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* 1 THE REAPING. r I lived my life for you, from that first he When yet you lay unseen and all i known Save to myself and God; my thought, i power, My very life-blood were for you alone. I took your cares, and on my shouldi laid Your every burden; every pain a smart I kept from you, and all that could t grade r\- 1?: ~..:i 1 V,?, VI Ul 1L1K O. LI CVU MIU"1V.UL,V. -u. I guarded you from sorrow and from str Until your manhood. What has availed? I thought your life had been the perfi life? And when the trial came, you failec you failed. ?Constance Johnson. Harper's Weekly 85 I I THE BLUE | ORGANDY DRESS By M. H. W. CARTER. a s EVER since the vision of that de cate, dainty, much beflower and beflounct* organdy dre bad flashed before Cyntlih admiring eyes, she had been able think of nothing else. It was now a week ago since she fii saw it, on the Sunday when she we <o church. That in itself was a gre event, for Cynthia rarely went church. The poor farm, where si lived, was several miles out from tow and op Sunday mornings there we always many reasons why Cyntb could not attend church. Mr. Curt the keeper of the poor farm, was tirc or Mrs. Curtis had too much to do, the farm horses were lame, or it w too hot or too cold, or too wet or t Something. At all events, the tim iwheJ Cynthia had found herself the small white country church of ] iwere few and far between. ? How it happened that on this part: ular Sunday all conditions should favorable was something with whi< Cynthia did not concern herself, . was enough for her that here she w ton tbe back seat of the big far iwagon, snuggled in between lame Au Sally, who would take snuff, ana o Mrs. Plummer, who was so deaf th she couldn't hear a sound, clad in h new calico dress, with a clean cott< handkerchief squeezed tight in o email hand, and with the prospect t lfore her of a leisurely ride among t pleasant country -roads, sweet ai Ifresh with the morning's fragrant and echoing to the music of birds ai bees and breezes. * Then at the end of the ride was t fchurch service, which Cynthia alwa lenjoyed. True, she did not understai ttnuch that the minister said; but 1 {was pleasant to look upon as he stoi jthere before his people, calm, benij and dignified, and Cynthia always e perieuced a sense of well-being, Batisfaction in the general order ithings when she thus beheld him. t' The church was cool and somewh Oira. thanks to the big protecting elr '.{which overshadowed it, the open wi Bows admitted the wandering summ freezes, the attitude of the people w reverential, the hymns were sung wi ft fervor and devotion which ma jthem indeed a part of the service. 1 Jthese things had their effect up< jCynthia's impressionable nature, a ?Itoade for her a Sunday service a thii Jeagerly anticipated and long remei berad. | On this particular Sunday somethii lout of the ordinary had happen* EOhe minister was about to begin I sermon, when there rustled down t Wisles two ladies, and, following the: fL little girl about Cynthia's age, wes ?ng a wonderful dress. The little g {was fair, with rosy cheeks, sunny ha End eyes the very color of the bl (cornflowers in her dress. To Cynth / jshe was an embodiment of beauty?j Jife and color and sunshine. S iwas a summer visitor, of course. 1 Qittle girl in H. possessed a gown li khat or had sunny curls or such pretty way of quickly tossing her he; and looking up, for all the world li )a little bright-eyed bird. The enti imorning service was lost upon Cyntl fefter the advent of the stranger. S mad eyes for and thought of notliii lelse; and afterward on the way hon and all through the drudgery ai monotony of the following days, t pnemory of that beautiful dress and i faainty wearer made a pleasant pictu In Cynthia's mind. f She was thinking of them now as s i Bat on the doorstep resting for a f< 'minutes. She had finished picki (<he blaekberrieswhich would go Aown the next morning, and now s (must sew on the coarse brown toweli jas soon as Mrs. Curtis had prepar the work. j( Cynthia did not like to sew. T /[toweling was stiff and rough, the e jton would kink up so tiresomely, a jjthe needle got so sticky in her mo (little hands that it was almost irnpos jjble to push it through the cloth. E ICynthia's likes or dislikes were i ^consulted about sewing or about ai thing else, and she had learned to i . "fcept the inevitable with as good grace as possible, and even to look 1 (the pleasant things which might bidden beneath the surface. i Now, for instance, Mrs. Curtis w {certainly very l:ind to allow her to ton the doorstep to do her work; s might have insisted on her sitting Ithe living room where it was close a hot. Here it was shady and couipa itively cool, and the road was in pis Bight. Perhaps some one might by. Even as the thought came to h ehe saw a carriage slowly approa< lug. Very slowly it was coming, a Boon even Cynthia's inexperienced e3 Could see that something was wroi {When it came near enough to see w ."was in it, imagine Cynthia's delighl - ^surprise to find that it contained t ladies and a little girl?tbe summer \ itors of the preceding Sunday, aiyl I i little girl wore the blue organdy dre ; The carriage stopped at the big go and, one of the ladies beckoning, C: !thia shyly drew near. | "Isn't there some man here who c vnnnil mir r>n rr in fro ? have U ,-with an accident and dare go no f ther." said the lady. j Cynthia called Mr. Curtis, who p jnounced the damage slight, althou it would take some time to repair. M (Curtis offered the ladies the use (the best room; but they preferred fcave chairs out of doors under the tre and the little ffirl, whose name pro^ - . .' ' . v, .. . to bo Gladys, announced her intention of playing with Cynthia. in^ "Very well, dear, do as you like,'" remarked the lady, who was evidently uy her mother. Cynthia glanced at her unfinished Jrg sewing aud at Mrs. Curtis. "You may leave your sewing till later," was Mrs. Curtis' response to the unspoken quesj tion, and Cynthia turned delightedly to her unexpected guest. rt. "Now, let's play," said the little lady, quickly. "What do you play? I want to see your playthings." , ;ct Playthings! Cynthia could not re- j member having owned a plaything except some corncob dolls, and that was ' long, long ago. j "I sometimes piay in me oarn. s-ut i ; ventured. "Would you like to go I , y there?" And, ou Gladys' immediate j ; ? acquiescence, she led the way thither. On the threshold she stopped. "Your ' beautiful dress?it is dusty in here." ; ! "This old thing?" said Gladys, airily. ' a "I shan't hurt it." And, pushing by 3 Cynthia, she threw herself with joyous abandon upon a great pile of hay ou di- the floor. " ed "Oh, what fun this is! How sweet it 'ss smells! I am going to slide down hill. ' i's Come, Cynthia, let's see who'll go \ to down first." And the sport grew fast and furious. : st After a while Gladys tired of this, ut and, sitting up with flushed cheeks I at anc^tumbled hair, demanded that some to new amusement should be forthcomhe ing. u, "We might go down to the brook." re said Cynthia, doubtfully. "It is nice iia down there, and there is a dear little , is, flsh which I see sometimes. He lives ; id, under a big, overhanging rock, down or in the dark, and he's so shiny and has i as such pretty red spots on his back! But oo you must be awful careful, or you'll es wet your dress," looking ruefully at in the sadly rumpled organdy. in H. "finmd nf onre." was the imDerious reply. "Hurry! I want to see tbe it ic- little fish." _ be But when the reached the brook, the ch fish was not to be seen. They peered It over the big rock, and threw little pebas bles in the water to stir him up, and 'in even took a stick and tried to poke him nt out, but no fish appeared. Id Suddenly Gladys, who in her exciteat ment and impatience had been leaning er far out over the rock in spite of Cynsn thia's remonstrance, lost her balance oe and fell head first into the brook. The >e- water was not deep, and there was be no harm done to Gladys. But her ad dress, the beautiful organdy?what a - e, sight it presented as she stood dripping ad on the bank! "Oh, how dreadful! What will your mother say? Your be beautiful dress! Oh, dear, oh, dear!'' ys wailed Cynthia. ad "Mamma won't care about the be dress," replied Gladys, "and I'm not od hurt. But what shall I do? I can't \ ?n go back to the hotel like this." \ x- "Perhaps you could wear one of my ! of dresses. We must go back to the house of right away." And the two hastened back, Cynthia worried, anxious, and at almost in tears; Gladys evidently lookus ing upon her wetting as only a continin uation of the day's adventures. And er so she continued to regard it while aras raying herself in Cynthia's best calico tli dress, which Mrs. Curtis hastened to de produce. U1 Gladys' mamma, after her first on alarmed surprise, seemed also inclined ud to regard the matter as a joke, saying ng that, when one was in the country, one n- must expect all manner of mishaps. The spoiled dress sbe regarded with m ag absolute indifference. "Throw it to ?1. away," she said carelessly. "It was lis too small for Gladys, anyway." he But the next day Mrs. Curtis careen, fully washed and ironed the dress, and ir- it came out just as fresh and dainty as Lrl when new; and, when Cynthia went ro ir, to church the following Sunday, she w ue wore the organdy dress with the blue tb ,ia cornflowers, for it was now her very ic ill own.?Christian Register. be tr Counterfeit Coins Fonml in a Grave. TV so Counterfeit coins bearing the date ot er ke 1899 and 1897 found in the grave of a ft a man who died fifteen years ago fur- 0f a(* nish a puzzle for the Secret Service q: kc" agents at St. Louis. The. coins were tv ye unearthed near Arden, Douglas Counlia ty, Mo., recently, when the body of a, ke John Keenan was disinterred by rela- tl tives for removal to California. C1 ie- Lee T. Philpot, Secret Service agent, nd returned yesterday from that locality with $04 of the spurious coins, which its he recovered from B. H. Quick, a farmire er, to whom they were turned over. Philpot was unable to get any clue as to where the money came from, and there were no traces of any bad money ng having been in circulation there receutto' ly. The "plant" is supposed to be an he nlil nno mnr?p hv .?mnp pmmtprfpitpr. n? who picked out a grave as the place | least likely to be discovered iu case of a search. he The coins are badly rusted, but some ?t- of them are good imitations. The colnd lection includeseighteendollars, eightyist five half dollars and sixteen quarters, si- Keenan and his son, Rudolph Keenan, tut lived in au isolated spot in the Douglas iot County hills. Both died about the iy- same time. ic- Pliilpot searched an old cabin where a they lived for counterfeiting tools, but for found none.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. -Di lie *. Birds and Brldees. 11 ,as All river birds bave a great dislike to ** sjj. tbe bridges which span the stream at tl ,jje intervals, and give them as wide a ln berth as possible. An oyster-catcher ~ n(i may be flying swiftly tip river just ra_ above the surface of the water. One would think that it would save a great till PI ?0 deal of time and energy were it to conpr tiuue its course under the bridge; but ^ ,jj' no, there is evidently something un"nij canny about the latter to the bird's res mind, so it invariably rises from the surface of the stream, and flies well above the bridge. Small birds, bowed ever. as dipper and the swallow, wo seem to ignore the obstruction.?Coun.js. Iry Life. ltrookliite DUtrensed. ss! Brookline people with an eye to the te, subdued in color are much distressed rn- over a house that has been given blue blinds. The decoration is thought to :an be very glaring. For tint, the deepest net tints of azure skies are a poor second, ur- It has been hoped .nut the blinds were hung simply as an experiment, but ro- they are hanging still, and now the igh hope is that the color may have a quick ts. fading quality, but there are no signs j of of that yet, and perhaps they will 4 to never fade. Some are beginnirg to te9. call the dwelling "the house of frenzied 'ed blue."?Boston Record. * The Comoliment Q Cabby?"I 'ad a beard like yours on e look like I got it cut off." Bussy?"Au' I 'ad a face like yours o cut off. I grew a beard."?From SIMPLE STBWS HOLDEB. A simple piece of wire bent as above akes a good string holder, according ? a correspondent of the Gardening rorld. NOVEL JtOLUXG-PIN. A Pennsylvania man has invented a lling pin which has an attachment hich feeds flour on the dough while ie latter is being rolled, thus prevent tg the rolling pin sticking to the mgh. The rolling pin carries a ough and a dredger for flour, by hich the dough is more or less coved while it is under manipulation on io mo'ding board. The rolling pin is any suitable construction, tie hanles being detachable and the roll irning on the handles. The ends of ie trough are attached to the handles id extend above the top of the roll, ie sides of the trough extending so ose to the roller that the latter can j~ ' ^ J | Distributes the Flour. Firely turn without contact with the ough. Thus the rolling pin is sur iounted by a trough, which is open al le bottom, save as the roller itself )rms a bottom to the trough. Inside AUTOMATIC WATERING POT. Our article, with its illustrations, )ncerning an automatic apparatus foi atering plants, recalled to Mr. M. M. An Automatic Watering Pot / J ce, but when I found vhat it made nee. an' when I found I couldn't get London Punch. I ,,! rue irougu is a iioiiuw cjuuuei, iuiuicu of perforated sheet metal, the cylinder moving within the though and close] by a cover. When the cylinder or dredger is partly full of flour and is placed on top of the roller the latter can be so operated as to sprinkle more oc less flour on the roller, whence it will be carried on to the dough. A little experience gives great facility in the use of the rolling pin, so that the dredger can be made to drop just as much flour (or flne sugar, as In rolling out cookies) as is necessary.?Philadel- I phia Record. DRESS SUIT CASE. In the dress suit case shown here it was the purpose of the inventor to devise a supplemental compartment for containing collars, cuffs and the like, which is accessible without opening the other sections of the case. Rumpling and damaging of the contents are also obviated without adding to the size or detracting from the appearance of the case. There are three sections in this dress suit case?the body sec tion, tlie lid section ana a secuoa supplemental to the body section. Each of the sections has combined with it an ordinary partition lid, which is hinged to the case. The supplemental section is produced by extending each end of the body section upward and by the employment of vertical and horizontal partitions. This section is again divided into a number of compartments by vertical Divided Into Sections. partitions. In the use of the case garments and underwear can be placed in the body and lid sections, and articles of toilet, such as handkerchiefs, neck ties, collars, urusnes, comD, etc., arranged in the compartments of the supplemental section. Should it be necessary to femove oue of the latter articles at any time the locks are unfastened and the lid raised, thus exposing only the compartments to view to the exclusion of the others. This would be exceedingly convenient in traveling on the cars, where a traveler is very often crowded for space, and where it is generally impossible to find a vacant seat where the case can be spread out flat. ?Philadelphia Record. Paul Heyse is accredited with being one of the most famous living German . novelists, who is almost as well known , in America as in the Fatherland. The Czar of Russia announces that he will retain his same autocratic j powers. Moore, a subscriber, a device which he used upon the .suggestion of a "fortyniner." [ A few years ago Mr. Moore lived upon a small ranch, where the only water supply was a small well. In order to have a few plants and flowers, he gathered a number of tin cans?tomato, corn, etc.?cut out the top so that it held by an inch or so, bent it back, so that it could be nailed to u stick, punched a very small hole in the bottom, through which he drew three or four inches of cotton cloth or string, drove rue suck ueiu uiu imim nc wished to water, so thai ihe can was eight or ten iuc-Jies above the ground, filled the can with water, and then drop by drop the water fell upon the ground near the plant all day, sometimes r.ll day and eight. The ground soon became saterated, the plant throve, and the quart of water did as much good as an all-day rain. The accompanying sketch will give an idea of the device.?Scientific American. Quantities of sulphur are mined In the craters of several extinct Mexican volcanoes. A , . OR. BROUWER INDICTED I FOB POISOMIHB WIFE, New Jersey Physician Pleads Not Guilty and is Sent to Jail. i NURSE'S DAMAGING TESTIMONY Sick Woman Seized With ConvuN i sions on Taking Medicine From i Her Husband--Died From Ar? I senic and Ground Glass. Toms River, N. J.?In the presouce of his aged motbei: and two small children Dr. Frank H. Brouwer, a wellknown physicau and prominent citizen of this place, waa arrested here charged with murdering his wife, Carrie Brouwer, last September by administering to her ground glass and arsenic. Brouwer was locked up in the county jail and his trial is set for the first Tuesday in September. The Grand Jury, after considering all the evidence in the case, had returned the day before an iudictmenl charging murder in the first degree. County Prosecutor Brown made a limned trip to Red Bank, where Supreme Court Justice Heudricksou was trying a murder case, and laid the facts before the Court. Justice Heudricksou arrived iu this village next morning. He went at once to tlie Court House, where a large crowd bad assembled. Hardly bad be been seated wben tbe 3rand Jury banded up tbe indictmeut. Tbe Justice read It aloud and tben oriered Sheriff Jefferys to arrest Brouf?er. Tbe arrest bas caused a great sensation in tbe quiet village where the loctor and bis wife were known by ivery body. Tbe Grand Jury came into court at aoou and made a presentment, and soon after Dr. Brouwer entered in the custody of the Sheriff, accompanied by J (lis counsel, I. W. Carmicbael. The prisoner was very pale and nervous. While the indictment was being read j to him he kept biting his lips, but at the conclusion of the reading he pleaded not guilty in a firm tone. He was then taken to jail.. Facts Leading: to Indictment in Toms River Poison Mystery September 25, 1005.?Mrs. Carrie Brouwer, wife of Dr. Frank T. Brouwer, dies at her home in Toms River. Dr. W. H. Cate, of Lakewood, signs certificate of death, by Bright's disease. * September 20, 1905.?Funeral. Insurance company begins investigation, j Mrs. Brouwer's brother, T. J. Hyer, i states he does not believe cause of death to have been correctly stated. December 3, 1905.?Dr. Cate mysterljusly disappears. Had wandered away similarly in 1903 during a period of alleged mental aberration. December 18th, 1905.?Mrs. Elizabeth Heyer, sister of the dead woman, leclares she has learned that Dr. Cate signed the certificate of death by positive direction of Dr. Brouwer. Also, that Cate and the husband had quarreled about certain medicine Brouwer was giving wife. December 20, 1905.?Body of Mrs. Brouwer ordered disinterred by Judge Hendrickson, of New Jersey Supreme Court. Detectives guard grave. December 22, 1905?Mrs. Brouwer's aodv disinterred in presence of physi An immense crowd joined in celebrating at Charlotte, N?C., the one hundred aud thirty-first anniversary of the signing of the Mechlenburg declaration of independence. Drilling of the United States troops was preceded by a big parade of soldiers and Confederate veterans. An address was delivered by Governor Glenn. Presbyterian Churches to Unite. The Cumberland Presbyterian Genaral Assembly voted to unite with the Presbyterian Church by a vote of 103 to 91. ii ' :ians and chemist, Dr. F. A. Centh, to ;vbom parts are delivered for analysis. December 24, 1905.?Dr. Cate turns ap in Springfield, Mass. Declares he remembers nothing. . Sent to Sanitarium in Goshen, N. Y. May 17th, 1906.?Announced that the .'hemist has informed the Ocean County Grand Jury that arsenic was found ,n the body. Powdered glass was also ilscovcred. Public sentiment had forced a reopening of the case. May 23, 1906.?Indictment against Or. Brouwer, the husband, is found by :he Grand Jury, and his arrest ordered. Xurses had testified that medicines mixed by Brouwer had strange effects. Dr. Cate returned to be a witness. EQUITABLE TO BE MUTUALIZED. Thomas F. Ryan's Stock to be Transferred to Policyholders. New York City.?On the initiative of Grover Cleveland and Paul Morton and with the harmonious assent of Thomas F. Ryan, decisive steps have been taken for the mutualization of the Equitable Life Assurance Society under the terms specified by the New York State Insurance laws. The charter of the Equitable Life will be radically amended to provide for the election by; direct vote of the policyholders of twenty-eight members of the Board of Directors, or a majority of four in the total board membership of fifty-two. The remaining twenty-four minority members of the board are to be elected, as at present, by the stockholders. Provision is to be made for the retirement of the society's stock, the con | trolling interest in wnicn was Dougnt from James H. Hyde for $2,500,000 by Thomas F. Ryan, and by him -was trusteed in tbe hands of Grover Cleveland, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien and George Westinghouse. Cost Hobson $0984 to Run, Richmond Pearsou Hobson certified at Montgomery, Ala., that it cost him ?0984 to defeat Representative Baukliead for the nomination for Congress, ft, is said his recent lecture tour was very profitable. Judge Censured Railroad's Head. In affirming a judgment of Robert H. Westcott against the Lackawanna Railroad for breach of contract, Judge Wallace, of tbe United States Court. New York City, characterized President Truesdnle's act in repudiating the contract as "morally no better than larceny." Editor Made Police Head. Governor Guild of Massachusetts ! named Stephen O'Meara, formerly editor of the Boston Journal, to be police commissioner of Boston. Blue and Gray March Together. : fry /' V~r 33 sines MM WINE Wife of Former Senator Henderson Emptied Cellar Members of Rechabite Order Crack Bottles, While the Unregenerate Drank From the Street. Washington, D. C.?Because she did not believe in serving liquor to her quests, nor selling it nor giving it to the hospitnlsr Mrs. J. li. Henderson, wife of former Senator Henderson, of Missouri, turned into the gutter in front :>f "Henderson Castle." as her house is known, several hundred quarts of wines and liquors, worth thousands of dollars. The occasion for the sacrifice was a meeting of the Independent Order of Rechabites at the brownstoae mansion. A flia o acairtVtl in ct r\ f Iho crnocfa \ft*a Iiendsrsou made a statement In which she said she had been troubled for the last three years in regard to the stock of wines and liquors in the cellar. She said that they had been placed there for guests at the table, but she had found them to be a temptation to young men and young women. In conclusion she said: "Concerning those locked up bottles in the cellar, should I give them away to those who have not yet arrived at my state of thinking? That is no better than to serve them, one's self. Should I send them to a hospital? The new school of medical practice is more and more in the way of hygienic methods, and less and less in the way of drugs. Should I sell them? What in all this wide world could be more abominable than to give a person the right to poison his neighbors for a money consideration? "Now, my fellow Rechabites, yon have studied these questions longer than I, and you have done our family the honor of naming your tent'after my husband. It shall leave it to you what to do with that dram shop in our cellar." Her Rechabite guests voted to consign the contents of the cellar to the 1.1? ' l.t-K IllA llAfiBA gucier, wuicu uesceuuo nuiu iuc uvuoc, and iu a few minutes the party was cracking the necks of bottles against the stone coping at the edge of the sidewalk. At the foot of the hill is a considerable settlement of negroes, and they found that there was wine on tap, and some of them drank from the gut' ter. A RAILROAD REFORMS. Pennsylvania Heads to Be Cut Off Because of Coal Stock Scandal. Philadelphia.?At his borne in Rosemont John P. Green, acting head of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, said he did not believe that minority stockKflr* cr oili+c hoPflnCP flf i.1 ly ru c i a iruuiu uiiub wwmwwv the graft revelations of the last few days. Captain Green intimated broadly that there would be a cutting off of many beads in tbe Pennsylvania system, and without delay. "Now that we have learned the abuses that have been going on we shall stop them. There must be reform in every department. Ours is a big corporation?thousands of employes ?and, of course, some of them have wrong conceptions of duty. We cannot discbarge them until we discover what they have done. Now there is a big chancre comine. "New conditions are coming into the railroad business. The old system has been through a revolution. The giving of passes is going. These are different days from the old. We must cut our suit according to the, cloth. Some of our young men do not seem to remember that things have changed. "The public looks upon the ownership of coal stocks by railroad officials as improper and apt to result in unjust and harmful discrimination. This being so, it must be stopped, and it will be, you may be sure of that. We must all keep up with the procession." VARDAMAN FREES DR. ROGERS. / Pardons Man Who Protected Secret of a Woman. Jackson, Miss.?"I will write pardons for a man who has acted as be has as long as the case lasts, as long as ink and paper lasts and until my act should happen to conflict with the law." With this dramatic remark Governor Vardaman placed his signature to the documents that will enable Dr. M. I<\ Rogers, a physician of New Albany, to escape a sentence of imprisonment and payment of fine. More than a year ago Rogers was fined and sentenced to imprisonment for refusing to answer in Judge Boothe's court questions involving the disappearance of a package from the express office at New Albany containing $2000. Rogers gave as his reasou that he had pledged hia word of secrecy to a woman who had given him the information. Doctor Rogers defended himself in the lower court, and iu the Eupreine Court his case was decided against him. The Governor's action followed. BANK DEFAULTER A SUICIDE. President of Newport News Bank Writes Confession and Kills Himself. Norfolk, Va.?Irwin Tucker, president of the Savings Bank of Newport News, Va., committed suicide in his room over the bank in Newport News, just as Chief of Police Reynolds, of that city, opened Tucker's door to arrest him upon a warraqt charging him with stealing $10,000 or more of the D3UK S LUUUS. Japs Exhibit Russian War Trophies. The Emperor of Japan held a military review of 15,000 troops recently in Tokio, when all the guns, swords, flags, etc., captured during the RussoJapanese war were exhibited before the Imperial Palace. A banquet to 6000 guests followed. Rebuilding Stnnfc 'niversity. It was learned in San Francisco that work on the rebuilding of Stanford University was under way and would probably be completed by fall. Feminine News Notes. Mrs. Oshlma is one of the most efficient native Christian workers in Japan. Mrs. Charles P. Frey won the championship in the Women's Chess Congress. It is interesting to note that in modern times seven British, peers have married actresses. The Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution broke up In a row at Washington. Princess Ena of Battenberg is the only royal child born in Scotland for more than 300 years. __ WASHINGTON. Attorney-General Moody is ready tt prosecute the Standard Oil Company for the violation of both the Elklng and Sherman laws. The State Department lias aslcetf Japan to participate in the Jamestow* ?| Exposition. ,-m The House Library Committee has V voted favorably on a bill for a $100,000 . memorial to Columbus in Washington. A bill to pay to the estate of Samuer ^ L?e, a negro. $10,482, was passed afte* '-"yaM a sharp filibuster, having failed in eight previous Congresses. Senator Bailey denounced a news* paper article on the Rate bill conferences as a lie, and hinted that It might have been Inspired from the White v$9 House. ' President Roosevelt attended wedding of Edith Harlan Child, grand' d aughter of Justice Harlan and "Eras* '-i&iaB tus Corning, of Albany, N. Y. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. - j? |Ji Exporters report a shortage of the Philippine hemp crop amounting to 100,000 bales, valued at $2,000,000. ' Drought and a typhoon in September caused the slump. Aroused by the fact that one-third of : $0 the deaths in Porto Rico are annually caused by tuberculosis and that in the '^'^1 [ congested cities of the island the per- $ I centage frequently reaches one-half Ofi } the mortality, an "Anti-Tuberculosia /'?; League of Porto Rico" has been formed. Labor immigrants to Hawaii 'from 1852 to 1905 were: Koreans, 6908; CMnese, 44,494; Japanese, 111,137; Sontfr Sea Islanders, 2448; white Americans and Europeans, 100; in all, 184,187. . Mt. Detula, In Luzon, P. I., settled t out of sight and a lake formed In it*.: place. A terrific noise and an earthquake shook the surrounding country. There is a shortage in the hem^ crop 3^ of Manila amounting to 100,000 bales, vrjj valued at $2,000,000. Drought caused t ;f#ag the slump. DOMESTIC. Charles E. Hughes was retained by the Attorney-General of New York to v' fight the Consolidated Gas Company in its attempt to defeat the eighty-cent eta a 1Q TT- . -M. ?? . ^ ______ The brickmakers' strike at Coey-':^'5?|r mans, N. Y., was settled, the employers concen'.ng all demands except ree-' ognition of the union. Edward S. Fowler was nominated as appraiser of merchandise at {he port of New York. Five yeggmen blew open a. safe Salisbury, Md., and when they wew^^?SH captured one was found to have a ' 'i piece of the safe door in his lung. Family '-oubles ca used Thomas Harrls to sho^w fatally George McWhorter, a wealthy grain merchant, of Chilli- , bf cothe, 111. The big ferryboat Baltimore was in collision in the North River, New York,, >^ but just managed to reach her slip and land her passengers before she sank. V.i More gifts of stock by coal oompan- .y]-M les to employes of the Pennsylvania' Railroad were brought out at the ses- ,ft|| sion of the Interstate Commerce Com- * "a mission in Philadelphia. The railroad announced that It would investigate such gratuities. Rules regulating 'the height of new. Asm buildings were adopted in San Fran- -(Jw John Oscar Vaute, a pensioner of tte New Yorkj Life Insurance Company, fonrinc ina.q of income, shot himself t^ . *^<3 deatiT at Montclair, N. J. The Denver elections show a small majority in favor of granting .twenty- '--im year franchises to the trolley and lightIng companies. A hotel, to be one of the finest in the JS country, and to cost $4,500,000, is to be i built at Pittsburg. The Board of Estimate of New York r-M made the first use of its franchise-grantIng powers by voting a fratchhie to 4^ the New York and Port Chester Rail- > roaaDr. James Tyson, of Philadelphia, " was elected vice-president of the Asso- ' % elation of American Physicians at a meeting in Washington, D. G. The Mayor, at the meeting of the -VfSjj Rapid Transit Board, made the state- .-.Via| ment that New York City will hav^ nearly $90,000,000 in 1906 for subways., ; The Pennsylvania Railroad was ac-' M ?iT-i?or rohotes and Its em- ? *? tUOCU VI .. ployes were charged with accepting stock presents for car favoritism before , ,'7! the Interstate Commerce Commission. \. An article to be published by James & Creelman states that the man who ' profited by the secret rebate system, next to Rockefeller, Is Andrew Came- % gleGovernor Blanchard, of Louisiana, - ;> >? nt Baton Rouge, advised the Legislat- *s-'v ure to enact laws regulating insurance -,-Cvi business in that State. FOREIGN. % ;2 Pope Pius is suffering from gout. The Portuguese ministry, headed by; Premier Robeiro, resigned. 1 A strong syndicate has been, formed ' nt Osaka, Japan, to supply Manchuria s"'i with cotton goods, the most important " ^ item of trade with that country. M. Jakovleff. who was the Candidate of the Constitutional Democrats for member of the Lower House of Parliament, was shot at Baku by two unknown men and died In the hospital. The German Reichstag passed a bill tnking the regular Bourse tax off ail transactions In Government bonds. ,J A detachment of Turks annihilated "'5 a baud of twelve Bulgarians at LIsolal, near Mouastir. yja A11 the Governments will support the British protest against changes In tho Chinese customs service. One of the most important measures to be considered at the next session of ;' the British Parliament will be a local government bill for Ireland, which will be a compromise between devolution, and home rule. The German Emperor in a speech at - - *?,? Diedenbofeu, Lorraine, prouuacu mninteuauce of peace. King Edward received the German delegation of municipal officials at Buckingham Talace. North Bay. Ontario, a mining town of Cobalt, has been completely destroyed by lire and several persons killed by an explosion. The national fete day was celebrated ?y with great enthusiasm in Christiania, Sweden. The Italian Ministry, headed by Baron Sonnino, was beaten in the Chamber of Deputies aud resigned. In reply to the speech from the throne the Russian Duma demands full control of taxation. General Morales, former President oC Santo Domingo, has arrived at St. Thomas aud a movement is said to be; on foot to restore him. .