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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The Comoliment
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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: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.
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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.
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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- .
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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- ? *?
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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
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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.
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