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I'N THE ACE OF THE t'EAR. Ts it tlie wizard wind That has shriveled the jinnee's rind!' , Sooth, we know it was lit* Who shook the leaves from hie tree Ai d danced them out of breath < Till they widened away in de??*h! Strange and subtle powers Have rule of t'lese ashen hours. Binding the stricken sphere 1 In this, the aq:e of the year , Through thecrisped grass and the busk liuitle the feet of the dusk. I And the only song we know * Is the back-loir's murmur low., Then come, and sit with me 1'V the side of memory ' I 1 And love, with the blue skies lu her spring-reverting eyes. I And then shall be vernal cheer in this, the a*je of the year! ?Chilton Seollard. in Munsev's Maga sine i CUPID'S || rPTiTTTlf7TT>TJr l in u mr li * By FANNXE LEGRAND. buj. uuaF all worldly transactions. g9| (EJ peviiapg the one which 0 least concerns any hut the principals is marriage; and 1 ,ve* marriages please everybody. second marriages es- ' pecially. Why, it would puzzle a conijurer to tell, but the fact remains, and In the case of Mrs. Vanstone's remar tiage. after a long widowhood, nobody was satisfied. Old servants sulked; relations looked black; Millie Vanstone ! retired to her room, drowned in tears; K Charley stalked about the woods, preitcuding to shoot partridges and squirreK and avoided the step-paternal I a presence as much as possible ^ Oh. George, what shall I do?" said ; Mrs. Beverley?which was the lady's I new name?ready to cry. 'Don't mind >in. my dear!" said her husband, with a ureat, rolling laugh "They're only children; they'll grow < (Wiser as they grow older." . But the squire's determined good liumor aggravated his stepchildren ^ more than anv amount of positive op- , ? -i? . e position wouia nave uune. iuu iucj made no effort to conceal their feelings. j. J " "I never, never can call that fat toian father!" said Millie , "My clear, lie doesn't want you to," . Baid Mrs. Beverley. "I can't endure the sight of him!" , podted-Millie. "And Charley says exl actly the sr.nie thing." "Charley is a disobedient, ungrateful j son!" sobbed Mrs. Beverley But'here Mr. Beverly himself came to the rescue. "Young people." said he, "C don't * object to your making yourselves as ^ miserable as you like, but you mustn't torment your mother. I'll have none of this!" 2 Millie lost no time in carrying this j revolutionary speech straight to her brother. "Very well," said Charley, coolly; 'we'll accept the challenge." "I'll uot submit to his tyranny.*' said j. Millie. "I've got a plan." ^ "So have I," said Charley, "lots of feiu: only they don't seeiu to work iwhen I try to get them into practice." ".I've been writing to Louise Vane." (] 69 id Millie. a i "-Who the dickens is Louise Vane?" ' "Ob. Cbarley!" with a shocked look. i "you must know! Louise Vane?my c dBase^t friend?Hie ouly person in all, s jtfie world who thoroughly understands c me!" ? : "It seems to me as if I hod heard the name before, now you mention it." B?id Charley, rumpling up his brown. ? * curly hair. ' But why should you write j rto her??and what has it to with our v affairs?" I '"She sympathises so thoroughly with c roe." said Millie. "She considers sec- p oiid marriages as sinful as I do. And g she has asked me to come to her, and v fctay as long as I please. And there is ? o nice hotel in the village. Cbarley: 7 and her father is very hospitable And j, 'there is a fine supply of trout, and de- X] iightfu! shooting. Louise writes, and s l?lehty of agreeable society" t "Not a bad idea." said Charley, ve- t, , jflectively. I So that very night the young people f Qcberted the shadow of the roof that, sheltered their hated stepfather, leav- s ?ng llie orthodox letter on tlie traditional piticushion. f \'Ob. George! what shall we do?" cried Mrs. Beverley, turning pale when ? fche comprehended that her children j ("were gone. -j * "Give 'em their head?." said her bus 0 band, composedly drinking his coffee. ''Never drive young colts with too tight J5 ? rein. They'll be glad to come back | an six weekf> or less." y > "But it's such a fuss about nothing." li said Mrs. Beverly, half laughing, half i crying. I "That's the beauty of it," said her li 3tusb:ind. ' That's precisely what they c enjoy!" and the jolly old fellow .shook 1 (with laughter. t ( ***? * * v ' Louise Yane received her former t schoolmate with effusion. Her father, ;i stately, middle-agefl I gentleman, spoke a fesv kindly words n of welcome. s Oh. dear!" said Millie, when she fwas alone with her friend. ''I do hope i iwe shall not disturb Mr. Vane." "Nothing disturbs papa." said Louise. ? . *'He will never think of noticing such e <*hits as we are. Every old maid and 3 iwidow in the village has fried to many r liim over since poor mamma died." 1 "How dare they?" said indignant l Millie. "I think the Legislature ought a to pass a law against second marriages. ( They are wicked, sinfui; an outrage on \ Civilization!" \ ' Of course they are." said Louise, j Y ' But don't worry, darling. Remember ^ J ' L ------ ^ I t xuai .vuu ate ?uu im; uv?i. ' i And the two callow young doves j fluttered into each other's arms. with f m renewed vows of eternal friendship. t | Three months of happiness at Vane < Jx>dge followed Millie and Louise 1 read their favorite authors together. < and worked hideous screens and impossible portieres in crewels. * And all this time neither she nor < Charley wrote a line to Mrs. Beverley. 5 "I am afraid they have discarded 1 me." said the poor lady. "I fear that s Khey never mean to forgive me,'' she 1 added, with a deep sigh. *My dear, don't be a goose!" said 1 fter husband. '"You don't regret our marriage, do you?" i . ' Never!*" said Mrs. Beverley, with i gleam of spirit '"Neither do I!" said Mr Beverley, laughing. lint one day Mr. \'ane railed Uin laughter into his study, with a serious lace, 'iiul when she came out she was downed in (ears, and fled straightway to the haven of lier dearest friend's M01U "Darling!" cried Millie ' what is the matter? Tell me. I beseech you." "The worst that could possibly happen!" cried Louise, tragically. "Papa is joins; to inarry again!" Millie crimsoned to the very mots of tier hair ' He told me <*? himself," said Louise. T never stopped to ask him who it was that was to desecrate our happy, iiappy home. I just clasped my hands uid cried 'Papa!' and ran away, sobung as if my heart would break. Oh, md I had so hoped that, when t was uarried. we could stay on hare just the ame;- but, with a stepmother, of course, nothing will ever be Ihe .ame!" "You married. Louise!" cried Millie. "nwii?'h ho loll vnn? But it only lappened this morning. Charley has tsked me to l>e his wife " ' But," faltered Millie, "if your stepnother loved you very much inleed?" "Fiddlesticks!", said Louise; "as if a stepmother could love one! Oh, I hate ler already! And you, too. my poor ivounded gazelle, will he driven from ,-our refuge. If I could only offer you i home " "It's so good of you, darling!" whis>ered Millie. "But I don'freally think liat it will be necessary, because, be;ause v "You're not engaged to he married, oo?" almost shrieked Louise, struck vith a certain consciousness in her riend's face. "Yes, I am," said Millie, hanging lown.her head. "And to whom, you precious little :onspirator?" "To?to your father!" said Millie. 'Oh, don't blame me, Louise; indeed, ! couldn't help it!" Louise was a little staggered at first, >ut she, too, was under the glamour r I--- ' ? '3 4.1%/v 4-?.a miulb fl/vnr inl-A il line, uuu lur i vi v "v" ither's arms. "To think that you should be my itepmotlier!" said Louise. " And you my sister-in-law." chirped Millie. '"But I declare I don't know iow to tell mamma, after all that I lave said about second marriages, you mow." "Let me tell her," coaxed, Louise. 'Charley is going to take me to seo ler. I am to be her daughter, volt :now.'' "And her stepgranddaugliter at the ;ame time," gasped Millie. "Oh. dear! vhat relation are we going to be to ach otherV Mrs. Beverley received the truants vith open arms of welcome and con:ratulation. Her husband laughed uuil his portly sides shook. "I fold you they would learn wisdom me of these days!" said lie. But to this day the family Lave not ettled the complex problem of their elationship to each other.?New York VeeUly. Intelligent Teddy. "I'll bet I own the most intelligent log in towu," said a man on a Colfax iveiiue car to the conductor last night. Tuesday, while. I was driving my lorse, one rein broke, and I was in langer of having a runaway. My dog, ee'ing my predicament, grabbed ' the nd of the broken strap and assisted ne in stopping the horse." The conductor collected several -fares nd came back. "I've a smart dog nyself," he said "His name is Toddy toosevelt?Teddy for short When he vas a pup we taught him to bring the 'ost into the house every day. The ither afternoon Teddy brought the iaper in and then disappeared. We are :reatly attached to the little dog and re always keep him in the house at light When he had not shown up by .30 o'clock I started out to look for lira. All the Colfax conductors and notormen know Teddy, so I asked ome of them if they had seen him. )ne conductor said he had noticed him lown at Sixteenth and Curtis streets. boarded a. car aud went right down here." ' Did you find him?" qsked the pasenger. '" Yes." replied the man in the uniorm. "He was at the Grand Theatre, rying to get in free with a lot of lewsboys. The Post was cniertaiung tliem with a theatre party, and euuy consiaerca nunseii enmieu 10 ue lie of the bunch."?Denver Tost. Ktopert. The custom of telling little boys and iris tb.it they are sweethearts, etc., lad a curious effect 011 one younster 11 the West End the other eveirng. Ie is eight years old and has a mind of lis own. He became displeased at the onduct of his father and suddenly eft the house. Some hours later the elephone bell rang in the home uf the oungster's parents and this conversaion ensu?d: ' Hello! This is Dr. Blank. Your son Tarry is here with Miss Gertrude ml wants to get married. Your conen t is needed. Will you give it?" "Just hold the couple there and I'll >e down." A few minutes later the father was it the minister's bouse, and. sure nougli. there was Harry and his sevenrear-old sweetheart. Asked by bis >arent why he wanted to get married. said: "You don't treat me right at mnip, and we thought we would make home for ourselves." The very young :ouple were bribed to postpone the redding Cor a few years. The bribe lsed was a box of .candy.?Albany fournn!. Children M.iUe Good Farmer*. So successful was the children's 'arm school, inaugurated in 1!)UU on he then proposed site of the De Witt Dlintou Park in New York, that it has )een permanently adopted as a feature >f the completed park. Definite areas have been set apart :or gardens. and adjacent to these, in lii? basement of a brick pergola, are school rooms, some of which are furli.shed for domestic science work, instruction in which goes hand in haurt ivith the raising of vegetables. " According to the Experiment Sta? n Record, during the past season about lo00 children took part in the work, aisiug about 90,000 vegetables. GREAT BRITAIN'S SIR HENRY CAMP BEL SDFT-SIQUUD HORSESHOE tin inc Quite a demand has recently arisen pro for soft-ground horseshoes?that is. a v 4 ATiriniv fA thair I Inr uiuuu, uat suvrp .?. large area, will prevent the feet of lat horses from sinking un<luly into the bm ground. A simple shoe of tliis. type it t has recently been invented, which is to so designed that it can be easily re- the versed. The advantage of this de- the sign will be particularly felt in winter- in < time, : s ;he shoe -s prevented from ing balling up with snow. As the revers- Rei Ible shoe is smooth at one s.dc. it will be t'ound advantageous for use on ^ horses when mowing lawns. It concro sists of a plate with a flange projec- . tion from one face along the periphery and formed with slots to admit the c calks of a horseshoe. Ribs on the . in z v hal riv 1F" gii( arr BOFT-OBOUND HORSESHOE. plate prevent tae callis from sliding sid tack and forth on' the plate. At each in i side a T-slot is formed to admit tho V head of a clampinc stran. The two sat straps are bolted together over tin* by hoof of the horse, as sliowr.. One of bet the straps is-formed.' f two members fur AGAIN HE YIELDS Tl ABDUL HAMID, SU LTJ which are adjustably connected by and means of a pin. This permits of adapt- for, iag the shoe to different sizes of hoofs, the ?Scientific American. T HEW INCUBATOR IDE*. ? nu: ?f fi,n ^011 A VyUtCUgV mail, UL uic c.i|reu? 0J1 considerable complication, proposea to ;lll build incubators, and be has patented ' rmm~- ?' * ^ the Oiid saggm \ JJJJ IWCTTBA.TOII IMPROVEMENTS. bur .. ~ are bis idea, so that the eees are la con NEW PREMIER. jillli > L-BANNEIIMAX. uous rotation during the period of ubation. To accomplish this he ivides within tlie warmed chamber I'heel, with peripheral pockets, eacn go enough to carry, rn egg. The ter are held-in position by inclosing '.ds. As the wheels are balanced, akes but comparatively little power impart a speedy rotary motion to wheel, so that the germ, to quote inventor, "is brought successively :ontact with all parts of the nourishmaterial of the egg."?Philadelphia cord. Jacu-tr and Alligator. "he most interesting thing about nnrlilac anif nllltrnf-nrs flpclnrW? the :hor of "The Romance of the Animal rid," is the way they get their food, is tiiey do mostly, and by preference, the water; but they have also i? )it of lying in wait upon the mud'.of er banks.until some animal apiaches sufficiently near to be within >ir reach. -ying sunk in the mud, and of the or of mud themselves, they may 11 be mistaken for a log. A wild , or some other animal fond of rootin the mud, sees the long, shapes object, but is not disturbed by it he roots happily among the reedIs. He looks up suddenly, to find t the log has moved. One end of it, longest, thinnest end, the tail, is ling away in a curve; but like an ow loosed, it flies back and meets body of the pig with a tremendous ewise blow, and the poor pig falls !i heap. 2*4. ?- -.V i.|?A ati: VlOl a suuueil, SWILL IUS11 UJC amor is upon him, and seizing the body the skin, which it holds puckered up ween its front teeth, it shakes it iously, as a terrier would a rat, 0 THE POWERS. ?i . ? ii II ^ 1' y-i i i i> ? J ' \ , wSLV. ' j V ; - V\, gSj'. 'hi * ? \ ; Mi \ _ . > A . A mm A V \ 'I'M' " \ \ -N OF TURKEY. I than half drags, half pushes it bej it as it crawls through the muit to water's edge. here is oulj one wild animal, says author, that will purposely attack alligator, and that is Ihe jaguar of ith America. The jaguar springs the back of the alligator, and with his might tears at the roots of the tile's tail. This, possibly, is with idea of paralyzing that member, thus rendering it incapable of those ;eps from tide to side which are e to be feared fchau even the great led jaws. he fear of both these weapons may er the jaguar from clawiug the j oat of the saurian, for were he to shaken off in the latter struggles, would be more exposed to either n it ue ten larruer uuck. istaiices of tlie jaguar's success in troving tlie alligator are given by iou.s observers?Youth's Cornpauhe new musketry regulatious of the man army prescribe tiring at nan figure targets only, and these I to be colored gray. > - ' - ' i electric roads and steam lines I ttoen liirntry Xovr Kxisto Ufitween the Two Systems of Travel. 'Among the interesting developments in the railway business during the past year has been the notion of great steam companies with respect to trolley roads and trolley competition. The New York. New Haven and Hartford Company, which owns about 450 miles of the 700 miles of trolley in Connecticut alone, was the first to acquire large municipal trolley systems at various points on its main lines, and it began to do this before the year 1903. but it' was in the past year that several other prominent companies adopted the settled policy of not only buying such existing trolley systems, but also of constructing new electric lines parallel to their own steam tracks, their purpose being both to forestall the threatened competition of other builders and to relieve their main lines of local passenger traffic which interfered with the free passage of through trains. . The New York Central's recent purchase of the Rochester; .trolley and lighting system by paying' S125 per share for common stock having a'par value of $C.3(K),000S is a long step toward the projected chain of electric service roads from Albany to Buffalo which is to be operated by that great pfivnnrorinn T'no fp'itM 1 n\vns several other trollev linos along this course, ami is now' electrifying a considerable part of the pjirnllel West Shore steam road. This part of its business is controlled directly l.<; a new corporation, the Mohawk Valley Company, capitalized at $10,000,000. The Erie is to I construct an elsctric road parallel to its steam line from Biughamton to Corning, seventy-six miles, to forestall competition and relieve its steam line of local traffic. This appears to be the aim of the New Haven company in undertaking the construction of an elefctric line paralleling its main tracks from Norwich to Worcester. On its I road from Philadelphia (or Camden) to Atlantic City, sixty-four miles, the Pennsylvania has decided to substitute electric power for steam, but it will be affected by new competition there, for Chicago capitalists have undertaken to spend $0,000 000 on a third-rail electric line between the same points. In addition to the projected use of electric power for the suburbau parts of great steam lines near their New j York terminals, it should be noted that I provision has recently been made for fast electric service on separate lines from Newark through, tunnels to New York, and that the trolley line from Camden (virtually from Philadelphia) to New' York is to be straightened'and . otherwise improved. In some parts 'of" the West "-team lines are meeting the , competition, actual or thrsaLened, cf | electric parallels by the use of gasolene motor cars on their steam tracks. A I successful trial of such cars on its j main track between Chicago and St. I Louis was made last week by the Al ton company, wliicli will at oni:e substitute them for steam 1 rains on several of its interurbnn lines in Central Illinois?.?Xew York Independent. * A New l-'orin of Heat Knsine, The steam engine and the ordinary internal combustion motor by no means exhaust the range of possibilities of using heat as a source of power, and it would seem that besides developing mechanical features something could be accomplished by devising new priu! ciplcs on which heat engines might be operated. A suggestion in this direction has recently been, made in Europe by M. Cantor, whp proposes to,use as an oxidizing material some solid such as oxide of copper. He would heat this substance to incandescence, and then would spray on it acme fuel such as petroleum or alcohol. This would be burned and gas produced which would expand, and in so doing would perform ivork as in any ordinary form of engine. In the meantime the oxygen taken from the copper oxide by the conibustiou of the fuel would be restored through the agency of an air jet. Theoretically it is claimed that the highest possible rate of expansion i would be produced in the working gas, and increased thermodynamic efficiency would be secured. It is, of course, too early to announce any practical result from this proposition, and a number of objections must be faced, but it surely does indicate that power can' be produced along other than the orthodox lines, and the pres tfJJt 111VV UillC'lVUL'J UL lilt? dlL'UllJ CU^iiit* improved upon.?Harper's Weekly. Uivint; For Sponge*. The practicability of the method now being employed extensively in the sponge industry in procuring this prod net is 110 longer in doubt, and a large percentage of the Tarpon Springs vessels are changing from the old method of hooking to the new oiie of diving In'order successfully to accomplish desn'cd results with the diving method it was thought necessary to employ Greeks who are accustomed to the work, as it seemed doubtful whether many of those who have followed the hooking process would care to don the I lielmzt and leaden shoes and pull sponge with from thirty to sixty i'eet of water overhead. But recent experi ments by a few have demonstrated that a little practice and confidence, together with good physical condition, are all that are needed to become a diver. Already a number of our native spongers have become proficient in I this line, and the probabilities are that I in tiie near future a large percentage oi ihe cnteli will be obtained in this manner.?Tarpon Springs News. Profession*! Pride. The housebreaker fared his accusers. There was silence in the room. Then mine the fateful question: "Guilty or not guilty?" "Only half guilty." responded tlif | prisoner. "I may burgle a little, but j I'm no gentleman, and don't you forget I U" His frankness, of course, tended to [ incite the court to clemency.?Philadelphia Ledger. Iridium ami Platinum. Nearly all commercial platinum contains iridium, as the latter metal is associated with it in the ore. It is an expensive operation to remove it completely, and as iridium is cheaper than platinum, it is customary to leave as much in the platinum as possible. An alloy of one part of iridium and nine parts of platinum is extremely hard, as elastic assteel, and capable of taking A Uifih polish.?Philadelphia Record. FOPULAR^Xr^j ft SCIENCE - ^ M Professor Moissau declared at the Taris Academy of Science that he had succeeded in boiliug copper at a temperature of 2100 degrees by means of I a powerful electric current. I Ordinary medicii'e droppers are pronounced dangerous by a German phy- 1 sician, who finds that the same liquid 1 may yield three timesi as l^rge a drop 1 from one dropper as from another. Dr. E. A. Mears, an authority on or- ] nitliology, recently discovered several , new species on the summit of Apo, a ( volcanic mountain of the Island of Mindanao, in the Philippine group. I "Zupupe," a fibre used by ilexican ' Indians for ropes, is claimed by.experts f^v IhoiH Ivamn. nr nnv known. textile. The'jnaierial is abund- ? ant, a large supply being1 produced, by plantations in the Province of Tuxpan. In the heating system of the Eglfing Sanatorium, in Upper Bavaria, steam is sent through pipes tnore tlian a mile and a half to the coils heating water ] boilers that supply heat to thirty pa- ] vilions and six administrative buildings. Steam entering the conduits at 159 degrees C. was found to have a temperature of 102 degrees on reaching 1 the coils. A curious blackening of the faces ' and hands of certain persons being ( "treated by electricity has been noticed, j Investigations showed that this took i place only when the patient's chair was electrically positive and the crown of the head negative, and when oilheaters were being used to warm the j I i?AAm Th/v Klrtni'onln'y trt hP < LKJVfUl. XUU I/I4ivn.vu*u0 v . ?v ? ? , due ' to invisible carbon particles thrown off by tlie burning oil and drawn to it lie positive pole. . i A mighty engine storing up the moisture of the continent upon its summits is the report upon the Andes of C. R. ? Enock, a British engineer. lie has inspected the chain in Peru, and finds that alonfi: its whole top. just below j the ice cap, is a series of lofty lakes that feed innumerable streams. An , example of these streams is the River i Rimac, .vhich,# though not more than eighty miles long, descends 17,000 feet 1 from its source in the ice. A small portion of its energy generates electric ?' power for tie railway between Lima ' -and Callao. * 1 VALUE IN LITTLE THINGS ; The Savin* of Waat? and Ca?t OCfThincs in of Much Value. . From waste paper alone oue railroad last year realized SCOOO. Pins, pens, naiis, ?old brooms, bot- t ties, tin cans and worn out machinery 1 of all sorts are gathered up along the J route by all the railway companies and turned into money. Even the ashe? ( are sold and utilized for improving the { road-bed. These things seem small to command | the attention of a rich railway com- i pany. But it must be remembered that i the railway company is rich largely because il looks after the little things. I The greatest corporations in the i world are not above taking care of the J fractions of pennies. The railway scrap heap of the country last year reached the "value of , $1,250;900?a most respectable suiu, of , money, notwithstanding it came from j picked-up pins and paper, old nails 1 and old brooms. 1 Waste forms one of the most vital 1 questions in economics, not alone for railroads and big manufacturing I plants, but for every household. * It is impossible, of course, for any very great sum to be realized in the saving of waste in a household. And yet the usual waste of any home is , relatively far greater thau that of a ] railroad. ( We think it mean and miserly to look after the little things. And for y that reason, more than for any othci. j bumau life is cursed with poverty and 1 pauperism. < There is less meanness in a poor 1 man's saving a penny than in a rich man's saving a million. ? Chicago f Journal. f Children in t.ho Home. The children of the family?one is * apt to look on them as burdens, . bothers and expenses. v When the baby comes, be it ever so jwelcome, the mother has more work to j; do. As it grows into childhood and on to maturity it is more and more care, v worry and expense. s And so the little children, those inno- I cent trespassers, are borne with ns patiently as possible until they grow 1 to a successful manhood or womanhood. ? Few stop to think deeply about this, ^ or it would be plainly seen how erroneous the impression. , The children of the family, instead y of being burdens, are burden bearers: |, ! small saviors who are daily means of jj grace, and who lead the world-worn l parents once more into the paths of s innocence and peace. .. A baby's tiny hand clasped around F liis mother's Onger has stilled heart d throbs of sorrow and bitter trouble; .1 baby's arms around his father's neck k have brought to the man's weary t brain a renewal of that love which is 1' all that makes life livable.?Philadel- 0 phia Telegraph. < T. Meant Larger Doctors' IJIlla. | * Legislation is threatened in many e States for the suppression of the so- * called "patent." medicines. The success of such legislation would mean th i abolition of the home medicine J chest and would force persons, no matter bow remote their homes from the f home of a physician, or bow needless ^ the additional expense might be, to call in a physician for every minor Q ailment. r . The legislation as proposed would t mean greatly increased doctors' billls and what is worse frequent long de- ^ lays awaiting the arrival of a phy- t sici.in to prescribe the equivalent of L some of the family remedies that could as well have been prescribed at home, I: and which would have accomplished l) the same result as the doctor's remedy, 1 and at much smaller cost. [; BITS! HEWS I WASHINGTON. The American Government will give F'.-auce a free baud in Venezuela. >. Every effort will he made by the Ad- ^ ministration to please tbe imperial Chiik'sp commission now studying Amer- . rg can Government methods. "-M The President, acting on recommen- ^ nations entered in the Keep report in regard to the public printing, ordered 3jl| greater economy along various linesl. * :'M The* nominations of Luke IS. Wright us first Ambassador to Japan, of Judge Ide to succeed him aa (lovernor-Oenk -a pral of the Phiiippines till lune 1. an# of Jnmes I<\ Smith to succeed Mr. Ide on that date, were announced. Secretary of State Root naid the '< ! State Department bad to depend oa >-.w i:?i3UUJ ruiuiri iu liuu uui wncii aujnr ; , m ran Consuls did wrong. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ' T&pre is consternation among the M [gorro$$? in the Philippines, because , J| )f the appearance in Baguls of {he llrrft* automobile they have seen. Major Ed-' win B. Babbit, of the Ordnance Corps, -. M arrived in the motor-car. ? Commissioner Ide is receiving tliousands of congratulations on his; apr . .$! pointment as Governor of the Philip-* 'j| Great activity prevails among, th?? ?'?.1 tVoops in the garrisons at Manila, P..I. Three regiments are under field,orders ~4? in view of the-possible eventualities lu On the Island of Tutuila. one of Un:le Sam's Softth Sea possessions, a coin- ^| pauy of native soldiers has been re- >-{3 cruited, equipped and drilled, and .Jl ready considered a successful expert- '-Jl ment in military adaptation. DOMESTIC. J it w:ts sakl, at. Albany:.. N. T., ;J long legislative: sessW^sVas.expeAted* M as the wor)c4Jf!^^d<tita&0C;!^.7W? Authorities ^.decided to drain Second .* River, between Bloomfteld and Wat* 'V^aB sesslng, N. J., for the mallet witli ;v>|M which Frank Basanik killed Thomas ' m Hoff. ' Governor Higgins repudiated his law- <' .;'^9 ver's opinion that the New York LegUK lature cannot investigate State departments, and Banking Superintendent. / ^ Kilburn requested the Legislature to"' investigate his department. Tlid Reform Association of the 8. P. C A., New York, issued a bulletin'attacking John P. Haines, the president. Colonel W. D. Mann, editor of Town 4 Topics, confessed in New York . City that in ten years he had borrowed ? 519L500" from men of wealth and had repaid not more than one-fourth of that. _ ',ffl sura. Mrs. J. G. Phelps-Stokes in an ad- ,|si dress from ide pulpit of a church in S New York City, blamed people of y'iffl wealth for the .miseries of working women. Attorney-General Mayer, of New. 5Tork, it is understood, will sue to recover money diverted from policyhold- a svs in the Mutual and New York Life [nsurance Companies. Judge E. li. Dillon, of tte Chancery- '? ?ourt at Columbus, Ohio; granted ?leven divorces in two hours* time, or ^ it the rate of one divorce every tea niuutes. Judge Dillon has granted for-. i ty divorces in a week. At the same :ime only twenty marriage license* ^ svere Issued by the Probate Court. , '% One man, Simon C. Wi'son. was tilled and thirteen perrons were In- ?lj iured iu a car which jumped from the Brooklyn "L" at Fulton and Chestnut \:3 Greets, Brooklyn, N.Y. Captain . James Cardiff, skipper of -J :he Scy|bian, owned by Mrs. Susan E)e Forwt Packer. testified In a court it Netv York City in the suit for,'the .v; ecovery of part o' .(he insuratfce paid 'or the destruction of the yacht that ie burned the vessel on orders of Mrs. Parker's husband. Friends of Senator Depew. It was re)orted. say that he is suffering frow * -J ipliasla and melancholia. FOREIGN. Advices, from Quito say that Senor Garcia, the deposed President of Ecuidor, has taken refuge In the Brazilian egation. Communication between Juito aud Guayaquil is interrupted. The American delegates to the Mo- .. ... 3 occo conference" have become inapressed with the natural resources of Morocco and the opportunities the ountry presents for the employment >f capital. Chinese regular troops invaded Tonluin, but were beaten back with r loss >f 000 killed or wounded by a French , orce. ' The anniversary of Red Sunday >as?ed quietly in St. Petersburg aud nost of the larger cities of Russia. The recent revolt in Santo Domingo ras due directly to the report that Unfed States marines would laud to rup ort i'resiuent Jioraies. At Algeciras the Morocco conference ra$ enlivened ty an almost continuous kirmisli between M. Revoil. the French delegate, and Cor.nt von TallencicJi. oii2 ot Germany's representa- ' ives. Persia's peaceful revolt resulted in hearing the Shah of absolute pi?er nd in organizi x a representative asembly. The wnole population in and around Cainrat, a Bulgarian colony in Bes-saauia, is in revrlt. Many persons haw een killed and the local authorities ave been made prisoners. A mob of 5.000 routed the Vice-Governor with a quadron of dragoons and two guns. General Bartolome Mitre, former 'resident of the Argentine Republic, ied at Buenos Ayres. Sir (iuiiford Molesworth, a wellnown English authority and author of ext-books on engineering formulae, ronounced hiuiuelf strongly, in favor f the use of the metric system. Baron Boris Korff. according to a spelal cable dispatch from S'? Petersburg, . tussia, committed suicide rather than arry out the relentless orders of Gen- ' ral OrloflE to shoot down the people ef iivonin. Insurgent forces have captured Quix the capital of Ecuador, and Vice'resident Moreno has assumed execuive power. A strong element in Snulo Domingo avors the ratification of a treaty with he United States. General Arias, the insurgent Goverur of Monte Cristi. Santo Domingo, has eceived permission to leave the counry The Russian workmen in the capital eeided on a strike without demonstraions to celebrate the anniversary of ied Sunday. Iteturns received in London, Engind, showed that the Liberal and Laor parties had 2o7 seats in the next 'arliameut against ninety-six won by he Unionists. Saveury-two Nationalits have been elected. ?