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THE DOINC.
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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
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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.
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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
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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^
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