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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.
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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.
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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 . ?
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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.
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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.