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THE DOINC. * To try is better than the thin? you try for. To hope is higher than the height attained. To love is greater than the love you sigh for, To seek is nobler than the object gained. To "wrestle with the angel"?this avails, Although the motive for the wrestling fails. To learn is more essential than the knowing* To know is deeper than the wisdom found: To live is grander than all life's bestowing, To advance, more fruitful than the vantage ground. To give is far more blessed than receiving, To tell the truth needs not to force believing. To speak i9 voice eternal in vibration, To blaze a trail is safer than hewn road; To think is power of infinite creation. To trust is finer than to see your God. To think?to act?these bridge the world's abysses; To die! No soul has told a soul what this is. ?The Metropolitan. I What Happened To Gloriana. A Rapid-Fire Romance of May, in (he Manner Peculiar to Chambers W. Robsrts. :::::::: ERRILY tJie little steamer ^ bobbed up and down, for a to O (VI O easterly wind was X blowing across the lake. . Voir Most of the passengers had # sought the refuge and sef elusion of the cabin, and seemed to foe engaged despairingly in praying for death. But two still remained on deck. They were Orlando G. Spoonamore, . capitalist and young man of leisure, party of the first part, and a handsome young woman with fluffy brown, hair, party of the second part, and they happened to be sitting side by side. She was absorbed in a copy of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Stake, 3 4-Ka onfAmAKila ' ilUU JJ? ? il O LtLdUllip, LUC UULVUivulK k news in a daily paper?when he wasn't glancing at liis fair companion out of the corner of his starboard eye. The wind freshened and he proceeded to button his light overcoat. But the top button was unaccountably missing. To the best of bis recollection it was there when he boarded the boat. The breeze, or something, must have torn it off. Mechanically he detached the stickpin from his necktie and pinned the two flaps securely together. Then he resumed his reading. And his glancing. Presently, having finished the story, the young woman raised her head, looked around her with sudden surprise, and started to rise. * Mr. Spoonamore felt a slight tug at liia rhpst TTp Inokpri down. x To his horror he found that he had pinned the loose flap of her light gray wrap to his overcoat, and turned red With anger and mortification. "What does this mean, sir?" she demanded, in freezing, indignant tones, w "I?I beg your pardon," he stammered. "It was an accident. I had i<>6t a button from my coat, and I supposed I -was' shutting up the garment jwlth a pin. 1 had no intention?" "But you haven't lost a button, sir!" she interrupted. For she could see it plainly. , He looked down again. "I see you are right," he said, his selfpossession gradually returning, "but I thought I had." i "Will you release me. sir, at once!" TTam AtfAci fl o cV?A/1 An-rx rrnrnii o It? hllf ha lie; KTJ co uuoucu uau^ivuDij, wut did not flinch. "I fear you will have to sit down again," he proceeded to explain. "These two flaps are fastened together with my stickpin, and it has a patent fastening on the shank, for safety from the light-fingered gentry. I screwed it up tightly, and it-will be a work of time to unfasten it." i She sat down again, but stiffly, and Without a word. "I never expected." he remarked, as he fumbled at the pin, "to form a sudden attachment like this " i i "Sir!" K { "I'll have to suspend operations for a moment. Here come two or three w persons hurrying to the rail, to look J? nt the water, I presume. May I ask j you to unbend a little and appear to be engaged in an animated conversation hV with me, purely for the purpose of averting suspicion?" "I wiil not! Such a position as this !s intolerable?unthinkable!" S& "It is. It is impossible. But it exjfig Jsts, my lords and gentlemen, like the || human race " SB "Besides," she again interrupted, re Ilaxing a trifle as the humor of the situation forced itself upon her, '"it isn't proper for me to be engaged in converZ sation -with a total stranger." "O, yes it is. If it were not. they wouldn't do it in those delightful stories you've read so often in that paper. It's quite the thing these days. To remove the curse, however, allow me to introduce ' "But I don't wish " ' "Pardon me, but let me ask you not to be so cold and distant?especially not so distant. You'll excuse the nature of the tie that binds us. One of those persons id looking at us curiously." Hurriedly she leaaed a little nearer to him. "That's better. As I was about to say, my name is Orlando G. Spoonamore. I move in respectable society, and personally I am entirely harmless. \ I don't look like a cannibal, do I?" ;"N-no, bnt " "And your name, as I have just discovered by looking at the printed tag 1 on that paper, is?" She hastily turned the paper the other side up. "Too late. Yon are Miss Gioriana Geovius. I am delighted to meet you in this informal, unpremeditated way, and become so close an acquaintance in so short a time. Asking your pardon for dropping into slang, I will add that I am decidcdly stuck on?" "I don't believe you are trying to? to separate us." "Palsied be the hand that would do such a thing! Still," he continued, tug_ gins with great apparent earnestness nt the refractory fastening, "I am doing the best I can. Suppose you see if you can't help me." A moment later their hands touched benpath the protecting fl;>ps. With a furious blush she drew hprs away?with considerable effort, for Orlando had a muscular grasp?and she was about to become distant again, when she remembered the necessity for caution. "Miss Gloriana?Goovius," lie jrasped. as she hastily moved closer, and her fluffy hair blew across his face. "I think I can?get this thing loosepretty soon?if you will just sit as you are. and be perfectly calm! * * * I'm afraid you will bave to help me again." "I won't!" "Well, my hands are so?so numb from this cold breeze that I shall have to give it up. I suggest that we go into the cabin, seat ourselves in some se Cluueu corner, anu "Yes! Yes! Let us so at once!" "But we shall have to move with caution, and you will have to walk exceedingly close to me, in order not "I see." Is there anybody so densely ignorant j as not to understand that it was absolutely necessary for Orlando to put his arm protectingly around her lovely form as they proceeded cautiously toward the cabin? Think how the boat was pitching! An hour passed away. They were still occupying a double seat in a corner of the cabin. By a joint effort, which took considerable time, they had succeeded in extracting the stickpin, but they seemed to hare forgotten it, and were sitting close together x Hand in hand. A jar shook the boat. "Here we are, sweetheart!" whis pered the young man, "at old St. Joe!" "But. Orlando, how dreadfully unconventional it would be for us to go and be married now on such short acquaintance! The idea is absurd!" "Not at all, Gloriana," he said, triumphantly. "It's eminently proper. That's the way all these stories end!" ?C. W. T., in Chicago Tribune. Chlneaa Harvests. While hundreds of men are harvestins: the bisr crops of Oklahoma or the j Dakotas, a different sort of harvesting is going on in Southern China, where Wong Poy gathers in his wheat. Jack Smith, of Oklahoma, is a great landholder. with- is 12,000 or 15,000 acres. Wong Poy, too. says a writer in Everybody's Magazine, is a great land magnate. He owns and farms four acres. His envious neighbors hold competences of one acre or bare pittances of an eighth of an acre; but Wong Poy is lucky. His father before him was a frugal man, as was his father's father, and he himself is an only son. He has even been able to afford a wife. Two "hands" work for him in these harvest days, at the panic wages of twenty cents a day. The men squat, Oriental fashion, at their work, chopping down the stalks with swift stabs of their little sickles. Mrs. Wong Poy and her eldest, a daughter, follow behind, and tie up the sheaves with wisps of straw. The two cherished men chil- , dren, sole hope of heaven for Wong Poy, play through the stubble and steal grains of wheat to chew. It is a matter for corporal punishment if they are caught at this, for in China every grain is numbered. When the wheat is all in, and has been beaten ont on the thrashing-floors and stored in the well-guarded granary under Wong Poy's house, the family makes rejoicing. There is a little mess of fish for the pot. A punk stick and a cup of rice are offered up to the pods of grain, and before them Wong Poy, his hands tucked in his sleeves, bows to the ground while he recites prayers. In their harvesting China and the Dakotas have this, at least, in common, that when the crop is in every one makes holiday. While the Chinese is making sacrifices to his gods, the American farm-hand amuses1 himself with more materialistic pleasures. The holiday of harvest-home is observed alike by the peasant of Tyrol and the farmer of Kansas. The red Indian, ' t.tv,q.r. hie /mm tvpc hnskprl nnd shellpd and packed into baskets, danced und^r the harvest-moon in gratitude to Manitou, the Giver. Under that same moon Chinese peasants sacrificed long before the Aryans came out of their mountain fastnesses. Where Life is Lone. Senator Tillmau and a colleague were discussing the question of the salubriousness of various sections of the country. "Well," sail Mr. Tillman. "If the healthfulness of a region is indicated by the mere longevity of its inhabitants, then, I think that Asheville, X. C.. must have the plum. As an illustration of how long lived the people are thereabouts, we Carolinians are fond of telling this stcry: "A visitor from the North asked an old gentleman where he was born and how old he was. The old chap replied: 'I was bor.u here in Asheville and am seventy years old.' '0!' exc'airnfij tiie Yankee, 'as you appear to be as halo and hearty as a man of forty, I've no doubt you'll live to a ripe old age. How old was your father wheu he died?' "'Father dead*' said the old man, looking surprised. 'Father isn't dead! He's upstairs putting grandfather to bed.'" Or tat Singer Cnrelens of Wealth. Caruso, the great tenor, says stage kisses are like kissing cold cream, cold starch or vanilla beans. He earns a great deal of money. Recently he sang three songs and got for his work $3000 in bills. He made caricatures of thg portraits of them and left the originals on the table to go out and ilrive, forgetting entirely that tbe originals were money. His secretary says that it was not forgetfuluess but habitual negligence?scarf pins, rings, wiiff'li?lu> Ifvivpv niivfhtnsr nnvwhwe. to be picked up by tlie servants. Fennsylvunin's Capitol, A little over four years ago Pennsylvania's Siate Capitol building at Ilarrisburg was burned. The new Capitol is nearly completed at a total cost of $4,500,000, which is within the original estimates. The City Hall in Philadelphia was twenty-live years in building aud cost the city $-4t0OQ,OOO. . |'~1V5; A: MILLION ACRES REGAINED Kincs Forced to Give Up Vase Tracts of Stolen Lands. TO BE REOPENED TO PUBLIC llooin Provided For Hnndrcds of Set? tiers in Nebraffca a* Restil* ot DiapoMeMiuK of JKealty Kobbr.ra? The "Work of L. C. Wheeler, ol ' the Secret Setvlce. Oiuaha, Neb.?One million acres of land?good land?added to those subject to bomesteading in- Nebraska is the first fruits of the investigations - " J 5 rfwn nrlcr tpll!/>h OL T11 e litnu UUU ICUCUIg uauuo have been perpetrated in this State. This vast body of land upon which several thousand families can find homes and farms, will be officially restored to the public domains on July 3, and will then be subject to homestead entry again. t For the last few years, while wouldbe settlers and homesteaders have been running about over Nebraska taking up the best lands they could find, these 1,000,000 acres have been within the fences of the.great cattle barons, and ii. was almost as much as man's life was worth to enter their great inclosures and homestead any of the land which they claimed as their "range"?without one shadow o-f lawful and legal claim thereto. But this is now changed; Government ferrets have gone over the State and have hunted out those lands illegally fenced, and even those upon which illegal filings had been made, and as a result 1,000;000 acres will be again offered to the public, free, on July 1. This tract will be open to the first comers wlio maice tneir nungs, uuiuu 160 acres apiece, but on four times that much?G40 acres?a full square mile of land?to settle down and live on the land five years and thus secure a clear title without the payment of one cent other than the regular filing fees of $14. This is only the first result of the land investigation, however, and after the Government authorities have concluded their siftings. there will probably be several more millions of acres returned to the Government and again opened to the public. This work is being carried on from the Government building in Omaha, under the supervision of L. C. Wheleer, of the Secret Service. The public has heard of the trails of the great cattle barons and of the sentences doled out to them for, practically, stealing hundreds of thousands of acres, but nothing has been said of the efforts of the department to cancel the claims these barons have on the great bodies of lands that they have inclosed with strands of wire. . a Prt ttto cr for V/I1C UL IliC 1UYU11LU U1CIUVUO VTUO JLV*. I the great cattle man to have his cowboys and other employes take up homesteads, making the declaration in doing so that the land was for their own use entirely. But as soon as the final proof was made, these homesteads have been immediately deeded to the cattle man. Another favorite method was to get old soldiers and soldiers' widows to make these filings. Wheeler's agents have shown that hundreds of these ex-coldiers have been brought from the soldiers' homes of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and other Central Western States, halve been paid from $50 to $100 to file on a certain piece of land, and when the deed is received from the Government to transfer this land to the. cattle people. Likewise, hundreds of widows of Union soldiers have been utilized to help defraud the Government and enrich tbe cattle kings. Two years ago three cars filled with these' women were brought to Nebraska from Tnxira in o cinclo ri.iv fn AlMsinnp. Nell. and each one filed on 160 acres of laud, which land is now in the hands of the cattle men and will be claimed by the Government as fraudulently held. The "insiders" confidently expect that when the Government finishes with the cattle barons, at least 3,000,000 acres of good lands will be returned to the public domain, and will be subject to homesteading by bonafide settlers. NO TREASURY DEFICIT NOW. The Month of February Ends With a Surplus. Washington, D. C.?The month of February euds with a surplus in the United States Treasury for the first time in the current fiscal year which began on July 1, 1905. At the close of business the excess of Government receipts over expenditures for the fiscal year was $1,102,002. There had been a deficit in the Treasury for eight months until now. 4 nnnrlifinr* r\f fha flnr* eminent finances has exceeded the predictions of Secretary Shaw and some of the Republican leaders in Congress," and it is now believed that there will be a substantial surplus by the end of the fiscal year on June 30 next. The improved condition is due entirely to increased r receipts from several 60urces, for the total disbursements have been larger than they were last year. The state of the Treasury at this time is in sharp contrast to the condition which existed a year ago, when there was a deficit of $25,405,533. Revolution in Uruguay. Reports have reached Buenos Ayres that a revolutionary movement^ has broken out iu Uruguay, and the President of that Republic lias taken the severest precautionary measures. Anti-Eight-Hour Law in Effect. Washington, D. C.?The President having signed the act making appropriations for the needs of the Isthmian Canal Commission and exempting the canal workers from the operations of the eight-hour law, President Shonts sent a cablegram to Chief Engineer Stevens, who is now at Panama, noti fying him of the approval of the act. Iceland Seeks Independence. A movement to declare Iceland independent of Denmark has caused considerable uneasiness in Copenhagen. Sporting Brevities. Columbra defeated Annapolis at fencing five bouts to four. Leon Martell, tbe Georgetown catcher, who has been debarred from athletics in the university, is likely to joia Collins. It looks now as if Jeffries could remain in retirement without further annoyance. 0. M. Daniels broke one world's record, equalled two others and shattered several American standards tor several distances in the national championship swimming races at the New York A. C. A TWO CENT RAILWAY FARE Olfvcials East and West Admit It Will Become General. To Be Forced on Koarta? Legislature* atnl Commission* to Act in tlie "Different States. Chicago.?Agitation for a two-cents a mile railroad fare lias spread rapidlyover the States since the passage of the Ohio law. Railroad officials of the East and West, according to advices collected here, admit that the two-cent fare is bound to become general, and they are only hoping the day of its adoption will be delayed as long as possible. The abolition of passes and the belief that two cents is enough formost of the railroads east of the Mississippi to charge are the two strongest, influ^ ences in strengthening the movement' Many railroad officials believe they must offer the lower fare in order to meet the competition that is developing from the spread of interurban electric lines all over the country. The action of the railroads on the mileage book question is another thing that Is operating to increase the demand for a two-cent fare. Michigan took the initiative in tne reduction of passenger fares, but the law there is a graded oue, depending on the earnings of the railroads. The fares permitted to be charged range from four cents on some roads in the upper peninsula to two cents on the main lines in the lower State. This law has resulted in giving the people of Michigan a two-cent fare on 700 miles of main line and a two and one-half cent rate on 400 miles of road. The operation of the law has proved eminently satisfactory to the people of the State, and so far as can be learned has not affected adversely the revenue of the railroads. Governor Hanly, of Indiana, has determined that the next Legislature, whether it be a special or a regular session, shall pass a two-cent law that shall apply uniformly to all lines within the State. A universal sentiment exists throughout the State in favor of such a measure. The State of Iowa is also moving rapidly toward a two-cent fare action. Governor Cummins recommended compulsory legislation for a family mileage book to be sold at two cents flat. The suggestion was ignored and a two-cent fare bill was introduced in 1900 and again in 1906, but has not been given consideration by the Railroad Committee of the H,ouse. In Wisconsin the Secretary of State has presented a complaint to the Railroad Commission that he is compelled +/* t\ntt fiiroa />onta A milf* when ridinsr IV L'liJ VV-W ? w cm Wisconsin' lines and that this is an excessive fare. The commission is what is termed a "strong commission," having power over rates, and as the temper of the people of the State is toward rate reduction, there is little doubt that the railroads there are facing a two-cent fare. Had the Governor's call permitted it, a two-cent bill would have been rushed through the Pennsylvania Legislature at the last session. There is not the least doubt that such a measure will be introduced at the session nest January. An effort was made to induce the Governor to amend his special gall so as to permit of two-cent legislation, but without effect. ' < In Virginia a bill has been introduced requiring two-cent fares, and it will probably be passed. In Illinois the State commission recently reported in favor of a reduction to two cents, but action was postponed pending further investigation. In Nebraska It is a foregone conclusion, it is said, to leading commercial men nf the State, that a bill will be offered in the next Legislature providing for a reduction of fares from three to two cents. It may become an issue in the campaign. LIEUT.-GEN. SCHOFIELD DIES. Noted Army Officer Passes Away at St. Augustine, Fla. St. Augustine, Fla.?Lieutenant-Gen' eral John M. Schofield, retired, died at S.30 o'clock at night. He was seventyfive years old. Cerebral hemorrhage, which caused nn apoplectic stroke, was the cause of death. With the death of Lieutenant-General Schofield the last of the great army commanders of the Civil War ia stricken from the rolls. Generals William If. Wherry and William P. Ennls were here with him. They were atA 1 3 ?*? 4-1-*/* filVtA Via TTT O ?? xacneu iu uis si.au at mc uuc >t?? in command of the Army. ~~1??????????- ii>! Lake S,wallows Village. The village of Tavenola, built on perpendicular cliffs above Lake Iseo, Brescia Province, Italy, was almost entirely destroyed by rock3 suddenly giving way, apparently because the lafke had eaten into the base of the cliffs. Fortunately the disaster was preceded by a loud roaring, -which alarmed the 1000 inhabitants in time to make their escape. One fisherman was killed. About 200 feet of rock and the houses on it were swallowed up by the lake. Longworths at Home. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth are established in the Longworth house, at Eighteenth and I streets, Washington, D. C.. and the Congressman has re ' sumed his duties at the House. Earthquake Shock in Maine. A distinct earthquake was felt in Tortlaud, Me. In several parts of the city the shock was accompanied by rumbliug which lasted several seconds. More Money Cabled to Japan. Washington, D. C.?The American National Red Cross, through the State Department, cabled to the Japanese Red Cross $5000, making a total of $25,000 so far contributed by the American people and transmitted to Japan through the Red Cross for the relief of the sufferers in the famiue-strickei' provinces. Rear-Admiral Retired. Rear-Admiral Flench E. Cbadwick has been refired. Newsy Gleanings. Wild dogs are becoming a nuisance and danger in tbe jungles of India. A special military commission is now sitting in Berlin, Germany, considering tbe best means of making cavalry as invisible as possible in warfare. Sweden is planning to use for electricity every ounce of water now going to waste over ber falls and in bei rivers. Columbia University and tbe Na tional Academy of Design have come to an understanding wbereby tbey will co-operate in the establishment of a faculty of fine arts in connection witi tbe bi? New York University.. BITS I NEWS ??? - WASHINGTON. The Secretary of the American National Red Cross has received information from Japan that the unprecedented cold in Northern Japan hns greatly increased the suffering in the famine stricken provinces. Millet is ?being bought with some of the relief funds, as it is cheaper thaii rice. President Roosevelt sent to Congress elaborate' coast defense plans prepared by the joint Army and Navy Board, and urged the necessity of their adoption. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The transport Ingalls, carrying a battalion of the Twentieth Infantry. Major James S. Rogers commanding, ran on a reef, 140 miles south of Manila and is badly damaged. The troops were transferred to a coast guard steamer and brought to Manila. Tacloban. capital of the island of Leyte, has been destroyed by fire. Ta-' cloban was the fifth city of the island, and was situated in an important hemp district. A number of warehouses were destroyed. DOMESTIC. Navigation between Detriot, Mich., and Cleveland, Ohio, was resumed the otuer aay, uie earnest wnu uuc exception in twenty?>six years. Despondent over his ill-health. Frank B. Barr, a real estate man of Pittsburg, Pa., killed himself at Kansas City, Mo. Andrew Carnegie has promised ?25,000 to the Baptist College at Rio Grande, Ohio. The American Window Glass Company has decided on another increase of live per cent, in the price of window glass. Twin babies -were found deserted in two east side hallyways in New York City. Henry H. Rogers, by liis counsel, agreed to answer the questions put to him by Attorney-General Hadley, of Missouri. James F, Mack, Third Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City, resigned and bitterly criticised Commissioner Bingham and Mayor MeCiellan. A telegram was received at the Harvard Observatory, at Cambridge, Mass., from Professor Kreutz, at Kiel, Germany, announcing the discovery by Professor Kopf, at Heidelberg, of. a faint comet. A freight engine at Smithfield, TV. Vn., on the short line division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, turned over and the engineer, fireman and brakeman were burned to death under the engine. Accusing C. E. Tucker, at Holly Springs, Miss., of revealing jury room secrets. Judge Boothe ordered his dismissal from the jury. Because of recent exposure of graft and municipal scandals a hundred women met in the First Presbyterian Church, at Peoria, to pray for tho purification of the city. FOREIGN. The editor of EI Diluvio, a daily paper published at Barcelona, Spain, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for printing an insultlnj dispatch concerning King Alfonso. Russia i3 now pressing on in Northern Manchuria in an attempt to make Vladivostok replace Port Arthur and Dalny as a port in the Far East. The London (Eng.), Express understands that, in consequence of repeated raids ty Waziris and other warlike <rioes on the northwest frontier oi India, the authorities contemplate sending a powerful expedition to the disturbed districts. Russian delegates at Algeciras proposed that tn; Moroccan police be intrusted to 1-ranee and Spain; the Germans asked time to consider. An attempt on the life of Viee-Admiral Doubassof, Governor-General of Moscow, by a woman terrorist was frustrated. M. Etienne. the French Minister of War, said in the Chamber of Teputies, at Kiris, that the equipment of the French army was complete. An imperial ukase fixed dates for elections to the National Assfembly in forty-seven provinces of Russia. . One hundred and fifty fisherman of the eight ~undred who were adrift on ice floes in tl e Baltic have been driven ashore uear Crcnstadt. King Edward entertained ex-President Loubet and XL Delcasse, the former Foreign Minister, at a dinner at the British Embassy in Paris, France. John R. Walsh was arrested in Chicago, 111., charged with making a false report on the condition of the Chicago National Bank and misappropriating $3,000,000. The New York Life decided to abandon its expensive offices in the Han-, over Bank Building, in New York City, I ocfohlielinrl hv fipnrirf> W. PerkillS. The report of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for tlie year ending December 31, 1905, shows the greatest business in the history of the system. The New Haven Rail::ad will abandon the Grand Central Station in New York City and use the new terminal of the Pennsylvania. Through an adjournment until April 3 of the hearing of a motion for a new trial for Albert T. Patrick for the murder of William M. Rice in New York City in 1900, a new lease of life is assured to Patrick. The British naval estimates for 190G'07 provide for a net total expenditure of $159,347,500. New trade treaties between Austria and various countries, it is asserted, will hold Hungary in the empire economically for the period they will endure. The first labor bill of the present session of the British Parliament, in session at London, empowering school authorities to provide meals for under- , fed school children, will receive Liberal support. Advices received at Paris, France, said that a revolutionary movement against President Castro was being organized on the Island of Trinidad. An unsuccessful attempt was made on the life of Governor-General Kaulbars at Odessa, Russia. According to a decree of the Czar of Russia no laws shall hereafter be effective without the approval of the National Assembly and Council of the Empire. It was announced from Vienna, Austria, that the Crown's absolutism in Hungary was increasing daily. According to a special cable dispatch from Berlin, Germany, King Edward, has written a letter to the Kaiser congratulating him on his silver wedding, And has sent him a Dunch bowl. . , ' _ ; : I HURRICANE CAUSES HAVOC Sccisty Islands, in the Tacific Ocean, Swept by Storm. ttopsrted That Ton Thousand nave Perished?U. S. Consulate Wrecked. San Francisco, Cal.?In a hurricane that swept the Society Islands many lives were lost and the islands of Papeete, Tahiti and Tuamotu desolated, according to advices received here. Ono report places the number of uead in Tahiti and adjacent islands as high as 10,000 and the property loss at $5,000,000, but this could not be confirmed by officers t the steamer Mariposa. which has arrived here from tne scene of the disaster. It is affirmed, beyond doubt, however, that seventyfive buildings in the city 'of Papeete r alone were destroyed, and greater havoc was wrought in the suburbs. The building of the American consulate and French Government building collapsed and the English consuiate was seriously damaged. It will require years to restore the Islands to their former state of prosperity, and a general appeal for succor has been uiade. Shortly before midnight the tempest began to rage, the centre of the storm apparently being over Tuamotu. It continued with unabated violence until I o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. With the first onslaught buildings rocked and a few seconds afterward the air was full of roofs. The 1 sea washed over many of the prinfeipal streets of Papeete until they were flooded to the depth of many feet. When the quay along the water front gave way a flood rushed in, destroying the shipbuilding yards of Peterson, Brown & Benchahman, the lumber sheds of L. Martin and a stone cutting establishment of V. L. Rauox. Warehouses also were wrecked and orops and merchandise stored there are a total loss. The Oceanic Steamship Company's wharf was badly damaged, and among the other structures completely demolished were the customs house, bonded warehouse and oucu, puolymic uuuac, i^uuoe \jl vuy* tain of the port, a clubhouse and the police headquarters. The American Consulate, which is the oldest building in Papeete, withstood the storm until 8 o'clock in the morning, when it showed signs of giving away before the violence of the gale. In the absence of her son Mrs. Doty, aided by several missionaries, coolly supervised the removal of the archives, which were temporarily stored in the Latter Day Saints' mission house. Soon afterward the American building collapsed. The village of Tarona was completely bwept away. A settlement of several hundred Cook Islanders, British subjects, was entirely destroyed, and one American named Seefeldt, who lived near by, battled for hours with the wavo-s before he was rescued. Mauy flno homes in Taumao were destroyed, including the $15,000 mansion of Herman Menell, whose family fled through water up to their necks. The heaviest loss of life, it is feared, occurred in the lagoons of the Tuamotu Islands, the guardian of the quarantine station being among those who perished. The schooner Papeete was submerged near Anaa, and the sailors had to be lashed to the vessel. All the Government buildings and dwelling houses and the Catholic church in Fanaran were washed away. All the important buildings on Motauta Island were'destroyed. Throughout trie path of the storm .breadfruit, cocoanrt,.banana and plantain trees were blown dowtt, and the re.ult will be a tremendous hardship to the natives. rp V* rtV? minKnnf ll a IliC X1 lcuv,u guuuuai o ^vuv to th/> Tuamotu Islands with supplies, and the British Consul has made an appeal to hig Government to: aid for British subjects. Governor Jullien has appealed to France for tid and. the American colony is hopeful of assistance from the United States. The military barracks has been made ?. temporary relief station. The islands Moorea, Huahenl, Raittia and Tohaa, of the Society group, sustair-xi damages to the esteut of about $100,000. BANDIT KILLS FOUR. Russian Bank Robber is Captured After Desperate Fighting. Helsingfors, Finland.?'The pursuit of 'the bandits who the ether night entered the Russian State Bank here, killed the guardian and stole $37,500, cost four more lives at Tammersfors, where two of the fugitives were caught. One of tbe bandits got possession of tiio Tnwn Hall and held it for hours. While Commissary of Police BalusbIn was examining the two captives one of them grabbed a revolver from the belt of the Chief of Police and with it killed Balushin. The bandit then dashed up stairs, where he barricaded himself in a room commanding the stairs and lobby and the street outside. Two policemen, who tried to pick off the desperado from a house opposite, were killed by the bandit, who was an excellent marksman. After all other resources had been exhausted the firemen were called out and poured a flood of water into the window. Simultaneously a picked band of police and firemen stormed the stairs. One of the assailing party was killed and nine were wounded before the bandit, 'who fought desperately with a big knife, could be overpowered. The robber, who is a Dorpat blacksmith, boasted of membership in the Baltic revolutionary committ?e. Minister Morgan at Havana. Minister Morgan presented his credentials to President Palma at Havana and received a hearty welcome from the Cuban Government. American Missionaries Safe. rr>l-- e?.AmnniMn tr> icciAlln TtpS J. lie lUUlltXU auiEHVIIM who fled from Nan-Chang, China, reached Kiu-Kiang in safety. Czar Objects to Severity. The Russian Emperor rejected measures providing more severe methods of checking disorder in tbe empire. Women of the Hour. Queen Louise of Denmark is said to he the richest princess in Europe. Princess Henry of F!css is one of thi most beautiful women in England. Mrs. Margaret Curtin. fifty-five years old, a noted slum worker of Chicago,' is dead. Mrs. C. F. Latham, of Grant, Fla., has the unique occupation of collecting birds ami animals for zoological gardens. It is said that Princess Ena, who is betrothed to the King of Spain, writes daily to her ruler sweetheart. . lliioiinw?lfl|l f I ltt:tt:u.'a!tt!tt!\i;tvwii;tt?ii!tt!^ &HH [22222SS^S^^2i -v^I NO MORE FEEE SEED GRAFT. j.*'3H Houae Committee Eliminates Big Iteatf -Iflj From Agricultural Appropriation. < O^H Washington, D. C.?Eight member*..J^B of the House Committee on Agriculture* - struck from the Agriculture Appropria- '.v^Q tion bill an item of $242,000 designed to( , v^O continue for another year the "free* seed graft" which has grown to sucfc enormous proportions during the ad* .'3n9 ministration of Secretary Wilson* V Seven members voted against this r?-> form. It is expected that the Agrlcul * - -jtiti ioJ '"'91 rural ueparrmeoi s lnuireuce wiu m*. exerted to get this item back into bill when it reaches the floor. i .?! Appropriations carried by,the bill :>|n| aggregate between $6,000,000 and $7,- Bj 000,000. The estimates of the department would have been cut more if itt J# bad been possible to get satisfactory; Hjfl information as to expenditures from the department officials. h When the paragraph providing $242,- . vw 000 for the free distribution of seed? .-'Mm was reached Representative Cocks, of New York, moved that it be stricken.Mmi out. He was supported by Messrs^ ' , Wadsworth, of New York; Henry, olj Connecticut; Haugen, of Iowa; Brooksj ".1 of Colorado; Adams, of Wisconsin; Lor-* '1 imer, of Illinois, and Haskins.-of Vet*- - M mont. Against* ths preform u er^ Messrs. Davis, of Minnesota; Bowie, of| jg 1 Alabama; Lamb, of Virginia; Iver, ofl "J South Carolina; Trimble, of Kentucky; Field, of Texas, and Candler, of Mis-* The Secretary of Agriculture but* seeds by contract wherever be desire* ,-aSB to do so, without competition. ' The? : / & m requisition of any Senator or member: i ? of Congress is quite enough to have* ^ the department send to any of big con- i9 stltuents large or, small quantitj.es-o? a vegetable or flower seeds. . Originally the practice was designed Jfl simply' to introduce into the fanlteA. jSB States vegetables and flower products .^?9 heretofore n<xt grown here with sue- ,i (B cess. But as time went on the scope oC the seed stock was widened until it 1 eluded seeds for almost every variety; of flowers and vegetables, shoots fda . i . G apple, peach and orange trees and rar? 'I bulbs. In fact, a fine assortment ?t' | nursery supplies raised in the United I States and purchasable at any nursery ' | could be.obtained free from a member of Congress.' I ARMY APPBOPRIATTON' PASSED-:'^3| Also Bill For Marking Northern Grave* vi|s| of Confederates. 4 Washington, D. C.?The Hons* '$ I passed the Army Appropriation bill | ~$3?J and also, amid applause from botl* y.Cfla sides, the Foraker bill, providing foi* . ^ I the marking of the graves of Confeder- , J ates burled In the North. j P9ints of order made to the provis* ions for a cable ship for the Atlantic! "M I Coast and to a ship for mice planting . <1 on the Pacific Coast eliminated these* provisions from the Army Approprla- J *1 tion bill. The alleged powder came )n for sharp criticism in aeoat0 jg and Democratic endeavor to have the. ,vM l Government begin the manufacture-of m| its own powder met defeat botb.onf . "sS points of order and finally by direct / The Army bill, as passed, carries - I something more than $69,000,000. , . OPENS CORPORATION FIGHT; j La Follette Seeks to Bar Railroad* . From Getting Coal Lands. >i. Washington, D. C.?Senator La Fol- ^ Iette, of Wisconsin, fired the first gone u in. the' battle he is expected to wage* . -j against the corporations. It was aimed . at railroad ownership of coal lands. The bill to wind up the affairs of tbet: v J9 Five Civilized Tribes of Indians was iiB under consideration. It contains a pro- \/|jM vision for the sale of a large quantity] ''fm j of coal and asphalt lands in Indian .Jay Territory. Senator La Follette sob* I mitted an amendment providing thgff sM ' no railroad which is a common carrier 'ffiB should, directly or through its officers or stockholders, be permitted to pap- /J%jB chase any of these coal or asphalt * 3. lands- ,j BILL INCREASING SALARIES. | ' J Makes President's $75,000 and Vied* ' -fa President's $15,000. j Washington, D. C.?A bill readjust* ing official salaries was introduced bjl Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire] The readjustments are to become ef?f .:$ rective on ruarcn ltfuy. me aaiorits proposed by the bill are as follows; President, $75,000; Vice-President, $15,- * 000; members of tbe Cabinet, $15,000; *39 'Speaker of tbe House of Represents-. ;?j tives, $12,000; Senators and Bepresentatlves In Congress, $7500. Two New Hague Delegates. Washington, D. C.?The President J has appointed Brigadier-General Geo. B. Davis, Judge Advocate General, an(I Captain Charles S. Sperry, U. S. N., President of the Naval War College^, as the military and naval delegates, respectively, from tbe Washington Gov* ernment to Tbe Hague Conference. . v -M Abolishes Lieutenant-Generalcy. r' ' Washington, D. C.?The House Com- ii mittee on Military Affairs made a( unanimous report on the Prince bill abolishing the grade of LieutenantGeneral. Increase in Internal Revenue. Washington, D. C.?The" monthly ' * statement of the collections of internal revenue shows an increase as compared with January, 1005, of $2,370,738. t ^'3 i Against $2 Coins. ' Washington. D. C.?When Secretary, Shaw of the Treasury Department apJ I peared before the House Committee on industrial Arts and Expositions he ex-* pressed his emphatic disapproval ot the bill for the coinage of 1,000,000 two dollar silver pieces, upon which the Jamestowu Exposition Company de< sires to realize $300,000 profit. Hd said this means of raising money is de-< ception, that it would be the sowing of dragon's teeth. Capital Brevities. The Democrats seek to amend the iiepourn diii. There is a grave question whether the Philippine Tariff bill can pass the Senate. The President has issued as a general order Admiral 'Vogo's addi?ss to the Japanese Navy. The reconstructed Dominican treaty was reported to the Senate and it wll> be pushed to a vote. Secretary Taft appeared before the Committee on the Philippines and tes* titled at length on the conditions in th^ laJflTfria - tVi'TfilM