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. , THE : Back from the wars the hero came, With laurels resting on his brow*. To rind a maiden and to claim Futtilment of her sacred vow. He had but one leg to his name. He wore an empty sleeve, alack, 'And one glass eye, but he had fame. And pride was his when he came back. t Oh, shame upon that maiden fair. Who broke the vow that she had made And scorned the wreath he had to wear ' As something that would quickly fade. i a mmsmm H Adventure of sessasses j\ E- JUDGE CARSON raiig tlie j muen, ana x'aiser luluit m auu. said: "Yessir!" Mr. Carson, who was absorbed in his newspaper, stared at liim dreamily for several seconds. Parker," he said presently. "I think ?I think you are going to be a bushranger." Then Mr. Carson relapsed into his brown study. Parker waited with exemplary patience for a full five minutes, and then lie ventured: -Is that all. sir?" "All what, Parker?" It was obvious that Parker's presence had been completely forgotten. "About being a bushranger, sir?" "Yes, that's all for the moment." "Beg pardon, sir; but when do we tart?'' he said; and you could tell Srom the deprecatory tone in which the ques* tion was put how conscious he was of ^ overstepping the freedom allowed him by his master. "Start where, Parker?" < "For where they do the bushranging, sir. I had an idea that?that?" Parker faltered nervously. "Go on," said Mr. Carson, encouragingly. "I had an idea that bushranging was only done in Australia, sir." "I believe you are correct Parker. Bushranging has hitherto been confined to Australia. Australia was the original home of the industry." "Then when do we start for Australia?" "Australia? Good heavens, you don't think I am going to Australia!" Parker was painfully abashed, for he was unable to deny thfit he had thought so. "Beg pardon, sir; but I understood you to say something about bushranging, and if we are not going to Australia?" ?mii/Mi flnSf-orful to X ill fieri >1 UO IWV U1UV" finish his sentence, and came to a sudden stop. ' Parker," observed Mr. Carson, in th?t pleasant drawl of his. "I have never tried to conceal from you that I hold a very poor opinion of your mental apparatus. Have I ever tried Parker?" "Never, sir." "Then lam sorry to ssy that the silly Temarks you have just made compel me to rate your intelligence at even a lower degree than formerly. Because bushranging has hitherto been only practiced in Australia, you assume that it can never be practiced anywhere else. Such poverty of imagination strikes me as pitiful. When things are as we know they are in the commercial world here in England, does it not occur to you that we are bound not merely to support home industries, but, so far as we may, to in troduce now ones? If we engage in the busliranging business at all, we shall engage in it in London. You may go, Parker." Parker, who had long since been .anxious to get out of the room, went without a word. But this conversation had very considerable results. It confirmed Mr. Carsen in a definite purpose which up tilL then liad only been a hazy idea. EH? resolved to be a bushranger at least for one evening, and he had de-1 vivcd the notion from his newspaper. II. It is impossible to say how certain paragraphs go the round of the press, but it was reported in quite a dozen newspapers that a number of gentlemen, who had amassed large fortunes ia the Australian gold fields, had de-1 termined to dine together under such ' - - ? i?S -31? 11 4r>. eonuitions as wouiu viviuiy icmu thpm their early struggles in the colonies. These, paragraphs excited the greatL est interest, and as the public were all agog for the fullest particulars, a number of enterprising reporters were duly commissioned to lind out all about it, and were not lone: in discovering that the locale of the dinner was to be the Hotel Cosmopolitan. The courteous manager very willingly submitted to be interviewed. "Yes," he said, "you may take it from me that the dinner will be held here. A substantial deposit to cover the initial expenses has already been paid. This was necessary because the gentleman who is organizing the dinner desires to remain anonymous. The guests will be limited to twelve, and will be representative of the largest mining interests in the antipodes. I can't tell you their names, because I do not know tliem. '"These gentlemen have no desire to obtain a ciieap notoriety. j.uey me bent upon spending a pleasant evening together, under circumstances which will bring back to them the primitive surroundings of their early colonial life." The repqrtors were, of course, disappointed tlmt they couldn't get names, but the obliging and courteous manager f -was in otnor resnects so lavish of in formatiou/that tbej' could not possibly complain. \ 7 He conducted them to the grand hall ?a spaciows apartment on the first floor, and acted the part of showman. "This, you see. has been transformed to reproduce as accurately as possible an isolate^ cabin in a bush township of one of th? Back Blocks. The dinuer -will be sejrved in the cabin. The billy will he boiled and the damper will be cooked bjy the gentlemen themselves; they willj fry their own bacon. There will be Jbiltong; there will be tea in little sqijare cakes, and it will be made and drurl|k out of tin pannikins. Round about thy cabin you see the various ( i HERO. "Fame? Bah!" she cried; "ia six months there Will be new heroes on the scene; Your name will be forgotten ere The grass above your leg is green." i He blamed her for her words and turned To proudly hobble from her view; i And ere the. orchards bloomed he learned That all the girl had said was trite. . ?Chicago Record-Herald. 1 .mmmmm & ? the Freak Dinner. ^dlpr || m&mlas i implements used in placer mining?the 1 sieves, tbe cradles, the picks, shovels, and so on. "When the gentlemen have partaken of this simple repast, they will proceed j i-~ urifli ^nr/l-nljl vinj?. IU UiVCil luciuoun to IT iiu A ^ The game, I understand, is to be 'cutthroat euchre.' They will come pro- J vided with bags of gold dust and real nuggets. '"In the midst of the game the com- j pany will be surprised by a party of bushrangers. It will be most realistic. I assure you. Revolvers?of course ; only loaded with blank cartridges?will be actually fired. The bushrangers j will be beaten off, and then bushrangers and miners will sit down to- j gether in jovial amity to a recherche , banquet, supplied from our own kitchens. There! That's the program, and we've no doubt it will prove the most successful thing of the kind that's ever been attempted." The reporters thanketl the obliging manager for his courtesy, and withdrew. in. The dinner was in full swing, and the ten gentlemen who had cooked it and were trying to eat it were having the greatest fun. It made them feel young again. Several had burned their fingers with, the frying pan, and one had scalded himself with the boiling kettle; but that didn't matter. They declared that the lamper tasted as good as it used to taste twenty and thirty and forty years ago. when they came t? it with appetites whetted by a long day's toil with shovel and cradle and sieve. There ^vere only ten of them as yet, because the two who were to do the bushranging act did not appear upon the scene till later. Then they sat down to their cutthroat euchre in parties of three, for it is a game which can only be played by tliree players. This arrangement left one of them over?Sir Joseph Bessels, who was ordered to wash up. and incidentally, to keep a sharp lookout for possible bushrangers. Farthing dips were melted ill their own grease, and stuck upright on the rough deal table. The packs of cards were dirty and old and thumbed. Great fat bags of nugc gets and gold dust were produced and slammed down on the board. Miners who have "struck it rich" are pro- " verbially reckless, and must play high. J And so the game proceeded, until Sir 1 Joseph Bessels, who was making a ^ great mess washing up. saw the door . of the Grand Hall stealthily open, and I two bearded figures glide in. . "Tell me when you are ready," he said, in a loud stage whisper. They were several minutes in getting ready. One of them locked the door and put the key in his pocket, while the other went round the room with a * pair of pincers, and seemed to be doing something to the electric bells. "Now!" they said, when they'd done all this. "Bushrangers, boys!" yelled Sir Jos- c eph gleefully, in stentorian accents. ? It was splendid. r The ten gentlemen bounced up from ( their cards and opened a murderous fire upon the marauders. Never was there such sangfroid and coolness in an emergency. Tlie crackle of revolvers was drowned in a shout of uproarious Inncrhtor TIia nlnv w.is nlaved. The bushrangers must Lave been riddled with bullets and killed many times over. "Bravo! bravo!" they shouted and laughed. "You're dead! you're dead! you're dead!" And they were as keenly elated as if they had beaten off a real attack. But the bushrangers came smilingly forward, and said: "Bail up!" "Oh, no," they objected; "you can't order us to bail up?you're dead!" This extra joke made their amusement positively riotous. "But we are not dead," the bushrangers protested cheerily. "We are very much alive, and our revolvers are loaded with ball, and yours are not." And iust to show that what they said i was true, one of them fired at Sir Joseph, and put a bullet through his slouch hat. "I say, you know," he said, "this is a dangerous game." "It is," they replied; "we are bushrangers." "Yes, of course; but the understanding was that we were to beat you off." "Yes, that was the understanding; but it's been altered?you'll see." And they did see. There was a glorious realistic finish to their make-believe. They were made to stand in a row,, and while one of the bushrangers cov-j ered them with a brace of revolvers, the other roped them with real Aus- I tralian lariats, expressly provided for >' the purpose. Then the bushranger^ t left, taking the nuggets and gold-dust ^ with them, and locking the door ou tno I outside. "We heard the revolver shots." said the genial manager, meeting them oij the staircase. "I hope everything wen! off to your satisfaction." "Perfectly," said Mr. Carson?"perfpotlv." "And when would you like the dinnei served, sir?" "Oh, say in an hour. Don't disturb them for an hour." "We are the bushrangers," replied Mr. Carson, "and we are going to cDange." The manager thought the remark so facetious that he could hardly bow them out for laughing. ******* "Now, Farker, I hope you are satisfied that it i9 possible to transfer a profitable industry from Australia to London?" / THE M'KINLEY MONUMENT. Plan of the Memorial to Be Built P at Canton. The accompanying picture shows the design accepted by tlie McKiuley Na- si] tional Memorial Association for the pi monument to be erected at Canton, st Ohio, President McKinley's home. The _ contract for its erection has been ? awarded and the association has collected $."00,000 to pay all expenses of the work. The association has purchased about i twenty-five acres of laud adjoining / "Westlawn Cemetery iu the western '* portion of Canton. Ohio, including a -J mound some seventy feet in height. Upon this will be built a mausoleum of pink Miiford granite, circular iu form, seventy-five feet in diameter at the [>ase, and about 100 feet iu height from the foundation. This structure will be reached by a flight of approach steps fifty feet in width, in four runs, with wide landings between, constituting a rise of fifty-five feet iu all. The hill will be terraced to conform with the landings )n tbe staircase, presenting on the I tvhole a terraced mound surcuouuted 1 the structure proper. I At the base of tbe staircase will be built a plaza 200 feet in width. Tbe ? main approach will be a tnall about pr 1000 feet in length, 170 feet la width, d^ ;vitb a waterway in the ceutre, and on w iitber side a double row of trees paral- co eling driveways. fo Tbe jury appointed to select tbe arch- TV tect was composed of two architects, n< iValter Cook, of New York, and Rob- ar of the irt S. Peabody, of Boston, and Daniel bj Chester French, of New York, the ta iculptor. They chose the design sub- T1 nitted by H. Van Buren Magonigle, of th s'ew York City. ra The interior of the mausoleum will er >e circular and finished in light gray of inoxville marble. Excepting the door- an vay there will be no opening but that Si: hrough the crowo of the dome. In the th outre of this mortuary chamber will pile the sarcophagi, so designed that en hey appear as two iu one. They are eij iut from single blocks of polished in; jranite. In front of the mausoleum a or itatue of President McKinley will be itaud.?New York Sun. vo wl nrx> m; The adverse vote of Bath, England, ?n Carnegie's offer \)f $G5,000 for a >ublic library was takeu by means of gii >ostal cards sent out by the City se Council. en Type of Goat Int | A MALTA C AUTOMOBILE TOWER WAGON. lie: Not alone is Glasgow, Scotland, tuak- ,at ng a succcss of tlie experiment of mu- atl licipal ownership of public utilities, *o\ int in tlie operation of tlie street railvays is using every up-to-date device ?i< ^ re, AUTOMOBILE TOWBB WAGON. tio i ' ' V V.*" - " . t ' . CURTAIN FOH F3REMEK. ortable Shield Which Protects the FJame-Klshtera. An ingenious Omaha inventor lias degned an entirely new lire-lighting apiance. While its use is entirely rericted to lires in building of small Portable Fire Shield. oportions, such as low stores and veilings etc., the portable Are shield ill, no doubt, fiud many advocates. It nsists of a wheel truck carrying a Iding fire screen of fireproof material, 'hen collapsed the entire outfit does )t take up as much room as a hook id ladder, and is drawn to the scene Mckinley " ' horses, who are immediately deched and taken out of harm's way. ie truck is then wheeled in front of e burning building aud the shield ised by means of a hand gear opntsv/I l\?t 4-Iia flltAIMan +1*/* (TOIlarfll nlnn U ten UJ IUC UlCtUCli, liic bv-MV-*"' f? arrangement being apparent froui i inspection of the accompanying cut. ich a portable shield would prevent e spread of the flames to adjacent operty, and occasionally it might able firemen to approach near pugh to a building which was burn; briskly to effect a rescue of a life property which ordinarily would not attempted because of the danger inlved from intense heat, but from liich the shield would screen the flrein.?Philadelphia Record. Invitations are to Da Issued by Belma to pther nations '.c send :eprentathes to an international conferee ou the ftudy of e polar regions. roduced Here. ' ^ ''""""" " j i OAT. lich makes for speed and Iboroughss in installation and repair. In tbe ter connection there has lately been Jed to the service an automobile ver wagon for overhead trolley work lich has proved quite an improve;ni over the old horse-drawn vehicle, lis self-propelled repair wagon is nipped with a twelve horse-power >tor and is capable of a maximum eed of sixteen miles an hour. Fast ns are daily made to points where paks occur, r.nd the saving in time so considerable that several similar igons will shortly be added to the rvice and the old horse-drawn ve. les withdrawn. The illustration is ;>roducixl from Motor Age. Mrs. Howe Unspoiled by Flattery. Mrs. Jul^a Ward Howe who, at eigh-six, is still addressing audiences th unabated vigor, was recently preuted in a most flattering way by an thusiastic presiding officer. "Dear said Mrs. Howe, as she rose to r feet, "it is lucky my name was ?ntioued, for I never should have :ognized myself from that descripD." Knowledge is Power. Knowledge is power in agriculture as well as in otlier professions. The more a farmer knows About the facts of agriculture, and the more he practices what he knows, the more successful he becomes. The wide awake farmer is observant, and profits by his failures as well as his successes. Keaulta of Feeding. In the selection of cattle foods the farmer should keep in view the results j to be expected. Some foods are fhore valuable, pound for pound, than others, because they differ in the relative proportion of dry substance and its composition. The (iigestive capacity of each animal should be known to the farmer, and he should endeavor to supply its wants. Fill the Pork Barrel. The farmer who raises a few pigs for his pork barrel may count the cost and affirm that pigs do not pay, but where a few pigs are raised they will con-1 sume a large amount of material that would be of no value except for their use. When the pork barrel is full the i farmer is at least fortified for the wifh moo* nnrl in mnnv PflSPS where no pigs are kept there is a waste of material that could be utilized with the aid of at least one or two young and thrifty pigs. Tp Keep Meat in Summer. My way of keeping pork through the summer season, says Louis Campbell, of Pennsville, Ohio: I smoke it well as early in spring as I can and usually market all side meat as early as possible. After I have it nicely smoked I take it from the smoke hocisfr and hang it on stout nails around the sides of a rrn mor in mc whMt CTanarV. I jUSt hang it up without anything over it, J being careful to let one piece hang so as not to touch another. I keep the grauary dark so as to keep out all | flies. I have tried this plan for sev-1 eral years and have never yet had I any trouble from flies or other causes. | Hoga la Orchard*. As scavengers, or for consuming refuse that cannot be marketed, hogs are almost indispensable in an orchard. The fattening of hogs on apples may be considered a successful method, it' heinz certain that this fruit possesses a value for that purpose that has been overlooked, and the destruction of insects by liogs In consuming the fallen apples hag given a new value to orchards and will probably check their destruction, which in some sections of the country has already progressed to a considerable extent. The animal should be allowed in the orchard from the time the fruit begins to fall until it is time to gather apples for the winter, and they will, in most cases, be found in good condition for hardening with grain and slaughtering, and the meat will be tender and of an excellent flavor. When it is necessary to put them into the pen, boiled apples mixed with a small quantity of corn, oats, peas or buckwheat meal will make them fat in a short time and fill the farmer's pork barrel with sound, sweet pork of the first quality. _ , *+,-*>* \ " ' > Cement Floor* For Poultry Honser. Iu the building of new poultry houses the question of suitable floors is always an interesting one, and it must be admitted that the floor depends much on the nature of the soil and the climate. That is, in a moderate climate with the natural soil of a decidedly sandy nature, we would not hesitate to depend upon the earthen floor covered with more or less gravel, provided it was enough higher than the surface of the surrounding soil to prevent any surface water running in the house, and also that it be kept well covered with straw or chaff particularly in cold weather. The floor of boards is not objectionable, provided this, too, is arranged so that it will not get damp and so that it is covered .with straw. The cement floor has many things in its favor, provided it is properly laid, but here is just where the trouble is. A cement floor laid so I XU-. i. Si. f ia IUUI It Id UULUj; LUU3L Ul IUC UUiC *0 worse than a damp board or earthen floor simply because it will not dry out as quickly. If properly laid it will probably be satisfactory, but under ordinary conditions we would prefer either the board or earthen floor with the average poultry keeper. The Hen anil Her Brood. When it comes to surety, safety and comfort for both the lien and her I keeper, the pen system of managing the hen and her brood is the best and in the long run it is much the cheapest. We have written on this subject before, but it is so timely now and it is such a good thing?such a great help to the management of the hen mothers and their little ones during the growing season, that we are writing on it once more. The chief idea is individuality and comparative isolation of each hen and her chickens and in this alonb much is attained, for the more we divide the growing stock the more of it we will raise. In carrying out this plan, observes II. B. Geer, a good, stout, weather and varmint proof coop is the first essential, for the chickens must have protection at nigbt. The next necessity is a pen made of slats or wire netting, this to enclose the coop, say a space about ten by twelve feet all around it, and the fencing should be six feet high and then the flight feathers of one wing of the lieu ehould be cut so that she can not fly out, should she be of a flighty turn. A gate at the l'rout is, of course, necessary. Within a small yard of this kind one hen and her brood should be placed, but the fencing should not be so close that the little chicks cannot pass in and out, for it is not intended to confine them, but their mother. This makes a security reserve for them?a place of refuge for them from any danger, and yet they may enjoy free range at the same time. It also makes it possible to feed each hen and her brood separately, which is a most desirable condition, as it prevents mobbing up and overcrowding. Another thought?when the showers 0319 up, and w? are busy, .we need, not chase all over the place, dropping everything else, to get the hens and their chickens in out of the wet, for the hen is stationed where there is n.-fuge all the time, and the chickena can quickly scoot in through the cracks to her. In fact, this system minimizes work, worry and the percentage of loss, and it really makes the raising of chickens with hens a pleasure, as well as profitable. Rape For Slieep. It has been well attested th.it rape makes the quickest and one of the best sheep and hog pastures that can be grown. One of our correspondents, Mr. L. C. Reynolds, says of rape: Rane lias won for itself srreat nopu larity as a food for sheep in recent years. It is grown to-day more or iess upon every farm where sheep or hogs are raised. I have grown rape for sheep pasture for more than twelve years, and the more I grow of it the more thoroughly I am convinced it is one of the best sheep feeds the farmer can grow. While it does not come on as early as rye in the spring, its hardy nature makes it one of the best of forage crops.' When sown under favorable conditions it will supply a large amount of palatable pasture at six weeks of growth, and the fact that it can be sown at any season of the year makes it one of the best general forage crops for the farmer. No sheep owner can afford not to grow rape. It can be sown during every growing season of the year and produce excellent pasture. I prefer to sow rape in drills instead of broadcast, as many do. A better stand of plants can be secured by this method, and the stock does not tramp the forage down nearly so much. I sow my rape with a hand or grain drill in rows twenty inches apart. Sow about four pounds of seed per acre. Care should be exercised not to sow the seed too deep.?Indiana Farmer. Fertility and Fruit Growing. At a meeting of horticulturists Professor John Craig, of Cornell University, said: "Every modern system of cultivating fruits recognizes as a first principle the right of the fruit tree to be considered a specific and sufficient crop under the soil, or at least to be regardno AvhaiioHnrr in L*u ua u auji iiuiic ao '<;AUU character as any grown by the farmer. Unless the fruit grower realizes and puts Into practice the essential part of this principle be will fail as a cultivator of fruits. Experiments ill orcharding conducted some years ago at tlja Cornell Experiment Station proved con[ clusively that it cost the soil more to produce twenty average crops of apples than twenty average crops of wheat. In other words, more fertility was extracted from tue iana in growing an acre of bearing appies for twenty years than in growing twenty consecutive crops of wheat. As a ruleo the farmer recognizes the food needs of the wheat plant, but too often does he look upon the apple or fruit tree as a mere tenant of the soil, and one which is not to be regarded as a specific crop. Having recognized the principles, the particular method of orchI arding njucli WWfeefl out by the fruitgrower himself. This method yill de-" pend upon soil conditions and climate. Nevertheless, it is safe to say -that in eight cases out of ten that method which employs clean tillage for at least part of the season will be most successful. It is also safe to say that all secondary crops iu orchards are injurious." . ' ^ Farm and Garden Note*. Much labor and expense may be saved by planning ahead. uniy a lew varieties suouia ue piuiued in the commercial orchard. Exercise lias a decided value in lowering the cost of egg production. The more litter in the manure, the slower the process of decomposition. Celeriac is a plant similar to celery, but more easily grown and more easily cooked. Too large quantities of fertilizers applied at one time will kill tender , plants. But few plants will thrive in a wet soil. A good drain is sometimes better than manure. There are few times of the year when a good pair of pruning shears can not be used to good advantage. Don't forget the stock water in the pasture. Stock inust not be without good water, not for a day nor half a day. I When a better price for better fruit 1 is obtained, the difference in price pays for handling. It pays to grow the best, 1 for that reason. 1 In nearly ail cases animals in low . flesh are more liable to disease than , when in fine bodily condition, and it | costs more to keep them. i Thinning fruit is proving such an ' advantage to the quality that the plan is gaining ground everywhere. Better 1 prices for better fruit is the result. i Some tires have- occurred from care lessness in handling incubators and brooders. Fossibly we might encase 1 the incubator, if in cellar, in light framework covered with asbestos paper. The latter is cheap and a suie protection from overheating. Barring all the differences that may be in individual birds and strains, it may be said that Wyandottes are now considered to be among the very best of all-purpose fowls. They are hardy, active, good layers, good mothers and of good size and good table quality. ? The world would do a bad job of e getting along without the grower of live stock, and that same world ought fl to be willing to remunerate him for his ^ labor and risks. Indeed, no class of people is ruder any obligation to feed p and clothe another class without pay, i j for it. i That bone has great value as a ration j for poultry, both for egg production L and for growth in chicks, is not a mat- t ter of dispute. The fact is generally recognized that in 110 other way can jeggs be produced more readily, or ! I growth made in young stock more <3 quickly than by the liberal use of 1 cut bone in the ration. ' 0 - = ? j BITS INEWS ^ WASHINGTON. The bill appropriating $300,000 for the employment of extra labor at the ./ Mare Island Navy Yard was passed byj "^g the Senate. A special report on the beet sugar industry, sent to Congress by the Pr^s- >59 ident, shows 025,841,228 pounds manufactured in this country in 1905. ,|a A delegation of Italian citizens from* several cities was before the House' Judiciary Committee to urge that Co-/ Jfl lumbus Day be made a national holl- .;] day. Former Secretary of the Navy Long .1 saw the President to tell him that the people of New England are greatly in- vlJ terested in tariff revision. The bill extending till 1009 the time ! when the coastwise shipping laws ^ . ^ shall go into effectdbetween the United. c yM States and the Philippines was passed* The House Census Committee de- Y'g elded to report favorably a bill to hare a live stock and crop acreage census \;.p taken every Ave years at a cost of about $900,000. The Senate Irrigation Committee agreed on the House bill creating a! / separate administration for the recla- -ia tnatlnn cprvtpp. Senator Spooner in a speech on the ' ^ railroad rate bill denied the power oC Congress to destroy a court. A bill making emergency approprlatlons for work on Federal property la San Francisco and at Mare Island wa? / passed. , OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A detail of Moros on the Island of Samar, P. I., in an encounter with Pirla janes killed thirty of the latter. The Manila (P. I.) Renaciamento, a: native newspaper, made a scurrilous f attack on American commercialism '-'5 and urged Filipinos to resist the introduction of American enterprise in th? r>, islands. ' ' Fire lias swept the town of Mariqnlna, in Rlzel Province, P. I. Many; thousands of persons are homeless anA r'i4 starving. Ex-Judge McKenna, of the Federal Court, Porto Rico, who resigned recent- -':M ly, sailed for New York. V I General Wood has directed that com- .kJB ..111? i? rs.P KowoIn pttuj unija iu auub ul uuiiu\.?v M aaQM Philippines be abandoned. At pre?-- M ent battalion, regimental and brigade J drills cover miles of territory, officers ^ and men carrying heavy field equip>ment. Vilafarte, the Ladrone leader in Ma- '.* -^S lolos, fifteeu miles (torn Manila, has surrendered at the headquarters of the ] M constabulary in Manila. He will be paroled if he will return to the mountain? and assist in the capture of the Ladrone chief, Sakay. DOMESTIC. John Mitchell sent to the coal opera- .tfa tors new proposals in which the demands for recognition of tlie union and the eight-hour day are eliminated. Convicted of using the mails fraudulently, Dr. Charles A. Nichols, of Urbana, 111., was fined $250 and costs, $1700 altogether, and will stay in Jail' [ :'?& until it is paid. Accompanied by his wife and daugh- - Jj ter, General Luke E. Wright, America's first Ambassador to Japan, left Memphis en route to his post. Indictments for conspiracy have/ been found against four forms- officers of the defunct Bank of America at? ' vunagu, -"TOB Tlie New York Central Railroad was fined $50 in police court for violating '-$& -the Sprlugfleld (Mass.) smoke ordi- ^4 nftnce. The railroad will test the con- :. ? stltutionalify pf the ordinance in the Y;:M Supreme Court. JohnDaJy, of New "^>rk City, sixtyeight years old, for many years one of ' :JX the most noted sportsmen of America,. \ succumbed to auaemia. ^ ^Tbe new French liner La Provence - Ya was la wlreTess communication with; both shores of the Atlantic at the same time when in mid-ocean. /-i2| Prevalence of gambling among students of the New York University La\r School brought threats of expulsion from their dean. William A. Brewer, Jr., of the Wash- if. ington Life, was indicted "for perjury; ^ by the Grand Jury in New York City. i ? The anthracite coal operators reject- > 'j ed the miue workers' propositions and suggested a continuation of the old agreement for three years or submis- - % slon of the question to the Coal Commlcdnn The death of William King, a rieaman ou the battleship Kearsarge, increases the death list fronrthe powder ' explosion on the battleship to ten men.i Coal operators opened a large new; coal breaker in Morristown, N. J., ami are said to have a ten months' supply, of lump coal, which they are breaking into marketable sizes. Governor Higgins, of New York, signed the last of the Armstrong insurance reform bills. FOREIGN. ":#i England has increased the garrisons ; In Egypt in view of Turkey's action on the Tabah boundary question. Following the riots at Siestan, Persia, quarantine rules are not fieing en- / forced and the plague is spreading. General Benjamin Herrei.-., sent to* Venezuela by Colombia as Minister, under an agreement with Venezuela,' but not recognized by the Government 3f the latter country, returned to Willemstad, Curacao. Paris police searched the houses of reactionaries and strikers, and discovered important compromising docu- ' meats among the effects of royalists md Bonapartists. King Edward and Queen Alexandra' ivent lip Mount Vesuvius and heard; Matteucci and Ferret tell about tt? jruption. Turkish soldiers, a dispatch from 2airo says, have removed telegraph! joles from Egyptian territory. Sir Edward Grey in the House of Comnous said that negotiations at Conitantinople continued. Count Witie refused to confirm or. leny the re of his retirement from! he Premiership, but the report is genially accepted as true, and the Liberal leaders predict a return to most ievere repressive measures. Heunig, murderer, marriage broker^ tnd swindler, has been condemned to1 loath at Potsdam, Prussia. A bomb was found on the windowii ill of ex-President Loubet's villa at' >1UL1 IUU ILJUl f A' umtt. Great Britain is rushing troors to: 2gypt, in view of Turkey's action itif lolding the Sinai peninsula contrary,! o her protest. The statue cf Eenjamin Franklin, + ireseuted to the city of Paris by John I. Harjes, was unveiled at the Trocalero. The ceremonies assumed an inernational character, aud pledges oft witv were exchanged by the speakers.^ i