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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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, .
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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.
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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.
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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 ]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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