM .Finance Minister Explains Necessit?^M| of Another Loan. t^M| THIS TO BE MADE IN FRANCeJM French Bankers Are Now Conudeita^^SH the Making of Temporary Adrantd to Snppoit the Stability of the CnmavSgE^^M Finances ? KokorsofTs Statement E*> carding the Situation. Paris, France.?M. Kokovsoff, former . -;j^H Russian Minister of Finance, who came here to negotiate another Ru?> :^H| sian loan, practically confirms the ' .^H| statement that, the loan having been. vflH postponed, French bankers are nom. -:^9| considering the making of temporary* advances to support the stability of Russian finances. In the course an ' interview M. Kokovsoff gave a statement relative to Russia's real financial' tflH position. He said:" "The budget for 10OG, which is about to be presented to the Council of th* Empire, comprises an extraordinary-;&9H budget of $240,500,000, of which only Bfl $5,000,000 is covered by the excess of revenue from the ordinary budget. Thus ?241,500,000 remains to be pro- ,'^H vided. ? "Three of the heaviest items Includ-vVS^H ed therein are provision for the repa- "jHH triation of the troops in the Far East. cueir maintenance uinu iueir reium iv Russia and the reimbursement of Ja- ." M pan's outlay for the Russian prisonersof war. Other smaller extraordinary Oi expenses include* the maintenance of > ,'%gB the families of reservists, succor tor * the victims of distress, railroad cob- tJaBH struction, the mobllteation of troojMk :r*Km owing'to the strikes and subvention* for the naphtha Industry." jjMH M. KokovSfctti y.ld Russia cohl* without difficulty Issue an internal H| loan to meet these expenses, bat was considered preferable not to flott /";J9Q It until the second half of the year order not to affect the proper admi&tf-^.3HH tration of the national resources. < Therefore, he said, it was thought de*--||a^H sirable to arrange for foreign operation j similar to that indicated, which would. be of quite a normal character. la : .M conclusion M. Kokorsoff said: H "The difficulties through which w? ' have just passed, though grave, were novur anfflnipntlv serious to affect RtW' : TENT CITY FOB POOR. 9 I Cleveland to House Tenement DweH ers Under Canvas in Parks. H Cleveland, Ohio.? A white Summer, city of tents, with an estimated pojmlatlon of 25,000, located in one of tlie city parks and under the municipal -;^H| control, is planned by the city officials. Jjl One tuousana teats wm De mgatiiw -w early i:i June and will be kept up on- . -JjM til September. This tented city will be *4H for the poor of Cleveland, and will aid in relieving the congested teqcmenfc Stores under municipal provision will be included in the tented city, and the tent dwellers can buy all provisions and supplies there at actual cost. . B County Clerk Salen is author of the movement. KAISER BOSb IP WAR COMBS. V Tells von Mo.ike He'll Find Job of Being Chief ct Staff a Peace Snap. w/B Berlin.?In connection with numerous ^ press attacks upon the appointment of General Count von .Motive as Chief of 4H the General' Staff, the JStaatsbuerger JH Zeitung, a military journal, says that <;-&H General von Moltke was unwilling-to accept the appointment aci told the J| Kaiser so. His Majesty replied: I "In ume of war I myself will be ' Chief of the General Staff. You w|II fl find the work in time of peace easy ^9 enough." M TO PAY PRESIDENT'S FARE. H A Bill Introduced Appropriating $15,- I 000 a Year For Traveling. Washington, D. C.?A bill introduced 9 by Representative McCall, a RepubBcan from Massachusetts, provides that Congress shall make an annual appro priation of $15,000 to cover the traTeling expenses of the President, the ' -M money to be paid upon the certifies- I tion of tlie President. Under the present system the Presi- I dent when be travels is generally the guest of the railroad. J THE DEWEY IN BAD WATHER. J Holding Her Own in Storm, a Wireless Report Says. -'j Washington. D. C. ? The following message to the Navy Department was received by wireless from Commander Hosley, commanding the dry dock Dewey expedition, dated January 4# S.10 p. m.: 3j "Bad weather. Heavy winds and sea west. Doing well and heading southeast. Holding our own." PORT ARTHUR CUSTOMS. Japanese Are Applying Home Regttlnfirma inrt Cnlleotine Duties. Chefoo, China. ? The Japanese at Port Arthur are applying their home customs regulations? and collecting Import duties. This step has been l? preparation for the last two weeks and civil officers are in charge of the work. Bennington Survivors Honored. Eleven medals were awarded f? Washington. D. C., to survivors of tlM? Bennington disaster. President Morales Impeached. Carlos F. Morales, the fugitive President of Santo Domingo, has been impeached by Congress. ? Steamer Carlisle Sinks. j The steamer Carlisle, which met many misfortunes, sank after a tire o? Doom at saigon. The Field of Sports. ;'j Mexicans plan a big golf tourney o? the San Pedro links. > y II. P. Marshall won the shoot at th& M Orescent Athletic Club traps. G. Meeks. Mohawk A. C., won the cross country handicap of I he Star A. 0. P Tremendous activity lias begun ii* /># preparation for the Florida antniuoblI?* . meet. Rockingham Park is the na '-hosei| ^ by the New England Breeders* Club tu dee''.mate its new race co'i-st? at S. i). N. U. la