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* A TRYST. I will not break the tryst, my dear. That we have kept so long, {Though winter and Us snows are here, * Ana I've no heart for song. fYou went into the voiceless night; Your path led far away. ?id you forget me. Heart's Delight, As night forgets the day? Sometimes T think that you would speak It still you held me dear; / (But space is vast, and I ani weak? Perchance I do not hear. Surely, howe'er remote the star Your wandering feet may iread, . N BVhen I shall pass the sundering bar Our souls must still be wed. ??Louise Chandler Mouitou. in ths Cen\ tury. f KILLED WOLF] S WITH 'CLUB 1 f "Peter" Watson and His Ken- | | tucky Horse Ran Down a ? j Fierce Beast. J l^B ffl OOBBSSi ? gBMPHfly ' Fifty-six years old. six feet two in Tiis stockings, n dash or iron gray iu i lus hair, a chest and arms like a Hercules. a face as strong and rugged as the rock ribbed hills of Pine Ridge? this is Pete Watson, of Maryland, the pride of Sioux County. He is the finest of horsemen and the most tireless hunter of the great Rocky Mountains. Pete was called out of bed last Tuesday evening by an importunate reporter. who discovered him among the guests at the Murray, and he rose like a horse shaking the dew from his name, but ready to talk aud to laugh. ILike a true frou'tiersman, lie sprang from sleep with every nerve alert. ^ "So," he said, "you want to hear come of my yarns? Well. I don't know any other way than to just fire away, and if it helps you out any. all right, arnst- wait till I nut on my socks; This (floor is a little too cool ou my toes. tThere. I guess, I'm ready. "I live on Whistle Creek, about eighteen miles southwest of Marsland. fwhero I have a ranch. My nearest neighbor is Ashbrook. six miles up the fcreek. which is a feeder of the Niojbrara. It's ten miles to Pine Ridge, , jtwehty to the Dry Spotted Tail country and about thirty to Alliance. < ; "I rode down to Alliance last Fourth, land I never ride to a celebration without a good horse. This time I had my best one?a big bay of Kentucky Iblood. I call him Lee. and I tell you the is a horse! They were to have a iroueh riders' parade, but I found the Iboys all sore at the leader, all riding i Ithrough the streets like mad. painting 1 jthe town in the true cow puncher style. The leader was ready to give !in, and when he caugiit sight of my 1 "big Lee carolling up the street, nothing iwould satisfy him but that I should (impersonate Roosevelt. He wrapped a Bong banner around me. and the color tut Lee on his mettle. I know my ; ^orse. and a touch of the spur set him gambolling and whirling. lie can turn , ton the top of a bushel measure. The |boys began to cheer, and soon they all j jcrowded around on their horses. Then I said: 'Boys, you see what's up? They Bay I've got to run this here parade. I expect if I only had my wolf club (I might beat you all over the head i and get you into line. Now, what do > you say.' i "'Go ahead, rete!" they yells. 'You say go ahead.' says I. 'Go ahead,' gays they again. 'Wei!, then blame yer pict'ers, you fellers with grays hike up . that street a block an' git together. j Sou black ones, t'other way. an' don't j ye dare come back till I tell ye!' ; ' Well, we had the finest parade last \ {Fourth we ever had. The boys all like , ime, and they'll do what I say. I ex J>ect it's because I'm always up and , la-comin'. Blamed if they didn't all line ( fcip and holler, 'Three howls fer Pete, < Jth' ggest wolf hunter in th' United i States.' The fellers know how to coyote icalls. I tell you, and old Alliance got , la wakin' up, that's sure. I felt pretty good when I rode home next day. } "That brings me around to the way (I happened to break up the deu up on flDry Spotted Tail. That is the roughest tepot of land this side of the foothills. There are hundreds of rocky gulches land ridges and rot a drop of water in lany of them. I'd thought for a long ?pell that there was a big den in some Of them gulches, for as sure as any of lAshbrook's cattle got to ranging that fway he'd lose a caif or two every Hight. f "Well, when I come back from that .Celebration along toward night next 0^-, I saw Ashbroolc wasting at my fetMe long before I got there. He Booked pretty dark and thundery, and [I knew .something was up. 1 "'Say,' said he 'iijw many doss you feoc , " 'Two graybouwls. two stughounds,' eaid I. i ' 'I know you hain't been out after a wolf for a long linn?.' said Aslibrook, 'but there's no use talking, you've got #o get out now. What do you think, 1 turned my big stallion out so that he 'could CTPt something h> mt nml rirmlc while we were at the celebration yesterday, and I come home to-night and find Shim with both his hams eat out, dragging himself around, almost dead, on Ihis forelegs. Pet;? you've got to run jthem varmints down. You can't poison them. Yon can't do nothing. 1*11 give you $25 apiece for all you kill." " 'Where are your cattleV I asked [hitn, and iie said they were fifteen tailes up the range toward Dry Spotted JTail. 'All right, Ashbrook. You go Over to Jake's and to William's, and (then up to Marsland to the stable there land get all the dogs you can borrow. fThat'U take you all night and more. I'm going to ride around you** bunch of cattle so as to get there early 111 the morning.' *1 rode twenty-five miles that night, hnd just at the very first streak of red 5n the east came upon the herd. I noticed that every critter was standing >and moving with a shaky, restless ^notion. A mile away I <<>uld hear Jbeir low, mournful bellowing. I jvcorked around to the lee side, nnd kept edging in closer, and the light sva.s getting brighter all the time. Just hs the sun shot over the valley I saw |be long, gaunt, shaggy mother wolf flipping like a slvdow along a dry watercourse. ''Jerusalem I I turned Lee loose, and I tell you when I do nobody gets ahead of me. My four dogs knew I'd sighted game, for they'd run ahead like mad, and stand up on their hind j legs to look. Then they'd jump in the air and whine softly. I'd forbidden iheni to bay. The wolf was carrying the hind quarters of a calf and did not sight me until I was within a thousand yards. When she did she dropped the meal she had intended for her whelps and flew for her life. She gained nearly half a mile in the first burst of her j speed, but I knew the wolves. I saw | her swerve. Away to the other side j of the valley I saw a blue gulch. 1 'There you so. you devil,' said I, and pulled across the angle. Then the Kentucky' in Lee began to come Mats of buffalo grass ran together nn.e a smooth carpet under my feet, and the j sparse July blossoms swept by like I stars. Dry arroyos did not check him. I He jumped over prairie dog holes carcfn! -mil clpan. and he sained, gained. * Wo were alinose near enough for tha dogs to sight her when the wolf dropped behind a little ridge and we ran almost neck and neck to the mouth of the gulch. She beat us two hundred yards, and the dogs had not seen her. "I did not look for the end so soon, but just around the first bend I saw one last awkward puppy flying to cover. Down into the mouth of a hidden den he plunged, and I knew the mother was there with her frightened young. I dismounted, and three of my dogs lay down iu the shade of the rocks, but I took Fanny, my bravest stughound. and approached the den. j There lay the bones of twenty calves ; gnawed and dented. Hundreds more lay along the bed of the gulch. That den has been a stronghold for a hundred vears. safe between the toes of lb? Rockies. "Fanny gave one look into my eyes | and plunged into the dark bole. I heard one unearthly yell of rage and out she came, and close behind her the wolf. bristles up, desperate, nerved unto death. But her courage failed when she saw me, and before the hound could turn she bolted for the open. I gave one yell. My three dogs in the shade sprang up, and at last their eyes were fastened on the prey. The rocky glen roared and bellowed to the fierce canine shouting. I mounted and rode after them. There was a battle royal on the prairie open. I shot out of the gulch. The greyhounds had overtaken the wolf, and the staghounds were almost upou her. Lord, how my blood boiled. I couldn't let tnem ngnu ic oui. i uau 10 nave u band in the game. "I never use a gun. I jerked my heavy club from the pommel of the saddle and sprang in among my dogs. The wolf was a monster?larger than any dog I had. Fangs and claws and eyes were glittering all around me. Then, in the time when fifty years weigh on me like a feather, I'm like a savage in those few moments?like those first men who sprang out of their caves to battle with the prehistoric beasts. "Ah! I can scarcely remember it afterward. I had her foreleg in my left hand, my right foot on her neck, and 'plug!' my club came down. That was all. I carried my prize to the ranch and there met Ashbrook, just in from Marsland with^ fourteen dogs. We caught the male wolf the next uiornins. and within a few days the great den. and others in Dry Spotted Tail were no more."?Omaha Bee. Caf.died Cherries. The iarge cherry crop of Italy finds i paying outlst in various forms of , preserves. According to information furnished by Consul J. ^3. Dunning, preserved or candied cherries take the sulphur bath, are then stoned, cooked in sugared water, to which sweentening is gradually added, and are then left for two or three 3ays in the basins until the sugar slightly ferments. They are then boiled again in water in which the proportion of sugar is increased, and on finishing are either sold for candied cherries or are bottled in a heavy syrup. Women do the cleaning and pick the stones, men the rest. Such cherries invoice at about thirty-five cents per pouud. The best cherries are raised in Salerno, in the consular districts of Naples. The second quality are produced in great numbers in the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo, in the consular district of Milan. Remarkable Printing Press. The University Press at Oxford is tho most remarkable printing establishment in the world, as well as on9 of the oldest. It is what you might call self-contained, and if everything else pertaining to printing were blotted off the face of the earth to-morrow the University Press would go right ahead as if nothing had happened. It makes its own type and its own ink; burns its own j charcoal for making the ink, makes I it" nntn rvorvor ln(l cn on Thp Wnrlj men in the Press are as interesting as the establishment itself. In many instances son has succeeded father down the centuries in its employ, as naturally as if the son was his lordposition an entailed estate.?London ship and the fatLer an earl and the Tit-3its. About Hat-Wearing. More or less of a modern habit is the constant wearing of hats. Even as late as 1759 Horace Walpole mentions as a matter of course that he never wears a hat. "Remember," he says, writing to a friend notoriously careless about his dress, who was expected home from Holland, "everybody that comes from abroad is supposed to come from France, and whatever they wer.r at their first reappearance immediately grows the fashion. Now il. as is very likely, you should, through inadvertence, "Iiiim hate with n master nf n. Dutch smack, in a week's time we shall all be equipped like Dutch skippers. You see, I speak very disinterestedly, for, as I never wear a hat myself, it is indifferent to me what sort of a hat I don't wear."?Chicago News. The British Court of Appeals recently decided that a person may assume or use any name, provided Its use is not calculated to ileceivo or to inflict pecuniary loss. 1 ! OAKiUTLS OF NORTH AMERICA >* ???? Tiip Smithsonian has done much to preserve for the science (if the future a great deal that relates to the appearance, language, liaiiits and customs, and mythology of the North American aborigines, but there are private persons who are helping most efficaciously in this useful work. Among them there is scarcely one who deserves more consideration for what he has accomplished and is in process of effecting than Morris Iv. .Tesup. The tribes on the northwest coast studied by Hoas and Hunt are apt to be thickset, broad-faced people, rather long-bodied, and sometimes bearded. They are divided up into (1) Tlingits of Southern Alaska, (2) Ilaidas of Queen Charlotte Islands, (3) Tsimshian of the Nass and Skoena Rivers, (4) Wakashan of Vancouver's Island and the mainland near by, and (15) Salislian of Southern Vancouver's Island and the coast down to Washington and eastward into Idaho and MontauaM The Ivwatiutls fall under group 4, or Wakashan, and belong chiefly between Rivers Inlet and Cape Kludge, B. C. The Kwakiutls are a tribe of lightcolored Indians whose faces and expression readily recall those of the lower class Japanese and Koreans across the Pacitic. Tiiey (liner irum other coast Indians by having very high-bridged, often hooked, noses, and very long faces. The shape of their heads is artificial. Like our own Flatheads and some tribes in Mexico and .South America, they deform the head in infancy, so that the upper forhead, which we consider a sign of intellect, is depressed perhaps in order to obtain an approach to the skull of a beast or bird. KWAIUUTL WOMAN AND MAN. The heads of a mnn and womali of this tribe exhibit the results of early training of tlie bones of the head. Whether it occasions pain to the child or not, there is a general agreement that it has no effect upon the intelligence of the people to whom it is apnliwl TIipv are much more intelligent than the passing traveler would imagine. The investigator who conies among them with some knowledge of their beliefs and rites obtaius. their confidence and finds them, if not remarkable specimens of intelligence, still by no means lacking in wits. In his publications for the Smithsonian and the Museum of Natural History Dr. Boas opens up a verjr extraordinary glimpse Into their manners and customs. Among these are the potlatch feasts given by chiefs to uphold their authority, in which they distribute largess in a very mediaeval fashion, consisting of blankets and big copper tokens which have a fictitious but relatively enormous value, the ob ject of the largess oeing to prove oy i their princely generosity that they are both richer and more lavish than some rival chief. Another and often very disgusting ceremony is the initiation of a new member into a cannibal society. The novice returns emaciated and in a state of frantic ecstasy from the woods, bringing pieces of old corpses, skulls, or bones, which he chews in order to strike awe into the hearts of the spectators. He enters the lodge by the hole in the top or some other unexpected way, after the whistles of his fellow-cannibals and his own shrill cries have been heard without for some time, and he indulges in the pleasant ItUINS OF KICKULIU HOUSE, IJX'I DWELI I Located at Spenee'3 Bridge, British Col i . NOVEL KAIiPiN. A Washington man, observing the case with which hairpins fall out of women's hair, has invented a catch which can be attached to the hairpin and overcome this fault. The lacking device is so situated that when the pin I is inserted the lock will be opened to I permit the free passage into the hair, I and when it has been properly posi tioned, and the hand removed, a spring closes the look against the pin. pre| venting I lie pin from falling out. Across the top of the hairpin is a linger piece, pivoted to which is the catch. Normally the end of this catch is forced by a tension spring into a small opening iu the side of the liairpin near, the top. In placing the hairpin the prongs nre held between three fingers and the thumb, and the forefinger engages the top to force it in position. Pressure is then applied at the point shown in the picture, which turns the finger piece on its pivot and disengages the lock, permitting the pin to pass freely through the hair without catching. By removing the finger from the finger pastime of biting people. Such practices readily recall tlie loathsome messes which have always formed part of the witch and wizard outtit lii Europe down to the present century, like the objects that go to make the hell-broth of the witches in "Macbeth." The purpose seems to be the same, namely, to frighten the unsophisticated by showing a daring in the handling of disgusting objects which proves the KWAKIUTL WOMAN. (Full-face.) superiority of the professional and the power of his or her guardian spirits to protect the shaman or medicine man from what would be injurious to the ordinary person. In former times the Indians of the Northwest coast lived in underground houses called klclculie houses, which emerged only like a mound' from the surface of the ground, following a fashion that existed in Great Britain and Ireland ddwn to the tenth ceutury, and is known to have obtained in Northern Europe and Siberia. Such dwellings are described by Herodotus and were found in the early part of the present century within what is now Russian territory. The illustration shows one of these old lcickulies near Spence's Bridge, British Columbia. The bough, bark and turf covering of the roof has fallen away in places, showing the rafters with cross pieces tied to them. Another picture shows one of the main posts of a house belonging to Bella Coola Indians at Bella Bella, B. C., with demon or totem masks carved on it, and one end of a native boat. Sometimes all the posts within a house are decorated in this substantial fashion. It can hardly be Main Post of House Belonging to Bella C'oc'i Indians at Belia Bella, B. J., With Demon or Totem Masks Carved on It. . ' maintained that tribes which are so clever at boatbuilding, mask carving, .and the production of totem poles are devoid of brains. They have four or five different kinds of boats for different purposes, and their houses are quite as elaborate as those of the oldest inhabitants of Japan, the so-called "hairy" Ainos of the north. n.VCT FORM OV UNDERGROUND jIN(i. umbia, ten miles from Nicola Valley. ! piece tlie lock returns to its normal position, strands of hair being lieid in .the space between the lock and the ?t-1 _ no- -i. ii.. (I,a pruug, wiiivju ciiwiuh n.y [hcyuuio mv* pin from becomLug loose. : y.-?i\Ll... ... js Household Matters.] Sachet For Linen Closet. Dainty little sachet bags for the linen closet or bureau drawer can be quickly made by taking a Japanese napkin or any crinkly paper, wrapping it round a small roll of bitting permeated with sweet basil, lavender, orris root or any scent desired, then tying it up at the ends with ribbons, leaving the fluffy ends sticking out. To Clean Brass. Rub the surface of the metal with rotten-stone and sweet oil, then rub this off with a piece of cotton flannel, and polish with a soft leather. A solution of oxalic acid rubbed over tarnished brass soon removes the tarnish, rendering the metal bright. The acid must be washed off with water, and this brass rubbed with whiting and a soft leather. A mixture of muA -J Alum /IiooaIVOH In riauc aciu uuu aiuu, uissui.v- . ? water, imparts a golden color to brass articles that are steeped in it for a few minutes. Cream Caramels. Moisten two cups of granulated sugar with enough milk to dissolve it; add a quarter of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and put into a sauce pan. Set where ?the contents will simmer gently. Stir all the time, until a little dropped into cold water i? about as stiff as putty. Pour into a shallow pan, and set aside until so stiff that the pressure of the finger makes a dent on the candy, and the dent remains. Work to a soft mass, kneading it upon a powdered sugar strewn board. Roll out into a sheet and cut into squares. You may 1 ? ml j* 1-u j aaa vanma, it you wisu, just usiuic taking from the fire. Washing Light and Dark Gingham. A young mother says she gets more genuine help reading the woman's page in this excellent p^per than most any other source, and she now asks me to send .a safe recipe for washing her little girls" gingham dresses. She has three little girls. She as?:s how to keep dresses from fading, as she has not been very fortunate so far. | i Perhaps you pui soap uiretuy upon the ginghams, and this will not do at all. If they are much soiled ! and it is necessary to wash them put them in salt, water for an hour or more; ^hen wash .them out quickly 1 in a warm suds of rain water, and rinse .in clear warm water, and then put them through a thin starch and hang out of doors to dry. I jTurn them wrong side out and iron on the wrong side to avoid a shine or gloss. I have had a dozen inquiries | or more in regard to laundering pret| ty ginghams, each one saying that j they had faded them in the very first .'washing. This method is simple and I safe. For grass stains upon chil J dren's clothes, wash them in alconoi. ,?Indiana Farmer. Steaming. I When foods are to be cooked by the j I aid of boiling water, yet not in direct (contact with the liquids, we call the j process steaming. A steamer has two (sections; the lower pan or kettle holds j j the water, while the bottom of thd j upper portion is perforated, the steam ; passing through these perforations anil jcooking the food. Some patented !steamers have one large outer case, the ; Interior being suitably divided to accommodate several kinds of food at I once. | The advantages gained by steaming I are: Tough meats are made tender without losine their substance or be coming dry; watery vegetables, so cooked, are less apt to be soggy; flour mixtures become light and are of a different flavor than when baked or fried; porridges and gruels can be cooked for any length of time without j danger of burning. 1 The one necessity in steaming is to | keep the water in the lower portion of the steamer at a rapid and continuous boil. This is especially necessary when t cooking puddings or other batters or doughs, and if neglected the result is a soggy dish which is unfit for consumption.? Xew York Globe. (iGoodt/Thirvcis jitpfo K<M <@3? \L tyZNP 'now TO PREPAHE^Ttim Stuffed Summer Squash?Boil in ,lightly salted water until tender. jCut off the top and scoop out the inside. Mix with well seasoned and buttered crumbs, chopped onion and 1 ? "mm + /-v oV?nl 1 snrin 'gratea cuccse. r m lug ouw, ,lcle the top with buttered crumbs aad Ibake until brown. \ Snowballs?Bcil rice in salted .water till very tender. Wet small cups, and while the rice is still hot pack it in cup3 till half filled. Set in a cold place for about three hours. Just before dinner scoop out the centre of each and fill with brightcolored jelly or a piece of any kind of preserves. Turn out the molds on a dish and pour soft custard around the base, taking care to let none of the custard fall on the top of the snowballs, or serve simply with cream and sugar. Plank Chops?Have the chops cut very thick; broil on one side and arrange crosswise, overlapping each other on the board. Heat a can of niacedoine, season with salt, pepper and butter. A range these in the form of butterfly wings each side of r>1 * Kr\r?H ot? n? the CllOOS. riai:e uiuumi u, wt Uv,. mashed potatoes pressed through a star tube. Send at once to the table. Roulettes of Beef?Cut a round steak very thin; rhen into strips of two inches long and one inch wide; dust with salt and pepper and put over a little chopped tongue or parsley. Roll, fasten with a small skewer. Brown quickly iu suet or oil, and put them in a hot oven for ten minutes. Serve two on a square of toast with a little melted butter. Garnish with Kalian potato balls. These are made from potato croquette mixture, 'seasoned with a little bologna sausage. ____________ ICCIDENT US FIVE MS Die From Wounds Received When Gun Burst at Wanamie, Pa. Sons of Miners- Were Tamping a Home-Made Cannon as the Miners Do. Wilkesbarre. Pa.?Fire boys were killed and iwo fatally injured at Wanamie. a mining tov/n ton miles south of this city, by the explosion of dynamite and giant powder which they had stuffed into a pipe which they had made into a cannon. The dead are: Evan Long, aged fifteen; John Rachulis. apod fourteen; Thos. Rachulis, aged sixteen; 'John Saba, aged fifteen; John Sabinsky, aged fourteen. - The fatally injured are: Alexander Shukitiz and his brother, Frank Shukit'iz, aged thirteen and sixteen. All the boys worked in the mines, and they had procured a quantity of dynamite and giant powder with which they had planned to give the town a proper celebration of the/ Fourth by causing a terrific explosion which should startle everyone. They were preparing the charge on a hill close to the town when the accident occurred. The pipe, four inches in diameter and about three feet long, had been filled with the explosive and they were tamping it with stones as they had seen miners tamp holes bored in the mines previous to lighting the fuse. A club and a round stick for a ramrod were being used in the tamping and one was hammering the stones on top of the powder when it was ignited and the explosion occurred. It was terrific. The town was shaken and all the residents alarmed, while the seven boys gathered about the pipe were blown in all directions <MUU uie Milgiuouin UL in c nvn j/ijiv like so many bullets were blown into t.heir bodies. Some of the dead had their legs and arms shattered, their heads crushed and their bodies frightfully torn. Three were killed outright and two others died a few minutes after the people who rushed to the scene reached the mangled group. Alexander Shukitiz had a leg blown off, while his brother was horribly torn and injured internally. A' large hole was blown in the ground by the explosion, and all around it the injured and the dead lay, while there was not a vestige of the pipe left. The boys are all sons of Polish and Lithuanian mine workers. FOURTH AT IIOME AND ABROAD. Roosevelt Appeals For Firmness and Fairness With Evildoers. New York City.?President Rooserelt, in a stirriug speech to his Oyster Bay neighbors, made a strong plea for common sense and the avoidance of hysteria in dealing with wrong and wrongdoers, and making individual excellence of home life the basis of good cit.izenI ihin Hp was drenched by n heavy shower, but did not permit it to inierupt hi3 address. In the evening there was the usual fireworks party at Sagamore Hill. , The American Society gave its annual Independence Day dinner in London, at which Ambassador Reid and W. J. Bryan exchanged some good humored raillery relating to politics. Mr. Bryan read a speech on "The White Man's Burden." At Tammany Hall's Fourth of July celebration the assembled braves, headed by (Jharles F. Murphy, cheered the name of William Jennings Bryan when Congressman Robert L. Henry, of Texas, predicted he would be the next President of the United States. An unusually small number of fatalities and injuries was caused by the celebration in this city. Parks and amusement resorts were crowded, and the sale of fireworks broke all rccords. ROOT SAILS FOR BRAZIL. The Cruiser Charleston, Bearing Ilis Party, Gets Under Way. New York City.?After some simi pie ceremonies, .including the booming of a few guns, the interchange of polite compliments between the representatives of the Republic of Brazil Secretary of State Elihu Root sailed away on the U. S. cruiser Charleston for the Pan-American conference at Rio de Janeiro and his unique round of visits to the republics of South America. The Secretary was accompanied by Mr3. Root, Miss Root, his youngest son, Edward Root, a secretary and two maids. The Charleston's itinerary is as follows: Arrive San Juan, . P. R., Sunday, July 8; leave San Juan, Tuesday. July 10; arrive Rio, Wednesday. July 25; leave Rio, Monday, August G; arrive Montevideo, Friday, August 10; leave Moutevideo, Monday, August 13; arrive Buenos Ayres, Sunday, August 14; teave Bueno3 Ayres, Sunday, August 19; arrive Valparaiso, via Straits of Magellan, Thursday, August 30; leave Valparaiso, Tuesday, September 4; arrive Callao, Sunday, September 9; l?ave Callao, Saturday, September 15; arrive Panama, Saturday, September 22; leave Panama, Tuesday, September 25; the Secretary and party arriving in New York Monday, October 1. Country's Best Fiscal Year. The two large mercantile agencies, in their weekly review of the business conditions prevailing throughout the country, unite in saying that the fiscal year just closed has been the most successful in the country's history. Crop Situation Good. The crop situation as a whole is good, in fact, excellent, and will compare favorably with any similar period in the country's history. Sporting Brevities. Athletics are said to cost $106,000 yearly at Yale. It begins to look as if America will so ^n be the n.'id of no prize fights. * Foxhall Keene admits the possibility of a polo match between British and American players. Go Between, for years a selling, plater, won tin Suburban at the, Sheepshead Eay track. Emperor William sailed his yacht, the Meteor, to victory in tbo race for large schooners at Kiel. I? BITS MNEWS WASHINGTON". John Sharp Williams, minority leader, declared the important legifrlation enacted by Congress was Democratic in policy and enumerated tho aotable failures. ; Secretary Root decided to make $ part of his South American tour in a Chilian warship.. President Roosevelt issued an ex- * jcutive order making effective consular reform. Charles W. McWha:*ter, assistant cashier rf the Washington City Postuffice, is under arrest on the complaint of City Postmaster John A. i Merritt, charged with the embezzlement of $10,000. Robert G. Proctor, former secre- '^f?| tary to Senator Lodge, was found . ? rrnilfv nf hrponv nf o r>r*rr\ no i rrn 4 ? JJMIIVJ V * ? ? VyVUJ VV U VMtUJ/Wi^U VVM '' J tribution in Boston. The Senate yielded to the House on the meat inspection measure, and " }. the packers escape paying cdsts and i need not date canned goods. OUr. ADOPTED ISLANDS. General H. T. Allen, director of the constabulary, returned to Manila after eight months' leave of absence {a (he United States. , At San Juan, Porto Rico. Archbishop Blenk was the guest at a farewell dinner given by Governor Winthrop. Governor Ide, of the Philippines, became ill after returning from hia recent joi'rney through the provinces, and was confined to his housekfor sevjral days. He is now improving. At San Juan, Porto Rico, a New York firm has purchased waterfront property for $40,000, on which it yM is intended to erect a pier and ware- , ^ houses. Preliminary work on-the Philippine Islands railroads will begin at -''d once. Forty engineers and phyaicians, who arrived recently at Ma- " '8 nila, started for Iloilo to begin operations. 'W'Ma Business interests of the ^hil- % ippines will make a strong effort to i secure the passage of the agricultural bank bill. DOMESTIC. District Attorney John B. Moran .<J. was nominated for Governor by the Massachusetts Fronioitiomsts. . , Mrs. Caroline Archer, a rich widoxr of Jamaica, L. I., caused surprise by i announcing that her son was no . :j longer to be recognized as her agent. * Henry Alfred Short, member of clubs and received in society, was arrested in New York, young girls accusing him. ?Jjj District Attorney tTerome arrived in New York and took charge of the Thaw case. The finrl report of the Truesdale housecleaning committee shows that \ Elihu Root. Ricnard A. McCurdy and Robert H. McCurdy were the ohljr three Mutual Life trustees who refused to answer questions. The report reveals colossal waste of the policy-holders' money. In New York Mrs. Harry Thav gave to her husband's lawyers an account of her relations with Y/hite. A new Vice Squad, organized by;, ^ Commissioner Bingham, raided sev- . eral gambling houses in New York, . finding evidence overlooked by Inspector Schmittberper in the Tenderloin. i; William Graces, .Vice-President and general manager of'the Diamond \ ^ Match Qom'pany, died at Portland,' Ore., while enroute to Chico, Ctil. His' wife expected him to arrive that night. When the sad news was broken to her by friends fire started in the rear of her residence, and it was nece.sary to hurry her to a hotel while her home was in flames. The battleship New Hampshire was launched at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company, in Cam- h den, N. J.. Miss Hazel E. McLane, \ daughter of Governor McLane, of New Hampshire, named the battleship. Af T>nrt Torvis "W Y . MfS. PhOeb? Gainford, a daughter of Jabez Rockwell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, celebrated her 101st birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. ' Emma "rine. FOREIGN. Japanese steamers are carrying a large part of the Philippine-Australia business each way. Violent speeches against the Government were made at the session of the Russian Parliament, and the belief that a conflict cannot be long delayed seems to be gaining ground. It was reported from Tokio that the control of railways acquired by \ Japan in Manchuria would be divided between the Government and the people. , The revolutionary forces in Southern Guatemala are said to have been fe victorious in two engagements. Santo Domingo demands a partition of the funds accumulated under the quasi^receivership of the United States. As a sequel to t'.ie recent conversion of Italian rentes a reduction in the taxes on sugar and salt will short ly follow. As a result of the recent catas I trophe at the Courrieres Colliers in I France, it is expected the 1906 output will be 900,000 tons less than last y.ar, when 2,372,409 tons were produced. . i Russian exiles at Rome have received information from friends at home that the moment has come fo:* them to make a desperate effort to frre Russia. Som? are preparing to return to their native country. Commander Eooth-Tucker married Miss Minnie Reid in the Salvation Army's (,'itadel, South Tottenham, London. General Booth officiated. Only reUlives and hiph officers of tha Salvation Army were present. As a move to relieve London's poor the Salvsrtioa Army plans to set-, tie 10,000 persons in Eiouth America. 4 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann. tho Cerman philosopher, diedf iat his home in Berlin. Human remains, which are be- < lieved by C. H. Read, of'the British Museum, to be those of Saxons buried about the fifth century, have beendiscovered at Hawk's Hill, Surrey. England. Lord Leigh states that a large portion of the lofty tower of the old priory of Maxstoke. in Warwickshire. England, fell on April 18 at 1.15 p.j m. Allowing for the difference in^ time, this would coincide with the.5 first .shock of the earthquake at Saa-*~ Francisco.