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REMARKS PROM THE PUP. #She's taught me that I mustn't bark At little noises after Gark. Sut just refrain from any fuss Until I'm sure they're dangerous. This would be easier. I've felt. If noises could -l>e seen or smelt. She's very wise. I have no doubt. And plans ahead what she's about, Yet after eating, every day She throws her nicest bones away. If she were really less obtuse She d bury them for future use. But that which makes me doubt the most Those higher powers that humans boast. Is not so much a fault like thai, Nor yet her fondess for the cat. But on our pleasant country strolls Her dull indifference to holes! O if I once had time to spend To Teach a hole's extremest end. I'd grab it fast, without a doubt. And promptly pull it inside out; Then drag it home with all my power m-v /.ii it in a leisure hour. (|1U tucn va ?v M Of all the mistresses there are. Mine is the lovliest by rar,? Pain would I wag myself apart If I could thus reveal my heart. Cut on some things. I must conclude. Mine is the saner attitude. .?Burges Johnson, in Harper's Magazine. THE DEMON OF \ THE BED HORROR J 1 (Adapted From the Portuguese.) : ? ft By WILLIAM S. BIRGE. J l* 11 miii iimiimi 0 mamas I sat down in the desert with Abderah, tho Arab, and the Arab told his tale. An illusive mirage had lured the twain. Abderah and myself, info tho very Valley of the Dry Bones, an arid and sandy gorge south of Arabia Deserca. Our throats were dry as vellum with thirst, and Abiderah's voice had a husky rattle as lie spoke. "It is exactly a year to-day," began 'Adberah, the prince of hi* clan, "since Zara, the Beautiful, gave up the ghost, and at every anniversary thereof, I must tell my story or die. 8 could give no reason," he went on huskily, "no reason^ on the oath of a Saracen, why I married the lowborn Zara of the desert, of whose parentage I knew nothing, except that she was called Zara, the Beautiful?no reason in the world why I, the prince Abderah, only son of the Icing, and heir to the kingly domain, fihould have__ married the low-born Zara, of whom and whose antecedents nobody knew anything whatso * 'I--' ~iJ ?;iv. ever, except uiai sue was gmeu wilu strange gifts and had dropped in upon the domain suddenly, as if from another world. "I did not love lier; of that fact ' f am certain. I did not even respect her; of that fact I am equally certain. I hated her with an unaccount. able perversity of hatred; of this third fact I am just as certain as of the two preceding. Three very good reasons why I should not have "hone What I did. Nevertheless, I did it? did indeed wed her after the manner of ray fathers, installing her, devil as i she was, in the ancestral paiace of an ancient and honorable race of Saraccnic kings. "TVnf\ oho woe haontifiil efrono-o. ly beautiful, in ber way; but that ,vras no reason why I should have married an adventuress. It v.'as exactly because she was beautirul in her way that I hated her. There Is a beauty of heaven: it pursues, baunts, breaks like a weird music in alt prescient dreams. I have conjured up its phantoms with hashbeesh, in opium drowse, through ulumbrous nights of caim, opening my eyes again upon earth with a wild .wish to die. There is a beauty of earth it is like unto fagots under the caldron of passion, like red wine in the cup, like fitful fever in the blood. It is a glittering*and sudden tiger, ttfcat fever, that springs upon its prey .vehemently, feeding thereupon in the Uuugle of home. There is a beauty of hell, and it stings while it fascinator?stings scorpion like, fascinating, serpent like, with sinuous. loathsome, devilish fascinatiou. This last was the beauty of Zara. the Beautiful; and it stung me. fascinated me?fascinated me though I iated, s'ung me though I loathed. "Now I think of it, I fancy the ^creature's fascination was in that devilish eye of hers, it was?I recol' lect, it distinctly?it was small, scin.tillaut, and shot sudden, furtive rays at its victim; lurid, without white, and all a single round, devilish pupil, bulbously prominent with 1 livid lids, and almost iashless edges; I oddly beautiful, strangely fascinating, intoxicating as the eye of an i Houri. ' This was Zara's eye, and it fascinated me with an unnatural fascination. I saw it day and night; and the fever of its sting I mistook for passion, though pasison it was not. It was the ain ra'o that I pursued to an evil destiny. ' There is an imp of the perverse," 'Abderah went on, his words rattling lllra r-;- .... ?ijr icatcs iu uis parcnea tnroat, "an imp of the perverse, which has jnore hand in human affairs than humanity in general would be willing to acknowledge. "It is the logical basis of all tragedy, the prompter of all suicide, the demon- of all that is terribly inexplicable, as well as of all that is absurdly comical in human action. In its play it is cobedy, and you laugh; in its serious moods it is tragedy, often so original, so motiveless, so apparently put of mere whim, -that you stare haggard with horror, yet fascinated as you stare. It is either a Puck or a Mephistopheles latent in in every human heart?either dancing baboon or omnivorous hyena, as may suit the whim of the hour. "Have you ever been tempted to swallow poison simply because you lcncw it would kill you, and for no other reason? Hare you never been taken with an almost uncontrollable impulse to hurl yourself from a precipice simply because you must not, and because you must not, therefore, you would? Have you never dono i:. ... v. ? this or that,.done it suddeaV'y,, *?*tivelessly. involuntarialy, simply because you did not wish and would not have done it for all the world? Have you never pursued a.pet project, toiled ceaselessly day and night unto an end, only to spurn it with your foot at the instant of realizatoin, simply because so to ?yurn it was to spite yourself utterly? Have you never ascended to dizzy heights and kicked away the ladder at the last moment just because it might prevent all human succor, because, in a word, for that very reason you did it? If you have not ycu are more or less than human. And this imp of the perverse the presence of some people seems to enrage even to demoniac desperation, while, iu the presence of others, it slumbers, at least comparatively. ' In this lies the secret of my espousal of Zara of the desert. I dH not love her; did not even respect her; wedded her. nevertheless, not because I willed to wed her involuntarily. but because, with an uncontrollable perversity, I was impelled to wed her against my will. A paradox. to be sure?but then man is a paradox, the one wing of which is human, and the other devil. So paradox let it be. She stung the imp of the perverse, the latent devil in me, into horrible activity; and. for the time, quite against r my will, I did, with seeming deliberation, exactly what I would not have done for my soul. "There was one other peculiarity about Zara, the Beautiful, which has j had some hand in convincing me of 1 a certain non-humanity on her part, j There is about every person, human- i Iy considered, a certain atmospheric something, a personal aroma, so to i speak, whicn is inseparable irom iue | notion of presence; and if your sense j of odor is acute, you will be able to ; detect a certain individuality of something akin to perfume. sort of odorless perfume of violets to the oppressive, oozy atmosphere of the upas, are just as indicative of personal idiosyncrasies as appearance and manner may be supposed to be. I allude to this aroma as personal in its shades only, as generic in its existence. "About the creature that T wedded there was nothing of this kind. Cool, aromaless, bloodlessly cadaverous, the secret of her fascination was located in something akin to metallic' glitter of- presence?akin to the writhing, glittering crawl of the adder, akin to the hacking inhumanity of the laughter of a parrot. "\ m.?k of a woman, merely," Abderah continued, the words rattling from his throat with accuratelypointed and terrible vehemence; "a mask of a woman, merely a devilish domino. I wedded the low-born Zara of the desert, who came and went at whim, as one having no home upon the earth; and for a brief year only she queened it, the gayest of the gay. the merriest of the merry, the profanest of the profane. It was a ghastly day, the day that I led her to the palace of my race, a day ominous of pestilence and of sudden and epidemic death. Lurid and terrible wonders were in the heavens, like those which have lured our feet into the Valley of the Dry Bones; and stifling and hyena-like siroccos pursued the travellers of the desert with devilish instinct, throttling them while caravans together. Even from the day thereof died mynonnto orViocHv Bcnrpq nnrl on 't.he ?" ~ T r?forehead of every one that died was branded a livid blot in the exact shape of a human heart. My father died suddenly, and first of all. the red horror of the brand from temple temple to temple. Zara had no grief at the old man's death. The epidemic, swift-footed and terrible, went abroad among ray people. Zara was oppressively merry; and still as faster they died, merrier and merrier yet became the laughter of the quean, until I was likely at last to 1 reign over a vast necropolis. She absented herself for days from the palace, and night unto night I was startled from horrible dreams of the red brand, to find her absent from the camera diletto. And still the epidemic death baffled all skill, and the red brand crawled suddenly upon all foreheads, and was the horror of alt hearts. "I too, became weak, but Zara only laughed mockingly, and absented herself the more from the palace, waxing the more horribly merry the ghastlier I became. "I dreamed fitfully, and in the horror of my dream the loathsome brand of the red heart, the hideous seal or me epiuemic amu, w<*? ujjuu my forehead. I awoke, and the queen was not at my side I heard a gnashing of horrible teeth. I sprang up. I struck a light. I was too quick for her. Great God She was feeding upon a human heart. "It has been a year to a day. and still the same lurid and ghastly wonders were in the heavens. ' 'Thou has outwitted me, for I would have queened over it a metropolis of the dead. Thou hast, indeed, triumphed in life,' said Zara, dynig. 'but in death would I have gnawed thy heart.' ' So, she died, and the demon of the red horror and the imp of the epidemic death slumbered, .vnd the livid blot in the heavens went out with the closing of her devilish eye." ?Waverley Magazine. Bird in the Hand. On a cabbage patch owned by a negro in a Southern community oil was found. Speculators offered the negro $20,000, which was accepted without waiting to consider another n.;._ ?u (<tA nnn prOpOSltlUU.BttlU <-<J uc nunii ?-x v , u ir u. " What is this about your cabbage patch?" inquired a neighbor of the negro. "I understand you have sold it for $20,000?" "Yas, that's true, boss," replied the negro. "You see, men come picking round my place, an' dey say dar's oil heah. Dey say, 'We gib yo' $20,000 ' I say 'All right.' " "I am told if you had waited a day or two you might have sold it for $40,000 " "Yas, dat mebbe so, but a bird in the han's th' nobles' work of God!" ?Boston Post. London Truth notes that the titled director is being dropped bjf company promoters. m * The Old Puffl] """ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 1 Ay, root me up like some dead tree ' Bereft of leaf and shade, And in some corner let me be < Irreverently laid. To waste my bones in rot and rust, And let rne, once who gave Cool draughts to man and beast, in dust Find an unhonored grave. It was thy father set me here ! A score of years ago. And bade cool water, crystal clear. In grateful streams to flow. In all my years no thirsty lout For drink of me has cried And from my overflowing spout Has gone unsatisfied. The children, rioting from school, Have sought my dripping spout, Whence sparklip'g whaler, clear and cool, In torrents'gushing out, Brought thirst a comforting eclipse With its refreshing draught, And, ah! the sweetness of their lips Pressed to me as they quaffed Then, speeding onward to their play, I heard their merry cries, And like the tears that drip away In gladness from the eyes, The cool drpps flowed and trickled down My iron cheek, to see How from far corners of the town The thirsty came to me. NATIONAL CUFF RUIN PARK IN COLORADO. AN area of several hundred square milpsviut Southwestern Colorado, has been made into a new National park for the purpose of preserving from spoliation numerous cliff ruins found in that region. This hag beeu accomplished through the efforts of the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, an organization of fifty women of that State formed for the purpose. The park comprises the Mesa Verde country, in the southwestern corner of the State, and was leased from the U,ta Indians by the association under the authority of au act of Congress passed last March. la?ft a ' t 1 y * A WAH OniKF OF TT1K I A. DB8CENDANT OF TUB MOKt TBIBE. I CUFF DWELL1IR3. The Mesa Verde is an irregular table land of some 700 square miles in extent, cut by the Mancos River and its tributaries into innumerable canons and gorges. The main canon is thirty miles long arid'from 1000 to 2000 feet in depth. The walls are copiposed of soft sandstones and shales, which break off in huge masses under the action of storms and frost, forming a series of small cliffs, alternating with PRESENT HOME OP THE CLIV 1IOKI, A INDIVIDUAL GARMENT RACK. The device illustrated below, intended to supply the need for an individual liat, is designed to avoid mistakes of the coat and umbrella rack, so that any one who visits a public place, such as a hotel, restaurant, hall or other place of popular gathering, may have a rack of his own under lock and key, and adapted to secure the articles he has to deposit temporarily aeainst exchange or deliberate theft. It frequently occurs that a valuable hat, coat or other garment disappears by exchange when a number of persons have to hang up similar articles together and leave them without attendants. This rack character and to afford absolute protection to guests and patrons, giving each person his or her own rack, which can be securely locked until opened by a key in the possession of the owner of the garments. The rack is in the form of a fancy wooden box, inside of which are the necessary hooks, etc.. for holding the garments. The door ts hinged at one side, ani after being swung into locked positiou the garments cauuot - Ihe dusty yokel, worn and tasked, Tramped to me from the road, Gripped hands with me, and all unasked Tne grateful waters flowed. The cup held by its clanking chain He lifted oft and drained ?ta crystal waters once again, And some new vigor gained. And, all! those patient beasts that brought Their noses to my tank, When the red sun beat fiercely hot And drank, and drank, and drank With mighty draughts and deep until My labors were nigh vain J-:-l -I, fill lo ffive uiem unim rnuu^n auu uu. My water tub again. Nor all my score of years till now Have I once failed to cool The. thirsty .'lip'and fevered, brow From that still rippling pooJ Wherein my feet have stood. My cup In ready hands and strong Has dipped its crystal waters up So long, so long, so long! But now my joints are worn and old, My spout is parched and dry; My cup's a-lealc and will not hold My arinlc, howe'er I try. So root me up like some old tree Bereft of leaf and shade, And in some corner let me be Irreverently laid. ?J. W. Foley, in Good Literature. long slopes of debris, the whole being crowned by lofty embattled cliffs of massive.sandstone. At the tops of the slopes'of debris'-and under the vertical I cliffs are found the remains of houses once Inhabited by-the, cliff dwellers, who lived for many centuries in the Mesa Verde country, and the cause of whose disappearance from that region has not yet been adequately explained. As a result of investigations conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and other 'learned institutions it has been determined that the cliff dwellers were of the same stock as the Pueblo Indians, who now live in villages located on the mesas and in the valleys In parts of New Mexico and Arizona. The evidence so far obtained suggests that some of the clans of the Moki tribe in Northern Arizona migrated to their present habitat from a place in the north, and that place is believed to be the Mesa Verde country. In other words, the Moki Indians may be regarded. in general terms, as the descendants of the people who built the houses in the cliffs c>f the Mqncos. The ruins found in the Mancos canon and adjacent gorges represent the highest attainments of the ancient cliff, dwellers in the art of house building( Although many thousands of ruins have been found in the southwest none compares with those of the Mesa Verde in character of masonry or in general finish. In- this respect the ruins along the Mancos and its tributaries are far superior to the villages now inhabited by the Pueblo Indiaus in New Mexico aud Arizona. Although discovered in 1874 and 1875 by explorers connected with the Geological Survey, under Professor F. V. Hayden, and reported upon at that time, the ruin3 nre in such an inaccessi ble region that few white men visited them until quite recently. Within the past few years, however, several large collections of relics of various kinds have been taken from the old buildings, which were partly demolished in the process, and it was to put a stop to such vandalism that the Mesa Verde country was placed in charge of the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association. V DWELLERS' DESCENDANTS. RIZONA. be pulled out. The hat is held against removal by a knob which presses tightly against the rim. ^ v 'I Individual Rack, . : , , L. , .. ; - FRANCE HARNESSES' WATER POWERS.. Energy Supplied by Rivers Converted Into Electrical Force. In .reports just made to the State Department by Consul General Mason of Paris and Consul General Skinner of Marseilles, special attention 13 called to the movemnt in France to harness her water powers, which is being wonderfully accomplished. Already electric power is being brought over 100 mlle3 to operate trolley lines and factories. Greater industrial efficiency is being sought in all directions, but particularly by the distribution of energy supplied by rivers and streams. This is being especially felt in the region extending from the Mediterranean to the Alps. The degree to whicb this energy may be multiplied is indefinite, but with present knowledge it is assumed that 2,000,000 horse power may be economically obtained, of which perhaps the fifth has been secured or is in process of being secured. The hydraulic forces of the world a year ago stood, expressed in horse power, as follows: United States, 527,500; Canada, 228,500; Italy, 210.000; France, 161,000; Switzerland. 133,000; Germany, 81,000; Sweden, 71,000; other countries, G9.000. Total, 1,481,000. This amount of power is approximately equal in potential energy to 2 per cent, of the world's coal production. The greatest completed French works are to be found in the Alps, where sparse population, narrowness of range of raw materials, and remoteness from large markets deter large industrial operations. A.: present work is in progress on eight different plants, which will revolutionize manufacturing conditions in the whole Mediterranean region, and in Durance Valley, where general conditions are favorable to manufactur ing enterprise. The Vesubic plant, now in operation, supplies Grasse with power at the rate of five cents per horse power hour. The Brlllane and Saulce plant3 will, soon be in operation, and will supply power to the Marseilles tram lines -and other companies. These plants are sixty-five acd 102 mile3 from Marseilles, the Saulce beins the farther. The Brillane plant deals, with a sluggiBh, muddy stream?the Durance?and requires settling basins ! at intervals., The,power wjll^be transmitted under tension of forty-fivs 1 thousand to fifty thousand volts, which will be reduced near Marseilles to thirty-five hundred and five thousand volts. In the country overhead, wires will be strung on iron poles supporting an inverted porcupine platform under the crosstrees, to pre vent unauthorized persons from reaching the wires. Underground j transmission is regarded as ultimate!/ necessary. Furs of the Middle West. Despite the general opinion that most of the wild animals that inhabited the Middle West a century ago have become extinct as a result of the march of civilization, the contrary, is true, and thousands of muskrats, skunks, raccoons, opossums, foxes and civet cats, wi?h occasional' minks an<^ weasels are killed and their pelts sold for sums that in the aggregate would be a great surprise to the public not in touch with tho | trapping trade. Not in years have the Central Illinois trappers been so active as this year. One firm in Muscatine pays $3000 eaoh week for hides. There are many firms scattered over Illinois which do an equally large business, and it is probably safe to say that during the present season trappers will be paid in Illinois alone the sum of $100,000, while Iowa, Indiana and perhap3 3everal other States of the Middls West all expend equally large sums in this direction. The majority of the animals trapped in the Middle West-are the muskrats, which have been the least at traction for the trapper, as the pelt? | bring only 12 to 15 cents, whil? ?kunks range from 50 cents to $2.50, according to size and condition; raccoon from 50 to $1.75, opossum- from 25 to 75 cents, red foxes from $1 to $5. Civet cats bring only 25 centsChicago News. Japanese Shop Signs. In Japan the majority of shops deal ing in goods from other land3 display signs in some foreign language, and many of these are very curicua productions. The great idea is to have foreign characters, their correctness or intelligibility being a secondary consideration. The following are specimens of these remarkable no lices?"The All Countries Boot and Shoe, Small or Fine Wares;" "Old Curious;" "Horseshoe maker instrucr by French horse leech;" "Cut Hair Shop;" "If you want sell watch I will buy; if you want buy watch, I will j sell. Yes, sir, we will, all will. Come at my shop. Watchmaker;" "Hatter temper the light a trifle. The all Native Country; Antematic of Nasea;" "The House Build for the manufacture of all and best kinds of Hats and Caps." In some cases the signs are entirely devoid of meaning. Dear Little Soul. There was company to dinner, and little Edith was seated at table in all the glory of her be3t dress and pinafore. Dinner was proceeding amicably enough, but there were one of twc awful pauses, and in the silent degths of one of these the sweet treble of little Edith was raised. "Oh, mamma," she cried, "what is this?" "This" was a very obviou3 hair; Lut mamma, although red with confusion, had sufficient presence of mind to say: "Hush, dear; you can see what it is?it is a crack!" Silence for a moment, and then: "Oh, I say, mamma, isn't it funny? I can move this crack about."-Chi* cago Tribune. City, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and to pay a fine of $260 ' for perjury in the Bertha Claiche < case. < William Ellis Corey filed answer ' to hia wife's suit for divorce at Reno, alleging tta&t Mi-p. Corey never had j a legal residence in Nevada, and (. that he had not deserted,her. Mrs. \ Coi\ey is., at her old home iu Brad- j dock. Pa. ' . Many Indianapolis meat dealers * were found to be selling products il- j I-legally treated with chemicals, und | the Public Prosecutor was dirpcieJ ( to begin proceedings against them. j Miss Annie Barner heroically 1 snatched a boy from a railroad track just before a train whizzed by at 1 Elizabeth, N. J. Following the example of the Al- 1 fred Gwynne Vanderbilts, New Vork and Newport society leaders this sea- , son are abandoning the automobile as a fad in favor of sailing. ; The gates of the Jamestown expo! sition will be closed on the Sabbath I day. ! An arrest in the Astor Library disI closed that Russian spies watch readers in New York libraries in order to detect possible revolutionists. , By a majority of more than 2^,000 in a popular vote, Pittsburg and Allegheny, in Pennsylvania, have decided to become one city. For buying entered land and placing the deed in his wife's name, Kd! ward C. Baumann, a land ottice clerk I at Springfield, Mo., has been dis- I I missed. ; Police Commissioner Bingharn, of New York fiity, issued an order reestablishing the two-platoon byxttw | for patrolmen. i Government law3'ers in PhiladfclI phia discussed the advisability of bringing direct prosecution against A. J. Cassatt, Pennsylvania i;resident, on rebate cases. I Driven desperate by the fact that I three months ago hi; wife tiieu t.mc | for divorce Sherman Collier, one of the moat prominent men at London, i Ky? shot and killed her and then i sent a bullet tinto his own brain, falling lifeless across her bod.'.r. | Bishop Potter in a sermon declared if preachers did not take va' cations in summer they would go mad. The body of Governor Pattison was buried at his former home, in Milford, Ohio. FOREIGN. | Bishop Cusack confirmed 850 cliil1 dren in the Church of St. Anthony of j Padua. A passenger train was derailed at Progranitschnaia station, on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and 100 persons were killed or injured. The crew of the Russian volunteer fleet cruiser Nizhni-Novgorod mutinied while the vessel was taking artil lerists f rOmesasod(csCvpa,uimitKs lerists from Odessa to Sevastopol anc? turned her back to the former city. , , The House of Representatives, at Havana, Cuba, unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that the Government shall continue to pay foi the sanitation in all municipalities I whim cannot afford the expense themselves. Siberian troops stationed at Krasnoyarsk mutinied. The Russian Government fears the whole army is infected with revolt. During a discussion on the declining birth rate, at a conference of Lancashire (Eng.) urb&n district councils, the Rev. H. Swann advocated a course of lectures to youug people who were courting. Mr. Haldane. the British Secretary of War, has decided that no more supplies of American preserved meats :;;hall be issued to the army pending; an investigation. ^?1 .vorp?i) at Panama UIUC1 VY4AW without the aid of American marines. The lower house of the Russia& Pari'anient passed a resolution taki ing the plans to relievo famine districts out of the hands of the ministry and showing fhat the representatives intended to assume control of money voted The severest ssntence imposed in recent years for the crime of lese | majeste has been passed by the Liegf nitz, Germany, court upon a drunkI en workman, who was sent to prison ' for thre? years for vilely abusing the " j Kaiser. f . - - - ?s: * <, * f, WASHINGTON. ,? Secretary Shaw is going into the banking business in New York City. Senator Tillman declared that "S. O." is branded on the brows of all those Senators who would favor the r Standard Oil Company in the pipe line amendment to the rate bill. W. O. Greene, owner of the mines in Cananea, Mexico, where riots oc- * curred recently, in a letter filed at the State Department at Washington accused the Western Federation of Miners of inciting the trouble. Representatives of the Pennsylva. nia Railroad appeared before the In- '< terstate Commerce Commission in t Washington, and defended the prac- j tices, of that road in connection with the (.coal business. The Senate having votgd for a lock canal/'President-Roosevelt will { give orders to Chairman Shonts to * "cut lOose.' ' I The basis of a complete agree- I ment on meat-inspection legislation , between President Roosevelt and the | House Committee on Agriculture 1 wa3 arrived at, and the bill was completed. 1 Utah coal-land scandals, involving < big corporations and prominent 1 Western politicians, will be investl- ( gated by a Senate committee. J OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. 1 Rural delivery- is to be established . in the Island of Guam. . j Aguinaldo says that cock fighting \ is the bane of the Filipinos and j 1 should be suppressed. I Archbishop Bienk. of New Or- ' leans, has sailed for New York. He I was given an enthusiastic send-oft ! and many costly 'ts at San Juan ' Porto Rico. ( The business men of the Philippines Islands want Congress to pass j a bill at present session for a bank. ( ' DOMESTIC. Dr. Lyman Abbott, delivering the i Harvard baccalaureate sermon, said i that the era of fraternalism was at \ hand. . i Harry Morton, former member i the Police Vice Squad, of New York ] ? Mm tries io save com um Resolution Will Prevent Grab ofs 45,000,000 Acres. 1 'RESIDENT IN FULL ACCORfr ^rpose is to Keep What is Left ?*l Nation's Fuel Beds Out of th?/ . Control of Monopolies an<9 ' >5 Trusts. Washington, D. G<?Standard Oil; ind railroad senators sat up and 00k notice when Senator La Follett? y ntroduced concurrent resolution* which, if adopted, will prevent the svirteral flovernment from sellinjC my more public lands underlaid vith coal, ignite or oil, the purpose M )eing to keep what is left of the v <; ands out of the grasp of the coporaitions which have been grabbing all ;bey could get as rapidly as possible.- \M It is Senator La Follette's idea :hat there are left 45,000,000 acrea 1 Df public lands known to be underaid with rich supplies of fuel. He> v, ;hinks they will become a factor i* '< :he future industrial development of :he country and should be retailed )y the Government. He has no radical notions about the Government "yjperation of these fuel beds, but h? ts firm in- the conviction that these aecessities should be kept out of the greedy maw of the monopolies and trusts which are grabbing for then* wherever they can be obtained by, purchase or theft. La Follette's belief is that w$tl? :he Government in perpetual control Df thes8 auel'depositlt it cpuld pre- M yent any threatened tieup of- fjief. ^ such has been imminent in the past,' * -t! Erom coal strikes. President Roose-j /elt is in thorough accord with Sen- Vm ltor La Follette on this subject. .l/j3 Soon after Senator La Follette hao[ .'nniron SPTiat.ft on the flagrant Ym wrongs being perpetrated against the five civilized Indian tribes by the '* seizure of their -valuable coal an? '*? mining lands by the railroads, thai ,M President sent for the Senator from .'M Wisconsin and talked over the ea-l tire question with him. The Presi- ^ lent then wrote in his message ae-r v sompanying the Garfield report oal -r' Standard Oil: "The time has come when no oi^ 3r coal lands held by the Govern-' ment either within the public domaitt proper or in territory owned by the) *> Indian tribes shonld be alienated* rhe fee to such lands should be kept) in the United States Government ,? whether or not the profits arising' from it are to be given to any Indlaa' "xi tribe, and the lands should be leased Dnly on such terms and for such per-i . ^ iods as will enable the Government: J to keep entire control thereof/' I'tio control nninh of the resolu- . ;at tions is contained in this section: "That the President be authorized ' \ to withdraw from entry and sale al$ .' public lands known to be underlakt; ,V with coal, lignite or oil and alt sucte lands as, in the judgment of the di- ^ rector of the geological survey, con-! tain deposits of coal, lignite and oil.; and that all such lands be withheld " from entry and sale until such time, as Congress shall determine other-' >> wise." Senator La Follette in presenting?, - his resolutions spoke briefly, saying:)' -'is "I believe that there should to a? doubt-in regard to the Presiftent'a :-|H power , to ,w|thdraw, theBe lands "tana! entry a$d*sale.. There is.iftttej.mcirai to say in regard to the resolutions ,Cj| other than I believe every man luf ^ this country has a direct interest iff knowing the character and extent off ..:?s the coal deposits. "There is not a pound of coal, which should be wasted. The Gov-, rf, eminent has about 45,000,000 aci-ea; fgs of coal and lignite deposits. It. should retain control of them, f do( not contend that it should operate; them rt mieht lease these lands toj private companies upon fts 'own? S terms to prevent the monopolization!! ' : : of the-fuel supply, the manipulation of prices or the occurrence of suck' diastrous strikes as the great striked in the anthracite coal fields. The fact that the Government would ova' the coai supply and could dispose of It upon such terms as it woiild baj pleased to impose, would enable the? Government to enforce arbitration at; . J?, least in all disputes between labor; ' $ and the operators. I know that the^ President is anxious to conserve the fuel supply of the country* anil tha purpose of my resolution la to Wear, up all doubt as to his authority toi withdraw; these public lands for; sale." Another feature of the La Fdllette resolutions indicating the possible fij Government development of the fuel. lands ready for operation, wad tMs:f "That the Secretary of the Interior? cause to be made a thorough lnvestl^ gation of the fuel, lignite and oil de-> posits of the United States and reporti to Congress the nature, extent and best methods of mining the same, sot as to operate them with the least amount of waste." Standard Oil might 'find a competitor in the oil field which it could1 not crush in the United States Government. : _ ' Tivo Drown From Canoe. While canoeing on Lake Auburn Winslow Burbank, nineteen (yeara old, a freshman at Bates College, and Misa Lulu Libby, seventeeD years old, the adopted daughter of John L. Libby, of Auburn, Me.; were , ' ;< drowned. 1 Cassio Chadwick's Effects Sold. Cassie L. Chadwick's magnificent gowns, furs, personal effects and a great variety of furniture brought $4025 at public auction in Cleveland. The purchaser expects to sell the articles as souvenirs. I Senator's Son For Governor. At Montpelier, Vt., Fletcher D. Proctor, son of United States Senator Reddeld Proctor, was nominated by acclamation for Governor of Vermout at the Republican State Convention. _ ? The National Game. Bay is said to have scored from first od a bunt to the pitcher. Washington now regrets letting CongaUon get away to Cleveland. Pitcher Norwood Gibson has been given his unconditional release 1 n, Boston. The Chicago Club has traded pitcher Bob Wicker to Cincinnati tot pitcher Orville Overall. Stanley Robinson says the Cardlnals-are to have a new steel grand stand Willi concrete foundations 'that wiU_ seat 25,000. J i I > ..y i . .. -